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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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>> John: WELCOME, WELCOME,

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WELCOME TO "LAST WEEK TONIGHT"!

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I'M JOHN OLIVER, THANK YOU SO

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MUCH FOR JOINING US.

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IT HAS BEEN A BUSY WEEK.

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KEN PAXTON WON TEXAS'S

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REPUBLICAN SENATE RUNOFF, ONE OF

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JEFF BEZOS'S ROCKETS BLEW ALL

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THE WAY UP ON THE LAUNCHPAD, AND

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D.C. SAW PLANS RAMP UP FOR

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AMERICA'S 250TH BIRTHDAY.

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THE UFC OCTAGON'S GOING UP ON

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THE SOUTH LAWN, AND WEDNESDAY

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SAW THIS BIG ANNOUNCEMENT.

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>> FREEDOM 250, ANNOUNCING THE

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FIRST ROUND OF STARS THAT WILL

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BE TAKING OVER THE NATIONAL MALL

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IN D.C. FOR THE GREAT AMERICAN

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STATE FAIR.

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THE 16-DAY EVENT WILL KICK OFF

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WITH MARTINA MCBRIDE ON JUNE

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25TH ALSO GOING TO FEATURE

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MUSICIANS LIKE VANILLA ICE,

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FLO RIDA, AND BRET MICHAELS ON

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JULY 3, LEADING UP TO

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INDEPENDENCE DAY AND AMERICA'S

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>> John: YEAH, IT IS A STACKED

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LINEUP OF PEOPLE YOU HAVEN'T

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THOUGHT ABOUT SINCE 2009.

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HONESTLY, THAT SOUNDS LESS LIKE

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"AMERICA'S 250TH BIRTHDAY" AND

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MORE LIKE THE PLAYLIST AT

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"RHONDA'S 50TH."

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THE ONLY REALLY SURPRISING THING

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ABOUT THAT LINEUP IS THERE'S NOT

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A SPECIAL APPEARANCE FROM THE

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SHAMWOW GUY AND THE GUSHERS KID

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WHOSE HEAD TURNED INTO A

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RASPBERRY.

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AND QUICK SIDE NOTE: THAT KID

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DIED, RIGHT?

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IF YOUR HEAD TURNS INTO A

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RASPBERRY BUT THE REST OF YOUR

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BODY STAYS HUMAN, YOU DIE,

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RIGHT?

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NOW, CRUCIALLY, THE ORGANIZATION

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PLANNING THAT EVENT, "FREEDOM

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250," IS NOT THE SAME THING AS

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THE NON-PROFIT AMERICA 250, LED

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BY A BIPARTISAN BOARD CREATED BY

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CONGRESS.

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INSTEAD, IT'S A PUBLIC-PRIVATE

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PARTNERSHIP LAUNCHED BY THE

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WHITE HOUSE, WITH SOME DICEY

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ELEMENTS, INCLUDING THE FACT

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THAT, FOR $1 MILLION, DONORS TO

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IT COULD GET ACCESS TO TRUMP.

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AND AS ITS POLITICAL SLANT

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BECAME CLEAR, ACTS WHO WERE PART

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OF THAT INITIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

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QUICKLY BEGAN TO BAIL.

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>> YOUNG MC OF BUST A MOVE FAME

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DECLARED ON THURSDAY THAT HE

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WON'T BE PERFORMING AS PART OF

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THE UPCOMING FREEDOM 250

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>> MINNESOTA'S OWN MORRIS DAY

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AND THE TIME SAYS THEY WILL NOT

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PERFORM.

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>> THE COMMODORES ALSO SAY

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THEY'RE NOT PERFORMING.

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>> MARTINA MCBRIDE IS ONE OF

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MANY ARTISTS PULLING OUT OF

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PERFORMANCES AT THE FREEDOM 250

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>> ROCK SINGER BRET MICHAELS IS

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NOW THE FIFTH ACT OUT OF 9 TO

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PULL OUT OF THE FREEDOM 250

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CONCERTS IN D.C.

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>> John: YEAH, THAT'S A LOT OF

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CANCELLATIONS, THOUGH I HAVE TO

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TELL YOU: VANILLA ICE DID NOT

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PULL OUT, WHICH I DO REALIZE

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HAVE FROSTED TIPS?"

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THE ACTS CURRENTLY STILL

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SCHEDULED TO PLAY MAY NOT BE THE

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FOR INSTANCE, NEITHER OF THE C'S

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BECAUSE HE WAS SO MAD PEOPLE

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DECISION HE EXPLAINED IN THIS

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7 MINUTE VIDEO FILMED IN HIS

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BATHROOM.

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>> YOU KEEP PUSHING ME.

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I'LL DO THE MOTHERFUCKING SHOW

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IN NORTH KOREA.

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PISSING ON A FUCKING AMERICAN

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SMOKING A CUBAN CIGAR.

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DRINKING VENEZUELAN WINE.

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PLAYING GOLF WITH MOTHERFUCKING

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KIM IL-JUNE.

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WITH AN IRANIAN BITCH ON MY LAP.

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WHILE TRUMP'S STANDING THERE

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WITH HIS DICK IN HIS HAND,

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THAT'S HOW MUCH OF A FUCK I GIVE

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WHAT YOU [BLEEP] THINK.

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[BLEEP], WHAT YOU DO?

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I'M SITTING ON THE TOILET TAKING

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A SHIT.

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IRONICALLY.

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SLAP YOUR ASS IN THE FACE WITH

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SOME FUCKING WET NAPKINS.

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>> John: OKAY, THERE'S SO MUCH

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THERE, FROM THE FRANKLY GORGEOUS

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WALLPAPER, TO HIS SHIRT

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DEPICTING -- AND THIS IS TRUE --

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KATNISS AND PEETA FROM

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"THE HUNGER GAMES," TO THE

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LATE-BREAKING REVEAL THAT HE'S

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TAKING A SHIT THROUGH ALL OF IT,

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AND LET ME JUST SAY: IF YOU

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DON'T LIKE THE IDEA OF SOMEONE

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TAKING A SHIT WHILE DELIVERING A

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LONG RANT, FIND ANOTHER SHOW.

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BECAUSE THAT'S RIGHT.

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[TOILET FLUSHING]

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EVERY EPISODE.

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THE WHOLE TIME.

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THE POINT IS, LET'S PUT C&C

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MUSIC FACTORY DOWN AS A "MAYBE."

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BUT EVEN WITH THOSE

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CANCELLATIONS, THERE'LL STILL BE

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TOUTING EVENTS THAT'LL INCLUDE

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STATE AND TERRITORY SHOWCASES

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FROM ACROSS AMERICA, A 110-FOOT

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FERRIS WHEEL, "CEO AND

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INNOVATOR-LED CONVERSATIONS AND

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DEMONSTRATIONS," AND SPECIAL

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"NATIONAL TREASURE" AND

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"NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF

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SECRETS."

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BRINGING A REAL "SUBSTITUTE

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HISTORY TEACHER DOESN'T GIVE A

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FUCK" ENERGY TO THE PROCEEDINGS.

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ALTHOUGH AT THIS POINT, GIVEN

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HOW EVERYTHING'S BEEN GOING I

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WOULDN'T BE REMOTELY SURPRISED

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RELEASE READING "DUE TO DIVISIVE

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POLITICS I WILL NO LONGER BE

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ATTENDING THE 250TH CELEBRATION"

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FROM THE FUCKING FERRIS WHEEL.

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AND LOOK, THERE'LL CLEARLY BE

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PLENTY MORE TO SAY ABOUT

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BUT FOR NOW, WE'RE GOING TO DIVE

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STRAIGHT IN WITH OUR MAIN STORY

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THIS WEEK, WHICH CONCERNS LAW

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AND ORDER.

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IT'S NOT JUST THE PHRASE THAT'LL

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BE UTTERED AT LEAST 400 TIMES AT

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DICK WOLF'S FUNERAL.

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A CORNERSTONE OF HIS APPEAL TO

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>> I CAMPAIGNED ON LAW AND

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ORDER.

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I WAS ELECTED BY A LANDSLIDE ON

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LAW AND ORDER.

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THEY STAND FOR CRIME AND CHAOS

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AND CORRUPTION.

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WE STAND FOR LAW AND ORDER AND

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JUSTICE.

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>> THERE WAS A TIME THAT YOU

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WEREN'T ALLOWED TO USE THE WORDS

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LAW AND ORDER.

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THE TERM LAW AND ORDER.

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YOU WEREN'T ALLOWED TO USE THE

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TERM CHRISTMAS -- MERRY

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CHRISTMAS, EVERYBODY, RIGHT?

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REMEMBER THAT, 2016 I RAN ON

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WE'RE GOING TO BRING BACK

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CHRISTMAS.

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WE DID; NOW THEY'RE AFRAID TO

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SUGGEST IT.

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BUT WE BROUGHT THAT BACK.

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BUT LAW AND ORDER, WE NEED LAW

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AND ORDER.

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>> John: OH, YEAH, HOW COULD WE

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FORGET THAT TRUMP SAVED

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CHRISTMAS!

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WE ALL REMEMBER THAT BEFORE

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2016, THE HALLMARK CHANNEL JUST

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RAN MOVIES CALLED "A BOYFRIEND

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FOR WINTER" "FINDING MISTLETOE

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FOR STRICTLY AGRICULTURAL

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REASONS" AND "I FELL IN LOVE

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WITH A CHISELED NORDIC-LOOKING

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MAN WHO'S SECRETLY A PRINCE ON A

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NORMAL WEDNESDAY."

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THANK GOODNESS TRUMP INTERVENED.

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BUT IT'S NOT JUST RHETORIC --

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HE'S TOUTED ALL SORTS OF

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"TOUGH-ON-CRIME" TACTICS, FROM

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CALLING FOR THE REOPENING OF

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ALCATRAZ, TO ADVOCATING FOR THE

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DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG DEALERS,

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TO LAUNCHING A "WAR ON FRAUD" TO

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"STOP MEDICARE AND MEDICAID FROM

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BEING LOOTED BY CRIMINALS AND

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THUGS," TO SIGNING THE LAKEN

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RILEY ACT, MANDATING ALL

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UNDOCUMENTED PEOPLE BE HELD IN

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FEDERAL DETENTION FOR CRIMES AS

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MINOR AS SHOPLIFTING.

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BUT I ACTUALLY WANT TO TALK

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ABOUT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN

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HERE -- WHERE TRUMP'S USED THE

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POWERS OF THE PRESIDENCY TO SHOW

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MERCY.

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SPECIFICALLY, HIS USE OF PARDONS

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-- YOU KNOW, THE POWER

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PRESIDENTS USE TO SPARE TURKEYS

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EVERY THANKSGIVING.

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EVEN IF, AS IN THIS INSTANCE,

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THE TURKEY REALLY TRIES TO PUSH

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ITS LUCK.

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HEY, BUDDY, YOUR PARDON AIN'T IN

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THERE.

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THE EXECUTIVE POWER TO PARDON

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SOMEONE FOR FEDERAL CRIMES IS

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ENSHRINED IN THE CONSTITUTION,

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AND IS VIRTUALLY UNCHECKED.

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AND ONCE A PRESIDENT DECIDES TO

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DO IT, THERE'S BASICALLY NOTHING

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COURTS OR CONGRESS CAN DO.

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AND THAT'S GENERALLY A GOOD

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AS WE'VE MENTIONED BEFORE IN OUR

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PIECE ON WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS,

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IT'S INCREDIBLY HARD TO APPEAL A

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FEDERAL CASE.

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AND GIVEN THERE'S NO FEDERAL

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PAROLE PROGRAM AND THAT SOME

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PEOPLE ARE SERVING EGREGIOUSLY

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LONG MANDATORY-MINIMUM SENTENCES

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-- OFTENTIMES UNDER LAWS THAT

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DON'T EVEN EXIST ANYMORE -- IN A

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DEEPLY FLAWED CRIMINAL JUSTICE

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SYSTEM, GETTING A PARDON CAN BE

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SOMEONE'S ONLY REAL CHANCE AT

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RELIEF.

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BUT AS YOU UNDOUBTEDLY KNOW,

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TRUMP'S USED PARDONS VERY

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SELECTIVELY -- AS THIS SCHOLAR

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WHO STUDIES THEM POINTS OUT.

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>> ONE THING ABOUT CLEMENCY IS

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THAT, BECAUSE IT'S AN UNCHECKED

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POWER OF THE PRESIDENT, THAT'S

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GOING TO REFLECT THE VALUES OF

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THAT PRESIDENT.

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>> PRESIDENT TRUMP, WE ALL KNEW

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BEFORE HE WAS ELECTED -- THINGS

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THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO HIM

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INCLUDE LOYALTY AND CELEBRITY.

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AND SO, IT SHOULD NOT SURPRISE

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US THAT CLEMENCY HAS BEEN USED

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FOR CELEBRITIES, AND FOR THOSE

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WHO HAVE BEEN LOYAL TO HIM.

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>> John: RIGHT, TRUMP'S PARDONED

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SOME FAMOUS SHITHEADS -- FROM

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GEORGE SANTOS TO RUDY GIULIANI

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TO SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO -- QUITE

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POSSIBLY THE MOST DIFFICULT

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FUCK, MARRY, KILL I'VE EVER

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SEEN.

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I CAN'T IMAGINE ANYONE WHO'D

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PICK GIULIANI AS THE ONE TO

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MARRY.

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EXCEPT FOR, OF COURSE, HIS

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COUSIN.

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AND TRUMP'S USE OF PARDONS HAS

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ESCALATED SHARPLY.

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WHILE HE GRANTED TWO HUNDRED AND

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THIRTY-EIGHT PARDONS AND

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COMMUTATIONS IN HIS FIRST TERM,

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LESS THAN A YEAR INTO HIS

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SECOND, HE'D ALREADY ISSUED

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NEARLY 2,000.

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ON TOP OF THAT, HE'S RUMORED TO

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BE PLANNING TO ANNOUNCE ANOTHER

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250 SOON, TO MARK AMERICA'S

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250TH BIRTHDAY.

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SO GIVEN ALL THAT, WE THOUGHT

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TONIGHT, IT'D BE WORTH TAKING A

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LOOK AT TRUMP'S PARDONS, WHO

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HE'S GIVEN THEM TO, WHY, AND

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WHAT THOSE CHOICES MEAN.

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AND LET'S START WITH WHERE THE

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POWER TO PARDON COMES FROM.

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IT'S ACTUALLY A RELIC OF

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MONARCHICAL RULE, WHERE KINGS

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HAD THE FINAL SAY ON JUSTICE

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PROCEEDINGS.

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AND OVER THE YEARS, IT'S BEEN

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USED IN ALL SORTS OF WAYS.

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RUTHERFORD B. HAYES ONCE

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PARDONED AN OHIO MAN CONVICTED

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OF SENDING A "SCURRILOUS

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POSTCARD."

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AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN PARDONED A

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MAN CONVICTED OF ATTEMPTED

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BESTIALITY.

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APPARENTLY HIS REASONING WAS

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THAT THE MAN HAD DISPLAYED

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EXEMPLARY BEHAVIOR IN PRISON,

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PLUS HE WAS DRUNK AT THE TIME.

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AND IF NOTHING ELSE, IT IS FUN

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TO IMAGINE LINCOLN GOING, "HOLD

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ON, HENRY FUCKED A GOAT?

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QUICK QUESTION, HOW MANY BEERS

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DEEP WAS HE, AND CAN I SEE A

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PICTURE OF THE GOAT?"

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LET'S BE FAIR HERE.

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NOW, OVER THE YEARS, SOME

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PARDONS HAVE HELD UP VERY WELL

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-- LIKE THE MASS COMMUTATION OF

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DRUG SENTENCES UNDER OBAMA OR

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THE PARDONS FOR VIETNAM DRAFT

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EVADERS UNDER FORD AND CARTER.

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BUT OBVIOUSLY, THERE'VE BEEN

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SOME INFAMOUS EXAMPLES, TOO.

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JOE BIDEN PARDONED HIS SON

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HUNTER.

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BILL CLINTON PARDONED HIS FRIEND

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AND MEGADONOR MARC RICH, WHO'D

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BEEN INDICTED ON 65 CRIMINAL

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COUNTS, INCLUDING TAX FRAUD AND

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TRADING WITH IRAN WHILE IT HELD

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AMERICAN HOSTAGES, AND WHO'D

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FLED THE COUNTRY TO AVOID

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ARREST.

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AND THEN THERE WAS GERALD FORD'S

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DECISION, IN HIS FIRST MONTH IN

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OFFICE, TO PARDON RICHARD NIXON,

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WHICH DID NOT GO DOWN WELL AT

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THE TIME.

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>> THE PRESIDENT GOT A

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FACE-TO-FACE LOOK AT THE

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HOSTILITY TODAY IN PITTSBURGH,

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WHERE HE WENT TO MAKE A SPEECH.

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[BOOING]

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>> ON THE FLIGHT BACK TO

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WASHINGTON, THE PRESIDENT

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DECLINED TO TALK TO REPORTERS

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ABOUT THE PARDON.

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HIS SPOKESMAN, HUSHEN, SAID THE

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PRESIDENT KNEW THE PARDON WOULD

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BE CONTROVERSIAL AND WAS AWARE

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OF THE REACTION.

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A WHITE HOUSE SWITCHBOARD

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OPERATOR TOLD THE PRESIDENT LAST

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NIGHT THE VOLUME OF CALLS WAS

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VERY HEAVY AND KIND OF

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UNFAVORABLE.

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>> John: THAT'S A PRETTY KIND

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WAY FOR THAT OPERATOR TO PUT IT

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-- "THE CALLS WERE HEAVY AND

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UNFAVORABLE" IS A LOT EASIER FOR

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A PRESIDENT TO HEAR THAN

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"BEVERLY FROM CINCINNATI CALLED

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YOU A CORRUPT TAINT," AND "PAUL

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FROM KENOSHA SAID YOU'RE AS

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CROOKED AS A PIG'S DICK."

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BUT OBVIOUSLY, PRESIDENTS

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PARDONING THEIR PREDECESSORS, OR

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FAMILY MEMBERS, ARE THE

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EXCEPTION.

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AND TO UNDERSTAND WHAT TRUMP'S

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DONE TO THE PARDON SYSTEM, IT'S

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WORTH KNOWING HOW IT'S USUALLY

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WORKED.

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VERY BASICALLY, THE SYSTEM WE'VE

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SET UP IS THAT ANYONE CAN SUBMIT

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AN APPLICATION TO THE OFFICE OF

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THE PARDON ATTORNEY.

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THEY THEN JUDGE IT ON A LONG

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LIST OF CRITERIA, INCLUDING: THE

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PERSON'S POST-CONVICTION

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CONDUCT, CHARACTER, AND

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REPUTATION; THE SERIOUSNESS AND

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RELATIVE RECENTNESS OF THE

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OFFENSE; THE ACCEPTANCE OF

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RESPONSIBILITY, REMORSE, AND

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ATONEMENT; THE NEED FOR RELIEF;

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AND OFFICIAL RECOMMENDATIONS AND

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REPORTS -- LIKE, FOR INSTANCE,

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THE FBI DOING A BACKGROUND CHECK

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TO SEE IF THE PERSON WOULD BE A

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THREAT TO PUBLIC SAFETY IF

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RELEASED.

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NOW, IF THE PARDON OFFICE SIGNS

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OFF, THE APPLICATION THEN GOES

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TO THE PRESIDENT.

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BUT CRUCIALLY, THAT WHOLE SYSTEM

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IS OPTIONAL FOR A PRESIDENT.

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THEY DON'T NEED TO LISTEN TO

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WHAT THE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE, OR

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INDEED, RUN A PARDON THROUGH

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THAT PROCESS AT ALL.

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AND TRUMP, BY AND LARGE, HASN'T.

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IN HIS FIRST TERM, HE FAMOUSLY

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PARDONED CRONIES AND FRIENDS

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LIKE CHARLES KUSHNER -- JARED'S

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DAD, PAUL MANAFORT, AND ROGER

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STONE, WHO FOR SOME REASON SELLS

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SIGNED COPIES OF HIS PARDON ON

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HIS WEBSITE.

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IT'S THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THE

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SPECIAL PERSON IN YOUR LIFE WHO

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YOU NO LONGER WANT IN YOUR LIFE.

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INCREDIBLY IT'S ONLY THE

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SECOND WEIRDEST THING ROGER

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STONE SELLS, WITH THE WEIRDEST

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BEING THIS SIGNED "MAKE AMERICA

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ITALIAN AGAIN" HAT.

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FIRST, I DON'T KNOW WHAT "MAKE

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AMERICA ITALIAN AGAIN" EVEN

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MEANS.

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THE ONLY COUNTRY ON EARTH THAT'S

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EVER BEEN ITALIAN IS, FAMOUSLY,

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ITALY.

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BUT ALSO, THE LISTING SPECIFIES

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THAT THE "HAT COMES HAND-SIGNED

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BY ROGER STONE BY DEFAULT," AND

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"PLEASE LEAVE A NOTE WITH YOUR

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ORDER IF YOU WOULD LIKE IT

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UNSIGNED."

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AND JUST IMAGINE THE PERSON

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THAT'S AIMED AT -- SOMEONE WHO

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LIKES ROGER STONE ENOUGH TO BE

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BROWSING THE MERCH ON

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BROWSING THE MERCH ON
SPEND $30 ON A "MAKE AMERICA

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SPEND $30 ON A "MAKE AMERICA

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ITALIAN AGAIN" HAT, BUT

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"DOESN'T" WANT ROGER STONE'S

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SIGNATURE ON IT, BECAUSE THAT

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WOULD MAKE IT WEIRD.

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NOW, TO BE FAIR, TRUMP'S FIRST

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TERM ALSO SAW SOME VERY WORTHY

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PARDONS -- INCLUDING ALICE

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LIFE SENTENCE FOR DRUG

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TRAFFICKING CHARGES FROM THE

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'90s.

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AND WHILE THE REASON HE DID THAT

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PROBABLY HAD MORE TO DO WITH THE

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FACT SHE'D BEEN ADVOCATED FOR BY

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KIM KARDASHIAN, IT'S STILL

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UNDENIABLY GOOD HE DID IT.

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BUT IN TRUMP'S SECOND TERM, HE'S

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USED HIS PARDON POWER TO A TRULY

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RIDICULOUS DEGREE.

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TO START ON DAY ONE, HE DID

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THIS.

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>> SO, THIS IS JANUARY 6TH, AND

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THESE ARE THE HOSTAGES,

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APPROXIMATELY 1,500 FOR A

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PARDON, FULL PARDON.

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>> THE FULL, COMPLETE AND

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UNCONDITIONAL PARDONS INCLUDE

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THE FORMER LEADER OF THE

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FAR-RIGHT GROUP THE PROUD BOYS,

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ENRIQUE TARRIO, SENTENCED TO 22

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YEARS FOR SEDITION.

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TRUMP ALSO COMMUTING THE

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SENTENCES OF 14 OTHERS CHARGED

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WITH SEDITION, INCLUDING

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STUART RHODES, FOUNDER OF THE

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OATH KEEPERS MILITIA, SENTENCED

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TO 18 YEARS.

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TRUMP EVEN GRANTING CLEMENCY TO

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THE MORE THAN 600 PEOPLE CHARGED

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WITH ASSAULTING AND RESISTING

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LAW ENFORCEMENT.

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RIOTERS ON JANUARY 6TH ATTACKING

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POLICE, USING EVERYTHING FROM

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SHIELDS TO FLAG POLES, EVEN

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CATTLE PRODS.

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>> John: YEAH, NOT GREAT!

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BECAUSE IF YOU SHOW UP TO A

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"PROTEST" WITH A CATTLE PROD,

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YOUR MOTIVES ARE AUTOMATICALLY

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QUESTIONABLE.

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HONESTLY, THAT'S TRUE IF YOU

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SHOW UP ANYWHERE WITH ONE.

516
00:14:15,180 --> 00:14:17,080
NEXT TIME YOUR FRIENDS INVITE

517
00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:18,480
YOU TO DINNER, TRY SHOWING UP

518
00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:19,640
WITH A BOTTLE OF WINE AND A

519
00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,880
CATTLE PROD, AND SEE HOW LONG

520
00:14:23,646 --> 00:14:24,560
BEFORE THEY SAY THEY'RE NOT

521
00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:24,990
FEELING WELL AND WILL HAVE TO

522
00:14:24,990 --> 00:14:27,372
INVITE YOU OVER ANOTHER TIME.

523
00:14:27,420 --> 00:14:29,280
THE VERY NEXT DAY, TRUMP

524
00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:30,800
PARDONED ROSS ULBRICHT, FOUNDER

525
00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:32,420
OF THE "SILK ROAD" DARK WEB

526
00:14:32,861 --> 00:14:33,401
MARKETPLACE, WHO WAS SERVING A

527
00:14:33,401 --> 00:14:34,401
LIFE SENTENCE FOR HIS SITE

528
00:14:34,420 --> 00:14:35,680
BECOMING WHAT THE DOJ DESCRIBED

529
00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:37,480
AS, "THE MOST SOPHISTICATED AND

530
00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:38,860
EXTENSIVE CRIMINAL MARKETPLACE

531
00:14:38,860 --> 00:14:40,319
ON THE INTERNET TODAY."

532
00:14:40,460 --> 00:14:41,640
WHICH IS SAYING A LOT

533
00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:42,880
CONSIDERING I RECENTLY

534
00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:44,280
DISCOVERED A WEBSITE CHARGING

535
00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:46,389
PEOPLE REAL HUMAN DOLLARS FOR AN

536
00:14:46,389 --> 00:14:48,079
AUTOGRAPHED MAKE AMERICA ITALIAN

537
00:14:48,079 --> 00:14:48,800
AGAIN HAT.

538
00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:50,440
IF THAT'S NOT A CRIME, I DON'T

539
00:14:50,819 --> 00:14:51,940
KNOW WHAT IS.

540
00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:54,260
SO CLEARLY, THAT WAS A LOT OF

541
00:14:54,260 --> 00:14:56,560
WILD DECISIONS RIGHT OFF THE

542
00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:56,760
BAT.

543
00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:58,660
IN FACT, LEGAL EXPERTS SAY NO

544
00:14:58,660 --> 00:15:00,220
PRESIDENT HAS STARTED A TERM

545
00:15:00,220 --> 00:15:01,220
WITH SO MANY PARDONS THAT

546
00:15:01,220 --> 00:15:02,540
VIOLATE LONG-STANDING POLICIES

547
00:15:02,540 --> 00:15:03,440
AND NORMS.

548
00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:05,600
AND THOSE NORMS WERE THERE FOR A

549
00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:06,480
REASON.

550
00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:08,079
TAKE THOSE JANUARY 6ERS.

551
00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,000
EVEN IF YOU THINK MANY POSED NO

552
00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:11,980
THREAT TO THEIR COMMUNITY,

553
00:15:11,980 --> 00:15:13,640
THERE'S A REASON IT MIGHT'VE

554
00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:14,660
BEEN GOOD TO DO THINGS LIKE

555
00:15:14,660 --> 00:15:16,020
"RUNNING BACKGROUND CHECKS"

556
00:15:16,020 --> 00:15:17,520
BEFORE ALLOWING ALL OF THEM TO

557
00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:18,520
RETURN HOME WITH ZERO

558
00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:19,040
SUPERVISION.

559
00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:21,160
BECAUSE NOT ONLY WERE MANY

560
00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:22,500
FACING OTHER CHARGES AT THE

561
00:15:22,500 --> 00:15:23,940
TIME, IN THE YEAR AND A HALF

562
00:15:24,159 --> 00:15:25,220
SINCE, AT LEAST 12 HAVE BEEN

563
00:15:25,220 --> 00:15:26,220
CHARGED WITH OTHER SERIOUS

564
00:15:26,220 --> 00:15:27,280
CRIMES, INCLUDING ASSAULT,

565
00:15:27,540 --> 00:15:29,140
HARASSMENT, AND MURDER PLOTS.

566
00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:30,620
AND WHEN IT COMES TO REMORSE,

567
00:15:30,980 --> 00:15:32,140
JUST LISTEN TO ONE OF THE MORE

568
00:15:32,140 --> 00:15:33,319
PROMINENT JANUARY 6ERS,

569
00:15:33,420 --> 00:15:34,900
JAKE LANG, AT A RALLY TO

570
00:15:34,900 --> 00:15:36,220
CELEBRATE THE ONE-YEAR

571
00:15:36,220 --> 00:15:37,640
ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR PARDONS.

572
00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:38,352
>> YOU WERE ACCUSED OF DOING

573
00:15:38,352 --> 00:15:39,736
SOME VIOLENT STUFF.

574
00:15:39,808 --> 00:15:41,921
>> WELL, I WAS ACCUSED OF

575
00:15:41,921 --> 00:15:42,685
DEFENDING MY COUNTRY VERSUS THE

576
00:15:42,685 --> 00:15:43,633
VIOLENCE --

577
00:15:43,633 --> 00:15:44,653
>> BEATING CAPITOL POLICE

578
00:15:44,653 --> 00:15:45,653
OFFICERS WITH A POLE.

579
00:15:45,682 --> 00:15:46,920
>> THESE PEOPLE WERE RED COATS

580
00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:49,040
TRAITORS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

581
00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:50,040
THEY TURNED THEIR WEAPONS

582
00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:50,552
AGAINST UNARMED --

583
00:15:50,552 --> 00:15:51,937
>> UNIFORMED POLICE OFFICERS?

584
00:15:51,937 --> 00:15:52,937
>> LISTEN, IT DOESN'T MATTER IF

585
00:15:52,937 --> 00:15:53,451
YOU'RE UNIFORM.

586
00:15:53,451 --> 00:15:56,285
>> John: OKAY, YOU PROBABLY

587
00:15:56,350 --> 00:15:57,735
ALREADY KNOW HE'S FULL OF SHIT,

588
00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:59,200
BUT LET'S ADDRESS THE MOST

589
00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:00,460
STRIKING PART OF THAT: HIS

590
00:16:00,460 --> 00:16:01,100
OUTFIT.

591
00:16:01,100 --> 00:16:04,680
BECAUSE WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE?

592
00:16:05,220 --> 00:16:06,579
I DIDN'T REALIZE YOU COULD GET

593
00:16:06,579 --> 00:16:08,319
SCARVES IN THE WRONG SIZE.

594
00:16:09,619 --> 00:16:11,300
EVERYTHING FROM HIS NECK UP IS

595
00:16:11,300 --> 00:16:12,480
GIVING "FRAT BOY ON SPRING

596
00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:13,480
BREAK," BUT EVERYTHING FROM THE

597
00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:14,780
NECK DOWN IS GIVING "POETRY

598
00:16:14,780 --> 00:16:15,960
PROFESSOR AT HOGWARTS."

599
00:16:17,140 --> 00:16:18,480
HE LOOKS LIKE WHAT'D HAPPEN IF

600
00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:20,260
STEVE CARELL FUCKED GRU -- WHICH

601
00:16:20,260 --> 00:16:22,420
MUST BE SOMETHING STEVE'S

602
00:16:22,420 --> 00:16:23,000
THOUGHT ABOUT, RIGHT?

603
00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,720
DOESN'T EVERY VOICE ACTOR WONDER

604
00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:26,240
WHAT IT'D BE LIKE TO HAVE SEX

605
00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:27,600
WITH THE CARTOON CHARACTER THEY

606
00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:27,810
VOICE?

607
00:16:27,810 --> 00:16:29,079
I KNOW I HAVE -- I'VE THOUGHT

608
00:16:29,079 --> 00:16:29,960
ABOUT WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO

609
00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:31,639
FUCK VANITY SMURF, AND WHAT IT'D

610
00:16:31,639 --> 00:16:32,719
BE LIKE TO FUCK ZAZU.

611
00:16:32,719 --> 00:16:33,719
IT'S NOT BECAUSE I FIND IT

612
00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:35,480
AROUSING -- I DON'T -- BUT YOU

613
00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:37,000
CAN'T TELL ME YOU WOULDN'T BE

614
00:16:37,352 --> 00:16:39,302
CURIOUS WHAT IT'D BE LIKE TO

615
00:16:39,302 --> 00:16:39,953
FUCK SOMEONE AND HEAR YOUR OWN

616
00:16:39,953 --> 00:16:40,773
VOICE COMING OUT OF THEIR

617
00:16:40,773 --> 00:16:41,087
MOUTHS.

618
00:16:41,087 --> 00:16:42,319
IT'D BE SO STRANGE.

619
00:16:42,319 --> 00:16:43,079
AND IF YOU'RE THINKING, "WHY

620
00:16:43,079 --> 00:16:44,079
WOULD YOU FIND A CARTOON

621
00:16:44,079 --> 00:16:45,360
CHARACTER SEXUALLY ATTRACTIVE IN

622
00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:45,920
THE FIRST PLACE?"

623
00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:47,180
FIRST, LOTS OF PEOPLE DO, BUT

624
00:16:47,180 --> 00:16:48,920
THAT'S NOT WHAT THIS THOUGHT

625
00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:50,319
EXERCISE IS ASKING, REALLY.

626
00:16:50,380 --> 00:16:51,480
FOR THE RECORD, I DON'T FIND

627
00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:52,339
EITHER OF THESE CHARACTERS

628
00:16:52,339 --> 00:16:53,460
ATTRACTIVE, BUT LET'S SUPPOSE

629
00:16:53,460 --> 00:16:55,280
THERE WAS A UNIVERSE WHERE I

630
00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:56,780
"DID," AND THEY FOUND "ME"

631
00:16:56,939 --> 00:16:57,939
ATTRACTIVE -- COULD I GO THROUGH

632
00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,860
WITH IT IF THEY SOUNDED EXACTLY

633
00:16:59,860 --> 00:17:00,300
LIKE ME?

634
00:17:00,300 --> 00:17:01,100
BECAUSE IT'S NOT LIKE I'D BE

635
00:17:01,100 --> 00:17:03,100
FUCKING MYSELF -- I'D BE FUCKING

636
00:17:03,100 --> 00:17:04,800
SOMEONE THAT JUST HAS MY VOICE.

637
00:17:04,839 --> 00:17:05,839
HOW WOULD THAT FEEL?

638
00:17:05,900 --> 00:17:07,638
HOW WOULD I REACT IF, MID-COITUS

639
00:17:07,819 --> 00:17:08,980
I HEARD MY OWN PLEASURE MOANS

640
00:17:08,980 --> 00:17:10,637
COMING OUT OF ZAZU'S BEAK?

641
00:17:10,819 --> 00:17:12,880
WOULD IT RUIN THE WHOLE THING?

642
00:17:12,900 --> 00:17:14,280
WOULD I SOMEHOW ENJOY IT?

643
00:17:14,319 --> 00:17:15,960
AND IF SO, DOES THAT MAKE ME A

644
00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:16,960
NARCISSIST?

645
00:17:17,118 --> 00:17:18,460
ALSO, WOULD IT BE WEIRD FOR

646
00:17:18,460 --> 00:17:18,740
THEM?

647
00:17:18,740 --> 00:17:20,359
BECAUSE TO VANITY SMURF AND

648
00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:21,880
ZAZU, I HAVE THEIR VOICES.

649
00:17:22,319 --> 00:17:23,660
SO COULD THEY DO IT?

650
00:17:23,660 --> 00:17:24,480
OF COURSE, THEY'RE CARTOON

651
00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:25,579
CHARACTERS, THIS COULD JUST BE

652
00:17:25,579 --> 00:17:27,180
ME PROJECTING MY OWN HUMANITY

653
00:17:27,180 --> 00:17:29,319
ONTO A SMURF AND A TALKING BIRD,

654
00:17:29,319 --> 00:17:30,319
WHEN THEY EXIST ON THEIR OWN

655
00:17:30,319 --> 00:17:31,127
PLANES OF MORALITY AND

656
00:17:31,127 --> 00:17:32,041
BIOLOGICAL IMPULSE THAT DON'T

657
00:17:32,041 --> 00:17:33,579
NECESSARILY CONFORM TO WHAT WE'D

658
00:17:33,579 --> 00:17:34,420
SAY IS RIGHT OR WRONG.

659
00:17:34,420 --> 00:17:36,160
YOU KNOW, AFTER A LOT OF THOUGHT

660
00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:37,500
AND CONSIDERATION, ULTIMATELY, I

661
00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:39,220
THINK I WOULD BE ABLE TO POWER

662
00:17:39,220 --> 00:17:41,380
THROUGH AND HAVE SEX WITH VANITY

663
00:17:41,380 --> 00:17:43,639
SMURF AND ZAZU, BUT I'D FEEL

664
00:17:43,639 --> 00:17:45,619
REALLY GUILTY AFTERWARDS, AND

665
00:17:45,619 --> 00:17:47,000
I'M NOT TOTALLY SURE WHY.

666
00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:49,260
ANYWAY, I'D LOVE TO TALK ABOUT

667
00:17:49,260 --> 00:17:50,339
THIS MORE, BUT WE DON'T HAVE

668
00:17:50,339 --> 00:17:51,380
TIME, SO I'LL JUST CONCLUDE BY

669
00:17:51,739 --> 00:17:52,739
SAYING THIS: LET'S SEE BYRON

670
00:17:52,860 --> 00:17:54,120
ALLEN DO THAT ON

671
00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:55,036
"COMICS UNLEASHED."

672
00:17:55,036 --> 00:17:55,905
ANYWAY.

673
00:17:55,905 --> 00:18:02,746
THE POINT IS, TRUMP RUSHED OUT A

674
00:18:02,746 --> 00:18:03,746
TON OF PARDONS FOR JANUARY 6

675
00:18:03,746 --> 00:18:04,422
RIOTERS.

676
00:18:04,422 --> 00:18:05,060
AND SINCE THEN, HE'S EVEN TRIED

677
00:18:05,060 --> 00:18:06,060
TO SET UP A NEARLY $1.8 BILLION

678
00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:08,720
FUND TO COMPENSATE ANYONE WHO

679
00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:10,060
FEELS THEY WERE UNFAIRLY

680
00:18:10,060 --> 00:18:11,540
PROSECUTED UNDER BIDEN -- WHICH,

681
00:18:11,540 --> 00:18:13,655
IT SEEMS, MANY JANUARY 6ERS HOPE

682
00:18:13,655 --> 00:18:14,247
TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF, GIVEN THAT

683
00:18:14,247 --> 00:18:16,708
GUY YOU JUST SAW APPARENTLY

684
00:18:17,420 --> 00:18:18,940
ANSWERED HIS PHONE THE DAY THAT

685
00:18:18,940 --> 00:18:19,840
FUND WAS ANNOUNCED WITH,

686
00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:21,820
"JAKE LANG'S OFFICE, AMERICA'S

687
00:18:21,820 --> 00:18:22,820
NEWEST BILLIONAIRE."

688
00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:25,560
BUT THE TRUTH IS, RUMORS OF THE

689
00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:27,220
FUND HAD BEEN CIRCULATING LONG

690
00:18:27,220 --> 00:18:28,220
BEFORE IT WAS OFFICIALLY

691
00:18:28,556 --> 00:18:30,628
ANNOUNCED, TO THE POINT ONE

692
00:18:30,628 --> 00:18:31,195
JANUARY 6ER LITERALLY TRIED TO

693
00:18:31,195 --> 00:18:33,183
USE IT TO COVER UP HIS TRACKS ON

694
00:18:33,620 --> 00:18:35,680
A DIFFERENT, TRULY HORRENDOUS

695
00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:36,400
CRIME.

696
00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:38,440
>> MEET ANDREW PAUL JOHNSON,

697
00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:40,100
CHARGED WITH STORMING THE

698
00:18:40,100 --> 00:18:41,400
CAPITOL, PARDONED BY THE

699
00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:42,840
PRESIDENT THERE YOU SEE HIM

700
00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:43,720
CIRCLED IN THE CROWD.

701
00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:45,300
HE WAS ARRESTED JUST SIX MONTHS

702
00:18:45,300 --> 00:18:47,640
LATER FOR MULTIPLE CHILD SEXUAL

703
00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:49,200
ABUSE CHARGES IN FLORIDA.

704
00:18:49,540 --> 00:18:51,300
AND APPARENTLY HE TRIED TO BUY

705
00:18:51,300 --> 00:18:53,360
THE SILENCE OF ONE OF HIS CHILD

706
00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:55,540
VICTIMS BY CLAIMING HE STOOD TO

707
00:18:55,540 --> 00:18:57,040
RECEIVE $10 MILLION AS

708
00:18:57,764 --> 00:18:59,631
RESTITUTION FOR BEING A

709
00:18:59,695 --> 00:19:01,079
JANUARY 6ER.

710
00:19:01,143 --> 00:19:03,010
>> John: HOLY SHIT.

711
00:19:03,074 --> 00:19:04,942
I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANY

712
00:19:04,942 --> 00:19:05,942
CLEARER EXAMPLE OF "TWO WRONGS

713
00:19:05,971 --> 00:19:07,167
DON'T MAKE A RIGHT" THAN "TRYING

714
00:19:07,167 --> 00:19:08,360
TO SILENCE YOUR CHILD VICTIM

715
00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:09,960
WITH YOUR TREASON MONEY."

716
00:19:10,500 --> 00:19:12,300
AND LOOK, IF TRUMP'S PARDONS

717
00:19:12,300 --> 00:19:13,740
WERE ONLY ABOUT RELEASING

718
00:19:13,740 --> 00:19:15,500
JANUARY 6ERS AND FUNNELING MONEY

719
00:19:15,620 --> 00:19:17,280
TO THEM, THAT'D BE BAD ENOUGH.

720
00:19:17,660 --> 00:19:19,520
BUT IT GOES WELL BEYOND THAT.

721
00:19:19,900 --> 00:19:21,640
MORE THAN 50 OF THE PARDONS AND

722
00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:22,860
COMMUTATIONS HE'S MADE IN HIS

723
00:19:22,860 --> 00:19:24,360
SECOND TERM ARE FOR FRAUD, AND

724
00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:25,640
WHITE-COLLAR OFFENSES SUCH AS

725
00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:26,760
MONEY LAUNDERING, BANK FRAUD AND

726
00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:27,980
WIRE FRAUD ARE AMONG THE MOST

727
00:19:28,539 --> 00:19:29,091
FREQUENT CRIMES HE'S WIPED

728
00:19:29,091 --> 00:19:29,621
CLEAN.

729
00:19:29,621 --> 00:19:30,503
IT'S RANGED FROM YOUR CLASSIC

730
00:19:30,503 --> 00:19:31,640
PONZI SCHEMERS, TO CAMPAIGN

731
00:19:32,260 --> 00:19:34,060
FINANCE VIOLATORS, TO THIS MAN,

732
00:19:34,060 --> 00:19:35,040
TREVOR MILTON.

733
00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:36,060
HE WAS THE FOUNDER OF AN

734
00:19:36,060 --> 00:19:37,320
ELECTRIC TRUCKING COMPANY CALLED

735
00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:38,640
NIKOLA -- WHICH HE APPARENTLY

736
00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:39,740
WANTED TO NAME AFTER NIKOLA

737
00:19:39,900 --> 00:19:41,040
TESLA, BUT AS "TESLA" WAS

738
00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,260
ALREADY TAKEN, HE WENT WITH

739
00:19:43,260 --> 00:19:44,260
NIKOLA INSTEAD.

740
00:19:44,380 --> 00:19:46,300
A NAME ONLY MARGINALLY MORE

741
00:19:46,300 --> 00:19:48,420
CREATIVE THAN "TESLA2," "TESLA"

742
00:19:48,420 --> 00:19:50,180
WITH TWO A'S AND "TESLA AGAIN

743
00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:52,800
BUT DIFFERENT" ANYWAY, NIKOLA'S

744
00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:54,740
ELECTRIC TRUCK LOOKED PRETTY

745
00:19:54,974 --> 00:19:55,687
IMPRESSIVE -- HERE'S A VIDEO

746
00:19:55,687 --> 00:19:56,457
THAT WAS POSTED TO THE COMPANY'S

747
00:19:56,457 --> 00:19:57,928
SOCIAL MEDIA, CAPTIONED "BEHOLD,

748
00:19:57,928 --> 00:19:58,475
THE 1,000 HP, ZERO EMISSION

749
00:19:58,475 --> 00:19:59,724
NIKOLA SEMI-TRUCK IN MOTION."

750
00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:05,180
THE ONLY PROBLEM WAS, AS THE

751
00:20:05,180 --> 00:20:06,260
COMPANY LATER ADMITTED, THE

752
00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:07,600
REASON THAT TRUCK WASN'T

753
00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:09,320
EMITTING ANYTHING IS THAT IT HAD

754
00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:10,840
BEEN TOWED TO THE TOP OF A HILL

755
00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:12,640
AND ALLOWED TO ROLL DOWN.

756
00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,470
MAKING IT THE PERFECT TRUCK FOR

757
00:20:15,470 --> 00:20:16,400
ANYONE WHO'S ENVIRONMENTALLY

758
00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:18,060
CONSCIOUS AND NEEDS TO COMMUTE

759
00:20:18,060 --> 00:20:19,220
TO THE BOTTOM OF A HILL EXACTLY

760
00:20:19,220 --> 00:20:21,540
ONCE AND NEVER AGAIN.

761
00:20:22,700 --> 00:20:23,700
NOW: MILTON WOUND UP BEING

762
00:20:23,740 --> 00:20:25,010
CONVICTED OF DEFRAUDING THE

763
00:20:25,010 --> 00:20:26,200
COMPANY'S INVESTORS WITH WHAT

764
00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:27,220
PROSECUTORS SAID WERE HIS

765
00:20:27,220 --> 00:20:29,059
REPEATED LIES, AND WAS FACING A

766
00:20:29,059 --> 00:20:30,259
FOUR-YEAR PRISON TERM.

767
00:20:30,354 --> 00:20:32,406
HE WAS APPEALING THAT WHEN TRUMP

768
00:20:32,500 --> 00:20:33,500
SUDDENLY STEPPED IN TO PARDON

769
00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:34,480
HIM.

770
00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:36,460
AND HERE'S MILTON, TELLING THE

771
00:20:36,460 --> 00:20:37,960
MOVING STORY OF HOW TRUMP BROKE

772
00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:39,240
THE NEWS TO HIM OVER THE PHONE.

773
00:20:39,305 --> 00:20:41,223
>> HE SAYS, WELL, UM, TREVOR,

774
00:20:41,288 --> 00:20:45,189
I'VE HEARD YOUR STORY AND WHAT

775
00:20:45,255 --> 00:20:48,164
THEY DID TO YOU WAS EVIL AND

776
00:20:48,164 --> 00:20:48,825
DISGUSTING WAS WRONG ON EVERY

777
00:20:48,825 --> 00:20:52,130
LEVEL.

778
00:20:52,130 --> 00:20:52,759
AND I'M GOING TO ISSUE YOU A

779
00:20:52,759 --> 00:20:54,400
FULL AND UNCONDITIONAL PARDON.

780
00:20:54,780 --> 00:20:56,220
THE HIGHEST PARDON A PRESIDENT

781
00:20:56,220 --> 00:20:58,180
CAN GIVE A HUMAN IS A FULL AND

782
00:20:58,180 --> 00:21:00,586
UNCONDITIONAL, AND I'M GONNA

783
00:21:00,586 --> 00:21:01,440
GIVE -- I'M GONNA ISSUE YOU A

784
00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:02,080
PARDON.

785
00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:02,940
YOU DON'T DESERVE WHAT YOU'VE

786
00:21:02,940 --> 00:21:03,940
BEEN THROUGH.

787
00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,080
I'M SO SORRY.

788
00:21:05,740 --> 00:21:07,260
AND HE SAYS, YOU'RE CLEAN.

789
00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:08,480
YOU'RE CLEANER THAN A BABY'S

790
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:08,838
BOTTOM.

791
00:21:08,838 --> 00:21:14,025
>> John: WAIT, CLEANER THAN A

792
00:21:14,144 --> 00:21:19,331
BABY'S BOTTOM?

793
00:21:19,450 --> 00:21:21,470
FIRST, THAT'S NOT A PHRASE.

794
00:21:21,790 --> 00:21:23,250
BUT ALSO, IF YOU'RE TRYING TO

795
00:21:23,250 --> 00:21:24,390
TALK UP SOMEONE'S HONESTY AND

796
00:21:24,390 --> 00:21:26,470
INTEGRITY, MAYBE AVOID COMPARING

797
00:21:26,470 --> 00:21:27,370
THEM TO SOMETHING THAT IS

798
00:21:27,370 --> 00:21:29,270
FAMOUSLY, LITERALLY FULL OF

799
00:21:29,270 --> 00:21:30,270
SHIT.

800
00:21:30,390 --> 00:21:31,830
AND IF YOU'RE WONDERING WHY

801
00:21:31,830 --> 00:21:33,310
TRUMP GAVE MILTON A PARDON,

802
00:21:33,650 --> 00:21:35,050
HERE'S HOW HE EXPLAINED IT, WHEN

803
00:21:35,050 --> 00:21:35,300
ASKED.

804
00:21:35,300 --> 00:21:36,850
>> WHAT WAS YOUR REASONING FOR

805
00:21:36,850 --> 00:21:37,850
PARDONING TREVOR MILTON?

806
00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:41,152
>> HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY MANY

807
00:21:41,262 --> 00:21:42,262
PEOPLE THAT WAS TAKEN ADVANTAGE

808
00:21:42,308 --> 00:21:45,281
OF.

809
00:21:45,390 --> 00:21:47,150
THEY SAY THE THING THAT HE DID

810
00:21:47,150 --> 00:21:48,490
WRONG WAS, HE WAS ONE OF THE

811
00:21:48,490 --> 00:21:50,870
FIRST PEOPLE THAT SUPPORTED A

812
00:21:50,870 --> 00:21:52,330
GENTLEMAN NAMED DONALD TRUMP FOR

813
00:21:52,330 --> 00:21:53,330
PRESIDENT.

814
00:21:53,450 --> 00:21:54,750
HE SUPPORTED TRUMP.

815
00:21:54,750 --> 00:21:55,750
HE LIKED TRUMP.

816
00:21:55,830 --> 00:21:57,110
I DIDN'T KNOW HIM, BUT HE LIKED

817
00:21:57,110 --> 00:21:57,390
HIM.

818
00:21:57,390 --> 00:21:58,910
AND THEY GOT HIM.

819
00:21:59,470 --> 00:22:00,530
AND I SAID THAT'S UNFAIR.

820
00:22:00,610 --> 00:22:01,850
THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE LIKE THAT.

821
00:22:02,470 --> 00:22:03,670
THEY SUPPORT TRUMP, AND THEY

822
00:22:03,670 --> 00:22:04,220
WENT AFTER THEM.

823
00:22:04,220 --> 00:22:05,486
>> John: OKAY, EVEN BY TRUMP'S

824
00:22:05,577 --> 00:22:08,199
STANDARDS, THAT WAS A MESS.

825
00:22:08,290 --> 00:22:09,850
FIRST HE ANSWERS THE QUESTION

826
00:22:09,850 --> 00:22:10,850
"WHAT'S YOUR REASONING FOR

827
00:22:10,890 --> 00:22:11,930
PARDONING TREVOR MILTON," WITH,

828
00:22:11,930 --> 00:22:13,770
AND I QUOTE, "HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

829
00:22:13,770 --> 00:22:15,410
BY MANY PEOPLE THAT WAS TAKEN

830
00:22:15,410 --> 00:22:16,410
ADVANTAGE OF."

831
00:22:16,430 --> 00:22:18,210
THAT'S SIMPLY NOT HOW THE

832
00:22:18,210 --> 00:22:19,430
ENGLISH LANGUAGE WORKS, BUT

833
00:22:19,430 --> 00:22:20,370
OKAY.

834
00:22:20,370 --> 00:22:21,330
THEN, IN THE MIDDLE OF ANOTHER

835
00:22:21,330 --> 00:22:22,150
THOUGHT, HE SWITCHES FROM

836
00:22:22,150 --> 00:22:23,500
SPEAKING IN THE THIRD PERSON TO

837
00:22:23,500 --> 00:22:25,030
THE FIRST, LIKE A SURVIVOR

838
00:22:25,030 --> 00:22:26,890
CONTESTANT IN CONFESSIONAL WHO'S

839
00:22:26,890 --> 00:22:28,270
ONLY EATEN COCONUT WATER FOR

840
00:22:28,270 --> 00:22:29,270
THREE WEEKS.

841
00:22:29,550 --> 00:22:30,750
"RIZO'S PLAYING WELL, RIZO'S

842
00:22:30,890 --> 00:22:32,530
DOMINATING, I AM GOING TO FAINT,

843
00:22:32,649 --> 00:22:33,690
RIZO GOING DOWN."

844
00:22:34,470 --> 00:22:36,470
IF YOU LOOKED AT A TRANSCRIPT OF

845
00:22:36,470 --> 00:22:37,750
WHAT TRUMP JUST SAID ON PAPER,

846
00:22:37,990 --> 00:22:38,990
YOU'D ASSUME IT WAS CHATGPT

847
00:22:39,509 --> 00:22:40,630
TRYING TO KILL ITSELF.

848
00:22:41,930 --> 00:22:43,830
BUT IT'S NOTABLE THAT MILTON

849
00:22:43,830 --> 00:22:45,470
WASN'T JUST A SUPPORTER OF TRUMP

850
00:22:45,510 --> 00:22:47,030
-- HE WAS ALSO A HEAVY DONOR.

851
00:22:47,430 --> 00:22:48,550
IN FACT, HE AND HIS WIFE MADE

852
00:22:48,550 --> 00:22:49,630
CONTRIBUTIONS TOTALING OVER

853
00:22:50,610 --> 00:22:51,610
$1.8 MILLION TO A TRUMP

854
00:22:51,610 --> 00:22:52,950
RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN FUND, JUST

855
00:22:52,950 --> 00:22:55,250
A FEW MONTHS BEFORE THE PARDON.

856
00:22:55,510 --> 00:22:57,450
AND IF THAT HELPED SWING IT, IT

857
00:22:57,450 --> 00:22:59,070
WAS FRANKLY MONEY WELL-SPENT,

858
00:22:59,210 --> 00:23:00,210
ESPECIALLY GIVEN THAT IN

859
00:23:00,270 --> 00:23:01,810
ADDITION TO PRISON, MILTON WAS

860
00:23:01,810 --> 00:23:02,910
ALSO FACING ROUGHLY $676 MILLION

861
00:23:04,570 --> 00:23:05,730
IN RESTITUTION COSTS.

862
00:23:06,070 --> 00:23:07,070
AND WHILE HISTORICALLY,

863
00:23:07,230 --> 00:23:08,350
PRESIDENTIAL PARDONS DON'T WIPE

864
00:23:08,350 --> 00:23:09,710
THOSE AWAY, AND FOR VERY GOOD

865
00:23:09,710 --> 00:23:11,690
REASON, IN MILTON'S CASE, IT

866
00:23:11,889 --> 00:23:12,673
DID.

867
00:23:12,673 --> 00:23:14,094
SO MILTON'S INVESTORS WOULD NOW

868
00:23:14,132 --> 00:23:15,132
GET ABSOLUTELY NONE OF THEIR

869
00:23:15,450 --> 00:23:16,810
MONEY BACK -- PROMPTING ONE

870
00:23:16,810 --> 00:23:18,510
REPORTER TO ASK HIM A PRETTY

871
00:23:18,510 --> 00:23:19,429
OBVIOUS QUESTION.

872
00:23:19,429 --> 00:23:22,307
>> IF SOMEONE CAME OUT AND SAID,

873
00:23:22,307 --> 00:23:23,307
"I LOST MY LIFE SAVINGS," WOULD

874
00:23:23,350 --> 00:23:24,350
YOU PAY THEM BACK?

875
00:23:24,550 --> 00:23:25,550
>> I WOULDN'T PAY THEM BACK.

876
00:23:25,990 --> 00:23:27,230
I WOULD DEFINITELY BE OPEN TO --

877
00:23:27,730 --> 00:23:29,070
I'VE GOT A FEW BIG VENTURES I'M

878
00:23:29,070 --> 00:23:29,690
WORKING ON RIGHT NOW.

879
00:23:29,690 --> 00:23:31,110
I'D DEFINITELY BE OPEN TO TRYING

880
00:23:31,110 --> 00:23:33,210
TO HELP THOSE PEOPLE IN THE

881
00:23:33,210 --> 00:23:34,210
FUTURE.

882
00:23:34,430 --> 00:23:35,630
SO, I'M NOT HEARTLESS.

883
00:23:35,890 --> 00:23:37,190
IN FACT, I FEEL FOR THESE

884
00:23:37,190 --> 00:23:38,470
PEOPLE, PROBABLY MORE THAN MOST.

885
00:23:38,549 --> 00:23:40,288
>> John: WHAT AN ANSWER!

886
00:23:40,370 --> 00:23:41,870
"YOU LOST YOUR LIFE SAVINGS ON

887
00:23:41,870 --> 00:23:43,510
MY COMPANY, MAY I OFFER YOU

888
00:23:43,510 --> 00:23:44,830
ANOTHER AMAZING INVESTMENT

889
00:23:44,830 --> 00:23:45,830
OPPORTUNITY?"

890
00:23:45,930 --> 00:23:47,590
I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE ALL THE BIG

891
00:23:47,590 --> 00:23:48,610
VENTURES HE'S WORKING ON!

892
00:23:48,610 --> 00:23:49,570
JUST THINK OF ALL THE NEW,

893
00:23:49,570 --> 00:23:51,030
CUTTING-EDGE THINGS HE'S GONNA

894
00:23:51,030 --> 00:23:52,410
ROLL DOWN A HILL!

895
00:23:53,470 --> 00:23:55,010
AND THE THING IS, WHEN IT COMES

896
00:23:55,010 --> 00:23:56,150
TO GETTING OUT OF FINANCIAL

897
00:23:56,150 --> 00:23:57,390
RESTITUTION TO VICTIMS, MILTON'S

898
00:23:57,750 --> 00:23:58,750
NOT A ONE-OFF.

899
00:23:59,130 --> 00:24:00,290
TRUMP'S SECOND TERM PARDONS

900
00:24:00,290 --> 00:24:02,030
ALONE HAVE TAKEN AN ESTIMATED

901
00:24:03,270 --> 00:24:04,290
$1.3 BILLION AWAY FROM VICTIMS

902
00:24:04,290 --> 00:24:05,490
AND SURVIVORS OF CRIME.

903
00:24:05,530 --> 00:24:07,690
AND SOME ARE CONSIDERABLY LESS

904
00:24:07,690 --> 00:24:09,710
FUN THAN FAKE TRUCK SHENANIGANS.

905
00:24:10,150 --> 00:24:11,450
TAKE JOSEPH SCHWARTZ, THE HEAD

906
00:24:11,450 --> 00:24:12,930
OF A NURSING HOME EMPIRE WHO WAS

907
00:24:12,930 --> 00:24:13,990
FACING THREE YEARS IN PRISON

908
00:24:13,990 --> 00:24:14,990
FOR, AMONG OTHER THINGS,

909
00:24:15,070 --> 00:24:16,070
ORCHESTRATING A $39 MILLION

910
00:24:16,590 --> 00:24:17,890
PAYROLL TAX SCHEME, TO WHICH

911
00:24:17,890 --> 00:24:19,370
HE'D PLED GUILTY.

912
00:24:19,710 --> 00:24:21,270
BUT IT WASN'T JUST HIS EMPLOYEES

913
00:24:21,270 --> 00:24:22,790
WHO SUFFERED FROM HOW SCHWARTZ

914
00:24:22,790 --> 00:24:24,450
MANAGED HIS NURSING HOMES -- IT

915
00:24:24,450 --> 00:24:25,890
WAS THE PATIENTS IN THEM, TOO.

916
00:24:26,230 --> 00:24:28,250
>> BETTY MCFADDEN'S SON WAS IN A

917
00:24:28,250 --> 00:24:29,610
SCHWARTZ-RUN NURSING HOME IN

918
00:24:29,610 --> 00:24:31,450
ARKANSAS AFTER A STROKE LEFT HIM

919
00:24:31,450 --> 00:24:32,450
UNABLE TO MOVE.

920
00:24:33,130 --> 00:24:35,150
SANITARY CONDITIONS WERE SO POOR

921
00:24:35,150 --> 00:24:37,470
IN 2017 THAT INSPECTORS

922
00:24:37,470 --> 00:24:39,870
DOCUMENTED MAGGOTS ON HER SON'S

923
00:24:39,870 --> 00:24:40,610
CATHETER.

924
00:24:40,610 --> 00:24:42,530
THE STATE LATER ISSUED FINES FOR

925
00:24:42,530 --> 00:24:43,450
NEGLECT.

926
00:24:43,450 --> 00:24:44,670
DO YOU THINK THE PEOPLE IN THE

927
00:24:44,670 --> 00:24:47,610
NURSING HOME JUST IGNORED WHAT

928
00:24:47,610 --> 00:24:50,770
WAS BLATANTLY NEGLIGENT CARE?

929
00:24:50,809 --> 00:24:52,569
>> YES, I DO.

930
00:24:52,610 --> 00:24:54,170
>> John: YEAH, SO DO I.

931
00:24:54,610 --> 00:24:55,970
AND YET, DESPITE ALL THAT,

932
00:24:56,050 --> 00:24:57,830
SCHWARTZ RECEIVED A FULL PARDON

933
00:24:57,830 --> 00:24:58,830
FROM TRUMP.

934
00:24:58,970 --> 00:25:00,430
AND WHILE I CAN'T SAY FOR SURE

935
00:25:00,430 --> 00:25:02,390
WHY, I'M GUESSING IT DIDN'T HURT

936
00:25:02,390 --> 00:25:03,670
THAT HE'D PAID NEARLY A MILLION

937
00:25:03,811 --> 00:25:04,811
DOLLARS TO RIGHT-WING OPERATIVES

938
00:25:04,811 --> 00:25:05,650
WHO CLAIMED TO HAVE WORKED WITH

939
00:25:05,650 --> 00:25:06,890
LAURA LOOMER, AND ANOTHER

940
00:25:06,890 --> 00:25:09,040
$100,000 OR MORE TO A LOBBYIST

941
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:10,010
WHO HAD A DIFFERENT SET OF

942
00:25:10,010 --> 00:25:11,010
CONNECTIONS TO TRUMP.

943
00:25:11,050 --> 00:25:12,390
INCREDIBLY, ONE OF THE ARGUMENTS

944
00:25:12,390 --> 00:25:13,710
SCHWARTZ'S SUPPORTERS MADE FOR

945
00:25:13,810 --> 00:25:15,310
HIS PARDON WAS THAT HE HAD PAID

946
00:25:15,310 --> 00:25:17,070
HIS FULL $5 MILLION IN FEDERAL

947
00:25:17,070 --> 00:25:18,070
RESTITUTION.

948
00:25:18,090 --> 00:25:19,330
WHICH MAKES IT PRETTY

949
00:25:19,330 --> 00:25:20,497
FRUSTRATING TO LEARN THAT, AS

950
00:25:20,497 --> 00:25:21,069
PART OF HIS PARDON, HE WAS

951
00:25:21,069 --> 00:25:28,069
ACTUALLY MAGGOTS.

952
00:25:31,630 --> 00:25:33,530
NOW, OBVIOUSLY, THAT IMAGE IS AN

953
00:25:33,530 --> 00:25:33,789
ESTIMATE.

954
00:25:33,789 --> 00:25:35,430
I DON'T KNOW WHAT $5 MILLION OF

955
00:25:35,430 --> 00:25:36,430
MAGGOTS LOOKS LIKE.

956
00:25:36,530 --> 00:25:38,250
I'M NOT JOSEPH SCHWARTZ.

957
00:25:38,870 --> 00:25:41,290
THE POINT IS, IN TRUMP'S SECOND

958
00:25:41,290 --> 00:25:43,090
TERM, IT SURE FEELS LIKE, TO THE

959
00:25:43,090 --> 00:25:44,690
EXTENT THERE'S ANY RHYME OR

960
00:25:44,690 --> 00:25:46,010
REASON IN HOW PEOPLE GET

961
00:25:46,270 --> 00:25:47,410
PARDONS, IT HAS LITTLE TO DO

962
00:25:47,410 --> 00:25:48,250
WITH ANY OF THE ESTABLISHED

963
00:25:48,250 --> 00:25:49,250
CRITERIA.

964
00:25:49,270 --> 00:25:50,890
IN FACT, ONLY 10 OF THE PEOPLE

965
00:25:50,890 --> 00:25:52,690
GRANTED THEM SINCE LAST YEAR HAD

966
00:25:52,690 --> 00:25:54,530
EVEN FILED PETITIONS TO THE

967
00:25:54,530 --> 00:25:55,470
OFFICE OF THE PARDON ATTORNEY,

968
00:25:55,470 --> 00:25:56,610
AND EVEN WITHIN THAT SMALL

969
00:25:56,610 --> 00:25:58,150
GROUP, SOME DID NOT APPEAR TO

970
00:25:58,150 --> 00:25:59,150
MEET THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT'S

971
00:25:59,150 --> 00:26:00,150
STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS.

972
00:26:00,590 --> 00:26:02,350
INSTEAD, WE NOW SEEM TO HAVE A

973
00:26:02,350 --> 00:26:03,430
SYSTEM WHERE THINGS LIKE MEDIA

974
00:26:03,430 --> 00:26:04,830
COVERAGE, MONEY, AND APPEALS TO

975
00:26:04,830 --> 00:26:06,150
TRUMP'S VANITY ARE KEY.

976
00:26:06,210 --> 00:26:08,030
IN FACT, HE'LL OFTEN TIE HIS

977
00:26:08,030 --> 00:26:09,570
JUSTIFICATION FOR PARDONS TO

978
00:26:09,570 --> 00:26:11,010
WHAT HE SEES AS HIS OWN

979
00:26:11,010 --> 00:26:12,820
RAILROADING BY PROSECUTORS, TO

980
00:26:12,820 --> 00:26:13,750
THE POINT THAT, ACCORDING TO

981
00:26:13,750 --> 00:26:14,970
ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS, THE

982
00:26:15,010 --> 00:26:16,690
MAGIC WORDS TO GET HIM TO HELP

983
00:26:16,690 --> 00:26:17,448
WITH A PARDON ARE: "UNJUST

984
00:26:17,448 --> 00:26:19,356
PERSECUTION."

985
00:26:19,670 --> 00:26:20,910
TAKE WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE

986
00:26:20,910 --> 00:26:22,150
FORMER PRESIDENT OF HONDURAS,

987
00:26:22,190 --> 00:26:23,890
JUAN ORLANDO HERNÁNDEZ, WHO WAS

988
00:26:23,890 --> 00:26:25,010
PARDONED AFTER ROGER STONE,

989
00:26:25,250 --> 00:26:28,110
FAMOUS HAT SALESMAN, ADVOCATED

990
00:26:28,110 --> 00:26:29,450
ON HIS BEHALF, AND AFTER

991
00:26:29,650 --> 00:26:30,810
HERNANDEZ'S WIFE APPEARED ON

992
00:26:30,810 --> 00:26:31,982
MATT GAETZ'S SHOW TO CLAIM THAT,

993
00:26:31,982 --> 00:26:33,543
JUST LIKE TRUMP, "MY HUSBAND IS

994
00:26:33,747 --> 00:26:35,271
A VICTIM OF THE DOJ'S BIDEN

995
00:26:35,476 --> 00:26:37,308
LAWFARE AGENDA."

996
00:26:37,510 --> 00:26:39,010
WHICH IS A PRETTY BIG STRETCH,

997
00:26:39,310 --> 00:26:40,830
GIVEN WHAT HER HUSBAND WAS

998
00:26:40,830 --> 00:26:41,890
CONVICTED OF.

999
00:26:42,690 --> 00:26:43,810
>> HERNANDEZ WAS CONVICTED IN

1000
00:26:43,810 --> 00:26:45,970
2024 OF WHAT PROSECUTORS CALLED

1001
00:26:45,970 --> 00:26:47,430
ONE OF THE BIGGEST AND MOST

1002
00:26:47,430 --> 00:26:48,510
VIOLENT NARCOTRAFFICKING

1003
00:26:48,690 --> 00:26:50,310
CONSPIRACIES IN THE WORLD,

1004
00:26:50,490 --> 00:26:51,570
PROTECTING DRUG ROUTES IN

1005
00:26:51,570 --> 00:26:52,690
EXCHANGE FOR MILLIONS.

1006
00:26:53,430 --> 00:26:55,110
IN TOTAL, PROSECUTORS SAID, HE

1007
00:26:55,110 --> 00:26:56,590
HELPED FLOOD THE U.S. WITH MORE

1008
00:26:56,590 --> 00:26:58,310
THAN 400 TONS OF COCAINE.

1009
00:26:58,550 --> 00:27:00,150
HE ALLEGEDLY EVEN BOASTED THEY

1010
00:27:00,150 --> 00:27:01,590
WERE GOING TO STUFF COCAINE UP

1011
00:27:01,590 --> 00:27:02,850
THE GRINGOS' NOSES.

1012
00:27:02,951 --> 00:27:05,118
>> John: YEAH, PRETTY BAD!

1013
00:27:05,218 --> 00:27:06,500
THE VIOLENT DRUG CONSPIRACY

1014
00:27:06,500 --> 00:27:07,490
PART, THAT IS, NOT THE "STUFF

1015
00:27:07,490 --> 00:27:09,130
COCAINE UP GRINGOS' NOSES."

1016
00:27:09,130 --> 00:27:10,770
IF ANYTHING, THAT'S JUST HELPFUL

1017
00:27:10,770 --> 00:27:11,750
CUSTOMER SERVICE.

1018
00:27:11,750 --> 00:27:14,050
THAT'S AT-HOME INSTALLATION AND

1019
00:27:14,050 --> 00:27:14,690
TROUBLESHOOTING.

1020
00:27:14,690 --> 00:27:16,090
IT'S ESSENTIALLY GEEK SQUAD BUT

1021
00:27:16,090 --> 00:27:16,988
FOR COCAINE.

1022
00:27:16,988 --> 00:27:18,734
AND IF YOU'RE THINKING, WAIT.

1023
00:27:18,950 --> 00:27:20,290
WASN'T "STOPPING THE FLOW OF

1024
00:27:20,290 --> 00:27:21,090
DRUGS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN

1025
00:27:21,090 --> 00:27:22,790
BORDER" TRUMP'S WHOLE DEAL?

1026
00:27:23,150 --> 00:27:24,250
ISN'T THAT WHY WE RECENTLY

1027
00:27:24,250 --> 00:27:25,310
KIDNAPPED A DIFFERENT SOUTH

1028
00:27:25,310 --> 00:27:26,570
COUNTRY'S LEADER, AND WHY WE'RE

1029
00:27:26,570 --> 00:27:28,010
BLOWING UP BOATS OFF VENEZUELA

1030
00:27:28,010 --> 00:27:28,930
ON A REGULAR BASIS?

1031
00:27:28,930 --> 00:27:30,149
IN FACT, WASN'T "THEY'RE

1032
00:27:30,170 --> 00:27:31,390
BRINGING DRUGS" ONE OF THE FIRST

1033
00:27:31,390 --> 00:27:32,950
THINGS TRUMP BURPED INTO OUR

1034
00:27:32,950 --> 00:27:34,670
COLLECTIVE BRAINS A DECADE AGO

1035
00:27:34,670 --> 00:27:35,950
AFTER DESCENDING FROM HELL'S

1036
00:27:35,950 --> 00:27:36,690
MEZZANINE?

1037
00:27:36,690 --> 00:27:37,690
YEAH!

1038
00:27:37,890 --> 00:27:39,010
IT VERY MUCH WAS!

1039
00:27:39,130 --> 00:27:40,170
AND IF THE WORLD HAD ANY

1040
00:27:40,170 --> 00:27:41,560
JUSTICE, HIS SHOELACES WOULD

1041
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:42,750
HAVE GOTTEN STUCK RIGHT THEN AND

1042
00:27:42,830 --> 00:27:44,330
THERE, AND TODAY, INSTEAD OF

1043
00:27:44,330 --> 00:27:45,750
INTUITIVELY ASSOCIATING TRUMP

1044
00:27:45,750 --> 00:27:47,150
WITH AMERICA IMPLODING, WE'D

1045
00:27:47,150 --> 00:27:48,210
JUST ASSOCIATE HIM WITH THE NEED

1046
00:27:48,210 --> 00:27:50,090
TO BE REALLY CAREFUL AT THE

1047
00:27:50,090 --> 00:27:50,850
MALL.

1048
00:27:50,850 --> 00:27:52,470
LOOK UP FROM YOUR PHONE, ALYSSA.

1049
00:27:52,630 --> 00:27:53,630
YOU DON'T WANT TO GET TRUMP'D

1050
00:27:53,930 --> 00:27:55,310
OUTSIDE AN AMERICAN EAGLE.

1051
00:27:55,670 --> 00:27:56,930
LEARN FROM HISTORY.

1052
00:27:57,790 --> 00:27:59,150
BUT MAYBE THE BEST WAY TO

1053
00:27:59,150 --> 00:28:00,730
UNDERSTAND JUST HOW FULLY THE

1054
00:28:00,730 --> 00:28:01,810
BRAKES HAVE COME OFF IS TO LOOK

1055
00:28:01,810 --> 00:28:03,250
AT WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE CRYPTO

1056
00:28:03,250 --> 00:28:04,650
TRADING PLATFORM BINANCE.

1057
00:28:04,670 --> 00:28:06,690
IN 2023, THE COMPANY AND ITS

1058
00:28:06,690 --> 00:28:08,470
CEO, CHANGPENG ZHAO, WHO GOES BY

1059
00:28:08,470 --> 00:28:10,510
"CZ," PLED GUILTY TO VIOLATING

1060
00:28:10,510 --> 00:28:11,950
ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING LAWS.

1061
00:28:12,090 --> 00:28:13,330
THE DOJ SAID ZHAO HAD CAUSED

1062
00:28:13,330 --> 00:28:14,430
SIGNIFICANT HARM TO U.S.

1063
00:28:14,450 --> 00:28:15,930
NATIONAL SECURITY BY ALLOWING

1064
00:28:15,930 --> 00:28:17,150
SANCTIONED IRANIAN CRYPTO

1065
00:28:17,150 --> 00:28:18,210
EXCHANGES, RUSSIAN

1066
00:28:18,210 --> 00:28:19,370
DRUG-TRAFFICKERS, HAMAS

1067
00:28:19,550 --> 00:28:20,450
MILITANTS, AND OTHER CRIMINAL

1068
00:28:20,450 --> 00:28:21,970
GROUPS TO MOVE BILLIONS OF

1069
00:28:21,970 --> 00:28:23,310
DOLLARS THROUGH THE EXCHANGE.

1070
00:28:23,430 --> 00:28:25,210
AND IT WAS A PRETTY SLAM DUNK

1071
00:28:25,210 --> 00:28:26,990
CASE, WITH AMONG OTHER THINGS,

1072
00:28:27,090 --> 00:28:28,300
INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS FROM

1073
00:28:28,300 --> 00:28:29,570
EMPLOYEES, INCLUDING ITS CHIEF

1074
00:28:29,570 --> 00:28:31,347
COMPLIANCE OFFICER TEXTING A

1075
00:28:31,347 --> 00:28:32,838
COWORKER, "LIKE COME ON.

1076
00:28:32,838 --> 00:28:35,824
THEY ARE HERE FOR CRIME," TO

1077
00:28:35,890 --> 00:28:36,890
WHICH THE COLLEAGUE REPLIED,

1078
00:28:36,950 --> 00:28:38,710
"WE SEE THE BAD, BUT WE CLOSE

1079
00:28:38,710 --> 00:28:40,010
2 EYES."

1080
00:28:40,010 --> 00:28:40,562
WHICH IS BOTH AN FLAGRANT

1081
00:28:40,562 --> 00:28:42,309
ADMISSION OF GUILT AND ALSO, A

1082
00:28:42,370 --> 00:28:44,870
FRANKLY GORGEOUS WAY TO DESCRIBE

1083
00:28:44,933 --> 00:28:47,229
PLAYING PEEKABOO.

1084
00:28:47,229 --> 00:28:48,229
BINANCE'S PLEA AGREEMENTS

1085
00:28:48,235 --> 00:28:49,715
CONSTITUTED THE LARGEST

1086
00:28:49,777 --> 00:28:52,892
SETTLEMENTS IN HISTORY, AND THE

1087
00:28:52,892 --> 00:28:53,427
COMPANY PAID MORE THAN

1088
00:28:53,427 --> 00:28:54,780
$4 BILLION IN FINES.

1089
00:28:54,842 --> 00:28:56,667
AND YET, SEEMINGLY OUT OF

1090
00:28:56,667 --> 00:28:57,327
NOWHERE, TRUMP GAVE ZHAO A FULL

1091
00:28:57,327 --> 00:28:59,026
PARDON.

1092
00:28:59,090 --> 00:29:01,470
AND WHEN ASKED ABOUT THAT JUST A

1093
00:29:01,470 --> 00:29:02,076
FEW DAYS LATER, HIS ANSWER

1094
00:29:02,076 --> 00:29:04,503
WASN'T GREAT.

1095
00:29:04,570 --> 00:29:07,330
>> HE PLED GUILTY IN 2023 TO

1096
00:29:07,669 --> 00:29:08,910
VIOLATING ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING

1097
00:29:08,910 --> 00:29:09,294
LAWS.

1098
00:29:09,294 --> 00:29:10,677
>> RIGHT.

1099
00:29:10,677 --> 00:29:11,320
>> THE GOVERNMENT AT THE TIME

1100
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:12,606
SAID THAT CZ HAD CAUSED

1101
00:29:12,670 --> 00:29:14,330
SIGNIFICANT HARM TO U.S.

1102
00:29:14,370 --> 00:29:15,950
NATIONAL SECURITY, ESSENTIALLY

1103
00:29:15,950 --> 00:29:17,230
BY ALLOWING TERRORIST GROUPS

1104
00:29:17,230 --> 00:29:18,230
LIKE HAMAS --

1105
00:29:18,230 --> 00:29:18,518
>> MM-HMM.

1106
00:29:18,518 --> 00:29:19,062
>> TO MOVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS

1107
00:29:19,062 --> 00:29:20,113
AROUND.

1108
00:29:20,150 --> 00:29:21,550
WHY DID YOU PARDON HIM?

1109
00:29:21,550 --> 00:29:21,934
>> OKAY.

1110
00:29:21,934 --> 00:29:22,273
ARE YOU READY?

1111
00:29:22,273 --> 00:29:23,585
I DON'T KNOW WHO HE IS.

1112
00:29:23,630 --> 00:29:25,210
I KNOW HE GOT A FOUR-MONTH

1113
00:29:25,210 --> 00:29:26,750
SENTENCE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

1114
00:29:27,070 --> 00:29:28,590
AND I HEARD IT WAS A BIDEN WITCH

1115
00:29:28,590 --> 00:29:29,011
HUNT.

1116
00:29:29,011 --> 00:29:31,368
>> John: THERE IT IS,

1117
00:29:32,510 --> 00:29:32,940
THERE IT IS, TRUMP'S CLASSIC

1118
00:29:32,940 --> 00:29:33,890
MOVE OF CLAIMING HE DOESN'T KNOW

1119
00:29:33,890 --> 00:29:35,030
SOMEONE AFTER IT TURNS OUT HIS

1120
00:29:35,050 --> 00:29:36,450
ASSOCIATION WITH THEM MIGHT BE A

1121
00:29:36,450 --> 00:29:36,950
PROBLEM.

1122
00:29:36,950 --> 00:29:38,850
HE LITERALLY SAYS "ARE YOU

1123
00:29:38,850 --> 00:29:40,850
READY?," AS IF TO PREPARE

1124
00:29:40,850 --> 00:29:42,010
EVERYONE FOR THE INCOMING

1125
00:29:42,010 --> 00:29:42,630
BULLSHIT.

1126
00:29:42,630 --> 00:29:44,690
"OKAY, BUCKLE THE FUCK UP,

1127
00:29:44,690 --> 00:29:46,150
EVERYONE, BECAUSE EVEN BY MY

1128
00:29:46,150 --> 00:29:47,750
STANDARDS, THIS LIE IS ABOUT TO

1129
00:29:47,750 --> 00:29:49,330
BE AN ABSOLUTE DOOZY!"

1130
00:29:50,650 --> 00:29:52,630
BUT ZHAO'S PARDON MAY NOT "JUST"

1131
00:29:52,630 --> 00:29:53,710
HAVE BEEN DOWN TO THE "BIDEN

1132
00:29:53,710 --> 00:29:54,710
WITCH HUNT" FACTOR.

1133
00:29:54,710 --> 00:29:55,670
BECAUSE IT TURNS OUT, JUST

1134
00:29:55,670 --> 00:29:57,210
MONTHS BEFORE IT CAME THROUGH,

1135
00:29:57,210 --> 00:29:58,770
BINANCE HAD DONE A CRYPTO DEAL

1136
00:29:58,770 --> 00:30:00,070
THAT BENEFITED THE TRUMP FAMILY

1137
00:30:00,550 --> 00:30:01,550
MASSIVELY.

1138
00:30:01,690 --> 00:30:04,370
VERY BASICALLY, UAE INVESTMENT

1139
00:30:04,499 --> 00:30:05,499
FUND, BROKERED A $2 BILLION

1140
00:30:05,614 --> 00:30:07,119
TRANSACTION USING THE CRYPTO

1141
00:30:07,250 --> 00:30:13,012
COIN ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRUMP

1142
00:30:13,144 --> 00:30:14,144
THAT TRANSACTION PARKED $2

1143
00:30:14,192 --> 00:30:15,240
BILLION INDEFINITELY WITH THE

1144
00:30:16,150 --> 00:30:17,710
COMPANY, OFF OF WHICH THE TRUMPS

1145
00:30:17,870 --> 00:30:19,230
COULD THEN EARN INTEREST.

1146
00:30:19,710 --> 00:30:21,050
AND WHILE BINANCE WILL INSIST

1147
00:30:21,230 --> 00:30:22,510
THERE WAS NO QUID PRO QUO AND

1148
00:30:22,510 --> 00:30:23,810
THAT IT DIDN'T CHOOSE THE CRYPTO

1149
00:30:23,905 --> 00:30:25,454
COIN IN QUESTION, EVEN IF THAT'S

1150
00:30:25,454 --> 00:30:25,727
TRUE, IT CAN VERY MUCH DETERMINE

1151
00:30:25,727 --> 00:30:27,970
HOW LONG WORLD LIBERTY CONTINUES

1152
00:30:28,048 --> 00:30:30,872
EARNING INTEREST ON THAT TWO

1153
00:30:30,948 --> 00:30:32,611
BILLION DOLLARS, WHICH IS PRETTY

1154
00:30:32,689 --> 00:30:34,781
MEANINGFUL, GIVEN EVEN A 4%

1155
00:30:34,781 --> 00:30:35,990
YIELD WOULD GENERATE $80 MILLION

1156
00:30:36,890 --> 00:30:38,330
ANNUALLY, OF WHICH THE TRUMP

1157
00:30:38,330 --> 00:30:39,250
FAMILY WOULD BE ENTITLED TO

1158
00:30:39,250 --> 00:30:41,430
ABOUT $30 MILLION A YEAR.

1159
00:30:41,590 --> 00:30:43,190
WHICH IS A LOT OF MONEY.

1160
00:30:43,230 --> 00:30:44,770
I MEAN, $30 MILLION DOLLARS!

1161
00:30:44,790 --> 00:30:47,070
THAT'S A MILLION SIGNED ITALIAN

1162
00:30:47,070 --> 00:30:48,030
FELONY HATS!

1163
00:30:48,030 --> 00:30:49,490
THAT'S RICCHEZZA!

1164
00:30:50,470 --> 00:30:52,570
AND IT'S NOT JUST ME THAT THINKS

1165
00:30:52,750 --> 00:30:53,810
ZHAO'S PARDON LOOKS BAD.

1166
00:30:53,890 --> 00:30:55,260
EVEN JOE LONSDALE, THE

1167
00:30:55,260 --> 00:30:56,990
CO-FOUNDER OF PALANTIR, TWEETED,

1168
00:30:58,670 --> 00:30:59,990
TRUMP HAS BEEN TERRIBLY ADVISED

1169
00:30:59,990 --> 00:31:01,630
ON THIS, IT MAKES IT LOOK LIKE

1170
00:31:01,630 --> 00:31:02,690
MASSIVE FRAUD IS HAPPENING

1171
00:31:02,690 --> 00:31:03,809
AROUND HIM IN THIS AREA."

1172
00:31:04,010 --> 00:31:06,130
AND I DON'T LOVE BEING ON THE

1173
00:31:06,130 --> 00:31:07,710
SAME SIDE AS THE HEAD OF

1174
00:31:07,890 --> 00:31:09,250
IT MAKES ME SECOND GUESS

1175
00:31:09,250 --> 00:31:09,850
EVERYTHING.

1176
00:31:09,850 --> 00:31:11,130
IMAGINE IF TUCKER CARLSON

1177
00:31:11,130 --> 00:31:12,910
ANNOUNCED "THE COMEBACK" IS HIS

1178
00:31:12,910 --> 00:31:14,690
FAVORITE SHOW OF ALL TIME, I

1179
00:31:14,690 --> 00:31:16,050
THINK I'D KILL MYSELF.

1180
00:31:17,030 --> 00:31:18,650
SO, WHAT DO WE DO?

1181
00:31:19,210 --> 00:31:21,530
WELL, LEGALLY, THERE'S NOT MUCH

1182
00:31:21,710 --> 00:31:22,710
WE CAN DO.

1183
00:31:22,710 --> 00:31:23,670
ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE SUPREME

1184
00:31:23,670 --> 00:31:25,350
COURT'S FOUND A PRESIDENT CAN'T

1185
00:31:25,350 --> 00:31:27,190
BE PROSECUTED FOR OFFICIAL ACTS,

1186
00:31:27,430 --> 00:31:28,450
WHICH GIVING OUT PARDONS

1187
00:31:29,110 --> 00:31:30,110
UNQUESTIONABLY IS.

1188
00:31:30,410 --> 00:31:31,430
AND WHILE SOME CRITICS HAVE

1189
00:31:31,430 --> 00:31:32,730
SUGGESTED REINING IN THE

1190
00:31:32,730 --> 00:31:34,590
PRESIDENT'S PARDON POWER, I'D

1191
00:31:34,590 --> 00:31:36,470
WANT TO TREAD VERY CAREFULLY

1192
00:31:36,628 --> 00:31:37,598
THERE.

1193
00:31:37,598 --> 00:31:40,205
BECAUSE HISTORICALLY, THE HARM

1194
00:31:40,264 --> 00:31:41,863
OF SKETCHY PARDONS HAS GENERALLY

1195
00:31:41,863 --> 00:31:42,780
BEEN OFFSET BY CLEMENCY COMING

1196
00:31:42,780 --> 00:31:44,670
FOR MANY MORE WHO ACTUALLY

1197
00:31:44,670 --> 00:31:45,670
DESERVED IT.

1198
00:31:45,850 --> 00:31:47,050
THE PROBLEM IS, RIGHT NOW, IT

1199
00:31:47,050 --> 00:31:48,050
FEELS THAT RATIO'S BEEN

1200
00:31:48,690 --> 00:31:50,030
REVERSED, AND THAT OUTSIDE OF A

1201
00:31:50,030 --> 00:31:52,130
FEW EXCEPTIONS, IT'S BASICALLY

1202
00:31:52,130 --> 00:31:54,290
JUST THE SCUMBAGS AND FRAUDSTERS

1203
00:31:54,290 --> 00:31:55,290
WITH CONNECTIONS TO TRUMP WHO

1204
00:31:55,906 --> 00:31:57,454
GET PARDONS.

1205
00:31:57,511 --> 00:31:59,144
AS ONE LAWYER PUT IT, "IF YOU'RE

1206
00:31:59,144 --> 00:31:59,679
JUST AN AVERAGE CITIZEN, YOU

1207
00:31:59,679 --> 00:32:00,833
CAN'T EVEN GET IN THE LINE.

1208
00:32:00,890 --> 00:32:02,190
"I TOLD MY GUY HE'D PROBABLY BE

1209
00:32:02,190 --> 00:32:03,650
BETTER OFF IF HE BROKE INTO THE

1210
00:32:03,650 --> 00:32:05,390
CAPITOL OR MADE A MAJOR DONATION

1211
00:32:05,390 --> 00:32:06,490
TO TRUMP'S INAUGURATION."

1212
00:32:06,570 --> 00:32:07,870
WHICH IS PRETTY BLEAK.

1213
00:32:07,870 --> 00:32:08,730
ISN'T IT?

1214
00:32:08,730 --> 00:32:10,270
ESPECIALLY GIVEN JUST HOW MUCH

1215
00:32:10,270 --> 00:32:12,850
TRUMP LOVES TO RAIL ABOUT HOW

1216
00:32:12,850 --> 00:32:15,270
TOUGH HE IS ON LAW AND ORDER.

1217
00:32:15,690 --> 00:32:17,090
BUT THAT TOUGHNESS IS CLEARLY

1218
00:32:17,530 --> 00:32:19,390
DEEPLY SELECTIVE, BECAUSE HE'LL

1219
00:32:19,390 --> 00:32:21,430
HAPPILY PUT VIOLENT PEOPLE AND

1220
00:32:22,030 --> 00:32:23,830
FRAUDSTERS BACK ON THE STREETS

1221
00:32:23,830 --> 00:32:24,980
TO VICTIMIZE PEOPLE AGAIN, JUST

1222
00:32:24,980 --> 00:32:26,250
BECAUSE THEY SUPPORT HIM.

1223
00:32:26,730 --> 00:32:28,430
AND THAT'S FRANKLY NOT LIKELY TO

1224
00:32:28,430 --> 00:32:29,290
STOP ANYTIME SOON.

1225
00:32:29,290 --> 00:32:30,250
IN FACT, HE'S REPORTEDLY

1226
00:32:30,250 --> 00:32:31,310
PROMISED HIS TOP ADMINISTRATION

1227
00:32:31,310 --> 00:32:32,990
OFFICIALS PARDONS BEFORE HE

1228
00:32:32,990 --> 00:32:34,190
LEAVES OFFICE, EFFECTIVELY

1229
00:32:34,210 --> 00:32:35,550
MEANING THAT THEY CAN GET AWAY

1230
00:32:35,550 --> 00:32:37,210
WITH ANY FEDERAL CRIMES THEY MAY

1231
00:32:37,210 --> 00:32:38,710
COMMIT DURING HIS SECOND TERM.

1232
00:32:38,730 --> 00:32:39,780
WHICH, AMONG OTHER THINGS, MEANS

1233
00:32:39,780 --> 00:32:42,250
THAT RFK JR. IS ABOUT TO ENTER

1234
00:32:42,250 --> 00:32:44,260
THE ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE IN

1235
00:32:44,260 --> 00:32:45,490
WAYS THAT WE'VE NEVER SEEN

1236
00:32:45,490 --> 00:32:46,490
BEFORE.

1237
00:32:47,010 --> 00:32:49,510
THE HYPOCRISY HERE IS SO

1238
00:32:49,510 --> 00:32:50,190
FLAGRANT.

1239
00:32:50,190 --> 00:32:52,030
JUST LAST WEEK, ADMINISTRATION

1240
00:32:52,030 --> 00:32:53,450
OFFICIALS TRIUMPHANTLY ANNOUNCED

1241
00:32:53,450 --> 00:32:54,590
INDICTMENTS AS PART OF THEIR

1242
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,447
ONGOING CRACKDOWN ON MEDICARE

1243
00:32:58,447 --> 00:32:58,799
HEALTHCARE FRAUD.

1244
00:32:58,799 --> 00:32:59,276
BUT AS REPORTERS QUICKLY POINTED

1245
00:32:59,276 --> 00:33:00,006
OUT, SOME OF THOSE FRAUD CASES

1246
00:33:00,006 --> 00:33:02,218
SEEMED STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO

1247
00:33:02,770 --> 00:33:03,950
THOSE FOR WHICH TRUMP HAS

1248
00:33:03,950 --> 00:33:06,090
GRANTED CLEMENCY, WHEN PEOPLE

1249
00:33:06,090 --> 00:33:07,370
HAD CONNECTIONS TO HIM.

1250
00:33:07,950 --> 00:33:08,990
AND WHEN ONE REPORTER POINTED

1251
00:33:08,990 --> 00:33:10,230
THAT OUT DURING THE DOJ'S PRESS

1252
00:33:10,230 --> 00:33:11,430
CONFERENCE, THE ANSWER HE GOT

1253
00:33:11,810 --> 00:33:13,130
WAS PRETTY REVEALING.

1254
00:33:13,232 --> 00:33:15,417
>> PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS GRANTED

1255
00:33:15,417 --> 00:33:16,630
CLEMENCY TO NUMEROUS INDIVIDUALS

1256
00:33:16,630 --> 00:33:17,770
WHO HAVE STOLEN HUNDREDS OF

1257
00:33:17,770 --> 00:33:19,010
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN MEDICAID

1258
00:33:19,010 --> 00:33:19,530
FUNDS.

1259
00:33:19,530 --> 00:33:21,470
CAN WE EXPECT AIMEE BOCK OR ANY

1260
00:33:21,470 --> 00:33:22,950
OF THESE FOLKS TO BE SHOWN THE

1261
00:33:22,950 --> 00:33:25,150
SAME MERCY IN THE FUTURE?

1262
00:33:25,150 --> 00:33:26,150
>> I'LL TAKE A DIFFERENT

1263
00:33:26,156 --> 00:33:30,344
QUESTION AS THE FINAL QUESTION.

1264
00:33:30,344 --> 00:33:31,344
>> John: I MEAN, THAT'S NOT EVEN

1265
00:33:31,352 --> 00:33:32,706
AN ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN.

1266
00:33:32,770 --> 00:33:34,090
AND IF SOMEONE IS DODGING A

1267
00:33:34,090 --> 00:33:35,590
QUESTION THAT HARD, IT MEANS THE

1268
00:33:35,590 --> 00:33:36,850
ANSWER IS TRULY BAD.

1269
00:33:37,410 --> 00:33:38,410
IF YOU ASKED YOUR GIRLFRIEND,

1270
00:33:38,470 --> 00:33:39,470
"WILL YOU MARRY ME?"

1271
00:33:39,510 --> 00:33:40,790
AND SHE SAYS "I'LL TAKE A

1272
00:33:40,790 --> 00:33:42,137
DIFFERENT QUESTION," GO AHEAD

1273
00:33:42,137 --> 00:33:44,194
AND DOWNLOAD HINGE BECAUSE

1274
00:33:44,370 --> 00:33:45,610
WHATEVER THE REAL ANSWER IS DOES

1275
00:33:45,630 --> 00:33:47,030
NOT BODE WELL FOR YOU.

1276
00:33:47,570 --> 00:33:49,170
AND LOOK, WHILE THAT ANSWER IS

1277
00:33:49,170 --> 00:33:50,290
CLEARLY LAUGHABLE, THE

1278
00:33:50,290 --> 00:33:51,810
UNDERLYING MESSAGE IS PRETTY

1279
00:33:51,810 --> 00:33:52,750
DARK.

1280
00:33:52,750 --> 00:33:54,030
BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S NOT NEWS

1281
00:33:54,030 --> 00:33:55,510
THAT AMERICA HAS A TWO-TIERED

1282
00:33:55,510 --> 00:33:57,310
JUSTICE SYSTEM, BUT THIS IS

1283
00:33:57,310 --> 00:33:59,070
TAKING IT TO AN ABSURD EXTREME.

1284
00:33:59,570 --> 00:34:00,610
THE WAY WE'RE GOING RIGHT NOW,

1285
00:34:00,890 --> 00:34:02,630
WE MAY END UP AT A POINT WHERE

1286
00:34:02,630 --> 00:34:04,070
WE DON'T SO MUCH HAVE A SYSTEM

1287
00:34:04,070 --> 00:34:06,450
OF LAWS, AS WE JUST HAVE A GUY.

1288
00:34:07,070 --> 00:34:08,110
AND IF YOU'RE ON THAT GUY'S

1289
00:34:08,110 --> 00:34:09,650
TEAM, YOU BASICALLY GET TO

1290
00:34:09,650 --> 00:34:10,594
COMMIT CRIMES.

1291
00:34:10,594 --> 00:34:13,016
AND THAT'S JUST NOT THE SOCIAL

1292
00:34:13,016 --> 00:34:14,770
CONTRACT ANY OF US SIGNED UP

1293
00:34:14,770 --> 00:34:15,030
FOR.

1294
00:34:15,030 --> 00:34:17,010
ALL OF THIS IS A VERY, VERY

1295
00:34:17,010 --> 00:34:17,688
SLIPPERY SLOPE.

1296
00:34:17,688 --> 00:34:19,429
AND THE PROBLEM IS, MUCH LIKE A

1297
00:34:19,509 --> 00:34:21,250
NIKOLA TRUCK, ONCE WE START

1298
00:34:21,250 --> 00:34:23,210
GOING DOWN THAT SLOPE, IT COULD

1299
00:34:23,210 --> 00:34:24,889
BE VERY HARD TO COME BACK.

1300
00:34:25,409 --> 00:34:26,650
AND NOW THIS.

1301
00:34:26,705 --> 00:34:30,889
>> Announcer: AND NOW,

1302
00:34:30,946 --> 00:34:33,434
PEOPLE CALLING INTO C-SPAN ON

1303
00:34:33,434 --> 00:34:34,338
THEIR BIRTHDAY PARKA

1304
00:34:34,338 --> 00:34:36,402
>> DON IS NEXT PARK OF LIKE

1305
00:34:36,458 --> 00:34:38,099
GOOD MORNING.

1306
00:34:38,155 --> 00:34:39,484
>> GOOD MORNING, IT'S MY

1307
00:34:39,541 --> 00:34:40,784
BIRTHDAY.

1308
00:34:40,841 --> 00:34:41,916
>> HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

1309
00:34:41,916 --> 00:34:42,820
>> ELROY WISCONSIN, INDEPENDENT

1310
00:34:42,820 --> 00:34:44,460
COLOR.

1311
00:34:44,516 --> 00:34:45,732
>> GOOD MORNING, GENTLEMEN.

1312
00:34:45,909 --> 00:34:47,010
IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY.

1313
00:34:47,110 --> 00:34:48,170
I'M 84 YEARS OLD.

1314
00:34:48,190 --> 00:34:49,190
HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

1315
00:34:49,259 --> 00:34:50,259
>> HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

1316
00:34:50,311 --> 00:34:52,415
>> I'M A SENIOR CITIZEN AND I'M

1317
00:34:52,485 --> 00:34:54,449
80 YEARS OLD.

1318
00:34:54,518 --> 00:34:56,553
>> HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

1319
00:34:56,553 --> 00:34:57,078
>> HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

1320
00:34:57,078 --> 00:35:00,234
>> I PLAN TO BE ON THIS EARTH.

1321
00:35:00,304 --> 00:35:03,390
>> HOW OLD ARE YOU, VIVIAN?

1322
00:35:03,460 --> 00:35:06,020
>> 72 YEARS OLD.

1323
00:35:06,090 --> 00:35:07,230
>> HAPPY 72ND BIRTHDAY.

1324
00:35:07,390 --> 00:35:09,890
>> I CAME IN THIS WORLD 86 YEARS

1325
00:35:09,890 --> 00:35:10,852
AGO TODAY.

1326
00:35:10,852 --> 00:35:12,321
>> HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

1327
00:35:12,405 --> 00:35:14,840
>> THANK YOU, I FEEL GOOD ABOUT

1328
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:15,176
THAT.

1329
00:35:15,176 --> 00:35:17,359
I'M STILL KICKING.

1330
00:35:17,443 --> 00:35:20,508
>> I JUST TURNED 90.

1331
00:35:20,508 --> 00:35:21,431
>> HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

1332
00:35:21,431 --> 00:35:23,026
>> THANKS.

1333
00:35:23,110 --> 00:35:24,170
>> TOMORROW IS MY BIRTHDAY, I

1334
00:35:25,350 --> 00:35:27,470
HAVE TWO VACCINES AND THE

1335
00:35:27,470 --> 00:35:29,330
BOOSTER AND I'M SICK RIGHT NOW.

1336
00:35:30,250 --> 00:35:33,070
AND SO GOODBYE.

1337
00:35:33,143 --> 00:35:35,864
>> HOW OLD ARE YOU?

1338
00:35:35,938 --> 00:35:38,099
>> 76.

1339
00:35:38,174 --> 00:35:39,777
NO, GOD, 75.

1340
00:35:39,851 --> 00:35:44,248
>> HAPPY 75TH BIRTHDAY.

1341
00:35:44,248 --> 00:35:44,882
>> GOOD MORNING.

1342
00:35:44,882 --> 00:35:46,596
>> IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, I'VE BEEN

1343
00:35:46,670 --> 00:35:48,289
TRYING TO GET IN FOR MONTHS AND

1344
00:35:48,309 --> 00:35:49,309
I FINALLY GOT IN.

1345
00:35:49,309 --> 00:35:49,949
>> HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

1346
00:35:49,949 --> 00:35:51,231
>> FIRST OF ALL I WANT TO SAY

1347
00:35:51,306 --> 00:35:58,306
TODAY'S MY BIRTHDAY.

1348
00:35:59,402 --> 00:36:00,356
>> GOOD MORNING, STEVE, I CANNOT

1349
00:36:00,356 --> 00:36:01,110
TELL YOU HOW EXCITED I AM TO SEE

1350
00:36:01,110 --> 00:36:02,490
YOU BACK ON THE AIR.

1351
00:36:02,590 --> 00:36:04,290
IT'S MY BIRTHDAY AND I CAN TELL

1352
00:36:04,290 --> 00:36:05,850
YOU IT'S THE BEST BIRTHDAY GIFT

1353
00:36:05,850 --> 00:36:07,410
I'VE EVER RECEIVED.

1354
00:36:07,479 --> 00:36:09,579
WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL TO SEE YOU

1355
00:36:09,579 --> 00:36:10,579
BACK.

1356
00:36:10,630 --> 00:36:11,630
VERY EXCITED.

1357
00:36:11,693 --> 00:36:13,764
>> GOOD MORNING, GRETA.

1358
00:36:13,829 --> 00:36:16,643
TODAY'S MY BIRTHDAY.

1359
00:36:16,707 --> 00:36:18,583
>> HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

1360
00:36:18,647 --> 00:36:21,494
>> THANK YOU.

1361
00:36:21,558 --> 00:36:24,405
PRAYER TO THE EXPLOSION OF THE

1362
00:36:24,469 --> 00:36:26,830
CHALLENGER.

1363
00:36:26,895 --> 00:36:28,286
MEMORABLE ABOUT MY BIRTHDAY.

1364
00:36:28,350 --> 00:36:30,790
BUT SINCE THEN PEOPLE REMEMBER

1365
00:36:30,790 --> 00:36:31,330
IT.

1366
00:36:31,330 --> 00:36:33,276
[LAUGHTER]

1367
00:36:33,573 --> 00:36:35,519
>> John: MOVING ON.

1368
00:36:35,820 --> 00:36:37,980
BEFORE WE GO, A QUICK WORD ABOUT

1369
00:36:37,980 --> 00:36:38,940
MOVIE POSTERS.

1370
00:36:38,940 --> 00:36:40,230
HELPING BOYS IN COLLEGE MAKE

1371
00:36:40,230 --> 00:36:41,440
TERRIBLE DECORATING DECISIONS

1372
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:42,440
FROM THE JUMP.

1373
00:36:42,540 --> 00:36:44,020
"HELLO, MY PERSONALITY IS

1374
00:36:44,099 --> 00:36:45,900
'SCARFACE,' WELCOME TO MY HOLE."

1375
00:36:46,700 --> 00:36:48,840
THE BEST POSTERS FIND A WAY TO

1376
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:50,600
SUM UP A FILM IN A SINGLE IMAGE,

1377
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,040
WHETHER IT'S UMA THURMAN DOING

1378
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:53,900
SOME ARMED BEDTIME READING, OR

1379
00:36:53,900 --> 00:36:55,520
JODIE FOSTER WITH A DEATH MOTH

1380
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:57,380
ON HER FACE, OR "GHOST," WHICH

1381
00:36:57,380 --> 00:36:58,940
CONVEYS IN AN INSTANT THAT IT'S

1382
00:36:58,940 --> 00:37:00,660
A SEXY SUPERNATURAL ROMANCE.

1383
00:37:00,740 --> 00:37:01,780
BUT I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU

1384
00:37:01,780 --> 00:37:03,180
ANOTHER POSTER FOR THAT SAME

1385
00:37:03,180 --> 00:37:05,720
MOVIE, THAT WENT IN A DIFFERENT

1386
00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:06,365
DIRECTION.

1387
00:37:06,365 --> 00:37:08,658
>> THIS OBVIOUSLY LOOKS NOTHING

1388
00:37:08,765 --> 00:37:09,765
LIKE THE ACTUAL POSTER FOR

1389
00:37:09,765 --> 00:37:10,140
"GHOST."

1390
00:37:10,140 --> 00:37:11,780
NONE OF THIS HAPPENS IN "GHOST."

1391
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:13,380
YOU HAVE PATRICK SWAYZE HERE,

1392
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,420
DEMI MOORE KIND OF SCREAMING IN

1393
00:37:15,420 --> 00:37:16,440
AGONY, AND WHOOPI GOLDBERG'S

1394
00:37:17,065 --> 00:37:17,490
HEAD BURSTING THROUGH

1395
00:37:17,490 --> 00:37:19,038
DEMI MOORE'S BODY.

1396
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:20,700
AGAIN, NONE OF THAT HAPPENS IN

1397
00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:21,120
THE MOVIE.

1398
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,386
>> John: THAT IS EXCELLENT.

1399
00:37:23,386 --> 00:37:24,039
ESPECIALLY HER CLARIFYING, "NONE

1400
00:37:24,039 --> 00:37:25,420
OF THAT HAPPENS IN THE MOVIE."

1401
00:37:25,619 --> 00:37:26,820
GIRL, WE KNOW.

1402
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:29,660
EVEN IF ALL YOU KNOW ABOUT GHOST

1403
00:37:29,660 --> 00:37:31,940
IS POTTERY THAT FUCKS, YOU'RE

1404
00:37:31,940 --> 00:37:32,680
PROBABLY AWARE THAT

1405
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:33,712
WHOOPI GOLDBERG DOES NOT

1406
00:37:33,712 --> 00:37:34,334
"HERE'S JOHNNY" HER WAY OUT OF

1407
00:37:34,334 --> 00:37:37,235
DEMI MOORE'S UTERUS.

1408
00:37:37,340 --> 00:37:39,080
THAT POSTER'S JUST ONE EXAMPLE

1409
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:40,675
IN THE INCREDIBLE WORLD OF

1410
00:37:40,675 --> 00:37:42,107
GHANAIAN MOVIE POSTERS.

1411
00:37:42,220 --> 00:37:43,680
IT TURNS OUT, ARTISTS THERE HAVE

1412
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:44,420
BEEN MAKING THEIR OWN

1413
00:37:44,420 --> 00:37:46,200
HAND-PAINTED POSTERS FOR DECADES

1414
00:37:46,334 --> 00:37:47,309
NOW, LIKE THIS AMAZING ONE FOR

1415
00:37:47,309 --> 00:37:49,084
JURASSIC PARK, FEATURING A

1416
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,520
GOLFER FOR SOME REASON, TO THIS

1417
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:53,700
ONE FOR "THE SPY WHO LOVED ME"

1418
00:37:53,700 --> 00:37:54,560
THAT'S UNEXPECTEDLY

1419
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,420
FISH-FORWARD, TO THIS ONE FOR

1420
00:37:57,420 --> 00:37:58,700
"HARD BOILED," WHICH FEATURES

1421
00:37:58,700 --> 00:38:00,000
CHOW YUN FAT SHOOTING SOME BAD

1422
00:38:01,215 --> 00:38:01,752
GUYS SO HARD, ONE OF THEIR HEADS

1423
00:38:01,752 --> 00:38:03,244
COMES OFF.

1424
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:04,500
AND THERE'S AN INTERESTING

1425
00:38:04,500 --> 00:38:06,040
EXPLANATION FOR THIS TRADITION.

1426
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:07,680
BACK IN THE 1980s, THE

1427
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:09,140
WIDESPREAD INTRODUCTION OF

1428
00:38:09,140 --> 00:38:10,200
FOREIGN VIDEOCASSETTES INTO

1429
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:11,840
GHANA LED TO THE CREATION OF A

1430
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:13,440
"MOBILE CINEMA" PHENOMENON --

1431
00:38:13,580 --> 00:38:15,080
BASICALLY, LOCAL ENTREPRENEURS

1432
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,180
BOUGHT TV MONITORS, VCRs, AND

1433
00:38:17,180 --> 00:38:18,220
PORTABLE GAS-POWERED GENERATORS,

1434
00:38:18,220 --> 00:38:20,200
THEN TRAVELED AROUND SETTING UP

1435
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:21,580
MAKESHIFT SCREENING AREAS IN

1436
00:38:21,580 --> 00:38:23,200
VILLAGES WITH LIMITED OR NO

1437
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:24,200
ELECTRICITY.

1438
00:38:24,340 --> 00:38:26,280
BUT THEY HIT A ROADBLOCK WHEN IT

1439
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:27,040
CAME TO ADVERTISING.

1440
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:28,700
BECAUSE AT THAT TIME, GHANA WAS

1441
00:38:28,700 --> 00:38:30,020
UNDER A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP,

1442
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:31,360
WHOSE LAWS HAD CUT OFF THE

1443
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:32,880
IMPORTATION OF THE LARGE-SCALE

1444
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:34,560
OFFSET PRINTING PRESSES YOU'D

1445
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:35,600
USE TO MAKE POSTERS.

1446
00:38:35,740 --> 00:38:38,440
SO INSTEAD, LOCAL ARTISTS WERE

1447
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:39,600
COMMISSIONED TO MAKE THEIR OWN

1448
00:38:39,700 --> 00:38:41,360
-- OFTEN USING REPURPOSED FLOUR

1449
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:42,360
SACKS AS A CANVAS.

1450
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:44,039
AND AS THIS ARTIST EXPLAINS,

1451
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:45,980
THEY HAD A LOT OF FREEDOM TO

1452
00:38:45,980 --> 00:38:46,605
IMPROVISE.

1453
00:38:46,605 --> 00:38:49,503
>> IN THOSE DAYS, THERE WERE

1454
00:38:49,569 --> 00:38:51,906
POSTERS THAT WOULD COME WITH THE

1455
00:38:51,906 --> 00:38:53,180
MOVIES, BUT WE'D DECIDE WHAT TO

1456
00:38:53,180 --> 00:38:54,400
PAINT BY WATCHING THE MOVIES

1457
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,000
OURSELVES AND SELECTING THE

1458
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:57,580
SCENES THAT WE WANTED TO SEE.

1459
00:38:57,649 --> 00:38:59,564
>> WESTERN ACTION FILMS WERE

1460
00:38:59,564 --> 00:39:00,720
MAINSTAYS AS WERE THOSE FROM

1461
00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:02,080
CHINA AND BOLLYWOOD.

1462
00:39:02,540 --> 00:39:04,380
MANY POSTERS INCLUDE PARANORMAL

1463
00:39:04,380 --> 00:39:06,140
ELEMENTS AND GRATUITOUS

1464
00:39:06,140 --> 00:39:09,100
VIOLENCE, EVEN IF THE FILMS HAD

1465
00:39:09,100 --> 00:39:10,100
NONE.

1466
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,199
>> John: I LOVE THAT IDEA.

1467
00:39:12,620 --> 00:39:14,320
GIVING SOMEONE THE FREEDOM TO

1468
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:15,500
MAKE MOVIES SEEM MORE

1469
00:39:15,500 --> 00:39:16,560
INTERESTING THAN THEY MIGHT

1470
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:17,560
OTHERWISE BE.

1471
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:19,560
BECAUSE IT'S LED TO SOME TRULY

1472
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:20,560
UNIQUE REPRESENTATIONS.

1473
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:21,980
FOR INSTANCE, THIS POSTER FOR

1474
00:39:21,980 --> 00:39:23,600
"PREDATOR" HAS PREDATOR HOLDING

1475
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,000
A NAKED WOMAN IN THE BACKGROUND

1476
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:26,760
WHICH DOESN'T HAPPEN IN THE

1477
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:27,124
MOVIE.

1478
00:39:27,124 --> 00:39:28,593
AND THIS ONE FOR "HELLRAISER

1479
00:39:28,698 --> 00:39:30,637
III" HAS PINHEAD EATING A PERSON

1480
00:39:30,637 --> 00:39:32,400
WHOLE, WHICH WASN'T IN THE

1481
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:33,680
MOVIE, BUT FRANKLY SHOULD'VE

1482
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:34,520
BEEN.

1483
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:35,760
ALTHOUGH, AS THIS CULTURAL

1484
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:37,120
ANTHROPOLOGIST EXPLAINS, THAT

1485
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,360
APPROACH HAD BOTH PROS AND CONS.

1486
00:39:39,412 --> 00:39:41,764
>> SOMETIMES YOU HAVE THINGS

1487
00:39:41,764 --> 00:39:42,619
DEPICTED ON THE POSTERS THAT

1488
00:39:42,619 --> 00:39:44,400
WILL AROUSE YOUR INTEREST

1489
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:46,400
BECAUSE YOU THINK THAT YOU ARE

1490
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,660
GOING TO SEE THOSE DEPICTIONS IN

1491
00:39:48,660 --> 00:39:49,800
THOSE MOVIES.

1492
00:39:50,180 --> 00:39:51,660
IT CREATED TENSIONS WHERE YOU

1493
00:39:51,660 --> 00:39:53,860
HAVE CERTAIN FOLKS DEMANDING

1494
00:39:53,860 --> 00:39:55,159
THEIR MONEY BACK BECAUSE THEY'VE

1495
00:39:55,159 --> 00:39:56,320
BEEN DECEIVED, RIGHT?

1496
00:39:56,387 --> 00:39:58,332
>> John: YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE!

1497
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,200
IF YOU BUY A TICKET TO THE SPY

1498
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:01,340
WHO LOVED ME THINKING YOU'RE

1499
00:40:01,340 --> 00:40:02,500
GOING TO SEE THE BIG RED FISH

1500
00:40:02,940 --> 00:40:04,420
AND HE HASN'T SHOWN UP AN HOUR

1501
00:40:04,420 --> 00:40:05,300
INTO THE MOVIE, YOU'RE GOING TO

1502
00:40:05,300 --> 00:40:06,380
START WHISPERING TO YOUR DATE

1503
00:40:06,380 --> 00:40:07,140
"I'M SO SORRY.

1504
00:40:07,140 --> 00:40:08,380
I KNOW YOU WANTED TO SEE THE BIG

1505
00:40:08,380 --> 00:40:09,380
RED FISH.

1506
00:40:09,699 --> 00:40:10,960
I'M SO SORRY."

1507
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:12,160
AND IF YOUR DATE HAPPENS TO BE A

1508
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,240
BIG RED FISH, YOU'D ALSO HAVE TO

1509
00:40:14,240 --> 00:40:15,380
SAY "I KNOW THERE AREN'T A LOT

1510
00:40:15,380 --> 00:40:16,520
OF GOOD REPRESENTATIONS OF BIG

1511
00:40:16,827 --> 00:40:17,744
RED FISH AND YOU WANTED TO SEE

1512
00:40:17,744 --> 00:40:18,462
YOURSELF AND YOUR STRUGGLES ON

1513
00:40:18,462 --> 00:40:19,490
THE SCREEN.

1514
00:40:19,540 --> 00:40:21,300
AGAIN, I'M REALLY SORRY ABOUT

1515
00:40:21,300 --> 00:40:22,239
THIS."

1516
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:23,659
BUT HE'S NOT KIDDING.

1517
00:40:23,740 --> 00:40:25,400
ONE GHANAIAN ARTIST SAID, FOR A

1518
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,020
CHINESE MOVIE HE ASSUMED WAS A

1519
00:40:27,020 --> 00:40:28,620
MARTIAL-ARTS FILM, HE PAINTED

1520
00:40:28,620 --> 00:40:29,980
ACTOR JET LI DELIVERING A

1521
00:40:30,282 --> 00:40:30,953
BEATDOWN.

1522
00:40:30,953 --> 00:40:31,895
BUT NEITHER JET LI NOR FIGHTING

1523
00:40:31,895 --> 00:40:33,716
WAS IN THE FILM.

1524
00:40:33,780 --> 00:40:35,400
AND WHEN ANGRY CUSTOMERS BEGAN

1525
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:36,620
DEMANDING THEIR MONEY BACK, HE

1526
00:40:36,620 --> 00:40:37,620
SNEAKED OUT.

1527
00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:39,720
AND WHILE ALL THIS WAS BORN OUT

1528
00:40:39,720 --> 00:40:41,820
OF COMMERCE, IT WAS TRULY AN ART

1529
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:43,480
FORM -- MANY OF THE ARTISTS WERE

1530
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:44,340
WELL-TRAINED AND DID

1531
00:40:44,340 --> 00:40:45,140
THREE-TO-FOUR-YEAR

1532
00:40:45,140 --> 00:40:46,140
APPRENTICESHIPS.

1533
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,060
BUT AFTER THE DICTATORSHIP FELL,

1534
00:40:48,060 --> 00:40:49,939
AND GHANAIANS GAINED ACCESS TO

1535
00:40:49,980 --> 00:40:51,320
CHEAP PRINTING TECHNIQUES AND

1536
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,180
HOME TV SETS, THE DEMAND FOR

1537
00:40:53,180 --> 00:40:53,860
THESE ARTISTS' SERVICES

1538
00:40:53,860 --> 00:40:54,340
DECLINED.

1539
00:40:54,340 --> 00:40:55,740
UNFORTUNATELY, MANY WERE UNABLE

1540
00:40:55,740 --> 00:40:56,840
TO MAKE A LIVING AS ARTISTS, AND

1541
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:58,100
HAD TO GO BACK TO DOING ORDINARY

1542
00:40:58,100 --> 00:40:58,760
JOBS.

1543
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,040
BUT THANKFULLY, AFTER ATTRACTING

1544
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:02,130
INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION OVER THE

1545
00:41:02,130 --> 00:41:03,840
PAST DECADE, GHANAIAN ARTISTS,

1546
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:05,020
PARTNERING WITH THIS GALLERY,

1547
00:41:05,020 --> 00:41:06,180
HAVE BEEN GETTING COMMISSIONED

1548
00:41:06,180 --> 00:41:07,620
TO MAKE NEW POSTERS FOR

1549
00:41:07,620 --> 00:41:08,620
COLLECTORS AND FANS.

1550
00:41:08,900 --> 00:41:10,680
SOME HAVE SPECIALIZED IN TAKING

1551
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:13,040
NON-ACTION MOVIES AND AMPING UP

1552
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:13,580
THE VIOLENCE.

1553
00:41:13,580 --> 00:41:14,740
LIKE IN THIS ONE FROM

1554
00:41:14,740 --> 00:41:15,920
"FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF,"

1555
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,880
WHERE EVERYONE HAS GUNS AND

1556
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:20,320
JENNIFER GRAY IS SLITTING

1557
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:21,660
CAMERON'S THROAT BECAUSE SHE HAS

1558
00:41:22,627 --> 00:41:25,733
HAD ENOUGH, OR THIS ONE FOR THE

1559
00:41:25,733 --> 00:41:26,733
"WIZARD OF OZ" WHERE EVERY

1560
00:41:26,769 --> 00:41:27,769
SUPPORTING CHARACTER IS A

1561
00:41:27,804 --> 00:41:28,804
VAMPIRE, THE TINMAN DOESN'T HAVE

1562
00:41:28,839 --> 00:41:29,839
A HEART BUT DOES HAVE A BLEEDING

1563
00:41:29,875 --> 00:41:31,878
HUMAN ARM THAT HE APPEARS TO

1564
00:41:31,946 --> 00:41:33,430
HAVE CUT OFF WITH HIS OWN AXE,

1565
00:41:33,500 --> 00:41:35,360
AND TOTO IS THE ONLY ONE

1566
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:36,500
REACTING APPROPRIATELY.

1567
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:39,899
MEANWHILE ACTION MOVIES CAN IT

1568
00:41:39,900 --> 00:41:40,900
AMPED UP EVEN FURTHER.

1569
00:41:40,932 --> 00:41:44,072
"STAR WARS," FEATURING A CAR

1570
00:41:44,072 --> 00:41:44,889
THEN THERE'S THIS ONE FOR

1571
00:41:44,889 --> 00:41:45,337
"STAR WARS," FEATURING A CAR

1572
00:41:45,337 --> 00:41:45,653
CRASH, MULTIPLE EXPLODING

1573
00:41:45,653 --> 00:41:47,400
TORSOS, AN ANT ATTACK, AND YODA

1574
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,000
GOING ABSOLUTELY FERAL.

1575
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:50,600
ALL OF WHICH ARE ENOUGH TO

1576
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:51,600
DISTRACT YOU FROM THE FACT THERE

1577
00:41:52,270 --> 00:41:53,060
IS A FUCKING WEREWOLF ON THE

1578
00:41:53,060 --> 00:41:54,060
POSTER.

1579
00:41:54,980 --> 00:41:56,700
BUT THE MORE YOU STUDY THESE

1580
00:41:56,700 --> 00:41:58,060
POSTERS, THE MORE YOU START TO

1581
00:41:58,060 --> 00:41:59,060
SEE SOME PATTERNS.

1582
00:41:59,179 --> 00:42:01,380
SNAKES ARE A CONSTANT MOTIF,

1583
00:42:01,380 --> 00:42:02,840
SHOWING UP IN UNEXPECTED PLACES,

1584
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:04,639
LIKE IN THIS POSTER FOR COOL

1585
00:42:05,079 --> 00:42:06,079
RUNNINGS: SNAKE!

1586
00:42:06,079 --> 00:42:07,400
OR THIS ONE FOR "THE MATRIX."

1587
00:42:07,540 --> 00:42:08,200
SNAKES!

1588
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:09,920
AND MORE SNAKES!

1589
00:42:10,460 --> 00:42:12,140
OR THIS ONE FOR "WILLY WONKA AND

1590
00:42:12,140 --> 00:42:13,140
THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY," WITH

1591
00:42:13,140 --> 00:42:15,120
SNAKES LAUNCHING THEMSELVES OUT

1592
00:42:15,237 --> 00:42:17,819
OF A DEMONIC VIOLET BEAUREGARDE.

1593
00:42:17,940 --> 00:42:19,779
OTHER POSTERS SHOEHORN IN

1594
00:42:19,779 --> 00:42:21,240
CHARACTERS THAT DON'T APPEAR IN

1595
00:42:21,557 --> 00:42:23,244
THE FILM, LIKE THIS VERSION OF

1596
00:42:23,301 --> 00:42:25,424
"MAGIC MIKE" FEATURING MACHO MAN

1597
00:42:25,482 --> 00:42:27,690
RANDY SAVAGE, OR THIS VERSION OF

1598
00:42:27,690 --> 00:42:28,600
"FLUBBER" FEATURING ALVIN AND

1599
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:30,640
THE CHIPMUNKS, WHERE NOT ONLY

1600
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:31,960
ARE THEY AT THE BEACH, BUT ALSO

1601
00:42:32,180 --> 00:42:33,440
FLUBBER HAS TWO GUNS.

1602
00:42:35,180 --> 00:42:37,180
OR THIS PORTRAYAL OF THE SHARK

1603
00:42:37,180 --> 00:42:38,580
FROM "JAWS" WITH RIPPLING ABS,

1604
00:42:38,620 --> 00:42:40,260
AND ALSO CHUCK NORRIS.

1605
00:42:41,099 --> 00:42:42,800
THESE ARTISTS ARE INCREDIBLE.

1606
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:44,320
AND JUST THINK OF THE TALENT IT

1607
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,500
TAKES TO BE PRESENTED WITH A

1608
00:42:46,500 --> 00:42:48,000
MOVIE LIKE SAY "PADDINGTON," A

1609
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:49,960
MOVIE WHERE FAMOUSLY AN ORPHANED

1610
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:51,580
BEAR GOES TO LONDON, AND IS

1611
00:42:51,580 --> 00:42:53,040
TAKEN IN BY A KINDLY FAMILY, BUT

1612
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:54,580
THEN HAVE THE IMAGINATION TO

1613
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:55,980
SAY, "OKAY, I THINK I GOT IT, SO

1614
00:42:56,279 --> 00:42:57,279
FOR A POSTER...

1615
00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:58,820
YOU PROBABLY WANT SOMETHING LIKE

1616
00:42:58,820 --> 00:42:59,579
THIS, THEN?"

1617
00:42:59,579 --> 00:43:03,179
THAT'S AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE!

1618
00:43:04,020 --> 00:43:06,600
AND I'M GENUINELY GLAD THESE

1619
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:07,720
POSTERS ARE BECOMING POPULAR

1620
00:43:07,720 --> 00:43:08,670
AGAIN, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE AS

1621
00:43:08,670 --> 00:43:10,220
THAT ANTHROPOLOGIST POINTS OUT,

1622
00:43:10,500 --> 00:43:12,160
IT'S HELPING KEEP A TRADITION

1623
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:12,871
ALIVE.

1624
00:43:12,871 --> 00:43:14,930
>> WE NEED TO HAVE A WAY OF

1625
00:43:15,001 --> 00:43:19,724
MOTIVATING, YOU KNOW, UPCOMING

1626
00:43:19,724 --> 00:43:20,399
ARTISTS TO BE ROOTED IN THIS

1627
00:43:20,399 --> 00:43:20,860
TRADITION.

1628
00:43:20,860 --> 00:43:22,660
TO PRESERVE THIS WAY OF

1629
00:43:22,660 --> 00:43:24,560
PAINTING, WE NEED TO HAVE A WAY

1630
00:43:24,939 --> 00:43:28,220
OF MOTIVATING THESE ARTISTS TO

1631
00:43:28,220 --> 00:43:29,220
GROW

1632
00:43:29,302 --> 00:43:30,302
>> John: HE'S RIGHT, ARTISTS

1633
00:43:30,302 --> 00:43:31,260
NEED SUPPORT.

1634
00:43:31,260 --> 00:43:32,880
EVEN DA VINCI HAD WEALTHY

1635
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:34,660
PATRONS, ALTHOUGH TO BE FAIR, IF

1636
00:43:34,660 --> 00:43:35,510
HE HAD BEEN REGULARLY CRANKING

1637
00:43:35,510 --> 00:43:36,820
OUT GOLD LIKE THIS FACE-OFF

1638
00:43:36,820 --> 00:43:38,000
POSTER, HE MIGHT HAVE HAD A LOT

1639
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:38,540
MORE.

1640
00:43:38,540 --> 00:43:40,020
IF I'M A MEDICI, I'M THROWING

1641
00:43:40,020 --> 00:43:41,400
ALL MY FLORINS AT THAT.

1642
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:43,720
AND WHILE WE CAN MOURN THE LOSS

1643
00:43:43,720 --> 00:43:45,040
OF THE ORIGINAL PURPOSE OF THESE

1644
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:46,040
POSTERS -- WHICH, REMEMBER, WAS

1645
00:43:46,420 --> 00:43:47,960
TO LURE UNSUSPECTING GHANAIANS

1646
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:49,040
TO SEE MOVIES BY COMPLETELY

1647
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:50,120
MISREPRESENTING THE NUMBER OF

1648
00:43:50,500 --> 00:43:51,580
DECAPITATIONS IN "SPACE JAM" --

1649
00:43:52,020 --> 00:43:54,460
IT IS NICE TO KNOW THESE ARTISTS

1650
00:43:54,460 --> 00:43:55,920
ARE FINDING A NEW MARKET AMONG

1651
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:56,779
INTERNATIONAL COLLECTORS.

1652
00:43:56,779 --> 00:43:58,179
BECAUSE YOU CAN STILL GET SOME

1653
00:43:58,179 --> 00:43:59,599
GREAT CUSTOM WORK DONE.

1654
00:44:00,220 --> 00:44:01,900
AND THE REASON I KNOW THAT IS...

1655
00:44:02,279 --> 00:44:04,520
WE ACTUALLY REACHED OUT TO THAT

1656
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:05,880
GALLERY TO COMMISSION A POSTER

1657
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:06,659
FOR THIS SHOW.

1658
00:44:06,659 --> 00:44:07,770
AND I'LL TELL YOU WHY: EACH

1659
00:44:07,770 --> 00:44:09,760
YEAR, DURING EMMY VOTING SEASON,

1660
00:44:10,140 --> 00:44:12,049
HBO LAUNCHES A CAMPAIGN ON

1661
00:44:12,049 --> 00:44:13,100
BEHALF OF ITS SHOWS, WITH

1662
00:44:13,100 --> 00:44:14,400
TASTEFUL ADS LIKE THESE.

1663
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:16,620
THEY EVEN RENT OUT BILLBOARDS IN

1664
00:44:16,620 --> 00:44:17,080
L.A.

1665
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:17,900
FOR THE ADS.

1666
00:44:17,900 --> 00:44:19,220
AND WHILE THEY'RE ALWAYS DONE IN

1667
00:44:19,220 --> 00:44:21,740
A RESTRAINED, CLASSY STYLE, IT'S

1668
00:44:22,340 --> 00:44:23,700
NEVER REALLY FELT LIKE IT SPOKE

1669
00:44:23,700 --> 00:44:25,400
TO THE CHAOS WE LIKE TO THINK WE

1670
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:26,360
STAND FOR HERE.

1671
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,660
SO WE COMMISSIONED A GHANAIAN

1672
00:44:28,660 --> 00:44:30,000
POSTER ARTIST TO MAKE SOMETHING

1673
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:30,889
DIFFERENT FOR US THIS YEAR.

1674
00:44:30,889 --> 00:44:32,720
WE SENT THEM A FEW IMAGES FROM

1675
00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:33,900
THE LAST YEAR OF OUR SHOW --

1676
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:35,080
INCLUDING ME TRYING TO FORCE MY

1677
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:36,820
WAY ONTO A SOAP OPERA, MY WIFE

1678
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:38,740
WANDA JO HELPING ME OPEN A MED

1679
00:44:38,740 --> 00:44:40,140
SPA, AND OUR MOON MAMMOTH

1680
00:44:40,339 --> 00:44:40,954
MASCOT.

1681
00:44:40,954 --> 00:44:42,673
BUT WE DIDN'T TELL THEM MUCH

1682
00:44:42,732 --> 00:44:43,888
ELSE ABOUT WHAT THIS SHOW

1683
00:44:43,947 --> 00:44:45,340
ACTUALLY WAS.

1684
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:46,800
AND WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE WHAT

1685
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:47,661
THEY CAME UP WITH?

1686
00:44:47,661 --> 00:44:48,817
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

1687
00:44:48,900 --> 00:44:51,059
PLEASE, COME WITH ME.

1688
00:44:51,169 --> 00:44:53,565
♪ ♪

1689
00:44:53,677 --> 00:44:55,237
BECAUSE ALL WE ASKED THEM TO DO

1690
00:44:55,510 --> 00:44:56,770
WAS TO USE THEIR IMAGINATION,

1691
00:44:57,049 --> 00:44:58,589
INCLUDE AT LEAST ONE CHARACTER

1692
00:44:58,589 --> 00:45:00,069
WHO IS NOT A PART OF THIS SHOW,

1693
00:45:00,330 --> 00:45:01,589
AND TO USE AS MANY OF THEIR

1694
00:45:01,589 --> 00:45:03,029
REGULAR TACTICS AS THEY WANTED

1695
00:45:03,029 --> 00:45:03,370
TO.

1696
00:45:03,370 --> 00:45:05,529
SO MAY I PRESENT TO YOU, FROM

1697
00:45:05,529 --> 00:45:07,540
GHANAIAN ARTIST C.A. WISELY, A

1698
00:45:07,540 --> 00:45:08,990
POSTER THAT I THINK TRULY

1699
00:45:08,990 --> 00:45:10,610
REPRESENTS WHAT THIS SHOW IS

1700
00:45:10,610 --> 00:45:11,469
ABOUT.

1701
00:45:11,469 --> 00:45:12,469
BEHOLD!

1702
00:45:12,526 --> 00:45:13,761
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

1703
00:45:13,761 --> 00:45:14,250
♪ ♪

1704
00:45:14,250 --> 00:45:15,449
LOOK AT THIS MASTERPIECE!

1705
00:45:16,190 --> 00:45:17,769
IT HAS EVERYTHING THAT YOU WANT

1706
00:45:19,050 --> 00:45:20,350
-- IT'S GOT ME HOLDING A GUN,

1707
00:45:20,350 --> 00:45:22,710
AND ALSO A SECOND GUN.

1708
00:45:22,870 --> 00:45:24,770
IT'S GOT OUR WOODEN CABBAGE MAN

1709
00:45:24,770 --> 00:45:26,890
STATUE FROM OUR AI SLOP STORY.

1710
00:45:27,310 --> 00:45:29,069
IT'S GOT ME DRINKING WINE WITH A

1711
00:45:29,069 --> 00:45:31,010
HORSE, WHO BY THE WAY, SEEMS TO

1712
00:45:31,010 --> 00:45:32,890
HAVE AN ELEGANT HUMAN HAND.

1713
00:45:33,250 --> 00:45:35,510
IT'S GOT A CHAINSAW CUTTING

1714
00:45:35,510 --> 00:45:37,390
THROUGH TENTACLES, BLOOD,

1715
00:45:37,830 --> 00:45:39,830
SNAKES, AN EXPLOSION, AND ALSO,

1716
00:45:39,830 --> 00:45:41,990
THE FUCKING FONZ IS THERE, AND

1717
00:45:42,970 --> 00:45:45,130
HE IS HOLDING A PICKAXE FOR NO

1718
00:45:45,130 --> 00:45:46,510
CLEAR REASON, OTHER THAN, I'M

1719
00:45:46,510 --> 00:45:48,050
GUESSING, TO DEFEND HIMSELF FROM

1720
00:45:48,050 --> 00:45:49,110
EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING

1721
00:45:49,110 --> 00:45:49,909
AROUND HIM.

1722
00:45:49,909 --> 00:45:52,529
I LOVE THIS PAINTING SO MUCH.

1723
00:45:52,930 --> 00:45:54,330
I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE, IT'S

1724
00:45:54,330 --> 00:45:55,390
AN AD FOR A MUCH MORE

1725
00:45:55,390 --> 00:45:57,010
ENTERTAINING SHOW THAN THE ONE

1726
00:45:57,010 --> 00:45:58,010
YOU JUST WATCHED.

1727
00:45:58,290 --> 00:46:00,810
NOW WE'VE SHOWN THIS TO HBO, AND

1728
00:46:00,810 --> 00:46:01,930
THEY'VE AGREED TO PUT IT ON

1729
00:46:01,930 --> 00:46:03,350
THEIR DIGITAL BILLBOARD OVER

1730
00:46:03,350 --> 00:46:04,889
SUNSET BOULEVARD NEXT MONTH,

1731
00:46:04,889 --> 00:46:07,549
FROM 2 A.M. TO 6 A.M. ONLY.

1732
00:46:08,069 --> 00:46:10,049
WHICH IS THE FUNNIEST POSSIBLE

1733
00:46:10,049 --> 00:46:11,529
TIME FOR IT TO BE UP THERE.

1734
00:46:11,630 --> 00:46:14,029
BUT THIS POSTER CAN ALSO BE IN

1735
00:46:14,029 --> 00:46:16,170
YOUR HOME, BECAUSE WE'RE SELLING

1736
00:46:16,170 --> 00:46:18,109
HIGH QUALITY PRINTS OF IT FOR

1737
00:46:18,670 --> 00:46:21,589
$50, WITH ALL PROCEEDS GOING TO

1738
00:46:21,589 --> 00:46:23,410
GHANAIAN ARTISTS, AND COMMUNITY

1739
00:46:23,410 --> 00:46:24,990
LED CHARITIES ACROSS GHANA.

1740
00:46:25,150 --> 00:46:27,069
YOU CAN FRAME THIS POSTER AND

1741
00:46:27,069 --> 00:46:28,490
PUT IT UP ON ANY WALL OF YOUR

1742
00:46:28,490 --> 00:46:29,750
HOUSE, AND YOU CAN FIND IT AT

1743
00:46:30,810 --> 00:46:31,950
HangJohnOliver.com.

1744
00:46:32,470 --> 00:46:34,010
A URL I'M HONESTLY A LITTLE

1745
00:46:34,010 --> 00:46:35,710
SURPRISED WAS STILL AVAILABLE.

1746
00:46:36,110 --> 00:46:37,190
THAT'S OUR SHOW.

1747
00:46:37,290 --> 00:46:38,350
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING.

1748
00:46:38,549 --> 00:46:39,549
WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK.

1749
00:46:39,670 --> 00:46:40,670
GOOD NIGHT!

1750
00:46:44,199 --> 00:46:45,199
IT'S BEAUTIFUL!

1751
00:46:45,297 --> 00:46:50,292
IT'S JUST A BEAUTIFUL.

1752
00:46:50,389 --> 00:46:57,389
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

1753
00:47:05,814 --> 00:47:07,038
♪ ♪