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Nov. 9, 2023 - Louder with Crowder

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ROUND 3: Crowder's GOP Debate Livestream & Donald Trump Rally Coverage!

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	Kiss!
	And I'll see you in the next video.
	Hey, stay tuned for a debate night livestream live.
	You can use the hashtag, CrowderDebateNight.
	We have a promo code, Drinking Game Rules, to follow.
	But, number two here, Gerald Morgan, CEO, sat down just a little bit earlier today with Vivek Ramaswamy, you know his name, to discuss his thoughts and predictions on the debate.
	So, ten minutes, and then we go live.
	But enjoy this interview with America's favorite Indian.
	Look, the field is definitely narrowing, and I know that we've covered a number of topics already in the debate so far.
	What topics are you focusing on and kind of preparing for for tonight's debate?
	I mean, look, every topic matters, but right now there's a few things that are going on in the world.
	One is the Republicans got trounced again.
	Yeah.
	Interestingly, every election since, you know, what, 2018, 2020, 2022, now 2023, which is actually a pretty meaningful election, my home state, I was very disappointed with the results.
	I mean, it wasn't even close in Ohio.
	On measure on issue number one in particular that Republicans or the conservative or pro-life cost should have had an alternative that was on the ballot.
	It wasn't.
	So I am in a pretty disgusted place with the Republican establishment right now.
	And that's the same establishment that's looking to lead us to World War Three.
	I mean, it's Dick Cheney 2.0 trying to run the Republican Party, except this time they lose elections consistently.
	And, you know, I'm very worried that the same establishment that has failed the conservative movement here at home in a sort of domestic war that they fail to recognize that we're in.
	I do think it's a war between those who love this country and those who hate this country at home.
	Failing to recognize that are instead making up foreign wars to go fight that don't advance the American interest, most notably in Ukraine.
	But we can talk about that more broadly, too.
	And so I'm coming from a place of, you know, deep frustration.
	But how are we going to channel that to solutions?
	That's my job, not just tonight, but as the next president if we're elected.
	Absolutely.
	And I know that you have to be prepared for any topic, any question, any time of day it seems.
	Like your entire life right now is answering these questions and being prepared.
	But I think if anybody's looking to kind of read the tea leaves, the international questions, the kind of geopolitical questions, seem like they would make the most sense tonight.
	Is that the sense that you and your team are getting as well?
	I mean, yeah, I think that's the vibe.
	It makes a lot of sense.
	I mean, I think there should probably be some introspection in the GOP about Why the hell we're repeatedly failing, you know, why we as a country have lost our own identity at home, why there's the self-loathing we see on display most recently on college campuses, but you see it, the self-loathing on display in this country.
	So I think there should be some discussion of the cultural rot and cancer at the heart of this country.
	But yes, right now, more than ever, we're at risk of potentially entering major conflict.
	In a way that we haven't for a very long time in this country.
	And I do think that's also where we have the deepest divisions within the Republican Party.
	And the cultural issues, we each have different perspectives on how we'd address it.
	I think that, you know, I'm biased when I say this, but I think somebody who has a deeper understanding of what's going on is going to be better positioned to address it.
	But those are nuances.
	But on the international matters, we have deep differences on what we should be doing.
	There are other people in this party who believe we should be writing tens of billions and then hundreds of billions of dollars more checks to places like Ukraine.
	I solidly disagree with that.
	I think it does not advance the American interest.
	I would go so far as to say it's now hurting the American interest and increasing the risk of major conflict.
	It's not just the money.
	Some people think we're $34 trillion in national debt, and that still means we should be giving aid packages willy-nilly to people whose national debt per capita is less than ours.
	I disagree with that.
	So those are real ideological divisions within the GOP.
	So it would make sense to me if we smoked some of that out tonight.
	Last night, actually, we held a rally in Miami.
	It was the Stop World War III rally, and we rolled out my No to Neocon pledge.
	Which is basically three simple things I'm going to ask anybody who's a political appointee in my administration to commit to.
	That they acknowledge that avoiding World War III is a vital national interest, that the job of every U.S.
	policymaker is exclusively to U.S.
	citizens here at home, and that war should never be a preference, only a necessity.
	So that's not controversial, but at the same time it runs Directly counter to the neocon worldview that's dominated our party for much of the last several decades.
	And so, you know, that we made a little website for it, notoneocons.com, and people can see the pledge and we want to get as many conservatives across this country to sign up to those basic Are you going to actively call for the other candidates tonight to sign that pledge or be willing to at least commit to it tonight?
	I think so.
	I mean, I publicly called for that.
	other people on that debate stage, some of whom stand to make money from going to war,
	personally make money from going to war, you know, I think will represent.
	Are you going to actively call for the other candidates tonight to sign that pledge or
	be willing to at least commit to it tonight?
	I think so.
	I mean, I publicly called for that.
	So I think of the debate stage, I think I want to be a little bit more fluid and not
	You know, I think, you know, I'm going to go through it.
	It's my first time going through a political campaign like this, right?
	So you go through different iterations, you learn.
	In retrospect, you know, I mean, I was trying to wear, I would say a team player hat a little bit.
	Yeah.
	Maybe we can, you know, unite around certain common themes in that second debate.
	It just, it just wasn't used.
	And second, for so many reasons, wasn't useful, but I wasn't, Really particularly useful?
	I would say in that debate either.
	We talked about it when you were here at the studio for the Ash Wednesday that we did.
	Yeah, and I think you were right about it.
	I was yelling at the monitor, I was just like, come on, this isn't you.
	You know, and I was thinking about, I mean, you gotta, you know, I wouldn't say cut me
	any slack at all because, you know, I'm a candidate, but I'm telling you, as a first
	timer going through this, you experiment with different modes and mentalities and head spaces.
	And, you know, today, I'll tell you what my day looked like before the debate stage.
	I went for a jog this morning, then we went for jet skiing, swam in the ocean a little bit.
	I'm going to go.
	We were in the pool before.
	I'm going to go back to the pool, going to have a meal with my family, and then we'll come back to the place we're going to have the debate.
	And I just want to kind of keep it.
	So maybe I'll mention the No to Neocon pledge if that feels like it's not particularly those three commitments.
	Great.
	People have the website afterwards.
	We're running this campaign, the No to Neocon pledge, through December 7th.
	That's the date that the U.S.
	entered World War II.
	right to have that December 7 this year to say that we will make it a priority
	to keep us out of World War three but whether that comes up on the debate
	stage or not we'll see I'm gonna be pretty fluid tonight I am I'll tell you
	right now I mean we're a few hours before the debate I am at a you're
	catching me at an irritated moment at the Republican establishment broadly to
	cancer I think that it needs to be cured, if the country is going to be cured.
	And there needs to be accountability for, you know, the failures of this party.
	And I think that in many cases, it behaves a lot like the Democratic Party, except like a less competent version of it at times.
	And so, you know, I think that those are some of the themes on my mind, and I think that the risk of World War III and our entering it, potentially major conflict soon, sleepwalking our way into it, is a risk that both parties, I think, bear responsibility for.
	And I think I'm going to be the only non-neocon on that stage tonight calling for The U.S.
	to do something other than intervening in foreign conflicts and instead focus more on protecting our own homeland and our own borders, which we're badly failing to do here at home.
	And then, you know, the response I'm sure will be, oh, we can walk and chew gum at the same time.
	You're doing neither, is the answer that I have to anybody who comes with that response.
	And so Yeah, there's some people on that stage who ideologically believe it.
	Others who, and this is ugly, but it's an ugly truth, just like the Biden crime family, stand to make money off of selling off our foreign policy.
	That's happening in the Republican Party as it is in the Democratic Party.
	And so that deserves to be called out as well.
	And so I hope we'll get, you know, I don't know if we'll get that on the debate stage tonight, or it'll be in the subsequent months of this campaign.
	But if we're hitting on related topics, you can expect me to be pretty unrestrained.
	Well, look, I think that's what people like.
	That's what people like about President Trump.
	They like that he really doesn't hold back.
	You know exactly what he thinks, it seems, most of the time, whether you like it or not.
	And I think that's what people liked about you, right?
	That you're very fluid.
	In that second debate, you talked about, you know, strategy shifting just a little bit.
	And, you know, one thing that you did, you kind of leaned over to me as you were leaving and said, I think you're going to like what you see in the third debate when you were, you know, after the state.
	I'm hoping that That low grade or even mild to severe irritation is good.
	I'm just done with the genteel norms.
	As I said, I'm a candidate, go through different stages.
	I'm a human being, we experimented.
	I experimented with different modes.
	I've never led the free world before.
	I've led companies before.
	But thinking about the different ways In some ways, one of the pieces of advice I actually gave to a young person recently is just view everything as an experiment.
	Right?
	I mean, life is an experiment.
	So you are able to learn the most that way.
	And I think this campaign in some ways has been, you know, I'll try to follow my own advice.
	And I think the experiment that worked best is me being unrestrained and, you know, unattached to a specific you know, political goal, but to say that my whole strategy
	is speak the truth, and if that's what the people of this country want in their next president,
	that's what they're going to get in me.
	And if not, then go for somebody else. Yeah, right. Well, I think you have to just be who
	you are. Totally at peace with that. Yeah.
	You're not the chosen one, Gerald.
	You're terrible.
	And you're gay.
	I'm the chosen one.
	You see, I'm the one who created Mug Club.
	Everyone knows that it's growing.
	No thanks to you, Gerald.
	Of course, this is all for you.
	It's your mug.
	It's your club.
	It's your Mug Club.
	I'm behind the scenes guy.
	I'm just trying to help you.
	I'm not gay.
	I did what our detractors didn't think was possible, and I did it all while having my name smeared Through those filthy rags with which you wrap your rotten fish.
	And you know what?
	Hm?
	You know what?
	I made a deal with Rumble and I delivered them hundreds of thousands of mugs.
	Day one.
	And now it's our vision.
	My vision.
	Not Gerald's vision.
	And we're leading the charge.
	And you know what else I did?
	Hm?
	You know what else I did?
	I took the good people of Rumble out to dinner and I did it with your salary on your dime.
	I paid it!
	Cash in hand.
	It was delicious.
	I had the veal.
	Why would you do that?
	That's a baby cow!
	Why?
	Why?
	You'd let it grow up and give it false hope.
	Why are you doing this?
	Oh God!
	Stop your gay nonsense!
	You're just the afterbirth, Gerald.
	No!
	No!
	It slithered out of your mother's filth.
	No, why are you doing this?
	They should have put your face on a YouTube plaque when they shot it at the range.
	Two for one!
	You think you're great!
	You think you're so great!
	But Gerald, where were you when I was bringing on Nick DiBallo?
	Where were you?
	I brought on Brian Callen and the best bit of news, Alex Jones.
	No, he can't be, you couldn't have gotten him.
	I did, he can, and he was.
	Newest addition to the network.
	No thanks to you.
	No thanks to you and your gay face.
	I'm not gay, I've been married for years, you know this.
	GAY!
	Gay!
	Gerald Morgan is what you are.
	You glorified pool boy.
	So sorry.
	So gay.
	Hey.
	Come on.
	Hey.
	If you have a mug club, okay?
	You have a mug club.
	There it is.
	Hold it up.
	There it is.
	You have a mug club.
	And I have a mug club.
	And I have a straw.
	There it is.
	See the straw?
	Now watch.
	See the straw?
	And my straw reaches across the room and it starts to drink your mug club.
	I drink your mug club!
	I drink it up!
	Wait, what the hell does that even mean?
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	I'm just trying to get a real answer because they never give a real answer.
	You'll see the authorities, people who are supposed to look out for you, instead, they're running interference for them.
	23 years, it's a little more severe than being let out with a $50 bail.
	We will never surrender our sources.
	We will never compromise on the truth.
	And our pursuit of those who live in the shadows of evil will never, ever stop.
	Our eyes and ears are everywhere.
	We are many.
	We are among you.
	Among you, we are you. We are nothing. Unh-huh.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Oh Ah!
	This is a disaster!
	Hey, glad to be with you.
	I have a pinched nerve in my neck so you'll notice everything has been moved over because I was having to pull a trump with a cup of water and move my hand with my other hand.
	And I just spilled a bunch of water kicking it over.
	Glad to be with you!
	Working with a stroke victim.
	That's like the Jerry Lewis telethon.
	I'm one of the kids.
	Yeah.
	Ha ha.
	I know, but they, you know.
	Used to.
	He's alive in your hearts, just like these debate streams.
	These are always fun, and by that I mean they're not.
	But!
	We make them fun as best we can.
	Right now you can use the hashtag CrowderDebateStream or is it CrowderDebateNight?
	Sorry.
	CrowderDebateNight.
	We have a drinking game that you can play along with tonight.
	Bring up the drinking game rules.
	Alright, you drink and you'll hear this.
	Anytime someone says I stand with Israel or Ukraine.
	Anytime Chris Christie acts tough.
	Anytime someone says that they can but Trump can't win a general election.
	Anytime there's an Indian catfight between Vivek and Haley, or at least a portion of her.
	I didn't know she was Indian.
	Anytime a candidate mentions their home state, and you have to finish your drink, anytime someone says Biden isn't running, or if the Nashville Manifesto is mentioned, which I don't think it will be.
	I have, you know, some ideas about it.
	Maybe Vivek will.
	Vivek, like, you know.
	Vivek, I'm sorry.
	Cake like cake.
	And we're going to get into our predictions, what happened last night with the election.
	But before that, look, there's still the promo code undercover.
	Right now, if you go and join Mug Club, lightearthcrowder.com slash Mug Club, because of what happened this week with the Nashville Manifesto.
	And I want to clarify a few things.
	There have been some rumors out there.
	Look, no source was paid for this story, and our source is still safe, has not been relieved of duty or fired.
	Just to be clear.
	Those rumors have been circulating.
	There have been seven officers allegedly, or on administrative leave, in the Metro Nashville Police.
	Our source is fine.
	Not one of them.
	Could be penniless because we didn't pay them, but fine.
	We will go to jail to protect our sources.
	Where do people get these rumors?
	Well, I just don't want, you know, when people go out and they report irresponsibly, it can intimidate whistleblowers into silence and we have whistleblowers at the highest levels of government right now.
	Right.
	So, continue to send in your tips at LWCTipsAtProtonMail.com.
	My question to you, as well as what do you think the topics will be tonight?
	We think it's going to be foreign policy.
	Yeah.
	And what do you think is an important topic that should be, but won't be discussed tonight?
	Alright, I'm thinking, is there anything else I need to mention?
	Oh, Alex Jones will be here for the postgame.
	Yeah!
	Post-debate wrap-up with Alex Jones.
	We debated having him in this chair, but...
	You know, it's like you have to MC this, where you have to stretch it, shorten it, and Alex is always a headlining actor.
	You know, I love that Vivek put it that way, because if I can just for a minute, just discuss this for a minute.
	It's like, you mean ten minutes and you can't?
	Two hours later, yeah, exactly.
	Because he's brilliant.
	He's brilliant, but he's sometimes a solo act.
	He's perfect for the wrap-up, or he will catch.
	He gets a second win at 9 o'clock in the evening, he said, so I'm like, oh boy, that's going to be right around the time.
	He gets that win right after he comes out of the men's gym.
	Well, I tell you what, there's no cleaner place to go than Bucky's, so the man does know how to pick his restrooms wisely.
	And even though he's dead, George Michael will live in our hearts forever.
	Number two in command, CEO, Gerald Morgan.
	How are you, sir?
	I'm doing well.
	I'm sorry your neck.
	We were going through kind of a run through to mock up everything and make sure we were ready to go and you're like, I can't lift my arm.
	I know.
	Well, that's going to be tough.
	And it's a pinched nerve.
	And I know our sponsor, CB Distillery, you know, don't indict them because I literally have a ruptured disc in my neck and pinched a nerve.
	Their stuff is great, but it won't.
	You did rub it on me.
	No homo.
	You rubbed it on me and then Nick rubbed my neck.
	No, hold on.
	It wasn't even a request.
	Well, Nick just walked in and was like, hold on, it's my turn.
	He has strong Sicilian hands.
	It's two Nicks here, you mean that?
	Al Gore would be so lucky to have a masseuse as handsy as Nick.
	The love of my sister.
	Oh boy.
	Gee Willikers.
	For the love of Pete, I was going to say.
	For the love of Pete, right?
	I know.
	Man of Pluff.
	We all kill Pete with kindness.
	You can watch... Do we have his intro music, I guess?
	I guess we have it.
	Yeah, his show on Mug Club, you get it Monday through Thursday at 5 p.m.
	Eastern.
	The funniest comic alive.
	The funniest man alive.
	He is the guy who everyone in the industry says, that's the guy.
	Nick DiPaolo, how are you, sir?
	I'm traumatic.
	Could you play my theme a little lower?
	Jesus Christ, would you like me?
	He just, you know, because you can't hear because you don't have headphones on.
	Yeah, it was louder in my ears.
	That's a good point.
	Anyways.
	Who is right now?
	Let's bring this up right now.
	Is this... That's Romney's... I was going to say, she looks almost like she's more Botox than human.
	Yeah, that's the person who got their butt kicked last night because they didn't have great strategy across the country.
	Well, what do you expect when you assign it to walking botulism?
	So, what are your predictions really quickly?
	And, Gerald, you tell me what we want to get to.
	Again, it's Crowder Debate Night.
	The drinking games are going to be going on all night, and we have some... So, really quickly, we will be going to Donald Trump's speech, his rally in Hialeah.
	That's right.
	It's just down the road.
	I think it's ten minutes away.
	I don't know if he's actually on stage right now speaking, but just so you know... He is not.
	We'll be going to it when he does, so we'll be kind of cutting back and forth, and also if there are, like, epic mic drop moments from Donald Trump, which there typically are, then we'll have those, we'll clip those, we'll bring them in.
	You don't have to go anywhere to watch anything else, we'll have both for you tonight.
	We'll have some wrap-ups, so what has happened since the last debate as well.
	our predictions obviously which we're talking about right now. I think foreign policy because of
	everything that's happened the world is a very different place than it was when they had the
	last debate and you can't walk into the White House in 2024 and I'm sorry technically in 2025
	you can't walk in and get anywhere without understanding what's going on in the world
	and having a good plan for keeping the United States out of a broad war right.
	World War III or whatever other conflict we could get into.
	So you've got to be really sharp on this, and so I think right now we're going to see a contrast between people who want to keep us out of war and do it reasonably, not like an isolationist, and you'll see some people who are a little bit more hawkish.
	So Vivek versus pretty much everybody on the stage.
	Yes, exactly.
	They'll be He's saying he has no experience.
	He'll be saying you all want to go to war.
	He was a little pissed too when he was talking to me.
	He was like, I'm a little fired up about how badly we performed last night and also what we are doing.
	We're sleepwalking into a war and the Republicans are not doing a very good job of handling this.
	What do you think there Nick?
	Well, it's going to be a foreign policy because Dickhead has us on the brink of... And that's the strategy, not to get into World War II, is to get Dickhead out of there.
	It's commander in, uh, that word.
	Commander Dickhead.
	Yes, commander.
	And we do that not a week from now, we do it fucking tomorrow!
	We'll also allow Dickhead in Chief.
	Dickhead in Chief.
	We'll go with either of the above.
	We have to respect the office.
	And I think they'll be talking about too many flags in the NFL.
	Is it Breast Cancer Awareness Month?
	I don't want to be wearing pink.
	No, honestly.
	But anyways.
	And Vivek, again, that was my boy.
	But I think it was Jimmy Brewer who sent me a text a couple months ago saying, you better do homework on your boy.
	I think it was Brewer.
	I'm not sure.
	There was no name on it.
	But it was Long Island.
	Did he write out?
	No, but he said, you know, and there was a clip of Yvette using like three, no, like five phrases that Obama used when he was running for president.
	It did make me scratch my head.
	I don't worry about that.
	Brewer just is very mistrusting, and that's a good thing.
	It's a good thing to have someone like that who questions everything.
	Everybody but his dealer.
	Everyone, is there a train sealed?
	That sounds about right.
	I don't know.
	I need something for my neck.
	How about a hatchet?
	Oh, don't talk about Nikki Haley that way.
	Now, we have, it's a wound, now let's go, actually this is a good time to, someone help me!
	Let's get out of this and recap what happened since the last debate.
	I believe we have a montage of kind of what happened politically since the last debate, and then after that we have what's happened with Donald Trump since the last debate.
	Since he looms over these people like, that's what they should call him, the shadow.
	Donald Trump continuing to lead overwhelmingly here.
	Notably, DeSantis, who's been running in second all year, now joined by Nikki Haley in second place.
	Governor Ron DeSantis is getting a lot of bad campaign news this week.
	Not only is he losing out on endorsements, he's getting bad poll numbers, he's also taking heat for his footwear.
	For you to wear, okay, I shop at Ferragamo, okay?
	I don't accept gifts, I can't accept it.
	I mean, let's face it, Donald Trump is political and electoral poison.
	Down ballot.
	What a shock, you're for Trump.
	I'm gonna fall over dead.
	Your arguments are so great, and mine are so bad.
	Stick a butt in ya aorta.
	Tell me shit.
	This guy reviles Republican voters.
	I fucking hate this guy.
	The truth will set you free!
	What, are we cut to a Waffle House?
	Isn't it time for people like Tim Scott to drop out?
	Aren't they just wasting time at this point?
	Who said that?
	Yeah, you want to tell him that?
	I think I just did.
	Hallelujah!
	Are we doing Tyler Perry quotes?
	Yeah, what was that about?
	Do we fund Israel or do we fund Ukraine?
	No.
	Don't get involved in that.
	She's a child and this is the tantrum of a child.
	Ignorant, cocksure, bloodthirsty.
	I came here to say it's become clear to me Really?
	This is not my time.
	It'll be your time when you're 90.
	You have been forgotten.
	So that happened, right?
	We had the debates, we had a lot going on.
	I feel like I know this person right here on NBC.
	Who, that woman?
	That reporter, but I don't want to speak out of turn because I think I know that person.
	I know who she is.
	I swear to God.
	She's familiar, right?
	Yeah, she served us at the IHOP last time I was here.
	And she wouldn't give me the blueberry syrup.
	I don't want the current berry syrup.
	I want the blueberry syrup.
	Let's go to Donald Trump, what he has done, right, since the last debate.
	This is what we have.
	It's a scam.
	It's a sham.
	Just so you know, my financial statements are phenomenal.
	Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan left the bench, came back, ruled that Mr. Trump cannot make or repost statements attacking the special counsel, Jack Smith, his staff, or family, or Judge Chutkan's staff.
	This is not my time.
	I chose him, made him Vice President, but people in politics can be very disloyal.
	I've never seen anything like it.
	A vote for President Trump is a vote to secure the border, and it's a vote to keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country.
	Or find his way off the stage.
	He can't find his way off the stage.
	This is a scam.
	And this is a case that should have never been brought.
	what happened today the New York Times and CBS came out with a poll that I'm
	leading all over the place. This is a scam and this is a case that should have never been brought.
	A new CBS News poll shows that 34% of Republican primary voters say the legal
	challenges he faces make them think better of him.
	Yeah and by the way we're going to go back to those polls because they have to
	change the polls to try and make it seem like there's any silver lining for Joe Biden right now.
	I want to, before we do that, kind of give you a recap from last night.
	Now look, this is something...
	People are really irresponsible out there where you have a lot of GOP voters who think that everything is rigged, so why go out and vote?
	A lot of people stayed home.
	Now a lot of people are applying that to a national election, but they really don't add up.
	As a matter of fact, the recent polls from the New York Times are surprising as it relates to a national election.
	Let me kind of give you a recap of what happened last night, and you guys can comment below, hit the like button because it helps with the algorithm.
	A lot of the elections that were held yesterday, they didn't go as well as people were hoping for.
	I believe, do we have a brief, let's go to clip election day, but there's some context here that is missing a little bit and there are some wins that the media doesn't want you to know about.
	Well, Election Day 2023 results are in, and Democrats scored big in some key races.
	Notable wins include Ohio, which voted to enshrine abortion rights at the state level, Virginia, where Democrats will now control both the state and Senate and House of Delegates, and in Kentucky, where Democratic Governor Andy Beshear has was re-elected to a second term. President Biden
	weighed in on the victory saying quote Americans once again voted to protect their fundamental
	freedoms and democracy won.
	He weighed in with his frail bird bones.
	So let me give you the bad okay so the bad obviously you know what happened in Ohio with
	the uh the abortion protection okay.
	You know that the Kentucky governor, obviously, Democrat, was elected there.
	You probably know that they won, like she just said, both houses of the Virginia State Legislature.
	Here's something else that's pretty interesting.
	In Pennsylvania, votes were being flipped due to a coding error in a judge's race.
	Now that can't possibly be that voting machines could be Compromise.
	Could be just not good.
	Hey, before we get into the idea that Chavez is rigged, they just may not be all that good.
	Go and watch Kill Chain on HBO where they hacked it in a governor race.
	But here's something that you may not know is, you know, the abortion, when people talk about it, they say, oh, so it must be a losing issue period.
	Conservatives were outspent two to one.
	What happens is after Roe v. Wade was overturned, they didn't know what to do with it, and they don't have very clear messaging.
	Here are some wins, though, that people may not necessarily know about.
	The Virginia delegate candidate, who, by the way, performed sex acts on Chatterbait, lost.
	So that's a good thing.
	I think, yeah, that's overlay F5 there, Matt.
	I know I'm bouncing all around.
	Republicans gained a seat in the New York City Council in the Bronx.
	There you go!
	AOC's from there.
	And then the GOP now controls all of Long Island.
	So, you know, hey, think about it.
	That means the GOP, they're probably gaining with the Jew vote.
	That's where I was headed.
	You beat me to it.
	I'm sorry.
	No, I'm sad.
	I should have laid it up for you.
	The look on Nick's face.
	No, no.
	We don't do that shit.
	They did well with the schnoz bones.
	Italian and Jewish.
	Yes, exactly.
	What kind of people are these, Henry?
	You do, you have a nice strong Roman nose.
	You do, he has a nice strong Roman nose.
	I do, I have a Roman nose.
	He has a Roman nose.
	My mom loves, that's what she's like, you know what I like in a man?
	I like a strong Roman nose.
	I like a Roman around my ass.
	Really?
	That's my mother!
	Oh, you said your mother?
	I thought you said your brother, I'm sorry.
	Don't make me laugh too hard, my neck hurts.
	It hurts.
	I can feel the bones oscillating.
	The Michigan House of Representatives, it's now evenly divided, right?
	So that's pretty good.
	That's good.
	You have, for Michigan, you take that as a win, considering that, you know, the lady who runs that state, her stocking should roll up under a flying house.
	We have the GOP Governor of Mississippi won, versus the distant cousin of Elvis Presley, so that's good.
	If you're excited about a Republican win in Mississippi, it's a fuckin' bad night.
	Well, I mean, it should happen.
	Well, you never know.
	They're still hanging people down there.
	But this doesn't compute with what we're seeing with Donald Trump.
	So New York Times just had a new poll come out.
	Very different than the national election.
	And this also comes down to the people running the GOP.
	They're not being galvanized.
	New York Times, in the general election, Donald Trump beats Joe Biden, just to be clear.
	By, well I don't know if they have, this is New York Times, 1.4% in a national election.
	That's within the margin of error.
	Now this time in the 2020 election, Biden was winning by 10% in the polls.
	Meaning at this point in time, November, when you're looking at that point in the election cycle.
	2016 election had Hillary winning by 2.2.
	So that is a huge swing.
	Yeah.
	Then Donald Trump is leading in swing states.
	Big time.
	Big time.
	And we were surprised by this.
	Apples to apples comparison.
	And by the way, just for everybody watching, we've got about a minute and ten seconds until... Yes, okay, so let me hit this really quickly.
	Trump is leading Biden 5 in the critical swing states.
	Nevada, he's leading Biden, Donald Trump, by 11 percent.
	We have them in 2019, Biden was up 3.6 percent.
	In Georgia, Trump's winning by 6 percent.
	In 2019, the RCP average had Biden up 4%.
	In Arizona, Donald Trump is up 5%.
	The same New York Times poll in 2019 had Biden up 3%.
	Michigan, Trump is up 5.
	New York Times in 2019 had Biden up plus 1.
	Pennsylvania, Donald Trump is plus 4.
	New York Times had him in 2019 down by 1 to Biden.
	Then you have Wisconsin.
	Surprisingly, Biden is up two, which surprised me compared to Michigan, but if you look at the New York Times, they had him up by two as well.
	Same time at this point in 2019.
	Yeah, which surprised me considering Scott Walker and all of that.
	This is also something, if you look at his polling with black people, he's bringing in 22% of the black vote right now, the most in any modern GOP history.
	Biden is only leading Donald Trump, according to the New York Times and recent polls, with people under the age of 30 by single digits, by 1%.
	He's only leading Donald Trump with Hispanics by 8%.
	Single digits.
	This is something that we have never seen before, and that's the difference between a national election and someone who overcomes that enthusiasm gap.
	So we can get back to it, but do we want to watch the intro right now?
	Yeah, let's watch the intro, let everybody get into the debate, and then I'll come back and tell you how those polls even got worse.
	They narrowed dramatically.
	Not excited about any of what you just read.
	It's going to be really, really good for Trump based on what we know.
	You should be excited about it because we're doing better.
	Considering the idiot in office and the shape this country's in, those should be twice that gap swing.
	But anyways, go ahead.
	I didn't mean to spoil your whole day like that.
	I don't believe any of those frickin' numbers.
	Okay, but let's go to the intro now so we can be bored with that.
	The candidates are here.
	Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
	Get used to it.
	Former U.N.
	Ambassador Nikki Haley.
	Entrepreneurial businesswoman.
	America's favorite Indiometer.
	Chris Christie.
	The token fat guy.
	South Carolina Senator.
	The token black guy.
	From NBC News.
	Nikki Haley.
	She's cute, but she's a bitch.
	Live from the Economics Center in Miami, Florida.
	Hold on, her cat fight with Vivek over who's more Indian.
	Do the cat sounds and I'll give you a little... That's what it'll sound like.
	All right, let's watch them introduce Lester Holt.
	What is that guy?
	How is NBC involved with this?
	I put a headline yesterday.
	Good evening, I'm Kristen Welker, moderator of NBC's Meet the Press.
	Hello, I'm Hugh Hewitt, host of Saturday's Hugh Hewitt Show.
	We are now just 68 days from the Iowa caucuses when Republican primary voters will begin to determine their party's nominee for president.
	Tonight we'll question five candidates seeking that nomination and how they're best prepared to be commander-in-chief.
	Lester Holt looks like a cartoon of Lester Holt.
	Yeah, he does, yeah.
	He used to be a Republican, I said.
	How would you know?
	Again, use the hashtag CrowderDebateNight.
	Sorry, it's CrowderGOPDebate is what it says?
	Did they just change it?
	voters. Can I have one minute and 30 seconds for answers and the opportunity for a closing statement.
	Again, use the hashtag CrowderDebateNight. Or sorry, it's CrowderGOPDebate is what it says?
	CrowderGOP. Did they just change it? I had CrowderDebateNight.
	You sons of bitches, you hung me out the truck.
	The promo code UNDERCOVER.
	If you want to see more of what we did with the National Manifesto, that's still the same.
	You get $10 off to join Mug Club.
	Hey, it's Indian Jimmy Neutron.
	What are we all looking down at?
	He just looked like he was trying to... Why isn't she making sandwiches like she was supposed to?
	He looked like he was doing an Al Pacino face, Ron DeSantis.
	that you should not have a lot of additional questions and to our audience
	i don't like to be a leader of the alliance that has had to be heard
	with a sense of the debate you
	Alright, our first question, the opening question is one for all of you.
	Donald Trump is the first ex-president in more than 100 years to run for the White House again.
	And he remains popular among Republican primary voters as his legal challenges mount.
	Governor DeSantis, let me begin with you on this one.
	And to Republican voters who are supporting Donald Trump, why should you and not him be the Republican nominee to face Joe Biden?
	Did they add from?
	I know.
	I know.
	This country is in trouble.
	And the elites that have put us here, they don't care about you.
	They don't care that you're having to grapple with higher grocery prices or have higher
	gas prices.
	They don't care that your family's less secure because of the open border that's allowed
	drugs and even terrorists to come into this country.
	Well, I care.
	I am not going to sit idly by and let this country continue its downward spiral.
	We need leadership and we need it now.
	I'll take the hits.
	He's reading Trump's script.
	Well, we know your tie is speaking pretty loudly.
	That thing is vibrating like crazy.
	It's about me. It's about you. I will fight for you. I will make sure to lead this country's revival.
	I will win for you and your family. Actions speak louder than words. We don't have time for excuses.
	Your tie is speaking pretty loudly. That thing is vibrating like crazy.
	You didn't answer the question.
	I like him, but this is an opening statement.
	That's right.
	Answer the question.
	No he doesn't.
	we were in 2016.
	Answer the question.
	Donald Trump's a lot different guy than he was in 2016.
	He owes it to you to be on this stage.
	No, he doesn't.
	Explain why he should get another chance.
	Wrong.
	He should explain why he didn't have Mexico pay for the border wall.
	He should explain why he racked up so much debt.
	He had a meeting with some people, they said you're not doing very well, this is your last shot, you really need to make your mark.
	This is the first time we've seen DeSantis come out on this level of attack to Donald Trump.
	He had a meeting with some people. They said you're not doing very well.
	This is your last shot. You really need to make your mark.
	I don't think that this is well advised.
	Miami-Dade County, that's how we have to do it.
	So I promise you this, as the nominee, next November I'll get the job done, and as president, I will deliver for you.
	Let me turn to Ambassador Haley.
	Why you and not the former president?
	Well, I think you look at the fact that we're almost $34 trillion in debt.
	50% of American families can't afford diapers.
	1 in 6 American families can't pay their utility bills.
	You have parents who are worried about what's being said or taught to their child in the classroom.
	There's no transparency.
	We have anti-Semitism all over our college campuses, and students feel unsafe.
	You've got an open border where terrorists can come through, and we've got war happening all over us.
	Nick, you're out of copy.
	Well, I can talk about President Trump.
	I can tell you that I think he was the right president at the right time.
	I don't think he's the right president now.
	I think that he put us $8 trillion in debt, and our kids are never going to forgive us for that.
	I think the fact that he used to be right on Ukraine and foreign issues, now he's getting weak in the knees and trying to be friendly again.
	I think that we've got to go back to the fact that we can't live in the past.
	We can't live in other headlines.
	We've got to start focusing on what's going to make America strong and proud.
	Do you mean like the greatest economy modern America has ever seen?
	This is the problem with attacking Trump.
	I get that Trump, they say, okay, lost an election and we can get into how that happened and the cannery afoot.
	But let's talk about the fact that it was the greatest economy that we have seen in modern American history, that the public sector jobs were actually, for the first time in our life, Donald Trump shrunk them by 3,000 compared.
	We'll have these numbers side by side with Joe Biden because they're trying to tout his latest jobs report, which they have to inflate up.
	How about the fact that there were no major new wars?
	This is the fundamental problem.
	You guys can comment below and let me know if you disagree in attacking Donald Trump when people, not even Republicans, you're looking at right now the approval among black Americans, Hispanics, people under 30, they know They don't have a leg to stand on if they say the economy is better off right now under Biden or that we are better off with our international relationships under Biden.
	They know it's not true, so attacking Trump just is ill-advised.
	I want to see what Johnny Quest's psychic here has to say.
	I think there's something deeper going on in the Republican Party here.
	And I am upset about what happened last night.
	We've become a party of losers at the end of the day.
	We're a cancer to the Republican establishment.
	Let's speak the truth.
	I mean, since Ronald McDaniel took over as chairwoman of the RNC in 2017, we have lost 2018, 2020, 2022, no red wave that never came.
	We got trounced last night in 2023.
	2022 no red wave that never came we got trounced last night in
	2023 and I think that we have to have accountability This is a race to the negative.
	matter Ron if you want to come on stage tonight you want to look the GOP voters
	Love it.
	in the eye and tell them you resign I will turn over my yield my time to you
	and frankly look the people that are cheering for Lovett in the Republican
	Party this is a race to the negative love it Santa's like the country sucks
	this president sucks everything sucks and him he just he's like ah we're all
	losers I've never seen this.
	We need more people into our party.
	Getting the Democrats and we've got Christopher Walker here.
	Right.
	and we've got crystal ball for you.
	Shining city on a hill?
	SCREW THE SHINING CITY ON A HILL!
	WE SUCK!
	WE SUCK!
	But how do you lose?
	I know those are local races and a lot of shit.
	How do you lose when the condition, I mean the Dems have had the White House for four years.
	I know.
	The country, the conditions, how do you lose at any level?
	It's the spending and of course the GOP, but I do want to hear the rest of the VEC.
	Talk about radio check.
	Answer the question, go!
	Wait, what did he say?
	Answer the question.
	Can someone send us some mission control?
	We were having too much fun.
	I'm sorry.
	That's a Mike Druck moment if I've ever heard one, but I'm not finishing my drink.
	Hold on, let's see what he said.
	top story.
	And they're going to rig this election up against the accountability of the attorney
	governor.
	Shut up, Lester.
	That's a Mike Druck moment, if I've ever heard one, but I'm not finishing my drink.
	He was pissed when we interviewed him.
	Hold on, let's see what he said.
	He was feeling.
	The candidate speaking, Governor Christie, why you and Paul Berkman?
	I thought he was going to call him on the election stuff.
	Well, Lester, look, you said it at the beginning of the debate.
	We are dealing with extraordinarily important issues facing this country right now.
	We have our greatest ally in the Middle East under fire from a terrorist group that has committed to wiping them and every Jewish person in this world off the map.
	We have Ukraine with Vladimir Putin, a communist KGB dictator.
	Oh drink, I stand with Ukraine and Israel.
	How boring is he compared to Vivek coming out fighting?
	He's my boy.
	We have inflation in this country that is choking.
	Choking every American family that wants to try and rise up.
	I'm up to the last loop.
	I have to use a bobby pin to make a new one.
	We need to decide.
	Which president do you want to tackle the big issues?
	Who's going to make this country look once again, not just inward, but look outward at the world and say, America is the country, the indispensable nation that makes this a safer world.
	And in a safer world, American innovation, American hard work has always been the thing that has driven our country to greater things.
	I'm going to be the president.
	I'll make the world safer.
	We wish you could say the same for the local buffet.
	How is he still around?
	I mean, he's around.
	Give me the narrator alive.
	Both!
	Both!
	I don't understand.
	You wonder how does the GOP lose?
	The leadership.
	He's still in because enough people with money are saying Chris Christie should still be in.
	Anyone out there a Chris Christie fan?
	I've never met you.
	I've performed to thousands of people around the country.
	I've never met a Chris Christie fan.
	I do want to hear Tim Scott because I do like him.
	He's like Black Tiny Tim.
	Let's hear it from ET.
	We need a president and a candidate who will actually help our base solidify and attract independent voters into our party.
	The Great Opportunity Party is now winning back African American voters and Hispanic voters because we are working on a foundation based on faith.
	Our nation is facing some deep challenges.
	It is the loss of faith in this nation that is part of the erosion that we're seeing every single day.
	It's restoring faith, restoring our Christian values that will help this nation once again become the city on the hill.
	When Ronald Reagan talked about the city on the hill, he was coming from Matthew 5.
	When President Lincoln talked about a house divided, that was Mark.
	Our founding documents speak to the importance of a faith foundation.
	Now this may work.
	He is separating himself with more positive messaging.
	It may work, but what?
	When Clinton talks about the Shining Hill, he's coming from room 211.
	Without that focus, not the issues, the policies matter.
	We have to get back to being a nation that is, in fact, the city on the hill that believes in each other enough for us to fight for that future.
	Senator Scott, thank you.
	Thank you.
	We're going to turn now to the channel...
	Senator Scott, the American people are bored.
	We just lost half our audience.
	A question then from Kristen and Hugh.
	And Senator Scott, I don't know how this is, but I, Lester Holt, am blacker than you.
	Next question to you.
	I want to hear the question.
	Israeli troops are fighting inside Gaza City with over 200 hostages who remain captive
	there and civilian casualties...
	I appreciate that he included the hostages still being captive.
	That's a key bit of information a lot of people overlook.
	Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
	I've been...
	Oh, you don't want to hear it.
	What do you do at this moment, Governor DeSantis?
	I would be telling Bibi, finish the job once and for all with these butchers.
	They're terrorists.
	They're massacring innocent people.
	They would wipe every Jew off the globe if they could.
	He cannot live with that threat.
	Why is it with the Jews?
	They always say wiping.
	They're not eradication or extermination.
	They always use the wiping term.
	It's got Jews out there.
	Doesn't that irritate you?
	They always say wipe them off.
	Say something else.
	They would kill all the Jews.
	They always say wipe Jews.
	You know, it's like, exterminate the Armenians.
	You know, Hotel Rwanda was a massacre.
	It's like, wipe the Jews.
	What's with the wiping of the Jews?
	I don't know.
	Black has been atrocious.
	We had Floridians that were over there after the attack.
	He left them stranded.
	They couldn't get flights out.
	So I scrambled resources in Florida, I sent planes over to Israel, and I brought back over 700 people to safety.
	And they were complaining about the drinks not being fucking...
	There's too much ice in this!
	I told him no ice, it waters down to scotch!
	The bathrooms are filthy already!
	I told him no ice, it waters down to scotch.
	Still in it!
	The bathrooms are filthy already.
	It was!
	Oh, she thinks this is her shot.
	She's never met a war she didn't like.
	Oh, I quoted Mortal Kombat.
	Oh, she thinks this is her shot. She's never met a war she didn't like.
	The first thing I said to him when it happened was I said, finish them. Finish them.
	Oh, I quoted Mortal Kombat.
	She was talking about the sandwiches she made.
	And we have to remember that they have to, one, eliminate Hamas.
	Two, support Israel with whatever they need whenever they need it.
	And three, make sure we bring our hostages home.
	We need to be very clear-eyed to know there would be no Hamas without Iran.
	There would be no Hezbollah without Iran.
	There would not be the Houthis without Iran.
	And there wouldn't be the Iranian militias in Syria and Iraq that are trying to hit our military men and women if it hadn't been for Iran.
	And who is funding Iran right now?
	China is buying oil from Iran.
	Russia is getting drones and missiles from Iran.
	And there is an unholy alliance.
	We need to be clear-eyed.
	The last thing we need to do is to tell Israel what to do.
	I think Vivek's going to go a different direction.
	I think Vivek's going to go a different direction, but he will clarify that he's not an isolationist.
	He's been hit enough for that.
	Nikki Haley is saying exactly what you thought she was going to say.
	If I were arguing with her, I would call her out on the number.
	What's the number of dollars and how many American soldiers?
	Because then she loses.
	Is there any daylight between you and the candidates we just heard on this issue?
	On what you would tell the Prime Minister?
	In terms of what I would tell the Prime Minister, no.
	In fact, I would go one step further.
	The founding vision of Israel was based on the idea that they don't want to depend on anybody else's sympathy or direction in defending themselves.
	So what I would tell Bibi is that Israel has the right and the responsibility Teaching Chong just got a new slogan for their cruise shoes.
	smoke those terrorists on his southern border and then I'll tell him as
	president of the United States I'll be smoking the terrorists on our southern
	border that's his responsibility.
	Xi Jinping just got a new slogan for their cruise shoes.
	Smoke the terrorists.
	I want to be careful to avoid making the mistakes from the neocon establishment of the past.
	Corrupt politicians in both parties spent trillions, killed millions, made
	billions for themselves in places like Iraq and Afghanistan fighting wars that
	sent thousands of our sons and daughters people my age to die in wars that did
	not advance anyone's interests. Adding seven trillion dollars to our national debt.
	And Joe Biden sold off our foreign policy.
	Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, got a $5 million bribe from Ukraine.
	That's why we're sending $200 billion back to that same country.
	The fact of the matter is, the Republican Party is not that much better.
	You have the likes of Nikki Haley, who stepped down from her time at the U.N.
	bankrupt or in debt.
	Then she becomes a military contractor, she joins the board of Boeing and otherwise, and is now a multi-millionaire.
	So I think that that's wrong when Republicans do it or Democrats do it.
	you're going to be on the board?
	She is!
	Or do you want Dick Cheney in three inch heels?
	Oh!
	Wow!
	Oh!
	She is!
	She is Dick Cheney in heels though!
	That would get her elected.
	No, no, no.
	Dick Cheney in heels, I think, was going after Ron DeSantis.
	Because he wears heels, too.
	Sorry.
	That would get her elected if she was a guy in heels.
	Hey, hey.
	These were BOGO, buddy.
	These boots were BOGO.
	Fine.
	You're frugal.
	We'll be there with you, we'll stand shoulder to shoulder, there will be no daylight.
	But I'll change the station a little bit.
	No daylight unless they adjust the white balance on your shot.
	I would say to President Biden, diplomacy only is a weak strategy.
	Appeasement leads to war.
	From President Obama to President Biden.
	Obama sent millions to Iran.
	Frankly, President Biden has sent billions to Iran.
	That is why I've said that there's blood dripping from the hands of President Obama.
	One thing that I'm noticing we're not seeing tonight is specifics.
	Can we bring up, we did this in a previous show, the amount of money that we're giving
	to the nations collectively who want to wipe Israel off the face of the map?
	We not only have Iran, we also give money to Hamas when you talk about, I believe we
	have in there, Libya, Yemen, Jordan.
	So bring those up so we can add many, many billions to Israel.
	7 to 10 billion dollars to the countries around them and I think 3 billion to Israel.
	So people should be specific with that because it's easy to get people to your site if they understand it.
	There is a less interventionist policy that would actually be a net gain for Israel.
	They're being very broad tonight.
	They're not being very specific, and that's kind of the nature of a lot of foreign policy debates, just to be clear, because it's ever-changing, right?
	These are very, very temporary circumstances, so they don't want to be hung on it.
	Destroy it.
	Alright, Senator Scott, thank you.
	Am I the only one sweating?
	Is it hot in here?
	It does feel hot in here.
	These problems are so big and serious that the first thing I would say to Prime Minister Netanyahu is pretty simple.
	America is here no matter what it is you need at any time to preserve the State of Israel.
	Remember that Hamas's main goal is to get rid of Israel.
	is to get Israel absolutely off the map.
	Now, there are three things I think I would say to him when he asked for advice.
	The first, I would say is that B is absolutely your obligation to protect the territorial integrity of Israel.
	Secondly, to make sure you protect the security of Israel.
	Because it's our right to be an asshole.
	One of those things, it creates greater unrest in the entire region.
	Second, you must go in and make sure that Hamas can never do this again.
	The fact is that Israel and their intelligence community failed.
	They failed here, and they failed the people of the State of Israel.
	And so we need to work closely and better together to make sure, one, that they're degraded, and two, that we know everything that's going on inside the Gaza Strip, when it's going on, so that something like this can't happen to kill 1,400 individuals again.
	Well, they wouldn't have failed if our country was feeding Iran all this money.
	Exactly.
	We continue to isolate Iran, work with the reasonable nations in the Middle East, the other Arab nations who want to partner with you, and make sure that we continue to isolate Iran.
	That is exactly what is... and I understand the idea of the enemy of my enemy is my friend, or the friend of my friend is my friend, or whatever it is that Chris Christie wants to say, but look, these people...
	The Hill's like White Christie's.
	The thing is, that was a short story, but a literary reference.
	The thing is with Chris Christie, he's talking about what we've done for a very long time.
	Let's buddy up with these other nations who will then turn on us.
	Hey, how about we say, we're done with this part of the world.
	We're not going to be your enemies, but we're not going to be giving you money.
	I don't care who it is.
	I don't care if it's Saudi Arabia.
	I don't care if it's Egypt, because they'll be friendly one point in time, and then add five years, and they're the next asshole superpower.
	So he is doing what has been done for a very, very long time.
	That is the GOP establishment when people refer to foreign policy.
	That's the problem.
	You can let me know if you disagree.
	Nikki Haley saying something likely bitchy.
	Oh, she's got a cheer.
	What'd she say?
	She just said, I look good in heels.
	I wear heels not for a fashion statement, they're for ammunition.
	What we need to be doing... Oh, what are you hiding?
	Ammunition.
	What are you hiding, 50 cows in your 5-inch heels?
	...men and women could be targeted... Boy, everybody's got their dander up tonight.
	They have to.
	...almost 100 hits to happen.
	They have so much dander up, they need Selson Blue.
	Hey, I'll tell ya, I'll tell ya.
	Talk about dander.
	And we shouldn't be doing the tit-for-tat like what Joe Biden's done.
	We need to go and take out their infrastructure that they are using to make those strikes with so they can never do it again.
	Iran responds to strength.
	You punch them hard and they will back off.
	But what we don't need is fighting.
	No.
	You're gonna pause?
	How old is she?
	He's giving six billion dollars to get five hostages home.
	Him telling Netanyahu now that he needs a pause or a ceasefire.
	We don't need him going and sitting there tiptoeing around Iran because he thinks they're
	going to do something.
	You don't respond to an enemy and a terrorist with fear, you respond with strength.
	When you do that, that's when the world pays attention and that's when Iran stops.
	Governor DeSantis, if I can continue with you, just today the U.S.
	launched another one of its limited airstrikes against targets in Syria, this time Iranian-linked facility.
	How far would you go militarily to hold Iran accountable?
	Well, first, Matt, thanks for your question and I appreciate what you've done over the last month.
	I know it's been very difficult for the community and appreciate you guys rallying together in difficult times.
	I actually served in Iraq back in the day and we had Al Qaeda in Iraq.
	You had Shia militias that were funded by Iran that were killing hundreds and hundreds of US troops.
	And as commander in chief, I am not going to put our troops in harm's way Unless you're willing to defend them with everything you have.
	Biden has them out there.
	They're sitting ducks.
	He's doing glancing blows.
	That's just inviting more attacks.
	This is a good answer, though, as far as putting it in an either-or.
	Either you go all in to win a war, or you don't.
	I think that's a fair position to hold.
	I agree.
	And he's a military guy.
	He has some credibility.
	And you are going to hell to pay.
	We are not just going to sit there.
	We all like Ron DeSantis and the governor.
	He comes across like a little bit of a wiener.
	Yeah, but why is he seventh overall in the latest?
	Why is he... I don't understand, man.
	I mean, it's how to screw up an election for dummies.
	Yes.
	All right, thank you, Governor.
	Now our second and final question from Matthew Brooks of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
	Please watch.
	Jewish students across the country are threatened and under attack.
	What do you say to Jewish students on college campuses who feel unsafe given the dramatic rise in anti-Semitism?
	And what do you say to university presidents and college presidents who have not met the moral clarity moment to forcefully condemn the monster?
	that you protect free speech on campus and it needs to reach the level of
	criminality right because people have the right to be assholes and support
	Palestine this is something they're gonna try and trip you up they're trying
	to catch you with an inconsistency it's sad to see but here's what history
	teaches us Anti-Semitism is a symptom of a deeper cancer in a country, in a society that is lost.
	And we are lost.
	Several years ago, when I wrote my first book, Woke Inc., I was talking about they were chanting, death to America, death to white people, death to Christians.
	Nobody was waking up back then.
	Now it's even bad.
	Now they're saying death to Israel and worse.
	So it is wrong, but we have to get to the root cause here.
	Now, I think it's really important that we do this through leadership, not censorship.
	Leadership means fill that void with purpose and meaning.
	Dilute this wokeism and anti-Semitism to irrelevance.
	These kids, they have no idea what the heck they're even talking about when they're siding with Hamas over Israel.
	They are fools!
	But I also want to caution here, if we go the direction of Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley, with whom I respectfully disagree on this issue.
	Pro-censorship, telling student groups to disband.
	Mark my words.
	Soon they will say if you question a vaccine and its side effects, you're a bioterrorist.
	Soon they will say that if you show up at a school... I don't know that I could have framed a better answer.
	This is a very good answer to this question.
	My opinion, comment if you disagree.
	So that's where this road ends.
	We don't quash this with censorship because that creates a worse underbelly.
	We quell it through leadership by calling it out.
	I'm very curious to see the response.
	I want to hear their response because they have an indefensible position.
	Federal funding is a privilege, not a right.
	values and that has no place for this kind of anti-semitic hate.
	That's where I stand while respecting our Constitution.
	Your time is up.
	Senator Scott, let me get you to weigh in on this.
	What a horrible moderator.
	He just called out DeSantis and Nikki Haley and he's like, okay, great, let's go to Tim
	Scott.
	America, federal funding is a privilege, not a right, number one.
	Number two, to every student who've come to our country on a visa to a college campus,
	your visa is a privilege, not a right.
	Number three, any campus... So you rip down a poster and send it back to their country?
	One, two, three.
	Right now Rick Perry's going, Jesus, he can do it.
	Mass murder and genocide.
	You should lose your federal funding today, period.
	To all the students on visas who are encouraging Jewish genocide,
	I would deport you from those campuses.
	We have to stand strong.
	It's a good, but it sounds good, but it's tough to actually enforce,
	because a lot of them are saying, we don't support genocide.
	We're saying that we're against genocide because we're against Israel.
	Whereas, at least Vivek's was very, very clear, it was concrete, he made sure to couch it in anti-Semitism has no place, he supported Israel morally, we sat here and we talked to him about it, but he said, look, we can't go the route of censorship, it has to reach the level of criminality.
	People say I hate Jews on campus, hey, if they want to deal with their dean or student activities coordinator, fine.
	If you're actually calling for violence, boom, you're gone.
	This is an answer that isn't really an answer from Tim Scott, and I know that some people won't like that.
	Of course, we've been very consistent in our support of Israel, but I do not like the idea of... I like free speech better than I like deporting people for free speech.
	It actually helps the argument when people see the dumbasses out there supporting Hamas with Palestinian flags.
	You look at them and you're like, oh, these guys are idiots.
	But if you say, I stand with Palestine, which we don't, you shouldn't be deported.
	But the problem is the left controls the media.
	They're in all the institutions.
	They outshout us.
	I'm canceling your visa and I'm sending you home.
	No questions asked.
	Where are you going?
	Hey, so Nick needs a refill on his drink.
	Their kids do not feel safe even going to university campus at all outside of the state of Florida.
	You have Jewish students fleeing for their lives.
	Yes, I was an understudy at the local showing of Cats.
	the department of justice on these college campuses and holding the
	universities accountable for civil rights violations when you have you
	should not have money going to these places i already acted in florida we had a group students for
	justice of palestine understudy at the local uh... showing of cats i was gonna
	say this is what we are we deactivated the most of the world
	that's dollars to fund jihad.
	No way.
	And what is Biden doing?
	Not only is he not helping the Jewish students who are being persecuted, he is launching an initiative to combat so-called Islamophobia.
	No, it's the anti-Semitism that's spiraling out of control.
	That is what we have to confront.
	And as president, I can tell you this, we are not going to stand for this on college campuses any longer.
	All right, Governor, thank you.
	Let me turn to Governor Christie.
	And considering what he just said, you led a state with a sizable Muslim population.
	Sizable, Christie.
	As you know, a six-year-old Palestinian American boy was killed.
	His mother was also stabbed more than a dozen times in what has been charged as a hate crime.
	What do you say to Muslim Americans who are also feeling afraid for their safety right
	now?
	I'm the only one in the state who's actually had experience in dealing with this.
	I was appointed by President Bush to be the US Attorney in New Jersey on September 10th,
	2001.
	And when I took over the job after the September 11th attacks, I had to deal with a situation
	in our state that was explosive.
	We're the most ethically diverse state in this country.
	And so first we heard credible reports about Jewish students and synagogues being threatened in our state in the aftermath of 9-11.
	We made sure that we sent federal agents to those synagogues and we protected them.
	The same thing should be being done now.
	At the very same time, I personally went from mosque to mosque in New Jersey.
	I went from a size 14 to 19 looking for butter.
	With the leaders of those mosques and with the members of the mosques.
	And I said to them, law enforcement is on your side to protect you regardless of your religion.
	If you are going to comply with the law, and we developed fabulous relationships with Muslim Americans all across the state of New Jersey, and we stopped any hate crimes that were going on either against Jewish Americans in New Jersey or Muslim Americans in New Jersey.
	It takes leadership, Lester, to know how to do this.
	You must work with both sides.
	Both sides need to know it, but let us never have.
	A false moral equivalence between Hamas and Hezbollah and the Jewish people.
	The Jewish people stand for right and justice and Hamas and Hezbollah stand for death.
	Senator Christie, thank you.
	And you sit for all eight.
	What are you saying?
	Yeah, definitely a tough guy moment.
	Drink guys.
	Bring back up the drinking game rules for people who haven't seen them yet.
	Look at the country and the country is all out of sorts.
	I think look at what these kids are dealing with on college campuses.
	What makes me so angry is not only do you have the kids barricaded in the library, they've said they were going to shoot up the kosher dining hall.
	You've got kids dorm rooms who are being set on fire because they have something related to Israel on their doors.
	No No person should ever feel in danger like this.
	And this is what I would say about our college presidents, is if the KKK were doing this.
	Every college president would be up in arms.
	This is no different.
	You should treat it exactly the same.
	Anti-Semitism is just as awful as racism, and we've got to make sure they're protected.
	And for everybody that's protesting on these college campuses in favor of Hamas, let me remind you something.
	Hamas said death to Israel and death to America.
	They hate and would kill you too.
	And the idea that they're talking about- I get it, you're right, but you're not answering the question.
	We're talking about campus here.
	It's not us.
	We're better than that.
	We don't need to celebrate terrorists.
	We don't need to celebrate genocide.
	We don't need to celebrate violence towards anybody.
	Apparently you don't celebrate Labor Day with that white outfit.
	And remember what we are about.
	And we are about taking care of people.
	No white.
	No white after Labor Day.
	Terrorist activity says they want to... I like to see somebody hit her with a glass of cranberry juice.
	By the way, we have a 7 plus 1 later, 7 plus 1 things the GOP candidates are doing after this debate.
	And we do have our on-the-ground correspondent, Thomas Finnegan, at the debate tonight.
	Nice teeth.
	Lesser meat the press host.
	Your turn.
	That's right.
	By the way, we have a 7 plus 1 later, 7 plus 1 things the GOP candidates are doing after
	this debate.
	And we do have our on the ground correspondent Thomas Finnegan at the debate tonight.
	We'll hope.
	We will check in with him.
	I hope.
	... for the United States.
	And Americans would be forced to quote, send your sons and daughters to defend NATO countries.
	Senator Scott, where do you stand on more funding for Ukraine?
	I certainly have been very supportive of Ukraine.
	I believe that ultimately we should make sure that the President of the United States states what is America's national vital interest in Ukraine.
	It is actually in degrading the Russian military.
	We've been very effective using our resources and our weapons.
	You can make that argument for anyone.
	You can make an argument for any war and the Russian military degraded themselves.
	And they're sitting on a stockpile that could blow the world.
	Degrade the military all you want.
	...of the Russian military and that's good news.
	But the American people are frustrated that they do not have a president who reminds us and tells us, where's the accountability?
	Where are those dollars?
	How are those dollars being spent?
	Hold on, hold on, hold on.
	Nobody's asking for receipts, Tim.
	Everybody's saying we're sending too much money overseas to a war that does not impact
	us while we have problems here at home.
	And we're not gearing up for some of the problems that could happen, I don't know, in Israel
	that was something that probably could pop off at any second.
	China and Taiwan.
	That's the problem.
	Nobody's saying, hey, are they spending those on M16s or not?
	Why are you even bringing that up?
	We show the world that we are one.
	one hundred percent undeniably standing shoulder to shoulder with israel and
	that as we turn away from that direct support for israel we should go to our
	southern border and close our southern border with the resources necessary
	i believe that we have sleeper terrorist cells in america thousands of people
	well you must be a detective there tim in iraq if we're going to deal with the massacres at our
	border Chris Christie's Fupa.
	Hey, Tim Scott, how many border walls worth of money have we sent to Ukraine so far?
	And I'm starting to price things in border walls, so just help me out.
	$20 billion, by the way.
	We're going to bring up $20 billion for a border wall.
	The most generous estimate was $30 billion ever.
	It really cost likely $18 billion.
	And how much have we committed now to Ukraine?
	It's over $100 billion.
	I'm asking right now.
	Is it over $100 billion?
	Sorry, is it $110 billion?
	I believe so.
	It's over a hundred billion.
	Five-ish border walls?
	Five border walls.
	Not only that, the military's been degraded ten times since Biden got office, and now we got another war to hate.
	I know, it's like he spat in their mouth.
	Our NATO partners safe from the Russian military is absolutely essential.
	As you understand, Article 5 would require to support and to defend NATO, our troops on the ground.
	Ukraine's not a NATO country.
	And by the way, look, Putin's an asshole, right?
	Putin bad, just like Hitler bad, just to be clear.
	However, one of the promises was that Ukraine would never become a NATO country.
	So for you to act as though there is no reason that he, and not any reason that you believe in, that he can sell to his people as a reason for continuing a war does not Do you any favors?
	Ukraine is not a NATO country.
	We pay into NATO more than any other nation.
	We always have.
	Other people don't foot their own bill.
	And it was promised to Russia that Ukraine would never be a NATO country.
	If you're not addressing that, you're not addressing the root issue, and it's going to be never anymore, which is probably great for the boards that Nikki Haley's on.
	Let me hear Vivek.
	Sorry.
	Cautious as they should.
	Level with the American people here.
	Ukraine is not a paragon of democracy.
	This is a country that has banned 11 opposition parties.
	It has consolidated all media into one state TV media arm.
	That's not democratic.
	It has threatened not to hold elections this year unless the U.S.
	forks over more money.
	That is not democratic.
	It has celebrated a Nazi in its ranks, the comedian in cargo pants, a man called Zelensky, doing it in their own ranks.
	That is not democratic.
	More facts for you that you won't hear from the mainstream media.
	You guys are having a great night.
	Regions of Ukraine that are occupied by Russia right now.
	They're all going to attack him as no foreign policy experience after this.
	Watch.
	He's a Russian speaking regions that have not even been part of Ukraine since 2014.
	That other people probably couldn't name those provinces for you.
	Those are the hard facts.
	And sort of frame this as some kind of battle between good versus evil.
	Don't buy it.
	And I'd like the likes of the sharpest of the war hawks on Ukraine, Nikki Haley, to have some accountability and answer.
	Do you want to use U.S.
	taxpayer money to fund the banning of Christians?
	That's actually what's happened.
	They're using the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
	They have banned them.
	The Ukrainian Parliament just did this last week.
	Supported by our dollars, and I think you owe it to the American people, Nikki, to at least this one time... Mr. Ramaswamy, thank you.
	We ask the questions.
	Ambassador... Oh, you do?
	We ask the questions.
	No, no, no.
	I'm sorry.
	Your writers write the questions for you to ask your guests.
	Okay, let's hear Nikki Haley.
	...and President Xi are salivating at the thought that someone like that could become president.
	They would love to be...
	Yeah, because I'm sure the whole Middle Eastern, Arabic world would respect you as Commander-in-Chief.
	Look at the elected woman!
	The first thing I'll tell you is, we all remember when he invaded Ukraine.
	Hold on, hold on, I do want to hear what stupid stuff you're saying.
	But hold that thought, I want to hear it.
	What's the difference?
	Here is a freedom-loving pro-American country that is fighting for its survival and its
	democracy.
	No, I don't think we should give them cash.
	I think we should give them the equipment and the ammunition to win.
	And I'll tell you, if Biden had done it when they first...
	So like, so like Fed, it's like USA Fed bucks.
	It's like Toys R Us in the 90s.
	I just want to give them Jeffrey dollars.
	What the fuck is that?
	Funny money.
	How are we going to get that?
	How would you pay for the ammunition?
	Don't ask questions.
	Funny money from the gold club in Atlanta.
	Now everybody wants to move away from Ukraine?
	They'll want to move away from Israel a year from now.
	Not at all the same thing!
	Nope.
	Wrong.
	After 9-11 we needed a lot of friends.
	Now is the time to get partnerships.
	This unholy alliance between Russia, Ukraine and China is real.
	There is a reason the Taiwanese want us to support them.
	China, Russia, has been pushed into the arms of China because of this.
	They were not allies before.
	They're getting friendlier because of our money to Ukraine.
	Now, you may agree that having a proxy war that's fought there is better than impacting us globally.
	I understand that argument.
	I don't agree with it.
	Russia, China, very cold relationship.
	It's warmed up as a result of this.
	That is a fact.
	We called it when we discussed this over a year ago on the show, and here we are.
	Let's hear the token fat guy.
	It bought us just a couple of years.
	And then 500,000 Americans were killed in Europe to defeat Hitler.
	This is not a choice.
	Putin is not Hitler.
	This is the price we pay for being the leaders of the free world.
	And the fact is, this alliance is not just with Russia and China.
	Governor Haley knows this.
	Iran is in the middle of this as well and so is North Korea.
	And they are all working to support Russia right now.
	And the reason they're doing it is because dictators work together.
	People who believe in democracy work together.
	We must stand with all of those that are standing up for democracy and freedom in this world.
	We're all aging faster because of his gravity.
	You got a guy on a unicycle with a handheld.
	It's like M. Night Shyamalan's with the island.
	They invade you, we will protect you.
	An American promise that's 31 years old is no different than the American promise that's made tonight on this stage.
	We need to stand by it.
	And those of us who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
	Take the Slim Fast Challenge.
	Make that promise.
	I'd like to respond.
	And the absolute, the absolute giving in to dictators, which is being suggested on this stage, just shows the immaturity of the approach.
	Wrong.
	Wrong.
	I'd like to respond.
	I told you.
	Called it.
	They were going to attack his foreign policy experience.
	He gave a better answer than they did, regardless of experience.
	You know who else did?
	Donald Trump.
	That's right.
	Or if Putin is not stopped now.
	Well, any suggestion by Zelensky or anyone else that we should, that we're going to eventually have U.S.
	troops there, I can tell the American people, when I'm president, that will not happen.
	We are not going to send your sons and daughters to Ukraine.
	I am going to send troops to our southern border.
	If you look at the threats that we face, terrorists have come in through our southern border.
	Shut it down, I'm gonna have the military, and I'm gonna deport the people who've come, particularly under Biden, who've come from the Middle East, come from all these places.
	Now, Biden wants $105 billion.
	60, most of that's Ukraine, including some of it going to pay pensions for bureaucrats and salaries.
	That is a totally ridiculous use of American tax dollars.
	He says he has money for border to try to do, and the media will repeat that.
	When you look at it, what most of the money is, is money to process More illegal aliens into this country.
	How is that solving the problem?
	That's making the problem worse.
	And what does he do for the Indo-Pacific?
	A pittance.
	That is the top threat that we face.
	We need to bring this war to an end.
	We need the Europeans to step up and do their fair share.
	And we need to get serious about the top threat that this country faces, which is the Chinese Communist Party.
	He sounds a lot like Trump.
	You know what?
	It's a valid answer.
	Absolutely.
	I will take it.
	And DeSantis right now, Mr. Bogo Boots.
	Oh, he's real.
	Let's put a poll out there.
	I would say DeSantis and Vivek.
	Many Republicans believe that the Chinese Communist Party and General Secretary Xi is an existential threat to the United States.
	The flashpoint is Taiwan.
	For decades and decades, the American military, but primarily the United States Navy... Put the camera on Andy Warhol.
	...from China to the island state of Taiwan.
	But Ronald Reagan's navy of 600 ships is gone.
	Now, the question to you is... ...his goal was a 355-ship navy.
	That's what he pushed for.
	It got to 300.
	It's now at 291.
	Is that big enough to deter and, if necessary, defeat an invasion of Taiwan?
	That's what she said.
	China has the largest naval fleet in the world.
	Nikki, you're a size queen.
	What do you got to say?
	Mushrooms?
	They'll have 400 ships in two years.
	We won't even have 350 ships in two decades.
	China has built up their military.
	It's not just land, air, and sea.
	They're doing cyber, they're doing artificial intelligence, they're doing space.
	America needs to modernize our military.
	We need to do everything we can.
	The first thing is, you go and you make sure you have the back of your... Let's get Nick a fresh drink from out there.
	He just makeshifted it.
	Like, he MacGyvered his drink.
	I'm sure it's terrible.
	The second thing is, we go to China and we start being tough on them.
	No more sales of our American soil to China.
	And let's take back what they've already stolen.
	That being said, it would be hilarious to see her tower over Xi Jinping and just emasculate him.
	There's something funny about a woman towering over a guy.
	It would be funny too if they cut to Chrissy right now.
	Now he had a napkin tucked in his head, eating a big fucking meatball.
	He had lobster, baby.
	Yeah, lobster.
	He had sauce in his hair.
	And then we modernize our military.
	When we strengthen our military, when we modernize it with the focus of cyber and artificial intelligence in space, when we make sure that we have the backs of our friends, whether it's in Israel, whether it's in Ukraine, and we should be arming Taiwan.
	Make sure they have the equipment they need.
	Okay, so this will be interesting to see if Vivek comes out and they ask him about Taiwan, because he gave a very good answer when we did an Ash Wednesday, where he said, the level of defense that we have for Taiwan right now, which is basically sort of military ambiguity, that would be the lowest I would go.
	I would elevate it until we become, you know, we achieve semiconductor chip independence, and then it would go back to where it is now.
	And that was misrepresented in the media.
	You may not agree with it, but I'm curious to see if he answers this.
	...to back up a strategy of denial of President Xi's ambitions.
	And if China's able to be the world's leading superpower, that will affect you and your family in ways that are going to be very bad.
	They will export authoritarianism all around the world as the cost of doing business.
	They will impose things like social credit scores and internet monitors.
	To this generation, what the Soviet Union... Marry a stray dog!
	We're gonna get to 355 ships at the end of the first term, 385 ships at the end of the
	second term.
	Cut off the world supply of broccoli and chicken?
	What are they gonna put in?
	20 years.
	I think the future of freedom is going to be determined in the Indo-Pacific.
	We have a strategy now.
	Everything will be dripping with MSG.
	And fighting them here at home with their cultural.
	Ambassador Haley said somehow I wasn't doing.
	She welcomed them into South Carolina, gave them land near a military base, wrote the
	Chinese ambassador a love letter saying what a great friend they were.
	That was like their number one way to do economic development.
	In Florida, I banned China from buying land in this state.
	By the way, that's a take a drink, that's a mic drop moment because that is a great
	We give everyone a tough time because it's, you know, we're children.
	I hope you appreciate it.
	We also fact-check them.
	Any fact-checks that need to come back in, we'll do it.
	But every time you ban China, let's, you know, masseuses for six bucks.
	And he's mentioned his own state.
	We have to drink on that one too.
	I need to have mine refreshed.
	I've been drinking constantly.
	Well, two major problems with the question.
	Number one, we do not have currently a defense industrial bank to allow us to have the kind of production that we need in order to keep America safe.
	Frankly, if we are not prepared to fight and engage in three continents at the same time,
	think about where we are today.
	In the Middle East, we are in the midst of trying to back our strongest ally.
	In Eastern Europe, we've seen our resources and our weaponry help degrade the Russian
	military.
	The Indo-Pacific, we have real challenges.
	The long-term threat, the long-term threat is China.
	Immediate threat is our southern border.
	In order for us to have the military to fight three different continents at the exact same
	We're going to have to invest heavily in our military, but we're also going to have to invest heavily in an industrial base so that we can hit our objectives from a military perspective, not only with our ships, but also with our planes.
	We are so old as a military that in order for us to recalibrate, we're going to have to invest.
	Yeah, exactly.
	He's meandering.
	I like Tim Scott.
	He's not capable of answering a question.
	He's not presidential material.
	Very nice guy.
	high-tech manufacturing come back to America, decoupling from China, so that we focus our
	attention on creating that industrial revolution that we need.
	When would they be in the water?
	How big would the float get?
	Oh, I don't know.
	First answer is end the toxic divest.
	We're decommissioning ships in the South China Sea.
	The foundation of war is economics.
	Rebuild our defense industrial base at home.
	But here's the dirty little secret.
	Our actual defense industrial base depends on China for the supply chain.
	For the F-35 jets.
	For the ships that we're building.
	Think about this.
	Why are we stockpiling that if it isn't to actually be strong against our enemy, China?
	We depend on them for that.
	Just like we depend on them for pharmaceuticals.
	Just like we depend on them for semiconductors.
	So here's why we can't get tough with China.
	It's because we depend on them for our modern way of life.
	And we have to declare economic independence from our enemy.
	That's the declaration of independence that Thomas Jefferson at the age of 33 would have signed.
	Today, if you were alive, that's the declaration of independence that I will sign as the next president.
	I do have to recognize that Ron Santos was correct about acknowledging Nikki Haley's tough talk when she was ambassador to the UN, calling China our great friend, bringing the CCP to South Carolina.
	He's fucking wrong.
	Ron DeSantis changed his face.
	Someone said, give him the good, the bad, and the DeSantis face.
	I'm serious.
	He's changed his expression.
	They said, you need to look more tough.
	It's like his lipstick's running.
	He's changed his expression.
	They said you need to look more tough.
	Politicians who are independent of the forces that increase our dependence on China.
	My message to Xi Jinping is this.
	You are done buying land in this country.
	You will not donate to universities in this country.
	U.S. businesses won't expand into the Chinese market until you play by the same set of rules.
	You're kicked out of the WTO.
	Shut up, Polk.
	By the way, you know what?
	None of this, none of this tonight, this conversation about China takes place without Donald Trump.
	For decades, we were told in this country it was an inevitability, China's going to be the next great superpower, Donald Trump changed that.
	Look at these answers.
	If you don't appreciate anything else about Donald Trump, the fact that people now are able to acknowledge the threat that China presents Is something we all have to agree on.
	I can't tell you how many relatives, friends I had in finance going, accept it, everything's going to have to learn, you better start learning some Mandarin.
	Yeah, exactly.
	My first observation, Hugh, is that nobody answers your question.
	And my second observation is, three in the middle think they're the enemy.
	I know China is the enemy.
	And that's what we should be focused on.
	So let's be really clear.
	The nuclear submarine in this United States Navy is the greatest deterrent to Chinese aggression, and that is the first place I would go to increase American naval power.
	Our nuclear submarines are able to move stealthily, quietly, and effectively, and if we are going to deter China from invading Taiwan, the only way we're going to do it is to make sure that they don't know.
	If you do a cannonball off of a carrier ship and create a tidal wave, Tsunami!
	Oh no, Chris Christie Tsunami!
	He is a battleship.
	What the fuck?
	Tsukishima, so Chris Christie Tsunami, can't do a cannonball off a carrier ship?
	Why are you doing Chris Christie?
	Chris Christie.
	That would be priority number one.
	Ships would come next.
	But to me, the ships are secondary choice here.
	The submarines are the single most important thing that we could be deterring, that we
	could be using to deter China.
	You're talking about Jersey subs?
	To let them know that the blood money they're spending for Russia in Ukraine right now will
	not be effective.
	Well, in Jersey, because Jersey might, yeah.
	Put him home with his tail between his legs and make them understand that the same fate
	waits for them if they decide to move towards Taiwan with a more aggressive view.
	We'll be able to make that threat real.
	Thank you, Governor.
	We're going to take a brief pause.
	Really quickly here, so Chinese public opinion, kind of to your point, has actually turned very sharply towards the United States recently, right?
	In favor?
	In favor of the Chinese public opinion.
	We talk about the CCP and the Chinese people, two different things.
	Chinese people, not so much a fan of their authoritarian government here, but this may be a good time for us to, they've taken a break here, we can maybe see if we can get in touch with Finnegan?
	Yeah, check and see with our on-the-ground correspondent.
	I know that we've sent him out there, We'll see how this goes.
	And we spare no expense.
	You can use the promo code UNDERCOVER because, you know, we broke the Nashville Manifesto here this week.
	And we also have eyes on the ground everywhere.
	It's time to go to our on-the-ground correspondent, Thomas Finnegan.
	Pretty much know what to expect, but what do you have for us here today?
	Hi, Stephen.
	Hi, yeah.
	I'm in my car outside the venue.
	I'm ready to go in and I'll check back in with you later.
	The GOP debate?
	Yeah.
	Tonight?
	In Miami.
	You're 100% sure tonight that you are in Miami at the right location.
	Yes.
	The right city.
	This is the first.
	I don't know what to say.
	I guess we'll check in with you.
	We'll check in with you.
	I also wanted to say that.
	Okay, you know what?
	Let's let's take a break.
	I am positively shocked, but I'm We'll check back in with Finnegan on the ground.
	We can bring back up the drinking game rules really quickly.
	I'm gonna have to go get some of this CB Distillery.
	Rub them.
	This is what's keeping me alive tonight.
	And afloat.
	I have a pinched nerve, but this really has helped.
	CB Distillery can go.
	Is it the promo code?
	Is it Crowder?
	Crowder for 20% off.
	Crowder for 20% off.
	All the science, the research is there.
	It does help.
	Also, their oil is great.
	I just can't take it before the show because it makes me a little bit drowsy.
	Everything is lab tested and they have the balls to sponsor this show.
	We're about to go to a commercial break.
	What, Gerald?
	Well, so we're actually not going to go to a commercial break.
	We're going to go to Vivek.
	We have a little bit more about him, talking about Nashville, and I think people are really going to want to see his opinion on the Nashvillians.
	Is this from tonight?
	This is from my interview with him earlier today.
	OK, we're going to go to Vivek, and keep in the bottom, the lower third, of course, always keep the debate so people know I will be right back.
	You know what?
	Put Trump up there.
	Yeah, let's put Donald Trump up there.
	Just switch back and forth so people know we're covering all of it.
	It is the Crowder GOP debate.
	We will be back.
	I'm going to rub some of this on my neck and hopefully gain function back of my right hand.
	hand. See you soon.
	Bye.
	I saw that you interacted with it, but we released the Nashville Shooters Manifesto, and I saw that you said something, and I actually quoted you on air because I had seen your tweet and said that, you know, we can handle the truth.
	Go into just a little bit of detail.
	Why did you support the release of that manifesto?
	Not only did I support the release of it, but I went to Nashville in August, in early August, because I heard the state legislature was convening a special—the governor, Republican governor, by the way.
	Was convening a special session of the legislature in late August to pass anti-gun measures without having released that manifesto.
	So that irritated the hell out of me.
	He says, I'm going to show up in Nashville.
	We held a sort of protest rally type event.
	And I called for its release because the reason people don't trust the government is that the government doesn't, one of the reasons certainly, is that the government doesn't trust the people with the truth.
	Right?
	Trust is a two-way relationship.
	And so we don't, we lack total trust in our institutions, in part because those institutions do not trust the people who they're supposed to serve.
	So the idea is here, a noble lie, that the people can't handle whatever's in there.
	And my view is whether it's the origin of COVID, whether it's the Hunter Biden laptop story, whether it's the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, whether it's the basis for the 2008 bailouts, whether it's how many federal officials were in the field on January 6th, whether it's Saudi Arabia's involvement, intelligence operatives' involvement in knowledge of 9-11, whatever it is, Just tell us the truth!
	I mean, even the knowledge about... I know it's a sort of a gauche topic, but even UFOs, like, what do we know?
	Just... I mean, it's clear that the government has prioritized this topic at a far greater extent than it's the public, so... I just go straight down the list on any of those topics, just tell us the truth.
	And we the people can handle it, and it's like the Jack Nicholson scene at the end of that movie, right?
	You can't handle the truth.
	Say, no, no, we can handle the truth.
	And my view is, give it to us not just when it's easy, but when it's hard.
	So when I went to Nashville, something really interesting happened.
	The entire community there, there were people who came up and said, no, we've talked to the people who have seen it, and it's not what you think.
	I was like, how do you know what I think?
	All I'm saying is I want it seen.
	They're like, no, no, no, because you think it's a transgender shooter.
	It's not what you think.
	And there's stuff in there that would be very harmful, at least.
	You know, I mean, I'm a thinking person.
	I like to think and wonder, okay, how can we, are there some, what do I know that I don't know?
	Can this be handled through redaction, right?
	That's typically how that's done.
	If there's like a manual for how to commit a future attack, right?
	I don't, you know, I don't think that there's a public interest in seeing the how-to manual, but the question is the public at least knows that the police and everybody else has entrusted them to say, okay, these are the motives of the killer.
	And at least we know that.
	A tragedy happened, an airplane crashes.
	You can recover the black box no matter what it says.
	You deserve to see what's in there.
	What struck me, and I'm so grateful to you guys for recovering it and putting it out, is that The kind of stuff they insinuated to me that would be in there, why this couldn't be released, that wasn't in there at all.
	It was just political cover all the way down, which shows how rotten our institutional leaders really are.
	In this case, it's not just one institution.
	You've got local police, you've got the governor, you've got the state government, you've got the FBI, all in on this.
	And it's pathetic.
	It's an indictment of where we are as a country.
	And so the same broad establishment, spanning media to our own agencies, to our own federal police state, from January 6th to Hunter Biden laptop story, 50 CIA intelligence operatives claiming it was Russian intelligence or Russian disinformation, to the origin of COVID-19, to now the Nashville transgender shooter manifesto.
	We need to restore a culture of truth.
	in the United States of America, give it to us, not just when it's easy, but when it's hard. And so anyway, I'm glad
	you guys did it. And there's been a big theme for me since earlier this year. And in some ways, it was, it was
	grateful. In some ways, I was just upset when I saw it because I was waiting for where was that vague, to be
	avoided topic that might hurt someone or create a clear and present danger for future violence.
	It wasn't in there.
	No.
	It was a lie.
	Yeah, it was a lie.
	And look, we know that there are more documents, there's more information that could be released.
	This is only a part of what was obtained by the police.
	But were you surprised at the response?
	They could have released this!
	Well, no, they could have very easily released this, given us some information.
	Were you surprised by the response immediately?
	Google started the search, had like a blacked out thing saying, hey, the data...
	Alright, so look, we will get to the rest of that.
	We know the debate is back here.
	You'll have to wait just a minute to hear his answer to my question about if he was surprised by what happened to our coverage.
	But let's go back to the debate right now and Governor Ron DeSantis.
	I'm going to speak to the fact that two people hit me and you didn't let me respond.
	So let's first talk about the fact that they want to talk about the Chinese land from 10 years ago.
	Yes, I brought a fiberglass company 10 years ago.
	You are the chair of your economic development agency that, as of last week, said Florida is the ideal place for Chinese businesses.
	Not only that, you have a company that is manufacturer of Chinese military planes.
	I'd actually like to see him just smirk right now.
	He's like, this bitch.
	I know, look at him.
	He's got the goods on her.
	Here we go.
	He scrubbed the website last week.
	Then you have another company that's expanding and they were just invaded by the Department
	of Homeland Security.
	So mine was 10 years ago.
	He's got the goods on her.
	I didn't give them anything.
	What's your story?
	And I abolished that agency that she's talking about.
	Enterprise Florida, we abolished it and of course we banned China from buying land.
	He scrubbed the website last week.
	Go check.
	Not exactly a great recruiting pitch if you're banning them from purchasing land at all.
	You scrubbed the website last week.
	You know what, I'll take it.
	It's not a bad thing.
	I'm not going to take it.
	We stood up for them.
	Kim Bassett, hey, hey, hey.
	It's a catfight between DeSantis and Nikki Haley, so... Drink and DeSantis won.
	How do you get TikTok banned if you use it?
	Well, I want to laugh at why Nikki Haley didn't answer your question, which is about looking at families in the eye.
	Catfight!
	In the last edition... Bring up the drinking game rules really quickly while you keep it in the lower third.
	Catfight is a drink.
	You might want to take care of your family first.
	Why are they booing him?
	Can someone let us know why they're booing him really quickly?
	Sorry guys, we were.
	You brought it in here because this guy was anti-censorship before.
	We're crapping her up, that's fine.
	Here's the truth.
	Can someone let us know why they're booing him really quickly?
	Sorry, I don't know if you were.
	I'm actually to say that we're just going to ban one app.
	We got to go further.
	We have to ban any U.S. company actually transferring U.S.
	data to the Chinese.
	Here's a story most people don't know.
	You've got a great answer because this guy was anti-censorship before.
	He's making it clear that's a national security issue.
	Banning a foreign government from using Americans' private information.
	YOU PEOPLE WHO THINK YOU'RE GONNA CATCH CONSERVATIVES WITH YOUR PRO-FREE SPEECH UNTIL WE GET IT.
	YOU GET SOME VIEWS ON TIKTOK WITH YOUR GENDER BENDER BULLSHIT.
	This is a good answer and it's consistent.
	You can't be fair weather fans of the right policy.
	Get to the root cause.
	Even US companies in Silicon Valley are regularly doing it.
	Cut the virtue signaling.
	The fact of the matter is Democrats are on TikTok today.
	The only person, one of the few people who is putting up content the way the actual algorithms work,
	speaking for pro-Israel views or others.
	Yeah.
	We don't speak to them in some way.
	More Republicans will join it, but stop US companies from doing it.
	So what he said was about her daughter, and I think she said something to the effect of
	leave my daughter out of it, and I think there was some booze because he had mentioned her.
	And I think he said, my point was the next generation is using this.
	We don't speak to them in some way.
	She still has that feminist in her, so she has to feign offense.
	Don't insult my daughter.
	Against North Korea in a generation.
	We are the, that is literally the reason North Korea stopped testing ballistic missiles.
	So I said China did good on their part.
	That was a negotiation.
	You could never.
	You said Nikki, those are your words, not mine.
	It's just own up to it.
	You would never.
	You can change your mind.
	That's allowed.
	But don't lie to the people about.
	This is like a pissed off IndyCar.
	My entire career at the United Nations.
	Every day I fought China.
	And I did it by making sure no one could get any agency heads in the UN.
	I did it by making sure that we called them out on human rights.
	I did it by making sure that we held them accountable on everything that they did.
	That's the reason we got out of the Human Rights Council.
	That's the reason we called them out.
	and I have there's nothing to say I haven't Nikki, I noticed your experience wasn't the short term
	coffee experience with the millions you made afterwards
	Everybody else is hanging on to the rules I think that warrants another, by the way, ding drink
	That's been the deadliest rule of tonight's drinking game as far as alcohol poisoning.
	We thought there'd be some, but I didn't know it would be entirely a catfight.
	Quiet.
	Cap the ambience on.
	He walked outside of his podium.
	It's like hey, there's a mic there sir.
	He tried to ban TikTok twice but was struck down by our federal courts.
	You cannot ban TikTok.
	Yeah, exactly.
	His solutions just aren't very implementable.
	on the app, period.
	We also should provide, in my parents' bill of rights, we give parents the opportunity
	to give their kids permission under 14 to be on those apps.
	I think it's incredibly important for us as Americans to take back control of the information,
	especially of our kids.
	Good luck with that.
	His solutions just aren't very implementable.
	That's his problem.
	The way that we get to know that.
	It almost seems a little myopic.
	It seems like he's kind of, he thinks he's Ronald Reagan speaking to people in the 80s who aren't aware of how technology works.
	Comment below if you think so or use the hashtag Credor Debate Night.
	Is it Credor GOP Debate?
	They gave me the wrong one.
	We have to make sure that we use the tools that are in our tool kit.
	from by farmland near our bases.
	Nikki Haley knows all about tools.
	There's a power tool, a chip of tooth.
	They stopped stealing our intellectual property.
	They're literally stealing our IP to compete against us.
	My administration, we stopped.
	Intellectual property, Chris Christie's safe.
	And we start making sure that we correct.
	In fairness to the Chinese, I used to steal their intellectual property during a test.
	Yes.
	We all do.
	We all do.
	Thank you so much.
	Don't worry, we all do.
	Millions have fled political and economic turmoil.
	Many Venezuelan immigrants are settling right here in Florida.
	Former President Trump and President Biden have taken different approaches to Nicolás Maduro's regime with little result.
	Former President Trump put economic pressure on Venezuela and backed one of Maduro's rivals.
	President Biden temporarily eased sanctions to encourage electoral reforms.
	And Bernie Sanders praised their breadlines.
	...situation in Venezuela as a threat to the United States, and what would your approach be?
	We should never... You guys, remember, bring up that old Bernie clip.
	People don't realize he praised the breadlines.
	That's not a joke.
	Yeah, what did he say?
	That's a good thing.
	They're waiting for the bread.
	Waiting for the bread.
	That's a good thing.
	They said, are you sure about this?
	He said, oh, son of a bitch!
	Stop cutting me off when I answer about Chavez!
	We're gonna lower energy costs, but we're also gonna be more energy independent and
	secure. We'll choose Midland over Moscow, we'll choose the Marcellus over the Mulas,
	and we'll choose Bakken over Beijing. That is good for America's national security.
	Biden's Green New Deal, that's good for Venezuela, it's good for Russia,
	it's good for Iran, and it's good for China.
	So I would turn the screws on the Venezuelan regime.
	I think it's a corrupt, dictatorial regime, and we should never go hat in hand begging for oil from them.
	Absolutely.
	Ambassador, what would your approach be?
	I stood on the Simon Boulevard Bridge and watched thousands of Venezuelans cross for hours in the hot sun holding their babies to get the one meal they might get that day going from Venezuela to Colombia.
	They were fleeing socialism and begging for freedom.
	We need to make sure that we do everything we can to sanction Maduro.
	We shouldn't be getting dirty oil and Biden just gave 500,000 Venezuelans By the way, that's why I won't get gas from 7-Eleven, unless they changed it.
	It's dirty?
	It was largely Venezuelan oil.
	Is that Venezuelan oil?
	I can't remember if it was 7-Eleven and Citgo, or they swapped at one point, but 7-Eleven, a lot of their pumps were getting oil from Venezuela.
	We don't need oil from anyone else!
	We do not need petroleum products from anywhere outside the United States.
	That is a huge failure of American policy.
	It's a huge failure of the Biden administration.
	Of American policy, period.
	Barack Obama, same thing with George W. Bush.
	There is no reason that we should not be drilling, for example, in Alaska.
	For the first time under Donald Trump, we were a net oil exporter.
	That was the first time it happened in our lifetime.
	When's the last time you heard fracking?
	Not since he killed the Keystone pipeline.
	Sorry, Keystone XL.
	So they go, it's bad for the environment, so let's get it from Venezuela.
	...that, of course, is the economy.
	This is a question that will go to all of you.
	An Iowa voter recently told NBC News, how am I going to make sure my pantry's stocked without breaking the bank?
	Really quickly, I think this is probably a good time to go to it.
	Donald Trump talking about... I said, look, what's the top clip so far from Donald Trump, and I think it has to do with... Him slugging a lady in the head.
	Do you have it?
	Yeah, I got it.
	Let's do it.
	Alright, let's go.
	Bring up the Donald Trump clip now.
	The radical left Democrats rigged the presidential election of 2020 and we're not going to allow
	them to rig the presidential election.
	We're going to have to do it.
	That's what we say up here in heaven.
	He did mention Fred, his brother up there.
	And you know that Nick, they also called me from hell.
	They said Nikki Haley's knocking at the gate.
	She's trying to sell her body.
	Cheap whore Nikki Haley is what I think.
	In high heels.
	Somebody tell him.
	to hear the borrow from China plan that is embedded the made in America strategy
	creates 10 million new jobs somebody tell me different areas one is him that
	Obama fucked it up for all black and by the way we're talking about this economy
	think people they try and change the job numbers We can bring these up as overlays here.
	They just had a new jobs report from Biden.
	Okay.
	So look, I understand that you might look at a number, for example, unemployment 3.9.
	Think that's great.
	Well, you're not taking into account under Biden, because you are living, obviously, the economy, and you know that you are worse off.
	Most Americans know that they are worse off.
	Here's how you know that's true.
	When even NBC is asking the question, predicated on the premise that, okay, people are struggling economically, so how are you going to improve it?
	That was not the question.
	When they were asking these questions for the debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, they were asking about COVID and how they were going to bring back the economy.
	They would not have had that question to ask.
	So 3.9 doesn't seem that bad.
	Until you take into account the labor force participation rate, how many people are working one, two, three part-time jobs, and when you also look at the difference between the public sector versus private job growth.
	There's something called shovel-ready jobs.
	Barack Obama used it.
	We've used the example of the trees in northern Michigan.
	Where they just said, grab a shovel, plant some trees.
	And they were planted so close together, because these people had no business planting trees, that we call them up north trees.
	As you get toward, people know, Traverse City, Leelanau Peninsula.
	It looks like the Mario level with the mushroom caps.
	Yeah.
	Because they didn't know how to plant trees, but that counted as a job.
	So the most striking difference to me is if you look at the public sector job growth, okay?
	Well, let's go to private sector first.
	Under Donald Trump, when we compare quarters for quarters on the jobs report, he added 128,000 jobs in the private sector.
	Biden added 99,000 jobs.
	Okay.
	And 96 of those are in China.
	And the public sector?
	Biden added 51,000 jobs, meaning your taxes are paying for new so-called jobs like IRS agents, employees.
	Donald Trump reduced it by 3,000.
	It was a net loss of 3,000 public sector jobs.
	Huge, huge.
	So he had a lower unemployment rate, he had a lower part-time employment rate, he had more private job growth that wasn't even close, and he actually was the first president that I know in modern history who reduced The size of the public sector.
	Plus 51,000 jobs with Joe Biden in the public sector.
	Mostly IRS.
	Minus 3,000 under Donald Trump, and he still had better job performances.
	Something else to know, Donald Trump's jobs, his jobs reports, when those came out, the economic reports, they always had to adjust them later on because the numbers were higher than they initially reported.
	Surprise!
	They've always had to adjust Joe Biden, former Vice President Biden's, later on because they're lower than suggested.
	This time too.
	Exactly.
	And that's a consistent through line.
	Not once or twice.
	Yeah, well, Donald Trump, the wages went up close to $5,000.
	People under eight years of Obama, it was about $1,200.
	With Joe Biden, the actual wage, it's been a wage decrease when you adjust for inflation because the inflation has been so bad.
	It's not just what they say.
	They're asking this question.
	NBC, on the premise that of course people are struggling and making less money.
	Let's go hear DeSantis and his cowboy boots.
	Wrong.
	Abolish the Fed, get rid of them.
	They should focus on nothing.
	Yep.
	That is gonna give the economy breathing room and I'm also gonna rein in the Federal Reserve
	They have helped create with their reckless monetary policy what we have faced since the kovat 19 pandemic
	They botched it Congress botched it both parties are to blame
	Fed should focus on stable prices. They are not an economic abolish the Fed get rid of them. They should focus on
	nothing. Yep Trying to do that
	Ways that you can improve people's financial condition in the short term
	Great job, nobody will get it.
	The economic question is core to my vision and policy prescription for this country.
	Increase the supply of everything.
	It's the law of supplies and demand.
	Increase the supply of energy.
	That brings down the cost of energy, grows the economy.
	Drill, frack, burn coal, embrace nuclear.
	Increase the supply of labor in this country.
	Stop using our taxpayer money to pay people more to stay at home instead of to go to work.
	Increase the supply of housing.
	People don't talk about this one in the Republican Party.
	The land use restrictions are constricting the supply of housing.
	That's making housing more expensive for ordinary Americans across this country.
	So that's the true answer.
	And I think it takes a CEO in the White House who actually understands this to get this done.
	Because Americans at home, they know the Bidenomics is a lie.
	Prices are going up.
	Massive.
	and mortgages to buy your home are going up.
	But wages have remained flat.
	That's the hard diagnosis for our economy.
	And this is about more than just our economy.
	I say this as a member of my generation.
	I'm 38 years old.
	I'm the youngest person ever to run for US president as a Republican.
	The reason my generation has lost our sense of national pride
	in part is because people in my generation feel like the American dream isn't available to them.
	And part of the reason why is we burden them with four-year college degrees that did not serve their head start on the American dream.
	People will be more proud of a country if we're all making more money in that country.
	This is how we revive national pride in our identity, and it will take a CEO in the White House with zero-based budgeting, by the way, to take on the federal debt to get this job done.
	Let me step on your applause, Mr. Morrison.
	The premise of the question, and I agree with Tim on this, is absolutely energy is the key to this, because it drives every one of those other prices.
	And you're brimming with it.
	Now food gets to your grocery store, it gets trucked.
	And those truckers have to pay for fuel, for the higher fuel prices.
	And when you go ahead and you tell people, we are going to unleash every bit of American energy, Every bit of its potential.
	What happens in the futures markets?
	The prices go down because those people who are believing that the Biden program will continue are the ones who are bidding this up.
	And let me take the other place that's bidding it up in the Middle East.
	And so if you don't believe that making sure that Israel and that Israel situation that's going on right now.
	Two drinks because the I stand with Israel schtick and the fake tough guy schtick.
	Drink.
	Bring up the drinking game rules so people know.
	I'm sorry that our rules are so affected.
	well in what they see as a response to a crisis when it's really what it's in
	response to is putting more money in their pockets. We have an American president who knows
	that Israel must be defended not with humanitarian pauses and not with
	suggestions for ceasefire but with letting them know we will supply them
	with everything they need that will also bring stability to the market. Energy is the
	key to bringing this down.
	It's what every American family needs when they turn on their lights, fill up their car, and go to the grocery store.
	And we need to do that first and foremost.
	That's the short-term answer.
	Governor Christie, thank you.
	Ambassador Haley, let me come at this from a slightly different direction.
	Americans in rural communities are being especially squeezed by inflation right now.
	An Iowa State University study found that last year inflation cost rural households about an extra $5,000.
	How would you specifically help rural Americans who are suffering right now, Ambassador?
	Well, I'm a product of rural America.
	I grew up in rural South Carolina.
	And I can tell you what we're seeing now in America is the rich are getting richer and
	the poor are getting poorer.
	We have to go and start beefing up the middle class.
	And the first thing I would do is I will eliminate the federal gas and diesel tax in this country.
	We'll cut taxes on the middle class.
	But we have to stop this spending binge that's happening by Republicans and Democrats in
	Congress.
	I will make sure, one, we claw back the $500 billion of unspent COVID dollars that are
	Instead of 87,000 IRS agents going after Middle America, we'll go after the hundreds of billions of dollars of COVID fraud that exist, one out of every $7.
	We'll stop the spending, we'll stop the borrowing, we'll eliminate the earmarks, and I'll veto any spending bill that doesn't go back to pre-COVID levels.
	That will cut No you won't.
	I just can't listen to a woman talk about not spending money.
	How much does that top cost you?
	Tim Scott just told a dirty joke to the vague.
	you a number, Hugh, on the amount of ships in the Navy is because in a few years our
	interest expense is going to be more than our defense budget.
	So no one can give you that number realistically without first tackling what's happening.
	It is a national security concern.
	If we don't deal with what's going to happen with that interest expense in a few years, we're going to look like Japan.
	joke. Kim Scott. Oh my god you get them done already.
	I think they've done a pretty good job tonight, NBC.
	I agree.
	Not bad.
	Governor Christie, first to you, you have proposed raising the retirement age for younger Americans.
	What would that age be specifically?
	He's not going to make it. 105.
	Sure, and we have to deal with this problem.
	Now look, if we raise the retirement age a few years for folks that are in their 30s and 40s, I have a son who's in the audience tonight that's 30 years old.
	If he can't adjust to a few year increase in social security retirement age over the next 40 years, I've got bigger problems with him than his social security payments.
	The fact is, we need to be realistic about this.
	There are only three things that go into this.
	Retirement age, eligibility for the program in general, and taxes.
	That's it.
	We are already overtaxed in this country, and we should not raise those taxes.
	But on eligibility also, I don't know if out there tonight, and if you're watching Warren, I don't know if Warren Buffett is collecting Social Security.
	But if he is, shame on you, you shouldn't be taking the money.
	There are a lot of programs in this country that we all pay for, that we don't get a direct benefit from.
	Food stamps is one of them.
	I've never fortunately in my life ever had me or my family on food stamps.
	You ate the food stamps.
	It's true.
	Government cheese.
	So that no one in this country goes to bed hungry at night if they have availability
	to that program.
	Too easy.
	Too easy.
	They live on your block?
	Security, remember why it was established.
	I went for a snack.
	It's all gone.
	Always.
	No one would grow old in this country in poverty.
	That's what we gotta get back to.
	Because Kristi moves in at the food desert.
	Social Security.
	Governor, can you give me some...
	Because I woke up last night, I had pizza crust on my chest.
	Cut Social Security.
	They don't want to talk about social security.
	If I'm not mistaken, you guys can bring it up, I did a video on this a long time ago where I reported social security to the SEC.
	I believe it was 16 workers per retiree when they launched it and the average life expectancy was about 67 years old.
	Now I believe it's 3 workers per retiree and the average life expectancy is 75 years old.
	Ponzi scheme is where you have a financial plan, think of like a pyramid scheme where
	it requires new people, right, new people to pay into the scheme to pay out the initial
	investors and the new people won't be paid out.
	That is social security but it's a third rail that even GOP candidates don't really want
	to touch because a lot of old people vote for them.
	So I'm curious to see if anyone here says, look, it's insolvent.
	You go and you say we're going to change the rules.
	You change the retirement age for them.
	Instead of cost of living increases, we should go to increases based on inflation.
	We should limit benefits on the wealthy.
	Bernie Marcus can tell you he hates getting that check.
	Limit the benefits on the wealthy.
	And then expand Medicare Advantage plans.
	Seniors love that.
	And let's make sure we do that.
	Sounds like Bernie.
	More competition.
	That's how we'll deal with entitlement reform, and that's how we'll start to pay down this debt.
	And can you give me a specific age?
	Have you determined the age?
	Again, you have to work with... Chris, what I can tell you is it's going to be those in their 20s just coming into the system, and it should reflect more of life expectancy.
	It doesn't do that now.
	Alright, Mr. Ramaswamy, have you determined... Oh, he's going to give a clear answer.
	He's going to say it's not a thing.
	What kind of reforms are you looking at?
	So this is really important right now.
	We're working within the last window, I believe, we will have to actually fix this problem
	while still leaving Social Security and Medicare benefits for current seniors intact.
	I'll tell you how.
	The other candidates assume, like Nikki, that it can't be done.
	And on her math, she's right about it.
	But her math assumes $7 trillion of our $33 trillion national debt going to fight wars
	like in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
	Minus that, our national debt would be $26 trillion right now.
	Then you go to zero-based budgeting, which I've proposed as a CEO.
	It's how I've run businesses.
	It's how many CEOs run businesses.
	This is very important in comparison to baseline budgeting.
	Ever heard of construction season on roads?
	...as the baseline, and then ask what's actually necessary.
	75% headcount reduction.
	Yes, that is severe.
	In the number of federal employees in the Washington, D.C.
	bureaucracy.
	Shut down redundant agencies that should not exist.
	Deliver economic growth as a positive tailwind.
	I think we can get to 3, 4, maybe even 5% GDP growth if we really take the regulatory shackles off of our economy.
	We had that for several quarters under Donald Trump.
	You guys can bring it up.
	How many quarters did we have that were well over 3%?
	I knew well over 4% for quite a few of them.
	Including sacrificing the foreign wars that many bloodthirsty members of both parties have a hunger for.
	That's the one secret for how we're going to be able to do this and that requires discipline.
	So we can't have the first conversation we were having sending foreign aid willy-nilly to countries whose national debt per capita is less than ours.
	But if we do this correctly, I think this is our last window and it'll take a CEO from the next generation to do it.
	Look, this is unpopular.
	It's a very difficult issue for people to tackle because at some point you have to rip the Band-Aid off.
	Did they bring in the retiree per active worker stat?
	Not yet.
	I believe it was 16-1 and it went to 3-1 when I did this video in 2011 maybe, 2010.
	It comes down to this.
	Do you really believe in the vision where they say, hey, yeah, we're not going to touch your social security and this is something we can do forever, or do you understand that it's simply a program that was created at a time when life expectancy was different, the entitlement programs that we had as a general rule were different, our policing the world was very different, and our debt was not at the level that it is now.
	You have to acknowledge the reality, and I get it.
	You have a lot of boomer voters, and I'm not insulting boomers, who say, well, I paid in.
	Well, guess what?
	So are people now.
	Especially millennials who are 40 who've been paying in.
	And the only way that they get paid out is if you raid something else.
	You need to grab another slush fund.
	That's really what we're talking about.
	So people don't want to address this head-on.
	Remember Rick Perry got in a lot of trouble because he said that Social Security was a problem.
	Mitt Romney went after him.
	I really would like to see a shift away from that with the GOP.
	And Vivek is the only one who answered that in a way that, frankly, is somewhat reality-based.
	Let me know when they bring in those numbers.
	It's the idea that there's an ideal point where you tax people, where you generate maximum revenue.
	I believe his is somewhere around 30%.
	And there's also something that's more interesting I find, Hauser's Law.
	I believe it's H-A-U-S-E-R, Hauser's Law, where if you look at the amount of taxes that have been collected over the last several decades, it still is averaged pretty consistently overall.
	When you average it across income, across value-added tax, all of that.
	16 to 20 percent.
	Let's average it somewhere around 18 percent.
	The revenue collected doesn't change if you increase the taxes.
	It remains remarkably stable as a byproduct of GDP, regardless of the income tax.
	It stabilizes because if people have higher income tax, they spend less.
	It ends up being around that number, between 16 To 20%, kind of, no matter what you do.
	This is something that's boring, a lot of people don't want to discuss, but as a matter of tax policy, it is an unavoidable reality.
	So if you could just tax people up to 90%, like Bernie Sanders said was a good thing, and that would generate 90% more revenue, great.
	It doesn't work.
	So right now, look up Hauser's Law.
	We have a reference at ladderwithcredit.com.
	That's a valid point.
	What can you do to help shore up Social Security?
	One of the things that's causing problems is the inflation.
	promise made, promise kept.
	I understand what you're going through with the rising- That's a screwdriver, I'm more of a flathead man, but it's
	fine.
	We'll make sure to get that done.
	What can you do to help shore up Social Security?
	One of the things that's causing problems is the inflation.
	We have to reduce inflation.
	I'm going to be very brief and do this.
	So, retiree ratio 1940, 42 workers per retiree.
	It's even worse than you thought.
	3 to 1 now is correct by 2050, down to 2 to 1.
	Okay.
	...get to at least 3% growth.
	You're never going to be able to have issues... You can admonish me later.
	I said 16 to 1, but I guarantee you that's a study somewhere that had a leftist slant.
	No, I know, but I still deserve to be admonished because I didn't point out the severity, but that's because Mr. Napsalot over here... You won it.
	Okay.
	2018 Q2 GDP growth under Trump 4.1%.
	4.1%.
	They're acting like that's something they can aspire to that's pie in the sky.
	It was a reality under Donald Trump.
	Think about that.
	They're saying they could maybe get what I did all the time.
	Imagine if I had four more years.
	Imagine that.
	Look, that filthy whore Nikki Haley doesn't have a chance.
	Maybe 2% GDP.
	That's generous.
	A lot of people... St.
	Peter told me from heaven, bitch can't get 2.5% GDP.
	By the way, since we're talking about Trump, clip Lil Pump real quick, Tim.
	Alright, let's do this.
	Look, she's gonna have a puppet.
	Rapper Lil Pump.
	Lil Pump.
	L-I-L.
	Lil.
	I love it!
	I said, how do you pronounce that?
	They say Lil.
	I love it.
	That was perfect!
	All right, well look, hey, let's take a minute right now.
	They're going to commercial break.
	We have the rest of that interview with Vivek.
	I believe that you can play what you had there.
	If you can pull that up in just one second and we will make sure that we get back to this and any other Trump stuff that's coming up, right?
	And send in into the chat if there's something you would like to see us cover between the Trump town hall, between his rally, sorry, and the debate.
	If there's something we're missing, let us know because we answer To you, Mug Club, not to a bunch of corporate donors or big tech who I'm pretty sure are about to suspend us anyways over the Nashville Manifesto.
	Let's go to America's favorite Indian and Gerald.
	Obtained by the police, but were you surprised at the response?
	Could have released this!
	Well, no, they could have released this.
	They could have very easily released this, given us some information.
	Were you surprised by the response immediately?
	Google started the search, had like a blacked out thing saying, hey, the data on this is changing very quickly.
	They ended up pulling down YouTube videos for that.
	Reddit ended up blocking users permanently for it.
	We ended up having Facebook block it.
	Like, immediately, big tech, poof, silence.
	Can't talk about this, can't post it.
	I think there's a difference between being surprised and appalled.
	At this point I'm not surprised, but I'm nonetheless, unsurprised though I am, I'm still appalled.
	And that's what moves me to want to lead this country, to set a tone from the top of the executive branch of the government to say we're done with this phase of our national history.
	We will set an example.
	Anytime a government actor is pressured, a private actor, to do something through the back door or silence something that the government couldn't do directly, we will publish it.
	Roll that log over.
	Let's see what crawls out.
	It's gonna be ugly.
	But we gotta see it first before we fix it.
	Whether that's within this Republican Party, whether that's within the deep state of the federal government that I'll be running as the next president if I'm elected.
	It's any sphere of our lives.
	That's the example we have to set.
	We the people handle the truth.
	That's the first step.
	Sometimes the truth is ugly.
	You've got to see it if you're to fix it.
	Anyway, man, I've probably got to rock and roll pretty soon.
	Debate, we'll be back.
	I'm going to pop into where we're sitting and see the kids a little bit, have some food with them, and then we'll be back in the debates tonight.
	That sounds good, and we look forward to seeing it.
	Look, if you're available post or would like to come back on to talk about how the debate went, let us know.
	We'd love to have you, but thank you for taking a few minutes, and hope you get some rest, enjoy some family time, and have a great debate.
	All right, man.
	We'll tell everybody.
	Tell Crowder and crew.
	I will.
	Appreciate it.
	Thanks.
	Thank you.
	Take care.
	Yeah, you like that?
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	You actually hit it right on the spot.
	Yeah, is that good?
	Like, literally, that is the good stuff right there.
	You want a little deeper?
	Yeah, yeah, go deeper.
	Deeper?
	Oh, yeah.
	Harder?
	No, just a little harder.
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	Bye, Steven.
	No.
	No.
	All right, we're actually going to take just a second.
	The debate is coming back, but we're going to go to Donald Trump's rally right now in Florida as well.
	Let's see what he's saying.
	Republicans, by the way, anytime you have Anytime you have mail-in ballots, you are going to have really corrupt elections.
	But until then, Republicans must win.
	We have to win so we can do this.
	And in conclusion, this is what we must do to restore our country to greatness.
	Together, we're taking on some of the most menacing forces and vicious opponents our people have ever seen.
	No matter how hateful or corrupt the communists and criminals we're fighting against may be, you must never forget this nation does not belong to them.
	This nation belongs to you.
	It belongs to the people with us tonight.
	That's how we won.
	This is your home, this is your heritage, and our American liberty is your God-given right.
	From Tampa to Tallahassee, from Pensacola to Sarasota, From Gainesville to Jacksonville to Miami, we inherit the legacy of generations of American patriots who gave their blood, sweat, and tears to defend our country and to defend our freedom.
	We stand on the shoulders of American heroes who crossed the oceans, blazed the trails, sailed the capitol, 1492.
	Hey, you're getting it.
	I can't do it.
	I don't know how he does it.
	Nobody thought it was possible.
	I like that he harkens back to, like, the triumphs of our country and our culture.
	He makes me believe in positive thinking, which I never believed in.
	We whooped the world's butt again!
	of our country and our culture.
	Yep.
	He makes me believe in positive thinking, which I never believed in.
	We whooped the world's butt again.
	Done it twice.
	We went to the moon.
	Here's the other thing about him.
	He did all that as a novice.
	Yeah.
	Well, I mean, he didn't win World Wars as an Ivy.
	No, I'm not talking about that.
	I'm talking about what he accomplished.
	All the shit that they're saying tonight on stage, he already did and he was brand new at it.
	I don't think I'd be taking too many people's advice.
	Yeah, which is fine.
	Very sad.
	Video behind me, sad.
	Listen to the music.
	Alright, let's go back to the debate really quickly.
	Let's see what Tons of Fun has to say.
	He's thinner this time.
	back online there. Very sad. Video behind me, sad. Listen to the music. All right, let's go back to
	the debate really quickly. Let's see what Tons of Fun has to say. He's dead at this time. I say it
	lovingly. Sure. At the open ports of our border.
	Customs and Border Patrol agents are overwhelmed.
	There's 200,000 encounters a month over the last 11 months.
	He's a big fella.
	Look, I'm a big fella.
	No, I'm not talking about that.
	I just can't trust a Republican from the Northeast.
	I can't trust a Republican who invited Obama there after Superstorm Sandy.
	He gave him a French kiss on the beach right after that.
	Pretty much did, yeah.
	Remember that?
	You remember that?
	Gross.
	Seriously.
	Now, we also need to lower demand, Hugh, in this country.
	And the way to lower demand is to start treating people again.
	You know, we started to do this before COVID.
	And we haven't done enough of it.
	And for every family out there tonight who has lost a loved one, You'll never do it.
	You'll never do it.
	You'll never win the drug war.
	Stop acting like you're going to win the drug war and get people to stop doing drugs.
	States we're going to call this what it is. It is a disease like heart disease, diabetes,
	or any other disease like cancer that can be treated, should be treated. We not only have
	to stop supply, but we have to lower demand and save lives.
	You'll never do it. You'll never do it. You'll never win the drug war. Stop acting like you're
	going to win the drug war and get people to stop doing drugs. It's not going to happen. It
	just pisses me off because like we're We've been saying that for 30 years, 40 years, 50 years.
	Go back as far as you want to go.
	You're not going to do it.
	Don't give me pie in the sky.
	Just say this is a battle that we're probably going to have to deal with for the rest of our lives and we're going to have to fight for our loved ones if we want to keep them from falling victim to this.
	I have family members that have dealt with this.
	I understand what it's like.
	I don't need pie in the sky.
	I need honest, real solutions and I need to understand the problem.
	But don't tell me you're going to solve it.
	Don't bring pie into it.
	Are we talking about fentanyl?
	Fentanyl, and the drug war, and what we're going to do for families.
	We're going to treat this.
	We're going to get it taken care of.
	No, you're not.
	Sorry.
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	But I will say this, with fentanyl, the opioid crisis, everyone here And I say this because I know this is a really, really boring... Oh, I had it in the hospital.
	It is good stuff.
	Also, Dilaudid, morphine, everything.
	They all have to treat this as though it's something we unilaterally agree upon.
	This is an unpopular opinion, but if you do the research, look.
	Opioid deaths have increased as prescribing has gone down.
	The vast majority of opioid deaths are from illicit drugs that are not prescribed.
	Just to be clear, street drugs.
	And the vast majority of people who get addicted to opioids are people who are already addicted to another substance to begin with.
	So, we need to be careful with them.
	However, the idea that someone is now dying because of a fentanyl overdose that was prescribed to them because Timmy went in for a wisdom tooth removal and became a junkie blowing someone for a packet of Vicodin is not true.
	That is not accurate.
	And we now have doctors who won't even prescribe painkillers to people who will be in lifelong pain from, say, car wrecks or being, you know, trampled by a Chris Christie.
	So we need to be honest.
	About the problem that we're facing.
	The problem we are facing is a drug trade.
	It's a border crisis.
	It is not doctors prescribing painkillers to people who need it.
	I know a lot of, and this is not me in the pocket of Big Pharma, I think that some doctors are really nilly.
	Of course, when we go back to Purdue, you look at Oxycontin, yep, they were over-prescribing it.
	But we have let the pendulum swing too far the other way, and no one wants to actually call it out.
	China sends the ingredients to Mexico, they put it together, bring it over.
	It's an act of war.
	Yes.
	Once again, put the frickin' military... Enough talk about the wall.
	Yeah.
	Put the milit... That's where DeSantis... You know, I love the fact... Okay, sorry.
	I went off on my soapbox, but let's...
	catch and deport will go to catch and release.
	I'm sorry, instead of catch and release, we'll go to catch and deport.
	That is the way we'll deal with the border.
	Those are the things that we have to do going forward.
	But I do agree with Chris.
	One of the first things that we have to do is really focus on mental health and addiction centers.
	It is something that is needed in our country terribly because we don't deal with mental health.
	And someone who doesn't get care for mental health falls into addiction, and we owe it to them
	to treat it like the cancer that it is.
	Mr. Ramaswamy.
	Social forces.
	Notice they always go to the vet whenever someone says cancer.
	He's a bio guy, right?
	Hold on a second, do you mean laced street drugs?
	We're talking about this issue is, you know, like Ron, I've actually met many parents across
	this country who have lost their kids to laced pharmaceuticals that have fentanyl in them.
	The only thing I would ask Ron, I think you'd be on the same page with me on this.
	Let's not even call that an overdose.
	Do you mean laced street drugs?
	Are you trying to say that someone's getting a Norco or a Vicodin laced with fentanyl?
	No, we would not call that an overdose.
	He'd call it what it is.
	It's closer to bioterrorism.
	And I say that because it uniquely relates to this crisis.
	That does warrant more aggressive means to deal with it.
	So there's a new presidential election in Mexico in 2024.
	People may not be aware of that.
	It's going to be someone other than Obrador, who has been a disaster in Mexico.
	I think he's gonna mention me obliquely in speeches.
	He's gonna steal the fentanyl.
	He's gonna get out near the White House.
	Roll, roll, roll.
	Get out of the way.
	White people, fentanyl, ahhh!
	We can build a good relationship with that next president of Mexico.
	We'll use our own military to seal our own southern border.
	What we need to do is stop using our military to protect somebody else's border all the way around the world when we're short right here at home.
	Get serious about protecting this border.
	And then the other thing that hasn't been discussed is the northern border.
	I'm the only candidate on the stage, as far as I'm aware.
	Yeah, keep the Canadians out, eh?
	The northern border.
	There was enough fentanyl that was captured just on the northern border last year to kill three million Americans.
	So we gotta just skate to where the puck is going.
	Not just where the puck is.
	Don't just build the wall, build both walls.
	Can't just complete the wall, use the military to seal the Swiss cheese.
	Thank you.
	Cheese!
	Winner.
	Winner, chicken dinner.
	Job done.
	Thank you.
	Kristen.
	Thank you, Hugh.
	Let's talk now about last night's election results.
	Abortion rights supporters saw victories in Ohio and Virginia, following earlier wins in states like Kansas and Kentucky.
	Governor DeSantis, first to you.
	This is an opportunity for someone to cut through the fog and provide a very clear answer.
	People try to make it seem like it's, oh abortion is just a losing issue.
	It is a lack of direction, messaging, period, and being outspent.
	I'm really curious to see how they answer this.
	...who was struggling in Jamaica about 40 years ago, 45 years ago... So I kicked her on the stomach.
	...to not have a baby because she was poor, baby wouldn't have opportunity, and she came close to having an abortion, but she decided to have the baby, born poor in Jamaica, and the reason I know that story is because that baby girl... That baby cuts my grass.
	...becoming a lawyer and a judge, and I appointed her to the Florida Supreme Court in August of 2022.
	We're better off when everybody counts.
	We're better off when we can promote a culture of life.
	At the same time, I understand that some of these states are doing it a little bit different.
	Texas is not going to do it the same as New Hampshire.
	Iowa is not necessarily going to do it the same as Virginia.
	So you got to work from the bottom up.
	You got to do a better job on these referenda.
	I think of all the stuff that's happened to the pro-life cause, they have been caught flat-footed on these referenda and they have been losing the referenda.
	A lot of the people who are voting for the referenda are Republicans who would vote for
	a Republican candidate.
	So you gotta understand how to do that.
	But let's just be clear, the Democrats have taken a position, they will not identify the
	point at which there should be any protection all the way up until birth.
	That is wrong and we cannot stand for that.
	All right, Governor DeSantis, thank you.
	Ambassador Haley, let me have you weigh in.
	Former President Trump has consistently blamed the abortion issue and how Republican candidates have talked about it for their electoral losses.
	How do you see the path forward?
	I've said it before, I think you have to be honest with the American people.
	This is a personal issue for every woman and every man.
	I am unapologetically pro-life, not because the Republican Party tells me to be,
	but because my husband Michael was adopted and I had trouble having both of my children.
	So I'm surrounded by blessings.
	Well, try putting it in your vagina.
	Post-Roe, a wrong was made right.
	They took it out of the hands of unelected justices, and they put it in the hands of the people.
	And now we're seeing states vote.
	And what I'll tell you is, as much as I'm pro-life, I don't judge anyone for being pro-choice, and I don't want them to judge me for being pro-life.
	So when we're looking at this, there's some states that are on the pro-life side.
	I welcome that.
	There's some states that are going more on the pro-choice side.
	I wish that wasn't the case, but the people decided.
	But when it comes to the federal law, which is what's being debated here, be honest, it's going to take 60 Senate votes, a majority of the House, and a president to sign it.
	So no, we have- I don't think there should be a federal law.
	In over 100 years, we might have 45 pro-life senators.
	So no Republican president can ban abortions any more than a Democrat president can ban these state laws.
	So let's find consensus.
	Let's agree on what, how we can ban late-term abortions.
	Here's the issue is, is Ron DeSantis, he didn't get an applause because he just sort of curtailed that.
	It should be, look, I think it should be, it should be, the onus should be on the left and Democrats to identify where
	life begins or there should be limitations.
	And if they don't, well then they're going to deal with the boot of the state legislature.
	And now we're not going to be outspent two to one, we're going to outspend them three to one, educating the public
	as to what constitutes a life.
	That may require fetal charts, I don't know, but the truth is most people, when they actually understand the left's policy, they disagree with it.
	They obfuscate their policy, we need to be transparent with it, and of course this goes to states' rights, which is really what you're looking at when you're talking about the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
	But let's make sure, I challenge anyone today on this stage, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, run through the list, say, to define when life begins or where they would place any limitation on abortion.
	That is an answer that they are required to provide.
	Put it on them.
	That's where the Republicans have been so flat-footed with it, where they go, you just want to... Well, the Democrats haven't given that answer, and they're still winning.
	I know.
	Well, that's because the media never challenges them.
	The media never challenges them, but it's your job to do it, because now, if you do that here today, it gets...
	It gets posted everywhere.
	It gets disseminated across social media and then there's some pressure because a lot of people are sharing this clip and really we haven't provided an answer.
	The media is not going to do it.
	Cut through the fog yourself.
	That should be the focus right now.
	Ron DeSantis kind of added it there as an addendum.
	Didn't spend enough time on it.
	Sorry, I'm interrupting Tim Scott.
	I know you are all desperate to hear him.
	He would have knocked me out.
	I think it's unethical and immoral to allow for abortions up until the day of birth.
	We have an opportunity in this nation to stop that restlessness.
	I don't think they're going to say anything super interesting, but there's only about 17 minutes left in this debate.
	They're all going to give their rap.
	He's a flying butterfly in the Lunesta commercial.
	We do need to see if we can check back in with Finnegan and see if he ever actually found his way into the arena.
	I know we have the 7 plus 1 after this and Alex Jones, of course, providing a post-game wrap-up.
	Let me check my map here.
	Oh, so we do.
	We have Thomas Finnegan on the ground.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Okay.
	Hi, Stephen.
	Wow.
	Okay, so you were really there at the debate.
	Thank you.
	I'm impressed.
	Good job, Finnegan.
	Who do you have lined up for an interview for us?
	that's handled disasters in Florida.
	Well, it's been kind of a long day and I haven't had anything to drink yet.
	I'm rather parched, so I'm going to head back to my motel.
	I'll try again in the morning.
	No.
	No, no.
	Don't do that at all.
	You're there.
	You're there.
	There's no debate in the morning.
	Okay?
	It's now.
	Look behind you.
	Just wait it out here.
	Just tough it out.
	Grab someone and go.
	My nails are getting kind of wily.
	I'm going to have to give those a trim.
	Finnegan, no.
	Finnegan, no.
	What are you doing?
	What are you doing?
	Finnegan, come on.
	Look, this is one of those times.
	Buck up.
	You're right.
	Oh, fuck.
	Okay, cut it.
	I just can't even.
	I'm sorry, my language is so bad.
	So many of you have signed up for Mug Club after the Nashville Manifesto.
	The promo code undercover.
	It's still $10 off.
	And I don't want you to think that all of your money is going to Finnegan.
	We have him on retainer.
	That's been legacied in.
	He was really cheap.
	I want to watch Vivek talk about the abortion issue because there's 9 billion of them.
	Now, how's that, Radio Shack?
	...parental consent.
	Why?
	It's back to that Republican culture of losing.
	The Republicans did not have an alternative amendment or vision on the table.
	I know Ohio.
	I was born, raised, and I lived there.
	It's representative of the country.
	If in the state of Ohio, we have access to contraception, adoption, and also here's the missing ingredient in this movement.
	Sexual responsibility for men.
	We live in an era of reliable genetic paternity tests that are 100% reliable.
	So we can say men deserve more responsibility.
	So we can tell women, we're all in this together.
	It's not men's rights versus women's rights.
	It's about human rights.
	And I've come back to that case that Clarence Thomas spoke of.
	A pregnant woman walking down the street.
	She's assaulted.
	The unborn child dies in that assault.
	You find me one person in this country.
	Who says that that criminal does not deserve liability for that death.
	You won't find one.
	That says we share the same instincts on this issue, but we require, I believe, a different generation of leadership to actually lead us forward and unite the country on this with honesty.
	Good.
	I think that was pretty strong.
	Now let's see if they do the orbit camera with Chris Christie.
	They've done it for no one else.
	I think it's the cameraman screwing with him.
	conservative lawyers, they're gonna be arguing that the federal government should have absolutely
	nothing to do with this issue constitutionally because it's nowhere in the Constitution.
	And then Dobbs comes and we finally gain that victory, which was the creation of a constitutional
	right out of thin air that didn't exist.
	And now we have people running to say, let's short circuit the states from doing what they
	need to do.
	And let's go right to some type of federal ban at a certain number of weeks.
	And people on the stage have been all over the place, 20 weeks, 15 weeks, 12, 6.
	Look, numbers.
	They're doing the camera!
	They gave him a wide shot!
	What the hell?
	State by state to make the Trump himself.
	They did it for no one else!
	In Oklahoma, you can't get an abortion unless the life of the mother is at risk.
	In my home state of New Jersey, it goes up to 9 months until you get an abortion.
	I find that morally reprehensible.
	That's what the people of our state have voted for.
	Chris Christie would just be filled with poison.
	How do we know when the procedure is over?
	Well you hear the kids lunchbox hit the floor.
	to be pro-life for the whole world.
	A lot of people are trying to treat with pillowcases.
	I use an industrial trash bag.
	It's precious and we should get treatment for her to restore her life.
	The 52-year-old who's drug addicted should make sure that any of his children who he's
	passed that addiction on to are treated well too.
	Pro-life's not just in the womb, Kirsten, it's for the whole life.
	That's a leftist talking point, you fat son of a bitch.
	Being pro-life doesn't mean pay for all the free stuff by stealing through taxpayers.
	Former Jersey governor.
	Donald Trump, I think, has wrapped up by this point.
	Yeah.
	So he's wrapped.
	We covered a couple of the highlights from him.
	But we do have the 7 Plus 1 that we need to talk about.
	We do have the 7 Plus 1.
	We might want to do it after.
	We want to go to the Hillary Clinton stuff from The View.
	Yeah, I think we should do that.
	Let me make sure I have these clips lined up.
	What do we have?
	Oh, OK.
	So here was Hillary.
	And by the way, the promo code is undercover.
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	Let me just reiterate this because there's been a lot of false reporting on the Nashville Manifesto.
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	Life sucks, get a fucking helmet!
	There you go.
	I love that Dennis Leary line, that classic iconic line, you know, that he used.
	Alright, here's Hillary Clinton who went on The View today, I guess.
	Wow.
	And she lumbered onto The View and said that a Trump 2024 victory would mean the end of America as we know it.
	Your loss to Trump in 2016 will go down in history as one of the most pivotal times in our country.
	One of the most pivotal moments in our country.
	And it's still reeling from You know, Trump's policies, I think, and the deep divisions that he sowed in this country.
	What, in your view, would happen if he were to be re-elected?
	Oh, I can't even... I can't even think that, because I think it would be the end of our country as we know it.
	Mmm.
	Yes.
	Oh, shut up.
	That's a good thing.
	Yeah, okay.
	Anyone?
	Anyone have any response?
	No?
	Yeah, I hope she fucking dies in her sleep.
	Did our country end when he beat you the first time?
	It did better!
	Did he leave office even though he thought the election was stolen?
	She did go on to clarify.
	She substantiated.
	She showed her work.
	I mean she was panting.
	She explained why a second Trump term would be worse than, and I want to make sure I'm reading this correctly, she compared him, she did, she compared him to Hitler.
	Whoa, original thinker.
	And so now he is going to, if he were ever near the Oval Office again, find people who
	have no principles, no conscience, who are totally...
	She's projecting!
	Like you and Clinton with Chelsea.
	projecting and therefore would do whatever he said and so the the wreckage
	is almost unimaginable you know when I was Secretary of State I used to talk
	about one and done and what I meant by that is that like you and Clinton with
	Chelsea legitimately elected good one and then they would try to do away with
	elections and do away with opposition and do away with a free press
	And you could see it in countries where, well, Hitler was duly elected, right?
	And so, all of a sudden, somebody with those tendencies, those dictatorial, authoritarian tendencies, would be like, okay, we're going to shut this down.
	Big statement from someone dressed like a guard at Treblinka.
	And they didn't usually telegraph that.
	Let me just be really clear here, okay?
	what he intends to do. Take him at his word. The man means to throw people in jail who
	disagree with him. Shut down legitimate press outlets. Do what he can to literally undermine
	the liberal bar.
	Let me just be really clear here, okay? Let's look at the political opponents of Donald
	Trump who were put in jail. I'm counting them up.
	You can bring this up as a reference.
	Uh, zero.
	With former Vice President Biden, you have Douglas Mackey, the meme maker, in jail.
	The meme maker, in jail.
	You have the Proud Boys, right?
	And by the way, you have the DOJ pushing for more aggressive sentencing, even though they weren't involved with any type of insurrection on January 6th.
	You have Owen Troyer, who I believe is back in solitary confinement now, if I'm not mistaken.
	And of course, they're trying to jail Trump.
	One of the biggest criticisms against Donald Trump is that he didn't lock her up, that bitch that you see right there.
	Right?
	He didn't jail his political opponents.
	The DOJ?
	Under Joe Biden?
	Donald Trump?
	How many times has he been indicted?
	How many political dissidents has Donald Trump put in jail?
	This is the fear-mongering from the left.
	This is projection.
	They accuse you of doing exactly what it is that they do.
	We'll go back to it.
	I know you get riled up with Hillary Clinton.
	No, just not to mention the free speech and fucking shutting down, you know, the laptop story and all that.
	They go, it's going to be the end of democracy.
	And they've already ended it.
	So one of the things I want to ask really quickly, and Tim Scott's giving some statements here, guys, and look, no disrespect to Tim Scott, but we're probably not going to see him on the debate stage after this, in my opinion.
	Bold prediction, Cotton.
	I know, right?
	Show me one thing.
	That Trump said, where he was serious about never giving up power again.
	Show me one time where he said, I'm never going to leave office.
	If you elect me, I'll stay president forever.
	There was a joke of a meme of Time Magazine that was hilarious.
	He said it jokingly.
	Yes, of course.
	But these guys are like, he's told us what he's got to do!
	And I'm like, he never said that.
	She's accusing him of doing exactly what she did.
	She's saying because he questioned the election results, which she did for four years!
	2016 in Russia, for crying out loud.
	I know.
	He's never said anything about shutting down media.
	In fact, he's trying to expand media right now.
	He's just saying that you guys are fake news.
	This is a guy whose son has a show on Rumble!
	I know.
	Alright, let's hear Mr. French.
	I'm running for President of the United States because I'm tired.
	I'm tired of seeing the division.
	I'm tired of seeing the anger.
	And I can see in the eyes of Americans their exhaustion.
	Their exhaustion from the petty personal politics that have taken over this country over the last number of years.
	I'm running for president to be a president of consequence.
	He's doing the equivalency things.
	To make sure that America's role in the world stays number one.
	That we stand up for our friends and allies around the world and we stand up for what we believe in right here at home.
	And the 2% of you in the primary that agree with me.
	Our differences has always been our strength as a country.
	Oh shut up!
	But you can't truly say you love America.
	He gets half of his talking points from the left.
	Yes!
	And the other half is the menu at Golden Corral.
	Let me guess, diversity is our strength.
	It's our downfall.
	We deserve and should accept nothing less.
	Governor, thank you very much.
	Let's go to Mr. Rana Swamy now.
	We've talked a lot about foreign wars tonight, but we're in the middle of a war right here at home.
	It's a war not between black and white or Democrat and Republican.
	It's between those of us who believe in our founding ideals and love this country, and a fringe minority who hates the United States of America.
	And I think it's going to take a commander-in-chief to lead us to victory in that war, who first of all knows that we're in a war.
	Second of all, can't be captured by the special interests along the way.
	But third is from the next generation, somebody with fresh legs to lead us to victory.
	I'll shut down the deep state, I'll declare economic independence from China, I'll keep us out of World War III, and then revive national pride in this country.
	I also want to close with one message to the Democrat Party.
	End this farce that Joe Biden is going to be your nominee.
	We know he's not even the President of the United States.
	He's a puppet for the managerial class.
	So have the guts to step up and be honest about who you're actually going to put up, so we can have an honest debate.
	Biden should step aside, end his candidacy now, so we can see whether it's Newsom or Michelle Obama or whoever else.
	And tell us who's running the country now.
	So we can have an honest debate.
	Whoa!
	Put up or shut up!
	He just put the... Good for him.
	Thank you.
	He had the gut for that.
	Hit the ding.
	That's a mic drop.
	Thank you.
	The world is on fire.
	We have a war in Europe.
	We've got a war in the Middle East.
	We've got China on the march.
	It is very important that we know how to defend our freedoms and how to defeat terrorism and socialism.
	We have to know the difference between good and evil.
	We have to know the difference between right and wrong.
	We need to know that a strong America doesn't start wars.
	A strong America prevents wars.
	And the way we can focus on that is to make sure we go back to the soul of America and be strong and proud again.
	And we can't do that.
	We can't win the fights.
	...of the 21st century with politicians from the 20th century.
	We have to move forward.
	And we can do this.
	I know we can do this.
	So join our movement... You may disagree.
	Funniest man alive right here, right next to me.
	I'm very grateful.
	...and we will once again show what America... I'm also ashamed.
	...that's strong and proud looks like.
	God bless.
	Nikki, the toast is broken.
	What happened?
	Governor DeSantis, you're closing.
	You have one minute.
	We must reverse our country's decline, and that is going to require leadership.
	I will take the hits.
	I will take the arrows.
	I will take the barbs.
	He has reused that line.
	This is why DeSantis is not doing very well.
	It's because his advisors say, use this line.
	Yeah, man.
	Yeah, it went great.
	No one can touch you when he said, I will take the arrows.
	I will take the hits.
	Why am I saying slings?
	Slings is what they use to throw the things.
	No, no, you'll take the slings.
	You'll take the slings.
	You sling.
	As president, as the father of three young kids, I'm going to ensure that this country is left to the next generation in better shape than we found it.
	And as the governor of Florida, I delivered on all my promises.
	That is true.
	You can trust me to deliver for you.
	Go keep doing that for a little while.
	I think you should stay governor.
	He should!
	For your vote.
	Because he's a good governor.
	He's a fantastic governor.
	Great governor.
	One of the best.
	In the election, I will be a leader you can be proud of.
	Which usually results in a good president.
	Usually does.
	He just may not be ready right now.
	His campaign hasn't been great.
	God bless you.
	Governor DeSantis, thank you.
	The tongue thing was a little weird.
	They're gonna meme that.
	It's like a goat sticking out it's tongue.
	We're going to conclude our debate.
	The next line says that the audience can hold their applause.
	That didn't work out.
	But anyway, for just a few more seconds, I'll ask you to just hold the applause.
	Moderators, I want to thank the candidates for their time and for this spirited debate.
	Really good, deep conversation and we appreciate you all being here.
	Thank you as well to our wonderful host here at the Adrian Arsh Performing Arts Center.
	On behalf of the Republican National Committee and all of us at NBC News, good night everyone.
	Chris Christie, the buffet is now open.
	Yes, it is.
	I hope they have shrimp.
	They got good shrimp?
	Is it de-veined?
	Ah, let's be honest, I don't give a shit.
	I'll eat the vein.
	I can see a sandwich in his thing.
	It was a fucking sandwich in his podium apparently.
	Brought to you by Jersey Mike's.
	Alright, I am curious to see the coverage really quickly.
	We'll go to the coverage, the post coverage here on the mainstream news outlets and then afterwards we're going to have Alex Jones on on Mug Club for the post debate roundup.
	But I guess this is as good a time as any.
	Endy.
	I've had two and a half drinks over the course of the evening.
	That is it, just to be clear.
	But the drinking game is far too effective.
	We're gonna have to scale that back.
	Hey, might as well.
	We have this chat.
	They've been asking for it.
	It's time for tonight's 7 Plus 1.
	You forgot Stefan in the chamber!
	Just during that stinger.
	I'm out.
	I said, you have one.
	He goes, I can't read.
	Who are you, Tim Scott?
	I'm blind.
	Hold on.
	What page are we on?
	7 plus 1.
	You know what, you can read off my page.
	Here we go.
	7 plus 1 tonight.
	Things the GOP candidates are doing in Florida after the debate.
	Number 7.
	Even though he wasn't at the debate, I just realized this.
	Number 7.
	Mike Pence will be spending some much needed quality time with mother on the homestead.
	Yeah, good for him.
	That's a multi-layered joke.
	I figure this one's a layup because Nick DiPaolo is just filled to the brim with hate.
	He did, yes.
	Seven plus one things GOP candidates are doing in Florida after the debate.
	Number six.
	Chris Christie will be rewarding himself by eating a nice Cuban.
	There you go.
	Oh, don't do Gay William like that.
	That's not nice.
	Things GOP candidates are doing after the debate.
	Number 5, Gerald.
	Nikki Haley will be raising campaign funds through a new OnlyFans.
	A new OnlyFans.
	Different from her previous OnlyFans.
	Exactly.
	That one's being shuttered.
	No Photoshop for that one.
	No Chatterbait for her.
	Number 4, Ron DeSantis will be shopping for new BOGO boots.
	I'll be doing that.
	With lifts.
	How did this make the cut?
	I don't know.
	I sent you some gold.
	I didn't see any of it.
	I'm sorry.
	This is my fault.
	Hey, I'm here for the paycheck.
	Things that GOP candidates are doing in Florida after the debate.
	No.
	3.
	Vivek Ramaswamy will be updating his application to Mar-a-Lago's tech support.
	Oh, that's true.
	Have you tried unplugging it?
	Uh, number two, Tim Scott will be going back to his grassroots, so that's nice, right?
	Oh, well hey, hey, that seems like there's some big...
	Who's that girl, Nikki Haley?
	...big turf builder.
	Number one, the things that the GOP candidates will be doing after this debate...
	Gerald Morgan?
	Nikki Haley will be demanding to speak to the debate's manager.
	Well, yeah, that makes... Now!
	Yeah, she's going to be upset.
	Is that a John and Kate plus eight merged with Nikki Haley?
	Wow, that looks real.
	And the plus one, Chris Christie will be hammocked back to tank number two for his 11 p.m.
	feeding of mackerel.
	That one's a joke.
	This has been 7 Plus.
	You're forgotten if I'm in the chamber.
	Stay back!
	All right, so really quickly here, we talked about this and Vivek called them out and said, look, he's not going to be running, so we probably need to talk about this.
	But Newsom is actually losing big support in California right now.
	He's been trying to kind of increase his profile abroad.
	A new poll that came out said he is being humbled right now.
	So he had an 11 point drop from his approval rating in February.
	11 points.
	Really?
	Pretty bad.
	Oof.
	Doesn't matter.
	Yeah.
	No, it matters.
	All the polls are fake.
	People are appointed.
	I'm telling you.
	You both think that it won't be Joe Biden.
	You both think it won't be Joe Biden.
	We're both right.
	But let me ask you this.
	If his points have gone down by 11, you're saying, 11 points, do you think they might kind of pull out the contingency plan and it could be like a Gretchen Whitmer?
	No, I don't think anybody's going to like her.
	You're trying to make it look interesting, folks.
	You don't think they'll go maybe Gretchen Whitmer instead of Newsom?
	You really want a woman?
	Even before that, when they did the recall on Newsom, do you really think that he won?
	I don't know.
	I know that someone threw a banana pie at Larry Elder and I thought that was pretty shitty.
	Someone was dressed up as a gorilla and threw a pie at Larry Elder.
	I'm like, how is this not front page?
	This is, I mean, this is, it checks every box for a hate crime.
	They call him the black face of white supremacy.
	Yeah, the black face of white supremacy.
	I told you he was going to get sworn in behind a quick mark as the grand dragon.
	They're showing Vivek's family.
	That's pretty, okay, that's not, you got a good look.
	And by the way, Vivek was here, spent time with him, enjoyed my time with him.
	He's a very spry guy, Vivek.
	Like, he's a guy who will live forever.
	You need that energy!
	You need that energy to be good.
	You know, it's interesting to always have him on screen with Tim Scott to see who's actually darker, but it just depends on the season.
	Let's see what they're saying here at NBC and maybe if someone can bring to us if there have been any type of meltdowns.
	I don't think tonight was enough of a bombshell evening for MSNBC or CNN to lose their minds.
	Tim Scott got a white wife?
	their criticisms of Donald Trump in praise of his presidency because they're trying to give
	a permission structure to his voters to say yes I liked him then or like elements of what he did
	then even if he's not the candidate for me now and that's based in sort of a factual basis based
	on some of our own polling which has found that attacking Donald Trump directly can make a
	candidate less popular. This guy's holding the microphone any direction but his face. Yeah what are you doing?
	Talking out of your nipples? If I were to be him right now I'd be like hey guys uh the debate tonight
	Get that away from me. Make it further.
	He's being an idiot.
	It's like a boom and a pawn.
	He's got a lapel mic, too.
	So what is a visual aid?
	Look, Tim Scott, go ahead, touch it.
	Mike too, so what is a visual aid?
	I think all of them are making similar calculations about trying to be the last person standing.
	Look, Tim Scott, come back.
	Don't touch it.
	We'll do the dirty work for them. And if we end this election cycle, if we end this primary
	cycle with Donald Trump, once again, as the Republican nominee, I think debates like this one,
	huge stages with lots of eyeballs on them.
	If you end this primary cycle with Donald Trump as a candidate, what do you mean if?
	More direct contrast with the front runner who's been squashing them in state and national polls
	is going to be part of the reason why we could end up in that same place like we saw in 2015.
	Can I say something?
	Yes, you may.
	We all seem to be, including the media and everybody, assumes that Trump is not going to be in jail?
	He's not going to be in jail.
	I very much doubt they could make that happen before the election.
	It could, but I don't think they would.
	You want to start, we've talked about this, you want to set off the revolution, you want to light the match.
	I don't believe it.
	White people are too fat and lazy.
	It should have started after the last election.
	I'm telling you, man.
	I understand, but too many promises were made about how quickly we were going to get to the bottom of all this that didn't come true and people are like, well, I don't know who I can believe right now.
	But if you throw Donald Trump in jail and keep him from being the nominee, all bets are off.
	He wants to jail political opponents if they do it and that's something that they really need to use for fear-mongering so I think they just want to flick the jab out there to make it too expensive to just you know have enough anchors around his neck and you know that's what they want to do.
	I don't think they really want him in jail but they might.
	It depends how close we get to the election if they're out for blood.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Boy, it's quite a bluff.
	No, I think he's the guy.
	I think right now, after seeing this debate, I think Vivek got some of his swagger back.
	He came out fighting.
	He called balls and strikes on the last episode.
	I thought he was great.
	Hold on a second.
	This is the worst hairpiece I've ever seen in my life.
	And then it just fell flat and went away.
	There were some moments tonight where people had some zingers for each other.
	He makes Frank Luntz's wig look like it's designer.
	Frank's got a wig?
	Why?
	Alright, sorry, continue Gerald.
	I was distracted.
	No, but I think what should happen right now is Ron DeSantis should bow out of this campaign.
	He should pause his campaign because if Donald Trump for some reason can't run, if they succeed in kind of putting him in jail or something else, He can always pick his campaign right back up.
	He can pause his campaign right now, put his support behind Donald Trump, go back to being a great governor for a little while longer, and then be the guy in four years.
	That's what he should do, but he won't right now.
	They're going to keep running.
	We're going to have one more debate, and our issue right now is the guy.
	The guy!
	Do we have to cover the next debate?
	And by the way, just so you guys know, people are obviously, they have debate fatigue because we have been tonight blowing away the actual GOP debate numbers and they're lower than any debate we've covered because the truth is there's not that much more to cover.
	This is really more an exercise.
	This is mental masturbation for these candidates left.
	It's an ego trip.
	Look, we're at the point where we should be able to make a decision.
	I understand it.
	We have different ideas.
	We want to narrow the field.
	We go through the process.
	But, at a certain point, there is a finite amount of money.
	And I just want to know, who is giving their money to Chris Christie?
	That's exactly right!
	Democrats!
	I would vote for anyone on that stage not named Chris Christie.
	Maybe Nikki Haley.
	I don't trust her.
	I don't dislike her, but I don't trust her.
	I would not vote for I wouldn't vote for Chris Christie.
	If it's Chris Christie, I wouldn't vote.
	I'm just going to say that.
	People say, oh, if it's Chris Christie, I wouldn't vote.
	You guys can comment.
	Are you in that same camp?
	Anyone on there I would vote for.
	Not Chris Christie.
	I would like it to be, obviously, Donald Trump.
	Ron DeSantis.
	Maybe Vivek.
	I think he might be better in some kind of a cabinet position.
	I agree.
	I mean, he's still, honestly, he's my favorite candidate of the group.
	Only because, again, I think Ron DeSantis could be a phenomenal presidential candidate if he has some more seasoning.
	I don't know what happened.
	I don't understand what you guys think he's doing so wrong.
	DeSantis?
	Yes!
	He's come off incredibly robotic, incredibly kind of the normal Candacy that we expect from him.
	More robotic than a Nikki Haley or Chris Christie would just put left-wing talking on.
	But the expectations were much higher for DeSantis.
	Remember, everyone thought it was going to be DeSantis.
	I know, but it seems like it's been a... the media has sort of done a number on him.
	That's true.
	I don't understand why he's so far down the... Look, I don't think he's that far down.
	He's like 7th.
	Yeah, he's not doing very well.
	But he has the wrong handlers.
	But what do you want him to do differently is what I'm saying.
	You know what?
	These guys need to speak up.
	Do what Donald Trump does and every now and then throw the leash off and just be yourself.
	Let your freak flag fly.
	He is!
	No, but he didn't come out that way, Nick.
	The problem was, he launched his campaign and he went right towards the Romney style of campaigns.
	He went right towards the old... Not in policy, but in presentation.
	In presentation, and how he presented himself, and how he aligned himself, and what he did, and what he said.
	That's the problem, though.
	This guy that would go out and just spit Fire at the media and have a phenomenal record, did not come out of the gate swinging, and I'm like, oh he's going towards the middle.
	He's going to be controlled by the RNC, he's going to be controlled by these agencies again, and I don't want that in my nominee.
	Donald Trump's not, Vivek's not.
	But you guys, you're basing it on previous presidents, you're saying his presentation stinks.
	It should!
	You're asking for the same shit!
	You want him to present himself like every... I think that people should present themselves less presidentially.
	In other words, Donald Trump proved that people want someone who, sure, you can be professional, but you also have to show a little more passion.
	But what could he say any more... I don't find him as reserved as you guys are saying.
	Half the stuff you said tonight, I'd like to see if it's a little bit of Nick DiPaolo.
	Like, oh you whore.
	Here's a good example.
	I would vote for him.
	Here's a good example.
	Vivek, last debate versus this debate.
	Last debate he's like, and I agree with all my friends on this stage.
	I'm not talking about Vivek.
	I know, but I'm giving you the comparison.
	This debate, he came out throwing punches.
	When Ron DeSantis throws punches, that's the Ron that we like.
	Give me an example of him throwing punches that he didn't throw tonight.
	He threw more tonight than he has in the past, but that's the whole problem.
	He launched his campaign in a way that really turned people off the numbers showing.
	People put too much weight on presentation.
	I put weight on content.
	I like what he's saying.
	I like his ideas.
	Fuck presentation.
	This isn't show business.
	No, we're just answering your question as far as why he's falling in the polls.
	I know.
	I'm trying to break the public spell.
	I think he would be a good president.
	The establishment influence is what we're pushing back Yes, that's true.
	Not just presentation.
	It's not like I'm looking like, oh, can this guy act?
	That's not the point.
	No.
	The point is, why did he get there?
	It's because he didn't have the experience, the balls or whatever.
	I don't think it's the balls.
	I think it's the experience to stand up to these guys and go, that's not who I am.
	I'm going to be me.
	And if people don't like me, I'll go back to being the governor when they do like me.
	He was talking about what he did with COVID and all that stuff in the first debate.
	Well, okay.
	For example, when he would be doing these press conferences in Florida, he would say, remember the famous one, he said, no, no, you misrepresented me, I disabused you of that notion, and I'm going to go answer another question.
	He could do that when he called.
	He was in command.
	Yeah, he was in command.
	He just seems to be going along to not upset the apple pie.
	Okay, but that's, you're comparing him by himself at a press conference with five others.
	That's what I'm saying, but what I'm saying is people wanted Aranda Santos, who we all covered and we saw at the press conferences, to come out in a national campaign, and we're still, we're left wanting.
	Yes.
	I think is what we're saying a little bit.
	But I like him and I would vote for him in a heartbeat.
	For sure.
	He's one of the best governors.
	Absolutely.
	I'm just trying to sort of reverse engineer why.
	And you know what?
	You guys can comment below.
	Hit the like button if you're on YouTube.
	You know, most of you are on Rumble, which is great.
	But comment and let us, like, why do you think he's been slipping in the polls?
	Maybe we are missing someone.
	Here's the best thing Trump's got going.
	He can say, I didn't even know what I was doing.
	I was a novice and it was a great president.
	Now I know what I'm doing.
	I'm waiting for him to jump on that line, you know.
	We have Alex, I believe, so let's see.
	I'm curious to see what he thinks.
	Let's bring up for a post-debate wrap-up.
	I thought Vivek won, by the way.
	Oh yeah, who do you think?
	Absolutely Vivek.
	I thought he was tremendous.
	Probably, Vivek.
	I do think DeSantis actually had a pretty good night.
	Better than he's had in the past.
	Tonight, probably, Vivek, if you're going to go by the audience response.
	Let's start this with Alex Jones and we'll continue on Mug Club post-debate wrap-up.
	Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones, can you hear me, sir?
	Yes, I've been watching for several hours.
	This is even better than your last coverage, and that's why you've got bigger numbers than the actual debate had.
	And that's really the big story here, is that independent real media is more popular than the dinosaur media.
	And then there's just so many angles here, so many points.
	And it's not just that Vivek's come on your show and come on my show that I'm saying he won the debate.
	I think anybody watching this hands down saw that All the candidates, including DeSantis, were just very, very stale.
	I mean, I don't hate DeSantis.
	I like a lot of things that DeSantis has done.
	I don't like the whole Trump and DeSantis fight, but Nikki Haley looked like she was on Adderall.
	Scott was just a bunch of canned garbage.
	Of course, Chris Christie is just a Democrat machine talking point.
	Vivek really gave a lot of depth and understanding of things.
	And the way he called out, that was the mic drop moment, as you guys said, when he called out Biden said, this guy's a puppet of the administrative deep state.
	We're going to abolish the deep state.
	That was beautiful.
	A lot of the other things he said were really important.
	We have over a hundred thousand people a year dying of fentanyl.
	It's only growing and it's true.
	Back in the eighties, a few people got killed.
	It was like seven or eight when people poisoned Tylenol.
	They called it poisoning the Tylenol.
	And if somebody killed a hundred, And 12,000 or whatever it was last year with fentanyl, that's
	just where it was actually diagnosed is probably much higher. We all know people that
	have died of fentanyl or friends that have family that's died, they smoke a vape, it's
	got anything, or they think they're taking ecstasy, it kills them, or it's in marijuana, or
	kids are playing at the playground and get on their hands and die. And, and, and.
	And so imagine if one person had fentanyl stuck in a Big Mac and be national news story because it's poisoning and it is a chemical attack.
	He called it a bio attack.
	No, fentanyl is a chemical that biologically can kill humans and is incredibly strong.
	And so, yes, this is a bio attack.
	But because the globalists on the left wants open borders, because they want to depopulate us, they're allowing it all to happen.
	And that's the other big takeaway here.
	And of course DeSantis made this point.
	I believe it was DeSantis.
	The life expectancy of the United States is dropping straight down.
	It's not just fentanyl.
	It's come out.
	It's the COVID shots.
	It's in the insurance company actuaries.
	So Vivek didn't just win this.
	He was the only person that really said anything that was not a canned talking point
	from a political donor, so.
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	Considering the polls of Donald Trump in the swing states, do you still maintain that it absolutely,
	and this is what Vivek said tonight, which should be shocking to a lot of people in the media,
	because the mainstream media has never even acknowledged this really as a possibility,
	that do you still maintain, Alex Jones, that Biden will not be the nominee this election.
	I 100% agree with you and the rest of your great pundits there, but it's two different worlds.
	If Biden has his way, And he's trying to not be a puppet, even though he is one that has to take naps every day and they've got him on all these drugs.
	I've talked to some of the Secret Service.
	It's unbelievable.
	He believes he's the president, even though it's now even come out on NBC News, that what we were told years ago is true.
	Obama has his own White House down the road and is literally enjoying his third unelected term.
	Well, to be clear, he may have a house that's white, but yes, your point remains.
	Well, I mean, the point is it's now confirmed that The entire administrative state around Obama, this is the third term of these guys and his vice president is in there as a placeholder and Obama bragged that's what he wanted when he left office.
	So here we are and so Biden's refusing to leave.
	You've got Axelrod and all the rest of the top Democrats on TV over the weekend saying he must leave, he must go.
	They've already finally indicted his son, Hunter the crackhead.
	That is a message to him and so if he's able to hold on and not have a stroke or die in the next few months, or if
	they don't assassinate him and blame it on a right winger, which I've been saying is in
	the cards, then yes, he's crazy enough to actually assert himself with his wife, Jill, who reportedly
	is encouraging him not to leave, so that he can still pretend to be the president.
	And I guess in some weird way, if he can beat the deep state, who gives him his orders, but still refuse that order and stay in power, which is what always happens with tyrannies, they start infighting.
	Then yes, they're crazy enough, Biden's crazy enough, and his little group around him, to actually put him in office again.
	So I would give it a I'd go from about a 95% chance that he wouldn't be the nominee to about a 65-70%.
	65 70 percent but but but yes, I don't know if they've got the balls to actually set up a truck bomb or a shooting
	Oh You
	Do You
	Do Do
	Bye!

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