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00:00:00.000 Democrats scream as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sets the impeachment rules, House impeachment managers and Trump's lawyers open up their cases, and Joe Biden tries to defend himself over Hunter's corruption.

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00:01:53.000 So, the impeachment trial is underway.

00:01:56.000 and oh, the excitement.

00:01:58.000 And oh, the riveting spectacle of all of it!

00:02:02.000 If you feel like this whole thing is too theatrical, that's because it is.

00:02:05.000 It's incredibly dumb.

00:02:06.000 It's incredibly theatrical.

00:02:07.000 And none of it really is going to make a difference because we all know where this is going.

00:02:11.000 The New York Times basically admitting as much yesterday, Jesse Wegman, a member of the editorial board, has an entire piece lamenting the fact that the Democrats don't actually have the goods.

00:02:19.000 He blames that on Republicans because he's from the New York Times.

00:02:22.000 There's an article called, Why Trump's Threadbare Illegal Argument Will Probably Work.

00:02:26.000 Thanks a lot, Mitch McConnell.

00:02:28.000 Oh, did it give you the sad that the House wasn't unable or unwilling to actually gather enough evidence to push forward a credible impeachment effort?

00:02:35.000 Does that give you a sad?

00:02:36.000 Is it sad that Mitch McConnell is actually holding to the same process as Bill Clinton's impeachment?

00:02:42.000 Is that really sad?

00:02:42.000 Is it really sad?

00:02:43.000 Yesterday, we saw an enormous amount of wrangling.

00:02:46.000 Wrangling when it came to the impeachment, the impeachment procedure.

00:02:52.000 According to the New York Times, a divided Senate began the impeachment trial of President Trump on Tuesday in utter acrimony.

00:02:57.000 Who could have predicted utter acrimony in Washington, D.C.?

00:03:00.000 I mean, these guys are like the best of friends, the most brilliant among us.

00:03:04.000 Republicans blocked Democrats' efforts to subpoena witnesses and documents related to Ukraine, and moderate Republicans forced last-minute changes to rules that had been tailored to the president's wishes.

00:03:13.000 So, only one of those things matters.

00:03:14.000 What you're going to hear from the media today is Republicans were blocking documents.

00:03:18.000 They're blocking witnesses.

00:03:19.000 Block, block, block, block, block.

00:03:20.000 Not true.

00:03:21.000 Not true.

00:03:22.000 That was not this part of the trial.

00:03:24.000 So what Mitch McConnell did is he said, here's the procedure.

00:03:27.000 We're going to have 12 hours.

00:03:28.000 Well, we're going to have 24 hours of arguments on each side.

00:03:33.000 Each side gets three days to make those arguments.

00:03:35.000 And then after we make those arguments, then we can vote on which documents to admit into evidence.

00:03:39.000 And then we can also vote on witnesses.

00:03:41.000 And Democrats instead were like, no, we're going to preemptively vote on documents and witnesses.

00:03:45.000 We're going to do that before we even hear the arguments.

00:03:47.000 Because guess what?

00:03:47.000 We got to get this thing going, got to move it fast.

00:03:50.000 It's imperative that we move this thing fast.

00:03:52.000 And also, we need to call more witnesses that we didn't bother calling in the House.

00:03:56.000 It's really, really fast.

00:03:56.000 But now we need it to slow up, guys.

00:03:58.000 We need to slow it up.

00:03:59.000 We really need to take our time.

00:04:01.000 And Mitch McConnell is obstructing.

00:04:03.000 He's super obstructy.

00:04:05.000 This is the way that they are putting it right now.

00:04:06.000 Mitch McConnell is screwing with the procedures.

00:04:08.000 Okay, Mitch McConnell is not screwing with the procedures.

00:04:10.000 The Republicans, the more moderate Republicans, would be Romney and Collins and Murkowski.

00:04:15.000 Basically went to Mitch McConnell and they said, you know, your original plan to have the Senate here 24 hours of arguments from each side in two days each, that's too much.

00:04:26.000 You know, we want to go home.

00:04:27.000 We want to sleep.

00:04:27.000 And we're kind of tired.

00:04:28.000 I mean, let's face it.

00:04:29.000 We're all old.

00:04:30.000 We're all crotchety.

00:04:31.000 We want to go home.

00:04:32.000 So instead, we're going to do that over three days.

00:04:33.000 And Mitch McConnell's like, well, all right, in his very animated fashion.

00:04:37.000 Well, Okay.

00:04:38.000 And so they literally hand wrote in that change, in the impeachment rules, and then they moved on with their day.

00:04:43.000 And this is apparently a bombshell.

00:04:45.000 Huge!

00:04:46.000 This is just evidence that the Republican caucus is starting to crack.

00:04:49.000 Meanwhile, the Democrats, who are preemptively bringing all of these subpoenas for witnesses and documents they didn't bother to bring in the House where they control the process, McConnell's like, no, we're not voting on that stuff.

00:05:00.000 And even Romney and Murkowski and Collins were like, no, we're not gonna vote on that stuff preemptively.

00:05:04.000 Even during the Clinton stuff, we didn't vote on that stuff preemptively.

00:05:07.000 And the Democrats went nuts over this.

00:05:09.000 So Chuck Schumer says, Mitch McConnell wants a trial with no evidence and no new evidence.

00:05:14.000 He just wants, this is so mean.

00:05:16.000 This is the first prosecution in history that I can remember where the prosecutor shows up at the court and his first move is, guys, I know we're gonna do a trial now.

00:05:25.000 I need to go gather more evidence.

00:05:27.000 You know what would happen in a normal trial?

00:05:29.000 The judge would be like, well, shouldn't you have gathered the evidence before you brought this thing to trial?

00:05:33.000 But according to Chuck Schumer, it's very bad that Mitch McConnell is not admitting more evidence even before he hears the arguments.

00:05:40.000 So here's Chuck Schumer playing the fool.

00:05:44.000 Unlike the Clinton rules, the McConnell resolution does not admit the record of the House impeachment proceedings into evidence.

00:05:52.000 So McConnell seems to want a trial with no existing evidence and no new evidence.

00:05:58.000 No evidence.

00:06:00.000 You can understand why.

00:06:03.000 It's because he's afraid of evidence.

00:06:06.000 So is President Trump.

00:06:08.000 So are the President's men.

00:06:09.000 A trial with no evidence is not a trial at all.

00:06:14.000 It's a cover-up.

00:06:15.000 It's a cover-up, a cover-up.

00:06:17.000 By the way, they changed the rules and then they admitted all the House stuff.

00:06:20.000 Right, so they didn't admit any of the documents, but they did admit the actual House impeachment record.

00:06:25.000 And so that has been admitted as well, so far as I understand.

00:06:29.000 According to the New York Times, in a series of party-line votes punctuating 12 hours of debate, Senate Republicans turned back every attempt by Democrats to subpoena documents from the White House, State Department, and other agencies, as well as testimony from White House officials that could shed light on the court charges against Mr. Trump.

00:06:42.000 The debate between the House impeachment managers and the President's legal team stretched into the early hours of Wednesday morning in a Senate chamber transformed for the occasion with Chief Justice John Roberts presiding from the marble rostrum and Senators sworn to silence looking on from desks piled with briefing books.

00:06:56.000 It was the substantive start of the third presidential impeachment trial in American history.

00:07:02.000 And all of this was a charade.

00:07:05.000 All of this was simply theater.

00:07:08.000 It was just John Lovitz going, acting!

00:07:10.000 That's all this was.

00:07:11.000 Even Mitt Romney, who has been relatively warm toward democratic attempts to open this thing up a little bit more.

00:07:18.000 Even Mitt Romney was like, really, we're arguing over a procedure like now?

00:07:22.000 Shouldn't we argue over the subpoenas and the witnesses a little bit later and we're going to pretend like this is a big deal?

00:07:27.000 Here's Mitt Romney, the most milquetoast man who has ever lived.

00:07:30.000 Changes are pretty modest and I don't think are significant in any dramatic way.

00:07:35.000 So for instance, whether something is going to be taking 12 hours per day or 8 hours per day, it's still going to get covered in the news.

00:07:43.000 And what's officially going into evidence doesn't make a big difference because the Senators are of course free to look at all the information they have that comes from the House.

00:07:53.000 I think those two issues are just not big ones.

00:07:55.000 I think the Democrats make a mistake when they cry outrage time and time again.

00:08:00.000 If everything is an outrage, then nothing is an outrage.

00:08:03.000 And that, of course, is true.

00:08:04.000 When Romney says that they are acting outraged over everything, as Ted Cruz has pointed out, the rule in court is that if you have the facts, you bang the facts, and if you have the law, you bang the law, and if you don't have either, you bang the table.

00:08:16.000 And this is what the Democrats are doing.

00:08:17.000 There's a lot of table banging.

00:08:20.000 Bill Clinton style.

00:08:21.000 No, no, like actually just banging the table, like hitting the table and shouting about it.

00:08:25.000 Adam Schiff did a lot of that yesterday.

00:08:27.000 So Adam Schiff, who is the biggest partisan hack in Congress, right?

00:08:29.000 He spent two years going on CNN every day.

00:08:31.000 I remember every time I would go to work out at the gym, CNN would be on the TV to my utter consternation.

00:08:36.000 And there would be Adam Schiff on the TV, his eyes popping out like Judge Doom at the end of Roger Rabbit, explaining that we were about to be graced with the final chapter of the Trump presidency, thanks to Russia revelations.

00:08:49.000 And none of that ever materialized.

00:08:50.000 Here's Adam Schiff, though, pretending that he is a nonpartisan House impeachment manager.

00:08:54.000 He is just here to do his solemn duty.

00:08:57.000 But the big problem is people are going to think that the Senate's non-impartial.

00:08:59.000 OK, I'm sorry.

00:09:00.000 Listening to Adam Schiff whine that the Senate is going to be viewed as non-impartial is just hilarious on every level.

00:09:08.000 Why?

00:09:09.000 Well, here's what we found out yesterday from Politico.

00:09:11.000 House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, Do I think that Schiff is making errors about the record?

00:09:28.000 No, I don't.

00:09:28.000 I think that Schiff is biasing the record because he is a partisan hack who lies about lots of things.

00:09:32.000 The issue arose when Schiff sent a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler last week summarizing a trove of evidence from Lev Parnas, an indicted former associate of Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.

00:09:42.000 In one section of the letter, Schiff claims that Parnas continued to try to arrange a meeting with President Zelensky, citing a specific text message exchange where Parnas tells Giuliani, trying to get us Mr. Z. The remainder of the exchange, which was attached to Schiff's letter, was redacted.

00:09:56.000 But an unredacted version of the exchange shows that several days later, Parnas sent Giuliani a Word document that appears to show notes from an interview with Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma, followed by a text message to Giuliani that states, Mr. Z answers my brother.

00:10:11.000 Which means that Parnas was not trying to arrange a meeting between Lev Parnas and Rudy Giuliani and Zelensky, the president of Ukraine.

00:10:17.000 He was trying to arrange a meeting between Rudy Giuliani and the head of Burisma, which is who Rudy Giuliani was investigating.

00:10:23.000 That makes a rather large difference.

00:10:25.000 And Adam Schiff knew that, right?

00:10:26.000 He'd seen the unredacted version and then he just lied about it in his letter, hoping that nobody would notice.

00:10:32.000 I love this.

00:10:33.000 This is Politico editorializing.

00:10:35.000 The apparent mischaracterization does not undercut Democrats' argument that Trump withheld critical military aid to Ukraine.

00:10:42.000 No, nobody said it did, but you literally mischaracterized the evidence on a dramatic scale.

00:10:47.000 And that's just a mischaracterization.

00:10:48.000 It's not a lie.

00:10:49.000 It's a mischaracterization, guys.

00:10:51.000 So here's Adam Schiff complaining, many Americans might think that the Senate's not impartial unless they do exactly what Adam Schiff wants.

00:10:59.000 Right now, a great many, perhaps even most Americans do not believe there will be a fair trial.

00:11:06.000 They don't believe that the Senate will be impartial.

00:11:10.000 They believe that the result is pre-cooked.

00:11:13.000 The president will be acquitted.

00:11:17.000 Not because he is innocent.

00:11:19.000 He is not.

00:11:21.000 But because the senators will vote by party and he has the votes.

00:11:25.000 You mean like in the House where every single Republican voted no and every single Democrat voted yes?

00:11:29.000 You mean like that?

00:11:30.000 Like where the impeachment was precooked because everyone voted along party lines and you couldn't convince a single Republican to cross those party lines?

00:11:36.000 Because your evidence wasn't there?

00:11:38.000 You mean like that?

00:11:38.000 But I definitely am up for hearing lectures from Adam Schiff about partisan hackery.

00:11:42.000 Absolutely.

00:11:43.000 And then Schiff went after Trump's lawyers, saying that Trump's lawyers are attacking Democrats to avoid their own failures.

00:11:49.000 Shifts opening statement yesterday.

00:11:51.000 He didn't bother to actually argue about the impeachment procedures.

00:11:54.000 Instead, he just launched into this really long attack on Trump.

00:11:57.000 And everybody was celebrating this morning on Twitter.

00:11:59.000 Hashtag Adam Schiff rocks was trending, which maybe it was Russian bots.

00:12:04.000 Who knows?

00:12:04.000 Here's Adam Schiff suggesting that Trump's lawyers are attacking Democrats because they don't have the evidence.

00:12:10.000 Dude, you literally, half of Schiff's speech was devoted to, why won't Republicans gather more evidence?

00:12:15.000 Because you guys ran the House.

00:12:16.000 This is the head of the House Intelligence Committee.

00:12:18.000 He had every ability in the world to call witnesses, wait for the adjudication by courts as to whether executive privilege was invoked.

00:12:25.000 He didn't do any of that.

00:12:26.000 So he shows up and he's like, guys, if you could do my work for me, look, I didn't finish my homework.

00:12:30.000 If you could do that for me, that'd be great.

00:12:31.000 And if you don't, you're a partisan hack.

00:12:33.000 More Adam Schiff.

00:12:35.000 When you hear them attack the House managers, What you're really hearing is, we don't want to talk about the President's guilt.

00:12:44.000 We don't want to talk about the McConnell resolution and how patently unfair it is.

00:12:48.000 We don't want to talk about how, how, the pardon the expression, ask backwards it is to have a trial and then ask for witnesses.

00:12:56.000 And so we'll attack the House managers because maybe we can distract you for a moment from what's before you.

00:13:03.000 Just ridiculous.

00:13:04.000 Ridiculous in every way, because Adam Schiff is ridiculous in every way.

00:13:07.000 And it just shows you that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats, they know where this is going, and they don't care.

00:13:11.000 They understand that they didn't have any opportunity to convince Republicans on the basis of this evidence, so they may as well let Adam Schiff do his lecturing routine.

00:13:18.000 They also sent in Zoe Lofgren, another partisan hack, who explained that the evidence overwhelmingly proves Trump's guilt, and that's why we need more witnesses and more documents.

00:13:25.000 Which, again, is a strange argument.

00:13:27.000 Here is Zoe Lofgren from California.

00:13:29.000 The amendment prevents the President from hiding evidence, as he has previously tried to do.

00:13:35.000 Now, the House subpoenaed these documents as part of the impeachment inquiry, but the President completely rejected this, and every document subpoenaed from the House.

00:13:47.000 As powerful as our evidence is, and make no mistake, it overwhelmingly approves his guilt.

00:13:55.000 We did not receive a single document from the executive branch agency, including the White House itself.

00:14:02.000 Okay, so I'm just going to point out, if the evidence is overwhelming, then why are you calling for more evidence and for a slowdown in the trial?

00:14:09.000 None of this makes any sense.

00:14:11.000 Then, I do love this, Senator Mazie Hirono, who is the worst.

00:14:14.000 I mean, she's just the worst.

00:14:15.000 If you remember her during the Kavanaugh trial, she was the one who was out there suggesting that every wild story about Kavanaugh had to be true.

00:14:21.000 She, yesterday, was saying, anybody who suggests that this is just a Democratic conspiracy to get Trump, and that this is all just about people hating on Trump, that's a conspiracy theory.

00:14:29.000 We are fair-minded and impartial!

00:14:33.000 And if you believe that, then again, that bridge I have in Brooklyn is still for sale.

00:14:37.000 Here's Senator Maziarona.

00:14:40.000 What we got from the president's people were really what I found astounding was they're still saying that we were out to get the president from day one.

00:14:50.000 Some kind of a weird conspiracy theory that I have to say even Kavanaugh brought up.

00:14:56.000 They really believe this stuff.

00:14:57.000 I find it incredible.

00:14:59.000 And so they're still focusing on the process.

00:15:01.000 It's a conspiracy theory, guys.

00:15:03.000 If you think that the Democrats are partisans and that the Republicans are partisans and that everybody's a partisan, that's a conspiracy theory now.

00:15:09.000 Okay, so meanwhile, President Trump's team responds, and responds in fiery fashion.

00:15:09.000 That's a conspiracy theory.

00:15:14.000 So, Pat Cipollone, he says, listen, we know what this is about.

00:15:17.000 The Democrats are trying to pretend that 2016 was not legitimately decided, and then they are also trying to say that 2020 will be illegitimate unless President Trump is thrown from office.

00:15:27.000 We'll get to Pat Cipollone's response in just one second.

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00:15:47.000 We have one part of the country that wants to believe that everyone who is a Second Amendment advocate is actually a terrorist, and those people are trying to cram down these gun laws that are going to attempt to take away your guns.

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00:17:22.000 Hey, so the Trump team responds in this impeachment opening.

00:17:26.000 Pat Cipollone says, listen, they tried to steal the 2016 election by claiming that this was Russian interference.

00:17:31.000 Now they're trying to claim that 2020 is going to be corrupt unless Trump is ousted.

00:17:35.000 All of this is nonsense.

00:17:36.000 It's outrageous.

00:17:38.000 And the American people won't stand for it.

00:17:40.000 I'll tell you that right now.

00:17:42.000 They're not here to steal one election.

00:17:43.000 They're here to steal two elections.

00:17:47.000 It's buried in the small print of their ridiculous articles of impeachment.

00:17:52.000 They want to remove President Trump from the ballot!

00:17:55.000 They won't tell you that.

00:17:57.000 They don't have the guts to say it directly.

00:18:00.000 But that's exactly what they're here to do.

00:18:03.000 Cipollone moved along these lines for most of the most of the day yesterday.

00:18:07.000 So the Democrats are saying it's completely unfair.

00:18:10.000 These impeachment proceedings are unfair.

00:18:12.000 They're unfair.

00:18:12.000 So basically, we have now the mirror of what happened in the House.

00:18:15.000 In the House, Republicans were saying.

00:18:17.000 Guys, why don't you wait for the evidence?

00:18:19.000 Why don't you wait for the evidence and why don't you actually allow us to rebut that evidence?

00:18:24.000 Why are you rushing this thing forward?

00:18:26.000 These procedures are unfair.

00:18:27.000 And then we get to the Senate and Democrats are like, why are you rushing things forward?

00:18:30.000 Why can't we wait for the evidence?

00:18:31.000 Why?

00:18:32.000 For those of you keeping score at home, they haven't even started yet.

00:18:34.000 right and Democrats are wrong because the thing started in the House.

00:18:37.000 The House is where most of the investigation is supposed to take place.

00:18:40.000 And as Cipollone points out, Democrats spent nearly the entire day yesterday admitting they don't have the evidence for the impeachment and then whining that Republicans won't do their homework for them.

00:18:48.000 For those of you keeping score at home, they haven't even started yet.

00:18:54.000 We're here today.

00:18:56.000 We came hoping to have a trial.

00:19:01.000 They spent the entire day telling you and the American people that they can't prove their case.

00:19:11.000 I could have told you that in five minutes and saved us all a lot of time.

00:19:15.000 Well, that would have been nice, but nobody's time was saved.

00:19:17.000 Instead, we just did this for like the entire day and we'll continue to do this for weeks on end.

00:19:21.000 It's just going to be wonderful.

00:19:22.000 Meanwhile, a guy named Patrick Philbin, who is a lawyer for President Trump, he's a deputy White House counsel.

00:19:29.000 He says, he says, listen, they keep asking for more evidence and they've not compiled any evidence as of yet.

00:19:34.000 So the Republican argument is basically you keep whining about the procedures.

00:19:37.000 You didn't do your homework.

00:19:39.000 The first thing that the House managers have done upon arriving finally in this chamber after waiting for 33 days is to say, well, actually, we need more evidence.

00:19:49.000 We're not ready to present our case.

00:19:52.000 We need to have subpoenas and we need to do more discovery because we don't have the evidence we need to support our case.

00:19:58.000 This is stunning.

00:20:00.000 It's a stunning admission of the inadequate and broken process that the House Democrats ran in this impeachment inquiry that failed to compile a record to support their charges.

00:20:12.000 It's stunning that they don't have the evidence they need to present their case and that they don't really have a case.

00:20:19.000 This, of course, is correct.

00:20:20.000 Jay Sekulow is one of the president's lawyers as well.

00:20:22.000 And he says, listen, this is just a partisan agenda.

00:20:25.000 And this whole thing is such kabuki theater.

00:20:27.000 It is such a waste of time.

00:20:29.000 And the media are the only people who are truly interested in it.

00:20:31.000 If you ask the average American whether they are deeply ensconced in this trial, the answer is no.

00:20:36.000 They didn't care.

00:20:38.000 Four months ago, they don't care now.

00:20:39.000 That's not to say they don't have opinions on it, they do.

00:20:42.000 But Americans have opinions on everything.

00:20:43.000 I mean, you can poll them on whether they think Elvis is alive.

00:20:46.000 You can poll people on anything.

00:20:47.000 The country is deeply divided.

00:20:48.000 Half the people like Trump, half the people hate Trump.

00:20:51.000 And that is reflected in the polling with regard to impeachment.

00:20:53.000 But if you ask Americans how many of them are closely following the impeachment, the answer is basically the staff at CNN and MSNBC.

00:21:00.000 And everybody else is like, well, got better things to do, man.

00:21:04.000 Gotta go get my, gotta go get my toenails filed.

00:21:07.000 Here's Jay Sekulow explaining that this is indeed a Democrat partisan hit.

00:21:13.000 Why are we here?

00:21:16.000 Are we here because of a phone call?

00:21:20.000 Or are we here before this great body?

00:21:23.000 Because since the president was sworn into office, there was a desire to see him removed.

00:21:34.000 I remember in the Mueller report, There were discussions about, remember, insurance policies.

00:21:40.000 My favorite part of that is when Jay Sekulow says, why are we here?

00:21:46.000 And I think to myself, I don't know.

00:21:48.000 To fulfill God's purpose for us.

00:21:51.000 The long pause there leads everyone to an existential crisis as we just sit there not understanding what in the hell is going on.

00:21:59.000 Like what is this all about?

00:22:01.000 So all of this ends with the dumbest in theatrical expositions.

00:22:05.000 This was really amazing.

00:22:06.000 So this is late last night.

00:22:08.000 Jerry Nadler, Partisan Hack, and Pat Cipollone Lawyer for President Trump, also a partisan.

00:22:13.000 They go at each other and it's just, it's so silly and it's so ridiculous.

00:22:17.000 It truly is.

00:22:18.000 And then Chief Justice Roberts signs in.

00:22:20.000 He jumps into the fray and he says, no, we've got to respect the Senate, guys.

00:22:25.000 This is the war room.

00:22:26.000 You can't fight in the war room.

00:22:27.000 Here's Jerry Nadler, idiot, and Pat Cipollone, partisan for the president, going at each other while the rest of the world sleeps.

00:22:33.000 And Chief Justice Roberts saying, you can't, you're, no, no, the dignity, the dignity of the institute.

00:22:39.000 If you're worried about the dignity of the institutions, maybe you should have worried about that when Jerry Nadler got elected to Congress.

00:22:45.000 I am struck by what we have heard from the President's Council so far tonight.

00:22:49.000 They complain about process, but they do not seriously contest any of the allegations against the President.

00:22:55.000 The only one who should be embarrassed, Mr. Nadler, is you, for the way you've addressed this body.

00:23:02.000 Mr. Nadler, you owe an apology to the President of the United States and his family.

00:23:10.000 Okay, and then Chief Justice Roberts jumped in and went at both of them, and he suggested that they have to have respect for this august body.

00:23:19.000 And then he mentions that back in 1905, somebody used the word pettifogging and then was chided in an impeachment trial for a non-president.

00:23:27.000 Is this Chief Justice Roberts?

00:23:29.000 So here's Chief Justice Roberts signing in and commenting on Nadler versus Cipollone, the showdown.

00:23:38.000 I think it is appropriate at this point for me to admonish both the House managers and the President's Council in equal terms to remember that they are addressing the world's greatest deliberative body.

00:23:54.000 One reason it has earned that title is because its members Avoid speaking in a manner and using language that is not conducive to civil discourse.

00:24:05.000 In the 1905 Swain trial, a senator objected when one of the managers used the word pettifogging, and the presiding officer said the word ought not to have been used.

00:24:17.000 I don't think we need to aspire to that highest standard, but I do think those addressing the Senate should remember where they are. - Okay, so now I'm actually even more pissed at Chief Justice Roberts than I am at the very sides.

00:24:30.000 I'm sorry, this is so stupid, I'm sorry.

00:24:32.000 Like, we're gonna pretend that our nation's political bodies there are so august.

00:24:37.000 Okay, people, the guy was almost beat to death in the 1850s on the floor of the Senate.

00:24:40.000 So I think we can dispense with the, oh my God, back in 1905, we wouldn't even use the word pettifogging.

00:24:45.000 And here we're being mean to each other on the Senate.

00:24:47.000 Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the war room!

00:24:51.000 It's all tiresome.

00:24:52.000 It's all stupid.

00:24:53.000 It's all a waste of time.

00:24:54.000 Fast forward two weeks, it's over.

00:24:56.000 We all know where this is going, barring some unprecedented bombshell, which is not going to drop.

00:25:00.000 In a second, we'll get to President Trump responding to all of this in Davos and being very Trumpy in his response.

00:25:06.000 Plus, we'll get to the 2020 race where Tulsi Gabbard is now throwing bombs at Hillary Clinton.

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00:26:28.000 As we all know, litigation would take an extremely long time.

00:26:30.000 admitted their agenda today.

00:26:31.000 There's a Democrat named Val Demings, who is one of the House impeachment managers, and she got up on the floor of the Senate and she basically just spilled the beans.

00:26:38.000 She says, we need to get this done right now or Trump's going to win in 2020.

00:26:40.000 As we all know, litigation would take an extremely long time, likely years, not weeks or months.

00:26:50.000 This body cannot permit him to hide all the evidence while disingenuously insisting on lawsuits that he doesn't actually think we can file.

00:27:03.000 Ones that he knows won't be resolved until after the election he is trying to cheat to win.

00:27:12.000 So listen to that.

00:27:14.000 If Trump files a lawsuit, Because he's asserting executive privilege.

00:27:18.000 And if it's going to take us past the 2020 election, then he is trying to cheat.

00:27:22.000 However, if we just decide to go forward without the evidence that we need and try to impeach him, that is not Democrats trying to cheat.

00:27:28.000 I mean, that is the Democrats full scale acknowledging that this whole thing is about trying to get it done before the 2020 election because they're afraid Trump's going to win.

00:27:35.000 That's all this is.

00:27:36.000 That's all this is.

00:27:38.000 Truly amazing admission there from Val Demings.

00:27:41.000 Okay, so President Trump in Davos, being President Trump, he is asked about this whole thing.

00:27:46.000 And Trump says, I'd love to show up at my own impeachment trial.

00:27:49.000 I'd love to be there because I want to stare at these bums right in the face.

00:27:54.000 Unbelievable girl.

00:27:57.000 I'd love to go.

00:27:58.000 Wouldn't that be great?

00:28:00.000 Wouldn't that be beautiful?

00:28:01.000 I don't know.

00:28:02.000 I'd sort of love to sit right in the front row and stare at their corrupt faces.

00:28:06.000 I'd love to do it.

00:28:08.000 I don't know.

00:28:09.000 Don't keep talking because you may convince me to do it.

00:28:12.000 I think they might have a problem.

00:28:15.000 I think they might.

00:28:20.000 He is right that his lawyers might have a problem with him showing up, because Trump, you may have noticed, has a tendency toward embellishment, at the very least.

00:28:27.000 His mouth is rather large, but when he said, I'd love to shop and lick these bastards right in the eye...

00:28:34.000 So Trumpy.

00:28:34.000 And then Trump goes after Jerry Nadler.

00:28:36.000 And again, like this, one of the reasons that President Trump is president is because not just of the craziness of our politics and the media and the culture wars.

00:28:47.000 One of the reasons that Trump is president, as I've said before, do you think that Trump murdered politics?

00:28:52.000 Or do you think that he's just the coroner who arrived upon a dead body and declared it dead?

00:28:56.000 When I look at Chief Justice Roberts sitting there and saying, this august body must never break down into partisanship.

00:29:02.000 This august body.

00:29:03.000 I mean, we used to not say petty fogging in here.

00:29:06.000 And then I see Trump, I'm like, all right, Trump.

00:29:08.000 Seriously, because that's what I think that people actually think.

00:29:10.000 At least, when people say that Trump is honest, what they don't mean is that he is honest about everything he says.

00:29:15.000 They mean that he is authentic, right?

00:29:16.000 He is what he is.

00:29:18.000 And he is a better reflection of how Americans think about politics than Chief Justice Roberts doing the, our august institutions must never, ever be frayed.

00:29:27.000 So when you get Trump, and he just says, yeah, Jerry Nadler's an ass.

00:29:31.000 Okay.

00:29:32.000 Honestly, I'll take that above Chief Justice Roberts doing the, we all respect, we're all collegial.

00:29:36.000 No, we're not.

00:29:37.000 This whole thing's a waste of time.

00:29:38.000 It's a waste of our taxpayer money.

00:29:40.000 Frankly, I'm pissed I have to cover it.

00:29:42.000 Here's President Trump going after Jerry Nadler.

00:29:45.000 Gerald Nadler.

00:29:46.000 I've known him a long time.

00:29:47.000 He's a sleazebag.

00:29:48.000 Everybody knows that.

00:29:50.000 Pat Cipollone is a high-quality human being.

00:29:53.000 I was very impressed with Pat.

00:29:55.000 He had great emotion yesterday.

00:29:57.000 Pat's a brilliant guy, but I've never seen that emotion.

00:30:01.000 And that's real emotion.

00:30:02.000 That's because he knows this is a hoax.

00:30:05.000 And I was very proud of the job he did.

00:30:08.000 I've known Jerry Nadler for a long time.

00:30:12.000 He's opposed many of my jobs.

00:30:14.000 I got them all built.

00:30:15.000 Very successfully built in New York.

00:30:18.000 Like that's more authentic American politics than the Chief Justice Roberts.

00:30:24.000 We must be dignified throughout this entire idiotic process.

00:30:28.000 Trump also went at Lev Parnas.

00:30:30.000 Lev Parnas is this guy who's been running around claiming that Trump was giving him direct orders to go shadow the ambassador to the Ukraine and that Lev Parnas is being ordered around by Trump to go do his dirty work in Ukraine.

00:30:42.000 Here's President Trump going after Lev Parnas.

00:30:45.000 He's a con man.

00:30:46.000 Let me answer that one.

00:30:47.000 I don't know him.

00:30:49.000 Other than he's sort of like a groupie.

00:30:52.000 He shows up at fundraisers.

00:30:54.000 Okay, so I don't know anything about him.

00:30:56.000 I watch Rudy.

00:30:56.000 Rudy is a terrific person.

00:30:58.000 Great crime fighter.

00:30:59.000 The best mayor in the history of New York City by far.

00:31:02.000 Solved the crime problem in New York.

00:31:04.000 And I think it's very unfair the way the media has treated Rudy Giuliani, I will say this.

00:31:09.000 Parnas, I don't know, other than he probably contributed to the campaign along with tens of thousands of other people.

00:31:15.000 So where is this going next?

00:31:17.000 In just a second, we'll talk about what Democrats are going to try to do in a last ditch gamble in order to try and shore up a case that is completely falling apart.

00:31:25.000 First, if you know anything about me, you've most likely heard me talk about my ardent support for the pro-life cause.

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00:32:56.000 So the Democrats, seeking desperately for some way out of this ditch that they have dug for themselves, are now contemplating the possibility of trading witnesses.

00:33:12.000 So according to the Washington Post, Rachel Bade, Robert Costa, and Seung Min Kim reporting, Senate Democrats are privately mulling a witness trade in the impeachment trial.

00:33:21.000 They are thinking about allowing Hunter Biden to testify.

00:33:24.000 And going along with the testimony of Hunter Biden, so long as they get John Bolton to testify publicly, most Democrats have scoffed, says the Washington Post, at the growing GOP clamor to hear former Vice President Joe Biden's son testify, dismissing him as irrelevant to the charges against Trump, accusing Republicans of trying to distract from the allegations against the president.

00:33:40.000 But behind closed doors, a small group of Democratic senators and aides has begun to question that logic.

00:33:45.000 Sounding out colleagues on whether to back a witness deal that could lead to testimony from former National Security Advisor John Bolton or other administration officials with possible first-hand knowledge of the Ukraine controversy according to multiple Democratic officials.

00:33:57.000 So now, they are throwing a Hail Mary pass, they're gonna go to Republicans maybe, and say, listen, we'll go along with you on the Hunter Biden thing if you let John Bolton testify, first of all.

00:34:06.000 That's actually a pretty good trade for Republicans.

00:34:07.000 The reason it's a pretty good trade for Republicans is because John Bolton will be heavily covered.

00:34:10.000 He'll say exactly the same thing Fiona Hill said.

00:34:12.000 It is extraordinarily unlikely that he says anything like, and that's when, his mustache is moving, he says, that's when the president told me that he only wanted Joe Biden down before 2020, right, which would be the impeachable offense.

00:34:24.000 That is really, really unlikely.

00:34:26.000 What is much more likely is that Bolton says exactly what his aides have already said and mirrors what they said.

00:34:30.000 He thought this is a bad idea.

00:34:31.000 He thought that Trump was being led astray by Rudy Giuliani and all of the rest.

00:34:35.000 And then Hunter Biden gets up.

00:34:36.000 And guess what?

00:34:36.000 The headlines are there.

00:34:37.000 Hunter Biden, a drug addled loser for nearly his entire adult life, was picking up a $50,000 a month check because his last name is Biden while his father was overseeing relations with Ukraine.

00:34:49.000 Hey, that is not going to look good for Joe Biden.

00:34:51.000 It ain't going to look good for Hunter Biden.

00:34:52.000 And it's going to look fairly good for President Trump, who's going to say, yeah, of course I was asking legit questions about that.

00:34:57.000 Everyone was asking legit questions about that.

00:34:59.000 They're members of the Obama administration who worked for Biden, who said that they were told not to bring up the Hunter Biden situation because Joe Biden just didn't have the bandwidth.

00:35:07.000 But everybody acknowledged that there was a conflict of interest.

00:35:10.000 Everybody.

00:35:11.000 So, if this is the way the Democrats want to go, good luck with this.

00:35:16.000 Joe Biden, for his part, is trying to fight back on all this blasting Trump's bleep, horse bleep claims.

00:35:21.000 He released a new video on what really happened in Ukraine.

00:35:25.000 This is his campaign video on Hunter Biden.

00:35:28.000 Here's what it sounded like.

00:35:29.000 So where does Donald Trump fit into all this?

00:35:31.000 He claims that because the Vice President's son, Hunter, was on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company, Eurizma, that Biden somehow acted inappropriately when he advocated for Viktor Shokin to lose his job.

00:35:45.000 The clinical term for that is horse s***.

00:35:47.000 For one thing, Biden was following official United States government policy, which was in agreement with the EU and other international partners.

00:35:56.000 Number two, Shokin's investigation of Burisma had fallen dormant over a year before the vice president did anything to try and get him out of office.

00:36:06.000 Okay, that second one is actually under controversy.

00:36:08.000 It's not necessarily confirmed that the Shokin investigation was completely dormant, that Ukraine had basically left Burisma alone by the time that Biden wanted to oust that official.

00:36:17.000 As far as Biden following official U.S.

00:36:19.000 policy, well, what if he wanted that policy to be true, right?

00:36:23.000 What if he wanted that policy to be correct because he wanted Shokin removed?

00:36:26.000 We don't know, okay?

00:36:27.000 At the very least, Biden should not have been charged with this policy when his son was picking up bags of cash for being his son.

00:36:35.000 I mean, that is literally the only reason that Hunter Biden has any money to his name is because his last name is Biden.

00:36:39.000 It turns out that half of Biden's family does this.

00:36:41.000 It turns out that he's got two brothers who do this.

00:36:44.000 It turns out that his son does it.

00:36:46.000 There are people who probably aren't even related to Joe Biden who are just wandering around.

00:36:50.000 They have the last name Biden.

00:36:51.000 It's like Bob Biden just wandering around somewhere in Kentucky going, you know what my last name is?

00:36:56.000 You know what my last name is?

00:36:58.000 They're bag men now working in Saskatchewan who are trying to pick up bags of cash because their last name is Biden.

00:37:04.000 It's pretty amazing.

00:37:05.000 So if this thing goes the way the Democrats are suggesting, if they actually get Hunter Biden up to testify, it is not going to be Joe Biden called to testify in a truth to power moment.

00:37:13.000 It's going to be Hunter Biden testifying and then If they do call Joe Biden, do you think that Joe Biden is quick on his feet?

00:37:19.000 Now the media will cover him as a hero.

00:37:21.000 The media will suggest that he is put upon.

00:37:23.000 The media will suggest that all of this is nonsense.

00:37:24.000 But here's the reality.

00:37:26.000 Is it going to look good for Joe Biden that he has to testify about why his son was picking up bags of cash and he was looking the other way?

00:37:31.000 Why he was flying his son to China?

00:37:33.000 That his son could do deals in China?

00:37:35.000 Using the vice presidential jet?

00:37:37.000 I mean, all of that is going to come up, and that ain't gonna be great for the Democrats.

00:37:42.000 Which brings us to the Democratic side of the 2020 race.

00:37:45.000 So, Hillary Clinton started to walk back yesterday.

00:37:48.000 Her comments in the Hollywood Reporter that she might not support Bernie Sanders were he the nominee.

00:37:52.000 You will recall, That she did an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in which she blasted Bernie Sanders.

00:37:57.000 She said that nobody liked him, unloading on the culture around him.

00:38:01.000 Quote, his online Bernie bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women, accusing him of permitting this anti-woman culture.

00:38:08.000 And then, I Like Bernie trended on Twitter for much of the day.

00:38:11.000 Some of the other Democratic candidates 2020 weighed in.

00:38:14.000 Both Tulsi Gabbard and Tom Steyer tweeted out that they like Bernie.

00:38:17.000 At least when it comes to Tom Steyer, the feeling is not mutual.

00:38:20.000 There are 1,000 tapes of Tom Steyer trying to be best friends with Bernie and Bernie brushing him off like Michael Scott to Toby in the office.

00:38:27.000 Sanders said, on a good day, my wife likes me.

00:38:29.000 Here was Bernie's response to Hillary Clinton's comments yesterday.

00:38:34.000 Hillary Clinton, as you know, said that as a senator, you got nothing done and that no one likes you.

00:38:38.000 What's your response to that?

00:38:39.000 On a good day, my wife likes me, so let's clear the air on that one.

00:38:43.000 And then Hillary Clinton came back and she basically said, I don't know what you're all bitching about.

00:38:47.000 She said, really, this is what she actually tweeted.

00:38:50.000 I thought everyone wanted my authentic, unvarnished views.

00:38:53.000 Fair.

00:38:54.000 Points to Hillary.

00:38:55.000 But to be serious, the number one priority for our country and world is retiring Trump, and as I always have, I will do whatever I can to support our nominee.

00:39:01.000 So she walks that one back.

00:39:03.000 She walks that one back.

00:39:06.000 Meanwhile, the rest of the Democratic field continues to be just a mess.

00:39:10.000 Tulsi Gabbard has now hit Hillary Clinton with a $50 million defamation lawsuit, which is pretty wonderful.

00:39:16.000 She's accusing former Secretary of State Clinton of deliberately spreading false accusations that Gabbard is a Russian asset in a lawsuit seeking upwards of $50 million in damages, according to FoxNews.com.

00:39:26.000 And during an October 2019 interview with the podcast campaign headquarters with David Plouffe, Clinton suggested the 2020 presidential candidate was the favorite of the Russians and a Russian asset.

00:39:36.000 Gabbard says these statements are not true.

00:39:38.000 Clinton should have known that at the time.

00:39:41.000 Her brief says, rather than facts or liable evidence, Clinton's basis for the defamatory statements was one or both of her own imagination or B, extremely dubious conspiracy theories that any reasonable person, and especially Clinton, a former U.S.

00:39:53.000 Senator and Secretary of State, would know to be fanciful, wholly unverified, and inherently and objectively unreliable.

00:40:00.000 So it'll be fun to watch that one play out in court.

00:40:01.000 terms, Tulsi is not a Russian asset and that neither Russia nor anyone else controls her or her presidential campaign.

00:40:06.000 As for why Clinton would make such statements, Gabbard claims Clinton has, quote, a unique personal connection to Tulsi that animates her hostility toward Tulsi and her presidential campaign.

00:40:16.000 So it'll be fun to watch that one play out in court.

00:40:20.000 Meanwhile, the Democrats continue to make bizarre cases for why they ought to be the leader of the free world.

00:40:27.000 Joe Biden yesterday suggested that China is not a threat to the United States and that we should actually be helping China, which is a weird take when China is attempting to expand its 5G systems into impoverished areas of the world simply so that they can get those nations to be indebted to them and then they can effectuate their foreign policy.

00:40:43.000 China has been stealing our intellectual property, getting more aggressive.

00:40:46.000 They've been building up their military resources at an extraordinary clip.

00:40:50.000 According to Joe Biden, though, we need to be friends with them, which is because he's been wrong on everything.

00:40:53.000 Why wouldn't he be wrong on this?

00:40:55.000 We talk about China as our competitor.

00:41:00.000 We should be helping and benefiting ourselves by doing that.

00:41:04.000 But the idea that China's going to eat our lunch was like I remember debates in the late 90s.

00:41:09.000 Remember Japan was going to own us?

00:41:13.000 Give me a break.

00:41:14.000 China is not going to eat our lunch economically.

00:41:16.000 That's not really the question.

00:41:17.000 The question is whether they are going to get aggressive in spheres around the world, which they have and which they did consistently during the Obama administration.

00:41:24.000 Meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren desperately trying to get some attention.

00:41:27.000 So Elizabeth Warren has been dropping in the polls.

00:41:29.000 She's unlikely to win either Iowa or New Hampshire.

00:41:32.000 The current RealClearPolitics polling average has Joe Biden up now in Iowa, which is horrible news for the rest of the field.

00:41:37.000 If Joe Biden wins Iowa, basically this race is over.

00:41:40.000 The last two polls have Joe Biden up six on the rest of the field.

00:41:44.000 In New Hampshire, Warren is now polling in the RealClearPolitics poll average fourth behind Sanders, Biden and Buttigieg.

00:41:50.000 So she is in serious, serious trouble here.

00:41:53.000 And so now she's releasing ads trying to claim that President Trump fears her the most, and thus you should hand her the nomination, even though it is very obvious.

00:42:01.000 And I promise you, in the Trump orbit, Elizabeth Warren is one of the ones that they would rather have.

00:42:07.000 They would rather have Warren than have Biden, because Warren has pretty much no appeal.

00:42:11.000 She's off-putting.

00:42:12.000 She's a worse version of Hillary Clinton.

00:42:14.000 She lies even more than Hillary did.

00:42:15.000 I mean, it's pretty astonishing.

00:42:18.000 The president is concerned about running against Elizabeth Warren.

00:42:20.000 He fears Elizabeth Warren most.

00:42:23.000 The Trump campaign is internally somewhat concerned about her.

00:42:27.000 They see her as a threat.

00:42:28.000 He's also a little bit nervous about Warren because she does have an economic populist appeal that appeals to some voters that voted for him.

00:42:35.000 He's done everything he can for the wealthy and well-connected.

00:42:39.000 I'm Elizabeth Warren and I approve this message.

00:42:41.000 My favorite part of that clip, of that little ad right there, is that she doesn't quote a single person from Team Trump who says this.

00:42:47.000 She just quotes reporters and commentators, right?

00:42:49.000 Those aren't all reporters, saying that Team Trump is afraid of her and it's like Lawrence O'Donnell from MSNBC, who last talked to someone who voted for Trump never, ever in history.

00:42:59.000 Yeah, good luck to Elizabeth Warren, who is falling apart.

00:43:01.000 I mean, it is amazing to watch the collapse of her campaign.

00:43:04.000 It's pretty astonishing how she is the only other person who fell apart like Elizabeth Warren did in this race.

00:43:09.000 There were a couple others, I guess.

00:43:10.000 Kamala Harris did, and Beto O'Rourke did.

00:43:12.000 But Warren was widely perceived to be the probable nominee as late as, like, October.

00:43:17.000 And now she has completely fallen out of the conversation, which led to her desperately attempting to smack Bernie Sanders.

00:43:24.000 Meanwhile, Pete Buttigieg, who was also considered a possible competitor in the early states, has started to fall apart because it turns out that when you expose Pete Buttigieg to sunlight, there's not a whole hell of a lot there.

00:43:35.000 Yesterday he had his Jeb Bush moment circa 2016.

00:43:39.000 He actually got up and begged his audience for applause and it was supremely awkward.

00:43:43.000 By having better hands guided by better values on those pulleys and levers of American government.

00:43:48.000 So can I look to you to spread that sense of hope to those that you know?

00:43:53.000 Come on!

00:43:56.000 Please applaud!

00:43:57.000 Please!

00:43:59.000 It's over, Pete.

00:44:00.000 It's over, man.

00:44:01.000 And when the New York Times is patting you on the head and saying, be a good little boy and maybe you can run for a state office, yeah, you're in a little bit of trouble.

00:44:09.000 So basically, this is now boiled down to Biden versus Bernie in all likelihood.

00:44:13.000 You've got Joe Biden, who is not with it, whose son may be called in front of the Senate to testify as to his own corruption.

00:44:18.000 And then you've got Bernie Sanders, who literally said yesterday that he would tear down and think about tearing down existing border walls.

00:44:25.000 Really, like, it's not just enough for him to claim that the border wall is unnecessary.

00:44:28.000 Bernie Sanders now wants to tear down the existing border walls.

00:44:30.000 Now, here's one area I've been critical of Tucker Carlson's takes on Bernie Sanders, because Tucker is what he calls an economic populist, which means that he believes the government should be deeply involved in the economy.

00:44:40.000 Okay, but Tucker is right when he says that half of Bernie Sanders' appeal to Team Trump is that The Trump crowd is strong on borders and Bernie Sanders used to be strong on borders, right?

00:44:49.000 Bernie Sanders used to believe that if you want a Nordic-style system, you actually had to have a Nordic-style immigration policy, one of the dirty little secrets of all of the democratic socialist countries of Northern Europe.

00:45:01.000 Is that, of the Scandinavian areas, is that they all have very tough immigration, and when they don't have tough immigration, right-wing parties get elected to reinforce tough immigration policies.

00:45:09.000 Bernie used to be much tougher on immigration, now he has flipped, and he's arguing we should actually dismantle border walls.

00:45:14.000 Intersectionality, man, it rots your brain, it really does.

00:45:18.000 You said the wall is symbolic, and it represents... Yes.

00:45:21.000 So, wouldn't it be proper to tear that symbol down in order to achieve that?

00:45:27.000 It may be, but, you know, it's how much is it going to cost to tear it down?

00:45:30.000 Should you do that?

00:45:31.000 Tear it down?

00:45:31.000 I don't know.

00:45:32.000 Maybe the answer is yes.

00:45:32.000 That's something... That's something you're willing to consider.

00:45:34.000 You're willing to consider tearing down existing fencing between U.S.

00:45:37.000 and... I'm willing to look, but again, if it's going to cost me billions of dollars to tear it down, I'd rather invest that maybe in the needs for child care in this country.

00:45:43.000 But it's something, you know, we can look at.

00:45:45.000 We can look at it.

00:45:45.000 Maybe it'll be too expensive, but on principle, he has no problem with tearing down border walls for symbolic reasons.

00:45:51.000 When we go out in the middle of the desert, we're going to tear down the border walls that have stopped people from crossing that border illegally in many areas.

00:45:57.000 That's Bernie Sanders.

00:45:58.000 That is one of your two leading candidates.

00:46:00.000 With that happening, it's no wonder that there is a new poll showing that Bloomberg is now rising to fourth place in a new national poll.

00:46:06.000 Now, you cannot escape his ads.

00:46:07.000 Seriously.

00:46:07.000 Like, I was watching a video on YouTube last night with my kids about Star Wars, and suddenly there's a Michael Bloomberg ad on that.

00:46:13.000 I was watching a show maybe a few nights ago on Hulu.

00:46:16.000 There's a Michael Bloomberg ad on that.

00:46:17.000 I mean, he is blowing it out.

00:46:19.000 When you have too much money, I mean, I guess this is what you do.

00:46:21.000 I sound like AOC there.

00:46:23.000 Anyway, according to Politico, former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg continues to rise in the Democratic primary field according to new nationwide polling out Wednesday as he plows his personal fortune into widespread advertisements for his last-minute bid for the White House.

00:46:35.000 The Monmouth University poll found Bloomberg polling at 9% nationally among Democratic voters, good for a distant fourth place in a still-crowded field.

00:46:43.000 Joe Biden in that poll is still at 30 percent.

00:46:45.000 Bernie Sanders is at 23 percent.

00:46:47.000 Elizabeth Warren is all the way down at 14 percent.

00:46:49.000 Just bad numbers for Elizabeth Warren.

00:46:52.000 And Bloomberg is now rising above South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

00:46:56.000 So Buttigieg is toast.

00:46:57.000 Amy Klobuchar didn't have any bump in this poll from that New York Times endorsement.

00:47:02.000 She's now pulling at a massive 5 percent.

00:47:04.000 Andrew Yang just keeps trucking along.

00:47:05.000 My boy Andrew Yang.

00:47:06.000 He's still pulling at 3 percent.

00:47:09.000 So Bloomberg still has this desperate outside hope that what happens is that Bernie and Biden basically split the vote early on, and that Biden is forced to spend a lot of money, that Biden is forced out of the race, and then Bloomberg becomes the sort of moderate alternative to Bernie Sanders.

00:47:26.000 The fact is that that is not going to happen, but It is complicating the race somewhat for the rest of the field because Bloomberg is buying up all the ad time and that is driving up rates fairly dramatically for the rest of the field.

00:47:38.000 Meanwhile, that rift between the Sanders crew and the Hillary crew, they're trying to rectify it, right?

00:47:43.000 They're trying to pretend that they are friends.

00:47:44.000 Yesterday, a few days ago, there was video of Bernie and Elizabeth Warren arm-in-arm smiling again.

00:47:50.000 And now you've got Bernie and Hillary Clinton who are sort of trying to kiss and make up, although it's a really, really awkward kiss.

00:47:59.000 Okay, well, that's because the Democratic Party is deeply worried that the divisions in their own field might sink them ahead of an election with President Trump, who continues to pull durably in all of the swing states.

00:48:09.000 Right now, if you had to ballpark this election, very good shot that Trump loses the popular vote and wins the Electoral College again.

00:48:14.000 Very good shot that we have an exact repeat of 2016.

00:48:17.000 That the Democrats who are most likely to show up are in all of the blue states where Alyssa Milano is respected as a political voice, and all of the Democrats in some of the purple states are less enthusiastic about some of these Democratic candidates.

00:48:30.000 This is why the Washington Post is reporting, my advisor, that Sanders' rift may help trump Democrats' fear.

00:48:37.000 On Tuesday, when Democrats had hoped to focus Americans squarely on President Trump's impeachment trial, many in the party were instead watching in alarm and dismay as a fresh spat erupted between Hillary Clinton and the candidate she defeated in 2016, Senator Bernie Sanders.

00:48:50.000 Everybody is afraid that the party is falling apart.

00:48:52.000 They should be worried that the party is falling apart because, frankly, the party is in some pretty serious trouble.

00:48:56.000 They got a bunch of bad nominees up there against President Trump, who's just Trump, and everybody's baked it into the cake already.

00:49:03.000 Alrighty, time for a quick thing I like and a quick thing that I hate.

00:49:05.000 So, things that I like today.

00:49:07.000 The Hall of Fame voting.

00:49:10.000 I'm with Bill James when it comes to Baseball Hall of Fame voting.

00:49:13.000 It has become the Hall of Very Good.

00:49:14.000 That's how you have Harold Baines in the Hall of Fame.

00:49:16.000 Listen, I'm a White Sox fan.

00:49:17.000 I like Harold Baines.

00:49:18.000 Harold Baines is not a Hall of Famer.

00:49:19.000 But Derek Jeter was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday.

00:49:24.000 Jeter was not elected unanimously.

00:49:26.000 He was named on all but one of the 397 ballots cast by members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, which is certainly more than enough to clear the 75% hurdle for election.

00:49:36.000 This was the second highest voting mark in baseball history after Mariano Rivera, who was indeed elected unanimously.

00:49:44.000 He eclipsed Ken Griffey Jr.

00:49:45.000 Now, let's just be frank about this.

00:49:46.000 Ken Griffey Jr.

00:49:47.000 was a way better player than Derek Jeter.

00:49:49.000 Derek Jeter was a great leader.

00:49:50.000 He was a great face for the New York Yankees.

00:49:52.000 He was not even the best shortstop of his generation.

00:49:54.000 He was maybe the third best shortstop of his generation.

00:49:57.000 There were many years in which he was outplayed by Several other shortstops playing in Major League Baseball, but it was his consistency.

00:50:04.000 He was a very intelligent baseball player.

00:50:06.000 He was a very clutch player.

00:50:08.000 If you look at the number of career wins for Derek Jeter, it was not supremely high.

00:50:18.000 His sort of advanced statistics, advanced stat fans are not really fans of Derek Jeter.

00:50:24.000 His career war, his career wins above replacement is 72.4.

00:50:28.000 That does not tend to rank extraordinarily high.

00:50:31.000 Larry Walker, his career war, so his career, let me look it up right now, his career wins above replacement, Larry Walker, who is right on the borderline.

00:50:39.000 He actually had more career wins above replacement than Derek Jeter and yet gets fewer votes.

00:50:44.000 It just shows you the glory of playing in New York.

00:50:46.000 But Jeter was a great face for baseball.

00:50:48.000 I'm glad that Derek Jeter is in the Hall of Fame.

00:50:49.000 Now we need to convince the Hall of Fame voters to stop with this nonsense where they don't put Curt Schilling in the Hall of Fame.

00:50:54.000 That is absolute insanity.

00:50:56.000 Curt Schilling was in fact one of the great pitchers of his generation.

00:50:58.000 The fact that Curt Schilling is a political right winger has basically kept Curt Schilling out of the Hall of Fame for several years here.

00:51:04.000 Were he a political left winger, dude would have been.

00:51:07.000 He has He has a higher career war, Kurt Schilling does, than either Larry Walker or Derek Jeter.

00:51:12.000 His career war is 79.5.

00:51:16.000 If you look at his career, strikeouts to walks ratio, it is one of the highest in baseball history.

00:51:21.000 There's no question that Kurt Schilling should be in the Hall of Fame.

00:51:23.000 The fact that it's taken him so long is simply because baseball writers are on the left and they don't want to allow in somebody they disagree with politically who didn't like Barack Obama.

00:51:30.000 It really is that simple.

00:51:32.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate, and then we'll get out of here.

00:51:35.000 So there was something that I thought was actually pretty nice.

00:51:43.000 Ayanna Pressley, who, as you know, I'm not a fan, right?

00:51:46.000 She's the adjunct member of the squad.

00:51:47.000 She's the one everybody forgets about, the Ringo Starr of the squad.

00:51:50.000 But she did something I thought that was actually quite nice.

00:51:52.000 She did a video op-ed in The Root in which she revealed she had alopecia and that she is now completely bald.

00:51:57.000 And she, you know, shows that she is bald.

00:52:01.000 And, frankly, I'm very much in favor of people showing that medical conditions should not be stigmatized.

00:52:06.000 If you have a medical condition, there are lots of other people who probably have that same medical condition, and instead of being embarrassed about a medical condition, talking about it publicly does allow people to feel comfortable in getting treatment, does allow people to feel like they don't have to hide the medical condition in front of other people, it does make the world better for people to be clear and, frankly, brave about things like this.

00:52:24.000 I didn't see a single person who objected to this, because who the hell would object to it?

00:52:29.000 I mean, good for Ayanna Pressley.

00:52:30.000 She's got a medical condition.

00:52:31.000 There's no reason why she feels that she should have to wear a wig or something.

00:52:35.000 She concludes the video by revealing her bald head.

00:52:38.000 Now, there's a piece in the Washington Post titled, Now, I understand the whole argument that for a long time in the country, there were people who discriminated against black women based on the fact that, genetically speaking, black women very often tend to have curly hair.

00:52:54.000 And for some reason, people are against that.

00:52:55.000 That if you have big hair, they're against that.

00:52:57.000 Okay, that's very silly.

00:52:58.000 Discriminating on the basis of hair is ridiculous in every possible way.

00:53:03.000 But you're looking for a reason to be pissed off if you are citing Ayanna Pressley's video about alopecia as some sort of black moment.

00:53:14.000 It's just a human bravery moment.

00:53:15.000 I don't know why that's a black bravery moment.

00:53:17.000 This has nothing to do with race.

00:53:19.000 And again, there was no blowback.

00:53:20.000 But this piece...

00:53:21.000 By a person named Nana Efua Mumford.

00:53:24.000 The whole thing is about how she is taking the fraught black hair conversation into new territory by focusing on the beauty of having no hair at all.

00:53:32.000 Now this had nothing to do with race.

00:53:34.000 She has alopecia.

00:53:35.000 She came out, she said she had alopecia.

00:53:36.000 She shows that she's bald.

00:53:37.000 Good for her.

00:53:38.000 Seriously, good for her.

00:53:40.000 What the hell does that have to do with race?

00:53:42.000 Now, we live in a country that, thank God, is so racially diverse and tolerant that we now have to make up new excuses to be mad.

00:53:48.000 And frankly, the Washington Post can always find a new excuse to be mad and to pretend that the legacy of racism carries on in the non-existent objections to Ayanna Pressley showing that she has alopecia.

00:53:59.000 I mean, you really have to stretch to get there.

00:54:01.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with all your updates on the impeachment and everything else.

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00:54:40.000 Yesterday marked the first full day of President Trump's impeachment trial.

00:54:44.000 The trial consisted of House impeachment managers talking and talking and talking and talking and talking for 13 hours.

00:54:51.000 Talking.

00:54:52.000 And I was up watching until the very last minute so you wouldn't have to.

00:54:56.000 That is my service to the American public.

00:54:58.000 We will examine the most important moments.

00:55:01.000 Then Hillary throws shade at Bernie.

00:55:04.000 President Trump wrecks the weak elites at Davos.

00:55:06.000 And we announce a fun new project.

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