Rebel News Podcast - U.S. midterm elections： Setback for Trump, but no “blue wave”

00:00:00.000 Tonight, the U.S. midterm elections give the Democrats the House of Representatives,

00:00:04.320 but increase Trump's strength in the Senate.

00:00:07.060 It's November 7th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

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00:00:36.560 Donald Trump was supposed to lose big last night in the U.S. midterm elections.

00:00:41.300 I mean, it's obvious, right? Everyone hates him.

00:00:44.220 He was elected in some sort of fluke in 2016, or maybe it was a Russian hack, or whatever the excuse is today.

00:00:50.840 But we're all so much savvier now, so much better educated because of the media,

00:00:55.480 so a blue wave was going to wash over America and clean off the stain in the past two years.

00:01:02.020 In the U.S., blue is the traditional color of the Democrats, red is the color of Republicans.

00:01:07.040 So here comes the blue wave.

00:01:11.280 Democrats are banking on a blue wave.

00:01:13.220 Democrats hoping to ride a blue wave.

00:01:15.880 And I think we're going to see a real blue wave.

00:01:17.840 Yeah, I feel very good.

00:01:18.840 There's an enormous tsunami-like blue wave coming.

00:01:22.160 There was a huge blue wave.

00:01:23.320 Can the president save his party and knock down that blue wave?

00:01:28.660 There was some hope that the Democrats would have a wave election.

00:01:31.800 It's not going to be a wave election.

00:01:33.060 Where is the blue wave tonight?

00:01:34.720 This is not a blue wave.

00:01:36.580 I don't think we're seeing some massive blue wave.

00:01:39.700 Democrats did hope for a big blue wave.

00:01:42.300 That is not happening.

00:01:43.360 In the statewide races, no signature win for Democrats.

00:01:48.100 Democrats are not winning in the way they were hoping to win early in the 90s.

00:01:51.300 It's a red wave, on the Senate side at least.

00:01:55.020 Yeah, that blue wave didn't happen.

00:01:56.840 I mean, Trump's Republicans did lose 27 seats in the 435-seat House of Representatives as of last count.

00:02:05.160 That number may have changed somewhat due to late counts.

00:02:07.660 So, it is true the Republicans did lose their majority there.

00:02:11.620 And we'll talk about that in a minute.

00:02:13.020 But it is not unusual for voters to back away from a president during his midterm election.

00:02:18.820 That is, in the middle of the president's four-year term.

00:02:22.760 Trump lost 27 seats.

00:02:25.280 Well, in 2010, halfway through his first term, Barack Obama lost 63 seats in the House.

00:02:32.240 In 1994, halfway through Bill Clinton's first term, he lost 52 seats.

00:02:37.800 Even mighty Ronald Reagan lost 26 seats halfway through his first term in 1982.

00:02:45.380 Look, it is a setback.

00:02:47.900 Sorry, that ain't a blue wave.

00:02:50.060 I think it could have been.

00:02:52.060 I think it might have been.

00:02:53.960 But then, just a few weeks ago, the country, and I'd say the whole world, because we saw it up here in Canada,

00:02:59.180 and the CBC in particular, was obsessed with that up here,

00:03:03.200 we all saw what a Congress would look like if it were under control of the Democrats.

00:03:10.720 We saw the assassination attempt of Brett Kavanaugh,

00:03:14.340 a judge with a sterling reputation, loved by his staff, by his friends,

00:03:19.520 his clerks, both past and present, including the many female clerks who had worked with him,

00:03:23.480 literally a perfect reputation,

00:03:25.840 until the Democrats revved up their smear machine.

00:03:29.180 And this Democrat Party lawyer, Michael Avenatti,

00:03:33.960 the same lawyer who acted for that porn star, Stormy Daniels,

00:03:37.800 he brought forward, quote,

00:03:39.240 clients who claimed that Kavanaugh had raped them,

00:03:43.720 literally raped them,

00:03:44.820 including some who said he repeatedly raped them as part of a gang in high school.

00:03:53.500 Shocking allegations.

00:03:54.820 Insane, really.

00:03:55.860 Outrageous.

00:03:56.380 I mean, if they were true, not only should Kavanaugh not be put on the Supreme Court,

00:04:00.580 he should be put in prison.

00:04:02.360 But none of these charges had ever been made in public in decades,

00:04:06.160 not during Kavanaugh's previous confirmation hearings for other judicial positions,

00:04:10.940 not during all the FBI background checks on him in the past.

00:04:14.380 The Democrats said anything they could say with a straight face.

00:04:19.200 They threw everything at him they could.

00:04:21.700 It was so extraordinarily over the top and backed up with no facts or changing facts.

00:04:28.300 And I think the world thought, oh, my God, look at these maniacs.

00:04:34.220 Not just the maniacs in the official Democrat Party, like Dianne Feinstein of California,

00:04:40.480 who pushed these accusations against Kavanaugh inside the Senate.

00:04:44.380 But the maniacs outside, too.

00:04:46.120 Remember these folks?

00:04:47.220 Literally banging on the 13-ton doors of the Supreme Court as if they were wild animals.

00:04:55.320 Look at that lady scratching them. 1.00

00:04:57.140 By the way, I'm not sure if you've heard, but several of Michael Avenatti's witnesses

00:05:02.360 that were weaponized by Feinstein and the Democrats,

00:05:06.920 they have recanted their testimony, said it was fake.

00:05:11.580 And so now the Senate has referred them to the FBI, along with Avenatti himself,

00:05:17.360 for a perjury investigation.

00:05:19.840 But my point is, the world that had been told that Donald Trump was crazy

00:05:24.560 saw what actual crazy looked like.

00:05:27.940 And they backed away from the party of Stormy Daniels and Michael Avenatti.

00:05:32.120 That's my theory.

00:05:33.380 And here's the thing.

00:05:34.060 Of course, Republicans in the main supported Kavanaugh.

00:05:38.460 But Democrats in the Senate had to vote on him, too.

00:05:41.820 And take a look at this.

00:05:43.520 Democrats from so-called red states.

00:05:45.660 You see the one circled there?

00:05:47.760 The states that supported Trump.

00:05:49.420 If they voted against Kavanaugh, they lost.

00:05:52.260 These three states in particular, Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota,

00:05:56.560 Joe Donnelly in Indiana, Claire McCaskill in Missouri, those are Democrats.

00:06:01.000 And they voted against Kavanaugh, and they lost.

00:06:04.240 And it wasn't even close.

00:06:05.480 But the one Democrat in the reddest red state in the Union, West Virginia,

00:06:12.120 where Donald Trump literally got 69% of the vote last time,

00:06:16.800 how could a Democrat possibly win there?

00:06:18.840 Well, the Democrat senator there did win.

00:06:22.560 His name is Joe Manchin.

00:06:24.140 And he voted for Kavanaugh, breaking with the crazies in his party.

00:06:29.540 As in, he declined to be part of the Avenatti-Feinstein mob.

00:06:34.000 He was re-elected last night.

00:06:36.540 I think that's very important.

00:06:38.120 And very hopeful, actually.

00:06:39.700 It shows severely normal people are not crazy.

00:06:42.240 Now, Trump and the Republicans had a jobs-not-mobs theme as their campaign.

00:06:48.260 And it worked, obviously.

00:06:50.280 Trump himself worked very hard, I would say.

00:06:52.880 Look at the size of this rally.

00:06:54.220 Just keep this up on the screen for a minute.

00:06:55.660 This is backstage here.

00:06:57.500 Look at that massive, massive Trump rally.

00:07:03.540 I've never seen anything like that before.

00:07:06.320 He would sometimes do more than one rally a day.

00:07:09.840 Look at the size of that.

00:07:10.680 That is stadium-sized.

00:07:13.240 And it obviously made a difference.

00:07:14.680 The states that Trump visited tipped into the Republican category.

00:07:18.440 They were supposed to be a blue wave.

00:07:19.740 As I write this, the state of Montana is still counting their ballots.

00:07:23.980 And the Democrat there leads by 0.3%.

00:07:26.600 So Trump did have a big rally in Montana, which obviously closed the gap.

00:07:30.580 We'll see if it tips it over.

00:07:31.780 But even without Montana, the Senate held and Trump's power there grew.

00:07:37.240 Now, Barack Obama broke with tradition for ex-presidents.

00:07:41.700 There's a custom that you go non-partisan, not this guy.

00:07:44.940 He went on tour for the Democrats.

00:07:47.020 You don't see George W. Bush doing that?

00:07:49.180 You really didn't even see that much from Bill Clinton other than when his wife ran,

00:07:53.420 he supported her occasionally.

00:07:55.400 But Barack Obama never really cared for tradition, including that tradition.

00:07:58.280 But he had, I think he had the opposite effect of Trump.

00:08:01.380 In the last week of the campaign, Obama worked hard too.

00:08:04.920 But each of the candidates he stumped for lost.

00:08:09.020 In Georgia, in Florida, in Indiana.

00:08:11.780 Now, maybe they would have lost anyways.

00:08:13.820 Maybe he made them lose less badly.

00:08:16.700 But my point is, I don't think he's as magical as the media thinks.

00:08:20.920 Maybe Trump is not as detested as the media thinks.

00:08:24.360 Scratch that.

00:08:25.020 He is deeply detested, but I don't know if he's widely detested.

00:08:28.860 It just looks like everyone hates Trump if you're talking to think-alikes,

00:08:33.400 if your sense of the world comes through the mainstream media.

00:08:37.380 Now, Florida was a great success for Trump, as it was back in 2016.

00:08:42.420 And yesterday, Republican governor, Republican senator.

00:08:46.560 But not by much.

00:08:47.700 Just 35,000 votes was the margin in the Senate, out of 8 million votes.

00:08:55.600 56,000 was the margin for governor.

00:08:57.840 It really couldn't have been closer.

00:08:59.720 And look at this.

00:09:01.500 Florida votes to restore ex-felon voting rights with Amendment 4. 1.00

00:09:06.280 The victory means more than 1 million people will regain their right to vote.

00:09:10.240 So that ballot measure passed last night.

00:09:13.420 I'm guessing that convicted criminals, if they vote, they're going to vote Democrat.

00:09:19.800 And even if voter turnout amongst ex-cons is only 10%, well, that's the Democrats winning Florida forever.

00:09:27.320 I told you how thin the margin was.

00:09:28.580 And Texas, that right-wing state, the caricature of American red-blooded, patriotic, cowboy, T-bone state conservatism.

00:09:37.240 Oh, my God, I came way too close to going blue this time.

00:09:42.280 8.2 million voters.

00:09:44.700 Ted Cruz, the Republican, beat Robert O'Rourke by just 200,000.

00:09:50.280 That is insanely close.

00:09:52.000 Add in a million more migrants from Mexico.

00:09:55.460 And even Texas is blue.

00:09:56.740 And if Texas and Florida go blue, you're never going to elect another Republican president ever.

00:10:00.720 So it just won't happen.

00:10:03.100 So I think last night was a temporary victory for Trump.

00:10:06.260 But look at some losses.

00:10:07.960 It used to be that foreign policy in America was something that Republicans and Democrats more or less had in common.

00:10:14.020 They both supported NATO.

00:10:15.460 They both supported democracies around the world.

00:10:18.120 It was a military veteran Democrat named John F. Kennedy who brought in the Cuban blockade,

00:10:25.200 who did the Berlin airlift, who pushed back in the Soviet Union.

00:10:29.760 I mean, the Democrats, I think, were always softer, but they were still respectable and patriotic.

00:10:34.480 Look, hasn't been that way for a while now.

00:10:38.980 They're full-out supportive of Iran, of course.

00:10:41.440 And they've all but abandoned Israel. 0.61

00:10:43.680 And they've embraced not only anti-Israel candidates, but outright Islamists.

00:10:48.320 Look at this victory video of a Democrat.

00:10:52.040 And note the only flag you'll see at the victory party is not the Stars and Stripes.

00:10:55.880 It's a flag of Palestine.

00:10:59.620 Russia!

00:11:01.180 Russia!

00:11:02.620 Russia!

00:11:03.840 Russia!

00:11:04.120 I want you to know my mom, who's from a small village in the West Bank.

00:11:08.580 They're literally glued.

00:11:10.060 It's like 5 o'clock or 6 o'clock in the morning.

00:11:12.240 And now it's more than that.

00:11:13.760 But they're glued to the TV.

00:11:15.060 My grandmother, my aunts, my uncles in Palestine are sitting by and watching their granddaughters.

00:11:21.780 Let's move!

00:11:31.520 I want them to know.

00:11:32.960 I want them to know, you know, as I uplift the families of the 13th Congressional District,

00:11:42.000 I'll uplift them every single day being who I am as a proud Palestinian-American and woman.

00:11:46.980 Yes!

00:11:52.180 I want to thank you so much because for so many years they've multi-humanized.

00:11:58.280 And I tell you, as a Palestinian, I mean, you know, a lot of my strength comes from being a Palestinian.

00:12:04.700 But I can tell you, my mother's, like, the compassion this woman has, that is in me.

00:12:09.920 She smiles every single time.

00:12:12.660 This woman doesn't even understand when people are being racist to her. 1.00

00:12:17.160 Because she believes that people can be better.

00:12:20.920 You know, Trump probably, as they have lots of flags, Pledge of Allegiance,

00:12:25.620 because that's a Democrat victory party, and they're actually u-u-u-lating.

00:12:33.540 That's a la-la-la-la-la-la. 0.97

00:12:35.180 Welcome to America.

00:12:36.300 Now, I'm not saying Palestinian-Americans should not be allowed to vote or be allowed to run,

00:12:40.020 but that lady there clearly has the Palestinian grievance narrative.

00:12:45.100 She's bringing that Intifada spirit into America and the Intifada flag. 0.98

00:12:50.460 And her hijab mother. 0.87

00:12:53.360 That's the future of the Democrats.

00:12:54.680 It's not the party of an 85-year-old Jewish liberal named Dianne Feinstein

00:12:59.400 or a 77-year-old Jewish liberal named Bernie Sanders.

00:13:03.700 The future of the Democrats is hard left-wing, anti-Israel, and I would say even anti-Semitic.

00:13:09.640 Now, Trump held his own against the Democrats, but the real enemy, of course, is the media party.

00:13:15.020 They hate when Trump says they're the enemy because the truth hurts.

00:13:18.840 If Trump were to say something crazy like truck drivers are the enemy of the American people

00:13:24.840 or restaurant owners are the enemy of the American people.

00:13:28.620 I'm just making up some examples.

00:13:30.220 People would laugh.

00:13:30.960 They'd say, what are you talking about?

00:13:32.260 They'd mock him, and it would backfire because it would be patently weird and untrue.

00:13:37.260 Everyone knows that truck drivers and restauranteurs are not the enemy of America.

00:13:41.060 It would be like the lies about Brett Kavanaugh that were so obviously ginned up.

00:13:44.340 People would say you're crazy, but when Trump says that the fake news media are the enemy

00:13:50.360 of the American people, and he always has that adjective, fake news, well, they go nuts,

00:13:56.420 don't they?

00:13:58.060 Because it resonates, because people know it's true.

00:14:02.100 You say that to a trucker, he said, you're crazy.

00:14:04.140 You'd ignore it.

00:14:04.740 But these media, they go crazy because they know it's true.

00:14:08.960 And not just in America.

00:14:09.880 Take a look at some of this.

00:14:13.080 Just in.

00:14:14.340 One-party rule is over.

00:14:16.820 That's Ching Ching Cheng is her name. 0.95

00:14:19.340 It's a real person.

00:14:21.280 She literally writes from the United States for a Chinese Communist Party newspaper.

00:14:29.840 So she works for the Communist Party of China that literally has a one-party system, but

00:14:35.100 she's bashing Trump as being a one-party state.

00:14:38.280 But how is that any weirder, that tweet, than this one by a New Yorker named

00:14:43.760 Ezra Klein?

00:14:45.380 I'm sorry he shares my first name.

00:14:47.500 He writes,

00:14:48.760 I don't think people are ready for the crisis that will follow if Democrats win the House

00:14:54.180 popular vote, but not the majority.

00:14:57.280 After Kavanaugh, Trump, Garland, Citizens United, Bush versus Gore, etc., the party is on the edge

00:15:01.880 of losing faith of losing faith in the system, and reasonably so.

00:15:06.360 Now, first of all, there's no such thing as the House popular vote.

00:15:09.260 That's not a thing.

00:15:12.500 Every district in the United States elects one congressman, whether they win by one vote or by

00:15:18.640 100,000.

00:15:19.620 But look at the implicit threat there.

00:15:22.420 You will have violence.

00:15:23.900 You will have a crisis.

00:15:25.180 You will have mobs.

00:15:26.320 If we are denied our power as we were in 2016, when Hillary had it stolen from us.

00:15:33.080 That's a journalist.

00:15:34.620 Oh, you're in for it if we don't win.

00:15:37.500 Now, Trump lost ground in the Congress last night.

00:15:40.420 Did you see any Republican riots?

00:15:43.760 Of course, it's unthinkable.

00:15:45.680 It just couldn't or wouldn't happen.

00:15:48.280 You can't even imagine a Trump riot, can you?

00:15:51.960 But even a fancy Democrat like that, Ezra Klein, was ready to riot.

00:15:56.760 He'd probably have some staff riot for him if he didn't get his way on the left.

00:16:02.540 And look, I'm interested in this story.

00:16:04.640 I'm up here in Canada, but America affects the world.

00:16:08.420 Affects us Canadians more than most.

00:16:10.260 And I like what Trump is doing on policy issues and in his style.

00:16:13.460 And I love that he bashes the left, rhetorically.

00:16:17.380 Because for so long, the right has given deference to the left.

00:16:21.240 But I cover Canada as much as I cover America, I think.

00:16:24.380 I cover the world.

00:16:25.780 And if I cover Trump too much, well, that's up to me as a person.

00:16:29.840 That's up to you as a viewer who chooses to watch, I guess.

00:16:32.140 But what about our Canadian state broadcaster, the CBC,

00:16:35.240 that was created by a law of Parliament called the Canadian Broadcasting Act,

00:16:40.560 specifically to promote Canadian culture,

00:16:43.600 specifically to stop Canadian media from being dominated by America.

00:16:49.180 Well, the opposite has happened.

00:16:50.820 The CBC now, with our Canadian taxpayers' money, is obsessed with Trump.

00:16:57.940 Partly because they hate Trump because they're all liberal.

00:17:02.120 Partly because they hate Trump because their boss, Justin Trudeau, does,

00:17:05.820 and they want to please him.

00:17:07.800 And partly because the CBC is not really allowed to criticize Trudeau.

00:17:13.560 So they pretend they're doing real accountability journalism by going after someone, anyone,

00:17:18.740 just not their own country's leader, Justin Trudeau.

00:17:21.860 They'll be really accountable for American taxpayers or whatever.

00:17:25.200 But look at this laugh.

00:17:26.960 Look at this laugh here.

00:17:27.920 This is a tweet from the CBC.

00:17:28.980 Fox News calls appearance of two network stars at Trump campaign event unfortunate distraction.

00:17:35.600 Says it doesn't condone Sean Hannity, Janine Pirro, speaking at Monday rally,

00:17:40.000 but doesn't say whether they'll be disciplined.

00:17:42.060 That's tattletale journalism.

00:17:44.060 The CBC.

00:17:45.680 But that's a real CBC story.

00:17:47.460 What's that got to do with Canada?

00:17:49.700 What was that other than gossipy snippiness?

00:17:52.360 But that's a real story.

00:17:53.940 And look at this.

00:17:54.460 The CBC itself.

00:17:55.620 That's their star on the left there, David Suzuki, literally cutting a TV ad with Dalton

00:18:01.580 McGuinty for the liberals.

00:18:04.360 And remember Mary Walsh of the CBC, who did this really weird homemade attack ad about Stephen

00:18:15.620 Harper and called him a Nazi, Herr Harper and Stasi Steve.

00:18:20.320 Yeah, I don't think the CBC is your best moral authority to criticize a private foreign media

00:18:28.280 company, Fox News, in a foreign land for campaigning for their president.

00:18:33.540 Like I say, it's projection.

00:18:36.040 But the CBC went much further this time.

00:18:38.520 They actually sent down, at great expense, their Ottawa political reporters to the United

00:18:44.660 States to stir up anti-Trump sentiment.

00:18:47.940 Here's Rosemary Barton in Ohio, in a foreign country's politics, meddling on behalf of Canada's 0.99

00:18:56.340 state broadcaster.

00:18:56.960 Look at this.

00:18:57.740 You're not a big fan.

00:18:59.700 Not at all a fan.

00:19:00.820 No.

00:19:01.220 So how do you think he's doing in the job?

00:19:04.300 My greater concern is what I think is happening for the people in this country.

00:19:09.160 And he is incredibly polarizing, has certainly given permission to, for racism, for the expression,

00:19:22.540 the overt expression of racism.

00:19:24.040 Can I give an example now?

00:19:25.140 Give an example just so we all are on the same page in terms of what you're talking about.

00:19:28.240 Yeah, so they literally sent Canadian government journalists down to Ohio to do a poor man's

00:19:37.220 version of, isn't Trump racist, with voters.

00:19:41.540 What are you doing?

00:19:44.160 How weird is that for the Canadian state broadcast?

00:19:47.120 How gross is that?

00:19:48.000 Imagine if Donald Trump sent a Trump-allied team of reporters up to Canada in the final

00:19:55.080 week of our federal election.

00:19:56.240 I don't even know how that would work, because there is no government state broadcaster in

00:20:00.280 the same way down there.

00:20:01.920 I mean, their PBS is far left.

00:20:04.160 Imagine if Trump sent someone up here in the last week of our election to stir up anti-Trudeau

00:20:09.000 sentiment.

00:20:09.700 It's unthinkable.

00:20:10.700 Or even look at this.

00:20:11.660 Look at this.

00:20:12.080 It's a tweet from CTV.

00:20:13.340 Meet the Canadian journalist tracking Donald Trump's false claims.

00:20:18.000 That's a CTV story.

00:20:20.020 It's praising a Toronto Star reporter named Daniel Dale, who is obsessed with Trump and

00:20:25.040 hair splits every public statement by Trump.

00:20:27.820 They have this whole vanity website dedicated to it.

00:20:31.440 It looks like a Democrat Party website, and it sort of is.

00:20:35.220 But if you read through it, it's actually extremely boring.

00:20:38.660 I don't think they expect anyone to read through it.

00:20:40.760 It's just the headline there.

00:20:42.680 Because most of those 3,000 points are just him quarreling with Trump's opinions about

00:20:47.980 things and saying, well, I disagree with him.

00:20:51.620 But even if it were accurate, and even if it were great journalism, and fair and objective,

00:20:57.380 which it isn't, can you tell me why a Canadian media company called the Toronto Star pays

00:21:03.860 a full-time Trump-obsessed critic with the explicit mission of documenting Trump's lies?

00:21:12.560 Not even to report on Trump.

00:21:14.160 I would get that.

00:21:14.840 But the premise is, of course Trump is lying.

00:21:16.840 Now go catch him and get the numbers up as high as possible because we want a big number.

00:21:21.740 Why would you do that when you don't even do that in your own country to your own country's

00:21:26.980 prime minister?

00:21:28.120 There's not a single journalist in Canada who has that kind of obsessive scrutiny of our

00:21:33.260 own prime minister.

00:21:34.300 Not at all, let alone that viciously.

00:21:39.820 It didn't happen to any liberal premier either.

00:21:42.680 I think it's going to start being done to Doug Ford, the new conservative premier of Ontario.

00:21:46.920 Wouldn't surprise me if they started extreme obsessive critical journalism against Ford.

00:21:51.400 But where's it been for Trudeau and Kathleen Wynne and Rachel Notley?

00:21:54.260 It's weird.

00:21:55.440 And it's telling how obsessed the Canadian media are with fighting Donald Trump.

00:21:59.500 Oh well, the media in Canada doesn't get a vote in America's election, and American

00:22:04.940 journalists only get one vote each, and those votes are usually wasted in New York or L.A.,

00:22:10.340 which are already overwhelmingly Democrat.

00:22:13.460 Thank God, at least for now, the decisions are being made in places like Florida and North

00:22:20.140 Dakota and Missouri and Indiana.

00:22:23.720 For now.

00:22:24.520 And guess what?

00:22:26.980 The 2020 election campaign has just begun.

00:22:31.400 Stay with us.

00:22:32.540 Joel Pollack of Breitbart.com joins us next.

00:22:34.760 That's not an invasion.

00:22:52.940 Honestly, I think you should let me run the country.

00:22:55.640 You run CNN.

00:22:56.780 All right.

00:22:56.960 And if you did it well, your ratings would be much better.

00:22:59.260 Let me ask you, if I may ask one other question.

00:23:00.760 Mr. President, if I may ask one other question, are you worried?

00:23:03.320 That's enough.

00:23:04.040 That's enough.

00:23:04.900 That's enough.

00:23:05.380 Pardon me, ma'am.

00:23:06.480 Excuse me.

00:23:07.260 That's enough.

00:23:07.880 Mr. President, I had one other question.

00:23:09.200 If I may ask on the Russia investigation, are you concerned that you may have indictments?

00:23:14.340 I'm not concerned about anything with the Russian investigation because it's a hoax.

00:23:18.880 That's enough.

00:23:19.580 Put down the mic.

00:23:20.420 Mr. President, are you worried about indictments coming down in this investigation?

00:23:23.160 Mr. President, I'll tell you what.

00:23:28.200 CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them.

00:23:32.080 You are a rude, terrible person.

00:23:34.440 You shouldn't be working for CNN.

00:23:36.380 Go ahead.

00:23:38.140 I think that's unfair.

00:23:39.200 You're a very rude person.

00:23:40.380 The way you treat Sarah Huckabee is horrible.

00:23:43.100 And the way you treat other people are horrible.

00:23:45.180 You shouldn't treat people that way.

00:23:46.800 Go ahead.

00:23:47.020 That is a testy press conference today in the wake of last night's historic midterm elections.

00:23:54.520 I want to show you a different angle of Jim Acosta of CNN.

00:23:59.400 It looks like she's pushing away the hand of a young White House staffer. 0.92

00:24:02.960 Take a look.

00:24:03.500 Boom.

00:24:03.780 You see that?

00:24:04.980 She tries to put that up just one more time.

00:24:07.720 She tries to take the microphone back. 1.00

00:24:10.480 And look at that.

00:24:11.720 And show one more time.

00:24:13.280 Look at Jim Acosta.

00:24:15.080 Push that girl. 1.00

00:24:16.040 Yeah, exactly right.

00:24:18.400 That's Jim Acosta.

00:24:19.360 He knows how to handle a lady if she's conservative and he's liberal.

00:24:22.700 He knows what to do.

00:24:25.560 It's pretty gross.

00:24:27.220 Joining us now via Skype from the world headquarters of Breitbart.com in the Los Angeles area is

00:24:33.040 our friend Joel Pollack, senior editor-at-large over there.

00:24:36.080 Well, Joel, I bet you didn't get a lot of sleep.

00:24:37.960 You were in California.

00:24:39.240 And some of those local congressional votes went down to the wee hours.

00:24:43.260 Yeah, they're still counting in some of those districts.

00:24:47.620 But it looks like Democrats have picked up three out of the seven races they were targeting

00:24:52.920 in California.

00:24:54.540 And internally here in discussions at Breitbart, we thought that the seven districts would be

00:24:59.300 a bellwether for the nation as a whole.

00:25:01.520 We thought that if Republicans limited their losses to one or two, that would mean they

00:25:06.620 probably had held the House across the country.

00:25:10.120 But as it happened, Democrats won three of those seats.

00:25:13.720 Now, they didn't win four, five, six, or seven.

00:25:16.420 So the House majority the Democrats have nationwide now is actually a very narrow one.

00:25:22.200 It's in the single digits, apparently.

00:25:23.920 Oh, really?

00:25:24.260 Yeah, apparently they won 32 seats.

00:25:28.540 They needed 23.

00:25:30.120 So that means they'll have a nine-seat majority, maybe give or take one or two when all the

00:25:34.680 counting is done.

00:25:35.900 But it means that Nancy Pelosi is going to have a tough fight to be elected speaker because 1.00

00:25:41.460 there are roughly a dozen or so Democrats who are coming in who said they would not vote

00:25:46.340 for her as speaker.

00:25:47.040 So that's going to be a gut-check moment for them, keeping in mind that her fundraising enabled

00:25:51.920 them to win their races in some cases.

00:25:54.680 So we're going to see an interesting squabble on the Democratic side.

00:25:57.400 But it also means that the Republicans, if they stay united in opposition, are going to

00:26:02.700 have significant leverage in this new Congress, maybe more leverage, ironically, than they

00:26:07.400 would have had in the majority.

00:26:08.520 Now, it's always better to be in the majority.

00:26:10.580 You control the committees.

00:26:11.440 You control the chairmanships.

00:26:12.920 But from a policy perspective, as Trump pointed out in that press conference this morning,

00:26:17.400 you can get deals done more easily if you have a president from one party and someone

00:26:25.160 leading one House of Congress, the House of Representatives, which is really the house

00:26:29.200 that controls the purse strings more directly.

00:26:31.800 You can get deals done if a member of the opposition leads there or the opposition leads

00:26:37.000 there because there's a potential for dissenting factions on the majority side, if the majority

00:26:44.200 is in the president's party, to torpedo pieces of legislation he'd like to put through.

00:26:48.980 And that's the scenario we've seen over and over again with health care and other policies

00:26:54.200 that the Republicans just could not get done on the Senate side more than the House side.

00:26:59.000 But the Republicans could not fully repeal Obamacare in the last two years, partly because

00:27:03.740 of exactly that dynamic.

00:27:05.120 They had a slim majority.

00:27:07.020 And so they had small factions dissenting and making demands, meaning that the ultimate

00:27:10.980 legislation couldn't pass.

00:27:12.260 But if you can have the Democrats with some responsibility for coming up with their own

00:27:17.260 policies, and then you can have Republicans respond to those, Trump pointed out you can

00:27:21.120 cobble together a coalition to get things done more easily.

00:27:24.020 That might not please conservatives in every instance, but it might be the political reality

00:27:28.940 and it actually will help Trump boost certainly his presidential power over Congress.

00:27:35.280 But it'll also help him score some legislative achievements.

00:27:38.860 He sounded very optimistic about immigration, health care, and a few other things as well.

00:27:43.060 Well, of course, Bill Clinton, for part of his, in fact, I think for much of his presidency,

00:27:49.280 had a hostile Congress, but he was able to get some deals done, whether it was NAFTA or

00:27:54.220 welfare reform.

00:27:56.420 Some would write that off to him being non-ideological, pragmatic, triangulation, whatever you want to call

00:28:03.540 it, you could say that other than his personal scandals, he had a successful presidency, as opposed

00:28:09.920 to Barack Obama, who was so combative.

00:28:13.820 I can't even think of a single policy issue from Obamacare to the nationalization of the

00:28:20.560 auto industry, where he actually reached across to do bipartisan deals.

00:28:25.340 I don't know.

00:28:27.000 I think Trump is a dealmaker in his blood.

00:28:31.040 He might actually get some things done.

00:28:35.340 Yeah.

00:28:36.120 And I think when you look at Clinton, you can contrast him to Obama in the sense that, as

00:28:41.760 you pointed out, Clinton did deals with Republicans.

00:28:44.340 Clinton shifted after losing both houses of Congress in 1994.

00:28:49.120 And he accomplished welfare reform with Republicans.

00:28:52.360 He accomplished a balanced budget with Republicans.

00:28:55.240 That's because he shifted.

00:28:57.160 When Obama lost the House in 2010, he did not shift.

00:29:01.560 He dug in and he became more left-wing.

00:29:05.680 That's when he backed the Occupy Wall Street movement, when he gave that infamous speech in

00:29:10.480 Osawatomi, Kansas, basically declaring economic warfare, when he backed Trayvon Martin and so

00:29:17.260 on and so forth.

00:29:17.860 Obama never took an election loss as a sign that he was doing anything wrong.

00:29:22.360 Never took it as an opportunity to reach across to the other side.

00:29:25.560 In the most infamous example, in 2011, right after Republicans won the House, Obama torpedoed

00:29:31.280 a deal on spending.

00:29:33.560 And this was written about in Bob Woodward's book, The Price of Politics, just how Obama

00:29:38.500 deliberately spiked a deal.

00:29:40.720 And then when a bipartisan commission recommended steps on fixing the national debt, Obama ignored

00:29:47.160 his own bipartisan commission.

00:29:48.420 Barack Obama did not go into politics to make deals.

00:29:52.440 Barack Obama went into politics to change the world in his utopian image.

00:29:58.800 And that's why he could never compromise.

00:30:00.660 But Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, I think, both went into politics with some talent as

00:30:06.960 dealmakers, some experience.

00:30:08.420 But also because I think they wanted to do the best they could for the country.

00:30:11.860 And so they were willing to put aside ideology.

00:30:14.920 Trump didn't really have much ideological baggage, if you want to put it that way, when

00:30:21.520 he came to the White House.

00:30:23.060 They're not giving up on their principles, necessarily.

00:30:25.320 I mean, Clinton certainly stuck to certain principles.

00:30:27.200 And Trump is sticking to his principles on immigration and so forth as well.

00:30:30.860 But I think you're seeing Trump follow the Bill Clinton model in a different way.

00:30:35.860 But he's closer to the Bill Clinton model, I should say, than to the Obama model.

00:30:40.680 I want to tell you something that scared me very much.

00:30:43.780 I always thought that Robert O'Rourke, or Beto, as he liked to call himself, I thought

00:30:50.840 it was a long shot, a joke the whole time.

00:30:53.540 The idea that a fancy Democrat popular in Manhattan and Hollywood could win in Texas.

00:31:01.840 I laughed and laughed, and I thought, all those people wasting their money.

00:31:07.260 Well, he came within about a percent of winning, and Florida was less than a percent.

00:31:15.200 And those are massive wins with massive states.

00:31:19.400 Of course, it wasn't a presidential election.

00:31:21.300 The Electoral College wasn't at play, but the governorship, the senators, very important.

00:31:26.520 But, Joel, I've got to tell you, I am terrified that you move the needle just half a percent,

00:31:32.840 whether it's through the media effect or fundraising, or even just demographic changes by bringing

00:31:39.240 in another five million illegals.

00:31:42.020 You lose Florida and Texas to the Democrats.

00:31:45.660 You're not electing a Republican again in our lifetime.

00:31:48.020 That's a terror I had from up here in Canada.

00:31:50.860 Am I missing something from being way out of the country?

00:31:53.920 No, I think you're 100% correct, and I think that's why Republicans are upbeat about last

00:32:00.520 night.

00:32:00.980 Democrats lost in every race where they poured their most expensive assets, their Hollywood

00:32:07.260 stars, their big money, their dark money, their left-wing institutional organizations.

00:32:13.720 They lost in Florida, and they lost in Texas, and they also lost in Georgia, it looks like,

00:32:19.660 in the governor's race there.

00:32:20.960 They also lost in Ohio.

00:32:22.120 So, the big states are still in Republican hands.

00:32:27.280 There were some losses for Republicans.

00:32:28.800 They lost Kansas.

00:32:29.560 They lost Wisconsin.

00:32:31.180 They lost Illinois.

00:32:31.860 Illinois was going to go anyway.

00:32:32.980 They lost Michigan.

00:32:33.940 There was a shift in the Midwest where I think Midwesterners basically had had almost a decade

00:32:38.720 now of Republican reform and decided, you know, we've got those reforms, and now we want

00:32:43.500 something new.

00:32:44.020 But I think that Republicans retaining Florida is so huge, and Ted Cruz beating Beto O'Rourke

00:32:49.400 in Texas is also massive.

00:32:51.040 So, you're absolutely right.

00:32:52.460 Well, no, but I think I'm making the opposite point, Joel.

00:32:54.940 I'm saying they're important wins, and they're wins that any conservative or Republican or fan

00:33:03.300 of Trump would celebrate, but they were razor thin.

00:33:07.620 And, you know, I pointed out earlier in the show that there's this proposition that passed

00:33:12.360 in Florida to give ex-felons a vote.

00:33:16.460 That in itself could get the balance.

00:33:18.400 Well, I'm not sure that ex-felons... 1.00

00:33:20.460 The win was so fingernail thin, is what I'm saying.

00:33:26.240 Yeah, yeah.

00:33:27.120 Look, it's always going to be that way in Florida.

00:33:28.940 I mean, Florida's always on an ice age.

00:33:30.340 Now, they have a new block of voters from Puerto Rico who relocated there since the hurricane.

00:33:36.260 I'm not sure how big a factor they were.

00:33:38.720 You also, in Texas, have a changing demographic in that state Democratic column.

00:33:44.240 I think there are probably some people who will benefit from the felon voting in Florida

00:33:48.860 who will vote Republican.

00:33:50.460 For the same reasons other people vote Republican.

00:33:53.220 You know, just being a felon doesn't necessarily make you a Democrat, although being a Democrat

00:33:59.060 might be a good first step, if that's the way you want to go.

00:34:03.220 But, you know, look, I think it's too early to say we're not talking about a measure that

00:34:09.020 lets people out of prison early.

00:34:10.460 It's not a measure that would increase crime, as we've seen in California, with some of the

00:34:13.780 prison reforms that unfortunately haven't gone so well.

00:34:15.760 I think there's going to be a considerable amount of widespread public support for this

00:34:21.940 only because there are some felonies that are so, in retrospect, you know, many years

00:34:27.720 later and so forth, that are so independent from the act of voting that I'm not sure that

00:34:33.060 the people, I mean, look, to use an example, the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, his

00:34:41.920 father is a felon.

00:34:43.260 His father went to federal prison.

00:34:45.560 His father is suddenly a Republican.

00:34:47.100 You know, there's all kinds of different reasons people go to prison, and I'm not sure it necessarily

00:34:53.060 puts more votes in the Democratic column.

00:34:55.140 Probably on balance it does, but I think that that's not as big a worry as what's happening

00:35:00.880 in Texas, where you've got not only immigration changing the demographic profile of voters

00:35:05.500 there, but you've got migration from failing blue states, high-tax blue states, to low-tax

00:35:12.040 successful Texas, and they're bringing their political beliefs with them.

00:35:16.420 They're not changing them just because they voted with their feet.

00:35:19.400 So they're changing the demographic profile of voters in Texas, especially in those urban

00:35:24.220 areas, and so that's a bigger problem for the GOP in the long run.

00:35:27.380 Yeah, well, I mean, I've been to the Breitbart World Headquarters there, and like our world

00:35:33.920 headquarters in Canada, you have a very low profile because you are behind enemy lines.

00:35:38.720 California, home of Nixon, home of Reagan, it's about as deep blue as it ever, ever gets.

00:35:45.180 I'm just worried that's what the demographic destiny of America is.

00:35:50.240 But for now, I think there's cause for relief.

00:35:53.580 If there's one more thing I'd like you to touch upon, I know you're so busy today, but

00:35:57.980 just speak to this for a moment.

00:35:59.560 I showed a clip of a Palestinian-American Democrat who was celebrating her win, not with

00:36:05.340 an American flag, but rather with a Palestinian flag.

00:36:08.160 Her mother was wearing a hijab.

00:36:09.520 There was lots of eulation, if I'm saying that word right.

00:36:15.960 That's a lot more normal in grassroots Democrat politics now than the ancient Jewish tradition 0.99

00:36:25.580 that Bernie Sanders and Dianne Feinstein show.

00:36:28.620 That's my sense of it.

00:36:30.720 Am I wrong?

00:36:32.320 Is there still a pro-Israel, pro-Jewish spirit left in the Democrats, or is it all moving

00:36:39.620 in the way of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party in the UK?

00:36:43.760 Oh, it's definitely moving in the Corbyn direction.

00:36:46.380 I mean, last night, there were several anti-Israel Democrats elected, and a couple of pro-Israel

00:36:52.860 Republicans defeated.

00:36:53.980 But Republicans also defeated a large number of anti-Israel Democrats, including that candidate

00:36:59.900 for governor in Florida, Gillum.

00:37:02.260 And I think the parties are split now.

00:37:04.300 Republicans are pro-Israel, Democrats are anti.

00:37:06.280 It doesn't mean that every Democrat is opposed to Israel, but there really is no constituency

00:37:11.060 anymore in terms of the House of Representatives for solid pro-Israel Democrats.

00:37:17.480 There aren't any.

00:37:18.300 None of them came to the embassy opening earlier this year.

00:37:21.080 They've got now some rabid anti-Israel people.

00:37:23.880 The woman you described wearing the Palestinian flag, Rashida Claib, she's so anti-Israel that

00:37:28.880 even J Street, the far-left George Soros-funded organization, they dumped her because it was 0.71

00:37:34.960 embarrassing to them to have somebody who openly advocated for the destruction of Israel

00:37:38.440 as a campaign issue.

00:37:41.840 So I think that the Democrats are now saddled with this baggage.

00:37:45.400 I don't think it infects the rest of society because the Democrats who are the most anti-Israel

00:37:52.800 are also Muslim.

00:37:54.060 And so I think when Americans look at that, they say, well, you know, maybe that's just

00:37:57.360 a Muslim thing.

00:37:58.180 It doesn't necessarily mean the rest of America has to feel that way.

00:38:01.120 But it is interesting, I think, that Republicans basically are the only pro-Israel party now.

00:38:05.880 Yeah.

00:38:05.940 Well, it's great to catch up with you.

00:38:10.740 Thanks so much for giving us so much for your time on this very busy day.

00:38:14.660 Thank you.

00:38:15.200 All right.

00:38:15.580 There you have it.

00:38:15.940 Joel Pollack, senior editor-at-large at Breitbart.com in one of the bluest states there is, California.

00:38:23.100 Stay with us.

00:38:24.200 More Ahead on the Rebel.

00:38:24.920 Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about countries asking China about human rights

00:38:40.840 questions.

00:38:41.660 Paul writes, is it surprising that Canada fails to call out the Chinese on their human rights 0.97

00:38:46.640 abuses while Trudeau is at the helm?

00:38:48.580 Um, yeah, I mean, it's, it was, it's not surprising, but it's striking to see.

00:38:55.920 I mean, look at all those, those countries.

00:38:57.540 I read from the Netherlands.

00:38:59.520 I read from Switzerland.

00:39:01.520 I read them all.

00:39:02.700 There's a lot of like really progressive, woke countries, Sweden in particular, Netherlands.

00:39:09.980 One or two of them asked about women's rights and gay rights also, because the number one

00:39:15.700 problem with China is not that you can't get gay married there.

00:39:21.120 The number one problem with China is you can't do anything freely. 0.90

00:39:25.900 You can't speak, think, move, vote, campaign, organize, anything.

00:39:33.620 Yeah, being gay married, that's sort of priority number 100.

00:39:38.320 But it was the only thing Trudeau talked about.

00:39:41.620 It just shows that he is in the league of failed states like Belarus and Pakistan when 0.94

00:39:49.740 it comes to being a moral authority in the world.

00:39:52.500 I thought it was embarrassing.

00:39:55.200 Jonathan writes, that is quite the hypocrisy coming from the UK concerning journalists.

00:39:59.820 After all, they have put Tommy Robinson through.

00:40:01.920 That is a great point.

00:40:03.420 And the other day was some symbolic day about not locking up journalists.

00:40:08.220 And I saw that the UK embassies around the world were tweeting scolding remarks around

00:40:14.260 the world.

00:40:14.640 And I just thought, you just put a journalist in prison for 10 weeks in solitary confinement.

00:40:21.720 I think you should sit this one out.

00:40:23.520 But you know, listen, I'm glad the UK is not sitting it out.

00:40:26.700 I want them to correct their hypocrisy by improving their conduct at home.

00:40:31.180 I don't want them to stop speaking truth to power to China like Trudeau has.

00:40:34.520 On my interview with Gordon Chang, Jerry writes,

00:40:38.620 whenever I watch Ezra's interviews with intellects like Gordon Chang, I always feel smarter.

00:40:42.880 Anytime I watch MSM interviews, I'm quite sure that I lose some brain cells.

00:40:48.580 Well, you know, let me say two things about talking to Gordon Chang.

00:40:51.740 First of all, I try to say less than I normally do.

00:40:56.120 And that is so hard for me because I want to make points.

00:40:58.620 And I want Gordon Chang to respond to some of my points because I think he's so smart.

00:41:02.140 So I try not to talk more than 51% of the time in an interview.

00:41:10.060 But number two is you're so right.

00:41:11.720 He knows his stuff.

00:41:13.400 He knows the exact section of the exact law.

00:41:16.280 He knows the exact geography, the exact history, the who's who in the police.

00:41:21.340 He's so informed.

00:41:23.680 And I mean, I try and read his columns or whatnot before he's on.

00:41:27.220 But I basically just sit back and say, all right, take the wheel, Gordon,

00:41:30.740 because the guy knows his stuff.

00:41:32.220 And I like his temperament and his demeanor, don't you?

00:41:35.600 I think it's actually pretty cool that he comes on our channel.

00:41:38.140 I'm really grateful for that.

00:41:39.100 He really is a world-class expert.

00:41:41.760 And he's written for world-class publications.

00:41:43.840 I mean, the Daily Beast is where he hangs his hat most of the time.

00:41:46.220 But he's been in Forbes.

00:41:47.380 He's been in the National Interest.

00:41:49.420 So, yeah.

00:41:50.240 Well, anyhow, thanks for the compliment for him.

00:41:52.200 And I'll try and stay out of the way of the smarts from getting...

00:41:57.240 I'm not saying all our guests aren't smart.

00:41:59.040 But with Gordon Chang and a few others like that, I say, okay, Ezra, say fewer words so

00:42:04.120 Gordon can get in more words, because that's where we're going to learn things.

00:42:07.860 Anyways, that's a long way of saying I agree with you.

00:42:11.100 All right.

00:42:11.780 Well, what do you think of the election?

00:42:13.280 What do you think of the election?

00:42:14.100 I wish that Trump held the House, but that's just not that normal.

00:42:20.220 When you have a, you know, first-term president elbows up, you're going to lose ground.

00:42:25.900 The big fight is in 2020.

00:42:28.540 Will Trump be re-elected?

00:42:30.520 Will the Democrats go even crazier than they did on Brett Kavanaugh?

00:42:34.920 And will that crazy backfire?

00:42:38.120 I think it did yesterday.

00:42:39.940 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home.

00:42:44.100 Good night.

00:42:45.620 Keep fighting for free.

Rebel News Podcast - November 08, 2018

U.S. midterm elections： Setback for Trump, but no “blue wave”

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