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00:00:13.000All right, it's been a long day already.
00:00:15.000The reason that it has been a long day already, I don't mean to bore you with details of my personal life.
00:00:20.000Suffice it to say that I only fell asleep around one o'clock in the morning because I came home yesterday afternoon and went to our little guest house out in the back.
00:00:28.000And it turns out that we had a mainline backup and that meant that sewage was spilling all over the floor.
00:00:33.000So insurance claim, complete replacement of the floor in the guest house.
00:00:37.000The reason I say this is because it was a total crap show.
00:00:39.000And that provides a transition to today's political show.
00:00:42.000Because just as my guest house was filled with open sewage, so too is modern American politics.
00:00:48.000So, you will last recall that when we left, a riveting story, the AOC-Nancy Pelosi battle had devolved into a Donald Trump versus everybody battle because President Trump decided to jump in on Sunday and suggest that a bunch of Congress people should go back to their home countries.
00:01:04.000The only problem being that the vast majority of the people he was talking about were born right here in the United States.
00:01:10.000Also, telling people to go back to their countries is typically not a non-racial, non-xenophobic thing to do, so it was a bad comment by the President of the United States.
00:01:19.000But if there is one thing that we can count on in today's politics is that if somebody jumps on a rake, Their political opponent will immediately find a larger and dumber rake to jump upon.
00:01:29.000If Donald Trump says to AOC, hold my beer, AOC will immediately turn back to him and say, no, you hold my beer.
00:01:39.000Eastern, The squad, the so-called squad.
00:01:43.000This would be AOC, and Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar, and then the Ringo Starr of the Beatles, Ayanna Pressley.
00:01:49.000They decided to hold a press conference, and their press conference was designed to go after President Trump.
00:01:55.000Now, President Trump somehow may have been able to pull victory out of the jaws of defeat that he had pulled out of the jaws of victory, right?
00:02:04.000To reverse-engineer this Russian doll of politics.
00:02:10.000AOC and Nancy Pelosi were going at each other with hatchets.
00:02:13.000And then he pulled defeat out of those jaws by inserting himself and making xenophobic comments.
00:02:17.000And then he was able to pull victory out of that because AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley are truly unlikable, truly unpopular.
00:02:26.000And that is not coming from just bipartisan conservatism.
00:04:29.000So Trump, by picking a fight with these people, May have done himself a service in the end, even though he did it in the dumbest possible way.
00:04:37.000Because the more people see of these folks, the less they like them.
00:04:40.000And the more they are linked to the Democratic hopes, the less people are likely to vote for Democrats.
00:04:45.000So that's why President Trump has basically shifted his tactic, as we will see, from go back to your home country to if you don't like the country, then leave.
00:04:53.000Which is a non-xenophobic, non-racist pitch.
00:04:57.000It's not a particularly pro-First Amendment pitch.
00:04:59.000I mean, how do you distinguish between criticism of the country that is legitimate and criticism of the country that is illegitimate?
00:05:05.000How do you decide who should leave and who shouldn't?
00:05:07.000I mean, President Trump has criticized the country.
00:05:10.000Weak argument overall, but it does have an emotional resonance when you have people who speak about America in general, the way AOC and Ilhan Omar and Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley talk about America as a place rife with horror, as a place that is rooted and steeped in evil and xenophobia and cruelty.
00:05:25.000It's particularly galling coming from Ilhan Omar, who was taken in by this country.
00:05:29.000If you were taken in by the country because you came from a place that was truly a hellhole, and Somalia is a hellhole.
00:05:35.000She spent years in a refugee camp in Kenya.
00:05:38.000It's hard to describe that as anything else than a hellhole.
00:05:40.000And then she comes to the greatest country on the planet and is elected to Congress, and then you talk about how terrible the country is?
00:05:45.000A lot of people are gonna say, just leave then.
00:05:49.000And then that is what Trump is now trying to morph his original xenophobic tweets into, and that one has a lot more emotional resonance, even though intellectually speaking, we shouldn't be playing the game of, you disagree with me, so you should leave.
00:06:01.000All right, so in a second, we're going to get to AOC and the squad really shooting themselves in the foot, because this is now what we have.
00:06:08.000We have a competition for who can shoot themselves in the foot the most.
00:07:31.000OK, so President Trump jumps into it and all of yesterday, all we hear about is every Republican being asked whether he's a racist, whether he's a xenophobe.
00:08:30.000Really, strategically speaking, what you want to do is minimize these four being at the front of your party while at the same time pointing out that Donald Trump just once again said something xenophobic and in Nancy Pelosi's You Racist, So you'd want to highlight that.
00:08:43.000So maybe what you do is you hold a press conference, Where the squad is there, but Nancy Pelosi does the talking to show unity, right?
00:08:50.000Also, there's something that is deeply off-putting about the I'm-a-victim routine you see from so many members of Congress where somebody is insulted, and it's like, I'm gonna do a press conference talking about how victimized and insulted I am, and look at me standing up to my aggressors.
00:09:06.000Listen, there are plenty of people who are out there coming out of the woodwork defending the squad.
00:09:15.000So the squad immediately decided, you know what would be a great idea?
00:09:18.000We're going to go out there, and we're going to be so radical and off-putting that we make Donald Trump's, if you don't like America, leave message sound kind of plausible.
00:09:27.000That's what the squad just did yesterday.
00:09:29.000So they started off, and it wasn't that bad, so they started off with their little press conference, and they started off on sort of the right track, politically speaking, talking about all of the things they love about America, which is that they are here apparently.
00:10:13.000And today, that notion, that very notion was challenged.
00:10:18.000This weekend, that very notion was challenged.
00:10:22.000So I am not surprised when the president says that four sitting members of Congress should, quote, go back to their own country when he has authorized raids without warrants on thousands of families across this country.
00:10:39.000Okay, so she starts off with this, and listen, it's disingenuous, obviously.
00:10:44.000This is a lady who has suggested that we have concentration camps on our border.
00:10:46.000This is a woman who has defended anti-Semitism in her own caucus.
00:10:49.000Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are open anti-Semites.
00:10:51.000Ayanna Pressley, the Ringo Starr of this band, she's standing off to the side.
00:10:55.000Over the weekend, she suggested that if you don't agree with her and you're black, you're not actually black.
00:10:59.000Or if you don't agree with Ilhan Omar and you're Muslim, you're not actually Muslim.
00:11:02.000Or if you don't agree with the Democratic Party agenda and you're gay, you're not actually gay.
00:11:07.000And then you got AOC talking about, it's only Donald Trump who's divisive.
00:11:10.000So listen, everybody knows what this game is.
00:11:12.000And everybody understands the game, especially because Nancy Pelosi came out yesterday, the Speaker of the House, and said, we're going to pass a resolution going after the President of the United States and his bigotry and his xenophobia and his racism.
00:11:26.000Well, oddly enough, Nancy Pelosi couldn't even do that when it was members of her own party.
00:11:30.000Almost as though accusations of bigotry made by members of Congress are completely a matter of political convenience.
00:11:36.000And no one is consistent about labeling bad stuff when they see bad stuff in Congress.
00:11:40.000Almost as though this is all partisan ridiculousness and it's all going to get tuned out by next week.
00:11:46.000I am not surprised at what he's doing.
00:11:47.000But I also know that we're focused on making it better.
00:11:50.000Because we don't leave the things that we love.
00:11:51.000not going to leave the things we love.
00:11:52.000She has yet to define the things in America that she loves, but apparently there are things.
00:11:55.000I am not surprised at what he's doing, but I also know that we're focused on making it better because we don't leave the things that we love.
00:12:07.000And when we love this country, what that means is that we propose the solutions to fix it.
00:12:14.000So this is the, I love my country and I'm going to fix it.
00:12:19.000That's fine, except that that's not the language that these four have been using.
00:12:22.000They keep using the language that America's awful, terrible, no good, very bad.
00:12:26.000But again, this is the correct message.
00:12:28.000And then AOC says, listen, weak minds challenge our loyalty.
00:12:32.000I will generally agree with that statement.
00:12:34.000I will also point out that Ilhan Omar has questioned the loyalty of any American who supports Israel.
00:12:39.000AOC has suggested you're a bad American if you disagree with her.
00:12:41.000Ayanna Pressley over the weekend suggested that you were a disloyal black person, Muslim or gay person if you don't agree with her.
00:12:47.000So you don't get to throw around charges of dual loyalty and then object when other people throw around charges that you are not loyal to the country.
00:12:53.000Here is AOC, however, making this case.
00:13:28.000So none of this rings true, but it is politically smart, right?
00:13:32.000This is the only smart move that they have made.
00:13:35.000And there's a little bit more of this.
00:13:36.000Ayanna Pressley then suggests that people shouldn't take the bait.
00:13:39.000We shouldn't follow President Trump down this rabbit hole.
00:13:41.000Here's Ayanna Pressley, the Ringo Starr of the Socialist Beatles here.
00:13:45.000I encourage the American people and all of us In this room and beyond, do not take the bait.
00:13:53.000This is a disruptive distraction from the issues of care, concern, and consequence to the American people that we were sent here with a decisive mandate from our constituents to work on.
00:14:12.000OK, so so far they've they've said all of this is correct.
00:14:14.000You know, this is this is basically when I say correct, I mean correct in the politically motivated direction.
00:14:20.000And then Ilhan Omar, she says, listen, when I'm criticizing America and saying America sucks and it's a terrible, horrible, racist, no good, very bad place, it's because it comes from extreme love.
00:14:48.000Okay, so they start off and this is their message and the message is Donald Trump is a very mean man who says mean things and makes the country not unified.
00:14:54.000Okay, that is the correct political take.
00:14:55.000And then the train begins to derail and you see that front wheel slip off the rails just a little bit and soon it's chasing Harrison Ford down the side of the track as he jumps into a ravine trying to escape his shackles.
00:15:09.000So Ilhan Omar leads it off because Omar is the one who can control herself the least among the among this group.
00:15:15.000And when I say she can control herself least, I mean, she says the most radical things.
00:15:54.000President Trump said a bad, xenophobic, racist thing and we don't like that because America's a great place full of unity and we're all part of the same family.
00:16:01.000This is where they move from there to Trump's a white nationalist.
00:16:04.000Anybody who supports him is a white nationalist.
00:16:06.000He's evil, he's a sexual abuser, and we should impeach him.
00:16:09.000And Trump's just sitting there going, okay, fine, you want this fight?
00:17:35.000Here she is going right off those rails, man.
00:17:38.000This president, who has been credibly accused of committing multiple crimes, including colluding with foreign government to interfere with our election, This is a president who has overseen the most corrupt administration in our history and pursued an agenda to allow millions of Americans to die from a lack of health care while he transfers millions of dollars in tax cuts to corporations.
00:18:06.000Well, it's bad that he transfers money.
00:18:24.000Really, Trump says a lot of stupid crap routinely, and they can't help themselves.
00:18:29.000Instead, you've got Ilhan Omar going, you know, probably he was trying to design the V2 missile that was used by the Nazis to attack London.
00:18:36.000I mean, Ilhan Omar is just going way over the top here.
00:18:38.000Here she is talking about and mischaracterizing every comment that the president has ever made, pretty much.
00:20:00.000And his big mistake in Charlottesville is that he suggested that there were good people marching with the people at Charlottesville who were in that crowd.
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00:22:00.000We can either continue to enable this president And report on the bile of garbage that comes out of his mouth or we can hold him accountable to his crimes.
00:22:14.000They say that it is bile and it is garbage.
00:22:19.000Then they move beyond that and they reopen the battle they had with Nancy Pelosi.
00:22:23.000So one of the things Nancy Pelosi has been militating against from the squad, one of the things they've been fighting against from the squad is impeachment because Americans don't want impeachment.
00:22:35.000We're not interested in impeachment because you have no impeachable offenses.
00:22:38.000And sorry, you saying mean, him saying mean things to members of the squad, the poor babies, him saying mean things to members of the squad who are immensely powerful, have a huge platform, have a bullhorn, are shaping American politics in new ways.
00:22:52.000Him saying mean things about them, no matter how mean, that is not grounds for impeachment.
00:22:56.000OK, that's what Nancy Pelosi was saying.
00:23:25.000Because he says mean things, we'll impeach him.
00:23:27.000As opposed to Ilhan Omar, who is a blatant, vicious anti-Semite, who says anti-Semitic things every five seconds, and nearly got condemned by her own party.
00:23:34.000But they wouldn't, because they're gutless.
00:23:36.000And then Ayanna Pressley jumps on board.
00:23:51.000Here's Ayanna Pressley saying he's not my president.
00:23:54.000Yeah, let's see how this is going to play.
00:23:56.000From our colleagues to our neighbors, we are grateful for your solidarity, your encouragement and your support.
00:24:05.000In the face of the most recent xenophobic, bigoted remarks from the occupant of our White House, I will always refer to him as the occupant as he is only occupying space.
00:24:19.000He does not embody the grace, the empathy, the compassion, the integrity that that office requires and that the American people deserve.
00:24:32.000OK, so he is not he's not my president.
00:24:34.000So this is this is what they want to do.
00:24:36.000This is the direction they want to go.
00:24:37.000And then Rashida Tlaib, she joins the crowd.
00:24:39.000She says, yeah, it's time to impeach Trump.
00:24:44.000With Nancy Pelosi, so just to trace this arc, we went from AOC at war with Nancy Pelosi to Trump at war with the squad, and now we're going to be back at the squad at war with Nancy Pelosi.
00:24:55.000Here's Rashida Tlaib calling for impeachment.
00:24:57.000Many members of Congress have called for his impeachment because of his utter disregard and disrespect of the United States Constitution.
00:25:05.000And despite this and other many attempts to distract us, I remain focused, we remain focused on holding him accountable to the laws of this land and accountable to the American people.
00:25:17.000I urge House leadership, many of my colleagues, to take action to impeach this lawless president today.
00:25:25.000OK, so there's going to be now the squad going back toward Nancy Pelosi again.
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00:27:03.000So in a second, I'm going to show you President Trump and how he has morphed his argument now and how the Democrats are stepping directly into the argument.
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00:27:58.000All right, so the Democrats now pushing for impeachment.
00:28:09.000So President Trump is pushing back and he's shifting his argument.
00:28:12.000So his argument is shifting from they should go back to their home countries, which was his original controversial tweet, to if they don't like the country, they can leave.
00:28:21.000And while I don't typically like this sort of language, I don't like like if Barack Obama had said anyone who doesn't like my administration can leave.
00:29:00.000But the problem is the argument is too malleable.
00:29:02.000But it is also an argument That is going to, the elasticity and durability of that argument are going to rely heavily on who you're targeting with it.
00:29:11.000So in other words, if you say about somebody like Noam Chomsky, if you don't like the country you can take off anytime, that has a little bit more weight than if you just say about Chuck Schumer, if you don't like the country you can take off anytime.
00:29:21.000In other words, the more radical you are, the more you want to overthrow the fundamental essence of the United States, the more that argument carries weight, the more that emotional appeal carries weight.
00:29:31.000Well, then you got to pick your target specifically.
00:29:33.000And President Trump has done that with people like Ilhan Omar, who speaks horribly about the United States.
00:29:38.000When's the last time you heard Ilhan Omar say something nice about the United States?
00:31:24.000But when I hear the way they talk about our country, when I hear the anti-Semitic language they use, when I hear the hatred they have for Israel, And the love they have for enemies like Al-Qaeda.
00:32:09.000The way that that argument plays is going to be largely dependent on how these Democrats act, because now he's specifically calling them out.
00:32:16.000Now when he refers to Al-Qaeda what he's presumably referring to is a clip of Ilhan Omar from several years back when she was discussing terrorist groups and she was sort of mocking the idea that we should take Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah and Hamas seriously.
00:32:32.000So Ilhan Omar yesterday at this press conference was specifically asked whether she would condemn al Qaeda and whether she was a communist.
00:32:41.000Respond to some of the president's specific claims, most notably that you're a communist and that you're pro al Qaeda.
00:32:49.000You might have noticed how when he said go back to where you came from, there was an uproar through the through all of our communities, because every single person who's brown and black at some point in their life in this because every single person who's brown and black at some point in their
00:33:10.000Now when he made the comment, I know that every single Muslim who has lived in this country and across the world has heard that comment.
00:33:24.000And so I will not dignify it with an answer.
00:33:27.000Okay, so she won't dignify it with an answer?
00:33:29.000Imagine if Trump were asked that question.
00:33:31.000Really, imagine if Trump were asked that question about the KKK.
00:33:33.000We don't have to imagine, it happened, and it was a massive uproar during the 2016 campaign.
00:33:37.000He was asked, there's a person from the KKK, David Duke, who has expressed support for you.
00:33:43.000What do you have to say about the KKK?
00:33:45.000What do you think Trump would have done if he had said, I'm not going to dignify that with a response?
00:33:48.000What do you think the media would have said?
00:33:53.000I mean, literally yesterday AOC tweeted out, she tweeted out, that if you were silent about Trump's comments, that meant that you approved of Trump's comments.
00:34:02.000So here is Ilhan Omar saying, I'm not going to dignify a question about whether I am in favor of Al Qaeda with a response.
00:34:13.000OK, and the fact is that she did, in fact, write a letter in support of shorter terror sentences for people who are trying to join ISIS just a few years back, suggesting that that ISIS were radical changemakers.
00:34:45.000But instead, you get moments like this.
00:34:46.000So yesterday, as I mentioned on the show, over the weekend, there was an attack on an ICE facility in Tacoma, Washington.
00:34:53.000This attack on an ICE facility was carried out by an Antifa terrorist.
00:34:57.000It was a 69-year-old guy who walked up with a rifle and he had a propane tank and he tried to blow up a wall of the ICE facility.
00:35:03.000And well, Ilhan Omar was asked by a reporter from the rebel media whether she could condemn, whether she would condemn this attempted terror attack on an ICE facility and here's how it went.
00:35:15.000Will you condemn the Antifa attack in Washington over the weekend?
00:37:28.000If the squad wants to take the lead in this fight, this is an easy fight to make if you are willing to say easy things.
00:37:35.000But I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take away from the squad when you've got Ayanna Pressley over the weekend suggesting that black people are not truly black unless they agree with her, when you've got Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib blatant anti-Semites, when you've got AOC who has suggested that we have concentration camps on our border, and when every member of the squad who was asked by a reporter yesterday whether they would condemn an Antifa terror attack on American soil went totally silent.
00:38:44.000And just like President Trump feels the necessity to be right in the center of the camera lens, these folks feel the necessity to be in the center of the camera lens.
00:39:01.000Again, there are folks who are going to say, well, you know, they're not saying they're in favor of the Antifa attacks.
00:39:05.000Well, let me play you a clip of Chuck Schumer yesterday.
00:39:07.000So here's Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.
00:39:10.000He said, with regard to President Trump's comments, here is his logic with regard to to Republicans who remain silent on Trump's comment.
00:39:17.000The president's comments demand condemnation from all corners of the political spectrum, all corners.
00:39:25.000But it's become frighteningly common For many of my Republican colleagues to let these moments sail by without saying even a word.
00:39:40.000So I'm left to wonder if the silence of many Republicans in the wake of President Trump's xenophobic tweets is out of embarrassment or agreement.
00:39:57.000Okay, so according to the Democratic logic, silence is acquiescence.
00:40:02.000Silence is acquiescence, according to the Democratic logic.
00:40:05.000If that's the case, then why are you remaining silent when asked if you condemn an Antifa attack on an ICE facility?
00:40:11.000Now, the real reason, I think, that some of these Democrats won't simply just come out and condemn it, or that it takes them 24 hours to do so, is because there is a segment to the left that is actually fine with the Antifa attacks on ICE facilities and sees it as heroic.
00:40:22.000Namely, the most radical wing of the Democratic Party.
00:40:28.000Sean King went on Twitter and he named the attempted, they call him that, by the way, because he is extraordinarily radical on race and may or may not be actually a white person genetically.
00:40:41.000In any case, Sean King, he tweeted out that this so-called, that this Antifa terrorist, quote, just became the first martyr attempting to liberate imprisoned refugees from a for-profit detention center in Tacoma, Washington.
00:41:15.000People attempting voluntarily to immigrate to the United States who are temporarily held in detention facilities deliberately underfunded by Democratic Congress people.
00:41:22.000Second, Attempting to burn a detention facility in which immigrants are is not an act of heroism.
00:41:32.000But Sean King is actually in favor of the violence.
00:41:35.000So Trump is just pointing at the Democratic radicalism and saying, OK, you want these guys?
00:41:46.000Why do you think she's been trying to minimize the impact of the so-called squad?
00:41:49.000The media know this, which is why they're begging for some sort of conciliance between Nancy Pelosi and the so-called squad.
00:41:59.000It's so funny, all the members of the media secretly kind of love the squad, not so secretly, and so they're begging Nancy Pelosi to lay off the squad.
00:42:05.000The truth is that they should be doing the Maureen Dowd thing.
00:42:08.000Maureen Dowd, over the weekend, was saying to the squad, guys, shut up, let Nancy Pelosi do this, she's a pro, you're amateurs.
00:42:16.000So somehow we have reached the point where the argument morphed from AOC versus Nancy Pelosi, because AOC is radical and Nancy Pelosi is in this weird world in which we occupy space, and Nancy Pelosi is currently the moderate.
00:42:29.000And that morphed into xenophobe Trump versus the entire Democratic Party.
00:42:35.000And now that has morphed into Trump versus the squad, which is the fight that Trump wants.
00:42:41.000And the squad is radical and they can't contain their radicalism even long enough to limit themselves to that which is politically beneficial to them.
00:42:50.000And Trump is going right after it, right?
00:42:51.000I mean, Trump is making clear what he's doing here.
00:42:57.000He says, Those tweets were not racist.
00:42:59.000I don't have a racist bone in my body.
00:43:00.000The so-called vote to be taken is a Democrat con game.
00:43:03.000Republicans should not show weakness and fall into their trap.
00:43:06.000This should be a vote on the filthy language, statements, and lies told by the Democrat Congresswomen who I truly believe, based on their actions, hate our country.
00:43:13.000Get a list of the horrible things they have said.
00:45:58.000And Marianne Williamson at this event calls on all the white members of her audience to surround the black members of the audience and then repeat a formal apology after her.
00:46:08.000So first of all, I'm not a big fan of people generally repeating what politicians have to say.
00:46:14.000I just think that it is creepy and weird.
00:46:15.000I remember that Donald Trump did it in 2016.
00:47:28.000And now you're having full struggle sessions where all the white members of the audience are having Maoist struggle sessions where they go up to black members of the audience, surround them in the creepiest possible fashion, and then inform them that they are apologizing on behalf of the country.
00:47:44.000At the behest of a kooky spiritual guru like Marianne Williamson.
00:47:51.000By the way, I mean, I wonder how the black folks in the audience feel about this.
00:47:55.000Like if you're a black member of the audience, like if I were, let's say I were at some sort of event in Germany and all of a sudden a bunch of Germans surrounded me and they say, on behalf of me and Germany, I apologize to you.
00:48:05.000I'd be like, why are you apologizing to me?
00:48:09.000Unless you're an actual Nazi, and you killed a member of my family, and you were involved in World War II, I'm not sure what you are apologizing for.
00:48:16.000Does Marianne Williamson know the histories of anybody in that room?
00:48:20.000Like, does she know whether the black people in that room were actually descended from slaves, for example?
00:48:25.000Are they newer immigrants to the United States, like Kamala Harris, for example?
00:49:17.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden, who again, his entire campaign, the only reason he's in the race is to provide some semblance of normalty, supposedly.
00:49:24.000Joe Biden's still holding to this narrow lead nationally.
00:49:27.000He's holding to a very narrow lead in New Hampshire.
00:49:30.000Apparently, he's in a near statistical tie with Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris.
00:49:34.000He's fallen behind Kamala Harris in California.
00:49:36.000He had a big lead a month ago in California.
00:49:38.000Kamala Harris is the odds-on favorite to win the nomination.
00:49:40.000At this point, we'll get to her in just one second.
00:49:42.000But Joe Biden, all he had to do was not be weird.
00:49:48.000So he was asked about how he was going to challenge President Trump.
00:49:51.000What would happen if President Trump challenged him on the basis of his age?
00:49:54.000Because Biden is less energetic as a person than Donald Trump is.
00:49:58.000Trump has some sort of connection to the upside down from which he draws energy because the man has never exercised in his life and he eats only garbage.
00:50:07.000And yet, like the flux capacitor in the DeLorean, he is powered by that garbage to an extraordinary extent.
00:50:14.000So Joe Biden was asked, how are you going to deal with Trump's energy level?
00:50:17.000And Joe Biden said, I'm basically going to be as weird as possible.
00:50:22.000He starts making fun of your age, your mental state, starts going after you in ways that this is, I mean.
00:51:16.000And this is why eventually when the 2020 race is over, it will be the ghost of Cecil the Lion, who is president of the United States, because all anyone had to do was not be crazy and no one could do it.
00:51:45.000Here was Joe Biden talking about it and using exactly the same lie he used the first time.
00:51:50.000How many of you have, when you were working, liked your – and you may still be working, many of you – how many of you like your employer-based health care?
00:52:28.000Remember a person who said that and was lying to you?
00:52:31.000So Joe Biden telling the exact same lies.
00:52:33.000Yeah, that campaign is falling apart, and he's going to be bashed over the head about all of this by the other members of the Democratic Party.
00:52:40.000Well, that means that what this is turning into is a two-person race, and Joe Biden isn't one of those people.
00:52:45.000The two-person race is going to be Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris.
00:52:48.000Warren is picking up an enormous amount of support from the Bernie Sanders base.
00:52:51.000Bernie Sanders has fallen all the way down to fifth place in New Hampshire.
00:53:08.000Elizabeth Warren is picking up support.
00:53:10.000Elizabeth Warren also happens to be deeply dishonest.
00:53:13.000This is one of the beauties about being a politician is that you habitually lie.
00:53:17.000So according to BuzzFeed News, Elizabeth Warren's campaign turned to a big donor to pay for the DNC voter database.
00:53:23.000Apparently, Warren relied on a multi-million dollar Democratic donor to cover the cost of an expensive voter database, a move that risks putting her campaign at odds with the spirit, if not the letter of the pledge she made to abstain from big money fundraising.
00:53:35.000In February, just two months into her presidential campaign, Warren set herself apart from the rest of the Democratic field by swearing off the kind of pay-for-play fundraising that typically gives wealthy donors outsized access and influence, according to BuzzFeed News.
00:53:48.000Warren officials now say she didn't violate that pledge when her campaign turned to one of California's top Democratic donors, a wealthy Silicon Valley physician named Carla Jurvetson, to help pay for access to a crucial voter database earlier this spring.
00:54:02.000That database cost about $175,000, and she went to one Democratic donor who contributed $7 million to Democrats in 2018 and got the money from that person.
00:54:11.000So Elizabeth Warren, all in favor of small money donations until it comes time to pay the bills.
00:54:16.000Speaking of which, Kamala Harris has the same sort of problem.
00:54:19.000So we all know that Kamala Harris is truly dishonest.
00:54:21.000She's been dishonest on her position on federal busing, which she has switched several times.
00:54:25.000She's been dishonest on her position on getting rid of private health care insurance, which she has also switched several times.
00:54:31.000And now it turns out she is dishonest when it comes to raising money herself.
00:54:34.000According to the Associated Press, Kamala Harris bemoaned the influence of the powerful and connected elite last Tuesday when she called on top Justice Department officials to recuse themselves from any matter related to Jeffrey Epstein.
00:54:45.000She said their former law firm's work on behalf of the financier accused of sexual abuse calls into question the integrity of our legal system.
00:54:54.000The same exact day, Harris's husband headlined a Chicago fundraiser for her presidential campaign that was hosted by six partners of that firm, Kirkland and Ellis, according to an invitation obtained by the Associated Press.
00:55:06.000Harris was one of several White House hopefuls to blast the handling of Epstein's case in Florida a decade ago, when his lawyers negotiated a deal with federal prosecutors.
00:55:14.000But her decision to move ahead with the fundraiser hosted by Kirkland & Ellis Partners, while criticizing the firm, underscores the tension that can arise when a politician's rhetoric collides with his or her need to raise money to sustain a presidential campaign.
00:55:26.000So it turns out that Harris, while she was ripping Kirkland & Ellis, was taking their money.
00:55:30.000She was effectively Claude Rains in Casablanca.
00:55:33.000She is shocked, shocked to find that law is going on here.
00:56:05.000What the Democrats would be best doing is just pointing at Trump.
00:56:08.000So we could have a race in which they point at each other, or we could have a race where everybody just clubs themselves in the head with a wooden mallet until the little Tweety Burbs appear around their ears.
00:56:18.000I have a feeling we are going to move toward the latter very quickly, given the tenor of today's politics.
00:56:23.000Alrighty, we'll be back here a little bit later today.
00:56:25.000We have two additional hours of content, a lot of goodies coming up for you then.