-President-Elect Joe Biden is
continuing with the transition and announcing cabinet picks. Meanwhile, outgoing president
squatters rights fired one of his lawyers after she claimed the election
was rigged as part of a vast conspiracy involving
the CIA, the Republican governor of
Georgia, and the former president
of Venezuela who died seven years ago. For more on this, it's time for
"A Closer Look." ♪♪ You know, I hate to
jump the gun here and prematurely call
the election, but it's starting to look like
Donald Trump lost by a lot. Joe Biden's popular vote lead is
now over 6 million. And in total, he has more votes than any president-elect
in history. Or to put it another,
I don't know, more fun way, more people came out to vote
against Donald Trump than have ever come out to vote
against any presidential candidate
in history of the United States. And Donald, if you ever get mad
when you see President Biden, know that it likely only
happened because of you. Joe Biden ran for President
a bunch of times before this and, like, never finished
in the top tier. But against you, it turns out
he was the perfect choice. Biden was like that weird kid in
school that nobody hung out with because he smelled like garlic, and then a vampire
attacked prom, and everyone said,
"Quick! Get Stinky Kevin!" And he'll never say it, but you
know when Biden told Obama he was gonna run for president
again, Obama must have thought,
"I'm sorry. You didn't think being
my vice president was the best job you were ever
going to have? You thought it was a stepping
stone to bigger things?" It's like a Walmart greeter
getting hired and saying, "One day, I'm going to run
this place!" But thanks to Donald Trump,
it happened because more people came out to
vote against Donald Trump than have ever come out
to vote against any presidential candidate in the history
of the United States. And sure, we all know that in
the back of our minds, that millions of people did vote
for Donald Trump, and that speaks to a great
darkness we cannot fully handle, but that thought
isn't going to get you up and on the Peloton
in the morning. So let's just bookmark it. On top of Biden's historic vote
totals, Georgia just certified
its results after a vigorous hand recount, and the Trump campaign lost
a major court case in Pennsylvania where the judge, a Republican member
of the Federalist Society, did not hold back
in his contempt for the Trump legal team's
incompetence. -A federal judge in Pennsylvania
completely tearing apart the Trump legal strategy
that was spearheaded by Rudy Giuliani. The judge in this case,
Matthew Brann, tearing apart the claims
by the Trump team that they wanted to invalidate
the vote in Pennsylvania and throw out nearly
7 million votes. The judge in this case
saying this... -That's about as harsh as it
gets for a federal judge. That's like hearing
Paul Hollywood say "underbaked." Just devastating. Netflix should really put up a
warning at the top of that show. I also like the part where
the judge says you'd expect the Trump legal team
to come armed with compelling legal arguments
and factual proof. Judge, take a hint. When they don't come in
with briefcases, lawyers normally have things
with them, papers and such called evidence. They have younger lawyers behind
them with file boxes. Rudy and his greasers walk in
with iPhones and CLIF Bars and a Thermos they all share. They think this is a high school
forensics team competition where the kid with the weirdest
adult energy wins by talking longest. Why would you expect this crew to roll in with proof? It's like expecting my burnout
cousin to come to Thanksgiving on time with sweet potatoes. You know he's going to show up
at 10:00 p.m. with meth and a woman he met as a casino. Hey. This is Sapphire, and she's gonna be
a stripper magician. Show 'em your stuff, babe! By the way, I don't want to know
how Rudy and his gang keep getting court dates to even
bring this to a judge. They have had multiple days
in court, and the election was, what,
three wakes ago? Do you know how long it takes for regular people to get
a court date? In 2017, I was driving a zip car
in Manhattan. My dog Frisbee jumped in
the front seat and started scanning radio
stations. And I was startled,
and I swerved into a halal cart near the curb. It was the most yelling
ever heard in New York City. The halal vendor sued me. Zip Car countersued both me
and the halal guy. Meanwhile, Frisbee is suing
Sirius satellite radio for changing "'40s on 4"
to channel 73, the confusion that started this
whole debacle. This happened three years ago,
and we had a hearing scheduled for 2025 and that was only
because I pulled some strings. Anyway, I think I was talking
about something. Oh, right. And now prominent
Republicans such as the governors of Arkansas
and Ohio, Michigan Congressman Fred Upton and Pennsylvania Senator
Pat Toomey are calling Joe Biden the president-elect and saying
the transition should begin. Even longtime Trump friend and
ally Chris Christie had this to say about the Trump
legal team's efforts to overturn the election. -I've been a supporter
of the president's. I voted for him twice. But elections have consequences,
and we cannot continue to act as if something happened here
that didn't happen. Quite frankly, the conduct
of the president's legal team has been a national
embarrassment. They allege fraud
outside the courtroom, but when they go inside
the courtroom, they don't plead fraud
and they don't argue fraud. If you're unwilling to come
forward and present the evidence, it must mean the evidence
doesn't exist. -You know it's bad when
Chris Christie, whose main job for years was
standing behind Trump at press conferences like
Bobby Baccalà waiting for his next
humiliating errand calls you a national
embarrassment. But Christie's other point is
important, too -- Trump's lawyers only claim
there's fraud when they're outside
the courtroom, never when they're inside
the courtroom. Because court is different
from TV. In court, you can get in real
trouble for lying, but when they're in front of
TV cameras, you hear all these Trump lawyers
say crazy, ambiguous, debunked stuff about dead voters
and election software and affidavits or whatever. In fact, in that very hearing,
Rudy Giuliani ultimately lost. He seemed confused about
basic legal terms like strict scrutiny
and admitted in court that the campaign was not
actually alleging that fraud had taken place,
which it should be noted is like saying in a murder
trial, "Hi, I'm the alleged victim,
and I'm still alive. -Actually it is a fraud case in the sense that it's
a case brought by frauds. Like when someone brings
a guitar case, they are also probably a fraud. It this wasn't a fraud case,
then what was it? You guys keep saying there's
voter fraud in public, but then not arguing there's
voter fraud in court. It's like how you say in front
of your kids, "Better be good this year
or Santa might not come." And then at 3:00 a.m., you're on
the floor in the living room drinking Scotch trying to tie
a bow around a light saber screaming,
"[Bleep] paper keeps ripping! Aah! Hey, why don't we just
have it, like, peeking out from behind
the couch? Just like a little piece
of light sab-- All right! I'll wrap it. Well, I just think it was -- the
thing is they get it as a gift. Okay!" In fact, they haven't alleged
any actual voter fraud at all because it doesn't exist. Instead they've resorted to bat-[bleep] crazy conspiracy
theories about election software and international communists. And you know, one thing
I'm definitely not going to miss about the Trump era is the
Mad Libs style news reporting. Every time you hear about
something the Trump team said, it's like an old Dennis Miller
joke from the '80s. [ As Miller ] Brian Kemp
and Hugo Chávez are teaming up to steal this election like
Kitty and Peter Carruthers going for the gold at Sarajevo.
Okay, babe? [ Laughter ] [ Normal voice ] Another thing
I won't miss it trying to follow the rotating cast of fringe
right-wing weirdos that come in and out
of the Trump world. Like you remember this guy,
Joseph diGenova, the Trump lawyer and right-wing
lunatic who looks like he got busted for trying
to sneak his own pasta sauce on to a Pan-Am flight? "What you guys got is no better
than ketchup!" He basically got banned --
He got banned from Fox News for anti-Semitism. That's like
getting kicked off Bravo for drinking wine in a hot tub. DiGenova was briefly
one of Trump's lawyers during the Mueller investigation and then got dumped
like a week later. Even though the only question
he's ever answered is, "What if Dennis Franz
wasn't so sexy?" He was standing alongside
Rudy Giuliani at that insane press conference they held last
week where Rudy re-enacted a scene from "My Cousin Vinny" and called the Philadelphia
Eagles a basketball team and had what looked like
droplets of cerebrospinal leaking from
his brain. I guess Rudy dyed
his hair frantically in a gas station bathroom like Richard Kimball
in "The Fugitive." I mean, if I saw that
coming out of my radiator, I would be pounding
on my super's door. Anyway, these are the only
people Trump has left because no legitimate lawyer
wants to be a part of this unhinged assault
on American democracy. In fact, last week the Trump
legal team tried to delay that hearing in federal court
to overturn the election because in Pennsylvania,
as Reuters reported, most of his lawyers quit. At this point, the Trump legal
team is like CVS at midnight. Sure, they're open, but nobody
actually works there. And Trump is like the guy trying
to pay for AriZona iced tea at the photo station register
who'll wait for eternity and doesn't seem to mind. But by far the craziest addition
to the Trump cinematic universe has been a lawyer named
Sidney Powell. And if you thought Rudy
was bonkers, this lady is crazier than
a cereal mascot. She was also at the Trump
campaign's press conference last week and has been all over
right-ring media claiming not just that the election
was rigged, but that millions of ballots
were somehow faked or stolen or whatever as part of
an elaborate conspiracy involving the Republican
governor of Georgia, the CIA, and the late Venezuelan leader
Hugo Chávez who died in 2013. Until now, Powell might have
been best known playing the uptight teacher in
every heavy metal video or for going on Lou Dobbs' show
and making claims about desperate migrants fleeing
poverty and violence that were too insane
even for Lou Dobbs. -We simply cannot tolerate the
continued invasion of this country when Americans
are suffering every day, the national debt is exploding. We have diseases spreading
across the country that are causing polio-like
paralysis of our children. It's one thing after the other. -You can't very well blame
that disease on illegal immigrants.
We don't know the cause of it. I don't know that that's --
I don't think that's fair. A lot of, you know --
There are plenty of reasons to keep this country secure, including making sure
that everyone is healthy when they are brought in to
the country without question. Right? Is that fair? -That is fair, but that is part
of the problem. We don't know where the diseases
are coming from. -Well, that's -- you know what? I think that -- With that,
we're going to leave it. -It's always fascinating to
watch these people have a brief moment of self-awareness. You'd think after that interview
Lou Dobbs would have maybe, I don't know,
pulled it back a little? It's like when you're at a party
and everyone's feeling good and then it gets late
and someone says, "Let's get on the roof and jump
in the pool." And everybody else says, "Yeah!"
But then you remember the apartment is 12 stories high
and there's not a pool. So you quietly sneak out
the back. But then the next night,
they're like, "We're having another party." And you're like, "All right." Anyway, that's the psycho
who showed up to the official Trump legal
team's press conference on Thursday and claimed not just
the mail-in ballots were fraudulent
or that dead people had voted, but that there was a vast
international communist conspiracy involving
a dead Venezuela leader to subvert the election. -What we are really dealing with
here and uncovering more by the day
is the massive influence of communist money through
Venezuela, Cuba, and likely China
and the interference with our elections here
in the United States. The Dominion voting systems, the Smartmatic technology
software and the software that goes in other computerized
voting systems here as well, not just Dominion,
were created in Venezuela at the direction of Hugo Chávez. -You know, she doesn't make
a lot of sense, but at least has the same voice
as an orphanage headmistress whose catch phrase is, "You
ain't never getting adopted." Still nice to know that dead
people who are voting are Hugo Chávez. Who else voted in this election,
Boutros Boutros-Ghali? [ Laughter ] -So Powell alleged a vast
conspiracy involving Hugo Chávez to help Joe Biden win
the presidential election, and yet curiously, she kept
refused to provide evidence of this vast scheme when
pressed, even by friendly Fox News hosts
who are basically desperate to agree with her as long as she
can provide a shred of evidence. -So, Sidney, you feel that you
will be able to prove this? Do you have the software in your
possession? Do you have the hardware
in your possession? How will you prove this, Sidney? -Well, I've got lots of ways
to prove it, Maria, but I'm not going to tell on
national TV what all we have. -So we invited Sidney Powell
on this show. We would have given her
the whole hour. We would have given her
the entire week, actually, and listened quietly the whole
time at rapt attention. That's a big story. But she never sent us
any evidence, despite a lot of requests --
polite requests. Not a page. When we kept pressing,
she got angry and told us to stop contacting her. -Wow, you know you're in full
loony territory when even Tucker Carlson won't go along
with what you're selling. He was begging her to come on
his show? Good Lord, it's easy to get on
television these days. Unhinged people used to have to
stand behind a reporter on location and jump up and down
yelling, "Baba booey!" Anyway, the point is
Sidney Powell was somehow even too insane for the Trump
legal team, which by the way, repeatedly
told everyone they considered her a member
of that legal team. They tweeted many times that she
was working with Rudy in an official capacity
for the Trump campaign. The official GOP account tweeted
out a clip of her remarks and she appeared at the official
campaign press conference on Thursday.
But I guess she went too far even for Trump over the weekend
when she went on the far-right Newsmax channel and claimed that
the Republican governor of Georgia, staunch Trump ally,
was somehow part of the plot along with Hugo Chávez
and also the CIA. -Georgia's probably going to
be the first state I'm going to blow up,
and Mr. Kemp and the Secretary of State
need to go with it, because they're in on
the Dominion scam with their last-minute purchase
or award of a contract to Dominion of $100 million. The State Bureau of
Investigation for Georgia ought to be looking into
financial benefits received by Mr. Kemp
and the Secretary of State's family about that time. And another benefit Dominion
was created to award is what I would call
election insurance. That's why Hugo Chávez had it
created in the first place. But I also wonder where he got
the technology, where it actually came from. Because I think it's Hammer
and Scorecard from the CIA. -Can you tell us anything? Can you make some news with us
here tonight? Tell us anything new
that you're going to present in that filing in Georgia. -Well, I can't say that yet. But hopefully this week,
we will get it ready to file. -Sidney --
-It will be biblical. -Okay. Wow. So the governor
of Georgia is being bribed by an election software company
created by Hugo Chávez as part of a vast plot involving
the CIA to spread communism
across the globe. Because first of all, the CIA
loves helping out communists. We all remember when the CIA
helped install Fidel Castro in the famously successful
Bay of Pigs Invasion. Second of all --
Wait, why am I saying second? Why am I breaking this down
point-by-point like anyone watching this
is still on the fence thinking, "Okay. All right.
But what about your next point?" Apparently I'm not the only one
who feels this way because the Trump campaign
issued a statement yesterday suddenly distancing itself
from Powell. -Just over a week after
President Trump named attorney Sidney Powell to his
legal team in his effort to overturn results
of the 2020 election, the president's legal team now
says that Sidney Powell is not a member
of his legal team. Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis,
two of the attorneys for the president's effort
saying in a statement... -It's both insane that they're
trying to pretend she was never part of the legal
team when she was literally standing at an official Trump
press conference and also believable that someone
could wander into a Trump press conference and say
they're his lawyer. She was identified on TV
as his lawyer. There's no getting out of that
one. But what about DiGenova? I'd buy he heard there was
a thing where you don't need a mask
and showed up. Hey, uh, brought my own sauce.
Okay? Just if you need it. By the way, as a side note,
you don't need to announce who's joining and leaving
a legal team. A lot of times people show up to
court and the lawyers are there and then you know.
Not everyone tweets... Personally, I'm just
disappointed because Powell kept promising blockbuster
evidence of fraud and now I guess
we'll never see it. She even used an especially
memorable phrase. -This looks like the effort
to -- to carry out an end game
in the effort against him. Do you concur? -Oh, absolutely. And it's been
organized and conducted with the help of Silicon Valley
people. The big tech companies,
the social media companies, and even the media companies. And I'm going to release
the Kraken. -I guess the only Kraken we
ended up seeing was in Rudy Giuliani's hair dye. They have no evidence, which
is why lawyers keep quitting or getting fired or laughed out
of court because this whole thing isn't actually
about evidence. It's about manufacturing
a conspiracy theory that will animate Trump's base
for years to come. It's just another scam like
Trump's many previous scams. In terms of actual legal
arguments, the Trump team's case
is deader than... -Hugo Chávez. -This has been "A Closer Look." ♪♪ God's Love We Deliver
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What kind of fucktard is Seth. His argument is that Joe so bad, only got those numbers because Trump was running. They didn't vote for Joe, they were voting against Trump.
No dumbass, people vote for Joe and actually turned out because the bullshit people pulled in 2016 and four years of Trump was a fucking wake up call of " duh, my vote has consequence?" to " holly fucking shit, my vote has consequences, and who is in charge matters"
Any government or society structure doesn't just happen naturally and work. How did that ACAB,
refundde-fund the police, and CHAZ shit work out.These privileged mother fuckers, like AoC mentality, think they can reinvent the wheel overnight and can figure out a system to get rid of the police and have no crime or people take advantage of the situation.
These Bernie apologist are the reason why we can't make meaningful progress. They alienate candidates that can flip red areas and make it harder for conservatives to justify voting Democrats. They freaking playing to the conservatives preconceived notions of the Democrats being bad.
/Rant
Edit, rant is for the "jokes" on video from t=0.25 to 1.50.
That's why you watch Colbert.
Don't know why voting against someone is so fucking bad. I feel here in Canada we do this all the time. So sorry everything cant be so fucking ideal.
This guy sounds really damn salty with that vice president=walmart greeter thing.
It's a shame because I enjoyed the parts where he made fun of Trump and his legal team.
I’m reading a new bio about Joe Biden, and Obama did not think that about Biden, especially post 2016. Obama thinks about Biden as highly as he does any politician. He didnt view him as his natural successor in 2016, but beyond that, he didn’t limit Biden’s potential.
But Biden won because he had the capacity to reunite the Obama coalition. Voters saw that, and voted for him in the primary. Not only did his history, but unlike every other fucking dem in the primary, he understood that it was good not to criticize the last democratic president with an approval of 60%.