Jordan Klepper Shows Trump Supporters January 6th Hearing Clips
by Jordan Klepper
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Jun 23, 2022
Jordan Klepper heads to a Mississippi rally to figure out if the January 6th hearings are enough to break the MAGA bubble surrounding Trump supporters. #DailyShow #Comedy
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- Last weekend, the Trump Freedom Tour,
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comprised of Don, his son, and a caravan of folks
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looking for book deals, headed to Mississippi.
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And I was curious, who was shelling out
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the 9 to $4,000 for a ticket to see the show.
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Much of the country was watching the revelations
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coming out of the January 6th hearings.
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And surely, these politically engaged folks
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were also tuned in.
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Have you guys been watching the January 6th hearings?
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- Um, no.
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- Have you watched any of the January 6th hearings?
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- Not really, I had a ___ and change of phones, but-
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- You had to what?
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- I changed phones.
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- Are you watching them? -
No, sir.
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- No, why not?
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- Well, A, time.
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- You don't have time to watch a two hour hearing?
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- Yeah. - Not at all.
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- How long are you here today?
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- Until five.
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- Until five, which is, you got here at?
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- I got here at seven.
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- Seven, which makes it 10 hours.
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- Right.
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- But the two hour hearing, who's got time for that shit?
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(inquisitive music) Most were paying no attention,
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and yet, there were some paying even less attention.
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What about what happened on January 6th?
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What do you think, what happened there?
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- I don't really know what happened on January 6th.
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- January 6th, the-
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- The election day?
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- No, election day was back in November.
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Do you-
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- I don't even know what-
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- Do you know about January 6th?
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- No.
- So when I say
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January 6th, that means just-
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- Nothing, I don't know.
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- That's just a day to you.
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- Yeah.
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- Did you hear about the insurrection attempt
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at the capitol?
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- [Both] No.
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(inquisitive music) - For almost everyone here,
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insurrectioning was a non-issue.
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It was the hearings themselves that were the problem.
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- I think it's an abomination.
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- [Interviewee] It's just McCarthyism, it's a witch trial.
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- It's a witch hunt.
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- Eh, it is.
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It absolutely is.
- Yeah, it's like a mob
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of people coming together with pitchforks.
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- Yeah.
- Saying, we can't
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have that.
- Yeah, with an agenda.
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Here's the narrative we're pushing
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and that's all we're pushing, is our narrative.
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- A mob of people with an agenda pushing an agenda,
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that can't stand in America.
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- No.
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- We should have an investigation about a mob of people.
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- We should.
- Everybody would watch that.
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- Yeah, absolutely.
- Yes.
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- Nancy Pelosi.
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She is very responsible for what went on then.
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She planned it.
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- She planned what happened?
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- I believe so.
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- Why did she plan to get attacked
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by a mob of Trump supporters?
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- Because she wanted to be able to blame it
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on the Trump supporters
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and have something bad to say about 'em.
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- Shouldn't we investigate that?
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- Yes.
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- So, you must be watching the January 6th committee.
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- (scoffing) No.
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- So what was it
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people were watching?
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- "2000 Mules" came out and it showed a lot of stuff.
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- You've got "2000 Mules".
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- And then this movie, "2000 Mules."
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- "2000 Mules"?
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- Yes.
- "2000 Mules" is a
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documentary by Dinesh D'Souza,
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claiming massive voter fraud based on some cell phone data
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and surveillance footage that's been lauded by Trump,
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laughed at by Bill Barr, discredited by fact-checkers
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and banned from even right wing media
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because of its unfounded claims.
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- You notice, you turn on Fox News,
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they have never mentioned that movie once.
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Somebody's pulling the strings.
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- Who do you think it is?
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- It may be Obama.
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- (laughing) You think Obama's
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pulling the strings, Obama-
- Or it could be George Soros.
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- You think it's possible that Fox News
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doesn't mention "2000 Mules",
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your theory, there's a giant conspiracy up on top
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in which they don't do it.
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Or the second theory is that movie's not credible.
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- I know the movie's credible.
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- Maybe sharing
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some of the committee's findings would break
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through this MAGA bubble.
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Rudy Giuliani was drunk the night of the election
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and it was partially his idea to deny the election results.
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Buy it?
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- I haven't seen that, you're the first source
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I've gotten on that.
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- You haven't heard that at all?
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- No.
- That Rudy was drunk
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that night?
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- It's an election night.
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I wouldn't be surprised if anybody was, so.
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- You trust a drunk Rudy Giuliani?
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- I'm not saying
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I trust a drunk Rudy Giuliani.
- The question is,
have you trusted yourself
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or other individuals that you are with
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under the influence of alcohol?
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- I totally have.
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- Then what's the difference?
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- I am not the commander-in-chief in charge of
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the United States of America.
- Doesn't matter.
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- Well, I think that's an important detail.
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If no one was willing
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to turn on the hearing, I decided to bring
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the hearing to them.
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I first shared testimony from Trump's
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own acting attorney general,
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dismissing Trump's claims of voter fraud.
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- I told him that the stuff that his people were shoveling
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out to the public was bullshit.
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(Interviewee sighing)
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- Like I said, you just can't be up 300,000 votes
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and then lose.
- No, but that's
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Trump's attorney general.
- I know.
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- Does that sway you at all?
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- He's turned on him, he's been paid,
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been paid by somebody to shut his mouth.
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- Everybody knows the election was fraud.
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- No, no, he's saying the opposite.
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He's saying-
- He's saying the opposite?
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- Yeah, he's saying there wasn't fraud.
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That that's bullshit.
- Wow, wow!
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- Does it make you kind of change your perspective
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and your assumptions?
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- It does.
- Yeah, so you're not
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gonna go in there right now?
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- Oh yes, sir, I am.
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- You are going in there right now
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to see Donald Trump speak?
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- Yes, sir.
- Okay, cool.
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Well, good productive chat.
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What's your response there?
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- I think it's true.
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- You think Bill Barr is right?
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- Yeah.
- 'Cause he's talking about
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the fact that the election
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was stolen is bullshit.
- Yeah.
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Yeah.
- Yeah, for sure.
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- [Jordan] So he says it wasn't stolen.
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- Oh, then no.
- No.
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Oh, no.
- Yeah, it was stolen.
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- [Jordan] You don't believe that?
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- No.
- So who do you trust?
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Like Trump, Trump's family?
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- I trust Trump.
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- You trust Ivanka?
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- Yeah.
- Yeah, I do,
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I think she's very smart and very intelligent.
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- Let me show you, this is what she said.
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- How did that affect your perspective about the election,
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when Attorney General Barr made that statement?
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- It affected my perspective.
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I respect Attorney General Barr,
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so I accepted what he was saying.
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- How do I know that's not edited in any way?
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- You don't believe she actually said that?
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- Did she say it on Twitter?
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- It don't even look like her.
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- You don't think that-
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- It could not be her, it might be one of those,
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what, they got clones out there these days?
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- You think that was a-
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- (laughing) It might be a clone, yeah.
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- It might be an Ivanka clone.
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- (laughing) Yeah.
- Hot take, my friend.
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(Interviewee laughing) It's almost like
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you're confronted with it and your brain
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just does somersaults to figure out,
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there must be some other reason-
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- She looks frightened.
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- She does look scared,
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almost like she's-
- Yeah, she does.
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- Like she's been caught.
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What do you think?
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(Interviewee laughing)
- I'm confused.
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- A little bit.
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- So, Ivanka-
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- [Both Interviewees] His daughter.
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- His daughter says she accepts
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what the attorney general said,
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which is that the election wasn't stolen.
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That Trump lost.
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- Well, is it a lie?
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- I mean, if you listen to these people, yeah.
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It's a big lie and I'm fearful you're gonna go inside there
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and he's gonna keep telling you that lie.
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- We should go.
- Yeah. (laughing)
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I think we're ready to cut this off.
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- [Jordan] Being confronted with an uncomfortable information
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isn't easy to swallow, but this crowd chooses to live
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by the immortal words of the barred Rudy Giuliani who said,
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"We've got lots of theories,
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we just don't have the evidence."
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Especially when it comes to Donald Trump.
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- I believe him and the military are running the country
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and that idiot that's up there is a puppet,
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and Obama's in the basement
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telling him what to do.
- Wait, that sounds so crazy,
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it's probably not true.
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- You probably don't even wanna ask me
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what I think about 9/11, so. (laughing)
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- God, you got some theories for miles.
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- Well, yeah, and I read a lot of stuff
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but I know probably not all of it is true,
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but enough of it is true to know
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that we need change in this country.
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- Absolutely.
- Yeah, a little bit
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(patriotic music) of shit in the pool
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doesn't mean you can't swim in it.
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- Right.
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