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I went back.
I wanted to find this quote that Trump talking about loving the poorly educated.
I wanted to find the entire quote.
And you know this quote, I'm going to read it to you here.
And I'm sorry if you think this is Trump promotion.
It's not.
I'm actually promoting myself.
I'm using this as an example of confirming things I've already said.
Everybody's puzzled why people support Trump.
They see Trump as this blustery, braggadocious oaf who's running around stepping on people and insulting people, but that's not how his supporters see him.
I have gone, I've gotten hoarse explaining this to people.
It's no different than trying to explain the bond.
You know, all these people, why aren't you hitting Trump?
Why aren't you trying to destroy Trump?
Trump's survivors because you won't go ahead and hit him.
You can't.
That's not the way.
If you want to defeat Trump, you're not going to do it by insulting him or his voters.
You're just going to drive them closer together.
Now, here's what Trump said.
It was after his win in Nevada.
He said the following, quote, we won with young.
We won with old.
We won with the highly educated.
We won with poorly educated.
I love the poorly educated.
We're the smartest people.
We're the most loyal people.
And you know what I'm happy about?
Because I've been saying it for a long time.
48%, let's talk about Nevada, 48% people voted me were Hispanics.
46%.
46%, number one with Hispanics.
I'm really happy about that.
So I'm very proud of you.
This is an amazing night.
I love the country.
I love the country.
That's Trump humble before and to his supporters.
People don't see humility in Trump.
The people outraged by him, the people that can't believe he's winning, the people that can't believe reasonable people would support him.
They don't see any of this.
They only see what scares them, what frightens them, what angers them, and they think everybody else should.
But Trump signals directly to his supporters often that he is deeply appreciative.
Now, this, we won with the highly educated, we won with the poorly educated.
He's simply acknowledging he loves them too.
I mean, they were surveyed.
The exit polls sampled the people that voted and they qualified them.
Certain levels of education, income, as they always do.
And in the group of people that did not have a high school diploma, Trump won.
He referred to them as poorly educated, not stupid.
He referred to them as poorly educated, not ignorant, or dumb.
He was not insulting them, and he was not calling them low information.
He was praising them.
And they heard that.
I'm just telling you that if you're trying to separate Trump from his voters, you are going to, it's an impossible road because he's the only guy that can do it.
He built the bond.
He created it.
Nobody else did.
He's the only guy that can bust it, can break it.
So the path for Cruz is who we're talking about here, has got to be outside the Trump universe.
And according to all the data, there's plenty of them.
If you add up all these people not voting for Trump, it's more than 50%.
So there's plenty of people there for Cruz to target.
Some of them still voting Rubio, some of them still voting Kasich.
Some still want to vote Ben Carson.
But they're there.
And that's where he ought to go.
Now, to the Democrat debate last night, this is interesting.
Jorge Ramos.
Jorge Ramos.
You know, for all the criticism we've had of this little guy here, he went both barrels at Mrs. Clinton last night and ticked her off.
Now, I know some of you think it was probably a setup.
And I don't blame you.
You have been wisely conditioned by brilliant people to suspect everything that Democrats do as staged and orchestrated, including things like this, including a setup where Jorge Ramos appears to go after her on her emails and appears to ask her about being indicted.
And she then gets angry and frustrated and shows that she's not going to take it.
And that's supposed to all redound to her benefit.
But even so, and I don't know what the audience for this was, but even so, it was brought up.
He did ask these questions.
In fact, some of the headlines here, Jorge Ramos corners Hillary on claims she lied to families of Benghazi.
Clinton asked about potential indictment during debate.
Won't say if she would drop out if indicted.
So here we go.
First soundbite.
Jorge Ramos.
Who's specifically gave you permission, Mrs. Clinton, to operate your email system as you did?
Was it President Barack Obama?
And would you drop out of the race if you get indicted?
It wasn't the best choice.
I made a mistake.
It was not prohibited.
It was not in any way disallowed.
And as I've said, and as now has come out, my predecessors did the same thing.
And many other people in the government.
But I am not concerned about it.
I am not worried about it.
And no Democrat or American should be either.
The questions were, who gave you permission?
You agree.
Mr. President Obama.
There was no permission to be asked.
It had been done by my predecessors.
It was permitted.
If you get indicted, will you drop out?
Oh, for goodness.
And it's not going to happen.
I'm not even answering that question.
Oh, you see how irritated she got?
Now, some people think the whole thing's a setup here.
Jorge's second question was perhaps overshadowed there by the applause.
But he says, Secretary Clinton, the questions were, who gave you permission to operate the server?
Was it President Obama?
She says, I didn't need any permission, you idiot.
I didn't need any permission.
I'm Hillary Clinton.
I don't have your permission for anything.
It was done by my predecessors.
It was permitted.
And I think right there is where her out is, because we know that John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, had his own server.
We've learned that other Democrats did.
If she has it out, I don't want to jump the gun here.
And then Ramos comes back.
If you get indicted, would you drop out?
Oh, for goodness sakes.
But it's the first time she's been asked because Crazy Bernie won't go there.
Crazy Bernie has still chosen not to explore any of that for whatever reason.
But she did.
She refused to answer it, and she acted so above it.
How dare you?
How dare you ask me that?
Like, don't you know what we're doing here?
Don't you know that you're supposed to win this nomination?
Don't you know you're supposed to look like a supporter?
Don't you know you're supposed to set me up to look good?
What do you mean asking me that?
That was the look on her face as she answered that question.
Karen Tumblety of the Washington Post was also one of the moderators said, Secretary Clinton, a Washington Post poll just yesterday found that only 37% of Americans consider you honest and trustworthy.
Now, when you've been asked about this in the past, you've said that this is the result of many, many years of Republican attacks on you.
But Americans have also had more than 25 years to get to know you for themselves.
Is there anything in your own actions and the decisions that you yourself have made that would foster this kind of mistrust that people have for you?
Obviously, it's painful for me to hear that.
And I do take responsibility when you're in public life, even if you believe that it's not an opinion that you think is fair or founded.
You do have to take responsibility.
I am not a natural politician, in case you haven't noticed, like my husband or President Obama.
So I have a view that I just have to do the best I can, get the results I can, make a difference in people's lives, and hope that people see that I'm fighting for them.
What does that mean?
I'm not a natural politician like my husband or President Obama.
What does that mean?
That's exactly right.
That's exactly right.
It means I'm not as good a liar as my husband.
I'm not as good a liar as President Obama.
Can't fake sincerity like they can.
When I don't care about you, I don't care about you.
I can't act like I do care about you like they can.
When I think you're a stupid fool and need to be put in jail for asking me that question, that's what you're going to know when you look at my face.
I'm not capable of smiling at you when you ask me if I'm going to get indicted.
I want to put you in jail.
So, no, I'm not as natural a politician as my husband, who, by the way, cannot draw flies.
They had to cancel another Bill Clinton event somewhere out in Kansas City or something because nobody showed up.
Take from that whatever you want.
Jorge Ramos, the question Benghazi.
He cornered her on claims that she lied to families of Benghazi.
Here is the question.
And I'll tell you what, you know, you might think that this is all set up and Hillary knows it's coming, but I don't know.
This is.
I haven't heard any other Democrat reporters or moderators ask her about Benghazi like this.
On the night of the attacks in Benghazi, you sent an email to your daughter, Chelsea, saying that al-Qaeda Lie Group was responsible for the killing of the Americans.
However, some of the families claim that you lied to them.
Here's Pat Smith, the mother information officer, Chan Smith.
Let's listen.
Hillary and Obama and Benetta and Biden and all of Susan Rice all told me it was a video when they knew they knew it was not the video.
And they said that they would come and let me know what the outcome was.
Do you recall ever having heard a drive-by media reporter challenge Hillary Clinton this way?
And then have you ever recalled a drive-by media reporter actually playing audio from Miss Smith for Hillary Clinton to react to?
Do you hear those audience booze when Jorge's asking the question?
What do you think that means?
They're ticked off that this came up because they know this is bad news and they think Jorge's on their side.
They think Jorge is in a tank for Hillary and he's not supposed to be asking this kind of stuff.
They're booing him for bringing this up.
He's not there to make her look bad.
They don't understand it.
Remember this is what is this?
Univision?
That's Jorge's network.
The audience here was a lot of people that watched Univision, Jorge fans.
So Jorge's getting booed off the stage during it, but he hung in there.
And then they played the Pat Smith video.
And everybody knows that Hillary lied to her.
Hillary and Obama, she's right.
Everybody lied.
They lied knowingly for weeks that it was a video on the internet that caused what happened in Menghazi when it wasn't.
They knew the night of the event it wasn't the video.
The whole thing was made up.
So they played a clip of Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, and then Ramos comes back and says, Secretary Clinton, did you lie to them?
I certainly can't even imagine the grief that she has for losing her son.
But she's wrong.
She's absolutely wrong.
At the time I emailed with my daughter, a terrorist group had taken credit for the attacks on our facility in Benghazi.
Within 16, 18 hours, they rescinded taking credit.
They did it all on social media.
And the video did play a role.
We have captured one of the lead terrorists, and he admits it was both a terrorist attack and it was influenced by the video.
This was fog of war.
This is complicated.
This is such BS, I feel like using the full word.
This is such a crock.
She is lying through her teeth on this.
So now the terrorist group, which claimed credit and then rescinded it?
When have you ever heard of that?
By the way, we rescind credit for the suicide bombing at Benghazi.
We did not do it after the saying we did.
It is now the video that made us mad.
You ever heard anything like this?
So the terrorist leader who becomes the source authority, that's who Mrs. Clinton has to rely on to bail her out of this?
Oh yeah, the terrorist leader.
He said it was both a terror attack.
But the terror attack was inspired by the video.
They had not seen the video.
They are still lying about this.
This lie was created to protect them in the 2012 reelection.
Here we are four years later and they're still lying about it.
And I was not going to let this show end without you hearing that today.
Now, Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders hit a home run.
He's very proud of his finish in Michigan.
The polls were wrong.
They were 27 to 37 points wrong.
Karen Tumulty, Senator Senators Sanders, you have demanded that Secretary Clinton release the transcripts of her paid Wall Street speeches.
Why is that important?
You have reason to believe that she says one thing in private and another in public?
When you got paid $225,000, that means that that speech must have been an extraordinarily wonderful speech.
I would think that a speech so great that you got paid so much money for you would like to share it with the American people.
So I think she should release the change.
Secretary said, well, she will do it if other people do it.
I will do it.
I didn't give any speeches.
There is no transcript.
That's a great point.
Hey, if everybody released their speech transcripts to Wall Street guys, I'll release mine.
And Bernie.
I've never been invited to give a speech to Wall Street.
Everybody knows what's going on.
She's going to Wall Street and she's praising them.
They're paying her $2.25 million and not because she's interesting and not because she's fun to have a drink with.
It's just the opposite.
They're paying her a quarter of a million dollars to come in there and say wonderful things to them about their business and then they're paying her money for influence later.
And Bernie knows it and everybody knows it.
Not going to matter at the end of things, but it's important for people.
Look, these are the ultimate opponents here when all this is said and done.
This is who we're going to be up against, and they haven't changed.
They're just as radical.
They are just as big, if not bigger, liars than they've always been, and it serves us well to keep that in mind.
Be back up.
Here is Norman Toledo.
Norm's been waiting a while.
Toledo, Ohio.
It's great to have you on the program, Norm.
Hi.
Thank you very much.
And Mega Mule Skinner dittos to you from Toledo.
Thank you, sir.
And by the way, hats off to Mr. Sterdley.
He's a great gentleman.
I appreciate you saying so, sir.
Okay, what I wanted to say is get back into this Trump-Cruz debate of who's conservative and who isn't.
The intelligentia, it doesn't matter if Trump gets elected or is the nominee or gets elected president or if Cruz gets elected president, the Congress is going to do the same thing to either one of them.
They're going to actually have to go back to work and do something, so it's not going to benefit Cruz or it's not going to benefit Trump.
Well, you know, that's very shrewd of you.
I actually made a similar point yesterday to a panicked caller, as opposed to you, Norm, who are not panicked.
You are calm, cool, collected, and reserved.
And I applaud you for that.
But we had a panicked caller yesterday who tried to tell me that Trump is no different than Obama.
Obama is an authoritarian doing executive orders for his far-left-wing radical stuff.
But Trump's the same guy.
I'm listening to Trump.
He's going to do all this.
He's going to make Apple do that.
He's going to make Oreos do that.
He's going to bisco.
He's going to make Ford do that.
He can't do that without Congress.
And I said, it's time everybody understands something.
The only reason Obama has gotten away with his authoritarianism.
Well, not the only, but I mean, a major reason, hadn't had any opposition.
Republican Party, this was the second thing I was trying to tell you that the media people.
The reason is Republican Party's been paralyzed ever since January 2009.
Whether they have been paralyzed by media or a charge of racism because Obama's African-American or whatever, there hasn't been any stoppage.
There hasn't been any pushback.
There hasn't been any opposition.
And they have said they were not going to, other than when they lied to us in campaigns.
But when they've actually gone back to work, they have done nothing to stop Obama.
And in fact, in many areas, they've tried to join him.
Well, I guarantee you, Trump, if he gets elected as a Republican, Republican, you think Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer Pelosi are going to shut down?
They're going to sit back.
Oh, we can't criticize Trump.
He's the first orange-faced president we've ever had.
We can't oppose that.
They're going to stop Trump everywhere he goes.
They're going to try to stop Trump every single thing he does.
And on the cruise side, the Republicans are going to be trying to stop him along with the Democrats.
My point is that our system, when everybody plays, denies authoritarians most of the chances they have for success.
Obama's gotten away with it because there's no opposition.
No, I think he knows this way.
He goes, butler, valet, valet, this footman, second footman, hall porter, second hallporter, ladies' maid.
If you're going to go the whole aristocratic thing, I mean, I think that's the, what would you call it, the tree, the organ, the flowchart, right, for the household staff.
But the butler, some people call the butler the major domo.
The major domo would be in charge of virtually everything, including the butler.
But some people combine butler with major domo.
Well, nobody does it anymore.
But I mean, in the old days of the aristocracy, Phil Donahue had all this stuff.
He had a major domo in this stuff.
His major domo went public now and then a couple things.
Back when I first moved to New York, I didn't even know what a major domo was until I read that Phil Donahue was doing stuff.
So I said, what is this?
And I started looking into it, and that's how I. John in Mount Clemens, Michigan.
Great to have you with us on the EIB network today.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
I wanted to chime in on your original question back about an hour ago about the strategy that the establishment Republicans might use to steal the nomination from Donald Trump.
I agree with you.
There's some strategies, and you're talking about getting behind Cruz, but I think you're underestimating how tone-deaf the establishment Republicans are.
Let's just talk about congressional establishment Republicans.
And I always think of Mitch McConnell as the face of the establishment Republicans when I think of establishment.
That would be the smart strategy if you're going to try to do what you're talking about.
But they are so tone-deaf to the conservative movement that I think Kasich is their guy.
I think they're going to wait for Ohio, wait for the governor to win Ohio, and then somehow try to do what you're talking about and ride it into Cleveland.
That's what I think they're going to do.
They are so tone-deaf.
The last three times conservatives have handed them Congress, whether it was the 82 taking the Senate with Reagan, whether it was Newt Gingrich and the contract with America or the Tea Party and pushing back on Obama.
Would you agree with me that it's always been energized conservatives who have given them either the Senate, the House, or both?
Oh, yeah.
No question about that.
And then they turn around.
They're almost like some kid who takes over a business from hardworking moms and dads and then run it into the ground by disrespecting the customer base, not doing what they're supposed to do, and just being borish.
That's what these people remind me of.
And they're on the verge of doing that again.
Now, that was the point to answer agreeing with your strategy, which I do.
I just think that they are so tone-deaf that they think Kasich is the guy and they're waiting for Ohio.
Now, can I tell you why that logic is what solidified my support of Donald Trump?
Can I do that or not?
Yeah, but you do that, but I've lost you.
I need to go back to the very beginning of your call to find out what you're actually talking about here, because I think I want to dispute what you said about Kasich, but go ahead and make your point about Trump.
My point about Trump is that, listen, you know, we call your saying about low information voter and rhino Republicans and all the other monikers we put on people.
About six months ago, when I was thinking I was losing my mind because I was starting to support Trump, you said something on your show about conservatives like us and the concern we have on certain issues.
Let's use abortion as the leading issue of that, his position or his changing position.
And you said something about six or seven months ago, which is this.
Republican Congresses come and go, Senate and House, what's really changed?
What have they accomplished?
They say things that we want to hear, but what have they changed?
What's changed about Planned Parenthood since we find out that they're doing organ and tissue harvesting?
What has changed?
Go by the nearest Planned Parenthood and see if there's a sign out front saying defunded by Republican Congress.
You ain't going to find it.
So if Donald Trump has had mixed messages over 30 years on abortion and Planned Parenthood, what is the difference going to be?
But I do know what he says on immigration, on illegal immigration, what he says on how he's going to fight ISIS and unleash the American military, which I agree with, making free trade really free and fair trade.
All these things, I think he can accomplish.
What I want to call these conservatives who put these other issues in an area when nothing is being done by a Republican House and Senate, they're think tank Republicans.
They're living in a think tank.
Of course, I would want him consistent with everything else I believe is a conservative.
But look at the budget.
We've got a fiscal conservative.
Wait, wait, okay, hold it.
I know what you're saying.
You're using my own words, but you're making a connection that doesn't exist.
You are talking about the Republican Congress as though it's all conservative and that they're all phonies and that they never get done what they say they're going to get done.
And that's not right.
The conservatives are a minority in the House and they are a bigger minority in the Senate.
But they're going to remain that way.
And the people who leave the Senate and leave the House who block these things we want, if Trump is president, again, it comes back to the same pragmatic issue.
I agree with you.
There are people in that Congress who would love to do the things that we want to see done as conservatives, but it doesn't get done.
So with Trump coming in, I said this back in November when people were trying to understand why Trump, I was saying because people supporting Trump have given to think tanks, they've given to conservatism, and they're asking, where's the conservatism?
Yeah.
So we're on the same page there.
I don't disagree.
And you think after all these years of promises and good intentions, there isn't Planned Parenthood still fully funded.
There is no pushback on Obamacare.
I know the drill.
And you think Trump means it, and he's got the power to do it, and you want to invest in it.
And I'm not going to try to talk you out of that.
I think the big issues, the big issue that he talks about, the pushing back against terrorism and calling it what it is and immigration, those are the things I think he can accomplish and I think he can do.
Well, those are the things you have faith he's going to accomplish, and I'm not going to try to talk you out of it.
I know he's saying the right things that none of the others say.
Well, he said it when it wasn't popular.
See, that's the difference.
He didn't say it when it was popular.
He said it when it was not popular, and he was called everything and still is, from a fascist to a Nazi.
So, you know, you don't say things that are unpopular unless it's your plan to try to do them.
Right.
Okay.
That's still no, no, I don't have any dispute with that.
I mean, that's, of course, why Trump's where he is.
He's taking on these sacred cows, and he's giving people confidence that he means it and can do it simply by the force of his will, the force of his personality.
But I want to go back, your theory.
You were talking so fast I was unable to keep up.
Do you think that the Republicans, I know you don't want them to win you for Trump, but do you think, are you saying the conservatives' best chance is to rally around Kasich?
No, no, I think you are right.
I think their best chance is to rally around Cruz.
What I'm saying is the people who would broker such a deal and use that strategy are so tone-deaf and so stupid that I think they would do what you're saying, but they would choose Kasich as their water ball.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I see.
I see what you're saying.
You're saying that they will choose the wrong horse.
Well, yeah, because they dislike Cruz even more than they do Trump, really, because there's no doubt Cruz is a conservative.
And that scares them as much as Trump does, but in different ways.
But my theory is that Cruz, Kasich didn't have a prayer.
And you're saying they're so stupid that they would ignore that and still get behind him.
Okay, I understand that.
I can see why you would think that.
But I think that if there's any of that going, they're going to unify behind Cruz.
I think, following your train of thought, the biggest pothole in that road is that as soon as they have a chance, they'll sell Cruz out simply because he is conservative.
They can't help themselves.
That's just who they are and so forth.
But Cruz knows this.
He's as forceful as Trump is.
Just expresses it in a different way.
He's just as aware of what his obstacles are as Trump is.
You know, he may have a different way of expressing it and a different way of dealing with it.
Trump's is just bulletin at China shop.
I don't care.
Here's what I'm going to do.
And if you're with me, fine.
If you're in my way, I'm just going to run you over.
I'm going to leave you for the trash man.
And people cheer that because they're sick and tired of being lied to and misled and all that.
I totally get it.
I'm long again, which means it's another obscene profit timeout.
I don't know what's going to happen to the debate tonight.
I mean, who does?
Trump's out there promising to try to be more presidential tonight.
Rubio says that if he had to do it over again, he would not have gone negative on Trump, so he's going to be dialing it back.
We have CNN moderating, so, you know, whether they want to go nuclear tonight or not, we won't know until we see how the moderators are going to play it.
We do know that if Trump's attacked, I mean, by definition, he's going to so respond to it.
But Trump is going, he says he's going to be more presidential, which provides us an opportunity to see what that is.
So, as usual, we will have front-to-back, forward, and backward analysis of everything tomorrow.
Okay, folks, we have the Republican debate tonight on CNN.
What is it, 9 o'clock?
9 o'clock's when this thing starts with probably a two-hour pregame show.
Also on CEA.
I don't know who's moderating this tonight.
I haven't bothered to look into it.
But everybody says that they're going to dial it back and be a little bit more presidential, which usually means it's going to be a little more boring, but some people might find it more substantive.
We'll see how long that lasts.
But this is it for Marco Rubio, obviously, and maybe even Kasich.