"No Kings" Protests Defy GOP Expectations & Jon Gives Trump a Royal Inspection | Sen. Bernie Sanders

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Speaker 5 I didn't even want to tell you this: Senator Bernard Sanders, Independent Vermont.

Speaker 5 It's funny. I've never seen this before.
You announce a guest and a mosh pit forms.

Speaker 6 Started going on there. You're hearing that, man.

Speaker 5 If you're watching tonight's program with a billionaire, you might want to get him some headphones because it's about to get all populist up in this bitch.

Speaker 5 That's for sure. But first,

Speaker 5 it's exciting news. Believe me, I'm excited as well.

Speaker 5 We're going to start, though, with the major news from this weekend.

Speaker 7 New York's annual Halloween dog parade was this weekend.

Speaker 5 That is not the picture we used in rehearsal.

Speaker 5 It's a great reminder: each year the dogs, like humans, are capable of experiencing humiliation.

Speaker 5 Perhaps you missed this year's annual dog parade because you remained inside all weekend because you knew that the No Kings protests would be taking place

Speaker 5 and you heard what that might be like.

Speaker 9 We call it the Hate America rally. I bet you see pro-Hamas supporters.
I bet you you see Antifa types. I bet you see the Marxist in full display.

Speaker 10 This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is going to be the farthest left, the hardest core,

Speaker 10 the most unhinged in the Democratic Party.

Speaker 5 Not the hardest core.

Speaker 5 I expected partial Marxism and hardcore, but not full display, hardest core Hamarxism.

Speaker 5 It's going to be like Mad Max out there with Chuck Schumer on flaming guitar.

Speaker 5 That's a real photograph.

Speaker 5 And so this weekend we sat in our bunkers, doors locked, windows boarded, muskets and cyanide pills at the ready, prepared for whatever the hardest core had in store. Do your worst.
Display your

Speaker 5 Marxism to its fullest.

Speaker 11 An estimated 7 million people gathered across some 2,700 no-kings rallies in cities from coast to coast in what has been described as one of the largest single-day demonstrations in U.S. history.

Speaker 11 Not only were they largely peaceful, they were often joyful.

Speaker 11 No!

Speaker 5 Not public domain folk classics!

Speaker 5 You monsters!

Speaker 5 Actually, there was kind of an incredible turnout that was somewhat inspiring. Seven million Americans, zero mass shootings.

Speaker 4 Zero!

Speaker 5 That's just sad.

Speaker 5 No mass shootings.

Speaker 6 My God.

Speaker 5 I mean, has that even happened before? Even the dog parade had some nipping.

Speaker 5 It wasn't a hate America rally at all.

Speaker 5 I look forward to Republicans apologizing sincerely for implying that these Americans were,

Speaker 5 what's the word I'm looking for?

Speaker 15 Deplorable.

Speaker 16 This to me is a colossal waste of time.

Speaker 5 And for these people, you wasted your Saturday.

Speaker 17 It's like a Comic-Con. They have costumes and hashtags.

Speaker 18 They're silly protesting, and they don't know how dumb they look.

Speaker 16 Absurdist costumes. They look silly.
They certainly don't look serious.

Speaker 5 I knew Antifa. I worked with Antifa.

Speaker 6 You people are not Antifa.

Speaker 5 Make up your mind, Fox. You complained it would be a terrifyingly shit your pants protest, and now you are complaining about how boringly un-pants-shitting it was.

Speaker 5 Although there was one knit you picked that really felt off-brand.

Speaker 20 A crowd made largely up of what many are saying are gray hairs, boomers.

Speaker 11 A bunch of boomers.

Speaker 21 A lot of older, angry boomers.

Speaker 18 Older, angry, white boomers.

Speaker 16 It's a sea of white people.

Speaker 5 It's all old white people.

Speaker 5 Extra, extra.

Speaker 5 Extra, extra. Read all about it.

Speaker 5 This country has too many angry old white people.

Speaker 5 Says,

Speaker 5 hold on.

Speaker 4 Fox News.

Speaker 4 Fox News says,

Speaker 4 why are old white people so angry?

Speaker 5 Fox News, mad that there are so many old white people in America.

Speaker 5 I don't think Fox News is mad.

Speaker 4 I think they're jealous.

Speaker 5 To be fair, to be fair to Fox News, they are kind of right to be dismissive.

Speaker 5 I mean, imagine a bunch of old white people in costumes angrily protesting the direction and overreach of an ever-encroaching federal government. I mean, preposterous.

Speaker 5 That's in no way a movement that could sweep the midterms and then be harnessed by a charismatic demagogue to remake an entire political party.

Speaker 7 I mean, it's laughable.

Speaker 5 Republicans should be careful.

Speaker 5 There is a tremendous amount of political potential energy coursing through these massive and as of yet unfocused gatherings, which is also not to insinuate that any random zoom-in close-up of said gathering would show itself to be less American Patriot Tea Party and more Mad Hatter Tea Party.

Speaker 23 I don't know what that is.

Speaker 24 I don't know what they want.

Speaker 5 I'm assuming cheaper compressed air.

Speaker 5 Now, obviously, that's not to say there weren't some hardened terrorist sympathizers practicing coordinated action.

Speaker 5 I did not know Hamas had a jazzercy program.

Speaker 5 We must wage jihad against pre-diabetes

Speaker 5 and apparently rhythm.

Speaker 5 And while those performances were more joyful than provocative, I think we can all agree about the effectiveness of this installation.

Speaker 5 ICE agents as lice agents being beaten by Uncle Sam while Prison Trump meanders around the Constitution.

Speaker 5 Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot stress this enough.

Speaker 7 This is why you do not cut funding for the arts.

Speaker 5 You don't want to do this shit on the cheap.

Speaker 5 Clearly, it was a great day for democracy, and apparently, an even better day for people across this country who always got cast as ensemble. in their high school's musical.

Speaker 5 At the end of the day, it wasn't the spectacle that upset Republican leaders. What really hurt their feelings was the insinuation behind the rallies.

Speaker 27 They're calling him a king.

Speaker 16 It's completely ridiculous.

Speaker 9 And I guarantee you that kings don't let you romp up and down the street in costume mocking him.

Speaker 9 If President Trump was a king, he would have closed the national parks and the national mall, so they couldn't have had the rally out here.

Speaker 22 Yeah, that's not as reassuring as you think it is.

Speaker 7 Oh, believe me, if this guy was king, there'd be no dissent.

Speaker 5 I mean, he wanted to shut the park. He Googled it.

Speaker 5 He showed us a picture of the park with Big X. He said, what if we had them come and then just red-wetting the shit out of them?

Speaker 5 And we told him, Mr.

Speaker 22 President, we're not there.

Speaker 5 And the truth is, it's a bit of hyperbole from the opposition to think that this president is some sort of thin-skinned man-baby king sitting in his gilded throne room, demanding vengeance on his enemies while plotting Baroque and lavish monuments to his own ego, whilst sycophant plead for his benevolence through exotic tokens of fealty.

Speaker 29 Thumbs off with a corning line.

Speaker 29 It's engraved for President Trump. It's a unique unit of one.

Speaker 29 It's from the corning line,

Speaker 29 The most spectacular line in all engravies.

Speaker 29 My lord!

Speaker 29 It has a hole in the middle for your c!

Speaker 29 You can place the corning line around your c. It'll look like a bishop wearing an Elizabethan collar.

Speaker 29 And see.

Speaker 29 So this one's clear.

Speaker 5 This one's clear. This is a unique gift to the president, handmade and blown on the order of the CEO, and it still had to come in all that

Speaker 4 Apple packaging.

Speaker 5 Enjoy the gift if you can find it all under all the secret compartments. Oh, and the gift needs a charger, and the package doesn't include an adapter.

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah!

Speaker 4 All right.

Speaker 5 So clearly, Trump has the lavish sensibilities of a king, the entitled mind of a king.

Speaker 5 But if he was really a king, where's the broken-down, inbred body of a king, saddled with the exotic infirmaries of royalty? Like this guy, King Charles II of Spain. Look, look at the picture.

Speaker 5 That's his official portrait.

Speaker 5 That's the one he picked

Speaker 5 oh I like the shading and a little filter it makes it seem like my head is not an actual eggplant

Speaker 5 say what you want about Trump he doesn't have any of that stuff.

Speaker 28 There have been many questions about the president's health after photographs surfaced of his swollen ankles and bruised hands.

Speaker 19 Okay, those are weird.

Speaker 5 But a real king would have his minions dismiss said infirmaries.

Speaker 18 Recent photos of the president have shown minor bruising on the back of his hand. This is consistent with minor soft tissue irritation from frequent handshaking and the use of aspirin.

Speaker 5 I've been in the business a long time.

Speaker 6 I'm not the president, but I've shaken a lot of hands.

Speaker 5 And I'm pretty sure it doesn't cause a gangrene.

Speaker 5 You know what? Admittedly, it's starting to feel like there might be something to this whole king thing.

Speaker 5 Let's go to the source, the original no-King's protest, the revolution. Let's see what's in the Declaration of Independence.
I just want to see very quickly if we have, hold on a second.

Speaker 5 There's listed 27 specific grievances against the king. Time for a surprise inspection.
Let me just see very...

Speaker 4 Oh, what's that?

Speaker 5 There's no difference in color.

Speaker 4 The actual color of my hair

Speaker 5 is store-bought colonial wig.

Speaker 5 All right, let's see what the declaration says. Give me a beat.
beat!

Speaker 5 Come on.

Speaker 5 The Declaration says, ah, he has kept among us in times of peace standing armies without the consent of our legislatures.

Speaker 30 Done.

Speaker 4 Cutting off our trade with all parts of the world.

Speaker 5 That does sound familiar.

Speaker 5 He has obstructed the administration of justice.

Speaker 5 It's getting hot in here.

Speaker 22 And here's one more.

Speaker 5 He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us.

Speaker 7 I mean, come on.

Speaker 4 I'm calling it.

Speaker 5 Look, maybe Trump isn't an all-powerful king, the kind who can do whatever he wants, but he's undeniably king-adjacent, king-esque, moving for more. He's the imitation crab of kings right now.

Speaker 5 I can't believe it's not king.

Speaker 5 And the ironic part about Republicans complaining that he is being dubbed a king is that in their minds, he has already surpassed that title anyway and moved on to a much higher calling.

Speaker 2 He's a miracle worker.

Speaker 21 Trump just performed an actual miracle before our eyes.

Speaker 17 He was saved to do things like he did today.

Speaker 28 He's got just a special anointing.

Speaker 9 Prophecy, destiny, and divine purpose. President Trump is God's chosen instrument for this moment in time.

Speaker 27 I've seen the hand of God on him for a very long time. You know, we're saving Christianity.

Speaker 26 We're saving God.

Speaker 4 To Republicans, King is a demotion. He's not a king.

Speaker 12 He's a deity.

Speaker 5 Sent by God to bring peace to all of mankind. A Jesus-like figure.
I mean, I get it.

Speaker 4 There is a lot of crossover.

Speaker 5 That's why tonight I thought we'd end our program with some fun and play the hottest new game show on basic cable.

Speaker 4 Jesus

Speaker 5 or Trump.

Speaker 5 Beam bomb. All right, here we go.

Speaker 5 Here's how we're going to play.

Speaker 4 I'll read a quote

Speaker 4 and you try and figure out

Speaker 5 if it was said by Donald J. Trump or Jesus H.
Christ.

Speaker 5 Get out your scorecards!

Speaker 5 First quote.

Speaker 5 Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. I'm starting off with a tough one, purposefully.

Speaker 5 Give everybody a second to lock in their answers.

Speaker 26 Jesus Christ, that's Jesus.

Speaker 5 Got about 60% in the audience, guys.

Speaker 5 Number two, be on your guard against all kinds of greed. Life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.
That's another tricky one. I want you to take...

Speaker 5 Jesus again.

Speaker 24 That was 2.0 on that.

Speaker 4 Let me try another one.

Speaker 5 I did try and f ⁇ her.

Speaker 5 Please wait till after I finish the quote before you're off in there.

Speaker 5 Please.

Speaker 5 I did try and f her. She was married.

Speaker 8 And I moved on her very heavily.

Speaker 5 In fact, I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture.
I said, I'll show you where they have some nice furniture.

Speaker 4 Ma'am.

Speaker 5 Please respect the other contestants.

Speaker 8 I moved on her like a bitch.

Speaker 5 But I couldn't, don't boo, it could be Jesus.

Speaker 7 And you are risking

Speaker 5 eternal life.

Speaker 5 But I couldn't get there, and she was married. Then all of a sudden, I see her.
She's now got the big phony tits and everything. She's totally changed her look.

Speaker 4 End quote.

Speaker 4 Lock in.

Speaker 12 That one was Trump. That was Trump.
Bing Bong.

Speaker 4 You got that. Listen,

Speaker 5 you guys are very good at this game.

Speaker 5 So if you ask, is Trump a king?

Speaker 4 Nay, nay.

Speaker 4 He is the king of kings.

Speaker 5 And that, my friends, is a reason to rejoice.

Speaker 4 Nothing like that.

Speaker 5 When we come back, Senator Bernie Sanders will be joining us. Don't go wrong.

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Speaker 13 Hold on, the damage up against tonight. He is an independent senator from Vermont.

Speaker 5 His latest book is called Fight Oligarchy. Please welcome to the program, Senator Bernie Sanders.
Sir.

Speaker 5 Been here 20 years, never as much as a John, John.

Speaker 5 Only you, brother.

Speaker 12 First of all, thank you for being here.

Speaker 38 How were

Speaker 5 these no-king rallies? You went, you addressed one. Where did you speak? What was it?

Speaker 4 I was in D.C.

Speaker 17 There were some 200,000 people out in D.C.

Speaker 40 There were some 7 million people out in 2,600 events all over the country, not only in big cities, but in small towns.

Speaker 42 Bottom line, extraordinary.

Speaker 44 People came out, they said no to Trumpism, no to authoritarianism, no to oligarchy.

Speaker 5 And it grew from the previous expression of those. And obviously you can go back and you say, well, it's, you know, maybe the left is building a similar thing

Speaker 5 to the Tea Party with all this

Speaker 5 potential energy that's moving in that direction.

Speaker 5 How do you harness that for

Speaker 5 purpose, for being directional.

Speaker 5 There are not a lot of people out there other than yourself, other than Representative Cortez, who are very clearly delineated about a point of view that people can rally behind.

Speaker 32 Well, let me just say two things.

Speaker 45 We are in an extraordinarily dangerous time, as you know.

Speaker 46 You got an authoritarian president who wants more and more power, doesn't respect the Constitution, doesn't respect the law.

Speaker 6 Well, the Supreme Court that's granting it to him.

Speaker 45 Right, that's true. I mean, that's part of the process.
You got a Republican Party that's now lockstep.

Speaker 39 It's kind of a cult of the individual.

Speaker 33 We've got to stop them.

Speaker 46 But there's something else that we've got to do, John.

Speaker 39 We have to have a vision for the future of this country.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 42 I think that many of my colleagues in the Democratic Party have not had that vision.

Speaker 45 And what that means is that we should not accept the fact that we have so much income and wealth inequality, that you got one guy, Mr.

Speaker 42 Musk, owning more wealth than the bottom 52% of the American people.

Speaker 42 That we have a corrupt campaign finance system that allows billionaires in both parties to determine who wins and who loses elections.

Speaker 45 And the vision has got to be, and I want people to think about this, in this extraordinarily great country, wealthy country, why don't we guarantee health care to every man, woman, and child that's being in their right?

Speaker 42 So

Speaker 42 this is what the government needs to learn. So

Speaker 5 in this moment, all this potential energy, there is clearly a thirst in this country for leadership and smart politics.

Speaker 5 You know, I know Kamala's book was 107 days, this shortened time that she had to run the campaign. But the Democrats have had now

Speaker 5 a much longer timeframe

Speaker 5 and yet, to my mind, have not articulated

Speaker 5 a simple, clear vision addressing those very things

Speaker 4 at all.

Speaker 4 In fact,

Speaker 12 I would go further.

Speaker 5 There seems to be a whole thing where they say, let's not address that vision. What we need to do is not bother anybody and be just totally.

Speaker 24 You're not far from wrong.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 25 it's a conscious decision.

Speaker 41 I mean, look.

Speaker 6 It's my GPS.

Speaker 4 I'm near right.

Speaker 44 Look.

Speaker 39 And a lot of that gets back to money.

Speaker 33 Basically, if you're a political party, you've got to make a decision.

Speaker 17 Do you go where the money is, where the billionaires are, where the super PACs are, and kind of do what these guys want?

Speaker 24 Or do you go where the working class and the middle class of this country are, and those are people who are hurting, who want real change.

Speaker 48 And I'll give Donald Trump, he may be crazy, he may be a pathological liar, but he's not stupid.

Speaker 5 I'm going to say something.

Speaker 4 That's a rather passive-aggressive comment, I think.

Speaker 4 It's classic.

Speaker 40 But what I mean by that is the message that he gives off in one way or another is the system is broken, right?

Speaker 4 Yes.

Speaker 48 And I alone can fix the system.

Speaker 19 Well, the truth is the system is broken.

Speaker 40 He is making it worse.

Speaker 19 But the Democrats have got to acknowledge that the system is broken.

Speaker 7 I'll go you one better.

Speaker 5 You know, if you think about, because your message has always been consistent, and you've spoken this way since you first came on the scene for a very long time, and you've always been clear about it.

Speaker 5 You could almost make a case that the true inheritor of the Sanders revolution is Trump. He's the most socialist president of my lifetime.

Speaker 5 Taking a percentage of companies to do business, that's a Bernie Sanders idea.

Speaker 5 Doing a Trump RX where the government is involved in selling pharmaceuticals, that's a Bernie Sanders idea.

Speaker 8 It's not only his,

Speaker 39 some of his policies, some of his other policies, let's not forget, is throwing 15 million people off the health care they have and doubling health care premiums.

Speaker 4 He's not perfect.

Speaker 12 And giving a trillion... He didn't say he was perfect.

Speaker 19 And you a trillion dollars if tax breaks are the one for you.

Speaker 5 Is it frustrating that the thing that you fought for your whole career, Democrats are the ones who run away from scared? And he's embraced some of it.

Speaker 33 Yeah. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 24 All right. So what do we got to do?

Speaker 19 I mean, first of all, you got to acknowledge bloody reality. Healthcare system is broken.

Speaker 24 Boom.

Speaker 8 All right.

Speaker 25 We need to do what every other major country does, guarantee healthcare to every man, woman, and child.

Speaker 41 Take on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry and the insurance companies.

Speaker 17 Okay?

Speaker 19 We're spending more than enough money to guarantee good quality health care to every person. All right.

Speaker 25 All right. What else do you got to do?

Speaker 41 We need the Democratic Party to be very clear. The campaign system, current campaign finance system, is broken.

Speaker 25 You got to get rid of Citizens United.

Speaker 41 You got to move to public funding of elections.

Speaker 17 Give everybody a chance to participate in our democracy. Right.

Speaker 12 All right. If you were triaging...

Speaker 5 So let's say you're triaging that idea because Citizens United, look, those decisions about corporations being people and money being speech, make things very difficult.

Speaker 5 But they do seem like generational plays to try and reverse things like that. This healthcare thing seems more immediate.
Is that if you're triaging the patient of America,

Speaker 5 what's the first thing you want to address?

Speaker 23 I happen, you know, I've always been deeply concerned about healthcare as a human right.

Speaker 36 Right.

Speaker 45 And this is something that is so doable.

Speaker 19 We are the odd guy out as a country.

Speaker 25 I live 50 miles away from Canada.

Speaker 40 You spend a month in a hospital in County.

Speaker 25 You know what the bill is when you come out?

Speaker 19 Zero.

Speaker 40 They spend half as much per capita as we do on health care.

Speaker 41 They guarantee health care to all of their people. This can be done, absolutely doable.

Speaker 17 The other thing we could do, young people today finding it extremely hard to buy their own home.

Speaker 40 Cost of housing is off the charts.

Speaker 41 Why aren't we building four or five million units of low-income and affordable housing?

Speaker 5 Well, to be fair,

Speaker 5 we are building one or two four or five million dollar homes.

Speaker 4 So I think that

Speaker 4 on average...

Speaker 4 Well, that's the point. That's a fair point.

Speaker 5 But let me ask you this question then, because this is where I get in my head about those prescriptions seem a charismatic leader making a forceful case for that would very much appeal to the American people.

Speaker 5 But what Democrats find themselves in a place is we've shut down the government to protect subsidies for an insurance marketplace that funnels $800 billion a year into the pockets of all these insurance companies.

Speaker 5 Have Democrats box themselves into a corner fighting for a system that ultimately to get the thing that you want, that I think the American people want, they're going to have to abandon.

Speaker 4 Yes.

Speaker 45 Look, here's where we are right now, and I think it's not not been made as clear as it should.

Speaker 45 If Trump gets away with what he wants, we are looking at 15 million people losing their health insurance, and according to studies, John, 50,000 low-income and working-class people dying every year unnecessary.

Speaker 5 Based on lack of accessibility to health.

Speaker 26 Right. Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 8 If you're low-income, you're working hard, you don't have any health, you have a chronic ill, you die.

Speaker 48 That's what they're saying.

Speaker 8 On top of that, all over the country. You want to make clear.

Speaker 5 You do die anyway.

Speaker 19 You die anyway. But you don't have to die.

Speaker 26 You don't have to die

Speaker 33 just because you can't get to a doctor.

Speaker 24 That is disgusting. Right.
All right.

Speaker 41 And then on top of that, because of the cuts to the ACA, you're looking at some 20-plus million people seeing a doubling of their premiums at a time when they can't even afford health care right now.

Speaker 44 Right. All right.

Speaker 41 So your point is, is this a good system? No.

Speaker 5 This is a good system to defend today.

Speaker 4 To defend today's legal capital.

Speaker 19 But obviously, obviously.

Speaker 17 It is a system designed to make huge profits to the insurance companies and the drug companies. Right.

Speaker 4 Period.

Speaker 41 We have got to move to a Medicare for all single-payer program.

Speaker 49 Absolutely.

Speaker 5 Is that something in your caucus that

Speaker 5 when that's raised, what are the objections that come back to you? Now, I'm assuming that within even your caucus with the Democratic Party, that you're considered an outlier in those kinds of things.

Speaker 5 Maybe more people are coming along there. What is their reluctance?

Speaker 43 Well, the irony is, in the caucus I am, outside of the caucus, in the real world, I am not.

Speaker 4 Right,

Speaker 4 that's the point. Yeah.
All right.

Speaker 39 I think there is, oh, Bernie, it's too radical.

Speaker 23 Oh, Bernie, you know,

Speaker 46 money from insurance companies, drug companies, you know, all that stuff.

Speaker 8 We've got all kinds of opposites.

Speaker 22 Will people ever say to you, like, Bernie, I'd love to do that, but you don't understand, Aetna's throwing me a party.

Speaker 6 You can't, you know, I can't.

Speaker 41 Well, these are nonverbal communications.

Speaker 5 A little nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 40 Look, these guys,

Speaker 45 last count, there were 1,500 lobbyists from the pharmaceutical industry in Washington, D.C.

Speaker 4 Okay?

Speaker 43 And that's why you are paying by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.

Speaker 31 All right.

Speaker 8 But then you got other things.

Speaker 17 70 years ago, I don't know how many people know this.

Speaker 17 Most or many public colleges and universities were tuition-free in America.

Speaker 47 Sure.

Speaker 5 My parents went to city college.

Speaker 24 There you go.

Speaker 4 Great university. It was free.

Speaker 17 California, highest quality education, tuition-free.

Speaker 36 And now working-class families can't afford to send their kids to college.

Speaker 5 But again, this gets to the democratic solutions have never been to directly provide. It's always been a subsidy to a realm.

Speaker 5 But what happens is when the government promises endless funds to insurance companies or private universities without any cost controls, and Trump seems to understand this, prices rise far beyond the rate of inflation.

Speaker 5 And we've seen it in tuition, and we've seen it in pharmaceutical, and we've seen it in healthcare. So my question is,

Speaker 5 will Democrats recognize

Speaker 5 the poison pill? that they've often placed into well-intentioned policies.

Speaker 23 Right, right.

Speaker 36 What they end up doing is coming up with very complicated proposals.

Speaker 42 You make $48,964,

Speaker 8 you will get this thing.

Speaker 17 You make a dollar more, you're finished, and blah, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 40 Look, we have got to make it simple.

Speaker 41 In the wealthiest country in the history of the world, should health care be a human right?

Speaker 33 Yes, it should be.

Speaker 41 Should we have the best quality education in the world from childcare to graduate school?

Speaker 44 Yes, we should.

Speaker 4 Right, but these are these are how do you pass?

Speaker 6 Let's get there.

Speaker 8 All right, then the question is, all right, these are

Speaker 8 the Republicans, you're getting violent here, you know.

Speaker 4 You're right.

Speaker 4 All right.

Speaker 30 You know, and what

Speaker 40 we need is a very simple, straightforward agenda, which says, by the way, and

Speaker 6 this is really a sticky point, you've got to finally say to the oligarchs, who have never ever had it so good, they're making money hand over fist.

Speaker 30 All right?

Speaker 40 And you got to say to them, sorry guys, a billion dollars is enough.

Speaker 17 You ain't going to have 200 billion or 300 billion.

Speaker 19 Try to survive on a beautiful. You're going to start paying your fair share of taxes.

Speaker 5 And this is right.

Speaker 5 So when you see Donald Trump go to, and only in this one area, but go to them and say, you're giving me 10% of your company if we're going to help you out. Or we're going to do that.

Speaker 5 But here's the thing, Pfizer, you're not going to charge these people anymore. Does that change the calculus now for

Speaker 5 Democrats to govern with more baldness?

Speaker 4 I think it does.

Speaker 33 I think it does. I mean, they've seen a boldness on the part of Trump using his power in a way that we have never seen before.

Speaker 39 So I hope it awakens Democrats

Speaker 41 to understand.

Speaker 4 You want Luke Skywalker to look at Darth and go, I could do that.

Speaker 5 I could just.

Speaker 4 Nicer.

Speaker 5 nicer without the people in the masks.

Speaker 39 But the revolution, the political revolution that we need also means an involvement.

Speaker 33 And this is what was so exciting about the No Kings Day, seven million people coming out.

Speaker 26 We need all of you to be involved in this process.

Speaker 33 It's got to be a bottom-on-up revolution, not a top-down.

Speaker 6 No,

Speaker 6 it makes sense.

Speaker 5 I wonder if we've lost the purpose in the sense of

Speaker 5 viewing government as a bulwark.

Speaker 5 When the founders design a system and they talk about checks and balances and congressional checks and judicial and executive and the balance all there, I don't know that they factored in corporate power.

Speaker 5 And I don't know that there's an entity large enough or with enough leverage to be a counterweight to that type of corporate power.

Speaker 41 You're raising a very important issue.

Speaker 5 I knew I'd get to it at some point.

Speaker 8 Finally, I've been waiting, John.

Speaker 19 You finally said something relevant here.

Speaker 25 Yes.

Speaker 33 Look, I know people say, oh, we don't want the government to regulate, you know, corporate.

Speaker 43 The truth of the matter is, it's quite the opposite right now.

Speaker 23 It is the corporate world, it is the oligarchs who are regulating the government.

Speaker 49 They have far more power.

Speaker 39 And we have got to create a political movement, a grassroots movement, which takes control of the future of this country.

Speaker 46 Let me give you one example.

Speaker 23 Right now, we are in the midst, as everybody knows, of these the Musks of the world and Bezos and all these guys putting hundreds of billions of dollars into AI and robotics, right?

Speaker 45 This is going to transform our world.

Speaker 15 It's going to transform our economy.

Speaker 47 In my view, in the view of a number of economists, it means millions and millions of workers are going to be displaced from their jobs.

Speaker 17 Who is engaging in that discussion to say, hey, Mr.

Speaker 39 Musk, you can't make the decision for the future of humanity.

Speaker 41 We are going to make the future.

Speaker 19 And that is if AI works, it's going to work for working people, not just billionaires.

Speaker 5 I'll go you one further.

Speaker 12 Why are you always going me one further? I'm not radical.

Speaker 5 I'll go you one further with this. Let's get really radical.
You know, these AI data farms are going to need more and more electricity. Absolutely.

Speaker 7 And these

Speaker 5 oligarchs or billionaire or the people that control that are trying to cut deals to get cheaper electricity for themselves, even though that's going to raise prices for the rest of us. Absolutely.

Speaker 48 And it's being resisted all over the country.

Speaker 39 It's electricity, it's water.

Speaker 40 Scarce water is going to be used.

Speaker 4 I like both of those.

Speaker 30 All right. But the bottom line is

Speaker 46 these technologies are going to transform the world.

Speaker 36 We have got to make sure that they work for working people, not just enrich the people on top.

Speaker 24 What does that mean?

Speaker 41 Well, among other things, if we increase worker productivity, we can lower the work week from 40 hours a week to at least 32 hours a week.

Speaker 4 All right?

Speaker 4 But we are,

Speaker 5 in many ways, you know, if you look at productivity over time, productivity for the American worker has shot through the roof.

Speaker 4 American workers are unbelievably productive.

Speaker 5 That's my point. But wages have not.

Speaker 19 That is the profound point.

Speaker 41 Over the last 52 years, with all of the increase in worker productivity and technology, the average American worker, blue-collar worker, is earning less today than he did then.

Speaker 8 That's insane.

Speaker 5 Why are you able to make these cases so easily and talk like a normal human being? And these other, I mean, that's part of the problem in the Democratic Party.

Speaker 5 Sometimes you listen to them and you just, you can almost see the consultant behind their eye going, don't frame it like that.

Speaker 12 Talk like a person.

Speaker 33 Well, you know, I think sadly it gets back to money again.

Speaker 36 You know, if you don't want to say things that antagonize your campaign donors, then you have to wiggle them all.

Speaker 5 Trust me, the United States government is always going to be a trough.

Speaker 5 It's just a question of people are always going to make, corporations are always going to be able to make a huge profit off of the contracts that come from the American government.

Speaker 5 The question is: can we deliver those contracts with less corruption?

Speaker 5 You know, everybody talks about waste, fraud, and abuse as though that's only done from people down the chain, people that get food stamps and all those things.

Speaker 5 They don't even look at the real corruption at the contractor level, at the

Speaker 4 subsidy level.

Speaker 23 John, the Pentagon, I voted against this, but Congress is going to pass a trillion dollars

Speaker 41 for the military.

Speaker 38 The Pentagon... Never passed an audit.

Speaker 48 Exactly.

Speaker 33 They have the only

Speaker 33 major government agency not to pass an audit.

Speaker 23 No one denies that there is massive way.

Speaker 31 They don't even know what they own.

Speaker 41 And they're paying

Speaker 41 the salaries of the people of Lockheed Martin and all this other stuff off the charts.

Speaker 44 So your point is well taken.

Speaker 24 And we've got to take a look at the incredible greed.

Speaker 45 You know, these people on top are very religious people.

Speaker 32 Do you know that?

Speaker 19 Do you know? Oh, yeah, very religious people.

Speaker 40 Their religion is greed.

Speaker 19 They worship at the altar of money.

Speaker 12 We've got to deal with it. They've got to use it.
God damn right at all.

Speaker 12 So let's talk about this.

Speaker 5 In conclusion, look, you've been doing this a long time. A couple of years.
Is there a couple of years now?

Speaker 5 I want to know in your mind, you've been in the rooms with these folks, you've been in the weeds with these folks.

Speaker 5 What is your appraisal of their willingness to recognize this moment, to recognize the potential energy and thirst that exists out in this country for true leadership and

Speaker 5 simple common sense that reflects a government that reflects the needs of its people?

Speaker 5 What is your sense of the world?

Speaker 15 I have been in the room, the door is locked.

Speaker 47 And, you know, there are some very, very serious discussions about what we have to do to prevent this country becoming an authoritarian society.

Speaker 33 But, John, the answer is not just within the room of the people currently elected.

Speaker 41 What we are seeing all over this country right now are great young people like Mr. Mamdani right here in the city of New York.

Speaker 19 And it's not just him. You're beginning to see good candidates who have the guts to say, I am going to take on the oligarchs.

Speaker 41 I am going to stand with the working class.

Speaker 23 That is what we have got to develop in this country.

Speaker 4 Bernie Sanders.

Speaker 12 the book inspired Rocky.

Speaker 12 Bernie Sanders, everybody, what do you think about coming?

Speaker 12 Peace.

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Speaker 5 Michael Costa. Michael!

Speaker 4 Nice to see you, sir. Nice to see you.

Speaker 5 What do you got on tap for the week?

Speaker 20 Well, John, because of Trump's tariffs, China's not buying American soybeans, which means our farmers are hurting.

Speaker 5 So

Speaker 5 I'm doing my part by eating soybeans 24-SEV, 365, John.

Speaker 22 How's that going, Michael?

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Speaker 30 Is it wreaking havoc on my colon, John? Yes.

Speaker 30 Is it causing irreversible damage to my bones?

Speaker 4 Of course.

Speaker 30 But do I sleep easier at night knowing I'm helping out American farmers?

Speaker 33 Well,

Speaker 33 do you?

Speaker 20 No, I'm up all night farting, John.

Speaker 5 Because of the beans, you see.

Speaker 5 You know, Michael, you could just buy the beans and not eat them.

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Speaker 35 We don't have a king in this country. We've got a president.
He's doing a pretty darn good job.

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