Rush Limbaugh Interview with Reince Priebus - Discover Reince Priebus

Rush Limbaugh Interview with Reince Priebus - Views on Donald Trump Win.

Reince Priebus - Republican National Committee Chairman (RNC) on Republican wins

"We Won EVERYTHING"

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ladies and gentlemen normally we don't

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do guests on the program on the

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vice-presidential candidate calls the

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ones on governor pence we accommodate of

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course I reached out to the Chairman

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Republican National Committee Reince Priebus Reince Priebus today and I

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think we have enough mister mister

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Reince Priebus welcome to the eib network

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search great to have you here

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the complete honor to be on your show

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rush thank you for having me you bet I I

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want to talk to her number reasons but

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first and foremost on election night i

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was one of the many who stayed up till

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beyond three o'clock to listen to mr.

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Trump's speech and he was effusive in

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his praise for you and your you're

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essentially creating the ground game

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operation for him to get out the vote

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effort and it was such a shock to a lot

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of people and it turns out we gonna make

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it we look at the magnitude of this win

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1. Priebus it's stunning the

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republican party turns out has more

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power in Washington and throughout the

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country in terms of selective offices at

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all levels than any time since the

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nineteen twenties Hillary Clinton had

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six million fewer voters than Barack

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Obama had in 2012 we we have since Obama

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campaigned for her on the basis that her

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election meant the continuation of his

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legacy and agenda we say that it was

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repudiated deep the American people

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showed up in droves and repudiated the

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Democrat Party agenda and it was a shock

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to me too

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Trump winning was a shock to many not me

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but it was a shock to many and the depth

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of the Democrat loss was really a shock

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to everybody

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well you predicted by the way you put

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your neck out back and may you protected

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this you felt it and you said it a long

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time ago and you know really just comes

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back to a couple things one you're right

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the ground operation at the RNC was the

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biggest operation i think either

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national parties have ever put together

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we had made way more people on the

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ground and anyone understood or give

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credit to us for we put over a hundred

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and twenty million and data

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understanding

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everything about voters what beer they

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drink what car they drive what motivates

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people how many kids they have and all

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of that information made a difference

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but let's just put that aside the

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reality is that we had the right

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candidate Donald Trump was the candidate

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that authentically captured the vehicle

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where everyone wanted to go as far as

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being the change candidate but being a

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candidate that people actually believed

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would go to Washington and do it he said

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by when he said drain the swamp and he

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said drain the swamp you know if anyone

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else said that at least a lot of these

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folks that were running it may not be

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believable because there's you know

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politicians a lot of things but when he

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said we're going to drain the swamp

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people believe that he represented

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something bigger than the day-to-day

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stories and Politico and other magazines

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that just have to fill space and that

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was authentic because it was a change

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election we had a change candidate that

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was authentically making the case and

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we're running against someone who spent

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their entire life and made millions upon

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millions of dollars in politics it was a

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just a classic case of momentum and

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running with the flow of the river and

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having the infrastructure in place to

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capture the moment now I would be remiss

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if I didn't mention something i was

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struck honestly uh by the complete

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180-degree turnaround by my speaker Ryan

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yesterday in his effusive praise for

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Trump i mean i i'm not making things up

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here there were many many Republicans

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not you don't misunderstand i'm gonna

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elected Republicans who really thought

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Trump was going to finish this party by

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losing in the biggest landslide since

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Barry Goldwater and they made no bones

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about it and they day they made public

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their lack of effort or desire to help

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him and they lost some of those a couple

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of people lost ya when Trump comes

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around and wins why all of a sudden he's

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the greatest candidate we've ever had

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but they didn't think that until he won

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and this right the

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this is obvious to people now I know

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everybody wants to get on a winning

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trade and everybody wants to shine our

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light of a of of a winner but is this

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belief in trauma is it do you think it's

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I know it's putting you on the spot is

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it legitimate with some of these people

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who disavowed trump not just elected to

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we got some conservative so-called media

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people that just yeah none of this was

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supposed to happen and they didn't want

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it to happen there were Some mr.

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Priebus hoping for a republican

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landslide loss

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yeah don't know question i mean there

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were there are some there's a few out

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there that really had no excuse doing

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what they did and I've talked about that

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and I i agree with you on that but i can

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tell you i think it's important for

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Republicans to come together now

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regardless and then it is good to show a

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positive public face and that we do get

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this party together and we are together

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or bigger like you said were bigger than

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ever but it's important that leaders and

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elected officials get i get on board but

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it in regard to the other comment but i

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will tell you that in regard to speaker

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Ryan totally totally on board and

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wanting to work with president-elect rom

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they just had a positive meeting just

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right next door

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I just saw the nothing about to go and

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he's genuine it's totally genuine he and

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by the way that especially you know the

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last few weeks he's been on the campaign

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trail with my pants he would have been I

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know firsthand because I know what the

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scheduling and the planning what he was

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planning on being at the rally in

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waukesha with president-elect romp and

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then of course you sunday night he put

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out the statement and and continued

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throughout the point of all this is that

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I i agree with your assessment some of

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the things that went on I thought were

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wrong and I made it clear that they were

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wrong and they I think some people were

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very shocked you know I was in I was on

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the side of understanding what my job

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was and I did it and I was loyal and and

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we built the biggest operation we could

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build and it helped uh and we got it

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done i'm i'm proud of the work that we

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did but I'm

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out of our candidates well i don't i

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don't want to speak out of school but I

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I know how people tend to sometimes hear

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people in politics and I just want to

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vouch for what mr. Reince Priebus just said he

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came with Scott Spicer became to do to

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meet me here in the up shut the Sean

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Spicer back in the spring it was it was

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April or May and I can tell everybody

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you have been on board the train of the

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nominee from the get-go you've never

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been anywhere near trying to undermine

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anybody's candidacy when whoever the

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nominee was that you were all in and let

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you know I just want people know you're

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not just saying this today

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ya know and and you know what that

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that's the job of a competent national

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party and you look at the DNC is going

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through it it's a total mass because

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number one they're they're not they have

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had a lot of problems lately but they've

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been trying to tip the scales and doing

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all the things that I know a lot of

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grassroots people are always worried

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about and I was trying to explain to

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people that and I understand some of the

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negative mystique that a national party

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brings with it but I just tell people

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there's nothing controversial about a

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national party that has act together on

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the ground with data it's a lot of

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boring stuff that I'm in charge of most

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of it's not exciting but we all can at

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least understand that if we're confident

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on the mechanics and we're confident on

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the work that we need to do and we're

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not playing favorites but we're offering

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our work to our eventual nominee to take

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advantage of that work product we can be

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more successful we could not win

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elections without a competent National

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Party as irritating as it sometimes the

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party can be two people it's a necessary

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function that we we serve well yeah that

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that the irritation oftentimes the

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rooted in promises on the campaign trail

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that don't evaluate the governance but

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look I wish little time constraint and i

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do want to ask you about one other thing

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that we are hearing a lot of and I'm i

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just want to admit to you that I've got

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my flags are pink right now they haven't

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turned red

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I'm hearing of course the Democrats

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common every time they lose the first

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thing they do is super piece and start

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demanding unity and we all must come

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together what they mean

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is we need to pretend we didn't win and

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we need to make sure that we don't tear

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apart whatever their agenda in their

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achievements of banana we work together

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going forward and I expect them to do

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that but I get nervous when I hear

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Republicans start talking about the need

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for magnanimity and unity and coming to

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get the American people didn't vote for

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that the American people defeated

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Hillary Clinton they voted for Trump to

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defeat Hillary and defeated democrats

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they have less power than they've ever

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had in the nineteen-twenties we've got

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greater opportunities today than at any

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time in my life mr. freebus since the

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nineteen eighties at least two really

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really implement the agenda that the

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republican party in the conservative

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movement have always been known for low

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government's the logan hundred percent

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agree on a pretty not agree with you i

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agree with you it's important to make

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peace

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i I'm all for that and it's important to

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adopt the you know the campaign but i'll

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tell you what it's also the opportunity

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to do the will of the people and the

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will of the people is exactly as you

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outlined we have won everything up and

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down the ticket

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we got the house-senate the White House

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the people of this country voted for

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that and we have to deliver the change

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that was promised and that you know it's

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a tax reform it starts with a

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conservative Supreme Court every single

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thing that was talked about on that

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campaign now it needs to be delivered

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exactly there's no excuses for not doing

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it because we've got a pathway to do it

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that's exactly right and they're working

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a myriad issues the Trump discussed

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immigration refugees to any number of

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things he had offering host of issues

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that that made it he made part of his

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campaign but when you say that we we

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have we want i think you used the word

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peace that might well I mean we don't

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want to

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what's going on out on the streets to me

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we know what you're seeing across the

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country minutes just yeah okay that's

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good

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elections are over that's not real I

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don't believe because of what we want

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with the project veritas videos thereby

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saying that they're paying for those

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protests yeah yeah understood

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don't let it affect you there that's all

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that's all made to look like that

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there's genuine outraged that we won but

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there isn't there is happiness that we

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want

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yeah absolutely i'm with you on that i

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think that's what i was referring to but

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you know look we're gonna move forward

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we've got an agenda that needs to be

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fulfilled and we've got no excuses not

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to get the leadership in place we've got

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the white house's look at what's

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happening in the state and the

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legislature is I mean there's a lot of

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flips and state legislatures that we've

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also have succeeded in across the

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country so now it's time to do the will

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of the people the White House spokesman

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Josh earnest said after the meeting

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between president obama and president

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elect Trump which 1 90 minutes today not

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the usual 15 but earnest and although we

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want to do everything we can to make

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sure president elect Trump gets the

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ground running and has a good shot at

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accomplishing what is to succeed really

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right i think they'll hopefully that'll

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last but my guess is that they'll become

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and pretty strong pretty hard down

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yeah okay well least then you know i

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mean III yeah it's it's it's such an

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opportunity and the Democrats are in a

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position they're not used to being in

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yeah whatever dude we were the party

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that was to put that did the media had

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already written that we were going to be

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in crisis today and if you open up most

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of the Washington rags it says the

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opposite and and we audit and we are to

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take the advantage of our position which

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was given to us by the people fairly and

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squarely and do our job

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well I just don't I i hope a lot of

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people are so I realize it isn't mean to

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be happy when we win

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it's not mean to advance our agenda

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because that's what we were elected to

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do i hope they don't think it's mean or

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offensive if we don't include the

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Democrats in our Obamacare plans unless

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they agree with brian we're happy to

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welcome aboard

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but I real we got too many people that

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seem guilty if we win and they don't

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want people mad at them and so they try

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to water it down and diluted a little

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bit and I hope it doesn't happen i agree

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didn't pursue your agenda with happiness

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and enthusiasm and with a lot of energy

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to get it done a hundred percent on

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board with that and i agree with you

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well thank you so much for the call i

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appreciate about it and I do Chairman

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Reince Priebus of the Republican

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National Committee and he did he came

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here with Sean Spicer and it was i don't

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know i think it was in March or April

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somewhere it was at a point in time

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where it looked like Trump was owning

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this but they weren't sure

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and in a lot of people were at that time

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in official Republican they were afraid

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what this mean and i can i can tell you

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that during them that they were here for

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an hour and at no time did I hear them

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say or have any doubt that if Trump was

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a nominee they were all in there is back

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they stood out that way as not being

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part of the crowd that couldn't accept

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Trump back they were both he and Spicer

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were intrigued about Trump and the

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possibilities of trumps being elected it

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was refreshing actually and I just

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wanted to to mention that to those of

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you I didn't at the time because it was

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an off-the-record meeting and we had not

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met I'd never met chairman Reince Priebus and

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that's really what the purpose of it was

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and so then we began discussing the

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Trump campaign what it all meant and how

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would he was handling and how I was

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handling it and what we thought was

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going to happen it was a good

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conversation but no time was he ever

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that I detected in the club that could

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not stomach and would not tolerate Trump

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it was just exactly

 

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