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00:00:00.000So, President Trump has a new nickname for Stormy Daniels, and Elizabeth Warren's Native American tale collapses, and Michael Avenatti had a bad day and now he's having a slightly better day, so we'll get into all the Avenatti-related things.
00:00:18.000This is certainly the most entertaining timeline.
00:00:20.000I mean, I don't know what happened, what black hole we fell through to emerge from the other side, where the President of the United States is calling a woman horseface he once had sex with, and she is insulting his genitalia as a mushroom character from a 1997 video game.
00:00:36.000But all I can say is I'm very happy we fell into this particular black hole because it's deeply entertaining.
00:00:42.000I have so much to say about so many things today, but first,
00:00:45.000Let's talk about another podcast that you should actually listen to.
00:00:48.000There are hundreds of thousands of legal cases in litigation every day in the United States court system.
00:00:52.000Most of them will never reach the media's attention, but the ones that you know about, well, you don't know as much as you think you do, which is why you ought to listen to a podcast from Wondery called Legal Wars.
00:01:01.000Host Hill Harper gives you behind the scenes access into some of the most famous cases
00:01:05.000So have ever graced America's courtrooms.
00:01:06.000You'll hear about influential cases that have changed the face of America.
00:01:10.000Things like the Rodney King trial, or Anna Nicole Smith's battle for her inheritance, or the takedown of the gossip site Gawker.
00:01:15.000Go listen to Legal Wars on Apple Podcasts.
00:01:17.000The first episode is about Hulk Hogan versus Gawker, which actually did change the way media is done in the United States.
00:01:23.000There's a case in which Hogan walked out of the courtroom with a multi-million dollar settlement, but you don't know the whole story until you've listened to Legal Wars.
00:01:30.000You can find Legal Wars on Apple Podcasts, wherever you're listening to this, or head over to Wondery.FM slash Ben.
00:01:55.000So did you think that yesterday's news cycle was going to be the pinnacle of insanity?
00:02:01.000Did you think that we had really reached the apex of crazy and hilarious with Elizabeth Warren revealing a test that supposedly showed that she was Native American only to show that she is significantly less Native American than a Jeep Grand Cherokee?
00:02:16.000Were you a person who thought, you know, maybe we finally reached the summit of ridiculousness with Elizabeth Warren claiming that she was a member of the Cherokee Nation when, in fact, Elizabeth Warren is whiter than this piece of paper?
00:02:31.000Did you think we... Well, you ain't seen nothing yet!
00:05:43.000Also, just politically speaking, is that going to make for a good news cycle that now we're going to get media outrage about Trump calling woman horseface, like, a week and a half after the Brett Kavanaugh saga in which the left wanted to launch a war on women and failed?
00:07:33.000The other narrative of the day is that Elizabeth Warren, as Tonto, is not actually Native American.
00:07:38.000So, she claimed that she was Native American many, many, many, many, many times.
00:07:42.000She claimed that she was Native American in legal journals.
00:07:44.000She claimed that she was Native American in an award that she won from University of Pennsylvania Law School.
00:07:49.000She claimed that she was Native American
00:07:51.000In a story that she told over and over and over, a romantic story, a Romeo and Juliet story, about her mother, a proud Native American woman, wandering the plains, who met her father, and her father brought her home.
00:08:12.000And then apparently her parents eloped and they had a beautiful romance from there on.
00:08:16.000And well, it turns out that Elizabeth Warren is not, in fact, Native American.
00:08:20.000But it was funny to watch as the narrative turned yesterday.
00:08:22.000So yesterday, Elizabeth Warren started this whole thing off by releasing a video of her and her family members talking about how Native American she was.
00:08:31.000And here was what the video sounded like.
00:10:24.000NIWRC is a nonprofit working to protect Native women from violence.
00:10:28.000More than half of all Native women have experienced sexual violence, and the majority of violent crimes against Native Americans are perpetrated by non-Natives.
00:10:35.000Send them your $1 million check, Donald Trump.
00:10:39.000And then she continues along these lines.
00:11:43.000It was like when Michael Scott was driving on the road and the GPS told him to drive into the lake.
00:11:47.000That's basically how that tweet thread went.
00:11:49.000He's just, he's talking, she's talking about, yeah, I'm Native American and Native Americans are great and give some money to Native Americans.
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00:13:52.000The Cherokee Nation does not come out and make political statements very often, but they sent out their Secretary of State, Chuck Hoskin, to issue a statement.
00:14:21.000Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong.
00:14:29.000It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is proven.
00:14:39.000Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage.
00:14:46.000So she just got slammed by the Cherokee Nation to which she claims ancestral membership.
00:14:52.000Yeah, that went poorly for Elizabeth Warren, which is why she shifted and said, I'm not claiming that I'm Native American anymore, but I'm kind of Native American, so give me a million dollars.
00:14:59.000Again, I call on the Trump administration, I call on President Trump to personally sign a $900 check to Elizabeth Warren's charity of choice, because she is one 1,024th Native American, maybe he should pay her 1,024th of a million dollars.
00:15:14.000That is the amount to which she is owed.
00:15:16.000So President Trump was asked about this yesterday, and he basically dismissed all of it.
00:15:41.000She'll make our country into Venezuela.
00:15:44.000With that being said, I don't want to say bad things about her because I hope she would be one of the people that would get through the process.
00:15:50.000It's going to be a long process for the Democrats.
00:15:53.000Okay, so, President Trump, he's eager to go after Elizabeth Warren.
00:15:57.000Again, I still think we need the image of him with a publisher's clearinghouse-sized check, handing it to Elizabeth Warren, in order to basically have that image linked with Elizabeth Warren forever.
00:16:06.000Unfortunately, it seems like he's swiveled, and he's less interested in whether Elizabeth Warren has a relationship with Tonto, and more interested in whether Stormy Daniels is, in fact, silver.
00:16:17.000But I want to talk a little bit more about why it's important for Elizabeth Warren to have maintained her Native American ancestry point, what made her think she could get away with this.
00:16:27.000There's a story that came out September 1st of this year in the Boston Globe, and it discussed a serious issue for Elizabeth Warren.
00:16:34.000Was Senator Warren actually a professor at Harvard Law because she claimed Native American ancestry?
00:16:39.000In other words, was she granted special status that sort of gave her an upper hand when it came to her job at University of Pennsylvania or at Harvard Law School?
00:16:49.000Well, this long article from the Boston Globe, in-depth research found that folks at Harvard said that her Native American claims had nothing to do with any of that.
00:16:58.000That her Native American claims had nothing to do with her actual ability
00:17:02.000to be granted a professorship at Harvard Law School.
00:17:04.000They interviewed something like 31 professors, many of whom were on the admissions committee, some of whom I know, people like Charles Freed, who I had for contracts.
00:17:09.000And he said, no, when we hired her, it had nothing to do with her claiming Native American ancestry.
00:17:14.000In fact, we didn't even know that at the time.
00:17:16.000And the internal documents suggested that University of Pennsylvania treated her as a white person, and so did Harvard Law School, until it became beneficial for them to claim that she was of minority heritage for purposes of their diversity curriculum.
00:17:29.000They had to claim that they had a certain number of diverse professors, and so they sort of faked it and said that she was Native American.
00:17:35.000But that doesn't mean she got her job based on Native American claims.
00:17:41.000So with that said, why didn't Elizabeth Warren, a month and a half ago, simply say,
00:17:46.000I was told by my family members that I had Cherokee ancestry.
00:18:22.000Well, there are two reasons she didn't do that, and both of them are telling.
00:18:24.000Reason number one, she figured that she could get away with pretty much anything because the media would cover for her, which the media did yesterday.
00:18:31.000There were headlines in the Daily Beast saying, Elizabeth Warren proves Native American ancestry.
00:18:37.000There's a headline over at CNN, Elizabeth Warren provides solid evidence of Native American ancestry.
00:18:43.000So she legitimately threw out a study that showed she was not Native American and counted on the media to say that the study showed she was actually Native American.
00:18:51.000And the media complied for the first 12 hours.
00:18:55.000And then it all began to fall apart because people can read.
00:18:58.000And we don't live in a world where there are only three networks and three major newspapers anymore.
00:19:02.000We live in a world where people can fact check stuff.
00:19:05.000And that meant that her narrative began to collapse in on her.
00:19:08.000So, she thought she could get away with it because the media would cover for her.
00:19:13.000I mean, the media have covered for the fact that Beto O'Rourke in Texas, who is being treated as an Obama-esque, Kennedy-esque, new, young figure, that that guy was involved in a DUI when he was 26 that involved him crossing over a median line, smashing a truck, and then trying to flee from the scene.
00:19:30.000And they're still touting him as the big, new, next Democratic thing.
00:19:32.000Now, listen, I'm somebody who's had my license suspended for driving too fast.
00:19:41.000Beto O'Rourke was driving drunk and hit a guy and then tried to flee the scene while he was drunk.
00:19:47.000And the media have basically said that's a big nothing.
00:19:50.000This is the same media that said that George W. Bush's DUI back in the 1970s should have disqualified him in 2000 from running for the presidency like two weeks before the election.
00:19:59.000So, Elizabeth Warren had good cause to think that the media were going to cover for her no matter what.
00:20:04.000If the media covered Democrats the way they cover Republicans, half of the candidates for Congress in this election cycle would be toast.
00:20:17.000Claire McCaskill in Missouri would be done.
00:20:19.000Kristen Sinema in Arizona would be just toast.
00:20:22.000But they are not because Elizabeth Warren, like every other Democrat, knows that there is a grace, a sort of buffer zone.
00:20:30.000That is established for Democratic candidates and so she can simply claim Native American ancestry without any proof and the media will continue to cover for her as much as humanly possible, right?
00:20:39.000And they will just continue to cover for her endlessly.
00:20:43.000That's the reason number one that Elizabeth Warren felt comfortable releasing a study that actually contradicted her main narrative line.
00:20:49.000Then there is reason number two and this one goes a little bit deeper for the Democrats.
00:20:53.000So, reason number two we'll get to in just one second.
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00:23:03.000And white women are under a pretty significant attack by the left right now.
00:23:05.000There's an article we read last week on this program, an op-ed, in the New York Times, talking about how white women were the serious problem in the United States.
00:23:15.000She has no intersectional advantage over Cory Booker, over Kamala Harris, over Deval Patrick.
00:23:20.000Claiming minority status allows her to say that she's part of the victimized minority in the United States, even though she's led a pretty easy life.
00:23:28.000Elizabeth Warren went to Rutgers Law School,
00:23:30.000And then she became a lawyer, and then she became a law professor at University of Texas at Austin, then University of Pennsylvania, then Harvard Law School.
00:23:37.000She flipped some houses, she's made some money.
00:23:39.000Elizabeth Warren is not a person who has endured tremendous suffering at the hands of the evil American patriarchy and hierarchy.
00:23:47.000She has to come up with some story of victimhood.
00:23:49.000And the easiest way to do that is to try and connect to your relatives.
00:23:53.000It's the same routine that Hillary Clinton did.
00:23:54.000She used to talk about her parents all the time and how her parents suffered a lot.
00:23:58.000Her mom particularly was trod upon as a woman in the United States because it turns out Hillary didn't have a good victimization story.
00:24:05.000In the Democratic Party, you need a victimization story in order so that you can try to lead the charge on behalf of all the victim groups.
00:24:13.000Elizabeth Warren knew that she needed to lead that charge, but she could only do that if she identified as some form of minority, and the way that she did that is by saying that she had Native American ancestry, and what group in America has been more put upon than Native Americans?
00:25:27.000President Trump has raised already for his re-election ancestry, his ancestry, his re-election campaign, $100 million in fundraising for his re-election.
00:25:39.000According to the Greenwich Times, President Trump has topped $100 million in fundraising for his 2020 re-election bid, an enormous haul for a president barely two years into his first term, according to new figures reported by his 2020 campaign.
00:25:53.000Trump pulled in more than $18 million last quarter through his campaign committee and two joint fundraising committees with the RNC, for a total of at least $106 million since January 2017, according to his campaign and federal filings.
00:26:07.000So that's bad news for Democrats who thought that Trump would have collapsed at this point, that he would have destroyed himself by this point.
00:26:12.000Trump can't destroy himself because nothing you do can destroy a man who has no character.
00:26:18.000President Trump is not a man of rich character.
00:26:20.000Listen, I like a lot of what he does politically, but this is a guy who goes on Twitter and calls former lovers who he had sex with while he was married horseface.
00:26:27.000Okay, so it's going to be kind of difficult to destroy that guy.
00:26:30.000And it turns out that most folks who want to see his priorities put in place don't care too much about his character.
00:26:36.000Like, we've established that character in American politics is no longer a major concern, obviously.
00:26:41.000And so Trump can raise as much money as he wants.
00:26:43.000Meanwhile, Democrats in Senate races across the country
00:26:48.000Beto O'Rourke, acting on the best ideals of his Democratic spread-the-wealth-around campaign, he announced on Monday he is not going to share any of his $38 million war chest, even though Democratic bosses want the cash for more competitive states.
00:27:02.000So, Beto O'Rourke is going to lose to Ted Cruz in Texas in the Senate race.
00:27:05.000Latest polls have him down almost double digits after the media have been fawning over him the same way they fawned over Wendy Davis, the former state senator in Texas, who then lost by something like 20 points to Greg Abbott.
00:27:17.000Well, now they are for governor in Texas.
00:27:19.000They're doing the same thing with Beto O'Rourke.
00:27:25.000The Texas Democrat told reporters after a campaign rally he will not spare any expense in his own race.
00:27:30.000He plans to leave all the money he has raised out on the field ahead of Election Day.
00:27:34.000O'Rourke raised, from July to September, $38.1 million.
00:27:39.000He says that he is not going to contribute any of that money to other candidates, which is kind of amazing, because honestly, if he wants to ensure his future in the Democratic Party, he really should become a patron of the arts, right?
00:27:50.000He should be taking that money and distributing it to more hotly contested races.
00:27:56.000Meanwhile, Claire McCaskill is running a very tight race in Missouri, and James O'Keefe, the kind of undercover journalist,
00:28:07.000I can tell them because she does support a semi-automatic firearm.
00:28:30.000Because I want to say something I shouldn't say.
00:28:33.000I think a semi-automatic rifle ban is more so what she would support.
00:28:38.000But she doesn't openly go out and support groups like Moms Demand Action or just other groups that are related to that because that could hurt her ability to get elected because people see that and they're just like, well, I don't want to support her even though they stand for the same policies.
00:29:19.000She apparently takes sorcery very seriously.
00:29:21.000Emails obtained by the Washington Examiner show Sinema was invited to a prominent coven of feminist witches in Arizona.
00:29:29.000It was called Pagan Cluster to celebrate International Women's Day and to protest the war in March of 2003.
00:29:35.000Code Pink protesters wore pink, obviously enough, and the women in black wore black.
00:29:39.000But Sinema encouraged the witches to wear colorful clothing and come ready to dance, twirl, and stay in touch with your inner creativity and with the earth.
00:29:49.000The cinema campaign would not say why she invited the witches or clarify why she thought members of the occult deserved a seat at the table during discussions concerning war and peace.
00:29:58.000The witches in question, it should be noted, claim to practice only non-violent magic.
00:30:01.000Per the about section on their webpage, there is a peaceful and democratic kind of sorcery.
00:30:06.000The pagan cluster focuses on sharing spiritual insights and participating in direct democracy.
00:30:19.000Senema also went to an anti-war rally with pagans later that year, and apparently she talked about singing and spiraling in the pagan circle only five rows from the police line.
00:30:30.000And then the police arrested everybody.
00:30:34.000Yeah, just doing yeoman's work on behalf of her own campaign.
00:30:36.000Also, it turns out, she organized for the Arizona Alliance for Peace and Justice.
00:30:41.000In one email, she urged supporters of the AAPJ to deluge the phone lines of a radio show hosted by an unapologetic, unconditional supporter of Israeli policy.
00:30:50.000So, Kirsten Sinema is basically toast in that Senate race as well.
00:30:54.000Democrats' radicalism is the major issue here, and all they have is President Trump, which is why it's not good that the President of the United States goes around calling women whores face.
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00:35:14.000The new jobs numbers are just terrific.
00:35:17.000Not only that, we have the highest federal collection of income taxes in history in 2018.
00:35:25.000If you just look at the numbers, we are collecting more income taxes than ever before, even though we have lower income tax rates than we did last year.
00:35:33.000When the economy grows, then the government actually takes in more taxes than if the economy is stagnant and we have higher tax rates.
00:35:39.000The economy has been going great guns under President Trump.
00:35:41.000We'll get to the deficit in a second, which is not quite as good, but...
00:35:44.000This is a very good news cycle for President Trump.
00:35:46.000So in the last three weeks, he got a Supreme Court justice and watched the left kill themselves over Kavanaugh.
00:35:50.000He got Elizabeth Warren in one of the great unforced political blunders of my lifetime, releasing a report saying she was Native American when she is less Indian than actual people from India.
00:36:04.000Like actual people from India have more Native American blood than Elizabeth Warren does.
00:36:21.000And so this is what they're ratcheting up.
00:36:22.000Nancy Pelosi, who's looking at a bad Senate map right now,
00:36:26.000She's trying to suggest that President Trump is now in the pay of the Saudis.
00:36:30.000That the reason that President Trump hasn't been harsher on the Saudi government with regard to their murder of Jamal Khashoggi, their alleged murder of Jamal Khashoggi, an American resident who was a critic of the Saudi regime and also a fan of the Muslim Brotherhood, she says the reason Trump hasn't been harsher is because maybe he's being paid off by the Saudis.
00:36:48.000In terms of Saudi Arabia, I think that was, I've always wondered why he went there as the first country to visit outside of the United States.
00:36:55.000Of course, as President of the United States, all the other presidents back to Ronald Reagan went to Canada or to, one to Mexico, George W. Bush.
00:37:05.000So in our hemisphere, were there many friends and allies we could have gone to?
00:37:09.000So there was, I was always suspicious that there was some kind of a financial transaction involved there, whether for his businesses or whatever.
00:37:19.000It's pretty crazy that Democrats think the only way that they're going to be able to win elections is by simply throwing out unverified and unverifiable information like this.
00:37:27.000But it shows how desperate they are, which is why, again, unforced errors are the biggest problem for the Trump administration.
00:37:32.000They've always been the biggest problem for the Trump administration.
00:37:36.000Here's, I think, the rule in American politics right now.
00:37:42.000Because this is just, it's the worst tennis match ever.
00:37:46.000If you watch tennis players, very often you will see that sometimes the best strategy is just get the ball over the net, because sooner or later somebody is gonna smack the ball into the net, and then you win.
00:37:57.000Basically, there's a great line, which comedian is it?
00:38:53.000Trump also comes along with the benefit of Trump, right?
00:38:55.000There's always a good side to what Trump is and a bad side to what Trump is.
00:38:57.000So the same guy who calls his former lover's horse face is the same fellow who's actually trying to stop these immigrant caravans that have been traveling from places like Honduras.
00:39:07.000So President Trump on Tuesday threatened to withdraw funding and aid from Honduras if it does not stop a caravan of people that is heading to the United States.
00:39:14.000Trump said the United States has strongly informed the president of Honduras that if the large caravan of people heading to the U.S.
00:39:20.000is not stopped and brought back to Honduras, no more money or aid will be given to Honduras effective immediately.
00:39:26.000Up to 3,000 migrants crossed from Honduras into Guatemala on Monday on a trek northward after a standoff with police in riot gear and warnings from Washington that migrants should not try to enter the United States illegally.
00:39:37.000And then the crowd more than doubled in size.
00:39:39.000And they do this march every year where people are sent up from Latin America through Central America and to the United States border.
00:39:46.000Trump threatening to withdraw aid from countries that don't stop this seems not completely unreasonable to me.
00:39:52.000With that said, he should be threatening aid to Saudi Arabia as well based on their human rights violations and frankly any country that commits human rights violations in the way that Saudi Arabia has.
00:40:00.000I'm not sure why we should be funding those countries.
00:40:03.000Especially when we have the capacity to do much more direct damage to Iran through sanctions and through military know-how than the Saudis do.
00:40:10.000I mean, the Saudis basically are there because we let them be there.
00:40:14.000The other big story of the day is that Carter Page is now suing the DNC.
00:40:18.000So according to the Daily Caller, former Trump campaign associate Carter Page has filed a defamation lawsuit Monday against the DNC and its law firm, which commissioned the infamous Steele dossier.
00:40:27.000Page filed the suit in federal court in Oklahoma against the DNC, the law firm Perkins Coie, and two of its partners, Mark Elias and Michael Sussman.
00:40:35.000Now you remember what happened with Carter Page.
00:40:36.000The accusation from the Republicans that Carter Page was a low-level foreign policy aide for President Trump was
00:41:36.000Page, he filed that lawsuit, and Perkins Coie is the firm that hired Fusion GPS, the opposition researcher that investigated Donald Trump's links to Russia.
00:41:46.000Elias, who's one of the lawyers over at Perkins Coie, was Perkins Coie's main contact to Fusion GPS.
00:41:51.000It was founded by three former Wall Street Journal reporters.
00:41:55.000As part of its $1 million project, Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele to conduct the investigation.
00:41:59.000Now, what's fascinating about this lawsuit is that lawsuits sometimes are designed for victory, and sometimes lawsuits are designed for discovery.
00:42:06.000In other words, in the process of doing a lawsuit, you can ask
00:42:28.000Asking for materials on Carter Page's relationship with the Trump administration in Russia.
00:42:33.000For Carter Page to launch the lawsuit, unless it's really ill-founded, suggests that Carter Page doesn't have a lot to hide, but he thinks the DNC does have a lot to hide.
00:42:46.000Again, Carter Page has been sort of the main linchpin of a lot of Democratic efforts to paint collusion between Donald Trump and the Russian government in 2016.
00:42:54.000And so far, no hard evidence has been brought out to prove any of that stuff.
00:43:47.000federal budget deficit rose in fiscal year 2018 to the highest level in six years as spending climbed, the Trump administration said Monday.
00:43:53.000The deficit jumped $779 billion, $113 billion, or 17% higher than the previous fiscal period, according to a statement from Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.
00:44:03.000It's larger than any year since 2012, when it topped $1 trillion.
00:44:07.000The budget shortfall rose to 3.9% of U.S.
00:44:19.000And government is addicted to spending, and nobody's going to stop it.
00:44:22.000Because no one has an interest in actually stopping the spending.
00:44:25.000Americans like the idea of spending less until you actually ask them what sorts of programs they wish to see cut, at which point they get quite skittish.
00:44:32.000Very, very skittish about doing any sorts of real cuts.
00:44:36.000Federal revenues rose slightly by $14 billion after Republicans chopped tax rates for corporations and individuals.
00:44:42.000Outlays climbed by $127 billion including a spike in defense spending as well as increases for Medicaid, Social Security, and disaster relief.
00:44:52.000So that is not exactly fiscal discipline.
00:44:53.000We have no party in the United States that stands for fiscal discipline.
00:45:05.000We need to get that under control if President Trump...
00:45:08.000wants to win a second term, I would suggest that we start talking in serious fashion about those deficits, because at some point, the burden comes due.
00:45:15.000Okay, time for a few things that I like, and then we'll do some things that I hate.
00:47:08.000It's a better message than, women are deeply victimized every single day in the United States, and men shouldn't worry about their victimization at the hands of women who lie sometimes, or who misremember sometimes.
00:47:20.000This is a much better message because, turns out, you know it's a bad message?
00:47:23.000A better message than the democratic message?
00:48:18.000They thought, okay, we'll put him on ABC and that will fix things.
00:48:22.000Well, one of the things that he said over the past week is that he is horrified President Trump is president, which is kind of amazing coming from a guy who left a message on his daughter's answering machine talking about how she was a little pig and how terrible she is.
00:48:33.000I understand people having character quibbles with the President of the United States and serious character questions about the President of the United States.
00:48:40.000But I do not understand people in Hollywood suddenly finding their moral scruples when it comes to presidents after they spent years preparing the way, playing fluffer for Bill Clinton.
00:49:08.000According to Nielsen, the premiere, this is on ABC, right?
00:49:12.000Not on MSNBC or a cable network, on ABC.
00:49:15.000The premiere of his ABC talk show brought in 2.2 million total viewers with an anemic 0.4 rating in the advertiser coveted 18 to 49 demographic.
00:49:25.000Okay, let me give you a by way of contrast.
00:49:30.000My Fox Sunday show, okay, my Fox election special, last week, the week before Sunday, because I think the ratings aren't out yet, the week before Sunday, it brought in 1.8 million.
00:49:40.000I nearly matched his ratings on Fox News on a Sunday night during Sunday night football.
00:49:45.000Hey, he's on ABC and he couldn't get any ratings.