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He's lost his voice.

Timing is,

I'd say, incredibly suspicious, however.

Seems to coincide with his birthday.

Happy birthday to Glenn.

We got a lot to get to, and let's start it off with something strange

involving Chris Cuomo.

Stu's apparently falling in love.

We'll get to that right now.

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All right, so

yesterday,

Stewart defended Chris Cuomo from CNN.

It's not something I'm going to put in the family history.

I'll tell you that.

It was not a problem.

I didn't believe that yesterday.

This is a week of shame for you.

It is.

A week of incredible shame.

This guy's in the Douche Hall of Fame.

He is in the Douche Hall of Fame.

Chris Cuomo voted there with really 97% of the vote or something like like that.

Here's a guy who,

you know, it's difficult to defend many times.

Yeah.

But I will attempt, I think, a Guinness Book of World Record here today on the program

for the most consecutive days a human being has ever defended Chris Cuomo.

And of course, the record would be two.

That's it.

Yesterday,

Chris Cuomo was tweeted about by Donald Trump, and

he said, Trump said he wouldn't even ask Richard Blumenthal about his Vietnam service, right?

That was a controversy yesterday.

But I just, I mean, look, I'm not saying that this happens often, but I happen to be listening to that interview.

As I said, I think you've fallen in love with Chris Cuomo.

No, well, let me just get the facts out there.

I just want to get the facts out there.

Get the facts out.

Literally, the first question of the interview was about...

the Vietnam service of Richard Blumenthal.

It was literally the first question of the interview.

Yeah.

So, I mean, you know.

There's a lot to criticize about Chris Cuomo.

You don't need to make stuff up.

Exactly.

Yes, absolutely.

And I think Trump, you know, probably just joined the interview late.

Like, he probably turned it on in the middle of it and missed that question.

But one of his advisors should probably tell him, wait a minute, Don, before you tweet that, just so you know, that was the first question.

So that was, I think, a defense of Chris Cuomo yesterday.

Let me ask you a question.

When is the last time you listened to Chris Cuomo?

It was on the 12th of Never.

Oh,

at Never O'Clock?

Yes, okay, yeah.

I caught that one too.

Normally, that's the one I catch.

That's the airing of the show that I catch.

But I happened to catch that one.

Okay.

So

that turned Chris Cuomo.

And look, he was handed a gift, right?

Everyone's saying that Donald Trump is saying all these fake things.

It's his interview.

He obviously has video of him asking the question.

So all day yesterday, he was all over the media saying, hey, Donald Trump lied about me, Donald Trump lied about me.

And he came up with this point that he thought was a great point, and he made it on several different

mediums.

He made it on his show.

He made it on apparently Michael Smurkanish's show on Sirius XM.

Here's a version of it.

And again,

it's not a loud point.

It's a N-word for journalist.

Let's try it again.

I see

being called fake news as the equivalent of the N-word for journalists, the equivalent of calling an Italian any of the ugly words that people have for that ethnicity.

That's what fake news is to a journalist.

It is an ugly insult and you better be right if you're going to charge a journalist with lying on purpose.

And the president was not right here and he's not been right in the past.

Okay, so the uproar, you could tell without even

I haven't even paid attention to the uproar over this, but you know it's the comparison.

Yes, he compares the plight of African Americans to he is as a journalist.

Exactly.

That's exactly the play.

And it's sad for Chris because he's going on his little victory tour on the media to show how he was actually right for once.

Yeah.

And what happens?

He says this.

And he said the very similar thing on CNN, where he said it was similar to a racial slur for journalists.

Now, everyone's, you're comparing the plight of African Americans to, you know, fake news, accusation for journalists?

No.

He, no, everyone on earth knows what he's doing.

What he's saying is, if you say a journalist is lying to a journalist, it's a really big insult.

And there are other, here's another example of a really big insult.

I love the fact that he can't even bring himself to say what these words are.

Obviously, we're all at the point where we say the N-word, right?

Which is fine with me.

But he can't even bring himself, and he is Italian, right?

He can't even bring himself to say one of the slurs against Italians.

He's like, it's like one of those slurs against Italians that people come up with.

Begins with a letter near the end of the alphabet.

Right.

What do you mean?

Now, of course, this is the media's creation, right?

The reason why he can't say,

number one, why he can't say the word that he wants to say about Italians, whatever

it is.

Number two,

it's also a media creation that he has to now come up and apologize today,

or actually, yeah, yesterday he said, I was wrong.

Calling a journalist fake, nothing compared to the pain of a racial slur.

I should not have said it.

I apologize.

Everyone who heard this knows he was not comparing the pain of a racial slur to saying fake news is insulting to journalists.

It is not the same thing.

He is saying that

it's a real insult to me personally when you say that

I would make something up like that.

And it's just as offensive to me as it is to other people who are offended in other ways.

So he's not saying that he's now been through slavery because he is not saying he was accused of fake news.

Journalists are victims of Jim Crow law.

He's not saying that.

He's not saying he was hit by a fire hose at any point during the day.

Dogs were not released at him.

Does he really need to make these disclaimers?

Or are we adults and can realize exactly what he was saying?

No, we're not.

And you know what?

And again, I know this is my Chris Cuomo, I'm trying to set a Chris Cuomo defense record here.

But if this happened with someone else, Chris Cuomo would be critical of them.

And just like everybody else in the media would act as if they didn't understand what was going on.

And they would all criticize some Republican politician.

It's certainly happened to us and other talk show hosts.

It's happened to comedians.

It's happened to everyone.

No one believes that Chris Cuomo was comparing his actual plight to that of racial slurs and racial

animus that has happened over the past couple hundred years.

No, he was just saying that one of the

biggest criticisms, the most offensive thing you can say to a journalist is to say that they're making up news because that's their line of work.

It's like, you know,

it's like any

industry could make this point.

If you were to say that, you know, a chef

was

poisoning his, or he wasn't using fresh ingredients.

Well, that's like saying, you know,

a racial slur.

It's just him saying that that's what's important to me me in my job.

I want people to believe I'm credible.

And he did absolutely nothing wrong there.

Absolutely nothing wrong.

Yet we all have to act as if we think he was saying this crazy thing and minimizing the plight.

of African Americans.

He was not minimizing the plight.

He was saying it was important to him in a colorful way.

The same thing that every time someone brings up a about

the Nazis, everyone says, oh, how dare you?

Are you comparing what you are?

Is Jerry Seinfeld comparing his experience at a soup restaurant to the plight of the Nazis?

No!

Soup Nazi is just a funny way of saying the guy was tough, right?

The guy had stringent rules that you better follow.

Everyone knew that.

Nobody thought that what he was saying was, wow, is he saying the person at the soup restaurant is putting people into concentration camps?

No.

No.

So

for whatever reason,

we have chosen as a society with the media leading this process to all be children and to all act as if we don't understand what other people are saying so that we can feel some weird

outrage that for whatever reason we want to feel.

I don't understand why people go through life wanting to feel outraged over things like this.

But man, do they?

And Chris Cuomo plays right into it with his stupid apology,

which I guarantee somebody at CNN said, you know what?

You guys need to apologize over that.

There's probably some person who said, you need to apologize over that.

And he went out and he did it.

I can't imagine, because he said it on multiple shows.

This was not the only time he said it.

He obviously thought it was a fine point to make until he had to apologize for it after the backlash.

It's just ridiculous.

I, you know, society gets boring if you live by these standards.

On the other hand, I will say that

he is now being bitten by

his own standards because he helped create that.

He helped create that society in which we can't just say, okay, no, he's saying that was offensive to him, just as

being called a racial slur is offensive to other people of ethnicities, different ethnicities.

So

it's almost poetic justice.

It is, I know.

Yes.

But I mean, it's still wrong.

Even though Chris Cuomo deserves it.

Even though everyone in the media deserves it.

It's still wrong.

You know, I mean, and the reason why you do that is because it's an interesting way of phrasing it.

It makes you think about it a little bit.

If you were to say this, you know, calling a journalist fake news is the same as calling a doorman someone who lets in people who don't haven't filled out the correct paperwork.

Like, that's not interesting.

Yes, it would also work.

You know, I would assume a doorman wants to be responsible and says, Yeah, hey, well, you know, I only let the right people in the door, but no one cares about that.

It's a terrible example.

No, everyone will be like, why the hell is he comparing it to a door?

What?

A doorman?

No, you use the example that everyone seems to know.

And you, and you,

by the way, that's my wife calling in the middle of the show.

Thank you, honey.

I don't know.

What do you think I'm doing right now?

It's a surprise, George.

This time of the day.

A shocking development.

When did that begin?

What, 15, 20 years ago?

Oh, what?

It's weird.

We met each other.

I was doing a show at this time, and I'm currently doing a show at this time.

But that's just dub.

You're right, though.

It is a creation of the media.

It is a creation of many people.

It's liberals eating their own.

And I always love that.

I know.

So I'm not nearly as passionate about this as you are because he deserves every bit of it.

And you know what?

Every bit of it.

The same thing.

In two weeks, some host will say something like this, and Chris Cuomo will do a show where he's bashing the guy.

Yes, he will.

And that's the problem.

That's why I like to take, this is the moment I like to talk about it because it's not one of our own.

But it's still wrong.

It's still ridiculous.

Our society is ridiculous on stuff like this.

And because it's Chris Cuomo, I mean, this is a guy who has been voted into the Patents Dew douche Hall of Fame.

This is not a person I like defending, especially in consecutive days.

Right.

It's really problematic for,

I mean, really, my life history.

This is going to be a mark on my family's history.

There's no doubt about it.

There's a lot of shame.

Yeah, it is.

It's really, there was a lot of shame associated.

But, you know, I think it's still the right thing to do.

It is, and it does show consistency.

I mean, we are consistent with that, right?

It does drive us nuts.

It's such a stupid.

And we, almost every day, it happens to somebody.

Almost every day.

And it would be nice if we could be adults and realize that's not what's happening.

But again, Chris Cuomo helped create that environment.

And now he's being punished by that environment.

It is their standard.

It is.

It's just the terrible standard.

It is.

It really is.

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They put a hold on the travel ban situation.

The Ninth Circuit Court came through again with some weird ruling and decided that

this can't happen right now, at least.

Right.

And that's about all it did, right?

It just stopped it for now.

Yeah, just for the moment.

Basically, Trump wanted to say, well,

we should be able to do this until you decide whether it's okay or not.

And

the other side was saying, well, no, we need to stop it until we figure out whether it's okay or not.

And so they sided with that part of it.

They're going to stop it until they figure out whether it's okay or not.

It really, this is a whole story.

We should go through this at some point today.

It is the biggest story that actually that is actually the smallest story.

None of this is all that important, to be perfectly honest.

This is not that big of a deal.

You know, it just delays it a little bit.

But I mean, you know, we just went through eight years without it.

right?

You know, if it's eight years and three months, it's not that big of a deal.

And remember, it was only a temporary ban anyway.

It only lasted for three months.

So it's not that big of a deal.

You know, it's just, we can't have a small story anymore.

It almost seems like it's impossible, especially when it has to do with Donald Trump.

Because this all starts with the media freaking out over something that is not that big of a deal.

Yeah.

And, you know, then the Trump administration freaks out because they're freaking out.

And it winds up leading to just non-stop

craziness.

And then Bashir Assad, the president of

Syria, has kind of contributed to the hysteria involving this story because he weighed in and he said, he told Yahoo News yesterday that some of the refugees that will be coming are definitely, quote, definitely terrorists.

Well, thank you very much for that shit.

That's really helpful.

But that contributes to the hysteria.

He said, you can find it on the internet.

Those terrorists in Syria holding the machine gun or killing people, they appear as peaceful refugees in Europe or in the West.

You don't need a significant number to commit atrocities.

He noted that the 9-11 attacks were pulled off by fewer than 20 terrorists out of maybe millions of immigrants in the United States.

So it's not about the number.

It's about the quality.

It's about the intentions.

And he's right about that.

Yeah, of course.

I mean, you can't, you cannot eliminate it.

You cannot eliminate the possibility.

And, you know, this comes from not only

refugees.

It comes from immigrants from Mexico.

It comes from immigrants from European nations.

It comes from your own citizens.

You can't eliminate it.

You try very hard to make sure you're not importing crime.

Like, that is not a

completely reasonable request for the government to do.

But Bashir Ashad's motives may be in question.

We're not quite sure.

You never know where he's coming.

He's cozy with Russia.

With Russia, yeah, obviously.

And so you think he has a reason to do this.

And, of course, he has.

He also wants us a little more involved in that civil war.

Right.

Not to mention.

If you're a refugee from Syria, likely what you're saying is the Assad regime is terrible, and I need to leave.

Right?

So he has a reason to say that these people don't, they're not being honest.

It's not terrible here.

It's not my fault.

Those are the guys that are the bad guys.

Look at them.

They have machine guns.

They're terrorists.

So he is obviously motivated.

But I mean, plainly, that analysis is true.

I mean, almost definitely we're going to miss somebody, right?

If we start, if we, you know.

We've done it in the past and we'll do it in the future.

Exactly.

It's going to be very difficult.

If you think government can handle tasks like this, you've got a lot more faith in government than I do.

However,

you can make this statement about everybody coming to this country.

You can make it with tourist visas.

I mean, anytime you're having anyone come visit you, theoretically they could be a terrorist.

You know, in Syria, and the reason why this travel ban, the reason why they picked the seven countries, by the way, outlined by the Obama administration first as highly risky, is you're trying to improve your percentages.

We all know that someone from

Norway could come here and be terrorists.

One of the biggest, the biggest mass shooting on the planet was Norway, right?

You know, you never know who you're importing.

It's not that.

You just try to increase your percentages.

That's all you can do.

So the answer, of course, is to not import anyone.

Don't let anybody come visit.

Ever.

Ever.

Go away.

Stay off my lawn.

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He's

sick today.

Right.

It's also his birthday.

He's sick on his birthday.

It just happens to be.

An amazing coincidence.

It's just an amazing coincidence.

What a tragedy.

What a terrible tragedy that he gets to spend his birthday at home.

Yeah.

Unlike me, you know, yesterday, it was my birthday.

That's right.

You were, it seems like...

I was here.

Here.

Sitting right where you are now.

Right.

Yeah.

And then it was at Chuck E.

Cheese, which is.

was a, you know, it's where you want to spend your birthday when you're 41.

You want to get.

You share a birthday, however, with your four-year-old daughter.

I do.

Ainsley,

who is four.

Who's in charge of the birthday?

I mean, her,

plainly, her.

But I will say, Chuck E.

Cheese stuffed crust pizza.

Pretty good.

Is it?

Pretty freaking good.

That's really.

When I think delicious pizza, my mind goes immediately to Chuck E.

Cheese.

It's an interesting establishment

in that, first of all, all the parents now are the age that they grew up playing video games.

So,

like, I can act like I don't like going to an arcade, but I do.

I actually do like it.

Number one.

Number two, they have a bunch of food now, which is pretty, like, the pizza was, you know, pretty good not bad it's not bad yeah i mean it's okay and i'll say this i'm at a point in my life you know where i when i was ordering the pizza they said it's two dollars extra for the stuffed crust and i said do it i don't care holy you know what do it on both pizzas you gotta be kidding

you spent an extra four bucks and you didn't care didn't even think about it i was like you know what just roll with it i roll high you know give me the corner

must you make here look I don't even four extra dollars.

Four extra dollars.

And you just said do it, just like that.

I just said do it.

You didn't think about it.

You didn't discuss it.

No.

You didn't take a loan out.

I didn't call my financial advisor.

I just said roll with a stuffed crust.

Wow.

And they did.

And it was delicious.

So, I mean, that's the kind of guy I am at this point in my life.

You know, I mean, you know, you know, will I pay for it in retirement?

Maybe I will.

But, you know, you got to live life.

That's what I told the guy in Chuck Especially.

I can almost guarantee you'll wish you had those $4.

He looked at me strangely when I said you got to live life because I was approving the stuff

the stuffed crust upgrade.

He didn't seem as impressed as I was.

There's still a lot of people that go to Chuck E.

Cheese.

Was it packed?

Well, I was actually, and this is a tad off topic for the world today, but it's like, when I was a kid, the cool place I wanted to go was Chuck E.

Cheese.

It's 40 years later.

It's still the place my kids want to go.

It's amazing.

It really is incredible.

And it's changed a little bit in that now.

They have this like, you know, it's almost sad in a way that like, you know, you have enough, you know, example, you know, enough enough Nancy Grace episodes.

Everyone's uh afraid that their kid's going to be, you know,

taken.

And so

they have these things now where you go in and they stamp your hand

with a number and then they stamp your kids' hands as you walk in the door.

So you can't leave like your kids can't leave and you can't leave unless you're, you know, with someone with the same number

stamped on you.

So like, oh, nice.

Basically, there's.

And do they check everybody on your staff?

Oh, yeah.

They check everybody.

They're in and out.

Do they?

I'd say they're Nazis about it, but Chris Cuomo might make me apologize, so I won't say that.

No, they're

really good about it.

Yeah, they really are.

They're really helpful with your kids' security.

Yeah, they are.

Which is good.

I mean, because

you know, you get your kids like, you know, you turn your head for a second, you know, and your kid runs away.

Well, he can't leave.

At least there's somewhere.

They might, they might, you know, they might.

And they can't leave with somebody else.

They can't leave with anybody else.

Because they don't have a matching number.

That's exactly.

That's cool.

And that's why.

Wow.

And the other thing is they serve beer there, so you can just get hammered while your kid's running around.

And then drive them home.

And then just drive them home.

It's a beautiful thing.

They'll make sure you're the right parent driving them home drunk.

My God, man.

How much money did you spend at this place?

No, it is weird.

They do it.

They cast across pizza and beer.

No, I didn't have any beer, but they did.

They do.

I think the last time I went to...

See, my youngest is now 16, so it's been a while since I've been to Chuck E.

Cheese.

And I don't think they served beer the last time.

They did.

The last time I was there.

I don't know.

Well, look, the world's been a little bit more difficult.

The world's getting increasingly more intense.

So now you need a couple beers while you're at Chuck and Cheese, apparently.

Just to get through the experience.

They start offering fireball shots.

I'm going to think, no, if this is exactly appropriate.

All right,

there's been this story that we've had on the plate all week from Chesterfield, Missouri, where this 12-year-old kid wore a Make America Great Again cap on the bus to school.

And he started getting hassled.

And one of the kids on the bus is yelling, you want to build a wall?

wall you want to build a wall

yeah and i want to argue with you a 12 year old about whether or not the wall is appropriate and we need one yes i i want to build the wall okay yeah i think that's a good idea for our security like this 12 year old's gonna understand it anyway he gets up and starts punching the kid in the face starts beating him here's a a quick report uh from the local from the local news station about the mom tells me she never expected a reaction like this when she allowed her son to wear a Make America Great Again hat to school.

As a parent, it's so upsetting because

my son doesn't need to be made the example for this.

Christina Cortina showed us the video.

Her son in a Donald Trump campaign hat getting into an argument with students on the bus and it quickly gets out of control.

You want to fill the wall?

You want to fill a b?

At one point he just got so frustrated that he pushed me.

And then what'd you do?

And then he kept hitting me and backing me up to like

my window of the bus.

And so I just had to push him out.

Gavin is now suspended from school.

In fact, a Parkway district spokesperson tells us all the students involved have faced consequences.

It's unbelievable.

Fighting over politics may not seem like something middle schoolers would do.

So

if you're getting hit in the face repeatedly, I guess you just stand there and take it.

Yeah, you can't retaliate.

You can't get up and push the kid away, which is all he did.

Without consequences.

Without getting

from school.

I would own that school by the

end of it.

I would, too.

Oh, my God.

You've already owned a school.

Of course, I've already owned a school that didn't really go all that well.

Sirio want another one?

So, you know what?

Never mind.

Never mind.

You guys could keep it.

I'd let him kick my kid out.

That's fine.

Whatever.

He deserved it.

It is bizarre, though.

I mean, you know, you can't.

That's not even a making America great again is obviously the trump slogan it's a trump hat but it's not something that anyone should disagree with right like you should want it to be great damn you for making america great

i it's really weird first of all what are this kid's parents telling him oh my gosh about donald trump to incite that kind of rage in a 12-year-old kid over politics Did you ever, when you were 12 years old, fight any battles over politics?

I don't think I had.

I did not

once.

Absolutely not.

Not ever.

No.

And this goes back to

this is widespread, obviously.

People are very panicked over Donald Trump and what he might do.

Well, we talked about the George Stephanopoulos example.

George Stephanopoulos is a major journalist.

This is a guy who might, you know,

be at a debate.

He's a guy who does major interviews.

And his wife, who I don't remember who it was, but she's kind of a celebrity too, right?

I can't remember who she is.

But she was on the view saying that her 11-year-old daughter wanted to sleep in bed with them every night because she was so terrified that Donald Trump might get rid of abortion.

Yeah, this was about three, I think three weeks or four weeks after the election, and she had been sleeping with her parents every night since election night.

That's how terrified she was.

So what were George Stephanopoulos and his wife saying at the dinner table to this girl to make her that way?

She's 11.

I mean, she's obviously, you know, I'm sure she reads things on the internet too, or whatever, but like your parents, you still have some sway, perhaps.

And she, and the mother was, was, you know, directly in line with that.

I mean, she told the story proud of her daughter for being so scared that abortion might go away.

She was actually proud of her daughter.

Well, she talked about

election night screaming no abortion.

No abortion.

Can you imagine your 11-year-old daughter?

Your 11-year-old, that's the thing.

You want to have an abortion so badly

in the next four years by the time you're 15 that you're

screaming no abortion when he's elected.

No abortion!

No abortion!

No.

Plus, that is just one of the weirdest things of the left.

That is, I mean, it is really their hot button issue.

They want abortion more than I think they want clean air.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, it is, but at least there's more passion for it, it seems like.

I mean, there's no more hated word on the left right now, seemingly, than the word rare.

It always used to be safe, legal, and rare was the left-wing.

Now it's just safe and legal.

Yeah.

Screw rare.

Rare is dead over on that side of the aisle.

And I don't know what the passion for that is, but I mean, this is an issue in which technology is going to make that position extinct.

I don't know how long it's going to take.

Good.

But over time, that position, pro-choice is an endangered species because of technology.

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Using powerful new technology, an international team of doctors and scientists have managed to capture amazingly clear video of a 20-year-old, or a 20-year-old baby in the womb would be weird, a 20-week-old.

That was weird.

Because that would be amazing.

Very uncomfortable for the mother.

Seriously.

Very uncomfortable.

That is,

I mean,

I don't know how you'd get a seat built to figure it out.

I've got a 6'3 thing inside of me.

And

I really have a backache right now.

Especially if she's like 5'2 ⁇ .

It's really difficult.

But a 20-week-old baby in the womb.

So this is new footage, and the footage is pretty incredible, incredibly detailed.

And the fetus can be seen fiddling with its umbilical cord, turning its head from side to side and stretching.

The system used to capture the video was created by a group called iFind using a grant from around $13 million from the Wellcome Trust and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, which I know, Pat, you're a big follower of.

Oh, yeah.

You're a big

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I'm a big fan of the star for claring how much I love them.

The automated ultrasound technique compensates for the baby's movement, which can cause traditional ultrasound scans to be inconclusive.

Over time,

these kids in the womb, you're going to have pictures that make them look just as adorable as they do once they're born.

And once that starts happening, it's going to become less and less and less popular.

And you're going to be able to restrict abortions to earlier and and earlier and earlier.

There was a time where it wasn't even thought of 20 weeks.

Now, you're talking about 80% of people think abortion at 20 weeks is a bad idea.

80%.

This is not a 50-50 issue when you talk about the lines that are being fought upon when it comes to what restrictions should be applied.

Almost everyone wants more restrictions than we currently have.

Europe has more restrictions than we currently have.

This is not, there's no, it's a bizarre thing that the left continues to go on television and say, I don't know, nine seconds before birth, you can still abort kids.

They're still at that position and they're going to hold on to it for as long as they can.

But what's going to defeat it, I think, is going to be technology.

It's not going to be people making arguments in the Senate.

It's going to be people who are crushed by what they think they might have done before seeing videos like this.

Yeah, because already with the ultrasounds,

you show a mother who is contemplating abortion an ultrasound, and you have to do this in Texas now.

Over 90% of them choose not to have the abortion, just based on the technology we already have.

So when that's a lot more clear and a lot more precise, showing what's inside the womb, you're right.

I think it's going to become much more rare.

And the new one, it's still black and white.

I mean, eventually you're going to get to a point where you're going to be able to see.

You know, you're going to be able to see the face.

You're going to be able to see the

baby holding the hi mom sign.

Yeah.

Hi, mom.

The baby trying to text mom.

The baby playing Angry Birds.

There's a lot of things that go on in this stuff right now.

We don't know.

But soon we will.

Because it's hard to look at that.

I mean, we just showed the video here on the Blaze TV if

you're not watching.

And the video, it looks like a baby doing things that babies do.

It's not a fetus.

It's not a hamster.

It's not a piece of broccoli.

It's not a Volkswagen.

It's a freaking baby.

You can tell it it looks like a baby it's doing baby things it's everything and this is the time this is the point where we're having the discussion about 20 weeks five months isn't enough for you to make this decision and every time someone says 20 weeks you have oh wow well that's i can't believe they're trying to take women's rights away look at this this is not this is somewhere this is a being that has rights yeah oh yeah and how you look at something like that you don't understand it yeah i know that's not even a consideration to the left i do think this is a winnable battle though this is something that over time, it might take

a couple centuries.

The reason they've gotten as far as they have is because we ceded the battle to them.

We're like, yeah, okay, we won't talk about this anymore.

It makes me uncomfortable.

It makes me uncomfortable.

Yes.

And I don't want to be uncomfortable, and I don't want you to be uncomfortable.

And we're just going to get angry at each other.

So we just won't talk about it.

We're not there anymore.

I'm not there anymore.

Not at all.

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Uh, for Glenn, happy birthday to Glenn.

He's like

64 today?

I think 60, 65.

Oh, no, no, no, no.

It's got to be 68.

68 is 69.

I might have missed a few in there.

I mean, I guess we would have heard about the Big 7-0, but I wouldn't be surprised, right?

I mean, certainly.

I don't know.

Jeffy, any idea?

No, no,

You just know he's younger than you.

That's all you know.

That's correct.

Of course, so is everyone here.

Yes, that is true.

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the letter that they stopped Elizabeth Warren reading from

Coretta Scott King

about Jeff Sessions and how racist he was supposed to be.

Here was Coretta Scott King a few years ago on Jeff Sessions.

President Martindale, Senator Sessions, Mayor Bright, Troy State Chancellor, Jack Hawkins Jr., Dr.

Dorothy Heider.

Thanking all these people.

The second person she named was Jeff Sessions.

She's thanking them for the opening of the Rosa Parks Library.

Wow.

So, what a racist.

He obviously co-authored that bill and got that passed and got that through.

And she's thanking him there.

And then it turns out, wow, what a racist this guy is, huh?

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Jake Tapper revealed something yesterday.

Um, Trump won't like.

We're gonna get into that.

Also,

I am getting so sick and tired of a certain kind of story that we're hearing all the time now.

I mean, all the time, and we'll start there right now.

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Beloit College in Wisconsin

was

the whole community there was outraged because they had reports of an anti-Semitic note and a really ugly one that was placed under a student's door late last month.

The note read,

well, it started out with the K-word,

a really disparaging term for Jews.

You should be gassed for what you say and do on this campus.

Be worried, C-word.

And then

a large swastika was drawn alongside the note.

So

police began to

investigate.

The college added a number of on-duty security staff.

They increased dorm patrols.

They restricted access to the dorms.

I mean, the campus was really almost on lockdown.

And

then

police were interviewing the Jewish student involved.

And he broke down as they were interviewing him and said he had done it himself.

It was yet another

one of these fakes.

Why did he do?

What does he hope to accomplish?

That's a good question, Jeffy.

And the answer is

because he said that he saw how the Beloit College community had come together after a similar incident had occurred.

where they had faked one of these

things against a Muslim, and he wanted similar attention.

That's special.

Is that not special?

Unbelievable?

What kind of sickness do you have to?

You know what?

I'm going to pretend that people hate Jews and they left me a note under my door.

You get caught virtually every time,

first of all.

And the other thing is,

in America, in the United States of America, these things, I mean, do they occur?

Yes, I suppose so, on an incredibly rare basis.

But for the most part, they just don't happen.

No.

Right?

They're almost always fake.

In almost every one of these circumstances, they're fake.

Every time, and I feel like we are the only people who do this,

this audience.

Every time you see a story where...

A waitress went to get a receipt and was written a hateful message on it with no tip because she was a lesbian.

She was a lesbian.

Every time I hear a story.

She still knew she was a lesbian at the table for some reason.

Well, yeah, because they just, that's what I want to discuss with the person bringing my food, how she has sex.

And you're no doubt she volunteered that information.

Hi, what would you like to eat?

And by the way, I'm Susan.

I am a lesbian, and I'll be your waitress tonight.

Any food that you order, for example, the steak would be a lesbian steak because I'll be bringing it to you.

No, that's not what happens at restaurants.

I don't think it does.

And it's so weird.

Every time I hear that story, which again, we have lists that that we've built of

all these times.

Every time

it's a hoax, almost on every occasion.

And I know why, because it's just not something that occurs in society.

Right.

It's overly broad to say that it doesn't occur in society, but it's so rare that you can basically assume it's a hoax every time.

And almost every time it's proven that it is a hoax.

Yeah.

Now the latest in the long line, and we just talked about this a couple of weeks ago.

There was the 18-year-old Muslim in New York.

Do you remember this story?

She was on a subway in New York City.

Yes.

And three Donald Trump supporters got in her face and started screaming, terrorist, terrorist, go home.

Trump, Trump, you're a terrorist.

Get out.

Go home.

Remember that?

Yes.

And they reported that and care was all over at the Council of American Islamic Relations, and they were all upset about it.

And

these kinds of attacks were on the increase.

And then it turned out police investigated.

They brought her in and she admitted she made the whole thing up

over and over and over again.

Now, you would think it would happen as much as it's reported in a nation of 330 million people with this kind of diversity.

It just doesn't.

It just doesn't.

Americans are good people, generally.

Generally speaking, obviously.

Good people.

And, you know, so there's two parts of this.

First of all,

of course, there's racial hatred.

Of course, there are people who don't like gay people.

Of course, there are Trump supporters and

Hillary Clinton supporters who are awful people that do terrible things.

Generally speaking,

a message written on a receipt that concludes usually your name and your credit card number is not the right delivery system for your hatred.

Right?

Like, if you actually do hate people, what probably happens is you go back in the car and say, I didn't like that lesbian steak I just had.

Right?

Like, I guess that's how people would react to that.

I don't even know.

But it's certainly not writing it.

Here, let me give the person

that I am criticizing a written record next to my credit card number of

what a jerk I am.

Like, what a total buffoon.

It's just not a thing that people do.

I'm going to write a note and slide it under the door.

That'll teach them.

Now, look, I know it's, again, too broad to say they never do it.

Obviously, it has happened, I'm sure.

It is

almost every time.

Never.

It is almost never.

Almost.

Never.

And that is why, like, every single one of these things should be viewed immediately with a standard of, let's call it innocent until proven guilty.

Let's just throw that standard out as an example.

Whoa, that's a crazy concept.

No.

Where did you pull that one out of your erectile cavity?

Well, right there.

It's that crazy.

But like, maybe you approach these things with instant reflexive skepticism.

That is how these things should be viewed.

Instead of instant reflexive acceptance, which is the other standard, apparently.

And

I think it's probably the main standard.

It is now.

We just think, yep, I knew this is a hateful country with a bunch of hateful people.

And that hate has to stop.

Another hateful example of people who don't like other people different than them.

I mean, Hillary Clinton even said that in one of her ads, right?

I mean, with the rape ad or whatever.

I mean, you're believed no matter.

Oh, yeah.

You have the right to be believed, I believe, is the way she says.

And frankly, no, it's the opposite.

You have the right to prove that somebody did something to you.

And I think you have the right to be taken seriously.

Seriously.

Taken seriously.

But I mean, you know, not the right to be believed.

Right.

In fact, again, the innocent until proven guilty standard basically says you are not believed.

It says, you know what?

If you're accusing someone of doing something terrible, I'm not going to believe you at all unless you can prove it.

That is what we're supposed to have in the society.

And I understand Twitter doesn't have the court standard, but isn't it smart?

If you're on Twitter, if you're on Facebook, and you see one of these things, shouldn't that be your instant reaction?

Yes.

I mean, every person who, and look, this goes both ways.

I'm not trying to say it's only liberals, but I mean, you know, obviously a lot of these scandals have been because of either race or Donald Trump recently.

So it's been the most recent examples.

But it's like, when you see a story that seems too good to be true to reinforce your worldview, it's almost certainly not true.

Like if you're like, wow, I cannot even imagine that happening.

However, wow, it backs up the thing I've been saying.

That's not a good standard to repost it, right?

Like you need to be able, and

you should want this.

This should not be something you have to talk people into.

It should be something that people want.

You want to be able to share a story on Facebook.

It should be one you think might be, I don't know, true.

And you should feel dumb if you share one that isn't true.

That is what the standard should be.

You know, you're,

I don't know.

I mean, I don't want to get in fights with people on Facebook.

I don't want to get in fights with people on Twitter.

But it's almost like that would be almost the only way

to actually stop this.

Because

it does happen on both sides.

And it's just because people don't care.

People are like, oh, wow, I see that headline.

That reinforces my worldview share.

And that's how you get into these little,

you know, these little circles of just hearing stories that constantly reinforce what you believe.

You know, I don't want that.

I'd rather have something

that, because if you're not getting something wrong occasionally, if you're not tested by something, then you're going to wind up saying the wrong things and believing the wrong things.

You could always want to be tested and pushed.

And the left, especially, has no need for that.

They just don't care.

There's no interest in hearing those other things and being pushed a little bit.

And the right does fall for these things too.

100%.

100%.

You know, those email things that circulate all the time, a lot of those are directed toward the right.

I think I talked about this

a few weeks ago.

There was one in my inbox about,

was it Tyson Chicken?

I think it was Tyson Chicken canceled.

They canceled Labor Day for the Muslim holiday of Eid.

Yeah, we talked about this before.

And it was just like this outrage.

Boycott Tyson chicken.

Tyson chicken.

Don't eat another piece of Tyson chicken.

I'm like,

this can't be true.

It just can't be true.

It took me all of 10 seconds to Google it and find out it wasn't true.

But it had already circulated to thousands of thousands of people.

It's believed.

And I hit reply all and sent out that this is a fake and didn't happen and Tyson is not doing this.

Wow, you did.

I did.

Wow.

So how did that work out?

Because that is not a step most people take yeah I I I try to to

at least make the effort to show whoever sent it to me and everybody else who sees it

I saw your reply didn't believe it I just deleted it yeah it's true fake news fake news

pat's reply was fake news but that's difficult I would say most people don't even take that step no way right I mean most people they don't think they don't even look to see if it's true and that takes literally 10 seconds in this day and age.

10 seconds.

Information is easy to find, really,

if you want to.

And you're willing to say, you know what, this one's not true.

Doesn't that make your opinion stronger?

Doesn't that make your foundation stronger?

If you actually are, I don't know, sharing stories that are real?

Doesn't it make it easier to convince someone else if you show at some point that occasionally your worldview isn't echoed every single time?

Like I, you know, like I just said, there are no,

basically this does not happen in society.

But you add the disclaimer that, yes, occasionally, of course.

Of course it does.

Of course it can happen.

And sometimes I will think a story is a hoax.

Eventually, one of these will be real, right?

And we will say, well, wow, this one turned out to be real.

Most of them seem to be hoaxes, but this one turned out to be real.

It doesn't weaken your viewpoint.

That strengthens it.

When you're willing to come out and say that your site is wrong sometimes, that helps you.

Right.

It gives credibility.

And a good example of this right now is Neil Gorsuch.

Now, the Gorsuch thing has been a big story over the past couple of weeks.

Has Neil Gorsuch's comments where he came out and said some version of it was

disheartening to have Trump tweet about this?

Now, you might be angry right now.

Wait a minute.

That's not what he said.

Kelly Ayat said that he was just talking generally about criticism of judges.

Yes, I mean, that's what Kelly Ayot said.

I think that's probably the way he phrased it.

They were probably having a discussion about Trump's tweets, and he said, well, I want to be clear.

I'm not talking about anything specific, but I do find it to be disheartening when people are criticizing the judiciary like that or in that manner or in some manner, right?

He probably kept it

bland and away from Trump because he's not looking to be critical of Trump's per se, but he wanted to make sure his principle was clear.

Is this going to help Neil Gorsuch or hurt him?

Should help him.

It probably will get him more votes from Democrats that he would not have been able to receive because he's now showing I will stand up against Trump if I think that he is wrong.

And that's what you should want out of a Supreme Court justice.

And is what you should want is also honesty.

The ability to come out and say, you know what?

Just because this guy gave me a lifetime appointment to one of the most important roles in the world, I will still criticize him when he's wrong.

The problem is, though, Stu, honesty is such a lonely word.

Everyone is so untrue.

Well, not everyone.

You know, honesty is hardly ever heard.

Wow.

But it's mostly what I need.

from you.

Oh.

So you personalized that.

Yeah.

I really appreciate that.

You took it.

That was really really beautiful.

Well, it came from the heart.

Or Billy Joel.

Billy Joel's heart.

It went from Billy Joel to my heart to you.

Oh,

thank you, Pat.

That's good.

So nice.

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Jake Tapper, whom we like a lot.

Jake Tapper is one of the few decent journalists left on the face of the planet.

There's John Carl from ABC News and Jake Tapper from CNN.

I think those are the two most legitimate guys in all of journalism.

Yeah, there's more than that overall.

But yeah, those are two we cite a lot.

Yes.

And he was on Stephen Colbert, which blows me away because I didn't know Colbert was still at a show, but apparently he does.

Actually, I just saw an article where he beat Fallon.

I don't know if that's in the demo or overall,

but supposedly there's some kind of Colbert comeback in the ratings.

And at least on one occasion.

I don't know if that's a weekly number.

I wasn't interested enough to actually read the story.

But you share it immediately, and it reinforced your worldview.

But the headline did say that he had to, and it didn't enforce my worldview, actually, because I thought he was off the air.

But it said something about him beating Felon.

Maybe we'll have to look into that.

Anyway, Tapper was on Colbert's show last night.

Our president, the President of the United States, Commander-in-Chief,

has called

your network fake news, fraud, the worst, so biased, failing, unwatchable, a disgrace to the broadcasting industry, disgusting, phony reporting, unprofessional, bad television, and CNN can go to hell.

Now,

he certainly watches us a lot.

Yeah.

Sure, sure.

So

why are you so mean to him, Jake?

If you guys just didn't fact-check him anymore, he wouldn't be saying these things about you.

It's a good point.

What's it like in the halls over there knowing that you, like the president, actively doesn't like your network?

How do people feel over there?

I don't think anybody cares.

I think they do.

I mean, you listen to Chris Cuomo, who we talked about to start the show today.

He obviously cares.

He's like, oh, the fake news is as bad as the N-word to journalists.

Yeah, he obviously cares.

He cares.

It shows he cares.

I'm not comparing the two because they're quite different, but I don't think President Obama was a particular fan of mine.

I mean, the job is to not be liked.

That's your job to be liked.

My job is not to be liked.

My job is to tell the truth and deliver the facts and hold people accountable.

Like me.

Not you.

I've known you for a long time.

I would never hold you accountable.

It's funny because that was the standard.

I mean, that was what people used to say about Tim Russert only really after he died, but like that he was tough on both sides.

Because if you're a Trump fan, Jake Tapper is going to spend the next four years pissing you off, probably.

But he spent the last eight years pissing Obama off and Obama fans off constantly.

I mean, this guy stood up when nobody was taking on Barack Obama.

Nobody in the media was saying anything.

And it's not like he had some agendas against Barack Obama.

He was just doing his job.

Yeah, he was.

And so, you know, I'm sure a lot of people, you know, because with Republicans in control, surely he will have moments of criticism of Republicans and Trump.

And there will be a lot of people who will be like, oh, this guy was just another one of these dirtbags.

He's not.

I mean, he spent a long time building a lengthy record showing you that he's being a journalist.

And it's tough because I think we are at that point where everyone just dismisses everybody that disagrees with him.

It's important.

I know when Jake Tapper says something critical of something that I believe in or

it's a story that I take a different way, I might not always agree with him, but I always listen to him.

I want to hear when he, in particular, and there are others, but him in particular, when he has something where he is saying, well, this is actually true and what Republicans or libertarians are saying isn't true.

I want to know what he's saying.

Again, at the end, I might say, well,

he's off base on this, but I think it's actually coming from a legitimate place.

And that's an

that should be cherished in our society, not criticized.

Yeah,

it should definitely be cherished, especially since there's so little of it.

Hardly, hardly anybody that you say, wow,

they really handle both sides about the same way.

It's pretty rare.

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All right.

Gonna be a fascinating four years.

It's already been a fascinating four weeks.

And

we've barely begun here.

We haven't even scratched the surface of how interesting the Donald Trump presidency is going to be.

Last night, Colbert had Jake Tapper on, and he went through this litany of the things that Donald Trump has already called his network.

Fake news, fraud, the worst, worst, so biased, failing, unwatchable, a disgrace to the broadcasting industry, disgusting, phony reporting, unprofessional, bad television, and CNN can go to hell.

A long list, then.

Yes.

But that's what Donald Trump does.

Yeah, that's what he does.

Sometimes he really nails them.

I mean, some of those are satisfying to hear.

Sometimes they're like, ah, that doesn't really make any sense in this particular case.

So I thought it would be an interesting time,

because he's not here to defend himself, to go through the insults that Donald Trump has

leveled against Glenn Beck.

I mean, are these legitimate?

Are these good quality insults, accurate ones?

Or do you think these really apply or do they not?

Are these fake insults?

All right, so let's start off.

I mean, I think he starts off on the right foot here.

His endorsement means nothing.

Right there.

He got that one right.

He got that one right.

So there you go.

I think that one is a good start.

Dumb as a rock.

Now,

I know, look, I mean, he might not be, as he said many times, I might not be a scientist, but I am a thinker.

I think he's slightly elevated from a rock.

I'm going to have to say, no, he's smarter than a rock.

He got that one wrong.

Absolutely.

Next one, and I don't even know if this is an insult, but it's listed on the New York Times has a list of every insult Donald Trump has made against everyone.

He called, he leveled this insult against Glenn Beck crying.

Now, this is a tough one because, first of all, I don't know if it's actually an insult.

I mean,

crying is, I guess, it could be an insult, but I guess I get what he's going for.

It certainly was applicable at one time.

Yeah, he did cry a lot for a while.

You know,

not a lot, but it's a lot less now.

A lot for an adult male, I would say.

Yes.

Yes.

I think we can give him crying.

It'll give him crying, although it's a little outdated.

I haven't heard Glenn cry for quite a long time.

he's lost all credibility i want to say no yeah say no i don't think he's lost all credibility uh you know i think he's pretty great i mean obviously trump is going to say that um but that's largely because of the trump uh criticisms that glenn has made in the in the past i mean i you know there's still a lot like for example has he lost all credibility when he says neil gorsuch is a good nominee Probably not, right?

Like, I mean, he hasn't lost all credibility.

He's just lost credibility on the things that he disagrees with Donald Trump on.

So, okay, next up,

failing.

Now, we were supposed to go out of business a while ago.

Quite some time ago.

What is the

schedule on that?

It was September, wasn't it?

It was a Friday in September, specifically.

And we are still on the air.

I'm going to have to call that one false.

Yeah, huh?

Irrelevant.

Is Glenn irrelevant?

The president of the United States still talks about him.

Yeah, it can't be that irrelevant.

It can't be irrelevant.

No, I'm going to say no on that one.

All right.

Next up is Wacko.

I mean, I think that one has...

That's pretty subjective, but...

Yeah.

Yes, I can give him Wacko.

Oh, we'll give him Wacko.

That was a very good job by the president there.

How about this is

all enclosed in one insult.

Failing, crying, lost soul.

Failing, no.

Yes, we gave him crying.

We didn't give him failing.

So really, this comes down to lost soul.

Is Glenn a lost soul?

Glenn might argue he's a lost soul, but I don't think he might, but that's not.

I don't think he's

no, yeah.

No, can't give him lost soul.

Sad.

Absolutely.

I am giving him sad.

He is sad.

He is absolutely sad.

He's much more sad than a guy that successful should be.

Yes, Glenn is

like, I honestly think Glenn could be president of the United States and have all of the money Donald Trump has and have a 100% approval rating and he would still be sad.

He would find a way to be depressed over it.

So, yes, sad I am with that.

Has zero credibility.

Does Glenn have zero credibility?

I think no.

Because that's essentially the same as lost all credibility.

Next up is

very dumb and failing.

Donald Trump Insults of Glenn Beck.

I got to give him a no and no on that one.

Yeah, again.

Definitely dope.

Another irrelevant.

We already covered that one.

This is an interesting one.

Donald Trump Insults of Glenn Beck.

Mental basket case.

That's a tough one.

As a guy

who employs us, we should probably say no on that one, but there's some evidence.

Entertain that one as.

Can we give him a yes and no on that?

Like partial

that works.

He's not going to be pleased with that rating.

No, we got both sides of the issues, Glenn.

You wanted us to to be fair.

How about

another irrelevant...

Now, how about viewers and ratings are way down?

Well, that one I know is not true because I get the spreadsheet every month.

So that one is definitely not true.

A real nut job.

See, that goes back to the other one.

I can't say he's not a nut job.

He's not a nut job.

I mean, look, the Ninth Circuit Court had a three-judge panel here.

I mean, let's not just jump to conclusions.

We've got our own three-judge panel right here.

I mean, I...

A real

nut job.

I mean...

I'm going no on that.

A nut job is different than a basket case.

It is different than a basket case.

But, I mean, it's our job as judges.

We're judges here.

We are so-called judges here.

We can make a...

a determination.

Is Glenn Beck a

nut job?

You want to go yes on that.

Hey, well, well, I mean, don't you?

Here's the thing: as the third judge here,

if I hear both of you say no, he's not, then my vote won't count.

I was the one that slide in like a slimy senator.

What was the one,

I think, two ago that was

a

mental basket case.

Oh, we said yes on that.

We gave him, yeah, we well, we said it, we gave him a half.

We gave you a half-half.

Half and half.

I mean, I could see how you'd get there, I guess.

A nut job.

I mean,

some people are calling him the most reasonable man in the room now.

Yeah.

I'm going to say no.

A nut job.

No.

Wait.

The control room disagrees with that ruling.

How about always seems to be crying?

Now, crying, we gave him.

Yeah.

But always seems to be crying.

Not anymore.

Is fair.

No, that's fair at this point.

I'm going to go with no.

And last one here: insults by Donald Trump against Glenn Beck.

The last one in our collection.

Wacky.

I think Wacky's fair.

You wacky fair.

I think it's Wacky's fair.

Wacky's cut

is probably an okay.

He's going to love this segment.

Can we not air what we just did?

I know it's a live show,

but can we not air it to one specific household?

Is that possible?

Can we make the internet go out for

just a short time?

Oh, by the way, we should also mention happy birthday, Glenn.

We're so sorry you're sick.

Yeah.

We wish you were better.

He's like, I take, I'm off on my birthday because I'm sick.

And

this is what I get.

And this is

what I get.

Again, we praised Jake Tapper for being fair.

Right.

And what did we do?

We went through this list, some true, some false.

I think that was a fair hand.

I think it was fair.

I'm sure Glenn

would appreciate it.

Well, I'm not entirely sure, but I think maybe he'd like to think he would appreciate it.

Some of it.

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Apparently, Rosie O'Donnell is going to be on SNL again.

Is this true?

I know they were talking about it.

Good.

Just what I was going to say.

I got to say, she's posing as Steve Bannon.

The picture she posted of Steve Bannon, she looks exactly like him.

That'll be funny.

She looks a lot like him.

Oh, you know what?

Although, I will say, Trump loves talking about his battles with Rosie O'Donnell.

I mean, he brought it up in not only the Republican debates, but also the general.

He brought it up during the general.

But she looks just like him.

She does.

It's incredible.

She really does.

I mean, seriously, like, they look like they, because, you know, she has the hair done like, you know, like Steve,

a man, a male sort of haircut, if we're allowed to still say that males exist.

And so, I mean, obviously, part of it is that.

But, I mean, really, like, they look like they could be seriously family members.

I mean, they look.

Yeah.

It's incredible.

And Rosie O'Donnell is terrible in every way.

But, I mean, she can pull off the bannon.

There's no doubt about it.

I'm kind of excited to see that.

I know that we agree.

Yeah, if she's actually doing that, I want to see that.

You have her recurring that and Melissa McCarthy recurring Spicer.

We talked about this a little bit yesterday.

You couldn't get anyone.

They had to pick Fred Armison, a white guy, to do Barack Obama for multiple years.

And he was awful.

And

he's nothing.

No.

Like Barack Obama.

Looked nothing.

He was a white guy.

And the excuse we heard from them, and I think this literally was Saturday Night Live.

Well, we can't find anything funny about him.

Really?

Really?

Well, because we found plenty of stuff.

I mean, there was stuff every day

about Barack Obama.

But they couldn't.

We can't find anything.

He's too perfect.

He's so wonderful.

He's so wonderful.

Some comedians said that.

I don't remember if it was Saturday Night Live or not, but I do remember that.

Remember?

And that was really the general.

It was the general feeling among comedians that he was too perfect and they couldn't find anything to make fun of.

And of course, there's also the fear that they're going to be called racist or something else if they were to make sure some

sort of conservative or middle-of-the-road sort of leading comedians said that was an issue.

But come on,

he's the president of the United States.

He's got to be able to do those things.

But now, Donald Trump is president.

They can't stop the celebrities coming in.

Melissa McCarthy is making $20 million a movie, and she's showing up on Saturday nights to do Sean Spicer?

Wait, how the hell is this going to be?

I'll bet you, if you were to poll Americans, 75% don't know who he is.

Oh, yeah.

Easy.

Easily, 75% of Americans don't know who Sean Spicer is.

If you were to say, what is the job title of Sean Spicer?

If you've got 10% of the population, I'd be surprised.

They might say he's the, he's not even the, after the Melissa McCarthy thing, they probably know

maybe a little bit about who he is.

A very angry guy who throws the podium at people is probably how they

right.

Because I mean, as we know, that, you know, people identified Sarah Palin through that role.

Yeah.

You know, and, you know, Donald Trump is way too well known.

Like, Alec Baldwin could do nothing to,

you know, to really influence that because Donald Trump has a 40-year record in the public eye.

Everyone knows who he is.

Everyone knows.

But like Sean Spicer, nobody knows.

They will be able to set him as a person through Saturday Night Live if Melissa McCarthy keeps showing up.

If they haven't done that already.

If they haven't done it already.

They're already now hiring, it looks like another person to help

Spicer in that role because it's usually broken into two roles, press secretary and head of communications or whatever it is.

So is the speculation they're trying to push him out already?

Well, I mean, it's terrible.

I wouldn't be surprised if they, you know, we were talking about that the other day.

I really, I wouldn't be surprised to see them

take him to the end, get rid of him here soon within the next month or two, and then stop doing the daily press conferences.

It is one of those things that the Trump administration, you could see the Trump administration doing.

Look, why do we do these things?

Because they're tradition?

Yeah.

Why?

We'll do this once every couple of weeks.

You guys want to catch up with us?

We'll do one every couple weeks.

You know what?

Follow me on Twitter.

You need to know something, follow me on Twitter.

Exactly.

I'm tweeting about everything every day anyway.

That's what I think.

Follow the Twitter account at RealDonald Trump.

I'm telling you,

I would not surprise me.

And it's not a constitutional issue.

There's nothing right in law that says he must do it.

No, it's just.

So it makes a lot of sense for them to stop doing it, really.

And this is hard, obviously, for them.

You know, he's not particularly good at it, but it's difficult.

Most people, it's an impossible role for every president.

I mean, you know, every president has, you have a lackey out there justifying every mistake you made.

I got pissed at Tony Snow.

Tony Snow.

Because he was pushed into bad positions.

He was defending really terrible immigration policies from George W.

Bush.

And I liked Tony Snow.

I knew Tony Snow, but man, was I pissed off at him.

And you have good jobs.

That's a tough role.

He was a pretty good one, even though.

But again, he was forced into these places where

he was justifying things that weren't true or were completely against other things that had been said.

Dana Perino, I thought, was pretty good for Bush.

But I mean, Jake, all the Jerry Obama ones were terrible.

Airy Fleischer was great.

Yeah, he was good.

That guy's good.

That's good.

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there is a report that the white house was open to it

i saw that yeah they're denying that report And they better not be open to it because

wouldn't that be a betrayal of everything he said?

Well, it sure would during the campaign.

Well, people, and the other, the reason why this is gaining a little bit of steam is because one of the first things, even I, as a person who

was not a Trump fan during the primary, and I'm not a big supporter of the guy, but

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He could do it by himself.

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Which is, I mean,

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I'm a little uneasy.

I'm a little uneasy with it.

I mean, the gang of eight is what, you know, that really hurt Marco Rubio's chances of being president of the United States.

And Trump beat him to death with it.

Yes.

He beat him over the head with it often.

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uh and this woman sounding off about the Affordable Care Act

and how Christian it is.

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Glenn will, I think, definitely be back.

Hopefully, on definitely, hopefully.

Definitely, hopefully.

Hopefully, definitely for sure, maybe.

On Monday.

Meantime, we're going to play this because

this is agonizing.

This

woman who purports to be Christian, is she supposedly conservative, too?

That's the story I read about it said that she was

she's a Republican and a Christian conservative and just can't understand this Republican position on Obamacare.

And what's most, really, what's most frustrating about this is like, again, this goes back to the theme of the day.

This sort of widespread acceptance without questioning, right?

Like,

I mean, listen to the points that are made here.

And what's frustrating about it is it's just immediately embraced by the left.

And so, listen to these great points by this.

There's one good Christian in the world who's honest and far from the children.

Only one that understands it.

Only one that understands one.

And here she is laying this out.

We need to take this piece by piece.

Yeah.

My question is lengthy, okay?

So bear with me.

My name is Jesse Bohan, and I'm in your district.

It's from my understanding, the ACA mandate requires everybody to have insurance because the healthy people pull up the sick people, right?

Okay, so it's her understanding that the mandate is in place because the healthy people pull up the sick people.

Now, of course, that's not how it was sold, right?

You don't sell it to young people by saying, by the way, you're going to pay for all the people who are older and sick.

Yeah.

Problem with that or not, when you're 21, you're paying for the 75-year-olds.

And that is absolutely what they attempted to do with Obamacare.

It's fundamentally, it's a foundational part of it.

So.

how excited would you be if that's what you're told?

Right.

Hey, you don't need this, but you're paying for people down the road.

Of course, you need to wait.

Look at the way they advertise.

Every advertisement for

Obamacare, which hopefully we are very close to seeing the end of them,

is some 22-year-old, pretty cool-looking guy, maybe an attractive young female.

I'm happy.

I used to have no insurance and now I have to do it.

But now I do.

It's changed my life.

Look at these wonderful things.

Actually, what Obamacare does is take the money from people like you and give it to older, sicker people.

Now, that is a foundational part of Obamacare.

It's the only reason that even in theory, you could argue that it would potentially work, which it didn't.

But I mean, you could at least argue, okay, what we're going to do is we're going to take all these people who won't get healthcare.

Again, they'll enter themselves into losing propositions.

where because they're 22 years old, they will be healthy and not really need the doctor, not need to spend all this money on healthcare.

But they're going to be paying for it.

But they're going to be paying for it.

Even though they don't need to.

Even though they need to support you down the road.

And of course, there are one out of, I don't know, 100 22-year-olds that have health problems, and it would help that one out of 100.

But 99 out of 100 all have losing propositions.

So if we get enough young idiots...

to support this program and give them all real terrible losing propositions, we can support the other part of this, which is a giant handout to other people.

Again, that's if you like it.

If you like it, that's the philosophy behind it.

And she at least seems to understand that.

That's just point one.

Yes.

That's just faulty point one.

Yes.

And as a Christian,

my whole philosophy in life is pull up the unfortunate.

Okay.

Her whole philosophy in life is to pull up the unfortunate.

Really?

Is that on you?

Sweetie, are you pulling up the unfortunate or are you expecting the government to pull up the unfortunate?

And by extension, other people, right?

And other people.

Like, it's you.

Yes, Christianity supports and encourages the idea that you would help out someone less fortunate than you.

But that you would do that.

You would do that.

It's in your heart.

And that's really the, you know, the.

Well, it's her whole philosophy.

Her whole.

So the philosophy in general, we can all agree, good idea as a Christian to help those less fortunate.

Sure.

The way that you do that is important.

If your way to help the less fortunate is

to

steal from people and help the less fortunate, that's probably not something Christianity we would encourage.

In fact, that's flat-out evil.

Okay, that's evil.

And I can tell you this.

It is absolutely...

There's nowhere in the Bible you're going to trip upon a sentence that says, you know what?

If the government can mandate those people to take care of other people, an individual mandate with a tax fine attached does not appear in the Bible.

You don't need to help anymore.

Except for the part, do you remember the part in the scriptures where Jesus is walking down the street

with his disciples?

Yes, right.

There's a whole crowd of people around him.

A whole crowd of people.

Oh, there always was.

He's always had his posse.

And there's a, yeah, he had a posse around him.

There's no doubt about that.

And so he's walking down the street.

This woman with an issue of blood, she's bleeding.

Oh, no.

And has been for, I think, 12 years, if I remember correctly, comes up to him and wants to touch his robe because she thinks that'll heal him.

And he says, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Hey, sister, Have you signed up for Julius Caesar Care?

Don't be touching me because

you got to get the affordable care Caesar care mandate thing going on.

Don't be touching me over that.

Okay.

Yeah.

I do remember that.

Remember that part?

Yeah, that was the one exception in the Bible.

Are you signed up for Caesar Care?

That was really an important part.

I think that was in

Paul.

Well, not

John Ringo.

I don't know.

It was in Ringo.

Okay, so the individual mandate, that's what it does.

The healthy people pull up the sick.

Yes.

If we take the business.

That's in theory what it does.

It doesn't actually do that, of course.

It doesn't do that.

Still, multiple millions of people remain uninsured.

So the individual mandate has not cured that problem.

It has leveled fines on people who can't, in theory,

afford health insurance.

Multiple millions of people have had to pay the government for nothing.

That is what the individual mandate has accomplished.

That is not something, I don't think that's in the Bible either.

I'm going to go out and live and say, I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure it's.

We put them in high-risk insurance pools.

They're costlier, and they get, there's less coverage for them.

That's the way it's been in the past, and that's the way it will be again.

Okay, that's that great point.

So the Republican response to this as one of the responses, we don't even have a plan yet, obviously, that we know is being debated, but high-risk pools.

So you can still cover people who are in these situations, but instead of taking over one-fifth of the economy, you find the real slice of people who need it.

For example, when we would go back and find, when we were debating Obamacare, there were

obviously tens of millions of people without insurance.

But what you found out is a lot of them had plenty of money to buy insurance.

They just chose not to.

Making over $75,000 or $100,000 a year.

Many of them young and

just felt like

there was no need for insurance.

Some of them who just lost their job for a couple months and then got back on insurance anyway were counted as uninsured.

There was all sorts of people like that.

Here is her.

So the solution from Republicans, or one of the proposed solutions, is high-risk pools that would cure some of this for the real slice of people that do kind of fall between the cracks.

So that's been their proposal.

She says that that will be more costly.

and it will be inefficient and it'll get them worse care and that's the way it was before and that's the way it will be in the future.

An important part to remember.

An important part to remember because why do you know that?

Why couldn't you do a high-risk pool in a more efficient way?

Maybe if someone designed it without the care or the idea that eventually we'd get to a single-payer program, something like that would work better.

Who knows?

But

that's an important part that she says there because she just says basically, in her opinion, it hasn't worked before, so therefore, it will not work in the future.

We are effectively punishing our sickest people.

And I want to know know why not instead of fix what's wrong with Obamacare,

make companies like Aetna that pulled out and lied to their consumers about why they pulled out and said they pulled out because Obamacare was too expensive.

Okay, so there's two points to this.

This is not a conservative.

This is not a Republican.

No.

I don't know who this woman is, but she's neither conservative nor Republican would be my guess.

Right.

No.

And is she Christian?

I don't know.

I don't hear any evidence.

Christians,

I don't know where this mindset came from that Jesus wanted the government to take care of anything.

He never said anything about any of that.

He seemed to have real disagreements with the government.

Yes, he did.

I don't know if you remember there's kind of a famous scene where he's being crucified.

It might indicate something.

That actually came from a government.

Yes.

Geez.

It's kind of a big part of the Bible.

It was one of the more memorable scenes.

Jesus had an individual mandate for every individual.

It was not a governmental mandate.

It was not, it was take care of each other.

That's what it was.

That's what it was.

And there's no

pay Caesar so that Caesar can decide who needs that money and he can squander most of it on himself and then distribute whatever is left over that he feels like to a few people in need.

I mean, there was never anything like that.

I don't know how we got to this place.

That's crazy.

And there's plenty of places in the Bible that says the exact opposite.

That is not.

Opposite.

So, and another part of this that I love is she says, high-risk pools.

Look,

they're going to be more costly, less efficient.

That's the way it was before.

That's the way it's going to be in the future.

But let's pick, let's just fix the parts of Obamacare that don't work.

Well, under this premise, wouldn't it, it didn't work in the past.

Wouldn't it not work in the future?

You're just picking the really liberal idea and saying you can fix that one and saying the more conservative idea, which isn't really conservative, but a more more conservative idea, that one you can't fix.

That's impossible.

And the next part is: Aetna, they lied to their consumers and they pulled out of all healthcare.

And

they didn't do it because of cost.

They did it because they had a merger.

70%, I believe the number is 70%.

I don't have it in front of me, but we've talked about it earlier this week.

70% of counties in America have only two choices for Obamacare.

Only two.

So

did every

healthcare company in America all merge at the same time and drop out because of mergers?

Like the cost is an issue.

These people are having issues with it and they like

money.

If they could go in there and enter into these areas and make more money, they would.

The issue is that they're finding it the most efficient way for them to make a profit is to stay out of them.

Now they're making money in some places and their

profits have increased because they've been able to target the right places with the right plans and they've been able to make that work.

But the reason they've been able to make it work is because a lot of them are not even involved in it.

They're dropping out of Obamacare.

They're moving to only specific areas where they can make it work.

That's why most people don't have many choices.

They have two or one choice for Obamacare.

So all of this, and this is some heroic moment for the left.

I mean, this is just, you know, I'm sure she's a really nice person and cares about this.

She does seem to be like she really, you know, like cares about this and and I'm sure her heart is into it.

But man, I mean, these are just, these are all flawed arguments that don't make any sense.

She's an idiot.

Well, that was a good idea.

Well, her whole philosophy.

The easy thing in life is to pull up the unfortunate.

Yeah, that's her whole philosophy.

Uh-huh.

But they really pulled out because of a merger.

Why don't we expand Medicaid and

have everybody have insurance?

Okay, stop.

Everybody have.

So her idea is expanding Medicaid and just have

universal health coverage.

Yeah.

That's a conservative.

Right.

We want to Medicaid a government-run single-payer health care program.

Medicaid, I mean, you've heard this argument from so many liberals where it's like, oh, well, why don't we just give Medicare to everyone?

Medicare works so great.

Does it?

Because it's basically bankrupting us as a nation.

Does it work so great?

Does it?

Because, I mean, we're, you know, what, $20 trillion in debt.

The biggest chunk of it is Medicare.

Yeah.

Yes.

The biggest chunk of social media.

So

our biggest chunk of unfunded liabilities, Medicare.

Yeah.

$100 trillion.

The biggest part part of that is that the second $5 trillion of that is Medicare.

Yeah.

Debt, all those things.

And so, whether you like the program or not, it's a complete disaster when it comes to our finances.

And they just want to keep it, they want to expand it because that gives them control of the situation.

This is, look, these are not good arguments.

These are not good arguments.

But everybody latches onto it and says, gee, you're some conservative Christian who finally gets it.

Yeah, no, that's exactly it.

No, she doesn't.

This being passed around is more about the the vilification of your average Christian than it is, and I'm not saying she's saying doing this, but like the left loves the idea that a Christian came out and agreed with their viewpoint.

So they tried out, this is what real Christians are.

They advance my worldview.

This is the real one.

And look, I'm sure this is what she believes

or what Pat said.

She's an idiot.

But I just think that you have to have some factual basis behind these things.

Yes.

And there's no reason to come out and believe that this is going to just start magically working if you fix it.

They had a chance to fix it.

They had complete control when they passed this.

Complete control.

There was no Republican voice included in this bill.

They have zero responsibility for it.

And it pains me that people can't defend Christianity better than this.

You know,

they'll just accept, oh, yeah, she's got a really good argument there.

That's what Jesus would want is

for the government to pull up everybody by taxing the wealthiest and have them pull up the poorest and the sickest.

That's not.

That's not the way the golden rule is.

We're supposed to take care of each other, and it's our individual responsibility.

And we don't cede that to the government because the government is the most inefficient way of getting help to people.

It's the most inefficient way in the world.

It's the dumbest way to do this.

And it leads to socialism.

Socialism is just flat-out evil.

It's just flat-out evil.

Taking away people's choice to be charitable, to be good, to be loving, and forcing them.

That's Satan's plan.

That's not God's plan.

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We've been talking about this woman in Tennessee who is at a town hall of a Republican congressperson.

But she sure doesn't sound like a Republican or a conservative.

And

this is not Christian theology.

She's trying to make it out as if it is, but it's not.

This is not.

Christian theology does not state that you should pay taxes to a government and then they should distribute them as they see fit to the poor.

That's not how it works.

And it's just such an easy concept.

I don't know how it's not slapped out more often, but it never is.

Yeah, and she kind of lays out what she thinks here.

Yeah.

And as a Christian,

my whole philosophy in life is pull up the unfortunate.

Okay.

That's her whole philosophy in life.

Pull up the unfortunate.

But how?

But how, right?

Should you be forced to do that?

Listen to this.

This is from everyone's favorite book of the Bible, 2 Corinthians.

It really is.

Okay.

Each one of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give.

You should not give if it makes you unhappy or if you feel forced to give.

God loves those who are happy to give.

In other words, you as an individual should be pleased to do these things on your own.

And that's what

the Bible is talking about.

If you feel forced to do it, you shouldn't do it.

They actually go further than saying, well, you know what?

If you feel forced to do it, you got to go along with it, but you shouldn't feel good about it.

No, you shouldn't do it, is what it actually says in 2 Corinthians, which I'm bringing to my tax attorney

very soon and saying, I feel forced to give.

The Bible says right here, I shouldn't do it.

So I'm just letting you know.

Just let Uncle Sam know.

No check coming this year.

See how that works out.

Let us know how that works.

Okay.

That's a good argument.

Uh-huh.

Right.

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We talked yesterday on Pat and Stewart a little bit about the Trump conversation with Putin about the START situation.

The START program treaty.

Supposedly, in an hour-long conversation with Vladimir Putin, the president made it clear that he thought the START treaty was a bad deal for the U.S.

However, he called it start up.

Well, he called it startup in the debate.

In the debate.

Yes.

Right.

And during the conversation, the thing was

supposedly Putin brought it up and then he said it was, or he didn't know what it was initially.

And Trump didn't know what it was and asked one of his advisors while he was on the phone with Putin, what is that again?

What were you?

And then he said, oh, yeah, yeah, it's a bad deal.

Yeah, bad deal.

Because that is,

as a side note from that, that is President Trump's fallback position.

If he doesn't understand exactly what it is, it's a bad deal.

Yeah, and

to be clear, he actually, I think, believes this every time.

And the reason is because he didn't negotiate it.

Like, Donald Trump believes he's such a great negotiator that if he was in place at that time, the deal would be better.

So therefore,

every deal that has been negotiated when he wasn't there is bad because he would have been able to do better.

You know, look, that's supreme confidence.

Obviously, he's had that as a businessman over the years, and it's helped him in many ways.

And surely there are many examples of that being completely true.

Yeah.

You know, he doesn't seem to have a grasp on that, but I mean, he's been in the job for four weeks.

You'd kind of hope he would.

Yeah.

Or at least here's the other thing you could say.

It's completely independent of Trump.

Some advisor has got to come to him before this freaking call and say, I don't know, the big deal treaty that has been discussed for, you know, the New Start treaty and, you know, this

nuclear

negotiation has been going on for a very long time.

This would limit it to 1,550 nuclear weapons apart.

Just over 1,500 nukes a piece, which I, wow.

It's a lot.

It's a lot, but it's way less than him not having the information in front of him being able to give.

How is it, you know, Bennett or Priebus or whoever

not coming to him and say, okay, here is a one-sheeter on what this treaty would do, where it stands now, what the history is of it.

They've got to prep him for that.

I mean, in a way, you know, you kind of wish he was up on this, obviously, as president, but like, how is is he not being briefed by his staff on something like that?

Especially after the debate where he called it the start it startup treaty.

You would have thought that between the debate and now, somebody would have said, hey, it's not start up.

Do you know what start stands for?

It's the strategic arms reduction treaty.

So the word up doesn't really fit after it.

Reduction treaty up?

Although

a lot of people would say and had said that the word up didn't come work after word, but word up became a classic hit.

That's true.

That's true.

Of the 80s.

Word up.

Word up works.

So startups.

Maybe it works.

I mean, it works in some contexts.

But yeah, and

it's really inconceivable, and we keep using that word.

I know.

Maybe it doesn't mean what we think it means, but it's inconceivable that nobody has done that.

Yeah.

It really is.

That's a staff.

That's on the staff, I think.

That's definitely on the staff.

Partially on the staff.

He needs to be able to do that.

Now, of course, you know, these are reports, and you never know.

We were not in on the call.

They're going to obviously say that didn't happen.

I mean, that's obviously embarrassing.

And they think they had three sources that were, you know, in the room or whatever saying it.

You never know with this stuff.

Could be BS.

I mean, but it just comes down to,

you know, he,

the same thing with Flynn is going on now, where Flynn, his

national security advisor, who has had close ties with Russia, and that was one of the big questions.

I think it was one of his worst appointments.

I think think there were a lot of good ones.

We discussed them.

Democrats.

And a Democrat.

Yeah.

So I mean, I would say, you know what, if I'm getting in as a Republican president, I'm going to go with zero Democrats appointed.

That's just my thing, but I understand that, you know, that's not always the thing.

So he puts Flynn in there, and Flynn works very, you know, closely with Russia, apparently was on the phone with Russia and the ambassador before they took office.

This is sort of a big deal in diplomatic circles because there's only supposed to be one president at a time.

So you can't put sort of conflicting messages out there.

Initially, Flynn said he he had never talked to them about these specifics.

Now he's saying, well, I can't really remember.

I can't confirm whether I did or whether I didn't.

I can't really remember.

It's not a, is it the biggest deal in the world that he made this call a couple weeks early?

I mean, I don't know.

Probably not.

But

you should probably be telling the truth from the beginning on that.

And it doesn't seem like the stories have changed.

Let's put it that way.

So it's a weird thing to watch.

And it does make you a little nervous.

But every day he's in office is probably another day where he's you know closer to that point where he has a grasp on all these things.

Hope so.

I mean, it's hard.

It's a hard job.

It really is.

And I agree with him.

I think that virtually every nuclear treaty we sign with Russia is probably a bad one because

they cheat.

They just don't do what they say they're going to.

So we wind up unilaterally disarming while they continue to build up.

I mean, I just don't trust the Commission to do that.

They can't.

That's what the treaty is all about.

Right.

What are you talking about?

That's right.

That's what the first start treaty was.

All right.

And then the second startup.

The new start treaty, the startup treaty, same.

Thank you.

And so that's how we went from 40,000 nukes to 5,000 or 7,000, whatever the number is.

And they went from 5 to 40.

Because we're doing these treaties with them and we're not monitoring them.

And they're saying, yeah, we're doing it.

No problem.

Yeah.

Are you doing more nukes?

Are you making new

yet?

Oh, okay.

All right.

I don't trust that.

And this happened throughout, obviously, the Cold War as well.

I mean, when we started off, you know, building nukes, you know, obviously we all know when they were used initially, but you go to really we peaked in about 1965 with our, the amount of nuclear weapons we had, which is about 32,000.

There were a lot.

32,000.

32,000 nukes.

Okay.

From then on, we just cut and cut and cut and cut and cut.

A slow decline through all that period.

Russia, however, did not.

In 1965, Russia had about 5,000.

So we were leading that battle 32,000 to 5,000.

Yes.

We could destroy the world way more times than them.

Way more times than them.

Yeah.

But again, this is about trust between two sides, right?

So it goes to by 1975.

What if we would have nuked everybody?

Like between 1945 and 1951, before they got the nukes, there's nothing they could have done about it.

We missed the boat then.

We should have nuked everybody back then.

A good policy and very consistent with my Christian view of the world.

Nuke everyone before they can nuke us.

So by 1975, they had tied us.

So we were up 32,000 to 5,000

in the mid-60s.

By the mid-70s, it was tied at about 25,000.

However, while we continued to decline, Russia continued to keep making nuclear weapons all the way up into the late 80s.

That's what I'm saying.

And they were, and they, well, we were, we were 20 years into a decline of our nuclear arsenal.

They peaked at 40,000

nuclear weapons.

It was unilateral disarmament.

And it wasn't until they ran out of money till they really started cutting back.

And now we're about the same.

We're about, you know, I don't know,

less than 5,000.

5,000,000 range.

Right.

And this wants to cut it to 1,550.

Which is still, again, we could probably do some damage with 1,550 nuclear weapons.

Yes, you could.

Not to mention they're a lot more powerful than back in the day.

But it's a fascinating thing to see.

We've seen these people

mislead us the entire time these weapons have existed.

Everyone has been secretive with them.

Everyone misleads everybody else about them.

They keep saying we're not going to do any tests.

North Korea and India and Pakistan,

we're not going to do any tests.

They test.

They keep building them.

We have no idea, really, how many each country has.

But, I mean, would you be surprised if Russia did not have 1,550 when this thing was over and instead had 8,000?

No.

No.

No.

I don't think anybody would be surprised by that.

No.

Only

finances limit those things.

You know, Vladimir Putin might say the economy, I mean, because apparently some of the sanctions we've had on them are working, which is why it's disconcerting that we might get rid of them.

But, you know,

the only thing that stops these guys are money.

It's like, oh, you know.

We don't have the cash to build them.

That's what stopped them last time.

And, you know, the only thing is getting in trouble, you know, from with sanctions and worse, if they get caught.

But that doesn't seem to be a big concern.

They're murdering journalists.

I don't seem all that concerned about getting caught.

And especially now that they're good friends, supposedly, right?

And we're all just one big, happy family right now.

Putin's a great guy.

Putin can be trusted.

Putin's a friend.

Russia's wonderful.

He's a strong leader.

I mean, for some reason, we've lost all suspicion of them.

And well, the reason is seemingly Donald Trump.

Yeah.

Because...

Well, he even said it, right, in his

interview this week about Putin.

And you think we don't have any down in the United States, right?

Saying that

we have our own problems.

We have our own problems.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, let me tell you, you think we're ⁇ you know, he's not alone.

I mean, come on now.

Yeah, that was a weird statement.

That sure was.

That

if it came from anyone else, certainly if it came from Barack Obama, people would be all up in arms over that.

Nothing.

But there wasn't much outrage when it came from Donald Trump.

Nothing.

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Something he may be right about, though.

Apparently there was a little voter fraud, maybe not the widespread voter fraud that he kind of mentioned, which was

millions, like three to five million people voting illegally.

However,

a Texas woman was just sentenced yesterday to eight years in prison and given a fine of thousands of dollars for committing voter fraud.

Rosa Maria

Ortega from Grand Prairie, which is here in the DFW, a Mexican citizen.

She's legally here, but she's not a U.S.

citizen.

She

is not eligible to vote, and yet she did.

She was arrested and indicted on two counts of illegal voting after police discovered she'd applied for voter registration in Dallas County, falsely indicated on the application that she was a U.S.

citizen.

And so yesterday, she was sentenced to eight years in prison for that.

So it's a fairly,

that's a

fairly stiff penalty for voter fraud.

You might not want to do that if you're

a legal U.S.

resident or an illegal U.S.

resident and you're trying to vote.

Not a good idea.

Don't do it.

Yeah, that's not a good idea.

It's funny because there really is a uh sensible position between saying there are five million illegal votes cast all of them against me that's why i lost the popular vote and there's no such thing as voter fraud there's barely any anything that's ever happened and there's almost no instances of the people being caught doing it well first of all there are instances of people being caught doing it second of all um the uh actual goal of the task is to not get caught So,

yeah, you know, while like the whole point of committing voter fraud fraud is that you don't get caught.

So those that are successful, you never know about.

Right.

Right.

That's the whole point of trying it.

So yes, it does exist.

It's just not in those numbers, obviously.

This woman, who is now 37, she came here with her mom when she was a child.

So wouldn't she qualify as one of those dream dreamers that they talk about all the time?

Maybe, because I don't know.

Is she too old to be a dreamer?

But

if she was a college age, she'd be a dreamer.

And here she is committing felonies in the United States of America.

So not all dreamers are apparently wonderful and dreamy.

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This is the quote we were talking about earlier,

just a few minutes ago.

Involving Donald Trump when he was when he was told that Vladimir Putin was a killer.

We've got a lot of killers.

We've got a lot of killers.

Why do you think our country's so innocent?

Ooh.

You think our country's so innocent?

Right?

Yow.

Come on.

I mean, I don't, I guess Trump supporters didn't have any problem with that.

I guess not.

I seriously believe if it would have been anybody else, they would have.

Do you remember the apology tour?

Yeah,

by Barack Obama, where he would go and say...

things that seemed like he was apologizing for the i don't remember him ever saying anything like that no now that's also just because it's the way that Trump speaks, right?

I mean, he just.

It is.

He doesn't, you know.

And we've made this point before.

George W.

Bush wasn't a great speaker either.

Right.

I mean, you could make some things out of stuff he said like this.

Let me make it very clear.

Poor people aren't necessarily killers.

Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill.

I mean, that's true.

It's a pretty good possibility.

Yeah.

But it doesn't necessarily mean

that more than 80% of poor people are going to kill in their lifetime.

We think that's a max number.

Poor people aren't necessarily killers.

They probably are.

Probably killed a few people, but not necessarily.

Well, this goes back to the whole issue with the judiciary and him criticizing the judiciary.

They're like, well, it's one thing to say, with all due deference to separation of powers, the Citizens United case was wrong, as Barack Obama did.

It's quite another thing to say, a so-called judge.

That's just how he speaks.

And they know that.

He's not questioning the entire judiciary by saying that.

He's saying, I don't like that decision.

And that's how Donald Trump says that.

He says, ah, so-called judge.

This guy's a bum.

He doesn't actually think he's homeless and begging for food outside of Starbucks.

It's just the way he talks.

So, I mean, they made a big deal out of that.

I will say the one time Trump probably did.

Cross some line is when he basically said, yeah, look, if we have a terrorist attack, it's the judge's fault.

It's like,

you can't say that i mean it's not it's not your fault it's not true did you say that this week yeah yeah it was and he said it was

i missed that wow default basically i mean it's a little strong yeah it's a little strong because you gotta get it it's not as strong as just let me make it very clear poor people aren't necessarily killers yeah that's true

Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill.

I mean, that's a fair point.

I would say it probably does, but I mean, there's room for disagreement there.

Poor people aren't necessarily killers.

I don't even remember what that came from.

Maybe terrorists.

Yeah.

Killing terror forces terrorists.

Maybe.

I don't know.

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