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Charlie Kirk Today | Mark Halperin: June 16, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today | June 16, 2026
- Blake, remember when the japanese,
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- Purged our timelines on on the on the twitter page?
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- They flooded it. it was amazing.
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- When we thanks to elon musk, we have the auto translate.
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- And we've discovered so many japanese people.
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- They come to america, they love america.
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- They love country music. they love barbecue.
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- They love,
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- They love how much space we have compared to japan.
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- And it's it's great because i know you're setting this up.
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- Thanks to the world cup,
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- We've always had europeans and foreigners come to america,
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- But they always go to new york city, la, maybe miami,
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- Maybe vegas, and like, that's it.
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- Or they'll go to
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- A national park that is very heavily trafficked
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- And they'll just see that park.
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- So yellowstone, grand canyon,
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- And they get a very limited view of america.
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- And if they're in a big city, they see,
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- Oh, you're in la, okay.
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- You see homeless encampments, you see garbage everywhere,
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- But you don't interact a ton with americans.
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- But thanks to the world cup, we are getting americans
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- Do something, or we're getting europeans and other guests
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- Who do something they rarely do.
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- They are road tripping across real america.
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- Yes, exactly.
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- Well, and by the way, speaking to the japanese,
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- They were so there was a jap, i think japan versus
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- The netherlands, world cup group group stage match.
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- And there's video of the japanese with,
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- Bags, like picking up trash.
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- They clean up after themselves.
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- Yeah, and i am.
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- I've been very loud and proud
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- About an immigration moratorium.
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- I believe we need an end. we need one.
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- We've had too much, over the last 40, 50 years.
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- But i will take japanese.
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- If the japanese want to immigrate here,
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- I will take them along with the south african farmers.
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- Okay, that's. that's where i'm at.
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- That's why they're great people.
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- They are.
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- Okay, so let's play some.
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- Let's play some of this, this,
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- These videos, of europeans discovering real america.
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- Sat 29.
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- These neighborhoods
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- Look exactly the same as every movie ever seen.
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- The american flags.
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- People have got race flags up.
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- This old couple just walk past me and they go, good morning.
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- I gotta you guys to each other.
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- Here.
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- I this is a high school stadium.
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- What?
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- Look at the amount of seats in this place.
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- Just incredible.
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- Absolutely incredible.
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- There really is like no other.
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- I honestly think unless you've.
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- Unless you live in america.
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- Unless you or unless you visit here,
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- You can't really comprehend
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- How nice these areas are that want all of them.
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- They're so beautiful. everybody's so friendly.
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- Southern hospitality, everything for you.
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- It's so great.
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- I think we just have another montage.
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- Let's do the second one. let's keep. let's do it.
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- Let's do it. clip 30. yeah, yeah.
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- You want one for two? two.
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- I think he's a thousand times never.
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- You won't drink a thousand cups of the movie and stream.
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- You beat three. you beat it once,
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- Bro. slow down.
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- And in america, it is so amazing.
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- Oh, seriously, americans, what have you done to me?
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- I need to come back. it's great.
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- These are. these are so good.
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- I have a feeling that's better than anything we could say.
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- Go ahead. blake.
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- Yeah, yeah.
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- It's amazing what i want to set up this, specific one.
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- There's a character.
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- You guys should all follow him.
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- He's on x, he goes by freddy.
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- His full name here is freddy, la seven.
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- He's a soccer fan.
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- Came with two of his friends,
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- And they're planning to go to several world cup games.
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- And they're road tripping across the south.
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- And he's basically become
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- A celebrity, at this point, because people are hyped up.
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- This guy's showing up.
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- He's going to the college football stadiums,
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- He's marveling at them.
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- He's discovering our, giant gas station.
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- So actually, that's a great one for us to play.
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- I believe this is freddy
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- Or someone like him discovering bucky's.
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- Clip 32. check this out.
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- It's called bucky's,
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- And it's this big, endearing keeping thing.
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- And still this big.
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- Oh. just now,
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- Just no trash, no one begging, no one doing drugs.
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- No one's stealing.
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- No one's breaking into my truck.
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- Look at this giant, huge.
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- Just.
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- You know, when they say everything's big in america,
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- It went like same. yeah.
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- And that's getting at what i said,
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- Though, that no one's breaking your truck. yeah.
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- So we'd have to worry about that in south africa.
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- But it also have to worry about that.
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- If he was just visiting la, which so many people do.
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- Oh, go to la, go to the walk of fame.
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- Yeah. you're going to see garbage.
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- You're going to see homeless people.
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- It's not going to be america's best to look.
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- But you go to a bucky's, which we have these outside
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- A dozen cities in the
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- South, and you go there, it's gigantic.
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- There's a huge amount of bounty.
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- It's affordable.
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- The bathrooms are immaculately clean,
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- The workers are cheerful, they're well paid.
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- And that is when i went to a bucky's for the first time.
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- That made me feel great about america.
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- I thought, we can beat china.
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- We can beat anyone. this is the greatest country.
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- He's made you and made you wait, bill, i love this one.
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- Hails you. and, it was.
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- Here's some,
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- Some, some visitors enjoying country music on the radio. 31.
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- I can drive for five minutes
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- Now, and i can't wipe this smile on my face.
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- I'm driving around in america.
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- Like, look, i'm saying this is country music on the radio.
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- Go on.
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- I'm going to the was in a around
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- An america voice
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- For praise for fredo.
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- That was definitely not country music,
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- But i think that might have been a dub over.
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- That was a that was a track over the top.
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- But he's driving a truck going to, go
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- I think he said he's going to hooters, which is, you know,
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- Not necessarily america's best look either, but
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- It's it's it's uniquely american, i will say.
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- And, freddy guy, he found a
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- He found a bass pro shop, and he was marveling at that.
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- And he's like, they have a shooting range.
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- Yeah.
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- Inside the store, they're they're selling everything.
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- And we're very happy because the truth
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- Is, americans, we don't hate europe.
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- We find europe disappointing, and we love america,
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- And we love showing it to other people.
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- Yeah, i think so.
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- This is all like part of our segment with rich barris
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- Before, like it is a this is all like
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- A psychic repair of a psychic break.
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- Like the vibes are good.
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- You got sports. the knicks are winning.
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- Which people love. you've got world cup.
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- Things are looking good. we'll be right back.
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- Things are looking good. we'll be right back.
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- All right.
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- Mark halperin two way tv.
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- And so much more.
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- Gosh, mark, you're a busy guy. mark.
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- So i, we normally get very serious with you here.
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- But we just have to i have to keep going
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- On this segment because i love it so much.
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- These europeans are
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- Visiting america, and they're like, discovering
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- That they've been lied to by the european media
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- And the internet.
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- It it's actually an amazing place.
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- It's about just scotland fans singing take me home.
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- Country roads 58 set up.
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- First off, this is the oh
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- Place oh yeah god,
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- I gotta say hello
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- Again country roads.
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- And mark you're about to say something.
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- I was going to say i was under the impression
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- The segment was entirely about the knicks.
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- It's really all i'm interested in talking about, but
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- I'll make an exception.
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- Can i tell you my favorite american cultural
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- Imperialism story?
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- Yes. oh, yes, 100%.
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- I mean, you know,
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- Our cultural imperialism is just crazy, right?
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- Hollywood movies and rock music and just and social media,
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- Right? everything.
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- So the first time i went to canada, i was, in the gym and,
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- I was watching the equivalent of, like,
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- The evening national evening newscast.
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- And that day, regis and kathie lee had announced
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- That they were going to do
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- A week of their shows in canada,
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- And it was the lead story on the evening news.
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- And i thought,
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- Imagine if the canadian equivalent of regis and kathie
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- And kelly
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- Were doing a week of shows from like kilmeade, imagine,
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- Imagine that probably wouldn't
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- Even be covered in hilton head, let alone the lead story
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- On the national news.
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- People love us.
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- They love our culture.
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- They love, i know that.
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- I know this went too far
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- When i read in one of the many stories you're referring to,
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- Someone said, oh, my god, i thought they're fats.
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- Food was, so horrible, but i came here and ate
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- A burger king hamburger.
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- Oh my goodness, it's so much better now.
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- I like burger king
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- Just fine,
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- But it's gone too far when they're lauding our
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- The quality of our fast food fast
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- At some side of the superiority of american culture.
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- Well, maybe i will tell you only a little bit.
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- Yes, i will tell you though, there was a there's a
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- There's all this is going viral, by the way, all over.
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- It's a beautiful timeline purge.
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- And there was a gal i think she must have been english.
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- She was eating in and out for the first time,
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- And she was literally, you know,
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- Almost hyperventilating that it was so good.
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- And the animal style fries.
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- So that i will. oh, we'll get behind it.
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- Out. in and out i get it. this is burger king.
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- I objective it is out, of course.
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- That's america's at its finest. exactly.
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- So so this is we were talking about freddie,
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- Who's actually, i think, german. blake.
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- He's he.
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- This is what's so funny about this.
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- These are the videos that are going viral.
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- It's simply him driving down,
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- Like some two lane highway, and it's beautiful.
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- But he's listening to ella langley.
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- He discovers ella langley, and this goes viral.
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- Cut 57.
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- We go.
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- Sarah. thank i just i just
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- Love you.
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- Apparently that's worth.
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- You know, that's worth it.
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- He's got the best discovery of our road
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- Trip is been a musician called ella langley.
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- We had never heard of her before, but after hearing her,
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- I'm pretty much every country radio station.
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- We become big fans.
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- She's basically the soundtrack of our.
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- This is what i'm saying. america is great.
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- This is a great place.
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- And it's
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- I see it through their eyes and it makes me appreciate it
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- In a new way. again.
- 00:10:23.107 --> 00:10:24.508
- Mark.
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- Yeah, i mean, the the the
- 00:10:25.142 --> 00:10:27.645
- The the, part of it is just the image, right?
- 00:10:27.645 --> 00:10:31.449
- They just love america.
- 00:10:31.449 --> 00:10:32.516
- You could go to any country
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- In africa or asia and sell t-shirts that say
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- Usa people buy them, or pictures of patrick ewing.
- 00:10:36.954 --> 00:10:39.657
- They'll buy anything that associate with american.
- 00:10:39.657 --> 00:10:41.692
- But it's not just the brand, it's the quality.
- 00:10:41.692 --> 00:10:44.729
- Right?
- 00:10:44.729 --> 00:10:45.563
- It's like apple products so bright
- 00:10:45.563 --> 00:10:46.363
- People pay a premium for the brand.
- 00:10:46.363 --> 00:10:47.932
- But apple products are great except for the ipad.
- 00:10:47.932 --> 00:10:50.367
- Ipods don't always work, but everything else.
- 00:10:50.367 --> 00:10:52.403
- Fantastic. our stuff's great.
- 00:10:52.403 --> 00:10:54.839
- Nobody can match our our country music.
- 00:10:54.839 --> 00:10:57.775
- There's nothing in the world as good as our country.
- 00:10:57.775 --> 00:10:59.443
- Totally agree with that.
- 00:10:59.443 --> 00:11:00.478
- Hardly disagree. stuff we take for granted.
- 00:11:00.478 --> 00:11:02.446
- Stuff we take for granted.
- 00:11:02.446 --> 00:11:03.614
- I sat there marveling at those, wacky coke mixing machines
- 00:11:03.614 --> 00:11:08.319
- Where you can get a thousand different flavors injected.
- 00:11:08.319 --> 00:11:11.655
- And i asked someone, my friends are foreign.
- 00:11:11.655 --> 00:11:13.858
- Do you guys not have these?
- 00:11:13.858 --> 00:11:14.992
- And then i say, i have never seen one of those
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- In my entire life.
- 00:11:16.627 --> 00:11:17.695
- And yeah, we think about sometimes we'll go abroad
- 00:11:17.695 --> 00:11:20.698
- To another country and say, oh, japan's amazing there.
- 00:11:20.698 --> 00:11:23.467
- You know, the train's always on time.
- 00:11:23.467 --> 00:11:25.269
- Europe's amazing.
- 00:11:25.269 --> 00:11:26.270
- They have more varieties
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- Of beer and it's cheaper or something.
- 00:11:27.738 --> 00:11:29.607
- But in america, we just don't even think of that.
- 00:11:29.607 --> 00:11:31.942
- Oh, we have the most amazing soda machine ever.
- 00:11:31.942 --> 00:11:33.978
- And you can get infinite refills. no one else has that.
- 00:11:33.978 --> 00:11:36.547
- I'll tell you.
- 00:11:36.547 --> 00:11:37.314
- I'll tell you two other things.
- 00:11:37.314 --> 00:11:38.249
- We have our three other things we have
- 00:11:38.249 --> 00:11:39.850
- That really most places don't have one.
- 00:11:39.850 --> 00:11:41.685
- Is it
- 00:11:41.685 --> 00:11:42.853
- Just a big place, not just the countries of the world.
- 00:11:42.853 --> 00:11:44.688
- Roads are really wide, right?
- 00:11:44.688 --> 00:11:47.091
- This is a lot of parks, a lot of big stuff.
- 00:11:47.091 --> 00:11:49.493
- Number one.
- 00:11:49.493 --> 00:11:50.494
- Number two, people here are really friendly.
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- And i know,
- 00:11:52.129 --> 00:11:52.797
- You know, there's kind of
- 00:11:52.797 --> 00:11:53.731
- Sometimes an image that they're not like
- 00:11:53.731 --> 00:11:54.932
- In new york, people in new york are so friendly.
- 00:11:54.932 --> 00:11:57.134
- It's just a it's a friendly place.
- 00:11:57.134 --> 00:11:58.836
- It's not like france or belgium
- 00:11:58.836 --> 00:12:00.805
- Where people are a little bit unfriendly.
- 00:12:00.805 --> 00:12:02.573
- And then lastly, although although there's
- 00:12:02.573 --> 00:12:04.642
- This impression
- 00:12:04.642 --> 00:12:05.976
- That were jingoistic and isolationist
- 00:12:05.976 --> 00:12:08.512
- And those are well earned and somewhat accurate,
- 00:12:08.512 --> 00:12:11.215
- We're we're interested in other people.
- 00:12:11.215 --> 00:12:13.584
- Like, we like having them here.
- 00:12:13.584 --> 00:12:15.019
- There are countries like japan and france
- 00:12:15.019 --> 00:12:16.587
- Where they don't really care about the tourists.
- 00:12:16.587 --> 00:12:18.422
- They don't want them there.
- 00:12:18.422 --> 00:12:19.256
- We want the tours here.
- 00:12:19.256 --> 00:12:20.291
- We're like, yeah, enjoy america.
- 00:12:20.291 --> 00:12:22.059
- Welcome, welcome in everybody.
- 00:12:22.059 --> 00:12:23.460
- Because yeah, you should enjoy this
- 00:12:23.460 --> 00:12:24.995
- Greatest country in the world.
- 00:12:24.995 --> 00:12:26.130
- And if you came here for some game you call football.
- 00:12:26.130 --> 00:12:28.299
- That's really soccer. that's fun.
- 00:12:28.299 --> 00:12:30.267
- We just happy that. happy to host you here.
- 00:12:30.267 --> 00:12:32.436
- You didn't realize i was like the
- 00:12:32.436 --> 00:12:33.871
- Tocqueville analyst or did you?
- 00:12:33.871 --> 00:12:35.639
- Yeah. well, this is amazing analysis.
- 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:37.675
- You're a great guy.
- 00:12:37.675 --> 00:12:39.176
- Go ahead. yeah. throw your video.
- 00:12:39.176 --> 00:12:40.845
- Oh, no, it's just it's the freddie thing i want.
- 00:12:40.845 --> 00:12:43.447
- I'm it's you.
- 00:12:43.447 --> 00:12:44.281
- You you introduced me to freddie,
- 00:12:44.281 --> 00:12:45.382
- So i'm trying to give you your due here. blake.
- 00:12:45.382 --> 00:12:47.351
- He goes, the buckeyes, he goes, he goes.
- 00:12:47.351 --> 00:12:50.254
- We found another surreal place on our way.
- 00:12:50.254 --> 00:12:52.022
- I know some people will say i'm too positive
- 00:12:52.022 --> 00:12:54.258
- About everything i see, but this place was crazy.
- 00:12:54.258 --> 00:12:56.427
- They had a shooting range in the store.
- 00:12:56.427 --> 00:12:58.162
- That was a shout out to your earlier reference.
- 00:12:58.162 --> 00:13:00.197
- And you go into outdoor world, the bass pro shop,
- 00:13:00.197 --> 00:13:03.534
- And you're like,
- 00:13:03.534 --> 00:13:04.568
- This is this is actually legitimately americana.
- 00:13:04.568 --> 00:13:07.738
- It there's nothing like doors big enough to have their own
- 00:13:07.738 --> 00:13:10.441
- Climates intensely,
- 00:13:10.441 --> 00:13:11.876
- But your mark, your your analyst,
- 00:13:11.876 --> 00:13:14.612
- You've been watching this a long time.
- 00:13:14.612 --> 00:13:16.213
- So we were asking an earlier guest,
- 00:13:16.213 --> 00:13:17.882
- Rich barrett, about this, but you might have
- 00:13:17.882 --> 00:13:19.483
- Thoughts as well.
- 00:13:19.483 --> 00:13:20.885
- Is there an impact to
- 00:13:21.385 --> 00:13:22.453
- This, this, this vibe shift feeling like,
- 00:13:22.453 --> 00:13:25.222
- Do you think it actually matters
- 00:13:25.222 --> 00:13:26.357
- That we're having this big love fest on america
- 00:13:26.357 --> 00:13:29.293
- Thanks to the world cup?
- 00:13:29.293 --> 00:13:30.661
- It seems like the ufc fight was also,
- 00:13:30.661 --> 00:13:33.631
- Yeah, pretty successful. people feel high on america.
- 00:13:33.631 --> 00:13:35.966
- Do you think that has an impact on the national vibe?
- 00:13:35.966 --> 00:13:38.636
- I don't, i don't think it's a negative thing, but
- 00:13:38.636 --> 00:13:42.306
- But this is just a, an in real life manifestation
- 00:13:42.306 --> 00:13:47.044
- Of what happens every day all over the world.
- 00:13:47.044 --> 00:13:49.480
- You know, there's obviously a lot of coverage in the media
- 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:52.149
- First about, you know,
- 00:13:52.149 --> 00:13:53.751
- Canadians and europeans didn't like george w bush,
- 00:13:53.751 --> 00:13:56.153
- And now they're like, well, they really don't like trump.
- 00:13:56.153 --> 00:13:58.589
- But through it all, they love america.
- 00:13:58.589 --> 00:14:01.392
- And i think i've look, i'm i'm from the barack obama school
- 00:14:01.392 --> 00:14:04.395
- That a lot of your audience will not like.
- 00:14:04.395 --> 00:14:06.096
- I don't
- 00:14:06.096 --> 00:14:06.764
- I kind of think it's helpful
- 00:14:06.764 --> 00:14:07.498
- For us
- 00:14:07.498 --> 00:14:08.299
- Or right for us to go around saying
- 00:14:08.299 --> 00:14:09.466
- We're the greatest country in the history of the world.
- 00:14:09.466 --> 00:14:11.802
- I think this is off putting. but we are we are.
- 00:14:11.802 --> 00:14:14.338
- Well, we are, but i think it's off
- 00:14:14.338 --> 00:14:15.506
- Putting to say we are in so many ways,
- 00:14:15.506 --> 00:14:17.374
- You're just going our freedom and our liberty.
- 00:14:17.374 --> 00:14:19.109
- We are the greatest country in the history of the world.
- 00:14:19.109 --> 00:14:20.878
- But there's cultural imperialism where it's like
- 00:14:20.878 --> 00:14:23.847
- Madonna is, you know, just, you know,
- 00:14:23.847 --> 00:14:27.217
- We have we have literally a million
- 00:14:27.217 --> 00:14:29.086
- Like rock artists who not literally,
- 00:14:29.086 --> 00:14:31.055
- Not literally figuratively, so many
- 00:14:31.055 --> 00:14:33.157
- Who are like, so big overseas, like,
- 00:14:33.157 --> 00:14:35.059
- You know, you guys can name one k-pop band, right?
- 00:14:35.059 --> 00:14:37.661
- You just we are culturally imperialist.
- 00:14:37.661 --> 00:14:40.097
- And i think that there's something off about that.
- 00:14:40.097 --> 00:14:43.067
- Like japanese culture should be a lot bigger
- 00:14:43.067 --> 00:14:45.302
- In the united states.
- 00:14:45.302 --> 00:14:46.403
- Their food is better than ours, their architecture,
- 00:14:46.403 --> 00:14:48.639
- Their clothes.
- 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:49.573
- It's all better than ours, honestly.
- 00:14:49.573 --> 00:14:51.475
- But american cultural imperialism
- 00:14:51.475 --> 00:14:54.078
- Is one of the strongest forces in the world,
- 00:14:54.078 --> 00:14:56.046
- And it's been reinforced by social media.
- 00:14:56.046 --> 00:14:58.549
- So the two things you cite world cup
- 00:14:58.549 --> 00:15:00.384
- And the fight last night
- 00:15:00.384 --> 00:15:01.485
- Like these, these are manifestations
- 00:15:01.485 --> 00:15:03.687
- Of what has existed for decades, which is
- 00:15:03.687 --> 00:15:06.390
- People around the world.
- 00:15:06.390 --> 00:15:07.224
- They just love american culture.
- 00:15:07.224 --> 00:15:08.792
- Yeah, they love it.
- 00:15:08.792 --> 00:15:09.760
- My culture, and especially our low culture.
- 00:15:09.760 --> 00:15:11.328
- But then what i want to talk about iran.
- 00:15:11.328 --> 00:15:12.496
- We're going to end on a serious note.
- 00:15:12.496 --> 00:15:14.465
- And so hang right there, mark.
- 00:15:14.465 --> 00:15:18.998
- And so hang right there, mark.
- 00:15:18.998 --> 00:15:25.404
- Mark,
- 00:15:25.637 --> 00:15:27.406
- This was a the whole thing
- 00:15:27.406 --> 00:15:29.041
- With you on the colbert show was amazing, actually.
- 00:15:29.041 --> 00:15:31.844
- People should go back and watch it. do we have.
- 00:15:31.844 --> 00:15:34.113
- Where's mark? yeah.
- 00:15:34.113 --> 00:15:35.381
- Okay. there you go. join him as so.
- 00:15:35.381 --> 00:15:37.416
- But this this particular clip was so good.
- 00:15:37.416 --> 00:15:40.486
- I laughed so hard when i found it
- 00:15:40.486 --> 00:15:42.921
- Because colbert's losing it and because trump is surprising.
- 00:15:42.921 --> 00:15:47.126
- Everybody is defying the odds
- 00:15:47.126 --> 00:15:49.128
- That new york times had their dial.
- 00:15:49.128 --> 00:15:50.896
- Remember, it was like 99% for hillary.
- 00:15:50.896 --> 00:15:53.365
- And then over the night, it like the colbert's losing it.
- 00:15:53.365 --> 00:15:56.902
- You're on with
- 00:15:56.902 --> 00:15:57.803
- I forget the other gentleman's name,
- 00:15:57.803 --> 00:15:59.505
- But from the circus to showtime, the circus
- 00:15:59.505 --> 00:16:01.473
- Or whatever,
- 00:16:01.473 --> 00:16:02.107
- And you're
- 00:16:02.107 --> 00:16:03.342
- Trying to make sense of this, and he's asking for some hope,
- 00:16:03.342 --> 00:16:05.377
- Some some good tidings, something to hold his,
- 00:16:05.377 --> 00:16:07.946
- You know, hang on to hang his hat on.
- 00:16:07.946 --> 00:16:09.848
- And you just dashed his hopes.
- 00:16:09.848 --> 00:16:11.683
- It was an amazing moment.
- 00:16:11.683 --> 00:16:12.751
- Cut 60.
- 00:16:12.751 --> 00:16:13.519
- Is is there
- 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:15.187
- Is there a comparable moment in american political history
- 00:16:15.187 --> 00:16:19.091
- That that that you can pull out outside of the civil war,
- 00:16:19.091 --> 00:16:22.728
- World war two and including 9/11?
- 00:16:22.728 --> 00:16:25.631
- This may be the most cataclysmic event
- 00:16:25.631 --> 00:16:27.266
- The country has ever seen.
- 00:16:27.266 --> 00:16:28.901
- Well.
- 00:16:29.134 --> 00:16:34.106
- Cataclysmic was an interesting word choice.
- 00:16:34.973 --> 00:16:37.242
- I do agree, though.
- 00:16:37.242 --> 00:16:38.644
- Tectonic shift a shift happened that night.
- 00:16:38.644 --> 00:16:41.580
- Just just to be clear, sometimes people in maga say,
- 00:16:41.580 --> 00:16:44.383
- Oh, how dare you say it would be horrible?
- 00:16:44.383 --> 00:16:46.485
- That's not what cataclysmic means.
- 00:16:46.485 --> 00:16:47.953
- It means a fundamental change.
- 00:16:47.953 --> 00:16:49.688
- And i stand by it. i stand by it.
- 00:16:49.688 --> 00:16:52.024
- I think it really affected
- 00:16:52.024 --> 00:16:53.592
- The country more than 9/11 is tragic.
- 00:16:53.592 --> 00:16:55.727
- It that was i had a can i can i lapse into story mode?
- 00:16:55.727 --> 00:16:58.864
- Yeah. anytime.
- 00:16:58.864 --> 00:17:00.332
- I had a unique night on election night
- 00:17:00.332 --> 00:17:02.534
- Because i started at the clinton headquarters
- 00:17:02.534 --> 00:17:05.104
- And because of the way media assignments work or not
- 00:17:05.104 --> 00:17:07.673
- Headquarters, but victory party at the javits center,
- 00:17:07.673 --> 00:17:11.243
- Because the way, media assignments work
- 00:17:11.243 --> 00:17:12.978
- And because of the
- 00:17:12.978 --> 00:17:14.079
- Extraordinary security for a presidential candidate,
- 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:16.448
- I don't know that anybody else was both in
- 00:17:16.448 --> 00:17:20.085
- In all these places in the clinton victory party,
- 00:17:20.085 --> 00:17:23.355
- The clinton hotel, which she never left
- 00:17:24.189 --> 00:17:26.658
- Because she never went to a victory party.
- 00:17:26.658 --> 00:17:29.194
- The trump victory event
- 00:17:29.194 --> 00:17:31.697
- And on and also i was on colbert,
- 00:17:31.697 --> 00:17:33.966
- So i was going all around manhattan, whereas
- 00:17:33.966 --> 00:17:35.901
- Most people, you know, were in one location
- 00:17:35.901 --> 00:17:37.769
- Because of security and assignments.
- 00:17:37.769 --> 00:17:39.638
- And, so i went from colbert to the clinton hotel
- 00:17:39.638 --> 00:17:43.542
- And then to the trump victory party.
- 00:17:43.542 --> 00:17:45.444
- And because i knew secret service
- 00:17:45.444 --> 00:17:46.979
- And i knew trump folks, they got me in
- 00:17:46.979 --> 00:17:48.981
- Even though the building was locked down at that point.
- 00:17:48.981 --> 00:17:51.049
- And, it was just an incredible night
- 00:17:51.049 --> 00:17:53.452
- To go from the clinton place
- 00:17:53.452 --> 00:17:55.487
- Where they thought they were going to win
- 00:17:55.487 --> 00:17:56.755
- Until they realized they weren't,
- 00:17:56.755 --> 00:17:59.525
- And then and then they extreme emotion, positive
- 00:17:59.525 --> 00:18:02.227
- Emotion at the trump thing was it was an incredible night.
- 00:18:02.227 --> 00:18:04.963
- I wish i'd taken better notes.
- 00:18:04.963 --> 00:18:06.331
- I have a lot of notes, but i should have
- 00:18:06.331 --> 00:18:08.033
- I should have just had a gopro on, for the whole.
- 00:18:08.033 --> 00:18:10.536
- Yeah. you you were witness to history.
- 00:18:10.536 --> 00:18:12.471
- You really were.
- 00:18:12.471 --> 00:18:13.272
- Yeah.
- 00:18:13.272 --> 00:18:13.639
- And,
- 00:18:13.639 --> 00:18:14.806
- I mean, i'll never forget that night
- 00:18:14.806 --> 00:18:16.275
- I was in los angeles
- 00:18:16.275 --> 00:18:17.843
- At the time, and i was, i think my particular precinct.
- 00:18:17.843 --> 00:18:21.380
- I looked it up afterwards.
- 00:18:21.380 --> 00:18:22.447
- It was something like 16% of people
- 00:18:22.447 --> 00:18:24.850
- That i lived around voted for trump that night.
- 00:18:24.850 --> 00:18:27.186
- That many.
- 00:18:27.186 --> 00:18:27.819
- Yeah.
- 00:18:27.819 --> 00:18:29.021
- Oh, i was in the real red area of la, but higher than mine.
- 00:18:29.021 --> 00:18:31.523
- Higher than mine.
- 00:18:31.523 --> 00:18:32.224
- I think mine was 9%.
- 00:18:32.224 --> 00:18:33.692
- Oh, you're in dc at the right.
- 00:18:33.692 --> 00:18:35.227
- I was
- 00:18:35.227 --> 00:18:35.994
- While i was in dc living voting,
- 00:18:35.994 --> 00:18:37.462
- But i was actually also in new york for election night.
- 00:18:37.462 --> 00:18:40.566
- I was at that still.
- 00:18:40.566 --> 00:18:42.367
- It was still facebook at the time,
- 00:18:42.367 --> 00:18:43.735
- Their new york campus, they were having streams
- 00:18:43.735 --> 00:18:46.605
- And stuff on it.
- 00:18:46.605 --> 00:18:47.439
- So i was there with the daily caller
- 00:18:47.439 --> 00:18:49.541
- And then we went to the hillary victory party
- 00:18:49.541 --> 00:18:51.910
- As people were leaving an ice.
- 00:18:51.910 --> 00:18:53.779
- To this day, i have some interviews
- 00:18:53.779 --> 00:18:55.647
- On my phone with some of those people.
- 00:18:55.647 --> 00:18:57.049
- They were they were having a bad night.
- 00:18:57.049 --> 00:18:58.584
- Yeah. and it was i'll never forget it.
- 00:18:58.584 --> 00:19:01.019
- And they were like, they were like co bear.
- 00:19:01.019 --> 00:19:03.322
- Yeah, exactly.
- 00:19:03.322 --> 00:19:04.122
- You, you guys were like,
- 00:19:04.122 --> 00:19:05.958
- He'd brought out the old fashions.
- 00:19:05.958 --> 00:19:07.392
- I mean he was really
- 00:19:07.392 --> 00:19:08.427
- He was really up against it that night.
- 00:19:08.427 --> 00:19:10.562
- Mark, i want to turn our attention
- 00:19:10.562 --> 00:19:12.497
- To the last four minutes we have here to the iran deal.
- 00:19:12.497 --> 00:19:15.067
- I can't tell you speaking.
- 00:19:15.067 --> 00:19:17.803
- I can't tell you enough.
- 00:19:17.803 --> 00:19:18.937
- Speaking to students at turning point,
- 00:19:18.937 --> 00:19:20.772
- How much they want this war to be done with. and.
- 00:19:20.772 --> 00:19:23.375
- Yeah, i'm that.
- 00:19:23.375 --> 00:19:24.409
- This is why i sort of fundamentally disagree
- 00:19:24.409 --> 00:19:26.111
- With your earlier take.
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- I think the vibes are basically how the country
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- Is getting run now.
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- It's like how
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- Elections go is like vibes and if the vibes are good,
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- If gas is cheap, if there's progress being made,
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- If we're not focusing abroad, that could really have
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- Fundamental electoral consequence.
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- You tell us about the iran deal, though,
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- And what you think
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- Is really going on here and is how significant
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- Do you think this ultimately could be?
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- I'm not against vibes as part of election
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- Analysis at all.
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- I think vibes is a super important thing.
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- It's too soon to say whether this is going to be good,
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- All the way through november or sooner.
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- As voters
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- Start to think about it, they can vote for,
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- It almost certainly will bring down the price of gas.
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- I've got a theory, a working theory
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- Here, and nothing i've seen. today, i.
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- I woke up with the theory, and nothing i've seen today is
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- Move me off of it.
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- I think what trump realized is the economic pressure
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- Was not going to work before the midterms.
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- That iran, they miscalculated whether iran would give in
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- Because they couldn't sell oil, robustly
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- And because they were having overcapacity. and they could
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- They risk ruining their oil infrastructure.
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- I think they they realized they were about ten months off
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- In their prediction about that.
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- And so that meant there's no economic pressure
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- That will break their back before the midterms.
- 00:20:41.019 --> 00:20:42.888
- He had to bring down gas prices before then.
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- So get them to agree
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- To open the strait, drop the blockade, drop iran's,
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- Threats against ships, lower gas prices and then negotiate
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- Past the midterms, even though they claim 60 days
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- Between israel fighting with hezbollah,
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- Between iranian recalcitrance and and the difficulty
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- Of negotiating something like this,
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- I think the negotiations will go past the midterms.
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- That means gas prices will stay low.
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- There won't be any more kinetic activity
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- Of any significance beyond israel and hezbollah and that,
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- Then you can figure it out after the midterms,
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- When the pressure is somewhat off
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- To make sure that the war doesn't start back up.
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- And maybe at that point
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- He does start the war back up, or maybe at that point
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- He strikes a deal with iran
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- That he wouldn't
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- Risk striking now for fear of demoralizing the neocons.
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- So i was on this, call this morning.
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- It was, sort of on background call with senior.
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- Yeah, american officials that were involved in.
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- Were you on that same call, mark?
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- I was on a different call with,
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- I believe, the same officials.
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- All right.
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- So, well, this was officials anyways, they said,
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- Interestingly enough,
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- The nuclear aspect of the deal has been the easiest,
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- One of the easier parts, rather of the negotiations,
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- Because they basically realized that u.s.
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- Intelligence is so, adept that they can't
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- Start the nuclear program again and without us knowing.
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- And secondly, they need our help
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- To get the dust out anyways. right?
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- So technically, the expertise, the,
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- The, the, the resources to do that.
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- So the point is,
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- I think actually the most interesting
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- Part of this deal, you,
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- You referenced it is israel, hezbollah.
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- You see, mark levin is very skeptical of this deal.
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- And some of the hardliners tell it and one minute left
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- Break down that aspect of it for us.
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- Well, you're not going to get
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- Hezbollah to stop attacking israel, israel from responding.
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- That's just not going to happen.
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- So any if the deal is predicated
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- On a sustained ceasefire between those entities,
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- Forget it.
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- And of course, israel would be delighted
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- To scuttle the us-iran deal by having conflict
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- With iran, hezbollah for them, that's a twofer.
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- So i think i think it's the united reason.
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- You see the president criticizing netanyahu
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- Is to say to the iranians, i can't i can't control the guy.
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- He's not my guy anymore. he's doing what he wants to do.
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- So i think the question is going to be in iran's court
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- When the united states says we can't stop him,
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- And they say, you guys got to stop hezbollah.
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- Iran's going to say, well, i'm not i'm gonna i'm gonna
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- I think, i think it's either
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- Going to be everything or nothing.
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- Either ron's going to accept the fact
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- That they'll continue to be conflict
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- Between israel and hezbollah,
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- Or they'll scuttle the deal over it.
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- And that's going to be up to tehran for the most part.
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- I think that's good analysis.
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- Mark halperin, editor
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- In chief of two way tv and next up with megan kelly.
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- Check out both of those.
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- We'll see you guys tomorrow. until then.
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