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00:02:24.000The big story of the day is, of course, Hillary Clinton continuing to make the rounds.
00:02:28.000Before I get to that, I want to explain how you get tickets to the Berkeley speech.
00:02:53.000They're gonna rip the chairs off the floor and then start flinging them down onto the unsuspecting crowd members below, which is just insane.
00:03:00.000The answer to that, by the way, is more security, not banning a thousand people from the hall.
00:03:05.000But in any case, Berkeley does seem to be doing what they should be doing for security.
00:03:09.000Berkeley City Council today, or last night, passed a vote 6-3 that said that the Berkeley PDR allowed to use pepper spray on violent offenders.
00:03:18.000How this is even a question is beyond me, but I guess I am the cause of that, so yay me.
00:03:23.000It's about time they started using pepper spray on people who get violent.
00:03:25.000They're rioters, they're not protesters once they start getting violent.
00:03:29.000Apparently, there's been a 20-year ban in place on using pepper spray against violent protesters because Berkeley is one of the world's dumbest places.
00:03:35.000So, if you want to get standby tickets, then you can go over to the Berkeley College, you can go over to the Berkeley campus tomorrow.
00:03:44.000For those who reserved a ticket online, you have to pick up your tickets at a time prior to 6.30 p.m.
00:04:46.000And this is the worst thing in the world for the Democrats because she was such a deeply unpopular candidate that she really lost the election more than Donald Trump won it.
00:05:00.000This is just to point out how unpopular Hillary Clinton was.
00:05:03.000She won fewer votes, fewer votes, in Michigan than Donald, sorry, Donald Trump won fewer votes in Michigan and won the state than George W. Bush won in 2004 in Michigan and George W. Bush lost the state of Michigan.
00:05:16.000That doesn't demonstrate a vast Trump movement.
00:05:53.000And, uh, I mean, frankly, if I can somehow put it off to the point where it becomes irrelevant to the news, that'd be great, because I would not want to spend four hours reading her book.
00:06:03.000I think my favorite part of this book is there's a quote that came out from her book that is just astonishing where she just completely misses how it is that the Orwell novel 1984, what it was about.
00:06:15.000So she actually writes this in her book.
00:06:20.000This is what the Soviets did when they erased political dissidents from historical photos.
00:06:24.000This is what happens in George Orwell's classic novel, 1984, when a torturer holds up four fingers and delivers electric shocks until his prisoner sees five fingers is order.
00:06:32.000The goal is to make you question logic and reason and to sow mistrust.
00:06:36.000For Trump, as with so much he does, it's about simple dominance.
00:06:40.000So, she basically says the big problem with 1984 is that it's supposed to make you distrust, that Trump's shtick is to make you distrust the press and the authorities.
00:07:13.000If they hadn't been so cruel, then I would have won this election.
00:07:18.000But I don't think the press did their job in this election, with very few exceptions.
00:07:23.000So the hard questions about what was real and what was realistic and what could happen with the right kind of election outcome were never really joined.
00:07:37.000You know, I found it frustrating, obviously, because I think I could have defended and lifted up a lot of what I believed we could do.
00:07:46.000But really, Ezra, when you get 32 minutes in a whole year to cover all policy, how does that work?
00:07:55.000Okay, so it's all because she wanted to talk policy, but the media were just too mean.
00:07:59.000Now, what's hysterical about this is that essentially what Hillary Clinton is doing is she's saying the entire 2016 election was, wait for it, fake news, right?
00:08:06.000She's suggesting that the media didn't do their jobs.
00:08:08.000The media were all part of this evil conspiracy to stop her.
00:08:12.000Now, I remember when there was a guy named Donald Trump, and he said this all the time, and continues to say it all the time, and the media say, how dare Trump?
00:08:25.000You know, maybe we didn't do our jobs this time.
00:08:26.000Maybe we should have been more sycophantic.
00:08:28.000The big problem for Hillary Clinton and the Democrats is that the media were so sycophantic during the primaries, they refused to acknowledge what a bad candidate she was.
00:08:35.000So by the time she was exposed to the light of day, she just withered in the light of day.
00:08:39.000If the media had been honest about what a terrible candidate she was early on, the chances that she would have won the nomination would have been exceedingly low.
00:08:48.000I mean, the media bias is always to the left.
00:08:50.000The best example of this today, there's an amazing tweet from a guy named Chris Chilesa over at CNN.
00:08:55.000Sometimes I think Chris Chilesa does some interesting stuff, but he tweeted something today that's just incredible.
00:09:00.000Here's what he tweeted, quote, The Today Show did Ted Cruz porn video and Seattle mayor resignation in its first 10 minutes.
00:10:05.000If you just read those two phrases, Ted Cruz porn video and Seattle mayor resignation, which one of those do you think would actually include a sex scandal?
00:11:55.000I mean, all of a sudden it becomes a very fraught kind of conflictual experience.
00:12:01.000What I love here also is the statement from Hillary Clinton here that it's all the evil men who are telling their women, these stupid women, if only the stupid women wouldn't listen to their men, it's their men who are turning them and saying, she's going to be locked up.
00:12:21.000I cannot imagine why this deeply unlikable human being lost.
00:12:24.000Then she says it wasn't just Comey, it was also Russian meddling.
00:12:26.000So first of all, just to point something out about the Comey thing, yes, James Comey botched this thing all the way through.
00:12:32.000But, if you recall, the botchery started with him not indicting her in the first place.
00:12:36.000Not recommending indictment in the first place.
00:12:38.000By actively changing the standard of law back in July, instead of just handing over his recommendation to Loretta Lynch, he did the bidding of Barack Obama.
00:12:47.000He basically was writing her exoneration statement before he even interviewed her.
00:12:50.000You don't get to complain about James Comey when it's James Comey's fault that you were even running competitively up until the end of the election cycle.
00:12:59.000It wasn't just Comey, though, and it wasn't just the press.
00:13:01.000It was also the Russians, the Russkies, the evil Russkies.
00:13:05.000You notice there's one person who's missing in all of these calculations.
00:13:08.000Her name rhymes with Schmillery Blinton.
00:13:10.000But here's Hillary Clinton explaining that it was the Russkies that they wanted to take her out.
00:13:19.000The Russians through WikiLeaks were in weaponizing information against me and how they were getting really good political advice about placement, both geographic and platform from somebody.
00:13:37.000That was not clear to us at the time in the campaign.
00:13:41.000And in retrospect, you know, we saw how if you analyze Google searches, they were
00:13:48.000Spiking in places that had been sort of swing, had ended up voting for President Obama, but were, you know, subject to being persuaded by the other side.
00:13:58.000WikiLeaks searches were off the charts.
00:14:01.000People were trying to understand and they were trying to make sense of some of the stuff they were hearing on their Facebook, you know, feeds or a friend telling them.
00:14:08.000I love the implication here, by the way.
00:14:09.000That they were cleverly weaponizing WikiLeaks.
00:15:01.000I was really quite taken aback at the attitude and the behavior of my general election opponent, because he made no bones about it, literally.
00:15:15.000He was so sexist, and not just about me, but about his Republican woman opponent, his women reporters on TV and elsewhere.
00:15:27.000It was really a part of the atmosphere and I want not just women but men as well to know this is endemic.
00:15:35.000Sexism and misogyny are still endemic.
00:15:38.000We've made progress but we can't allow ourselves to go backward.
00:15:42.000And as I point out in the book it never was just about me.
00:15:45.000I happen to have the big bullseye on my head but it was about women and in the months since
00:15:52.000We've seen reports out of Silicon Valley and other businesses as well as politics where distinguished women like Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris or Kirsten Gillibrand or, you know, others in the media are being treated to a level of overt sexism.
00:16:34.000These are absurdities, but the idea that these are being treated—oh, it's that sexism was unlocked in the last election cycle.
00:16:40.000No, what happened is that people got tired of people like Hillary Clinton labeling them sexist, and they didn't care what Trump had to say anymore.
00:17:04.000I don't remember Hillary Clinton speaking out the same way about any of the various...
00:17:08.000Republican women over the course of her long, illustrious career.
00:17:13.000I don't remember her speaking out the same way when she was targeting Juanita Broderick, when she was targeting Kathleen Willey, when she was targeting Monica Lewinsky.
00:17:20.000I don't remember her speaking out the same way in favor of women, obviously.
00:17:22.000So, I love this revisionist history that it's all about Americans decided they hated women.
00:17:27.000Just like Ta-Nehisi Coates has said Americans decided they hated black people, Hillary says Americans decided that they hated women.
00:17:33.000Hillary also blamed Bernie Sanders, and we'll get to that in just a second.
00:17:36.000Again, everyone has to be blamed, and the reason this is important, folks, is because I don't think the Democratic Party has actually moved beyond this mentality.
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00:20:04.000Here's what she has to say in her book.
00:20:05.000She says, Since November, more than two dozen women of all ages, but mostly in their 20s, had approached me in restaurants, theaters, and stores to apologize for not voting or not doing more to help my campaign.
00:20:14.000I responded with forced smiles and tight nods.
00:20:17.000On one occasion, an older woman dragged her adult daughter by the arm to come talk to me and order her to apologize for not voting, which she did, head bowed in contrition.
00:20:24.000I wanted to stare right in her eyes and say, you didn't vote?
00:21:41.000I mean, she has nothing better to do with her time.
00:21:42.000What's she gonna do, wander around in the woods like Bigfoot?
00:21:45.000So she's just gonna stick around, sinking her claws into whatever Democrat starts to move toward the top, pretending she's helping them, but actually hurting them.
00:22:18.000There are many people, including some Democrats, who would be happier if Hillary Clinton stayed in the woods, didn't write this book, didn't reopen the wounds of 2016.
00:22:28.000Well, they're going to be disappointed because I think it's important for people with my experience and my insight into what went on in the campaign, but more generally about our country, to speak out.
00:22:43.000Clinton says she is done running for office.
00:23:31.000Here's Sarah Huckabee Sanders doing that.
00:23:33.000I think it's pretty clear to all of America.
00:23:36.000I think it's sad that after Hillary Clinton ran one of the most negative campaigns in history and lost, and the last chapter of her public life is going to be now defined by propping up book sales with false and reckless attacks.
00:23:50.000And I think that that's a sad way for her to continue.
00:24:18.000He says, data from a range of focus groups and internal polls in swing states paint a different picture for the Democratic Party heading into the 2018 midterms and 2020 presidential election.
00:24:26.000It suggests Democrats are naive if they believe Trump's historically low approval numbers mean a landslide is coming.
00:24:35.000First off, Bernie Sanders' economic program is not convincing to people.
00:24:38.000So, today, it came out that a bunch of Democrats, I've written about this and talked about it yesterday, a bunch of Democrats, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Gillibrand will soon jump on board, all of the front, Cory Booker, all of the front-running 2020 Democratic candidates are talking about embracing Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All plan.
00:24:55.000For a general election, it's really dumb.
00:24:57.000People do not trust the idea of a government takeover of the healthcare system.
00:25:00.000They didn't like Obamacare, and so the Democrats are actually doing something worse.
00:25:04.000They're talking about a full government takeover of the government healthcare system, throwing lots of people off their insurance because you have to pay for this somehow, and you somehow have to force doctors to take Medicare insurance in the first place.
00:25:14.000The only way to do that is by getting rid of the competitors in terms of reimbursement rates.
00:25:17.000You're going to have to force people off their insurance.
00:25:19.000That's what Medicare for All would probably mean.
00:25:22.000But Democrats are pushing that, but they're also actively undercutting their own point.
00:25:27.000When they did Obamacare, they said, listen, Obamacare is not going to be about single payer.
00:25:31.000We're not moving towards single payer, guys.
00:25:48.000Radical Democrats in the base want all that.
00:25:50.000But nobody in middle America wants a nationalized healthcare system, but Democrats are moving to the left on these economic programs in order to get that base revved up for the full-on election cycle.
00:26:02.000I'll explain to you the other mistakes Democrats are making, why they're taking their lead from a combination of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, which is a really terrible combination, in just a second.
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00:27:21.000As I say, the Democrats are now lashing out at the American public, and that's what we've seen for the last seven months.
00:27:27.000The women's march is a lashing out at the American public.
00:27:30.000The support for the Black Lives Matter movement, it's a lashing out at the American public.
00:27:34.000We're seeing a consistent lashing out at the American public.
00:27:37.000And it's really ugly, and that's what's driving people into Trump's camp.
00:27:40.000So, what are their new strategies to fight Trump?
00:27:43.000Well, they're trying to move way left on economics, like Bernie Sanders, but as political rights, many of the ideas party leaders have latched onto in an attempt to appeal to their lost voters.
00:27:52.000Free college tuition, raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks, even Medicaid for all, test poorly among voters outside the base.
00:27:59.000And the reason that they test poorly among voters outside the base, one reason is because this is all basic class warfare stuff.
00:28:05.000The idea is there's someone screwing you and we're going to rectify that situation.
00:28:09.000Well, vilification and nastiness is not going to help you.
00:28:11.000It's funny, in 2016 there was this general idea that Trump was the nasty guy and Hillary was the candidate of uplift.
00:28:17.000No, you basically had two nasty people going at one another and
00:28:21.000And Hillary was actually more alienating to Americans than even Donald Trump was, which is an amazing statement.
00:28:27.000Worse, for Democrats, Trump is actually being given credit for the continuing strong economy, according to Politico, and personal attacks on him have been so variegated, meaning that they've been so diffuse, that they dilute the message entirely.
00:28:40.000Voters actually don't care that Trump fibs because they feel like Democrats think of them badly.
00:28:43.000Like, who would you prefer to hang out with?
00:28:44.000The guy who tells you fish stories but is nice to you?
00:28:47.000Or the person who rails against you for being a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe who needs his soul changed?
00:28:52.000Obviously, there's a reason that Trump is more popular than some of the Democratic program.
00:28:57.000And all of the attempts to paint Trump as a closeted white supremacist have failed too, because again, the Democrats are just so extreme.
00:29:06.000I'm amazed that Democrats haven't picked up on this.
00:29:08.000After the Charlottesville incident, when Donald Trump, I thought, did a terrible job of handling it, instead of Democrats staying on that, Trump immediately swiveled to defending Confederate statues and Democrats, like the fools they are, decided to follow him there.
00:29:42.000Okay, now they're draping his statue with a black tarp.
00:29:44.000And you wonder why people are resonating to Trump?
00:29:47.000Hey, Trump also has the advantage on immigration and trade in these focus groups as well.
00:29:51.000The biggest problem for Democrats is not Trump, it's them.
00:29:54.000They come off as people who look down their noses at everyday Americans, who see Trump voters as losers and as morons, who see people who didn't even vote for Hillary Clinton as to be alienated.
00:30:07.000This is how they see Americans, and Americans pick up on this.
00:30:10.000There's nothing that people pick up on more quickly than a sneer.
00:30:13.000If you sneer at people, people pick up on it incredibly quickly.
00:30:16.000And people didn't feel like Trump was sneering at them.
00:30:18.000They may have felt like Trump was sneering at the media, because he was.
00:30:21.000They may have felt like Trump was sneering at Democrats, because he was.
00:30:24.000They may have felt like Trump was sneering at fellow Republicans, because he was, and fellow candidates.
00:30:28.000But they didn't feel like he was sneering at them, and they got the feeling that Hillary Clinton was sneering at them, and Democrats are having a tough time getting out of that rut.
00:30:35.000So their alternative was, okay, well, if we can't stop sneering at Americans, at least we'll castigate Trump as evil.
00:30:41.000But Trump has actually undercut that a little bit because now he's working with Democrats.
00:30:44.000How do you castigate Trump as Hitler when you're making a deal with him?
00:30:48.000When you're going to the White House, there's a meeting today between Pelosi and Schumer and Trump.
00:30:51.000Now, I'm not saying that's good politics for Trump.
00:30:53.000I think that making deals with Pelosi and Schumer is what he was elected not to do.
00:30:58.000But for Democrats, it's very difficult for them to make the simultaneous case that Trump has to be stopped because he's so evil, and then they go and work with President Trump.
00:31:06.000So it may not be that Trump is Teflon so much as Trump is rubber and the Democrats are glue, and whatever they throw at him bounces off him and sticks back to them.
00:31:17.000I want to mitigate this statement a little bit.
00:31:18.000Do I think that the Republicans have the upper hand going into 2018?
00:31:21.000I think you'd be foolish to think that.
00:31:23.000I look at the data, and what I see is Democrats winning some victories and possibly taking the House.
00:31:28.000Right now, the generic ballot has Democrats up anywhere from 6 to 8 points in the congressional race.
00:31:34.000There was a lot of talk in 2005 about how George W. Bush was Teflon 2, and then in 2006, he got blown out, and in 2008, Barack Obama took office with a Democratic majority in the House and the Senate.
00:31:45.000And nearly a supermajority in the Senate.
00:31:48.000Okay, so it's a little bit early and it's worth noting that there are statistics that cut in favor of Democrats here.
00:31:54.000So on the question of who fights for people like me, Trump and the Democrats were split at 50% each in February.
00:32:02.000That's a big gap that they've opened up right there.
00:32:04.000And we are seeing some Republicans retiring because they don't like working with Trump and because they're afraid they're going to be primaried.
00:32:09.000And we are seeing special state elections in places like Oklahoma swing Democrat.
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00:34:10.000I've talked a lot about the Democratic failures, how they're going to try Bernie Sanders' economics, which is not popular and does not hold up with the American people, and how they've tried Barack Obama intersectionality, and how the scorn that Hillary Clinton holds for American voters is infused throughout the Democratic Party because they just can't believe that Americans would have elected Donald Trump.
00:34:28.000But on the other side of the aisle, there's a lot of confusion with regard to President Trump.
00:34:32.000So there's a big meeting today between Trump and Pelosi and Schumer.
00:34:35.000He had a meeting last night with a bunch of people, Republicans and Democrats, about his tax reform bill, and then he tweeted something out about tax reform, Go Congress Go.
00:34:42.000Okay, if the extent of Trump negotiating on tax reform is going to be him tweeting Go Congress Go, it's going to be very difficult for anything to get done.
00:34:49.000We already tried this exact plan with healthcare.
00:35:30.000Okay, so here's what it said from KVOA.
00:35:32.000The Department of Homeland Security has issued a waiver to waive certain laws, regulations, and other legal requirements to ensure the expeditious construction of barriers in the vicinity of the international border near Calexo, California.
00:35:42.000The waiver was published in the Federal Register today.
00:35:46.000So, is that really a waiver that we're going to get started building on the wall?
00:36:09.000There's also an attempt that's quite fascinating.
00:36:12.000A lot of Republicans on various sides of the aisle have decided that it's imperative to flatter Trump into backing their positions.
00:36:18.000So, the fascinating thing to watch right now is that Steve Bannon, who sees himself over at Breitbart as sort of the avatar of Trumpism, right?
00:36:26.000The great philosopher king of Trumpism.
00:36:28.000He's been pushing Trump on some things that I agree with, actually, and some things I don't agree with.
00:36:33.000But the people who are not on Team Bannon, a lot of those people who want Trump to do different things, they're now using Bannon as a foil and they're picking on Bannon's criticism of Trump in order to drive a wedge.
00:36:45.000In other words, I think a lot of people have now figured out Trump's gig, his whole shtick.
00:36:49.000His whole shtick is, if you praise him, he likes you, and if you criticize him, he doesn't.
00:36:53.000So a lot of people are basically now picking up on this, and they're trying to find instances where their own political opponents have attacked Trump, and then they're trying to highlight to Trump those people are attacking him, so he'll move away from their policies.
00:37:05.000So, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who is obviously in the administration, a lot of people in the administration are not big Bannon fans, he was just ousted a couple of weeks ago.
00:37:13.000Steve Bannon had said that Trump's biggest mistake was firing James Comey, the FBI director.
00:37:18.000Sarah Huckabee Sanders is trying to drive a wedge between Bannon and Trump.
00:37:23.000I think that everybody knows exactly where the president stands on that issue.
00:37:27.000The president is proud of the decision that he made.
00:37:30.000The president was 100% right in firing James Comey.
00:37:34.000He knew at the time that it could be bad for him politically, but he also knew and felt he had an obligation to do what was right and do what was right for the American people and certainly the men and women at the FBI.
00:38:32.000Senate Leadership Fund President and CEO Stephen Law today released the following statement in response to Steve Bannon calling James Comey's firing the biggest mistake in modern political history.
00:38:43.000Every fact that has come out about James Comey's handling of the Clinton email investigation has affirmed the rightness of President Trump's decision.
00:38:49.000Now, do you think that Mitch McConnell actually believes that, or do you think that Mitch McConnell is trying to play the president?
00:38:53.000If Mitch McConnell is pretty clearly trying to play the president, you're going to get more of this.
00:38:57.000The Democrats are trying to play Trump by praising him.
00:38:59.000Mitch McConnell is trying to play Trump by attacking Bannon for attacking Trump.
00:39:04.000Everyone knows the game now, and the game is personal, it is not political.
00:39:08.000It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.
00:39:10.000Okay, time for some things I like, and then some things that I hate, and then a quick Bible talk.
00:41:24.000And the idea that, you know, it was the male job to protect a civilized society, I think is pretty clear, actually, in the film.
00:41:32.000I don't think that it's particularly well hidden.
00:41:34.000I'm wrong about this being the third film.
00:41:35.000This is actually film number five, because it goes Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, which is also a masterpiece, Dumbo, which is a masterpiece, Bambi, which is a masterpiece.
00:41:44.000I mean, those five films are all masterpieces.
00:45:29.000The idea that Trump is a white supremacist is not true.
00:45:33.000Trump is not good on race issues, but the idea that he himself is a white supremacist rather than pandering to a group of white supremacists I think is false.
00:45:43.000Maybe it's a distinction without much of a difference, but I think that it does matter.
00:45:46.000If you're going to attribute motives to people, we should at least be specific about the motives we attribute.
00:45:51.000This idea that Trump is the root of all racial evil in the United States is just a repeat of Ta-Nehisi Coates.
00:45:58.000But she has every right to say it, obviously.
00:46:00.000Now, ESPN would be well within its rights to suspend or fire her.
00:46:03.000They could say, listen, you just alienated half our audience.
00:46:05.000You're here to talk about sports, not to talk about Donald Trump.
00:46:08.000But instead, they issue this kind of milquetoast statement saying that her actions were inappropriate.
00:46:14.000Well, I don't think they were actually inappropriate.
00:46:16.000I mean, she gets paid to talk about all this stuff, including politics, on her show.
00:46:20.000It seems kind of ridiculous to me that now ESPN is backing off of this.
00:46:23.000Like, do they think we don't watch the network?
00:46:25.000The big problem ESPN is having right now is that I just want to see the highlights of the Cleveland Indians winning their 20th game in a row.
00:46:31.000Instead, I turn on the TV and I get Colin Kaepernick talk for 45 minutes.
00:46:35.000I get how many gay college football players are there for 45 minutes.
00:46:39.000I get what's the latest with Caitlyn Jenner for 45 minutes.
00:46:43.000I can't get to the actual highlights because all you're doing is spending time talking about stupid political nonsense that I don't care about in any form.
00:46:50.000And then ESPN is shocked when Jameel Hill feels the freedom to go out and do this.
00:46:54.000Now, there's another story that came out yesterday that Linda Cohen, who's a longtime anchor, that she was reportedly suspended because she spoke out on politics at the network.
00:47:02.000She said, I don't think these politics are great at the network.
00:47:04.000And the president, John Skipper, told her not to come to work and to think about what she said.
00:47:08.000So she was suspended for saying ESPN was talking too much politics.
00:47:11.000Jameel Hill was not suspended for saying Trump was a racist.
00:47:18.000Let the audience make their decision about Jamil Hill.
00:47:20.000Linda Cohen certainly should not be fired or suspended for having the temerity to point out the stupidity of ESPN for going full-scale political.
00:49:02.000Just like the earth, just like the garden, you have potential.
00:49:05.000Trust in God, which really means faith in your own free will to make decisions.
00:49:09.000Doing that allows you to fulfill that potential.
00:49:11.000If you sit back and you wait for things to happen for you, if you blame the garden for not growing the seeds, if you blame the earth for not giving forth the plants, if you blame God for your problems, you're not gonna get anywhere.
00:49:20.000You have to understand that it is your job to reach your own potential, and that potential does exist within you, and once you start moving in that direction, I firmly believe that God lends a hand.
00:49:27.000Okay, we will be back here tomorrow, and we will preview the speech at Berkeley, so tomorrow's gonna be a big day.