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00:00:13.000Here's a segment of the amazing hit piece.
00:00:15.000This is a quote from the New York Times.
00:00:16.000It was the morning after the second presidential debate, which the El Charfa family's two youngest daughters watched.
00:00:22.000In the basement of their Staten Island home with their parents.
00:00:24.000In the middle of the night, Maria went to her parents' room twice, unable to sleep, and walked to the living room and checked her family's security camera.
00:00:31.000That morning, Mr. Elcharfa52 asked his daughter what she saw in the nightmare.
00:00:35.000Quote, he was so mean to us, she said.
00:00:37.000He had a scary face, like a zombie or something.
00:00:39.000In the dream, Maria said later, Mr. Trump came to the home of every Muslim family in the country and put each one in jail.
00:00:45.000Don't worry, he told his daughter, comforting her, he's just talk.
00:00:49.000He tried to sound convincing, but her nightmare
00:00:54.000Like before Halloween in the New York Times.
00:01:23.000Well, that's fine talk from the same lady who once proclaimed that anyone who did not comply with her views on social leftism ought to give up their religion.
00:01:30.000In 2015, she said, quote, So much for embracing our heritage.
00:01:32.000If you won't bake a cake for a gay wedding, time to give up Jesus, like right now.
00:01:51.000Hillary is also the same woman whose campaign director, John Podesta, received an email from Sandy Newman of Voices for Progress that calls Catholicism, quote, a Middle Ages dictatorship in need of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic Church.
00:02:04.000Podesta issued no challenge to such bigotry.
00:02:06.000Religious Americans across the country hold our breaths thanks to Hillary Clinton.
00:02:10.000The Democratic Party seeks to quash religious nonprofits, religious day schools, even nunneries that don't comply with its wishes on everything from abortion to contraception to same-sex marriage.
00:02:20.000Hillary doesn't get to pretend to defend religion while paving the way for its destruction.
00:02:40.000This is not an early Halloween trick-or-treat.
00:02:42.000This is reality, and I will get to all of that in just a second.
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00:04:02.000In previous congressional testimony, I referred to the fact that the FBI had completed its investigation of former Secretary Clinton's personal email server.
00:04:09.000Due to recent developments, I am writing to supplement my previous testimony.
00:04:13.000In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation.
00:04:20.000I'm writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday, and I agreed the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation.
00:04:35.000Although the FBI cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant, and I cannot predict how long it will take us to complete this additional work, I believe it is important to update your committees about our efforts in light of my previous testimony.
00:04:46.000So Comey doesn't want to be caught out as a perjurer.
00:04:50.000Saying there was no evidence that she knew that the private server was exposed to hack or there was no evidence that she did it with extreme carelessness.
00:04:57.000He doesn't want to be caught in a perjury trap.
00:04:59.000And he also doesn't want to be caught in this particular trap where a bunch of classified emails are revealed that Hillary Clinton knew about and knew were exposed to foreign hack and put on her private server anyway.
00:05:09.000And then he gets in all sorts of trouble because here's sort of the timeline.
00:05:13.000A few months ago, he kills the investigation.
00:05:15.000He says that Hillary should not be indicted by the Department of Justice.
00:05:19.000And then the next thing that happens is all of these emails start cropping up.
00:05:23.000What he doesn't want is he knows he's going to have to reopen the investigation in three weeks anyway.
00:05:27.000He's going to be forced because everybody's going to know the information.
00:05:30.000And then he'll be accused of being the ultimate political hack.
00:05:32.000A guy who shut down the investigation just in time to get Hillary Clinton elected and then reopened the investigation right after Hillary Clinton was elected.
00:05:39.000So to avoid looking like a political hack that he clearly is, he's now going to reopen the investigation and announce it publicly 11 days before the election.
00:05:47.000So, I mean, this is crazy stuff, gang.
00:05:51.000The real reason that James Comey shut it down, as everybody knows at this point, is that he was attempting to protect her for the election.
00:05:59.000He was hoping that that would be the end of it.
00:06:03.000And now it's exposed that he did it for political reasons, and he doesn't want to look super-duper political by reopening it after her election.
00:06:09.000So it looked like he shut it down the entire time, so he's gonna do it now, 11 days beforehand, so he can put down his marker and he can say, I wasn't political, the FBI wasn't political, we gave you the information as it became available to us, therefore, if you elected Hillary in spite of that, that's your problem, but it has nothing to do with me.
00:06:24.000This is James Comey, who is a political hack, covering his political ass.
00:06:29.000And it's glorious because now we have two wrongs making a right, right?
00:06:36.000So he originally killed the investigation, which was wrong, and now he's reopening the investigation without giving us all the evidence, which normally would be kind of wrong, except that he never should have shut the investigation in the first place.
00:06:51.000And watching all of these people on the left running around today and flipping their opinion on James Comey.
00:06:56.000He went from the great lawgiver, the great lawbringer, the wonderful man.
00:07:00.000He went from that to political hack, partisan, working for the Republicans.
00:07:04.000On the Republican side, there are some people who are going right now from, he was the worst partisan hack ever to, honest man, James Comey.
00:07:11.000Always told you, like that James Comey.
00:07:23.000And now Americans are going to have to look dead into the face of the actual prospect that the president-elect of the United States, if Hillary is elected, may be arrested and charged.
00:07:32.000And what's Obama going to do, pardon her right after she got elected?
00:07:35.000The happiest man, by the way, in America right now is not Donald Trump, who is certainly happy.
00:07:40.000The happiest man in America is Tim Kaine, who's sitting somewhere going, my God, I could be president in like three weeks here, right?
00:07:46.000I mean, we're in the actual situation.
00:07:48.000Where me, this nobody from Virginia who nobody likes and I'm kind of weird, I could be president of the United States just because Hillary could get impeached like the day after she's elected or arrested the day after she's elected and boom!
00:08:04.000So, I mean, this is nutty, nutty stuff, folks.
00:08:06.000I have to give credit to my friend Andrew Klavan.
00:08:11.000Drew is wrong about a lot of things, but he is correct on this.
00:08:14.000He's been saying for months that the other shoe is going to drop, right?
00:08:16.000He's been saying on his show for a long time there'd be one more twist in the campaign.
00:08:20.000I assume this is the twist in the campaign.
00:08:21.000If you think this is fun, though, wait till Monday, because I promise you the Democrats have been keeping a bunch of dynamite stored up about Donald Trump in their basement, and they were just going to hold it, because what's the purpose?
00:08:31.000And now that this is broken, they're going to have to dump every piece of oppo on Donald Trump you've ever not wanted to hear about.
00:08:37.000So the Donald Trump horse sex tape will come out.
00:08:52.000Wow, this is, I mean, this is just wild stuff.
00:08:57.000So, Paul Ryan has already released a statement.
00:08:59.000He says that the Director of National Intelligence should suspend all classified briefings for Clinton until this matter is fully resolved.
00:09:06.000Well, she's going to be president-elect in like a week and a half if the polls don't shift.
00:09:10.000By the way, the polls are shifting in Trump's direction.
00:09:12.000They have been shifting in Trump's direction.
00:09:14.000In the RealClearPolitics poll average, he was up like 7 points two weeks ago.
00:09:18.000That poll average is now down to 4.4 points.
00:09:21.000In a lot of the swing states, it's still very close.
00:09:30.000Or could go to jail, and the FBI just said it.
00:09:33.000I mean, honest to God, I haven't had time to tweet it yet, but I'm going to, okay?
00:09:37.000This is Hans Gruber turning to Theo in Die Hard and saying, Theo, you ask for miracles, I give you the FBI.
00:09:45.000I mean, that's where we are at this point.
00:09:47.000Okay, so, Bob Goodlatte, who's the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee,
00:09:52.000He's released a statement about the Comey reinvestigation, quote,
00:10:21.000Again, this is what happens when you go political.
00:10:23.000If you're James Comey, this is what happens when you sell your soul.
00:10:25.000If you sell your soul, it turns out that the devil's going to be there to collect.
00:10:28.000And the devil is there to collect for James Comey, who now is being condemned by both sides of the aisle as a partisan hack.
00:10:34.000A guy who had basically a spotless reputation just about eight months ago has now been tarred and feathered as well he should be.
00:10:42.000And I find the entire thing absolutely hilarious.
00:10:45.000What's hilarious about it, too, is that the media was prepping their approach.
00:10:50.000Their approach was going to be—they were doing the same thing in their way that Comey is doing now.
00:10:54.000The media's approach here was going to be, Hillary's going to win anyway.
00:10:57.000Now's the time when we criticize her about her corruption.
00:10:59.000This is the game the media play in order to demonstrate that they're not corrupt, even though they are.
00:11:05.000In order to demonstrate that they're not lefties, even though they are.
00:11:08.000What the media do is they wait until the most opportune moment for the Democrat, and then they dump all of their criticisms about the Democrat.
00:11:14.000And then later, when you say, you guys never criticized the Democrats, they say, no, no, we did.
00:11:19.000And you say, right, that's when your Democrat was already winning.
00:11:30.000The last week, Democrats, assuming she's going to win, have started to have started to criticize Hillary because they assume it's not going to do any damage.
00:11:38.000And it plays right into the narrative that she's corrupt.
00:11:41.000And then Comey hits them with the bomb.
00:11:47.000So, Chris Matthews, here's Chris Matthews last night, right, criticizing Hillary Clinton under the safe assumption she was going to be elected.
00:12:07.000And the Clintons were raising money like this hand over hand back in, hand over fist back in 1996 using, we called it Motel 6.
00:12:13.000They were bringing, hoarding them in, pulling them in by trainloads of contributors and then letting them sit in the Lincoln bedroom for a while, then charge them by the hour.
00:12:21.000This is what they did before, this is what they're doing.
00:12:23.000You can still vote for Hillary Clinton, but remember, you're getting this as part of the package, because that's been their pattern.
00:12:28.000So Chris Matthews on MSNBC going after her, what appears to be as hard as I would there, right?
00:12:33.000This is what Hillary Clinton does, and she's basically a political whore.
00:12:35.000I mean, I wouldn't say whore, but she kind of is.
00:12:37.000I mean, not like she's standing on the street corner, but it depends on the street corner, and she wears hooker outfits and everything.
00:12:54.000Chuck Todd comes out yesterday, and he's a hack from NBC, and Chuck Todd says, I don't see how the Clintons can even keep the Clinton Foundation going in the face of all of the new information we got earlier this week about them using the Clinton Foundation basically as a front for them to raise money on the side for Bill Clinton's pocket.
00:13:27.000So he doesn't see how they keep, and you can see the Democrats are trying to cover their butts in the media now.
00:13:32.000And they're doing so by saying, okay, now we're going to criticize Hillary, and that way later when she wins, and you say that we were partial for her, we can point back to comments like this and say, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:13:41.000We were critical of Hillary Clinton before the election.
00:13:44.000That's what Comey is doing in his own way as well.
00:13:47.000But now it's all backfired, because they've made the case this entire week that she's super corrupt and can't be trusted, and then boom, Comey comes back with, we're reopening the investigation into her emails.
00:16:04.000Do I expect that the Democrats will drop every piece of oppo they have ever found, ever, on anything on Donald Trump in the next several minutes?
00:16:13.000Yeah, I think that's probably what's going to happen.
00:16:24.000And as just an impartial observer of this election, since, as you know, I'm not for either of these candidates, this is the most highly amusing election.
00:16:33.000All truths are being revealed by the amount of insanity in this election cycle.
00:16:38.000We're living inside, I mean, this is, it's better than fiction.
00:16:49.000Who would have thought, 11 days out from an election, we're going to see Donald Trump in a courtroom screaming at the judge, you're corrupt!
00:17:25.000So everybody in the Trump campaign is just over the moon.
00:17:28.000Also, it shifts the news and the election cycle away from the fact that Donald Trump has severely underspent what he promised he would spend on his own campaign, and has no ground game, and is preparing to go to war with everybody, and is making a day to play for after the election.
00:17:41.000We don't talk about any of that stuff now.
00:17:43.000Because a major party candidate is now under reopened investigation.
00:20:17.000And the nice thing is that Trump, this is something Trump should be able to do.
00:20:21.000For the next 11 days, Trump should be able to just say Hillary is corrupt over and over again because this is the one thing that he's good at, right?
00:20:27.000So here is Donald Trump yesterday, before this came out, saying, and this is good Trump, right?
00:20:31.000This is Donald Trump doing the right thing, saying Hillary lives the high life at your expense.
00:20:36.000The elites in government, like Hillary Clinton, believe they're entitled to do whatever they want.
00:20:43.000Hillary Clinton has never earned an honest dollar.
00:20:48.000Well, I think that's really, you know... Hey, let's put it this way.
00:20:52.000What she's done to our country is a disgrace, and she should be ashamed of herself.
00:21:03.000She lives the high life at your expense, making money off the rig system, and it is a rig system.
00:21:09.000Are you starting to agree with me about the rig system?
00:21:16.000This is an election between the small handful of people who benefit from the corrupt system and the great majority of American citizens who are the victims of that same corruption.
00:21:29.000Those who benefit from the corruption will say and do anything to keep it the way it is.
00:21:36.000Okay, so Trump's whole rigged argument reads a lot better when the FBI is opening and reopening investigations into Hillary for political reasons.
00:21:45.000Even Trump's jokes that the media are going nuts about right now, they play better because of this news about Comey reopening the investigation.
00:21:52.000So, for example, Trump joked yesterday that everything is so corrupt they should just cancel the election and make him president.
00:21:57.000As part of our plan to bring back American jobs, we will lower taxes on our businesses from 35% down to 15%.
00:22:06.000We'll go from the highest to among the lowest.
00:22:12.000Hillary Clinton wants to raise taxes on small businesses up to 45%.
00:22:37.000Okay, so he drops that and people go nuts.
00:22:39.000Oh, he's saying we should cancel the election.
00:22:41.000But one of the points that he's been making is the entire system is rigged and now you have the FBI playing footsie with Hillary Clinton back and forth prepping for the election.
00:22:49.000It makes all of the conspiracy nuts sound not so nutty anymore when this sort of game is being played with the federal investigative power.
00:23:22.000I mean, the truth of the matter is, there's only two names on that ballot that have a chance to be President of the United States of America.
00:23:31.000And while I'll always respect the right of any man or woman to cast their vote in the manner that they seem best, I've got to say to you from my heart, I truly do believe a vote for any candidate other than Donald Trump is a vote for a weaker America at home and abroad.
00:23:50.000A vote for any candidate other than Donald Trump is a vote for an America that continues to walk away from our highest ideals of life and liberty and our Constitution.
00:24:02.000And a vote for any candidate other than Donald Trump, bottom line, is a vote to make Hillary Clinton the 45th President of the United States.
00:25:09.000And let me tell you, if you don't get to the book, it's fine with me, because we've got a lot of news to cover.
00:25:13.000Okay, since you've given me the excuse, I promise I will ask a couple questions about the book, but I do want to start by asking you, I need to start by asking you about this Comey announcement that they're basically reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.
00:25:27.000To me, a couple of things are happening.
00:25:29.000One, the investigation never should have been closed.
00:25:31.000Two, this is Comey covering his butt because he knew he was going to have to reopen it, didn't want to wait until after the election to do it because then it would look like he had shut it down for his friend Hillary.
00:25:58.000Now, I don't know if that's true, but Pete Williams is a pretty solid reporter, and he works at the Justice Department and actually covered the Justice Department since even before I worked there in 2001.
00:26:38.000My feeling is that what's weird about the piece of the letter that he sent, that Comey sent, is that he basically said, we don't even know what we have yet, but I'm just announcing it now.
00:26:48.000And that's why I think what's happening is that he's concerned that it's going to come out later, that there actually is indictable material on this thing.
00:26:56.000He doesn't want the FBI to be accused as an institution of having hidden material and hidden information prior to the election to help Hillary Clinton.
00:28:24.000I don't know what congressional testimony she'd given on the Iran Rounds campaign.
00:28:29.000It really does fly in the face of government transparency.
00:28:31.000If government officials are not accountable to the public and can actually plead the fifth when asked questions about basic governance, that is a problem.
00:29:42.000I wanted to take you on a trip down memory lane real quick, because an October surprise like this, a question might arise of, when has an October surprise ever changed the outcome of an election?
00:29:54.000And I don't know presidential history as well as my co-host on that podcast that I do, I'll tell you what, with Chris Starwell, but I can tell you about 2000.
00:30:03.000Going into 2000, Gore, in a couple of polls, was up a couple points.
00:30:08.000In about two or three polls, George W. Bush was up a couple points.
00:30:26.000But what was it that maybe held George W. Bush back from winning outright on that first night?
00:30:33.000It was when there was an October surprise drop by the Al Gore campaign that George Bush had had a DUI in his early 20s that he had never revealed.
00:30:45.000And so it is said, and Karl Rove wrote about it in his book, Courage and Consequence, that about 2-3% of evangelicals decided to stay home.
00:30:58.000I mean, so this could make a big deal, which brings me to another question, which is, I have to assume at this point that Hillary has to have some sort of stock of Donald Trump opal research that she's going to dump on Monday, because time runs short.
00:31:10.000Maybe she thought she could live this out, but... Might not be able to wait till Monday.
00:31:18.000Remember, actually, this happened not too long ago, where Hillary Clinton, their team put out something about one of the women attacking Trump, and then he put out something right after that, like an hour later.
00:32:08.000I mean, there are people on the right who have been saying this for years, that early voting is a disservice to the voters because, obviously, new information drops in the last days of a campaign, and this is it.
00:32:16.000And I expect that when Hillary Clinton drops the, as I said earlier, the sex tape of Donald Trump with a horse in three hours, that that'll probably impact the voting as well.
00:32:23.000So, every bad piece of information about both these candidates will be hanging on the clothesline momentarily.
00:32:30.000So, all that said— Yeah, the other thing that's gonna— Oh, I'm sorry.
00:33:00.000So it could help them really a lot in these Senate races.
00:33:03.000So Dana, one of the things that people have been talking about and they're worried about is, let's say that Donald Trump is not able to pull this out at the last minute.
00:33:36.000So have I. People that you've been friends with for years, or that you at least thought you were ideologically aligned with, maybe you're no longer speaking to them.
00:33:48.000And I do understand the school of thought that says Hillary Clinton is the great uniter of the Republican Party, but if that were true, then she would be the one that's down in the polls by five to six points, not Trump.
00:34:04.000So, you know, post-election, yeah, do you think that post-election, I've sort of broken it down into three categories on my end.
00:34:10.000I think that there's the ardent Trumpers, there are the people who are conservative and never Trump, and then there are the establishment folks.
00:34:17.000And I think that the establishment folks, some of whom are voting, many of whom are voting for Trump to defeat Hillary, some conservatives who are voting Trump to defeat Hillary, I think the question is going to be whether they can come together with the conservative never Trump or whether the Trump
00:34:32.000Ardent Trump supporters are going to convince the people who voted for Trump while holding their nose that the Never Trumpers were to blame for Trump losing.
00:34:39.000And so the kind of stabbed in the back myth is going to be the great definer of what happens next.
00:34:45.000If people believe that Never Trump is responsible for Trump losing, then they're going to be the outcasts.
00:34:49.000And if people don't believe that, then the people who are sort of the interior Trump group are going to be treated just like any other losing Republican candidate, and they'll sort of fade into the woodwork.
00:35:01.000I'm actually, I think I agree with all that.
00:35:04.000And I'm really interested, though, on the policy front, what happens.
00:35:08.000So there's the blame game that will happen, but then going forward, is it a party that unites to fight for free trade or against free trade?
00:35:17.000Is it the party that unites to push for entitlement reform or one that says, no, we should actually expand entitlements?
00:35:27.000I think it's even deeper than just character flaws you might find in either candidate.
00:35:33.000But in Donald Trump, if you don't want to vote for him, and you're thinking he's not a conservative, he's con-artist, all the things that he's been called by Republicans, not just Democrats, then I don't know how you get back to a policy framework where you can agree upon that the Democrats have that.
00:35:50.000They have a flawed candidate, but they are united in their policy goals.
00:36:14.000And that's a great political realignment, but I don't know what it looks like at the end of two years.
00:36:18.000Yeah, I agree with you, Dana, and I think that that's one of the things that I've always thought was dangerous about the Trump candidacy is that every growing demographic in the United States is moving significantly out of the Republican column in this election cycle, even if Trump were to win, that's true.
00:36:30.000So, you know, white college-educated women are moving dramatically out of the Trump column, out of the Republican column.
00:36:35.000Hispanics and blacks are moving out of the Republican column.
00:36:38.000Young people are really moving out of the Republican column, and that's going to have some lasting impact.
00:36:43.000Not just for policy on the right, but also for policy on the left.
00:36:46.000If people just buy into the left because they feel the right is so toxic, you could actually see a real upsurge in leftism, unless the right unites around something that's not so toxic.
00:36:56.000Okay, so Dana, I'm honor-bound to ask you about your book now, because you've given us so much time on politics, but for all of us who are going to be, in a week and a half, in two weeks,
00:37:06.000Everybody is going to be burned out on a lot of this stuff.
00:37:08.000Your new book, Let Me Tell You About Jasper, How My Best Friend Became America's Dog, is going to be at the top of the New York Times bestseller list for sure.
00:37:15.000Can you give people a snapshot of what you're going to get from the book?
00:37:24.000I questioned my publisher on the timing of the release of this book.
00:37:30.000And they said, by the time we get to there, that date, which was last Tuesday, people are going to want a distraction and a little bit of a lift.
00:37:38.000What I hope is to help remind people... One, I just wanted to share some joy.
00:37:41.000Like, I get to write a book about my dog.
00:37:44.000I did something a little bit different.
00:37:46.000I added what I think is some excellent modern art.
00:37:50.000Computer-generated art through Photoshop by a guy I met on Twitter named FiveHandPhotoshop, and he takes my dog pictures that I post, and he puts them in all sorts of different hilarious scenes throughout American history, art, pop culture, sports.
00:38:04.000So, I feel like it's a book that's accessible for a lot of people, not just adults, but I also think kids will like it.
00:38:11.000In fact, Megyn Kelly told me her little boy takes it to bed with him, because I gave them an early copy, and he loves to look at the pictures when he wakes up in the morning.
00:38:19.000And also, I'm trying to find a way to help people remember that we have a lot more in common than we might think at the end of this election season.
00:38:27.000Part of that is our love for animals and dogs, and if you've had a pet, then you know what it's like to give them a nickname and to have a best friend when you're feeling blue, and also to help them through the end of their life phase when they die, and that grief that never goes away.
00:38:42.000And there's some common bonds that we have because of the joy of these animals.
00:38:46.000Well, the book is Let Me Tell You About Jasper, How My Best Friend Became America's Dog.
00:39:10.000I have a saying that every kid needs a dog and every dog needs a kid.
00:39:14.000It not only teaches you responsibility, but it softens your heart, and I do think that you become a better human being and a better adult if you grow up with having a dog.
00:39:23.000I think your kids are a little too young right now, so you're not going to have to run out tonight and find a dog, but I would say when the kids are around seven and six, besides they're going to be lobbying you for one anyway, that's around the time I would get one because they will be better human beings because of it.
00:39:39.000Okay, well that's actually a solid pitch.
00:39:41.000Okay, so good news, I get to wait five years before I have to worry about it.
00:39:46.000But when the time comes, then I'll definitely be listening to that advice.
00:39:52.000The book is Let Me Tell You About Jasper, How My Best Friend Became America's Dog, The Great Dana Perrino.
00:40:40.000I've given up on predicting this thing.
00:40:42.000My predictions, in general, have been very accurate thus far.
00:40:47.000If I have to give a prediction, I don't want to be Debbie Downer today, so I'm not going to tell you that I think that Donald Trump will find a way to screw this up.
00:40:54.000I mean, just based on previous history, I have a feeling that the media will find some excuse to pick on something that Donald Trump does and then flip the script and make it all about Donald Trump.
00:41:04.000If he's disciplined, this should help him.
00:41:06.000Is he too far behind too late in the campaign?
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00:41:55.000So, in other news, as Dana says, and it's a great point, actually, this is the big distraction Republicans have been looking for so that they don't have to talk about Trump or talk about other problems that they have.
00:42:05.000One of those problems is Mark Kirk, the senator from Illinois.
00:42:08.000He was in a debate last night with Tammy Duckworth, who's running for Senate.
00:42:12.000And this sort of thing doesn't help the image of Republicans.
00:42:16.000I forgot that your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington.
00:42:37.000Fortunately, Republicans aren't going to have to talk too much about that today because number one, he's going to lose his seat over that probably.
00:42:42.000But number two, all of this Hillary news eats everything.
00:42:46.000Meanwhile, the the Gary Johnson continues to blow it.
00:42:50.000So you look at the electoral landscape and you figure here's Donald Trump, who is one of the worst candidates of all time.
00:42:55.000And here, on the other hand, is Hillary Clinton, who
00:43:53.000This could have been your election cycle and then you nominated that guy who looks like he smoked a joint five seconds before he did this interview.
00:44:00.000He also said today, by the way, he's never engaged in illegal activity.
00:44:04.000His entire campaign is based on how much he likes pot.
00:45:08.000So speaking of comic books, everybody is all up in arms because this one gal who does comic book covers is pretending that she has been just brutally treated.
00:45:18.000Her name is Chelsea Kane, and she did this comic book cover.
00:45:52.000You know, I'm not that interested in Mockingbird's positions on partial birth abortion.
00:45:56.000I didn't realize that that was part of the Marvel Universe, but people were apparently saying that they don't like this, and she went crazy.
00:46:02.000She quit, and she said that people on Twitter were jerks to her.
00:46:06.000And let me just say, as the leading target of
00:46:18.000If people are saying, we don't want to read your stupid comic because it says, ask me about my feminist agenda which has nothing to do with the comic book story, and it's just a piece of propaganda about art, then maybe you shouldn't put propaganda art in the center of your comics.
00:46:55.000Like, big themes don't require this kind of petty politicking, and this is silly talks.
00:47:02.000The Washington Post blamed this on a cult of cavemen-like comic book readers who can be so vitriolic online the industry now stands to lose the talent of a writer such as Chelsea Kane.
00:47:12.000Now, nobody actually can give an example of what the harassment is, but they say that it was harassment anyway because this is the way the left works.
00:47:19.000If people don't like what you're doing, in common, they don't like what you're doing, they equate this to actual harassment.
00:47:23.000No, harassment is not me asking what this character's abortion position is.
00:47:27.000Harassment is me receiving pictures of black babies from prominent
00:47:32.000People in the Breitbart empire for tweeting about the birth of my child because of course I'm a cuck.
00:47:37.000Harassment is receiving death threats on my voicemail.
00:47:40.000Harassment is receiving 7,400 tweets over the past six months that have to do with gas chambers and Jews being shot in the back of the head.
00:47:48.000That seems a little bit worse than, I don't want to ask you about your feminist agenda, why don't you write a comic book that people want to read.
00:48:57.000The frat's values, it turns out, are drinking and having sex.
00:49:00.000So, it aligns pretty well with those values, but...
00:49:04.000I love how we pretend that all of these are now social justice meetings.
00:49:07.000It's like we're going to get together and we're going to discuss the agenda for campus allocation of janitorial resources at the Halloween party.
00:49:16.000Is the theme or costume referring to a living culture or people?
00:49:20.000If so, are there people continuing to live or practice that culture?
00:49:23.000I don't understand why we should be biased against dead people.
00:49:25.000I mean, why does it matter if they're living?
00:49:26.000What if you're just being mean to ancient pagan culture?
00:49:30.000I mean, shouldn't they be offended on some level?
00:50:26.000Do you have to identify as transgender to dress up as a transgender?
00:50:29.000This is like this stupid thing that happened in Hollywood recently where they suggested that only transgender people could play transgender characters.
00:50:35.000You couldn't have a man dressed as a woman playing a transgender.
00:50:38.000Forgetting of course that it's called acting.
00:50:40.000Okay, Halloween is about dressing up in a costume.
00:50:42.000If we can only dress up as ourselves, Halloween's gonna suck pretty bad this year.
00:50:47.000And they say, have we consulted with experts?
00:51:44.000Like, I don't understand why if you get in a gypsy outfit not to make fun of gypsies but because gypsies wear cool outfits that this is the end of the world.
00:52:14.000You can't dress up as anybody from any country now?
00:52:17.000Anytime you attempt to paint or tint your skin in an attempt to appear to be a different skin tone, race or culture, for example, blackface,
00:52:25.000Okay, I sort of agree that that's bad, but you realize they've ruled out every costume that ever was.
00:52:33.000Like, all the costumes are... So I like this.
00:52:35.000Seemingly harmless themes can be carried out incorrectly if you don't provide information about costuming.
00:52:39.000So what you actually need to do is you have to have a disclaimer on the back of your costume explaining precisely what you are and what you are not.
00:52:45.000You can do a decade or time period routine, but make sure that you don't do, like, the 1850s, because that would be bad.
00:53:26.000So this is pretty absurd all the way through, but since we have no sense of humor and our goal is to kill all social bonding, then I guess we'll be doing that.
00:53:49.000We have a special treat for you on the Halloween episode.
00:53:52.000I'm not going to tell you what it is, but it is kind of awesome.
00:53:55.000So we'll be doing that and we'll see you next week when presumably we will know whether Donald Trump has had sex with a horse and whether Hillary Clinton is going to jail and whether the other of them will be having sex with a horse in jail.