Episode 504 Scott Adams: Biden, Impeachment Fantasies, Student Loans, Healthcare

Date: 2019-04-23 | Duration: 42:16

Topics

Democrats trying to get ahold of President Trump’s tax returns They say just ensuring the IRS is doing its job Does that pass ANYONE’S sniff test? Health & Humans Services isn’t good at explaining anything, but… …they might be testing various healthcare solutions A+ to our government for small scale A-B testing Senator Warren wants to eliminate unpaid student debt Climate Change debate update The infamous Climate-gate email
Consider me your hoax sniffing service animal Bernie wants convicts in prison to have voting rights Should the Boston Marathon bombers get to vote? Murderers and other heinous people allowed to vote? “Roadmap to Impeachment” claims by Dems and fake news media NOBODY has stated anything impeachable, why not? Is following the advice of your lawyer illegal now?
“They investigated 10 things”…yeah, and all were found legal FOLLOWER CHALLENGE: Get the press to state ONE, the most impeachable offense Don’t Accept: “One reason? There’s ten reasons!” Okay…name one, just one, your best example

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doot-doot pop-pop-pop-pop bum bah bah hey everybody come on in here it's time for coffee with Scott Adam so the simultaneous sip yes grab your mug your cup your Chellis your stein your flask your thermos your tankard if you will fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the simultaneous sip oh it's gonna be a good one here it comes oh good stuff well I've got a lot of fun things to talk about most of them will make you angry and that's why you watch you know I have a number of different people watching these periscopes for a number of different reasons some of you watch my periscopes for the parts where I agree with you and you can say hey there's a good argument I'll go use that I already agree with it but they're

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I already agree with it but they're probably a solid 30 to 50 percent of you who watched these periscopes for the times that I disagree with you and it's hard to make both of you happy but but those who enjoy it when I disagree with you they're probably gonna like this one a little bit more than you like other ones alright we'll get to the disagreeing part but I was interested there was a tweet today that somebody was saying that we we cannot live with this president Trump because of his character and intellect are not sufficient to the job that's right as recently as yesterday there was somebody who is an intelligent observer of politics intelligent who says that President Trump can't be a good president because of his character and

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president because of his character and his intellect now the follow-up question would be something like this hey observer what do you suppose the GDP would be if we had a president with a better character according to you 10% what would be the situation with North Korea better would Isis be more beaten I could go down the line but if you're arguing about the president's character and intelligence today you've got a lot of explaining to do I feel like that was a reasonable thing to say two years ago or two and a half years ago two and a half years ago you could say to yourself I am worried that this president's character and his intellect will not be good enough for

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intellect will not be good enough for the job that wasn't crazy that would have been a reasonable thing to say now as it turns out we haven't seen a single thing go wrong because of any of that stuff personally I haven't seen anything go wrong because if anything that the president failed in the fact-checking can somebody fact check that claim so my claim is that apparently the fairly the
sorry I just saw something go by in the comments that's sort of mind-boggling but I'm assuming it's not true yeah I just totally lost my train of thought there somebody just threw me for a complete loop what I was saying is that it's hard to identify anything that's gone wrong because of this president I believe it's up to 8,000 or 9,000

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believe it's up to 8,000 or 9,000 fact-checking let's say your regularities how you know it would be one thing if everything were going wrong and you can say well I think it's because of the president's character maybe it's because he didn't pass the fact-checking we've lost confidence or maybe because he's not smart enough so you know maybe that's the problem but how do you still say that when everything is going well if everything's going right and it sort of is sort of is pretty much all the important stuff seems to be going right not counting the things that Congress alone seems to have the power to change you know things like health care and and immigration are not going well and I would like the president to do better on those those things but those are mostly the Congress's job so you have to keep that in context anyway I love watching

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that in context anyway I love watching the Democrats trying to get hold of Trump's tax returns because the one thing you can count on is that the president has lawyers too and if there's anything a lawyer can do its stall is there any chance that the president's lawyers will not be able to stall for six years feels like that would be easy well you kind of easy I'm going to I'm going to block somebody here so I don't get distracted by that again so my prediction is that the Democrats will never get Trump's tax returns it'll probably go to the Supreme Court that sort of thing but I don't think there's any chance that they're going to get them and as a public we should not let

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them and as a public we should not let it happen I think that if we let this happen under the flimsy especially under the flimsy explanation that the Dems are getting giving their explanation for why they should get his tax is to make sure that the IRS is doing a good job auditing the president really okay I get I kinda get how you're sorta connecting the logic of the job to almost kind of making sense but it really doesn't pass anybody's sniff test does it even if you're a Democrat do you listen to that explanation of why the Democrats want use tax returns and do you say to yourself oh yeah yeah it's good that Congress is is doing their oversight job to make sure that the IRS is correctly auditing the president said no one there's not one Democrat in the world who thinks that's a real reason

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world who thinks that's a real reason doesn't pass the sniff test and therefore I'd be surprised if it ever tested past the legal test so more fun about Joe Biden he has apparently changed his alleged plans now I think the campaign is saying it was never a plan it was only something they talked about so they're making a difference between what they talked about and and what they planned so another saying they never planned to announce in Charlottesville makes me wonder why let me suggest a few reasons number one if you announce in Charlottesville what would all of the news be about it wouldn't be about Joe Biden has some good health care policies it wouldn't be about that it would be about the fact that he he built he launched his campaign on a fine people hoax if

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campaign on a fine people hoax if anybody is new if you believe that the president ever called the neo-nazis and the people marching with the tiki torches if you believe he ever called them fine people then you fell for the mainstream media hoax he was very clear and saying I'm not talking about them he said that in direct language I'm not talking about that group and then the news continues to report it as if he said the exact opposite of what he and it continues to go on so I think Biden may maybe he was considering taking advantage of that and stomping on that as his main claim that he would be the non-racist maybe he would do it to you know try to try to maintain control over the black vote but he would have been associating himself with neo-nazis and there's no way it could have worked out for him there's no way that that he been announcing in charlottesville would have been a good idea for Joe Biden so

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have been a good idea for Joe Biden so the fact that they even talked about it tells you that he doesn't have his he doesn't have the a team working for him all right there was a very interesting announcement from Health and Human Services and it turns out that are going to a B test meaning they're going to test in small trials a variety of different solutions for primary care and the idea being that I don't know the details because Health and Human Services is terrible at explaining stuff so when you read their announcement you just sort of look at it go uh words I don't know what these words all mean it's all jargon and you know big concept stuff so you can't actually tell what they're planning but it's something in the neighborhood of a test account having primary care physicians get paid by outcome in other words keeping

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by outcome in other words keeping they're keeping their patients healthy as opposed to treating them for the transaction or the time that they spent now I don't know if these are good ideas I don't know if these are good ideas but I know a good process when I see it I know a good system when I see it and the a good system involves testing on a small scale anything that looks good enough to test because you really can't tell so the administration is not to say these are great ideas that would be problematic I hate that word that would be a mistake because they don't know the smartest thing they can do is test it compare it to some other things test it at the same time see how it goes and then never stop testing they should be testing new stuff all the time it's the only way to penetrate a complicated situation like health care make small well-defined tests see how it

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make small well-defined tests see how it goes so I complement my government for at least two situations that I know of where the government is doing small a be testing to see what works they're also doing it in the Department of Energy so secretary Perry's Department funded some small iterative testing for generation for nuclear energy so they're looking at different different technologies and they'll have a way to quickly test them so whenever you see your government creating a system for people to rapidly test and evaluate a new technology and a big area that's complicated and people can't quite agree what's the way the right way to go that that's good government that is people who came from the business world and understand that you don't just come up with a big plan

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you don't just come up with a big plan and implement it you got to test this stuff so it's one of the most optimistic stories that you will ever see coming out of your government the news the news in the past month that the Department of Energy has set up a thing to test generation for nuclear fuels and the fact that Health and Human Services is setting up some small tests of primary care those are really really a plus events that is your government working at the highest possible level in terms of creating systems that make sense something that gives you at least a chance crawl forward in these complicated areas like energy and healthcare so a plus two my government I I give you a lot of trouble for all the things you do wrong and you do a lot of stuff wrong

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do wrong and you do a lot of stuff wrong my government but when you do something right I want to I want to shout that from the rooftops because you don't want to get that lost you don't want the good stuff to get lost you want you want to promote that you want to call out who did that you know so secretary Hayes our Health and Human Services a plus secretary Perry Energy a plus for creating systems to get us to move us forward all right the speaking of systems senator Warren has suggested paying off all of the student debt and making education free people who paid off their own student debts say hey that's not fair and I don't know how you could get away with a proposal that your own team thinks is unfair so I don't know how she's ever gonna sell this thing but I do like the

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gonna sell this thing but I do like the fact that it's out there now my understanding is that Warren and some other candidates have signed on to the idea of reparations for slavery and in some cases already signed on to reducing student debt or having free college if they ever combine those two things it's gonna be trouble for the president and I would love to see the president get in front of it and combine them himself but I don't think that fits his brand well enough and here's what I'm talking about and I'll once again give credit to walk through some associated with black lives matter in New York and he made the comment that anything you do for the african-american community in this country ends up helping a whole lot of people also so whatever you do to help that community just by its nature is going help poor people who are in similar

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help poor people who are in similar situations and so you could say let's do reparations but let's call it free college and free trade so any kind of education as an adult let's just say that is reparations it just happens that it would help every poor person every young person also and let's just give you know give african americans the whim if if they are a big part of why this happens and it helps them more than it helps other people it's ok with me if it as long as it's helping everybody who's in a similar situation regardless of ethnicity alright
so two interesting things on climate change as many of you know I've been doing this extended deep dive if you will trying to understand climate change my position is still squarely on the fence meaning that I'm not persuaded by

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fence meaning that I'm not persuaded by other the skeptics or the or the scientists in terms of their total arguments I do observe that both the skeptics and the scientists are selling a bunch of BS but I don't know what percentage of it is BS in other words it's obvious to me that a lot of what's coming under the legitimate climate science is spin and marketing and BS and maybe it needs to be because they're trying to they're trying to persuade the public and facts are not that good at persuading so if you notice that the legitimate scientific community is saying and promoting messages that you say oh I love science but I can't quite go as far as you're going because that doesn't sound like science to me anymore well you're probably right the scientific community is also trying to persuade it with fear and visuals and all that stuff so if it looks like BS it

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all that stuff so if it looks like BS it might be just BS but that doesn't mean the science is wrong science could be right and they still might need to use a bunch of BS just to sell their message that they they actually believe it's true and maybe it is true but it's also true that the the skeptics are so so ridiculously off-base in so many ways that it's hard to take skepticism seriously when there's so much of it that's transparently ridiculous some of it might be true and it would only take some of it to be true for climate science to look quite different from the official message so my problem is both sides are clearly lying about a lot and it's hard to sort through it to figure out what percentage of it is real but two interesting things I forwarded on Twitter a explanation of the so-called

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Twitter a explanation of the so-called Climategate email that talked about quote hiding the decline and using a quote trick it does a good job of explaining why that was misinterpreted and it meant absolutely nothing which is what I told you from the start without knowing any of the background to it so I'd like to I'd like to suggest that you treat me as sort of your service animal you know what a service animal is right if you have a dog or a doctor or something and it keeps you calm or it helps you if you have a sight problem or some other physical or mental disability your service animal helps you just fill in that one little area of your life right the service animal doesn't run your life they just they just compensate for one little area where you need a little help you should see me as your service animal for identifying hoaxes but in order to use

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identifying hoaxes but in order to use me correctly as your service animal you have to understand that sometimes the hoax is on your side sometimes it's on the other side but sometimes you're the one who fell for the hoax if you don't accept that as a base truth you will just live in a little bubble of your own making forever the only way you could be free to have a chance of understanding the world in which you live in is to accept as fact that you are hoaxed fairly often and if you do the right things maybe you can get out of those smaller hoaxes but if you're thinking it's only the other people who have got hoaxed my god look at all those liberals they believe in this they believe in that they believe in this hoax they believe in the fine people hoax they look at all these hoaxes they believe in the socialism works they believe you name it if you

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works they believe you name it if you think those hoaxes are all on one side you're never gonna get out of your own bubble and so I'm gonna help you many of you are climate sceptics I know from other interactions and if you believe that one of the good reasons for your climate skepticism was the Climategate emails that got hacked and seemed to indicate that the scientists were fudging things you got hoaxed you've been badly hoaxed if you think that was meaningful read what I just tweeted around see it in context it'll be exactly what I sniffed out before I even knew with the details I simply read the email and said well I don't know all the details but it's obvious to me I can smell it I'm your service animal I can smell a hoax that was hoax top to bottom front to back now the Climategate emails

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front to back now the Climategate emails are a hoax on the level of pizza gate they're on the level of queue they are so transparently obviously hoaxes that you shouldn't even need to dig into the detail but you know maybe some of you need that however as your service animal let me assure you Climategate emails didn't mean anything the independent whether climate change is what people say it is the emails of Climategate didn't mean anything pizza gate was a hoax queue is a hoax the fine people thing is a hoax the idea that the president was mocking the guy with the bad arm is a hoax because he uses that same motion for other people somebody say your your ring washed well let me give you another another way to understand the world you notice just right in front of you right here I called out hoaxes on both sides how many

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called out hoaxes on both sides how many of you thought well he's right about all the hoaxes on the other side but he's wrong about all the hoaxes on my side because those are true yeah pizza gate is real Hugh is really an insider chemtrails are real how can he be so wrong the Climategate emails are real all right
let's talk about something else senator Sanders is suggesting as some other candidates I think are as well that convicted felons people in jail should have the right to vote I agree I agree with senator Sanders you know I often tell you I'm left of Bernie but in many cases I agree with him usually without the details I tend to agree with Bernie Sanders and sort of the big picture of where it would be good to end

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picture of where it would be good to end up and I disagree with him on the math and you know whether the numbers work and whether he has a way to get there but where he wants to go I love I would love a world where everybody has good health care you know education is available to all in some way so Bern are you saying that yeah I can see in the comments you're all getting out of me here so Bernie's saying yes people in jail should vote and then the critics say what are you saying that the Boston Marathon voter are the Boston Marathon bomber should get a vote are you saying that Bernie seriously so that this is somebody who bombed a child you know intentionally are you saying Bernie the pedophiles murderers sexual offenders they should get a vote is that what you're saying Bernie is that what

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what you're saying Bernie is that what you're saying well I'm saying that - so I'm agreeing with Bernie they should get a vote but here's what you're getting wrong about it if you disagree if what you're saying is my god Scott how can you give them you know a treat how can you how can you give them a right when they've done these bad things to which I say it's not really about them I don't I don't care about a murder I don't care if the Boston Marathon bomber lives or dies I don't care if he's murdered in prison I have no concern whatsoever for the prisoners themselves in terms of wanting to give them a treat I am speaking selfishly you know who I care about you I care about you because you're not prisoners and you're not murderers for the most part most of you most of you are not sex offenders well I don't know most of you but many of you are not sex offenders and here's the argument

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sex offenders and here's the argument the argument is that allowing prisoners to vote is part of the process of making them feel part of society giving anybody the right to vote has a little bit to do with picking the right candidate it has a little bit to do with getting the right laws and it has a lot to do with making the person who votes feel like they're part of the system why would you give that away why why would I give up something of mine because some strangers in prison would you give up something that they an asset of your own would you give up something of yours for a prisoner why would you do that why would you give up something of your own I don't want to give up living in a country in which we're brainwashing all of our citizens whether they're prisoners or children or adults not in

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prisoners or children or adults not in prison I don't care who you're talking about I want my system to brainwash people toward good citizenship now I use the word brainwash to be provocative but of course a society does try to train its citizens while using less the more neutral word to trade we do try to train our citizens towards citizenship patriotism and buying into the system a really really good way to persuade somebody to be part of the system as opposed to an outlaw is to let them vote so let them vote it is part of fixing them now how many of those prisoners would actually be influenced in any way by the right to vote not many a few I mean how many prisoners are gonna even bother to vote yeah I don't know probably not many but certainly there are some people who are at least on the margin of being a lifelong criminal

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margin of being a lifelong criminal versus being maybe reformable and for my benefit my benefit and your benefit not for the benefit of the prisoners we should give them the right to vote because that is a small but real part of their rehabilitation and part of bringing them into the near the citizenship of the country so I don't want to give that up for me I don't give a crap about the Boston Marathon bomber I don't care if it makes him happy I have no interest in his happiness I only want him to be I only want the class of people who were in jail to get closer to being part of the system and feeling less like an outsider it's free I mean you know free in the sense that it's a small change to make for could be a material benefit all right so that's my agreement with Bernie Bernie did a terrible job of explaining it I think I just did a better job of

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think I just did a better job of explaining it which is you know the the the constitutional way to explain it is that the Constitution gives you the right to vote so if I wanted to explain this as a Republican or as a conservative I would say Constitution doesn't take away your right to vote I think that's true right there's nothing in the Constitution that says that prisoners can't vote and if the Constitution does not remove your right to vote I don't think we should it feels unconstitutional to me but I'm no expert on that so I won't go too deep in that I'll just tell you it doesn't feel constitutional so if you just want to make a pure Constitution argument you could say well I hate it just the way I hate that people have free speech and use it in ways I don't like but I still like free speech so if the Constitution gives you the right to vote who is it that gets to take it away

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vote who is it that gets to take it away do you get to take it away all right here's an interesting question for all of you we're watching the Democrats say they many of them anyway you say they still want to impeach President Trump they say that the the Muller report has laydown to quote a roadmap to impeachment a roadmap to impeachment to which I say what would be the worst thing in that Muller report that would speak to impeachment and I want to test all of you because I couldn't think of a thing I I watched all the coverage of the Moller report and then I'm watching people say well there's enough in there to impeach him and I say to myself name one thing like just what's what's your best thing what is the one most horrible thing you saw in the Muller report

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thing you saw in the Muller report that gets anywhere near impeachment can anybody suggest something I mean even even if you disagree with impeachment can you think of what would be somebody says look it up no that's my point there's nothing to look up there's nothing to look up because one of you would know it wouldn't you yeah if there's nobody here in the comments and watch the comments even if you don't think the president should be impeached what do you imagine what do you remember from the coverage that was the best reason what comes the closest I can't I don't know anything I could see that your comments are way behind because so many wanted so many of you wanted to comment on the voting and the prisoners that there's a little backlog in the comments so I'll wait for them to catch up a little bit alright there's so many

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up a little bit alright there's so many comments on the prisoner one that have I read it I have not read the entire mullah reports but doesn't it seem to you that if there were strong reasons for impeachment in there we would sort of have heard them by now when you say somebody says I can't believe Scott Adams one sufentanil dealers a right to vote well I want them dead so if they can vote while they're dead they'd have to be Democrats I guess so yes a I don't want the smallish offense and all dealers necessarily to be dead but the big dealers I think the death penalty should apply however whoever whatever badness they've done whether it's fentanyl or anything else if your rule is going to be the prisoners can fo you sort have to let them although

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he beat Hillary yeah so here's the question I'd like somebody to ask of the Democrats and this is partly a persuasion word but it's also a fair question this is a fair question I want to see reporters ask the Democrats can you give us the best single reason the top reason based on one set of facts that would lead you to impeachment now I think they're gonna say stuff such as he tried to get Magan to fire Muller was it and McCullough and began had to threaten to quit in order to not do it to which I say that's is it an impeachable offense to do what your lawyer recommends because that's all it is the lawyer said I recommend you don't do this and I recommend is so hard that if you do do

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recommend is so hard that if you do do it I have to quit and then the president didn't do it so do we impeach presidents for taking the advice of their lawyer I mean correct me if I'm wrong but that was the number one best reason wasn't it was there a better reason can anybody give me one reason from the Muller report there would be an impeachable thing that's better than that one following the advice of his lawyer that's it so I think what you're gonna you will find is you would get this kind of answer allow me to interview a person that I like to call Dale Dale the anti-trump er Dale the anti-trump ER I'm going to interview him right now and I'm going to say Dale can you give me a reason based on the molar report why this president needs to be impeached I here again I can give you ten reasons ten they're all in there in

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ten reasons ten they're all in there in the molar report ten reasons well ten by ten reasons for impeachment you mean there were ten things that they investigated and found nothing in each one of those cases is that accurate well I said there were ten of them ten of them ten reasons yeah no you said that but really it wasn't ten ten laws you broke it wasn't ten cases of obstruction of justice it was ten things they looked into and found nothing doesn't that say it a little more accurately than what you're saying Oh ten reasons we need character and and in and it's not just all about what's illegal it's also about stuff I don't quite understand about impeachment but

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quite understand about impeachment but I'm sure it doesn't have to just be a crime and besides the molar report is full of descriptions of this president's crimes it is cuz I've been watching the coverage and it looks like there's no evidence of a crime Muller said he cannot clear the president of obstruction so guilty Dan well that doesn't mean guilty that just means the law is ambiguous do you know what happens when laws are so ambiguous that even the lawyers can't tell if a law has been broken no I do not well it means if even professional lawyers who were looking at the same set of facts can't even decide if a thing it is is illegal or not illegal it's a really much chance that the Supreme Court is gonna say well even though you

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Court is gonna say well even though you can't tell you go to jail I'd like to talk about other things now and see all right a surprise you didn't read the report there's a reason I don't read you the report and the reason it is that what will matter from the report is what other people say about it so my own independent opinion of what something says in the report it's not really gonna matter it's only gonna matter what people who have read the report or have heard people talk about it and read it they're the only ones who really are gonna make a difference it's not gonna be what the report says it's how people feel about it and what what facts rise up to the top in our minds all right let's see what else we got going on here yeah that's my best that's my best thing all right

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my best thing all right so the takeaway for today to see if we can get any Democrat to be asked well let's see if we can convince the press to ask any of the Democrats they're our top number one reason for impeachment and if they say there are 10 push for the best one and if they say well individually they're nothing but you have to see them together then I think you just laugh and walk away because ten times zero still zero still zero tell you something controversial you say
obstruction of justice you haven't read Mulder's report or a Brooklyn Brooklyn finest is telling me that there's clearly obstruction of justice and I

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clearly obstruction of justice and I would know that if I had read the report and so I ask you because maybe you have read the report to give me the one best example so if you're mocking me for not reading the report I assume that means you read it so tell me Brooklyn's Finest 89 why don't you tell your best reason in fact if you'd like I will take a call Brooklyn finest if you if you if you agree to to go live I will take your call and I will let you tell me what is the best argument for obstruction of justice from the Muller report anybody any takers so I think I think they what you'll see is a whole people a whole bunch of people doing what Brooklyn just

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bunch of people doing what Brooklyn just did so Brooklyn is gonna do what I think you would see the candidates do which is say my god just read the report it's full of examples of obstruction of justice you mean the stuff that neither Muller nor bar are calling obstruction of justice it's folded so much of it so much well
somebody says somebody said look he's saying I'm guessing ten examples of obstruction of justice isn't good for you I'm just asking you for wand just give me one your best one give us your best one Brooklyn now of course all

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right well I'm not going to follow up on that because I know you're gonna bail out so what you should expect is that people will default they will default to saying it's definitely in that Boehner report I'm just not going to tell you what it is oh if you haven't read it yourself well you couldn't possibly know all the crimes that are described in their 'test there's ten of them ten crimes name one I'm not going to name one read the report read it yourself there's ten right in there so I think you're going to get people pretending there's something in there and telling you to read it knowing you won't and acting like they saw it so they're literally going to act like they saw something that wasn't there all right that's all for today and I'll talk to you later