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Fox News Bans Rudy Giuliani, Arizona "Audit" Humiliates Trump and GOP: A Closer Look - YouTube
Channel: Late Night with Seth Meyers
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-Rudy Giuliani has reportedly
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been banned from Fox News,
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as both Rudy and the network
face defamation lawsuits
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from the election technology
company Dominion
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over the big lie, spread,
in large part, by Giuliani,
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a lie that was
disproven yet again
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by a GOP-funded audit in Arizona
that blew up in their faces.
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For more on this,
it's time for "A Closer Look."
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♪♪
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Before we get into the state
of our politics here at home,
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we're going to do something
a little different tonight
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and talk about the results
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of yesterday's election
in Germany.
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Now, stay with me, here,
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because this is
a little complicated.
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The center-left
Social Democrats, or SPD,
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led by Olaf Scholz,
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the vice chancellor
and former mayor of Hamburg,
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narrowly defeated the
conservative bloc, or CDU/CSU,
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led by Armin Laschet,
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his party's successor
to Angela Merkel.
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But, in order
to form a government,
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they'll need to engage
in coalition talks
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with smaller parties,
such as the Greens
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and the Free Democrats,
to reach a majority
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in the Bundestag,
which would lead
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to Germany's first-ever
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[ Alarm blaring ]
Whoa-oa-oa-oa-oa!
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Is that a Rudy Giuliani
news alert siren?
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The siren we had installed
in the studio
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to tell us whenever something
funny happens to Rudy Giuliani?
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Wally, throw out all the
cue cards about Germany.
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-Nein!
-What?!
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-Sorry, sorry.
Oh, I meant,
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do you want me to throw out
all nine of the cue cards
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about Germany?
[ Laughter ]
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I see what you did, there,
Wally. Okay.
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Let's see what Rudy's up to.
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-Fox News has reportedly
suspended
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former President Trump's
personal attorney,
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Rudy Giuliani, from appearing
on any of its shows.
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-His favorite TV outlet
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has reportedly banned him.
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He's been benched
for almost three months,
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in part, because of the vote
counting conspiracy theories
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that he pushed,
which, of course,
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have ballooned into lawsuits
against both him and Fox News.
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-They banned Rudy from Fox News?
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That's like banning a turtle
from its shell
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or banning the Turtle
from the Nike store.
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[ Laughter ]
-♪ Oh, yeah ♪
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-Two weeks
until the audience is back.
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Got to get our fringe references
in while we can.
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And is there
any better proof
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"Entourage" wasn't a true
representation of Hollywood
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than how off they were
about who would play Aquaman?
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I mean, Momoa uses Vinny Chase
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to pick the kelp
out of his teeth.
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Back to Rudy.
I mean, forget the interviews.
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If he's banned
from Fox News' greenrooms,
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where's he going to sleep?
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He can't go back
to his own place.
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The feds probably took his bed
when they raided his apartment
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because, knowing Rudy,
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he wrote incriminating notes
on his sheets
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when he couldn't find any paper.
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[ Laughter ]
And I'm betting he lived
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off that little plate
of nuts and dried fruit
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they put in the greenrooms.
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Probably tried to steal them
from the other guests.
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[ As Giuliani ]
Diamond, Silk,
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I thought you left.
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There's reason I have your
granola bars in my pockets.
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You know me, Diamond, Silk.
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[ Laughter ]
Anyway, that was fun,
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but I should get back
to the election in Germany.
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After all, Angela Merkel
led that government for 16 years
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and really ushered in
an era of --
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Oh, who am I kidding?
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Fox News banned Rudy!
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I've never been
in a Fox News studio,
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but I've heard that,
if you go to one,
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pretty much any hour of the day,
you'll see Rudy Giuliani
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slouched in the corner,
asleep, drool on his chin
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and a tote bag full of OTB
betting slips in his lap.
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In fact, sometimes
he's still in the shot
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when the next guest is on.
[ Laughter ]
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Now, Fox denied
that Rudy was banned,
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but, in doing so,
they found a way
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to wound his ego, yet again.
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They said he's not
technically banned.
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They just don't want him.
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-Fox News is disputing a report
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that Rudy Giuliani
and his son, Andrew,
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have been temporarily banned
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from the network's airwaves.
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Politico reported
a three-month ban,
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but Fox News says
that just isn't the case.
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Deadline reports
that the network just hasn't
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found Rudy Giuliani relevant
in recent coverage.
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-I'd use the old
showbiz expression
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and say Rudy can't get arrested,
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but I'm pretty sure
he can get arrested.
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I mean, damn,
it's one thing to ban him
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because you're afraid
of the Dominion lawsuit,
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but to tell him you just
don't want him anymore?
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It's like breaking up
with a boyfriend
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and telling him, "No, it's not
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because my mother
doesn't like you.
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You're ugly and bad at sex."
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[ Laughter ]
Now, lest we forget,
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Rudy is a real human being,
with real feelings,
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and not, as he appears,
a fictional goblin
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Italian grandmothers
threaten children with
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if they don't brush their teeth.
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[ Italian accent ] The Giuliani
is going to give you cavities!
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[ Laughter ]
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You want to have-a teeth
like the Giuliani?!
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Just in the bottoms?
[ Laughter ]
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And Rudy was apparently
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deeply emotionally affected
by this news.
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A source close to Giuliani
told Politico...
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Does Rudy think
Rupert Murdoch cares
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about his hurt feelings?
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If Rudy so much as tried
to speak to Murdoch at a dinner,
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Murdoch would simply nod
to one of his henchmen
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and have Rudy thrown
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into a watery pit full
of crocodiles.
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[ As Giuliani ]
Why are you taking me
to the pools?
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I don't have my swimming trunks.
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[ Laughter ]
Well, I'm sure --
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While I'm sure getting Fox News
on Time Warner
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was a huge deal at the time,
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it now sounds like the shadiest
of "Sopranos" B-plots.
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[ Italian accent ]
Rudy's mad because he
helped us out
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with that Time Warner thing,
free pay channels and the like.
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[ Laughter and applause ]
But,
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perhaps the biggest sting of all
was not the banning itself,
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but when, and how,
Rudy found out
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and what show he was banned on.
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-Giuliani was banned
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for nearly three months,
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but he only learned of the move
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the day before he was set
to appear
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on "Fox & Friends"
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on September 11th.
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-Imagine getting told
you're not credible enough
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to appear on "Fox & Friends."
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That show doesn't exactly have
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the highest
journalistic standards.
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You remember how,
every so often,
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there's an octopus who predicts
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what teams are going to win
the Super Bowl or the World Cup?
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"Fox & Friends" has it on
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to talk about masks in schools.
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[ Laughter ]
And then, there's the timing.
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Rudy was reportedly told
of his ban
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the night before the 20th
anniversary of 9/11,
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which might be
why Rudy seemed so,
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let's say,
out of sorts the next day
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at what was supposed to be
a solemn 9/11 memorial dinner
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and ended up turning
into an incoherent rant
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about how he never partied
with Prince Andrew.
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-I know Prince Andrew is very...
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questionable now.
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I never went out with him.
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[ Laughter and applause ]
Never!
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Never. Never had
a drink with him.
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Never was with a woman
or a young girl with him.
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Ever, ever, ever.
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One time,
I met him in my office;
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and, one time, when we had
the party, right, Bernie?
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You were there.
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[ Laughter ]
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You weren't there?
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Oh, [bleep]
[ Applause ]
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[ Laughter ]
-Huh.
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So weird, TV networks
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wouldn't want this man
on their shows.
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"So, Rudy,
just a reminder today.
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We really want to stress
we just want you to talk
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about how Biden's vaccine
mandate is tyranny."
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[ As Giuliani ]
You got it.
I'll also throw in
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how I never partied
with Prince Andrew.
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"No, just leave that out
entirely."
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Good idea because I did party
with him one time.
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And another time,
it was in my office.
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But don't worry, I'll explain it
all once you put me on TV.
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"Don't explain it all.
Just don't bring it up at all."
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I'll bring it up no more
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than five to seven times.
[ Laughter ]
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Now, I'm obviously not
a Fox News programing exec,
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but maybe the decision
to ban Rudy
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had something to do
with Rudy being, I don't know,
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an insane person who's
under criminal investigation
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and facing a billion-dollar
defamation lawsuit
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and who routinely confesses
to things unprompted,
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especially when he's
on Fox News.
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-Did you read the transcript?
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-Let's say it was read to me.
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-It was read to you,
the whole thing?
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-I hope.
It's all here, right here.
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The first call
from the State Department.
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Here's Kurt, saying, "Great.
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I will tell Yermak and he'll
visit with you there. Thanks."
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I don't know about it.
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I didn't hear it.
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-Forget the whistleblower.
We have the transcript
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-Shh! Shh!
-of the call and the
president's remarks.
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-Shut up, moron!
-I would assume you know
the libel law, then.
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-Shut up. Shut up.
-Okay, hold on.
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-You don't know
what you're talking about.
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"What's this guy Romney like?"
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You know what I told them?
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He's our Al Gore.
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-Alright, Rudy.
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"I'm Spartacus. I'm Spartacus."
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-By the way, Biden's been
off the trail.
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-Mueller saying, "Obstruction
of justice."
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You cut everything out.
"Obstruction of justice."
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Which, the guy will say,
"Say obstruction of justice."
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"Obstruction of justice."
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Did you decide it?
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"No."
-Maybe they cut him
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because his impressions
weren't good enough.
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Looks like someone needs
to go to...
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[ Laughter ]
Actually, never mind.
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He'd definitely do sloth.
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Or maybe he's banned
because he regularly went on Fox
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and showed off other people's
incriminating texts
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and emails and phone calls,
and nonsensically
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waved around
random pieces of paper,
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like a guy in Times Square
trying to convert you
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to some weird religion
you've never heard of.
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"Would you like
a free stress test?
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Have you heard
the gospel of Gerlax?"
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But, of course, it seems like
the real reason Rudy was banned
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probably has a lot more to do
with a simple
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financial and legal calculation.
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You see,
Fox is currently the target
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of a $1.6 billion
defamation lawsuit
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from the voting machine
company Dominion,
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which is also suing
Rudy personally
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for spreading
baseless conspiracy theories
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about how their machines
were supposedly rigged
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and Rudy played a big part
in spreading those lies.
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-As he's gotten more evidence
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of the rigging that went on
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he's really outraged.
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It's way beyond
what people think,
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including a very,
very dangerous foreign company.
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A company that has close,
close ties with Venezuela
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and, therefore, China.
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It's a radical left company.
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One of the people there is
a big supporter of antifa.
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Our votes are sent overseas.
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This is another attempt
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to try to defeat him
by illegal means.
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-If you were on a flight
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next to someone talking
like that,
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you'd asked the attendant
for a parachute.
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Our votes are sent overseas?
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Is he confusing ballot boxes
with Nermal?
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-♪ Oh, yeah ♪
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[ Laughter ]
For Nermal? Alright.
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[ Laughter ]
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So now that he's been banned
from Fox News,
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Rudy has to resort
to more obscure outlets,
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like Steve Bannon's podcast,
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which I'm guessing is recorded
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on a desert island
after a shipwreck,
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where Rudy claimed falsely
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that everything he said on Fox
has been verified.
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-There's a story
on Rolling Stone and Politico
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that says you're on double
secret probation over at Fox,
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and I don't think
people know this --
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Fox did not allow Rudy Giuliani
on Fox News,
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on "Fox & Friends,"
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on the morning
of September 11th.
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Now, they tell you you've been
on some secret probation
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over there
that nobody knew about?
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Can you just comment?
-It's really strange
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that I'm on probation at a time
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in which just about everything
I said is being corroborated.
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-[ Laughs ]
-And they actually are reporting
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all the things they claim
I misled them about.
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And, every night, they're now,
one night after another,
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we're corroborating one thing,
like this Arizona thing
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corroborates one of the things
they would've said, a week ago,
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I was misleading them about.
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-I doubt they called it
double secret probation
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when they told him about it.
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Rudy probably used that term
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and then,
they just went with it.
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[ As Giuliani ]
This sounds like
double secret probation.
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"Whatever you want
to call it, Rudy."
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That's what the queen
put Prince Andrew on.
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Not that I know him.
I've never partied with the man.
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Oh, wait.
There was that one time.
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[ Laughter ]
Bernie, you were there,
weren't you?
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Oh! You weren't?
[Bleep]
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[ Laughter ]
No,
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the scam GOP-led Arizona audit
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did not corroborate
what you said.
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In fact, it found
the exact opposite.
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The audit, which was designed
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to fabricate nonexistent
evidence of fraud,
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blew up in Trump's face
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by proving
that Biden actually won
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by more votes
than we previously thought.
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-The results are now in
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after that very expensive audit
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of the 2020 election
in Arizona.
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The Republican-led effort
tonight showing
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that President Biden
actually won
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by even more
than originally thought.
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-It wasn't what they were
hoping for.
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-We'll get this show
on the road, so to speak.
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-In the end,
the Arizona Republican audit
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found 99 more votes
for Joe Biden
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and 261 fewer for Donald Trump.
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Republicans in the legislature
admitting today
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that their controversial,
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month-long partisan review
of the votes
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had found, in the end,
that, yes,
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Joe Biden won Arizona.
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-So Trump and the Arizona GOP
were humiliated
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after they spent millions
to hire a group
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of right-wing tech weirdos
called the Cyber Ninjas,
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which sounds like
an off-brand action figure
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your grandma would buy you
at the dollar store.
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[ Southern accent ]
The man says they're just
as good as Transformers,
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except they don't turn
into anything
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and you can't get them wet.
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They only take watch batteries."
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[ Laughter ]
As you'll recall,
the Cyber Ninjas went
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to insane lengths
to find evidence of fraud,
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like when they used UV lights
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to scan ballots
for bamboo fibers,
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and all they ended up doing
was proving
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that Biden won Maricopa County
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by even more
than we originally thought.
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Maybe Trump and the GOP
will just have to keep
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bringing in crazier
right-wing groups
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with dumber and dumber names,
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until they finally get
the results they want,
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like the Robo Rockets
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or the Digi-Pirates
or the Crypto Cowboys.
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I mean, this is what happens
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when the right-wing
fantasy world
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of unhinged conspiracy theories
collides with reality.
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Fox News wants to fend off
a lawsuit from Dominion
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and they know Rudy's bat[bleep]
crazy conspiracy theories
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can't hold up in court.
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Even the Trump campaign
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and GOP senators themselves
knew that,
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as we found out last week,
and now,
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the scam GOP audit in Arizona
has proved it once again.
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And, yet, as part
of their relentless effort
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to destroy democracy
and discredit the very notion
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of free and fair elections,
Republicans are insisting
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on pursuing more sham audits,
in states like Pennsylvania.
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But the same thing's going
to keep happening to them
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that happened in Arizona --
they're going to look
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for evidence of fraud and,
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when it backfires on them,
they're going to say...
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-Oh, [bleep]
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-This has been "A Closer Look."
[ Laughter ]
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