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Trump Still Leading - December 7th, Hour 2
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So this now, what, the third Republican primary debate?
You had four people on the stage last night, as we've been discussing.
Vivek Ramaswamy, Governor Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley.
It was intense at times.
And, you know, I felt watching this debate, it just, it's down to if you want to look at any two people that should be debating, it's very obvious it should be Ron and Nikki.
You know, Christie's been up there the whole time.
All he wants to do is bash Trump.
Hopefully he gets hired at the end of this deal by a fake news CNN or MSDNC.
And maybe he gets to write a book that'll do as well as Humpty Dumpty's flop.
Anyway, let me play some of, it gives you a flavor for how things went last night.
Vivek Ramaswamy attacking Nikki Haley.
Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley sparring over comments that Nikki Haley had made on verifying the identity on social media.
Vivek, the Hamas attack wasn't an attack on America.
Offers to have a three-year-old show Haley Israel on a map.
He thinks he's cute.
And of course, Chris Christie would be the most obnoxious man in America.
And then out there, I don't know, maybe he's trying to be noble defending Nikki Haley.
Listen.
Nikki Haley was heaping praise on me when I wrote that book, but now I worry I was warning about the woke industrial complex in this country as a warning.
Apparently, she read it as a how-to manual, just like she reads George Orwell's book as well.
And so I think that that's actually far more dangerous than this is really important for people to understand.
We're marching towards fascism under Biden.
Jack Smith has subpoenaed every last retweet that someone has issued from Donald Trump in the year 2020.
The only person more fascist than the Biden regime now is Nikki Haley, who thinks the government should identify every one of those individuals with an ID.
That is not freedom.
That is fascism.
And she should come nowhere near the levers of power, let alone the White House.
As a mom, do I think that social media would be more civil if we went and had people's names next to that?
Yes, I do think that, because I think we've got too much cyberbullying.
I think we've got child pornography and all of those things.
But having said that, I never said government should go and require anyone's fault.
She said, I want your name.
She absolutely, her first day in office, she said, one of the first things I'm going to do is social media.
I want your name.
She wants government ideas.
She wants to say that.
That's what she said.
You can roll the tape.
She said, I want your name.
And that was going to be one of the first things she did in office.
And then she got real serious blowback.
And understandably so, because it'd be a massive expansion of government.
We have anonymous speech.
The Federalist papers were written with anonymous writers.
Jay, Madison, and Hamilton, they went under pubulous.
It's something that's important.
And especially given how conservatives have been attacked and they've lost jobs and they've been canceled.
You know the regime would use that to weaponize that against our own people.
It was a bad idea.
And then there is the go-pair former governor of New York.
This cracks me up because Ron is so hypocritical.
Because he actually went and tried to push a law that would stop anonymous people from talking to the press and went so far to say bloggers should have to register with the state if they're going to talk about, right about elected officials.
It was in the mind.
Check your newspaper.
It was absolutely there.
Someone said that.
I have never said that we're going to stamp on your constitutional rights.
Why wouldn't it be a good thing to finish Hamas?
Finish them was purposefully vague in a discussion that included Iran, which is what I objected to.
And I think it's as U.S. president, you have to be responsible.
What happened to Israel was dead wrong.
What Hamas did was medieval.
It was subhuman.
It was immoral.
And we have to call that out for what it is on October 7th.
But to say that that was an attack on America fails a basic test.
I mean, Nick, if you can't tell the difference between where Israel is and the U.S. is on a map, I can have my three-year-old son show you the difference.
That is irresponsible because it has major consequences, because that doesn't leave room for what actually is an attack on America.
So I believe I have the strongest pro-Israel position actually on this stage, even though it's a little...
You didn't say it, and then you back away.
And I want to say, I'm not done yet.
Well, this is.
Now look.
Hold on.
Now this is not a skill.
Let me tell you something.
This is the fourth debate, the fourth debate that you would be voted in the first 20 minutes as the most obnoxious blowhard in America.
So shut up for no longer.
I'm going to respond to that.
We're going to let you respond to that.
I don't think you're going to go.
I'll take that.
I want to say something else.
We're now 25 minutes into this debate.
And he has insulted Nikki Haley's basic intelligence, not her positions, her basic intelligence.
She doesn't know regions.
She wouldn't be able to find something on a map that his three-year-old could find.
Look, if you want to disagree on issues, that's fine.
And Nikki and I disagree on some issues.
But I'll tell you this, I've known it for 12 years, which is longer than he's even started to vote in the Republican primary.
And while we disagree about some issues and we disagree about who should be president of the United States, what we don't disagree on is this is a smart accomplished woman.
You should stop insulting.
All right, joining us now to weigh in on this and what impact, if any, it's going to have on the presidential primary.
Less than 40 days now till the Iowa caucuses.
We have pollster John McLaughlin with McLaughlin and Associates, Robert Cahaley with the Trafalgar Group, and Matt Towery, Insider Advantage.
Two of them are hosting Robert and Matt.
They have their new podcast.
It's called Polling Plus.
Now, is the podcast up and running?
Yeah, it is up and running.
It is up and running.
We are going to be doing a hard launch, though, the beginning of January.
So you can find this on Apple and some other places now, but you'll see it come on really strong beginning of January as we get into Iowa.
All right, let's get into first last night's debate.
Does it help any of these other candidates considering President Trump has such a wide lead?
We'll get your take, John McLaughlin.
It's a playoff.
You know, you don't get to play the champion like President Trump loves boxing.
So you didn't get to fight Muhammad Ali just because you wanted to fight him.
You had to have a playoff.
You have to have a fight where the contenders would see who was the strongest challenger.
And right now, what you're watching is a playoff.
And really, they're not at the level of President Trump, which is why Trump is just blowing it away in the national polls.
Robert just came out with a poll in Iowa of likely caucus goers where President Trump has a significant 23-point lead.
But it's really important for Ron DeSantis to hang on to second in Iowa because he's like in fourth, a fifth place in New Hampshire.
So if he doesn't come in second in Iowa, however distant it is.
But he's been holding a steady second in Iowa up to this point, has he not?
Right, but she's making a run at him, right?
So, you know, like Robert can talk about his poll, but he's got Nikki right behind him.
So that's when the question is, and by the way, you know, I'm sure more people watch your town hall with President Trump than watched that debate last night on whatever channel it was on.
But in the meantime, you know, the questions that were interesting about her wanting to take money from anybody that she was getting hit because her campaign is being backed by Democrats now because they just want to stop Donald Trump.
And so for Ron DeSantis, that was important because they put out his super PAC, the new one that they've got, put out an ad attacking Haley saying she was inspired by Hillary Clinton to run for.
Yeah, I've actually seen that ad, and she said it a number of times in a number of different places.
And it kind of surprised me.
I did not know that she had said that, but she was inspired to get into politics.
Matt Towery, your take on last night.
I have had the same position on these debates all through, and that is they're not having any impact on anything.
I will say that the last debate, the one before this, Haley did sort of emerge, and that gave her a bit of a boost and put her more into focus.
But the truth of the matter is, what John says is right.
It's like watching sort of the B-level debate, and the true debater, the true leader in this thing right now in the polls, is not involved.
And I'm really, I'm not really all interested in any more of these debates.
They've covered everything they can cover.
I think what's going to happen, Sean, this is important.
If Trump really blows him away in Iowa, then I just don't see him being sidelined at all.
Well, let me ask you about that.
Iowa is pretty tricky.
It's a caucus.
It's not a primary.
What place you come in first or second or third or whatever actually matters in Iowa.
And there are numerous rounds of voting that take place.
And historically, it has gone very heavy in terms of evangelical candidates, even people that weren't polling well, like Mike Huckabee won there, and Rick Santorum won there, and Senator Ted Cruz won there.
Is there any impact that you see on that front?
Well, let me just say this.
I've polled Iowa for many, many years, and I've usually gotten it right.
And I have seen this sort of thing happen before.
So if Trump doesn't perform as well as people expect, I'm not going to be shocked at all.
I've said before the pollsters have Trump way too high, but I still think Trump's going to win.
And I really don't see the way that any of these early caucuses or the primaries change that event because you then get into big states that are huge, Trump, and the money runs out to these other candidates.
I just don't see it.
It's not coming together right now.
What do you think, Robert?
I'd see it very much the same way as Matt.
When you're looking at Iowa, it really is, it is not just about polling, it is about organization.
And my whole indication to Santis has built the type of organization he needs to separate himself more than his polling is from Haley.
I think that that is going to be his strength.
And you're right, if he didn't make it there, he wouldn't make it anywhere.
But, you know, as far as the debate goes, I feel like the only thing that really got accomplished was Vivek made himself a candidate that would be completely unacceptable to any kind of mainstream Republican.
And Haley made herself a candidate that would be completely unacceptable to American first candidate.
Let's get your take, John McLaughlin, because look at the history of Iowa.
Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, Senator Ted Cruz, evangelical, the evangelical vote is very powerful in Iowa.
Yes, and they are supporting Donald Trump.
The other pollsters on the phone can tell you Trump is stronger with the evangelical voters.
He's stronger with the conservative pro-life voters.
And it's frustrating to our opponents because they're trying to make cracks and dents in that base.
And they're sticking with Donald Trump.
Because when you look at Donald Trump, he fought for Iowa, whether it was the farmers, the ethanol, the workers in Iowa and the tax cuts, getting rid of the estate tax.
Also, a lot of the trade deal that he made with China involved corn and other products for farmers in Iowa.
So that was a big deal.
Yeah, so he's very strong out there.
And your key point about January 15th, for those of us who have worked caucuses in Iowa, it could be cold.
It could be snowy.
You not only have to be organized to go to these caucuses, but you have to have a passion to go there.
And Trump voters are passionate.
And this year, more than ever before, they are fired up because even as we're speaking today, Donald Trump is once again in New York where the liberal Democratic Attorney General, Letitia James, who's working at Biden's behest, wants to take away his business and his wealth from him.
Why?
Because he's leading Joe Biden in the polls.
So this political persecution, you know, this is just an outrage for Republicans.
And Trump supporters will go out the night of the January 15th and will have their votes heard because it's a way to send Washington a message that we're sick of this, that we're sick of Joe Biden's corruption.
All right, quick Frank, we'll come right back.
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Here it is, 11 months away.
John McLaughlin, Robert Cahaley, Matt Towery are with us.
All right.
Exit question.
All three of you.
I'll start with you, Matt.
We heard Joe Biden say, I'm not even sure if I'd be running except Donald Trump's in the race.
Now, they walked it back, but is that an indication that maybe in the back of his mind that he wants out or is looking for an exit ramp?
And do you think he will be the candidate in 11 months from now?
You know, Sean, I don't think we're going to know that answer immediately.
I think if he were going to get out of this thing, he would wait until after there's any chance for another Republican or another Democrat rather to run against him.
And someone would be handpicked by the DNC.
And who would it be?
I think it would have to be the vice president.
You can't skip over the African-American female vote, particularly if you have an African-American female in office.
Robert?
Yeah, I totally agree.
I think that there's a 50% chance Biden is going to be the candidate, and he was just looking for a way to justify why he's staying in the race.
But if they replace him, they'll do some kind of thing about him.
The DNC, the convention will empower the DNC to make the replacement, to act in the absence of a convention, and then they'll get him out well before the 45-day deadline and post money in the net.
Either her or somebody else, maybe another black female, that we don't have an autophile on, or not much of one.
Maybe a lot of people have speculated it would be Michelle Obama.
I don't see it.
What are your thoughts, John?
It's going to be Joe Biden.
And you can tell by just watch the reaction after the dictator comment that the Biden campaign has all hopped on.
And those of us in the Trump campaign had to push back.
Joe Biden's the dictator.
He's the guy who wants to lock up his leading political opponent.
But that comment from your town hall, all the Biden people seized on it.
They are going full force at Donald Trump because the president wants to get reelected and we have to stop him.
And we're the only candidate who can stop him.
Well, he said, I am your retribution.
I said, what do you mean by that?
I said, would you ever use the power of the government?
He says, only on day one when I bring back oil and gas production and when I secure the border.
That's hardly retribution.
But anyway, the media is what the media is, the biggest campaign contributors to all things Democrats.
Thank you all.
Matt Towery, thank you.
John McLaughlin, thank you.
Robert Cahaley, thank you.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
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What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Nayfok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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You know, I am still apoplectic and angry over what happened in Congress this week when the presidents of Harvard and MIT and UPenn refused to say whether calling for genocide of Jews is bullying and harassment under their codes of conduct.
And all three of this president gave some variation of, you know, even going so far as to say that it would, well, first it would need to turn into action.
Really?
Genocide, terrorism, murder, rape, beheadings.
I've seen the videos.
The videos are out there.
As a matter of fact, a number of my Fox colleagues, they got to see the video that I've been describing to you, and they literally were in tears.
Some of them left the room.
They couldn't watch it.
I'm not naming names.
I just, I wasn't there, but I was told.
And it is that brutal.
It is evil in our time.
I said this when I wrote the book in 2004, Deliver Us from Evil, Defeating Terrorism and Despotism and Liberalism.
And liberals got pissed off at the title.
And I'm like, well, you have to win the political war if you want somebody that understands the nature of evil.
But I said in that book, and I said all over that book tour, that good people have a very hard time wrapping their minds around evil that exists.
For example, if somebody takes a hoe and beheads another human being, how do you come to any other conclusion except that is evil?
And then can't finish it.
By the way, having seen a number of beheading, real beheading videos in my life, those images are seared into your memory.
You will never forget seeing it.
And I actually think more people should see it.
Those that can handle it, not those that can't handle it.
And, you know, and you see how hard it is to sever somebody's head off.
Yet it happens.
What happened on October 7th was nothing but pure evil.
You know, in this day and age where these are the most woke universities and the most politically correct universities, are they actually saying that, well, calling for genocide is it's not part of their bullying, harassment codes of conduct and that going as far as to say they need some type of action.
Now, Harvard's president, obviously fighting for her life and her job, Claudine Gay, released a statement yesterday vowing to hold accountable anybody on campus that threatens Jewish students a day after.
Well, isn't it a threat?
Isn't it a hostile environment?
How often have we heard the word hostile environment?
Working with Linda is a hostile environment.
She's after me all the time.
But in all seriousness, you know, there are some who have classified the right to free expression with the idea that Harvard will condone calls for violence against Jewish students.
Let me be clear, calls for violence or genocide against the Jewish people and Jewish community or any religious or ethnic group are vile and have no place at Harvard.
And those who threaten our Jewish students will be held to account.
That's not what they were saying that day.
And I think we have the president of which president of OU Penn president.
Liz McGill is her name, saying that she was not focused when asked the question about genocide.
Listen.
There was a moment during yesterday's congressional hearing on anti-Semitism when I was asked if a call for the genocide of Jewish people on our campus would violate our policies.
In that moment, I was focused on our university's long-standing policies aligned with the U.S. Constitution, which say that speech alone is not punishable.
I was not focused on, but I should have been, the irrefutable fact that a call for genocide of Jewish people is a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate.
It's evil, plain and simple.
I want to be clear.
A call for genocide of Jewish people is threatening, deeply so.
It is intentionally meant to terrify a people who have been subjected to pogroms and hatred for centuries and were the victims of mass genocide in the Holocaust.
In my view, it would be harassment or intimidation.
For decades, under multiple Penn presidents and consistent with most universities, Penn's policies have been guided by the Constitution and the law.
In today's world, where we are seeing signs of hate proliferating across our campus and our world in a way not seen in years, these policies need to be clarified and evaluated.
Penn must initiate a serious and careful look at our policies.
And Provost Jackson and I will immediately convene a process to do so.
As president, I'm committed to a safe, secure, and supportive environment so all members of our community can thrive.
We can and we will get this right.
Thank you.
So they're all pulling back.
Let me tell you why, because if you ever get to be a university president at a prestigious university, that is a job that usually pays a fortune.
That is a job where you are well taken care of.
It is not the hardest job in the world.
Why do you think so many ex-hippies gravitated towards academia?
Okay, what, you teach three classes?
You know, it's pretty unbelievable.
And you have to grade, and then you have student, you know, grad students doing most of the work for you.
It's not that hard.
But to your point, she says she's not focused.
She sounded pretty focused to me.
Well, we've got the cut of Elise Stefanic, who I thought did a fabulous job earlier in the week, you know, with the presidents of MIT, Penn, and Harvard.
Listen.
At MIT, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate MIT's code of conduct or rules regarding bullying and harassment?
Yes or no?
If targeted at individuals not making public statements.
If it is directed and severe or pervasive, it is harassment.
So the answer is yes.
It is a context-dependent decision, Congresswoman.
Anti-Semitic rhetoric.
And is it anti-Semitic rhetoric?
Anti-Semitic rhetoric, when it crosses into conduct that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation.
That is actionable conduct, and we do take action.
So the answer is yes, that calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard code of conduct, correct?
I mean, Elise Stefana got right to the bottom of it.
They refused to call to say calling for the genocide of Jews is bullying and harassment.
Now, pick any other, quote, identity group.
We talk about identity politics.
We talk about demographics all the time.
Every poll is broken down demographically between age and sex and race, et cetera.
Okay, what if somebody says this type of thing against any other, quote, identity group?
Fill in the blank.
If they make racist comments, misogynistic comments, homophobic comments, comments against LBGTQ or comments against transgenderism or comments against Islam or deemed Islamophobic.
What happens in those schools?
They get kicked out.
If you're a conservative, if your voice, you know, you're wasting your time in most cases, if you try to speak out, if you're a prominent conservative, I just gave up on that notion, that idea, many, many years ago.
And when I was having Alan Dershowitz debating Cornell West about this very issue, I wanted to bring that debate to Harvard and Harvard apparently is not interested in that kind of debate.
And by the way, even if they said yes, I don't think we'd be able to pull it off because I think enough people would protest.
It is just this is repulsive.
The fact that 31 groups at Harvard blamed Israel, the victim, for October the 7th, and it's taken them this long, and only when they're being pressured by their big donors and they're worried about their big trust funds and their endowments, do they get concerned?
Unreal.
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Let's say hi to David in Seattle.
David, hi, how are you?
I'm good, Sean.
How are you?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Well, I just wanted to call and ask a question about the town hall you did the other night.
I love you, your show.
Thank you for everything you do.
But I just had a question about the dictator question.
I wanted to know why.
I didn't ask the dictator question.
I asked the question was, and I asked the question is because all over the media, and I had a montage that I played, the media mob was taking Donald Trump's comments about retribution, I am your retribution, and they were using that.
And if you listen to it in context, let's see if we can get a copy of that.
You know, if you listen to it in context, so I was giving him an opportunity to clarify that basically everything that had been done to him, and that's abusing power to go after one person, that when he said, I am your retribution, that's what he meant.
Let me play it for you.
Okay.
In 2016, I declared, I am your voice.
Today I add, I am your warrior.
I am your justice.
And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.
I am your retribution.
Not going to let this happen.
Okay, so when you put it in context, those of you who have been wronged or betrayed, I think he's talking about unequal justice under the law.
But every media outlet almost, you know, the reason I call them a mob, because they're like one voice, was attacking him and calling him a dictator.
So I said, Mr. President, will you tell the American people tonight that you would not abuse any power in, quote, seeking retribution?
And he answered the question.
I went back for clarification on that question because the mob had been attacking him and using his comments to say he would be a dictator and giving him an opportunity to fight back against what I thought was extraordinarily, ridiculously unfair.
And I thought he gave a very good answer.
Just for one day, I'm going to bring back energy independence and I'm going to secure the border.
But he said, no, he wouldn't.
And his first comment initially was, no, I'm not going to treat people.
Do you mean like the way I was treated?
Exactly.
I thought that was a brilliant answer.
So why would you be mad if I asked the question considering Every news outlet was calling him a dictator because of that.
That was in the news.
But they also took what you, his answer the one day, and now they're running with it.
And I just feel like if you wouldn't have even brought that subject up, they wouldn't have ammunition today to run with even more of it.
Or did it prove that what he was saying was very different than how they were categorizing it and giving him a chance to clarify it, I thought, was important because I got sick and tired of hearing what I knew to be a lie.
I get, okay, I see what you're saying.
All right, I'm a professional.
I do this, you know, I do this for a living.
I trust you, Hannity.
I just.
No, I mean, there's definitely a reason I brought it up.
I brought it up because I felt that the comment was being completely taken out of context and as the media often does.
And now they want to use this narrative.
He's a dictator, dictator, dictator, dictator.
You know, imagine if conservatives said that about Obama or Joe.
Anyway, appreciate the call, my friend.
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Ray in Florida, the free state of Florida.
What's going on, Ray?
How are you?
Good.
How are you, Sean?
I'm good.
What's going on?
During the town hall, President Trump made an interesting comment about Haley and DeSantis.
Does he really believe that they're taking money from the Democrats?
I don't.
I'm not sure.
To be honest, I mean, my life's a whirlwind.
I don't remember specifically what you're referring to.
But there have been allegations that Democratic donors are trying to influence the Republican primary.
But by the way, that's kind of standard fair.
It happens in every election cycle.
Really?
Very common.
Looking at Nikki Haley as a feminine opponent for Trump, but that would take her down 30 points with me if she's taking money from Hillary.
You know, most of these campaigns, unless it's a really nefarious group, they need money so bad they'll take it from wherever they can get it.
And a lot of times, by the way, you really don't know who's behind the money.
You don't know because they have various layers of protection to remain anonymous.
And the laws governing donating to campaigns is crazy.
And it certainly needs to be, in my view, it needs to be fixed.
Well, I firmly believe that you're 100% right unless we stop ballot harvesting and stuff like that.
They have not gotten their act together.
And my patience is running out with the Republican National Committee.
It just is.
For president.
Because I've been saying it now for years and then not fixing it.
There's no excuse in my mind.
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