May 24, 2023 • 27 mins
Revisiting some of Ron DeSantis’s greatest hits, from sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard to his feud with Disney. Roy Wood Jr. also speaks with Ron DeSantis's education adviser about what would happen if Florida simply adds a "Great Whites" history class instead of banning CRT. Then MSNBC primetime host Alex Wagner discusses her new show, “Alex Wagner Tonight,” and how what’s happening in Florida is a model for what’s happening across the country.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Comedy Central yew.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Even though the twenty twenty two election isn't over yet,
it looks like the twenty twenty four campaign might already
be underway. According to reports, Donald Trump is planning to
announce another run for presidents as soon as the midterms
are over. Yeah, but he's gonna wait for the midterms
first because he wants to do the responsible thing and
(00:30):
see if his election denies get into power so they
can steal the election for him.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
He's waiting. It's good. And even though he hasn't officially.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Announced that he's running a Trump is already taking shots
at some of his rivals in the GOP.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Donald Trump, meanwhile, and Florida Governor Rod DeSantis, held competing
rallies in the state of Florida yesterday. While Trump urged
Flurrians to vote for DeSantis in his race against Democrat
Charlie crist the form president also took a swipe at
the governor as a potential twenty twenty four opponent.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
We're winning big, big, big in the Republican Party for
the nomination like nobody's ever seen before. Let's say there
it is Trump at seventy one. Ron de Sanctimonius said
ten per Mike pen said seven. Oh, Mike stayed better
than I thought.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, I thought he'd be dead by now. I guess
there's always next time. He's doing better.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
By the way, I love how Trump always gives speeches
on the tarmac right in front of his plane.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Have you noticed how he does like the door is opened,
the stay.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It's almost like he doesn't want to spend one second
longer than needed with those people.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
He's just like, keep dangine running. I want to leave
this shithole town as soon as I say good night.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
In fact, just dangle me from a helicopter and pull
me up when I'm done.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I want to get out of here before these rednecks
can touch me. You saw what they did to Mike Pence.
These people are dangerous.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
But the reason that speech is going viral is because
of that bitchy little swipe at Rond Sanctimonious. Yeah, you
saw that, breaking out a classic Trump nick. I mean,
at least we think it was a nickname. It could
have just been Trump trying to say De sanctis you
know him, Sanconius. And what makes the story even better
is that apparently Trump has been privately testing nicknames for
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Ronda Sanctis, Yeah, which is amazing to me.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
The man is at a meeting with his team of
lawyers and he's like.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
All right, all right, enough of all the ways that
I could go to jail, what do you guys like
better Ran de sanctimonious rand shithead?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Which are.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Right now, it looks like a Trump versus de Sanctus
feud is breaking out into the open. And you know,
usually when two men fight in Florida, it's at a
Margaritaville at one am. But this, this is a lot
more high stakes, which is probably why a lot of
Republicans are upset with Trump for going after the Sanctus.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, because they're like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
We love Rond Sanctus, He's our guy, and Trump is like, yeah,
I know, that's why I hate him, because you see,
people don't realize that's the one thing Trump hates more
than anything is anyone having what he thinks should be
his spotlight. That might be the thing that destroys the
Republican chances in twenty twenty four. Donald Trump cannot stand
not being the center of attention. Yeah, I bet he
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got jealous when his kids were born.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
You know, there's like congratulations, it's a boy. He's like,
I'm also a boy, and I've been a boy much longer,
so long. Many people not well saying if that's for
them all time?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
As you know, last week, the immigration debate in America
was reignited once again by Ron Desanctus, Florida governor and
the dad of your school bully. You see, for months now,
Republican governors in Arizona and Texas have been trying to
draw attention to border security by bussing migrants to places
like New York and Chicago. But the Sanctists took things
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up a notch by hiring a plane to take forty
eight Venezuelan migrants from Texas and drop them off in
Martha's Vineyard. And if the Sanctus was looking for attention,
well he definitely got it.
Speaker 8 (04:14):
Some Democratic lawmakers want the Justice Department to open an
investigation after fifty Venezuelan migrants were flown to Martha's Vineyard
last week. This morning, at Texas sheriff launching a criminal
investigation against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Massachusetts authorities won a federal human trafficking probe into what
it calls inhumane acts by DeSantis and others.
Speaker 9 (04:34):
They were told there was a surprise present for them
and that there would be jobs and housing waiting for
them when they arrived.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
This was obviously a sadistic lie.
Speaker 10 (04:45):
They were lord by false pretenses and then transported across
state lines. That is enough evidence to open a criminal
investigation for the federal crime of kidnapping by enveiglement.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Kidnapping by Veigel Mint.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I swear to god, Republicans are gonna give me a
law degree by the time this shit is over, because
we keep learning about new things in Veigel Mint. But yeah,
basically the Sanxis tried to pull his stunts that may
have turned into an actual crime.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
But it doesn't surprise me. It doesn't sprive you that
run de Sanxus is doing this. He looks kind of
like a human trafficker. No, no, for real, look at him,
just look at him. Look at him.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Tell me, tell me that's not the pose of a
man who's smuggling a group of Venezuelan's up his butt.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Look at that guy, but explode.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So many To many Democrats, especially Dasanxus is basically just
a kidnapper in a frumpy suit. But what's interesting is
over in Maga world, Desanctus has been getting a hero's welcome.
This weekend in Kansas, Florida, Governor Ryan DeSantis received a
standing ovation.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
From Republican voters when he talked about the southern border.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
As stunts go, this has been an incredibly brilliant.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
On obviously a boss move by DeSantis.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I think this is brilliant.
Speaker 11 (06:03):
They need to do more. Tomorrow Martha's Vineyard needs one hundred.
The next day they need two hundred. The next day
they need a thousand. Martha's Vineyard lost their mind.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Ron DeSantis, He's playing chess here.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Democrats in our allies in the media, they're playing checkers.
The hipocrisy is now out in the open.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
This is amazing. This is checkmate. Oh check mate. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I like how Republicans are like, no, no, we're not
using immigrants as pawns. But also check mate. As you
can see, Conservatives, they're just juzzing their pants over this thing.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It was brilliant, a boss move. Yes, Queen Martha's Vineyard
lost their mind. And by the way, did it really
did it? Did Martha's Vineyard lose its mind.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Fifty migrants showed up out of nowhere, and the people
of Martha's Vineyard gave them food and shelter, and then
exchanged hugs with them as they boarded buses to leave. Now,
I know Ted Cruz has never been hug before, so
he may have thought that they were trying to strangle
each other. But that doesn't look like people losing their
minds to me. And this really shows you how America
is living in two completely separate realities right now. In
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the democratic world, this was a heartless and illegal stunt.
In Magaworld, this is the most brilliant thing anyone's done
since Jesus invented the.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Era of fifteen.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, Democrats say Marthas Vineyard proved the Sanctus wrong by
welcoming the migrants with open arms. Magaworld says they proved
the Sanctus right by shipping the migrants off to a
military base after two days.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
It's pretty wild.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I mean, at this point, America is basically the multiverse.
There's one universe where the Sanctus is a god, and
simultaneously another universe where he's headed to prison, and that
has those hot dogs for fingers.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
But believe it or not.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Believe it or not, there is actually one conservative who
is upset with the scientists, and you'll never guess who
it is.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
Rolling Stone reports that truck Biz upset about DeSantis's decision
to fly nearly fifty migrants from Texas to Martha's vineyard
last week, not because he thinks it was a depraved
and irresponsible and inhumane practice to target asylum seekers. No,
Trump is angry because it was his idea. First.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
According to the story, the former president quote vented that
DeSantis's latest stunt was yet another one of my ideas
that the governor allegedly stole from Trump.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Oh man, poor Donald Trump. He is sitting at home
like you stole my idea. And by the way, stealing
stuff is also my idea. Read the news, read it.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
In my dear. But you know what's really telling is
that in a way, Trump has a point, all right.
He is the guy who came up with the idea
of turning all politics into a series of stunts.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
That is what he did.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
The Muslim band built the wall. That shit didn't solve anything,
but got the people going. And now pulling stunts has
become the driving force of the Republican partsy but Trump
he's stuck watching it on the sidelines. Yeah, and I
feel bad for you, mister Trump. But the fact is
Ron de Sanctus. You see what he's doing. He's slowly
becoming the Republican Party now, stealing your tricks, making it
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his own. And so you got you gotta get used
to this. I'm gonna get used to being smuggled in
his butthole for the ride.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Let's kick things off with Donald Trump, the former president
of the United States, I feel you, and future president of.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Cell Block, d.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Yo.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Yesterday, Trump sat down for an interview on Fox News
with Sean Man Titties that's his real name, and it
sounds like Trump isn't happy that Ron de Sante might
run against him after all the help he gave Ron
when he was running for governor.
Speaker 12 (10:06):
Ron came to see me tears in his eyes. He said,
I need you to do me a big favor. Would
you endorse me? I fought for you, so I said,
let's give it a shot. Run okay, And he was desperate.
I said, okay. I gave him a nice endorsement. I
got him the nomination. By the way, couldn't have never
gotten the nomination, he would be working in either a
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pizza parler place or a law office right now, okay,
and he wouldn't be very hassh.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Wow, Ron Dessantis would be working in a pizza parlor.
I guess in Trump's mind, every Italian is working in
a pizza place or a law office, or even better,
a pizza place that's also.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
A la office. I put on backwards ha ha hey he.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
You you come here, you move? Have you been injured
on the job and you're hungry, then come on into
this Tepano and sons. And if we can't win your case,
the garlic knots at.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
The dive for.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Hed stones up.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I'm the gods.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
I got your yeah right here.
Speaker 11 (11:22):
By.
Speaker 13 (11:29):
If you've been following Florida politics, you're weird. And also
you know that Ron de Santis has been attacking the
Disney Corporation for a year now, ever since Disney criticized
his anti gay bill and also because they used his
image for Quasimoto.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Den Ringer.
Speaker 13 (11:52):
Well, now the fight has reached the courts. This morning,
Disney sued Rond de Santis, accusing him of political retaliation.
Good news, which sounds bad. But if they really wanted
Tom up. They'd slip his kidney and Kanto soundtrack. As
a parent, Trust me, that can ruin your life. We
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don't talk about Bruno. How about we don't talk about
giving you up for adoption?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
If you don't turn that off.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Governor Ron de Santis is making news for his approach
to teaching black history, or should I say less of it?
So I made a quick trip down to Florida to
find out more. Last April, rond de Santis signed the Stopwoke,
which prohibits education that makes people feel anguish on the
account of race, color, sex, or national orgin. In other words,
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it's basically illegal down Florida to make white people feel
bad about sleeping, and some people love it.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Keith Flaw is an.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Education advisor to Rhonda Santis and a supporter of the
Stop Woke.
Speaker 14 (12:59):
At we get teachers who are coming out of these
liberal colleges, they believe our country is evil. They're teaching
young children that it's about the color of your skin,
not your character.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Okay, but how do we talk about race in this
country in a way that keeps people from being so
damned sensitive?
Speaker 15 (13:19):
I don't know that.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
I haven't answer to that because that's the issue.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
The proponency t you're trying to say, let's talk about
the race part of it. Just a look, people go
race real bad. Coughing your ass up.
Speaker 14 (13:32):
Do you think that you change that by teaching young
kids in kindergarten.
Speaker 15 (13:35):
That because they're white, they're they're they're they're benefited from
white supremacy.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
I wasn't yelling at you, by the way, I.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Get it, okay, So that you believe that there is
institutional racism in this country.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
I don't know that.
Speaker 14 (13:50):
I don't know that.
Speaker 15 (13:51):
I you just said, do I believe?
Speaker 7 (13:53):
And I don't know that.
Speaker 15 (13:56):
I don't know that my opinion matters in that situation.
I think they have to look at the facts, and
I don't know that. I'm but I guess pared to
state an opinion on that.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
So maybe the real question should be whose feelings are
we really worried about hurting?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
You know?
Speaker 12 (14:15):
What?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Should do we talk about all the deep you knows racism,
systemic equality, and then we have another class that's just
called the good white folk. You have seen twelve years
this late, you've probably seen a free black man got kidnapped,
and then Brad Pitt help him get free, so we
have like you learn, you learn about Brad Pitt, you
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learn about some of doctor King's.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
White friends.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
With That helped me because I know, I think I'm
giving what you're saying now, but.
Speaker 15 (14:43):
I don't think that helps it all.
Speaker 14 (14:45):
Because what you're doing is you're teaching.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
You didn't know about Brad Pitt. I just educated you.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
The idea of doing a class on good white people
in history is just too good to resist. Hi, I'm
really Wood Jr. Become to the only history class dedicated
to the many great contributions of white folks, and therefore
the only class sanctioned by the State of Florida because
it makes white people feel good. Welcome to the great Whites.
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Let's start with the greatest white of all. George Washington.
Born in seventeen thirty two, George Washington led the American
Revolution against the British Empire, secured the country's freedom, and
then served as the nation's first president. Washington then retired
to his beautiful plantation in Virginia with his wife and
over three hundred slaves. As part of an economic system
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built on the subjugation of black people, George Washington also
helped create the tradition of presidential term limits.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Good work, George Washington.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
One of the other great whites in history that we
often don't talk about is a brilliant white man named
Thomas Edison, working out of his lab in Menlo Park,
New Jersey. Edison is credited with over a thousand patents
in his lifetime. Among those patents Edison was credited for
is the motion picture camera. Without his work, we wouldn't
have movies, TV shows, or footage of black people getting
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beat up by the police like Rodney King.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
What's your favorite movie? Minus Shrek?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Another great white who doesn't get the credit he deserves
his politician Jack Ryan. Jack was a successful investment banker
who ran for Senate in Illinois in two thousand and four.
During his campaign, it came out that Ryan had bravely
asked his wife to perform sexual acts on him in public.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
If this grace, Jack was forced to step down.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
From the two thousand and four race, leading to an
easy victory for his opponent, Barack Obama, who would go
on to become president. And now then Ladin is dead
and millions of people have health care all because of the.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Great Jack Ryan. Where would this country be without his
unquenchable horniness. Thank you, Javi.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
And finally, the world of sports, which is littered with
great whites, including the greatest coach who ever.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
Lived, Phil Jackson.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
With the Chicago Bulls in the nineties, Jackson employed a
groundbreaking offensive scheme called passed the Ball to the ball
headed Black Dude. Jackson would later find championship success with
other ball headed black dudes like Shaq and Covid, but
this ingenious strategy with the Bulls led to six championships.
Jordan let the league in scoring ten times, mainly thanks
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to great whites who passed him the ball. They could
have easily let the league in scoring themselves, but out
of sheer selflessness, those great whites let Michael do it instead.
Here's to you Bill One in Team. Well, I'm afraid
that's all the time we have for today. Join me
next week when we talk about the brilliant Wright brothers
and how their innovations and air travel led to the
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firebomb and the Black Wall Street and a top Gun movie.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
I love Top Gland, not as much as I love Shrek,
they both fun.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
My guest tonight is NFNBC host Alex Wagner, her new
prime time show Alex Wagner. Tonight premiere is August sixteenth,
and we'll air Tuesday through Friday at nine pm.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Please welcome Alex Wagner. Welcome back to The Daily Show. Alex.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
It's a thrilling and honor is an honor for me.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
This is your sixth time you might hold the record. Congratulations.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
I feel very positive about that.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Actually got you a monkey pox vaccine as a gift.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
I want my photo in the hallway. I'll keep saying it.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I'm over and over again, and I will make sure
that I have one.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
I see two chains, I see Oprah. I need to
see Alex Wagner in the hallway and then I can
stop coming on the show.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I mean, you put me on the spot now. Fine.
I do have the photo of us in my office.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
It's like a like a beautiful frame that's in the
Tiffany frame, perfect and no one walks past it.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
But it's fine. That's fine.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
That's for you and me, Trevor.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
This is a really exciting time for everybody because your
show kicks off tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yes right, I love you.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Your Instagram bio reads anchor at MSNBC plus.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Person worried about the future. But don't think that sound
a little midal dramatic. What do you have to worry
about the future?
Speaker 8 (19:18):
Like a drawer wrong with the climate, artic ice caps
melting faster than expected, President shuffling off classified nuclear secrets
to Palm Beach Resort. You know, Republican election deniers being
elected across go wrong?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
What do you but you you know, because you travel
so much and because you've talked so many people on
the ground, I've always felt like I should listen to
you when you're worried, because you talked to like America.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Yeah, yeah, And I will say on this show, I'm
going to keep talking to America. I just went down
to Florida, which is a place I vow never to
return to each time I go, and yet I keep
going down to Florida.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
That's what makes it great, Exactly.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
It was one hundred and seven degrees one hundred and
seven degrees down there, and what Governor DeSantis is doing
in that state is worthy of a very close examination.
So we went down there and looked specifically at the
ways in which Christian nationalism has worked its way into
Florida public schools. And we're gonna be talking about that
this week and some of the very alarming things that
teachers are being trained to teach public school students on.
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You know, I will say you should be worried, Trevor,
because not just this is happening in Florida, but this
is very much seen as a model for what's happening
across the rest of the country. Ronda Santis may be
the Republican nominee for president in twenty twenty, which people.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Think of as like a good thing because they go like, oh,
he's calm. You know, he has a demeanor about him.
Trump is crazy, but it seems like Trump's crazy was
also the reason he couldn't get things done. Yes, Ronda Sanctus,
everyone says is like, oh, he's got all his cards,
he's ready to play them.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
And he has a network of conservative activists and donors
and power players in his corner. I mean, this is
the result. This is a harvest of multiple years of
trying to figure out how to reindoctrinate students into a
certain line of conservative ideaology and DeSantis has made it happen.
But he has a lot of people behind him, and
there are other governors. Carrie Lake in Arizona is the
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Republican nominee in Arizona. And she was on the stump,
I think it was yesterday, praising DeSantis and saying, am
I allowed to say this on this family program?
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (21:16):
That he had big dick energy just like Donald Trump.
Like not even kidding, she said, bde if you know,
you know, big DeSantis energy, but really saying that what
we needed was more big dick energy, the kind that
Ron de Santis and Donald Trump have. So that's where
we are as a country, Trevor, and I'm here to
tell you, I'm alarmed.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
You are going to be the person who is informing
so many people about what's going on in the country.
You know, as an anchor on a show like yours,
you're in an interesting position because on the one hand,
you want people to understand the states of the country.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
On the other hand, you don't want people to exist.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
In a perpetual state of panic, because then what happens
is people start getting tired and they're like, I don't
care anymore, nothing is actually happening.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
How do you find that battle?
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Well, I think you know, I don't want to be
pollyannaish about things. Right when things are bad, I'm going
to tell you they're bad. But I also think we
haven't given up on democracy. And the reality is, if
you don't like what Governor Ron DeSantis is doing, I mean,
I spent ten hours in a Brevard County school Board meeting.
You can run for school board and stop some of
this stuff from happening. You can participate in midterm elections.
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You can call your senators in congressmen.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I mean that stuff.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
As cliche as it sounds, as small ball as it sounds,
it matters because the decision that the Brevard County school
Board makes about whether or not kids can have book
fairs again and read certain books and talk about being
homosexual or transgender, that means something. And those decisions are discreet,
but they are part of our larger system of governance.
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And I don't want people to ever lose the hope
that the project of America is a fetocomplete and it's
a wrap, because it's not. I mean, and you can
swing the pendulum back. I still believe that we generally
take two steps forward and may be one in three
quarter steps back.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Well that's a lot of one and that's a lot
of steps back.
Speaker 8 (23:04):
I'm I mean, I hope look at look at you
and me, Trevor. You know, I'm hosting the nine pm
hour of a very important cable network. You are the
voice of a generation. Our stories are unlikely. We're two
brown people that weren't ever supposed to be in these
positions of power, and look at us.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
You know that's true, and that's true, but it's true
sometimes I go.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
The fact that it is the exception is what makes
it scary a little bit sometimes. And so what's interesting
about America when when you look at it as a whole,
is it feels like sometimes like in the run up
to Donald Trump, it feels like the country knew this
was happening, and then people on the coasts were like, oh,
that will never happen. Tramp could never have. It feels
like there's a certain complacency now. Is people relax, you know,
they want to watch succession, they want to read what's happening.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
You know, people enjoy themselves.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
But it seems like conservatives are being told constantly that
they're under assault, that this is the end of the world,
they need to run for boards, and so they believe
it and they do it. And so I'd love to know,
as somebody who's gonna be on MSNBC. You're in a
position where you have part of your audience, which is
in a bubble many of us. Do you know, how
do you or do you even think it's possible at
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the stage to just pop out of that bubble?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Is there a way you can see?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
As Alex Wagner, as the journalist who's gone around the
country talking to Trump supporters and you know, Biden supporters
are like, do you.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Think there's a way you can get through to people
who maybe don't agree with you.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
I'm gonna damn well try. I mean, you can't just
say we're only We're only gonna talk to like liberals
and this is for the sell A corridor, you know,
Like this is I'm a journalist and you are gonna
hear from some Republicans sometimes sometimes they may be critical
of Donald Trumps. Sometimes they may not be. But I
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think it is my job to show people what's happening
in the world and not just what they want to see.
I mean, listen, the future of the Republican Party matters
not just to Republicans but to Democrats and independents too.
One of the two parties in this country is forever
broken or populated by clowns or worse like, we're not
gonna get anything done done as a country. We are
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for better or worse in a marriage, and we got
to figure out a way to make it work because
we know what divorce kind of looks like. We tried
it in eighteen sixty and like we can't.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
It didn't go so well.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
So your first episode of tomorrow, it is tomorrow. If
you were on the show today, don't don't give anything
away because you obviously will tease anything. But if you
wire on the show today, what would you what will
be the number one story You'll be told?
Speaker 8 (25:29):
Well, listen, I think for sure we're gonna be talking
about Trump and mar A Lago and what exactly he
was doing with those papers and the degree to which
this is part of a very serious investigation of the DOJ.
But I don't think.
Speaker 12 (25:41):
I mean.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
The other thing that I want everyone to focus on
is the fact that we have a two significant primaries
tomorrow happening, Liz Cheney and Sarah Palin. And what we
very well could see this week is the exit of
Liz Cheney, probably the standard bearer for integrity inside the GOP,
be escorted off the stage stage right. And for Sarah,
who in many ways is the proto Trump re entering
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American politics as a Republican congresswoman from Alaska. And I
think as we take stock of where the country is at,
we need to take stock of where the Republican Party
is at. And those two entrances, and that entrance and
exit tell us a lot about where we're headed in
the GOP. And I think it's deeply problematic, and I
think it warrants further investigation and analysis.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
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because you know a lot, you travel a lot, you
meet the people and.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Hang out with you. You don't get overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
No, you don't get Thanks for that, I'll take it,
but no, you don't get overwhelmed. Really, one thing I've
always admired about you is the fact that you don't
get overwhelmed by the delusion of information that's coming at you. Rather,
you find a way to process all of it in
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Even though the twenty twenty two election isn't over yet,
it looks like the twenty twenty four campaign might already
be underway. According to reports, Donald Trump is planning to
announce another run for presidents as soon as the midterms
are over. Yeah, but he's gonna wait for the midterms
first because he wants to do the responsible thing and
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see if his election denies get into power so they
can steal the election for him.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
He's waiting. It's good. And even though he hasn't officially.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Announced that he's running a Trump is already taking shots
at some of his rivals in the GOP.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Donald Trump, meanwhile, and Florida Governor Rod DeSantis, held competing
rallies in the state of Florida yesterday. While Trump urged
Flurrians to vote for DeSantis in his race against Democrat
Charlie crist the form president also took a swipe at
the governor as a potential twenty twenty four opponent.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
We're winning big, big, big in the Republican Party for
the nomination like nobody's ever seen before. Let's say there
it is Trump at seventy one. Ron de Sanctimonius said
ten per Mike pen said seven. Oh, Mike stayed better
than I thought.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, I thought he'd be dead by now. I guess
there's always next time. He's doing better.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
By the way, I love how Trump always gives speeches
on the tarmac right in front of his plane.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Have you noticed how he does like the door is opened,
the stay.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It's almost like he doesn't want to spend one second
longer than needed with those people.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
He's just like, keep dangine running. I want to leave
this shithole town as soon as I say good night.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
In fact, just dangle me from a helicopter and pull
me up when I'm done.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I want to get out of here before these rednecks
can touch me. You saw what they did to Mike Pence.
These people are dangerous.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
But the reason that speech is going viral is because
of that bitchy little swipe at Rond Sanctimonious. Yeah, you
saw that, breaking out a classic Trump nick. I mean,
at least we think it was a nickname. It could
have just been Trump trying to say De sanctis you
know him, Sanconius. And what makes the story even better
is that apparently Trump has been privately testing nicknames for
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Ronda Sanctis, Yeah, which is amazing to me.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
The man is at a meeting with his team of
lawyers and he's like.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
All right, all right, enough of all the ways that
I could go to jail, what do you guys like
better Ran de sanctimonious rand shithead?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Which are.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Right now, it looks like a Trump versus de Sanctus
feud is breaking out into the open. And you know,
usually when two men fight in Florida, it's at a
Margaritaville at one am. But this, this is a lot
more high stakes, which is probably why a lot of
Republicans are upset with Trump for going after the Sanctus.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, because they're like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
We love Rond Sanctus, He's our guy, and Trump is like, yeah,
I know, that's why I hate him, because you see,
people don't realize that's the one thing Trump hates more
than anything is anyone having what he thinks should be
his spotlight. That might be the thing that destroys the
Republican chances in twenty twenty four. Donald Trump cannot stand
not being the center of attention. Yeah, I bet he
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got jealous when his kids were born.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
You know, there's like congratulations, it's a boy. He's like,
I'm also a boy, and I've been a boy much longer,
so long. Many people not well saying if that's for
them all time?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
As you know, last week, the immigration debate in America
was reignited once again by Ron Desanctus, Florida governor and
the dad of your school bully. You see, for months now,
Republican governors in Arizona and Texas have been trying to
draw attention to border security by bussing migrants to places
like New York and Chicago. But the Sanctists took things
(04:02):
up a notch by hiring a plane to take forty
eight Venezuelan migrants from Texas and drop them off in
Martha's Vineyard. And if the Sanctus was looking for attention,
well he definitely got it.
Speaker 8 (04:14):
Some Democratic lawmakers want the Justice Department to open an
investigation after fifty Venezuelan migrants were flown to Martha's Vineyard
last week. This morning, at Texas sheriff launching a criminal
investigation against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Massachusetts authorities won a federal human trafficking probe into what
it calls inhumane acts by DeSantis and others.
Speaker 9 (04:34):
They were told there was a surprise present for them
and that there would be jobs and housing waiting for
them when they arrived.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
This was obviously a sadistic lie.
Speaker 10 (04:45):
They were lord by false pretenses and then transported across
state lines. That is enough evidence to open a criminal
investigation for the federal crime of kidnapping by enveiglement.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Kidnapping by Veigel Mint.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I swear to god, Republicans are gonna give me a
law degree by the time this shit is over, because
we keep learning about new things in Veigel Mint. But yeah,
basically the Sanxis tried to pull his stunts that may
have turned into an actual crime.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
But it doesn't surprise me. It doesn't sprive you that
run de Sanxus is doing this. He looks kind of
like a human trafficker. No, no, for real, look at him,
just look at him. Look at him.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Tell me, tell me that's not the pose of a
man who's smuggling a group of Venezuelan's up his butt.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Look at that guy, but explode.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So many To many Democrats, especially Dasanxus is basically just
a kidnapper in a frumpy suit. But what's interesting is
over in Maga world, Desanctus has been getting a hero's welcome.
This weekend in Kansas, Florida, Governor Ryan DeSantis received a
standing ovation.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
From Republican voters when he talked about the southern border.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
As stunts go, this has been an incredibly brilliant.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
On obviously a boss move by DeSantis.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I think this is brilliant.
Speaker 11 (06:03):
They need to do more. Tomorrow Martha's Vineyard needs one hundred.
The next day they need two hundred. The next day
they need a thousand. Martha's Vineyard lost their mind.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Ron DeSantis, He's playing chess here.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Democrats in our allies in the media, they're playing checkers.
The hipocrisy is now out in the open.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
This is amazing. This is checkmate. Oh check mate. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I like how Republicans are like, no, no, we're not
using immigrants as pawns. But also check mate. As you
can see, Conservatives, they're just juzzing their pants over this thing.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It was brilliant, a boss move. Yes, Queen Martha's Vineyard
lost their mind. And by the way, did it really
did it? Did Martha's Vineyard lose its mind.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Fifty migrants showed up out of nowhere, and the people
of Martha's Vineyard gave them food and shelter, and then
exchanged hugs with them as they boarded buses to leave. Now,
I know Ted Cruz has never been hug before, so
he may have thought that they were trying to strangle
each other. But that doesn't look like people losing their
minds to me. And this really shows you how America
is living in two completely separate realities right now. In
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the democratic world, this was a heartless and illegal stunt.
In Magaworld, this is the most brilliant thing anyone's done
since Jesus invented the.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Era of fifteen.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, Democrats say Marthas Vineyard proved the Sanctus wrong by
welcoming the migrants with open arms. Magaworld says they proved
the Sanctus right by shipping the migrants off to a
military base after two days.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
It's pretty wild.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I mean, at this point, America is basically the multiverse.
There's one universe where the Sanctus is a god, and
simultaneously another universe where he's headed to prison, and that
has those hot dogs for fingers.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
But believe it or not.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Believe it or not, there is actually one conservative who
is upset with the scientists, and you'll never guess who
it is.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
Rolling Stone reports that truck Biz upset about DeSantis's decision
to fly nearly fifty migrants from Texas to Martha's vineyard
last week, not because he thinks it was a depraved
and irresponsible and inhumane practice to target asylum seekers. No,
Trump is angry because it was his idea. First.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
According to the story, the former president quote vented that
DeSantis's latest stunt was yet another one of my ideas
that the governor allegedly stole from Trump.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Oh man, poor Donald Trump. He is sitting at home
like you stole my idea. And by the way, stealing
stuff is also my idea. Read the news, read it.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
In my dear. But you know what's really telling is
that in a way, Trump has a point, all right.
He is the guy who came up with the idea
of turning all politics into a series of stunts.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
That is what he did.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
The Muslim band built the wall. That shit didn't solve anything,
but got the people going. And now pulling stunts has
become the driving force of the Republican partsy but Trump
he's stuck watching it on the sidelines. Yeah, and I
feel bad for you, mister Trump. But the fact is
Ron de Sanctus. You see what he's doing. He's slowly
becoming the Republican Party now, stealing your tricks, making it
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his own. And so you got you gotta get used
to this. I'm gonna get used to being smuggled in
his butthole for the ride.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Let's kick things off with Donald Trump, the former president
of the United States, I feel you, and future president of.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Cell Block, d.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Yo.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Yesterday, Trump sat down for an interview on Fox News
with Sean Man Titties that's his real name, and it
sounds like Trump isn't happy that Ron de Sante might
run against him after all the help he gave Ron
when he was running for governor.
Speaker 12 (10:06):
Ron came to see me tears in his eyes. He said,
I need you to do me a big favor. Would
you endorse me? I fought for you, so I said,
let's give it a shot. Run okay, And he was desperate.
I said, okay. I gave him a nice endorsement. I
got him the nomination. By the way, couldn't have never
gotten the nomination, he would be working in either a
(10:27):
pizza parler place or a law office right now, okay,
and he wouldn't be very hassh.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Wow, Ron Dessantis would be working in a pizza parlor.
I guess in Trump's mind, every Italian is working in
a pizza place or a law office, or even better,
a pizza place that's also.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
A la office. I put on backwards ha ha hey he.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
You you come here, you move? Have you been injured
on the job and you're hungry, then come on into
this Tepano and sons. And if we can't win your case,
the garlic knots at.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
The dive for.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Hed stones up.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I'm the gods.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
I got your yeah right here.
Speaker 11 (11:22):
By.
Speaker 13 (11:29):
If you've been following Florida politics, you're weird. And also
you know that Ron de Santis has been attacking the
Disney Corporation for a year now, ever since Disney criticized
his anti gay bill and also because they used his
image for Quasimoto.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Den Ringer.
Speaker 13 (11:52):
Well, now the fight has reached the courts. This morning,
Disney sued Rond de Santis, accusing him of political retaliation.
Good news, which sounds bad. But if they really wanted
Tom up. They'd slip his kidney and Kanto soundtrack. As
a parent, Trust me, that can ruin your life. We
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don't talk about Bruno. How about we don't talk about
giving you up for adoption?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
If you don't turn that off.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Governor Ron de Santis is making news for his approach
to teaching black history, or should I say less of it?
So I made a quick trip down to Florida to
find out more. Last April, rond de Santis signed the Stopwoke,
which prohibits education that makes people feel anguish on the
account of race, color, sex, or national orgin. In other words,
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it's basically illegal down Florida to make white people feel
bad about sleeping, and some people love it.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Keith Flaw is an.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Education advisor to Rhonda Santis and a supporter of the
Stop Woke.
Speaker 14 (12:59):
At we get teachers who are coming out of these
liberal colleges, they believe our country is evil. They're teaching
young children that it's about the color of your skin,
not your character.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Okay, but how do we talk about race in this
country in a way that keeps people from being so
damned sensitive?
Speaker 15 (13:19):
I don't know that.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
I haven't answer to that because that's the issue.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
The proponency t you're trying to say, let's talk about
the race part of it. Just a look, people go
race real bad. Coughing your ass up.
Speaker 14 (13:32):
Do you think that you change that by teaching young
kids in kindergarten.
Speaker 15 (13:35):
That because they're white, they're they're they're they're benefited from
white supremacy.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
I wasn't yelling at you, by the way, I.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Get it, okay, So that you believe that there is
institutional racism in this country.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
I don't know that.
Speaker 14 (13:50):
I don't know that.
Speaker 15 (13:51):
I you just said, do I believe?
Speaker 7 (13:53):
And I don't know that.
Speaker 15 (13:56):
I don't know that my opinion matters in that situation.
I think they have to look at the facts, and
I don't know that. I'm but I guess pared to
state an opinion on that.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
So maybe the real question should be whose feelings are
we really worried about hurting?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
You know?
Speaker 12 (14:15):
What?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Should do we talk about all the deep you knows racism,
systemic equality, and then we have another class that's just
called the good white folk. You have seen twelve years
this late, you've probably seen a free black man got kidnapped,
and then Brad Pitt help him get free, so we
have like you learn, you learn about Brad Pitt, you
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learn about some of doctor King's.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
White friends.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
With That helped me because I know, I think I'm
giving what you're saying now, but.
Speaker 15 (14:43):
I don't think that helps it all.
Speaker 14 (14:45):
Because what you're doing is you're teaching.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
You didn't know about Brad Pitt. I just educated you.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
The idea of doing a class on good white people
in history is just too good to resist. Hi, I'm
really Wood Jr. Become to the only history class dedicated
to the many great contributions of white folks, and therefore
the only class sanctioned by the State of Florida because
it makes white people feel good. Welcome to the great Whites.
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Let's start with the greatest white of all. George Washington.
Born in seventeen thirty two, George Washington led the American
Revolution against the British Empire, secured the country's freedom, and
then served as the nation's first president. Washington then retired
to his beautiful plantation in Virginia with his wife and
over three hundred slaves. As part of an economic system
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built on the subjugation of black people, George Washington also
helped create the tradition of presidential term limits.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Good work, George Washington.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
One of the other great whites in history that we
often don't talk about is a brilliant white man named
Thomas Edison, working out of his lab in Menlo Park,
New Jersey. Edison is credited with over a thousand patents
in his lifetime. Among those patents Edison was credited for
is the motion picture camera. Without his work, we wouldn't
have movies, TV shows, or footage of black people getting
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beat up by the police like Rodney King.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
What's your favorite movie? Minus Shrek?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Another great white who doesn't get the credit he deserves
his politician Jack Ryan. Jack was a successful investment banker
who ran for Senate in Illinois in two thousand and four.
During his campaign, it came out that Ryan had bravely
asked his wife to perform sexual acts on him in public.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
If this grace, Jack was forced to step down.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
From the two thousand and four race, leading to an
easy victory for his opponent, Barack Obama, who would go
on to become president. And now then Ladin is dead
and millions of people have health care all because of the.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Great Jack Ryan. Where would this country be without his
unquenchable horniness. Thank you, Javi.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
And finally, the world of sports, which is littered with
great whites, including the greatest coach who ever.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
Lived, Phil Jackson.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
With the Chicago Bulls in the nineties, Jackson employed a
groundbreaking offensive scheme called passed the Ball to the ball
headed Black Dude. Jackson would later find championship success with
other ball headed black dudes like Shaq and Covid, but
this ingenious strategy with the Bulls led to six championships.
Jordan let the league in scoring ten times, mainly thanks
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to great whites who passed him the ball. They could
have easily let the league in scoring themselves, but out
of sheer selflessness, those great whites let Michael do it instead.
Here's to you Bill One in Team. Well, I'm afraid
that's all the time we have for today. Join me
next week when we talk about the brilliant Wright brothers
and how their innovations and air travel led to the
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firebomb and the Black Wall Street and a top Gun movie.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
I love Top Gland, not as much as I love Shrek,
they both fun.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
My guest tonight is NFNBC host Alex Wagner, her new
prime time show Alex Wagner. Tonight premiere is August sixteenth,
and we'll air Tuesday through Friday at nine pm.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Please welcome Alex Wagner. Welcome back to The Daily Show. Alex.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
It's a thrilling and honor is an honor for me.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
This is your sixth time you might hold the record. Congratulations.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
I feel very positive about that.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Actually got you a monkey pox vaccine as a gift.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
I want my photo in the hallway. I'll keep saying it.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I'm over and over again, and I will make sure
that I have one.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
I see two chains, I see Oprah. I need to
see Alex Wagner in the hallway and then I can
stop coming on the show.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I mean, you put me on the spot now. Fine.
I do have the photo of us in my office.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
It's like a like a beautiful frame that's in the
Tiffany frame, perfect and no one walks past it.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
But it's fine. That's fine.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
That's for you and me, Trevor.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
This is a really exciting time for everybody because your
show kicks off tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yes right, I love you.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Your Instagram bio reads anchor at MSNBC plus.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Person worried about the future. But don't think that sound
a little midal dramatic. What do you have to worry
about the future?
Speaker 8 (19:18):
Like a drawer wrong with the climate, artic ice caps
melting faster than expected, President shuffling off classified nuclear secrets
to Palm Beach Resort. You know, Republican election deniers being
elected across go wrong?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
What do you but you you know, because you travel
so much and because you've talked so many people on
the ground, I've always felt like I should listen to
you when you're worried, because you talked to like America.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Yeah, yeah, And I will say on this show, I'm
going to keep talking to America. I just went down
to Florida, which is a place I vow never to
return to each time I go, and yet I keep
going down to Florida.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
That's what makes it great, Exactly.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
It was one hundred and seven degrees one hundred and
seven degrees down there, and what Governor DeSantis is doing
in that state is worthy of a very close examination.
So we went down there and looked specifically at the
ways in which Christian nationalism has worked its way into
Florida public schools. And we're gonna be talking about that
this week and some of the very alarming things that
teachers are being trained to teach public school students on.
(20:18):
You know, I will say you should be worried, Trevor,
because not just this is happening in Florida, but this
is very much seen as a model for what's happening
across the rest of the country. Ronda Santis may be
the Republican nominee for president in twenty twenty, which people.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Think of as like a good thing because they go like, oh,
he's calm. You know, he has a demeanor about him.
Trump is crazy, but it seems like Trump's crazy was
also the reason he couldn't get things done. Yes, Ronda Sanctus,
everyone says is like, oh, he's got all his cards,
he's ready to play them.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
And he has a network of conservative activists and donors
and power players in his corner. I mean, this is
the result. This is a harvest of multiple years of
trying to figure out how to reindoctrinate students into a
certain line of conservative ideaology and DeSantis has made it happen.
But he has a lot of people behind him, and
there are other governors. Carrie Lake in Arizona is the
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Republican nominee in Arizona. And she was on the stump,
I think it was yesterday, praising DeSantis and saying, am
I allowed to say this on this family program?
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (21:16):
That he had big dick energy just like Donald Trump.
Like not even kidding, she said, bde if you know,
you know, big DeSantis energy, but really saying that what
we needed was more big dick energy, the kind that
Ron de Santis and Donald Trump have. So that's where
we are as a country, Trevor, and I'm here to
tell you, I'm alarmed.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
You are going to be the person who is informing
so many people about what's going on in the country.
You know, as an anchor on a show like yours,
you're in an interesting position because on the one hand,
you want people to understand the states of the country.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
On the other hand, you don't want people to exist.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
In a perpetual state of panic, because then what happens
is people start getting tired and they're like, I don't
care anymore, nothing is actually happening.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
How do you find that battle?
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Well, I think you know, I don't want to be
pollyannaish about things. Right when things are bad, I'm going
to tell you they're bad. But I also think we
haven't given up on democracy. And the reality is, if
you don't like what Governor Ron DeSantis is doing, I mean,
I spent ten hours in a Brevard County school Board meeting.
You can run for school board and stop some of
this stuff from happening. You can participate in midterm elections.
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You can call your senators in congressmen.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I mean that stuff.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
As cliche as it sounds, as small ball as it sounds,
it matters because the decision that the Brevard County school
Board makes about whether or not kids can have book
fairs again and read certain books and talk about being
homosexual or transgender, that means something. And those decisions are discreet,
but they are part of our larger system of governance.
(22:44):
And I don't want people to ever lose the hope
that the project of America is a fetocomplete and it's
a wrap, because it's not. I mean, and you can
swing the pendulum back. I still believe that we generally
take two steps forward and may be one in three
quarter steps back.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Well that's a lot of one and that's a lot
of steps back.
Speaker 8 (23:04):
I'm I mean, I hope look at look at you
and me, Trevor. You know, I'm hosting the nine pm
hour of a very important cable network. You are the
voice of a generation. Our stories are unlikely. We're two
brown people that weren't ever supposed to be in these
positions of power, and look at us.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
You know that's true, and that's true, but it's true
sometimes I go.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
The fact that it is the exception is what makes
it scary a little bit sometimes. And so what's interesting
about America when when you look at it as a whole,
is it feels like sometimes like in the run up
to Donald Trump, it feels like the country knew this
was happening, and then people on the coasts were like, oh,
that will never happen. Tramp could never have. It feels
like there's a certain complacency now. Is people relax, you know,
they want to watch succession, they want to read what's happening.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
You know, people enjoy themselves.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
But it seems like conservatives are being told constantly that
they're under assault, that this is the end of the world,
they need to run for boards, and so they believe
it and they do it. And so I'd love to know,
as somebody who's gonna be on MSNBC. You're in a
position where you have part of your audience, which is
in a bubble many of us. Do you know, how
do you or do you even think it's possible at
(24:12):
the stage to just pop out of that bubble?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Is there a way you can see?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
As Alex Wagner, as the journalist who's gone around the
country talking to Trump supporters and you know, Biden supporters
are like, do you.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Think there's a way you can get through to people
who maybe don't agree with you.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
I'm gonna damn well try. I mean, you can't just
say we're only We're only gonna talk to like liberals
and this is for the sell A corridor, you know,
Like this is I'm a journalist and you are gonna
hear from some Republicans sometimes sometimes they may be critical
of Donald Trumps. Sometimes they may not be. But I
(24:48):
think it is my job to show people what's happening
in the world and not just what they want to see.
I mean, listen, the future of the Republican Party matters
not just to Republicans but to Democrats and independents too.
One of the two parties in this country is forever
broken or populated by clowns or worse like, we're not
gonna get anything done done as a country. We are
(25:09):
for better or worse in a marriage, and we got
to figure out a way to make it work because
we know what divorce kind of looks like. We tried
it in eighteen sixty and like we can't.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
It didn't go so well.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
So your first episode of tomorrow, it is tomorrow. If
you were on the show today, don't don't give anything
away because you obviously will tease anything. But if you
wire on the show today, what would you what will
be the number one story You'll be told?
Speaker 8 (25:29):
Well, listen, I think for sure we're gonna be talking
about Trump and mar A Lago and what exactly he
was doing with those papers and the degree to which
this is part of a very serious investigation of the DOJ.
But I don't think.
Speaker 12 (25:41):
I mean.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
The other thing that I want everyone to focus on
is the fact that we have a two significant primaries
tomorrow happening, Liz Cheney and Sarah Palin. And what we
very well could see this week is the exit of
Liz Cheney, probably the standard bearer for integrity inside the GOP,
be escorted off the stage stage right. And for Sarah,
who in many ways is the proto Trump re entering
(26:03):
American politics as a Republican congresswoman from Alaska. And I
think as we take stock of where the country is at,
we need to take stock of where the Republican Party
is at. And those two entrances, and that entrance and
exit tell us a lot about where we're headed in
the GOP. And I think it's deeply problematic, and I
think it warrants further investigation and analysis.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
This is why you're the best person to host the show,
because you know a lot, you travel a lot, you
meet the people and.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Hang out with you. You don't get overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
No, you don't get Thanks for that, I'll take it,
but no, you don't get overwhelmed. Really, one thing I've
always admired about you is the fact that you don't
get overwhelmed by the delusion of information that's coming at you. Rather,
you find a way to process all of it in
one of the most fantastic ways that I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Congratulations on the show for joining me again.
Speaker 16 (26:49):
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