can we even afford this house? maybe jacob can finally get a job. the house whisperer! this house says use realtor.com to see homes in your budget. realtor.com. to each their home. that's it for us, the news continues. let's hand it over to jake tapper and cnn tonight. >> welcome to cnn tonight, i'm jake tapper in washington. tonight we want to lay out some new, alarming details about russia's brutal war against the ukrainian people. we are going to start with new warning signs of the kremlin considering the use of a tactical nuclear weapon. u.s. intelligence believes that senior russian generals have discussed how and when to deploy one. this classified report was described to cnn by multiple

sources who have read it. there is debate on how serious to take this intelligence. is it a further sign of russian desperation and cause for their concern? or are these discussions being taken out of context? on cnn earlier tonight, top white house security official john kirby reacted to the latest u.s. intelligence report. >> there are lots of levels of concern, a heightened concern, about what is going on in ukraine right now that gives us cause to continue to closely monitor as best we can, russia 's nuclear capabilities. >> now the intelligence report says that vladimir putin was not part of these talks. but putin has publicly dangled the prospect of using a nuclear device for months. today, russia's ministry of foreign affairs put out a statement, perhaps to try to ease fears that it remains kremlin policy to only use nuclear arms in a defensive response, declaring, quote, that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. also, today putin announced he

must once again abide by a deal to allow vital grain exports from ukraine safe passage in the black sea, which would be a welcome reversal to those who fear a global hunger crisis. ukraine and russia account for nearly a third of the world's wheat exports. here's the u.s. ambassador to the united nations on cnn this morning. >> clearly russia was finally convinced that they needed to continue this. they cannot stand in the way of feeding the entire world. >> but putin is also threatening to pull out of that deal, again, if he feels ukraine uses access to the black sea for any military purposes. now these announcements would be welcome if you take the kremlin at its word. but we have all witnessed so many moments where the kremlin says one thing and then does the exact opposite, whether insisting they would never invade ukraine, where they will allow safe passage for refugees and won't harm them at all or promising to allow wheat

exports and then going back from that pledge. so, while we all hope today's proclamations prove accurate, we are not confident that will be the case. what we are confident about is the continued russian atrocities we are seeing on the ground in ukraine. tonight, cnn's clarissa ward is going to give you new evidence of these horrors as she follows investigators who or test with looking for cases of rape another sexual violence inside of kherson, a region recently freed from russian occupation. it sadly reinforces what an independent united nations investigation team found -- rape and torture -- sometimes the victims were children, some as young as four. and the times families of the victims were forced to watch. the head of a human rights organization which this year shared the nobel peace prize warned many of these crimes will surely go unpunished. no accountability. but here in the u.s., the justice department created a new division in june to investigate these russian atrocities, these war crimes.

there's now a bipartisan push to change u.s. laws so that it will be easier to prosecute russians for these horrific deeds in u.s. courts should these russians ever enter the united states. now it's hard to believe that but there are some in russia who actually argue that putin has not been brutal enough. and we want to shine a light tonight on a mercenary army that is emerging from the shadows. let me introduce you to yevgeny prague ocean. he is a russian oligarchy's best known as putin's chef and for good reason. his restaurants and catering company have literally hosted dinners -- including then president george w. bush. but yevgeny prigozhin he's also known for serving up bodies. just a few weeks ago yevgeny prigozhin admitted to founding the wagner group in 2014. you might have heard whispers about wagner. it used to be a private mercenary group that operated entirely in the shadows.

but in recent years, cnn has tracked wagner operatives in ukraine, libya, sudan, molly and syria. clarissa gained access to a wagner training base in the central african republic. >> for russia this is a straightforward bargain. they provide the weapons on and the training and in return they get access to the country's natural resources. and in the process, hope to reassert themselves as a major player in this region. >> the wagner group has a gruesome reputation and is linked to any number of human rights abuses, including tortures and beheadings. top u.s. officials have consistently warned about the wagner group's brutal tactics. >> poor governance, exclusion and corruption, inheritance in week -- as well as the foreign interference. that includes the kremlin -backed wagner group, which

exploits instability to pillage resources and commit abuses with impunity. >> russia's war in ukraine has thrust yevgeny prigozhin and wagner into the spotlight. ukrainian officials estimate at least 5000 wagner mercenaries are fighting alongside russian forces in ukraine. we are they finding so many soldiers? well, a cnn investigation found that wagner is recruiting murderers and drug dealers from prisons with the promise that if they survive the war in ukraine they will be granted shorter sentences or even amnesty. these aren't former soldiers who happen to be in prison. they are men who are hardened, brutal criminals. this is what one prisoner told cnn's nick paton walsh. >> if it is real, than i am all for it. it's either be in prison for nine years or get out in six months if you are lucky. but that is if you are lucky.

>> yevgeny prigozhin himself recently did something that once would have once seemed unfathomable. according to u.s. officials, prigozhin directly confronted vladimir putin about his belief that russian generals are mismanaging the war in ukraine and that more aggressive tactics -- more aggressive tactics -- need to be used. i want to bring in cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward in kyiv, ukraine. clarissa, prigozhin as really used the chaos of this war as a way to bolster his own standing and power within russia. >> that's right. no one could have predicted, jake, that we would be seeing this moment now. how much has changed just a year ago wagner didn't even officially exist? now you see yevgeny prigozhin coming out publicly, making

statements, criticizing russia 's ministry of defense, recruiting prisoners openly, talking about his role in the so-called troll factory back in the 2016 election. so, this is a very different yevgeny prigozhin than anyone is used to seeing and i think there is a lot of anxiety depending on who you are talking to, about what this portends. is this is serious power play? is he becoming more powerful? and what that means going forward in terms of some of the very brutal tactics that you just elucidated in your monologue there. what does that mean going forward in terms of, will these become officially accepted standards of russian compartment on the battlefield, jake? >> i don't know if it's becoming more powerful or more shameless. but either way, something is changing. ultimately, beyond the palace intrigue, what matters here is how the influence of someone like yevgeny prigozhin will be

felt by the people, the innocent, suffering people of ukraine. >> the ukrainians are used to wagner, in a sense, if one can say that. they have been dealing with this group since back in 2014. wagner are implicated in a number of war crimes here. german intelligence has said that they believe they were involved in the killings of civilians in bucha, that suburb of kyiv. obviously, no one can forget those sorts of images. and they are heavily involved in the fighting that is taking place in eastern ukraine right now. we have seen, interestingly, a group of ukrainians coming together in the uk and hiring a law firm to try to push for wagner to be prescribed as a terrorist organization it for there to be much heavier checks and balances in terms of their funding. now it's not clear that that would have any real impact on the operations of the group. because there is no indication that they have any funding

coming out of the united kingdom. but it does potentially open the way for some kind of accountability. because what, jake, they have been able to do, for so long, is operate in the shadows because they don't officially exist. >> right. >> because in the russian constitution, a private mercenary group is not even a legal and valid organization. so, him openly talking about the fact that he is's head of wagner and that they are directly implicated in these things could potentially open a root for some kind of increased accountability, jake. >> clarissa, stay with us, because you are going to -- firsthand in southern ukraine. clarissa went door to door with investigators in a region where the russians were recently forced out. we will bring you her amazing and tragic story. that's next. k on dining including takeout with chase freedom unlimited. so, it's not a problem at all. you guys aren't gonna give me the fake bill fight? c'mon, kev. you're earning 3% cash back.

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russians potentially deploying a nuclear weapon, there are crimes happening right now on the ground in ukraine, committed by the russians that are not hypothetical. in the village of kherson, russian occupation maybe over. but the wounds inflicted by russian soldiers on innocent ukrainian civilians could last forever. cnn's clarissa ward joins a team of ukrainian investigators who are going door to door looking for evidence of russian war crimes, specifically cases of rape and other acts of sexual violence. >> day after day, if they go house to house, a team of investigators dispatched from the capital. these men are tasked with looking for cases of sexual violence. >> no one was assaulted in this village, these women tell them. but every home has suffered. when russian forces were pushed out of this area earlier this month, they left a trail of

mystery behind them. down the road, an elderly woman inconsolable, asked for help. i don't know where to sleep now, there are no windows or doors, she tells the policeman. 71 year vera son's was injured fighting on the front lines. she is alone and afraid. okay. she wants to invite us into see how she is living. this is what remains of her home -- only her precious icons are untouched. oh my god, oh god's mother. please keep my son alive and let me see him again. in town after town, throughout the kherson region, this is what victory looks like.

and it is grim. almost every house has been destroyed by heavy fighting. and the people scarred by months of russian occupation. in the next village, the investigators talked to 56 year old tatyana. we have agreed not to name the village or show her face to protect her identity. she takes us to her brother's house where she says she was raped by a russian soldier on august 26th. >> [interpreter] he pinned me against the wardrobe and groped me. he ripped my clothes off. and i was caught in his grip. it was very hard and painful for me. i was crying, begging him to stop but with no success. [end of translation] >> and did he say anything when it was over? >> [interpreter] do not tell anyone anything or it will be worse. that's everything he told me.

and then he left. but it's very hard for me. [end of translation] >> did you tell your husband what had happened? >> [interpreter] i did not tell my husband right away. but i told my cousin and my husband overheard. he said, you should have told me the truth, but you kept silent. i was very ashamed. very. [end of translation] >> the shame is on him. >> [interpreter] he is probably not ashamed, if he is still alive. i wish that he and all his kin were dead. [end of translation] >> -- it's coming to the end of a long and emotional day. the men visit the last village on their list.

tomorrow, they will head back to kyiv to submit their findings. they have recorded six allegations of rape in their two weeks here. it must be a hard job -- >> it is psychologically difficult. you understand every victim is so distressed, oleksandr says. but this is important work. >> most cases, they say, go unreported. like so many of the horrors that took place under russian occupation here, they remain hidden in the dark. >> now the russian ministry of defense has repeatedly denied any sort of systematic claims of rape that have been taking place with its soldiers on the ground. but one interesting thing that we found, jake, when we asked tatyana what she did after the rape, whether she spoke to anyone about it, she did say that she went to the russian commander in the town three days after it happened and

reported the officer who had raped her and she said that his response was to come and see her a couple of days later and say that he had punched the man in question in the jaw and, would she like to have him shot as well, to which she replied, i would like to see all of you shot, jake. >> he said, clarissa, that these investigators you are traveling with, they're headed back to kyiv to report their findings. six instances of rape. is there any hope? anyone who will actually be held accountable? >> i mean, there is no question, jake, this is a long uphill battle and it is going to take a lot of time. part of the challenge that they face is that it's quite difficult, often, to identify these russian soldiers, to get their full names. tatyana was able to do that but there are so many other cases where people don't either know the full name or they don't want to talk about it.

>> but the way the ukrainian authorities see this, and the police and the prosecutors who are working towards, ultimately, getting some accountability, is that they have to start building a case. you have to start from somewhere. though, so, they will come back here to kyiv. they will put together what they have. and they will see whether they can start initiating any criminal proceedings. in more than 40 cases of sexual violence at the hands of russian forces, across the country in areas that have been occupied, they have already and she aided criminal proceedings. but as i said before, jake, this is a long slog. and it's not going to happen overnight. but it is still so important to get the details to document it with the hopes that one day there will be justice for these people. >> this village has been through so many horrible atrocities. they hope that the worst is behind them? is there any possibility that that is it? or are they afraid that the russians will return? >> i mean, i think that what is

so tragic, when you spend time in these villages, and you are hoping that people will be jubilant that the ukrainian forces have been able to take some of the territory back but -- the reality is they are now returning to their homes because many of them, obviously, had left, to find that their lives had been completely shattered, jake. you look at that woman, vera, in her 70s, sleeping on a bed with a hole in the roof and absolute carnage all around her and debris and no heat and no electricity and no water and no basic services. and we were left with the feeling of, how is she going to survive? how can she possibly actually continue to live here? but i think for so many people, surviving is just the first challenge and now it is just trying to fathom how you rebuild when a war is still raging, jake. >> yeah, and the russians continuing to destroy infrastructure and the winter is coming.

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>> american democracy is under attack because the defeated former president of the united states refuses to accept the results of the 2020 election. it is estimated that there are more than 300 election deniers on the ballot, all across america. this year, make no mistake, democracy is on the ballot for all of us.

>> president biden issuing this warning near the u. s. capitol this evening, biden hoping that voters will cast their ballots with defending democracy in mind. the reality is, with six days to go, that is not where voters heads seem to be. the latest polling said economy and the inflation far out rank any issue in voters minds. abortion comes in second at 15%, for people voting on the economy, the numbers show that they trust republicans more to handle the issue and it's translate into this. the majority of voters say than republicans to take the house. -- the shifting winds mean that the congressman in charge of protecting the democratic majority of the house is at risk of losing his own district. that man is congressman sean patrick maloney of new york. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. back in 2020, president biden won your district, the hudson valley area of new york by ten percentage points, yet at a recent campaign event your

constituents seem to express concerns not just about democratic races nationwide but your own seat in deep blue new york. after the campaign arm you oversee, the democratic campaign committee,, where the dccc, get into this position where you are defending so many seats that i would think would be strong democratic districts? >> well, let's calibrate that a little bit. we always had competitive seats in the hudson valley. i had to beat a republican to come to congress. it is not a surprise to me that this is a competitive part of the world. we are going to do what we always do, go out and make our case based on a record of real results. we have always known that this is going to be a competitive cycle. my goodness, it is the first midterm of a new presidency. but we are going to go out and we are going to win the seats, we are going to hold this majority. because there is a lot. a lot at stake. >> i don't know anyone who thinks you are going to hold the majority, with all due respect. i am seeing reports, and hearing from democratic

pollsters that there is going to be republicans -- that are going to pick up at least 25 seats. >> well, let's see what happens. if we were sitting here two years ago, you would have said democrats would pick up 25 seats, and the republicans won 13. that was the last time that the wisdom was spectacularly wrong, and of course, everybody got it wrong on 2016's results as well. so i think we could all be a little bit humble. my goodness, we are five years out. what i can tell you is, our frontliners have a record of oren gas in grocery prices, of giving people cheaper health, care cheaper housing, making the streets safer, supporting good policing, and protecting your freedoms, whether we are talking about your reproductive freedom for your voting rights. and that record is keeping them very much in the fight, and in the toughest races right now, you still see the republican spending a fortune. so if it is so lopsided, why are they still spending, in the races that should be easiest for them? they have not closed the deal on this election. do not count us out. we are going to do better than people think.

>> i don't know about that. it seems like democrats are really playing defense. you have biden going to california, the first lady, biden, going to rhode island, going to connecticut, these are parts of the country where democrats normally have comfortable leads. but let's focus on your race right now against republican challenger michael lawler. over the last week, the dccc spent big to defend you. more than 62,004 on air ads on top of another $110,000 that another outside group spent to support you. how worried are you about your chances on tuesday? >> right, well, spent big. $600, 000, let's remember, republican groups have spent 10 million trying to beat me. so of course, we are going to defend the seat, and what i am telling you is that i'm going to win this race and those republicans are going to which wish that they had the $10 million back to go use it and races they might have won. i think they are going to look pretty foolish. but look, again, i am going to go out and earn

it two years in a time. it has always been a competitive seat for me. that is nothing new. i don't know why anybody is surprised that we have to play a little defense in the first midterm of a new presidency, with a war in europe, and all of the damage done by the trump years, and the pandemic. we have not fixed all of the problems yet. but the difference is, we have a plan for your future, and the other team has a ploy, and a trick to try to win power for themselves. and if you can tell me what their plans are for the future, i would sure love to hear them. >> i have to ask you about something that you said earlier this week, let's roll that soundbite. >> let's not pretend for a minute that both sides have the same amount of accountability for the loss of competence in our elections. one side has been out there for a couple of years now doing everything they can to pretend joe biden didn't win fair and square. >> the thing is, democrats spend spent $53 million supporting far right candidates,

election deniers in the primaries. including the dccc. by amplifying these election deniers, aren't you holding responsibility to a degree for the undermining of democracy that you are also warning about? >> oh my god! jake, let's be really clear, that clip you just played, it was who is questioning the outcome of elections. that started with donald trump, and we all know it. let's be clear, that $53 million, it is $400,000 at the dccc and one race, one, where we ran a true, general election ad two weeks early, calling john gibbs an extremist who is too conservative for western michigan. >> it's a boost -- >> and hillary, who is a great candidate, is going to beat him like a drum. so if you want to ask the people who spent all that other money, that is great. let's be clear, not one dime was spent from the dccc supporting any republican. it was spent criticizing a republican for being too extreme, and it is going to

result in a pro-choice, strong candidate named hillary skull time winning that race. >> come on, you guys were boosting john gibbs, an election denier, a maga republican so that he would beat congressman peter meijer, who voted to impeach donald trump after the capitol attacks. you thought gibbs would be easier for your democratic candidate to beat, so you boosted him. that is the only reason that he won that race! >> you are using that word boost to be kind of cute. other people say that we are funding their campaigns. it is ridiculous. we are attacking them, but we are absolutely right, we thought he was an easier candidate, and he has proven to be. because he is a nut. he is too conservative for western michigan, and hillary's colton's getting ready to beat him, and that is my focus. making sure that we bring common sense democrats to congress who are going to move our country forward, and let's be clear, again, $400,000 out of a 340 million dollar budget, so if you want to warm up these leftovers we can keep going.

but we have got five or six days until we have an election, and that is where my focus is, and we are going to win that seat in michigan. >> that $400,000 for john gibbs did boost him and he beat congressman peter meijer, peter meijer who did something braver than i have seen in terms of most members of congress, in terms of bucking his party to be one of ten republicans to impeach donald trump. when people like you say we are we are all the good republicans, you helped defeat one of them. >> jake, let's be clear, if your point is that i should, in some sort of exercise of defeatism, stop trying to beat republicans in vulnerable seats, we are going to vote for kevin mccarthy, and put jim jordan at the head of the judiciary committee, where they are going to take away your reproductive freedom, pass a national ban on abortion, give you two years of hunter biden and nothing else. -- if your point is that i should roll over, pull a bunch of punches, and make someone in the media feel better because

what? because we hope that some of these democrats will be nice to us? how about we elect some people who are actually good on issues like choice, or gun safety, or on supporting leaders who won't support an insurrection, and peter meijer was going to vote for the majority that on january 6th voted to set aside the election. and that is a district that joe biden won with 56% of the vote, and we are going to win it. and i have said, i mean it, there are difficult, moral, and philosophical questions and in politics. you better believe it. but let's be very clear, this is $400,000 in a budget of 300 million, and one, race one, in the entire cycle, where we ran a general election ad that was perfectly true, calling the guy an extremist. and hillary scolton it is going to win. >> all right, congressman maloney, thank you so much. i appreciate it. have a good rest of your week. i know you are going to be busy. >> thank you very much. >> and when we return, jimmy kimmel is here. the jimmy kimmel.

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>> so, there's been a lot said about twitter's new owner, billionaire elon musk, especially after mr. musk tweeted out a link to a deranged right wing website to further the smearing of paul pelosi, the house speaker's husband, whom a deranged intruder attacked with a hammer last friday. the website that elon musk linked to is so nuts a reported in 2016 that hillary clinton had died and that a body double would debate donald trump. the host of jimmy kimmel live on abc -- tweeted after musk did this that it's been interesting over the years to what you blossom from the electric car guy into a fully formed piece of -- and jimmy kimmel joins me now. jimmy, good to see you. interesting tweet. strong words. it does play right into this national conversation we have been having about free speech. how do you see those issues, given free speech on one hand

and yet the dangerous spread of misinformation and hateful rhetoric that is inciting some of these attacks on the other? >> first of all, jake, i love hearing you curse. it is one of my favorite things. i know it only happens once every -- >> i only quote people cursing. i never curse on my own. -- it's within quotations. the trump era gave us a lot of opportunities to do that, by the way. >> no, no, i like it, it's like cnn after dark. >> [laughs] >> i have to say, i am not -- when i am the voice of decency, we have got a problem. because the idea that this old man, an 82-year-old man has been attacked in his bed, in his home, by a person who obviously has some problems -- and that our first reaction is not, oh my goodness, even if they are lying, even if they are pretending to have concerns -- how can the reaction possibly

be -- how can we move so quickly to smearing these people, to trying to create some -- and you know, by the way, now that the police report is out, i haven't exactly seen elon musk or donald trump or donnie junior correcting them and saying, oh my goodness, now that we read the facts of this story, certainly, we feel terrible that we spread these vicious lies around and retract them and apologize to the pelosi family. no, you will never see that. because that is not how it works. everybody is a target all the time now. >> and it's not just the smears that they put out about paul pelosi, these deranged conspiracy theories. a lot of these folks, right wing maga folks, tried to make jokes at paul pelosi's expense ones largely based on this strange deranged to smear that paul pelosi had a relationship with his attacker. you certainly are not afraid of taking risks in comedy. where is the line? i personally found those jokes by don jr. and others just

horrible and not even remotely funny. >> the line is when don jr. tells a joke. when don jr. tells a joke, the line has been crossed. because it's not a funny person. i don't know what is going on in don's life. but it seems like an awful lot of projection going on there to me. and i don't know. the line, i guess, is when an 82 year old man gets hit in the head with a hammer. >> yeah, it's a good line. it also comes at the same time that kanye west, now known as ye, who i know you have interviewed in the past -- he said he could say anything he wanted, antisemitic, and adidas couldn't drop them. him by the deeds developmentally drop him. on the other hand, kyrie irving, star of the brooklyn nets, he's out there flirting with antisemitism, continues to play. how do you think celebrities who spew bigotry, people who have platforms, should be treated? what kind of consequences should there be?

>> it makes me wonder. like, who told them this stuff? how did this get into their heads in the first place? on one side, you could say, maybe we should not take anything that these guys say seriously. if you see someone ranting and raving on the street corner, you are not necessarily holding them accountable for their words. but on the other hand, these are very specific. they have singled out a religious group and decided that all the evils of the world are somehow attached to that group. it is beyond offensive. it is actually nonsensical. and i don't think kanye west is a stupid person. and i don't think -- i mean, kyrie irving does think the world is flat. so, that should be taken into consideration. >> he went to duke, though. he's pretty smart.

would he have gone to duke had he not been a great basketball player? that is for the admissions people at duke. but it might be time to take his diploma back. >> so, and yet at the same time we are talking about this, you and i have talked about this privately. this era of so-called cancel culture, we are careers get ruined because somebody says something wrong or makes a mistake, obviously if they commit a crime, that is a separate thing. but i think -- and i think you agree with me -- that there does need to be room for people to apologize, as long as it is a sincere apology. i saw this report today about this young sports reporter named casey funder berg. she objected to some some racism that she saw as a sports reporter, and then past tweets, racist tweets that she had made one she was a teenager emerged. and she was fired. to me that seems -- look there needs to be space for people to apologize in this

world. >> yeah. i mean, if there isn't, then where do we go? listen, obviously i have been involved, i have said 1 million stupid things, and i would hope that people would decide whether an apology is sincere, one an apology is not even offered, these people are supposed to be christians. i am a catholic, i grew up in the church, what i was taught was that if you do something wrong, you ask for forgiveness, and you are forgiven for these things. the idea that there would be anything other than that, that these people who are allegedly following the teachings of jesus would behave in this way, it just does not make any sense at all. and i just can't understand how that works for so many people, so many americans. >> it is not just religious, it is not just religious people on the right. right?

there are progressives on the left that can be pretty tough about this. >> absolutely. just as, if not more so. but i do think that there is openness to forgiveness from that particular side. with that said, people do like piling on. they love it. it makes them feel like they are a better person. there is certainly a lot of that going on. and i will tell you what, i have noticed -- and this is just my personal experience. i notice that in the three days that elon musk has been running this twitter, that it has gotten crazier, and nastier. i mean, i'm walking in an als walk in las vegas, on sunday, on my birthday, november 13th, and i posted about -- >> happy birthday. >> thank you. i posted about it and i just got an avalanche of hate. and it is just like, you can't even do anything anymore without being attacked. it is absolutely crazy. >> no, i agree. the midterm

elections are approaching. i have to say, whatever you feel about republicans taking back the house, which seems likely, perhaps as a comedian you are looking forward to it, more prominence for people like marjorie taylor greene, who you like to talk about? she brings you information. she brings you fodder. >> no, i am not that desperate for material. i really am not. i will tell you something, also, i have a bone to pick with you, >> oh no. >> because we watch you in my office every day before the show. and then you decide all of a sudden, you decide to slide into the night slot. this is one i am taping the show. it is not convenient for me at all. i am very glad that you are moving back to 4:00, and i would like to believe that you did it specifically for me. >> i did it because of my family, and it was always just a short term gig.

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>> papa ate it? >> pop did. >> he's gonna get diarrhea! he's gonna get diarrhea! >> that was from last years, actually. this was the meanest thing, i tell you this every year, it is the meanest thing in the world. you get these parents to tell their kids that the candy is gone. you play these videos. when the kid says i hope that gets diarrhea, that is one thing, but often they just weep. often they weep. have you ever said no, i can do this anymore, i can do it, it is too harsh. >> let me just tell you where i am coming from, jake. first of all, kids cry like 15, or 18 times a day. so it is not like when you make an adult cry, it happens once every eight months. secondly, when i was a kid, my mom used to lay on the ground and pretend she was dead until we cried, okay? so, the way i see it, these kids are getting off easy. >> but that is sick! that is

not a justification, that is a justification for you to be institutionalized, but it is not -- anyway, i know that you have a lot of friends who love it. >> say what you want. >> america wants it, even when we stopped doing, it they kept doing it. so, you know, we gave in. >> jimmy kimmel, always good to see you, thank you for joining us. thank you, jake. thanks for coming back on it for. >> we will be right back. so you only pay for what you need. showtime. whoo! i'm on fire tonight. (limu squawks) yes! limu, you're a natural. we're not counting that. only pay for what you need. ♪liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.♪

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