Ep. 459 - Psycho Monday
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Summary
Cyber Monday turns into Psycho Monday. From the TV ads selling cheap consumer goods to the politicians trying to sell themselves, we examine all of the sociopathy. Then, speaking of psychos, the Deep State goes on offense before the inspector general releases his report on the origins of the Russia investigation. Can we the people beat the bureaucrats? All that and more.
Transcript
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Cyber Monday turns into Psycho Monday, from the TV ads selling cheap consumer goods to the politicians trying to sell themselves.
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Then, speaking of psychos, the deep state goes on offense before the inspector general releases his report on the origins of the Russia investigation.
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Can we the people beat the bureaucrats? All that and more.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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There is actually a connection, I promise you, between a ridiculous viral ad for Peloton bicycles and the 2020 Democratic candidates for president.
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There is. Few people have picked up on it. We will get to that in a second.
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So, most of the stories from this crazy Cyber Monday yesterday were strictly political.
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I want to start with one that was not strictly political.
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It was a Cyber Monday ad for Peloton stationary bicycles.
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Obviously, all the companies are trying to sell their product on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
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Peloton bicycles, if you haven't seen them, it's actually a very cool product.
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I kind of want to have one of these products, except this ad is making me less likely to buy their product.
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It's a stationary bicycle, and you can kind of Skype in or, you know, video conference in to these classes,
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and you can do it from your own home, and it seems kind of like a cool product.
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A year ago, I didn't realize how much this would change me.
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Let's just begin from the very beginning on everything wrong with this ad.
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First, what kind of psychopath gets his wife a stationary bicycle for Christmas?
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That is to say, you know, what does your wife want?
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And you say, hey, honey, you're looking a little puffy these days, all right?
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So I'm going to maybe get you a little bicycle you're going to work out for the next 12 months.
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And then, by the way, you're going to have to record it.
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So that in one year, next Christmas, we're going to review the results and see how you did losing all that extra weight.
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Why is she nervous to get on a stationary bicycle?
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That is the safest, most basic activity you could possibly engage in.
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Maybe she's nervous because she's got this psycho husband who's making her work out for an entire year, and that's her Christmas present.
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Then she's Instagramming herself while sitting on the stationary bike.
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I guess perhaps it's proof that she actually did it for her husband, except there is no proof of it because from the beginning to the end, she looks exactly the same, which makes sense because they obviously shot this over the course of one or two days tops.
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And so she didn't have time to lose a lot of weight.
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Not that she had to lose weight in the first place.
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But then how does she get to the end and say, I didn't realize my life would change so much, you know, from the beginning to the end.
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Do they really need to spend two Christmases, two Christmases talking about this bicycle?
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Every single second of the ad makes you more curious as to how this ad got made.
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And if you're me, it makes me less likely every second of the way to, uh, to get this bicycle.
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This ad was ratioed on YouTube 15 to one, 15 dislikes for every one like.
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It went viral because it's such an absurd, terrible ad.
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Some people are saying that the joke's on all of us because the stock for Peloton bicycles rose 5% yesterday.
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Their stock is actually way up this whole month.
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So I'm not sure that you could really credit this ad for, for the increase in the price.
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And this is where the political aspect of this ad comes in, or at least the political significance, because there's this big debate.
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Is it a good ad because we're all talking about Peloton?
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Or is it a bad ad because it makes Peloton look kind of stupid and weird?
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It's a bad ad because it doesn't make any sense.
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And even though some people are talking about it, in the long run, I don't think this helps them.
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You could have also gotten people to talk about Peloton by making the ad a commercial of a big, fat, naked guy walking on screen and vomiting.
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If that was the ad, there wasn't even a bicycle in it.
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It was just a big, fat, naked guy who walks on the screen and vomits on screen.
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It would have gotten Peloton a lot of attention.
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It would be the wrong kind of attention in the long run.
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That is what is happening in the Democratic primaries.
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Every single one of these candidates just about is doing this Peloton ad.
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One of the great examples of that is Beto O'Rourke.
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Beto O'Rourke is a walking, talking Peloton bicycle ad.
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Because he comes out there, right, and his whole candidacy doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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He's just like an ex-congressman and a failed Senate candidate.
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But for some reason, we're all talking about it.
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This isn't going to last throughout the long run.
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Kamala Harris bursts onto the scene in the early days of the primary.
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She talks about smoking blunts while listening to Snoop Dogg before Snoop Dogg ever released an album, right?
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She is convinced that she's a top-tier candidate.
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This is going to sound immodest, but I'm obviously a top-tier candidate.
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And so I did expect that I would be on the stage and take hits tonight because there are a lot of people that are trying to make the stage for the next debate.
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And it sure looked like that back in those early days.
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When she's getting all of this negative attention, where is she now?
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She's trailing Mike Bloomberg, a guy who's barely in the race.
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Mike Bloomberg is entering the race at about 6%.
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She went from a top-tier candidate, at least in her own mind, to 2% trailing the ex-mayor of New York who's half a Democrat, who's a billionaire, who's a white guy, who should not be doing well in this Democratic primary.
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And who isn't doing well, but he's doing better than her.
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Because all the attention that Kamala Harris got was sizzle.
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It's not even just these low-tier candidates like Beto or Kamala or the people that we forget.
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Liz Warren is now considered a top-tier candidate.
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In the case of Elizabeth Warren, it's all smoke signals, no peyote.
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Elizabeth Warren comes out, right, a couple weeks ago.
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She says that she's going to pay for it by taxing billionaires.
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Their combined net worth is about $3.2 trillion if she took away all of their money.
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It wouldn't get her through one year of her plan.
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She's rising up all the momentums with Elizabeth Warren.
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And then once people stop and consider that plan, she starts to tank in the polls.
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Now, once you get into this cycle, once you get into the cycle of requiring all of this just negative attention and attention at all costs to stay relevant, to stay in the headlines, it creates a very vicious cycle.
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All that good press that came quickly has fizzled.
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So she's trying to recapture it by even more radical plans.
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She just endorsed the other day getting rid of the Electoral College.
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As a presidential candidate, what are your thoughts on the Electoral College?
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My goal is to get elected and then to be the last American president elected by the Electoral College.
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I want the second term to be that I got elected by direct vote.
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I just think this is how a democracy should work.
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Call me old-fashioned, but I think the person who gets the most votes should win.
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That doesn't make a lot of sense for a number of reasons.
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First of all, call me old-fashioned, but I think that we should overturn over 200 years of American precedent in electing our president.
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If you were old-fashioned, you would support this institution, the Electoral College, which has served our country very, very well since its founding.
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They talk about how Donald Trump is overturning norms and traditions in our country.
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These people are trying to overturn all of the basic norms of our country.
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They're trying to overturn the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Electoral College.
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They're trying to overturn all of these things, and yet they attack Trump for it.
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This point she's making, though, doesn't make a lot of sense for another reason.
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She says the Electoral College is totally corrupt.
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So she's saying, I want to, when I get elected, I promise to abolish that corrupt, terrible, undemocratic, untrustworthy institution that elected me president.
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And the argument, at least from the left, who are the only people making this argument, the argument to get rid of the Electoral College is that there's no way Democrats can win with the Electoral College.
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Because we've now twice had a situation in the last 30 years where, or the last 20 years, I guess, where a president got elected even though he lost the popular vote.
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Now, we don't elect presidents on the popular vote.
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We are the United States of America, not the United people of America.
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And the vote for president is more complicated than just some guy going to the polls so that New York and L.A. and San Francisco don't dominate every presidential election.
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But if the argument is that Democrats can't win with the Electoral College and then a Democrat wins with the Electoral College, then the argument for getting rid of the Electoral College sort of goes away.
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She just needs to say it to get more, more press because she's lost a little bit of her momentum.
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Again, polls keep showing that people don't want this kind of radicalism.
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The problem for these candidates is they require the radicalism to stay in the news.
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So, Elizabeth Warren steps in it again. She's getting even more, much more negative attention.
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Beyond policy, on the personal front, Liz Warren is one of the most shameless liars in the country, right?
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She's lied for decades about being Indian. She lied about being the first nursing mother to take the
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bar exam in New Jersey. She said that there's no reason to believe that that is true. She lied
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about being a single mother when she met her second husband. She wasn't. She was married when she met
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her second husband, and she left her first husband for her second husband. She lied about getting fired
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from teaching because she was pregnant. How do we know she lied about it? Because she told us the true
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story years ago, and now she's changed the true story, which is that she wasn't fit for teaching.
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She didn't want to do it. She wanted to stay home with her kids. Now it's that she was the victim
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of some awful oppression, and that was all because she was pregnant. Now she's lying again. Another
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major lie from Elizabeth Warren. She's lying about her kid going to public school.
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We don't have the same choice that you make for your kids, because I read that your children went to
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private school. But we, even if it was public school, it probably was the best public school.
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So, you heard that. She said, your kid probably went to private school. No, no, my kids went to
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public school. They didn't. That's not true. Warren's daughter, Amelia, went to public schools for
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the entirety of her elementary and high school education. But her son, Alex, spent most of his
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school years at one of the most prestigious private schools in the country, an elite private school
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called the Haverford School. This was according to yearbooks from the Haverford School that were
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obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. So technically, not a total lie, right? Because
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if, if her son, Alex, went to public school for even one year, she can say, my kids went to public
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schools. Yeah, they went for a little bit. I don't know. They went by, it was like a friend of mine
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used to say, hey, Michael, you know, I went to Harvard. Yeah, but they were closed the day I showed
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up. It's, it's like saying, you know, you, you take a tour of Alcatraz when you're in San Francisco and
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you say, yeah, I've been to prison. I've been to prison. I just got out. Well, I get, yeah,
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you've been there, but you didn't, you haven't actually been to prison because you could go to
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public school for a year or two. But if you spend the majority of your formative years, you get most
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of your education in a private school, especially a very fancy private school, then you didn't send
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your kids to public schools. But she's a pathological liar, total psycho. Who lies about this
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kind of stuff? Who lies about being a native American? Who lies about that? Well, funny,
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you should ask Michael, speaking of these pathological liars, speaking of these psycho
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blonde female democratic candidates, guess who is waiting in the wings, looking at this mayhem and
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destruction in the democratic 2020 primary and just clamoring to get back into it. I'll give you one
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guess. When she came to the end of her career, she did this final kind of endorsement advertising
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campaign. And the tagline was forget me. Why did that appeal to you, Hillary? Well, what she was
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saying as she retired was, you know, I want to make way for new people, you know, forget me, forget my
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accomplishments. Let's clear the decks. Let's encourage more young people, not only to play
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football, but run for office, be a great chef, be a writer, be whatever. And I loved that.
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Hmm. Hold on. You love that Hillary. That does not sound like the Hillary Clinton. I know
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because the Hillary Clinton, I know first lady of Arkansas, then she's the first lady of the United
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States. And she's the first lady on this idea of buy one, get one free. That's how Bill Clinton ran
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for president in 1992. He said, you get me, but you also get Hillary Clinton. I can't even imagine what
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his campaign advisors told him, like, hey, Ixnay on the Hillary hay, right? People don't really like
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her that much. So he gets, he becomes president. He gives Hillary the opportunity to try to put
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healthcare through. It totally flops because she's really not that talented a politician other than
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being married to Bill Clinton. And then she just walks away, right? She moves on and lets someone
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else have the spotlight. No, she forces herself into a Senate seat from New York, pushes other people
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out of the way, moves to New York randomly, total carpetbagger. And through the sheer power of
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Clinton's presidency becomes Senator. Then she runs for president, gets rejected by the American people
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again. She is appointed secretary of state by Barack Obama because keep your friends close and
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your enemies closer. She runs for president in 2016, gets rejected by the American people again,
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but then she steps away, right? Doesn't she want to step away? She's going to make room for,
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for other people to, to take their opportunities, right? Right. Uh, not so fast.
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And where are you? Are you saying, forget me? Is that your mantra now?
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Because the rumor mill is flying that you could, you could step back into the ring.
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Yeah. I, I, um, I hear that. I, I especially have been deluged in, you know, the last few weeks,
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um, uh, with, uh, thinking about, uh, doing that. But right now I'm not at all, uh, you know,
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planning that. Um, I'd have to make up my mind really quickly, uh, because it's moving, uh, very fast,
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but I do want to continue to influence the debate. Uh, not yet. Uh, no. Well, hold on a second
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there. I like other people moving out of the way for other people, especially me. I myself do not
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like getting out of the way for talent to come up. So Hillary obviously still wants to run. She
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desperately wants to run. She's left the door open. She's sent her senior advisors like Philip
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Rines to go on television and stoke the speculation about whether or not she will run. Why is she even
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doing this right now? She's doing this right now because the field is weak because frankly, this woman,
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this woman, shameless, psycho, one of the least popular women in America, she is pretty much the
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best that they've got. Who else is it going to be? It's going to be Joe Biden with his eyes exploding
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and his teeth falling out and biting his wife's finger. I don't, I don't know. He's collapsing in
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Iowa. He's collapsing in New Hampshire, sometimes collapsing maybe on the campaign trail. Is it going
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to be pastor Pete Buttigieg? No, I don't think so. He's, he's really off putting.
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Is it going to be Elizabeth Warren? Her numbers have tanked in recent days. Going to be Kamala
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Harris. She's at 2%. Is it going to be Mike Bloomberg? He's the new entrant. He's at 6%.
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We need to get rid of this New York billionaire and replace him with a New York billionaire. I
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don't think so. They've got nobody. They've gotten so much attention. These democratic candidates over
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the past three years by talking about how terrible Trump is and the Russia investigation and the taxes
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and stormy Daniels and Ukraine. And, and yet when you finally put the spotlight on them, you say, okay,
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in the long run, are you really going to be what America is asking for? They all collapse. They're all
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collapsing to the point that the democratic party is seriously considering returning to Hillary Clinton.
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Not great. And so now that the left is looking at their own candidates saying, this is not looking
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good. They're turning their attention away from them back onto president Trump. And they're going
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campaign. We have got to get to, actually, there's a silver lining in that story because the mainstream
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media actually did their jobs. We've got to get to Lisa Page, the FBI bureaucrat who was caught in
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text messages talking about how they were going to try to overturn the 2016 election. We will get to
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the reaction from the deep, to the deep state, rather, from the Trump DOJ. Lots of shenanigans
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I sound better already. Wow. Oh my goodness gracious. I feel so great from those leftist
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tears. There's a big story out now from Google and YouTube about the Trump campaign. Google
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has removed more than 300 ads from President Trump's reelection campaign. They did that over
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the summer, so I don't know even what they're doing now. Google and YouTube removed, Google is YouTube,
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right? They're the same company. They've removed the ads for, quote, violating company policy.
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Okay, fair enough. What's the policy? They haven't told anybody. Video ads were paid for by Trump's
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2020 presidential campaign, Donald Trump, J. Trump for President Incorporated. They ran them for several
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days on YouTube before they were taken down. There was an investigation into this by 60 Minutes on CBS.
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This is the silver lining of the whole story. Mainstream media never do their job. Mainstream
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media, absolutely terrible hacks, right? In bed with the left. And yet, 60 Minutes actually looked
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into this story. Leslie Stahl, who I think is actually a great TV journalist. She's never been
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of the Jim Acosta variety. She's always been relatively more fair. Leslie Stalin, 60 Minutes,
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sat down with Susan Wojcicki. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly. Frankly,
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I don't care. Susan is the YouTube CEO. Leslie Stahl sat her down and asked her directly about the
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YouTube takedowns of Trump's ads. President Trump has been advertising a lot on YouTube lately.
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Have you taken down any of President Trump's ads at all? There are ads of President Trump that were
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not approved to run on Google or YouTube. Do you have an example? Well, they're available
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in our transparency report. There it is. The transparency report. Those ads are available
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on the transparency report. Well, maybe they are, maybe they aren't because the report doesn't seem
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very transparent. I want to stress here that having your ads removed on YouTube, maybe it's
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not a big deal if you're a company or you're another political candidate because you're advertising all
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over the place. What's crucial to know here is that YouTube was incredibly important in President
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Trump's 2016 strategy. This is not some secret conspiracy theory. Every major political analyst
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admits this. Trump beat Hillary on social media, specifically on YouTube. Even on the election
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day, Trump was running big banner ads for his campaign. The Clinton campaign wasn't really
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doing that. So YouTube in particular was instrumental in the Trump victory. The left was furious about
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this. That's why the left has spent the last three years crying and whining about how Republicans
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did better than them on social media. And that's not supposed to happen, which is why they're now
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clamoring to get Facebook and Twitter and YouTube to censor conservatives, shut up
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conservatives, direct people away from conservatives and specifically President Trump, point them in
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the left-wing direction because that could sway, who knows, 30 million votes or more. So she says
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it's in the transparency report. To their credit, Leslie Stahl and CBS do not take that for an answer,
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that non-answer for an answer. They ran the story, they followed the story, and they pushed back
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Kind of. Google keeps an archive of political ads. And we looked at President Trump's ads. Over 300
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videos were taken down, mostly over the summer. But the archive doesn't detail what rules they
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violated. There's no transparency in the transparency report. The ads typically did run for a few days
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before they were taken down. And Google got paid for them.
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Good on her. I mean, good on her for following this story. This, by the way, is all that conservatives
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are asking for. It's all we're asking for. If journalists, the investigative journalists on TV
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would just actually investigate, if the reporters would just actually report, even if they have their
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opinions, even if they have their preferences and their biases, that's fine. We're actually okay with
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that. If you just give any even slight modicum of fairness, if the media all behaved like Leslie
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Stahl here, you would not hear all of the applause when President Trump calls out the fake news media.
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So she looks at it, 300 ads removed from YouTube, from the Trump campaign, and the transparency report
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doesn't offer any transparency. So what is the YouTube CEO's answer? She says there is no bias
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against conservatives. As you know, conservatives think that you discriminate against them.
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How do you answer that? Well, first of all, there are lots of very successful conservatives
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creators on YouTube. Our systems, our algorithms, they don't have any concept of understanding
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what's a Democrat, what's a Republican. That's not true. I say this as a conservative who's on YouTube.
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Sure, YouTube lets conservatives exist. Sometimes they don't totally throttle us. Conservatives are
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disproportionately attacked and demonetized and restricted and targeted. I have been the object
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of this on many occasions. Prager University has been the object of this. Stephen Crowder was demonetized
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by YouTube for videos that YouTube admitted did not violate its policies, and yet YouTube demonetized
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him anyway. YouTube will target regularly, if you want to just talk about the algorithm,
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YouTube targets conservative videos, including my own, to try to debunk the claims that we're making.
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I'll give you an example. A long time ago, I did a video about climate change, about global warming.
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YouTube, you can go look it up. YouTube actually added a disclaimer below my video to say that global
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warming is real. It's seriously happening. It's going to destroy the world. They added this global
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warming alarmism banner underneath my video to try to debunk my video. They don't do that for
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liberals. They don't do that. So what, what the CEO of, of YouTube just said is not true. Now,
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are they totally blocking conservatives? No, they still let us do our show. That's nice. Glad to hear
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it. But what Leslie Stahl is asking for in this report, what we are asking for is not special
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treatment. It's not even fair treatment. It's just transparency. And yet we don't get any of that
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transparency. Leslie Stahl gives the CEO the last word. We do hear this criticism from all sites.
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We also have people who come from more liberal backgrounds who complain about discrimination.
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And so I think that no matter who you are, we are trying to enforce our policies in a consistent way
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for everybody. That isn't true. If they did that, maybe they're trying to do that. If they succeeded
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at doing that, if they just were consistent and even handed about it, nobody would complain about
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them. It's true that liberals whine about YouTube, but liberals will whine about everything. So that's
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not a big shock. The fact of the matter is conservatives are treated more harshly on YouTube
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with less transparency and less fairness than the left is. That's just the way it is. This is all about
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2020. This was not true before the 2016 election. Before the 2016 election, conservatives did great on
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YouTube because we had been shut out of the mainstream media. So now that we had this opportunity
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to bypass those gatekeepers, we did great. That helped us win the 2016 election. The left is
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really doing their darndest not to let us accomplish that again. And it's not just the politicians.
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It's not just big tech. It's also the government bureaucracy itself. So if you haven't read it,
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there's really no need to. I'll give you the highlights right now. The Daily Beast,
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left-wing publication, just published a 13-page interview with Lisa Page. You'll remember Lisa
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Page is one of the adulterous FBI agents who revealed in text messages that there was a
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conspiracy at the FBI to try to overturn the 2016 election or to try to rig it against President
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Trump. This is not tinfoil hat territory. You can read the text messages themselves. So she has
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rightly been pilloried by the right and by even the center for her inappropriate behavior. She was
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also pilloried by the FBI. She was also pilloried by the inspector general. And she says that she's a
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big victim. Now it is true. On occasion, you might say President Trump has been particularly harsh on
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Lisa Page. Here's President Trump talking about her at a recent rally.
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On the FBI server. So their spouses wouldn't find out because they didn't want to put it on their
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private. That didn't work out too well for Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, did it? Lisa, I love you. I love
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you, Lisa. I love you, Lisa. I love you so much. I can't even see straightly. Lisa, she's going to win
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100 million to nothing. But just in case, Lisa, my darling, I love you. God, just in case she doesn't
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win. We've got an insurance policy essentially saying we're going to take him out. These are
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corrupt people, folks. And then she said, Peter, I love you. I love you so much. You're so great,
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Peter. I don't think she loves him too much anymore. Do you? Okay. That's really inappropriate
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and not funny at all. So don't you dare laugh at that. Don't you dare laugh at President Trump
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making fun of the two corrupt FBI officials who were cheating on their spouses, you know,
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betraying their families and children to have this affair together. And, and I don't even really care
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about that too much. What people do in their private lives is their problem. It's going to be
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their problem before God, but you know, I've got more things to worry about. They were also betraying
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their public office by promising one another via text to overturn the 2016 election, to undermine the
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2016 election, referring to meetings that happened in FBI senior officials' offices that discussed
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overturning that 2016 election. What President Trump was doing there was enacting a,
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it was reenacting the text messages that we can all read. Okay. Here are the text messages from,
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from Lisa Page. Lisa Page texted about Hillary Clinton and, and specifically taking pressure off
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of Hillary Clinton during that investigation into her email server. She said, she might be our next
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president. The last thing we need is us going in there loaded for bear when it's not operationally
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necessary. You think she's going to remember or care that it was more the DOJ than the FBI.
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This is as much about reputational protection as anything. In other words, take the pressure off
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Hillary. She's, she's going to be our next president. You know, you don't need to go that hard against
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her. Shortly after the 2016 election, Strzok texted Lisa Page, Strzok is her lover. OMG, I'm so
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depressed. Page replied, I don't know if I can eat. I'm very nauseous. She meant to say nauseated.
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People confuse those two words all the time, but a minor detail. We move on.
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Page asks, quote, he's never going to become president, right? Right.
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This is, this is Trump running for president. He's never going to become president. Right? Right.
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Strzok replies, no, no, he won't. We'll stop it. We'll stop. Who's we? The FBI. He's talking about
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him in the FBI. As we know that the FBI is engaging in surveillance of president Trump's
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campaign, trying to undermine president Trump's campaign. That's really bad. From my perspective
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as an American citizen, that's a lot worse than cheating on your husband and kids or cheating on
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your wife and kids because you were betraying the public trust that you had. And now she's going on
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offense to pretend that she's a victim. Why is she doing it now? She's doing it now because you got
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the IG report coming out. She's doing it now because you got the John Durham investigation
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coming out. All these investigations into the 2016 election, into how the Russia investigation began
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in the first place, into the very corruption that Lisa Page and Peter Strzok are texting about.
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So she's going on offense. Lisa Page is not a victim. All right. President Trump did not
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cause her trouble. She caused her trouble. According to the FBI, this is an FBI's internal
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investigation. Page inflicted damage to the FBI that went, quote, to the heart of the FBI's reputation
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for neutral fact finding and political independence. That's not an awful right-wing website that said
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that. That's not President Trump who said that. That's the FBI. According to the inspector general,
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Page's text messages had, quote, potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative
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decisions were impacted by bias or other improper considerations. It's not Trump who said that.
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That's not mean old Michael or mean old Daily Wire or mean old conservative TV. That's the inspector
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general who said that. Okay. And yet here she is, Lisa Page talking about how she's a victim.
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Lisa speaks. There's no fathomable way I have committed any crime at all. By the way, no one's
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really saying that she committed a crime. We're wondering if crimes were committed at the FBI and
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DOJ. But what we're saying is she acted inappropriately. She demonstrated political bias. She undermined
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the neutrality of the FBI. She abused her power. And she sent messages that were indicating that the
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FBI abused its power. That's indisputable. That's what happened. That's a very bad thing. It's so
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ironic. You know, we're now in this impeachment investigation where the Democrats are saying,
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who cares if Trump committed a crime? He abused his power and that's enough to impeach him.
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Now, Lisa Page is saying, I didn't commit a crime. Maybe she did. Maybe she didn't. I don't,
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I don't think she did. She abused her power. The FBI in general abused its power. That is some pretty
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bad stuff. And you're going to see a lot more of this coming down the pike because we're about to
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get the inspector general report on how the Russian investigation began in the first place.
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And there were already shenanigans with that. There have been some conservatives who thought,
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yes, the inspector general report's going to come out and it's going to take down this corrupt
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cabal of bureaucrats that has been operating with impunity in the federal government.
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And this IG report is going to take them down. I never thought that. I never believed that.
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You think the bureaucracy is going to take down the bureaucracy? I don't think so.
00:43:14.320
The bureaucracy has been remarkably durable since it was created. It's, it's existed for over a
00:43:20.140
century now. That wasn't going to happen, but the elected people, the people, the appointed people,
00:43:26.920
the people who have some accountability to we, the people, are fighting back. So there's a new
00:43:34.460
report out. Attorney General William Barr is reportedly refuting a key claim made by the
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Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz in the soon to be released report. Barr has
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reportedly told associates that he disagrees with the IG conclusion that, quote,
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the FBI had enough information in July, 2016 to justify launching an investigation into members
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of the Trump campaign. Now that's according to the Washington Post. So take it with a grain of salt.
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The Post says though, Barr has not been swayed by Horowitz's rationale for concluding that the FBI
00:44:09.720
had sufficient basis to open an investigation on July 31st, 2016. The attorney general has privately
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contended that Horowitz does not have enough information to reach the conclusion that the
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FBI had enough details in hand at the time to justify opening such a probe. He argues that other
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agencies such as the CIA may hold significant information that could alter Horowitz's conclusion
00:44:34.100
on that point. That's according to people familiar with the matter. Now, I think what the left is going
00:44:41.520
to tell you, if this report turns out to be true, is see conservatives, there was no there, there,
00:44:47.860
there was nothing real, and now you're all just complaining because the investigation didn't turn
00:44:52.560
up anything. Hold up just a minute. We could predict that the IG wasn't going to expose the bureaucracy
00:45:03.140
here. We could predict that a number of months ago, and we did predict that a number of months ago,
00:45:08.420
and I suspect Attorney General Barr predicted that a number of months ago, which is why he also
00:45:12.600
appointed John Durham, the federal prosecutor, to investigate this matter separately. When the,
00:45:19.520
when the Durham investigation was announced, when Durham was appointed, a lot of people didn't take
00:45:23.900
any notice. The people who did take notice said, wait a second, why is Durham launching an investigation,
00:45:28.360
which has now become a criminal investigation, if the IG is just going to file their report? It's
00:45:32.680
because we knew that the IG report wasn't going to have teeth. It might show you something,
00:45:36.140
but it wasn't going to have teeth. So the real story is going to come out from John Durham,
00:45:41.280
or it won't. I mean, there's a chance that there's no there, there. I'm totally open-minded to that,
00:45:45.340
but it would appear from everything that we've seen, from the text messages we've read,
00:45:48.840
from the investigations that were launched, from the spying that did take place. We know for a fact
00:45:53.700
it took place on the Trump campaign, and now from AG Barr's reported conclusions, it would seem that
00:45:59.880
all of us had the right hunch in the first place, and there will be a lot more to this story.
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It takes a lot longer to take down those psychos here on Psycho Tuesday. It's not Psycho Monday
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