Transcript
A (0:01)
Live on a Thursday with the, the trailblazer of independent media, the person who is our North Star, as a lot of us jump into this pool, Jim Acosta. Good morning.
B (0:11)
Morning, Scott. Thank you. That's very kind.
A (0:13)
Well, it's, it's, it's true, and it's, it's increasingly true day by day. I want to hear about your speech in Montana. You talked about the future of democracy, and I think more people need to hear your message. Tell me what you were saying.
B (0:26)
Well, I appreciate you bringing that up. I, you know, I don't do this very often, you know, go out there and just sort of let it rip and, you know, talk about, you know, what I think about the state of our country and the threat to our democracy and so on. But, you know, these aren't normal times. And I just, I just thought, let's do this. Let's give this a shot. You might feel the same way. It's a little uncomfortable getting out of that reporter's skin and, you know, taking off that reporter hat. I've been doing this for, you know, more, more than a year now of just kind of letting it rip. So I thought, okay, can I do this in front of an audience? So I did it in front of an audience, and, you know, I, you know, I, Scott, I just think that we're in a lot of trouble right now. And, you know, you have the President of the United States. I mean, just look at the headlines this week. If the reports are true that the FBI is going after a reporter at the Atlantic for, you know, doing a story about the alleged drinking habits of the FBI director. I mean, that's, that's pretty crazy. If you look at the reporting that apparently the DOJ conducted a raid over at the office of Louise Lucas, the state senator in Virginia, after she had worked on redistricting in that state. I mean, you know, James Comey last week, the seashells, you know, case and so on. I mean, I will say when I did the speech in Montana, you know, one of the biggest laugh lines that I got, and I try to inject a little humor into this. This is part of what I do. I have a lot of corny dad jokes. But, you know, I, I, I made sure that the crowd there did not have any seashells on hand. I knew we were in Montana, pretty far away from the beach. But I just, you know, just to be clear, you know, seashells are not allowed, and you cannot arrange them into the numbers 8647. And I, I, I don't even know. If I say 8647 on your show, does the FBI come bursting through my door just because I mentioned those numbers? And so if you don't laugh, you'll cry. But I just think that there's a lot right now that we have to be very concerned about. And if the public is not paying attention, then we haven't done our jobs.
A (2:35)
Scott, I got a lot to ask you about that, but you chose Montana as your venue. We have some great independent journalists in Montana. I'm sorry, is Montana receptive to that message? Since not exactly a purple area. At least not.
