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Feb. 26, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 26, 2016, Friday, Hour #2
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This is not going to make Kasich happy, folks.
This is not.
I think I think we can expect fireworks.
There's a Fox debate Thursday.
Next Thursday.
I think it's next Thursday.
Yeah, it's next Thursday.
So I well, I'm convinced Kasich was hanging in there for a vice presidential nod from Trump.
Not Rubio, but now that now that uh Christie has joined the team with Sarah Palin.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Anyway, great to have you here, Rush Lindball behind the golden EIB microphone.
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So you have to you have to assume that Christie figures that Trump is going to be the nominee.
Right.
And then you have to figure Christie wants a job.
I mean, he'd love to be in the regime, the Trump regime, maybe VP, maybe uh attorney general.
But it's interesting.
When Trump looks possibly to be in trouble, and I I say that advisedly, because there are so many in the media who are so frustrated, you can't believe how frustrated they are that nobody's taken Trump out.
That no they have, and it hasn't mattered.
And they're all upset that candidates haven't gone after Trump, and they're so excited that it finally happened last night, and they're worried that it's too little, it's too late, but they're hoping, they're hoping this means this is the implosion everybody's been waiting for.
This is the moment of explosion of blow up that we've all been waiting for.
Trump was exposed last night.
So many of them are thinking it, so many writing it, so many hoping it, so many saying it.
And the minute Trump appears to be in trouble, here comes Christie to endorse.
And so here you've got you've got you got two fighters, you've got two no B.S. guys, got one from New York, got one from New Jersey.
Just gotta be careful, you know, that Trump's gotta make sure we get to October to keep Christie away from Hillary.
That's the only potential.
Well, I'm just intelligence guided by experience.
And other than that, it could be uh could be smooth sailing.
800-282-2882, as I say here, let's go back to the audio sound bites, because there's a lot from last night that we want to get into and react to.
Uh this is Trump professing his huge support and his qualifications for leading foreign policy, particularly uh with Israel and the Palestinians, the Middle East et al.
I was the Grand Marshal down Fifth Avenue a number of years ago of the Israeli Day Parade.
I have very close ties to Israel.
Uh I've received the Tree of Life Award and many of the greatest awards given by Israel.
As president, however, there's nothing that I would rather do to bring bring peace to Israel and its neighbors generally.
And I think it serves no purpose to say that you have a good guy and a bad guy.
Serves no purpose to say we've got a good guy and a bad guy, and both Cruz and Rubio just jumped on that and and asked and pointed out how in the world can you look at the Palestinians or Hamas or Hezbollah and Israel and see moral equivalence.
How can you not see there's a good guy and a series of bad guys in that arrangement?
How can you not see that one of these states is our ally and one of these states is the enemy of our ally and therefore our enemy?
I mean, they were just all over this.
And Cruz, in particular, the way he went after things Like this was to point out that in his life and his time in the Senate, uh, and even as attorney general Texas, he's been involved in all these things.
He's got a record on all of these things.
He's demonstrated what he will do.
He's demonstrated where he comes down on these things, he's demonstrated his toughness.
And in all of these things, he's got a he's got a single question.
Where was Donald?
You know, Donald says he opposes Obamacare.
He says he's going to overturn it.
Where was Donald when we were trying to stop it?
I didn't see Donald.
Donald wasn't anywhere.
When we're trying to save Israel, when we're trying to, you know, Trump Cruz made the point last night that when Obama slapped the no-fly uh cancellation of all flights into Israel during a particular moment of warfare.
That I was a guy.
I moved in.
I was the guy that spent days getting that ban lifted because it was destroying the Israeli economy.
I'm the where was Donald?
It was Cruz's question on everything Trump says he's for and everything that he will do.
Cruz will say, well, it these issues have been fought over for a long time, and I haven't seen Donald involved in any of it.
But I have been there.
And this is what I've done in those issues.
These are the ways I've led.
I don't care where it's Obamacare, whether it's Israel, uh planned parenthood, terrorism, whatever it is, I've been there, and nobody's seen Donald in any of it.
Rubio, when it came time to get on this, did much the same in terms of expressing incredulity that you can't look at Israel and the Palestinians and not see a good guy and a bad guy.
And the way Rubio dealt with it was to continue to mock and to uh to make fun of it.
So I think I know what Trump's doing here.
I I and I think we saw the beginnings of it in the South Carolina debate.
And I think some people it's not that people are making mistakes.
I'm not saying Cruz and Rubio are making mistakes, but it's clear to me that Trump is using the occasion of these debates now to reach beyond the Republican base.
The difference between him and Jeb, he's not trying to ignore the Republican base, and he's not trying to inflame it.
He's trying to add to it.
I think that's what his comments about Planned Parenthood are.
I think what the this aspects of Obamacare.
You know, when he slipped up and said he was in favor of the mandate and had to walk that back.
I think Trump is actually trying to upset the electoral map.
I think he's trying to turn states that are blue into red states, such as Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan.
And I think he's doing it by saying things that are intriguing to people on the left.
And you have to admit here, folks, when it comes to the Middle East, there are a lot of liberals that hate Israel.
That may be too strong.
There are a lot of leftists who are not automatically on Israel's side.
There are a lot of leftists, many Jewish leftists, like in Hollywood, who equate Israel with us in the sense that we are the big bad wolf.
We are the big, bad majority, and we've had our way.
And we've been running around stomping on small people and little people and minorities.
And it's about time we found out what it was like.
The Palestinians are the equivalent of a victim group in this country.
The Palestinians are victims of Israel.
Just like homosexuals or transgenders or women are victims of American majorities, Republicans, white men, what have you.
And I think that Trump, and remember, he's from New York.
It's uh this this culture, the leftist culture is not a stranger to him.
I think that he's shooting wide here.
I I think it it it offends people because these are Republican primary debates.
The assumption is that you're going to target the Republican base, and then after you secure the nomination, that's when you sort of, according to the conventional wisdom rules, that's when you moderate.
That's when you move left.
And Trump, I think, is getting a head start on that.
That's what I think is going on.
Because you have to know that saying things like it serves no purpose to say that you have a good guy and a bad guy in the Middle East.
I guarantee you, Trump does not look at it that way in the way he lives his business life.
He doesn't, he's he's trying to reach out and say things that will resonate with the leftists.
I think that's what the Planned Parenthood thing's all about.
And I can be he can he may actually like Plan Trent, I don't know.
Either way, he's not taking the standard ordinary conservative or Republican position on these things.
And he got hit for it for the first time last night.
He got hit for it, and he was made fun of for it for the first time last night.
So we will see.
We will see.
I think in the next debate, when this stuff continues to happen.
Were it me up there, I would think about pointing out what Trump may actually be doing here, and that is trying to reach across the aisle and appeal to some liberal Democrats with some of these things, and you know, openly say, I can't believe we have anybody in this country that looks at the Israelis and Palestinians and doesn't see a difference.
How do you not see good guy bad guy?
You can mock it and make fun of it, but there may there I don't think that there are just this is not incompetence on Trump's part on parade here.
This is not ignorance or the fact he's a political neophyte taking place here.
Now I mentioned also earlier that that John Kasich had um a couple things to say last night that just were frustrating just a little bit.
Um here's one of them.
They were talking about the individual mandate and health care and Obamacare.
And K Sink once again was say, well, look, you know, I'm the only guy up here that's ever done anything here.
I'm a governor, I'm a governor.
These guys are governor.
And we governors, we got we've got to work with people, we're gonna cross aisles, we're gonna solve things, we've got to get things done.
We just can't pass things off and say, we're gonna get things done.
I gotta get it done.
He's waving his arms and hands up there, and he announced a way to lower health care costs and talked about how he's doing it, they're doing it in Ohio.
And this sound bite is a fairly good example of what he was talking about.
We have a proposal, a plan that we're enacting now that says if you are a hospital or a doctor and you're providing very high quality at lower prices below the midpoint, some charge high, some charge low.
If you are below the midpoint, we are going to give you a financial reward for allowing you to provide services that result in high quality for our people at lower prices.
This is not a theory.
This is what we are actually doing in our state.
We will begin payments next year based on episodes that we have in our lives.
If our primary care physicians keep us healthy for a year with really high quality, guess what?
They will get a financial reward.
Okay, now I count three separate things that are giant red flags in that sound bite to me.
And I'm thinking most people watching debate last night didn't hear any red flags.
Um, certainly not the ones I saw, and might have, you know, this really sounds good.
Working together and helping people, and but here's the first thing I saw.
This arbitrary acknowledgement of the very high quality lower prices and in the midpoint.
You got high prices, lower pricing at the midpoint.
Some charge high, some charge low.
So with the doctors.
And if you're below the midpoint, we're gonna give you a financial reward.
So A government still is involved in this.
I mean, as in as as they are involved in it now.
But now they're picking winners and losers, and now they're gonna tell these doctors look, if you come in and you charge below our arbitrarily set midpoint, you come in and charge less, we're gonna give you a financial reward.
I think most people applaud that.
That's I don't.
What where's this financial reward coming from?
And how does that end up saving money?
Who pays for the financial reward?
Taxpayers do.
What is the financial reward?
What kind of incentive is it?
What's the point here?
This is just, it's it's not quite a Ponzi scheme, but it's it's it's robbing Peter to pay Paul.
What is this financial reward to keep prices low?
It's so somebody can say, I got the prices down.
Look what our prices.
And over here, you're gonna fill them up with a back pocket in the back end that nobody sees with an amount nobody knows.
But it's still government doing everything, and it's still government dictating and influencing the market, which is not going to result in actual prices being lowered.
It's all being made to be artificial.
And the key to that is the next word.
If you're below your doctor, if you're below the midpoint, we're gonna give you a financial reward for allowing you to provide services.
Spoken like a true authoritarian for allowing you to provide services at a lower price.
We are going to provide you with a reward after we've allowed you to provide service.
And then the last thing, if our primary care physicians keep us healthy for a year with really high quality, guess what?
They'll get another financial reward.
It's up to the doctors to keep you healthy for a full year with really high quality care.
You have nothing to do with it.
As far as the government's Ohio is concerned, it's somebody else's job to keep you healthy.
And if they do it for a high full year, then they're gonna get a reward.
What are you gonna get?
I don't know.
Continued access to insurance, coverage, or what the bottom line to me is what I heard in this answer is more and more government deciding more and more, affecting more and more, under the guise of doing just the exact opposite, which it can't possibly do.
We'll be back here.
You gotta handle it to hand it to Trump.
He's changed the narrative, folks.
I mean, this morning it was all Rubio, and it was all making fun of Trump and how successful Rubio and Cruz had been.
And that's all gone.
It's been replaced by Chris Christie has endorsed uh Trump.
Press conference just concluded.
Uh Christie's approval number, New Jersey.
Last I looked, was it 29?
I'm sure that's not a factor here in the decision making that's gone on, but it has changed the narrative.
I mean, it's done it pretty quickly.
These are not rank amateurs on the Trump side.
It's a mistake that people have made from the outset of this.
One of many.
Jeremy in Phoenix, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Ditto, Josh.
Thanks for taking my call.
I first want to tell you why I'm voting for Donald Trump.
Okay.
I started listening to you in 1990.
I got a job with a painting contractor.
I thought I was a Democrat, thought I was a liberal.
I started listening to you, and I thought, wait a second, that's me.
I went ahead and finished college, got a degree in political science, and started my company.
My point is my entire political awareness life, I've been listening to you.
We have allowed politicians and the ruling class to run this country for however long you want to say, 200 years.
They've run it into the ground.
We are 19 trillion dollars in debt.
If someone ran my company into the ground, I wouldn't hire Marco Rubio.
I wouldn't hire Ted Cruz.
I'd hire Donald Trump.
Those men looked like toddlers pulling at the pant leg of an adult last night.
We need an adult to run this country.
Now I'm a conservative.
And if I want to sit around and talk about ideas about immigration or this or that, I can do that and get along with those guys.
But one thing really upset me last night.
When Marco Rubio thought he had a gotcha question on Donald Trump for hiring illegal aliens, I wanted to scream.
Who do you think hires illegal aliens?
People like me.
Businessmen, drywalls, Painters.
Cement people.
So what you're saying is that unwittingly, Rubio actually ended up hurting himself by mocking this whole thing.
Who framed his house, Rush?
What was that?
Who put the roof on?
Who cut his grass?
Now I'm all for immigration.
Take them all away, round them up.
I'd be out of business for about a week, but I'm an American and I will survive.
We need to be a good one.
Hang on just a second though.
Are you you you're are you validating now supporting the whole concept of illegal immigration because they're good at at certain jobs and at certain I don't think it matters what Trump says right now.
When Obama was running, we prayed for a candidate that it wouldn't matter what he said.
Well, there you have it.
Folks, right there, I it doesn't matter what Trump says.
I don't know how you do battle with that.
Seriously.
Not putting down the caller, do not miss a Well yeah, that's true.
Lady last night on the uh the moderator.
Again, her name was Maria Celeste Arasa.
And she only asked one question of everybody.
And it really wasn't a question.
She'd make a speech about Hispanics and illegal immigration and how they go together and how they're inseparable, and then say, Don't you get it?
And then the candidate would answer.
She get frustrated, go to the next candidate and repeat her claim.
This woman had her questions went longer than the allotted 30 seconds the guys got to answer.
So he's going on and on about illegal immigration and Hispanics and how they're inseparable, how they go together.
And then the next candidate, she'd say, Doesn't he get it?
Don't you get it?
But there's one thing that did happen because of Maria Celeste Araza and speaking Espanol last night, and that is she confirmed an allegation that Cruz has been making about Rubio, that he says different things to different audiences about amnesty and the gang of eight bill.
And it was it we it was kind of in the weeds, at least it was to me, because the the captioning couldn't keep up with it.
And uh everybody was speaking pretty quickly last night.
But that was the upshot of it.
She ended up demonstrating whether she intended to or not, that Cruz has been accurate in his attempt to get people to understand that Rubio is saying two different things depending on the audience.
Uh when he's speaking to Spanish to an Hispanic audience, he is saying what he thinks they want to hear when it comes to gang eight and and amnesty, and he's uh much more uh shall we say, understanding, maybe even supportive of it, than when he is speaking to an English uh language audience.
Here is May in Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
Great to have you.
You're next on open line Friday.
How can we help you?
Yes.
Um I'm calling because I think that Republicans have one last chance to expose Trump, and that is a guy called Rush Lindbaugh, all the rest of today, and all of Monday, you know Donald Trump better than any single pundit or person that's making claim.
You tell him to put his taxes out there.
So what if it's being audited?
They're done.
You call him on hiring illegal people to work for him.
That is all I asked.
But I do beg you to do that.
All right.
I I think are you do you have your radio on uh May?
Yes, sir, I do not.
Well, what do we hear is your TV on?
No, I'm in the Comcast office.
I was I was uh holding for a little over an hour, and I I finally figured if I see maybe I'll get on the phone.
But I'm walking outside, not left comcast.
No, no, that's that's what that would explain why you're frustrated.
You're at the cable office.
No, I'm not frustrated about the cable.
I mean, yeah, that's inherently frustrating, but I mean, I just walked away from the guy that was helping me.
I'm now back in my car.
And I am begging you to expose this guy that you know probably better from playing golf with him, which there's nothing wrong with that.
But I am afraid that the world is laughing at us.
They're laughing at these cage fights we call debates.
We don't we seem to have forgotten what Robert's rules are.
We insult each other.
We don't have a real debate on the issues, it's sound bites.
And the winner is the guy who can talk the loudest.
Insult people.
You know, May, you actually are onto something even more than you know.
And that is the what I would call it the centration or the uh the Swiss cheesing of our culture in general.
It's not just these debates.
Uh it's it's they are exemplary or or an example of the of the decay that's happening culturally, and you know, trying to pinpoint when and where this happened is impossible.
I mean, depending on who you talk to, you could you could talk to somebody my age who's 65 who would tell you it's been happening their whole life.
Others would try to pinpoint a time where it was okay, but then finally it reached a point where it's been on downhill uh trends since then, and they would pick a time in the 60s, maybe or 70s.
But here's an interesting uh if you look for reasons why these debates happen the way they do.
You mentioned the word sound bites.
One of the best ways to explain what is happening and why would be to explain what has happened to late-night television.
Johnny Carson doing the tonight show today as he did it then would be in last place.
What determines the success or failure of a late-night talk show is not what happens on the late-night talk show.
It's what of the content of the late-night talk show can be turned into a Twitter or Facebook or social media clip the next day that goes viral that ends up promoting the program.
Therefore, people that now write, produce, and host late-night programs are actually looking for content that can be promoted in 25, 30-second little video clips that goes viral the next day somewhere in social media.
And that's how the programs get promoted.
Now, in the old days, it was nothing but the content of the show in total that determined its reputation and determined how it attracted and held an audience.
You may have heard that, and you or you may have read, where the uh replacement for Letterman, Stephen Colbert, is having lots of trouble.
His ratings are falling or have fallen.
They're not even where Letterman's were, and there are people worried about it.
And the reason being given is that nothing happens on that show that's worthy of tweeting the next day.
Nothing happens there that's worthy of promoting on social media.
And the supposed king of this is Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show.
The supposed king of creating little bits that end up being promotable as 30-second video clips or what have you the next day or later that night than into the next day on social media determines the buzz that these shows get.
Well, Johnny Carson didn't put the tonight show together with that in mind.
He had an entirely different attitude about content.
His writers and everybody had a totally different objective.
They had to do A great 90-minute or 60-minute show every night.
They had to sweat and slave over the guests they were going to have.
But the segments themselves, yeah, the segments had to be funny, but it wasn't that they had to be tailored for an entirely different medium, which is what's happening now.
So the trend toward insult, making fun of, mocking.
The trend toward sound bites has been happening for quite a while.
And we've been compressing and compressing.
Twitter is 140 characters.
30 seconds max attention span for one of these viral bits from a late night show the next day.
And even prime time TV programs.
You know, a typical 42-minute program with 18 minutes of commercials.
They are written and produced that you can take a 30-second clip and circulate it around that suffices is telling everybody what happened on the show in the 42 minutes to get them to watch the whole thing or to buy it or to rent it or what have you.
And these things just start evolving.
And so when you get to a political campaign like this, I mean, look, this is I could argue that our politics hasn't been about substance since Bill Clinton.
It's been about showbiz.
It's been about how do you feel.
It's been a feel your pace, but about all kinds of things that have nothing to do with substance.
Barack Obama would have never seen a light of day.
This is what constantly bugs me when I'm forever pleading with people to understand liberalism.
That substance.
You've heard my lament.
If people understood liberalism, we wouldn't even be in this mess.
They would never get elected if people really understood.
That's why I blew a gasket earlier this week when I was talking to the lady from Brentwood, Tennessee, who told me we got to go back into what Reagan did.
Reagan brought people together.
Unity argument, 1980.
That's not what have we weren't unified.
But what did happen?
We had the greatest economy.
We had more full employment.
We had the creation of wealth.
We had a reduction of government.
We had the reduction of interest rates.
Everything good was brought down the Soviet Union, and people lived through it and still were able to be talked out of it.
Four years later, they were able to be talked out of it, cast it aside, and go back and join the Democrats.
And I had people explain, Rush, you just, you're too close to this.
You care too much.
This is not how people vote.
We had eight years of Reagan, four years of Bush.
People want to change.
And I have to admit, that's probably right.
They just want to change.
You get tired of the same group of people being in power.
Republicans here, time for Democrats.
Give them a chance.
But I think it's more involved in that because of the media and so forth.
But the 80s were a period of great fear for the Democrat Party and the American left because it was demonstrated then that everything they believe in fails, just like it's being demonstrated now that everything they believe in fails.
But the solution now is not to get rid of what they're doing.
People today have been made to believe it's still all the fault of George W. Bush, all this stuff going on.
Middle East, Iraq war, economy, recession.
Yeah, it's Bush's fault.
Obama hadn't been any good at fixing it, but it isn't his fault, people think.
All of this is very frustrating, not just to you, frustrating to me too, folks.
If you wanted substance last night, I told you early on in the program, you got it.
You got a lot of substance last night in Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz was nothing but substance.
Everything that came out of his mouth was solid, dead center, 100% substance.
The news of the day was Rubio, laughing and mocking, make fun of Trump and the lines he got in and the jokes that he was able to uh crack and this kind of thing.
You can sit there all day long and complain about the way things are, and it isn't gonna change the way things are, and it's not gonna help you.
You have to be able to adapt to the way things are and be able to survive and get your message out and achieve what you want within the boundaries that have existed.
You can include in your uh desires changing, you know, let's let's let's change the culture, let's improve it, let's stop the rot.
I totally support that.
But at the same time, you can't succeed by just standing up and complaining about it.
Not that anybody is, but it won't change anything.
So I, you know, it's it's um it's a real challenge here to find your way in uh in in all of this.
And when it gets like this, people always just fall back.
American people are just so stupid.
Damn it, they're just idiots.
I don't know what we can do.
It's it's maybe some one of a factor, but it's not it's not uh totally explanatory.
There's an all-out assault on our dominant culture.
There has been for years, and the assault is winning.
It's working.
I was watching Fox this morning, and there were people complaining about all the swearing that's going on now.
They talked about Vicente Fox, he's dropping the F bomb.
Talking about Trump and building the wall.
And people on Fox and people in Fox.
I don't remember world leaders ever talking that way before.
It's just I don't this is and then George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, they never talk that way never.
That's true.
Not publicly, privately they did, don't doubt me.
But publicly they didn't.
Here's Vicente Fox.
He's gonna build an effing wall.
And then Trump responds by basically saying effing again and then condemning it and so forth, but it's out there.
And it is changing.
There is all kinds of changing rhetoric and stature and and uh deportment comportment.
And it seems like everything's crumbling out there.
Anyway, I take a break here.
I'm way long, folks.
I'm sorry.
The next segment's gonna be shorter than usual, but now you're gonna lie.
Donald Trump is in Fort Worth.
He's appearing before what appears to be thousands and thousands of people, and he's just destroying Marco Rubio.
He's telling a crowd, and the crowd is rabid.
The crowd is going bonkers.
And he's telling the crowd he has never seen somebody be taken apart like Christie tore Rubio apart.
I actually felt bad.
I thought Rubio was gonna die.
I thought Christie had killed him.
Kid, he's standing there, you can barely see him shrieking.
Christie, it was just it was a great thing, but man, did I feel sorry for the guy?
The kid, it was almost like he just wanted to jump in a swimming pool with his clothes on and vanish.
That's how bad it was.
I've never seen, and the crowd is roaring.
And we led the program today with a 30-second soundbite of Rubio in Fort Worth, maybe Dallas would have mocking and making fun of Trump and reading his tweets and so forth.
And this is how quickly these narratives can change.
Anyway, here's uh here's Mike in Richmond, Indiana.
Great to have you open line Friday.
Hello, sir.
Hello, it's a privilege to speak with you, and I appreciate you.
Take my phone call.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, two reasons that I believe if Trump is a Republican candidate that the Democrats will win the election.
First reason, which you touched on briefly, was how is he going to be able to attack Hillary for what she's done in the past when he supported her by giving her money?
And the second, which I think is the most damaging, is I the mainstream media wants Trump to be the Republican candidate.
They know he's got enough skeletons in the closet that they're going to attack him from every angle.
And if he thinks the Meghan Kellen Kelly question was rough, wait till he's the Republican candidate, and the mainstream media starts asking him questions.
I don't think Trump's under any illusion.
Look, McCain back in uh in in 2008, actually believed the media was on his side.
McCain actually thought the media was going to vote for him and promote him.
I don't think Trump's under any illusion here to the media like him.
I think he's fully aware the media is going to try to destroy him.
And my guess is he'll probably be destroyed or prepared rather for whatever Hillary throws at him, at least uh whatever.
But I understand it was one of Ted Cruz's primary points last night.
That, you know, we've already done this.
We nominated Romney, we nominated a guy who could not attack the main reason we wanted to send Obama packing, that's Obamacare.
We couldn't do it because Romney wrote Obamacare.
First stage of it called Romney Care.
So we took it off the table, and Cruz's point was we're doing the same thing here with with Trump.
We can't go after Hillary for any of her corruption because Donald's donated to it.
That was the point he was making last night.
So, anyway, folks, we got another thing of the prime timeout.
I told you the segment was going to be short because I went a little long in the uh in the previous one.
And appreciate your patience and your indulgence, and we will be back.
Well, Trump just got through praising Ted Cruz.
Smart guy, tough guy, Rubio.
He's a choker.
Not very smart.
Cruzy, tougher guy, tougher guy.
Anyway, this is uh it's an on-fire, electrifying appearance that Trump has going in uh in Fort Worth.
We'll be back, folks.
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