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00:00:00.000Democrats seal the deal with socialist Bernie Sanders in Nevada, Bernie embraces actual communists again, and the underlings fight it out for second place.
00:00:27.000You know, they say that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but that doesn't hold true.
00:00:32.000If you go to Vegas, you go find a hooker.
00:00:35.000You hook up with her overnight, and then you decide to run down to the nearest wedding chapel, find Elvis to marry you, and now you're stuck with that the rest of your life.
00:01:18.000Biden is trying to claim this as some sort of victory because after all, we're about to head on to South Carolina, which is Joe Biden's last stand.
00:01:27.000He's about a 50-50 shot to win South Carolina.
00:01:29.000If Biden were to win South Carolina, that does complicate the picture because then all of a sudden it looks like Joe Biden is not completely dead in the water.
00:01:36.000If Bernie wins South Carolina, the sucker is over before it begins.
00:01:39.000Pete Buttigieg walks away with 13.9% of the vote.
00:01:41.000Elizabeth Warren, despite her supposedly glorious showing in that debate last week, that complete crap show debate, reservoir dog style ending of the debate last week, Elizabeth Warren only got 9.8% of the vote.
00:01:53.000In the Nevada Democratic caucuses, Tom Steyer at 4.6 percent and Amy Klobuchar at 4.2 percent.
00:02:00.000That means that Bernie runs away with this thing more than doubling up his nearest competitor, Joe Biden.
00:02:04.000And Bernie was super excited about it.
00:02:56.000Okay, so this old communist is going to be your leader going into the clubhouse.
00:02:59.000Bernie Sanders is campaigning also, like Donald Trump did in 2016, against the so-called Democratic establishment.
00:03:04.000What's weird about this is that, by and large, what the polls show is that Democrats, like members of the base, are much happier with their own party than Republicans were back in 2016.
00:03:12.000Back in 2016, Republicans were deeply unhappy with their own Democratic party establishment.
00:03:17.000Democrats, by and large, are pretty happy with the Democratic establishment because the Democratic establishment has bent over backwards to make room for the Bernie Sanders and the Ilhan Omars and the Rashida Tlaibs and the AOCs.
00:03:42.000And what I mean by that is not that the Democratic establishment is going to stop Bernie.
00:03:44.000I think Bernie has basically a clear glide path to the nomination.
00:03:47.000At this point, I'm very doubtful that Joe Biden is able to pick up South Carolina.
00:03:52.000Even if he does, it seems to me that Bernie has a road to the plurality of the delegates simply because Michael Bloomberg and Joe Biden would then split the vote.
00:04:00.000So it actually doesn't clarify the picture if Biden wins in South Carolina.
00:04:03.000If Biden wins in South Carolina, Bloomberg is still spending all this money for Super Tuesday.
00:04:07.000And suddenly, instead of there being one moderate in the lane because Biden drops out, presumably, instead you have two moderates in that lane splitting the vote and then Bernie running right up that left side and picking up his 30 percent of the vote and winning across the board in a lot of these primaries.
00:04:23.000The problem for Bernie Sanders, that the numbers just don't add up when it comes to his national poll standing, which, of course, is why President Trump was congratulating crazy Bernie's It's very obvious that President Trump would love to see Bernie Sanders as the nominee.
00:04:35.000He certainly loves the cast he's seeing inside the Democratic Party.
00:04:38.000He tweeted out in the aftermath of the Nevada results, Looks like Crazy Bernie is doing well in the great state of Nevada.
00:04:45.000Biden and the rest look weak and no way Mini Mike can restart his campaign after the worst debate performance in the history of presidential debates.
00:04:53.000Congratulations, Bernie, and don't let them take it away from you.
00:04:56.000So Trump is just itching, itching to dump a billion dollars in ads in the swing states on Bernie.
00:05:01.000And he should be, because as we will see, Bernie provides rich fodder for attack.
00:05:05.000With that said, be careful of what you wish for.
00:05:09.000Whatever you wish for, very often it comes true and then it comes back to bite you directly on the ass as Hillary Clinton learned what she wished for Donald Trump and then got the full Trump in 2016.
00:05:17.000We'll get back to this in just one second.
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00:06:35.000Okay, so, the Democrats are beginning to panic.
00:06:40.000Because the fact is, that Bernie Sanders is going to have dramatic impact down ballot.
00:06:46.000Okay, the Democrats are realizing that down ballot, Bernie is a disaster for them.
00:06:51.000Because Bernie is not going, the districts that Democrats won in 2018, they are all purple districts.
00:06:56.000These are all districts that went to Mitt Romney in 2012, they went to Republicans in 2014, and these are all districts that have shifted blue, specifically out of hatred for Trump.
00:07:07.000But if Bernie's the nominee, a lot of these suburban districts are not gonna stay Democratic for very long, which is why the Washington Post is reporting The down-ballot Democrats are already moving to distance themselves away from Sanders, according to Mike DeBonis and Michael Schur over at the Washington Post.
00:07:22.000Former astronaut Mark Kelly, the Democratic Party's hope for flipping a U.S.
00:07:25.000Senate seat in Arizona, tried to do no harm this month when he was asked about Senator Bernie Sanders.
00:07:29.000He said, I'll ultimately support who the nominee is of the Democratic Party.
00:07:32.000That was enough for Kelly's Republican rival, Senator Martha McSally of Arizona, who's trailing him in early polls, to go on the attack.
00:07:38.000The television spot she debuted days later spent nearly as much time talking about plans by the Democratic Socialists from Vermont to raise taxes and award new benefits to undocumented immigrants as it did to Kelly.
00:07:48.000As Sanders, a political independent, builds what could eventually be an insurmountable delegate lead, many Democratic House and Senate candidates are approaching a dramatic shift in their campaigns as they recalibrate to include praise of capitalism and distance themselves from the national party.
00:08:01.000Top campaign strategists from both major parties view Sanders' success as a potentially tectonic event, which could narrow the party's already slim hopes of retaking the Senate majority and fuel GOP dreams of reclaiming the House, which it lost amid a Democratic romp in 2018.
00:08:14.000Former Representative Steve Israel, Democrat of New York, who is a former longtime confidence of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, he said, I can tell you there are a lot of down ballot jitters based on my conversations with my former colleagues.
00:08:24.000He says Donald Trump is going to offer the American people this choice.
00:08:27.000Do you want to continue building the economy or do you want to lurch toward socialism?
00:08:30.000And that is a real powerful argument in the Democratic districts that Trump won in 2016.
00:08:37.000The bottom line is that there are a lot of Democrats who won in 2018 who are not AOC style Democrats.
00:08:43.000These are Democrats who won specifically on the basis that they were moderate.
00:08:46.000And the Democratic Party then completely ignored them and focused all of its attention on the new rising superstars from deep blue districts.
00:08:53.000Well, it turns out that was a real stupid move because now you're going to end up with an actual socialist slash communist and actual Marxist at the top of your ticket.
00:09:01.000And if you are running in a purple district in Indiana, you're running in a purple district in Ohio, how do you think that's going to go for you when every campaign ad is you embracing the geriatric communist?
00:09:12.000So James Carville, who continues to be one of the only honest people in the Democratic Party, he says, listen, if you think Sanders can win, you're a sucker, because his entire basis here is that he is going to win, he's going to run, and he's going to win on the supposed basis that he has a massive new turnout plan.
00:09:29.000Massive new turnout plans are bound for failure.
00:09:32.000The people who show up to vote are the people who show up to vote.
00:09:33.000The question is what you do with those people.
00:09:35.000Here's Carville explaining why anybody who has faith in Bernie Sanders' turnout plan is fooling themselves.
00:09:39.000The entire theory that by expanding the electorate, increasing turnouts, you can win the election is the equivalent of climate denial.
00:09:49.000When people say that, they're as stupid as a political scientist is, as a climate denier is to an atmospheric scientist.
00:09:55.000So whatever you do, if you want to vote for Bernie Sanders because you feel good about his program, because you don't like the banks on Wall Street, or you don't like pharmaceuticals, that's completely legitimate.
00:10:08.000If you're voting for him because you think he'll win the election, because he'll galvanize heretofore sleepy parts of the electorate, then politically you're a fool.
00:10:19.000The idea that you are going to drive out massive new numbers of people from a specific electorate and that's your plan, that is a failure.
00:10:26.000Barack Obama is the only candidate in my lifetime who's been able to do this.
00:10:28.000He did it in 2012 specifically with the black community, but he had a good basis for suggesting that he'd be able to do it because he did the exact same thing in 2008.
00:10:34.000He also happened to win among virtually all other voters in 2008 as well.
00:10:38.000So Barack Obama won a more narrow victory in 2012 than he did in 2008.
00:10:43.000And even he was banking on that turnout model The turnout model ended up being right in some areas and wrong in other areas.
00:10:49.000He actually lost votes from 2008 to 2012, but won re-election because he'd been so handily ahead.
00:10:53.000So in Bernie, who has never come close to winning anything remotely approaching a national election, and who is running significantly behind in states like Wisconsin, said he's going to turn out new groups of young voters.
00:11:04.000He's going to have to show exactly how he's going to do this.
00:11:26.000I do believe it'll be an extra burden for us to have to carry.
00:11:31.000This is South Carolina, and South Carolinians are pretty leery about that title, uh, socialist.
00:11:40.000And so I think that that would be a real burden for us in these states, or congressional districts, that we have to do well in.
00:11:49.000And of course, Clyburn is exactly right.
00:11:51.000This is one of the reasons why he's probably going to endorse Biden today.
00:11:54.000Meanwhile, Mayor Pete, trying to grab that mantle of the moderate, even though he is not moderate in any way, at one of his rallies over the weekend, a nine-year-old boy got up and asked him about coming out of the closet at nine.
00:12:07.000I have serious doubts as to whether nine-year-olds really understand the full implications of coming out as gay when they are nine, considering they have not yet had the hormonal drive towards sex, presumably.
00:12:16.000But in any case, Pete Buttigieg, who proclaims that he is a moderate, Pete Buttigieg, he says Bernie Sanders is toxic, he's gonna tear apart the party.
00:12:24.000I believe we need to defeat Donald Trump and turn the page on this era in our politics by establishing a tone.
00:12:31.000of belonging, bringing an end to the viciousness and the bullying that is tearing apart our country.
00:12:38.000We must change what it feels like to live in the United States of America.
00:12:42.000And that is a real difference from Senator Sanders' revolution with the tenor of combat and division and polarization leading to a future where whoever wins the day, nothing changes the toxic tone of our politics.
00:12:55.000Hey, David Leonhardt at the New York Times sort of making the same point about Bernie Sanders today.
00:12:58.000He says Bernie is making a big mistake, not because he's on the left, but because his entire campaign is directed at alienating the center.
00:13:06.000He says you have to understand that politics is inescapably performative.
00:13:10.000They respond to gestures of respect from politicians who are willing to say, in effect, we may not agree on everything, but I see you and understand what matters to you.
00:13:16.000The newly energetic American left, says David Leonhardt, a man of the left, has largely rejected this approach, choosing instead to believe a comforting myth about swing voters being extinct and turnout being a cure-all.
00:13:27.000He says, can you think of one way that Bernie Sanders is signaling respect to voters outside of his base?
00:13:31.000He has taken a nearly maximalist liberal position on every major issue.
00:13:34.000It's especially striking from him because he has shown over his career that he grasps the importance of building a coalition.
00:13:40.000But Sanders has evidently decided that progressives will no longer accept impurities or even much tactical vagueness.
00:13:45.000He, along with Elizabeth Warren, has embraced policies that are popular on the left and nowhere else.
00:13:49.000A ban on fracking, the decriminalization of border crossings, the provision of federal health benefits to undocumented immigrants, the elimination of private health insurance.
00:13:57.000For many progressives, says David Leonhardt, again these are members of the left who are worrying about Bernie and they should be.
00:14:02.000Each of these issues has become a moral litmus test.
00:14:03.000Any restriction of immigration is considered a denial of human rights.
00:14:06.000Any compromise on guns or health care is an acceptance of preventable deaths.
00:14:10.000I understand the progressive arguments on these issues, says Leonhardt, but turning every compromise into an existential moral failing is not a smart way to practice politics.
00:14:17.000It comforts the persuaded while alienating the persuadable.
00:14:23.000Bernie is alienating everybody in the center of the country.
00:14:27.000He's alienating people who are on the borderline.
00:14:29.000He's alienating people who may not like Trump's temperament, but look at Bernie and are frightened of Bernie.
00:14:33.000If you think that Bernie Sanders in a national election, this will be a referendum on Trump and not on Bernie, I've been saying for a long time, really since 2016, whoever a presidential election is a referendum on loses.
00:14:45.000This is true for congressional elections, too.
00:14:46.000If the referendum on Republican rule, Republicans do badly.
00:14:48.000This is why in off-year elections, the party in power tends to do poorly, because the party in power is the party upon whom the referendum is being performed.
00:14:56.000Well, in 2020, the question that Democrats had to decide was whether they were going to make the election referendum on Trump or whether they were going to make the election referendum on somebody else.
00:15:06.000In 2016, Everybody assumed that the election was going to be a referendum on Trump.
00:15:10.000It was a referendum on Hillary Clinton, and people didn't like Hillary, so nobody showed up to vote for Hillary, so Trump won.
00:15:16.000In 2020, the assumption for years has been, okay, now we'll get the referendum on Trump.
00:15:21.000If you run a geriatric socialist loon bag who praises communist dictators, who suggests he wants to remake the entire face of the American economy, who campaigns with vicious anti-Semites, Who do you think the referendum is going to be on?
00:15:34.000The Democrats are making exactly the same arguments that the Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party made in Britain.
00:15:40.000That Boris Johnson is so wild and he's so out of the box and he's so crazy that we'll have a referendum on Boris Johnson.
00:15:45.000Then Boris Johnson just stood there and pointed at Jeremy Corbyn and won walking away.
00:15:49.000Well, Trump's in a very similar position, and you're seeing Democrats rightly recognize this and begin to panic over it.
00:15:55.000Some of them are whistling past the grave, of course.
00:15:58.000Then we'll get to controversy engulfing Chris Matthews for noting the obvious about Bernie Sanders, but using a bad World War II analogy in doing it, which is apparently very, very bad.
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00:17:24.000OK, so you do have some people who are whistling past the grave.
00:17:26.000You're seeing Howard Dean, for example, the former head of the DNC and nut in his own right, suggesting that he's not worried about the down ballot effect for Bernie Sanders, which sure, Howard, afraid of what it might mean for the Democratic Party in terms of winning the White House in November or winning down ballot tickets.
00:17:43.000If Bernie Sanders is a nominee, Does that concern you?
00:18:29.000Those polls also show that Bernie Sanders is beating Donald Trump in almost every head-to-head matchup in these hypothetical general election polls.
00:18:36.000So what it tells me is that Bernie Sanders absolutely can win this election.
00:18:40.000He comes to it with a specific set of potential vulnerabilities, primarily around labeling a series of particularly popular policies with an unpopular label around democratic socialism.
00:18:50.000But he can win if the party unites around him.
00:18:52.000And we should also, we talk all about his weakness, we talk about his strengths.
00:18:55.000OK, we should talk about his strengths.
00:18:56.000OK, well, as we'll see, we're going to get into Bernie Sanders a little more deeply.
00:19:06.000It's a tweet from NBC News, and they tweeted, if Senator Sanders wins the nomination, some Democrats worry President Trump will hammer him on his long buried words in defense of governments in Nicaragua, Cuba and the USSR.
00:19:23.000Because as long as I've been broadcasting, I've been talking about Bernie Sanders defending Cuba, Nicaragua, and the USSR, among other socialist dictatorships, including Venezuela.
00:19:34.000And why would you expect that people would not talk about the fact that the Democrats are about to nominate an out-and-out Marxist?
00:19:40.000And Chris Matthews, who's losing his mind!
00:19:43.000Get up in the morning, come out of the show, come out in your old wrinkle, don't even know why I'm here anymore because all I'm trying to do is tell you guys, don't drive off the cliff like Delman Louise!
00:20:19.000He sets the direction for the future of the party.
00:20:21.000Maybe they'd rather wait four years and put in a Democrat that they like.
00:20:24.000Okay, that's not the comment that got Chris Matthews in trouble, though.
00:20:26.000The comment that got Chris Matthews in trouble is that he made a sort of half-assed World War II analogy.
00:20:32.000Right, so here's Chris Matthews explaining that, People, I started figuring out a little too late, and maybe this blitzkrieg from Bernie Sanders is unstoppable.
00:20:40.000Maybe this is like a blitz, like, he's not a Nazi, but it's kind of like a blitzkrieg.
00:20:43.000Here's Chris Matthews suggesting that people, catching on very late, I get out of here, come out of this shoe.
00:20:48.000I was reading a World War II biography last night.
00:20:51.000Watched Midway come out in here and just talk.
00:21:28.000Matthews is just making a very silly historical comparison to situations in which people have not recognized that something is over when it's over.
00:21:34.000He's saying Bernie won the nomination.
00:21:36.000So the entire left goes, Chris Matthews is an anti-Semite now!
00:21:39.000Look at him, he's an anti-Semite because he's a— First of all, let me just explain something to you.
00:21:42.000You stupid ass— Okay, let me explain something to you.
00:21:46.000If you are deeply concerned about Chris Matthews making a World War II analogy about Bernie Sanders, Michael Moore made one three weeks ago in which he compared Bernie Sanders to the French Resistance, which by implication means the rest of the Democrats are Nazis.
00:21:59.000Second of all, if you're deeply concerned about anti-Semitism, but you don't care about the fact that Bernie Sanders He campaigns with open anti-Semites.
00:22:08.000Bernie Sanders is the Jeremy Corbyn of the United States.
00:22:11.000He spends all his time hanging out with people who despise Jews and want to see the Jewish state destroyed.
00:22:16.000The Bernie Sanders over the weekend suggested, he's never spoken at an AIPAC policy conference, by the way, an American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference.
00:22:23.000He's never spoken at one, not for years, ever.
00:22:26.000Right now when he's a presidential candidate in 2016, never.
00:22:28.000He put out a statement suggesting that he would not speak at AIPAC, said Bernie Sanders.
00:22:34.000Who, again, when people talk about his Jewish roots, he's so Jewish.
00:22:38.000In terms of his actual practice, in terms of how much he cares about Judaism, not his ethnic Judaism.
00:22:57.000First of all, I have not seen one shred of evidence that Bernie actually believes that Jewish people in Israel have a right to live in peace and security since he has backed every single deal that would do damage to the safety and security of the people of Israel and supports giving foreign aid to Hamas.
00:23:09.000He said, I remain concerned about the platform AIPAC provides for leaders who express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian rights.
00:23:15.000For that reason, I will not attend that conference.
00:23:17.000As president, I will support the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians and do everything possible to bring peace and security to the region.
00:23:35.000Like, they have everybody speaks to AIPAC.
00:23:37.000Okay, but Bernie is saying that AIPAC is too much for him.
00:23:39.000As we'll see, Bernie is fine with anti-Semites in his own campaign.
00:23:42.000So spare me your crocodile teeters over anti-Semitism, all you ridiculous leftists who don't give a damn when Jews are under rocket fire in Israel, and don't give a damn when Jews are being beaten on the streets of Williamsburg.
00:23:52.000Now you're coming out of the woodwork to inform me that Chris Matthews is an anti-Semite because he made an oblique statement about people who aren't willing to accept reality in history?
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00:26:31.000So here's Bernie Sanders finally explaining Medicare for All will cost $30 trillion.
00:26:34.000By the way, he is going to remove you from your health insurance.
00:26:37.000But then magically, he's somehow going to be able, without raising taxes dramatically on every single person in the United States, just by taxing wealthy people, apparently, according to Bernie Sanders, he's going to be able to pay for expanded services and make sure you have the same doctor and make sure you have the same care, which is patent he's going to be able to pay for expanded services and And whenever he cites Denmark, there's some things you should know about the Danish medical system.
00:26:59.000One, the tax rates in Denmark are insane.
00:27:02.000You're paying like 45% taxes if you're making above 60 grand a year.
00:27:05.000Second of all, you are able to buy supplemental private insurance in Denmark.
00:27:10.000Bernie's plan does not allow for supplemental private insurance.
00:27:12.000Third, the services that Bernie says he's going to provide are bigger than the services that Denmark provides.
00:27:17.000Fourth, Denmark is all run locally in terms of its municipalized healthcare.
00:27:21.000He wants a fully nationalized health insurance system.
00:27:56.000Okay, but that wasn't Bernie's biggest ridiculousness of the night.
00:27:59.000Then, Bernie was asked about the fact that he's an old communist.
00:28:02.000Now, as I mentioned, he has not been shy about this, okay?
00:28:05.000Back when he was my age, back in the 1970s, he was declaring he wanted nationalization of the banks, every major industry, the energy, like everything, everything.
00:28:13.000He was 35 years old when he was running with the Liberty Union Party in New Hampshire.
00:28:18.000Okay, so let's not pretend he wasn't a 17-year-old kid, he wasn't a 20-year-old, he wasn't a 25-year-old, he wasn't somebody who was getting his feet wet in politics.
00:28:26.000And Bernie was doing this routine back in the 70s.
00:28:29.000So Bernie, at the time, he has never found a communist regime he can't praise.
00:28:32.000So last night, Anderson Cooper asked him about the verboten, long-buried topic, according to NBC News, of the fact that he has supported every single communist regime he has ever come across.
00:28:42.000Like, seriously, the man has never run across a communist regime that he can't find warm words for.
00:28:46.000It's one thing to speak at AIPAC, the milquetoast pro-Israel organization that supports the only democracy in the Middle East.
00:31:10.000The hell has gone wrong with you people?
00:31:12.000Seriously, you hate Trump so much that you're nominating a guy who would only be comfortable in the confines of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels?
00:31:23.000This is who you've decided to go with?
00:31:30.000A lot of people who got on 1958 Chevys And then try to float off an island to a coast of another country because they're trying to escape the regime that Bernie is praising right here.
00:31:44.000A lot of those people live in Florida.
00:32:02.000Congratulations, you couldn't have just a one-night stand, you couldn't abandon your wife, have a one-night stand in Vegas, you decided no, you're gonna go bang the hooker and then marry her.
00:32:10.000So, you bought the ticket, you take the ride, and don't be surprised when she cleans out your wallet in the morning.
00:32:15.000Don't be surprised when your bank account's gone the next day.
00:32:17.000Bernie is the socialist hooker in Vegas and you married her.
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00:33:28.000Okay, so I think that it is worth noting that Bernie's policies and his heresies are not merely confined to his support of every horrible communist regime on planet Earth.
00:33:42.000By the way, Daniel Ortega, the dictator of Nicaragua, he came out over the weekend and endorsed Bernie Sanders.
00:33:49.000But Sanders also announced over the weekend that undocumented immigrants, illegal immigrants to the United States are entitled to exactly the same benefits as citizens.
00:34:19.000There's actually one thing you can have a not to.
00:34:21.000You cannot have a vast social safety net and open borders.
00:34:24.000Those two things are mutually exclusive.
00:34:26.000Unless you live in Bernie land where you can crap rainbows, here's Bernie explaining that we should have a completely open border and everyone who crosses illegally should get the exact same benefits as citizens who live in the country and pay taxes.
00:34:36.000What our campaign is about and what our administration will be about is rethinking America.
00:34:43.000Understanding that all of our people, when I say all, I also mean the undocumented in this country.
00:34:51.000That all of our people are entitled to basic human rights.
00:35:09.000It's too late because it turns out that you guys blew it.
00:35:11.000It turns out that you decided to feed that alligator, hoping that he would eat you last.
00:35:15.000And now you're left with dead Joe Biden and Michael Bloomberg, who better have the debate of his life tomorrow night, or he's toast also after blowing half a billion dollars before a vote has been taken with his name on the ballot.
00:35:26.000So Joe Biden, after Nevada, he's been declaring a victory.
00:35:29.000He's been saying, oh, yeah, well, I came in second.
00:35:41.000Joe Biden is still pulling top of the heap in South Carolina.
00:35:44.000And if Joe Biden were to win South Carolina, it would certainly be a shot in the arm for his campaign.
00:35:49.000And then we would find out whether Michael Bloomberg actually cares about the future of the party.
00:35:53.000Because at that point, Michael Bloomberg really should toss all of his millions and billions behind Biden.
00:35:57.000But here's Biden saying, over the weekend, we're going to go on and we're going to win South Carolina, and then nearly falling asleep at the podium while doing so.
00:36:12.000Biden also pointed out that a Democratic Socialist at the top of the ticket ain't going to be a help, but everybody knows this at this point.
00:36:17.000It isn't enough to push him forward, is it?
00:36:19.000I think it's going to be very difficult for people in purple states to have a shot of winning.
00:36:25.000Look, I went into 24 races, 24 states in 2018 election, and I campaigned for 65 candidates.
00:36:34.000I don't know that any of them invited Bernie to come and campaign.
00:36:40.000A lot of those people have endorsed me in those frontline states.
00:36:43.000And I think you have to be able to broaden the party to be able to make sure we can keep those folks.
00:36:49.000Of course he's right, but not that that matters.
00:36:50.000Meanwhile, the problem for Michael Bloomberg is that he can't decide whether he wants to apologize for being there, or whether he just wants to charge forward.
00:36:56.000So, Michael Bloomberg's campaign cut a video last week.
00:36:59.000It was a video from the debate, and it was a video in which he says that he's the only person who ran a business, and then there were all these sort of crickets, as it showed all the other candidates on stage, who had never run a business.
00:37:35.000Bernie Sanders won't even apologize for having supported communist dictatorships and you guys are apologizing for a campaign video that was clearly a parody?
00:38:30.000Now she's trying to separate off from him and pretend that she's actually in the moderate lane after spending a year campaigning as a progressive in the race.
00:38:35.000Here she is yesterday explaining she's not a democratic socialist after ripping off Bernie's campaign.
00:38:40.000I appreciate the question, but you got the wrong person to ask about this.
00:39:12.000Also, Elizabeth Warren has decided that her mean girl persona from the last debate is going to serve her well.
00:39:17.000So after she did that crazy debate where she was just flamethrowing everybody on stage, now she has decided that it's time to make fun of Michael Bloomberg for being short.
00:39:24.000I'm old enough to remember when she suggested it was bad and divisive and she was tut-tutting people.
00:39:48.000I'm old enough to remember when Elizabeth Warren would have found this very off-putting.
00:39:51.000In fact, I'm old enough to remember last week she got a lot of hay out of suggesting that Michael Bloomberg was a vicious sexist because he had said mean things about how women look, and there she is insulting his height.
00:39:59.000So, obviously, she's a woman of high principles, is Elizabeth Warren.
00:40:03.000By the way, she started her own super PAC.
00:40:05.000Or people around her started a super PAC.
00:40:06.000She said, well, us ladies are allowed to have super PACs also.
00:40:08.000So using the genitals to defend your super PAC in violation of promises.
00:40:12.000Elizabeth Warren, really a principled person.
00:40:14.000Can you see why it is that Bernie Sanders is running away with the nomination?
00:40:18.000Part of it has to do with the insane anti-Trumpism of the left.
00:40:22.000Part of it has to do with the fact that the other Democratic candidates are just complete and utter ridiculous sideshows.
00:40:28.000Meanwhile, President Trump is in position to win not only re-election, but to win a heavy victory.
00:40:35.000I went through the states last time in the 2016 election, and we talked a little bit about which states are up for grabs this time around for Donald Trump.
00:40:43.000And the fact is that Trump could really radically expand the map if he is able to keep the economy humming.
00:40:50.000So if you look at some of the battleground states again, New Hampshire is very close in 2016.
00:41:25.000So we are talking about President Trump adding maybe another 20 to 30 electoral votes.
00:41:30.000Virginia might be up for grabs because the fact is that Bernie is so all-fired radical.
00:41:35.000So, Trump has the real opportunity to expand the map.
00:41:38.000Now, there are a couple of obstacles to this happening.
00:41:40.000One, of course, is the possibility of an economic downturn.
00:41:42.000And this is something completely unpredictable.
00:41:44.000Today, the Dow opened by dropping nearly 1,000 points.
00:41:47.000It dropped about 900 points because coronavirus cases outside of China were surging.
00:41:51.000According to CNBC, stocks fell sharply on Monday as the number of coronavirus cases outside China surged, stoking fears of a prolonged global economic slowdown from the virus spreading.
00:42:00.000The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded 886 points lower, or 3.1%.
00:42:04.000It was travel-based stocks that were taking the hardest hits, and also any sort of company that has supply chains in Hong Kong or China.
00:42:13.000Shares of casino operators Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts dropped at least 3.5%.
00:42:26.000It was actually the third biggest drop of the last three years.
00:42:29.000Apple and its suppliers took a hit as new cases are being diagnosed because when you have these new cases being diagnosed, it means that a lot of these shops are basically shutting down and not reopening until coronavirus is contained.
00:42:41.000So this is very bad news for President Trump if the economy were to tank.
00:42:44.000It is also true That there could be a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy here.
00:42:47.000Trump does need to stay ahead in the polls because if Bernie were to start gaining in the polls and start looking like a real viable frontrunner in the actual presidential race, what you would see is people divesting themselves of stocks now in anticipation of Bernie Sanders becoming president.
00:43:00.000You'd start to see a preliminary stock market drop as Bernie Sanders got priced into the markets.
00:43:05.000There wouldn't be a precipitous drop the day after the election.
00:43:08.000And that stock market decline in anticipation of a possible Sanders victory could actually doom Trump preemptively.
00:43:15.000Okay, so that's a real problem for Trump.
00:43:16.000The other problem for President Trump is that President Trump is now being subjected to test case after test case of his own inability to stop his worst instincts from taking over.
00:43:25.000What I mean by this is that if you are a low-level staffer in Trump's administration and you hate Trump and you want to see Trump go down, the easiest thing for you to do is to put out there a rumor that Trump doesn't like, watch him overreact, and watch the story become about the overreaction.
00:43:37.000This seems to be what has happened with regard to Joseph Maguire.
00:43:42.000So, according to Ellen Nakashima, Shane Harris, Josh Dowsey, and Ann Gearan, they reported back on Friday, a senior U.S.
00:43:48.000intelligence official told lawmakers last week that Russia wants to see President Trump reelected, viewing his administration as more favorable to the Kremlin's interests, according to people who were briefed on the comments.
00:43:58.000After learning of that analysis, which was provided to House lawmakers in a classified hearing, Trump grew angry at his acting Director of National Intelligence, Joseph Maguire, in the Oval Office, seeing Maguire and his staff as disloyal for speaking to Congress about Russia's perceived preference.
00:44:12.000The intelligence officials' analysis and Trump's furious response ruined Maguire's chances of becoming the permanent intelligence chief.
00:44:17.000So, the way the media want to unspool this story is that Maguire went out there and rightly told Congress that Russia wants to see Trump re-elected.
00:44:23.000Now, what we have heard from multiple sources, including Jake Tapper reporting it, is that what the actual underlying intelligence shows is that Russia wants to interfere in the election, but you can't really draw a conclusion about which candidate they're going to support.
00:44:34.000I mean, honestly, why would they possibly support President Trump, who has supplied deadly weaponry to Ukraine, over Bernie Sanders, Who honeymooned in the U.S.S.R.
00:44:43.000Like, if you really believe that the Russians would prefer Trump to be president over Bernard McSanders, an actual communist, a person straight from KGB wet dreamland, then, I mean, like, Bernie Sanders is the plot of No Way Out.
00:44:57.000And you're telling me that the Russians would like not to see him as president of the United States?
00:45:22.000Which is the way it should have worked for the Trump campaign, no?
00:45:26.000Okay, but President Trump's National Security Advisor came out over the weekend and he said, I didn't push out my Director of National Intelligence Chief for briefing Congress on Russian interference.
00:45:35.000So Trump basically pushed out Joseph Maguire, replaced him with Rick Grinnell, he's a good guy.
00:45:39.000But the story is that Trump wants to cover up Russian interference in the election that benefits him, and so he fired his own intelligence chief.
00:45:46.000Here's the White House National Security Advisor denying this.
00:46:52.000This is the same thing that happened with the Roger Stone case.
00:46:54.000You had low level DOJ officials who, without the permission of the attorney general, went and recommended a sentence that was way too long for Roger Stone.
00:47:01.000And then William Barr stepped in and said, this is not correct.
00:47:03.000And all the DOJ officials stepped down.
00:47:05.000Trump should have kept his mouth shut.
00:47:07.000Trump can't, and so he ends up in a position where it looks as though he's doing things to defend his friends, or he's doing things to defend Russia that he actually isn't doing.
00:47:15.000And that leads the Democrats to be able to tell these stories about how Trump is screwing with government in order to protect himself, or in order to protect election corruption.
00:47:40.000How about the media covering the fact that in 2018, when Donald Trump was president, we had midterm elections that went off without a hitch.
00:47:47.000In 2016, when there was interference, it was under the Obama administration's regime.
00:47:51.000In 2016, National Security Advisor Susan Rice told her team to stand down.
00:48:00.000Wouldn't it have been easier for the Trump administration to say, of course we're concerned about Russian interference, which is why we're targeting it, no matter who it helps?
00:48:06.000Wouldn't that just be the easiest answer?
00:48:08.000Instead of letting the emotion take control?
00:48:09.000Only two things can defeat Trump in this next election, and Bernie Sanders is not one of them.
00:48:13.000One is the economy and the other is Trump.
00:48:14.000Those are the only two things that can defeat Trump, which is why Trump needs to control himself.
00:48:18.000It's why Trump needs to not react to even his own staffers doing dumb things.
00:48:22.000He needs to show some element of control.
00:48:24.000Otherwise, he just gives the media fodder to work with.
00:48:47.000Okay, the basic premise of the show is that it's the aftermath of World War II.
00:48:50.000It's 30 years later and there are still Nazis who are living in the United States and there's this group of elderly Jews, basically, who are tracking down these Nazis and killing them.
00:49:07.000All about how in the aftermath of World War II, there were Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who went through Germany tracking down old SS members and killing them.
00:49:14.000I mean, it's an amazing, amazing story.
00:49:16.000Like, I'd love to see that made into a movie.
00:49:17.000But this is sort of a fantasy, comic book kind of thing.
00:49:20.000And it makes very clear that it's a comic book kind of thing from the very early moments of it.
00:49:24.000The reason that it's likable is because it's entertaining.
00:49:28.000The reason that it is problematic, at least in my mind, and problematic according to the Auschwitz Memorial, is because instead of just playing off of the realistic horrors of the Holocaust, it instead creates stories about the horrors of the Holocaust that are not true.
00:49:42.000And it seems to almost Play up horrors that didn't exist in contravention of horrors that clearly did, the sort of generic horror of the Holocaust, in order to tell stories about Nazis being even more evil than they actually were, which is something you don't need to do.
00:49:55.000In any case, it's certainly good entertainment.
00:49:59.000The only question is whether it does a disservice.
00:50:01.000In the same way that if you made a movie about slavery, and the movie was about people doing things to slaves that actually weren't realistic, and so it ends up being sort of A trivialization of the actual evils of slavery.
00:50:23.000I think there's Nazis living in America.
00:50:26.000And someone out there is taking them out.
00:50:32.000There is a right way and a wrong way to get justice.
00:50:39.000Okay, so the entire thing is supposed to also be a meditation on revenge, and the evils of revenge, or the good of revenge, and all of this sort of stuff.
00:50:47.000But the fact is, it's the cartooniness of this that is kind of...
00:50:53.000Uh, you know, it is both the appeal of the show, it is also the downfall of the show, it is also the drawback of the show.
00:50:59.000Also, it goes along with this ridiculous plot that Nazis are going to retake the American government, and it's got this sort of intersectional logic to it, where it's all of the intersectional small groups fighting against this evil white superstructure that is increasingly dominated by Nazis.
00:51:12.000All of that has to be taken into account.
00:51:13.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:51:31.000Tom Nichols tweeted out over the weekend, Rhode Island's primary isn't until late, so I get to register as a Democrat to cast a protest vote in the primary against Sanders as the inevitable nominee, who I will then vote for as a protest against the incumbent.
00:51:53.000So you really hate Trump so much that you think that Bernie Sanders, an overt communist, and by the way, a corrupt overt communist, because His wife was getting contracts on particular government boards while he was in... like, people have not examined Jane Sanders' rather interesting financial history.
00:52:10.000He's gonna vote for Bernie as a protest against Trump and then call himself the savior of republicanism and conservatism?
00:52:16.000Like, this is where people are off the train with the so-called never-Trumpers.
00:52:18.000Okay, so, back in 2016, I was a quote never-Trumper, meaning I didn't vote for Trump in the primary, I didn't vote for Trump in the general election.
00:52:25.000And I said, neither of these candidates meets my minimum for being president of the United States.
00:52:30.000After the election, I became what I've called a sometimes-Trumper.
00:52:33.000Meaning, when he does good things, that's great.
00:52:34.000And when he does bad things, that's bad.
00:52:36.000And now, when I look at an election between Donald Trump, a man who has done many, many good things in terms of policy, a man who has the same character flaws that I thought he had back in 2016, a man who says things that I find sometimes fantastic and sometimes reprehensible, and then I look at that compared to a person who represents the worst ideology of the last 150 years.
00:52:59.000Sanders versus Trump is not a hard call.
00:53:01.000If you're protesting Donald Trump and his supposed venalities, and you're protesting Donald Trump and his excesses and his problems of temperament by voting for Bernie Sanders in a general election, let me suggest to you that you've screwed up morality so badly that you have no credibility to speak about conservatism or virtually anything else in the future when it comes to politics.
00:53:23.000Okay, we will be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
00:53:26.000Otherwise, we will be back here tomorrow for much, much more as we prepare for the next rock'em, sock'em round of Democratic debates.
00:53:32.000If the Democrats, by the way, don't figure this thing out and start attacking Bernie Sanders on the stage tomorrow, it's got to be all in on Bernie, right?
00:53:38.000I mean, if they go after Bloomberg again, it just demonstrates how insane they all are in the lead up to South Carolina.
00:53:43.000But I'm sure we will find out in short order.
00:54:17.000Hey everybody, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
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