>>BRITISH MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT JUST FINISHED A THREE-HOUR
SERIES OF SPEECHES, THREE HOURS, WITH FIVE MINUTES PER SPEECH,
THAT'S A LOT OF SPEECHES, AND ALMOST THE ENTIRETY OF IT WAS
PEOPLE SPEAKING OUT AGAINST ALLOWING DONALD TRUMP TO MAKE AN
OFFICIAL STATE VISIT TO THE U.K.
THEY ARE BACKED UP BY QUITE A
FEW OTHER BRITS, A PETITION GOT FAR OVER 1 MILLION SIGNATURES TO
STOP HIM FROM COMING, ONE PETITION TO HAVE HIM COME GOT
ABOUT 300,000, AND SOME OF THE QUOTES WE WILL SHOW YOU IN THESE
VIDEOS ARE BOTH INCREDIBLY BRITISH AND INCREDIBLY AWESOME.
>>YOU HAVE A MAN WHO IS THE PRESIDENT BEHAVING LIKE A
PETULANT CHILD.
HOW IS HE GOING TO BEHAVE IN A FUTURE CONFLICT?
>>TO DO SO NOW THAT HE IS PRESIDENT WILL ONLY REINFORCE
AND CONDONE HIS ACTIONS, HIS DIVISIVE, RACIST, AND SEXIST
MESSAGES.
THAT IS SADLY WHAT HE STANDS FOR AT THIS MOMENT, AND WHAT HE
REPRESENTS.
>>ONLY TWO PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES HAVE BEEN GRANTED
A STATE VISIT SINCE 1952.
IT IS EXTRAORDINARY THAT THAT'S THE
SITUATION, BUT HERE WE HAVE A POSITION WHERE SEVEN DAYS INTO
HIS PRESIDENCY HE'S INVITED TO HAVE THE FULL PANOPLY OF A STATE
VISIT.
EXTRAORDINARY.
COMPLETELY UNPRECEDENTED.
>>WITH THE HONORABLE MEMBER AGREED THAT TO HAVE A STATE
VISIT FOR SOMEONE WHO IS SHOWN SUCH A FRONT TO READ THE BASIC
CLIMATE SCIENCE IS ANOTHER REASON TO SAY HE SHOULD NOT BE
COMING HERE?
>>IT'S EXTRAORDINARY THAT TRUMP FROM THE CAVERNOUS STEPS OF THE
SCIENTIFIC IGNORANCE IS PREPARED TO CHALLENGE THE CONCLUSIONS OF
97% OF THE WORLD EXPERTS ON THIS MATTER.
>>I THINK IT'S DIFFICULT TO BE APPALLED AT THE MORALITY OF THIS
INVITATION.
I'M JUST ASTONISHED AT THE STUPIDITY OF THIS INVITATION.
>>THAT'S AMAZING.
WE WANT TO READ YOU A COUPLE MORE OF THE
QUOTES --
>>CAN WE JUST ENJOY THE CAVERNOUS DEPTHS OF HIS
SCIENTIFIC IGNORANCE?
>>THAT'S BETTER THAN ANYTHING I'VE EVER SAID OR WILL EVER
WRITE.
AT THE END YOU SAW ALEX SALMOND, FORMER SCOTTISH FIRST
MINISTER, WE HAVE MORE FROM HIM, SAYING --
>>PAUL FLYNN OF THE LABOUR PARTY SAID --
>>THAT IS MY FAVORITE QUOTE EVER.
WOW.
AND I LOVE THAT.
TO
TIE THIS INTO THE LARGER CONFLICT THAT'S GOING ON RIGHT
NOW, THERE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO SUPPOSEDLY SUPPORT THE FIRST
AMENDMENT -- THEY ALWAYS TALK ABOUT FREE SPEECH EVEN THOUGH
THEY DON'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS -- AND ALMOST
ALWAYS THEY TALK ABOUT PEOPLE WHO IF THEY HAVE ANYTHING HAVE
AMPLE OPPORTUNITIES TO EXPRESS EVERY GODDAMN THOUGHT THAT
THEY'VE EVER HAD.
WE HAVE SOME MORE QUOTES, SOMEWHERE IN
SUPPORT OF DONALD TRUMP, SOME MPs WERE IN FAVOR OF HIM HAVING
A STATE VISIT --
>>YEAH, YOU ARE
DEFENDING THE GUY WHO FEMALE MPs HAVE BEEN
QUOTING FOR HIS GRAB THEM BY THE PUSSY COMMENT.
>>THAT WAS RECORDED!
NOBODY SAID THEY OVERHEARD HIM IN A
CONVERSATION ONE TIME, THE SUGGESTION WHEN YOU RECORD
SOMEONE NEEDS YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T GET HIM THE ONE TIME HE
SAID IT.
AND BASICALLY WE HAVEN'T, NOT AS GROWN-UPS.
SO
YEAH.
AND WHAT THAT GUY'S NAME?
THE CONSERVATIVE MP?
THESE GUYS
ARE DUMB, AND THEY ARE HUGELY SEXIST.
>>YOU CAN FIND SEXISM PRETTY MUCH ANYWHERE, YOU DON'T OFTEN
SEE IT SO ON DISPLAY IN THE WHITE HOUSE, BUT I LOVE THIS.
WE
DON'T OFTEN UNFORTUNATELY AT THIS NETWORK CHECK IN WITH THE
U.K.
WE SHOULD, I LIKE THAT THEY HAVE THIS DEBATE, NOT JUST
BECAUSE OF THIS DEBATE, BUT BECAUSE THEY HAVE DEBATE.
YOU
FIND THIS IN PARLIAMENTS AROUND THE WORLD, THEY ACTUALLY TALK,
AND YOU MIGHT FIND THAT THEY DON'T DISAGREE AS MUCH AS WE
MIGHT IN THE U.S. BUT THEY ACTUALLY TALK AND TRY TO
CONVINCE THE OTHER.
USED TO HAVE THIS IN THIS COUNTRY, IF WE HAD
MICHAEL SHURE ON I'M SURE HE COULD RECALL SOME OF THE
GREAT BACK IN FORCE WE'VE HAD IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE.
PEOPLE DON'T EVEN SHOW UP ANYMORE IN THE SENATE, THEY
CALL THEIR DONORS, THEY ARE TOLD WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO
SAY AND VOTE ON, AND THAT'S LARGELY IT UNFORTUNATELY.
>>I DON'T THINK THAT'S IT EITHER.
WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH
MONEY AND POLITICS, WHAT IS IT, WOLF-PAC.COM?
AND THAT'S AN
ENORMOUSLY WORTHY EFFORT, BUT THERE HAS BEEN MONEY IN POLITICS
FOREVER, AND IT DIDN'T FUNCTION FOR A WHILE, IT WAS ALWAYS UGLY
-- I JUST THINK THAT --
I THINK THAT WE HAVE SEEN A RISE IN IMBECILIC BEHAVIOR AND A
LACK OF CRITICAL THINKING WITH THE RISE OF TELEVISION, AND IN
THE LAST 10 OR 15 YEARS WITH THIS EXPLOSION OF MEDIA, AND WE
AREN'T READING BOOKS.
AND YOU GET THE IMPRESSION, AND MAYBE
I'M DUMB AND I'M SURE ARE BRITISH LISTENERS WILL TELL ME
IF I AM, THAT THEY ARE STILL READING MORE THERE.
>>WE CAN FIND OUT.
CAN WE RUN THE NUMBERS?
>>THAT THEY HAVEN'T COMPLETELY BOUGHT INTO THIS SORT OF
FAME-SEEKING, SELF-IMPORTANT, NARCISSISTIC WORLD WHERE YOUR
WHOLE DESIRE IS TO BE ON TELEVISION.
I GET IT, THERE'S
SOME IRONY COMING FROM ME -- WHERE YOUR WHOLE DESIRE IS TO BE
ON TV AND BE FAMOUS.
YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO ACHIEVE
SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO READ, YOU HAVE TO THINK CRITICALLY.
WE DID
HAVE IT HERE, BUT WE ALSO IN THE 1940S, FROM BEFORE THE WAR AND
THROUGH AFTER THE WAR, HAD A VERY POWERFUL DEMOCRATIC MEMBER
OF CONGRESS, BEFORE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THANKFULLY AND
MERCIFULLY SPLIT OVER THE ISSUE OF RACE AND THE ISSUE OF CIVIL
RIGHTS REALLY, NOT RACE BUT CIVIL RIGHTS, A GUY NAMED JOHN
RANKIN FROM MISSISSIPPI, WHO WAS A VIRULENT RACIST AND
ANTI-SEMITE WHO WOULD MAKE FUN OF JEWS AND BLACKS, MOSTLY JEWS,
HE DIDN'T MAKE FUN OF BLACKS BECAUSE THERE WAS NO CACHET IN
IT, EVERYBODY BOUGHT THAT, BUT WOULD MOCK JEWS OPENLY ON THE
FLOOR OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE IN THE 1940S, IN THE MID-20TH
CENTURY, AND WOULD BE APPLAUDED.
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE.
NOT SO
MUCH LIKE WE AGREE, BUT LIKE GOOD OLD JOHN.
AND IF I'M NOT
MISTAKEN HE WAS IN LEADERSHIP FOR THE DEMOCRATS, AND THE
PEOPLE WHO STOOD UP TO HIM MOSTLY WERE REPUBLICANS AND
NORTHERN DEMOCRATS.
HE WAS A SHAMEFUL, DESPICABLE MAN.
SO
WE'VE HAD THIS BEFORE, IT'S JUST THAT NOW 70 YEARS AFTER THAT
TIME, 70 YEARS AFTER GUYS LIKE JOHN RANKIN ARE OUT OF OFFICE
AND DEAD AND GONE, ONE OF THEM BECAME PRESIDENT.
ONE OF THESE
BUFFOONISH, IGNORANT FOOLS BECAME PRESIDENT.
OR AT LEAST A
GUY WHO IS SUPPORTED BY THOSE PEOPLE.
AND I DON'T MEAN REGULAR
VOTERS, I MEAN TRUMP'S CADRE, THAT CABAL OF THUGS IN THE WHITE
HOUSE.
WE HAD THESE GUYS BEFORE BUT AT LEAST SMART PEOPLE NEW TO
POINT AT THEM -- BUT NOW HERE THEY ARE IN POWER.
BUT LOOK UP
JOHN RANKIN AND HIS BEHAVIOR IN THE MID-20TH CENTURY, YOU
WILL BE STUNNED.
>>TO THE POINT OF WHETHER THEY WILL HAVE TRUMP THERE,
APPARENTLY THEY WILL, IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
WHETHER THEY SHOULD
OR NOT, I THINK -- I DON'T KNOW WHAT CAN ACTUALLY MODIFY TRUMP'S
BEHAVIOR, HE HAS REVERSED ON A COUPLE OF THINGS, SO IT IS
POSSIBLE, HE CAN ACTUALLY BLEED -- BUT NORMALLY, LIKE, SINKING
POLLING NUMBERS, THOSE SORTS OF THINGS COULD INFLUENCE A
PRESIDENT'S BEHAVIOR, HE SEEMS IMMUNE TO THAT.
I DON'T KNOW
WHAT COULD CAUSE HIM TO CONSIDER SOME OF HIS MORE EXTREME
POSITIONS, IT'S POSSIBLE THAT SCORN FROM ABROAD, LOSING OUT ON
OPPORTUNITIES TO HAVE HIGH-PROFILE VISITS, THAT SEEMS
LIKE THE SORT OF THING A NARCISSIST LIKE HIM PERHAPS
WOULD RESPOND TO, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT HE WOULD RESPOND
IN A RATIONAL FASHION.
>>WE TALKED ABOUT THIS BRIEFLY BEFORE THE SHOW, THIS IS A GUY
WHOSE ENTIRE CAMPAIGN WAS BASED ON BEING THE TRUTH TELLER.
HE'LL
SAY WHAT HE MEANS, HE MEANS WHAT HE SAYS.
IT'S UNBELIEVABLY
IRONIC.
BUT THAT HE SHOOK THE SYSTEM, HE WAS THE ULTIMATE
OUTSIDER.
WHEN ALL DONALD TRUMP WANTS, AND YOU CAN SEE IT IN
EVERY TWEET TO THE NEW YORK TIMES, HE IS ONLY READ ONE
NEWSPAPER IN HIS LIFE AND IT IS THE NEW YORK TIMES, BECAUSE
THOSE ARE THE PAPERS OF THE ESTABLISHMENT.
AND HE HAS WANTED
NOTHING FROM MAKING THAT MOVE FROM QUEENS TO NEW YORK, HAS
WANTED NOTHING BUT TO BE EMBRACED BY THE VERY PEOPLE HE
IS POINTING AT.
YOU DON'T THINK THE DISCREDITED, STRUGGLING,
FALLING APART NEW YORK TIMES, AS HE SAYS -- WHAT HAPPENS IF THERE
IS A NICE EDITORIAL ABOUT DONALD TRUMP IN IT?
HE WANTS NOTHING
MORE THAN THAT, PLEASE ACCEPT ME, TAKE ME INTO YOUR CLUBS.
HE
WAS SO EXCLUDED FROM THE CLASS BECAUSE HE'S SUCH AN AWFUL
BUFFOON, AND YOU KNOW BY LOOKING AT HIM, HUGE FRAUD.
HOLY CHRIST,
THIS GUY IS A FRAUD.
YOU KNOW IT INSTINCTIVELY.
SO WE HAD TO MAKE
HIS OWN CLUB, CREATE HIS OWN CLUB, MAR-A-LAGO, WHERE NOW THEY
WILL COME TO ME.
HE'S NOT EVEN IN THOSE CLUBS, BECAUSE EVEN
THOUGH I FIND THOSE PEOPLE NOXIOUS -- NOT ALL OF THEM, MANY
OF THEM IN SOME CASES, BUT THEY KNOW WHO IS A FRAUD, AND THEY
SMELLED HIM OUT.
BUT HE IS EXCEPTED, AND THE GOOD NEWS
ABOUT A VISIT TO LONDON IS HE WILL LOVE IT.
I'M ACCEPTED.
BUT
IT'S A WHOLE OTHER AREA FOR HIM TO DO SOMETHING BUFFOONISH.