Ep. 74 - The Russians Hacked Alabama
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A Democrat has won a deep red state Senate seat in Alabama, and Republicans are drawing terrible conclusions from this whole experience. Then, Amanda Prestigiacomo and Ali Stuckey join the panel of deplorables to talk about a new study which shows that the key to living a long life is being a stubborn old Italian woman.
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Catastrophe in Alabama. A Democrat won the deep red state Senate seat. I personally blame the
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Russians and Jim Comey. Unfortunately, Republicans are drawing terrible conclusions from this whole
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experience. We will analyze what conservatives should really take away from Roy Moore's defeat.
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Then Amanda Prestigiacomo and Ali Stuckey joined the panel of deplorables to talk about a new study
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Huge anti-Trump bias at the DOJ and in Bob Mueller's investigation exposed and the real
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cause of the literal fires, not the weird sex crime figurative fires that burned down my city
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of Los Angeles. I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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OK, we're feeling too good. We're starting out this terrible, terrible day feeling too good.
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So let's get back into reality. A rough night for Republicans. Take it away. Mainstream media.
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That breaking news coming out of Alabama this morning, a stunning end to the race for Senate as
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Doug Jones claims victory while his opponent Roy Moore says things are far from over.
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Senate race against Republican Roy Moore. This is a seismic Democratic victory in a deeply red state.
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We have team coverage with reporters in both camps.
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Tonight, Democrat Doug Jones wins a stunning victory in the Senate election in Alabama.
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And tonight, I'm Don Lemon. Thank you for staying up with us. An incredible victory
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for the Democratic candidate in one of the reddest of red states. I want you to listen
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to this joyful reaction at Doug Jones headquarters.
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Seismic. Stunning. Miraculous. Thank you for staying up with us. I am truly a masochist.
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That is like the cat of nine tails whipping myself watching that ridiculous coverage.
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So that's going to be the story. Seismic. Stunning. Unbelievable. It's a whole brand new world.
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Huzzah, huzzah. You're going to hear that from the mainstream media.
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Unfortunately, a lot of Republicans are taking this to heart and they're taking away the wrong
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conclusions from this race. So let's go through the top seven takeaways from Roy Moore's defeat in
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Alabama. What conservatives should really learn? Number one, no, Roy Moore should not have dropped
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out of this race after the sexual impropriety allegations came out. There are a lot of Republicans
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saying, oh, he should have dropped out. There should have been a writing candidate against
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Doug Jones. We could have run Luther Strange or Mo Brooks or somebody. Not true. Totally ridiculous.
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Let's look at the timeline. On November 9th, that is when the first allegations against Roy Moore came
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out. Keep in mind, these are 40-year-old allegations. But on November 9th, we learned that there is a woman
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who says that when she was 14, Roy Moore was sexually inappropriate with her or she sexually assaulted
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her. And then a number of other women came out and said, oh, yes, when I was 16 or 18 or 19,
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Roy Moore. Then at the time, 30, 32, he got a little frisky with me too. And it created this aura
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of sexual harassment and sexual assault. Those were the allegations. These allegations were
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conveniently timed. You notice you haven't heard about these things for, I don't know, the 40 years
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since they happened until just too late for Roy Moore to get off that ballot. So people think it's
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very easy. If Roy Moore just dropped out, then they'd put someone else on the ballot and the Republican
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would have won. That isn't true. According to Alabama state code, you can only remove yourself
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from the ballot 76 days before the election. So if it's after that time period, you can't get off of
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the ballot. If Roy Moore had dropped out, his name would still be on that ballot. He still would have
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the Republican line. Some people also don't know when you're running for office, you need to get a
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number of lines. So for instance, when I would run campaigns in New York, we'd try to pick up the
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Republican line, the conservative line, the Independence Party line. The Democrats would
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get working families party. But you get those lines, and then the more lines you have, the better
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your chances of winning. If Roy Moore had dropped out and the Republican establishment or Donald Trump
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even had endorsed someone like Luther Strange, who had lost in the primaries, or Mo Brooks, who
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didn't really have much of a shot, even though those candidates would have been more likely to win
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the general, it would have had to be a write-in campaign. So there's a very low chance it would
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have happened. I think Luther Strange was polling at like 2% or something in a write-in campaign in
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the general election. Roy Moore dropping out would have guaranteed the seat would have gone to a
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Democrat instead of what we saw, which was a tight race, but two, three points separating these. It was
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a clear outcome, basically, but at least a close race. Dropping out would have guaranteed it to
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Democrats. And I know what you're going to hear. You're going to hear, well, Lisa Murkowski,
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the senator from Alaska, she won a write-in campaign in 2010. It is completely different.
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She had a lot of things going for her. One, she had enormous support, which Roy Moore lacked. She
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was an incumbent. She already had the seat. She already had universal name recognition. She came
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from a political legacy family. She was widely known as the heir to a political family. And she had a
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political write-in campaign campaign. So her entire campaign was about this write-in. She gave out
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bracelets. She instructed people on how to spell her name. It was just too late. There was a month
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till the election when these allegations surfaced. It couldn't have happened. Added to all of this,
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you had Steve Bannon inserting himself into the Roy Moore campaign and playing it as an
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anti-establishment versus establishment campaign. So had Donald Trump come out and endorsed the guy
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who lost the Republican primary or someone else, it would have been seen widely as opposing the will
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of voters opposing the will of the populace. And for a populace president to do that, it just can't
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happen. At the end of this election, it was a choice between Roy Moore and Doug Jones. Anybody who's
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trying to tell you otherwise is selling you a fantasy. Number two, no, the outcome is not stunning.
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The mainstream media will tell you it's stunning. It's unbelievable to hear them tell it. Not since the
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Battle of Lepanto has an underdog overcome so much to get a victory. NBC News reported it's a
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stunning victory. Politico reported on the Alabama earthquake. The Washington Post, democracy dies in
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darkness, called it miraculous. They're suggesting no one could have ever predicted this. This is a
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blowout victory. Hmm. Did anybody predict that Roy Moore would lose the general? Let's cut to the tape.
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Luther will definitely win. No, you know what I'm saying.
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Roy has a very good chance of not winning in the general election. It's all about the general. Don't
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forget, we don't stop here. You have an election coming up the day this is over. So this is over
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on Tuesday on Wednesday morning. The new race begins. You got to beat a Democrat. Luther is going to win
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easily. And Roy's going to have a hard time winning. Oh, Donald Trump. Donald Trump is the guy who
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predicted this. Right. The leader of Roy Moore's party, the Republican president, he predicted that
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Roy Moore would have a very hard time. He likely wouldn't win the general election. The mainstream
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media are conveniently ignoring this today because they need this to seem like a seismic shift.
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They need this to show that all of the Republican momentum, all of the Trump momentum, conservative
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policy legislation like we haven't seen in our lifetimes is coming to an end. They have to show
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that it stops that. Donald Trump predicted it during the primary. He said, yeah, I don't know this guy.
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It's a tough it's going to be a tough race for him. He isn't a great candidate. He's a flawed
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candidate. This was before any of the sexual allegations came out just based on his appeal as a
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candidate. Absent the dirty tricks, absent people coming out of the woodwork to accuse him of
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things. He knew it would be a tough race. This isn't stunning. Stop repeating that. Number three,
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Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment now more than ever. Ronald Reagan was fine of saying there is an 11th
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commandment we all must live by. Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican. Unfortunately,
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many Republicans were all too happy to jump on the bandwagon against Roy Moore when these accusations
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came out, in part perhaps because the going got a little tough. That's a that is a bad accusation to
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say that a man in his 30s is creeping on 14 year old girls. And so when the going gets tough, you want
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to run away from that. Also, I think people just don't like more. Some Republicans don't like him
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because of his Trumpiness. Some people they don't like him because he's a Bible thumper. They don't like
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him because he seems a little slick, a little unctuous, whatever. Do not speak ill of a fellow
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Republican. Because by the way, this sexual mania that took over the last days of the Roy Moore
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campaign, they had one piece of solid evidence. They had one piece of solid evidence. Gloria Allred
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showed it off with that one accuser during her big press conference. It was a yearbook that purported to
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have a signature from Roy Moore saying sweet things to the little girl. We now know it
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has been admitted that that evidence was at least partially fabricated and they hid that it was
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fabricated when they showed it. So the only hard evidence we have is not credible. And yet Republicans
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were quick to throw Roy Moore under the bus instead of saying nothing at all, instead of stepping back a
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little bit and saying, well, let's wait and see how this plays out. I'm not totally sure because now
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there's a precedent, which is if you make allegations, sexual allegations in particular against a Republican,
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you will be assumed guilty until proven innocent. Not a good way for Republicans to move forward. It
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really damages us. Hopefully we'll learn not to be so quick on the trigger in the future.
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Number four, Republicans need better opposition research. This is the part where I talk about how
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the allegations were pretty strong. So these allegations, sure, they were 40 years old. But we
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know from Moore's autobiography that he has a thing for young teenage girls. We know from Moore's 2005
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autobiography that he met his current wife when she was a teenager performing in a dance recital.
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He wrote, quote, I knew Kayla was going to be a special person in my life. And then later when she
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was 23, I think they connected and went on a date. That's how the story goes. Nevertheless, he even
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admitted that when she was a teenage girl in a dance recital, he had the eye for her. So Roy Moore's
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opponents should have known, his Republican opponents should have known, this was a place rife for
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attack. Even if all of the allegations were false, they would be easy political tricks to play. They
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should have, Roy Moore's campaign should have protected against that. And Luther Strange's
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campaign should have pounced on it. If these allegations are true, they should have found those
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people and they should have made them make the claims during the primary so that Strange would
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have won and we would have a Republican in the Senate from Alabama. If those claims weren't true,
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Roy Moore should have protected against that. It means that Luther Strange's campaign was
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incompetent. I don't believe this was a big conspiracy really by the establishment. I don't
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really buy that Mitch McConnell knew about this and he was sitting on it and hiding it. I think if they
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had been sitting on it, they would have played it in the primary. They don't want to lose that seat.
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They could have easily bumped out Roy Moore and given it to Luther Strange if this had come out.
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Republican voting was deeply depressed in the general election. They easily could have defeated Roy
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Moore in a primary and depressed his supporters in that election, but they didn't do it.
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I don't know if it's that we're lazy because we've been running against the Clintons for whom every
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scandal of the last three decades is common public knowledge. It's been plastered all over TV
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for years and years and years, but you have to get better at opposition research. I place a lot of
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the blame for this loss at Luther Strange's feet and at his campaign because they didn't uncover this
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and Moore didn't protect against it. Number five, do not OD on covfefe. Covfe is a hell of a drug,
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folks. You've got to use it sparingly and cautiously. What I mean by that, there is a huge
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right-wing exuberance, more than I have ever seen in my entire life, a young life, granted, but I've
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been on this earth a few decades at least, and we've never seen anything like this. Wonderful
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conservative legislation, wonderful executive priorities, wonderful foreign policy, good judges
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being nominated, courts being stacked. We're seeing massive tax reform that we haven't seen since
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Reagan, but there is a limit. There is a limit. You can't go crazy. Donald Trump has completely shaken
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up politics. He's radically altered what is acceptable, specifically in political speech,
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in campaign speech, in what a candidate looks like. He's cracked this political correct, gross,
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just the political language where they say one thing, and really, you know that they're lying,
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but they're lying in this way or they're lying in that way. Donald Trump, he cracked that. He cracked
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the political correctness. He cracked the credibility of the mainstream media, but you can't get away with
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everything. He hasn't abolished the rules of politics entirely. Roy Moore did not have a way forward. He did
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not know how to pivot his campaign. He gave this awful interview with Sean Hannity. Let's hear it.
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Do you know Ms. Corfman? Do you know the mother? I don't know Ms. Corfman from anybody. I've never
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talked to her, never had any contact with her. Allegations of sexual misconduct with her are
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completely false. I believe they're politically motivated. I believe they're brought only to stop
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a very successful campaign, and that's what they're doing. I've never known this woman or anything
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with regard to the other girls. You understand this is 40 years ago. She said that you asked her out
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on the first of several dates, but nothing progressed beyond kissing. I don't remember
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specific dates. I do not, and I don't remember if it was in that time or later, but I do not remember
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that. But you know her, but you never dated her ever. Is that what you're saying? Know her, but I don't
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remember going out on dates. I knew her as a friend. If we did go out on dates, then we did, but I do not
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remember that. That is not an answer. So he's talking about two different girls there, but he's
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saying on the one, this never happened, this 14-year-old girl, it never happened. Well, did
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you date teenagers? Well, no, I don't, well, I don't remember specific dates. Well, did you date
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teenagers? Well, you know, I, that's not an answer. If you're going to deny it, deny it. If you're going
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to own up to it, own up to it and explain it, but move on, pivot, move on. The way that Roy Moore
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tried to pivot was by blaming gays and lesbians and the cultural left for harping on this.
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Sure, the cultural left might be harping on this. You're not going to be able to push your
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campaign forward by trying to scapegoat gays and lesbians when your own sexual behavior
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is being called into question. You have to move forward. Roy Moore didn't do that. He didn't
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have a clear enough vision for his campaign, and he didn't have the courage or the strength
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or the political smarts to address the issue and move straight forward, plow right by it.
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This brings us to number six, never defend, never explain, always attack. This is also
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from Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan would say, if you're explaining, you're losing. But Roy
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Moore just kept on explaining. He kept on saying, well, I never did this 40 years ago, and even
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when I did, I got the mother's permission. That doesn't work, pal. When you do that, you end
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up looking like Frank from Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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I am not going to diddle your kids. I'm not like that. We got to definitely write a song
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about how we do not diddle kids. Do not diddle kids. It's no good diddling kids.
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There is no quicker way for people to think that you are diddling kids than by writing a
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song about it. You got to write a song. It's just, oh, I wouldn't do it with anybody younger
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than my daughter. My little kids got to be big. Hold them away from my daughter or something
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like that. Don't write a song about that. No. I'm cloudy. I got a headache.
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That could be a documentary of Roy Moore's campaign. That is what it looked like when
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he came out and tried to explain all of this. Don't do that. Eventually, he wised up and
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then just denied it. He called into question some of the, clearly the fabrication on the yearbook
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signature. But that's what he looked like for weeks when these allegations came out.
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Not a good look. There's no way to convince somebody that you're not doing that when you're
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constantly harping on these things and going back and changing your story slightly. When
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Republicans were confronted with various and sundry allegations against Moore, they would
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say, if you even support Moore, you are a pedophile. There is a two-word answer that they
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should have given. Bob Menendez. Bob Menendez. There is a sitting Democrat United States Senator
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who federal prosecutors think might have had sex with underage prostitutes. You don't hear a peep
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about that. You don't hear Democrats calling on him to step down or to resign. The mainstream media
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have blocked it out entirely because it doesn't help out their narrative against Republicans and
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against Roy Moore. But that's what they said. The Democrats said, well, if you vote for Moore,
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you are a pedophile. And just to be precise about language here, what Roy Moore is accused of is not
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pedophilia. The old Greek word for this is ephibophilia. He's accused of doing things,
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weird sex stuff with teenagers, young teenage girls, but not with children. There's a difference
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between a six-year-old and a 16-year-old, for instance. I guess you could make that point to them.
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But the real attack you have to make is pushing forward, pushing it back on them. Say, not only are your
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claims not true, not only is your evidence of the yearbook, which was fabricated, not even is that
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not credible, but your own guy is sitting in the United States Senate accused of having sex with
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underage prostitutes, Senator Bob Menendez, and you're saying nothing on that. And until Democrats
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answer for that, they have no credibility on this issue and you don't owe them one single explanation.
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Beyond that, political votes are... When I vote for somebody, I do not suddenly take on all of
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their moral characteristics. That's not how it works. We live in reality. And in reality, we have
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to elect people to represent us on political issues in legislative bodies. I do not become
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Chuck Schumer because Chuck Schumer represents the state of New York. I do not become Kamala Harris
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because Kamala Harris represents California. I don't even become Donald Trump because I voted for
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Donald Trump in the presidential election. I don't have billions of dollars. I don't have the
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kind of crazy hair. That doesn't happen because there are steps between the representatives and
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their constituents. Don't buy into that lie and hammer them, hammer them, hammer them.
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Have I made myself clear? I hope so. Next and final point, do not get hypnotized. This one's really hard
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because the mainstream media will do this to you. According to a report out from the Media Research
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Center today, 91% of evening news coverage about Donald Trump is negative. 91%. This is way higher
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than previous presidents, Republican or Democrat. There is wall-to-wall coverage of all of the sex
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stuff with Roy Moore. And what's the refrain? Roy Moore is a pedophile. Roy Moore is a pedophile.
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Doesn't really analyze the evidence. It doesn't analyze what those words mean. It doesn't analyze what
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the accusations are or how many decades ago they took place. But do not be hypnotized. I know you
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haven't seen anything about Bob Menendez. I know all you've heard about is what a mean,
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terrible, rotten guy Roy Moore is. But the mainstream media are the communications wing
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of the Democratic Party. Do not believe what they're saying. There have been absurd retractions
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in just the last few days from CNN, Washington Post, the New York Times. They got stories completely
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wrong. Important stories. Important stories about so-called collusion, about the White House,
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about Donald Trump. Don't buy what they are selling and don't buy their premises because
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then you'll have to arrive at their conclusions. That isn't true. Okay. That's all I want to
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talk about on how conservatives are making wrong conclusions from this race. Now we have
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to talk about the race itself. We have to bring on our lovely panel of deplorables, our all-female
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panel, the conservative millennial Ali Stuckey and the Daily Wire's very own Amanda Presta Giacomo.
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But first, I wasn't going to just give them to you all willy-nilly without having to talk to you
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night. Let's begin. Allie, what does this loss, this new Democrat in the Senate mean for tax reform?
00:25:22.960
Well, unfortunately, I don't think it's a great step for tax reform. I do think the positive side
00:25:29.800
about it, although you have already touched on this so far, is that we don't have such an uphill
00:25:36.220
PR battle now to fight. Of course, everyone who voted for President Trump wanted someone in the
00:25:41.860
Senate that would carry out President Trump's pro-America, America First agenda, and that
00:25:46.040
includes tax reform. But I do think it's a positive that we no longer have to battle the media and
00:25:52.560
battle the left and defend ourselves. As you explained, we would constantly be having to
00:25:56.960
explain ourselves by saying, oh, no, we're not the party of a sex offender, or no, we're not the
00:26:03.780
party of a guy who engages in preying upon teenagers. That's how we would be spending the next couple
00:26:09.780
years until 2020, is explaining that we are not the party of Roy Moore. Well, now we don't have to
00:26:16.740
waste our time doing that. We can actually focus on maintaining the majority in the Senate and then
00:26:22.860
winning 2020 as well. So I do think it can be a positive.
00:26:26.620
And it does take a real weapon out of their toolbox, absolutely. I always advocate not explaining
00:26:33.000
anything to them and saying, we don't owe you an explanation. You have Bob Menendez.
00:26:36.160
But you're right. It does make it much easier on the PR front. And really, it was the worst night
00:26:43.300
for Al Franken. Al Franken, who fake resigned a couple weeks ago, he now has to actually resign.
00:26:48.840
You know, if Roy Moore had won, he could say, well, they got more. I'm going to stay. But too bad. Now
00:26:53.500
you're fired. Sad, sad. I guess Donald Trump's catchphrase. So I suppose it's fitting. Amanda,
00:27:06.160
Well, I think we can just learn that this was a really bad candidate. Like, I don't think this
00:27:12.380
teaches us anything else aside from Roy Moore was a really bad candidate. And that's why he lost. Like,
00:27:18.940
I don't think we can extrapolate from this and think it's like a referendum on Trump or anything like
00:27:22.560
that. I just think we put not a good candidate forward. I mean, Mo Brooks would have wiped the
00:27:28.220
floor, even Luther Strange. So it was really, and of course, we can look to Mitch McConnell.
00:27:33.540
Well, and that was not the best move on his part to try to rid those other people from being in
00:27:40.480
there. So maybe just take a look at our leadership. That would be a good move for Republicans. And then
00:27:47.280
maybe that would help us in 2018. He was a bad candidate. I do fear now that anybody can make up
00:27:55.880
allegations. I'm not saying these allegations are made up, but anybody can make them up,
00:28:00.320
especially if they're four decades old. And giving them a win on this, I just fear is going to unleash
00:28:06.440
a tidal wave of these allegations. Are we going to see this strategy played out in 2018?
00:28:12.640
Oh, 100%. I've had reservations about the whole Me Too campaign from the beginning.
00:28:18.860
And that's exactly the right point, is that anything can be said. Bill O'Reilly actually just
00:28:24.700
recently came out and he said that there's a tape. Again, I can't, you know, I don't know if this is
00:28:28.980
true or not, but he said that there's a tape of basically an anti-Trump attorney offering $200,000
00:28:35.640
to someone to make up false sexual assault accusations against President Trump.
00:28:40.560
To say that this would never happen is absurd, and we've seen it in the past.
00:28:44.820
So it's a really dangerous precedent. Again, not to say that the allegations against Warren
00:28:49.820
Moore were false. I don't know. Some of them seem credible, actually.
00:28:53.560
But we could see this in the future where you could, you know, tank a candidate based off of
00:28:59.000
allegations, true or not. Like I said, we didn't even get to the bottom of these. And the outcome
00:29:03.800
of that election was clear as day that he wasn't going to win because of the allegations. So it's
00:29:08.340
really, really dangerous. Chuck Schumer today reported to Capitol Police that there was a plot
00:29:13.400
of foot to accuse him of sexual assault or sexual harassment that weren't true. You know,
00:29:21.780
it was just made up and cooked up in some political operative's room.
00:29:25.740
Aren't we always supposed to believe the women, though? What happened to Chuck Schumer?
00:29:35.380
Well, I think that's a really good point. I think the danger of Democrats employing this kind of
00:29:40.740
strategy going forward, yes, it could be effective to taking down Republicans. But as they've seen,
00:29:46.300
it's also effective in taking down Democrats. And so if they're willing to take down their own side
00:29:51.440
by taking down people like Al Franken and John Conyers and maybe even Chuck Schumer, who knows?
00:29:57.720
Yeah, I'm not starting that rumor that Chuck Schumer is going to get taken down by weird sex stuff.
00:30:02.540
I don't think it's out there. We do have to believe the woman, right? So I think that they have to be
00:30:06.800
willing to turn that sword on themselves. If that's the sword that they want to die on,
00:30:11.580
I think that what they're doing is that they realize that they're going to take down some
00:30:16.460
of their own by spearheading this whole Me Too movement. And how they kind of remedied that and
00:30:21.500
how they kind of solved that is by using Al Franken as the guy who fell on his sword,
00:30:28.380
as the scapegoat that said, yes, we're even going to call out some of our own. But when we call out
00:30:33.080
some of our own, look what they do. They resign. This is how moral we are. We are willing to throw
00:30:38.400
away some of our own and stand for the principle of morality or principle of against sexual
00:30:43.940
harassment, which I don't think that's a really moral stance at all. I think it's politically
00:30:47.620
expedient. But if they are willing to continue to do that and continue to allow their congressmen
00:30:53.360
who are accused of sexual assault to fall on their swords, then we're not going to have any
00:30:57.140
congresspeople anymore, which I think would be great. Then the libertarians win.
00:31:00.880
Yeah, well, that's true. Although I am sympathetic to Federalist 51, which says that the Congress
00:31:06.520
exists so that all the sociopaths of the country can go into a room and fight one another. And the
00:31:10.780
Democrats, they do seem to be much less morally concerned, much less morally meticulous if you're
00:31:16.560
the senator from New Jersey named Bob Menendez. But who knows? It's so strange. I do want to make,
00:31:21.560
just before we sign off from Facebook and YouTube, I do want to point out we are not starting the
00:31:26.180
rumor that Chuck Schumer, the senior senator from New York and the Democratic leader, is a sexual
00:31:32.680
predator. We're not starting that rumor. So don't you go around spreading that.
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Don't repeat it. Don't repeat it, that Chuck Schumer is a sexual predator. Okay,
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Okay. In the news, this one really rings true for me. A new study published in the journal
00:32:52.440
International Psychogeriatrics. I could describe members of my family, by the way, psychogeriatrics.
00:32:58.440
It shows that the key to living a long life is being a stubborn old Italian woman.
00:33:03.180
The common personality traits that have helped a group of 90 to 101-year-old Italians is stubbornness,
00:33:09.740
hope, and a love for family and country. The lead author of the study went on, quote,
00:33:15.000
we also found that this group tended to be domineering, stubborn, and needed a sense of control,
00:33:21.040
which can be a desirable trait as they are true to their convictions and care less about what others
00:33:26.200
think. Get out of my grandmother's house. What are you doing? What are you recording there?
00:33:31.160
This is almost an anti-scientific study, it seems to me. It's a scientific study that says that instead
00:33:37.360
of listening to scientists, you should just do what your Italian grandmother says. Allie, how seriously
00:33:42.300
should we take this or any other supposedly scientific psychological study that promises us
00:33:49.180
Yeah. I mean, obviously, I think it's totally subjective and up to the individual. I like
00:33:53.660
this. I like anti-science science. I think it's good science. I think it's completely subjective how
00:33:58.560
long people live. I think probably the biggest factor that I see over and over again from scientists,
00:34:04.140
psychologists alike, is that stress is a really big factor in how long people live. I mean,
00:34:10.200
I have a grandfather, for example, who has smoked cigarettes and has drank his entire life and is
00:34:16.860
in no way in good shape, but he's lived a very long time. And then I have other people in my family who
00:34:21.500
have been the epitome of great health and have suffered health complications that had nothing to
00:34:28.340
do with how they lived their life. But the thing about my grandfather is, is that he has been virtually
00:34:32.300
stress-free. He is very content in who he is and in his life. He leads a very simple life. And I kind of
00:34:39.080
think that's the common thread that we see throughout people who end up living a long time
00:34:42.680
is kind of a lack of stress, which we have not picked the right jobs, I don't think, to
00:34:48.000
very long lives. That is true. I try to get my requisite 14 hours of sleep a night, but Ben always
00:34:54.120
just comes banging on the door, waking me up. It's very difficult. It's a hostile work environment.
00:34:58.980
Amanda, you are a future Italian grandmother. Why is it that these traits tend to lead to a long life?
00:35:04.960
I don't know, but this is like the most scientific thing I have ever read. And it actually makes me
00:35:14.320
very hopeful because I'm basically the person that they're describing. So I think this is like
00:35:20.840
100% accurate. I don't know. I mean, I guess it can be subjective, like Ellie was saying, but I would
00:35:28.820
like to believe that this is 100% real. So I will live into a, to a hundred, but, but like my, my
00:35:34.100
Nonna, for example, she's like 87. Like Evan and my family's lived to a very long life. Maybe, maybe
00:35:40.780
there's like also guilt that might also help someone live longer. That's like a good trait for
00:35:46.060
Italian. So maybe it makes that too. So do you want to live to a hundred? That's the, that's the
00:35:51.460
question that I pose this panel of deplorables. Do you want to live to a hundred years old?
00:35:56.340
That's a hard one. It depends. If I can still smoke stogies and have a little scotch in my glass,
00:36:02.140
then I think life is still worth living. You know, I'll enjoy the beautiful poetry of the world.
00:36:06.680
But my, my own grandmother, if she, if I said her age on the air, she would, she would come through
00:36:11.000
that wall and murder me. So I'll, I'll refrain from that. She says it's 29, but she still goes out.
00:36:16.420
She chases the deer who eat her little flowers. She chases them with a hose around her property.
00:36:22.620
This woman is tough as nails and yeah, there is something to living a long time because you just
00:36:29.680
refuse to let the world kill you. You just say, I'm not going anywhere. Tough. Good luck. Yeah. I
00:36:35.600
don't know if I would, if I would want to do that. I don't know if it's, if it's necessarily the
00:36:39.300
happiest, you know, 110 year old person who's just stubborn and frowning and angry at the world.
00:36:44.860
But I do like that a love of country is an aspect of this love of family and love of country.
00:36:50.480
There's something about enjoying the place that you are and the people that surround you that
00:36:57.340
doesn't surprise me that they would want to stick around. It's very real. It's very tangible.
00:37:02.760
And it, and you know, it makes life worth living. Patriotism. These colors don't run. If you want
00:37:07.700
to live a long time, just love America. We've got to move on. Republicans plan to accuse the Justice
00:37:13.160
Department of bias after newly revealed text messages among FBI officials, including some working
00:37:18.500
on the Mueller probe, revealed extreme anti-Trump bias and conspiracy. Last year, just before the
00:37:24.960
election, FBI agent Peter Strzadzak, I can't pronounce his name, Peter Strzadzak, texted FBI lawyer Lisa
00:37:31.340
Page, quote, I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy's office, meaning FBI
00:37:38.080
director Andrew McCabe, that there's no way he, meaning Trump, gets elected. But I'm afraid we can't
00:37:43.880
take that risk. It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before 40. That text was
00:37:51.500
sent just weeks after the FBI investigation into Russian interference began, meaning that the whole
00:37:57.000
investigation appears to have begun as a political hit job to damage Trump. Is this a conspiracy?
00:38:03.860
Amanda, is there a deep state conspiracy against Donald Trump?
00:38:06.900
I mean, it's looking more and more like that. I know Trump from the beginning was saying that it
00:38:12.440
was the witch hunt. And as the days pass, it looks more and more increasingly like it is a witch hunt.
00:38:18.640
I mean, these text messages, it's not just that they happen to, you know, be Democrat,
00:38:24.140
they happen to have a political view that that would be kind of expected. It's that text that you just
00:38:29.560
read. It's almost like it was a conspiracy, like they were going to take him down. That is so,
00:38:34.720
so troubling. And the whole point of the special counsel of this investigation is to rid bias.
00:38:40.860
How in the world is this ridding bias? I mean, Peter Strzok was just let go. But I mean,
00:38:46.300
he had his hands in everything. Apparently, he was like the only FBI agent. And he has a very
00:38:51.760
severe bias. So it's like the FBI in the movies. In the movies, we all picture it's just like one guy
00:38:56.820
doing everything. That is Peter Strzok. Yeah, it's really bad. If the texts had just said,
00:39:01.880
ah, Trump, what a jerk. Oh, wow, I don't like him. That's one thing. But they're referring to
00:39:06.580
meetings with the director of the FBI on ways to take Trump out. Very bad. Allie, does the Mueller
00:39:12.540
and there's and thus far, there's no evidence of collusion. So that's also, you know, if we had some
00:39:18.640
evidence of collusion, maybe we can be like, okay, like, just get rid of that guy and continue. But
00:39:22.860
where is the collusion? Well, there's collusion between the Justice Department and the Hillary
00:39:27.520
Clinton campaign. That's the collusion. There's no collusion between Trump and Russia. Allie,
00:39:31.900
does Mueller, who employed both of these people in the text exchange, who stacked his investigation
00:39:37.240
with people who are against Donald Trump, does Mueller have any credibility left? Does this
00:39:43.320
investigation have any credibility left? I don't think so. And I used to be of the camp that said,
00:39:48.520
okay, we can't fire Mueller. That's going to be an absolute disaster. But I think the more we learn
00:39:53.360
about the potential of a conspiracy, the more you really wonder if he should be in this place.
00:39:57.420
And at the very least, do we need to hire an investigation to investigate the investigation?
00:40:02.620
I mean, I think that's what the American people deserve. And I think it's crazy just how much
00:40:07.640
Trump continues to be vindicated in this kind of thing. I mean, every time he says some seemingly
00:40:14.320
outlandish thing about that there's no Russian collusion and Obama wiretapped him, and now the real
00:40:20.360
collusion is with Hillary Clinton and the FBI and all of this, it seems ridiculous at the time,
00:40:25.560
but it ends up that, okay, he might not have worded it correctly, but he was actually right.
00:40:30.440
And I'm just wondering if the FBI thought that they were so savvy that this wasn't going to come
00:40:35.740
out at any point, that they were going to continue to spin this narrative of collusion,
00:40:40.520
and that it wasn't going to come back to bite them. I think it just kind of shows how stupid
00:40:45.500
they think the rest of the world is and the rest of the American people are and how stupid Trump
00:40:50.060
and his cronies are, that they were never going to figure something like this out. And so I think
00:40:55.580
it's going to be amazing and amazingly vindicating for all of us if at the end of this, there's
00:41:02.340
obviously no Russian collusion and the real collusion was with the Hillary Clinton camp. It'll just be
00:41:07.580
And that hubris of the FBI is so outrageous. Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit
00:41:14.820
before a fall. You jerks, we got you. Ha ha ha. Next news story. I, you know, last week or two
00:41:21.660
weeks ago, maybe I got in trouble with lefties pretending to be offended. They weren't really
00:41:26.040
offended, but they were pretending to be offended because I suggested that the massive fire that
00:41:30.340
burned down Hollywood, the one that torched my commute and made me broadcast from my apartment
00:41:34.480
in front of my Christmas tree, that that was evidence of God's unsubtle brushstroke. You know,
00:41:39.400
the physical reflecting the metaphysical, the figurative in the sex scandal melting down
00:41:45.900
Hollywood and then literally the same thing happening. We now know the immediate cause of
00:41:50.520
the fire that destroyed six homes and damaged a dozen others. It was bums. City officials have
00:41:55.780
confirmed the start, the fire rather, was started by a cooking fire at a homeless encampment. L.A.
00:42:02.640
Mayor Eric Garcetti, who has completely failed to address the homeless crisis, passed the buck
00:42:07.100
saying, quote, you can never get to zero risk. I think it would be a mistake to think we could.
00:42:12.680
All right, Eric. Sure. Amanda, there are homeless people camping out all over the city. Why are there
00:42:18.780
so many homeless people? Yeah. Well, that's the thing, though. Like instead of reflecting and being
00:42:23.620
like, OK, this is a massive homeless problem. Let's address that. Maybe our policies aren't so aren't
00:42:29.900
doing so hot and we should change our economic policies. No, no, no. I think the solution that I read,
00:42:34.480
and then this is like legit, is that they said they wanted to educate the homeless about these
00:42:39.100
fires, like safety precautions for the homeless. Like why not try to make them not homeless?
00:42:44.080
But on that on that point of the homeless people, it's true we need policies and incentives so that
00:42:49.320
they can't live like bums for their lives. But also that won't solve it for everybody. The poor
00:42:54.760
will always be with us. And in the 1980s, we closed down a lot of mental institutions during the Reagan
00:43:01.540
administration, actually, because there were new psychotropic drugs, drugs that would address
00:43:07.300
psychological conditions. And then they would be better. And these people didn't need to be locked
00:43:11.520
up anymore. Trouble was they stopped taking the drugs when they got out. And all of a sudden they
00:43:16.460
were living in squalor again. We do not take mental health seriously in the United States. It's a touchy
00:43:23.900
issue because we don't want to be able to commit people to institutions. We want them to be free to
00:43:29.100
live lives of misery and squalor and crime for themselves and society. But that isn't compassionate.
00:43:35.380
And a huge proportion of homeless people have mental illnesses. So we ought to take that seriously.
00:43:41.400
There is nothing compassionate about lefty politicians who think it's better to leave
00:43:47.000
them on the street than to get them the care that they need, even if it's involuntary and the road
00:43:51.720
to hell is paved with good intentions. Ladies, that is all the time. We're actually running a little
00:43:56.080
late. It is always so good to see you. I was having such a terrible morning. I see you. It brightens my
00:44:01.560
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