The Ben Shapiro Show - The Great Anti-Bernie Consolidation | Ep. 965

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden's allies come out of the woodwork to stop Bernie, Trump fulminates over the anti-Bernie coup, and Chris Matthews is gone.

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00:00:21.000 Well, don't worry.

00:00:23.000 We will get to Chris Matthews leaving.

00:00:25.000 I'm going to be safe.

00:00:27.000 I'm very sad about it.

00:00:29.000 Gotta admit to you.

00:00:30.000 I'm very upset.

00:00:32.000 Chris Matthews, go!

00:00:33.000 He's gone.

00:00:34.000 Go.

00:00:34.000 He went.

00:00:35.000 We'll get to that in a little bit.

00:00:36.000 Very upset about it.

00:00:37.000 One of my favorite impersonations.

00:00:38.000 Finally retired.

00:00:40.000 Gone to a better place.

00:00:41.000 I'll see you in heaven, old friend.

00:00:42.000 We'll get to Chris Matthews a little bit later on in the program.

00:00:45.000 Dude lasted 23 years until the woke scolds got him.

00:00:48.000 And that really is what happened, but we'll get to that in a little bit.

00:00:50.000 We begin at the star with the Great Consolidation.

00:00:53.000 That's what's happening inside the Democratic Party.

00:00:55.000 So I will say, this Democratic Party is way, way more systematic than the Republican Party was in 2016.

00:01:01.000 So remember in 2016, you had a fragmented field.

00:01:03.000 When you had Donald Trump, he was running straight for the nomination.

00:01:05.000 And you had like eight candidates and none of them would get out.

00:01:08.000 Marco Rubio wouldn't get out in favor of Cruz.

00:01:10.000 Cruz wouldn't get out in favor of Rubio.

00:01:11.000 John Kasich, for some reason, was just like, I'm gonna stay in for no reason, ever.

00:01:15.000 Just a raisin in the sun, John Kasich.

00:01:17.000 A piece of paper wadded up in your pocket that went through the washing machine.

00:01:20.000 That dude was just going to stay in the race.

00:01:22.000 All the way to the end.

00:01:23.000 And he did!

00:01:24.000 And he ended up being president.

00:01:26.000 No, he just stayed in.

00:01:27.000 Well, the Democratic Party doesn't have the same problem.

00:01:29.000 They are at least systematic enough to say to the also-rans, guys, you need to get out. 1.00

00:01:35.000 And that's pretty much what happened yesterday.

00:01:36.000 Pete Buttigieg got out.

00:01:38.000 Amy Klobuchar got out.

00:01:39.000 And not only did they get out, they went and they endorsed Biden because it is very obvious that this race is now a Biden-Sanders race.

00:01:44.000 Now, Michael Bloomberg is still sitting out there somewhere just throwing wads of cash like a rapper at a strip club.

00:01:49.000 I mean, just take it, just boom, making it rain everywhere.

00:01:53.000 No one understands why.

00:01:54.000 No one understands what he's doing.

00:01:55.000 But he continues to do that.

00:01:56.000 But Bloomberg is really not a threat.

00:01:59.000 My prediction for tonight, tonight is Super Tuesday.

00:02:01.000 My prediction for tonight, Biden overperforms the polls.

00:02:03.000 Bloomberg wildly underperforms the polls because, as I said yesterday, my going theory about Michael Bloomberg is that he was a placeholder for the anti-Bernie sentiment.

00:02:10.000 That if you felt that Biden was not a durable candidate, you said in polls that you were going to vote for Bloomberg.

00:02:15.000 But now that Biden looks more durable, a lot of those votes are going to fall away from Bloomberg and back toward Biden.

00:02:20.000 Now that it's become a two-person race, basically.

00:02:22.000 That means that Bloomberg is not going to cross that 15% threshold that you are required to pass in order to receive delegates in all of these states.

00:02:29.000 And that means that those delegates instead are going to be split among the other candidates, which means more victories for Joe Biden.

00:02:34.000 So I think that Biden is going to overperform tonight.

00:02:36.000 It would actually not be the world's largest shock if Joe Biden were to end up outperforming Bernie Sanders tonight.

00:02:42.000 And the betting markets are reflecting this.

00:02:43.000 The betting markets are now reflecting that at the very least, what you're going to see on Super Tuesday is a delegate split.

00:02:47.000 That it's not going to be a Bernie runaway.

00:02:49.000 That Bernie made you real well in California.

00:02:51.000 But that as long as Joe Biden passes 15% in California and splits the vote at all, he is likely to emerge within 100 delegates of Bernie Sanders.

00:03:00.000 And if that happens, and if it's a neck and neck race, there are a lot of big states coming up, like Florida, like Georgia, where Biden can really run up the score on Bernie, make up that deficit, and end up in a position to win a plurality of the votes.

00:03:12.000 Now, that doesn't mean that Biden is gonna end up winning the Democratic nomination outright on the first ballot.

00:03:18.000 Right now, 538, has rejiggered all of their calculations.

00:03:23.000 Here are the 538 calculations.

00:03:25.000 61% chance that nobody has a majority of the delegates.

00:03:28.000 That nobody has, so a two and three, three and five chance that nobody is gonna have a majority of the delegates, which technically is not an open convention, but it's a contested convention because nobody wins outright.

00:03:39.000 In second place is Joe Biden now.

00:03:41.000 So Biden has well surpassed Bernie Sanders.

00:03:43.000 Sanders has dropped precipitously in the 538 estimate of delegates.

00:03:48.000 Biden now has a 31% shot at winning a majority of the delegates.

00:03:51.000 Sanders is all the way down at 8%.

00:03:52.000 And if you look at the number of delegates they are forecasting for Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders and Michael Bloomberg, they've got Bloomberg dropping and they've got Biden precipitously rising to 1,738 delegates.

00:04:03.000 He needs 2,000 to just win this thing.

00:04:05.000 But 1,738 delegate Sanders all the way down at 1,363.

00:04:08.000 So that consolidation of the field is happening at exactly the right time for Joe Biden.

00:04:13.000 And again, this shows discipline within the party.

00:04:15.000 I mean, you do have to admire it as a Republican, the discipline within the party.

00:04:18.000 Now, part of that has to do with the fact that there is more time in the Democratic calendar to mobilize that opposition.

00:04:23.000 The Republican Party doesn't have as much time.

00:04:25.000 If somebody starts running up victories very early on in Republican primaries because they are winner-take-all, it is difficult to stop them.

00:04:31.000 Imagine that Iowa had been winner-take-all, and let's assume that Bernie had won Iowa.

00:04:37.000 He actually didn't.

00:04:38.000 Buttigieg won Iowa.

00:04:38.000 But let's assume for a second that Bernie won Iowa outright.

00:04:40.000 Let's assume he won New Hampshire outright.

00:04:42.000 Let's assume he won Nevada outright.

00:04:43.000 And suddenly he's racking up these winner-take-all scores.

00:04:45.000 And let's assume California.

00:04:46.000 We're not a plurality.

00:04:48.000 We're not proportional delegations.

00:04:50.000 Instead, we're just a winner-take-all state.

00:04:52.000 Well then, Sanders would be in a much more commanding position.

00:04:55.000 That was the position that Trump was in.

00:04:56.000 Trump was winning 35% of the vote and walking away with 100% of the delegates.

00:05:00.000 That created this giant eight ball that nobody could get out from behind inside the Republican Party.

00:05:05.000 For the Democrats, there's a little bit more lead time, and that means there is time to mobilize opposition.

00:05:09.000 One state victory in South Carolina has now put Joe Biden on a fairly solid path toward the nomination.

00:05:15.000 And that became even clearer with all of these other candidates dropping out.

00:05:18.000 So Pete Buttigieg didn't need really to be urged.

00:05:20.000 Pete Buttigieg understood fairly clearly that his future runs through Joe Biden.

00:05:25.000 We'll get to Pete Buttigieg dropping out of the race in just one second.

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00:07:01.000 OK, so the New York Times reports late last year, a group of first term House Democrats anxious over the party's fractious presidential race can mean a series of discussions intended to spur party unity.

00:07:10.000 Led by Representatives Colin Allred of Texas and Haley Stevens of Michigan, they considered issuing a collective endorsement of one moderate candidate.

00:07:16.000 The group held phone calls with Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, and Pete Buttigieg, but the lawmakers could not agree.

00:07:20.000 Some were torn between the options.

00:07:22.000 Others worried about alienating voters at home, who backed other contenders like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.

00:07:27.000 A few issued solo endorsements of Biden, but the grander plan disintegrated.

00:07:31.000 There wasn't time to reach consensus over one candidate, said Ms.

00:07:34.000 Stevens, who eventually endorsed Bloomberg.

00:07:36.000 That effort was just one in a series of abandoned or ineffective plans to rally the moderate wing of the Democratic Party behind a single contender.

00:07:42.000 But now, on the eve of Super Tuesday, when Democrats across 15 states and territories will hand out more than a third of the delegates required to claim the nomination, Sanders is within reach of a clear national lead, and Biden is racing to catch up.

00:07:54.000 In the last few days, moderate Democrats acting with a new sense of urgency have begun a large-scale effort to coalesce around Joe Biden.

00:08:00.000 And this is the big story, the coalescing around Joe Biden, the consolidation around Joe Biden.

00:08:04.000 So Pete Buttigieg, who's had some fairly harsh words for Joe Biden, not as harsh as the other candidates on the stage with regard to Joe Biden.

00:08:10.000 He dropped out of the race yesterday and then he flew to Dallas to do a rally with Joe Biden and Amy Klobuchar and Beto O'Rourke for some odd reason.

00:08:18.000 And Pete Buttigieg basically, here's the thing with Buttigieg.

00:08:22.000 Booty Judge is smart enough to recognize that he has no political future in the state of Indiana.

00:08:25.000 So after he dropped out, there were a lot of talk.

00:08:28.000 Well, he can come back next time and he can run.

00:08:30.000 First of all, I find it hilarious.

00:08:32.000 CNN was like, in 2024, he can run.

00:08:34.000 Well, first of all, thank you for admitting that Donald Trump is going to win in 2020.

00:08:37.000 But second of all, Well, how?

00:08:40.000 How?

00:08:40.000 It turns out that politicians have moments, right?

00:08:42.000 Elizabeth Warren's moment was not 2020, it was 2016.

00:08:45.000 And Pete Buttigieg had his moment.

00:08:47.000 This was his moment.

00:08:48.000 So Pete Buttigieg really only has two paths to a future in politics.

00:08:52.000 One is a cabinet appointment.

00:08:54.000 He gets appointed Secretary of Defense because of his military background by Joe Biden or something.

00:08:58.000 And the second is that Pete Buttigieg ends up carpetbagging it.

00:09:01.000 That he leaves the state of Indiana and he ends up going to the state of New York or the state of Massachusetts.

00:09:05.000 He pulls a Robert Kennedy or a Hillary Clinton and moves from a state where he is unlikely to win to a state where he is much more likely to win. 0.99

00:09:11.000 Because, remember, the one time he ran statewide in Indiana, he got his butt kicked. 0.73

00:09:14.000 I mean, just got destroyed by Richard Murdoch, of all people.

00:09:17.000 So he doesn't have a future outside of endorsing Biden.

00:09:20.000 He knows that.

00:09:21.000 So Buttigieg comes out yesterday and he endorses Biden.

00:09:24.000 Here is Mayor Pete dropping out of the race and endorsing a guy who, until five minutes ago, had not won a single primary.

00:09:30.000 We made it clear that the whole idea was about rallying the country together to defeat Donald Trump and to win the era for the values that we share.

00:09:40.000 And that was always a goal that was much bigger than me becoming president.

00:09:45.000 And it is in the name of that very same goal that I'm delighted to endorse and support Joe Biden for president.

00:09:53.000 We need a politics that's about decency.

00:09:55.000 A politics that brings back dignity.

00:09:58.000 And that is what we sought to practice in my campaign.

00:10:00.000 That's what Joe Biden has been practicing his entire life.

00:10:03.000 So there is Buttigieg basically bending the knee to Biden in the hopes that Biden will give him some sort of cabinet appointment.

00:10:08.000 And it's perfectly clear that that's exactly what's going on.

00:10:11.000 Buttigieg is smart enough to read the tea leaves.

00:10:12.000 He's the smartest candidate in this field.

00:10:13.000 He understands his future glory lies in being some sort of cabinet level appointee by a president, Joe Biden.

00:10:21.000 And so he's going to bend the knee to Joe Biden.

00:10:22.000 He's not going to get one nickel from Bernie Sanders.

00:10:25.000 So here's the problem for Sanders.

00:10:27.000 Sanders is so off-putting and Sanders is so insular in the group of people he trusts, because they are a bunch of socialists who are radicals, that he doesn't have the opportunity to offer patronage.

00:10:37.000 He doesn't have the opportunity to basically bribe these people to join his campaign.

00:10:41.000 He has nothing to offer them.

00:10:43.000 Like, what's he going to offer Pete Buttigieg?

00:10:44.000 Buttigieg has been attacking on Medicare for All, right?

00:10:46.000 Sanders has basically said, I'm not going to accept the endorsement of anybody who didn't endorse Medicare for All.

00:10:52.000 And so Buttigieg, again, the smartest candidate in the field, if not the most successful, he recognized what was going on here.

00:10:58.000 Joe Biden, for his part, came out and embraced Buttigieg.

00:11:01.000 And I will say, even as my Chris Matthews impersonation dies, my Joe Biden Impersonation is beginning to bloom into its full flower.

00:11:09.000 Here is Joe Biden explaining that Buttigieg reminds me of his son, Beau, who died, which has to hurt Hunter, right?

00:11:16.000 There's a second son out there.

00:11:19.000 And Joe's like, well, Pete, I don't say this to a lot of people, Pete is not, Pete reminds me of my son, Bo, and hunters out there like snorting coke and doing hookers and everybody's, and it's like, why doesn't my father love me?

00:11:34.000 And Joe's like, well, I have another hunter, yeah, I don't want to talk about, he's in Ukraine, we don't understand, go. 0.65

00:11:42.000 I don't think I've ever done this before, but he reminds me of my son, Bo.

00:11:49.000 And I know that may not mean much to most people, but to me it's the highest compliment I could give any man or woman.

00:11:58.000 And again, he has another son.

00:12:00.000 He's never compared anyone to his son, Beau, including his other son, Hunter, who may cost him the presidency, by the way, Hunter Biden.

00:12:08.000 So there is that.

00:12:09.000 And then Biden basically admits, he says, listen, if I win, then Buttigieg gets an administration role.

00:12:13.000 You know, we'll get to President Trump's response to this, which is pretty classic in one thing.

00:12:17.000 But here's Joe Biden being like, yeah, of course, if I win, then Buttigieg gets to be secretary of Secretary of Indiana.

00:12:25.000 I don't know, just something.

00:12:27.000 We'll give him something in America.

00:12:29.000 Speak to Pete Buttigieg a couple days ago to encourage him to stay engaged because he has enormous talent.

00:12:37.000 And I indicated to him that if I became the nominee, I'd come and ask him to be part of an administration, to be engaged in moving things forward.

00:12:45.000 He could be Secretary of Transportation or something.

00:12:47.000 I don't know.

00:12:48.000 We'll give him something.

00:12:52.000 By the way, President Trump's response to all of this is pretty spot on and pretty hilarious.

00:12:56.000 Trump was like, guys, you know what we call that when you bribe somebody to join your campaign?

00:13:00.000 You know, we have a name for that, guys.

00:13:02.000 It's called the quid pro quo.

00:13:03.000 Quid pro quo go Buttigieg just went out and said something And probably they'll say Hey look, if I win, I'll put you in the administrations That's called quid pro quo, right?

00:13:16.000 Quid pro quo.

00:13:18.000 And they probably said, hey, listen, if I win, I'll give you an endorsement, but will you take me in the administration?

00:13:25.000 Now, I'm sure nothing like that has ever happened, right?

00:13:31.000 Fact check true.

00:13:32.000 Fact check true.

00:13:32.000 I mean, it's also true that, like, that's not a deal with a foreign country.

00:13:36.000 But in any case, in any case, that is a fact check true.

00:13:39.000 It turns out that that's exactly what happened.

00:13:41.000 That is called political patronage.

00:13:42.000 And it wasn't just, of course, Pete Buttigieg yesterday who jumped behind Joe Biden.

00:13:46.000 It was also Amy Klobuchar.

00:13:47.000 So Amy Klobuchar, the senator from Minnesota who Again, had outperformed Joe Biden in two of the three states that had that had taken place before South Carolina. 0.99

00:13:55.000 Klobuchar dropped out and then she flew down to Dallas and she endorsed Joe Biden.

00:13:59.000 So this is the first time that Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg have agreed on anything.

00:14:03.000 Then they went in the back room and for some reason just attacked Pete Buttigieg's jugular with a comb.

00:14:07.000 It was very weird.

00:14:08.000 But here is Amy Klobuchar explaining why she is endorsing Joe Biden.

00:14:12.000 If you feel tired of the noise and the nonsense in our politics, and if you are tired of the extremes, you have a home with me.

00:14:23.000 And I think you know you have a home with Joe Biden.

00:14:27.000 It is up to us, all of us, to put our country back together, to heal this country, and then to build something even greater.

00:14:38.000 I believe we can do this together.

00:14:41.000 And that is why today I am ending my campaign and endorsing Joe Biden for president.

00:14:49.000 So these other Democrats are smarter than the Republicans were in 2016 because they recognize that their pathway to glory is getting behind somebody who is not Bernie Sanders.

00:14:57.000 The entire Democratic Party establishment is now moving against Bernie Sanders, like all of them.

00:15:02.000 So you've got Harry Reid, who came out yesterday in a very non-shocking move and endorsed Joe Biden.

00:15:08.000 So Reid, who's the former Senate majority and minority leader, he came out and endorsed Biden, so did former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe.

00:15:16.000 Here is Terry McAuliffe endorsing Joe Biden.

00:15:17.000 By the way, on his way to endorse Joe Biden, he was doing some sort of presser yesterday.

00:15:21.000 Apparently, his elevator got stuck with like 10 people in it.

00:15:24.000 I cannot think of much of a worse fate than being stuck in an elevator for two hours with Terry McAuliffe.

00:15:28.000 That sounds like almost the definition of hell.

00:15:30.000 In any case, here is Terry McAuliffe, former DNC head and former Virginia governor, explaining why he was endorsing Joe Biden on CNN.

00:15:39.000 I have made a decision.

00:15:40.000 I'm going to endorse Joe Biden.

00:15:42.000 I'll be with him in Norfolk tomorrow at 7 o'clock tomorrow night.

00:15:45.000 He's coming up to Virginia.

00:15:46.000 You know, I've thought long and hard about this.

00:15:48.000 For me, it's about beating Donald Trump.

00:15:50.000 And to me, it's an electability issue.

00:15:51.000 Who has the best shot of beating Donald Trump?

00:15:54.000 You know, health care is our biggest issue.

00:15:55.000 That's why Democrats win.

00:15:57.000 I want someone who's going to protect Obamacare and expand Obamacare.

00:16:01.000 Okay, so Harry Reid did it as well.

00:16:02.000 Harry Reid's statement was, President Donald Trump has done unspeakable damage to our country, our institutions, and the rule of law.

00:16:07.000 Democrats need a candidate who can assemble the largest, most diverse coalition possible to defeat Trump and lead our country following the trauma of Trump's presidency.

00:16:13.000 That candidate is Joe Biden.

00:16:14.000 So everybody's making the pure electability argument.

00:16:17.000 Other endorsers in the last 48 hours, Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, former Senators Barbara Boxer of California. 0.98

00:16:22.000 Barbara Boxer, by the way, the dumbest person in the U.S. 1.00

00:16:24.000 Senate for years. 0.97

00:16:25.000 I mean, she held that title unchallenged for years, but she is behind Joe Biden as well.

00:16:29.000 So is Mark Udall of Colorado and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas.

00:16:32.000 So a spate of endorsers coming out.

00:16:34.000 And those weren't the only ones.

00:16:35.000 Susan Rice.

00:16:36.000 Basically, Obama called up all his friends.

00:16:37.000 He said, I'm not going to get involved, but if you would endorse Joe, that'd be good.

00:16:41.000 So Susan Rice, an awful, awful National Security Advisor to Barack Obama. 1.00

00:16:46.000 She came out and endorsed Joe Biden.

00:16:47.000 She tweeted, I'm proud to endorse Joe Biden for president.

00:16:49.000 Here he is comforting me on January 4th, 2017, just after my mother passed away.

00:16:53.000 There is no one kinder, more empathetic and caring than Joe Biden.

00:16:56.000 He will lead America with the same deep compassion and decency.

00:17:00.000 Okay, this has been the pitch for Biden is that Biden is a nice guy, whereas Bernie is a very, very mean guy.

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00:18:48.000 Okay, so one more big endorsement came forth for Joe Biden yesterday, and that'd be Beto.

00:18:53.000 Now, honestly, I'm just happy I get to break out the Beto impersonation.

00:18:56.000 Like, I have all of these impersonations that are being buried in shallow graves lately because they have these brief flickers of light.

00:19:05.000 Beto is one of them.

00:19:06.000 He was one of everybody.

00:19:07.000 Everybody loved the Beto impersonation.

00:19:09.000 I dropped out of the race months ago and I haven't been able to break out my Beto for a while.

00:19:12.000 So Beto, he endorsed Biden yesterday.

00:19:14.000 He had a smoke of doobie and then just skateboarded in all cool and everything.

00:19:19.000 Still got the same shirt.

00:19:20.000 He only has one shirt. 0.97

00:19:22.000 And that shirt has gone through a beating, man, from the cover of Vanity Fair to like being very rich in his mansion paid for by his in-laws to like, you know, being useless.

00:19:31.000 But he just jet-set it in.

00:19:33.000 In Texas?

00:19:34.000 And he was like, oh, you know who I like?

00:19:36.000 I like Joe.

00:19:37.000 Joe Biden's great.

00:19:38.000 And he's going to appoint me secretary of browness, secretary of smoking up, secretary of awesome.

00:19:46.000 Yeah, man, go, go, Beto, go.

00:19:50.000 Tomorrow, March 3rd, 2020, I will be casting my ballot for Joe Biden.

00:20:02.000 We need somebody who can bring us together and heal us.

00:20:06.000 We need somebody who can reestablish the moral authority of the United States.

00:20:11.000 We need somebody who will fight for democracy here and abroad, because democracy is under attack here and abroad.

00:20:19.000 We need Joe Biden.

00:20:21.000 And I'll be honest with you, bro, not only do we need Joe Biden, we need a president who's not going to ban all the deodorant, because let me tell you, my pit stains are horrendous in this particular video, bro.

00:20:30.000 Now, here's what's scary is that Joe Biden did make a promise apparently to Beto as well, because this is what again, no corruption.

00:20:37.000 It's all just out of principle, guys.

00:20:38.000 So I do love how politics works.

00:20:40.000 It's pretty great.

00:20:41.000 So Joe Biden is like.

00:20:42.000 Oh, you know, I like Beto.

00:20:44.000 Beto's great, and he's Beto, and O'Rourke, and he... You know, he said he's gonna ban all the guns, and I don't hate guns, but I'm gonna put Beto in charge of the guns.

00:20:55.000 Guns are things that fire in the air. 0.87

00:20:56.000 You take a shotgun, do it twice in the air.

00:20:59.000 That's what I do to scare off robbers.

00:21:01.000 I remember one time in 1922, my house was being robbed, and I don't really remember which house or where.

00:21:06.000 All I remember is Winston Churchill was there, and Nelson Mandela too, and Beto's gonna run our guns program.

00:21:13.000 I want to make something clear.

00:21:16.000 I'm going to guarantee you this is not a last year's scene of this guy.

00:21:20.000 You're going to take care of the gun problem with me.

00:21:22.000 You're going to be the one who leads this effort.

00:21:25.000 I'm counting on you.

00:21:26.000 I'm counting on you.

00:21:27.000 You're going to take over guns.

00:21:33.000 Honestly, guys, I've been a proponent for a long time of the idea that English ought to be the national language.

00:21:38.000 Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump, these people are proof positive that English needs to be the national language.

00:21:44.000 We must establish English as the national language so that everybody is mandated to speak a language we all understand.

00:21:50.000 Joe Biden has... It's basically one long word now.

00:21:53.000 His entire campaign has devolved into one long word.

00:21:56.000 And I mean, it's not just him saying to Beto O'Rourke that I'm putting in charge of guns.

00:22:02.000 I'm going to put this guy in charge of guns.

00:22:04.000 Also, would you like to hear Joe Biden recite the Declaration of Independence?

00:22:09.000 Would you?

00:22:10.000 Would you like to hear it?

00:22:11.000 Because it's spectacular and it's real and it's great.

00:22:14.000 So here is Joe Biden explaining what the Declaration of Independence says.

00:22:19.000 This is the guy they chose.

00:22:21.000 You had a million candidates, and the one you chose is this one.

00:22:25.000 Of all the humans on the earth, this human with the head in which the hair plugs have grown deeply into the synapses, into the neural firing mechanisms.

00:22:36.000 Here is Joe Biden trying to recite the Declaration of Independence.

00:22:40.000 And Thomas Jefferson just spun so hard in his grave, he dug a hole directly to China and acquired a coronavirus.

00:22:46.000 Here is Joe Biden.

00:22:48.000 All these truths to be self-evident.

00:22:51.000 All men and women created by the... Go, you know the... You know the thing. 1.00

00:22:55.000 Oh, play it again.

00:23:05.000 Play it again.

00:23:06.000 Do it again.

00:23:07.000 Do it again.

00:23:08.000 All men and women created by, so you know the thing. 0.99

00:23:12.000 Oh! 0.60

00:23:15.000 And they call Trump it out of the thing. - Yeah.

00:23:20.000 We hold each truth to be self-evident, that all men and women are created by the thing.

00:23:26.000 All men and women are created by the thing. 0.98

00:23:29.000 You know the thing.

00:23:31.000 You know the movie.

00:23:32.000 That's the fly.

00:23:33.000 I created, you know, vitamin, vitamin, vitamin, vitamin.

00:23:35.000 By, you know, the thing.

00:23:37.000 By, you know, Jeff Goldblum.

00:23:39.000 The thing.

00:23:40.000 You know, the movie.

00:23:41.000 That's the fly.

00:23:42.000 I remember one time I saw a thing.

00:23:44.000 It was from Fantastic Four.

00:23:46.000 It looked like a brick.

00:23:52.000 Well done, everyone.

00:23:53.000 Well done.

00:23:53.000 By the way, were you aware?

00:23:55.000 So I made fun of Beto a moment ago because Beto O'Rourke started his little endorsement of Joe Biden by explaining that today he said tomorrow because yesterday he said today is Tuesday.

00:24:04.000 Tomorrow is Tuesday.

00:24:05.000 Super Tuesday, March 3rd.

00:24:08.000 Well, I mean, I made fun of him for saying that, but maybe he was just trying to tell Joe Biden, because Joe Biden actually said yesterday that tomorrow is Super Thursday, which doesn't exist.

00:24:16.000 I don't know what Super Thursday is or where he's getting this, but, um, here's Joe Biden.

00:24:20.000 He's jumping in a super into the Wednesday.

00:24:22.000 Look, tomorrow is Super Thursday, and I want to thank you all.

00:24:30.000 Even everybody else is laughing at him.

00:24:31.000 I'm rushing ahead, aren't I?

00:24:32.000 I'm rushing ahead on Thursday.

00:24:36.000 Okay, guys.

00:24:41.000 I mean, I hope all the candidates should live long and be well.

00:24:45.000 All I'm going to say is that I feel like the country is in severe danger because coronavirus is only killing people above 65 and we only nominate people above 65.

00:24:51.000 So that's all I'm going to say about that.

00:24:54.000 Meanwhile, meanwhile, Bernie is feeling a little bit left out in the cold.

00:24:59.000 Man, this is getting to be fun.

00:25:00.000 Bernie's feeling a little bit upset.

00:25:02.000 We're gonna get to that in just one second.

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00:26:11.000 How did you hear about us, Fox?

00:26:12.000 So they know that we sang.

00:26:13.000 OK, meanwhile, Bernie rightly is looking at this and going, the Democratic Party is trying to stop me.

00:26:19.000 What are they doing?

00:26:20.000 I can't believe it.

00:26:21.000 They're stabbing me in the back.

00:26:22.000 It's just like 2016. 0.83

00:26:24.000 And or like when Stalin pushed Lenin down the stairs and killed him.

00:26:28.000 I mean, that was good.

00:26:29.000 Then we got Stalinism.

00:26:30.000 But other than that, it's exactly the same.

00:26:32.000 So Bernie is very mad about this.

00:26:34.000 He says, it's not a surprise to me that they're coming after me.

00:26:36.000 Of course they're coming after me.

00:26:38.000 This is what the Kulaks always do. 1.00

00:26:40.000 The Kulaks are always coming after me. 1.00

00:26:42.000 Bernie Sanders, Leninist.

00:26:44.000 It is no secret that the Washington Post has 16 articles a day on this.

00:26:49.000 That there is a massive effort trying to stop Bernie Sanders.

00:26:52.000 That's not a secret to anybody in this room.

00:26:55.000 The corporate establishment is coming together.

00:26:57.000 The political establishment is coming together.

00:27:00.000 And they will do everything.

00:27:01.000 They are really getting nervous that working people are standing up.

00:27:06.000 Well, mostly they're nervous that you're an old loon bag commie and they're afraid you're going to lose to Trump.

00:27:10.000 But he's correct.

00:27:11.000 He's correct.

00:27:12.000 Obviously, the party is mobilized.

00:27:13.000 All the heads of the party do not want to see Bernie as the nominee.

00:27:16.000 And again, I think it shows impressive discipline.

00:27:18.000 To be honest with you, it is a disciplined party.

00:27:21.000 It's one of the reasons why the Democratic Party typically Has been more popular with its own constituents than the Republican Party.

00:27:26.000 The party apparatus among Democrats is still very much operational.

00:27:29.000 It's completely dysfunctional with Republicans.

00:27:31.000 The Republican Party apparatus does not exist, which is why Trump was able to run in and just take over the entire party.

00:27:36.000 Well, Bernie tried it, and now the establishment is kicking back, and they are saying no.

00:27:40.000 Sanders was asked directly by Anderson Cooper last night on CNN if the Democrats are stealing the nomination from him again, and Bernie's like, I'm not going to answer that question.

00:27:48.000 I mean, maybe they are.

00:27:49.000 Maybe they're stealing the nom... Normally, I'm the only one who steals from people.

00:27:53.000 I just come and take their money.

00:27:54.000 But now the Democrats keep trying to steal the nomination from me.

00:27:56.000 They need to stop it.

00:27:58.000 This is very bad.

00:27:59.000 Here's Bernie getting mad.

00:28:01.000 Again, we'll get to the implications of the Bernie versus Biden showdown and the fact that no one's going to have a majority of delegates going in in just one second.

00:28:08.000 But here is Bernie refusing to answer if the Democrats are stealing the nomination from him.

00:28:13.000 President Trump questioned last night the timing of Buttigieg's withdrawal, tweeting in part, this is the real beginning of the Dems taking Bernie out of play.

00:28:21.000 No nomination again.

00:28:22.000 He also tweeted this afternoon, quote, they are staging a coup against you.

00:28:26.000 Is he right?

00:28:27.000 You know what?

00:28:30.000 I really wish that the president of the United States might kind of spend his time doing his job.

00:28:36.000 Maybe, just maybe, he might want to worry about the corona virus.

00:28:42.000 The corona virus?

00:28:43.000 A virus that is made from beer?

00:28:45.000 I don't like beer.

00:28:47.000 I like vodka, like my Russian compatriots. 1.00

00:28:50.000 In any case.

00:28:51.000 He won't answer it, right?

00:28:52.000 He rips on Trump because that's always the convenient out, but he's not saying.

00:28:55.000 And the answer is that the Bernie bros feel like this is being stolen.

00:28:57.000 And if you watch the Bernie bros online, they're making this very clear.

00:29:00.000 Trump, of course, is stoking those flames, right?

00:29:02.000 Trump is just like, go for it.

00:29:04.000 Trump tweets out, they're staging a coup against Bernie.

00:29:08.000 Now, of course, they're not staging a coup against Bernie.

00:29:10.000 It's called a normal election process.

00:29:12.000 But that's not what Trump is doing there, right?

00:29:14.000 Trump doesn't actually think that they're staging a coup again.

00:29:16.000 Maybe he does, but who cares?

00:29:17.000 What he's actually doing there is trying to stoke the flames of division inside the Democratic Party.

00:29:22.000 Sanders yesterday, he's getting more and more ticked off.

00:29:24.000 As he is the frontrunner, he has never felt actual scrutiny.

00:29:26.000 Bernie, when you get to when you're the outsider and you get to aim fire at everybody else, you're not the one who faces the scrutiny.

00:29:31.000 And so Bernie went through an entire election cycle where he was the outsider and Hillary was the insider.

00:29:35.000 And up until this point, he was able to play that card because Biden was the guy who was going to win the nomination and Bernie was just going to be outside sniping at him.

00:29:43.000 Then Bernie became the front runner.

00:29:45.000 All the all the spotlights swiveled and hit him like the end of Stalag 17.

00:29:49.000 All the spotlights in the place went and just hit him.

00:29:51.000 And all of a sudden, the machine guns are aimed at him, and Bernie starts to lose it.

00:29:55.000 So Bernie's getting more and more angry on the campaign trail, which is not his best look, honestly.

00:29:59.000 Sort of avuncular honest guy was always his best look, but angry communist is, it turns out, not supremely popular.

00:30:05.000 So he was asked yesterday whether he was, you know, why he keeps campaigning as a socialist, why people keep calling him a socialist, and Bernie Sanders answered with the Popeye answer, I am what I am, and that's all that I am, and then he downed a can of spinach.

00:30:16.000 It was real weird.

00:30:17.000 Here's Bernie explaining.

00:30:20.000 Congressman Ro Khanna told the Wall Street Journal that he's been trying to convince you to portray yourself differently as a successor of Franklin Roosevelt and as a new dealer.

00:30:28.000 Do you ever regret labeling yourself a democratic socialist?

00:30:33.000 No, I am what I am.

00:30:35.000 I am what I am.

00:30:37.000 And that's all that I am.

00:30:38.000 I'm strong to the finish when I eat my spinach.

00:30:41.000 He's Popeye, the sailor communist. 0.67

00:30:43.000 Michael Moore then came out and he says it's really sad that people are thinking of how to stop Bernie instead of stopping Trump.

00:30:48.000 You can see they're already in mourning.

00:30:50.000 The Democrats on the Bernie side, they're already in mourning.

00:30:52.000 They think it's being stolen and they are pissed.

00:30:55.000 They are super pissed.

00:30:56.000 So I'm going to give you the coming up in just a moment.

00:30:59.000 I'm going to give you the sort of breakdown of the possible options that happen after Bernie after Super Tuesday.

00:31:08.000 We'll give you the delegate breakdowns.

00:31:09.000 What are the possibilities here moving forward?

00:31:10.000 None of them are good for Democrats.

00:31:12.000 This is all a disaster for Democrats.

00:31:13.000 But Michael Moore, you know, obviously already in preemptive mourning for Bernie Sanders's campaign.

00:31:18.000 Here he is explaining that people should stop thinking about Bernie.

00:31:20.000 Instead, they should think about Trump.

00:31:21.000 But of course, neglecting the fact the reason that people don't want Bernie to be the nominee is specifically because they think that Bernie can't beat Trump.

00:31:28.000 That's the whole point.

00:31:29.000 I think they're falling in line.

00:31:31.000 They're not thinking tonight about who can stop Donald Trump.

00:31:33.000 They're thinking about who can stop Bernie Sanders.

00:31:35.000 And it's sad to see that.

00:31:36.000 And it's sad for anybody to be thinking about voting for Biden because they're afraid.

00:31:42.000 They're voting out of fear.

00:31:43.000 If you're afraid of Trump now, if that's what really is behind this, Well, you might lose to Trump if you try to elect a communist.

00:32:01.000 I mean, that's what most of the Democrats are thinking.

00:32:03.000 In just a second, I'm going to give you the breakdown of what could happen going forward, and none of these scenarios are good for the Democrats.

00:32:09.000 A real problem for Democrats.

00:32:10.000 We'll get to that in a second.

00:32:11.000 First, Super Tuesday is upon us.

00:32:13.000 An octogenarian communist is in the lead to face off against President Trump.

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00:34:19.000 All righty.

00:34:26.000 So here are the scenarios.

00:34:27.000 Here are the scenarios.

00:34:29.000 The 538 is now pegging it that Joe Biden will be the leader in terms of delegates going into the convention.

00:34:34.000 He will not have a majority.

00:34:35.000 Bernie Sanders will follow him closely.

00:34:38.000 Also not with a majority, obviously.

00:34:39.000 He'll have a not even plurality.

00:34:41.000 And then they're thinking that Bloomberg wins something like 500 delegates.

00:34:44.000 I think that is a wild overestimate for Bloomberg.

00:34:47.000 I think Bloomberg significantly underperforms tonight.

00:34:51.000 I may be wrong.

00:34:52.000 I will be surprised if Bloomberg wins more than about 40 delegates tonight.

00:34:56.000 Seriously, I think that Bloomberg is not going to cross 15% in nearly any state.

00:34:59.000 I think he is going to completely collapse once the voters have a chance to actually vote for Biden or Bloomberg.

00:35:03.000 I think people are going to vote for Biden.

00:35:05.000 So I think that Biden significantly overperforms.

00:35:07.000 I think Bernie performs exactly in line with expectations.

00:35:09.000 And I think Bloomberg's votes all go to Biden, basically.

00:35:11.000 Also, Klobuchar and Buttigieg endorsed Biden.

00:35:14.000 So I would assume that most of those voters, not all of them, but most of them, end up moving over to Joe Biden as well.

00:35:19.000 This leads to the possibility of three scenarios.

00:35:22.000 The worst-case scenario is the scenario in which Sanders cleans up tonight, but Biden gains, and by the time of the convention, Sanders ends up with slightly more delegates than Biden, and Bloomberg ends up with like 500, 600 delegates, right?

00:35:35.000 That is the worst-case scenario.

00:35:36.000 Let's say that Biden ends up with 1,500 delegates, and Bloomberg ends up with 600 delegates, and Bernie ends up with 1,700 delegates.

00:35:43.000 Bernie's not gonna get the nomination in that case, because the rules state you have to win a majority of the delegates.

00:35:47.000 But, Bernie's gonna claim that having won plurality of the delegates, he should be handed the nomination.

00:35:52.000 As the leader in the clubhouse, he should be allowed to have the nomination, and anything else is stealing the nomination from him.

00:35:57.000 Biden is gonna claim, hey guys, like, if Bloomberg weren't in the race, I'd obviously win this thing.

00:36:01.000 Bloomberg throws his delegates over to Biden.

00:36:04.000 They have a combined Biden-Bloomberg ticket or something.

00:36:06.000 Or he makes Bloomberg the head of one of his departments, one of his agencies.

00:36:10.000 And then, they take the nomination.

00:36:12.000 Bernie feels like he is jobbed, or alternatively the party has to give it to Sanders and the entire moderate wing just checks out.

00:36:18.000 And not only do they check out, all the money checks out, which is really the big issue, right?

00:36:21.000 The entire money, like everyone who has any cash in the Democratic Party is not on board with a full-on socialist.

00:36:27.000 That is worst-case scenario for the Democrats, so honestly, I'm kind of rooting for it, right?

00:36:31.000 Bernie ends up with the most delegates, but not...

00:36:33.000 A majority.

00:36:34.000 Biden finishes a close second.

00:36:36.000 That is full chaos at the convention.

00:36:38.000 That is worst case scenario.

00:36:39.000 Then there's the best case scenario.

00:36:40.000 Best case scenario is Biden's comeback is complete.

00:36:43.000 He wins a plurality of the delegates.

00:36:45.000 Bloomberg pulls out but keeps spending on anti-Bernie ads, crushing Bernie.

00:36:48.000 Bernie ends up in second place and doesn't have a real case for the nomination.

00:36:51.000 And then he just claims victory for his movement.

00:36:53.000 Now, that's still not great for the Democrats in the sense that Bernie's people are grievance mongers.

00:36:59.000 This is their entire political campaign.

00:37:00.000 Their entire political campaign is that the system is rigged.

00:37:03.000 The system is corrupt.

00:37:04.000 And so they're going to say, listen, Bernie was in the lead until the entire Democratic Party infrastructure mobilized behind Joe Biden.

00:37:10.000 And so really Bernie got jobbed again.

00:37:12.000 Now, they claimed this in 2016 because Hillary did win.

00:37:15.000 The majority of the delegates, right?

00:37:16.000 She had the majority of the delegates.

00:37:17.000 She won more votes than Bernie Sanders, but people were still claiming that Bernie got screwed out of it because the DNC was interfering. 0.98

00:37:23.000 He can make the same case right now, given the fact that there is this obvious mobilization on behalf of Biden, this obvious consolidation of the field on behalf of Biden.

00:37:30.000 So even if Biden were to walk into the convention with a plurality of delegates, Bernie is still going to claim that he got screwed out of it.

00:37:36.000 And so are his people.

00:37:37.000 And that's a real problem for the Democrats.

00:37:39.000 Even if Bernie gives a sort of lackluster, half-hearted endorsement of Joe Biden, that's going to have exactly the same impact as Bernie doing that in 2016 with Hillary Clinton.

00:37:50.000 Namely, a bunch of Bernie supporters are going to be like, I don't care about this.

00:37:52.000 I'm not in.

00:37:53.000 I'm not in.

00:37:54.000 Here's the big problem for the Democrats.

00:37:56.000 And then finally, there's the anything-goes scenario.

00:37:58.000 Dead heat.

00:37:59.000 No-one situation.

00:38:00.000 Democrats try to go off the board for somebody like Michelle Obama.

00:38:04.000 Unlikely.

00:38:05.000 The most unlikely.

00:38:05.000 Very, very unlikely.

00:38:07.000 Okay, so here is the problem for the Democrats.

00:38:09.000 There were three things that the Democratic Party did wrong.

00:38:13.000 I mean, really, like three serious things.

00:38:15.000 One, they rejiggered the primary process to help popular but non-majoritarian candidates like Bernie at Bernie's behest.

00:38:20.000 So Bernie claimed last time around he was screwed.

00:38:22.000 So the Democratic Party responded by releasing raw vote totals in places like Iowa.

00:38:26.000 They responded by getting rid of the impact of superdelegates, making it appear that Bernie had more of a shot at bucking the party infrastructure.

00:38:33.000 That was big mistake number one.

00:38:34.000 Big mistake number two, letting Bernie run as a Democrat without actually being a Democrat.

00:38:39.000 And then hijacking his platform, right?

00:38:41.000 Everybody decided to hijack Bernie's platform and decided to be mini Bernie's.

00:38:45.000 And at that point, Bernie became the most honest guy in the field.

00:38:47.000 And there was a sort of consolidation that happened behind Bernie.

00:38:50.000 So letting Bernie into the game in the first place and then rigging the game to try and help Bernie, two horrible decisions.

00:38:56.000 And finally, the decision by Biden to run a horrible, lackluster campaign. 0.98

00:39:01.000 So even if Biden pulls out the nomination, Biden will have done severe damage to the Democratic Party by running such a crap campaign. 0.98

00:39:06.000 Why? 0.70

00:39:07.000 Because he opened the door wide to Sanders, which ends up allowing the Sanders supporters to feel jobbed by Biden winning the nomination. 0.61

00:39:14.000 Imagine if Biden had not run a crappy campaign.

00:39:15.000 Imagine if Biden had raised money and spent in Iowa and spent in New Hampshire and he'd won the first couple of contests.

00:39:20.000 There wouldn't have been a split in the party.

00:39:22.000 But now that Bernie actually was for a short time the delegate leader and may still be the delegate leader after Super Tuesday, given California.

00:39:27.000 Now, no matter what happens, because Biden ran the world's crappiest campaign, it ends up that you have a major split inside the party.

00:39:35.000 So this is almost best case scenario for President Trump.

00:39:38.000 Trump is just overjoyed about all of this, and he should be.

00:39:41.000 Now, meanwhile, Bernie is sort of praying that Michael Bloomberg does better than expected in these various Super Tuesday states.

00:39:48.000 There's only one problem, which is that Bloomberg is awful at this.

00:39:52.000 Yesterday, Bloomberg did another one of these CNN town halls, and he was confronted on gun control.

00:39:56.000 It did not go well for him.

00:39:58.000 This is actually on Fox News, rather.

00:39:59.000 It did not go well for him.

00:40:01.000 I probably get 40 or 50 threats every week, okay?

00:40:02.000 And some of them are real.

00:40:03.000 when you have an armed security detail that is likely equipped with the same firearms and magazines that you seek to ban the common citizen from owning.

00:40:10.000 Does your life matter more than mine or my family's or these people's?

00:40:13.000 I probably get 40 or 50 threats every week, okay?

00:40:18.000 And some of them are real.

00:40:20.000 That just happens when you're the mayor of New York City or you're very wealthy and if you're campaigning for President of the United States, you get lots of threats.

00:40:28.000 Okay, that is the worst answer ever.

00:40:30.000 Basically, I deserve it because I can afford it, and also I get lots of threats, so I should be able to protect myself, but you should not be able to protect yourself.

00:40:37.000 Horrible answer by Bloomberg.

00:40:38.000 Again, I think Bloomberg falls flat on his face today.

00:40:40.000 I think Bloomberg has an awful, awful evening.

00:40:42.000 And I think that that benefits mainly Joe Biden.

00:40:45.000 Okay, meanwhile, the other big story of yesterday.

00:40:47.000 It's a loss to me.

00:40:48.000 It's a loss to America. 0.54

00:40:50.000 It's a loss to everybody.

00:40:52.000 Chris Matthews just left his show Hardball.

00:40:53.000 That's what I always say.

00:40:55.000 Come on in here.

00:40:56.000 Come to the show of Rumpel and say things.

00:40:58.000 Just show metaphors, similes, alliteration.

00:41:02.000 Just lots of things.

00:41:03.000 Come in here to say things.

00:41:05.000 Last night Chris Matthews got on his show after 23 years doing Hardball.

00:41:08.000 A lot of Hardball right there.

00:41:09.000 Lots and lots of it.

00:41:11.000 Get on and say, you know what?

00:41:12.000 I've had it.

00:41:13.000 I'm mad as hell.

00:41:14.000 I'm leaving.

00:41:14.000 I'm not going to take it anymore.

00:41:16.000 And you guys can all stick it.

00:41:17.000 Now, he makes an excuse.

00:41:19.000 He says, well, the reason I'm doing is the times pass me by.

00:41:21.000 Times pass me by.

00:41:22.000 Because we've moved into a more woke era.

00:41:25.000 He gives a quasi-apology.

00:41:26.000 Here's Chris Matthews giving a quasi-apology and saying, you know what?

00:41:28.000 I'm out.

00:41:29.000 Matthews out.

00:41:30.000 Mic drop.

00:41:31.000 Chris Matthews, go.

00:41:32.000 No, I mean, like, actually go.

00:41:33.000 Like, leave.

00:41:33.000 But go, go, Chris Matthews, go.

00:41:36.000 Let me start with my headline tonight.

00:41:38.000 I'm retiring.

00:41:39.000 This is the last Hardball on MSNBC.

00:41:41.000 And obviously, this isn't for a lack of interest in politics.

00:41:44.000 As you can tell, I've loved every minute of my 20 years as host of Hardball.

00:41:48.000 The younger generations out there are ready to take the reins.

00:41:51.000 We see them in politics, in the media, in fighting for their causes.

00:41:55.000 They're improving the workplace.

00:41:57.000 We're talking here about better standards than we grew up with.

00:42:00.000 Fair standards.

00:42:01.000 A lot of it has to do with how we talk to each other.

00:42:03.000 Compliments on a woman's appearance that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were okay.

00:42:10.000 Were never okay.

00:42:11.000 Not then, and certainly not today.

00:42:12.000 And for making such comments in the past, I'm sorry.

00:42:15.000 Okay, and then he leaves.

00:42:16.000 Then he says, you know what?

00:42:17.000 I'm out.

00:42:17.000 I'm done.

00:42:18.000 Catch you later.

00:42:19.000 And this was somewhat hilarious because Steve Kornacki was obviously taken by surprise.

00:42:24.000 So Steve Kornacki's just on the set doing elections analysis and he's like, and they're like, guess who's the new host of Hardball?

00:42:30.000 Who drew the short straw?

00:42:31.000 Steve Kornacki!

00:42:32.000 Congratulations!

00:42:33.000 You're the host!

00:42:35.000 So Steve Kornacki on air last night was like, um, hi everyone.

00:42:40.000 I'm your new host, Steve Kornacki.

00:42:42.000 Steve Kornacki on MSNBC trying to soldier through this thing.

00:42:45.000 I mean, credit to Steve Kornacki, honestly.

00:42:49.000 That was a lot to take in just now, I'm sure.

00:42:52.000 And I'm sure you're still absorbing that, and I am too.

00:42:58.000 Chris Matthews is a giant.

00:43:00.000 He's a legend.

00:43:03.000 It's been an honor for me to work with him, to sit in here on occasion.

00:43:09.000 And I know how much you meant to him, and I know how much he meant to you.

00:43:16.000 And I think you're going to miss him, and I know I'm going to.

00:43:20.000 We're not going to have any bells or whistles here.

00:43:22.000 We do have to fill the rest of this hour.

00:43:24.000 We're going to take a quick break and come back with Space News.

00:43:28.000 I don't have a teleprompter and I don't know what to do.

00:43:32.000 You know what?

00:43:33.000 Good for Chris Matthews.

00:43:34.000 Honestly, like seriously, good for him.

00:43:36.000 Because Chris Matthews was like, I'm getting jobbed out of here, right?

00:43:38.000 That's what, okay, so what really happened here is that Chris Matthews was Chris Matthews for 23 years.

00:43:43.000 And he was wildly entertaining, okay?

00:43:44.000 Chris Matthews, the reason I imitate him is because, yes, he says silly things a lot, but also, dude is entertaining, okay?

00:43:50.000 Chris Matthews was fun.

00:43:52.000 He was fun to watch, okay?

00:43:54.000 And Chris, it was great.

00:43:55.000 I loved it.

00:43:55.000 Every moment, every moment was just a little tingle up my leg, sparks of joy, like Marie Kondo on TV.

00:44:01.000 Unbelievable.

00:44:03.000 And the reason he was ousted is because the woke bros decided to get him.

00:44:07.000 There were two basic incidents that happened over the last month.

00:44:10.000 He was fine.

00:44:11.000 Neither of them was a big deal.

00:44:13.000 One of them was where he suggested that the Democratic Party was waking up like the Allies in 1940 and realizing that the Germans had taken over the beaches, basically. 0.99

00:44:22.000 He was not comparing Bernie Sanders to a Nazi, and you have to be a moron to believe that he was doing that. 0.98

00:44:27.000 Didn't matter. 0.97

00:44:27.000 The Bernie bros don't like Chris Matthews because Chris Matthews happens to be an anti-communist, right? 0.97

00:44:32.000 He happens not to like socialism.

00:44:33.000 He happens not to like communism. 1.00

00:44:34.000 Chris Matthews is moderate enough to understand that nationalization of industry is a stupid idea. 0.99

00:44:39.000 So the Bernie bros got very mad, and then they played this idiotic game where they suggested that Chris Matthews was anti-Semitic. 0.99

00:44:45.000 Meanwhile, their candidate is out campaigning with actual people who want to wipe the state of Israel off the map. 0.99

00:44:49.000 I mean, it was really cynical and really gross, and I mentioned it at the time, right?

00:44:52.000 In the last month, I've become a Chris Matthews defender, not just because I like my impression, but also because the attacks on him are really unfair.

00:44:57.000 Then there was this interview he did with Elizabeth Warren, where Elizabeth Warren was cynically going after Michael Bloomberg and suggesting that Michael Bloomberg was lying about his confrontations with the series of women in his office.

00:45:09.000 And Bloomberg had said, I'm not lying about that.

00:45:11.000 There are NDAs in place, but I'm not lying about that.

00:45:14.000 And obviously, people have a rather large incentive to say I say things that I didn't say because I'm extremely wealthy.

00:45:20.000 I run a huge company.

00:45:21.000 So Chris Matthews is questioning Elizabeth Warren about this.

00:45:23.000 And this, of course, is a big no-no.

00:45:24.000 Here's Chris Matthews being a vicious sexist by asking a basic question.

00:45:28.000 Everybody deserves a credible response when they make a charge like that.

00:45:32.000 My question about him, you believe he's lying?

00:45:35.000 I believe the woman.

00:45:36.000 You believe he's lying?

00:45:36.000 Which means he's not telling the truth.

00:45:38.000 And why would he lie?

00:45:39.000 Because just to protect himself?

00:45:40.000 Yeah.

00:45:41.000 And why would she lie?

00:45:43.000 I mean, that's the question, Chris.

00:45:46.000 Why do you assume that he's the guy... It's a striking event.

00:45:48.000 I just want to make sure you're clear about this.

00:45:50.000 You're confident of your accusation.

00:45:51.000 Look, all I know is what she said and what he said.

00:45:55.000 Okay, that is not sexist.

00:45:56.000 Nothing he says there is sexist. 1.00

00:45:57.000 And by the way, believe all women is a bunch of crap. 1.00

00:45:59.000 Everybody knows it's a bunch of crap. 1.00

00:46:01.000 There's a reason why the Democrats don't believe all women, depending on the woman. 1.00

00:46:05.000 Okay, so the fact is that he didn't say anything there that is supremely off-limits.

00:46:08.000 It didn't matter.

00:46:08.000 People went nuts.

00:46:09.000 It was sexist! 0.91

00:46:10.000 How could he ask Elizabeth Warren if a woman lied about Bloomberg?

00:46:13.000 Well, she's accusing a man of lying, so, like, why would you believe the woman as opposed to believing the man in this particular scenario?

00:46:19.000 As far as why would she lie, the answer is she was filing a lawsuit against Bloomberg against the time, who happens to be extremely wealthy.

00:46:24.000 So, yeah, that might be a good reason.

00:46:26.000 I mean, that doesn't mean that she's not telling.

00:46:27.000 Maybe she is telling.

00:46:28.000 I don't know.

00:46:29.000 You don't know.

00:46:29.000 I mean, Chris Matthews is saying, Elizabeth Warren, you don't know either.

00:46:32.000 So like, what's your evidence?

00:46:33.000 OK, and he got ripped up and down for this.

00:46:35.000 Tiana Lowe.

00:46:36.000 Over at the Washington Examiner has a good piece on this.

00:46:39.000 She says, the host's departure, which she said resulted after a conversation with MSNBC, hardly came out of the blue.

00:46:44.000 For months, Matthews and other hosts challenging 2020 frontrunner Bernie Sanders have faced the ire of the Socialist Senators fans, as well as those of Elizabeth Warren, and only now did the network apparently care that for years, rumors of inappropriate behavior have swirled around Matthews.

00:46:55.000 This is right.

00:46:56.000 So people are saying, OK, well, it's just because of all the stuff that he said back in 2000 to women.

00:47:00.000 OK, well, you know what year it is? 2020.

00:47:02.000 You know, that stuff has been around for quite a while.

00:47:04.000 Right at the onset of the MeToo movement in late 2017, The Daily Caller uncovered a settlement paid out by NBC to assuage a former employee of Matthews who alleged sexual harassment.

00:47:12.000 Shortly thereafter, multiple sources alleged that Matthews created an abusive work environment, other reporters corroborated the payout, and additional details.

00:47:20.000 But despite other serial sexual harassers facing punishment, Matthews continued on as usual until he got under the skin of Warren fans and Bernie bros.

00:47:27.000 Just days after he likened Sanders' victory in Nevada to the fall of France to the Nazis, he pressed Warren on her invoking the allegation that Bloomberg told a female employee to have an abortion, angering Sanders and Warren fans as a good way to alienate a substantial portion of the MSNBC audience.

00:47:41.000 Warren defender Laura Bassett compared his aggressive questioning of the Massachusetts senator to the objectifying comments she faced from Matthews three years ago.

00:47:49.000 That MSNBC decided to take action against a credible accusation isn't the problem, that they waited this long is.

00:47:54.000 And that, of course, is exactly right.

00:47:56.000 Okay, that is exactly right.

00:47:57.000 Okay, so the bottom line is that they were fine with whatever Chris Matthews did before.

00:48:01.000 It is only now that it's a problem.

00:48:03.000 And the reason that it's a problem is because Chris Matthews is cutting against the grain at MSNBC by pissing off all of the Warren and Sanders supporters.

00:48:09.000 That's all that really happened here.

00:48:11.000 So maybe he deserved to get the axe back in 2017 based on what he was saying to women. 1.00

00:48:14.000 I don't know.

00:48:15.000 Maybe.

00:48:15.000 Sure, why not.

00:48:16.000 But, they didn't do anything about it.

00:48:18.000 They settled it.

00:48:18.000 And now, they're coming after Matthews for that reason?

00:48:22.000 No, that is cynical manipulation.

00:48:24.000 So, we bid a fond farewell to Chris Matthews.

00:48:28.000 Honestly, I'm more sad that the impression's gonna go away.

00:48:32.000 What opportunity am I gonna have to imitate Chris Matthews?

00:48:34.000 I don't know.

00:48:36.000 Hopefully in the future, Chris Matthews will come back in some iteration so we can use it.

00:48:40.000 Otherwise, we're gonna have to mothball this thing.

00:48:41.000 So, Godspeed, my impression.

00:48:43.000 Godspeed.

00:48:45.000 And may you see happier days in the heaven of impersonations.

00:48:49.000 Alright, time for a thing I like and then a thing I hate.

00:48:52.000 So, things that I like today.

00:48:55.000 So, somehow, Bibi Netanyahu is some sort of political magician.

00:48:59.000 So, according to the Jerusalem Post, Benjamin Netanyahu has now defeated Benny Gantz.

00:49:03.000 He is still short of a majority.

00:49:05.000 The exit polls in Israel are a little bit ahead of the actual voting results.

00:49:08.000 So, late yesterday, it appeared that Netanyahu and the right-wing bloc had an actual outright majority.

00:49:13.000 Instead, the exit polls now suggest that Netanyahu is on track to win 59 seats for his bloc of right-wing and religious parties in Monday's election, down by one from the 60 predicted by initial exit polls.

00:49:22.000 That prediction leaves him two seats short of majority in the Knesset.

00:49:26.000 The first polls indicated that Netanyahu's Likud won 36 to 37 seats.

00:49:30.000 Its allies in Shas, UTJ, and Yamina won 9, 7 to 8, and 6 to 7.

00:49:34.000 The polls showed that Blue and White only won 33 seats.

00:49:37.000 That Labor, which is the left-wing party in Israel, won 6 to 7.

00:49:40.000 The Joint List, which is the Arab parties who, by the way, overtly call for the abolition of the State of Israel, sit at 14 to 15.

00:49:46.000 And Yisrael Beiteinu, which is sort of the swing voting bloc, 6 to 8 seats.

00:49:51.000 The numbers are expected to continue to change.

00:49:52.000 The votes of soldiers have not yet been counted.

00:49:54.000 The joint list tends to lose a seat when the soldiers' votes are added.

00:49:56.000 If the right doesn't obtain its 61st seat, it could end up being because the far-right Otzma Yehudit party refused Netanyahu's repeated request to quit the race.

00:50:06.000 So now the only question is whether they can peel off one or two votes, whether the blue and white Constituency, which is basically just an anti-Netanyahu party, whether a few of them say, listen, we're done with this.

00:50:16.000 We've done three elections in a year.

00:50:17.000 This has to end.

00:50:18.000 And they join Netanyahu's coalition.

00:50:20.000 Bottom line is that Netanyahu has basically given up for dead after the last election.

00:50:24.000 The conventional wisdom suggested that with the indictment coming down for corruption against Netanyahu, that people were going to abandon Likud in droves.

00:50:30.000 This was what people in blue and white were saying.

00:50:32.000 I said that was not going to happen.

00:50:33.000 I suggested that you were going to end up with a new election in all likelihood.

00:50:36.000 Bibi actually surpassed those expectations. 0.96

00:50:38.000 People are angry.

00:50:38.000 They're angry that blue and white continues to hold this thing up.

00:50:42.000 And by the way, the longer the BB continues as prime minister of Israel.

00:50:46.000 The better for Bibi. 0.98

00:50:47.000 Because the big issue in Israel is whether Bibi Netanyahu was going to be tried for corruption in Tel Aviv or in Jerusalem.

00:50:53.000 This would be the equivalent of, is President Trump going to be tried for corruption in Austin, Texas?

00:50:57.000 Or is he going to be tried for corruption in Lubbock, Texas?

00:51:00.000 The venue makes an awful lot of difference.

00:51:01.000 If he's tried in Lubbock, he's fine.

00:51:03.000 If he's tried in Austin, he's going to jail for life.

00:51:05.000 The same thing is true of Bibi Netanyahu.

00:51:07.000 If he were not Prime Minister, he would be tried in Tel Aviv, which is a city that hates Benjamin Netanyahu.

00:51:11.000 If he is tried in Jerusalem, he probably gets a slap on the wrist, which is basically A more appropriate response to all of this, and then continues as Prime Minister, all of this is over and Blue and White liquidates.

00:51:21.000 Blue and White made a serious strategic error.

00:51:23.000 Okay, they made a serious strategic error.

00:51:25.000 I've been saying this for months.

00:51:26.000 Back in October, when the last election took place, they obviously should have formed a unity government with Netanyahu.

00:51:31.000 They should have had a rotating Prime Ministership. 0.87

00:51:33.000 That would have been their best move.

00:51:34.000 Instead, they decided to sit outside and snipe at Netanyahu.

00:51:37.000 And the Israeli voters got tired of it, and they decided they were not going to reward Blue and White.

00:51:40.000 For all of this.

00:51:41.000 They were simply not going to continue giving blue and white their votes in the same numbers they had been before, simply because they don't like Netanyahu.

00:51:47.000 So, another stunning political victory for Netanyahu.

00:51:49.000 At the very least, he remains in power for the foreseeable future, even if there's another election.

00:51:53.000 That means that that election is not going to happen until summer.

00:51:55.000 The trial starts March 17th.

00:51:57.000 That means it happens in Jerusalem, which means that Bibi is probably going to be slapped on the wrist or acquitted.

00:52:02.000 Within a couple of months.

00:52:03.000 And that means by the time the next election comes around, that's a big win for Netanyahu. 0.93

00:52:06.000 If he's acquitted or if he gets a slap on the wrist, this thing is over.

00:52:09.000 Next election, Likud wins a broad majority.

00:52:11.000 One of the great lies that you're going to see in the Western media is that this is all about Bibi.

00:52:15.000 It is not all about Bibi.

00:52:16.000 It is clearly not all about Bibi.

00:52:18.000 The fact is, the Israeli public is overwhelmingly conservative on foreign policy issues at this point.

00:52:23.000 They're not making a deal with terrorists.

00:52:24.000 It doesn't matter how much the Democrats pressure them.

00:52:26.000 They made deals with terrorists for 30 years and all they got were thousands of dead Israelis.

00:52:29.000 They're not going to do it again.

00:52:31.000 The fact is that the Blue and White Party is not significantly... They embraced the Trump peace plan, the Blue and White Party.

00:52:35.000 So the Blue and White Party is not significantly different on foreign policy than the Liquid Party.

00:52:39.000 That means that there are, in total, something like 95 seats in Knesset out of 120 that are center to center-right in Israel.

00:52:48.000 Israel has learned its lesson. 0.95

00:52:49.000 They're not making peace deals with terrorists anymore, despite the wishes of the Democratic Party.

00:52:54.000 Nor should they, because the fact is that you know who else doesn't care about making concessions to terrorists anymore?

00:52:59.000 Any of the surrounding Arab nations.

00:53:01.000 Saudi doesn't care. 1.00

00:53:01.000 Jordan doesn't care. 1.00

00:53:03.000 UAE doesn't care.

00:53:04.000 Egypt doesn't care. 0.99

00:53:05.000 None of them care.

00:53:06.000 None of them care.

00:53:06.000 Morocco doesn't care.

00:53:07.000 Like, none of them care.

00:53:08.000 So, that means that regard- like, Bibi is almost secondary to all of this. 0.64

00:53:13.000 Bottom line is that Israel has moved right. 0.96

00:53:14.000 Israel is staying right. 1.00

00:53:15.000 It is not going to stop being right so long as they are faced with the prospect of a terrorist group in charge of the people right next door and an Iranian regime that is threatening them from abroad.

00:53:24.000 So that is the thing that I like today.

00:53:26.000 Again, Bibi is great at what he does.

00:53:28.000 He's a great campaigner.

00:53:31.000 He's like Trump in the sense that he drives enormous loyalty.

00:53:35.000 He also is unlike Trump in that he is strategically very clever.

00:53:38.000 He is much more focused in his sort of attack than Trump.

00:53:41.000 It's one of the great elements I have about Trump is that if Trump were a little bit more strategically focused, he would be at 55% in all of the polls going into 2020.

00:53:47.000 2020.

00:53:47.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:53:49.000 So the United States is desperately attempting to get out of Afghanistan.

00:53:56.000 The Trump administration wants out.

00:53:58.000 They don't want any of our military members there.

00:53:59.000 And this has been pushed by the right.

00:54:00.000 There are a lot of folks on the right who are saying the war in Afghanistan is over.

00:54:03.000 We lost.

00:54:03.000 OK, we did not lose the war in Afghanistan.

00:54:05.000 It's just that there is no victory that is attainable in the sense of establishing a stable democracy in Afghanistan anytime soon.

00:54:11.000 The question is whether to keep what is effectively a skeleton force in Afghanistan or whether to pull out precipitously and hand the keys to the car back to the Taliban, which is, of course, a terrorist group. 0.55

00:54:23.000 So, Taliban supposedly had pledged that they weren't going to attack Afghan targets, they weren't going to attack the Americans, they had pledged that they weren't going to work with Al-Qaeda.

00:54:30.000 They are Islamic fundamentalist radicals who engage in terrorism.

00:54:34.000 The Trump administration had been engaged in exactly the same sort of wish-casting that the Obama administration was, that maybe a deal would be able to be cut with the Taliban.

00:54:42.000 It turns out that that has fallen apart almost immediately.

00:54:45.000 So the Trump administration had sent out Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to make the rounds suggesting that the Taliban had committed to not working with al-Qaeda.

00:54:52.000 There's nothing in the deal about that, that they had committed to ending terrorism.

00:54:55.000 There was no deal about that.

00:54:56.000 Within a day, within a day, they ended their partial truce and started attacking American and Afghan targets again.

00:55:04.000 By the way, the Afghanistan government was not on board with any of this.

00:55:07.000 So it was very weird.

00:55:08.000 The United States was negotiating with the Taliban without the direct involvement of the duly elected government of Afghanistan that is in place.

00:55:15.000 That's a very weird thing And not only that, the United States was pledging to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners who are not being held by the Americans, they're being held by the Afghan government.

00:55:24.000 So strengthening the opposition to the Afghan government in pulling out.

00:55:28.000 According to the AFP, the Taliban called an abrupt end to a partial truce on Monday, just two days after signing a deal with the United States that was meant to bring peace at last to Afghanistan.

00:55:35.000 In the southern province of Kandahar, considered the Taliban's heartland, fighting broke out in at least two districts.

00:55:40.000 They started attacking five of our posts in Panwahi and Maiwand.

00:55:43.000 Local police chief Sultan Mohammed Hakimi told AFP fighting is ongoing.

00:55:47.000 The Taliban ordered its fighters to recommence attacks against Afghan army and police forces, apparently ending an official reduction in violence that had seen a dramatic drop in bloodshed and given Afghans a welcome taste of relative calm.

00:55:58.000 The partial truce between the U.S., the insurgents and Afghan forces lasted for a week, running up to the signing of the U.S.-Taliban accord in Doha on Saturday and was extended over the weekend.

00:56:06.000 The Taliban spokesman, Sabahullah Mujahid, told AFP the reduction in violence has ended now and our operations will continue as normal.

00:56:13.000 So they bought basically like a week of a week of reduction in violence.

00:56:16.000 Well done, everybody.

00:56:17.000 As per the U.S.-Taliban agreement, our mujahideen will not attack foreign forces, but our operations will continue against the Kabul administration forces.

00:56:24.000 In other words, there's no actual truce here.

00:56:27.000 Basically, they're just saying if the Americans leave, we won't attack more Americans.

00:56:31.000 Well, okay, if the Americans leave, there won't be any more Americans for you to attack.

00:56:34.000 So what exactly is the peace deal?

00:56:35.000 What exactly is achieved?

00:56:36.000 What's the negotiation?

00:56:38.000 The answer is there is no negotiation.

00:56:39.000 When one side is determined to withdraw and the other side is determined not to, one will withdraw, the other will not, and things will go back to the way that they were.

00:56:46.000 And again, the question here is not endless war.

00:56:48.000 Nobody wants tens of thousands of troops in Afghanistan.

00:56:50.000 No one wants endless wars.

00:56:51.000 The question is whether to keep a skeleton force in Afghanistan to tamp down the Taliban's ability to take over the government again, and then immediately provide a recruiting station for terrorism.

00:57:00.000 Because that's what the Taliban did last time. 0.67

00:57:02.000 And I'm old enough to remember 9-11.

00:57:03.000 I know that a lot of people are not.

00:57:04.000 It's amazing how fast time moves.

00:57:05.000 It's been almost 20 years since 9-11.

00:57:08.000 But I'm old enough to remember 9-11.

00:57:09.000 And 9-11 was not something that I would like to see repeated because we withdraw precipitously from an area where Al-Qaeda is still active.

00:57:17.000 The United States cautioned an immediate halt to violence had not been expected.

00:57:20.000 General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said the Taliban is not a monolithic group.

00:57:24.000 There's multiple terrorist organizations operating.

00:57:26.000 To think that violence is going to go to zero immediately, that's probably not going to be the case.

00:57:29.000 So now, this is the problem with signing peace deals with terrorist groups.

00:57:32.000 you end up becoming PR spokespeople for the terrorist groups.

00:57:35.000 You saw this from the Obama administration too.

00:57:37.000 The Obama administration kept saying things like, well, you know, if you look at Iran, Iran is not actually pursuing terrorism.

00:57:43.000 They became a PR spokesperson because they were signing a deal with the Iranians. 0.83

00:57:45.000 They became a PR spokes agency for the Iranian government.

00:57:48.000 Now you have the United States downplaying Taliban violence against the legitimate government of Afghanistan in order to make an excuse for why we should withdraw.

00:57:55.000 Now again, you want to withdraw, withdraw, but understand their costs.

00:57:57.000 Understand their costs to withdrawing, and the costs to withdrawing do include the prospect of future violence down the road.

00:58:02.000 The easy position in foreign policy, I've discussed this at length, the easy position in foreign policy is always bring the troops home.

00:58:09.000 Why?

00:58:09.000 Because immediate benefits, long-term downsides.

00:58:12.000 Okay, but the immediate benefits accrue immediately, and the long-term downsides accrue long-term.

00:58:18.000 Okay, let's say that you pull out, and let's say ten years from now there's a terrorist attack in New York City by Taliban associates, by Al-Qaeda.

00:58:24.000 Well, we'll look back and we'll say, well, that was a mistake, wasn't it?

00:58:27.000 To minimize America's foreign military presence. 0.74

00:58:29.000 But, at the time, it looked good.

00:58:31.000 You know how we know that this would be exactly what would happen?

00:58:33.000 Because for ten years, in the aftermath of the Cold War, The Clinton administration cut America's military presence to the bone.

00:58:41.000 Cut it down and down and down and down.

00:58:42.000 It was like, okay, with this, okay, we're redeploying all of our capital to the American side.

00:58:46.000 This is good.

00:58:47.000 We're cutting military spending.

00:58:48.000 We're balancing the budget.

00:58:49.000 And then 9-11 happens like, oh, that was what we were, oh, that was a mistake, wasn't it?

00:58:54.000 Maybe we should have been a little more aggressive and then maybe some more Americans would be alive. 1.00

00:58:57.000 Again, when you think short-term and not long-term with regard to foreign policy, you make a mistake.

00:59:02.000 And again, Afghan violence is not at the levels against American troops that it was even five, seven years ago.

00:59:10.000 The Taliban has been gathering on Monday to celebrate what they called their defeat of the U.S.

00:59:15.000 They also vowed to continue operations against the Afghan government until an Islamic system of government is restored.

00:59:20.000 So, why we are signing some sort of peace deal and then playing defense for the Taliban is beyond me.

00:59:25.000 It's an enormous, enormous mistake.

00:59:29.000 And the fact that we're down to short-term benefit Again, I'm old enough to remember when Republicans criticized Barack Obama for precipitously withdrawing American troops from Iraq, resulting in the rise of ISIS.

00:59:39.000 It would not be long before the same thing happened in Afghanistan.

00:59:41.000 And by the way, when I mean not long, I mean like within 48 hours of signing a deal.

00:59:45.000 So, let's not play defense on behalf of the Taliban, guys.

00:59:49.000 If you're gonna withdraw, withdraw.

00:59:50.000 But don't be dishonest about why we're withdrawing and suggest that a peaceful future is in the offing for the Taliban and the Afghan government.

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