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…strategist Gene Valentino while we await the president to speak here. Gene, welcome into the
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show. The president is, well, he’s unmatched, is he not, when it comes to energy and the schedule that he keeps?
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I’ve been taking notes and I don’t know that it’s been rivaled by any president in history. What do you think?
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Well, Ike, you nailed it. “Rivaled” is the right word, and “unprecedented.” The fact of the matter is… this will
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go down in history. The question is: him not appearing on the ballot, how serious of an issue is that compared to
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the fact that he’s acting like he is, and that he’s going on a
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whirlwind tour these 30 days prior with unmatched tenacity and stamina that
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shames people half his age? I don’t know how it is. I just hope it goes down in history as a major distinction, if for
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no other reason—and there are plenty of other reasons—this man has put stamina, time, effort, and
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most importantly, commitment into the Republican mantra, into the Republican
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theme in his effort, in his own way, to stave off socialism
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and communism, which is on the ballot.
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Yeah, which is really kind of bizarre to even be saying, but this is where we are. The president, of course, setting a
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standard for nominees and presidents thereafter as far as transparency, energy, engagement. I think it’s going
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to be a tough bar to reach for a lot of candidates. But I do want to talk to you just a bit about Georgia for a
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moment. Obviously, the president is there campaigning on behalf of Mike Collins for Senate up against Jon Ossoff.
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That race, the averages really heavily favor Ossoff at least anywhere from six to 10 points. But
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then you have the governor’s race between Rick Jackson against Keisha Lance Bottoms. He does have the edge there in the
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averages. What kind of bump do you think an appearance like this, a campaign event with the president, could provide to Republican candidates?
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If history repeats itself, I’m guessing between four and eight points. And what really amazes me when I talk to my
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pollster friends is that they’ve consistently been wrong. I mean, the Republican candidates, even in the
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purple or blue areas like Georgia, end up being favorable after the
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election to a Republican win. So the question is: if there’s such a consistent error in my math, I’m adding
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in four to eight points more on top of whatever bump you think Donald Trump is giving the Republicans these 30
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days prior. That, to me, is what I think the outcome is going to be. I see some wins even in Georgia.
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Okay. Well, you know, four to eight points would be substantial, certainly at this stage in the race. I believe we’re looking at… I believe we’re looking at members of
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the press, maybe. I could be wrong there. It looked like they were carrying some equipment, and so that is what we’re looking at. So the president must
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not be far behind. And so in the meantime, Gene, I want to talk to you about some breaking news from earlier today. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
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is already leaving her role reportedly as White House Press Secretary after only, well, just less than a week
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following that rocky first press briefing. Here’s the president talking about it earlier today.
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“Katie’s been treated very badly by the media—very, very badly. Very unfairly, I think. And I just spoke to her about it.
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I said, ‘Katie, is this for you?’ Because, you know, she’s been treated very rough, and she’s a nice person—
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a very nice person. I’ve watched her for years on television. But I said, ‘Is this for you, Katie?’ Because honestly, you don’t need this. You don’t have to
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be treated… I would say the fake news, but just generally the media has been very rough.”
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All right, Gene. So I’ve never heard more conversation about the word “lawyer” versus “attorney” in my life. I
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didn’t understand or realize there was a distinction, but it seems the media, especially the liberal media, has latched onto that. You have late-night
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hosts making jokes. Is this just because she may have stumbled a little bit? Is it really about this attorney
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versus lawyer issue? Or is it just because she works for Donald Trump? What do you sort of make of the situation? How would you summarize it for someone
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who maybe was on vacation all week and didn’t see what happened?
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A desperate left that has nothing else to grab onto.
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Should we look back at the Biden administration and wonder where the lawyers were? Should we look at
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where law enforcement was on the southern border? And we’re quibbling over the vernacular of “lawyer” versus
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“attorney” with a lovely lady who Newsmax never criticized because her heart’s in the right spot. I think she just needed
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to get off the training wheels and get into high gear like other press secretaries did. Full stop,
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Ike. Make an immediate comparison to Karine Jean-Pierre and tell me who you think was
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going into the job on the very first day capable and ready to go. She was ad-libbing, or speaking spontaneously, I
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should say, on the questions that were thrown to her literally one day on the job. Karine Jean-Pierre had a volume—
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a three-ring binder with tabs in it—and she couldn’t keep her positions straight, and she didn’t know
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half the positions she needed to about the president she worked for. Karoline was one day on the job and doing excellent trying to get debriefed.
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Now, it is true it may not be a job for her, and with it comes a lot of snakes and gremlins that she may not be ready
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for. Trump, in that sense, is pretty good at judging a circumstance.
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And if he wants to give her an out, like, “Double check your thinking, Katie, if you think this job’s for
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you or not. You’re always welcome in our home, so to speak. But double check yourself and make sure
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you’re in for the fight like past press secretaries have had to be.”
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I think that’s a great point. Most press secretaries have had weeks, if not months, to prepare for taking that job. She had
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just a few days. She laid out that schedule, and so that’s completely understandable. Whether or not it’s the right position for her or that she could
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have sort of gotten better on the job, I guess we won’t know. I’m a little disappointed that we won’t find that
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out. I think she’s a very nice person, really understands the president, what makes him unique, and is able to articulate that. The wording that we’re
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hearing now is that she’s transitioning out. The president seemed to make it a possibility, in the way he was
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communicating with the press earlier, that she might even transition to another position inside the administration. I guess we will wait and
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see. If you’re just joining us, we’re awaiting the president to speak in Dalton, Georgia at the municipal airport
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there. It looks as though at least portions of the motorcade have arrived.
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You’re looking at Secret Service. We saw the press arrive earlier, so it should be any minute. The president running about an hour and 25 minutes late at
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this point. Gene, back to the president last night: he sat down with our own Rob Finnerty for an exclusive
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one-on-one interview. The president had plenty to say about Hillary Clinton. Watch.
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“I could have done numbers on Hillary Clinton. I could have done numbers on Bill Clinton. I do like Bill Clinton. I could have done numbers on Barack Hussein Obama. Still could. I still
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could. I could do big numbers if I wanted to. I’ve turned down going after Hillary Clinton—
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I’m talking about going after them criminally, or I could have done something having to do with their reputations—destroyed their
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reputations. We have a lot of information about Hillary. We have a lot of information about Barack Hussein Obama. We have a lot of information on Sleepy Joe Biden.”
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“Are you going to do anything?” “Well, I mean, I guess not. Probably not. But I think if they impeach me again…”
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All right. So the president seemed to… I hadn’t heard him say that before. I thought that was an excellent job by our own Rob Finnerty to sort of get that out of
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him, that he might use the things he has on these people if the Democrats go after him and impeach him. But Gene, as
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we look at this, a lot of people are wondering: why doesn’t he just go ahead and go after them now? What do you think? What difference does it make?
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Ike, that’s tongue-in-cheek. “What difference does it make?” That’s Hillary’s comment about Benghazi. He has every right in
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the world to go after these crooks and these criminals. The fact of the matter is the Justice Department under
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the Trump administration has done it without his direct input. They’ve worked on their own. All of the
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Jeanine Pirros and some of the others are working independently. They’re not getting coached by Donald Trump the
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way Biden was coaching Jack Smith, Letitia James, and Fani
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Willis. The comparison is important because under the Trump administration, we Republicans… the
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Republicans are too sensitive about the criticism. Ignore it. It’s silly, it’s inconsistent, and it’s unfair.
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Donald Trump is doing the right thing.
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And if he chooses to dial it up, well, we’ll see him dial it up as it relates to Iran in the weeks ahead. But he has
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sat back and let his people manage this without his direct
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input. There’s a lot more there. Just to follow up on something you said earlier:
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you have a situation now where… do you remember Rex Tillerson, Mad Dog Mattis,
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some of the other characters in Trump’s first administration? Those folks were running a cabal behind Trump’s back
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to take him down. In this case, Trump’s giving someone like Karoline the chance to decide whether this job’s for her or
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not. It couldn’t be more transparent and kind.
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Yeah, I think that really came through with the way he communicated to the press earlier—that he cares about her.
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You know, he’s not the guy that the press makes him out to be—a very kind man. That was evident in his communication there. It looks like maybe Marine One has just landed. But Gene,
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