sopranos? if not, hit pause and go watch all of the seasons and come back in a couple weeks and start this again. the first season of the sopranos is 13 episodes long. the sopranos, oppositely, is one of the greatest achievements ever in american drama and contention for one of the greatest television shows ever made in any country on any subject. in season one of the sopranos, you have to get through half the whole season. i think you have to get to the seventh episode or something before you get anything that seems like it is a back story on your lead character. here is a story about a man in therapy. yes, he is a gangster but he is a man in therapy. right from the very start of the first episode, you will get there to tell me about your childhood. it is not until seven episodes into it that we get a glance at tony soprano as a little kid. in that scene here is young tony and his uncle comes looking for tony s data. tony s dad hops in a car and takes off with the uncle. t
we start by taking you back to november third, 2020. that is election night . donald trump wasn t enjoying a leaf in the swing states against joe biden the mood was triumphant both at the white house and at the fox headquarters in new york. but then at 11:20 p.m. all broke loose. what is this happening here? why is arizona blue? did we just call it? did we make a call in arizona? there is a check mark. did our decision does make it? arizona, 11 a pictorial vote. the case was a fox accurately calling arizona for joe biden that changed everything. when the network called the entire election for biden angry viewers a flock to to hear election is s theories. it was significant enough to cause a brief ratings drop for the empire. fox adapted by questioning the election results and then spreading conspiracy theories over 700 times in just a span of two weeks after biden won. but including dropping a fury against a little-known electronic voting company in this country. watch.
weapon designed to kill everyone on earth. so, you know, how is that for a tease? episode 2 is out today and wherever you get your podcast, i hope you listen. that will do it for us tonight and now time for the last word. i do have episode two meant to look forward to because, like you, i spent today engrossed in anthony fauci s book and i will do an event with him thursday night, which i am sure, by the time you are halfway through your first comment tonight it was sold out for thursday night. rachel, the book is so rich, as you know and that was a tip of the iceberg discussion. i could do an hour with him just about what he went through at the beginning of the mystery of the hiv-aids investigation and those chapters where they don t know what they are dealing with and it brings us all back to that time and all the work he did long before he ended up, once again, saving so many lives during the covid-19 pandemic. even what he tells you about the zika virus, that is some
he s a gangster but he s a man in therapy so you think right from the very start of the very first episode you re going to get, you know, therapy speak, tell me about your childhood. but not until seven episodes into it we fine gel ate a glimpse of tony soprano as a little kid. in that scene here s young tony, his dad comes looking for tony s dad. tony dad hops in a car and takes off with the uncle. tony himself, the kid, ends up missing the school bus. and while he s not at school he ends up finding his dad and uncle and seeing what they were up to, basically sneaks up on them. and what he sees is his dad and uncle beating the bejesus out of this guy on a street corner. and this happens episode 7. and it s two more seasons, season 3 of the whole series when you get another flashback of tony as a little kid with his dad. and this time once again young tony is not supposed to be there, he has snuck in. but his dad goes to collect from a local butcher and the dad not only beats
fast track a vote on banning bump stocks following the supreme court s controversial decision to make them legal again. and we ll have new reporting on just what donald trump is looking for in a possible running mate as we re now less than a month away from the republican national convention. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, june 18th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. a lot of news to get to this morning. we ll begin here. president biden will take new executive action today that will remove the threat of deportation for hundreds of thousands of people who are married to united states citizens. the program known as parole in place would apply to about a half a million undocumented immigrants. it would allow them to stay in the country while applying for green card status. the current law requires them to return to their home countries to start such a process, which can take years to complete. to qualify new applicants