Name: How Jon Favreau DISCOVERED Osama Bin Laden Was Killed
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Yeah, I think those first two years, the understanding is that you guys had a
rough one, right?
And what, like, did you get yelled at?
No.
Rom?
You never, you never...
Oh, Rom.
Did Rom, you got Romed?
Oh, yeah.
He seemed a scary guy.
Yeah, but you know what?
He was a scary guy, but I finally realized that when he yells at you, you just
have to
yell back at him.
Really?
And then, then it's fine.
You would yell back?
I finally did, because he would...
Fuck you.
He would just, like, once in a while call and win and be like, I got this great
line for
the speech that, like, Carvel sent me or Begala sent me, you know?
And I was like, okay, cool, what's the line?
And it's a line that sounds like it's from the 90s.
And I was like, and then he was like, come on, like, yelling at me.
And then finally, I was just like, no.
Yeah, and he's missing a finger.
Rom was a yeller, but we, like, the Obama campaign didn't have, like, yellers.
That wasn't, like, Axe Rod wasn't like that.
Plop wasn't like that.
It really was when we got to the White House, some of the old Clinton-era
people that came
on.
Rom, mostly.
Rom was like a, Rom was a figure that was different than the typical Obama.
Do you think that there was a resentment amongst those Clinton people?
Like, because in D.C. my understanding is that, like, he didn't serve a full
term in
the Senate, even, Obama.
He was like, you know, skipping the line pisses people off.
And do you think that in the party there was, like, a resentment that kind of
lasted?
I don't know.
I think that, all I know is that when Hillary came on as Secretary of State,
they're, like,
we were all very skeptical.
All of us on the staff level who've been on the campaign.
I think her staff was also probably skeptical.
I think that Obama and Hillary genuinely developed a good relationship.
And so that wasn't, that wasn't much of an issue.
Yeah.
I think the more, I think the resentment probably came more from Congress.
Like, Democrats in Congress did not think, like, they were very happy that
Barack Obama
was president.
They loved him.
But they did not think that, like, they owed him everything and had to do
whatever he
said.
Because I think a lot of them thought, well, I've been here for a lot longer
than you
have.
Is it true that, like, the vice president is, like, the loser?
Like, the total fucking loser?
I think that's what my understanding is, is that you get a vice president, you
fucking,
you fucking just abuse them.
No.
Like, go figure out this impossible thing, loser.
There's a little bit of that.
You'll be the czar of the impossible thing.
No, Biden got to be, like, like, help manage the Recovery Act.
That was his, that was his first job.
Why did you give him a good one?
He liked it, too.
Yeah, I don't know.
No, I think you're lying, dude.
You can't have the vice president.
He probably got a bad job at some point.
The vice president's head can't get too big, right?
Yeah, no.
No, the vice president, it's just tough, because, like, it's a job where you
don't have any
official responsibilities.
So, like, every new vice president has to, like, make up with the president
what their
job is.
Obama would never be the vice president, right?
Because he's too, he's too, he's got too much sauce.
He's going to give a speech that's too good that John Kerry is going to want to
steal.
Right.
Right.
Yeah, he would never be the vice president.
You can't get a guy that's, like, going to, like, look good.
Yeah.
You can't get, you have to get a guy that's, like, you know.
Well, we thought with Joe Biden, we're like, well, and he's not going to run
for president,
because he's, like, sort of older.
He ran every time?
Did he run every time for president?
Since 88?
Yeah.
No, but he ran, he ran twice.
Did he skip one?
Yeah, he did skip.
He skipped a couple.
He ran in 2008.
I think before 2008, he hadn't run since 88.
He loves running for president.
Loves running for president.
Yeah.
He finally became president.
I mean, he loved, he even, he even did it last time, too.
He did it last, he loved it so much, he did it last time.
He couldn't stop.
He couldn't stop.
He was addicted.
He was dead.
Were you guys worried about his addiction to running for president?
We were like, we love you.
We're here for you.
Yeah.
This is an intervention.
George Clooney, take it away.
Yeah, like, America felt like there was, it was getting sadder and sadder.
And then there was this moment where it was like, what if it's better, right?
And then we saw, you know, a guy that was super young and has, like, left off
as super young,
who is the first black president.
And it was, that's amazing.
We got rid of slavery at the shot clock.
That was a buzzer beater, getting rid of slavery.
I mean, like, and in America, like, we, you know, it was like, holy shit.
And then we kind of saw his, them make his life kind of hell, no?
Yep.
You know?
I mean, there was a real moment where I, that I was, where he, like, after
Sandy Hook,
and he's, like, crying.
Yeah.
And he's like, I, just fucking, just ban bazookas.
Like, please.
They're, like, babies just died.
You had to have seen him, like, fuck.
What is the most bummed out you saw the boy?
I think then, right after, after Sandy Hook, when we tried to pass,
because remember, we tried to pass background checks.
Like, the most basic, incremental.
Just make sure it's not Charles Manson.
Right.
So, there's a background check bill, this horrific shooting of children just
happened.
It was baby.
It is.
The sponsors of the bill are fucking Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey, conservative
Republican from Pennsylvania.
Yeah.
So, you're, like, it's not, like, a bunch of libs, right?
Mm-hmm.
And.
Now, Joe Manchin is a soft, a work.
Yeah.
And with those two sponsors and doing the bill and Barack Obama and the tragedy,
no, it just fails.
Just don't, we don't get, and then he's, like, if we can't, if we can't get
background checks at this moment with these people,
like, what, what are we doing?
Did you ever cheer him up?
Were you, like, can we watch a movie finally?
He, honestly, like, he would cheer us up.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
He was, like.
He was nice to you?
I remember after the, it was in 2012 with the reelect, and he gives us his
convention speech in North Carolina,
and I thought the speech, we all thought the speech went well, we were all
happy,
and he got some, like, terrible reviews from a few places, and, like, Politico
is, like, just saying it's a terrible speech,
and Bill Clinton gave the better speech at the convention.
And we're, we're on Air Force One, like, leaving, going back to D.C., and I'm
sitting there,
and I'm just, like, reading the Politico piece to him and other people, and I'm
just, like, mad, yelling,
and he's, like, hey, he goes, how do you think I feel?
I wake up every day.
You humiliated me.
He goes, he goes, I wake up every day knowing that half the country hates me,
and doesn't want to, doesn't, hates everything that I'm doing, doesn't look
like I'm doing.
He's, like, and I just, you got to keep going.
He's, like, this whole job is, like, making sure you listen to people, that you
listen to criticism,
that you take in all the right information, that you really sit with the
thoughts,
but, like, once you make a decision, you make the decision, you let the chips
fall where they may,
and if people are angry or people criticize you, you just got to keep moving,
because otherwise,
he's, like, we're never going to get anything done, and you're going to get in
your head.
He's, like, my job is not to sit here and be, like, upset all the time and in
my head and worried about criticism.
My job is to do everything I can do to, like, help the country and make people's
lives better.
He's, like, he, that, yeah, and then it made me feel like an asshole for
complaining about a, like, political piece.
You're a bitch, dude.
Grow up.
Why are you complaining to Obama?
Grow up.
Dude, everyone hates him.
He's wearing a tan suit and eating a burger with, like, French crap on it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Those were his scandals.
Yeah, the tan suit.
He's eating a gay burger.
Oh, yeah, okay, the Dijon mustard.
Yeah, Dijon mustard.
Forgot about that.
You fucking, like, that was on the news.
Yeah.
Were you in the Situation Room?
That was his, that was the moment where, where he got love from everyone.
Oh, with the Bin Laden operation?
You were in the Situation Room?
No.
I was not right into that.
What a loser.
Loser.
No, because.
What a loser.
Were you outside, like, trying to listen in?
No, because I didn't, I didn't know what happened until, I didn't know what
happened until I got the draft remarks of what he was going to say.
They didn't tell you?
From Ben.
Oh, you were a fucking loser, dude.
Well, I didn't do any of the, I wasn't the foreign policy, national security
speechwriter guy.
That sucks.
Yeah.
Can you imagine how sick it was?
Hillary Clinton saying, this is my plan, I'm calling all the shots here, shut
up, Obama.
Seal Team Six.
No, I was, it was the night after the Correspondents' Dinner, where he gave a
big joke speech and he made fun of Donald Trump.
And so we were very focused on that speech, and I remember the day of that
speech.
Oh, he ruined the, well, we were like, yeah.
He ruined the world.
He ruined the world.
And then he killed Ben Laden the next day?
He was, so.
Oh my God.
We're like, we're going to, so it's like, John Lovett and David Axelrod and I,
we're like, all right, we're going to go into the Oval and just get last minute
edits on the, on the Correspondents' speech.
Great.
And they're like, oh, he's meeting with some general.
The speech is in five hours.
We got to make all the edits.
Let us in, you know?
And so.
No, he's talking to Jeff Ross, the Roastmaster General, obviously getting
better jokes than your bitch has.
No, he's talking to Lisa Lampanelli.
He's got the, the Harvard Lampoon guys.
We go in there, and he's like, chilling, throwing a football around, just in a
good mood.
No.
Yeah, and then he was like, all right, I like the speech, everything's great.
There's this one line where the joke is about Ben Laden.
He's like, and I would just make it some other, like, you know, bad guy or
Middle Eastern sounding guy, because it was about, anyway.
And so he's like, what about, what about Hosni Mubarak?
And I was like, that's a terrible joke.
It's like saying Mussolini is a Hitler.
It's like Ben Laden is so much, and he's like, trust me, trust me.
And the meeting before us was, he was on the phone with General McRaven.
That was like his last call before the, before the mission.
Okay, first of all, let's go back.
He's bragging, he's doing a wink, because he knows that's a better line, right?
Second of all, or maybe he doesn't want to disparage the dead.
He's like, I don't want to.
Also possible.
What?
He's trying to be nice to Osama.
He wasn't dead yet.
The terrorist to Osama bin Laden.
What is he doing?
He's worried about getting sued.
He's like, it wouldn't be purple of me.
It wouldn't be purple of me to disparage.
His body's barely cold.
I'm going to go in there, he's going to be watching porno, and I'm going to
shoot him.
He had a lot of pornography, right?
A lot of pornography.
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Yeah.
I wonder if he had...
Palin Palin.
Yeah.
Full circle.
That was a good call.
You got jobs, brother.
You got jobs, brother.
All right.
Thank you.