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Time now to shift gears and head into the Republican presidential primary, the latest news on that.
Before, however, there is a little news out there.
Five students have been the victim of a stabbing spree on the University of California at Merced campus.
What's Merced famous for, Mr. Snerkeli?
Tony Quello.
Tony Quello was from Merced.
Yeah, in fact, I was just thinking about this the other day in relationship to how difficult it is to convince people, change their minds about things.
Back in the early days of this program, you know, Quello was one of the powers that'd be in the house.
And he was, I don't know.
Quello was one of the guys in 1994 during the campaign.
Newt's never going to be Speaker.
Newt thinks he's going to be.
Newt's never.
Republicans are never going to win.
He ran the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee.
And he had to resign.
He had to resign because of the usual reasons politicians have to resign.
They found some stuff that wasn't cool.
And Barbara Walters on Nightline, she was hosting Nightline the day that Quello resigned.
And honest to God, folks, she opened the program.
I forget who her first guest was, but it was another Democrat.
And she actually asked, can we go on?
Can we go on?
Meaning the country.
We've lost Tony Quello.
Can we go on?
And, of course, the, well, it's going to be really hard, Barbara, but we're all going to do our best here.
But that's not the, there was a local radio host, one of our California affiliates.
I don't even remember which one yet.
But program was new, and I was doing what I did.
I was exposing liberals when I found them.
It had never happened before.
You know, that's one of the aspects of this program being new.
The only thing that happened in the news about politicians when Republicans were called out, when Republicans were caught doing something unethical or illegal or cheating.
It just never happened to Democrats unless the Democrat happened to be someone the other Democrats wanted to get rid of.
But it was this program that exposed Jim Wright, the Fort Worthless Jim Wright, the Speaker of the House.
But there's no reason to wonder why they hate me, bottom line.
But the point is that one of these local hosts had become friendly with Coelho over the years.
He was a routine guest and just could not believe any of this that I happened to be saying about Coelho.
And it caused a rift.
It almost caused me to lose the affiliate.
I forget which it was, but I had a fairly good relationship.
It was the afternoon drive guy.
They had a fairly good relationship with the guy, but this caused a rift.
And he was back in the early days, people weren't sure they wanted to carry a national show in the daytime.
It was all kind of obstacles we had to overcome.
And I remember when it became clear that And I had not been making anything up.
This guy had Coelho on his show and asked him point blank, and Coelho wouldn't deny any of it.
And it was a disaster for this poor guy.
It wasn't even about partisan politics.
He just loved Coelho.
He's just a good friend.
He was the local congressman and all that stuff.
None of it.
My point is that when people get tied to political figures, no matter how earth-shattering the truth, it's tough sometimes to get them to see the truth.
It's not just true in politics.
If you have their personal relationship examples, like you know a married couple and one of them's doing something.
Or you don't and somebody tells you that it's you just you don't want to believe it.
And you won't believe it until you get proof.
And even after you get proof, you don't want to believe it.
And so my point is, it's really difficult here to permeate the kind of relationships that Democrats have built up with people, particularly in the media.
As in Barbara Walters, can we go on?
Can the house survive?
And she was not trying to be funny or melodramatic or anything.
I remember being incredulous.
When I watched it, I could not believe it.
It was like there was a genuine, like half the country had died or been defeated in a war.
Can we overcome it?
Anyway, that has nothing to do with what happened.
What happened was there's been a stabbing out there.
Five students were the victim of a stabbing spree on the University of California Merced campus.
And the point is that the stabbing spree was stopped when the guy with the knife was shot by the guy with the gun.
Isn't that how it always happens?
And here we were.
This is a gun-free zone, by the way.
I'm sure it's a California university.
And so since it's a gun-free zone, the gun criminal to say, you know what, I can't take a gun, so I'm going to take a knife.
And he got away with stabbing five people until somebody showed up with a gun.
And by the way, the University of California at Merced is the newest campus in the University of California system.
And it's known for its science and tech orientation.
Yeah, the guy with the gun happened to be a cop.
The guy with the gun that shot the stabber, the guy with the knife, happened to be a cop.
Okay, just one other thing here before we get to the presidential news.
And it's a story from the Weather Channel and the headline, Solar Energy contributes to climate change sum.
Comma study finds.
Recent study reveals an aspect about solar energy we never expected or thought possible.
It contributes to climate change.
Oh no!
It's just like their modeling did not predict all the new ice in Antarctica.
So if their modeling didn't predict that, what good is their modeling?
Their modeling is predicting stuff 20, 50, 100 years down the road, climate change, but their modeling predicted all this new ice at the South Pole.
So what good's their modeling?
I mean, it's a legitimate question.
The study conducted by climate change research scientist Axie Hugh of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Are you kidding me?
They actually now have a magazine named Climate Change?
See, they've got the journal Nature.
That's been around for a long time.
Now they've got a subdivision, Nature Climate Change.
The study conducted by climate change research scientist Exey Hugh found that solar panels tend to cause regional cooling when converting sunlight into electricity and increase urban area temperatures when the electricity transforms into heat.
Researchers conducted climate model sensitivity experiments to look at the effect.
You've got solar panels all over half of North Carolina.
Why do you need a model to predict or study this stuff?
You know, Apple's making a big, they're building these data centers all over the place to handle all their iCloud servers and Siri and all the other things.
making a big deal about how they're green and they're energy correct by building all these solar panels to power these data centers.
Well, has anybody ever stopped to think all of these solar panels prevent sunlight from reaching the earth?
Now, before you go off half-nuts and yeah, but so does a roof rush.
I understand that.
But we human beings, it's incumbent upon us to build shelter.
We have to adapt, protect ourselves from the elements.
But dirt doesn't need to protect itself from the elements, trees and so forth.
Has anybody ever stopped to think what all these solar panels might be doing vis-a-vis the energy and the warmth of sun reaching places in the earth it's supposed to?
I bet nobody's thought about it.
No, I'm talking about their proponents.
They think these solar panels are creating green energy, clean energy, renewable energy, no fossil fuels, no pollution.
But they don't stop to think, okay, you're talking about something abnormal and unnatural is a bunch of solar panels man-made laid out across acres and acres and acres of what used to be farmland.
What's the impact of that sunlight being absorbed by the solar panels?
And by the way, being converted to electricity very inefficiently.
What's the impact of that sunlight never reaching the earth?
You know, there are little organisms in the earth that need the sunlight.
You got worms in there.
You have, well, any number of organisms that are being denied their precious sunlight because of the solar panels.
Now, what are those things doing?
They're either reflecting or they are absorbing, sucking up, if you will, the warmth of the sun.
They are preventing vitamin D from reaching the planet.
Vitamin D is where sunlight's where you get it.
And it has to have some kind of effect.
Researchers conducted climate model sensitivity experiments to look at the effects of solar panels placed in various regions.
Why not actually look at the, what do you mean model?
Why do you need climate models?
Climate models missed the new ice at the Antarctic.
They missed 18 years of not warming.
What are you doing creating climate models when you have actual solar panels polluting half of North Carolina, now half of Oregon, and a lot of the state of Washington?
Who knows wherever else?
Solar power is the world's most abundant source of renewable energy, according to the solar energy industry.
Of course, they would say so to a bunch of special interest lobbyist types.
Yet, despite its abundance, researchers say using even the smallest amount of attainable solar power would be enough to provide energy for the entire globe, right?
Well, why isn't that happening then?
Large solar installations affect global energy.
This whole solar thing is a scam starting with Cylindra?
Well, not the whole thing, but.
All right, enough of that.
I mean, that's just stream of consciousness stuff.
Presidential polling data, Republican side, Jeb Bush, this is the politico.
Jeb Bush plummets in the latest national poll.
Trump and Carson continue to lead the GOP field.
Jeb's support among Republicans nationally has plummeted to the low single digits in the latest Quinnipiac University survey.
It was released today as Jeb's campaign seeks to hit refresh with its Jeb Can Fix It tour.
Meanwhile, Trump and Carson continue to lead the field, Carson outperforming Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical general election matchup.
This is why Ron Fournier is bordering on insanity today.
Matt Bevin winning tells Fournier that any fruitcake can win now.
Any lunatic can win if this guy did.
And Ben Carson, I don't care whatever you think they think of Trump.
They think Ben Carson is the biggest walking idiot they've ever seen in the political universe.
They don't deny his prowess as a surgeon.
But they think Ben Carson's so pathetic, they feel sorry for him during these debates.
You can tell it by the questions they ask him.
So then they see a poll here, and it's a poll they trust Quinnipiac.
Shows Ben Carson beating Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical general election matchup.
And they're teetering on the left and in a drive-by media.
In the latest poll conducted after last week's Republican debate, in which it says, I'm just reading, Bush delivered a mediocre performance, just 4% of Republican and independent Republican-leaning voters said they would support Jeb in their state's primary.
In the September survey, Bush had 10%.
Trailing Trump and Carson and Carly Fiorina, in terms of favorability, nobody polled lower than Bush at a net negative 33 points.
For its part, the Bush campaign has tried to manage expectations among the media.
The communications director Tim Miller tweeted Monday, FYI political press corps, Jeb's going to have a few weeks of bad polls.
Comebacks take time.
We recognize and are prepared for that.
So what they're saying is Jeb can fix it is brand new.
It's going to take a while for this comeback to happen.
You got to hang in there and be tough with us.
But let me, if you read this story, like the headline here, Jeb Bush plummets in the latest national poll.
Trump and Carson continue to lead.
If you read the whole story, that's not the headline you would write.
Nor is it the headline I would write.
I would write one of the following headlines.
I'm not going to read the whole story.
So trust me, this is the meat to me.
These are the lead of the story that Politico is not highlighting.
Poll, Hillary Clinton seen as most dishonest and untrustworthy candidate running for president.
That's in this story.
In the Quinnipiac poll, Mrs. Clinton is seen as the most dishonest and untrustworthy candidate, Republican or Democrat.
You have to dig deep to find that.
Or most Republicans beat Hillary in head-to-head matchups.
That's another thing that is incontrovertibly true in this political story, but you have to dig deep to find it.
The lead is buried.
There are two different ones they could have gone with.
Both are buried.
This Quinnipiac poll is a gut punch to this Hillary campaign.
There's nothing in this that's remotely good for her.
And yet mostly the story is about Bush plummeting back down to 4%.
We'll take a break and be back.
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In the Quinnipiac poll, Hillary Clinton is seen as the most dishonest and untrustworthy candidate running for president.
The most honest and trustworthy is Ben Carson.
In the same poll, he is at 62% say that he is the most honest and trustworthy.
Only 24% disagree.
Only 36% see Hillary Clinton as honest and trustworthy.
Now, I'm just saying that in the bowels of the Democrat Party, polyps and all, there is a lot of disquiet about Mrs. Clinton.
I mean, she may be the going-away nominee.
She may be presumptive.
It may be the coronation.
But they are very, very, some of them are very worried because if something happens that they can't control, they got nowhere else to go.
Well, Biden, maybe, but in the bottom, the bottom line, that's really not, I mean, there's a proven loser, too, on his own.
Trump's new book, Washington Post, seven things in Donald Trump's new book you probably won't hear at a rally.
What does that tell you?
They think that these seven things are deadly killer things.
Things that are in this book that Trump will never admit to, will never talk about.
Really, he wrote about them.
Where did you find them, Washington Post?
They're in his book.
You know what one of them is?
He thinks global warming is a hoax.
Yeah, yeah, he won't ever say that in public.
Really?
He just wrote it.
How else the hell do you know it?
But again, a great illustration.
They think everybody accepts and buys into and believes the reality of global warming.
And here comes Trump thinking it's a hoax.
So as far as they're concerned, he's just labeled himself a lunatic.
He's just, he's just, he just put a red flag on himself here as an absolute bumpkin.
They don't get that it is a positive.
The sound bites quickly.
Is Trump talking about Rubio and Jeb this morning in Concord, New Hampshire?
Rubio is surging in New Hampshire?
I don't think so, folks.
When you find out the truth about Rubio, you'll check his credit cards from Florida and you're going to find out how does he feel about illegal immigration.
And I will tell you, he's totally now, he's since changed his mind a little bit.
He's still weak on it, but he changed his mind.
There's no way that plays in large parts of this country, especially in New Hampshire.
And after that, he took Jeb Bush apart.
And I have that coming up after the break.
There's not enough time to squeeze that one in before the next obscene profit break here at the EIB network.
So I'll get you those.
The other six things in Trump's book that the media thinks they've discovered that he'll never admit to.
It's incredible.
And your phone calls are coming up too.
So hang tough, folks.
We'll be right back.
That's exactly what happens here.
We break it down.
We make the complex understandable.
Conquer New Hampshire campaign event.
Donald Trump speaking about Jeb Bush.
Jeb Bush says he's not a good talker.
Why would he admit that?
If he's not a good talker, and let's assume that's a fact.
Why would you say, I watched him, I'm not an entertainer.
He goes, I'm not a good talker.
I don't speak well.
I don't debate well.
I don't do anything well.
But you should vote for me.
That's Jeb Bush.
Everybody's laughing here on the other side of the glass.
It's uncontrollable laughter on the other side of the glass.
This is almost unfair.
You've got a guy trying to be humble.
You've got a guy from a family dynasty.
I know about family dynasties, and I know what's drilled into them.
And if they're not the Kennedys, one of the things drilled into them, you will not tarnish the family name.
You will at all times be humble.
You will never ever refer publicly or even think of us as a dynasty.
You will always, always show other people respect.
You shall always, always downplay your station in life.
That's all Jeb's doing here.
He's just, hey, you know, I'm just like you.
I'm not the best at this.
I'm not the best at that.
But I love my country and I want to fix it.
And the consultant's advice is: look, Jeb, just go out.
You know, admit that you're just like everybody else.
And you just, you want to fix the country.
You love it as much as they do.
I know exactly what's what he's trying to do.
It's the mark of a good character.
It's the mark of fine character.
But the political campaign, if it weren't Trump saying this, do you think any of these other Republicans would say the things about Jeb that Trump is saying?
I mean, Jeb's out saying these things in one way or another.
He is, look, I'm not an entertainer.
And look, I don't particularly stand out as a debater.
I'm telling you, those are those, that's breeding.
In a way, it's been raised.
It's an attempt to be humble.
I know that.
Don't doubt me.
But you can take it too far.
You start admitting or acknowledging shortcomings when you're running for the most powerful office in the land, and it may not be what people are looking for.
People want a president to be better than they are.
Well, you can't, you really shouldn't say anything self-deprecating unless you're making a joke about yourself.
And the only reason you self-deprecate in that sense is because you have to be able to show you can laugh at yourself.
But when you've got somebody with a killer instinct like Trump out there that's going to take what you say and throw it up against the wall and stack it up against common sense, Jeb, why are you running in?
If you're no good at anything, if you're admitting that you can't do this and you can't do that, why are you running?
What?
Okay, ask the question.
What's the question?
Well, see, okay, here we go.
All right, here we go.
Here we go.
Another question says, here it comes again.
Do you think Trump went too far in his attack on Rubio and his credit card debt?
Because Rush, look at all the people who are maxed out on their credit cards.
And it's the same as Trump making fun of them.
Trump saying that they wouldn't be qualified.
Has Trump gone too far?
Well, I don't know how you want to judge whether he's gone too far.
Have we had peak Trump?
Has Trump peaked and Carson now the lead legitimate?
Is Trump leveling off or is he fading away?
Okay, but he's leveling off.
Do you think that's why?
I mean, McCain stuff didn't stick.
None of the other.
I mean, he went after Carly Fiorina's face.
That didn't stick.
Not that we know any.
Well, he did, didn't he?
He apologized for it, and he told her he thought she was beautiful on the debate, and they didn't accept that.
So you think he's going too far with Rubio's credit card then?
I don't think so.
No, but even if he is, he circled right back around and got to Rubio on immigration.
And I guarantee you, if Trump sticks to his immigration stance and doesn't let that the only mistake I think Trump could make, well, not the only, but a big mistake I think Trump could make is if he reaches the point where he just assumes everybody knows his position on immigration, stops talking about it, moves on to their thing, he's got to constantly talk about it.
You can't assume that, because when you stop talking about it, you run the risk of making people think you've stopped caring about it.
But in Trump's mind, he's saying, I don't want to bore people by saying the same thing over and over.
Every one of my, he's even referenced that.
You know, he goes out and he does these personal appearances.
He says, you never know what you're going to get with me because I don't have a stump speech.
I don't tell you the same thing over and over.
But that's something he's got to say over and over because that immigration stance of his is why he's there.
And if he can't assume that people are going to always accept it, understand it.
And he hasn't done this.
I'm just saying, future, if he lets time goes by without saying it, he runs the risk of maybe some people thinking he doesn't care about it anymore or what have you.
So if he's going to rip Rubio on his credit card debt, he turned around and in the same statement pounded Rubio for his gang of eight stance.
And he's going to get him on Rubio's big donor on this.
I would have to say, Mr. Sturdley, no, because none of those attacks on anybody else, you can say, have hurt Trump.
So, why?
Do you have a lot of credit card debt and you're offended?
I'm just kidding.
Well, you may think it's an odd attack, but in Trump's world, okay, here's a guy running for president to control a budget and reduce the national debt in the deficit.
But over here in his real life is this credit card thing.
This is these are, I know, right?
Well, people have come back at Trump on, you know, he made this statement that he started small.
He had a million-dollar loan from his dad, and he had to prove it.
He's been hit on that.
I don't know from Rubio, but some media people have tried to say that this shows how out of touch Trump is.
Yeah, it's like everybody's dad has a million bucks to give them, and it's a big test in life, and Trump passed his.
No, they've tried all that.
I think it's risky to say that one of these individual things that he gets into is going to take him out.
Time will tell.
Time will tell.
Don't need to bother predicting this stuff because it is or isn't going to happen.
And it's not going to take that long to find out.
They've got two more here.
Because yesterday, Trump had his press conference to announce the sale of his new book.
And I mentioned that he had the media in the palm of his hand.
And I pointed out that he called on a reporter at from CNN named Sarah, just praised her to the hilt.
And I said, the media, what are they admitted?
They love this.
I mean, they love Trump calling them out and liking them.
And they might write tough things later to make it look like it doesn't affect them or anything, but they still like being called out.
But he ripped her today praising her yesterday, rips her today.
Let's listen to yesterday.
This is a Trump Tower launching his new book, Crippled America, How to Make America Great Again.
Ms. Sarah Murray is the CNN political reporter at, and this is what Trump said.
That's your best question that you've ever asked me, Sarah.
Sarah, finally, you're asking me this great question.
Sarah from CNN.
Terrific person.
They're laughing on the other side of the glass.
They're laughing.
Who does that?
Can you hear George W. Bush, Jeb Bush?
Can you hear Christy, John Kasich?
But that was yesterday.
Today, on CNN's new day, the host Chris Cuomo interviewing Trump, talking about his press conference yesterday.
You have to be followed by Sarah Murray, and she doesn't know what she's doing.
Listen, Mr. Trump, you have to stop insulting people who do their job.
It's not actually report the energy in the room.
She stands there like, you know, there's 12 people in the room.
You were nice to her yesterday when you saw her at your book signing, but now you use this tactic of attacking her.
She didn't even show the lines of people.
She didn't even know.
She didn't show the lines.
People know how many people were there.
You tell everybody.
Excuse me.
It stretched all the way down to Madison Avenue from the door.
Three and four abreast.
You have a good case that the media is mean to you.
I just don't think you have a good case.
You get the most attention.
It's just because she's incompetent or she doesn't like me, or maybe she's given instructions from Upper Bob.
I love this.
I just.
Or maybe she's been given instructions.
So from one day to the next.
Now, here, a couple observations.
In the first place, Chris Cuomo has got to learn when Trump is talking, get out.
You're not going to score any points in a debate by shouting Trump down.
You're just going to tick off your audience who wants to hear what he's saying.
You've got to get past it, Chris.
You've got to get past the fact that people would prefer to watch him than you.
And when he's talking, don't interrupt him.
You're just going to irritate people.
They're watching CNN when Trump's on to hear Trump.
There's a little professional advice.
I'm just trying to be a nice guy here, help a fellow broadcaster get it right.
Now, what Trump was saying, he called on Sarah Murray or praised her, and apparently the report she did on his deal yesterday did not satisfy him because she didn't show all the long lines of people stretched down to Madison Avenue waiting to get into Trump Tower.
She didn't report the energy in the room.
She was reporting like there's only 12 people there.
And Cuomo said, but you were nice to her yesterday.
And Trump said, I was nice to her until I saw her report the same night.
She didn't even show the lines of people.
And Cuomo can't believe he's that petty.
What do you mean?
She didn't show the lines.
People know how many people were there.
You tell everybody.
Trump said, excuse me, it stretched all the way down to Madison Avenue, three and four abreasts.
Their place is packed.
And she gives a very inaccurate story.
I don't know if it's because she's incompetent or she was given instructions from up above.
Here is Shannon in Manassas, Virginia.
It's great to have you with us on the program today.
Hi.
Hello there.
How are you?
Well, I'm good.
Thank you.
I'm calling to extend the celebration here in the state of Virginia.
It's big.
Yesterday's election.
That's big because the governor out there, the punk, tried to take over the Senate and he was foiled.
He was, absolutely.
And so was Mr. Bloomberg.
He wasted millions of dollars of his own money and he was defeated in his efforts.
They were going against the Second Amendment and they lost.
In Virginia, this is big because many people, political experts, social scientists, think that the Democrats are taking over Virginia.
Yep.
And on an issue like gun control, I'm sure these guys wouldn't think this is going to be a slam dunk.
They think they've convinced everybody guns are bad.
And I guarantee you, they're just as shocked over this in Virginia as people of Kentucky are Vermat Bevin winning there.
Well, not only that, sir, you have to think and remember that Terry McCallop is a good friend and a confidant and a supporter of Hillary Clinton.
Oh, yeah.
Hillary thinks that Virginia is more of a purple state.
Well, I don't think she thinks that this morning.
Yeah, that's probably true.
It's probably true.
Hillary's problems are a little bit more immediate than Virginia right now, but she will.
I agree.
But she'll get around to it.
I think, look, folks, keep all this in perspective.
We didn't win the presidency yesterday, and what happened doesn't mean that we're going to either.
The turnout differences in an off-year and a presidential year are real.
But nevertheless, this is a huge, huge upper that happened.
And for a lot of people, it came out of the blue.
And it shows that these midterms in 2010 and 2014 are not flukes.
And it shows that the massive building opposition to establishment politicians inside the Beltway is not a fluke either.