Thanks to you at home for joining us here this hour. Really happy to have you here.

So telling people not to go didn't work. Warning people not to go didn't work.

Trying to intimidate people not to go. That definitely didn't work. Even a good faith,

earnest, here's a really good reason not to go, kind of cajoling,

that did not work either. Turns out we learned definitively in these past few days that people

want to protest against this president a lot. And no matter what you tell them, they are going to do it. And a lot of people have been wrong about that, including me. I sat here last week, all earnest and serious telling you as if it was true, that there definitely was going to be no protest in Washington, D.C.

this weekend, that protesters would be everywhere else in the country, but they definitely

wouldn't be in Washington, D.C. Boy, I was wrong. The No King's protest organizers had in fact

said, no, they were not going to protest in Washington. They were going to protest

everywhere else but there. But plenty of people protested there in very large numbers.

And it wasn't just the no-kings organizers who were saying, oh, we're not going to D.C., don't

go to D.C. You might remember last week, Trump tried to threaten people

against protesting in Washington this weekend. He said last week that if anybody sort of, you know,

dared show up to protest against his big birthday military parade, they'd be met with

big and very heavy force, trying to intimidate people into not protesting.

Turns out that didn't work.

Regular Americans said, you know what?

We're not listening to any of you.

We're Americans and we have the right to protest

and that comes from our Constitution

and not from any of you.

And so get out of the way.

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