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Biking to kemil voters can

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make midterms about gun control Brian

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Bennett. Jimmy

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Kimmel had trouble hiding his frustration

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on Wednesday as he spoke with the most

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powerful man in the Free World about

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why he couldn't get anything done

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on God's the comedian and late-night

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host channel. The feelings

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of many Americans as he interviewed

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Joe Biden in one of the longest, on the

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camera conversations of Biden's presidency,

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kimmel pointed to the lack of federal action

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following gruesome shootings and uvalde

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texas and buffalo new york

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and pressed biden on why he hasn't

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done more to curb access to

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semi automatic weapons titans

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predecessor donald trump handed

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out executive orders like halloween candy

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chemotherapy biden said

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he didn't want to push the constitutional limits

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on presidential power like trump dead

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when i don't want to do and i'm

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not being facetious is i don't want

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to emulate trump's abuse of the constitution

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and constitutional authority biden

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said i often get asked well

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the republicans don't play at square why do you

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play at square well guess

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what the president continued if

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we do the same thing they do our democracy

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will literally be in jeopardy biden

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suggested that voters frustrated with

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the lack of movement on the issue need

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to make clear to candidates that their vote

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this year will be contingent on their

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position on gun control you

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gotta make sure this becomes a voting issue

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biden said and ,

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gun legislation has it been showing

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up as a top issue for americans biden

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was saying it really has to become

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a number one voting issue for anything to

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change says lauren right

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says political scientist at princeton and

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an expert on presidential message even

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if there's a marginal change among

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democrats i think it is

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really helpful for presidents to

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try to go to these types of media environments

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to get their messages in

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recent weeks biden has continued

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to press his goal of reinstating

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the expired nineteen ninety four assault

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weapons ban but current negotiations

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between senate democrats and republicans

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are focused on more modest steps

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such as tightening background checks

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and encouraging states to pass red

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flag laws biden blamed

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the lack of action on intimidation

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by the national rifle association and

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the geo peace hard right turn

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in recent years this is not

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your father's republican party biden

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said adding that he believed senate

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minority leader mitch mcconnell was limited

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on how much he could work with biden by

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the radical shift in his own party the

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leader of a party that has moved hard

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right along with gun control

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the white house is gearing up to motivate voters

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on abortion access if the supreme

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court overturned the protections provided

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under roe v wade later this month the

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justices follow through with the decision

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as expected biden said

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they are going to cause a many revolution

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there were going to vote a lotta folks out

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of office you've gotta make sure

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you vote let people know exactly

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what the devil you think biden said

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biden was in los angeles california

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to meet with leaders from countries in the western

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hemisphere flashing his folksy

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smile and talking about his family biden

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helped to use kimmel states to reach a broader

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audience of americans who aren't glued

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to cable news shows late night

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television shows provide a much friendlier

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environment for presidents and

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they typically get a larger audience

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right says right and tried

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to show that his presidency can count some accomplishments

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he touted as economic growth in the us

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as outpaced other countries over the past

3:44

year and how the deficit has shrunk

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by one point seven trillion dollars

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since he came to office the laid

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out things he's gotten done to reduce carbon

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emissions like encouraging us

3:55

manufacturers to move to making more

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electric cars this

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is the united states of america we can

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do things i mean it biden said

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the inflation biden said is the bane

4:06

before launching into an explanation of legislation

4:09

he wants congress to pass that he said would

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make some aspects of american life

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cheaper like prescription

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drugs and childcare to

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offset the increase costs of gas

4:20

and food the president acknowledged

4:23

that he's faced challenges within his

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own party to getting more of his

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agenda past particularly in

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the evenly split senate where democrats

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can usually only pass measures when

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their caucus is united and

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vice president kamala harris serves

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as a tie breaker

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Biking has struggled to convince West Virginia,

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senator, Joe manchin to go along with his more

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ambitious, proposals to reduce Reliance

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on fossil fuels and Arizona.

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Senator kyrsten, Sinema has balked at

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his efforts to increase taxes on

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corporations and the wealthy. got

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81 million votes more than anybody has

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ever gotten thank you for those who help

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me. But what happens Jimmy, is we still

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ended up with 50 Cent biden

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which means that we have fifty

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presidents looming on the set

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of the discussion. was the violent attempt

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on january sixth twenty twenty one

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to overturn bidens when over trump's

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that is the subject of a prime time congressional

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hearing on thursday night the

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camel nor biden brought it up the

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white house doesn't plan for biden the make use

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of his megaphone during the hearings and

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is keeping the president's role that an arm's

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length to avoid accusations of political

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interference in the investigation of

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a former president the

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president is probably well aware

5:38

that these other in your face issues

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like inflation and guns our own

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people's minds in particular right now right

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says at one point in their conversation

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kimmel said biden and the democrats appears

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to be playing by the rules of a

5:53

game that trump and republicans

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had decided to ignore it's

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like you were playing monopoly with somebody

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who won't pass go won't follow

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any of the rules chemist at how

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will you make any progress if they

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aren't following any of the rules

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biden and leaned forward and joked we

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got to send them to jail that little

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