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00:00:45.000I get to play my favorite game of the year on my birthday.
00:00:47.000It's called how many members of the political left on Twitter will text me or email me happy birthday, but not actually say happy birthday openly on Twitter for fear of acknowledging that I am a human and then being blasted by the backlash and getting canceled.
00:01:00.000So looking forward to playing that game.
00:01:02.000But last night to the news, last night was the Rock'em Sock'em Robots debate we were all waiting for.
00:01:08.000And what it really came down to is that everybody was very mean to Bernie.
00:01:12.000And you had to feel a little bit bad for the guy.
00:01:15.000After all, after years of being a committed communist, somebody who says that we should all live together, the heart of man is inherently good.
00:01:21.000He learned last night that for every Trotsky, there is a Stalin.
00:01:25.000He learned last night that all of your former allies, all of your friends will stab you in the back and put an ice pick through your political eye as soon as they see the opportunity to consolidate power.
00:01:37.000He learned that from no less Then our Native American princess, Elizabeth Warren.
00:01:42.000So after the debate, after the debate, this is pretty fantastic.
00:01:45.000They had a bit of a scrap during the debate, as you'll see.
00:01:46.000And after the debate, Elizabeth Warren walks over to Bernie Sanders.
00:01:50.000And Bernie puts out his hand to shake her hand.
00:02:34.000Because if she actually felt like Bernie Sanders was a sexist all the way along, why not just say that after December 2018 when he had the meeting with him?
00:02:42.000Instead of trying to hug him and be best friends with him, and then two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, that's when you drop this supposed bombshell that he said a woman can't be president.
00:02:51.000First of all, the story itself does not hold together.
00:02:54.000In all likelihood, the conversation went something like this.
00:02:56.000Elizabeth Warren said, I really want to run for president because I think that a woman can defeat Donald Trump.
00:03:01.000And Bernie said, I don't think it provides any special advantage.
00:03:03.000And then she was like, well, that means that he says a woman can't be president.
00:03:06.000That means a woman can't be president.
00:03:07.000And she's going to drop that two weeks before through her surrogates and then deny that she dropped it and then suggest that she doesn't want to talk about it.
00:03:13.000And then after the debate is over, she's going to walk up to Bernie Sanders and refuse to shake his hand.
00:05:04.000So we're going to get to all of the details from this insanely boring debate, except for some of the fisticuffs between Sanders and Warren.
00:05:11.000We'll get to the fact that these people are utterly unqualified to be president of the United States, not because of their service, but because their views are just nutty.
00:05:19.000They're just nutty and confused and ridiculous.
00:05:22.000And the Democratic Party is looking for more confused, ridiculous, nutty views, apparently.
00:05:25.000We'll get to all that in just one second.
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00:06:58.000But most of the questions were pretty fair.
00:07:01.000I just think that it's weird that nobody had asked Bernie Sanders a tough question for 45, 50 years of his career.
00:07:07.000And then last night, CNN chooses to wake up just in time to try and push Warren before the Iowa caucuses.
00:07:12.000If you watch Huffington Post, if you watch CNN, if you watch MSNBC, it is perfectly obvious that the person they dread the most in the Democratic Party is Bernie Sanders.
00:07:21.000They do not want Bernie Sanders to be the nominee.
00:07:23.000Now, some of them don't like Joe Biden very much, but there is a general consensus that Elizabeth Warren is wonderful.
00:07:27.000And this has not faded, even though Elizabeth Warren has faded.
00:07:30.000Despite the fact that Warren has dropped in the pack, the media continue to try to prop her up because the media still, for the media, she makes them feel good about themselves.
00:07:39.000You have to understand, members of the media are upper crust coastal elites who like to believe that they are intellectuals and Elizabeth Warren is like straight out, it's also the reason a lot of them like Pete Buttigieg.
00:07:49.000It's that sort of background that makes them feel special.
00:07:51.000It makes them feel good about themselves.
00:07:52.000So, last night, CNN went hard after Warren.
00:07:55.000Wolf Blitzer started off, he asked him a fair question about his foreign policy, but he doesn't ask anybody else this foreign policy question in this way.
00:08:01.000Here's Wolf Blitzer going after Bernie Sanders.
00:08:04.000Senator Sanders, in the wake of the Iran crisis, Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei has again called for all U.S.
00:08:12.000troops to be pulled out of the Middle East, something you've called for as well.
00:08:16.000Yet when American troops last left Iraq, ISIS emerged and spread terror across the Middle East and indeed around the world.
00:08:24.000How would you prevent that from happening again?
00:08:42.000Now again, I think that's a fair question.
00:08:43.000I just think it's weird that CNN decides to pull that club out of its pocket in the last debate before Iowa.
00:08:49.000And now when it comes to the actual foreign policy debate in the Democratic Party, it's basically between people who are 90% wrong and people who are 100% wrong.
00:08:55.000Joe Biden is in the 90% wrong category.
00:08:57.000He still has some tenuous grasp of reality through the foggy haze of his increasing dementia.
00:09:02.000Joe Biden still seems to have some sort of grasp of the fact that the United States is supposed to play a role in the world.
00:09:09.000And you know, look, the fact is that he did sit in that VP seat for years.
00:09:13.000And once you're in the White House, we've had three straight presidents.
00:09:16.000Four, really, if you include Clinton, I think this is right.
00:09:18.000Four straight presidents who have basically said the United States should disengage from the world, and then when they are sitting in the big seat, they've not disengaged from the world in any real way.
00:09:25.000Joe Biden has spent some time in the White House.
00:09:27.000He understands you can't disengage from the world, but the problem for Joe Biden is that Joe Biden has to apologize for his own record on his foreign policy, because the Democratic Party is filled with people who believe in the Bernie Sanders isolationist, America is bad, America is terrible, America victimizes people.
00:09:43.000On the world stage, so Biden said, for example, he apologized in 2002 when Congress was debating whether or not we got into a war in Iraq, invade Iraq.
00:10:01.000Biden actually suggested that he had apologized for his role in the Iraq war, that he should not have voted in favor of the Iraq war.
00:10:08.000And then Sanders, because he represents again that isolationist wing of the Democratic Party, Sanders then clocks him across the head.
00:10:15.000In 2002, when the Congress was debating whether or not we go into a war in Iraq, invade Iraq, I got up on the floor of the House and I said that would be a disaster.
00:10:31.000It would lead to unprecedented levels of chaos in the region.
00:10:36.000And I not only voted against the war, I helped lead the effort against that war.
00:10:41.000It is pretty incredible that for the Democratic Party, your chief foreign policy win is not voting in favor of a war that had broad bipartisan support.
00:10:50.000Because it is always easy to say in the aftermath of a war that it was really bad.
00:10:55.000And when's the last time somebody was like, yeah, I backed a war and it was great?
00:10:58.000That hasn't happened really since World War II.
00:11:01.000So the easy position in foreign policy is always the no position.
00:11:11.000There's not a bunch of people in the United States who are like, yeah, war all the time.
00:11:14.000And I'm frankly getting very sick of the straw man that is set up by folks on the isolationist right, as well as on the left, that if people believe the United States should take an active role in the world, that this is because they are pro-war.
00:11:24.000It's just absolute nonsense from beginning to end.
00:11:27.000This contrasts pretty strongly with Joe Biden's clip four, talking about what actually has to happen in terms of foreign policy, which is, yes, we are not going to stop being engaged in the Middle East.
00:11:36.000I would leave troops in the Middle East in terms of patrolling the Gulf, where we are now, small numbers of troops.
00:11:44.000And I think it's a mistake to pull out the small number of troops that are there now to deal with ISIS.
00:11:51.000So there is Joe Biden being realistic about war, but you're not allowed to be realistic about war.
00:11:56.000Instead, you're supposed to be unrealistic.
00:11:58.000And this is what Elizabeth Warren, the most calculated candidate in the field, knows.
00:12:01.000She says, no, no, no, we're going to withdraw forthwith incredibly fast because, again, this is the way that you win a Democratic primary.
00:12:09.000I think we need to get our combat troops out.
00:12:11.000You know, we have to stop this mindset that we can do everything with combat troops.
00:12:16.000Our military is the finest military on earth, and they will take any sacrifice we ask them to take.
00:12:23.000But we should stop asking our military to solve problems that cannot be solved militarily.
00:12:31.000So the Sanders-Warren wing on foreign policy is utterly out of touch with reality.
00:12:34.000Joe Biden is sort of out of touch with reality.
00:12:36.000So Joe Biden wants to have it both ways.
00:12:38.000On the one hand, He wants to suggest that he is hawkish enough to keep America safe.
00:12:43.000On the other hand, he wants to suggest that he is actually not all that hawkish at all.
00:12:48.000And so he ends up rewriting his own record in bizarre ways.
00:12:51.000So Joe Biden, he was actually called on this by CNN, as he should have been.
00:12:53.000He talked about how when he first ran for Congress, he was very focused on the informed consent of the American people to go to war.
00:13:01.000Here's Joe Biden saying a thing that is about to come back to bite him in the debate.
00:13:04.000I ran the first time as a 29-year-old kid against the war in Vietnam, and the ground's set.
00:13:09.000Only way to take a nation to war is with the informed consent of the American people.
00:13:14.000The informed consent of the American people.
00:13:18.000Libya, drone war, like a few things that your administration did.
00:13:22.000Also, I do love the fact that the Democrats who have declared they want to be friendly, diplomacy, diplomacy friendly, as soon as Donald Trump basically did what Barack Obama pledged to do and met with Kim Jong-un, now Joe Biden's like, I would never meet Kim Jong-un without preconditions.
00:14:12.000Ooh, Joe Biden gets to stand to the side, while Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders go at it like the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks circa 1918.
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00:15:41.000He believes in an almost bizarre socialistic autarky.
00:15:44.000He believes that we should produce all product in the United States and basically have zero trade with foreign countries, which is idiocy of the highest order.
00:15:52.000But again, in the Democratic primary, there is an advantage to purity.
00:15:54.000This is one thing that you learn about the primaries.
00:15:56.000There is an advantage to being pure of heart, even if stupid of head.
00:16:45.000And that is NAFTA, PNTR with China, other trade agreements were written for one reason alone.
00:16:53.000And that is to increase the profits of large multinational corporations.
00:16:58.000And the end result of those two, just PNTR with China, Joe, and NAFTA cost us some four million jobs as part of the race to the bottom.
00:17:09.000Okay, well, it didn't actually cost America four million jobs.
00:17:12.000It did shift manufacturing overseas because it turns out you can manufacture things more cheaply overseas.
00:17:18.000It was mostly technology, actually, that did all of that.
00:17:20.000Most of the manufacturing jobs lost in the United States were not lost to China or Mexico.
00:17:24.000They were lost to technological advancement.
00:17:26.000But job growth in the United States has never ceased.
00:17:29.000I mean, there are more people employed today than were at the beginning of NAFTA.
00:17:31.000Manufacturing growth actually maintained its rates in the first few years of NAFTA.
00:17:35.000It was only that it started to drop off in the aftermath specifically of technological advances in the late 90s.
00:17:40.000But again, there are significant divides between Joe Biden, who again has that tenuous grasp of reality, and Bernie Sanders, who has no grasp of reality and still lives in cloud cuckoo land.
00:17:49.000Where Stalin's five-year plans were actually excellent.
00:17:52.000Okay, but now we get to the heart of the matter.
00:17:54.000This is all kind of normal Democrat debate stuff.
00:18:21.000So, Abby Phillip is the name of this reporteress at CNN, and she jumps on Sanders.
00:18:28.000And we're gonna play the whole exchange, we'll pause it all the way through, and you will see how, and you will see, I mean, this is just, it's an amazing exchange.
00:18:36.000Let's not turn to an issue that's come up in the last 48 hours, Senator Sanders.
00:18:40.000CNN reported yesterday that, and Senator Sanders, Senator Warren confirmed in a statement, that in 2018 you told her that you did not believe that a woman could win the election.
00:19:56.000But if they do, I will do everything in my power to make sure that they are elected in order to defeat the most dangerous president in the history of our country.
00:20:06.000So Senator Sanders, Senator Sanders, I do want to be clear here.
00:20:10.000You're saying that you never told Senator Warren that a woman could not win the election.
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00:23:03.000The ridiculousness of this exchange is just astonishing.
00:23:07.000So Philip leads off by saying CNN reported yesterday.
00:23:10.000Well, if CNN reported it, as we all know, that must mean that the underlying facts are true.
00:23:15.000It can't just be that somebody from the Warren campaign decided to leave a flaming bag of dog poop on Bernie Sanders's Bernie Sanders' doorstep and use CNN as the delivery service.
00:23:29.000So Sanders' response is a fine response.
00:23:32.000You can see that Sanders is just confused that any of this is... I mean, he's confused most of the time, but he's particularly confused that any of this is happening.
00:24:35.000Senator Warren, what did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?
00:24:39.000Okay, this is, okay, there's a textbook sort of story that is very often told about bad reporting.
00:24:48.000Bad reporting goes something like this.
00:24:49.000You walk up to a senator and you say to the senator, so, Senator, when did you stop beating your wife?
00:24:54.000That's a textbook case of a bad question.
00:24:56.000The reason it's a bad question is because it is assuming a prior that is not in evidence.
00:25:00.000And it's assuming that the senator was beating his wife.
00:25:03.000So, when did you stop beating your wife is a great way of saying you used to beat your wife.
00:25:07.000Right, well, this is, so, Senator Warren, when did Senator Sanders tell you?
00:25:10.000What did you think when Senator Sanders told you that a woman could not win the election?
00:25:14.000He is explicitly denied on this stage he ever says it, and the CNN reporter immediately turns and says to Warren, so he's a liar, what do you think of him?
00:25:25.000Bernie Sanders should completely rethink his perspective on campaign finance reform.
00:25:29.000His perspective is that corporations spending money on politics is extremely dangerous.
00:25:33.000What does he have to say about CNN dropping a billion-dollar in-kind donation directly on Elizabeth Warren in the middle of a debate?
00:25:40.000Now he knows what Mitt Romney felt like in 2012 when Candy Crowley decided that she was just going to join the Obama campaign in the middle of a presidential debate.
00:25:54.000I'm not here to try to fight with Bernie.
00:25:56.000All I'm going to do is just tell this story, this tale out of school, two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, when I've lost all momentum in order to try and sink Bernie Sanders.
00:26:05.000Hey, listen, you're making me stick up... I can't say this enough.
00:26:08.000They are making me stick up for Bernie Sanders, just trying to be an honest human being.
00:28:20.000So here is Senator Warren going at it with Bernie Sanders over who has defeated an incumbent Republican.
00:28:26.000The two most radical members of the Democratic Party on that stage trying to proclaim that they have appealed to Republicans because one beat a Republican in Vermont in 1990 and the other beat a Democrat in Massachusetts in 2010.
00:28:37.000I mean, this is all just ridiculous crap.
00:30:34.000I used to say I was a Native American and that wasn't true, but I'm actually a woman.
00:30:37.000I'm actually, I can't define woman because I think that men can be women, but I'm actually Don't you know?
00:30:43.000And me being elected, it would be just like the first black president, if a woman was elected pre- She's so tiresome.
00:30:50.000She's so unbelievably tiresome, and so is CNN.
00:30:53.000Senator Warren, I want to give you the last word.
00:30:55.000By the way, that silly exchange about who defeated an incumbent Republican 30 years ago versus 10 years ago, it's so dumb, and it's so trite, and it's so tired.
00:31:04.000Elizabeth Warren is not going to work with a single Republican.
00:31:47.000Just ingest the political flesh of Bernie Sanders, and use it to animate their monster body.
00:31:53.000And then just leave his desiccated corpse behind.
00:31:56.000I mean, that is what the Democratic Party does.
00:31:57.000So if you're a Bernie fan today, you gotta be thinking to yourself, this is the guy who led your entire movement, he was an independent for most of his career, he comes inside your party, you try to take his ideas, you try to create this thing, this Elizabeth Warren candidacy, you try to create that, and then you try to use that in order to promote Bernie Sanders' ideas while sucking him dry.
00:32:16.000And then you want us to vote for you guys?
00:32:18.000Like, if you're a Bernie fan, this is a great way that the Democratic Party and CNN have really alienated you.
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00:33:10.000Abby Phillip just kept going and going and going after Bernie Sanders, who's really an impressive showing by Abby Phillip, who's apparently running for the Democratic nomination.
00:33:39.000Hey, and your healthcare would then be rationed by the government, because that is the only way that a fully nationalized, single-payer, UK-style healthcare system works.
00:33:45.000There are other ways to have mandates like they do in Switzerland that works with private industry in which you actually have some competition for the taxpayer dollar because the money isn't first funneled through the government.
00:33:55.000There's places like Singapore that have mandates on low-level insurance and then you can purchase more above that.
00:34:01.000There are ways to do this that are not single-payer.
00:34:03.000Bernie Sanders' single-payer Medicare for All plan is ridiculous on its face.
00:35:06.000Senator Sanders, you've consistently refused to say exactly how much your Medicare for All plan is going to cost.
00:35:14.000Don't voters deserve to see the price tag before you send them a bill that could cost tens of trillions of dollars?
00:35:20.000Well, what I will tell you is Medicare for All, which will guarantee comprehensive health care to every man, woman, and child, will cost substantially less than the status quo.
00:35:32.000Okay, so that's always his answer, and this weird notion that it costs less than the status quo to tax people at exorbitant rates.
00:35:58.000Instead, it was left to the other Democrats to point out that both Elizabeth Warren's plan and Bernie Sanders' plan are completely nonsensical.
00:36:07.000Again, as you'll notice, Joe Biden was a spectator for most of the night, right?
00:36:09.000Joe Biden, who is the frontrunner and who is probably going to win the nomination, was just able to stand there, or at least they wheeled him up there in a dolly and he sort of...
00:36:16.000Sat there, lifelike, somewhat animate, and he said, listen, your silly idea that you're going to be able to pay for this thing with like a small income tax increase is just nonsense.
00:36:27.000I think we need to be candid with voters.
00:36:29.000I think we have to tell them what we're going to do and what it's going to cost.
00:36:31.000And a 4% tax on income over $24,000 doesn't even come close to paying for between 30 and some estimates as high as $40 trillion over 10 years.
00:36:42.000That's doubling the entire federal budget per year.
00:37:47.000Anyway, Amy Klobuchar, she went after Warren, but nobody in the media will.
00:37:51.000Senator Warren, you acknowledged that Medicare for All, that you couldn't get there right away.
00:37:56.000You got on the bill that said on page 8, which is why I didn't get on it, that you would kick 149 million Americans off their current health insurance.
00:38:06.000Then, a few months ago, you said, no, you're going to wait a while to get there.
00:38:11.000And I think that was some acknowledgment that maybe what we're talking about is true.
00:38:45.000But instead of Abby Phillip asking Elizabeth Warren, so lady, you keep proposing all this crazy crap spending, and then you propose a wealth tax that's unconstitutional to pay for, that has no support among Congress people, and then you proclaim yourself more moderate than Bernie, so what's the deal?
00:39:00.000Instead, she goes after Sanders again on the fact that he's a crazy old kook who likes to spend a lot of money.
00:39:06.000Here is Abby Phillip going after Sanders again.
00:39:09.000Senator Sanders, your campaign proposals would double federal spending over the next decade.
00:39:14.000An unprecedented level of spending not seen since World War II.
00:39:18.000How would you keep your plans from bankrupting the country?
00:39:22.000Our plan wouldn't bankrupt the country.
00:39:24.000In fact, it would much improve the well-being of working class families and the middle class.
00:39:31.000Yes, so again, Abby Phillip going after Sanders and Sanders giving another dumb answer, but these Democratic debates, my goodness, they have not been good for the Democrats.
00:40:20.000Okay, well, there was more to the debate, but that was basically the story of the night.
00:40:23.000It was Warren and Sanders, and Tom Steyer, who was just kind of hanging out.
00:40:26.000Everyone's like, why is Tom Steyer here?
00:40:28.000And the answer is because he spent a lot of money to be on that stage.
00:40:31.000Like, a lot of money to be on that stage.
00:40:33.000Tom Steyer's closing is worthy of note simply because this person has somehow been able to buy his way to 15% support in the early states according to the latest polling.
00:41:08.000Do we even know what sport we're playing?
00:41:12.000I'm pretty sure that somebody would throw the penalty, but my favorite part of that is that he's on the same stage as Elizabeth Warren who just put a boot in Bernie Sanders' face.
00:41:20.000And he's sitting there like, I'm not getting involved.
00:41:22.000He's literally the third person as Elizabeth Warren comes over and gets in a fight with Bernie Sanders.
00:41:28.000Five seconds after he says, I will not permit anyone to take a boot and put it in my teammate's face.
00:41:33.000He's standing there going, what the F am I supposed to do?
00:41:36.000As Bernie is approached by Warren, who refuses to shake his hand because again, she's not a nice person.
00:41:42.000This tape, I'm never going to get over it.
00:41:43.000We're going to have to, we're going to have to get a lip reader in here because there's no question you could probably figure out what they are saying.
00:41:51.000But Steyer's like, so remember that time when I said I was going to be brave and defend my allies?
00:41:55.000Yeah, I'm just going to like walk over here.
00:41:57.000I'm just gonna see you later a little bit.
00:42:50.000She is so much more annoying than Hillary Clinton.
00:42:51.000I used to think not, but she has gotten to be so irritating and so self-righteous and so terrible.
00:42:57.000She's less corrupt than Hillary Clinton because she hasn't had as long a history in politics, but she is just... The self-righteousness with which she treats everybody else, when she herself is the most cynical politician on the stage, is truly galling.
00:43:08.000And then you have Bernie, who is just a 19... a 19...
00:43:30.000To see those two have that level of vitriol was very dispiriting, and I want to say that tonight for me was dispiriting.
00:43:37.000Democrats are going to have to do better than what we saw tonight.
00:43:40.000There was nothing I saw tonight that would be able to take Donald Trump out, and I want to see a Democrat in the White House as soon as possible.
00:43:46.000There was nothing tonight that, if you're looking at this thing, you say any of these people are prepared for what Donald Trump is going to do to us, and to see further division tonight is very dispiriting.
00:43:55.000Well, yeah, I mean, it should be dispiriting if you're a Democrat.
00:43:58.000And if you're a Bernie, if you're a Bernie fan, you've got to be fighting mad.
00:44:01.000And you've got to be thinking to yourself, this Democratic Party, the way they've treated this guy is truly egregious.
00:44:06.000Because it is, just from any objective level.
00:44:07.000The way the Democratic Party has treated Sanders is truly egregious.
00:44:10.000And yes, I'm being a little bit cynical because I would love to see the Bernie fans stay home from the polls and not vote for Elizabeth Warren or Joe Biden because they're ticked off.
00:44:18.000I'm not going to pretend I don't have a dog in this fight, but just trying to take myself out of it, if I were a Bernie fan today, which I'm not, Even as a non-Bernie fan, just trying to be honest, that was truly awful.
00:45:50.000So the Democrats have now sent their impeachment managers over to the Senate.
00:45:56.000And those managers are going to be Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler, which is not a surprise.
00:45:59.000Schiff chairs the Intelligence Committee, Nadler chairs the Judiciary Committee.
00:46:02.000That is Pelosi steering directly into conflict because she figures that Schiff will be asked tough questions by Republicans, that Schiff will be dragged through the mud, and that controversy is not bad for her because, frankly, this thing is generating no heat at all.
00:46:14.000Any heat that is generated, she hopes, Will lead to headlines over impeachment since most people have already tuned out at this point.
00:46:21.000That is why she is sending over Schiff and Jerry Nadler as well.
00:46:25.000As far as the witnesses, it is clear that witnesses will be called.
00:46:29.000They're not the votes to just dismiss this thing out of hand.
00:46:31.000There are too many Republican senators who already said they want witnesses.
00:46:34.000I have no fear of witnesses saying whatever it is they're going to say.
00:46:38.000More transparency is good, whether we're talking Democrats or whether we are talking Republicans.
00:46:42.000So that is where things stand in terms of impeachment.
00:46:44.000The vote is taking place today to send over the impeachment charges to the Senate.
00:46:49.000The trial is supposed to start next Tuesday.
00:46:50.000So we are going to be treated to the spectacle, in all likelihood, of the President of the United States giving a State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, well under the threat of impeachment, which should be pretty great TV.
00:47:03.000I don't really like the State of the Union address.
00:47:04.000I think it's a monarchical, stupid institution, but I will be watching that.