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Pence's "Chilling" Words on Jan. 6; Greene's Texts About "Marshall Law": A Closer Look - YouTube
Channel: Late Night with Seth Meyers
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-A member of the committee
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investigating
the January 6th insurrection
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revealed what he called the most
chilling moment from that day,
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while three more Trump allies,
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including Kevin McCarthy
and Marjorie Taylor Greene,
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were caught lying about their
roles in the attempted coup.
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Oh, and also, Donald Trump said,
in a lawsuit,
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that he's afraid of getting hit
with dangerous fruits.
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[ Laughter ]
For more on this,
it's time for "A Closer Look."
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♪♪
[ Cheering and applause ]
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Every day, it seems like we get
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more bombshell reporting
about what happened
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on January 6th
and who was involved
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and now, on top of everything
else we've already learned,
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we have what one member
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of the committee investigating
the insurrection called
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the most chilling
anecdote yet --
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an account of something
Vice President Mike Pence said
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in the Capitol
as the riot was unfolding.
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-Democratic Representative
Jamie Raskin of Maryland,
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who is a member of the House
1/6 select committee,
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said the committee's
upcoming public hearings will
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"tell a story that will really
blow the roof off the House."
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At an event in Washington, D.C.,
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Raskin spoke about what he
called a chilling moment
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from January the 6th,
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involving former
Vice President Mike Pence.
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After rioters stormed
the halls of Congress,
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some chanting,
"Hang Mike Pence,"
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the vice president's
Secret Service agents rushed him
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to a secure location
inside the Capitol.
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Those agents, who, Raskin says,
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he suspects were reporting
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to Trump's
Secret Service agents,
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then tried to whisk Pence
away from the Capitol.
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That's when,
the congressman says,
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Pence uttered what he called
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"the six most chilling words"
he's heard
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throughout this
entire investigation --
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"I'm not getting in that car."
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-I'm guessing that's when Pence
went into full chameleon mode.
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You know that thing he does
where he closes his eyes
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[ Laughter ]
and sits totally still,
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hoping no one will notice him?
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[ As Pence ]
This is not happening.
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[ Laughter ]
You are not here.
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You are in your happy place,
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at a public library,
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burning a pile
of "Harry Potter" books.
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[ Laughter ]
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That's how nefarious
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this plot was,
and how deep it went --
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Trump's own vice president
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suspected the Secret Service
might be involved.
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Almost every day, it seems,
more evidence emerges
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that implicates yet another
member of Trump's inner circle
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and, nearly every day,
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those same people
get caught lying about it.
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Like Trump's former energy
secretary Rick Perry,
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who denied to CNN
that he ever proposed ideas
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to Trump's chief of staff
Mark Meadows
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for how to overturn
the election results,
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before text messages turned up
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in which Perry was caught
saying exactly that.
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And Perry even went
out of his way to make clear
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he was the one writing
the text messages.
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-Trump's former
energy secretary Rick Perry,
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former governor of Texas,
texted Meadows...
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Just for the record,
previously,
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we've reported at CNN
another Rick Perry text.
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He denied it.
It was his phone.
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CNN has confirmed,
from multiple sources,
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friends and colleagues of his,
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that that is his phone number
these texts were coming from.
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In fact, these texts
on the Meadows log show
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that he signed his name
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[ Laughter ]
and his telephone number
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at the end of the text.
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-I think, if you're going
to pitch ideas for a coup,
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then lie about it, maybe don't
sign your text messages
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with your name and phone number.
[ Laughter ]
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Did he also send a follow-up
text that said...
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[ Laughter ]
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I will say,
if you've ever texted
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with an older person,
like a parent or an in-law,
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you've probably witnessed
the same behavior.
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They all sign their text
messages with their names,
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like they're writing
Civil War letters home.
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[ Laughter ]
[ Southern accent ]
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[ Poignant tune plays ]
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♪♪
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♪♪
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♪♪
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[ Laughter and applause ]
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The circle of Trump cronies
involved in the coup
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keeps getting wider and wider,
to the point where it seems
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like virtually the entirety
of the Trump administration
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and his closest allies
in Congress
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were involved in some way.
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Like Marjorie Taylor Greene,
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who we now know
was also texting Meadows,
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more than a week
after the insurrection,
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about the possibility of Trump
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declaring martial law
to stay in power,
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an idea that had been advocated
by Trump allies
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like Michael Flynn
and Mike Lindell,
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only Greene misspelled
the word martial
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in the dumbest possible way.
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-Three days
before the inauguration,
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Marjorie Taylor Greene
sent this text message
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to Mark Meadows...
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Note on your screen,
she misspells the word martial.
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That's right. She spelled it
like the name Marshall.
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[ Laughter ]
Now, in her defense,
Marjorie Taylor Greene
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probably just confused
martial law
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with Marshalls law,
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[ Laughter ]
which she violates
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every time she tries
to bring more
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than six items
into the changing room,
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at which point she's escorted
from the store, screaming --
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[ As Greene ]
It's my constitutional right
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to find comfortable slacks
at a reasonable price!
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[ Laughter ]
And then last night,
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in an interview with Fox News
host Laura Ingraham,
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Greene implied that the
text messages in question
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might not even be hers,
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while also insisting that,
if they were hers,
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she wasn't actually asking
Trump to declare martial law.
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She was just letting him know
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that it was something
that was being discussed.
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-Those are reportedly
my text messages.
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I think, if people read them
for themself,
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if those were my text messages,
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they clearly say that I
wasn't calling for that.
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I actually said that's something
I don't know about.
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That was what those
text messages say.
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-So you didn't advocate --
-Right now, there's a group --
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-You never advocated
martial law,
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that President Trump
should use martial law
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to stop, you know,
the transition of power?
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You never advocated
for that, did you?
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[ Laughter ]
-I don't recall ever advocating
for martial law.
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I think --
I don't know if you have that
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up on the screen right now
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because I can't see it...
-No.
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-...but, if you put
that text message up,
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it's clear and easy to read
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that, if that's my text messages
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and that's what
they're reporting,
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I don't recall if they are,
but if they are,
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those text messages do not say
calling for martial law.
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-So you don't know if the texts,
which you've seen,
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were actually yours.
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You sound like a werewolf trying
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to piece things together
the next morning.
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[ Laughter ]
"Look, I don't recall
eating any villagers,
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but if that's why there's blood
on my nightshirt,
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then I guess I forgot
to chain myself to the bed."
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[ Laughter ]
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Also, can we go back to this?
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-I don't know if you have that
up on the screen right now
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because I can't see it.
-No.
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-I like that she accidentally
asked Ingraham,
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"Are you going to do
any journalism?"
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And Ingraham said, "No."
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[ Laughter ]
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Fox News reacts to the question,
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"Are you going
to do journalism?"
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the way Larry David reacts
to a dinner invite.
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[ Changes accent ]
Larry, you want
to come over tonight?
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Come on, I'll drive you.
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[ As David ]
Uh...
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I'm not getting in that car.
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[ Laughter ]
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They all do the same thing --
lie, get caught lying,
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then talk in nonsense
word-salad circles
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of inscrutable bull[bleep]
to try to get out of it.
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The same thing happened
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with House GOP leader
Kevin McCarthy,
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after he denied a report
that he told fellow Republicans,
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in the days
after the insurrection,
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that he would urge Trump
to resign.
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And then audio surfaced
of the phone call
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in which McCarthy said
he would urge Trump to resign.
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After the audio surfaced,
McCarthy held a press conference
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where he tried to claim
he hadn't lied
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when he denied
the initial report,
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but his answer made
no sense, whatsoever.
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-The reporter never asked me
that question.
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The reporter came to me
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the night before he
released the book
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and my understanding was
he was saying
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that I asked President Trump
to resign.
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No, I never did,
and that's what I was answering.
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If you're answering --
If you're asking now,
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did I tell my members
that we're going to ask,
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ask them if I told any of them
that I said President Trump.
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The answer is no.
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-Your claim is
that you weren't lying
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when you deny that you said
you would urge Trump to resign
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because the reporter asked you
if you urged Trump to resign,
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which you claim you didn't,
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and, if we want to know
if you told your members
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you would urge Trump to resign,
we should ask your members
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if you told them
you would urge him to resign,
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instead of just listening
to the audio
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where you told them
you would urge Trump to resign.
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[ Laughter ]
I feel like I just spent an hour
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trying to find an exit
in an M.C. Escher painting.
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[ Laughter ]
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Why would we ask your members
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if you said it?
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We have the audio
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of you telling your members
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impeachment would pass
and Trump should resign.
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That wasn't me!
That was my friend...
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[ Laughter ]
Here's my question
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about everything we've learned,
so far.
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In addition to being
horrifying and dangerous,
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why is everything always
so incredibly stupid?
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Has it always been this way?
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Whenever you watch old movies
about politics,
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like "Mr. Smith Goes
to Washington"
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or "All the President's Men,"
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it all seems so noble
and dignified.
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I can't imagine there's
old newsreel footage
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of Harry Truman moving around
to a Village People song.
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-♪ It's fun to stay at the ♪
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♪ YMCA ♪
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♪ It's fun to stay at the ♪
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♪ YMCA ♪
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[ Laughter ]
-For example,
the news found a way
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to get even dumber this week,
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when newly released excerpts
from a deposition reveal
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that Donald Trump said
he was afraid
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that protesters,
during the 2016 election,
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would throw dangerous fruits
at him during a rally.
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[ Laughter ]
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[ Laughter ]
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[ Laughter ]
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[ Laughter ]
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[ As Trump ]
That's -- and that's why we
had the security guards.
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[ Laughter ]
Now, me, I wanted --
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I wanted to use some very highly
specialized fruit ninjas.
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[ Laughter ]
I said, "Let's do ninjas
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because they have
the fruit swords."
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But they said no because,
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if they miss three fruits,
they're out and you can't --
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[ Laughter ]
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You can't show weakness
like that.
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[ Laughter ]
And then there's this,
even dumber,
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part of the deposition,
where Trump says...
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[ Laughter ]
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[ Laughter ]
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What do you mean, do fruit?
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[ Laughter ]
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What do you mean,
you were put on alert?
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There's an alert system
for fruit?
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It's like the Homeland Security
threat level.
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Red's tomato,
yellow's for banana,
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and green is for
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[ As Trump ] avocado.
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[ Laughter ]
And you know what they say --
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If you get hit with an avocado,
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you're toast.
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[ Laughter ]
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And that's today's brunch joke.
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[ Laughter ]
[ Clink ]
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[ Cheering and applause ]
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Thank you.
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Also, how would somebody
sneak a pineapple
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into a political rally?
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[ Laughter ]
"Oh, you misheard.
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This isn't a pineapple.
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This is my baby.
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Her name is, uh, Penelope.
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[ Laughter ]
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Isn't that right, Penelope?
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Oh, Penelope has dry skin.
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We need some lotion.
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[ Laughter ]
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Aah!"
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[ Thud ]
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[ Laughter ]
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These idiots are somehow
both the dumbest
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and most dangerous people
in our politics.
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When they're not panicking
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about potential
fruit-based assaults,
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they're actively planning
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to subvert free
and fair elections.
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They did it in 2020.
They were caught, lied about it,
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and they're preparing
to do it again, as we speak.
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Democracy is the Target
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and they've sunk to new Lowe's,
including declaring...
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-Martial law.
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[ Laughter and applause ]
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-This has been "A Closer Look."
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[ Cheering and applause ]
Let's move on.
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