Trump's endorsed candidate Luther Strange lost the Alabama Republican Senate primary, but he lost to the far-right candidate Roy Moore. Is the Trump Effect dead, or is it co-operating better than ever? We'll debate. Then, after a vast, no doubt, no-doubt conspiracy prevented our interview yesterday with journalist Mary Lane, we'll have her on to explain the relationship between football protests and national elections around the world. And finally, Amber Athe and Jacob Erie will join the Panel of Deplorables to discuss George Clooney's terrible poetry, I will be doing a performance in Saudi Arabia, and finally, free money tax reform, baby!
00:02:02.880Then he runs again for election and he wins.
00:02:05.060So clearly this guy has a lot of intestinal fortitude.
00:02:09.700Trump endorsed Strange ostensibly because Strange had a better chance of winning the general.
00:02:15.360They were worried of a Todd Akin sort of situation that happened in previous elections where you go with a very far right guy in the primary
00:02:23.520and then he can't win in the general or he'll fizzle out or he'll fall into some faux pas.
00:02:28.980Here is the clip of President Trump's endorsement of Luther.
00:07:00.060Her entire thesis is everyone thinks, the mainstream consensus view, is that people only follow Trump because he has a cult of personality.
00:07:42.680And, you know, we've been burnt by a lot of so-called conservative politicians who make nice with the left and don't pursue our agenda.
00:07:51.940People in the establishment in D.C., Nan Hayworth was on, former congresswoman from New York, and we talked about this.
00:07:59.040We know a lot of those people down there, and they hold the base of the Republican Party in greater disdain than they do the Democrats, than they do their nominal opponents on the Democratic side.
00:08:10.520So if that is the case, then that means that people won't just blindly follow President Trump off a cliff or follow him if he pivots to the left or something.
00:09:09.900You know, Crossfire is like wah, wah, wah.
00:09:11.420Us is just like, is Trump great or is Trump the greatest?
00:09:14.440Amber, why did President Trump endorse Luther?
00:09:18.380There's actually a report that came out of Breitbart yesterday that said this was all Jared Kushner's idea.
00:09:23.760And I think the underlying logic here was that he was trying to play nice with Mitch McConnell after all of his attacks on McConnell.
00:09:32.100But that logic is so backwards because the solution to McConnell not getting things passed in the Senate isn't to turn around and make deals with him or praise him for his failures.
00:09:43.020It's to elect people that support the Trump agenda and are going to vote for all of these things that are being pushed by Trump.
00:09:49.660Do you think it was a mistake for President Trump to endorse Luther?
00:09:52.500Well, with the way that it turned out, no, because Moore won anyway, and he still looks like he played nice with McConnell.
00:10:00.780So he kind of gets the best of both worlds here.
00:10:03.040I will say, though, his playing nice with McConnell kind of irritates me.
00:10:06.940I don't want him to play nice with McConnell.
00:10:10.380Jacob, Moore's defeated opponent Luther Strange is warning that Moore will be the new Todd Aiken.
00:10:16.160He's referring to these whacked out candidates, you know, who actually Todd Aiken, he made some very stupid rhetorical mistakes and it cost him.
00:10:25.540It cost Republicans a good seat in the Senate.
00:10:27.360But, you know, these guys give the media anything and they'll pounce and and jump on a stupid statement.
00:11:39.760Not exactly a glowing endorsement to say, I came down to campaign for you, but I don't want to eat with you.
00:11:46.380Yeah, I want to get out of there as soon as possible.
00:11:49.860Amber, Bill Mitchell and some of the other very prominent and loud and vociferous Trump supporters have said that this was 4D chess, that President Trump, he didn't really want Luther to win.
00:12:03.740He was trying to work against him a little bit.
00:12:06.980Does that hold water or are we reading way too much into this?
00:12:09.880I think that's a little bit too far into it.
00:12:13.040I think this is more about listening to his son-in-law and he's done other things at the bequest of Jared Kushner that didn't quite pan out either, firing Comey, for example.
00:12:23.960So I think 4D chess is a little bit too far.
00:12:28.540And especially considering a lot of Trump's aides did go to try to help Strange, he wouldn't have put this much time and effort into trying to get Strange elected.
00:12:37.280If this were just a secret kind of chess move to actually get more, I think they're really going a little too far with that guess and giving Trump maybe a bit too much credit.
00:12:49.420And speaking of the family, speaking of Jared Kushner, I look around the president's inner circle right now and I don't see a whole lot of conservative Republicans.
00:12:57.220A lot of those people, Bannon, Gorka, have been pushed out.
00:13:01.640But for some reason, Jared Kushner is still hanging around.
00:13:04.600Is there a worry that President Trump will be pulled to the left by these non-conservative voices or will he get the message from last night's election?
00:13:13.840I think there's definitely a concern, especially when you look at these reports that say General Kelly is hiding reports from President Trump, specifically the ones from conservative outlets that are criticizing some of the things like working with the Democrats on DACA and these moves to the left that he's been getting from Kushner and Kelly without Bannon and Gorka.
00:13:35.700So I think that's definitely a concern.
00:13:37.240And if Trump doesn't know that the conservative base is rallying against him on these issues, he can't correct himself.
00:13:43.440And do you think, also we'll go around with you and Jacob, do you think that Ann Coulter is right?
00:13:49.220Is Trump's base focused on the issues more than his personality?
00:13:53.440Would they leave him if he doesn't do what they want?
00:13:56.180Yeah, my parents are proud Trump supporters and my mom actually read what Ann Coulter had to say about that.
00:14:03.840And she said, she just summed up exactly how I feel about Trump in one sentence.
00:14:07.880It's never been about his personality.
00:14:09.500It's always been about the issues that he talks about.
00:14:12.880And so she feels like the personality is something that she can deal with as long as he's getting his agenda through.
00:14:18.240So I think Coulter has hit the nail on the head.
00:23:56.680And the problem is if they went over there to protest those types of things, it would be tantamount to admitting that the U.S. isn't as oppressive as they make it out to be.
00:24:04.780I actually read an article in Cosmo, which is basically the bane of my existence yesterday.
00:24:09.200But the article was about this new word called he-peating, and it's about when men –
00:24:17.480So repeating, but with he in the front.
00:24:19.880And this is when apparently men take women's ideas in the workplace and repeat them and then get credit.
00:24:26.520You know, that's so funny, Amber, because I was reading an article the other day in Cosmo, this little magazine, and I discovered a new word.
00:24:34.300The word is called he-peating, which is apparently when men just repeat whatever women say and pass it off as their own idea.
00:24:52.700But it just shows how silly modern feminism is in the United States, that they're worried about made-up things like he-peating and mansplaining,
00:25:01.940while women in Saudi Arabia just got the right to drive and still lack so many other rights.
00:25:07.380And many of these feminist organizations are in bed with people like Linda Sarsour, who openly call for Sharia law and jihad.
00:25:13.920So for them to talk about wanting to, you know, free women is just so hypocritical while they ignore the plight of women in the Middle East.
00:25:22.520And, you know, you make the good point that if they went over to Saudi Arabia, they'd be arrested and murdered or jailed or something.
00:25:29.140But they would never go over to Saudi Arabia because that would dispute and do away with their intersectional hierarchy of victimhood,
00:25:37.940at which the straight, white, Western male sits at the top, and he is the oppressor and everyone else is the oppressed.
00:25:46.220This began—I was reading some account of this.
00:26:35.240Ironically, it's much more paternalistic for these pussyhat-clad women in America to say we're going to fight for even more money in the United States, more money than men make.
00:26:44.960But, oh, those women in Saudi Arabia, they're different.
00:26:47.560They're just a different sort of breed and, well, good luck, ladies.
00:27:02.640To simplify the tax code, to lower middle-class taxes, to cut the corporate tax rate, the marginal tax rate and the effective tax rate, and to repatriate trillions of dollars in profits that are currently being stored overseas because we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world.
00:27:19.060They say our corporate tax rate is over 39 percent.
00:27:21.880And they say, well, that's the marginal rate, but that's not the actual rate that businesses pay when they pay their income taxes – or their business taxes, rather.
00:27:29.900But we still have the highest effective corporate tax rate in the world as well.
00:27:39.040So it's true it's not as high as 39, but it's still the highest in the world.
00:27:42.900If we lowered it, it would boost the economy.
00:27:45.320Amber, there is one issue in this tax plan, which is that President Trump wants to raise the rate on high-income earners.
00:27:52.640Is this a good idea, and why does he want to do it?
00:27:55.440No, I don't think it's a good idea, and I'll get to that in a second.
00:27:57.920I think he wants to do this because it's part of his, again, trying to misguidedly reach across the aisle and make a deal with Democrats.
00:28:07.720And I think here's why it's so misguided.
00:28:09.940First of all, there are already so many Democrats who support a lot of the tax reform efforts, including lowering the corporate tax rate, including lowering taxes on middle-class citizens.
00:28:20.300For Trump to then give away the fact that he's also going to raise taxes on the upper class is the opposite of the art of the deal.
00:28:27.780That's giving Democrats basically everything that they want.
00:28:30.420Why are we throwing away the leverage?
00:28:35.360It's the same exact thing that he did with DACA.
00:28:38.060I think raising the tax on the highest people or the highest income bracket is definitely a little bit backwards,
00:28:46.460considering those people already shoulder most of the burden of taxes in this country to begin with.
00:28:52.840But, Amber, you would certainly agree that they don't pay their fair share.
00:28:57.920They pay much more than their fair share.
00:28:59.480They pay actually all of the taxes in the country, but it isn't their fair share.
00:29:04.780Well, yeah, that's the Democratic argument.
00:29:06.480Of course, these people also take a lot of their money and put it into businesses and hiring people for jobs and investing in various startups and small businesses.
00:29:16.500But, yeah, they don't pay their fair share.
00:29:19.600I remember in college they had an Occupy movement in New Haven, and so we went there to Occupy Occupy one day,
00:29:26.760and there was some whiny guy yelling about finance or Wall Street or something.
00:29:32.140And we asked him, we said, what does Wall Street do?
00:33:43.140That being said, I think Trump is actually the one who has made people care more about these cultural issues because he's been raising them so often.
00:33:50.360I think this entire week the only thing that I've heard about are the NFL national anthem protests, and that's on cable news in conservative circles and everywhere.
00:33:58.960That's like the number one issue right now.
00:34:01.300And then, of course, there's the issue of immigration.
00:34:05.300And I think the culture wars are coming directly out of Trump's rhetoric and the issues that he's choosing to push, and it's because he can win on a lot of these issues.
00:34:45.660I was just saying people definitely care about the issues, but I don't think that those were necessarily things that they were voting on until they became raised in the election by Trump.