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<i>Yes.
I just received a big postcard</i>

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<i>from the Lincoln Project,
and I am just appalled</i>

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<i>at the lies that you guys
are putting out.</i>

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<i>Why would you want
socialist government</i>

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<i>to take over this nation?</i>

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<i>It makes me want to work
harder for President Trump.</i>

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<i>The Lincoln Project.
Who are you?</i>

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<i>Yeah.
I just wanted to let you know</i>

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<i>that there's a special place
in hell</i>

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<i>waiting for you,
you Communist bastards.</i>

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This message is for Goldie.

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<i>No matter what you do,
we are still voting for Trump.</i>

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<i>We love Trump.</i>

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<i>Hi.
This message is for Goldie.</i>

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<i>All of my friends
are not voting for Biden.</i>

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<i>Goodbye.</i>

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<i>This is for
Michael Steele, Rick Wilson.</i>

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<i>Youse all suck cock,</i>

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<i>you fucking lowlife
nigger motherfuckers.</i>

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<i>And Rick Wilson, you're
a fucking punk, motherfucker.</i>

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<i>I'd like to smack you
in your fucking face,</i>

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<i>you ugly cocksucker.</i>

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Trump supporters decided

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<i>that Donald Trump
is the avatar of their rage,</i>

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<i>and their anger,
and their hatred.</i>

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<i>There's a part of me, maybe
in the beginning of this,</i>

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<i>that would have said,</i>

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<i>"Wow. I've gotta really look
at it from their perspective."</i>

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<i>But you know,
after the tenth time your kids</i>

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<i>get a death threat from these
fucking people, you're done.</i>

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<i>I fucking brought my passport
to Utah.</i>

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<i>You don't do that,
unless there's something</i>

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<i>in the back
of your head thinking,</i>

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<i>"We may have to get the fuck
out of here quick."</i>

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<i>You're a wolf
in sheep's clothing.</i>

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<i>You're a Democrat.</i>

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<i>You're working against
the Republican Party?</i>

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<i>Okay. You're a piece
of worthless, torrid crap.</i>

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<i>Your whole Lincoln Project.
You're shit!</i>

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<i>dramatic music</i>

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<i>So Russians talk about
lozhnaya informatsiya,</i>

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<i>which is, in essence, false
information with a purpose,</i>

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<i>and that's really
what's been going on here.</i>

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<i>They've started this
"election fraud's a problem."</i>

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<i>That's been a narrative
since the beginning, right?</i>

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<i>They've been laying
this groundwork forever.</i>

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<i>This was just the other day.
It's from--</i>

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<i>He literally lays it all out
right here.</i>

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<i>And we are going
to win four more years.</i>

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<i>Four more years!
Four more years!</i>

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<i>- Four more years!
- And then after that,</i>

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<i>we'll go for another
four years,</i>

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<i>because you know what?
They spied on my campaign.</i>

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<i>We should get a redo
of four years.</i>

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<i>Because the only way
we're gonna lose this election</i>

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<i>is if the election is rigged.
Remember that.</i>

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Why do democracies fail?

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<i>What I have seen,
in places like Venezuela,</i>

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<i>Russia, Belarus,</i>

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<i>where you've had
democratically-elected</i>

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<i>people become autocratic leaders,</i>

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<i>there's a tipping point
where they cross it</i>

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<i>and where giving up power
is more of a threat</i>

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<i>than peacefully transitioning.</i>

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<i>And it sounds like
high-minded conversation,</i>

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<i>but in reality, it's something
that we may end up facing here.</i>

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<i>So beyond that,
create an existential threat.</i>

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<i>They say that they're gonna
threaten riots if they lose.</i>

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<i>We'll put 'em down very
quickly, if they do that.</i>

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How are you gonna do that?

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<i>We have the right to do that.</i>

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<i>We have the power
to do that, if we want.</i>

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<i>Look, it's called insurrection.</i>

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<i>We just send in,
and we do it very easy.</i>

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It's all about division.

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<i>Chaos. That's what they want.</i>

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It's the ecosystem.

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<i>I mean, it is incredibly
efficient and effective.</i>

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<i>This is Trump saying
he's never gonna concede.</i>

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<i>Can you give a direct answer?
You will accept the election?</i>

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<i>I have to see. No,
I'm not gonna just say yes.</i>

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<i>I'm not gonna say no,
and I didn't last time, either.</i>

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<i>And when the peaceful
transition of power fails,</i>

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<i>then all of the normal rules</i>

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<i>under which we operate
may go off.</i>

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<i>Like, what percentage
right now,</i>

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<i>of Republicans,
no matter what happens,</i>

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<i>they're gonna say
that Donald Trump was cheated?</i>

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<i>It's high. They're gonna have
the party behind 'em.</i>

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<i>They'll all rally to him.</i>

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<i>This is our experience
from '15, and '16,</i>

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<i>and '17, and '18, and '19.</i>

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<i>Every time someone gambles</i>

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<i>that somebody's
standing up to this guy...</i>

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<i>It doesn't happen.</i>

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<i>They have violence</i>

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<i>and the threat of violence
on their side.</i>

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<i>When it's given
the right prompting</i>

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<i>by the right
kind of authoritarians,</i>

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<i>all the veneer of civilization
goes, like that.</i>

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<i>soft music</i>

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<i>Hey, honey.</i>

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<i>Hi, Mommy.</i>

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<i>You asked me to wake you</i>

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<i>and tell you what happened
in the election.</i>

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<i>Who won?</i>

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<i>Trump. Trump won.</i>

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<i>But I thought you could only be
president two times.</i>

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Not anymore.

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<i>Four more years!
Four more years!</i>

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<i>Four more years,
four more years!</i>

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<i>The Lincoln Project
is responsible</i>

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<i>for the content
of this advertising.</i>

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<i>What they're
asking you to do</i>

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<i>is take their temperature
before you get to school,</i>

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<i>so that they--'cause
a temperature check--</i>

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<i>Yeah.
Last time it didn't work.</i>

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<i>Well, it did work.
It was just different.</i>

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<i>Yeah, so Friday is
the school party, and then...</i>

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<i>I have twin boys,
Abel and Eli.</i>

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<i>I don't know about, like,
what you want to do</i>

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<i>about trick-or-treating
on Saturday.</i>

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<i>When I had my embryos implanted,</i>

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<i>my parents were not happy.</i>

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<i>They're very pro-life, and I
thought that was something</i>

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<i>that they would celebrate,
because it's life.</i>

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<i>They were like, "We're praying
about it, Sarah."</i>

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<i>It was one of those moments
in my life</i>

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<i>that I was really--
I-I didn't understand.</i>

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<i>I don't know that
I'll ever understand.</i>

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<i>All right. You good?</i>

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<i>I'm gonna go down
and give you a kiss goodbye.</i>

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<i>I'm going
to the airport,</i>

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<i>- and you're going to Denver.
- Oh!</i>

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<i>Now, my parents,
they feel very differently.</i>

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<i>They tell me that Abel
and Eli, they're the...</i>

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<i>greatest gift
that they've ever had.</i>

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<i>I love you. I'll see you.
I'll call you tonight.</i>

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<i>I like your car.</i>

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<i>Yeah. He loves cars.
Have fun!</i>

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<i>Actually, I'm sad that
they're leaving this week,</i>

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<i>but there's more to do
than I expected.</i>

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<i>So first of all, we're dropping
four spots today</i>

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<i>and debuting one tonight,</i>

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<i>so we already dropped Fairytale.</i>

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<i>A man
comes down from his tower</i>

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<i>and is crowned the most
powerful man on Earth.</i>

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<i>He gives from the rich
and takes from the poor.</i>

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<i>We dropped a Joe Biden aspirational.</i>

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This is Joe Biden's moment.

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<i>Also, tomorrow,
we're gonna drop the 545.</i>

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<i>It's called Cruel.</i>

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<i>It's about the 545 children
that are still in cages.</i>

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<i>Trump's plan was
to crush immigrant children.</i>

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<i>So starting this Tuesday
through November 3rd</i>

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<i>has to be done and approved
by Facebook by Saturday night.</i>

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<i>We need to get all these
South Carolina ones done.</i>

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<i>Reed disagrees. Reed thinks
that those can go.</i>

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<i>Those can go on Facebook.</i>

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<i>They just will go
without money.</i>

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<i>What do you mean it can go
on Facebook without money?</i>

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<i>What does that mean?</i>

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<i>There will be no digital
campaign behind it,</i>

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<i>so we won't be shoving it
into a specific state.</i>

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<i>I want to--where is Reed?</i>

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<i>Reed is not gonna be
on this call.</i>

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<i>Is Rick on?</i>

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No.

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<i>Guys have limited time.</i>

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<i>We have a day and a half
for them to do this.</i>

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<i>I have no higher priority
than getting squared away</i>

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<i>in these senate races,</i>

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<i>so, like, we don't need to do
a Biden positive spot</i>

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<i>at the expense of doing what we
need to do in South Carolina.</i>

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<i>Like, I literally don't want
to have to find a roof</i>

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<i>to jump off of,
because, you know,</i>

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<i>Lindsey Graham won
by 900 votes in South Carolina.</i>

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<i>Yeah.
- I wanna do everything we can</i>

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<i>as an organization, right,</i>

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<i>to get Lindsey Graham
out of there.</i>

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<i>Okay. All right.</i>

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<i>And I'll say this.</i>

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<i>This is like a story
that's never been told, right,</i>

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<i>in connection
with the Donald Trump thing.</i>

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<i>When I took over
the McCain campaign,</i>

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<i>I was put in charge
of everything</i>

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<i>except the VP vetting.</i>

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<i>And so the idea was, like,
we'd pick Lieberman.</i>

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<i>McCain picked a great Democrat,</i>

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<i>and we're gonna solve this
country's biggest problems,</i>

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<i>but it was dependent
on secrecy,</i>

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<i>and Lindsey Graham
went out and leaked it.</i>

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<i>So that was off, right?</i>

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<i>And so I say we should
take a look at Palin.</i>

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<i>And I said, "I don't know
anything about her,</i>

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<i>other than she has
the highest approval level</i>

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<i>of any governor."</i>

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<i>Biggest fucking mistake
of my entire life</i>

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<i>and that I will regret,
until the day I die,</i>

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<i>is what happened
the next morning.</i>

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<i>Sarah Palin comes rolling down
into McCain's compound,</i>

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<i>in Sedona, Arizona,</i>

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<i>and McCain
goes to me and Mark Salter,</i>

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<i>he goes, "Come on, boys."</i>

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<i>He goes,
"Let's go talk to her."</i>

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<i>And I go, "It's totally
inappropriate for us</i>

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<i>to be in the meeting."</i>

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<i>After they met for two hours,</i>

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<i>we went for a walk
by the river.</i>

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<i>I go, "Listen, is she ready?"</i>

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<i>He goes, "She'll be ready."</i>

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<i>And Cindy McCain said,
"It's a gamble."</i>

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<i>And he said,</i>

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<i>"Well, you shouldn't
have said that to me, Cindy,</i>

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<i>'cause you know
how much I like craps."</i>

216
00:10:19,827 --> 00:10:21,829
<i>I never told the story.</i>

217
00:10:21,871 --> 00:10:25,916
<i>John McCain pretended to
fucking roll dice in his hand,</i>

218
00:10:25,958 --> 00:10:29,295
<i>and he blew out his hand,
he went--and he threw the dice,</i>

219
00:10:29,337 --> 00:10:31,797
<i>and he said,
"Fuck it. Let's do it."</i>

220
00:10:34,216 --> 00:10:36,677
<i>Thank you.</i>

221
00:10:36,719 --> 00:10:39,430
<i>Three days after
we got to the convention,</i>

222
00:10:39,472 --> 00:10:40,931
<i>I had my first,
like, discussion</i>

223
00:10:40,973 --> 00:10:43,309
<i>of any substance with her.</i>

224
00:10:43,351 --> 00:10:45,811
<i>Ten minutes later,
I was showing her on a map,</i>

225
00:10:45,853 --> 00:10:49,523
<i>you know, this is Iraq,
this is Afghanistan.</i>

226
00:10:49,565 --> 00:10:51,317
Jesus Christ.

227
00:10:51,359 --> 00:10:54,820
<i>People in the caves
here attacked us.</i>

228
00:10:54,862 --> 00:10:56,405
<i>We attacked this country.</i>

229
00:10:56,447 --> 00:11:00,785
<i>Saddam Hussein is here.
Osama bin Laden is here.</i>

230
00:11:00,826 --> 00:11:04,330
<i>And later that day,
I had to tell her</i>

231
00:11:04,372 --> 00:11:05,831
<i>that no, it wasn't
the Queen of England.</i>

232
00:11:05,873 --> 00:11:07,166
<i>It was the
British Prime Minister</i>

233
00:11:07,208 --> 00:11:09,001
<i>that the President dealt with.</i>

234
00:11:09,043 --> 00:11:13,673
<i>So that was like
when I knew.</i>

235
00:11:13,714 --> 00:11:16,676
<i>Don't you think we
made the right choice</i>

236
00:11:16,717 --> 00:11:18,844
<i>for the next vice president
of the United States?</i>

237
00:11:20,888 --> 00:11:22,473
Fifty states in this country.

238
00:11:22,515 --> 00:11:24,642
<i>She is the most popular governor,</i>

239
00:11:24,684 --> 00:11:26,519
<i>of any governor, of any state.</i>

240
00:11:26,560 --> 00:11:29,647
<i>She is the future
of the Republican party.</i>

241
00:11:29,689 --> 00:11:32,733
<i>She's going to be
an outstanding vice president.</i>

242
00:11:32,775 --> 00:11:35,695
<i>Steve is in a very
small group of people</i>

243
00:11:35,736 --> 00:11:38,656
<i>that have been what
we call the number one--</i>

244
00:11:38,698 --> 00:11:41,742
<i>the person in charge
of the presidential, the race.</i>

245
00:11:41,784 --> 00:11:45,663
<i>There's maybe a dozen people
alive that have done that.</i>

246
00:11:45,705 --> 00:11:48,040
<i>You are going to make decisions</i>

247
00:11:48,082 --> 00:11:50,251
<i>that are going to change
the course of history,</i>

248
00:11:50,292 --> 00:11:52,503
<i>whether you win or lose.</i>

249
00:11:54,755 --> 00:11:57,174
<i>That decision created
a cascading effect</i>

250
00:11:57,216 --> 00:12:00,720
<i>for the Republican Party
and for the country now.</i>

251
00:12:00,761 --> 00:12:04,056
<i>So what they're gonna try to do
is make you scared of me.</i>

252
00:12:04,098 --> 00:12:07,685
<i>Our opponent sees
America as imperfect enough</i>

253
00:12:07,727 --> 00:12:10,354
<i>to pal around with terrorists</i>

254
00:12:10,396 --> 00:12:12,064
<i>who targeted their own country.</i>

255
00:12:12,106 --> 00:12:15,192
<i>Boo!</i>

256
00:12:15,234 --> 00:12:16,652
Barack Obama is a socialist.

257
00:12:16,694 --> 00:12:19,739
<i>He believes
in redistributing wealth.</i>

258
00:12:19,780 --> 00:12:21,532
<i>He scares me.</i>

259
00:12:21,574 --> 00:12:23,743
<i>He scares me, because I believe
that he's a Marxist.</i>

260
00:12:23,784 --> 00:12:26,078
<i>"You know, he doesn't look like
all those other presidents</i>

261
00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:28,581
<i>on those dollar bills.
You know?"</i>

262
00:12:28,622 --> 00:12:31,667
<i>He's related to a, uh,
known terrorist.</i>

263
00:12:31,709 --> 00:12:35,796
<i>Tell me he's American.
No, he is not.</i>

264
00:12:35,838 --> 00:12:37,590
<i>People are trying to figure out</i>

265
00:12:37,631 --> 00:12:39,633
<i>why isn't he giving
his birth certificate?</i>

266
00:12:39,675 --> 00:12:44,221
<i>I appreciate that The Donald
wants to spend his resources</i>

267
00:12:44,263 --> 00:12:46,766
<i>in getting to the bottom of
something that so interests him</i>

268
00:12:46,807 --> 00:12:48,434
<i>and many Americans.</i>

269
00:12:48,476 --> 00:12:50,728
<i>Barack Obama
is the first illegal</i>

270
00:12:50,770 --> 00:12:53,105
<i>that needs to be removed from
the United States of America!</i>

271
00:12:53,147 --> 00:12:55,399
<i>That Muslim,
no-good-for-nothing,</i>

272
00:12:55,441 --> 00:12:58,110
<i>- Communist piece of shit!
- Yeah!</i>

273
00:12:58,152 --> 00:12:59,445
<i>- It's bullshit!
- Bullshit!</i>

274
00:12:59,487 --> 00:13:02,531
<i>And guess what, Obama?
You're fired!</i>

275
00:13:04,742 --> 00:13:06,869
Tonight, Sarah Palin is back.

276
00:13:06,911 --> 00:13:10,372
<i>Are you ready to make
America great again?</i>

277
00:13:10,414 --> 00:13:12,291
Shaking up the Republican race

278
00:13:12,333 --> 00:13:15,211
<i>with just 13 days to go
before the Iowa caucuses.</i>

279
00:13:15,252 --> 00:13:18,255
<i>Build that wall!
Build that wall!</i>

280
00:13:18,297 --> 00:13:20,466
<i>Build that wall!</i>

281
00:13:20,508 --> 00:13:22,259
You want to be in America?

282
00:13:22,301 --> 00:13:24,136
<i>A, you better
be here illegally,</i>

283
00:13:24,178 --> 00:13:25,554
<i>or you're outta here.</i>

284
00:13:25,596 --> 00:13:28,474
<i>B, when you're here,
let's speak American.</i>

285
00:13:30,643 --> 00:13:31,936
What they're tapping into

286
00:13:31,977 --> 00:13:36,482
<i>is this peculiar
form of isolationism,</i>

287
00:13:36,524 --> 00:13:39,068
<i>and rejecting expertise,</i>

288
00:13:39,109 --> 00:13:42,154
<i>and claiming it as a virtue.</i>

289
00:13:42,822 --> 00:13:46,492
<i>It began in that moment.
It had always been there,</i>

290
00:13:46,534 --> 00:13:49,036
<i>but that's where it was given
the imprimatur of the party,</i>

291
00:13:49,078 --> 00:13:51,747
<i>at the highest levels.</i>

292
00:13:54,375 --> 00:13:56,877
<i>And the party's
never turned back.</i>

293
00:14:03,175 --> 00:14:06,428
<i>edgy music</i>

294
00:14:06,470 --> 00:14:09,139
<i>With eight days
left until the election,</i>

295
00:14:09,181 --> 00:14:12,810
<i>early voting has already
soared to record highs.</i>

296
00:14:16,522 --> 00:14:20,150
<i>More than 60 million people
have cast ballots.</i>

297
00:14:20,192 --> 00:14:22,528
<i>Trump continues
to cast doubt</i>

298
00:14:22,570 --> 00:14:24,864
<i>on the integrity
of the election,</i>

299
00:14:24,905 --> 00:14:27,992
<i>making outlandish predictions
of widespread fraud,</i>

300
00:14:28,033 --> 00:14:29,702
<i>as he did today,</i>

301
00:14:29,743 --> 00:14:32,121
<i>while speaking
to voters in Pennsylvania.</i>

302
00:14:32,162 --> 00:14:35,791
<i>We're watching you, Governor,
very closely, in Philadelphia.</i>

303
00:14:35,833 --> 00:14:37,835
<i>We're watching you.</i>

304
00:14:37,877 --> 00:14:39,378
<i>This morning,
Texas Governor Greg Abbott</i>

305
00:14:39,420 --> 00:14:41,046
<i>restricting the number
of ballot drop boxes</i>

306
00:14:41,088 --> 00:14:44,550
<i>in each of the state's
counties to just one.</i>

307
00:14:44,592 --> 00:14:45,885
<i>Harris County,</i>

308
00:14:45,926 --> 00:14:47,553
<i>which includes
the city of Houston,</i>

309
00:14:47,595 --> 00:14:51,891
<i>is nearly 1,800 square miles.
Larger than Rhode Island.</i>

310
00:14:51,932 --> 00:14:54,852
<i>The bus ain't gonna
bring you here.</i>

311
00:14:54,894 --> 00:14:56,604
<i>You can't walk across
this parking lot.</i>

312
00:14:56,645 --> 00:14:58,063
<i>They're not gonna let you,</i>

313
00:14:58,105 --> 00:15:00,941
<i>so you have to have
some type of vehicle</i>

314
00:15:00,983 --> 00:15:03,652
<i>to get you into this location.</i>

315
00:15:03,694 --> 00:15:05,237
<i>It's just impossible
to imagine</i>

316
00:15:05,279 --> 00:15:07,948
<i>what Governor Abbott
is doing here</i>

317
00:15:07,990 --> 00:15:10,409
<i>other than restricting
voting access.</i>

318
00:15:14,204 --> 00:15:16,707
<i>We are fundraising.
10 million for Texas,</i>

319
00:15:16,749 --> 00:15:18,459
<i>so we're doing a big media
push on it,</i>

320
00:15:18,500 --> 00:15:20,878
<i>to try to help with
that fundraising effort.</i>

321
00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:23,005
<i>- Okey-dokey.
- So I need...</i>

322
00:15:23,047 --> 00:15:24,256
So 10 for Texas is an idea

323
00:15:24,298 --> 00:15:26,592
<i>that Rick and John
have come up with,</i>

324
00:15:26,634 --> 00:15:31,347
<i>the founders, about raising
10 million for Texas.</i>

325
00:15:31,388 --> 00:15:34,934
<i>John lives in Austin, Texas.</i>

326
00:15:34,975 --> 00:15:38,729
<i>John, do we know when we're
looking at taking that live?</i>

327
00:15:38,771 --> 00:15:43,609
<i>He's still recovering from his
heart condition that he had,</i>

328
00:15:43,651 --> 00:15:45,444
<i>but he knows Texas
better than any of us</i>

329
00:15:45,486 --> 00:15:46,862
<i>are gonna know Texas.</i>

330
00:15:46,904 --> 00:15:48,614
And I do think Joe Biden

331
00:15:48,656 --> 00:15:50,449
<i>has a chance in Texas,
and I'll tell you why, Cheryl.</i>

332
00:15:50,491 --> 00:15:53,452
<i>We just got off a call
with Weaver and Rick,</i>

333
00:15:53,494 --> 00:15:57,122
<i>on the 10 for Texas thing
that we're working on.</i>

334
00:15:57,164 --> 00:15:59,083
<i>Fran, I don't know if--</i>

335
00:15:59,124 --> 00:16:02,336
<i>What is the 10
for--is that $10 million?</i>

336
00:16:02,378 --> 00:16:06,090
<i>Yes. We're trying
to do a push in Texas.</i>

337
00:16:06,131 --> 00:16:08,092
<i>Just to
push back a little bit,</i>

338
00:16:08,133 --> 00:16:09,718
<i>and I just want to make sure
that we feel</i>

339
00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,763
<i>that is the most efficient
place for our resources.</i>

340
00:16:12,805 --> 00:16:15,099
<i>There's nothing in the numbers
that backs up</i>

341
00:16:15,140 --> 00:16:17,893
<i>that this is worth
this level of investment.</i>

342
00:16:17,935 --> 00:16:20,771
<i>I totally could not
agree with you more.</i>

343
00:16:20,813 --> 00:16:24,024
<i>I will flag this for Rick
and let Rick or Reed</i>

344
00:16:24,066 --> 00:16:25,985
<i>call you back on it.</i>

345
00:16:28,862 --> 00:16:31,991
<i>Suddenly, near the end
of the campaign,</i>

346
00:16:32,032 --> 00:16:34,660
<i>John Weaver's now attempting
to get back in,</i>

347
00:16:34,702 --> 00:16:36,912
<i>and we're like,
"Well, you're sick.</i>

348
00:16:36,954 --> 00:16:39,289
<i>This is not a good idea,"</i>

349
00:16:39,331 --> 00:16:42,167
<i>'cause I guess he probably
saw the campaign</i>

350
00:16:42,209 --> 00:16:43,752
<i>maybe was gonna pass him by,</i>

351
00:16:43,794 --> 00:16:45,504
<i>and he wouldn't get
what he saw</i>

352
00:16:45,546 --> 00:16:48,799
<i>as his due share
of the credit.</i>

353
00:16:48,841 --> 00:16:50,592
<i>But the truth is we were
never gonna spend</i>

354
00:16:50,634 --> 00:16:52,845
<i>$10 million in Texas
in October.</i>

355
00:16:52,886 --> 00:16:54,888
<i>Like, we're just never
going to do that.</i>

356
00:16:56,890 --> 00:16:58,934
<i>This is what it
looked like, in 2016.</i>

357
00:16:58,976 --> 00:17:00,352
<i>Remember,
this is how Trump won.</i>

358
00:17:00,394 --> 00:17:02,312
<i>John Weaver would
call me, and call me,</i>

359
00:17:02,354 --> 00:17:04,773
<i>and call me constantly.</i>

360
00:17:04,815 --> 00:17:07,401
<i>And I decided to be
the lightning rod,</i>

361
00:17:07,443 --> 00:17:10,446
<i>because I didn't want them
to have to deal with it.</i>

362
00:17:10,487 --> 00:17:13,949
<i>I'm like, "Guys, I will
manage the John situation.</i>

363
00:17:13,991 --> 00:17:16,994
<i>I will yes John to death,
on this."</i>

364
00:17:17,036 --> 00:17:18,579
He could get Arizona.

365
00:17:18,620 --> 00:17:21,623
<i>He could pick up Georgia.
He'd be over 270.</i>

366
00:17:21,665 --> 00:17:23,625
<i>There are a number
of other options</i>

367
00:17:23,667 --> 00:17:25,502
<i>that present themselves
for Joe Biden.</i>

368
00:17:29,214 --> 00:17:32,843
<i>So Mom, hi.
This is Jennifer Horn.</i>

369
00:17:32,885 --> 00:17:34,928
<i>She's one of the founders
of the Lincoln Project.</i>

370
00:17:34,970 --> 00:17:37,181
<i>Hi, Mrs. Lenti. How are you?</i>

371
00:17:37,222 --> 00:17:39,850
<i>- Please call me Carol.
- Thank you.</i>

372
00:17:39,892 --> 00:17:41,393
<i>So Jennifer was the head
of the Republican Party</i>

373
00:17:41,435 --> 00:17:44,313
<i>for New Hampshire.
Dyed-in-the-wool Republican.</i>

374
00:17:44,354 --> 00:17:46,023
<i>I am not just a lifelong Republican.</i>

375
00:17:46,065 --> 00:17:48,817
<i>I'm a lifelong Catholic,
as well. I was raised--</i>

376
00:17:48,859 --> 00:17:50,652
In these last couple days,

377
00:17:50,694 --> 00:17:55,032
<i>I want my mom to hear that
there are pro-life women,</i>

378
00:17:55,074 --> 00:17:57,409
<i>like Jennifer, who are
conservatives first,</i>

379
00:17:57,451 --> 00:17:59,078
<i>who are part of this team.</i>

380
00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:01,830
<i>Maybe Jennifer's perspective--
she'd be open to it,</i>

381
00:18:01,872 --> 00:18:04,708
<i>because it was from
another woman of faith.</i>

382
00:18:04,750 --> 00:18:08,212
<i>And because I'm kind of
more conservative,</i>

383
00:18:08,253 --> 00:18:10,964
<i>I've always been Republican.
I've always voted Republican.</i>

384
00:18:11,006 --> 00:18:14,718
<i>But Donald Trump changed
all of that for me.</i>

385
00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:17,721
<i>Well, first of all, Joe Biden
and Donald Trump--</i>

386
00:18:17,763 --> 00:18:20,349
<i>neither of them are choir boys,</i>

387
00:18:20,390 --> 00:18:22,267
<i>and I wouldn't want
my daughter</i>

388
00:18:22,309 --> 00:18:24,645
<i>to date either of 'em,
to be perfectly honest.</i>

389
00:18:24,686 --> 00:18:27,648
<i>However, Sarah--however,</i>

390
00:18:27,689 --> 00:18:30,234
<i>I am an issue voter,</i>

391
00:18:30,275 --> 00:18:32,986
<i>and I really believe
that we are created</i>

392
00:18:33,028 --> 00:18:35,072
<i>in the image of God</i>

393
00:18:35,114 --> 00:18:39,284
<i>and that when it was made
legal it was easier to think,</i>

394
00:18:39,326 --> 00:18:41,453
<i>"Well, if it does happen,
I can end it."</i>

395
00:18:41,495 --> 00:18:44,748
<i>When before, it wasn't
that easy to do.</i>

396
00:18:44,790 --> 00:18:46,416
<i>You know what, Carol,
I don't disagree with you</i>

397
00:18:46,458 --> 00:18:48,293
<i>on a lot of what
you're talking about,</i>

398
00:18:48,335 --> 00:18:52,422
<i>but Donald Trump, to me,
he is instilling a culture</i>

399
00:18:52,464 --> 00:18:56,135
<i>that is truly anti
the value of life.</i>

400
00:18:56,176 --> 00:18:58,720
<i>So I don't feel like I am,
in any way,</i>

401
00:18:58,762 --> 00:19:02,141
<i>betraying my faith
or my religious upbringing</i>

402
00:19:02,182 --> 00:19:04,518
<i>when I vote
against Donald Trump.</i>

403
00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:06,019
<i>I'm not crazy about him either,</i>

404
00:19:06,061 --> 00:19:08,230
<i>but no one
is beyond redemption,</i>

405
00:19:08,272 --> 00:19:11,483
<i>so let's understand that,
you know, he can change too.</i>

406
00:19:11,525 --> 00:19:15,320
<i>But Trump is the
antithesis of everything</i>

407
00:19:15,362 --> 00:19:17,281
<i>that a Godly man should be.</i>

408
00:19:17,322 --> 00:19:19,992
<i>I don't want my sons
to ever model that behavior,</i>

409
00:19:20,033 --> 00:19:23,662
<i>and that behavior
starts at the top.</i>

410
00:19:23,704 --> 00:19:27,124
<i>And having that kid
go to Kenosha and shoot--</i>

411
00:19:27,166 --> 00:19:29,418
<i>There have been a lot
of Biden followers</i>

412
00:19:29,459 --> 00:19:31,086
<i>that have shot people,
and looted,</i>

413
00:19:31,128 --> 00:19:33,380
<i>and rioted also, so--</i>

414
00:19:33,422 --> 00:19:36,133
<i>We're talking about life.
Looting is one thing.</i>

415
00:19:36,175 --> 00:19:37,593
<i>Shooting two people.</i>

416
00:19:37,634 --> 00:19:40,470
<i>Killing people
is another thing, to me.</i>

417
00:19:40,512 --> 00:19:43,140
<i>Like, that's enough.</i>

418
00:19:43,182 --> 00:19:47,019
<i>You are so angry,
and you hate him so much.</i>

419
00:19:47,060 --> 00:19:50,814
<i>That is what you're running on,
instead of running on issues.</i>

420
00:19:50,856 --> 00:19:54,193
<i>I feel like I have
a better chance,</i>

421
00:19:54,234 --> 00:19:55,777
<i>in the pro-life arena,</i>

422
00:19:55,819 --> 00:19:58,155
<i>with Donald Trump
as president</i>

423
00:19:58,197 --> 00:20:01,116
<i>and a conservative
White House.</i>

424
00:20:08,916 --> 00:20:11,376
<i>Trump's going to Atlanta,
and they're spending.</i>

425
00:20:11,418 --> 00:20:13,045
<i>Zack, how much are they
spending on Atlanta?</i>

426
00:20:13,086 --> 00:20:14,504
<i>They're spending, like,
$50 million.</i>

427
00:20:14,546 --> 00:20:16,215
<i>Or no, sorry.
It's 2:1 in Georgia.</i>

428
00:20:16,256 --> 00:20:17,716
<i>I think it's like eight
to four, I want to say.</i>

429
00:20:17,758 --> 00:20:19,384
<i>Let me double check
those numbers and make sure.</i>

430
00:20:19,426 --> 00:20:22,054
<i>Yeah. I mean, they're spending
400 or 500 grand a week,</i>

431
00:20:22,095 --> 00:20:24,389
<i>in Atlanta, which is nuts,</i>

432
00:20:24,431 --> 00:20:26,016
<i>because the polling
that came out today</i>

433
00:20:26,058 --> 00:20:27,726
<i>shows it's a dead heat.</i>

434
00:20:27,768 --> 00:20:29,561
<i>If you have high
African-American turnout</i>

435
00:20:29,603 --> 00:20:32,397
<i>or something,
a model similar to 2018,</i>

436
00:20:32,439 --> 00:20:33,732
<i>I think I'm a little bit
more bullish</i>

437
00:20:33,774 --> 00:20:35,525
<i>on Georgia than most folks.</i>

438
00:20:35,567 --> 00:20:37,361
<i>I mean they've spent, like,
a no bullshit amount of money.</i>

439
00:20:37,402 --> 00:20:38,904
<i>They're seeing
the same numbers we're seeing.</i>

440
00:20:38,946 --> 00:20:39,738
<i>They're seeing
what we're seeing.</i>

441
00:20:39,780 --> 00:20:41,573
<i>Yeah.</i>

442
00:20:41,615 --> 00:20:43,575
<i>- So Georgia?
- Georgia.</i>

443
00:20:43,617 --> 00:20:47,871
<i>Georgia?
Yeah.</i>

444
00:20:47,913 --> 00:20:50,958
<i>energetic music</i>

445
00:20:53,627 --> 00:20:54,753
In some parts of Georgia,

446
00:20:54,795 --> 00:20:56,922
<i>it already looks
like election day.</i>

447
00:20:56,964 --> 00:20:58,298
<i>How long have you guys
been out here, so far?</i>

448
00:20:58,340 --> 00:20:59,800
<i>Four hours.</i>

449
00:20:59,841 --> 00:21:01,760
<i>It could have rained.
It could have snowed.</i>

450
00:21:01,802 --> 00:21:03,595
<i>I would not care.</i>

451
00:21:03,637 --> 00:21:05,764
<i>- You're not going anywhere?
- I'm not going anywhere.</i>

452
00:21:05,806 --> 00:21:07,849
<i>It's time to stand up</i>

453
00:21:07,891 --> 00:21:11,103
<i>and take back our democracy.</i>

454
00:21:11,144 --> 00:21:13,188
<i>We win Georgia,
we win everything.</i>

455
00:21:14,481 --> 00:21:16,191
<i>Give me one second.</i>

456
00:21:18,986 --> 00:21:20,445
<i>Politically speaking,</i>

457
00:21:20,487 --> 00:21:21,947
<i>I've done more work
on the Republican side,</i>

458
00:21:21,989 --> 00:21:24,032
<i>but I've always
been Independent.</i>

459
00:21:24,074 --> 00:21:26,618
<i>And so I worked
with Republican candidates</i>

460
00:21:26,660 --> 00:21:29,621
<i>who I thought could move
more into that middle space,</i>

461
00:21:29,663 --> 00:21:32,958
<i>so John Kasich,
in 2015, for instance.</i>

462
00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,835
<i>I think the betterment
of America was found</i>

463
00:21:34,876 --> 00:21:37,296
<i>in that middle space,</i>

464
00:21:37,337 --> 00:21:39,548
<i>so I'm very electorally
pragmatic, I would say.</i>

465
00:21:41,675 --> 00:21:45,345
<i>And I say it all the
time, I say it like this.</i>

466
00:21:45,387 --> 00:21:47,597
<i>With the possible exception
of Abraham Lincoln,</i>

467
00:21:47,639 --> 00:21:51,310
<i>a lot of people like me to
leave the word "possible" out,</i>

468
00:21:51,351 --> 00:21:53,979
<i>there is no president
that has done more</i>

469
00:21:54,021 --> 00:21:56,815
<i>for the Black community
than Donald Trump.</i>

470
00:21:56,857 --> 00:21:59,359
<i>It's true.</i>

471
00:21:59,401 --> 00:22:00,861
<i>Unbelievable.</i>

472
00:22:00,902 --> 00:22:03,447
<i>Welcome back, Nate Nesbitt.
Nate is back with us.</i>

473
00:22:03,488 --> 00:22:06,825
<i>The Lincoln Project's
national press secretary.</i>

474
00:22:06,867 --> 00:22:08,994
<i>Unlike any president
I've ever seen,</i>

475
00:22:09,036 --> 00:22:13,498
<i>Donald Trump has looked to both
suppress and subtract the vote,</i>

476
00:22:13,540 --> 00:22:15,834
<i>and he's keyed in
on a particular demographic</i>

477
00:22:15,876 --> 00:22:17,502
<i>within the Black community,</i>

478
00:22:17,544 --> 00:22:19,338
<i>and that's Black young men,</i>

479
00:22:19,379 --> 00:22:21,673
<i>and it's important that we
turn them out and that we...</i>

480
00:22:21,715 --> 00:22:25,427
<i>I think most of white America
understands white America.</i>

481
00:22:25,469 --> 00:22:27,429
<i>You run into it
with conservatives.</i>

482
00:22:27,471 --> 00:22:29,348
<i>You run into it with liberals.</i>

483
00:22:29,389 --> 00:22:32,934
<i>It's still not a full extension
of freedom and liberty,</i>

484
00:22:32,976 --> 00:22:36,355
<i>and irrespective of which way
you swung it politically,</i>

485
00:22:36,396 --> 00:22:40,150
<i>I'd still be having this
fight in different ways.</i>

486
00:22:40,192 --> 00:22:41,693
<i>Yes indeed. Yes
indeed. What's happening?</i>

487
00:22:41,735 --> 00:22:43,570
<i>Welcome to Vote or Die,</i>

488
00:22:43,612 --> 00:22:45,322
<i>the roundtable with
the Black man's perspective.</i>

489
00:22:45,364 --> 00:22:46,865
<i>My name is Big Tigger.</i>

490
00:22:46,907 --> 00:22:48,909
<i>We are in front of a live
audience. I want you to be--</i>

491
00:22:48,950 --> 00:22:50,535
<i>I wish I had
a longer runway on this,</i>

492
00:22:50,577 --> 00:22:53,372
<i>but my desire,
as we near election day,</i>

493
00:22:53,413 --> 00:22:56,583
<i>is to be able to push
for the vote, for our people.</i>

494
00:22:56,625 --> 00:22:59,878
<i>I think those things need
to take place a lot more often.</i>

495
00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:03,173
<i>My name is Antonio,
but how are we supposed to vote</i>

496
00:23:03,215 --> 00:23:06,510
<i>when we getting killed out here
by the police every day?</i>

497
00:23:06,551 --> 00:23:10,472
<i>If you didn't get killed today...</i>

498
00:23:10,514 --> 00:23:13,308
<i>you can vote tomorrow,
all right?</i>

499
00:23:13,350 --> 00:23:15,894
<i>If you live long enough,</i>

500
00:23:15,936 --> 00:23:18,230
<i>you do that in honor
of everyone else</i>

501
00:23:18,271 --> 00:23:20,899
<i>who didn't make it
to see that day.</i>

502
00:23:20,941 --> 00:23:22,567
<i>Just people that
show up to vote,</i>

503
00:23:22,609 --> 00:23:24,319
<i>every single election,</i>

504
00:23:24,361 --> 00:23:26,988
<i>and they care about
what they voting for.</i>

505
00:23:27,030 --> 00:23:29,241
<i>They not your people.
They don't represent you.</i>

506
00:23:29,282 --> 00:23:30,909
<i>They making decisions
about your life,</i>

507
00:23:30,951 --> 00:23:33,995
<i>so who gonna stand up
and make a decision for you?</i>

508
00:23:34,037 --> 00:23:35,914
<i>I like to do things people
say I can't do.</i>

509
00:23:35,956 --> 00:23:38,834
<i>Me personally.
If you tell me I can't do this,</i>

510
00:23:38,875 --> 00:23:41,586
<i>I'ma make a way,
if I can, to do it.</i>

511
00:23:41,628 --> 00:23:43,422
<i>And so for me,
voting just made me feel like</i>

512
00:23:43,463 --> 00:23:45,090
<i>I was a part of something,</i>

513
00:23:45,132 --> 00:23:46,758
<i>like, that somebody told me
I couldn't be a part of.</i>

514
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:48,802
<i>Right.
Don't be dying to fit in</i>

515
00:23:48,844 --> 00:23:50,887
<i>when you were born to stand up.</i>

516
00:23:50,929 --> 00:23:52,806
<i>I want to
thank you for joining us.</i>

517
00:23:52,848 --> 00:23:56,601
<i>Shout out to Lincoln Project.
Grass roots law project.</i>

518
00:23:56,643 --> 00:23:59,354
<i>This has been Vote or Die,
the Black male perspective.</i>

519
00:24:05,068 --> 00:24:07,112
<i>I cannot say
I'm at peace</i>

520
00:24:07,154 --> 00:24:10,824
<i>with where I think
this country is going.</i>

521
00:24:10,866 --> 00:24:14,619
<i>You know, this town hall makes
the argument plain and clear</i>

522
00:24:14,661 --> 00:24:17,164
<i>of why we must turn out
to vote, in this moment.</i>

523
00:24:25,422 --> 00:24:29,134
<i>So get this. I just finished
an hour, uh, Zoom</i>

524
00:24:29,176 --> 00:24:30,969
<i>with all of
Demi Lovato's people.</i>

525
00:24:31,011 --> 00:24:34,222
<i>She did a song, and the Lincoln
Project is gonna premiere it.</i>

526
00:24:34,264 --> 00:24:35,765
Oh, my God. I love it.

527
00:24:35,807 --> 00:24:38,435
<i>A song and a video called
"Commander in Chief."</i>

528
00:24:38,477 --> 00:24:42,564
<i>And it's tremendous, so we're
working out all the details.</i>

529
00:24:42,606 --> 00:24:44,816
<i>We're gonna release it, like,
the next 24-48 hours.</i>

530
00:24:44,858 --> 00:24:47,819
<i>Oh, my God. I love
that. That's amazing.</i>

531
00:24:50,197 --> 00:24:53,992
<i>Okay. What am I doing?</i>

532
00:24:54,034 --> 00:24:56,286
<i>Close your eyes,
and listen to the song.</i>

533
00:24:56,328 --> 00:24:58,497
<i>What do you see?</i>

534
00:25:01,958 --> 00:25:05,629
<i>Were you ever taught
when you were young</i>

535
00:25:05,670 --> 00:25:07,547
<i>If you mess
with things selfishly</i>

536
00:25:07,589 --> 00:25:08,590
<i>They're bound
to come undone</i>

537
00:25:08,632 --> 00:25:10,133
<i>I'm not the only one</i>

538
00:25:14,429 --> 00:25:17,557
<i>It's a big project,
and you're feeling overwhelmed,</i>

539
00:25:17,599 --> 00:25:20,101
<i>but you've got this.</i>

540
00:25:20,143 --> 00:25:24,064
<i>Washington Square Park. Riots.
Cops. George Floyd.</i>

541
00:25:24,105 --> 00:25:25,774
<i>- Breonna Taylor.
- Breonna Taylor.</i>

542
00:25:25,815 --> 00:25:27,025
<i>"Commander in Chief."</i>

543
00:25:27,067 --> 00:25:28,360
<i>How does it feel
to still be able to breathe?</i>

544
00:25:28,401 --> 00:25:30,487
<i>That is all violence.</i>

545
00:25:30,529 --> 00:25:32,989
<i>When we get to "Won't give up.
Stand our ground,"</i>

546
00:25:33,031 --> 00:25:36,368
<i>that's when you start
showing the positive stuff.</i>

547
00:25:36,409 --> 00:25:37,661
<i>And then, Rick,</i>

548
00:25:37,702 --> 00:25:39,538
<i>you've also got
Demi Lovato, right?</i>

549
00:25:39,579 --> 00:25:42,040
Is this a strategic thing?

550
00:25:42,082 --> 00:25:46,878
<i>One hundred million followers.
1% of them join us, it's--</i>

551
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,048
<i>This could be a
really good fundraising push.</i>

552
00:25:50,090 --> 00:25:52,634
<i>Like really good.</i>

553
00:25:52,676 --> 00:25:55,136
I hate pulling these clips of,

554
00:25:55,178 --> 00:25:58,306
<i>like, George Floyd's brother,
like, on the ground, in tears.</i>

555
00:25:58,348 --> 00:26:00,225
<i>I know.
I know you do.</i>

556
00:26:00,267 --> 00:26:03,061
<i>- It feels so exploitative.
- But you know what?</i>

557
00:26:03,103 --> 00:26:05,438
<i>You are reaching emotional
resonance with people.</i>

558
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:09,276
<i>It's not exploitative.
This is what people need,</i>

559
00:26:09,317 --> 00:26:12,696
<i>in this moment,
to catalyze around.</i>

560
00:26:12,737 --> 00:26:14,990
<i>All the stress
on the country right now.</i>

561
00:26:15,031 --> 00:26:20,161
<i>moody music</i>

562
00:26:20,203 --> 00:26:22,789
<i>We're all taking a
break, and going to have food</i>

563
00:26:22,831 --> 00:26:24,583
<i>downtown,
in beautiful Park City.</i>

564
00:26:24,624 --> 00:26:26,376
<i>I don't know
the meaning of the word break.</i>

565
00:26:26,418 --> 00:26:28,712
<i>Too bad.
You're gonna take a break.</i>

566
00:26:28,753 --> 00:26:30,755
<i>I'm the mom here, remember?</i>

567
00:26:33,091 --> 00:26:35,427
<i>These are my surrogate parents.</i>

568
00:26:44,311 --> 00:26:46,563
<i>We are gonna close in,
by the end of this week,</i>

569
00:26:46,605 --> 00:26:50,108
<i>on around 200 ads produced
in the last nine months.</i>

570
00:26:51,818 --> 00:26:54,779
<i>Our daytime show
is doing huge numbers.</i>

571
00:26:54,821 --> 00:26:58,742
<i>Our daytime show streamed
more people than MSNBC had on,</i>

572
00:26:58,783 --> 00:27:01,244
<i>at one point, last week.
Thank you.</i>

573
00:27:01,286 --> 00:27:04,664
<i>Which is kind of
a remarkable experience.</i>

574
00:27:04,706 --> 00:27:07,375
<i>Hopefully, we're gonna launch
a Demi Lovato video</i>

575
00:27:07,417 --> 00:27:09,961
<i>that they gave us permission
to use today</i>

576
00:27:10,003 --> 00:27:11,338
<i>that we're making
a video for her.</i>

577
00:27:11,379 --> 00:27:13,089
<i>So I don't think
we have a TikTok now,</i>

578
00:27:13,131 --> 00:27:15,842
<i>but we're about to.</i>

579
00:27:15,884 --> 00:27:18,345
<i>We're in the democracy
business now.</i>

580
00:27:18,386 --> 00:27:22,182
<i>Our product is rebellion
and democracy.</i>

581
00:27:22,223 --> 00:27:23,892
<i>The skill set
we've brought into it</i>

582
00:27:23,933 --> 00:27:27,312
<i>and the audience we built
for it is fungible.</i>

583
00:27:29,939 --> 00:27:33,151
<i>Hey, Siri. Call Ra Kumar.</i>

584
00:27:34,069 --> 00:27:36,696
<i>Did you get that spreadsheet
I sent you?</i>

585
00:27:36,738 --> 00:27:39,324
<i>So yesterday, a friend
of mine in the Valley.</i>

586
00:27:39,366 --> 00:27:40,825
<i>He's a venture guy.</i>

587
00:27:40,867 --> 00:27:45,163
<i>He's not a media guy,
and he says, "Dude,</i>

588
00:27:45,205 --> 00:27:49,501
<i>our social media footprint
of ad views is insane."</i>

589
00:27:49,542 --> 00:27:54,005
<i>Just on YouTube, over 200
million views for our ads.</i>

590
00:27:54,047 --> 00:27:55,924
<i>Just on YouTube.</i>

591
00:27:55,965 --> 00:27:59,844
<i>Some of those numbers
are like CNN numbers.</i>

592
00:27:59,886 --> 00:28:01,262
<i>He goes, "If people knew
these numbers,</i>

593
00:28:01,304 --> 00:28:03,431
<i>they'd be beating
your door down."</i>

594
00:28:03,473 --> 00:28:05,016
<i>We're talking about</i>

595
00:28:05,058 --> 00:28:08,645
<i>a $25-55 million a round.</i>

596
00:28:08,687 --> 00:28:10,980
<i>I mean fuck me.</i>

597
00:28:14,192 --> 00:28:16,611
<i>So you have my full proxy,
as always.</i>

598
00:28:16,653 --> 00:28:18,363
<i>All right.
Thanks, brother. See you.</i>

599
00:28:21,157 --> 00:28:22,534
<i>How are we feeling, Kate?</i>

600
00:28:22,575 --> 00:28:24,035
<i>We're feeling good.</i>

601
00:28:24,077 --> 00:28:26,913
<i>Are we feeling good?
Can I see what we got?</i>

602
00:28:26,955 --> 00:28:30,041
<i>Won't give up,
stand our ground</i>

603
00:28:30,083 --> 00:28:33,461
<i>We'll be in the streets,
for your commander-in-chief</i>

604
00:28:33,503 --> 00:28:35,505
<i>Honestly</i>

605
00:28:39,509 --> 00:28:41,886
<i>You fucking nailed it.</i>

606
00:28:41,928 --> 00:28:43,304
<i>It's so good, Kate.</i>

607
00:28:43,346 --> 00:28:44,639
<i>Fucking nailed it.</i>

608
00:28:44,681 --> 00:28:46,766
<i>- Isn't it amazing?
- Whoo!</i>

609
00:28:47,851 --> 00:28:50,228
<i>Wow.</i>

610
00:28:50,270 --> 00:28:53,898
<i>We're about to wreck
the internet with this, okay?</i>

611
00:29:03,908 --> 00:29:06,411
<i>One day a week, I will
just drive out this way,</i>

612
00:29:06,453 --> 00:29:11,040
<i>because I just need to,
like, get away from screens</i>

613
00:29:11,082 --> 00:29:12,834
<i>and everything
and just chill out.</i>

614
00:29:20,508 --> 00:29:23,094
<i>If we don't get the outcome
we want from the election,</i>

615
00:29:23,136 --> 00:29:25,889
<i>this is, like, the last normal
weeks for a long time.</i>

616
00:29:32,353 --> 00:29:36,357
<i>The world is ugly, if...</i>

617
00:29:36,399 --> 00:29:37,650
<i>the United States</i>

618
00:29:37,692 --> 00:29:40,862
<i>is in democratic crisis, right?</i>

619
00:29:40,904 --> 00:29:42,405
<i>Or if American democracy
is in trouble.</i>

620
00:29:42,447 --> 00:29:43,907
<i>The world's in trouble.</i>

621
00:29:46,785 --> 00:29:48,620
<i>If that happens,
I mean it's a protracted,</i>

622
00:29:48,661 --> 00:29:52,248
<i>decade-long bad situation,</i>

623
00:29:52,290 --> 00:29:56,920
<i>and it's just sort of
like--this might be</i>

624
00:29:56,961 --> 00:30:00,799
<i>the last normal couple weeks
we all get for a while.</i>

625
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,843
<i>So enjoy it.</i>

626
00:30:12,519 --> 00:30:15,438
<i>Win or lose,
just no offense, everybody,</i>

627
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,941
<i>I would rather be
in my own house with my husband</i>

628
00:30:17,982 --> 00:30:20,652
<i>and, um, you know,</i>

629
00:30:20,693 --> 00:30:23,655
<i>there's a lot at stake, so.</i>

630
00:30:23,696 --> 00:30:25,990
<i>You can say that twice.</i>

631
00:30:29,577 --> 00:30:33,206
<i>I think we did the best with
a very difficult situation.</i>

632
00:30:33,248 --> 00:30:35,291
<i>With people from different
political backgrounds,</i>

633
00:30:35,333 --> 00:30:37,001
<i>and political parties
and views,</i>

634
00:30:37,043 --> 00:30:40,672
<i>which doesn't usually happen,
on a campaign.</i>

635
00:30:40,713 --> 00:30:41,965
<i>And all of us
have different reasons</i>

636
00:30:42,006 --> 00:30:43,675
<i>for supporting Joe Biden.</i>

637
00:30:43,716 --> 00:30:45,009
<i>I think the reason why I might
be here is very different</i>

638
00:30:45,051 --> 00:30:46,803
<i>than the reason
why someone else is,</i>

639
00:30:46,845 --> 00:30:49,639
<i>and so that adds a different
dynamic than you usually get,</i>

640
00:30:49,681 --> 00:30:51,599
<i>in most campaigns...</i>

641
00:30:53,726 --> 00:30:55,436
<i>And can add some conflict.</i>

642
00:31:18,585 --> 00:31:20,503
<i>It seems, on the basis
of what we've been reading</i>

643
00:31:20,545 --> 00:31:22,213
<i>in Axios this morning</i>

644
00:31:22,255 --> 00:31:24,340
<i>and other places that you guys
have a longer-term ambition</i>

645
00:31:24,382 --> 00:31:26,718
<i>now that goes beyond,
in terms of advocacy.</i>

646
00:31:26,759 --> 00:31:28,803
<i>It goes beyond
just beating Donald Trump.</i>

647
00:31:28,845 --> 00:31:30,471
<i>It goes to some larger--</i>

648
00:31:30,513 --> 00:31:33,349
<i>The Axios article
came out on a morning</i>

649
00:31:33,391 --> 00:31:34,726
<i>when Reed and I
were doing interview</i>

650
00:31:34,767 --> 00:31:37,186
<i>on Morning Joe together.</i>

651
00:31:37,228 --> 00:31:39,856
<i>I was sitting there miked up,
ready to be interviewed.</i>

652
00:31:39,898 --> 00:31:43,735
<i>Had never heard of it before,
but they asked Reed about it.</i>

653
00:31:43,776 --> 00:31:48,740
<i>Like, what's life after Trump
like, for the Lincoln Project?</i>

654
00:31:48,781 --> 00:31:51,075
<i>Sure. Well, first and foremost,
I think, like the rest of us</i>

655
00:31:51,117 --> 00:31:53,202
<i>who are dedicated
to beating him,</i>

656
00:31:53,244 --> 00:31:54,746
<i>we've got seven more days
to go until--</i>

657
00:31:54,787 --> 00:31:56,789
<i>And he kind of blew off
the question,</i>

658
00:31:56,831 --> 00:31:57,582
<i>and thank God
they didn't ask me,</i>

659
00:31:57,624 --> 00:31:59,918
<i>because I knew nothing.</i>

660
00:31:59,959 --> 00:32:03,171
<i>I was shocked.
Got off the air, texted Sarah,</i>

661
00:32:03,212 --> 00:32:05,214
<i>and said,
"What is this all about?"</i>

662
00:32:09,302 --> 00:32:11,054
<i>Steve, do you want
to address the Axios?</i>

663
00:32:11,095 --> 00:32:14,849
<i>Because I know a lot
of people have questions.</i>

664
00:32:14,891 --> 00:32:17,518
<i>You all, I just
want to say something.</i>

665
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:19,604
<i>I'm pissed about it.</i>

666
00:32:19,646 --> 00:32:20,939
<i>Yeah.
No one gets more</i>

667
00:32:20,980 --> 00:32:23,441
<i>pissed about it than I am.</i>

668
00:32:23,483 --> 00:32:25,902
<i>The story is not correct.</i>

669
00:32:25,944 --> 00:32:27,612
<i>Questions?</i>

670
00:32:27,654 --> 00:32:30,365
<i>Yeah. Do we know
how it happened?</i>

671
00:32:30,406 --> 00:32:31,783
Didn't they--weren't they over

672
00:32:31,824 --> 00:32:33,034
<i>there interviewing you
and Rick?</i>

673
00:32:33,076 --> 00:32:34,577
<i>No, no. Yes.</i>

674
00:32:34,619 --> 00:32:37,413
<i>We had fully intended
to do a story with Axios.</i>

675
00:32:37,455 --> 00:32:40,833
<i>My question is why did
Rick's agent tell them that?</i>

676
00:33:01,980 --> 00:33:06,693
<i>Ron?
Ron, call me real quick.</i>

677
00:33:06,734 --> 00:33:07,986
<i>Yeah.</i>

678
00:33:14,784 --> 00:33:17,328
<i>Hey.</i>

679
00:33:20,665 --> 00:33:23,793
<i>I understand that,
but here is my request.</i>

680
00:33:23,835 --> 00:33:26,129
<i>I would appreciate
a lot more communication</i>

681
00:33:26,170 --> 00:33:29,007
<i>about whatever it is that
may or may not be happening,</i>

682
00:33:29,048 --> 00:33:32,176
<i>because I feel like
I haven't been in the loop.</i>

683
00:33:32,218 --> 00:33:33,678
<i>And I don't want
to read headlines</i>

684
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,014
<i>and have that be the first
I hear of something.</i>

685
00:33:38,641 --> 00:33:41,519
<i>Okay. Okay bye.</i>

686
00:33:48,401 --> 00:33:50,361
<i>Story is not correct.</i>

687
00:33:50,403 --> 00:33:53,865
<i>We have no representation
in Hollywood.</i>

688
00:33:53,906 --> 00:33:57,160
<i>We've had no discussions
with each other,</i>

689
00:33:57,201 --> 00:33:59,871
<i>other than
political discussions.</i>

690
00:33:59,912 --> 00:34:02,623
<i>Like, we're all doing
the same thing every day.</i>

691
00:34:02,665 --> 00:34:05,209
<i>We have talked to
the EPA guys,</i>

692
00:34:05,251 --> 00:34:06,961
<i>and we've talked
to other people</i>

693
00:34:07,003 --> 00:34:11,132
<i>who all have thoughts about
opportunities in the future.</i>

694
00:34:11,174 --> 00:34:15,386
<i>We've signed no papers.
There are no deals.</i>

695
00:34:15,428 --> 00:34:19,265
<i>The story is being
corrected by Axios.</i>

696
00:34:19,307 --> 00:34:21,017
The Axios article came out,

697
00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:23,061
<i>and it was very odd.
It was very peculiar.</i>

698
00:34:23,102 --> 00:34:24,562
<i>It never occurred to me
to go out</i>

699
00:34:24,604 --> 00:34:27,732
<i>and start a media company,
all right?</i>

700
00:34:27,774 --> 00:34:29,400
<i>That's not what I do.</i>

701
00:34:29,442 --> 00:34:32,904
<i>It's not what anybody
in the organization does.</i>

702
00:34:32,945 --> 00:34:36,157
<i>That's not necessarily bad,
but at a minimum,</i>

703
00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:39,660
<i>there needs to be
some discussion about it.</i>

704
00:34:39,702 --> 00:34:41,037
Well, I have a question.

705
00:34:41,079 --> 00:34:43,081
<i>Why are we doing
any type of victory lap,</i>

706
00:34:43,122 --> 00:34:47,710
<i>seven days before the election
with that type of story?</i>

707
00:34:47,752 --> 00:34:50,755
That's a good question, Keith,

708
00:34:50,797 --> 00:34:52,590
<i>and we shouldn't.</i>

709
00:34:52,632 --> 00:34:56,552
<i>In a political organization
that moves fast,</i>

710
00:34:56,594 --> 00:34:59,680
<i>that's decentralized,
stuff happens.</i>

711
00:35:02,058 --> 00:35:03,601
We had people calling us like,

712
00:35:03,643 --> 00:35:05,978
<i>"We want you to form
a media company," after this.</i>

713
00:35:06,020 --> 00:35:08,648
<i>You know, we had taken
some very, very early,</i>

714
00:35:08,689 --> 00:35:11,943
<i>preliminary steps,
because we realized</i>

715
00:35:11,984 --> 00:35:14,278
<i>Trumpism isn't simply
a political problem.</i>

716
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,739
<i>It's a cultural problem,</i>

717
00:35:16,781 --> 00:35:19,242
<i>and my idea of the media
company, on the outside,</i>

718
00:35:19,283 --> 00:35:21,911
<i>was to use that platform
and that credibility</i>

719
00:35:21,953 --> 00:35:26,249
<i>we had to start influencing
the cultural space,</i>

720
00:35:26,290 --> 00:35:29,961
<i>to dismantle the perverse
incentives that make people go,</i>

721
00:35:30,002 --> 00:35:32,463
<i>"Hey, authoritarianism
is cool."</i>

722
00:35:34,173 --> 00:35:36,092
<i>There is an honest point here.</i>

723
00:35:36,134 --> 00:35:38,469
<i>The Lincoln Project
was a content machine</i>

724
00:35:38,511 --> 00:35:40,930
<i>dedicated to defeating
Donald Trump.</i>

725
00:35:40,972 --> 00:35:42,723
<i>It was the content
that mattered.</i>

726
00:35:42,765 --> 00:35:44,642
<i>It was the messengers
who could carry that content</i>

727
00:35:44,684 --> 00:35:46,727
<i>out into the national media</i>

728
00:35:46,769 --> 00:35:49,939
<i>and go to war with Donald
Trump's people every day.</i>

729
00:35:49,981 --> 00:35:52,108
<i>And that was me,
and that was Steve,</i>

730
00:35:52,150 --> 00:35:54,652
<i>and that was Reed,
and that was Stuart.</i>

731
00:35:57,530 --> 00:36:00,283
<i>I would like
to make a suggestion.</i>

732
00:36:00,324 --> 00:36:05,079
<i>I think that the founders need
to have a meeting with just us,</i>

733
00:36:05,121 --> 00:36:07,123
<i>to have kind of
a long-term discussion</i>

734
00:36:07,165 --> 00:36:11,794
<i>about a lot of things.</i>

735
00:36:11,836 --> 00:36:13,796
<i>We've never had that meeting.
I think it's time.</i>

736
00:36:13,838 --> 00:36:18,176
<i>Yeah.
I think that's a good idea.</i>

737
00:36:19,427 --> 00:36:24,307
<i>I'm in agreement.
I think it would be smart.</i>

738
00:36:24,932 --> 00:36:28,477
<i>No objection here.
None whatsoever.</i>

739
00:36:36,235 --> 00:36:40,448
<i>So as you know, we're
not fans of Rick Wilson here.</i>

740
00:36:40,489 --> 00:36:42,158
<i>Do you think these are
principled people,</i>

741
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,160
<i>or you think they're grifters
who are taking money?</i>

742
00:36:44,202 --> 00:36:46,329
<i>These spiteful losers
are looking for a way</i>

743
00:36:46,370 --> 00:36:49,624
<i>to enrich themselves while
empowering the very people</i>

744
00:36:49,665 --> 00:36:51,709
<i>who want to tear down
the traditions</i>

745
00:36:51,751 --> 00:36:54,212
<i>that they claim
to hold so dear.</i>

746
00:36:54,253 --> 00:36:56,172
<i>They just have, like, a new
business opportunity,</i>

747
00:36:56,214 --> 00:36:57,423
<i>is all that it is.</i>

748
00:37:00,927 --> 00:37:02,637
<i>After bilking
Republicans for years,</i>

749
00:37:02,678 --> 00:37:04,805
<i>they're now
sucking up millions</i>

750
00:37:04,847 --> 00:37:07,225
<i>from duped Democrat voters.</i>

751
00:37:08,851 --> 00:37:13,022
<i>The Lincoln Project
is not your friend.</i>

752
00:37:13,064 --> 00:37:15,233
<i>Do not support
the Lincoln Project!</i>

753
00:37:16,651 --> 00:37:18,527
What an incredible grift.

754
00:37:18,569 --> 00:37:19,862
<i>What a great country
where you can make money</i>

755
00:37:19,904 --> 00:37:22,031
<i>doing stuff like this.</i>

756
00:37:22,073 --> 00:37:23,658
<i>It truly is incredible.</i>

757
00:37:23,699 --> 00:37:27,536
<i>I don't know. Why do they
need to believe this?</i>

758
00:37:27,578 --> 00:37:29,497
<i>Why is there this need?</i>

759
00:37:29,538 --> 00:37:33,751
<i>We have become the named
adversary of Trump.</i>

760
00:37:33,793 --> 00:37:37,546
<i>We've become, you know,
the nemesis of Trump,</i>

761
00:37:37,588 --> 00:37:39,674
<i>and therefore,
we must be attacked</i>

762
00:37:39,715 --> 00:37:42,426
<i>at all times by the right.</i>

763
00:37:42,468 --> 00:37:45,930
<i>The accusation that it's
a grift is projection,</i>

764
00:37:45,972 --> 00:37:48,099
<i>because they see what
the Trump campaign is.</i>

765
00:37:48,140 --> 00:37:50,935
<i>A billion-dollar grift.</i>

766
00:37:50,977 --> 00:37:52,561
<i>I mean,
we're a rounding error,</i>

767
00:37:52,603 --> 00:37:53,688
<i>compared to the Trump campaign.</i>

768
00:37:53,729 --> 00:37:55,856
<i>- Sure.
- Well, I think we should</i>

769
00:37:55,898 --> 00:37:58,776
<i>also remember just on the like
who doesn't really dig us--</i>

770
00:37:58,818 --> 00:38:00,903
<i>it's also like
the professional left.</i>

771
00:38:00,945 --> 00:38:02,321
<i>Let's be clear.</i>

772
00:38:02,363 --> 00:38:04,407
<i>They still see us
as Republicans, right,</i>

773
00:38:04,448 --> 00:38:07,410
<i>and anything that gives
any sort of credit</i>

774
00:38:07,451 --> 00:38:09,829
<i>would mean that it took the
Republicans to beat this guy,</i>

775
00:38:09,870 --> 00:38:11,038
<i>'cause the Democrats couldn't.</i>

776
00:38:12,707 --> 00:38:14,083
<i>There's a part of me that says
"You know what?</i>

777
00:38:14,125 --> 00:38:15,501
<i>Like, I don't really
fucking care</i>

778
00:38:15,543 --> 00:38:17,003
<i>what any of these people say."</i>

779
00:38:17,044 --> 00:38:19,672
<i>One of the topics
of conversation</i>

780
00:38:19,714 --> 00:38:21,257
<i>in the D.C. circles is,</i>

781
00:38:21,299 --> 00:38:24,135
<i>"How are they getting
all this amazing press?"</i>

782
00:38:24,176 --> 00:38:26,887
<i>Maybe because we're good
at getting press?</i>

783
00:38:26,929 --> 00:38:30,099
<i>Which is exactly why
they are pissed off.</i>

784
00:39:20,274 --> 00:39:24,028
<i>We had a founders-only
meeting at Steve's house...</i>

785
00:39:24,403 --> 00:39:27,490
<i>and Steve said to everybody,</i>

786
00:39:27,531 --> 00:39:30,618
<i>"We want to keep the Lincoln
Project going and expand it,</i>

787
00:39:30,659 --> 00:39:32,119
<i>and there may be an opportunity</i>

788
00:39:32,161 --> 00:39:33,704
<i>for everyone around this table</i>

789
00:39:33,746 --> 00:39:36,957
<i>to join a media company,
and if we do it right,</i>

790
00:39:36,999 --> 00:39:39,835
<i>it can be something that we do
great things in the culture</i>

791
00:39:39,877 --> 00:39:41,629
<i>and that could generate
generational wealth</i>

792
00:39:41,670 --> 00:39:43,506
<i>for all of us if we sell it
at the right time</i>

793
00:39:43,547 --> 00:39:45,007
<i>in the future."</i>

794
00:39:59,105 --> 00:40:01,982
<i>- Hey.
- Hey, how are you?</i>

795
00:40:02,024 --> 00:40:03,359
<i>I'm good.
How was the meeting?</i>

796
00:40:03,401 --> 00:40:05,528
It was good. It was good.

797
00:40:05,569 --> 00:40:08,155
<i>Was there a lot of
airing of grievances?</i>

798
00:40:08,197 --> 00:40:11,158
<i>- Almost none.
- Oh, good. Wow.</i>

799
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,369
In fact, I would say none.

800
00:40:13,411 --> 00:40:15,830
<i>Okay. Unbelievable.
After all that?</i>

801
00:40:15,871 --> 00:40:17,873
<i>Well, I mean
I talked to Mike.</i>

802
00:40:17,915 --> 00:40:19,500
<i>- Yeah.
- And I told him that,</i>

803
00:40:19,542 --> 00:40:20,876
<i>if that was how
it was gonna be,</i>

804
00:40:20,918 --> 00:40:22,086
<i>it was gonna go downhill,
in a hurry.</i>

805
00:40:22,128 --> 00:40:23,754
<i>- Okay.
- Steve ran it,</i>

806
00:40:23,796 --> 00:40:25,506
<i>so he basically like,</i>

807
00:40:25,548 --> 00:40:27,258
<i>"If you guys wanna be involved
you can be involved,"</i>

808
00:40:27,299 --> 00:40:29,885
<i>and you know, we'll get to
the hard things when it's like</i>

809
00:40:29,927 --> 00:40:32,221
<i>yes, when we say
you're an equity partner</i>

810
00:40:32,263 --> 00:40:34,765
<i>that means you get 1%
of the company. You know.</i>

811
00:40:34,807 --> 00:40:37,601
<i>- Uh-huh, uh-huh.
- We didn't do any of that,</i>

812
00:40:37,643 --> 00:40:39,103
<i>so I think letting Steve
take the lead, too,</i>

813
00:40:39,145 --> 00:40:41,605
<i>helps because they might
push back on me.</i>

814
00:40:41,647 --> 00:40:43,149
<i>They're not gonna
push back on him, right?</i>

815
00:40:43,190 --> 00:40:47,069
<i>No they won't. No. Yep. Good.</i>

816
00:40:47,111 --> 00:40:48,446
So but that we also said

817
00:40:48,487 --> 00:40:50,156
<i>there's no discussion
on that front,</i>

818
00:40:50,197 --> 00:40:52,741
<i>until and unless we solve
our black box problem, so--</i>

819
00:40:52,783 --> 00:40:54,952
<i>- Got it.
- As we called it.</i>

820
00:40:54,994 --> 00:40:56,662
<i>- Got it. Yeah.
- All right. Perfect.</i>

821
00:40:56,704 --> 00:40:57,663
<i>Hey, there's Rick.
Let me call you back.</i>

822
00:40:57,705 --> 00:40:58,747
<i>Okay. Bye.</i>

823
00:40:58,789 --> 00:41:02,126
<i>moody music</i>

824
00:41:37,161 --> 00:41:38,329
<i>- Good way to put it.
- Yeah.</i>

825
00:41:40,164 --> 00:41:41,165
<i>Yes.</i>

826
00:41:47,254 --> 00:41:49,507
<i>Yeah. Fair enough. Well put.</i>

827
00:41:49,548 --> 00:41:50,966
<i>Yeah. I can't--</i>

828
00:41:54,386 --> 00:41:56,222
<i>Hello.</i>

829
00:41:56,639 --> 00:41:58,682
<i>Didn't realize
they were right there,</i>

830
00:41:58,724 --> 00:42:01,060
<i>but I'm good with
where we are, so--</i>

831
00:42:01,101 --> 00:42:02,353
<i>- Yeah.
- All right.</i>

832
00:42:02,394 --> 00:42:03,604
<i>- I thought it was good.
- Yeah.</i>

833
00:42:03,646 --> 00:42:04,522
<i>I had a good chat with Ron
about it, too, and--</i>

834
00:42:04,563 --> 00:42:08,192
<i>Good, good, good.</i>

835
00:42:08,234 --> 00:42:09,777
<i>Yeah. I think the main thing</i>

836
00:42:09,818 --> 00:42:12,988
<i>is we're building something
for a new chapter.</i>

837
00:42:13,030 --> 00:42:14,532
<i>Right, right.</i>

838
00:42:14,573 --> 00:42:16,200
<i>And some of those old wounds
are gonna be there,</i>

839
00:42:16,242 --> 00:42:17,660
<i>but they need to be resolved,</i>

840
00:42:17,701 --> 00:42:20,287
<i>and I heard that
they're aware of that.</i>

841
00:42:20,329 --> 00:42:22,706
<i>Yeah, and I just want to know,
going forward,</i>

842
00:42:22,748 --> 00:42:26,126
<i>that we are all in agreement
about our purpose</i>

843
00:42:26,168 --> 00:42:29,296
<i>and our positions
in the organization, so...</i>

844
00:42:29,338 --> 00:42:31,382
<i>I think as long as we keep
pressing the case, it'll...</i>

845
00:42:31,423 --> 00:42:32,675
<i>Yeah, yep.</i>

846
00:42:32,716 --> 00:42:34,552
<i>Keep being the case,
as you said.</i>

847
00:42:34,593 --> 00:42:36,720
<i>- Mm-hmm. I'm in.
- Yeah?</i>

848
00:42:36,762 --> 00:42:38,180
<i>I'm in. I like it.
I like where we're headed.</i>

849
00:42:38,222 --> 00:42:39,640
<i>I'm glad.</i>

850
00:42:39,682 --> 00:42:40,808
<i>I really like
where we're headed.</i>

851
00:42:40,849 --> 00:42:41,684
<i>I really like the vision.
I think it's--</i>

852
00:42:41,725 --> 00:42:42,893
<i>It's exciting.</i>

853
00:42:42,935 --> 00:42:44,562
<i>It's exciting, and it's good.</i>

854
00:42:48,941 --> 00:42:52,278
<i>Rick, Steve,
Kate reminded me last night</i>

855
00:42:52,319 --> 00:42:55,614
<i>that she put together
those South Carolina videos</i>

856
00:42:55,656 --> 00:42:57,741
<i>for you guys,
and they haven't gone out.</i>

857
00:42:57,783 --> 00:42:58,951
<i>She just wanted
to remind you guys</i>

858
00:42:58,993 --> 00:43:00,786
<i>that they're still out there.</i>

859
00:43:00,828 --> 00:43:02,788
<i>- The other Lindsey videos?
- Yeah.</i>

860
00:43:02,830 --> 00:43:04,915
<i>They're the ones that you guys
asked her to cut this weekend.</i>

861
00:43:04,957 --> 00:43:07,459
<i>She showed 'em to you
on Sunday, at her house.</i>

862
00:43:07,501 --> 00:43:10,379
<i>Oh, yeah. I don't know
why those aren't out.</i>

863
00:43:10,421 --> 00:43:12,339
<i>Are you telling me
that those videos</i>

864
00:43:12,381 --> 00:43:14,091
<i>are not digitally purchased?</i>

865
00:43:16,260 --> 00:43:18,178
<i>They weren't sent over.</i>

866
00:43:18,220 --> 00:43:21,557
<i>I've literally asked
this question 11 fucking times</i>

867
00:43:21,599 --> 00:43:24,184
<i>about whether we made
the deadline or not,</i>

868
00:43:24,226 --> 00:43:27,104
<i>and until this moment,
I've been told repeatedly</i>

869
00:43:27,146 --> 00:43:30,107
<i>that all of those ads
are maxed out on digital.</i>

870
00:43:30,149 --> 00:43:32,943
<i>Like, why can't I get
an answer to that question?</i>

871
00:43:32,985 --> 00:43:34,445
<i>Are those ads online?</i>

872
00:43:34,486 --> 00:43:36,447
<i>Are they playing
digitally in South Carolina?</i>

873
00:43:38,991 --> 00:43:40,451
<i>The answer's yes or no.</i>

874
00:43:40,492 --> 00:43:42,745
<i>I haven't seen the ads.</i>

875
00:43:42,786 --> 00:43:44,538
<i>Like, how the fuck
is that possible?</i>

876
00:43:44,580 --> 00:43:45,956
<i>- Okay, Ron--
- Are those ads</i>

877
00:43:45,998 --> 00:43:48,626
<i>- up online?
- I don't know what ads</i>

878
00:43:48,667 --> 00:43:49,793
<i>we're talking about.
I have not seen them.</i>

879
00:43:49,835 --> 00:43:51,503
<i>Rick?</i>

880
00:43:51,545 --> 00:43:54,298
<i>Yeah. We can't put them up,
unless we see 'em, I--</i>

881
00:43:54,340 --> 00:43:56,133
<i>I haven't seen them.</i>

882
00:43:56,175 --> 00:43:59,094
<i>They were created
for the deadline.</i>

883
00:43:59,136 --> 00:44:01,138
<i>Part of that--the 1,500--</i>

884
00:44:01,180 --> 00:44:02,681
<i>Wait, wait, wait.
Okay, so--</i>

885
00:44:02,723 --> 00:44:03,849
<i>When I ask a question</i>

886
00:44:03,891 --> 00:44:05,225
<i>about the fucking traffic,</i>

887
00:44:05,267 --> 00:44:07,019
<i>and I got ten people
bobble-heading</i>

888
00:44:07,061 --> 00:44:09,146
<i>back at me like it's done,</i>

889
00:44:09,188 --> 00:44:11,523
<i>I want precise
fucking information</i>

890
00:44:11,565 --> 00:44:13,567
<i>about what's up and where.</i>

891
00:44:13,609 --> 00:44:15,653
<i>We sent you a chart, at 4 p.m.,</i>

892
00:44:15,694 --> 00:44:17,821
<i>of everything that we had.</i>

893
00:44:17,863 --> 00:44:19,948
<i>- Christ's sakes.
- I'm just giving--</i>

894
00:44:19,990 --> 00:44:21,116
You were on all the calls.

895
00:44:21,158 --> 00:44:23,619
<i>I said ten times on this</i>

896
00:44:23,661 --> 00:44:26,497
<i>that this is a game
of small numbers,</i>

897
00:44:26,538 --> 00:44:28,957
<i>and these ads need to be
on the air digitally,</i>

898
00:44:28,999 --> 00:44:32,044
<i>under a deadline
that we knew about on Sunday.</i>

899
00:44:34,338 --> 00:44:37,383
<i>Get this shit
squared away immediately.</i>

900
00:44:40,886 --> 00:44:43,430
<i>- Hey, Mike.
- Hey.</i>

901
00:44:43,472 --> 00:44:44,932
I need to understand

902
00:44:44,973 --> 00:44:48,018
<i>what happened here, okay?
What happened?</i>

903
00:44:48,060 --> 00:44:50,813
<i>Okay.
Late Friday night, Steve said,</i>

904
00:44:50,854 --> 00:44:54,358
<i>"I want 15 Lindsey Graham ads.</i>

905
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,026
<i>I want 'em done tomorrow."</i>

906
00:44:56,068 --> 00:44:59,488
<i>Like 10-15 second things
that we can run on Facebook.</i>

907
00:44:59,530 --> 00:45:03,033
<i>I said, "My understanding is
this stuff has to be approved</i>

908
00:45:03,075 --> 00:45:04,827
<i>by Saturday, at midnight."</i>

909
00:45:04,868 --> 00:45:07,287
<i>And he said,
"Mike, I want it done."</i>

910
00:45:07,329 --> 00:45:10,791
<i>It didn't occur to anyone
to let me know?</i>

911
00:45:10,833 --> 00:45:12,459
It didn't occur to anyone.

912
00:45:12,501 --> 00:45:15,713
<i>Now, that would be
Steve's fault and my fault,</i>

913
00:45:15,754 --> 00:45:17,715
<i>because I don't know
how ads gets done.</i>

914
00:45:17,756 --> 00:45:19,967
<i>I just assumed that Kate
cut these quick spots,</i>

915
00:45:20,008 --> 00:45:22,177
<i>and then they got
these things approved.</i>

916
00:45:22,219 --> 00:45:25,347
<i>- I had no idea.
- They got 'em approved by whom?</i>

917
00:45:25,389 --> 00:45:26,682
<i>By Facebook,</i>

918
00:45:26,724 --> 00:45:28,225
<i>but I don't know
how the process works--</i>

919
00:45:28,267 --> 00:45:30,978
<i>No. They did not get them
approved by Facebook.</i>

920
00:45:31,019 --> 00:45:32,896
<i>Okay. I didn't know.
I--</i>

921
00:45:32,938 --> 00:45:34,982
<i>Everything--the only people
that get things</i>

922
00:45:35,023 --> 00:45:38,152
<i>approved by Facebook
are Conor and Ron.</i>

923
00:45:38,193 --> 00:45:40,654
Conor's never seen them?

924
00:45:40,696 --> 00:45:43,907
<i>No! We never saw them,
until this morning, Mike.</i>

925
00:45:43,949 --> 00:45:45,743
<i>I hear you.</i>

926
00:45:45,784 --> 00:45:47,911
<i>I'm just telling you this is
Steve's fault and my fault.</i>

927
00:45:47,953 --> 00:45:49,037
<i>Rick and Ryan know better.</i>

928
00:45:49,079 --> 00:45:50,581
<i>They should have
known immediately,</i>

929
00:45:50,622 --> 00:45:53,041
<i>and Kate knows that
everything runs through us.</i>

930
00:45:53,083 --> 00:45:54,835
<i>It has to be approved by legal,</i>

931
00:45:54,877 --> 00:45:58,088
<i>and they chose
to not loop us in, period.</i>

932
00:45:58,130 --> 00:46:00,090
<i>I don't know
that this is of value,</i>

933
00:46:00,132 --> 00:46:02,384
<i>to have the conversation
in front of everybody,</i>

934
00:46:02,426 --> 00:46:04,052
<i>on email.</i>

935
00:46:04,094 --> 00:46:07,347
<i>Yes it is, because they need
to be held accountable, Mike.</i>

936
00:46:07,389 --> 00:46:10,350
<i>They're not children.
They're not fucking children.</i>

937
00:46:10,392 --> 00:46:13,061
<i>I'm sorry. Grow up.
Not you. Them.</i>

938
00:46:13,103 --> 00:46:14,897
<i>No.</i>

939
00:46:14,938 --> 00:46:15,898
<i>I know what you're saying,
but is that the right way to--</i>

940
00:46:15,939 --> 00:46:17,107
<i>Yeah it is!</i>

941
00:46:17,149 --> 00:46:18,484
Make them accountable?

942
00:46:18,525 --> 00:46:19,985
<i>You know what?
They don't listen to me.</i>

943
00:46:20,027 --> 00:46:21,612
<i>At all.</i>

944
00:46:23,322 --> 00:46:26,742
<i>If Rick and Ryan are gonna
fucking assign Kate stuff</i>

945
00:46:26,784 --> 00:46:30,370
<i>and not tell us,
I don't know what to do.</i>

946
00:46:30,412 --> 00:46:32,080
Rick said he didn't even know.

947
00:46:32,122 --> 00:46:36,585
<i>Rick admitted on the call
that he saw them on Sunday.</i>

948
00:46:36,627 --> 00:46:38,003
<i>Okay. Like,
let's not get</i>

949
00:46:38,045 --> 00:46:39,421
<i>wrapped around
the axel on this.</i>

950
00:46:39,463 --> 00:46:40,964
<i>I am. I am.</i>

951
00:46:41,006 --> 00:46:42,299
<i>Please don't.
Please don't.</i>

952
00:46:42,341 --> 00:46:43,801
<i>Why?</i>

953
00:46:43,842 --> 00:46:44,927
<i>Because he wasn't
yelling at you.</i>

954
00:46:44,968 --> 00:46:46,303
<i>Okay.</i>

955
00:46:46,345 --> 00:46:47,596
<i>I talked to Steve.
He wasn't--yeah.</i>

956
00:46:47,638 --> 00:46:49,306
<i>He wasn't mad at you.
He was mad</i>

957
00:46:49,348 --> 00:46:51,308
<i>that the things he'd
asked for hadn't gotten done.</i>

958
00:46:51,350 --> 00:46:52,643
<i>You know what, Reed?
Nobody else--</i>

959
00:46:52,684 --> 00:46:53,811
<i>It's nothing.</i>

960
00:46:53,852 --> 00:46:56,104
<i>Okay great. Good for him.</i>

961
00:46:56,146 --> 00:46:58,565
<i>Well he's not--I mean
what do you want me to do?</i>

962
00:46:58,607 --> 00:47:00,442
<i>There is a lack of leadership
on this campaign,</i>

963
00:47:00,484 --> 00:47:02,402
<i>and I've had it.</i>

964
00:47:02,444 --> 00:47:03,654
<i>A lack of leadership?</i>

965
00:47:03,695 --> 00:47:05,364
<i>Yeah.</i>

966
00:47:05,405 --> 00:47:07,241
<i>Well, what do you
want me to do? I mean--</i>

967
00:47:07,282 --> 00:47:09,535
<i>We just--we won't do anything.
It's fine.</i>

968
00:47:09,576 --> 00:47:11,912
<i>Let me--no.
Sarah, don't do that.</i>

969
00:47:11,954 --> 00:47:13,247
<i>What? I'm not doing anything.</i>

970
00:47:13,288 --> 00:47:14,456
<i>I'm asking--</i>

971
00:47:14,498 --> 00:47:16,583
<i>Here. I think when--</i>

972
00:47:16,625 --> 00:47:18,001
<i>If I can do anything--</i>

973
00:47:18,043 --> 00:47:19,169
<i>I think you should just
ask them</i>

974
00:47:19,211 --> 00:47:21,004
<i>to please respond to the email.</i>

975
00:47:21,046 --> 00:47:22,798
<i>They need to be
held accountable.</i>

976
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:24,174
<i>- Okay fine.
- That's it.</i>

977
00:47:24,216 --> 00:47:25,467
<i>I will do that.
That is easy.</i>

978
00:47:25,509 --> 00:47:26,677
<i>- That's all.
- I'm more than happy</i>

979
00:47:26,718 --> 00:47:28,387
<i>- to do that.
- Thank you.</i>

980
00:47:41,692 --> 00:47:46,613
<i>I got a notification that
my kids' kindergarten class</i>

981
00:47:46,655 --> 00:47:50,158
<i>in Denver
had several cases of COVID</i>

982
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:53,036
<i>and needed to be quarantined
for 14 days.</i>

983
00:47:53,078 --> 00:47:56,540
<i>How are you? How's he doing?
Hey.</i>

984
00:48:03,547 --> 00:48:05,424
<i>And I'm like,
"Should I go home?"</i>

985
00:48:05,465 --> 00:48:08,302
<i>But if I go home,
I can't come back.</i>

986
00:48:08,343 --> 00:48:12,014
<i>Which I'm fine with, so I think
I'm gonna get a flight.</i>

987
00:48:14,516 --> 00:48:16,059
<i>I think that's
the responsible thing to do.</i>

988
00:48:29,156 --> 00:48:31,575
<i>I'm gonna cry. I am so mad.</i>

989
00:48:33,452 --> 00:48:35,746
<i>I just--like, I'm sick of it,
so I'm like, "It's time to go."</i>

990
00:48:35,787 --> 00:48:37,414
<i>My kid might have COVID,</i>

991
00:48:37,456 --> 00:48:41,168
<i>so I'm done. Fucking done.</i>

992
00:48:41,209 --> 00:48:44,755
<i>- I'm sorry.
- It's fine.</i>

993
00:48:46,924 --> 00:48:49,676
<i>No. I'm mad about a lot
of other things</i>

994
00:48:49,718 --> 00:48:52,930
<i>that still continue to go on,
and I'm tired.</i>

995
00:48:54,765 --> 00:48:57,267
<i>I'm gonna go home.
Just made that decision.</i>

996
00:49:03,315 --> 00:49:06,401
<i>moody music</i>

997
00:49:32,302 --> 00:49:35,389
<i>Here we are now, just hours
from election day 2020.</i>

998
00:49:35,430 --> 00:49:37,057
<i>Donald Trump and Joe Biden
are tonight</i>

999
00:49:37,099 --> 00:49:38,934
<i>surgically trying to pick off the states</i>

1000
00:49:38,976 --> 00:49:41,687
<i>that could push them
over the line.</i>

1001
00:49:41,728 --> 00:49:44,147
<i>Vote for Trump,
like true Americans!</i>

1002
00:49:44,189 --> 00:49:46,149
<i>Like socialism? Move to Cuba.</i>

1003
00:49:46,191 --> 00:49:48,902
<i>Well, this guy Trump
has destroyed everything.</i>

1004
00:49:48,944 --> 00:49:51,905
<i>He's a vile,
nasty human being.</i>

1005
00:49:51,947 --> 00:49:53,323
<i>Officials in a number of states</i>

1006
00:49:53,365 --> 00:49:56,493
<i>bracing for an avalanche
of mail-in ballots.</i>

1007
00:49:56,535 --> 00:49:59,997
<i>This universal mail-in
is a very dangerous thing.</i>

1008
00:50:00,038 --> 00:50:01,623
<i>It's fraught with fraud</i>

1009
00:50:01,665 --> 00:50:03,583
<i>and every other thing
that can happen,</i>

1010
00:50:03,625 --> 00:50:06,169
<i>and I want to make sure
the election is not stalling.</i>

1011
00:50:06,211 --> 00:50:07,629
It's going to be several days

1012
00:50:07,671 --> 00:50:09,131
<i>before we get the result,</i>

1013
00:50:09,172 --> 00:50:12,300
<i>and that is going to lead
to fear of civil unrest.</i>

1014
00:50:12,342 --> 00:50:16,179
<i>We're done with the chaos,
the tweets,</i>

1015
00:50:16,221 --> 00:50:18,473
<i>the anger, the hate.</i>

1016
00:50:18,515 --> 00:50:21,184
<i>We are gonna fight
for our country.</i>

1017
00:50:21,226 --> 00:50:22,436
<i>We're tired of living
in the darkness,</i>

1018
00:50:22,477 --> 00:50:24,146
<i>and we're ready to move
into the light.</i>

1019
00:50:24,187 --> 00:50:25,522
<i>Video of armed
security guards</i>

1020
00:50:25,564 --> 00:50:27,190
<i>outside of St. Pete</i>

1021
00:50:27,232 --> 00:50:30,193
<i>polling place spurred fears
of voter intimidation.</i>

1022
00:50:30,235 --> 00:50:32,863
<i>There's really no reason to
have guns at a polling place.</i>

1023
00:50:32,904 --> 00:50:34,698
<i>A pro-Trump convoy</i>

1024
00:50:34,740 --> 00:50:38,535
<i>surrounded a Biden campaign
bus on a highway.</i>

1025
00:50:38,577 --> 00:50:40,370
A Biden-Harris staffer's car

1026
00:50:40,412 --> 00:50:41,913
<i>was hit during the incident.</i>

1027
00:50:41,955 --> 00:50:44,207
<i>Federal agents are
stepping in to investigate.</i>

1028
00:50:44,249 --> 00:50:46,877
<i>We want Trump
for four more years!</i>

1029
00:50:46,918 --> 00:50:48,211
<i>Four more years!</i>

1030
00:50:48,253 --> 00:50:51,256
<i>We will turn this city red!</i>

1031
00:50:51,298 --> 00:50:54,551
<i>Whoo!</i>

1032
00:50:54,593 --> 00:50:57,054
<i>We have made America
strong again.</i>

1033
00:50:57,095 --> 00:50:59,389
<i>We have made
America proud again.</i>

1034
00:50:59,431 --> 00:51:01,683
<i>We have made America
safe again,</i>

1035
00:51:01,725 --> 00:51:06,563
<i>and we will make
America great again!</i>

1036
00:51:06,605 --> 00:51:09,900
<i>Thank you, Iowa.
Thank you, Wisconsin.</i>

1037
00:51:09,941 --> 00:51:11,568
<i>Tomorrow, we have
an opportunity</i>

1038
00:51:11,610 --> 00:51:14,988
<i>to put an end to a presidency
that's divided this nation.</i>

1039
00:51:17,783 --> 00:51:21,953
<i>Tomorrow, the power to change
the country is in your hands.</i>

1040
00:51:41,848 --> 00:51:43,600
<i>Thank you, sir.</i>

1041
00:51:48,814 --> 00:51:50,357
<i>Hi, gang.</i>

1042
00:51:51,983 --> 00:51:55,779
<i>It's election day.
It's a celebration of America.</i>

1043
00:51:55,821 --> 00:51:59,825
<i>Nobody's going into
a general election</i>

1044
00:51:59,866 --> 00:52:02,244
<i>better set up
in our lifetime than Biden.</i>

1045
00:52:02,285 --> 00:52:06,414
<i>Well, Reagan, but...</i>

1046
00:52:06,456 --> 00:52:08,291
<i>no Democrat has.</i>

1047
00:52:09,709 --> 00:52:12,587
<i>Yeah. It shouldn't be close.</i>

1048
00:52:15,006 --> 00:52:17,968
<i>I mean the ideal circumstance
would be, you know,</i>

1049
00:52:18,009 --> 00:52:19,970
<i>Trump gets blown out
by 13 points,</i>

1050
00:52:20,011 --> 00:52:22,139
<i>and you could say,</i>

1051
00:52:22,180 --> 00:52:26,393
<i>you know, you didn't need
a Lincoln Project.</i>

1052
00:52:26,434 --> 00:52:28,145
<i>But I think going out
and hitting Trump</i>

1053
00:52:28,186 --> 00:52:30,480
<i>was really important.</i>

1054
00:52:30,522 --> 00:52:33,775
<i>mellow music</i>

1055
00:52:36,278 --> 00:52:38,321
<i>Gonna be a good night, right?</i>

1056
00:52:40,615 --> 00:52:43,493
<i>It's gonna be what
it's gonna be now, right?</i>

1057
00:52:43,535 --> 00:52:45,245
<i>I think it's gonna be
a good night though.</i>

1058
00:52:45,287 --> 00:52:46,746
It's gonna be a good night.

1059
00:52:46,788 --> 00:52:49,332
<i>I think that people
aren't gonna tolerate</i>

1060
00:52:49,374 --> 00:52:52,335
<i>any more of this.</i>

1061
00:52:52,377 --> 00:52:54,337
<i>It'll be a good night.</i>

1062
00:53:03,597 --> 00:53:04,764
How you feeling, guys?

1063
00:53:04,806 --> 00:53:06,850
<i>Feeling good.</i>

1064
00:53:09,686 --> 00:53:13,940
<i>Hey, guys. Running behind.
What else is new?</i>

1065
00:53:13,982 --> 00:53:17,527
<i>Look at you. That is
a stylin' jacket, right?</i>

1066
00:53:17,569 --> 00:53:20,989
<i>- I cleaned up.
- Once a year.</i>

1067
00:53:23,909 --> 00:53:25,827
<i>It's been
a very busy day here,</i>

1068
00:53:25,869 --> 00:53:29,331
<i>and this is a very very evenly
split state, as you know,</i>

1069
00:53:29,372 --> 00:53:32,042
<i>where we have about
the same rough amount</i>

1070
00:53:32,083 --> 00:53:34,878
<i>of Republicans and Democrats,
and some...</i>

1071
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:37,172
<i>Somebody's going to
win the election.</i>

1072
00:53:37,214 --> 00:53:40,050
<i>One side wins,
and the other side loses.</i>

1073
00:53:40,091 --> 00:53:41,718
<i>And we, as a nation,</i>

1074
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:45,972
<i>have always tried to build
a world around that.</i>

1075
00:53:46,014 --> 00:53:48,141
<i>We're gonna be
facing potentially</i>

1076
00:53:48,183 --> 00:53:51,895
<i>some really big questions
of who lives,</i>

1077
00:53:51,937 --> 00:53:54,606
<i>who dies, who has power,
who doesn't.</i>

1078
00:53:54,648 --> 00:53:57,901
<i>Those are hard questions.
Are they Shakespearean?</i>

1079
00:53:57,943 --> 00:54:00,111
<i>Probably. Are they biblical?
Probably, right?</i>

1080
00:54:00,153 --> 00:54:01,738
<i>We're talking about questions</i>

1081
00:54:01,780 --> 00:54:03,365
<i>that have been
foundational to us,</i>

1082
00:54:03,406 --> 00:54:06,534
<i>as people,
from the beginning of time.</i>

1083
00:54:06,576 --> 00:54:09,079
<i>- Exciting.
- Yeah. It's exciting.</i>

1084
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:11,206
<i>We're having a day, guys.</i>

1085
00:54:11,248 --> 00:54:12,791
<i>Two hundred
and fifty years ago,</i>

1086
00:54:12,832 --> 00:54:15,835
<i>a whole group of guys
got together, in Philadelphia,</i>

1087
00:54:15,877 --> 00:54:17,295
<i>and came up with
a pretty good solution</i>

1088
00:54:17,337 --> 00:54:19,547
<i>how to answer
some of those questions</i>

1089
00:54:19,589 --> 00:54:21,383
<i>that the world hadn't been
answering very well.</i>

1090
00:54:24,010 --> 00:54:26,763
Right here, folks.

1091
00:54:26,805 --> 00:54:29,849
<i>Maybe we've taken
that gift and decided</i>

1092
00:54:29,891 --> 00:54:31,268
<i>that we don't want
the responsibility</i>

1093
00:54:31,309 --> 00:54:34,896
<i>that comes with that.
I don't know.</i>

1094
00:54:34,938 --> 00:54:37,524
Jubilation. Yay!

1095
00:54:37,565 --> 00:54:40,568
Just wait till we win.

1096
00:54:40,610 --> 00:54:43,405
<i>But we're gonna find out.</i>

1097
00:54:43,446 --> 00:54:46,283
<i>Not just on election day.</i>

1098
00:54:46,324 --> 00:54:50,120
<i>The next four years
are going to tell us</i>

1099
00:54:50,161 --> 00:54:53,957
<i>a lot about who we are,</i>

1100
00:54:53,999 --> 00:54:56,001
<i>about where we go.</i>

1101
00:55:03,258 --> 00:55:06,052
<i>Okay. We're gonna
show a view of the crowd...</i>

1102
00:55:06,094 --> 00:55:07,929
Still looking good?

1103
00:55:08,930 --> 00:55:10,140
<i>Wisconsin.</i>

1104
00:55:10,181 --> 00:55:12,350
At the White House--

1105
00:55:15,312 --> 00:55:16,855
Pennsylvania's not.

1106
00:55:16,896 --> 00:55:18,648
<i>I know. They said
they can't do it then.</i>

1107
00:55:18,690 --> 00:55:20,567
<i>They said there's gonna be
another Wisconsin update</i>

1108
00:55:20,608 --> 00:55:22,569
<i>at 4 a.m., East Coast.</i>

1109
00:55:22,610 --> 00:55:24,612
<i>4 a.m. Oh.</i>

1110
00:55:24,654 --> 00:55:25,905
<i>Right now, in
the great state of Georgia--</i>

1111
00:55:25,947 --> 00:55:27,657
<i>What about Georgia?</i>

1112
00:55:27,699 --> 00:55:29,284
<i>and you see a
difference of 100--</i>

1113
00:55:29,326 --> 00:55:31,202
<i>Oh, he is just not
out of the woods yet.</i>

1114
00:55:31,244 --> 00:55:33,038
<i>Not by a long shot.</i>

1115
00:55:33,079 --> 00:55:35,415
<i>Oh, he's got his whole scumbag
family with him. Terrific.</i>

1116
00:55:35,457 --> 00:55:37,125
Of the United States,

1117
00:55:37,167 --> 00:55:39,669
<i>Donald J. Trump!</i>

1118
00:55:41,546 --> 00:55:43,131
<i>I want to thank
the American people</i>

1119
00:55:43,173 --> 00:55:45,508
<i>for their tremendous support.</i>

1120
00:55:45,550 --> 00:55:48,011
<i>Millions and millions of
people voted for us tonight.</i>

1121
00:55:48,053 --> 00:55:51,848
<i>Literally, we were just
all set to get outside</i>

1122
00:55:51,890 --> 00:55:55,018
<i>and just celebrate something
that was so beautiful.</i>

1123
00:55:55,060 --> 00:55:58,188
<i>So good. Such a vote.
Such a success.</i>

1124
00:55:58,229 --> 00:56:00,190
What's he talking about?

1125
00:56:00,231 --> 00:56:01,941
<i>The citizens in this
country have come out...</i>

1126
00:56:01,983 --> 00:56:04,194
<i>- He's such a freak.
- This is a record.</i>

1127
00:56:04,235 --> 00:56:06,112
<i>There's never been
anything like it.</i>

1128
00:56:06,154 --> 00:56:08,490
<i>We won states that
we weren't expected to win.</i>

1129
00:56:08,531 --> 00:56:12,869
<i>Florida. We didn't win it.
We won it by a lot, and--</i>

1130
00:56:12,911 --> 00:56:15,872
<i>Whoo!</i>

1131
00:56:15,914 --> 00:56:18,792
The great state of Ohio.

1132
00:56:18,833 --> 00:56:22,962
<i>We won Texas. We won Texas.</i>

1133
00:56:23,004 --> 00:56:26,466
<i>It's also clear
that we have won Georgia.</i>

1134
00:56:26,508 --> 00:56:29,469
<i>Is that true?</i>

1135
00:56:29,511 --> 00:56:31,763
<i>He's gonna lose Georgia.</i>

1136
00:56:31,805 --> 00:56:33,348
The citizens of this country

1137
00:56:33,390 --> 00:56:35,433
<i>have come out
in record numbers.</i>

1138
00:56:35,475 --> 00:56:38,770
<i>This is a record. There's
never been anything like it.</i>

1139
00:56:38,812 --> 00:56:42,899
<i>We're up 690,000 votes,
in Pennsylvania.</i>

1140
00:56:42,941 --> 00:56:44,067
<i>690,000.</i>

1141
00:56:44,109 --> 00:56:46,736
<i>Whoo!</i>

1142
00:56:46,778 --> 00:56:50,073
<i>We won states,
and all of a sudden, I said,</i>

1143
00:56:50,115 --> 00:56:51,741
<i>"What happened to the
election?</i>

1144
00:56:51,783 --> 00:56:55,245
<i>It's off," and we have
all these announcers saying,</i>

1145
00:56:55,286 --> 00:56:58,373
<i>"What happened?"
And then they said, "Oh."</i>

1146
00:56:58,415 --> 00:57:00,583
<i>- Is he riffing right now?
- Yeah.</i>

1147
00:57:00,625 --> 00:57:03,503
<i>Frankly, we did
win this election.</i>

1148
00:57:03,545 --> 00:57:08,258
<i>Whoo!</i>

1149
00:57:08,299 --> 00:57:11,052
<i>This is
a major fraud on our nation.</i>

1150
00:57:11,094 --> 00:57:14,389
<i>We want all voting to stop.</i>

1151
00:57:14,431 --> 00:57:16,766
<i>We don't want them
to find any ballots</i>

1152
00:57:16,808 --> 00:57:18,977
<i>at four o'clock in the morning</i>

1153
00:57:19,018 --> 00:57:22,772
<i>and add them to the list.
Okay?</i>

1154
00:57:22,814 --> 00:57:27,152
<i>It's a very sad moment.
It's a very sad moment.</i>

1155
00:57:27,193 --> 00:57:28,653
<i>To me, this is a very sad moment.</i>

1156
00:57:28,695 --> 00:57:31,906
<i>dramatic music</i>