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00:00:30.220 Jeff Sessions headed to Capitol Hill today

00:00:32.400 where Democrats who couldn't coherently grill him over alleged Russia collusion

00:00:36.760 grasped for straws, humiliating themselves and entertaining us.

00:00:41.020 We will review the highlights.

00:00:42.920 Then Josh Yasma and Campus Reform's Cabot Phillips

00:00:45.520 join the panel of deplorables to discuss Trump's slam dunk

00:00:49.640 on getting China to release UCLA basketball players.

00:00:53.200 Huh? They can't all be winners.

00:00:54.340 The total Democrat media silence on the congressional candidate

00:00:58.600 accused of stalking and sending lewd photos to a New Mexico woman

00:01:02.340 and conservatives' victory over media matters

00:01:05.200 in the great Sean Hannity, Keurig, coffee, covfefe war of 2017.

00:01:09.820 I am Michael Knowles.

00:01:10.880 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:11.860 What a great way to wake up today.

00:01:21.200 I got to watch the session's testimony

00:01:22.820 and Democrats just absolutely humiliate themselves,

00:01:26.260 especially Sheila Jackson Lee, my favorite member of Congress,

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00:04:59.900 Attorney General Sessions headed up to Capitol Hill today.

00:05:03.440 In the buildup, Democrats boasted of how they were going to grill

00:05:06.760 Jeff Sessions on Russia.

00:05:08.760 Trouble is, they don't have a whole lot to work with,

00:05:11.380 because as left-wing commentator Van Jones pointed out...

00:05:14.680 What do you think is going to happen this week, I mean, with the whole Russia thing?

00:05:18.980 The Russia thing is just a big nothing burger.

00:05:20.880 Really?

00:05:22.120 Yeah, it's a nothing burger.

00:05:23.240 Whoops.

00:05:23.800 So, instead, we were treated to a typical tour de farce from Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee.

00:05:29.860 Here she is.

00:05:30.480 I took the liberty of reviewing federal crimes against children,

00:05:35.900 particularly those dealing with sexual or physical abuse.

00:05:39.020 As you well know, Lee Kaufman, Wendy Miller, Debbie Watson Gibson,

00:05:43.660 Gloria Thacker-Deason, and Beverly Young Nelson,

00:05:46.740 these young women, have accused this individual, Judge Moore, 0.85

00:05:51.200 who is running for a federal office, the United States Senate,

00:05:55.520 of child sexual activity.

00:05:58.240 Do you believe these young women?

00:06:02.560 I have no reason to doubt these young women. 0.80

00:06:07.400 And with that in mind, if you believe these young women,

00:06:10.100 do you believe Judge Moore should be seated in the Senate if he wins,

00:06:15.140 and would you introduce investigations by the DOJ regarding his actions?

00:06:20.120 We will evaluate every case as to whether or not it should be investigated.

00:06:25.560 This kind of case would normally be a state case.

00:06:29.320 I would say, Representative Jackson Lee, that the ethics people at the Department of Justice,

00:06:39.020 and I've talked to them about that when this campaign started.

00:06:42.120 It's the seat I used to hold.

00:06:43.720 They advised me that the Attorney General should not be involved in this campaign.

00:06:49.640 I have friends in the campaign.

00:06:51.160 Thank you, Mr. General.

00:06:52.040 I have steadfastly adhered to that view.

00:06:54.000 I want to make sure that if he comes to the United States Senate,

00:06:56.860 and I think I should continue to do so.

00:06:57.740 If he comes to the United States Senate.

00:06:59.660 Garner, Walter Scott, Shamir Rice.

00:07:01.540 My question is, as I hold up the poster dealing with the report under your jurisdiction,

00:07:07.220 Black Identity Extremists, 1.00

00:07:09.180 it is interesting to me that you are opposing individuals who are opposing lethal force,

00:07:15.320 similar to the attack on Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King on COINTELPRO,

00:07:19.200 but there seems to be no report dealing with the Tiki Torch Parade in Charlottesville

00:07:22.620 chanting, Jews will not replace us.

00:07:24.940 Why is there an attack on Black activists

00:07:26.980 versus any reports dealing with the alt-right and the white nationalists?

00:07:30.940 What is your favorite breakfast cereal?

00:07:34.960 Is it Froot Loops?

00:07:35.460 Who won the 1968 World Series?

00:07:38.060 Why are these...

00:07:39.860 The reason she's asking these ridiculous questions is, of course,

00:07:43.360 that she doesn't really have anything to say about Russia

00:07:45.280 because this entire testimony today was a ridiculous parade and a charade.

00:07:50.280 But let's just put this into context.

00:07:54.300 She is asking the Attorney General, in his official capacity,

00:07:57.540 to comment on a Senate race, on a Republican candidate for Senate in Alabama.

00:08:03.260 She's then asking him to comment on, I suppose, a potentially criminal case

00:08:07.240 from 40 years ago that would typically be handled by the state anyway.

00:08:13.160 So, obviously, Sessions, who has been around a long time,

00:08:17.560 he's a pretty smart guy, he says,

00:08:18.640 well, with due respect, this has nothing to do with my role,

00:08:22.740 and I'm here, I'm supposed to be testifying in my role as Attorney General,

00:08:25.820 not as a Fox News contributor or whatever they're trying to make him into.

00:08:30.100 Then she brings up Black Lives Matter

00:08:32.960 and looking at some of the protests and riots

00:08:37.560 that have come out of Black Lives Matter,

00:08:38.800 and she says,

00:08:39.360 why aren't you looking into white supremacists or yada, yada, yada?

00:08:42.280 Now, he says,

00:08:43.160 I don't know what you're talking about, lady. 0.86

00:08:44.880 It's just business as usual at the DOJ.

00:08:48.180 It is worth pointing out, though,

00:08:49.380 that in August the DOJ sent out a major release

00:08:51.880 that they had gotten the largest conviction

00:08:56.060 of white supremacists, Aryan Nation prison inmates in U.S. history.

00:09:01.040 So that happened just a few months ago.

00:09:02.440 It was the biggest skinhead, you know,

00:09:04.800 white supremacist gang prison conviction in history.

00:09:07.480 89 inmates was what they got.

00:09:10.520 And in 2016 in the United States,

00:09:12.620 just some interesting statistics,

00:09:13.720 there were 5,770 hate crimes in the United States.

00:09:18.180 According to DOJ statistics,

00:09:19.880 46.3% of those were committed by white people.

00:09:24.140 But that doesn't really make a whole lot of sense,

00:09:26.300 and I didn't believe the statistic.

00:09:27.800 So I looked a little further down there.

00:09:29.280 They're defining Hispanic people 1.00

00:09:31.240 as white people for that statistic.

00:09:33.020 So when you look for non-Hispanic whites, 0.75

00:09:35.500 that number drops to 26.1% in that category.

00:09:39.360 Nevertheless, during testimony

00:09:40.880 that where we're supposed to be talking about Russia,

00:09:42.780 we're supposed to be talking about anything

00:09:44.400 that the attorney general really can comment on,

00:09:46.740 this is the kind of nonsense because Sheila Jackson Lee

00:09:49.560 either doesn't understand what her role is

00:09:52.760 or what the role of this testimony is

00:09:54.080 or realizes she's got nothing

00:09:55.960 and just needs to try to grab

00:09:57.500 as many crazy headlines as she can.

00:09:59.440 You know, I never miss an opportunity

00:10:01.380 to watch clips of Sheila Jackson Lee.

00:10:03.600 I'll be on YouTube sometimes,

00:10:05.120 and I'll be, you know, on YouTube,

00:10:06.240 you go from one video to the next.

00:10:07.400 I will go on an hours-long clip parade

00:10:10.600 of Sheila Jackson Lee.

00:10:11.820 She is the most entertaining person in D.C.

00:10:13.680 So here are just a couple other greatest hits from her.

00:10:16.680 My chairman and others

00:10:17.980 for giving us an opportunity

00:10:19.860 to have a deliberative constitutional discussion

00:10:22.880 that reinforces the sanctity of this nation

00:10:26.700 and how well it is

00:10:29.240 that we have lasted some 400 years

00:10:31.820 operating under a constitution.

00:10:33.860 Between type one and type two.

00:10:35.200 But you did say it.

00:10:37.240 Again, I'm trying to put my comments into context, ma'am.

00:10:40.260 I'm aware of the difference

00:10:41.420 between type one and type two diabetes.

00:10:43.480 On the OGE...

00:10:44.620 But you're not a doctor either.

00:10:45.940 I'm not a doctor.

00:10:47.320 Are you?

00:10:50.320 What do you mean I'm not?

00:10:51.960 Of course I'm not a doctor.

00:10:52.840 You're not a doctor.

00:10:53.900 And I love we've been under the constitution

00:10:55.760 for 400 years.

00:10:57.100 It's served us very well for these 400 years.

00:10:59.860 It hasn't been 400 years...

00:11:01.860 Yeah, it hasn't been 400 years

00:11:03.520 since the landing at Plymouth,

00:11:04.640 but sure,

00:11:06.040 over under 400 years

00:11:07.040 we've been laboring under this.

00:11:08.800 So I love her.

00:11:10.000 She is just absolutely fabulous.

00:11:11.820 Then the Republicans came around

00:11:13.200 and it became much more coherent

00:11:14.540 after just Democrat inanity,

00:11:17.040 but still there were some problems

00:11:18.820 with the Republican testimony.

00:11:20.360 Here we have the cannons

00:11:22.240 being turned on Hillary Clinton.

00:11:23.700 As the chief law enforcement official

00:11:25.640 in this country,

00:11:26.920 do you share similar concerns?

00:11:29.200 And in your opinion,

00:11:30.040 is it legal under current law

00:11:32.160 for a presidential campaign

00:11:33.620 to hide its funding

00:11:34.780 of the compilation

00:11:36.480 and dissemination of political dirt

00:11:38.520 on its opponent

00:11:39.640 by using a law firm

00:11:41.260 to directly pay for the work?

00:11:44.240 I would think that those matters

00:11:46.100 are worthy of consideration.

00:11:48.380 But as to the details of them

00:11:50.780 and for me to express

00:11:52.320 an ultimate comment today,

00:11:54.380 I'm unable to do so.

00:11:55.760 Now, obviously Republicans

00:11:58.660 want some investigations of Hillary.

00:12:00.460 We've had people clamoring for this

00:12:01.780 since the election

00:12:02.780 into the Clinton Foundation,

00:12:05.560 into the Uranium One deal,

00:12:07.640 into Hillary's collusion with Russia.

00:12:10.580 But listen to what Jeff Sessions

00:12:12.340 doesn't say.

00:12:13.560 He says he can't comment on that matter.

00:12:15.380 Why can't he comment on that matter?

00:12:17.240 Is it the case

00:12:18.040 that there's an investigation going on?

00:12:20.100 Is it the case

00:12:20.700 that special counsel's looking into it?

00:12:22.340 We know that Tony Podesta

00:12:23.560 and the Podesta Group

00:12:24.300 are under investigation by Mueller.

00:12:26.100 Why can't he?

00:12:27.020 There's always a little smirk

00:12:28.220 when you see Jeff Sessions testifying.

00:12:31.140 And I just wonder

00:12:31.940 what that smirk means.

00:12:33.120 Perhaps Republicans

00:12:33.780 are getting what they want.

00:12:35.600 But so far,

00:12:36.440 the DOJ has been slow

00:12:37.500 to go after Hillary. 0.51

00:12:38.740 Congressman Jim Jordan,

00:12:40.300 a conservative member

00:12:41.320 of the House Republican Caucus,

00:12:43.200 has gotten fed up with this

00:12:44.420 and he's called for a special counsel.

00:12:46.340 So on Twitter this morning,

00:12:47.400 calls for a special counsel

00:12:49.000 were popping up.

00:12:49.980 I think this is because

00:12:50.940 people don't understand

00:12:51.720 what a special counsel is.

00:12:53.020 The reason for a special counsel

00:12:54.900 is when the DOJ,

00:12:57.140 when an investigation

00:12:57.780 would create a conflict of interest

00:13:00.080 if it were undertaken by the DOJ.

00:13:02.300 So the DOJ can't do it

00:13:03.700 because of some conflict of interest

00:13:05.040 and therefore they appoint

00:13:06.500 a special counsel to come in

00:13:08.140 and do it for them

00:13:09.500 so that there is no impropriety

00:13:11.640 and no political dealing

00:13:13.160 that's going on

00:13:13.900 during the investigation.

00:13:15.400 Now, Sessions has apparently

00:13:17.380 sent a memo to the DOJ

00:13:19.080 asking for their evaluation

00:13:21.260 on whether or not

00:13:22.720 they should investigate

00:13:23.780 or whether or not

00:13:24.620 a special counsel

00:13:25.400 should be appointed

00:13:26.040 for Hillary Clinton.

00:13:27.320 It doesn't make a whole lot

00:13:28.340 of sense for it to

00:13:29.360 from the information

00:13:30.100 that we have right now.

00:13:31.360 Seems like the DOJ

00:13:32.280 could just investigate

00:13:33.140 this themselves.

00:13:34.820 That said, you know,

00:13:36.000 there are enough special counsels.

00:13:37.140 Don't do it.

00:13:37.560 The DOJ should investigate her.

00:13:39.140 It was a mistake

00:13:39.900 that we have the special counsel

00:13:41.980 from Bob Mueller,

00:13:43.160 but it is what it is

00:13:44.740 and we are where we are.

00:13:45.620 It is not unusual

00:13:46.980 for multiple special counsels

00:13:48.280 to be going on at once.

00:13:49.420 You might remember

00:13:50.000 the great days

00:13:50.540 of the Bill Clinton administration

00:13:51.940 when there were, I think,

00:13:53.420 150 million special counsels

00:13:55.340 that were floating

00:13:55.960 around the White House.

00:13:56.840 There were actually seven.

00:13:57.740 There were eight

00:13:58.320 under Ronald Reagan.

00:13:59.820 That is not uncommon,

00:14:01.500 but if we want to go

00:14:02.160 after Hillary Clinton,

00:14:03.120 it seems to me

00:14:03.620 more special counsels

00:14:04.980 would not be the way to go.

00:14:06.360 We should do it

00:14:07.100 where we have some control

00:14:08.100 and not let this thing

00:14:09.240 get completely out of bounds

00:14:11.400 as it seems

00:14:12.320 the Mueller investigation is.

00:14:13.360 So much grandstanding.

00:14:15.180 Few answers came out

00:14:16.280 of today's charade

00:14:16.960 for analysis.

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00:18:03.160 to talk about

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00:18:04.960 with the great panel.

00:18:17.520 Cabot, Josh,

00:18:18.440 thank you for being here.

00:18:19.340 We have an expert panel.

00:18:20.480 I can't help but notice

00:18:21.340 that, Josh,

00:18:22.020 you've positioned yourself

00:18:23.160 in front of every single book

00:18:24.640 in the world.

00:18:25.160 I'm going to guess

00:18:26.220 you have read about 1% of those.

00:18:28.420 You've skimmed about 1%.

00:18:29.620 There's no way.

00:18:30.160 Less than 1%.

00:18:31.260 Less than 1%.

00:18:32.260 Less than 1%.

00:18:33.360 Look at Cabot.

00:18:34.380 He's there just a white wall.

00:18:35.480 Look at my bookshelf

00:18:37.460 compared to yours.

00:18:39.000 Yeah.

00:18:40.220 I don't even see reasons

00:18:41.800 to vote for Democrats there.

00:18:43.380 I have a few books here

00:18:44.460 propping up my computer,

00:18:45.860 but yeah.

00:18:47.080 How else am I supposed to,

00:18:48.600 how else am I supposed

00:18:49.580 to evoke intelligence?

00:18:51.020 I know,

00:18:51.540 it's all about signaling.

00:18:53.320 In the 21st century,

00:18:54.300 in 2017,

00:18:55.160 it is all about appearances

00:18:56.640 and virtue signaling.

00:18:58.020 So,

00:18:58.720 let's get to the news, folks.

00:18:59.940 Look at the cabot.

00:19:00.560 He's so smart.

00:19:01.520 Early Tuesday morning,

00:19:02.740 three UCLA basketball players

00:19:04.300 were released

00:19:04.980 from Chinese custody

00:19:06.320 for shoplifting,

00:19:07.320 and they safely boarded

00:19:08.480 a 9 a.m. Delta flight

00:19:09.680 to come home.

00:19:10.460 Why is that?

00:19:11.460 According to all

00:19:12.200 available reports,

00:19:13.400 it's because President Trump

00:19:14.640 told Chinese President

00:19:16.080 Xi Jinping

00:19:16.840 to make it happen.

00:19:18.520 Josh,

00:19:19.300 the consensus view

00:19:20.060 is that Trump

00:19:20.620 is a blundering idiot

00:19:21.860 on the brink of

00:19:22.560 sending us into nuclear war.

00:19:24.460 But the consensus view

00:19:25.800 is also almost always wrong.

00:19:28.200 Is Trump

00:19:28.800 a foreign policy maven,

00:19:30.620 a meternique

00:19:31.200 for the 21st century?

00:19:32.320 What do you think?

00:19:33.840 So,

00:19:34.640 first in regard

00:19:35.220 to the story,

00:19:35.760 the Wall Street Journal

00:19:36.460 first reported this story,

00:19:38.500 and NBC,

00:19:39.580 CNN,

00:19:39.980 all of them

00:19:40.360 picked it up.

00:19:42.600 It's clear

00:19:43.460 that he intervened.

00:19:44.700 He spoke to

00:19:45.560 President Xi

00:19:46.540 personally,

00:19:47.140 and he got

00:19:48.680 the job done,

00:19:50.200 which is

00:19:51.460 a huge feat.

00:19:53.360 You know,

00:19:53.960 it's

00:19:54.680 when foreign

00:19:55.600 nationals

00:19:56.040 go abroad, 0.98

00:19:57.920 I mean,

00:19:58.120 when American citizens

00:19:59.120 go abroad

00:19:59.720 and you go into

00:20:00.500 these hostile

00:20:01.360 foreign countries,

00:20:02.880 anything could happen.

00:20:03.760 We saw with

00:20:04.200 Otto Wambier

00:20:05.420 in North Korea.

00:20:07.780 that was

00:20:08.740 incredibly dangerous.

00:20:10.140 But Trump

00:20:10.660 got the job done,

00:20:12.020 and he

00:20:12.480 displayed his

00:20:14.580 negotiating skills.

00:20:15.940 Well,

00:20:16.160 that's actually

00:20:16.820 what I want to bring up,

00:20:17.820 because people

00:20:18.740 make fun of the art

00:20:19.680 of the deal

00:20:20.080 all the time.

00:20:20.660 They say,

00:20:20.900 well,

00:20:21.000 it was ghostwritten.

00:20:21.720 He's probably

00:20:22.020 never even read it.

00:20:22.980 You know,

00:20:23.220 he was busy

00:20:23.700 running this company

00:20:24.520 and running that company.

00:20:26.380 But Cabot,

00:20:27.320 is this the art

00:20:28.520 of the deal?

00:20:29.040 And if so,

00:20:29.620 what is the secret

00:20:30.500 to the art

00:20:31.200 of the deal?

00:20:32.120 I saw some people

00:20:33.200 on Twitter

00:20:33.640 comparing this

00:20:34.480 to when,

00:20:35.080 you know,

00:20:35.820 the Iranian hostage

00:20:36.640 crisis ended

00:20:37.340 on Ronald Reagan's

00:20:38.120 first day in office,

00:20:39.320 some people there.

00:20:40.300 I don't know

00:20:40.760 if it's that extreme

00:20:41.980 to where,

00:20:42.620 you know,

00:20:42.880 there were all these

00:20:43.560 victories.

00:20:44.800 It is obviously a victory.

00:20:46.340 I think maybe

00:20:47.100 the difference

00:20:47.680 is that President Trump,

00:20:49.380 you know,

00:20:49.600 has taken a much

00:20:50.460 harder line

00:20:51.260 throughout his campaign.

00:20:52.240 He pretty much

00:20:52.780 had this whole narrative

00:20:54.080 of being tough

00:20:54.900 on China

00:20:55.620 and being tough

00:20:56.700 on every other country.

00:20:57.720 So I guess maybe

00:20:58.340 that's having an impact.

00:21:00.120 And also,

00:21:00.680 I think the Trump

00:21:01.860 that we saw

00:21:02.800 throughout the election

00:21:03.600 and really we see

00:21:04.460 on the day-to-day basis

00:21:05.180 and on Twitter

00:21:05.720 is not the Trump

00:21:06.900 that many of these

00:21:07.520 world leaders get.

00:21:08.520 I think a lot of them

00:21:09.180 are pleasantly surprised

00:21:10.140 when they see

00:21:10.740 his willingness

00:21:11.220 to, you know,

00:21:12.560 compromise with them.

00:21:13.760 And he is a businessman,

00:21:15.480 an international businessman

00:21:16.400 at that.

00:21:16.900 So I think

00:21:17.360 that's helping his clout

00:21:19.420 with some of these

00:21:20.000 foreign leaders.

00:21:21.060 But there's always

00:21:21.680 a middle ground.

00:21:22.420 I don't think it's that

00:21:23.200 he's this,

00:21:23.700 you know,

00:21:24.300 world-class,

00:21:25.320 you know,

00:21:25.500 number one best dealmaker

00:21:26.860 in the world.

00:21:27.400 It's also not that

00:21:28.020 he's a bubbling idiot

00:21:28.780 the way the media

00:21:29.420 is making it out to be.

00:21:30.580 There's a middle ground there,

00:21:31.600 but there's not too many

00:21:32.900 other ways of spending

00:21:33.500 this other than a victory

00:21:34.540 for the Trump administration,

00:21:36.520 especially on the PR front

00:21:37.520 in getting these guys home.

00:21:39.320 And yeah,

00:21:39.700 President Abe of Japan

00:21:41.220 clearly seems to like him,

00:21:43.120 or Prime Minister rather,

00:21:44.160 clearly seems to have

00:21:45.340 been impressed by him.

00:21:46.160 He's always giving him

00:21:46.740 gifts and silly hats.

00:21:47.840 And he does seem to have

00:21:48.840 made an impact

00:21:49.560 on world leaders.

00:21:51.600 Now, Josh,

00:21:52.120 you're a foreign policy guy.

00:21:53.460 How do you rate

00:21:54.060 this Asia trip?

00:21:55.120 His poll numbers

00:21:56.200 are increasing,

00:21:57.120 so it seems to be

00:21:57.820 affecting the public.

00:21:58.960 Has he handled himself,

00:22:00.580 A, better than people

00:22:01.560 thought he would,

00:22:02.240 and B, better than

00:22:03.460 his predecessor,

00:22:04.460 for instance?

00:22:05.240 Well, his predecessor

00:22:06.580 didn't do much

00:22:07.660 as far as, you know,

00:22:09.020 Chinese-

00:22:09.740 He led from behind.

00:22:10.920 What are you talking about?

00:22:11.920 Well, he had this idea

00:22:13.080 of a-

00:22:13.640 President Obama

00:22:14.140 had this idea

00:22:14.640 of an Asia pivot.

00:22:15.760 So he wanted to leave

00:22:16.920 the Middle East behind, 0.95

00:22:17.920 let it crash and burn,

00:22:19.600 and move on to Asia,

00:22:22.260 you know,

00:22:22.500 establish trade relationships,

00:22:24.640 strengthen the bond there.

00:22:25.800 He never got there

00:22:26.720 because the quagmire

00:22:28.120 in the Middle East

00:22:28.820 kept pulling him back.

00:22:32.220 President Trump

00:22:33.060 seems to really

00:22:35.300 be doing well

00:22:36.220 at this balancing act.

00:22:37.460 You know,

00:22:37.640 he's taking care of ISIS, 0.92

00:22:39.120 he's getting the job

00:22:39.840 done there,

00:22:40.840 and he's talking

00:22:44.540 to Asian leaders.

00:22:45.900 He's trying to,

00:22:46.800 you know,

00:22:47.980 he's trying to

00:22:48.460 strengthen bonds there.

00:22:49.520 I will say that

00:22:50.560 some of his rhetoric

00:22:51.920 on trade

00:22:52.880 I'm somewhat opposed to,

00:22:56.680 but other than that-

00:22:57.400 But what about this,

00:22:57.860 what about his action

00:22:58.960 on trade?

00:22:59.500 Because we were all nervous,

00:23:00.760 we were told

00:23:01.260 we're going to get

00:23:02.200 tariffs and trade wars,

00:23:04.340 and none of that

00:23:05.120 has happened.

00:23:05.940 Was it bluster?

00:23:06.860 Was it just a negotiating

00:23:07.980 position?

00:23:08.700 Or are you still afraid

00:23:09.900 that we're going to

00:23:10.380 dive into some trade war?

00:23:12.340 A lot of it was

00:23:13.160 this populist

00:23:14.380 kind of rhetoric,

00:23:15.200 and when he gets

00:23:16.500 to the negotiating room,

00:23:18.220 I think he's a lot

00:23:19.240 more realistic

00:23:19.840 about what's required,

00:23:21.600 about the importance

00:23:23.700 of U.S.-Chinese

00:23:25.140 bilateral trade

00:23:26.580 relationships.

00:23:27.900 And from everything

00:23:29.420 we're hearing,

00:23:30.380 it went smoothly.

00:23:31.960 President Xi

00:23:32.720 was satisfied.

00:23:35.420 Our partners

00:23:36.380 in the South Pacific

00:23:37.760 were satisfied.

00:23:39.880 Even the media,

00:23:41.400 they didn't have much

00:23:42.540 to criticize them on.

00:23:43.820 So it went well.

00:23:45.420 We don't know yet

00:23:46.960 how much came out

00:23:48.180 of those meetings,

00:23:48.800 so we have to wait

00:23:49.940 and see what

00:23:50.500 the White House says,

00:23:51.340 what the Treasury

00:23:51.820 Department says,

00:23:52.860 what State Department says.

00:23:54.800 Absolutely.

00:23:55.440 And I do want to

00:23:55.980 bring it back

00:23:56.460 a little bit to Russia

00:23:57.400 as the final point

00:23:58.680 on this foreign policy

00:24:02.200 and this Asia trip.

00:24:03.620 All we've heard about

00:24:04.680 are the relentless

00:24:05.540 drumbeats of Russia,

00:24:07.080 Russia, Russia, Russia.

00:24:09.980 You're the foreign policy

00:24:11.240 guy on the panel today.

00:24:12.240 Is Van Jones right?

00:24:13.180 Is Russia ultimately

00:24:14.260 a nothing burger?

00:24:15.060 I think it is.

00:24:18.960 When it comes to Trump,

00:24:20.000 there was no collusion.

00:24:21.820 At least there's

00:24:22.180 no evidence of collusion.

00:24:23.820 But, you know,

00:24:24.620 I said from the beginning

00:24:26.300 that General Michael Flynn

00:24:28.100 was dirty.

00:24:29.220 He got $15 million

00:24:30.200 from the government

00:24:32.140 of Turkey.

00:24:33.740 A couple guys

00:24:34.860 in the periphery,

00:24:35.800 Paul Manafort,

00:24:37.540 George Papadopoulos.

00:24:39.620 Those guys,

00:24:41.020 they're questionable,

00:24:42.700 but they were

00:24:44.020 marginal characters

00:24:45.520 in the Trump campaign.

00:24:47.760 So to sully

00:24:49.360 the entire campaign

00:24:50.340 and to say that

00:24:50.960 Trump is dirty

00:24:51.700 or he's corrupt

00:24:52.520 is, as Van Jones says,

00:24:55.220 a nothing burger.

00:24:56.140 It's made up.

00:24:57.740 But there are

00:24:58.500 some questions,

00:24:59.520 lingering questions,

00:25:00.400 about these

00:25:00.840 periphery figures.

00:25:02.060 Manafort,

00:25:02.660 Papadopoulos,

00:25:03.460 Flynn.

00:25:04.500 We should question them

00:25:05.820 and we should question

00:25:06.820 what they're about.

00:25:08.500 Cabot,

00:25:09.020 this brings up

00:25:09.520 a question for you.

00:25:10.480 I have a dichotomy for you.

00:25:12.120 George Papadopoulos

00:25:13.160 or George Stephanopoulos.

00:25:15.060 The media have harped

00:25:16.160 on this Russia thing

00:25:17.400 forever and ever.

00:25:18.380 We had this absolutely

00:25:19.280 useless testimony today

00:25:20.820 that was funny.

00:25:21.880 I enjoyed that part.

00:25:22.700 That was a nice way

00:25:23.160 to wake up.

00:25:24.020 But the American people

00:25:25.660 seem to,

00:25:26.820 not like,

00:25:27.700 you know,

00:25:27.980 they don't want

00:25:28.420 Russians interfering 1.00

00:25:29.540 in our elections.

00:25:30.220 They don't want us

00:25:31.600 collaborating with

00:25:32.760 foreign powers

00:25:33.440 or yada, yada, yada.

00:25:34.320 But they really

00:25:34.940 hate the media.

00:25:35.740 They really hate

00:25:36.440 the media the most.

00:25:37.360 So which poses

00:25:38.240 the greater threat?

00:25:39.280 WikiLeaks sending

00:25:41.040 a couple tweets

00:25:41.960 to Donald Trump Jr.

00:25:43.260 Or a corrupt news media

00:25:44.780 run by people

00:25:46.300 like George Succalepagos 1.00

00:25:47.560 as Andrew Klavan

00:25:48.280 calls him

00:25:48.780 that are shilling

00:25:49.920 for Democrats

00:25:50.520 all the time.

00:25:51.300 Can I take neither

00:25:52.120 in this situation?

00:25:53.260 Do I have to take

00:25:54.040 with me?

00:25:54.060 Do you want arsenic

00:25:54.660 or hanging?

00:25:57.240 That's a tough call.

00:25:58.940 But I mean,

00:25:59.240 if it's,

00:25:59.960 again,

00:26:00.420 I don't want to make

00:26:01.200 big sweeping statements

00:26:02.040 about the Russia investigation

00:26:03.060 until it is concluded.

00:26:04.560 I think the American people

00:26:05.680 would really do well

00:26:06.360 to get the facts in this

00:26:07.440 and not have to deal

00:26:08.100 with the media rhetoric.

00:26:09.540 In the big picture,

00:26:10.560 though,

00:26:10.840 if the investigation

00:26:12.160 continues to not show

00:26:13.600 any evidence of collusion

00:26:16.280 as it hasn't so far,

00:26:17.280 I do think the problem

00:26:18.300 of the media

00:26:18.840 is a larger,

00:26:20.220 long-term problem

00:26:21.380 for the country

00:26:22.020 when people don't know

00:26:23.240 who to trust.

00:26:24.140 They don't even know

00:26:25.020 what's going on.

00:26:25.840 It's just this

00:26:26.380 sensationalist drivel

00:26:28.660 that's coming out

00:26:29.320 from the mainstream media

00:26:30.200 where everything

00:26:31.400 has to be the end

00:26:32.300 of the world

00:26:32.740 and with so many

00:26:33.680 different things

00:26:34.720 spelling doom.

00:26:36.120 Anything President Trump

00:26:36.840 does.

00:26:37.720 We're going towards

00:26:39.560 the edge of oblivion

00:26:40.440 and it's hard

00:26:40.920 for American people

00:26:41.580 to keep up

00:26:42.080 with what is supposed

00:26:42.740 to be killing them

00:26:43.360 that day,

00:26:44.220 what's supposed to be

00:26:44.800 and they wake up

00:26:45.720 every day.

00:26:46.920 What's the narrative?

00:26:47.800 What's supposed to be

00:26:48.700 scaring me

00:26:49.140 that President Trump

00:26:49.600 is doing today?

00:26:50.720 How near is our country

00:26:52.140 to falling off?

00:26:53.680 The American people,

00:26:54.760 it's sad that many of them

00:26:57.200 have fallen for this

00:26:58.240 but again,

00:26:59.380 I think the media

00:26:59.920 is to blame

00:27:00.420 and it's this sensationalism

00:27:01.740 where if everything

00:27:02.580 is sensational,

00:27:03.400 then nothing is

00:27:04.180 and the media

00:27:04.620 doesn't realize that.

00:27:05.340 And they're either sensationalist

00:27:06.800 or they're dead silent on it

00:27:08.500 because there was this piece.

00:27:10.080 Did you hear,

00:27:10.660 I'm sure you haven't,

00:27:11.840 did you hear about

00:27:12.480 the congressional candidate,

00:27:14.360 Democrat congressional candidate

00:27:15.480 David Alcone

00:27:16.540 who has been arrested

00:27:17.860 in New Mexico

00:27:18.640 for stalking a woman

00:27:20.300 and sending her photos

00:27:21.460 of his genitals? 0.72

00:27:22.440 You haven't heard about that

00:27:23.500 because not a single

00:27:25.300 mainstream news source

00:27:26.320 is covering it

00:27:27.040 because Alcone

00:27:27.880 is a Democrat.

00:27:28.900 Not one.

00:27:29.940 When you look it up,

00:27:30.640 it's like the Santa Fe

00:27:31.900 Shopping Cart Tribune

00:27:33.640 or the local

00:27:34.720 Albuquerque

00:27:35.580 Shopping Cart Dispatch

00:27:37.720 or, you know,

00:27:38.240 it's these really

00:27:38.720 local papers.

00:27:40.060 No one is covering it.

00:27:41.000 Meanwhile,

00:27:41.760 mainstream media

00:27:42.420 are doing their best

00:27:43.200 to black out

00:27:43.880 Trump's overseas trip

00:27:44.960 with tabloid coverage

00:27:46.380 of Roy Moore's

00:27:47.360 alleged sexual misdeeds

00:27:49.080 40 years ago.

00:27:50.600 Josh,

00:27:50.980 in the face

00:27:51.600 of this flagrant media bias,

00:27:53.660 is it any wonder

00:27:54.320 that people will still

00:27:55.420 vote for Roy Moore?

00:27:56.220 Well,

00:27:58.680 let's be clear.

00:27:59.660 The Democratic

00:28:00.420 Congressional Committee

00:28:01.500 has already come out

00:28:03.880 and condemned

00:28:05.280 this candidate.

00:28:06.840 When did that come out?

00:28:07.540 This story happened

00:28:08.500 a week ago,

00:28:09.460 two weeks ago.

00:28:11.400 Right.

00:28:11.820 They came out

00:28:12.460 after the fact.

00:28:14.660 And there's

00:28:15.740 clear hypocrisy,

00:28:16.780 though.

00:28:17.180 Don't get me wrong.

00:28:18.980 I think you're right.

00:28:20.340 I think that

00:28:21.060 there's going to be

00:28:22.020 pushback against

00:28:22.880 these allegations

00:28:23.640 on Moore.

00:28:24.780 people may vote

00:28:27.200 for him anyway,

00:28:27.980 which I think

00:28:28.380 is unfortunate.

00:28:29.460 But there is

00:28:30.540 this double standard.

00:28:32.140 But is it,

00:28:32.960 what do we mean

00:28:33.560 by unfortunate?

00:28:34.420 I mean,

00:28:34.800 I get it.

00:28:36.360 A lot of this testimony

00:28:37.820 is very compelling,

00:28:39.240 especially that

00:28:40.500 Gloria Allred interview

00:28:41.600 that came out yesterday.

00:28:42.980 The only thing

00:28:43.660 that makes me not believe

00:28:44.400 that interview

00:28:44.820 is that Gloria Allred

00:28:45.820 was there.

00:28:47.060 That's the main issue

00:28:48.600 with it.

00:28:49.260 But there are issues

00:28:50.860 on the line here.

00:28:51.460 We're talking about freedom.

00:28:52.260 We're talking about

00:28:52.580 a razor-thin Senate majority.

00:28:54.280 We're talking about

00:28:55.700 issues that will affect

00:28:58.120 your freedom and mine,

00:28:59.540 your national security

00:29:00.600 and mine,

00:29:01.600 your constitutional adherence

00:29:04.220 and mine.

00:29:05.300 Cabot,

00:29:05.900 is there a good argument

00:29:07.720 for voting for Roy Moore,

00:29:08.920 even if the charges

00:29:09.740 are true,

00:29:10.420 even if 40 years ago

00:29:11.580 he was a weird creep,

00:29:13.180 and even if the worst

00:29:14.260 charges are true

00:29:14.940 and he was

00:29:15.660 a kind of vicious guy,

00:29:17.840 is there still

00:29:18.580 an argument

00:29:19.120 to vote for him

00:29:20.020 because we're talking

00:29:21.560 about politics

00:29:22.200 and we're talking

00:29:22.680 about freedom

00:29:23.200 and we're talking

00:29:24.160 about how our government

00:29:27.000 will compose itself

00:29:29.560 both on the international front

00:29:31.060 and here in the United States.

00:29:33.720 I'm going to get some flack

00:29:34.760 for this

00:29:35.080 and I've been getting

00:29:35.540 some hate

00:29:36.240 from some other conservatives

00:29:37.100 on social media

00:29:37.740 for this,

00:29:38.200 but I truly would rather

00:29:39.620 we lose an election

00:29:40.920 than have to explain

00:29:42.280 to our children

00:29:42.680 in the future

00:29:43.100 why we supported

00:29:44.000 a guy who was accused

00:29:45.180 of being a rapist,

00:29:46.620 who was accused

00:29:47.280 of having relationships

00:29:48.780 with 14-year-old girls

00:29:49.860 as a grown man.

00:29:50.760 I think that certain things

00:29:52.420 you don't compromise on

00:29:53.600 and I don't think

00:29:54.240 we want to be the party

00:29:55.100 that is electing a guy

00:29:55.960 who's accused of all this.

00:29:56.940 Now again,

00:29:57.400 there needs to be

00:29:58.460 due process.

00:29:59.380 We need to make sure

00:29:59.980 that we're getting

00:30:00.460 the facts on this,

00:30:01.360 but as it stands now-

00:30:01.460 But there can't be due process.

00:30:03.140 There can't be.

00:30:03.740 There's 40 years later.

00:30:05.440 There's a statute of limitations

00:30:06.380 on many of these issues,

00:30:07.520 but again,

00:30:08.300 as it stands now,

00:30:09.400 I tend to believe

00:30:10.960 many of these accusers,

00:30:12.100 I think that looking

00:30:13.480 at the evidence

00:30:14.040 and smouthing up against him,

00:30:15.640 it doesn't look good.

00:30:16.520 At the very least,

00:30:17.400 he's a complete creeper

00:30:19.200 and what grown man

00:30:20.480 is going around

00:30:20.980 hanging out

00:30:21.520 with high school girls

00:30:22.200 trying to pick up

00:30:22.940 young girls at the mall,

00:30:24.460 I think that is not

00:30:25.620 something that is something

00:30:28.060 we want to be promoting

00:30:29.040 in the party,

00:30:29.700 but as far as the actual

00:30:30.680 election itself goes,

00:30:32.500 I don't think that

00:30:33.760 Mitch McConnell coming out

00:30:34.920 and saying don't vote for him

00:30:36.180 is going to drive anyone

00:30:37.240 in Alabama away

00:30:38.040 from voting for him.

00:30:38.800 Well, that's true.

00:30:39.380 Anything that may give votes,

00:30:40.380 looking at the vitriol

00:30:41.860 that many people in Alabama

00:30:42.800 have towards

00:30:43.520 the Republican establishment,

00:30:45.320 the more old school senators

00:30:47.140 in D.C. to come out

00:30:48.340 and say we don't want

00:30:49.040 this guy in the Senate,

00:30:49.800 I think the more

00:30:50.500 it may help him

00:30:51.460 get votes in Alabama.

00:30:52.800 Again, I don't agree

00:30:54.080 with that strategy,

00:30:55.440 but I do think that

00:30:56.300 looking at logically

00:30:57.540 in Alabama,

00:30:58.660 I think that could be

00:30:59.560 helping him in some way.

00:31:01.280 But on the morality

00:31:02.360 of this issue,

00:31:03.100 and I'm not sure

00:31:03.880 which way it really falls,

00:31:05.320 let's not forget,

00:31:06.300 if Republicans still

00:31:08.240 go out there,

00:31:08.900 I mean, none of us

00:31:09.840 are in Alabama,

00:31:10.300 but if Republicans

00:31:11.320 in Alabama go out

00:31:12.360 and they vote for Roy Moore

00:31:13.620 and then he's seated

00:31:14.780 as a U.S. senator

00:31:15.880 and we maintain

00:31:17.120 our Senate majority

00:31:18.140 and we get good

00:31:19.300 pro-liberty legislation passed,

00:31:21.800 you know,

00:31:22.140 constitutionally,

00:31:23.580 constitutional legislation passed

00:31:25.820 and legislation

00:31:26.560 to protect the Constitution,

00:31:28.740 if we maintain that majority

00:31:30.160 and then we have

00:31:32.060 a stave against impeachment

00:31:33.200 or a stave against conviction

00:31:35.080 of the president,

00:31:36.200 what would you rather do

00:31:37.220 in 40 years,

00:31:38.000 say, yeah,

00:31:38.660 there was a really creepy guy,

00:31:40.480 probably not a very good guy,

00:31:41.860 who was in the Senate

00:31:42.900 for a while

00:31:43.540 and that's probably not good

00:31:45.260 or would you rather say,

00:31:46.680 yeah, because we decided

00:31:48.320 that accusations 0.82

00:31:49.600 from 40 years ago

00:31:50.820 are enough to knock off

00:31:52.100 a Senate candidate,

00:31:53.500 we lost our majority

00:31:54.880 and we had to enshrine Obamacare

00:31:56.560 and we didn't get tax reform,

00:31:57.860 we lost our presidency

00:31:59.340 because he was impeached

00:32:00.300 and we didn't get

00:32:01.160 any decent judges

00:32:02.000 and your First Amendment's gone

00:32:03.620 and your Second Amendment's gone,

00:32:04.940 but hey,

00:32:05.220 I feel good about myself

00:32:06.180 because we didn't support

00:32:07.620 that really creepy guy.

00:32:09.120 It doesn't seem like

00:32:10.280 a clear moral question to me.

00:32:12.000 Josh, what do you think?

00:32:13.220 Yeah, no,

00:32:13.900 I think it's a slippery slope.

00:32:15.460 If conservatives

00:32:15.980 are going to condemn

00:32:17.000 Harvey Weinstein,

00:32:18.360 conservatives are going to condemn

00:32:19.880 these Hollywood liberal elites,

00:32:21.940 there has to be consistency.

00:32:24.140 Why?

00:32:24.980 Harvey Weinstein

00:32:25.800 doesn't adjudicate

00:32:27.380 whether or not

00:32:28.100 my government

00:32:28.800 encroaches on my freedom or not.

00:32:30.580 Harvey Weinstein

00:32:31.240 is a gross producer

00:32:32.100 in Hollywood

00:32:32.580 who makes bad movies

00:32:34.080 and some good movies,

00:32:35.400 but he's a bad guy

00:32:36.240 and we're talking

00:32:38.080 about the Senate.

00:32:39.160 The distinction

00:32:39.840 I'm trying to make here

00:32:40.840 is between this guy's

00:32:42.180 weird personal life

00:32:43.140 40 years ago

00:32:44.000 and the politics of it

00:32:46.360 and the liberty of it

00:32:48.740 and the freedom.

00:32:49.280 There's a difference, though.

00:32:50.200 I think there's a difference

00:32:51.740 between a weird personal life

00:32:53.900 and an illegal personal life.

00:32:56.140 And if we're going to be

00:32:56.740 the party of morality

00:32:58.120 and the party of law and order,

00:33:00.060 how can we stand by a guy

00:33:02.020 who, this is, again,

00:33:03.400 But he hasn't been convicted

00:33:04.220 of anything.

00:33:05.160 These accusations are coming.

00:33:06.700 And I'm not saying

00:33:07.240 I don't believe them.

00:33:07.900 I actually am tempted

00:33:08.820 to believe them.

00:33:09.800 I'm compelled to believe them.

00:33:11.140 But this guy has no due process.

00:33:14.000 We're talking about accusations

00:33:15.120 well past the statute

00:33:16.300 of limitations.

00:33:17.320 Does this mean

00:33:17.940 that whenever Democrats

00:33:19.340 get upset in a bad race,

00:33:21.240 they can find somebody?

00:33:22.480 And I'm not saying

00:33:23.100 that that is what's happening

00:33:24.060 in this case.

00:33:25.100 But if your principle

00:33:26.360 holds true,

00:33:27.160 then doesn't that mean

00:33:27.820 they can find somebody,

00:33:29.100 hurl some accusations,

00:33:30.000 and we have to jump off the guy

00:33:33.220 even if there is no due process?

00:33:36.300 Well, there's a big difference

00:33:37.300 between accusations

00:33:38.240 and people coming forward

00:33:40.300 with evidence

00:33:41.100 and with a repeated patent.

00:33:43.560 Well, your book is pretty bad.

00:33:45.100 Your book doesn't look good.

00:33:46.860 But also,

00:33:47.560 when it comes to this guy's

00:33:48.700 morality as a whole,

00:33:49.920 can we just assume

00:33:50.880 that he's going to

00:33:51.580 all of a sudden support

00:33:52.740 all of these conservative principles

00:33:53.840 once he gets elected?

00:33:55.160 If we can't trust him

00:33:56.280 to be honest about his history,

00:33:57.780 if we can't trust him

00:33:58.600 to follow the law,

00:34:00.000 and not be a scumbag

00:34:02.320 in the way it appears,

00:34:03.280 can we really trust him?

00:34:04.880 In public life,

00:34:05.700 in public life,

00:34:06.620 his record has been

00:34:07.540 extremely conservative.

00:34:09.400 Now, are we saying

00:34:10.160 that someone who's ever

00:34:11.120 broken the law

00:34:11.780 can't be a conservative?

00:34:13.280 Well, you know,

00:34:14.180 there but for the grace

00:34:14.820 of God go I

00:34:15.600 because all are sinners

00:34:16.400 and fall short

00:34:16.920 of the glory of God, right?

00:34:18.560 His entire standard

00:34:19.800 is still a higher standard

00:34:21.180 than some random guy

00:34:22.760 that's creeping them all.

00:34:24.660 Totally.

00:34:25.280 I totally buy that.

00:34:26.680 I mean, this guy's

00:34:27.180 probably going to lose anyway

00:34:28.320 because that was

00:34:29.280 such a devastating

00:34:30.000 press conference yesterday.

00:34:31.540 I'm just pointing out

00:34:32.980 that there are

00:34:33.500 two different aspects here.

00:34:35.060 We're talking about

00:34:36.140 this guy's creepy personal life.

00:34:38.700 Listen, you've met

00:34:39.800 a lot of politicians.

00:34:40.960 I've met a lot of politicians.

00:34:42.540 They're basically

00:34:43.440 all terrible people.

00:34:44.780 There are a few exceptions

00:34:46.120 that I could name,

00:34:47.160 but they're all just

00:34:47.920 desiccated, awful people

00:34:49.580 who have no sense

00:34:50.760 of integrity or soul

00:34:52.280 or really even wisdom.

00:34:54.700 They just have

00:34:55.260 a desire for power.

00:34:56.300 And so I don't know.

00:34:57.800 I'm just not surprised by this.

00:34:59.780 I think it's,

00:35:01.000 if these accusations are true,

00:35:02.440 it's really awful

00:35:03.480 and the Luther Strange campaign

00:35:05.340 should have figured it out

00:35:06.340 so they could have

00:35:06.960 knocked him out early

00:35:07.840 and we could have

00:35:08.320 won this seat.

00:35:09.780 Or the oppo research.

00:35:11.080 Yeah, done some oppo research.

00:35:13.220 But that does raise a question.

00:35:14.420 Why couldn't Strange

00:35:15.100 figure this out?

00:35:16.040 Why couldn't any of his opponents

00:35:17.260 in all of the years

00:35:17.900 he's been in public life

00:35:18.800 figure it out?

00:35:19.980 Josh, last word.

00:35:20.840 I think the difference is

00:35:23.640 Roy Moore has premised

00:35:25.580 his entire campaign

00:35:26.720 on being holier than thou.

00:35:28.460 This is a morally infused campaign.

00:35:31.620 He said he's going to legislate

00:35:33.360 based on his moral principles.

00:35:36.320 And if that's the case

00:35:37.540 and he's an immoral character,

00:35:40.560 then none of this follows.

00:35:42.860 Then his campaign

00:35:43.740 doesn't make sense.

00:35:45.580 It's inconsistent.

00:35:46.440 It's hypocritical.

00:35:47.180 And I don't think

00:35:50.980 that he's going to win.

00:35:53.300 And I don't think

00:35:54.080 that what he did

00:35:54.920 should be viewed

00:35:57.160 in any sort of positive light

00:35:58.500 regardless of the costs

00:35:59.480 and benefits

00:35:59.920 of having him

00:36:00.940 in the Senate.

00:36:03.160 Well, and that's a fair point too

00:36:05.160 that in this case

00:36:06.740 there is hypocrisy.

00:36:08.500 Whenever you're going to stand

00:36:10.000 for a moral standard

00:36:11.120 or a traditional standard,

00:36:12.380 then you are going to come

00:36:13.620 under the microscope for it.

00:36:15.400 And that's too bad

00:36:16.060 because the Democrats

00:36:16.640 don't have any standards.

00:36:17.860 They don't have any standards at all,

00:36:19.140 which means they might be

00:36:20.020 vicious, awful people,

00:36:20.940 but at least they aren't hypocrites.

00:36:22.520 Roche-Foucault says

00:36:23.320 that hypocrisy is the tribute

00:36:24.880 that vice pays to virtue,

00:36:26.120 but in this case

00:36:26.860 it's probably enough

00:36:27.620 to make this guy

00:36:28.240 lose the Senate race.

00:36:29.400 Maybe he should lose

00:36:30.100 the Senate race,

00:36:30.720 but it's really too bad

00:36:32.720 that his Republican opponent

00:36:35.620 couldn't have dug this up

00:36:36.640 a while ago,

00:36:37.580 kicked him out of the race,

00:36:38.540 and then we wouldn't

00:36:39.240 be having this conversation

00:36:40.280 right now.

00:36:41.040 To quote a great man,

00:36:42.120 sad.

00:36:42.800 Maybe we should have followed

00:36:43.900 the candidate

00:36:44.700 that President Trump endorsed.

00:36:46.060 Okay, gentlemen.

00:36:47.500 Excellent.

00:36:48.020 Thank you for being here.

00:36:49.140 Cabot Phillips from Campus Reform

00:36:50.460 and Josh Yasma.

00:36:51.840 I will talk to you both very soon.

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