Glenn and Stu react to the results of the mid-term elections and talk about why the left is so upset. They also discuss why they think Bernie Sanders is going to be the next president and why they don t think Elizabeth Warren will win in 2020.
00:02:45.080Okay, I, gosh, I, you know, I'm having one of those moments, Stu, where, you know, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you know, you want to be a bigger person.
00:03:27.140Um, you know, the, the media personalities, um, some of them expressed surprise, some of them disappointment, some of them despair, uh, because there was not the blue wave.
00:03:42.720And, um, if I, if I may, I just, uh, you know, I just thought it would be, um, I thought we'd start here.
00:03:50.560This is the moment, uh, MSNBC absorbs the Ted Cruz win.
00:04:44.800I mean, someone earlier tonight, a Texas Democrat who's elected described the math and text mess like being in a prison and trying to get up over the wall.
00:04:53.920He said, you could try a million different ways.
00:04:55.960It's a tall wall and it's really hard.
00:04:57.840And Beto has done a lot to get up over that wall.
00:05:01.300It looks like he's going to fall short.
00:05:02.980I also just talked to a Texas democratic represent, uh, a Texas source who said already it's the best night.
00:05:09.300Just to put this in perspective for Texas Democrats in a generation.
00:05:13.280Um, yeah, yeah, it's the best, it's the best night for Texas Democrats in a generation.
00:05:20.060And, uh, yet they're still on the, uh, wrong side of the wall in, uh, in prison.
00:05:24.520Apparently here's Jake Tapper when he decides things aren't, aren't, aren't, aren't, aren't really going the way everyone expected.
00:05:34.020One of the things that's an interesting, um, uh, side effect of this, if you will, uh, is a lot of the Republicans who were, um, critics of President Trump.
00:05:46.520Carlos Cabello in Florida, Mike Hoffman in Denver, uh, they are being defeated.
00:05:51.620So when the Republican party regains, uh, or reconvenes in the house, assuming Democrats have taken over or not, either way, that will be a more Trumpy Republican, uh, caucus in the house of representatives.
00:06:07.040The critics will have been picked off quite a bit.
00:06:10.080So Jake, what exactly does that mean about the blue wave?
00:06:16.280It is entirely possible that the Democrats will regain control of the house today.
00:06:20.840But I have to say, when you look at what's going on here tonight, this is not a blue wave.
00:06:25.360This is not a wave that is knocking out, uh, all sorts of Republican incumbents.
00:06:30.820As we saw, you just call the Kentucky six district.
00:06:33.220Now there are every, all sorts of ways that Democrats can regain the house without Amy McGrath having defeated incumbent Congressman Andy Barr.
00:07:16.720Let's take a look at the map here, uh, of the governor's offices.
00:07:19.540We're still waiting to hear, but there are some really significant ones that we should point out.
00:07:24.100First of all, uh, the projection, we didn't really have a chance to talk about it,
00:07:27.220but the idea that Ron DeSantis is going to be, uh, the next governor of Florida winning over, uh, Andrew Gillum, uh, is quite significant.
00:07:34.040The fact that Mike DeWine is going to be, uh, the next governor of Ohio, keeping that state in Republican hands, that's going to be quite significant.
00:07:41.420And why do I say it's going to be significant?
00:07:43.120It's going to be significant because of the 2000 presidential election.
00:07:46.360Those are two incredibly important states, President Trump and the Democrats will be competing heavily for them.
00:07:52.800And the fact is that there will be Trump supporters in the Capitol, in the governor's offices of both of them.
00:07:58.880So that's quite significant, uh, when it comes to the governor's offices.
00:08:01.680And then we're waiting to see, waiting to hear from, uh, a few others.
00:08:06.240I mean, remember the context of this, the governor's mansions were a place where Republicans had made a lot of gains over the past several years.
00:08:17.980And this election, Democrats were hoping to chip away at it big time.
00:08:22.140They did in some cases, but these two examples, Jake, that you just put up there are big heartbreaks for Democrats.
00:08:28.460Obviously the biggest is Florida because they were really hoping that Andrew Gillum.
00:08:32.580Okay, let me, can I, can I, can I go to, uh, can I go to Chuck Todd here just for a second?
00:08:36.680Chuck had some hearts, uh, that were broken there that they were sweeping up at, uh, NBC as well.
00:09:19.980And so when you look at, at an early hour on the, on the house races, we, we know enough already to be able to tell that the notion of a blue tsunami crashing over Donald Trump's Washington does not look like at this hour that it's materializing.
00:09:35.680In fact, when you look at the remaining U.S. Senate seats that are falling into play, chances are overwhelmingly likely that there will be pickups in the Senate.
00:10:17.320I just, I just want to point out that anybody who says, and it is a horse apiece here, this is not a clear victory, but it is, it is worth stating, some hearts were broken last night.
00:10:33.260Van Jones was very, very sad last night.
00:10:36.380Um, others were very, very sad last night.
00:10:38.960Now, I don't, you know, want to dance on there.
00:10:41.160Yes, I do, but I'm not going to dance, uh, uh, about that.
00:10:45.240What I am going to say is, I've never in my lifetime seen a media campaign for two solid years to discredit, to, uh, call every name under the sun, to smear, to, uh, destroy.
00:11:11.520Why, to convince America that this is the worst thing that has ever happened to us?
00:11:17.880I've never seen this amount of money, this amount of airtime to try to, uh, thwart anything.
00:11:27.560I've never, I mean, I don't think this kind of airtime and money was spent for any war that I have lived in.
00:11:36.440I don't, I don't think I've ever seen this, ever.
00:11:40.320They weren't this lockstep to convince us that war was good and we had to go fight our enemy.
00:13:25.560Nancy Pelosi came out last night and immediately said, we are not going to impeach.
00:13:30.240Well, Nancy, how are you going to keep all of those that currently want to eat you?
00:13:36.600How are you going to keep those people on the left that you have brought into the party that are so radical that all they want to do, all they want is blood?
00:19:49.300NBC News is projecting Ted Cruz will return to the Senate from Texas, and Republicans will be guaranteed control of the Senate as a result.
00:20:00.240Let's go to Chris Hayes, who is in El Paso.
00:20:57.240That's the way it really, that's the way they view things.
00:21:00.720You're too stupid to be able to figure things out.
00:21:04.620And so when you go against what they are planning, they just think you're a monster or just so stupid that we need to regulate you even more.
00:29:17.820Now, Bill, what's your initial thought from what happened last night?
00:29:24.460Well, I think that President Trump has to basically rethink his confrontational strategy for the next year in the sense that he has to go on a charm offensive.
00:29:43.280You know what I do every day on BillO'Reilly.com?
00:29:45.900I'm very charming and engaging and charismatic.
00:32:00.500Nobody wants chaos when they're trying to earn a living, all right?
00:32:06.060Now, if these people, oh, we want to see his tax thing, and we want to see where he does his hair, and then impeachment, which is never going to happen.
00:32:17.060Everybody knows it's not going to happen because the Senate is now firmly in the hands of the Republicans.
00:32:22.080So why are you even bothering with this exercise?
00:32:24.540Because you want to create chaos, and nobody wants chaos when they're trying to make a living.
00:32:29.100So those people in the far left, if they're going to do that, they're almost assuring that President Trump will win in 2020,
00:32:39.020and the Republicans are regaining the House.
00:32:42.200Well, I think Nancy Pelosi has really got her back up against the wall here because she said immediately last night,
00:32:47.600we are not going to impeach, I mean, unless the Republicans want to join us, and I don't think that's going to happen.
00:37:38.800The, you know, the boy that came and, you know, took him down with the donkeys.
00:37:42.140You have that guy in Beto, who everybody, he's fun and games, and he skates board, skateboards, and everybody likes him, and $70 million.
00:37:52.520That's not, that's not counting all of the Hollywood love and all of the money that has come into this state in the last four years just to change it to blue.
00:38:17.100I think that this is two things, an anomaly and a very early sign that if Texans don't wake up and the Republicans don't wake up, you're going to be looking at a California by 2024.
00:38:33.500I don't think Texans will ever go the way of California because I lived there for a couple of years, and there's a real strain of independence there.
00:39:11.880The other thing that I want to note is that the power in America to change our society lies with judges.
00:39:24.400And since the Republicans have increased, remember, you're not going to have a John McCain, Obamacare situation anymore, not going to have a Jeff Flake, all that, Susan Collins, not going to have it anymore.
00:40:10.080So everybody thinks, well, Supreme Court, you know, if Ruth Bader Ginsburg suddenly moves to Argentina, as I've been encouraging her to do, there'll be another appointment.
00:40:20.340But it's not – it's about the lower court federal judges that are appointed by Trump, and the Senate has to okay them.
00:40:31.800That is the real thing that Ted Cruz and Mike Lee need credit for.
00:40:36.700Donald Trump, one of the reasons why I think Ted Cruz – and I don't know, but one of the reasons why I think Ted Cruz, you know, kind of cozied up to him is because he saw if I cozy up to him, I can help with the judges.
00:40:50.080And he and Mike Lee kind of given the keys to daddy's car, and they have designed Trump's lower court judge policies and the list that he picks from, and they've done a remarkable job on that.
00:41:06.800Yeah, because that should give every traditional American hope, that this nutty, crazy, socialist, PC, Me Too, all of this stuff, no due process, hang you on an allegation, that can be stopped by the courts.
00:41:42.160I mean, if you look at – to your point earlier, Bill, I mean, you know, Greg Abbott, who's also ran against someone very similar in policy to Beto O'Rourke, beat his opponent by 13 or 14 for governor.
00:41:56.600I think really Beto just caught that wave and all that money and all the excitement, and Cruz, you know, I mean, I like Cruz a lot.
00:42:04.540I think he's done a really good job as a senator.
00:42:08.060But he's not the greatest candidate in the universe, and I think that those two things, even with that perfect storm, they still could only get within three points.
00:42:16.480So I don't think that was the difference, though.
00:42:20.040I mean, I think it was definitely helpful, and the fact that both of those guys have been able to get over whatever they had going on in the primaries, you know, it's probably a good thing for the Republican Party.
00:42:39.020That's why people tuned into the coverage, yeah.
00:42:40.440But I think Beck made an excellent point by saying that the alternative media last night, okay, BillOReilly.com, The Blaze, we were talking with CRTV, we were talking with Newsmax.
00:45:17.420If you look at the podcasts, which is the future, and you look at their ratings on radio, et cetera, et cetera, in some areas they do really well.
00:45:28.880Their thing is they've never been able to make money.
00:45:31.960Well, the reason why is it's the way they run it is ridiculous.
00:45:37.220There is, I would never hire anyone who had NPR experience, and it is not because they're not good.
00:45:47.620And it's not because of their political bias.
00:45:50.220It's because they do not live in reality.
00:45:53.640What commercial radio does with one person, it takes them about eight.
00:45:58.000And the other thing is if you look at the podcasts, which are the future podcasts, they dominate in the podcast world, but they can't make any money.
00:46:09.780They still, the people that I, and I think the New York Times is this way as well, the three biggest agencies, if you will, for commercials don't really invest at all in NPR, even though they have huge ratings on podcasts.
00:46:31.460So if you want to stop them, I am not for silencing of any voices, and I personally, I listen to the New York Times every morning, and I listen to NPR.
00:46:48.460I want to know what the other side is saying.
00:46:50.320And so I am very dead set against silencing voices, but here's what you do.
00:46:57.120You just make them pay for themselves.