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00:00:10.000It's a feeding frenzy on some of the other channels regarding what the president may or may not have said yesterday when he was in that DACA deal.
00:00:19.000And it was reported by the Washington Post initially that he said,
00:00:24.000Word we're not going to use on this program referring to certain countries, but the president then tweeted this out about an hour ago He said the language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made a big setback for DACA.
00:00:42.000All right, so we've set the table Where would you like to start?
00:00:45.000Well, I mean, I think that we can start with the denial.
00:00:49.000It's unclear, you know, whether this was said or not.
00:00:52.000I would have preferred that if he was going to deny it, he did it right away, obviously, rather than waiting 15 hours to do so, because obviously things sort of blew up in the meantime.
00:01:00.000As far as the comments that he's accused of saying, there are really two comments that he made, right?
00:01:04.000There's the one where he said, why are we letting all these people from bleep hole countries into the country?
00:01:09.000And then he said something about all these Haitians, they should be deported or something.
00:02:16.000There's some for some nefarious reason.
00:02:17.000Now, there are two reasons why you could say that people from those countries shouldn't come over or shouldn't be privileged in, for example, the diversity visa lottery program.
00:02:24.000The first reason is not actually bigoted, right?
00:02:27.000That's the idea that depending on the country that you are from, you may not be as well able to assimilate.
00:02:33.000If you're from Russia, maybe you're not as able to assimilate easily as if you're from Great Britain.
00:02:37.000And in this case, the president's choices of countries are really unfortunate, because when he contrasts Haiti and Norway, it gives people the ability to say, well, he's meaning black and white.
00:02:45.000When really all that he means is maybe assimilation rates aren't the same from different countries, which seems relatively... Well, Ben, I'll go further than that.
00:04:30.000There's a lot of things that are quite terrible, including my great-grandparents when they came over.
00:04:33.000And I think pretty much everybody in the country's great-grandparents came over from somewhere they considered bad, including the Pilgrims.
00:04:39.000So the idea that, you know, that line works.
00:04:42.000But you're right that, you know, the president, I swear, if the man could just stay off Twitter and watch his mouth, he would rise five points in the approval ratings almost immediately.
00:04:52.000And the proof of this is that every time he goes out of the country and he doesn't have access to Twitter and he doesn't actually speak to the press and he's not talking to Democrats,
00:04:58.000His approval ratings rise 5 to 10 points.
00:05:00.000And he does actually very good in these settings, in these international settings as well.
00:05:04.000Alright, so let's talk about Nancy Pelosi if we can, because she's getting a total pass here, about what she says about the money that so-called average people are making and getting increases off this economic plan, and how she described the meeting that was held without her.
00:05:17.000First off, when she was told that $1,000 bonuses were being handed out and places like Walmart were raising up their minimum wage, this was her reaction.
00:05:28.000In terms of the bonus that corporate America received versus the crumbs that they are giving to workers to kind of put the schmooze on, it's so pathetic.
00:06:02.000And beyond that, when Nancy Pelosi says that people who are low income and getting raises because of the President's tax cuts and the Republican tax cuts, when she says that that doesn't mean anything for those people, that's pretty derogatory toward
00:06:16.000People who she's supposed to be courting.
00:06:18.000I mean, I think the whole problem for the Democrats, they didn't win a lot of blue collar votes in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
00:06:24.000And now they're going around saying that if you get a thousand bucks back from your employer, you get a raise from your employer.
00:06:28.000It doesn't mean anything because it's not enough money.
00:06:30.000Maybe she should stop hanging out in Marin County and start hanging out in rural Ohio.
00:06:33.000Now the second thing we wanted to bring up is what she said about the meeting that was taking place without her.
00:06:39.000The highest ranking person there was Steny Hoyer.
00:06:41.000Nancy Pelosi came out and said, what do you mean, that meeting?
00:07:32.000Because that seems pretty stupid, actually.
00:07:34.000Well, maybe President Trump should put the schmooze on her then and invite her next time.
00:07:40.000One other thing we wanted to ask you about, and apparently there is a newspaper report that the Obama administration tipped off Iranian terrorists that Israel planned to assassinate him just because they wanted to make sure the Iran nuke deal, a Barack Obama legacy item
00:07:56.000Well, it wouldn't be the most surprising story.
00:07:59.000This comes from Haaretz, which is an Israeli newspaper that's usually well-sourced.
00:08:03.000They're reporting it second-hand based on another report.
00:08:05.000Ben Rhodes, the former national security advisor, essentially, to President Obama, apparently quasi-denied it on Twitter.
00:08:13.000But it wouldn't be a particular surprise for the Obama administration to be making provision for Iranian terrorists, considering there's an entire political report from Europe all about how they had done so for Hezbollah because they wanted to pay off the Iranian regime.
00:08:39.000Ben, if this is true, this is the most powerful person in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard who is responsible really tangentially for many American deaths.
00:08:49.000This, that would be, you talk about a foreign policy disaster that needs to be investigated, Soleimani.
00:08:56.000This guy, we basically, we told him he's not allowed to leave the country, yet he turned up in Russia.
00:09:01.000So this, this would be something extraordinary if this is proven correct.
00:09:08.000And one of the things that's amazing is Tommy Veeder, who of course used to be a member of the Obama administration, apparently not when this story was broken, he came out and he said, well, why exactly is everybody so exercised?
00:09:17.000It's not like this guy Soleimani was like Osama Bin Laden or something.
00:09:20.000That demonstrates the gap in understanding about terrorism that the Obama administration evidenced nearly every day in office.