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1:15Hey, what's up, guys? I'm Dave Rubin. This is The Rubin Report. It is October 22nd, 2025, Although where I am in the Gold Coast of Australia, it's actually October 23rd. I can't explain it. It just has something to do with the rotation and the time change and all the stuff. We're just having an absolute blast here in Australia. It's been phenomenal. We did our Sydney show last night. It was one of the most fun live experiences I've ever had on stage. Crowd was hot. We did giveaways, Q &As, craziness. It was wonderful. And our Brisbane show, in case you are in the area, is on October 27th. DaveRubin.com slash events for tickets.

1:59And we are recapping all of the things that I missed while I've been bouncing around down under. Let's dive right in because a lady that we used to talk about a lot, she's back. She has left the Democratic Party. She has gone independent and written, quote unquote, written a book about her new independence and her time in the White House. You already know who I'm talking about. Noted black lesbian Corinne Jean-Pierre. She's back. And here she is on Stephen Colbert. And she never noticed that there was something wrong with Joe Biden. No one is saying that he didn't age. I'm talking about, was he...

2:43Did he have the questions that I was getting, the mental acuity? Was he able to govern? And the man that I saw nearly every day was someone who was engaging, understood policy, and was always putting the American people first. And it showed... It showed... I'm not questioning... ...in what we were able to get done. I remember, I saw him nearly every day. I don't even question his heart or his policies. But it takes more than that to be the president of the United States. And in a moment of great pressure on stage, we saw someone shock us and worry us. Everything you're saying, I cannot... I cannot fault the factual basis of what you're saying or your feelings about it.

3:27But what happened was the debate performance. Everything is downstream of that. And no one is saying that the debate performance wasn't shocking, wasn't a disappointment. No one is saying that. Disappointment is such a light term. I use your words. It was harrowing. I use your words. Okay, look, listen, we're never going to agree on this. We're not. Other than the fact that I'm glad that you came here tonight and telling me to rap over there. Would you like to say one more thing before we go? All right, first off, I'm actually going to be way more critical of Colbert to start because Colbert, you had a late night show getting paid 20 mil a year.

4:03It's about to come up. That show's about to end. your gravy train's basically over, but you had to show all the years that Biden was breaking down. Why were we covering all of the breakdowns and pretending that it just magically appeared the night of the debate is complete and utter nonsense? And then the line, what does he say? Nobody questioned his heart or policies. I would question both. He was a deeply, deeply corrupt man with a crack addict son who then became a work, started working at Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, a consultant, when he had no qualifications and all sorts of other stuff.

4:37Right. And the policies, all of the open border policies, the Inflation Reduction Act that actually increased inflation. We could go on and on and on. So, Colbert, it's like you trying to be the tough guy now on the way out is kind of smug and I would say largely nonsensical. How about that? As for Corinne Jean-Pierre, it's like, look, what are you doing? What's really going on here? You're selling a book. Now, I guess what it is, what would be the best way you could say it? I guess the way it is, is that she needs to sell a book that makes it look like she was a good guy, right? She can't sell a book like, I really did know and I should have told people and everything else, because then she'll never get a gig anywhere else.

5:21So she has to defend the thing that nobody else is willing to defend. And it's ironic because now she's on a press tour getting hit about it, which is very similar to exactly what happened to Jake Tapper. Jake Tapper, a quote unquote journalist who did not talk about all of the things that you saw with Joe Biden the entire time, then writes a book about it, how he had nothing to do with it. And suddenly everyone knew about it and all those things, and then gets hit on the press tour. So it's actually a beautiful thing because that's like the truth gets out there one way or another. But she continues.

5:55Oh, and we should mention that. I don't like the new haircut. What do you think? No, no, but anyone, no one's into it. We like the crinkly. We like the crinkly hair, lady. The straight hair is just not working for you. Anyway, she went on CBS morning show with Gayle King and it continued. The apparent decline of Joe Biden. You said you're a member of the inner circle and you never saw the decline. And after that, I wrote, how? You even write, Corrine, that you were on the plane with him going to the debate and you didn't see anything. Well, when we were on the Air Force One going to the debate, you got to remember his campaign, people were on the team, his family was on the team.

6:31I actually was one of those rare trips that I didn't really see him until after the debate, even though I was on the plane. So really, I want everybody to know that I take this question incredibly seriously. I do. Oh, it was just that you didn't get enough time with him on the plane to the debate. Had you had those extra few minutes, then you would have realized we all knew it. I mean, it's hard to remember because it was back in June of 24. It seems like a long time ago. But you remember watching that debate. We all went into that debate going, can Biden do this? Is there any chance he can do it?

7:08And from the get go, it was an utter disaster. And Jake Tapper rescued him several times. The whole thing was a disaster. Actually, we'll just there's many clips we could show you. Remember this? Making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID. excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with, look, if we finally beat Medicare. Thank you, President Biden. President Trump? Well, he's right. He did beat Medicare. He beat it to death. You know, in some ways, what you see over there also is Trump's patience. He's looking, he's letting him go.

7:51If you watch our show from the day after that, that was one of the things I was most impressed by. I mean, of course, all the headlines were about Biden finally breaks down and immediately after. You remember, the airlock broke that night. That night on CNN, on MSNBC, they started saying the thing that we were all saying for four years. As a matter of fact, I was doing videos about Biden's mental breakdowns before he was president. They were well known. The corn pop video, the kids rubbing his legs and the hair going up and down. And that's why he knows that's how he knows about roaches. That was in 2017, three years before he was president.

8:27Anywho, what you really see there is what we all saw. And the fact that she's pretending she didn't see it so she can sell a book is just absolutely extraordinary. And that's all it's about. It's about selling a book. Here's Jesse Waters. She's got blonde highlights now and blondes have more fun. And you know what they say when a woman dramatically changes her hair, she's going through something. In this case, it's true. Binder can't find a job. she's the face of the cheap fakes she swore a dei blood oath to joe kind of like kamala and now her best shot at a payday bank a book advance about the big guy but don't say anything bad about the big guy in it because he's the meal ticket yes that's the point she probably my guess is she got about 500 grand in advance to write the book she'll get some royalties although i don't know if anyone's buying it, but whatever it is.

9:21But if she actually told the truth, it erases her entire career. Now, ironically, because the truth is good, lady, had you written a truthful book? Imagine if you had just gone all the way. Boy, you know, I really did see all these things, but I'm a young woman and I had a career in front of me and he was my guy and he was the president. And when you're in the Oval Office, you don't want to see perhaps some of the things you see. You want to believe in this guy? Like there was there would have been a way to have written a very honest book that that then I would be covering right now going, that was that was pretty good.

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12:53It is one of the most magical, wonderful, beautiful movies ever. And De Niro is in it. You know, he plays the young Marlon Brando in it. And And when you see him young, the first moment I saw him, I was like, oh, can I watch a De Niro movie? And then because he's so young in it, I was able to. But when I see the new stuff, it's hard for me to watch it because the artist is ruining the art. How is he doing it? Well, with things like this. We see it. We see it. We see it all the time. He will not want to leave. He set it up with his, I guess he's the Goebbels of the cabinet, Stephen Miller. He's a Nazi.

13:37Yes, he is. And he's Jewish. He should be ashamed of himself. Well, Bob, Bobby, someone should be ashamed of themselves, but it's you. Stephen Miller is not a Nazi, but it is also doubly offensive, obviously, to call a Jewish man a Nazi. He has different political beliefs than you. And by the way, do you think the Nazi thing is working? Did you know that Donald Trump is president again? That's all you guys have. And you're ruining your own art. You know, everything being equal. If you didn't go down this path, you've been in a gajillion great movies beyond Godfather 2, right? Like, you've been in tons.

14:16Goodfellas, we could do all the mafia movies, casino, all of these things. And that should be your legacy. and you're shredding it up because you're a crazed activist. You're also very confused about the media in general. And for some reason, the media is throwing him. I guess they're just looking for people to attack Trump these days as if there aren't enough. So here's more of his media tour. Find a signal to the people they reach. And I'm certainly not reaching those people on this program, but maybe through little soundbites and this and that, you know, the internet and so on. they're trying to to they're used to seeing trump do his stuff and they talk and they listen and that's the truth to them because they don't listen to anything else somewhere way out in the midwest somewhere out west in certain places the rural places that's the truth because he gets the air time and i think that we need more air time just more push against and not i wish that you can't do this in some ways, but that the news media could find ways to kind of ignore or tamp down nonsense from Trump.

15:24It's just total nonsense. But those people out there listen to it and assume if it can be on the air and it's out there, it's the truth. Bob, now I'm leaning into the camera. You are the bad guy. First off, your dismissiveness about people in the middle of the country as if they don't know what they're doing and they're somehow not as bright and as evolved as you. That is what led to Trump in the first place. And it is completely untrue. I have only lived on the coast. I've only lived in New York and California and now Florida. And I largely agree with those things. So it has nothing to do with the geography.

15:59They see the world deeply different than you. You are on a propaganda network with the guy who stole my broach. That's what you're doing. You are on the propaganda network that actually people are tuning out of because of what you just did right there. But what are you doing to your career? That would be my real question to you. But these unhinged lunatics, this is what they do all the time. So Andrew Colvett, who was Charlie Kirk's producer and business partner, he put this tweet out and I thought this was quite good. This was in response to the Stephen Miller thing from De Niro, make no mistake when deranged elderly lunatics go on TV and shout Nazi and fascists to smear conservatives like Stephen Miller, they are trying to get them killed.

16:46The only one who should be ashamed is Robert De Niro. Look, we all have a right to free speech. And if you want to call people Nazis, you can. And if you want to call them bigots, you can. And if you want to tell everyone in the middle of the country that they're morons and backwards and not as evolved as you, You can do all of those things. But to the backdrop of what happened only seven or eight weeks ago to Charlie Kirk and with the general state of the temperature, De Niro, you seem to be concerned about the general political climate. So why are you out there? And the way he knew when he was calling Stephen Miller a Nazi that he was then going to have to qualify and say, but he's Jewish and he's still a Nazi.

17:24It's all utterly grotesque, but that is all you guys have. And then what happens? Then what happens? You gin up a generation of people who do crazy things. Here's a crowd very excited to see a young man stabbing an effigy of Donald Trump. What the hell?

17:58So, Bob, again, what are you doing? I'm pretty sure if you were one of the characters you play in the movies, you would take a guy. Well, first off, you would hate a guy like you, like just some whiny, pruning, you know, just elitist. But you would take him into a room and you'd tie him to a chair and you'd beat the crap out of that guy. And you'd have a couple other guys named Vinny do some weird stuff with him with a screwdriver and a bag. That's what you would do. I'm not calling for it, but maybe you should think about why you were so good at playing those characters. Here's Bill Maher explaining that celebrities are morons.

18:34You know, not putting them down, but you have to like no s***. and celebrities mostly do not feel the need to know. And then there's many who, like, don't know , but it doesn't stop them from speaking. Because you can't just be known for memorizing words that someone else wrote and spitting them back into a camera. It's got to be something more. And I think a lot of them get into trouble that way. Well, I mean, I say this a lot on this show, and they probably hate me for it in Hollywood, but they hate me anyway, so who cares? But celebrities are just, some of them do, yeah. They do. The smart ones.

19:11But like celebrities, they're just a different breed. It's just like they're loaded with talent. Talent is different than, you know, knowing things. And, you know, thinking ain't their best thing often. Yeah, you're both right. That's Billy Bush there. And his point of, you know, you guys, actors act. All they do is take a script, right? Someone else writes the things. They don't do the things. I love when people are like, they're such geniuses. That performance, it was so genius. It's like Tom Hanks didn't get stuck on the island and he didn't go to the moon. He pretended to do those things. The people who got us to the moon, those are the geniuses.

19:49But they, for some reason, and well, for some reason, I think we know the reason, it's just basically out of control ego. They don't think that all the fame and all the money and all everything else is enough. They then have to also, largely, not all of them, but way too many of them pontificate on things they know nothing about. And they do this all the time. And by the way, then it gets to the De Niro point where they're in essence, they ruin their legacy. They make it so that you don't even want to watch their movies anymore. So full credit to Bill there because he lives in Hollywood. He's an institution of Hollywood.

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21:27So the government's still shut down, hasn't affected our travels here in Australia. And it was nice that we are here in Australia as the Australian prime minister made his way to D.C. And we had a good time with that in the Sydney show last night. Trump smacked everybody around a little bit. All good. They're going to get some rare earth minerals. It's all good. It's all good. Our countries love each other, yada, yada, yada. But the government is still shut down. My general take is that I don't think people care that much. And we are going to find out how many of these people we just don't need.

21:57Here's Mike Johnson on how the Democrats basically have nobody in charge right now to fix this problem. On the other side, Democrats can't even agree amongst themselves. You've got different subgroups among them. You've got a few reasonable Democrats who know shutdowns hurt the people, and they've already voted for our bill. They want to keep the government open. Then you've got others desperate to prop up the failures of Obamacare with no reforms whatsoever to make the program more affordable. That's what we're fighting for. And you've got AOC calling for her own negotiations on live TV. And you've got Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries still unable to articulate what it is they need to reopen the government.

22:36It illustrates the point once again. This was never about a solution. It was about creating an issue. Now that Democrats have had their protest and publicity stunts, I just pray that they come to their senses and end this shutdown and reopen the government this week. Republicans are waiting. The American people are waiting. And we are ready to act. Yeah, they've got their shutdown. They've had their protests. They have AOC and Bernie doing town halls, pretending she's not going to challenge Schumer for the Senate. And they have no leader. What this really is about is the internal fight of the Democrats.

23:11Are they going full on bananas, communist jihad loony? Hint, yes. Or will there be any sliver of sane people left? And the answer is no. But because that hasn't fully burst forth yet, maybe that'll happen right after the New York City election, which we'll get to in a second. They are just in this weird place where they're basically keeping the government shut down because they want health care for illegals. I thought this was quite good. This is Fox News. they asked a bunch of people who's leading the Democrat Party right now. The Faulkner focus hit the streets, as we often do, to talk with people and ask them who they believe the leader of the Democrat Party is.

23:53Let's watch. I am a Democrat. Nobody. Oh, that's a good question. Oh, I don't know. That's a hard one. I'm not too sure. Oh, man. I don't know. I don't think they have a leader. I don't think we really have one. I feel like we don't have enough leading. They need to find one. You think that the Democrats would have just someone out there who actually could lead them? Where are the plans? All you ever hear is how bad he is. Talk about how you're going to put food on the table. Pay the bills. Well, that lady basically hit it right there, right? You guys have focused so much on Trump, you don't know what to talk about anymore.

24:31Now they talk about all the socialists. So what really is happening here, think about it. They know the wing with energy. So the AOC, like the just commie jihad wing of this thing. And Bernie has ushered it in. And that socialist, progressive, collectivist, big government solves everything wing has completely overtaken the others. So then the others, you might say, okay, Hakeem Jeffries isn't a complete maniac. He's horrible, Timu Obama. And Schumer isn't a complete, like Schumer doesn't hate America. He's wrong on all the things. And then, you know, Fetterman, who's actually better on some of these things, but those guys don't have enough juice.

25:06So there's nobody, there's no adult. And this is, you know, a couple of weeks have I said, who should it be? Well, it could have been Bill Clinton, not that he would be leading them politically right now, like he was getting back into politics, but why don't they have, when they're not in power, just an elder statesman, someone from the old days who could come in and say, Hey guys, here's what the agenda is here. You know, that could go to a convention, not even running for anything and set the table with them, But they can't. They have let the inmates run the asylum. And as Jerry said to George, good luck with all of that.