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	You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
	The Political Cesspool, going across the South and worldwide, as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
	And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
	All right, everybody.
	Welcome to another live broadcast of the Political Cesspool radio program.
	This is normally the part of the show that I tell you what day it is.
	I can't do that tonight because I'm not sure myself and still not back to my home studio.
	This is what, the third or fourth week in a row, but I have a good excuse for you this time.
	A little bit of a surprise, something we've been working on behind the scenes for the last couple of months.
	I spent the last week in Cleveland, Ohio at the Republican National Convention.
	And boy, do I have a story for you.
	Yes, indeed.
	Yours truly, James Edwards of the Political Cesspool, along with Sam Bushman of the Liberty News Radio Network and his associates.
	We were there at the center of the political universe.
	It aligned in Cleveland, Ohio.
	And you probably saw a little bit of that on TV, heard a little bit about that on the news.
	We were there, and we're going to give you the inside information on exactly what took place from our perspective over the course of tonight's live broadcast.
	We met a lot of interesting people, did a lot of great interviews.
	It was a collaborative effort, and this network has never been more in the center of things.
	It all started back on April the 26th of this year.
	I received an email entitled, please join us and broadcast live from the 2016 Republican National Convention.
	And at first, I just thought, well, that would be a novelty.
	That would be nice, certainly, to go to something like that.
	But there's the wear and tear.
	There's the expense.
	Do I really want to do it?
	I was leaning towards no.
	I forwarded it over to a few of my confidants, people on whom I rely for their opinions and guidance.
	And anyway, after a little cajoling, it started to look more and more like perhaps we should take advantage of this opportunity.
	After all, this is Donald Trump we're talking about, the Trump convention, and it would be a unique opportunity to go and do something like that.
	So we talked about it, mulled it over for several weeks, and then finally decided to bite the bullet, take the plunge, go and enjoy those ridiculously overpriced hotels, and the rest is history.
	We actually ended up renting a very, very nice house, and it was just an amazing experience to be there and to be so close to the Quick and Loans Arena where all the action was taking place.
	But fast forward to last week, I had business in Memphis that delayed my departure until three o'clock on Monday afternoon.
	So of course, as you know, the convention started bright and early on Monday morning, at least the early proceedings.
	I had business.
	I had a few things I had to finish ironing out before I got up there.
	So I left and I drove.
	I decided to drive rather than fly.
	And as you know, as I've told my audience before on a few occasions, I like to drive sometimes when it's a particularly long trip because I am so busy, I never have a chance to return phone calls unless I'm cooped up in a car with nothing else to do for hours upon hours.
	And so that's what I did.
	I did expect to leave a little earlier than 3 p.m. because that didn't put me in Cleveland until about 3 a.m.
	And then I had to be up at 6 a.m.
	So you're talking about two and a half hours of sleep.
	But talked to a lot of people on the way up there.
	Had a good time doing that.
	Got to the house.
	I will tell you this, though.
	As soon as I crossed the state line from Kentucky into Ohio, I instantly and immediately felt that I was away from home.
	You can take this southern boy, put me in Arlington, Virginia, all the way over to Corpus Christi, Texas, from Louisville, Kentucky there, bordering Indiana, all the way down to Key West, Florida, and I will be at home.
	But as soon as I crossed that border into Ohio, I knew I was in enemy territory, or at least not among my own people.
	But you know what?
	Ohio was great.
	The people in Cleveland were fine, not quite as cordial and welcoming as Southerners.
	And I'm talking about the locals there, except for our hostess, the lady from whom we rented the house.
	She was outstanding and completely phenomenal.
	But anyway, of course, everybody who was anybody in the political world, at least the side of the political world that matters to us, was there.
	And boy, did I see a lot of them.
	Get to the house at 3 a.m.
	Get let in by our associate, Sam Bushman, owner of Liberty News Radio Network, and his co-host Kurt Crosby snoozing away.
	And I get just a couple of hours and then we're up and off to the races.
	We go downtown.
	We have chauffeur service too, by the way, I might add.
	We go downtown and you go through this labyrinth of security.
	I mean, it's like going into the green zone in Iraq.
	But we have our credentials.
	We have our credentials for the perimeter of the area.
	And of course, we have our credentials for the radio row, the media row, and for the convention floor for arena seating.
	We got all access.
	I will tell you, I was a little bit concerned last week.
	We have domestic terror groups like Black Lives Matter killing police officers on a weekly basis now.
	We have ISIS killing people in Europe every week now.
	And with that climate of lawlessness that has been aided and abetted by the Obama administration and certainly the media at large, it was a little concerning to go to Cleveland knowing that so many people had promised violence there, so many of Trump's opponents.
	But getting back to this labyrinth of security, it was absolutely hassle-free.
	I cannot say enough good things about the Secret Service.
	They had platoons of police officers that had poured in from all over the country.
	We talked to highway troopers from California, from Utah, from everywhere.
	And every one of them was exceedingly gracious, exceedingly nice.
	It was less hassle to get in and out of this high secure venue with snipers on the roof and everything else you could have imagined to keep the peace and to keep everyone safe.
	Less of a hassle getting in and out of there than it was going through your regular TSA checkpoint at any given airport in this country.
	They looked at your credentials.
	They saw who you were.
	Didn't even check your ID.
	You had the credentials.
	You had obviously already been thoroughly vetted by any number of security organizations like the Secret Service.
	And we went through a couple of rigorous background checks to be sure.
	But you felt 100% secure and it was 100% hassle-free.
	And I don't know how you blend those two together, but the people who were in charge of safety and security in Cleveland, those various organizations, did just an absolutely phenomenal job.
	So we got the lay of the land that first day going in and out, how you get in and out, where you can be dropped off, where you get picked up.
	And it was just amazing.
	Amazing how they did that.
	So I walk in.
	Now, keep in mind, this is the second day for Sam and Kurt.
	And the first day for me.
	So I spend most of the first day getting the lay of the land, walking around, seeing where everything's at.
	I will tell you that we were positioned right by CNN.
	Our booth, the booth for Liberty News Radio, was positioned right by CNN.
	My old friends, you'll remember them from a few years ago when I used to go on TV with them.
	Well, I'll tell you how that went and I'll continue the story.
	And it's a long story.
	We're going to spend all three hours tonight talking about it, what I saw, what we did, what we heard, who we interviewed.
	It's all forthcoming tonight at the RNC Convention Special here on TPC.
	Stay tuned.
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	All right, everybody.
	Welcome back to the Political Cess Poll talking about our adventure to the center of the political universe as it was aligned last week in Cleveland, Ohio.
	And I mentioned, and I'll continue on with the story in just a second, but we got this email back in April.
	And with my show airing on Saturday nights and the convention running from Monday through Thursday, that was another thing that I was considering.
	Well, it really doesn't make sense for me to go.
	I mean, yeah, I guess it would.
	I could go up there and observe and report and write an article and tape a few interviews.
	But I'm still not going to be broadcasting live.
	I guess it would be fun to see Trump speak.
	I was thinking about all of these things.
	But once it became a collaborative effort with Sam Bushman, whose Liberty Roundtable show does broadcast live on weekdays, they're a daily show.
	We're a weekly show.
	Then we started thinking that we'll just all go in on this together.
	Both of our shows, the network in general, and Sam, I should mention this, Sam Bushman and Kirk Crosby and the Liberty Roundtable show, they had a phenomenal run broadcasting live Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from Media Row right there in the middle of everyone.
	And as I mentioned, I left late out of Memphis and missed the first day of the convention.
	I called up there to see how it was going, if they got in okay, what the experience was like thus far.
	And they said, well, on one side of us is Don King.
	On the other side is Lou Dobbs.
	And that wasn't on their particular show, but in the booth to their immediate right and to the booth to their immediate left was Don King and Lou Dobbs.
	Just to give you an idea of some of the people you run into up there.
	But I mentioned we were positioned right next to CNN.
	They had the media in three different quadrants.
	Well, I don't guess that would be a quadrant.
	That would be four, but in three different areas.
	Triads.
	A triad.
	They had an area for radio programs, which we were in, although CNN had a remote television location, a little semi-studio there and encased glass.
	This was all in a converted parking garage.
	When you go to a Cleveland Cavaliers game at Quick and Loans Arena, you would go into the parking garage, park, and they converted a parking garage like that, just like you would see in any major arena in the country, converted that into a fully functional office space with lights, air conditioning, completely enclosed, walls, cubicles for all the booths, security tables, a high-speed internet.
	It had to be a billion-dollar production.
	I'm telling you, not just the whole thing, our part included, had to be.
	And then you had a skywalk that connected the parking garage over to the Quick and Loans Arena.
	And from there, of course, you had access to the seats to watch.
	You could go down to the floor and pretty much do what you needed to do as long as you had the proper passes.
	But so here we were, our booth, along with, well, really everyone.
	Fox News Radio had a huge setup there.
	I mentioned CNN, Sirius XM, Breitbart, USA Today, NBC News, BBC Radio, Skype had a booth there.
	And still now I'm trying to figure out what they were doing.
	CBS News, Real Clear Politics, ABC News, everybody who was anyone in media was there.
	We were there in the radio area with all of these people I just mentioned.
	Then they had a separate TV area.
	Most of the TV networks were set up in the arena itself in the luxury boxes that you would rent out if you were a high wheeler going to watch a basketball game or a high roller, I should say, a big wheeler.
	And so they had most of the TV setups there in the arena.
	The radio was in the area that I just mentioned to you.
	And then you could take a media shuttle a couple of blocks down the road.
	And at the Cuyahoga County Convention Center, they had just thousands upon thousands of square feet on that convention center floor, just a short shuttle ride away.
	That was for all the print media.
	So they had radio in one area, which is where we were, TV in another area in the arena where they could have, of course, video of what was going on on the floor.
	And then the print was in a separate area.
	But just milling around, you just ran into someone everywhere you turned.
	Everywhere you turned.
	Just some of the people I talked to over the course of the week.
	And I wrote a few of these down.
	I'll never be able to get to them all.
	We'll get to some of these interviews later on in this program.
	But I'll tell you somebody who was a complete and total gentleman was Dan Rather.
	I ran into Dan Rather, talked to him for a few minutes.
	Tom Brokall was there.
	Ted Coppel, talked to him.
	Alan West was there.
	Stephen Baldwin, the actor, very nice guy.
	Talked to him for a few minutes.
	We ran into Ben Carson a couple of times.
	I didn't see Mike Huckabee, although Sam and Kurt did enter into the facilities with Mike Huckabee on the first day.
	Alan Combs, Dennis Kucinich, we ran into him in one of the corridors at the arena, talked to him.
	Sam Bushman had Dinesh D'Souza on his program.
	I talked to him for a few minutes, and that was actually a very good interview.
	And Coulter, we talked to.
	I'll tell you one funny story, and I won't mention his name, but I had a few minutes of downtime, and I was talking to this gentleman.
	We were just standing there, and I introduced myself, and he asked me where I was from.
	I said, and I didn't know who this guy was.
	I didn't know.
	I just figured he was just another guy with the press.
	He didn't have a badge on.
	And I just said, hey, I'm James.
	And he told me his name, his first name.
	Again, I'm not going to tell you who that is.
	And he said, where are you from?
	I said, I'm from Tennessee.
	Oh, what part?
	Memphis.
	Oh, man.
	I was down in Memphis a couple of years ago, did some bike riding there.
	Really enjoyed your city.
	I said, well, come on back anytime you want.
	You might want to avoid the summer because you can't go outside without melting.
	And we just laughed and we just didn't have a lot of time, but spent a couple of minutes with him.
	And then I asked him, I said, well, it was nice talking to you.
	Which network are you with?
	He goes, oh, no, I'm not with any network.
	I'm the governor of a particular state.
	And sure enough, that's exactly who he was.
	And so just sitting there hobnobbing with the governor.
	In fact, Sam Bushman interviewed on his program, the governor of Utah, who was kind enough to wait for Sam to finish up an interview with the Attorney General of Utah.
	And these guys were just standing there and they were complete and total gentlemen.
	Now, again, I talked to a lot of members of the United States House of Representatives.
	I have no doubt that these people didn't know who we were because I didn't know who they were.
	I mean, I'm sitting here talking to a governor, didn't have any idea who he was.
	And in fact, it became even a running joke.
	I would ask a lot of these congressmen for their cars.
	He goes, I know, you don't know who I am.
	It's okay.
	And we'd get the card and I'd see who they were and where they were from.
	And we'd talk a little bit.
	And so these people didn't know who we were.
	We were there as credentialed press, but you can't know everyone you talk to.
	know undoubtedly the media is going to attack with their vicious and malicious lies and distortions and grotesque caricatures anyone and everyone that we might have run into for having talked to us because we're independent media according to their warped opinions we probably shouldn't have been there but no I say we absolutely should have been there you know why we should have been there because we were invited to be there We accepted an invitation to be there.
	We didn't solicit the invitation.
	It was given to us.
	We accepted it.
	We're a legitimate radio program and a legitimate radio network.
	We have First Amendment rights and our audience deserves to be represented as well.
	But this was how it went for four days, for four days.
	And I will say this.
	I spent a lot more time talking to the elected officials and delegates and fellow travelers than I did the press.
	Every single gentleman and lady there was just top flight in person.
	I don't know if I would agree with their politics or if they would agree with mine, but everybody was completely cordial and friendly and convivial.
	And it was just a wonderful experience.
	It was like you were in an alternate universe where everything was operating in perfect harmony.
	And as I said, if the media wants to go after people for having talked to us, then again, they're going to have to eat some of their own.
	They're going to have to eat up Alan Combs.
	They're going to have to eat up Dan Rather.
	They're going to have to eat up a lot of these other folks.
	And believe me, believe me, the ones I'm able to rattle off off the top of my head ain't the half of it.
	That's just what I can remember right now after having slept about eight hours in the last four days, it seems.
	Some of the people that I enjoy talking to most, obviously, well, I'll tell you later.
	Stay tuned on this break, and when we come back, we'll talk a little bit more about the behind-the-scenes stuff, and then we'll get into some of these interviews that we taped.
	Stay tuned.
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	So, what I'm going to do, folks, I've taped about, I don't know, a dozen interviews, short interviews, between two and eight minutes they all were.
	And we're going to play some of those for you in the second and third hours this evening.
	So, stay tuned for that.
	Very interesting array of diverse individuals.
	Speaking of diverse individuals, one of the things that was interesting is that with Sam Bushman broadcasting live, his Liberty Roundtable show, each day of the convention, he was able to pull people in live.
	This whole place is buzzing, just swarming with celebrities, elected officials, and all of these radio shows are just scooping them up.
	They're just going down the line one after the other.
	You can't remember who you talked to.
	I can't remember all the people I interviewed.
	I had to write it down.
	But Sam had an interesting assortment of guests live on his radio program.
	I taped interviews with totally different people, and then there was a couple that we interviewed together.
	So it was just a good assortment, a good variety.
	A Duke's mixture, if you will, of how we did that.
	Sam had different guests than live than what I was taping for tonight's live broadcast.
	And then a couple of them we shared and are going to be on both programs.
	But just to give you a rundown, because I really want you to go back and check out the coverage provided by Liberty Roundtable, LibertyRoundtable.com.
	That is the program, of course, hosted by Liberty News Radio network owner Sam Bushman.
	Each day of this week, Friday, he was still in Cleveland, though not at the media center.
	They had closed that down.
	But Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
	Listen to just some of the people he interviewed.
	He interviewed Jamie Kirchik from the Daily Beast.
	So this is a neoconservative Jewish individual who has attacked us in the past, specifically attacked me, but had a very friendly interview with this guy.
	No hard feelings, you know.
	He had an author like Richard Engel, and Kirchik said he was willing to come back.
	But I just want to say, because I know the media is preparing an onslaught for us having been there.
	They're going to go hysterical.
	They're going to be trolled and triggered by this.
	They just can't help it.
	And they're going to go into the same old lies they've always said.
	But let me just give you a rundown.
	So we had that fella, or Sam did rather, Richard Engle, author of The Last American Presidents.
	You got a commentator.
	You got an author.
	He had a member of the RNC Rules Committee on.
	He had a Trump delegate from New York on.
	Alan West, Colonel Alan West, you know, that's something all white supremacist networks do.
	They interview Alan West.
	He was on Sam Bushman's program just for a couple of seconds.
	He was going to be there longer, but we ran out of time.
	Sam had a very interesting interview with Representative Al Baldassaro out of New Hampshire.
	He is a veteran co-chair for Donald Trump, and he is a liaison for Trump with military veterans, a very interesting, very animated, vivacious guy.
	Sam interviewed David Barton of WallBuilders.com.
	David Barton has gone on the record saying this is the most conservative Republican platform that has ever been implemented, going back more than 100 years.
	He said that what they were able to accomplish in the working sessions of the convention produced the most conservative platform in Republican Party history, at least according to this guy who's an authority on the subject.
	Sam interviewed Elbert Goroy, who is a black state senator, rather a former black state senator in Louisiana.
	He interviewed Dinesh D'Souza talking about his upcoming movie, Hillary's America.
	He interviewed, there's just so many.
	I really can't go through all of them.
	He interviewed, as I mentioned, the governor of Utah, the Attorney General of Utah, Utah Congressman Rob Bishop.
	I actually sat in on that one.
	And it goes on and on and on.
	So this is what you're getting.
	And that is in addition to, of course, he had a very interesting conversation with a black female radio host.
	And they had a conversation about racism that I think everybody should take a look at.
	But this is just a sampling.
	And this is in addition to all of the commentary.
	I was on Sam's show for three of the days that we were up in Cleveland.
	And so in addition to these guests, we're still breaking down what we're seeing live, who's walking by the booth, what's going on.
	And Sam was able to cover that.
	And so now, in addition to the coverage he provided on his program throughout the week, I'm trying to be the closer here and do it for the political Cesspool audience tonight on Saturday as I am live.
	We mentioned CNN.
	CNN was very nice.
	The people working for CNN, they had a commissary.
	They had a little remote commissary right next to our booth.
	And we ate for free every day.
	In fact, our mission was to eat so much food, we'd bankrupt CNN.
	We'll find out if we were able to accomplish that.
	But if we didn't, it wasn't for lack of trying.
	They were very gracious, fed us all for free.
	And then we had lunch.
	I think it was on NBC's time.
	You went up the elevator, and you could go to this area called media feeding.
	And it just sounds like a little.
	Facebook even fed us for free one day.
	Listen, everybody's a gentleman at a convention, I guess.
	It was sort of like, I'll tell you what it was like.
	It was like that Christmas Eve or Christmas Day in World War I where the Germans and the Americans and British came out and sang Christmas carols together.
	That's what I felt like and exchanged gifts.
	That's what I felt like.
	We're with all of these people who have been so rotten to us and will be rotten again next week, to be sure.
	But we had a good time with them and they with us.
	We had a little ceasefire for four days.
	And it'll be interesting to see what kind of treatment we get next week now that the cat's out of the bag.
	But as far as it went, as far as we could throw it, it was a pretty enjoyable time, and everybody got along.
	No incidents, no hard.
	Yeah, they couldn't recognize me without my horns, even though my name tag clearly identified who I was.
	My lanyard, and we had great lanyards.
	We had the Secret Service logo on the lanyards.
	I'll save those forever.
	Those will be worth something one day.
	If I get in the hot pickle, I can sell them.
	But we have a caller now.
	Let's go quickly to a caller all the way out in Ireland, Ireland.
	Gene, how are you?
	Okay, I'm a little bit disturbed after hearing William Griggs, you know, program right before this.
	Okay.
	I mean, I didn't listen to it, so you're going to have to educate me.
	Well, he used a pretty fancy vocabulary, and I don't know if I can rehash it, but it sounds like Trump wants to embody the whole country in him, similar to the way Hitler did in Germany.
	Well, that's certainly the way the media is going to spend it.
	I think they had a concerted effort to write out that his speech was dark.
	I saw about 40 headlines with the word dark and vengeful in his speech.
	I thought it was an incredible speech.
	Listen, the whole Hitler comparisons, I'm so tired of that.
	Hitler has nothing to do with what's going on today.
	That's the left-wing's game, is to compare everybody to Hitler and Klansmen and racists and Nazis and all of that.
	Donald Trump is not Hitler, and Hitler had nothing to do with Donald Trump.
	We do need, though, a very strong, charismatic, alpha male leader, and Donald Trump is that guy.
	Well, I agree to that, but this other fellow, I don't think he's liberal.
	No, William, listen, William Grigg is, it just so happens to be a black host on this network, and he is a phenomenal guy.
	He's a conservative.
	He's far a Christian, certainly a constitutionalist.
	I have a great deal of respect for William Grigg.
	And I'm sure his commentary had a lot of merit.
	I just don't see that.
	Well, according to what he said, I don't know if I can remember it very well, but Trump.
	One thing that bothers me, bear in mind, I don't take the liberal position at all.
	Sure, I appreciate that.
	On an intuitive level, this euphoria, this nervous euphoria, makes me feel uncomfortable.
	I mean, it's sort of like you're on a drug, everybody's on a drug trip, they're all high.
	It bothers me.
	Well, I'll pause you right there.
	I think there's every bit of reason.
	I heard one person put it this week, and I actually put something similar on the website.
	Pat Buchanan lost the battles in 1992 and 1996, but won the war in 2016.
	There is so much parallel between Donald Trump's positions on trade, immigration, and other issues.
	He is not the social conservative that I wish you would be when it comes to right-to-life issues and the homosexual question, but on a lot of issues that we need to settle and settle fast.
	He is very Buchanan-esque in these regards.
	And so, for that reason, I would say I'm as euphoric as I've ever been about a candidate since Buchanan.
	And it's been a long time since 92 and 96.
	And so, America with Trump has a chance, if he is at all sincere, to turn a corner to go in an economic populist direction, to go in an America first, in a nationalist direction.
	And we have to take that path.
	We have to take that fork in the road, or it's going to be all over.
	And for that reason, I'm as excited as I've ever been.
	I can say that.
	I don't know if it's a drug-like-induced state of euphoria, but it's pretty darn good.
	It's a pretty darn good feeling.
	I'll let you have the final word, and then we got to run.
	Is it very, very centralized?
	I mean, if you could, I don't see much of well, I appreciate you calling.
	Will he be a centralized?
	Will he be sort of fascist-like?
	I mean, I can see some of that in terms of his persona, but he's certainly not going to be able to rule that way because of the way our laws and governing bodies are set up, the three branches of government.
	But we'll be back.
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	All right, everybody.
	Getting back to that last caller very quickly, and we lost him there at the last minute.
	But I was talking.
	Keith Alexander is actually with me right now, but we are not at our normal studio setup, so he doesn't have a mic, and I'm broadcasting via Skype tonight because it's taken me four weeks to get back to Memphis, it seems.
	But Keith said that it's the 11th hour, and we need some strong medicine in terms of Trump.
	Is he an authoritarian-like figure?
	Yes, but you know, I don't have a problem with that.
	Some of the best-run governments in history have been those ruled by a benevolent dictator, however, or a benevolent king.
	Of course, the only problem with that is once that king dies, the next guy might not be so benevolent.
	And so that's why we were blessed with the Constitution and the form of government that we had.
	And we don't want to be a beautiful loser as opposed to an ugly winner.
	So I'm going to go with Trump.
	In fact, Ryance Priebus said this week in Cleveland that I wrote this down.
	Let me find it.
	Well, my notes.
	God have mercy, folks, if you can see what I'm trying to work with here tonight.
	He said something along the lines.
	I'll paraphrase.
	Our way of doing it hasn't worked.
	So let's give Trump a shot in terms of it was a little tongue-in-cheek comment on the failures of the campaigns of Mitt Romney and John McCain to produce a winner.
	Let's go in a different direction.
	I want to say this.
	I was there in Cleveland for all of it.
	Everything you watched on TV, everything that happened this week at the Republican National Convention saved the first day, I was there.
	So if you, dear members of the political cesspool listening audience, have a question, a question, I'm trying my best to paint a verbal picture, just a once over of how it went and how it looked to you.
	But if you have a question, email me, jamesedwards at thepolitical cesspool.org.
	A long email address, to be sure, but I think you can handle it.
	JamesEdwards at thepolitical cesspool.org.
	Email me your questions about the RNC, and I'll tell you if I can answer it from someone who was there on the ground.
	We have one from Kim who has just come in, wondering if you got to talk with Lou Dobbs.
	I did not talk to Lou Dobbs only because he was there, but he was there the first day while I was still traveling.
	In fact, I called up to see what was going on, and that's when I was told that Lou Dobbs was sitting at the next booth over.
	But Lou Dobbs was doing the stuff that Trump's trying to do on immigration before Trump ever considered it.
	And Lou Dobbs was really the only voice in media, along with Pat Buchanan in the middle part of the last decade to be holding the line.
	And I would have liked to have met him, but I didn't.
	Buchanan was not there.
	That was another question.
	Buchanan was not there.
	And Coulter was.
	We talked to her.
	And we'll play that later on in the show tonight.
	Interested in getting a description of the crowd when Ted Cruz spoke.
	Also, well, that was very much like you saw on TV.
	I think the crowd was willing to give him a chance.
	I think he had the crowd until the very end when he refused to endorse Donald Trump.
	Also, I know that he had 10 minutes allotted to speak.
	I don't think this has been reported by a lot of press, but I know this from having been there and having talked to a few people.
	The Trump campaign allotted Ted Cruz 10 minutes to speak.
	He spoke for 23 minutes.
	That's why Donald Trump was kind of rushed out there at the end when it became apparently obvious that he was not going to endorse Trump.
	You had to get him out of there.
	They didn't want to, I guess, get the wooden cane and get it around his neck and give him the hook.
	But he was supposed to speak for 10 minutes.
	He spoke for 23.
	He did not endorse Trump.
	He had the crowd until the end.
	And then when that became obvious, you heard the booze.
	You heard the booze.
	What was it like to hear Trump speak?
	To be in Cleveland on the night that Donald Trump accepted that nomination was something I'll never forget.
	To actually be in Cleveland when that happened was incredible.
	And I will tell you another thing.
	I was in the arena when New York put him over the top.
	They went out of sequence.
	They were going through the, when they did the roll call vote for the delegates to cast their votes during the nominating process.
	They started with Alaska and we're going down the list.
	They went out of order to let New York be the state that officially put him over the top.
	And it would have been Pennsylvania otherwise, but they let the New York step in line to put him over the top to be in that building when that happened.
	And I took a picture of myself standing with the backdrop.
	It said over the top in gold.
	That was obviously an historic moment.
	To be in that arena, the moment that it became official that Donald Trump was going to be, not the presumptive nominee, but in fact the nominee, was very great.
	Also, I'll tell you another little thing.
	They had a ticker in the arena that was broadcasting tweets with the hashtag RNCNCLE, RNC in Cleveland.
	If you put that hashtag, I guess they had a staffer that was pulling some of those and broadcasting them on the ticker in the arena that rotated in a circular motion around the arena, and it had just a bunch of different tweets.
	I looked up and saw a tweet from the VDARE Twitter account, and I took a picture of it.
	I was the one who took that picture.
	That actually made a lot of news.
	I took a picture, and I called Peter Brimilo right there from the arena.
	I said, Peter, you're not going to believe this, but the RNC is broadcasting a tweet from V-DAR live on the marquee right now.
	And I texted him the picture, and he texted it to his lieutenants, and they put it up on VDARE.
	I actually texted him a couple of pictures because they ran two different V-DAR tweets, but I was the one who took the picture.
	I sent it over to Peter.
	Peter sent it to his guys that run the website.
	They put it up, and then it made some news stories.
	And of course, Donald Trump had no right talking or retweeting people who actually want to do the same things that Trump wants to do, which is to implement a secure border.
	So that was supposed to be bad, I guess.
	But anyway, I love V-DAR.
	I love Brimolow.
	He's a great patriot.
	He's a good guy.
	Been on this show.
	We exchanged Christmas cards every year.
	So I was happy to be able to be the one to send that picture to Brimolow.
	And he was, of course, happy to use it.
	And he was in Cleveland.
	I didn't see him.
	I was inside the whole time.
	He was doing some other things.
	I know he went to an Anculture book signing.
	Richard Spencer was there engaging in some street theater.
	Richard had a pass for the arena, although I didn't run into Richard either.
	We were in contact a couple of times and tried to make it happen, but either one or the other of us never could get it in gear.
	There were some other members of the alt right there engaging in some street theater and some live video blogging.
	And that's great.
	Charles Johnson was there.
	Milo Yiannopoulos, the most recent martyr on Twitter, Milo Yiannopoulos, was there, and we talked to him.
	And we're going to play that for you in the second hour as well.
	Twitter kicked Milo Yiannopoulos off.
	He is an outspoken supporter of Trump.
	Oh, I'll tell you another guy I ran into, Roger Stone, got a picture with Roger Stone.
	He was an interesting character.
	I was telling you, it's not possible for me.
	I didn't write it all down before the show started.
	It's impossible for me to really tell you everything.
	So that's why I'm asking for you to send me a few emails.
	I'm having random brain flashes here.
	So do email me if you have a specific question about the convention that I can answer.
	James Edwards at thepolitical cesspool.org.
	But certainly to be there, it should go without saying for a candidate that could be good for this country.
	If he follows through on any of his campaign promises, he's going to be very, very good.
	But he has the potential, and that's more than we've had in the past.
	Some of my takeaways, though, hugely impressed.
	I was hugely impressed, and we kept talking about this on the ground up there, with the authenticity and sincerity of the Trump family.
	One of the biggest things that was impressed upon me at that convention was watching his sons, his daughters, and his wife rally behind their patriarch and set an inspirational example of how a healthy family should operate.
	I was particularly inspired by the speeches that Donald Jr. and Eric Trump gave.
	The content was matched only by their delivery, and you could see the passion in their eyes as they talked about their father.
	You will not see anything like that at the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia this week.
	And before the media descends on the RNC, I will tell you this.
	We were also invited to cover the Democratic Convention, and we turned that invitation down.
	I want to be very clear about that.
	We had the opportunity to go to both conventions.
	We chose this one and not the other.
	But going back to Trump's family, so hugely impressing.
	I was impressive.
	I was speaking as a husband and a father, I'll tell you that these presentations from the heart were tremendously moving to watch.
	Donald Trump is a blessed man to have a family like that.
	And I think his sons really stole the show.
	Very passionate, very real, very intelligent.
	And their content was quite good.
	Of course, Melania, his wife, spoke as well.
	Donald Trump had an interesting tweet about that.
	The media spent more time going over the forensics of her speech and comparing which line may have read somewhat like a line written for Michelle Obama than they did going through Hillary Clinton's emails, the investigation.
	But it was great to have his wife there too.
	I just think that really speaks loudly and we need more families like that.
	Some of the other speakers were good too.
	I was very happy to see Tony Perkins there, a fellow hate group leader, Tony Perkins of the American Family Association.
	It's good to have good, decent Christian men.
	And of course, that hate group leader thing is tongue-in-cheek, although he is, in fact, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center's warped opinion, a hate group leader, as am I.
	So focus on the family, the American Family Association, Family Research Council.
	They're all hate groups, I believe.
	And so it was hate groups united up there at the RNC, I guess, if you count being Christian family men, decent law-abiding citizens.
	And that's another thing.
	That's what we really are.
	You ask me who I am.
	I'm a Christian.
	And in this order, I might add.
	A Christian, a husband, a father, a southerner, a paleoconservative, and to be sure, a populist and a European American advocate.
	And I was happy to be among some people that were like that in Cleveland this week.
	We'll be back with more.
	We're going to unload some of these interviews coming up next day.
	Another hour of the political session is in the can, but don't go away.

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