Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists on across the fruited plan Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to be with you, folks.
We are coming to you today from Los Angeles.
We're here all week long.
Came out over the weekend.
Did this nice little change of pace, a couple super secret meetings and so forth to take.
And some people to see that haven't seen in a while.
And we will be out here in our secret basement confines for the uh for the balance of the busy broadcast week.
Now, uh the the first day we didn't use this studio all the time, but it doesn't matter.
The first time in the studio since the last time, nothing's ever the same.
Nothing is ever right.
The first hour of this program is going to be you as setting levels and trying to make it sound to me as normal as possible.
In addition, I have decided that we're not going to use a ditto cam today.
It's working out here.
It's perfectly fine, except where it is.
If I were to turn it on, all you would see would be practically the left rear of my head.
And some of you may want to look at that.
I mean, I I understand that it doesn't matter.
Well, it just I you're never gonna see my face.
You're never gonna you're never gonna see a facial expression, you're never gonna see a thing.
You're gonna see the can you're gonna see the computer monitor behind me.
Okay, turn it on.
I'll tell you, but it's it's people you've got a dull gray wall back there.
Uh looks like I'm in in a in a dungeon, but if you want to turn it on, go go right ahead.
I've got this is the best I can do with it.
Do I have to turn it on?
If I can switch in here.
Go ahead and turn it on.
I'm gonna show you what I'm doing.
There, there it is.
Okay, you see it, snurkly?
Do you see the de I mean that's that that's it.
I mean, so you see my cochlear implant.
See the cochlear implant cable, uh there's cigar cigar ashtray, the golden EIB microphone, the washed-out computer monitor, which is actually good.
Can't see what's on it.
Uh yeah, it's a all I need is a cat in my lap, and I can be Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Anyway, folks, here we are, and it's it's always I love the change of pace.
I love the change of scenery.
Uh, and I I love being in Southern California.
I've uh, you know, a whole state spent a lot of time up in in Sacramento, used to live there.
A lot of friends here, but the taxes out here, and I've you know, my friends say, you know, you ought to just screw that.
I mean, what are your you're you're you you you've you you're you're letting taxes, and this is a point they they actually they actually say this to me.
You are letting taxes get in the way of the enjoyment of life.
And I said, I'm not doing it, the taxing authorities are.
I mean, it's substantial.
It would be it would be absolutely stupid and senseless, and it really is a shame too.
Because uh uh we both we both love it out here, outside of traffic, but that's no big deal.
But no, it's uh I keep saying to them, well, you guys, do you realize how much money you're giving away by staying out here?
But they love it, they've been out here all their lives, and it's it's uh it's where they live.
It's where they've always lived.
So it's it's good enough just to be able to come out here now and then and uh see everybody and have the change of pace.
And I I promise uh with whatever there are any technical glitches here, they're just some things that sound different to me, which is a distraction.
At which point every ounce of professionalism I have must come to the fore.
Must surface.
Uh no, no, no.
I'm not complaining about anything.
I'm no no no I'm simply letting the audience in the circumstances in case something sounds weirder if I sound distracted during a phone call, it may be because I can't hear it, or it's too loud, or just just uh setting the stage here for possibilities.
Now, folks, as we move.
You know, this is I was just gonna say, snurly just asked me if I'm gonna let the government open.
This is folks, there's so much happening with this government.
So we've got did you see the panic over the the food stamp cards?
Well, you can sit there, you can laugh at that.
But but Yeah, you go ahead and laugh at it, but you also want to do away with the program, don't you?
I mean, at some point, except for the truly needy.
We now have half the country on those things.
And you see what happens when it's not available for one day.
People simply are not, they don't know how.
Defend for themselves, but one day, you and me during the the 95 budget shutdown.
Oh, and speaking of that, who is it in the audio soundbite?
We got some guy in the audio sound bites, Tom Davis, you know, that moderate rhino Republican from Virginia.
Grab it, grab zombite number four.
Tom Davis of Virginia, he was on C-SPAN's Washington Journal yesterday.
And he said the difference between this shutdown and the last time in 1995 is because the crap to content ratio is higher because of me.
I was it back in 1995.
There wasn't any Fox.
There wasn't their conservative media, but now I have spawned all this other conservative media, and they're just there there's more opposition to Washington than there ever has been.
You didn't have Fox News.
You didn't have MSNBC, you didn't have the blogs.
Rush Limbaugh was just starting talk radio.
The information flowing out now.
I say the crap to content ratio, just very, very high of what people are hearing in terms of basic facts and their understanding that make it very difficult for leaders to lead because the facts are in dispute with the media.
They don't control the media message.
There you have it.
They don't control the media message the way they used to, and therefore the facts are in dispute.
Now the way to translate that is that now what comes out of Washington is routinely challenged, and if it's found to be not true, they're called on it.
And this is what they don't like.
Davis is just bumbled and stumbled here into a revelation.
Back in 1995, it was only me, and it was bad enough then with me.
Now look how bad it is.
Now there's all these people challenging the so-called facts that come out of Washington.
We've got nothing to do with shutting down the town.
Zilch, zero nada.
Well we can do with it.
We don't have any kind of power to shut the government.
Snurley just asked me if I'm going to allow the government to open this week.
I don't have that power either, although it's fun to pretend.
But I what I was going to say about the 1995 budget shutdown.
Snurdly, you go back, you listen to starving kids complaint back then.
We laughed at that, just like we're laughing at a day and a half of food stamps being shut down.
And remember what we said back in at least back in 1995, I said, okay, if I'm a parent, I mean, there was no truth to this whatsoever.
There were no school lunch cuts.
School lunch was not going to be ended.
The school lunch program actually was going to have increased spending.
And yet parents literally across the country were panicking.
They were as though feeding their own kids was something outside the realm of possibility.
Feeding their own kids was incomprehensible.
Feeding their own kids lunch?
Why, how do we do that?
And if it may be worse than it, feeding our own kids lunch, who do they think we are?
Now you have a day or day and a half, whatever it is or was of the food stamp program being started.
You utter chaos.
Now, in the context of trying to reduce the size and the scope and the reach of government, that's kind of a chilling reality.
And something like that has to make the left smile.
They just have to rub their hands together in glee and say, oh man, look at this.
They love this kind of panic because they think that illustration alone provides evidence that nobody will ever, ever seriously reduce the size of government or limit its reach or scope because there will be an abject panic.
Now, given that, you know, well let's move forward now to Obamacare.
As one of the active strategies of the GOP, as you know, just let it implement and let it collapse, which it will.
They think they say it'll collapse on its own, cannot work, and uh Democrats will get the blame for it if the Republicans just open the government, of course.
And that's all we need to do, just sit back and let it happen.
Now, one day the food stamp cards don't work.
One day.
Imagine what's going to happen, not when people can't get signed up at the exchange, but imagine what'll happen if one day they are not able to go to the doctor and get treated because the computer system is shut down and the doctor can't treat, and the doctor can't prescribe, the doctor can't even see you.
Can you imagine the abject panic that's going to happen when that day comes?
And if it can happen in food stamps, and if it can happen in Social Security, it can certainly happen in Obamacare, that something can go wrong one day.
I mean, it's a government after all, and it's a computer system that they're running, which means it isn't the best.
The day is going to come, maybe many of these days, where all of a sudden, one day, whatever it is that you present at the doctor, your Obamacare card, whatever the hell people get, what is it anyway?
You know, I haven't even thought of that.
You have your Obamacare coverage or whatever, and you get it from the exchange, and you go to the doctor, what do you have to show them?
Are you in a database?
Yeah, you're in a database.
Okay, what if the database is down and they can't prove that you're you and you can't get treated, and you have a hangnail.
And if you don't get it fixed, you're gonna die.
You're gonna panic.
Can you imagine when that day happened?
This kind of stuff makes me sick in a in a human sense to see this kind of abject panic when uh food stamp card doesn't work for one day.
The abject panic is is actually a little depressing to me to um to see just how dependent.
Just it just like it's almost just like pets become dependent on their on their masters.
Um I remember my little cat punk had to take her to the vet in her last days and had one of these particular visits.
Couldn't eat because there's gonna be surgery.
And it had been months since the last time that had happened.
Couldn't offer punking any food.
Now that you should have seen her.
She looked at me with big eyes looking cocky.
Well, where's my food?
You can just see it on her face.
She didn't understand.
No matter what I said or acted, didn't she couldn't find it, didn't really, they couldn't comprehend.
Now, naturally she is a pet.
She's never provided for herself, so I mean it's not a perfect analogy.
But it's the same thing here.
And so while you know, we can get our yucks and laugh about this, it's still, folks, it's really if you if you care about human beings, and if you if you want them to be the best they can be, if you want them to maximize the one life they have and to see this happen, it's it's depressing.
And then what makes it even more depressing is that there are people in Washington smiling about it.
People in Washington rubbing their hands together in glee and looking at it as a as a sign of success.
How dependent they have made people in the United States of America.
So it's just uh illustration of the massive task ahead in reducing the size and the role of government.
Now, as to the shutdown, there's abject panic out there.
Watching a little television yesterday afternoon, and I saw this person, I said, Who is this?
I thought I was looking at a cadaver.
And it turns out it's the IMF babe.
Christine Lagarde, a French woman, and she was talking about how this week could bring about the very end of the world economy.
Why?
Because the U.S. debt limit and the possibility of default.
That's right.
It's our problem.
Once again, we're down to a massive, massive crisis.
IMF babe says that if we don't raise the debt ceiling, the rest of the world's economy could plunge into an unrecoverable abyss.
And She's no different than these people whose food stamp cards didn't work.
She's the she's one of the sponsors of that kind of thinking.
Government is everything.
Government's not operating, government doesn't have this, then people are going to end up being damaged and harmed.
I've even got a there's an LA Times piece takes a shot at me today.
I guess I guess they knew I was coming.
I thought I put it on the top here.
Yeah, here it is.
It's by some guy named David Horsey.
Shutdown has proved one thing.
Government is vital to us all.
It is not proven that.
What is he?
Shutdown has proven one thing.
Government is vital to us all.
The truth of the matter is there isn't a government shutdown.
Now we're being told that the government will shut down for real on Thursday.
All of this leading up to the debt limit has been sort of half-baked, not real.
But when the debt ceiling is reached, that's when the government will really shut down.
And you know what the left is trying now?
You know what this has become?
You know what?
It's it's it's it's metamorphosed or metamorphosized to the left now wants to blow out the sequester.
Susan Collins, folks, you have to love this in and of itself.
Susan Collins, Miss Moderate, liberal Republican from Maine, proposed a solution to the shutdown, to the debt crisis to everything.
And it was rejected by Dingy Harry and a couple of others, and she was called a right-wing extremist kook.
And she is among the most liberal moderate Republicans in the Senate, and she was astounded.
She was floored.
She couldn't believe Patty Murray, who ranks fourth in the Democrat leadership in the Senate, went to the Florida Senate and ripped Susan Collins apart, ripped her to shreds, couldn't understand it.
And it was because the Republicans are not going to bend on the sequester.
The one thing that'll unify the Republicans, it turns out, is the sequester.
And the Democrats are now making an end run at the last moment, demanding in any deal that reopens the government that the sequester be done away with.
Those were ostensibly real spending cuts.
They actually were nothing more than reductions in the rate of growth, but they were real.
They were real, and they did not cause massive damage.
It did not cause a massive panic.
The left was hoping that the sequester would cause the pain that Obama is now trying to cause with the shutdown, but it didn't on its own.
Now they're trying to get the sequester taken out of this, and the Republicans are holding firm on it.
It's it's uh it and because of that, the whole town is panicked now that we might actually not raise the debt limit.
I'll take a break at the audio soundbite's coming up.
I'll tell you what this guy in the LA Times, this guy in the LA Times, Horsey said, sure political entertainers like Rush Limbaugh built very lucrative careers by bashing government day in and day out, but in their pampered lives.
They've never had to see crops wither in a drought or farmland swamped by a flood, or a herd of cattle perish in a snowstorm.
He got I guess he forgets where I'm from.
I guess he forgets my family was farmers.
My grandfather's farmers know all about that.
By the way, you know there was a massive snowstorm earlier this month in South Dakota.
It didn't get talked about.
I mean, it was one of the worst snowfalls ever.
It had things incapacity.
You didn't hear about it because of global warming.
It just didn't fit.
I've got the news story, but it didn't get covered.
I gotta take a break.
You sit tight, folks, I'll take a break, be back in just a second, right after this.
And greetings and welcome back, Rush Limboy here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and we are coming to you from Los Angeles.
And the plans are to be here all week.
Now, I am told, uh, ladies and gentlemen, that Obama has now rejected a clean bill, a clean CR.
And the reason he's that that means he has rejected Everything the Republicans have offered.
They've played hardball, they've played softball, they've even tried giving him everything he wants, which has happened before.
And he turns it down because it's Obama who doesn't want an agreement.
Not as long as he's got the media in his back pocket, and everything they think bad happening can be blamed on the Republicans.
Like, yeah, Sir Arafat, he they gave him everything he wanted at the last minute.
He turned it down because they didn't want the issue to go away.
And Obama doesn't want the issue to go away, which is the Republicans are the problem.
That's the issue.
That's the ideal, wants to keep it alive.
So he rejected a clean bill because now he wants to force an amendment that kills the sequester.
And that's something that doesn't need Ted Cruz or Mike Lee.
That ostensibly going to keep the Republicans unified no matter what.
Be right back.
Did I say clean CR?
I didn't mean clean CEO.
I meant clean debt limit bill.
Boehner offered Obama a clean debt ceiling bill.
I mean everything Obama has asked for it.
He turned it down, said nope.
Now you gotta, you gotta do away with the sequester.
And and Boehner, poor Boehner.
Boehner is, by the way, I'm sorry, this is purely habitual.
And the uh the table out here is not nearly as solidly attached to the wall, or the ceiling, actually, as it is in Florida.
I'll try.
Well, the broadcast quality table, it's just not anchored at broadcast quality.
I'm not a complaint.
I just look at I do this by habit.
I'm gonna try to rein it in, because I know how irritating it is.
It would be irritating to me.
But I'm I'm gonna try to try to rein it in.
Anyway, Boehner, at least according to the LA Times, said, quote, it was obvious Obama had no intention of negotiating with us in good faith.
Now that's true, but look at apparently what it took for that realization to settle in when that could have been known from the get-go.
It's what continually amazes me, and I'm sure you, and that is how can the Republicans not see what the Democrat agenda is?
How do they continually fall for the notion that whatever the Democrats are talking about is what they really want?
Well, we want to raise a debt limit.
It's not about the debt limit.
Why when are the Republicans going to understand?
And I'm dead serious about this.
When are they going to understand that the objective here is to wipe them out?
When are they going to understand that the pure, the only purpose of all of this is to effectively eliminate the Republican Party as anything viable.
Nothing more than a placeholder is all it's going to be if Obama and the Democrats get their way.
There was never any desire to negotiate, never any desire to share ideas, never any desire to reach a compromise or come to some sort of agreement.
The purpose every time, and how many times has this taken place, and yet somehow that message doesn't get through.
This is why, folks, I have been maintaining, and I'm sure many of you probably been frustrated at me for being a little bit absent reality in your mind.
But since the Cruz Lee faction got going, I have been making the point, and trying to anyway, that the Republicans are winning, that at least the Cruz and Lee faction is winning.
Last week, it was uh, I think Thursday or Friday, I remember doing a monologue on how the Republican so-called conservative commentariat in Washington inside the beltway is out blaming Cruz and blaming Lee and blaming me and blaming the new media and blaming the Tea Party for this impasse.
And I made the point if it hadn't been for Cruz or Lee, we wouldn't be here.
We wouldn't have the opportunity that we have.
We would not have, and Obama is stumbling.
Obama is not prevailing.
His approval number, take your pick, 41, 37%.
Then that Wall Street Journal NBC poll hit on Friday, and these Republicans started peeing their pants.
And I wish could have grabbed them by the shoulders, said, would you ignore that?
That poll was designed for the exact reaction that you are portraying here.
Well, it turns out folks that I, El Rushball, and others are not the only ones who see the past couple, three weeks or month this way.
I've got a piece by Christopher Bedford here, the Daily Caller.
And the headline of this piece, how Cruz Lee and Paul shut down Obama's agenda.
So it is possible in some parts of the media to get the truth of this.
Here's a poll quote.
As one by one, impossible victories were won.
Observers saw the policy agenda of the president stagnate and stall.
Obama hasn't won a single victory since his re-election.
It's almost surreal.
Sequester is tentatively in place.
But believe me, that's the new baby that the Democrats are trying to get rid of now.
That's the latest thing they've demanded that the Republicans get rid of.
Pretty soon they're going to be demanding tax increase, which E.J. Dion Jr. does today in the Washington Post and his column.
They're going to throw it all in if they sense that the Republicans are getting close to caving.
But the fact of the matter is, sequester is in place.
Amnesty has been derailed.
Say what you want, but the attention being focused on amnesty is well, it's not the attention being focused.
Look at what happened.
Obama opens up the National Mall for an amnesty rally, closed to veterans.
I'm telling you, the American people see this.
The American people see what's happening, and they do not side with the Democrats on this outside the beltway.
They do not.
Obama is not carrying the day on this, and I know some of you might think that's crazy to say.
Right.
Sequester's in place, amnesty is derailed, gun control, they haven't gotten anything on that.
Um American forces are not involved in serious civil war.
And it turns out here that Ted Cruz and Mike Lee have taken the helm of the GOP.
And that's why everybody in Washington's fit to be tied, including Republicans.
The Tea Party is despised even by Republicans.
The Tea Party is hated even by Republicans.
It's hated by remnants of the Bush administration and all those people.
It's hated by the Democrats.
The Tea Party is despised by the Republican establishment of the consultancy group because they can't be controlled.
Because there's not, or wasn't, at their forming anyway, a single leader.
Now here's how this story begins.
After Republicans drifted for years without a pilot, Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee have taken the helm of the GOP, steering their party and its grassroots into a much-needed head-on battle with the Democrats.
Amen.
The Democrats have been able to just run rumshod over anybody and everything in their way.
Nobody's had the guts to oppose Obama, particularly in the Republican Party.
The American people have, but they haven't had any leadership until these two guys sprang up.
And they've they've commandeered a couple people to join them, elected Republicans.
But prior to that, there was this abject fear of going after Obama.
Race was a big factor, and also the polls and the media.
Let's face it, Republicans are scared to death, and they're and they're rendered neutered by that.
These guys don't care.
They are fighting the establishment of a socialist government that Obama and the Democrats are attempting to establish.
God bless them.
On the campaign trail, on the way to his win in November 2012, Obama promised to finish the work that he'd gone to Washington to do, fundamentally transforming the United States, which is what he promised to do five days before he was uh uh inaugurated in 2009.
Things look tough for the right in Washington today.
The reality is that three conservative Republicans, aided by friends in the Senate and the House, have dragged Obama's ambitious agenda to a complete halt, throwing both him and Harry Reed on their heels and adding policy paralysis to the president's long list of post-election troubles.
With Republican leadership in the House, while Republican leadership in the House was loud, when scandals from Benghazi to the IRS unfolded, over the last year, conventional wisdom in Washington has held that the sequester would never happen, that amnesty for illegal immigrants was a done deal, that no sane Republican would stand against an assault weapons man after Sandy Hook.
The GOP would bless a charge into Syria, and well fill in the blank.
Student loans take your pick.
Climate change, the Tea Party was over, and Washington was Obama's oyster, and it was smooth sailing.
There was nobody that was going to stop him.
But then a strange thing happened.
As one by one impossible victories were won, observers saw the policy agenda of the president stagnate and stall.
And he has not won a single victory since his reelection.
It's almost surreal.
And I know this sounds like you ought to see the faces on the other side of the glass looking at me.
They can't believe it.
It's not their perception.
Probably not yours.
You think the Republicans are getting their clocks clean because you are judging the Republicans to be led by Boehner and McConnell, and on that basis, you think they're getting their clocks clean.
And maybe they are.
But Cruz and Mike Lee aren't.
And it's Cruz and Mike Lee and the people that have decided to throw in with them who are running things now.
That's why everybody's so ticked off, folks.
We were supposed to have amnesty by now.
I'm sure you know that.
It was supposed to be done.
There wasn't going to be any Republican opposition to it.
There was going to be massive new ground gain by the Democrats on gun control.
We were going to move forward on climate change with tax increases, a carbon tax or whatever because of Hurricane Sandy and the devastation in the Northeast.
And take your pick.
There was no stopping Obama's agenda.
He won big Republicans were slinking away.
Obamacare, there it was, is going to be implemented.
The Republicans, it turns out, had simply been uttering words during the campaign when they said that their objective was to defeat it, defund it, keep it from being implemented.
When the time came, they didn't oppose it, but a couple of people did.
And because of that, Obamacare is still not fully implemented, fully funded.
It isn't a done deal.
Contrary to what people think, Obama is really not having the cakewalk that everybody thought he was going to have.
There are giant obstacles in his way.
And there ought to be rallies of massive support for the people accomplishing this.
People in their own party ought to be, but they're not.
The long knives are out for Cruz and Lee and anybody who decides to join them.
Senior Republicans, Mr. Bedford here says a daily caller, senior Republicans are taking their cues from a couple of freshman conservatives.
After years of void, Republicans have leadership in D.C. And they do.
And it's the Tea Party is as strong as it's ever been, and it's as active as it's ever been.
And this is just not the conventional wisdom.
This is not what was supposed to happen.
And so the Washington establishment, the power structure, the elites in the media and in the two parties have gathered together every day to present a narrative or template.
That's the Tea Party that's hanging by a thread, about to be embarrassed and debunked and gone taken down and not to exist ever anymore.
They're embarrassing everybody.
But the fact of the matter is for now and at this moment, the Obama agenda has had the brakes applied to it.
Because there are people fighting back.
And folks, I'm going to say we could have won this, and we may still be able to.
We, if if the Senate Republicans had not caved, as they did last week, we could have we could have held on, and we may still be able to.
It's uh it's a dicey call.
But the long knives are still out for everybody who is opposed to the establishment way of doing things in Washington.
And really, you throw all this the food stamp problem in and uh the IMF babe claiming the end of the world this week because of the shutdown at debt limit.
Uh now Obama demanding to be rid of the sequester.
It's I mean, the pressure is enormous on people fighting back on this, and they're still hanging tough.
And I can take a quick time out.
I just saw the clock's in a little bit different place here, but that's no excuse because I am a highly trained professional where the clock is shouldn't matter.
But it did.
We'll be back after this, folks.
Don't go away.
Sit tight.
And we are back.
Great to have you, Rush Limboy in Los Angeles here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Grab an audio sound by there too, Jonathan Carl, ABC News beside himself.
This is Good Morning America today.
Oh, oh, one thing.
Before I get to that, I was going to say this.
This guy from LA, the LA Times, who has this piece about me.
Yeah.
Some political entertainers like Limbaugh and Hannity have built lucrative careers by bashing government day in and day out, but in their pampered lives, they've never had to see crops wither in a drought, or farmland swamped by a flood, or a herd of cattle perish in a snowstorm.
A, I have seen droughts.
Many of them.
I grew up in the Midwest.
Does Obama know anything about crop failure?
What does Obama know about anything?
Look at the assumption here.
This guy's headline shutdown is proof one thing.
Government is vital to us all.
Has no such thing proof that government is vital to us all.
I don't know that Obama knows anything about crop failure, floods, herds of cattle perishing in a snowstorm.
And I just I look at these assumptions these people make.
Obama, the Democrats, oh, they're Mr. Missitive.
They know everything.
They're aware of everything, and because of that, they know how important government is.
I've lived during droughts.
I've lived during crop failure.
Grew up in Southeast Missouri.
Anyway, that's not the point.
The point is that you have all these people to whom they've been raised.
Government is everything.
They can't get by a day without government in their life.
But it's not they're they're not content to hold that view themselves.
We must all be that way.
Every every issue that liberals believe in, we must also believe in.
Like this Redskins name.
I'm not going to mention any names here, but everybody knows what I'm talking about, the football game last night.
Even though nobody cares, you should because I do.
You should because I'm a better person than you are, and it bothers me.
And since it bothers me, it ought to bother you.
Now, even though it doesn't bother you, and even though the people responsible for it don't mean anything mean by it, it still isn't any good because me and my buddies in the media say so.
And because we say so, you need to change it.
And if you don't want to change it, it means you're not As good a person as I am.
That's the way they all are.
This mad presumptive superiority that they have about themselves.
Really frosts me.
Quick time out.
We'll be back after this, folks.
Do not go away.
And we are back, but sadly, my friends, we've come to a screeching halt of the initial hour here from Los Angeles.
We come back, Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin.
I want some uh play some sound bites for you of them defending the people who make this country work.
And there's F. Chuck Todd on NBC.
What planet are you guys living on?
What do you mean, defending the truckers and defending the vets?