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All right, guys, overnight, we got word that Sherry Redstone, who, like, everybody else in America,

was like super butch about the First Amendment and Freedom back in 2022 when it didn't cost or anything.

She has settled, and they are going to pay $16 million to Donald Trump to settle the claims of the mental anguish that he suffered as a result of 60 minutes airing an interview with Kamala Harris in which they edited the interview, which is, I guess, a thing which is never, can we start filing claims of mental anguish and would people settle with us if we like, hey, hey, you file a claim against Trump for mental anguish.

You have no idea how much mental anguish I have. Can I win that case?

I have a lot of mental anguish.

Anytime somebody else mentions me on their podcast, it gives me mental anguish.

So I've got Ezra Klein and Chris Hayes had an argument over whether we were center right or center left last week. And I have mental anguish over that discussion. And I would like to sue the New York

Times. Do you think they might settle with me? I mean, I could only hope. What did they, what I,

who was right? Did you think Hayes was right? Or did you think Ezra was right? I just, I just,

I just, I had. Did they edit that conversation, Tim? How dare that? I had it. It felt a little felt a little edited. I would like to see the un-edited transcript. Ezra called me my boy, which made me a little uncomfortable. Oh, no, I thought that was Chris that said that about you, because I was actually mad where it was like, Tim Miller's my boy, I like him. I was pretty sure that was Chris Hayes that said that, was also like, bro, I do your show all the time. Like, oh, it was Ezra. It was Ezra and he said the boy and I don't know. I just, there are multiple, I'm just saying, saying I got either of them mention that I exist even. No. So you should sue. You probably have the best standing to do. I have an actual mental English. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it. Anyway, Sherry Redstone, should the merger that is sitting before

the federal government go through stands to get more than $1.5 billion should this happen. And according to the Wall Street Journal, one institutional investor who is trying to get her to just pay the toll to make this deal go through so that he could also get paid as a sweetener, he said to her, look, I understand that you'll be stepping away from business and you like flying on your private plane.

I will pay the lease on your private plane so that you don't lose access to it.

Just pay this man his money so that we can all get paid.

Sherry did it.

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