In this episode, I sit down with CNN Senior Political Commentator John Avlon to discuss the latest in the 2020 Democratic primary field, including a new CNN/ORAC poll that shows the overwhelming majority of Republican primary voters agree with Donald Trump's position that immigrants are poisoning the United States.
00:00:00.000Our country is laughed at. All over the world, they're laughing at us, and they want our country to come back.
00:00:07.000They want America, you know, they want us to be great again. It's a very simple MAGA, make America great again.
00:00:14.880And America first. America first is a very important part of MAGA.
00:00:19.620So we're going to put America first. We're going to make America great again.
00:00:29.960Again, Iowa, we love you. You are going to, oh, you just go out and buy larger tractors and more land. Don't worry about it.
00:00:38.960And to all of the people standing behind me and all of the people in this room and so many great politicians and great dignitaries and friends,
00:00:48.440I just want to thank you all. This is a very special night.
00:00:50.960And this is the first because the big night is going to be in November when we take back our country.
00:00:59.560And truly, we do make our country great again. Thank you very much, everybody. Great honor. Thank you very much. Thank you.
00:01:08.620Back here with the panel. It's so interesting how the former president has convinced a huge number of people in the party
00:01:33.120And also, let's say, in the case of evangelicals, saying that people who have religious faith are inherently persecuted by the broader culture.
00:01:42.140And I think that is a way of creating an identification,
00:01:44.840because then it means all this huge array of institutions that you no longer trust.
00:01:52.880And we've talked a lot about how he's been able to make that argument stick.
00:01:57.420The CBS poll, their final poll before the Iowa caucus, this is a national poll,
00:02:02.780shows that 81% of Republican primary voters and caucus participants,
00:02:10.40081% of those people agree with Donald Trump that immigrants are poisoning the blood of this country.
00:02:19.360That means that 81% of the Republican primary electorate believe Nikki Haley has poisoned blood and is poisoning the blood of the United States.
00:02:33.080So that, as a roadblock for Nikki Haley, is impossible.
00:02:36.980But it also shows you what you're up against in any kind of campaign against voters like that.
00:02:45.720The convertibility of voters like that to anything other than the Trump view of the world is impossible.
00:04:41.580There is no way to factually argue with it.
00:04:43.800And so if you want to put a religious argument behind supporting, saying that's why you support it, you can.
00:04:48.260But it boils down to whether you're religious or not.
00:04:50.380It boils down to the idea that I'm putting my faith in this one person and thereby insisting that our country get rid of democracy because my faith is in that person who should rule by any means.
00:05:15.060This is among all Republican caucus goers that, you know, we got into our entrance poll here.
00:05:19.680So among the yeses, the breakdown in vote is Nikki Haley, 53 percent, Ron DeSantis, 26 percent, and Donald Trump getting 10 percent, not surprisingly.
00:05:32.640And among the no's on this question here, who said Joe Biden did not win it, it is 68 percent for Trump.
00:05:39.960It is 16 percent for Ron DeSantis, and just double-checking my math here, it is 6 percent for Nikki Haley.
00:06:13.200Is not actually the president and is running some sort of scam wherein Donald Trump really is the president and Joe Biden is pretending to be.
00:06:23.740Two-thirds of Iowa Republican caucus goers.
00:06:26.620I think President Trump was the right president at the right time.
00:07:25.460I have to give a hat tip to our production team that worked with the RAV guys in Denver and put together.
00:07:30.780That is a classic cold open right there, kind of a compilation.
00:07:35.200I mean, last night was one of the best nights in the war room ever.
00:07:37.940We just sat there, and it was gut-busting to watch the complete and total meltdown of the haters over at MSNBC and a little bit CNN, although CNN is a little too boring.
00:07:49.640You really get the pure hate and the pure meltdown on MSNBC.
00:07:54.700Of course, we do have serious business to talk about today.
00:07:57.760Ron DeSanctimonious and, of course, Birdbrain.
00:08:03.140The donor class has to understand it's over.
00:08:06.340The $37 million of Coke money that Nikki Haley spent in the last three or four weeks, the, I think, $120 million just on TV advertising, another sale that's $100 million, $250 million, quarter of a billion dollars spent on nothing, on literally nothing, except trying to hurt the MAGA movement and trying to hurt President Trump.
00:08:27.480And DeSantis, you're not going to get any straight advice from the people around it because they're still going to try to spend whatever little money is left so they can take their 20% fees.
00:08:39.420You have to understand, bro, there's nothing for you to do in New Hampshire.
00:08:43.720There's less to you to do in South Carolina.
00:08:45.460It's time to go back to Florida, say you're sorry for doing this, and you're going to support President Trump.
00:08:51.320You endorse President Trump, and just go back to Tallahassee and be as good a governor as you possibly can be.
00:08:56.020Like the first couple of years of your first term, and we'll see.
00:09:37.340So neoliberal, neocon, she is the epitome of the old Republican Party we've left behind for this working-class, middle-class party that exists and came out in force last night, a show of force by President Trump, full-spectrum dominance.
00:09:55.820I had to cut three minutes out of the cold open, Carrie.
00:09:58.420But I did particularly, and we'll hopefully play it later in the day, when you were announced on – when President Trump gave you a shout-out from the stage, gave you a shout-out from the stage, there was a complete meltdown by the MSNBC crowd.
00:10:13.320So tell us your thoughts this morning as you wake up after this massive victory.
00:10:18.120You, MTG, Matt Gaetz, others out there, just great surrogates.
00:10:49.260And I want to thank all the folks who came out.
00:10:51.460Marjorie was fantastic, and Matt Gaetz, and so many other surrogates who crisscrossed this state for President Trump and to get our America First policies back in Washington, D.C.
00:11:02.700so that we can turn the nightmare around that Joe Biden has created.
00:11:21.540Jump behind the greatest candidate we've ever had.
00:11:24.120And let's take down the Democrats and get some America First policy back soon.
00:11:31.960You know, Charlie Kirk, you know well, I was on with Charlie after the president spoke.
00:11:37.220And, you know, he's talking about the lack of resources we have, the RNC's out of money, the lack of resources for get out the vote, to take on Mark Elias' election lawfare, to basically make sure that we not just win decisively in a landslide, but that we close the deal this time.
00:11:58.820Because you saw two-thirds of 75 percent of participants on the Republican side understand, as we do, that Joe Biden's not the legitimate president of the United States.
00:12:09.200That's one of the total meltdowns MSNBC had.
00:12:11.980But you can't spend a quarter of a billion dollars essentially going after President Trump.
00:12:17.460And this primary RNC, Dave Bossie, Rana should be ashamed of themselves.
00:12:22.160It's time to shut it down, all of it right now, all come together and drive.
00:12:26.820Am I correct in that, Carrie Lake, is it time to bring everybody together and they've got to leave their egos and their donor money aside?
00:13:06.560And it's going to take all of us, the America First movement, all Republicans, disaffected Democrats, independents, to come together to turn this nightmare around.
00:13:17.180And I think President Trump's policies are such that if you really think about it, you take the Democrat-Republican out of it, they're going to be good for every American.
00:13:26.600So I think he gave a real big clue of how he will handle it, that he's going to be very gracious when they do back out.
00:13:33.020If Ronna didn't get the message last night out of Iowa that the Republican Party is the America First Donald Trump Republican Party, I don't know what will give her that message.
00:13:44.760And I hope that she has some soul-searching going on today as well.
00:13:50.920Carrie, can you just hang with us for a second and take a short commercial break?
00:13:53.760Carrie Lake joins us from Iowa on the morning after this historic full-spectrum dominance.
00:13:59.200And President Trump got over 50 percent, so the pundits.
00:14:02.220In fact, I think he won 99 counties, although in the middle of the night they found one vote out in Johnson County, Iowa.
00:14:07.900I think it is one vote that tried to deny the 99.
00:14:11.980But listen, it's not Republicans or Democrats anymore.
00:21:07.260Their jobs with the propagandists and the fake news require them to push this agenda, this globalist agenda, this anti-America agenda.
00:21:16.660So they have to keep beating the drums and gaslighting the American people.
00:21:21.580It's required for them to pick up their paycheck.
00:21:23.700But I think in their heart of hearts, they know that this America First movement is the movement that I think our founding fathers envisioned America would look like.
00:21:34.160They envisioned down the line that the America that they helped create would be an America where we the people have the power.
00:21:42.320We the people have the power of our government.
00:21:44.300And this is what Donald Trump is returning back, what our founders envisioned for our country, where every American has an opportunity to reach that American dream, has their freedoms intact, their liberties.
00:21:56.760The government isn't controlling every aspect of our lives.
00:22:00.160And we're on the way back to bringing that back and making that reality.
00:22:27.14050,000 Iowans were great surrogates for President Trump last night when they showed up and gave him a massive victory in the Hawkeye State,
00:22:35.000right here in the heartland, and the reverberations will be felt.
00:22:38.680I don't know how Nikki Haley does as well as she thinks she will do now going off to New Hampshire, coming in third in Iowa.
00:22:45.680And Ron doesn't even have a game plan for New Hampshire.
00:22:48.840So I hope that they go back and take a day or two, talk to their families, and recognize what's at stake here,
00:22:55.440that the very ability for this republic to continue on requires that we get strong and get behind this America First movement.
00:25:25.460Of course, we'll be breaking news on Saturday.
00:25:27.420We're going to do a special on that three-year journey of that fateful day when President Trump had the election stolen from him.
00:25:35.300And, hey, the vast majority of MAGA, the thing that upset him last night almost as much as President Trump's full-spectrum dominance win was the fact that, you know, two-thirds of 75 percent of Republican voters know that Joe Biden is illegitimate.
00:26:06.760We must get to the bottom in an official inquiry of January 6th and the stealing of the 2020 election, including the media companies that were hooked over it.
00:42:13.300You know, it is amazing to me that we have to – that the American people have to be essentially cut out of the process of what happens to our nation.
00:42:23.520The Langford plan would encourage millions more illegal aliens to come to the United States.
00:42:29.960It would give them work permits, which means they can take jobs from Americans and stay here.
00:42:36.920And so why don't Americans get a say in that?
00:45:28.420Make sure you take action on this today.
00:45:31.240This IRS grind is only going to get much worse.
00:45:34.060Today, their final poll before the Iowa caucus, this is a national poll, shows that 81% of Republican primary voters and caucus participants, 81% of those people agree with Donald Trump that immigrants are poisoning the blood of this country.
00:45:59.080That means that 81% of the Republican primary electorate believe Nikki Haley has poisoned blood and is poisoning the blood of the United States.
00:46:12.800So that, as a roadblock for Nikki Haley, is impossible.
00:46:16.980Lawrence O'Donnell last night, they went after Christian National.
00:46:22.720Of course, Rosemary Jenks were all nativists, racists, xenophobes, all of it.
00:46:27.480But the reality is what they're trying to do in the Senate is destruction of the minority working class in this country and the white working class in this country.
00:46:36.880They're flooding the zone with potential 8 to 10 million work permits for folks.
00:46:42.080Do you back off – that's what's for the audience.
00:46:45.520Taiwan, Iowa, and then this Friday, the government shutdown.
00:46:50.040If you don't close the border, you've got to close the government.
00:46:52.520Rosemary Jenks, are you prepared to back off anything of your report that's now picked up everywhere of what Senator Lankford was working on with McConnell and Schumer?
00:47:04.480I have absolute confidence in the source of that information.
00:47:08.800The reason that I broke that information on your show and then tweeted it out is because we, as Americans, need Senator Lankford to walk away from this deal.
00:47:20.540If you cannot walk away from a negotiation, you've already lost.
00:47:26.420So the fact is, if these provisions are in the final plan, there is nothing that can save that plan.
00:47:35.780There is no provision that can make up for the fact that the plan will incentivize illegal immigration by giving work permits immediately and that it will allow 5,000 illegal aliens to come into our country every single day.
00:47:51.480Now, when you talk about poisoning blood through immigration, we're talking purely about the numbers.
00:47:58.380It matters how many foreign people are coming into this country.
00:48:02.840We have a legal immigration system that lets in over a million a year.
00:48:07.280In my view, that's too many, especially when Americans are suffering and can't find good paying, high paying jobs.
00:48:16.260But then when you add millions upon millions of illegal aliens on top of that, you are destroying the poor and the working class of this country.
00:48:40.320And, you know, an Oklahoma state senator tweeted last night that if these provisions are in the plan that Senator Lankford comes out with, he's going to introduce a resolution in the Oklahoma state Senate.
00:48:53.240And God bless him for that, because politicians need to be accountable to their voters.
00:49:01.940They do not want the millions who are coming in illegally now, and they don't want millions more who would come in illegally under Lankford's plan.
00:49:45.700The immigration is just not tied to the supplemental with Ukraine, the $60 billion payoff for the money laundering bioweapons scheme there.
00:49:52.540But it now looks like it's going to be attached in this huge fight over the CR.
00:49:57.060Is it your opinion, ma'am, as a professional, that we should not fund this government, even on a temporary basis, starting at midnight on Friday, until we seal the border?
00:50:06.280One hundred percent, because if you fund the government, you are funding the Biden administration's policies that essentially escort illegal aliens into our country in the millions.
00:50:40.200You've got your own new institution, organization.
00:50:43.100Tell people what it is, where it is, how they get to you, how they follow you, ma'am, because you are in the middle of one of the biggest fights we've got, and that is the defunding of the Biden regime.
00:50:51.520We are the Immigration Accountability Project.
00:50:55.420Our website is iaproject.org, iaproject.org.
00:51:00.740All of our social media is linked through the website, iaproject.org.
00:51:07.840We're just getting started, and we certainly jumped in with both feet, and we have absolutely, we intend to continue this fight however, wherever it takes us.
00:51:19.140So we're in it for the long haul, and we need your support.
00:51:23.780The amazing thing, Rosemary, I've known you for a long time, is the prescient, you're making this decision that you said, hey, I've done enough analysis.
00:51:31.600We need to hold these guys accountable.
00:51:33.740You've worked on this for a long time.
00:51:35.160You came, and now you're in the middle of exactly the Langford situation is exactly what you're talking about, right?
00:51:41.680We have to hold these people accountable, and you're not going to back off.
00:52:28.440We're going to take a segment and drill down more of it because this is exactly what Noor bin Laden is warning about coming out of Davos.
00:52:35.380They're going to throw everything at us this year because what they can have happen is the populist nationalist movement in this country, the MAGA movement, the America First movement, take control under the leadership of President Trump.
00:52:49.920And that's where we're headed right now.
00:53:08.380You think last night they're not going to come back and blow back on us on what's happening, particularly after next week in New Hampshire when this bogus primary gets shut down?
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