Norm Eisen on Ed Martin's failed bid to become U.S. Attorney in DC, Chris Matthews on the new American Pope and celebrating Tara Setmayer's big win at the Webby's.
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Jim Acosta
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🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everybody, the Jim Acosta show. |
| 0:01.9 | It is Thursday. |
| 0:03.4 | I'd like to call it Friday Eve here on the Jim Acosta show. |
| 0:06.7 | As you can see, the great Norm. |
| 0:08.0 | Izan is with me. |
| 0:08.9 | Norm, how are you? |
| 0:10.9 | Always better when I'm with you, brother, Jim. |
| 0:14.2 | Well, we have seen the white smoke rising from the Vatican. |
| 0:17.1 | That means, yes, there is a new Pope. |
| 0:18.8 | This new Pope is American. I will discuss that |
| 0:21.1 | with TV news legend Chris Matthews in just a bit, unless Norm has some thoughts on that. But I was |
| 0:25.5 | going to start off by saying, score one for the truth, despite Trump's attempts to wipewash what happened |
| 0:31.6 | on January 6th, despite his attempts to rewrite the history from that day, as he continues to |
| 0:36.9 | insist the 2020 election was stolen |
| 0:38.8 | from him which was it was not uh he still does that trump's lies suffered a major defeat today |
| 0:45.2 | he withdrew the nomination of ed martin for u.s attorney here in Washington uh that is where |
| 0:49.7 | i want to begin uh i just saw the nbc news alert just a few moments ago. Apparently he's considering |
| 0:55.0 | Janine Piro of Fox News. I think Saturday Night Live has called her Judge Box Wine. We can put that to the side. |
| 1:04.6 | But Norm, your thoughts on this. I mean, it is good news for the truth that Ed Barton is no longer under consideration. |
| 1:13.3 | I thought he might move Alina Haba in as the replacement, but he's evidently contemplating |
| 1:22.2 | even lesser legal lights. You know, Jim, the secret of the era of the era of Trump is that the emperor has no clothes. |
| 1:43.9 | Yes. |
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