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In the course of our nation's history, the people have rallied bravely whenever the rights of men have been threatened.
Today, a new crisis has arisen.
Citizens, hear me out.
This could happen to you.
Okay, I want a damn concerted effort.
This is a god-last damn time.
I want somebody to use his fucking brain.
This
John Peterson.
You're from the 60s.
Heh.
Just a show about nothing.
I don't have any answers for you.
I don't give interviews.
I just want to be left alone.
Hell, I like you.
You can come over to my house and fuck my sister.
What is this?
Ponderous, man.
Ponderous.
Ponderous.
Ponderous.
Seven minutes past the hour.
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Judy Davidoff.
What did I say, Davidson?
Oh, that's you.
I'm Davidson.
You're
Davidson.
No, no.
Judy Davidoff, yes, that's what I meant to say.
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Wow.
All right.
Where do we begin?
Should we get to the Bill Mar thing right off
the top?
Well,
Tell us what we
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Well, you know, I think the big story is the the terrorist attack on the Pennsylvania governor's mansion, the residence.
That is something else.
You know, they've got a lot of pictures of this video.
Governor Shapiro.
The interior of the building.
It's just amazing.
It looks like one of those those abandoned houses you walk into and still got the furniture in there and it's all ripped up and burned out.
It really is just an amazing sight.
And this guy said if he would have ran into Josh Shapiro.
the governor.
You would have beat him with a hammer.
Yeah, this is the kind of radicalism that we're going to see more of sadly.
I wonder if this guy's citizenship will be revoked or maybe, you know, because he's such an evil person, they should just send him to El Salvador.
I think that's what the administration is talking about, doing to the worst of the worst.
Is that the
punishment for all crimes now?
all
Meet up in person, maybe it'll be different.
Spoiler alert, it was.
First good sign, before I left for the Capitol, I had my staff collect and print out.
This list of almost 60 different insulting epithets that the president has said about me.
Things like stupid, dummy, lowlife dummy, sleazebag, sick, sad, stone cold, crazy.
Really a dumb guy, fired like a dog, his show is dead.
60, I brought this to the White House because I wanted him to sign it.
Which he did.
Which he did.
With good humor, and I know as I say that millions of liberal sphincters just tightened.
Oh my god, Bill.
Are you going to say something nice about him?
What I'm going to do is report exactly what happened.
You decide what you think about it.
So no, I didn't go MAGA.
And to the president's credit, there was no pressure to.
Just for starters, he laughs.
I'd never seen him laugh in public.
But he does, including it himself.
And it's not fake.
Believe me, as a comedian of 40 years, I know a fake laugh when I hear it.
Example, in the Oval Office, he was showing me the portraits of presidents, and he pointed to Reagan and said, in all seriousness, you know the best thing about him?
His hair.
I said, well, there was also that whole bringing down communism thing, waiting for the button next to the Diet Coke button to get pushed, and I go through the trap door.
But no, he laughed.
He got it.
At one point, we were walking through his amazing, it is an amazing tour of the whole house.
And I don't remember exactly what we were talking about, but it must have been something with the 2020 election, because I know he used the word lost.
And I distinctly remember saying, wow, I never thought I'd hear you say that.
He didn't get mad.
He's much more self-aware than he lets on in public.
Look, I get it.
It doesn't matter who he is at a private dinner with a comedian.
It matters who he is on the world stage.
The most surreal part of the whole night was when I got home.
I flew back right after the dinner, and I'm in bed watching 60 minutes from the night before.
And there's Trump in one of their stories, standing at a podium in a room that looked to me like one of the rooms and places we'd just been in.
And he's ranting, disgusting, you're a terrible person.
And I'm like, who's that guy?
What happened to Glinda the Goodrich?
And why can't we get the guy I met to be the public guy?
And I'm not saying it's our responsibility to do that.
It's not.
I'm just reporting exactly what I saw over two and a half hours.
That's my report.
You can hate me for it.
But I'm not a liar.
Trump was gracious and measured.
And why he isn't that in other settings?
I don't know.
And I can't answer.
And it's not my place to answer.
I'm just telling you what I saw.
And I wasn't high.
Oh, yeah, I wonder maybe it's because he didn't go through Kid Rock Maybe that's the whole reason why I know everybody laid into Joe Scarborough possibly but yeah, that's a
Very complimentary meeting that Maher had with Trump.
Yeah, and surprising too.
I don't think we've ever really seen him laugh.
Well, getting into the whole criminal prosecution thing for this guy in Pennsylvania.
I remind you that no person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless...
a presentment of indictment by a grand jury.
So this guy's entitled to due process.
And he's also entitled to a public trial.
Like all the people they've snatched up and shipped off to El Salvador, they were entitled to a public trial there if they were charged with the crime.
This BS of just being able to snatch people up is just beyond the pale.
It's a complete violation of the oath that all these people took to the Constitution.
I mean, these people were not snatched up on the battlefield of this.
and it's not an actual invasion going on
this country, because if that is the case, that's been going on since the nation began, especially for people coming across from Mexico, because for decades and decades, people were crossing the border, coming here to work, and then going back across the border when the crops were harvested or their job was fulfilled.
And this is just recognizing reality that these people are coming here, and maybe actually make it so it's possible for these people to actually come because
Are they going to like you for commenting last week?
Are you gonna have six-year-olds six-year-olds picking the crops because we don't think they're good enough students at school down in Florida They're gonna be harvesting our orange your orange grow the orange crops or picking strawberries in California because all the color fun It's gonna be you can work all day and and we'll give you five dollars for working all day and that would just be fine with these I Don't know for it is just yeah, oh no disgusting
not willing to cut
Well, I
Well, of course, I'd never do that.
But at the same time.
We've got the White House making comments saying that they have no responsibility to bring these people back, even if it's a mistaken deportation.
And then we had Trump over the weekend say that he respects Justice Robert's decision to bring these people back if they're mistakenly sent there.
All these contradictory statements, it's ridiculous what's happening.
We don't know what's happening.
And I think that's what's keeping us all on edge, Mark.
and i'll point out that the fact that is also prohibition in this country about cruel and unusual punishment and simply because we're farming out the cruel and unusual punishment doesn't mean they're not violated
shipping them over to our server because we don't know what's going to be happening those people we don't even know if if the guy that really was mistakenly shipped there as a price seventy five percent of the worship there you are still alive i mean that you know trump could just give a wink and the guy is dead right now there's nothing we
couple would actually take responsibility for.
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In just a moment, just want to congratulate our winner of the first pair of tickets that we're giving away.
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So you did this.
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my goodness.
Well, we're looking at winds sustained.
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Don't be shocked if it happens But we're not looking at accumulations.
Don't worry about that either
colder air is definitely moving in and then behind it
We're going to warm up.
So at a blustery cold start through tomorrow, we'll gradually get sunny through the afternoon.
Highs will hit about 50.
We'll stay in the low 50s on Wednesday too, and that's when the winds finally will calm down.
So midweek, they're done.
Sun is still shining, but then we've got more rain moving in Thursday evening and into our Friday.
So Friday looks wet and dreary, but the weekend bright and beautiful and in the mid 50s.
just gonna go.
Yeah.
Have a good day.
dislike
important to...
I don't know.
I'll hear different perspectives.
Even if they might not be true, it's still what people believe.
I think he does.
But when he dishes it left, he's wrong.
That's all I can say.
Again, we're apolitical here.
We don't have a political axe to grind.
What we're trying to do is do the best thing, the least expensive thing, the best thing that benefits society, our democracy.
We're pro-democracy.
That's the whole point of this program.
We're not trying to be left or right.
We're just trying to make it better.
Yeah.
Wherever
Well, here's what I'm thinking.
Everybody should get their friends together and make sure that they vote.
I don't think you're going to vote until June.
Even if you don't listen, get them to vote anyway.
All right, or we could we could do the I know yeah, you know, we got such big paychecks here We could do the Elon Musk thing and offer up a big paycheck to somebody the gigantic who has voted Federal
with your band.
It's John and Gordy in
yeah
I think so, you know and And and I think that's what happened.
I don't know if it's HBO Max very much that did anything
or advised him in any way.
Of course, he writes here, God forbid they do something like that to John Oliver.
He would never let that happen.
Yeah, I don't think that's going to
Oh, good morning.
Um, to this situation with El Salvador, uh, I fear much like Mark that this person may not even be alive.
Also, tell me we're not in a constitutional crisis when we've got the Justice Department now telling the Supreme Court to half off.
And then I would submit that this guy's the most ill-informed president in history.
And here's a couple things from just the weekend when he was asked about the situation in Pennsylvania that it's very, very, very big.
And then, of course, the bombing in Ukraine.
Oh, it was a mistake.
No.
No, and there never will
because that would have ruffled potence feathers.
filter.
The only thing I could say that he did good this weekend at all is.
At least give him credit for staying out of the Masters, because you know he would have won if he wasn't.
It was exciting.
I tell you about my Border Collie.
Yeah, my very first Border Collie used to watch TV and he watched sports and he watched the Packers love the Packers But he didn't like golf at all.
Why didn't he like the golf?
I don't I don't know.
I don't know what's going on in the Border Collie's
brain.
I think you said once before every time the golfer would say four.
Yes
And there's just silence around that, but once they say for, they just goes
you
we could possibly
Actually, that's pretty cool stuff.
It is really cool.
I like that.
I like that.
It's the little things.
I've got this story.
I'm going to bring it up only because I have kind of a slant on this thing.
Pam Bonney, she bragged and bragged about arresting the head of MS-13.
She's the attorney general, yeah.
This is cut 116.
And I just want to play this for you.
Let's hear her.
All right.
The great men and women of law enforcement have been working on this operation for days and days
probably weeks.
This morning, early this morning, one of the top leaders of MS-13 was apprehended.
He was the leader for the East Coast, one of the top three in the entire country.
Right here in Virginia, living
half an hour outside of Washington, DC.
He is an illegal alien from El Salvador.
And he will not be living in our country much longer.
See, see, it should have been MSI three.
And, uh,
See, I'm just, I see what you're going.
I'm playing with this a little bit here.
Okay.
But I also want to mention that, uh, uh, Pam Bondi dropped the charges.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Oh, I didn't.
After Homeland Security spent all this time tracking this down, uh, they're dropping the charges.
So see, they, they create these stories, these myths, and then they kind of take them back later, but no one noticed.
Anybody notice that you dropped the charges here?
They didn't say why they dropped them on Henry
Volatario Santos.
They never explained that, huh?
No.
It's a mystery.
Yeah, kind of a plan.
All right, let's get to one of my favorite representatives who is just telling it like it is speaking on you.
I love this stuff.
This is Melanie Stansberry, and she's going to talk about the tariffs and everything that Trump is doing to blow a hole in our economy.
Let's listen.
The amount of gas lighting in this chamber this afternoon has been absolutely stunning.
Truly as I've sat here this afternoon because what the GOP is doing is they're putting a budget resolution that takes the worst of the House and the worst of the Senate and puts it in one big beautiful bill that's going to blow a hole through the national debt, raising the debt ceiling by $4 trillion, cutting $1.5 trillion in vital programs, giving $7 trillion
permanent tax breaks to billionaires and raising the debt by $37 trillion over the next 30 years.
And how are they going to pay for it?
On the backs of the American people.
Cuts to Medicaid, food assistance, housing, school meals, clean energy, and selling your public lands.
And what's the craziest thing is they said they wouldn't vote for it if it would raise the debt and the debt ceiling.
And here they are.
So bravo, my friends.
You are blowing a hole through the debt ceiling and we will vote no.
Okay.
Fantastic stuff, isn't it?
Wow.
Mic drop.
Ah, yes.
All right, now, you know, Trump has been also promising to have election reform where it's finally something you can trust, you know,
building in that election integrity that the Republicans, the Magus have been promising for so many years.
How's he
gonna do
There's a lot of clamor for it.
I think it's something that you, you should work on.
You should go out and put a bill in demanding, you demand, you know, because the states are just an agent of the federal government of you.
Not really.
You had to demand paper ballots.
You had to demand one day elections.
Well, we're fixing the room up, move those boxes.
We're putting an air conditioner.
Oh, really?
We'll move the boxes back in a few days.
We're painting the room.
Please move the boxes.
And you notice the boxes go out.
And then they move back in about half the number.
Oh, it's so sick.
One day election, you don't need any more than that.
No.
One polling location
Do we?
Strobel proposed here in the state my god It is crazy though, isn't it?
But here it is, you know how easy it was to detect?
voter fraud election fraud, you know by just moving the boxes around and saying you're gonna paint the place Or put a new air conditioner in we're gonna
We're going to put a new air conditioner in.
We'll just have to move the machines out of here for a few boxes.
Take the boxes out.
Where did he
Yeah.
How low has it reached now?
Pet.
Say that again.
I'm giving you a number.
You look confused at what I was trying
I was just saying hi.
Johnston tomorrow, right?
me?
Liz Johnston tomorrow.
The claim that the Trump administration can't get a prisoner back from El Salvador is BS.
You're right, absolutely right.
Just tell the president of El Salvador, we won't pay the multiple million dollars.
We do pay them for torturing people and we won't pay them.
You know, money talks.
That's what Ken of Stoughton said.
Kenneth, thank you for that.
It seems kind of easy to do.
And by the way, don't we negotiate trying to get prisoners released?
We've done it with other countries.
Memory serves.
I don't know why this would be any
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Okay, so I'm ringing it up because now there is a Barbie Careers Fashion Doll.
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All right.
Let's listen to a mega representative, Mary Miller.
Oh, no.
Do we have to?
She says that climate change is a sham.
And this is cut 129.
An amazing thing, you know, from an adult.
These remember these people.
that we elect in our adults.
Okay.
You have to kind of remind yourself of that every once in a while.
You mentioned God's design.
And one of the things that's really bothered me that, that I've been fighting is, uh, these green new deal policies that really go against God's design nature and how he created this,
this
world that we live in.
Uh, can you talk, I know you've been very active and, and vocal on, um, solar panels and some of these alternative energy.
initiatives.
Can you talk a little bit about your position there and the work you're doing in DC in that front?
Sure.
I've been very outspoken about this.
Um, it's a sham.
The whole climate change is a sham.
Um, first of all, God controls the climate because he controls the sun and the sun controls the weather primarily.
surprised
didn't think about it that way.
It
Clean.
But they're very clean.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's listen to this.
This is a
The five, I believe, Jessica Tarlove is on there.
She is on there, I think, right?
Okay.
Anyway, she shocked everybody by saying that $4,400 per household.
It'll cost $4,400 per household a year with all these tariffs.
All right, let's listen to cut 121 here.
This is, again, Jessica Tarlove, the only liberal at Fox
News.
He's also trying to market this as the fact that he paused the tariffs and he absolutely did not.
He canceled the reciprocal tariffs but we are still as Dana said, tariffing the entire globe 10% even the people that we have good relationships with like Australia.
And there was questioning of James and Greer our trade representative earlier this week about why we're possibly doing that and he had absolutely no answer for it.
The Yale Budget Lab just came out with new figures based on yesterday's tariff numbers.
It says that this will cost each American household
$400.
This is the highest tariff rate since 1909.
Who came up with that?
The Yale Budget Lab.
Oh, not
the Yale Budget Lab.
Oh, I'm sorry, but I didn't pull it out of a cartoon or something.
Where are you going?
We'll see you tomorrow, everywhere else.
The Yale Budget Lab.
Why are you making fun of smart people that calculate things?
Coming up tomorrow on the show, we'll talk to Dane County Humane Society's Lisa Bernard, also Liz Johnston from Serenity Pet Spa, and more tickets to give away to the Milwaukee Film Fest.
That'll do it for us.
Stephanie Miller is next.
John, have a great day.
I'm outta here, man.
Alright, Sam, you too.
So long.
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