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"Nukes of Hazzard." (Live from Nashville!)

2022-08-13 | 🔗

Guest co-host Josie Duffy Rice joins Jon, Jon, Tommy, and Dan live in Nashville! Republicans go on defense after the unsealed Mar-a-Lago search warrant reveals that the FBI is investigating Donald Trump for possible espionage, and Democrats have new reasons to be hopeful about the midterms following a string of big wins. Justice Democrat Odessa Kelly stops by to talk about her run for Congress in TN-7, and Vice President Al Gore joins to talk about the newly-passed climate bill and to play the ultimate game of 90's trivia.

 

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The welcome to pod, save america, I'm jon, Favreau, the josie, lucky rice, I'm John mother, I've done these or other viper. We are so happy to have josie with his other swing,
We know and love is a host of crickets. What did a pike ass the lucky to be joined by your next member of congress for nashville, odessa, kelly and its accuracy native, who also happens to be the former vice president of the united states. Al gore is here. The AL gore is here. Al gore is here shocking to me. Alright, let's get to the news It seems that Donald Romania got himself into a bit of a jam on monday
two dozen f b. I agents arrived at mar a lago with a search warrant and left with eleven sets of classified documents, some of the highest level. According to the new york times federal agents who executed the warrant did so to investigate potential crimes associated with violations of the espionage act, which outlaws the unauthorized retention of national security information that could harm the united states or aid a foreign adversary. They also went after him for a federal law that makes it a crime to destroy or conceal a document to obstruct a government investigation in another statute associated with unlawful removal of government materials. Doesn't sound good does not sound good. The washington post has also reported that the agents were looking for classified materials specifically related to nuclear weapons, so sleep well tonight and josie, thank god you're with us, because our legal
Curtis comes from stray tweets and is donald trump in trouble. You know I'm actually not a very good lawyer, but I do know a lot about law enforcement and the f b. I does not show up to your house unless they know something's in your house. They don't ask they. Don't they don't like ask questions? They don't already know the answer.
You don't lie to the fbi is the lie to them. I mean trump has gone through a variety of excuses over the last forty eight hours. The latest is that the the government could have gotten their classified secrets back if they had just asked. Have you ever heard of the magic word jesse? Can you explain what we know so far about why the department of justice and the f b, I felt the need to show up with a warrant and why attorney general merrick garland then called for that warrant to be made public yeah, it's kind of amazing, because america, ireland was like we actually did, ask we like tried some things and they didn't work, which is why we showed up
I mean I, the idea of lake accidently having classified documents and then just forgetting to turn them over and someone being like. Can we have those back very getting yeah we're getting just doesn't add up. I think I think what happened is william bar dressed up as a sweet old lady and gave merit garland an apple which he took a bite of fell asleep and it wasn't until is changing his mare, garland, the lips that he woke up and everything is played out since he did. You did vote the press conference that they tried quote less intrusive method right, so we don't know exactly what those where I suppose, that's just asking politely for the eclipse voting for back tommy when you're spokesman for the way the us national security council, you had access
see plenty of classified information. So I guess my question is how many nuclear secrets do you still have and where are they now I took home an actual nuke, it's it's a whole new content to coat rack up. Can you help people understand why the government takes the possession of classified information so seriously shirt and so the reason the government classifies it, and so the reason you deem something to be top secret is because the government believes that will cause. I wrote down exceptionally grave damage to the national security. That's sensibly, the reason something becomes topsecret. as a general matter. I think that the government classifies too many things are over classifies information. I saw let us state department, cables and my day there were news reports from abroad. They got sent back that were marked secret for some reason, but
based on the reports in the warrant we seen so far. The stuff they were looking for, the f b I was looking for at trumps house is very, very sensitive stuff. The warrant reference miscellaneous top secret information. It reference miscellaneous ts, sci documents, and that means topsecret sensitive compartment information. Other news reports said that there was signals intelligence which means stuff that the usa intercepted between. I don't know the pakistan military talking to themselves or intercepted emails. Wonder the news reports mention special access programmes, which are programmes or activities that are so sensitive that you can't just get access to them, because you have a clearance. You have to get read into whatever it is, so it can be like a cia covert action program that could be a special military technology or a new weapons system. The times the very few times I got read into those things at the white house
literally had to go over to some intel persons office, sign a document that I would not talk about it and then, when I left sign out of the compartment saying that I would continue to not talk about it because I would go to jail again double jail. I guess I don't. Why can t tell us now and then tried. I kids can we get it took us after and then electrical there. You references to the top apparently, there word documents relating to our nuclear weapons systems, and I But you don't have to explain to anyone why that would be bad to have at your house and so you're being have in Europe Just now is particularly interesting, though, because the current sort of trump sycophant defense. Is that he's the president? He can declassify whatever he wants and to some extent that's true, but it's actually not true with information relating to the nuclear weapons program. That's classified under a different statute and he can't just unilaterally do that so
Well, if that's there you're in trouble, so long story short, we don't know if the guy will find any of this stuff, and we should probably wait to see. We may never know. Frankly, Is there not going to say hey the following classified information was found in his basement because that would defeat. The purpose protecting that information, but you can understand why they would be nervous about it sitting around in more logo in twenty nineteen, a chinese national was arrested breaking into a logo trying to sneak into the pool with some derives for cellphone seem cards in a laptop, rightly say it's a counter intelligence night, we don't know or just a very specific kind, a vacation yeah but we know they left with at least one set of documents that we're ts ass, the eye getting signed, a sound of. On the one hand we know they have some they that they now we know that there was the highest classified level. Documents
in morocco and that they use they had a warrant for that they found them and they hold that they hold them up. That's what they want you to believe, John but we also know that merit garlic is an exceedingly cautious human being, to say the least, and the fact that some people call them upon it. Judge not on the stage not would never have. This new age has always been pro american airline programme mansion. I will hear anything else about it. These had been our heroes. The entire a lot of people. Doubt it ass. We land you stick with those dick with married garland secret marriage, garland Joe mentioned since that item from day, one vital from day bucking wine. What a lot of people sure go in all kinds of different elizabeth war, we said no its bite in urban you'll, see.
anyway question there are getting drunk for this question spine spine look, there's some people say well, Hillary Clinton did the same thing and they did prosecute her and it somebody weakened, about a prisoner swap right, wait, how we thought cut it believe it in he was supposed to as AL gore about that refers to be thankful. You, Then you to know where I was, but I think my point being that he would it was just run of the mill start. There was over classified as tommy rightly said so much that is there not rating moral allow. For that day, I was There is an urgent it is a sensitive region. the information that I think we can it into it from the fact they took. What is a very aggressive step for an agency that is it
for mature generals incredibly cautious. I would also venture to say that trumps various excuses you may have contradict himself once or twice. First, he said that it was a hoax. In that the f b I planted the evidence, and then he said that the evidence with declassified by him that was then planted. It seems that it is difficult for him to declassify the stuff that was there, but that was then planted by the fbi. That feels difficult to reckon is nothing defines whenever they found was planted and that planted evidence is fine, because I d classified it works seems hold up. I mean, I don't think that anyone is surprised. The trump hasn't taken this well. But also just about every republican politician in the country has chosen to blindly support him. They have called for investigations, they have called for impeaching merrick garland for defunding the f b I,
interesting area, is the lake where person, you know made a good point means hundred wasn't really happening. You know those. You know, there's liberals that the fbi famously The famously woke, f b- I you know this running around sheldon their pronouns. If the class again it s, the I would like it's amazing. You sit back and look at work and what conservative media is trying to rat like the number of institutions in america, that the right wing media has tried to turn their fuckin addled baby boomers audience against psych. You shouldn't no papa, you know baseball for you. The fbi's do work now like these people like where these was to go beginning. Craig about anymore where
sit home, watching her curls and and by gold. That's it! Then. You wrote this week that the message box that maybe the republican reaction, wasn't the shrewdest move. Now that an end to your credit, you wrote this before the events unfolded in the last twenty four hours. We found out that. Actually, Yes, he did have the highly classified documents and marilla look. I wish we lived in a country where politicians. Blindly, standing by deeply dangerous man involved in multiple criminal investigations was on its way bad politics, but we don't. That is how the country we live in it like the people whose who really face political accountability in the robin the body are not the ones you stick with job? It's the one to stand up to him right whether it was Jamie. Your item, kids, inertia anymore. I mean the fact did. We get cheers for a change
had a show in which AL gore is appearing before it up. But I do The way in which the republicans its have stuck with tromp is making huge huge mistake because not neither their defending, because everyone expects that is that they are. Gene to use that power. They seek in this election to invest give the fbi defined the fbi, impeach girl in a peach, christopher re, defend trump, and I think that gives democrats number unity to say. You. Keep us in the majority we're going to fight for year we're going to cut costs and we're going to raise wages. We're gonna make your health care more affordable. We're going to fight for you and republicans are going to fight for donald trump, and there are allies- and that's always the most important issue in any campaigners who
if the voters think is going to fight for them, and the republicans have given us an opening, and we just have to take it. Yeah they're fighting for donald trump's right to to keep nuclear secrets and do whatever he pleases with them. Yeah. I have to say a lot of these. You know they all got out they're, pretty early being like these people, don't have the goods, you know, there's no goods, There are nuclear secrets near I say: someone's Republican takes had a pretty short half life. thank you, minister, eleven o clock show either about one of the worst we ranking member of the house, intel committee republican mike turner, got up and said at a press conference today There are a number of things that are classified that fall under the umbrella of nuclear weapons, but that are not necessarily things that are truly classified many of them. You can find on your own phone tommy's that true, like the look
I don't know what that guy saga about like you're there. Ranking member of the entire committee. What do you do it? You don't have to do this with all its also the case that there's like when wiki leaks, earned edwards puts a million documents into the public record and all these secrets are disclosed doesn't mean you can, then? this mean they're declassified and that you can just go talk about it. In fact, people working the Men were not allowed to access the wikileaks or snowden websites to learn what was out there because there was concern, is potentially accessing clasp informational. So no, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Where should have started like I got one that I go on the beat that we could do a whole take appreciate her about some of the tape. There have been flying over the last forty. Eight hours takes up an attic control, but but I'm gonna love it
really the title of the latest new york times column by one Mr David Brooks and I'd like you to respond. The headline is: did the f b, I just reelect donald trump, all right I want to. So I do they theirs. I got obviously it's a stupid. I can shit I've ever heard and, like what he had. No information had no idea it was before we learned everything that we learned in the last twenty four hours still out without going to do, is they gotta get out there with I just off piping, hot, just a fuckin rate active ironically take now, let me go but. But like? I do think that there is this sort of pernicious idea that has like that. That's with that Was about that's what james combing did all those years ago? That's like infuse a lot of the response, the trump, which is that it's more imports. to seem legitimate than be legitimate. What David Brooks column argues is she
trot, may have committed serious crimes, but prosecuting those crimes will excite a dangerous radicalized republican base and therefore make it more likely he's reelected. Therefore, we are powerless to punish those crimes as its legitimacy flows from people who believe lies and would do violence as as opposed to the actual work inception of what our government does in response to people who break the law- and I think it is stupid- it's stupid in the short term, because it doesn't work One has been rewarded more thoroughly, the donald trump for people who care more about seeming legitimate than being legitimate, but it also gives a kind of quiet like a pocket veto of the rule of law to right wing groups and people who would do violence right wing violence. The threat of it is already warping. Our politics with cheney can't do events in wyoming. There are threats against people like Raphael Warnock there are, you know,
somebody died attacking the fbi in response and you know, proclaimed what they were doing on truth, social. In response to this f b I raid and the ways in which donald trump is rile people up like no, we can't give a veto to violent group. And in the long term, what's the answer you think this is temporary. The answer is, we have to actually Do what we think is right and accept that there's gonna be a set of our population who has lied to and may even threaten us, but we can't cower to those threats we just if we are to the only way out, it's the only way out the seriously. What do you think about that? Like you know his lover mentioned it was. It was a january sixth writer, in fact who tried to storm the fbi field office in cincinnati on yesterday. You think President Biden and
democratic politicians should be more vocal and calling out republicans and and right wing media for some of the dangerous rhetoric we ve been here and over the last couple days, because it is getting a little trees, social, the right wing, is there I get in it's a little much just getting a little riled up, believe it or not. Yeah I mean you think about, like even the feedback to the defend the f b. I, the Democrats, being quieter about that, and they were about defend the police two years ago and it just is a reminder that when we say the rule of law, we actually only apply that two people we deem dangerous, but that we actually dont think are existential dangers. This is like an example of what happens when people are trying to destroy the actual fabric fundamental
is of a country. What is our response going to be and that really determines what the future looks like here? You know if, if we're not willing to speak up and hold those people accountable, I mean far be it for me to call for instrument of anybody. That's not my vibe, but it you know tromp, has made me support the fbi. Thus we spend we're we're time I dont like not yet I mean stop this getting sat and right wing spaces, media is is very scary and units prepare myself for this. So The conversation reconnected with an old friends- oh no, demanded why I downloaded I downloaded to episodes of this package and what's that if you listen to them all the way through all the way through twice what
actually twice, and it's wonderful. You guys a quick clip. You're, a lawless, scumbag, your departments, a bunch, a lawless, scumbags, fbi's bunch, a lawless, scumbags, hey suck on that you'll like it you're a lawless, scumbag. back the blow. What I really can't like thousands my marriage garland? Obviously, how? How did you know my king you can't that's that What a lovely man I was actually said. Those words about the f b I refer to, but not in this context, because if the he does issued for four hours a day, it's crazy. I wonder please because it gets worse from their so ban had on said Gorka who, to work at the white house, these are of weird hungarian fascist. They both loaded a theory that the binding- duration is trying to assassinate rum and then Gorka.
the fbi brought in so many people and surveillance equipment because they are setting up some sort of, no ongoing surveillance equipment themselves, and then they both called the fbi, the gestapo. So it's hard to back along. foresman when you're calling them nazis in my book, and you know, I think that the problem here is like is created a social media site, it's become kind of a domestic terrorist, say space, and this guy, who targeted the Cincinnati fbi office, shouted up escaped was in the middle of a shoot out, essentially with the cops in paused to post on true social. So I want to see the the democratic party stand up and talk about this and, in you know, call out what is happening, which is really dangerous, rhetoric and incitement, but I do think that at the end of the day, the only people that these people are going to hear are republicans and law enforcement when they come to their.
to arrest him. I think this whole thing brings to bear the lie at the heart of the republican party, because, like it's all couched in like anti government rhetoric, deep state gestapo fbi, but it's not the size of government. They care about its who government is holding accountable right. In their view, because this is the simple party it wants to increase funding for defence increase funding for the police. We spending for the iron s is is longest Government is serving as a bulwark against a changing america. It can be used because they wanted to be in one It goes and holds their leader down in his rich stay, accountable, No, no, no, no! That's not, who you are first to go after that's not why we pay our tax dollars, and that is that always momentum party, yet
the holy everyone's like pointing out the air like pointing out the hypocrisy. It's like yeah. Of course they don't care that their hypocritical there's, no ideology driving this party anymore, cult of personality from gets to do whatever he wants to do. If he runs for reelection and he loses he gets to overturn the election. If you try I hold them accountable for that by prosecuting him, then that's wrong too. You can't do that. There's, there's, there's no outcome! That is acceptable except trump being installed as the president united states for is he wants? That's it. That's the only outcome that except busy. I think that is the ideology right right. People like trump get to do what they want and others and once the rules applying to them that, through the ideology kicks at its, trunk and do it every wants his and can do almost whatever they want. But he doesn't really care that much is long as affect him here.
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in stop o clock. You now works. I play clip demand the clip we go in hard until I start the clip again. And we're clipper relocating and stopping today. Why? It's an ok, stop super cut of conservatives complete and total meltdown of the fbi's fuck boat, for yeah. There are too many bros pig just one up. First, got data primo speaking reality into existence. I don't understand how a document can be this critical unless it has You want the picture here, you're saying that a picture of putin and trot making up short of that nuclear codes written on these documents and locked behind closed doors? I just really do percent of a document could warrant this kind of war august data is like
What's next, the zoom have on his coffin because he's buried the pee tape with her, and then we finally see that pee tape is real and then Brian kilmeade us to go on fox and friends to explain that, despite what the woke mob tells you piss play can be part of a healthy relationship it is. Why are Dana pre no work we have got to say how do you not think that you're, a white house press secretary, you do you know you can't understand that there may be some highly classified information like what queer I've, got to get to stub verification. Non nuclear goes is gonna, be vine, that's why there is just a very good job in this kind of situation nights it so two like make up a hypothetical situation for the trumpet because it's going to happen, you can't you can't out dumb him he's going to do it. It's also the first rule of being a white house press secretary. Is you don't answer a hypothetical question? Let alone invent them? What could it be
the husband in the some secret documents to gauge the saudis at a golf torrent we hosted come on. You sound crazy. What could it jerry the bag band come on? He liked to brag by showing eastern european businessmen who had cameras in their hats, interesting things, saw about mccrone in the white house. that's insane see what's wrong, stuff wasn't even documents. It was like gulf balls and oval office. Raincoats terms, momentum, guy you ve seen inside his office is a lotta clutter, memorabilia, ok, up what the fuck is an oval office. Go that a thing. That's not a thing of lovers A hook up, it's raining. Excuse me, gotta, get some eminem that an oval office raincoat before I leave these these
rose? What to criminalize scrap looking now? What are we talking about? Look druggist sent mental. He saves things keepsakes you ve seen as golf course. He keeps is dead ex wife there. I live in a way. That does not mean. I guess that's why you twice two guys these sweetheart, let's roll it. The fbi is blatantly targeting our fellow americans for their political beliefs, the bureau's rep. station has been shattered. If you listen to my radio show watch they show you know my love of law enforcement is now prick. Much been utterly. Destroy, hits Ass thing I've ever this is the closest either
when they're feeling black and what a fragile love wise deserve. The drug was, I mean, look John, does have a point: trump was target: diverse beliefs, His believes that he could show visiting businessmen, facts. He learned about mccrone sex backs he wanted to show. People were visiting sex facts about macaroni and he was going to do it. The french president, don't forget the nuclear secrets and the nuclear secrets. Anyone else rolling let's keep wrong? Is it your understanding that there were not documents related to our nuclear capabilities? or nuclear issues that had national security implications in the president's possession when they agents showed up at my logo, that's great, I dont believe they were
and if they thought, what are you not for dinner, Have you spoken to the president about it? I have not specifically spoken to the president about what nuclear materials may or may not have been in there. I do not believe there were any and there the legal team had done a very thorough search he's, not gonna wanna check with the boss. I know you don't look, you know you don't go in the lord ingram, shoulda know things for a fact. That's why we're here you're, no good! I hopped order spaghetti. I thought I was a bad lawyer at the beginning of a show that event worth their worst lawyer them in this way. You dont higher your lawyer off of a right wing, cable, tv, ass. You go away and I think, like six weeks ago it it is amusing to? You can guess work programmes under the like discomfort with what is happening is like
palpable follow up question in like sixty. I know she is so upset about this Did she became a journalist for fifteen seconds You know it theory is that NATO's lower incomes, like hey you, fucking asshole. I know you come from a way this is news bitch. We do this right come on thought news fuck this up. We built an empire by lying. It'd come out here. You'll live badly, however, taking her at her word, the legal team did a very thorough search, trump's legal team- oh oh, they did a thorough search nuclear materials at mar a lago, fucking Rudy giuliani. Have you seen that legal? What are walking around with a geiger counter hurting religious jewelry as the bartender one thousand times in a row or five days to unbelievable, we looked everywhere. We couldn't find anything.
by now we had always always paths and piles of ex expired shrimp. That says cell today push the shrimp That's ok. It was a good one that was one of the better ones, the correct time for some more news. So, with all the usual caveats about us being out of the prediction business, I do have to report tonight that the evidence is mounting that, with just under three months left until the midterms, the political environment is shifting. In favour of the Democrats, the thing it's it's not it's, not just the poles, though the five thirty eight average now has democrats with a just a slight lead for the first time all year, but it's also the actual
results from the Kansas ballot initiative on abortion, the as well as two recent special elections in nebraska, and just this week in minnesota, where democratic congressional candidates actually did better than Joe Biden's. Two thousand and twenty result by forty five points in each race. The dan I was shocked, shocked to see that you of all people wrote a piece this week again in the message box that was titled. why dems could win this fall, what the fuck? What is with the optimism from you? What are you of all people? What do you do What is wrong with you, because I have to be honest, that way my wife, how we read it just means I was having a mid life crisis work. It does not come
and I feel great about it, but I'm a data I gotta father data, here's where goes together in all, seriousness like the hardest question and answer over the last year has been. Can democrats win because all the data set up into a month or so ago that we were gonna, get our asked right. mason was high. Binds grower ratings below the country was massively satisfied what was happening republic, you're fired up, independence were angry and democrats were disillusioned and that's all changed, starting on the day the supreme court overturn Robbie way. When you combine that the january six hearings in a red, and they put a power station, has begun to focus on the dangerous authoritarian extremism. Republicans, and then you follow that up with denmark, that's delivering on their campaign. Promises passing a guns bill, the inflationary,
climate bill, healthcare doing those things like there is no question of environment shit. This is not a prediction. Is not an admonition against bed wedding, as you what's gonna happen. It saying there right now We see here. Lay Democrats have a legitimate fighting chance and I just keep but expand our majorities. That the ability to make that case, even I will say delving optimism is important because we win this election by. Just all we have to do is reconstitute the coalition that took the house, the senate and the white house last warriors You cannot get people to sign up for a suicide mission, so have we a case to make that we can win. We shall we. in that case credibly. We should make it proudly
I usually think there was like a real question after the dobbs ruling as to whether it would cause pro choice, voters to feel hopeless or to feel energized, and what do you think in which your democrat candidates do to make sure? It's the latter that they're energized yeah. I was worried because after whole woman's health in texas, it didn't look like that. We're shifting a lot of public opinion, but look Kansas, I think servos kansas circus nations and that the yeah. I- and I think you know women- there are more women in this country than there are men and just letting you guys know.
And we both more than any other demographic greatly like women show up to the poles when you take, you know when you take rights away from people, they fight back and that's what I hope we're going to see at the that the majority of this country supports a woman's right to choose and I hope we'll see that the such a good point, because usually the dynamic in the mid term is there's a party in power. It does a bunch of stuff and then there's a backlash to what the party in power does. This is an interesting situation in a different situation in that, even though the Democrats are in power, the supreme court has now taken a bunch of action that is taking rights away from people, not just the supreme court, but also like very republican state legislatures all over the country, and so now, instead of just there being.
flash the party in power there's also a backlash. The party- that's not empower because they are running the supreme court in state legislatures all over the country, with no one reason that this could be different if we don't, if, if we don't see it in the terms. We will see it in the future because women are going there die. This is going to change. People's lives is gonna, adequate as people when they see what a world looks like without them, without bodily autonomy, right and so no, it's a long game. Maybe hopefully we see the november, but even then, if we don't, I don't think that's the end of the fight. John, your point about the policy backlashes four, because, where you normally see that as with independence and when obama lost was the house and twenty ten before will correct, and then we'll s bill we're both underwater when trump lost the house in two thousand and eighteen, the taxpayers underwater driven, may independence What is really interesting here is that all the things that binding has done from the american rescue plans guns bill to the inflation electronic are incredibly popular by. Like its very rare to have
A piece of legislation that sixty percent of proven all of his do, but where it like that most interesting thing. I think about the kansas, raise that I think should really scale republicans the most is that on the day the kansas referendum, a hundred thousand independence, turned out to vote in their in I could not vote in the primary kansas as are closed primer They cannot vote for the democratic republic of nominees for governor anything else. They turned out o to vote on this referendum. Love it is a testament to how, while the last forty eight hours of news has been, the house also pass the info
in reduction act today, previous to that now Joe Biden's about to sign it into law, there's also been a flurry of legislative activity and executive action over the last month or so, and what parts of that should the Democrats or democrats emphasize on the trail? And how is this the biggest climate bill in history or is it about bringing down? As for people are we leading with with semi conductors and finland joining nato or why we Tommy gotta, see Let me hear them all. This talk to me the whole point of seeking retain powers at the work isn't finished right. But in that case the work is finished, guys got back. which part is finished. The needle finish in my
I want everyone here to take a moment. Appreciate some history. That's the hardest. I've ever been. there are positive, amerika beg to differ, I've, never I've. Never I've never felt I've never felt so disconnected from you in five years of doing this show I looked out into the crowd like reading with anyone that I miss something. Can someone help me and I got nothing Carried out again the guy we're gonna, get me out. Tommy the white, as has been toting falling gas prices and, most recently July's inflation reading, which the president pointed out at a press conference, was zero percent. Do you think that's a good idea? Should democrats incorporate improving economic indicators in their messaging. What do you think if you'd asked me this one? You guys remember in two thousand and nine when we were in the white house when the recovery act had passed, but things were
very very slowly improving. We were in this, the Torah, position of not wanting to overstate the speed the recovery and because people may not feel it in their own lives and the press will facts like you and we just happiness. Rhetorical strait jacket, and then we're like you couldn't really sell it, but you wanted. Maybe you can do it and then I'm came along, Every jobs, embryos, investors number in history in every stuck day in the stock market, was a record and in like he was pity Barnum writers like price, then he never got call about what he was wrong and they don't, I dont think Joe Biden can fully. That strategy, but I do think we can learn from it and understood. And that you do have to, I think, sell success and sell your accomplishments. A little bit harder in a bit more often, I think it has to be We did all these things that are going well, but the work is done. I'm still fighting for you, but I do think you should
the things that are going well and talk about them more often in yes The new york times will undoubtedly write a piece of a house risky to talk about falling gas prices because they could up again in the reason I know that this gives they already wrote that fucking article I almost lost my mind. Why? Who cares blow pass that I didn't like the key thing is you? Can sell that message by doing rose garden statements and going to the white house breathing room like you have to be on Tik tok. Unlike places, people who aren't news, consumers actually are finding news. You have to sell that message. Every single day on part America is also just like. I partly reason so important is its like what he want. We must really be there.
as prices are high or the gas prices are dropping and I just think we have to like take a reddit one. I think you have to at least I think what you said. Tommy like you, have to show that you are fighting to improve and to improve people's situation and to prove the economy and it's long, hard work, but you're making progress and by the way, look what the that's what we're gonna do they're going to take us right back. They just voted against all of these measures, which assholes those yeah yeah exactly employing two somewhat over there. That will, there are going to look at how guy what do you do? These things go yeah. He was fine. I think what do you want to be a cheerleader if you want to sell optimism, especially because we need people to get involved in the mid terms? Which brings me to my plug for vote. Save america have we all signed up for midterm madness. I think we should see more hands here. All I have to do. Is you go to vote? Save america dotcom, you go to midterm madness, pick a region and will give
midwest somewhere or other less progress will give you plenty of stuff to do we'll. Give you Volunteer opportunities calls to make text baking all kinds of stuff. We need people's help again, like Dan said, if we reassemble the coalition that beat trump in two thousand and twenty, we will win the mid term, since one point five and with america and speaking of activism, so in each of our lives show's over the last couple months, we ve also been spot lighting, local organisations that are making a difference in their communities tonight. We want to recognise the equity alliance, which has been working since twenty sixteen to help blacked out to sea and take action and local government and challenge systemic inequities. Please welcome cofounder technology. Allow how's that I don't know
you got me, fire fighting right yeah, so as you dont want to assume that everyone here knows who I am I love you too. Baby. That's unsecured! Johnson, yes, is pronounced, like the legal, but a little stronger, little bit more intoxicating. You know and I'm call foundering call executive director of the equity alive. the equity alliance is a state. Why organization we build unapologetic black political and economic power. Nobody's by pow. Right now. I need you all to help me with this page, we're in the ryman aka the church and we in the south. So we going to do this real black baptist church style. Ok, I don't do that burma. Well, I'm not gonna save democracy by myself and I'm not don't give this page about myself. I say opting out amy.
Our eyes? Oh yes, you guys know of all the work that we ve done. If you don't please, please get engaged one of the things that we are most now force in two thousand and eighty we registered a hundred thousand black and brown people about and in a state like tennessee, will you do something like their rights in a sea founding state of the k k k the state they claim the life of doktor martin luther king Jr, when you register, when you dare to register black and brown people about, of course, our right it's republican legislators going to come back with some crazy ass bill, trying to criminalize us for doing it right right right and for me I was like you know what I don't care about, that I'm going to do it anyway and we continue to do it
and that and that bill was shut down, but our our try hog it went across the state making people feel like he was trying to minimize their due to election integrity. I mean it was horrible. You would hear it's a killer in his mouth every other day with something crazy about voter registration. I thought he hated to cuba. I was until most recently he was arrested on a do. You I mean about a row. Yeah I heard about their rights and from what I don't know. If this is true, no quote me, but I heard the car wreaked of tequila. So I was happy about that and you know people come from outer space and they see us and they see the work that we're doin. Yes, we are about meeting people where they are we go. We believe
organizing from the trap house to the white house? That means wherever black people are. We are there baby. We are teaching them. We are empowering them we're giving them the self autonomy they need not to just go out and bow, but to become a part of the process run for office. Sit on boards and commissions become organized get the word about saving our democracy, because we know democracy is. We gonna work when we all participating. I need this wound. The next time pod save america coms, so little juices black is indispensable.
This will need a merry actually banned on stage on a rainbow flagged hanging. I made this so reflect what we want our democracy to look like right, and we can do that in a sea. I know people say it's not gonna happen and in a sea, but yes, it can, because what we're doin, if we are breaking up they're, both share by finding a small slither margin of people that they didn't think would turn out and getting them to turn We buy why we want, though many local elections shot out through the nashville just league, and here we want
election and we can win congressional elections. We can win a gubernatorial race. We can do it, but we can't do a thing known as we can do. What's a pocket type, look to your neighbors, they open up your pockets cause I'm about the air show for some money, but it's for a good cause. I promise and you're going to benefit from it more than I do. We know that the the burden of saving democracy is on the back of black women and I'd, say yeah bet on black women, but invest in black women too. Because I'm not going to do it by myself. My ancestors built this country by themselves, I'm not going to save it by myself. Iago help me. Yes, you why man, you go help me to baby Hugo help. Me too, we're going
I do this as a teen tennessee, we're going to do it together is going to take all of us every last single one of us in his room. Every last single person listening to my voice is going to take all of us. So what I want you guys to do before we go any further. Take out your phone, you can take my picture. I know I look cute, but what I want you to do is text the word. One numeral one number one t e a so four, four three two one again takes the number one: We eat a two four four three two one and when you do that, you can give to our mission and on a serious note, we were founded by five black women y'all our organization. Yes, it is black founded, it is blatantly, but here's my call to action. So you all number one bet on black women
at the drop the might, but I'm not gonna do the battle black women. We are the more bowl of this country. When we vote, we bought what everybody he she'd them They everybody in mind when black women go to the polls we vote for everybody. You can trust our boat traffic to invest thin black women. Don't just be betting on us. Put some money behind it, don't show up on. No don't don't show up on the day of the election, think you're going to get the goods and you ain't invested. That's all I'm saying burt elect more black women. I don't give a damn what the polls saying I don't give up. Don't tell me what the polls say. I don't give a damn what the polls say if we don't start putting money behind black women candidates when we finally do our groundwork to get tennessee ready to flip. What are people going to say? We need a moderate all white me because that's the only person that can re
if money, money behind black women candidates and, lastly, believe in tennessee, I believe in sentencing, I believe in sentencing. Believe in tequila jobs at the joining us now is the founder of the nonprofit standard, the devil. credit, canada, seventh, congressional district. Please welcome odessa Kelly. The
The. It seems like you have some fans here. I know. What's up good people when you started running for this seat, your district was a democratic district. Rep is covering all of this. Pretty blue city. Tell us what happened. First of all, work into the city and ass I in the city for ok happened was a bullshit. You know Could a central what is happening all across the country you know nashville, has been a predominantly blue and progressive leaning city for over a hundred years, and- two kilos in the racist republicans that the state legislature in their last act a grand powered decide they want
the massive three districts, but where they didn't know, is Are we about their life in nashville? We fighters in this city, inessa. That's where we're gonna do so. They created three streets. There will be blue, so thanks to, as you put it there look it's bullshit. This is a pretty republic industry. You are progressive, a proud, progressive, running, progressive platform. How'd, you convince a bunch of people who voted for donald trump, who identifiers can services support you in this progressive agenda, because I come with receipts, I'm a nashville. You born and raised. I got into doing this work because I was a public servant working for metro parks and recreation. Close to fourteen years, I was on the front line every day, frontline of poverty. I watch seniors in the morning, come together with other seniors and try to trade peels. You know because they cannot afford to keep buying prescription,
went over and over again I have five teachers in the afternoon around one of the best after school programmes. This city is ever seen and know exactly what peoples desire what it looks like. I was working to jobs. Limited to take china raise kids, got a master's degree got all this date and I'm underwear they don't have re it or blue cap on what they got onto this stress and regardless of people and rule? in a sea of the serbs day right here, my everybody's filling the same type of stress and wants to get out from under it. So a lot of I've had a lot of success of going into rule tennessee and talking to individuals. We can't republicans inviting us down you know what they want is someone who can address in needs, and they know that they have a track record of doing it and use and when you talk about policies like medicare for all or use when he was struggling in this economy in fighting for it is that is an area which have kit of connection with somebody's right with these rules,
conservative, rural voters who are suffering similar economic stress absolutely is finding what people call you too far live or progressive way, because we know people be homeless. We don't want people, star. We want people to be paid the dignity. they are all for the work that they do in this country. That is why I am a progressive. You know I think, aggressive means moving forward. Eli angle, ever let me one of them. Soups saw model, we'll take care of you know, so if elected in november, you would make history and how much bunch of ways, I'm pretty sure you would. Immediately be the best basketball player in congress but you would also be the first black women represent tennessee and the first openly gay like going be elected to congress ever why? What is a reaction being do your candidacy here in tennessee
think has been good, as you can hear, this is their reaction to begin here and all over the country and is not. If is win You know that they could up this district, in that they were going to make your horrible huq who who clouds appeal better than people from Davis organizes people I've been doing, despite against odds, we're gonna win this race, As to heal tequila pointed out earlier, a lot of Democrats have written off large swathes of the south national democratic. The term southern Democrat has often been another way of saying: conservative, democratic blue, our democratic in your mind. Is you think about it? What is this other democratic in twenty twenty two. How do we take how the Democrats take back the self? It's me is everyone is here, is to pay but looking here my voice is the way we're then I see my pretty face. We are put this on. You know you two were next
I'm serious you know is, is andrew jackson in racist republican, southern yes, but that's not the depth, son of tennessee and is not a definition of the south everyone here. Nashville it's in a sea weed, Why not asked off to be the new model of what the south is going to be, where the deepening in the south in every everyone he is eaten to do our part to save our democracy and that's exactly what we are going to do as you mentioned in your background, as in organizing right you ve worked in the community, you try to help people. How did you see running for congress is the natural extension of that. What made you decide to run. I think it was just the next step in one me want to be a good community organizer. I became You knew organizer because I was desperate to save my own life now here? I am in a community center and the front laszlo poverty. I'm living check to check I got france. Tell me, am I put in a way,
five twenty nine. My word I'm just trying to make ring. You know it why the fast growing cities in america from a community there's a case study identification in the communities in my job was to do boys. Gauss girl, scout arts and crafts make pro grounds to make intergenerational connections with our seniors and our youth, and I was good at doing it. I could retire doing their job, you know, but what happened is is if I stayed on a job for twenty years. I might top out at fifty eight k I can't buy a home in a neighborhood are european fifty eight k- and that does not just mean that was happening- the millions other people I had teachers in the eleven still it was connected to community that were texan, we ask you to put food boxes to decide. People were coming in mean dissent in the hague work uniforms. All these people was so workers these people did. This does sanitation and they will other park workers the people who are they
the structure of the city, the infrastructure this country did our living take to check. This will put me to be an organized. by tom, I became organizer. I was really good at it. Will we passed a community benefits? it's when he eighteen, to make sure that the city was it that that the city was gonna, do right by the people who lived here and not just eight here to some developers, We may sore that the city had a voice We want eating. Anyhow, we saved by city will not get a chance to around the country same issues that are happening around a country were happening right here in nashville when the pandemic kid I was like wise persons working in the community in the commission. atavism fighting, hardly anybody years for the cares it to get money directly, hey hands of the people who need it in when he came around november was like that so that we have is that we do all the work we do is dominant near to where the things that we actually need to move this country for, but we don't
in the positions of leadership, to get it across the finish line people have a seer disappearances of what the maze of us are going through the positions of leadership So it's very clear that you have a very fired up following here: the auditing tonight, as you can see, but for the phone. who are listening at home before we. Let you go tell us how they can help here campaign. How can they volunteered to make sure that you are the next ever congress from this district? absolutely for everyone is here and is kraut. Thank you for coming. everyone who can hear my voice and everyone can see my pretty airspace follow us, also media odessa kelly tee in again as a desert, kelly tee in own argius, twitter, odessa for congress on facebook and go to a desert for congress, doc
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and the forty fifth vice president united states tennessee these own AL gore, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being here will thank you for inviting me and welcome, as though this is a welcome to nashville welcome to the grand old operate is good to be back here. So you move back to tennessee after you left the white house, and I'd buy an voluntarily where, in this state, have you hidden the classified documents you took with you from the office? Is that a home buried somewhere might well. I came out here determined not to commit news about. The search of merrill
ago, so I didn't in a glass of our documents with me. Wouldn't do what what's your reaction, but I won't ask it is that which general reaction been of about the last forty eight hours about the news of the morrow go. We won't call it a raid, the visit by the fbi to mar a lago. Well, I have to say I have been inured to the regular astonishingly associated with the miss behaviour of the former chief executive officer of the executive branch, but if you asked me about my reaction to the of the last forty eight hours My reaction to the last forty eight hours is we pass the most historic
climate legislation, the history of the united states, the girl he didn't, he didn't fall on our. He didn't fall on our cable news trap, trying to make news of the day. Vice president Al Gore says notice the we were just talking backstage. It is unfortunate that the passage of the inflation redux act, which is the biggest climate bill in the history of the united states, and we get a little like an animal me just adds gives me in the history of any nation in the world now
Get me wrong. It has a few words on it, except compromises in and representative democracy in order to get a majority. It's ok, you look at it through the lens of carbon pollution reductions. It is absolutely amazing, full credit to chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin and twelve to fifteen democratic senators who have labored hard to make this stay at the top of the priority list, back and look at the bill back better bill at the beginning of present buttons term, and you follow all the different provisions of it. The one provision that had the smallest air the one part of that original bill that was reduced. The least was the climate package and the reason for that There are now a whole lot.
really dedicated, committed, passionate, educated, well informed Democrat senators who made sure that its stay that way. kept it so like at all to Joe Biden? Always I'm I'm, I'm I'm a huge fan of this bill, but, like here I've seen you talk about some of the words on the bill. I've seen some this criticism to and I'm wondering what you think, because, basically the argument is you know. Last year, the international energy agency said If we're going to try to be net zero by two thousand and fifty, we can't have any new oil or gas production. Obviously this bill allows for some in order to get mansion on board and basically
It is, but it still allowing some oil and gas production, and if the oil and gas companies are really mad about this bill, then it must not be that great what it. What do you think about that? What you said about well for, first of all, I really like in respect imagine there been times where that feeling has been challenged Well, you're talkin about well, are always loved. You boys, legitimate amerika, and I don't appreciate the hissing for a hero. and in in order for him to get on board and make his transformative decision to move this forward. He had to have something: okay, you gotta have something on and what these provisions that were given to him again, if you look at it through the limbs of how much extra carbon
it's gonna be involved there, not that much new leases and the gulf of mexico, possibly on some other. On some public glance, a small percentage of these diseases are actually developed and, by the way, these supercharging of wind and solar and and battery storage and ease. It is going to really discourage the willingness of investors to finance them. element of more oil and gas. I promise you that you know one of the statistics that I think has been really under reported in this whole climate story is last year worldwide. If you look at all all of the new electricity generation that was developed in every country. What percentage of it was solar and wind.
We'll have a quiz later. We know the answer, but you should tell them ninety percent, while ninety percent international energy agency says in the rest of this decade. It's gonna be ninety five percent they're losing their markets. The the fossil fuel industry for electricity, Racial they're losing their markets for transportation. A lot of countries are now seeing electric. Else really rise quickly that the third market they have as petrochemicals, which is seventy five percent plastics, the fossil fuel companies are telling wall street they're gonna make up their loss, profits by a massive expansion of plastics how's. That working out for the rest of us not well, and there are now bans being considered and countries and regional governments and citys around the world. I think that
the there or they are on the way out. I think we are crossing a threshold operating an electric vehicle. You can do it for the equipped of one dollar a gallon gasoline and there's been a chicken and egg deal with the investors and charging stations reluctant to put money up, because there are not enough electric vehicles and people reluctant to by electric vehicles, because their worried about range anxiety. in charging stations. Well, this this finance is a lot of chickens and eggs there. All gonna get there we're gonna make this so you know in response to the passage of time of these kind of vision. Does it we're not going back like this is an historic change in how we respond to this in the union this fight. For decades, earth and the balance what thirty years ago, how does it feel to launch this debate? Move from the edges of our politics
can a more towards the centre and as part of that does earth and balanced hold up, or is it riddled with ninety slang riddle realise slang. Does it say that, like climate, don't even go there we need energy. Is that a thing or two well, what do you think my goodness, you know you you ve done this shows so many times you ve really got an artful, that's a happy. I sat one way to say people sound the terry growth of this ever. I never really thought that it would take as long as it has had my I organised and chaired the first congressional hearing on the climate crisis forty one years ago. And I thought now
easily that laying out the facts, as the scientists did at that airing would really feel to be worked out that way and an end to be a serious for a moment. The fact that eighty two eighty one percent of all the energy used in the global economy still comes from fossil fuels should have been
lou that this was going to be pretty hard to make this transition. But but we are now making it earth in the balance at one of the radical proposals that I was attacked on back then was we need to completely phase out the internal combustion engine within twenty five years and replace it with electric vehicles, we're finally getting to the point where we can do that. Well, let me ask you: you know: climate policy has been for a long time. Carrots and sticks right. Incentives to produce clean energy and penalties for fossil fuel production and this bill is obviously all carrots are mostly carrots. Do you think we can get to net zero where we need to be with just all incentives and without really trying to like penalize oil and gas and fossil fuel production? Do you think we get the market is at such a place that we can get there through incentives? Only
well. First of all, you caught yourself and acknowledge there are. There are some sticks in this legislation. Don't tell me particularly on methane. There is a fee there's a a methane tax that really gives a powerful incentive to but down on methane emissions. But it's true that The heavy lifting in this legislation is with so called carrots, and the tax credits are quite substantial. Moreover, in a new innovation for washington dc there ten year, tax credits, the tax credits in the past have been one to three years. investors say you know, I don't know if that's gonna last or not ten Yours is long enough for significant investments to really transform the and the industrial base. So, yes, I think we can get there, but we still have a lot
to do the facts. Are we have all of the technologies? We need right now with proven deployment methods to to cut emissions by fifty percent in the next eight years, that's the way station go towards true net zero in in twenty fifty some of the technologies that we need for the second fifty percent. Are in development now, and we have a line of sight to where they will be able to be deployed in time, but we need to invest in more aren t. We need to use the epa rulemaking authority. The supreme court decision did not take it. all of the epa authority, we need to limit those We need more standards, we need that the climate. or that add Marcie has been pushing. There are a lot of other measures that we need the circle back to
and add to the momentum from this legislation. Do you think so you know that the estimates vary, but but let's say optimistically in this region believed that the bills mother models around the bill, don't account for a lot of really positive things that can happen. Let's say that that what comes out of this is, we can get to The forty percent reduction based on two two thousand and five levels we want to get to fifty percent. Do you believe that, without congressional action, we can do it through just executive action by the by the administration? Do you think you can get that last? Ten percent Well, the the? U n, go really the the markers forty five percent by twenty three. Bring the modeling shows that some this will produce somewhere between thirty eight and forty two percent reductions. We won't know until we get some practice with it, but
I really do believe that, as we get this big wheel, turning the momentum is going to be so powerful that it's going to lead to further cost reductions for renewable electricity for electric vehicles, for battery storage, for building efficiency, for generative agriculture, sustainable forestry now we're only fifteen percent of the world a mission. So I have a training of six thousand seven hundred new climate activism, Brazil. Next week and we're really turning on the heat because they ve got an section between both in who is called the trumpet the drawbacks and Lula who is coming back and he is a pro climate. He will be a pro climate president. We just had a climate election in australia,
the climate reality project, which is the ngo that, where I do these training say our third largest chapters and australia. We just split the government, along with many many others. They have just they have passed in one house, the biggest climate, installation in australia's history there's there. A second house of parliament has still has the act, but are expected to pass it just there it's in parallel to what we're doing for a forty three per cent reduction in the next eight years and their emissions. So if we can get Brazil, Australia and the u s,
and keep moving, and if europe gets the decision right on how to balance their energy security needs after the russian invasion of ukraine and balanced that with continued sharp reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. I think we're really off to the raises a presentation XI of China just announced he is now going to meet with prize president Biden. They ended their military exercises after the fact that they were so upset about nancy policies, trip to taiwan, and I think they're gonna end their boycott of the climate talks with the? U s pretty soon. Also so you mention Brazil, where we're in this struggle to kind of fight for democratic values. As we see the sort of authoritarian trend around the world. Obviously you made a decision in two thousand, but the country first and said I for the sake of of
Judy monsieur democracy, I'm gonna accept the result we ve seen another very we ve seen serve in another. Take on that from trump You won the election. a new job laws. The election, any ernie refused rule at the serious question is: how do you have a democracy? Only one side respects the values of these institutions. The precepts of this kind, Three, you only want someone like trump run, roughshod over the rule of law, howdy response Hetty risks is that how do you prove that a game is worth playing when only one side wants to play by the rules? Well, you know the also
you win someone you lose salmon than theirs that little known third category I used to work better than that: hey, listen! I have some great material about finland joining nato earlier that absolutely cratered, not you with a good line. It's a good life. It was the way you made that play on the word finish: shank you, You could hear that vice president got it usually only one we got it. Why don't you get it? No one else got it. We got. I got I gotta, I gotta railway. Well, look. We we have had.
We ve had a lot of changes in the reality being experienced by american voters and the rise of hyper. Any quality has really contributed to a lot of anger, the perceived threats to the previous dominance of demographic group that it was always damage that has also contributed to that they, the their anger and the grievance that the previous president exploited. And that there has been an under reported impact from the radical shift in media. I went from from print broadcasts and then internet into social media em. You know we ve under reacted to the significance of these algorithms that power
our ties, anger and outrage in grievance and division in twenty eighteen. When facebook changed its algorithm out, them eighteen did more harm than covert nineteen and, in my opinion and people have, Weapon eyes form of a I'm, not artificial intelligence, but artificial insanity where they act? we try to convince people of objectively. We prove insane theories about how the world it is operating. We ve seen it in the way the fbi raid in may, long ago that the fbi has planted. In that I mean you know it's. It's really crazy and some of these wild insane theories that they build constituencies around, have really hurt our democracy. Quite a bit.
course. The big lie that trump didn't lose. The election is the one that is motivating this current set of outrages. You ve graciously agree to stick around for game. Thank you for doing that, before we get? It was against my better judgment. I have no idea what's involved, that's how you like it Before I do, I mean, as you the stupidest question of ever, asked the history. They show That is saying something: it's a high born a clear Look at johns days stepped into what are you going when sophisticated uses machine learning to figure out what kind of music you want to hear and it turns out what you wanna hear are beats by the nations. Forty fifth. Vice president, what I think, it's only when it turns out that what you want to hear or beats it's the algorithm,
algorithm the oh, my god. another very excited, since the report does not mean that was it's the algorithm algorithm. Mr vice president, thank you for enduring this. You grace the greatest to stick for a and so josie and dan and tommy come back out here. You say right there, Tom is going. it over here. I'm gonna move over here. Sorry about that joke eyes. We are not getting up. Try to talk about in the night in the nineties. There. They are sandwiched between the start of the worldwide web in the end of history and standing astride, the nineteen nine these like a colossus vice president, AL gore-
I am a successful campaign to oust a wartime president to the couple of hundred elderly jewish floridians, who bid farewell to the nineties by accidentally voting for pat buchanan in two thousand and thereby personally ushering in the end of roe v wade, because I thought that might be what you said but think about it. It goes butterfly, ballots, buttery, males, but my rights, That is why I wonder remember this point is the ninety nine was a decade in which the dangers of climate change became came into focus and, as then happen, we saw coordinated effort by the fossil fuel industry and republican allies to politicizing confuse the issue. Even as His prisoner of war began to try to draw the commission's attention to it and, in the thirty years between
a ringing the alarm in the historic passage of a climate bill. This week we ve seen a relentless campaign of misinformation, but can you tell the difference we deny was too at beepers in car phones denying denial who had truth, social accounts. Cyber game. We call only ninety kids will remember a k a kyoto recall, like kyoto protocol Thank you, MR vice president, is the kyoto protocol. You remember. But the other they weren't binding, but they were still pissed but total recall, we're total recall without its words nigger eager. You know that was like the finnish joke. more more easily the yodel kyoto, the Georgiana kyoto recall
found your curtain I did. I did not expect this. We're taken is on the road. Here's. How works. We have two teams: one team will be Al Gore and in favour. We will face up against josie, and john I will read, you quote you ought to tell us. Is this ruminating nineties or the twenty twenty? and if you can name the speaker, you get a bonus point allow. But that's me tricky are in our. Are we ready? Yes. First question goes to Jan and the vice president: here's the quote. You also suggest taxes on gasoline taxes on utilities, taxes on carbon taxes on timber there's a whole host of taxes- and I don't believe raising taxes is the way to solve our environmental problems. Was that the nineteen nineties or the twenty twenties? What do you think, sir? I think that's gotta, be the nineteen nineties alright. Well, definitely not going to
the guy who won the popular vote. Let me ask you this. Do you know who said it do? I know who said it and I'll give you a hint newt, Gingrich I'll, give you the hint is. It was said to you personally, the Let me end and ok what would it have been? Damn quiet got it. It was in a vice president of the bay of nineteen eighty zero. Now I was gone brother or I'll bet, it's a team of Josie Tom. quote, we ve already warmed one degree celsius and you know what's happened since then. Let me tell you: we ve had more food, grown people die in the cold, dessert warming and carbon is actually healthy. For us, it keeps people alive. Was that the nineties, the twenty twenties
Like a twenty one year stupid enough to be twenty twenty yeah, I think it's twenty one It's funny you got wanna get your was I don't mean that I need a dj, got you got it. You got the margaret taylor, green or green, for one second, I hoped you didn't know who that is so happy everyone I becoming seriously she's. serious you, the fascist it does. Prospects are over to the vice president and Dan favour all nine. These kids will remember quote it does make you wonder, sometimes doesn't it how theoretical statisticians in the middle of the largest snow storm in new york city
stand there and say I don't care what it's doing. It's gonna get very hot, very soon,. That's gotta, be the nineties, that was the nineties and that's Let me give you thoroughly. Rushing the over over to the b team. The our budget does not operate on the assumption that global warming is a proven phenomenon. In fact, it assumes at best to be unproven and at worst to be liberal claptrap trendy, but soon to go out of style has to be nine years.
It sounds like clap, clap, clap for him. You know and then claptrap right now get that trendy. Ninety correct, okay, it was california representative, Dana rohrabacher in ninety five. Next up for Dan I want to call your email and its contents in this context. I, if you wanna, be improper. It's your adequacy level use. I just can't. I can't do it data now who that was stop. I didn't I didn't go it's well pastime, just our prioritizing the border crisis prioritize the border, stop creating woke climate programmes and in full. the law will obviously that's the point That's evidence. Minus one is yes, it was, but you know who said it
hmm do guess to tankers. Maybe I will go with that. It would close close josh holding Josh I over, to Tom Jones in First the world isn't warming. Second, even if it were oil and gas wouldn't be the cause. Third, no one can predict the likely future temperature rise. That's gotta, very mark, morrison kind of nineties also mouth feel deny this ninety. That is correct. It was exxon, ceo, we re me, and ninety valley. I never got that. Our final question to Dan and now Can we just pause for one second before that, as someone who move to this twenty years ago to work for the vice president, not owl, deeply. Well, I did it, and I want
I apologise to you for what is happening right now, you'll get over it. Man that's one dan aright, A money this one's real answers since we dont control the air are good air decided to float over to China's bad air so when china again our good air there bad air? It has to move so it he was over to our good air. Then now gotta clean that back end of quote. I dont think we than anybody that crazy, since the twenty countries that is herschel walker from one day to her,
Right, that's a double checked by the window. Tat! That's two points being do it again, who's hosting now, buddy the macarena well, that sound can only mean one thing sign for what work calling the wide uk lightning round here works, I'm going to read you a quote. You tell us whether it was about climate change, or how all the computers we're going explode in their turn. or from ninety ninety nine to two thousand and ready ready, sure quote
anybody can call the answer. I came here today because I wanted to stress the urgency of the challenge to people who are not in this room. When I give a speech like this, I am typically preaching to the choir, but hopefully the sermon is heard beyond the four walls of this room, because clearly we must set forth what the government is doing, but also what all of us have yet to do to meet this challenge together. There is a pressing need for action. Was that both about climate change or white uk. Why you're gay that that was why to k- and it was probably me- was it- was it was pressed Bill Clinton vulgar worldwide. Uk I'm gonna give everybody the point boy, oh my god, so many times Clinton comes in up next quote untold by some experts. things that he fears most might not be all that dangerous. According to some scientists that the thing we fear
most may not be all that dangerous climate change. Yeah with climate change is climate change. That was, that was ross prose runny may James songs they'll. These President delors got a great man but is enforced I opened in the debate by saying Why am I here did not way really was a great man. You had to answer that question for yourself in the all forms of life. I think yeah yeah, I know I know vinyl cloak. when people say to me. Is the world going to come to an end. I say I don't know the. you know I feel, for you is the last time you came on the show. We were not room in a very civilised conversation about climate.
Ash hotel in l a yeah. It was just a nice time and then this happened tower in that grand old opry. You guys have really come a long way. You've come a long way, but I'm going to need to answer was that about climate change, your world two Y, two k that must be about That is correct, there there. Thank you all right. Well, I've tabulated the points. John Josie Tommy you're a little bit behind vices, gordon pfeiffer. You are technically ahead. Unfortunately, unfortunately, still loss. does it make any sense you then I have been three just like this script. All right. You know what you really want, but you still law
I dont think that technically the rules, I don't, I don't make the rules are you know what vice versa now go? You're the winner, thank you so much. Thank you so much for doing this. That I return. I beg you about. President Al Gore beg you death kelly, beg you to kill a guy and beg you to turn up. You write about, gave america com site for the mid term. Thank you. Now. Hardly of america is a crooked media production. The executive producer is, homer martinez. Our senior producer is anti gardener, Bernstein,
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