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Number one: the Trump administration is suing CNN for, I don't know, fake news or something. This is probably one of the funniest things they've ever done, suing CNN for faking news. I guess they're using the Project Veritas insider hidden camera reports as sort of the trigger for this. So now there's a visual. Now, did Project Veritas tell us anything that a hundred percent of us didn't already know? Well, not really. But putting it in a visual sense and putting it in pictures, having an actual face to go with it, watching the insiders say it with their own words, it's different. It's different than just knowing it. So it took it to another level.
And the president apparently is taking advantage by suing CNN for misreporting or fake news or something along those lines. I don't even think it matters. So here's the best part, though. That's not the best part. The best part is not that the president is suing CNN for fake news. That's just the setup. Here's the best part: CNN can't report it. CNN can't report it, because if they report it, it just makes them look terrible. But if they don't report it, it validates the claim. But if they don't report it and the president says, well, see, there it was, big news, and they don't even report it, fake news.
Now, honestly, I can't even tell if they are even a little bit serious about this. Yeah, I'm sure the lawyers will get paid and CNN will probably have to pay some lawyers too. But I don't know if they're serious about this, because it seems like every news organization could be sued for bias one way or another. But the hilarity of it, that they can't report it and it's national news, they can't report it. That's just the funniest thing, maybe the funniest thing you've seen all month.
Now, remember, I keep telling you that reality and entertainment, you know, the government and entertainment have just merged. The funniest thing that's happening almost every day is whatever Trump is doing. Am I right? Or sometimes it's whatever crazy Hillary is doing. We'll get to that. But there's nothing. If you go to Netflix right now and say I'm in the mood for some funny entertainment, good luck. Good luck finding a funny movie in 2019. You can't. Yeah, you've even seen the reporting. Even the directors, who was the director of what was it, the Joker movie? He used to make funny movies and he said, hey, you just can't make them anymore. Nothing's funny.
So you end up with Bill Burr and Dave Chappelle and then you're done. There's like nothing's funny. It's like the world isn't producing funny content except for those two guys anymore. And then the Trump administration. Here's the other thing they did. So you probably saw the news about Mick Mulvaney, chief of staff. So he did a press conference which apparently didn't go so well, which is funny because in my opinion it was genius.
So part of the problem with any administration is that it's a lot of different people with competing opinions, and it looks like maybe they're not all on the same page about how to describe what happened with the Ukraine phone call. Mick Mulvaney did, so far in my opinion, the best job any of them have done except for maybe the president himself. All right, because the president has his own way and he, I think the president also handled it perfectly. I thought Mick Mulvaney also handled it very well. But it looks like maybe there was somebody in the White House who disagreed and sort of put pressure on them to walk it
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back in some way that didn't even make sense. So what Mulvaney originally said was genius, and I will paraphrase it to improve it even more. Basically what Mulvaney said is if you're having a conversation with another world leader, it's always quid pro quo. That is exactly the right framing. If you took the quid pro quo out of the equation for any two leaders who are having a get-together or a co…
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