The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 58 - Dems Grill Sessions On Russia： Do You Still Beat Your Wife？


Summary

As Sen. Jeff Sessions was grilled by Democrats on Capitol Hill today, Josh Yasmas and Campus Reform s Cabot Phillips join the panel of deplorables to discuss Trump's slam dunk on getting China to release UCLA basketball players.


Transcript

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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,
00:01:29.620 maybe my favorite member of the federal government.
00:01:31.460 Before we get to all of the highlights, though,
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00:04:57.160 Okay, let's get to the news.
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,
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.
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,
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.
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
00:09:31.240 as white people for that statistic.
00:09:33.020 So when you look for non-Hispanic whites,
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.
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.
00:14:18.320 We bring on Josh Yasmin,
00:14:20.020 Campus Reform's Cabot Phillips.
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00:18:03.680 all of the important news
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,
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,
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,
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
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
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?
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
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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