Trump supporters had their big day in the sun yesterday. Big win for Donald Trump. We ll talk about all the math. Can anyone stop Donald Trump? What does it mean for our nation? Plus, Chris Christie, what s up with him?
00:00:51.000The governor of New Jersey, at one point, he thought he was going to be president.
00:00:54.000You remember, he gave his big, bloviating, Tony Soprano-style speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention, pushing himself, not pushing Romney at all.
00:01:02.000And now, here is Chris Christie introducing Donald Trump, and he looks like he's about to break down and cry.
00:01:08.000Tonight, Donald Trump has won Georgia and Massachusetts, Alabama and Virginia.
00:01:17.000And he's also won the great state of Tennessee.
00:01:21.000Tonight is the beginning of Donald Trump bringing the Republican Party together for a big victory this November.
00:01:33.000Tonight is the beginning of Donald Trump bringing the people of our nation together to help America win again.
00:01:46.000Honest to God, it looks like Chris Christie was just forced into a shotgun marriage after impregnating Donald Trump.
00:01:50.000That's what it looks like in this video.
00:01:53.000Well, he's going from victory to victory.
00:03:02.000I'm standing behind this con man bloviating real estate narcissist reality star with crappy hair and stubby fingers and I'm standing behind him and I had to endorse him so that he'll make me Attorney General.
00:03:35.000He looks like a Rod Serling character who's about to wake up from a dream.
00:03:41.000He's gonna wake up and say, oh my god, I had the worst dream.
00:03:43.000I had a dream that I ran for president and Donald Trump beat the crap out of me and then I had to endorse him and I was standing behind him at his speech looking all awkward.
00:03:53.000You actually need some like animated sweat pouring down his face.
00:03:57.000In order to make this complete, like, airplane-style sweat where he's got, like, the huge flop sweat and buckets of water pouring off his face.
00:04:33.000We'll go through the numbers on Marco Rubio in a second, but Marco Rubio, he made it sound like he's winning.
00:04:38.000I will say this, the man has a gift for never winning anything and then going around talking about how he's winning and the momentum is all with it.
00:04:45.000I tweeted out last night, I have won at this point, early in the night, I tweeted out, I have currently won as many states as Marco Rubio.
00:05:02.000We'll cover Marco Rubio, who has all the momentum, and we'll cover Donald Trump and pretend that we hate him, even though most of us kind of like him and he raises our ratings.
00:05:10.000So, it's... Ted Cruz is just the sad guy in the corner.
00:05:13.000He's like, I don't know what I have to do here.
00:05:16.000I did all the work and I've given the credit to the entire group.
00:05:19.000I'm the only one who's beaten this guy and you're sitting over here telling me I can never be president, I can never get the nomination.
00:05:24.000And Trump, meanwhile, is just kind of cruising.
00:05:26.000So there are a couple of signs of weakness for Trump last night.
00:05:29.000Not enough to actually defeat him, as I'll explain in a little while, because in order to defeat Donald Trump, in order to truly defeat Donald Trump, you need a bunch of presidential candidates to put their egos aside.
00:05:46.000Yeah, things that are never gonna happen.
00:05:48.000But in order to defeat Trump, that needs to happen.
00:05:51.000Basically, and we'll get to the analysis later, Marco Rubio would have to win Florida and then quit, and John Kasich would have to win Ohio and then quit.
00:05:58.000Neither of those two things are going to happen.
00:06:00.000There were a couple of signs of weakness for Trump last night.
00:06:02.000In the only closed primary, meaning the only primary where Democrats can't register as Republicans or register for a Republican primary and go and vote, in the only closed primary, Oklahoma, Ted Cruz won, Ted Cruz won in Texas.
00:06:14.000Trump did not show quite as strong in some of the other states as people thought he was going to.
00:06:18.000They thought he was going to wipe the floor in Vermont, for example.
00:06:20.000He very narrowly beat Ohio Governor John Kasich.
00:06:23.000He won seven states instead of eleven.
00:08:01.000I know that a lot of groups, a lot of the special interests and a lot of the lobbyists and the people that want to have their little senator do exactly as they want, they're going to put $20 or $25 million into it over the next two weeks from what just came over the wires.
00:09:15.000But I will say this, look, we have expanded the Republican Party.
00:09:20.000When you look at what's happened in South Carolina and you see the kind of numbers that we got in terms of extra people coming in, they came from the Democratic Party or the Democrat Party, and they're Democrats, and they're longtime Democrats, and they were never going to switch, and they all switched.
00:10:44.000And all you have to do is take a look at the primary states where I've won.
00:10:48.000And just look, we've gone from X number to a much larger number.
00:10:52.000That hasn't happened to the Republican Party in many, many decades.
00:10:57.000So I think we're going to be more inclusive, I think we're going to be more unified, and I think we're going to be a much bigger party, and I think we're going to win in November.
00:11:07.000Okay, so he's a unifier, he's gonna bring people together.
00:11:09.000Also, Marco Rubio's a loser and will never win anything ever again.
00:11:13.000Plus, you know how big a unifier Trump is?
00:11:15.000He's such a big unifier that he said this about Paul Ryan, the current Speaker of the House.
00:11:20.000And again, Chris Christie, there was something that popped into mind while I was watching this.
00:11:23.000He looks exactly like Luca Brasi from The Godfather.
00:11:26.000Like, exactly like Luca Brasi from The Godfather.
00:11:29.000And it's gonna be so awkward when Trump makes him sleep with the fishes when he crosses him.
00:12:10.000And he's going to pay a big price, because if you don't pay attention to Donald Trump, if you're mean to Donald Trump, you pay a huge, brutal, magnificent, luxurious price.
00:12:31.000If you remember from Fantasia, there's a scene in Fantasia, there's kind of a shot in Fantasia where they're playing Beethoven's Fifth, where you see kind of a walking coffin.
00:13:18.000He's giving a big victory speech last night.
00:13:20.000Things are really looking up for the Rubio campaign.
00:13:24.000We are going to send a message loud and clear.
00:13:32.000We are going to send the message that the party of Lincoln and Reagan and the presidency of the United States will never be held by a con artist.
00:13:45.000Never be held by a con artist except for how it's going to be held by a con artist apparently.
00:13:49.000And I love just the optimism and the cheers and it's all going great.
00:13:59.000The one who really had a bad night was Ted Cruz.
00:14:01.000Sure, he won at least two more states than I did, but the one who really, really had a bad night was Ted Cruz, even though he's beating me by like 100 delegates right now.
00:14:09.000So here's Marco Rubio explaining, he wasn't a big loser, he was really a big winner.
00:14:13.000It's all working out just spectacularly.
00:14:16.000And we're going to pick up delegates in every state on the map tonight, for the most part.
00:14:21.000And Ted Cruz, a bad night for him, too.
00:14:23.000I mean, this was supposed to be a Southern strategy.
00:14:25.000Let's not forget, his campaign said that tonight was the night that it would all come to an end and he would be the nominee.
00:14:31.000He didn't even come close to fulfilling that.
00:14:33.000And if Ted Cruz, given how he's running, cannot sweep on Super Tuesday in the South, where in this country is he going to win?
00:14:41.000I, on the other hand, I can make the case that given where you see voters are going in different parts of the country, we have many states remaining, the bulk of the delegates outstanding, where we're going to do very well and have a real chance to stop Donald Trump and become the nominee.
00:14:55.000Okay, so all of that is going beautifully.
00:14:57.000His plan to never win a state and yet somehow magically win the nomination, it's beautiful.
00:15:03.000Meanwhile, Ted Cruz is giving his own speech, and he's explaining that it's morning in America, everything is great, everything's rosy except for, like, no one's winning.
00:17:17.000We talk about little Marco and we talk about how Hillary Clinton is ugly and we talk about how
00:17:22.000Megyn Kelly is bleeding from her wherever, and how we're going to make America great again by building a wall that we're never actually going to build, and deporting people we're never actually going to deport.
00:17:29.000But trust me, because I've lied in the past.
00:17:52.000If you think Donald Trump is so antithetical to conservatism, what took you so long to say so?
00:17:59.000Because you really cozied up to him for the majority of this campaign.
00:18:05.000Well, listen, Dana, for the last couple of months I've been taking Donald on directly.
00:18:09.000And in fact, in the last few debates, prior to this one last week, nobody else was willing to jump into the fray.
00:18:17.000In order to... The way this primary has played out, it's a winnowing process.
00:18:21.000And so there were some candidates that took Donald on when there were 17 of us, and they didn't have a strong enough base, and you couldn't do that.
00:18:27.000From my end, I needed to build my base of support.
00:18:30.000I needed to take care so that I was on a strong foundation first before I could take him on, and that was a natural process.
00:18:36.000So this is Cruz explaining, wrong clip my fault, but this is Cruz explaining why he didn't take on Trump earlier.
00:18:42.000Clip 13 is where he explains why exactly he's not getting any attention for actually winning things on Mark Levin's show.
00:18:49.000I don't know what, I don't want to waste your time with this, but the Chris Wallace interview, I mean, I'm on the air and I said today is Trump day on Fox and yesterday was Rubio day.
00:18:58.000There never seems to be a Cruz day on Fox.
00:19:39.000So, for people who are wondering, there are a lot of people today, and they're sitting around going, yeah, don't worry, there's still a way to win this.
00:19:45.000Hugh Hewitt, who I'm friends with over at Salem Radio Network and CNN,
00:19:50.000He called into the morning show I do to talk about how, don't worry, it is still going to go open convention.
00:19:55.000No, in all likelihood, it is definitely not going to go open convention.
00:19:58.000Okay, here is how the math works from here on in.
00:20:01.000So, there are only two scenarios, really only two.
00:20:06.000The first is Trump losing Florida to Rubio and losing Ohio to Kasich.
00:20:10.000And then there would have to be some sort of major Rubio-Cruz-Kasich counteroffensive where all of them win a bunch of individual states and take enough votes away from Trump in order to win.
00:20:19.000The problem with this particular strategy is that that means that they actually have to not split the vote sufficiently to let Trump win and the winner take all states that come later in the race.
00:20:29.000Trump could lose Florida and Ohio and still take the nomination easily if he wins Pennsylvania and California and New York, and if he does all of that, because the field is too split.
00:20:38.000The second scenario is Marco Rubio drops out, and Kasich drops out, and all of the support consolidates behind Cruz.
00:22:33.000So if Rubio stays in and Cruz stays in and Kasich stays in after Super Tuesday,
00:22:37.000The chances that Trump wins the nomination are extraordinarily good.
00:22:40.000So, that means the only real shot, the only real shot that Trump loses the nomination at this point, or that he doesn't have enough delegates to win the nomination more accurately, because no one else will have a majority, the only way that this happens is if Donald Trump drops Florida to Rubio, drops Ohio to Kasich, and then the two of them immediately get out of the race
00:22:59.000And that prevents Trump from going forward and winning outright.
00:23:13.000So, in other words, Marco Rubio, who hasn't dropped out all the way till now, after winning a grand total of one state, and he's not gonna win any of these upcoming states, he's gonna win one state going into Super Tuesday, in all likelihood.
00:23:24.000That guy, who hasn't dropped out until now, will win Florida, and then turn around and say, I'm out?
00:23:41.000Which means Cruz can't drop out, as I mentioned.
00:23:44.000He's got the most delegates other than Trump.
00:23:46.000He's the only person who's beaten Trump in any significant sense.
00:23:49.000And, again, if Cruz gets out, thanks to his immigration position, there's a good shot that at least, say, 30% of his vote goes to Trump.
00:23:56.000And at that point, it doesn't matter who else drops out, because the fact is that Trump ends up winning enough delegates to take it home.
00:24:03.000You have to assume at this point there's about a 75% chance that Trump wins the nomination outright.
00:24:08.000Even if he doesn't win the nomination outright, he has more delegates than anybody else going into the convention, and he's won more states than anybody else going into the convention.
00:24:17.000The only people who are eligible at this point
00:24:56.000The game changer is, you ready for this?
00:24:58.000We need someone to come out of the wings, riding a white horse, unifying the party against Trump, really bringing people together, maybe even putting his name on ballots as a writing candidate or challenging him at the convention.
00:25:14.000Mitt Romney has announced that he is going to give,
00:25:18.000Mitt Romney has announced that he is going to give a major address tomorrow on the 2016 election cycle.
00:25:24.000He's going to give a major address tomorrow at the University of Utah on the 2016 election cycle.
00:25:30.000This is according to TheHill.com, breaking just moments ago.
00:25:33.000According to The Hill, Romney will hold a speech addressing the 2016 race.
00:25:38.000It says, quote, the 2012 nominee and former Massachusetts governor will address the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah.
00:25:47.000They don't really have any more information about what he's going to say.
00:32:52.000So, you know, could that still damage Trump in a primary?
00:32:54.000It's possible if people recognize that Trump is in many ways unelectable, but...
00:32:59.000You know, again, the math militates against the idea that somebody else is going to be able to defeat Donald Trump.
00:33:04.000Okay, on the other side of the aisle, Hillary Clinton had herself a big night, and Hillary Clinton is just egregious in every way it's possible for her to be egregious.
00:33:12.000Here was Hillary Clinton's victory speech last night after winning a bunch of states, including Vermont, which hurts.
00:34:45.000She says, all we need is love, and then her laser eyes turn on, and she starts to swivel her head around, and you can actually hear her going, as she takes in all of the adoration.
00:35:36.000That's the face of love and kindness, gang.
00:35:38.000That's the face that's going to be looking at you from posters all over America when she's the President of the United States and she's extending that love and kindness into control of your lives.
00:36:46.000Victory cures a lot of ills for a political party.
00:36:50.000If Hillary Clinton were to lose this election, you would see a gap begin to form inside the Democratic Party that would tear that party apart, because there is a difference between the lying, supposed moderation of Hillary Clinton and the truthful insanity of Bernie Sanders, who last night said he wants to continue fundamentally transforming the country.
00:37:06.000This campaign, as I think all of you know, this campaign
00:37:14.000It's not just about electing a president.
00:38:36.000Trumpism is a philosophy that's a mash-up of populism and authoritarianism that's scary.
00:38:41.000Trump may not even be that guy, but his backers are looking for that guy, and that's a problem.
00:38:45.000So, was it today, was yesterday a good day for the country?
00:38:48.000No, it wasn't a good day for the country.
00:38:50.000Is this election good for the country?
00:38:51.000No, it's possible that this election will serve only as a warning to other planets.
00:38:56.000It's possible that, you know, the glimmers of hope that you've been given about a brokerage convention are about to be stamped out by the boot of justice and reality.
00:39:04.000But the fact is that the hope of conservatism cannot rest on the back of Donald Trump.
00:39:11.000And whether he's the nominee or not, whether you vote for him or not, that doesn't mean that you ought to change your philosophy of governance and your philosophy of mankind and your philosophy
00:39:19.000Of what a constitutional republic looks like because you like Donald Trump or because you want to transform along with Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.
00:39:27.000All of this is pretty troubling stuff.
00:39:30.000Okay, so now it's time for some things that I like and some things that I hate.
00:39:35.000I grew up, people ask kind of what kind of cultural influences I had when I grew up.
00:39:40.000So I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up, at least not TV that was concurrently on.
00:39:45.000My parents were not big on what was on TV, so they used to go out and they used to rent us old episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Waltons.
00:39:52.000But the movie that I really grew up on, more than any other movie, was a movie that's of a musical called 1776.
00:39:56.000And if you've never seen 1776, it won the Best Tony for Best Musical in, I think, 1972.
00:40:39.000But here is William Daniels in the movie version, which is really a terrific movie version.
00:40:44.000You can find the restored cut, which actually has a song that they cut out.
00:40:47.000There's a song called Cool Conservative Men.
00:40:49.000Um, in there that they cut out because Richard Nixon didn't like the song, actually.
00:40:53.000Um, but here is the opening number, at least the beginning of the opening number to 1776.
00:40:58.000This movie influenced me so much when I was growing up that on Purim, which is sort of the Jewish Halloween where we dress up, every year when I was a kid I had a red coat and I had a powdered wig like John Adams, and I used to dress up as John Adams every year for Purim.
00:41:21.000I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress.
00:41:52.000And when we dared stand up like men, they have stopped our trade, seized our ships, blockaded our ports, burned our towns, and spilled our blood!
00:42:03.000And still, this Congress refuses to grant any of my proposals on independence, even so much as the courtesy of open debate!
00:42:12.000Good God, what in hell are you waiting for?
00:43:01.000Edward Rutledge, who was, I think, 26 when the Continental Congress happened.
00:43:06.000For all those people who think that the founders were a bunch of racists who just went along with slavery, in the original draft of the Declaration of Independence, and this is a major point in the musical,
00:43:16.000There was a provision talking about how the King of England had pushed slavery, crammed slavery down on the colonies.
00:44:19.000Okay, a couple of things that I hate really quickly.
00:44:21.000So the state of California, my state, which is just a garbage heap.
00:44:25.000I mean, if you want the United... It's sad when you watch that and you see that
00:44:29.000You know, what our founders fought for, they were fighting against the idea that you had an unelected bureaucratic government, right, that you couldn't do anything about, that was cramming down taxes and excises and measures against you, that was invading your personal privacy by quartering troops, that was destroying your rights, and now we have a government that we're supposed to embrace for doing all of these things.
00:44:49.000That's what we call Hillary Clinton's love and kindness.
00:44:53.000We used to fight against the idea of a tyrant dictator.
00:44:55.000George Washington, when he was the most powerful man in America, was offered that slot and he turned it down.
00:45:01.000He said, this is against what America stands for.
00:45:03.000Now, we have this yearning for a strongman.
00:45:07.000In any case, here in California, we've already embraced the strongman.
00:45:10.000I mean, California is the... You want to know what America looks like.
00:45:14.000It looks like California, except less prosperous.
00:45:16.000And California is already sinking into the economic mire.
00:45:20.000So, what exactly are our legislators worried about?
00:45:23.000The lawmakers, according to the Sacramento Bee, have jammed a mountain of bills into the legislative queue just ahead of the February 19th deadline to introduce them.
00:45:31.000One of those bills is Assembly Bill 1887, by Evan Lowe, who's a Democrat, of course.
00:45:37.000He wants to prohibit state employees from government-funded travel to states that have a law in effect that sanctions or requires discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
00:46:25.000They say, we're not even gonna let people travel there.
00:46:27.000We'll build a wall to keep you out of these evil, terrible places that are so terrible to the gays.
00:46:31.000Because as we know, there have been just pogroms against gay people all throughout Indianapolis.
00:46:35.000It's this sort of intolerance for religious people that truly is maddening, and this is where we're going.
00:46:41.000If the Supreme Court goes to the Democrats, this is why I'm still, as much as I dislike Trumpism, as much as I dislike Trump, I'm still leaning toward the side that says you must vote for Trump against Hillary Clinton, because if there's even a 10% chance that Donald Trump nominates someone to the Supreme Court who's not a wild leftist,
00:46:57.000Then, that is better than Hillary Clinton's 0% chance that you do this.
00:47:01.000I mean, it's... Honestly, I have to struggle every day with the idea of pulling the lever for Donald Trump, but against Hillary Clinton, that decision becomes slightly easier for sure, because otherwise people like this bureaucrat will run things, and it's... and that's truly, truly frightening.
00:47:25.000I don't just make up support for teams based on political expedience.
00:47:28.000So, Adam Eaton is a Chicago White Sox outfielder, and during the Academy Awards, he tweeted during the Chris Rock opening monologue, which we talked about a couple of days ago, he tweeted, quote, Why does it always have to be about black and white?
00:47:47.000That seems like something perfectly legit.
00:47:49.000Why does it always have to be broken down based on race?
00:47:51.000Why can't it just be we're all American?
00:47:53.000Some actors were good this year who were white, some were bad this year who were white, there were some who were bad this year who were black, and there were none that were tremendous this year who were black.
00:48:10.000I should not have even gone into that realm.
00:48:11.000In my baseball world we have equality.
00:48:13.000Everyone in this room I respect and love and everybody has an opportunity.
00:48:17.000He says, I may, I want to have a connection with people and I may step back for a little bit.
00:48:22.000So in other words, if you say something completely, completely innocuous like race should not be a qualifying characteristic, race does not matter.
00:48:30.000If you say that sort of thing, then now you will be forced off Twitter if you are, if you are in the celebrity world.
00:48:36.000And they wonder why we think they're intolerant bigots?
00:48:38.000They wonder why there's a culture war?
00:48:47.000Because the reaction to that, the reaction to force the white guy to take down the anti-racist tweet, the reaction to that is, screw all of you, we'll elect the white guy who defends white people, at least on the part of some of these white people who support Donald Trump.
00:49:03.000Screw political correctness, we'll elect the politically incorrect guy.
00:49:07.000And it's, you know, you can't blame people for the sentiment, even if you disagree with the message that they're promoting, as I do strenuously.
00:49:15.000But this is what the left has wrought.
00:49:16.000They've wrought a racially divided America, and when Hillary says she's going to unify people, she's lying.
00:49:20.000There's no one more racially divisive in America than Hillary Clinton, except for, perhaps, Barack Obama.
00:49:27.000It's, you know, it's a difficult time, but don't worry, we'll get through it together, because the fact is, as they say at the end of, at the end of 1776, this is actually the clip I wanted to pull, but I couldn't find it online.
00:49:37.000At the end of 1776, George Washington writes a letter to Congress, and he says,
00:49:42.000He's in the battlefield and he doesn't have resources.
00:49:45.000And he keeps sending letters and missives to Congress.
00:49:47.000And at one point, and what I love about the musical is it's, again, very historically accurate.
00:49:51.000He sends a letter to Congress saying, is anyone, is anybody there?