The Ben Shapiro Show - The Final Debate! | Ep. 961

00:00:00.000 The guns finally turn on Bernie.

00:00:02.000 Sort of.

00:00:03.000 Michael Bloomberg keeps getting clocked, and Joe Biden wants you to know that he's going to say some words, dag-nabbit. 0.84

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00:01:44.000 Okay, so last night was the final Democratic debate that mattered.

00:01:48.000 Because once we hit South Carolina, the sucker's over. 0.94

00:01:51.000 Here's the bottom line.

00:01:52.000 If Joe Biden does not win South Carolina walking away, it can't be a close victory.

00:01:55.000 He has to win by probably double digits. 0.88

00:01:58.000 Unless Joe Biden has a massive victory in South Carolina, the sucker is over Bernie Sanders as your nominee.

00:02:03.000 Michael Bloomberg has been sinking in a lot of the state and national polling.

00:02:06.000 Nate Silver points out that Michael Bloomberg is now receding back toward the field.

00:02:09.000 He'd gotten up to close to 20%.

00:02:11.000 Now he is receding back down toward 11% in a lot of the national polling.

00:02:16.000 You're seeing the same thing happening in a lot of the state polling.

00:02:18.000 So he's just clogging up that moderate lane.

00:02:20.000 Instead of him actually clearing the moderate lane, instead of Biden clearing the moderate lane, he just becomes another one of these also-rans in this crab bucket where every crab is dragging down all the other crabs. 1.00

00:02:30.000 Buttigieg and Klobuchar and Biden and Bloomberg, and they're all tearing each other down.

00:02:34.000 The newest economist, YouGovPoll, has Bernie up at 30%, Biden at 20%, Bloomberg at 11%, and Warren at 16%, and Buttigieg at 9%.

00:02:41.000 So Bloomberg is not rising up from the field in any of the national polling.

00:02:45.000 You're seeing the same thing happen in the Emerson poll that has Bloomberg all the way down at 14.

00:02:48.000 ABC News Washington Post poll has him down at 14.

00:02:51.000 NBC News Wall Street Journal poll has Bloomberg down at 14.

00:02:54.000 And yet, bizarrely, last night, it was Michael Bloomberg who was at the tip of everybody's tongue in a lot of the debate last night, which makes no sense.

00:03:01.000 Because, as we all know, Bernie Sanders is your national frontrunner right now.

00:03:04.000 Now, the polls in South Carolina Show that Biden does continue to have a lead.

00:03:10.000 But how big that lead is, I mean, it could be anybody's guess.

00:03:14.000 There are two polls in the last 30, in the last 48 hours, well, three polls in the last 48 hours.

00:03:18.000 You have one from CBS News, YouGov, and it shows Biden up 28, 23 on Sanders, so a fairly narrow lead.

00:03:24.000 And then you have one from NBC News Marist that has Biden up just four points on Sanders and within margin of error at 27 to 23.

00:03:30.000 And then there's a public policy polling poll, which is a Democratic firm, and that shows Biden all the way up at 36 percent, with Sanders all the way down at 21 percent.

00:03:37.000 So if Biden were to blow out Bernie in South Carolina, then what you could see on Super Tuesday is the two of them really start to split votes in a serious way.

00:03:45.000 You could see Biden run the table in the South, and you could see Bernie pick up votes in places like California.

00:03:50.000 And Bloomberg at that point would be the complicating factor, not Biden.

00:03:53.000 Now, the logic so far has been that if Biden doesn't win South Carolina, he needs to drop out so that somebody else has a shot at that moderate lane.

00:04:00.000 But if Biden wins South Carolina, really it would behoove Bloomberg to drop out and toss his money behind Biden if he doesn't want to see an open socialist as the nominee.

00:04:08.000 The bottom line here, though, is that Bernie does have the clearest path to the nomination at this point.

00:04:12.000 538 continues to put his odds of taking the nomination as the highest odds, about 2 in 5.

00:04:18.000 They say that no majority is still at 2 in 5.

00:04:21.000 They've got Biden at 1 in 9 and Bloomberg down at 1 in 50.

00:04:25.000 So, Sanders was the frontrunner last night.

00:04:28.000 And was Sanders attacked like the frontrunner?

00:04:30.000 The answer, of course, is no, he was not.

00:04:31.000 At the very beginning of the debate, they had a big debate in South Carolina.

00:04:35.000 The first, I don't know, 10 minutes of the debate, people started trying to launch attacks on Bernie.

00:04:39.000 Now, the biggest problem with launching an attack on Bernie, if you are a Democrat, is the problem that a lot of Republicans had launching attacks on Trump.

00:04:45.000 What's the angle, exactly?

00:04:47.000 What's the angle?

00:04:48.000 Now, with Trump, you could try and attack him from the right, you could say that he wasn't right-wing enough, he wasn't sort of hewing the line enough on various conservative issues, that he was a newcomer on the abortion issue, that he was a newcomer on the immigration issue, but Trump was willing to say whatever extreme thing he had to say in order to shore up the base.

00:05:06.000 And Bernie, it's sort of the same thing.

00:05:08.000 The attacks on Bernie that are going to damage him in a general election come from his right, but the base is not significantly to Bernie Sanders' right.

00:05:16.000 Or at least they appear not to be.

00:05:17.000 They appear to be willing to fall for his lie that Medicare for All means that you get to keep your doctor.

00:05:21.000 They appear to be willing to fall for his lies that he's going to come up with $60 trillion to pay for all of this stuff. 0.92

00:05:26.000 They appear to be willing to go along with his ridiculous heresies.

00:05:28.000 So that means that most of the attacks on Bernie last night sort of fell flat because Bernie and his perspective are indeed fairly popular inside the Democratic Party.

00:05:37.000 And as Bernie gains credence as a national presidential candidate, people are willing to shunt aside their fears and simply jump on board the bandwagon.

00:05:46.000 The only person last night, there were only two people last night who really tried to take it to Bernie in any serious way.

00:05:52.000 It really was Bloomberg and Buttigieg.

00:05:54.000 Biden really didn't try to take it to Sanders in any serious way.

00:05:56.000 Warren, I mean, honestly, I'm shocked at how bad these folks are at debate.

00:06:00.000 I am shocked at it.

00:06:02.000 Elizabeth Warren last night was going out of her way to attack Bloomberg while leaving Bernie alone because she clearly wants the VP slot from Bernie. 1.00

00:06:08.000 And I'm just shocked that Bloomberg didn't say that straight out.

00:06:10.000 Really, I'm surprised by that.

00:06:12.000 I'm surprised that when Warren was attacking Bloomberg, Bloomberg didn't say, listen Elizabeth, I know that you were the frontrunner in this race for a short period of time, and then Bernie ate your lunch, and now you're desperately hoping to be Bernie's vice president.

00:06:21.000 I get all of that, but I don't understand why you're attacking me.

00:06:24.000 That's not going to make you Bernie's vice president.

00:06:26.000 It would have been devastating for her.

00:06:28.000 But Bloomberg, nobody is willing to call anybody out except for Bloomberg.

00:06:32.000 Because Bloomberg's the safe territory.

00:06:33.000 He's a billionaire.

00:06:34.000 He used to be a Republican.

00:06:36.000 And so it's easy to attack Bloomberg because you know that your base is behind you on most of those attacks.

00:06:40.000 It's harder to attack Bernie.

00:06:42.000 As we will see, Bernie actually had a pretty bad debate last night. 0.99

00:06:45.000 Bernie was ranting and raving like the old communist lunatic that he is. 1.00

00:06:49.000 But none of that matters because everybody knows that he's an old communist lunatic. 0.99

00:06:52.000 Meanwhile, if you had to grade the candidates last night, here's your preliminary grade. 0.96

00:06:56.000 So, you give Bernie basically a D, but it doesn't matter.

00:07:00.000 Maybe N-A is probably the better grade, not applicable, because it really doesn't matter.

00:07:03.000 All he had to do was escape getting destroyed last night, and he basically did.

00:07:06.000 Joe Biden had probably his best debate.

00:07:09.000 His debate basically consisted of him standing there and shouting that he wanted more time to talk into the microphone, and then not actually knowing what to say into the microphone.

00:07:16.000 As we will see, it was kind of amusing.

00:07:17.000 He kept doing it over and over and over.

00:07:18.000 But it was Joe Biden trying to demonstrate that he is actually a living, functional human being with a brain that still has occasional flickers of light in it.

00:07:27.000 And then you had Pete Buttigieg, who again turned into very smooth debate.

00:07:30.000 The problem for Pete Buttigieg is that the smoothness of his debating skills is not going to make up for the fact that Buttigieg has no national appeal and can't even win his home state of Indiana.

00:07:39.000 You had Amy Klobuchar, who was in Also Ran.

00:07:41.000 She had a fine debate, but Amy Klobuchar has never been able to generate any electricity on this stage. 0.96

00:07:45.000 You had Tom Steyer.

00:07:46.000 Now, it was funny.

00:07:47.000 People last night were tweeting, why is, why are people attacking Tom Steyer?

00:07:50.000 The reason people are attacking Tom Steyer is because Tom Steyer actually has a fairly significant share percentage in South Carolina.

00:07:57.000 Like Steyer's the, there are only three people running in double digits.

00:08:00.000 In the real real clear politics polling average in South Carolina, Biden, Sanders and Steyer, because Steyer has dumped millions upon millions of dollars into South Carolina.

00:08:08.000 That's the reason that Biden was going after Steyer, trying to take away support from Steyer.

00:08:13.000 Steyer had what for him was a fine debate, but obviously he's going nowhere and nowhere fast.

00:08:19.000 So it was a pretty lackluster debate.

00:08:21.000 The moderation has come under a lot of scrutiny because the moderators really did not take control of the debate.

00:08:26.000 As you will see, it was incredibly messy.

00:08:28.000 People could not get a word in edgewise.

00:08:29.000 Everybody was so desperate to talk that you couldn't even get a clean hit in on anyone.

00:08:33.000 If the debate last week was notable because everybody was just sort of spraying each other with bullets, last night was a clown car where everybody was sort of bonking each other with plastic hammers.

00:08:43.000 He was making the sound.

00:08:45.000 That really was the sound on the sound last week was the sound of gunshots.

00:08:49.000 The sound last night was as people hit each other with the little plastic hammers that you get from the arcade.

00:08:55.000 OK, so here's how it began.

00:08:57.000 It began with various other candidates attacking Bernie Sanders and doing so in fairly weak terms.

00:09:04.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:10:23.000 Okay, so the debate began with a few different attacks on Bernie Sanders.

00:10:26.000 And it was everybody trying to kind of try their line.

00:10:28.000 The biggest line that everybody was trying is that Bernie is unelectable.

00:10:32.000 Now, the problem with this is that if you want to make the case that Bernie is unelectable, this is the case that Biden has been making all along.

00:10:37.000 And it's true, Bernie has serious electability issues.

00:10:40.000 And there's an analysis from Vox yesterday that specifically talked about the fact that Bernie would have to get like 55% youth turnout, which is not a thing that's going to happen, if he hopes to make up for all of the sort of deficiencies he has with suburban women and with moderates and with independents.

00:10:56.000 And that is not going to happen.

00:10:58.000 So the fact that Bernie is the least electable of these Democratic candidates and that the national polling right now does not reflect any, any of the damaging material that will go out against Bernie.

00:11:07.000 I mean, if you think that all the oppo research material that I've been talking about on the show for years, all the stuff that I've talked about for years, Ranging from Bernie's supremely creepy pieces back in the 1970s, in which he actively talks about why young children should run around naked and touch each other's genitals to prevent the pornography industry from making money.

00:11:24.000 He actually wrote that.

00:11:25.000 I didn't write that.

00:11:26.000 He wrote that.

00:11:27.000 He wrote it when he was 30 years old.

00:11:28.000 He was not a child.

00:11:30.000 If you think that's not going to come up, you're wrong.

00:11:32.000 If you think that Bernie's life as a derelict loser until he was 39 years old when he was elected mayor of Burlington is not going to come up, you are wrong.

00:11:40.000 If you think that Bernie's positions back in the 1970s, in which he embraced every authoritarian regime he could find, that those are not going to come up, you are wrong.

00:11:47.000 Right?

00:11:47.000 They will come up, and he will not get the soft-pedaled treatment that he's been getting from the media.

00:11:51.000 He will not get the soft-pedaled treatment he got last night from the Democrats.

00:11:53.000 He will get the full Trump.

00:11:55.000 And Trump is a weapon.

00:11:56.000 Right?

00:11:56.000 Trump in 2016, I made this point a thousand times, Trump is a hammer.

00:11:59.000 Sometimes he hits a nail and it's delicious, and sometimes he hits a baby and it is less so.

00:12:03.000 Hitting Bernie Sanders will be hitting a nail, and it will be hitting a nail repeatedly until the nail splinters.

00:12:09.000 Because the fact is that Bernie Sanders is ripe for Apple material.

00:12:13.000 Donald Trump isn't going to figuratively hit Bernie Sanders with a kitchen sink.

00:12:16.000 Donald Trump may, in fact, go down to the kitchen of the hotel where they are holding the debate, pry a sink off the wall, bring it up into the debate hall, and hit Bernie Sanders physically with a sink.

00:12:26.000 Okay, because that's who Donald Trump is.

00:12:28.000 The man has no limits, like none.

00:12:30.000 And so for Bernie, that's really bad, because Bernie is still flying high on this, I have a great vision for the future.

00:12:36.000 Sure, it's the same vision as Karl Marx, but it's a great vision.

00:12:39.000 Why can we not do this?

00:12:41.000 Trump is going to have none of that.

00:12:42.000 As we will see, even the Democrat attacks on Bernie's Marxism last night fell flat, mainly because a lot of the Democrats have sort of the same central premises as Bernie.

00:12:51.000 They just don't like how Bernie is going about reaching his proposed conclusions.

00:12:55.000 Okay, so.

00:12:56.000 Here's how the attack starts.

00:12:57.000 So Michael Bloomberg opens this thing up and he says, okay, Vladimir Putin would like for Bernie Sanders to get the nomination because they want to see Trump elected.

00:13:05.000 Now, this is really kind of ridiculous, what Bloomberg is saying, because the truth is that basic latest intel suggests the opposite.

00:13:13.000 The latest intel suggests that the Russians don't just want Bernie nominated, they want Bernie to win.

00:13:18.000 And the Washington Post reported that.

00:13:19.000 Why wouldn't they want him to win?

00:13:20.000 He's a fellow traveler.

00:13:22.000 I mean the guy's Wallace, the guy is the reporter from the New York Times circa 1932 going around Ukraine talking about how they've solved all problems of feeding the public.

00:13:32.000 Bernie is a lifelong communist fellow traveler.

00:13:34.000 Of course Vladimir Putin wants him to be president.

00:13:37.000 Could a rational person think otherwise?

00:13:39.000 Who do you think Putin wants?

00:13:40.000 Do you think he wants the guy who, yes, he believes he has been able to play Trump.

00:13:44.000 There's no question Putin thinks he's been able to play Trump.

00:13:46.000 But do you think that Putin wants the guy who has strengthened the United States military and handed deadly aid to Ukraine?

00:13:52.000 Or do you think he wants the guy who speaks fondly of Vladimir Lenin?

00:13:55.000 I am not kidding.

00:13:57.000 Bernie Sanders speaks fondly... In 1988, he came back from the Soviet Union and talked about how the Soviet Union was finally achieving the visions of 1917, which is Leninism.

00:14:07.000 So here is Michael Bloomberg getting... He can't even get this hit right.

00:14:10.000 None of the hits on Sanders stuck because they're all done badly and because they're not true, at least in half.

00:14:16.000 So here is Bloomberg, even while hitting Bernie, pulling his punches on Vladimir Putin.

00:14:20.000 I think that Donald Trump thinks it would be better if he's president.

00:14:25.000 I do not think so.

00:14:26.000 Vladimir Putin thinks that Donald Trump should be president of the United States, and that's why Russia is helping you get elected, so you'll lose to him.

00:14:34.000 Let me tell Mr. Putin, okay, I'm not a good friend of President Xi of China.

00:14:42.000 I think President Xi is an authoritarian leader.

00:14:44.000 And let me tell Mr. Putin, who interfered in the 2016 election, try to bring Americans against Americans.

00:14:52.000 Hey, Mr. Putin, if I'm President of the United States, trust me, you're not going to interfere in any more American elections.

00:14:59.000 You won't have to, because this is no way out, and I'm Kevin Costner.

00:15:02.000 Why would you interfere in the American elections?

00:15:04.000 Because the threat is coming from inside the house.

00:15:09.000 I'm sure Vladimir Putin is quick in his boots at the geriatric communist.

00:15:13.000 I'm sure he's just... Vladimir Putin's like, oh no, if Bernie becomes president, well then I won't have to do anything.

00:15:19.000 That's... Come on, come on.

00:15:22.000 Okay, but he is right that...

00:15:25.000 As we'll see, Bloomberg is very warm toward Xi Jinping of China, and that is a flaw for Michael Bloomberg, right?

00:15:30.000 This is one of the problems for Michael Bloomberg.

00:15:32.000 Also, it is worth noting that Bernie has talked about the wonders of China before as well.

00:15:35.000 So again, there's no authoritarian leader who's a communist on planet Earth or Bernie hasn't paid lip service to.

00:15:41.000 I don't like the authoritarianism, but I sure like the literacy programs and the bread lines.

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00:17:05.000 Okay, so Bloomberg launches the initial attack.

00:17:07.000 That's a failure.

00:17:08.000 Then there's Elizabeth Warren, who is desperately trying to cling to the notion that she is going to be Bernie's VP. 1.00

00:17:13.000 So she sort of hits him and she sort of doesn't.

00:17:16.000 Her hit is, I love everything that Bernie is saying.

00:17:18.000 Bernie is just the best.

00:17:19.000 But, I'll be better than Bernie because I'm Native American.

00:17:24.000 Like, she really has no reason why she'll be better than Bernie.

00:17:26.000 So here is Elizabeth Warren not really hitting Bernie. 0.88

00:17:29.000 So look, the way I see this is that Bernie is winning right now because the Democratic Party is a progressive party and progressive ideas are popular ideas, even if there are a lot of people on this stage who don't want to say so.

00:17:45.000 Getting a progressive agenda enacted is going to be really hard and it's going to take someone who digs into the details to make it happen.

00:17:54.000 Okay, so that is, you know, a really, really failed attack by Elizabeth Warren, because it's not meant as an attack.

00:18:01.000 It was meant as more of an overture to why I should be Bernie's vice president.

00:18:05.000 Then there was Pete Buttigieg, and Buttigieg's pitch is, do you really want Trump versus Bernie?

00:18:09.000 Now, honestly, this is a fairly good pitch, right?

00:18:10.000 I mean, the pitch is, do you really want this bleep show to go on all year?

00:18:14.000 It's not a bad pitch.

00:18:15.000 The problem is that nobody actually loves Pete Buttigieg all that much other than journalists who are college-educated white people living in New York.

00:18:22.000 I mean, other than that, Buttigieg has no base.

00:18:24.000 So here is Buttigieg making his case against Bernie.

00:18:26.000 And again, it is not based on principle.

00:18:28.000 It's based on, like, aren't these old people annoying? 1.00

00:18:32.000 I'll tell you what the Russians want.

00:18:33.000 They don't have a political party.

00:18:35.000 They want chaos.

00:18:37.000 And chaos is what is coming our way.

00:18:39.000 I mean, look, if you think the last four years has been chaotic, divisive, toxic, exhausting, imagine spending the better part of 2020 with Bernie Sanders versus Donald Trump.

00:18:54.000 That is a fairly good pitch.

00:18:56.000 The problem is that Buttigieg isn't going to prevent any of that, and everybody knows it.

00:18:58.000 Now, the only attack from the right on Bernie Sanders came from Tom Steyer, and it fell completely flat.

00:19:04.000 So Steyer, who again is competitive in South Carolina, but nowhere else, he says, I don't like the fact that Bernie's a commie, and I don't like it bothers me.

00:19:11.000 Now, normally, this is a good attack.

00:19:12.000 The problem is that, again, the Democratic base is largely on board with many of the things that Bernie has said because they grafted off of his plans, right?

00:19:20.000 His Medicare for All plan.

00:19:21.000 Half the field grafted off of it.

00:19:22.000 And now Steyer is like, yeah, you know, maybe we shouldn't nominate a communist.

00:19:25.000 It doesn't really go anywhere.

00:19:27.000 I don't like his solutions.

00:19:29.000 I don't believe that a government takeover of large parts of the economy makes any sense for working people or for families.

00:19:38.000 I think that what we need to do is to present an alternative that includes a vibrant, competitive private sector.

00:19:46.000 And that, of course, is not going to have any real truck with a lot of Democrats.

00:19:50.000 Now, Biden launched his own attack on Sanders. 0.95

00:19:51.000 These are so weak, T. They're so weak, T. You have a geriatric communist standing before you who has endorsed every authoritarian regime of the last half century and who's been a useless human being for the last six decades of his life. 0.76

00:20:02.000 And your best attack is he didn't vote in favor of the Brady Bill?

00:20:06.000 This is Joe Biden trying to attack Sanders from the left, trying to say that Sanders isn't committed enough to progressivism.

00:20:11.000 Good luck with this attack.

00:20:12.000 You can't attack Bernie Sanders from the left.

00:20:13.000 It's just not possible.

00:20:14.000 Here is Joe Biden trying it, though.

00:20:16.000 Bernie voted five times against the Brady Bill and wanted a waiting period of 12 hours.

00:20:23.000 I'm not saying he's responsible for the nine deaths, but that man would not have been able to get that weapon with the waiting period had been what I suggest until you are cleared.

00:20:32.000 In addition to that, being progressive, he thought Barack Obama, he wanted a primary.

00:20:37.000 He said we should primary Barack Obama.

00:20:40.000 Someone should.

00:20:41.000 And in fact, the president was weak and our administration was in fact not up to it.

00:20:47.000 Again, the attack on Bernie from the left on guns, that's not gonna have any sort of play.

00:20:52.000 And Bernie did respond by saying, I got that one wrong, but I've had to de-mine this from the NRA ever since, and I hope to get an F. Okay, that's actually not a terrible answer.

00:20:59.000 Okay, finally, Bernie responds to all of this, and he responds in patented, wild-eyed communist fashion.

00:21:04.000 He basically says, everybody's attacking me up here tonight because they know that I'm the frontrunner, and I'm the frontrunner because I'm a communist.

00:21:12.000 Pete mentioned, I'm hearing my name mentioned a little bit tonight.

00:21:17.000 I wonder why.

00:21:18.000 And maybe, you know, Pete mentions what the American people want.

00:21:21.000 I will tell you, Pete, what the American people want, and Joe, what the American people want.

00:21:26.000 They don't want candidates to be running to billionaires for huge amounts of funding.

00:21:32.000 Hey, this, again, this stuff has been playing.

00:21:34.000 I mean, he's just, he's playing the hits.

00:21:36.000 I'll say this about Bernie.

00:21:37.000 Bernie doesn't have a lot new to say, but dude plays the hits.

00:21:40.000 I mean, if you go to a Doobie Brothers concert, you want to hear, listen to the music.

00:21:42.000 And if you go to a Bernie Sanders debate, you want to hear billionaires and millionaires and everybody who's rich.

00:21:48.000 So, that was that.

00:21:49.000 Meanwhile, Biden did, in fact, basically say he has to win South Carolina.

00:21:52.000 This was maybe the only big news of the debate.

00:21:54.000 Biden basically said, I will win South Carolina.

00:21:56.000 He didn't pledge he would get out if he doesn't, but realistically speaking, if he doesn't win South Carolina, he's toast.

00:22:01.000 Here is Biden admitting as much.

00:22:03.000 Mr. Biden, will you continue if you do not win South Carolina?

00:22:06.000 You have said that South Carolina will determine the outcome of this presidential race.

00:22:10.000 If you don't win South Carolina, will you continue with the race?

00:22:13.000 I will win South Carolina.

00:22:14.000 Okay, so that is his pledge.

00:22:16.000 That is his pledge.

00:22:17.000 Now, will it happen?

00:22:18.000 Maybe.

00:22:18.000 And if he does, then it makes the race a lot more interesting, for sure.

00:22:22.000 But if Bernie gets more delegates than Biden, he's gonna end up with the nomination.

00:22:25.000 And meanwhile, that was like the first ten minutes of the debate, all of this.

00:22:28.000 Then, everybody just decides, you know what, how about like for an hour and a half we just bag on Bloomberg?

00:22:33.000 That's what happens, seriously.

00:22:34.000 Everyone, particularly Elizabeth Warren, who is just openly campaigning.

00:22:38.000 In the middle of the debate, she walked over to Bernie's podium and slipped him a resume for VP.

00:22:44.000 She slipped him a binder full of women like Mitt Romney. 1.00

00:22:47.000 It's so obvious.

00:22:49.000 She's so obvious and so transparent and so terrible, Elizabeth Warren.

00:22:53.000 About 10 minutes into the debate, she swivels and she just starts clocking Bloomberg.

00:22:56.000 Again, like Mongo clocking the horse in Blazing Saddles.

00:22:58.000 Because Bloomberg ain't the frontrunner.

00:23:00.000 Bloomberg is fading in the polls.

00:23:02.000 Bloomberg is not making a difference in this race.

00:23:04.000 So Elizabeth Warren, to prove her bona fides, she's out there like Luca Brasi trying to prove her fealty to the Don.

00:23:11.000 And so here is Elizabeth Warren going after Michael Bloomberg and suggesting that he's discriminatory against women, this time by telling a lie again. 0.95

00:23:20.000 She's told this story before, this story where she was supposedly discriminated against on the basis of her pregnancy.

00:23:25.000 Documentary evidence shows that this is highly unlikely, that she was actually offered to retain her teaching position unanimously in the school district, in which she talks about how she was discriminated against as a woman.

00:23:35.000 She has falsified nearly every aspect of her own personal background, but she uses that to hit Michael Bloomberg because she is woman, hear her complain. 0.98

00:23:43.000 The principal wished me luck and gave my job to someone else.

00:23:48.000 Pregnancy discrimination?

00:23:49.000 You bet.

00:23:51.000 But I was 21 years old, I didn't have a union to protect me, and I didn't have any federal law on my side.

00:23:56.000 So I packed up my stuff and I went home. 0.77

00:24:00.000 At least I didn't have a boss who said to me, kill it!

00:24:05.000 The way that Mayor Bloomberg has allegedly said to one of his pregnant employees.

00:24:11.000 Okay, I mean, that is just her showing off to Bernie Sanders at this point.

00:24:15.000 By the way, that's an allegation.

00:24:16.000 It's never been proved in court that he said, kill it.

00:24:18.000 If he did, obviously it's a super evil thing to say.

00:24:20.000 I am amused to watch Democrats suddenly realize that telling people to get abortions is a bad idea. 0.72

00:24:25.000 I was under the impression that they're very much in favor of women need to be empowered by having abortions.

00:24:29.000 So, apparently it's only bad when Bloomberg says it, but if they make that their entire national platform, then apparently it's not.

00:24:34.000 It's not a bad thing anymore.

00:24:35.000 And she continued along this line.

00:24:36.000 I mean, the whole like really for a solid half hour, it was just Warren bagging on Bloomberg to prove that she was loyal to Bernie Sanders.

00:24:43.000 She continued along these lines.

00:24:44.000 Norah O'Donnell asked Bloomberg about jokes about women.

00:24:47.000 And how is it that we go through an entire debate where Bernie Sanders is the front runner and he's never asked about the fact that he literally held in the 1970s that women who don't have orgasms get cancer?

00:24:56.000 Okay, I'm not kidding about that.

00:24:57.000 That is a thing that Bernie Sanders wrote back in the 1970s.

00:25:01.000 In fact, he's on tape talking about it in the 1970s and 80s.

00:25:03.000 That women who were sexually repressed were more likely to get cancer.

00:25:06.000 How does he not get asked about that, but Bloomberg gets asked about everything?

00:25:09.000 The answer is, because nobody's willing to ask Sanders a tough question, here's Norah O'Donnell asking Bloomberg a question, and then Warren jumping in with both feet to try and destroy Bloomberg to prove that she is loyal to Bernie.

00:25:20.000 Did these women take your jokes wrong, or were you wrong to make the jokes? 1.00

00:25:24.000 Probably wrong to make the jokes.

00:25:26.000 I don't remember what they were, so I assume if it bothered them, I was wrong, and I apologize.

00:25:31.000 I'm sorry for that.

00:25:32.000 If you get nominated, we'll be relitigating this all year.

00:25:38.000 And then she says, you didn't do what I asked.

00:25:39.000 Why is it up to Bloomberg to do what she asks?

00:25:42.000 Who made Elizabeth Warren Queen? 1.00

00:25:43.000 But of course, this is the, I'm a woman on this stage and I'm going to hold Bloomberg to account.

00:25:48.000 Really what it's about, again, is taking down Bloomberg at Sanders' behest.

00:25:52.000 When you spend all your time attacking the guy who's running like third in the national polling, That sort of betrays what exactly you are doing, Elizabeth Warren.

00:26:00.000 Okay, meanwhile, Senator Sanders has no answers to anything.

00:26:03.000 So Nora O'Donnell asks Sanders about the cost of his agenda, and Sanders has literally no answer to this, and no one seems to care.

00:26:09.000 Senator Sanders, the cost of your agenda.

00:26:12.000 Yesterday, you released information about how you will pay for your major proposals, but not all of your details are clear.

00:26:20.000 You proposed more than $50 trillion in new spending.

00:26:24.000 You've said Medicare for all will cost 30 trillion dollars.

00:26:28.000 But you can only explain how you'll pay for just about half of that.

00:26:32.000 Can you do the math for the rest of us?

00:26:35.000 How many hours do you have?

00:26:37.000 Two.

00:26:38.000 I mean, that is such a terrible answer.

00:26:40.000 If it takes you that long to answer how you're going to pay for all of this stuff, that means you don't have an answer, because he doesn't have an answer.

00:26:46.000 Pete Buttigieg, again, I think that Buttigieg is the best debater on the stage.

00:26:50.000 I think he's the most talented politician on the stage, just in pure, raw terms.

00:26:53.000 Buttigieg was the only person willing to call out Sanders on this stuff, and he does, but the problem is that the moderators won't let Buttigieg get an award in Edgewise.

00:27:01.000 This is one of the big stories of the night, is the CBS moderators were just awful last night.

00:27:05.000 At no point did they step in and act like adults.

00:27:06.000 Instead, they just let everybody squabble.

00:27:09.000 It sounded like my kids in the back of the car when they can't decide which Star Wars movie to watch.

00:27:13.000 Here is Pete Buttigieg going after Sanders but not being able to get an award in Edgewise.

00:27:18.000 Let's talk about math, Matt.

00:27:19.000 Let's talk about it, Matt.

00:27:20.000 I think we should talk about math, Matt.

00:27:22.000 What is it?

00:27:23.000 Why?

00:27:23.000 And it continued like this.

00:27:24.000 OK, so here's the math thing.

00:27:26.000 No, here's the math.

00:27:27.000 Can I respond to the fact?

00:27:29.000 Doing nothing is what will happen.

00:27:30.000 Let's talk about Matt.

00:27:32.000 Matt, let's talk about it.

00:27:33.000 Matt, I think we should talk about Matt.

00:27:35.000 Matt, what is it?

00:27:36.000 Why?

00:27:36.000 And it continued like this.

00:27:39.000 I mean, this is one of the themes of the night is that they weren't able to control it enough that anybody could get a solid shot in at Sanders, right?

00:27:46.000 Buttigieg tries it again like one second later.

00:27:48.000 And again, he is not allowed to finish his point.

00:27:52.000 If you want to keep the House in Democratic hands, you might want to check.

00:27:56.000 With the people who actually turned the house blue.

00:27:59.000 40 Democrats.

00:28:00.000 Who are not running on your platform.

00:28:03.000 They are running away from your platform as fast as they possibly can.

00:28:07.000 That of course is exactly true. 0.79

00:28:09.000 But, doesn't matter.

00:28:10.000 Because, doesn't matter.

00:28:12.000 Okay.

00:28:13.000 So Joe Biden...

00:28:13.000 Then there was Joe Biden.

00:28:14.000 He's the frontrunner in South Carolina.

00:28:16.000 I mean, lest we forget, he actually is the polling frontrunner in South Carolina.

00:28:19.000 He was the longtime frontrunner in this race.

00:28:21.000 So Biden's only thing that he did last night, he was basically irrelevant last night.

00:28:24.000 He only did one thing, and that was he just kept saying that he wanted to talk.

00:28:30.000 Really, that was his pitch last night.

00:28:31.000 His pitch was, I'm here and I'm alive.

00:28:34.000 And everybody was like, OK, Joe, sure, sure.

00:28:36.000 So what he was really going for?

00:28:39.000 In 1980, Ronald Reagan was on the ropes against George H.W.

00:28:43.000 Bush in some of the early primaries.

00:28:46.000 There was a very famous New Hampshire debate at which Ronald Reagan had paid for part of the debate because all the campaigns paid for part of the debate and the moderator tried to shut up Reagan and Reagan had this very famous moment.

00:28:58.000 It was considered one of the turning points of the campaign where suddenly he got mad or suddenly he didn't look old anymore.

00:29:03.000 He got mad and he said, I paid for this microphone, Mr. Green.

00:29:07.000 It was actually Mr. Breen was the name of the guy.

00:29:08.000 But here is that moment from Ronald Reagan.

00:29:10.000 This is clear.

00:29:11.000 I'm playing this because this is clearly what Biden was trying to channel last night.

00:29:13.000 Here's Ronald Reagan circa 1980.

00:29:16.000 Okay, so it's that moment for Reagan that really turned things around.

00:29:24.000 Watch Biden try to channel Reagan right here versus Tom Steyer.

00:29:30.000 If you would, I am paying for this microphone.

00:29:33.000 Okay, so it's that moment for Reagan that really turned things around.

00:29:37.000 Watch Biden try to channel Reagan right here versus Tom Steyer.

00:29:40.000 And he kept going back to the well on this clip 14.

00:29:43.000 The fact is, here's the deal.

00:29:46.000 I'm not out of time.

00:29:47.000 He spoke over time and I'm going to talk.

00:29:49.000 Okay, and then the crowd cheers a little bit.

00:29:49.000 Here's the deal.

00:29:53.000 Here's the, he spoke over time and I'm going to talk.

00:29:55.000 Crowd cheers.

00:29:55.000 And then the best part of this was he's like, here's the deal.

00:29:57.000 Here's the deal.

00:29:58.000 And at the end of the clip, he has nothing to say.

00:30:00.000 He literally has nothing to say.

00:30:01.000 So he's like, I'm going to talk.

00:30:02.000 I paid for this microphone.

00:30:04.000 And, and then he just sort of shuffles off.

00:30:09.000 That was considered a fairly good move for Joe Biden, but whatever, whatever.

00:30:14.000 The fact is that That Biden himself did not have a wonderful night.

00:30:19.000 He didn't have a particularly great night last night.

00:30:22.000 He did show that he was a little bit lively.

00:30:23.000 There's the possibility that he does well in South Carolina.

00:30:26.000 I don't think that it's well enough to stop Bernie Sanders' rise.

00:30:29.000 But, you know, that was his big moment.

00:30:31.000 His big moment was, I'm alive.

00:30:33.000 Right?

00:30:33.000 He did it again, by the way.

00:30:34.000 Clip 20.

00:30:35.000 You'll see Joe Biden do the exact same thing.

00:30:37.000 Once he got a cheer, he just kept going back to the well like a bad comedian telling the same joke over and over.

00:30:42.000 We've got to deal with institutional racism.

00:30:44.000 Thank you, Mr. Vice President.

00:30:45.000 I note how you cut me off all the time, but I'm not going to be quiet anymore, OK?

00:30:49.000 I'm not going to be quiet anymore.

00:30:50.000 He did this, I think, four times last night.

00:30:52.000 This is this.

00:30:52.000 I'm going to I'm going to talk and you're not going to stop me from talking and stop talking.

00:30:56.000 No one's trying to stop you from talking, Joe.

00:30:57.000 You just have not had anything to say for like a year and a half.

00:31:00.000 So that would be your big problem.

00:31:01.000 Okay, we're gonna get to more of the Democratic debate plus the media reaction to the Democratic debate.

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00:32:30.000 So as I say, Joe Biden didn't have a great night last night.

00:32:38.000 His big move last night was to show that he was alive.

00:32:41.000 He didn't stop gaffing.

00:32:43.000 At clip 16, Biden basically says that half of Americans have been killed by gun violence, which is news to half of Americans who are sitting there alive, unlike maybe Joe Biden.

00:32:51.000 Here's Joe Biden completely botching statistics on guns.

00:32:54.000 But my friend and my right and others have in fact also given to the gun manufacturers absolute immunity.

00:33:02.000 Imagine if I stood here and said we give immunity to drug companies, we give immunity to tobacco companies.

00:33:07.000 That has caused carnage on our streets.

00:33:10.000 A hundred and fifty million people have been killed since 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability.

00:33:19.000 More than all the wars Including Vietnam from that point on 150 million Americans dead from gun violence.

00:33:26.000 I probably I figure I would have heard something about that my god and things are getting bad Okay, so so here's what you have you have the geriatric communist and we'll get to the only attack on him that really made a difference last night at all was the attack that he is pro-authoritarian and none of the Democrats were able to actually land this blow which is unbelievable Unbelievable. 0.80

00:33:45.000 It's unbelievable.

00:33:46.000 Then, you had Mayor Bloomberg, who basically was just standing up there taking the brunt of the attacks.

00:33:51.000 I mean, just taking the hits.

00:33:52.000 And also demonstrating that he is the worst.

00:33:55.000 In clip 22, Bloomberg basically says that he would like to nationally ban trans fats and sugary drinks and all sorts of good things that people like.

00:34:01.000 Here is nanny state Bloomberg explaining that he'd like to make it the nanny federal state.

00:34:06.000 Mayor Bloomberg, as mayor of New York, you declared war on obesity, you banned trans fats from restaurants, and you tried to do the same with large sugary drinks.

00:34:15.000 So if you become president, will you push those policies on the national level as well?

00:34:20.000 Well, I think what's right for New York City isn't necessarily right for all the other cities, otherwise you'd have a naked cowboy in every city.

00:34:27.000 So, let's get serious here.

00:34:29.000 But I do think it's the government's job to have good science and to explain to people what science says or how to take care of themselves and extend their lives.

00:34:39.000 What a slate.

00:34:40.000 Well done everybody.

00:34:41.000 What a slate you've come up with.

00:34:42.000 A dead person, a nanny stater. 0.97

00:34:44.000 And a geriatric communist.

00:34:45.000 Well, really well done.

00:34:46.000 Okay, so, finally 90 minutes into the debate.

00:34:49.000 90 minutes into the debate, the controversy of the day, which should have been minute one of this debate, comes up, right?

00:34:54.000 And that is Bernie Sanders praising Cuba.

00:34:56.000 Because he has praised Cuba, he's praised Nicaragua, he's praised Venezuela, he has praised the Soviet Union.

00:35:00.000 The man has never met a communist regime for which he does not have warm words.

00:35:04.000 Okay, this is what he does.

00:35:05.000 So, clip 26 is the one we're looking for.

00:35:07.000 So, Bernie is asked again about Cuba.

00:35:11.000 And he says, sure, it's a dictatorship, but I just said what Barack Obama said.

00:35:15.000 I mean, it's a dictatorship, but they have great literacy.

00:35:18.000 I mean, sure, they have great literacy.

00:35:20.000 You should notice the contrast.

00:35:22.000 There's a very interesting contrast between how Bernie Sanders talks about the United States and how he talks about authoritarian dictatorships.

00:35:27.000 So, most of us in the United States, if you ask us, You know, what about the problems in the United States?

00:35:32.000 We'll say, yes, absolutely there are problems in the United States, but it is the freest, best, most moral system ever created.

00:35:39.000 Right?

00:35:39.000 That America has had its problems, continues to have its problems, but what justifies the system is the fact that the system itself is good and self-correcting and has the capacity for self-correction.

00:35:48.000 Sure, there's income inequality, but we are also the most prosperous country in world history.

00:35:52.000 Sure, we've had serious, horrible, historic problems with discrimination in this country, but we have worked to fix them.

00:35:58.000 We have worked toward a more perfect union because that's our system of government.

00:36:01.000 It's the system of government that has found self-justifying.

00:36:04.000 Bernie Sanders, however, will talk about, sure, America is, I mean, we say we have a democracy, but we don't really have a democracy.

00:36:11.000 Is it really a democracy with income inequality the way that it is?

00:36:14.000 And then he will talk about authoritarian states, and he will say, well, sure, there's authoritarianism, but the literacy there is really great.

00:36:21.000 So in other words, Bernie defends authoritarian states the way most Americans defend America, and he rips into America the way most Americans rip into authoritarian states. 0.98

00:36:29.000 If you're an American, and somebody says to you, Cuba has great literacy rates, you're like, Right, and also the imprisoned dissidents and kill people they don't like, and people live in poverty because their system is garbage.

00:36:40.000 So if somebody were to say to you a good thing about what's happening in Cuba, the normal human reaction is, right, but that's so overwhelmed by the bad that that doesn't even chart.

00:36:49.000 And if somebody were to say to you, here's a bad thing that's happening in America, you'd say, right, that's bad, but the American system is so overwhelmed with good, That, on a contrasting basis, that is not really a close call.

00:36:59.000 Bernie reverses the polarity, right?

00:37:01.000 In America, all the good is outweighed by the bad.

00:37:04.000 And in evil authoritarian countries, he'll kind of shuffle off.

00:37:07.000 He'll pay the lip service to, I don't like authoritarianism, but you've got to admit, everybody can read.

00:37:13.000 That's how Bernie talks about authoritarianism.

00:37:15.000 So last night he's asked about Cuba, and he triples down on the defense of Cuba's literacy programs, which is just an amazing move for a guy who supposedly wants to win Florida.

00:37:25.000 Here is Bernie.

00:37:27.000 You got a real dictatorship there?

00:37:29.000 Of course you have a dictatorship in Cuba.

00:37:31.000 What I said is what Barack Obama said in terms of Cuba.

00:37:36.000 That Cuba made progress on education.

00:37:40.000 Yes, I think.

00:37:41.000 Really?

00:37:43.000 Really?

00:37:43.000 Literacy programs are bad?

00:37:45.000 Excuse me.

00:37:46.000 Occasionally, it might be a good idea to be honest about American foreign policy.

00:37:53.000 And that includes the fact that America has overthrown governments all over the world.

00:37:58.000 In Chile, in Guatemala, in Iran.

00:38:02.000 And when dictatorships, whether it is the Chinese or the Cubans, do something good, you acknowledge that.

00:38:09.000 But you don't have to trade love letters with them.

00:38:12.000 Okay, that's bad bleep lunacy.

00:38:13.000 So every element of that is crazy.

00:38:15.000 So when he says that America has overthrown regimes in Guatemala, in Chile, in Iran, first of all, he's getting the facts wrong in some of these cases.

00:38:22.000 Particularly in Iran, he's getting the facts wrong.

00:38:24.000 But when he says that we have to acknowledge that America is bad in the world, and we have to acknowledge when dictatorships like the Chinese or the Cubans do something good, and then when he says you don't have to trade love letters with them, he literally traded love letters with Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua.

00:38:37.000 I mean, he literally went down to Nicaragua and then traded and then swapped spit with Daniel Ortega.

00:38:43.000 The man went to Cuba.

00:38:44.000 He came back and he talked about how the Cuban people worshipped Castro.

00:38:47.000 Now, it was really funny because some of the other Democrats were like, yeah, you're easy on authoritarianism.

00:38:51.000 No, I've always condemned authoritarianism.

00:38:52.000 This is where being a Democrat, you know, you guys might want to do your research because wouldn't it have behooved you to say, well, Bernie, actually, you haven't condemned authoritarianism everywhere.

00:39:02.000 In fact, you've supported authoritarians all over the globe and then quoted chapter and verse For all the things that I've cited before.

00:39:09.000 How he has talked about how the Soviet Union breadlines are good.

00:39:11.000 How they have wonderful busing programs.

00:39:13.000 How they are moving toward the vision of 1917.

00:39:15.000 Cuba.

00:39:16.000 How all the people worship Castro.

00:39:17.000 Nicaragua.

00:39:18.000 How Daniel Ortega is like Abraham Lincoln with habeas corpus.

00:39:23.000 In Venezuela, last year, last year, you refused to declare Nicolas Maduro a dictator.

00:39:28.000 How does nobody say that on the stage?

00:39:30.000 How?

00:39:31.000 How is that even humanly possible?

00:39:33.000 Bernie is a Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky leftist.

00:39:37.000 That is where he is.

00:39:38.000 He believes that America is a nefarious force in the world.

00:39:40.000 He is more concerned with all of the supposed evils of American foreign policy than he is with actual dictatorships that keep millions of people in near slavery conditions.

00:39:48.000 And he has not been hit on that.

00:39:49.000 It's really incredible.

00:39:50.000 And if you think that Trump won't come after him, he will come after him and he will come after him hard.

00:39:54.000 That wasn't the extent of Bernie Sanders' radicalism last night.

00:39:57.000 Naturally, he saved his harshest words, right?

00:39:59.000 He was fine with Cuba and China and all of the rest of us.

00:40:01.000 He saved his harshest words for Israel because he's a proud Jew who campaigns with open anti-Semites who want to destroy the state of Israel and push the Jews into the sea.

00:40:07.000 That guy's a proud, proud Jew.

00:40:09.000 Major Garrett asked him about this last night.

00:40:11.000 And apparently the only regime on earth that is racist is the Netanyahu administration in Israel.

00:40:18.000 Despite the fact that Israel happens to be the only state in the Middle East that actually has a minority sitting in its parliament, right?

00:40:25.000 It's the only state in the Middle East where there is an Arab party, the Joint List, that has 13, 14 seats in parliament.

00:40:32.000 Where Arabs have full civil rights. 0.97

00:40:35.000 Here's Bernie Sanders basically calling Israel racist because Bernie Sanders is a retro-gay, he's a retro-gay communist, right? 0.85

00:40:41.000 I mean, this is what, he's following the Stalinist line from the 1960s, or the Khrushchev line from the 1960s about where exactly Israel is on the world stage, right? 0.91

00:40:50.000 So here's Bernie Sanders completely, completely just, you know, botching The situation worldwide.

00:40:57.000 He always has harsher words for Israel than he does for any actual dictatorship on planet Earth because he likes the commies. 0.91

00:41:01.000 He just doesn't like the Jews very much.

00:41:04.000 What would you say to American Jews who might be concerned you're not, from their perspective, supportive enough of Israel?

00:41:09.000 Specifically, sir, would you move the U.S.

00:41:11.000 embassy back to Tel Aviv?

00:41:14.000 Let me just... The answer is, it's something that we would take into consideration.

00:41:20.000 But here is the point.

00:41:21.000 I am very proud of being Jewish.

00:41:24.000 I actually lived in Israel for some months.

00:41:29.000 But what I happen to believe is that right now, sadly, tragically, in Israel, through Bibi Netanyahu, you have a reactionary racist who is now running that country.

00:41:41.000 And I happen to believe...

00:41:44.000 I happen to believe that what our foreign policy in the Mideast should be about is absolutely protecting the independence and security of Israel.

00:41:54.000 But you cannot ignore the suffering of the Palestinian people.

00:41:58.000 He has never once, never once taken a position in favor.

00:42:02.000 In terms of his public policy of the independence and security of the state of Israel.

00:42:05.000 And he campaigns with people who openly call for its destruction.

00:42:07.000 And then he says, I'm a Jew and I spent time on a kibbutz.

00:42:10.000 Congratulations, dude.

00:42:11.000 I mean, seriously, like back in 1968, you spent like six months on a kibbutz.

00:42:16.000 Last time I checked, it's 2020.

00:42:19.000 And last time I checked, you're out there campaigning with Linda Sarsour.

00:42:22.000 You're out there campaigning with Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.

00:42:25.000 So spare me the hysterics about how you're pro-Israel.

00:42:27.000 I mean, it's obviously a joke.

00:42:28.000 By the way, one of the great lies that was told up on the stage last night is that, first of all, the Israel-Palestine issue is central to Middle East.

00:42:34.000 It is not.

00:42:35.000 Second lie is when he suggests that Bibi Netanyahu is sort of the be-all end-all in Israel.

00:42:40.000 Okay, first of all, Benny Gantz, who is Bibi's prime opposition in Israel, has exactly the same foreign policy position as Bibi with regard to the Palestinians.

00:42:47.000 He embraced Trump's peace plan, which is worth noting.

00:42:49.000 Okay, so in the aftermath of all of this, what happens?

00:42:51.000 The answer is not much of anything.

00:42:52.000 Biden has probably a slight increase in sort of public perception.

00:42:55.000 I don't think Bernie had a good night by any stretch of the imagination, but it doesn't damage him enough to stop him from getting the nomination.

00:43:01.000 South Carolina, Biden's gonna need to win big in order for things to really change for him on the national level.

00:43:08.000 Bloomberg has basically been exposed as a non-entity.

00:43:11.000 And then after the debate, by the way, Bernie just, he kept doubling down, tripling down, quadrupling down.

00:43:16.000 Again, he praised Cuba after the debate.

00:43:18.000 Again, I mean, he just can't let go of praising the authoritarians.

00:43:20.000 It's unbelievable.

00:43:21.000 If somebody in Saudi Arabia, or any country in the world, teaches illiterate people to read, are you going to tell me that's a bad thing?

00:43:30.000 It is not!

00:43:31.000 Barack Obama made the point that Cuba had made good progress in healthcare and education.

00:43:35.000 Cuba is a dictatorship!

00:43:38.000 I've said that 8 million times.

00:43:41.000 But that does not mean to say, as Obama pointed out, that even under a dictatorship you could teach people to read and to write.

00:43:49.000 He's really willing to die on this hill.

00:43:51.000 He's really willing to die on this hill if communist regimes do good things.

00:43:54.000 It's pretty incredible.

00:43:55.000 Now, how do I think things are going to end up?

00:43:57.000 Again, I think Bernie remains the national frontrunner.

00:44:00.000 I think he has a lot of momentum in states like California.

00:44:02.000 I think he has racked up a delegate lead in some of these other places.

00:44:04.000 And again, the moderates are hurting each other.

00:44:06.000 Bloomberg is actually going to hurt Biden.

00:44:08.000 If I had to put money on South Carolina, I do think Biden pulls out South Carolina.

00:44:11.000 So I wouldn't have said that a week ago.

00:44:12.000 I think that Bernie has been a little bit dinged up.

00:44:14.000 I think that James Clyburn coming out in favor of Joe Biden, the congressman from South Carolina, coming out in favor of Joe Biden is a big move.

00:44:21.000 I think that Biden is likely to win South Carolina, and I think it's going to be a little broader than I would have thought even a week ago.

00:44:27.000 I don't think he's going to win narrow.

00:44:28.000 So it could make the race kind of interesting.

00:44:29.000 I mean, that would definitely liven things up again, because Bernie seems to have had this sort of unstoppable momentum.

00:44:34.000 It would be the first time in recent memory that a firewall has actually worked.

00:44:38.000 James Carville pointed out last night that Bernie did get roughed up a little bit.

00:44:42.000 Bernie Sanders, this is the first time he's really gotten roughed up a little bit.

00:44:46.000 And he didn't like it.

00:44:47.000 I think that sort of, he looked like he had a cold.

00:44:50.000 It was just something, he wasn't terrible.

00:44:52.000 Don't get me wrong, I'm not.

00:44:54.000 Calm down, Bernie bros.

00:44:56.000 But he was not, he was just, he was just a little off.

00:44:58.000 He just wasn't quite himself.

00:45:00.000 And Van Jones came out, he said he can't believe that Sanders didn't walk back all the Cuba stuff.

00:45:04.000 Like this is not, this is not alleviating people's concerns about his electability.

00:45:10.000 I was disappointed with Bernie's answer on the socialism question.

00:45:14.000 He had to know that was coming.

00:45:17.000 There's no reason to do a big, retrospective, nostalgia scream fest about authoritarian regimes from the 70s.

00:45:24.000 It was an opportunity for Bernie.

00:45:28.000 To clarify the American people, that when he says democratic socialism, that's the point.

00:45:33.000 It's not that stuff from Cuba.

00:45:34.000 It's not that stuff from the Soviet Union.

00:45:36.000 It's the stuff that you see in northern Europe that's working well for normal people, and they vote all the time.

00:45:40.000 He failed to do that.

00:45:41.000 It's unbelievable that he failed to do it.

00:45:44.000 It's what a big chunk of our party needs to hear from him, and he did not do it tonight.

00:45:47.000 Okay, but what you're starting to see from the Democrats is they're now in sort of the final stages of grief, right?

00:45:53.000 They've done the denial stage where it can't be Bernie.

00:45:55.000 It definitely can't be Bernie.

00:45:56.000 It won't be Bernie.

00:45:57.000 And now they're getting toward acceptance, which is, okay, well, I guess maybe it'll be Bernie.

00:46:01.000 David Axelrod doing that routine.

00:46:02.000 So Axelrod is smart enough to recognize that Bernie is a dangerous candidate for his party.

00:46:06.000 But Axelrod last night was saying, don't worry, Bernie's not a socialist.

00:46:08.000 It doesn't matter that he spent his entire life being a communist fellow traveler.

00:46:11.000 Don't worry, Bernie's not a real socialist.

00:46:13.000 He's just like a normal Democrat.

00:46:15.000 The Republicans and Donald Trump are going to make this same case against any Democratic candidate, but it's easier to make when that Democratic candidate embraces the title of socialist and doesn't refute it.

00:46:25.000 And the truth of the matter is, Bernie Sanders is not a socialist.

00:46:28.000 I mean, if you look it up in the dictionary, he's not calling for, you know...

00:46:34.000 By the way, the backstop for Democrats is going to be eventually, and they're getting there very quickly, that yes, okay fine, Bernie might be a communist.

00:46:40.000 reluctant to make that point and why is he why he is like a fortress andrew but not on that question tonight by the way the backstop for democrats is going to be eventually and they're getting there very quickly that yes okay fine bernie might be a communist my okay yeah i will say maybe he's a communist all right but you know he's not gonna win the senate so he's not gonna be able to effectuate any of this stuff anyway That is not a strong pitch.

00:47:03.000 That is really, really not a strong pitch.

00:47:06.000 So, that is where things stand going into South Carolina.

00:47:09.000 That was the last major debate before all of this happened.

00:47:13.000 The next election is happening on February 29th.

00:47:16.000 It's happening in South Carolina, and we will find out very quickly whether Biden is still a viable candidate.

00:47:22.000 At this point, Biden is the only viable candidate who has the possibility of stopping Sanders from taking the nomination.

00:47:27.000 I guess that debate did a little bit of damage to Bernie, but not enough to, I think, blunt the reality, which is that he is the frontrunner.

00:47:32.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I like and then a quick thing that I hate.

00:47:37.000 In fact, you know what?

00:47:37.000 We're going to skip the things that I like.

00:47:38.000 We're going to go directly to the things that I hate.

00:47:40.000 So, things that I hate today.

00:47:42.000 So, President Trump is scheduled to give, a little bit later today, a press conference on coronavirus.

00:47:47.000 As I've said before, I do not think that this is the smartest move.

00:47:49.000 I think the President of the United States should be telling Alex Azar, his Health and Human Services Secretary, to give the press conference.

00:47:57.000 Why? 0.98

00:47:57.000 Well, because President Trump doesn't know anything about the science, because he doesn't pretend to know anything about the science, and because he is too busy tweeting out dumb crap about coronavirus. 0.98

00:48:06.000 So, for example, the President, just this morning, tweeted this out. 0.81

00:48:13.000 Low Ratings Fake News, MSDNC, Comcast, and CNN are doing everything possible to make the coronavirus, spelled C-A-R-O-N-A-V-I-R-U-S, caronavirus, look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible.

00:48:29.000 Likewise, their incompetent do-nothing Democrats are all talk, no action.

00:48:32.000 USA in great shape.

00:48:34.000 CDC will be having a news conference at the White House on this subject today at 6 p.m.

00:48:37.000 CDC representatives and others will be there.

00:48:39.000 Thank you.

00:48:42.000 Okay, attacking the media for the coverage of coronavirus is not going to make anybody feel any better.

00:48:45.000 Okay, what you actually need to do is spell out your plans for all of this.

00:48:49.000 Apparently that's going to happen a little bit later today.

00:48:52.000 He's lashing out at the media in all of this.

00:48:56.000 I gotta be honest with you.

00:48:57.000 I have young kids.

00:48:59.000 I am an American who worries about pandemics.

00:49:02.000 I think most Americans at this point are worried about pandemics.

00:49:04.000 The stock market has been off dramatically over the last couple of days.

00:49:07.000 It is back up somewhat today, a little bit of a bounce today.

00:49:10.000 But it is not quieting.

00:49:13.000 When the president of the United States is out there just sort of spouting about coronavirus.

00:49:16.000 Like, this is the time when an actual message discipline should kick in.

00:49:20.000 This is the time when the administration says, hey, here are the steps that we are taking in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

00:49:25.000 This is not the time to be going on Twitter and sounding off about coronavirus and misspelling coronavirus or suggesting that a vaccine is being developed for coronavirus and what you really mean with Ebola.

00:49:34.000 It's just not the time for any of this.

00:49:36.000 It's not the time.

00:49:37.000 Like, this is the time when Trump needs to sit down and let his people do their jobs And please, for the love of Pete, stop tweeting.

00:49:45.000 Okay, another thing that I hate today.

00:49:46.000 Now, if you want to rip on the media, there's plenty of good reasons to rip on the media.

00:49:49.000 Here's a great reason to rip on the media. 0.96

00:49:50.000 So, James O'Keefe, over at Project Veritas, has once again uncovered people in the media making asses of themselves.

00:49:59.000 So, David Wright is an ABC News correspondent.

00:50:02.000 And, as we have been saying for a very long time, news correspondents have perspectives, right?

00:50:06.000 Jim Acosta has a perspective.

00:50:08.000 His perspective is that that dude loves Jim Acosta, but some people have actual political perspectives.

00:50:12.000 And David Wright, who is a correspondent for ABC News, he has one of those perspectives.

00:50:17.000 So Project Veritas caught him on camera talking about how he is a socialist and how he buries particular stories in order to achieve particular purposes, basically admitting the truth about how the media business works.

00:50:29.000 Do you consider yourself a Democrat Socialist?

00:50:32.000 Yeah.

00:50:32.000 Like, what then?

00:50:33.000 I'd consider myself a Socialist.

00:50:35.000 Truth suffers.

00:50:36.000 The voters are poorly informed.

00:50:38.000 Our bosses don't see an upside in doing the job that we're supposed to do, which is to, you know, speak truth to power and help people do a job.

00:50:46.000 They also don't give me credit for what things he does do.

00:50:49.000 Okay, so he openly admits that the media will not give Trump credit for the things that he does do and they will bury stories.

00:50:56.000 They will bury stories.

00:50:58.000 That is an amazing thing.

00:50:59.000 Now, it's not amazing because we didn't know it.

00:51:01.000 Of course, we did know it.

00:51:02.000 But it's amazing because they admit it and they all know it, right?

00:51:05.000 I mean, the question about many members of the media was originally whether the members of the media knew what they're doing or whether this is all just sort of an echo chamber and they don't even think about it.

00:51:15.000 Whether they're so ensconced in this echo chamber of people who agree with them that it never even occurs to them that what they are doing is bad and wrong and vicious.

00:51:22.000 But David Wright basically blows the lid off that.

00:51:24.000 He's like, yeah, sure, I'm a socialist and we bury stories.

00:51:27.000 He says, oh yeah, I consider myself a socialist, not just a democratic socialist, like a full-on socialist.

00:51:34.000 Incredible.

00:51:34.000 He says, so ABC News suspended David Wright yesterday.

00:51:38.000 The network disciplined him.

00:51:40.000 He reports for World News Tonight, Good Morning America, and Nightline.

00:51:44.000 He says, I don't think we're terribly interested in voters.

00:51:47.000 He says, commercial imperative is incompatible with news.

00:51:50.000 And he says, we don't hold him to account.

00:51:52.000 We also don't give him credit for the things that he does do.

00:51:54.000 The him would be President Trump.

00:51:56.000 And then he refers to Trump at another point as the effing president.

00:52:00.000 ABC, according to the Washington Post, was also alarmed at Wright's criticism of ABC News, which is owned by Disney Corporation.

00:52:05.000 At another point, he raises another long-standing critique of ABC News, that it blends news with promotion of Disney-owned movies and TV programs.

00:52:11.000 He says, you can't watch Good Morning America without there being a Disney princess or a Marvel Avenger appearing.

00:52:16.000 It's all self-promotional.

00:52:17.000 Well, that's true.

00:52:20.000 But if you're talking about media bias in favor of things like Marvel Avengers seem to be the least of the problems.

00:52:25.000 ABC News said in a statement, any action that damages our reputation for fairness or impartiality or gives the appearance of compromising it harms ABC News and the individuals involved.

00:52:33.000 David Wright has been suspended.

00:52:34.000 And to avoid any possible appearance of bias, he will be reassigned away from political coverage when he returns.

00:52:39.000 OK, well, wouldn't it behoove you to just simply admit who you are?

00:52:44.000 This is one of my big bugaboos about the media.

00:52:46.000 I've said this about Don Lemon, on Anderson Cooper, on CNN.

00:52:49.000 Like, we all know where you are politically. 0.98

00:52:50.000 This nonsense where you pretend to be objective, or even straining for objectivity in any way, is ridiculous, and we all know that it's ridiculous. 0.77

00:52:57.000 I've told this story before, but I remember Sam Donaldson, who recently came out and endorsed Michael Bloomberg, Correspondent for ABC News for a very, very long time. 0.70

00:53:04.000 Sam Donaldson was at the 2012 RNC and I was there as well in beautiful Tampa.

00:53:08.000 And I was walking the floor and I come across Sam Donaldson and his eyebrows.

00:53:13.000 And I walk up to him and he's doing like these little radio hits for ABC News at the time.

00:53:19.000 And they're perspective pieces, right?

00:53:20.000 Perspective pieces on why the left is right and why the right is wrong and all of this.

00:53:23.000 And I go up to him and I say, so Sam, did you hold these views back when you were a journalist?

00:53:27.000 And he says, of course I did.

00:53:29.000 And I said, well, isn't it dishonest for you to have held those views and clearly known how you felt about these things and then cover the news in a non-objective way?

00:53:38.000 And he got very upset with me.

00:53:39.000 Very upset.

00:53:40.000 Those eyebrows came at me from the dark.

00:53:42.000 And he said, and Sam Donaldson said, do you think you're better than me?

00:53:45.000 You think you're better?

00:53:46.000 Are you saying you're better than me?

00:53:47.000 And I said, well, I mean, kind of.

00:53:49.000 Like, yeah, because I say who I am, right?

00:53:51.000 I'm a conservative.

00:53:52.000 I'm covering news from a conservative perspective.

00:53:54.000 I'm not lying about any of this stuff.

00:53:56.000 And Sam Donaldson was very frustrated by this, but this is the great lie that the media have been telling themselves for years, is that one, they are objective.

00:54:02.000 Two, that they are capable of objectivity, despite their deeply held political beliefs.

00:54:08.000 Honestly, if they would just say upfront, yeah, I'm a Democrat, and then cover the news, they'd be so much better off.

00:54:12.000 There's a reason that I don't bother to critique how MSNBC covers the news.

00:54:15.000 They're all Democrats.

00:54:16.000 We all know they're Democrats. 1.00

00:54:17.000 So pointing out their bias is manifestly stupid. 0.99

00:54:20.000 Doing the same about ABC News or CNN, however, is a very different thing. 1.00

00:54:23.000 All they're doing is handing Trump a club with which to beat them, obviously.

00:54:27.000 Also, worth pointing out, good on James O'Keefe, right?

00:54:29.000 O'Keefe continues to have a string of successes in exposing members of the media.

00:54:34.000 It turns out all you have to do is put a camera in somebody's face in the media, and they're willing to tell you about their own biases.

00:54:39.000 O'Keefe is doing more honest reporting than many members of the mainstream media.

00:54:43.000 I mean, at least O'Keefe will ask the reporters questions.

00:54:45.000 The reporters won't even ask Bernie Sanders questions.

00:54:47.000 Wright has been at ABC for 20 years.

00:54:50.000 He has covered the White House and was Nightline's lead political reporter during the 2016 presidential campaign.

00:54:54.000 Their lead political reporter acknowledging that stories were buried to damage President Trump.

00:55:00.000 He shared a 2004 Emmy Award for his reporting from Iraq, shared a Peabody Award for reporting in Afghanistan after September 11th.

00:55:07.000 So, again, well done on Project Veritas, and it is hysterically funny that ABC thinks that by suspending him, they're going to quiet all the questions, because clearly they are not.

00:55:18.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours.

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