WEBVTT - Rush Limbaugh - Timeless Wisdom 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:06.000 What a week? What what an incredible week? I mean 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:10.360 from beginning to end, and it's still going and there 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:15.400 is still winning that's happening today. Just incredible. And I'm 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:17.320 gonna tell you something, folks. One thing is I'm I'm 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:19.279 gratified about it. Now. You know, I don't I don't 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.560 like to brag and I don't like to say notice me, 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:26.000 but everything happening to the Democrat Party today. If you 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:28.840 go back and you look at excerpts of the award 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:31.480 winning broadcast, go to the Russia Limbo dot com, you'll 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:35.720 find that I predicted this implosion of the Democrat Party. 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:40.000 And that's exactly what it is. I mean, you get 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:43.160 people writing, well, what happened to Democrats this week is unserious. 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.800 It's worse than unserious. What happened to the Democrat Party 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:52.240 is that they have lost their entire moral foundation. Excuse me, 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:54.840 I got a call coming on here, and uh, I'm 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.520 not gonna worry about hitting the cough switch as often 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:59.560 as they just just bear with me here. I mean 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:03.680 that they have lost their entire moral foundation, and they 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.440 lost it four years ago. This is what happens. Let 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:08.520 this be a lesson to you, folks. In your personal 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.800 life with this. What happens when you become consumed with hatred. 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:17.800 Hatred is of poison. It destroys you because hatred can 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:21.360 never be requited, Hatred can never be rewarded. Hatred can 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:27.280 never make you happy. Hatred means you're requiring on something 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:32.039 painful or bad to happen to other people. And that's 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.520 just not the way the happiness. That's not the route 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:40.200 uh to success of any kind. And it's where the 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.320 Democrat Party is. And I'll break this down and I'll 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.520 explain it in great, great detail as the program unfolds. 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.000 Telephone number if you want to be with us, today's 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:52.640 eight eight to the email address L Rush Bowe and 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:56.320 e I v net dot us. So the last time 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:01.160 I was here and we were together was Monday, and 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:02.760 I have to tell you, it feels like it's been 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:08.760 two weeks with everything that has happened since then, but 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.280 it hasn't. It's it's just it's just been one week. 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:18.360 And the last thing that I did on Monday was 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:26.040 inform all of you of a medical diagnosis, advanced lung cancer. 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.440 And I told you Monday that I really wished that 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.799 I could not announce it because I don't like making 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:37.520 things about me, and I promised you that I was 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:42.200 not going to live every aspect of this on the air. 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:46.480 Millions of you have been through it. It's nothing that 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:50.960 millions of Americans aren't experiencing or haven't experienced. That you 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:55.560 don't need me sharing all of the details with you, 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:57.840 And I wouldn't want to do it anyway, because there's 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:06.200 a lot of factors involved, including privacy and distraction. Just no, 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.600 And by the way, folks, I don't know. Really, I'm 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:13.839 gonna be hopscotching through much of this first hour as 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:20.480 thoughts erupt in my fertile gray cells. I don't have 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.680 anything written here. I don't have any monologue scripted. I 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.040 don't I haven't made any notes to make sure that 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:30.080 I don't forget anything, because I'm not worried about forgetting anything. 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:33.200 I'm very confident that I'm gonna get everything said here 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:40.200 today that I want to say. Uh. Despite living in 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:44.880 the public eye, I really am a private person for 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:49.320 just a host of reasons, most of which I'm that's 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:53.000 just who I am. I'm not. I want whatever I'm 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.000 known for to speak for itself during these three hours. 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.720 And uh, and some other things. But but you know, 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.000 I'm not intra stood in being in the news all 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:05.480 the time for whatever reason. Of course I can't help, 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.440 but I am in the news all the time, but 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:14.720 it's not something I seek. Nevertheless, it has been one 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:18.200 of the biggest blessings. You don't understand now when what 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:23.920 lou Garig when he was diagnosed with a l S 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:28.359 in the nine twenties, he's announcing his retirement. This after 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:30.480 he has been the iron Man. He's played in all 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.760 these consecutive games that the record wasn't broken until cal 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.360 Ripken Jr. Came along And he's standing at home play 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:43.000 the Yankee Stadium, and he said, after having announced, the 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.440 world knew that he had a l S. Everybody knew 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.520 what it was, that it was fatal, and that there 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:53.880 was no chance of recovery. And there still isn't right away, 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.719 And lou Garig said, today, I consider myself the luckiest 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:05.719 man on earth. I've seen that black and white film 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.440 replayed numerous times in my life, and don't misunderstand. I 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:13.479 know he meant it, but the first two or three 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:15.520 times I heard it, I had trouble proced How in 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:20.160 the world can anybody feel lucky after having been told 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.760 that you have a disease from which there is no 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:31.240 recovery and that it's fast. And even though I there 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.000 was a part of me that, Okay, this is something 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.960 that famous people are supposed to say. He's been very 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:40.880 successful in life, he was uniquely talented to play baseball 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.640 and all that, and I thought, Okay, clearly there is 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.640 a portion of Lou Lou Garring that thinks he has 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:51.920 to say this, And now I know that's all wrong. 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.680 Now I know that there was nothing forced or phony 0:05:55.800 --> 0:06:00.600 or public relations related about it. The because I feel 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:09.159 the same way, I cannot. I cannot thank all of 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.960 the people that I have heard from since Monday, and 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:17.159 they are still getting hold air people. I had no 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.040 idea they knew how to get hold of me. Uh. 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:27.400 And the the sentiments they the thoughts they are expressing 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:34.880 are just incredibly nice and supportive. And to have this 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:41.320 kind of support, uh, and to know it, to be 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:45.000 fully aware of it, Yeah, it does make me one 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:49.400 of the luckiest people alive. And I I'm trying to 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:53.039 respond to everybody. I haven't even made a dance in it. 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.120 I haven't had a whole lot of time too but 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.880 i've i've I'm going to try. Some people have written 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:06.440 excuse me three or four times, and other people are suggesting, Hey, 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:08.839 I know this treatment, I know this hospital, I know 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.600 this treatment place. You need to call it. I thank 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:19.160 you for all of that. I just am inundated with 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:23.720 so much love and support, more than more than I 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:30.280 ever knew. And it's it's really true when I sit here, 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.800 think about how lucky I am that all this has 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:38.600 happened to me. Now. I know many of you want 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.520 to know the story of the State of the Union 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.800 address on Tuesday night and how that all happened, and 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:49.880 someday I hope to be able to tell you the 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.520 entire story. I can't tell you the entire story now 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:58.280 without divulging uh medical details that I frankly don't want 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:02.440 to give people an opportunity to start investigating and writing 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:09.720 about and pronouncing opinions in this kind of thing. People 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:13.200 know enough about about what I have. It's it's late stage, 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:18.600 it's advanced lung cancer. But there's good news associated with 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:23.720 the diagnosis and the treatment. So we are where I 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:29.040 am to have the first procedure that will set up 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:34.680 the beginning of treatment. This is Tuesday, and it is 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:40.160 scheduled for five o'clock in the afternoon. We took no clothes, 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.079 Catherine and I. We just we went grub City with 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.480 shorts t shirts. I mean, the whole week is going 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.680 to be in a hospital. There's no reason to take 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:53.480 a coat in time. There's no reason to uh pack 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:55.680 a whole bunch of stuff that you're never gonna use. 0:08:55.800 --> 0:09:00.920 Light was the by word the proceed Your was gonna 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.080 be five o'clock in the afternoon. Have to show up 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.240 for it at twelve noon to do the prep, talk 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:12.400 to the doctors and so forth. Nine am phone rings. 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.640 I've got the number in my address book, so it's 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.280 the White House. So I answered the phone and they said, 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:24.920 and you, uh, can you hope for President Trump? He said, yes, Rush, Rush, 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:26.920 How are you doing, buddy? Great to hear from you. Hey, 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:30.760 look what are you doing later today? And I said, well, 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:35.400 I have serious medical procedure that's gonna start all this 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.920 at five o'clock. Well, look, what's the doctor's name. I 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:39.280 want to call him and have him to lay it 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:40.719 for a couple of days because I need you down 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:49.640 here tonight. I said, uh, Mr President, Um, I'm I'm 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.880 I'm stunned. He's he said, Look, your health comes first, 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.199 there's no question. But but but can't they just do 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.200 half of what they're gonna do and then and then 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.680 send you down here? I mean, believe me, you don't 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:00.560 want to miss this. There's gonna be great. It's gonna 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.360 a great deal. Want to missus? Well, I don't know 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:04.120 what's up. I mean, he told me that he was 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.440 going to He wanted me to be his guest at 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:10.560 the State of Union. Is gonna mentioned my name, recognized me, 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.400 hung up the phone, and for the next hour and 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:20.600 a half, I agonized. I literally agonized over what to do. 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.120 Catherine and I were both sitting in a hotel room 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:30.359 as time is marching on. We're faced with the possibility 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:34.719 of having to ask an entire medical team to broom 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:41.400 their schedule and reschedule to accommodate this. But we haven't 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:45.960 told him yet. We're discussing the logistics. Now. There's something else. 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.439 Earlier that day, I had sent e I B one 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.280 to take my nieces from New York to Cape Girardo, 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.600 and it wasn't going to be available to me until 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.840 four thirty in the after noon. So I'm putting that 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.199 in the equation. I mean, there's no way to even 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:05.960 get there, even if I want to. Once we charter, 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:11.640 we could we could do that. But no clothes, no shirt, 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.839 no tie, no socks, I mean not no dress, shoes 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:22.760 zip zero, not a Catherine saying you've got to do that. 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.920 You can't not do this. I said, how are we 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:29.520 gonna do it? She said, leave it to me? Hour 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:33.960 and a half later, called the President back, tried to 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:37.400 tell him no, Remember, I don't know what's going to happen. 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.440 I have no idea. I just he has told me 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.120 by the way I should. He has told me that 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.480 he's going to present me with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.360 but a couple of weeks from now in the Oval Office. 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.880 I had no idea at this point on Tuesday morning, 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.000 this is going to happen State of the Union, and 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:57.840 he didn't tell me during all these phone calls. I 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:04.240 called him back around ten to Pty, intending to be 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.640 as persuasive as I could, to thank him and just 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.680 say that there was too much here to overcome to 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.400 get down there, including the medical schedule, loom doctors and 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:20.000 everything they've been and this this story. If if I could, 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:21.440 and some day I'm going to be able to give 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.680 you every detail here. But for people that do not 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:32.120 know Donald Trump, this story will explain him, his essence, 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:37.800 his attitude toward life. They're simply is nothing you can't do. 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.439 There's nothing that can't be done, and there's not a 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.960 single obstacle that can't be dealt with. And it's not 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:49.480 even hard, it's not even He didn't have to stop 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.360 and think for a moment about this. Now, granted, he's 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.600 got presidential power. If he wants to clear us into 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:59.199 Reagan National, if he wants to send a car for 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.280 us and get us from the airport to the way, 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:06.320 he can do all of that. But he was but 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.760 and he did, and he was willing. But but the 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:12.320 fact was that this is what he wanted. But not 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:18.600 for him, you see him, It was for me, and 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:24.960 he wasn't going to let me talk myself out of it. 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.640 Part of me is not wanting to create any problems 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:31.000 for him. I mean, he's got so many more important 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:32.960 things to do than to deal with logistics. And I 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:34.520 totally may say, you think I'm gonna do it, I 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.160 got people here. What do you mean I'm gonna call 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.280 a guy here in an hour, all this will be done. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.160 All you gotta do is just find a way to 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:45.360 get with and get the close. So Catherine, this was 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:49.320 just this was amazing too. Catherine got in gear and 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:53.280 again without divulging too much in about we went and 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.600 met the doctor. We kept the appointment at noon to 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.559 discuss what was going to happen, sign of papers, get 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:01.720 as much of the procedure out of the way as 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:05.560 we could, and then to tell the doctor, Hey, I 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:11.600 have been summoned to Washington. Can can this be moved 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:16.840 to tomorrow? Sure, it's not a problem. In fact, show 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.440 up at five thirty tomorrow morning before anybody else gets here. 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.720 We'll get it started. We'll get it. Everybody was just 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:29.800 as cooperative helpful as they could be. We get back 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:35.440 from the meeting with the doctors about two hours and 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:40.320 in our hotel room is fifteen sport coats, different sizes, 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:46.320 four or five different ties, a bunch of shorts, different sizes, 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.200 and all I had to do was try on various 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.000 things and find an outfit that fit. I did have 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.160 taken back. I did have a pair of slacks because 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.480 it was cold where we went, so I wasn't working 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:59.280 in shorts with me. But I did wear slacks and 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.560 the slacks from a suit. But I mean we were 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.360 looking at even sending the plane down the floor to 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:05.400 get my suit in the time, but I couldn't because 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:12.960 it was on the way to Missouri. So anyway, Capita 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.600 arranged for a bunch of stuff to be delivered from 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:20.880 local retail outlets, including for her. She had nothing either, 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:32.440 nothing that would be suitable for the house chamber. Pardon me, Yeah, 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:33.720 it was stuff off the road. When do you get it. 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.840 There's no time for a tailor. There's no time for 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.760 a seamstress. Yeah, that's why there was fifty and different 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.400 sport coats. Mr Snerdle, It's why there four or five 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.080 different church different next sizes sleeve links. I told him 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.840 what I wear, But you ever know from from manufactured 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:52.800 to manufacture brand debrand, nothings consistent in clothes. And there 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:56.440 was only one of the of the whatever it was 0:15:56.480 --> 0:16:01.520 ten or fifties, only one fit, only one that I 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:05.840 could button. The slave length was perfect, but only one 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:11.160 that I could. But what do you mean, you're used 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:15.560 You're used to what over here on the other you're oh, 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.000 you're used to offer Look I don't have a tailor eater. 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.280 What do you people think I have? Somebody makes myself. 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:21.920 When's the last time you saw me in a suit 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.240 was in December? And that's an off the rack suit. 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:26.960 I haven't bought a suit in ten years because I 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:30.280 don't like clothes shopping, because precisic is nothing does fit 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.680 off the wreck. I get better things to do. To 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:34.880 sit there and be measured three or four times again? 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.640 It right? And if that was what was was somewhat 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:41.360 miraculous about this is that Katherine got enough delivered that 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:45.320 something worked. And when when I saw the ties, so 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:49.000 these are the dullest ties. I don't wear invisible ties 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.880 like this is, I said, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.760 this is this is this is how they interpreted what 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:58.280 you said you want turned out to be perfect. The 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.760 tie turned out to be the pre fit color for 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.760 what was to come later. Anyway, I gotta take a break. 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.880 There's still a lot to this story, and there's more 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:13.119 than I can tell you today about Donald Trump and 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:17.320 who he is and why he's unbeatable, folks, He's indomitable. 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:21.399 There's these these clowns, the Democrats. They still have no 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.840 idea what they're up against. They haven't the slide. There's nobody. 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:29.000 There's nobody in the Democrat Party, There's nobody in American politics. 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:38.080 It even comes close to the personality and the the 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.160 overall attitude towards life of Donald Trump. It's incredible. Now, 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.359 look in this storm, we're not even at the White 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:46.960 House yet. I still have a ways to go in 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:51.680 explaining what all happened here on on Tuesday, but there's 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:53.240 not enough time in this segment. I kind of went 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.399 overboard in the first one, so so bear with me here. 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:57.560 I just want to reiterate something. You look at what 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:01.400 happened in Iowa, and given I told the President there 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:03.639 was a meeting, I'm jumping ahead, but there was a 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.480 meeting in the Yellow Oval. Teddy Roosevelt loved the Oval 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:09.800 Office so much he had an exact replica built in 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:13.920 the Residents and it's yellow. It's the same dimensions as 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.280 the Oval Office in the West Wing. The entire Trump 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:20.879 family is there. And the subject of the Democrats meltdown 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.640 in Iowa, the Hawkeye cark I came up and I said, 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.240 Mr President, don't you find a little ironic these people 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.640 running around the last four years claiming you cheated with Russia. 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:34.920 You're gonna cheat and look what happened. These people are 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:38.879 stillicon Valley running their operations. They can't even count votes. 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.359 When are they gonna blame Russia for this? When are 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.119 they gonna blame you for this? And he got a 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:47.199 big laugh out of it. What a bunch of incompetent, 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:51.280 arrogant More on this in a minute. Half my brain 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:56.280 time behind my back still just to make it fair. 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.360 The e IV network and russlan ball wrapping up. Oh, 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:01.159 by the way, it's all line Friday. So when we 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:04.480 get to the phones about a quarterinal three this afternoon, 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:08.280 whatever you want to talk about will be fine. No. 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:10.280 I hope to be able to get the phones much 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:17.560 much much sooner than that. Um, this experience that Katherine 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:19.920 and I had, And look, folks, I have Look, I've 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:24.320 known Donald Trump for years and I've been really fortunate 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.080 the past year played golf with him a number of 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:32.720 times when he's down here then in Florida. Um, and 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.240 I've gotten to know him person. I know Donald Trump 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.080 when I saw him come down the escar. I know. 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:39.520 I've known Donald Trump from the moment he got into 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.320 this and I knew he was gonna win two weeks 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:45.520 after he got into this, and I never had any 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:51.159 doubts about it, and I fully totally understand. The Democrats 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:53.640 are discombobulation with it. They have no idea what they're 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:57.200 up against. They still don't the deep state, all these 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:00.000 people that have tried to run Donald Trump out of town, 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:04.840 they just they have no idea. Folks they have they literally, 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:09.000 I don't think, know anybody like him, which is a shame. 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:14.240 They don't know people like Donald Trump. They may even 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:17.439 have disdain for people like Donald If you look at 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:21.680 Donald Trump's life, He's lived a full and complete life, 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:26.600 and not everything has been um what we would characterize 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:32.000 as exemplary, but that's the point. He's lived. He has 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:36.600 gotten everything life has to offer, and he's not finished, 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:39.240 and he attacks it each and every day. And he 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:44.199 has no what's the words he's got, He's got no 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:50.080 self doubt. He doesn't let what other people might think 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:52.080 of what he wants to stop him from doing it 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:56.320 or from saying what he wants to say. He's just 0:20:56.480 --> 0:21:04.200 a unique personality. And the fact that the political establishment, 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:06.399 in fact that some of both parties don't understand it 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:10.560 is Uh, not hard to understand, because there is a 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:15.720 way of doing things, the standard operating procedure in electoral politics, 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:17.800 and you can see the contrast. But watch watching any 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:22.119 Democrat during the Hawkeye Hawk Eye, the lead up and 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:24.960 then that night when the vote mess happened, and listen 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:27.280 to any of them talk and every speech, even the 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:31.960 hand gestures are rehearsed, focus grouped, the words that they say, 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:37.760 focus grouped practiced. None of it is real, and all 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:41.240 of it is pandering. Every bit of it is pantmit 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:48.240 Romney epitomizes the pandering. Romney is pandering to other losers. 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:51.879 For some reason, Romney thinks this is his route to victory. 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:56.399 He hasn't the slightest idea what his future is, but 0:21:56.520 --> 0:22:01.120 it doesn't include victory, not even close. And he's gonna 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:07.680 find out sooner than later. But in this day, this 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:12.640 past Tuesday, there was simply no way it wasn't going 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:18.120 to happen. And he never made a demand. I want 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:19.920 to try to be clear about this so that as 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:23.880 many of you as possible understand the personalities. There's nothing. 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:27.160 There was no demanding, there was nothing offensive, there was 0:22:27.200 --> 0:22:32.280 nothing butlittally, there was nothing it's a unique person. That 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:36.000 isn't that that that is able to persuade people to 0:22:36.040 --> 0:22:38.600 do what they want and make them happy they're doing 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:42.479 it even when they don't think they can. In Donald 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:50.359 Trump's world, there simply is no can't, especially when it 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:55.320 comes to when it comes to trying. So we tell 0:22:55.400 --> 0:23:01.880 him late in the afternoon on Tuesday that we're going 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:08.159 to accept the invitation. He's thrilled. He was ecstatically happy, 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:10.440 but as I was to learn later, not for himself. 0:23:11.760 --> 0:23:13.919 He U pardoner the sniffles here. First I called you, 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:16.600 I've got a little bit of a bronchial congestion, chess 0:23:16.600 --> 0:23:22.199 cold coming on any rate. He's he's uh, He's on 0:23:22.240 --> 0:23:25.240 the phone and saying, look, of course, of course your 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:28.080 health comes first. There's no question. You gotta put your 0:23:28.080 --> 0:23:31.000 health first. Can't the doctor take some of it out 0:23:31.040 --> 0:23:33.080 now and then go get the rest of it tomorrow? 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:39.600 What's his name? It was? But there was never a 0:23:39.640 --> 0:23:43.000 demand there was. There just wasn't any way we were 0:23:43.000 --> 0:23:45.359 going to be able to decline it. That just wasn't 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:48.960 gonna happen. We figured that out, and then all the 0:23:49.040 --> 0:23:54.800 logistics fell into place, and we arrived in Washington and 0:23:54.840 --> 0:23:58.920 were picked up and taken to the White House. We 0:23:58.920 --> 0:24:02.320 were met by Hogan get Lee in the Communication shop. 0:24:02.400 --> 0:24:06.720 I went to the library in the White House, which 0:24:06.760 --> 0:24:10.800 is UH. It's off the Diplomatic entrance Area's the elevator 0:24:10.840 --> 0:24:17.000 to the UH Residents, where the First Lady was posing 0:24:17.119 --> 0:24:22.200 for photos with all of the people who were being 0:24:22.560 --> 0:24:28.080 recognized in the gallery that night, and we were last 0:24:29.960 --> 0:24:33.800 in line on purpose because after we posed for the 0:24:33.840 --> 0:24:36.720 photo with the First Lady, we were then escorted to 0:24:36.840 --> 0:24:41.320 the to the Residents to meet the Trump family in 0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:46.320 the Yellow Oval. Again, that is a room in the Residents. 0:24:47.080 --> 0:24:49.240 It's not far down the hall. If it's if you 0:24:49.359 --> 0:24:51.800 keep walking past it, you'll run into the Lincoln Bedroom 0:24:51.800 --> 0:24:56.920 in the Queen's bedroom, and it's the exact dimensions of 0:24:56.960 --> 0:24:59.400 the Oval office in the West wing. Teddy Roosevelt loved 0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:05.320 that room. He it made for the residents, exact measurements, 0:25:06.040 --> 0:25:08.800 with the predominant color being yellow. Hang on here just 0:25:08.960 --> 0:25:16.840 a second. Books. So we're escorted into the room by 0:25:17.000 --> 0:25:20.720 Mrs Trump and we chat with her for two or 0:25:20.720 --> 0:25:25.400 three minutes, and then the Trump family began to come 0:25:25.400 --> 0:25:30.000 in Ivanka, Donald Jr. Eric, their wives, spouses, and then 0:25:30.000 --> 0:25:32.840 the President came in and sat down and started talking 0:25:32.840 --> 0:25:35.200 about the award and the medal and what it means 0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:38.760 and how special it is and how uh thrilled he 0:25:38.920 --> 0:25:45.239 was that we were able to make it, and Fox, Uh, 0:25:46.880 --> 0:25:48.560 I don't know if I should. I'm just gonna I'm 0:25:48.560 --> 0:25:51.560 gonna go ahead and tell you this. I realized that 0:25:51.600 --> 0:25:53.639 it's going to open the floodgates of a bunch of 0:25:53.640 --> 0:25:56.000 people in the media, but at this stage, I don't care. 0:25:57.119 --> 0:25:58.800 I never have cared, and I'm not going to start 0:25:58.800 --> 0:26:01.159 caring now what they say. One of the reasons I 0:26:01.280 --> 0:26:07.280 was reluctant was I just wasn't sure I deserved this. 0:26:09.320 --> 0:26:12.679 You look at I mean, it's the highest civilian honor 0:26:14.400 --> 0:26:20.120