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Mueller? I hardly know her.

Lovett or Leave It

Lovett or Leave It

Comedy, News

4.725.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Jon is joined by Jamil Smith of MTV News, Vanity Fair's Nick Bilton, and comedian Mo Welch to discuss the shooting in Alexandria, news reports that Trump himself is now under investigation, McConnell's play to revamp the health care system in secret, and, most importantly, endless construction at the Beverly Center.

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0:00.0

Guys, please, we're going for Love in Orlea!

0:16.0

Hey guys!

0:21.0

Thanks for coming out.

0:24.0

It's great to be here at the Westside Comedy Theatre. We're back.

0:28.0

Let me bring out our panel. He is a senior national correspondent at MTV News and Co-host

0:34.0

of their political podcast, The Stakes, Jamil Smith.

0:42.0

She's a cartoonist and comedian featured on Comedy Central and runs the Mo Show in LA, Mo Welsh.

0:49.0

And he's a special correspondent for Vanity Fair and a best-selling author. His new book is American Kingpin Nick built-in.

1:05.0

Hi everybody.

1:09.0

Let's get into it. What a week, what a day.

1:13.0

Obviously, we woke up this morning to a mass shooting during baseball practice or softball practice on Capitol Hill.

1:22.0

Six are in the hospital, two in critical condition, including majority whip, Steve Scalise.

1:27.0

That's basically what been what everybody's been talking about.

1:30.0

Today, I don't know how much we have to add to this story, except one thing that seems to happen now, regardless of the location and the unique facts of any given mass shooting.

1:43.0

We kind of have a process that we seem to go through now, almost a routine.

1:48.0

And first, there is the kind of spreading of speculation followed by the kind of assessment of motive and then the political fallout and the question of whether the shooting itself is being politicized or not being politicized enough.

2:03.0

Now, in this case, we've added to the fact that obviously it's a deeply serious and dangerous thing when representatives of our democracy are attacked and basically victims of assassination attempts.

2:15.0

It threatens the fabric of this country, but regardless, once again, we've seen implications that the shooter was a supporter of Democrats, of Bernie Sanders, and then there's been a round of condemnation from some Republicans, including some pretty, I think, species and despicable partisan attacks on Democrats and kind of were off to the races.

2:38.0

I don't know if any of you had any reaction to that. What do we do when mass shooting has become routine?

2:44.0

Well, first things, it's not a Democrat or a Republican thing in my view. It's an angry man thing, and that's a common thread that we're seeing with these domestic shootings.

2:54.0

First of all, and I say domestic because, you know, mass shootings happen all over the world, but most of them seem to happen here.

3:02.0

And a big reason for that is because domestic abusers, like this guy, are able to have licenses to get guns.

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