-The committee investigating
the attempted coup on January 6th
has proven, in painstaking detail,
that Donald Trump orchestrated a premeditated plan
for overthrowing the government on January 6th,
even though his closest aides and advisors knew
his stolen election claims were insane.
In fact, it was all such an obvious scam
that Trump campaign official Kimberly Guilfoyle,
the fiancée of Donald Trump Jr.,
got paid an obscene amount of money
for a speech that lasted less than three minutes.
For more on this, it's time for "A Closer Look."
♪♪ [ Cheering and applause ]
The political world is still processing
the aftermath of some of the revelations
from the January 6th Committee's second hearing on Monday.
For example, Rudy Giuliani, wants you all to know
he is very upset at the accusation leveled
by former Trump aides, in sworn testimony,
that he was wasted on election night.
-Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has now responded
to those accusations in the January 6th Committee hearings
that he was drunk on election night,
Giuliani writing in part...
-Oh, sorry, buddy, you just gave yourself away.
No one's favorite drink is
Diet Pepsi. [ Laughter ]
Is your favorite cookie Lorna Doone's?
[ Laughter ]
Diet Pepsi is what you drink on a flight
when they don't have Diet Coke
or lemonade or chocolate milk
or coconut water or camel spit
or regular Pepsi.
[ Laughter ]
If a waiter ever says, "We don't have Diet Coke.
Is Diet Pepsi okay?", you're legally allowed
to stab them with a fork.
[ Laughter ]
Maybe Rudy has an unpopular favorite drink on purpose,
you know, so he has a cover story when he's at a bar.
[ As Giuliani ] I'll take a Diet Pepsi.
"Oh, we don't have that, sir." [ As Giuliani ] That's too bad.
In that case, I'll have, uh,
16 ounces of scotch in a watering can.
[ Laughter ]
Also, what do you mean,
you refused all alcohol that evening?
Like people were trying to get you to drink,
[ Laughter ] but you said no.
Feels like you're being a little too defensive.
You sound like me coming home at 2:00 am in high school.
[ Posh accent ] No, Mom, I'm sober as a judge!
[ Laughter ] Oh, they tried to get me to drink,
but I said nay, I will not
[ Laughter ] sully the good Meyers name
with the demon taste of Jagermeister.
Oh, no, no. I'm going to barf.
Move, Mom. Move.
[ Laughter ]
I doubt anyone was trying to get Rudy drunk,
although, I could definitely see Trump aides, on election night,
trying to overserve him, just so he passes out.
"We're all upset about Arizona, Mr. Mayor.
You know what? Why don't you drink this
and then go lie down on the lawn outside?"
[ Laughter ]
Because, according to the sworn testimony obtained
by the committee, Rudy was just wandering
around the White House on election night,
looking for the president,
so we could tell him to declare the election stolen.
-Do you remember Rudy Giuliani being
at the White House on election night
and into the early hours the next morning?
-I do.
What do you remember about when he came?
-Um... [ Clears throat ]
He...
He was, um...
[ Laughter ] They were -- I had heard
that he was, uh, upstairs, you know,
in that aforementioned reception area,
and...um,
he was looking to talk to the president.
-You know, you like to think of the White House
as a stately, dignified place, full of decorum and history,
and then you learn, via congressional testimony,
that a drunken potato goblin was upstairs,
[ Laughter ] just wandering around all night,
banging on doors,
looking, not just for anyone, but the president,
and, by the way, got to him. [ Laughter ]
[ As Giuliani ] Excuse me, sir. Do you happen to know
where Donald is? I need to talk to him.
"Mr. Mayor, that's just a bust of Abraham Lincoln."
[ Laughter ]
[ As Giuliani ] He's a bust, all right.
He won't even give me my Diet Pepsi.
[ Laughter ] And, by the way,
it's worth underscoring this point --
it's not Democrats saying Rudy was drunk
at the White House on election night.
It's his fellow Trump supporters,
like former Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller.
-Was there anyone in that conversation who,
in your observation, had had too much to drink?
[ Laughter ] -Tell me more about that.
What was your observation about his, uh,
potential intoxication during that -- that discussion
about what the president should say
when he addressed the nation on election night.
-I mean, I think we can guess at his level of intoxication.
I mean, look at him.
[ Laughter ] For a guy Rudy Giuliani's age,
there's very little room between stone-cold sober
and sloshed out of his [bleep] mind.
[ Laughter ] It's a little like when your grandma
has one glass of wine with an ice cube in it
when you're out to dinner and she starts telling you
what an [bleep] your father was as a baby. [ Laughter ]
So, Rudy may have been drunk on election night,
according to former Trump advisors,
but his suggestion
that Trump just declare the election stolen
was not some random, drunken impulse.
As the committee documented,
Trump had been openly declaring,
for months in advance of the election,
that the only way he could lose was if it was stolen from him.
He was just desperately searching for any pretext,
any justification at all, that he could use
to make that declaration and Rudy,
along with a gang of other crazy weirdos, gave it to him.
In fact, Trump officials kept telling him,
over and over and over again, that each individual claim
of election fraud was nonsense and, rather than push back
and offer his own evidence for each claim,
Trump would just move on to some other insane claim.
that much of the information he's getting is false...
-I told him that the stuff that his people were shoveling
out to the public was bullshit.
I mean, that the claims of fraud were bullshit.
-Quick tangent -- when Bill Barr says bull[bleep] in the clip,
we don't have to bleep it, but when I repeat him, we do.
[ Laughter ] That's where we're at, as a nation.
I'm not allowed to say a word, on my show,
but Donald Trump's former attorney general is.
That's some bull[bleep].
[ Laughter and applause ]
But that testimony is also revealing.
Trump kept pitching insane ideas
and then, when they were challenged,
instead of trying to provide evidence for those claims,
he just moved on to the next one.
He was like a kid trying to explain to his teacher
why he didn't do his homework.
"Uh, dog ate it."
You don't have a dog.
"It was someone else's dog.
It broke into my house. It ate my homework.
And yet, instead of tracking down this criminal canine, you're grilling me
about my "Tale of Two Cities" book report? That's some...
-Bull[bleep].
[ Laughter ]
-Interesting -- we had to beep it that time
because it wasn't us repeating the news.
It was us using him to make a punchline of a joke.
[ Laughter ] So, when we use it as a joke, we have to beep it,
but when it's newsworthy,
we're allowed to do it the way it was said.
And I think explaining it the way I'm doing it
is newsworthy.
[ Laughter ]
[ Applause ]
Which I think is [bleep] cool?
Let's find out.
[ Laughter and applause ] Let's watch tonight.
Let's watch tonight.
I think I was making news.
Ooh! I know what -- If Bill Barr gets a talk show,
he can show what I just did.
[ Laughter ]
Again, that testimony, in particular, is so important
because it establishes that Trump knew what he was doing.
He had criminal intent.
It was a plan, not a whim.
He and his cronies want you to think January 6th
was just some random, one-off event
that was neither preplanned
nor part of a broader attempt to overthrow the government.
For example, Rudy has a podcast --
because I guess that's what they give you now,
instead of meds -- where [ Laughter ]
he reacted to the first committee hearing
by claiming the FBI had found no evidence
of preplanning for the January 6th attack.
-They have become, not just an embarrassment.
They've become a danger to the freedom of Americans.
The FBI, in its investigation, found no such structure.
They found that --
pretty shortly after, they found that there was
no evidence of preplanning of this event.
So, then you'd have to say
it was some kind of a spontaneous --
And I think, by this time, we're all quite convinced, now,
that it's not a -- uh,
it's not an insurrection.
It's a -- It's a riot.
And -- And -- And one that, according to the FBI,
on several occasions, was not preplanned.
-Alright, first of all, the Justice Department
has already charged multiple members
of militias and other right-wing groups
with seditious conspiracy, so that's wrong.
Second, how the [bleep] does Rudy
have more than one camera set up? I mean...
[ Laughter ]
[ Fresh laughter and applause ]
...I did --
You guys, I did an actual network television show
by myself, in my house, for a year.
All I had was an iPad and a ring light.
And then everyone in the YouTube comment section
was saying mean things to me, like,
"Is this show hosted by Tintin's ghost?"
[ Laughter and applause ]
I would've killed for a second camera
or a cool leather chair like that.
[ Laughter ] Rudy's supposed to be
the drunk, crazy person trying to overthrow the government.
Meanwhile, he's got a multicam setup in his office,
with a desk and a leather chair
and I was the one with my hair down to my shoulders,
talking to a [bleep] painting of a Sea Captain.
[ Laughter and applause ]
By the way, if you're wondering
where the Sea Captain went,
he ran into a little legal trouble.
[ Laughter and applause ]
I told him to get off 4chan, but he wouldn't listen!
[ Laughter ]
Also, I want to go back to this.
-They have become, not just an embarrassment.
They've become a danger to the freedom of Americans.
-You really want to call anyone else an embarrassment?
Is that really the word you want to use?
[ Laughter ] There was an entire nationally televised
congressional hearing, this week,
about you being a sloppy drunk.
[ Laughter ] You used to be on magazine covers,
as America's Mayor, and now, you're most famous
for screaming outside a landscaping company,
like a guy who was trying to return a used bag of mulch.
[ Laughter ] [ As Giuliani ] So what if I already put it?
Yeah, yeah, what if I already put the mulch down and I
decided I don't want any more, so I scooped it all back up
and I put it back in the bag? And no, you cannot
hold me responsible if there's a dog turd in there.
[ Laughter ] If you should blame anyone,
it's the dog who broke into my house!
[ Laughter ]
So, they knew the allegations of fraud were all insane.
It was a scam. And there's really
no better proof of the fact that it was a scam
than this detail, revealed
by one of the members of the committee.
Trump campaign official Kimberly Guilfoyle,
who is also Donald Trump Jr.'s fiancée,
was paid an absolutely grotesque amount of money
for her speech on the day of the insurrection,
a speech that lasted less than three minutes.
-The committee has found information
that Kimberly Guilfoyle
was paid $60,000
to speak at the rally on January 6th,
$60,000 for a speech that was, what, three minutes?
-If that. -If that. Three minutes long.
And what have you heard, over the last several hours,
since that revelation,
about how people in Trumpworld feel about this?
-So, I want to say two things about that.
People in Trumpworld are sharing that clip.
They are aghast that this is the amount of money
that she got for a speech to introduce her boyfriend.
-$60,000 for a speech that was less than three minutes long,
and to introduce her fiancée.
If there was ever a man who needed no introduction,
[ Laughter ] it's Don Jr. at a far-right conservative rally.
That's like going up at a "Star Trek" convention
to introduce William Shatner.
Uh, they know him.
[ Laughter ]
[ Transatlantic accent ] Many years ago, a starship
set out on a five-year mission.
"Move, or we'll kill you!"
[ Laughter ] By the way,
now, I guess we know what she really meant
when she said this at the RNC in 2020 --
-The best is yet
to come!
-$5,200.
[ Laughter and applause ]
-Also, if she genuinely thought
this was a revolution to save America from tyranny,
then why was she getting paid at all?
It's not a corporate speaking gig
where you charge your standard rate.
You think Paul Revere got paid for his midnight ride?
[ Laughter ] [ New York accent ] "I need to bring the lights.
I got to remember my lines.
You're making me use my own horse."
Who can forget his famous quote?
[ Laughter and cheering ]
The committee has proven, in exhaustive detail,
not just that Trump's stolen election claims were BS,
but he knew they were BS and virtually
everyone around him told him they were BS.
They were both a scam to raise money
and a fabricated pretext for an attempted coup,
a coup orchestrated, in part, by Rudy Giuliani,
whose blood alcohol level on election night was roughly...
-60,000.
[ Laughter ]
-This has been "A Closer Look."
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