Oct. 27, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast. | |
| Oh, my friends, the excitement is palpable today. | |
| So much going on, so much earth shattering breaking news happening right before our very eyes and ears. | |
| And it's a huge day in the literary world because yet another Rush Limbaugh Rush Revere book is on the store shelves and in most cases right up there at the front. | |
| Great to have you with us. | |
| Three hours of broadcast excellence straight ahead. | |
| The telephone number, if you want to be on the program is 800 282, 2882, and the email address, Lrushbow at EIBNet.com. | |
| The drive-by media and even some in the conservative media are so excited they can barely stand it because of the latest polling data, both nationally and in Iowa. | |
| And depending on which networks you watch, you Trumpsters out there better prepare yourselves because today it's over. | |
| Trump has peaked, and your best days are behind you. | |
| You better face the fact. | |
| That's what you're going to be dealing with in the drive-by media all day today, through the Republican debate tomorrow, and whenever the next set of polls come out, not only is Trump behind Ben Carson in Iowa, by 14 points in one poll. | |
| It's a Monmouth College poll. | |
| Carson now leads Trump in the latest New York Times CBS poll nationally. | |
| Ben Carson is edged ahead of Trump nationally and is way ahead in Iowa. | |
| A Hawkeye Cockeye come up on February 1st. | |
| That's 97 days from now, and uh the drive-by's think it's over. | |
| They think they've made it happen. | |
| There's so much down negative talking about Trump, they're patting themselves on the back throughout the media. | |
| And there has been a lot of anti-Trump rhetoric out there, and there have been a lot of people spending a lot of money. | |
| We'll get into this in great detail as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears. | |
| And by the way, Jeb Bush, speaking of the campaign, Jeb Bush has called Marco Rubio the GOP's Obama. | |
| Did you see that? | |
| And the word is that Jeb is gonna come out flaming in the debate tomorrow night. | |
| The problem with Jeb Bush calling Obama or calling Rubio the Republican Party's Obama is coming from Jeb. | |
| You don't know whether it's a compliment or a hit. | |
| The Republican budget deal. | |
| I told you about this yesterday. | |
| Two-year budget deal all the way through 2017, taking the budget and new spending. | |
| Expanding a debt limit off the table throughout the presidential campaign and through the president, the next president's first year, a Bahner Obama deal. | |
| They're all happy about it on the Republican side. | |
| Supposedly Paul Ryan does not like it a bit. | |
| But he didn't say what he would do about it. | |
| So that's basically the table, in addition to the United Nations made it official yesterday. | |
| Have it in the stack didn't get to it, that meat, processed meat, beef, pork, bacon definitely causes cancer. | |
| Somebody needs to be sued out of business. | |
| These people are having a and this the United Nations. | |
| It's the global warming crowd, folks. | |
| It's the global warming crowd, and they get away with making these scientific statements, which are nothing but politics, which target industries and it causes in many cases irreparable harm, and they get away with it because it's all politics, freedom of speech. | |
| They need to be sued out of existence. | |
| But anyway, all of that and more coming up, but today, my friends, a big day personally, very thrilled we are to announce book four of the Adventures of Rush Revere series available in the stores today. | |
| Pre-orders went up about a month ago. | |
| This is the fourth book. | |
| Please indulge me for a moment as I recap how this entire series came to be. | |
| Some years ago, my great friend and the esteemed thriller author, Vince Flynn, kept telling me that I needed to write a book, another book, that that basically was a compilation of some of the best monologues in the history of this program. | |
| I said, Vince, we're talking about an encyclopedia then. | |
| We're not talking about a book. | |
| We're talking about a 20-volume set. | |
| I don't know that I have that in me. | |
| But he kept talking and he kept pushing and he kept demanding. | |
| I love the idea. | |
| Um And I loved Vince's passion, but I just never acted on it. | |
| For some reason, uh, I don't know whether it was instinct or what have you, but I just never pulled the trigger in my own mind to do it. | |
| But during one of these sessions where Vince was leaning on me to do a book, I mean, he wanted it timed for an election. | |
| Thought it could be a turning point kind of book during an election. | |
| My wife Catherine said, you know what you need to do? | |
| You need to connect with younger generations. | |
| Younger generations are not listening to the radio and they're not watching TV much anymore. | |
| And she said they're not being taught the American history that you and I have been taught. | |
| Why don't you do some children's books? | |
| Why don't you write a children's book? | |
| Tell the story of the American founding. | |
| These stories are being lost, she pointed out that the public education system and beyond. | |
| I mean, even you get into college, junior college, major universities, the whole concept of the American founding is been changed, and now it's it's one that basically teaches America is guilty and immoral. | |
| And I thought, you know, now that excited me. | |
| Something I'd never even thought of doing, writing children's books, aged eight to eleven, ten to twelve, somewhere in that range. | |
| But it resonated with me because it's so important, because I love the country. | |
| I wish everybody did, and the truth of the founding of this country is one of the most miraculous events in human history. | |
| And people deserve to know what it is, and they deserve to be proud of their country, and they deserve to understand why. | |
| So after a lot of long conversations and tireless hours, the Adventures of Rush Revere series was born with the mission to revive the American spirit and tell the amazing stories of our founding in a unique, unabashedly patriotic and accurate way. | |
| And our goal from the beginning was for young readers to experience history, not just have it shoved at them, but actually take them to it, make them a part of it. | |
| Instead of just memorizing names and facts for a test. | |
| We wanted young readers to really understand how one event led to the next and how the country that we know and love today was born, what it took for it to happen, the obstacles that people had to overcome, the adversity that people faced, the genuine sacrifice that the founders and the early citizens of this country engaged in to make it real, to make it happen, so that we all benefit from the great country that we know and love today. | |
| And our hope was that for parents and grandparents, it would be seen as an opportunity to share the reading experience with their grandkids and kids, to make it a family event, to share the stories of American history, | |
| the assumption that the parents and grandparents would know what's in the books, be able to explain it in even greater detail, share their personal experiences as they were growing up with their kids and grandkids, and make it an entirely family-based learning exercise that happened to be fun and invigorating because these stories and our history is genuinely unique and extraordinarily American. | |
| So we created Rush Revere. | |
| Rush Revere is a substitute teacher at uh at a middle school, and he dresses up like an old colonial citizen. | |
| He has a time-traveling horse named Liberty. | |
| And revere and Liberty take the reader back in time to witness events like Paul Revere's ride, the Boston Tea Party, they're there. | |
| We take the readers right there. | |
| They meet the people, they are at these events as they happen. | |
| The students talk and get to know exceptional patriots like George Washington. | |
| They learn through conversation what George Washington was thinking as he prepared to battle the British. | |
| And we've we've had so much support, so much praise for this series, and we are extremely grateful for all of it. | |
| I can't tell you how gratifying it is to read, I mean, literally thousands of letters and photos that people have sent us. | |
| Children, parents, teachers, teachers telling us how much they're enjoying American history. | |
| Parents, you've heard them call here, talking about their kids didn't even like reading, much less anything, much less history, till they got hold of these books and they started enjoying the act of reading, and they wanted to read more, and they're sending us pictures as they open the books on Christmas morning, or as they get them and read them, or as they dress up as characters in the book. | |
| And the emails and the response we're getting are just overwhelming. | |
| We share a lot of that at a website we've set up, rushrevere.com, where all of this can be seen and where you can participate, and then your own comments and videos and photos and what have you. | |
| Now, today, the fourth book in the series is on the shelves. | |
| Rush Revere and the Star Spangled Banner. | |
| Let me ask you a question. | |
| Tonight the World Series starts. | |
| The Gotham Mets invade Kansas City for the first game of the World Series, and tonight the World Series will feature the nationally televised performance of the national anthem. | |
| Most baseball games don't. | |
| They run commercials during the national anthem, but during the World Series and the Super Bowl special events, the anthem is part of the telecast. | |
| Do you ever ask yourself, you and I, we know the story of the Star Spangled Banner. | |
| We pretty much know what the lyrics mean. | |
| But what about young people today? | |
| What about young people, eight, nine, ten, twelve, fifteen even. | |
| By the way, we've even had adults tell us that are learning things in these books that they were not taught. | |
| That's something we didn't expect, but it's a bonus. | |
| Everybody knows the words, everybody can sing along, but I wonder how many young people today, given the state of American history. | |
| I wonder how many people know the story behind the Star Spangled Banner, our national anthem. | |
| I wonder how many young people know what the words mean, why they were written, when, what was the inspiration? | |
| Why is it our national anthem? | |
| How did it all happen? | |
| Well, that's one of the things tackled and explained in this book. | |
| The readers are taken right back to the very moment it happened. | |
| They meet and talk about it with Francis Scott Key, who is the author. | |
| We've dedicated this book to Kit Carson. | |
| He uh former irreplaceable chief of staff and trusted right hand lost his battle to cancer earlier this year after we all thought he had it beat and was in remission. | |
| And it was a very sobering event, as many of you regular listeners know. | |
| The book is dedicated to Kit and other irreplaceable friends and family who've also faced terrible illnesses over these past years. | |
| Because in every one of them that we know, and I'm sure it's the same case with you. | |
| People have battled heroically with smiles and good cheer while they are in the throes of this disease. | |
| It's always amazed me. | |
| It's always amazed me the human spirit and how it dominates, even the ravages of terminal diseases. | |
| And you get inspired being around people like this. | |
| It's nervous sometimes to go to the hospital. | |
| It's unsettling, don't know how to act, but in our case, Kit took care of all that by dominating every time we visited and did what he had to do to take the attention off of himself and just have a general conversation. | |
| So the hospital just happened to be where he was that day. | |
| And it was truly inspiring and sad at the same time, and the sadness just multiplied the inspiration that we all felt. | |
| And Kit is just one of many in similar circumstances, all over this country who themselves are the definition of courage. | |
| God bless all of you in that circumstance situation, and all the best to us from all of you. | |
| That's why we've dedicated the fourth book to Kit Carson. | |
| Now, in Rush Revere and the Star Spangled Banner. | |
| I remember Liberty, the talking horse, was struck by a bolt of lightning when he was just a young Colt, and for some reason magic happened. | |
| He's able to time travel back anywhere in American history. | |
| Revere is his buddy, and they're able to travel back wherever Revere thinks it would be useful. | |
| It's a great vehicle, talking horse, time traveling. | |
| We can take these students back anywhere in history, and they can take their iPhones and they can take video and they can bring all their experiences back and share them with the other students in their class. | |
| Those that are permitted to know that all this happens. | |
| It's a big secret that the horse talks. | |
| It's a big secret that they time travel. | |
| It's a big part of the whole experience and making sure the time travel does not affect what actually happened in American history. | |
| It's really a challenging and fun way to present all of this. | |
| Now, I don't want to give away all that's in this book, but in Rush Revere and the Star Spangled Banner, Tommy, one of the students, who time travels, his grandfather, a veteran, is facing an illness. | |
| And in order to lift Tommy's spirits and have him understand firsthand what his grandfather fought for. | |
| Rush Revere and Liberty arrange a special field trip. | |
| This is not a time travel. | |
| This is something new. | |
| This is a field trip in real time, current time, to Washington, D.C. to see the most prominent buildings in our history. | |
| National archives included. | |
| They go to a nationals baseball game, national anthem, of course, part of the book. | |
| They time travel back to watch the drafting of the Constitution. | |
| They meet and talk with James Madison, the father of the Constitution. | |
| They learn the meaning behind the words of the Star Spangled Banner while the battle. | |
| It was written is taking place. | |
| And that's as much as I'm going to say. | |
| But we are so thrilled and jazzed about it. | |
| It is the fourth book in the last two years because the demand is increasing. | |
| Rush Revere and the Star Spangled Banner. | |
| And I just I I couldn't let this all go by again without telling all of you just how grateful we are to you for making this book, the series, this series of books, the profound success that it has been. | |
| And it just makes all of this for us more rewarding than we even thought it would be. | |
| So that's it. | |
| It's on sale today. | |
| Fourth book, Rush Revere and the Star Spangled Banner. | |
| Look for it wherever books are sold. | |
| We got to take a brief time out because I'm up against it on time. | |
| We'll be right back after this. | |
| Don't go away. | |
| That's right, Snerdley. | |
| Remind me I forgot to show you the book. | |
| So here it is on the Ditto Cam. | |
| This is what the cover of the book looks like. | |
| If you've not gone to pre-order it at Amazon Books a Million, uh Barnes and Noble or iBooks, there's the uh there's the cover of the book, right? | |
| One of the best covers. | |
| Uh, and I I need to remind everybody the first book, Rush Revere and the uh Brave Pilgrims. | |
| We're that book is still in print, it's still being purchased. | |
| Uh and we won author of the year for that book, the Children's Choice Book Award for author of the year, and the three books which have followed are even better. | |
| We can't win the award twice a year. | |
| I mean, it's amazing we won it even at all, given how the literary community is populated. | |
| But they were great that night. | |
| And uh that uh Rush Revere and the uh and the brave pilgrims just continues to flow off the shelves, and it's the starting point. | |
| This is Rush Revere and the Star Spangled Banner, of course. | |
| Um let's see, what looking here at about a minute and a half left, and I'm I've I've got the let's do an audio sound by just to flavor you, give me an excitement here of the media. | |
| A flavor of how jazzed and jubilant they are over the latest polls showing Ben Carson jumping ahead of the Trumpster, both in Iowa and in the New York Times poll nationwide. | |
| Carson tops Trump as the new GOP front runner. | |
| New polls this morning showed Donald Trump falling behind. | |
| For months, Donald Trump seemed unstoppable. | |
| But this morning, more proof his campaign is struggling. | |
| Donald Trump falling to second place now in a new national poll. | |
| Breaking news. | |
| Ben Carson surging ahead of Donald Trump for the first time, not just in Iowa, in a national poll. | |
| This new poll out half an hour ago is big news. | |
| This is huge. | |
| Carson opening up a double digit lead on Donald Trump. | |
| Dr. Ben Carson is leading Donald Trump for the first time in a brand new national poll. | |
| What's happening to the Donald? | |
| Trump has fallen out of the lead. | |
| Yeah, and they're so excited about because they think they made it happen. | |
| They think they all did it with their constant negative coverage of Trump. | |
| They're all kind of hanging the hat on their own heads as having the power and influence to do it. | |
| They're chalking it up. | |
| They think maybe Trump went overboard with his comments on Ben Carson's religion, but that's a bit sketchy, I think. | |
| Anyway, we'll be right back. | |
| Don't go away. | |
| That's right, a man, a legend, a way of life. | |
| Learn it, love it, live it. | |
| Great to have you with us, Rushlin Ball behind a golden E.I.B. microphone. | |
| Just a review of the headlines on the polling data. | |
| And by the way, let me throw in, I uh imagine that uh many of you in the audience are Ben Carson supporters, and you're probably ecstatic and very happy. | |
| And I don't blame you, but if you think the establishment's going to be happy, just because the opposite. | |
| But privately, among themselves, they're going to think that it's over now. | |
| They've been waiting for this moment since the day Trump announced. | |
| They've been waiting for any day that they can go beyond speculating when Trump is going to implode or peak or level off. | |
| Now we've got polling data in three different locations that shows Carson up in Iowa and uh up a little bit nationally. | |
| That's the New York Times CBS poll. | |
| And they have been anticipating this like most people anticipate Christmas morning. | |
| They just have been waiting, and they're gonna they're gonna think privately that this is it and mission accomplished, and are going to be turning their attention to Carson. | |
| They're not going to ignore Trump, but but now they've they've convinced themselves that it can happen. | |
| That Trump is fallible, that Trump can be damaged. | |
| They're gonna give themselves a lot of credit for it. | |
| Uh, and their own media partners. | |
| And I'm talking about conservative and liberal media, I mean, there's a lot of conservative media opposed to Trump as well. | |
| And everybody is going to be patting themselves on the back and putting feathers in their caps. | |
| And the establishment is going to be looking at Carson, and I just want to prepare you, Carson supporters for something I know to be true. | |
| Well, I don't know it to be true, but I mean I know it. | |
| The establishment types who want Jeb Bush. | |
| And if they don't get Jeb, then they want I guess it's Rubio they want, but they want their establishment candidate. | |
| They are going to tell themselves that it's going to be ten times easier taking Ben Carson out than Donald Trump. | |
| They are going to believe that Carson's support, while it may be somewhat strong, and while it may have some depth, is highly localized. | |
| Iowa, where Carson has been. | |
| They're going to tell themselves that Carson's support is coming primarily from the religious right and the moral majority. | |
| Organizations that no longer exist, but the establishment hated them so much that in their own minds they're still out there. | |
| The old Southern pro-lifers. | |
| Ben's a seven-day Adventist, and so they're going to tell themselves that it's the fundamentalist Christian wing that's putting Carson on the top. | |
| They have made a mistake in assessing Trump's strength. | |
| Trump's strength has not predominantly come from conservatives. | |
| There are quite a few conservatives have been supporting Trump, but Trump's support comes from a much broader base of the electorate. | |
| Moderates, independents, disaffected Democrats. | |
| And that's why early on some people were comparing the the Trump coalition to the Reagan coalition, because Reagan also had what were called a Reagan Democrats, and they were largely blue-collared disaffected Democrats or fed up with Jimmy Carter, and the entire economic situation brought about by Carter and his Democrat policies. | |
| And the uh genuine and angry opposition to Trump has been taken out by the establishment on the conservative wing by their own base. | |
| The establishment has believed it's their base responsible for Trump. | |
| And they're, again, clearly significant number of conservatives supporting Trump, but that's not the majority of his base's support. | |
| It'd be hard to identify a true majority supports that broad base. | |
| Carsons is more focused and is indeed more genuinely tied to what would be called the Republican base, a conservative base that is tied to the uh I don't want to, | |
| I don't want to name it because it's name calling, but the religious uh and moral aspect or part of the party that's that's supporting Carson. | |
| And they're gonna the point is that the establishment think that getting rid of Carson is going to be easy compared to Trump. | |
| They look at Carson and they see somebody very low-key, uh not very excitable, not very passionate. | |
| They see his support as being highly localized. | |
| So they're looking at this poll today, or these series of polls, as literally great news. | |
| They see it as the end of Trump or at least Trump's peak. | |
| Now they don't see any of their own people rising. | |
| This is the one thing that they're missing. | |
| They don't see Bush gaining any ground despite all of his money. | |
| They don't see any of the other establishment candidates. | |
| I'll tell you, like I said yesterday, the guy lurking just beyond visibility, who is raising tons of money from a broad-based group of people is Ted Cruz. | |
| I don't know if I would attach dark horse status or label to Cruz, but Cruz is positioned extraordinarily well for whatever transpires between now and November 1st, which again is essentially 97 days. | |
| 97 days, anything can happen. | |
| Anything can happen. | |
| Trump can regain the momentum. | |
| Who knows he can continue to lose momentum, if in fact he is. | |
| Carson could uh at any point go a different direction. | |
| But the key to this is the establishment's gonna think that they are making all of this happen. | |
| This is true of both establishments, Democrat and Republican. | |
| They do not think that you or anybody else in the public really makes up your own mind about anything. | |
| You're all the product of influence. | |
| You're either being influenced by me, you're either being influenced by Fox News, you're being influenced by, but you're never ever thinking on your own. | |
| And since they believe that, they're going to believe that it was their outside influence and whatever they have been able to arrange in the media anti-Trump that has brought this about. | |
| They're never they're not going to conclude, for example, that people on their own have tired of Trump. | |
| Now, they may say that in public because they'll want you to think that they have a lot of regard for you in this decision. | |
| When you make a decision or do something such as vote or respond to a poll in a way they want you, they will praise your intelligence to the end of the world. | |
| But secretly, they don't think you have any. | |
| Secretly, they don't think, and they don't, the proof of that is they don't trust you to elect the right people to support the right causes. | |
| They don't trust the public on any of these things, which is why the moneyed people are the ones who are listened to. | |
| So the reason I'm making all of these various and disparate points is the establishment's going to shoot themselves in the foot over this. | |
| They're going to misanalyze it. | |
| They're going to get it wrong. | |
| Uh, Their media acolytes are going to be patting themselves on the back and once again missing why whatever is happening is happening. | |
| And that means their reaction to it is not going to be the best and the brightest. | |
| And they might, and I'm starting to see signs of this in the media just that first sound about it played for there already celebrating. | |
| We're not even in a third inning yet. | |
| They're celebrating like the game's over. | |
| And that's always a death knell. | |
| So thing for everybody to realize is that all of this is fluid, and none of it is predictable. | |
| And there probably isn't anybody who can tell you why any of this is happening right now. | |
| But the establishment and their media types are going to tell you they know exactly why all of this is happening. | |
| And of course, every reason they give you is going to be a reason that will allow them to say, as we suggested six months ago, six weeks ago, yesterday, last week, whatever. | |
| They're going to position it so that they are the brains, the Sven Gali's the experts, and it's all happening as they knew it would when they haven't slightest idea what's going to happen tomorrow. | |
| But they will take every occasion they can try to influence the outcome of these events, and then when they get the outcome they want, run out claim credit. | |
| Here's some of the headlines. | |
| Fox News Iowa poll. | |
| Carson leads Trump by 14. | |
| Fox News is very happy about this. | |
| Ben Carson's taken a commanding double-digit lead in Iowa, according to the Monmouth University poll released yesterday, shows Carson 32% among Hawkeye Cockey goers. | |
| Trump is at 18%. | |
| That's a huge. | |
| I mean, that's way beyond margin of error. | |
| 32 to 18. | |
| You want to hear the explanation for this? | |
| The explanation for this from the drive-by is, well, you know, hawkeye cockeye goers. | |
| Republican caucus attendees, really, really religious. | |
| Really, really rigid conservative. | |
| And you don't like big talkers and flamboyant people that draw attention to themselves. | |
| Really? | |
| If that's the case, how come Trump was leading for so long among Republican Iowa caucus goers? | |
| No, there's more going on than just the mass supposition of what Republican caucus attendees want and don't want. | |
| Now, to put this in perspective, again, that's the Monmouth University survey released yesterday, Carson 32, Trump at 18. | |
| And that's a 14-point lead. | |
| That's that's Carson's biggest lead to date, obviously. | |
| Put this in perspective. | |
| According to the latest CBS news poll, Trump and Carson are tied in Iowa. | |
| Trump is way ahead of New Hampshire, 38 to 12. | |
| And in South Carolina, Trump is even further ahead at 40 to 23. | |
| Yet in the New York Times poll, Trump and Carson are even, you know, Carson's a little bit ahead nationally, but in these early states, Trump is off the charts in the lead. | |
| New Hampshire and in South Carolina, and the other states that are going to make up the uh the SEC primary back uh when we get into uh into March. | |
| In the Monmouth University poll, Carson leads Trump by nine points among self-described very conservative voters and 21 points ahead of Trump among self-described somewhat conservative voters. | |
| So when you combine those two categories, you have Carson leading Trump by 30 points among those who call themselves conservative either, somewhat or very. | |
| So we are told in the Monmouth poll that these voters in Iowa see Dr. Carson vastly more conservative than Donald Trump. | |
| Neither of them are as conservative as Ted Cruz. | |
| That is an important point to remember throughout this entire primary process, which is still in its early stages. | |
| The race in Iowa remains fluid just just 19% of potential caucus goers saying that actually completely decided on who they've supported. | |
| Only 19% are firm in who they support. | |
| So it's all very fluid. | |
| And on a side note, Mike Tyson just endorsed Trump. | |
| Trump just landed another heavyweight endorsement in a Monday interview with a Huffing and Puffington Post. | |
| The self-proclaimed baddest man on the planet, Mike Tyson, endorsed Trump, saying that he should be the president of the United States, a guy that came from where he came from. | |
| His dad was only able to loan him a million bucks. | |
| Doing what he's doing in that field, construction and real estate, and now this is where he's at now. | |
| You know what that means? | |
| That doesn't mean he's a bad guy, that people don't know what they're doing. | |
| That means people are tired of what you're doing, and Trump is the guy, Mike Tyson. | |
| The latest Trumpster endorsement will be back and continue after this. | |
| From National Review Online, the headline, Paul Ryan pledges no immigration reform under Obama. | |
| Can I translate that for you? | |
| No immigration reform, no amnesty until 2017. | |
| Well, you think that's being too cynical. | |
| Paul Ryan has signed off on a letter promising restless members of the House Freedom Caucus, i.e. | |
| the Conservative Tea Party members, that he will not bring immigration reform legislation to the House floor while Barack Obama is president. | |
| This assumes Obama leaves office at the end of 2016. | |
| Well, in January of 2017. | |
| The letter is obtained exclusively by National Review. | |
| It formalizes pledges that Ryan made last week in a closed door meeting with select members of the House Freedom Caucus, who were skeptical of his promise to maintain an open and inclusive relationship with them. | |
| Specifically, it extracts Ryan's word that he will not bring up amnesty, i.e., comprehensive immigration reform, so long as Obama is president. | |
| And as Speaker Ryan said he will not allow any immigration to be able to reach the floor for a vote unless a majority of Republican members support it. | |
| So the gauntlet's been thrown down to the donors. | |
| The donors are going to spread the money around to some of the House members if that's if if Ryan means this. | |
| If they're not going to do amnesty unless a majority of Republican members support it. | |
| Well, we will um we'll wait and see on that. | |
| USA Today. | |
| Ben Carson is the new king, is the headline. | |
| Ben Carson's overtaken Donald Trump for the first time in USA Today's GOP power rankings. | |
| Deemed the strongest candidate in the Republican field this week by their panel of political experts. | |
| But you know the drive-by media and their experts. | |
| They're experts routinely stumped every week when unemployment numbers are announced. | |
| Experts stumped every week when the world does not get warmer, so keep that in mind. | |
| About experts. | |
| Carson's rise in the USA Today rankings reflects recent Iowa polls showing him passing Trump in the critical first in the nation Hawkeye Cockeye. | |
| You know, just imagine what the USA Today panel of political experts will say when they hear about the New York Times CBS news poll. | |
| These experts convened and did their power rankings before the CBS New York Times poll came out and put Carson ahead just by little nationwide. | |
| These experts, by the way, these are USA Today insiders as opposed to the insiders at Politico, as opposed to the insiders at ABC, as opposed to the insiders at CBS. | |
| I mean, all these establishments have their insiders. | |
| And at USA Today, they're ranking Carson at number one. | |
| And I just look, I guarantee you, within the bowels of the establishment, they're all ploy. | |
| Carson, you kidding me? | |
| Ha! | |
| That ain't gonna happen. | |
| That ain't gonna last. | |
| The news to them is that Trump has peaked. | |
| Just to say if it's true. | |
| Well, think about that. | |
| Just just a second. | |
| I got to complete that. | |
| Yeah, Fox News of the story here that Carson's support is largely conservative and largely Christian. | |
| And I'm gonna add it's probably many of the four million people that did not vote for Romney. | |
| But I'm also gonna tell you who won the last two Hawkeye Kawkeye. | |
| And some other things when we get back. |
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