1 00:00:05,750 --> 00:00:09,560 >>> AS A COUNTRY, I'M APPALLED AT WHERE WE ARE. 2 00:00:10,460 --> 00:00:12,500 >> IT'S SAD. IT'S IN BAD SHAPE, AND IT'S 3 00:00:12,500 --> 00:00:13,340 SERIOUS. 4 00:00:13,730 --> 00:00:15,680 >> EXHAUSTION FIRST AND FOREMOST. 5 00:00:15,770 --> 00:00:17,060 DREAD SECOND. 6 00:00:17,330 --> 00:00:20,120 >> IT IS CRAZY BECAUSE JUST THE HIGH COST OF LIVING, I FEEL LIKE 7 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:21,710 THE INFLATION. 8 00:00:22,340 --> 00:00:25,310 >> IT SUCKS THAT WE HAVE DIVISION LIKE THIS AND NOBODY 9 00:00:25,310 --> 00:00:26,420 LISTENS TO EACH OTHER. 10 00:00:26,420 --> 00:00:30,500 >> I HAVE NEVER SEEN A PARTY GET SO DISCOMBOBULATED. 11 00:00:30,500 --> 00:00:32,990 >> WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE SAME PROBLEMS WITH THE SAME PEOPLE 12 00:00:32,990 --> 00:00:36,080 DOING THE SAME THING, AND IT JUST FEELS THE SAME. 13 00:00:39,470 --> 00:00:42,020 >> YOU READY? THREE, TWO, ONE. 14 00:00:42,020 --> 00:00:42,560 LET'S GO. ♪ 15 00:00:44,189 --> 00:00:44,480 ♪ 16 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:46,670 >> THIS PRIMARY IS GOING TO BE VERY UGLY. 17 00:00:46,670 --> 00:00:50,180 >> ONCE AGAIN, FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WILL BE A NO-SHOW. 18 00:00:50,210 --> 00:00:52,700 >> THIS IS INFURIATING. EVERY TIME I HEAR YOU, I FEEL A 19 00:00:52,700 --> 00:00:54,220 LITTLE BIT DUMBER FOR WHAT YOU SAY. 20 00:00:54,230 --> 00:00:57,290 >> THE FIGHTING, THE CONSTANT VITRIOL WITH EACH OTHER. 21 00:00:58,250 --> 00:00:59,150 >> EXCUSE ME, EXCUSE ME. 22 00:00:59,150 --> 00:01:00,500 >> GENTLEMEN, YOU'LL HAVE YOUR TURN. 23 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:02,040 >> PUT YOUR HAND DOWN FOR A SECOND, WOULD YOU. 24 00:01:04,129 --> 00:01:06,410 >> IT'S THE STATE DEPARTMENT. DID YOU SEND THEM BACK? 25 00:01:08,380 --> 00:01:11,500 >> RATHER THAN CREATING CLARITY, IT CREATES MORE OF A MUDDLE. 26 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:14,110 AND ALL OF THIS HELPS DONALD TRUMP. 27 00:01:15,860 --> 00:01:18,770 >> DONALD TRUMP IS IN COURT RIGHT NOW ON DAY ONE OF HIS 28 00:01:18,770 --> 00:01:20,510 CIVIL FRAUD TRIAL IN NEW YORK CITY. 29 00:01:20,540 --> 00:01:24,560 >> TRUMP IS NOW FACING IN TOTAL 91 CRIMINAL CHARGES. 30 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:27,710 >> IF I WEREN'T LEADING IN ALL THE POLLS OR IF I WEREN'T 31 00:01:27,710 --> 00:01:30,290 RUNNING, I WOULDN'T HAVE ANY OF THESE CASES. 32 00:01:30,290 --> 00:01:32,630 >> THERE ARE ONLY 6% OF AMERICANS THAT WOULD LIKE TO SEE 33 00:01:32,660 --> 00:01:33,950 BOTH TRUMP AND BIDEN RUN. 34 00:01:34,790 --> 00:01:37,610 >> JOE BIDEN IS NOT POPULAR NATIONALLY, AND THE MAJORITY OF 35 00:01:37,610 --> 00:01:39,080 HIS OWN PARTY DON'T WANT HIM TO RUN. 36 00:01:39,110 --> 00:01:41,420 >> THERE IS REAL CONCERN ABOUT HIS AGE. 37 00:01:41,450 --> 00:01:44,180 >> HUNTER BIDEN CONTINUES TO BE A POLITICAL HEADACHE FOR HIS 38 00:01:44,180 --> 00:01:44,600 FATHER. 39 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:47,440 >> BARELY 1 IN 4 AMERICANS SATISFIED WITH THE ECONOMY. 40 00:01:47,460 --> 00:01:49,430 >> THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS BELIEVE THEIR GOVERNMENT IS 41 00:01:49,430 --> 00:01:51,560 CORRUPT AND RIGGED AGAINST EVERYDAY PEOPLE. 42 00:01:51,660 --> 00:01:53,390 >> BIDEN'S A PIECE OF SHIT AND HE DON'T GIVE -- 43 00:01:57,770 --> 00:01:59,240 >> WE'RE ALL BEING LIED TO. 44 00:02:01,970 --> 00:02:05,270 >> THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IS TIRED OF THE BRINKSMANSHIP ON CAPITOL 45 00:02:05,270 --> 00:02:05,550 HILL. 46 00:02:05,570 --> 00:02:08,240 >> REPUBLICANS TRIED TO PASS A SHORT-TERM FUNDING BILL. 47 00:02:08,270 --> 00:02:09,570 >> IT REALLY CAME DOWN TO THE WIRE. 48 00:02:09,590 --> 00:02:12,590 >> SPEAKER KEVIN McCARTHY HAD TO REACH ACROSS THE AISLE TO GET 49 00:02:12,590 --> 00:02:14,600 THE TEMPORARY SPENDING BILL THROUGH THE HOUSE. 50 00:02:14,610 --> 00:02:18,440 >> SOME OF THE FAR RIGHT WERE VERY UPSET WITH WHAT HE DID. 51 00:02:18,470 --> 00:02:20,340 >> THAT COULD COST HIM HIS JOB AS SPEAKER. 52 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:22,220 >> THERE WILL BE A MOVE AS EARLY AS THIS WEEK. 53 00:02:25,100 --> 00:02:27,050 >> HOW ARE YOU FEELING ABOUT THE STATE OF AMERICA? 54 00:02:27,150 --> 00:02:30,410 >> I FEEL A LOT OF DEPRESSION, AND I HATE IT. 55 00:02:30,613 --> 00:02:40,622 ♪ 56 00:02:52,217 --> 00:03:02,227 ♪ 57 00:03:14,614 --> 00:03:20,120 ♪ ♪ 58 00:03:20,630 --> 00:03:21,350 >>> HOW ARE WE? 59 00:03:21,380 --> 00:03:22,610 >> WE'RE LIT, BABY. 60 00:03:24,350 --> 00:03:26,450 >> ONE FOR YOU. ONE FOR YOU. 61 00:03:26,450 --> 00:03:28,250 AND THREE FOR ME. 62 00:03:28,260 --> 00:03:30,372 >> OH, MY GOSH. WHAT'S GOING ON HERE, HEILEMANN? 63 00:03:30,471 --> 00:03:33,500 >> I'M HAVING A BEER FLIGHT BECAUSE GIVEN THE WAY THINGS ARE 64 00:03:33,530 --> 00:03:36,650 IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW, ONE NEEDS ALL THE BEER WE CAN GET. 65 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:38,120 CHIN CHIN, MOTHERFUCKERS. 66 00:03:38,330 --> 00:03:39,380 >> WE NEED TO NUMB IT. 67 00:03:43,950 --> 00:03:47,280 >> GUYS, IT'S OCTOBER. THE LAST TIME WE GATHERED WAS 68 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:50,280 LIKE EARLY SPRING, RIGHT? I FEEL LIKE IF YOU WERE 69 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:53,880 DESCRIBING THE TRANSITION FROM EARLY SPRING TO EARLY FALL IN 70 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:56,365 AMERICAN POLITICS, IT WOULD BE LIKE FROM SHIT SHOW TO FUCK 71 00:03:56,464 --> 00:03:56,880 SHOW. 72 00:03:56,910 --> 00:04:00,000 >> IT FEELS LIKE ANOTHER DIMENSION, LIKE A LIFETIME AGO. 73 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:01,620 TRUMP HAD JUST BEEN INDICTED. 74 00:04:02,820 --> 00:04:04,070 >> THE FIRST TRUMP INDICTMENT WAS JUST HAPPENING AT THAT 75 00:04:04,070 --> 00:04:04,570 POINT. 76 00:04:04,570 --> 00:04:08,040 >> AND WE WERE LIKE, IT'S SUCH A BIG DEAL. 77 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:09,510 >> NOW HE'S BEEN INDICTED SEVERAL TIMES. 78 00:04:09,540 --> 00:04:10,080 >> FOUR TIMES. 79 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:12,750 >> WITH, I BELIEVE, 91 -- 80 00:04:12,750 --> 00:04:13,340 >> 91 COUNTS. 81 00:04:13,410 --> 00:04:15,630 >> 91 CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE 82 00:04:15,630 --> 00:04:19,500 UNITED STATES. TRUMP IS IN COURT. 83 00:04:20,370 --> 00:04:23,700 >> AND MADE A PERSONAL APPEARANCE, AND HE DIDN'T HAVE 84 00:04:23,700 --> 00:04:24,210 TO BE. 85 00:04:24,900 --> 00:04:27,750 >> THE JUDGE HAS ALREADY FOUND TRUMP AND HIS SONS LIABLE OF 86 00:04:27,750 --> 00:04:31,320 FRAUD, CLAIMING TRUMP'S REAL ESTATE VALUATIONS WERE, QUOTE, A 87 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:32,340 FANTASY WORLD. 88 00:04:32,610 --> 00:04:34,140 >> THE JUDGE IS WRONG IN HIS RULING. 89 00:04:34,890 --> 00:04:38,595 WE VALUED MAR-A-LAGO AT $18 MILLION, AND IT'S WORTH A 90 00:04:40,050 --> 00:04:41,920 BILLION DOLLARS, MAYBE A BILLION FIVE. 91 00:04:42,550 --> 00:04:45,760 >> A HUGE PART OF HOW HE BECAME THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE IN 2016 92 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:47,800 WAS PEOPLE LIKE, I SAW HIM ON THE APPRENTICE. 93 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,920 I SAW TRUMP TOWER. THAT GUY IS A TYCOON, RIGHT? 94 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,340 AND NOW THE QUESTION IN THIS TRIAL IS LIKE WHETHER STRIPPING 95 00:04:54,340 --> 00:04:58,090 HIM OF THAT HAS ANY POLITICAL IMPACT OR JUST PSYCHIC IMPACT. 96 00:04:58,090 --> 00:05:00,820 >> I THINK HIS SUPPORTERS WILL THINK LETITIA JAMES WENT AFTER 97 00:05:00,820 --> 00:05:03,430 HIM BECAUSE SHE'S NEVER LIKED TRUMP AND IT WAS ALL POLITICAL. 98 00:05:03,670 --> 00:05:07,420 >> TO THE BASE, EVERY ADDITIONAL INDICTMENT IS JUST MORE PROOF 99 00:05:07,420 --> 00:05:08,750 THAT IT'S A POLITICAL ATTACK. 100 00:05:08,750 --> 00:05:09,250 >> YEAH. 101 00:05:09,250 --> 00:05:11,110 >> NO MATTER WHAT HE DOES, HE JUST KEEPS GETTING STRONGER AND 102 00:05:11,110 --> 00:05:12,850 STRONGER. WHO'S GOING TO BEAT DONALD TRUMP 103 00:05:12,850 --> 00:05:16,900 FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION? I MEAN EVERYBODY WHO YOU THOUGHT 104 00:05:16,930 --> 00:05:20,320 HAD A CHANCE TO BE A REAL TRUMP KILLER, LIKE DeSANTIS, WEAKER 105 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:21,640 THAN HE WAS SIX MONTHS AGO. 106 00:05:21,670 --> 00:05:22,330 >> A LOT WEAKER. 107 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,340 >> THERE'S NIKKI HALEY, CHRIS CHRISTIE. 108 00:05:24,370 --> 00:05:26,020 >> EVERYONE IS LIKE WHO'S THE ALTERNATIVE TO TRUMP? 109 00:05:26,020 --> 00:05:28,030 REPUBLICANS DON'T WANT AN ALTERNATIVE TO TRUMP. 110 00:05:28,030 --> 00:05:28,660 >> TOTALLY. 111 00:05:28,990 --> 00:05:31,240 >> IT'S BEEN A WHOLESALE TAKEOVER OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY 112 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:31,930 BY TRUMP. 113 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:34,420 >> OKAY. SO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AT THE 114 00:05:34,450 --> 00:05:36,310 NOMINATING LEVEL HAS BECOME THIS CULT OF PERSONALITY. 115 00:05:36,310 --> 00:05:38,920 THEY'RE ABOUT TO NOMINATE WITH ALMOST NO OPPOSITION A GUY WHO 116 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:40,750 HAS 91 FELONY COUNTS AGAINST HIM. 117 00:05:41,110 --> 00:05:43,360 SO YOU THINK, MAN, WHAT A GIFT FOR DEMOCRATS. 118 00:05:43,390 --> 00:05:48,460 JOE BIDEN MUST BE RIDING HIGH, AND YET NOT QUITE. 119 00:05:48,490 --> 00:05:50,980 >> NO. DEMOCRATS WERE FREAKED OUT IN 120 00:05:50,980 --> 00:05:52,630 THE SPRING. THEY'RE EVEN MORE FREAKED OUT 121 00:05:52,660 --> 00:05:56,620 NOW BECAUSE THERE IS ENERGY AND MOMENTUM ON TRUMP'S SIDE, AND 122 00:05:56,620 --> 00:05:59,740 THERE IS NOT ENERGY AND MOMENTUM ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE, RIGHT? 123 00:05:59,860 --> 00:06:01,750 PEOPLE ARE FREAKED OUT ABOUT HIS AGE. 124 00:06:01,750 --> 00:06:04,330 HIS NUMBERS ON THE ECONOMY ARE STILL NOT DOING WELL EVEN THOUGH 125 00:06:04,330 --> 00:06:05,980 THE ECONOMY IS PERFORMING BETTER. 126 00:06:05,980 --> 00:06:08,890 >> AND PART OF THE PROBLEM IS THAT EVERYBODY ASSUMED THAT WITH 127 00:06:08,890 --> 00:06:12,280 MULTIPLE INDICTMENTS AND MULTIPLE COUNTS, THAT TRUMP'S 128 00:06:12,280 --> 00:06:13,970 GENERAL ELECTION NUMBERS WOULD GO DOWN. 129 00:06:13,970 --> 00:06:14,470 >> RIGHT. 130 00:06:14,470 --> 00:06:15,220 >> AND THEY HAVEN'T. 131 00:06:15,730 --> 00:06:18,550 >> AND THEN YOU'VE GOT HAVING HUNTER BIDEN BACK IN THE NEWS, 132 00:06:18,580 --> 00:06:21,070 BEING ARRAIGNED IN WILMINGTON DELAWARE TOMORROW. 133 00:06:21,070 --> 00:06:22,930 IT'S NOT LIKE WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE WANTED TO SEE. 134 00:06:23,050 --> 00:06:26,260 A STORY THAT, LIKE, THEY JUST CAN'T MAKE GO AWAY SOMEHOW, AND 135 00:06:26,260 --> 00:06:28,360 IT'S PART OF WHAT DRIVES REPUBLICAN ENTHUSIASM. 136 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:30,340 >> FOR THEM, IT LEVELS THE SCALES OF CORRUPTION. 137 00:06:30,340 --> 00:06:32,320 IT'S LIKE TRUMP MAY NOT BE GREAT BUT LOOK AT BIDEN. 138 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:33,610 BIDEN CRIME FAMILY. 139 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:35,980 >> NOW WE HAVE THE THIRD THING HAPPENING IN OUR LIVES. 140 00:06:36,490 --> 00:06:37,450 THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE. 141 00:06:37,870 --> 00:06:39,730 >> HOW HARD WAS IT FOR McCARTHY TO BECOME SPEAKER? 142 00:06:42,850 --> 00:06:44,860 IT TOOKEA 15 VOTES. THEY NOW HAVE SOMETHING CALLED 143 00:06:44,860 --> 00:06:49,150 THE MOTION TO VACATE WHICH MEANS ONE PERSON CAN MOVE TO VOTE HIM 144 00:06:49,150 --> 00:06:49,600 OUT. 145 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:51,100 >> WHEN YOU SAY ONE PERSON, YOU MEAN -- 146 00:06:51,130 --> 00:06:53,350 >> SPEAKER McCARTHY IS AT THE MATT GAETZ OF HELL. 147 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,260 >> FROM THE MOMENT THAT McCARTHY BECAME SPEAKER, THERE'S JUST 148 00:06:59,260 --> 00:07:01,360 BEEN THIS SWORD OF DAMOCLES OVER HIS HEAD. 149 00:07:01,870 --> 00:07:03,640 HELD IT TOGETHER. HE'S DONE SOME THINGS THAT HAVE 150 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:05,980 PISSED OFF THE MAGA WING. 151 00:07:05,980 --> 00:07:07,210 >> THE DEBT LIMIT DEAL REALLY PISSED OFF THE MAGA WING. 152 00:07:07,210 --> 00:07:07,780 >> TOTALLY. 153 00:07:09,730 --> 00:07:13,900 >> THEN McCARTHY DARED THEM TO LIKE COME AFTER HIM AND 154 00:07:15,260 --> 00:07:17,920 CHALLENGE THE SPEAKERSHIP AND KEEPING THE GOVERNMENT OPEN WITH 155 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:19,240 DEMOCRAT VOTES. 156 00:07:19,810 --> 00:07:21,280 >> DO YOU THINK WE'RE GOING TO GET A VOTE ON McCARTHY'S 157 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:22,360 SPEAKERSHIP THIS WEEK? 158 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,750 >> SAYING THERE IS NO SPEAKER COULD EASILY HAPPEN BY THE END 159 00:07:25,750 --> 00:07:28,270 OF THE WEEK. CONGRESS DIDN'T SHUT DOWN, BUT 160 00:07:28,270 --> 00:07:30,760 THE PRICE McCARTHY IS PAYING FOR CONGRESS NOT SHUTTING DOWN OVER 161 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:35,140 THE WEEKEND IS THAT HIS VERY SPEAKERSHIP IS UNDER THREAT. 162 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:37,330 >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WELCOME BACK TO "THE CIRCUS" WHERE 163 00:07:37,330 --> 00:07:39,610 THINGS JUST KEEP GETTING MORE DIRE. 164 00:07:39,730 --> 00:07:42,160 >> THE HOUSE, THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, BIDEN/TRUMP. 165 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,540 >> GAS PRICES, BORDER CRISIS. YOU'VE GOT A BIG AUTO STRIKE. 166 00:07:46,630 --> 00:07:49,810 >> GIVEN ALL OF THAT, I SAW THIS POLL THE OTHER DAY WHERE THEY 167 00:07:49,810 --> 00:07:54,280 ASKED PEOPLE WHICH OF THESE WORDS THEY WOULD ASSOCIATE WITH 168 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,190 THE 2024 ELECTION. DELIGHT, EXCITEMENT AND 169 00:07:57,220 --> 00:07:59,680 OPTIMISM. INDIFFERENCE, EXHAUSTION, 170 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:03,400 DEPRESSION, AND DREAD. YOU WILL NOT BE SURPRISED TO 171 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:08,920 LEARN THAT ONLY 5% OF THE PEOPLE SAID DELIGHT WHEREAS THE VAST 172 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:12,490 MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WERE IN THAT QUADRANT OF DOOM. 173 00:08:13,210 --> 00:08:14,500 >> SIGN ME UP FOR DEPRESSION. 174 00:08:14,890 --> 00:08:15,760 >> EXHAUSTION. 175 00:08:15,910 --> 00:08:18,250 >> I'M JUST ALWAYS IN A CONSTANT STATE OF PERPETUAL DREAD. 176 00:08:19,060 --> 00:08:22,480 >> LIONS AND TIGERS AND BEARS, OH, MY. 177 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:24,880 WHEN I THINK OF 2024, IT'S LIKE -- 178 00:08:33,659 --> 00:08:36,000 >>> MINUTES FROM NOW, CONGRESSMAN MATT GAETZ IS 179 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,570 EXPECTED TO SPEAK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR TO TRY TO OUST THE HOUSE 180 00:08:39,570 --> 00:08:41,559 SPEAKER, KEVIN McCARTHY. 181 00:08:41,580 --> 00:08:45,390 >> IF GAETZ DOES MOVE AHEAD, ALL HE WOULD NEED ARE FIVE 182 00:08:45,390 --> 00:08:48,900 REPUBLICANS TO SIDE WITH HIM IF ALL DEMOCRATS AGREE TO BOOT HIM 183 00:08:48,900 --> 00:08:49,260 OUT. 184 00:08:49,530 --> 00:08:49,580 >> SPEAKER 185 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:52,830 >> SPEAWILL SPEAKER McCARTHY REN DEMOCRATS TO SAVE HIM? 186 00:08:53,550 --> 00:08:55,190 >> BRING IT ON. LET'S GET OVER WITH IT. 187 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,290 >> IT'S BECOMING INCREASINGLY CLEAR WHO THE SPEAKER OF THE 188 00:08:58,290 --> 00:09:01,800 HOUSE ALREADY WORKS FOR, AND IT'S NOT THE REPUBLICAN 189 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:02,610 CONFERENCE. 190 00:09:03,180 --> 00:09:06,720 >> GOP CONGRESSMAN MATT GAETZ HAS FILED THAT MOTION TO OUST 191 00:09:06,750 --> 00:09:08,040 McCARTHY AS SPEAKER. 192 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:11,850 >> I'M GOING DOWN FIGHTING. I'VE HAD IT. 193 00:09:11,850 --> 00:09:15,360 I'VE BEEN HERE SEVEN YEARS. WE DON'T HAVE A FUCKING BUDGET. 194 00:09:15,390 --> 00:09:17,490 >> HAVE YOU HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH DEMOCRATS AND THEY HAVE 195 00:09:17,490 --> 00:09:20,670 SAID POINT BLACK WE'RE GOING TO DO SOMETHING TO SUPPORT HIM? 196 00:09:20,670 --> 00:09:23,430 >> WITHOUT ME SOLICITING A RESPONSE, A NUMBER OF DEMOCRATS 197 00:09:23,430 --> 00:09:26,370 HAVE TOLD ME THEY'RE GOING TO DO WHATEVER HAKEEM JEFFRIES SAYS, 198 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:29,700 AND I BELIEVE THEM. AND IF HAKEEM JEFFRIES WANTS TO 199 00:09:29,700 --> 00:09:33,400 ADOPT KEVIN McCARTHY, HE CAN ADOPT HIM, BUT AT LEAST HE WON'T 200 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:35,070 BELONG TO ME. I'VE GOT TO GO, GUYS. 201 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,630 >> PRESIDENT BIDEN'S SON, HUNTER BIDEN, IS HEADED TO COURT TO BE 202 00:09:46,630 --> 00:09:48,550 ARRAIGNED ON THREE FELONY GUN CHARGES. 203 00:09:48,550 --> 00:09:51,880 THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT A CHILD OF A SITTING WILL BE 204 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:53,920 ARRAIGNED ON CRIMINAL CHARGES. 205 00:09:54,130 --> 00:09:55,630 >> WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TODAY? 206 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:57,460 >> HUNTER BIDEN IS GUILTY. 207 00:10:01,450 --> 00:10:05,560 >> SOMETIMES, ESPECIALLY RIGHT NOW IN AMERICAN POLITICS, THINGS 208 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:07,810 REALLY ARE A THREE-RING CIRCUS. 209 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:12,170 >> LOCK DONALD TRUMP UP. 210 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:16,130 >> HERE WE HAVE HUNTER BIDEN, WHO CAME HERE TODAY FOR HIS 211 00:10:16,130 --> 00:10:22,070 ARRAIGNMENT AND DREW THIS GIANT CROP OF REPORTERS, WHO ARE HERE 212 00:10:22,070 --> 00:10:25,910 TO WATCH BIDEN WALK INTO THE COURT AS HE DID, PLEAD NOT 213 00:10:25,910 --> 00:10:29,360 GUILTY, WALK OUT OF THE COURT. THIS IS NOT A SPECTACLE THAT THE 214 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,810 BIDEN CAMPAIGN WANTS TO SEE. DO SWING VOTERS CARE ABOUT 215 00:10:32,810 --> 00:10:34,040 HUNTER BIDEN? NOT THAT MUCH. 216 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:37,190 BUT CONSERVATIVES LOVE THIS STORY. 217 00:10:37,610 --> 00:10:41,240 130 MILES NORTH OF HERE IN NEW YORK CITY, THERE'S A WHOLE OTHER 218 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:44,630 MEDIA CIRCUS GOING ON AROUND DONALD TRUMP, WHO IS IN COURT 219 00:10:44,630 --> 00:10:48,320 FOR THE SECOND DAY IN A ROW. BUT HE JUST TOOK THINGS TO A NEW 220 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:53,480 LOW BY POSTING ON TRUTH SOCIAL A PICTURE OF THE JUDGE'S CLERK, 221 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:57,350 CLEARLY INSINUATING THAT SOMETHING UNTOWARD IS GOING ON 222 00:10:57,350 --> 00:10:59,660 WITH NEW YORK SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER. 223 00:11:00,350 --> 00:11:04,520 AND THEN FINALLY, 100 MILES SOUTH OF HERE, DUE TO THE 224 00:11:04,550 --> 00:11:10,010 NIALLISM OF MATT GAETZ, THE THIRD AND MOST DISMAYING RING, 225 00:11:10,290 --> 00:11:13,800 KEVIN McCARTHY'S AS SPEAKER HANGS BY A THREAD. 226 00:11:20,860 --> 00:11:23,140 >> THIS MORNING, HOUSE SPEAKER KEVIN McCARTHY IS AT RISK OF 227 00:11:23,140 --> 00:11:24,140 LOSING HIS JOB. 228 00:11:26,650 --> 00:11:28,960 >> THE SPEAKERSHIP IS IN JEOPARDY. 229 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,360 >> CAN SPEAKER KEVIN McCARTHY SURVIVE? 230 00:11:31,390 --> 00:11:33,310 WE COULD FIND OUT IN A MATTER OF HOURS. 231 00:11:34,060 --> 00:11:38,260 >> FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OVER A CENTURY, THE HOUSE IS EXPECTED 232 00:11:38,260 --> 00:11:41,780 TODAY TO VOTE ON WHETHER OR NOT TO REMOVE A SPEAKER. 233 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:44,800 >> WHAT I'M FRUSTRATED WITH IS MATT GAETZ USING THE AMERICAN 234 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:48,400 PEOPLE IN HIS NARCISSISTIC GAME OF CHARADES, AND I'M OVER IT. 235 00:11:48,580 --> 00:11:51,430 >> RIGHT NOW WE'RE TOLD THAT SPEAKER McCARTHY IS MAKING THE 236 00:11:51,430 --> 00:11:54,190 PITCH TO REPUBLICANS, YOU HAVE TO BACK ME. 237 00:11:54,220 --> 00:11:58,240 DO NOT MAKE ME TRY TO REMAIN SPEAKER WITH DEMOCRATIC VOTES. 238 00:11:58,450 --> 00:12:01,660 REALLY WHAT'S GOING TO BE VOTED ON TODAY, IT'S WHETHER OR NOT 239 00:12:01,660 --> 00:12:05,980 THE REPUBLICANS MAINTAIN ANY KIND OF WORKING MAJORITY IN THE 240 00:12:05,980 --> 00:12:06,670 HOUSE. 241 00:12:06,910 --> 00:12:09,160 >> COMING OUT OF THE HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS, WHAT 242 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:09,670 HAPPENED? 243 00:12:09,700 --> 00:12:12,403 >> WE TALKED ABOUT THE DIRECTION OF THE PARTY, AND I DON'T THINK 244 00:12:12,503 --> 00:12:14,260 YOU PULL THE COACH OUT HEADING INTO THE FOURTH QUARTER. 245 00:12:14,260 --> 00:12:16,170 BUT THERE'S A LOT RIDING ON THIS FOURTH QUARTER. 246 00:12:16,180 --> 00:12:19,820 >> IF WE GO BACK, WE DO THE MOTION TO VACATE, GUESS WHAT, 247 00:12:19,850 --> 00:12:21,920 FOLKS? NOW THE CIRCUS IS BACK IN TOWN. 248 00:12:22,820 --> 00:12:25,430 >> IT'S CLEAR TALKING TO DEMOCRATS COMING OUT OF THAT 249 00:12:25,430 --> 00:12:28,070 CLOSED-DOOR MEETING, THE CONSENSUS POSITION IS LET 250 00:12:28,100 --> 00:12:29,150 McCARTHY SINK. 251 00:12:33,410 --> 00:12:36,500 >> THIS IS A REPUBLICAN-CREATED CRISIS, AND THEY NEED TO DO THE 252 00:12:36,500 --> 00:12:39,950 WORK AS A CAUCUS TO COME FORWARD AND SHOW THAT THEY, AS A PARTY, 253 00:12:39,950 --> 00:12:41,210 HAVE THE ABILITY TO GOVERN. 254 00:12:46,010 --> 00:12:47,270 >> WE'LL JUST CHAT AS WE'RE WALKING UP. 255 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:49,120 WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO HAPPEN WITH THIS VOTES? 256 00:12:49,130 --> 00:12:51,950 >> IT SOUNDS LIKE THE DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO VOTE WITH MATT 257 00:12:51,950 --> 00:12:56,480 GAETZ, AND IT APPEARS THAT MATT HAS ENOUGH REPUBLICANS TO 258 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:59,150 VACATE. SO WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS. 259 00:13:01,580 --> 00:13:04,400 >> THE CHAIR DIRECTS THE CLERK TO CONDUCT THE VOTE. 260 00:13:04,910 --> 00:13:05,600 >> ADAMS. 261 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:06,208 >> YES. 262 00:13:06,208 --> 00:13:06,989 >> ATOR HOLT. 263 00:13:06,989 --> 00:13:07,759 >> NO. 264 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:10,430 >> McCARTHY CAN ONLY AFFORD TO LOSE FOUR REPUBLICAN VOTES. 265 00:13:10,430 --> 00:13:11,120 >> BUCK. 266 00:13:11,674 --> 00:13:12,050 >> AYE. 267 00:13:12,050 --> 00:13:12,860 >> BURCHETT. 268 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:21,020 >> NEVER BEFORE HAS A SPEAKER LOST THE JOB IN A VOTE ON THE 269 00:13:21,020 --> 00:13:21,950 HOUSE FLOOR. 270 00:13:22,130 --> 00:13:23,210 >> ROSENDALE. 271 00:13:23,210 --> 00:13:24,110 >> AYE. 272 00:13:24,110 --> 00:13:29,570 >> THE YEAS ARE 216. THE NAYS ARE 210. 273 00:13:29,690 --> 00:13:34,310 THE OFFICE OF SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE 274 00:13:34,310 --> 00:13:37,880 OF REPRESENTATIVES IS HEREBY DECLARED VACANT. 275 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:43,850 >> A DEVASTATING DAY FOR FORMER SPEAKER KEVIN McCARTHY. 276 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:46,940 >> FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME IN THE NATION'S HISTORY, THE 277 00:13:46,940 --> 00:13:50,870 SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE HAS BEEN FIRED, AND THE OFFICE HAS BEEN 278 00:13:50,870 --> 00:13:52,400 LEFT VACANT. 279 00:13:53,090 --> 00:13:54,130 >> OH, THIS IS GOING TO BE -- 280 00:13:56,630 --> 00:13:57,830 >> WHAT HAVE YOU ACHIEVED TODAY? 281 00:13:58,460 --> 00:14:01,860 >> WE HEARD SPEAKER McCARTHY SAY THAT HE WANTED US TO BRING IT 282 00:14:01,860 --> 00:14:02,970 ON, SO I GUESS WE DID. 283 00:14:05,850 --> 00:14:08,280 >> IS IT TO THE BENEFIT OF YOU AND TO DONALD TRUMP? 284 00:14:08,460 --> 00:14:10,740 >> IT'S TO THE BENEFIT OF THIS COUNTRY THAT WE HAVE A BETTER 285 00:14:10,740 --> 00:14:12,390 SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE THAN KEVIN McCARTHY. 286 00:14:13,409 --> 00:14:14,800 >> WHO SHOULD IT BE? 287 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:16,400 >> ARE YOU GOING TO REQUIRE THAT ANY -- 288 00:14:17,100 --> 00:14:19,800 >> -- WANT TO SEE REPUBLICANS FIGHTING WITH OTHER REPUBLICANS. 289 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:20,490 HOW DO YOU RESPOND? 290 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:23,340 >> MY CONVERSATIONS WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT LEAVE ME WITH 291 00:14:23,340 --> 00:14:24,750 GREAT CONFIDENCE THAT I'M DOING THE RIGHT THING. 292 00:14:27,900 --> 00:14:30,510 >> THE 12 APPROPRIATIONS BILLS WE HAVE TO GET PASSED, 8 ARE 293 00:14:30,510 --> 00:14:32,130 LEFT. WE CAN'T WORK ON ANY OF THAT, 294 00:14:32,130 --> 00:14:36,330 AND IT IS SOLELY DUE TO EIGHT REPUBLICANS THAT VOTED WITH 295 00:14:36,330 --> 00:14:39,000 EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IN THE HOUSE OF 296 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,305 REPRESENTATIVES. THOSE ARE JUST FACTS. 297 00:14:41,405 --> 00:14:43,260 >> WHO IS THIRD IN LINE NOW TO BE PRESIDENT? 298 00:14:45,769 --> 00:14:47,280 >> UH -- GEE, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. 299 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,860 YOU MIGHT HAVE TO ASK THE REPUBLICANS. 300 00:14:49,890 --> 00:14:53,340 >> AS A WOMAN, IT IS A VERY LONELY EXPERIENCE TO BE UP HERE 301 00:14:53,340 --> 00:14:57,090 AND TO TRY AND NEGOTIATE AND MOVE FORWARD AND TO HAVE THE 302 00:14:57,090 --> 00:14:59,850 DOOR SLAMMED IN YOUR FACE AND BE MISLED LIKE THAT. 303 00:14:59,860 --> 00:15:02,190 IF YOU'RE GOING TO SAY WE'RE GOING TO WORK AND HELP WOMEN, 304 00:15:03,330 --> 00:15:04,770 THEN LET'S DO IT. 305 00:15:08,970 --> 00:15:11,280 >> HE COULD RUN AGAIN. HE COULD. 306 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:12,330 >> YOU THINK HE WILL? 307 00:15:12,780 --> 00:15:15,690 >> I BELIEVE I CAN CONTINUE TO FIGHT, MAYBE IN A DIFFERENT 308 00:15:15,690 --> 00:15:18,930 MANNER. I WILL NOT RUN FOR SPEAKER 309 00:15:18,930 --> 00:15:20,940 AGAIN. I ENJOY YOU. 310 00:15:20,940 --> 00:15:24,660 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'LL COVER ME AS MUCH, BUT I'M SURE I WON'T 311 00:15:24,660 --> 00:15:25,710 MISS YOU, BUT SEE YOU SOON. 312 00:15:35,557 --> 00:15:40,770 ♪ ♪ 313 00:15:40,770 --> 00:15:43,890 >> BECAUSE I SAD DAD GUM IT A LOT, I TRY NOT TO CURSE. 314 00:15:44,132 --> 00:15:45,300 >> YEAH. 315 00:15:45,300 --> 00:15:48,218 >> MY DEAR FRIEND BRIAN, WE'LL CALL ME AND SAY JUST SAY DAD GUM 316 00:15:48,318 --> 00:15:49,617 IT ONE TIME, AND I'LL SAY DAD GUM IT. 317 00:15:52,614 --> 00:16:00,330 ♪ ♪ 318 00:16:03,030 --> 00:16:06,810 >> YOU WERE NOT PART OF THE EFFORT TO BLOCK HIM INITIALLY. 319 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:10,320 >> I'M NOT A MEMBER OF THE FREEDOM CAUCUS. 320 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:10,670 >> RIGHT. 321 00:16:10,870 --> 00:16:16,590 >> I HAD VOTED FOR HIM 15 TIMES, BUT I WAS DISTURBED THAT THE 322 00:16:16,590 --> 00:16:19,320 PATH WE WERE TAKING, WE WERE 32 TRILLION. 323 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:24,360 NOW WE'RE $33 TRILLION IN DEBT. WE'VE DONE THINGS LIKE THE DEBT 324 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:26,190 CEILING, AND WE RAISED THE DEBT CEILING. 325 00:16:26,190 --> 00:16:27,600 >> RIGHT. SPEAKER MADE AN AGREEMENT WITH 326 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,060 THE WHITE HOUSE, SENATE DEMOCRATS, WHAT THE SPENDING 327 00:16:30,060 --> 00:16:31,410 LIMITS WERE GOING TO BE. 328 00:16:31,530 --> 00:16:34,170 >> CORRECT, WHICH WERE BASICALLY UNLIMITED. 329 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:39,810 >> AND YOU KNEW THAT GAETZ WAS GOING TO FILE THIS MOTION. 330 00:16:39,830 --> 00:16:42,740 THE LEADERSHIP IS PROBABLY NOT THINKING THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE 331 00:16:42,740 --> 00:16:44,360 A PROBLEM. THEY'RE PROBABLY THINKING YOU'RE 332 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:45,495 GOING TO VOTE TO -- 333 00:16:45,595 --> 00:16:48,260 >> MY THOUGHT WAS DO I TRUST MY CONSCIENCE? 334 00:16:50,030 --> 00:16:53,630 I PRAYED ABOUT IT, AND HONESTLY I SLEPT LIKE A BABY LAST NIGHT. 335 00:16:53,870 --> 00:16:56,600 I SLEPT LIKE A BABY LAST NIGHT. KEVIN McCARTHY CALLED ME THIS 336 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:00,080 MORNING, AND THE FIRST THING HE SAID WAS SOMETHING I THOUGHT WAS 337 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:01,340 VERY CONDESCENDING. 338 00:17:01,430 --> 00:17:02,300 >> WHAT DID HE SAY? 339 00:17:02,390 --> 00:17:05,869 >> JUST ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WELL, WERE YOUR PRAYERS ANSWERED? 340 00:17:05,869 --> 00:17:07,640 SOMETHING, I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T REMEMBER EXACTLY. 341 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:13,099 TO ME IT JUST -- IT JUST SAID RIGHT THERE, I SAID, WELL, 342 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,550 YOU'VE ANSWERED -- YOU'VE ANSWERED IT RIGHT THERE. 343 00:17:17,990 --> 00:17:20,420 AFTER I HUNG UP WITH HIM, AFTER IT WAS KIND OF HEATED TOWARDS 344 00:17:20,420 --> 00:17:22,700 THE END, I SAID, THANK YOU, LORD. 345 00:17:22,700 --> 00:17:25,010 YOU GAVE ME MY ANSWER. IT MAYBE WASN'T THE ONE I 346 00:17:25,010 --> 00:17:27,619 WANTED, BUT IT WAS THE RIGHT ANSWER. 347 00:17:35,310 --> 00:17:39,300 >> KEVIN McCARTHY OUSTED AS HOUSE SPEAKER, AND HE SAYS HE'S 348 00:17:39,300 --> 00:17:40,500 NOT GOING TO EVEN RUN AGAIN. 349 00:17:40,530 --> 00:17:43,080 >> REPUBLICANS ARE NOW SCRAM PLING TO FIND A NEW LEADER. 350 00:17:43,110 --> 00:17:46,260 >> THE HOUSE IS NOW IN RECESS FOR A WEEK, SO NOW WHAT HAPPENS? 351 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:50,940 >> YESTERDAY IT WAS CHAOS AND FRENZY AROUND HERE, BUT TODAY 352 00:17:50,940 --> 00:17:53,880 IT'S A GHOST TOWN AS THE MEMBERS HAVE HIT THE PAUSE BUTTON, GONE 353 00:17:53,910 --> 00:17:55,770 ON RECESS SO THEY CAN FIGURE THIS SHIT OUT. 354 00:17:56,660 --> 00:17:59,410 THERE IS A LOT OF SPECULATION ABOUT WHAT COMES NEXT. 355 00:17:59,420 --> 00:18:02,870 PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT STEVE SCALISE AS THE NEXT SPEAKER, JIM 356 00:18:02,870 --> 00:18:05,570 JORDAN. ADDING TO THAT SPECULATION IS 357 00:18:05,570 --> 00:18:08,030 DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF, WHO JUST POSTED THIS PHOTO ON TRUTH 358 00:18:08,030 --> 00:18:09,770 SOCIAL. BUT WE'RE GOING TO TALK TO KEN 359 00:18:09,770 --> 00:18:13,010 BUCK, ONE OF EIGHT REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN RESPONSIBLE FOR 360 00:18:13,010 --> 00:18:16,160 DEPOSING McCARTHY. HE'S A CONGRESSMAN FROM 361 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:19,250 COLORADO, MY HOME STATE. HE'S A FREEDOM CAUCUS MEMBER. 362 00:18:19,340 --> 00:18:22,220 SO WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT FROM HIM WHAT'S NEXT. 363 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,180 >> GIVE ME AN IDEA OF THE ROADMAP FOR WHAT DOES IT LOOK 364 00:18:29,180 --> 00:18:29,600 LIKE? 365 00:18:29,610 --> 00:18:33,290 >> SO THE ROADMAP FORWARD IS WE MEET BEHIND CLOSED DOORS AS A 366 00:18:33,290 --> 00:18:35,210 CONFERENCE. WE PICK A CANDIDATE IN 367 00:18:35,210 --> 00:18:38,318 CONFERENCE. THEN WE GO OUT ON THE FLOOR, AND 368 00:18:38,417 --> 00:18:40,790 WE'LL START VOTING. IT MAY NOT HAPPEN ON THE FIRST 369 00:18:40,790 --> 00:18:44,060 BALLOT, AND IT PROBABLY WON'T WITH A SMALL MAJORITY. 370 00:18:44,060 --> 00:18:47,210 BUT WE WILL FIND A CANDIDATE, AND WE'LL MOVE FORWARD. 371 00:18:47,420 --> 00:18:51,230 >> WELL, IT TOOK 15 VOTES, WHICH WAS HISTORIC, TO GET KEVIN 372 00:18:51,230 --> 00:18:52,220 McCARTHY -- 373 00:18:52,940 --> 00:18:54,200 >> KEVIN'S MADE HISTORY A LOT. 374 00:18:54,230 --> 00:18:55,760 >> YES. 375 00:18:57,260 --> 00:18:59,820 >> OBVIOUS CANDIDATES ARE STEVE SCALISE, JIM JORDAN. 376 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:01,590 >> JORDAN'S A FREEDOM CAUCUS GUY. 377 00:19:02,510 --> 00:19:04,280 IN YOUR OPINION, WOULD IT BE GOOD TO HAVE A FREEDOM CAUCUS 378 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:04,730 GUY IN. 379 00:19:04,730 --> 00:19:09,770 >> I THINK JIM WOULD HAVE A VERY STEEP HILL TO CLIMB TO GET THIS 380 00:19:09,770 --> 00:19:10,190 JOB. 381 00:19:10,310 --> 00:19:10,800 >> WHY IS THAT? 382 00:19:10,820 --> 00:19:12,506 >> WELL, I THINK THAT ANYBODY -- 383 00:19:12,606 --> 00:19:13,640 >> BECAUSE HE'S FREEDOM CAUCUS? 384 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:15,800 >> PART OF IT BECAUSE HE'S FREEDOM CAUCUS. 385 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:17,270 THE OTHER PART IS HE'S A BOMB THROWER. 386 00:19:17,450 --> 00:19:20,180 I DON'T THINK THAT'S A DEROGATORY TERM IN JIM'S MIND. 387 00:19:20,870 --> 00:19:25,310 HE RELISHES THE OPPORTUNITY TO THROW BOMBS AND THIS IS A JOB 388 00:19:25,310 --> 00:19:26,990 WHERE YOU'VE GOT TO BRING DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE 389 00:19:26,990 --> 00:19:28,310 CONFERENCE TOGETHER. 390 00:19:28,340 --> 00:19:31,520 >> LET ME ASK YOU WHAT I HEARD AND SEE IF YOU CAN CONFIRM OR 391 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,490 DENY IT. THAT THERE'S SOME BAD BLOOD 392 00:19:34,490 --> 00:19:37,400 BETWEEN McCARTHY AND SCALISE AND THAT SOME PEOPLE WHO SUPPORTED 393 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:38,900 McCARTHY WON'T SUPPORT SCALISE. 394 00:19:40,070 --> 00:19:41,910 >> I HAVE NOT WITNESSED BAD BLOOD. 395 00:19:41,930 --> 00:19:43,610 I HAVE CERTAINLY HEARD ABOUT BAD BLOOD. 396 00:19:44,180 --> 00:19:46,400 THERE WERE A NUMBER OF TIMES WHERE KEVIN, I THINK, WAS 397 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:51,740 FRUSTRATED AND SAID SOME THINGS ABOUT STEVE PUBLICLY THAT WERE 398 00:19:51,740 --> 00:19:52,940 NOT VERY SUPPORTIVE. 399 00:19:52,970 --> 00:19:56,840 >> SOME PEOPLE WOULD SAY YOU'RE CREATING A TRAIN WRECK IN THE 400 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:59,330 HOUSE THAT COULD LEAD TO A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. 401 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:02,900 >> I THINK THE TRAIN WRECK WAS KEVIN McCARTHY LEADING A GROUP 402 00:20:02,900 --> 00:20:05,900 OF REPUBLICANS TO SPEND TOO MUCH MONEY AND THE PEOPLE IN THE 403 00:20:05,900 --> 00:20:08,950 HINTERLANDS LOOKING AT US AND SAYING, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? 404 00:20:09,350 --> 00:20:11,870 WE GOT YOU THE MAJORITY. WE DON'T HAVE THE MAJORITY IN 405 00:20:11,870 --> 00:20:13,010 THE SENATE. WE DON'T HAVE THE WHITE HOUSE. 406 00:20:13,010 --> 00:20:15,380 WE HAVE THE MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE, AND HOW ARE WE AS 407 00:20:15,380 --> 00:20:17,300 REPUBLICANS LEADING? WE'RE NOT. 408 00:20:20,020 --> 00:20:21,920 >> THE FORMER PRESIDENT WAS IN COURT AGAIN FOR THE THIRD 409 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:22,460 STRAIGHT DAY. 410 00:20:22,490 --> 00:20:25,580 >> DONALD TRUMP HAS ESSENTIALLY TURNED HIS FRAUD TRIAL INTO A 411 00:20:25,580 --> 00:20:26,360 CAMPAIGN STOP. 412 00:20:26,360 --> 00:20:29,900 >> TRUMP WASTED NO TIME AND NO OPPORTUNITY TO LASH OUT AGAINST 413 00:20:29,900 --> 00:20:31,730 NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES. 414 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:35,570 >> WE HAVE A PROSECUTOR WHO IS INCOMPETENT. 415 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:39,140 YOU BORROW MONEY, YOU PAY IT BACK, AND YOU GET SUED BY A 416 00:20:39,140 --> 00:20:40,100 POLITICAL ANIMAL. 417 00:20:40,220 --> 00:20:42,690 >> LETITIA JAMES HAS BASICALLY HAD ENOUGH. 418 00:20:42,710 --> 00:20:44,720 THE NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL IS STRIKING BACK. 419 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:46,880 >> MR. TRUMP'S COMMENTS WERE OFFENSIVE. 420 00:20:47,570 --> 00:20:50,660 THEY WERE BASELESS. COMMENTS THAT UNFORTUNATELY 421 00:20:50,660 --> 00:20:52,230 FOMENTED VIOLENCE. KPLENT 422 00:20:52,230 --> 00:20:54,350 KPL COMMENTS THAT I WOULD DESCRIBE 423 00:20:54,350 --> 00:20:55,580 AS RACE BAITING. 424 00:21:07,140 --> 00:21:09,720 >> IT'S FRIDAY. WE'RE BACK IN NEW YORK CITY. 425 00:21:10,230 --> 00:21:13,700 DOWNTOWN IS WHERE TRUMP'S CIVIL TRIAL IS TAKING PLACE. 426 00:21:13,710 --> 00:21:17,220 AFTER TRUMP POSTED ON TRUTH SOCIAL ABOUT THE COURT CLERK, 427 00:21:17,250 --> 00:21:20,670 THAT EARNED HIM A GAG ORDER FROM THE JUDGE. 428 00:21:20,670 --> 00:21:24,240 AND THEN THE VERY NEXT DAY, TRUMP CAME BACK AND WAS LIKE, 429 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,460 I'M NOT GOING TO VIOLATE THE GAG ORDER, BUT I'M GOING TO TRASH 430 00:21:26,460 --> 00:21:28,230 THE JUDGE. I'M GOING TO TRASH THE PROCESS. 431 00:21:28,230 --> 00:21:30,150 AND I'M GOING TO TRASH TISH JAMES. 432 00:21:30,330 --> 00:21:34,080 THEN TISH JAMES CAME OUT AND PROVED THAT SHE COULD GIVE 433 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:35,610 EVERYBODY BIT AS GOOD AS SHE GOT. 434 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:39,720 >> I WILL NOT BE BULLIED. SO MR. TRUMP IS NO LONGER HERE. 435 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:41,700 THE DONALD TRUMP SHOW IS OVER. 436 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:46,980 >> BUT NEITHER THE TRIAL NOR THE TRUMP SHOW IS REALLY OVER, AND 437 00:21:46,980 --> 00:21:49,830 WE ARE HEADED TO TALK TO SOMEONE WHO IS GOING TO BE A STAR 438 00:21:49,830 --> 00:21:56,250 WITNESS, A GUY WHO FOR A DECADE WAS DONALD TRUMP'S FIXER AND NOW 439 00:21:56,250 --> 00:21:59,250 IS ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT OF DONALD TRUMP'S ANTAGONISTS. 440 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,710 THAT WOULD BE, OF COURSE, MICHAEL COHEN. 441 00:22:03,540 --> 00:22:05,790 >> LET'S TALK ABOUT THE TISH JAMES CASE FOR NOW BECAUSE THIS 442 00:22:05,790 --> 00:22:07,770 HAS BEEN ALL UNFOLDING THIS PAST WEEK. 443 00:22:07,770 --> 00:22:11,060 WHEN YOU SAW WHAT HE DID, HOW HE ACTED, WHAT WERE YOUR THOUGHTS? 444 00:22:11,070 --> 00:22:13,890 >> HE KNOWS HIS COMPANY IS IN THE DEATH PENALTY. 445 00:22:14,310 --> 00:22:15,660 HE CAN'T HANDLE IT. 446 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:17,670 >> HE WANTED TO BE KING OF NEW YORK. 447 00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:19,830 A LOT OF IT HAD TO DO WITH HAVING HIS NAME ON A LOT OF 448 00:22:19,830 --> 00:22:21,900 STUFF. TRUMP TOWER IS THE MOST VIVID 449 00:22:21,900 --> 00:22:23,880 EXAMPLE. OUTER BOROUGH WHO WANTED TO COME 450 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,670 TO MANHATTAN AND PROVE HE COULD RULE GOTHAM CITY. 451 00:22:27,270 --> 00:22:31,560 ALL THE STUFF HE ALWAYS WANTED IS BEING REDUCED TO RUBBLE. 452 00:22:31,770 --> 00:22:35,280 DID HE SEEM NOTABLY MORE UNHINGED TO YOU THIS WEEK? 453 00:22:35,310 --> 00:22:36,840 >> NO. THIS IS ANGRIER. 454 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:39,120 IT ALSO LOOKS LIKE HE HASN'T SLEPT. 455 00:22:39,210 --> 00:22:42,380 HE'S SCOWLING AT THE GUY WHO HAS TO MAKE THE ULTIMATE DECISION. 456 00:22:42,390 --> 00:22:46,230 YOU'RE ATTACKING HIS CLERK. YOU'RE ATTACKING THE 457 00:22:46,230 --> 00:22:49,710 PROSECUTORS. THIS ISN'T GOING TO ENDEAR EVEN 458 00:22:49,710 --> 00:22:54,420 AN IOTA OF BENEFIT TO HIM. SO THE QUESTION BECOMES WHY? 459 00:22:54,450 --> 00:22:56,730 WHAT'S HE DOING? TELL YOU WHAT HE'S DOING HERE. 460 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,160 WHAT HE'S DOING IS HE'S RILING UP HIS BASE. 461 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:02,280 HE WANTS TO SHOW HIS BASE THAT HE'S A TOUGH GUY. 462 00:23:02,980 --> 00:23:04,900 >> I THINK IT'S JUST DEMONSTRABLY TRUE THAT TRUMP'S 463 00:23:04,900 --> 00:23:06,520 RHETORIC IS GETTING MORE VIOLENT. 464 00:23:06,670 --> 00:23:10,990 I'M CURIOUS WHETHER THAT IS ONE THING THAT CONCERNS YOU, KNOWING 465 00:23:11,020 --> 00:23:12,400 THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE THE TARGET OF HIS IRE. 466 00:23:12,430 --> 00:23:14,140 HE CAN DO A LOT OF DAMAGE TO YOU. 467 00:23:14,140 --> 00:23:17,140 >> EVERY DAY AS I WALK, I'M ALWAYS LOOKING OVER MY SHOULDER 468 00:23:17,140 --> 00:23:19,960 AND CONCERNED. I DON'T WALK WITH MY FAMILY 469 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,080 ANYMORE. I HAD A GUY JUMP OUT OF HIS CAR, 470 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:24,790 AND HE WANTED TO FIGHT IN THE STREET. 471 00:23:25,450 --> 00:23:29,290 THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT DONALD TRUMP IS CONNECTING TO. 472 00:23:29,290 --> 00:23:32,560 AND IF, GOD FORBID, HE ENDS UP GOING BACK INTO THE WHITE HOUSE, 473 00:23:32,950 --> 00:23:34,840 IT'S NOT JUST ME WHO'S IN TROUBLE. 474 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:38,410 IT'S AN EXISTENTIAL CONCERN TO MANY, MANY PEOPLE. 475 00:23:38,500 --> 00:23:41,433 >> HE PROUDLY TALKS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT NOW 476 00:23:41,533 --> 00:23:45,850 ON THE BASIS OF RETRIBUTION. I THINK IN A WAY, LIKE HOW CLOSE 477 00:23:45,850 --> 00:23:48,640 YOU WERE TO HIM AND IN SOME CASES THE ROLE YOU GOT PUT IN TO 478 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,580 BE A TOUGH GUY ON TRUMP'S BEHALF ACTUALLY GIVES YOU UNIQUE 479 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:55,990 CREDIBILITY. YOU WERE HIS METAPHORICAL RAY 480 00:23:55,990 --> 00:23:56,530 DONOVAN. 481 00:23:56,530 --> 00:23:56,710 >> HE 482 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,890 >> WHEN WE GO TO WHAT WOULD IT MEAN FOR TRUMP TO GET 483 00:24:02,990 --> 00:24:05,710 RE-ELECTED. JUST AT THE LEVEL OF PERSONAL 484 00:24:05,710 --> 00:24:07,600 ETHICS, ARE THERE ANY BOUNDARIES? 485 00:24:10,210 --> 00:24:11,800 >> IS THAT A RHETORICAL QUESTION? 486 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:12,910 THE ANSWER IS NO. 487 00:24:13,300 --> 00:24:16,180 >> SO THE ONLY THING THAT WAS IN HIS WAY WERE THE FOLLOWING 488 00:24:16,210 --> 00:24:17,800 THINGS. WOULD ANY OF THESE THINGS STOP 489 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,420 HIM? THE CONSTITUTION? 490 00:24:19,420 --> 00:24:20,110 >> NO. 491 00:24:21,010 --> 00:24:22,090 >> INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS? 492 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:22,690 >> NO. 493 00:24:22,810 --> 00:24:23,770 >> LAWS? 494 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:24,370 >> NO. 495 00:24:24,370 --> 00:24:25,600 >> CRIMINAL STATUTES? 496 00:24:25,630 --> 00:24:25,990 >> NO. 497 00:24:26,020 --> 00:24:26,920 >> MORALITY? 498 00:24:26,950 --> 00:24:27,910 >> DEFINITELY NOT. 499 00:24:27,910 --> 00:24:31,560 >> FAITH IN GOD ALMIGHTY AND HIS PLACE IN THE HEREAFTER? 500 00:24:31,570 --> 00:24:32,320 >> DOESN'T BELIEVE IN IT. 501 00:24:32,420 --> 00:24:35,740 >> DO YOU THINK THERE'S A CHANCE WE HAVE NOT SEEN YET THE DEPTHS 502 00:24:35,740 --> 00:24:37,570 TO WHICH TRUMP WILL SINK TO TRY TO GET RE-ELECTED? 503 00:24:37,810 --> 00:24:41,580 >> ABSOLUTELY. FOR HIM, THIS IS HIS LIFELINE. 504 00:24:41,590 --> 00:24:46,120 IF HE DOESN'T WIN THE PRESIDENCY, HE KNOWS HE'S DONE. 505 00:24:58,140 --> 00:25:02,010 >>> YOU LOOK AS IF YOU SHOULD ALWAYS BE THERE OR A STATUE OF 506 00:25:02,010 --> 00:25:02,230 YOU. 507 00:25:02,630 --> 00:25:03,720 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING OUT. 508 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:12,020 >> MY PLEASURE. 509 00:25:12,100 --> 00:25:14,650 >> YOU'RE THE PERFECT PERSON TO HAVE WITH US THIS WEEK BECAUSE 510 00:25:14,650 --> 00:25:17,560 SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED. HAS THERE EVER BEEN A CONFLUENCE 511 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,578 OF SUCH HISTORIC AND DISTURBING EVENTS AT ONE TIME? 512 00:25:20,678 --> 00:25:22,210 >> THANKS FOR THE EASY QUESTION, MARK. 513 00:25:22,510 --> 00:25:25,390 NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN ALL OF HISTORY. 514 00:25:25,810 --> 00:25:29,530 WHAT WE'VE SEEN THIS WEEK IS OUR SYSTEM REALLY COMING APART. 515 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:33,880 THIS IS THE WEEK THAT WE LOST A SPEAKER BY ESSENTIALLY ONE VOTE. 516 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:35,060 >> WHICH HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. 517 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,320 >> NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. THE TIME OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 518 00:25:38,350 --> 00:25:41,800 LINCOLN WOULD HAVE BEEN SHOCKED TO SEE A SITUATION WHERE KEVIN 519 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:45,370 McCARTHY CAME IN AS SPEAKER SAYING BASICALLY, I'LL BE 520 00:25:45,370 --> 00:25:48,220 WHATEVER YOU WANT ME TO BE AS LONG AS I'M SPEAKER. 521 00:25:48,580 --> 00:25:51,520 >> SO WE KNOW THAT THE ONE PERVASIVE FEELING THAT PEOPLE 522 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,580 HAVE ABOUT NEXT YEAR IS DREAD. WHY DO YOU THINK THEY'RE FEELING 523 00:25:54,580 --> 00:25:54,910 LIKE THAT? 524 00:25:55,090 --> 00:25:58,780 >> AMERICANS HAVE A RIGHT TO BE VERY SKEPTICAL OF OUR GOVERNMENT 525 00:25:58,780 --> 00:26:01,540 AND ITS ABILITY TO DO THE THINGS IT'S SUPPOSED TO. 526 00:26:01,570 --> 00:26:07,060 LOOK AT OUR LAST 25 YEARS. WE HAD 9/11, WHERE FOR WHATEVER 527 00:26:07,060 --> 00:26:11,080 REASON, OUR GOVERNMENT WAS NOT ABLE TO PROTECT US AGAINST THOSE 528 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,240 ATTACKS. THERE WERE THEN WARS IN IRAQ AND 529 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,580 AFGHANISTAN. A LOT OF AMERICANS DID NOT 530 00:26:16,580 --> 00:26:20,900 UNDERSTAND WHY WE WERE THERE. 2008, THE GREAT RECESSION. 531 00:26:21,110 --> 00:26:25,010 ALL THESE THINGS LEAD SOMEONE WHO IS AN AMERICAN TO SAY, LOVE 532 00:26:25,010 --> 00:26:28,310 MY COUNTRY, LOVE MY GOVERNMENT, BUT SOMETHING IS GOING BADLY OFF 533 00:26:28,310 --> 00:26:32,090 THE RAILS. AND I WOULD SAY THAT BY 2016, 534 00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:37,160 OUR BAD LUCK AS AMERICANS WAS THAT A DEMAGOGUE, DONALD TRUMP, 535 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,880 CAME ALONG AND SAID, "I ALONE CAN FIX IT." 536 00:26:41,510 --> 00:26:43,730 >> IS THERE AN ANALOG TO TRUMP IN AMERICAN HISTORY? 537 00:26:44,270 --> 00:26:46,550 >> NOT IN A MAJOR PARTY NOMINEE OR PRESIDENT. 538 00:26:46,670 --> 00:26:50,340 FOR MOST OF AMERICAN HISTORY, IF A MAJOR PARTY CANDIDATE OR 539 00:26:50,360 --> 00:26:53,840 FORMER PRESIDENT ESPECIALLY HAD SAID ALMOST ANY OF THE THINGS 540 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:57,710 THAT DONALD TRUMP HAS SAID IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS, THAT PERSON 541 00:26:57,710 --> 00:27:01,400 WOULD HAVE BEEN DRIVEN OUT OF THE RACE BY LEADERS IN HIS PARTY 542 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,070 OR HER PARTY AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. 543 00:27:04,100 --> 00:27:06,260 >> OBVIOUSLY THERE HAVE BEEN DARK TIMES IN OUR HISTORY, BUT 544 00:27:06,260 --> 00:27:07,200 THIS FEELS DIFFERENT. 545 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:07,700 >> FOR INNS 546 00:27:07,700 --> 00:27:13,190 >> FOR INSTANCE, LET'S TAKE 1976, JIMMY CARTER AGAINST 547 00:27:13,190 --> 00:27:15,710 GERALD FORD. THEY DISAGREED ABOUT A LOT OF 548 00:27:15,710 --> 00:27:19,160 THINGS, BUT THE DIFFERENCES WERE SORT OF ON THE MARGINS. 549 00:27:19,190 --> 00:27:23,330 COMPARE THAT TO 2024. WE CANNOT BE SURE THAT WE WILL 550 00:27:23,330 --> 00:27:26,660 LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY 13 MONTHS FROM NOW. 551 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:31,460 NEXT YEAR AT STAKE IS GOING TO BE A CHOICE BETWEEN JOE BIDEN 552 00:27:31,460 --> 00:27:35,450 WITH HIS FLAWS, WHO BELIEVES IN DEMOCRACY AND HAS PRACTICED IT 553 00:27:35,450 --> 00:27:39,680 IN GOVERNMENT FOR 50 YEARS, OR DONALD TRUMP, WHO HAS TOLD YOU, 554 00:27:39,710 --> 00:27:43,910 ELECT ME, AND I WILL BRING A PRESIDENTIAL DICTATORSHIP OF 555 00:27:43,910 --> 00:27:47,120 RETRIBUTION. HE HAS TOLD US WHAT HE WOULD DO 556 00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:48,470 IF HE WERE ELECTED. 557 00:27:48,470 --> 00:27:50,040 >> SO BELIEVE HIM WHEN HE TELLS YOU. 558 00:27:50,090 --> 00:27:52,430 >> BELIEVE HIM WHEN HE TELLS YOU WHAT HE WANTS TO DO. 559 00:27:53,300 --> 00:27:56,000 YOU'VE GOTTEN YOUR WARNING, AND IF PEOPLE DON'T TAKE THAT 560 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,250 SERIOUSLY, THAT IS ON YOU. 561 00:27:58,794 --> 00:28:08,846 ♪ 562 00:28:11,030 --> 00:28:14,660 ♪ I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE SEASON FINALE ♪