Full Show: Stephen A explains "WOKE” culture, immigration, economy & Biden doomed Kamala, not Trump.

Stephen A. Smith is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Executive Producer, host of ESPN's First Take, and co-host of NBA Countdown.

Stephen A. addresses the reelection of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States, including the Republican voter turnout, the economy, the Latino and Black male vote, crime, and the backlash of woke culture. Conservative political commentator, journalist, and television host of “No Spin News,” Bill O’Reilly, joins the show to discuss the problems with the Democratic campaign and what a second Donald Trump term could look like. Stephen A. also answers viewer questions.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I want to thank the American people for the
extraordinary honor of being elected your forty seventh president and
your forty fifth president, and every citizen. I will fight
for you, for your family and your future. Every single day,

(00:21):
I will be fighting for you, and with every breath
in my body, I will not rest until we have
delivered the strong, safe, and prosperous America that our children
deserve and that you deserve. This will truly be the
Golden Age of America.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
That's what we have to know.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Even in the world of sports, we have never ever
seen a comeback of this magnitude. On this particular day,
no matter how much we might not like it, we
all got to stand down and give props to the
forty seventh President of the United States. It's just the truth.

(01:06):
I'll tell you why and how it happened in a minute.
Steven A. Smith Show, Let's go. What's up, everybody? Welcome
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(01:28):
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(01:49):
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com to get yourself a copy. Let's get started with politics.
That's where we've got to go because there's no other
place to start today other than the reelection of Donald J.

(02:33):
Trump as the forty seventh President of the United States
of America. Trump's victory was called early this morning, needing
two hundred and seventy Electoral College votes. He finished the
evening with two hundred and ninety two to win the
White House. Trump's reelection is a crushing blow to Kamala
Harris and a Democratic Party that relied on a number

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of issues that ultimately fell flat with the American public. Evidently,
I'll get to the Democrats in a moment, but let's
put Donald Trump's victory in perspective. He reclaimed the White
House with a unique campaign that relied heavily on a
voter turnout operation that focused on one familiar issue, the economy.
In addition to that, the President elect managed to peel

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votes away from once reliable Democratic support groups such as
the Latinos and of course, black men. If you look
at that number right there in the CNN exit polls,
the Hispanic vote for Trump increased by thirteen percent from
what it was in twenty twenty when he lost to

(03:36):
President Joe Biden. With the black community. According to that
same CNN poll, it increased by five percent, and obviously,
when you hear five percent, you're automatically going to deduce
that it was black men that ultimately hurt Kamala Harris.
I tend to focus on the thirteen percent because I

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think that when you are Kamala Harris and a Democratic Party,
that's really really what we have to do is we
take a look, a close look as to what transpired.
I'm gonna say this before I get into any of that.
Donald Trump's return to the White House is the greatest
comeback probably in American history. Thirty four felon accounts, two impeachments.

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I can't count the number of mistakes that he has made.
When he departed in twenty twenty after the insurrection at
the United States Capitol, we all thought he was finished,
he was done. He went back to his hub at
Mar A Lago in Florida, and the next thing, you know,
plotted a return to the White House that regardless of

(04:52):
what they tried to throw in his direction, nothing worked.
Nothing worked. Now, we could say what we want about
his policies, whatever they may be. We can say what
we want about his character, whatever you want to say.
But when you think about leaders, one of the primary
elements you're looking for from them is fight. Are you

(05:15):
somebody that has alligated skin and a level of intestinal
fortitude that few can rival? So when you got to
go in this alliance then and deal with adversity, you're
more than capable of doing so, Ladies and gentlemen, I
don't know if any of us can can definitively say
we could deal with what Donald Trump did, we dealt
with and still end up back in the White House.

(05:38):
He was definitely helped by Joe Rogan's endorsement in the
wee hours before the election began, or before election day began.
That played a role. He had some celebrity supporting him.
I don't think that played much of a role. But
ultimately his focus on the economy and inflation ravaging us,

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all combined with the border issues, immigration and over eleven
or twelve million migrants entering the country illegally, and focusing
on that, I thought that there were certain things that
he did that were nothing short of brilliant. Now I

(06:20):
have been on the record stating on several occasions the
economy was one thing I just talked to you about that.
Immigration was another I just talked to you about that.
What about crime and the straits when you look at
New York City, when you look at Los Angeles, when
you look at the fact that people were being arrested
and the same day they were put in jail, they
were getting out and it seemed to be no punitive

(06:43):
damage that was being suffered by those who were inflicting
harm upon American citizens. What about that? Okay? And then
we have to pay attention to walk culture and the
cancel culture. Think about the commercials that Donald Trump was showing.
Think about the commercials that involved charlemagnea God and the

(07:03):
Breakfast Club. When they kept playing footage of Kamala Harris
saying she was in support of trans transgender operations taking
place even for those incarcerated. While incarcerated, think about that.
Think about how they leaned on her appearing on the View.
And when The View, a liberal outlet very supportive of

(07:28):
Kamala Harris, asked her a simple question of what, if anything,
she would do differently from Joe Biden, she said there
was nothing she could think of. These are the common
things that I think hurt her, Okay, But I also
lean on woke culture and cancel culture for this reason
as well. They also brought up how somebody transitioning from

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being a male to a female were competing against women
in young ladies, knowing that they were an abundance of
people not just on the right, but independence who would
not support that. They weren't gonna support that. They looked
at something like that and they said, what the hell
is wrong with us? They harkened back to years ago

(08:15):
when you had people getting in trouble because instead of
saying him or her or he or she if you
se if you didn't say they, it was a violation,
and ultimately that could get you in some kind of trouble.
At some point in time, people were looking at those things. Now,
some people would say they had nothing to do with
the outcome of last night's election. I beg to differ,

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but ultimately, what it does come down to is this.
With all of those things transpiring, it gave the impression
that the Dems were at the mercy of the progressives
on the extreme left, which forced folks in the center
the lean right and forced the right to harden their

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stances even more. And what did you see as a result.
There was no blue wall. Ladies and gentlemen Wisconsin Michigan, Pennsylvania,
North Carolina, et cetera. No, they talked all evening that
if North Carolina and Georgia went to Donald Trump, the

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only way Kamala Harris would have a chance to win
the election is if she lost. If she won Pennsylvania
and she lost that too, I expected a tough, tight race.
What we witnessed was an annihilation. An annihilation. This was

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supposed to last, this debate about the election and how
many votes, it was supposed to last probably until Thursday Friday,
maybe even into the weekend. Ladies and gentlemen. Fox News
called it at two am. Two am, we knew that
Donald Trump had won backed the White House. It was

(10:03):
that kind of a rop, that kind of an annihilation.
There are many many things to insult Donald Trump about.
There are many times we could have done it in
the past. We can't do it today. The ain't a
damn thing we could say. America has spoken. The Republicans

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have the White House, they have the Senate. By the way,
they won back the Senate. They flipped it and they're
probably going to retain the House. They had it from
twenty seventeen to twenty nineteen. They got it back again,
America has spoken. America has spoken. By the way, look

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at this cover on vanity of Vanity fair Please take
a look at this with Trump's face. Thirty four fella
in accounts, one conviction, two cases pending, two impeachments, six bankruptcies,
four more years and the forty seventh American President for

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the United States of America. What do you say? What
do you say? Now, let's take a closer look at
the Democratic Party in Kamala Harris, who was thrust into
the race with less than one hundred and ten days
to secure the White House. Harris called Donald Trump this
afternoon to concede the race to the president elect. By

(11:29):
the way, that's something that Trump never did four years
ago when he lost to Joe Biden in twenty twenty.
But let's talk about Harris in her overall performance in
this election, Okay, in fairness, I don't think anybody should
be laying the party's loss at her feet. I'm gonna
say that up front. Okay, there were missed opportunities from
the White House and the Democratic Party, no doubt, but

(11:51):
I'm not gonna lay it at her feet Before I
even get into it. Here's a look at my top
five reasons again why the Democratic Party lost this presidential election.
It for yourself, the economy, immigration, crime, the whole culture,
that last one, no primary candidate. Okay, let me go
down the list. I already brought up how she missed opportunities.

(12:11):
Remember when y'all got on me, because I was sitting
here talking about how she needed to go to make
herself available and go out there and enter enemy territory
and go out there and do interviews. That wasn't rife
with fluff. Remember I said that. Remember I said that
Donald Trump was pointing to the war between Ukraine and Russia,
or there's rarely Palestinian conflict involving Hamas and Hesbalard. Remember

(12:33):
I brought up all of that, and I said that
Trump would literally use that and engage in some degree
of chauvinism, because he's gonna say, I'm here, I'm doing
interviews with everybody. Where is she at? Remember that? And
then suddenly everybody caught on. Eventually, I've been saying all along,
she couldn't avoid it. You're the vice president of the

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United States. You should be on top of all of
these issues. You should be ready to do interviews as
a moment's notice. I'm not saying she didn't know the issues.
I think she was overly sensitive to not coming across
as if she threw Joe Biden under the bus. But
here's the thing. Did Joe Biden deserve to be thrown
under the bus? Yes he did, Yes he did. Let
me tell you why in twenty twenty he wins election.

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When he wins the election in twenty twenty, Joe Biden
promised to be a transitional president. He called himself a
stopgap and indivisual that was looking to pave the way
for future candidates coming down the pipe. He knew that
come time for reelection, he would be eighty one, approaching

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eighty two years of age.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
He knew that.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
What's he gonna do stay in office til eighty six?
He gave us the impression and that wasn't what he
was going to do. What did he did after what
he did was the midterms came about, and it was
supposed to be some red wave with a bunch of
Republicans win seats in a Senate and in the House.
It didn't happen. So, because of that sense he was

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the incumbent, he was feeling himself because look at how
many seats were retained or captured by the Democrats, and
as a result, he could stay in office, he could
stay in power. And he decided he wasn't going to
walk away. And when he decided he wasn't going to
walk away, all hell broke loose because we saw health

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debilitating his fastball per se not necessarily being there. And
if we saw it on June twenty seventh when he
went on the stage to debate against Donald Trump, they
damn sure saw it beforehand. They saw it, but they
couldn't tell us because they want to go dom him out.
So it's all able to be deduced at this particular

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moment in time. They knew what was coming on. They
knew what was going on. They weren't going to dom
them out, they weren't going to expose them like that,
So they let him expose himself on the debate stage.
Then three and a half weeks later he he ultimately
stepped away and she became the presumptive Democratic nominee. But
what also came with that, What also came with that
was big skids were greased, and the American public didn't

(15:12):
like that because in this nation, we like competition. We
want to see him in a primary, then we would
have knew before June twenty seventh he wasn't ready. And
if you're not going to see him, you wanted to
see her in a primary. But that didn't happen because
by the time he stepped away, it was too late
to entertain Dean Phillips so anybody else as a potential

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Democratic nominee. So as a result, the role was paved
for her to go up against Trump unabated. That's what happened,
ladies and gentlemen. You may not like hearing it, but
that's what happened. That, however, didn't play nearly as big
as a role as two things. Number one, the economy.

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Black folks and minais. You know what, our definition of
a good economy is the value of our dollar and
the dollars in our pocket. We don't want to hear
inflation ain't the same, it's dipped two percent. If we

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can't tell when we go to the gas station, when
we go to buy some milk and bread, when we
go to the grocery store to buy grocery, if we
can't tell, we don't want to hear shit about an economy.
That's improving. Where's the evidence? Trump locked in on inflation

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and how the value of our dollar had diminished before
our very eyes. He didn't bring up his role in
it prior to bout and arriving. Smart of him not to,
but nevertheless he focused on that, and the Democrats wouldn't
acknowledged but so much, how bad it truly truly was.
But that all pales in comparison to immigration. Why is

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immigration so important? Because from the moment Biden got in office,
he opened the floodgates. There was no wall built, there
was no lines of demarcation to prevent folks from coming
across the border. He opened the borders because he was

(17:27):
capitulating to the extreme left. Damnedar's first week in office
with a bunch of executive orders, and as a result
of that reality, you had people fresh offer trying to
overcome all the noise and the chaos that Trump had
created to go into Oh damn, what is this about?

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That is what happened. He opened the borders. And you
know what made it even worse? When Biden opened the borders,
Ladies and gentlemen, it was exactly what Obama didn't do. Obama,
Bama didn't advertise it, but did you know that Obama
deported more legal immigrants than Trump did. Obama deported so
many folks they called him the deporter in chief, That's

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what they said about him. That was a democratic office
who did it. It was still popular amongst liberals. So Biden,
why would you go against that and do the pullar opposite?
Yet he did, and as a result, the right was

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able to look at our streets being overcrowded, in any immigrant,
damn near court getting a ticket for some reason or
another was highlighted and illuminated, see what they're doing to
our country, and you sort of backdrop and it didn't
even have to be true, it didn't matter. You sort

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of backdrop. And then you looked at the streets of
Los Angeles, the streets of New York City, San Francisco,
let's not forget that, And you said, is that what
you want your country to look like? Is that what
you want taxpayer money funding? And they had him.

Speaker 4 (19:22):
That.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
With Biden's slippage, there was no way in hell he
was gonna beat Trump. So here comes Kamala Harris, and
her moment in the sun is to acknowledge that, and
the vere left or right rather and go on a
entirely different path than Biden was going. And she didn't
do it. That was point number two. Let me tell

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you what point number three was. All these celebrities, Taylor Swift,
Michelle Obama, Jennifer Sopez, Beyonce, oh Brah, the list went

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on and on and on. Let me tell you what
the problem with all of that was. Let's not forget
Lebron James, even though he just put out a tweet.
Let me tell you what the problem with that was.
Michelle Obama giving a speech in Kalamazoo where she skillfully

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and brilliantly detailed reproductive rights. Wasn't talking about abortion. She
was talking about reproductive rights for women, fair enough, But
then she added the line by saying, your vote for
him was a vote against us. Don't believe what I'm saying.
Take a listen.

Speaker 5 (20:45):
We are the ones with the knowledge and experience to
know what we need.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
So please, please do not.

Speaker 5 (20:56):
Hand our fates over to the lights of Trump. He
knows nothing about us, who has shown deep contempt for us,
because a vote for him is a vote against us,
against our health, against our work.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
Do you see what Michelle Obama said? Right there. I'm
here to tell you that I believe if Michelle Obama
was running, she would have won this election by a landslide.
She's that popular, she's that skilled, she's a brilliant orator,
she's a wonderful woman, the greatest first lady I think
this country has ever seen. But when she added that line,

(21:37):
how you think American citizens felt so? In other words,
that we don't agree with you, we're against you didn't
affect me because I had already voted for Kamala Harris.
Might not have affected most women, maybe some How'd you
think the men felt about that? So we have to

(21:57):
do what you tell us to do, otherwise we're anti.
You thought that worked? Do y'all know anything about most
men think that's gonna work? How about this one from Oprah?
Take a listen.

Speaker 6 (22:13):
If we don't show up tomorrow, it is entirely possible
that we will not have the opportunity to ever cast
a ballot again. And let me be very clear, if
you do not make sure that the people in your
life can get to the polls, that is a mistake.

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Deciding not to decide that is most definitely a vote
to let other people control your future.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four, Voting Rights Act
of nineteen sixty five, then in place since nineteen sixty five.
That's spanning more than sixty nearly sixty years. Okay, and
you're gonna look at the audience in the face and
you're going to tell them that if you vote for
Donald Trump, you may not ever be able to cast

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a vote again. Who believed that? Who believed that? Coming
from Oprah? Truly? Who believed that? This is the kind
of stuff that alienates an electorate, that alienates a vote

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or a voter, because the freedom that you tell them
they have, you try to confiscate morally by letting them
know you ain't worth it, damn unless you vote the
way we say you should vote. Who's going to go
for that?

Speaker 7 (23:47):
In a general election with an economy rife with inflation,
what over twelve million people coming across in the borders,
with people wondering about their dollars, dollars that they earn,
the dollars that they have in their pocket.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
The value of that dollar dissipating before our very eyes.
But in the same breath, you're telling them that you
got to take even more money out of their pocket
to finance immigrants that come or across the border illegally
at the behest of the Democratic Party looking to secure
a voting block. Did you think that would work? Did

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you think that would work? Ladies and gentlemen, Kamala Harris
wasn't perfect, but she worked her you know what off
to try to make this happen. And to be quite
honest with you, she didn't do too much that was wrong.

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I actually feel sorry for her because she busted her
tail and did all that she could in those one
hundred and ten days that she had available to She
might have could have she might could have done somethings differently. Fine,
but she put in that work. But what we learned
last night is that she never had a chance because

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too many American citizens are too disgusted with what they
see from the extreme left. Who are the progressives who
apparently hijacked the Democratic Party and leaned them and pulled
them so far to the left that they felt hell,

(25:37):
even if it is Donald Trump, at least that would
be closer to us recognizing the country that we live
in as opposed to what we've been subjected to. And
then he and celebrities who are worth hundreds of millions,
if not billions, who most American citizens feel are in

(26:00):
incredibly detached from their way of life and their quality
of life. We're not going to get away in guilting
them into doing something different than what their experience says
is going on and what they should do about it.
That's what happened, ladies and gentlemen. That's just the truth

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coming up much more the election and what many are
calling the greatest political comeback in American history. The one
and only Bill O'Reilly is on deck, and he's got
his reaction to Donald Trump's election as the forty seventh
president of the United States. I can't wait to hear
what he has to say. I don't think you should
wait either. Stick around. Steven A. Smithshaw coming right back
at you. Okay, everybody, you know what Tom it is.

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It's Tom for stephen A's Sports Picks. Everyone already knows
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players for this Thursday's NFL games. All right, let's look
at who we picked. First. Up, Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson
going up against the Cincinnati Bengals defense more or less
than two hundred and thirty four and a half passing yards. Okay, listen,

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Cincinnati's defense has been suspect, so that alone is a
reason to go more with Lamar Jackson. But here's another
incentive for this. Okay, Joe Burrow and those brothers can
put up some points with Jamar Chase, with T Higgins
and the rest of the crew, they can put up
some points. What do you think Lamar Jackson gonna do?
Just stand still and do nothing. Of course, he's gonna
step up. He's gonna handle his business. He's gonna ride
to the challenge because that's what he does. Is two

(28:20):
tom League MVP, the raining MVP of the league. That's
what Lamar Jackson does. So I'm going with more on this.
More than two hundred and thirty four and a half
passing yards for Lamar Jackson. All right, let's throw that
into the equation. Next, s up Zay Flowers versus Cincinnati
wide receiver for the Baltimore Ravens more or less than
sixty two and a half receiving yards. Okay, for the

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same exact reasons I just gave you about Lamar Jackson.
Gotta have somebody to throw the football too. It ain't
all about handling the ball off to Derek Henry, even
though that is a nice option. I'm gonna go with
more than sixty two and a half receiving yards for
Zay Flowers in this one. Next up, let's see what
else you got here, Okay, Biggles quarterback Joe Burrow up again.
It's the Ravens defense more or less than two hundred

(29:02):
and sixty seven and a half passing yards. Okay. I
just told you what Joe Burrow can do. I just
told you who he's got to do it with, Jamar Chase,
te Higgins. These are some bad brothers, okay. And they
got some other weapons as well. I'm gonna go with
more for Joe Burrow on this one too, more than
two hundred and sixty seven and a half passing yards, okay,

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keeping my eyes on that. Finally, Bingles wide receiver Jamar Chase, Okay,
against the Ravens defense more or less than eighty two
and a half receiving yards. It's a little bit. This dicey,
this dicey, he's more than capable of doing it, but
sometimes he's a decoy so they can give it to
other cats. I'm still gonna say, in this particular game

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with the Ravens suspect secondary at times, I'm gonna go
with more than eighty two and a half receiving yards
for Jamar Chase as well. So let's recap to go
over all of my selections here, Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrows,
They Flowers, and Jamar Chase. More on all of them.
Why Because we're talking prospects, That's why. And they love
it when I say more because that means more money

(30:06):
and more people's pockets, which makes them want to participate
with prospects even more. You feel me? Welcome back to
the stephen A. Smith's Show. My next guest is a
conservative political commentator, actually, mister Independent, that's what I call him.
He's a phenomenal media personality and a best selling author.

(30:26):
He also happens to be a friend of the program.
The man, the one I called the father of cable
television himself, the one and only Bill O'Reilly, is on
the show right now. What's going on? Big time? How
are you, sir? How's everything? It's good to see you.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yeah, I be the grandfather of cable. I think I'm
getting old and doggy? Or is here?

Speaker 3 (30:45):
All right? Well, that's your words, not mine.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Now. I sent you Confronting the Presidents, my number one
New York Times bestseller. I know you did one or
two things. You either redd it or you sold it
on eBay, because which one was neither.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
I haven't read it yet, but I have it by
my bedside, and I'm getting ready to read it. Bill, O'Reilly.
I keep telling you that I'm just a very busy man.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
I understand that. Hey, listen, let's get right to your
chapter on Grover Cleveland, because that's who Donald Trump is.
He's Grover.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Now, well, listen, I'm going to do that. Let me
just get right to it because I know you're a
busy man. I really appreciate you making time out of
your busy schedule. Okay, the results are what they are.
I am shocked that it was a romp. I expected
Trump to win, even though I voted for Kamala Harrison
want to record saying that, But it was a romp.
He won decisively the popular vote as well as the
electoral College. Why did that happen? Bill?

Speaker 2 (31:41):
Because people are suffering economically, the working people, the non
ideologues see the problem is that in America, we in
the media think that everybody believes the way we do,
and they don't. Most people aren't engaged in pauls. They
lean in once in a while, take a look, but

(32:04):
they're not living it twenty four hours a day. They'll
do sports and you know that. I mean, they'll have
golf for their hobbies or whatever. Maybe, And I believe,
and I think it'll bear out on the exit polling
that most Americans who voted against Kamala Harris really voted
against President Biden because under Biden, who's the second worst

(32:28):
president in our country's history, purchasing power for workers declined
dramatically almost nine percent in three and a half years.
So people are looking around, going, I don't have any money.
I got humongous insurance, fuel and food bills, and four

(32:49):
years ago I wasn't in the circumstances. I'm going to
go back to Trump, no matter what they say about them.
And that's what I think happened.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
Get where you're coming from with that. But we just
saw articles, at least as recently as a week ago,
where they were saying the economy is in good shape,
inflation is down. What you've been hearing is not necessarily
the truth. I mean, was that all smoking mirrors? Is
that a smoke screen?

Speaker 2 (33:15):
No, But it doesn't matter. The damage is still in play.
When inflation comes down, it doesn't mean prices come down.
It means that inflation doesn't grow as much. So the
American worker, the average guy in gal is paying twenty
percent more for the essentials alive and that has not moved.

(33:38):
And Trump promised to move it down by taking out
the regulations of Bide administration put on the fossil fuel industry,
thereby driving costs for transportation, gas, and oil down, and
that resonated among workers. Trump had a plant. What was

(33:58):
Kamala Harris's economic zero? Because she didn't have a plan
for anything, and she was not a good candidate.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
And when you say she wasn't a good candidate, what
I look at, Bill, is this. The economy obviously was
one issue. Immigration had to be another. Crime in the
streets of America definitely had to be another. I think
woke and cancel culture played a role as well. But
possibly the other thing that may come to mind, Bill,
is that she didn't have to you know, she didn't

(34:28):
go through a primary. Obviously, Joe Biden escaped the primary.
He ultimately bowed out after his poorest performance. On June
twenty seventh, she was elevated to be in the Democratic
nominee without competition those are the kind of things that
I was hearing leading up to the election. What say
you to all of that? What role did that play
in her demise?

Speaker 2 (34:49):
Budters didn't care about that one bit. Didn't care about it.
So Kamala Harris made one enormous mistake. She didn't adm
answer any questions. So she goes on Fox News and
Brett bhar asks her ten questions and she doesn't answer
one of them, just goes wandering into the middle class

(35:12):
home and all those other business. Now, you're a sports
guesser and you interview people every day of your life,
and so do I. If I ask a direct question in
the No Spin Zone and somebody doesn't answer, the interview halts,
I stop the interview and go did you not understand

(35:32):
the question? Should I pose it again? And if you
don't want to answer, can you tell me why Bart
didn't do that? But he should have. But anybody watching
Kamala Harris on the trail, no, she wasn't going to
answer any questions because she was a rehearsed candidate, She

(35:53):
was a machine candidate. She didn't have enough confidence in
her own ability to articulate problem solving fell back on memorization. Now,
the woman is excellent in front of the camera. I
predict she's gonna wind up on a view because you'll
be showbiz in some capacity while she waits for the

(36:15):
next political opening. But she absolutely insulted. I think people
watching those interviews by failing to answer the questions enormous mistake.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
Was it her or is it the Democratic Party believing
that that was the route she needed to take, And
obviously she was following sup because she was in no position.
She was in no position to shove us oute what
they want to do. Right.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
They believed that she could win doing what Biden did
in twenty which basically staying in house not going out.
Warren Hardy in nineteen twenty, as you will learn when
you're readconfronting the presidence, did the same thing and he won,
and Biden won. So the party said, yeah, we don't
really have to answer these stinking questions, Jeeves, we can

(37:01):
just evade. But when you are a candidate that is
new to people, they don't know you, you've got to
define yourself. And Kamala Harris certainly did not do that.
There was no emotional attachment to the Vice president.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
We saw Oprah Winfrey speak. We saw Jennifer Lopez speak.
We saw Michelle Obama give us speach, particularly in Kalambazoo, Michigan.
A little over a week ago, about ten days ago
or so, we saw a plethora of well known figures
speaking out on behalf of Kamala Harris, and some alluded

(37:41):
to her not receiving the level of support that she deserves,
included former President Barack Obama. They said it must be
some form of misogyny. They didn't come out and say
that word, but they certainly alluded to that. What role,
if any, do you believe that played in the lack
of support she received in this election? Zero? Zero?

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Yeah, I mean it's the same old stuff. You know.
She didn't win because she's a woman, or she was
a South Asian or an African American. It's a bunch
of bull. If the American public believed that Kamala Harris
could improve their economic circumstance, she certainly would have won
by a big margin. Because Donald Trump's a very controversial

(38:28):
person and if there was another alternative that people felt
comfortable with, I think they would have gone there. She
was a very hard worker, Kamala Harris, and she gave
it a shot. But again I fall back on the
fact that if I'm sitting here stephen A and she's
sitting across from me for an hour interview, you think

(38:49):
she survives that interview?

Speaker 3 (38:51):
No, not the one that I saw, Not the one
that I saw on the campaign trail. No, based on
the interviews that she gave note not a second. I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
Then you have to ask yourself, if she can't stand
up to the tough questions, why should be why should
she be awarded the position of the most powerful person
in the world. Because Putin's pretty tough guy. She and
the Muthers, they're ruthless, evil people. You gotta have somebody

(39:22):
in there, and like Trump or not, he's proven and
he can stand up to these people. So it was
all about economy, and you were right. Immigration played a
big part. Biden and Harris have never ever explained why
they opened that border. For what reason did you do that?

(39:43):
But here's the crusher. There's always a crusher in sports
and politics. You want the crusher, here's the crusher. So
ABC News is in the tank for Kamala Harris and
their primary weekday show is the view two million viewers
day one hundred percent liberal, No conservative women watch that program.

(40:05):
Kamala Harris consents to go into there because it's a
friendly venue. She sits there, they yuck it up, They
tell her how great she is. Smooch, smooch, smooch, and
then an aside comes out. If you had to do
it all over again, do you think there's something that
you would have done differently than President Biden?

Speaker 3 (40:27):
He said nothing, and Kamala Harris.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
Says, not that I can think of. Over. It was
over when she said it. So the folks at home going,
wait a minute, I'm paying twenty percent more than I
did three and a half years ago. Afghanistan was an
enormous embarrassment of historical proportions. The open border has injected

(40:55):
fourteen million foreign nationals into this country, largely unsupervised. And
there's nothing you would have done differently over right then, And.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
I'll tell you this just as just an aside before
I ask my next question. You know, one of the
things that I think worked against the argument of misogyny
is that Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen won a popular
vote by about two point six eighty six million, more
so than Donald Trump, even though she lost the electoral
College vote. And obviously she is a woman, and she
was considered very very tough as well. If anything, she

(41:29):
is a bit tough around the resident. Sure, please go ahead.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
Well, I'll give you a better argument than Hillary. If
Michelle Obama had wanted the nomination, she'd had it, the
Democratic Party would have given it to her, That's right,
and she would have won and.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
She would have been So you're saying Michelle Obama would
have beaten Trump.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Yes, why enormously popular? Missus Obama enormously popular. And the
Democratic Party looks fondly at the eight years of Barack Obama.
It was nostalgia. Let's go back to the promised Land.

(42:08):
And I think Michelle would have won.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
How long do you go back your relationship with Donald Trump?
How long has it been? How long have you known you?

Speaker 2 (42:16):
Thirty five years?

Speaker 3 (42:19):
What do you think about the Donald Trump that you've
seen as a politician compared to the Donald Trump you
knew before he was a politician?

Speaker 2 (42:28):
The same guy. I mean, he's not really a politician.
He's a deal maker. That's how he ran the country
in his first term. And if COVID had not hit us,
he would have been easily reelected just on the economic
success alone that he experienced in the first eighteen months.
I remember when he left office, inflation was one point
four percent. So he's not an ideologue. Trump he didn't

(42:53):
care about I mean, if I were quizzing Trump on
the Republican Party in the history of it, couldn't answer
the questions. He doesn't know who what Calvin Coolies did
or John Adams, Thomas Jefferson didn't know any of that.
He's a deal maker and he's very astute at sizing

(43:17):
up what he needs to get done to be successful.
You don't have a mass billions of dollars. I wrote
a book, The United States of Trump, best book you'll
ever read on the man and the man. Donald Trump
a mass of fortune by making good deals. And the
final part of the equation is he is the hardest

(43:37):
working politician in US history. There has never been another
president or candidate that works as hard as that man works.
And the contrast to Joe Knapping Biden was stunning, absolutely stunning.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
But what about somebody, what about somebody that would look
at Bill O'Reilly knowing what you know because you are
very big on your facts. You know what the hell
you're talking about it, and then somebody that's been on
TV with you and had the pleasure of sitting next
to you and seeing how you operate, I have to acknowledge.
I just sat there scratching my head. I said, this
is why this man has been doing this for so long.
This man knows what he's doing. But when you say

(44:18):
he's a deal maker, okay, he's a businessman, a lot
of folks on the left, the first thing that has
come to my mind come to their mind is a smirk,
and they'll dismiss it, and they'll say, the man's filed
for bankruptcy six different times. This is what they'll point to.
They'll point to those kinds of things and say, what
on earth is Bill o'reiley talking about? How do you
argue against that?

Speaker 2 (44:38):
I don't. He runs his business the way he wants
and if he has to file for bankruptcy, he does.
I don't condone what Donald Trump's deals have been. Now
my job, my job is to look for the overall
welfare of the American people, all of them. And when
you have a four year record in office, that's what

(45:00):
I'm looking at. I'm not looking at Trump University or
Trump golf course in Uruguay. I don't care, all right.
The man is fabulously wealthy. If you get down Tomorrow
Lago and you look around, you're going, this is like
Louis the fourteenth down here. Okay, So all it is superflorous,

(45:20):
and so are his statements that sometimes are crazy, because
he always does that. My hypothesis is he's a rich guy,
and rich guys say what they want. Elon Musk says
what he wants, Okay, Mark Zuckerberg says what he wants,

(45:41):
rich guy.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
Mark Cuban, Let's not forget him.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
He says, what do you want, Mark Cuban. Now, guys
like you and me, working guys, I mean, we have
worked our way up and I say what I want.
But I wasn't always that way. I was damned cautious
because I didn't have daddy's money to fall back on
or any of this other stuff. All right, I had
to carve it out. But rich people are different, yes

(46:07):
they are. And Trump is in that zone. If I
want to say it, I'm gonna say it. I don't
care who likes it. And that's what he does.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
I've always known billionaires to be that way. I know
you got to get on out of here. Two quick questions.
Latinos increase their vote for Trump by thirteen percent according
to what I read, African Americans by five percent. Why
do you think that happened for Donald Trump?

Speaker 2 (46:26):
It's economics, pure and simple, pure and simple. Look, when
you have a president that under his administration, real wages,
that's take home pay rise more than seven percent, and
then you have another president in right after and real
wages fall okay, into the negative territory. They come back

(46:50):
a little to about one point eight percent. It doesn't
matter what color you are, what ethnicity you are. You're
working hard for a living. You want to support your family, okay,
you want to move on up like the Jeffersons, and
when you can't, you're teeed off. It's not about color,

(47:11):
it's not about any of that. Now, there are some
ideologues who will play that game. I don't play the game.
But that's why he got more. Ask you one sports question.
Ask me why the New York Jets can never get
out of their way.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
I will not ask you that question because we all
know their football purgatory. My last question to you is
going to be this, how is this Trump going to
be better than the Trump that was in office from twenty.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
Six I have no idea what's going to be better,
whether it's going to be worse. I have no idea
at all. What I want for the country is for
Donald Trump to succeed, not for Donald Trump, not for
Bill O'Reilly, the analyst on Bill O'Reilly dot com. It's

(47:55):
going to help my business that he got reelected. But
we have lots of liberals and and independence watching us,
and they do so because I'm not imprisoned in an
ideological cage. But I want what's best for the country.
And I sent out a message today on Bill O'Reilly
dot com. I write a daily message and everybody should go.
It's free. And Donald Trump got to be cautious. Second

(48:19):
terms are harder than first terms. Grover Cleveland, the only
other guy who did this nonconsecutive terms, had a horrendous
second term. And Trump the hubris all of that. You
need to tamp that down, laser lock into cleaning up
the border, raising the economy as quickly as possible, getting

(48:43):
social disorder under control, and being very straight with the
American public. That's what I hope he does.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
Bill O'Reilly, I really appreciate you taking time out of
your business schedule to join me today. I can't wait
to have you back with I just sit here and
talk to you about you and all you have accomplished
in your career, particular with all these dag on best
sellers you keep writing. So I'm looking forward to talking
to you and the near future we're gonna be on
Cuomo Nation Cuomo tonight on News Nation. I'm looking forward
to that as well. Always appreciate you, my man. Thank

(49:10):
you so much for joining me. Really appreciate it back.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
You, David, and I really enjoyed the conversation.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
Thank you, see you soon. That was Bill A. Riley,
by the way. Thanks again. He's a very very busy
man that I have to come on this show to
talk to me about these issues, but he certainly was
kind enough to do it, and I really really appreciate it.
I also want I'm going to appreciate hearing from you
all as well. I'm gonna take calls only on the
election and what transpired and what your thoughts may be
in light of what we witnessed on election day and

(49:38):
night just last night. Lots to get into with the callers.
I can't wait to tackle that. That's up next right
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Welcome back. This is one of the very very special
days for me to take phone calls because in light
of the election results, I imagine that a whole bunch

(51:23):
of people have got a whole bunch of things to say.
So let's take some of the calls. Hit me up
at triple eight s A S five three zero three.
That's edit eight seven two seven five to three zero three.
Let's go to Roger in California, alive with Steven A.
What's up, Roger? Talk to me? How you doing?

Speaker 8 (51:39):
Hey, Stephen am Collin in the Los Angeles, California. My
question for you today is if.

Speaker 4 (51:44):
You were if you won the presidential election.

Speaker 9 (51:46):
What would your top three policies that you would focus.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
On B and Y.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
Well, first of all, I would my number one priority
would be the economy, because when the economy is thriving,
there's less chaos. People are confident that they can go
to work, that they can pay their bills. And when
you're paying your bills, there's a lot less stress. And
when there's a lot less stress, there's a lot less chaos,
and dare I say, a lot less violence. So it
certainly would be number one on my lists. Number two

(52:12):
would be addressing immigration. I don't want to sit up
there and say I would just take folks and deport them.
I would have to deport some folks, and I certainly
would deport criminals and stuff like that. But I'm not
one of those guys who believes that because you're an immigrant,
you're a criminal. I hate the fact that Trump came

(52:33):
across on too many occasions of being that loose with
his tongue when it came to immigrants court crossing our borders.
But I can't find another country in this world that
just has open borders and let people come in and
you're going to subsidize them when you know you're going
to compromise the economy while doing so, and jeopardize the
comfortability of your citizens, of your national citizens. I would

(52:58):
definitely address the board it issues, and again I'd be
very selective in who I deported. But the one thing
that I would do unapologetically is close the border. There
wouldn't be anybody coming in when you already got over
twelve million to fourteen million immigrants here illegally, nobody else
would be coming in. I would definitely do that. And thirdly,
this is the part where somebody like me would possibly

(53:21):
be worse than Trump. I'm not tolerating a bunch of crime.
When you have a bunch of crime going on in
the streets of America that compromises a business's ability to
do business, then everything becomes chaotic. I remember when I
was in California at a time in the immediate aftermath
of COVID, they could have let more than three people
in the stores at the time because they were getting robbed. Nah,

(53:45):
the Stephen A. Smith administration would be tolerating that. I'd
have undercover cops, I'd have detectives, I'd have everybody on
the scene. We ain't having it. We ain't having that,
I would definitely address those three. The economy, immigration, and
crime on the streets of America. Those would be my
top three priorities. Does that answer your question.

Speaker 8 (54:03):
Roger, Yes, sir, very thorough Thank you.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
Thank you. Take it easy to have a good day,
mad at Fort Lauderdale. You're live with steven A. What's uping, Matt, talk.

Speaker 8 (54:10):
To me first and foremost. I just wanted to go
ahead and ask about how you feel about a Trump
wanting to grant police full immunity.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
No, I don't agree with that. I think that if
you are if you're a roll cop and you've engaged
in criminal activity, you don't deserve immunity. I'm not somebody
that supports defunding the police. I'm not one of those.
I also don't believe in castigating all police officers. You
got black, you've got white, you've got Latino. You got
various police officers of all ethnicities, male and female. By

(54:41):
the way, I might add that fact, so I wouldn't
be castigating all of them with a broad brush. I said,
That's why I don't say police brutality. I say brutality
on the part of some police officers. As a black man,
I don't want to be castigated for everything and anything
that somebody black does, And I don't think that police
officers should be negatively stigmatized because of the actions of

(55:03):
a rogue cop. But I'm certainly not trying to grant
immunity the police officers who've broken the law, particularly those
who've engaged in excessive violent behavior. Oh hell no, I'm
not about that.

Speaker 8 (55:17):
Yes, sir, I mean, I completely agree with what you said.
Did you see the specifics he said at the NABJ
conference in terms of that the police already have qualified immunity,
but in terms of this full immunity, that there'd be
a type of a board to review every case and
things like that.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
Well, I didn't see all of that, But what I
would say to you is that there's nothing wrong with
saying that a board gets to review everything. That's not
granting them community. That's simply saying that there's a board
that would exist to investigate their behavior. That way, we
can deduce what they're truly guilty of and what they
are not guilty of, and then it would be handled.
From that standpoint. That's not just granting somebody immunity. That's

(55:58):
saying Let's make sure those we impune with the stigma
of guilt are truly truly guilty, as opposed to a
mob like atmosphere being geared against them just because they
wear those blue uniforms. And you have a lot of
people within the streets of America that can't stand them
and believe they need to suffer as much as they
possibly can. You don't want that kind of stuff going on,

(56:19):
and I understand that. I appreciate the call. I got
to get on out of here, Matt, Thank you so much. Max.
You're live with Steven A. What's going on? Max? How
are you?

Speaker 4 (56:27):
Step and A? How are we doing?

Speaker 3 (56:28):
I'm all right. Where are you from? Max?

Speaker 4 (56:31):
Westchestern, New York? I'm calling in from right.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
What's up? Talk to me?

Speaker 4 (56:35):
So listen. I studied political science in college. I'm twenty
four years old. I'd like to say I have a
firm grip on policy and our American American ways. I
have a cousin born and raised in high Bridge who
is black, and him and I go on every day
to talk about sports and now obviously the election. My

(56:55):
question to you is, as a white man who has
a black cousin, how am I to go about telling
him that everything's gonna be okay after Donald Trump just
retained office.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
By having faith in America, by understanding that no matter
who's in office, no one man is bigger than the
system and is bigger than this country. We've had situations
in the past. Harken back to tom pre civil rights movement.
Weren't times worse then? Weren't times worse in the thirties

(57:28):
and the twenties for black folks and women? By the way,
wasn't it worse in the eighteenth century. America has been
around since seventeen seventy six, right, But somehow, some way,
we've gotten to this point. And no matter what you
think about one individual, this is not a dictatorship. This
is not an autocracy. This is not regardless of what

(57:48):
folks were trying to say, this is not some fascists
or Marxist country. This is a capitalistic society that we
live in. We have one hundred elected officials in the Senate.
We have four hundred and thirty five elected officials in Congress.
We got nine Supreme Court justices. We have federal judges
and state judges and all of this other stuff going on.

(58:09):
We live in a democratic society, and they may be
those who come along that threaten to upend it to
some degree because they have a following, and chaos reigns
because of that at certain times. But we've overcome a
hell of a lot more throughout history, more so than
one individual can ultimately offset and overcome. That's what you

(58:32):
lean on, That's what you pin your hopes on, and
you move forward, and you march forward.

Speaker 4 (58:38):
Absolutely, it's just it's you know, it's hard to sit here.
And again, I will never tell him how he can
and can't feel. But you know, if you look at
the polling numbers, the white demographics failed us, us being
you know, the Democrats.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
You could say that, you could say that, Max, But
here's what I would tell you. Hispanics increase their support
for Trump by thirteen percent, as I revealed earlier, Black
folks increased their support by five percent. Is it really
about them letting down the minorities in this community or
was it them speaking up and highlighting and illuminating the
frustrations that emanate from our communities and they simply had

(59:12):
the courage to say, I'm gonna vote this way. I
voted for Kamala Harris and I'm proud that I did,
because I think that he's a divisive figure that will
cause chaos in this country as opposed to being a statesman.
But that's just my opinion. With or without him, I
was confident that I'm going to be okay moving forward
because I understand what we're dealing with here. The flip
side to it, however, is that you have Hispanics. You

(59:34):
have Puerto Ricans here, you have Mexicans here, you have
Colombians here, along with a bevy of other folks from
Guatemalians and Venezuelans and others living in the United States
of America, Cubans, and let me not forget that. And
everybody wasn't aligned. You had some people who voted for Trump,
you had some people voting for Kamala Harris because they

(59:54):
took their interest into consideration. They look at who they
thought was giving them lip service and who they thought
could really provoke and promote change compared to what we've
been witnessing over the last four years. They have every
right to do so. Four years from now, he'll be gone. Jd.
Vance will undoubtedly, in my mind, be his successor. Trying
to win the presidency in twenty twenty eight. Who are

(01:00:16):
you gonna have to go against him? What policies are
you going to have in place? Are you gonna leave
on the lean on the extreme left, or are you
gonna stand firm and say, you know what, we need
to inch towards the center, which is where Bill Clinton
had us in the nineties from ninety two to two thousand,
when he was a very very popular president. In the
eyes of a lot of liberals, he was center left. Okay,

(01:00:39):
he wasn't operating on the fringes. So these are all
things we need to take into consideration. And rather than
look at what Trump is bringing to the table, why
not look at what we brought to the table. If
you are a Democrat, what you brought to the table,
and how much of a turn off it was for
a lot of the American citizens out there. Max, my brother,
he romped her. He romped her, He won all I mean,

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there was no blue wall he got. He won the
popular vote for the first time, and obviously the electoral
college vote. Yo. That's about a country saying to you,
we don't like a lot of things, but we don't
think the left has the answer. You gotta deal with

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that that's not about Trump, that's about the Democrats, and
that's what we have to accept.

Speaker 4 (01:01:33):
It's not a matter of accepting. But my follow up
to you would be, do you feel like now we're
moving backwards as a society. It depends, especially with especially
with control of the Senate.

Speaker 3 (01:01:41):
Now, it depends, It depends. And the reason why I
say that it depends, max respectfully, is this. If we
talk well entitlement programs, for example, no doubt that's going
to take a hit. We have to understand that when
we look at issues pertaining to the black community. The
fact that the matter is we were looking for that
from the Democrats. They kept giving us lip service, but

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they didn't give us a plan. Because I got news
for you, twenty thousand dollars to start build, you know,
to help jump start black businesses if you know anything
about building a business, even jump starting a business that
ain't enough money. And so when you look at it
from that standpoint, you've had ample opportunity in ample time.
The Civil Rights legislation was signed in nineteen sixty four.
Bro nineteen sixty four, you've had nearly sixty years of

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getting at least eighty percent of the black vote, and
here we are, nearly sixty years later, still complaining about
a lot of the same things that we've been complaining
about all of these decades. And then when the Hispanics
came into our country and then numbers continue to proliferate,
they catered more to immigration and issues pertaining to Hispanics

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than catering to the Black community. Why, because the black
community said, Hey, there's no way in hell we're going
to vote Republican. So you alienated the republic look inside,
because they knew they weren't going to get our vote.
And then you had the left knowing they were going
to get our vote, so they could give us lip service,
but they never really had to do anything for us,
and as a result, we ended up being the only
disenfranchised group in existence in this country. So when you

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say we're going backwards, we're going backwards, well, when the
hell have we been going forward? That's the question that
we got to ask ourselves. I don't know the answer
to that question, and I'm saying you and I together
can help find out. But what we have to do
is stop walking around here acting like, oh my lord,
we're definitely definitely going to go backwards. When we can

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make the legitimate argument we were never as forward as
y'all say we were.

Speaker 4 (01:03:43):
I don't think it's an argument of how forward we were.
But again, as a white male who is submerged in
a group full of other white males who voted Trump,
I can tell you straight up, in the last twelve hours,
the amount of horrible language that is able to be
used in the thought process that they feel entitled and
backed now by Trump. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (01:04:04):
Or you could say that, you could say that. My
response to that would be this, didn't you just say
you voted for Trump? No? I did not. Okay, I
thought you said that. I'm sorry, I thought you said that. Polies,
my apologies. My point to you is this, it is
appalling the language. He is not a statesman. I didn't
vote for him primarily because he's not a statesman, and
I think that he's more divisive than galvanizing. I get

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that part, but remember this, stop holding him responsible. The
people who support him are ones who want him to
speak to Washington just like that, because that's how they
feel towards Washington, because they believe that Washington has been
playing us for decades, and they despise them for it.

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So what they have as an individual in him? If
you and I came Max and we said, sir, we
don't like Washington, they really really need to do you better,
et cetera, et cetera. Well, that's political speak. But when
you hear him saying they're crooks, they're criminals, they're pieces
of trash. Say I can't stand the politicians on Capitol

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Hill I'm talking about, They're like, yeah, yeah, that's how
they want him to speak to Washington because that's how
they feel about our representatives. So is the problem really
him or is the real problem Washington and how that
needs to change. Let's talk about this another day because
I gotta go and I gotta take a couple of

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more phone calls. Thank you for the call. Max. Let's
go to Brandon. You're live from peren Florida. What's going on, Brandon?
How are you?

Speaker 7 (01:05:39):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (01:05:39):
What's up? Man?

Speaker 10 (01:05:40):
I'm doing good.

Speaker 4 (01:05:41):
Hey.

Speaker 10 (01:05:42):
First thing I'd like to say is, I'm a huge
fan of you. I'm also a huge fan of Trump.
I voted the other day and I'd like to ask
what would you what would you think would happen if
Kamala got elected? And the tables were turned entirely.

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
What do you mean that if that, if the left
was in complete power.

Speaker 10 (01:06:04):
Yeah, they and they actually were winning this presidency and
they won it in the end.

Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
Well, here's what I would tell you. I think that
she would be more sympathetic to the plight of the
poor and disenfranchised. I have no doubt about that. But
I would have serious questions about all the money that
she wants to spend where she would get it from.
Our debt is nearing thirty seven trillion dollars at some

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point in time, you got to pay the piper. Well,
how are you going to do that? What are you
going to do to generate revenue that would enable you
to be able to fund some of the things on
your agenda that you may have. Who's going to take
the hit? How are you going to get that money?
Every four years we keep hearing about how the rich
are going to get taxed somehow, some way. The loopholes

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are never closed, and as a result, there's always business
as usual. The same folks that you see them talking
about is the same folks that are serving as their
lobby Then what have you living in those you know,
you know, chilling in those suites during the Democratic National Convention.
What are you going to do about that? So it
it breeds a legitimate question, and I get that. I

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also think it's important to recognize the fact that had
Kamala Harris won, and again I voted for her, So
let's not be a hypocrite here. I think the Democratic
Party with the been at the would have been at
the mercy of those on the fringes, with their progressive
movement held hostage by people like the squad Alexandria Cassio
Cortiza or AOC and and and and representative to leave

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it and others. I think they would have been at
their mercy, and I'm not sure that would have been
good for America. So to me, you can look at
the good and the bad of it, but really here's
what it comes down to. For most independents, people like
myself would not have had any problem voting in a
different direction if it were not for Trump. It's Trump

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that we couldn't vote for. But if it was somebody
like an Nikki Healey or somebody like that against Kamala Harris,
I think it would have been equally of a rop
as it ended up being that's my answer to that question.

Speaker 10 (01:08:13):
Okay, okay, hey can I can.

Speaker 3 (01:08:15):
I ask you on h real quick, hurry up, real quick.

Speaker 10 (01:08:17):
All right, So, now that Trump got elected, do you
think who do you think was the next you know,
president in the Republican side would be JD.

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
Vince easily after the after the way JD. Evans performed
during the debate against Tim Wallas. Okay, after that happened,
there is no doubt in my mind that he is
the air reparent. He handled himself with such skill that
everyone is comfortable with him being the heir apparent to

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Donald Trump. He'd actually be better in their eyes than
Donald Trump once all is said and done, without question,
gotta go appreciate the call. Last caller Jordan from Jordan.
You're live with Steven. A doesn't say where you're from Jordan?
But how are you?

Speaker 2 (01:09:01):
Hey, Steve? What I'm doing? A?

Speaker 10 (01:09:02):
How are you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:09:03):
I'm all right? Where are you from? Atlanta?

Speaker 9 (01:09:05):
Atlanta?

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
Talk to me? What's going on?

Speaker 9 (01:09:07):
So my big question for you is we saw in
this election obviously the young vote came out big time
for Trump, but not so much for Kamala. So what
do you think the Democratic Party can do? In the
future to get the use of out more.

Speaker 3 (01:09:19):
I think somebody I saw somebody on MSNBC say this
this morning. They said that the Democratic Party needs to
let go of its connection with the progressive wing of
its party, otherwise their days are over. I completely agree

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with that. The only shot Democrats have of winning any
elections in the future is if they stay away from
the extreme left. Center left is acceptable. It means you're reasonable,
it means you're financially astute. It means you're willing to

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compromise and work both sides of the aisle, that you're
not as dogged as they are on the extreme left
the way they can be on an extreme right as well.
There has to be a centrist mentality. Barack Obama and
a lot of people's eyes came across as depicting that
prior to him being in office, and even when he

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was in office, in the eyes of some people, Bill
Clinton certainly did that. Okay, Biden messed up when he
caved in. That's why he opened the borders the minute
he got in office with his executive orders, and at
what turned That's what turned a lot of people off
to him. There's no way around that, and I think

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that that's how you have to do it. Remember when
folks were looking at the left, Folks remembered the debates
about whether man should be allowed to use the same
bathroom as girls because he was transitioning. Folks, remember how

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you had a man transitioning to women who wanted to
play sports in women's sports. Folks remember those kind of things.
And that's the kind of thing, along with stuff like
defund the police and things of that nature that folks
do not want to hear. When I saw the romp

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that took place, the decisive fashion in which Trump won
this election, you know what, I walked away thinking what
my boys like, My man Jeff in California, who's a
staunch Republican, always told me. He said, folks on the left,
they will argue, they will fight, they will protest, they
will do all of that stuff. He said. Us Republicans,

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we don't say anything. We just go out and vote.
And what I thought about is, think about this. Leading
up to the election, there was a whole bunch of people.
You had some folks and I think one of the
callers I mispronounced the name name is Kamala Harris. I'm
not accusing him of being there on purpose. But we
know her name, and we know how it's pronounced. By
now stopping is pronouncing her name. It's Kamala Harris. Okay,

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But what happened? Think about this? Leading up to the election,
they said, the polls had it very very tight. I
had no renowned poster. Frank Luntz tell me that this
would it be decided in days? It might not take
It might take it till next week for them to
make a decision. Before the polls closed. Last night, ladies

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and gentlemen, the polls closed at seven on the East Coast,
and Donald Trump was announced as president elect by two am.
In seven hours, he had over two hundred and seventy
Electoral College votes two ninety two to be exact, it's

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seven hours. That's America speaking. We tie to all of this.
Let's real ourselves, back to familiar territory, no matter how
tense and stressful it may be. It needs to be familiar,

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not this other stuff we've been dealing with all of
these years. Enough's enough, and they have spoken. Donald Trump
is in the White House. The Republicans controlled the Senate
and likely the House. That six or three majority in
the Supreme Court, it potentially may escalate to seven to two.

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We knew there was a danger of that happening before
the election, and a vast majority of Americans, through their
popular vote in the electoral of and the Electoral College vote,
said I don't give a damn. That's the America we're
living in. It has spoken, she as in the United
States of America has spoken. We have to stand down

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and accept it, at least for the next couple of
years and then four years from that. But today we
have no choice. Got to eat it. America has spoken.
America has said enough. That's it. Appreciate y'all watching us.

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If for this edition of the Stephen Asmith Show, I'll
holler at y'all a couple of days until then, Peace
of love, everybody. Thanks agetting to Bill O'Reilly by the way,
appreciate him coming on board. Have more to discuss in
the future, but I'll get a back to a lot
of sports as well. Just needed to deviate from that
for this particular show. I hope you understand. Til next time,
Peace of love, Goodbye,