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James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 139 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | from global leading britain's conversation with james o'brien three minutes after ten is the time a very good morning indeed to you |
| 0:14.2 | there will be no prizes for predicting the focus of this morning's program but there will be penalties and |
| 0:20.6 | punishments for any attempts |
| 0:22.1 | to cast it in a sort of triumphalist or victorious way. Having Boris Johnson's closest |
| 0:30.0 | advisor confirm the harshest critiques of Boris Johnson must rank among one of the most horrible |
| 0:36.1 | things in the context of the thousands |
| 0:38.3 | upon thousands of unnecessary deaths described yesterday. |
| 0:42.3 | One of the hollowest and bleakest validations ever. |
| 0:47.9 | I could you imagine being proved right about Boris Johnson in almost every way by the man who propelled him not only over the Brexit finish line, but into Downing Street itself. |
| 1:00.0 | And having that proof built upon the deaths of tens of thousands of people who would still be with us today. |
| 1:07.0 | I should warn you, four minutes after, at ten is the time. |
| 1:10.2 | We will not be flinching this morning away from the facts of the matter and the most important facts of this matter remain those deaths. |
| 1:20.0 | And I've been conscious since the beginning of this nightmare about the dangers of an unleavened diet of death and horror. But |
| 1:29.2 | today we are, we're going all in on it because it is, I mean, it is absolutely unbelievable. |
| 1:38.1 | Stuff that we could predict with confidence. Suddenly it's all right to talk about Brexit again, |
| 1:44.7 | all the people that have been telling us to move on |
| 1:47.5 | and not talk about Brexit, |
| 1:48.9 | pretending that Cummings being a snake over that |
| 1:52.4 | somehow undermines his testimony yesterday. |
| 1:55.0 | I said it to you yesterday. |
| 1:56.0 | I'll say it to you again today. |
| 1:57.9 | If he said anything yesterday that was wrong, dishonest or refutable, then it would |
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