Speaker 1: We now have a president of the United States who
Speaker 1: is a racist. So that's pretty plain spoken from one
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders, right, whipping up a little racial animus. We
Speaker 1: like Deb Saunders. She's the White House correspondent for the
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Review Journals. She's right there in the eye
Speaker 1: of the hurricane, close to the power. What's going to
Speaker 1: smell evil from where she is? White Horse, white House
Speaker 1: correspondent for the Las Vegas Review Journal. Deb Saunders, Hey,
Speaker 1: Deb Hi, how are you doing excellent among our hairbrain
Speaker 1: theories this morning? From twirling the dial and listening to
Speaker 1: everything from MSNBC to CNN to UH, I almost had PBR.
Speaker 1: I almost. I always say PBR when I'm thinking NPR
Speaker 1: HAPs blue Root, I think perhaps I have a problem. Um.
Speaker 1: But anyway, on even on PBR, they're talking about how
Speaker 1: both sides in this shutdown are really not not acquitting
Speaker 1: themselves very well. They're finding fall with the Democrats, with
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi on MSNBC. It sounds to me like the
Speaker 1: pressure might be building to get together and actually negotiate.
Speaker 1: Is that a hair brain theory or what? I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a hair brain theory at all, And it's
Speaker 1: I mean, the truth is what the White House has
Speaker 1: been doing and what Democrats have been doing in Congress
Speaker 1: is all they care about is making the other guys
Speaker 1: look bad. They're not. They haven't been trying to kind
Speaker 1: of deal on either side. So uh, and the deal
Speaker 1: is the only way that this ends is that when
Speaker 1: Republicans feel they have to do it, in Democrats feel
Speaker 1: they have to do it. If one side thinks they're
Speaker 1: going to get something more out of it, they'll find
Speaker 1: a way to let it go on. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's not good for the economy. It's not fair to
Speaker 1: people to ask them to work without pay for for
Speaker 1: a month plus and um so so yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that I think that there should be if if I'm
Speaker 1: listening to you and I want this to end, I
Speaker 1: call it my congress person, my senator, whatever party, and
Speaker 1: say end it, because that's the only way it happened. Well,
Speaker 1: the Washington Post editorial board said, hey, Democrats, he threw
Speaker 1: something out, you gotta throw something back. You can't just
Speaker 1: reject it. So you know that's their cheerleading squad there. Um,
Speaker 1: this is unrelated to anything. How empty is the White House?
Speaker 1: I heard Trump talking to the other day about he's
Speaker 1: just he's I'm here all alone. I was here alone
Speaker 1: over over the holiday, and I'm just walking around in
Speaker 1: this big empty building. Is it? Is it actually like that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean so. So the briefing room, Uh, if you
Speaker 1: when you when you see the podium where Sarah Sanders
Speaker 1: used to come out and give daily briefings, and then
Speaker 1: you'd see there was a door if you're looking at
Speaker 1: it to or left behind, that is the lower Press
Speaker 1: area and and and then you can walk through the
Speaker 1: malls and you get to the upper Press area or
Speaker 1: Sara Sanders offices, and and there are a lot of
Speaker 1: people who work in that area who are not there now.
Speaker 1: They don't let the press wander all over the White House.
Speaker 1: So unless you're doing pool and you're brought into an event,
Speaker 1: that's what you're seeing. But it's it's pretty quiet there.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a government shutdown in it's effecting the
Speaker 1: White House as well, so but it's only partially so
Speaker 1: I don't I don't get it. Well. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: obviously a press person there every day, but you're just
Speaker 1: not seeing as many people there, and it's just it's
Speaker 1: quieter and in Washington's quieter. I mean, the commute's great, really,
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's it's not noticeable in my life
Speaker 1: at all, I mean at all the most Americans or
Speaker 1: practical leaning American. But for you and d C, it's
Speaker 1: very evident. Well, look at its ent of the government
Speaker 1: is shut down, and if you have like a seven
Speaker 1: percent change in the in the community really changes the ture.
Speaker 1: That just this is the longest and that's some good
Speaker 1: urban planning knowledge too, that this is the longest shutdown. Now,
Speaker 1: the second longest shutdown was in ninety six and the
Speaker 1: White House was empty and Bill Clinton was wandering around
Speaker 1: and and spotted a young intern with a song, and
Speaker 1: that whole thing started because he was bored and walking
Speaker 1: around in an empty White House. I just thought that
Speaker 1: was interesting. Trump talking about that the other day. It's
Speaker 1: just I'm the only one here. Well, And of course
Speaker 1: his family went out um to Florida tomorrow ago most
Speaker 1: of it, I mean, uh, Melani did come back, and
Speaker 1: they did go to a lock in the middle of this,
Speaker 1: and they were traveling. But it's just and you know
Speaker 1: that you have to understand about this White House is
Speaker 1: they take any excuse to not share information with you.
Speaker 1: So you've noticed we're not really seeing a whole lot
Speaker 1: of briefings. And today Trump tweeted that he told Sarah
Speaker 1: Sanders not to do them because press are don't treat
Speaker 1: it well. But also, I mean we've seen this every
Speaker 1: time something happens, like during the mid terms, when Trump's
Speaker 1: out campaigning, they they've had this way of sort of
Speaker 1: whittling everything back so that there wouldn't be as many
Speaker 1: briefings and they wouldn't talk to the press as much,
Speaker 1: and that keeps that's happening more and more, and so
Speaker 1: what you're getting is sort of these ad hoc press conferences.
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't have Sarah Sanders doing briefings. We
Speaker 1: have Donald Trump when he feels like it, talking to
Speaker 1: the press that they're called pool sprays when the pool
Speaker 1: comes in and he talked to them, or you know,
Speaker 1: he'll be going out to Marine one and he starts talking,
Speaker 1: and that's that's where we're getting our information. I'm highly
Speaker 1: uncomfortable with the lack of transparency, which is increased administration
Speaker 1: after administration over the last twenty years, and and and
Speaker 1: it's not going to come back. Whoever is in their next,
Speaker 1: it's not coming back. That makes sense. Hey, how crazy
Speaker 1: was the twenty four hour period between Thursday night when
Speaker 1: the BuzzFeed story hit and Friday night when Muller knocked
Speaker 1: it down. How crazy was that twenty four hours? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, um, I mean, being from the school of oh,
Speaker 1: I don't think I have to react to us story
Speaker 1: from buzz scene that's based on too uh anonymous sources.
Speaker 1: It didn't affect my life a whole lot a lot.
Speaker 1: There are people who really obviously we're going crazy over
Speaker 1: it and social media whatnot. So a lot of other people,
Speaker 1: I just uh, I just try to have better, you
Speaker 1: know better, I try to source things better. There's enough
Speaker 1: real note news going on here that we don't have
Speaker 1: to jump on every story that comes out that's based
Speaker 1: especially on unknown sources. So I mean, look at I mean,
Speaker 1: we had we've had to shutdown uh you know, of
Speaker 1: course tumpted this a thing Saturday more shut it down.
Speaker 1: But there's so much going on right now that why
Speaker 1: would you bother you know, sort of ripping up the
Speaker 1: pages for that. Right. Well, we're sure you have Catholic
Speaker 1: schoolboys to shame there in the swamp, but a couple
Speaker 1: more questions. Uh, we thought, we kind of thought impeachment
Speaker 1: fever would be running high during that period between the
Speaker 1: BuzzFeed news story and the Muller statement. I mean, there
Speaker 1: had to be some buzz well you know if you
Speaker 1: say that, But I think it was Axis that came
Speaker 1: out with a story where they talked to the freshman
Speaker 1: Democrats and it's a very small number that want to
Speaker 1: really push for impeachment right now. So during that twenty
Speaker 1: four hours, you're right, if you turned on CNN or
Speaker 1: you watched MSNBC that you keep hearing. If true, right,
Speaker 1: then we have to impeach Trump. And that did get
Speaker 1: that fever upgoing, but then of course it got shot
Speaker 1: down and and and I think a lot of Democrats
Speaker 1: understand that if they just rushed through impeachment without having
Speaker 1: seen Robert Mueller's report Special Council's report, they look sort
Speaker 1: of rapid. And of course, let's let's get to the
Speaker 1: really important thing, which is it's not they're not going
Speaker 1: to get rid of Trump because the Senate bollowing some
Speaker 1: new information that we haven't seen. But there's no way
Speaker 1: in the world with Senate would convict him. We don't
Speaker 1: even know that the impeachment would pass. So so it's
Speaker 1: like how much and and and look at what you know,
Speaker 1: I was talking earlier about the shutdown. Nobody cares about
Speaker 1: cutting a deal. They just want to make the other
Speaker 1: side look bad. And that's the impeachment story too. I mean,
Speaker 1: you really have these people who really they can't stand
Speaker 1: Donald Trump uh and they want they want him out
Speaker 1: and they nothing will get in their way. But it
Speaker 1: doesn't really help the party because you're not going to
Speaker 1: get what you want. Deborah J. Saunders, White House correspondent,
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Review Journal is on the line. You know,
Speaker 1: Devid just struck me. My my daughter is going to college,
Speaker 1: like right in your neighborhood someday, Can I buy you
Speaker 1: guys lunch and have her I love her having her meat.
Speaker 1: You know, smart women who've who have done stuff in
Speaker 1: the world. So and you're definitely on that list as
Speaker 1: a smart woman who's done stuff. There you go, right,
Speaker 1: where're you going? In brief, I'm not going to say
Speaker 1: that on the air, Okay, Okay, it's it's a small
Speaker 1: cobbler's school in uh Capitol Hill area. She repair underappreciating
Speaker 1: in the modern worm, all right, we'll talk soon. Dep. Saunders,
Speaker 1: thank you, all right. Yeah, So I'll throw this in
Speaker 1: while we're on the topic. The cover of The Atlantic
Speaker 1: got a lot of attention, and this happened before the
Speaker 1: BuzzFeed story came out. A lengthy and much discussed article
Speaker 1: by Yannie apple Bomb. Do you still get The Atlantic?
Speaker 1: Have you read this? Propos proposes that Congress immediately begin
Speaker 1: impeachment precedings against President Trump for being unfit for office
Speaker 1: and evincing little respect for the rule of law, regardless
Speaker 1: of whether or not he's committed any crimes. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: I and I thought, wow, Okay. Alan Alan Dershwitz Harvard Law,
Speaker 1: who is a Clinton supporter and doesn't like Trump, but
Speaker 1: has been in the weird position of standing up for
Speaker 1: for liberal ideals UH points out to The Hill. The
Speaker 1: Framers explicitly rejected those criteria for impeachment that is, being
Speaker 1: unfit for office and demanded that high constitutional threshold of
Speaker 1: high crimes and misdemeanors be met. In fact, as apple
Speaker 1: Bomb's criteria could be applied to any president. But he
Speaker 1: also spending on your point of view, yes, and he
Speaker 1: also suggested even if it fails, impeachment would be the
Speaker 1: best way to run out the clock on it in administration.
Speaker 1: If that became an idiotic idea much an approach, says Dershwitz,
Speaker 1: would only encourage wrongful weaponization of impeachment as a partisan
Speaker 1: political tactic to be deployed by both parties. That's it's
Speaker 1: like killing a hobo for the purpose of distracting people from,
Speaker 1: you know something else. That's a that what what are
Speaker 1: you insane? You know, it's funny. I didn't get to
Speaker 1: that part of the article. I started into it, and
Speaker 1: it was clear to me it was just a stew
Speaker 1: of kind of Alec Baldwin esque opinion and so kind
Speaker 1: of your your MSNBC round table, no regard for the
Speaker 1: rule law. So that may be true. But so they're
Speaker 1: making the serious argument that to save the nation, because
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is so destroying our country, yes, we'd be
Speaker 1: better to lock it be locked in an impeachment battle
Speaker 1: until the next election, just to run out the clock. Well,
Speaker 1: that wouldn't come back to haunt you at all. Well, right,
Speaker 1: you know, and and and here's a better metaphor. You
Speaker 1: and your your spouse are arguing, and you set a
Speaker 1: fire to distract from the the argument yeah, what happens
Speaker 1: the next argument she sets a fire and then after
Speaker 1: that you're gonna torch the sofa. Oh great, idea, super
Speaker 1: or she won't be able to make a point if
Speaker 1: you know, her bedroom burning. But you gotta you admit,
Speaker 1: that's a serious magazine with serious people who read it
Speaker 1: and write it. Yeah, it's not you know, it's not
Speaker 1: a bomb chucking show. No, it is not a buzz
Speaker 1: fee for instance, or a slate or a huff po.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, you know, sometimes there's stuff has impact,
Speaker 1: sometimes it doesn't. And it's a perfect example. And we're
Speaker 1: gonna be talking about one of our favorite journalists about
Speaker 1: this later, but um, it's a perfect example of desperation
Speaker 1: in the media leading them to you know, really prostitute themselves.