Trump Sends Troops and Dr. Phil to LA; Kash Patel Squirms on Rogan Over Musk’s Claims: A Closer Look

Trump Sends Troops and Dr. Phil to LA; Kash Patel Squirms on Rogan Over Musk’s Claims: A Closer Look

-The Trump administration sent
federal troops to Los Angeles over the objections of the mayor
and the governor in response to protests
over his administration’s barbaric immigration raids. Also, let’s not forget
Elon Musk said Donald Trump is
in the Epstein files. I know that was four days ago, which feels like a century
in Trump years, and there’s a lot going on, but, you know,
I just want us all to hold space for the fact that
the richest man in the world said the most powerful man
in the world was suppressing evidence
of his ties to the world’s most notorious
child sex trafficker, both because it was massive news and because it is
so [bleep] funny. [ Laughter ] Anyway, for more on this,
it’s time for “A Closer Look.” ♪♪ Look, you guys,
I would love nothing more than to spend all my time
today talking about the Trump-Musk feud. Well, that’s not true. I’d love nothing more than to spend all my time
today talking about how Trump pulled a Biden
and fell up the stairs on his way to Air Force One. What move is Trump
going to steal from Biden next? Long stories about growing up
in Scranton? [ As Trump ] “There was once
a guy named Corn Pop. Bad guy, nasty guy.
I’m not joking around.” Anyway, where were we?
Right, the Trump-Musk feud. It happened like 45 minutes before we taped our show
on Thursday, and there was so much more
we wanted to say about it. It seemed like everyone
was getting involved. Steve Bannon said Elon
should be deported and even one of Elon’s exes
chimed in. -Ashley St. Clair,
Musk’s ex-girlfriend and alleged mother
of one of his children, writing, “Hey, Donald Trump, let me know
if you need any breakup advice.” -I mean, I wouldn’t worry.
I wouldn’t worry. The dude has plenty of breakups. You know his policy —
don’t cry because it’s over, frown because it happened. And it wasn’t just exes
and right-wing podcasters who got involved. This feud got so messy
that even the astronauts who are currently on
the International Space Station somehow caught a stray. -At one point Thursday amidst
all of the back and forth, Musk said that he would start to decommission Space-X’s
Dragon program. That came after President Trump threatened to end Musk’s
government contracts. The Dragon spacecraft is
the only US method to get astronauts to and from
the International Space Station. -That’s right. Elon was so mad at Trump he threatened to leave
astronauts stranded in space. Can you imagine being
Mission Control and having to explain
that? “Uh, Mission Control to ISS, you guys might be up there
for a while.” “Uh, Mission Control, this ISS.
Why? What’s going on?” “Uh, well, you know
Donald Trump, right?” “Uh-huh.”
“And Elon Musk?” “Yes.”
“Alright. Do you also remember notorious child sex trafficker
Jeffrey Epstein?” [ Laughter ] “Oh, [bleep]. We’re never
coming home, are we?” This is yet another reason why billionaires should
not control everything. Space travel should
not be privatized. One guy should not be
able to shut down America’s space program because he’s in
a [bleep]-measuring contest with the president. If rich guys really want to help
fund our space program, they can pay their taxes, or maybe we can make them buy
ad space on our rockets. Then we could
at least put Elon’s tweet on the first mission to Mars. [ Laughter ] And that was
not the only side drama, because somehow two
key Trump officials, the vice president
and the FBI director, were both recording podcasts
on Thursday when Elon tweeted
his Epstein accusations. -“Time to drop
the really big bomb. Donald Trump is
in the Epstein files. That’s the real reason
they have not been made public. Have a nice day.”
Jesus Christ. -I’m not participating in any
of that conversation. -What is Elon —
“Have a nice day”? Jesus Christ,
that’s a crazy thing to say. How does he know? Does he know that Donald Trump
is in the Epstein files? Or does he have access
to the Epstein files? -I don’t know how he would, but I’m just staying out
of the Trump-Elon thing. That’s way outside my —
-What the [bleep] are they doing? -I know my lane,
and that ain’t it. -Elon just hit
the airwaves today. Bring it up, dude.
-Oh, man. Oh, man,
I haven’t even seen this one. -But he goes,
“@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. This is the real reason
they have not been made public. Have a nice day.” -First of all,
like, absolutely not. Donald Trump didn’t do anything
wrong with Jeffrey Epstein. Like, there’s — The guy is… Whatever the Democrats
and the media says about him, that’s totally BS. -Yeah, but it wasn’t Democrats
and it wasn’t the media. It was Donald Trump’s
close personal friend, a guy who gave him $300 million
and campaign for him and worked for him and followed
him everywhere for months. A guy who was constantly
with Trump on foreign trips and at the White House, and who had special access
to government databases, and who not long ago tweeted
that he loves Donald Trump as much as a straight man
can love another man. That guy. If you forgot him,
here’s a picture, and this is cool, you’re in it. [ Laughter ] Also, it’s crazy that Elon Musk
made an accusation so stunning even Joe Rogan was speechless. He reacted to Elon’s tweet like a guy seeing “Sixth Sense”
for the first time. “What? What the [bleep]? It turns out Elon was
a ghost the whole time?” Also, can we go back
to this bit? -I’m not participating
in any of that conversation. -I love that the head
of the FBI’s reaction to a recent government
employee implying the president is a pedophile is basically,
“Ugh, TMI!” Also, he didn’t even say
Elon was wrong. There is no one more
in a position to immediately squash this
than the FBI director who has access
to all the relevant files, but he chose instead to say,
“I’m not touching that one.” Sadly, we have to move
on from that story, which means it’s time for “‘Late Night’s’
Lessons Learned.” So, what did we learn
from this story? [ Cheers and applause ] Free key. Free key. The Trump-Musk feud was yet
another spectacle brought to us by a presidency that is entirely about spectacle
rather than substance. You need no further proof
of that than what happened in LA
this weekend, where the Trump
administration sought to create a made-for-TV
spectacle around their
barbaric immigration raids. Just look at who was involved
in the raids. -There was a familiar face, maybe one
that you wouldn’t expect, who was embedded with ICE agents
during Friday’s raids. It was Dr. Phil
and his camera crew who say that they got a firsthand look
at the targeted operations, which ended with dozens
of people being detained. -Dr. Phil was
out there producing a show that’s going to air on his
relatively small cable channel today and tomorrow. It’s not about the ratings
ultimately, it’s about what this represents, and it represents a desire
to put on a show. -I’m sorry,
but the only way Dr. Phil should be involved in government is if he’s doing an
episode titled “Help! My Ex Just Accused Me
of Being in the Epstein Files!” [ As Dr. Phil ]
“Now — Now — So — So, how did it make you feel when you saw
that he posted that?” [ As Trump ] “I mean, I was
angry, I was hurt, you know? When someone claims
they love you as much as a straight man
can love another man, you know, you want — you want
to believe him, Dr. Phil.” [ As Dr. Phil ]
“A-And why do you — why do you think you said it,
Elon?” [ As Musk ] “Well — Well,
you know — you know, sometimes you say things
you don’t mean. You know, uh, sometimes
you say things you do mean. And sometimes you say things
you ketamine. The point is –” Word play! A little bit
of mundane wordplay! [ Laughter ] The point is, that’s what the
Trump administration wants — a spectacle
for right-wing media, a climate of fear and chaos. And no one is better suited
to achieve a climate of fear than Trump’s creepiest aide,
Stephen Miller. [ Thunder booms,
witch cackles ] Miller wants terrifying mass
immigration raids everywhere, regardless of
whether the targets are people with criminal records
or four-year-olds. He’s a rabid authoritarian who wants to create the feeling
that nowhere is safe, from courthouses to 7-Elevens. -The conservative Washington
Examiner, a conservative paper, has this quote out
of a private meeting where Stephen Miller
is screaming at agents, “What do you mean
you’re going after criminals? Why aren’t you at Home Depot?
Why aren’t you at 7-Eleven?” -I’m sorry, but the only thing
cops should be looking for at 7-Eleven is 14-year-olds
trying to buy porn. Not to arrest them, but to commend them
for buying print media. It is why I believe reading
aptitude is down in this nation. My generation would buy
the magazine and at some point after you’ve looked at
the pictures long enough, you’d say,
“I mean, I guess I’ll read
this Burt Reynolds interview.” And…if you’re still buying
porn in magazine form rather than looking at it
on the internet, you should get a medal. 7-Eleven is
like the last place in America where you can still get porn
in print. It’s a sacred place. It’s like the National Archives
or the Library of Congress. In fact — this is true — the original copy of
the Declaration of Independence is stored at a 7-Eleven
in Washington, DC, right next to the very
first edition of Juggs magazine. [ Laughter ] Which was about actual jugs
back then. Miller wants a climate
of fear and chaos, and that’s exactly what
ICE set out to create in LA over the weekend, with mass immigration raids
that set off the protests to which they responded
with troops. And if you only watch
right-wing media, they would have you believe
the entirety of Los Angeles is currently under siege. -Here is something
that the president posted. He says… -Trump said,
detached from reality, he sounds like he’s writing
a sci-fi screenplay. [ As Trump ] “Exterior:
Los Angeles. The year is 3075. A once great American city
has been invaded by aliens from the fourth dimension. Only Space Force Captain
Donald J. Trump can stop them. But first he must find a way off
the International Space Station after being abandoned
by his robot, the Electronic Launch Orbital
Network, also known as ELON.” [ Laughter ] The vast majority of LA
was going about life as usual over the weekend, which is why the mayor
and the governor both said they did not need
National Guard troops and did not request them. But the Trump administration
wanted to send them anyway. That’s why right-wing media has been playing images
like this on a loop. -You know,
let’s hope that no one is hurt and no one is injured and
it doesn’t escalate from here. Look at the flag. That guy —
-There it is. Mexican flag.
Can, you know… -Um, you know, this is —
this is criminal activity that I hope is — people
are held accountable for. And I’m talking
about the riots right here. -Where are the cops?
-Yeah. Where are they? We heard earlier that
Karen Bass, the mayor of LA, an allegation
that she had prevented the LAPD from responding yesterday when these were
first developing, Guy, for upwards of two hours
or more. To your point,
where are the police? -I’ll say this, if I was
a representative of the police union,
I would not care for the fact that Fox News asked
“Where are the police?” right as they panned
to a giant donut. [ Laughter ] Grow up, Fox News. Also, why are you so obsessed
with talking about the Mexican flag when
we should clearly be talking about this guy’s
tiny motorcycle? [ Laughter ] Here’s how you know it’s
not an invasion. The motorcycle is too tiny. [ Laughter ] We can’t see who’s riding it, but it very well might be
a bear from the circus. Also, if you’re against
property damage and protesters flying un-American flags, you guys would have hated
January 6th. And by the way,
we were gonna do a whole January 6th
hypocrisy routine and play all the clips
we would normally play of Trump and MAGA pundits
defending rioters and pardoning people
who attacked cops, but these people are
immune to hypocrisy. So let’s just pretend that
happened and skip to the end where I say to Trump,
“You are, sir, I just got owned!” [ Air horn blares ] But if you watch
the next 10 seconds, the scene looks very different. -Well, the officials
in this part of the country, in Los Angeles and California, are too busy tripping
over themselves to attack Donald Trump
and law enforcement. I guess those are
the cops back there. -Yeah! [ Laughter ] Look how many cop cars
there are! There haven’t been
that many cops in one place since Bane tricked them all
into the sewers. [ Laughter ]
There on the scene. They just don’t feel the urgent
need to storm in with riot gear for two guys riding
on regular sized motorcycles and one guy on a tiny one. But the right wants
you to think this is beyond the control
of local police. They want it to feel
like a crisis that’s out of control
even when it’s not. That’s why
the Secretary of Defense took a break from texting
war plans to his wife between gin and tonics, and threatened to send
in the Marines, which surprised even CNN’s
national security expert. -The deployment of active
military, active military, not even National Guard,
into the streets of Los Angeles for arguably a few cars on fire, a lot of people upset
with ICE… Well, guess what. A lot of
people are upset with ICE. …and the arrest, the appropriate arrest,
of people who are, um, who are stopping, uh,
federal law enforcement and ICE from their federal activities, uh, I’ve never — I mean,
you know, I know — Um, I don’t really know how to react
to this as a professional because it’s, like,
it’s sort of like what? I mean, I don’t —
I’m not laughing. It’s like active duty Marines
for this? I mean,
we were just reporting on it. There’s music.
The traffic is moving. Most people in LA probably don’t even know
that this is going on. -I’m sorry,
traffic is moving?! In LA?! If that’s the case, these protesters
shouldn’t be arrested. They should get [bleep] medals. But just FYI,
it looks identical to the Buying Porn at 7-Eleven
medal, so I wouldn’t wear it in public. Just, like, keep it in a drawer
or something. Seriously,
if this is what it takes to get traffic moving in LA, then maybe we need
more protests against ICE. When I heard traffic was moving
in LA, my honest reaction was… -What the [bleep]?
-No, let’s never forget. Let’s never forget how the Trump
administration bullies. They do it to provoke a response that retroactively excuses
their bullying. They did this on purpose.
It was not a misstep by Trump. This was a misstep by Trump. [ Laughter ] ICE didn’t come to LA
to stop people who were setting cars on fire. They came to rip families apart
in an act of political theater. And we can’t forget.
That they want escalation. They want spectacle because
their barbaric immigration raids are wildly unpopular,
so they’re resorting to authoritarian crackdowns
on protests. Let’s not forget the big
takeaway here, which is that — -“Donald Trump is
in the Epstein files.” [ Laughter ] -Allegedly. [ Laughter ] This has been “A Closer Look.” ♪♪ [ Ripping ] -It’s a face-off!

Seth takes a closer look at the Trump administration sending federal troops to Los Angeles in response to protests over immigration raids.

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