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>> Stephen: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN --
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) -- WELCOME BACK, FOLKS!
MY FIRST GUEST TONIGHT IS A POLITICAL ANALYST, AUTHOR AND
THE HOST OF "THE REIDOUT" ON MSNBC, PLEASE WELCOME JOY REID!
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>> WOW!
THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE.
>> Stephen: THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE.
IS THIS LARGER THAN YOUR AUDIENCE OPEN YOUR SHOW.
> SLIGHTLY.
I HAVE A STAGE MANAGER AND ANOTHER LADY.
>> Stephen: THAT'S IT.
YES.
>> Stephen: NICE TO MEET YOU IN PERSON.
>> YES.
>> Stephen: WE TALKED BEFORE THE ELECTION.
>> RIGHT.
>> Stephen: RIGHT BEFORE THE 2020 ELECTION.
THAT WAS A HARROWING TIME.
>> IT WAS QUITE A TIME.
>> Stephen: LET'S TALK ABOUT ONE OF THOSE HARROWING TIME WHEN
YOU WERE ON AND I WAS STILL UP IN THE STORAGE ROOM AND I
COULDN'T SEE MY STAFF, BEFORE THE ELECTION, YOU EXPRESSED SOME
TREPIDATION AT THE TIME THAT YOU THOUGHT THAT PERHAPS THE
REPUBLICANS WOULD ATTEMPT TO GAIN THE ELECTION BY CLAIMING
THAT BIDEN ONLY WON THROUGH CHEATING OR SOMETHING AND
UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMACY OF THE ELECTION.
>> YEAH.
>> Stephen: YOU WERE -- RIGHT.
YES.
>> Stephen: AND I AM CURIOUS IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE YOU
WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT.
>> I DON'T HAVE LOTTERY NUMBERS.
THE REALITY IS IT WASN'T THE POWERS OF PROGNOSTICATION
BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP SAID THAT'S WHAT HE WAS GOING TO.
DO HE MADE IT VERY CLEAR THE ONLY WAY JOE BIDEN COULD WIN THE
ELECTION WAS THROUGH CHEATING AND FRAUD AND WAS TELEGRAPHING
HE WAS GOING TO ANCHOR THAT ALLEGED CHEATING AND FRAUD IN
THE VOTES OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS, AND HE TARGETED CITIES AND
COUNTIES AFTER THE ELECTION, AS EXPECTED, WHERE BLACK AND BROWN
PEOPLE MAJORITY VOTE.
AND IT'S NOT AN UNUSUAL STRATEGY, LET'S JUST SAY, FOR
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, OVER THE DECADES, TO ALLEGE VOTER FRAUD
AND TO FIXATE THAT VOTER FRAUD ON VOTERS OF COLOR.
IT'S NOT EXACTLY A STRATEGY.
>> Stephen: BUT NOT TO THIS EXTENT.
>> WELL, NOT TO THE POINT WHERE THEY THEN ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO GO
AND OVERTHROW THE RESULT BY INVADING -- PHYSICALLY INVADING
THE CAPITOL.
THAT IS A NEW ONE.
>> Stephen: AND SUCH A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF REPUBLICAN VOTERS
BELIEVE THE BIG LIE.
>> YEAH.
>> Stephen: WHAT'S THE NEXT TOOL DO YOU THINK THEY MIGHT
USE?
ANYTHING ON THE HORIZON THAT YOU'RE HEARING PEOPLE ALREADY
TALK ABOUT?
>> WHAT'S FRIGHTENING ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENED IS THAT, YOU
KNOW, AGAIN, THERE HAVE BEEN ALWAYS BEEN THESE INTIMATIONS
THAT D.M.s ONLY WIN THROUGH FRAUD.
THIS HAPPENED WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA WON, YOU KNOW.
THERE WAS THAT MEME THAT HE ONLY WON BECAUSE OF FRAUD.
YOU HAD DURING THE GEORGE W.
BUSH ADMINISTRATION THIS ATTEMPT TO PUSH U.S. ATTORNEYS TO
INVESTIGATE SO-CALLED VOTER RAY FRAUD.
THIS ISN'T A NEW THING, BUT WHAT DONALD TRUMP HAS DONE IS
WEAPONIZED THAT LEARNED FEAR AMONG REPUBLICANS THAT ELECTIONS
ARE BEING REGULARLY STOLEN FROM THEM PARTICULARLY BY VOTERS OF
COLOR, AND WHAT THEY'VE DONE NOW IS USED THAT BIG LIE TO PASS
LAWS TO MAKE IT MUCH, MUCH HARDER FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR, FOR
OLDER PEOPLE, FOR POORER PEOPLE TO VOTE, BECAUSE WHAT THEY'RE
TRYING TO SAY TO THEIR VOTERS IS THE WAY WE'LL FIX THIS FRAUD IS
THAT WE WILL GUARANTEE THAT IF YOU WILL COME TO THE POLLS, WE
WILL GUARANTEE YOU THAT YOU WILL WIN.
IF YOU DON'T WIN AT THE BALLOT BOX, WE'LL FIX IT AFTERWARDS,
AND THAT'S WHAT THE LAWS IN TEXAS AND GEORGIA AND ARIZONA
ARE DOING.
THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S A GUARANTEED VICTORY.
>> Stephen: IN TEXAS, FOR THE PEOPLE WHORCHT FOLLOWED, IN
TEXAS, AS IN MANY STATES, BUT IN TEXAS IN PARTICULAR THERE'S AN
ANTI-VOTING RIGHTS BEING PUSHED BY GOVERNOR ABBOTT.
THE TEXAS D.M.s HAVE LEFT SO THERE WON'T BE A QUORUM WHERE
THEY CAN'T VOTE IN THE SESSION.
THEY WILL CERTAINLY STALL IT.
LINDSEY GRAHAM SAYS THE SAME THING WILL HAPPEN WITH THE
REPUBLICANS IN THE UNITED STATES TO STOP THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL
THAT THEY SHOULD LEAVE.
DO YOU HAVE THOUGHTS ON THAT'S?
>> I THINK THEY SHOULD DO THAT.
I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA.
IT'S A PHENOMENAL IDEA.
I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD LISTEN, LISTEN TO LINDSEY GRAHAM.
>> Stephen: BUT THE THING IS WHAT'S ODD ABOUT IT, WHEN I
HEARD HIM SAY THAT, I THOUGHT THE TEXAS PEOPLE LEAVE TEXAS
BECAUSE THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT CAN'T GOO ARREST THEM IN ANOTHER
STATE.
U.S. SENATORS WOULD HAVE TO LEAVE THE UNITED STATES AND
FOREVER BECAUSE IT'S NOT LIKE THERE'S A SPECIAL SESSION,
SENATE'S IN.
>> RIGHT.
AND THE OTHER THING IS THE WAY IT WORKS IN THE TEXAS
LEGISLATURE IS NOT THE WAY IT WORKS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
IF THEY LEFT, D.M.s COULD SIMPLY PASS WHATEVER BILLS THEY
WANTED WITH THE SENATORS WHO ARE THERE.
IT'S NOT THE SAME SORT OF SYSTEM.
LINDSEY GRAHAM HAS BEEN A SENATOR A REALLY LONG TIME, HE
SHOULD KNOW HOW THIS WORKS.
LET'S SEE THE REPUBLICANS WERE TO PULL A TEXAS DEMS AND LEAVE,
THEN THEY COULD PASS WITH MAJORITY RULES.
SO I'M, LIKE, YEAH, LEAVE, AND WE CAN PASS ALL OF THE BILLS
THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NEED.
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: NOW ONE OF THE
THINGS THAT'S A LITTLE BIT DISTRESSING ABOUT POLLING THAT
I'VE SEEN RECENTLY IS THAT THE BASICALLY ESSENTIALLY THE SAME
PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THE BIG LIE HAVE A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THE
PEOPLE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THEY SHOULD BECOME VACCINATED.
NOT EXACTLY THE SAME, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF CORRELATION
BETWEEN THE TWO.
>> YEAH.
>> Stephen: IS THERE ANY MESSAGE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ON
YOUR SHOW TO PEOPLE ABOUT VACCINATIONS, PROS AND CONS?
>> THIS IS WHAT FRIGHTENS ME BECAUSE -- I TWEETED THIS AND
I'LL JUST SAY IT AGAIN -- THE SAME PEOPLE ARE TELLING YOU YOU
SHOULD NOT BE VACCINATED ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO ARE SAYING THERE
ARE BAMBOO SHARDS OF TRUMP BALLOT IN CHICKEN POOP IN
ARIZONA, AND YOU SHOULD COMB THROUGH THE CHICKEN POOP, FIND
THE BAMBOO BALLOTS WHICH ARE OBVIOUSLY FROM CHINA BECAUSE --
BAMBOO BALLOTS -- AND THEREFORE TRUMP WON BY A BAZILEIAN VOTES,
AND THOSE SAME PEOPLE ARE SAYING DON'T GET VACCINATED.
THEY'RE GOING TO KILL YOU.
DON'T LISTEN TO THOSE PEOPLE.
>> Stephen: I FORGET ABOUT THE BAMBOO BALLOTS, BECAUSE THEY
GROUND UP THE BALLOTS AND THE ONLY WAY TO GET RID OF PAPER AND
BAMBOO IS TO FEED IT TO CHICKENS.
>> OBVIOUSLY.
>> Stephen: THEN YOU HAVE TO BURN THE CHICKENS.
>> AND YOU CAN GELT BARBECUE OUT OF IT AND YOU GET THE CHICKEN
POOP.
>> Stephen: WE HAVE TO TAKE A QUICK BREAK BUT DON'T GO AWAY
BECAUSE WHEN WE COME BACK I WILL ASK JOY ABOUT DIFFERENT ANCHORS
ON DIFFERENT NEWS NETWORKS WHO POOH-POOH THE VACCINE AND WON'T
SAY WHETHER THEY HAVE BEEN INOCULATED.
STICK AROUND.
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