Episode 330 Scott Adams: The Two Mueller Movies, With Delicious Coffee

Date: 2018-12-09 | Duration: 51:25

Topics

CNN legal experts continue finding things that aren’t a crime… …but they’re almost a crime, if things were different John Dean says congress has to impeach President Trump now Hypnosis to cure addiction, about a third succeed Hypnosis only works when the patient wants the outcome The variable that predicts success is desire to kick You have to HATE your addiction in order for hypnosis to help Would the founders have written the constitution differently… …if they were aware of the internet and current technology? Thought experiment: 2 sets of healthcare laws or gun ownership Opt in for one set of laws, or be subject to the other set Establish method for transition from one set to another Will Trump legalize weed federally before the election? Why I don’t drink alcohol or think it’s good, even in moderation Pleasure Unit Theory: Humans need a certain amount of pleasure… …in order to not kill themselves Lack of pleasure causes people to seek it where they can Will the countries who restrict/control immigration best… …be the ones who thrive in the future? Limited unskilled jobs VS. unlimited incoming people President Trump’s Paris Accord tweet President Trump’s “The Dick” tweet

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Joanne you're so fast hey Tyler hey Jeremy get in here I think you know what time it is hey Finland Finland in the house it's time for coffee with Scott Adams that's me you know who you are and if you're prepared you already have your coffee it might be a different beverage but I like coffee join me if you will grab your stein your glass your cup your mug your your container of any kind lift it to your lips and enjoy the simultaneous sip all right happy birthday to whoever's birthday that is
hi hi so I've been trying to catch up with the news I'm a man in town at the

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with the news I'm a man in town at the moment I'm up in Utah 8,000 8,000 feet above sea level it took me a few days to get over the altitude sickness but I'm back and as I'm reading all the the stories and I like to check CNN first it seems to be it's going to be non-stop Muller stories Mulder this and Cohen that and Manafort that and etc and it's fascinating absolutely fascinating to watch the two movies develop in one movie let's say the one that President Trump is writing and directing Muller's filing so far show no evidence of any problematic crimes and so the president says totally totally in the clear well he's not wrong in the sense that I haven't seen

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in the sense that I haven't seen anything that would put him in much trouble but if you read the CNN version of the world the separate movie there's this weird thing happening that from my perspective and of course I could be bias and probably probably am certainly I'm but it seems to me that CNN keeps finding legal people who will write nonsense lists of things that are not crimes and are not going to be a big problem but if they have enough of them they can create this story where it looks like there is so for example yeah if you read CNN you'll read story after story today from people who have law degrees of one kind or another who will say things like this well the President or somebody did something that wasn't a crime but it was very close to one you

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crime but it was very close to one you could imagine could be illegal if things were like that were illegal so for example having conversations about a project in Russia when you're not president and you think you probably won't win and you're keeping your options over open is not a crime but it feels like sort of close to something that if the situation were different and some of the variables were you know opposite such as he was president or there was a quid pro quo something like that well that would be a crime now nothing that he did or has been the president did or has been accused of is an actual crime then we look at the the payments for stormy in mcdougal now you could make an argument that if you use campaign money to do something like

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campaign money to do something like you've got a some kind of a secret campaign reporting problem but there was also a perfectly good reason to do it for personal reasons in other words just to keep his family out of the and of the blowback and if you have a perfectly good personal reason to do something but it's also happens to be good for your campaign I believe Outlander she which would say that's not illegal it's something that feels like it's sort of close to almost being legal if things were a little bit different than what they were now you say to yourself oh sure Scott that's technically not illegal and if it went to court there's not much chance that the president would have any real jeopardy but if you add that thing that's not quite illegal - the other thing about the Russian project which is also not illegal you're starting to see

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also not illegal you're starting to see a pattern of all these things that are not illegal but together they mean something that's a terrible jeopardy for the president and then of course there's Manafort crimes which had nothing to do with collusion or Trump but Manafort committed real crimes and he was on the you know yours on the team of the president for a few months so that's not exactly a crime of the president but it's close to it in a way that makes you reminded of a crime that's almost illegal if some of the variables were different than the way we know they are and you can go right down the line from Flynn to you know everything else and there's a lot of stuff but it all has exactly the same quality well that definitely would be a problem if it were a little bit different than

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if it were a little bit different than what actually happened so when I read the CNN stories honestly they look crazy you're brilliant discourse is proving the Special Counsel case pinhead so there's somebody here who thinks that what I said is proving the special counsels case what is the special counsels case have you heard it the the special counsels case is that a whole bunch of people did things that were maybe illegal in their cases and they were close to the president but none of it actually implicates the president in a crime that would be you know important in any way so it's it's fascinating to watch what appears to be it's hard to tell it's hard to tell if the people writing these articles are just political hacks who are just taking

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just political hacks who are just taking aside and supporting their side you can't really tell it if it's just that or they really believe what they're saying I actually can't tell what and that's the thing about reading the opinion pieces on CNN you read them and you don't really know if that's really their opinion or if they're just taking aside and doing the best they can to advocate for their side it it's really hard to sort that out
was it Howard Dean who had been Nixon's lawyer who went to jail for some Watergate related stuff I think Dean was saying what's his first name is it John Dean John Dean was saying that yeah John Dean sorry I heard Howard is the funny screeching guy so John Dean the Nixon's ex lawyer is saying that Congress almost

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ex lawyer is saying that Congress almost has to impeach the president at this point and I'm thinking to myself do they do they because they kind of have a choice does it because impeachment is not a criminal process and there's no chance that it will prevail in other words there's there's no real chance that the Senate is gonna is gonna let them remove the president so does it make any sense to say that Congress really has no choice they've got a started Pietschmann process I don't think so because Congress can make political decisions too they can decide that it's bad for politics bad for the country I doubt that one won't matter
and second and and then you also have to consider that John Dean is first of all a lawyer and second of all went to jail

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a lawyer and second of all went to jail how credible is he you know let me tell you if your lawyer goes to jail you can't trust that lawyer look at look at Cohen Cohen's a lawyer looks like he's gonna go to jail someday if if Cohen goes on CNN and gives you his legal opinion what are you gonna think about it are you gonna say well there's a credible guy because he's a lawyer and he went to jail so so CNN is sort of scraping the bottom of the lawyer barrel trying to find a lawyer who is willing to to say something that agrees with their their narrative all right should Trump pardoned his children you know if if it ever came to a point where Trump needed to pardon anyone and let's say

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needed to pardon anyone and let's say you could imagine there were several pardons that he could give if he were to give pardons you know anybody in his inner circle or whatever the funniest way to do that and you're gonna hate this but just just think about it try to try to not read back to your first thought when I give you this idea yeah you somebody says pardon for what so here we have to imagine that somebody is is accused of an actual crime who was part of Trump circle that he cares about now it could be Manafort yeah maybe Manafort okay I kind of doubt it but but let's say somebody finds something about a family member or something and he's going to do some and he's is going to what's the word he's going to pardon some people the funniest thing he could do would be

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the funniest thing he could do would be to pardon Hillary Clinton at the same time think about it think about if if the President had to pardon somebody in his circle and it would be very unpopular the funniest thing he could do is pardon Hillary Clinton at the same time because it would just totally screw up the criticisms you know it would it would turn it from I'm just protecting my you know my criminal friends that's how people would spin it and it would turn it into let's get past this phase let's let's all of us get past it and get on to the work of the the country it would be you'll be pretty funny somebody says yeah but he would not pardon her come on well I'm saying in the worst case scenario when he wants if he wanted to give some pardons and it was going to be politically dangerous that would be one way to do it

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Nancy riser you should let your husband shave his head if that sounds like a random statement it's because one of the comments asked me to say that so Nancy you know what to do now Scott talked about Kelly quitting yeah you know that the story about Kelly quitting and really all of the personnel stories they all have the same quality which is if you weren't in the room with those people and you haven't talked to them personally and you don't know them personally you really don't know much about anything so I see your comment about doing a periscope on hypnosis I'll talk about that in a minute so I don't have much to say about the John Kelly story except that it has to be a really hard job and I can't imagine anybody wanting to do it for a long time yeah there was a the president did a funny tweet about

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a the president did a funny tweet about dick Blumenthal who he is now apparently giving him is forever name as the dick so I think he just keeps getting funnier anyway I've been asked to talk about hypnosis in the context of addictions and using hypnosis to cure addiction and I will talk about that right now the bad news is hypnosis does not work for a curing addiction and there's a reason for that that is humorously obvious after you hear it hypnosis typically only works for things that you're willing to do the people who are still smoking still drinking still doing drugs they want to do those things the reason somebody takes a drink if they're alcoholic or smokes a cigarette if they're addicted to smoking is because they want to cigarette and they

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because they want to cigarette and they want to drink so hypnosis tends to be in a fair active for people who don't want to change or you know don't want to move in the direction of the hypnosis so where hypnosis does work is where you have no you have no mental blocks to it so in other words if you said I would like you to be more relaxed when you fly there's no part of you that wants to be afraid on a plane and so hypnosis could work for that but when it comes to quitting cigarettes or overeating or quitting opioids all those things all of those addictions have the same quality that the reason people can't do it themselves is because they want those things they want the food the alcohol the cigarette they want them they also want to not have them so they've got that you know balance there and the wanting to have him is a little stronger hypnosis is

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him is a little stronger hypnosis is marginally useful and when I say marginally what I mean is that the success rate of hypnosis for curing addictions whether it's eating or cigarettes or whatever else is about the same as any other process so in other words if you're using hypnosis to quit smoking or using some other program that's mental as opposed to physical and taking a pill about a third of the people succeed something like that and the and the reason is that the people who succeed are the people who have decided to deceive to succeed the the main variable in success getting off of an addiction the variable that matters the only one that's predictable is how badly they want it that's it and it's

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badly they want it that's it and it's not even want it's more like deciding you know when an alcoholic hits bottom if they hit bottom and they can see that it's just a horror and and darkness at the bottom people will sometimes quite often actually decide to live and decide that the addiction they don't want and when that decision is made they can use any variety of techniques and they're going to have better luck than if they had not made that decision what addicts want but it is impossible to have is a change of opinion or a change of preference and the hypnosis isn't going to do that for you so hypnosis can help if you've already decided to quit and it's a real decision but if you're just kidding yourself and you're saying I really like what I'm I like the drinks of the food or those cigarettes or anything else if you still really really like those things hypnosis

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really really like those things hypnosis isn't going to help you you've got to start hating those things for hypnosis to work in other words if you're a drinker and you hit bottom you can start to hate the alcohol and then maybe hypnosis or any other method would work so I guess my bottom line here is that hypnosis is not really a path for fixing addiction it's just one of the many tools that are likely to work if you've made the decision to quit does your son in law I don't have a son in law can hypnosis create an addict I can can hypnosis create an addict yes but not so much in the in the way that you think

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much in the in the way that you think you can't turn a non-addictive person into an addict with hypnosis if they don't want that to happen and why would they want that to happen but you could convince somebody that had a natural addiction in other words genetically they have addiction you could convince them to take a drink if they didn't think there was any problem with it so in the in the unique situation where somebody didn't mind having a drink or didn't mind taking in an opioid which I guess would be more rare situation you could get people to do something that would cause them to become addicted but you're not really hypnotizing them to addiction you might be persuading them to take a drink and then maybe they have the genes for an alcoholism so you get there indirectly the hypnosis pornographer I don't remember that was that a story in

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don't remember that was that a story in the news
yeah hypnosis you can't hypnotize someone to do something they have a internal objection to somebody says things going very badly for Trump in one movie that's true in another movie that is not true let me let me test an idea with you and this is a brand new idea so it might be bad but I'll run it by you when the Constitution was created it was created based on an understanding of the world being what it was at the time and of course they could not foresee the internet and the modern technology that would come after and so I ask you if the

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would come after and so I ask you if the if the founders who created the Constitution had the internet would they have written it the same way would the Constitution in the United States look the same if it had been created in an age of the Internet my thinking is no that it wouldn't be because they would take that into account and let me give you a situation where that sort of matters when we're talking about let's say health care we start with the assumption that if there are healthcare laws these laws will apply to every person in the United States that that's your basic assumption right don't you assume that laws apply to all the citizens now I would argue that that was the only practical way you could have laws when the founders wrote the Constitution it's the only thing that made sense everybody had to be the law had to apply to everyone

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had to apply to everyone voluntarily or everyone equally but fast forward to today so we have the internet and we have you know all kinds of digital resources so that we can tell that you and I are different people and I can tell what you're doing what you've agreed to do you can tell what I'm doing and what I've agreed to do under a lot of situations under a current situation we could have two sets of laws for example some people could opt in to universal health care they could sign a document that says I agree to be part of universal health care in this country but I also agree that only the people who have opted in will ever be on the hook for paying for it so even if it creates you know more debt only the people who opted in will ever be responsible for that portion of the debt now that's something we could do today because of computers and databases and

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because of computers and databases and the internet that could not have been done could not have been contemplated in the day of the Constitution's you know development and so I say to you why are we why are we discussing universal healthcare versus a more market-based system and acting as if we have to pick one because here's the thing we don't have to pick one we have the technology and very easily the capability to have both and the people who like one system can opt in and the people who don't like that system came out and we could even have rule about you know under what conditions you can move over to the other side as long as you can keep track of stuff as long as you can track things and measure things and monitor things as long as I can know what what voter paid how much in taxes and these are all the things we

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in taxes and these are all the things we can know because of technology we do not have to decide what the healthcare laws are for the country we can have two systems we could have three systems as long as you have some kind of rules for how do you how you move from one system to the other and and what it means to be in the system what what risks you're taking for what rewards let me think of another example you'll love this one what if we had two sets of laws for a gun ownership one set of people would say I choose to make it illegal for me to own a gun and then they could live in a world in which they don't have guns and other people could let's say under the condition that they're members of the NRA that's not the best example in the world but let's just go with that it could say that if you want to own a gun

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could say that if you want to own a gun you're also on the hook for some types of problems or taxes or law enforcement related to that so that people who are in favor of gun ownership could take on the extra cost that guns add to the system so for example there are lots of gun related crimes we probably have the capability to assign a budget to how many crimes are gun related and then the people who say I would like to be in the group of people who have guns would be the only ones who would pay that extra tax now there's more to guns than just taxes and money it's about life and death but the point is you could bifurcate the system and say the people who are against guns and they voluntarily sign something that says I will never own a gun would also never be on the hook to pay for any of the law enforcement or other costs of gun ownership they should

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other costs of gun ownership they should be exempt from the downside of guns if they choose not to own them and then the people who want guns maybe they pay for the cost of that freedom so that might not be the best idea but the larger point is that why do we act as though we have to have one set of laws for everyone because we really don't that that was a historical requirement that is obsolete because of the Internet now we can just opt into a program and live with those rules or not and we can track all that stuff
somebody said because in pluribus unum that doesn't mean anything I mean it's Latin for something but it doesn't really address the question what do you think about William bar as Attorney General don't know anything about him I'll let the people who know him weigh

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I'll let the people who know him weigh in on that same principle could be applied to abortion could it the difference is that abortion is life and death or at least it is to the people who are anti-abortion so that was sort of a special case you know it would be hard to say that murder would be legal for people who opted into it yeah so that would be tough
I was at freedom if you have to pay well we all we all pay taxes so paying taxes based on your behaviors is is now acceptable in normal will trump legalize marijuana federally before election it feels like if he hasn't done it already I don't know what he's waiting for this

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I don't know what he's waiting for this seems like Congress needs to handle that maybe not the president Scott can you elaborate on why you don't drink yes I can
can alcohol is poison and the more you drink the unhealthier you will be I do not believe the studies they say that the moderate drinkers live longer to me the odds of that being true are close to zero what's probably true is that there's a correlation because if you said if you say for example you know your neighbor can have one drink and and stop well that's probably a neighbor who does not have an addictive personality and probably knows how to moderate you have dangerous behaviors in general and it just applies to drinking as well so I think there are too many things to correlate with somebody who could have

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correlate with somebody who could have an occasional single drink than to say the drink itself is what makes them healthier it's probably somebody who has the ability to have just one drink probably has some social life probably has the you know the ability to not be addicted they don't have the addiction gene so if you put all that together I find it very unlikely that drinking alcohol in moderation is good for you I would say that Gaza that are close to zero but the reason that I originally stopped drinking was that I developed a a reaction to it that apparently some people have it's called a
on something sign it it is sigh tinnitus anyway so it's like an allergic reaction in other words it makes your head blow up with sinus problems and you can't breathe and stuff but it's not actually technically an allergic reaction because

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technically an allergic reaction because alcohol is not alive cannabis kills brain cells and so you get dumb I haven't I haven't I haven't noticed that but maybe I wouldn't notice because I lost too many brain cells isn't it a blood thinner and that can be good it seems unlikely that the negative elements of alcohol are are overcompensated by any positives in my break to me it just seems so unlikely I can't say it's impossible but it's unlikely yeah somebody is saying that these sulfites or what causes the bad reaction so if I if I eat salad dressing or anything that as sulfites in it and alcohol I have sulfites in it I have a serious allergic type reaction aspirin

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serious allergic type reaction aspirin is a blood thinner and the you had the latest studies I'm taking an aspirin are that it is BS unless you have a known heart risk and somebody saying that booze companies pay for the studies I don't know that to be the case but that's certainly the thing I would worry about yeah the baby aspirins apparently are not healthy or even a good risk unless you have doctor's orders and you have a some kind of heart risk
the other thing I learned when I stopped drinking is that I thought I had how to put this once I stopped drinking and I was only a weekend drinker and I didn't get didn't get too crazy but I felt it was an important part of my social life

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was an important part of my social life which it was but I realized that a lot of my friends my social friends were really just alcoholics and I'm talking about a lot of them so a lot of the people that I thought were just a we like to get together and have a few drinks I didn't realize that they also had a few drinks whether I was with them or not and that the the social life around drinking is almost a cover for people who are functional alcoholics so I would say that a great deal of my social friends were social were functional alcoholics meaning they held jobs and had families and stuff but they would they would sort of disguise it with an active social life so you'd say well of course they drank every day this week they had friends over every day this

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they had friends over every day this week and describing me and it hurts somebody says
yeah somebody else is talking about quitting drinking I'm pretty sure that my brain works better now that I don't drink because even if I just had you know a couple of martinis on a Saturday night Sunday wasn't a good day you know you could you could wake up and you knew your brain wasn't working as well as it should
once you stop drinking you realize how stupid people are when they drink yes it is very difficult to be around people drinking now that I don't everything that seemed fun and playful about it it

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that seemed fun and playful about it it doesn't look that same way anymore and it happens sort of immediately the same with weed somebody says
how many of you let me ask this how many of you are addicted to something and let's say that something is food but only if you're overweight if you're addicted to food but you have a good weight that's not really I wouldn't call it an addiction yeah what are your addictions how many of you are addicted to a drug and alcohol cigarettes food vaping pretty much everybody right I'm not entirely sure that people can be non addicted it feels as if addiction is a

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addicted it feels as if addiction is a requirement of life and the the best you can do is get yourself addicted to something that won't kill you so I'm addicted to coffee and I'm addicted to exercise and I'm addicted to periscopes I'd do it you know I could give you reasons why I do this I could tell you you know how it helps my business and blah blah but this but primarily the reason I do this is that I really like it I'm addicted to it I get something out of it and so I'll make excuses for why I keep doing it humans need addiction yeah the way I've said that is that I call it the pleasure unit of theory the pleasure unit theory goes like this humans need a certain amount of pleasure or else life isn't worth it if the only

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or else life isn't worth it if the only thing you did is avoid pain it wouldn't be enough to make you want to keep stay alive humans need a certain amount of pleasure to not kill themselves and so if I see somebody who's like saying poverty or they've got some deep problems and then they're also addicted to drugs to me it looks like a rational choice it's an unfortunate choice but it's a rational choice because if your life is terrible and you have no way to get play through normal acceptable ways but you can get pleasure from a drug that might make you dead in a little while it's probably rational to do the drug because if you can't get any happiness from your life you might as well have a shorter life and enjoy it while you can so I'm always have a lot of empathy for anyone

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always have a lot of empathy for anyone who is addicted to anything because it means that they're not getting enough pleasure and they're finding a destructive way to do it now so if this theory holds it would also follow that it would be easier to stay off of any addictive things if your life was providing you lots of pleasure so let's say for example you had a good relationships and you you enjoy your job and yeah you've got enough free time that you you do your hobbies and your you know your sports or whatever on the weekends and they're all great you would be a person who's getting lots of fun and lots of pleasure and you're lucky because you're getting them in all these healthy ways to me it seems that that person would be advantaged in getting off an addiction or not getting on one now of course there's a the genetic component is probably the biggest variable and all this but within the people who have the the addiction gene it's still easier probably to quit if

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it's still easier probably to quit if you have other good things going for you they can give you some pleasure have I ever talked about kratom I haven't but only because I don't feel like know enough about it when I try to read about kratom I see opinions on it that are so opposite you know oh it's the best thing ever it's dangerous I can't sort that out it's hard to tell what is the truth there what about stoicism I don't think it works for most people I think most people need a certain amount of pleasure in their life all right does anybody have any other questions the news is is like amazingly boring because of all this molar stuff that doesn't quite mean anything Joe Rogan said he's using it he'd be a good source China threatens

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he'd be a good source China threatens Canada with consequences over a rest of the way executive yeah you could expect that China will push hard and everybody's pushing hard on this trade stuff it's just normal that China would push back and it's normal that Canada and the US would push back on their push back
will Hillary go to jail no talk about the uprising in Europe yeah you know I'm starting to wonder if the only countries that will do well in the future are the countries that for whatever reason are

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countries that for whatever reason are immune to immigration now I realize that's a provocative thing to say but I wonder if you were to fast forward let's say 50 years into the future would the island countries be the ones doing the best in other words would Australia New Zealand Japan look like the the ones with the best economies and this would include yeah Switzerland and I know maybe Hungary some countries that are hard-ass about immigration but it seems to me that the countries that are permissive with immigration especially if they're permissive about illegal immigration will eventually get enough people in the country that will change the character of the country and probably not in a way that helps the economy immediately so that let me put it this way when we talk about immigration being good we're usually

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immigration being good we're usually talking about a situation in which there are plenty of jobs unskilled jobs and there's plenty of space and sort of that the situation from the early days but today when the number of unskilled jobs is limited if you have an unlimited people coming in and you have also social services that will that will support people whether they're working or not you have a perfect storm situation in which you're pretty much committing national suicide if the rate of immigration goes from the productive level and which is pretty large you know I think that developed countries can absorb a lot of people but there's some level above which it all goes to hell so when you when you see the partisans saying that immigration is good or immigration is bad whether you're talking legal legal or illegal both sides are liars

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sides are liars so anybody says immigration legal or illegal is good is the liar and anybody who says it's bad is a liar because the truth is it's great up to some level and then it's bad above that level so you can't say it's good or bad the question is how much what's the rate how much can you absorb without killing yourself so if you're talking about immigration being good or bad you're just a liar so my guess is that Europe already has enough immigrants that they have enough political power to make sure that there will be more immigrants and that the flow will be fairly fairly large so you might see for example Great Britain you might see them do a little bit better than France but I would say

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bit better than France but I would say France and Germany have some some big challenges in the next 50 years
now I suppose immigration there's another situation in which you don't need to choose guess you could have some of the country being in favor of it but they would have to pay the cost of it that probably would be less practical than the other ideas forget about that one
one hello from Russia it's good to know Russia's listening to my periscopes I am NOT colluding yeah I saw some video of the protesters in France chanting we want Trump it seems to me that a lot of trumps policies are the kind that will look great in retrospect so a lot of

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look great in retrospect so a lot of what he's doing is you know unpopular at the moment but it does feel like in 10 years everybody's gonna say you know should have done a little bit more of what he was doing although we want Trump chanters were in London somebody was saying okay his tweet on the Paris climate deal is that something new let me check the president's tweets for today do hey let's see what he's up to leak in James Comey must have set a record for who lied the most to Congress and one day leak in James Comey his Friday testimony was so untruthful this whole deal is a rigged fraud ended up by dishonest people who would do anything so that I could not become president they are now exposed and then his other tweet on 245 occasions former FBI

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tweet on 245 occasions former FBI director James Comey told House investigators he didn't know didn't recall or couldn't remember things when asked blah blah these are all boring molars and things boring boring boring boring all right I'm just looking at his tweets and all right here's the Blumenthal okay here's the tweet you were asking about about the Paris Accord so this is Trump's tweet from 22 hours ago very sad day and night in Paris maybe it's time to end the ridiculous and extremely expensive Paris agreement and return money back to the people in the form of lower taxes boy that's a popular thing to say the u.s. was way ahead of the curve on that in the only major country where emissions went down last year it's pretty good

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watched Danang dick Blumenthal on television spewing facts almost as accurate as his bravery in Vietnam quote parenthetically which he never saw apparently he lied about some Vietnam service as the bullets whizzed by denying Danang dicks head as he was saving soldiers left and right he then woke up from his dream screaming that he lied next time I go to Vietnam I will ask the dick to travel with me I don't know how you can how can you just like a president that calls his enemies dicks you know
anyway the the people who don't we're not in on the joke will be horrified if you work as CNN do you have to go to a

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you work as CNN do you have to go to a training class to learn to look horrified by by jokes you know when you're reading the news do you have to do it this way and then he said the dick oh oh you have to learn that face
Trump has not visited a combat zone Obama did five times you know I don't really care about that much just don't care about it yeah I'm sure he has reasons you know the thing with Trump is he's so so obviously on the side of the military that I don't need that to know that he needs to do too many stunts you know visiting them isn't going to help

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know visiting them isn't going to help that much
madis asked him not to well we'll never know what are all the details there
why is Andrew McCarthy you worried about Trump well there's a difference between being worried and predicting what's going to happen it's always okay to be worried personally I think that Trump is not in great danger that that's my take based on what we know now if we learn something new later I could revise my opinion but at the moment I see nothing that the president should be terribly worried about but it's still a good thing that he fights back hard because of the public perception to find great danger being removed from office or going to

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being removed from office or going to jail that would be great danger
conservative federal prosecutor disagrees well I will change my mind when Alan Dershowitz changes his mind and so that that's my bottom line if Alan Dershowitz says the president is in great legal trouble because of things we already know then I'm going to change my mind pretty quickly but until he does he's still the best source on this stuff what do I think about the chief of staff he is considering I don't know much about him you're talking about Nick Ayers you it's

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you're talking about Nick Ayers you it's easy to imagine how the president would like Nick Ayers personally because you know that from what I read they look like they would be personalities that would get along
all right I think I've said enough it's time to go please enjoy your new day