WEBVTT - Discouraging & Humiliating 0:00:01.810 --> 0:00:05.700 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:07.720 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.780 --> 0:00:12.040 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now, 0:00:12.420 --> 0:00:17.279 here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:27.000 There's a lot of reasons for what's happening right now. 0:00:27.470 --> 0:00:30.810 The most immediate issue is cost of living and gas prices. 0:00:31.650 --> 0:00:34.830 And that is the bottom line. You can read into 0:00:34.850 --> 0:00:37.349 a lot of other things. You can be jubilant about this, 0:00:37.380 --> 0:00:38.840 that or the other. But at the end of the day, 0:00:38.900 --> 0:00:42.220 the American people have here and now concerns. And that's 0:00:42.260 --> 0:00:44.380 really the lesson you got to take away from this. 0:00:44.420 --> 0:00:46.659 And that's the thing that the Democrats are going to 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:46.900 have to. 0:00:46.900 --> 0:00:47.580 Take away from this. 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.979 They didn't really run on a platform. They didn't really 0:00:50.020 --> 0:00:52.440 run on any legislation. Heavy is the head that wears 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:54.380 the crown. And now they partially wear. 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:59.710 It in Washington. Very true. People expect some sort of result. 0:00:59.950 --> 0:01:06.260 So Trump and Republicans won overwhelmingly. Two years ago this week, 0:01:06.860 --> 0:01:11.800 only two years ago, 24 months. That's not very long ago. 0:01:11.819 --> 0:01:14.380 Do you remember how what an ass kicking that was? 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:16.819 Do you remember all those maps and charts you saw 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.920 with like every every county in America? But one, I 0:01:20.980 --> 0:01:26.490 think getting redder to 24 months ago. But Trump had 0:01:26.510 --> 0:01:31.380 gone around because people don't understand the difference between inflation 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:36.060 and prices, convincing people prices were going to go down 0:01:36.220 --> 0:01:40.600 when inflation went down. And that ain't how it works anyway. 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.380 So when that prices actually didn't come down, now the 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:44.680 Democrats are in the same position. 0:01:44.700 --> 0:01:45.240 Okay. 0:01:45.980 --> 0:01:48.020 Yeah, people feel like things are too expensive. What are 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.720 you going to do about it? You got any plan 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:51.640 to do anything about that? What are you going to do? 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:56.150 All of our policies are inflationary, so I don't know. 0:01:56.870 --> 0:01:58.309 Right, right. 0:01:58.330 --> 0:02:00.450 A couple of, looking at just some of the notes 0:02:00.530 --> 0:02:03.010 I took last night are screen captures of tweets. This 0:02:03.050 --> 0:02:04.790 is a good one from David Drucker, our old friend 0:02:04.810 --> 0:02:08.460 David Drucker. We've had on a million times. After multiple 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.720 backlash elections and party control flips in Congress and the 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:13.980 White House over the last quarter century, it should be 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.600 clear that there's always another election around the corner and 0:02:16.620 --> 0:02:19.639 the country isn't on some perpetual verge of being lost. 0:02:20.380 --> 0:02:27.470 I would agree. So, cool your jets, as people say. 0:02:27.490 --> 0:02:29.549 Got another funny one I wanted to get to. 0:02:29.990 --> 0:02:31.370 Go ahead if you got something as I look for 0:02:31.410 --> 0:02:31.850 my funny one. 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:36.680 Well, I'm still digging for information on what we were 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.260 discussing during the break. 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.460 I mentioned the Ann Coulter tweet, which made me laugh 0:02:41.540 --> 0:02:44.600 out loud last night. Hard to believe the Darlene Graham 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.120 era is coming to an end. The lioness of the Senate. 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:49.500 Oh, my God. 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.340 You want to talk about lack of enthusiasm for Trump 0:02:53.400 --> 0:03:00.120 and Darlene from King of the Hill, Graham? Every district, 0:03:00.690 --> 0:03:05.019 or is it every county? In South Carolina, which is 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:10.590 the ruby reddest of states, every county got bluer. Every 0:03:10.850 --> 0:03:15.610 single one. I mean, there was a miserable lack of 0:03:15.669 --> 0:03:17.389 enthusiasm among Republicans. 0:03:17.490 --> 0:03:18.290 Almost unbelievable. 0:03:18.470 --> 0:03:20.389 It's short, so let's go ahead and hear a little 0:03:20.430 --> 0:03:24.190 bit from her concession speech. Tonight was not the result. 0:03:24.410 --> 0:03:28.490 Any of us wanting in this room or around the country, 0:03:28.690 --> 0:03:29.669 but we cannot. 0:03:29.570 --> 0:03:30.460 Exit the fight. 0:03:31.550 --> 0:03:33.070 This is a tough cycle. 0:03:33.770 --> 0:03:35.870 And all of us need to be involved as we 0:03:35.930 --> 0:03:37.690 chart a path forward. 0:03:37.710 --> 0:03:39.710 I'm sorry, my heart rate went to two, and I 0:03:39.750 --> 0:03:44.200 almost fell over. Your heart rate should be higher than two. Yeah, 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.339 I honestly believe she didn't want to be senator. She's like, 0:03:47.380 --> 0:03:48.780 how did I get caught up in this? This is 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:50.720 going to be the most miserable six years of my life. 0:03:51.940 --> 0:03:55.020 How quickly can I resign? But anyway, Trump talked. 0:03:54.740 --> 0:03:58.290 Her into it to running and she hated the process. 0:03:58.770 --> 0:04:01.130 She didn't want to be a senator. They could barely 0:04:01.290 --> 0:04:03.630 force her at gunpoint to go up there and make 0:04:03.670 --> 0:04:06.390 that concession speech. She mumbled her way through it, then 0:04:06.430 --> 0:04:09.510 went back home and breathed the sigh of deep, deep relief. 0:04:09.890 --> 0:04:12.070 Guaranteed. I want to be at home with my cat 0:04:12.170 --> 0:04:14.460 knitting and doing what I do. I had a good life. 0:04:14.940 --> 0:04:18.020 I like this. Do not discount the possibility that John 0:04:18.060 --> 0:04:20.420 Fetterman will simply eat many of the new senators. I 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:20.849 think that is. 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:23.920 Oh, wow. That is just not helpful at all. 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.660 Trump did tweet out last night before he calmed down. 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.099 I thought I was happy with the way Trump handled 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.800 it on the broadcast last night when he got on 0:04:33.820 --> 0:04:36.260 there and he said, congratulations to the Democrats. You know, 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.100 you fought a good fight and, you know, I'm willing 0:04:39.140 --> 0:04:40.940 to work with you and all that sort of stuff. 0:04:40.980 --> 0:04:44.900 I accept the results. When nut jobs had been predicting 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:46.460 he was going to call out the army and lose 0:04:46.500 --> 0:04:48.940 his mind and all that sort of stuff. But he 0:04:48.980 --> 0:04:51.750 did tweet this out during as results were coming in 0:04:51.820 --> 0:04:54.130 last night. I wasn't on the ballot. And if I was, 0:04:54.170 --> 0:04:56.810 we would have won in a landslide. Thank you for 0:04:56.850 --> 0:04:58.029 your attention to this matter. 0:04:58.470 --> 0:04:58.790 Okay. 0:04:58.850 --> 0:04:59.470 If you say so. 0:05:00.830 --> 0:05:01.630 Does he believe that? 0:05:02.130 --> 0:05:02.730 I don't know. 0:05:02.750 --> 0:05:04.150 I don't know either. 0:05:05.170 --> 0:05:08.370 And then maybe the biggest question that is hanging out 0:05:08.450 --> 0:05:10.890 there right now, and I would guess they're going to 0:05:10.910 --> 0:05:14.529 have meeting upon meeting upon meeting about this until January 0:05:14.610 --> 0:05:17.470 20th behind closed doors, the Democrats, to figure out what 0:05:17.510 --> 0:05:20.990 they want to do. Robert Garcia, Democrat, California, he will 0:05:21.029 --> 0:05:24.229 be the chair of the House Oversight Committee. That's the 0:05:24.270 --> 0:05:28.450 committee that starts subpoenaing people and doing investigations. And he 0:05:28.490 --> 0:05:30.970 had a two-word message that he tweeted out last night, 0:05:31.450 --> 0:05:34.100 lawyer up. Now, that's just one House member. 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.680 Ron Wyden of Oregon said one word, subpoenas. 0:05:37.900 --> 0:05:40.300 Okay, that's just a couple House members. They don't get 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.989 to make the decision on their own. Wyden's a senator, but... 0:05:44.740 --> 0:05:48.920 Hakeem Jeffries and Kamala Harris have indicated and Chuck Schumer 0:05:49.260 --> 0:05:51.840 have indicated that they don't think impeachment is the road 0:05:51.860 --> 0:05:54.660 to go down. Whether or not they can hold back 0:05:54.740 --> 0:05:57.359 their horses, I do not know. I agree with what 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.940 Gary Dietrich said last hour. That's not what the country wants. 0:06:00.430 --> 0:06:03.950 People didn't vote for you. Some people did. But you 0:06:03.970 --> 0:06:07.310 didn't win overwhelmingly last night, especially in places like Texas, 0:06:07.550 --> 0:06:09.830 because they're all excited about impeaching Donald Trump. 0:06:10.490 --> 0:06:11.350 Right, right. 0:06:12.300 --> 0:06:15.960 You know, anything beyond what I'm about to say might 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.710 be true, but it's just kind of missing the main point. 0:06:20.010 --> 0:06:24.390 People care about their family finances, trusted Trump to make 0:06:24.450 --> 0:06:24.950 them better. 0:06:25.300 --> 0:06:29.360 He made them worse. That's it. Everything else is just details. 0:06:30.570 --> 0:06:34.909 And so the depth of anger over that surprised me 0:06:34.990 --> 0:06:38.580 a little bit because of the loathing of the Democratic 0:06:38.660 --> 0:06:40.160 Party that most Americans hold. 0:06:40.460 --> 0:06:41.960 Their approval ratings are. 0:06:41.940 --> 0:06:49.420 Horrific, just historically miserably low. And yet, even in the 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.470 reddest states, people either didn't turn out or they said, 0:06:52.510 --> 0:06:54.830 you know what, I'm going to punish you by giving 0:06:54.870 --> 0:06:57.589 my vote to the Democrats, even though I hate them. 0:06:58.010 --> 0:07:00.480 That's how fundamental.... 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:04.000 Inflation is, and you know, you can say pocketbook issues 0:07:04.060 --> 0:07:05.960 or the kitchen table issues or the economy or Jeff 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:07.240 it's inflation. 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.260 If inflation's high, nothing else matters. 0:07:09.740 --> 0:07:12.230 If I was Hakeem Jeffries, who will be the speaker 0:07:12.250 --> 0:07:14.690 of the house or Chuck Schumer, who's going to be 0:07:14.710 --> 0:07:18.390 the leader of the Senate, I would get my guys 0:07:18.650 --> 0:07:20.830 and women in a room and close the door and 0:07:21.030 --> 0:07:23.090 take away their cell phones. So nobody can recording this 0:07:23.130 --> 0:07:27.750 and say, look, we're the least popular we have ever 0:07:27.830 --> 0:07:29.670 been in our party's history. 0:07:30.070 --> 0:07:30.370 All right. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:32.540 We had a great night the other night, but let's 0:07:32.580 --> 0:07:35.480 not forget, we are as unpopular as we have ever been. 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.710 Enthusiasm for us being in charge could vanish like that. 0:07:40.390 --> 0:07:40.810 All right? 0:07:41.230 --> 0:07:45.350 Let's keep that in mind, everyone. Let's just enrich our cronies. 0:07:45.630 --> 0:07:46.810 That's why we're here. 0:07:46.870 --> 0:07:51.230 We are not FDR in 1932. Everybody keeps thinking they're 0:07:51.390 --> 0:07:55.190 FDR in 1932 when he had something like 88 senators elected. 0:07:58.050 --> 0:08:01.110 and 85% of the House members, and you can do 0:08:01.190 --> 0:08:04.270 whatever the hell you wanted. That ain't what's going on. 0:08:04.790 --> 0:08:05.030 Yeah. 0:08:05.790 --> 0:08:08.420 Hakeem Jeffries will be the Speaker of the House of Representatives. 0:08:08.820 --> 0:08:10.860 He will become a household name, and I just wanted 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.140 to warn everybody, including Katie, that I will be referring 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.460 to him as Hock-Tua Jeffries. 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:17.060 Ooh. 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.710 So, just fair warning. 0:08:20.330 --> 0:08:22.690 And so Mike Johnson has already announced he will not 0:08:22.750 --> 0:08:26.830 run for Minority Leader in the Senate for the Republicans. 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.320 Steve Scalise has announced he will run, and Jim Jordan, 0:08:30.700 --> 0:08:33.440 because he thinks we have too many jackets in government 0:08:33.460 --> 0:08:33.780 right now. 0:08:34.220 --> 0:08:34.520 Oh, yeah. 0:08:34.580 --> 0:08:36.980 We need more people in shirt sleeves. Let's bear our 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:40.230 forearms and get to work. Exactly. Says Jim Jordan. 0:08:41.390 --> 0:08:41.870 All right. 0:08:42.470 --> 0:08:44.270 All right. All right. So what do you want to 0:08:44.290 --> 0:08:46.610 know about the Virginia abortion thing? 0:08:46.830 --> 0:08:50.430 Ooh, do I want to know this? So they locked 0:08:50.590 --> 0:08:54.439 in yesterday in their state some pretty extreme abortion law. 0:08:54.540 --> 0:08:56.120 I didn't even want to read the details. 0:08:56.620 --> 0:08:57.160 Yeah, you know what? 0:08:57.179 --> 0:08:59.590 I couldn't find my favorite analysis of it. It is 0:09:00.390 --> 0:09:03.290 fairly difficult to get through the veil of the mainstream 0:09:03.309 --> 0:09:07.170 media's coverage of this because they're all pro-abortion. And the 0:09:07.530 --> 0:09:09.950 ballot measure itself needs interpreting. 0:09:10.290 --> 0:09:14.030 Because they use language like reproductive freedom and stuff like 0:09:14.050 --> 0:09:15.530 that when they're talking about killing babies. 0:09:16.570 --> 0:09:21.510 Right, and in blue states, and Virginia used to be reddish, 0:09:21.590 --> 0:09:24.630 then purplish, and now it's pretty blue. In blue states, 0:09:24.770 --> 0:09:28.910 the ballot measures are brutally dishonest. I mean, California, there 0:09:28.929 --> 0:09:31.740 have been some through the years that have been absolutely hilarious. 0:09:32.179 --> 0:09:38.660 I mean, the stop robbing old ladies for their pension 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:43.790 checks measure would be called by the Democrats deny funding 0:09:43.830 --> 0:09:44.670 to schools measure. 0:09:44.910 --> 0:09:45.050 Right. 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:47.600 So here's the actual wording. 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:51.600 Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to protect the 0:09:51.700 --> 0:09:56.970 freedom to make personal decisions about prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, 0:09:57.290 --> 0:10:07.620 birth control, abortion, miscarriage management? and protect doctors, nurses, and 0:10:07.660 --> 0:10:10.860 patients from being punished for these decisions and allow for 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:14.880 restrictions on access to abortion during the third trimester of pregnancy, 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.360 except when the patient's health is at risk or the 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:21.250 pregnancy cannot survive. And the thing, you have to get 0:10:21.730 --> 0:10:24.030 really into the analysis of this because, for instance, the 0:10:24.170 --> 0:10:28.110 third trimester part, The way it's phrased, you think, well, okay, 0:10:28.170 --> 0:10:31.329 thank God there are going to be restrictions on access 0:10:31.370 --> 0:10:33.510 to abortion during the third trimester. 0:10:33.870 --> 0:10:41.100 Everybody hates that. Look at the polling. Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives, men, women, 0:10:41.340 --> 0:10:43.900 people do not like third trimester abortion. 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.920 And again, this will be a broad brush description because 0:10:47.980 --> 0:10:50.540 I don't have the analysis that I thought was really, 0:10:50.580 --> 0:10:51.330 really good in front of me. 0:10:51.340 --> 0:10:52.010 I couldn't find it. 0:10:52.059 --> 0:10:54.939 But The long and short of the third trimester stuff 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:59.040 is that the limitations are extremely tenuous and easy to 0:10:59.090 --> 0:11:02.750 get around. I have a doctor who says, yeah, yeah, 0:11:02.770 --> 0:11:06.490 he puts out a cigarette. Yeah, the health is at risk. So, yeah, 0:11:06.670 --> 0:11:09.370 it's okay. Where do I sign? And you can have 0:11:09.410 --> 0:11:12.550 a third trimester abortion. Now, that may be a slight overstatement, 0:11:12.650 --> 0:11:14.550 but it's close to accurate. 0:11:15.970 --> 0:11:17.770 All right, I just saw, we got to play this 0:11:17.790 --> 0:11:20.199 again because it's been a couple hours now. Oh, yes. 0:11:20.220 --> 0:11:21.880 Maybe when we come back. I just saw El Sayed 0:11:21.910 --> 0:11:25.640 up on the TV. Has there ever been anybody more 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:29.579 pleased with his own act than he was last night? Well, 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:33.140 not only that. He made Barack Obama look like your 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:37.559 local Methodist minister in terms of pleased with himself. 0:11:38.059 --> 0:11:42.220 Well, his gloating and touchdown dancing over his prone opponent 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:43.380 was unbelievable. 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.500 That's not usually the way we do things. 0:11:46.170 --> 0:11:46.830 No, no, no. 0:11:47.070 --> 0:11:52.140 So you're a much more hardworking, decent American than that gentleman. 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:53.080 Don't get me started. 0:11:53.500 --> 0:11:55.930 You've accumulated a little bit of wealth the right way, 0:11:56.010 --> 0:11:58.290 but you don't love some of the pretensions of like 0:11:58.390 --> 0:12:01.240 high finance. You ought to make a call to our 0:12:01.260 --> 0:12:04.920 friends at Blue Collar Dollar and have a real down-to-earth 0:12:04.980 --> 0:12:06.820 conversation about your financial future. 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:11.240 Consultation is complimentary. 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Take control of your financial future. 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.959 Dial pound 250 and say blue-collar dollar. 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.120 Armstrong and Getty are not clients of Talon. They are 0:12:42.140 --> 0:12:44.800 paid endorsers and receive compensation for this endorsement, which creates 0:12:44.870 --> 0:12:48.650 financial incentive to promote Talon. Advisory services are offered through Talon, LLC, 0:12:48.690 --> 0:12:52.130 and SEC-registered investment advisor. Learn more at bluecollardollar.com. 0:12:53.470 --> 0:12:54.630 Armstrong and Getty. 0:12:57.309 --> 0:12:57.690 My name. 0:13:00.100 --> 0:13:09.200 Is Abdulrahman Mohamed Al-Sayed. And I am so proud and 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:13.530 honored to stand here as your senator-elect from. 0:13:13.429 --> 0:13:18.829 The great state of Michigan. That is Al-Sayed, who won 0:13:18.870 --> 0:13:21.150 up in Michigan quite easily. He goes on in his 0:13:21.210 --> 0:13:21.929 acceptance speech. 0:13:22.809 --> 0:13:25.540 Up until right about now, you might have noticed I 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:30.170 always say, inshallah, or God willing, Whenever the outcome of 0:13:30.220 --> 0:13:34.720 this race was mentioned. But today, tonight, we can turn 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.300 that inshallah into alhamdulillah. 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:51.619 Alhamdulillah. where a candidate for a major office wins and 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.740 doesn't go with the whole gracious acceptance speech of my 0:13:54.780 --> 0:13:57.910 opponent just called me and congratulated me on the win. 0:13:57.929 --> 0:14:00.770 It was a hard-fought battle, and they said they're willing 0:14:00.809 --> 0:14:02.290 to work with me and blah, blah, blah, and I'm 0:14:02.309 --> 0:14:06.230 willing to work with them. And if the crowd boos you, no, no, no, no, no. 0:14:06.309 --> 0:14:08.840 I want to be a senator for all Michiganders. 0:14:08.940 --> 0:14:09.780 Everybody does that. 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:10.540 I don't even. 0:14:10.420 --> 0:14:13.340 Remember Trump not doing that when he won the two 0:14:13.380 --> 0:14:16.540 times he won. But El Sayed was not having any 0:14:16.580 --> 0:14:18.819 of that. Here he is after he beat Mike Rogers 0:14:18.860 --> 0:14:20.770 last night. I want you to let him know. 0:14:22.310 --> 0:14:25.310 Let him know that we together fighting for something bigger. 0:14:25.330 --> 0:14:26.210 We won. 0:14:28.870 --> 0:14:31.690 So Mike, enjoy your retirement. 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:39.560 I know you got a house in Florida and two yachts. See, 0:14:39.620 --> 0:14:42.620 you chose hate and Michigan chose hope. 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:47.180 May we never have. 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:48.650 To see the likes of you in the state again. 0:14:48.970 --> 0:14:53.530 Whoa. So another norm broken. I guess the era of 0:14:54.090 --> 0:14:57.110 concession speeches where you say nice that you don't continue 0:14:57.150 --> 0:15:00.120 the campaign. That era is over, apparently. 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:02.900 Yes, it is. Yes, it is. 0:15:03.300 --> 0:15:07.760 To what extent will Abdul Rahman Mohammed El-Sayed show his 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:08.540 true colors? 0:15:09.260 --> 0:15:11.650 In his stint as a senator for as long as 0:15:11.690 --> 0:15:13.210 it lasts. I don't know. 0:15:13.270 --> 0:15:15.350 In terms of the I want to be a senator 0:15:15.370 --> 0:15:17.850 for all Americans, he continues to stick his thumb in 0:15:17.870 --> 0:15:20.250 the eye as we roll on. J.D. 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:24.500 Habibi. 0:15:27.340 --> 0:15:31.060 There is this delicious irony in the fact. 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.890 That you're constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January. 0:15:39.010 --> 0:15:39.930 Man, that is too much. 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:47.220 So you know what that means? Wolverine won, Buckeyes zero. 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:51.120 Again, that's a funny line in Michigan, but yeah, there's 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.960 not a lot of brotherhood in the Muslim Brotherhood, apparently. 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.760 No, I hate you, you hate me, and you have 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:58.660 to swear me in. Just take a suck of that. 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.170 Is not what people usually do. 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.520 Yeah, yeah. You know, J.D. 0:16:04.580 --> 0:16:07.900 Vance ought to do an hour-long, and I would be 0:16:07.950 --> 0:16:10.190 happy to co-write this for him if you'd like, an 0:16:10.310 --> 0:16:15.150 hour-long description of how Islamism is fundamentally incompatible with the U.S. 0:16:15.190 --> 0:16:17.930 Constitution for a number of reasons, including the fact that 0:16:17.970 --> 0:16:21.230 it sorts citizens into the categories of Muslim and non-Muslim, 0:16:21.310 --> 0:16:24.400 or dhimmi. under the law, and it treats them differently 0:16:24.500 --> 0:16:28.340 and brutally if you're non-Muslim. Do an hour-long speech of that, 0:16:28.580 --> 0:16:30.840 then turn and say, all right, I got to swear 0:16:30.940 --> 0:16:33.960 in Abdul Rahman Muhammad Al-Sayed. 0:16:34.940 --> 0:16:36.920 And did you hear all that? 0:16:36.940 --> 0:16:40.220 Did you catch all that? Okay, now you're going to 0:16:40.300 --> 0:16:43.480 swear allegiance to the Constitution. Okay, let's get this done 0:16:43.980 --> 0:16:46.880 and be kind of fun. Well, to your point, he 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:48.859 went on with his usual stick here. 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:50.400 I want to say something here. 0:16:50.420 --> 0:16:54.600 See, They try to call you hateful if you believe 0:16:54.660 --> 0:16:57.760 that Palestinian kids should get to grow up in the 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.500 land of their forefathers without. 0:17:00.260 --> 0:17:06.159 Being murdered by our tax dollars. If you believe in 0:17:06.220 --> 0:17:09.869 equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination, that's not hate, 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:16.510 it's love. Michiganders, we want our taxes spent here, for 0:17:16.550 --> 0:17:19.510 schools here, and healthcare here, and infrastructure here. 0:17:20.540 --> 0:17:21.340 We don't want our. 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.540 Money sent into apartheid or genocide or war. 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.550 He does such a good job of shooting down points 0:17:27.650 --> 0:17:32.270 nobody has ever made. And combating arguments that nobody would 0:17:32.310 --> 0:17:32.930 ever pose. 0:17:33.230 --> 0:17:37.810 Doubling down on genocide from the stage in your acceptance speech. 0:17:38.550 --> 0:17:38.820 Yes. 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:40.300 Wow. 0:17:40.540 --> 0:17:49.520 That is 100% critical theory, victim oppressor, settler, colonist, neo-Marxism. 0:17:49.869 --> 0:17:51.270 A hundred percent. 0:17:51.290 --> 0:17:52.869 You know what I would have loved? I would have 0:17:52.890 --> 0:17:56.020 loved if Bill Clinton could have been on stage debating 0:17:56.100 --> 0:17:58.680 that point with him last night. We had a deal 0:17:58.700 --> 0:18:00.840 for the Palestinians. They could have raised their kids in 0:18:00.859 --> 0:18:03.159 their own land, but they walked away from it twice. 0:18:03.580 --> 0:18:06.480 Because they wanted to kill the Jews. They wanted it all, 0:18:06.500 --> 0:18:08.180 and to kill the Jews was the problem. 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.290 Lonnie Chen's one of the best political pundits around, and 0:18:12.310 --> 0:18:13.830 we're going to talk to him coming up next. I 0:18:13.869 --> 0:18:16.149 have some stats that will blow your mind, and I 0:18:16.170 --> 0:18:17.609 want to hear him react to them also. 0:18:19.490 --> 0:18:23.370 Armstrong and Getty. What is our assignment? 0:18:23.710 --> 0:18:27.980 First, Americans want Washington to bring down the cost of living. Second, 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.140 Americans want us to clean up corruption in government. They 0:18:31.220 --> 0:18:35.320 know that Trump is the most corrupt president in American history. 0:18:35.980 --> 0:18:39.359 No American should have to make trade-offs at the supermarket 0:18:39.859 --> 0:18:43.439 while Trump is making insider trades on the stock market. 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.880 And third, they want us to check on Trump's chaos 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.899 at home and abroad. We've seen too many Americans die 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:55.459 on our streets and in uniform overseas because of Trump's 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:57.870 erratic judgment. The American people don't know what the heck 0:18:57.880 --> 0:18:59.290 we're fighting for in Iran. 0:18:59.810 --> 0:19:01.929 He's never made it clear. He changes his mind. 0:19:04.230 --> 0:19:06.410 So that's Chuck Schumer is going to be the leader 0:19:06.450 --> 0:19:09.520 of the Senate laying out why he thinks the Democrats 0:19:09.580 --> 0:19:11.959 won and what people want out of him. How big 0:19:12.180 --> 0:19:14.919 an ass-whipping was it last night? I hadn't come across 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.300 these numbers. This will lead us into talking with Lonnie Chen. 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:23.460 So the 94 Revolution, it was called, when the Republicans 0:19:23.500 --> 0:19:27.590 took back the House after 50 years, the Democrats running it. 0:19:28.820 --> 0:19:34.000 Republicans won the popular vote by 6.8 points. The wipeout 0:19:34.060 --> 0:19:38.469 with Bush's midterm in 2006, Democrats won by 7.9. 2010, 0:19:38.470 --> 0:19:41.210 when Obama got wiped out, it was 6.8 win for 0:19:41.270 --> 0:19:50.879 the Republicans. 2018 was 8.6. The deal. are on track 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:57.360 for a 13-point popular vote win across America. You have 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:01.160 to go back to Watergate 1974 to get those kind 0:20:01.180 --> 0:20:04.200 of numbers. This is, as Tim Alberta, who's a guy 0:20:04.220 --> 0:20:06.990 who crunches numbers, said, this is an election to which 0:20:07.070 --> 0:20:08.910 every future midterm will be compared. 0:20:10.290 --> 0:20:10.850 Good Lord. 0:20:11.090 --> 0:20:14.300 To discuss that and more, welcome Lanhee Chen, David and 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.419 Diane Steffi Fellow in American Public Policy Studies at the 0:20:17.460 --> 0:20:20.159 Hoover Institution and the Director of Domestic Policy Studies at 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:21.220 Stanford University. 0:20:21.260 --> 0:20:24.659 Lanhee, welcome, sir. Thank you. Good to be with you. 0:20:24.820 --> 0:20:27.000 I mean, you look at Watergate 74, pretty easy to 0:20:27.020 --> 0:20:29.380 figure out why voters were choosing one party over another. 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:32.760 Coming out of Watergate, right? How about this one? What's 0:20:32.780 --> 0:20:33.639 your explanation? 0:20:37.570 --> 0:20:39.070 I think there's a lot of things. I mean, I think, 0:20:39.109 --> 0:20:41.850 first of all, what you saw was just a lot 0:20:41.890 --> 0:20:44.810 of voter frustration with the state of the economy. I mean, 0:20:44.890 --> 0:20:49.230 I think the reality is that this economy has been 0:20:49.369 --> 0:20:51.960 really tough for some period of time. And it's not 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.580 just like the last two years. I think it has 0:20:54.619 --> 0:20:58.379 been a sustained period of inflation, eating away at paychecks, 0:20:59.260 --> 0:21:01.960 rising costs for energy and housing. Again, I don't think 0:21:02.020 --> 0:21:05.010 this is new. But I do think that voters wanted 0:21:05.050 --> 0:21:08.129 to send a signal that whatever is happening in Washington 0:21:08.170 --> 0:21:10.710 isn't working. And I do think that that was part 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:13.080