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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
From Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
We just have to demonstrate that he will not take
power if he does, run on making sure he, under
legitimate efforts of a Marcus Constitution, does not become the
next president.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Again, we did it.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
We did it.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Joe.
Speaker 6 (00:28):
Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I,
Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Hi, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
That I will faithfully execute.
Speaker 7 (00:41):
That I will faithfully execute the office of President of
the United States.
Speaker 8 (00:46):
The office of President of the United States.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
And will to the best of my ability, and will,
to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend, preserve, protect,
and defend the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution
of the United States.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
So help me, God, So help me, God, my friend.
Speaker 8 (01:11):
We are one people, one family, and one glorious nation
under God.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
We will never give in.
Speaker 8 (01:19):
We will never give up, we will never ever back down,
and we will.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Never ever ever ever surrender.
Speaker 8 (01:27):
Together, we will fight, fight, fight, and.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
We will win win win. We're gonna win, win, win.
Speaker 8 (01:33):
God, Every citizen, I will fight for you, for your
family and your future. Every single day, I will be
fighting for you, and with every breath in my body,
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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 4 (02:07):
That's what we have to This is a magnificent victory
for the American people that will allow.
Speaker 8 (02:17):
Us to make America great.
Speaker 9 (02:20):
I guess I'll get to this later in the show.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
We committed to President Trump's speech.
Speaker 9 (02:30):
We were going to put his speech, the entirety of
his speech, or part of his speech, into the second hour,
and then we heard him give the speech and we
decided we had to play it all and we had
to get out of the way and let it breathe.
It's a programming decision that's always tough because you say, well,
a lot of you will have listened to it live.
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It's worth hearing again. But we also recognize that everybody's
in a different place. Some of our audience was at work,
some of our audience was at the hospital. Some of
our our audience was in a position that they could
not at that moment listen live. This speech is so
important because it's not just a speech. This is the
checklist of here's what we're doing on day one. We're
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not waiting around. And I don't recall a president speaking
with this command of their agenda. I don't recall President
Trump ever delivering a speech as well as he delivered this.
And I'm not being a critic. I'm being the ultimate
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ultimate complimenter of what he delivered today and how important and.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Meaningful it is.
Speaker 9 (03:43):
The left is left with simply being saboteurs, gumming up
the works of the accomplishments he's about to undertake. And
let me tell you something, everybody is trying to get
on stage with him. Everybody, the village people went from
suing him over U their song to performing at a
ball and him coming.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Up to the stage.
Speaker 9 (04:04):
Everybody understands America is ready for change.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Here's more of that speech.
Speaker 8 (04:09):
President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and
through talent. He was a natural businessman and gave Teddy
Roosevelt the money for many of the great things he did,
including the Panama Canal, which has foolishly been given to
the country of Panama after the United States. The United States,
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I've been thinking of this, spent more money than ever
spent on a project before, and lost thirty eight thousand
lives in the building of the Panama Canal. We have
been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should
have never been made, and Panama's promised to us has
been broken. The purpose of our deal and the spirit
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of our treaty has been totally violated. American ships are
being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way,
shape or form, and that includes the United States Navy.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
And above all, China is.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
Operating the Panama Canal, and we didn't give it to China.
We gave it to Panama, and we're taking it back.
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Above all, my message to Americans today is that it
is time for.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Us to once again act with courage, vigor, and.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
The vitality of history's greatest civilization. So as we liberate
our nation, we will lead it to new heights of
victory and success.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
We will not be deterred.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Together, we will end the chronic disease epidemic and keep
our children safe, healthy, and disease free. The United States
will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that
increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises
our expectations and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
And we will pursue our.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
Manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant
the stars and stripes on the planet Mars. Ambition is
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the lifeblood of a great nation, and right now our
nation is more ambitious than any other.
Speaker 10 (06:58):
There is no nation our nation.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneers.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
The call of the next great adventure resounds from within
our souls. Our American ancestors turned a small group of
colonies on the edge of a vast continent into a
mighty republic of the most extraordinary citizens on Earth.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
No one comes close.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Americans pushed thousands of miles through a rugged land of
untamed wilderness. They crossed desert, scaled mountains, braved untold dangers,
won the wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny,
lifted millions from poverty, harnessed electricity, split the atom, launched
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mankind into the heavens, and put the universe of human
knowledge into the palm of the human hand. If we
work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no
dream we cannot achieve. Many people thought it was impossible
for me to stage such a historic political comeback.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
But as you see today here I am.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
The American people have spoken in Ramon du King of
Dan and this other guy, Michael Barry.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
These are the kind of guys.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
You're like a smack and an ass.
Speaker 9 (08:29):
Oh, the crazy cat ladies that swore they were going
to take down jd Vance tonight, they're not happy today.
They're wearing their pink hats in reference to their reproductive
organ which is what they want to be reduced to.
And they are marching against Donald Trump. But what they
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called eight years ago the Women's March, that term is
not inclusive enough. So on the day that he declared,
our government will recognize men and women and nothing else,
they have decided to call their march the People's March,
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because calling it the Women's March might upset women who
now consider themselves men or who now consider themselves non binary.
The mockery begins. President Trump's popularity in his success only
serve to shame those fools and their silliness, their absurd,
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ridiculous notions, that America has now rejected.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Woke is broke, and we're done with it.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
The end of President Trump's speech today, the finest speech
I've ever heard him deliver, and we listen to them
all at a rally anywhere, the fest each he's ever given,
and a declaration of what he's doing on day one,
and it hit every note he has campaigned on securing
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our border, deporting those who came here illegally, restoring the
men and women of our military to a position of dignity,
and stop politicizing that nonsense, all of it. He didn't
leave anything out. There will be more that is done.
But when Biden accomplished everything to destroy this country through
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executive order, it made it very easy to simply undo
it all through executive order. In a sense, they did
Donald Trump a big favor by engaging in such stupid
acts that did not have congressional approval. They made it
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very simple for him to simply undo them on day one.
He made clear today that is exactly what he would
be doing. And it is obvious that Donald Trump didn't
come to Washington, d C. To make friends with those
who would destroy our nation.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
He came to d C.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
To honor the commitment, the promises he made to you.
And that is why everyday Americans are so excited.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I know, I am. Here's the end of that speech.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
I stand before you now as proof that you should
never believe that something is impossible to do in America.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
The impossible is what we do best.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
From New York to Los Angeles, from Philadelphia to Phoenix,
from Chicago to Miami, from Houston to right here in Washington,
d C. Our country was forged and built by the
generations of patriots who gave everything they had for our
rights and for our freedom. They were farmers and soldiers,
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cowboys and factory workers, steel workers and coal miners, police
officers and pioneers who pushed onward, marched forward, and let
no obstacle defeat their spirit or their pride. Together they
laid down the railroads, raised up the skyscrapers, built great highways,
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won two World Wars, defeated fascism and communism, and triumphed
over every single challenge that they face. After all we
have been through together, we stand on the verge of
the four greatest years in American history.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
With your help, we will restore America.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
Promise, and we will rebuild the nation that we love,
and we love it so much. We are one people,
one family, and one glorious nation under God. So to
every parent who dreams for their child, and every child
who dreams for their future, I am with you.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
I will fight for you, and I will win for you.
We are going to win like never before.
Speaker 10 (13:26):
Okay, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
In recent years, our nation has suffered greatly, but we
are going to bring it back and make it great again,
Greater than ever before. We will be a nation like
no other, full of compassion, courage, and exceptionalism. Our power
will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of
unity to a world that has been angry, violent, and
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totally unpredictable. America will be respected again and admired again,
including by people of religion, faith, and goodwill. We will
be prosperous, we will be proud, we will be strong,
and we will win like never before. We will not
be conquered, we will not be intimidated, we will not
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be broken, and.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
We will not fail.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
From this day on, the United States of America will
be a free, sovereign, and independent nation.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
We will stand bravely, we will live proudly.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
We will dream boldly and nothing will stand in our
way because we are Americans.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
The future is ours and our golden age has just begun.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Thank you God, bless America, Thank you all, Thank you
cat Ca.
Speaker 9 (15:03):
I have a fine Michael Barry in the This is
the moment we haven't waited for, we have worked for
for four long years.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Enjoy this moment. You earned it.
Speaker 11 (15:20):
Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I,
Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
H Donald John Trump, I do solemnly swear that I
will faithfully execute.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
You, that I will faithfully execute the office of President
of the United States.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
The office of President of the United States.
Speaker 11 (15:38):
And will to the best of my ability, and will
to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend, preserve, protect,
and defend the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution
of the United States.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
So help me, God, So help me God.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Congratulations particular, Donald Trump replaces Joe Biden as president and
isn't it interesting. CNN's Harry Inton says that Joe Biden's
popularity is the lowest we have ever seen. He said
he's managed to end up at a lower approval rating
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at the end of his term than any president on record,
and yet what does he do well? He issues pardons
to Fauci, to Millie, to his family members, to the
January sixth folks preemptive pardons. Ramonis is cliped four oh one.
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Jake Tapper had asked Joe Biden about the rumor this
was back in twenty twenty, that Trump, on his way
out would issue preemptive pardons for folks who might be
charged with the crime. And listen to what President elect
Biden said at that time.
Speaker 12 (16:56):
President Trump is reportedly considering a wave of preempty of pardons.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Does this concern you all, these preemptive.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Partons, Well, it's it concerns me in terms of what
kind of precedence sets and how the rest of the
world looks as US as a nation of laws and injustice.
I'm not going to see an our administration that kind
of approach to pardons. Nor are you going to see
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in our administration the approach to making policy by tweets.
You know, it's just going to be a totally different
way in which we approach the justice system.
Speaker 9 (17:33):
Guarantee you, Joe Biden can't open Twitter. Guarantee you he
couldn't tweet if we wanted two. Adam Shift was one
of the people to receive a preemptive pardon. Well, he
was recently asked by George Stephanopolis, who caused his network
to have to write a huge check to Donald Trump
for defaming him. He showed great concern about the January
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sixth prisoners receiving pardon because those people being criminals is
central to the left's theory, which they have beaten into
your head again and again, that these people were a
threat to democracy. Unarmed, mind you, but these little old
ladies were a threat to democracy, and he does not
want them to get a pardon.
Speaker 10 (18:16):
How about the question about the January sixth pardons.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Well, greatly concerned about it.
Speaker 13 (18:21):
First of all that he could pardon people that beat
police officers, gouge them, bear sprayed them. But also even
beyond that, just the general message it would send George
that his first pardons are going to go to people
who sought, through the use of violence at the Capitol
to stop the peaceful transfer of power that played some
role in that. Really, that's who he wants to pardon.
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The American people, I think voted for him in part
because they wanted something done about crime, not because they
wanted to see him pardon criminals attacking the government. They
want something done about fentanyl, they want something done about
in California, smash and grab robberies. This is not what
they had in mind. Not political revenge, not rewarding people
who participated in an insurrection to stop the transfer of power.
Speaker 11 (19:05):
The President elect has also talked about prosecute members the
Generator sixth Committee, like you.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
And what did Adam Schiff say about the fact that
Joe Biden gave him a preemptive pardon.
Speaker 11 (19:17):
I know you said you don't want a preemptive pardon
from President Biden. Is that because you think the Trump
administration will not actually prosecute.
Speaker 13 (19:24):
I don't know what the Trump administration will do, but
it's for a couple of reasons. First, those of us
on the committee are very proud of the work we did.
We were doing vital, quintessential oversight of a violent attack
on the Capitol, But so I think it's unnecessary. But second,
the precedent of giving blanket pardons preempted blanket pardons on
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the way out of an administration. I think as a president,
we don't want to set and.
Speaker 11 (19:48):
You've communicated that to the President.
Speaker 13 (19:50):
President Biden communicated it both publicly and privately to Theminstration.
Speaker 9 (19:53):
Audio clip that'll take us to brek Ramon. It's going
to be five h two. Let me get on it
so we can hear it. This is the Speaker of
the House, Mike Johnson, talking about the fact that an
order was signed by Joe Biden that helped Russia and
hurt the LNG exporters in his home state of Louisiana,
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and that he truly believes Joe Biden. When Biden says,
I didn't sign that order, but we know he did.
The question is who did sign that order? Who did
give these pardons? Who has been running the White House?
Speaker 14 (20:29):
I say this without any personal animis at all. I mean,
you know, in some ways actually kind of feel sorry
for Joe Biden. I mean, he's in the twilight years
of his life. He is not obviously has not been
in charge for some time. And I know this by
personal observation, and now the whole world knows it. And
it's been very, very concerning to me over the last
you know, year and a half since I've had this.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Is this the story? When you say personal observation.
Speaker 14 (20:51):
With well, I mean yes, this is it's public now
because the Wall Street Journal got it and we put
it on the front page. But January a year ago,
almost exactly a year ago, I had been asking. I
became speaker in October twenty twenty three, and there were
all sorts of big national security concerns and everything going on,
and I started requesting a meeting with the president because
you know, I'm kind of old school. I'm a constitutional
law guy. Speaker of the House should be able to
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talk to the president, especially in times of great national
interest in calamity. But they wouldn't let me meet with him,
and his staff kept putting getting any excuses. This went
on for like eight or nine weeks. I'm sorry, miss Speaker,
he doesn't have time. What are you talking about it.
I'm second line of the presidency. He has time. I
need to talk to him. We had I can't say
the class fat parts, but we had some big, big
national concerns at the time that I was losing sleepover. Finally,
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I just went to the whole press cort and I said,
the President is not being allowed to meet with a speaker.
There's a problem. So they started putting pressure on him.
Long story, short, they finally relented. They invited me to
the White House. I show up and I realized it's
actually an ambush because it's not just me and the President,
it's also Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, Hakem, you know, the whole,
the CIA director, everybody.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
And then so I walked in the Oval and ah,
I know what this is.
Speaker 14 (21:56):
This is a they're going to hot box the Speaker
on Ukraine funding. That's what it was. This is probably
third week of January. We sit down, we're in the
midst of it and the cold conversation, and I'm going,
we don't need to have this conversation. The President reaches
over just like this, We're sitting in the right next
to the fireplace in the Oval on he grasma arm
and he says, the Speaker and I just need a
couple minutes together. Would y'all just leave us alone? And
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I looked up on the faces of some of the
staffs standing around the wall and they're.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Like, no, he did it. So he called it. He's
the commander in chiefs. Everybody leaves.
Speaker 14 (22:23):
He and I are standing awkwardly in the middle of
the Oval office, right.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Over the rug by that coffee table.
Speaker 14 (22:28):
And I said, Miss President, thanks for the moments that
you know, this is very important. I got some big
national security things I need to talk to you about
that I heard and I think you know and what
do we do?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
But first, real quickly, miss President, can I.
Speaker 14 (22:38):
Ask you a question I cannot answer this from my
constituents in Louisiana.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Why did you pause LNG exports to Europe? Like I
don't understand.
Speaker 14 (22:47):
You know, liquified natural gas is in great demand by
our allies.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 14 (22:51):
Because you understand we just talked about Ukraine. You understand
your fuel in Vladimir Putin's war machine because they got
to get their gas from him, you know. And he
looks at me, stunned this and he said I didn't.
I didn't do that. And I said, Miss President, you yes,
you did. It was an executive order like you know,
three weeks ago, and he goes, no, I didn't do that,
and he's arguing with me. I said, Miss President, respectfully,
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can I could I go out here and ask your
secretary to print it. I we'll read it together. You
definitely did that, and he goes, oh, you talk about
natural gas, yes, sir? He said, Oh, no, I did
you misunderstand? He said, what I did is I signed
this thing to We're going to We're going to conduct
a study on the effects of.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Ellamy can luck and look you you got to make
a very show.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
Today we also celebrate the memory of Martin Luther King Jr.
In my mind, the greatest speech he ever gave did
not relate to race. It was universal in its application.
It was aspirational. It suggested that no matter what you
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do or you do it well. Something my dad always
told me, anything work doing is doing right. If I'd
do something that really didn't want to do, but I'd
half asked and screw it up, he would say, if
you're gonna do it, bother and do it right.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Anything worth doing is work doing right. Be good at
what you do.
Speaker 9 (24:17):
It's very aspiration. It's great advice, great life advice to everyone.
And every year on Martin Luther Ing Junior Day, we
play this tiny little clip because it applies to everyone,
no matter your race.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
What I'm saying to you this morning, my friends, even
if it falls your lot to.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Be a street sweet.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Going out in sweet streets like Michael N's, you located
sweep streets like Handle and Beethoven composed music streets like
shakespeare real portrait.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
All right, sweet streets.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
So well that all the hosts of heaven in earth
will hop the palls and say, he'll live the great.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Street sweeper who set the job.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Wear. If you can't be a pine on the top
of a hill, be a scarf in the valley, But
be the best little scrub on the side of the rill.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Be a bush.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
If you can't be a tree.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
If you can't be a highway, just be a trail.
If you can't be the sun, be a star. It
isn't by size that you win or you fail.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Be the best of whatever you are.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
And when you do this, when you do this, you
master the length of life.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
Martin Luther King in what is considered his most famous speech,
The line that is most remembered was that I have
a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will not be judged
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by the color of their skin, but by the content
of their character. If we are to ever achieve that,
then you must destroy every dei program, every program that
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gives a scholarship, an admission, a job, a promotion, or
anything else on the basis of anything other than qualification.
Merit excellent. We can't control what our skin color or
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sex will be, but.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
We can all work harder and aspire to be.
Speaker 9 (26:43):
The person chosen, the person rewarded, the person admitted, the
person promoted. There should have never been a DEI office
in the FBI. Can you imagine last month after the
deadly New Orleans terrorist attack on New Year's Day.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I guess technically.
Speaker 9 (27:10):
The terror attack occurred after this, but the office now,
after fourteen people were killed and many more injured, the
office of the DEI at the FBI.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Has been ended.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
I got to get to Jake Tapper being very upset
that the tech bros as they call them, the leaders
of major tech companies were at the White House as
Donald Trump's personal guests, and he and Anderson Cooper are so
upset because.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
These men have too much power. This is not good.
Speaker 9 (27:47):
When they wielded that power for evil purposes for Democrats,
he loved it for Obama, and then for Biden, and
then for Kamala. But now now that powerful tool has
landed in the hands of Donald Trump and they can't
bear it.
Speaker 12 (28:06):
Yeah, if I could, just before I throw it to
Anderson just bring back that photograph of the tech pros
inside Saint John's Church. It's just one other thing I
want to show. So we see Mark Zuckerberg on the
left there with the curly hair CEO of Meta, Tim Cook,
his face is blocked vas the white hair CEO of Apple,
Jeff Bezos on the right there the ball gentlemen looking
to his right, CEO of Amazon. The gentleman behind Mark
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Zuckerberg is Sundarpchi. He's the CEO of Google and Anderson.
Between those four people plus Elon Musk from Twitter or X,
those five people that I just mentioned, the four in
the photograph and also Elon Musk controls so much of
the information that we receive. So much is in their
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hands when it comes to ascertaining, monitoring or refusing to monitor,
monitor what is real what is not real. And we're
about to enter an era of deep fakes and all
sorts of misinformation, and the degree to which those five
gentlemen play a role or do not play a role,
will be pivotal in terms of where the American people
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are four years from now, in terms of understanding, in
terms of understanding what is true and what is false.
Speaker 15 (29:21):
You're also you said we. You're not just talking about
we the United States. You're talking about the world, all
the human beings on the planet. They control access to information. Uh,
they're the gatekeepers in many ways to information for the
entire planet.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Oh my goodness. We'll talk more about this tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (29:41):
But Jen Pasaki of the Obama administration, who's now at
MSNBC where else would she be, said the tech bros helped.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Trump win the election, and now he will return the favor.
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 9 (29:54):
It's not only Russian disinformation, it's all the people that
use to help Obama.
Speaker 16 (30:00):
So these CEOs in these industries help Donald Trump and
then he returns the favor.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
That's how it goes.
Speaker 16 (30:05):
Elon Musk spend a quarter of a billion dollars to
help reelect Donald Trump and use the reach of his
own social media platform to push mega talking points, and
in return, Muscle and now be an unelected official in
the new Trump administration and is expected to even have
office space at the White House complex. So I guess
the influence that this small collection of billionaires will have
is something new this time around, and it will be
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a new challenge to explain why this agreement between tech
billionaires and Donald Trump is a real danger. And on
that point, my friend Rachel Maddow may have put it best.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
We haven't yet had the discussion in this country about
why oligarchy is bad. It's bad for your economy, it's
bad for your democracy, yes, but it's also bad for
individual people, for the regular things we need to do
in order to protect our families and live the kind
of lives that we want to live. Oligarchy suck for
ninety nine point ninety nine percent of people who live
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in them.
Speaker 16 (31:00):
Archies suck for ninety nine point nine percent of people
who live in them. They're great if you're a billionaire.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
How many of those are there out there that?
Speaker 16 (31:07):
If you're basically anyone else? And while this agreement may
be playing out very openly, it's on all of us
to explain why it matters and all guarchy suck isn't
a bad place to start.
Speaker 9 (31:19):
Oh my goodness, Rachel Madow and company are as the
kids say, Hella mad because even Saturday Night Live is
now making fun of them. They had a skit where
Joy Reid threw to Rachel Madow, but it wasn't Rachel Madow,
it was Chris Hayes. Ooh, we're back at laughing at
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these people again. On NBC, of all places. Zuckerberg has
come to the table. Tim Cook is at the table soon.
Dar Pachai from Google's at the table. Elon's in the
catbird seat because he was the first one on board.
Oh it's a great day. But folks, I want you
to focus. We're out of the campaign. Don't spend all
your time being angry watching the left melt down celebrated
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so wonderful time because of you.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Hey, Ele, Elvis has left the bill you, thank you,
and good night.
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
From Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
We just have to demonstrate that he will not take
power if he does, run on making sure he, under
legitimate efforts of a Marcus Constitution, does not become the
next president.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Again, we did it.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
We did it.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Joe.
Speaker 6 (00:28):
Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I,
Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Hi, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
That I will faithfully execute.
Speaker 7 (00:41):
That I will faithfully execute the office of President of
the United States.
Speaker 8 (00:46):
The office of President of the United States.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
And will to the best of my ability, and will,
to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend, preserve, protect,
and defend the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution
of the United States.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
So help me, God, So help me, God, my friend.
Speaker 8 (01:11):
We are one people, one family, and one glorious nation
under God.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
We will never give in.
Speaker 8 (01:19):
We will never give up, we will never ever back down,
and we will.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Never ever ever ever surrender.
Speaker 8 (01:27):
Together, we will fight, fight, fight, and.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
We will win win win. We're gonna win, win, win.
Speaker 8 (01:33):
God, Every citizen, I will fight for you, for your
family and your future. Every single day, I will be
fighting for you, and with every breath in my body,
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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 4 (02:07):
That's what we have to This is a magnificent victory
for the American people that will allow.
Speaker 8 (02:17):
Us to make America great.
Speaker 9 (02:20):
I guess I'll get to this later in the show.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
We committed to President Trump's speech.
Speaker 9 (02:30):
We were going to put his speech, the entirety of
his speech, or part of his speech, into the second hour,
and then we heard him give the speech and we
decided we had to play it all and we had
to get out of the way and let it breathe.
It's a programming decision that's always tough because you say, well,
a lot of you will have listened to it live.
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It's worth hearing again. But we also recognize that everybody's
in a different place. Some of our audience was at work,
some of our audience was at the hospital. Some of
our our audience was in a position that they could
not at that moment listen live. This speech is so
important because it's not just a speech. This is the
checklist of here's what we're doing on day one. We're
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not waiting around. And I don't recall a president speaking
with this command of their agenda. I don't recall President
Trump ever delivering a speech as well as he delivered this.
And I'm not being a critic. I'm being the ultimate
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ultimate complimenter of what he delivered today and how important and.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Meaningful it is.
Speaker 9 (03:43):
The left is left with simply being saboteurs, gumming up
the works of the accomplishments he's about to undertake. And
let me tell you something, everybody is trying to get
on stage with him. Everybody, the village people went from
suing him over U their song to performing at a
ball and him coming.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Up to the stage.
Speaker 9 (04:04):
Everybody understands America is ready for change.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Here's more of that speech.
Speaker 8 (04:09):
President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and
through talent. He was a natural businessman and gave Teddy
Roosevelt the money for many of the great things he did,
including the Panama Canal, which has foolishly been given to
the country of Panama after the United States. The United States,
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I've been thinking of this, spent more money than ever
spent on a project before, and lost thirty eight thousand
lives in the building of the Panama Canal. We have
been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should
have never been made, and Panama's promised to us has
been broken. The purpose of our deal and the spirit
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of our treaty has been totally violated. American ships are
being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way,
shape or form, and that includes the United States Navy.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
And above all, China is.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
Operating the Panama Canal, and we didn't give it to China.
We gave it to Panama, and we're taking it back.
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Above all, my message to Americans today is that it
is time for.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Us to once again act with courage, vigor, and.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
The vitality of history's greatest civilization. So as we liberate
our nation, we will lead it to new heights of
victory and success.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
We will not be deterred.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Together, we will end the chronic disease epidemic and keep
our children safe, healthy, and disease free. The United States
will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that
increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises
our expectations and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
And we will pursue our.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
Manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant
the stars and stripes on the planet Mars. Ambition is
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the lifeblood of a great nation, and right now our
nation is more ambitious than any other.
Speaker 10 (06:58):
There is no nation our nation.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneers.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
The call of the next great adventure resounds from within
our souls. Our American ancestors turned a small group of
colonies on the edge of a vast continent into a
mighty republic of the most extraordinary citizens on Earth.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
No one comes close.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Americans pushed thousands of miles through a rugged land of
untamed wilderness. They crossed desert, scaled mountains, braved untold dangers,
won the wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny,
lifted millions from poverty, harnessed electricity, split the atom, launched
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mankind into the heavens, and put the universe of human
knowledge into the palm of the human hand. If we
work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no
dream we cannot achieve. Many people thought it was impossible
for me to stage such a historic political comeback.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
But as you see today here I am.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
The American people have spoken in Ramon du King of
Dan and this other guy, Michael Barry.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
These are the kind of guys.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
You're like a smack and an ass.
Speaker 9 (08:29):
Oh, the crazy cat ladies that swore they were going
to take down jd Vance tonight, they're not happy today.
They're wearing their pink hats in reference to their reproductive
organ which is what they want to be reduced to.
And they are marching against Donald Trump. But what they
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called eight years ago the Women's March, that term is
not inclusive enough. So on the day that he declared,
our government will recognize men and women and nothing else,
they have decided to call their march the People's March,
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because calling it the Women's March might upset women who
now consider themselves men or who now consider themselves non binary.
The mockery begins. President Trump's popularity in his success only
serve to shame those fools and their silliness, their absurd,
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ridiculous notions, that America has now rejected.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Woke is broke, and we're done with it.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
The end of President Trump's speech today, the finest speech
I've ever heard him deliver, and we listen to them
all at a rally anywhere, the fest each he's ever given,
and a declaration of what he's doing on day one,
and it hit every note he has campaigned on securing
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our border, deporting those who came here illegally, restoring the
men and women of our military to a position of dignity,
and stop politicizing that nonsense, all of it. He didn't
leave anything out. There will be more that is done.
But when Biden accomplished everything to destroy this country through
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executive order, it made it very easy to simply undo
it all through executive order. In a sense, they did
Donald Trump a big favor by engaging in such stupid
acts that did not have congressional approval. They made it
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very simple for him to simply undo them on day one.
He made clear today that is exactly what he would
be doing. And it is obvious that Donald Trump didn't
come to Washington, d C. To make friends with those
who would destroy our nation.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
He came to d C.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
To honor the commitment, the promises he made to you.
And that is why everyday Americans are so excited.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I know, I am. Here's the end of that speech.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
I stand before you now as proof that you should
never believe that something is impossible to do in America.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
The impossible is what we do best.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
From New York to Los Angeles, from Philadelphia to Phoenix,
from Chicago to Miami, from Houston to right here in Washington,
d C. Our country was forged and built by the
generations of patriots who gave everything they had for our
rights and for our freedom. They were farmers and soldiers,
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cowboys and factory workers, steel workers and coal miners, police
officers and pioneers who pushed onward, marched forward, and let
no obstacle defeat their spirit or their pride. Together they
laid down the railroads, raised up the skyscrapers, built great highways,
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won two World Wars, defeated fascism and communism, and triumphed
over every single challenge that they face. After all we
have been through together, we stand on the verge of
the four greatest years in American history.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
With your help, we will restore America.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
Promise, and we will rebuild the nation that we love,
and we love it so much. We are one people,
one family, and one glorious nation under God. So to
every parent who dreams for their child, and every child
who dreams for their future, I am with you.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
I will fight for you, and I will win for you.
We are going to win like never before.
Speaker 10 (13:26):
Okay, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
In recent years, our nation has suffered greatly, but we
are going to bring it back and make it great again,
Greater than ever before. We will be a nation like
no other, full of compassion, courage, and exceptionalism. Our power
will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of
unity to a world that has been angry, violent, and
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totally unpredictable. America will be respected again and admired again,
including by people of religion, faith, and goodwill. We will
be prosperous, we will be proud, we will be strong,
and we will win like never before. We will not
be conquered, we will not be intimidated, we will not
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be broken, and.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
We will not fail.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
From this day on, the United States of America will
be a free, sovereign, and independent nation.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
We will stand bravely, we will live proudly.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
We will dream boldly and nothing will stand in our
way because we are Americans.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
The future is ours and our golden age has just begun.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Thank you God, bless America, Thank you all, Thank you
cat Ca.
Speaker 9 (15:03):
I have a fine Michael Barry in the This is
the moment we haven't waited for, we have worked for
for four long years.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Enjoy this moment. You earned it.
Speaker 11 (15:20):
Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I,
Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
H Donald John Trump, I do solemnly swear that I
will faithfully execute.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
You, that I will faithfully execute the office of President
of the United States.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
The office of President of the United States.
Speaker 11 (15:38):
And will to the best of my ability, and will
to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend, preserve, protect,
and defend the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution
of the United States.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
So help me, God, So help me God.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Congratulations particular, Donald Trump replaces Joe Biden as president and
isn't it interesting. CNN's Harry Inton says that Joe Biden's
popularity is the lowest we have ever seen. He said
he's managed to end up at a lower approval rating
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at the end of his term than any president on record,
and yet what does he do well? He issues pardons
to Fauci, to Millie, to his family members, to the
January sixth folks preemptive pardons. Ramonis is cliped four oh one.
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Jake Tapper had asked Joe Biden about the rumor this
was back in twenty twenty, that Trump, on his way
out would issue preemptive pardons for folks who might be
charged with the crime. And listen to what President elect
Biden said at that time.
Speaker 12 (16:56):
President Trump is reportedly considering a wave of preempty of pardons.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Does this concern you all, these preemptive.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Partons, Well, it's it concerns me in terms of what
kind of precedence sets and how the rest of the
world looks as US as a nation of laws and injustice.
I'm not going to see an our administration that kind
of approach to pardons. Nor are you going to see
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in our administration the approach to making policy by tweets.
You know, it's just going to be a totally different
way in which we approach the justice system.
Speaker 9 (17:33):
Guarantee you, Joe Biden can't open Twitter. Guarantee you he
couldn't tweet if we wanted two. Adam Shift was one
of the people to receive a preemptive pardon. Well, he
was recently asked by George Stephanopolis, who caused his network
to have to write a huge check to Donald Trump
for defaming him. He showed great concern about the January
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sixth prisoners receiving pardon because those people being criminals is
central to the left's theory, which they have beaten into
your head again and again, that these people were a
threat to democracy. Unarmed, mind you, but these little old
ladies were a threat to democracy, and he does not
want them to get a pardon.
Speaker 10 (18:16):
How about the question about the January sixth pardons.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Well, greatly concerned about it.
Speaker 13 (18:21):
First of all that he could pardon people that beat
police officers, gouge them, bear sprayed them. But also even
beyond that, just the general message it would send George
that his first pardons are going to go to people
who sought, through the use of violence at the Capitol
to stop the peaceful transfer of power that played some
role in that. Really, that's who he wants to pardon.
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The American people, I think voted for him in part
because they wanted something done about crime, not because they
wanted to see him pardon criminals attacking the government. They
want something done about fentanyl, they want something done about
in California, smash and grab robberies. This is not what
they had in mind. Not political revenge, not rewarding people
who participated in an insurrection to stop the transfer of power.
Speaker 11 (19:05):
The President elect has also talked about prosecute members the
Generator sixth Committee, like you.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
And what did Adam Schiff say about the fact that
Joe Biden gave him a preemptive pardon.
Speaker 11 (19:17):
I know you said you don't want a preemptive pardon
from President Biden. Is that because you think the Trump
administration will not actually prosecute.
Speaker 13 (19:24):
I don't know what the Trump administration will do, but
it's for a couple of reasons. First, those of us
on the committee are very proud of the work we did.
We were doing vital, quintessential oversight of a violent attack
on the Capitol, But so I think it's unnecessary. But second,
the precedent of giving blanket pardons preempted blanket pardons on
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the way out of an administration. I think as a president,
we don't want to set and.
Speaker 11 (19:48):
You've communicated that to the President.
Speaker 13 (19:50):
President Biden communicated it both publicly and privately to Theminstration.
Speaker 9 (19:53):
Audio clip that'll take us to brek Ramon. It's going
to be five h two. Let me get on it
so we can hear it. This is the Speaker of
the House, Mike Johnson, talking about the fact that an
order was signed by Joe Biden that helped Russia and
hurt the LNG exporters in his home state of Louisiana,
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and that he truly believes Joe Biden. When Biden says,
I didn't sign that order, but we know he did.
The question is who did sign that order? Who did
give these pardons? Who has been running the White House?
Speaker 14 (20:29):
I say this without any personal animis at all. I mean,
you know, in some ways actually kind of feel sorry
for Joe Biden. I mean, he's in the twilight years
of his life. He is not obviously has not been
in charge for some time. And I know this by
personal observation, and now the whole world knows it. And
it's been very, very concerning to me over the last
you know, year and a half since I've had this.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Is this the story? When you say personal observation.
Speaker 14 (20:51):
With well, I mean yes, this is it's public now
because the Wall Street Journal got it and we put
it on the front page. But January a year ago,
almost exactly a year ago, I had been asking. I
became speaker in October twenty twenty three, and there were
all sorts of big national security concerns and everything going on,
and I started requesting a meeting with the president because
you know, I'm kind of old school. I'm a constitutional
law guy. Speaker of the House should be able to
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talk to the president, especially in times of great national
interest in calamity. But they wouldn't let me meet with him,
and his staff kept putting getting any excuses. This went
on for like eight or nine weeks. I'm sorry, miss Speaker,
he doesn't have time. What are you talking about it.
I'm second line of the presidency. He has time. I
need to talk to him. We had I can't say
the class fat parts, but we had some big, big
national concerns at the time that I was losing sleepover. Finally,
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I just went to the whole press cort and I said,
the President is not being allowed to meet with a speaker.
There's a problem. So they started putting pressure on him.
Long story, short, they finally relented. They invited me to
the White House. I show up and I realized it's
actually an ambush because it's not just me and the President,
it's also Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, Hakem, you know, the whole,
the CIA director, everybody.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
And then so I walked in the Oval and ah,
I know what this is.
Speaker 14 (21:56):
This is a they're going to hot box the Speaker
on Ukraine funding. That's what it was. This is probably
third week of January. We sit down, we're in the
midst of it and the cold conversation, and I'm going,
we don't need to have this conversation. The President reaches
over just like this, We're sitting in the right next
to the fireplace in the Oval on he grasma arm
and he says, the Speaker and I just need a
couple minutes together. Would y'all just leave us alone? And
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I looked up on the faces of some of the
staffs standing around the wall and they're.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Like, no, he did it. So he called it. He's
the commander in chiefs. Everybody leaves.
Speaker 14 (22:23):
He and I are standing awkwardly in the middle of
the Oval office, right.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Over the rug by that coffee table.
Speaker 14 (22:28):
And I said, Miss President, thanks for the moments that
you know, this is very important. I got some big
national security things I need to talk to you about
that I heard and I think you know and what
do we do?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
But first, real quickly, miss President, can I.
Speaker 14 (22:38):
Ask you a question I cannot answer this from my
constituents in Louisiana.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Why did you pause LNG exports to Europe? Like I
don't understand.
Speaker 14 (22:47):
You know, liquified natural gas is in great demand by
our allies.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 14 (22:51):
Because you understand we just talked about Ukraine. You understand
your fuel in Vladimir Putin's war machine because they got
to get their gas from him, you know. And he
looks at me, stunned this and he said I didn't.
I didn't do that. And I said, Miss President, you yes,
you did. It was an executive order like you know,
three weeks ago, and he goes, no, I didn't do that,
and he's arguing with me. I said, Miss President, respectfully,
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can I could I go out here and ask your
secretary to print it. I we'll read it together. You
definitely did that, and he goes, oh, you talk about
natural gas, yes, sir? He said, Oh, no, I did
you misunderstand? He said, what I did is I signed
this thing to We're going to We're going to conduct
a study on the effects of.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Ellamy can luck and look you you got to make
a very show.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
Today we also celebrate the memory of Martin Luther King Jr.
In my mind, the greatest speech he ever gave did
not relate to race. It was universal in its application.
It was aspirational. It suggested that no matter what you
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do or you do it well. Something my dad always
told me, anything work doing is doing right. If I'd
do something that really didn't want to do, but I'd
half asked and screw it up, he would say, if
you're gonna do it, bother and do it right.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Anything worth doing is work doing right. Be good at
what you do.
Speaker 9 (24:17):
It's very aspiration. It's great advice, great life advice to everyone.
And every year on Martin Luther Ing Junior Day, we
play this tiny little clip because it applies to everyone,
no matter your race.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
What I'm saying to you this morning, my friends, even
if it falls your lot to.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Be a street sweet.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Going out in sweet streets like Michael N's, you located
sweep streets like Handle and Beethoven composed music streets like
shakespeare real portrait.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
All right, sweet streets.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
So well that all the hosts of heaven in earth
will hop the palls and say, he'll live the great.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Street sweeper who set the job.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Wear. If you can't be a pine on the top
of a hill, be a scarf in the valley, But
be the best little scrub on the side of the rill.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Be a bush.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
If you can't be a tree.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
If you can't be a highway, just be a trail.
If you can't be the sun, be a star. It
isn't by size that you win or you fail.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Be the best of whatever you are.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
And when you do this, when you do this, you
master the length of life.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
Martin Luther King in what is considered his most famous speech,
The line that is most remembered was that I have
a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will not be judged
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by the color of their skin, but by the content
of their character. If we are to ever achieve that,
then you must destroy every dei program, every program that
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gives a scholarship, an admission, a job, a promotion, or
anything else on the basis of anything other than qualification.
Merit excellent. We can't control what our skin color or
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sex will be, but.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
We can all work harder and aspire to be.
Speaker 9 (26:43):
The person chosen, the person rewarded, the person admitted, the
person promoted. There should have never been a DEI office
in the FBI. Can you imagine last month after the
deadly New Orleans terrorist attack on New Year's Day.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I guess technically.
Speaker 9 (27:10):
The terror attack occurred after this, but the office now,
after fourteen people were killed and many more injured, the
office of the DEI at the FBI.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Has been ended.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
I got to get to Jake Tapper being very upset
that the tech bros as they call them, the leaders
of major tech companies were at the White House as
Donald Trump's personal guests, and he and Anderson Cooper are so
upset because.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
These men have too much power. This is not good.
Speaker 9 (27:47):
When they wielded that power for evil purposes for Democrats,
he loved it for Obama, and then for Biden, and
then for Kamala. But now now that powerful tool has
landed in the hands of Donald Trump and they can't
bear it.
Speaker 12 (28:06):
Yeah, if I could, just before I throw it to
Anderson just bring back that photograph of the tech pros
inside Saint John's Church. It's just one other thing I
want to show. So we see Mark Zuckerberg on the
left there with the curly hair CEO of Meta, Tim Cook,
his face is blocked vas the white hair CEO of Apple,
Jeff Bezos on the right there the ball gentlemen looking
to his right, CEO of Amazon. The gentleman behind Mark
(28:29):
Zuckerberg is Sundarpchi. He's the CEO of Google and Anderson.
Between those four people plus Elon Musk from Twitter or X,
those five people that I just mentioned, the four in
the photograph and also Elon Musk controls so much of
the information that we receive. So much is in their
(28:53):
hands when it comes to ascertaining, monitoring or refusing to monitor,
monitor what is real what is not real. And we're
about to enter an era of deep fakes and all
sorts of misinformation, and the degree to which those five
gentlemen play a role or do not play a role,
will be pivotal in terms of where the American people
(29:16):
are four years from now, in terms of understanding, in
terms of understanding what is true and what is false.
Speaker 15 (29:21):
You're also you said we. You're not just talking about
we the United States. You're talking about the world, all
the human beings on the planet. They control access to information. Uh,
they're the gatekeepers in many ways to information for the
entire planet.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Oh my goodness. We'll talk more about this tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (29:41):
But Jen Pasaki of the Obama administration, who's now at
MSNBC where else would she be, said the tech bros helped.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Trump win the election, and now he will return the favor.
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 9 (29:54):
It's not only Russian disinformation, it's all the people that
use to help Obama.
Speaker 16 (30:00):
So these CEOs in these industries help Donald Trump and
then he returns the favor.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
That's how it goes.
Speaker 16 (30:05):
Elon Musk spend a quarter of a billion dollars to
help reelect Donald Trump and use the reach of his
own social media platform to push mega talking points, and
in return, Muscle and now be an unelected official in
the new Trump administration and is expected to even have
office space at the White House complex. So I guess
the influence that this small collection of billionaires will have
is something new this time around, and it will be
(30:28):
a new challenge to explain why this agreement between tech
billionaires and Donald Trump is a real danger. And on
that point, my friend Rachel Maddow may have put it best.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
We haven't yet had the discussion in this country about
why oligarchy is bad. It's bad for your economy, it's
bad for your democracy, yes, but it's also bad for
individual people, for the regular things we need to do
in order to protect our families and live the kind
of lives that we want to live. Oligarchy suck for
ninety nine point ninety nine percent of people who live
(30:59):
in them.
Speaker 16 (31:00):
Archies suck for ninety nine point nine percent of people
who live in them. They're great if you're a billionaire.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
How many of those are there out there that?
Speaker 16 (31:07):
If you're basically anyone else? And while this agreement may
be playing out very openly, it's on all of us
to explain why it matters and all guarchy suck isn't
a bad place to start.
Speaker 9 (31:19):
Oh my goodness, Rachel Madow and company are as the
kids say, Hella mad because even Saturday Night Live is
now making fun of them. They had a skit where
Joy Reid threw to Rachel Madow, but it wasn't Rachel Madow,
it was Chris Hayes. Ooh, we're back at laughing at
(31:40):
these people again. On NBC, of all places. Zuckerberg has
come to the table. Tim Cook is at the table soon.
Dar Pachai from Google's at the table. Elon's in the
catbird seat because he was the first one on board.
Oh it's a great day. But folks, I want you
to focus. We're out of the campaign. Don't spend all
your time being angry watching the left melt down celebrated
(32:05):
so wonderful time because of you.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Hey, Ele, Elvis has left the bill you, thank you,
and good night.
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