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Ivanka Trump absolutely loves, and respects, and admires American workers here in the United

States.

I know her actions don't necessarily show it, but her words, man, they absolutely come

through like she is in love with every worker here in the United States.

On Fox News recently, Ivanka Trump came out and said that American workers are the best.

They're the most innovative.

They're great.

They're creative, just a real great crop of workers we have here in the United States.

Here's some of the quotes she had from that interview.

"There's no group of people more innovated, more motivated, and more capable than American

workers, but there's got to be a level playing field here, and there's not a level playing

field.

The reality is, simplification of our tax code democratizes it."

Okay, so she suddenly went from talking about how great American workers were to the tax

code, pushing for tax reform that in no way is going to fix the plight of American workers

here in the United States.

She also threw out the fact that her dad, Donald Trump, the president, also believes

these things about American workers.

They're the best.

They're innovative.

They're capable.

They're creative.

They're motivated.

They're great.

Here's the problem.

Ivanka Trump does not have her goods for her clothing lines made here in the United States

by those great, capable, motivative, innovative workers that she loves to praise.

Donald Trump does not have his clothing line made here in the United States by those best

workers in the world.

No, all of those goods are made overseas.

Ivanka's goods are made in China where the factory actually pays workers half of what

workers in all of the other factories in the area make, so she is using about as close

to sweatshop labor as you can get while still operating within technically the realm of

the law, even though there's plenty of investigations going on into some of the shady practices

at that particular factory.

Ivanka Trump knows her audience on Fox News, and she knows that Fox News' audience is not

bright.

In fact, they're rather dull, and so she goes out there and says, "We believe in American

workers.

We believe you're the best," and those morons watching that program believe it.

They don't care or maybe they don't know that she has her goods made overseas because she

doesn't frigging care about you.

She doesn't care about the American worker.

She doesn't care how much they pay in taxes.

All she knows is that she wants to pay less in taxes.

She wants to pay people literally four dollars a day to make her goods.

That's what they're making at that factory, four dollars a day.

Until we start paying American workers four dollars a day she's still going to use overseas

labor because it's going to be cheaper and it's going to put more money in her slimy,

disgusting, filthy little pockets.

Ivanka Trump doesn't give a damn, but man, she sure is good at convincing those morons

who watch Fox News that she actually cares.

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Trump Still Hasn't Released His Tax Returns, What's He Hiding? - Duration: 3:45.

It's been nearly a year since the disappointing election of November, 2016, where Donald Trump

secured enough electoral votes to be elected President of the United States.

In the 12 months that have essentially passed since Donald Trump won that electoral vote,

he still hasn't released his tax returns to the United States public.

At every opportunity, Republicans in Washington, D.C. in the House and Senate have voted to

shield his tax returns from being released to the public.

Trump has said the reason he didn't release them is because he was under audit and he's

not allowed to.

That's not true.

You can absolutely release your tax returns if you're being investigated by the IRS, if

there's an auditor, if there's anything going on.

You can always release them.

The IRS has made it perfectly clear that they're not the ones holding up Donald Trump from

releasing his tax returns.

Why, after 12 months past the election, are we still talking about this?

Because it's still an issue.

Transparency is very important in the federal government and if we don't have that, it just

leads to wild speculation.

For example, we do know somebody who has gotten his hands on at least part of Donald Trump's

tax returns that the rest of the United States public hasn't had access to, and that person

is Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller.

Mueller recently met with officials within the IRS to go ahead and get his hands on some

of those Donald Trump financial records that the rest of us are just dying to see, because

he believes that there is some evidence of criminal wrongdoing within those financial

statements.

To be perfectly honest with you, there is not a single part of me that doesn't believe

that the reason we haven't seen those tax returns is because they hold the key to bringing

down the Trump Administration.

I firmly believe if we saw those financial statements, if we saw those tax returns, there

would be ample evidence within there to bring down the Trump Administration and put Donald

Trump in prison.

Why do I believe that?

First of all, because he's adamant about hiding them.

Talk to any police officer and they're probably going to tell you the same time.

It's a mantra that most of them go by, only the guilty hide.

That is exactly what Donald Trump is doing right now.

He is hiding those tax returns because there is obviously something in there he does not

want us to see.

Maybe it's criminal activity, maybe it's something as simple as the fact that he's not worth

as much money as he told us he is and he's trying to protect his fragile male ego at

that point.

Whatever it is, he doesn't want us to know.

While it would be refreshing for him to release these tax returns, or for Republicans in D.C.

to stop shielding him from the Democrats who are trying to force the release of these tax

returns, what is comforting, at least to an extent, is knowing that the people investigating

the Trump Administration do have access to these tax returns.

I hope that they find whatever it is they're looking for in there so that we can finally

put an end to the Donald Trump nightmare here in the United States.

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Seth's Favorite Jokes of the Week: The President's Memory, Lou Dobb's Trump Interview - Duration: 1:38.

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-I'm Seth.

These are our favorite jokes of the week.

Fox News host, Lou Dobbs, interviewed President Trump

last night and told Trump he is "one of the most loved

and respected Presidents in history."

I don't know about that,

but he's definitely in the top 45.

President Trump today claimed he has a better recollection

of his condolence call to the widow of the soldier

than she does, pointing to his head and saying,

"One of the great memories of all time."

Trump then added, "If you don't believe me,

ask my wife, Melatonin."

A new poll has found that 51% of Democrats

now have a favorable view

of former President George W. Bush.

And that makes sense. I'd also have a favorable view

of the flu if I suddenly found myself with the plague.

A protestor posing as a journalist threw Russian flags

at President Trump as he arrived at the Capitol today.

And this is weird -- Trump signed them and threw them back.

Red Lobster announced today that it will start delivering

its food in New York City through a partnership

with Grubhub, because if there's one thing

that will make discount seafood even better,

it's 20 minutes on the back of a bike.

[ Laughter ]

[ Cheers and applause ]

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Trump Supporter Says In Lawsuit His MAGA Hat Is "Religious Symbol" - Duration: 5:16.

When most people think of religious symbols, we think of the Star of David, a cross, or

something like that, but according to some Republicans one of the most prominent spiritual

religious symbols here in the United States is that Make America Great Again red hat that

many of them have been sporting since the campaign of Donald Trump.

In fact, a lawsuit filed by a Philadelphia accountant, claims that his Make America Great

Again hat is in fact a religious symbol.

The suit arose over the fact that the man was wearing his MAGA hat in a bar in New York

City, and no, this is not a Ron White joke.

He was wearing the hat inside a bar in New York City where he was promptly kicked out

for wearing the hat.

I don't know necessarily the specifics, perhaps the owners of the bar did not like Donald

Trump, perhaps they viewed the hat more as a symbol of hate and oppression and so they

kicked the man out because he would not remove the hat, and now we have a lawsuit.

The lawyer for this accountant is claiming that his client's religious freedom was violated

because he was removed for wearing the MAGA hat.

Here is specifically, part of the argument that they're trying to make here.

It was pointed to previous instances where court has acknowledged the rights of parents

who refused to vaccinate their children because of their faith, that's one of the arguments

the lawyers made.

Wearing a MAGA hat and getting kicked out of a bar is apparently on par with parents

who do not vaccinate their children.

That doesn't make it a good fucking idea!

It's still pretty stupid at that point, and to compare a MAGA hat to unvaccinated kids,

I would say that's actually kind of spot on.

You're both dangerous to society here.

They also argued that the MAGA hat is an expression of closely held spiritual beliefs.

So, I guess, as far as spiritual beliefs go, if you believe in a higher power who may or

may not exist, we have no physical evidence that they exist, I can kind of see the similarities

there, between the people who support Donald Trump.

He may or may not have a brain, he may or may not have any intelligence to speak of,

and he may or may not do these things that they think he is capable of doing, much like

any unnamed deity that people worship.

See where I'm going with this?

This is one of the more ridiculous legal arguments that we have seen in quite a long time, because

there is nothing spiritual, there is nothing religious about a Make America Great Again

hat.

All it does is signal to the entire world around you, that you make very poor choices

when you go into a voting booth, and that you're probably too stupid to tie your own

shoes.

That, is what I think when I see somebody wearing a MAGA hat.

Am I going to discriminate against them?

No.

Am I going to try to help them cross the street because they'll probably end up getting hit

by traffic 'cause they're not very bright?

Absolutely.

We need to take care of people who obviously aren't bright enough to get along through

life on their own.

But to claim that it's some kind of religious belief or that it's akin to not vaccinating

your children, these arguments don't hold any water.

There's nothing spiritual about a hat that is actually shared ... become a symbol of

the Alt-Right, that was highly present at those Alt-Right white supremacist rallies.

That's not religious, that's not spiritual, and again, aren't Republicans the party that

are telling us that business owners have the right to discriminate?

They've literally been arguing that in court this year, so that Republican business owners

don't have to serve or make cakes for gay people.

So why would a bartender or bar owner in New York City not have the right to throw out

a guy wearing a MAGA hat?

'Cause if you ask me, based on all of the available evidence, the last thing you want

to do is have somebody in a MAGA hat getting all liquored up and possibly becoming violent,

because as we've seen, they do have a history of violence.

The MAGA hat is not a spiritual symbol.

If you want spirituality, go to church.

Go to a synagogue, go to a mosque.

Not a bar in New York City.

Not exactly the kind of house of worship that most people would think of, so I think this

religious argument they're trying to make about this MAGA hat, is going to fall flat

on its face.

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Schoolhouse Trump, This Week in Words - Monologue - Duration: 4:58.

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It's Official! Trump Just Made History In BIG Announcement Made 10 Months Into His Presidency – Cong - Duration: 6:11.

It's Official! Trump Just Made History In BIG Announcement Made 10 Months Into His Presidency

– Congrats In Order.

Once again President Donald Trump makes history!

"Make America Great Again!" was not just a slogan!

Although our economy was supposed to grow at best at a 2.5% rate, and even though we

have had two devastating hurricanes, the economy went on to grow a whole 3% during the third

quarter of the fiscal year.

The Trump Administration also went on to add 1,405,000 jobs in their first eight months

of Trump presidency.

By contrast, Former President Barack Hussein Obama had lost 4,367,000 jobs in his first

eight months in office.

Not even CNBC could lie about this news:

First reading on third-quarter GDP up 3.0%, vs 2.5% rise expected.

The U.S. economy unexpectedly maintained a brisk pace of growth in the third quarter

as an increase in inventory investment, and a smaller trade deficit offset a hurricane-related

slowdown in consumer spending and a decline in construction.

Gross domestic product increased at a 3.0 percent annual rate in the July-September

period after expanding at a 3.1 percent pace in the second quarter, the Commerce Department

said on Friday.

The department said while it was impossible to estimate the overall impact of hurricanes

Harvey and Irma on third-quarter GDP, preliminary estimates showed that the back-to-back storms

had caused losses of $121.0 billion in privately owned fixed assets, and $10.4 billion in government-owned

fixed assets.

Harvey and Irma struck parts of Texas and Florida in late August and early September.

Hurricane Maria, which destroyed infrastructure in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, had

no impact on third-quarter GDP growth as the islands are not included in the United State's

national accounts.

Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the economy growing at a 2.5 percent pace

in the third quarter.

Excluding inventory investment, the economy grew at a 2.3 percent rate, slowing from the

second quarter's 2.9 percent pace.

With post-hurricane labor market, retail sales and industrial production data already showing

an acceleration in underlying economic activity, Friday's report will probably have no impact

on monetary policy in the near term.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen cautioned last month that economic growth in the third

quarter "will be held down" by the severe disruptions caused by the hurricanes.

The U.S. central bank is expected to increase interest rates for a third time this year

in December.

The economic recovery since the 2007-2009 recession is now in its eighth year and showing

little signs of fatigue.

The economy is being powered by a tightening labor market, which has largely maintained

a strong performance that started during former President Barack Obama's first term.

Though U.S. stocks have risen in anticipation of President Donald Trump's tax reform,

the administration has yet to enact any significant new economic policies.

Trump wants big tax cuts and fewer regulations to boost annual GDP growth to 3 percent.

Inventory boost.

Businesses accumulated inventories at a $35.8 billion pace in the third quarter in anticipation

of strong demand.

As a result, inventory investment contributed 0.73 percentage point to third-quarter GDP

growth, after adding just over a tenth of a percentage point to growth in the prior

period.

Exports increased at a 2.3 percent rate in the third quarter, while imports fell at a

0.8 percent pace.

That left a smaller trade deficit, leading to trade adding 0.41 percentage point to GDP

growth.

Trade has contributed to output for three quarters in a row.

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which hurt incomes and undercut retail sales in August, crimped

consumer spending in the third quarter.

Growth in consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of the U.S. economy,

slowed to a 2.4 percent rate following a robust 3.3 percent pace in the second quarter.

The storms also weighed on investment in nonresidential structures like oil and gas wells.

Spending on mining exploration, wells and shafts grew at a 21.7 percent rate, decelerating

from the second-quarter's 116.3 percent pace.

As result, spending on residential structures fell at a 5.2 percent pace in the third quarter

after rising at a 7.0 percent rate in the second quarter.

Investment in home building, which was already undermined by land and labor shortages, also

took a hit from Harvey and Irma.

Spending on residential construction declined at a 6.0 percent rate, contracting for a second

straight quarter.

Business investment on equipment rose at an 8.6 percent rate, increasing for a fourth

straight quarter.

Government investment fell for a third straight quarter.

President Trump has delivered on every promise he has made.

The economy is back.

Illegals crossing our border is down by 74%.

The wall is being built.

Regulations are being destroyed.

All this without the help of the GOP or the Democrats, who are there to just stand in

his way every step of the way and put out lies about him and his administration.

Never did I dream that after 8 long dark years under the charlatan President Barack Hussein

Obama that we could be on track in less than a year.

We are now headed back to the America we were during the Reagan years.

The days when if you worked hard you could get ahead in life without help from the government

nor without the government impeding your progress.

It's Morning Again in America!

President Trump might very well go down as the best president in history.

And all it took was shunning interests on both sides of the aisle and doing what's

right for the American people.

Imagine after so many years of so many presidents doing what's right for every third world

two-bit cesspool, we have a president who actually cares Americans FIRST!

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Melania Stopped Her Speech To Turn The Crowd Saw The Chilling Thing Behind Her(VIDEO)! - Duration: 5:30.

Melania Stopped Her Speech To Turn The Crowd Saw The Chilling Thing Behind Her

thank you all for being here today it touches my heart to see the many

familiar faces of the people I have been lucky to get to know over the last few

months thank you for the time and strength it takes for each of you to

tell your stories we are here today because of your courage the opioid

epidemic is affected more than 2 million Americans nationwide and sadly the

number continues to rise we lost more than 175 Americans to overdoses every

day and millions more are struggling with addiction as many of you know

addiction affects children in many different ways and I have recently taken

a larger interest in what I can do to help file is epidemic

I have been participating in meetings and listening sessions and I have been

visiting with people who have been affected by this disease I want to take

a moment now to tell you what I have learned from the men and women on the

front lines of this epidemic donn hallman

talked to me about his son Garrett who took medication for ADHD and suffered

from depression and anxiety he explained that social media played a

part in his son's erratic moods and behaviors Garrett started to buy

synthetics opioids online and self medicated for his depression passing

away from an overdose just eight days before his 21st birthday Donn Hallman

taught me that the stigma of drug addiction must be normalized and talking

about it is the only way to do that coach David McGee talked about his

friend who become addicted after his pain medication were prescribed for

sports injury his friend died from an overdose and through his tragic loss

coach McKee taught me how important it is to educate kids athletes and parents

because his friend was not weak-minded in fact like so many of our kids today

he was competitive and strong-willed sabra gene color who is now in her 10th

year of recovery helped me learn that drug addiction is an effective disease

but with the proper support and medical attention a person can move on to live a

healthy and happy life we are so proud of you for all that you have overcome

Sabra and pray for you as you continue on this journey

had the honor of visiting Lily's place in West Virginia a Recovery Center for

infants born addicted to drugs I learned to help babies succeed we must

help their parents succeed by placing a priority of the whole family Lily's

place is giving infants the best opportunity to thrive because their

parents are being given the support and tools they need to succeed

I want to thank Rebecca Crowder and the staff at Lily's place for the heroic

efforts

I have learned so much from those brave enough to talk about this epidemic and I

know there are many more stories to tell but what I found to be the common theme

with all of these stories is that this can happen to any of us

drug addiction can take your friends neighbors or your family no state has

been spared and no demographic has been untouched which is why my husband and

his Demitri ministration has dedicated itself to combatting this health crisis

by using every resource available I'm so proud to support him today as he sees

this commitment true I look forward to continue my work on behalf of children

across the country and hope that citizens everywhere will join forces

with this administration to help and this health crisis thank you very much

for being here with us today but bless you all and God bless the United States

of America thank you god bless you and God bless america

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This Week's Russia Round-Up - Duration: 5:04.

WELCOME TO "THE LATE SHOW."

I'M YOUR HOST, STEPHEN COLBERT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CITIZEN.

WELL, AS YOU CAN TELL BY THE ENERGY IN THE ROOM, IT'S FRIDAY.

AND YOU KNOW WHAT WE SAY ON FRIDAY: "LIGHT FUSE AND GET AWAY

QUICKLY."

ONE THING WE LEARNED THIS WEEK IS THAT THERE IS NO MORE

REPUBLICAN PARTY.

IT BELONGS TO DONALD TRUMP.

THE G.O.P. IS NOW THE GROSS ORANGE PILE.

( APPLAUSE ) BECAUSE HE'S GOT THEM, RIGHT?

HE'S GOT THE BALLS IN A LITTLE FELT SACK IN HIS POCKET.

TRUMP HAS FORCED OUT ANY MEANINGFUL OPPOSITION, AND

EVERYBODY ELSE IS FALLING IN LINE LIKE FRIGHTENED DUCKLINGS.

AS TRUMP TWEETED YESTERDAY, "DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE UNITY

WITHIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!" AND I BELIEVE WE ACTUALLY HAVING

HIM SAYING IT ON FOOTAGE.

>> YOU UNDERESTIMATE THE.

>> UNITY.

>> OF THE DARK SIDE.

>> Stephen: BUT AMONG HIS ALLIES ARE OUR ENEMIES.

IT'S TIME FOR THIS WEEK'S RUSSIA ROUNDUP.

( APPLAUSE ) ♪ ♪ ♪

REMEMBER THE DOSSIER?

YOU GUYS REMEMBER THAT?

YEAH?

THE COLLECTION OF DIRT ON TRUMP'S RUSSIA CONNECTIONS?

WELL, IT'S IN THE NEWS AGAIN.

AND BEFORE YOU ASK-- NO, WE DON'T HAVE THE PEE-PEE TAPE.

YOU'LL KNOW WHEN WE DO.

( LAUGHTER ) IT WILL BE ON A LOOP.

BUT WE DID LEARN THIS WEEK THAT "THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN AND THE

D.N.C. PAID FOR THE RESEARCH THAT LED TO THE DOSSIER."

THAT IS A HUGE SCANDAL FOR OUR SITTING "NOT PRESIDENT."

SHE MIGHT BE UNPEACHED.

( LAUGHTER ) OF COURSE, DONALD TRUMP MADE A

BIG DEAL OF IT, RETWEETING A "FOX & FRIENDS" BULLETIN,

"CLINTON CAMPAIGN AND D.N.C.

PAID FOR RESEARCH THAT LED TO THE ANTI-TRUMP FAKE NEWS

DOSSIER.

THE VICTIM HERE IS THE PRESIDENT."

NO, NO, NO, SIR.

SIR, THE VICTIM, AS ALWAYS, IS THAT RUSSIAN MATTRESS.

YOU'RE FINE.

OKAY, SO THE DEMOCRATS PAID TO FIND DIRT ON THEIR OPPONENT,

AND THEY FOUND SOME.

AND HERE'S THE SCANDAL: THEY DIDN'T USE IT.

SHE LOST.

WHY DIDN'T YOU USE IT?

FORGET "STRONGER TOGETHER."

WHY WASN'T IT "STRONGER WITHOUT A RUSSIAN STOOGE WHO LOVES THE

PEE-PEE?" ( LAUGHTER )

( APPLAUSE ) AND-- IT'S GOT A RING TO IT.

IT'S GOT A "I LIKE IKE."

AND BEFORE THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN PAID A DIME, THIS OPPO RESEARCH

WAS ACTUALLY FUNDED BY AN UNKNOWN REPUBLICAN CLIENT DURING

THE G.O.P. PRIMARY.

NOW, WITH 17 REPUBLICANS RUNNING IN LAST YEAR'S PRIMARIES, IT

COULD HAVE BEEN ANYBODY-- JEB BUSH.

IT'S JEB BUSH.

( LAUGHTER ) NOW, TRUMP SUPPORTERS ARE NOW

TRYING TO CLAIM THAT CLINTON FUNDING THE DOSSIER PROVES

TRUMP'S INNOCENCE SOMEHOW.

FOX NEWS EVEN WROTE THIS HEADLINE: "TRUMP RIPS CLINTON,

D.N.C.-RUSSIA COLLUSION REPORTS."

NO!

NO, THEY DID NOT COLLUDE WITH RUSSIA.

IF THEY PAID TO FIND OUT THAT TRUMP CLIEWLDED WITH RUSSIA,

THAT'S NOT COLLUSION.

THAT'S LIKE RUNNING A HEADLINE THAT SAYS, "TRUMP RIPS AL ROKER

FOR COLLUDING WITH HUMIDITY."

( LAUGHTER ) ( APPLAUSE )

NOW-- HE SEEMED ANGRY.

HE SEEMED REALLY ANGRY RIGHT THERE.

NOW, ONE OF THE WAYS THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN IS ACCUSED OF COLLUDING

WITH THE RUSSIANS IS THAT THEY WANTED TO RELEASE DAMAGING

EMAILS WHICH WERE HACKED BY THE RUSSIANS AND GIVEN TO WIKILEAKS.

BUT THERE WAS NO INDICATION OF ANY OF THAT DURING THE CAMPAIGN,

RIGHT?

>> RUSSIA, IF YOU'RE LISTENING, I HOPE YOU'RE ABLE TO FIND THE

30,000 EMAILS THAT ARE MISSING.

>> Stephen: OKAY, THAT'S RUSSIA, BUT TRUMP NEVER SAID ANYTHING

ABOUT WIKILEAKS.

>> WIKILEAKS!

I LOVE WIKILEAKS.

OH, WE LOVE WIKILEAKS.

BOY, THEY HAVE REALLY WIKILEAKS!

BOY, I LOVE READING THOSE WIKILEAKS.

>> Stephen: OKAY, BUT THAT'S JUST LOCKER ROOM TALK.

THERE'S NO PROOF-- THERE'S ZERO PROOF THAT THEY TRIED TO TEAM UP

WITH JULIAN ASSANGE, OTHER THAN THIS:

"TRUMP DATA GURU: I TRIED TO TEAM UP WITH JULIAN ASSANGE."

BUT WHEN HE WAS ASKED ABOUT IT, WIKILEAKS FOUNDER AND MIKE PENCE

IN WITNESS PROTECTION, JULIAN ASSANGE, TWEETED, "I CAN CONFIRM

AN APPROACH-- PRIOR TO NOVEMBER LAST YEAR-- I CAN CONFIRM THAT

IT WAS REJECTED BY WIKILEAKS."

THAT'S RIGHT-- A FUGITIVE, WANTED BY THE C.I.A., TRAPPED IN

THE ECUADORIAN EMBASSY FOR FIVE YEARS, REJECTED AN OVERTURE FROM

WHAT COULD BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

"WHO'S THAT ON THE PHONE, DONALD TRUMP?

I'D RATHER GO TO GITMO."

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Perhaps President Donald Trump Is Actually A Dumb Liar With A Terrible Memory - Some News - Duration: 13:51.

(exiting instrumental music)

- Here's some news,

while enriching himself and associates

at the expense of people and the planet,

the president took some time to talk about himself,

and complain about the news and how everyone is lying

about him and then he lied about that

and other stuff in the process,

and you know some of it's small,

some of it's calculated and malicious

and some of it's because he just doesn't know

and it'll be like a mixture of a couple things he heard

then exaggerated and filtered

through his need to make it about himself,

and in addition to all of the things I just said

illustrating poor qualities of leadership,

they also acted as a distraction for a lot of the things

he doesn't want people to notice that are enriching himself

and associates at the expense of people and the planet.

And.

That's, the news.

We did it.

(exiting instrumental music)

Still here?

Alright, so here's some, more specific news,

the president voluntarily lied about calling almost

every fallen soldier's family,

causing the White House to scramble for the information

that would be required for when the president

starts making all those phone calls.

Then it was reported that he had an insensitive phone call

with the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson

in which the president seemed to not know the soldier's name

and also allegedly told the wife,

"He knew what he signed up for...

"but when it happens, it hurts anyway,"

showing, this says empathy

but it should say, showing that he's bad at this,

and also showing he has a deeply disturbing view

of what soldiers sign up for.

As the Commander-In-Chief,

thinks his soldiers sign up to die.

Not great, especially considering he keeps teasing war

like it's a fun game for us all to play,

and thinks we should invade countries and take their oil.

- We should have said we'll help you,

but we want 50% of your oil.

- Anyway, the president was accused

of not knowing the soldier's name,

and thus took to Twitter to tell the people directly

that he knows the soldier's name by tweeting

"Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said

"to the wife of a soldier who died in action,

"and I have proof, sad!"

And I have been convinced

that he knows the name,

of the soldier,

and the wife,

and the Congresswoman.

Because of proof.

Sad.

This story continued until he finally snapped

and told everyone.

- No hesitation, one of the great memories of all time.

One of the great memories of all time.

- Or a GMOAT.

He's the proud owner of a GMOAT,

despite saying "I don't remember" 35 times

during his deposition for the case against Trump University,

a fraud university,

and despite declaring October 24th United Nations Day

even though it's been United Nations Day since 1948,

and despite saying under oath

he wouldn't recognize Felix Sater

if he were in the room with him right now,

despite Felix Sater being a Russian-linked mafia figure

who worked with the president

on several real estate projects,

has been photographed near him several times,

literally lived in Trump tower,

and was the one who wrote an email

to Trump's lawyer that read,

"Our boy can become president of the USA

"and we can engineer it.

"I will get all of Putin's team to buy in on this,

"I will manage this process."

Or maybe, not despite of all that.

Probably because of it?

(exiting instrumental music)

But anyway, in the interest

of one of the great memories of all time, here's some news,

when this week Sarah Huckabee Sanders

said it's inappropriate to question a General,

even when that General is retired

and now the Chief of Staff for the White House

that you speak for, a GMOAT-haver

might remember when Donald Trump did exactly that,

and when John Kelly attacks Congresswoman Wilson

for making a speech honoring Americans

who died for the country about herself and money,

even though it turned out that's not what happened,

one can't help but agree with 4-Star General

and current White House Chief of Staff

for the Trump Administration, John Kelly,

that empty barrels make the most noise.

Or as daughter of local DC comic Mike Huckabee

and current Press Secretary for the Trump Administration

Sarah Huckabee Sanders said

"If you're able to make a sacred act like honoring

"American heroes about yourself, you're an empty barrel."

And then a GMOAT-haver might point to President Trump

on literally his first full day of office when he gave

a speech to the CIA in front of a wall representing

117 CIA employees who died in the line of duty.

- We had, it looked, honestly,

it looked like a million and a half people,

whatever it was, it was,

but it went all the way back to the Washington Monument.

I think we have the all-time record

in the history of Time Magazine.

Like if Tom Brady's on the cover,

it's one time because he won the Superbowl or something,

right? (laughing)

I've been on for 15 times this year.

I don't think that's a record, Mike,

that can ever be broken.

Do you agree with that?

Trust me, I'm like a smart person.

- He said, to the intelligence community,

in front of the wall, commemorating their fallen colleagues

10 days after comparing them to Nazis, in Nazi Germany,

and I'm not even gonna touch the Nazi thing.

Could.

But I won't.

What sparked this tweet, the CIA-is-Nazis tweet,

was the release of the now infamous Steele Dossier,

which alleges Trump's campaign colluded

with the Russian government during the 2016 election

via various channels and financial dealings.

It also alleges activities which make the president's

use of quotes around leak very interesting.

But it's back in the news, so.

(exiting instrumental music)

Here's some news, the Steele Dossier was funded

in part by bum bum bum,

the Democratic National Committee

and the Clinton campaign as opposition research,

which is a thing that all candidates do,

through private firms,

like the ones hired to produce the dossier.

They don't traditionally email people

connected to the Russian government and get emails back

saying, "I will get all of Putin's team to buy in on this,"

but they do hire private firms to research opponents,

and even though the president wants to make a big art

of the deal out of this,

the news that the DNC funded some of it isn't news

because it was already widely known that the firm was hired

by a Republican donor in the Republican primary,

stopped paying when Trump got the nomination,

Democrats started picking up the bill, Steele came on,

Trump won, the Democrats stopped paying,

and Steele kept investigating

because he thought it was credible and important.

So it's weird the president keeps bringing up

the discredited dossier, which, first of all,

more like pisscredited, and also of all,

it's not been discredited, in fact,

many aspects of the dossier have been confirmed,

by other outlets, and by the intelligence community.

- I'm a very intelligent person.

- Uh-huh!

Speaking of that, another big story Trump and Sean Hannity

are yelling about now is the Uranium One deal

because Hillary Clinton was given millions by the Russian

government for 20% of our uranium, to use, for bombs.

Or, this is an old news story in which a Russian company

bought a 51% stake in a company merged

from South Africa-based Uranium One

and Canada-based UrAsia Energy,

and the transfer of ownership needed to be approved

by then-president Barack Hussein Obama as advised

by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

which was made up of Hillary Clinton

and eight other cabinet members and of which the

Secretary of Treasury is the chairperson,

and the uranium is still in the United States, still here,

and is not allowed to be exported

because Uranium One doesn't have an NRC export license,

and the majority of the alleged quid pro quo donations

were made a year and a half

before Clinton was Secretary of State, and three years

after the donor sold his stake in the company.

Who knows, though, there might be something there.

But this story stemmed from opposition research

by Steve Bannon, some of it's been discredited,

not like Trump's lawyer discredited the dossier by proving

he'd never been to Prague by tweeting a picture

of the front of a passport, but you know, there were errors.

And the article that restarted this Uranium One talk

was written by pro-Trump,

weirdly pro-Michael Flynn, John Solomon,

who was the COO of Circa,

a media company loved by Sean Hannity that pushed

anonymous allegations against Trump's enemies

and was bought in 2015 by the pro-Trump Sinclair Group

which currently covers about 40% of American households

in drippy Trumpy propaganda

without you even knowing it or telling you.

Just how he likes it.

And this story was pushed by none other than Devin Nunes,

who you might remember recused himself

from Russia-related investigations

because he helped the president lie

about evidence of wire tapping of the president.

Devin Nunes, also happens to be the guy who helped break

the story about the dossier being funded by the DNC.

Busy guy, Devin.

Almost like you and the president and his buddy in state

media are doing a little, like, coordinated propaganda.

To, distract people.

- I'm a very intelligent person.

- Wow.

Maybe.

A little bit.

Although, he recently said that

after being asked if he should be more civil.

His answer to should you be more civil was that

he went to an Ivy League school and is very intelligent

but it's not a great answer to that question,

especially if you have a GMOAT,

because he transferred to that Ivy League school

in his junior year as a favor

from the admissions officer who is his brother's friend.

If you're an intelligent person you don't say you're

an intelligent person after being asked why you're uncivil.

The question was about why you're a bully.

You know, cause you're a bully.

Your wife is on an anti-bullying campaign along with

Betsy DeVos who thanks to my GMOAT I know has so far

rolled back protections for transgender students

and sexual assault survivors and students with disabilities,

and I wonder if a GMOAT could think of a good single moment

to represent bullying and the disabled and memory.

- Ah, I don't remember!

- Cool.

I knew we could do it.

- I'm a very intelligent person.

- I know.

As a fellow GMOAT-haver I remember you donated

your second quarter salary of $100,000

to the department of education, something you value,

but as a GMOAT-haver,

you also cut the education budget by millions.

But, GMOAT-wise I remember you said you'd donate your salary

which is nice but damn my GMOAT that's literally

what Hitler did and GMOAT gettin' me hard you also

slept next to Hitler's speeches and when asked about it

you asked, "Who told you about that?"

And then said, "Yeah but not Hitler's speeches,"

"my friend Marty gave me Mein Kampf,

"but it's okay because he's Jewish."

But your friend says, "No it wasn't Mein Kampf.

"It was My New Order, Hitler's speeches,"

and also he's not Jewish and then you brought it up again

later to say that if you had Hitler's speeches,

you wouldn't read them.

But, as an GMOAT,

I remember saying I wouldn't bring up Nazis.

Dang.

(exciting instrumental music)

Here's some news,

Republican Senator Jeff Flake gave a speech

about how Trump sucks, so,

welcome to the #Resist#ance and the #21st century.

Even though Flake basically said,

"Because I am no longer seeking reelection,

"I may now speak my mind.

"The things that I said are good, are, bad.

"You're welcome for my bravery."

And even though now that he's leaving, his seat is open,

and Bannon can get a far right

nationalist candidate in there instead.

And GMOATs might notice he has more than

a 90% voting alignment with Trump

and less than 12 hours after his brave speech,

his GMOAT (bleep) itself and he voted

to strip away consumers' rights to sue banks.

Good thing banks don't do crimes that cause problems

and then don't answer for it already.

Good thing, lies.

(exciting instrumental music)

He's so obviously a liar, and not a very intelligent person,

and doesn't know what he's doing, and is unhinged,

and doesn't have the people's best interest at heart,

and is just, he's just a liar.

Long history of it, lies all the time.

Little stuff like lying about his approval rating

which has been lower than 40% for 21 straight weeks

or big stuff like, "I will uphold the Constitution."

His lying is so obvious, and if you still support him,

sorry, you're just a, you're fascist,

or you're in a cult, maybe both.

It's, um, alarming.

But the one thing cults and fascist regimes

need to succeed above all else is a charismatic leader.

So even though (bleep) you Jeff Flake, fist shake,

the more and more people who acknowledge what a danger

he specifically is, the sooner we can get rid of him

and he can stop distracting us with his (bleep)

and, with Trump gone,

there will be an opening for a new charismatic leader.

And I'm not worried about that.

(exciting instrumental music)

Sorry, that was pretty bleak.

Fascism, cults.

So, to close, speaking of the Interior and parks,

to which the president donated his first quarter salary

and also from which cut millions of its budget,

here's some fun news.

You know how when you think of rich people in New York

who've been staples of the city for decades and allegedly

donate millions to charity all the time and are good people?

And how over all those years,

there'd be something named after them.

A park.

A park bench.

A street.

Something that's not a hotel built by them,

or steaks made by them, or a fake university made by them.

But there's not.

Except wait, thank you GMOAT, there literally is

a Donald J. Trump State Park in New York.

He bought the land for two million dollars

and tried to build a golf resort on it

and couldn't get the permits so he donated it

and wrote it off for $100 million and they tried to turn it

into a dog park but the buildings have asbestos in them.

Now, it just sits around looking like this.

Look at it.

Look at it.

Look at the metaphor for his brain and soul.

Greatest memory of all time.

Only I can fix it.

Look at me, the greatest park in the world.

That's his park.

He's the president.

His (bleep) park looks like that.

We're done.

(exciting instrumental music)

That's his park.

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Putin the KINGMAKER: Donald Trump turning to RUSSIA to help US take down North Korea - Duration: 3:24.

Putin the KINGMAKER: Donald Trump turning to RUSSIA to help US take down North Korea

Vladimir Putin's regime is becoming the kingmaker as the knife-edge crisis worsens between Washington and Pyongyang. Russia is said to be increasingly becoming Kim Jong-un's preferred ally as China cracks down on North Korea.

US diplomats are reportedly being forced to seek out Putin – believing he can be more valuable than anyone in tackling Kim.

War fears have reached fever pitch in region as US General James Mattis warned of a massive military response as he visited the border of North Korea.

Kim has responded by promising to detonate a H-bomb over the Pacific, a move that could spark nuclear war.

"Russias going through the other way and hurting what were getting" Trump Russia has been calling for peace in the region, but has been accused of providing backdoor support for the regime.

Frosty relations also rage between the Kremlin and the White House as Putin is accused of fiddling with the US election. Washington's top envoy to North Korea Joseph Yun reportedly said he wants to increase ties with Moscow to tackle Kim.

Trump accused Putin of hurting US efforts to tackle North Korea – while at the same time praising China. The US president said: China is helping us and maybe Russias going through the other way and hurting what were getting.

I think we could have a good relationship. I think that the North Korean situation would be easier settled..

Russia shares a border with North Korea on its eastern frontier, and the two sides are traditionally strong allies. Putin himself met with Kim's father Kim Jong-il, and Russia supported the state during the Korean War.

Previously, Russia demanded the US stand down from North Korea as the Kremlin warned US escalation could spark war.

Moscow is reported to have hosted "back channel" talks between the US and North Korea at a disarmament conference.

Russia remains at odds with the US over hacking accusations as well as the war in Syria, the annexation of Crimea, and military build-ups in Baltic. Daily Star Online previously revealed which side Putin would take if the US attacked North Korea.

For more infomation >> Putin the KINGMAKER: Donald Trump turning to RUSSIA to help US take down North Korea - Duration: 3:24.

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Trump Only Does Interviews With Ass Kissers (VIDEO) - Duration: 4:32.

DONALD TRUMP BEEN ALL OVER OVER FOX NEWS IT WAS INCLUDING THE

VERY FRIENDLY TO HIM, HE ALMOST NEVER GLOBALIZATION ISN'T

FRIENDLY TO HIM AND BOY, MEDIA MATTERS IN THIS CASE A GREAT JOB

TOGETHER COMPILATION TO THOSE OUTLETS THAT IT MIGHT BE A

LITTLE FRIENDLY TO SAY THE LEAST THAT WATCHLIST ADEQUATE TO THEM

SO PROUD OF EVERYTHING OR DOING THAT WE?

YOU GOODNESS?

WITH THE?

YOU SO MUCH AND THEN I MUST.

TAMMY, IS YOUR PRESS SECRETARY

AND UPON THE REQUEST OF RESISTING, THICKNESS MEDIA, THE

LEAKS?

YOU HEAR JENNIFER GETTING OUT BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE CAUGHT UP ON

ISSUES AND RIDICULOUS STUFF THAT I'VE EVER SEEN ANYONE PERSON

FACES MUCH IN TERMS OF THE TAXES YOU HAVE ONLY SUPPORT FOR YOU

HERE THAT THE COUNTRY OWES YOU A GREAT DEBT ON SO MUCH BUT ON

THAT PARTICULAR THAT.

IS INTERESTING, AS WELL PUT THAT IT'S TRUE THAT DENNIS

RODMAN ARE YOU MOVING SO QUICKLY THAT YOUR COMMUNICATIONS

DEPARTMENT CANNOT KEEP UP WITH YOU?

YOU'RE ALSO ONE OF THE MOST LOVED AND RESPECTED.

I WOULD SAY THAT ALSO GOT.

IN HISTORY.

WE'VE NEVER SEEN THIS LEVEL OF RESPONSE FROM THE

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

YOU ARE FIGHTING LIKE HELL EVERY DAY.

WHEN I WALKED IN, THE.

[CHEERING].

WITH INCREDIBLE.

YOU ARE BOXER, I SAW IT.

IT WAS CRAZY.

BETTER THAN PRESIDENT BUS, THE FEDERAL PAGES ARE DOWN 30%

ARE LEADERSHIP.

PARTICLE CAN SENATORS KNOWING OF HER BACK.

JUST THAT WE WILL FOREVER VOTE FOR UTAH.

IPA FRIEND WHO IS TRUCK IS VERY PROUD OF EQUIPMENT THAT.

YOU BEEN SO GREAT AND I'M VERY PROUD OF YOU.

SHOW WHICH I WATCH ABSOLUTELY ALL THE TIME EVEN IF IT MEANS

TIVO OR WHATEVER DEVICE YOU HAPPEN TO BE USING AT THE TIME.

BUT YOUR SHOW WAS FANTASTIC.

THEY GIVE HER YOUR SUPPORT OVER THE YEARS, YOU'VE BEEN SO

FANTASTIC THAT.

YOU ARE SO WELCOME.

SO PROUD OF WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

APPRECIATED.

LET'S KEEP

THIS COUNTRY SAFE AND I THINK THAT'S OUR PRAYER FOR YOU IN THE

COUNTRY.

ALL HE KNOWS IT KNOWS FOX'S GOOD AND YOU ARE FAIR

DIANA HAVE TO SAY THE THOUGHT THAT YOU DID ME FAIRLY AND I

DON'T MEAN GOOD, BUT THEY TREATED ME FAIRLY DONE I DON'T

WANT TO BE TREATED GOOD I JUST WANT TO BE TREATED FAIRLY.

BOXES REALLY BEEN FAIR AND I APPRECIATE IT.

YOU ARE OF MY

MAY SAY, EVERYTHING IS ADVERTISED AS HE RAN FOR

PRESIDENT AND I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU'RE DOING THAT.

CREDIT THE MEDIA MATTERS EVER PUTTING TOGETHER A NICE

COMPILATION.

QUICKLY MY FAVORITE PARTS.

IF I MAY SAY,

YOU ARE WONDERFUL SIR.

YOU PROBABLY CAN'T SAY IT.

THAT MY

BYU BUT THE INTERVIEW IN THE FIRST PLACE.

BUT ACTUALLY,

BETTER THAN THAT WAS WHAT YOU ALMOST ALL OF THE TIME.

YOU KNOW THAT MEANS?

HE NEVER WATCHES.

HE IS NOT ON FOX, HE'S ON FOXBUSINESS.

TRUMP

DOES NOT WATCH THAT.

HE IS LIKE I WATCH YOU ON TIVO OR

SOMETHINGÖ CLASSIC TRUMP LIFE.

BUT YOU KISS MY ASS I'M ON HERE.

JOB.

WE ATE THAT, THIRD THE DEEP STATE HAS BEEN LEAKING ALL

OVER YOU.

THAT PART I ENJOYED GOT SOME TRUTH TO THAT ONE AND FINALLY,

YOUR COMMUNICATIONS APARTMENT CANNOT KEEP UP WITH YOU, RIGHT?

YOU ARE JUST TOO GOOD AND TOO FAST.

THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED.

NO, HE'S AN IDIOT AND NEEDS WITH THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND THE

REASON THEY CAN KEEP UP WITH THEM AS THEY ARE LIKE NO, DON'T

TWEET THAT, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE.

YOU ARE LOVED AND RESPECTED AREN'T YOU?

I WOULD AGREE.

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Putin the KINGMAKER: Donald Trump turning to RUSSIA to help US take down North Korea - DAILY NEWS - Duration: 2:59.

Putin the KINGMAKER: Donald Trump turning to RUSSIA to help US take down North Korea

DONALD Trump is being forced to seek out help from Russia to take down North Korea amid

fears of World War 3.

Vladimir Putin's regime is becoming the kingmaker as the knife-edge crisis worsens

between Washington and Pyongyang.

Russia is said to be increasingly becoming Kim Jong-un's preferred ally as China cracks

down on North Korea.

US diplomats are reportedly being forced to seek out Putin – believing he can be more

valuable than anyone in tackling Kim.

War fears have reached fever pitch in region as US General James Mattis warned of a "massive

military response" as he visited the border of North Korea.

Kim has responded by promising to detonate a H-bomb over the Pacific, a move that could

spark nuclear war.

Russia has been calling for peace in the region, but has been accused of providing backdoor

support for the regime.

Frosty relations also rage between the Kremlin and the White House as Putin is accused of

fiddling with the US election.

Washington's top envoy to North Korea Joseph Yun reportedly said he wants to increase ties

with Moscow to tackle Kim.

Trump accused Putin of hurting US efforts to tackle North Korea – while at the same

time praising China.

The US president said: "China is helping us and maybe Russia's going through the other

way and hurting what we're getting.

"I think we could have a good relationship.

I think that the North Korean situation would be easier settled."

Russia shares a border with North Korea on its eastern frontier, and the two sides are

traditionally strong allies.

Putin himself met with Kim's father Kim Jong-il, and Russia supported the state during

the Korean War.

Previously, Russia demanded the US stand down from North Korea as the Kremlin warned US

escalation could spark war.

Moscow is reported to have hosted "back channel" talks between the US and North

Korea at a disarmament conference.

Russia remains at odds with the US over hacking accusations as well as the war in Syria, the

annexation of Crimea, and military build-ups in Baltic.

Daily Star Online previously revealed which side Putin would take if the US attacked North

Korea.

For more infomation >> Putin the KINGMAKER: Donald Trump turning to RUSSIA to help US take down North Korea - DAILY NEWS - Duration: 2:59.

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President Trump calls the country's opioid crisis a public health emergency - Duration: 16:22.

ROBERT COSTA: Hello. I'm Robert Costa. And this is the Washington Week Extra.

The opioid crisis in the United States has killed more than 59,000 people in the last

year, and this week President Trump declared the rise of drug addiction a public health

emergency. He stopped short, however, of his August pledge to declare it a national

emergency, and he has yet to allocate any funding to combat the crisis.

What does this declaration of a public health emergency mean in the effort to stop the

opioid epidemic? Julie, that's the question.

JULIE PACE: It is the question. And we sent AP reporters out across the country to

a lot of these communities that have been really hard-hit by the opioid crisis.

The stories that they come back with are really just heart-wrenching.

And what they say is that they're quite pleased that the president and the first lady

have made this an issue that is at the forefront of this national debate.

I think President Trump really does feel this one personally.

He and the first lady have met with people who have been affected by this.

But over and over again, our reporters in the field heard that while they are happy that

there is attention focused on this, they were quite disappointed that there wasn't new

funding because money is not the answer completely here, but it is part of the problem.

Especially in these rural communities you have people who are separated physically from a

lot of treatment options, a lot of programs, and they have told our reporters that

putting more money into this effort, getting more treatment options on the ground where

people are living, is really crucial to addressing this.

It's a massive problem that's going to go on for quite some time.

ROBERT COSTA: The president talked a little bit about his own family and how he's seen

addiction up close.

JULIE PACE: Yeah, he talked about his brother. It's a story he's told a couple of

times, but it's not something he brings up that often. It is quite powerful.

He talks about the impact that seeing his brother's addiction had on him.

It made him decide not to drink, not to smoke, to pass that on to his children.

And again, I do think that this is an issue that you see him connecting with.

He's someone who has difficulty with empathy, really connecting with people who are in

difficult circumstances, but on this one you've seen him and Mrs. Trump really take this on.

I think it's an issue you are going to see him at least discussing quite a bit during his presidency.

ROBERT COSTA: Do we expect the funding, Ed?

ED O'KEEFE: I'll tell you, as Nancy Pelosi said yesterday when asked about it, show me

the money. There's nothing in the current budget proposal that would significantly raise it.

And while the White House may claim that they're working on plans to fund the money - or

to, you know, ask for the money, they have not produced that yet, and it doesn't appear

that many lawmakers up there are aware of it. But certainly that was one of the

criticisms I noticed, was great that you're doing this, but show us the money.

NANCY CORDES: And Democrats have pointed out that all of the Republican health care

plans that were put forward this summer would have dramatically cut Medicaid by almost a

trillion dollars, and Medicaid is often the first line of defense for a lot of these

opioid addicts. And you know, it's great to pour money into a 12-step program, but

you know, a lot of them have ongoing health needs that really can only be addressed

by their Medicaid coverage. And so, you know, to your point, what a lot of

Democrats have argued is, you know, if you're cutting Medicaid, you are, you

know, directly hurting the people that you're claiming you want to help.

ROBERT COSTA: We'll keep an eye on how that all unfolds.

And sticking with Capitol Hill, in the wake of a national discussion - and it is truly

national; more and more people are talking - about sexual harassment and assault, female

members of Congress are joining forces. Nancy, you've been tracking this on Capitol Hill.

NANCY CORDES: Yeah. So Jackie Speier, who's a five-term congresswoman from California,

put out a very moving video this week talking about facing harassment herself at a

young age on Capitol Hill back in the 1970s when she was a staffer to a member of Congress.

And she talked about the chief of staff coming up to her and sticking his tongue in her

mouth in his office, and the shame that she felt and the confusion and not knowing what

to do. And the reason that she told the story was because she, and other female members of

Congress who have talked about their own experiences this week, want to make it clear to

female staffers on the Hill that you should not feel ashamed, you should come forward if

something like this is happening to you and maybe happening to other women as well, and

also, secondarily, to draw attention to the fact that there is a very unusual system on

Capitol Hill that governs claims of sexual harassment. It's different from the rest of

the federal government. Essentially, if you want to file a complaint, you first need to

get 30 days of counseling. You then need to go through 30 days of mediation with the

person who you are accusing before you could move along in the system, file a formal

complaint, file a lawsuit, that kind of thing.

And so it really discourages a lot of victims from speaking out, and these women

lawmakers say that's something that has to change.

ED O'KEEFE: I covered this years ago when I was covering sort of government workers here

in Washington. It is a ridiculous system. And it makes you wonder how many people left

public service because something happened to them, and they figured getting out and

getting out of the way made more sense than trying to work their way through this labyrinth?

It's ridiculous, and one would hope that this will compel Congress to take it up.

ROBERT COSTA: And it seems like, Julie, in Washington - we saw Hollywood and journalism

this week are all dealing with different fallouts from this new national discussion.

And this national discussion was prompted by reporting - reporting which is so healthy to

now have people speaking out. Do you think the political orbit of D.C.

and perhaps even beyond D.C are going to see more talk of reform, more talk of people

just speaking about their experiences?

JULIE PACE: I certainly hope so. I think it's been a really amazing couple of weeks

to experience. The women who have come forward are so brave, the people who have come

forward who are named and unnamed, because - we were talking about this, actually,

earlier - some of these stories are from years ago, but you wonder if these

incidents were happening right now, would people have felt like they could come

forward? Would they have felt like they would have support?

You hope now that so much is out in the open, that there's been so much support given to

women who have come forward, that people will feel like they are able to go to their

employers, to go to their coworkers and put this out there.

I think the role of journalism has been just incredibly vital to give a platform, to put

this out there and to show that there is positive feedback, that there is support.

But it's that next step, what happens. Is there - what happens in these workplaces,

the Congress for example? I mean, Ed is right, that is ridiculous that that is the

policy on Capitol Hill and in the government right now.

PETER BAKER: It helps that the - for the first time in a lot of these incidents that

women recognize some of the women who have spoken out, right?

With the Harvey Weinstein case, they were recognizing Angelina Jolie, they recognize, you

know, Ashley Judd, they recognize Gwyneth Paltrow. These are people who are part of

our cultural conversation. And if people like that can go through what I go through,

I think a lot of people must be thinking, maybe I can say something too.

And it's a different culture. This is not a new issue. We saw, going back to Clarence

Thomas, obviously, Washington has been consumed with these issues at times over the years.

The difference is, rather than attacking the women, we're now seeing the women, you know,

having a much more sympathetic audience and a more empowering, I think, moment, where

people do feel the - you know, the ability to speak out, including on Capitol Hill.

ROBERT COSTA: Moving to on a different topic, it's been more than 50 years since

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. But for the first time,

some 2,800 previously-classified records have been released by the National Archives.

And while there isn't a smoking gun about a second shooter that conspiracy theorists have

long debated, there were some interesting revelations, including news about an anonymous

call made to a reporter in London about 30 minutes before the shooting. Some of the

super-secret details included some FBI and CIA files that are still classified because

of national security concerns, and WikiLeaks is offering a $100,000 reward for those

documents. Peter, what did we learn this week about one of America's darkest days?

PETER BAKER: Well, one of the things I think we learned again is sort of the context in

which it happens. If you go through these documents, they do sort of amplify and

underscore some of the themes and ideas that we've had about this case for a long time.

But they also remind us of the context in which it happened - in the Cold War intrigue,

spy versus spy, assassination plots and schemes and the mafia, some of which is real and

some of which is fanciful. And you know, Cuba loomed large in our imagination back then.

Cuba must have something to do with this because it's the main battleground of the Cold

War at this point. So why did Lee Harvey Oswald go to Mexico City and go talk to the

Cuban consulate there? What must be happening? So some of it may not be a smoking gun.

It may not necessarily solve the case for those who think the case is still unsolved, but

it adds to our broader understanding. But the real documents we're going to see that

might change our understanding are still kept secret.

Under law, they were all supposed to be released as of Thursday of this week.

President Trump, under the law, was allowed to basically withhold some, and he gave the

intelligence community another six months to review. He got a last-minute lobbying

campaign by the CIA and FBI. Oddly enough, 25 years didn't turn out to be enough time

for them to go through these documents. (Laughter.) They needed some more time.

And he said, fine, you're going to have six more months, but - you know, he said very

clearly - the predicate the presumption is for disclosure.

You have to make a pretty good case to get me to not put these out in six months.

JULIE PACE: And we're told he was pretty irritated about that last-minute lobbying push.

Trump actually wants these documents out. He's fascinated by this as much as we are.

I thought he sent a great tweet this week where he was almost talking about this as

though he was an observer, you know, waiting for the archives to put out the documents.

It's a fascinating piece of American history. And even though the documents that

came out yesterday don't have any bombshells, don't change exactly, you know, what

the history books have told us about this. I think the excitement around it, the

transparency that it's bringing to what transpired there, is great for our country.

It's fascinating.

NANCY CORDES: And can someone translate that Grassley tweet for me, about -

ROBERT COSTA: Explain. What are you talking about?

NANCY CORDES: (Laughs.) Well, I was having trouble understanding it myself today.

Grassley, you know, he was also irritated about the six-month delay and he said, you

know, you guys didn't have enough time, and you know, there was lots of all-caps.

(Laughter.) And you know, Grassley tweets are kind of always a work of art, but this one,

you know, was special today.

ED O'KEEFE: Yesterday the House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, had her weekly press

conference. And at the end I said, look, you've been receiving intelligence briefings

longer than any sitting lawmaker, because she was a member of the Intelligence

Committee, and now as a senior leader she still gets the classified briefings.

Has any CIA director or other intelligence official ever raised concerns with lawmakers

about the release of these documents? And she said no, never; we always focus on

operational stuff and current threats, but nobody has ever come to me and said that

they shouldn't be released or that there are issues with certain documents, so.

PETER BAKER: Well, and there are some of the documents they released yesterday, you're

wondering why on Earth did that take 50 years, right?

ED O'KEEFE: Exactly.

PETER BAKER: There's a memo about making the Secret Service and the FBI work better on

presidential protection, and the memo things - says things like we ought to have more

active verbs in this declaration and things like that.

So that makes you wonder why they kept these under wraps.

ROBERT COSTA: Let's end tonight where we began the show this week: Senator Jeff Flake's surprise

decision not to run for a second term. Ed, do Democrats have a chance of flipping this seat?

ED O'KEEFE: So I think they absolutely do.

Kyrsten Sinema is a moderate Democratic congresswoman from the Phoenix area.

She's served three terms, pretty moderate, pro-business voting record.

In talking to Republicans this week about the bad polling that Jeff Flake was seeing that

helped him decide that it was time to go, I asked three strategist types and Flake

directly today, did that polling show you a general election matchup against Sinema?

Yes, it did. Would you have won? Nobody said yes, which suggests that she's in

very good shape - would have been against him, and probably will be against whoever

else runs because their name ID across the state will be just as low as hers.

ROBERT COSTA: So you're saying Flake's decision in part may have been driven as much by

the threat of a primary challenge as it was by a general election threat.

ED O'KEEFE: Everyone said there was a bigger problem for him in the primary, but they

believed that he would be competitive and would have -

ROBERT COSTA: Who's going to run on the Republican side?

ED O'KEEFE: So that's still unclear. The one woman who is running is Kelli Ward.

She's a former state senator, ran against John McCain in the 2016 cycle, making a

generational and ideological argument. In the past year she had been making an

ideological argument against Flake, saying he's not loyal to the president, he's voted

with Democrats in the past. She's still in the race, but the state party is not uniting behind her.

You're going to see other members of Congress, sitting members of Congress - a woman

named Martha McSally, former Congressman Matt Salmon, and possibly a handful of others.

ROBERT COSTA: And State Senator Kelli Ward has Steve Bannon's support.

NANCY CORDES: Right, although, interestingly, a couple of Steve Bannon acolytes who were

working on her campaign actually left in recent weeks because -

ROBERT COSTA: What was that about?

NANCY CORDES: You know, it's a little bit unclear. Apparently, you know, they didn't

think that she was walking the walk, just talking the talk when it came to backing up

President Trump and his policies. And this is, again, something that really worries

Republicans, is that there is no amount of fidelity that is ever quite enough with this

Bannon crowd. And they're - you know, they do worry that even if you don't speak out

against the president, if you show the tiniest bit of daylight between yourself and

President Trump or yourself and Steve Bannon, you could very quickly find yourself

on the outs. So it's a little bit of a losing proposition. But I think it's

important to point out that part of the reason that Flake's approval ratings were so

low was because he started speaking out against President Trump a year ago and decided -

ROBERT COSTA: He even wrote a book about it.

NANCY CORDES: Wrote a book about it, decided not to endorse him.

And he knew what he was doing that entire time.

He knew that his popularity would take a hit if he did this, and he did it anyway.

ROBERT COSTA: Peter?

PETER BAKER: No, I think it's exactly right. And we'll be watching as a bellwether;

you know, will the Bannon wing, first of all, manage to capture the nomination with

either Kelli Ward or maybe somebody else who's like her?

And then, what is the cost in the fall?

As you mentioned earlier, you know, Mitch McConnell - or you mentioned earlier, sorry,

Mitch McConnell had already said candidates like these will lose us seats.

This is a seat they obviously cannot afford to lose if they want to keep a 52-vote - a

52-seat majority. A lot of money will be poured in there. And then waiting in the

wings is what happens with John McCain, obviously. He's ill and his seat at some

point, obviously, may be in play, and people will be watching for that one too.

JULIE PACE: Kelli Ward is basically the poster child for what Mitch McConnell was

talking about, the candidate who gets through the primary and ends up in the general

election and is simply not acceptable to most voters.

And the Sinema advisors would love for Kelli Ward to be that challenger.

You're going to see a lot of focus from more traditional Republicans trying to get

somebody else into that race and push Ward aside, because even people who have been

working around Ward right now and in that Bannon crowd are pretty realistic she's going

to have a rough road against Sinema if she makes it through to the general election.

ROBERT COSTA: And a lot of these primaries are not like Arizona.

You look at Tennessee, Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn.

She gets the support of some Bannon forces and the establishment GOP.

So how this all plays out in different states is going to be different in a lot of ways.

JULIE PACE: Absolutely. I mean, look, Republicans still have to put together a

coalition like anybody does. You can't win completely by being the sort of moderate,

business-minded Republican or completely being the Bannon-Trump candidate.

You have to be able to put together a coalition.

And I think that's why these races, while we are looking at them for patterns, while

we're looking for a trend in them, it's a little cliche to say in politics but it is true

these are local races. They're local and state races, and there are so many factors

that will go into play beyond what we're seeing play out at the national level.

ROBERT COSTA: We'll leave it there. That's it for this edition of the Washington

Week Extra. While you're online, take our Washington Week-ly News Quiz.

I'm Robert Costa. We'll see you next time.

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Ivanka Trump Revealed Everything On Live TV Here's What Happened(VIDEO)!!! - Duration: 6:59.

Ivanka Trump Revealed Everything On Live TV Here's What Happened

well she is one of the world's most famous women who seems to have it all

but Ivanka Trump now making a stunning revelation with each of my three

children I had some level of postpartum and it was depression it was very it was

a very challenging emotional time for me because I felt like I was not living up

to my potential as a parent or as an entrepreneur and as an executive and I

had had such easy pregnancies that in some way the juxtaposition hit me even

harder Wow and that's not all she had to say joining us right now with more from

that explosive interview he recorded last night will air on Thursday the host

of dot the Octagon the dr. Oz Show dr. oz dr. oz welcome back hey Brian

thanks good for her good for her for admitting that because so many women

struggle with that he's exactly what I said and I kind of say she came on to

talk about working families and she's passionate about the reality that we

don't take care of the young among us they don't grow up to be what they could

be and acknowledging that she had an issue of postpartum depression was her

way of saying listen I get it there are a lot of women out there who can't just

go back to work at their what day or two after they have a baby we are the only

developed country she informed me and she's right that doesn't have a paid

leave program so that's important because later in the show when I had to

hold the brain which I had to do it he'll show and just to highlight the

fact though the brain doesn't grow if you don't nurture a young child right so

we take away a mother from a child because they can't get pay or they can't

hold on their job without going back to working week but a lot of companies do

if you make more than $100,000 salary in America you probably have paid leave you

make less than hundred thousand dollars in America six percent of the women get

paid leave and I'm not arguing for a year off and I don't think she would

either but I do think that giving folks a couple weeks after they've had a baby

sort of hoarding them in a way that I've had a baby I mean I was not ready to

come back after maybe like three months I could I was finally recovered where I

felt like I could come back I'd still needed that extra month because that

took four months off but some of these companies especially in our industry

where women feel like they need to get back immediately they take like three

weeks four weeks I don't know how is it successful woman right able to be on

this great program Ivanka said the same thing everyone thinks I got it all

together I had a problem I couldn't have done it so how can we expect women who

have a lot of other pressures in addition to what you guys are facing

including monetary ones go back it's it's part of what needs to happen for

working families in America I treasure the fact that she put herself out there

on the line she's poised and she was powerful in it then she was very

authentic and said guys I get it I've been there right one of the other things

you talked to her about is something and she's introduced some interesting

moderate ideas into this particular administration he or she is talking with

you about her relationship with her father watch this there are some who are

pretty negative that you should be a voice of moderation but what do you how

do you respond to that expectation well you know I think that my role and anyone

who works for the President of the United States their role is to inform

advise and then ultimately execute so I'm not the decision-maker I have my

views and I share them candidly and and as a daughter I have I've

allowed it to do that but I also respect the process that my father is now

president and the American people elected him based on his agenda and my

job isn't to undermine that agenda she took a breath and it makes me think that

she is it's getting to her a little that criticism is getting to her a little I

don't think so I gotta say I asked several times around about the be

reality there's hard to be criticized all the time even for things you're not

really responsible for I think she spent a lot of time just sort of figuring out

this is what life is gonna be like for her this is how she's gonna sacrifice to

help the country not everything that's gonna happen around her the adventures

gonna be positive there gonna be times when they're things they can fix they

give you time so they're unfair criticisms but that's not what her task

is gonna be her that's gonna be to push for the GEMA that she cares about she

over and over came back to the reality that if she can get working families and

adopting particular issues of women right women in science you know we call

him calling Wonder Woman women with equal pay women who can get time off

take care of their kids or sick relatives or ill then she's actually

doing her job what she was saying was very interesting

if you think about it so she may not agree with what's going down but the

president was elected to do what he believes folks who voted for him wanted

to get done her job is not to criticize that her job is trying to execute but

she does and I - they're about this you know she's the middle child she said

she's used the conciliator so she'll get her brothers together and her dad and go

in there and say hey let's just talk about this right because it has that

opportunity really that's not gonna happen behind the scenes when she went

in when she and Jared were special advisers to the president first named

about six months ago they made it clear that their intention was every six

months they would decide whether or not they would continue another six months

are you of the opinion that they are thinking you know what maybe we're gonna

go all four years I think they could do it whether they want to do is a separate

issue but that question I got asked her about having a dual income family she

said what she corrected me says we're not like she's doing income or not

taking salaries but it does it the biggest issue for them is gonna be the

continuing barrage of criticism but I think it's a non-stop yeah but the pain

probably brought anybody forget about politics if you've had pain for a few

months you sort of get used to the pain mm-hmm and unless you can elevate the

pain you just keep weathering through it but they're passionate about they see

she was pretty clear that she sees as a service to her country and that she's

ready for the greater good if she has that mantra and can stop taking it

personally which is hard for anyone to do there being after well in our country

get sick of the negativity and just I mean you can't watch mainstream media

without I mean even Harvard did a study on this the 100 days at the first 100

days of the presidency and they said that most of the mainstream media

outlets were so negative toward him most of the stories when do we get to a point

in our country where we say we can't do this even from a medical standpoint like

enough of the anger it's detrimental to the well-being of our population I

showed some data that I could make Burling polled for us looking at stress

levels in America 57% of women feel the stresses above what they can deal with

so it's you know it's it's it's a it's a major influence and not a good one for

our country and you also talked about the opioid epidemic so that's a very

important thing you know Governor Christie was here talking about that

it's okay so I think I talked about opioid epidemic but this did what the

real story is is the hypocrisy around medical marijuana and just frequently

medical where marijuana people think is a gateway drug to narcotics it may be

the exit drug to get us out of the narcotic

whaa dem Akmal are not allowed we're not allowed to study it because it's a

Schedule one drug and I personally believe it could help

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World War 3: Donald Trump will use 'OVERWHELMING' force against North Korea, warns US VP

and its dictator will be up against who will defend the with "effective military power" if forced, according to Mike Pence.

It comes as has been ramping up its missile technology with regular rocket tests, including two intercontinental ballistic missiles launches and its sixth nuclear bomb detonation earlier this year.

Speaking at Minot Air Force Base, in North Dakota, 's right hand man, warned North Korea to "never doubt the capabilities" of his nation's Armed Forces.

He said: "While President Trump has made clear that the United States has, in his words, 'great strength and patience', all options are on the table.

"Our enemies should never doubt the capabilities of the Armed Forces of the United States of America.

"Anyone who would threaten our nation should know that America always seeks peace, but if we are forced to defend ourselves or our allies, we will do so with military power that is effective and overwhelming." His remarks echoed the US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, who warned  The threat was issued by Mr Mattis after a visit to the demilitarised zone (DMZ) on the Korean border. .

And while he said the US did not want to go to war with Kim Jong-un's hermit state, he issued a  The Defence Secretary said: "North Korea provocations continue to threaten regional and world peace, and despite the unanimous condemnation by the United Nations Security Council, they still proceed.

"As the US Secretary of State has made clear, our goal is not war, but rather the complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.".

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Trump Declares Opioid National State Of Emergency - Duration: 10:33.

>> THIS WEEK DONALD TRUMP ANNOUNCED A NATIONAL EMERGENCY, NOT JUST IN A

RHETORICAL SENSE, OVER THE ISSUE OF OPIOID ABUSE AND THE DEATHS THAT ARE

CAUSED BY IT.

WE ARE TALKING ABOUT TENS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS EVERY

YEAR WITH THAT NUMBER CLIMBING THANKS TO HOW EASY IT IS TO ACCESS

THOSE DRUGS AND HOW OVER PRESCRIBED THEY ARE.

THAT WOULD LEAD YOU TO

BELIEVE THAT HE IS TAKING IT SERIOUSLY WHICH IS GOOD.

THIS IS A

BIG ISSUE FACING AMERICA.

BUT THERE IS WAS ONE ISSUE MISSING.

THE

OFFICIAL DECLARATION DOES ALLOW THE

EXECUTIVE BRANCH TO DIP INTO THE PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY FUND.

IT

SOUNDS GOOD UNTIL YOU REALIZE THAT THAT FUND CURRENTLY HAS $57,000 IN

IT.

>> THIS IS THE PART THAT I LOVE, THEY SAY THE DECLARATION WILL ALSO

ALLOW THEM TO SHIFT AROUND ADDITIONAL SOURCES TO HELP COMBAT

THE EPIDEMIC, BUT WILL NOT ADD ANY

NEW MONEY.

SO GO AHEAD SHIFT AT $57,000 AROUND.

>> IF IT WAS OTHER MONEY LIKE WAR ON DRUGS MONEY THAT WE WERE ACTUALLY

PUTTING TOWARDS A DRUG THAT IS KILLING AMERICANS, MAYBE THAT WOULD

BE A GOOD THING?

IN CASE YOU ARE WONDERING HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU, WITH

$57,000 AND MILLIONS OF AMERICANS

CURRENTLY NOT SUFFERING, IT WORKS OUT TO ABOUT TWO CENTS PER PERSON.

THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO BE VERY

EFFICIENT.

THERE IS NO ROOM FOR GOVERNMENT WASTE AT THIS POINT.

>> ADVOCATES WHO ARE FIGHTING THIS ñ INCLUDING A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO

SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP

SAY THAT YOU NEED AT LEAST $45 BILLION TO TACKLE

THIS.

THAT GIVES YOU A SENSE OF

CONTEXT BETWEEN 57,000 AND 5 BILLION.

>>THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY 14 SENATE DEMOCRATS INTRODUCED A BILL

TO INVEST $45 BILLION TO ADDRESS THE OPIOID CRISIS.

THERE IS ONE OTHER

THING THAT WOULD HELP ñ ONE OTHER BIT OF MONEY, BETWEEN ONE AND $2

BILLION THAT TRUMP IS SAYING HE HAS

MADE AVAILABLE FOR THIS, WHICH IS GOOD.

IT'S NOT NEARLY ENOUGH MONEY ñ

EXCEPT HE DID NOT ALLOW IT, IT WAS PASSED BACK IN 2016 BEFORE HE BECAME

PRESIDENT.

>> WITH $45 BILLION YOU CAN BUY A LOT OF OXYCONTIN WHICH IS GOOD.

THE

OPIOID CRISIS IS BAD AND I THINK THIS COUNTRY NEEDS TO GO BACK TO

CRACK.

CRACK WAS A MUCH MORE EXCITING EPIDEMIC.

IT'S INTERESTING

THAT NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT JAIL

AND ALL OF THESE.

I'M JUST WONDERING WHAT THAT CAN BE?

I WONDER WHY THAT

IS?

IN THE AGE WHEN CRACK WAS GOING ON IT SEEMED LOCATE DIFFERENT

DEMOGRAPHIC WERE DOING CRACK AND THEY WERE GOING TO PRISON A LOT.

>> I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY THE SAME THING, JUDAH.

I FEEL IT'S REALLY

IMPORTANT TO TAKE SERIOUS THIS EPIDEMIC AND SEE DRUG USERS AND

PEOPLE WHO ARE ADDICTS NOT AS CRIMINALS BUT AS VICTIMS.

WHEN IT

HAPPENS TO BE MIDDLE INCOME AND POOR WHITE PEOPLE, THEY ARE SEEN AS

VICTIMS.

WHEN IT HAPPENS TO BE BLACK

PEOPLE THEY ARE SEEN AS CRIMINALS.

JUST HOW OVERLY RACIST CAN WE BE?

THE RIGHT ALWAYS TALKS ABOUT VIRTUE

SIGNALING.

I FEEL LIKE THIS IS THE BIGGEST BS EMPTY PROMISE VIRTUE

SIGNAL TO WHITE PEOPLE THAT I WHITE PRESIDENT HAVE YOUR WHITE BACK.

IT

IS ANOTHER TALKING POINT AND MEANWHILE WE ARE GOING TO

CRIMINALIZE LATINOS, IMMIGRANTS, AND

UNDOCUMENTED PEOPLE JOHN THERE ARE MORE THAN 2 MILLION PEOPLE IN OUR

PRISON SYSTEM.

WHAT ABOUT OUR PRISON SYSTEM AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE

STUCK IN THAT?

WE HAVE THE MOST

INCARCERATED POPULATION IN THE WESTERN INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD.

BUT

THAT IS NOT AN ISSUE BECAUSE THOSE

ARE PEOPLE OF COLOR.

I THINK WE NEED TO BE ON OUR TOES WHEN IT COMES TO

UNDERSTANDING JUST HOW OVERTLY RACIST THIS IS.

>>WHITE PRIVILEGE IS A TERM THAT TRIGGERS THE RIGHT WING MORE THAN

ANY OTHER TERM.

I UNDERSTAND WHY IT DOES FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE BECAUSE YOU

MIGHT BE A YOUNG WHITE GUY IN THE

MIDDLE OF NEBRASKA AND YOU THINK WHAT WHITE PRIVILEGE DO I HAVE?

I

HEAR YOU BROTHER.

IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU ARE ACTUALLY RICH AND POWERFUL,

YOU ARE NOT.

IT JUST MEANS THAT YOU MIGHT NOT SUFFER SOME OF THE STUFF

THAT AFRICAN-AMERICANS SUFFER ON TOP

OF THE SITUATION THAT YOU ARE IN.

SO WHEN YOUR FAMILY IS DEALING WITH AN

OPIOID ISSUE, WHICH IS A LOT OF FAMILIES, PEOPLE ARE SYMPATHETIC AND

SAY IT IS AN EPIDEMIC AND WE HAVE TO HELP YOU.

THAT IS GREAT.

BUT WHEN

SOMEBODY HAD A SIMILAR FATE AND IT WAS ON THE ISSUE OF CRACK AND THEN

PEOPLE SAID WE HAVE TO LOCK THESE

GUYS UP.

BUT THAT WAS ALSO A HEALTH ISSUE.

EVEN TO THIS DAY I BET YOU A

LOT OF PEOPLE WATCHING RIGHT NOW

WILL SAY NO, CRACK WASN'T ñ CRACK IS CORRECT, THAT IS DANGEROUS.

OPIOIDS

KILL 64,000 PEOPLE LAST YEAR, WAY

MORE THAN CRACK.

THIS IS A STUNNING NUMBER.

IT IS NOW THE LEADING CAUSE

OF DEATH IN AMERICA FOR PEOPLE UNDER

THE AGE OF 50.

MORE THAN CAR ACCIDENTS, HEART ATTACKS, CANCER.

THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE.

IT IS THE MOST DANGEROUS THING THERE IS.

>>IT IS REALLY HARDEN AMERICA FOR SOMETHING TO KILL YOU

>>WHITE PRIVILEGE IS NOT SOMETHING YOU HAVE, IT IS SOMETHING LIKE AN

EXTRA BURDEN THAT YOU DON'T HAVE.

>>IT IS A POWER STRUCTURE HELP MEANT TO HELP CERTAIN PEOPLE AND DO THE

OPPOSITE OF HELPING TO OTHER PEOPLE.

PEOPLE ALSO, I DON'T KNOW IF IT IS

THE MAJORITY ñ PEOPLE THAT ARE GETTING HOOKED ON OPIOIDS ARE NOT

GETTING HOOKED ON IT FROM DRUG DEALERS, IT IS FROM DOCTORS.

>> ABOUT THREE QUARTERS OF THEM.

THERE IS A GATEWAY DRUG, THEY WARNED

US ABOUT IT THROUGHOUT THE 1980S, THEY JUST HAD THE WRONG ONE.

IT

TURNS OUT MARIJUANA DOES NOT LEAD TO

HEROIN, LEGAL OPIOIDS LEAD TO HEROIN.

HALF OF THE DEATHS ARE JUST

COMING FROM PEOPLE HOOKED ON LEGAL

OPIOIDS, HALF ARE COMING FROM HEROIN.

BUT THOSE FOLKS, MOST OF

THEM CAME THROUGH LEGAL OPIOIDS.

SO THE VIRTUE SIGNALING IS DON'T WORRY

WHITE PEOPLE, I HAVE YOUR BACK.

BUT THEN THE REALITY IS WHAT DO THEY

ACTUALLY DO WHICH IS NOTHING.

WHY?

BECAUSE FOLLOW THE MONEY AS ALWAYS.

WHEN YOU GO TO AN PRISON BLACK FOLKS

FOR DOING THE WRONG KINDS OF DRUGS, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO MAKE MONEY.

PRIVATE PRISONS, POLICE DEPARTMENTS,

THERE IS A LONG LIST.

BUT ON THE OPIOID ISSUE, THE MONEY IS ON THE

OTHER SIDE.

THE DRUG COMPANIES MAKE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY.

THEY

DO NOT WANT YOU DOING ANYTHING ABOUT

THIS.

SO ALL OF A SUDDEN NOW WHEN IT IS OPIOIDS, NO ENFORCEMENT OR NO

ACTUAL RESOURCES TO ACTUALLY FIGHT IT.

>> ISN'T IT AMAZING HOW LITTLE WE CAN GET DONE AS A COUNTRY?

THIS IS

ACTUALLY ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT FINALLY DURING THE LAST CYCLE OF ALL

THE DEBATES WE HAD, THIS CAME UP

MULTIPLE TIMES.

THEY TALKED ABOUT IT A BUNCH, MORE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

OR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS.

AND FINALLY GOT DISCUSSED.

AND WE ARE A YEAR,

YEAR AND 1/2 LATER AND HERE IS $57,000?

IT IS SUCH A USELESS

CONTENT GOVERNMENT WE HAVE.

>> DON'T PUT MONEY INTO IT BECAUSE IT POINTS THE FINGER AS YOU ARE

SAYING.

I'M SURE YOU GUYS TALKED ABOUT TOM MARINO, THE FORMER NOMINEE

TO BE DRUG CZAR WHO WAS THEN

WITHDRAWN.

HE HELPED PASS LATEST LEGISLATION TO PROTECT THESE DRUG

COMPANIES FROM ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC THEY HELPED

CAUSE.

THAT IS WHO WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.

THIS IS THE SWAMP.

>>MY FINAL POINT IS, I LOVE THE BACK-AND-FORTH.

KRISTI WAS APPOINTED

BY TRUMP TO LEAD THE OPIOID

COMISSION AND HE SAID IT WAS CONGRESS'S JOB.

SO THEY THEN GO TO

CONGRESS, AND TO THE NUMBER TWO LEADER IN THE SENATE FOR THE

REPUBLICANS.

AND HE SAYS ABOUT THE TRUMP TEAM, I WOULD HOPE THEY WOULD

COME UP WITH A PLAN BEFORE WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT MONEY.

I DON'T

KNOW WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE PLAN IS, WE NEED SOME MORE MEAT ON THE BONE.

IN OTHER WORDS I DON'T HAVE MONEY,

ASK THE WHITE HOUSE.

IN OTHER WORDS WE ARE NEVER GOING TO GIVE YOU THE

MONEY, IT WAS JUST PR.

IF YOU BELIEVED TRUMP THAT WAS GOING TO DO

SOMETHING ABOUT THE EPIDEMIC, YOU

ARE AN IDIOT.

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