Newt Gingrich tells Megyn Kelly You are fascinated with SEX
The interview you have been hearing about, give it a listen.
They're All Talking About Newt vs. Megyn
October 26, 2016
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RUSH: All right, now, look, I know that everybody was -- I don't know if they still are, probably are, still talking about the exchange on the Fox News Channel last night between, in this corner Mr. Newt, the Newtster, Newt Gingrich, and over here Megyn Kelly of the GQ spread of some years ago and the first Trump debate question last year in Cleveland. And it was fireworks.
You know what's amazing about this, among many other things. You know, I'm a broadcaster, folks. Broadcaster first, second, third, fourth, fifth, first and last I'm a broadcaster. Whatever else I am comes the in the middle. So I watch broadcasting as a business enterprise inasmuch as I watch it for content and so forth. I saw something today that interests me. It may not interest anybody else. But I got in here at my usual time, sat down and began the routine to begin the concentrated portion of show prep time, which includes glancing at the TV monitors.
But they did. And I'm telling you, it is telling, the fact that they did it and had no problem doing it. They decided that promoting and calling attention to what they greatly approved of, they thought it was great what happened on Fox last night. CNN airs it and is begging people to leave CNN and go watch Fox now. That's the upshot of this. But they didn't care. And the reason they didn't care is because they thought that Newt Gingrich got his head handed to him last night, and by extension they thought Donald Trump got his head handed to him by extension, and then they thought Rudy got his head handed to him by extension.
So they were more than happy to subordinate their own business instincts and desire to survive and win, they subordinated that to the objective here of creaming and destroying Trump. I can remember a day, and it's not that long ago, when this wouldn't happen, and if it somebody had tried it, whoever runs CNN would have stormed into the control room and said, "What in the name of Sam Hill are you doing?"
Now, I know it's a different age, it's a different media era, and we all can conclude here that maybe everybody involved media-wise is on the same side now, pulling no punches, make no bones about it, particularly when the objective here is to take Trump out, to destroy Trump. It doesn't matter, the media is one rather than a series of different entities that are competing against each other. That's obviously the way they look at it. But, you know, as an old hand at this, I'm 65, as somebody who's been doing this since I was 15 years old, I was blown away by it.
As I say, I'm an old schooler. You don't acknowledge that anybody else does what you do. I mean, you know they're there, but you certainly do not call attention to them, you don't praise them at your own expense. But that's what CNN was doing. You can draw your own conclusions from it. I mean, to me, again, I'm not looking at it within the political realm here. I'm looking at it strictly as a broadcaster and as a media professional and champion. I'm just telling you, it's odd. And they've been doing it all day. I mean, it's not just this one segment. It was a 20-minute segment I happened to see. They've probably been doing it all morning and they're gonna continue to be doing it all day long because they think it was such a big win for them.
So we're gonna get to it later on in the program. I'm not gonna lead off with it in terms of actually playing the sound bites. If you haven't heard it by now, just hang in there, be tough, you will, we'll get to it. There are other things that I want to get to. Plus, I know both people involved here. I know Megyn, I know Newt. It makes it tough. I've always said, it's easier when you do not know these people when it comes time to talk about what they're doing or analyze what happens. It's much easier. But I know them both, and so it's tough. I will admit this, it's tough.
But I nevertheless must mention that it's tough when -- (interruption) it was pretty brutal? Pretty brutal. Yeah. Yeah, it was. I guess it was. Let me just ask you off the top of your head, that segment last night, you watched it, obviously, thumbs up or thumbs down, net positive, net negative for Trump? Net negative for Trump, you think that was a negative for Trump? Did not help Trump last night. Without exception here, folks, every email I got starting last night -- I didn't see it. I didn't have the TV on. I was watching the World Series. That's how bored I was. Just kidding. Just kidding. I was working. I didn't have the TV on.
So I started getting notes from my friends. It's fascinating when you get a note and people tell you something you haven't seen. They create expectations, and what I thought I was gonna see was Newt Gingrich mopping the floor with Megyn Kelly. Everybody that sent me a note said (shouting), "Oh, my God! This is so great! Newt just took her down. Oh, my God! Oh, my God! It's great! It's about time something like this happened. You should see it. You should see it. Newt just cleaned up." So I'm expecting that when I watch this, and that's not what I saw.
From the standpoint thumbs up or thumbs down for Trump, that's not what I saw. But here I said (chuckles) I wasn't gonna get into it and I'm into it. I'm not gonna play the audio sound bites. There are other things I want to get to first. (interruption) Okay, you want to do it now? I want to do it later. I've got other things I want to do. (interruption) Everybody else is doing that. What more...? (interruption) I mean, I could play it. Everybody else has played it now, what more could I add other than the stuff I know about both of them that I'm not gonna tell you? (interruption)
It is possibly true that it's not real until I comment on it. Absolutely. (sigh) Well, anyway. It... Look, it's also unfair to start. You know, you look at these things after they've happened. It's easy to sit here from afar and say, "What Newt should have done there... What Newt should have done," or, "What Megyn should have done there, what she should have done..." I don't like to play that game. It's why I left TV. I couldn't handle everybody telling me what I should have done after they watched me on TV. I said, "You're not even watching what I think I'm doing, so I'm out."
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RUSH: All right, look: Still no phone calls, Mr. Snerdley. Now, see, this is anecdotal evidence. We don't take nearly enough phone calls here to make any kind of projection over what audience opinion is. You know, folks, let me give you a little inside baseball statistical data. Do you know what the percentage -- and this has been documented with phone company research and all. I will admit it's research that predates cell phones as a predominant tool. So it's probably a ten-year-old rule of thumb, but I'll bet it hasn't changed much.
Do you know how many people we talk to every day here? Maybe 10, max. On a good day maybe 15 or 20. It's not very many. That's why when the Drive-Bys in the old days of this program asked, "What do your callers think?" I said, "It doesn't matter. I don't talk to enough of them to know. You can't extrapolate what people saying on my problem in any kind of public opinion. What I say here is what counts." "No, no! What are your callers saying?" So I make it up and tell 'em that they're saying exactly what I'm saying, just to get the message out.
So that's why... There's a caveat. Even though Mr. Snerdley hasn't answered a single call. We don't answer 150,000. No, no, no. That's how people are calling getting busy signal. Well, that's how many busy signals there are. We don't know how many actual people there are, but I doubt that people are trying on three different phones at a time. You never know. The point is, just because we haven't answered a call from somebody saying, "You gotta play the Newt-Megyn bites," doesn't mean that some of you out there don't want to hear it. (sigh)
Everybody else has played it. You've heard it by now. I can tell you what I think of this without playing a single sound bite. You ready? If I had found myself in that interview last night, and everything happened exactly as it had happened, and Newt had asked her to say the words "Bill Clinton, sexual predator," and she came back and said, "Well, he's not on the ballot, and we've covered that story, sir," I would have said, "The woman who is on the ballot enabled her husband as a sexual predator. And that is much more important that what Bill Clinton did at this moment in time.
"Yeah, Clinton's not on the ballot. He's gonna end up back in the White House if she wins, and therefore the place is going to be subject to the same kind of corruption, except over on the East Wing where the vice president's office complex happens to be, but that's not the point." If these people in the media want to keep bringing up Trump and sexual predation -- if they want to keep bringing up the fact that women are not safe because of Donald Trump -- well, then neither are they if Hillary Clinton's around, because Hillary Clinton enabled her husband. Hillary Clinton defended her husband.
She made it happen. She made it possible for him to continue doing this. That's the story here, if you ask me, because Hillary is on the ballot. The media is not going to change the way it talks about Bill Clinton. It just isn't gonna happen. And even if they did, it's not a game-changer. It would satisfy some of us who are sick and tired of the Clintons getting away with everything for 25 years, but it's not gonna change anything. But what could change something, since women seem to be the focus of this...
I mean, Megyn and all these other females in the media want to try to warn women out there that women in general are not safe if Trump gets to the White House. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton, because she's a woman, she can be trusted? No, she cannot be trusted! A, Hillary Clinton's incompetent. Hillary Clinton does not know what she's doing on anything. Hillary Clinton wouldn't be where she is if her name wasn't Clinton. She doesn't have any stand-alone achievements, stand-out achievements and accomplishments that in any way recommend her to the presidency.
They were so disastrous, the American people overwhelming rejected her health care plan and she fronted for it back in '93 and '94, or whenever it was. It might have taken up the whole first four years of the first term. But she doesn't have any qualifications or major achievements. She cares? Children's Defense Fund? It Takes a Village? What she is known for is the bimbo eruptions unit. What she is known for -- and the reason that she has been nominated -- is that she saved her husband and thus saved the Democrat Party by agreeing to defend her husband and go after the women, and not just the women.
She went after the entire conservative movement and blamed us for what her husband was doing! It was "the vast right-wing conspiracy." That, to me, is the story. Now, it's easy to say after something's happened and everybody's watched it, "You know what I would'a done?" But that's what I would have done if I had found myself in that circumstance, and I have found myself in that circumstance with people when I talk to 'em out there or with people who've called the program.
You know, equating Donald Trump and Bill Clinton is an exercise in attempting to force the media into reporting and discussing things they don't want to report, and then claiming victory if you pull that off. But I don't know how it helps anything. But Hillary, and having a bunch of people who do not know the history of the nineties learn it and learn her role in it? You know, there's another interesting thing, too. I saw a story the other day that something like 99% of all money donated this campaign from Silicon Valley has gone to Hillary -- 99%! The total. I'm not talking about PACs and big time fundraisers.
I'm just talking about employees and maybe CEOs, but these are the donations that max out at like $2,700, whatever it is. The $8 million total from employees at Silicon Valley, like Google and Apple and Microsoft. Well, Microsoft. I guess they got a Silicon Valley office. But you know, the tech industry. And then I saw the reason is the H-1B visa program. They all have bought hook, line, and sinker (laughing) that we need open borders and immigration for high-tech, brilliant high-tech, accomplished engineers to be able to immigrate to the country. So then I decided I would try to look and see what
You know what they are?
She doesn't have one!
She hasn't said anything about the H-1B visa program, that I can find. Trump has a policy statement on it. He's got two or three paragraphs about what he will do and deal with and change it, reform it, whatever. Hillary not a single word. And these dolts in Silicon Valley are giving their money to her anyway, assuming, because she's a Democrat, she must have the right answer on these things. She hasn't said a word about it. Those are the kinds of things that she's benefiting from, and those are the kind of people I think could really benefit from knowing exactly who Hillary Clinton is.
Now, maybe they would look the other way. Maybe they are these people, maybe a lot of Democrats are of the frame of mind that anything it takes to beat conservatives we will support. So if Hillary Clinton had to destroy a few women, it was worth the price. And they may be of that mind-set. I think many of them actually are. But I don't think enough attention has been paid to Hillary Clinton's role. If Trump's so-called sexual predator nature is something the media wants to not let go of, then the way to deal with it is not to bring up Bill Clinton.
You can bring up Bill Clinton, but you have to bring up Hillary. You have to let people know her role in this. If women have become innocent victims, if women running around today are unable to protect themselves, if the picture that we're painting, if the caricature we are creating is of women that are helpless waifs who are at risk of predator men throughout the busy day, then we have to somehow involve Hillary Clinton in that recipe in truthful and honest ways. That, when it came to defending and protecting women who alleged that they had been abused or even raped by her husband, those women were nothing but scum who had to be dispatched and just swept out of the way. That's what I think should be the focus.
"Rush, it's been tried, you know, and it just doesn't stick." Well, the media's not gonna let go of this Trump-women thing. You guys had just better own up to that. They think they're on to something big and they're not gonna let go of it. It's not gonna turn Trump supporters away from him. This is what they don't understand. Well, maybe they do. Maybe they're trying to freeze the undecideds. Maybe they're trying to freeze people who might be inclined to vote for an outsider just 'cause they're fed up with how the elites and the insiders have just ruined practically everything or done great damage, so they're trying to put breaks on that kind of thinking. I don't doubt that's the case. That's why Hillary has to be brought into this.
RUSH: Here's Bob in Scottsdale, Arizona. I'm glad you waited, sir. Hi.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. What a blessing to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir. Appreciate that.
CALLER: I have been listening for a long time, and I just wanted to call in because you made a comment about the interaction between Megyn Kelly and Newt. I've been listening to Fox for a while and watching The Kelly File because I really thought that she did a good job with journalism and stuff, but I've noticed a progressive movement in her tone and stuff, and last night really was it for me. I'm done listening to her. Her interaction with Newt specifically, when they were talking about stuff and Newt responded, she made a comment that just sparked me and ticked me off. She said, "I am a protector of women" in her comment, and I thought, wait a minute, I thought her job was to do the news, not to be an editorialist and protecting women.
RUSH: Wait, honest to God, I haven't seen the whole thing. She said she was there to protect women from predators like Trump?
CALLER: Yeah, from predators. Yeah, she said I'm a protector of women. I'm a protector of women and he's the one that's the predator, and --
RUSH: Oh, and that must be when Newt said, "Well, then would you say Bill Clinton is a sexual predator in the same sense," she wouldn't do it?
CALLER: That's right.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: But it's easy to see that after the fact. I'm not criticizing Newt.
CALLER: No, no. The issue that just drove a wedge for me with Megyn Kelly was that here she purports to be a news anchor giving us the news, and now she's communicating -- I've noticed the people she's had on, the questions she's asked.
RUSH: I appreciate it. I don't mean to be rude, but I'm out of time. I do have some things to say, but sadly, I don't have time right now.
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it's not with more newt gingrich he
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served as Speaker of the House he's a
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trump supporter and author of the book
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treason
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great see mr. speaker thanks for being
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here so good to be back I mean with with
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cook and many other nonpartisan
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independent pollsters now saying that
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the Senate is likely lost to the
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Republicans what does that say I mean if
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Donald Trump loses this White House race
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and the Republicans lose the Senate does
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that suggest that the republicans
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nominated the wrong candidate at the top
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of their lookit the next two weeks are a
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contest of two parallel universes i just
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listened to that report first of all I
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used to hang out with Charlie cook when
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he would explain the Donald Trump was
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hopeless and would not get the
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nomination I like Charlie that doesn't
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mean he's infallible but let's just take
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the the report we just got Republicans
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are actually out voting Democrats in
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Florida there are voting Democrats in
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Pennsylvania that's unprecedented
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they've cut the definition of Aenea I
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think they might really like each other
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going to civilian look all I can report
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you right now is there out voting the
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Democrats early voting which is also
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true in Florida which is unprecedented
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but all historically definitely never
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winning what all of the models and
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Pennsylvania ever had i know i just told
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you we have two alternative universes
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right now are in Iowa for example the
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Democrats are 50,000 votes behind where
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they were with Barack Obama and turn out
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of the governor is very confident we're
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going to carry iowa which obama carried
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last time I get it straight through case
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after case like this in Minnesota we're
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almost certainly going to win the
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congressional seat up around the Louth I
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was a very democratic area but it deeply
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dislikes Hillary Clinton and represent
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not let me go ahead and let me just
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because that you say to alternate
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universes
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I mean you're these are sort of small
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examples of how he might be headed early
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voting and so on but i'm telling you
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that the Fox News decision desk just
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moved Iowa that you just mentioned
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Indiana 2nd congressional district in
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Maine all of them moved left moved more
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likely to vote for Hillary Clinton and
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in fact all of the moves that have been
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on this map over the past
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three weeks by Larry sad Widow by cook
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by the Fox News decision desks these are
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non partisan outlets that are just
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trying to call the electro not working
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outlets every hour you describe this
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part of the establishment snooze really
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are we
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I don't think so and the mall every
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state they've moved they've moved it to
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the left towards Hillary and you tell me
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whether that's all made up
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no I think they're two alternative
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universes you have a pole which suggests
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that she's going to get a Barack Obama
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turnout among african-americans I don't
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think that's going to happen you have a
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washington post-abc news poll where they
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took out eight percent of the vote
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because in like the way voted look I'm
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I've been around long enough i remember
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when the Detroit liberal newspaper on
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the Sunday before the election said John
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Engler would lose by 14 points he won
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the governorship that year I don't take
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the I don't take polls as seriously as
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people who have never run for office
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Lightyear can tell you your candidate
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loves them and has touted them from the
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beginning and he's been behind in
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virtually every one of the latter the
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last 40 polls that we've seen over the
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past month that's the reality if you
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want to assume the elections over
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skip the next two weeks we talk about
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the future and seeing anything i just
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i'm asking you whether you believe your
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candidates behind based on these numbers
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and what it is about you down races i
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believe the odds are at least one and
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three and maybe better than that that
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the difference in intensity and the
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difference in determination and the
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degree to which Hillary Clinton is
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clearly the most corrupt dishonest
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person ever nominated by a party all
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mean that the odds are pretty good she's
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not going to win now I actually believe
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that this is not just because I'm for
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Donald Trump I actually believe the
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American people let me at least an hour
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this sochi let's assume she is corrupt
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right shoes they're just as corrupt
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three weeks ago and three months ago and
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she she would have been corrupt and
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collapsing physically on sep tember 11th
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of this year and her poll numbers tanked
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but then you know what happened he had a
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rough first debate he took the bait on
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alicia machado he stayed in that trap
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for a week
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the Access Hollywood tape came out which
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was not produced by Hillary Clinton that
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was Trump on camera
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target right look I just heard you go
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through this with it with with Governor
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pence I get I know where you're coming
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from
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let me point out something to you sure
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the three major networks spent 23
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minutes attacking Donald Trump that
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night and 57 seconds on Hillary Clinton
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secret speeches you don't think this is
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a scale of bias worthy of problems vest
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you
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I mean you want to know why down from
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several times and sexual predator that
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is a sexual protein shake it i'm not
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taking a position that statement I the
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second section two people like you using
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language that's inflammatory that's not
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true
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excuse me mr. Zanger Donald don't you to
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know ideas whether it's true or not
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what we know is that neither do you
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that's right now I'm not taking a
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position on it is you are when you use
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the word you took a position so why
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things are you to do that Megan in that
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is exactly the bias people upset but I
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think that your defensive nasaan this
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may speak volumes sir
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no i said it's just you don't know let
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me make my point and they'll give you
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the floor
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what I said is if Trump is a sexual
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predator then it's a big story and what
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we saw on that tape was Trump himself
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saying that he likes to grab women by
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the genitals and kiss them against their
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will
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that's what we saw then we saw ten women
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come forward after he denied actually
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doing it for a debate to say that was
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untrue
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he did it to me he did it to me we saw a
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reporter's we saw the people who work
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with them people from apprentice and so
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on and so forth
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he denies it all which is his right we
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don't know what the truth is my way to
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use as a media as a media story we don't
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get to say the 10 women are lying we
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have to cover that story so sure
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ok so so it's worth 23 minutes of the
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three networks to cover that story and
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Hillary Clinton a secret speech in
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Brazil to a bank the pager 225,000
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saying her dream is an open border where
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600 million people could come to America
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that's not worth covering that is where
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you want to go back to the tapes of your
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show recently you are fascinated with
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sex and you don't care about public
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policy no that's what I get out of
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watching you tonight you know what mr.
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speaker I'm not fascinated by sex but i
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am fascinated by the protection of women
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and understanding what we're getting in
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the Oval Office and i think the american
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voters would like to know we're going to
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send bill clinton back to the east wing
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because after all you are worried about
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sexual predators yet
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listen it's not about me it's about the
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women and men of America and the poll
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numbers show us that the women of
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America in particular are very concerned
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about these allegations and in large
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part believe that they are a real issue
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and with Thomas mean comment when they
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were summarily you want to comment on
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whether the ticket has a relationship to
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a sexual predator we on the Kelly file
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have covered that story as well sir I
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will tell us when you use the word i
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wanna hear your words Bill Clinton's
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sexual predator and area say bill
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clinton sexual predator
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- speaker is powered by the island is
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our bar bit disbarred well control bar
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850,000 daughter penalty
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excuse me sir we on the Kelly file have
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covered the Clinton matter as well we've
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hosted kathleen willey mostly covered
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the examples of him being accused as
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well but he's not on the ticket and the
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poles also show them the public is least
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interested in the deeds of Hillary
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Clinton's husband then they are in the
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deeds of the man who asks us to make him
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president donald trump we're going to
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have to leave it at that and you can
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take your anger issues and spend some
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time working on the mr. speaker
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thanks for being on YouTube
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