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This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka.ka that's me it's powered by digital media it is a real company with a weird name i'm here with keith oberman who's looking at me

quizzically hi keith how are you i'm good how are you are you a real company with a real name

i'm not a real company i'm a one-man band it's a real name though but you a real person. I saw you on the internet this morning. Yes. You are calmer now than you were this morning on my MacBook. Yes, that is a condition that will be corrected later in the week. When I do these commentaries, the GQ things, they calm me down for a short period of time and then off I go again. So we should tell people, you've done many things, we'll talk about many of those things. Right now you are doing

video commentary on GQ through YouTube and any other place you can watch video.

It's called The Closer, and it's a series we began basically at the beginning of the month.

And it is surprisingly enough about the 2016 presidential election, and I have a point of view going into this. I'm not one of those people who pretend to have objectivity in my analysis. And not only that, but I really did mean it. I was struck. I was watching it last night, and then again this morning, different episodes. You really are coming with heat and energy and not just a perspective, right? You're angry. You're a genuinely angry person when it comes to Trump stuff, at least, in politics.

Get out, Trump. For once in your life, recognize that something is not about you,

nor is it about your opponent, nor the Democrats, nor the Republicans. It is about the

essence of the United States of America. Yeah, no, I mean, with the sense of history.

I mean, for instance, the one that we're talking about that you saw just now was about

the fact that there has never been a presidential candidate in this country who before or

after the election has even hinted that he would not recognize the outcome of this.

And when addressed by my old colleague, L Holt in the debate, they finally got Trump to say, yes, I will support. Grudgingly, yeah, okay. I support. I would support it. And then when things started to go bad, that's Monday night, by Friday night, he's telling the New York Times he's going to have to think about that again.

You'd have to rethink it.

And that got washed away with everything else he did three hours later.

Like everything else that would have made previous presidential candidates flee for Brazil.

I mean, if you could have heard, you could imagine Richard Nixon at any point saying,

I might not recognize Hubert Humphrey as president.

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