Full Show: Scottie Pippen states he's the GOAT. Rappers explain Trump event performances. TikTok is not banned.

You would think that on a day we celebrate the memory and the contributions to our society made by the late great doctor Martin Luther King Junior, that it would be a day of peace and tranquility. Yet as things change, they remain the same. There's an inauguration that took place on Capitol Hill this afternoon. People ain't happy about that. There's stuff that's transpiring already at the border. People ain't

We're getting noise about that. Help Even Scottie.

Pippen's open in his mouth and engaging and blasphemy, and not just about Michael Jordan.

It's supposed to be a day of peace.

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TikTok has made news.

It went dark for a little while and then it came back up, and a representative out of California has fought for that to happen. We'll see what obstacles lie in wait for TikTok and why that may be the case. We'll touch on that a little bit later on in the show. Of course, I'm gonna get into Scottie Pippen, who appeared on a PbD podcast, Patrick Bett David, who's become a friend of mine. He's a wonderful, wonderful man to know, incredibly knowledgeable and successful. He interviewed Scottie Pippen

It was a great interview.

I'll get into all of that a little bit later on in the show too. And I'm about to get into the inauguration, but before the inauguration of Donald Trump as the forty seventh President of the United States, to be specific for those of you who didn't know and are living under a rock or just flat out ignorant. Nevertheless, that's gonna have to wait. That's gonna have to wait. And also what's gonna have to wait is me getting into Jaden Daniels, the rookie quarterback for the Washington Commanders.

Who might win the Super Bowl? Who might win the Super Bowl as a rookie.

I'll touch on that a little bit later on in the show as well. I ain't going anywhere.

I gotta start off the show with my boys, Snoop dog and Nelly.

Now, obviously, if you don't know any better, you've been living under a rock or what have you, youre might be a bit put off because these brothers are taking an awful.

Lot of heat. And that's why I have to start there.

Remember, Donald Trump was sworn in this president of the United States for the second time today. He entered office with plenty of controversies around them and many Americans wondering what to expect this time around. And I told you I'm going to get into that. But part of that is starting off with Snoop Dogg and Nelly and Soldier Boy and others for their decisions to perform at events

I'm not a politician. Man.

You didn't see me out there on a campaign. You didn't see me out there saying you should vote for this candidate. But I'm honored to be out there performing for the office for the President of the United States.

That was his position. Because obviously he's taken some heat.

You've got people all over social media and beyond calling them sellouts and coons and traders to their race and all of this other stuff that's been coming out of their mouth. And Snoop Dogg is especially taking some hits, not just because he elected to perform at the Crypto Ball, which was the event one of the events surrounding the inauguration, an event Trump what did not even attend, by the way, even though he was supposed to be the guest of honor.

In twenty and seventeen.

So to be fair, let me make sure before I let you know what my position in all of this is. Let's see Snoop Dogg from back there in twenty seventeen and what he had to say about any potential performer performing at Donald Trump's inauguration back then.

Listen to this, Snoop DOGG.

So, ain't nobody gonna perform for Donald Trump?

Huh?

Which one of you jiggaboo ass gonna be the first one to do it?

I'm waiting.

I'm gonna roaster one of you. Uncle Tom asked me for doing Which one of you is gonna do it first?

The one that performs for himself?

That was Snoop dog.

So obviously, to see him performing this past weekend at the Crypto Ball, knowing what was being put out there about him, had to call my boy because that is my dog, making no mistake about it. I ain't apologizing for that to nobody. That's my brother. I love that brother, Okay, even when he wrong you right, or even when he wrong you right with me, because I know where his soul lies. Having said all of that, I still have

Crypto and AI.

He's gonna be that crypto in AIS are for the president administration.

That's who David sax is.

David sax Is somebody that Snoop has had a relationship with for decades.

David sass that cat.

When nobody else put their hand out offering dollars to Snoop's football league, and beyond that, brother does it. That brother's ready to do it now. So we got to take all of that into consideration. Nelly threw out the money as well. He ain't trying to be political.

He's an artist. He was paid to perform, and.

That's exactly what he did. Don't get me started with what soldier boys said. He said the same exact thing.

Now he said.

It in a very abrasive and excessive fashion, and I thought that was unnecessary.

But if that's his lingo that's his lingo.

The point is the point he sat up there and pulled out a bag of money and said, did anybody offer me to perform? That's what they did. So we see all of that going on and we understand what that is. But back to Snoop Dogg because that's who I know. Back to Nelly, because that's who I know. Nelly is not a political person. Nelly doesn't get involved

That's his position.

Like it or not, you gotta respect it because there's plenty of hypocritical asses out here in this world acting like they don't.

Do it, and they do it every day. But you're gonna come at.

Him because he went and sang a few songs at the incoming president.

See that's the BS right there, and.

That's what that's the kind of stuff that's gotta stop. Back to Snoop, who I know, Not that I don't know Nelly, but I know Nell.

That's my brother. I love him death, but not We ain't as close as me as Snoop. Did y'all know that Snoop never exercised his right to vote in his life.

Until twenty twenty? Did you know that I'm telling you what Snoop told me. I have permission from him to say this to y'all. If he didn't want me to tell y'all, listen, I wouldn't be telling y'all none of this because I ain't violate nobody's trust.

I can have my opinions without violating trust.

But he's given me permission to say everything that I'm saying to you.

He never voted in his life until twenty twenty. I never knew that. Had I known that, I'd gotten his ass, I'm his brother.

I believe in exercise and your right to vote, your ancestors and the sacrifices they made, damn it. One power to you have is to make sure you vote. People died for you to have the right to vote. Got Snoop?

I love it. I love him to death. I'd have gotten his ass. You gotta vote. He voted in twenty twenty. He voted for Joe Biden.

Spoke against Trump in twenty sixteen, spoke against him in twenty seventeen, voted against him in twenty twenty. So everybody want to be like, well, what's the problem now, what's the problem. I'll tell you what the problem is now. But before I get into the problem, let me show y'all a full screen of mister Keith Boykin. This guy is a political commentator.

I assume I don't know his background.

I'm not casting any dispersions on him, disrespecting him in any way.

I'm sorry.

I've just been busy and I didn't have time to get into it. I saw him on CNN giving political commentary on Abbey Phillips Show, and while he was on there, he said this.

I want you all to see this stuff on the full screen.

Cause you need to know any black person who performs at Trump's inauguration dishonors, quote black families he refused to rent to the two in the nineteen seventies, the black kids he wanted to execute in the Central Park case in the nineteen eighties, the black Haitian immigrants he lied about in the twenty twenty four election.

You remember when.

Trump was said, they're eating dogs they're eating cats. Remember that that's what Keith Boykin is talking about, along with various other things. Along with various other things, let me explain to you why I'm pissed. I'm not talking about Keith Boykin. Mad respect to you. Keep doing what you're doing.

I hope your career continues to elevate my brother.

I'm not speaking against him, only his position, And the reason that I preface my comments by saying that is because I'm gonna show a level of respect to him that most.

People don't show to me.

You don't like my opinion, so you attack me, you personalize it with your petty bs. You can disagree without being disagreeable. So I'm not talking about Keith Boykin.

I don't know him.

I'm talking about his point. Here's what pisses me off about that.

You don't have any respect.

For anybody who performs at Trump's inauguration or the events surrounding is inauguration. So that means does that mean you don't have any respect for anybody black who voted for him.

I'm not talking about myself because I didn't vote for him.

Does that mean you don't have any respect for black people who sat there and said, I'm interested in the economy. I'm interested in inflation. I'm interested in protecting our borders. I'm interested in elevating our national security. I'm interested in keeping the streets of the United States of America.

Is safe as possible.

What if their reasons and they're rationale for voting strictly protect to that.

What if this person.

Voted for him because they broke and they think he's gonna put more money in their pocket. What if this person voted for him because they're in a crime riating neighborhood and they feel leftists aren't having the streets.

Patrolled well enough. What if they want to call.

Nine to one one, but they live in an environment that people were supporting the funding the police, and as a result of that, you either have a paucity of police officers or you have police officers that ain't that interested in protecting a serving because they don't want to get villified.

What if the job market mattered.

There's a whole bunch of reasons why people vote the way that they vote. To sit up there and just blinkedly state that you don't respect anybody that showed up to an inauguration soldier boy, ain't got no right to go make some money.

They are different.

Everybody couldn't say, Man, if it was me, it's a different way to make the money.

Sure about that? Sure about that? I sold soldier boy pull out some cash. I couldn't see that well, I couldn't count, but it looked like at least six figures what it took most people, and what it takes most people to make it a year. The brother made in one night.

You sure you sure about that? You sure you could have found a way to go and make the kind of cash that he making. Snoop dogg worth over one hundred million dollars. He got a youth football league. This brother sending cast to college. He sending cast to the NFL. We just gonna ignore that because he performed at the inauguration. Let me tell you something right now, some of you in our community, I just say your community, I said ours.

It's unforgivable. Ice Cube n w a.

Ice cube dre easy all of them. And then Snoop came a board, not in wa but Snoop came aboard, Warrant G and the whole crew.

They took the rep game to another level.

You know what I mean, Black people made money off of hip hop? I mean black people have been employed because of hip hop. It transformed this world.

Is everything perfect about them? Hell no?

Is the way some of them carrying themselves right, No, the way some of them speak.

Hell no, I get all of that.

But damn, before they came along, you had white folks in the music industry.

Worshiping the devil.

And singing whatever the hell they wanted to sing. Nobody said anything but the Brothers come along, it's a problem. And now that the Brothers come along and they make something to themselves, and they got opportunities that they're willing to exploit, and they choose to be a political You want to get an ass?

What if they got in your ass? Keith Boykin?

What if they got And by you, I'm not talking about you specifically, bro Again, I respect you. Of what I know of you, I don't know much, but I like listening to you on television.

I respect you. I truly do.

What I mean by you is I'm talking about lefties. See, I'm a registered in dependent y'all trying to roll out there talk about and I'm gonna have on my lower third grip make that lower third for me. Put even a smith still a registered independent. I ain't changing, thank you, Griff. I ain't changing. I ain't no damn Republican. I ain't no conservative, nor am I a Democrat. I'm an independent.

Why because I don't like none of your asses. I don't trust you as far as I could throw you.

Conservatism, fiscally, taxes, border security, crime, that's me.

Liberal.

Any liberal policy that you got in terms of support of the LGBTQ community, I'm good with it.

Abortion rights, I'm good with it.

I'm not a Roe v Wade advocate, meaning I'm more pro choice than pro life. Not that I believe in abortion, because I don't. I just don't believe it. And he man should be telling what a woman what to do with their body. But I certainly understand if people during the election were not concerned about those issues, and people like the Keith Boykins of the world never brought that up. And I'm saying, yo, bro, nobody's saying you wrong about

Might care about. They might have other priorities.

And the Soldier Boy's case, it was making money, and in Nellie's case, it was being an artist, and in Snoop's case, it was about supporting his Snoop Youth League.

And all the things he has done and plans on doing. And by the way, all of.

These years he's been doing it, he's been coming out of his own pocket. And you got David Sack looking at him, is like, I'll support you.

Now.

We got a whole bunch of people here in the crypto world, in the AI world, in the bitcoin world, and beyond who's gonna look to help you. And he's thinking about how financial literacy is something that's gonna be taught to these kids, and these kids gonna be able to go out in the world and be better young man and probably professional football players and college graduates and civilized contributors to our society. And we find a way to have a problem with that. Really, that's what we're doing.

And that's a problem.

Y'all gonna lost y'all damn minds. But I had enough of y'all shit. I'm gonna get into how you you've lost your minds. Y'all gonna stop talking about my boys like that. You gonna stop going after my boys like that. And oh, by the way, let me tell you something right now, who's the cat that for?

From?

From rude boys that interviewed Nelly? Again, I'm sorry, I draw a blank Willie D. Now we all know Willie D's come We all know Willy D's come after me. He had a problem with me or whatever. But you see, I'm a grown ass man, So Willie D. I got something to say to you too.

Good job.

That's a damn good interview with Nelly. You gave a brother an opportunity to speak. You asked all the right questions, the kind of questions that people wanted to know and the kind of answers that folks wanted emanating from him.

Good job.

See, that's what grown men do. I'm not gonna go back at Willie D. Because he came at me in the past. He had a difference of opinion than me. I wish that man nothing but the best. I hope podcast continues to flourish and shine. He did a damn good job with that Nelly interview.

Some of y'all others out here, y'all lost, y'all.

Ever loving minds. And back to you, mister Boykin, respectfully.

I got some things to point out that I'd like you to consider the next time you going to kind of diet tribe. You went on on.

CNN, by the way, again, that was on CNN with Abby Philip, a reporter that now has her own show on CNN, and when I have time, and she asked me to come. If I have time, I go and support her and Lower Coast because they're my sisters. I ain't apologizing for that. Nobody ain't gona stop me from going on Handity, and't go stop me from going on Chris Cuomo. But if the sisters call and I got time in my schedule and I'm available, I happily do

So I just want you to know that. But I heard what you said.

I watched it from start to finish, and there was some things you left out. There's some things that Democrats always want.

To leave out.

I'm sick and tired of the bullshit from the left. And if I sound ticked off, ladies and gentlemen, that's why I feel hoodwinked by the Democratic Party. That's why I'm pissed. I'm not pissed because I'm a Trump support. I didn't vote for him before, I didn't vote for him this time. I'm pissed off because I feel hood winked, and I don't like to feel hood winked.

I'll elaborate with more about that in a minute. Stephen A. Smith schell back with more in a second.

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I want to make sure that as I go forward, everybody knows that I'm not getting personal and I'm not personally attacking anyone. I'm an attack what you say and how you feel and what you expressed, but I'm not going to attack you, and I'm certainly wasn't attacking Keith Boyk,

Upon hearing the news.

According to a post shared on x by a gentleman by the name of Aurelius R. Hernandez, a journalist with the Washington Post, some migrants in Mexico were seeing crying when they learned that the appointments were no longer valid.

The denied entry.

I'm gonna repeat what I said said seconds ago. Anybody who speaks on this subject in favor of Donald Trump's decision with glee, with joy coming out of their mouth, with their facial expressions, in their heart and soul, you really really need to question their humanity. This is cruel, This is so unfortunate, This is so sad, but necessary. You see, when we're talking, and this is one of

If you didn't do that. Joe Biden, who by.

The way, made sure he departed out of office pardoning of granting clemencyed over twenty five hundred people for nonviolent.

Offenses, not to mention all of his family members, all of them. All of them. Okay, make sure they couldn't be touched. If you didn't.

Have open borders your first week on the job in twenty twenty one, it might not have.

Come to this. You see.

Trump talked a lot of smack, and this is the part that he's not giving credit for He talked a lot of smack about mass immigration and deportation and stuff like that. In his first term, even talked about ending birthright, citizenry, citizenship, remember that. But what did he actually do. He talked about building a wall, a great big wall, and the Mexican's is gonna pay for it, And then they deduced that he probably built about two percent.

Of the wall.

You know why he couldn't get things done to the degree that he had portended and it campaigned on back in twenty sixteen, because Barack Obama was the deporter in chief. He didn't advertise it, but he wasn't having it. He didn't allow folks to come in mass into our country.

Nobody else allows it but us nobody.

You can't go into Mexico like that, you can't going to Venezuela like that. You can't go anywhere in this world with those kind of open borders that Joe Biden okayed. Barack Obama didn't do it. And the reason why Trump had a hard time was because the Barack Obama was the deporter in chief. They said, he just didn't advertise it, he didn't boss the brag about it.

But had he done it, had he not done it. I'm sorry. Then Trump could have lived up to his campaign promises.

But you know why Trump couldn't do that when he was in office first go round, because he would have mirrored Barack Obama or looked worse. We have to pay attention to what's going on. I bring up what mister Boykin said on CNN. Why because you're talking about what respect you have or lack thereof for black people who would perform at the inauguration. So obviously you feel the same way about people who voted for Trump. I did neither.

This is y'all lane, not my lane compared to y'all. I got that part.

Some people try to sit up there and say, Joe Biden deported more people than Donald Trump.

Whatever.

You open the borders, fourteen million people crossed. It cost this country billions, which is the subject we'll get into in just a second. But the reason why I brought up what we gotta start doing. We can't keep talking about the right. We can't keep talking about conservatives. We can't keep talking about what are danger Donald Trump is to our society without mentioning the left, meaning Biden, you want to bring up the Central Park case. Donald Trump

It was used as a tool to point.

To what some would deem racial insensitivity or racist behavior when America was worried about their own wallets. They don't care because the vast majority of Americans are still white in this country. Hispanics don't make up thirty percent of the population, Blacks don't make up fifty percent of the population. It's still a predominantly white society. That's not gonna fly with them anymore. Because they got their own bills to worry about, and they all streets to worry about walking in.

They ain't falling for it, So we got that issue. You brought up Donald Trump.

And being a landlord and not wanting to rent the black folks. Did you mention Joe Biden and his relationship with segregationist Robert Bird West Virginia KKK member, to bring that up. See if you bring up Donald Trump with that, You gotta bring that up. You bring up Donald Trump with that, You gotta bring up Joe Biden, senator, prominent senator with Clinton's crime bill that was widely accused of contributing the mass incarceration that disproportionately affected black people in the nation.

Gotta bring that up at least did you forget to bring that up?

Or did you not want to point out how the Congressional Black Caucus had something to do with persuading Joe Biden the positions that he took as a senator at that particular moment in time in the nineties when Bill Clinton was in office.

You gotta mention it.

Did you have any problem with Joe Biden going on to the breakfast club and trying to define who was black and who wasn't in terms of you choosing him or body. If you don't vote for me, you vote for Trump, you ain't black. We can't have it both ways, It's all I'm saying. And right now, that's what got the Democrats booted out of office. That's what has them being the minority in the House and the Senate and

Well, we are on the eve of an authoritarian administration. This is what twenty first century fascism is starting to look like. Republicans really model themselves after Orbond's Hungry, and so you can look to see how Victor Orbon runs Hungry to get a taste of how they will try to govern and control media and companies in the United States. And this is kind of an entree to that as far as what we do. You know, this is a time of experimentation.

A lot of people will still use platforms, can still use platforms. But I also look towards places where you have more ownership as well and develop your audiences there, like Blue Sky, you own your audience. It's a protocol, decentralized protocol.

Did you say control the media aoc By the way, I appreciate your work. I appreciate what you.

Do for your constituencies in the Bronze, but your constituency in the Bronx, But did you talk about controlling the media?

Is that what you brought up? So the left has had.

No control hunh. So the left is not engaged in bullying tactics. So Wolke culture didn't exist where people had to make sure they echoed the right pronoun in order to keep their job security, where you had to sit up there and.

God forbid you.

You literally challenge somebody uh with regards to transgender issues, and you were considered to be transphobic.

Where one minute we were.

Called upon to protect the young ladies and the women in our society, and then that got thrown out the window the second a male was transitioning the female and wanted to participate in female sports, and then all of a sudden, it wasn't any consistency with the stuff that had been being spewed beforehand and ultimately enforced, so that as the Republicans that we need to be worried about it.

But not y'all. Y'all would never do such a thing. Oh my goodness, it would never be you. It would never be y'all. That would never happen. Huh. Really, really, this is exactly why Trump is in office.

Racist, fascist, and all of these other names you had. That's what you do when you're on the left, not paying attention to the fact that a vast majority of American people tie to that. When you're gonna tell us a message we want to hear, when you're gonna tell us a message we need to hear. Right now, let me read to you. Read to you from the Wall Street Journal today. Allow me to put on my reading glasses and read this to you. Fir Betam from the

On the first day of his second term.

Trump's immigration plans include ending birth citizenship, deploying troops, and declaring a national emergency at the southern border, as well as ending asylum by speeding deportations. Trump said as he was sworn in on Monday, quote, with these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense.

Those weren't his words. What ammunition would he have to say such a thing? How about everything? I put it out. Trump didn't win the election, you all lost. You put him in there.

And let me get real raw with this. It got so bad with Biden an office. Racism was thrown aside. Transgender issues don't make up one percent of this population. Black people make up more nearly fourteen percent of this population, and for a vast majority of the last few years, that issue has been more important than issues pertaining to black people.

It seemed that is just the truth.

And I didn't even bring up the money. We don't have money for police officers. We don't have money to.

Keep the streets safe.

We don't have money to make sure there's no inflation, or that if there is inflation, it doesn't drastically affect us because you got enough people in America making a hard earned, honest, fruitful living. But we got enough money to let in fourteen million immigrants illegally. We got enough money for fifty three million dollars in prepaid credit cards in the state of New York. We got enough money to allow seventeen cities in the United States to be sanctuary cities.

At least.

We got enough money to throw billions to Ukraine. We got enough money for all of that, but we don't have enough money to address the American needs. I've said to y'all on repeated occasion, what is my ultimate claim to success? It happened in two thousand and nine when I got fired and I had to take a long, hard look on myself at myself. It's in my book Straight Shooter, a member of Second Chances of the First Taket. You really should read it. It's very motivational in this opirational.

How do I get some of it?

Because the system is rigged, ladies and gentlemen, the power broke is that be almost all of whom are white, have designed a system to ensure they're going to get theirs.

And in order for you to get yours. Even while you're getting yours, they gonna get theirs.

You just saw me talking about Drake and Kendrick Lamarta other day, both of them under the Universe of Music Group umbrella.

You don't think there's white folks in power at the Universal Music Group.

You know what?

You don't think?

So you don't think all these artists out here that is making money, nain't somebody white near the top or at the top that's making sure they get this. Yere agents, lawyers, accountants. The system is designed to make sure they get paid.

Of float them. That's what happened. That's the truth. And they come uppance arrived to the left because what they tried to do was eliminate an entire system of government that the American people are not only comfortable with, but addicted to. And everything you see right now is then reminding you of that.

That's why Trump and his administration teased Biden out the door, showing a picture.

Of him and a White House and an eviction.

Notice, that's why Elon Musk is up there doing whatever damn symbols and signals he's doing.

It's why change came.

And as alarming as the change is, it seemed closer to most Americans citizens to normalcy than what we've been experiencing the past four years. This ain't about the right anymore. It's about what the left tried to turn this nation into and guilted us and fear manged us and intimidated us into supporting no more, No More. Independence is the way to go. The hell with the right and the left. Do what's best for you and do what's best for

Enough's enough. Independence is the way to go.

Because of that reason, more than anything else, one person who should just be quiet, not independent, but quiet.

It's Scottie Pippot. I'll tell you why in ad minute you're watching them. Stephen Smith show back with Morning Say welcome back to the Steven AI Smith Show.

Right here for the digital it was a YouTube and of course iHeartRadio once again. This is the day we celebrate doctor Martin Luther King Junior. I know it didn't sound like we were doing that over the first two segments, because unfortunately there were issues that we had to delve

This country could be.

On a day like today where we celebrate his you know, just everything about him. It's Martin Luther King Junior holiday. It's not his birthday. His birthday was January fifteenth. Today is the day we celebrate him. They designated just for him. It seemed weird to say the least, that on a day that we're celebrating him is the day that Trump

And they showed that at the voting booth. So it is what it is. We are where we are, but.

No matter where we are in this country, we always pause to celebrate one of the greatest human beings God ever placed on this earth, an angel, without question, let me say this. Moving on to the world of sports, before I get into Scottie Pippen and his appearance on Patrick Bette David Podcast PbD.

To be exact, a couple of things I wanted to point to.

Number one, I'm here in Atlanta, Georgia for the National Championship Game the night between the Ohio State Buckeyes and of course Notre Dame. Notre Dames got one chance. They have to be incredibly physical. They have to be the more physical team. There's no other way that they're going to beat Ohio State. Ohio State just have skilled individuals that practically every damn position. Jeremiah Smith is the truth. A freshman, He's probably the best receiver in football. He

As well.

Treyvion Henderson running out of the backfield, There's no joke. Ohio State with their twenty million dollar nil roster, with eleven NFL caliber players having returned to the lineup this season, they're the best team right now. There is no way that No The Dame should win this game unless they have a lot of luck, and that's gonna be facilitated by an elevated level of physicality.

Their defense is no joke.

But offensively, Riley lenn has got to run the football effectively, and he's got to throw the football accurately and not kill himself by committing turnovers. So I want to get that out the way. I've got Ohio State winning this game. I would love to see Marcus Freeman win the game. Martin Luther King holiday in Atlanta, Georgia black coach winning the national championship in football for the first.

Time, and it's oh my lord, I would love it.

I just don't see them beating the Ohio State without an absolutely perfect game and complete panic and choke job on a part of Ohio State.

So I got Ohio State winning this game. Number one. Number two.

We saw Lamar Jackson lose last night in the AFC Divisional playoff game to the Buffalo Bills. I know he committed a turnover through a bad interception. I know he also committed a full hardy turnover and losing the ball that was ultimately scooped up by Von Miller returned a few yards before Buffalo scored those seven points. But I can't put the weight of the loss to the Buffalo Bills.

On Lamar Jackson.

Mark Andrews is one of the most reliable tight ends in all of football. He got stripped to the ball in the middle of the field while they were driving by Terrebinard. I saw Todd Munkin again knowing that the Ravens were running the football effectively, still refusing to run it as much as he should. First game, they blew out Buffalo thirty five to ten. During the regular season, they accumulated tw hundred seventy one yards rushing. Last night it was one seventy six. Not bad at all, but

Mark Andrews, who dropped it. Lamar Jackson was not perfect. They gotta stop turning the football over. Those turnovers don't happen.

They probably win this game, but it was still Theirs to win, and Mark Andrews messed up not once, by twice.

Can not can't take that away from Lamar Jackson.

Last sports subject is Jaden Daniels for the Washington Commanders.

Ladies and gentlemen, this brother is the truth.

Now, I know that the Detroit Lions had a bunch of dudes on the injured reserve, on the injured list rather on the defensive side of the ball.

I don't give a damn. Jaden Daniels is that dude.

Now he's got the biggest challenge of his life going up against the Philadelphia Eagles this weekend in Philadelphia and the NFC Championship Game for a right to go to the Super Bowl.

I get that part, but I will.

Remind all of y'all that Jayden Daniels has played the two playoff games as a rookie. In his career, He's accumulated over six hundred and fifty yards, six touchdowns, three interceptions, completing seventy percent of his passes sixty five percent of his passes. I'm sorry, the brothers the real deal, no panic in him, and Washington knows what they have on his hands. He's better than RG three was, and RG three was fantastic before Holoadly NodD and nearly had his leg.

Amputated with that vicious hit.

Even before, well then, as great as RG three looked, he didn't look like this.

Jaden Daniels is the truth and a half.

And if he beats Philadelphia with Vic Fangio's defense coming at him and he finds a way to pull this off, I think Jayden Daniels might win the Super Bowl. I think Jaden Daniels might be Patrick Mahomes with Josh Allen. I don't know that yet, but I think he could.

Listen to this, Would you put yourself ahead of Lebron as a team standpoint?

My success as a team is more successful pulling Lebron. I got six rings.

Okay, So then if I if I talk to an NBA owner, By the way, this is very helpful because this is very helpful because for me as a fan, I've followed this. So if I speak from an NBA standpoint owner, and I want to find an all around player to be my number one. You think the average owner is going to pick you or Lebron?

I don't know, got it?

Okay?

So that you want individual accolade, so you want championships because I didn't chase Minds Scottie.

Come on, bro, excuse my language. That's some straight bullshit. Stop stop.

I challenge anybody to find me a better defensive player than Scottie Pippen. Michael Jordan has said on many occasions he doesn't win six rings without Scotty, and not get that Scotty.

You were never that dude offensively, stop stop it. Now.

I'm as critical of Lebron James as anybody who's fair minded, not these haters out here and not these people that you know. I'm neither a hater, nor I'm the one that kisses his touch every chance you get. Lebron James is one of the top two three players in the history of basketball, and you know it.

How do we know?

You know that there's certain times you flirted with him being better than Michael Jordan, and you know that's blasphemy. But you were never that offensive player.

Scottie. You know how we know because when Jordan retired the first go around, you had an opportunity to be that dude.

You were an All Star, you know, All Star Game VP. You took them to the Eastern Conference semifinals. The Hugh Hollins callt was awful against Hubert Davis on you. I got that against you rather on Hubert Davis. I got that part. But Scottie Pipper, you didn't get it done. And if you were that dude, how come you couldn't be like Kobe and be like Yo, I want Shaq gone. I want to show you what the hell I could

You forgot that, Scottie.

Tell her you talking about and we can accuse Lebron James of a lot of things. The brother got four rings, Scotty, He's got four He's been to ten NBA finals and by the way, he never had a migraine in a game seven. It never happened only to you. But I digress. Let's hear from Scottie Pipper again, because he wasn't. He didn't stop there. He was talking about who his goat is.

Magic is goat. Listen to this.

It's not even worth talking about the two of them. When you ask who's better Lebron or Michael, you can't ask me who's the goat between Lebron and Michael. Neither one of them are goats. They both won differently. You

See that's the bullet right there, not bullster right there, right there, right there.

You just told them yourself. I'm gonna get to that in a second. What's the game.

Great job by Patrick David. Great job, well, Scott, he didn't stop dad when it came to the goat. Listen to what he said here about.

Himself, you saying I want to be remembered as the greatest of all time. How much of that was really what you believed in. How much of that was you trying to sell a book, and how much of that was somebody behind closed doors flattering you, saying you didn't get enough credit for what you did during the Chicago's run.

Uh.

I think it's just me believing in myself in the way that I played the game. I did it were I won, I played the right way. My teammates loved the way that I played, and people my peers respected the way that I played, and I feel like that I got out of the game everything that I put into it.

Flattery is to put a little wedge between you. I know it's not a comfortable thing to probably talk about, But did any of that happen where someone was saying, come on, Scotty, Michael would have never won six without you. Come on, Scotty this and Michael said it himself. But from your standpoint, no.

That's you know. The reason why I say stuff like that is because when you play the game the way that I played it, you play on both ends. Why can't I say that.

Oh, that's Okay, you can say that.

So no one I'm saying you can't say yeah and say it and mean it. Oh so you do believe that I'm saying, yeah, look at my Look at the stats. I got six rings two. Look at my accolades, I got defensive player all NBA. So playing the game the right way in winning mean something to me, and it meant a lot to me. I don't have the MVPs, but guess what somebody that was with me got it.

Oh my god, drug test him now? I want test. Take him into ka urine sample, get a blood test. Drug test him now. You got to be kidding me. I can't believe what we just heard. I can't believe it. And damn Patrick Brett Davis, I love you, but let me tell you something right now. If you try to tell me that Scottie Priveleys is justified and calling himself the best, you need to be drug tested too. Olius, Olius? How you gonna be? How you the best when you

I mean?

What?

Oh? This it?

It hurts me because I don't want to do this. If you're the best. Why were you calling for Jordan? If you're the best. Why were you pouting on a bench when Phil Jackson called Tony Kooker coach's number instead of yours in a playoff series against the Knicks? If you the best, why was Bill Cartwright in the locker room crying while excoriating you from abandoning your teammates? You led, you led, You also quit, you quit. You had a

Michael Jordan was.

Left crying on the bus in his daddy's arms, talking about where we're gonna win. Bill Cartwright already told you was crying. What are you talking about? Michael Jordan averaged over thirty. About eight or nine times you played defense. Michael Jordan wasn't First team All NBA Defensive Team. Nine times you had to play defense because you wanted that great offensively tremendous athleticism.

Six ' nine, could.

Dunk on anybody, as Patrick Ewan would tell you, had.

A sporadic jump shot.

You were big enough, in physical enough, and talented enough to score on an open court. But a number one option key the pond. That wasn't your game. That was Lebron's game. That wasn't your game. That was Kobe's game. That wasn't your game. That was Michael Jordan's game. Hel Vince Carter was a number one option. Helen Officer was a number one option. What are you talking about? What are you talking about?

Goat? You?

You wanted a great ones, you wanted a great one Scotti, But the goat when your teammate was Scott was Michael Jordan. Oh, by the way, I didn't even bring up when you went to Portland because you wanted your money, you went to Portland. Wasn't that you went to wat Portland trail up about fifteen in that game seven when Kobe through the alley oop to Shaq, who brought down the house one?

That's your team? What's y'all?

One trip away from the finals. Wasn't that you were talking about? He's talking about?

I got a question, Pat Bet Patrick bet David. I got a question.

Because you like your basketball, you know your basketball. A lot of you don't realize how much you know about basketball.

What a big NBA fan you are. I got a question for you. Was there ever a time, Patrick Bette Davis. That's right.

I'm calling you out, my brother, because I love you. You know I love you and the crew. Y'all know that I was just hanging out with you another day. Let me ask you a question, man, is there any time in your lifetime watching basketball that you either set yourself or heard somebody say Scottie Pippen was in a gold conversation?

Ever? I got another question for you. Has Scottie Pippen.

All of these years ever said that he's been asked about Jordan and Lebron or Jordan versus Lebron, or Jordan versus Kobe forever. Scottie Pippen never told nobody, Nah, it's

We gotta do that.

We gotta do that for Scotty, because clearly you want to sell a book. Because we ain't heard this before. We ain't heard this before. I ain't gotta be kidding me, Yeah, I'll be kidding me.

Oh my lord.

Everybody need to get truck tested first, even me. Hell, I need to get drug tested. I might smart smoking, so we just I can get.

Let me do something. I might start smoking, so weed.

Just to get this damn thinking, I just damn thinking out of my head.

This is blasphemy. Better than Lebron, better than MJ.

Come on, man, come on, man, you know better than that. I'm gonna leave this alone from now. I might have to revisit this in a couple of days, but I gotta move on because I gotta get on out of here. Maybe the biggest story of the week, and bigger than the NFL playoffs and this Scottie Pippen stuff and all of that and the inauguration combined was to shut down a subsequent respiration of TikTok, which is being credited to Trump by many, by the way, including those of TikTok.

That'll up next. That's what I need to discuss.

Roe Connor, Representative out of the seventeenth District of California Congressional figure.

He's up next. Don't go away. Got something to show y'all about TikTok. You don't want to miss it before I get on out of here today, right here on the Stephen A.

Smith Show, because I got a head on over to the National Championship game between Notre Dame and the Ohio State tonight in Atlanta, Georgia. Let me touch on this story involving TikTok, the restoration of TikTok, because it was canceled as blacked out. You know, it was blacked out in the United States of America as you can see there, you know, people crying, kids crying, everybody going crazy and

Take a look.

When I wanted to disable TikTok three years ago, I was met with opposition from Rhinos, Democrats and everyone else. They actually went to court in an effort to stop me.

We're looking at TikTok.

We may be banning TikTok, we may be doing some other things.

There are a couple of options, but a.

Lot of things are happening, so we'll see what happens.

But we are looking at a lot of alternatives.

With respect to TikTok. We gave them until September fifteen. After that they got a close shop. Okay, that's TikTok. We're looking at TikTok.

We're thinking about making a decision.

We're going to be watching the hearings today.

Very closely, because there's no question is that watching the big tech companies are doing. And as of today, TikTok is back. So you know, I did a little TikTok thing.

We have a guy TikTok.

Jackie is a young kid like twenty one years old, and we hired this guy and I went on TikTok and you believe what I'll do to win an election. And we went on TikTok and Republicans.

Have never won the young vote, the youth vote.

They win a lot of votes, but they never won the youth vote. We won the youth vote by thirty six points.

So I like TikTok.

I like him.

Now he likes it. Amazing what election time can do for you. So and he's got TikTok because the executive for TikTok was at the inauguration. Of course, Jeff Bezos for Amazon was there. Mark Zuckerberg for Meta, Facebook, Instagram, he was there, and of course Elon Musk for x is there. Notice how your now president is insulating himself

Of messages the world over.

Everybody don't have ESPN and Fox News and all of this stuff. But they got TikTok, they got asks, they got meta, Facebook, Instagram, that kind of thing they got that.

These most of them do.

Anyway, before I get to Representative Connor on his show with Me, I wanted you to see what Roland Martin had to say about this whole TikTok brew ha ha. And now President Donald Trump take a look.

So let me explain to y'all real quick, the con artist Donald Trump. It was Donald Trump who called for the ban of TikTok. It was Donald Trump who pushed Congress to get it done. More Republicans voted to ban TikTok than Democrats. Go look at Charlie Kirk okay, Trump's biggest ass kisser. You know what he was saying. He was tweets saying, We've got to get rid of TikTok. The Chinese government owns it. Now it's oh, we have

Don't be conned exactly. Rollingmand is absolutely right.

The only thing Rollandmard did wrong in that video was the outfit that he was wearing because the Houston Texas just got sent told by the Can City Chiefs. Although controversially, I might add, because so many people thought that that phantom call against uh in favor of Patrick Mahomes, against Will Anderson and those boys was ridiculous.

But the only thing.

Wrong with what Roland Martin, what Roland Martin showed you there was the outfit he was wearing because they Home and Kansas City Chiefs are the n AFC Championship game. Yet, again, having said all of that, he's not wrong.

We could see that Boo boo, the fool could see that.

We know exactly what Donald Trump is doing with this regard because he wants TikTok to be purchased, you know, away from Byte Dance, which is China owned and owned by some US cooperation, probably some conservative on and yet as a result, they'd be beholden to him and his messaging and so you have a situation where it'd be again TikTok, Meta, Facebook, Instagram, Acts, etc.

You know Amazon with its distribution on because.

It ain't just goods and services they got, they got a streaming on itself that is for formidable and is growing every single day with Jeff Bezos at the Helm. Okay, I got news for you. Look at who Donald Trump has surrounded himself with. He's insulated himself and at any given moment as the President of the United States, he's gonna have a heavy hand. The dams saw this, but you still messed up because you didn't have a candidate to beat him. It's that simple. You did this to yourself.

How are you so? How's everything going good? Stephen?

And thank you for having me on your show. I've been a fan for years, so I'm glad to be on.

The honor and privileges mindset.

Before I even get into these questions about TikTok, I'm assuming that you yourself, your family, your homes are safe, and everything is okay with you out in California.

I think it'd be appropriate to start there, sir. How are things.

I appreciate it.

I'm up in the north of the state, Silicon Valley, so we've been safe. Unfortunately, some of the constituents have family friends.

In La which has just been devastated.

I'm glad we were talking earlier, and I'm glad your home is okay, but I'm sure you know a ton of people who just lost their homes devastated. Some people haven't been able to move back in. It's just been awful, and I hope the country can come together to rebuild and forget the politics, and people's lives are in stake, their homes are at stake. We got to come together on this.

I completely agree with you, absolutely, and that's something that we're going to talk about in the days, the weeks, and the months to come.

Make no mistake about that.

But one of the other things that have basically rocked the foundation of America at least for at least for a little bit, was the specter of TikTok being canceled. And obviously you've been a preeminent voice on that issue. Just to educate my audience, tell the audience about what the whole TikTok issue is about and what your position on it has been all along.

There is a concern that TikTok is owned by a Chinese Communist Party's affiliate, some company connected to the Chinese Communist Party. Now sixty percent of the investors are American. But the concern was could our data go to the Chinese government or could the Chinese government interfere with the algorithm?

I mean, folks think it's all song and dance or just sports. It's not.

I mean I talked to a mom. Her husband cheated on her. She's got four kids, two toddlers, two special needs kids. She was broke on one of her friends couches for four months, and then she started telling her story on TikTok. And she makes sixty to seventy grand to take care of her kids. Someone else is paying rent. And all of this was going to get shut down. And so we had a one point three million people in forty three forty eight hours sign a petition saying

When people wanted it banned. Who exactly were these people number one and number two? What was the most profound argument you were concerned was being made to indeed band TikTok.

Well, a lot of these people were China hawks. They said that we.

Can't have China have any control over Americans data.

And if I actually thought that.

Our data was getting in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party through tiktak, and that there was no other way to prevent it.

I'd be for the ban, but there are other solutions.

The Texas Project, for example, says make sure all the data is managed by Oracle, and you can't have any of the data leave the United States. If I really thought the Chinese Commuties Party was doing this algorithm to manipulate things, I'd be concerned.

That was the concern.

But look, Steve and I we have a history in this country of using national security concerns for government overreach. We've in turned all the Japanese with Fdr maccarthier, we called everyone a communist. I think this was government overreach.

You know, I've thought about that myself.

The thing that kind of scared me, what have you, is when they kept like you called them China hawks. I mean, that's an appropriate way to label those folks. But when they brought in issues of using these apps, these algorithms, etc. To sort of spy on us, to indoctrinate our children with certain things. And then you see, I have two daughters, and you see how addicted these young minds.

Are to TikTok.

The part about adults using it as a small business essentially to generate revenue for themselves. That's entirely different than youngsters using it, it being a form of education for them, a news outlet for them in various situations, many situations, I might add, what about those China Hawks who made those concerns?

How much did that move you? If at all?

Well, the young people reaching out moved me a lot.

I had a lot of messages and nieces who've been in Congress eight years who've never cared about a single thing I did, who suddenly started texting me saying, please save TikTok.

And there's a lot.

Of good uses of TikTok given for young folks, whether they're building community of whether they're learning on education. Now, social media has harms, and I'm not going to deny that some of the social media has harmed young people, particularly young girls, where they're eating disorder issues or suicidal thoughts.

Here's the hypocrisy that I want to point out.

They voted for the band, and then they go tell their campaign teams go get me the most followers on TikTok because that's where the voters are. And everyone, every member of Congress, every stand or everyone running.

For president wanted to grow their following. So there was a lot of hypocrisy in the whole thing.

We sort of had a TikTok the own of TikTok he was seeing at now President Donald Trump's inauguration.

What are we to make of that?

In your eyes, I'm sure they have some kind of an agreement, you know. I believe that he's probably trying to curry favor with Trump. In my view, we shouldn't allow Trump to be the savior here. It should be a position that even Democrats say that there should be American investment.

But not a band.

But my guess is that that was orchestrated with Trump and the TikTok CEO, that it would go dark for twelve hours and then Trump would reinstate it and they probably have some agreement already.

How much would from a percentage standpoint representative of Connor, how much would you say in terms of support you've received from the left as opposed to the other side of the isle on the right, How would you percentage wise? What kind of percentage would you place on a level of support you've received with your position on this.

You know, it's been both.

Actually, I think a lot of it on the TikTok position of the one point three Mills signature is.

Probably over half.

Because I'm on the left and as the democratic politician, over half of it has been the left.

But we've also had conservatives.

And the reality is there are a lot of young people who have out of the mainstream views, whether it's on foreign policy, whether it is on policies that are more conservative, and they're saying, you get all these politicians saying we want young people involved. Then they get involved

It's one of the reasons I enjoy your.

Commentary even when I don't agree with you, because you don't just listen to what the think tank in groups tell you. You know, one of the biggest myths in Washington. They tell you two hundred groups are for something, and I want to know how many people, because a lot of times it's two hundred groups with one hundred and thirty people, and they just make these organizations up and they're not listening to people on the ground.

You know, I really are really appreciated and more than you know you saying that about me a congressman, because here's the thing. I don't pretend to be right all the time, not by a long shot. What I'm saying is the information that is available to us, I look at it and deduce what my opinion should be based on the information that's given. Somebody like you are significantly more informed. You'll know more than I do.

So will others.

But you know the argument I make to people like that, I say to them, I'm the voter, because most voters aren't as you know, in tuned with all of the intel and all of the information, what are you gonna say to the voter out there you don't know?

Excuse me.

They know enough to decide what they want to vote about and what they want to vote in favor of. And I think that's important that you mentioned that, because I think that's one of the things that so many people miss. They're really ready to come back and talk about what's right or wrong as opposed to looking at the information that's disseminated and understanding. People are basing their feeling, the emotions, their passions based off of the intel that has been presented to them.

So I think it's important to say that.

Having said that, there are different versions of TikTok in other countries, could you explain why that is and whether or not that is a concern you may have.

Well, look, this is one of the reasons other countries like India era others have banned TikTok because they felt that TikTok was going to propagate at false information or propaganda a couple of things.

One, I actually think the free speech tradition in.

America is very strong, and they are multiple apps, and we can educate young people and our citizens to have common sense. I wouldn't under undersell yourself, Staven. I mean, you may not have all the details, but you've got common sense and you have.

An independent opinion.

Like I don't know, a lot of times I see people on TV, I can tell you exactly what they're going to say. I can finish their sentences. In your case, I don't know, is he going to be for the democratic position? Is he going to agree sometimes with the end of tender republican position? Because it's common sense, that's

Got it.

Should the fact that TikTok is banned in mainland China be of concern because it clearly is. I mean, I don't want to accuse you of not being concerned about it, but certainly it doesn't supersede whether you feel.

Are you concerned about that at all?

Well, I'm concerned about China in general banning, not just TikTok, But why why do they ban X?

I mean, I think Elon Musk had a reasonable point that if we're going to allow TikTok, you should be allowing X, you should be allowing Instagram. But look, China is not the United States of America. I mean, the reason everyone around the world wants to come to the United States of America is because we're a free country, because you can have differences of opinion. So, yeah, China has created a huge manufacturing base, They've created.

A trillion dollar export economy. But you can't have an opinion there.

You can't criticize ggiping, you can't go run for office, you can't be a commentator with a podcast.

I don't want to live in that society. So is China playing fear? No?

But does that mean that America should model ourselves over China. Absolutely not. We're a better organized society.

You've led legislation right to keep the app? Where do you go from here? Because it was canceled and now it's back up, but we don't know how long.

What do you what do you think is next?

Well, Rand Paul and I have legislation to try to repeal the legislation that calls for a ban of TikTok and have something more common sense that says protect Americans data with a data privacy law, protect American social media from foreign interference by the Chinese Counties Party or other adversaries. But if that legislation doesn't pass, and it's an uphill to get enough House and Senate members, I'm going to work with Michael Waltz, who's President Trump's National security advisor.

This so that you don't have this drama happening every ninety.

Days, but that we get TikTok operational compliant, assuring people that their data is.

Going to be safe.

Representative of Rocana, Representative Congressman from the seventeenth District of California. It's been a non and a privilege to have you on today, sir, Thank you so much. You take care maia honor.

Thank you for having me and talking about this.

Yes, sir, you are what he had to say, It's a lot to think about, and especially taking into account what he explained and what Roland Martin pointed out, and what we've seen is the visuals alone. We need to keep our eyes on what exactly is going to happen with the TikTok yes has been restored for how long? What legislation, if any, will be passed out to the Republic have control of the House and the Senate and

To Donald Trump?

And how will the narratives be influenced now and for years to come. You can call it whatever you want. They can call it fascism or whatever the case may be. Hell in the end, we don't know. They might be right. But all it would mean if you're a Democrat, if you're a Democratic representative, if you're a member of that side of the aisle, all it would mean is that you did it.

Not the American people.

Had you taken care of us the way you were supposed to, by making sure the right things were important to the constituency, it would not have come to this It's on y'all, not us, not people like me who voted for you and now people like Donald Trump supporters who voted against you and voted for him.

You did this, he was done in twenty twenty one. You resurrected him. Live with that.

We know we have to, but we damn sure don't have to listen to you tell us, especially when you're the ones that fall in the end. I'm out, y'all. Stephen A signing off, see you in a couple of days. Peace of love,