November 17, 2025 • 33 mins
The Shutdown implodes embarrassing democrats who start eating their own , violence erupts from the party of inclusion, and President Biden is enshrined as an autopen at the White House. You would not believe it if you did not hear it for yourself in our "did they really just say that" cuts from this week.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The shutdown implodes, embarrassing Democrats who start eating their own.
Violence erupts from the Party of Inclusion, and President Biden
is enshrined as an auto pen at the White House.
You would not believe it if you did not hear
it for yourself. And are did they really just say
that cuts from this week?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
This is a news bite.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
How much of this do you put at the feet
of Charles Schumer, the Democratic leader in the Senate.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Most of it?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
I mean, he's the leader of the Senate, but it's
time for him to be replaced.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
He is not meeting the moment.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
He's out of touch with where the party's base is.
Speaker 7 (00:52):
Yeah, so this is the president ya Walk of Fame.
Speaker 6 (00:54):
Now, who's the ideal with my idea?
Speaker 7 (00:56):
This is Biden right here?
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Wait a second.
Speaker 7 (00:59):
The worst the profile of Biden.
Speaker 8 (01:01):
So he's the worst president in the history of our country.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Are you going to replace that with his actual photo?
Speaker 7 (01:07):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Indeed.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So that was President Trump and Laura Ingram doing this
is a Fox News interview, and the President was giving
Laura a tour of the White House, which the President
has done a number of renovations on and what they
are talking about in this particular cut is that this
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involved a new presidential Walk of Fame that President Trump
is installed, and basically it's all photographic portraits, well, you know,
as long as they were cameras, there were some earlier
that are paintings of all the US presidents. Each president
has their portrait in this wall, and they're installing little
beautiful brass plaques underneath each portrait giving the vital information
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for that US president.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
But when you get to.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Joe Biden's where Joe Biden should be, which is the
one just before President Trump, there is a photograph of
an auto pan cut number two.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Please.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Yeah, So this is the president ja Walk of Fame.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Now, who's the idea with my idea?
Speaker 8 (02:16):
My idea?
Speaker 7 (02:16):
Everything's your idea? Okay, sadly's okay, that's Brocus Obama. Okay,
this is Biden right here.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Wait a second.
Speaker 9 (02:27):
The profile the profile of Biden.
Speaker 8 (02:29):
So he's the worst president in the history of our
country and Brocus Obama's top five meaning bad.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Are you going to replace that with his actual photo?
Speaker 7 (02:38):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
So President Trump has installed a photo of an auto
pen where the portrait of Joe Biden should be the
White House. You know, I could have actually saved that
for a truth or tool because but I didn't. But
the question is, you know, he says he's not going
to replace it. So my guess is it's going to
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j d Vance or Marc or Rubier Republican is elected
after Donald Trump, that that picture of the auto pen
will stay. If it's a Democrat who replaces Donald Trump,
then either President Biden will finally have his actual portrait
put up in front instead of the autopen.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Or the whole portrait gallery is going.
Speaker 10 (03:19):
I don't know what I would First of all, I
would say one way or another, some day, whether Donald
Trump decides to put up the real picture or not,
someday there'll be a picture of Joe Biden there, or
they'll take out.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
The whole portrait gallery. But he's the one that installed.
Speaker 10 (03:35):
By the way, I kind of like the idea, I
am going to say something that's really not meant to
be funny or make fun of anything. It's more of
a serious topic because you were talking about you know,
there's pictures, and then there's photographs, and then there's like paintings.
Because obviously before photographs, we had to have paintings with people.
I got to be honest with you. When I see
pictures of especially of like the presidents, and you can
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see them in the Encyclopedia online wherever, I kind of
like the paintings of president. I think they look more
distinguished than even photographs of classical Yeah. So I mean
in some place, and there probably is, and I'm just
saying this before well, there's.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Portraits of all of the presidents scattered throughout the White House,
you know, because before you leave office, they do one,
they do one, and so there are portraits of all
the presidents.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
But that's not what.
Speaker 10 (04:19):
This is, oh, I know. And that's why I said.
I wasn't making a joke about it. I was just
saying it because you would brought it up, and I'm like,
I really do like the paintings.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
This is a hallway leading to the leading to the Palms. No,
it's leading to the Hall of Pomps near where the
Rose Garden is. And the Hall of Poms was actually
installed by Jackie Kennedy and then President Trump has renovated
that because it was falling apart and you have to
walk through the hall of pomps to get to the
Oval Office. So you have to and this is a
way of walking by all the presidents underway of the
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Oval Office, which I think is a very nice idea.
I think it's a well thought out idea. And you know,
and doing something a little bit different than all the
portraits that are around the White House. So I understand
the photograph, but because it's a little less formal than
the than the portraits, but an autopen I mean, you
don't want to admit Donald Trump is one of the
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funnier US presidents we've ever had.
Speaker 10 (05:10):
Well, he likes he likes to you know, if he
doesn't like you, he's gonna do something to Pokio. The
other thing, by the way that I think would be
this would be right up Donald Trump's alley would be
have a nice room full of the pictures of the
presidents he admires or liked or thought were good, and
just put the other pictures scattered about in the White
House bathrooms.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Well, basically he has done that.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
You must have you know, you must have been the
same wavelength the ones that he likes, or either outside
the Oval Office or inside the all of the office.
I'm pretty sure that the ones he doesn't like are
in the basement. And the basement is not like yours
are my basement where it's you know, you got you know,
old moving boxes and the water heater. The basement of
the White House is basically a repository of things that
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are unwanted from upstairs.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
And there are opposites like everybody's house, and there are.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Base and there are but there are off is down there.
And if you go beyond below those, of course you
have bunkers. But it's those are That's actually why the
East Wing was originally built, was to to put building
on top of the bunker that was built for the
president during World War Two.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
So anyway, there you go. What can I say?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I grew up in Washington, d C. Took many tours
of the White House and apparently absorbed a lot of
useless information while I was While I was at it.
Speaker 10 (06:25):
Look I got a I got a basement at my house.
And there's a lot of junk down there too, So okay,
just like everybody. No no bunker though.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, but in this case, you know, I think the
portrait of Joe Biden, the painted portrait, is in the
basement whereas in the Hall of Presidents it's now an
auto pen with a plaque underneath it that says Joe Biden.
But obviously, when he took Laura Ingram on the tour,
President Trump was feeling his oats because Democrats basically rolled
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the dice and lost, and the longest shutdown of the
federal government history was over. They actually, you know it was.
It effectively ended a couple days ago. The actual vote
schedule for today, the day we're taping this, but the
cloture motion was voted, and Senator Schumer saw the writing
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on the wall at the time of the cloture vote
and was beside himself cut five A.
Speaker 11 (07:22):
I must vote no. This health care crisis is so severe,
so urgent, so devastating for families back home, that I
cannot in good faith support this cr that that fails
to address the health care crisis. But let me be clear,
however this vote turns out, this fight will and must continue.
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Democrats must fight because of millions of millions of families
will lose health care coverage. We must fight because children
who are dying of cancer will not get health care coverage.
We must fight because a senior citizen not afford to
pay twenty five thousand dollars a year just for health insurance.
We must fight to keep millions from financial ruin.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
He looked panic stricken, and he should because he tried
to make Americans believe that this was about health care.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
It wasn't.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And you know, when the Republicans tried to bring a
separate healthcare bill, the Democrats wouldn't vote on it because
it was separate. They the Democrats are the ones that
actually shut down the government and refuse to vote on
anything because they wanted their version of a bill that
they themselves sunsetted. They're the ones that put on there
that the end date. They did that and then realized
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that was a mistake, and so then they tried to
hold everybody up for hostage to expand it, and they
wanted to include health care for illegal aliens, which you know,
the Republican Party is just not going to stand for,
nor are most Americans. And everybody was pretty much clear
that we knew we were being peed on and it
wasn't raining no matter what the Democrats said. But the
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Schumer put his reputation on the line to convince the
American people, and when that failed, he realized that the
writing was on the wall for him and a lot
of other Democrats still tried to stick to the story,
but realized that they were going down. This is Senator
Bernie Sanders, Vermont, ten A.
Speaker 12 (09:17):
As everybody knows, just on Tuesday, we had an election
all over this country. And what the election showed is
that the American people want us to stand up to
trump Ism, to his war against working class people, to
his authoritarianism. That is what the American people wanted. But
tonight that is not what happened. So we've got to
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go forward and do the best that we can to
try to protect working class people, to make sure that
the United States not only does not throw people off
of healthcare, but ends the absurdity of being the only
major country on Earth that doesn't guarantee healthcare to all people.
We got a lot of work to do. But to
be honest with you, it was not a good night,
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thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
No, it wasn't if you were a moderate Democrat.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
The progressives, i think didn't carry the way because either
way they had a fighting point. They could either say,
you know, still fight for illegal alien healthcare, or if
it went down, they could, you know, blame Schumer and
friends and take over the Democratic Party, destroying the moderate
section of it.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
And I think that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 10 (10:24):
The only thing better than having a fall guy is
having two fall guys. Yeah, like one, Oh, that one's
not okay, we'll go with this one.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
But what they did had held no sway, and eventually
you had eight, a combination of eight Democrats and independent
to walk across the aisle. And then Mike Johnson, the
Speaker of the House, made this announcement cut number ten.
Speaker 9 (10:47):
I'm very thankful to see you all this morning. I'm
thankful to welcome you to what appears to be the
beginning of the end of the longest government shutdown in
US history. As shameful as that is, I don't I
think it's coincidental, you know how I think. But it's
after forty days of wandering in the wilderness and making
the American people suffer needlessly, some Senate Democrats finally have
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stepped forward to end the pain. It appears to us
this morning that our long national nightmare is finally coming
to an end, and we're grateful for that. At least
some Democrats now finally appear ready to do what Republicans
and President Trump and millions of hard working American people
have been asking them to do for weeks. As we
said from the beginning, the people's government cannot be held
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hostage to further anyone's political agenda. That was never right,
and shutting down the government never produces anything. It never
has if you study history. And so here we are.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, and so you have eight Democrat senators and an
independent Angus King of Maine who caucuses with the Democrats,
who walked across the aisle, and Angus King and incurred
the wrath of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party,
which used to be a tiny minority and is now
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growing mostly through misinformation. But and this was Angus King
after the vote, trying to explain why they had crossed
over cut seven A.
Speaker 13 (12:19):
Would it Would it change in a week or another week,
or after Thanksgiving or Christmas? And there's no evidence that
it would. What there is evidence of is the harm
that the shutdown is doing to the country, what is
doing to millions of federal workers, but also what it's
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doing to tens of millions of recipients of snap This
is a true crisis for those individuals.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I think he's absolutely right, that is exactly why it
needed to end. But that crisis was of the Democrats making.
And then so you had a bunch of some Shaheen
of New Hampshire voted to crossover. And one that I
found very surprising was Senator Tim Kane of Virginia, you know,
Hillary Clinton's former running mate. He went on MSNBC and
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here's what's happened. The liberal media is furious because the
Democrat Party has now been shown to be toothless and
to be motivated politically and not for the benefit of
the American people. And basically, Katie Kurr tried to call
Tim Kaine to account for ending the shutdown cut ten b.
Speaker 14 (13:33):
It seems like this is ripping the party apart at
a time where it felt like the party was coming
back together post elections. How do you convince your fellow
Democrats to stay together on this and how do you
convince voters across the country.
Speaker 15 (13:51):
I say, can I just say ripping the party apart?
I think you're over dramatizing this. I mean, I know
the news business is to try to make everything like
the biggest crisis.
Speaker 14 (14:01):
Let me, let me don't state to me.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
There's difference of opinion.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
But you know, she's actually quoting other members of of
the of the Democratic Caucus. She's not overestimating the fact
the progressive wing is really pissed off. But that's what
people were faced with. But this is Katie Courr responding
to that tense.
Speaker 14 (14:21):
I will quote your fellow Democrats opinion. Gavin Newsom calls
it pathetic. Jeffries complete bs AOC says this is not
about a base of voters. This is about and Katie
people's lives. Chris says, it makes Donald Trump. This is
a moment that demands fighters, not folders. I mean, this
is this is me quoting Democrats. This is I'm not
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making things up, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
And people are.
Speaker 14 (14:46):
Saying you acording it.
Speaker 15 (14:48):
I know it, And you would have said that. You
could have read the same quotes last month, a month ago,
a month ago, a month ago, Will Rogers one hundred
years ago. I don't believe in organized politics. That's why
I'm a Democrat. We're a big tent. We have different
points of view. I've been doing this for thirty one years.
This is by far, by far a minor league issue
within the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, it isn't.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
It's huge, and they can't get over the fact that
there were eight I think it was eight, right, Eight
of these senators said I'd rather put the American people
first than my party, which is how it's supposed to be.
And God bless him for doing it. This is Sonny
Hawson the view ripping Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman to his
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face for voting to reopen the government cut fourteen B
what was.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
A horrific mistake.
Speaker 16 (15:36):
Governor Gavin Newsom called it pathetic and a surrender pole.
After poll found more Americans on both sides of the
aisle blaming Republicans. Even Marjorie Taylor Green blamed the GOP.
As you mentioned, Democrats had big wins last week, so
you had momentum. Why give in now? Why bring a
butter knife to a gunfight. Are you willing to gamble
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that the deal? Please will negotiate on healthcare in good
faith once the government reopens, Because if that gamble is wrong,
half a million Pennsylvanians that you represent, their healthcare cost
will skyrocket. If you are wrong, and.
Speaker 10 (16:14):
I believe you are wrong, how dare you reopen the government?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
How dare you I know and John Fetterman, who's fast
becoming my favorite Democrat senator after Joe Manchin retired. How
to response fourteen C.
Speaker 17 (16:28):
Well, for first of all, MTG is quite literally the
last person in America that I'm going to take advice
or to get their kinds of my leadership and values from.
And now if Democrats are celebrating crazy pants like that,
then that's on them.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
And now I don't need and I don't need a lecture.
I don't need a lecture.
Speaker 17 (16:45):
From from whether it's Bernie or the governor in California,
because they are representing very deep blue blue kinds of
populations and a lot of those things, a lot of
those things were part of the extreme. And remember what
really needs to win, to win the big win is
involving my state and other states and those things. And
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why have we arrived here after the election a year ago.
We want to forget, We've got to forget some of
the things that cost us that election are now for me,
It's like, that's why I'm trying to remind people that
kinds of the extremism, we can't return to those kind
of things and realize we need to find a way forward.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
So he's a little rag time there, I think, but
he gets very excited the stroke issues pop in. But
he's I think he's making a point if you wade
through there these saying, you know, we're not all from
from progressive navy blue states like California, Vermont, Massachusetts would
be one of those as well. We I'm from a
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state that has you know, a huge moderate base and
has Republicans as well as and they wanted the government open.
They trusted the Congress to come back and deal with
the healthcare issue at another date. Open the government, make
sure people have their welfare benefits. That's what the most
important thing is.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
And if you think.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Extremism is the way to go, then you weren't paying
attention when Donald Trump won the last election. That's basically
what Fetterman was saying. And I don't disagree with that.
Speaker 10 (18:14):
Again, and we said this, I think last week when
John Fetterman is the voice of reason for the Democrats,
what yeah, I mean really, because I know we had
the health issues and so obviously God bless him and
all that, but he really was like the far end
of the fishing off the far end of the pier.
And most people thought that or at least most people
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who weren't voting for him thought that. And now he's like, yeah,
he's Look, he's still not my total cup of tea,
but he certainly is speaking far more reasonably than even
some people. And as he mentions, on both ends of
the spectrum that are far off and far off. You know,
Marjorie Taylor Green is pretty far to the right, and
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do we listen to her.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Probably not.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
And the far left like Gavin Newsom and his friends,
probably not. And that's as you mentioned, I mean, that's
where Federman's at. You know, let's bring this closer to
the middle. We're never going to be in the middle,
not all of us, but God Almighty, stop fishing from
the ends of the pier and come together in the
center and get something done.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah, they got nothing for the clothes. They got nothing
for it because they so misjudged how people feel. They're
completely tone deaf to the American voter, which you could
see in the last election as a matter of fact.
So now they're turning their ire from Donald Trump to
Chuck Schumer, and they want Chuck Schumer basically, you know,
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driven out of town. Jake Tapper on CNN said gave
this warning. Cut seventeen.
Speaker 18 (19:44):
Almost every center Republican and eight Senate Democrats are expected
to vote for what they are calling a compromise government
spending bill, finally some progress forwards ending the longest government
shutdown in US history, which has left air try of
travel and chaos, food stamp benefits and limbo and federal
wil without pay. Here is where things stands right at
this minute. The Senate vote to reopen the government is
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about to happen because last night that group of eight
moderate Democrats dropped their fee demand a guaranteed extension of
Obamacare subsidies which expire at the.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
End of the year.
Speaker 18 (20:14):
Most Senate Democrats, we believe, are going to vote know
and many Democrats on Capitol Hill are furious because they
think they have little to show for their fight on healthcare.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
They do have little to show. And here's Congressman Roecanna
on CBS saying the guide we need to replace Schumer.
Schumer's the one that let this happen. Cut fourteen.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
How much of this do you put at the feet
of Charles Schumer, the Democratic leader in the Senate?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Most of it?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I mean, he's the leader of the Senate this deal
would never have happened if he had not blessed it.
Don't take my word for it, take the word of
other Senators were saying that they kept Senator Schumer.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
In the loop the whole time.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Look, I've worked with Senator Schumer. He did an incredible
job on the CHIP, SAG, on the IRA, on infrastructure.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
But it's time for him to be replaced.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
He is not meeting the moment.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
He's out of touch with where the party's base is.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah, and you've got Bernie Sanders winging and again after
his bad night, saying yeah, time for primaries cut twelve.
Speaker 16 (21:17):
I have to ask you if you support Senator Schumer
retaining his leadership role, if you think this kind of
a primary campaign is right minded.
Speaker 12 (21:24):
Well, I think we should have vigorous primaries all over
the country. I don't think that should be the criteria.
I would rather say, do you support Medicare for all?
Do you support an end to citizens you United? Do
you support having a wealth tax on billionaires? Look what
you got right now? Chuck Schumer is part of the establishment,
and I'm sorry to say that many people in the
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Democratic Caucus a part of it. I would say we
have eight or nine out of forty seven people who
I would consider to be progressives. So you can argue,
and I can make the case that Chuck Schumer has
done a lot of bad things, but I think getting
rid of him, who's going to replace him, who is
going to replace Some of the issue right now is
doing primaries, getting people involved in the political process. We're
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going to create a government and an economy that works
for everybody with the guts to take on the aligagus.
So I think we need to take on the Democrat
establishment all over this country.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah, AOC is on the you know, is in take
off line there to go after she's already said she's
going to I know it. So I mean, so I
think Schumer is in big trouble. And I don't think
Schumer dropped the ball. I think what happened is that
Schumer was out of touch. I think most of his
party is out of touch with the American people and
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what they want. And instead of taking lessons from things
like the election like John Fetterman did, and trying to
figure out how to how to use the information, how
to give American people what they want and work within
the frame, you know, within the framework of what their
party believes. Instead, all they've done, I think in Democrats
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have gotten mean. They've just gotten meeter. They swear at people,
and they have they have started to depend on on
scrupulous practices to pass on misinformation. We talked last week
about the BBC and how the BBC had edited Donald
Trump to make it appear as if he had goaded
a crowd to attack the Capitol. And it was such
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a bad job, such a fraudulent editing job, that the
head of the BBC had to step down. And actually,
it looks like Donald Trump issuing the BBC now the
same way he sued Ces.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, a billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
But you know it's not just the BBC, it's legacy
media in the United States is guilty of the same thing.
And you had an example of it this week which
was fascinating.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
You had CBS.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Who should have already learned from the sixty minutes fiasco
when they re edited Kamala Harris's pre election interview to
make her sound better and had to pay Donald Trump
multimillions of dollars. They did it again, and not against
Donald Trump specifically, but did a hatchet job again. In
this case, it was Amanda Harriet CBS News. She's a
Bay area reporter, and she's describing leftist protests outside the
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TPUSA event as peaceful. And then you know, in her
same piece, they showed footage of protesters committing violence, so
they didn't even do a good job of trying to
hide what was actually happening.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Cut sixteen A, Yeah, things.
Speaker 19 (24:28):
Have been lively here while that Turning Point USA event
is still happening inside. Protesters have been out here for hours.
You can see them still here behind me. They have
been chanting. Just a very very lively scene out here.
While things have been mostly peaceful, there have been some
tense moments. Earlier this evening, there was a scuffle that
broke out where two men started fighting. UC Berkeley police
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had to break up that interaction. Later, someone was throwing
smoke bombs and a car backfired, leading some of the
people who were protesting to run away. The protest is
put together by students organizing for Liberation.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
That's like mostly peaceful to you. She characterized that as
mostly peaceful. This is here's some sound of the most full,
mostly peaceful demonstration she's talking about. Cut nineteen A.
Speaker 20 (25:19):
White boy break it up you're bleeding. Hey, white boy,
you're bleeding. White Oh, white boy, white boy, You're bad.
What happened?
Speaker 10 (25:31):
Hold on, I'm gonna do my best. I'm going to
do my best television news reporter thing with that. Hold on,
as you can see, remind me, things are mostly peaceful,
very nice, technic type atmosphere here. Uh, there's a lot
of friendliness and hugging and handshaking. It's very very peaceful
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here behind me, as obviously you can. You can see
behind me.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
You know, they're also challenging people, yelling at resting people people,
so they were bleeding.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
It's I mean, it's mostly peaceful.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
It's fine, you know, I mean, it reminds me of
you remember, I forget what what was the big hurricane
that hit New Orleans?
Speaker 10 (26:09):
Katrina?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Katrina? That's right.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
So I remember I was watching the NBC and they
had a weather reporter in a canoe in what quote
was the flood zone of Hurricane Katrina, sitting there and
as she's reporting in her floating canoe, two men walk by.
The water was up to their ankles as they walked
right by in front of her, and she was caught
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out on TV staging a shot to make it look
worse than it was. Now that, as ridiculous as that was,
was nowhere near as bad as what that what you just.
Speaker 10 (26:42):
Heard in fairness, if she might have just bought new
shoes and didn't want to get them wet.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yeah, okay, so then she could have you know, borrowed
a pair of boots wellies.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
But it's just like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
So even and that that staging for dramatic effect was
still not as bad as this, where you're out and
out lying that it's mostly peaceful as a guy's going
beaten up and bleeding behind you. It reminds me of
you remember during the Floyd Riots, there was a guy
in Georgia saying it's mostly peaceful as a Wendy's was
burning down behind him most and it's like, this is
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what they've been doing. So they lie, they get caught lying,
they give out misinformation, they get caught misinformation, and then
they're shocked when the American people say, we don't believe
you reopen the government.
Speaker 10 (27:26):
As you can see behind me, the Titanic is mostly floating.
We've been told everything's going to be fine.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, that's you know, is it any wonder that the
Democrats are becoming toothless and just put Americans through forty days.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Of hell, you know, for nothing.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
They got nothing from it until eight Democrats decided, you
know what, this is useless. We need to reopen the
government so that people aren't starving. And God bless them
for doing that.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
That's all I have to say.
Speaker 10 (27:58):
God bless them, by the way, and I hear all
the time, right we want to make all Americans blah
blah blah. We're doing this for all Americans. Look, the
honest truth is, and if you have half a brain,
you know this. You probably learned it as a child
when mom said you're not going to get everything you want. Look,
not every American is going to be happy about everything
that gets voted on out of Washington anyway. But the
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problem is we we also have this. Maybe this is
from the the everybody gets a trophy mentality, but nobody
can take a loss like, oh, well, okay, I didn't
get what I wanted there. Oh I got to wait,
or I got this, or we got to negotiator. We
get everybody wants to be the winner all the time,
and that's never gonna happen. And we need to stop
thinking that every American is going to be happy with
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any piece of legislation that gets passed.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
That's true.
Speaker 10 (28:45):
Trophy for you, trophy for you.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, yeah, exactly right. It's snowflake. It's Snowflake's taking over
the world. Basically.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
So in any event, we end every week with a
truth ortroll. This week is yet again my favorite world
class truth controller, which is President Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Who President Trump? He was doing an interview on Fox.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
They were talking about the shutdown and the effect it's
going to have on Chuck Schumer, and President Trump says
he feels really badly for Chuck. Cut one bee.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
I feel badly because I've known Chuck Schumer. I knew
him when he was a person who really loved Israel,
and now he's a Palestinian. He's become a Palestinian and
it's amazing. I've never seen a politician change so much. Also,
he doesn't have you know, he was a pretty talented guy.
He's lost his talent.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Okay, So my question is does he really mean he
feels badly, does he really feel badly for Chuck or
is this the troll?
Speaker 10 (29:43):
Well, there's first of all, there's a lot to unpack
of that cut because I think he's correct, and I
don't think he's trolling when he talks about Schumer has
changed and Schumer's different and all this does he feel
you know, I got to listen to the beginning of
that again, only because I got to hear the way
he says tone.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Yeah, I feel badly because I've no Chuck Schumer knew
him when he was a person who loved Israel, and.
Speaker 10 (30:04):
I you know, I think he does feel sorry for
Chuck Schumer. I think inside he's laughing, but I think
there is somewhere deep inside and he's right. He hasn't
known him for a long time, and Chuck Schumer has
been around since the dawn of time.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
But I want you to remember, this is the guy
that hung a picture of an auto pen instead of
Joe Biden in the presidential gallery. So I'm saying no,
after all the horrible things that Schumer has said, Schumer
has basically called Trump hitler. So I don't think and
even though I think that Donald Trump is a compassionate man,
I don't think a molecule of him feel sorry for
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Chuck Schumer. After where Chuck Schumer just did the American
people and to the families on snap and to people
trying to get home from someplace, and you know, with
air traffic controller, that's all at Chuck Schumer's feet. And
I think that he doesn't feel badly. I think he's
I think that was a completely tongue in cheek, a
complete troll.
Speaker 10 (30:58):
And you know what, obviously have value your opinion. I'm
gonna I'm gonna use a little sports analogy here, just
just because so Red Sox fans, we know we hate
the Yankees, right, we hate the Yankees fans. We hate
the Yankees. We et everything about them when we beat them.
It yes and be but you know I will say
that and this is me, right, this is not Donald
Trump or anybody else. But you know, you dislike your
rival so much, and then you beat them in the
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big game and you're cheering you and then they flashed
the camera over and you see the little kids crying,
and you see the players all sad from the other
team that didn't win. There is a little bit of
I feel sorry, although you really don't. So I almost
feel like that's where Trump's at, like he kind of
feels sorry because because Schuber's getting his head hand.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
I get your analogy. I don't think it's appropriate on
this particularly. It's because, no, this is why I don't
think it works. It's because if that team, before they lost,
went out in public and told everybody that you that
you were a pedophile and that you, you know, were
hitler and all the rest of it, would you really
feel that badly when they lost, or if they were
nice to you before or the game and it was
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a well fought game, Absolutely, I agree with you, but
that's not what happened here. They went after Donald Trump,
and they have been after Donald Trump for numerous years,
going after him and his family and calling him all
sorts of names and saying horrific things about him.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I don't think he's losing any sleep over Check Shop.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
I don't think he feels bad even a little bit
for check Schumer after what Chuck Schumer just fair enough.
So anyway, you can tell us whether you think that
President Trump is in fact, indeed sorry for Chuck Schumer,
or whether you think he's just talking right through his hat.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Just you know.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
It's it's that very dry sense of humor that President
Trump seems to have, although I don't think it was
that dry dang the auto pen picture, but I think
that was in your face. But in any event, you
can tell us how you feel. You can contact Ben
and I on x at news Bite three or on
Facebook at news Byte we upload a new episode every
single Monday, so check back next week and see what
new offerings we have. Meanwhile, I have a great week.
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I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
This is news Bite
The shutdown implodes, embarrassing Democrats who start eating their own.
Violence erupts from the Party of Inclusion, and President Biden
is enshrined as an auto pen at the White House.
You would not believe it if you did not hear
it for yourself. And are did they really just say
that cuts from this week?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
This is a news bite.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
How much of this do you put at the feet
of Charles Schumer, the Democratic leader in the Senate.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Most of it?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
I mean, he's the leader of the Senate, but it's
time for him to be replaced.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
He is not meeting the moment.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
He's out of touch with where the party's base is.
Speaker 7 (00:52):
Yeah, so this is the president ya Walk of Fame.
Speaker 6 (00:54):
Now, who's the ideal with my idea?
Speaker 7 (00:56):
This is Biden right here?
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Wait a second.
Speaker 7 (00:59):
The worst the profile of Biden.
Speaker 8 (01:01):
So he's the worst president in the history of our country.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Are you going to replace that with his actual photo?
Speaker 7 (01:07):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Indeed.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So that was President Trump and Laura Ingram doing this
is a Fox News interview, and the President was giving
Laura a tour of the White House, which the President
has done a number of renovations on and what they
are talking about in this particular cut is that this
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involved a new presidential Walk of Fame that President Trump
is installed, and basically it's all photographic portraits, well, you know,
as long as they were cameras, there were some earlier
that are paintings of all the US presidents. Each president
has their portrait in this wall, and they're installing little
beautiful brass plaques underneath each portrait giving the vital information
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for that US president.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
But when you get to.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Joe Biden's where Joe Biden should be, which is the
one just before President Trump, there is a photograph of
an auto pan cut number two.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Please.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Yeah, So this is the president ja Walk of Fame.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Now, who's the idea with my idea?
Speaker 8 (02:16):
My idea?
Speaker 7 (02:16):
Everything's your idea? Okay, sadly's okay, that's Brocus Obama. Okay,
this is Biden right here.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Wait a second.
Speaker 9 (02:27):
The profile the profile of Biden.
Speaker 8 (02:29):
So he's the worst president in the history of our
country and Brocus Obama's top five meaning bad.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Are you going to replace that with his actual photo?
Speaker 7 (02:38):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
So President Trump has installed a photo of an auto
pen where the portrait of Joe Biden should be the
White House. You know, I could have actually saved that
for a truth or tool because but I didn't. But
the question is, you know, he says he's not going
to replace it. So my guess is it's going to
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j d Vance or Marc or Rubier Republican is elected
after Donald Trump, that that picture of the auto pen
will stay. If it's a Democrat who replaces Donald Trump,
then either President Biden will finally have his actual portrait
put up in front instead of the autopen.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Or the whole portrait gallery is going.
Speaker 10 (03:19):
I don't know what I would First of all, I
would say one way or another, some day, whether Donald
Trump decides to put up the real picture or not,
someday there'll be a picture of Joe Biden there, or
they'll take out.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
The whole portrait gallery. But he's the one that installed.
Speaker 10 (03:35):
By the way, I kind of like the idea, I
am going to say something that's really not meant to
be funny or make fun of anything. It's more of
a serious topic because you were talking about you know,
there's pictures, and then there's photographs, and then there's like paintings.
Because obviously before photographs, we had to have paintings with people.
I got to be honest with you. When I see
pictures of especially of like the presidents, and you can
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see them in the Encyclopedia online wherever, I kind of
like the paintings of president. I think they look more
distinguished than even photographs of classical Yeah. So I mean
in some place, and there probably is, and I'm just
saying this before well, there's.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Portraits of all of the presidents scattered throughout the White House,
you know, because before you leave office, they do one,
they do one, and so there are portraits of all
the presidents.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
But that's not what.
Speaker 10 (04:19):
This is, oh, I know. And that's why I said.
I wasn't making a joke about it. I was just
saying it because you would brought it up, and I'm like,
I really do like the paintings.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
This is a hallway leading to the leading to the Palms. No,
it's leading to the Hall of Pomps near where the
Rose Garden is. And the Hall of Poms was actually
installed by Jackie Kennedy and then President Trump has renovated
that because it was falling apart and you have to
walk through the hall of pomps to get to the
Oval Office. So you have to and this is a
way of walking by all the presidents underway of the
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Oval Office, which I think is a very nice idea.
I think it's a well thought out idea. And you know,
and doing something a little bit different than all the
portraits that are around the White House. So I understand
the photograph, but because it's a little less formal than
the than the portraits, but an autopen I mean, you
don't want to admit Donald Trump is one of the
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funnier US presidents we've ever had.
Speaker 10 (05:10):
Well, he likes he likes to you know, if he
doesn't like you, he's gonna do something to Pokio. The
other thing, by the way that I think would be
this would be right up Donald Trump's alley would be
have a nice room full of the pictures of the
presidents he admires or liked or thought were good, and
just put the other pictures scattered about in the White
House bathrooms.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Well, basically he has done that.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
You must have you know, you must have been the
same wavelength the ones that he likes, or either outside
the Oval Office or inside the all of the office.
I'm pretty sure that the ones he doesn't like are
in the basement. And the basement is not like yours
are my basement where it's you know, you got you know,
old moving boxes and the water heater. The basement of
the White House is basically a repository of things that
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are unwanted from upstairs.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
And there are opposites like everybody's house, and there are.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Base and there are but there are off is down there.
And if you go beyond below those, of course you
have bunkers. But it's those are That's actually why the
East Wing was originally built, was to to put building
on top of the bunker that was built for the
president during World War Two.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
So anyway, there you go. What can I say?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I grew up in Washington, d C. Took many tours
of the White House and apparently absorbed a lot of
useless information while I was While I was at it.
Speaker 10 (06:25):
Look I got a I got a basement at my house.
And there's a lot of junk down there too, So okay,
just like everybody. No no bunker though.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, but in this case, you know, I think the
portrait of Joe Biden, the painted portrait, is in the
basement whereas in the Hall of Presidents it's now an
auto pen with a plaque underneath it that says Joe Biden.
But obviously, when he took Laura Ingram on the tour,
President Trump was feeling his oats because Democrats basically rolled
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the dice and lost, and the longest shutdown of the
federal government history was over. They actually, you know it was.
It effectively ended a couple days ago. The actual vote
schedule for today, the day we're taping this, but the
cloture motion was voted, and Senator Schumer saw the writing
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on the wall at the time of the cloture vote
and was beside himself cut five A.
Speaker 11 (07:22):
I must vote no. This health care crisis is so severe,
so urgent, so devastating for families back home, that I
cannot in good faith support this cr that that fails
to address the health care crisis. But let me be clear,
however this vote turns out, this fight will and must continue.
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Democrats must fight because of millions of millions of families
will lose health care coverage. We must fight because children
who are dying of cancer will not get health care coverage.
We must fight because a senior citizen not afford to
pay twenty five thousand dollars a year just for health insurance.
We must fight to keep millions from financial ruin.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
He looked panic stricken, and he should because he tried
to make Americans believe that this was about health care.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
It wasn't.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And you know, when the Republicans tried to bring a
separate healthcare bill, the Democrats wouldn't vote on it because
it was separate. They the Democrats are the ones that
actually shut down the government and refuse to vote on
anything because they wanted their version of a bill that
they themselves sunsetted. They're the ones that put on there
that the end date. They did that and then realized
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that was a mistake, and so then they tried to
hold everybody up for hostage to expand it, and they
wanted to include health care for illegal aliens, which you know,
the Republican Party is just not going to stand for,
nor are most Americans. And everybody was pretty much clear
that we knew we were being peed on and it
wasn't raining no matter what the Democrats said. But the
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Schumer put his reputation on the line to convince the
American people, and when that failed, he realized that the
writing was on the wall for him and a lot
of other Democrats still tried to stick to the story,
but realized that they were going down. This is Senator
Bernie Sanders, Vermont, ten A.
Speaker 12 (09:17):
As everybody knows, just on Tuesday, we had an election
all over this country. And what the election showed is
that the American people want us to stand up to
trump Ism, to his war against working class people, to
his authoritarianism. That is what the American people wanted. But
tonight that is not what happened. So we've got to
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go forward and do the best that we can to
try to protect working class people, to make sure that
the United States not only does not throw people off
of healthcare, but ends the absurdity of being the only
major country on Earth that doesn't guarantee healthcare to all people.
We got a lot of work to do. But to
be honest with you, it was not a good night,
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thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
No, it wasn't if you were a moderate Democrat.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
The progressives, i think didn't carry the way because either
way they had a fighting point. They could either say,
you know, still fight for illegal alien healthcare, or if
it went down, they could, you know, blame Schumer and
friends and take over the Democratic Party, destroying the moderate
section of it.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
And I think that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 10 (10:24):
The only thing better than having a fall guy is
having two fall guys. Yeah, like one, Oh, that one's
not okay, we'll go with this one.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
But what they did had held no sway, and eventually
you had eight, a combination of eight Democrats and independent
to walk across the aisle. And then Mike Johnson, the
Speaker of the House, made this announcement cut number ten.
Speaker 9 (10:47):
I'm very thankful to see you all this morning. I'm
thankful to welcome you to what appears to be the
beginning of the end of the longest government shutdown in
US history. As shameful as that is, I don't I
think it's coincidental, you know how I think. But it's
after forty days of wandering in the wilderness and making
the American people suffer needlessly, some Senate Democrats finally have
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stepped forward to end the pain. It appears to us
this morning that our long national nightmare is finally coming
to an end, and we're grateful for that. At least
some Democrats now finally appear ready to do what Republicans
and President Trump and millions of hard working American people
have been asking them to do for weeks. As we
said from the beginning, the people's government cannot be held
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hostage to further anyone's political agenda. That was never right,
and shutting down the government never produces anything. It never
has if you study history. And so here we are.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, and so you have eight Democrat senators and an
independent Angus King of Maine who caucuses with the Democrats,
who walked across the aisle, and Angus King and incurred
the wrath of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party,
which used to be a tiny minority and is now
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growing mostly through misinformation. But and this was Angus King
after the vote, trying to explain why they had crossed
over cut seven A.
Speaker 13 (12:19):
Would it Would it change in a week or another week,
or after Thanksgiving or Christmas? And there's no evidence that
it would. What there is evidence of is the harm
that the shutdown is doing to the country, what is
doing to millions of federal workers, but also what it's
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doing to tens of millions of recipients of snap This
is a true crisis for those individuals.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I think he's absolutely right, that is exactly why it
needed to end. But that crisis was of the Democrats making.
And then so you had a bunch of some Shaheen
of New Hampshire voted to crossover. And one that I
found very surprising was Senator Tim Kane of Virginia, you know,
Hillary Clinton's former running mate. He went on MSNBC and
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here's what's happened. The liberal media is furious because the
Democrat Party has now been shown to be toothless and
to be motivated politically and not for the benefit of
the American people. And basically, Katie Kurr tried to call
Tim Kaine to account for ending the shutdown cut ten b.
Speaker 14 (13:33):
It seems like this is ripping the party apart at
a time where it felt like the party was coming
back together post elections. How do you convince your fellow
Democrats to stay together on this and how do you
convince voters across the country.
Speaker 15 (13:51):
I say, can I just say ripping the party apart?
I think you're over dramatizing this. I mean, I know
the news business is to try to make everything like
the biggest crisis.
Speaker 14 (14:01):
Let me, let me don't state to me.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
There's difference of opinion.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
But you know, she's actually quoting other members of of
the of the Democratic Caucus. She's not overestimating the fact
the progressive wing is really pissed off. But that's what
people were faced with. But this is Katie Courr responding
to that tense.
Speaker 14 (14:21):
I will quote your fellow Democrats opinion. Gavin Newsom calls
it pathetic. Jeffries complete bs AOC says this is not
about a base of voters. This is about and Katie
people's lives. Chris says, it makes Donald Trump. This is
a moment that demands fighters, not folders. I mean, this
is this is me quoting Democrats. This is I'm not
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making things up, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
And people are.
Speaker 14 (14:46):
Saying you acording it.
Speaker 15 (14:48):
I know it, And you would have said that. You
could have read the same quotes last month, a month ago,
a month ago, a month ago, Will Rogers one hundred
years ago. I don't believe in organized politics. That's why
I'm a Democrat. We're a big tent. We have different
points of view. I've been doing this for thirty one years.
This is by far, by far a minor league issue
within the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, it isn't.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
It's huge, and they can't get over the fact that
there were eight I think it was eight, right, Eight
of these senators said I'd rather put the American people
first than my party, which is how it's supposed to be.
And God bless him for doing it. This is Sonny
Hawson the view ripping Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman to his
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face for voting to reopen the government cut fourteen B
what was.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
A horrific mistake.
Speaker 16 (15:36):
Governor Gavin Newsom called it pathetic and a surrender pole.
After poll found more Americans on both sides of the
aisle blaming Republicans. Even Marjorie Taylor Green blamed the GOP.
As you mentioned, Democrats had big wins last week, so
you had momentum. Why give in now? Why bring a
butter knife to a gunfight. Are you willing to gamble
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that the deal? Please will negotiate on healthcare in good
faith once the government reopens, Because if that gamble is wrong,
half a million Pennsylvanians that you represent, their healthcare cost
will skyrocket. If you are wrong, and.
Speaker 10 (16:14):
I believe you are wrong, how dare you reopen the government?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
How dare you I know and John Fetterman, who's fast
becoming my favorite Democrat senator after Joe Manchin retired. How
to response fourteen C.
Speaker 17 (16:28):
Well, for first of all, MTG is quite literally the
last person in America that I'm going to take advice
or to get their kinds of my leadership and values from.
And now if Democrats are celebrating crazy pants like that,
then that's on them.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
And now I don't need and I don't need a lecture.
I don't need a lecture.
Speaker 17 (16:45):
From from whether it's Bernie or the governor in California,
because they are representing very deep blue blue kinds of
populations and a lot of those things, a lot of
those things were part of the extreme. And remember what
really needs to win, to win the big win is
involving my state and other states and those things. And
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why have we arrived here after the election a year ago.
We want to forget, We've got to forget some of
the things that cost us that election are now for me,
It's like, that's why I'm trying to remind people that
kinds of the extremism, we can't return to those kind
of things and realize we need to find a way forward.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
So he's a little rag time there, I think, but
he gets very excited the stroke issues pop in. But
he's I think he's making a point if you wade
through there these saying, you know, we're not all from
from progressive navy blue states like California, Vermont, Massachusetts would
be one of those as well. We I'm from a
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state that has you know, a huge moderate base and
has Republicans as well as and they wanted the government open.
They trusted the Congress to come back and deal with
the healthcare issue at another date. Open the government, make
sure people have their welfare benefits. That's what the most
important thing is.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
And if you think.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Extremism is the way to go, then you weren't paying
attention when Donald Trump won the last election. That's basically
what Fetterman was saying. And I don't disagree with that.
Speaker 10 (18:14):
Again, and we said this, I think last week when
John Fetterman is the voice of reason for the Democrats,
what yeah, I mean really, because I know we had
the health issues and so obviously God bless him and
all that, but he really was like the far end
of the fishing off the far end of the pier.
And most people thought that or at least most people
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who weren't voting for him thought that. And now he's like, yeah,
he's Look, he's still not my total cup of tea,
but he certainly is speaking far more reasonably than even
some people. And as he mentions, on both ends of
the spectrum that are far off and far off. You know,
Marjorie Taylor Green is pretty far to the right, and
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do we listen to her.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Probably not.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
And the far left like Gavin Newsom and his friends,
probably not. And that's as you mentioned, I mean, that's
where Federman's at. You know, let's bring this closer to
the middle. We're never going to be in the middle,
not all of us, but God Almighty, stop fishing from
the ends of the pier and come together in the
center and get something done.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah, they got nothing for the clothes. They got nothing
for it because they so misjudged how people feel. They're
completely tone deaf to the American voter, which you could
see in the last election as a matter of fact.
So now they're turning their ire from Donald Trump to
Chuck Schumer, and they want Chuck Schumer basically, you know,
(19:39):
driven out of town. Jake Tapper on CNN said gave
this warning. Cut seventeen.
Speaker 18 (19:44):
Almost every center Republican and eight Senate Democrats are expected
to vote for what they are calling a compromise government
spending bill, finally some progress forwards ending the longest government
shutdown in US history, which has left air try of
travel and chaos, food stamp benefits and limbo and federal
wil without pay. Here is where things stands right at
this minute. The Senate vote to reopen the government is
(20:05):
about to happen because last night that group of eight
moderate Democrats dropped their fee demand a guaranteed extension of
Obamacare subsidies which expire at the.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
End of the year.
Speaker 18 (20:14):
Most Senate Democrats, we believe, are going to vote know
and many Democrats on Capitol Hill are furious because they
think they have little to show for their fight on healthcare.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
They do have little to show. And here's Congressman Roecanna
on CBS saying the guide we need to replace Schumer.
Schumer's the one that let this happen. Cut fourteen.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
How much of this do you put at the feet
of Charles Schumer, the Democratic leader in the Senate?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Most of it?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I mean, he's the leader of the Senate this deal
would never have happened if he had not blessed it.
Don't take my word for it, take the word of
other Senators were saying that they kept Senator Schumer.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
In the loop the whole time.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Look, I've worked with Senator Schumer. He did an incredible
job on the CHIP, SAG, on the IRA, on infrastructure.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
But it's time for him to be replaced.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
He is not meeting the moment.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
He's out of touch with where the party's base is.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah, and you've got Bernie Sanders winging and again after
his bad night, saying yeah, time for primaries cut twelve.
Speaker 16 (21:17):
I have to ask you if you support Senator Schumer
retaining his leadership role, if you think this kind of
a primary campaign is right minded.
Speaker 12 (21:24):
Well, I think we should have vigorous primaries all over
the country. I don't think that should be the criteria.
I would rather say, do you support Medicare for all?
Do you support an end to citizens you United? Do
you support having a wealth tax on billionaires? Look what
you got right now? Chuck Schumer is part of the establishment,
and I'm sorry to say that many people in the
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Democratic Caucus a part of it. I would say we
have eight or nine out of forty seven people who
I would consider to be progressives. So you can argue,
and I can make the case that Chuck Schumer has
done a lot of bad things, but I think getting
rid of him, who's going to replace him, who is
going to replace Some of the issue right now is
doing primaries, getting people involved in the political process. We're
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going to create a government and an economy that works
for everybody with the guts to take on the aligagus.
So I think we need to take on the Democrat
establishment all over this country.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah, AOC is on the you know, is in take
off line there to go after she's already said she's
going to I know it. So I mean, so I
think Schumer is in big trouble. And I don't think
Schumer dropped the ball. I think what happened is that
Schumer was out of touch. I think most of his
party is out of touch with the American people and
(22:38):
what they want. And instead of taking lessons from things
like the election like John Fetterman did, and trying to
figure out how to how to use the information, how
to give American people what they want and work within
the frame, you know, within the framework of what their
party believes. Instead, all they've done, I think in Democrats
(22:59):
have gotten mean. They've just gotten meeter. They swear at people,
and they have they have started to depend on on
scrupulous practices to pass on misinformation. We talked last week
about the BBC and how the BBC had edited Donald
Trump to make it appear as if he had goaded
a crowd to attack the Capitol. And it was such
(23:22):
a bad job, such a fraudulent editing job, that the
head of the BBC had to step down. And actually,
it looks like Donald Trump issuing the BBC now the
same way he sued Ces.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, a billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
But you know it's not just the BBC, it's legacy
media in the United States is guilty of the same thing.
And you had an example of it this week which
was fascinating.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
You had CBS.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Who should have already learned from the sixty minutes fiasco
when they re edited Kamala Harris's pre election interview to
make her sound better and had to pay Donald Trump
multimillions of dollars. They did it again, and not against
Donald Trump specifically, but did a hatchet job again. In
this case, it was Amanda Harriet CBS News. She's a
Bay area reporter, and she's describing leftist protests outside the
(24:11):
TPUSA event as peaceful. And then you know, in her
same piece, they showed footage of protesters committing violence, so
they didn't even do a good job of trying to
hide what was actually happening.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Cut sixteen A, Yeah, things.
Speaker 19 (24:28):
Have been lively here while that Turning Point USA event
is still happening inside. Protesters have been out here for hours.
You can see them still here behind me. They have
been chanting. Just a very very lively scene out here.
While things have been mostly peaceful, there have been some
tense moments. Earlier this evening, there was a scuffle that
broke out where two men started fighting. UC Berkeley police
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had to break up that interaction. Later, someone was throwing
smoke bombs and a car backfired, leading some of the
people who were protesting to run away. The protest is
put together by students organizing for Liberation.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
That's like mostly peaceful to you. She characterized that as
mostly peaceful. This is here's some sound of the most full,
mostly peaceful demonstration she's talking about. Cut nineteen A.
Speaker 20 (25:19):
White boy break it up you're bleeding. Hey, white boy,
you're bleeding. White Oh, white boy, white boy, You're bad.
What happened?
Speaker 10 (25:31):
Hold on, I'm gonna do my best. I'm going to
do my best television news reporter thing with that. Hold on,
as you can see, remind me, things are mostly peaceful,
very nice, technic type atmosphere here. Uh, there's a lot
of friendliness and hugging and handshaking. It's very very peaceful
(25:51):
here behind me, as obviously you can. You can see
behind me.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
You know, they're also challenging people, yelling at resting people people,
so they were bleeding.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
It's I mean, it's mostly peaceful.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
It's fine, you know, I mean, it reminds me of
you remember, I forget what what was the big hurricane
that hit New Orleans?
Speaker 10 (26:09):
Katrina?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Katrina? That's right.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
So I remember I was watching the NBC and they
had a weather reporter in a canoe in what quote
was the flood zone of Hurricane Katrina, sitting there and
as she's reporting in her floating canoe, two men walk by.
The water was up to their ankles as they walked
right by in front of her, and she was caught
(26:31):
out on TV staging a shot to make it look
worse than it was. Now that, as ridiculous as that was,
was nowhere near as bad as what that what you just.
Speaker 10 (26:42):
Heard in fairness, if she might have just bought new
shoes and didn't want to get them wet.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yeah, okay, so then she could have you know, borrowed
a pair of boots wellies.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
But it's just like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
So even and that that staging for dramatic effect was
still not as bad as this, where you're out and
out lying that it's mostly peaceful as a guy's going
beaten up and bleeding behind you. It reminds me of
you remember during the Floyd Riots, there was a guy
in Georgia saying it's mostly peaceful as a Wendy's was
burning down behind him most and it's like, this is
(27:14):
what they've been doing. So they lie, they get caught lying,
they give out misinformation, they get caught misinformation, and then
they're shocked when the American people say, we don't believe
you reopen the government.
Speaker 10 (27:26):
As you can see behind me, the Titanic is mostly floating.
We've been told everything's going to be fine.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, that's you know, is it any wonder that the
Democrats are becoming toothless and just put Americans through forty days.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Of hell, you know, for nothing.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
They got nothing from it until eight Democrats decided, you
know what, this is useless. We need to reopen the
government so that people aren't starving. And God bless them
for doing that.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
That's all I have to say.
Speaker 10 (27:58):
God bless them, by the way, and I hear all
the time, right we want to make all Americans blah
blah blah. We're doing this for all Americans. Look, the
honest truth is, and if you have half a brain,
you know this. You probably learned it as a child
when mom said you're not going to get everything you want. Look,
not every American is going to be happy about everything
that gets voted on out of Washington anyway. But the
(28:19):
problem is we we also have this. Maybe this is
from the the everybody gets a trophy mentality, but nobody
can take a loss like, oh, well, okay, I didn't
get what I wanted there. Oh I got to wait,
or I got this, or we got to negotiator. We
get everybody wants to be the winner all the time,
and that's never gonna happen. And we need to stop
thinking that every American is going to be happy with
(28:41):
any piece of legislation that gets passed.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
That's true.
Speaker 10 (28:45):
Trophy for you, trophy for you.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, yeah, exactly right. It's snowflake. It's Snowflake's taking over
the world. Basically.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
So in any event, we end every week with a
truth ortroll. This week is yet again my favorite world
class truth controller, which is President Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Who President Trump? He was doing an interview on Fox.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
They were talking about the shutdown and the effect it's
going to have on Chuck Schumer, and President Trump says
he feels really badly for Chuck. Cut one bee.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
I feel badly because I've known Chuck Schumer. I knew
him when he was a person who really loved Israel,
and now he's a Palestinian. He's become a Palestinian and
it's amazing. I've never seen a politician change so much. Also,
he doesn't have you know, he was a pretty talented guy.
He's lost his talent.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Okay, So my question is does he really mean he
feels badly, does he really feel badly for Chuck or
is this the troll?
Speaker 10 (29:43):
Well, there's first of all, there's a lot to unpack
of that cut because I think he's correct, and I
don't think he's trolling when he talks about Schumer has
changed and Schumer's different and all this does he feel
you know, I got to listen to the beginning of
that again, only because I got to hear the way
he says tone.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Yeah, I feel badly because I've no Chuck Schumer knew
him when he was a person who loved Israel, and.
Speaker 10 (30:04):
I you know, I think he does feel sorry for
Chuck Schumer. I think inside he's laughing, but I think
there is somewhere deep inside and he's right. He hasn't
known him for a long time, and Chuck Schumer has
been around since the dawn of time.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
But I want you to remember, this is the guy
that hung a picture of an auto pen instead of
Joe Biden in the presidential gallery. So I'm saying no,
after all the horrible things that Schumer has said, Schumer
has basically called Trump hitler. So I don't think and
even though I think that Donald Trump is a compassionate man,
I don't think a molecule of him feel sorry for
(30:39):
Chuck Schumer. After where Chuck Schumer just did the American
people and to the families on snap and to people
trying to get home from someplace, and you know, with
air traffic controller, that's all at Chuck Schumer's feet. And
I think that he doesn't feel badly. I think he's
I think that was a completely tongue in cheek, a
complete troll.
Speaker 10 (30:58):
And you know what, obviously have value your opinion. I'm
gonna I'm gonna use a little sports analogy here, just
just because so Red Sox fans, we know we hate
the Yankees, right, we hate the Yankees fans. We hate
the Yankees. We et everything about them when we beat them.
It yes and be but you know I will say
that and this is me, right, this is not Donald
Trump or anybody else. But you know, you dislike your
rival so much, and then you beat them in the
(31:19):
big game and you're cheering you and then they flashed
the camera over and you see the little kids crying,
and you see the players all sad from the other
team that didn't win. There is a little bit of
I feel sorry, although you really don't. So I almost
feel like that's where Trump's at, like he kind of
feels sorry because because Schuber's getting his head hand.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
I get your analogy. I don't think it's appropriate on
this particularly. It's because, no, this is why I don't
think it works. It's because if that team, before they lost,
went out in public and told everybody that you that
you were a pedophile and that you, you know, were
hitler and all the rest of it, would you really
feel that badly when they lost, or if they were
nice to you before or the game and it was
(32:00):
a well fought game, Absolutely, I agree with you, but
that's not what happened here. They went after Donald Trump,
and they have been after Donald Trump for numerous years,
going after him and his family and calling him all
sorts of names and saying horrific things about him.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I don't think he's losing any sleep over Check Shop.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
I don't think he feels bad even a little bit
for check Schumer after what Chuck Schumer just fair enough.
So anyway, you can tell us whether you think that
President Trump is in fact, indeed sorry for Chuck Schumer,
or whether you think he's just talking right through his hat.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Just you know.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
It's it's that very dry sense of humor that President
Trump seems to have, although I don't think it was
that dry dang the auto pen picture, but I think
that was in your face. But in any event, you
can tell us how you feel. You can contact Ben
and I on x at news Bite three or on
Facebook at news Byte we upload a new episode every
single Monday, so check back next week and see what
new offerings we have. Meanwhile, I have a great week.
(33:00):
I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
This is news Bite
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