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Nov. 23, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 23, 2015, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
What was that?
No, no, no, just a couple things.
It wasn't an No, it no, no, no.
Everything was fine.
No, no, no, no, there wasn't any bias in it.
Would you stop?
Would you st- What what now?
Greetings and welcome back, folks, or welcome, period.
Great to have you with us, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
And I know you're here whether you love me or hate me.
Yes, right.
Okay, great to have you, folks.
Here's the telephone number.
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The email address, Ilrushbow at EIBNet.com.
Let me extend a thanks to uh Chris Wallace, Fox News Sunday for the appearance yesterday.
Also want to thank the Fox crew that destroyed my computer monitor in here when a light stand fell on it before I arrived.
So here I am.
I have a great day playing golf.
I go home and I do the cleanup routine.
I'm on the way in Brian's outside waiting on me.
So no.
Oh no.
All the doors are open.
There's 15 cars here.
It's a 10-minute TV interview.
There's 15 cars.
What's going on?
Brian's standing outside, he's got this look of just he said, look, I don't want to have to tell you what I have to tell you.
Scared to death to even open it.
What is it?
So he told me they destroyed your monitor.
The light stand fell on it.
I said, What about the computer?
No, just the monitor, but it's not working.
And I said, Great, I didn't bring my laptop.
This is about an hour and a half before we're going to shoot it.
I didn't bring a laptop.
I was going to use the primary computer to bone up.
So I had to borrow Brian's Brian's laptop.
And uh and so anyway, it went fine, folks.
Look, I I tell you this, I got uh last night, there are three airings of the interview that I did, the show, Fox News Sunday, goes live on the Fox broadcast network at 9 a.m. on Sunday, and then local affiliates carry it whenever they want to.
Then the Fox News channel replays it twice, once at noon and once at 6 p.m.
So about and I started at 28 minutes uh into the show.
I was the bat on the bottom of the hour sweep.
And at about, I guess 6 45 last night, my email just starts smoking.
It just starts burning up, and people are enraged because apparently what happened during the lightning round when they're throwing names at me and I'm supposed to do a rat tat tat answers.
The minute I got to Ted Cruz, they cut out of it and went to a burning alert news update, burnt breaking news on Brussels.
And so all these people that wanted to hear what I said about Ted Cruz didn't get to hear it.
And by the time Fox rejoined, uh it was near the interview where I was uh talking about the latest book, Rush Revere, and the Star Spangled Banner.
Now, there were just two edits, folks.
We we taped this on Saturday afternoon at uh we started about 325.
And there were just two edits, and they were for time, they were not for content.
The uh the first thing that was edited out was uh something I said to you here on Thursday or Friday that we do have and have had forever religious tests on refugees when they are attempting to grant be granted asylum.
We have to ask them about religion.
There is a religious test, and we've always had it.
And the primary number of refugees blame religious persecution as the reason they want asylum and the reason they're fleeing wherever it is they live.
Well, we have to follow that up.
So we have to ask them what their religion is, track down whether or not there's indeed religious persecution of their religion where they live.
And Obama's out there saying, that's not how we do.
That's uh not the American way.
Uh well, we don't pass out compassion by virtue of religion.
Wait, it's not about compassion anyway.
In this sense, it's about national security at this stage, but there is a religious test.
That didn't make it, and and the story of how the children's books came to be was edited out.
And I'm sure both is just time edits.
Uh the story of Vince Flynn was wanting me to write a book uh for two or three years in a row.
And I said, I've been there, done that, don't want to do it.
And Catherine came in and said, Why don't you do children's books?
And uh that appealed.
Those are the two things that didn't matter.
Other than that, um, it was intact.
It was it was live to tape.
And it was uh it was cool, and they've been using it all morning on Fox, bouncing off of it.
There are a couple things, folks, uh, a couple of predictions.
One thing that I said in that interview and last week.
I mean, this program gets results.
Look at this headline.
Well, it's actually the first line of the story, accelerating its attacks on one of the Islamic State's most important sources of income.
The U.S. military said today it had destroyed 283 tanker trunks trucks used by the militants to transport oil from producing fields in eastern Syria to smuggling points.
Well, I made the point yesterday on the interview.
You know, Wallace said, what would you do?
They'd always do this.
You know, you start lodging complaints, and they come, well, what would you do?
I mean, your president, what would you do?
Well, when we're discussing ISIS, and I make the point that Obama doesn't take them nearly to be as big as enemy as he does us.
You know, conservatives and Republicans are his number one enemies.
We're we're the direct threat to his power.
ISIS is a distant threat.
We're direct threat, and therefore we are despised and feared.
And you can tell Obama starts talking about us.
He doesn't need a teleprompter, he doesn't need cue cards, he doesn't need notes because it's in his heart.
He just starts launching with how much he despises us and what he thinks of us.
And the uh point that I was making, and we you asked me what I would do.
The first thing I'd do is bomb their oil depots.
That's the primary source of their funding.
So less than 12 hours after I'm on TV suggesting it, we bombed their oil depots.
Right here it is in the AP, accelerating its attacks on one of the Islamic State's most important sources of income.
The military said it destroyed 283 tanker trucks.
You know why we didn't hit those tanker trucks?
And I made this point yesterday too.
The reason is because the rules of engagement.
Obama thinks that drivers of the tankers might be civilians.
And we can't hit civilians.
So we have not hit anything to do with their oil apparatus in any way, except now we have.
But you know what we gave them a 45-minute warning.
Did you know that?
We gave them a 45, because we're such nice.
We conduct war nicer than anybody ever has.
And we told them we're gonna hit you in 45 minutes, we're gonna bomb your tankers, we're gonna bomb some of your oil facilities.
We're gonna do it, you got 45 minutes.
And then we did it.
The second thing I made a prediction back when CBS hired Colbert to do the uh the replace Letterman.
What?
Oh, Colbert, right?
Okay.
I I I opi the moment I heard this, I warned everybody that what CBS had just done was essentially punt Middle America.
That in in hiring Colbert to replace Letterman, they were essentially just thumbing their noses at Middle America.
Well, lo and behold, Kyle Smith had a great piece in the New York Post yesterday.
Colbert's late shows become propaganda for Democrats.
And it's in third place.
And it's it's losing a Jimmy Kemmel, who's never been in second place until Colbert came along, is in second place.
And now Colbert's audience is uh it's it's demographic when they're saying, hey, we love it, it's great, but it's shrinking.
And that's why, you know, Wes Moonvest knew this.
That's why he said when he hired Colbert, they don't care about ratings anymore.
Ratings don't matter, it's all about buzz.
You get the buzz for hiring the hip character.
But uh no, no, no.
I it's inside baseball.
I have no I have no investment one way or the other in this show.
I'm just telling you that a prediction I made has come true.
With this hiring, CBS basically was flipping the bird to the middle American population of the country, to Republican base, what have you, and they're responding in kind by not watching it.
Exactly as I knew would be the case.
Now let's see.
Let's start with Trump, because that seems to be the biggest stack today.
Of course, we've got Hillary News and Democrat Party News at all.
We've got some great, I mean, Hillary goes out there uh with within minutes of Juanita Broderick rebirthing her rape allegation against Bill Clinton years ago, and Hillary follows that up by saying, Yep, every person like her should need to be listened to and should be believed.
Inadvertently, she didn't do this to side with Rodita Broderick.
It just ended up happening.
I'm like Hillary knew that Juanita Broderick had reignited, rebirthed, if you will, the allegation.
So Hillary's trying to make points with uh college-age women, young women and so forth, by saying that every woman who ever says that she has been abused or raped should automatically be believed in every case should be investigated, and it comes right on the heels of Juanita Broderick surfacing again with the allegation.
Even the drive-bys are having trouble avoiding this one.
They're doing their best.
Now let's look at some of the headlines here in the in the Trump stack, because it's it's recent history repeating itself.
How many times in the course of this campaign since Trump is announced, have the drive-by media and the Republican establishment believed that they had him?
I can't count the number of times Trump has said something or done something that the media and the Republican Party have salivated.
That's it, they say.
That's it.
He just stepped in it, no recovery from this.
And yet, he just keeps climbing.
And he's continuing to climb in the polls, and that's what this stack is basically about from the Hill.com.
Republican fears that uh Republican fears Trump's Muslim comments could hurt.
Donald Trump's rhetoric since the Paris terrorist attacks appear to have helped him with GOP primary voters, according to most polls.
However, Republican insiders are concerned that his words could come back to haunt the party as it seeks to appeal to a broader audience.
This is stunning.
Can I read that headline to you again?
Donald Trump's rhetoric since the Paris terrorist attacks appears to have helped him with GOP primary voters, which is what this is all about right now.
We are in the middle of the GOP primary.
This is where soon the Hawkeye Cockeye and New Hampshire primary will happen.
The first votes will be cast on the way to selecting the Republican nominee.
Fine.
Despite the fact that Trump's rhetoric is helping him with Republican primary voters, which ought to send a message to Republican leaders about how to do this.
They instead are telling people like the Hill and Politico, they are leaking, that they are concerned that Trump's words could come back to haunt the party as it seeks to appeal to a broader audience, not realizing that that's what Trump is achieving, is the broader audience.
Have you taken a look at Trump's demographics, the demographics of his group, voters?
We looked at this last week.
One of the biggest blocks of support Trump is getting is from blue-collar voters.
Now, those are traditionally thought of as union workers.
Hourly wage workers, Democrats, blue collar.
I think there's a new definition we need to attach here to blue collar, and that is taxpayers.
But the Republican base is never ever described as blue-collar.
And yet here's Trump.
You talk about broadening the base, appealing to a broader audience.
That is what Trump is doing.
And the Republican establishment is wringing its hands.
worried silly over this.
In recent days, Trump has suggested the U.S. could have no choice but to close mosques.
Even more controversially, he told an NBC News reporter he would certainly implement a system to register he didn't.
I'm not going to spend a lot of time again refuting this because I spent the first hour on Friday refuting this, but this story is out there.
It's not working.
I knew it was it's backfiring on the media.
These attempts to impugn Trump by lying about what he says and by lying about what he thinks, which is no different than what they've done about every other Republican.
It's backfiring on them.
These efforts to harm Trump are not succeeding.
His poll numbers are up.
The energy behind his support is up.
He's drawing huge crowds.
Is anybody else drawing big crowds out there?
Have you seen anybody else?
Is anybody is anybody out there as often as Trump is?
I mean, there's no mystery to why this is happening.
Trump is out there all the time, and he's good at this, and he's obviously enjoying it, and he's having fun, and the media is distrusted.
There's a poll out today.
Sixty three percent of the people in this country blame the media for an overall negative attitude about America and its future.
And Trump, whether he's trying to or not, is playing into that and bouncing right off of it.
So all of these efforts, these traditional media tricks of taking people out of context or saying, accusing them of saying something they didn't say, which is what's happening in this case.
This is the great service that Trump is is uh performing here.
It's a point that I made yesterday.
He's demonstrating you don't have to be afraid of the media if you're a Republican.
And you don't have to be afraid to violate political correctness.
You don't have to fear being aggressive.
You don't have to fear disagreeing with the president or with the Democrat Party or with the media.
You can triumph doing so.
That's a great service his beforming.
One of the reasons I was so excited about his entry into the race early on, I was hoping it would inspire similar courage throughout the Republican field, and it may yet, because the best efforts of the media to take Trump out are going to fail as they are continuing to fail now.
And the reason is they didn't make him.
It's I know it's redundant saying this, folks, but it happens to be true.
The media can't take you out if they make if they didn't make you.
But if you let the media make you, if let the media be responsible for your being popular or well known or liked or whatever, they can change that on a dime.
But if all that is because it's real and you've engendered it yourself because of a connection you have with people, they can't break that bond.
And they're gonna spend the rest of this campaign trying to to prove to themselves they can.
And as they try to break this bond that Trump has with his voters, they're gonna make fools of themselves even more and more as they are now doing.
He did not tell an NBC news reporter he would implement a system to register and track Muslims.
He was talking about the border and how he would build a fence, and I would keep them out.
Now the Hill says he was unclear whether he is referring to new immigrants or all Muslims on Americans.
He was referring to Hispanics and others coming across the southern border.
He wasn't even talking about ISIS or Muslim in that.
That's how bastardized this whole report is.
Ed Rollins, longtime GOP strategist.
Oops!
Oops, just saw the clock.
Have to take a break, folks.
Sorry about that.
As I was saying, Ed Rollins, GOP strategist.
He worked for Huckabee in 2008, and Michelle Bachman in 2012.
He um he suggested here that Trump's candidacy from the beginning has posed problems because there's a lot of danger.
Some of the things that Trump has said for a party that needs to reach out to Hispanics.
You know, uh this is this is unfathomable in a way.
I mean, Trump is broadening the Republican base.
In fact, if I were the Republican Party, I'd be scratching my head over that.
If you look at the makeup of Trump's support, it's not primarily Republican primary voters.
There are a lot of them in there.
But there are a lot of independents that make up Trump's support, and he's a far and away number one in the Republican primary field.
He's he's securing the support of tons of blue-collar people, traditionally Democrat voters.
He is broadening the base.
By the way, it's not Trump who said, I'm gonna win despite the base.
Republican establishment candidates have had it as their objective to win despite the base by getting a nomination without winning the primaries.
I think it was the terminology.
I don't understand any of this.
I mean, I understand they don't like us.
I understand they don't like conservatives, understand that they they don't want the GOP to become known as the Conservative Party, but the to stare success in the face and resent it.
It's understandable in a I guess uh human emotion one way, but boy, for people in a business designed to get the support of as many people as you can and a candidate out there showing how it's done and to be mad about it.
Instead of trying to capitalize on it, even if you don't like the guy, try to get your other candidates you do like emulating this.
There's plenty to emulate here.
There are plenty of things to learn about gaining support beyond the Republican base and beyond the Republican Party.
There's one guy showing how to do it.
Washington Post, Philip Bump, don't you know they hate writing this?
The Paris attacks have only made Donald Trump stronger.
As I predicted the day they happened.
Well, I was here the Monday after they happened, but on that day I predicted this is going to happen, and so did you.
Does not take a genius to understand that Trump's gonna, particularly if he would double down on terrorism.
I remember saying on Monday, if he doubles down on terrorism like he is on immigration, then nobody's gonna be able to touch him.
Latest ABC News, Washington Post poll, Trump leads among most demographic groups.
I'll have the details for you after another obscene profit timeout here.
Hang in there, be tough, folks.
Be back with much more in a moment.
Shastelake, California, going to start on the phones here with Ray.
Thank you for the call, sir.
It's great to have you here.
Hello.
Hello?
Yes.
Yes, sir.
Hello.
This is Ray.
And uh glad to talk to you finally.
Um things I called about.
You look great on the interview.
You lost a little bit of weight.
Didn't I, though?
I think thank you for noticing that I appreciate that.
It helped.
I thought you answered the questions fantastically.
I wish you'd have had more time.
Uh you know what?
If they'd have given me the whole show, you would have still said, I wish you would have had more time.
It's just the way it is with me.
It just goes by so fast, it's so intriguing, it's so absorbing.
They had to put a limit on it somewhere.
I know.
And you know, the old adage, always keep them wanting more.
That's right.
For next year when I do the and uh, you know, I support uh crews and I support uh all of the top runners right now, and uh any of them will do a good job, I think.
So the other thing I want to talk to you about here in California, uh Mr. Moonbeam Brown uh has the uh illegals here, and they passed legislation and allowed the illegals to get their uh driver's license.
Oh, yeah, yeah, we knew this was coming.
We've been talking about this for a long time.
It's been part of Governor Moonbeam's plan, and he's not the only one.
Um and in fact, I don't I don't have it right in front of me.
There's another story that that uh a hundred and fifty illegal immigrants are somewhere were flown right over a customs spot, just brought right into the country without having to even go through customs.
I mean, the uh the Obama administration's serious about this.
They are continuing the stories yesterday throughout the media were many about the continuing invasion of the southern border.
You know, right now everybody is laser focused on the Syrian refugees coming in from Syria and how we are dealing with that.
But the southern border immigration, there hasn't been any breaks applied.
There haven't been any breaks applied.
It is continuing unabated.
The administration, the Democrat Party, has this objective that it's going to happen, it's gonna happen.
And it doesn't matter what courts say.
It doesn't matter if Obama policies have a stay on them or a temporary halt.
He's going to continue to do it because he knows nobody's gonna stop him.
We're fast approaching Obama's last year in office.
I just I want to warn you again.
Uh In all likelihood, there are going to be things this president does in the next 12 months that you can't even think of or conceive of now.
It's his last chance to have personal stamps or fingerprints on the transformation of this country.
And he knows nobody's going to stop him.
He knows the Republicans have taken impeachment, and it's late for that anyway.
There's not going to be any effort to stop him.
The Republicans are looking beyond Obama and focusing on trying to win the White House themselves, and they've just chalked up whatever happens this next year happens.
And Obama knows all that.
So I don't believe that he uh will have a free ride.
The American people are going to be angry as they can be and demanding that some action be taken to stop some of these things.
I can't begin to predict the outrageous things that are going to happen specifically, but I'm pretty safe in telling you that there are going to be such things, because there continue to be such things today.
Look at this.com.
Over six in ten think Obama lacks an ISIS plan.
This is a CBS news poll.
Now, folks, this is remarkable because the drive-by media is still covering for Obama.
No care what the issue is, whether it's immigration or Obama care or terrorism or foreign policy.
The media for the most part is covering for Obama and not reporting how bad things are.
There have been a couple of exceptions to that.
One was when Jim Acosta in Paris during that absolutely disastrous press conference Obama conducted last week.
Frustrated CNN reporter stands up, can you just tell us when you're gonna go get the bastards?
Meaning ISIS.
And Obama got his back up, he got all mad, got childlike, petulant and so forth, and started telling everybody he's already answered that question two or three times, and don't look for sloganeering on leadership or American winning because he doesn't believe in any of that.
And the American people have noticed six in ten Obama lacks an ISIS plan.
Now, a better headline would be how about 66%, or how about two-thirds of Americans think Obama's out to lunch on ISIS.
And Hillary's endorsed his position, so you could put her in the headline.
66% or two-thirds of Americans think Obama and Hillary out to lunch on ISIS.
But they put it six and ten.
But even this doesn't quite get to the nub of it.
But here are the details.
More than six in ten Americans believe Obama lacks a coherent strategy for combating the Islamic state in Iraq and Syria.
Approximately 66% think that Obama has no clear plan for defeating the terrorist organization.
Well, they're right as far as it goes.
But why doesn't he have a clear plan?
He still thinks he's out there still trying to get people to believe that they've been contained and that they still have the JV team.
They still aren't the varsity.
Obama wants people to think that this is really much ado about nothing.
This is just the media making this much bigger than it is.
This is just what did he call them?
A bunch of bad people with social media.
That's he was talking about ISIS.
A bunch of extremists with social media or something is how he described him.
He's got a strategy to deal with, and this is where this poll missstates it.
Now, the American people might think that he doesn't have a strategy because they don't see any action.
No action is the strategy.
May I remind you, may I repeat, and I mentioned this in the Fox News Sunday interview yesterday, Walid Farris says that Obama has sided with Iran and Syria when it comes to ISIS because of the sectarian violence going on in all these Middle Eastern countries.
Obama is telling everybody that until these countries unify themselves, there's no point in him helping them.
Because getting rid of ISIS, I Obama says we don't know what would what would surface to replace them.
It might be worse.
It's an excuse for not doing anything because Iran doesn't want anything done.
ISIS is doing Iran's bidding.
Now, for whatever reason, Obama has signed on with Iran.
We have unfrozen 150 billion dollars of Iranian assets.
They've got now 150 billion dollars to spend on whatever they want that they didn't have.
And as everybody knows, we are facilitating the Iranian nuclear weapons program by permitting it to proceed.
So Obama does have a strategy.
It is for Iran to eventually be the power in that region.
And if ISIS is an agent of Iran, and if ISIS is an agent of uh Basher Assad, or if Assad's an agent of Iran, that's where Obama's loyalties lie.
So the strategy is not to do anything.
And while you and and so you don't do anything, that's why you said why Obama says, hey, you know, they're still the JP team.
Hey, they're just a bunch of extremists with social media skills.
They're good.
They're not nearly as big as they're just being blown way out of proportion as a means of justifying not doing anything to stop them.
But make no doubt this is this is going to have a massively negative impact on the Democrat Party and their perceived ability or desire to do anything about this.
And again, it just shows Obama gets revved up more about his opponents in the Republican Party conservative movement than he does a genuine terrorist group.
And in the midst of all this, he wants to increase the number of Syrian refugees.
Despite the media's best efforts to cover for the guy, the American people are now seeing the light.
The American people now understand.
66% of them now understand what I meant when I said I hope he fails.
It's a disaster, folks.
This is the w this man is endangering this country more and more every day.
We are at risk.
A great nation at risk in a dangerous world, a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
Except we aren't playing.
We're playing patty cake.
We're playing political correctness or whatever else we're doing.
For whatever reason, fill in your own blank.
Another brief time out, back with more in a moment.
Wendy, Traverse City, Michigan.
Great to have you as we uh hit back to the phones.
How are you doing?
Oh good, thank you.
Um I was lucky I got to hear your interview on the radio.
And I was elated to hear what you said about uh Ted Cruz.
Because I was thinking it was so right on.
And I think your audience should have the opportunity to hear it if you have the clip.
I'm wondering if you should play that.
I've I've got the uh the the audio soundbite crew broke down the the whole Wallace interview into three sound bites.
It's a total of uh a little over eleven minutes, and I have it here, and I have I'm undecided whether I'm gonna replay all of that.
Um but I can tell you what I said about Cruz, especially since so many people missed it if they were watching the third airing of Fox News Sunday yesterday.
The third airing is at 6 p.m. Eastern on the Fox News Channel, and as soon as they were it's it's in a lightning round, where he mentions a name and the guest fires back with an answer.
So he's going through these names.
He mentioned uh started off with uh Trump and then Ben Carson and then went to Cruz.
And as soon as I began my answer on Cruz, they broke into the program on Fox News for breaking news alert on whatever was going on in Brussels.
People didn't hear it.
Here's what I said about Cruz, and I'm just gonna read it from the transcript.
I'm I'm it's it's to have to play a two-minute bite to get to it.
Brilliant, conservative, through and through, trustworthy, strong, confident leader, somebody in whom you can totally depend.
Wallace did not ask for an expansion on any of those, so went next to Jeb Bush.
And uh and on down the line.
So that's that's what I said about about Cruz.
You heard me.
Everybody heard well, no, they must they might no, they might not have heard about it.
That's right, because they didn't come back until the uh discussion of Rush Revere and the Star Spangled Banner.
Okay, what I said about Jeb Bush, I don't think he really wants to do this.
I'm watching, and I don't see passion, I don't see fire.
It's as though people in his camp want him to do it because they want to get back in power.
But I just don't see Jeb with all that energy that says, I need this.
The country needs me.
I can't wait to do this.
I just don't see any of that.
Uh he didn't answer at Kasich.
You know, when this whole thing started, I I didn't know that there was such a thing as a lightning round, and nobody told me there was going to be one.
So I don't know what names he's gonna throw at me.
I assume he's throwing Republican primary names at me.
Snartley knows something that you don't.
When this was all over, and we're doing the post mortem on the interview here.
The staff is asking me about that, and I said I kept waiting for them to mention Kasich.
That's who I thought they were gonna get to eventually and mention Kasich, but they didn't mention Kasich.
So now Snerdley's in there trying to stir things up by asking me over to the IFB, what were you gonna say about Kasich?
I I'll I'll bite.
I was what I was going to say about Kasich is I knew him when he was a genuine newt-style Republican freshman conservative back in 1994, 95.
That's what I that's all I was gonna say.
I knew him when he was a conservative.
Um they didn't answer that Rubio either, and which I thought was kind of puzzling.
You know, Rubio was the first guest.
And Rubio's showing up number three.
You've got uh well, uh take it back.
You know, in Iowa?
Yeah, Rubio's you know who's Cruz is number two, and in fact, in fact, where is the where is the story?
It's another prediction that I made that uh is is coming true, and I might have put Ah, here it is.
New poll shows one candidate make a major move up.
No, it's not Jeb, it's the DailyWire.com.
And I did, I've had a lot of people uh uh email me about, you know, I've I've been telling everybody that if you're looking for a dark horse out there, it's Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz is just positioned to pick up anybody slack, anybody that falls or starts losing their position.
So Cruz has jumped to number two in uh in Iowa, Rubio is number three, and Trump just continues to dominate uh nationally and uh and and everywhere.
Um I don't know what I would have said about Ruby, I'd have to make it up here.
Um I'm you know I really wasn't the only name I was waiting for for was Kasich, and I don't know why.
I don't know why that was, but as you know, as this whole segment is happening, uh I'm trying to figure out who's the next name he's gonna mention.
You want to try to get a head start on thinking about it, even though it's the lightning round.
And I didn't get the question on Kasich.
Rubio uh, you know, I I I like Rubio.
I think Rubio would be closer to the top tier if it weren't for the gang of eight.
Immigration's the number one issue.
Immigration is it in this Republican primary.
And Senator Rubio had that fleeting moment with Chuck Schumer and the gang of eight way back when they thought that securing him in their group, Republican Hispanic would help him and help sell the thing, and it just didn't work out that way.
Um, top my head, that will be that would have been what I would have said more than likely, but who really knows?
The moment has passed, but this has too.
Just getting warmed up here, folks, and abbreviated.
Busy broadcast week, Monday through Wednesday, live this week.
So we'll make it count even more so than usual.
Hang in there, be tough.
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