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CNN CNN Tonight With Don Lemon July 11, 2024

That. This is the laymans most people, which is relatable to our audience. The establishment, these are the rules we created ape its and its been this way a long time. Regular guy, little guy, said times have changed, found a loophole, what you. According to your rules, you cant get mad at us. Its a reflection of whats happening in our larger culture, Larger Society right now as it comes to womens rights and me too and issues of race and equity and equality and all of that. Its like, people who have been there, the establishment whos been there for so long, the entitled, right, the people who, hey, look, were the wealthy, these are the rules, we want to live by and continue, and the underdog is saying no, no, no, we deserve a place as well and now this is the clash. So, hey, the rule thats whats happened. What i find interesting about it is i love that these people came together to prop something up. Now, you can say no, no, no, youre ascribing virtue where theres only value. You saw theres that, too. Decided to reverse it and play it. I dont see it that way. I see it as people saying, you know, i dont like that these guys are just selling down our community so there can be just vacant strip malls all over the country. Thats true. Because they take away all their liquidity, all their cash. And were going to go the other way on it and i choose to see it that way. We cant ask everybody their intentions. You are right, d. Lemon. Yeah. Were seeing a conflation of what happened there. Rules for thee but not for me. Not for me. God has helped those he has helped already. The big guy has to win even if we have to stop the game to figure it out. That pissed people off and why we cover it. There are a lot of arrogant Hedge Funders who are mad a lot of Hedge Funders who took a bath in this as well. Took a bath in the hands of the little guy. Never seen that before. Theyll be all right, though. I have a lot to get to. Someone im sure you want to talk about later which is a legendary cicely tyson. May see rest in peace. Thank you for the legacy of her greatness and her choices. I sat down with her for, like, an hour, maybe more a couple years ago. P it was fascinating. Youll see more of that. I got to run, get to the show. She that you for an hour, shes not only a great actor, great voice shes a great actor. But for patient. D. Lemon, i love you. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. So another working day for a president determined to undo the legacy of his predecessor. A president today taking action to reopen obamacare at a time when americans are in desperate need of health care. Roll this. Today were about to sign two executive orders, basically the best way to describe them, to undo the damage trump has done. The Affordable Care act and restoring the medicaid to the way it was before trump became president. Which by fiat he changed, made more unaccessible, more expensive, and more difficult for people to qualify for either of those two items. The Affordable Care act or med medicaid. This is a reality. More than 430,000 americans have died thus far in this pandemic. Millions more are desperate for health care and vaccines. 847,000 people filed for unemployment just last week. This country is in desperate need of leadership. And President Biden is pushing forward, believing bipartisan is possible but well aware of the rocky road still ahead. Yet, the Republican Party is obsessed, obsessed, obsessed, and thats not hyperbole. Im not exaggerating. With the previous president. Obsessed with protecting him and refusing to hold him accountable. For what . The big lie, the one that incited one of the worst moment in this countrys history. The House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy making a pilgrimage to maralago today. Who paid for that . Thats what i want to know. I want to know. Im just asking the question. Did taxpay can we find out if taxpayers paid for this . I hope not. Making this pilgrimage to maralago. A source saying it made him look like he was, quote, crawling back to trump. Thats exactly what it looks like because thats exactly what it is. The Republican Party is in full retreat from any kind of ac accoun accountability. Actually embracing the former president and his loyalists. This one, right, shes one. Marjorie Taylor Greene is in congress and they want to kick liz cheney out. Interesting times that were in. Right . Because the qanon congresswoman is close tore the center of the gop now than republicans like mitt romney or liz cheney. Marjorie Taylor Greene who is still pushing the big lie in a town hall tonight. We had done a lot of work in our preparation, talked to a lot of people, looked at a lot of evidence that i think still needs to be looked at and should be presented in court. I truly believe that. Still, still, and they know its a lie. Marjorie Taylor Greene has removed dozens of facebook posts from 2018 and 2019 in which she endorsed Conspiracy Theories, repeatedly indicated support for executing prominent democrats, executing prominent democrats. Cnn obtained video so shocking that i want you to hear them and think about the fact that marjorie Taylor Greene is now a United States congresswoman. Okay . So pay close attention to your screen. We dont know the exact dates, but we believe that they were recorded over the past few years before she was elected to congress in november. So listen to her false, racist, claims about black men and gangs. Okay. So going on, you know you know what keeps im going to cover this, too, but the generations of black and hispanic men, do you want to know what holds them down . Gangs. Being in gangs and dealing drugs is what holds them down. The lack of education is what holds them down. Thats thats not a white person thing but gangs control them. They they tell them they tell the young men in their communities, dont go to school. Dont no, dont you move out of this out of this project. Dont you move out of this community. You join this gang. And thats where you belong. You belong with us. The gangs are holding them back. Its not white people. Its crazy. Marjorie. Marjorie. White people arent in gangs . White people arent in gangs . Okay. I want you to tell that to the Police Officers and lawmakers menaced by rioters including proud boys and oathkeepers at the capitol. What would you call them . Huh . Okay. Think about that. And theres more. More vile garbage from a woman who and i remind you again is now a u. S. Congresswoman. Here it is. If you want islam and sharia law, you stay over there. You can have a whole bunch of wives or goats or sheep or whatever you want. You stay over there. But in america, see, we made it this great, great country. We dont want it messed up. We sure dont. Can you play that for yourself . Everything that you said about say that about you, we dont want it messed up so stop messing it up, marjorie. You know these people love to talk about making America Great again. Immigrants made and make America Great. Religious tolerants made and make America Great. Free speech makes America Great. But ignorance, bigotry, hateful comments, bigots, hateful comments, cloaked in false patriotism, that doesnt make America Great. You are shaming this great country with those comments, and you should be ashamed of yourself. And this is a congresswoman that the Republican Party is embracing . Come on, yall. That whole party of Family Values thing, can you really claim that . And especially the christians. After the porn star and all of that and now this . Was that ever really real . Hm. Example after example. Mirror. Need a mirror. But heres the thing. Even if they censured marjorie Taylor Greene, it wouldnt solve the problem. You know why . Because marjorie Taylor Greene is just a shiny object. Just like donald trump was. Symptom of a much larger problem. Thats the trap. If you get blinded by marjorie Taylor Greene, by her, you let Everybody Else get off scotfree for what happened at the capitol and whats happened in this country over the last five years. Culminating with what happened at the capitol. Shes a symptom of what is wrong with the Republican Party. A party that is turning on its own. Turning on liz cheney . Liz . You know how conservative liz cheney is . You know how dedicated to the Republican Party liz cheney is . Come on, yall. Her daddys dick cheney. Come on. Really . Liz cheney who tried to do the right thing and vote to hold a former president accountable. A crowd of Trump Supporters showing up to condemn her. Oh, boy. At a matt gaetz rally today. If you want to prove that you have the power, defeat liz cheney in this upcoming election and wyoming will bring washington to its knees. So its really tough its its so transparent, matt gaetz is so transparent, he wants publicity so bad, it just he reeks of it, right . Do you give him that . Thats what he wants. So do you really elevate that . But, anyway, thats a whole other show. This is a party that tries to kick liz cheney to the curb while embracing marjorie Taylor Greene. Shes no outlier. Theres Madison Cawthorn has well, sewed cloth masks emblazoned with the word, useless, on his website before taking them down. A spokesman for cawthorns campaign telling cnn upon hearing the masks were being sold on his campaign website, Representative Cawthorn firmly requested they be removed. He promoted his website today, though, with this tweet. First, they came for our free speech, then they came for our free markets. Next, theyll come for our Free Shipping on ordn orders on 50 more with promo code, freedom 50. Okay, so that proofs my point about him, about gaetz, about hawley. He wants to sell a book, yall, and youre falling were being silent lensed, this is not who we are, theyre taking away our whatever. They want to sell books, they want to sell websites, they want attention, media attention. This is not about values and whats best for the country. It really isnt. Attention. Come on. Yall know im telling the truth. So as we were talking, josh hawley who now says his objection to Joe Bidens Electoral College win wasnt about keeping trump in office, he just wanted to spark a debate about what he called Voting Irregularities in pennsylvania. So i used to live in pennsylvania. I know all about pennsylvania voting. I used to live in atlanta. I know about theirs as well. Theres irregularities in every precinct. Nothing unique about pennsylvania. The senator telling cnn, i was very clear from the beginning that i was never attempting to overturn the election. Kind of makes you wonder why he didnt say that to fox news on january 4th, 2 days before the insurrection. Are you trying to say that as of january 20th that President Trump will be president . Well, that depends on what happens on wednesday. I mean, this is why we have the debates. No, it doesnt. This is why we have the votes. Hm. Think its a game. Well, it is a game. To them. Josh hawley who saluted the crowd before the riot broke out, who voted to overturn the results in arizona and pennsylvania even after the riot, says he has no regrets and was never attempting to overturn the election. Give me a break. Come on. This is what we have come to. The acting chief of the u. S. Capitol police calling for permanent fencing around the capitol. Congresswoman alice stephanik tweeting this, its the peoples house and shes adamantly opposed. Shes saying that we cant have fences around the capitol but inside the capitol she votes to uphold the big lie that brought them that brought the folks there. And against doing anything to hold the president accountable so it wont happen again. So if you dont want it around, if you dont want fences around the capitol then maybe you should vote in a way that it doesnt happen again so you dont have to put fences, right . That would make sense. That would be logical, but you know, hey, who am i. Just a dumb constituent out here. I dont know. It really is the peoples house. And the people should be able to freely come and go and be a part of our democracy. But the reason that we cant is because the president and his enablers incited a violent mob and nobody is being held accountable. Now get this, nancy pelosi says members are concerned for their own safety and she goes on to say this. When the enemy is within the house of representatives, a threat that members are concerned about in addition to what is happening outside. And lets remember, it was marjorie Taylor Greene who in January Of 2019 liked a comment that said, a bullet to the head would be quicker to remove pelosi. This is what weve come to. We dont have to stay here. We dont. There is a choice. Its a choice of the american peo people. The choice the American People already made. Lets remember, the republicans dear leader, the former president , led the republicans right out of the majority in the house, right out of the white house, right out of the majority in the senate. So go ahead, everybody. Do it. Go Kiss The Ring of the defeated king in exile. The rest of us will move forward with our democracy and with the work that needs to be done. And heres the picture for you. I want you to think about this of where weve been and where were going. Im talking about a legendary person. Actress and Civil Rights Activist cicely tyson. After nearly a century of life on this earth, she died today. Remember her, and i want you to remember that america wasnt always great for everyone. Especially if you didnt have white skin. Listen to the elders. When i hear young people deny the fact that rosa parks could not sit on the bus or that i could not go to the soda to an Ice Cream Parlor and sit at a lunch counter. Its not real to them. They h they hear tell of it. They dont believe it. So i said, you know, we fought for everything so that the next generation wouldnt have to do that. It could be better. Thats right. Thats right. Thats right. Hm. Those are the people who made America Great. And now we have the gop embracing people like marjorie Taylor Greene and her racism and refusing to hold the previous president responsible for inciting insurrection. Is that really where republicans want to be . 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Call now and get your free infokit Kevin Mccarthy leaving no doubt in anyones mind, i should say, he thinks donald trump a twice impeached disgraced former president is firmly in control of the Republican Party. Visiting trump in florida today to Kiss The Ring after mccarthy said just two weeks ago trump bears responsibility for the deadly capitol insurrection. Lots to discuss now. Cnns senior Political Correspondent

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