really i think to have power to affect other people think is this: one is that about half the women who have abortions are poor. they live at or below the poverty level, and that shows you how difficult their lives are. the other -- this is fascinating -- is that 60% of women who have abortions are already mothers. so t that goes the stereotype of she is a young person, she is a child hating career woman, those are the two stereotypes in either of those are true and you can explain those. >> wanda: she has kids and she knows, i've had enough, this is enough. >> yeah, exactly. >> wanda: i think maybe if they create an abortion pill that also may be heels erectile dysfunction or something? you know, make it a 2 for 1, a

little something for you come a little something for them, maybe guys would be happy about it. you won't have any problems getting access to it then. >> i think we need a chemist who gets to work on that right away. >> wanda: exactly, exactly. thank you so much for being here. [cheers and applause] >> thank you for having me. >> wanda: "pro: reclaiming abortion rights" is available now. we are going to take a quick break. we will be right back after this. [cheers and applause] it's official, america. xfinity mobile is the fastest mobile service. and gives you unmatched savings with the best price for two lines of unlimited. only $30 a line per month. the fastest mobile service and major savings? can't argue with the facts. no wonder xfinity mobile is one of the fastest growing mobile services, now with over 5 million customers and counting. save hundreds a year over t-mobile, at&t and verizon. talk to our switch squad at your local xfinity store today.

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welcome the new yorker's david remnick to discuss whether the debt-ceiling fight could cause a financial crisis so unprecedented that wall street will have no way of profiting from it. but first, republicans declare war on president biden for leaving a box of classified documents in his garage instead of securely using it as a table for the mar-a-lago shrimp fountain. it's time for some "big news." ♪♪ good evening. i'm james smartwood, and i have a faster car than my dumb neurosurgeon brother. top story -- a nation concerned that republicans would ignore a global calamity and instead investigate the bidens for crimes real and imagined can rest easy tonight knowing their concerns are actually spot on. house republicans are focusing on how biden mishandled classified documents and why the feds didn't conduct a bin laden-style raid on his abbottabad, delaware, compound. that's according to house oversight chairman and baby-food-jar baby all grown up james comer. -why was mar-a-lago raided but the president's home not?

why are the president's lawyers still allowed to go... -president has loggers? -...rummage through, looking for documents after a special counsel has been appointed? it doesn't make sense. it's not fair. -comer there channeling everyday americans frustrated that different things elicit different responses. joining the chorus of anti-participation trophy republicans whining about fairness was president trump, who took a break from his rigorous campaign schedule of shuffling peas around his plate to post on truth social, which after months of research we believe is something on the internet, "mar-a-lago is a highly secured facility with security cameras all over the place and watched over by staff and our great secret service. i have info on everyone." that's right. mar-a-lago famously runs an intense background check, requiring every guest to name one difference between their back and the ground. joining me now to lodge our fingers into the bowling ball of truth, chuck it down the slippery lane of analysis, and hit a perfect news strike before realizing we tore our scapula is democratic strategist who dressed as a tray of chicken piccata

to sneak into barbara walters' funeral, lydia parker... -good evening. -...chief washington bureau chief who somehow got in a group chat with a dozen greyhound bus drivers, jonathan keene... -hello. -...chief field correspondent who was out all last week because his gerbil had babies, james smartwood jr.... -hi. ...and pbs "firing line" host and "tooning out the news" contributor who has never encountered a human being wearing sweatpants margaret hoover. thank you for being here, margaret. -oh, thanks for having me. -absolutely. now, margaret, the house oversight committee leading these investigations will include paragons of discernment and virtue, like marjorie taylor greene, lauren boebert, and paul gosar. are these hearings a political winner or could it backfire when hundreds of c-span viewers call an ambulance because paul gosar looks deeply unwell. -the american public can see the difference between apples and oranges. they can see the difference between the documents investigation in mar-a-lago and the documents investigation of joe biden. in both cases, classified documents belong nowhere in private persons' hands,

but they have been handled very, very differently and with different degrees of honesty and transparency, frankly, by each president. -now, i have to agree with margaret. if your entire agenda is big show trials, have some fun with it. i'd love to see jim jordan interrogate merrick garland while hanging from aerial silks. -you know, democrats shouldn't worry about this document scandal, considering biden is extremely good at articulating incisive counterarguments, assuming it's telling a mouthy union worker to get bent. now, let's move on to a new report on republican congressman who during congressional roll call yells out "present" after every name just to be safe george santos. the washington post says he has deep ties to a businessman named andrew intrater, who is the cousin of a sanctioned russian oligarch. santos being a potential russian asset

is obviously a huge liability if he does not enjoy being revered as a god by republicans. now, margaret, house leadership is refusing to take action against george santos, even giving him committee assignments. republicans protecting violent insurrectionists who soiled the house chamber is one thing, but a liar? -pretty remarkable. look, george santos should resign. the house leadership should take him off committees, not give him any responsibility. and, frankly, there should be a special election for that seat. what's quite interesting about these reports is that, finally, we're starting to get some color on why his self-worth has doubled, tripled, quadrupled, changed by orders of magnitude in the last two years. -george santos is learning that you don't waltz into congress with some oligarch's dirty money, you cartwheel in with peter thiel's dirty money. -george santos winning his election using a barely scrutinized false biography, exposes serious media shortcomings. to hold ourselves to account, let's go to james smartwood jr.,

who "tooning out the news" embedded with the santos campaign leading up to the election. -uh-oh. -junior, why do you think you and the news media missed this story? -well, with media companies squeezing their budgets, i didn't have the resources to conduct true investigative journalism. so instead, i just repeat what alisyn camerota said yesterday. -oh, we love camerota. -for sure. -so, keene, what's the solution here? -the solution is accountability. and that's why i am replacing myself on this panel with a different guy. -who is that guy? -which one? -the guy standing over there who looks like he's never worn shoes before. -oh, him. that's my replacement, the newest member of the "big news" panel. -okay. you don't get to do that. this is my show. -sure. but this is my chair, and that is my guy. -jesus. does he talk? -it is my understanding that he does talk. -okay. wonderful. now, margaret, jump in here. isn't the election of george santos just a symptom of a much larger systemic failure of our institutions? -you know, you could call it that, but the truth is -- -you're a jerk. you know that, right?

-no, i'm not. i'm not a jerk. -yes, you are. -and you're making me look bad in front of the guy. -i don't care what the guy thinks, okay? -well, he's gonna be in your house, so you should care. -he's not goi-- he's not moving in. i will -- i will move before i let him in. -i told him you were cool with it. -i don't care. i-i can go back on my word. it's not a big deal. i never gave my word. -well, i wouldn't go back on my word with the guy. -oh, great. he's violent? -if new york state... -oh, for sure, margaret, i agree. you're gonna buy me some armor. -okay. all right. i've got a guy. -all right, we got a deal. -it's not that guy, is it? -it's not that guy, is it? -it is that guy, yes. -god damn it. -he's a -- he's a blacksmith. -i don't want the guy who's coming after me to be the same guy who protects me. you understand that, right? -well, he's bringing his anvil, so he'll make it for you there. -so, he has, like, a split-personality thing, like he's two guys? -oh, no, it's just the one guy. one is sort of rounding up, if you know what i mean. -hold on here. the guy is gone. does anyone know where the guy went? -i'll tell you where he didn't go -- out of this building. -all right, junior, get back here and start rooting around the ventilation ducts. -oh, great. i love ducks.

-all right. it takes consistency to become the night swim guy at the public pool, so i gotta go. thank you to my analyst and "tooning out the news" contributor margaret hoover. thank you so much, margaret. -thanks, james. -she is the host of "firing line with margaret hoover" on pbs, where she has mastered the rare conservative art of speaking without turning red and sweaty. the conservative "hot take" is next. tyler, what concept that you only just heard about will you waged a 50-year crusade against tonight? -thanks, james. joe biden selfishly put our national security at risk, taking home classified documents that trump already called dibs on to sell to the saudis. stick around. ryan wasn't made for the 9 to 5... ryan was made for the 12 to 3 am delivery circuit. -thanks, ryan! -thank you. he's the patron saint of chimichangas.

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and co-host who does not realize every story about his girlfriend indicates that she hates him, austin sparks. cut social security so horned up 80-year-olds don't have enough cash to stalk tom brady. this is "hot take"! ♪♪ if i die, i'm still host. i want to hear it. -got it. -thank you. what's up, diy tonsillectomy gang? top story -- a man i've always said was worthy of whatever job he so desires, merrick garland, announced he has appointed a special counsel to investigate joe biden for leaving the white house after swallowing 50 condoms full of classified documents. i got to be honest, it feels kind of weird to talk about a biden scandal that's not completely made up. where is the artistry? i far prefer biden scandals delicately manufactured whole cloth after chugging pine-sol in a steam room. now, the mainstream media is making a false equivalency, saying trump did the same thing as biden.

but if that was true, why wasn't i mad when trump did it? -merrick garland created a special counsel for biden and a separate special counsel for trump. that's separate but equal. it's essentially jim crow. somebody else jump in before anyone does the math on that. -where are the visitor logs for joe biden's home? we know every single person who visits mar-a-lago because they are patient zero for a novel gut fungus. -and, look, biden is telling everyone exactly what happened. just like -- that's right -- kevin spacey in "se7en." trump has some shame and only acts like kevin spacey in his personal life. -hmm. kevin, seven -- that rhymes. -yeah. moving on, speaker mccarthy is showing early promise that he will dutifully enact whatever dan bongino's most liked facebook post happened to be that day. take a look. -when you look at -- when you find it, the final information that the russia document

was all a lie, when you watch what went through, i would understand why members would want to bring that forward. -now, some argue he's only saying that to hold on to power, since that's the only reason kevin mccarthy has ever said anything, but it's still nice to hear. still, when it comes to the speaker, we must trust but verify. that's why i invented a device that, with the press of a button on my smartphone, will gently encourage the speaker to keep his promises to conservatives by deploying a 8,000 psi crotchal pulverization. it's wi-fi-enabled, and, like alexis, you can barely hear the 400 horsepower pistons doing their magic. [ beeps ] [ piston hammering loudly ] it's whisper quiet! [ beeps ] -this is a nice start, but if we want to stave off biden's agenda, we need to bump up the psi to 10,000. -whoa. look, i know mccarthy. he will do what we say at 8,000 psi. -you don't know what you're talking about! -you're gonna blow out the machine! -turn his wiener to ash! -i've been pounded in the crotch

way more than you have, susan! -hold on, hold on, hold on! look, in times of strife, it's tempting to devolve into petty gripes and ad hominem attacks. but let's not forget what unites us -- a common desire to hold our leaders to the most extreme positions imaginable under threat of having their bean bag turned to dust. -hear, hear. let's do shots. -that was beautiful. -yeah. all right. i'm chaperoning a middle school brawl tonight, so let's wrap it out with "i'm not done." ♪♪ the commissioner of the u.s. consumer product safety commission, a job i wasn't aware of until this week but now i hate with all my being, said this about america's most sacred institution, the bedrock of civilization, since the dawn of man. -we need to be talking about regulating gas stoves, whether that's drastically improving emissions or banning gas stoves entirely. -hello! we need the gas stoves to cook the cockroaches after our gas obsession destroys the planet.

of course, we are not all talk, and out of petty defiance, i've installed gas stoves throughout the "hot take" desk. bonnie? -have y'all heard of these things, poems? i am irate about all the scary new feelings that stir in me when i read them. ravens talking to goths, and some dope asking little lamb who made thee? and raging, raging against the dying of the light? i've had it! susan? -"avatar: the way of water" is a visual masterpiece, but it pushes a pro-water agenda on our corn-syrup-worshiping nation. that's why i'm calling on james cameron to re-release the film as "avatar: the way of soda." austin? [ gas hissing ] -austin? austin! [ scoffs ] my man, you have got to go to bed earlier. thank you to my co-hosts. when "tooning out the news" returns, "inside the hill" warns that washington's debt-ceiling chaos could affect kitchen-table issues

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♪♪ -welcome back. tonight, we welcome the new yorker editor david remnick to discuss how the debt-ceiling fight could damage the unshakable foundation of our financial system's house of cards.

-let's go "inside the hill." ♪♪ -i'm rich ballard, and, mackenzie bezos, my dms are open, and i have a normal-shaped head. -i'm sarah sabo, and i turned my daughter's room into a gym on her first half day of preschool. -joining us now is thrice deceased wall street journal columnist eleanor palmer. -hello. -and princeton history professor who mutters "i bet you have some stories to tell" to every suit of armor, dr. ike bloom. -greetings. -let's jump in. top story -- the battle in congress over raising the debt ceiling could harm america's most vulnerable wealthy nobility. economists from the human-rights organization goldman sachs write... -whoa! -no, no, no, no, no! this is not why we bought both our nation's political parties. -congress, this isn't some meaningless culture war,

like medicaid or women's health. this has real consequences. -here to discuss is pulitzer prize-winning editor of the new yorker, david remnick. thanks for joining us, david. -great pleasure, rich. how are you? -very well. -now, david, you are an astute observer of democracies around the world. is it a sign of a healthy nation when a few barely elected members of congress representing mostly roving bands of coyotes can inflict financial armageddon because it plays well on newsmax? -well, you may have answered your own question, sarah. -oh! -i don't think we live in an especially stable time in our democracy. and this -- this business about the debt ceiling is just a symptom of how crazy things are in congress, for sure. -there's a simple solution to getting congress to raise the debt ceiling. wealthy people do their own january 6th. i'll bring the exclusive charmin quadruple-ply 900 thread-count toilet paper. -now, david, you wrote extensively about the january 6th riots and the role of donald trump.

let's listen to what congressional sisyphus rolling matt gaetz's forehead up a hill kevin mccarthy said after his resounding, humiliating victory. -i do want to especially thank president trump. i don't think anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me from the beginning. he was all-in. he would call me, and he would call others. -oh, come on, speaker mccarthy. donald trump only has the suicide-cult support of a mere plurality of republicans in 2024. -david, we in the media know that donald trump could never be elected president of the united states, especially after the january 6th report describing his disastrous presidency. back us up. -no, i'm not gonna back you up. [ pundits gasp ] i'm afraid that a lot of people believe what he says. they think that his attitude toward the establishment, despite his being a very rich man and being the establishment himself, but by posing himself as this anti-establishment figure, he speaks for a lot of people

who are angry at the managerial class... -whoo! -...at the wealthy... -whoo! -...east coast elites... -whoo! -you know, i'm not expressing agreement, but i'm saying this is -- this is why he has so much support, and there are a lot of racists. -whoo! sorry. it's not good to be racist. but, david, remember how that one congressman wouldn't talk to donald trump on the phone? that means he's not relevant, and i'm absolutely not desperately extrapolating because i can't handle counter evidence. -i think eleanor is right about trump's irrelevance, as described in my book, "the end of trump," which i published in 2016, as well as "the final days of trump," "trump in exile," "the final days of trump, part 2," "trump is done: the final book," "now trump is done: the real final book," and the upcoming, "now trump is done: the real final book, updated edition," with that photo eleanor mentioned. -now, moving on. david, as editor,

you have final say over which cartoons will appear in the legendary pages of the new yorker. sarah and i actually came up with a couple cartoons and, just for fun, would love to get your thoughts. -go ahead. -okay. here's mine. it's a dog at a restaurant asking the waiter, "do you have any dog food that's gluten-free?" -uh...you know, we have three baskets -- yes, no, and maybe. we'll put that in the maybe basket for the moment. how about that? -oh, screw you! -you jerk! -that is funny. -so funny! -the problem is, you're too dumb to get it. -you don't get it because you're dumb. -yeah, that might be it. -yeah, if you got it, you'd be falling over laughing! -well, he doesn't think it's funny because he's a coastal elitest. -oh, blah! disgusting! real america would love that joke! -this is why trump won. -david remnick got trump elected. -undoubtedly. -great. we agree. -anyway, thank you so much for the feedback on that one. -you bet. -okay. so here's mine, david. it's a cat on the stand in a courtroom, and he says, "it's not indecent exposure.

it's how i take a bath." what do you think? -well... -you monster! -what is wrong with you?! -that is funny! that is funny stuff! -you're psycho. that's what you are. -when trump gets elected, which will happen because of your mind-boggling elitism, i hope he sends you to gitmo. -[ laughing ] -that's not a joke! that's what we want to happen! well, that's all the time we have. -thank you to our esteemed guest, the new yorker editor david remnick. the new yorker's edition of the january 6th report is available now. thank you, david. you're welcome back anytime. -thanks so much. -fantastic. -i love him. when "tooning out the news" returns, we got some "beltway gossip." -follow "tooning out the news" on facebook, twitter, instagram, and tiktok for exclusive content.

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