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  • >> Stephen: WELCOME BACK FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, JOINING

  • ME TONIGHT IS AN EMMY AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST AND

  • AUTHOR WHO HOSTS THE LEAD AND STATE OF THE UNION ON CNN,

  • PLEASE WELCOME JAKE TAPPER.

  • HELLO, JAKE.

  • THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FROM THE NEWS CHAMBER.

  • THAT IS A VERY-- ARE YOU IN A MUSEUM EXHIBIT RIGHT NOW?

  • >> MY OFFICE IS DECORATED WITH THE POSTERS OF PEOPLE WHO RAN

  • FOR PRESIDENT AND LOST.

  • AND DID NOT WIN.

  • AND DID NOT WIN.

  • AND SO YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE THIS FELLOW, A MEMBER OF YOUR CHURCH.

  • >> Stephen: OF COURSE, AL SMITH OF DINNER FAME.

  • >> AND WHO ELSE DO WE HAVE.

  • >> Stephen: I SEE THE HILLRIES, I GOT THOSE.

  • >> YOU HAVE THE HILLRIES, JOHN ASHBROOK FOR PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT

  • RICHARD NIXON WAS TOO LIBERAL.

  • >> Stephen: GEORGE WALLACE.

  • DIXIE UP THERE.

  • >> THERE SAY BIG STROM THURMOND OVER THERE THAT IS A COLLECTORS

  • EDITION BUT I FELT SO GROSS PUTTING IT UP, I STUCK A STOKELY

  • CARMICHAEL ON IT TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD I'M NOT DOWN

  • WITH STROM.

  • >> Stephen: LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT THIS OFFICE, IS THIS YOUR

  • OFFICE AT CNN OR A HOME OFFICE.

  • >> NO, THIS IS MY-- MY WIFE WOULD NEVER LET ME HAVE THIS

  • STUFF AT HOME.

  • >> Stephen: HAVE YOU BEEN ALLOWED TO GO HOME THIS FALL?

  • BECAUSE I KNOW IT WAS A FIVE DAY PERIOD THAT ANY TIME I TURNED ON

  • THE TELEVISION YOU WERE AT THE DESK.

  • DID YOU-- DID YOU ACTUALLY LIKE SLEEP IN YOUR OFFICE OR

  • SOMETHING?

  • DID YOU GO HOME AT ALL FOR THOSE FIVE DAYS AND YOU HAVE

  • RECOVERED.

  • >> I DID GO HOME.

  • EVEN IF JUST LIKE GO HOME, EVERYBODY IS ASLEEP, WAKE UP

  • BEFORE EVERYBODY WAKES UP WHICH IS WEIRD, RIGHT, IT'S WEIRD.

  • >> Stephen: YEAH.

  • >> I AM STILL CATCHING UP WITH THE SLEEP.

  • I'M STILL CATCHING UP.

  • BUT I'M GOOD, I'M FAIRLY RECOVERED.

  • >> Stephen: DID YOU GUYS HAVE TO LOWER JOHN KING INTO LIKE AN

  • ICE BATH EVERY DAY, HE NEVER SEEN SAT DOWN, YOU HAD A CHAIR.

  • >> JOHN IS ACTUALLY AN ANDROID, AS YOU MAY OR MAY NOT BE

  • FAMILIAR.

  • >> Stephen: OH NO, ALL THE EVIDENCE IS THERE.

  • >> WE'VE CONSTRUCTED HIM.

  • I MEAN HOW DO YOU THINK HE WORKS THAT MACHINE SO WELL.

  • >> Stephen: NO EMOTION, ABSOLUTELY.

  • >> YES, HE FINDS IT FUN.

  • >> Stephen: THERE HAVE BEEN FOUR AREAS OF NO SLEEP THOUGH.

  • >> YES.

  • >> Stephen: I, I, I POINTED OUT THE OTHER DAY THAT SOMEONE

  • HAD PUT UP A VERY LOVELY PHOTO OF YOU.

  • AND I SAID IT WAS VERY NICE FOR SOMEONE TO PUT UP YOUR PROM

  • PHOTO IS WHEN CNN WON THE WEEK.

  • HE SAID YES, THOSE FOUR YEARS HAVE AGED US.

  • I WANT TO POINT OUT, THIS IS YOU, THIS IS YOU IN 2016.

  • BEFORE ALL THIS MISHUGA.

  • AND THIS IS YOU TODAY, THIS IS-- OKAY.

  • BY BEFORE YOU GET MAD AT ME FOR POINTING THIS OUT, THIS IS ME IN

  • 2016, OKAY.

  • THIS IS ME TODAY, TWO ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF ME.

  • >> CAN I SAY.

  • >> Stephen: YEAH.

  • >> TO OUTGOING PRESIDENT TRUMP, CREDIT, HE LOOKS THE EXACT SAME.

  • HE LOOKS THE EXACT SAME.

  • HE IS THE ONLY PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY WHO HAS

  • NOT AGED A DAY.

  • IT'S JUST WE ALL AGED 30 YEARS.

  • >> Stephen: YES, WE'RE THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY T IS NOT

  • SUPPOSED TO WORK THAT WAY.

  • >> LIKE BARACK OBAMA, WHEN HE STARTED HE WAS YOUNG, HE WAS

  • LIKE A WILL SMITH, EIGHT YEARS LATER, MORGAN FREEMAN.

  • >> Stephen: YEAH, BUT VERY DISTINGUISHED.

  • >> IT HAPPENS.

  • >> Stephen: HAVE YOU READ HIS BOOK YET?

  • >> NO.

  • >> Stephen: 701, HOW MUCH?

  • 700 AND PAGES, I LOVED IT, IT WAS GREAT.

  • >> IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A MEMOIR.

  • AND NOW IT'S AT LEAST GOING TO BE TWO VOLUMES.

  • MY GUESS IS IT WILL END UP BEING AT LEAST FIVE.

  • >> Stephen: IT IS LIKE HE IS HIS OWN ROBERT CARO.

  • NOW YOU, WE ARE STILL IN WEIRD LIMBO RIGHT NOW.

  • >> YEAH.

  • >> Stephen: WHERE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE GUY WHO IS LEAVING

  • IS GOING TO DO OR HOW HE'S GOING TO HANDLE THE PROSPECT OF

  • LEAVING.

  • WHAT IS THAT LIKE-- WHAT DOES THAT DO TO YOU JOURNALISTS WHO

  • ARE ACTUALLY HAVING TO REPORT ON WHAT'S HAPPENING.

  • >> WE KNOW HOW IS HE GOING TO HANDLE IT IN ONE SENSE, WE KNOW

  • IT IS GOING TO BE POORLY.

  • HE'S NOT DEALING WITH DEFEAT WELL.

  • HE'S NOT ACCEPTED IT.

  • SO WHAT IS IT LIKE DEALING WITH IT, I MEAN I JUST THINK PART OF

  • IT IS JUST EXPLAINING TO PEOPLE HE LOST.

  • THAT IS THE REALITY.

  • THERE IS NO LEGAL PALT PATH, ALL OF THESE LAWSUITS WITH A COUPLE

  • OF EXCEPTIONS ARE RIDICULOUS.

  • THERE IS NO WAY HE IS GOING TO OVERTURN ENOUGH VOTES IN ENOUGH

  • STATES IT IS JUST NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

  • >> Stephen: DO YOU HAVE GUESTS THAT COME ON AND SAY WELL, WE'LL

  • SEE.

  • >> NO.

  • >> Stephen: YOU DON'T?

  • >> NO, I DON'T BOOKS TO GUESTS.

  • >> Stephen: NOT ANY MORE.

  • >> I STOPPED BOOKING JUST OUT AND OUT LIARS AWHILE AGO.

  • BUT I MEAN YEAH, NO, JOE BIDEN WILL BE SWORN IN ON JANUARY

  • 20th, 2021.

  • PERIOD.

  • >> Stephen: WE'LL SEE.

  • WE'LL SEE.

  • >> NO, THERE IS NO WE'LL SEE.

  • >> Stephen: A LOT OF CURT CASES OUT THERE, JAKE.

  • >> I LOOKED THAT A BUNCH OF THEM, YOU KNOW.

  • >> Stephen: REALLY?

  • >> AND THEY'RE NONSENSE.

  • LIKE IT'S HONESTLY, IT'S LIKE-- BECAUSE THE STANDARD OF

  • EVIDENCE IN A COURT ROOM SAY LITTLE HIGHER THAN ON TWITTER.

  • >> Stephen: SURE.

  • >> SO AS DONALD TRUMP SAYS, WE DON'T HAVE ANY OBSERVERS IN THAT

  • PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION CENTER COUNTING ROOM.

  • AND THEN SOMEBODY TRIES TO PRESENT THAT, IN COURT.

  • AND THE JUDGE SAYS HOW MANY DO YOU HAVE.

  • HOW MANY OBSERVERS AND THE LAWYER SHEEPISHLY SAYS WE HAVE

  • A, THIS SAY QUOTE, THERE IS A NONZERO NUMBER.

  • A NONZERO NUMBER OF OBSERVERS.

  • >> Stephen: SO SOME.

  • >> YEAH.

  • >> Stephen: AND I BELIEVE THE JUDGE THEN SAID GET THE [BLEEP]

  • OUT.

  • >> RIGHT, RIGHT.

  • >> Stephen: BUT JAKE, I WANT TO HE ARE MIND YOU, I WANT TO

  • REMIND YOU THAT RUDY GIULIANI IS IN CHARGE NOW, RUDY IS IN THE

  • DRIVER'S SEAT NOW, ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN.

  • PHYSICAL LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE NO LONGER APPLY IF RUDY IS GOING TO

  • TAKE OVER THIS THING.

  • >> I THINK ANYBODY WHO WATCHED THE PRESS CONFERENCE AT FOUR

  • SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING NORTH OF THE BRUJ RIGHT NEAR THE SEX

  • SHOP AND ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE CREMATORIUM WHERE HE

  • PRESENTED HIS EVIDENCE WHICH INCLUDED SOMEBODY FROM NEW

  • JERSEY WHO WAS A REGISTERED SEX O FIPPEDDER, I THINK ANYBODY WHO

  • SAW THAT WOULD THINK THIS IS THE CLARENCE DAR OWE OF OUR

  • TIME-- DARROW OF OUR TIME.

  • >> Stephen: WE HAVE TO TAKE A BREAK BUT WHEN WE COME BACK I

  • WILL ASK JAKE ABOUT HIS KFERTIONZ WITH ANTHONY FAUCI

  • ABOUT HOW THO LACK OF TRANSITION IS GOING TO SLOW DOWN COVID

  • PREPAREDNESS.

  • WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK.

>> Stephen: WELCOME BACK FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, JOINING

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