>> SO CROOKED HILLARY -- WAIT. YOU SHOULD LOCK HER UP, I’LL
TELL YOU.
TELL YOU. >> LOCK HER UP.
THE CROWDS AT TRUMP EVENTS DO
THIS REFLECTIVELY.
THIS REFLECTIVELY. HE TALKS ABOUT HIMSELF, HE THEN
IMMEDIATELY VERY QUICKLY USUALLY
STARTS TALKING ABOUT HIS
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL OPPONENT
IN 2016, HILLARY CLINTON.
THE CROWDS INSTANTLY RESPOND
THAT SHE SHOULD BE INCARCERATED.
NOW SOMEBODY SHOULD GO ARREST
HER AND SHE SHOULD BE PUT IN
PRISON FOR SOME REASON.
AND THIS OF COURSE IS PART OF
WHAT REPUBLICANS WILL HAVE TO
EXPLAIN TO THEIR KIDS AND
GRANDKIDS AND WHAT ULTIMATELY
WE’LL ALL HAVE TO TRY TO EXPLAIN
TO HISTORIANS ABOUT WHAT
REPUBLICANS WERE LIKE IN THIS
TIME IN AMERICA, RIGHT?
THE TRUMP ERA IS WHEN
REPUBLICANS STARTED INSISTING
POLITICAL OPPONENTS THAFORY
PARTY’S PRESIDENT SHOULD BE
LOCKED UP, WHICH IS DEPARTURE
FROM SMALL "D" DEMOCRATIC NORMS
IN OUR HISTORY BEFORE NOW.
BUT THE TRUMP ERA REPUBLICAN
PARTY HAS BEEN DOING THIS FOR SO
LONG NOW IT REALLY IS LIKE A
REFLEX.
REFLEX. YOU KNOW, HIT THE KNEE WITH A
LITTLE POINTY HAMMER AND THEY
JUST DO IT.
SOMEBODY SAYS HILLARY CLINTON
AND THEY INSTANTLY SAY, LOCK HER
UP.
UP. >> I HAVE CALLED ON HILLARY
CLINTON TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE
BECAUSE SHE -- SHE PUT OUR
NATION’S SECURITY AT EXTREMELY
HIGH RISK WITH HER CARELESS USE
OF A PRIVATE E-MAIL SERVER.
LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP.
>> LOCK HER UP!
>> YOU GUYS ARE GOOD.
DAMN RIGHT.
DAMN RIGHT. EXACTLY RIGHT.
EXACTLY RIGHT. THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.
>> YEAH, ABOUT THAT -- THAT
GENTLEMAN LEADING AND PRAISING
THE DAMN RIGHT LOCK HER UP
CHANTS AT THE REPUBLICAN
NATIONAL CONVENTION, THAT IS
MIKE FLYNN WHO IS NOW FACING THE
VERY REAL PROSPECT OF HIMSELF
BEING LOCKED UP IN FEDERAL
PRISON AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO
A FELONY CHARGE OF LYING TO THE
FBI.
FBI. FEDERAL PROSECUTORS HAD
INITIALLY TOLD THE JUDGE HE’LL
BE SENTENCING MIKE FLYNN, THAT
THEY THOUGHT HE SHOULD JUST GET
PROBATION BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN
SUCHSO
SUCHSO HELPFUL WITH PROSECUTORS.
THEREAFTER HE STOPPED COOPERATE
WG PROSECUTORS AND NOW
PROSECUTORS HAVE WITHDRAWN THEIR
PREVIOUS RECOMMENDATION HE
SHOULD GET PROBATION, AND
THEY’RE NOW CALLING ON HIM TO DO
SOME PRISON TIME.
THAT IS JUST ONE OF THE
REMARKABLE THINGS THAT’S
HAPPENED THIS WEEK IN WHAT HAS
BEEN AN INCREDIBLE NEWS WEEK.
IT WAS A STRANGE NEW TWIST IN
WHAT HAS BEEN A STRANGE NEW CASE
AROUND NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR
MIKE FLYNN.
MIKE FLYNN. AND WE’LL TALK ABOUT THAT LATER
ON THIS HOUR.
BUT IN TERMS OF HIM LEADING THE
CHARGE THAT HILLARY CLINTON
SHOULD BE LOCKED UP, RIGHT, FROM
THE EARLIEST DAYS OF THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN TO SOMETHING THE
PRESIDENT IS STILL CONTINUING
WITH TONIGHT OR AS OF LAST
NIGHT, "THE WASHINGTON POST"
JUST BROKE THE NEWS LAST NIGHT
THAT A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REVIEW
OF HILLARY CLINTON’S E-MAILS AS
WELL AS THE SUPPOSED URANIUM ONE
SCANDAL WHICH SINGLE-HANDEDLY
KEPT THE LIGHTS ON AT FOX NEWS
IN PRIME TIME A REVIEW THAT HAD
BEEN ORDERED BY ATTORNEY GENERAL
JEFF SESSIONS UNDER INTENSE
PRESSURE FROM THE FOX NEWS
CHANNEL IS FROM TRUMP SUPPORTING
REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS AND FROM
THE PRESIDENT DIRECTLY AND FROM
THEN CONSERVATIVE GADFLIES LIKE
WILLIAM BARR WHO’D ULTIMATELY GO
ONTO BECOME TRUMP’S ATTORNEY
GENERAL.
GENERAL. THAT REVIEW OF HILLARY CLINTON’S
E-MAILS AND SUPPOSEDURE YANIUM U
SCANDAL, IT’S BEEN WRAPPED UP
HAVING FOUND NOTHING OF
CONSEQUENCE.
CONSEQUENCE. AS I MENTIONED "THE WASHINGTON
POST" WAS FIRST TO REPORT THIS
LAST NIGHT THIS REVIEW HAS WOUND
DOWN WHILE FOUNDING NOTHING OF
CONSEQUENCE.
CONSEQUENCE. CNN TONIGHT HAS NOW MATCHED THAT
REPORTING.
REPORTING. QUOTE, A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
REVIEW OF BUSINESS DEALINGS TIED
TO HILLARY CLINTON, A REVIEW
CHAMPIONED BY THE PRESIDENT AND
HIS ALLIES HAS WOUND DOWN
WITHOUT FINDING AN OPENING OF
ANY CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION.
THIS FOLLOWS THE FBI OF COURSE
DECIDESING THERE SHOULD BE NO
CHARGES RELATED TO THIS SUPPOSED
SCANDAL ABOUT THE E-MAILS.
IT ALSO FOLLOWS THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT INSPECTOR GENERAL
FINDING THAT WAS THE CORRECT
CONCLUSION BY THE FBI.
THERE SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN ANY
CHARGES.
CHARGES. THE ONLY REAL WRONGDOING RELATED
TO THIS E-MAIL THING WAS THE FBI
DIRECTOR DECIDING TO MAKE PUBLIC
STATEMENTS ABOUT THAT
INVESTIGATION DURING THE
CAMPAIGN BECAUSE HE FELT LIKE HE
WAS UNDER SO MUCH PRESSURE TO
LOOK TOUGH ON HILLARY CLINTON,
THAT HE FELT LIKE HE HAD TO SAY
SOMETHING ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON
IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS
INVESTIGATION, EVEN THOUGH IT
PROBABLY INFLUENCED THE
ELECTION, AND EVEN THOUGH THE
FBI ITSELF CONCLUDED THERE WAS
NEVER ANY REASON TO BRING
CHARGES IN THIS CASE.
AFTER THAT THE STATE DEPARTMENT
INSPECTOR GENERAL DID YET
ANOTHER REVIEW OF THIS MATTER
AND FOUND THAT IN FACT THERE HAD
BEEN NOTHING WRONG IN THE
SUPPOSED HILLARY CLINTON E-MAIL
SCANDAL, NO REASON TO TAKE ANY
ACTION HERE AT ALL, LET ALONE
PUT HILLARY CLINTON IN PRISON
FOR IT.
FOR IT. I’LL TELL YOU AS A MATTER OF MY
OPINION, I BELIEVE THAT THE "THE
NEW YORK TIMES" IS ONE OF THE
GREAT WONDERS OF THE WORLD, AND
WE ARE A BETTER COUNTRY AND A
BETTER WORLD FOR HAVING "THE NEW
YORK TIMES" IN IT.
BUT "THE NEW YORK TIMES" HAS
SOMETHING WRONG WITH IT WHEN IT
COMES TO REPORTING ON HILLARY
CLINTON.
CLINTON. THEY’VE GOT SOME SORT OF
UNRESOLVED INTERNAL ISSUES WHEN
TO COMES TO THEIR REPORTING ON
HILLARY CLINTON.
HILLARY CLINTON. I DON’T KNOW IF THEY’LL EVER
RESOLVE IT, BUT "THE TIMES" MORE
THAN ANY OTHER MAINSTREAM PRINT
PUBLICATION HAS HAMMERED AWAY AT
THE HILLARY CLINTON E-MAIL THING
AS IF IT REALLY WAS AS BIG A
SCANDAL AS PEOPLE LIKE MIKE
FLYNN AND DONALD TRUMP WERE
SAYING IT WAS.
"THE NEW YORK TIMES" FRONT
PAGING IT COUNTLESS TIMES,
BUILDING IT UP, EVISCERATING THE
SCANDAL AND THEN DISSECTING THE
RESULTING INTRAILS AND LOOKING
FOR EVERY LITTLE PIECE OF IT
THEY COULD GET INTO THE
MAINSTREAM CAMPAIGN COVERAGE
THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE
ELECTION, RIGHT UP UNTIL THE
WEEK OF THE ELECTION.
WHEN THE STATE DEPARTMENT
INSPECTOR GENERAL ULTIMATELY
CONCLUSIVELY DECIDED THERE
REALLY WAS NO CRIME HERE, NO
GREAT SCANDAL, NO SYSTEMATIC
WRONGDOING WHATSOEVER, REALLY
NOTHING TO SEE, "THE NEW YORK
TIMES" PUT THAT STORY ON PAGE
A-16 OF THE SATURDAY PRINT
EDITION OF THEIR PAPER UNDER A
HEADLINE THAT CALLED IT A QUIET
ENDING.
ENDING. SEE THE HEADLINE.
A QUIET ENDING INTO INQUIRY FOR
E-MAILS AND SERVER.
YES, IT WAS A QUIET ENDING.
YES, "THE NEW YORK TIMES" YOU
GAVE IT QUITE A QUIET ENDING
ESPECIALLY COMPARE TODAY HOW BIG
AN OPENING YOU GAVE IT ON THE
FRONT PAGE FOR MONTHS.
SIMILARLY IT WAS "THE NEW YORK
TIMES" THAT PUT THE SUPPOSEDURE
URANIUM ONE SCANDAL ON ITS FRONT
PAGE WITH A PARTNERSHIP WHO WAS
WORKING WITH TRUMP CAMPAIGN
CHIEF STEVE BANNON AT THE TIME.
"THE NEW YORK TIMES" DID A
REPORTING PARTNERSHIP WITH THAT
GUY, PUT THAT NONE SENSE, THAT
MADE UP NONSCANDAL ABOVE THE
FOLD ON THE FRONT PAGE IN THE
HEART OF THE CAMPAIGN, MADE IT
LOOK LIKE IT WAS MAINSTREAM NEWS
INSTEAD OF A STEVE BANNON JOINT
COOKED UP IN A CALDRON.
THEY THEN WENT BACK TO THE STORY
AGAIN, RAN MORE HEADLINES ABOUT
IT IN NOVEMBER 2017 WHICH IS
WHEN FOX NEWS AND THE TRUMP
FOLKS HAD HEATED UP THAT STORY
AGAIN AND WHEN ATTORNEY GENERAL
JEFF SESSIONS DECIDED HE NEEDED
TO APPOINT THIS NEW JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT REVIEW TO GO BACK
OVER THE URANIUM ONE THING AND
E-MAILS THING AGAIN TO SEE IF
THERE COULD POSSIBLY BE ANY
CHARGES THERE.
CHARGES THERE. THEY WENT BACK AND PUT IT IN
THEIR NEWS AGAIN IN PARTNERSHIP
WITH THIS STEVE BANNON CONNECTED
RIGHT WING AUTHOR.
WHEN THEY WANT TODAY GO BACK TO
IT, WHEN THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION INSISTED THAT
SCANDAL WAS LIVE AGAIN IN THE
FALL OF 2017, WHICH IS HOW WE
GOT THAT JUST DEPARTMENT REVIEW.
WELL, NOW THAT JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT REVIEW HAS APPARENTLY
CONCLUDED THAT THERE’S NOTHING
THERE.
THERE. AND, IN FACT, THE REVIEW WOUND
DOWN MONTHS AGO AND FOUND
NOTHING AND NO REASON TO CHARGE
ANYBODY OR EVEN OPEN A FORMAL
INVESTIGATION AND, OOPS, NEVER
MIND, GUESS THERE WAS NOTHING
THERE.
THERE. THUS FAR AT LEAST "THE NEW YORK
TIMES" HAS NOT REPORTED ON THE
CONCLUSION OF THAT REVIEW AT
ALL.
ALL. IT’S BEEN REPORTED IN "THE
WASHINGTON POST" AND CNN THUS
FAR, BUT WE HAVEN’T SEEN "THE
TIMES" TOUCH IT.
I BET THEY WILL.
I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THEIR
STORY AND HOW THEY CONTEND WITH
THE FACT THEY WERE MORE THAN
ANYBODY ELSE IN THE MAINSTREAM
MEDIA PROMOTED THAT STORY.
I ALSO LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING
WHETHER THE LOCK HER UP CHANT