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Nov. 30, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 30, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Okay, so what was your reaction when you heard that Carrier was going to keep a thousand jobs in the United States after talking to Trump?
What was your reaction?
I mean, you're standing up and cheering, right?
You say, My gosh, this is really happening.
I mean, this is just flat out cool.
Somebody campaigns on something that nobody else ever even tries to do and pulls it off even before he is inaugurated.
Greetings, my friends.
It's great to have you, Rush Linbo.
The left and the Democrats are continuing to spin out of control.
They do not know what has happened to them.
They are still, they are still blaming polls.
Nate Silver is the latest target for the Democrats.
Nate Silver didn't use the polling data correctly and misled Democrat voters.
I mean, they're just not.
Obama is out there.
He's gone to Rolling Stone magazine to complain about fake news.
Rolling Stone magazine just lost a lawsuit of something like seven million dollars about their fake rape story at the University of Virginia.
You know, an infobabe reporter made it all up and then blamed it on a source.
Well, the source may have made it up when the InfoBabe didn't question it because the infobabe wanted a story to be true, but none of it was true.
And yet there's Obama at Rolling Stone praising them as the kind of news media we need in order to get the country back on the right track.
A fake news story in Rolling Stone that's probably going to cost them more than seven and a half million dollars in damages.
And there Obama is complaining about fake news to one of their reporters.
And then he said that Hillary lost because the Rubes in Flyover Country watch Fox News.
If Fox News is on in all the bars, what did he say is Fox is in the bars and the restaurants?
Well, CNN's on in all the airports.
That's the only place people watch CNN, I think, is in the airports.
So he's out complaining.
He's talking to a to a company that's going to get sued for seven, or could have a judgment against for seven and a half million dollars running a fake story on rape.
And then once again falling out blaming Fox News for running fake news stories.
And he cited a story like Obama has banned the Pledge of Allegiance.
Uh you know, some of the people who are complaining about fake news are the same people who try to convince us that George Bush went AWOL for the Texas Air National.
I mean, this is incredible to watch this.
We are in the midst of a serious genuine meltdown of the superiorists at the Democrat Party.
I have a couple of things I want to bring to your attention today, too, along the same lines.
It's kind of in the weeds, though.
And I'm going back and forth myself over how much time, if any, to spend on it.
Essentially, there's a Harvard lecturer who has started he began writing in October.
And he was worried about the end of democracy if Trump were to win.
And he assured everybody Trump wasn't gonna win.
So we don't have to worry about the end of democracy right now, but we do have to worry about it because it's coming.
And he cited surveys of young people and their belief about the military running things if they're not working.
And there have been now two follow-ups to this since Trump won.
They are literally paranoid that the election of Trump means this is the end of the Constitution.
It is the end of democracy.
They have no idea what the Constitution, how the Constitution was threatened and violated in the past eight years.
They have had their agenda entirely repudiated, their president entirely repudiated.
It's probably safe to say they're not even a genuine national party now.
And before Trump is even inaugurating, he's making people forget them.
It is just stunning.
It is the kind of thing that people are waking up and seeing in the news, and just a few short months ago, I'm sure many of you thought none of this was ever possible.
It was it was a dream, it was an objective, it was something to look forward to and maybe get 10 or 20% of, but here we are, we're actually living it, and it is happening, and there's every reason for robust optimism here, and the Democrats are having trouble dealing with any of it.
And when they start lashing out and blaming people like Nate Silver or Fox News, hell, Frank Cesno.
You know, Frank Cesno teaches journalism now.
He's a former CNN anchor.
My memory of Frank Cesno, I'll just share this.
Frank Cesno used to be an anchor at CNN, and this is back during the Reagan years.
And the Soviet Union back then was not an economic power.
The media wanted it to be.
The Democrats wanted it to be.
They were a nuclear power.
They were a third world nation with a first world military.
But they couldn't feed their own people.
Anyway, this might have been post-Reagan.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think it was.
It was the 1990s.
Anyway, there was going to be a G8 summit somewhere.
And the Russians, the Soviets were not included in it because they were never an economic power.
And out of the blue one day, Gorbachev decided he's going to go.
Frank Cesno about had a baby on the air reporting it.
He was just so excited.
They must have done breaking news alerts, like Wolf Blitzer reported Bush's approval numbers in the 30s for five straight hours.
Brake Cesno went nuts over Gorbachev deciding to attend the G8 economics of it.
Mikhail Gorbachev.
Mikhail Gabrich.
I'll never forget it.
It was like the savior was coming to save the Western democracies.
Well, Frank Cesno.
Well, he made a speech at the George Washington University last night.
He now teaches.
He's the uh public affairs director, actually, at uh the George Washington University School of Media, and he was talking about the fears that some voters have about the Trump presidents is the snowflakes, the young students are showing up in his office in tears.
This is a serious issue.
It's one thing to have political division.
We've experienced that in the past when candidates have won and lost.
But it's another thing, and I have had students in my office in tears.
I have had students tell me that they have been called names that we do not accept as proper, acceptable discourse.
It's not about PC, it's about what we do and don't call one another and how we think of minds.
I'm sorry.
Sorry, folks.
Now, who do you think's responsible for this?
Here's the next Frank Cesno soundbite.
The way a lot of this is portrayed through the media, including CNN, certainly a lot of talk radio, whether it's Rush Limbaugh or Rachel Maddow and MSNBC is through the ideological prison.
And it's not as gentlemanly and womanly as this conversation here.
And it doesn't focus on compromise and consensus.
It focuses on conflict and the headbutting.
We just had an election.
Of course it's conflict and headbutting.
You have opponents, they're running for what uh is a considered a big prize, the presidency.
There's winners and there's losers.
You headbutt an election is not about building consensus.
It's not about focusing on resolving conflict.
But anyway, the students at this university are coming into his office and they're just that they're unable to uh stop crying.
Uh people are calling them names because they didn't like Trump or because they did like Hillary or what have you.
It's a meltdown, folks.
It is a meltdown that we're witnessing, and it's a meltdown that I don't think too many of you ever dreamed you would ever see.
I never believed you would.
You dreamed it, but I don't think you ever thought you would see it.
Let's just get to the news here.
Trump to announce carrier plant will keep jobs in U.S. This is the New York Times, a seething and very unhappy New York Times.
From the earliest days of his campaign, Trump made keeping manufacturing jobs in the U.S. his signature economic issue.
And the decision by Carrier to move 2,000 of them from Indiana to Meiko was a tailor-made talking point for Trump on the stump.
See, he didn't mean it.
It was just a talking point.
Trump was lying.
Trump had no intention of trying to save these jobs.
Trump was just making fools of the rubes that were supporting him.
But the next paragraph.
On Thursday, Mr. Trump and Mike Pence, Indiana's governor and the vice president elect plan to appear at Carrier's Indianapolis plant to announce that they've struck a deal with the company to keep roughly half of the jobs, that would be 1,000 of them, in the state.
According to officials with the transition team as well as with Carrier, Mr. Trump will be hard pressed to alter the economic forces that have hammered the rust belt for decades, but forcing carrier and its parent company, United Technologies, to reverse course is a powerful tactical strike that will rally his base even before he takes office.
So you see how the New York Times is looking at this.
Remember now who these people are.
These are leftists, these are doom and gloomers.
America's best days are behind us, and we just are wrapping up eight years of the best, the most competent, the most brilliant president ever.
And if he wasn't able to fix anything, nobody can fix it.
This is the mindset.
And at the New York Times at CNN, at the LA Times at NBC, it doesn't matter.
Obama's great.
And if Obama couldn't fix it, it can't be fixed because America's in the midst of a massive transformation, which includes a decline.
The smartest people Obama can find have been working on this via the stimulus plan and a number of things that can't happen.
That's why they say here.
Mr. Trump will be hard pressed to alter the economic forces that have hammered the rust belt for decades.
Why, well, if Obama couldn't do it, I mean certainly Trump can they start laughing.
So to them, the carrier deal, which saves a thousand jobs, is nothing more than a tactical strike that will increase the loyalty Trump's supporters have for him, but it isn't going to really mean anything, you see.
And this is how the left looked at things.
They look at things.
They give themselves away.
They don't really seek to accomplish much, but they want people to think they have.
So they report things or characterize things.
Now that's a brilliant tactical strike.
What a brilliant speech that was.
But it's all designed in the left to fool as many people as they can.
That's their game.
They can't be honest, so they have to fool people, and they largely fool people by telling them how much they care.
Well, you watch.
This is arrogant ignorance.
Mr. Trump will be hard pressed to alter the economic forces that have hammered the rust belt for decades.
No, they can be fixed.
The reason that they're broken is because we've had too much government run by people that don't know what goes on in the rust belt.
We've had academicians, we've had theoreticians, we've had all of these brilliant pointy head think tank people that never spent a day in the rust belt, much less in the private sector, opining from the faculty lounge or wherever they repose, claiming that, well, those days and those industries and those jobs, they're long gone.
We don't have any prayer.
It's just part of the transformation of America.
We must accept the decline and move on.
You watch.
The Commerce Secretary and the Treasury Secretary that Trump announced yesterday have promised 3% to 4% economic growth.
They damn well are going to fix the Rust Belt.
That's the whole point here.
They're going to lower taxes, they're going to come up with incentives to inspire a rebirth of the private sector economy.
That's what this is all about.
Domestic policy, anyway.
That's what the immigration policy is going to be about.
It's about reviving a moribund domestic economy, which the left has given up on.
They prefer the government running as much of the economy as they can anyway, because they think people in the private sector are the ones that don't know what they're doing, or they are cheats, or they are liars, or they scam people.
The only intelligent people are in the think tanks and in government in the faculty lounge, don't you know?
So the New York Times, I'll tell you what's going to happen here.
The Trump agenda is going to succeed wildly.
The Never Trumpers and the leftists are going to witness it and they're not going to know how to react to it.
And they're going to get even more out of control as Trump succeeds.
He's putting great people in these positions, folks.
He's putting people that know how to fix what's wrong.
He's putting people in there who know how markets work and are prepared to establish policies, which is largely going to be just getting government out of the way so that Markins can function.
On immigration, you know what they're going to do?
The first thing they're going to do, they're just going to start enforcing a law.
Do you realize the big difference that will make in immigration?
They don't need a new comprehensive immigration bill.
They just need some people, and Sessions is the guy to enforce existing law, which is not being done right now.
So the New York Times firmly believes that Trump, because Obama couldn't do it.
I mean, Obama tried to save the automobile industry, stimulus package, rebuilding roads and bridges and infrastructure.
And Obama really cared, cared about this more than we Republicans do.
And still we are stagnating with economic growth that doesn't even reach one percent.
We haven't had we haven't had two successive quarters with economic growth anywhere near even two and a half percent for eight years.
Because we don't have an administration, anybody knows how it works.
We got people in this administration who resent what is called a private sector.
They resent private business.
They can they consider people in private business to be cheats, scam artists, kill their customers, destroy the planet, that's how they look at them.
Trump doesn't, obviously.
But I just I'm gonna be patiently waiting for Trump's economic policies to pay off, which really are no more complicated than this.
You get rid of ridiculous and onerous regulations.
You get rid of roadblocks and obstacles that have been placed in the way by government.
Basically, you just get government out of the way and you turn the market to people who are incentivized by call because they're human beings to do well.
Just turn the market over.
Just markets work, let people run their magic, do their magic with them.
That's all it takes.
It's all we've ever said.
It doesn't take brilliant policies.
It doesn't take gobs and gobs of legislation.
It just requires government getting out of the way.
People will take care of their own self-interest.
Liberals don't trust that because to them self-interest is selfishness.
And that's not good because then liberal voters get screwed in their minds.
Because liberals haven't taught their voters how to be self-sufficient.
And this is just going to be, it is going to be it may even end up being a reenactment of sorts of the robust economic growth of the 1980s.
But against the backdrop of the media and the Democrats saying it's not possible, because if Obama couldn't do it, nobody else can do it.
Obama's the smartest, Hillary didn't win, she could have done it.
Trump's a boob, doesn't know what he's doing.
When it works, it's going to be juicy to watch these people's reaction.
Back in a second.
No, no, it's it's a major theme.
This is why I'm going to have to spend some time on this.
You know, I uh the cutting edge of societal evolution here.
What I say is if you if you listen regularly here, you're going to be aware of things before they hit the mainstream.
And I'm telling you that this whole theme, that democracy itself is imperiled, that the Constitution itself hangs in the balance because of the election of Donald Trump.
It started.
It started pre-election in the New York Times by a writer, a lecturer at Harvard, not a professor, a lecturer.
He has since written again with data to prove it, citing the surveys of young people who claim that they're not that concerned if democracy went by the wayside.
The clear effort here is to present the election of Trump And the people who elected Trump, not just Trump, but the people who elected him as a clear and present danger and threat to the very existence of our country.
You must keep in mind that the people trying to gin up this fear are the very people who have spent the last eight years trying to do just that.
They have been trying to subvert and subordin the Constitution.
They have been claiming publicly they were transforming America away from its founding.
Because our founding was unjust and immoral with racism and sexism and bigotry and homophobia and all of that.
And now they're back claiming that Trump poses this threat as do his voters, as does his voter base.
So I'm going to have to get it.
So I'll spend some time on it as we continue.
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Do you remember how all the experts at the Associated Press, the rest of the drive-by media said that Trump would never be able to stop companies like Carrier from moving to Mexico?
And they said that if he tried, he would be acting like a tin horn dictator.
I remember it very clearly.
They said presidents don't have this kind of power, they don't have this kind of ability.
Presidents can't browbeat these companies into doing things.
What did they think Obama was doing?
What do they think Macronyism is?
The argument here that probably is going to be raised, they're going to be people trying to poke holes here, and you're going to have people say, hey, by the way, make book on this.
You're going to see stories, well, Obama was already working on this.
Obama was already working on carrier.
Trump came along.
He's taking the credit for it as usual, but it was really Obama who did it.
There are going to be people who try to make that claim.
There will be others who will say that this is why we should need this why we need to be worried about Trump, because this is dictator type stuff.
This is a guy who went in there and was threatening an American corporation, threatening them with things.
And this is that's not empowered in the Constitution.
After eight years of Obama and his cronyism with CEOs from various companies like solar and wind, this is what happens.
This is one of the fears, by the way, that people had, if I may be blunt with you.
Obama opened the door to all of this.
Obama is the guy who paved the road that runs around the Constitution.
He did it constantly.
He did it with executive orders.
He did it by way of ignoring existing law, because Obama knew that nobody was going to hold him accountable.
The Republicans had announced they weren't going to impeach the Republicans, even Mitch McConnell going into this calendar year, even announced that they weren't going to try to stop anything Obama was going to try to accomplish legislatively because they didn't want to create any negative reporting for whoever their nominee was.
So Obama had smooth sailing this whole year.
He knew nobody was going to stop him.
Well, now, since Obama has paved the road, the road is still there.
And if Trump wants to take it, are the Democrats going to try to stop him?
It's like the filibuster in the Senate.
There's already, there's a senator from, I think it's Delaware, I could be wrong about this, a Senator Democrat who's already publicly lamenting what they did to make it harder for Republicans to stop Obama nominees.
Because now the shoes on the other foot.
It's come back to Biden.
The things they did now also apply to President elect Trump, making it easier for him to get his nominees approved.
And in this case, the Republicans have more votes than the Democrats had in the Senate anyway.
Obama got his people for the most part because Republicans stood down.
They had the uh the votes in many cases to stop Obama.
They just didn't want to Fight it for all of the reasons that we have discussed.
So anyway, the bottom line here, the upshot is that Trump announces carrier is going to keep half of the jobs that were going to move to Mexico here in Indiana.
And that's all people are going to hear.
And Trump is going to receive all kinds of credit, and this what people are going to say about this, particularly the people who live there and the so-called rust belt, but even people who don't.
They're going, this is going to validate their decision to support somebody from totally outside the political system.
The political system is made up like all giant organizations that have been together and operating for decades and decades.
The things that evolve out of major organizations like that, the things at the top of the list are we can't do that, can't do that.
No, can't do it that way.
No, no, no, he can't do that.
Those are the things that rise to the surface in bureaucracies.
Because bureaucracies have to lose their energy.
They lose their desire to accomplish things.
They don't have to.
They've got what they want.
They have their bureaucracy, it's untouchable, it's unassailable, they have their standard of living, they have their benefits.
You know, why rock the boat?
Why work hard?
And so the prevailing thing, I can't do it that way.
No, no, no, you can't do that.
No, no, no, no.
And that's the predominant attitude.
Here comes Trump, who doesn't know any of that.
He's not been in politics.
Trump would not be Trump if the area in which he worked featured as its identifying slogan.
You can't do it that way.
Or you can't do it, period.
Trump doesn't come.
He comes from a place where you can do what you want to do.
You cut you give it a shot, you try to accomplish whatever you think needs to be done.
You put the people around you to get it done.
And this is going to become obvious to people that the political system has become a standstill.
It has become a roadblock in and of itself.
And the carrier deal is as simple as anything to understand.
The way it's going to be seen is here's a guy who said during the campaign that he was going to try to keep these jobs in the United States, and even before elected, he did it.
That's all they're going to see.
They're not going to care about what ramifications might be involved in terms of the Constitution.
Did Trump literally have the power or not?
I mean, those are open-ended arguments anyway.
The idea that presidents can't control and can't try to persuade, I don't know where that comes from.
I mean, the worry is that they're going to become behave dictatorially and tell people like Carrier, well, if if you move those jobs, you go ahead, but we're going to make sure you pay taxes and tariffs out the wazoo.
Well, um there are objectives.
Trump wants to get them done.
He knows how he gets them done in his world, and he dot he is not of politics.
This is the this is the thing that the media and the Democrat Party is going to take the longest time learning.
They are going to continue to misunderstand Donald Trump.
They are going to misinterpret.
They're going to make major, major mistakes tactically, strategically, because they still do not know how to view Donald Trump.
They're trying to plug Trump into the existing political system that they designed and they developed.
And people in it, candidates, presidents, all have predictable roles to play with the media, with business, with the uh with Congress, and they're trying to plug Trump into that.
And Trump doesn't know that.
He doesn't know those rules, and he doesn't care about them.
He's not in this to succeed and dominate the political system.
He's in this, in his own words, to make America great.
And to him, the political system and all of these bureaucracies And all these people, you can't do that, you can't do it that those are the obstacles to him.
And he's finding ways around them.
And that's annoying as it can be to them, and very frightening that they can so easily be circumvented, that their system can be relegated such inconsequentiality.
I mean, Trump doesn't even need to be president to get this done.
But even with all of this evidence right in front of them, they're going to continue to misjudge and misunderstand who Trump is.
They're going to cover him.
The media is going to cover him in the standard ordinary way they cover all politicians.
They're going to announce him as success or failure within those parameters.
And he's not even going to be there.
They're going to continually misreport, misjudge.
He owns the media now anyway.
Donald Trump is the media with his tweets.
The New York Times and the rest of the drive-by media may not know it yet, that they are irrelevant.
They just spent the last year and a half trying to destroy Donald Trump.
How did it work out for him?
And they tried to destroy Trump the way they've succeeded in destroying every other political opponent they didn't like, most of them Republicans.
They threw everything they had at Donald Trump that they know to throw.
And they threw it in expert fashion.
And it just bounced off.
It wasn't as though Trump has Teflon and nothing stuck.
It was that it bounced off and boomeranged and came back and hit them between the eyes.
The people who threw the uh the ammo, whatever it was, the allegation.
And I think this denial that they're in, because of their desire for their system to remain superior and supreme, they're going to remain in this state of mind denial, which is going to continue to blind them about what they are up against.
And I can give you some examples of this, but unfortunately, my friends, another obscene profit timeout.
So we'll be back and continue after this.
Oh, hey, folks, I just remembered.
I meant to do this in the opening half hour of the program.
I left a caller hanging yesterday, again, because of the constraints of time.
Remember that there was a caller from uh my memory of South Florida, and she was very, very worried about Trump's tweet about flag burners.
And she was very – she was a Trump supporter, but this worried her.
Is he really going to do things like strip away their citizenship and put them in jail for a year for burning the flag?
And then she told me that all of her people on Facebook are just making fun of her for supporting this guy.
And I asked her point blank.
Do you forget what these people tweeting you and Facebooking you, forget about these people chatting, do you really think Donald Trump is going to strip the citizenship of people to burn the flag and put them in jail for a year?
No, okay.
Okay, that's all you need.
But then I ended the call and moved on, and I left her hanging, and I left all of you hanging, because she also wanted to know what I thought he was really doing.
And I don't think this is complicated, but if you don't if you're refusing to try to understand Donald Trump, as the Never Trumpers are and as the left is, and if you're not curious, if you really don't, if you just if you just want to try to continue to plug Trump into the standard operating political system that you've got, you're gonna forever be in the dark here.
The one thing that people on the left cannot do is laugh, particularly at themselves.
They have no nuance, they have no sense of nuance about humor.
To them, humor is insulting.
It's it insults minorities or people of some disadvantage here or there, and They just are incapable of laughter.
And I plainly will tell you what Donald Trump was doing.
And he may not even know it.
This may just be instinctive with him.
Sending out a tweet claiming to strip the citizenship of flag burners and maybe put them in jail.
Was to accomplish two things.
He was sending a message of how he thinks about it, what he thinks about people that do that, and more importantly, how much he loves America and its symbols.
The second thing he was doing was tweaking them.
He wanted more flag burning.
He wanted them to go out there.
He was tweaking them like I tweaked the media.
He was taunting them.
He wanted these extremist wacko protesters to get so mad they started burning even more flags because he knows that the more Americans, the more leftists start acting deranged and unhinged, the greater the benefit for him.
The more normal he looks, the greater he looks.
He was elected in large part because of these people and their behavior.
And I think he was trying to stoke more of it.
I think he was taunting them.
I think he was tweaking him.
I think he was daring them to go burn another flag.
I think he wanted them to go out there and create even more scenes like this.
Because he knows he benefits from it.
He just has this inner understanding.
Now, admittedly, I think this because it's what I would do.
It's how I've treated the left on this program ever since I've been doing it.
To the phones, we start here with Chris in San Francisco.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, thank you for taking my call.
Oh, I'm sorry.
It's a female.
I'm I didn't, I didn't know.
I'm sorry.
It's a female.
I'm calling to thank you for educating me.
I'm 50 years old my entire life.
I have voted Democrat, and embarrassingly in hindsight, I realized I just, election after election, voted Democrat, didn't know the issues, didn't know what was going on, didn't bother to learn anything.
And about 18 months ago, I started listening to you religiously in the car for your whole three hour show.
Listen to the issues.
You you were able to take it what made you start doing that.
A lot of the ISIS attacks.
A lot of the attacks with ISIS had to be a good thing.
Yeah, but you started.
You're a San Franciscan.
I am reviled.
Yeah.
Through over half of San Francisco.
What would make you, even while ISIS doing with it, what would make you seek out my program.
You know, I started listening to it, and it started making sense to me.
And you you talked in a way that you added humor and compassion and gave the facts.
You didn't scream and shove things down my throat.
I started learning more about Hillary and Benghazi and different different things like that.
I decided I was going to be Republican to the horror of half my family.
I was with you through all the debates.
I listened to all the commentaries.
I got up on all the subjects.
I mean, I would be for 30 years, I can say I would be the most unpolitical person.
If I ever went to a party or a dinner and people talk politics, I had nothing to say.
And I listened to you every single day, literally for 18 months, every single day, from nine until noon, and I was educated, and I did never I never wavered that I was gonna be able to do that.
And now you've got all kinds of things to say at a party.
I do have things to say.
I do have things to say, and I have strong opinions, and I don't know.
I learned a lot from you, and I just I appreciate your you there and the manner in which you are presenting Chris.
You have made my I mean it it converting liberals is always a great thing.
It it makes every day worth living.
But a San Francisco liberal converting a San Francisco liberal is a special achievement.
And I am thankful that you were able to get through everybody trying to call into this program today.
You got through so that I could uh I could hear your wonderful message, Chris.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
We have to take another timeout, but we'll be back before you know it, folks.
So don't go anywhere.
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Audio soundbite's coming up from a couple of Trump appointees on economic growth and how they're going to pull it off, confirming pretty much what I advised and pointed out in uh in this current hour of the program.
John Kerry joining Obama now, saying he's not gonna wait, go away.
He's gonna keep commenting on Trump after he leaves office.
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