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Jesse Watters Primetime (FULL END SHOW) | October 31, 2025
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00:00Welcome to a spooky special edition of Jesse Waters' Primetime.
00:11I'm not Jesse dressed up as Charlie Hurt.
00:14I'm actually Charlie Hurt.
00:16So, trick or treat.
00:18Happy Halloween and all of that.
00:22It's getting spooky in Washington.
00:24Even Chad Pergrim is getting a little scared.
00:28Senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergrim is here to share some ghost stories from the halls of Congress.
00:34Chad.
00:35Good morning, guys.
00:36Well, these are tales of the macabre, perhaps from the congressional crypt.
00:40And since we're going to tell ghost stories, I thought I would bring along some marshmallows here.
00:45Halloween started a day early.
00:47The president and first lady were handing out king-sized candy bars to the little ghouls and goblins at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
00:55The Millers were there.
00:57Katie was a skeleton.
00:59And Stephen was the Democrats' worst nightmare himself.
01:04One trick or treater got spooked and the first lady had to step in to comfort her.
01:09And we had a repeat of Halloween's past.
01:12President Trump dropped a candy bar on a trick or treater's head, just like he did in 2019.
01:19Trump's handing out treats while Chuck Schumer and his minions in the Democrat Party are playing a trick on America.
01:25The government's been shut down for a month, and food stamps run out tomorrow.
01:32People are scared.
01:34I think families are going to feel like the rug is being yanked out from underneath.
01:38Hunger in our community will go up 100%.
01:42Schumer's minions are saying, no treats for you.
01:46Why?
01:47They want it all for themselves.
01:48Are you ready to vote with the Republicans to reopen the government at this point as a reasonable Democrat?
01:55Maybe others would follow you.
01:58You know, I'm not there yet because we have had literally, Joe, no discussion whatsoever about how we're going to deal.
02:06This is the right way to do it, Senator, by people not getting paychecks at the TSA.
02:11This is extortion.
02:14Democrats are still throwing a party, but you're just not invited.
02:17Even CNN knows they're all dressing up like clowns.
02:21This is a choice by the White House.
02:24This is also, Congresswoman, this is also a choice by Senate Democrats to not vote to open the government.
02:30Yes, it is.
02:30Trump says this is just the craziest Halloween.
02:35The Democrats just don't know what they're doing.
02:36I don't know what's wrong with them.
02:38They've never done a thing like this.
02:41They've become crazed lunatics.
02:43All they have to do is say, let's go, let's open up our country, and everything snaps back into shape.
02:51Democrats are talking crazy.
02:53They think Trump spiked the punch bowl with a poison pill.
02:56Any bill that they've put forth, they've always had some extra stuff to it.
03:01There's always been a poison pill to it.
03:03So I disagree with your characterization.
03:05What were the poison pills?
03:07I think what you're trying to do is shift the responsibility to Democrats.
03:13Trump's not spiking anything.
03:14Well, maybe he may be spiking the filibuster, because it might be the only way to reopen the government.
03:20Every Republican just wants this shutdown to end.
03:24We just want this to end.
03:25They do not deny that the Democrats themselves, that they are prolonging this pain.
03:31They admit to it.
03:32They said they're using it as leverage.
03:34The big question everybody needs to ask this morning is why.
03:37They're trying to appeal to the radical left Marxist rise in their party.
03:43Batboy Hakeem keeps saying Johnson won't pick up the phone, but even CNN is hitting him with a fact check.
03:49You said that Mike Johnson's not willing to sit down and have a conversation.
03:54Y'all did have a phone conversation, I believe you said earlier today.
03:57Who initiated that call?
03:59Was that you or was that Speaker Johnson?
04:02It was a call from Mike Johnson.
04:03It was very brief.
04:04Uh, and it wasn't a substantive discussion in terms of finding a path forward.
04:09But was he calling to talk about the government shutdown?
04:13I mean, you could say that that was in the ballpark.
04:17Strike three, Hakeem.
04:18You're out.
04:20Charlemagne, the podcaster, meanwhile, is stuffing himself in a Halloween costume.
04:25People are angry.
04:27So why is Hakeem Jeffries talking like he's Chuck E. Cheese Obama?
04:30Okay?
04:31Like, what are we doing?
04:34What are we doing?
04:36Come on, man.
04:37Come on.
04:38Come on.
04:38Come on.
04:39Clearly, the Democrats don't have the leaders they need to meet the moment.
04:42Okay, fine.
04:43Anyone who is a fan of sports knows sometimes you need a rebuilding year.
04:46Okay, get some draft picks, develop young talent, and at some point, the old guys need to retire.
04:52So Democrats are looking for something a little bit more fresh.
04:55Hakeem's not the guy.
04:57And they're in love with a commie named Mamdani.
05:00Hakeem was forced to endorse.
05:01But Chuck says, no way, Jose.
05:05Mamdani, are you going to vote for him?
05:06Look, the bottom line is very simple.
05:09I have a good relationship with him, and we're continuing to talk.
05:14The vote is on Tuesday.
05:15What are you going to do?
05:16It's very simple.
05:17It's very simple.
05:19If Chuck doesn't want to get on board, Democrats are going to make him walk the plank.
05:22Ilhan Omar says Chuck better watch out.
05:26Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, would you like to see her primary Chuck Schumer?
05:30I would like to do Alex.
05:32I would like Alex to do whatever it is that Alex wants, and I'll be there to support her.
05:38Sounds like a yes to me.
05:39Democrats can't ever give us a straight answer.
05:42They'd rather just walk away than answer.
05:44A far-lefty candidate bum-rushed ICE, and now she's facing federal charges.
05:50But don't ask her about it, though.
05:52Just to be clear, the indictment alleges that you and others, quote,
05:57surrounded a federal officer's vehicle, banged on its hood and windows, etched pig on the side,
06:03and impeded movement.
06:05Did you etch the word pig on the side of an officer's car?
06:09I'm not pleading, not guilty.
06:11The evidence will come out in court, and I plan on winning.
06:15Thank you so much for having me.
06:16Yeah, um, did she just sign off?
06:21And poof, like a ghost on Halloween.
06:24Democrat policies have scared us enough, and they're still trying to scare us.
06:28All I know is, no, sir, you will not get a third term.
06:32That's not going to happen.
06:33And frankly, you never should have had one term.
06:35If I'm going to be perfectly honest, you were never qualified to be president of the United States,
06:39not once, but definitely not twice.
06:42And your incompetencies are showing.
06:45You are a loser, and unfortunately, we all are being dragged down with you, and you're a loser way.
06:52If there's a loser out there tonight, it's Democrats.
06:55Trump just came back from Asia with $2 trillion worth of deals.
06:59A loser could not pull that off.
07:01Even Chuck Schumer says Trump's a winner.
07:03I guess you have to say it's Donald Trump.
07:06He's figured out how to communicate in this fragmented environment.
07:09If the question is effective communicator, he's effective.
07:13You've got to say that Trump's been the more effective communicator of anybody.
07:17Trump will communicate with anyone, from the Chinese to the Arabs to, yes, even Democrats.
07:2247 says his door is always wide open.
07:26I'm always going to meet.
07:27All they have to do is open up the country.
07:29Let them open up the country, and we'll meet.
07:32We'll meet very quickly.
07:34Democrat strategist Michael LaRosa joins me now.
07:38Good evening.
07:39Good to see you.
07:39Happy Halloween.
07:40So, you know, I know that AOC announced the other day the Democrats are not crazy.
07:46But when you look at some of that, it's kind of hard to say that they're not crazy.
07:49Yeah, after hearing your entire monologue, Charlie, it's a little hard not to feel like we're taking – like we're a big ship taking on water in every direction sometimes.
08:00And there are some communicators for the Democratic Party who I would just love to see communicate a little less.
08:06But I do think you'll probably be reading from a different script next week.
08:12I think that the tide will shift.
08:14Nothing's frozen in politics.
08:16And next week, after the elections in New Jersey, Virginia, and California, which will reset and even up the score heading into the midterms on redistricting, I think Democrats will feel a little more spring in their step.
08:29Well, certainly going into Virginia and New Jersey, they're both solidly Democrat states.
08:36But the fact that we're even talking about races there, I think, is probably pretty alarming for Democrats.
08:44No, not really.
08:46We're always talking about the election preceding the midterms because both sides feel that they are harbingers for things to come, just like when Glenn Youngkin won the governorship of Virginia four years ago.
09:03Republicans thought there was a chance they could keep it again.
09:07And Jack Cittarelli came very close to beating Phil Murphy four years ago as well in a shocker.
09:13So then let's get you on the record for this.
09:17I like this.
09:18So if Jack Cittarelli wins in New Jersey or Jason Miara wins in Virginia, would you say that's a five alarm fire for Democrats?
09:26Yes.
09:28Okay.
09:29We'll get you back for that.
09:31You can have me back and we will break that down.
09:33But yes, I don't foresee.
09:35I see Miara as winning.
09:37You feel confident that that's not going to happen?
09:39I think that the Democrats will likely win both states.
09:46Right.
09:47But if I'm wrong, I will come back and hash it out with you for sure.
09:49And for sure, Democrats should, especially considering the fact that not only are they Democrat states, but you also have a Republican in the White House.
09:56And usually these off-year midterm, you know, middle midterms or whatever you want to call them, go against the party in power.
10:04Correct.
10:05Let me ask you about this.
10:06So food stamps run out tomorrow.
10:08Right.
10:09Democrat, you know, bipartisan majorities have voted in both chambers of Congress to keep the government open at Biden's spending levels.
10:18Democrats in the Senate, a minority of Democrats in the Senate, or a Democratic minority, is filibustering this.
10:28How does that not wind up hurting Democrats when food stamps run out tomorrow?
10:34Well, a couple things.
10:35There's a bit of a quagmire here.
10:37So you have Democrats who have successfully elevated the issue of health care nationally as a tactic, but has nothing to do with keeping the government funded and reopening it up.
10:51But they're successfully using it as leverage, which, by the way, is not unusual.
10:56That is politics.
10:57That is governing.
10:58That's always been the case within Congress.
11:02And Republicans, I would say, they passed a clean CR, a clean government funding bill, for the first time in a long time.
11:10But it is Biden's spending levels.
11:12It is a Biden budget that Democrats have already voted for.
11:16Right.
11:16But you would think that Republicans also might want to help save that subsidy in the end.
11:23It would be politically advantageous for both parties to do that.
11:28Indeed.
11:29Indeed.
11:30Michael LaRosa, thank you so much for joining us.
11:32You're welcome.
11:33Good to see you.
11:34You did.
11:35We have a Fox News alert.
11:36The FBI just foiled a Halloween terror plot.
11:40National correspondent Jeff Paul has the details.
11:43Hey, Jeff.
11:44Hey there.
11:44Well, yeah, sources telling Fox News the attack plot was likely linked to international terrorism, quite possibly with a connection to ISIS.
11:52The FBI says it was supposed to be carried out this Halloween weekend, but instead, multiple people have been arrested.
11:59The operation all happening in Michigan, where multiple suspects were apprehended.
12:03In suburban Detroit, federal investigators could be seen in a neighborhood near a local high school.
12:08They walked in and out of a house, some carrying items out to a nearby evidence truck.
12:13The FBI says, at the moment, there is no really current credible threat to public safety.
12:19And while we wait for more details about the alleged terrorism plot, President Trump was asked about the situation.
12:26There's a broad detail on the FBI reporting that, uh, possible that terrorist attack in Michigan that was said to happen over the weekend.
12:32We're catching people before they ever start, yeah.
12:35FBI Director Cash Patel telling Fox News, quote,
12:38Through swift action and close coordination with our local partners, a potential act of terror was stopped before it could unfold.
12:46The vigilance of this FBI prevented what could have been a tragic attack, and thanks to their dedication, Michigan will have a safe and happy Halloween.
12:54Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she's grateful for the swift action.
12:58The suspects, meanwhile, could be in court as soon as Monday.
13:02Back to you.
13:03Thank you, Jeff Paul.
13:05Kamala and Gavin are on a collision course.
13:0847's back from Asia touting historic deals, but Democrats aren't impressed.
13:21The left's it girl, Gavin, he says that Trump didn't strike gold, he got played.
13:26This is weakness masquerading and strength.
13:29This is classic Trump and Trumpism.
13:31This guy is historically weak, and these are acts of a weak person that is trying to appear strong.
13:40I was embarrassed.
13:42I was humiliated.
13:44Watching the President of the United States in front of Xi, we're good.
13:47I mean, he was negotiating away this country in the first five minutes of the photo op.
13:51He came back with nothing.
13:53He got played by President Xi.
13:55He says...
13:56Trump is so weak.
13:58Gav's just jealous.
14:00Last time he visited the Great Wall, he steamrolled a Chinese kid on the court.
14:05Trump, on the other hand, he's erasing four years of auto-pen embarrassment.
14:10Kamala had a big hand in that.
14:12I met with over 150 world leaders, presidents, prime ministers, chancellors, and kings.
14:18I've negotiated very important deals and issues on behalf of the American people.
14:25What deals has Kamala negotiated?
14:28Everything she touches blows up.
14:30The border, AI, space.
14:33No wonder she got landslided and is shopping for a comeback plan.
14:37If Kamala wants a rerun in 2028, she's got to bend the rules.
14:41What's Mamala got in mind?
14:44I think we should reduce voting age to 16.
14:47Gen Z.
14:49They're age about 13 through 27.
14:51They've only known the climate crisis.
14:54They missed substantial parts of their education because of the pandemic.
15:00If they're in high school or college, especially in college,
15:04it is very likely that whatever they've chosen as their major for study
15:08may not result in an affordable wage.
15:11Kamala is building an army of teenagers, a bunch of mini-Grettas with climate anxiety.
15:17They've coined the term climate anxiety to describe fear of not only being able to buy a home,
15:28but that fear it'll be wiped out by extreme weather, but fear of having children.
15:32If they're voting right now, at 16 and up,
15:36they're going to be talking about the importance of climate.
15:38They're going to be talking about the importance of figuring out how AI is going to affect the future of the workforce.
15:45They're going to be focused on what are we really doing about affordable housing.
15:50So we already learned that word sounds don't win elections, but Kamala's got bigger issues.
15:55She still thinks Autopen is sharper than ever.
15:59I believe he was fully competent to serve.
16:02Do you really?
16:02Yeah, I do.
16:05That surprises me, actually.
16:07No, I do.
16:07But there's a distinction to be made between running for president and being president.
16:13What's the distinction?
16:15Well, being a candidate for president of the United States is about being in a marathon at a sprinter's pace,
16:23having tomatoes thrown at you every step you take.
16:27We're all Jon Stewart.
16:29So he wasn't confident enough to campaign, but he was confident enough to run the country.
16:33Don't worry, though.
16:34Kamala might be running Joe over with her electric school bus, but it's out of love.
16:39I actually write about it extensively in the book about my feelings for the president.
16:46I care about him deeply.
16:48And I did not want to pile on with all the criticism that he was facing.
16:58I didn't think it was necessary for me to wait on already what was so much.
17:07So Kamala's soft launching her White House run.
17:10Problem is, Greasy's getting ready, too.
17:13I do want to talk about Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom's very old friend.
17:16They knew each other back in the day.
17:19There's absolutely no reason for her to take herself out of the running at this point.
17:23And, of course, it would be very complicated because Governor Newsom would be one of the potential top candidates.
17:30And they've had this frenemy relationship for years and years and always been in close contention on so many things.
17:38This could be legendary, the battle of the Golden State frenemies.
17:41And they've had the same consultants for years, so they know a lot of the good and the bad about each other.
17:47Yeah, it's kind of dangerous in many, many ways.
17:51So who wins?
17:52Carville's ready to risk it all, but only if it's fresh meat.
17:57Let me be very clear here.
17:58No one that had anything to do with 2024, no Democrat wants to hear from you.
18:05We all voted for you.
18:07Let's bring in Republican strategist Katie Zachari.
18:10Hi, so great to see you.
18:11You know, I always hate asking the same question over and over again, but what is wrong with your politicians in California?
18:19I ask myself the same thing.
18:21There's nothing scarier on this Halloween than imagining a Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, or Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom on the same ticket.
18:29It's a race to the bottom, Charlie.
18:31And watching these soundbite, watching them go through their record, their track record of success, which is really abject failures in California, Charlie, is really something to remark at.
18:42So you're obviously a Republican, but since you live in California, you're kind of a—I consider you an expert on Democrats.
18:50Kamala Harris has never won a single electoral vote in a primary, in a Democrat primary, for president.
18:58She flamed out in 2020 before the primary began, and in 2024, party elders had to rig the whole thing to give her the nomination.
19:09She's never earned a single vote in the Democrat party.
19:12Do you think that Democrat voters, rank-and-file regular Democrat voters, if they're allowed to have an unrigged and fair primary election, do you think they would get behind Kamala Harris?
19:24Well, I think it's going to be pretty successful for us Republicans if she continues doing these types of interviews.
19:31And I do see the Democrats getting tired of this, right?
19:34She spent a $1.5 billion on her campaign in 107 days, and she's still very far behind on the payments.
19:42The DNC is still making those payments.
19:44So I think they're exhausted by this.
19:47I think they're looking at a new candidate.
19:48Gavin Newsom is obviously surfacing.
19:51And why they're saying frenemies and it's complicated is because Gavin Newsom is the clear darling now, the Democrat darling.
19:58Barack Obama has basically come out and supported everything Gavin Newsom is doing with Prop 50, and he is, you know, all over the ads for Prop 50 supporting, quote, Gavin Newsom.
20:08And this is really a soft launch for his presidential campaign to see who's behind him.
20:12And Kamala's gained a lot of foes, Charlie.
20:15Her book pretty much went scorched earth on most of the people she worked with.
20:19So California is also home to Hollywood, which is very obsessed with optics.
20:24And I don't understand what Gavin Newsom is doing with the hand gestures, and I don't know why California voters don't think it's really weird and punish him over it.
20:36Well, he gets teased about it constantly, but I think what it is is he continues the rhetoric, continues to say the same things over and over again.
20:43And for the life of me, Charlie, as a lifelong native Californian, I cannot understand how a single person could go vote for anything Gavin Newsom is behind because his track record is, quite frankly, we'll use this term scorched earth, but in a literal way in California, people have lost so much under Gavin Newsom.
21:03And on his point on fentanyl, I want to make, when he said President Trump didn't come back with the deal, look, in California, over his five-year in his governorship, 2,100% increase in fentanyl deaths, 4,000 deaths in California for fentanyl.
21:17And what did Gavin Newsom do about it?
21:19Nothing, Charlie.
21:20So we see this track record of him talking, using these crazy hand motions, but honestly, it's scary.
21:26It's this really kind of psychological trick, so you don't listen to what he's saying and you just get tricked by his crazy hands.
21:35I don't quite frankly know.
21:36Yeah, and not to mention a mass exodus out of California, even into Mexico, the one place where you see that.
21:43It is really crazy.
21:44And will you have your work cut out for you convincing people that these people really are as crazy as they look?
21:52So, Katie, thank you so much for joining us.
21:55Thank you so much, Charlie.
21:57All right.
21:58So is Trump going to bomb Venezuela?
22:00We'll find out.
22:06And we have a Fox News alert.
22:08Trump ramping up the pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
22:12Coke boats have been blowing up by the week.
22:14Bad hombres are now sleeping with the fishes.
22:17Could this be a warm-up for something bigger?
22:20Maybe even strikes on land?
22:21There are reports that you are considering strikes within Venezuela.
22:26Is that true?
22:26No.
22:27You made a decision on that?
22:28No, it's not true.
22:29So for now, it's no moss on bombs, but things are getting hot in the Caribbean.
22:34Marines are doing live fire exercises, and Democrats, they'd rather see due process for drug lords.
22:40If they happen to wind up on a boat, and they're probably drug smugglers, don't get me wrong,
22:46but we don't know who they are or directly who they're affiliated with.
22:50And the thing to remember here, drugs are a major problem.
22:52But this is a huge escalation of presidential power.
22:56He is judge, jury, and executioner for, gosh, thousands, tens of thousands.
23:01Meanwhile, other Democrats are dreaming of a day when President AOC gets a big red button.
23:08There will be a Democratic president someday, and all my MAGA friends who are, you know,
23:13cheering on these illegal killings need to imagine who gets killed when President Alexandria
23:19Ocasio-Cortez says that it doesn't matter what the law says.
23:23But for now, President AOC is as real as a Halloween costume, and a pretty good one, by
23:27the way, MAGA Mike and Republicans are locked in on the real war.
23:32The cartels are at war with the U.S.
23:34They have killed more people than we've lost in war.
23:37I mean, you know, one boatload full of this stuff, fentanyl, for example, can kill hundreds
23:41of thousands of Americans.
23:43So you take that out, and you leave that out at sea, and you've saved the country.
23:46You've helped save lives.
23:48Innocent people, I cannot imagine why they would be criticizing the White House for taking action.
23:52So Medal of Honor recipient David Bellavia joins me now.
23:58David, so we're watching all of this video, and of course, the Department of War happily
24:04plays the clips of these boats getting absolutely smoked.
24:08What kind of a message does that send to the drug cartels?
24:12Exactly what it's intended to send, is that there's really no—we've lost 275,000 Americans
24:23since 2020 to these overdoses.
24:25Every politician, election season, stands with a grieving parent, said they're going to do
24:31all that they can.
24:32And a year ago today, those cartels were operating unmolested, not just in Venezuela.
24:38They were in the United States, Charlie.
24:40They were literally, in America, operating and killing Americans.
24:44So tell me what the response should be when you have a cartel and a nation-state supporting
24:51narco-terrorism.
24:53Secretary Hegseth, by the way, is giving us all the information that we need.
24:57We were doing drone strikes with far less information coming from the Biden administration.
25:02Was Zawahari—what was he doing in Afghanistan?
25:05Was he having a Long Island iced tea?
25:07He was just on a porch sitting around.
25:08A bomb went through his door.
25:11These people have killed 275,000 Americans.
25:14That's all the excuse the president of the United States and the commander-in-chief need
25:18to say enough is enough.
25:20This ends now.
25:21So, of course, Trump's argument would be this is a war zone.
25:24They made it a war zone when they started bringing these drugs into our country.
25:29I know you're—I don't think you're a lawyer, but from a legal standpoint, do Democrats have
25:37a point about due process, or would you consider this just a war zone?
25:42Well, Charlie, I'm better than a lawyer.
25:46I'm an infantryman, okay?
25:47And I can tell you that when the country is at threat—look, let me just make this equation.
25:54You're my neighbor, and your dog keeps going to the bathroom on my yard, okay?
25:58I confront you, and I tell you it's wildly unacceptable that this happens.
26:03If it happens again after I've confronted you and told you to stop, three things are happening.
26:09Either you have no control over your dog, or you do have control and you don't take me seriously,
26:15or the third option is you've trained your dog to take a dump on my yard.
26:20All of those things are wildly unacceptable, and when it comes to American lives, American
26:26lives are at stake, and our people are dying.
26:29This president has said this from the campaign trail every single time he did a rally to as
26:36he's president.
26:37Now, there's no shocks here.
26:39We have Democrats that are more alarmed over the east wing of the White House than we do
26:43with 275,000 Americans overdosing.
26:46Enough of the games.
26:48Either we take this seriously or we don't.
26:50And, of course, what's most interesting about it is the fact that the war zone has moved,
26:55say, to the Caribbean.
26:56It means it's not crossing our border because Donald Trump closed down the border, something
27:01Democrats have spent the last eight years telling us was impossible to do.
27:06David Bellavia, thank you so much for joining us.
27:10Shaving up to be a scary Halloween for Joe Biden and his administration, House Oversight Committee
27:16just dropped a scathing report full of bombshell allegations that the big guy's team covered
27:21up his cognitive decline.
27:24Biden's team spent the past four years insisting he was sharp as a tack.
27:28Maybe it's because his fiercest defenders only saw him twice.
27:32I had an external facing role.
27:35And so, you know, it was not unusual that I would have, you know, fairly infrequent interactions
27:40with the president himself.
27:43So weekly, monthly, what are you talking about?
27:47Very infrequent.
27:48I think I met with the president a handful of times during my tenure in the White House.
27:56But some Biden diehards are doubling down, still trying to convince us that Biden bombed
28:02the debate because he had the sniffles.
28:04Whether that was a cold, a flu, a virus, you know, that's between him and his doctor,
28:09but he had been under the weather that whole period of time.
28:11And even on President Biden for many years, had you ever seen him have a cold or the flu
28:21before him?
28:22Yes.
28:23Did he ever behave the way that he did during the debate?
28:28Not that I ever saw.
28:31And Biden's top campaign aide admitted he got paid $4 million to work on the big guy's
28:37re-election and would have gotten another $4 million if he could have lugged Doe Joe over
28:42the finish line.
28:44Were there any circumstances in which he would have received a bonus?
28:50Yes, he was.
28:51What were those circumstances?
28:53That Joe Biden would have been re-elected president, I said.
28:58What was the bonus have been?
29:00Um, I believe it would have been $4 million.
29:09In addition to the $4 million that you were already paid?
29:12Yes.
29:13You think he had an incentive to keep him on the ticket?
29:15But for $4 million, I think anyone would run a week into Bernie's part three.
29:20We all knew Joe was asleep at the wheel.
29:22What we still don't know is who was running the country and who signed all those pardons.
29:28Was it the Easter Bunny?
29:30Oversight says, since we have no idea, they're all null and void.
29:35No one who authorized Autopin or actually physically, manually pressed the power button
29:40on Autopin ever heard directly from Joe Biden.
29:43And furthermore, there are no notes, there's no chain of custody that would show that Joe
29:48Biden was involved in any meetings where they discussed the pardon process.
29:53This is a massive cover-up, and what we determined was every pardon should be declared null and
29:59void.
30:00And all of a sudden, the left is against investigating former presidents.
30:04Instead of investigating a man who is no longer in office, I want the government shut down
30:09to figure out what's going on, because it's getting ready to be the longest one in history.
30:14We know who shut the government down, Whoopi.
30:18It's the Democrats.
30:19Case closed.
30:20But the Autopin probe is just beginning.
30:23Attorney General Pam Bondi is on the case.
30:27House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer joins me now.
30:31So you've been looking at this now for a better part of a year.
30:35Are you narrowing, is your committee narrowing down to a number of suspects who you think
30:42are singularly responsible for this, and what kind of punishment are they facing?
30:53Well, look, if they were operating as president of the United States, if they were forging the
30:58president of the United States' signature on pardons and executive orders and other legal
31:02documents, then I think those are pretty serious crimes.
31:06The Oversight Committee, we investigate.
31:08Once we conclude an investigation, we publish a report and we make referrals and recommendations
31:14based on the overwhelming evidence that we accumulated in the form of emails, in the form
31:20of notes and documents from National Archives, and in the form of hours and hours of depositions,
31:25we concluded that there was a massive cover-up of Joe Biden's cognitive decline,
31:32the staffers knew it, that's why they discussed whether or not to give him a cognitive test
31:36and then ultimately declined against it.
31:39That's why Dr. O'Connor pled the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination.
31:43But even further, there's no evidence that Joe Biden was ever involved in any of the decision-making.
31:48Normally, when you have meetings and discussions on things like pardons and other high-profile
31:55events that would be presidential-level, you would have notes, you would have meetings,
32:00there would be emails, there would be things in the schedule for meetings, nothing pertaining
32:06to Joe Biden.
32:07We gave every staffer, the 12 staffers that we brought in for depositions were the ones
32:12that we knew had the influence over the auto pen.
32:16They all were inconsistent in the process.
32:19The emails even contradict what the deposition said.
32:23And at the end of the day, I think we've gotten as much information as we can get to determine
32:28what we've determined.
32:29Now, we've handed it over to Pam Bondi, and we've made notes to the Attorney General, if
32:34there's further things that we can do as a committee, we'll do them, but we're going
32:37to wait for guidance from her.
32:40This is a serious issue, and all those pardons should be declared null and void.
32:44Yeah.
32:44So let me ask you this, going back to the process about how this happened, from my understanding
32:48of reading your report, many of the pardons were issued based on memos that were signed
32:55JB for Joe Biden.
32:58Was there anybody else in the White House with the initials JB that you think might have signed
33:04some of those memos?
33:07Well, think about this.
33:08What they're trying to say on the memos for the autopid is that some staffer would top
33:13up a memo, then hand the memo to Joe Biden.
33:16The memo would say that someone would have the authority to sign Joe Biden's name.
33:21Joe Biden would read that memo and say, OK, and then initial his initials on it, and then
33:26hand it back to the staffer, and then they would go take that document that just needed
33:30one signature that would have taken the same amount of time for him to sign as it would
33:34for him to initial, and then use the autopid.
33:37Look, there were emails from the Department of Justice during the Merrick Garland time
33:42to the staffers asking if Joe Biden was even involved in the process, warning the staffers
33:50of the excessive use of the autopid.
33:52And again, I think that at that point, the response from the Biden administration was when
33:59they were talking about the use of the autopid was Joe Biden was verbally giving him authority
34:04to use it.
34:04Then they come back and they had these discovery of these memos.
34:07I mean, there's complete inconsistencies.
34:10And that's why we think the attorney general needs to take it with the full force of the
34:14Department of Justice.
34:15Well, you know, maybe I'm crazy, but I do think it's kind of interesting that there was
34:19another person in the White House with the initials J.B., as in Jill Biden, which I think
34:26bears investigation at the very least.
34:30James Cromer, thank you so much for joining us.
34:31Absolutely.
34:33Okay, monkeys on the loose.
34:35That's next.
34:36We planned well for retirement.
34:42We planned well for retirement.
34:49No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
34:52You don't forgetting.
34:55We're in a lost world.
34:57What's the world.
34:57That's what you're saying, my life
35:02But don't go away
35:04Until the night keeps me in
35:07Until the night will be still
35:09That's what you're saying
35:11The walls of the last summer
35:16We'll see you in the sun
35:19To the sun and the wind
35:21The minute there, where the wind
35:24We'll see you in the morning
35:26It's not Halloween without a little monkey business
35:39And we have plenty to report this year
35:41First, a group of monkeys escaped onto a Mississippi highway
35:44After a truck flipped over
35:46They were eventually captured
35:48But not before a long chase
35:50Let me show you the wreck
35:52And then I'm going to show you the monkeys that we have here
35:55And again, these monkeys could be dangerous
35:58And that's why I'm not staying too far from my vehicle
36:03In case we have to get back in
36:04These possibly, what's the word I'm being told here?
36:08They could have diseases
36:09Meanwhile, in Texas, a primate wearing a diaper
36:13Prowled around a spirit Halloween store
36:15He's someone's pet who got spooked by an animatronic decoration
36:19He went bananas scaling the walls
36:21Swinging from the rafters
36:23Until the monkey's owner enticed him down with a cookie
36:26Let's bring in comedian and co-host of the PBD podcast
36:41Vince Oshana
36:42So, Vince, do you have a monkey or do you want a monkey?
36:45I do not
36:48But, uh, Jesse, I just want to say first and foremost
36:50I know it's Halloween
36:51I've seen a lot of costumes today
36:53But the one that you have on
36:54You look exactly like Charlie Hurt
36:57I mean, the makeup
36:58You even sound like him
36:59So it's absolutely amazing
37:00You did a favor
37:01Whoever did your makeup belongs in Hollywood
37:03But, um
37:04Anyway, Charlie, I actually don't have a monkey
37:06Yeah, yeah, you look amazing
37:07But no, I don't have a monkey
37:09But you know what?
37:09That type of situation would be all my luck
37:11Like me being late for work
37:12And Patrick, my CEO, is like, where are you?
37:14I'm like, there's a freaking chimpanzee
37:16On the 95 and I'm late
37:18I'd probably get fired for that
37:19But yeah, this is
37:20People have no business having monkeys as pets
37:22Because this is the situation
37:23What happens when you have one
37:24Yeah, and of course, early reports was
37:26That they had, uh, like, diseases
37:27And, uh, but maybe
37:29Maybe they did
37:30Maybe they didn't
37:31Who knows
37:32But I want to ask you about this
37:33So Gen Z is now trying to transition Halloween
37:36Into Valentine's Day
37:38New data shows that Gen Z is more open to finding love on Halloween
37:43Than other holidays
37:45They think they have better luck dressed up as Dracula
37:48Than on dating apps
37:50I'm thinking
37:50Does this just mean that we've all gotten so fat
37:54That we look better in, like, uh
37:56Some kind of costume than we do in our regular, you know, spandex?
38:02100%
38:03Charlie, people are just trying
38:05Like, all this cosplay and role-playing
38:07People just don't want to live in their actual reality
38:09They like to live in this, uh, fantasy world
38:11But can you imagine that?
38:12Like you said, 20% hook up on this night
38:15On Halloween, they're out there hooking up
38:17Could you imagine that conversation?
38:19Like, a father sitting with a son
38:21And the son is like
38:21So, Dad, how was I conceived?
38:23And he's like
38:23Well, I was at a Halloween party
38:25Dressed as an ICE agent
38:27Your mom was dressed as an illegal alien
38:29And let's just say
38:29My car was a sanctuary city
38:31Like, that's
38:32These are the stories
38:33The babies that are going to come off from this night
38:35They're going to have to hear those stories
38:36Down the roll
38:37Yeah, I was dressed as Fred Flintstone
38:40And your mom was a freaking chimpanzee with a diaper
38:42Like, that's what's going to happen
38:44Well, I say bring back the cat costumes
38:46Because they're always winners
38:47If you're looking for love
38:48All right, last question
38:49So, how old is it
38:51Is too old to go trick-or-treating?
38:52You have all these adults
38:54They're going trick-or-treating
38:55And dressing up
38:56Eight years old, Charlie
39:00It's over
39:01I had a 40-year-old come to my house today
39:03A 40-year-old
39:04And I'm like, dude
39:04I'm like, get that
39:06Go get a job
39:07Like, I'll give you $5
39:08If you need money
39:09Like, you might have been a homeless person
39:10But it's like
39:10It's for little kids, Charlie
39:12And I love it
39:13How women have hijacked Halloween
39:15It's the one day
39:16They get to go out
39:17And dress as provocative
39:18As possible
39:19And like, for the worst professions
39:21It'll be like an EMT
39:22I'm like, hey, listen
39:23Your job is saving lives
39:24Not ruining my relationship, okay?
39:26Don't
39:27I'm not
39:27What are you?
39:28I'm a sexy mouse
39:29Just relax
39:30We know what you're doing
39:30We're not stupid
39:31But, you know, it works
39:33Thank you so much
39:34Good to see you
39:35Happy Halloween
39:35Thank you, Charlie
39:36More primetime
39:38Straight ahead
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