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last, cindy wants to know who is your favorite five host that transitions from their show to yours? kind of like a box of chocolates you never know what's going to be in there greg usually has the biggest surprises on the handover. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report" fair, balanced and unafraid. "jesse watters primetime" starts right now. jesse is pretty good on the handover. >> jesse: i think so. thanks, bret. ♪ ♪ >> jesse: when you look back at american history, there are certain presidents who stand out as the greatest of all time. they are in a league of their own. george washington, the founder of our great nation, abraham lincoln, the president who saved our country during the civil war ended slavery. and ronald reagan, whose strong posture brought down soviet communism. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this
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wall. [cheers] >> jesse: and now as of yesterday, the media has added a new name to that honorable list. joe biden. the moment he stepped foot in ukraine, everything changed. in the blink of an eye he went from jimmy carter to abe lincoln in the heat of the civil war. here's the "new york times." since abraham lincoln road to ro the front lines outside of washington to watch battles in northern virginia during the civil war no. sitting president has gotten that close to combat. didn't bush and obama fly into iraq and afghanistan during combat operations? i'm no military historian but those trips seemed kind of dangerous. i think biden himself disagree with the "new york times" because biden said he has been on helicopters in iraq that have been shot at. >> start telling the truth. number one, you take all the truths out, you better have helicopters ready to take those
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3,000 civilians inside the green zone where i have been seven times and shot at. you better make sure you have protection for them or let them die. >> jesse: yeah. he has been shot at in the green zone. ukraine was nothing for joe. in biden's ukraine visit it's already taken on a life of its own. rachel maddow said biden charged up hamburger hill. >> it's a surprise and astonishing thing for us to see and for people in ukraine to see. i mean, at base level this an active war zone and a part of that country that gets hit by russian missiles all the time. seeing the american president there walking the streets of kyiv while air raid sirens literally sounded in that moment about possible incoming fire from russia. [siren] it's just not something you ever expect to see. >> jesse: there was no incoming fire from russia. we told the russians ahead of time biden was going to go to
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russia wouldn't make any mistakes. so biden got the pictures he wanted. the symbol of an american president in ukraine has been immortalized. biden announced another half billion, also. bringing the grand total to over $100 billion in the last year. remember wind and the democrats fought like crazy to stop 2 billion for going to our border wall? but just poured 100 billion into securing ukraine's border. no love for east palestine, ohio either. >> the president being in ukraine today, you know did, that surprise you? >> absolutely. that was the biggest slap in the face. that tells you right now he doesn't care about us. i found that out this morning in one of the briefings that he was in ukraine giving billions of dollars away to people over there and not to us. i'm furious. >> jesse: so biden's heart is elsewhere. joe biden has fallen in love with ukraine. >> the americans stand with you and the world stands with you. kyiv has captured a part of my
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heart, i must say. >> jesse: has joe ever said that about the people of ohio? and then joe flew to poland where he announced he has a new energy plan. not an energy plan for america. joe has got a plan for poland. >> we're also launching a new strategic partnership with plans to build nuclear power plants and bolster poland's energy security for generations to come. >> jesse: so, let me get this straight, biden is going to build nuclear power plants in poland but we aren't allowed to build nuclear power plants here at home. biden is forcing windmills on us that kill whales and ruin my view but poland gets clean nuclear energy with no emissions. well, we would be way better off with nuclear power plants but, no, those are for poland. and while biden is trotting across europe giving money to ukraine and pushing power plants in poland, putin is up against the wall. so putin responded to biden's
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trip and suspended the nuclear weapons treaty with the united states. so putin may start testing nuclear weapons again. does biden have a handle on where this is headed? moscow just summoned the u.s. ambassador to talk about joe biden's quote, aggressive actions and putin just put his navy in the black sea on high alert. oh, and by the way, china's president xi is visiting moscow shortly. so do you feel like the biden administration has a plan here? does the united states support where this thing is headed? do you trust joe biden to manage this situation? biden actually got heckled in washington, d.c. of all places by antiwar protesters before he left for europe. watch. >> president biden, i hate to bother you. we need to end this war in ukraine. we need to push the negotiation. [shouting] >> i hate to bother you, but people are dying.
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and we need to end and lift the blockade in cuba. please take cuba. [shouting] >> please, please. please. >> he is just trying to have dinner. >> i hate to borrow you, i will happily leave but i hope. >> can we push for peace talks and negotiations and take cuba off the state sponsor terrorism list. >> jesse: how symbolic that biden is underneath the picture of a lamb. is the biden administration clicking on all cylinders? joe's entourage down the stairs in warsaw, what is with everybody in the biden administration falling down the stairs all of the time? well, we hope they are okay. oh, also, there's this. ♪
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>> so you ever supposed to stay on the carpet, mr. president. so i hope this ukraine situation ends well because it doesn't look like the president is in charge let's bring in monica crowley former assistant treasury secretary. she has been on several presidential visits to ukraine. so, monica, explain to me how the president can basically be dodging incoming missiles in a war zone and then not know how to walk? >> yeah. that's a really good question, right? because it seems irreconcilable. the reason, jesse, is because the propaganda press has taken a page right out of soviet propaganda. i mean, how they have covered this trip is literally indistinguishable between how the kremlin used to cover their leaders or how north korea covers their leader to make their dear leader look strong and invincible. they are trying to lend this
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impression that president biden is in complete control and yet he is wandering off the red carpet and he is getting heckled and he can't even form a coherent sentence. look, all of this is what you get when you get america last. >> jesse: is the national security state telling joe what to do? is this the cia and the pentagon and some of these more hawkish advisers? are they just barreling joe biden towards the confrontation with russia or is joe biden really calling the shots here? >> hard to tell, jesse. but, remember what the chinese spy balloon, remember the generals did not tell the commander-in-chief about the balloon for like four days. because they knew he is really out of it. and they were afraid he was going to blurt out the secret so they waited a long time. i really think we are in a very dangerous position here. we have a commander-in-chief who is clearly not sentient most of the time. and the american people feel
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great anger about this. we can debate ukraine policy. i think the national security state has a vested interest in keeping this war going, which is why you haven't seen any diplomatic efforts whatsoever toward peace. because we are all making a fortune off of this. right. this is a massive money laundering operation for the globalists and ruling elite around the world. and joe biden is right there. joe biden has a long standing history with ukraine in terms of that corrupt regime and corrupt entity pouring tens of millions of dollars into the biden family. so he doesn't have an incentive to end this war either. >> jesse: do you understand how people in this country feel? i spoke to a lot of people down here in florida today. and when the president gives europe weapons and then tries to take our weapons, when the president says build nuke plants in europe but we can't build them here, when the president's pouring attention and tension and tension all across europe
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but ohio gets no attention, the american people don't like that. do you feel that sense? >> oh, absolutely. i mean, this is what you get with america last. you know, we have four years of america first under president trump so the contrast is really stark. it's fresh in everybody's memory. america first to america last. it's really quite stark. and, you know, the american people are paying so much money in taxes, and sacrificing so much for in country and the ultimate slap in the face was for the american president to go to ukraine on presidents' day, no less, announce another $500 million to top off $200 billion so far going into that war effort while there is so many americans suffering here at home. not just in ohio, jesse, but around the country with crime, with inflation, with wide open border. >> jesse: there's going to be a big spring offensive. i think russia is going to pour about half a million soldiers
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into ukraine this spring when the terrain is proper and let's see if the ukrainians can pull that off and end this thing. god bless them. all right. monica crowley, thank you. >> thanks, jesse. >> jesse: up next, what do rosie o'donnell, jon stewart and jesse watters all agree on? ♪ ♪ get help reaching your goals with j.p. morgan wealth plan, a new tool in the chase mobile® app. use it to set and track your goals, big and small... and see how changes you make today... could help put them within reach. from your first big move to retiring poolside and the other goals along the way wealth plan can help get you there. j.p. morgan wealth management.
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toxic train wrecked like the one in east palestine. >> i don't believe the e.p.a. i think what's happened there is like love canal or it's like three mile island where there's poisoning. they poisoned hundreds of thousands of people. their lives ruined. ruined. this is like a tragedy of epic proportion. and it's criminal negligence by that chemical and train company. and nothing's being done about it. >> jesse: i never thought i would say it but rosy's right. feels like no one cares that 50t flew off the rails in a small ohio town or that kids are breaking out in rashes. and that people who are supposed to care like the e.p.a. say everything's fine. but not even john stuart, who i don't think has ever agreed with jesse watters is buying it. >> just in the experience from
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9/11, the e.p.a. issued a statement, probably not three days afterwards saying all clear. and the students came back. and wall street came back. and everybody came back. cars and things caked with dust. fox sins found their way into i mean people slept there, slept there, cried there. into everybody's system. i really urge the authorities to act with caution and protectiveness for the people there. >> jesse: you know it's bad when both jon stewart and rosie o'donnell say you can't trust the government. and if they can't trust them, how do you expect the people of east palestine to trust them? >> do you trust what they're telling you about the water? >> no. i trust them about as far as i kick a brick. >> i don't feel they are being as transparent as they should
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be. we ask questions and get run around answers. like yes or no questions around getting yes or no answers. >> i'm no chemist or no e.p.a. guy but i know that my chest hurts. i don't feel good. i'm not a drama queen and i'm not looking for anybody's sympathy but i don't feel good. somebody caused this. i want to know why. >> jesse: none of these people know what's true or not. they are being told the water is fine. the air is great. the people telling them all of this is the same government that told them to wear a mask. and that the vaccine will stop transmission. and that it's better than natural immunity. remember that? but they just had to walk both of those things back. two groundbreaking studies found that masks make no difference and natural immunity is better than all the boosters in the world. so these people are going to trust the same government when the toxic explosion just goes off in their town when they haven't even taken the time to go see the wreck for themselves? biden is dishing out money in
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ukraine. mayor pete is getting around to now saying maybe they will visit. >> there were shouts of where's pete buttigieg at a town hall meeting last week. what's your response to that? when are you going to go to east palestine? >> well, i am planning to go. and our folks were on the ground from the first hours. i do want to stress that the ntsb needs to be able to do its work independently. but when i go, the focus is going to be on action. look, i was mayor of my hometown for eight years. we dealt with a lot of disasters, natural and human. >> jesse: do you think anybody in east palestine is saying, honey, we're fine. pete says he's dealt with disasters in south bend before. the only thing pete ever had on his plate was fixing potholes and somehow he screwed that up, too. pete is just going to east palestine for a little p.r. stunt, he's not going to drink the water. maybe he will be evian.
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he doesn't know if the water is clean because he is not the one cleaning it. the e.p.a. is now saying that's a job for the rail company. just like they handled all the water tests. now the rail company is being ordered to clean up the contaminated soil and water. it's the same sleazy rail company that was caught covering up the contaminated soil the week the train flew off the tracks. they just rebuilt the rails right over the soil. you see the same problem that i'm seeing? but don't worry, the e.p.a. says they will check in once in a while and just like they did today, where they gave each other a toast and finally got a taste of that east palestine water. >> did someone want to drink the water? >> absolutely. >> sure. >> can you serve us up a glass of water. >> okay. i will tell you, we believe in science. so we don't believe we are going
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to be guinea pigs but we don't mind proving to you that we believe the water is safe. >> here is caroline. >> we appreciate that. >> here's to you. >> thank you so much. >> awesome. >> that's good. >> the government is following the science again. i remember the good old days of following the science, let's turn it over to mandy. the former e.p.a. chief of staff, and environmental lawyer. so should we trust the ian if they say the water is safe? they need president and e.p.a. that has their back. and this administration has refused to meaningfully show up when it matters. they are saying to trust them but they are not sharing any of the pertinent information. and that's because they didn't show up to control the disaster when it mattered most. they didn't show up to coordinate between all the
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officials involved in a meaningful way and then they didn't show up to establish a clear line of communication to try and build up that public trust. so, yeah. the citizens in that area, they are right to be skeptical and this administration has done nothing to allay those concerns. >> jesse: what tell you where jesse watters, rosie o'donnell and jon stewart are all saying don't trust the government? >> yeah, i think that it shows the extent of this bungled approach from the biden administration and, jesse, we know a thing or two about how to actually respond in these situations. when i was at e.p.a., there was a lead water concern that came about in newark, new jersey. what we did is we immediately sent people out there. we set up a task force so that there was a clear line of communication from the city all the way to headquarters in washington, d.c. and everyone in between. and that's what people expect.
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that's why these institutions were actually created. that's not what we have seen in these instances. and you're seeing everyone from rosie o'donnell to jon stewart, showing up and speaking out because they are so upset with how this administration is trying to ignore the needs of the people of east palestine that are dealing with the serious harm of toxic train derailment that has created so many problems and an administration more interested in optics than taking care of them. an administration more interested in returning away from their failures like president biden going to ukraine instead of taking care of the people in east palestine, ohio which is where he should be as should mayor pete and as should the e.p.a. administrator. >> jesse: yeah, well the former president donald trump is going to be in east palestine tomorrow. mayor pete said that's just a publicity stunt. i do remember when mayor pete
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take an suv to work and rode a book the last 10-yard so he might know a thing or two from that. what do you expect to see from the former president. >> since president trump has talked about this issue you have had a lot of people pay attention. that's what we need. it's unfortunate we didn't get this from the existing leadership. the fact that president trump is going out there it shows that this community is not forgotten. there is still people paying attention. willing to help out their neighbor when they are in need. that's what i expect to see from president trump tomorrow and with him not only comes attention but resources and that's what will make the difference. you have had this administration the fema federal emergency management administration in particular. they have been denying requests from the state and local officials to deliver that type of aid. so, president trump showing it comes with. >> jesse: east palestine is not ukraine. if they called themselves ukraine they would get all the money they need. thank you so much, mandy. we really appreciate it and we
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will be covering trump's visit there tomorrow. >> all right. thanks for having me. >> jesse: up next, don lemon goes to sensitivity training. [laughter] among my patients, i often see them have teeth sensitivity as well as gum issues. does it worry me? absolutely. sensodyne sensitivity & gum gives us the dual action effect that really takes care of both our teeth sensitivity as well as our gum issues. there's no question it's something that i would recommend. the crisis inside ukraine has reached a catastrophic level with the elderly jews pushed to the very limit. go inside! she's freezing cold! there's no electricy no heat, no water. winter is now a weapon of war used against the elderly the mothers and the young children. they've been lined up here for hours. these are precious people who are hungry. they have nothing!
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>> jesse: welcome back. it's day five of lemon watch. roll the tape. >> good morning everybody i'm poppy and sarah is with me again in new york. thank you for getting up early for us. a big day. also, don will be back with us tomorrow. >> jesse: okay. so that's progress. don will be back tomorrow. but in order to come back, the ceo of cnn, chris says don needs some light reprogramming and has to complete sensitivity training. so a straight white male is telling a gay black man to be more sensitive. you can't make this up. you know these trainings never work. this old dog is tired of
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learning new tricks. just know the company can check off a box and get their consultants paid. but it may not be enough. sources say female staffers are still furious at lemon and are even threatening to quit if lemon returns. the daily mail don has been skating on thin ice for so long and many of them fired in december when he freaked out on kaitlin collins for no reason and, quote: he is rude, self-righteous and clearly sexist. so it looks like don has a long way to go to get back into everybody's good graces and we think sensitivity training will really help number one don't talk about a woman's age and second is don't make fun of moms. >> 70% of republicans. sorry. >> is it fair to say because i'm not a mommy is it mommy brain? >> no, don. i just. >> call it covid. >> i forget what i'm talking about all the time.
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>> jesse: don't neuter don completely with the sensitivity training. you have got to let don be don sometimes and keep it real. >> men make more money because people are more interested in hearing. >> i'm not sexist. >> i know you are not. >> i gray up the only boy in a family of all women. i understand what you are saying. but not everybody, honestly, has the same skill. not everybody has the same interest in the sport. >> when i go to a sports bar, if there is a woman's basketball game on, i'm just being honest. >> on air less. liberally get to see it less. >> guys, i don't want to watch this. >> jesse: jimmy failla the host of across america on fox news radio and correspondent for lemon watch day 5. what do you have for us? >> let's start with the obvious that i look like the guy who would be sitting next to him in sensitivity training? but to be clear, i mean, come on, let's not dance around. >> are you wearing snake pin lapels. >> do you know what i like about
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this jacket fox talent or sell drugs to fox talent. obviously the answer is both as you know. here is the lemon issue. lemon shouldn't be treated for insensitivity. he should be treated for stupid. is he a stupid person not because of his race or sexual orientation. it's because no one in their right mind should ever be on live tv saying the words google it under any circumstances. jesse, as you know, google it is what you do when you are losing an argument in a bar and it's a confident scheme to get them off your back. no, bro, don mattingly led the team in triples, google it. you hope the problem goes away. the problem won't go away because it's on set with him. they can't stand him and they want him out of there. >> jesse: have you ever gone through sensitivity training and can you give don any advice on how to process such training? >> well, honestly, what i would tell him is i have never had this training, thank god. but, any man who thinks women
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over 51 are past their prime has never seen my search history. let's just be honest about that mr. lemon. he has just got to go get over himself what is happening is political analysis for him is emotional. and when you are leading from a place of emotion. self-awareness that should tell you sound like an idiot. so maybe dial down the emotion a little bit. i hate to man flame but here we are. >> jesse: is he a very emotional guy and we wish him all the best. we don't want anything to happen to don. we want him to stay at cnn as long as humanly possible. well past his prime. thank you, jimmy. >> you are the best. >> jesse: coming up, the fbi is stealing people's gold now. and the left is coming after the classics. >> grand parks look over there across the river. they are little men. >> jumping --
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prior rats balloons buried under the sand. explorers checked deep into the jungles. archaeologists dodged booby traps to score ancient artifacts. [explosion] >> there are people in america right now hunting for gold buried under our feet. in pennsylvania treasure hunters think they found a quarter billion dollars worth of gold that was lost way back in 1863. during the civil war a huge shipment of gold was on its way from california to the philadelphia mint. the gold never made it to philly. union soldiers delivering the gold were found dead next to their wagons. the gold missing. some believe it was confederate ambush and the gold was buried after the attack. others think there was never any
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gold in the first place. it was just a legend. that's until a treasure hunting group called finders keepers detected tons of gold in the pennsylvania wilderness. finders keepers spent years looking for the civil war gold and now it was practically in their hands. when they got the fbi involved, the fbi said the gold belongs to the government even if it's 160 years old. the treasure hunter said you know what? that's fine. just give us a finders fee. the fbi says sounds fair the treasure hunters did all the leg work after all. the fbi brought their heavy duty equipment in to start digging the site. >> we have identified through our investigation a site that we believe has u.s. property which includes significant sum of base metal, which is valuable and belongs to the u.s., particularly gold, navy silver. this is 155-year-old cold case. this has been brought to us by
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complainant and we have been able to corroborate a lot of the information, especially through scientific testing. >> jesse: the fbi blocked off the site and every time the treasure hunters would start asking questions, the fbi froze them out. told them to back off. this is classified. and when the dig was done, the fbi said they didn't find a thing. but what happened to the tons of metal they detected under ground in the treasure hunters say it's an fbi cover-up. the feds moved the treasure under darkness after saying they were going to stop digging for the night. an eyewitness says that's not true. she saw the fbi digging and moving material in the middle of the night. listen. >> i seen these suvs that were parked across the road. they come across the road and they backed up in there and they had these side-by-sides that came down off the hill, one at a time, and put something in the vehicles. and they all went up and they
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let them go and then they took the rest of the equipment and left. >> jesse: dennis is the co-founder of finders keepers and the journalist and author of war on gold. do you feel that the feds did these people dirty? >> the fact is, jesse, we believe that they did find the gold and took it under cover of darkness. it was unfortunate because we were supposed to be partners in this, and denny had been working on it for many years. and i had joined denny. it was very disappointing. we feel misled, in fact, betrayed by the bureau for doing this because we went in as partners. >> jesse: so, dennis, do you think that you were double-crossed and do you wish maybe you hadn't gotten the fbi involved in the first place? >> no. i don't think i -- i was definitely double-crossed but it was the only choice that we
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could make at the time. i think in the fbi involved may be one of the best choices i ever made because there is a lot more to come out of this. >> jesse: oh, what do you mean by that? >> well, let's just say there is going to be more diggings done. there is more research to be done and in the end, i think we're going to prevail definitely. >> jesse: oh, maybe there is more gold under them there hills. so, warren, does the fbi have a claim? what exactly is their claim? they say it's our gold? >> well, they say nothing was found. that's what they are saying. and no night digging took place. those are the only statements they made, jesse. the claim would be if the gold bars are stamped u.s. mint. it would be their gold. denny and the group never said this is our gold to be put in
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personal covers. coffers.it's to go to the treasd the group finders keepers would have a legitimate claim for a finders fee. this money is supposed to go -- this gold is supposed to go into the accounts of the general services administration. the gsa and into escrow. we were never allowed to see the dig at night or the actual extensive phase of the dig. later in the day on monday -- on tuesday, excuse me, on wednesday we were also kept in the car most of the time we were confined to the car instead of being on site as they had promised. >> jesse: dennis, you deserve the money or at least a finders fee and i guess the government deserve some of the money because, you know what? we're over $30 trillion in debt. so, even a little bit helps. thank you guys very much and good luck in pennsylvania. >> thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> jesse: well, first, it was dr. seuss, now the left is
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>> the mob is coming for our childhood classics, first they came for dr. seuss, books they have been reading for decades. dr. seuss enterprise says it promoted anti-blackness and white supremacy and now coming for another classic author, roald dahl, who wrote some of my childhood favorites, "charlie and the chocolate factory," "james and the giant peach," and puffin books are removing words and sentences to make them
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sensitive to audiences. what are the words? charlie and the chocolate factory. >> mark my words, he who finds the first ticket, will be fat, fat, fat. >> the word "fat," is no longer acceptable, being taken out of the books and replaced with enormous. other books take out any word on size entirely and all kind of basic language is problematic. >> grandpa, look across the river. they are little men. >> something, charlie. >> they are taking out all reference of oompaloopa, replacing with little person or little people because oompa might be trans. cloud men is now people and matilda has problems, too. >> your father is a liar and
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cheat, one of the most corrupt low lives in the history of civilization. >> what is wrong with that? father, of course. reference is being changed to family or parent. a lot of changes in the book "the witches," too. >> witches are quite bored, although they wear wigs. >> the roald dahl book has disclaimer that says witches are bald under their wig, there are plenty other reason women might wear wigs and there is nothing wrong with that. the changes go on and on and they are replacing the word "crazy," in all books because that is offensive, too. "fantastic mr. fox," they changed wild with excitement from crazy with excitement. this is insane censorship. if i'm not allowed to read my
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kids fat, man, bald, father, i think i'm going to go crazy. victor davis, senior institute fellow, why vdh, why? >> i don't know, mental midgets. mr. dahl, was a polymath, great stylist, these people have none of his talent. we don't have to agree with what he wrote, it is hypocritical. they are making dollars off his work and want to alter without his say. why don't they say this is intolerable, we want nothing to do with it, we will sell the rights, but they never do that. we see where this goes, the greatest poem, you could argue was work of t.s. elliott, are they going to borrow that? joseph conrad has a great story
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with the n word in the title, should we ban that? and afraid they will take out muslim in the versus. it is powerful for people, there are plenty of things they could turn their attention to, why don't they take deep pause and say it is more destructive in america today to read and hear lyrics of rap artists, remreet with masognist language. why don't they take a deep pause and go after those people and say we will censure and change your lyrics, they won't do that because they are cowards and prefer to attack people who can't answer back. >> vdh, they are promoting books in elementary school with
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graphic sexual content, they want the books in libraries, but don't want "james and the giant peach," you can't say "fat," but can show someone having oral sex in a book in a kindergarten class. >> because they are cowardly and not very bright people, but they are dangerous, jesse. >> i'm never going to be able to look at roald dahl again, some of my children's favorite books. the twins love "the witches," i've watched "charlie and the chocolate factory," the original and the new one with johnny depp. they are saying republicans ban books, what do you call this? this is exactly what they accuse the republicans of. >> yeah, hypocritical. we just have to ignore them and have scorn for what they do and what they stand for. they are not nice people and
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limited talented. go after the living that violate, not the dead. >> i'm go read "matilda" later to not and you can just -- i'm not going to say it. thank you, as always. >> thank you. thank you. >> well, i'm upset about something, i've had a lovely time down in florida, but there was an incident at the hotel involving johnny. i didn't want to talk about it, i'm forced to talk about it. i checked into my room, it wasn't that great. it was fine, actually fine. the room was great, it was small. i mentioned to johnny, my room is small. he said, my room is huge. i have a balcony and a walk-in closet. i said, what are you talking about, send a video of his room. he has a presidential suite at
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the hotel. i love the hotel. johnny is in the presidential suite and i'm in probably -- i won't go into it, i don't have a walk-in closet or any of that. let's do text before i get more upset. pete from virginia, give pot hole pete a break, it's long bike ride from dc to east palestine. haley from utah, did anybody bother asking don what age a man is past his prime? with men, you are never past your prime, according to don. dennis from virginia, not even don. dennis from virginia, jesse, finders keepers checked behind the corvette in joe's garage? i thought i saw a gold bar sticking out of hunter's pocket. keith, i think your segment is off common folk, no longer served food unless you fly first
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class, i recommend you reevaluate rules of the air. i noticed i said that and i sound boujee, and i apologize. i've flown coach and sat next to the bathroom, don't go there with me. tucker is up next, iwatters and this is my world. >> good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," looks like don lemons long television career is over, mr. lemon been sentenced to a term in the hr, to undergo sensitivity training, the first step to be disappeared or doing late night
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