The walls are closing in on President Trump, if you believe the mainstream media. But as Trump's opponents are threatening impeachment, we examine the bigger picture. President Trump may just be the worst public servant in the United States, except for all the others.
00:02:57.580There's impeachment, which is if the House votes to impeach him, you know, like happened to Bill Clinton.
00:03:02.320And then there is the trial in the Senate.
00:03:04.480So once you're impeached, you go to trial in the Senate, and the Senate can vote either to remove you from office or not to remove you from office.
00:03:09.880What we've always assumed is that the House is going to move forward with impeachment.
00:03:14.060They'll probably impeach the guy, but it'll get to the Senate, and there's no way that he's going to get impeached in the Senate.
00:03:20.760Well, because Republicans still control the Senate.
00:03:23.160So if Republicans control the Senate, he's probably not getting convicted.
00:03:26.440Furthermore, there doesn't seem to be any real legal basis for impeachment.
00:03:29.900There doesn't seem to be anything that he's done that rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors.
00:03:34.700But third, and this has been most important so far, even among Democrats, support for removal from office nationally, according to one poll, is only 66%.
00:03:47.400That means that if there were no Republicans in the country, if the whole Senate were controlled by Democrats, they still would not remove him from office because support nationally is only at 66%.
00:03:56.000Now we're hearing that that is not the case.
00:03:59.460Chris Wallace is saying that his highly placed sources in Washington believe that there is a one in five chance that the Senate, run by Republicans, removes Trump from office.
00:04:09.340There seems to be a growing number of Republicans in Congress who are, if not breaking with the president, distancing themselves from the president.
00:04:19.460And I talked to a very well-connected Republican in Washington this week, somebody whose name you would know well, who says that if the House votes to impeach and it gets to a trial in the Senate, there is now a 20% chance, he believes, obviously, it's just an estimate, now a 20% chance enough Republicans will vote with the Democrats to remove the president.
00:04:40.300Oh, that's just absurd, but let's deal with the issue of Syria.
00:04:44.500No, let's deal with the issue of whether Republican, you're losing your support.
00:04:48.900Same thing, this comment about a 20% chance is just that the person clearly doesn't know what they're talking about.
00:04:54.400Well, hold on, what about Chris Wallace's very highly placed source, okay?
00:04:58.180I don't want to name any names, but it rhymes with Krill Bistel, okay?
00:05:02.820And he knows that it's a one in five chance that Trump gets removed.
00:05:06.080I'm not naming any names, but it might rhyme with Bax Moot, okay?
00:05:10.140I'm talking about Republicans who hate Trump's guts.
00:05:15.440There are a lot of Republicans who hate Trump's guts.
00:05:17.400Maybe there's a chance that they remove him from office.
00:05:19.520As for specific senators, Mitt Romney, who a lot of us forgot was a senator because he was a governor a million years ago, and then he was a twice-failed presidential candidate.
00:05:28.640Mitt Romney is now a senator, and he is signaling that he might vote to remove Trump from office.
00:05:33.300And this gets to my big point today, which is on how absolutely terrible and awful and the worst guy in the world Trump is, except for all of his critics.
00:05:41.340Mitt Romney wants to remove Trump from office.
00:05:50.860Mitt Romney has always wanted to remove Trump from office.
00:05:53.440He gave one of the most hysterical speeches I've ever seen in politics before the 2016 election, telling Republicans not to vote for Trump and more or less to let Hillary Clinton win.
00:06:03.300He is constantly campaigning against President Trump.
00:06:21.000So now they're going to remove him from office over a phone call with Ukraine or something like that.
00:06:24.880What are the odds that this actually happens?
00:06:26.980No matter what you think of Donald Trump, I understand there are a lot of people who hate his guts.
00:06:33.260Just looking at the likelihood of removal from office, the mainstream media have been predicting that this guy will get thrown out of office every day since he was elected.
00:06:44.000First, he was going to be removed from office because of Russia.
00:06:48.380You remember every mainstream media guy said the walls are closing in ad nauseum for two and a half years.
00:06:54.160Then it was Stormy Daniels because apparently it's a high crime and misdemeanor to get a little weird with a porn star before you're ever running for office.
00:07:34.060He's done a lot of things that are not something people are very proud of.
00:07:38.240He's done a lot of things that bring a lot of shame to a lot of people, opens him up to a lot of political attacks.
00:07:44.960The other vulnerability, he is generally unfamiliar with the machinery of government.
00:07:49.840This is partly why he was elected because he's not a career politician.
00:07:53.160He hasn't been in Washington his whole life.
00:07:55.140The trouble with that is he has struggled significantly on the legislative front, and he's walked into traps that swampier creatures would have otherwise avoided.
00:08:03.400I mean, even just on the legislative front, he nearly repealed Obamacare, and then he couldn't wrangle the senators, one senator in particular.
00:08:13.420He sometimes just walks into these traps that guys who have been in D.C. for a long time wouldn't do that.
00:08:19.880And then there's the big vulnerability.
00:08:21.560The big vulnerability is actually his biggest pitch to voters, which is that he's a successful businessman.
00:08:26.840He's a successful – now, I know that sounds like it's all plus and there's no downside.
00:08:31.680There is a downside because specifically, Trump is the owner of a business that was built around his personality.
00:08:39.240And the same people who clamor for we need a businessman for president are the same people who criticize what happens when we have a businessman as president.
00:08:55.760Okay, and the knock on him is that he's going to benefit from the office.
00:09:01.020Yeah, I guess everybody benefits from the office.
00:09:04.240Whether people are more interested in staying at your real estate properties or you get $200,000 speaking fees after you leave office, everybody benefits in some way.
00:09:12.580The way that Trump is going to benefit is he has a business called the Trump Organization.
00:09:17.320So he could never put that into a blind trust, right?
00:09:20.160He could never totally divorce himself from that business because he is the business.
00:09:48.480For this G7 summit that's coming up, Trump wanted to host it at his Trump Doral property, and people threw a hissy fit about it.
00:09:56.980The reason they threw a hissy fit is because they don't want the president profiting actually funneling taxpayer money into his own pockets.
00:10:05.760The president would have to make sure if he hosts the G7 summit at his own property that he doesn't make any money on it.
00:10:11.440The way he was going to do this was by paying for the whole thing himself, by not charging anybody a single penny, and then there's no sign of impropriety.
00:11:45.640I am missing my Bowling Branch sheets like I can't possibly tell you.
00:11:49.980Because on the rare occasion on the road that I've gotten to stay at really, really nice hotels, I just thought, gosh, this luxury is so great.
00:14:36.640They start talking about those things when you're running in a different election in 2008, and then you say you're severely conservative, and you're very pro-life, and you're all these things.
00:14:44.020Mitt Romney has held two sides of every single issue.
00:14:46.680He has nothing even vaguely resembling a vertebrate.
00:15:04.220He assailed the legacy of Ronald Reagan.
00:15:07.040When he was governor, he wasn't even able to create jobs.
00:15:10.260Job growth was awful in Massachusetts when he was governor.
00:15:12.660It was 1.5% compared to a national average of 5.3%.
00:15:16.700Massachusetts was 47th out of 50 states during Romney's term.
00:15:22.800He then passed a bill to force taxpayers to pay for college for a quarter of Massachusetts high school graduates.
00:15:28.460That's that severely conservative Mitt Romney who's just taking taxpayer money, funneling it to children who are statistically elite, and propping up this educational institution, which has done very little other than indoctrinate students in leftism for the last five decades.
00:15:47.480He supported the so-called assault weapons ban, tried to take rifles with some of the most popular guns in America out of the hands of law-abiding Americans.
00:15:54.420He was pro-abortion, as you saw in that clip, as you heard him say.
00:15:59.580He supported scientific research on babies who were killed by abortion.
00:16:04.260The best thing that Mitt Romney did as governor of Massachusetts was cut taxes, but he didn't even really cut taxes because he raised fees, which are not only a tax.
00:16:33.820You know, I worked for two of Mitt Romney's opponents in the 2012 Republican presidential primaries, so I don't want anybody to suggest that my attacks on Mitt Romney are opportunistic now because I like Trump and he's going after Trump.
00:16:49.400I've been calling this guy out since, I don't know, seven, eight years ago, and I think only now are people beginning to realize it.
00:16:56.520This whole shtick of Saint Mitt, the most honorable, wonderful guy in America, Mr. Severely Conservative, is total BS, and it's fine if you want to call Trump a BS-er.
00:17:08.460But Mitt Romney is no better, and in many, many ways, when you compare his actual policy record, he is so much worse than Trump, who, for all his many flaws, and he has many, many flaws, has actually affected a fairly relatively conservative administration.
00:17:25.000Now, beyond all of that, my rant against Mitt Romney aside, President Trump did get some good news as they're talking about throwing him out of office in the Senate.
00:17:34.620Also in the Senate, Lindsey Graham, who was President Trump's biggest critic on the Syria decision, the decision to remove some troops from northern Syria, which permitted a Turkish invasion, which has hurt our allies in the YPG, which is a group of Kurds that fought alongside us against ISIS.
00:17:52.840Lindsey Graham is starting to come around on President Trump's Syria policy.
00:19:17.580He tells Maria Bartiromo, who's interviewing him, that he's actually increasingly optimistic that this could turn out very well.
00:19:25.140The big thing for me is the oil fields.
00:19:28.180President Trump is thinking outside the box.
00:19:30.680I was so impressed with his thinking about the oil.
00:19:34.020Not only are we going to deny the oil fields falling into Iranian hands,
00:19:37.940I believe we're on the verge of a joint venture between us and the Syrian Democratic forces who helped destroy ISIS and keep them destroyed to modernize the oil fields and make sure they get the revenue, not the Iranians, not Assad.
00:19:51.720And it can help pay for our small commitment in the future.
00:19:55.760And protecting Israel is the number one objective.
00:19:58.600And we can do all of that with a very small force.
00:20:01.520I'm increasingly optimistic this could turn out very well.
00:21:50.280The switch on Syria in Lindsey Graham's reaction is an important one because it shows that initial reaction, people buying into the sort of madness.
00:22:04.500Anything Trump does is considered unprecedented and terrible and awful for our allies and uninformed.
00:22:12.620Okay, well, sometimes that happens, but on the Syria decision, on most decisions, what I try to do is I try to take like 10 breaths.
00:22:23.720Trump decides to move the troops out of Syria, and everyone tells me this is the worst decision in the history of the world, and we've never done anything worse as a country.
00:22:29.560And I say, okay, and I breathe in and out about 10 times, and then I think, what's the alternative?
00:22:39.880The alternative is we keep our troops in Syria, but in that region of Syria, we only had 50 troops, which could be what's called a tripwire.
00:22:47.560It could be a way to keep hostile forces out, or it could be a magnet for an attack, as we saw in Beirut during the Reagan administration, after which, what did Ronald Reagan do?
00:23:02.000If there were an attack, if one U.S. soldier were killed in that area, especially if it were by Turkey, we could find ourselves in a very terrible war.
00:24:33.080You saw this not just in the Republican Party and the conservative movement.
00:24:35.980You saw this among the Democrats in the sweetest exchange that I have seen since those 2016 debates in the general election.
00:24:46.780Hillary Clinton was on David Plouffe's podcast talking about the 2020 Democratic primary, and she had the gall because she's just like a broken record.
00:24:59.680She has to accuse her opponents of colluding with Russia.
00:25:02.460She accused Tulsi Gabbard of being Russia's favorite candidate.
00:25:07.420I'm not making any predictions, but I think they've got their eye on somebody who's currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate.
00:25:19.040They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far.
00:25:24.900Now, when asked if Clinton was referring to Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat of Hawaii, Clinton's spokesman said, quote, if the nesting doll fits, he added, quote, if the Russian propaganda machine, both their state media and their bot and troll operations, is backing a candidate aligned with their interests, that is just a reality.
00:25:46.920But everyone's been going after Tulsi Gabbard because Tulsi Gabbard is slightly more moderate than the lunatics in the Democratic Party, and they're seeing a Democratic Party turn slightly more in the way of moderation right now because they know they're going to get blown out in the general election.
00:26:00.640Otherwise, how do you think Tulsi Gabbard responded to Hillary Clinton?
00:26:06.240But first, before we get to Tulsi Gabbard, before we get to the revenge of the moderates, before we get to National Period Day, we have got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
00:26:46.600So you have Hillary Clinton, a crook, a twice-failed presidential candidate, someone whose nearest contribution to the American public service was lying about being under Bosnian sniper fire.
00:27:00.880You have her, and then you have Tulsi Gabbard, who I think is extreme and leftist, and I would never even consider voting for her.
00:27:09.020But she just returned from serving our country in uniform.
00:27:12.280She is actually a dedicated public servant, and she's far more reasonable on most issues than her fellow Democrats.
00:27:22.320And Hillary Clinton, crooked crone, never did anything for this country, is accusing Tulsi Gabbard, actually put on a uniform, of being a Russian asset, of being a traitor, of being somebody who sold out her country.
00:28:39.980Tulsi Gabbard is going to finally try to launch her candidacy into the top tier by saying that she is the chief antagonist to Hillary Clinton in the way that Bernie Sanders was the chief antagonist to Hillary Clinton in 2016.
00:28:51.480Tulsi had a very good performance at that last debate.
00:28:54.800And so as the frontrunner, Joe Biden falls apart, and as Hillary Clinton goes after her, it really could help her out.
00:29:01.260Hillary Clinton seriously overestimates her significance in the Democratic Party.
00:29:06.760Or rather, I'll put it a different way.
00:29:09.280She seriously underestimates how furious the Democrats are at her, not for her corruption, not for her decades and decades of lies and misdeeds, for losing.
00:30:31.540Hillary Clinton not only using her own email server to conduct very serious business of the state, but then destroying those emails so she wouldn't have to turn them over to investigators.
00:30:41.720Then we only found a lot of those emails because they turned up on convicted pedophile Anthony Weiner's computer because her security was so lax that his then wife, Huma Abedin, her chief aide, was just letting her emails flow around the whole house.
00:31:04.960Why didn't the FBI charge her with a crime?
00:31:06.980Well, the reason the FBI didn't charge her with a felony at this point was because the FBI agent, who we now know was trying to undermine the Trump campaign from within the FBI, Peter Strzok, edited a key phrase that thereby removed legal ramifications for Clinton.
00:32:02.400People are willing to tolerate a lot of stuff to get rid of that kind of corruption and those kind of lies.
00:32:08.700Because people are willing to tolerate a brash billionaire from New York who's never worked in the government a day in his life, who speaks in a really rough manner, who does things and sends mean tweets that a lot of Americans don't like.
00:32:22.620They're willing to tolerate that because they are sick of the corruption.
00:32:26.760They are sick of this rotted out political establishment.
00:32:30.420Hillary Clinton, obviously, is the sort of symbol of corruption in American politics.
00:32:36.640But even guys like Mitt Romney, and I'm not suggesting Mitt Romney is corrupt.
00:33:00.420They know politicians are never going to tell them the truth.
00:33:02.960But if Trump is going to tell you the truth 27% of the time instead of 7% of the time, they're going to get to them.
00:33:10.140And they don't want radicalism either.
00:33:12.760I think this is what the Democrats misunderstood about the 2016 election.
00:33:17.660The 2016 election of President Trump was taking a guy, warts and all, because he offered an alternative to a corrosive political establishment.
00:33:30.420But it's not like the American people suddenly became these crazy radicals.
00:33:35.140What the Democrats concluded is the Republicans became these crazy wild radicals.
00:33:40.340And the only way to win the election in 2020 is for us to become crazy wild radicals.
00:34:16.960With that collapsing, that opens up a lane for some new candidate.
00:34:21.540Pete Buttigieg, when he first started running for president, he was going to be the kind of moderate, wholesome, Midwestern guy, except he's really a big leftist.
00:34:29.740But he's going to be nice and smile and make you feel good about yourself.
00:36:21.000But Klobuchar is running pretty hard by contrasting herself with Elizabeth Warren.
00:36:26.620So Elizabeth Warren has these pie in the sky plans, and she's not willing to admit that the way she's going to pay for it is by raising taxes on virtually everybody.
00:36:35.400She has the same plans as Bernie Sanders.
00:36:37.420How do we know she has the same plans?
00:43:06.320Now, that statistic is completely made up.
00:43:11.500The rest of the period movement, which is what they're calling it, say that the number is one in five girls have, don't have access, one in five teens who don't have access to tampons, haven't gone to class or something.
00:44:03.300There's no way that that is true, that elite Ivy League universities are more dangerous for women than ISIS strongholds and, I don't know, Raqqa or something.
00:45:32.200Obviously, you're going to choose the people who are more sane than the other.
00:45:36.960When you're looking at politics generally, who are you going to pick?
00:45:39.940You're going to pick the guy who's more sane, the guy who's more reasonable, the guy who's not blabbering about how men need access to tampons for menstrual equity day.
00:45:48.520Does that leave us perfect candidates?