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Channel: Late Night with Seth Meyers
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President Trump's
ex-National Security Adviser
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is trying to cash in with a
tell-all book after refusing to
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testify in Trump's
impeachment trial.
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For more on this, it's time
for "A Closer Look."
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鈾櫔
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We all know the president
is a venal, corrupt,
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self-serving maniac.
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This much is plain to everyone.
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Hell, it was the original title
of this show.
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You don't have to peel back
the layers with Trump.
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There's one layer.
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It's a thick epidermis
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of botox-infused pancake skin
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wrapped around a dark howling
void where a soul should be.
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Yesterday, for example, he
called in for yet another
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televised therapy session
with Sean Hannity,
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where he once again repeated
his insane lie
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that the coronavirus pandemic,
which has now killed more
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Americans than World War I,
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which is growing in
about 20 states,
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and which is spiking at
alarming levels in places
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like Arizona and Texas, will
just magically disappear.
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-It's fading away.
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It's going to fade away.
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Nobody knew that it was going
to be that contagious.
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Nobody had any idea it was going
to be this kind of contagious
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-Honestly at this point,
who's the audience for this?
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I mean, obviously these
two guys will TiVo it
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and watch it back later that
night while they talk
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on the phone, but who else?
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Mr. President,
you crushed that answer.
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Well, you crushed that question.
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Not only is this a flagrant
and reckless lie,
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it's not even new.
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When you buy the new
Steely Dan album,
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do you really want the
track list to say,
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"Reelin' In The Years
Remastered" 12 times?
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And full disclosure, if they
were remastered as 12 different
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versions of "Reelin' In The
Years," I guess I'd buy it.
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Wait, are Fox News viewers just
Steely Dan fans but for Trump?
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Trump has repeated a version of
this same lie dozens of times.
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He's like a Big Mouth
Billy Bass of bull[bleep].
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-It's going to disappear one
day, it's like a miracle.
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It will disappear.
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-Look, I know Trump's
diehard supporters
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will never budge from
supporting him,
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but are they really
sitting there
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watching the TV saying,
"He's right.
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No one new how
contagious it was.
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My buddy told me you
could only catch it
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by licking a toilet seat
under a full moon."
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So we all know who Trump is.
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Every tell-all book written
by a former Trump aide
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about their time in
the administration
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is the exact same.
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Some of the details differ,
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but they all say the same thing,
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the most powerful man
in the world
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is a mentally incontinent
man-toddler
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with farina brain who
only cares about himself.
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The one exception is
Sean Spicer's book,
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which I think is called,
"The Beefing?"
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No, no, wait, it was called
"Tales From A Podium Pud."
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You know what I think it was,
"Stinky Tailor, Stupid Guy."
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And yes, that was a tortured
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"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"
joke that almost worked.
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You know what,
if you think that joke worked,
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why don't you text "one"
to your grandmother.
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And if you think it didn't work,
text "two" to your grandmother.
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Either way, I think
your grandmother
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will be happy to
hear from you.
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Point is, if you're looking
for Sean Spicer's book,
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you can find it at
Barnes & Noble
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in the "Door Stop" section.
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Anyway, every tell-all Trump
book confirms again and again
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how uniquely cretinous
our president is.
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And they are all equally
pointless.
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We don't need tell-all books.
We have a tell-all president.
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What he does behind
closed doors,
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he also does behind open doors.
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And windows, into microphones,
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and his executive orders.
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It would only be interesting
if behind closed doors
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he was eloquent and curious
and not racist.
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Then there would be
some all to tell.
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And the same thing is true of
ex-National Security Adviser
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John Bolton's new book, except
Bolton's book also proves
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how loathsome and duplicitous
its author is.
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You might remember Bolton as
the lunatic who's called for
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bombing, like,
half a dozen countries,
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who enthusiastically
cheered on the Iraq War
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as a member of the
Bush administration,
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and who helped dismantle
the Pandemic Response Unit
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as a member of the
Trump administration.
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Bolton has been a key figure in
some of the biggest disasters
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of the last 20 years.
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I'm pretty sure he was
Mr. Moustachelees
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in the movie "Cats."
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At least before they air brushed
out the [bleep].
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Ya burnt.
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Bolton hasn't expressed
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so much as a scintilla of regret
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for all the horrific stuff
he's been involved in.
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In fact, he repeatedly
went on TV for years
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and claimed that the Iraq War,
which killed
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hundreds of thousands of people,
was actually a success,
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and said the only thing he would
have done differently
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in hindsight was leave the
Iraqis on their own sooner.
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-I think the overthrow
of Saddam Hussein,
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that military action was
a resounding success.
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I think the mistakes that
were made subsequently,
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setting up the coalition
provisional authority
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and others that followed from
it, are lessons about what to do
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after a regime
is overthrown.
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What I would have done
differently is much earlier,
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much sooner after the overthrow,
given it back to the Iraqis --
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and I'll exaggerate
for effect here --
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but given them a copy of
"The Federalist Papers"
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and said "good luck."
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-Spoken like a true psycho.
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You're like a guy who goes to a
house party, gets drunk, vomits,
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passes out in his vomit,
[bleep] his pants, wakes up,
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then gives you an Emily Post
book of etiquette
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and says, "You might
want to read this."
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So Bolton has never faced
consequences for any of the
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calamities he helped
bring about.
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And now rather than
answer the call
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when his country needed him,
he's cashing in
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with a $2 million book deal.
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And in that way, he is
exactly like Trump
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and all the other ghouls
in the modern Republican Party.
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He burned everything down,
stuffed his hands in the till,
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grabbed as much cash
as he could,
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and left everyone else to
clean up the mess.
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Honestly, Trump should be proud.
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[ As Trump ] A man after
my own, enlarged heart.
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And I think if we listen closely
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we're going to have a beep
coming up.
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[ Gasps ]
Did you hear that?
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It could be a few more minutes.
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[ Normal voice ] And sure
enough, Bolton's tedious
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and condescending book
does, in fact,
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confirm every bad thing you
already thought about Trump,
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including the impeachment case
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Bolton could have helped
with months ago.
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-Bolton says Trump did not
want to send funds to Ukraine
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until they sent him dirt on
Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden,
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just as he was accused of doing
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and acquitted by the Republicans
in the Senate.
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Bolton says Trump told
the Chinese premier
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to go ahead and build
concentration camps
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for the country's
Muslim minority.
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He also says Trump pleaded
explicitly face-to-face
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with Xi, China's premier,
to, quote,
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"Ensure he would win
the coming election."
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-So not only did the
President of the United States
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extort multiple countries
to help him cheat
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in the 2020 election and
encourage a totalitarian regime,
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to engage in ethnic cleansing
against a persecuted
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religious minority, but
Bolton witnessed it all
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but did nothing.
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I pray that one day these two
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get to share a cell together
in the Hague.
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It would make for a great
buddy comedy.
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These guys are a real
Turner and Douche.
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It would be like a modern day
"Perfect Strangers."
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And yes, in this situation
Trump would be
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the Balki Bartokomous
character.
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[ As Trump ] In my country,
we drink water with both hands.
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Don't be ridiculous.
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[ Normal voice ] So let's see,
we got "Perfect Strangers,"
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in there today, "Steely Dan,"
"Turner and Hooch,"
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and "Tinker, Tailor,
Soldier Spy."
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So I think we've more than taken
care of our teen viewers
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this evening.
Also, I can't wait
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for all the fake China hawks in
the GOP like Ted Cruz
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and Marco Rubio to pretend they
haven't read Trump's comments.
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Cruz is gonna grow
a beard so thick
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reporters won't be
able to find him.
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And yes, Bolton's book is also
full of the typically
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embarrassing details you'd
expect to hear about life
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in the Trump White House.
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For example, you might remember
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that Trump coined --
coined -- the nickname
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"Little Rocket Man"
for Kim Jong-un.
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But then after their summit in
Singapore, Trump pretended the
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name was a compliment and tried
to send Kim a gift.
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"In the months following the
summit, Bolton described Trump's
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inordinate interest in Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo
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delivering an autographed copy
of Elton John's 'Rocket Man'
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on CD to Kim during Pompeo's
follow-up visit to North Korea.
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Trump had used the term
'Little Rocket Man' to criticize
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the North Korean leader but
subsequently tried to convince
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Kim that it was a term of
affection.
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'Trump didn't seem to realize
Pompeo hadn't actually seen
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Kim Jong-un during the trip,
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asking if Pompeo had handed
the CD, wrote Bolton.
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'Pompeo had not.
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Getting this CD to Kim
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remained a high priority
for several months.'"
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Okay. First of all, I love that
it was a CD in the year 2018.
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Knowing Trump, his plan was to
get Kim Jong-un to pay a penny
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for that and 11 other CDs
and then have him on the hook
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for the rest of his life.
"Classic, Columbia House."
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Second, it's so weird to give
someone an autographed copy
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of a CD that isn't yours.
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For Christmas one year
I gave my mom "Wolf Hall"
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but I didn't sign it.
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So a con artist warmonger is
cashing in by detailing horrific
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abuses of power by a con
artist president
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subverting our democracy,
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and all the while the Republican
Party is just standing by,
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letting it happen.
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We're all watching right now
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as our institutions fail us
in a time of acute crisis.
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Police are beating protesters
with impunity,
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a deadly pandemic
is ravaging the nation,
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and unemployment is higher
than it's been in a century.
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And many people who
thought the government
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would be there to protect them
are learning that it's not.
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It's like being on an airplane
and assuming the oxygen mask
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will be there in an emergency,
and then you hit some turbulence
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and the only thing that comes
down is a voucher that says,
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"We know you have many
choices when you fly.
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Thank you for choosing us,
and please, rest in peace."
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And in many ways, the various
crises we're experiencing
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right now are connected
in at least one sense.
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The structural inequality and
the institutional failures
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laid bare by the coronavirus
pandemic helped set the stage,
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in part, for the unprecedented
mass demonstrations
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against systemic racism
and police brutality.
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-I think we were primed for
this moment by the coronavirus.
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By a lot of the American
mythology being laid bare.
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One, the idea we can be
relentlessly upwardly mobile
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and that white folks have
sort of their grasp
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on the American dream.
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When the economy shut down
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and people realized they were
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two paychecks away
from destitution
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and the government may
not be there for them,
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there was a sense of
vulnerability
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and a physical vulnerability.
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And then as we saw, the
coronavirus made people
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lean into their neighbors.
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Once you tap into that source of
vulnerability, interdependence,
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humanity and and awareness
of inequality
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that the coronavirus
has exposed,
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you're primed for
something big.
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-She's right.
The pandemic made the
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failures of our institutions
very real
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for tens of millions of people.
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And in turn, it led to a deep
sense of community solidarity.
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People had to look out
for each other
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because they realized the
government wouldn't,
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by checking on neighbors,
supporting local businesses,
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and liking your friends'
Instagram pics
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of their janky banana bread,
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even though they have already
posted half a dozen
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banana bread pics, and they are
not getting any better.
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You're over-mixing
the batter, Steven.
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[ Sighs ]
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Your bananas aren't
ripe enough.
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It [bleep] breaks my heart
to tell you that, Steve.
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Your bananas aren't
ripe enough, bro,
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and you're embarrassing
yourself on social media.
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People are discovering that
their government just isn't
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there for them, thanks in part
to years of concerted efforts
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by the moneyed class
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and the corporate elite
to hollow it out.
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If every year you pump trillions
into corporate tax cuts
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and the military and cut
everything else,
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you're gonna end up with a
country where millions of
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people don't have jobs
or healthcare,
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billionaires are doing great,
and everyone else
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is met with tear gas
and riot gear.
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I mean, think of what else we
could be spending money on
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right now instead of tanks for
local police departments.
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And even if you really want to
spend the money on tanks,
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the least you could do
is give them to nurses
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and postal workers
instead of the police.
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If instead of a tiny little
mail car, every postal worker
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had a tank,
they would make damn sure
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you got that Pottery Barn
catalog.
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In fact, one small thing we
could keep spending money on
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are the additional unemployment
benefits provided by
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the coronavirus
stimulus package.
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As you might recall,
the bill added $600
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to unemployment benefits,
which Republicans
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tried to get rid of at the time,
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a move that enraged
Bernie Sanders.
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-And now I find that some of
my Republican colleagues
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are very distressed.
They are very upset
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that somebody who is making
10, 12 bucks an hour
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might end up with a paycheck
for four months
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more than they received
last week.
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Oh, my God, the universe
is collapsing.
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Imagine that.
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Somebody who's making
12 bucks an hour,
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now like the rest of us, faces
an unprecedented economic crisis
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with the 600 bucks on
top of their normal,
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their regular unemployment check
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might be making a few bucks
more for four months.
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Oh, my word.
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Will the universe survive?
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-Say you what you will about
Bernie, but we really missed
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An opportunity for some
grade A old man sarcasm
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in the debates with trump.
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Oh, the media is mean to you?
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How will the universe survive?
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You know what we used to do
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when someone was mean
to us back in my day?
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We didn't tweet.
We rode our bikes
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down to the sandlot
and challenged them
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to a game of baseball.
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On Sunday, Trump
economic adviser
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Larry Kudlow said the Trump
administration would cut off
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the additional $600 because
it somehow disincentivizes
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people from going back to work.
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-The federal government
program for unemployed Americans
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gives them an extra $600
a week in benefits.
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But it's slated to
run out in six weeks.
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Now, obviously the health
effects and economic effects
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are going to last
longer than that.
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Should American families that
are receiving these extra
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$600 checks right now expect
that money to stop in August?
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-Well, unemployment benefits
will not stop in August.
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What may well stop -- and this
reform is necessary -- almost
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all businesses, frankly,
on both sides of the aisle,
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or mostly both sides
of the aisle,
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understand that the $600
plus up, that's above
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the state unemployment benefits
that they will continue
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to receive is, in effect,
a disincentive.
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I mean, we're paying
people not to work.
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It's better than their
salaries would get.
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-I don't know. I think that says
less about unemployment benefits
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and more about how
little we pay workers,
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you senile business egg.
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Also, I love that he thinks all
these people are on a salary.
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Oh, so you're a driver
for Papa John's?
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What is that, 100k a
year in stock options?
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I bet you get stock options,
I presume.
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So you think we're paying
people not to go to work?
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We're paying them because our
sociopathic government failed
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to protect them from
a deadly disease,
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and our barbaric capitalist
system
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has rendered
them expendable.
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Not everyone can spend
their day golfing
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and watching TV like
the guy you work for.
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if we're paying anyone
not to work, it's him.
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The only way Trump could watch
more TV is if golf courses
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started putting tiny screens
in the bottom of the cup.
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The people at the top are
stuffing their hands
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in the till, trying to cash out
before everything burns down.
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And meanwhile, they won't even
let you keep an extra $600 bucks
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a week during a pandemic
they failed to stop.
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I've got to be honest, sometimes
it really does feel like --
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-The universe is collapsing.
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-This has been "A Closer Look."
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