Jesse Watters Primetime 9/2/24 Full End Show | Fox Breaking News September 2 2024
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00:00This election's turned the last few months into one of the most wild summers in memory.
00:07One guy gets shot, another drops out, Harris hops in, her new VP honeymooned in China.
00:12I can't keep up.
00:14Now it's a mad dash to election day.
00:16And with two months left, every move is monumental.
00:19The Trump-Vance tickets gone heavy on policy versus Kamala's copy and paste campaign.
00:25We sat down with Trump and Vance, getting an inside look at their day one agenda.
00:30Watch.
00:31Mr. President, Senator, I don't know what we have to talk about.
00:34It's been pretty boring.
00:38Why did you pick J.D. Vance?
00:40We've always had a good chemistry and originally J.D. was probably not for me, but he didn't
00:46know me.
00:47And then when we got to know each other, he liked me maybe more than anybody liked me
00:52and he would stick up for me and he'd fight for the worker as much as I fight for the
00:57worker.
00:58We just had an automatic chemistry.
01:00And I actually endorsed him in Ohio for the Senate.
01:03And he ended up winning against a very tough field, very tough field.
01:07And he wrote a book, which was a classic, as you know.
01:10And it was all about the working men and women and how they aren't being treated fairly.
01:15And he was right about that.
01:16And I understood that maybe better than anyone else.
01:19And we just have had a great relationship.
01:23And he had serious competition.
01:25We had tremendous people, all of all of them, every one of them.
01:29You beat down a lot of very important people, very impressive people.
01:32When you got the call and found out, what did your wife say?
01:36Well, he has to speak to my wife, actually, which I was very appreciative of.
01:39And so was she.
01:40But she was just kind of flabbergasted.
01:42I think that going into it, we had no idea really what was going on, whether he would
01:45pick me or Marco Rubio, great guy, Doug Burgum, great guy, and a lot of other good people.
01:50But when the president called me, I don't know if you remember this, sir, but my kid
01:54was talking in the background about Pokemon cards.
01:56And I'm like, oh, for the love of God, seven-year-old kid, if you've ever been quiet, be quiet now.
02:01And the president's like, put him on speakerphone.
02:03And so you read off the truth that was at the actual announcement that he was nominating
02:08me to be vice president.
02:10And he says, what do you think about that?
02:11And my son goes, oh, it's good.
02:15It's the endorsement.
02:16That's the endorsement that mattered, actually, was for my seven-year-old.
02:20But it's been a wild ride, and we're having a good time, and we're going to win.
02:23That's the most important thing.
02:24Are strikes against the cartels still on the table?
02:27Absolutely.
02:29Even against our biggest trading partner?
02:31Absolutely.
02:32Mexico is going to have to straighten it out really fast, were the answers.
02:35Absolutely.
02:36They're killing 300,000 people a year with fentanyl coming in.
02:40And China, by the way, will do what they have to do.
02:42They're going to do it just like I had a deal with President Xi, but then Biden never
02:46took it over.
02:47They were going to give the death penalty to anybody sending fentanyl our way.
02:52And that was part of my negotiation.
02:54They never did it because nobody forced it on our side.
02:57You know, China has a death penalty for drug dealers, et cetera.
03:00And I said, they're drug dealers.
03:01They agreed with me.
03:02He agreed with me.
03:04Death penalty for drug dealers.
03:06Death penalty for people that send fentanyl into our country.
03:10And that would have made a big that would have made a big difference.
03:13But you know what happened?
03:15Nothing because when Biden came in, nothing happened.
03:18And I don't know why he's so soft on China.
03:22But boy, is he soft on China.
03:23But China is sending almost 100 percent of it is from China to the Mexican border.
03:29And then it's coming in.
03:30Mexico is going to be given a very short period of time to police their border.
03:34I'm sure they're going to do not well.
03:37And then you're going to see the action start.
03:39And you know what's going to happen?
03:40We're going to have we're going to have a lot of people living.
03:43They're killing 300, 350,000, not 100,000 or 90,000 to say 100.
03:49It's a lot of people.
03:50That's two Yankee stadiums, OK?
03:52They're killing 300,000 people, maybe more than that, and destroying families.
03:57Even if there's no death, they're destroying families.
03:59The families are decimated and they're destroyed.
04:02And Senator, your mother, victim of addiction.
04:05How'd she kick it?
04:06You know, just she kept on getting back on the horse.
04:08I know a lot of families struggle with addiction.
04:10I think my message is there is hope on the other side of addiction.
04:13You just have to keep on at it.
04:15And she's getting close to 10 years clean and sober.
04:18But the president's point about this, if the poison that is coming across the border now
04:23had been coming across 20 years ago, I don't think that my mom would be here.
04:26And she's a great grandma to our three grandkids.
04:28And it's it's so just good to see her happy and healthy.
04:31A lot of families.
04:32Thank you, sir.
04:33I appreciate that.
04:34She was so excited to be sitting next to you and you were very kind to her.
04:36And I appreciate that.
04:37A lot of families don't get that chance at a second chance because of that poison that
04:41Biden's letting into the country right now.
04:43It's funny that people accuse us of being bombastic for saying the cartels, we need
04:50to go after them.
04:51What about American citizens who are losing their lives by the tens of thousands, hundreds
04:55of thousands because we won't do something serious about the cartels?
04:58That's what's reckless.
04:59It's not actually doing something to stop them.
05:01I actually believe, Jesse, that the Mexican government, even though they couldn't say
05:04that, they want President Trump to be serious about the cartels because that poison is destabilizing
05:10their country to 14 billion dollars coming into the cartels.
05:13And that was a couple of years ago.
05:14It's probably more today.
05:16They're not going to be a real country anymore.
05:18They're going to become a narco state unless we get some control over this.
05:21We could be a narco state, too.
05:23We're getting close to it.
05:24Are you prepared for the hysteria from the left legally?
05:29Yeah.
05:30Bureaucratically, when you do mass deportations?
05:34So Dwight Eisenhower, who people consider a moderate, he probably wasn't as moderate
05:39as people think.
05:40But Dwight Eisenhower did the largest deportation ever in this country.
05:44He was very big on people not coming into our countries, people breaking our sealed
05:49borders.
05:50Right.
05:51And the hardest thing in a certain way is exactly what you said.
05:54We have to get some very bad people out of this country.
05:57And as soon as we grab, perhaps we take a woman with two children, three children.
06:04She shouldn't be here, but she's a nice woman.
06:07The children are beautiful.
06:09And all of a sudden, it ends up being a front page story of the liberal newspapers.
06:13And you're right.
06:15It's some it's a hard thing to do.
06:17Harder than a long time ago with Dwight Eisenhower.
06:20Right.
06:21A lot harder.
06:22Nobody complained.
06:23In those days, it was you know, we had a country that was much different.
06:26But we have no choice.
06:28We have to get the criminals out.
06:30These are murderers.
06:31These are drug dealers.
06:32These are people that will take women and put them in the trunk of a car and sell them
06:39to the highest bidder.
06:40They'll come across the border, human traffickers, which is you think of that as an ancient thing.
06:45Actually, it's almost as big as the drug trade now.
06:49You wouldn't even believe this.
06:51And the reason is because of the Internet.
06:53The Internet has made that into a massive business, human trafficking.
06:58It's mostly in women.
06:59And all of these things, we have no choice.
07:01We have to do it.
07:02The media will attack us for doing what we actually promised to do, which is get a lot
07:05of the violent criminals and the people who shouldn't be here out of here.
07:08But one, that's why leadership actually matters.
07:10I think President Trump showed during his first four years he wasn't willing to take
07:13on the lying media when he had to.
07:15And the country was better off for it.
07:17But you just start with the worst people.
07:18Right.
07:19But before you get into what you can't do, I don't understand why our entire governing
07:22class doesn't ask, well, what's the part you actually have to do?
07:25Why don't we start there and then figure it out from there?
07:28Right.
07:29Take it.
07:30Walk before you can run.
07:31Pretty common sense is how it works in business.
07:32Certainly.
07:33I think it should work in government.
07:34The problem is Mexico is petrified of the cartels because they'll take out a president
07:38in two minutes and they're petrified of the cartels.
07:41The cartels are running Mexico.
07:44More from Trump Vance next.
07:48Our exclusive interview with Trump Vance continues.
07:51Foreign policy, AI and Elon Musk watch.
07:56In terms of Ukraine, you get in there.
07:59Do you pull funding right away in the middle of a war?
08:02So I spoke yesterday, as you know.
08:06President Zelensky called me and we had a good talk and I said, we've got to get this
08:10war over.
08:12This is a war machine.
08:13You're facing a war machine.
08:14That's what they do is they fight wars.
08:16They beat Hitler.
08:17They beat Napoleon.
08:19They're fighting a war.
08:21And the spring offensive never happened.
08:25And here they had millions of mines put down and they had thousands of army tanks, meaning
08:29the Russians.
08:31And I said, we've got to get this war over with a lot of Russians being killed, but a
08:34lot of Ukrainians being killed.
08:36It's a whole mess.
08:37Should have never happened.
08:38Biden should have never allowed this to happen.
08:40This was an easy stop.
08:43This was zero chance of happening.
08:45And it didn't happen for my four years.
08:47It would have happened.
08:48It didn't happen.
08:50And President Putin would have never done it.
08:52Never, ever.
08:53Two reasons.
08:54Number one, the oil prices were low.
08:56I kept them low.
08:57I kept gasoline low.
08:58I kept oil low.
09:00And he wouldn't have had the money to prosecute as soon as these guys came in.
09:03The oil went to almost $100 a barrel, which is double what it should be.
09:07And all of a sudden, he's got tremendous amounts of money that he didn't have.
09:13Russia had.
09:14So they did the war.
09:16And in my opinion, every single thing that Biden said was the opposite of what he should
09:20have said.
09:21I watched this happening.
09:22I said, he's he's saying the wrong things.
09:26He's saying absolutely the opposite of what he should be saying.
09:30I think one of the reasons Putin went in is because when he saw Afghanistan, the way we
09:34got out, not that we got out, I was going to get out.
09:36I would have been out sooner, but we would have been out with dignity and strength.
09:40And people saw that like Putin, like President Xi of China.
09:46Strong guy, strong man.
09:48When they saw that, Jesse, they said, this is our time.
09:52And that's why he went in, in my opinion.
09:55That's why he went into Ukraine.
09:56I mean, he went to Ukraine when he saw how bad we were with Afghanistan.
10:01He said, these people are incompetent.
10:04And we do.
10:05We have incompetent leaders, but we have great because I defeated ISIS in a very short number
10:09of weeks and they were fighting them for years.
10:13We have great military and they're not woke at the they're not woke because I have generals
10:18in there that are great, not the ones on television that you see that year, the Millies and the
10:23Mattis is we have great generals.
10:26These are not woke people and we have great military, too.
10:29And they're not going to be woke even like we're going to win.
10:33We got to win.
10:34Are we going to be able to end the Ukraine war in three weeks?
10:36Well, like the president said, Jesse, the best way to stop a war is to prevent a war.
10:40And one of the really interesting things is, you know, I always talk about how the world
10:43actually respected President Trump and all these crazies and the media say, no, no, no,
10:47that's not that's not true.
10:49I sit in classified briefings, the United States Senate, without revealing state secrets.
10:53People were terrified that if they got too out of line, that President Trump would actually
10:57hit back and hit back hard.
10:59That's the way you establish deterrence.
11:00OK, now we've already got a war.
11:02You've got to be willing to engage in diplomacy and do the things that need to be done.
11:05And I think President Trump did that better than anybody.
11:07So it really just requires leadership.
11:10And people, I think a lot of Americans who aren't maybe decided are saying, well, how
11:13do we get from four years of President Trump where we had a relative calm and stability
11:17all over the world?
11:19And now it's like every continent now has a new conflict.
11:23And the answer is you went from a guy who knew what he was doing to Joe Biden.
11:27And whether it's Joe Biden or somebody else, it's going to be the same policies, the same
11:30staff, the same diplomats.
11:33We need to completely change course and change direction that requires us to elect President
11:37Trump.
11:38American hostages still in Gaza should be a scandal.
11:42It should be the biggest scandal in the country.
11:43We have Americans, not not Israelis.
11:46Of course, we wouldn't get the Israelis, American citizens being held by terrorists.
11:49The president seems not to care about what's your plan for AI.
11:52Well, we're going to be big for AI.
11:53But, you know, AI requires unbelievable amounts of electricity.
11:59You know this.
12:00Do you know we need twice as much electricity as we currently have in our country for AI?
12:06But the environmentalists won't let you produce it.
12:08They want wind.
12:09The wind is blowing today.
12:11The whole thing is the most expensive hoax in the world.
12:16The wind, it kills our birds.
12:18If you want to see a bird cemetery, go under a windmill sometime.
12:21You'll see a bird.
12:22You know, if you shoot a bald eagle or an eagle of any kind, they put you in jail for
12:27two years.
12:29Go under a windmill.
12:30See how many eagles are under there.
12:31Nobody goes to jail.
12:33They say the environmentalists like them.
12:35I don't know what's to like.
12:36It ruins everything.
12:37And it's a single most expensive form of energy.
12:39And then, by the way, every nine years you have to replace them.
12:42They're falling apart off the coast of Nantucket, shut down all the beaches.
12:45These are mechanical machines.
12:46You know, people think, oh, we built them, but you're going to have to replace them.
12:49And especially the ones in the ocean, the salt water just absolutely eats through the
12:54steel like it's nothing.
12:55Anyway, we have a lot of things to do and we can do it.
12:58We'll do it fast.
12:59And we do it with common sense.
13:00You know, I call it the party of common sense because 90 percent of the things we've talked
13:04about over the years, common sense, like we don't want all electric cars.
13:09You want an electric car, it's great.
13:10But not everybody wants an electric car.
13:12They want to go far.
13:14They don't want to pay China or they don't want to pay too much because an electric car
13:17is more expensive.
13:18Does Elon Musk hate it when you bash electric cars?
13:21Well, I love Elon.
13:22And I have to tell you this about this.
13:24He endorsed me.
13:25He announced he's giving me forty five million dollars a month.
13:28And yet I'm against certain electric cars.
13:31I love electric cars for people that want them, people that don't want to drive across
13:36the country, people that don't want to go long distances.
13:39You'd have to stop too much.
13:40But if you go back and forth or whatever, I think they have a great place.
13:45And here's the thing with Elon.
13:46It's amazing.
13:47And I keep waiting.
13:48He has never once.
13:50As you know, he endorsed me just recently.
13:52I've been making this whole thing about electric cars and the mandate for electric cars, another
13:56mandate for the electric cars.
13:58And I'll tell you, he's never called me and said, could you lay off the electric car thing?
14:04Because I think electric cars are fantastic for certain people.
14:07So right now you're selling six percent, seven percent.
14:10They want you to go to 100 percent all electric.
14:14And the other day I saw they built chargers like a gas pump.
14:19Some place in the Midwest.
14:21They built eight charges.
14:22They cost nine billion dollars and two of them don't work.
14:26OK, nine billion dollars.
14:28This country doesn't have enough.
14:29The whole world doesn't have enough money to have enough money to even think about.
14:33It would cost five trillion dollars to build charges so that we could charge the electric
14:37car.
14:38And yet under our feet, we have more liquid gold than any country in the world, including
14:43Saudi Arabia and including Russia.
14:46And we're going to start using it.
14:47And we're going to start paying down debt and lowering taxes.
14:50The president talks about jobs all the time.
14:52The effect of jobs.
14:53If you go to 100 percent electric cars, everybody is making carburetors, transmissions, traditional
14:58gas powered cars are going to be out of the job.
15:00If you go to 100 percent electric, Pennsylvania, Michigan become economic wastelands, especially
15:04Michigan.
15:05Again, another reason it's important to elect President Trump.
15:08Drill baby drill.
15:09Right.
15:10Drill baby drill.
15:11It's such a simple line, but it's true.
15:14Like I said, we have basically unlimited energy resources.
15:17We just have to allow our own people to get it out of the ground.
15:20Before we let you guys go.
15:21There's a few questions from fans real quick.
15:24Have you heard DJ Donald Trump with his iPad?
15:31Not yet.
15:32I will say that my all time favorite music video is November Rain by Guns N' Roses.
15:38The first time I ever played, I ever sat on his airplane, he played November Rain by Guns
15:42N' Roses.
15:44It's good to be at least a little bit.
15:45OK.
15:46J.D. Vance, what is the J.D. stand for?
15:49James David.
15:50Did you know that?
15:51Yes.
15:52Thank you very much, you guys.
15:56Dennis Quaid joins primetime.
16:01In 1977, Jimmy Carter drove through the South Bronx and called it the worst slum in America.
16:09He vowed to reshape the New York City neighborhood and restore it to its former glory, but never
16:15did.
16:16Three years later, the Bronx remained the same.
16:19And Carter's presidential campaign turned out to be nothing but a bunch of broken promises.
16:25Democrats use the people of the Bronx as pawns and they resented it.
16:30So when Ronald Reagan visited that same Bronx neighborhood in 1980, he was not met with
16:35a warm welcome.
16:38To his surprise, reporters were told that Reagan was on his way to make an appearance
16:42at Charlotte Street in the South Bronx as he arrived at the very same desolate, ruined
16:47block that President Carter had visited with promises to rebuild three years ago.
16:51No riot, no nothing, just tell us.
16:54Right now, right now, right now in Congress, I'm trying to tell you.
17:05I am trying to tell you that I know now there is no program or promise that a president
17:18can make that the federal government can come in and wave a wand and do this.
17:23Reagan gained their respect that day.
17:25He didn't treat the people in the Bronx as faceless votes.
17:29He spoke to them as people.
17:31Reagan went on to win almost every state in the 1980 presidential election, including
17:36New York.
17:37And he's the last Republican to do it.
17:40For now.
17:41Reagan defied all odds the day he stepped foot in the Bronx and cemented his legacy
17:46as one of the best presidents in American history.
17:49Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
18:08Actor Dennis Quaid plays Ronald Reagan in his latest film, Reagan.
18:12Group sale tickets are available and he joins us now.
18:16Dennis, how significant looking back was that Reagan visit to the Bronx?
18:24I think very significant.
18:26You know, I watched that during my research for Reagan.
18:32And I also remember it because I lived through all that that era.
18:37And Reagan was the first president that I voted for.
18:41And he you know, he went there.
18:44It took guts to go there, actually, because he could have wound up with egg on his face.
18:48You nailed that.
18:49Do you see any similarities between 1980 and today?
18:58I think the slogan is still, are you better off than you were four years ago?
19:03Well, well done.
19:04It's perfect.
19:05In fact, you know, and I really admire Trump for going in into the neighbors.
19:11And, you know, people relate with that.
19:14They really do.
19:14And if anything, this all these events that have, you know, begins conspiring against him
19:21have actually made him more human to people.
19:25What is it about Reagan?
19:27And obviously, Trump has the same personal touch, too.
19:31It is that ability to relate to the everyday man or everyday woman in America.
19:38Yeah, and Reagan just just had that going on.
19:44It was always kind of a man of the people, a great communicator as well.
19:48Do you see any similarities today with Donald Trump?
19:51I think, you know, Donald Trump has been talking about cleaning house,
19:56which, you know, kind of making a clean sweep to start over.
20:01That doesn't mean being a dictator.
20:03That just means that we we start doing what the American people have asked us to do.
20:11Thank you very much, Dennis.
20:12Take care of yourself.
20:15You too, buddy.
20:16The man behind Kramer on Seinfeld, Michael Richards, is next.
20:23We love Seinfeld more than primetime.
20:25We've been playing clips from the show for as long as we've been on the air.
20:29Our favorite character, obviously, Kramer.
20:32I'm Cosmo, Jerry.
20:34I'm Cosmo Kramer.
20:35And that's who I'm going to be from now on.
20:37I'm Cosmo.
20:39The boss is out of control.
20:43So I grab him by the collar.
20:45I take him out of the seat.
20:46I get behind the wheel.
20:47Now I'm driving the bus.
20:51You're Batman.
20:51Yeah, yeah, I am Batman.
20:53Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
21:11Taking it to the streets.
21:24Kramer is one of the funniest characters in TV history.
21:27And even though Seinfeld has been off the air since the 90s, the show dominates in syndication.
21:33But the man who played him, Michael Richards, has been anything but front and center.
21:37He took himself out of the limelight 16 years ago.
21:40It's hard to walk away from showbiz when you're one of the biggest stars on TV.
21:43But that's what Richards did.
21:45Yada, yada, yada.
21:47He's back with a new book called Entrances and Exits.
21:51And he joins me now.
21:54Michael, have you ever even seen Jesse Waters' primetime?
21:59Uh, no, just a little.
22:01I was catching up on you to get ready for this.
22:05But, you know, I've been moving and spinning and getting into this book.
22:09And by the way, I just saw some of that footage.
22:13I really can't top that.
22:15We don't expect you to.
22:17We don't expect you to.
22:18The book is incredible.
22:19And you talk about when you're auditioning for the pilot, exploring and discovering who
22:25Kramer actually was.
22:27They wanted you to maybe wear a ponytail at one point.
22:31How did you find Kramer?
22:35Well, first of all, there was a suggestion that I wear a ponytail because Larry David,
22:41who began to sketch the character through a neighbor of his, Kenny Kramer.
22:48And he had a ponytail.
22:50So Larry was very close to the look of Kenny and asked me if I would wear a ponytail.
22:56And I thought at first that could be interesting.
22:59Perhaps it would fall off during a take.
23:01You know, the man, Kessler at the time, who became Kramer, wears a hairpiece.
23:08I was thinking of how to make that funny.
23:11But then I decided I got enough to think about than a hairpiece.
23:16So I ditched it.
23:17So you nailed Kramer early and your character was instantly loved by everybody.
23:23And you got to work with Jerry Seinfeld, who you were very close with.
23:27What was it like working with Jerry?
23:29It seems like so much fun, not like work at all.
23:34Oh, it was work, a lot of work.
23:37We all worked very, very hard, but we were all into making comedy, you know, getting
23:43into the into the swing of comedy.
23:45And both Jerry and I are deeply committed to that.
23:50Our friendship came out of, well, he was a fan from the days I was doing Fridays.
23:55He was all for me when I was auditioning for the part.
23:59He wanted me for the part.
24:01Oh, boy.
24:03And we have been neighbors ever since.
24:08How's that?
24:09Yeah, OK.
24:09And you are the physical comedy guy.
24:13No one could bend and contort their body like you.
24:16How did you develop that?
24:18Was that a lot of bruises and head bumps?
24:23No, I always wore padding.
24:25I was very scientific about that.
24:28Really, truly.
24:30So I know how to take falls and bang into walls and things like that.
24:33You know, it came quite natural.
24:35And of course, there were great affirmations when I saw the best at physical comedy, like
24:41Keaton or Chaplin or Laurel and Hardy doing the physical comedy.
24:48But it just came out of me, I think, in making my friends laugh.
24:53I could ride my bike into a bush and do it in such a way that they would just crack up
24:58and we'd all be laughing together.
25:00So, you know, we're watching you right now in your Calvin Klein briefs fall over a potted
25:06plant.
25:06Was that one of your favorite moments?
25:09Oh, yeah, it was a surprise to everybody.
25:12They didn't know.
25:13No, I didn't see the footage.
25:14Is that where I'm leaning against the wall and I fall to the ground?
25:18Yeah.
25:18Yes.
25:19Yeah.
25:19Is that this?
25:20Yeah.
25:20You mean you've got me on Fox News in my underwear?
25:24I sure do.
25:24Oh, you, you.
25:26OK.
25:27You and Hunter Biden.
25:28As long as you're laughing.
25:30OK.
25:31I nobody knew I was going to do that bit on the wall.
25:34I saw it was round and I kept it in mind and I was going to save it for camera time.
25:40A lot of my physical comedy, I save it for camera time.
25:42I don't show anybody.
25:44I like it to be natural.
25:45That was a surprise.
25:46And it worked.
25:47And everybody was quite happy after that take.
25:50The Merv Griffin episode, personally, was one of my favorite all time Seinfelds.
25:57What was the inspiration behind that?
25:59Ah, well, you know, I'm very inspired when I'm into Kramer and Kramer is playing a character.
26:08You know, that's that's that's the lovely part of that character playing a character,
26:13another character.
26:15Now he's a talk show host.
26:17You know, so that's inspiring to me because I know we're going to have a lot of fun and
26:23the K-man is going to take me through it.
26:25It's just a matter of holding on and let's giddy up, you know, the K-man.
26:30We heard Jerry a couple of weeks ago say that I guess political correctness is killing comedy.
26:36Is it?
26:40Oh, I don't know.
26:44People are just being more sensitive about what we're saying about each other, which
26:50I think is a good thing.
26:51I think is a good thing and comedy is coming out of it in a sense, isn't it?
26:56It sure is.
26:57The way the comics now begin to play with political correctness.
27:01The ha-ha is archetypal.
27:04It's everywhere.
27:05It's still going to be with us.
27:06And it's it's alive.
27:09It's alive.
27:11You served in the military.
27:12Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
27:16How did that kind of mold you into who you are professionally?
27:21Well, I was brought up without a father.
27:25So when I went into the service, I was in the United States Army.
27:29I was given tremendous responsibilities when I was 20 years old, and that helped me grow up.
27:35So when I came out of the Army, I enrolled in at the California Institute of the Art
27:41by the military being honorably discharged.
27:43And so what I gained from it were steps toward being a man.
27:49It was just necessary for me.
27:51I didn't avoid the Vietnam War.
27:53I got ready for it, went into the Army, and that's that.
27:56I kind of needed that sort of discipline.
28:00And you watch Seinfeld with your son, right?
28:03For the first time?
28:04Yeah, yeah.
28:06What was that like?
28:07I never watched the shows because I could always see how they could be better.
28:11And I had to move fast each week and making each episode.
28:15And so it wasn't until really in the preparation of this book and getting
28:20tuned into the episodes, the seasons, nine years of it, I watched every single episode
28:28in order of them being made as they were aired each week.
28:35And I had greater objectivity.
28:37And I remembered so much.
28:39And I just sat back and just laughed with my son at this amazing show that so many people
28:45came together and made it.
28:47The chemistry and the outcome was just sensational.
28:55It was sensational.
28:56I don't watch myself either afterwards.
28:58I'm too critical.
28:59I'm too much of a craftsman.
29:01Maybe one day when my career is over, I'll watch every single Jesse Waters primetime
29:04episode with my son and just be inspired by the brilliance like you were.
29:11Yeah.
29:11And the life and all the hard work.
29:14Yeah, Jesse, you will be.
29:15I'm sure you will be.
29:16It is a lot of hard work.
29:18Thank you so much, Michael Richards.
29:21Entrances and exits.
29:22Great book.
29:23Good luck.
29:24And great to see.
29:24Thanks, Jesse.
29:25Thank you so much.
29:28Johnny confronts Democrats straight ahead.