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	you can do so by hitting the subscribe button. And here we are, but we went to the weird
	It's okay.
	It's going to be better than that tonight.
	It's the debate stream.
	It's going on right now.
	Now, most of you don't care because Donald Trump isn't there, but we'll talk about that too.
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	I wonder if people used to say hashtag.
	Not anymore.
	But we don't say that anymore.
	Pound sign.
	I don't necessarily know what people use, but we'll be live streaming this debate here from Rumble.
	We actually have a seat, a booth, right down there in Milwaukee, where Gerald was, which of course means Indian burial ground.
	Milwaukee in our native tongue.
	And any candidates who have the stones to sit down, we'll have.
	I think we have Vivek semi-confirmed.
	I think Darren's just going to grab him and walk him over.
	His feet won't even touch the ground.
	Like Fellow.
	So if you by the way, we have the YouTube we have the YouTube dump button So if you see this at any point tonight That means head on over to rumble because we're live-streaming on rumble which is where you should be Anyway, you just click that button below and you get to join up at mug clips a question to you right off the bat What do you expect?
	Who do you think will be a front-runner?
	We're going to give you some predictions here tonight kind of go through what we think are the need-to-knows and by that I mean none of it is really necessary None of it's a need to know, and I don't know why you would want to know it, but it pays to be informed.
	We have G. Morgan Jr.
	here with me.
	How are you, sir?
	I'm doing well.
	Fresh off a flight from Milwaukee to get back here.
	It's a horrible town.
	I mean, I don't say it from an elitist point of view as far as it being flyover.
	It's just a very bad place.
	It has bad beer lists at a lot of places.
	I had to go to four different spots to get a good beer.
	You're not a fan of Old Milwaukee or Grain Belt?
	No, it was all that kind of stuff and I was like, I just thought this was Midwestern Beer Town.
	You don't like Iron City Lights?
	What are you, an ASS?
	Can I get a triple or a quad somewhere?
	I don't know, something?
	What is that?
	Oh, I should mention that.
	First off, of course you have here today, I guess not third chair, it's like a joint chair.
	He's like a Siamese twin growing out of my shoulder.
	A gargoyle, really.
	Nick, I can't imagine.
	I'm excited about that.
	I've almost seen it.
	Nick DiPaolo, who, by the way, you have his date right there.
	You can go to September 15th at Rob's Comedy Playhouse.
	There's a name.
	NickDip.com and his show is live on Mug Club Monday through Thursday, 5 p.m.
	and you're recovering from the vid.
	Yes, I'm getting over the vid.
	Luckily I scored some, uh, what was it?
	Ivermectin.
	I think it was a point guard.
	But yeah, I scored some Ivermectin and some Hoxychloroform.
	Did you use it on yourself?
	I got it from an Asian kid in front of the subway back there.
	I feel better already, so I want to thank whoever got that for me.
	Yeah, we have no idea that wouldn't be in this studio.
	So hey, before we go on to giving our predictions, we were down there in Milwaukee and you actually, well you set this up for people, we actually got an interview or semi-interview with Vivek already.
	Yeah, we did.
	So Vivek actually had a bus set up.
	He had a really, really cool set up right there, right in front of Oh, one thing, sorry, really quickly.
	First off, Tim, can you put that down in the lower third there, just whatever, the stream, so people know that we'll be bringing it up.
	And there will be a pre-taped interview that Tucker Carlson is uploading to his Twitter, to his ex with Donald Trump.
	I think they're airing it as a live stream, but we know it's pre-taped.
	And we will be covering that as well with the highlights, so you can get it all here in this one place.
	Sorry, Gerald, to cut you off.
	No, no, no, you're fine.
	He actually had a really cool setup with his bus and his team set up like this exclusive event for everybody.
	He was the one person who did something cool at this event.
	All the other candidates just kind of were getting into town, kind of there, and so we had one of our guys go into this.
	They had the all-access pass courtesy of Rumble.
	Hey, we didn't give that back.
	Sorry about that, guys.
	Did you say Vivek was cool?
	His setup was cool.
	Like he's an Indian Fonzie?
	He had a lot of really, like, it was a very nice setup.
	I would go to it and be like, oh, this is cool.
	They had a beer garden there.
	Maybe that's why all the other places had crappy beer, all the good beer was at that place.
	But we asked him some questions because, you know, you guys want to know what these guys actually think about some of the stuff that Alex Jones was reporting on with COVID and mass elections.
	And we got up close and personal with him and he had some good answers.
	Okay, all right, well let's go.
	Well, by the way, I guess before that we should let you know the drinking game rules as we have for every single live debate stream.
	Bring them up.
	Drinking game rules.
	Boom.
	Anytime, and you'll hear this ding, anytime President Trump is mentioned, you drink.
	Anytime 2020 January 6th is mentioned, ding, you drink.
	Anytime a moderator cuts off or interrupts a candidate, Yeah, but they're going to be infighting tonight.
	which I expect to probably take, it probably most likely will come from Vivek,
	could be from Ron DeSantis.
	And then you finish your drink anytime a candidate mentions a Democrat other than Biden.
	Oh gosh, this is- I don't think it's gonna happen a whole lot.
	No, yes, what are you talking about?
	You think they're gonna mention other Democrats?
	Yeah. Like who?
	Like Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer.
	Why would they mention Gavin Newsom?
	Because that's who they're gonna be running against.
	Yeah, but they're gonna be infighting tonight.
	It's gonna be hillbilly and group.
	They're gonna be infighting, but the 2020 and Trump, Trump's gonna just,
	are we really gonna do that Every time they mention Trump or drinking?
	Yes.
	Oh Lord.
	How about every time somebody mentions Chris Christie's lobster bib?
	What is he going to Gallagher?
	Heavy cream dripping out of his mouth.
	I don't think he needs a bib anymore.
	He's having an IV drip of heavy cream.
	It is heavy cream.
	It rises to the top.
	Hook it to my veins.
	Let's go to this package that you have from one of our on-the-ground reporters with Vivek earlier and then that'll lead us into our predictions.
	Yeah, what are your thoughts on the lockdowns that are coming right now that are reported in the news?
	Hell no.
	Not going to stand for it?
	Hell, not no.
	Hell no.
	Hell no?
	Yeah.
	How about the mail-in voting that's going to come probably after these potential lockdowns?
	Single-day voting, on election day, pay-per-balance, government-issued ID matches on file, period.
	I think that's fair.
	It's my deal.
	Yeah.
	Get that?
	I'm done.
	Come on.
	So the fact that they're foreshadowing these mask mandates and everything going on here?
	Alex Jones reported on it a few days ago from the Whistleblower.
	I do appreciate, first off I appreciate the baseball cap, but I also appreciate that he gave a straight answer.
	I like the fact he's holding a baby, nobody know where he got it.
	This was a, you know, for all of the, there's so many people out there, Trump is the only guy they'll ever look at, and I'm like, look, I get it, but there's also got to be somebody next.
	If he gets elected, it's going to be for four years maximum.
	Vivek's a guy who comes out and gives you some very, he said not only no, but hell no.
	He gives you a little bit different answer, and it doesn't take a whole lot to make people go, oh good, it's authentic.
	Well, here are a couple of things that I want to go through.
	By the way, we also do have some other packages.
	You interviewed Carrie Lake down there.
	We also have Marjorie Taylor Greene and a few on-the-ground packages.
	Again, with people who we'll be interviewing, hit the like button.
	Toolman, I didn't think you let them know to comment below.
	And do consider signing up at Mug Club.
	Let's go through the people who are running here, who will be at this debate.
	You have DeSantis, you have Vivek, you have Nikki Haley, you have Tim Scott, you have Mike Pence, Chris Christie, you have Issa Hutchinson.
	Oh yeah.
	William, we'll call him William because every time I read it I think of it as a woman's name.
	And you have Doug Burgum, who is the, I know he's the governor of North Dakota, but outside of that, no one really cares.
	But this is what's remarkable here. So who, what do I, here's one thing that I think a lot of other
	people are missing and I want to hear from you guys. We'll be reading your chats here today.
	Everyone talks about Donald Trump not going to this, how that benefits him, right? I understand
	that. Really, if you're leading by double digits, okay. I understand that. It's sort of a risk he
	doesn't need to take. On the flip side, this is such an act of God.
	It is an act of mercy, a miracle for everyone else tonight that Donald Trump isn't there.
	Think about it for a second.
	If Donald Trump showed up, the best chance they have is maybe gaining some traction right now in his double-digit lead.
	They would have had no chance if Donald Trump was there because even if he wasn't winning, he would have burned down the whole ship.
	Think of the primaries.
	That's when he was the most, right, it was low energy, Yeah, low energy Bush.
	Small hands Marco and Ted Cruz, your dad killed JFK.
	Where were you that day?
	Where were you?
	No one could prepare for it.
	Everyone left with blood on their face.
	The fact that he isn't there.
	People act as though Donald Trump is just not taking a risk for himself.
	Why don't we talk about, no one's talking about how much that benefits all of the other candidates.
	Is it me?
	No, no, no.
	I think you're 100% correct.
	Like these guys, their only shot is to try to get some traction tonight.
	And if Donald Trump is there, he sucks all the oxygen out of that place.
	Like everybody's going to be focused on him.
	You will really have to land some blows.
	And Donald Trump is so fast on his feet.
	It's going to be really, really hard for them to do that.
	So I think you're right.
	Like it's a blessing for them, but here's the thing.
	A number of these guys, this may be one and done for them.
	Like, they don't have enough support to make it very far.
	We'll get into some of the campaign numbers, the percentages of where they stand.
	They're just terrible.
	Easy with your Morgan and Coke.
	The drinking game is going to have you in the ICU for crying out loud.
	Well, he's a night guy.
	I was just warming up.
	I thought somebody said Christie.
	What is that, donuts?
	He did.
	He said it in the mirror three times, hoping a campaign would appear.
	Delicious.
	I didn't think I liked Captain Morgan.
	Sorry Joe, you think that it's really going to be Vivek's night, right?
	I really do.
	I think there's going to be a big buzz after this.
	Everybody's going to be talking about my man.
	I sent the guy money.
	I don't do that.
	You sent Donald Trump money?
	Or Vivek?
	I sent Trump money too, not a thing about it.
	Actually I sent Asa Huston about 50 bucks too.
	Come on, to drop out of the race?
	And who else?
	Tim Scott, I sent him a buck and a half.
	No, I sent $25 to Vivek.
	I just, I've yet to go, this guy, he's the most articulate, eloquent, like you said, he's balanced, he's walking that fine line, kind of Trumpian in his, you know, in his point of view.
	In his approach, and people used to like that about Ron DeSantis.
	When we talked about Ron DeSantis before he declared for president, yeah, by the way, just to be clear, I like Ron DeSantis.
	I like Donald Trump.
	I like Vivek.
	I think he maybe lacks some foreign policy experience.
	I would vote for any of these people against Biden, with the exception of Chris Christie.
	I would write in Nick DiPaolo.
	I got a vote, by the way, in a presidential election in Minneapolis.
	Oh, well, my dog and Dean Cain got like 16,000.
	I'm sorry I brought that up.
	Yeah, no, I felt guilty for years.
	Think about that, it's Winstate.
	How the piss am I parade, fella?
	My point is I may have torpedoed an election with a goof.
	You're why we got Whitmer.
	He really believes that.
	It was in Michigan, so they'll just find more votes.
	Here's one thing that I think is pretty important, though, too.
	A lot of people are saying, OK, who will win against Joe Biden in a general?
	And right now they're saying, well, Donald Trump, if he's the nominee, he can't win in a general.
	Well, that's not really necessarily true.
	Again, some context actually matters.
	And I think you can bring up these overlays, Matt.
	We have collage E, collage E1 is where we're going.
	So Donald Trump, of course, has been leading the primary by at least 20 points in the primary.
	So it's really hard for him to make up that gap unless there's some kind of a miracle.
	They're saying that Biden leads Trump in a head-to-head.
	And that's, by the way, only recently by plus one or plus five.
	Now, keep in mind, up until June, Donald Trump was leading Biden by a couple of points, which was surprising.
	But let's put this in context.
	If you actually were to compare Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton at this exact same moment in time, going into that 2016 election, Hillary Clinton was actually leading him by 10.4.
	So not 1 to 5, 10.4.
	And then if you go into Biden at this exact same point, right in the 2020 polling, he was leading Donald Trump by plus 12.
	So a plus 1 to 5, which is pretty new as a development since June, just don't let your primary vote be determined by someone telling you what the polls are saying.
	Because anyone who would be ahead in the polls, I guarantee you the average would have them behind Biden.
	And it may or may not be true, but it's not by anywhere near the margin as the last elections.
	It's the best margin that you've seen at this point in time in a campaign in any of Donald Trump's.
	Yeah, and it's going to fluctuate a lot based on what's going on in the world, right?
	So if there seems to be economic progress, which I don't know where they would get that from, but right now Bidenomics is the term.
	It should be Biden crime family was the term that everybody was throwing around up there.
	Like this is going to sway people back and forth for a little bit.
	It's still very, very early.
	Once we get into March and April and May, like obviously you're going to start to see things shake out considerably by then.
	So I agree.
	My main point with Donald Trump was if he can win, I'm voting for him because he's got four years and nothing to lose.
	And day one, he walks into that office and knows what to do.
	Ron DeSantis, as governor, has been fantastic.
	I've liked a lot of what he's done, but day one he walks in and he's trying to find out where the pencils are.
	Anybody walking in brand new is going to have a little bit of a, okay, how do I do this?
	Where do I go?
	What do I do?
	Donald Trump won't, and he's got some scores to settle.
	I don't want this to turn into political tit-for-tat.
	I don't want to go after and prosecute other opponents just because they prosecuted us.
	I want to set things straight.
	I kind of do, though.
	I don't because it ends up in a genocide.
	We don't want that.
	We're more prepared.
	We are the party that does have most of the guns, and so if it ever does come to it, we'll be fine.
	I just want him to go in and go, you know what, FBI?
	You don't exist anymore.
	We're putting an under construction sign on you for just a little while, right?
	And DOJ?
	Yeah, we've got some people to clean out there as well.
	I think he walks in and does that.
	I don't think Ron DeSantis does.
	Yeah, I think he could be right.
	What about Vivek?
	What about Flying V?
	The Flying V is hilarious.
	I don't think foreign policy, in this case, I don't think his foreign policy issues are going to be bad.
	Donald Trump didn't have a lot of foreign policy awareness at the time.
	He had business interactions.
	But the Taiwan-China thing has evolved since then, and it's getting ugly.
	You made a nice statement today about something about wiping off the earth.
	He was going to arm them.
	Yeah, he was saying he was going to arm Taiwan.
	And of course, CNN girls, you know.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You really mean that?
	Oh yeah, the chick with the hairy forearms.
	Yeah.
	Which one?
	The one who has the orange eyebrows like Michael Keaton.
	He destroyed her, by the way.
	He absolutely destroyed her.
	Yeah, Caitlyn Collins.
	Can you bring up the Caitlyn Concius eyebrows like Michael Keaton?
	Oh, she's gotten better.
	They've brushed her up a little bit since the town hall with Trump.
	What'd they do, shave her?
	Waxing, I do believe, is the term, Nick.
	Waxing.
	Napalm.
	Yes.
	No, so Vivek, too, he's gotten under, he's gotten some flak here, saying, oh, he's a 9-11 truther.
	Again, if you look at his answers to the questions, he never said that 9-11 was an inside job.
	He said that we were lied to by the commission report.
	He said that we were lied to in the sense that we were told that the Saudis weren't involved with it at all.
	Isn't it kind of crazy?
	Because I don't know if you remember this, but there was a man I believe it was Michael Moore, and he did a whole film about that, and it was a badge of honor to not believe the George W. Bush government narrative in 9-11, and now they're the ones attacking any Republican nominee as though they're a crazy conspiracy theorist.
	This is why I say when they say, oh, Donald Trump is so bombastic, they're going to make any candidate out?
	Who's the nominee?
	To be dumb or evil.
	Period.
	It doesn't matter what you do.
	Now they're flopping on the 9-11 issue.
	It was the biggest, I think the highest grossing documentary of all time up until that point, Fahrenheit 9-11.
	Someone can fact check me on it.
	And Michael Moore's a dick.
	He looks like Walter White transitioning.
	No one likes him.
	But he was the guy championing their cause.
	And now Vivek just saying, hey, you know what?
	We were lied to about the Saudis and so I'm saying that this is a reason to distrust the government.
	They want you to believe these are crazy conspiracy theories.
	Also a crazy conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones, who was right about more rollbacks and masks.
	Ready to be up there in the debates tonight.
	I know.
	Boy, would I pay money for that.
	Or even a moderator.
	Yeah, a moderator.
	We've got about three minutes until Trump and Tucker.
	Tucker, thank you very much.
	I lost his name for some reason.
	So maybe get to some reasons why Mr. Donald Yes, that's right.
	Again, the promo code is CrowderGOPDebate.
	The hashtag is CrowderGOPDebate.
	We'll be taking your chat.
	Smash the rumble button.
	Hit the like.
	And we actually do have, we have some exclusives here.
	You know we always get some exclusives here at Ladder with Crowder.
	We have the inside lane.
	Some people refer to it as inside baseball.
	I don't though, because it's a sports reference.
	We actually were sent from the Trump campaign the top seven plus one reasons that Donald Trump is not at the debate
	tonight You forgot the van in the chamber
	Oh, and by the way, while you guys are bringing... Maybe ask T. I need some of those eyedrops which you can just pop there because I'm coming down with something a little bit.
	So these are the 7 plus 1 reasons that Donald Trump is actually not going to be at the debate tonight.
	The reasons he gave, officially, on the record.
	Number 7.
	He's golfing poorly, but still having fewer strokes than Mitch McConnell.
	Yeah, that's...
	Seven plus one reasons that Donald Trump will not be at the debate tonight.
	You know what, Nick?
	Why don't you take a crack here at number six?
	He's grabbing Melania by the pussy.
	Take some time if you're doing it right.
	He would, but Chris Christie ate his debate prep notes.
	You don't dip them in gravy, though.
	Donald Trump will not be here at the debate tonight.
	He would, but Chris Christie ate his debate prep notes.
	Oh well, Christie, you lose.
	You don't dip them in gravy though.
	No potential sustenance unturned.
	Number four, Donald Trump would be there, but he has a date to play pickleball with
	Wow.
	I don't know what pickleball is exactly.
	I assume he'd be throwing a pickle down a hallway?
	No, I don't think so.
	Top reasons that Donald Trump, again, that he officially gave our production managers here, who have done a fantastic job, will not be at the debate.
	Number three, he would, but he has a private lesson with Dr. Ben Carson on, quote, how to keep his pimp hands strong.
	You have to brush up on that.
	I'm black and I don't even know what that means.
	Well, you know, I spent, I was raised in a generation of enter the Wu-Tang.
	Number two, Nick, I think this one's up your alley.
	He'll be in Fulton County, Georgia tonight looking for those 11,000 votes.
	Oh!
	There he is!
	Wait a minute, that's the Bud Light warehouse.
	Yeah.
	Someone could bring it up.
	Kid Rock with the Bud Light.
	Wait, did somebody set him up or something?
	No, the paparazzi.
	He was just drinking a Bud Light.
	He set himself up.
	There's no reason for that.
	Oh, come on.
	That's almost like taking it back.
	I know.
	I know.
	Come on, just have some courage here to your convictions.
	That really hurts me.
	He needed to get drunk.
	Do you know what he was listening to?
	It was bad music, okay?
	Well, you said if any band dead or alive you could see would be Motley Crue, so you're one to talk.
	That's not true at all.
	What are you talking about?
	I don't understand.
	You're like that tween who still believes in Santa, but you know that it's not really true.
	Yeah, you are one pathetic loser.
	You want to believe.
	I'm a lesbian.
	You're like that tween who still believes in Santa, but you know that it's not really true.
	By the way, we're keeping an eye on the Twitter, the thing that used to be called Twitter to make sure.
	So just so you guys know, when it comes on we will make sure we jump right in.
	Seven plus one reasons that Donald Trump has not made the debate stream tonight.
	Number one, he's sick.
	His best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this dude is going with the girl who saw Trump pass out at 31 Flavors last night.
	I guess it's pretty serious.
	I guess it's pretty serious.
	And the plus one reason that Donald Trump will not be at the debate tonight.
	Grand jury duty.
	That has been this week's 7 Plus 1.
	Thanks for watching.
	We'll see you next week.
	So it looks like they uploaded the full video.
	Tim, why don't you go ahead and see if we can bring that up really quickly here.
	They're smiling.
	That's great.
	Thank you.
	Why aren't you at the Fox News debate tonight in Milwaukee?
	Well, you know, a lot of people have been asking me that and many people said you shouldn't do it, but you see other people, right?
	I'm leading by 50 and 60 points and some of them are at 1 and 0 and 2.
	And I sit there for an hour or two hours, whatever it's going to be, and get harassed
	by people that shouldn't even be running for president, should I be doing that?
	And a network that isn't particularly friendly to me.
	So it's not live, it was an upload.
	So they're just doing it as an upload, they're not doing it live.
	So we've got our team going through to get clips of the biggest moments of Obama.
	And by the way, I can fact check that as true, by the way.
	Just to be clear, Fox News has been anti-Trump for a significant period of time, and now they're kind of turning on DeSantis a little bit.
	But they definitely have been actively campaigning against Trump.
	Well, here's the thing, I don't... Just be honest about it.
	Yep.
	Just be honest about it.
	Honest about it.
	Can I ask you why?
	They're very establishment.
	I remember when I worked at Fox News for four and a half years and Romney was their guy.
	When is there no money in Trump?
	Is that the bottom line?
	The bottom line's the bottom line in news and TV?
	I think that they think it can be a coronation because Fox News has had a sort of a stranglehold on that market for a long time, so they think they can get away with it.
	But let's continue listening to Donald Trump.
	I'm grateful that you did.
	It's interesting though because you spent a lot of your career in television.
	But you don't feel the need now running for president to do television obviously.
	Do you think television is declining?
	Well, according to a poll that I guess you just saw, it just came out, where it says... According to Nielsen!
	Absolutely!
	Because it's lost credibility.
	MSNBC, or as they say, MSDNC, is so bad.
	It's so wrong what they write and what they do and what they say.
	It's fake news, as I said.
	I think I came up with that term.
	I hope I did.
	That's what other people say.
	They say you came up with the best terms.
	By the way, the drinking game rules do not apply to this interview.
	Yeah, I was going to say, by the way, just drink sort of at this point, I guess.
	Yeah, my throat's killing me.
	Come on.
	And you have CNN, who's absolutely doing no ratings at all.
	I mean, they're dead.
	Let me smell your drink.
	But they're doing none because they don't have credibility.
	They really don't have credibility.
	Fox is way down.
	Something's just, like, strong perfume-y.
	I think it's, like, spice rum.
	It smells like perfume.
	It smells like a dirty mug.
	Like you're drinking Egyptian musk.
	Good lord.
	That's a black man's cologne.
	Yeah, aftershave.
	That was a terrible move getting rid of you.
	You were number one on television and all of a sudden you're, we're doing this interview
	but we'll get bigger ratings using this crazy forum that you're using than probably, probably
	the debate or competition.
	Well again it's not really a fair apples to apples to an upload and again impressions
	are not the same as views but I guarantee you that he will have more views but if you
	see like a hundred million with Tucker or something like that it's not the same as live
	viewers so sometimes they'll pull that trick but it is true that cable news is dying.
	It is dying and this is one of, we talked about that up there, this is one of the first
	events where you're seeing them die and rumble and places like that are going to take them
	out.
	Put the nail in the coffin boys.
	And to be clear, by the way, about Fox News, you have Bret Baier, he's obviously running the debate there tonight, along with Martha McCallum, and he did say that January 6th, the committee hearing made Donald Trump look horrific.
	Apparently there have been a lot of reports that there's a soft ban on Donald Trump at Fox News.
	They were really going hard on him because they were being sued by Dominion, they were all in on DeSantis, but now that he's not doing so well, they're sort of backing off a little bit.
	So there is a very strong bias at Fox News.
	I saw it when I was there for Mitt Romney as well.
	Which was just, in my opinion, quite dumb that he was the guy.
	They're not doing that well because, also, Tucker's not there.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's a big component.
	They're going to try to put somebody else in that slot, obviously, and see if they can, like, move people around.
	But it's dying media.
	I know, they're looking at Willie Nelson.
	They're watching our show.
	They're watching this right now.
	They'll be watching the stream on Rumble.
	Like, that is taking over media.
	So here, I don't want to talk over Trump too much.
	Oh, here we go.
	It is now the...
	Is this live?
	That's live, yeah.
	Alright, well let's switch from Tucker to the debates right now.
	Coming in from Fox News, this is being live streamed from Rumble.
	Bring up the volume.
	Here there is one battleground that may be harder to win than ever.
	Wisconsin.
	Can you turn it up a little bit?
	We can't hear that.
	Got it.
	A state known for its beer and cheese.
	Gridiron and grit.
	Yeah, who did that, by the way?
	It's not razor thin, Wisconsin.
	Wisconsin was, in fact, a blue state until Donald Trump flipped it.
	I lived it that night.
	I was surprised.
	I think he won it the second time around.
	It's not razor thin, Wisconsin.
	Wisconsin was in fact a blue state until Donald Trump flipped it.
	I lived it that night.
	I was surprised.
	I think he won it the second time around, just saying.
	Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, leaving the legality of abortion up to the states.
	In Wisconsin, that meant a nearly total ban.
	While they do the intros, do you want to go over, obviously the opening statements will be back there, but do you want to go back to Trump for a minute?
	Yeah, let's go back to Donald Trump.
	I think there's perfume in my beer.
	Jeez.
	Bring up Trump.
	It's the new PA.
	Well, you're drinking one of those fruity yolks.
	He said he did, and he pretended he did, but he didn't.
	McSwain, the U.S.
	attorney in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, said Barr just wouldn't let him do it.
	It was crazy.
	Barr became so petrified, so frightened of being impeached.
	They were going to impeach him.
	I don't know if you remember it.
	It's not a big moment in history.
	They said, we're going to impeach, you know they play a much rougher game than the left, the lunatics.
	And they were going to impeach Bill Barr and he was petrified.
	Now how do you not get impeached?
	Don't do any of this stuff.
	But he didn't do the job there.
	So we're going to go back to those highlights.
	Let's go right now.
	They are introducing the debates.
	We have Bret Baier and Martha McCallum.
	Now is that, is that Burgum?
	No.
	I can't see.
	Oh, there's Mike Pence.
	He'll be way down on one end.
	He's a dick.
	There's Bergamot all the way on the right.
	Bergamot's on the... yeah.
	He brought his Achilles playing basketball.
	Does that guy strike you as a basketball player?
	Alright, let's see.
	I tell you what though, Bret Baier will never go bald.
	He has a hairline like Curious George.
	He's like a high school wrestler.
	It's my hand.
	It's the sole.
	It's sanctimonious.
	Just that smile is off-putting.
	are positioned by the order they sit in the polls.
	With the highest polling candidates in the middle, standing center stage.
	Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
	It's my hand, it's the sole.
	It's DeSantimonious.
	Just that smile is off-putting.
	Here's my primary care position.
	Former Vice President Mike Pence.
	The Jimmy Neutron hairdo.
	Hey, Nikki Haley looks good tonight.
	Oh, look at him.
	He fasted.
	And there he is, Mr. Ed's teeth.
	I like how it's quiet.
	He's fucking defested.
	And there he is, Mr. Ed's teeth.
	Former Arkansas Hunter, Asa Hutchinson.
	I like how it's quiet.
	They hate him.
	He looks a little bit like a skinnier Muppet-like Scorsese.
	That's right.
	Alright, why do they say this?
	Just so you know, for the Trump thing, you're not missing anything.
	Our team is actually going through right now and pulling some of the best moments from that interview.
	So as we get those, we'll pull them in.
	You don't have to go anywhere to see all of it.
	We will make sure you see.
	Yes, absolutely.
	We'll make sure you see that and cover this live.
	Again, you can use the hashtag CrowderGOPdebate or that promo code to get $10 off Mug Club right now as long as this is live.
	Let's hear the stupid question.
	president at a time when the likely democrat nominee president joe biden is working to
	convince the country that with by dynamics things are looking up go straight to inflation
	i'm not sure the men and totally complementary at the time this is but guess what it's working wow
	is it the american rescue plan is what 1.9 trillion The Inflation Reduction Act, $500 billion?
	The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, $1.2 trillion?
	The Chips and Science Act, $278 billion?
	And we've had the worst inflation since, actually surpassing Jimmy Carter.
	This is an easy, easy layup.
	I hope they get into specifics.
	Let's go to the guy in the Michael Jordan hat.
	There's a lot of people out here homeless because they can't buy food.
	It's tough when you've got a mortgage rate of 78% versus 2 to 3.
	It's just, you can't afford a house anymore.
	Inflation is ridiculous.
	It's killing us out here.
	That's not your biggest problem.
	As we sit here tonight, the number one song on the Billboard chart is called Rich Man North of Richmond.
	This is a weird way to lead to the very weird words.
	As Tupac once said in his album All Eyes on Me, Vivek, your floor.
	Washington D.C.
	is about a hundred miles north of Richmond.
	What are we doing?
	Is this like an award show?
	Yeah.
	What the hell?
	Yeah, exactly.
	And now up for Song of the Year... Chris Christie looks hungry, I'm not even joking.
	He looks like he's looking.
	They don't feed him for eight hours before.
	He's looking at this country singer like a guy on a stranded island when you turn into like a roast chicken.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	He's a drumstick.
	These guys are probably hearing the song for the first time.
	Yeah, they're like, Richmond, north of Richmond, that's us!
	Yeah, exactly.
	He's singing about us!
	Striking such a nerve in this country right now.
	What do you think it means?
	Oh lord.
	That's so rigid it almost seems pre-tape.
	This decline is not inevitable, it's a choice.
	That's so rigid it almost seems pre-taped.
	We need to send Joe Biden back to his basement and reverse American decline.
	Was that a planned applause?
	Because he hasn't said anything good yet.
	Democrat is not Joe Biden.
	Hunter Biden.
	That counts.
	so that middle class families have a chance to succeed again.
	We cannot succeed as a country if you are working hard and you can't afford groceries,
	a car, or a new home while Hunter Biden can make hundreds of thousands of dollars on lousy
	paid jobs.
	That is wrong.
	I'm not finishing my drink though.
	We also cannot succeed when the Congress spends trillions and trillions of dollars.
	Those rich men north of Richmond have put us in this situation.
	And finally, we need to lower your gas prices.
	We're going to open up all energy production.
	We will be energy dominant again in this country.
	So you know someone said, come out forcefully.
	You know, come out forcefully.
	Well, he was in the military, so he's a leader.
	He's a born leader.
	I think he confused forceful for loud.
	And now he goes back to that... oh, anyway.
	Governor Christie, do you agree with what Governor DeSantis just said there, and why
	would you be better on the economy than him?
	Well, I agree predominantly with what Governor DeSantis just laid out.
	I think that if you asked every one of us up here that we would agree predominantly
	with what he just laid out.
	Here's the difference.
	The difference is that we're going to have to work and make sure that we sell these ideas and be able to put ourselves in a position where we get a majority of the vote not only by running Congress and the Senate.
	You mean President Trump?
	No, no, let's correct that phrase.
	You were elected as a Republican.
	Let's not say conservative Republican.
	In a blue state, which means you're not a Republican.
	It's a state where you can't even pump your own gas.
	Brought them around to our point of view.
	We cut taxes in New Jersey.
	We cut debt in New Jersey.
	We closed roads in New Jersey.
	Every time we were confronted with bad democratic ideas, we stood and stopped them.
	And when they were good ideas, we brought people together to make progress going forward.
	Truth and accountability are the things we need to do to fight waste.
	And I'd say the last thing is this, Brad.
	We cannot sit by any longer.
	That was very tepid.
	Well, it's not his fault.
	I mean, he is- He has the highest BMI.
	because every dollar they spend is a dollar that these people are not allowed to spend
	on their children and their grandchildren.
	It's robbing our country and it's wrong.
	Well, Governor, let me just follow up very quickly.
	New Jersey, your governor had the second lowest credit rating in the nation after Illinois.
	And it was not his fault.
	I mean, he is the highest BMI.
	Yes.
	And that's what happens when you inherit a blue state that has done that.
	But when you look at what we did on debt, Brett, in that state, we cut debt in that
	state, debt that had been left to us by three Democrats.
	Cut the crust off your sandwiches.
	And three of the predecessors of mine who ran up that debt.
	I don't think we're going to get him for the post-debate.
	Apparently none of that worked because you're still second to last, Tubby!
	How's that for a follow-up?
	the unemployment rate in half. It was over 10% when I became governor in 2010.
	What we also did was cut pension payments to public employees to make
	sure that taxpayers were not being so... Well apparently none of that work because
	you're still second to last, Tubby. That was killing the taxpayer. How's that for a follow-up?
	But when it comes to being second to last, we're tops.
	That's a nice jacket.
	Why are you wearing a photo negative of the Thriller jacket?
	as a senator, now President Biden, argued for freezing federal spending
	Hey!
	Hey!
	this was back in the 80s why are you wearing a photo negative of the thriller jacket?
	he does not talk about that anymore you have been a senator though for 10 years
	so what have you done to rein in the increasing size of government costs?
	hey, come on man over the last several years I've had an opportunity to vote
	against spending package after spending package after spending package
	What we also need to understand is that Joe Biden's Biden nominates has led to the loss of $10,000 of spending power for the average family.
	When you see 16% inflation, your gas is up 40%.
	I actually have the numbers right here on the Bidenomics as far as how much more you're spending.
	Which page is Bidenomics here I have in my prep?
	I always do this in prep and then in—11?
	No, it's at the very back.
	All right, keep the volume there up there, Tim.
	Let me just say this.
	Chris Christie had the lowest approval rating ever for a New Jersey governor at 15%.
	I'm sure that's going to come up.
	Well, that's because of the Democrats, as he would tell you.
	So, you were spending $202 more in July, by the way, in just one year than you would have to buy goods or services one year ago.
	$709 more than two years ago.
	It has crippled Americans, the inflation.
	Just so you know, that's one thing.
	It's not a talking point, but everyone has that arrow in their quiver.
	Let's go back to Mr. Scott.
	Okay, but just to follow up, you did, during the Trump administration, you approved $4.1 trillion, $4.1 trillion, $1.7 trillion over the course of that administration.
	That's a lot of money.
	There's no doubt that during the Trump administration, we were dealing with the COVID virus, we spent more money.
	But here's what happened at the end of our time in the majority.
	We had low unemployment, record low unemployment, 3.5% for the majority of the population, 70 year low for women.
	African-Americans, Hispanics, and Asians had an all-time low, but our inflation is at 2%.
	Under Joe Biden, we've seen the exact opposite.
	We've seen inflation explode, which led to 12 Federal Reserve increases.
	That's devastating homebuyers today.
	Mr. Ramaswamy, you're listening to these answers.
	Was there a buzzer?
	I don't know if I get a chance.
	That wasn't us?
	That was them?
	Mike Pence?
	Mr. Vice President, Mr. Ramaswamy... Ooh, you shut down Pence.
	Can I talk?
	He just rolled up a newspaper and spanked Mike Pence's dog in front of the drink.
	Does that count as a moderator cutoff?
	Yeah, that's a moderator cutoff drink.
	You've said that you only voted in two presidential elections before this moment, this political race.
	So first let me just address a question that is on everybody's mind at home tonight.
	Yes, my hair is real.
	Who the heck is this skinny guy with a funny last name and what the heck is he doing in the middle of this debate stage?
	I'll tell you, I'm not a politician.
	I think people thought, why is tech support here?
	I'm an entrepreneur.
	My parents came to this country with no money 40 years ago.
	I talked to him on the phone last night trying to figure out how to get cum out of a mouse pen.
	He's not answering the question, though.
	That's the issue.
	This is kind of like an opening speech, which is fine.
	I didn't hear it, sorry.
	That is the American dream.
	And I am genuinely worried that that American dream will not exist for our two sons and their generation unless we
	do something about it.
	He's not answering the question though, that's the issue.
	This is kind of like an opening speech, which is fine.
	He needs to do that, but then he needs to pivot into answering the question.
	Who have been running from something?
	Now is our moment to start running to something.
	To our vision of what it means to be an American today.
	He's got a lot of fans.
	I'm telling you man, he's the guy.
	You turn over the keys to the people who broke it again.
	You hand it over to a new generation to actually fix the problem.
	That's why I'm at this race and we're just getting warmed up.
	So why are you better positioned to turn around this economy that we've heard all of these voters talking about tonight than Mr. Ramaswamy, who is a successful entrepreneur nationally right now?
	He's beating you in the polls.
	Well, I don't care about polls.
	What I care about the fact is that no one is telling the American people the truth.
	The truth is that Biden didn't do this to us.
	Our Republicans did this to us, too.
	When they passed that $2.2 trillion COVID stimulus bill, they left us with 90 million people on Medicaid, 42 million people on food stamps.
	No one has told you how to fix it.
	I'll tell you how to fix it.
	They need to stop the spending, they need to stop the borrowing, they need to eliminate the earmarks that Republicans brought back in, and they need to make sure they understand these are taxpayer dollars, it's not their dollars.
	Speaking of earmarks, I notice you've had yours pinned, right Haley?
	I like the idea of a female president with a black stripper's first name.
	What?
	Like Chandelier?
	No, like Nikki.
	So at the end of the day, you look at the 2024 budget, Republicans asked for $7.4 billion in earmarks, Democrats asked for $2.8 billion.
	So you tell me who are the big spenders.
	I think it's time for an accountant in the White House.
	Vice President Pence?
	Mike Pence cannot have a good performance tonight.
	I'm calling it right now.
	And again, you can send in your predictions.
	It's not possible for him.
	He's awful.
	If he did, it wouldn't matter.
	No.
	I'm proud of that.
	Well, first of all, thanks for the question.
	Thanks for letting me respond.
	prior $7.8 trillion added to the national debt, 3.5 trillion of that before COVID.
	I'm proud of that.
	Does that mean that you're part of the spending?
	That does mean half.
	Well, it was in one year.
	So thanks for the question.
	That's a pretty big number.
	Yeah.
	For letting me respond.
	Let me ask you a question, Mike.
	Could you find a dipstick?
	I'm incredibly proud of the record of the Trump administration.
	In four short years, we rebuild our military.
	We revived our economy.
	We unleash American energy.
	This guy, you cast him as the president of the Supreme Court.
	Yeah.
	He's a walking parody.
	Where the president is the villain.
	Thank you.
	Martha, you asked earlier who's the most best prepared for this job.
	And I must say, with all due respect to all of my friends in the States, and even to one that's probably looking on, I think unquestionably I am the best prepared, the most tested, the most qualified and proven conservative in this race.
	I was a leader in the Congress of the United States.
	I led Indiana where we balanced budgets and had a AAA bond rating.
	But he certainly would make a great Judas.
	People flooding to Indiana might deliver.
	Iscariot, to be clear, because I know there's two Judases.
	The bad Judi, if you will.
	All that being said, I was the first person in this race to say that we've got to deal with the long-term national debt.
	Look at his resume.
	His resume is, I have more experience because I was tapped to be VP.
	No one actually voted for you, Mike Pence.
	Then he goes, I was the first to, you were the first Republican to say that we need to lower spending, dummy.
	There's nothing unique.
	This is the thing with Mike Pence.
	He will say whatever he thinks is necessary.
	It is talking points personified.
	I don't think I've ever, is it just me?
	He doesn't have an original thought.
	No.
	He just doesn't.
	When people talk about politicians who are rinse, recycle, repeat, they're specifically referring to Mike Pence.
	That's right.
	He's the guy.
	I see 1980 when I look.
	They're trying to jump in.
	Let's see.
	We're going to get Vivek first.
	This isn't that complicated, guys.
	Unlock American energy.
	Drill, frack, burn coal, embrace nuclear.
	I love he said burn coal.
	I love it.
	He's from the town where October Sky was based on.
	Good way to call him on that.
	Fed, stabilize the US dollar.
	Yup.
	He's from the town where October Sky was based on.
	The only war that I will declare as US president will be the war on the federal administrative
	state that is the source of those toxic regulations acting like a wet blanket on the economy.
	So I'm not sure I exactly understood Mike Pence's comment, but I'll let you all parse
	that out.
	For me, it's pretty simple.
	That's something a US president can do with focus, and I'll deliver on it.
	You know what I like about him too?
	He's not doing the thumb BS.
	He's pointing.
	He's pointing like a good Indian should.
	You know, I sometimes struggle with the reading comprehension.
	Look, I was a house conservative leader before it was cool.
	It's still not cool, Sammy.
	The last time we actually reduced national debt in the United States.
	He's also a Salt-N-Pepa cover band before it was cool.
	I balanced budgets and cut taxes when I was governor.
	In Indiana.
	Joe Lai has weakened this country at home and abroad.
	Now is not the time for on-the-job training.
	We don't need to bring in a real...
	Oh, there's his buzzword.
	He really felt...
	Wow.
	On-the-job...
	Whoa!
	Whoa!
	We need new blood, Mike!
	Look at him, he's even dressed like this.
	I mean, I take on-the-job training over on-the-job failing, Mike.
	Yes, yes.
	There's no question mark with you.
	It's a guarantee.
	He talks like he was the president.
	I know.
	Alright, this is DeSantis.
	This federal government handed COVID-19 by locking down this economy.
	It was a mistake.
	He starts to sound like Paul Lennon when he gets upset.
	I'm telling you.
	We kept our state free and open That's a very strong point, though, for Ron DeSantis.
	He should point to him being one of the, I think, really two places, if I'm not mistaken, that did it right, as far as right-of-way unknown.
	He was the first state to open back up, repeal lockdowns.
	This is a strong point for him, and I hope he goes in hard on immigration, because I like how he's answered that in the past.
	No amnesty.
	He should lean into that.
	Let's see.
	He just did.
	He's pointing too much.
	That's too much of the pointing.
	Everybody's gotten their memorized pre-prepared slogans out of the way.
	We can actually have a real discussion now.
	Yes.
	Amen.
	Not really, Mike, actually.
	We're just going to have some fun tonight.
	And the reality is, you have a bunch of people, professional politicians, super PAC puppets, following slogans handed over to them by their favorite Facebook tracks last week.
	The real choice we face in this primary is this.
	Do you want a super PAC puppet, or do you want a patriot who speaks the truth?
	Do you want incremental reform, which is what you're hearing about, or do you want revolution?
	Do you want a revolution?
	Martha, men are talking here, quiet.
	Yeah, Asa Hudson is, uh, keep silent, thank you.
	Bergham's just saying, I'm just glad to be here.
	I can barely stand, I'm on pain meds, I blew out my Achilles.
	It looks like Scorsese!
	There he is, if you watched him on Hot.
	Yeah, Asa Hudson's keep silent. Thank you.
	Burgum's just saying, I'm just glad to be here. I can barely stand. I'm on pain meds. I blew out my Achilles.
	It looks like Scorsese. There he is. If you watched him on Hot.
	...on this stage with all these folks. I'm just happy to be here, Bob.
	Bob, with these eyebrows.
	They're all wishing me well. I think I took them a little too literally when they said, go to Milwaukee and break a
	leg.
	Oh, boy. You couldn't wait to get that one, huh, stupid?
	For his Achilles.
	Cross him off now, please.
	I was hooping last night.
	...energy and national security are all tied together.
	Of course we're paying too much for our energy in our state, in our country right now.
	But part of the reason...
	Are they all dressed the same or am I high?
	Pretty much.
	Blue suit.
	chance would have been to come out with all like like swat brahma swami did today with you know
	Both.
	double barrel and instead he's coming out exactly showing us why he shouldn't be here
	are they all dressed the same or am i high what the pretty much blue suit both and you're high
	buying batteries from china we're just trading opec for sinopec and then belatedly belatedly
	the biden administration says no we're going to put sanctions on russia
	He looks like if Martin Scorsese and Henry Winkler had a baby.
	Bring up those pictures.
	That's spot on.
	You buy a solar panel, it's being produced in a plant in China powered by coal, or it's being powered by oil and gas at 20% off.
	And every farmer in this country would like to buy diesel at 20% off.
	So this guy said, I'm going to be the energy candidate.
	That's right.
	I was just thinking he has that.
	All the greats have their calling cards and so do the mediocres.
	Oh, Asa!
	I forgot you were there.
	You may go.
	I'm a pro-life governor from a conservative state that had a conservative record in which
	I lowered taxes on Arkansas as governor.
	I created a $2 billion surplus that I passed off to my successor and I made sure that we
	shrunk the size of government.
	We have 14% fewer state employees in Arkansas after I left government than when I took over as governor eight years ago.
	I tell that because that's what we need in Washington, D.C.
	We need somebody who can actually constrain the growth of the federal government, that can actually reduce the size, and I've pledged... I'm sorry, let me be really clear about something.
	This is not, this is not a race about just reducing the size and spending of government.
	Yes, of course, that should be a given and I get it that Republicans have spent far too much.
	That is not what is going to energize the American public.
	You need to make this about immigration and about corruption in the government and the media.
	You need to make it about the elites just like Ramaswamy did right now.
	Donald Trump could have said that right.
	He's a puppet pack candidate.
	He sounds like Donald Trump.
	He's tearing a page from his book because he understands that that is what mobilizes people, not just talking about deficits.
	Yes, that does matter, but that's not what you lead with if you need to get ahead and get American people, the American public, to actually start paying attention to you.
	And especially since you've been in Congress for the last 20 seconds.
	Exactly.
	You're part of the problem.
	Exactly.
	Why is it?
	Why is spending out of control?
	What have you done?
	Just give us the control and we'll do it.
	Let me hear Brett Baier.
	What's his question?
	After the deadliest U.S.
	wildfire in more than a century, Hawaii's governor Owie.
	Wait, are you guys, is Fox News actually trying to parrot the idea that it's climate change?
	It sounded like that a little bit.
	of human error.
	How will you, as both President of the United States and leader of the Republican Party, calm their fears that the Republican Party doesn't care about climate change?
	I'm really curious to see the answer.
	Please, swat it out of hand and point out that the water didn't work, that the warning didn't work, that the water didn't work, that all of their fail-safes didn't work, and that it was the guy who was the coroner from the Vegas shooting for Crenshaw.
	Please clarify this.
	Schoolchildren, let's have the debate.
	I mean, I'm happy to take it to start.
	Alexander, do you want to raise your hand?
	I don't think that's the way to do it.
	So let me just say to Alexander this.
	First of all, one of the reasons our country's declined is because of the way the corporate media treats Republicans versus Democrats.
	Biden was on the beach while those people were suffering.
	He was asked about it.
	He said no comment.
	Are you kidding me?
	As somebody that's handled disasters in Florida, you've got to be activated.
	You've got to be there.
	You've got to be present.
	You've got to be helping people who are doing this.
	And here's the deal.
	Can you answer the question about climate change?
	Because we want to guide this so we can sabotage everybody.
	The moderator, sure.
	Did they interrupt him?
	Interrupt the drink.
	Bring up the drinking game rules again so people can see them.
	Bring up the drinking game rules again so people can see them.
	Please.
	Oh, he just said it's a hoax.
	That's a thug life moment.
	Thug life.
	The carbon agenda is the wet blanket on our economy.
	Can you bring up the drinking game rules for a moment?
	There you go.
	When people are dying of bad climate change policies, then they are an actual kind of
	partner.
	Any time Trump is mentioned, January 6th is mentioned, moderator interrupts a candidate,
	a thug life moment, finish your drink if they mention a Democrat other than Biden.
	Hold on.
	Listen, listen, listen.
	I've had enough.
	Enough.
	I've had enough already tonight.
	Have you, Mr. French?
	Of a guy who sounds like Chat GPT standing up here.
	Oh, you stole that from a funny meme you read on 4chan, you fat son of a... And the last person in one of these debates, Brett, who stood in the middle of the stage and said, What's a skinny guy with an odd last name doing up here?
	Obama.
	Was Barack Obama.
	And I'm afraid we're dealing with the same type of amateur standing on stage tonight.
	Oh, that's not going to help you, Chuckles.
	Say the word bully, Chris, you big girl.
	Is it just me?
	And by the way, hit the like button if you're watching this on YouTube or if you're watching... I never think that Chris... They say he's a tough talker.
	No, he comes across as incredibly feminine to me.
	Yes, he's a whiny... He's catty.
	He was picked on as fat as a kid and he still has that mentality.
	Yeah, he should have gotten ripped.
	He's a big girl who loves heavy cream.
	He kicks sand in the bully's face.
	Charles, listen.
	Clean air, clean water.
	We want to see that taken care of.
	But there's a right way to do it.
	And the right way to do it is, first of all, yes, is climate change real?
	Yes it is.
	But if you want to go and really change the environment, then we need to start telling China and India.
	Oh boy.
	Oh wow.
	Oh, what just happened?
	Is it buffering?
	Oh, there it is.
	It's back.
	That's where our problem is.
	And these green subsidies that Biden has put in, all he's done is help China.
	Because he doesn't understand all these electric vehicles that he's done.
	Can someone bring up, actually, Mission Control, bring this up.
	You should be able to get this in about 15 seconds.
	Biden just removed, I think, was it 10 or 15 companies from the blacklist from China just today, I believe.
	Or was it yesterday that he did it?
	In the last day or two.
	Yeah, within the last day or two.
	Because we're sending an envoy over there right now in anticipation of that.
	We'll have to keep appearances up.
	India and China, you've got to stop polluting and that's when we'll start to deal with China.
	Oh yeah, I'm sure China will get right on that.
	Are you bought and paid for?
	Absolutely not.
	Here's what the American people deserve, is a debate about the issues that affect their lives.
	Going back and forth and being childish is not helpful to the American people to decide the next leader of our country.
	Was the American dream real for kids who were devastated by poverty, devastated by the challenges of life?
	I'm just saying.
	Show me your gums.
	Was the American dream real for kids who were devastated by poverty, devastated by the challenges
	of life?
	I came to the conclusion that America can do for anyone what she's done for me if we
	focus on restoring hope, creating opportunities, and protecting America.
	If we want to be a better country.
	Hey, what are the drinking game rules for an anti-thug life moment?
	I think Tim Scott has forgotten that tonight.
	You know what, though?
	The only person who said, no, no, no, we're not doing the climate change thing, the only person was Vivek.
	So good for him.
	Maybe he's saying what people want to hear, but at least he's willing to speak out.
	Everyone else is going, we shouldn't be childish.
	China and India, what are you going to do about that, Nikki?
	Because you were ambassador to the UN, who, by the way, they ignored?
	All right, sorry.
	Who's having a Larry Elda moment?
	The some point, ah!
	our carbon footprint in half in the last 25 years.
	The places where they are continuing to increase, Africa, 950 million.
	The sun point, ah!
	India, over a billion.
	Please, God.
	China, over a billion.
	Why would we put ourselves at a disadvantage, devastating our own economy?
	Let's bring our jobs home.
	Look, here's what you do.
	Finish the line of questioning.
	Why would we put our country?
	Here's what you do.
	You say, why does the Biden administration want to put us at a disadvantage to these countries that want to see us fail?
	Places like China.
	Right, these great polluters out there who have no intention of honoring these international agreements whatsoever, but will cripple the American economy.
	That's right, because they're not looking out for you.
	They're not looking out for the American people.
	They're looking out for international interests because they're bought and paid for.
	We can talk about Joe Biden's connections with the Chinese government.
	He's talked about it quite a bit.
	We can talk about their connections with Ukraine, if you want to understand why we've dedicated $135 billion.
	I know we haven't spent it all yet, but the question needs to be asked, and then all of us here need to have the balls, if I may, to answer.
	That's not an answer.
	Give an answer.
	That's the guy who's going to win this.
	That's the guy who's going to make up some ground.
	I don't know who you guys are hiring, but aside from Vivek tonight, fire them!
	Is it just me?
	Please send in your comments.
	It feels very dated, their approach.
	We've seen this show a thousand times.
	Well, and I think we're tired of it.
	We're absolutely tired of hearing these canned responses.
	And Nikki Haley's like, does climate change exist?
	Absolutely.
	Well, it depends on what you mean by that.
	Does man-made climate change exist?
	I don't know.
	Do we have an impact on it?
	Yeah, I'm sure to some degree, but if you look at a lot of the science that's coming out right now... That's too much.
	I'll tell you what you say.
	You say man-made climate change.
	What they need to say is man-made climate change.
	Look, maybe there's some debate about that, but about which there can be no debate is Joe Biden can't fix it.
	There you go.
	Then you expand upon it.
	You expand upon it if you have that time, but the point is people, and I get it, you're nerdy, so am I, a little bit, but guess what?
	People, you only have a few seconds to punch in and punch out, and if you're so busy tripping over yourself and your advisor's talking points to get to something prefab, you're never going to connect with the people.
	I get it, you think Donald Trump's bombastic, but you know what?
	Bombastic is better than completely inauthentic.
	The only people here tonight who have a remote chance have been Vivek and potentially Ron DeSantis, but he also needs to just relax.
	Max a little.
	Bombastic won twice, by the way.
	They gave us that.
	It was actually dozens of companies that were removed.
	Dozens of companies.
	I thought it was 15.
	But also, we may have some clips from Trump.
	Toolman, do you have any of those over there?
	Donald Trump with Tucker Carlson?
	Yeah, speaking of Trump.
	And then we actually have our on-the-ground correspondent, Finnegan, who's actually out there today at the RNC debate.
	Oh my gosh, what's he going to do?
	Oh wow, they give me a lot of clips.
	Yeah, we do.
	Just pick the first one off the top.
	All right, let's run these now.
	These are the highlights from Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson as they are at commercial break with the RNC debate.
	Stand by.
	There we go.
	That's a war that should end immediately, not because of one side or the other, because hundreds of thousands of people are being killed.
	Can you imagine you're in a department house and rockets are going into that building and blowing it up and knocking it down?
	Who can?
	Why should anything, why should anybody, human beings, whether they're Russian or Ukrainian or whatever they are, it's got to be stopped.
	And it can't be stopped very easily.
	It would have never started if I were president.
	It would have never started.
	Now I can tell you exactly what the media is going to say.
	Oh, he equivocated between innocent Ukrainians and evil Russians.
	They're going to say Donald Trump said Russians just like Ukrainians, which of course is horseshit.
	He's a guy who's saying we shouldn't have a war.
	I can tell you exactly what the media's going to do.
	Come back tomorrow, tell me if I'm wrong on that clip.
	Do we have context for the next clip that we can run?
	Sorry, I just get so angry when I watch something and I know that it's a losing play.
	And this is what the... Hey, you know what the problem is?
	You want to know what a little bit of the problem is?
	It's the fact that these people are all beholden to the same non-profit donors.
	Why do you think that YAF gets the first question?
	Why do you think it was a layup for climate change?
	I like a lot of people at YAF, just to be clear.
	I like a lot of people at these non-profits.
	But the billions of dollars, ironically, in the free enterprise capitalist movement, unfortunately, the purse strings are held by non-profit donors who are out of touch with the American public.
	Sure, they'll talk about Trump when it's convenient for clicks.
	But why was YAF asking a question about climate change at the RNC debate?
	How many trains did not run on time for that to happen?
	Exactly.
	By the way, just so you know, the debate is taking a break right now.
	That's why we're covering some of the Trump stuff.
	So just want to make sure that you guys know that.
	But we do have some more Trump clips there, and I think they are labeled by what they're talking about, at least.
	All right.
	The second one talks about Biden.
	Talks about Biden.
	Joe won't make it.
	Let's see this one.
	Joe won't make it.
	Joe Biden is so bad.
	He's the worst president in the history of our country.
	I don't think he's going to make it to the gate, but you know, you never know.
	But he's a corrupt person.
	So corrupt that I took the name off Hillary.
	You know, I don't do two people at one time.
	I took the Crooked Hillary and I made it... I retired the name.
	It was a good day for her.
	I bet she was very happy.
	And I used it for Joe because it's Crooked Joe.
	But Joe is really... But you don't think he's going to make it to November of 2020?
	Well, I think he's worse mentally than he is physically.
	That's what I said.
	I know.
	I know.
	That's what Gerald thinks too.
	A triathlete?
	He's not going to be there.
	And you guys can comment, especially if you're watching right now on Mug Club.
	If you're not a member, we'll go to Mug Club exclusively with some interviews from candidates today.
	Lidovka.com slash Mug Club.
	Everyone here, aside from me, thinks that the nominee for the Democrats will not be Joe Biden.
	Let me know what you think.
	Let's go right now.
	They're asking Nikki Haley a question.
	Thank you, Martha.
	I am unapologetically pro-life.
	Not because the Republican Party tells me to be, but because my husband was adopted and I had trouble having both of my children, so I'm surrounded by blessings.
	Having said that, we need to stop demonizing this issue.
	This is talking about the fact that unelected justices didn't need to decide something this personal, because it's personal for every woman and man.
	Now it's been put in the hands of the people.
	I've got to tell you, it really seems like Fox News is trying to set up these people to fail.
	Asking a leading question about the abortion issue because they see that that's been a losing issue on the state level with people not understanding Heller vs. DC and the overturning with the docs.
	And same thing right there when they're asking about climate change.
	It's like I'm watching CNN or MSNBC.
	I don't know, it's just what I'm seeing right now.
	Let's hear her finish her answer.
	No one is saying that.
	No one is saying that.
	Boom.
	That's a wolf in sheep's clothing right there.
	Her using that talking point.
	And can't we all agree that we are not going to put a woman in jail or give her the death
	penalty if she gets an abortion?
	No one is saying that.
	No one is saying that.
	Boom.
	That's a wolf in sheep's clothing right there.
	Her using that talking point.
	Point me to one governor who is saying that a woman should get a death penalty for having
	an abortion performed if she is raped.
	There's not one person saying that.
	It's like she took that straight out of Salon.
	Or Slate.
	Or insert your shitty blog here.
	What do you say to him and others who say, politically, that is a tough thing to sell nationally?
	You know, actually, really quickly, let's go live to our on-the-ground correspondent.
	Actually, he's out there, right?
	He's gotten some interviews.
	Thomas Finnegan, he's down there.
	Do we have him?
	Yes, we do.
	Because this is a boring question right now that they're asking.
	It honestly is a setup.
	I don't want to play these games.
	Let's go right now.
	Alright, Mr. Finnegan, big night.
	What do you got for us?
	Hi, Steven.
	I'm ready to go.
	Yeah.
	Wait, where are... I'm at Mike Pence's bathroom.
	Why?
	I'm hiding out.
	I'm gonna get you a candidate-exclusive interview.
	Are you out of your mind?
	How did he get past security?
	He went to jail.
	I just walked in.
	I don't think they like him very much.
	Wait, I gotta go. I hear someone coming.
	Woof! Woof!
	Woof!
	you I
	I'm sorry about that.
	Maybe not.
	I don't think we should ever expect better from Thomas Finnegan.
	But you called it, where is something like that coming from?
	An article from Salon?
	SC, GOP bill would subject those obtaining abortions to the death penalty.
	How did you know?
	It's almost like I've done this for a while and Nikki Haley's a crook and hack.
	Alright, let's go back to Ron DeSantis.
	Hey, Mike Pence is talking.
	Let's all hurry so we can not care.
	Well look, I'm not new to this cause.
	I tell you what you are new to, not sucking.
	After I gave my life to Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, I opened up the book and I read, before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.
	And by the way, I agree with all, but this is not, the first debate should not be about the abortion issue for these candidates, and the way they framed the question was obviously one trying to get people to slip up.
	I get that Mike Pence is trying to position himself as a social conservative, which I am through and through.
	I'm as pro-life as you get.
	But the line of questioning tonight, do not be fooled.
	Climate change is the most discussed issue in our generation, and then the next question after that, or two questions later, is the abortion issue that's being misrepresented.
	This is going to tell you who your friends are when you look at people like Nikki Haley and how they answer.
	I guarantee you that Mike Pence has a good answer, but this is a no-win situation for these people this early in a campaign.
	You know what they won't ask?
	They won't ask a single Democrat to put a limit on abortion.
	Not one.
	That'll never happen.
	Let's say it's not nine months.
	When is it?
	Is it eight?
	Is it seven?
	Is it six?
	And you'll find out really quickly who has the more reasonable policy.
	I'm just really disappointed that Fox News is doing this, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
	Nobody's talking about abortion.
	I read the headlines every day for the last two months.
	Well, one person is.
	Other than Salon.
	Fox News.
	Well, that's what I'm saying.
	I'm validating your point.
	I haven't heard anybody mention abortion.
	I'm sorry, I was distracted looking for a fly on Mike Pence's hair.
	No, his hair is actually just a bunch of deceased flies.
	Really?
	It's like one of those wax machines.
	Oh, you're gonna get your good.
	Oh, he's gagging at that.
	Oh, here we go.
	Female victim.
	Do not, you don't have a vagina, no opinion.
	Really?
	Alright, well, you know what?
	all those state laws don't make women feel like they have to decide on this
	issue when you know we don't have 60 Senate votes in the house.
	Oh here we go.
	Robiney Gibbs a shell victim.
	Do not you don't have a vagina no opinion really?
	He sucks.
	You know what there's never been a male president so you can't run.
	What are you doing here, stupid?
	Sorry, female president.
	You have to be honest with the American people.
	We have to have a 15-week agreement.
	Let's get Governor Bergman for one minute here.
	For anything.
	Do you really think you have a shot?
	Yes.
	What are you doing here, stupid?
	The result of that decision was that it went back to the states.
	So that's where it is right now.
	So as I understand it, you are not in favor.
	What do you say about the states?
	There's about five of them, including New Jersey.
	I think a few others.
	that allow abortion up until the time of birth, though.
	If you were president, would you be able to abide that?
	First of all, I'm a pro-life governor of a very pro-life state.
	And this issue is, of course, very important.
	But I am on the record and I stand behind that we should not have a federal abortion ban.
	We should not.
	And the reason why we shouldn't is very simple.
	There is no federal abortion ban, though.
	In the Constitution.
	There is no federal abortion ban.
	No, he's saying that they're basically pushing for it.
	That's what the argument was with Nikki Haley and Mike Pence.
	Right.
	Pushing for a federal abortion ban.
	And he's saying, look, that's a states' rights issue.
	Right.
	He just pulled out a little Constitution, it was actually a flask.
	He did!
	Oh jeez.
	That man owns no upper lip.
	We can't have Republicans who fight for 50 years for this great cause to return it back to the states, and then the next day they turn around and go, no the feds should do that, because the feds are stepping into people's lives, they're stepping into people's businesses.
	And as someone who does view it as the termination of a life, I also understand.
	This is the middle ground that people talked about, that Republicans need to take.
	It goes to the states, and I understand people making the argument, yeah, but murder is illegal on a federal level, I understand, but as far as what you can accomplish politically, this is about as good as you're going to get, and states can enact their laws.
	And they need to do a better job of doing that within their states.
	But this is not a fair question to touch on.
	And also credit where credit's due, Nick, you kind of nailed it with the flask constitution.
	I didn't even know that was a thing, but I guess that's...
	But he can't purse his lip up against it, it'll just dribble right down to his underpants.
	This is the guy, out of all of them, that's making me laugh, that he's there.
	I know.
	Mr. Hutchinson?
	Out of there.
	Well, left and friggin' right.
	He is.
	Just name a lefty.
	Chris Christie.
	Through the term.
	So they have their extreme position at a national level.
	We is most likely going to be addressed in the states, but it's certainly fine for it to be addressed at the national level.
	You say we is most likely going to be addressed?
	Well, is we is, or is we ain't, with the Confederates hat!
	I signed 30 pro-life pieces of legislation while I was governor.
	30?
	How many does it take?
	Exactly.
	I thought it was one.
	Thank you.
	And it is the most important issue for women and for the unborn child and for our country that we get this right.
	Hold on, it's not just for women anymore, abortion.
	That's true.
	That's true.
	I'm telling you.
	Men can have abortions too.
	Absolutely.
	I mean, your prostate won't be the biggest fan of it.
	You don't even have to go to Planned Parenthood.
	You just play football with your buddies in the backyard, have a few beers, get blindsided, and Timmy ends up in the street.
	Those are things we've done in Arkansas and are important for our nation's future.
	I don't know what was happening.
	We were just supposed to be touch football and Bobby ended up with a miscarriage.
	Poor Bobby.
	Like California, New York, and Illinois have abortions on demand.
	I like Tim Scott.
	He just didn't come to play.
	Black people aren't boring.
	How do we pick a boring black guy?
	You're not.
	You're not boring.
	One thing you can say about black people, they're interesting people.
	Where do we find this fucking man?
	Ben Carson was already taken.
	Oh, boy.
	That is a list.
	That is an issue we must solve.
	We can't leave it to Illinois.
	We can't leave it to Minnesota.
	Oh, come on.
	Yes, you can.
	Why do you start talking like Octavia Spencer when she cries?
	I know.
	I know.
	We can't.
	I said.
	He's doing the inward talking.
	He sounded like Hillary doing a black guy.
	I'll go back to the woman's shelter, silly.
	Nikki Haley got it right.
	Ask the Dems.
	So are your ratings.
	As drugs and crime move in, Mr. Scott, you know about that.
	I'm just joshing you.
	the homeless crisis. American cities are in decline. People are moving out as
	homelessness, drugs, crime move in. There are problems accelerated. As drugs and
	crime move in, Mr. Scott, you know about that. I'm just joshing you. Hey, Asa
	Hutchinson, this one's for you. New York, Chicago, all up 30% between 29
	I respect for the homeless.
	What is that?
	I love how they blur the face of the homeless person out of respect for the homeless.
	What is that?
	I wouldn't sign the...
	Vice President Pence, a lot of this began in the COVID era.
	Sir, if you wouldn't mind showing your ass crack next to the big gulp, don't worry, I'll
	blur your face.
	How do you plan on stopping what's happening around this country as a result of those COVID
	lockdowns and is your administration in part to blame for how we got here?
	Well, I think what's in part to blame is the Democrats been talking about defunding the
	police for the last five years.
	And we ought to be funding law enforcement, particularly in our major cities, at unprecedented levels.
	I mean, it's extraordinary to think about the violence that's claiming innocent lives literally every week in every major city in this country.
	And yet Democrats and liberal prosecutors in major metropolitan areas continue to To work out their fanciful agendas, to do bail reform.
	What we need is strong... It's bigger than that, Mike.
	It's a cultural revolution.
	...leadership in Washington, D.C.
	that will marshal the resources of the states, marshal the resources of the Americas.
	He's like Jiminy Cricket if I could stomp him.
	...opportunity.
	A lot of people don't know that those... While he's talking, we want to bring up some of the Trump with Tucker interview.
	Can someone just give me some context?
	Because I'm flying blind.
	I have no idea what's coming up.
	So I've got plenty of Trump stuff, just kind of feathering it in.
	So here's him talking about Gavin Newsom.
	Oh, wonderful.
	That should be fun.
	Bye, Mike.
	Newsom.
	Newsom.
	Asshole!
	We're switching.
	It says Newsom.
	Three.
	Two.
	Newsom.
	Give me more time.
	One.
	Keep cutting him.
	We have like 20.
	Newsom.
	Guys, just give us the highlights.
	We don't have 20 clips.
	Don't cut all of it.
	Okay, Newsom.
	They cut everything.
	Newsome!
	All right, let's go to Chris Christie because he's going to say something that will be around the country.
	Talking about chicken cacciatore.
	Blame this crisis on easy access to guns.
	They also blame Republicans for blocking gun control legislation.
	This may be a layup for Chris Christie to sabotage himself because he's incredibly anti-gun.
	I'm the only person along with Governor Hutchinson up on this stage who's actually running United States Attorney's Office.
	I ran the fifth largest office in America in a state where there is significant urban crime.
	The oblong office.
	Did you make it the fifth largest office?
	Exactly.
	It was a broom closet.
	It was the eighth!
	Oh, you got the hat there.
	The West Wings.
	Oh, tell me facts, it's bullshit.
	...are refusing to do their job and to arrest violent criminals.
	So what a President Christie would do is appoint an Attorney General who would instruct each of the 93.
	If I'm not mistaken, why didn't Governor Christie, you guys fact check, bring this up for me please in mission control,
	why didn't Governor Christie get rid of the waiting period?
	I believe it was 30 days and there was a woman who actually had a restraining order out against her ex-husband I
	believe, or maybe it was her current fiance, who ended up being
	killed because she needed a gun immediately.
	So when people say, why do you need a gun right away?
	Why can't you have a cooling down period?
	I don't know.
	Sometimes people need to purchase a firearm to defend themselves for a specific situation.
	Governor Christie was probably the most left, if I'm not mistaken, if there's a rating system, probably the worst Republican governor in the history of the Second Amendment.
	That's why he wants to talk about who he appointed.
	In your case, Waddle.
	Let's see what he has.
	Alright, good.
	Good.
	sponsored by his father.
	And then you have a Justice Department that walks away from those charges.
	In your case, Waddle.
	People got the Waddles and applied to everybody.
	In a Christie administration, he would go to jail for 10 years.
	What about a President Ramaswamy?
	What does a President Ramaswamy do about guns?
	So the reality is we have a crime wave in this country and we know how to fix it.
	The question is do we actually have the spine to do it?
	More cops in the streets who are on the streets able to do their jobs without looking over their shoulder for getting sued.
	And we also have a mental health epidemic in this country.
	Just over the same period that we have closed mental health institutions, we have seen a spike in violent crime.
	Do we have the spine to bring them back?
	I think we should.
	As president, I will.
	But it's not just drugging up people in those psychiatric institutions with Zoloft and Seroquel.
	It's a deeper issue.
	I think faith-based approaches can play a role here, too.
	We're in the middle of a national identity crisis.
	And I say this as a member of my generation, the problem in our country right now, the reason we have that mental health epidemic, is that people are so hungry for purpose and meaning at a time when family, faith, patriotism, hard work have all disappeared.
	What we really need is a tonal reset from the top, saying that this is what it means to be an American.
	Yes, we will stand for the rule of law.
	Yes, we will close the southern border where criminals are coming in.
	Boom!
	Fit it in there.
	Good.
	Thug life moment.
	First guy to fit in immigration.
	Remember who we really are.
	And that's also how we address that mental health epidemic in the next generation that is directly leading to violent crime.
	Can I speak to Governor DeSantis really quickly?
	Governor DeSantis.
	Let's see what he says.
	We're not looking for a new national identity.
	The American people are the most faith-filled, freedom-loving, idealistic, hard-working people the world has ever known.
	We just need government as good as our people.
	We don't need government, Perry.
	It's stupid.
	Good, he's true.
	Good.
	And by the way, if you go back to Ronald Reagan, everyone acts like Ronald Reagan was just shining city on a hill.
	No, at the beginning of his campaigns, he talked about where they were in that country.
	When he smoked Carter, he talked about the dark days of America, and then transitioned into a plan.
	Mike Pence is delusional.
	That does not resonate with the American public, and certainly not people who will vote for a Republican.
	Let me hear you, Governor DeSantis.
	How do you stop- Follow that act, DeSantis.
	... crimes at a 50-year low in Florida.
	We're happy with that.
	Well, statewide, it's a 50-year low.
	So here's the thing.
	Brett was too ready with- Yeah, yes.
	This is a symptom of America's decline, and one of the biggest reasons is because you have George Soros funding these radical left-wing district attorneys.
	They get into office, and they say they're not- Yeah, we all know that.
	We're going to do it, buddy.
	They disagree with the inmates start running the asylum.
	There's one guy in this entire country that's ever done anything about that.
	Me.
	That is true.
	We had two of these district attorneys in Florida elected with Soros funding who said they wouldn't do their job.
	I removed them from their post.
	They are gone.
	Boom.
	He needs to leave.
	Boom.
	Good thug life moment.
	We'll need some refills on the beers because I know I'm out.
	President, we are going to go after all of these people because they are hurting the quality of life and they are victimizing innocent people in every corner of this country and it will stop when I get into office.
	Okay, you were right on Chris Christie.
	It was a 30-day waiting period and there was a woman who was killed while waiting on her gun permit for protection.
	And how old is that?
	I'm bringing that from, that's probably what, that's going back to Obama days.
	That is 2015.
	2015, so good job guys.
	Thank you guys.
	Excuse me, Dracula's talking.
	Excuse me, Dracula's talking.
	... accountability, there's transparency. One thing that I think this country could use...
	One vote!
	Nikki, I want to suck your blood!
	... small town values...
	He was laying down to get this country on track again.
	We can do it in North Dakota.
	Look at that smile!
	As former head of the DEA, I understand the drug crisis in America.
	I just want to be president, is that too much to ask?
	Hey guys, I'm doing my best!
	There's three simple words that would be helpful.
	One, enforce the law when it comes to crime.
	Asa looks like what Mike Pence is going to look like in another 15 years.
	... the challenge of fentanyl.
	He has eyes like those white rats.
	You know the white rats that have the eyes that are inflamed?
	Yeah, but he looks like they're probably red.
	Usually.
	And he has a tail.
	Yeah, he does.
	Well, that's really more of a growth of the coccyx bone.
	Tailbone, but these are medical terms that you need.
	The coccyx?
	Yeah.
	I'm saying right now, I can move my left hand thanks to balance and ages.
	Look at me.
	I couldn't do this Wednesday.
	As president of the United States look at me stop. I couldn't do this one starts at the top
	I rubbed one out today the fucking Undermined by attacking judges by attacking
	I'm sorry.
	No seriously, we're not, like, he isn't actually paralyzed on his right side, right?
	Like, we're not just joking about something.
	Nah, I don't think so.
	He's just, he's just a bit of an asshat who refuses to remove, to move his right arm at all.
	No, he's like a hip-hop guy.
	He's grabbing his balls.
	where former president Donald Trump will be processed tomorrow.
	The next two candidates will have an opportunity to talk about the coming trials.
	They're going to a break it looks like.
	That's Fulton County that street?
	Well really quick, what were you about to say there?
	I was about to say we can go to another Trump clip if you want to or if you want to provide
	something of commentary there.
	He was basically saying at the federal level we're going to stop these smashing riots.
	I'm like, really?
	How?
	Because that's a state issue that you have to deal with, and really, it's a city issue that you have to deal with, and you have to get these stupid Democrats to have better policies in these cities where these things are occurring.
	That's not a federal send-in-the-police thing, because you don't have a police that you should be sending in.
	I think you're right, but really quickly, we should probably go to, since we have a break here, some of your content, where you were down there in Milwaukee.
	What we're about to see here first is you spend some time, this is, if I'm not mistaken, exclusive on-the-ground footage.
	With Kerry Lake and other candidates?
	Yeah, catcher for the brewers.
	Okay.
	We've got the Chris Christie ad.
	Yeah, well actually there's a new campaign ad from Chris Christie that's right before that if you want to hit that.
	So it's right before his original.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Okay, let's do that.
	We have a new Chris Christie ad that we have the exclusive here at Loud Earth Crowder.
	Of course you can join Mug Club.
	LoudEarthCrowder.com slash Mug Club.
	And then Gerald was there on location in Milwaukee and you can see the answers that we got from some of these candidates.
	Chris Christie.
	I can't guarantee you success.
	In what I'm about to do.
	For the working man.
	Um, you're gonna get some straight talk from New Jersey.
	For the truth.
	Bag of M&M's.
	Right?
	Donald Trump doesn't even have this at games.
	Because the truth matters.
	If you are in search of the perfect candidate, it is time to leave.
	I am not it.
	We're gonna be small, or are we gonna be big?
	And that's why I came back to tell all of you that I intend to seek the Republican nomination for
	President of the United States in 2024, and I want your support.
	Chris Christie, you make good cookies.
	Carrie Lake has decided to join us.
	Kerry, thank you very much for being here.
	It's so good to be back on, and to be in beautiful Milwaukee.
	Wow, they've done a great job with this city.
	Absolutely.
	We were talking about this, I believe, earlier in the year, and I said, look, the best possible scenario is four more years of Donald Trump, and then eight years of DeSantis at the time.
	Because I thought, just stay out of it.
	Donald Trump is going to go and become president again.
	And you thought that DeSantis would be smart enough, but he's not.
	I thought he would be, right?
	And that would be good for him.
	And the thing that people liked about DeSantis, he's not been doing any of that.
	It's almost like he's taking kind of that Mitt Romney turn that cost him to change when he was facing off against Barack Obama.
	And it's like, don't go be who they want you to be.
	But I do believe that President Trump will be victorious at this debate, even though he's not even there.
	I don't know that there's any point in him coming to some of these debates.
	I don't think that people are going to suspend their campaigns because they are banking on President Trump.
	President Trump either running out of money, running out of support, or just not wanting to deal with it.
	I don't think any of those things are going to happen, so good luck with that.
	Well, he's never going to run out of support.
	The people who love President Trump love him, and they will vote for him no matter where he is.
	They can try to lock him up, they'll still vote for him.
	Absolutely.
	And I will tell you, he's already won the debate.
	I have been doing interviews for the last couple of weeks about the debate, and not once has anybody asked me about the other candidates.
	It's all questions about Trump.
	No.
	You wake up, you turn the news on, it's about Trump.
	And how brilliant for him to do an interview with Tucker Carlson.
	The two people that Fox hates the most right now are President Trump and Tucker Carlson.
	And tomorrow, when Fox wants everybody talking about the Little League game they're going to hold in here, tomorrow everyone's going to be talking about Trump and Tucker.
	They will.
	Tucker, who can be a tough interview.
	I don't think he's going to do a softball interview.
	No, he's been critical of President Trump before.
	President Trump will be able to get out his ideas for turning this country around, and how he sees us saving ourselves on the world stage, because we are marching toward World War III.
	That is the backdrop of what's happening, by the way, and they want us distracted with all these other things.
	Meanwhile, the world has been destabilized, and we're heading toward World War III.
	And hopefully they talk about some of these issues because I think we're going to find out there's a lot of warmongers in there.
	One of the main reasons they want to bring Trump down is he is a truth teller and a peacemaker.
	He didn't start any wars and that makes the military-industrial complex, which has a lot of control in this world, that makes them very upset.
	Very upset.
	And less rich.
	There's no money in peace but there's trillions to be made in war and President Trump is about peace.
	Absolutely.
	Well, really quickly, final question.
	Can you fast forward a little bit to President Trump winning the nomination, selecting a vice president?
	Who do you think that could be?
	And where do you see yourself going next?
	And maybe those two things are tied together.
	I'm not saying they are.
	Listen, I'm not leading the witness.
	I'm just saying.
	Well, I think that, you know, in a year or so when he does choose his vice president, President Trump is very smart.
	He'll look at where things are and he'll say, I need help with this group, with that group, in this state, and he will pick an incredible vice president.
	Whoever he picks, I will vote for enthusiastically.
	In the meantime, I'm seriously giving it consideration to jump into the U.S.
	Senate race in Arizona.
	We have two Democrats running, one who just announced that she's going to act like an independent, even though she's voted with Joe Biden 93% of the time.
	And we have an opportunity to pick up a seat and finally get an America-first senator in the U.S.
	Senate, one who's actually going to do work for the people.
	And so I'm considering that.
	I'll be making a decision in the next couple of months.
	I just wrote a book, Unafraid.
	It's a great book.
	If you haven't seen it, get it.
	It's a page-turner.
	In typical fashion, I throw a few punches.
	I would expect nothing less.
	And I have a few other things that I'm working on right now in my personal life.
	I'm really giving that serious consideration because we have an opportunity to get a great senator in Arizona who will serve the people of Arizona in Washington, D.C.
	I love it.
	If you end up running, I want to button and let us know.
	Let us know what you're doing.
	We'd love to stay in touch with you.
	But thank you very much for making some time with us.
	I appreciate it.
	Thank you so much.
	And thank you to the audience out there.
	Bring it up there in the lower quadrant.
	Toolman and Nick DiPaolo is with me.
	His show is on MugClub.
	You get $10 off with the promo code CROWDERGOPDEBATE.
	Hey, what do you get?
	You get Nick DiPaolo.
	You get Alex Jones.
	You get the Hodge twins coming soon.
	You get Brian Callen.
	You get Guns N' Gear.
	You get our Friday show.
	You get double the show every single day.
	You get the investigative unit.
	It does not exist without your support at MugClub.
	No corporate donors like these pack puppets.
	Nick DiPaolo is going to be also Rob's comedy playhouse.
	I'm sorry.
	But it's a very good venue, September 16th, nickdip.com.
	They have their hands up like they're kindergartners.
	It's September 15th.
	I'm sorry, Nick.
	It has nothing to do with the Sicilian Union.
	Don't worry, it's going to be packed no matter what you say, Steve.
	Brewing is allowed, but it doesn't change the truth.
	Uh-oh, he's talking about cholesterol.
	Let's just speak the truth, okay?
	President Trump, I believe, was the best president of the 21st century.
	Yeah, that's just a drink.
	That's just a drink.
	I can't finish my drink.
	It was just filled.
	You understand how much good he just did for himself?
	so everyone can see them?
	Yeah, that's just a drink.
	That's just a drink?
	I can't finish my drink.
	It was just filled.
	You understand how much good he just did for himself?
	Trump is mentioned January 26th.
	Hold on.
	Alright.
	Okay.
	We need this.
	Kim or Kerry Lake is the VP pick for Trump.
	Yeah.
	That's my call.
	Point!
	Point that dark brown finger!
	Like the guy in Sniper.
	Yeah, that's my call.
	They could just change the channel to MSNBC right now.
	But I'm not running for president of MSNBC.
	I am running for president of the United States.
	Point! Point that dark brown finger.
	We cannot set a precedent.
	Like the guy on Sniper.
	Use his police force.
	Chris Christie, you are a very, very bad man.
	Can we have 30 seconds?
	Just 30 seconds.
	30 seconds, Governor.
	You tell me to go to debate on Fox, but nobody comes.
	Do you see people?
	Where are people?
	There are no people!
	There are no people!
	What did he just say to this fat buck?
	That he's not paying for his buffet.
	You sit here and answer...
	You sit everywhere...
	Everywhere.
	No, don't bail him out, Martha.
	You let him wallow.
	Let him deal with those booze.
	Let it reverberate into his sloppy soul.
	Brett lecturing the crowd.
	Talk about it.
	It's on man.
	Moderator interrupted.
	Drink.
	You want to stand up for the rule of law.
	Yes.
	And law and order.
	In your book, you had much different things to say about Donald Trump than you're saying here tonight.
	That's not true.
	No, it is very true.
	That is not true.
	It's very true, I read it, and I know... You hate it.
	Quote it, bitch!
	By the way, you know what?
	Quote it, Dom DeLuise!
	Look it, he's not taking any...
	You've never done it like you've never done anything to try to advance the interests of this government
	except to put yourself forward as a candidate tonight.
	And here's the thing, we've stood up for law and order...
	He's in his 30s, Chris.
	You didn't stand up to a waiting period and people got killed in your state.
	You stand up to no one, Chris Christie.
	If nothing else tonight, please let his giant bubble be burst as far as the tough talking straight from the hip.
	Everything about that man is phony.
	I saw him stand up to the managers at Arby's.
	You said you have the beef!
	He's gonna hang himself right here, watch.
	It's gotta be cable.
	I know.
	He's going to hang himself right here, watch.
	Well, you need to read the rope.
	It's got to be cable.
	It's got to be an old bike rack.
	I'm going to have to stand up, it's going to rock.
	God damn it, I got an ass like a nectarine.
	Let's see it.
	President Trump's former vice president is on this stage tonight.
	Do you believe he did the right thing?
	Absolutely.
	He did the right thing.
	January 6th. On that day, the Vice President moved forward with the certification of the election.
	I think Geppetto had a weekend with Pinocchio and Mike Pence happened.
	Oh God. Did the right thing.
	On Temptation Island. Do you believe he did the right thing?
	Absolutely, he did the right thing. Number one.
	Oh, you sucked him.
	We should be asking ourselves a bigger question about the weaponization of the Department of
	When I'm president, the first thing I'll do is fire Merrick Garland.
	Defund the FBI.
	Whoever here tonight says disband our intelligence agencies and build anew is the guy who should win this debate.
	I've said that's a close-handed issue for me.
	You cannot save this country without disbanding our intelligence agencies who are political propaganda and hit artist wings.
	Yeah.
	Now that's clever.
	Can you say Mike Pence did the right thing and then say go after the Department of Justice?
	It's kind of contradictory.
	...against political opponents, but also against parents who show up at school board meetings.
	Their call under this deal, General.
	Now that's clever.
	That's how Glenn Youngkin won his election.
	He talked about the critical race theory.
	He talked about the white privilege.
	He talked about the transgender bathrooms.
	And people always say those social issues don't work.
	Guess what?
	They won, Yunkin, a governorship in a very, very blue state.
	So this is, some people say this is ill-advised.
	Don't listen to those people.
	Those people are morons.
	...with guns drawn, because this DOJ uses their power, uses their authority, not just against political opponents, but against conservatives and conservative causes.
	It is time for a change in America, and I will bring that change to the greatest nation on God's planet.
	I will bring... Mike Pence did the right thing on January 6th.
	So here's what we need to do.
	We need to end the weaponization of these federal agents.
	Disband them.
	Come on, someone, grow some balls here.
	Disband the FBI.
	Comment.
	I'd love to see your chat in Mug Club.
	Let's put out a poll.
	Do you think we need you to... You right now, millions of people out there, whether you're following me, whether you're hundreds of thousands who are watching right now across all of our platforms, you are a sample group.
	Do you want your candidate, the Republican candidate, to run on the platform of disbanding our intelligence agencies?
	They want you to think that you're an extremist.
	I think it's most of you.
	Let's put out a poll.
	That you focus on the mission above all else.
	You can't get distracted.
	So Republicans, we've got to look forward and we've got to make sure that we're bringing the message that can win in November 2020.
	Vice President Pence, what do you think vice president Pence is to support and defend the
	constitution of the United States? I think I think the American people deserve to know
	whether everyone on this stage agrees that I kept my oath to the constitution that day.
	There's no more important. You were inconsistent in your answer.
	And here's the thing, it's not about just defending.
	We're no longer a nation.
	We're post-constitutional right now, right?
	Exactly.
	You are no longer a nation or a candidate defending the Constitution.
	What you are doing is trying to undo A president, and by the way you're really talking about 12 years, 8 years of Obama and 4 of Biden, then there were 4 in between, 3 really, of someone wiping their ass with the Constitution.
	You're not defending something anymore, you're trying to re-institutionalize the Constitution.
	You are trying to ensure that you reinvigorate the American people to understand.
	You have an entire generation of people who do not understand, or if they do, they don't care about the Constitution.
	You are no longer in defense mode.
	You need to be in attack mode.
	You need to be in rebuild mode.
	And that's why Mike Pence should absolutely, he should disappear into obscurity.
	He's not talking to the American public, and certainly not the voting base, as far as where they are at this period in time.
	This is, when you wonder about the donor class, Ask yourself about Mike Pence.
	If Tucker Carlson didn't do what he did with Mike Pence, guess what?
	He would still be a darling to a lot of the conservative donor media class.
	And I say this as a, as a, you can go back to 2008 on YouTube.
	No one has a track record longer than me of being a conservative, pretty much basic bitch, pumpkin spice conservative, across the board.
	But the messaging now is different when you are at a point in this country, it is a turning point, and people like Mike Pence are out to lunch.
	Chat's hitting us up.
	They're saying disband like crazy.
	Let's put out a poll on Twitter and we are yeah No
	That's a tough moment, hey, hang on Mike Pence
	stood for the Constitution And he deserves not grudging credit
	He deserves our thanks as Americans for putting his oath of office and the Constitution of the United States
	before personal, political, and unfair pressure.
	And the argument that we need to have in this party, before we can move on to the issues that Ron talked about, is we have to dispense with the person who said that we need to suspend the Constitution to put forward his political clearance.
	There you go, attacking Trump.
	There you go, attack Donald Trump.
	I don't think you're going to like how this goes, hotshot.
	He's an idiot.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I don't know what he thinks he's going to gain from saying that.
	Look at the polls.
	Trump's what?
	He has advisors telling him that he should be a Romney type.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he is.
	And I do think that we need to give him credit for that.
	But what I will also tell you is, look, I mean... No, what he needs are some lifts in his shoes.
	I don't know if President Trump should serve or not.
	I trust the American people.
	Let them vote.
	Let them decide.
	The American people don't trust their vote.
	We have that poll.
	It's a significant portion of Americans, including, by the way, Democrats, who don't believe that their vote is secure or that it's counted properly.
	They're speaking to people who aren't there.
	This is the problem with the donor class.
	This is where Vivek is going to pick up some steam.
	The GOP pup.
	Do you want a puppet candidate saying, the American people have to trust their vote?
	They already don't!
	Talk to those people!
	They're tuning in right now.
	They're looking for a reason to give you their vote.
	are you man enough or woman enough mickey haley to take it people have the balls to take in your address
	but i would say you started off the top of this our saying we're gonna talk
	about china ukraine educate i love the crime in transylvania by forty percent
	three Go Green Minute! The DJ can't...
	I'm gonna smack a jukebox. Impalings were up 75% but... Hey Groucho wants his eyebrows back. The garlic harvest is...
	ripped. Just the suits are unoriginal.
	That looks terrific to me.
	They were talking about him, right?
	Ooh, here we go!
	Here we go!
	committed nearly 77... Can I speak on this issue?
	You did not say something. I thought we thought you were done.
	How about no? They were talking about him, right?
	Well, Mike, why don't you say this? Join me in making a commitment that on day one you would pardon Donald Trump.
	I'm the only candidate on this team. Here we go. Let's see what they say. Listen.
	Now we move our nation forward. I don't know why you assume that Donald Trump will be convicted of these crimes.
	You should be able to make a commitment.
	The same justice system that was this corrupt.
	There's a difference between you and me.
	I'm not a professional politician.
	That's the difference.
	You can answer the question.
	I've actually given pardons.
	As governor of the state of Indiana, it usually follows a finding of guilt and contrition by the individual that's been convicted.
	So, if I'm president of the United States, we'll give fair consideration to any pardon request.
	But if I'm not...
	That's political talk.
	You know, it's not about looking back at January 2021.
	It's about January 20th, 2017.
	By the way, drink.
	I put my left hand on Ronald Reagan's Bible.
	I raised my right hand.
	And I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
	And it ended with a prayer, so help me God.
	It was a promise that I made to the American people.
	More like a statement.
	But I also made it.
	That's not really a prayer.
	Just saying.
	I made it to my Heavenly Father.
	It's kind of a demand to the Lord.
	Every day for four years I sought to keep that oath.
	And everyone on this stage needs to make it clear whether or not they'll do the same.
	If they're in this job and the confidence of the American people.
	Look, I've made it clear.
	I had hoped that the issues surrounding the 2020 election and the controversies... Let me tell you about Men's Wearhouse.
	...had not come to this, had not come to criminal proceedings.
	I would rather they had been resolved by the American people and the American people alone.
	But no one's above the law.
	And President Trump is entitled to the presumption of innocence that every American is entitled to.
	Bring back up the drinking game rules really quickly for people who aren't familiar.
	We're playing right now, and please don't get alcohol poisoning.
	Just pick a light beer.
	Anytime Trump is mentioned, January 6th or 2020, moderator interrupts a candidate, any thug life moment, and you finish your drink anytime a candidate mentions a Democrat other than Biden.
	We'll also add anti-thug life moment, meaning a low light, which is pretty much every time Mike Pence speaks.
	How about if Martha has a wardrobe malfunction?
	I had no right to overturn the election, and Kamala Harris will have no right to overturn the election when we beat them in 2024.
	Thank you, Vice President.
	That's a little presumptuous if the guy is you.
	He said leave it to the American people.
	That's what they would do it on January 6th.
	In my opinion, it doesn't get any more.
	Right in my opinion, it doesn't get any more. No, I understand. Yeah
	Regardless of that the specific specifics of that plan Is there anyone on stage who would not support him in on
	this the increase of more funding to Ukraine tense?
	Who?
	Pence.
	We would not support it.
	Europe needs to step up.
	It's a raise your hand question.
	Can I ask you why they have Dallas Cowboy logos?
	Because they're America's team.
	Because McCallum was a cheerleader.
	That's a good answer.
	Excuse me, Paul Lin is talking.
	Let me raise my finger.
	Excuse me, Paul Lin is talking.
	Man.
	China.
	Let me raise my finger.
	You would not support an increase of funding to Ukraine. I would not
	And I think that this is disastrous.
	Good.
	He's kicking ass.
	Good.
	Point that finger.
	Pretty thug life.
	Yeah, thug life drink.
	Boom.
	somebody else's border when we should use those same military resources to prevent the
	Boom.
	invasion of our own southern border here in the United States of America.
	Bring in immigration.
	That was a winning issue for Donald Trump.
	It's still a winning issue, by the way, for that base who voted for Donald Trump.
	People in the Rust Belt and people in states who experienced that with the southern border.
	It's the one area where you can pick up some of the left pieces of Donald Trump.
	People say, you know what?
	He didn't really deliver on his promise.
	I will finish what Donald Trump started.
	I think people in New York and Chicago and Martha's Vineyard are starting to agree with that.
	They might have strong opinions about that.
	Because we shipped them to you.
	The VEC is four for five with three triples and a home run.
	I don't understand the sports reference, but I understand that's good, correct?
	I thought it was sitting next to Diane Carroll.
	Hold on, listen to this.
	I did go to Ukraine and I wanted to see for myself if the cabbage was fresh.
	Vladimir Putin's army was doing to the free Ukrainian people.
	And let me tell you, I want you all to look around this arena tonight and imagine that
	every one of these seats was filled.
	If every one of them was filled, there would still be 2,500 more children outside to make
	over 20,000 who have been abducted, stolen, ripped from their mothers and fathers.
	Chris Christie?
	No.
	No, I hate what he says.
	I don't agree with any of this.
	Get out of your mind.
	Let me just say this.
	Let me just say this.
	Chris Christie decided he wanted to go over and see President Zelensky, right?
	Don't worry.
	Just put him anywhere.
	We have a new intern PA, by the way.
	He's doing a good job.
	Look, he's got Tourette's.
	Quit picking on him.
	It's the good Tourette's, though.
	The funny kind.
	Careful!
	You might appear in media, Ike.
	Got Lou Gehrig bringing out our freshmen.
	Take him to a Yankees game.
	You'll be your best friend.
	Tonight?
	Tonight?
	I had to serve beers, beers, beers, beers.
	To a racist guinea pig.
	Right now is lying through his teeth.
	He didn't go over there to see what was happening firsthand on the ground.
	We have media reports for that Chris Christie.
	You understand what's going on by hearing.
	Look, I get it.
	Maybe you think that there's a little bit more to the story.
	You went over there because you have a campaign that is faltering and your only path to victory is to stay relevant.
	Do you know why else?
	By the way, he doesn't need lyrics to Jon Bon Jovi to put next to the fricking Oscar
	that Sean Penn left over there.
	That's not going to help them win a war.
	Don't lie and use something that is absolutely tragic to get your campaign off the ground,
	you gas bag.
	Do you know why else?
	Do you know the other reason why he went to Ukraine?
	Because he had to go there because he endorsed the government, Barack Obama by the way, who
	installed a puppet government in Ukraine, just to be clear.
	Not saying that Russia is right.
	Putin?
	Dick.
	Okay, I understand it.
	But let's not act as though Ukraine is a bastion of freedom and democracy.
	Let's go back.
	Oh look, he's making the quintessential Indian face, which I don't even care.
	Good for him, Ramaswamy.
	and the Russians back out into Russia.
	I want to just really address that.
	They're all dressed the same.
	I have a news flash.
	The USSR does not exist anymore.
	It fell back in 1990.
	It was a real Soviet Union.
	It's a fucking penis.
	And a real communist.
	That's very similar to Barack Obama, though, with Mitt Romney, where he said, now the Cold War called.
	They want their policy back.
	Putin has been saying he wants to re-establish the old Soviet sphere of influence.
	You've made your point, Vice President.
	Am I imagining this, or is Mike Pence defending funding Ukraine in a proxy war?
	Does he think that's what the Republican voters want right now?
	Is that what you want?
	Comment.
	By the way, hit like if you think that's a horrible tact to take.
	It's what the neocons want.
	Communist China.
	And we are driving Russia further into China's arms.
	The Russia-China military alliance is the single greatest threat we face.
	Nobody in either political party is talking about it.
	And I say I am the only non-proletarian...
	Let the Indian finish.
	...who's gonna keep us out of war.
	Moderators interrupting drink.
	We're far too good at these drinking games.
	We have to scale it back.
	scale it back.
	...Ukraine will never be in NATO and then somehow...
	Mr. Vice President...
	...China will not think about taking Taiwan.
	If we achieve peace through strength...
	Mr. Vice President...
	Which is arming Taiwan!
	Okay, here we go.
	Am I right?
	Yes.
	Everyone in the Republican Party believes that Taiwan should be armed, should be protected.
	That's something that makes sense.
	Ukraine, Russia, it's... I'm sorry, it's not our fight.
	In Ukraine, you want to be in NATO?
	Guess what?
	You have a bunch of back payments.
	Yep.
	Mr. Ramaswamy, you were mentioned, you get 30 seconds.
	The reality is that today, today, Ukraine is not a priority for the United States of America.
	And I think that the same people who took us into the Iraq War, the same people who took us into the Vietnam War, you cannot end it, you cannot start another no-win war.
	And I do not want to get to the point where we're sending our military resources abroad when we could be better using them here at home to protect our own borders, protect the homeland.
	China and Russia do not have a military alliance.
	That's a very unlikely alliance to have.
	Right now they have somewhat of an economic... China and Russia.
	They don't have a military... I think he said that either misspoke or he says that often.
	Maybe he's assuming that will happen.
	He means to say that they have a vested interest in each other at this point.
	It's like a friendship agreement.
	Friendship!
	First of all, the American president needs to have moral clarity.
	They need to know the difference between right and wrong.
	They need to know the difference between good and evil.
	When you look at the situation with Russia and Ukraine, here you have a pro-American country that was invaded by a thug.
	So when you want to talk about what has been given to Ukraine, less than 3.5% of our defense budget has been given to Ukraine.
	If you look at the percentages per GDP, 11 of the European countries have given more than the U.S.
	But what's really important is going back to when China and Russia held hands, shook hands before the Olympics and named themselves unlimited partners.
	A win for Russia is a win for China.
	We have to know that.
	Nikki, the guys need a sandwich.
	So what do you do?
	Tell me what you do, Nikki.
	Come on.
	Give me the answer.
	Look, here's what people don't want to say.
	They want to say, oh, pro-America and international relations, and of course this is... Okay, are you willing to go to war?
	Yeah.
	And by the way, 135 billion dollars, this is the only time in history where you can spend more than many countries' GDP in assisting a war and claim that you are not in a war.
	Right.
	Just to be clear, the world views it as the United States being engaged in this war.
	You may not like it, you may not agree with that, but that is true.
	And I understand the arguments regarding Ukraine and Russia, I understand it, but when you actually look at the amount of money spent, and I understand that's a drop in the bucket compared to the Inflation Reduction Act, I get that.
	But again, it is the principle of, do we want to be the country who is involved in proxy wars with countries who, by the way, couldn't get- She just said pro-American.
	That's not true about Ukraine.
	Certainly not true about Zelensky.
	That is complete and total horseshit.
	That's neocon talking points.
	Let's go back.
	Oh, catfight!
	He just called her a fake Indian bitch.
	Of course they have to.
	Catfight you've been pushing this line all week. He just called her a fake Indian bitch. Okay, let me address that
	I'm glad you brought that up Of course the catches grab her hand swat it
	Don't let her overtalk you.
	America less than you have no foreign policy.
	Don't let her over talk you.
	You know what?
	She will.
	She will.
	Good, good, good.
	Good.
	The pointless wars we've gotten into, I've addressed that.
	So our relationship with Israel will never be stronger than by the end of my first term.
	But it's not a client relationship.
	It is a friendship.
	And you know what friends do?
	Friends help each other stand on their own two feet.
	So I will lead Abraham Accords 2.0.
	I will partner with Israel to make sure Iran never is nuclear armed.
	But you know what I love about Israel?
	And I've been there probably in the last 10 years more than most people on this stage.
	You know what I love about them?
	I love their border policies.
	I love their tough crime policies.
	Boom!
	Boom!
	Thug life moment.
	He is bringing it to immigration, which was the singular winning issue for Donald Trump in 2016.
	Got away from it a little bit.
	He knows what he's doing.
	No, I want to learn from those and apply those to protect our homeland, Nikki.
	Nikki, I said must, did not mayonnaise on it.
	Okay, Governor DeSantis, Governor DeSantis, you were mentioned at the territorial dispute.
	I just wonder, when she's pointing at me, he goes, you know damn it, tell me to point.
	She's so upset.
	Protect the American people. And our country and its people.
	Yes. And that means you're sending all this money, but you're not doing what we need to do to secure our own border. We
	have tens of thousands of people who are being killed because of what they're not doing. Bullshit!
	Bullshit!
	Look, I'm going to go by rote here and please bring it up.
	I think you probably have this in the change, build a wall, change my mind.
	I think the most generous estimate, if I'm not mistaken, for the wall being built, as Donald Trump originally proposed it, would have been about $20 billion.
	I think some people tried to say it was $40 billion, but the average somewhere was around $20 billion.
	And illegal immigrants cost the American taxpayer an average of $116 billion a year.
	So if you're talking about, let's call it $40 billion.
	Let's use the salon sources as Governor Christie and Noam, uh, sorry, uh, Nikki Haley, uh, want to use themselves.
	They're using these talking points today from the far left.
	Okay, $116 billion is what's cost to the American public.
	Okay, the American taxpayer, every single year, $40 billion.
	Compare that to the amount of money pledged to Ukraine.
	That's what it would cost to secure the border physically.
	Of course, we need better policies as well, like deportation, no more Dreamer Act, no more amnesty.
	We need all those things in conjunction.
	But the point is, it is a drop in the bucket when you're talking about securing the American people.
	So when people say, this is a very small number in comparison to our deficit, to our spending, But it's a very large number, 135 billion dollars dedicated to Ukraine, in comparison to what it would cost to at least secure our border.
	That's why Republican voters don't like these people, just to be clear.
	Secure our borders first, and then maybe you can make a case to be a neocon foreign policy hawk.
	And not with a wall.
	With a military.
	All of the above.
	I'm serious.
	He wants turrets.
	It's like Congo for him.
	I want landmines.
	They work beautiful.
	I want it booby-trapped like Kevin McCallister's uncle's New York apartment.
	I'm serious, though.
	When they bring up a wall, I laugh.
	Even when Trump brings it up.
	Really?
	You've got the strongest military on earth?
	Come on.
	Yes, but we need a wall first.
	Why?
	Then you put people on the wall if you have to.
	Oh, this is yours.
	Okay.
	In that case, put a fence up three feet up.
	It's the guns and flamethrowers that keep people out, not the goddamn wall.
	The most liberal estimates values it at $21 billion.
	$21 billion?
	Yeah, $21 billion, $116 billion cost.
	Yeah, but Trump wants to Z-brick it, so it's gonna go up.
	They like sending it over to Ukraine instead to prolong a war.
	Yes, to prolong a war while the American public is struggling.
	What's Dracula talking about?
	Okay.
	Well done, Mr. Brigham.
	Thank you for letting me talk again, guys.
	people in the IRS as opposed to giving the money in this for we need to our own
	Border Patrol. Okay well done Mr. Brigham. Thank you for letting me talk again guys.
	Thank you Lagosie. Thanks for reminding the people I'm here.
	Yes. 87,000 agents and higher double the number of Border Patrol agents.
	I just left Yuma, Arizona about two weeks ago.
	By the way, he's going to get fact-checked on that, just to be clear, and just don't be fooled by this tomorrow.
	They'll say, uh, Tim Scott missed it.
	It's not 85,000 IRS agents.
	It's 80-something thousand new IRS employees.
	They're not officially agents.
	Who cares?
	It doesn't matter.
	A bunch of pencil-pushing, sorry, pencil-pushing, pencil-necked pussies with glocks.
	It's still a problem.
	He was in Yuma, Arizona.
	Apparently forgot the sunblock.
	Listen, our national security watch lists have been caught at our border.
	How many have not been caught at our southern border?
	I think he was in the, it was about 350 to Yuma.
	350.
	We could finish the wall for 5 billion more.
	We could have the military-grade technology to surveil our southern border to stop the flow of... Thank you, military.
	Hold on, hold on.
	I don't want to look at them crossing illegally.
	I want to stop them.
	What are we doing?
	You have to see them before you shoot them.
	I want a laser wall that vaporizes them.
	Ooh, yes.
	I want super soakers filled with cat piss.
	You're just petty!
	What if they have cuts?
	That's very cheap.
	I'm saving them money.
	It would also solve our feral cat problem in our inner cities.
	Oh yeah, that's true.
	It's a two-for-one.
	We're killing it right now.
	Oh, Dracula's talking them out of it.
	300 people a day, we're taking mass casualties, and that's a statistic, but these are sons and daughters, nieces and nephews that we're losing.
	Uh, fentanyl.
	He did say trans, he has to be careful.
	Yeah, he's done a valiant effort.
	Seriously, for the little time he gets.
	It really doesn't help.
	Trying to stop these transnational criminal organizations.
	They've got better funding on their side than we've got on our side.
	Speaking of which, he's got a nice job this guy.
	Yeah, he's got a valiant effort.
	Seriously, for the little time he gets.
	The Vice President Pence, images from earlier this month.
	I'm asking a question.
	Earlier this month.
	That's a smirk.
	Is it just me or does Mike Pence, is he acting like he has this in the bag?
	He does, he's delusional.
	He really is.
	What's Richard Pryor doing in the paper?
	Man, I was starting to cross the border, this shit cra- Hey, that's some shit!
	Cocaine!
	I was crossing the border and then fentanyl hit me and I lost my god dang mind, man.
	Oh, that's a ringing endorsement.
	Hey guys, do you remember when I didn't do a dang thing to stop the problem because it's terrible today?
	That's true.
	I had the mustache.
	It looks like he's in a hockey rink right now.
	Yeah.
	Hey guys, you remember when I didn't do a dang thing to stop the problem because it's
	terrible today?
	That's true.
	Add the mustache.
	What's the name of that actor who was the owner in Slapshot?
	Yes.
	They came out here to see the RNC!
	Not this bunch of pussies!
	The toughest candidates in the Federal League!
	Oh my God, it's perfect.
	for a little bit bringing in mexico as a partner we have to use economic pressure
	to accomplish that president overdose not been helpful
	and we have to use that i'm going to show it was ministration is not using
	the rule of law has to matter about we still exist in arkansas was critical
	We didn't have it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	He's talking about Mexico like he lives in Texas.
	We dealt with it for you.
	You know, in Little Rock there was two Mexicans starting some shit.
	You know what I did with that?
	I put a stop to that in a hurry.
	I took away the attention.
	I didn't start nothing.
	Any idea of the damage they can do with a toothbrush and a bent back paper clip?
	Exactly.
	Silverado.
	Matthew, you look terrific.
	Did I mention that 12 times?
	Into Mexico to take out fentanyl labs, to take out drug cartel operations.
	I do support that kind of American military.
	Look at him, like somebody who fell apart.
	Yes, and I will do it on day one.
	100%.
	Here's the thing.
	Special forces to take out fentanyl labs... I will say, Ron DeSantis has answered very clearly on this question before where he said, no, I will not support amnesty whatsoever.
	He's been very clear about that.
	He just needs to be clear in this debate.
	...part of your southern border, we have to re-establish the rule of law and we have to defend our people.
	The President of the United States has got to use all available powers as Commander-in-Chief to protect our country and to protect the people.
	So when they're coming across... Against the globalists.
	Finish the sentence.
	That's right.
	Nice tits.
	to operate. How many more tens of thousands are we going to let to die? I am sick. I've
	met angel moms throughout this country. I met a lady in Texas named Tracy and her son
	took one percocet that was laced with fentanyl, immediately died.
	That is happening all across this country because of the poison that they are bringing in.
	So as president, would I use force?
	Would I treat them as foreign terrorist organizations?
	You're darn right I would.
	Does that mean bombing them?
	Would have been great if not for the, you're darn right I would.
	I'm sorry, that's just not a good way to frame it.
	You're darn tootin'!
	You're darn tootin'!
	El Chapo!
	El Chapo!
	I have a little something for ya!
	And guess what?
	It's not snack time!
	That should have been a thug life.
	It's an Apache!
	I'm not talking malarkey.
	Yes.
	I don't want any more of your tomfoolery.
	Okay?
	This isn't the local town hall hootenanny.
	You know, Jill had some fentanyl in the kitchen.
	It was awesome.
	He was cooking it and there was a fire.
	You guys are mannequin at Sears.
	He keeps wanting to go to prepared because he was vice president.
	Yeah, and you sucked!
	What did you do as a president?
	It's like saying, hey, I played in the professional league.
	He's been talking about who is best prepared to be the next president of the United States.
	He keeps wanting to go to prepared because he was vice president.
	Yeah, and you sucked!
	What did you do as a president?
	You went to futiles.
	Just because you know where the room is doesn't mean you're bad.
	It's like saying, hey, I played in the professional league.
	Right, and you were dead last and you scored nothing.
	I negotiated the remaining...
	Oh my God, he's agreeing with Asa.
	the president. You say he rocks around the clock? Oh, that's right. It's because we use economic pressure to bring Mexicans
	to the table.
	And they allowed us to have people wait in Mexico while they applied for asylum and ended asylum abuse overnight.
	We got the Mexicans to deploy their National Guard to their southern border and our southern border.
	With force.
	This guy, here's the problem with Mike Pence.
	He wants to claim credit for Donald Trump's presidency and then turn on him when it's convenient.
	I will engage Mexico the exact same way and we will Military and we will hunt down and destroy the car this guy
	here's the problem with Mike Pence He wants to claim credit for Donald Trump's presidency.
	Yeah, and then turn on him when I'm rubbing that's exactly right pivot
	When it by the way, he's like we will hunt down and destroy the car
	No, you won't.
	The cartel will always come back.
	You know why?
	Because they have a product and there is demand.
	It may be somebody else.
	It may look a little bit different, but that is what history has taught us.
	That means you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
	Also, I have to get cheap ass fillers in Mexico.
	That's true.
	Tijuana.
	Great market.
	Somebody throw him a salmon!
	here is to miss rose we talked about all night we have to have one salmon we have
	to enforce the law and what that means is to make sure that we get every joke
	therefore No, there's still more.
	We have so many wonderful people from around the world who are waiting in line following the law to try to come here and pursue the American dream.
	And those people are waiting and waiting and waiting.
	Yeah, because you're in line at Wendy's.
	We have to have them detained.
	We have to make sure that they are not rewarded for having broken the law.
	And one last thing on this fentanyl issue.
	With China, we can't take our eye off that ball.
	Yes, it's important that we secure the border.
	Very important, as I just said.
	But China is sending these chemicals to these drug cartels for them to create the fentanyl that is killing hundreds of thousands of our citizens.
	The Chinese are engaging in an act of war against us.
	Just drop him.
	That'd be a Moab they wouldn't be expecting.
	Oh no!
	Give him 20 minutes at a portal party and he'd fuckin' drop that off.
	All the Chris Christies will block out of the sun!
	We have to fight in the shade!
	He's gonna roll him at the Mexican cartel.
	He doesn't do bad for a fat guy I hate.
	I don't know, what did you say?
	I don't know, it was what Nick said that made me laugh.
	I get it.
	I don't know what did you say?
	I know it was what Nick said to make me laugh.
	I get it.
	I get it.
	What?
	Doesn't do bad for a fat guy I hate.
	Oh.
	Alright so really quickly I just want to go back through a few things that happened while
	We're going to go to a Trump clip.
	A Trump clip?
	Yeah, with Tucker Carlson.
	One of my people that I love to hate, Robert Reich, said there's no such thing as abortion all the way up to the moment of birth.
	Governor DeSantis is telling a dangerous lie.
	That is not true at all.
	Ask Governor Northam that, but he might be too busy doing blackface in his retirement phase.
	Glad I had so much Northam material.
	So I'm trying to go to the next Trump clip here.
	Gosh, it's like 50 pages back up here.
	You mean President Donald Trump with Tucker Carlson?
	So we are covering, and keep this in the lower third here just so people can see that they're advertising Birch Gold.
	Oh, I guess they don't have Devane doing it anymore.
	So look, they're really upgrading.
	No, they get Pence's nephew.
	Phil Pence.
	There were a couple of them that they gave me.
	They gave me one really quick.
	So, I don't know, let's go to the Gavin Newsom one.
	And you can use the hashtag CrowderGOPDebate, $10 off Mug Club at CrowderGOPDebate.
	It's a promo code you use, LightOffCrowder.com slash Mug Club.
	We are covering both the debate as well as the Tucker Carlson interview that just dropped with Donald Trump.
	Which is this next clip, Gerald?
	So this one is him talking about Gavin Newsom.
	Oh, okay, good.
	There's another one they want us to get to, but we'll have to get that.
	Okay, Gavin Newsom.
	Yeah, they gotta give me the names if they want them.
	Gavin Newsom.
	Newsom, right?
	Could be, could be.
	I mean, you know, I always got along well with him, believe it or not, but could be him, could be somebody else.
	He's got a big, a big load on his shoulders because you look at California, what's happened.
	Paul Pelosi dropped it.
	I don't even know if they care.
	You know, you look at so many of the things that are Going on and people don't seem to be in the old days if you had a bad record it meant a lot today if you have a bad record it doesn't really mean anything.
	Yeah, well actually, I don't care what he has to say about Gavin Newsom, we'll see if he ends up running against that guy, but it's civil war, like it's actually open conflict that he's talking about.
	Oh, we have that clip?
	Yeah, we have that one.
	Great, let's hear this.
	President Donald Trump talking about civil war, or as Mike Pence refers to it, something he will never touch.
	Do you think it's possible that there's open conflict?
	We seem to be moving towards something.
	I don't know because I don't know what it, you know, I can say this.
	There's a level of passion that I've never seen, there's a level of hatred that I've never seen, and there's probably a bad combination.
	Donald Trump, thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	Why is he interviewing him in the slave galley?
	Yeah.
	Belly of a ship.
	12 years Tucker's den.
	I don't know if there's a level of passion.
	I would say peacefully go, but last time that didn't work.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I don't know.
	Look, I don't know.
	I would think there shouldn't be any type of civil unrest, but if I don't win, I can't answer that question.
	I can't speak for them.
	A lot of people say if I don't win, they might, they might try and take out the government.
	I hope it doesn't happen.
	I say, no, that's the worst thing.
	They say, that's what people tell me.
	There's nothing I can do.
	I love his style of pawning it off on someone else.
	Someone else always is the originator of the idea.
	I've been talking about that since 2015.
	A lot of people tell me.
	A lot of people?
	Who's saying that?
	A lot of people say that.
	A lot of people.
	You wouldn't know.
	I know these people.
	He's a great salesman.
	It really is.
	When people say Donald Trump is a liar, no, no, look, Joe Biden is a compulsive liar.
	Donald Trump's a bit of, he's like a car, he's a bit of a bullshit artist in that he exaggerates.
	There's a big difference.
	There's a huge difference.
	I mean, and friggin' Biden's lying about shit that, you know, affects everyday Americans.
	Trump might be a bit exaggerated about how many people's at the inauguration.
	Like Joe Biden will say, Joe Biden, so Bidenomics has helped every single American when they are struggling more than ever before.
	Donald Trump will say, my wall will be the prettiest wall.
	Like, alright, it might be okay.
	Do you like Z-Brick?
	Prettiest wall.
	My wall will be like the Bo Derek of walls, a perfect ten.
	That's what people say, I say.
	Maybe it's more like a Kathy Ireland wall.
	They say it's Bo Derek and ten.
	So we've got the debate coming back up here, but a lot of people are saying that the Trump interview wasn't, like, it's not Donald Trump being Donald Trump.
	It's Donald Trump being a little bit of a liar.
	Seems like he has some advisors in his ear.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, you know, he's not punching back at stuff.
	Like, it's not the funny, comical... When was this recorded?
	Do we know?
	I think two days ago.
	Okay, he's got a lot hanging over him.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Four indictments, I mean, maybe five.
	Yeah, you know, look, that would get to anybody, I think.
	How about 93 charges?
	Even Mr. DeSantis.
	We are back.
	Hashtag CrowderGOP debate.
	And we will see who has the balls after this to sit down at the Rumble booth.
	On to the debate.
	...states lock their kids out of school for a year, year and a half.
	That was wrong.
	We stood up.
	I took a lot of fire for that.
	Yeah, you did.
	I was pilloried by the media, but I stood for our kids.
	And as president, I'll stand for you and your kids as well.
	But we have to make sure...
	That what our schools are doing is focusing on solid academics.
	In Florida, we eliminated critical race theory from our KDFA.
	I love him for all this.
	He's strong here.
	I'm fine with him too.
	There's no doubt.
	He's the guy with the best record and the worst rhetorical skills.
	I would say.
	That's the thing.
	He's not great at speaking right now.
	He's not great at invigorating people, but he has a fantastic record.
	Yes.
	Yeah, he'll learn that.
	Like Pence.
	Look at Pence.
	He's a master.
	foundation and what it means to be an American.
	Good!
	Yes, Brett.
	Thug life moment.
	So look, we have a crisis of achievement.
	Let's shut down the head of the snake, the Department of Education.
	Take that 80 billion dollars, put it in the hands of parents across this country.
	This is the civil rights issue of our time.
	Allow any parent to choose where they send their kids to school.
	Every high school senior should have to pass the same civics test that, frankly, every immigrant, including my mother, had to pass in order to become a citizen of this country.
	And the fact of the matter is... Civics.
	Richard Dreyfuss right now with his new documentary, he's like, I've been saying that for years!
	But you know the word privilege gets used a lot?
	Well, you know what?
	I did have the ultimate privilege of two parents in the house with a focus on educational achievement.
	And I want every kid to enjoy that.
	So part of the problem is we also have a federal government that pays single women more not to have a man in the house than to have a man in the house contributing to an epidemic of fatherlessness.
	But it's a burning hip-hop scene.
	Don't stop that.
	That is an important point to make because a lot of people who are labeled when we talk about the fatherless households in the black community, it's about 50-50 split.
	Half the time it's the moms pushing them out because they want an additional check from the government, and these men actually want to support their children, but they can have their wages garnished, they can be put in jail, and the mother has no burden of proof to show that that money is going to the children.
	So let's just be clear, we talk about fatherless black households, he just made a good point, he's talking about mothers who are incentivized by the government.
	Yes.
	I've been blaming them for years.
	Was that factual though?
	I'm serious.
	Yes.
	Wow, holy fuck.
	No, I'm saying North Dakota made a priority of protecting women's sports, and we've done that.
	I'm about to have a threesome with Gary Oldman.
	I do think when we start talking about education, trans athletes in sports, we're just completely losing track of the fact that education differs by state.
	Some school districts are doing a fantastic job, some less so.
	But the idea that every school district, state, and every teacher is somehow indoctrinating people is just false.
	You know, when I was building a company That's a bad answer.
	It is a systemic problem.
	Systemic racism isn't a problem.
	systemic educational corruption is a problem.
	Don't bring up the four exceptions.
	Right.
	We talk to them.
	We do that.
	And as governor, well, education is one of the biggest parts of the state budget.
	I hear Poughkeepsie is a good charter school.
	So many of them.
	Oh, it's out of this world.
	So as a governor, I go.
	I shadow the students.
	I don't, the night before I find out the students, the student finds out, I'm going to go to
	every class with them.
	I don't sit and lecture school districts how to do it.
	I go and see the experience.
	And there's a lot of things that have to change.
	But what needs to change in education is innovation.
	We're doing it the same way we did it 50 years ago with innovation, not regulation.
	I would get rid of the Department of Education.
	That's not true.
	We're not doing it the same way we did it 50 years ago.
	As a matter of fact, we're doing it worse than before there was a federal department of education, just to be clear.
	When you hear this, by the way, Gen Z and a lot of millennials, you go, what would we do without a federal department of education?
	Ask your parents, the boomers who you mock all the time because it's a cool meme.
	They likely went to school before there was a federal department of education, and they They actually tested higher in standardized testing scores because it was state run and run by municipalities.
	So this idea that you need a federal department of education, no, it has failed and actually the objective measurements that we have, the metrics, shows that it has gotten worse.
	That's where a guy like, what's his, I always forget his last name, Dugum, whatever, lost me.
	Let's hear Nikki Haley.
	Burgum.
	Crazy woke things happening in schools, but we've got to get these kids reading.
	If a child can't read by third grade, they're four times less likely.
	Eight days after I was born, the Department of Education came around.
	October 17th, 1979.
	You're old.
	That's terrific.
	I am not old.
	I am 43, not yet 44.
	I agree 100%.
	So we blame you.
	You're old.
	Yeah, but so Carrie Lake had this right, right?
	So we talked about, we did an interview with Carrie Lake up there.
	She said that the money should follow the student.
	You want to change public education?
	You start incentivizing schools by letting children and parents, obviously parents make the decision, but the children, the dollars follow them.
	They get to pick where they go.
	If you have a good school and you're desirable, more people go there.
	By the way, the black and white and the gray issues coming up, it's the one that was controversial, it's the one that went on for an hour and a half with of course a black woman and daughter who went to private school from a wealthy suburban area, guess what?
	They attacked me, you'll see this, all of them were very good conversations, they were furious, they demanded that I not air it, and after that, I said, hold on a second.
	Let's see if we can find common ground on one thing.
	It was a segment that was going to be uploaded as a video.
	But who's they?
	It was a black woman and her daughter saying, you know, we don't want you to air this.
	We don't think this is productive.
	And then at the end of it, they agreed.
	They said, well, yeah, school choice, a school voucher program.
	They said, how can anyone be against that?
	I said, hold on a second.
	Hold on.
	What if I were to tell you that the only reason the Democrats oppose it is because they claim it's racist?
	They said, well, that's bullshit.
	I said, that's my point.
	Exactly.
	That'll be coming out next week or the week after.
	Let's hear Mike Pence say that.
	Or did you say, what if I offer you a carton of Kohl's?
	I both.
	Let me say, I hedged my bets.
	I'm running for president of the United States.
	Dump it.
	I saw you.
	We don't need a president.
	I saw you.
	You don't need to dump it.
	I saw you and he said dump it.
	No, he didn't say dump it.
	No, I said pop it.
	I'm like, drop it?
	I don't need a president who knows how Congress works.
	He's getting booed again.
	How the White House works.
	What did I miss?
	What were people laughing at him for?
	He just unbid his fly.
	No, get rid of it.
	Oh, good.
	There's one answer that's good.
	Every time he... They put the camera on, it's 1988 for some reason.
	Isn't it?
	Stop with the boys regularly.
	You were in the White House.
	You didn't get it done. That's right. Credit for everything else and then he wants to pass the buck. We're gonna do
	this. You didn't do it. You didn't do it. But you know what I'd say, Gerald, I'd go, I'd go, Gerald, I'd go, Gerald, I
	was the vice president of a company. Okay, fine, fine. I went to funerals, you wouldn't let me do it. The difference
	between somebody who's an automaton and somebody who's actually a thinking agent in the White House, which we don't
	have in there today. This guy's so much brighter than anybody else. And I won't tell you how to address Vice
	President Pence's comment. Except for like I say, I like I think we do need somebody of a different generation to lead this nation forward.
	Look at the way I've run this campaign, going to the south side of Chicago, to Kensington, in the middle of Philadelphia, where traditional Republican candidates don't go.
	We have an opportunity to build a multi-ethnic, working-class majority to deliver a landslide, and I think I'm the only candidate in this race, young or old, black or white, to bring all of those voters along to deliver a Reagan 1980 revolution.
	Is he saying that because he's between black and white?
	Yeah.
	He's actually darker than Tim Scott.
	You can do a side-by-side, I guarantee you.
	Certainly South Indians are, maybe not him.
	Maybe not him, but South Indians are darker.
	I'm all for him.
	I like him.
	I love him.
	I love his food.
	I love his culture.
	You have 30 seconds on the same question.
	On education, first of all, look at Arkansas.
	Shut up, silly!
	You're going to hell, Nick.
	Wouldn't you like to see somebody's fist?
	What if anyone wanted to look at Arkansas?
	Exactly!
	Look at Arkansas.
	We've got Walmart.
	Otherwise, we wouldn't exist.
	Exactly!
	Look at all these trailer parks.
	Could you pan to this trailer park?
	You saw that series, Ozarks?
	This guy is it.
	He makes Christie look like Elvis with his stage presence.
	Well, Christie kind of does look like late Elvis.
	He does.
	I really feel like this is a ASA you ignorant slut moment.
	Yes!
	Yes!
	You talked about it a little bit before tonight.
	So is there a role for a President of the United States in changing that?
	What would you do to change that?
	Our nation was founded upon the Judeo-Christian values that has made us the greatest nation on God's green earth.
	I'm a big believer in Ephesians 3.20 that God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask for.
	Our responsibility should be the model of behavior we want others to follow.
	That's violent.
	Good, good answer.
	That's too violent, that image.
	nation is to break the backs of the teachers unions.
	That's violent.
	Good, good answer.
	They're standing in the doorhouse of our kids.
	That's too violent, that image.
	Locking them into failing schools.
	Shoot them in the head, will that work?
	And locking them out of the greatest future.
	I don't know.
	I don't want to paralyze.
	That's why I like this guy too.
	He walked the walk.
	want to paralyze you support some mandatory military service somebody
	that volunteered to serve inspired by September 11th and I deployed to Iraq
	alongside US Navy that's why I like this guy and it's something that I think has
	taught me you know when you go in that type of call monkey box anything
	Damn, tonight.
	I really thought there was a shot.
	I go, Trump's not even there.
	Gun!
	These guys mean business.
	RIVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Okay, now for something completely different.
	She lifts her shirt.
	Governor Christie, do you believe that the recent spike in UFO encounters... Oh, gosh.
	I get the UFO question.
	And you wonder why Legacy Media is dying.
	Who just said that I get the UFO question?
	The one who looks like a UFO.
	I think it was Christie.
	It was.
	And people are taking this a lot more seriously.
	And we're hearing that, you know, there are things going on that people aren't aware of.
	We take this about as seriously as you do.
	Would you level with the American people about what the government does about what's possible?
	And especially coming from a woman from New Jersey.
	I think it's horrible that just because I'm from New Jersey you ask me about unidentified flying objects and Martians.
	We're different, but we're not that different.
	Look, answer the question, bro.
	The job of the President of the United States Is to level with the American people about everything.
	The job of the President of the United States is to stand for truth.
	The job of the President of the United States is to be a role model for our children and our grandchildren.
	And so whether it was UFOs or this problem of education... So we need to pick an overweight man to be a role model?
	Can you give me the male Lizzo?
	What does this have to do with UFOs?
	Nothing.
	He doesn't want to answer that question.
	Why didn't he pivot?
	I don't fault him for this.
	It's a stupid question.
	Because they're putting themselves before our kids that what does that do with you?
	I was nothing he doesn't want to answer that question. It's a way to be quiet
	I don't I don't I don't fault him for this. It's a stupid question. That's a really dumb question
	From the spin room right here Hey, that's a casino in Vegas.
	Hey, who's that guy?
	CMGM Grant.
	Hannity?
	Hey, that's a casino in Vegas.
	Hey, who's that guy?
	It's the MGM Grinch.
	Hannity's like, I'm next!
	God, Hannity.
	Okay, so, uh, hey, by the way, I should probably tell you this a little bit.
	I don't know if we want to take some chats, but again, the promo code is CROWDERGOPDEBATE.
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	None of it happens if not Not for you.
	Notice there are very, very few commercial breaks in tonight, which is an exhausting three-hour stream.
	But I do have to, you know, every now and then, you know this, Nick.
	Did you say three?
	We like to have a little... His contract ends at... Wow, I've been going a little... Someone hit the gunshot again, let's... Wake up, Nick!
	Did you really think that was happening in the... I thought I heard a shot in the studio.
	I was waiting for Walter Cronkite, come on, Vivek Ramaswamy.
	He's dead at 9.30 Eastern Time.
	Yes.
	I hate to interrupt this program.
	So, you know, we like to have a little, we like to have a laugh sometimes in the studio, and sometimes we pull some pranks on each other.
	You know this.
	How long have we been on?
	And you know, about over two hours.
	Oh, good.
	And you know that Gerald is obviously a very devout Christian.
	Oh, jeez, here we go.
	I do, because every time I say something off-color, he cringes.
	I do, a little bit.
	Look, it's a mix.
	There's an intersective audience.
	I'm wearing a shirt that says, Jesus is risen.
	Yes, and by the way, we all agree on these things.
	Hit the like button if you like this eclectic mix that is going on, but we like to have a laugh here.
	I love you, Nick.
	And sometimes we pull some pranks in the office, and because, you know, Gerald has often talked about, he's talked about... Really?
	Well, yeah, you remember, so we pulled a little bit of a prank on Gerald this weekend.
	What did you do to the poor guy?
	You know, I think we all had a good time with it.
	What did they do, Gerald?
	What did they do to you?
	The girls didn't.
	Good Monday morning.
	Come on guys.
	You're not going to get any sleep tonight.
	You're going to be late for work.
	You got to collar and... What the?
	Guys?
	Anybody?
	Hey!
	What?
	What?
	No way.
	No, Steve, Steven, Steven!
	Oh, no, no, no, Tim?
	No, no, no, no, no, Tim, Tim!
	Oh, come on, Lord!
	Tim with his PR headband?
	I did everything I was supposed to do!
	I went to church, I went to ministry school, I went on mission trips!
	For goodness sakes, you've got to be kidding!
	Sam?
	Oh, hey Gerald!
	Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo With Sam.
	Yeah, I know.
	There's a difference.
	I'll take left behind with the Antichrist and, you know, people dying left and right, but not left behind with Sam.
	Well, who's to say that Sam is not that?
	Let's bring up the drinking game rules one more time.
	They just had to help touch up Nick because he was shining like the greasy Sicilian that he is.
	I love that I'm Sicilian.
	I'm never gonna stop.
	Take it easy.
	Anytime Donald Trump is mentioned, 2020 January 6th is mentioned, the moderator cuts off or interrupts a candidate, anytime with a thug life moment, and then you finish your drink anytime a candidate mentions a Democrat other than Joseph Biden.
	McCallum chose him.
	It's been pretty effective so far.
	Yeah, I'm feeling it.
	Do we have the answer actually on that poll regarding disbanding the intelligence agency?
	Yeah, I know it was overwhelmingly yes.
	Overwhelmingly disband the FBI.
	I'd be disappointed if it wasn't.
	This is a long commercial break.
	Do you want to go to, really quickly, one of your remaining interviews?
	Sure.
	There's the poll.
	And it's getting worse.
	Several thousand votes.
	You could be worse than 91% agreeing with you at those ages.
	Is that what it is?
	Yeah, it's getting worse.
	Okay, so I'm going to go- by the way, can I just actually ask a question in chat?
	Why does anyone use that hand- like, my hands smell like my grandmother's funeral.
	Old dead people, yes.
	It's just so overpowering.
	Sometimes my wife puts a shit on, comes in the living room, I get nauseous.
	Yeah, I know, it really does.
	I'm hypersensitive to it, it makes me nauseous.
	We're gonna have a little therapy session for Nick.
	But I had a lady sit next to me on a plane with that.
	And it's like going into a Campbell's shop for three hours.
	It's like someone farted lavender pellets all over my hands.
	So I don't know, how long is this?
	We have Gerald again.
	Bring it up in the lower third so people can see that Birch Gold is still going on right now.
	There's a commercial break.
	No, I think they're coming back.
	No, that's the Reagan Library.
	Let's see what we've raised so far.
	They're doing this in September.
	Oh, yeah, that's in September.
	You sat down with Marjorie Taylor Greene, or spent some time with Marjorie Taylor Greene and some other candidates in Milwaukee.
	So let's roll that really quickly as we come back to the debates with people outside of DeSantis and Vivek who no one cares about.
	But here's Gerald in Milwaukee.
	So obviously you can see we have Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green.
	Thank you for hanging out with us for a minute.
	Yeah, thanks for having me on.
	Absolutely.
	The Biden crime family name is going around quite a bit.
	I'm hearing a lot of people talk about that.
	You've obviously had a lot to say about this.
	What do you think is the most egregious thing that the American people need to grab a hold of that maybe they aren't about what's going on?
	Well, I serve on the Oversight Committee, and we've been leading the investigation in the House of Representatives into the Biden family.
	And our investigation is not into Hunter Biden, it's into Joe Biden directly himself.
	The most damning evidence, shocking to me, Was when we went in the Treasury Department.
	I've been there several times and there's these reports called Suspicious Activity Reports.
	SARS.
	This is a report you don't have on you.
	There's not one on me.
	There's not one on most people watching this show.
	I would doubt hardly anyone.
	But there's thousands of pages.
	On Hunter Biden, all kinds of Biden family members, but it outlined very devastating things.
	It showed us that there were millions and millions of dollars coming from countries all over the world going directly into bank accounts that Hunter Biden and Biden family members managed under LLCs.
	Right, the 20-ish.
	I mean, you have 20 as well, right?
	Everybody just has 20 LLCs.
	That's the way you normally do business, especially when you're not selling a product.
	Right.
	Working on the inside and really seeing how utterly bad it really is, I've changed my mindset to the point where I'm like, we only have one choice, and it is to vote.
	If you don't vote, you're really voting for the other side.
	Not voting is truly helping the Democrats.
	Yeah.
	Congresswoman, thank you very much.
	I appreciate that you're in the fight, continue to do it, and we look forward to seeing what happens tomorrow.
	Hopefully some people start throwing some heat.
	We'll see what happens.
	I hope they drop out.
	They probably should.
	There's a number of them that should.
	Fight the Democrats!
	Yes, we should focus our efforts.
	That's not a bad point.
	I like that.
	Carrie, thank you very much for being here.
	It's so good to be back on.
	What's your take on Big Tech?
	I know you've been mistreated.
	I know we've talked about that before in the past, and that's an understatement, I know.
	But tell me what you think about Big Tech and Rumble's place relative to YouTube, to Fox, and all those other guys.
	I'm a huge fan of Rumble.
	The first time I ever streamed a video and put a video out, I chose to do Rumble rather than YouTube, because YouTube has been behind censoring Americans on talking about the most important issues of our time.
	Right.
	What's happening, I think, if there are good ratings on this, because I think with missing President Trump, I don't think people really are going to watch that much.
	It's going to be interesting.
	But I predict that Rumble may have more viewers than Fox News.
	Absolutely.
	And so I think we are seeing the beginning of the end of old school, legacy media, and we're seeing it being replaced with outlets where we can put the truth out, where people can get to it without having to pay a huge cable bill, without having to buy up a bunch of stations that they're not interested in watching on cable news.
	And frankly, I think Fox is going to struggle with their ratings tomorrow.
	I do too.
	Thank you very much for making some time with us.
	I appreciate it.
	Thank you so much.
	Alright guys, thanks for joining us.
	We ran into somebody.
	Alright, we're going to cut into that.
	They're doing closing statements really quickly, so we want to go to that.
	And then we'll see who actually sits down at the Rumble booth here for the Crowder GOP debate.
	Tim Scott, closing statements.
	Against men.
	He's getting laughs.
	I'm Tim Scott.
	I'm asking you for your vote, and if you're in Iowa, I'm asking you to caucus for me.
	You can go to VoteTimScott.com for more information or to make a contribution.
	Get me money.
	You did a good job.
	Thank you, Brett.
	Thank you, Martha.
	Look, everybody on this stage wants to be the next President of the United States.
	And the only way that's going to happen is if we beat Joe Biden.
	I'm the only one on this stage who's ever beaten a Democratic incumbent.
	Did he say beaten or eaten?
	I did it in a deep blue state, being outspent three to one.
	Beating a Democratic incumbent is not easy.
	The last Democratic incumbent president who was defeated was Jimmy Carter.
	No Weight Watchers isn't easy.
	And he was defeated by conservative government.
	Granted that you beat a Democrat as a Republican in New Jersey is not a plus.
	Show me you can defeat your weight and then I'll put you down.
	I'll put you in a bad spot.
	other nominee who's never beaten the Democratic incumbent.
	I'm the one who can win this race.
	If you give me the chance, I will restore our country by winning it.
	Several weeks ago, I dropped my husband Michael, a combat veteran from Afghanistan, off at 4 a.m.
	for another year-long deployment.
	I watched 10 and 230 soldiers pick up their two duffel bags of belongings to go to a country they've never been, all in the name of protecting America.
	Yeah, not you.
	They are willing to protect us from there.
	We should be willing to fight for America here.
	I will beat Joe Biden and he knows that.
	You're a globalist.
	I will strengthen our economy and we'll bring this inflation down.
	We will put transparency in the classroom.
	We will secure our borders.
	We will have the backs of our law enforcement and we will make sure we have a strong national security.
	And once again, we will make sure we have an America that is strong and proud.
	We have a country to save.
	Join us, go to NikkiHaley.com and let's get it done.
	And I'll stop shopping at Marshall's.
	That's a great story.
	TJ Maxx.
	Oh no.
	Look at, here he comes.
	Martha, for this evening, it's an honor to be here.
	Shut your face.
	Joe Biden has weakened America at home and abroad.
	Still funny.
	The disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
	The war on energy.
	Runaway spending that launched the worst inflation in 40 years.
	A crisis set our social order.
	An assault on our values and liberties.
	And the American people have had enough.
	But I know we can bring it back.
	The different times call for different leadership.
	Jesus.
	Don't buy it.
	Sorry, Mike.
	It's out of a movie.
	Proven.
	None of this is authentic.
	He's a guy playing a Republican in a movie.
	He has.
	Written by Libs.
	If you proved in the Trump-Pence years, you can turn this country around faster than you can imagine.
	You couldn't turn her on a pickup truck, you dinky.
	Because I have faith in the American people.
	You do?
	Where has he been the last two years?
	No, no, no.
	We don't need to renew our faith in each other if it includes corrupt members of the government.
	That is not the people, that is not the American populace you are speaking to.
	yet. And if we will renew our faith in one another and renew our faith in him who has ever guided
	this nation since we arrived on these wilderness shores.
	Where has he been the last two years?
	The greatest nation on earth. No, no, no, we don't need to renew our faith in each other if it
	includes corrupt members of the government. That is not the people, that is not the American
	populace you are speaking to. Vivek, let's hear him. To celebrate our diversity and our differences
	so much that we forgot all of the ways we are really just the same as Americans bound by a
	common set of ideals that set this nation into motion in 1776.
	And this is our moment to revive those common ideals.
	God is real.
	There are two genders.
	Fossil fuels are a requirement for human prosperity.
	Reverse racism is racism.
	An open border is not a border.
	Parents determine the education of their children.
	The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to man.
	Capitalism lifts us up from poverty.
	There are three branches of government.
	And finally, the Mets.
	Let's see Governor DeSantis.
	is the strongest guarantor of freedom in human history.
	That is what won us the American Revolution.
	That is what will win us the revolution of 2024.
	Thanks for letting me introduce myself.
	And finally, the Mets.
	Pretty good.
	Game, set, match.
	Let's see Governor DeSantis.
	Hi, guys.
	Where's the Coke?
	I'm Ron DeSantis.
	I got no strings to hold me down.
	My ears are really big.
	They don't want an Indian.
	My ears are really big.
	They don't want an Indian.
	I'm a blue collar kid. I work minimum wage jobs to be able to make ends meet. I understand the American dream and I
	know how that slipped away from so many millions of Americans.
	We'll restore it.
	I'm a veteran who served in Iraq.
	I know what it means to put service above self.
	I'm also a dad and a husband of six, five, and three-year-old.
	I understand the importance of protecting parents' rights and the well-being of our children in Florida.
	We showed it could be done.
	I made promises and I delivered on all of those promises.
	2024 is make or break.
	We're not getting a mulligan.
	No excuses.
	I will get the job done.
	And as your president, I will not let you down.
	God bless you all.
	Not bad.
	No, that was bad.
	I'm sorry, he rushed through that.
	We don't get them all again.
	I'm thinking of every slogan I can possibly think of.
	They gave him the red light, you know.
	They didn't give everyone closing statements?
	No.
	I guess we skipped some.
	I missed Burgums?
	Yeah.
	What will I do with myself?
	They did the worst first.
	I gotta get back to Kinkos, but I had a great time.
	But first I have to find the last remaining Kinkos.
	That's a task.
	Had a great time.
	Alright, so look, again, the promo code is if you go to ladderwithcrowder.com slash MugClub it's CrowderGOPdebate.
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	We're going to see, right now we have someone on the ground there in Milwaukee to see who's going to sit down at our booth.
	Rumble has a booth going on there if you're watching on YouTube.
	Head on over to Rumble.
	We're going to go to MugClub exclusive after, I don't know the timeline here tonight because we're waiting to see the candidates who sit down.
	I do know that we have at least one or two.
	Yeah, we're going to see who we can get.
	It's basically the Wild West out there.
	Well, it's the Wild West and of course they have some stops they have to make first with people who've actively either contributed to their campaign or provided press as, you know, pro bono.
	But anyone who wants to sit down and look, what questions would you have for these candidates?
	Send them in.
	I think obviously it seems like tonight Vivek was the biggest winner.
	And I understand that people will say, well, hold on a second, his rhetoric doesn't maybe necessarily match his own rhetoric in the past.
	And I don't really, I've looked.
	I've spent a lot of time looking into Vivek.
	I don't really see the waffling that people claim.
	I think that he's provided clarity on some answers.
	You have to understand, this is not a man who's been in the public spotlight a whole lot.
	This is not a man who's been in public office.
	And so what you know about his points of view in the past either are coming from excerpts of his book or really interviews where he's not consistently in front of the press.
	I think tonight he made it pretty clear where he stands.
	I think it was his kind of coming out party to the American public.
	I think he did well.
	I think that DeSantis did all right, and surprisingly, I never get the guy's name right.
	What's his name, the governor?
	Burgum.
	Burgum.
	Stop it.
	I would rank him number three after those two, surprisingly.
	He was more interesting than some of the other people.
	Yeah, his looks.
	Yeah.
	But as far as Vivek and you saying, you know, people pointing out some things, he said maybe he's evolved on the issues.
	Yeah.
	Like the Democrats say.
	Yes, exactly.
	When they flip-flop a little bit.
	But I've evolved on this.
	But in their case they just... He did what I thought.
	Yeah.
	He did.
	I've been saying it on my show for a few months now.
	Cause every time I've seen this guy, whether it was on Fox a year and a half ago, I go, damn, what is, he impresses me every, he has a, he has a different take on these things that everybody else does.
	He's very eloquent.
	And to me, maybe I'm just a, you know, sap, but he seems more sincere.
	I don't know.
	No, I think you're right.
	The closest example I could point to would be Carly Fiorina in 2016.
	And so I hope that he doesn't make the same mistake where Carly Fiorina came in as a contender and then all of a sudden had the Mitt Romney advisors in her ear.
	But she was a failure as a CEO, remember?
	Well, no, that's one thing actually I will say in her defense.
	People don't realize that HP was hemorrhaging hundreds of millions and then they started hemorrhaging far less.
	So if you're going into a company and it's like, okay, they're losing $800 million one year, the next year they lose $200 million.
	Well, I bought a printer from that bitch and it didn't work for two weeks.
	But that's the closest comparison, honestly, that I would have, and I just hope that he doesn't make the same mistake.
	Do we think that anyone here closed the gap on Donald Trump?
	I think that Vivek maybe closed the gap as far as being a top choice for VP for Donald Trump.
	I was going to say, he already, I know it's early to say this, he's going to be in a cabinet.
	Yeah, he's going to be in a cabinet position.
	I think it'll... Not a closet, I said a cabinet.
	Yeah, no, that would be a burgum.
	Coffin.
	Good evening!
	Good to be to the beach!
	And again, we're kind of in a box here, just so you know.
	We're in a studio where we don't have anything other than the air support that's provided to us from Mission Control.
	They've been doing a very good job tonight.
	I would be willing to bet, willing to bet, that people on Twitter and social media are outraged, let me guess, over Vivek saying that man-made climate change was a hoax.
	Over the idea of defunding the Federal Department of Education.
	I'm just going on what they think are going to be their winning issues, and of course they'll go in on Pence on the federal abortion ban.
	Are you talking about lefties?
	Yeah, I'm talking about lefties.
	I'm willing to bet that's what's going on on Twitter right now.
	How about abandoning the internet, folks?
	They're going to try and go after Vivek for saying that man-made climate change is a hoax.
	So I think what we're seeing right now is that the Vegas oddsmakers are saying that DeSantis did better than Vivek, right?
	So they're saying that Vivek went down just a little bit.
	I don't think so.
	So here's what I heard from Vivek that I didn't hear from anybody else.
	A very clear, concise, what, six, seven points that he gave at the end there.
	Every single time he came back to this, he went head-on into these issues.
	The other guys gave very canned responses.
	I think DeSantis did give some pretty clear answers, and I do think that he had the strength of being able to point to his record as governor.
	He does.
	So again, I think he's a guy whose record, his rhetoric doesn't match up with the strength of his record.
	And I like DeSantis a lot.
	Right.
	So put him, you put him next to Vivek.
	Which is good, you want actions, not talk.
	Right, exactly.
	But you put him next to Vivek, right?
	And you go, hmm.
	DeSantis all of a sudden seems very kind of like stodgy and kind of tight and he doesn't really... put him next to Donald Trump now in your mind.
	Yes, that's what I was thinking.
	Ron DeSantis, he will look like Mike Pence before you know it if he doesn't change what he's doing.
	DeSantis tonight would not fare well against Donald Trump in a debate.
	Vivek probably would if he didn't have to balance kind of trying to court the pro-Trump audience, but I do think that DeSantis really would have a tough time going up directly against Donald Trump.
	Yeah, and so according to our website poll, actually this just in from Brodigan, 74% of you think that Vivek Ramaswamy won the debate.
	I think he did the best out of all of us.
	What poll was that, Gerald?
	On our website.
	Our own website poll.
	Check on my website.
	We had Ralph Nader in the landslide.
	I was like, can tumbleweeds vote?
	I feel like Tim Scott kind of hangs around a little bit.
	He does.
	I like Tim Scott.
	He's a likable guy.
	He's articulate.
	He's well-spoken.
	What are you, Barack Obama?
	No, not Barack Obama.
	He didn't show his giant gums tonight.
	That's a plus.
	No, I think, I mean, I'm not surprised by Asa Hutchinson.
	Like, he just seemed like he was a fish out of water.
	He was one of the first to go.
	I think he was pulling at 0.8%.
	That's a 0.8% too much.
	By the way, it should be noted that there's a plus minus rounding error of 0.8%.
	Larry Elder would have wiped the floor.
	He would have done better than friggin' this guy, right?
	Absolutely.
	And so then, Bergram just, he was a novelty because I didn't know that the vampires were running around.
	Yeah, CNN's talking about it right now.
	Let's go to CNN right now and see if they're making the attacks that I thought they probably would.
	You need to know the difference between good and evil.
	When you look at the situation with Russia and Ukraine, here you have a pro-American
	country that was invaded by a thug.
	So when you want to talk about what has been given to Ukraine, less than three and a half
	percent of our...
	The first time they've ever given anything.
	Right.
	And they're close.
	I know, but what I'm saying is they haven't paid into NATO, so of course they have the money for Ukraine.
	They have the money for virtue signaling.
	Right. And they're close.
	NATO, this is too...
	I know, but what I'm saying is they haven't paid into NATO, so of course they have the money for Ukraine.
	They have a little money left over.
	They have the money for virtue signaling.
	And they're right next door.
	Cough it up.
	Our friends?
	Ukraine is not our friend, just to be clear.
	Neither is Russia, but Ukraine is not our friend.
	The Baltics are next. That's a world war. We're trying to prevent war. Look at what Putin did today. He killed Pergoza
	Maybe.
	when I was in the UN By the way, I was going to say that was a pretty bold claim
	to make out there emphatically that uh, Putin killed Pergoza because of the the plane crash. No, that was
	definitely a fault the uh, muffler. Yeah Happens all the time
	He also went down with a brother, Scott Brown, so it's really strange.
	What happened?
	your career on the boards of Lockheed and Raytheon.
	I think you said something about, like, you'll enjoy your new position on the board of, like, Lahey.
	Yes!
	She's a Warhawk!
	She's like, the Balkans are next!
	That's right!
	Like, we've talked about the potential for that, but... Okay, let's hear what Anderson... She slept with Bill Kristol.
	Nikki Haley's whole mantra is, I don't back down to bullies.
	And she had to show that in that moment.
	Because she's a strong woman.
	That she could come back.
	So tired of it.
	As a woman.
	Nick, shut up!
	She said as a woman!
	Yeah, she's so oppressed.
	I can say that as a woman, that's not always the easiest thing to do.
	As a woman.
	Nick, shut up.
	She said as a woman.
	Yeah, she's so oppressed.
	About the policy here that is really an issue for Ramaswamy.
	I'll take it a red lobster on Thursday.
	He's putting on the table for me.
	He's setting the law right now.
	Even in this sort of America first Republican party, there is not a lot of support for.
	This idea that she raised about kind of pulling back from support for Israel is not popular among Republican voters.
	And sometimes it seems like he puts those things on the table just to say, well, I'm going to throw out the idea that no one's going to talk about.
	But on the debate stage, that's when you get called out for things like that.
	Trump did this in 16.
	I mean, we went, we watched him time and again.
	What were your talking points, CNN?
	Be as boring as possible tonight in the post-debate analysis?
	Scott.
	No Republican could support.
	But it, what we learned later was it wasn't about the policy as much as it was about the
	attention.
	You know, I mean, for Rob Storm he's saying he's going to hold the mic.
	What were your talking points, CNN?
	Be as boring as possible tonight in the post-debate analysis?
	Nailed it.
	Like, were those handed out?
	Any questions?
	Why are we focusing on Nikki Haley on CNN?
	Of course.
	going to reagan's position she's are we focusing on nikki haley on cnf of course
	because she's a woman who are you know that's why i was a rhetorical is not
	there's not a winning position with the base of the party right now when i was
	out in iowa i was struck by so many people are here on the other side so
	much about putin it's not about ideology it's not even about america's leadership
	in the world it's that they feel that they're getting screwed by washington
	and yet washington keep sending money to other places not that good point that's
	what it's about it's like we have been ignored and we keep sending our money in other places.
	So she's trying to have an American leadership in the world against the communists, against the murder, against the thug, on the fact she's right.
	But it rings hollow with a lot of Republican voters who just think, you're another politician.
	What about my community?
	The song that I referenced at the beginning of this, I said this when this debate started, I said, remember the first reference to rich men north of Richmond is going to take place.
	And I didn't realize that Fox was going to raise it.
	But the point John's making, By the way, we are going to have Patrick Bet-David on the show.
	Some of you may know him as Mr. Valuetainment.
	I call him Patrick Bet-David.
	He's going to be on the show in a little bit.
	What do you think he's going to say about this debate?
	I bet you he's going to go, OK, look.
	My men.
	My men.
	Let me put it to you this way, okay?
	So tonight, right, we have a problem, we have a debate, okay?
	And then people are saying, okay, right, look, let me put it to you that way.
	Now, maybe, okay, alright, maybe we want to look at Nikki Haley, or maybe some people are going to say she's a shrill bitch, right?
	Well, then they might say, hold on a second, they might say, okay, Ramaswamy, point his finger a lot, right?
	But does that guy, Patrick Bet-David, if I'm trying to solve the problem, okay, have big biceps, right?
	Okay.
	Or does Patrick Bet-David have the biggest biceps?
	Let me put it to you that way.
	I'm going to put it to a poll to the audience.
	We'll get back to it.
	I'm going to go back with RFK Jr., okay?
	I don't know what he's going to say.
	So look, we do have an interesting question from... By the way, before people get back, he's probably my favorite podcaster out there, outside of this show.
	Who is he?
	Is he a black guy?
	No, he's a Syrian.
	He's Iranian.
	He's like a multi-millionaire with a very successful... Great, great guy.
	We had the opportunity to meet him down in Florida in March.
	Spent some great time with him.
	And he's a podcaster?
	And he's a conservative businessman.
	No, no, he lives in Florida.
	First and foremost, he is a businessman, which is the most important part of it.
	But we actually had a question on there.
	Do you think that Vivek, and this isn't just a question from our audience, this is actually a question that was posed online that we think maybe we should address a little bit.
	Do you think he's more of like the star of the party right now?
	And he won't really last?
	My gut says that's probably the case.
	You think?
	I don't.
	I think he's got a lot of substance.
	Stephen, why do you think that's your gut?
	Here's what I think.
	It's like Michael Keaton in Night Shift.
	He's an idea man.
	For the first time, he's really going to have to defend them.
	Here's what happens.
	For example, he may be better Ramos-Flambe at defending them than Ron DeSantis or
	certainly than Hutchinson, right?
	But he's going to have to defend them to a different degree than anyone else because he's been a breakout star
	So the attacks that are going to come are not going to be Proportional with the level of defense that he's been
	forced to sort of mount in the past. He's no longer the underdog
	Yeah, he's no longer the underdog and that really is difficult to navigate
	That's why these people, they end up feeling overwhelmed, and they end up hiring the old GOP advisors.
	Now, he's painted himself into a good one, where he cannot bring those people in.
	I'm not saying he won't.
	I'm just saying that I think a lot of people, I've seen this in the past, where people don't sort of foresee the potential pitfalls that come with being thrust into a national spotlight, and I'm hoping that he rises to the occasion, and he very well could, but I could see it going either way.
	I don't.
	I think he's well-equipped.
	And especially after watching the schmucks he's up against.
	I know.
	And I think he has been having to defend his positions for the last couple of weeks.
	It's kind of the media's darling right now.
	For a reason, though.
	I really think he's got substance.
	And the diversity thing doesn't hurt.
	I'm serious!
	Whatever do you mean, Nick?
	No, you know what I mean.
	Look, you saw what his competition is.
	And the fact, if we lived in a perfect world, even a normal world, the fact that everybody in this country can't look at what we've been watching in the White House for the last three and a half years and go, you know what?
	Not only does Biden suck, the Democratic Party Fuckin' suck.
	I know that'll never happen.
	They're evil.
	It's an evil party.
	And I gotta believe there's a lot more people that are feeling that way than we know.
	I'm hoping.
	Maybe I'm having a dream here.
	And we need a young guy like Vivek.
	I was about to say.
	So I think what he brings to the table is a very Trump quality in that he is a very clear communicator.
	He can answer off the cuff.
	Some of the video footage that we actually showed earlier showed him.
	Can I pause you just really quickly?
	Just so you know, when people are saying, oh, they thought the odds maker said that DeSantis won, have you noticed that CNN's Chiron has not switched from Ramaswamy at all since the debate?
	That tells you who they know is most dangerous to them.
	Absolutely.
	The entire post-debate roundup has been Ramaswamy until they went to... They just changed it as soon as you said it.
	They just said it?
	Ah, nice, yes.
	But they still have him on the screen, so exactly.
	So sorry, go ahead, Gerald.
	But I think that's great to have the name Fox News on their air.
	That's fantastic.
	I love that for them.
	No, I do think that there is something to what you're saying, Stephen, though, that he is no longer kind of the underdog.
	He's no longer the guy that's just kind of the outsider coming in.
	All of a sudden, all of the attention will be focused on him.
	DeSantis, I think, in some ways likes this because the other candidates have to punch at Vivek.
	My theory is this.
	The people that are voting for Donald Trump are voting for Donald Trump.
	Period.
	You're not going to change their minds.
	All of the other votes that are up for grabs are either going to go to DeSantis or Vivek or some combination thereof and maybe somebody else is going to hang around for a little while.
	DeSantis needs Vivek to be defeated.
	Whether it's from him or everybody else ganging up on him, he doesn't really care because he wants all of those votes to go to him so that he'll be the last man standing in challenging Donald Trump and maybe some way, somehow, he can overpower him.
	I don't see that happening.
	Vivek's gonna stay around.
	He's got his own money, he's got a ton of support, he's got a lot of young, Very engaged people, which is kind of hard to do, and he's got a ton of free media.
	If that changes, if CNN stops inviting him on, if Fox runs away from him and goes somewhere else, he'll figure something out, but it'll get a lot harder really quickly.
	He'll get his buddies at tech support to hack it.
	Yeah, something like that.
	Seriously.
	You gotta play dirty.
	You gotta play dirty.
	Hello RNC, this is Sprint.
	The one thing DeSantis has over Vivek is, like you said, great governor.
	He has done this stuff.
	He's not just bringing it up.
	And there's a reason people fleeing from California, New York, and these blue cities we make fun of.
	I agree.
	So if people will sit there long enough for you to tell them that he's a great governor and understand the nuance of that... Yeah, he needs to punch in a little faster.
	Exactly.
	Right?
	It doesn't matter what the truth is.
	It matters what you can convince people in a short period of time.
	Well, that's true.
	It's more about optics.
	But, you know, he did can his campaign manager who sucked.
	I don't even know who it was.
	No, that's true.
	I tell you what though, it's really simple.
	These candidates all need to understand that this campaign needs to be all gas and no brakes, period.
	That's right.
	That's it.
	And I don't understand why they aren't all doing that.
	Look, of course, Hutchinson is sitting down with Dana Bash.
	Naturally!
	Now, by the way, I'm sure we could have gotten him to sit down, but we don't want him at the Rumble booth.
	Really quickly, before we go to that, before we have Patrick Bet-David on and we'll see the candidates who we have on here in a little bit, I'm hearing now that we actually do have our on-the-ground correspondent, Finnegan, who is there again in Milwaukee right now, who finally tracked down some folks.
	Folks, let's go.
	All right.
	All right, Finnegan, you took some chances.
	Let's see how it paid off, brother.
	Not well, Steven.
	Not well.
	Apparently security's pretty tight.
	So you got, you have nothing going on?
	Well, I got this lapel pin of the American flag and they took it and my microphone.
	Oh boy.
	It's kind of par for the course for you, isn't it?
	Basically. Basically.
	Well, only four more years until that retainer is not obligatory.
	I know, you know, I should have just stayed up there instead of, I don't know.
	And Nick DiPaolo, Nick Dipp, you can go watch him on Mug Club Monday through Thursday 5pm or September 15th, go see him at Rob's Comedy Playhouse in Buffalo, New York.
	Look, two nights after the hilarities in Cleveland.
	Oh, are you?
	Is it the two nights after that?
	I thought it was the following weekend.
	Nickdip.com.
	I think it's tonight's outfit.
	Go check out all his dates at Nickdip.com.
	I can't plug it here.
	No, no, no, we understand, yeah.
	Alright, so do we want to watch some more of the Tucker clips with Donald Trump or is it just kind of people are saying there's a little bit of a flop?
	There's not much going on, man.
	The only thing there was there was a clip about the indictments being BS that maybe had a little humor to them.
	So if you want to watch that really quickly, I know we're working on the the connection with Rumble right now to make sure we're good to go outside the booth with Patrick.
	Okay.
	So if we want to do that really quick.
	Well, I do think this goes back to kind of... indictments, I think is the the name.
	Our predictions were pretty much spot-on, honestly, as far as what we expected tonight.
	Actually, the surprise for me was Christie didn't go harder after Trump.
	I figured he was just gonna go... I think he did it for a moment and saw the audience reaction.
	Yeah.
	That's what I think.
	Which I give him credit for.
	I think he's a big puss but he stuck to his eclairs and he put up a good fight.
	In the back of my head, when we're doing all this stuff, maybe I've grown too cynical.
	I feel like I'm participating in a game.
	I'm sorry, the last election really hit a number on my hard drive, and I just feel like this is all a big script and a show, we're part of it, until the Dems try to steal another.
	I think that the margin has to be so significant, and we do need to definitely.
	I mean look, that's why we fight back with the tools that we have.
	For example, we talk about Mug Club, but there's a reason that we tell everyone, by the way,
	to head over from YouTube to Rumble.
	Because if you just look at the Hunter Biden story, we've talked about this, that last
	election, all of the interference allegedly, wouldn't have made enough of a difference.
	And so what we can't do is install governors who need to do their job as it sort of relates
	to...
	Wouldn't it have made enough of a difference?
	In other words, all the election interference wouldn't have been able to save it for them if people just knew about the Hunter Biden laptop story and the corruption.
	We know that there would have been enough votes that would have switched that they could not, that would have been insurmountable.
	So that's a multi-pronged approach with the media.
	And unfortunately, like we've talked about tonight, we see the candidates who are GOP donor class puppets.
	And a lot of people in, unfortunately, the right-wing media follow suit.
	And so you look at a lot of the same talking points.
	I expect you'll see a lot of the candidates making the rounds on a lot of these shows issuing the same talking points.
	So it's a multi-pronged approach.
	We need to fight back on the big media.
	Big media, big tech, right?
	I always call it the entertainment media, big tech, industrial complex.
	Then there needs to be, on a state level, there needs to be at least adhering to your state constitution, certainly governors making sure things like voter ID, and really sunlight being a disinfectant.
	But what we can do is certainly fight back with independent media.
	That's the first step.
	That's the vanguard, and you guys can support it.
	If you think that we do enough at mugclub.com, you get $10 off.
	And if not, hey, then don't support us.
	We need to do better.
	When you say right-wing media, other than Fox, who are you talking about?
	Unfortunately, right-wing media, and I've talked about this quite a bit in the past, is dominated by a lot of non-profit influence.
	And so the problem with non-profit influence is that it means you have donors.
	And it means that those donors get to dictate content.
	And a lot of these for-profit businesses, by the way, like the biggest media companies online that exist in the conservative sphere, also have huge non-profit sectors and there's a lot of funging of the funds.
	So what are they, when you say dictating content, where?
	On what platforms, or what?
	Well, we don't necessarily need to name names, but I'm pretty sure people can guess.
	Take the top five, yes, that's the answer.
	I can't guess, that's why I'm asking.
	I mean, Nick, quite literally billions of dollars in non-profit, right?
	It's a 501c3 or a 501c4, these are not businesses, and so unfortunately, when you are beholden, look, that's why we have the investigative journalism unit, the people we have here are going, we're thrilled, they're going, wait, we don't You just have to oust a congressman?
	No, no.
	Whatever it is that you think is most important.
	When you have a donor, it's this.
	It's, okay, I'm going to give you ten mil- uh-uh-uh!
	He forgot to say the magic word.
	And that's when people often wonder why are conservatives so far behind often on the cultural fight.
	That's why.
	Because for the left, as ironic as all this is, they largely are propelled by for-profit industries.
	With the media, with the entertainment industry, with big tech.
	That's why there's the CNN and MSNBC and all that?
	Outnumbering, and we got Fox?
	Well, Fox is the only one, but then if you look online, right, again, you can't fight back when you have donors dictating what it is that you can and cannot say, and we see that a lot, unfortunately.
	But that's our media.
	It's not just the political issue.
	It's the media industry on the right.
	It's the advertising connection, too.
	That's why you have to decouple from advertisers as your model.
	Elon Musk even said that.
	He's done a lot of things I don't agree with since saying that by hiring the CEO he hired.
	And other things.
	But that's the thing you have to do, because if companies go, that's not safe.
	That's not a safe thing for us to say.
	We don't want to advertise there.
	All of a sudden, dollars get pulled out of it.
	Yeah.
	Well, to give you an idea, let's just say one, two, let alone three of her Chris Christie jokes, which by the way, were superb.
	Perfect.
	The fat jokes.
	I'm a child.
	I still think they're funny.
	There's not a single other conservative media entity who would have allowed that.
	Not one.
	It wouldn't be allowed.
	And guess what?
	There are enough people out there who enjoy having a laugh and enjoy different kinds of content, but that's the problem with having a donor class dictating not only the candidates, but the media.
	And we're able to call balls and strikes, and it also makes it more challenging.
	Why would they think like that when the average American is like us and howling?
	The average American isn't the donor, yeah.
	Patrick Bet-David is ready for us to give us a little post-debate.
	Alright, so look, let's go to my main man, okay?
	Very excited, let me put it to you that way.
	Patrick Bet-David.
	Mr. David, can you hear me, sir?
	Can you hear me?
	Can you see me?
	I can't.
	Can you hear me?
	Hold on a second.
	I can't hear you yet.
	One second.
	Okay, good.
	Let me hear you there.
	Can you hear me?
	Can you hear me now?
	Oh boy.
	One second.
	This is a little... Oh, perfect.
	I can hear you now, sir.
	Look at you.
	You're looking tan, but you always look tan.
	Alright, let me ask you, Mr. David.
	What did you think of the debates tonight?
	Who came out the big winner?
	We had our predictions, but I don't want to lead the witness here.
	I think I know what you're probably going to say.
	Yes, and by the way, I don't know what the media is saying, so whatever I say to you is purely fresh out of being in there watching what happened, how the audience was reacting.
	I thought Vivek had a great turnout in multiple areas.
	I think I give him an 8.5 is what I give him.
	He could have had a higher score, but I think Nikki Haley, when it came down to foreign policy, Had a bit of an edge now remember guys
	This is not about who you like or who we like and who's your guy and who's that person's birth?
	You know who you're rooting for I thought Nikki had multiple good moments and quite frankly a lot of people in
	the audience Were reacting to her very oh come on now
	Not she was not on my list of anybody that was gonna react like
	I thought Tim Scott was a little bit flat.
	I thought he said the right things.
	I thought he was likable.
	I thought he looked like somebody that would make a good VP.
	I didn't see that as a person that would be a good number one.
	I thought Mike Pence was very aggressive.
	Uh, that doesn't mean it was good aggressive, but I thought he was aggressive, and he was trying to impose himself out there, and you kind of have to see a couple times he had to be stopped.
	Uh, who else?
	DeSantis, I thought he hit his scripts very well.
	If there was six scripts and eight lines that DeSantis had to hit, I think he hit 100% of them.
	And I was watching very closely when the breaks would happen, who would talk to who.
	During the breaks, DeSantis and Christie would speak a lot, and if you notice, DeSantis If we were to count how many shots he took at Trump, I don't know how many times he took shots at Trump, maybe even zero, but you heard Christie do it.
	So Christie was a mouthpiece to say the things that maybe DeSantis wanted to say about Trump, but he didn't have to say it.
	So strategically, I thought it was a very good strategy.
	And by the way, frankly, I don't have an opinion on them.
	Well Pat, yeah, no one does either.
	You're the Bela Lugosi look-alike, Burgum.
	But you're so congenial, by the way, and this is why I think you get all of these guests who come on and don't realize what a, and I mean this in a good way, like what a sniper you are and how surgical you are.
	You just said like, you know, I think that if he had six scripts, he hit all of them.
	That is a way to say, a little bit, in a friendly way, in a respectful way, that DeSantis obviously has to go with talking points a little more.
	And I do think that's an interesting dynamic that only you could provide insight, you know, here for the audience.
	If he was talking a lot with Christie, that does seem like there's a little bit of a double-cross maybe, right?
	I get to be good cop, you get to play bad cop.
	You think that's what was going on a little bit with DeSantis and Christie?
	I think we're naive to think people are not doing that.
	I think we're naive to think Nikki Haley and Mike Pence don't have a partnership going on, where they had a moment to show that they disagree, but it was something they disagreed on that wasn't really important, but they agreed on the bigger issues.
	So I saw some kind of a connection between them two.
	But yeah, look, I mean, it's strategic.
	Vivek, obviously, if you were to say, close your eyes and say, who was Trump.
	Was Trump in the debate tonight?
	You would say absolutely.
	How?
	Through Vivek.
	So these are strategies that they're playing and for us to try to just pin it that DeSantis is playing that strategy with Christie, it's naive.
	Everyone's playing it.
	Yeah, I think that's a very good point and it actually provides some insight that we couldn't have.
	I think Gerald has a question for you.
	Piggyback off of that, so it looked like Christie went after Vivek a little bit more than I expected.
	I figured that Christie was going to go after Trump, but Vivek is the real problem for DeSantis, in my opinion.
	If he stays around, he steals votes from DeSantis.
	The people would go to him.
	Is that what you're saying?
	Do you think that that was actually the target was not just Trump, but Vivek with Christie?
	If you notice, there was a part where Mike Pence took a shot at Vivek about the script.
	Hey, slow down, slow down.
	Like trying to say you're a fast talking salesperson, you know, and then, you know, Pence had a line that got a reaction.
	He says, look, we need to kind of not not not vote for someone that's going to be too old or too young.
	Obviously, the too old.
	He's talking Biden and Trump and too young.
	He's talking about Vivek.
	But I think America's maybe at a point where You know, they don't want a Pence and, you know, Vivek flat out called everybody.
	These are, you know, super packed puppets.
	Those comments that he made and I mean, he did not hold back.
	So I wouldn't be surprised if Pence was not happy with Vivek, but I thought Vivek Did exactly what those who are pro-Trump would have wanted him to do.
	So again, even though Trump wasn't there, he was in spirit through Vivek.
	That's exactly right.
	When it was happening, we were watching this live and streaming it, and I said, you know,
	if you were just to change it, if you were to say, if you were to read this from a script,
	what Vivek just said, and say Donald Trump said this, you would read it and go, and do
	Do you what?
	you what?
	Do you what?
	A super PAC puppet!
	That's the choice!
	That is quite literally exactly something.
	And I wonder if he's positioning himself, do you think, with someone like Vivek, who maybe doesn't have a ton of experience?
	We've often asked who would be the VP candidate for Trump.
	Obviously, Carrie Lake would be up there.
	It seems like a lot of people aren't necessarily willing to take the risk.
	You think Vivek is more likely to be sort of tapped for that VP spot or certainly a cabinet spot after tonight than maybe going for the presidency?
	I have a very hard time with that because when you have an alpha personality like Trump, you cannot have an alpha as a VP.
	You just can't.
	It's just not going to work out.
	When you're running a company, typically, if the CEO is alpha, the number two has to be a little bit of a guy that knows how to privately call you out, but publicly hold you up.
	And I don't know if Vivek as a founder, CEO, driver, who's built multi-billion dollar companies,
	in his mind, he probably sees himself as an equal to Trump because he thinks he did it
	on his own.
	So even on the inside, Vivek's a pretty confident guy.
	Here's a guy that came from a mom and dad that came here two years before he was born.
	So, yeah, I don't know.
	I don't know if I see him as a VP.
	I think the types of people that Trump would want as a VP, if you want to look at everybody on that stage, 100% loyalty is important to him.
	We were just with Kerry a few minutes ago.
	Kerry's somewhere around here.
	Number one is loyalty.
	Kerry's super loyal.
	He values that a lot.
	And number two, it's somebody that's not going to outshine him.
	And I think Tim Scott is a great candidate as a VP because he's just not going to outshine him.
	Yeah.
	I would hope that's not the case and you have the best person for the job, but I do understand that those dynamics need to be taken into play.
	Were you about to ask something?
	I was just going to say... This is Nick DiPaolo here.
	I just learned so much.
	I really didn't know about those games.
	Them speaking, you know, DeSantis and Christie.
	Patrick McDavid is a killer.
	Brilliant observations that I had never heard.
	But I was thinking of a Vec.
	uh... was playing it look i know i'm not gonna be the president
	i'd i'd i see plan is maybe chief of staff something like that and and and trump's gonna be if trump's
	around is gonna be done in four years yeah i i seem to get a
	prominent role there but again i think i think i think i think i think that all
	those people on stage unlike pens was the guy who trump shows as the p last time
	in uh...
	but i know that i had a nice i think that you've been in in his administration
	Wouldn't he have been afraid of him?
	I know he's loyal to a fault.
	Maybe that's a little bit different because he kind of had to do his thing.
	But I just learned so much.
	I never knew games like that were being played.
	Yeah, and I do think that Mike Pence tonight absolutely sucked.
	I know that Patrick can't say that because again he gets all the people actually they'll go on his show and rightfully so.
	Let me speak for him like Vivek and DeFantis did.
	I have another question for you.
	So outside of Kerry Lake and anybody that was on that debate stage tonight, do you see another clear choice for Vice President?
	I'm a fan of Christine Noem.
	I'm a fan of, again, look.
	Again, think about the Alpha as a person you know in your life that operates and leads a company or runs a team, okay?
	Whoever that Alpha is, number two cannot be an Alpha.
	Your ambition cannot be to outshine the Alpha.
	It's just not going to work with a personality.
	So, you've got to take the person with a lot of ambitions of one day I would like to be, etc.
	So that's not going to work out with Vivek, because Vivek is very ambitious, and he is very confident, and he is very driven, and he is very hardworking, and he believes in himself, and he knows how to sell the dream, he knows how to sell the nightmare, he knows how to relate to you, he knows how to rally and fire the audience up.
	Every time he got up and spoke, the people were just energized.
	When this guy speaks, and Americans want something like that right now because it's been a little bit of a fear, nightmare, doom and gloom type of America we've been living in for the last three, four years with way too much animosity and tension and, you know, all of this.
	So, I don't know.
	I don't see that part, but I think there's going to be... Keep this in mind with President Trump.
	He is a very unpredictable yet predictable leader.
	Okay?
	Predictable in the areas that he's very predictably values loyalty.
	Okay?
	Right.
	He's predictable in the area of wanting someone that is, you know, not going to want to outshine him.
	But he's unpredictable that he's going to probably end up picking somebody no one is thinking about, just like he picked Pence.
	That's also very likely of happening.
	Stormy Daniels.
	Well, he's playing pickleball with her right now.
	So, look, I know that you are busy.
	I mean, not that you need it, but where's the best place for people to find you, support you?
	Because I always tell them, look, if you're going to pick the top three people out there doing programs right now, Patrick Bet-David is one of them.
	Where's the best place for people to find you, Patrick?
	You just type Patrick Bet-David.
	You can find us on all socials, Patrick Bet-David.
	We have a podcast called PBD Podcast that we cover a bunch of different things from politics and business.
	You can find us everywhere.
	See, that was a very friendly way of him saying, look, let me put it to you this way.
	Google me, bitch.
	That's what he just said to me.
	And I look like an idiot.
	Patrick Bet-David, thank you for taking time, brother.
	Oh man, thank you.
	Thank you.
	Take care, guys.
	Thanks, be well.
	By the way, Nick was laughing because you never heard him before and I guess it was probably the impression once you heard his voice.
	Yeah, you were dead on with that.
	No, it's spot on.
	Great, great, great guy.
	But did he say, I'm really asking, because he said P-B-D at the end.
	P-B-D.
	Oh, P-B-D.
	P-B-D, P-B-D.
	That's all, folks.
	That's all folks.
	I was just thinking how Pence was trying to call Vivek out for his inexperience.
	The thing is, let me put it to you that way.
	Mike Pence has a very small penis.
	But Vivek is an alpha.
	So the two go together.
	Let me put it to you that way, okay?
	Mike Pence, alright, has a very small penis.
	Penis.
	Right, that's right.
	Okay.
	But Vivek, right, is an alpha.
	So the two go together.
	One's going to be a power bottom, alright, and one's going to be a top.
	And what are you looking at, Gerald?
	You look very confused.
	I'm looking at something.
	I don't know what language something was just in on my screen.
	Was it Patrick Bette David writing an older series?
	Actually, Rumble had three of the top four streams in the world tonight, right?
	We were the top stream other than the actual just clean GOP debate stream, right?
	A lot of people for that.
	That's just on Rumble, not including YouTube and Mug Club members.
	Yeah, all the other banks that we go off of.
	So you were a part of, obviously, something very big.
	Other than...
	You're saying other than the original stream, like we were the largest thing out there, but there was something that looked like it was Indian.
	Probably a cricket review, I don't know.
	Are you saying Rumble was on this show on Rumble?
	Three of the four largest shows at the time were Rumble shows.
	Three of the four.
	And we're number two.
	Massive.
	So thank you guys so much, and again, please do consider looking.
	And here's one thing, I know that we mention it quite a few times tonight because of that promo code, CrowderGOPDebate.
	It's $10 off.
	But hey, would you rather us sell bowling branch bed sheets and quip toothbrushes that then start to turn into a vibrating cock with a rainbow flag?
	Wait a minute, what's the matter with that?
	I'm just saying, you see those all over the pot?
	No, quip!
	Hey, race and control!
	Bring that up!
	Bring that shit up!
	Quip toothbrushed in a rainbow toothbrush that looked like a rainbow vibrator, and every single conservative was selling that shit.
	Don't you condemn me!
	Don't you judge me!
	Okay, Mr. Nasty Show, and you and your stupid Boy Scout FCC sweater vest bullshit!
	You ever try to get blood out of a bowl of bread?
	We mentioned one thing tonight.
	Bring it up right now.
	Bring up the quick toothbrush.
	No, no, no, the other one.
	Yeah, that one.
	No, no, that's much better.
	The picture is on there.
	And he drammed me with this kid.
	The latest picture in honor.
	Go there.
	Bring up the quick toothbrush.
	Do it.
	Do it.
	There you go.
	Boom!
	That's vibrating?
	My point is, we mentioned one thing tonight.
	There's been one, and it's Mug Club.
	And that's because of viewers like you have made this the number two stream.
	And by the way, that doesn't include all of the other numbers out there.
	So because of you, we're able to send investigative journalists out there.
	Because of you, we're able to bring the OG like Nick DiPaolo.
	Because of you, we're launching shows like Brian Callen and like the Hodge twins.
	And Alex Jones.
	Predicting the future, by the way.
	By the way, right now he's doing the show on YouTube.
	On Friday, but he wants to do the show every single day, and we have animated shows, documentaries.
	That's entirely because of viewers like you.
	So would you rather us plug Bullenbranch, and Quip, and Birch Gold, and I'm G. Gordon Liddy, or, you know, well I guess, no, they still run G. Gordon Liddy commercials.
	They do, yeah.
	Is he dead?
	Weird.
	There's gold in them there ads!
	Yeah.
	Wow, that's too bad.
	Quiet, I want to hear what Mike Axelrod has to say.
	In a minute, we'll have Jordan Peterson, I believe, will be available to come on and be good to hear what he has to say.
	He was standing there, but Patrick was going along, so he got pulled away, but he's going to come back in just a minute.
	Do you think Jordan Peterson said, listen, Patrick, I appreciate, but could you shut the hell up for a moment?
	Just one moment, please.
	Listen, my man, Jordan Peterson, look, you're a doctor, okay?
	But here's the problem.
	I'm the guy.
	Shut the hell up.
	No, by the way, isn't it great?
	Hey, I don't know if we'll get the candidates because a lot of them are, you know, a lot of them are urinating their little panties.
	Not Nikki Haley, of course, because I would never suspect we are.
	No, her's a huge.
	Yeah, everyone other than her.
	But I have to use a restroom.
	Do we want to do a quick commercial break as we get Jordan Peterson on the line or figure that out?
	It'll be a few minutes for Jordan Peterson, but we can do a quick break because these guys are just basically just gas bags on CNN.
	Yes.
	So a quick break.
	Everyone here has to urinate really quickly.
	We'll come back.
	Jordan Peterson, most likely, and then we'll see which other candidates are available.
	And then, of course, we will take your chats go exclusive to Mug Club, Nick DiPaolo, Gerald Morgan.
	Enjoy this quick commercial break while I relieve myself.
	Don't get empty, don't get empty, don't get empty, when I'm with you, I'm with you, in all of you.
	The music is playing.
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	And some people don't.
	Fuck it started liberalism.
	Muglock can stop it.
	And now for the adventures of the White Privilege Boy.
	All right there now, Timmy.
	I know you're a teenager, but if I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times.
	You can't park your vehicle faced into oncoming traffic.
	Come on, let's move.
	Well, gee, officer, I'm sure sorry.
	Can I just go back to my car?
	No, no, I want you to follow my instructions.
	Either get down on the ground or follow me away from the vehicle.
	But, officer, can't I just get my PCP?
	No, well, you know, usually I'd say no, but you can make it quick.
	Come on, get on out of here, you white rascal.
	Oh, boy!
	Oh, those boys!
	What ticker will they find themselves in next?
	Stay tuned for next week's installment of Adventures of the White Privilege Boys.
	Hey, hey.
	Boo, Pedro!
	Not today!
	You're not sending your best.
	I'm gonna send you right back.
	Lookin' over that.
	Well, let's keep building this wall.
	There you go.
	Brick by brick.
	My wall, frankly, shoots fire.
	You see?
	And you're gonna pay for it.
	pay for it.
	Baaaaaah.
	Baaaaaah.
	Headstreeeeeeeeep.
	Hey, guys, in the chat, let me know what you'd like me to put in my boat.
	I'm thinking alligators and spikes.
	That is by far, that is by far one of my, there's people running behind me.
	Oh my gosh!
	One of my favorite sketches that we've ever done was Trump playing Minecraft building the wall.
	So good.
	Oh my god.
	It was fantastic.
	So look, I know we've got people that we're working on right now.
	If you see on like CNN, Fox, everybody right now, there's a spin room, right?
	So the spin room is basically where they go to do interviews and to talk about what just happened, essentially what we're doing here, what CNN sucks at doing, and what obviously many, many more of you are watching us do this.
	They actually had a bit of an issue, and I don't know how it got resolved, but apparently Matt Gaetz, Representative Matt Gaetz out of Florida, said that it was resolved.
	They were not letting any of the Trump surrogates, basically people who are going to go in and kind of represent Donald Trump, like Carrie Lake or anybody- That may have been a miscommunication though.
	I think it was intentionally miscommunicated, if it was.
	I think this is Fox being petty.
	Because Fox is a little pissed off at Tucker, and they're pissed off at Trump, right?
	And they are basically saying, hey, you know, we're gonna make this a little bit more difficult for you.
	Donald Trump Jr., you're not welcome.
	Kimberly Guilfoyle, you're not welcome, right?
	Things like that are happening.
	I think they did finally get it sorted out.
	Maybe they were making a big deal out of it.
	Maybe that was the whole story to this.
	But I think what we're seeing right now I don't know how to say this the right way.
	Bigger than the debate that we just saw, we're witnessing the death of mainstream media.
	Which also tells you how out of touch these candidates are that they're appearing with Dana Bash on CNN.
	Every single time it's like, Vivek, get out of the room.
	Nobody's going to be watching these people.
	So with Rumble being the sponsor and streaming, you're seeing very, very large numbers of people watching this online.
	Off of YouTube, by the way.
	Off of YouTube.
	Off of Facebook.
	Off of YouTube and Facebook and some of the biggest players out there.
	You're seeing people kind of run out of this and go, you know what?
	You're seeing a moment in time where these people are going to look back and go, this is the death knell.
	Right?
	No longer do we control the politics that people want to see.
	No longer do we control the questions that get asked.
	Because think about this.
	If you're somebody who's Bret Baier or Martha McCallum, you have to be careful sometimes the questions you ask because maybe they aren't going to come on your show next week.
	Maybe they're not going to be happy at the network that you're going to get called, what was it, the second floor?
	If you ever got called to the second floor, you knew.
	At Fox News it was the second floor.
	It was a problem, right?
	Yeah, that's where you had all the executives.
	We don't care.
	We're not going to be jerks just to be jerks, like the clickbait stuff that people do.
	No, you never want to sandbag anyone, but we want to ask the questions that people have.
	Exactly.
	The normal everyday American that has a question like, look, I get it.
	I was talking with Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Congresswoman, she was much nicer.
	I've never really met her.
	I just thought she was a little bit fiery in most of the things that I saw.
	Very nice.
	She said, look, it's a 10-year problem to fix.
	You've got to give us the House and the Senate and the White House.
	I'm like, look, we've done that.
	Maybe we didn't do it for 10 years, but we gave you that, and we've been burned so many times.
	Can you promise me that it's going to happen this time?
	Because I don't want to be left at the altar yet again.
	How many times have we had Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Dan Crenshaw on and talk about Section 230 and then nothing is actually done?
	I don't know if you guys have noticed this, but I don't have anything against the guy.
	Dan Crenshaw, last time he was on, he supported the TAPS Act.
	Everyone else gave him a softball.
	And I said, how is that not red flag laws?
	And I asked him, okay, let me ask you a different way.
	How are you going to guarantee that the TAPS Act that you're supporting does not turn into red flag type laws where a neighbor can simply, in a disgruntled state, report a neighbor who they don't like and they forfeit their Second Amendment rights?
	He didn't have an answer.
	Not saying that Dan Crenshaw is a bad guy, but we asked that question in real time where he was immensely popular.
	Now, a lot of people have those issues with Representative Crenshaw now.
	But at the time, it was a question that was important and no one else was willing to ask.
	We've had these questions for people.
	We never, by the way, we never aim to be disrespectful to people, of course.
	This is honestly, people are often surprised when they sit down.
	We go, look, we matched your intensity.
	But we're also not going to do the bidding of the donor class.
	That is a big difference from what we do.
	If we were doing the bidding of the donor class, you think Nick DiPaolo would be here?
	Who, by the way, told me he didn't have to go to the bathroom.
	He said, no, I'm doing alright.
	And then I come back, he's gone for nine minutes.
	I hope you had a hell of a piss, Arnold!
	Well, I got a prostate the size of, you know, the Statue of Liberty.
	The size of Chris Christie?
	Exactly.
	No, but that's right.
	So when we had Senator Rubio on, we basically pressed him and said, look, if you don't fix 230, you may not be around.
	Because maybe they can just lock you out.
	You won't have a voice.
	This is the kind of thing that needs to get fixed ASAP.
	And look, I love, and you can go online, we'll probably put it up for Mug Club, the full interviews that we did.
	I know we showed some segments of it today.
	But you can see that full interview and I was just like, look, Ten years?
	I didn't go full combative.
	And by the way, you did a good job too, Gerald.
	Everyone, please, sound off in the chat there that Gerald, you know, Gerald, he's now migrated to this full-time.
	I mean, you worked here part-time for, I guess, going back to 2015 in some capacity.
	Seriously?
	Yeah, and you know what happened?
	Here's the story.
	Really?
	Yeah, here's the story about Gerald.
	I hope that doesn't happen to me.
	Oh boy.
	Do you remember the conversation?
	So Gerald said, when we were in these contract disputes, and I said, you know, I just, I really want to be independent and kind of break free of these shackles.
	This was a really earnest moment.
	And Gerald said, I think you can do it.
	And I think that if you do it this way, you kind of went through potential, you know, as far as signups and as far as our merch shop, which you can go to CrowderShop.com.
	He said, you can do it.
	And I said, I know, but if I do it independently, I need, and you said, you're going to need someone to handle it.
	Yeah.
	You're not going to be able to handle that all yourself.
	And he was that guy.
	And he was that guy.
	And he said, alright, let me step in.
	Yep.
	And got in the form of Gerald Morgan, who by the way... In the form of a tight end.
	Yes, yes.
	Well, to this day... Can I ask you guys a question?
	Because I know you were discussing 2.30.
	Can you refresh my memory?
	I know it has something to do with platforms being immune to... So basically, for example, like Sprint or Verizon, or in your case, Metro PCS.
	They're regulated as a public utility, right?
	Meaning that even if you're a neo-Nazi and you're not committing a crime, they can't shut you down, right?
	That's a different regulation, right?
	They're afforded certain liberties.
	In other words, they're not liable for what people are saying across their cell towers.
	Same thing applies, by the way, to like, for example, the town square.
	Two-thirty has extended to the digital town square, meaning that places like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, they're not seen as publishers, like the New York Times.com.
	They're seen as digital town squares, which means they do not editorialize, they do not censor content based on point of view, which affords them...
	But they benefit from, in other words, you can't sue YouTube.
	Right.
	So they're having it both ways.
	They're having it both ways.
	And so all I'm saying is the way that you solve it is say, you are either a platform or you are a publisher.
	And considering that YouTube has removed our content and suspended us four points of view and preemptively said, send us your content so that we can tell you if it's acceptable or not.
	And they wouldn't, by the way.
	What?
	We did it, and they wouldn't.
	You know the vaccine thing?
	We were like, hey, can you tell us if this- The vaccine parody, yeah.
	Shouldn't, but we just want to make sure- Is 230 the movement to stop that?
	No, 230 is the bill that gives them the protection, but they're abusing it, yes.
	And who's trying to change that?
	Well, they all say that they are.
	Don't tell me Jim Jordan.
	They all say that they are.
	He's too busy hitting an ankle pick on- What?
	They're not trying hard enough.
	Yeah, they're not doing enough.
	Well, and here's the problem, too, if you're a conservative media company and you're making quite literally tens of millions of dollars off of YouTube, the easiest path to make money right now, by the way, you guys need to understand this, is make money off of YouTube advertising, Google AdSense, and Facebook Instant Articles.
	That's the easiest way.
	You could literally have never created an original piece of content, just copy-paste, hat-tip, and make tens of millions of dollars, and many people out there do.
	That's a constant.
	It's something that we have been up against for a very long time, and that does not encourage conservatives and Republicans to do better, and that's why they feel comfortable right now.
	For crying out loud, right now, Burgum is appearing with Dana Bash on CNN.
	Could you be any more tone deaf?
	Any more predictable.
	They've had Mike Pence on.
	Who'd they have first?
	They just had Vivek on.
	But the fact that they're doing this, like, what do you think?
	Man, I really have to bring my message to the people.
	Let me go talk with Dana Bash.
	They're just used to it.
	It's not like they have to get out of the old way of doing it.
	Nobody's interviewed anybody from Transylvania on CNN.
	That's true.
	Let me tell you something about Dana.
	Well, you know what, I tell you what, he certainly did stand up to those Ottomans.
	It worked out.
	No, I think people do get stuck in these old patterns where they're like, oh, I have to give a canned answer.
	Oh, I have to, I have to be a little bit more kind of upright in these debates and, and not show the personality and the fire that really got me here in the first place.
	And now I have to go talk to CNN and MSNBC and Fox and CBS.
	I got to talk to all these guys.
	No, no, no.
	What you need to do is bypass the gatekeepers.
	You start taking power away from them.
	Look, there are two things in this industry, I'm going to give you some inside baseball here, that are hardest to cheat.
	And I've said this for a very long... You can buy views on platforms, okay?
	Especially if you have billions of dollars or hundreds of millions in non-profit funding.
	The hardest numbers to cheat are live viewership and ticket sales.
	That's why when people point to Donald Trump's rallies, I get it.
	You can have a big rally and maybe not win a general election.
	That is plausible, though not likely.
	But it is very, very hard to cheat.
	Consistently having people come out to your rallies or pay a ticket to go see you speak in person Or people at that.
	In other words, tonight, when these streams are going on, you have the choice to tune in anywhere.
	We cannot pay to plump up our viewership because it has to go through a 24-hour approval process.
	Whoever tuned in, you tuned in.
	Those are the two toughest numbers to cheat.
	And so I will tell you this, if nothing else, if you want to know if you're having the wool pulled over your eyes, If you see a huge media company online that has these huge plays, right, millions of plays, and Tim, you know, you run up against this, everyone who runs social here on YouTube, on Facebook, you go, wow, that's 5 million plays, but they're consistently getting a few thousand, or maybe even 15,000.
	On a good day, 20,000 live viewers, that means there's a disconnect.
	And that's why, you know what, a good example, by the way, Patrick Bet-David has great live viewership.
	Jordan Peterson sells more tickets out there than anyone in the conservative movement.
	I was thinking about this in the drive over today, and I would love to hear from you.
	Who would you say are the top three shows online, like the top three podcasters out there doing it?
	I would say Patrick Bet-David is up there for sure.
	Jordan Peterson in his field, he's untouchable.
	And Marc Maron.
	Well, I guess in the Count of Monte Cristo look-alike convention.
	I wasn't going to say it because I didn't know if you were friends with him or not.
	I don't have a problem with him.
	Oh, okay, I do.
	A lot of people do.
	No, no, no, I just, you know.
	Guys like that are scared of me.
	Yeah, I think this is going to be interesting.
	So they're fact-checking the debate right now.
	They brought on the glasses on CNN.
	Oh, here we go.
	Number three, I would say Joe Rogan because of first-movers' rights.
	He stayed in when everybody else pulled out.
	And so I would say Patrick Bette David, Jordan Peterson.
	Joe Rogan would be in my top three.
	I'd love to hear yours.
	Let's see the fact check from this Rainn Wilson lookalike.
	That's high praise.
	misleading at best and that's because Governor DeSantis is omitting a bunch of
	important information. Hey look, it's two queers, one cup.
	What he did early in the pandemic. Here is the reality.
	He certainly did eventually open up Florida. He certainly was faster than some other governor in doing so.
	That's high praise. He did not keep it open from the start.
	They should have thought bubbles over their head right now.
	It's hot dogs. It's just a blurred donut.
	Jesus.
	Diddy, you look into schools.
	Some of the things he did in March 2020 and April 2020.
	He closed Florida schools for the rest of the school year.
	He banned those music and nursing homes.
	Did he?
	You look into schools.
	He ordered bars and ice cream.
	Wearing a trench coat with a bag of Twinkies.
	I'm out.
	I'm out.
	Do you know what that means?
	For a couple of months.
	Yeah.
	Because it was in early April, late March that we were talking about this, the closing of all of this stuff, and he's like, he closed it for the rest of the school year?
	He's not telling the truth because he did close things down for Florida.
	He opened them sooner than most people did.
	Yes, the context matters.
	If you had your way, and by that I mean known Democrat shills, yes, Anderson Cooper and
	this man, his name escapes me because I don't like to remember it, you are included.
	But here's the thing, if what kind of policies would you have if left unfettered, kids still
	wouldn't be in school.
	Of course.
	That's without a hint of hyperbole.
	Be like Chicago.
	Children would not be back in school.
	And if so, at the very least with masks on, which the which, by the way, the literature,
	someone can bring this up for mission control show.
	And I know it's not a perfect clinical trial because you're not going to have that with
	masks because it can have a placebo control group just to be clear.
	We're not going to have the golden standard, but if you look at the meta-analyses, children who wore a mask, infrequently or not at all, were less likely to have severe COVID complications than children who wore a mask.
	That's not what Randy Weingarten said.
	I thought you were saying Randy Newman.
	Yeah, same thing.
	You know I'm going to wear a mask!
	Not going to!
	Because my school's up to the task!
	I can't breathe because I'm wearing this mask.
	Give me another Grammy mask.
	That guy sucks.
	I like him.
	He's actually very talented.
	I don't like him, but I know he's talented.
	That was their big fact check, by the way.
	They've gone to commercial.
	The fact check was, Ron DeSantis wasn't telling you the whole story about the lockdowns.
	He needs to be.
	And he was very adamant about that.
	I was kind of trying to read his lips as he was talking.
	That's all they do.
	No, they're trying to point out these small things where it's like, of course everybody closed down.
	Everybody was worried initially about this, right?
	But it's what he did once we go, ah!
	I'm saying the fact.
	Oh, sorry.
	Gratuitous Joe Lewis cam.
	There we go.
	Sorry, he's been very patient.
	Right now he's wondering why we're not at home.
	Is anybody taking him out?
	I don't know what they do in South India.
	I don't want them to eat at me.
	By the way, let's bring up a tweet from our former Vice President Joseph R. for Robinette Biden.
	He's going back to Nick.
	By the way, that's because Nick feeds him from the table.
	He does.
	I do not feed him from the table.
	You and Alex Jones.
	Son's a bitch.
	He took my food.
	By the way, it's Sons of Bitches, if you could please do that.
	I shouldn't have said that out loud.
	I am from Canada, I don't say that.
	That's it, he says you son of a bitch.
	Son of a bitch, I've been playing for the Canadian for two, three years.
	You got me cussing over here, I apologize.
	Yeah, blame it on me, you hellion.
	So this is from Joseph R. I never fed the dog, by the way.
	He took my food.
	A bunch of Republicans on stage.
	One united MAGA ideology from our on-air channel.
	That's not it at all.
	I mean the tweet.
	Joseph R. Biden.
	The hell was that?
	Oh that's Trump looking at it from his cell.
	That's what she said to me.
	The one right above that.
	We're doing this live without a net.
	Well and he's getting better.
	What?
	We've been drinking.
	The tweet right above that.
	I mean, it's literally a half an inch above that.
	That's what she said.
	Go ahead.
	Bring it up.
	Bring it up.
	Stop it.
	Do it!
	Yeah!
	Oh my goodness.
	A bunch of Republicans on stage.
	One united MAGA ideology.
	Oh!
	What's this?
	Hollywood Squares?
	Yeah, exactly.
	No, no, no.
	I don't need a video report.
	Yeah, he's the middle square on the age quilt.
	This is Joe Biden trying to... Wait.
	Was that supposed to be clever?
	That's what I mean.
	He just said it.
	That's not mine.
	That's comedic.
	I have to give...
	Joe Biden.
	That's not mine.
	We're talking about the videos.
	I didn't hear what Nick said.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, he said it about Paul Litton.
	Kenny Rogers is a fucking genius.
	Wait, Kenny Rogers?
	Kenny Rogers said, yeah, yeah, the singer came up with that one.
	All right.
	No, Kenny Rogers said, ow!
	You just hit my shoe!
	I hit your heel!
	It's a Goodyear welt!
	Jeez!
	What's that made of, shark's teeth?
	I don't know, but I tell you what I do know.
	When he said that stupid white dog, that felt bad for Nick coming out of his mouth, because he loves Joe Louis.
	You didn't mean that for a moment.
	If I could have a dog on the planet, I would kidnap that thing.
	And I'd treat it the way it deserves to be, not the way you treat it.
	Who feeds cotton candy and chocolate to their dog?
	He likes Mickey's.
	He is the sweetest, scariest dog I've ever seen.
	He's the scariest looking dog.
	I've never seen him dislike anybody.
	Me?
	I hate everybody.
	He dislikes stray cats.
	Let's grab a couple of chats because we're waiting on obviously Dr. Peterson.
	We'll see if he gets in there.
	Then we can go to Mug Club and if these candidates want to wait then it'll just be on Mug Club.
	We'll run it on as a clip tomorrow.
	But let's grab a few chats and thank you again.
	The promo code is CrowderGOPdebate.
	$10 off and he will be at Rob's Comedy Playhouse September 15th somewhere in New York.
	Buffalo.
	Buffalo.
	Here I am in front of my pizza place.
	I can't remember any everything.
	Here I am in front of my pizza place.
	I love that picture.
	Alright, so here's a question for Stephen.
	What were your thoughts on the questions and what issues do you think needed to be addressed during the debate?
	Well, I was just very surprised that they started off so quickly with the climate change as the number one issue and how they partnered with Young America's Foundation.
	That seemed odd to me.
	Maybe it's just me, and then right away going into the abortion in a way that was hedged really as though it was written from Salon.com or Slate.
	I think that we learned today, look, and I've always tried to be really careful about this.
	You know this, Gerald, because I was at Fox News for four and a half years.
	They never liked me, to be clear.
	Well, actually, that's not true.
	Two people did, and then Roger Ailes did not.
	He also, like, banned Norm Macdonald for life, so I felt like, okay, I'm doing all right.
	In other words, they don't just hate everybody.
	But I was there for four and a half years, so I've tried to be objective.
	They're not your friends.
	They're not your allies, Fox News.
	I think we learned that tonight.
	Would you say so, Gerald?
	It did not seem like they were being even-handed.
	I think that's reasonable.
	I mean, you've got an entire field of Republicans, and so you have to ask questions to kind of push them a little bit and get the conversation going.
	But when you talk about climate change as a settled thing, that's a debate right now with conservatives and what part we play in it, what we should do.
	Literally spending trillions of dollars and shutting down world economies to try to make sure that we go green instead of letting Africa, I don't know, use coal.
	By the way, every single freaking electric vehicle out there is powered by coal, so thank you, coal.
	We just had an ad for the Cadillac, the new EV from Cadillac, like 450 mile range, which by the way you know is probably 30% better than it actually gets.
	That's one tank of gas!
	Seriously.
	And the gas mileage in my SUV is offensive!
	It definitely is.
	But I also think that they are not pushing back the way that they used to.
	Fox News?
	Yeah, Fox used to be the rebels.
	And look, again, they're never going to be that again.
	They're never going to be that.
	Can I say why?
	Rumble?
	Those guys are the rebels.
	They're the ones out there.
	What is it?
	What did your mentor say, Andrew Byburn?
	Punk rock, right?
	Like, that's what they are.
	So, Rumble, lean into that.
	Don't try to be friends with these people.
	Go in there and burn the damn thing down and put a nail in the coffin for us all so that we can just move on with our lives.
	And that's what I love about Rumble.
	They're not trying to burn anything down, but they are what they are, and I couldn't be happier to be partners with them.
	You know why?
	They don't have a woman as a CEO.
	Start there.
	That's serious.
	Chris is, in fact, a man.
	Well, you were about to say something before that.
	That was it.
	Oh, was it?
	Okay.
	Suzanne Scott and whoever the hell else.
	And what are the kids?
	It's not Murdoch's kids.
	Loughlin, Murdoch, and... Yeah, those two.
	Where'd they go, to frickin' Berkeley?
	Yeah.
	I always have to be careful because... My manager Tommy's being interviewed on camera.
	I thought it was Vivek's brother.
	I like gay video.
	By the way, we do have Jordan Peterson on the way.
	He's on the way, yeah.
	In just a minute he'll be... What's he, in an Uber?
	Let's grab another chat.
	Alright, we got another chat here.
	It's a question for crew.
	How bad would Trump bulldoze Republican nomineeses if he had been at the debate?
	Well, we talked about that.
	Again, I think you have to imagine, okay, Donald Trump there next, put him next to Christie, put him next to Tim Scott, put him next to Vivek, put him next to Ron DeSantis, put him next to Nikki Haley.
	I think everyone comes out of there, like I said earlier on tonight, everyone comes out of that debate tonight worse off than they went in, with the exception Of Vivek.
	And I don't know, I guess sort of DeSantis, there's still a question mark.
	I don't think that DeSantis answered the questions that he needed to tonight.
	That's what I think is probably, and I'm not a political junkie so I know that people have... But we, the way we were doing this tonight, we turned it down while they were answering stuff.
	A little bit.
	We missed some of it.
	I'm just saying.
	No, there were a lot of fat jokes.
	Why does Johnny Carson come back to life?
	So what did you think of the debate?
	Chris Christie.
	Good stuff.
	Good job.
	Wild stuff.
	Wild stuff.
	Weird wild stuff.
	Wild stuff.
	Very good over there.
	I haven't seen his dick in about 45 years.
	Let's ask the Zoomer.
	I think, yeah.
	Well, that's because Chris Christie hasn't seen his Dick Cavett.
	I think we have him.
	Do we have him?
	Yeah, I think so.
	Alright, so right now, of course, we have Patrick Bette David.
	Like I said, if I were going to put my top three people out there kind of fighting the good fight in their shows, their podcasts, Patrick Bette David would be there, and Dr. Jordan Peterson, who I believe we have on right now.
	Doc, can you see me?
	Can you hear me, sir?
	Hey Stephen, how are you doing, man?
	I am doing well.
	Hold on a second, I'm trying to, that is, is that like a, is that a jacket?
	That's almost like a Two-Face jacket.
	It's from Don Cherry.
	Quite the ensemble.
	It's Don Cherry's company.
	Exactly, well I am a Canadian, you know, so it's necessary to have a suit like this.
	And that's, that's because Don Peterson in Rumble You can't go out of bounds!
	So, Doc Peterson, what did you think?
	And by the way, I think you can just Google Jordan Peterson and find everything that he does.
	If I'm missing the most effective plug, he's so ubiquitous.
	Doc, what was your takeaway tonight on this debate?
	Well, the first thing I thought was that I thought all of the candidates did a credible job.
	I thought it was actually a pretty strong playing field.
	I thought each of them hit some points home effectively.
	And then, you know, I have opinions about each of the different candidates' performances.
	I thought Vivek Ramaswamy Evoke the most positive and the most negative response from the audience.
	You know, he's very charismatic and so he can he can he can he can produce that extremely broad response from the audience.
	So the challenge for Vivek will be to Learn how to minimize that the negative consequences of his somewhat impulsive style and to capitalize more on the attractiveness of his vision.
	I think because I think when he does that he's very strong.
	I think his use of insult in relationship to the other candidates was not didn't do him any particular good.
	I don't think it hit well.
	I think it turned them against him in a way that was somewhat counterproductive for him, but I also don't think that it sat well with the audience.
	I thought DeSantis, you know, I'd give DeSantis a pretty solid B-plus performance rating with very little variability.
	He was stable and credible the whole time.
	I thought that Mike Pence was quite statesman-like, that Chris Christie showed a fair bit of spine.
	I like the North Dakota governor.
	He looks like a credible guy.
	It doesn't look to me like he's in the race to the same degree as the rest of the candidates.
	I thought Nikki Haley scored the odd point.
	DeSantos was very strong on the southern border protection issue.
	So, Tim Scott has a good sense of humor, although I thought that he was... he played polite.
	I think he is polite and I think he is a genuinely good person, but there was a kind of, there's a harshness that might also be introduced into the realm that I don't think that he capitalized on.
	He needed a little more, Tim Scott, he needed to get in there, go after the puck a little more, and I don't think he did.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, and you know, by the same token, he didn't make any mistakes that made it look like he was unfit for the job.
	And I actually think that was the case for all of the candidates.
	So, I think as a showing on the Republican side, it was quite strong.
	It's a tricky debate forum with that many people talking because it's very difficult to develop any ideas in any detail.
	So, you know, that was challenging.
	I think it was unfortunate that Trump wasn't there.
	I think it's not good that both Biden and Trump have decided that they're not going to participate in these debates because the debates are crucial.
	And I think participating in them is a show of strength and a show of respect.
	I mean, Trump made a brilliant move tonight, going to see Tucker Carlson instead at the same time.
	Let me say one thing here.
	I slightly disagree, and let me explain sort of my premise here.
	I said this before the front end of these debates.
	Everyone's been talking about, and I agree with you, that for Donald Trump strategically, right, it was a risk he didn't need to take.
	But I also think that everyone there tonight Really should be thanking their lucky stars.
	The best thing that could have happened to them from a selfish perspective, but as far as advancing, is Donald Trump not being there.
	Because every time I'm watching these people answer, with the exception of Vivek, DeSantis, certainly Pence, certainly Nikki Haley, certainly Chris Christie.
	And let me put them right next to Donald Trump.
	Every single one of them tonight would have left that debate far more bruised and battered if Donald Trump had been there.
	So it's almost a benevolent act.
	Hey, fair enough.
	Yeah, I mean, think about it.
	We don't want to do damage to the Republican Party, right?
	It might have been advantageous to these candidates for that to be the case.
	The playing field was a lot more level.
	So I don't think that they can necessarily complain about the fact that he wasn't there.
	I think it's unfortunate on a broader level.
	That he's forgone the debates.
	But, you know, it's early in the campaign and God only knows what's going to happen.
	I mean, the world's a very strange place at the moment and no one has any idea what's going to happen between now and November.
	Right.
	Let me ask you this from a perspective of someone who obviously has literally run up against, I guess figuratively, but quite literally gone up against the Canadian government.
	Figuratively run up against them, literally actually had to actively fight the Canadian government.
	The free speech issue is obviously something that's pivotal to you.
	There was just a new, I think it was a case or ruling there in Canada, and I've always said that the United States is the greatest country in the world because it's the only country where freedom of speech exists.
	In your gut, But as someone, and I know that free speech is near and dear to your soul, watching that tonight, who would you have the most trust in as far as someone who would be a defender of freedom of speech?
	Because it's a pivotal issue, it extends to big tech, it extends to media in general, and of course that affects all of us.
	Did you have a gut feeling of this might be someone who will be in our corner?
	That's a tough one, you know I think, I guess I would pick, this isn't a precise answer to your question, but I would have some faith in Pence.
	Pence, Christie, and Vivek.
	Okay.
	Probably, so there's four.
	And DeSantis, you know.
	I think those people would fight for that for different reasons. I think Pence would
	fight for it because it's a right. I think Vivek would fight for it because he knows
	you can't think without free speech. I think DeSantis would fight for it. I think he would
	fight for it on principle as well.
	That would be more constitutional argument.
	Christy, I think, would fight for it because Christy's got a spine.
	He's a tough character and I don't think he's the sort of person that would allow anyone to interfere with his free speech, you know?
	And so, I'm pretty confident.
	You know, you don't know what temptations will beset someone when they obtain a substantive amount of power.
	Right.
	I certainly have a lot more faith on the Republican side of the political distribution in relationship to protections for free speech than I do on the Democrat side.
	I mean, look, we know Biden, we know, you know, I guess I take it personally to some degree, too, because I know absolutely perfectly well, because this was all revealed, that Biden told Facebook, for example, to preferentially promote the
	New York Times and the Wall Street Journal directly over the Daily Wire, and of course I'm
	quite, you know, tightly associated with them, so I'm in that in that camp of reprehensible
	individuals. Yes, isn't it funny for anyone to say, look, and I know of course you're going
	to have liberals who hate Jordan Peterson, but for anyone to put the words reprehensible and
	Jordan Peterson together, those are silly people.
	You can't say that, Doc, but I will.
	I think Gerald has a question for you.
	And I know we have to wrap you in just a couple of minutes here.
	I know you've got some other things to do.
	He's a busy man.
	Yeah, Dr. Peterson, I agree with you on Vivek.
	I started to see the same thing.
	The audience didn't react the same way that I thought they would.
	But he was kind of a marked man going into this debate.
	DeSantis needed to do some damage on him, but he's basically gobbling up all of his votes.
	So is there another strategy he could have taken?
	I think it was kind of nice to see him go on the offensive a little bit.
	You mean, you did a different strategy for Vivek or for DeSantis?
	For Vivek, basically going on the offensive and punching out a little bit first.
	Well, no, I think there were some things he could have done and that would have been helpful.
	I think that Pence was quite markedly professional in his use of pauses.
	You know, he controlled the pace of the dialogue and Vivek is quite impulsive and quick and I think that that highlights his youthfulness in a way that's not not useful to him.
	I think that more explanation and less criticism would have worked better again and made him look more sagacious and more mature.
	I think he could have done that That and in a manner that would have only be advantageous to him.
	And I also think that he could have highlighted his, as I said earlier, his concern for the disenfranchised working class, particularly on economic grounds.
	And I think that was a weakness in the entire field.
	They've left that field.
	They've left that part of the political domain for Trump.
	And that's not smart because that's really where Trump is strongest.
	Yeah, I think you're right.
	I think maybe Vivek was smart to go into the immigration issue because that does tie in with the American working class.
	That's a big reason that Trump surged in 2016, and I don't think that Fox News was really doing a very good job of trying to at least lay up the issues for them where they would be strongest to answer.
	I mean, going into climate change and abortion.
	I don't know, I was a little disappointed, but I know that you have to wrap up.
	You're the belle of the ball tonight.
	Doc, where's the best place for people to find you and support you because you're everywhere these days?
	Well, I mean, people are certainly more than welcome to take a look at my books if they're inclined to do that.
	The place I'm most active is really on YouTube.
	That's the right place to follow me.
	That's where, I mean, apart from the books, obviously, that's where I'm I suppose at my best.
	I don't know if I'm on my best, at my best on Twitter, for example, but... No one is.
	It's entertaining.
	And by the way, you correct your dirty mouth.
	It's X, doctor.
	Yes, yes, it's X. I'm sorry.
	You've been X'd.
	I will get that right eventually.
	None of us will.
	All right, so on YouTube, and of course your books, everyone knows.
	I mean, it's one of the best-selling books that I can think of, certainly in the... Can I just say one thing?
	Yeah, yeah, one thing.
	His book, and I want to thank Dr. Peterson for his book.
	I was going through some tough stuff about six, seven years ago, and it made a little bit of a mess of my marriage.
	And his book, basically, the gist of it was, you've got to do the right thing.
	And it really, one of the few books that have had an impact on me.
	So I wanted to thank you so much for that.
	And I live in Savannah, Georgia.
	I think you opened a center down there or something.
	Are you going to?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Well, there's a new university down there, Ralston College, a bricks and mortar institution.
	And I'm starting this Peterson Academy, which my daughter is running.
	And we're going to cut the cost of a Of a university-equivalent degree down to something approximating $4,000, which I think would be absolutely comical, and I think we can do it, too.
	Well, Dr. Peterson, thank you, sir.
	A nice radical proposal.
	We run in different circles, but, you know, Nick, just in case you didn't know, Nick DiPaolo is the OG in comedy.
	He's probably one of the most respected joke writers and known as one of the meanest comics in the business, so if anyone were to tell you, or tell anyone, Twelve years ago, that Nick DiPaolo will be thanking Jordan Peterson for a book that tells him how to improve his character and moral fiber.
	They would have called you an absolutely insane person, so that shows the kind of people that you're able to reach and take some time.
	Nick DiPaolo, one of the funniest men, but an animal, a savage.
	Dr. Peterson, I know you're busy, so thanks for taking the time, brother.
	Thank you.
	Hey, man, it's really good to talk to you, and I'm very happy to hear that my book was helpful.
	I'm always very happy to hear that.
	That was the whole point of writing the damn thing.
	Thank you, sir.
	I really appreciate it.
	He really, really needs it.
	Thank you, Dr. Peterson.
	We appreciate it.
	That is insanity.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Nick DiPaolo.
	I was like, what, he told you to make your bed, Nick?
	You see, you look at me and see a dumb Italian.
	I didn't say dumb Italian.
	You don't have to.
	Black guys are right about a lot of this stuff.
	I'm serious, I get pigeonholed.
	I get plenty of books at home, whether it's Jordan Peterson, whether it was back in the day Newt Gingrich, Pat Buchanan, even, I was going to say Chomsky, but that would be a lie.
	But I'm just saying, I'm not a pretentious asshole who has to show it.
	No, I just never know, you know, because I have to keep the allure.
	But you know what, Nick DiPaolo is actually, he's a kind man at heart.
	I mean, I saw five minutes of him on YouTube one night and went, oh my God, this guy is absolutely brilliant.
	We were really covering him with Bill C-16 there in Canada before he, you know, had appeared on Rogan and before he had sort of broke.
	And I said, look, this is a guy who's really fighting the fight against the Canadian government as a professor.
	I couldn't be more happy that he's done as well as he has.
	He's just one of those guys, he just needs to get out in front of people.
	If you have heard the left describe Jordan Peterson, you'll think he's a monster.
	If you've heard Jordan Peterson in his own words, to know him is to love him.
	That's how it was Rush Limbaugh.
	That's all I heard was how evil he was and I put it on and I'm like, I haven't heard him say even close to a dark thing.
	Well that's the same thing I heard about you and I tuned in and I said, well I see the point.
	Yeah, well I... But it's okay!
	We need all different kinds of warriors!
	No, you're right!
	I do it for, you know, you don't think Dr. Peace would love to let it fly like I do some nights?
	Well, I know he's a big fan of Trailer Park Boys, which means he does have a little bit of a dark side to him.
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	And we're about to go, do we have a... We're gonna have Don Jr.
	here in just a second.
	Oh, great!
	Should we go to Mug Club?
	I mean, at some point.
	I mean, we've been going for three and a half hours.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Let's probably go to... Alright, so look, we're going to have Donald Trump Jr.
	We'll release some clips of Donald Trump Jr.
	And we'll have some more clips with Donald Trump Jr.
	tomorrow.
	If you can't be... Look, if you're a freeloader, I understand $7 a month is genuinely... I'm not just saying this.
	I get it's tough for some people, but what you get, you get twice the show, Ladder with Crowder.
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	Nick DiPaolo at so-and-so comedy playhouse in Buffalo.
	Let's go to nickdip.com.
	The drinking game really did a number.
	Rumble, thank you.
	Fuck you YouTube piss off!
	Oh Oh
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	All right.
	Donald Trump Jr., can you hear me, sir?
	I can hear you.
	Fantastic.
	How was it being there?
	I was there yesterday.
	I had to leave to get back here for the debate.
	I had to catch an ungodly early flight out of here.
	But I wish that I was there to sit in the room.
	What was your take on what was going on in the debate?
	It was amazing.
	I mean, Trump won a debate without even having to be present.
	It was spectacular.
	That's what I missed!
	That's what I called yesterday!
	He said Trump won the debate without being there.
	I'm sorry Don Jr.
	I did a half pee because out of respect for you I cinched it up and now it burns and then I hear everyone laughing so I'm sorry I don't know what I missed.
	What happened?
	They asked me how I thought it went tonight.
	I said it was incredible.
	I mean, there's nothing like winning a debate without having to even show up.
	Yes.
	No, hold on.
	They didn't ask you.
	It was me, Don.
	It was me.
	I can't see the screen.
	Nothing's showing up.
	I'm just seeing this.
	Are we on live now, or are we just talking?
	No, we are.
	We are always live, so, you know, careful with our comments about... Well, listen, I saw DiPaolo on the screen there, and I just wanted to thank Nick, because I think, A, he's hilarious, but more importantly, he paid me one of the great compliments I've ever received, actually.

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