Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Democracy activist Garry Kasparov
The Jim Acosta Show
Jim Acosta
4.9 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, welcome everybody to the Jim Acosta show. |
| 0:02.2 | It is Friday, T-G-I-F, and we really can thank God today on the program, or at least the social media presidents that is at God, who is coming up a little later on the program. |
| 0:13.0 | He hosts the God Pod. |
| 0:14.3 | I'll explain how we'll communicate with the Almighty in just a bit. |
| 0:17.0 | But as you can see, my first guest, our headliner is the Michigan Secretary of State. |
| 0:21.6 | Jocelyn Benson. Madam Secretary, Jocelyn, however you want me to call you. It's great to see again. |
| 0:28.5 | We used to talk on my old show. It's great to have you back here. |
| 0:31.9 | Thanks, Tim, for having me. Please call me Jocelyn and I'm thrilled to join you in this new format. |
| 0:36.7 | What a great way of getting information to the people who need to have a trusted source in this moment, a trusted voice that they can rely on. |
| 0:45.7 | Yeah, and, I mean, I was going to say that you've been dealing with the fallout of Trump's lies for years now. |
| 0:53.4 | I mean, as the Secretary of State, |
| 0:55.0 | you had been the target of death threats, harassment, stemming from your very professional |
| 1:00.2 | handling of the 2020 election results that showed that Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden. You're now |
| 1:05.6 | running for governor, and you also have a new book called The Purposeful Warrior. |
| 1:10.7 | Congrats on that book. Welcome to the program. I do want to talk about the book. And you also have a new book called The Purposeful Warrior. |
| 1:12.1 | Congrats on that book. |
| 1:13.1 | Welcome to the program. |
| 1:14.7 | I do want to talk about the book. |
| 1:20.2 | I guess, first of all, I sort of feel like maybe we should talk about the Pope because you and I were chatting before we got going here. |
| 1:22.9 | We were in the virtual chat room, as I call it, the virtual green room. |
| 1:26.9 | And Jocelyn, you were saying how, |
| 1:28.6 | I mean, it's just, it is amazing that we have this American Pope. I'll talk about this with at God |
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