Kamala's Fox Debacle is Missed Opportunity, and Media Smears Voters and Baier as Sexist, with Ruthless Hosts | Ep. 919
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Summary
Kamala Harris did not move the needle in her Fox News interview with Brett Baer. She had an opportunity to really explain to Fox News viewers how she could help them, and she didn t. Instead, she just kept repeating her same few small ball plans for the economy, which she has all but admitted are a pipe dream unless the Democrats take complete control of both houses of Congress.
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.
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Total failure. She did not move the needle at all.
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I'm sure you watched last night the Kamala Harris interview with Brett Baer on Fox News.
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She had an opportunity to really explain to Fox News viewers how she could help them, and she didn't.
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Instead, she just kept repeating her same few small ball plans for the economy,
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which she has all but admitted are just a pipe dream unless the Democrats take complete control
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of both houses of Congress. You saw she's been asked, what if there's a Republican House?
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What if there's a Republican Senate? How are you going to pay for that?
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And she told Stephanie Ruhle, well, we just have to. We just have to.
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What? What if you don't? The question is, what if you don't?
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She spent the majority of her time bashing Trump. That's what obviously this was about for her.
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She wanted to go on Fox News into the belly of the beast and just bashed Donald Trump. It was a one
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long game of Trump the pinata with a bunch of attacks that, in many cases, were utterly baseless.
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This, Madam Vice President, was the wrong strategy. You should have called me. You should have called
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me. Because I worked at the place for 14, 13 years, and I know the Fox viewers very well.
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And you do not win Fox viewers over by bashing Donald Trump. They love Trump, or they're at least
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open-minded to Trump. You win them, if they're winnable at all, by showing them, the ones who
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aren't huge Trump fans but are Republicans or have voted Republican or at least kind of Trump
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open-minded. You show those people that you are a better option because you can help improve their
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lives, that they can trust you, and that you aren't as radical as they have been hearing every day all
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day on Fox News for a year. You didn't do any of that. None of it. Instead, what Kamala Harris did
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was she took every opportunity to show the audience she, and really Joe Biden, are the chief
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sufferers of Trump derangement syndrome. She lied over and over and over on her positions, on her
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policies. She denied her own record. And the worst sin was, and we saw it over and over, she dodged
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question after question after question after question after question, and then played the victim trying to
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sound indignant when Brett tried to get her back on track. That was the biggest dynamic of the whole
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interview. Time and time again, she failed to answer the questions. I mean, on big issues. Immigration,
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whether we should use taxpayer dollars to fund trans surgeries for prisoners and illegals, which is
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important but also is a stand-in for the overall issue of trans and the erasure of women. Finally,
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Brett asked her about Biden's mental acuity. No, she failed to answer that one, too. Instead,
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she filibustered. That was her go-to trick, either with non-responsive pablum, that was her number one
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choice, or sometimes on another issue entirely. Just get out of bounds, talk about something totally
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unrelated. And honestly, this is a politician's trick, and it's not unusual to see it. But in
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response to everything, you're not addressing any substance? What are you doing there? You're
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trying to win voters in a new forum. Why would you say nothing? The only thing of substance she said
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was Trump sucks. And that's the wrong strategy when dealing with Fox viewers. Honestly, it was just
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stupid. I don't get it. And then when Brett would try to redirect her back to the question asked,
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she acted like he was rude. He's rude. A word her lapdog media sycophants keep repeating today.
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Let me tell you something about it. To those of you morons who think that Brett was rude in trying
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to get her to answer the question asked, it's not her air. It's Brett's air. It's Rupert's air.
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But in that half an hour exchange, it is Brett Baer's air, not yours. You don't pay to keep the shop
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open. You don't go out and deal with the advertisers. You don't hire the staff. You don't
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work with the producers. You don't lay out the lineup. You don't hire the talent. It's his air.
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His, not yours. You being there is a gift to you. Roger used to tell us, never thank anybody for being
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on your show. He used to say, don't say thank you for being here. It should go the other way. Thank you
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for having me. They should be thanking you. You're giving them a massive audience of several million
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people. I don't know what the ratings will be for last night, but it'll be big.
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It's your gift to them. And it's your job to control the air when you have a guest on to keep
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it interesting for your audience, to keep the car driving straight ahead and to not let it veer too
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far off the track. That's your obligation. Brett is employed because Fox believes accurately that he
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will deduce what his audience wants to have asked and seen discussed. It is not up to her.
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To come hijack the entire interview with empty talking points we've heard 10,000 times. He did
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absolutely the right thing by redirecting her over and over to the question asked and on behalf of his
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audience, pressing her for a real answer. He did nothing wrong. I thought he crushed it, which I posted on
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Twitter last night. He did a great job. Now her little act today is being praised by the left as,
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you know, she looked tough. She was tough, but this, this was not tough. This was not toughness we saw
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from her. This was a candidate incapable of answering, answering hard questions over and over trying to
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dodge. And when Brett was not distracted, then she would begin to whine that she wasn't being allowed
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to answer. That's not tough. Tough is answering the hard questions, which let's face it. Virtually
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every president, a candidate can do. Obama could do it. Romney could do it. McCain could do it.
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Trump can do it when he wants to. When it's one of his favorite issues, he'll go right there. She blew
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a big chance to define herself in a new way to say, I'll take the border. Yes, the border is a mess.
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But look, Brett, I was vice president, not president. You know, I've seen what has happened
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to people like Jocelyn, the young girl who was 12, who was murdered by an illegal she let in.
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And I'm totally committed to stopping this. Having had this experience in the number two spot
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has only made me more resolved. Should I be elevated to take care of this problem? And here
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are the executive orders I will issue on day one to do it, irrespective of whether I can get Congress
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to cooperate with me. That's not what she did. She just dodged. I'll show you the exchanges in a
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second. Same thing on the economy. She should have said something substantive. Instead of her myopic
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little twenty five thousand dollars for first time homebuyers, you know what a collection of
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people that is not big, not big enough to just make it your platform. She should have said Trump
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spent us into oblivion. He was like a drunken sailor. He wasn't exactly an economic purse clutcher.
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Now that I might be in charge, I'll take a more reasonable approach and we'll fight the debt and
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we'll fight inflation. And here's exactly how she can't. She doesn't know. She doesn't even
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understand those three plans she's unveiled. She's been given some talking points, which she
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repeats incessantly, and they're empty. She should have given some points that sounded
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reasonable to Fox viewers, but she almost did it on the border. She admitted the border's broken,
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but she took no responsibility. And then she tried to gaslight us into believing she's really
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Stephen Miller, Trump's border guy with that fingers in the belt loops, the thumbs in the belt
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loops. John Wayne, she came out last night with her little routine. I'm the only one who's
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prosecuted transnational criminal, whatever. Uh, Biden's mental acuity. That was another one.
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Thank God Brett asked about that. That was great. Thank God somebody finally did it. Good for him.
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But frankly, it was downright embarrassing. She didn't have an answer on that. How does she not
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have an answer on this? She just assumes no one's going to ask her. No one has. I'm like,
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I'll give you an answer, Kamala. Okay. You should really listen to this show more because I could help
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you. All right. You should have said something like Brett, what I saw was an older president
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who had moments of forgetting his words sometimes or his train of thought, but was still entirely
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capable. That's what my experience of was with him. And then came the debate. And as you know,
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within weeks of that, he resolved not to run for a second term. That's what else can she say?
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But what she said in the interview was Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
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She was the TDS was like coming out of her ears. That's not responsive to what did you know? And
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when did you know it? Which was really his question. So none of this is going to assuage even a single
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viewer who watches Fox, who thinks you lied, you cooed, and you won't admit it.
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All right. We're going to go through this more specifically. Let's start with immigration,
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which is where Brett started. It was the right thing to do. It's her most vulnerable issue.
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And here's a little montage of how he pressed her.
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How many illegal immigrants would you estimate your administration has released
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into the country over the last three and a half years?
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Well, I'm glad you raised the issue of immigration because I agree with you. It is a topic of discussion
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that people want to rightly have. And you know what I'm going to talk about.
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Yeah, but just a number. Do you think it's one million, three million?
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Brett, let's just get to the point. Okay. The point is that we have a broken immigration system
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So your Homeland Security Secretary said that 85% of apprehensions.
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It's a rough estimate of six million people have been released into the country. And let me
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just finish. I'll get to the question. I promise you.
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And when you came into office, your administration immediately reversed a number of Trump border
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policies. Looking back, do you regret the decision to terminate Remain in Mexico at the
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The first bill, practically within hours of taking the oath, was a bill to fix our immigration
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Yes, ma'am. It was called the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021.
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Good for him. It was essentially a pathway to citizenship.
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You had the White House and the House and the Senate, and they didn't bring up that bill.
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I'm in the middle of responding to the point you're raising.
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We recognized from day one that to the point of this being your first question, it is a
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priority for us as a nation and for the American people. And our focus has been on fixing a
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Well, and then to Brett's credit, he followed up with, you were in control. Like, you were in
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control. Why didn't you do it? You know, he said Democrats voted against the belt and so on. So
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they got into it on immigration and he didn't let her slide for one second. That was a thing of
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beauty. I don't understand, like, these media writers out there may not know what it's like to
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be a Republican or an independent or a right-leaning person and how frustrating it is to watch her get
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away with her lies. It's a soothing balm to watch somebody actually confront her with the real
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facts. Okay. Your stupid amnesty bill in 2021, which you purported to be a tough on the border
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bill, was a joke from day one. It was your Democrat-controlled House that killed it and the
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White House didn't push it. See Politico at the time you tried it. Stop trying to refer to that
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like it was your day one priority. What you actually did on day one was issue a bunch of executive
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orders that undid all of Trump's harder border policies, like remain in Mexico, like cracking
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down on the number of asylum claims, like you reversed the building of the wall and sold off
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the parts for cash. Like, that's what she did. And all she can do is lie now. She recently stumbled
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upon the fact, oh, gee, we had a 2021 bill that was kind of amnesty with a couple of border
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enforcement things. I'll just tout that. Like, it's real. It wasn't. The Dems killed it. And then
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she goes right to her 2024 border effort that, oh, we had Republicans cooperating with us and Trump
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killed it because he'd rather run on a problem than run on a solution. We've heard that a million
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times, right? Like, that's all she's got. And as for the three and a half years between those two
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points, she's got nothing. So he presses her in a great way by bringing up some of the families that
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you guys have seen and heard from on this show, the victims of her policies and Biden's policies,
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including the mother of little Jocelyn Nugare and her testimony before Congress about what
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happened to her daughter. Watch. Jocelyn Nungare, Rachel Morin, Lakin Riley, they are young women
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who were brutally assaulted and killed by some of the men who were released at the beginning of the
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administration well before a negotiated bipartisan bill. This is a specific policy decision by your
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administration to release these men into the country. So what I'm saying to you, do you owe
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those families an apology? Let me just say, first of all, those are tragic cases. There's no question
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about that. And I can't imagine the pain that the families of those victims have experienced
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for a loss that should not have occurred. So that is true. It is also true that if a border security
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had actually been passed nine months ago, it would be nine months that we would have had more border
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agents at the border, more support for the folks who are working around the clock, trying to hold it
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all together to ensure that no future harm would occur. So do you owe them an apology is what I'm
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saying? I will tell you that I'm so sorry for her loss. I'm so sorry for her loss. Sincerely.
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But let's talk about what is happening right now with an individual who does not want to participate
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in solutions. Let's talk about that as well. In all fairness, I told you, I feel awful for what
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she and her family have experienced. That is not the same as an apology. It's not, I feel bad.
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I'm sorry for her loss is not, I'm sorry for being part of what caused it. That's what he was asking.
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Of course she didn't answer that. I mean, of course, and I'll give her points for starting off
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right by showing some empathy for the families. However, the pivot was right to the nine months
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since that one stupid mirage of a border bill was tanked. That totally ignores what these parents,
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these families have been testifying to, which is she opened the border. She and Joe Biden opened the
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border and we had 10.4 million illegals come through and tens of thousands of them turned out
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to be criminals of one sort or another. And young girls have been murdered, raped, murdered, tortured.
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So have young men. And he named three of them. She took no responsibility. I'm telling you that
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shit is not going to fly on Fox news channel with those viewers. Trust me. Immigration is one of
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their biggest issues and her taking no responsibility, none whatsoever. And just trying to shove that fake
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border bill down their throat. It's a fail. It's a fail. What are you doing there? How is any of that
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any different from all that you've done in this race so far? Aren't you looking to rejigger things?
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Aren't you looking to move the needle? That's not the way that's not going to do it. So once again,
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she failed to own up to what she and her administration have done. Um, so she keeps
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going to say, okay, you know, um, but they stay on immigration. He says, look, you, you kept saying
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the border was secure during this time. When in your mind did it start becoming a crisis? And she goes on,
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well, we've had a broken immigration system transcending even Donald Trump's administration.
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Let's be honest about it. Okay. Now we're talking. Okay. Are you going to have your moment or you're
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like, you know, it's bad. I admit it's bad. And we made it worse. Maybe you do that. And then you do
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the pivot and here's how I'm going to improve it. Cause I was just VP, not Pete, not Pete. And then she
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goes, I've been clear. She said that all night when she wasn't, I think we all are clear that it needs
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to be fixed. And then she, she goes on to say, okay, we need more judges at the border. We need to
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process these cases faster. And what she doesn't say is we need to stop them from coming in, in the
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first, but it's not that we need to adjudicate their claims faster. Yes. That's a piece of it. We need
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to stop them from coming across the border to begin with. That was the main thing Trump did. And she
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doesn't speak to it because she doesn't plan to do that. She doesn't plan to do that. So that's what she
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says. And to get those resources, you know, for the judges, cause she went to the border,
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which she pointed out, she spent like a half an hour at the border. Now she wants us to believe
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she's an expert. And now you have talked to these guys and they need more money for these resources.
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The Congress is the only place that that's going to get that fixed. Right. But there is a ton you can
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do via executive order that you refuse to do. In fact, you took executive actions the other way.
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Just say, you'll do them. Just say, you'll do the executive actions that Trump did. Just say that
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if you're really committed to shoring up the border, but she's not. So she tries to just say,
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oh, well, they need more financial resources. And that can only come from Congress. My hands are
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tied. My hands are tied. Brett, to his credit, again, fires back with, there were 90 plus executive
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orders that were rescinded in the first days. Many of those were Trump border policies. And then he's
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got to move on. He's already spent like four or five questions on immigration. I would have done the
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same. But he pivots to you. You claim you talked to the border patrol. Well, their union just endorsed
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Trump saying, quote, you've been a failure. Why do you think they said that? Now, I get what he was
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doing there. I will say I would have. That's too open ended. It just gives her a platform. I would
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have said, why did you rescind those orders? Why did you stop the wall? Why did you rescind remain?
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Why? Why did you rescind remain in Mexico? Why did you open up the expansive
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possibility of applying for asylum? Why? Sometimes the whys are the hardest questions.
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Anyway, she went on to say, oh, they're frustrated. They want support, you know, blah, blah, blah. It
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wasn't. Fine. Then he goes back and says, look, in 2019, when you ran, you said, I'll let the legal
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illegals apply for driver's licenses and free tuition at universities and to be enrolled in
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free health care. Do you still support those things? And here's how that went down.
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There's a lot of people that look back at what you said at 2019, when you first ran for president,
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and there have been changes and you've talked about some of them. When it comes to
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immigration, you supported allowing immigrants in the country illegally to apply for driver's
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license, to qualify for free tuition at universities, to be enrolled in free health care. Do you still
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support those things? Listen, that was five years ago, and I'm very clear that I will follow the law.
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I have made that statement over and over again. What does that mean?
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And as vice president of the United States, that's exactly what I've done, not to mention before.
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If that's the case, you chose a running mate, Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota,
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who signed those very things into state law. So do you support that?
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We are very clear, and I'm very clear, as is Tim Walz, that we must support and enforce federal law,
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It's an infuriating dodge. Infuriating dodge. You ran for president promising to change federal law,
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to allow illegals to apply for driver's licenses, to qualify for free tuition at universities,
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to be enrolled in free health care. Do you still support those things?
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This is one of my frustrations throughout. She pretended that the president has
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absolutely nothing to do with the law. She needs that little schoolhouse rock,
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just a bill, so she can figure out that when you're president, you actually are the one who
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signs the bills into law, and who actually comes up with a lot of policy prescriptions that you then
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work for and advocate for with Congress, which writes the bills. But they don't become law without a veto,
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unless an override, I should say, unless you sign them. As the president, you need to sign the bills
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for them to become the laws. Why? She's just some plebe. Well, I'll follow the law. No, no, no.
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You're in a position to actually make law. You're in a position to make law. And you said you wanted
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to make these laws. Do you still follow that or don't you? And she just kept dodging with that
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stupid line. And it's an empty line meant to dodge her real policy prescriptions, because why would
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she not just own it? What's the reason to not embrace those earlier policies? Because she still
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holds them and they're very unpopular. So that's what she did. Brett zeroed in on one decriminalizing
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border crossings. That was another thing you said in 2019. Do you still stand by that? And she said,
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I don't, I don't believe in decriminalizing border crossings. And I've not done that as vice
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president. Okay. She couldn't have done that as vice president, but okay. And I will not do that
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as president. Great. So he's, he asked her, so that's an evolution that you've had. Great. Like,
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let's talk about it. And here's where she goes. So annoying. Let's be very clear. I'm the only person
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running for president who has prosecuted transnational criminal organizations.
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She won't discuss her evolution because there's been no evolution. What she's realized is she's
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too far left and she can't say the shit she really believes. So she's got to pretend again,
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that she's Stephen Miller now. And she just does it by saying, it's not, it's not something I'll do.
00:24:47.740
And he's like, explain the evolution. What did you see that made you change your mind on your stupid,
00:24:55.040
dangerous idea from 2019. And instead of actually explaining anything, she goes back to her John
00:25:00.000
Wayne routine about how tough she was when she was, um, uh, a prosecutor in a border state.
00:25:05.380
Um, okay. Brett switches to the trans issue. He talks about how Trump's running an ad in Pennsylvania
00:25:13.700
and elsewhere that hits her for supporting taxpayer funded sex change procedures, including operations
00:25:21.960
for prisoners, including violent felons, people on death row and illegals. And here again,
00:25:31.300
she comes up with her infuriating, I'll follow the law. Sat for, are you still in support of using
00:25:39.640
taxpayer dollars to help prison inmates or detained illegal aliens to transition to another gender?
00:25:45.680
I will follow the law. And it's a law that Donald Trump actually followed. Um, you're probably familiar
00:25:51.960
with now it's a public report that under Donald Trump's administration, these, uh, surgeries were
00:25:59.360
available to on a medical necessity basis to people in the federal prison system. And I think frankly,
00:26:07.260
that ad from the Trump campaign is a little bit of like throwing, you know, stones when you're living
00:26:12.420
in a glass house. The Trump aides say that he never advocated for that prison policy and no gender
00:26:17.220
transition. Well, you know what, you gotta take responsibility for what happened in your
00:26:20.900
administration. Yeah, no surgeries happened in this pregnancy. It's in black and white. Would you still
00:26:25.200
advocate for using taxpayer dollars for gender reassignment? I will follow the law just as I,
00:26:30.380
I think Donald Trump would say he did. You would have a say as president. I, like I said, I think it's
00:26:35.900
really, he spent $20 million on those ads trying to create a sense of fear in the voters because he
00:26:42.560
actually has no plan in this election that is about focusing on the needs of the American people.
00:26:49.260
And then she goes on to say that this issue is really quite remote and his policy was no
00:26:57.760
different. All right. This is based on a New York times report yesterday that hit Donald Trump for
00:27:01.640
being very pro giving sex change operations to people in prison. Not true. When Trump took over
00:27:09.120
as president, if you read the New York times report, when he took over as president, he inherited
00:27:13.020
a policy for the prisons that Obama had put in place, allowing those procedures. And what did the
00:27:19.680
Trump administration do? They fought them. They fought the policy. The legal wrangling continued
00:27:25.240
throughout his term. And then Joe Biden won. And when Joe Biden won, he was all for it. And one of those
00:27:33.840
prisoners got the surgery, which the New York times is blaming on Trump, but they challenged this
00:27:39.400
procedure, both as a policy matter and as a legal matter. Trump was never in favor of this.
00:27:44.680
And if you think Donald Trump is going to get into office and do anything other than try to reverse
00:27:49.920
this policy, you're crazy. This is very much front of mind for Republicans right now. She knows it.
00:27:57.500
And that's why she's not answering. I'll just follow the law. I'll follow the law. Well,
00:28:02.900
are you going to work to revoke this policy or aren't you? We don't want to pay for the trannies
00:28:10.060
to have their penises chopped off after they've killed little kids. It's a thing for Democrats and
00:28:17.840
Republicans. And by the way, it's happening. She she dodged. I'll follow the law. I'll follow the
00:28:23.420
law. So the problem for her here again is she pushed to change the law when she was California
00:28:29.440
attorney general. She that's what Trump's ad is pointing out when she pushed when she was California
00:28:34.920
AG, she pushed to change the law. The law back then in California, even in liberal California,
00:28:39.500
did not allow taxpayer dollars to be used for this. So she bragged on camera when she was speaking to
00:28:44.140
this LGBTQ group a few years ago that she behind the scenes worked to change the policy that would
00:28:52.180
allow these transgender people to get these procedures on the taxpayer dime. She's proud of it.
00:28:58.800
Really, she was a couple of years ago. And that's what's in the Trump ad. She worked to do an end
00:29:05.560
around the policy. And we're going to release a special episode later today where you will hear
00:29:10.820
from a prosecutor tomorrow morning where you will hear from the prosecutor who put this guy in prison,
00:29:18.000
who murdered this beautiful young ish couple by luring them onto their own boat, a husband and wife
00:29:27.160
that they were trying to sell saying, I might be interested in buying it. He got them onto their
00:29:31.900
boat. He had the whole thing planned out. He had accomplices and he got them under duress to sign over
00:29:38.960
the deed to the boat right before he tied them to their own ship's anchor and threw them overboard,
00:29:47.140
threw them overboard where they drowned to death attached to the anchor of their own boat. That pig
00:29:55.520
had his sex change operation paid for by California taxpayers. Thanks to Kamala Harris.
00:30:05.880
These are facts. Listen to the episode tomorrow morning. It's a quick interview. And Matt Murphy,
00:30:12.900
the prosecutor on the case who has nothing against trans people, who's the lifelong California guy
00:30:19.200
will walk you through exactly what she did. Um, okay, I'll follow the law. That's what she wanted
00:30:27.640
to say. That's how she tried to get out of it. Um, and this is just a remote issue. Guess again,
00:30:34.640
we didn't hear anything about boys and girls sports. Um, maybe the next time she tries to go into a
00:30:42.120
difficult or more challenging forum that will get asked. Cause I'd love to hear what she says,
00:30:46.140
what she says on that. Uh, then Brett switches to the economy. Why do you think more people say
00:30:52.180
they trust Trump on the economy than they trust you? And now we get into the Kamala Harris wordiness.
00:30:58.460
I think that when you look at an analysis of our plans for what we would do as president of the
00:31:03.600
United States, it has been clear to those who study and understand how economic policy works
00:31:08.620
and moving forward. Because I do believe the American people are ready to turn the page
00:31:12.960
on the divisiveness and type of rhetoric that has come out of Donald Trump, TDS, TDS, TDS.
00:31:18.680
People are ready to chart a new way forward. And they want a president who has a plan for the future
00:31:23.920
and a plan that is sound and will strengthen our country. My plan for the economy does exactly that.
00:31:31.180
His plan would be again, to give tax cuts to billionaires and the biggest corporations in
00:31:35.760
our country and will blow up our deficit. What? Not responsive. Why? She can't do it. Think about
00:31:45.800
how Barack Obama would have answered this or Bill Clinton. They would have been honest. They would
00:31:50.080
have said people, maybe they would have said they tend to forget, you know, what the Trump economy
00:31:55.240
actually got us. It got us an additional seven and a half trillion dollars in debt. It got us into a
00:31:59.360
position where when COVID struck, we had nothing in reserve, whatever, however you want to spin it.
00:32:03.140
But she can't do that. She's got to do word salad extraordinaire until she finally remembers that
00:32:10.060
she's got a line about Trump's tax cuts to billionaires. And then she's like, stuck the
00:32:14.960
landing. Brett says, this is another thing Republicans have wanted to hear asked. You said,
00:32:23.420
turn the page. People are ready to turn the page. Madam vice president, you were asked on two different
00:32:28.240
shows last week. What if anything, would you do differently? Here's what you said. He runs clips.
00:32:33.600
Of her saying nothing. And so he says, so nothing comes to mind that you would do differently.
00:32:39.860
And she starts with, let me be clear. She just did this over. Let me be clear. And then you can
00:32:44.260
be assured what's going to follow is not clear at all. My presidency will not be a continuation of
00:32:49.280
Joe Biden's presidency. That's it. She's had a week plus. She said months, but she, you know,
00:32:54.680
since that question stumped her, she's had a week to come up with something good. My presidency will
00:32:59.860
not be a continuation of Joe Biden's presidency. Let's listen. So you're not Joe Biden, you're not
00:33:05.820
Donald Trump, but, but nothing comes to mind that you would do differently. Let me be very clear.
00:33:10.480
My presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden's presidency. And like every new president
00:33:17.060
that comes in to office, I will bring my life experiences, my professional experiences and
00:33:23.840
fresh and new ideas. I represent a new generation of leadership.
00:33:28.580
Literally what she is saying is I am not the same person as he is. I mean, what my presidency will not
00:33:34.440
be a continuation of Joe Biden's presidency. Yet we know, obviously we can see you're two different
00:33:39.160
human beings. This is not news. I will bring my life experiences, my professional experiences
00:33:45.080
and fresh and new ideas. What are they? The question is, how are they different from his?
00:33:51.900
What are the new ideas? Walk us through it. She won't do it. She can't do it. It will be a continuation
00:33:59.960
of the Joe Biden presidency because the answer she gave on the view last week was the real one.
00:34:05.240
Nothing comes to mind. Nothing at all. She's not running to do anything differently. So if you liked
00:34:11.700
your time under Joe Biden, if you thought the economy was good and the country was going in
00:34:15.340
the right direction, she's your gal. But she's speaking to Fox News viewers, trying to tell them
00:34:20.680
it's forget Biden. I know you didn't like him vote for me instead, because I represent a new
00:34:27.800
generation of leadership. I have not spent the majority of my career in Washington, D.C.
00:34:33.700
I invite ideas, whether it be from Republicans who are supporting me, et cetera. Okay. This is not
00:34:42.220
going to persuade the Fox News viewers who understand the Republicans supporting you are Adam Kinzinger
00:34:47.320
and Liz Cheney. You may not have noticed, but they've been excommunicated from the Republican Party.
00:34:52.540
This is. And by the way, not for nothing, but Trump has got a Kennedy who's ready to join his
00:34:58.500
cabinet. Trump has got Tulsi Gabbard, who ran for president on the Democratic ticket in 2020.
00:35:05.280
So this is not special about you. He says again to her, your campaign slogan is a new way forward.
00:35:14.360
It's time to turn the page. You've been vice president for three and a half years.
00:35:18.120
So what are you turning the page from? We have this. All right. I'm going to play it. But like,
00:35:26.960
this is one of like, this is one of the most frustrating parts. TDS. It's a TDS answer.
00:35:34.140
What are you turning page from? And she tries to say basically the last 10 years. So, okay. That brings
00:35:41.240
us back to 2014. Who was president again then? Who was president through 2017? It was Barack Obama.
00:35:49.760
So we got three years of the 10 with Barack Obama. We had the last three and a half years with Joe
00:35:57.660
Biden and Kamala Harris. So that's six of the past 10 years. And then you had four in there with Donald
00:36:02.520
Trump. So you got 60% of the last 10 years with Democrats in control, Democrats in the White House.
00:36:09.340
So he asked her, what are you turning the page on? Because you're currently in office.
00:36:19.620
More than 70% of people tell the country is on the wrong track. They say the country is on the wrong
00:36:25.160
track. If it's on the wrong track, that track follows three and a half years of you being vice
00:36:31.860
president and president Biden being president. That is what they're saying. 79% of them. Why are they
00:36:38.300
saying that? If you're turning the page, you've been in office for three and a half years.
00:36:48.600
Come on. You and I both know what I'm talking about.
00:36:54.200
What I'm talking about is that over the last decade, people have become...
00:36:59.300
Come on. But listen, over the last decade, it is clear to me and certainly the Republicans who are
00:37:06.880
on stage with me, the former chief of staff to the president, Donald Trump, former defense
00:37:14.160
secretaries, national security advisor, and his vice president. One, that he is unfit to serve,
00:37:19.800
that he is unstable, that he is dangerous, and that people are exhausted.
00:37:27.500
Okay. So there you can see her. She's stumped. It was another Lester Holt. And I've never been to
00:37:35.280
Europe moment. Remember when he's like, you haven't been to the border. And I've never been to Europe.
00:37:40.300
That was what we just saw there. And you've been in office for three and a half years. And Donald Trump
00:37:51.120
Tell the country is on the wrong track. They say the country is on the wrong track. If it's on the wrong track,
00:37:57.620
that track follows three and a half years of you being vice president and President Biden being president.
00:38:03.200
That is what they're saying, 79% of them. Why are they saying that? If you're turning the page,
00:38:09.700
you've been in office for three and a half years.
00:38:15.340
But you've been the person held in the office, Madam Vice President.
00:38:19.200
You and I both know what I'm talking about. You and I both know what I'm talking about.
00:38:23.440
What I'm talking about is that over the last decade.
00:38:26.040
You get it. Look at it. He's genuinely stumped. I mean, Brett's genuinely like,
00:38:29.580
what the fuck is going on right now? What do you say? No. What are you saying? What are you saying?
00:38:36.480
Her campaign forward is a new way forward. Her slogan, a new way forward.
00:38:40.840
What is the new way you're in office right now? She can't answer it. All she can say is Trump bad,
00:38:48.380
orange man, bad, divisive rhetoric. Then he comes back with why is half the country supporting him?
00:38:55.240
This is an election for president. Are they misguided? She doesn't take that bait,
00:38:58.980
which was a smart move on her part. Um, then she jumped, she jumps to, okay, I wouldn't say
00:39:04.720
they're stupid. No, I'm not going to say that, but he's been saying he would turn the American
00:39:11.700
military on the American people. This is a lie. She repeated it. And the Democrats are repeating
00:39:17.740
it everywhere. Go ahead and tune into MSNBC for 15 minutes. I dare you to get through 15 minutes
00:39:23.220
without this coming up. We did a fact check on this on, what was it? Tuesday morning at the top
00:39:27.700
of our show. And it's a lie. Trump was asked by Maria Bartiromo about Joe Biden's prediction of
00:39:35.420
chaos on election day and violence and asked him if he thinks that could happen. And Trump said there
00:39:42.500
won't be violence from Trump supporters, but how I would handle that is yeah, if necessary, we'd
00:39:48.420
unleash the national guard and possibly even the military. His response was, we're not going to let
00:39:52.660
that happen. We're not going to let riots in the streets, tear down America because people are
00:39:57.480
unhappy with the election results. That's what he was saying. They, that is what this is based on.
00:40:04.800
Yes. He talks about the enemy within. And you, and you heard that. I mean, he was specifically in
00:40:09.320
one instance talking about people like Adam Schiff who have made it their entire business and career
00:40:14.120
to try to ruin Trump. But he talks about these radical leftists who he calls Marxist and so on.
00:40:18.880
And he was like, these are the enemy from within that's fine. That's normal political rhetoric.
00:40:21.940
Frankly, the Democrats say far worse. But the thing that makes this really controversial is to tie the
00:40:26.660
threat to unleash the national guard or the U S military unsaid people. That's what's pushing
00:40:32.340
people over the edge. And they're doing it totally falsely. It's a lie. He has not said that he said,
00:40:37.840
if there were riots in response to the election, that would be an appropriate response. And most of us
00:40:43.060
agree with him. That's what we wanted to see during BLM. Get the national guard out there. Stop letting
00:40:48.460
people get murdered by these loons. Don't let 2000 cops get hurt. Uh, we should have handled that more
00:40:55.240
aggressively under his presidency. And he's saying, I got the message and I won't allow that,
00:40:59.160
but they've turned it into the government's coming. The military is coming to your backyard barbecue.
00:41:04.280
If you voted for Kamala Harris, it's, it's just, it's a lie. And honestly, this is where like,
00:41:11.280
she gets so incredibly whiny. All right. So she, he says to her, she, she gets into her thing about,
00:41:21.220
he suggested he would turn the American military and the American people. And Brett takes a bit of
00:41:26.020
a weird turn here where he says, we had a town hall with Trump this afternoon. And we asked him
00:41:31.940
about this statement. And he tosses to a soundbite between Trump and Harris Faulkner,
00:41:38.920
where she asks him about the controversy and he plays Trump's defense of the controversy,
00:41:45.880
which is basically Trump being like, well, we have it. Okay. Let's watch.
00:41:51.020
If you listen to Donald Trump, if you watch any of his rallies,
00:41:54.000
he's the one who tends to demean and belittle and diminish the American people. He's the one who
00:42:01.180
talks about an enemy within, within an enemy within talking about the American people,
00:42:08.000
suggesting he would turn the American military on the American people.
00:42:12.920
We asked that question to the former president today, Harris Faulkner had a town hall and this is
00:42:19.200
how he responded. I heard about that. They were saying I was like threatening,
00:42:24.000
I'm not threatening anybody. They're the ones doing the threatening. They do phony investigations.
00:42:29.180
I've been investigated more than Alphonse Capone. He was the greatest.
00:42:32.840
No, it's true. We've got to think of it. It's called weaponization of government. It's a terrible
00:42:37.180
thing. So, Brett, I'm sorry. And with all due respect, that clip was not what he has been saying
00:42:44.460
about the enemy within that he has repeated when he's speaking about the American people. That's not
00:42:50.340
what you just showed. He was asked about that. No, no, no, that's not what you just showed in
00:42:54.160
all fairness and respect to you. I'm telling you that was the question that we asked him.
00:42:57.300
He didn't show that. And here's the bottom line. He has repeated it many times. He has talked about
00:43:02.560
turning the American military on the American people. No, no. Again, so this is so annoying
00:43:09.840
because Brett did nothing wrong. He's trying to keep advancing the ball. We've been hearing them
00:43:16.540
playing these Trump soundbites for a week now. He's trying to say, I heard your accusation.
00:43:21.080
You made it repeatedly that he's making these threats. Well, we asked him what his defense
00:43:26.440
to these accusations is. He's trying to move the ball forward to make news. And here's what he said.
00:43:30.980
Would you like to respond to that? And she could easily have said, you know, whatever she wanted to
00:43:35.900
like, look, he's not sorry. He didn't walk it back. You know, he claimed in that clip he wasn't
00:43:41.320
threatening anybody, but go look at the tape. Right. Instead, she tried to accuse Brett of playing
00:43:46.340
like the wrong clip as if he had the wrong. No, Brett has seen the clips. Trust me. He's seen
00:43:51.340
the clips. He's trying to move the story forward. Now, I think probably a more clear way would have
00:43:58.400
been fine. This is what Trump said. First, here's what Trump said. I mean, honestly, you could have
00:44:04.100
just played what Trump said originally with the full context. It happened on Fox with Maria Bartiromo.
00:44:08.920
Just play it. Let the audience hear he was talking about riots on election day. He's not talking
00:44:13.860
about sending the military to go torture Kamala Harris voters and then say, aren't you taking
00:44:18.840
it out of context? That's that's what I would have done. But this is fine. This is another
00:44:24.020
approach. And she decided to get once again to feign indignance indignation over him allegedly
00:44:30.240
playing the wrong soundbite as if like Trump didn't say it. And that's what Brett was trying
00:44:34.400
to get at. That's not what at all he's trying to get you to respond to his defense. It's called
00:44:39.400
an opportunity for you, madam, to take a shot at Trump's defense. She wouldn't do it. She just
00:44:45.740
feigned indignation. And this is their favorite clip over on MS this morning. Oh, she'd hear
00:44:50.460
Mika presenting. Good for her. Brett Baer used to be a respected journalist. He's a hack. He
00:44:56.780
queued up the wrong. That's not what Trump said. You people are too stupid to live. This is so dumb.
00:45:02.420
You're so dumb. Either you're dumb or you're dishonest. I think probably both to be perfectly
00:45:08.560
honest. Anyway, fine. Uh, that's how that went. Then he tries to defend himself. She doubles down
00:45:17.780
on her nonsense about he's going to lock people up. He's going to send the American military against
00:45:22.420
them. That needed to be fact checked. Go ahead. Is it Steve Krakauer? Is it our Tuesday episode
00:45:26.820
where we did a fact check on this? It's at the top of the program. Yeah. Just click,
00:45:32.360
click that program. It's the first 10 minutes. You will understand exactly. And, um, then she's
00:45:37.980
back on her TDS. He's not stable. He's not stable. He's not stable. Uh, we should all be concerned.
00:45:44.180
And then he asks her the question about Biden's mental faculties. Listen here.
00:45:50.000
What's the significance of that? You call Donald Trump, um, he's misguided. You say now he's
00:45:58.240
unstable. He is unstable, but he's not well. You say he's mentally not stable. He's not stable.
00:46:04.020
Let me ask you this. You told many interviewers that Joe Biden was on his game that ran around
00:46:09.520
circles on his staff. When did you first notice that President Biden's mental faculties appeared
00:46:14.720
diminished? Joe Biden, I have watched in from the Oval Office to the Situation Room and he has the
00:46:25.440
judgment and the experiment and experienced to do exactly what he has done in making very important
00:46:32.020
decisions on behalf of the American people. Joe Biden is not on the ballot. I understand.
00:46:38.340
And Donald Trump, Donald Trump is. But you talked about it. And Donald Trump is. After George Clooney
00:46:42.720
said within a few minutes of talking to President Biden at a fundraiser that he thought this was not
00:46:47.460
the same Joe Biden that we saw on the debate stage. Donald Trump is on the ballot. I understand.
00:46:52.740
You met with him at least once a week for three and a half years. You didn't have any concerns?
00:46:59.020
I think the American people have a concern about Donald Trump. She won't answer.
00:47:03.960
She can't. She knew. She knew. She knew for as long as everyone in that administration knew and
00:47:17.420
she covered it up. And when asked point blank, when did you know? She dodged. I mean, look at that
00:47:25.840
answer. I'm just looking at the transcript. He asked her, when did you first notice his mental
00:47:31.280
faculties appear diminished? She tried to just say Joe Biden's great. He has the judgment experience.
00:47:36.220
Brett, no concerns raised. Joe Biden's not on the ballot. That's the point. He's not on the ballot
00:47:43.100
because he had a mental collapse at a presidential debate. And then the state of his mental acuity
00:47:48.680
became a national security problem and a political problem for you guys. So when did you know? That's
00:47:54.440
the question. Joe Biden's not on the ballot. The next answer, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump.
00:47:59.720
Trump. George Clooney said within a few minutes he saw it. What about you? Donald Trump is on the
00:48:05.660
ballot. Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. I'm telling you, Fox viewers will be sitting there pulling
00:48:11.180
their hair out. You failed. You blew your opportunity. You blew your big moment to go
00:48:16.680
into the lion's den and show how tough you were because you couldn't answer the tough questions
00:48:19.580
because you were complicit and we know it. You met with him at least a week, at least once a week for
00:48:25.640
three and a half years, you didn't have any concerns, Donald Trump. And then another long
00:48:30.180
answer about Donald Trump. It ended with him asking about Iran and, you know, how this administration
00:48:39.280
has not acted like Iran is the number one threat. She resorted to her word salad. Well, I will tell you
00:48:46.940
most recently, whether it was April or October, and then several hours on each occasion that Iran posed a
00:48:53.540
threat to Israel. I was there most recently in the Situation Room, in the most recent attack,
00:48:59.600
working with the heads of our military and doing what America must always do to defend and to support
00:49:05.040
Israel in its requirement to defend itself and to give American support to be able to allow Israel
00:49:10.900
to have the resources to defend itself against attack, including from Iran and Iran's terrorist
00:49:17.140
proxies in the region. And that, and my commitment to that is unyielding and unwavering. You've said
00:49:24.140
nothing because you were in the Situation Room when things went down. That's all you've said.
00:49:29.600
How does that show you understand and have pushed policies that take into account Iran is the biggest
00:49:37.440
threat we're facing? It doesn't. It's just incredibly frustrating. She's incredibly empty.
00:49:43.280
She knows nothing about foreign policy. I mean, nothing, nothing. At least if you look at Donald
00:49:51.620
Trump over the years, he was coming up a businessman and so on. He talked about foreign policy all the
00:49:54.780
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Podcast. Great to see you guys. Oh, look at your new fancy set. Oh, look at you're stepping it up in
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the world. I like it. Yeah. We're brightening things up a little bit. We're like, we've got to
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go on in Kelly. You got to look good for this sort of thing. Yeah. It's kind of chic. I like it. All
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right. So what did you think of last night? Thank you for having us. We appreciate having your air
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toned. You are welcome. It is an honor, I'm sure. All right. So what'd you think of last night?
00:51:54.140
Uh, let me start with like two observations before we get into the Kamala stuff. Cause I think all of
00:51:59.480
us have got thoughts on that. First of all, Brett Baer did an absolutely exceptional job. I mean,
00:52:05.260
this is, he's one of very few, remarkably few journalists, yourself included that when you get
00:52:11.360
into a situation where you're interviewing a public figure of some significance that they can actually
00:52:15.560
do their job in a way that journalism is supposed to be done. Um, I think he did an exceptional job.
00:52:20.780
Second of all, what I found so hilarious about the reaction to all of this is the Democrats acting
00:52:25.400
like she just stormed the beaches at Normandy because she answered what questions, you know,
00:52:30.520
it's like, no, no, no. Like that's the job that people are supposed to do who call themselves
00:52:35.100
journalists. And like Brett is an absolute blue chip journalist. Like this is what he does. He did
00:52:40.660
the same thing to Donald Trump, by the way, you know? So I listen, I understand that they don't watch
00:52:45.420
Fox so they don't know what actual journalism looks like on special report at six o'clock,
00:52:49.920
but that's what it is. Right. Or any, but or any channel, I guess it's not available, but they,
00:52:56.600
it's been so long. And by that, I mean, never that Kamala Harris has had a challenging interview
00:53:01.700
since she became the nominee. They don't even understand it when they see it. It's like the
00:53:05.280
dog with the, instead of being like, Oh, journalism, they're like, Oh, he's so I'll give you a sampling
00:53:13.540
guys. Um, here is a little bit of the media meltdown in response to that interview.
00:53:23.020
We witnessed a man who spent his life as a down the middle journalist seeming to throw it all away
00:53:28.160
for his audience of one interrupting the vice president awkwardly and unnecessarily.
00:53:33.420
I thought she handled it masterfully. I mean, he was rude. I think Brett Baer was rude. So was it a
00:53:39.580
home run? No. Did she need it to be a home run? Absolutely not. And I was quite repulsed by Brett
00:53:45.080
Baer. The attack mode from the beginning was, was quite stunning. Vice president Kamala Harris
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kicks Brett Baer's ass. Extraordinary performance from the vice president and hostile territory.
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And frankly, Brett Baer should leave, quit the job and go to a monastery and hope to atone.
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Yeah, the lib media reaction is exactly what I was waiting for this morning after I saw it last
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night. I mean, every morning when I get up, I like to say today is going to be an insane day.
00:54:20.420
And what I saw this morning out of the left wing media just did not disappoint.
00:54:25.880
Yeah, a huge missed opportunity. I mean, take it out of the partisan lens. And, you know,
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Democrats for weeks have been telling, begging Kamala Harris's campaign to distance herself from
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President Biden. And she refused to do that. And Brett Baer gave her numerous opportunities. He was
00:54:43.760
like, look, you know, 80 percent of this country thinks we're on the wrong track. Is there anything you
00:54:48.700
would have done differently in the last three and a half years? And she can't. He asked her,
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OK, what's going to be different about your administration than Joe Biden? The best she
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could do is, well, I will be a different person. It'll be a, you know, a different person will be
00:55:02.380
taking the generation of leadership. Unbelievable. And you're younger. You would think on Fox News,
00:55:09.880
if they had a strategy as a presidential campaign to make that pivot, to make distance between Joe
00:55:16.480
Biden and Kamala Harris, do it on Fox. You've got people willing to hear that message that are
00:55:22.140
independent, that are conservative leading. And like you had a huge opportunity. That's what I
00:55:26.160
is blowing my mind about this is it was a huge opportunity for Kamala Harris to finally make
00:55:30.580
that pivot. And she didn't. But she ain't got it. You know, I mean, that's the problem. She just
00:55:35.480
doesn't have another gear like this is for whatever you saw of Kamala Harris. And I think
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it was an abject disaster for her, for all the reasons that you pointed out in your monologue
00:55:42.760
at the top. She doesn't have that's as good as you're going to get. Like it doesn't get any
00:55:49.600
better for her than that. And imagine you spent the last two weeks not being able to answer the
00:55:53.740
simple question of what you would do differently. And then you get a shot to redo it and you still
00:55:57.680
haven't come up with anything like sooner or later. You're just like, well, I guess
00:56:02.480
is all we got. So I will add this. I also thought she was whiny like that business about
00:56:13.960
against the American people. She's got to be aware she has a terrible voice as Maureen
00:56:20.000
Callahan describes it. It's vocal fry adjacent. It's too much. It's a, it's a lot. And there's
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a clip online on Twitter where it has a split screen of her with like the angry scolding look
00:56:32.460
and Brett bear as follows. Well, the eyes closed and they were like, there isn't a man alive who
00:56:39.460
can't relate to this. She's a lot. And I, I teed up just a little sampling of what I am referring to
00:56:47.800
May I finish responding please? But you have to let me finish. I'm in the middle of responding to the
00:56:56.180
point you're raising. Okay. And I'd like to finish turning the page on rhetoric that people are
00:57:01.080
frankly exhausted of Brett. More than 70% of people. He's the one who talks about an enemy
00:57:06.020
within, within, an enemy within talking about the American people. That's not what you just
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showed. He was asked about that specific. No, no, no. That's not what you just showed in all
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fairness and respect to you. I'm telling you that was the question that we asked him.
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You didn't show that. You say now he's unstable. He is unstable, Brett. This is a democracy.
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And in a democracy, the president of the United States in the United States of America
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should be willing to be able to handle criticism.
00:57:35.880
All right. No. My take on that guys is like that the young gals might be looking for like a girl
00:57:44.660
boss moment. She's already got them because they want abortions. This, she needs to get men. And you
00:57:50.800
tell me what, what man is out there. Like, I want to spend more time with that.
00:57:55.620
I mean, so I believe it was actually Roger Ailes who would point out that if you watch people on
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mute, just for the body language, it's extremely telling of what's happening there. And I actually,
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after I'd watched it, I muted it. It was much more enjoyable with her on mute, but
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her body language, the last 30 seconds for me were just completely critical. She was back in her chair,
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arms folded, just giving off as much hostility as physically possible a person can convey.
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That whole interview, she basically came off as being someone who is angry, combative,
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extremely unlikable. And I, she's not serving herself any favors with male voters, with female
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voters, with any voting block, except for the left who has found themselves in a position where they
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want to be gaslit, where they want to say, oh, she won the day. Yes. I am happy. She does not want
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to answer any questions for me. Brett Baer, you know, it's sad that the state of being a great
00:58:55.600
journalist is asking questions that average American would want to know. At what point did
00:59:00.060
you notice Joe Biden had cognitive decline? One of the things that makes Brett so good at this,
00:59:04.380
at this gig is that he has this exudes his comfortability, right? And at one point she was
00:59:10.540
just trying to talk over him the whole time. And he's like, I think we're just talking over each
00:59:13.800
other. I apologize. Here's what I'm trying to ask. It's this, this disarming way as a viewer,
00:59:18.920
you watch it and you're like, oh, he's got total control of this situation. Meanwhile,
00:59:21.600
you look at her and it's like, it's just combative. Oh, all right. I've got to read
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you this Holmes. So first of all, I do want to say it is, I'm going to read you this quote because
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it's plays right off of what you're saying, but the opposite view, um, Brett revealed after the
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interview that they got there late. They were supposed to take between five and five 30. His
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show starts at six. And when you're doing what's called an as live, where you're doing an interview
00:59:44.500
that's pre-taped and you're just going to run it as was, you know, without edits, it does take some
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time to ingest it into the system and to turn it. Like you can't, can't be doing that interview
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up till five 58 and make air at six. Trust me, we've been in this position many times on many
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shows I've done. And, uh, so it was important that it go from five to five 30 as she agreed to do.
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He revealed after the fact, she didn't show up until five 15 and sat down fine. He was a pro.
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He started taping it with her and that 25 minutes in instead of 30, her team was giving him the hard
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rap. He said four of her staffers were behind her, like rap rap, which explains why he was like,
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he even said it in the interview. Like I'm getting the hard rap here, which is so weird because it
01:00:29.960
must've been over the top because if you've got staffers telling you a hard rap is necessary,
01:00:34.600
but the candidate is speaking and going on, she's supposed to be the boss. Like she should be in
01:00:41.560
charge. If she wants it to go on, it's going to go on. I wouldn't be listening to the staffers.
01:00:45.480
So they were in a panic because they knew it wasn't going well. And they, they really tried
01:00:49.660
to F him, which by the way, did increase the time pressure on Brett. He knew he had to get
01:00:54.640
through these subjects and to stop the talking points and the non sequiturs. And he did a great
01:00:59.420
job of it. But here's what I want to read you. There's a lot of crazy media reaction, but this
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guy stood out, stood out to me. He works for deadline. His name is Dominic Patton. And it's just
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over the, over the top, having been roasted online by the MAGA base and anticipation of
01:01:15.580
softball questions, quote, real journalist, as the VP called him at one point, you're already
01:01:21.140
wrong, Dominic. She called him a serious journalist. So already you fucked up your facts. Um, Brett
01:01:26.680
barely let the VP get a word in during the opening part of the sit down as bear played largely to the
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MAGA base and his core viewership. The veteran anchor appeared largely out of his depth challenged
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on his questions and wanting to flex his own muscles bear ended up fumbling his line of questioning
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and losing control of the interview to the well prepped VP as he got caught up in centering over
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and over on culture war issues and Joe Biden's mental acuity.
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Well, Megan, you know, when I want analysis on depth, the first place I usually turn is deadline.
01:02:12.880
And I tell you how many opportunities I've had to like go to deadline and, and just doubt what is
01:02:20.500
really going on behind the scenes. You just, you, you, you don't know until you read deadline.
01:02:24.820
And one of the things that was interesting to me about the four staffers waving their hands in
01:02:29.600
the background is what subject they were covering when they did it. She was getting very weak on
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Iran and they lost their mind. We can't let her keep talking about Iran because we have Iran
01:02:39.680
sympathists who are working for us. And so we can't mess that up.
01:02:47.040
And complaining that Brett was interrupting her. Well, it, you know, you gotta make some
01:02:52.900
clarifying points during an answer in which like, they all start with, well, we really got to go
01:02:58.580
back to the signing of the treaty of Versailles before we talk about the border crisis. You know,
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like she was clearly stalling for time because she didn't want to have to answer the question.
01:03:07.300
I mean, it was Brett who had to name check the bill she was referencing that would quote,
01:03:17.540
And then she talks about, well, in the last nine months, we could have passed a bill that
01:03:21.340
would have strengthened all these things. And yes, he has to clarify, well, Lake, that doesn't
01:03:25.500
help Lake and Riley because the illegal immigrant that murdered her got in and, you know, 2022.
01:03:31.140
And it's like, that's the job of a journalist. I know that's uncomfortable for them that,
01:03:34.980
that she got asked real questions, but it's nice that finally.
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Well, they don't know that. I mean, that's, that's the thing that's so blatantly obvious
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about it. First of all, the fever swamp that the deadline guy lives in.
01:03:43.940
And you'd look at that and get the hell out as fast as possible. But, but like, they're
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so unaccustomed to any sort of real pushing or questioning. I mean, look, this, this lady's
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been the nominee of the democratic party since mid July. Nobody's ever asked her. I mean,
01:03:58.420
the fact that she's on stage in the first place is because of the mental decline, obviously
01:04:02.820
of her boss. Right. And that's why he got off the ticket and she's on it. That's not
01:04:06.580
an imperative question to be asked. That's the first time anybody's ever said, Hey, Connell,
01:04:10.640
did you ever notice that the guy couldn't complete a sentence? Right. Right.
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The rest of the media can't do it because they were in on it. So this is the first person
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she has sat with who wasn't in on it and therefore had no qualms about saying, yo, he's been in
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decline for a long time and you've been vouching for him. Let me read you something on the interruptions.
01:04:30.980
I mean, this is first of all, David Plouffe, who's I think running her campaign tweeted out
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right after it was over Kamala Harris strong. Now you tell me when you have to tell the people
01:04:40.220
she was strong. You don't, you don't really see Donald Trump's people tweeting out Donald Trump
01:04:46.100
strong. We know Kamala Harris strong handled an ambush Fox interview light years better than the,
01:04:54.440
the hash Donald Trump unstable made of the Fox pep rally disguised as a town hall.
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So it was an ambush. According to him, Claire McCaskill, um, Brett bear was downright rude and
01:05:04.900
disrespectful. Uh, she's strong. She's strong. She, she, she tweeted Dan Pfeiffer was part of
01:05:11.920
that pod save America, right? Um, Brett bear likes to dress up as a journalist, but he is as committed
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to the larger Fox news project as Hannity or Pirro. Here's this Harris, Harris handled that Fox news
01:05:24.960
interview with confidence and skill. Now try to imagine Donald Trump handling tough antagonistic
01:05:32.440
questions. You got to be kidding me. Yeah, no, it's crazy. Three months ago, they were all saying,
01:05:40.120
no, Joe Biden's a mental giant behind the scenes. Just trust us today. They're saying, oh, Kamala was
01:05:44.300
really strong. She killed it. Yeah. Well then, okay. People like Pluff and Pfeiffer are humiliating
01:05:50.500
themselves. They've already made so much money. Like the pod save guys got in trouble with their
01:05:54.720
employees going on strike because their houses are an architectural digest. Like you don't have
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to humiliate yourself like this. You're already loaded. So smug, maybe we're being too hard.
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Maybe they just really don't like interruptions like Claire McCaskill, all these MSNBC earth. Maybe
01:06:08.800
they really don't like interruptions as we heard on MSNBC. We heard on CNN. Oh wait, here's a little
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montage to remind you. The biggest scandal was when they spied on my campaign. They spied on my campaign.
01:06:22.420
There's no real evidence of that. Of course there is. It's all over the place. Leslie,
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they spied on my campaign and they got caught. Can I say something? You know, this is 60 Minutes
01:06:32.400
and we can't put on things we can't verify. You won't put it on because it's bad for Biden.
01:06:37.800
We can't put on things we can't verify. Leslie, they spied on my campaign.
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Well, we can't verify that. It's been totally verified.
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You haven't asked about inflation. No, no, I'm sorry. Let's stick to this. I know,
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I know. The American people want us to talk about how to make their lives better.
01:06:53.320
Why won't you say that? They don't want us to. Why won't you say that?
01:06:54.860
The unselect committee destroyed all the evidence. They say they did. I want to know about your
01:06:59.380
perspective, Mr. President. I want to ask about you now. They put out an announcement that.
01:07:02.380
I agree. You don't want to talk about policy. No, what I want to talk about. What I want to
01:07:07.000
talk about. Instead of about the fact. Senator, it was your distraction. Granted amnesty. You were
01:07:12.240
the one who started talking about eating dogs and cats. This is an attack on a political opponent.
01:07:18.040
I have another one where I have a hostile judge. Sir, if you don't mind, I'd love to. We have you
01:07:21.720
for a limited time, sir. I'd love to move on to different topics. No, excuse me. You're the one
01:07:24.660
that held me up to 35 minutes. You absolutely could re-engage folks into the American labor
01:07:31.900
market. This is- To work in construction? Of course you could. I mean, the unemployment rate
01:07:37.100
is 4.1%. But the unemployment rate, Lulu, this is important. But most people who don't work can't
01:07:42.380
work in the regular economy. Maybe they are okay, depending on who's across from the journalist
01:07:50.440
at issue. Yeah. I mean, partisanship's a hell of a drug. The problem is, is that, you know,
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there aren't any Walter Cronkite's roaming around those mainstream corporate media outfits anymore.
01:08:00.400
I mean, they just don't have them. And they're so unaccustomed to any Democrat being pushed in the
01:08:06.480
same way that every single Republican is. And even on their own, like conservative networks,
01:08:11.660
like conservatives want answers to things. They don't like just want to see your face. I mean,
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they want answers to things. Libs don't, but they just want power.
01:08:19.960
I would love to know what that woman considers the regular economy. I feel like that would be
01:08:29.600
The double standard is just so in your face. But I will say there was one line that Kamala Harris
01:08:36.000
delivered in that interview, which will come back to haunt her. I mean, I should say Trump tweeted
01:08:41.360
out the whole interview saying our latest campaign ad just dropped. But there was one line in particular,
01:08:48.260
we liked it so much, we made a button of it. Listen.
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Gotta take responsibility for what happened in your administration.
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Gotta take responsibility for what happened in your administration.
01:09:04.400
As she spends the rest of the 25 minutes discussing how she has absolutely no responsibility for the
01:09:11.040
I mean, it's just a wild, we come back to those things. Like you mentioned on the view
01:09:15.980
when she says that she wouldn't do anything different than Biden or this clip. They're like
01:09:20.700
basic central tenets of this campaign that they have tried to work the entire messaging around
01:09:25.760
that she's new, that she's different. She'll do things different than Joe Biden, that this is a
01:09:30.140
change election and she is the change agent, whether it's generational or policy-wise or all those
01:09:34.440
things. And yet every single time that she's asked anything remotely touching those things,
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she fucks it up. And it's like, dude, like, is somebody not have just one talking point? Is
01:09:45.800
there just one talking point over in the Kamala Harris campaign? We're like, every time you're
01:09:52.620
Oh, I mean, yes. The answer to that is yes. And we've heard it a thousand times. Here she was
01:09:56.880
with Charlemagne, the God, on his radio show yesterday, unleashing her very favorite one.
01:10:00.980
It's SOT 26. Knowing the entrepreneurship that we have in the community, the ambition,
01:10:09.240
the aspirations, the dreams. Not everybody has access to the Capitol, but we know in the
01:10:15.960
community we do not lack for ambition, aspirations, dreams, hard work ethic. My agenda is about tapping
01:10:22.760
into the ambitions and the aspirations, knowing that folks want to have an opportunity. There's a
01:10:31.360
Thank you. There was a couple of things that you said that people would say were talking points,
01:10:34.960
but it's really just your story, even though they are becoming your greatest hits.
01:10:45.300
Oh, many times. His questions were ridiculous. I actually can't believe what a bootlicking experience
01:10:55.280
it was. I would have expected a couple of tough ones. Um, why, why do you let him call you the
01:11:02.000
border czar? That wasn't your role. Why is it okay for him to say he will lock up his political
01:11:08.120
opponents, right? It's ridiculous. I mean, they all went like this. I will show you my favorite part of
01:11:13.680
that interview though, where she promises she's going to win and debuted a new accent. Take a listen.
01:11:19.640
But this is a margin of error race. It's tight. I'm going to win. I'm going to win. But it's tight.
01:11:29.640
And, you know, what is at stake is truly, uh, profound. I'm sorry, guys. Yet another one.
01:11:39.760
But like she gets in front of a largely black audience and they're, I'm going to win. I'm
01:11:44.920
going to win, girl. I mean, it's so obvious. It's so insulting. She gets away with it.
01:11:52.680
Of all the Democrat candidates to copy, she goes with Hillary Clinton being unlikable and creating
01:11:57.740
accent on the spot. Like that's not exactly the template for victory. Is that how you win black
01:12:03.600
men? You talk like that. Is that what she's doing? Like maybe we should try sending president
01:12:08.260
Obama to scold them. Maybe that'll make them think I'm less of a scold. Maybe she's just running boldly
01:12:13.740
on the platform of inauthenticity. Like that's, she's like, everybody tries to be authentic. Let
01:12:19.080
me do the exact. I'm going to see if her, but her reach out is so absurd to the black men.
01:12:24.560
This continues, right? Cause she, she thinks she can win if she can just boost those numbers
01:12:27.540
with the black men who are going more and more for Trump. And that requires going on Charlemagne's
01:12:32.140
show and talking like that. I'm going, I'm going, you tell it, girl. I hear that girl. Like, come on.
01:12:38.400
This is ridiculous. We hear you all the time. We, we know this is not how you talk. And, um, she
01:12:43.920
released her plan the other day. You saw where it's like, I know exactly what black men want.
01:12:47.580
I'm going to legalize weed. I put 1900 black people and others in jail for smoking weed or for
01:12:54.020
dealing weed out in California. But now I've seen the light. I'm going to legalize weed.
01:12:58.620
Does that appeal to you? Black men. That's what I think of you. And Van Jones, as if on cue comes in
01:13:05.120
when he sees her plan, which is like, we're going to study the diseases that affect black men. We're
01:13:10.500
going to create like special loans just for black men, which is illegal. That's not okay. You're not
01:13:15.680
allowed to do that in America under our constitution. She promptly reversed it and said, Oh, I mean,
01:13:19.780
for everyone, for everyone, which she did on Charlemagne because it's illegal to do it.
01:13:23.740
Anyway, he takes a look at her little list and look at his reaction.
01:13:29.420
Finally, Kamala Harris sent us a love letter. That was you. That might've been a policy document.
01:13:36.560
I read that as a love letter from Kamala Harris to black men who need some love,
01:13:43.380
black men who need some respect, black men who need some concern and some care and consideration.
01:13:49.100
You know, we, we need some mamala from Kamala and we got that.
01:13:56.940
How about jobs? How about a better income? How about a better shot at exactly what you want?
01:14:03.980
It's like, I, what I don't understand is her pandering is like, I've never seen anything like
01:14:11.100
it. And it's not just the accent. It's not just the made up lines. It's not just the endless string
01:14:16.880
of prepositional phrases. It's like saying what she thinks people want to hear. And it's,
01:14:21.960
they're just like, Hey, how, how about a better life for me and my family?
01:14:25.220
Yeah. No, I, it's condescending to a hundred percent. I mean, well, you start with the drug
01:14:29.700
legalization thing. Like, okay. All right. Well, that's certainly an assumption that you've made
01:14:34.400
Kamala Harris about our community. But then you have these like nickel and dime, $25,000,
01:14:39.420
whatever, $50,000, small business write-offs and all of these things. And then they're like,
01:14:45.140
none of which she'll get through with the divided government.
01:14:47.500
But remember, I mean, look, the Biden administration actually tried to do this
01:14:51.580
with black farmers. It wasn't until the Supreme court stepped in and was like, Hey, by the way,
01:14:56.020
there is like a mountain of civil rights leaders that fought for the whole idea that we can't award
01:15:00.860
race-based consideration of tax dollars in this country. And like, I don't know, they sort of had
01:15:05.940
a pretty good point and they threw the whole thing out and she's like, no, we'll try that again. Oh,
01:15:09.600
wait, can't do that. Sorry. I mean, it's just, sorry. My plan is falling apart within days of
01:15:16.700
announcing, I mean, hours of announcing it. Um, I do want to get back just for a minute to the media
01:15:21.620
reaction to her interview last night, because we've been hearing more and more, um, the, her
01:15:28.600
supporters mentioned the woman thing. It wasn't just Barack Obama. We've been, I heard on the New York
01:15:32.740
Times, the daily podcast the other day, like more and more, they're trying to attribute whatever
01:15:36.140
problems she's having in the, in the polls to, you know, the country doesn't like women. Women
01:15:43.540
can't make it in America. And, uh, here was the most explicit version I heard from Anand, Anand
01:15:50.660
Jir Haradas. He's an NYU professor and an MSNBC contributor. And here was his reaction this morning
01:15:59.260
to the Fox news interview, but it was almost interruptionism last night. I was watching
01:16:05.100
this and it was like, this is, this is interruption as an art form interruption. And it felt like it's
01:16:10.280
hard to feel like interruption as a metaphor for, uh, uh, a rising new America, new generation of
01:16:16.880
leadership, a woman, a person of color in Kamala Harris trying to speak. And this kind of figure of
01:16:23.880
the old guard, uh, who was offended at the notion that her voice had a volume, right? That her vocal
01:16:30.300
chords made sound, uh, invited her on the show and then was very, very angry that he could hear her.
01:16:37.020
Um, and it just felt like a metaphor for a, a minority in this country that is angry at the notion
01:16:43.900
that a rising pluralist, more pluralist new America is speaking, is around, is here and a desire to
01:16:51.600
interrupt not just a person, but the future. Uh, and I actually don't think the future will be
01:16:55.840
interrupted. So this guy is a complete moron. And I think Americans are really fed up with this kind
01:17:06.420
of game where it really started during the Obama presidency, but saying everything is racism. This
01:17:13.780
is white supremacy. This is sexism. This is misogyny. We're no longer in a place where we have an
01:17:20.360
economy where we're allowed to have this kind of luxury of this made up garbage to be a concern for
01:17:25.400
Americans. We have Western North Carolina underwater. Americans are paying 8% on mortgages.
01:17:31.420
They don't want to hear a message that actually you're a racist and America is a terrible country
01:17:35.820
and they keep trying to play this. And it just, that strategy is not going to work anymore.
01:17:40.320
There's actual serious concerns for Americans. The border is wide open. Americans are getting murdered.
01:17:45.300
There's, there's houses, there's buildings being taken over by gangs from Venezuela.
01:17:49.340
And you have Martha rats who says, well, I mean, it's only a few buildings, JD that have been taken
01:17:54.660
over. And for these people to try to cover for an idiot, this is Kamala Harris is not only
01:18:01.720
unprepared to be dangerous to have such a moron in office unprepared for even meeting with Brett
01:18:07.060
bear, let alone run the country. And they're trying to play the racism card. Americans are fed up with
01:18:10.760
that. I don't know. Smug. I think a lot of, you know, Trump, Trump voters who might watch that
01:18:15.740
would be very compelled to believe what that character from the hunger games movie told me.
01:18:22.100
Honestly, I couldn't even listen to what he was saying. I was like, dude, pull your finger out
01:18:25.060
of the lights out. What is that hair? What the hell? That was a lot. Unbelievable. There was a lot
01:18:29.180
of hair going on there, but it's not just a nod. Um, I'll give you an example of what we've been
01:18:33.240
hearing in recent days is her poll numbers struggle in state after state. Watch.
01:18:37.780
You just aren't feeling the idea of having a woman as president. That's what being a man is?
01:18:46.180
Putting women down? That's not exciting. I think what weighs Kamala Harris down
01:18:53.080
are two things that are obvious that distinguishes her from, say, a Hillary Clinton or a Joe Biden or
01:18:59.520
even a Barack Obama. This is a woman of color. And he's asking people who are the most racist of
01:19:06.260
this country to support him. I'm on a Trump 47 bus. I'm a Latino. He has me on that bus.
01:19:12.480
That means you're okay with racism. It doesn't mean he's not racist.
01:19:15.820
We do have a fascist groundswell in parts of this country, mainly among white men, let's be clear,
01:19:22.560
but in small pockets among black and brown men too. This happens to be a global phenomenon
01:19:28.160
as women become more economically independent and seek positions of power.
01:19:32.780
But somehow it's a tight race comes down to race and comes down to gender. Like if Kamala was a rich
01:19:39.040
white man, the race probably wouldn't be as close. This country still has an uninvestigated race
01:19:43.880
problem that we are afraid to investigate. There's a reason why America has the same
01:19:48.520
number of female presidents as the Taliban. There's a certain type of person who thinks
01:19:55.180
that voting for a woman makes you less of a man. Comparing this country to the Taliban.
01:20:01.740
I mean, it's just it look time after time after time. It is the last leftist refuge of a losing
01:20:09.800
argument. Every time they get behind the eight ball, whether it's a policy argument or whether
01:20:14.400
it's a campaign argument or something, it's always racism and sexism. It has to be because certainly
01:20:19.440
our leftist ideas that have bankrupted more countries around this world over the last 50
01:20:24.500
years than anything else aren't the problem. Yeah. And certainly it can't be the problem that
01:20:28.360
we nominated an absolute idiot. I mean, there are millions of women in this country who have no
01:20:33.180
problem getting their point across. I live with four of them and I'm on TV. I don't understand why
01:20:40.300
they're like, oh, no, they're against women. No, we're against that one. You know, she's she's a
01:20:45.960
moron. Can you think think about how the other leaders around the world are talking? We've talked
01:20:51.240
about this on the show. They make fun of her amongst themselves. Our enemies are like, yeah,
01:20:55.720
I hope Kamala wins so that America steps down a notch and it gives us a competitive advantage.
01:21:00.540
But don't you think, fellas, and we talked a little bit about this this week on our show,
01:21:04.020
Megan, don't you think that when they go to this last refuge, when they get to the point where you're
01:21:08.820
all just a bunch of sexists or the argument that Barack Obama was making, isn't that basically
01:21:13.740
what has pushed men away to begin? I mean, exactly. That's the thing. It's like
01:21:18.000
what man in America wants to be nagged and guilted into accepting that they're the problem
01:21:24.240
like in all of this, like it's not what we all see in with our eyes every single day
01:21:28.760
that somehow like, oh, once again, look, we looked into it, looked at the evidence and you're the
01:21:33.600
problem. And it's like, I feel like the men of America are tired of that. Back to Smug's point,
01:21:37.860
there's real problems, the economy, North Carolina being underwater. And it's like, we're not going to
01:21:42.900
take this bullshit anymore. That's right. I really think that the average American,
01:21:48.060
they're smart. They may not be, you know, well-educated or quote book smart in all cases,
01:21:54.320
but that they have street smarts, they have instincts. And that's why they make good jurors.
01:21:59.480
And you, you know, I've, I've tried cases in front of juries before and you have a witness up there who
01:22:04.160
is like kind of slimy in like they're wiggling in response to the questions. It's a gift. You almost
01:22:11.460
don't, you don't need to nail them down as the questioner. You just need to ask the question,
01:22:16.500
maybe twice, possibly a third time, depending on how important it is just to show the jury.
01:22:22.040
He won't answer. You can, I don't have to club you over the head with it. You see it. I see it.
01:22:28.220
And that was the sin she committed last night. She wouldn't answer on the three and a half years
01:22:33.960
that she did nothing about the border. She wouldn't answer on the trans prisoners thing,
01:22:38.380
which should be a very easy answer for her. She wouldn't answer about Biden's mental acuity
01:22:44.180
and what she saw and what they saw was somebody who was wiggly and didn't want to be straight with
01:22:51.400
them that she did blow an opportunity both because she wouldn't take positions on issues that are
01:22:56.840
important. And because she telegraphed to them, I can't be trusted. I won't level with you.
01:23:02.040
So I'm really just a Democrat operative, you know, but I'm going to win. I'm going to win.
01:23:08.680
I think that's entirely right. I mean, we joke about this all the time. The American people are
01:23:12.500
often way, way, way ahead of not only where politicians are, but the media that are attempting
01:23:17.700
to report on them. You look at things like Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. I mean, the reason he
01:23:21.980
didn't take a nosedive in the polls when all that stuff came out is people were like, man, I knew the
01:23:26.400
minute that thing came up, what would happen? Like I got it. Right. Or like you look at like the
01:23:30.780
Stormy Daniels thing. People are just shocked and aghast that that whole trial where she's
01:23:35.020
testifying didn't hurt Donald Trump. People were like, dude, we got it. We already processed all
01:23:40.500
six years ago. You know what I mean? They know what's happening. They know when somebody is not
01:23:45.100
giving them a straight answer, which is precisely what she did in every question.
01:23:49.000
Right. It's one thing I've talked to the audience before about bridging away. They taught us this as
01:23:52.640
young lawyers, how to bridge when a judge asks you a question that's just terrible for your side.
01:23:57.480
Right. And you do have to do that sometimes. And politicians do it all the time. And Trump does
01:24:01.500
it. And I get it. But you cannot do that on the core issues of this election, like immigration and
01:24:08.140
why you didn't do anything about it. You know, and the trans thing has totally exploded in the last few
01:24:13.680
weeks of this. It's like becoming one of the top issues. And it's terrible for them. So she was just
01:24:20.240
as wiggly on that, even though it's very clear where she stands. And it just leaves you with this
01:24:24.500
feeling of like, I don't trust her. I know she's hiding something. That's not how people want to
01:24:29.700
feel or stand by. I'm going to take a break and come back. I've got to ask you what the latest
01:24:33.340
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I realized that at this point in the game, it's dangerous to look at polls for anything.
01:26:31.880
The only one that matters is on November 5th, but I'm going to do it anyway. What the hell?
01:26:36.120
The latest are showing some weird things, guys. Marist has got Harris up nationally plus five
01:26:43.580
over Trump. Among independents, they've got Trump up 10 points over Harris, and that's up six points
01:26:53.380
for Trump since their last poll. So he gained six points with independents, but he's trailing her in
01:26:57.740
the overall by five. And then 1776 projects, Ryan Gerdusky tweeted out, if you're seeing this and
01:27:06.300
wondering how this can be, it's because the sample size was D plus seven. D plus seven puts her up five
01:27:14.060
points over him in the national. That's crazy. Who goes to the poll that has a seven percentage
01:27:20.340
point favor towards Democrats and who they ask? Same thing with this Fox poll that's getting
01:27:25.320
attention today. Has her, um, down two points in the overall to Trump, but then without providing
01:27:33.120
the cross tabs, they say, however, she's ahead by six points among voters from the seven battlegrounds.
01:27:41.820
What does that mean? It's up six points. He's so she's beating him by six points among voters in
01:27:49.560
a seven battlegrounds without providing any cross tabs or information. But if you dig like into the
01:27:55.100
last one, guess what the margin of error is on that poll? 6.5 percentage points. It's totally useless.
01:28:03.540
So what is this? This is garbage. Fox polling is usually better than this. This is disgusting.
01:28:07.320
This is like, it's a lie. So I don't know what to think. I'll give you just two more Quinnipiac
01:28:13.020
battleground polling. Just that just dropped shows Trump up seven in Georgia over her. Uh,
01:28:20.960
he had been up five and in North Carolina, which is a redder state shows her up two. Whereas in the
01:28:29.180
September 29th poll, he'd been up one. So a lot of people are saying online, these polls make no sense.
01:28:34.840
How can North Carolina be more blue than Georgia? What do you guys make of it?
01:28:41.380
Yeah. I mean, look, a couple of things off the top. First of all, national polling is absolute
01:28:44.840
garbage at this point because their universe is including a whole bunch of coastal people. Their
01:28:48.640
electoral votes have long been since counted. Right. So you got to throw out all your national
01:28:53.480
polls and look for these battleground things. Here's let me just say is a jumping off point.
01:28:58.580
And then we can talk about these specific things. Polling gets really jumpy in the month of October.
01:29:03.860
You have every media organization in the country that is pulling all of these things. You've got
01:29:08.620
every campaign statewide. You've got the presidentials, you have the super PAC supporting
01:29:13.320
said campaigns, and then you have these like independent, uh, pollsters out there doing it.
01:29:17.900
So your average sample that you need to get, you know, what is reflective of a universe of actual
01:29:23.180
voters is penetrated like 17 different times in any given week. And how many people do you know,
01:29:30.200
Megan that spend Friday night, 35 minutes talking to a random pollster about all their thoughts and
01:29:36.320
dreams as it, as it pertains to the electorate. There's really a small number of people that will
01:29:40.860
actually do that. So when you have that kind of inundation, it makes it increasingly difficult
01:29:45.780
to actually get good numbers out of it. And that's why you see October stuff start jumping around. I
01:29:50.980
mean, in the industry, the way that I prefer to do it, if you're trying to make a decision in terms of
01:29:55.920
messaging or something else is something we call tracking, which basically leaves it open where
01:30:00.700
you're, you're constantly pulling each and every night because it averages out your three or five
01:30:05.760
day role. So if you get a real bad night or real good night, you can see everything kind of averaged
01:30:10.320
out over the middle. Now, of course, media organizations don't do that. It's incredibly expensive to do,
01:30:15.160
but therefore it really doesn't give you an accurate sense of where polls are.
01:30:20.000
I'll tell you this. I don't know what the polls are telling us, but it does look like both sides
01:30:26.540
this year are taking to early voting. Like the numbers look big, at least down in Georgia,
01:30:32.680
they had record breaking early voting. And I realized that the Democrats think this is better
01:30:37.920
for them because it is record breaking. But I'm just not so sure because Trump recently switched to
01:30:44.860
recently, frankly, switched from only vote on election day to urging his supporters to do it
01:30:51.080
early, do the mail-in voting, do the early voting. And I've heard Charlie Kirk of Turning Point say the
01:30:56.780
same. It's got Georgia and Arizona in particular, get out, get out and vote early and that they like
01:31:03.360
what they're seeing so far. So I'm not sure what to believe, but I do think this election is a little
01:31:08.040
unlike the last two where Republicans are less skeptical of the mail-in voting. What do you guys think?
01:31:13.140
Well, historically, Republicans have been able to win in the early vote.
01:31:21.340
And I really hope that we make the significant push. I remember four years ago when we had to
01:31:26.600
deal with that heartbreak, people were like, listen, we're going to use all the tactics that
01:31:30.520
Democrats did of early voting, of ballot harvesting, everything. Now's our time to follow through on
01:31:35.920
that. How bad it felt losing that election. We need to make them feel, the Democrats, when we use
01:31:41.940
that same tactic. We need to swamp the vote. Right now, today is the first day of early voting in
01:31:47.100
North Carolina. Every single person there needs to go cast your vote for Trump. You don't know
01:31:51.120
what's going to happen election day. You saw natural disasters can come through. It could snow. You
01:31:55.340
don't know what's going to happen on election day. Get that vote in. The secretary of state shows you
01:31:59.900
online that your vote has been counted. There can be no excuse to lose this election to Kamala Harris.
01:32:05.760
We need to get those votes in for Trump now. Get them in the bag.
01:32:08.540
And there is some good news for Republicans out of the early vote. I mean, there was a data point
01:32:13.880
out of Pennsylvania yesterday that showed the Democrats are turning out at 900,000 votes fewer
01:32:19.840
than it turned out at this point in the 2020 race. So maybe Democrats aren't as enthusiastic about
01:32:26.400
Kamala as they had hoped their electorate. And 2020 is going to be your high watermark for the
01:32:32.420
disparity between Democrats and Republicans with absentee by mail and early vote. So any little
01:32:38.520
improvement by Republicans in all of these battleground states is going to make a massive
01:32:42.180
difference on election day. And remember, 2020 was decided by 40,000 votes over seven states.
01:32:47.760
I mean, you're talking about slim, slim markets.
01:32:50.140
Yeah. I mean, look, Megan, it really is the difference between winning and losing here. I mean,
01:32:53.980
what Duncan just said, 40,000 votes over seven states. The difference between losing an election
01:32:59.980
and an electoral landslide is less than 100,000 votes. It's less than 100,000. And so if you think
01:33:06.740
about sort of making a plan to vote and Republicans, I think are, it seems like they're doing a good job
01:33:13.860
of trying to emphasize that, but banking those votes early, getting them in and then repressing,
01:33:18.820
trying to figure out where the field of persuadable voters are, both set. It saves the campaign
01:33:23.940
in an incredible amount of resources. But two, it just, the certainty involved is so much better.
01:33:31.700
We don't have to deal with natural disasters or anything that could happen on election day that
01:33:36.120
you can't get to the polls. But that's such a good point. That's why people like Charlie
01:33:40.360
want the voters, and because he's helping with this get out the vote effort, the want voters in
01:33:45.320
Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona to get out early because once they know that they've banked that
01:33:50.720
person's vote, they can move on to targeting people who might be fence sitting, you know,
01:33:56.140
who they've called on once or twice, but are low propensity voters who they, they got to put all
01:34:01.300
their resources. Charlie Kirk's going to personally show up at your house and ask you to come vote for
01:34:06.000
Donald Trump with him. But it does help them like consider it's not just like, Oh, do it just in case.
01:34:11.460
It's like, no, do it because it will help the people who are on the ground stumping for Trump,
01:34:16.400
trying to get voters out there know where to concentrate their efforts. That's a very good
01:34:20.700
point. Can I ask you this? So where, how do you like the odds here? You know, less than three
01:34:26.780
weeks to go. I, what's going to happen? What do you think? I'd, I'd rather be Trump than Kamala.
01:34:33.660
Obviously a lot of this depends on what we just discussed, but if you look at where things have
01:34:37.920
settled out and over the last 10 days, you look at some trend lines in places like Michigan and
01:34:42.200
Wisconsin in particular, Trump's got multiple pathways to win provided he wins Georgia and North
01:34:48.220
Carolina. If he wins Pennsylvania, this thing's over it's done. Right. But he doesn't need to
01:34:52.880
win Pennsylvania. You could also win Wisconsin and Arizona and it's two 72. So, I mean, there's,
01:34:57.760
there's a bunch of different pathways for him. There are zero pathways for her without Pennsylvania.
01:35:03.440
She's got to have it. It is neck and neck. You heard the numbers from the early vote. I mean,
01:35:08.580
I like to have options. I like if I'm a campaign at this stage, I like to have options and it doesn't
01:35:13.420
feel like she's got a lot. Yeah. And I'll tell you, Megan, there is another number that really
01:35:17.540
sticks out to me. It's the one that Brett quoted last night. 80% of the people in this country think
01:35:22.720
that we're on the wrong track and that is bad news for the party who's been in power for 12 of the
01:35:27.800
last 16 years. They've, they've, they've made every single bad thing that's happened for us. And I think
01:35:33.320
people just want change. And what Trump did, he led with authority. He was strong and our economy
01:35:39.700
was pretty good when he was in charge. Yeah. And I said it on ruthless on, on the last episode,
01:35:45.340
but like outside of the polling, polling obviously informs what we think is happening in a campaign.
01:35:49.940
But the other thing that informs our opinion is what the campaigns are doing. Yeah. And Kamala Harris,
01:35:55.080
you know, going to Fox news, swinging wild, trying anything she can to squeeze out extra votes
01:36:01.140
tells you they're desperate, that they know that they're behind with no central messaging either.
01:36:05.260
Right today, black men day, right. You would never take that risk knowing your candidate is
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Kamala Harris and put her on Fox news unless you knew it was desperation. Hail Mary time.
01:36:13.760
Yeah. You should have a central thesis that you're pushing across the finish line. Totally. At this
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point, everybody should know exactly what it is that you're saying before you say it when you're
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within 20 days of an election. Right. Hers is every day is something new. And I think that is new.
01:36:27.280
Yeah. Like a brand new policy that she's unveiling for black men only. It's like, what?
01:36:34.320
I mean, that's just that like we are now just a couple of weeks from election day. You're closing
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the deal. You're not pitching it. She's like, uh, this is my policy proposal for this. And I'm going
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to hand this group a million dollars. Wait, that's illegal. Uh, I guess it's for everyone.
01:36:51.260
She like, you see what Donald Trump is doing out at these rallies. He's saying now's the time to vote.
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He's closing the deal. Kamala is trying to figure out what she's offering.
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And that's the other thing he's defending his policies. And well, that his appearance with
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the Bloomberg guy the other day was amazing. I'm just going to show the audience a little bit.
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We put a little montage. It's my favorite sound of the week. Watch.
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You are running out enormous debt. What is the wall street journal now? I'm meeting with them
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tomorrow. What is the wall street journal that they've been wrong about everything? So have you,
01:37:23.660
by the way, you've been wrong. You're trying to turn this. You're trying to turn this. You've been
01:37:28.180
wrong. No, you're trying to turn. You're trying to turn this into debate. There's a, there are
01:37:32.300
business people. There are business people. You want to keep Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal
01:37:36.660
Reserve. His term as chair runs on to May, 2026. Would you seek to remove, remove or demote him?
01:37:44.620
Look, I think it's the greatest job in government. You show up to the office once a month and you say,
01:37:51.940
let's see, flip a coin. And everybody talks about you like you're a god. Oh, what will he do?
01:37:58.800
Gavin Newsom, he's the governor of California. He signed Newsom, I call him.
01:38:05.460
But do you, do you think? No, he corrected me. He corrected me. I said, that's the first time I've
01:38:09.680
been corrected. There are CEOs out here. If they said those sort of things about a rival CEO,
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they'd be, they'd be sacked. Do you think it's fine? I know, but they don't have to survive like me.
01:38:17.320
They don't have to go through what I have to go through.
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Like that audience, that's the Economic Club of Chicago, like the gentleman mentioned,
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these are CEOs and business leaders in the audience and they are cheering for Trump.
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Totally confident and facile with the facts, you guys, unlike his opponent.
01:38:41.080
Exactly. That's a, that's a point I was going to make. I mean, these,
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this is a crew that is not predispositioned to like what it is that he's selling from a populist
01:38:48.180
economic agenda. And he did it. He went into the, that, that's what the belly of the beast looks
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like. It's certainly not sitting across the table from a journalist. It was amazing to hear him say,
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but they don't have to go through what I do. Exactly right. He's got to fight. And if he has
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to fight dirty, then so be it. That's what they do with him. A pleasure, gentlemen. Great to see you.
01:39:08.520
Always awesome. You're doing great. Thank you, Maggie.
01:39:10.460
Ah, thanks guys. Uh, okay. So to be continued, we're going to be back tomorrow and we saved
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Doug Emhoff's latest media appearance for our guest. Then it's Maureen Callahan. She's going
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to have thoughts. She's been writing about it. There's so much news right now. Thank you for
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trusting us and we'll do it all over again tomorrow. See you then.
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