"herschel, we've been over this.e cooler than werewolves [ laughter ] uh, uh-huh, yeah, yeah mm, no, no, i know a werewolf can kill a vampire, herschel [ light laughter ] yeah but a vampire, herschel -- [ laughter ] yeah yeah, but a vampire could turn into a bat [ laughter ] he dropped the phone." [ laughter ] republicans are finally facing the political consequences of their actions, their unflinching loyalty to donald trump is now destroying their party, and walker is just the latest example. he was deeply unqualified to be a senator. on top of that, i'm not even sure he wanted to be one if only republicans had asked him what he actually wanted to be, he could have told them -- >> i want to be a werewolf [ laughter ] >> seth: this has been "a closer look." [ cheers and applause ♪ we'll be right back with jesse eisenberg, everybody [ cheers and applause ♪ (dad) we got our subaru forester wilderness to discover all of the places that make us feel something more. (vo) subaru is the national park foundation's largest c

herschel walker.ker's been in hot water ever since we learned that, despite his hard-line, no-exceptions, abortion-is-murder political position, in 2009, he urged his girlfriend to get an abortion and paid for it. eventually. 'cause yesterday we learned the woman had to repeatedly press walker for funds to pay for it. ah, so he's cool with abortion as long as it doesn't cost him. so he's socially liberal, fiscally conservative, complete a-hole. [cheering] to steer... to steer the conversation away from abortion or his multiple secret children with multiple secret lovers, yesterday, walker held a rally and told this totally unrelated story. >> so i've been telling this little story about this bull out in the field with six cows, and three of them are pregnant, so you know he got something going on. >> stephen: yeah, he's getting dating advice from herschel walker. i'm sorry. go on. >> but all he cared about is kept his nose against this fence, looking at three other cows that didn't belong to him. now

herschel walker is from georgia. he's lived in dallas for 20 years and trump was like, "no, that's herschel walker. >> seth: right because donald trump i think is very easy to connect the dots that he remembered herschel walker as a georgia football player. excellent one. and then knew him as a usfl guy. >> and then he was on "celelbriy apprentice." >> seth: he was one "celelbrity apprentice." so there -- there's really not a whole lot of dots. >> those are three qualifications for him to be the senator. and so, there's a real question -- it is one of -- of all the races i've ever covered, one of the starkest juxtapositions >> seth: of just candidate quality. >> candidate quality >> seth: yeah. >> and then the second thing i think really is after a brutal midterms for donald trump's political brand, for candidates associated with him and hand-picked by him, i mean, he will have managed, if warnock pulls this off, to basically have cost georgia three senate seats in two years >> seth: yeah. >> which i think is not goi

and then - and then what, you trust herschel walker to remember all of their names "yeah, i got some stage and i want to thank -- oh, oh boy oh that dude's got to be richard, right? you really think that missing ingredient in georgia was a surprise appearance from, i don't know, wyoming senator john barrasso or idaho senator mike crapo i have no idea what the man sounds like. i am almost certain i've never heard his voice in my life but that won't stop me from trying to do an impression anyway [ laughter ] just gonna have to guess what he sounds like. let's see, idaho okay, looking at the face. all right, i think i got it. here's my best guess for idaho senator mike crapo "hello, georgia voters [ laughter ] it is i, mike crapo. i am here to sweep you off my feet with my charm and charisma." and that was today's inaccurate impression ♪ [ cheers and applause if anything, i think that might have been the problem. republicans did flood the zone with sitting senators. rick scott, tom cotton, and of course lindsey graham who not only camped out in georgia for months, but seemed to appear i

, republican senate candidate herschel walker spent more than two minutes trying to recount plot detailsan untitled vampire movie said walker, "oh, it's not a movie. [ laughter ] tell him, mailbox. [ laughter ] at the same stop, republican senate candidate herschel walker talked about werewolves and vampires and said, quote, "i don't want to be a vampire anymore. i want to be a werewolf. well, one thing's for certain. he definitely doesn't want to be a senator. [ laughter ] fans of the singer morrissey are upset after he recently ended his concert abruptly after just 30 minutes without any warning fortunately, if there's one thing morrissey fans love, it's when morrissey makes them upset. [ light laughter ] you know i'm zinging a couple of old high school girlfriends with that one [ light laughter ] a man in japan had to remove a 90-inch jump rope removed from his bladder after he shoved the rope into his penis. [ audience ohs ] on the bright side, he finally got those kids off his lawn. [ laughter ] do we have to show the x-ray [ laughter ] a jump rope. microsoft yesterday added a colle

and if you're herschel walker, that doesn't leave you with many places to look.s the reason we hit 8 billion so fast. so we're almost finished. are we almost finished? we're almost finished with the 2022 election, and it's a good thing, because we've already started the 2024 election thanks to an announcement tonight by former president caliguduh. now, we taped this show. did we? yes, we taped this show earlier, so i can't confirm this actually happened. the announcement was set to be at mar-a-lago, so the fbi could have burst in and seized his teleprompter. but everyone is expecting him to announce his third presidential bid. yes, it's the third time. the third time. or as it's known at his house, "the melania." now, what i want everybody to do... is this earlier? this is earlier. it is earlier right now. now, i want everybody to breathe. he might not even be the g.o.p. nominee. it could be ron desantis. [booing] some day, those are gonna be boos of relief. prior to his announcement, the ex-president put out a teaser, truthing: "hopefully today will turn out to

even on a day dominated by trump, herschel walker still somehow managed to make news.s time, well -- a month or so ago, he claimed his grandmother is native american. >> i found something out. i found something out. my mom just told me that my mom's grandmother was full blood cherokee. so i'm native american. i'm like, ho, hello! so i'm a supermutt. i don't know what i am. but this is what was so funny. this was what was so funny. i said, mom, why didn't you ever say anything to us? she said, back in my days, a lot of native american were treated worse than blacks. >> jimmy: oh, yeah, that is funny. [ laughter ] hilarious, really, herschel. so if he is a quarter cherokee, i guess that means herschel walker is a dallas cowboy and an indian at the same time. [ laughter ] only problem is, they looked into it, turns out he isn't. his grandmother is 0% cherokee. neither is he, nor are any of his little papooses with all his many women. maybe trump will start calling him pocoheisman! [ laughter and applause ] while we're on the subject of genetics, this is interesting. accor

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and this has been tonight's "no context herschel walker".we're still hearing from private citizen kari lake, seen here left hangin' by the voters of arizona. even though, even though her race was called on monday, lake has dug in on claims of voter fraud. and last night, to make the point that she was never going to concede, lake dropped this new ad. ♪ ♪ ♪ well,l, i won't b back down no, i i won't bacack down ♪♪ >> stephen: okay, that's not good. but you can't blame her iphone for putting together a memory called "at the fascist rally." now, here's the thing. here's the thing. [applause] thank you. fascists. now, if you're a tom petty fan, you'll recognize his song "i won't back down." also you can continue to be a tom petty fan because a spokesperson for tom petty's estate confirmed that lake's use of the song was [cheering]ved or endorsed."- exactly. come on. you know you've crossed a line when tom petty's representatives tell you to please back down. that's like lawyers for guns n' roses telling you that you are no longer welcome in the j

consultants reportedly hired a law firm to compile a 500-page dossier on georgia senate candidate herschel it was just the names of his kids [ light laughter ] oh, sure, now that he lost, we're all sensitive. [ laughter ] during a speech on saturday at the new york young republican club's annual gala, georgia congresswoman marjorie taylor greene complained about liberal policies and said, quote, "you can pick up a butt plug or a dildo at target nowadays." [ laughter ] or more likely, you go in to buy a dildo and end up leaving with a bunch of stuff you didn't need [ laughter ] that's how they get ya "wait in the car, kids i'll be right back." arizona senator kyrsten sinema announced last week that she's leaving the democratic party and registering as an independent because if there's one thing she's desperate, it's for people to think she's indie [ laughter ] that's right, arizona senator kyrsten sinema announced that she's leaving the democratic party. no word on what kind of party she's going to i'm going to say a muppet rave [ laughter ] the federal government is set to run out of money

>> guillermo: no, i didn't. >> jimmy: we learned something, thanks, herschel.e got a great show for you tonight. kumail nanjiani is with us. and pink is here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] pink is an exceptionally talented person, one of the most talented people in all of music. tonight she's going to allow us to put that talent to the test. it's time now to "wing it and sing it." [ cheers and applause ] hello! how are you? >> i'm terrified. >> jimmy: don't be frightened. hello, jeff. hi, pink. [ cheers and applause ] this is pink, everybody. you said you're frightened. there's no reason to be frightened. this is very simple. >> okay. >> jimmy: we have some lyrics on these cards. these are lyrics you've not seen, correct? >> correct. >> jimmy: okay. so i'm going to reveal them to you. >> okay. >> jimmy: all you have to do is sing them as you see them, okay? >> i apologize. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: all right, no apology necessary. >> we're going to nail it. >> jimmy: jeff is going to be accompanying you. he is our pianist, or piano player as he prefers to be cal

walker's former teacher which is brave, because i can't imagine having to tell people that you taught herscheleverything he knows. [ laughter ] republican senator ted cruz posted a picture yesterday with former democratic presidential hopeful andrew yang. though if he's hanging out with ted cruz, i can guarantee he is no longer democratic or hopeful. [ laughter ] according to a new study, long covid can cause significant brain changes, but you think the fake news media would ever report on that, you liberal cucks? [ laughter ] sorry. that was weird i don't know - [ laughter ] iowa senator chuck grassley posted a photo yesterday of his vacuum cleaner and said, quote, "thanksgiving has arrived. so i guess the only mystery is, which of those things he meant to do. [ laughter ] new york governor kathy hochul this week signed a bill into law partially banning the mining of cryptocurrency so you know what that means? hopefully, because i don't [ laughter ] according to a new survey, 35% of americans believe that the person with the window seat on an airplane should have execut - excuse me, exclusive

greg, in article you wrote this week, you quoted hurts herschel walker's campaign manager, who said quotea can't be overstated. the two most popular republicans in the state, our governor brian kemp, and president trump. how do you rank and file republican voters reconciler their support for both camp, and trump? and please, put in context just how bad this political civil war is? >> yeah, i mean it's not confusing, georgia politics, is so contradictory, that donald trump, can have 57% of the vote, and -- in a poll of republican primary voters. and, brian kemp as a percent, in terms of his approval rating. these are two politicians at odds with each other, over some of the biggest issues in the nation. and, yet they are two of the most popular republicans in georgia. but you are right, i mean, this rift in the republican party in georgia is huge. consider it this way, that the state republican convention a few weeks ago, donald trump was the keynote speaker. and, multiple of georgia's top republican elected officials, governor kemp, secretary of state crap brad raffensperger, the attorney

senate candidate herschel walker continues to face controversy.orts of extramarital affairs, three secret children, and paying for an abortion, for some reason,

herschel walker seemed bulletproof coming through the primary with an 80-point win.ng into the general when the other team, the democrats start carpet bombing with all the indiscretions and the lack of decision-making that donald trump is quite honestly going to have to face from joe biden's campaign we are going to lose the middle. nobody in the middle, nobody, not to a single person has changed their mind on donald trump since they didn't vote for him in 2020 based on all of this that's played out. so this is impossible math. as we continue to navigate through this. >> geoff duncan, very much appreciate your perspective and your time, sir. thanks. >> thanks, boris. >> of course. rahel? >>> coming up for us, extremely dangerous, that's how authorities are explaining a convicted murderer who escaped a pennsylvania prison. he is not the only escapee who has sparked a massive search this morning. dedetails when we come back. sleep more deeply and wake up rejuvenated. purple mattresses exclusive gel flex grid draws away heat relieves pressure and instantly adapts. sleeb

there is an observatory, there is a huge telescope through which you can see the sun, this is a herschelof the sun, right with the eye, kiril egorov, lecturer at the planetarium, i lift it up, come off, yes , now it’s convenient to look, and yes, here you can see the edge of the sun, please, come on, what there, wow wow, what, you know, around the sun, wait, see, the edges, the edges, no, ah, these are the edges of the sun, nothing, wow, they tremble due to the movement of air, it goes somewhere, is this normal? yes, a means of rotating the earth. this is a sign that it’s time for us to hurry, because they are waiting for us at production. kiril, thank you very much, take care of the telescope, it is very important. thank you, goodbye. if you haven’t been watching our program from the very beginning and don’t know how zucchini is good for the cardiovascular system, i remind you that all episodes can be reviewed on the online platform. let's see download the application. on phones or tablets or just go to site.ru. well, it’s time for us to start producing squash caviar. it's time, uh. wow

half 300 attention to the screen the nebula of the constellation canis major discovered by william herschelof the names of the nebula this scandinavian god, thunder and lightning. thor quite right, the nebula is called thor's helmet victor connection for one and a half this resin is used when connecting underground high-voltage cables using a coupling. epoxy resin connection for 300 it is he who connects the shores in igor’s song nikolaev to the poems of nikolai zinoviev the holy ferryman, right? husband and wife in 1963, these cosmonauts got married. andrian nikolaev and valentina tereshkova exactly husband and wife for 600, he was married to octavia , octavian's sister augustus, but cleopatra made him forget about both marital and civic duty further. the wife of this british writer , patricia nu, was a famous actress and in 1964 she received an oscar for best actress in the film hud do you know the famous writer from photography? this is the role of husband and wife for 300. a cat in a poke for anyone? let's thank konstantin theme, eat don't want bet old attention to the screen, as the cu

i stood up and said number one of herschel walker had one in georgia he deserved to have a say on thet number two we just got her clocks cleaned in 2022 pre-2022 should have been a huge republican victory. we should have won the senate. should have had a big majority in the house. instead we got our clocks claimed we needed to spend a month they argued debating what were doing right and what we're doing wrong for i put it out. i said listen we spent the last two years with a handful of republicans joining with the democrats to pass the democrats agenda. i said maybe that's a good idea, i don't think it is but maybe it is. but it will tie the said democrats would never do that. would we have a majority you did not see it one time a handful of democrats joining with republicans to pass a republican agenda. we are the only side that does that. and i turned to mitch mcconnell and that leadership election i said let me ask a very simple question. what are you willing to fight on question is there one thing stand up and tell us one thing. i think we ought to fight on what a lot of things bu

republican candidates last year, like governor brian kemp of georgia while rejecting maga candidates like herschelsame election. but that is not what desantis did. instead, he went to the opposite direction, right? he was going to beat trump to his right. he leaned into some of the most extreme, divisive positions, railing against vaccines, obsessing over trans children, going to war against disney. and clearly, it was the wrong call. it's not working. he has fallen as low as 12% in recent polls, nearly 40 points behind trump. now, to be fair to desantis, none of the other candidates have succeeded in consolidating support against trump either. but some at least have actually tried, like nikki haley, who is attempting to carve out a more, quote unquote, normal lane without being too critical of the ex president. so, as the candidates excluding trump take the debate stage tonight, can haley successfully walk that line, or can haley actually put together something like that brian kemp coalition nationwide. susan del percio he's a veteran political strategist, and symone sanders-townsend served as se

oz, herschel walker, sarah palin -- his goal is to turn congress into "the celebrity apprentice."nd on top of all the rallies he's doing and the ill-advised endorsements he is giving, trump took time to record a message for one of his bigliest supporters this weekend. >> i hope you're having a great time at the kid rock concert. quite frankly, he is amazing. all of you in attendance are the true backbone of our country. hardworking, god fearing rock 'n roll patriots. bob is truly one of the greatest entertainers of our time. let's all continue to love one another, fight for our god given freedoms, and most of all, let's make america rock again. >> jimmy: he's rocking all right. i would like to ask him to name one kid rock song. uh, "ymca"? i don't know. but the most important trump moment of the weekend was from an interview he did over the summer, in which he talks about a deal that went sideways, a deal he allegedly made with the president of south korea. >> i said to him you got to pay $5 billion. no, no, no. we had a deal. he was going to pay $5 billion, 5 billion a year. but

and his maga allies in the gop hand-picked a bunch of ostentatious weirdos like vampire enthusiast herschelixar villain kari lake, and area 51 escapee dr. oz who campaigned -- [ laughter ] campaigned for senate in pennsylvania by wandering down the produce aisle complaining about the price of crudite at a grocery store he called wegener's which does not exist [ laughter ] of course, the weirdest part of that video was always the part that he grabbed salsa for a crudite. who puts salsa in their crudite? he is like a college sophomore putting out hors d'oeuvres for a date "would you like some funyuns with your crudite? [ laughter ] perhaps some franzia i have a january chardonnay. that's a very good month." [ laughter ] so after those candidates lost, republicans spent the next few days lamenting how weird their party had gotten, and pleading for republicans to just be normal again >> the republican party needs to do a really deep introspective look in the mirror right now because this is an absolute disaster for the republican party. >> the gop fielded too many novices who struggled with cra

herschel ports that project 2025 aims to recruit, quote, conservative warriors to staff the next conservativelready putting this plan into action, their vetting people, making sure that their records ideologically aligned, their training them. project 2025 is developing 30 video courses, teaching each of the 30 chapters of the mandate. the architects of the project have talked openly about the long term plans of their movement, making it clear that they're thinking three, four, presidential elections down the line. it's in part a training program, one of which the head of the heritage foundation promised will develop experts at killing bureaucracy. while trump is at the forefront of this conservative movement, probably in large part because it complements his personal agenda, it absolutely does not depend on donald trump. already, trump's top competitors, rhonda send this and vikram aswan, we have made attacking the so-called deep state central to their campaigns. michael hers also reported that project 2025 has been in touch with trump's team, desantis's team, and with the moderate democrat

and the, and the most recent election there was herschel walker who ran for senate or yes and and lost and then they the dr. oz who had a lot of celebrity and he also lost so but they got that far and they got they'll get pretty far just on that basis and that and with no necessarily any experience in public service or any policies that anybody care about. yeah i mean trump you know, i mean no one knew him outside of new york until he got on a celebrity apprentice. it's celebrity apprentice. and and people watched that for eight or ten years. i never saw an episode of. but, you know tens of millions of people, apparently watched it. and and it yeah, it created it's weird. i know. i agree. next next next. how are you? i am actually a young filmmaker working on a project right now in west virginia. and a lot of the stories that i hear from local celebrities in quotation are very good but they're not necessarily true. and it's pretty obvious in some cases when they're not true. so as somebody who interviewed elizabeth taylor, somebody who's interviewed all these, you know, stalwarts of th

the white house has been critical of netanyahu's contra herschel plan to overhaul his country's judicialystem. despite rising tensions. the israeli leader vowed to work with biden on upholding democratic values and restoring peace with saudi arabia. under your leadership, mr. president, we can forge a historic peace between israel and saudi arabia. later wednesday, biden met with brazil's president to discuss climate issues and launch an initiative protecting workers rights. when you eradicate poverty, when you bring people up to a living standard, that's real every one benefits the whole economy benefits. meanwhile, the biden administration is pushing back on a speech made by iran's president at the un where he condemned american culture and accused the us of fueling the war in ukraine. the white house saying his comments will not change minds. it's not as though iran somehow put points on the board yesterday with respect to their beef with the united states. iran is one of the most isolated, most heavily sanctioned countries in the world. on thursday, president biden will host ukrainia

perhaps they were asked to be fake electors their certificate of being an elector is no more real than herschelhis is a garbage argument. they are not federal officials they're not going to be able to get it removed and they weren't acting under color of law. they said they were the real electors that's a fraud, that's a lie you don't get federal protection for lying. they're not going to win this argument. >> we now have a date in the hunter biden case, when he will be arraigned october 3rd and he has to be there in person. he and his lawyers tried to shift and have this happen virtually saying it would be a financial and logistical burden for the city of wilmington, a judge rejected that request. what do you make of it >> i think the judge made the right move there has to be equal justice under the law, hunter biden and donald trump need to show up in person trump did and hunter biden should as well equal justice under the law, ana, means that hunter biden should be treated no better and no worse than anyone else. it looks like he was treated worse because he was indicted under a statute that

, you contravene herschel, why do you think decision important think this decision is important so okaysends a really important message . so women only important message. so women only lesbian events are legitimate . lesbian events are legitimate. that's the message. and the same for gay men as well. so this is it's a real victory. it for gay men as well. so this is it's a real victory . it really is. >> and what do you think this means for businesses who are taking advice from third parties as groups like stonewall and gendered intelligence ? gendered intelligence? >> yeah, exactly . i mean, i >> yeah, exactly. i mean, i would just say they need to be very, very careful because it's the law that counts . so don't be the law that counts. so don't be bullied by policies . right. it's bullied by policies. right. it's the law that trumps . so i stood the law that trumps. so i stood up . other people need to do the up. other people need to do the same and yeah, going forward, hopefully we're going to have other organisers coming out and it's not going to be this underground movement. um, ye

, you contravene herschel, why do you think decision important think this decision is important so okaysends a really important message . so women only important message. so women only lesbian events are legitimate . lesbian events are legitimate. that's the message. and the same for gay men as well. so this is it's a real victory. it for gay men as well. so this is it's a real victory . it really is. >> and what do you think this means for businesses who are taking advice from third parties as groups like stonewall and gendered intelligence ? gendered intelligence? >> yeah, exactly . i mean, i >> yeah, exactly. i mean, i would just say they need to be very, very careful because it's the law that counts . so don't be the law that counts. so don't be bullied by policies . right. it's bullied by policies. right. it's the law that trumps . so i stood the law that trumps. so i stood up . other people need to do the up. other people need to do the same and yeah, going forward, hopefully we're going to have other organisers coming out and it's not going to be this underground movement. um, ye

they're all gone but making way for candidates like herschel walker, dr.ight, if you lead through the excerpts from the book. it eludes to the public, which we share on the show a lot, but you can read it. you see the republican sweeping saying donate, donated donald trump's defense fund. they're coming for him, they're coming for all of us. they have beyond contempt for him. they mock him behind closed doors. which makes what they do out in the public every day all the worse that they know better. that they know better and they know that donald trump is not a good man. no he wasn't a good president but they fear him and they fear his voters and so they go along for the ride every day. >> william i think one of the biggest takeaways that i have from the case. extraordinary piece really i am very excited to dig into this book is this idea that i think a lot of people have debated and grappled with over the past of eight years now really. which is that trumpism is not an aberration. it's something that mitt romney had believed when he actually decided to mak

sounds contrary , herschel, but sounds contrary, herschel, but actually, could it make some sense? that they think this will bring are put into apprenticeships, then possibly this is a group of about 30 conservative mps that came to in 2017, 2019. and what they're saying is that low achieving students who don't pass english and maths at gcse or don't get a minimum of three e's at a—level , which i think e's at a—level, which i think most people would think was a pretty low bar , should not be pretty low bar, should not be allowed to take out a student loan because they're saying that, first of all, it's not money well spent for the taxpayer . and also it's not taxpayer. and also it's not money well spent for the students because very often they don't go on to earn graduate salaries. that £50,000 worth of debt on average is not worth it. so they're saying stop those children getting the loans. there's just under 3000 a year at the moment that go to uni with lower grades than that poor put the money that you're saving into a massive expansion of apprenticeships . into a massive expan

they're leaving and making way for candidates like herschel walker, dr. oz, and the ones that donald trump likes better. joe is right, if you read through the excerpts from the book, it reveals something to the public that we say on this show a lot, and you don't have to take our word for it, which is that the republicans who you see on tv defending, sometimes weeping on fox news, saying, "donate, donate to donald trump's defense fund. they're coming for him. they're coming for all of us," they have beyond contempt for him. they mock him behind closed doors. which makes what they do out in the public every day all the worse, that they know better. they know better. they know that donald trump is not a good man, know he wasn't a good president, but they fear him and they fear his voters, so they go along for the ride every day. >> yeah, willie, and i think, you know, one of the biggest takeaways i had from mckay's extraordinary piece, really, i'm very excited to dig into this book, is this idea that i think a lot of people have debated and grappled with ov

and tobias ellwood has resigned as chairman of the defence select committee over a contract herschelogg said could have been issued by the taliban tourist board. here's a little reminder of what mullah ellwood had to say . say. >> all that's happened here since 911, this this is a very different country in built. >> it feels different now that the taliban have returned to power . power. >> well, it may be hard to believe, but security has vastly improved . corruption is down and improved. corruption is down and the opium trade has all but disappeared . disappeared. >> pylons distribute electricity to the cities. solar panels are now everywhere, powering irrigation pumps, allowing more crops to grow again . crops to grow again. >> it's the music for me that does it. but but also corruption is down. yeah, look at that. so are you telling me that the taliban is now less corrupt than the coalition that were the coalition forces that were in there? or the afghan government i government before? i'm sorry. i just not believe and he just do not believe it. and he says very different says it'