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will finally be able to take a deep

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breath, except for the twenty four million of them

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who have COVID because of the government's horrible

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response. We're gonna be catching up on all of the news.

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Young Woman. So let's do this. People. Welcome

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Nor. Tomorrow,

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Joe Biden will be sworn in as the forty

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six presidents of what's left of the

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United States, although judging from

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the preparations, perhaps united isn't

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the right word for the country. Tonight,

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extraordinary security in the nation's capital,

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officials taking no chances, military

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reinforcements arriving by the playing

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load. National Guard troops

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coming from every corner of the US

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on every street, more fancy, more

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police, more troops facing with razor

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wire, barricades and checkpoints

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everywhere. Restrictions are on drones,

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helicopters patrolling this guys,

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and police boats scouring the Potomac

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River. More than twenty five thousand National

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Guard troops in the nation's capital, many

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already there and sleeping on cops.

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Biden planned to take the train from his home in

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Delaware to d C, but that trip

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has been canceled due to security concerns

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about his arrival at Union Station, just

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blocks from the capital. Oh

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Man, Poor Joe Biden. He

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loves trains, but security is so tight

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that they won't let him ride one. And it makes sense.

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Trains are the worst way to get your new president

2:00

inauguration because, forget terrorists, Biden

2:02

could get hurt just from a guy trying to carry

2:04

boiling coffee down the aisle. Also,

2:08

it's so easy to plan a train

2:10

attack because a train can't

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change cost. We all know where it's going. Does

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a track. If a train leaves Delaware for d

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C at nine am and it travels at eighty

2:18

miles, well we know it's gonna

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get to d C. It'll

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get there. And this just shows

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you how divided America is right now.

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It's even having trouble transitioning power

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from an old white guy to an old

2:32

white guy. Security wasn't even this title

2:34

when the president was about to be black. Now.

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Of course, the reason for all the security is

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that no one wants to repeat of January

2:41

six, when a mob of the world's angriest

2:43

aunts and uncles attacked the Capitol

2:45

Building. And we all watched the riots live

2:47

on the news that day. But as time goes on, we're

2:50

finding out that the situation was even

2:52

crazier than we thought.

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A few details tonight show just how

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close the violent bar got to the Vice

3:00

president and his family. As

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the mob chanted hang Mike Pence and

3:06

a makeshift gallows went up, the Vice

3:08

President, his wife, and daughter were just

3:10

seconds away from being spotted. According

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to the Washington Post. At one point,

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they were hiding less than a hundred feet

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from the violent crowd attacking

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police officers, journalists, and others.

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And the chilling search for speaker

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Nancy Pelosi

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inside the Senate Chamber insurrection

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were Nancy

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blo You

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know, I used to blame lawmakers

3:52

for not getting anything done. But now I'm

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starting to think that maybe it's the Capital Building

3:56

that jams up Congress, because did

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you see this mob. They came in with the goal to

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overthrow the government, but then once they got

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in, they were like, yeah, let's throw

4:05

this thing. You know what, maybe we should vote

4:07

on something. I don't know. Let's actually,

4:09

guys, let's adjourn for the day. We'll come back

4:12

tomorrow. And we couldn't get anything done.

4:14

And if you didn't believe it before, this is how you

4:17

really know that Trump's supporters are

4:19

a cult because they wanted

4:21

to hang Mike Pence

4:23

for finally accepting the election results.

4:26

Mike Pence, people, no one

4:28

has been more loyal to Trump than Mike

4:30

Pence. While Trump was screwing America

4:33

over the last four years, Mike Pence was gently

4:35

guiding his hips from behind. Now you're calling

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him a traitor Mike Pence,

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And I know people don't like him, but I, for one, am

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really glad that this mob didn't hurt

4:45

Mike Pence because I think we could all agree that

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no one should have to die a virgin. Now,

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since that day, the FBI has rounded

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up over a hundred and thirty people so far

4:55

for taking part in the assault on the Capitol. And

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if you're wondering, how on earth did they find

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all these people, well, it turns up it was

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all on the ground. The man posing

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beneath the sign above Nancy Pelosi's

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office is a fire fire from Florida,

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Andy Williams. We're all trying to get into

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the capital to stop this. A corporate

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lawyer from Dallas, Paul Davis, posted

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this video and was quickly identified

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by his boss, Nicholas Rodin wore

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his work I D badge around

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his neck. This man posted a Sylphie

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smoking a cigarette with the caption Hello

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from the Capital l O L. The man

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who put his feet up on Nancy Pelosi's desk

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is sixty year old Richard Barnett,

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known as Big Oh Days

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here and

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this fellow, Dereck Evans, live

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streamed the moment he and other members

5:45

of the mob broke into the Capitol.

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The Capitol. No,

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guys, guys, you can't be serious. Hasn't

5:54

really gotten this bed that social media has

5:56

poisoned us to the point where we're gonna live stream

5:58

our treason out of how some mega

6:00

people were like, this is our seventeen

6:02

seventies six. Yeah, guys, you didn't see

6:04

George Washington crossing the Delaware like I

6:06

do, declare selfe I

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will say, though, this is an argument

6:11

for defunding the police, because you don't need billions

6:13

of dollars for detectives when you can find criminals

6:16

just by scrolling your Instagram discover page.

6:18

So, after four years, President Trump is spending

6:21

his last days in power, like many tin part dictators,

6:23

convincing his most rabbit fans to keep fighting

6:25

for a lost cause while he hides in

6:27

a bunker somewhere. But whether you hate

6:29

Trump or whether you just mildly dislike

6:32

him, you have to admit a few things

6:34

about this man. Number One, he has

6:36

changed American politics forever.

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For starters, the red phone in the Oval Office

6:41

will always call McDonald's instead

6:43

of the Pentagon. That's not going to change. Also,

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he's completely dropped the bar for presidential

6:48

behavior. I mean, in ten years of president

6:50

could pee in the middle of a press conference and everyone will

6:52

just be like, huh, I guess he just had

6:55

to go. Also, you gotta admit that

6:57

Trump from the time he ran for

7:00

residents, he's been consistent.

7:02

You know, the victimhood and the racial resentment

7:05

that came down that escalator, Well,

7:07

those are the same that ended up at the capital in

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January six. And because

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Trump has been so consistently bad,

7:14

because he's been so consistent at being himself,

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he's exposed how bullshit

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so many other people are. For instance,

7:21

Fox News, they spent all of

7:24

screaming that blue lives matter.

7:27

The way Fox News defended police during

7:29

the George Floyd protests, you would have thought that opposing

7:31

police brutality was the same thing as

7:34

killing police. But then when

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their people stormed the Capitol and police

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that the Capitol were beaten and actually killed.

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Two officers were actually killed. All

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of a sudden, Fox News is saying this,

7:46

These are not conspiracy theorists motivated

7:48

just by lies. That's a bunch of nonsense

7:50

that people want to tell us. These are people that understand

7:52

first principles. They love freedom and they love free

7:54

markets, and they see exactly what

7:57

the anti American left has done to American So

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many of them patriotic, well loving

8:01

Americans who are frustrated that their

8:03

institutions of government of media

8:06

have let them down. A lot of these people are not dispossessed

8:09

They're not some you know, creepy androgynous

8:12

blogger who shows up to burn things down. They're

8:14

like kind of solid Americans. I

8:17

get it now. These people weren't

8:19

creepy bloggers. They were solid, law

8:21

abiding Americans. And nobody is allowed

8:23

to kill cops except for the people

8:26

who respect cops. They can do whatever

8:28

they want. Also, where the

8:30

hell did they love free markets

8:32

come from? Free markets?

8:35

I wasn't picking that up when people were smashing

8:37

windows and breaking the capital down like free

8:40

markets, free markets or not something that drives a riot.

8:42

No one's ever slept someone over a free market before,

8:44

much less murdered the police officer. Look,

8:47

man, the point is, you guys clearly don't care about

8:49

cops. You only care about the idea of using

8:51

cops to keep black people in their place.

8:54

So please miss me with that

8:56

bullshit. Also, Lindsey

8:58

Graham, whether you're rural conservative,

9:00

everyone should agree that this asshole, this cracker

9:03

barrel mascot is a weasel at the worst

9:05

weasel of any kind. Because after the Capitol was stormed,

9:08

after the Capital of stormed and it looked like Trump

9:10

was done, he gave a big speech about how

9:12

he was done, supporting Trump because Trump

9:15

took it too far. He just took

9:17

things too far. Oh no. But

9:19

then the next week he was suddenly flying on

9:21

Air Force one again because he realized Trump wasn't

9:23

out. And then he started blaming the attack

9:25

on the Democrats. Senator Lindsey

9:27

Graham placing blame for the Capitol Hell riot

9:30

on how Speaker Nancy Pelosi watched

9:32

this. What happened on January the six

9:34

was one of the low points in my time in

9:37

office. It was horrendous to

9:39

see people come and take over

9:41

the Capitol, the House and the Senate

9:44

beat officers, defiled the seat

9:46

of government. How the hell could that happen?

9:48

Where was Nancy Pelosi? It's her job to

9:51

provide capital security? Yeah,

9:53

Nancy, Why weren't you in your

9:55

office when people were coming to kidnap

9:58

or kill you? What were you hiding

10:00

yourself? We got you, Nancy,

10:03

We got you. What did Lindsey

10:05

Graham expect Nancy Pelosi to do?

10:07

Huh? Set up booby traps in the

10:09

capital like an old age home alone? Please

10:13

please miss me with this bullshit.

10:16

And the social goes out to all those Republicans who

10:19

spent four years backing a president who

10:21

called his opponents, an Americans and enemies

10:24

of the people. But now now

10:26

that he's getting impaged and might be held accountable,

10:29

oh, all of a sudden, it's time

10:31

to move on. Today is a moment from

10:33

members of Congress to put aside partisan

10:35

politicking and place people over

10:38

power. We should be focused on bringing the nation

10:40

together. We must be bigger and better than

10:42

the most base of instincts that have been

10:44

driving our political discourse. It

10:46

is destroying us. Let's

10:49

link arms with one another and begin

10:51

to heal. Does not matter

10:54

if you are liberal, moderate, or

10:56

conservative. All of us

10:58

must resist the temptation and the further

11:01

polarization. There's history shows

11:03

unity is not an option, It's

11:05

a necessity. Okay. I

11:08

don't know what crazy ass world you people

11:10

grew up in, but how are you going to start

11:12

a fight and then tell everyone else to

11:14

calm down? Can you imagine if

11:16

a terrorist try to hijack a plane and then after

11:18

the marshall tackled him, he says, Okay, okay,

11:20

I think everyone needs to calm down. Let's

11:23

just come together and watch the rest

11:25

of crudes. All right, let's

11:27

just do this together. I'm gonna have the chicken.

11:30

Thank you. Sh the movie,

11:34

all these people who try to overthrow

11:36

the government. Yo, they can miss

11:39

me with that bullshit. And it's

11:41

not just Fox, it's not just Republicans.

11:43

Social media companies. For years,

11:46

people have been warning you about the violence

11:48

and conspiracy that you've been amplifying

11:51

and allowing to spread on your platforms.

11:53

And for years you've said you can't

11:55

do anything about it. But now

11:57

that the capital has been ransacked, now

11:59

all of us, it turns out you can. Now

12:01

that the violence has happened, we're gonna do everything

12:04

we can to stop the violence from happening.

12:06

I mean, I don't know if I'm the only one, but I think it's

12:08

really funny how social media companies said that

12:10

they don't have a magic button to stop

12:13

hate online, but then when Trump

12:15

lost, suddenly they were like, oh, we do have

12:17

that button here it is, so what

12:20

now these companies want a cookie for doing the right

12:22

thing? Too late, miss me with that bullshit.

12:25

I will say though, it was funny that random

12:27

apps that had nothing to do with Trump

12:30

also decided to pile on the Trump band, Like

12:33

when Spotify and Pinterest band

12:35

donald Trump. What was that for? What Spotify

12:37

think that Trump was going to release a mixtape. What's the

12:39

Printer's band for? It's Trump gonna put up border

12:41

wall images on his page. Although

12:44

it would be funny if Spotify was

12:46

actually the thing that broke Donald Trump's hearts,

12:49

like if he was just sitting there, like, I don't care

12:51

to day block my Twitter or my Instagram

12:54

or Facebook. I've still got my

12:56

Spotify. A

13:00

man, here's the thing. By this time

13:02

tomorrow, Donald Trump will be out of power,

13:04

and I just hope, I hope that he

13:07

slowly fades away like one of his tans,

13:09

and I know that he'll never fully be gone, all right,

13:12

He's basically the COVID of politics. America is

13:14

going to be experiencing side effects long after he's

13:16

out of the system, and unfortunately,

13:18

we're probably gonna see mutated strains

13:20

as well. But I do hope

13:23

that with him at least not being president, we

13:25

can all get back to being a bit more honest

13:27

with each other and more nuanced

13:29

and how we talk about what divides us. That's

13:32

my wish for the next year, because I don't know what is

13:35

going to bring, but if it involves any bullshit,

13:38

I kindly request that I be

13:40

missed. All right, when we come

13:42

back. We'll take a look at all the amazing

13:45

thing Jared and Ivanka accomplished

13:47

in office, and Carrie Mulligan is

13:49

still joining us on the show. Don't go Away.

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Welcome back to the Daily Social Distancing

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Show. The four years of the Trump

13:58

administration has been one bloopermontage

14:01

of scandals. We've had everything

14:04

from kids and cages to a shoppy

14:06

on a hurricane map. And in the very

14:08

last week, the administration, believe it or

14:10

not, has managed to squeeze in what might

14:13

be the funniest scandal yet. Ivanka

14:15

Trump and husband Derek Kushner reportedly instructed

14:17

their secret service detail not to use

14:20

any of the bathrooms in their Washington

14:22

home the Washington Process since taxpayers

14:25

have been footing the bill to rent a nearby

14:27

studio apartment for three thousand

14:29

dollars a month so agents can have access

14:32

to a toilet. Okay, now, before you judge

14:34

these two, keep in mind that Ivanka

14:36

and Jared probably have really

14:38

weird bathrooms. I mean, look at

14:40

them. They don't even look like they use toilets,

14:43

you know. And when Jared has to go, Ivanka

14:46

probably just squeezes him like an old tube

14:48

of toothpaste. Maybe

14:50

the reason they did this is not because they're snooty

14:52

and snobbish. Maybe they did it because they want to

14:54

protect the Secret Service. Do you ever think about that? Huh?

14:57

Like, maybe maybe Ivanka takes mega

14:59

dumps you know what I'm talking about.

15:01

You know those dumps where you walk into the bathroom and

15:03

it's like a wall of smell pushes you back out. Yeah,

15:08

maybe Ivanka and Jared were like, look, your

15:10

Secret Service agents might need to take a bullet

15:12

for us one day. There's no need to take one every

15:14

day. Just use the apartments. Let's say

15:17

what you want about Jared and Ivanka. The

15:19

two of them have been loyal to their

15:21

big Papa to the end, which

15:23

is why they deserve a farewell

15:25

tribute for their four years of

15:29

whatever it is that they did. Who

15:31

has been the most valuable member of

15:33

the Trump team? Sean Hannity,

15:37

The my pillow guy Milani

15:39

has noise canceling headphones. Actually,

15:42

that's a trick question. The

15:44

most important person in the Trump administration

15:47

isn't one person. It's a couple.

15:50

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.

15:53

No credentials necessary,

15:59

Jared and Ivanka or jar Vanka

16:01

might have been Washington outsiders when Trump

16:03

won the election, but they've had a world

16:06

of experience serving every day

16:08

Americans. Avanka sold

16:10

them handbags and Jared evicted

16:12

them. Trump knew that

16:15

jar Vanka was the couple for the job, any

16:17

job. Ivanka became Advisor

16:20

to the President, an important role

16:22

in which she was tasked with advising

16:25

the president. Jared

16:27

meanwhile had a bit more on his plate. Middle

16:30

East peace, criminal justice, reformed the opioid

16:32

crisis, reforming care for veterans, lead

16:34

adviser on relations with China, Mexico, Catinet,

16:36

middle East infrastructure trade deals, broadband

16:38

policy, and border wall construction. That's

16:41

right, Jared Kushner was like a Swiss army

16:43

knut if all the tools were nail clippers.

16:47

Though Jarvanka didn't get off to the smoothest

16:49

start in the world. Ivanka tried to use

16:52

her new position to hawk jewelry, while Jared

16:54

had to redo his financial disclosure forms

16:56

more than forty times. The President

16:58

even had to bend rules to get Jared

17:01

and Ivanka their security clearances

17:03

just because the corrupt deep state FBI

17:05

were jealous of all the cool foreign

17:07

business contacts Jared's had over the

17:09

years. But despite the odds

17:11

stacked against them, Jared and Ivanka

17:14

took Washington by storm.

17:18

Did they have relevant experience No?

17:21

Were they qualified for their positions? No?

17:25

But what did they accomplish?

17:27

Yes? They

17:30

hit the ground running. Jared got

17:32

busy solving America's criminal just opioid,

17:34

Middle Eastern China, Max Canada, Wall

17:36

and Ivanka toured factories,

17:39

visited spaceships, and even

17:42

performed science stuff. It's

17:44

like that old saying picks and it

17:46

didn't happen. But

17:48

it was on foreign affairs that Ravanka

17:50

really scored. Jared

17:52

jetted off to Iraq to model the latest

17:55

from the Brooks Brothers Forever War collection.

17:58

He heroically preserved U S. Saudi Arabia

18:00

relations after they had a little oopsie with

18:02

an American journalist, and he turned

18:04

out to be the perfect person to solve

18:06

the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

18:09

I'm want to read you what he said. I've been studying

18:11

those now for three years. I've read twenty

18:13

five books on that's right, twenty

18:15

five books. Kushner had acquired

18:18

a goose Bump series worth of knowledge

18:20

and he was ready to put it to use. Meanwhile,

18:23

Ivanka, she sat

18:25

in her dad's chair at a G twenty summit.

18:27

So that's fine. Jarravanka

18:30

did such a good job that in President

18:32

Trump gave Jared his most important

18:35

job yet overseeing the government's

18:37

response to the coronavirus pandemic,

18:39

and Jared was ready to claim victory almost

18:42

immediately. I think you'll see by June a lot of

18:44

the country should be back to normal, and the hope is

18:46

that by by July the country's

18:48

really rock and again. But

18:53

there was one issue where jare Vanka really

18:55

shined, and that issue was

18:58

themselves and brand new questions

19:00

today about Jared Kushner's real estate

19:02

dealing. The last summer his property

19:05

at six six six fifth, that avenue got

19:07

a much needed infusion of cash, But where

19:09

did it come from? China on April six

19:11

approved Ivanka Trump's patenting

19:14

for all of her brands to be sold in China, the

19:16

very day that she was having dinner wining

19:19

and dining with the Chinese President, edmar

19:21

Alaga. Ivanka particularly is

19:23

making millions and millions of dollars

19:25

while she's in office. That Jared

19:28

continues to oversee

19:30

his real estate entities, so they are

19:32

profiting, they're leveraging the presidency

19:34

so that they can get richer and richer, and

19:37

to think people say they have nothing to

19:39

show. For the last four years, Jared

19:41

and Nevanka did more for jaredy Nevanka

19:43

than any Jared and Evanka in history.

19:46

And when the haters tried to blame Ivanka

19:48

for whitewashing her dad's more controversial

19:51

policies, she had the perfect

19:53

reply. If being complacit

19:57

is wanting

19:59

to is

20:03

wanting to be a force for good

20:06

and to make a positive impact, then

20:09

I'm complicit. You see two

20:11

A Vanka definitions of words

20:13

are like tax laws, They're just suggestions.

20:18

Where dare Vanka end up after the White Houses

20:21

anyone's guests. Will they settle

20:23

into a beachside resort in Florida, the

20:25

family Villa, New Jersey, or perhaps

20:27

an island retreat on the coast of Manhattan.

20:30

Wherever they go, they will be taking

20:32

with them four years of being

20:34

in the White House and saying things

20:37

and going places and other

20:39

government he things. Jared

20:42

and I Vanka, we thank you

20:44

for your service whatever,

20:46

it was truly

20:50

inspiring. All right, when we come back,

20:52

I'll be talking to Carrie Mulligan about

20:54

her new movie, which has everyone

20:56

Talking stick Around. Welcome

21:00

back to the Daily Social Distancing Show. Earlier

21:03

today I spoke with Academy Award nominated

21:06

actor Carrie Mulligan. We talked

21:08

about her new film about female power

21:10

and Revenge that she executive producers

21:12

and stars in. Check it out. Carrie

21:15

Mulligan, Welcome to the Daily Social Distancing

21:18

Show. Hi,

21:20

how are you doing. I'm doing as

21:22

good as can be expected considering everything

21:24

that's happening in the world. The question is how are you doing? Because

21:27

you're in the UK right now and you

21:29

have the new variant of Corona

21:31

out there that's just shutting everything down. So how are

21:33

you doing? And how is everybody around you? Yeah,

21:35

it's um. You know, I think we'll

21:37

anticipated a something getting

21:40

worse for a little bit before we got better. But it's obviously

21:42

we're in lockdown, so we're all home schooling

21:45

and feels like we you

21:47

know, the beginning of March last year. So

21:50

you know, we're great, very lucky. We live

21:52

in the country so we've got space. I

21:54

feel like in the hierarchy of things,

21:56

people have said, you know, essential workers, it's

21:59

the people helping to keep everybody alive.

22:02

It's the people who are providing food and keeping grocery

22:04

stores open, and because the teachers who are still out

22:06

there trying to educate kids through through some

22:08

of the toughest times we've ever experienced. After

22:11

all of that, my top thing is

22:13

anyone who comes out with a good movie

22:16

during the pandemic. I'm so excited

22:19

when a new movie comes out that's

22:21

actually amazing, and that is

22:23

what you have given us with Promising

22:26

Young Woman. I will say, though I

22:29

was shocked at how dark and

22:31

yet funny it is. Am I allowed

22:33

to even feel that? Oh yeah,

22:35

I mean, you know, it's very much kind of

22:37

written as a dark, very dark

22:39

comedy, and it's full of comedians. The whole

22:42

cast is pretty much everyone apart

22:44

from Connie Britton and I

22:46

are kind of people who are very comfortable

22:48

in comedy. So it was definitely

22:51

yeah. And then that sort of part of what I

22:53

think the shame is, you know, it's such a

22:56

small think by comparison to the world events,

22:58

but the loss of having that experience,

23:00

you know, for a lot of people in the cinema, of being around

23:03

other people. It's sort of in these very dark comedies.

23:05

I think it's an audience around you that gives

23:07

you permission to laugh in moments

23:09

where you're not sure if you can laugh, and that's kind

23:11

of part of the tension and release of a film like that.

23:14

As a comedian, I think

23:16

most of the comedians will agree with me and saying that if

23:18

you say comedy and sexual assault, everyone

23:21

pauses. We go like, I don't know, I'm

23:23

gonna I'll talk about escalators first, and I'll

23:25

try and get to that. What made

23:27

you think that you could be part of making a film

23:30

that used comedy as a tool

23:32

to discuss one of the issues that has

23:35

I mean from the Me Too movement

23:37

and even before that's been one of the most important

23:39

conversations to have in society.

23:41

Well, it was really the strength of the writing

23:44

and meeting Emerald Finel, who

23:46

was our director. You know, the hardest

23:48

things in life we often can

23:50

only get through by using humor.

23:53

You know, some moments of your life that are completely tragic

23:55

are marked by moments of you know,

23:57

kind of comedy and hysterical giggling. The

24:00

kind of part of you that wants to laugh

24:02

at a funeral because you just don't know how to cope with your

24:05

It feels very much like life, and I think the

24:07

main thing with this story is that it's

24:10

not a fantasy. It's it's based

24:12

on experiences that so many of us

24:14

know people who have been through them, and

24:17

trying to be honest about that, but also recognizing

24:19

that there are that if you want to talk

24:21

about this kind of stuff and you want people to think about this kind

24:23

of stuff, you know, there

24:25

are ways of doing it that entice

24:27

an audience. You know, this is a film that I think

24:30

you want to see, as opposed to one that you feel

24:32

like you should see. You play a

24:34

character who whose friend

24:37

is the victim of a childhood friend really is the victim

24:39

of sexual assault, and it

24:42

it leads us into a story of revenge

24:45

and justice. Really, do you think

24:47

there's a sense of catharsis that that was

24:49

intended in writing the script? Is it?

24:51

Is it meant in some ways to be the

24:53

movie for people who say, like, you know what, I've

24:55

experienced this, I've had a friend who's experienced this, and

24:57

this this helps me feel a different

25:00

way about it or see my feelings from a different point of view.

25:03

I mean, definitely from talking

25:05

to people, um, they've

25:07

you know, there's been a sense of catharsis. I think also

25:10

just like you know, for me

25:12

smashing up a car, what

25:14

do you see? It's

25:17

really fun and it definitely

25:19

helps. But I think, you know, I mean,

25:22

if if that's people's experience, I think that's you

25:25

know, that's great. But I think the

25:27

conversation I think that Emerald was sort of hoping

25:29

to create would be something that went further

25:32

into the kind of cultural conversation and

25:34

that you know, these situations that

25:36

happened in our film have happened in so many

25:39

comedies, bro comedies, you know, films

25:42

where a guy will try and lose

25:44

his virginity in a nightclub any

25:47

expense, or you know, try and identify

25:49

the most drunk girl or you know, so these are things that we've

25:51

watched and we've kind of laughed at and has been so

25:53

normalized in our culture for so long. So

25:56

it's not so much as sort of

25:58

of course, it touches on that, but it's not so much pointing

26:01

blame or sort of assigning people villainous

26:04

roles. It's more how have we all been complicit

26:06

in this? It does give people an opportunity

26:08

to sort of experience this stuff through a different lens

26:11

because we're so used to seeing this kind of stuff told

26:13

from the perspective of the boy

26:15

or the man, or you know, get

26:18

through, you know, the perspective

26:20

of the very drunk girl in the corner, except

26:22

in this situation, she's actually stone cold, sober.

26:25

You know, we we've we've been taught

26:27

to believe that somebody who has classically

26:30

unattractive features is going to be the bad guy,

26:32

or someone who looks menacing acts menacing.

26:35

And in this movie, what was really fantastic is

26:37

seeing nice guys, good

26:40

guys being the bad guys, seeing

26:42

the good guys doing the bad things. That was a

26:44

really interesting choice, not just in the characters, but in

26:47

the casting as well, because I mean, you're

26:49

seeing Bob Burnham in this movie and you're like, I

26:51

love Bob Burnham. And then I watched the movie. I was like, I don't

26:53

know if I like Bob Burnham. That's

26:55

a really it's a really interesting way to tell

26:57

a story, and it seems like it's it's a it's a or

27:00

tenants of what the story is about. Why

27:02

do you think that was so important? Yeah,

27:04

well it was all very intentional. I think, you know,

27:07

Emerald wanted people that we feel comfortable

27:10

with and that we have a sort of sense of nostalgia

27:12

about because you know, I think if you see

27:14

somebody who looks sort of inherently villainous and new

27:16

associating with playing the value in a bunch of films

27:18

like you immediately distrust him. And I think the

27:20

point about this was that you would enter into

27:22

one of these situations and feel comfortable

27:25

momentarily with this person, and you'd

27:27

feel safe. And it goes to the cast Connie

27:29

Britton as the Dean. This is someone that you

27:31

know, Connie's like everyone's favorite

27:34

person, and you would go to her if you were

27:36

in a crisis, and so I think, you

27:38

know, subverting our expectations around that stuff

27:40

was really important. And also the way the Emerald

27:42

directed and was so brilliant because you told each of

27:45

the men Adam Brody and Sam

27:47

Richardson and at the beginning

27:49

of the scene, no, this is this is a romantic

27:51

comedy and you're the lead. You know, you've you've

27:53

just met the love of your life.

27:56

So they were all entering into it with a sort of

27:58

amazing, earnest, committed

28:01

kind of I'm the hero here and I'm

28:03

going to save this girl. You know, it's the approach

28:06

I think It highlights what it

28:08

feels like when this is

28:10

not happening to someone that you that you don't

28:12

like, where you don't know is this is what it feels

28:15

like? You know what, It's a very different situation

28:17

if someone you know gets accused of something like this.

28:19

So casting these very kind of photogenic,

28:23

sweet lovely people that are genuinely

28:25

lovely in real life, I think puts a different

28:28

twist on that. I will say it's

28:30

a It is dark, it is thrilling,

28:32

and it is funny in moments where you you genuinely

28:35

do not expect it to be. But most importantly,

28:37

it's easily the best film of the year. I know the

28:39

year just began, but it's still going

28:41

to be one of the best films of the year. Thank you so much for joining

28:44

us on the show. And congratulations once

28:46

again, thank you so much. Thanks

28:48

for having me. Don't forget promising

28:50

Young Woman is in theaters and available

28:52

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