Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's anchorman is away, and he has issued an executive order appointing your undocumented anchorman, Mark Stein, officially designated guest host for America's number one radio show.
An honor to be with you.
Great to be with you today.
Didn't think I'd make it because Trump just canceled the Syrian refugee program, and that was what, you know, like everybody around the world, I say I'm a 17-year-old Syrian.
It seems to work and get it anywhere.
But Trump just canceled that today.
Fortunately, I was able to sneak in through the first piece of the Keystone pipeline, which has already gone up on the 49th parallel.
It's terrific.
Great to see.
Trump was there at 6 o'clock this morning, breaking ground.
Then he flew in Trump Force One down to the Mexican border and laid the first brick on the border wall.
I think it's going to be finished by next Tuesday.
I think the wall is scheduled to be completed.
Great to be with you.
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And as always, what matters is you.
We have breaking news.
The Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nietnieto.
I hope I said that correctly.
You have to struggle hard these days not to say President Piñata.
But Enrique Peña Nieto, not Piñata, Peña Nieto, is that right?
Says he's informed the White House that he has cancelled his trip to Washington.
And so he's not coming.
If this is what, yeah, he thought it was business as usual.
You just fly in, you have a nice black tie dinner, you know, Beyoncé comes and sings at the gala banquet, and then you fly home and nothing changes.
But early this morning, Trump himself issued a tweet, diplomacy by tweeting.
They didn't have this in the Congress of Vienna days.
You had to do it the old-fashioned way.
They didn't have Twitter back then, but now they do.
And Donald J. Trump tweeted, the U.S. has a $60 billion trade deficit with Mexico.
It has been a one-sided deal from the beginning of NAFTA with massive numbers of jobs and companies lost.
If Mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting.
So President Piñata has now said that he ain't coming.
He's washing his hair.
He's not coming.
He's not coming to Washington, flying into Washington, just to be told he's got to pay for this wall.
So that's changed.
Also, and perhaps not entirely unrelated news, the State Department's entire senior management team just resigned.
That's amazing.
Did you know, by the way, the State Department had a senior management team?
Because I've been looking at American foreign policy this last eight years, and it would never have occurred to me that the State Department did have a senior management team.
But apparently it does, and they have all just resigned en masse.
A lot of it's this phony baloney resignation.
Some of them are just going to be redeployed from the senior management team to the executive associate senior management team, just so it doesn't monkey with their federal pensions.
But basically, they have all flounced off en masse in a big queeny huff at foggy bottom.
They have all gone off in a big cloud of fog.
And Trump, they say now.
You've got to love the reporters, the American media.
They have said that this has made – this is how The Washington Post reports this news.
This is in the last hour.
Josh Rogan, Secretary, because the headline, the State Department's entire senior management team just resigned.
First sentence, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's job running the State Department just got considerably more difficult.
Really?
Do you think so?
You think it got a lot more difficult?
I don't know.
We've had a very odd four days now.
By the way, he isn't yet Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, because the committee, the Senate hasn't yet voted on him.
Trump is essentially running the entire government single-handed right now.
He's got, what is it, two cabinet secretaries, three cabinet secretaries?
But basically, Chuck Schumer thought, oh, I'll throw a wrench in the works and hold up all his cabinet appointees.
He doesn't seem to need a cabinet.
He just does these executive orders.
And then he goes along to some government agency and holds a photo opportunity with people who have been victimized, often unto death, the death of their loved ones, by the guys running this agency in the supposed interest of the American people.
And Trump announces that he's got some executive order that's going to change things.
But a lot of these people don't like the way this isn't the way you're meant to be running a government of the United States.
And the State Department's entire senior management team just resigned.
President Piñata is staying home in Mexico City with his cat and and Trump is going full steam ahead.
We're going to track down.
Apparently, there's a rumor that there's a campaign promise that Trump has not yet issued an executive order on in the first 72 hours.
There's a rumor that something or other he's on the campaign trail he hasn't yet attempted to introduce by executive order.
So we're going to try and find out what one that is.
But otherwise, he is steaming full speed ahead.
Energy in the executive.
I think that's what Alexander Hamilton called it.
And we are seeing energy in the executive.
Trump is a mystery still to most of us.
Because in the end, it's like he's been in public life for, what is it now, 35 years?
And people think they know him.
And yet, in the end, on election night, it became clear that people still did not know him.
There were all those jokes around about two in the morning on election night, if you were looking at your Twitter feed in which liberals were giggling, ha ha ha, Trump googling.
Trump's Googling now to Googling the question, what does a president do?
Well, on the evidence of these last 72 hours, he knows exactly what it is he wanted to do, and he's not wasting time, and he is doing it.
And a lot of these policies, they're not just, these executive orders are not just like pie in the sky stuff.
They're actually quite cleverly lawyered and they're quite specific.
I mean, for example, this thing announcing fines and penalties, the assessment and collection of fines and penalties for those aliens unlawfully present in the United States.
Wait a minute.
Fines and penalties for aliens unlawfully present in the United States?
What's the deal with that?
And from those who facilitate their presence in the United States.
That was in section six of this executive order yesterday.
So, for example, that means that not only could I be fined for illegally guest hosting this show, but Rush would be liable for facilitating my illegal guest hosting of this show.
They're very artfully written, a lot of these executive orders.
And they're moving ahead on all fronts.
People think he just introduced these topics fairly randomly.
Illegal immigration, cutting back on Muslim immigration, the repealing Obamacare, building the wall.
Waterboarding is back.
We'll talk about that a little later.
He wants to put waterboarding back on the table.
Trump has a platform, and he is serious about his platform, and he is serious about enacting his platform.
And this is like stunning to the, I mean, the Republican Party has a platform.
Is that correct?
There's rumors that the Republican Party is a platform and it has things like abolishing the Federal Department of Education in there and the Federal Department of Energy.
And they've had that in the platform since 1981.
How's that working out?
What is 1981?
That's 36 years.
So they'll give it like another 36 years.
And then somebody might come up with a bill to abolish the Department of Energy.
We've got used to platforms that are entirely meaningless.
And we've got used to presidents who come into office and all the stuff they talk about shrivels down to two or three little items that they decide they can get through in the first hundred days, like the Bush tax cut.
Do you remember the Bush tax cut?
The 10-year, temporary 10-year tax cut that Bush was busy with this time in the year 2001.
A lot of the other stuff all just falls away.
Trump is steaming at full throttle with executive action, executive action.
He's not waiting for these guys.
He's not waiting for Chuck Schumer to say, well, you play FTSE with me, and I might give you another cabinet secretary by the end of February.
It's up to you to come and play nice with me.
And Trump doesn't want to, Trump doesn't want to be, Trump doesn't care about that.
He knows what he wants.
He's going ahead, and he's moving by executive order.
We shall talk about that, and we shall talk about the rest of the day's news.
There's all kinds of other things happening out there.
Madeleine Albright, who doesn't like the cut of Trump's jib, has declared she's Muslim.
Don't ask me why, but if you're a big shot muller, if you're a big shot Imam out there and you're looking for a fourth wife, you've had the burqa warded up, got no one to put in it, you can put Madeline Albright in it now.
She's apparently said she's going to register as a Muslim.
I assume by that, by the way, that she is a Muslim, because if you she issued this tweet, she converted to Islam by Twitter and said she was born Catholic, converted to Episcopalian, discovered she was Jewish, and is now going to register as Muslim.
And I think that's great because by the way, Madeline, I don't know whether you've thought about this.
You could just hop on a flight to say Mosul or Raqqa, maybe Yemen or the Pakistani tribal lands, because they like nothing better there than a Jew wandering around pretending to be a Muslim.
You should try that.
Go into the best bar in Raqqa or Mosul and do your whole Jew pretending to be Muslim act.
They love it over there.
They'll be laughing your head off if you try that over there.
It'll be terrific.
But she is now announcing in protest at Trump's immigration action that she is going to sign.
She's going to be the first name in the Muslim registry.
So you, any of you out there, like that Supreme Ayatollah guy over in Tehran, or if you're like some big shot Saudi sheikh, they've got thousands of princes in Saudi Arabia.
And you've been thinking, well, I've got this fourth burqa.
It's just been hanging in the wardrobe.
I've got my three child brides in the other ones.
But who am I going to put in the fourth burqa?
Madeline Albright is signing up for it.
We'll talk about that and all the rest of the news straight ahead.
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Hey, Mark Stein, in for us on America's number one radio show.
Great to have you with us.
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You know what's the problem for Democrats here is that most of the policies that Trump is advancing by executive order are not actually specifically Republican or Democrat policies.
They actually are things that command a widespread support.
Illegal immigration, for example, is one of those issues that unless you're, well, Cokie Roberts, for example.
Cokie Roberts is a woman Duncetanaj, who you hear on NPR and see on ABC and all the rest of it.
And she's upset.
She says shutting out Syrian refugees is like shutting out Jews during World War II.
And then she further adds that excluding these Syrian refugees is extremely dangerous for the United States of America, implying as Khazir Khan, remember him?
The guy who was on stage at the Democrat convention, he thinks this will enrage Muslims and it will actually fuel anger.
So that if you restrict immigration from countries where people have a certain percentage of people who want to kill you, it's likely to make them crazy and want to kill you even more.
This is his thing.
So we should just let them all in.
If we let them all in, maybe they wouldn't kill all of us.
But at any rate, this is not something.
Illegal immigration, the refugee program, these are things that command actually bipartisan support.
Apart from the liberal elite, apart from celebrities, apart from Ashley Judd and Madonna and ladies and certain as you go on NPR like Cokie Roberts, nobody's into any of this stuff.
And so there's no downside for it.
If Democrats and liberals want to spend the next month defending the right of phony Syrian refugees, I met a lot of Syrian refugees.
I mentioned this before on the show in Europe over the summer.
I think I met two actual Syrians.
All the rest were like West Africans pretending to be Syrian and 33-year-old men pretending to be 16 years old.
I'm happy to go into details on that, but basically, let me tell you that every refugee, it's like the sound of music.
Every refugee is basically, I am 16, going on 37.
That's how they all are over there.
The system is completely ridiculous.
The system facilitates the murder and maiming of people, as we've seen in the European continent.
The system is gamed here as by the stabby-stabbed stabber guy at Ohio State University, who was a refugee from Somalia, which is fair enough.
That's a country with which America does have a refugee program.
His family then moved to Pakistan for seven years, a country with which America does not have a refugee program, and then he gamed the system and got admitted.
So, all this stuff isn't even politically Republican or Democrat.
It's stuff on which everybody, except for the people who live in gated communities and have private entourages, everybody is on board with.
There's widespread support for this.
If you disagree, if you're a liberal and you're in favor of more Syrian refugees, if you're a liberal and you don't want control of the southern border, then I'd love to hear from you.
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But most of this stuff is not stuff that the Democrats will find it profitable to defend.
Same with the Keystone Pipeline.
Keystone Pipeline is like a no-brainer.
And it was nixed for entirely political reasons because Obama wanted to kiss up to the Sierra Club guys.
Again, the gated community set.
The guys for whom land is basically one great big nature trail and one great big vacation land where they can go hiking, they can go and get in touch with themselves, they can go and find themselves.
And now they come because when they go and find themselves, they're finding that the country is in the hands of this guy who's actually serious about advancing policies with widespread these.
These are basically 80-20 policies.
80-20 policies.
There are very few takers for mass Muslim immigration from Yemen in the United States.
There are very few takers for not letting the Keystone Pipeline be built.
So Trump is actually forcing Democrats into the tiny little corner of the room that is not painted with broad support for these policies and forcing them to defend them.
This is a very interesting start.
Nobody knows.
Nobody knows.
Nobody expected this.
As I said, on election night, there were all these jokes about how the guy had to Google to find out what it is a president does.
Whatever it is a president did, this guy knows what he wants to do.
He's not Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, as you know, he was the last celebrity, a big celebrity, to become chief executive of a major U.S. jurisdiction.
And he blew it.
The Terminator couldn't terminate anything.
He turned out just to be a placeholder for the next Democrat to get elected.
It's truly pitiful, truly pathetic.
And that actually, to me, is underpinning Trump's tweets about how ghastly Arnold's ratings are since he took over the apprentice.
Because Arnold, in the end, couldn't say he can go and play a guy saying you're fired, but couldn't actually fire a single person in California.
And Trump doesn't want to, Trump doesn't want his presidency to be the same waste of time as Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial term, which was a complete waste of time where the guy couldn't do a single thing.
And that's where we get back to that Hamiltonian phrase, energy in the executive.
The Democrats will eventually find their footing, but they're on the back foot now.
And the media are bleating stupid things about, oh, Obama did so have more people than you at the inauguration.
He did.
Yes, he did.
Yes, he, yes, he, yes, he, yes, he did.
Yeah, we can boogie down.
We can, you know, who's not boogieing down?
Uh, President Piñata of Mexico.
President Piñata, Mexico, has boogied off.
He doesn't want to know.
He's not coming.
He's canceled his meeting with Trump after Trump tweeted.
This is fantastic.
You know, this is how the Hundred Years' War started.
I think it was France lashed out at England with an angry tweet, and they didn't hear the end of it for 100 years.
That's how Trafalgar, Trafalgar started.
Lord Nelson at Trafalgar, he tweeted something out of his good eye.
Boom, the French were gone.
But this is how it is now.
Donald Trump tweeted, and the Mexican president Has said he's not, he's not coming.
He isn't coming.
He's washing his hair.
And I think it was something to do with there's a new Mexican diplomatic corps wall tax for attending the state banquet that Trump did some obscure executive order on.
So he's not coming.
Also, breaking news: EPA employees, EPA employees coming to work in tears because of Trump win.
They haven't all resigned en masse.
The EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency employees, they're coming to work in tears.
They're crying.
They're crying as they enter the building.
By the way, you should never go near an EPA office in tears because they'll declare your face a wetlands and you'll never get to use it again.
So the EPA employees are coming to work in tears because of the Trump win.
It's a story in the Washington.
It's not funny, Mr. Snurdley.
These are people who care about the future of the planet.
What do you think the rising oceans are?
It's EPA employees.
They're going down to the beach to swim off into the sunset and their tears are going in.
And somewhere in the Maldive Islands, an island is going underwater because the tears of environmental bureaucrats in Washington washing out into the Atlantic and then over into the Indian Ocean.
EPA.
Yeah.
Yeah, he took the, Trump cancelled climate change.
Climate change is off for eight years.
The graph just goes down and out the bottom of the floor.
And they're all and so all the EPA guys who worked on the climate change mumbo jumbo massaging the statistics to allege that 2016 was the hottest year on ever.
Now they're tears.
They're coming to work in tears.
Don't do it, EPA employee.
I was serious there.
If you have moist eyes in front of an environmental bureaucrat, he will declare your face a wetlands and you will be in 10 years of regulatory hell trying to use your face ever again.
So that's right.
That's right.
Anyway, so Mr. Snerdley is shocked by he's distraught at the idea of EPA employees in tears.
They're right.
It's not funny.
It isn't funny.
There is a lot of climate change.
And with all these tears from EPA employees falling into the Potomac, going out into the Atlantic, somewhere there's an outlying atoll in Tuvalu that's underwater because of all this.
Yeah.
Yeah, the State Department's senior management has resigned.
The EPA people are in tears.
This is.
Yeah, I know.
Mr. Snerdley says he's willing to re-elect Trump right now.
You know, that pledge, which I thought was a bit milquetoasty, a bit panty-wasty, to eliminate 75% of federal regulations.
At this rate, he'll have eliminated 75% of federal employees before Chuck Schuber lets him confirm a fifth cabinet secretary.
This is fast-moving stuff.
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As some of you know, I like a little bit of light guest hosting every now and then.
But I was prevailed upon to try do some serious work with all this energy and the executive that's floating around.
And so I've been hosting a little TV show called the Mark Stein Show, which they chose that title so I'd show up every day, not just guest host it once every two months.
But our guest today, because you may recall Trump has been speaking about reintroducing waterboarding.
He says when it comes to the bad guys, we have to fight fire with fire, right?
Fight fire with fire.
He has said that ISIS don't have any of these hang-ups.
They just chop people's heads off.
They burn people alive in cages.
And yet, if we capture an ISIS guy, suddenly he has the full legal protection of the U.S. Constitution.
He's got to get lawyered up.
He's got to have 15 years in the sclerotic dump of the American legal system before his case ever comes to trial.
And it's a joke, and they know it's a joke, which is why they found that al-Qaeda book, rule book in Manchester, training people in how to ask for a lawyer if they have the good fortune to get captured by Americans as opposed to getting captured by the Kenyans or the Egyptians or whoever.
So on tonight's Mark Stein show, I'm talking to James E. Mitchell, who's the author of the new book, Enhanced Interrogation.
And James is a very nice guy, but he basically is, he was Bush's enhanced interrogator.
He's the guy who interrogated Khalid Sheikh Bohemia.
And we're talking about Trump and his willingness to entertain waterboarding and the reluctance, even of so-called war hawks on the Republican side, even to go along with him.
Let's have, have you got clip two there, Mike?
Let's have clip two from that James Mitchell interview.
Well, even what Senator McCain and I think, well, even what Senator McCain had said, Senator McCain said, well, now is it going all wrong, going all wacky?
Great.
No, that's okay.
I think we sent it down to you using some kind of okay, let's hear that.
James E. Mitchell on my.
Well, even what Senator McCain had said, Senator McCain said, well, these things were a torture.
They were illegal.
They should always be illegal.
And then somebody said, well, what if there's a ticking time bomb scenario or another potential catastrophic attack like 9-11?
And then he said, we would expect the CIA interrogators to do what was right.
They would do what was necessary.
And at their trial, if they had actually saved lives, we would try to take that into consideration.
So they want to, as I said, they want to live under the protection, but they don't want to provide the people that they're asking.
Yeah, and that's the point.
And this is why people are sick of the humbugs of the political class.
That the first thing they would do, if there were, God forbid, a massive terrorist attack, and it turned out that some guy they'd captured had known about it, they would demand to know why you didn't get this out of him.
But on the other hand, if you do get it out of him, then they will wreck your life and tie you up in legal battles, as has happened to James Mitchell, basically since Obama took office.
He spent eight years fighting the bad guys for his country.
Eight years fighting the bad guys for his country.
He volunteered for that after September 11th.
And as you can see on the show tonight, he actually tears up talking about 9-11 in a way that people don't now.
People digested it and they moved on.
It didn't move on to him because he offered his services to the CIA after 9-11 and prevented there being a second 9-11 and a third 9-11 and all the rest of it.
And in return for eight years of service fighting the bad guys, he's had eight years of legal action and legal threats and legal intimidation, not just from the lawyers of these jihadists, but from the Justice Department of the government he served.
James Mitchell, he's the guy who waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
And here's another clip from tonight's show.
I asked him about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed killing Daniel Pearl.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sliced off Daniel Pearl's head in Pakistan shortly after 9-11.
Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter.
And James Mitchell asked KSM whether it had been difficult to do that, meaning as a human being, is it difficult to do something like decapitating another human being?
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed didn't answer the question that way at all.
Clip six, Mike.
But at some point, he's asked whether it was difficult for him.
Right.
And by which I take it you meant whether it was emotionally difficult to saw another guy's head off.
Right.
But his answer.
He said, oh, oh, no, I had sharp knives.
He occasionally had to stop and, you know, sharpen it.
But we had many sharp knives.
It was easy.
Getting through the neckbone was the worst.
Yeah.
I mean, he said it just like that.
Yeah.
You know, and it was the creepiest thing I think I have ever heard.
And I've dealt with some pretty creepy people, but it was the creepiest thing I think I'd ever heard.
That's James Mitchell, and we're talking about enhanced interrogation.
Trump is pledged to fight fire with fire when it comes to enemies like ISIS.
James Mitchell did fight fire with fire for the year in the years after 9-11, including with the mastermind of 9-11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
And that gets, by the way, to the difference between our two cultures.
He asked that question.
Even a trained psychologist like James Mitchell, when he asked that question, he was thinking that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and he had a common humanity that would mean that it would be difficult for one human being to saw the head off another human being.
It's a tough thing to do.
You wouldn't want to ask it of the Illinois National Guard or whatever.
You wouldn't want to ask it of that.
But Khalid Sheikh Mohammed took the question in a more practical way.
No, of course, if you've got your scimitar, if you haven't got a rusty scimitar, it's actually pretty easy.
As long as you've got a great set of Ginsu knives, you can saw another guy's head off, no problem.
That's actually the difference between our civilization and the enemies we face.
And that is why Trump believes that actually pretending that treating these guys like they held up a liquor store and affording them the full protection of the U.S. Constitution is a fool's game.
Our enemies understand it's a fool's game and they know how to game the system.
And you can hear more from, you can hear the full interview I did with James Mitchell tonight on the Mark Stein show from CRTV.
Mark Stein in for Rush, we'll take your calls straight out.
Mark Stein for Rush on America's number one radio show, the former Al-Qaeda recruiter hired by George Washington University's program on extremism to research effective methods to de-radicalize potential terrorists has been arrested for arriving with cocaine at what he thought would be a meeting with a prostitute.
This is a guy called Jesse Morton and he was a big shot recruiter for al-Qaeda and then he decided to come over to the other side and so he's now got a big high-paying job at George Washington University teaching how to resist being recruited by al-Qaeda.
This is what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be doing when he gets out of jail.
He'll be teaching a course at Harvard on how to resist waterboarding.
So he's got like a very so he was a big shot recruiter for Al-Qaeda, this guy, and then he decided, no, no, he's going to be Mr. Moderate Muslim and was hired by George Washington University, big assimilated Muslim, and he's slightly over assimilated because now he's been arrested with Coke and a hookah.
So that's slightly going too far on the Western assimilation there.
But Islamic terror recruiter busted.
He teaches at the George Washington University's program on extremism, program on extremism.
That is the euphemism.
And the euphemisms, you can now take a, that's a euphemism for the guys who are trying to kill us and destroy our civilization.
But you can actually now get a master's degree in these euphemisms.
You can go to George Washington University and for a quarter million dollars, you can get a master's in euphemistic avoidance of the subject.
It's amazing.
It's a great deal.
You'll never be out of work if you do that.
Let's go to Anne in Little Silver, New Jersey.
Anne, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Mark.
Thanks for taking my call.
My question was, I was wondering how Donald Trump, as president now, God love him, keeping his campaign promises to the people resonates with you.
I think it's great because I think he was serious about it.
Everyone who bet against Donald Trump lost.
They've spent a year and a half, the American media, and I have a pretty good record on this.
On August 2015, that's a year and a half ago, on Fox News with Sean Hannity, I said he could win the nomination and he could win the general election.
And this was at a time when Republicans were saying, nah, nah, this is a joke.
Nan, he's got a 10% support ceiling.
Nana, the John McCain crack and the Megan Kelly crack, he's finished, he's over.
Nah, he won't be in here by Iowa.
Nah, he can't win the nomination.
Nah, and all that every time they, and one thing They were sure of was that all this stuff about the wall and everything, that's just a little bit of red meat for the rubes.
Just toss it out there.
Sure, it's just showbiz.
He doesn't mean anything.
It turned out he meant it.
And that is what is interesting about it.
Yes, he is showbiz, and he's playing a character called Donald Trump.
And he's been playing that character called Donald Trump on TV and off for 35, 40 years.
And he knows that character very well.
But he was serious about what he wanted to advance.
And you see it in these executive orders.
He can't do it all by executive order, but what he's done in the last 72 hours shows you that the things he said are the things he meant.
And that's very different from, well, let's just put it this way.
That's very different from some Republican office holders we've seen in the last few years.
Thanks for your call, and we will take more of your calls straight ahead.
Did you see this story?
This tickled me.
During that alleged women's march nonsense over the weekend, six journalists were apparently among those arrested.
The D.C. police arrested people for like throwing bricks through windows and smashing up Starbucks and the Bank of America and things.
And in amongst all that trouble, there are apparently six journalists.
We're trying to find out who it is who were like going full black, what they called those, going full the black mob thing.
What's that group called?
The anarchists?
And throwing bricks through the windows and everything.
I don't know who it was.
I'm not sure who it was who were throwing.
I think I saw Huntley and Brinkley in there.
They're very steamed about the election results.
And was Walter Cronkite?
Was he one of the guys throwing bricks through the Bank of America?
Not sure.
Also, we've heard, as we reported, that six, that many EPA employees are going to work in tears over what Trump is doing.