The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 139 - Bombing The Middle East： An American Tradition

00:00:00.000 The hypocritical left and the excitable right are both losing their minds over President Trump's successful order to attack Syria on Friday. 0.80

00:00:09.040 We will analyze the case for the strikes, how bombing the Middle East is an American tradition, and why everybody should just keep calm and covfefe.

00:00:16.780 Then, despite the constant negative press, Trump's approval rating tops 50%, and finally, on this day in history, the inauguration of George Washington.

00:00:25.900 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 So much to get to today. 0.60

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00:02:57.860 Back to bombing the Middle East. 1.00

00:02:59.760 Bombing the Middle East is an American tradition. 0.98

00:03:02.760 There is nothing new about this.

00:03:04.320 For those of you who are not history buffs,

00:03:06.440 here is some, I think, archival footage

00:03:08.800 of a joint CIA military intervention in the Middle East in 2004.

00:03:12.980 Muhammad Jihad Allah, Durka, Durka, Muhammad Jihad! 0.93

00:03:16.640 Muhammad Jihad! 0.99

00:03:17.400 Oh, sh**. 0.99

00:03:18.660 Come on, Gary. 0.99

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00:03:28.280 Durka, Durka, Muhammad Jihad. 1.00

00:03:31.500 Hakka, Sherpa, Sherpa.

00:03:33.020 Abakala.

00:03:35.580 Oh, Durka, Durka, Durka.

00:03:40.020 All right, Gary!

00:03:41.060 I told you he was Top Gun.

00:03:43.480 It's amazing footage.

00:03:44.520 I think we got that from WikiLeaks,

00:03:46.260 and it's pretty incredible that, you know,

00:03:48.160 the government tries to obviously cover some of those things up,

00:03:50.920 but really harrowing footage

00:03:52.200 from another intervention in the Middle East.

00:03:54.380 Here is President Trump announcing the strikes on Syria.

00:03:57.440 The purpose of our actions tonight

00:03:59.180 is to establish a strong deterrent

00:04:02.060 against the production, spread, and use of chemical weapons.

00:04:06.840 That's the limited strike.

00:04:08.220 That's what it's about.

00:04:08.880 It's not an all-out war.

00:04:11.400 It's not a ground invasion.

00:04:12.720 It's about going in and deterring the use of chemical weapons,

00:04:15.940 which are prohibited by about a gazillion international treaties

00:04:19.360 and the policy of the United States.

00:04:21.120 So there are reports that Defense Secretary Mattis

00:04:24.300 convinced Donald Trump not to take a more robust action here.

00:04:28.760 President Trump has given different signals

00:04:30.420 on how he wants to approach the military.

00:04:32.320 What basically happened is we sent powerful missile attacks

00:04:36.760 against three targets aimed at stopping the Syrian regime

00:04:39.880 from using chemical weapons

00:04:41.120 and to deter Bashar al-Assad from using those weapons.

00:04:45.360 Again, this was the most conservative proposal.

00:04:47.380 It could have gone a lot further than this.

00:04:48.980 We could have bombed more chemical weapons research facilities.

00:04:52.540 We could have bombed all over the country.

00:04:54.220 We could have hit military command centers.

00:04:56.440 We even could have hit Russian air defenses in Syria,

00:05:00.040 which would have seriously struck a blow against Syria's military.

00:05:03.720 It could have really depleted that military force.

00:05:06.900 But President Trump used a lot of caution here,

00:05:08.880 and he did basically the most conservative action he could have done

00:05:12.420 while still being somewhat effective.

00:05:14.800 Apparently, Mattis, these are just reports that are coming out,

00:05:17.400 so who knows if the leaks are true,

00:05:18.800 but Mattis urged restraint

00:05:20.100 because also we don't want to provoke Iran and Russia

00:05:23.060 into escalating this conflict.

00:05:24.420 We don't want to get bogged down in a major war.

00:05:27.500 Also, we cannot tolerate the use of chemical weapons.

00:05:30.840 Some people have suggested that Syria doesn't use chemical weapons

00:05:33.900 in these attacks,

00:05:35.260 that really the chemical weapons are being used by other forces,

00:05:39.440 forces that are opposing the Assad government.

00:05:41.600 This is a very complex war that's multilateral.

00:05:44.220 There are a lot of different sides fighting for different things here.

00:05:47.100 We should at least dispel with the absurd notion

00:05:49.800 that the Syrian government doesn't use chemical weapons.

00:05:52.360 We know that they use chemical weapons.

00:05:54.420 We know that they have lied about using chemical weapons.

00:05:56.680 We know that they've lied about using chemical weapons

00:05:58.900 because they admitted to having chemical weapons in 2013

00:06:02.640 and at other times,

00:06:05.340 even after they denied having them in the first place.

00:06:08.300 So you can't trust the Syrian regime. 0.94

00:06:10.700 The guy is a butcher, 0.82

00:06:11.700 and his father was a butcher too.

00:06:13.960 What's interesting here too is the national security advisor.

00:06:16.540 So John Bolton is the relatively newly minted national security advisor.

00:06:20.260 This is one of his first actions here.

00:06:22.500 And he's clearly changed his thinking in some ways on Syria.

00:06:25.480 Or he's allowing other forces in the room

00:06:28.100 to have more of a say early on in his tenure at that job.

00:06:31.640 Or Donald Trump just wanted to send a message to Syria.

00:06:36.640 John Bolton had said that Syria is a sideshow,

00:06:39.480 that the real threat is Iran.

00:06:41.000 And most serious thinkers on foreign policy

00:06:44.160 and the Middle East recognize that.

00:06:46.260 Iran is the threat in the region. 1.00

00:06:48.240 And so that plays a little bit into the calculation here

00:06:50.420 because Iran is exerting a lot of influence on Syria.

00:06:53.780 We also have a geopolitical adversary in Russia,

00:06:56.520 and Russia is exerting a lot of influence on Syria.

00:06:59.000 So you have to calibrate a response to that effect.

00:07:02.460 There are provocations here.

00:07:04.000 Do you remember when Barack Obama said,

00:07:05.580 if there's a use of chemical weapons,

00:07:07.460 that would be a red line?

00:07:09.620 The minute he said that,

00:07:10.660 he had to justify that threat,

00:07:12.480 except he didn't because he was weak

00:07:13.960 because he just ran his mouth all the time

00:07:15.780 and didn't actually back it up with action.

00:07:17.800 The credibility of the United States is very important here.

00:07:20.620 And that demands a response.

00:07:23.020 Bad actors all around the world

00:07:24.440 are always trying to provoke the United States

00:07:26.220 to push the boundaries.

00:07:27.780 China does it. 0.89

00:07:28.700 North Korea does it. 0.83

00:07:29.720 Syria does it. 1.00

00:07:30.460 Russia does it. 0.86

00:07:31.580 Every one of our geopolitical foes does this.

00:07:34.480 And you have to respond.

00:07:35.880 It's like a little kid with daddy, you know,

00:07:37.860 and the little kid, you know,

00:07:39.740 starts eating all the cookies out of the cookie jar.

00:07:41.940 And if the dad doesn't punish him,

00:07:43.220 what's he going to do?

00:07:43.740 He's going to eat more cookies.

00:07:44.700 Or he's drawing all over the wall.

00:07:46.100 It's just pushing boundaries to see,

00:07:47.760 how far can I go?

00:07:48.500 How far can I go? 0.88

00:07:49.280 And we have to smack them down.

00:07:50.880 This will get to an important aspect

00:07:52.300 of what I think should become the Trump doctrine

00:07:54.860 and American foreign policy in the 21st century.

00:07:57.180 But we'll get to that in a bit.

00:07:58.600 To compliment Donald Trump even more,

00:08:00.900 this was good diplomacy.

00:08:01.860 He got the British and the French in line here.

00:08:03.880 This was a coordinated effort

00:08:05.960 between two of our biggest allies.

00:08:08.040 I'll try to refrain from making French military jokes

00:08:10.600 because they helped us out in this action.

00:08:12.900 But, you know, those abound.

00:08:14.800 There are a lot of jokes about the military

00:08:16.860 and waving things like that.

00:08:19.880 This all seems reasonable enough.

00:08:22.560 Here is how some of Trump's allies on the right

00:08:25.920 have responded to these strikes. 1.00

00:08:27.400 Damn it, man. 1.00

00:08:29.120 What the f***? 1.00

00:08:31.280 Is there nobody f*** here in this goddamn f***ing world? 1.00

00:08:35.180 See, I'm f***ing pissed right now. 1.00

00:08:37.300 Syria fought Al-Qaeda. 0.94

00:08:38.620 They fought ISIS.

00:08:39.400 They fought it all. 0.96

00:08:41.100 And now you got Mattis and f***ing all these people 0.96

00:08:44.100 sh***ing all over us. 1.00

00:08:46.460 And the goddamn f***ing liberal fascists 1.00

00:08:49.260 censoring us everywhere in the last two days. 1.00

00:08:51.720 We did an emergency 36-hour broadcast 0.83

00:08:54.660 trying to stop this sh*** 0.75

00:08:56.300 that could lead to World War III. 1.00

00:08:57.720 And you f***ing liberal pieces of f***ing 0.99

00:09:00.720 you f***ing liberals f***ing support this. 1.00

00:09:04.240 F*** you. 1.00

00:09:05.100 You f***ing damn degenerate f***s. 1.00

00:09:08.880 And f***ing Mueller and f***ing Comey. 1.00

00:09:11.180 And f*** you. 1.00

00:09:11.880 Every major analyst. 1.00

00:09:15.280 See, I shouldn't even be on air right now.

00:09:17.880 Every analyst agrees

00:09:19.360 this could trigger World War III

00:09:21.000 unlike anything in our history.

00:09:22.600 And the Russians were the good guys

00:09:24.040 battling ISIS and Al-Qaeda.

00:09:25.920 I'm not a Russophile.

00:09:27.520 I've never been to Russia.

00:09:29.360 But I've studied the geopolitics.

00:09:31.320 They are the white knights.

00:09:33.680 And our military five years ago

00:09:35.200 joining the Russians

00:09:36.120 to block Obama

00:09:37.820 and the Arab Spring

00:09:38.480 and do the right thing

00:09:39.180 did the right thing.

00:09:40.000 And now Mattis

00:09:42.160 and Mattis 0.97

00:09:44.620 looks like a f***ing Emperor Palpatine. 0.97

00:09:47.660 All right, we'll cut it there. 0.98

00:09:49.820 I think that's enough.

00:09:50.960 I think we actually bleeped out

00:09:52.520 more of that clip than we heard.

00:09:55.000 I think the majority

00:09:56.200 gotta love Alex Jones.

00:09:57.860 I really, I find the guy very entertaining.

00:09:59.720 I do like watching him.

00:10:01.520 He's not pleased.

00:10:02.480 He was not pleased.

00:10:03.060 How do you really feel, Alex?

00:10:04.420 What do you really think about those strikes?

00:10:06.500 So, by the way,

00:10:07.640 he said that this is going to cause

00:10:09.140 World War III.

00:10:10.360 And he tweeted this out.

00:10:11.400 He said,

00:10:11.620 World War III has just begun.

00:10:13.180 World War III.

00:10:13.900 And you hear this from these guys

00:10:15.560 who are prone to hysteria

00:10:18.760 on the radio and on TV.

00:10:20.240 So I tweeted out.

00:10:21.160 I said,

00:10:21.540 this was on Friday or Saturday.

00:10:23.340 I said,

00:10:24.140 Alex,

00:10:24.560 I bet you $10,000

00:10:25.720 this isn't World War III.

00:10:28.380 And he didn't respond.

00:10:29.600 I said,

00:10:29.800 do you take the bet?

00:10:30.520 And he didn't respond.

00:10:31.220 Because I was thinking,

00:10:31.980 you know,

00:10:32.220 I've got a pretty good track record

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00:10:34.720 as my framed Ben Shapiro check

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00:10:37.780 So I was thinking I could make

00:10:38.780 a cool 10K

00:10:39.600 and pay for,

00:10:40.640 you know,

00:10:41.540 at least two days of drinks

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00:10:44.560 But unfortunately,

00:10:46.100 he didn't take the bet.

00:10:46.740 Because I don't know

00:10:47.280 if he really believes

00:10:48.000 any of that.

00:10:49.020 We have to get to

00:10:49.880 his assertion

00:10:51.020 that the Russians

00:10:51.500 are the good guys here.

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00:12:43.560 On the Russians 0.99

00:12:44.220 being the good guys.

00:12:45.080 So he says,

00:12:45.620 the Russians are the good guys here.

00:12:46.920 The Russians are the good guys here.

00:12:48.260 We should just pause for a moment

00:12:50.340 to analyze the Syria strikes

00:12:52.140 in light of the

00:12:52.980 Russia collusion narrative

00:12:54.240 which even Van Jones admitted

00:12:55.860 is an absolute nothing burger

00:12:57.380 but the left is still insistent on.

00:12:59.900 They're still insistent

00:13:00.720 that Donald Trump,

00:13:01.520 a man that we've known

00:13:02.100 for 40 years,

00:13:03.260 is secretly Boris

00:13:04.260 from Rocky and Bullwinkle.

00:13:05.560 He's a Manchurian candidate

00:13:06.800 from Moscow.

00:13:08.060 Let's just analyze.

00:13:08.840 So in just recent days,

00:13:10.760 Donald Trump has expelled

00:13:12.000 60 Russian diplomats.

00:13:13.860 He did that in March.

00:13:15.080 This was a major hostility

00:13:17.080 and he said

00:13:18.420 it's brought our relations

00:13:19.800 with Russia

00:13:20.280 to the worst point

00:13:21.000 including the Cold War.

00:13:22.300 Might be slightly hyperbolic

00:13:23.820 but pretty bad.

00:13:24.740 He slapped a bunch

00:13:25.440 of sanctions on Russia

00:13:26.600 and he's moving

00:13:27.500 to institute more

00:13:28.460 and now we are literally

00:13:30.060 bombing Russian-backed

00:13:31.800 forces in Syria.

00:13:33.600 Will this finally,

00:13:35.000 Democrats,

00:13:35.600 all the Democrats

00:13:36.240 watching this show,

00:13:37.400 will this finally put an end

00:13:38.860 to the Russia collusion narrative?

00:13:40.920 I know the answer to that.

00:13:41.860 I know it won't.

00:13:42.580 Of course it won't

00:13:43.200 because what they're going

00:13:43.680 to say is they're going

00:13:44.260 to say,

00:13:45.080 well, Donald Trump,

00:13:46.960 you know,

00:13:47.420 if he really wanted

00:13:48.520 to hide the fact

00:13:49.480 that he's colluding

00:13:50.380 with Russia,

00:13:51.300 you know what,

00:13:51.800 he would place sanctions

00:13:54.280 on Russia

00:13:55.000 and he would really,

00:13:56.340 he would expel diplomats 0.99

00:13:57.700 and he would bomb Russia 0.88

00:13:58.760 so that we wouldn't know

00:13:59.860 that he secretly loves Russia

00:14:01.140 and he's helping Russia.

00:14:02.100 Ha ha, we've got him.

00:14:03.240 That's what they're going

00:14:03.680 to say. 0.99

00:14:04.180 But it's absolutely ridiculous. 0.79

00:14:07.600 To say they're the good guys 0.85

00:14:08.680 here is absurd.

00:14:09.580 I, you know,

00:14:09.960 we can work with Russia

00:14:10.780 when we can work with Russia.

00:14:11.780 They've been our geopolitical

00:14:12.680 adversary for a hundred years.

00:14:14.000 That didn't just stop

00:14:14.880 when the Berlin Wall

00:14:15.780 came down.

00:14:16.680 We know that they try

00:14:17.400 to interfere in our politics.

00:14:18.840 We try to interfere

00:14:19.600 in their expansionist ideas too

00:14:22.840 and that's perfectly well and good

00:14:24.800 but we shouldn't pretend

00:14:25.760 that they're our buddies

00:14:26.500 or something

00:14:26.960 and they really have

00:14:27.900 the best interests

00:14:28.580 of the U.S. at heart.

00:14:29.940 Did they swing the 2016 election?

00:14:31.680 No.

00:14:32.280 Do some Twitter accounts

00:14:33.520 and some Facebook ads

00:14:34.460 really matter to American politics?

00:14:36.340 Absolutely not.

00:14:37.460 Are there greater threats

00:14:38.660 in many areas?

00:14:40.140 Absolutely true.

00:14:40.940 But they're not like our BFF man.

00:14:42.880 That's a little too much.

00:14:45.120 So to the issue at hand,

00:14:46.980 President Trump bombed

00:14:48.080 the Middle East.

00:14:49.540 This is a rite of passage.

00:14:51.040 This is a rite of passage

00:14:52.040 for American presidents.

00:14:53.580 In 1998,

00:14:55.100 I remember this,

00:14:55.840 I was eight years old

00:14:56.640 and we were bombing Iraq.

00:14:58.520 Bill Clinton decided

00:14:59.260 to bomb Iraq 0.99

00:15:00.020 and I asked my mother, 0.57

00:15:01.180 I said,

00:15:01.700 are we going to war in Iraq?

00:15:03.320 Why are we fighting Iraq? 0.59

00:15:04.580 Why are we bombing Iraq? 0.97

00:15:05.920 And she said,

00:15:07.200 she explained foreign policy to me.

00:15:09.120 This is one of the best explanations

00:15:10.120 I've ever heard,

00:15:10.800 which was,

00:15:11.440 oh, Michael,

00:15:12.320 you know,

00:15:12.840 it's an American pastime.

00:15:14.380 It's an American tradition

00:15:15.460 and it's Bill Clinton's turn.

00:15:17.200 Also,

00:15:17.500 he wants to clear the newspapers

00:15:18.680 out of his other stories,

00:15:19.940 which is true

00:15:20.920 because at the time,

00:15:21.900 all you could see on TV

00:15:22.960 was Lewinsky

00:15:23.640 and he bombed Iraq 0.96

00:15:25.380 and it got Lewinsky

00:15:26.440 out of the headlines

00:15:27.100 for a little bit.

00:15:28.040 I mean that to say,

00:15:29.620 he bombed Iraq 0.99

00:15:30.280 for a few days in 1998

00:15:31.680 and it didn't cause

00:15:32.780 World War III.

00:15:33.460 It didn't cause

00:15:33.800 the end of the world.

00:15:34.460 It worked out just fine.

00:15:36.220 And it actually

00:15:37.440 led in

00:15:38.480 not strongly enough,

00:15:39.920 but it did feed into

00:15:40.600 a U.S. policy

00:15:41.300 which was to oppose

00:15:42.060 Saddam Hussein.

00:15:43.720 It didn't really do much

00:15:44.840 one way or the other.

00:15:45.460 It didn't cause

00:15:45.840 World War III.

00:15:47.020 Every day of Barack Obama's

00:15:48.400 presidency

00:15:48.780 was spent

00:15:49.400 attacking the Middle East.

00:15:50.820 George Bush,

00:15:51.500 obviously,

00:15:52.000 after 9-11,

00:15:52.800 after we were attacked,

00:15:53.940 the worst attack

00:15:54.620 in American soil,

00:15:55.980 we had to deal

00:15:58.520 with those countries

00:15:59.080 in the Middle East.

00:15:59.700 Bill Clinton,

00:16:00.600 obviously,

00:16:01.080 George Bush I.

00:16:02.540 George H.W. Bush

00:16:03.740 led the Gulf War.

00:16:06.640 Ronald Reagan

00:16:07.440 sent peacekeeping forces

00:16:08.620 to Lebanon

00:16:09.260 during that country's

00:16:10.280 civil war

00:16:10.860 to maintain order

00:16:11.840 in the region.

00:16:12.780 Jimmy Carter didn't,

00:16:13.560 but Jimmy Carter's

00:16:14.100 a terrible president,

00:16:14.900 so who cares what he did.

00:16:16.660 Richard Nixon

00:16:17.480 backed Israel

00:16:18.400 after Egypt and Syria

00:16:19.760 invaded during

00:16:20.460 the Yom Kippur War.

00:16:21.560 At one point,

00:16:22.280 Richard Nixon

00:16:22.740 actually ordered

00:16:23.480 an airlift

00:16:24.500 to resupply

00:16:25.240 the Israeli forces

00:16:26.060 so they didn't get

00:16:26.680 wiped out

00:16:27.260 by the invading 0.99

00:16:28.240 Muslim forces.

00:16:29.920 That's certainly

00:16:30.540 an intervention.

00:16:31.600 Dwight Eisenhower

00:16:32.380 overthrew the Iranian 1.00

00:16:33.440 election in 1953

00:16:35.120 to reinstall the Shah. 0.91

00:16:37.000 This is a long-standing

00:16:38.320 tradition.

00:16:39.200 This is nothing new

00:16:40.000 with Donald Trump,

00:16:41.100 and people on the left

00:16:42.040 and the right,

00:16:42.840 on the extreme left

00:16:43.560 or the extreme right,

00:16:44.260 should not freak out

00:16:45.020 about this.

00:16:45.760 This transcends

00:16:47.360 political boundaries.

00:16:48.940 And also,

00:16:49.740 this implies a strategy

00:16:51.060 that irks a lot

00:16:52.240 of conservatives

00:16:52.960 from the libertarians

00:16:54.440 to the traditionalists,

00:16:55.520 and that's mowing

00:16:56.240 the lawn.

00:16:57.200 This probably should be

00:16:58.400 the Trump doctrine.

00:16:59.680 This probably should be

00:17:00.740 American foreign policy

00:17:01.780 in the 21st century.

00:17:03.900 Mowing the lawn.

00:17:05.540 The left

00:17:06.100 and the isolationist

00:17:07.440 right blame the U.S. 0.52

00:17:08.920 for the Middle East's

00:17:09.720 problems.

00:17:10.400 They say,

00:17:10.760 you know,

00:17:11.020 if we just didn't

00:17:11.880 interfere in the Middle East,

00:17:13.380 then they would

00:17:13.960 really like us.

00:17:15.120 If we didn't interfere

00:17:16.060 in the Middle East,

00:17:17.240 then the civilization

00:17:18.640 that has been at war

00:17:19.840 with the West

00:17:20.440 for 1,400 years,

00:17:21.680 they'll like us then.

00:17:22.880 Then they'll really like us

00:17:23.780 and stop trying to invade.

00:17:24.780 I know they've been

00:17:25.240 trying to invade

00:17:25.900 since the year 732,

00:17:27.240 but they'll probably stop

00:17:28.580 if we just,

00:17:29.320 it's America's fault

00:17:30.280 because they've been

00:17:31.080 doing it since 732

00:17:32.080 and America's been around

00:17:33.500 since 1776,

00:17:34.940 but they'll probably

00:17:35.820 just stop.

00:17:36.760 That isn't, 0.83

00:17:37.540 that's ridiculous.

00:17:39.820 Certainly in the 20th century, 0.73

00:17:41.240 after independence

00:17:41.900 for a lot of these countries

00:17:42.960 and the Islamic resurgence

00:17:44.580 in those countries

00:17:45.220 have brought a lot of

00:17:45.920 instability to the region

00:17:47.060 and sometimes

00:17:48.020 you have to mow

00:17:49.220 the lawn.

00:17:50.340 And by mow the lawn,

00:17:51.380 I mean,

00:17:52.160 you know,

00:17:52.660 be in America,

00:17:53.640 preserve our liberty,

00:17:54.620 keep our money,

00:17:55.460 build a great country,

00:17:56.240 be a beacon of liberty

00:17:57.120 to the rest of the world,

00:17:58.160 facing out to the rest

00:17:59.560 of the world,

00:18:00.260 decide who wants to come in,

00:18:01.480 try to help people out,

00:18:02.620 be overall good

00:18:03.680 and productive

00:18:04.180 and lift everybody

00:18:05.560 up in the world.

00:18:06.660 A rising tide lifts all ships.

00:18:08.240 And then,

00:18:09.380 every once in a while,

00:18:10.560 when they start to act up

00:18:11.660 over in that

00:18:12.200 godforsaken region, 1.00

00:18:13.360 go over and bomb them 0.99

00:18:14.320 a little bit 0.98

00:18:14.820 and get it all back in line

00:18:16.360 because this sounds

00:18:17.900 like it's a,

00:18:19.120 like it's some bellicose thing

00:18:20.640 or like it's very hawkish,

00:18:22.280 but it's,

00:18:22.700 I think it's actually

00:18:23.200 the opposite of hawkish.

00:18:24.260 I'm not saying we should invade

00:18:25.540 and run their countries forever

00:18:26.960 and do all of this,

00:18:28.040 but you have to maintain stability

00:18:29.680 or these events

00:18:30.840 can spiral out of control.

00:18:32.580 There can be major crises,

00:18:34.040 whole genocides, 0.53

00:18:35.240 the use of awful weapons

00:18:36.700 like chemical weapons

00:18:37.620 or nuclear weapons.

00:18:38.720 You have to maintain

00:18:39.700 some order

00:18:40.500 to preserve the peace.

00:18:42.040 You need peace

00:18:42.820 through strength.

00:18:44.320 You're not going to get peace

00:18:45.540 through weakness.

00:18:46.740 That doesn't happen.

00:18:47.860 Through weakness,

00:18:48.460 you get chaos and terror.

00:18:49.920 Between 1969 and 2009,

00:18:51.980 there were 38,345 terrorist attacks

00:18:56.060 around the world.

00:18:57.920 The lion's share of those, 0.83

00:18:59.980 a higher percentage

00:19:00.680 than against other countries,

00:19:01.900 were against the U.S.

00:19:02.820 7.8% of those attacks

00:19:04.740 were just against the U.S.

00:19:06.240 2,981 attacks.

00:19:08.180 Those numbers come

00:19:08.840 via the Heritage Foundation

00:19:09.900 and the RAND database

00:19:11.520 of a worldwide terrorism instance.

00:19:13.940 You can't just leave

00:19:15.000 that region alone

00:19:15.780 because they'll come to get us.

00:19:17.640 This was the fiction

00:19:18.840 that we labored under

00:19:19.940 for a while

00:19:20.580 that you could just leave it alone

00:19:22.400 and then they won't get us.

00:19:25.100 You do you,

00:19:25.840 we do us.

00:19:26.780 But then they flew airplanes

00:19:28.600 over here

00:19:29.040 and they did get us.

00:19:30.420 And they target

00:19:31.160 American interests

00:19:32.260 and American posts overseas.

00:19:34.180 And they come over here

00:19:35.400 and they cause trouble.

00:19:36.600 They cause terrorist attacks.

00:19:38.480 They become breeding grounds

00:19:39.840 for people

00:19:40.600 whose only goal in life

00:19:42.140 is to destroy 0.93

00:19:42.840 the United States,

00:19:43.740 who hate our freedom

00:19:44.860 because of what it is

00:19:46.480 and because of who we are

00:19:47.840 and because of the way

00:19:48.560 that we live,

00:19:49.460 who have a long-standing tradition

00:19:51.560 of despising the West

00:19:53.460 and despising the civilization

00:19:55.020 of the West

00:19:55.700 and they're going to come get us

00:19:57.080 because now it's easier

00:19:58.080 to get over here.

00:19:58.980 There isn't an ocean

00:19:59.720 separating us

00:20:00.680 permanently

00:20:02.900 or with great difficulty

00:20:04.300 one from another anymore.

00:20:05.300 It's very easy

00:20:06.000 to get over here.

00:20:06.880 The instability over there

00:20:07.900 can and will reach us.

00:20:09.480 You have to go in

00:20:10.100 and you have to mow the lawn

00:20:11.340 every once in a while.

00:20:12.120 That's just the way

00:20:12.940 that these things work.

00:20:14.280 We are the world's superpower.

00:20:15.940 We don't have to be

00:20:16.740 the world's superpower.

00:20:17.480 We are because we choose to be.

00:20:20.200 We have a massive economy.

00:20:22.500 We have productive citizenry.

00:20:24.500 We have a stable country,

00:20:25.880 relatively stable country.

00:20:27.360 Sometimes with the tweets

00:20:28.420 you think that maybe

00:20:29.140 it's not that stable

00:20:29.820 but it is a stable country

00:20:31.460 and we have the military force

00:20:33.560 of the world.

00:20:34.400 We defend all of our allies.

00:20:36.100 They have relatively small

00:20:37.620 military forces

00:20:38.420 and Americans get indecisive 0.61

00:20:40.800 on this question.

00:20:42.300 Sometimes we want to be

00:20:43.080 the superpower.

00:20:44.120 Sometimes we want to pretend

00:20:45.320 that it's the 18th century

00:20:46.820 and we can just be agrarians

00:20:48.160 and can rely on the ocean

00:20:50.040 to protect us.

00:20:50.880 The ocean didn't even protect us

00:20:52.220 in the 17th and 18th

00:20:53.760 and 19th centuries,

00:20:54.740 did they?

00:20:55.620 The oceans didn't protect us then.

00:20:57.840 We had a revolutionary war

00:20:59.280 and then we had a second

00:21:00.500 revolutionary war in 1812

00:21:01.940 when the British

00:21:02.480 tried to invade again.

00:21:03.740 Even that dream of isolation

00:21:05.980 was I think largely a fantasy.

00:21:08.560 And if the nations of the world

00:21:10.600 look to us to preserve

00:21:11.740 the world order,

00:21:12.640 we have to do it.

00:21:13.560 I guess we cannot do it

00:21:15.740 but then somebody else

00:21:17.640 is going to come in.

00:21:18.600 Then a bad guy

00:21:19.340 is going to come in.

00:21:20.020 Then China is going to run 0.98

00:21:20.900 the world order

00:21:21.420 and they're going to dictate

00:21:22.120 the world order.

00:21:22.900 Do we want to live in that period?

00:21:25.160 Do we want to live

00:21:25.760 in that framework?

00:21:27.200 No nation would seriously

00:21:28.620 challenge us

00:21:29.280 in an all-out war.

00:21:31.040 That would not happen right now.

00:21:32.620 We spend more on our military

00:21:33.740 than China, Russia,

00:21:34.820 Saudi Arabia, India, France,

00:21:36.180 the UK,

00:21:36.780 and Japan combined at least.

00:21:39.460 Actually significantly more

00:21:40.740 than all of them.

00:21:41.420 That's a good thing.

00:21:42.280 I'm glad that we do that

00:21:43.740 because that is so far

00:21:45.940 from the majority

00:21:46.700 of our federal budget.

00:21:48.180 The majority of our budget

00:21:49.140 is unfunded liabilities

00:21:50.260 and entitlement programs

00:21:51.320 in the welfare state.

00:21:52.640 And for a relatively

00:21:53.800 small amount of money,

00:21:55.020 we get to run the world

00:21:56.520 the way that we want

00:21:57.220 to run the world

00:21:57.740 which coincidentally

00:21:58.520 is the best way

00:21:59.860 for us and everybody.

00:22:01.520 It's the fairest.

00:22:02.400 It's the freest.

00:22:03.200 It's the most just.

00:22:04.260 It's the most equitable.

00:22:05.600 It's the most prosperous.

00:22:07.280 We shouldn't back away from that.

00:22:08.440 That's not a bad thing.

00:22:09.700 And if it means we have to go

00:22:10.820 mow the lawn every once in a while,

00:22:12.720 so be it.

00:22:13.900 So be it.

00:22:14.580 What was the problem

00:22:16.500 that happened

00:22:17.320 with the strikes in Syria?

00:22:18.980 What was the real cost

00:22:20.120 to America?

00:22:21.320 There was no cost

00:22:22.060 of American lives,

00:22:23.300 thankfully.

00:22:23.900 There was no cost

00:22:24.920 to American politics, really.

00:22:27.680 And it was a pinprick strike

00:22:29.720 that took out

00:22:30.320 a lot of chemical facilities.

00:22:31.760 That's fine by me.

00:22:33.280 And it defended

00:22:34.320 the credibility

00:22:34.900 of the United States.

00:22:35.700 To Alex Jones' point,

00:22:37.680 is there a possibility

00:22:38.740 of a superpower conflict?

00:22:40.140 Of course there is.

00:22:41.020 There's always

00:22:41.440 a possibility of that.

00:22:42.900 And there's been

00:22:43.820 one building for a long time.

00:22:45.280 We have trade tensions

00:22:46.020 with China.

00:22:46.680 China's aggressing 1.00

00:22:47.360 into the South China Sea.

00:22:48.920 The leader of China,

00:22:49.760 Xi Jinping,

00:22:50.380 is now pretty firmly established

00:22:51.940 as practically a dictator.

00:22:54.640 Similarly,

00:22:55.420 Vladimir Putin

00:22:56.020 is practically a dictator

00:22:57.140 in Russia.

00:22:58.240 If not de jure,

00:23:00.100 then certainly de facto.

00:23:01.820 And Russia

00:23:02.700 aggresses into Ukraine,

00:23:04.100 starts invading

00:23:04.700 its neighbors,

00:23:05.460 interferes in Western politics,

00:23:06.800 poisons, defectors 0.91

00:23:08.500 in the United Kingdom.

00:23:09.680 That's the backdrop

00:23:10.440 to all of this.

00:23:11.300 So I suppose

00:23:11.880 an all-out war

00:23:14.260 between superpowers

00:23:15.740 or midpowers

00:23:16.840 could occur,

00:23:17.940 but it's not going to occur

00:23:18.960 because we shot

00:23:19.700 some missiles into Syria

00:23:20.740 and mowed the lawn

00:23:21.560 and defended the credibility

00:23:23.060 of the United States.

00:23:24.080 Absolutely not.

00:23:25.540 I still have a little bit of time

00:23:27.020 to cover the good domestic news,

00:23:29.680 and then we're going to have

00:23:30.500 to get to this day in history.

00:23:31.880 In some good domestic news,

00:23:34.480 Democrats'

00:23:35.020 relentless attacks

00:23:36.420 on Donald Trump

00:23:37.260 are not working.

00:23:38.940 They actually aren't working.

00:23:40.180 It seems like

00:23:40.660 it's a constant barrage

00:23:41.840 of attacks,

00:23:43.120 and they just aren't working.

00:23:44.460 So, you know,

00:23:45.520 special counsel Robert Mueller

00:23:47.480 raided Trump's lawyer's property,

00:23:51.500 Michael Cohen.

00:23:52.340 This creates a problem,

00:23:53.260 by the way,

00:23:53.520 because the president

00:23:54.100 is having trouble

00:23:54.740 getting a lawyer.

00:23:55.840 If you're Trump's lawyer,

00:23:56.780 you know you're going

00:23:57.100 to get your house raided.

00:23:58.600 You know it's going to be

00:24:00.100 a difficult political situation.

00:24:01.980 Five large firms

00:24:02.900 have passed on representing

00:24:04.440 President Trump

00:24:06.140 in this investigation,

00:24:07.640 and so you have

00:24:09.140 this whole backdrop.

00:24:10.100 You have the Mueller investigation

00:24:11.440 expanding to anything.

00:24:13.100 You know,

00:24:13.360 a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

00:24:14.760 that Donald Trump

00:24:15.480 ate in the 60s.

00:24:16.480 They're going to analyze that

00:24:17.760 and find some way

00:24:18.800 to indict him for it.

00:24:20.180 Then you have James Comey. 0.96

00:24:21.840 James Comey's ridiculous book 0.97

00:24:23.460 and ridiculous interview. 0.97

00:24:24.860 This happened last night. 0.61

00:24:25.800 Here's just a quick clip

00:24:26.700 to give you a sense

00:24:27.420 of James Comey.

00:24:28.160 I don't buy the stuff

00:24:30.080 about him being

00:24:30.840 mentally incompetent

00:24:32.560 at the early stages 0.78

00:24:33.340 of dementia.

00:24:34.160 He strikes me as a person

00:24:35.260 of above-average intelligence

00:24:36.500 who's tracking conversations

00:24:38.380 and knows what's going on.

00:24:39.560 I don't think he's

00:24:40.620 medically unfit

00:24:41.460 to be president.

00:24:42.080 I think he's morally

00:24:42.740 unfit to be president.

00:24:44.740 By the way,

00:24:46.180 Comey worked for Bill Clinton.

00:24:49.100 I just want to remind

00:24:49.800 everybody of this.

00:24:50.960 James Comey was the

00:24:52.020 managing assistant U.S. attorney

00:24:53.480 to Bill Clinton.

00:24:54.940 But no,

00:24:55.580 Trump is morally unfit

00:24:56.860 because maybe he had

00:24:58.000 a one-night stand 0.92

00:24:58.740 with a porn star

00:24:59.520 10 years before

00:25:00.680 he became president

00:25:01.660 and Bill Clinton

00:25:02.500 was creating human humidors

00:25:03.940 in the Oval Office

00:25:04.740 during his tenure.

00:25:05.780 But oh,

00:25:06.260 but no,

00:25:07.260 he,

00:25:07.620 Donald Trump

00:25:08.680 is morally unknown.

00:25:11.080 He's upset

00:25:11.800 because he got fired.

00:25:12.960 And he's talking

00:25:13.540 to George Stephanopoulos,

00:25:14.960 Bill Clinton's

00:25:15.560 communications director.

00:25:17.180 This is, 0.99

00:25:17.600 this is the most ridiculous 0.99

00:25:19.020 kind of kabuki theater 0.99

00:25:20.120 I've ever seen

00:25:21.280 in politics,

00:25:22.040 I think.

00:25:22.560 You have this guy,

00:25:23.340 this jilted lover,

00:25:24.520 James Comey,

00:25:25.540 this disgruntled

00:25:26.660 former employee

00:25:27.560 who is a self-aggrandizing 0.93

00:25:29.880 nut, 0.91

00:25:31.460 you know,

00:25:31.860 who has lied publicly,

00:25:34.080 who tried to insert himself

00:25:36.220 into the presidential election,

00:25:37.800 who tried to play politics.

00:25:39.240 He thought,

00:25:39.760 oh,

00:25:40.140 he actually admitted to this.

00:25:41.400 He said,

00:25:41.800 I thought I had to release

00:25:43.040 the Hillary letter

00:25:43.980 at the end of the campaign

00:25:45.040 because when Hillary won, 1.00

00:25:47.180 I didn't want her

00:25:47.740 to be illegitimate.

00:25:48.600 So he's,

00:25:49.340 he's obviously has

00:25:50.160 all these political considerations

00:25:51.380 in his head.

00:25:51.980 And then he's talking

00:25:54.080 to George Stephanopoulos

00:25:55.180 whose main claim to fame

00:25:58.040 is that he is the guy

00:25:59.560 who spins the news

00:26:00.300 for the Clintons.

00:26:01.100 That was his job.

00:26:02.240 That's why we know his name.

00:26:04.100 That's how he got his job

00:26:04.800 at ABC.

00:26:05.720 There was nothing

00:26:06.480 in this interview,

00:26:07.120 by the way,

00:26:08.300 nearly 10 million people watched.

00:26:10.120 They got nothing for it,

00:26:11.620 really,

00:26:11.920 just,

00:26:12.260 just insults saying,

00:26:14.360 oh,

00:26:14.460 he's not fit.

00:26:15.440 He's not,

00:26:16.160 he isn't,

00:26:17.620 he's mean. 0.99

00:26:18.220 He had a porn star. 0.99

00:26:19.300 Another nothing burger 0.99

00:26:20.720 to use Van Jones's term.

00:26:23.640 And,

00:26:23.720 and then speaking 0.91

00:26:24.940 of the porn star, 0.88

00:26:25.900 that's another aspect

00:26:26.880 the media keep throwing at us

00:26:28.120 to get Trump's approval

00:26:28.960 rating down. 0.99

00:26:29.720 That porn star 0.98

00:26:30.660 describing the details 0.96

00:26:32.380 of her one night stand

00:26:33.400 with Donald Trump.

00:26:34.920 Just to give you a sense

00:26:36.140 of Stormy Daniels,

00:26:37.640 it's not like she's this,

00:26:38.880 you know,

00:26:39.640 she used to have 1.00

00:26:40.600 this sordid past

00:26:41.560 and Trump took advantage

00:26:42.440 of her and now

00:26:43.220 she's gotten her life together

00:26:44.340 and she's damaged 1.00

00:26:45.260 and me too

00:26:45.840 and all this.

00:26:46.460 She's still a stripper. 1.00

00:26:48.260 She still does

00:26:49.180 all of this stuff.

00:26:49.940 She's, 0.97

00:26:50.200 she's a sex worker 1.00

00:26:51.540 to use the modern phrase. 0.97

00:26:53.560 She,

00:26:53.760 a political operative

00:26:54.540 friend of mine

00:26:55.140 invited me

00:26:55.900 to a Stormy Daniels show.

00:26:57.420 He thought it'd be funny

00:26:58.260 that I could wear

00:26:59.260 like a Make America Great Again hat

00:27:00.840 and go see Stormy Daniels 0.55

00:27:02.720 dance or something.

00:27:04.020 I ran it by

00:27:04.520 Sweet Little Elisa.

00:27:05.340 Surprisingly,

00:27:05.780 she wasn't that

00:27:06.400 supportive of the idea

00:27:07.460 and,

00:27:08.420 you know,

00:27:09.220 that's the kind of person

00:27:10.640 we're talking about.

00:27:11.280 We're talking about

00:27:11.720 a currently working stripper

00:27:13.760 who was arrested

00:27:15.120 in 2010

00:27:15.740 for domestic violence.

00:27:18.120 At that time,

00:27:18.920 Stormy Daniels

00:27:19.720 was thinking about

00:27:20.400 running for Senate

00:27:21.240 against Vitter,

00:27:22.220 I think,

00:27:22.600 against another Republican.

00:27:23.960 So she's clearly

00:27:24.660 had it out

00:27:25.340 for Republicans

00:27:26.080 for a long time now

00:27:27.880 and she's clearly

00:27:28.440 wanted to aggrandize

00:27:29.420 herself on the

00:27:30.520 political stage

00:27:31.180 for a long time

00:27:31.920 and she's also

00:27:33.160 a working stripper. 1.00

00:27:34.160 That's what we're seeing

00:27:34.880 and they're using that.

00:27:36.180 She's like this pinnacle

00:27:37.000 of virtue and honesty

00:27:38.080 and James Comey,

00:27:39.440 a guy that all the Democrats

00:27:40.760 a year and a half ago

00:27:41.960 said was basically 1.00

00:27:42.960 the scum of the earth. 1.00

00:27:44.160 Now they like him 1.00

00:27:44.820 because he's hitting

00:27:45.380 Donald Trump.

00:27:46.500 With all of that,

00:27:49.220 guess what Donald Trump's

00:27:50.200 poll numbers are?

00:27:52.040 Take a guess.

00:27:52.620 Do you want to guess?

00:27:54.140 51%.

00:27:54.620 51% approval

00:27:56.860 according to Rasmussen

00:27:58.380 which is the only

00:27:59.960 daily presidential

00:28:00.820 tracking poll left.

00:28:02.960 All of that,

00:28:04.120 the entire apparatus,

00:28:05.700 you've got the bureaucracy

00:28:06.560 working against him,

00:28:07.800 you have the Democrats

00:28:08.660 ginned up like they

00:28:09.580 haven't been since

00:28:10.320 the last Republican president

00:28:11.460 and you've got

00:28:12.460 half of the Republican Party

00:28:13.800 too timid

00:28:14.560 to support their own guy.

00:28:15.980 You've got all of these things

00:28:17.620 working against Donald Trump

00:28:20.080 and yet more than half

00:28:21.420 the country still approves

00:28:22.260 of this job.

00:28:23.780 Day to day.

00:28:24.660 Day to day.

00:28:25.520 That's the last daily

00:28:26.780 tracking poll left.

00:28:28.260 Donald Trump's numbers

00:28:29.260 by the way

00:28:29.600 have been hovering around

00:28:30.420 there for quite a while

00:28:31.300 and they're higher

00:28:32.280 than Barack Obama's

00:28:33.280 approval ratings

00:28:33.940 at this time

00:28:34.580 in his presidency.

00:28:35.860 At this time

00:28:36.400 in Obama's presidency

00:28:37.560 it was 47, 48%.

00:28:39.020 Now I know what you're

00:28:40.280 going to say.

00:28:40.640 You're going to say,

00:28:41.040 yeah, but at this time

00:28:42.500 in Barack Obama's presidency

00:28:43.800 he was headed for a wipeout

00:28:45.420 in the midterms

00:28:46.320 and it's true

00:28:47.100 the 2010 midterms

00:28:48.100 did wipe out the Democrats

00:28:49.220 but that seems like

00:28:51.520 a good point

00:28:52.020 until you look

00:28:52.740 a little deeper into it.

00:28:53.860 The trouble with

00:28:54.440 Barack Obama

00:28:55.160 his electoral troubles

00:28:56.240 in those midterm wipeouts

00:28:57.920 were never his problems.

00:29:00.260 He always remained popular.

00:29:02.300 48% is a solid number

00:29:04.120 a solid approval rating

00:29:05.960 if you're president.

00:29:06.640 Not as good as 51%

00:29:07.920 which Trump has

00:29:08.640 but it's a very solid number.

00:29:10.980 Barack Obama

00:29:11.660 always remained popular.

00:29:12.760 That's why

00:29:13.640 the Congress

00:29:14.820 the Republicans

00:29:15.760 totally took over

00:29:16.560 the Congress

00:29:17.080 but Obama

00:29:17.880 got re-elected.

00:29:19.320 That's why people

00:29:20.160 hated Obama's policies

00:29:21.340 but they liked him personally.

00:29:23.780 And even with that

00:29:24.780 Donald Trump's

00:29:25.900 approval rating

00:29:26.420 is still higher

00:29:27.140 than Donald Trump's.

00:29:28.340 This will be shocking

00:29:29.260 to people

00:29:29.780 who believe

00:29:30.480 what they see on the news

00:29:31.360 who watch ABC

00:29:32.440 and George Stephanopoulos

00:29:34.000 former Clinton employee

00:29:35.560 former Clinton flack

00:29:37.080 and they say

00:29:38.120 wow, I can't believe

00:29:38.920 everyone hates Trump

00:29:40.540 oh, except for

00:29:41.260 more than half the country.

00:29:42.180 Right.

00:29:43.300 Conventional wisdom.

00:29:44.320 What does this mean

00:29:45.060 for the midterms?

00:29:46.820 The conventional wisdom

00:29:47.660 says Republicans

00:29:48.720 are going to get blown out

00:29:49.620 in the midterms.

00:29:50.580 Democrats only have to flip

00:29:51.700 24 congressional seats.

00:29:53.660 It's the House

00:29:54.800 so every seat

00:29:55.600 is up for grabs.

00:29:57.040 48 seats

00:29:57.940 are considered

00:29:58.460 competitive here

00:29:59.460 so more than enough

00:30:01.820 almost twice

00:30:02.420 you know

00:30:02.700 exactly twice as many

00:30:04.300 as need to be flipped

00:30:05.940 and the vast majority

00:30:07.680 of competitive seats

00:30:08.920 are in Republican districts.

00:30:10.820 Okay, that's bad

00:30:12.480 that doesn't look good

00:30:13.260 and historically speaking

00:30:14.800 the party in power

00:30:16.160 always gets tossed out

00:30:17.060 in these midterms

00:30:17.780 but drill down a little bit

00:30:19.860 only 22 seats

00:30:21.720 right in 2018

00:30:22.880 are considered a toss-up.

00:30:25.180 26 seats lean

00:30:26.280 slightly one way

00:30:27.080 or the other

00:30:27.460 and of those

00:30:28.700 lean one way

00:30:29.380 or the other

00:30:29.760 16 lean Republican

00:30:31.200 10 lean Democrat.

00:30:32.960 that kind of tempers

00:30:35.480 the views of this

00:30:36.120 blue wave

00:30:37.140 like Morgan Freeman

00:30:38.100 in Deep Impact

00:30:38.900 seeing the thing come

00:30:39.660 I don't know

00:30:40.540 the numbers

00:30:41.040 I don't know

00:30:41.880 if they necessarily

00:30:42.620 back that up

00:30:43.320 the history

00:30:44.100 seems to imply that

00:30:45.180 but to the numbers

00:30:46.060 on the ground

00:30:46.680 does the daily

00:30:47.420 presidential approval

00:30:48.300 writing

00:30:48.680 I don't know

00:30:49.540 do the tax cuts

00:30:51.200 that Americans just got

00:30:52.280 I don't know

00:30:53.200 in the Senate

00:30:54.060 there are a lot more

00:30:56.420 vulnerable Democrats

00:30:57.400 than Republicans this year

00:30:58.620 there's obviously

00:30:59.540 a thin GOP minority

00:31:00.700 in the Senate

00:31:01.240 but it's not a good map

00:31:02.600 for Democrats

00:31:03.260 next time will be

00:31:04.000 a good map for Democrats

00:31:04.840 this year doesn't look

00:31:05.880 great for them

00:31:06.320 so the conventional wisdom

00:31:08.080 says this is going to be

00:31:08.840 a bad year for Republicans

00:31:09.980 even with all of those

00:31:11.480 details I just gave you

00:31:12.620 you still think it's going

00:31:13.780 to be a bad year

00:31:14.260 for Republicans

00:31:14.880 except that conventional wisdom

00:31:17.280 is only reliable

00:31:18.240 in conventional times

00:31:19.520 these are not

00:31:20.940 conventional times

00:31:21.820 as the former FBI director

00:31:25.100 you know

00:31:25.840 having like a war of words

00:31:27.860 and yelling insults

00:31:29.220 at Donald Trump on TV 0.97

00:31:30.200 and then the porn star 0.89

00:31:31.100 from 2006

00:31:31.800 going on

00:31:32.780 and she's still stripping 0.97

00:31:33.640 but she's also

00:31:34.320 and then the raid

00:31:35.160 of the president's lawyer

00:31:36.100 and then half the

00:31:36.720 these are not normal times

00:31:38.540 and President Covfefe himself

00:31:40.280 of not

00:31:41.580 last but not least

00:31:42.920 of the abnormal things

00:31:44.380 going on in this political time

00:31:45.640 these are not normal times

00:31:48.120 my recommendation

00:31:50.480 to Republicans is

00:31:51.620 by all rights

00:31:52.860 by all rights

00:31:53.640 Republicans should get

00:31:54.620 blown out in the midterms

00:31:55.620 all of the indicators

00:31:57.160 seem to point that way

00:31:58.320 and yet below the surface

00:31:59.700 I don't know

00:32:00.340 and yet these aren't

00:32:01.300 conventional times

00:32:02.100 and yet Donald Trump's

00:32:03.520 a survivor

00:32:04.020 and yet the media lie to us

00:32:06.220 Republicans have to go

00:32:08.100 out there and vote

00:32:08.740 if we can hold the Senate

00:32:10.540 and possibly hold the House

00:32:12.800 or not lose too many seats

00:32:13.940 in the House

00:32:14.420 or whatever

00:32:14.860 if we can do that

00:32:16.140 this

00:32:17.140 the mainstream media

00:32:18.940 will crack

00:32:19.700 they will cry

00:32:20.460 they will fill up

00:32:21.760 this leftist here's Tumblr

00:32:22.920 most importantly

00:32:23.640 it will be a wonderful thing

00:32:25.080 for American politics

00:32:25.980 it will be

00:32:26.860 so unexpected

00:32:28.160 it will be 2016

00:32:29.100 all over again

00:32:29.960 maybe even better

00:32:31.060 because they really think

00:32:31.740 they've got him again

00:32:32.460 but it'll fill up

00:32:33.780 the leftist here's Tumblr

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00:33:25.780 I'll take a little

00:33:26.740 little smell to

00:33:27.740 oh the fragrance

00:33:29.380 this is the

00:33:30.220 James Comey

00:33:31.380 2018 vintage

00:33:32.680 it's just

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00:33:38.260 of delicious leftist tears

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00:33:55.000 all right

00:34:09.240 it's time for

00:34:09.900 this day in history

00:34:11.100 on this day in history

00:34:14.220 George Washington

00:34:15.960 leaves Mount Vernon

00:34:17.120 to be inaugurated president

00:34:19.000 on this day in 1789

00:34:21.600 newly elected president

00:34:22.700 and father of his country

00:34:24.100 George Washington

00:34:25.340 left his home

00:34:26.300 in Mount Vernon, Virginia

00:34:27.320 and headed to New York

00:34:28.520 to be sworn in

00:34:29.380 as the first president

00:34:30.660 and I actually used to live

00:34:33.240 in New York

00:34:33.860 right by where

00:34:34.540 Washington was sworn in

00:34:35.600 it's very cool

00:34:36.700 it's downtown in New York

00:34:37.760 he went all the way up there

00:34:38.660 and he did not

00:34:39.320 want to go up there

00:34:40.240 before leaving

00:34:41.360 George Washington

00:34:42.220 addressed a group of citizens

00:34:43.620 about how much

00:34:44.780 he did not want

00:34:45.440 to be president

00:34:46.020 this is not just

00:34:46.960 private writings

00:34:47.640 he's at Mount Vernon

00:34:48.760 he's in Virginia

00:34:49.580 he's about to go

00:34:50.720 become the first president

00:34:51.700 of the United States

00:34:52.400 and he decides to convene

00:34:54.280 a group of people

00:34:55.340 and complain about it

00:34:56.820 because he doesn't want

00:34:57.440 to do it

00:34:57.820 he says

00:34:58.420 at my age

00:34:59.220 what possible advantages

00:35:01.020 could I gain

00:35:01.760 from public life

00:35:02.780 and Washington

00:35:04.180 at the time by the way

00:35:05.040 was only 57

00:35:06.220 young man

00:35:07.780 even for his era

00:35:08.940 not some old man

00:35:10.660 but the Washingtons

00:35:12.100 tended to die early

00:35:13.420 his father

00:35:14.000 his great grandfather

00:35:14.980 his grandfather

00:35:15.700 they all died

00:35:16.840 pretty young

00:35:17.440 and Washington

00:35:17.980 was keenly aware

00:35:18.920 of this

00:35:19.380 he wrote in his diary

00:35:20.960 about leaving

00:35:22.240 to be inaugurated

00:35:23.080 he said

00:35:23.460 I bade adieu

00:35:24.540 to Mount Vernon

00:35:25.380 to private life

00:35:26.460 and to domestic felicity

00:35:27.520 and with a mind

00:35:28.640 oppressed

00:35:29.200 with more anxious

00:35:30.260 and painful sensations

00:35:31.520 than I had words

00:35:32.960 to express

00:35:34.060 that doesn't sound

00:35:36.180 very excited

00:35:36.700 he had already

00:35:38.520 resigned his military

00:35:39.760 commission

00:35:40.200 at the end

00:35:40.900 of the revolutionary war

00:35:42.040 so he leads

00:35:43.380 the army

00:35:44.040 throughout the revolution

00:35:45.140 he really is

00:35:46.260 the father

00:35:46.620 of his country

00:35:47.200 and then he resigns

00:35:49.100 his military commission

00:35:49.960 and there was some question

00:35:51.140 will he

00:35:51.680 will he become a king

00:35:52.760 will he rule

00:35:53.580 the country himself

00:35:54.440 but he went

00:35:55.340 and he asked congress

00:35:56.820 he said

00:35:57.080 how do you want me

00:35:57.600 to resign

00:35:58.060 I'm going to resign

00:35:59.160 how do you want me

00:35:59.740 to do it

00:36:00.180 and then they told him how

00:36:01.460 and King George III

00:36:02.720 his foe

00:36:03.680 in that war

00:36:04.660 because he did this

00:36:06.040 called Washington

00:36:06.920 the most distinguished

00:36:08.160 of any man living

00:36:09.680 the greatest character

00:36:11.180 of the age

00:36:11.960 that was his last foe

00:36:13.500 this was a heroic act

00:36:14.500 then he goes to Mount Vernon

00:36:15.440 and he lives a happy life

00:36:16.600 he didn't want to be president

00:36:18.120 he certainly didn't want

00:36:19.420 to leave his wife behind

00:36:20.420 to go up to New York

00:36:21.340 and he also didn't want

00:36:22.400 to leave his servant

00:36:23.020 Billy Lee behind

00:36:23.800 he just didn't want

00:36:24.440 to leave his life

00:36:25.180 he liked his life

00:36:26.100 he had a good life

00:36:26.840 and he wasn't just kidding

00:36:28.420 by the way

00:36:28.900 I think we now

00:36:30.660 look back on Washington

00:36:32.180 who says

00:36:33.600 oh I don't want to be president

00:36:34.560 I don't want to be president

00:36:35.360 I don't want to do this

00:36:36.580 I don't want to do this

00:36:37.260 and we think he was just kidding

00:36:38.520 or he didn't

00:36:39.660 he was playing coy

00:36:40.560 you know

00:36:41.100 he obviously

00:36:41.660 wanted to be president

00:36:42.600 but he couldn't say that

00:36:44.900 and it was just politicking

00:36:45.880 or whatever

00:36:46.300 no

00:36:47.080 he wasn't kidding

00:36:48.040 he really did not want

00:36:49.260 to be president

00:36:49.800 he took up that job

00:36:51.260 only because rival

00:36:52.800 political factions

00:36:53.700 in the US

00:36:54.500 were already threatening

00:36:55.940 the independence

00:36:56.880 that was won

00:36:57.800 in the American Revolution

00:36:58.840 I think some people

00:37:00.240 like to pretend

00:37:01.140 that the political factions

00:37:02.400 the federalists

00:37:03.380 and the anti-federalists

00:37:04.300 they sort of sprung up later

00:37:05.880 and that's when

00:37:06.540 the parties began

00:37:07.500 not true

00:37:08.500 they began immediately

00:37:09.360 because it's the natural

00:37:10.380 state of politics

00:37:11.280 as politics should be

00:37:12.800 different people

00:37:13.560 with different visions

00:37:14.340 and different interests

00:37:15.200 organize into different groups

00:37:16.840 and then they try to

00:37:18.180 enact their vision

00:37:19.600 over someone else's vision

00:37:20.640 that's the natural

00:37:21.520 state of politics

00:37:22.300 we shouldn't wish

00:37:23.800 to get rid of parties

00:37:25.260 political parties

00:37:26.000 are a wonderful thing

00:37:26.940 they help us organize

00:37:28.220 our political visions

00:37:29.200 and affect them

00:37:29.960 so at this point

00:37:31.540 the federalists

00:37:32.360 guys like

00:37:33.820 John Adams

00:37:34.660 or Alexander Hamilton

00:37:35.600 they are begging

00:37:36.860 Washington to be president

00:37:38.700 in 1788

00:37:39.980 Alexander Hamilton

00:37:41.020 wrote to Washington

00:37:42.240 basically demanding

00:37:43.400 that he do it

00:37:44.100 basically saying

00:37:44.820 you're going to have

00:37:45.320 to be president

00:37:45.880 Washington responded

00:37:47.500 to that letter

00:37:48.860 and he responded

00:37:50.160 on the quote

00:37:50.960 delicate subject

00:37:52.340 with which

00:37:53.100 you conclude your letter

00:37:54.200 I can say nothing

00:37:55.520 because the event

00:37:56.700 alluded to

00:37:57.240 may never happen

00:37:58.020 and because

00:37:58.760 in case it should occur

00:37:59.800 it would be a point

00:38:00.840 of prudence

00:38:01.340 to defer forming

00:38:02.180 one's ultimate

00:38:02.980 and irrevocable decisions

00:38:04.440 it is my great

00:38:06.040 and sole desire

00:38:07.220 to live and die

00:38:08.700 in peace and retirement

00:38:10.420 on my own farm

00:38:11.540 I don't

00:38:12.740 you can't say it

00:38:13.500 much more clearly

00:38:14.160 than that

00:38:14.640 I want to live

00:38:15.700 he didn't just say

00:38:16.460 I want to live

00:38:16.920 you know

00:38:17.440 politicians do this today

00:38:18.640 they say

00:38:18.980 oh I'm really enjoying

00:38:20.100 what I'm doing

00:38:20.720 oh I really like

00:38:22.080 running my business

00:38:22.860 oh yeah no

00:38:24.040 I don't want to run

00:38:24.800 for president

00:38:25.280 until the next

00:38:25.980 possible opportunity

00:38:27.080 and then I'll do it

00:38:27.720 Washington is very clear

00:38:29.320 with his words

00:38:29.880 he was meticulous

00:38:30.960 he chose his words carefully

00:38:31.920 I want to live 0.72

00:38:33.260 and die 0.89

00:38:34.080 in peace 0.99

00:38:34.720 here

00:38:35.400 on this farm

00:38:36.500 stop bothering me

00:38:37.480 Alexander

00:38:37.880 he wrote

00:38:39.160 also

00:38:39.700 George Washington

00:38:40.640 I should

00:38:42.120 unfeignedly rejoice

00:38:43.780 in case the electors

00:38:45.320 by giving their votes

00:38:46.520 to another person

00:38:47.700 would save me

00:38:48.680 from the dreaded

00:38:49.640 dilemma

00:38:50.080 of being forced

00:38:51.060 to accept

00:38:51.720 or refuse

00:38:52.280 if that may not be

00:38:54.380 I am

00:38:55.280 in the next place

00:38:56.240 earnestly desirous

00:38:57.980 of searching out

00:38:58.700 the truth

00:38:59.200 and knowing

00:38:59.880 whether there

00:39:00.360 does not exist

00:39:01.040 a probability

00:39:01.700 that the government

00:39:02.680 would be just

00:39:03.440 as happily

00:39:03.980 and effectually

00:39:04.720 carried into execution

00:39:05.740 without my aid

00:39:07.320 leave me alone 0.79

00:39:08.420 leave me alone 0.79

00:39:08.980 leave me alone 0.79

00:39:09.500 leave me alone 0.79

00:39:10.020 he then goes on

00:39:11.000 to say

00:39:11.340 I call heaven

00:39:12.560 to witness

00:39:13.160 that this very act

00:39:14.760 would be the greatest

00:39:15.900 sacrifice

00:39:16.660 of my personal feelings

00:39:18.220 and wishes

00:39:19.140 that ever I have been

00:39:20.620 called upon

00:39:21.280 to make

00:39:21.980 this is a guy

00:39:22.960 who spent his entire life

00:39:24.840 getting shot at

00:39:25.660 this is a guy

00:39:26.580 who spent his entire life

00:39:27.520 in squalor

00:39:28.480 terrible conditions

00:39:29.940 starving

00:39:31.120 not with adequate clothing

00:39:32.800 not with adequate ammunition

00:39:33.980 shooting at people

00:39:35.300 and being shot at

00:39:36.620 and he says

00:39:37.800 that's basically

00:39:38.480 a cakewalk

00:39:39.120 compared to making me

00:39:40.180 leave my farm

00:39:41.140 and become president

00:39:41.960 that he

00:39:43.020 you cannot interpret this

00:39:45.100 as some coyness

00:39:46.080 he's saying it

00:39:47.180 as clearly as he can

00:39:48.120 now

00:39:48.940 if

00:39:49.840 Washington

00:39:51.160 had to be president

00:39:52.140 he wrote

00:39:53.540 that he hoped

00:39:54.060 that at a convenient

00:39:55.360 and early period

00:39:56.380 my services

00:39:57.460 might be dispensed with

00:39:58.640 and that I might be

00:39:59.600 permitted once more

00:40:00.520 to retire

00:40:01.120 to pass an unclouded evening

00:40:02.940 after the stormy day

00:40:04.460 of life

00:40:04.940 in the bosom

00:40:06.040 of domestic tranquility

00:40:07.940 and he did it

00:40:09.480 you know

00:40:09.900 some people say

00:40:10.640 they're amazed

00:40:11.180 that Washington

00:40:11.840 didn't go for

00:40:13.520 a third or fourth term

00:40:14.680 but anybody familiar

00:40:15.980 with Washington's

00:40:17.240 thoughts on this

00:40:17.780 should be amazed

00:40:18.680 that he accepted

00:40:19.300 a second term

00:40:20.000 you know

00:40:20.560 he just didn't want it

00:40:21.700 FDR

00:40:22.320 if he had lived

00:40:23.120 probably would have

00:40:23.640 served 16 terms

00:40:24.920 he wanted to be a king

00:40:26.620 he made himself

00:40:27.640 an American king

00:40:28.500 but George Washington

00:40:29.880 really didn't want

00:40:31.500 to do it

00:40:31.940 and that is a real

00:40:33.020 attitude to look for

00:40:34.340 in our political leaders

00:40:35.360 and here's why

00:40:36.420 that's not just

00:40:37.020 some platitude

00:40:37.700 that's not just saying

00:40:38.700 oh we want the

00:40:39.360 reluctant leader

00:40:40.260 oh that's nice

00:40:41.340 it shows he's kind of

00:40:42.200 got control of himself

00:40:43.640 and his ambitions

00:40:44.480 that's actually not why

00:40:46.520 running for president

00:40:48.900 certainly

00:40:49.580 holding that office

00:40:50.580 really holding

00:40:51.100 any political office

00:40:52.040 but especially

00:40:52.780 those big ones

00:40:54.040 destroys your family

00:40:55.840 you don't get to

00:40:56.940 see your family

00:40:57.560 you're lambasted

00:40:59.280 in the press

00:40:59.920 lies and calumny

00:41:01.320 and all sorts

00:41:01.900 of awful things

00:41:02.580 are told about you

00:41:03.980 certain things

00:41:05.520 from your past

00:41:06.220 that you don't want

00:41:06.800 to cut

00:41:07.040 skeletons come out 0.80

00:41:07.820 of the closet

00:41:08.340 it opens you up

00:41:09.480 to constant assault

00:41:10.560 by just absolute

00:41:12.160 villains

00:41:12.800 maybe they'll find

00:41:14.560 some villains

00:41:14.920 or some skeletons

00:41:16.520 in your closet

00:41:17.100 or they'll just

00:41:18.360 make it up

00:41:18.900 they'll just

00:41:19.520 completely fabricate

00:41:20.680 things as they do

00:41:21.420 all the time

00:41:22.060 with everybody

00:41:22.660 who runs for

00:41:23.180 that high office

00:41:23.860 it entails

00:41:24.800 grave responsibility

00:41:25.760 for the safety

00:41:26.520 and security

00:41:27.040 of your fellow

00:41:27.880 countrymen

00:41:28.420 it ages you

00:41:29.400 dramatically

00:41:29.960 it depletes

00:41:31.020 your wealth

00:41:31.600 or it should

00:41:32.720 you're not supposed

00:41:33.300 to make money

00:41:33.860 in office

00:41:34.620 and there are

00:41:35.980 a lot of watchdogs

00:41:36.880 and you know

00:41:37.520 you make money

00:41:38.020 maybe after office

00:41:38.920 if you're Barack Obama

00:41:39.900 or Bill Clinton

00:41:40.540 or somebody

00:41:41.060 but it depletes

00:41:42.060 your wealth

00:41:42.540 and it obliterates

00:41:44.060 your privacy

00:41:44.560 it's just a terrible

00:41:45.480 thing

00:41:45.860 it's a terrible

00:41:46.880 awful burden

00:41:47.700 to do that

00:41:48.300 if somebody is eager

00:41:50.180 to forfeit

00:41:51.080 all of those things

00:41:52.040 he's probably not

00:41:53.740 the man for the job

00:41:54.540 if somebody's eager

00:41:55.400 to do it

00:41:56.000 he would have 0.96

00:41:57.040 to be psychotic 0.78

00:41:57.820 why would you

00:41:59.500 want to do it

00:42:00.080 when you could

00:42:00.440 live in private life

00:42:01.340 and have a good life

00:42:02.180 if you have your life

00:42:04.460 in order

00:42:04.820 and you've got

00:42:05.540 your Mount Vernon

00:42:06.220 and you've got

00:42:06.780 your Martha Washington

00:42:07.600 and you've got

00:42:08.200 your private business

00:42:09.060 and your business

00:42:10.040 is ideally run

00:42:10.900 out of your home

00:42:11.620 and you've just

00:42:12.680 got your life

00:42:13.460 in a nice balance

00:42:14.380 why would you

00:42:15.240 want to sacrifice

00:42:15.880 all of that

00:42:16.560 for a thankless job

00:42:17.980 that will have you

00:42:18.580 pilloried

00:42:19.080 keep you away

00:42:19.860 from your family

00:42:20.500 and losing money

00:42:21.280 you'd have to be insane

00:42:22.840 but a lot of people 0.96

00:42:23.600 are insane

00:42:24.100 and they want to do it

00:42:24.820 because they want fame

00:42:25.780 and they want power

00:42:26.560 and they want to

00:42:27.740 use it for grift

00:42:29.040 and make money afterwards

00:42:29.960 like the Clintons

00:42:30.720 lots of politicians

00:42:32.800 start running for office

00:42:34.740 right after college

00:42:36.180 or law school

00:42:36.800 in their 20s or 30s

00:42:37.940 running for office

00:42:39.020 is not honorable

00:42:40.380 in and of itself

00:42:41.340 it isn't

00:42:42.740 it can be honorable

00:42:44.280 what George Washington

00:42:45.280 did was honorable

00:42:46.660 and admirable

00:42:47.300 the country

00:42:48.100 would have fallen apart

00:42:49.280 if he had not agreed

00:42:50.080 to be the first president

00:42:50.900 I'm pretty convinced of that

00:42:52.280 it just would have

00:42:52.980 disintegrated

00:42:53.700 and all of the

00:42:54.540 hard fought victories

00:42:55.300 of the Revolutionary War

00:42:56.300 would have been for nothing

00:42:57.140 and the country

00:42:58.220 might have ended up

00:42:58.820 worse than it was before

00:42:59.900 or the British 0.78

00:43:01.420 would have just invaded again

00:43:02.400 as they did in 1812

00:43:03.460 it's not

00:43:05.980 it's not admirable

00:43:06.860 in and of itself

00:43:07.580 Bill Clinton

00:43:08.040 is not George Washington

00:43:09.040 he's just a crass politician

00:43:10.640 who started running

00:43:11.680 for office

00:43:12.160 in his own mind

00:43:12.860 probably at the age of three

00:43:13.920 and in reality

00:43:15.680 after law school

00:43:16.500 some of the greatest

00:43:18.100 politicians

00:43:18.660 in our history

00:43:19.300 have been citizen

00:43:20.120 legislators

00:43:20.940 you know

00:43:21.920 they've been people

00:43:22.520 who have lives

00:43:23.620 who have done things

00:43:24.520 in their life

00:43:24.980 and have a nice farm

00:43:25.800 at Mount Vernon

00:43:26.360 and cute little old 0.99

00:43:27.660 Martha sitting there

00:43:28.520 stitching up American flags

00:43:30.180 or whatever she was doing

00:43:31.060 and they decide

00:43:33.540 that for the good

00:43:34.020 of their country

00:43:34.580 and because they feel

00:43:35.680 that it's virtuous

00:43:36.900 and it's their duty

00:43:38.100 to help their country

00:43:39.160 they'll go and do a stint

00:43:40.300 and then they'll go back home

00:43:41.220 and hang out with Martha

00:43:42.380 when lifelong politicians

00:43:45.240 all start pilloring

00:43:47.200 a citizen legislator

00:43:48.640 or a citizen executive

00:43:49.640 or one of the guys

00:43:50.720 who's actually doing that

00:43:51.720 when all these guys

00:43:52.840 who have been in politics

00:43:53.860 since they were

00:43:54.540 you know 22

00:43:55.460 they ran for elective office

00:43:56.840 the first time

00:43:57.500 they've been in DC

00:43:58.100 that whole time

00:43:58.740 when those guys

00:43:59.980 start pilloring people 0.59

00:44:00.940 who are following the model

00:44:02.620 of living a normal life

00:44:04.040 and then doing your duty

00:44:06.060 for the country

00:44:06.700 for a little bit

00:44:07.340 that's usually a sign

00:44:08.700 that that citizen legislator

00:44:10.340 or executive

00:44:10.900 is the right man

00:44:11.940 for the job

00:44:12.720 important things

00:44:14.280 to consider these days

00:44:15.240 okay that's our show

00:44:16.100 I am heading out

00:44:17.600 like right now

00:44:18.640 to get on a plane

00:44:20.800 I'm going to Alabama

00:44:21.880 I'll be speaking

00:44:22.360 at the Alabama Policy Institute

00:44:23.740 in Mobile

00:44:24.420 tomorrow night

00:44:26.020 and that should be

00:44:27.220 a lot of fun

00:44:27.760 by the USS Alabama

00:44:28.860 so if you're in the neighborhood

00:44:30.020 go get a ticket

00:44:30.820 at Alabama Policy Institute

00:44:32.500 and then I'll be speaking

00:44:34.100 at Trump University

00:44:35.000 on Thursday

00:44:36.380 it's the University of Pennsylvania

00:44:38.240 it's his alma mater

00:44:39.940 but I refer to it exclusively

00:44:41.520 as Trump University

00:44:43.320 I think they appreciate that

00:44:44.720 and it'll be at Huntsman Hall

00:44:46.600 I actually worked for John Huntsman

00:44:47.800 we're going to be

00:44:48.580 at the Republican epicenter

00:44:49.980 of the Northeast

00:44:50.600 it's going to be

00:44:51.600 I'll be speaking there

00:44:52.520 on reasons to vote

00:44:53.680 for Donald Trump

00:44:54.260 in John Huntsman Hall

00:44:55.360 John Huntsman Jr.

00:44:58.460 is the current ambassador

00:44:59.640 to Russia

00:45:00.200 so I'll probably collude

00:45:01.080 with the Russians

00:45:01.560 a little bit

00:45:02.040 and we'll be at

00:45:03.140 Trump University

00:45:04.020 so come on out

00:45:04.800 if you're there

00:45:06.340 and it should be

00:45:07.380 a pretty fun talk

00:45:08.140 the talk is on

00:45:08.880 reasons to vote for Trump

00:45:09.960 I promise it will be

00:45:10.980 quite different than my book

00:45:12.040 and then we'll keep

00:45:13.480 the shows going all week

00:45:14.300 we've got some great guests

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Ep. 139 - Bombing The Middle East： An American Tradition

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