-The president gave a speech
to a group of Republicans last night.
where he sent a bunch of insane stuff.
For more on this, it's time for "A Closer Look."
[ Cheers and applause ]
-It's been almost two weeks
since Trump's attorney general released a memo
in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report.
The memo said Mueller had not established a conspiracy
between the Trump campaign and Russia,
but it also said Mueller had not exonerated Trump
of obstruction of justice, so it was a mixed bag.
But Trump has declared himself victorious
and even threatened last week
to keep the full report hidden from the public.
-The president -- the same president,
who over the past week has said
he's for the full release of the report wrote this --
"The problem is, no matter what
the radical-left Democrats get,
no matter what we give them it, it will never be enough.
Just watch.
They will harass and complain and resist
the theme of their movement.
So, maybe we should just take our victory and say no.
We've got a country to run.
-Okay, first of all, you don't have a country to run
because you don't run it.
You outsource it to your collection of weirdos
while you go golfing with Kid Rock.
By the way, I'm glad.
I'm glad to see Kid Rock is respecting the flag
by turning it into a fart catcher.
[ Laughter ]
In fact, despite proclaiming falsely
that he's been exonerated,
some officials even within the White House
are anxious that the president is getting ahead of himself
before the full report comes out.
One senior White House official said, "There will be plenty
of unfavorable things about the president
in the full report, which we think
will eventually come out,
so let's not go overboard saying there's no wrongdoing.
Let's move on."
Yeah, of course,
there will be damning things in the report,
because we know publicly it's damning.
Mueller's report could literally just be
a bunch of news articles about Trump
stapled together with a cover sheet
that says, "Remember this stuff?"
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And while...
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While Trump, himself,
wants to declare victory and move on,
he also seems stuck on his obsession
with how Mueller's investigation got started.
The answer to that is simple.
The FBI was investigating his ties to Russia
and then he fired the guy in charge of that investigation
and because his of Republican attorney general
had recused himself,
his Republican deputy attorney general
appointed Robert Mueller.
But Trump still wants someone to look into what he called
or what he tried to call "the origins of the report."
But he sad some trouble saying the word.
I hope they now go and take a look at the oranges --
the origins of the investigation,
the beginnings of that investigation.
You look at the origin of the investigation.
The Mueller report, I wish, covered the oranges...
how it started.
-"Yeah. Hey, mom...
Mom, I'm worried about grandpa."
Yeah.
Yeah, oranges."
[ Laughter ] Why does he keep saying oranges?
Is he hungry or is that always how he says it?
[ As Trump ] Did you see "Captain Marvel"?
It is pretty good for an oranges story.
[ Laughter ]
[ Normal voice ] And if you're confused by this,
you're not the only one -- even the White House
can't figure out what Trump was trying to say,
because in their official transcript of his remarks,
the transcript that is published on the White House website,
They had to invent a new word.
Here is how they spelled it.
"I hope they now go
and take a look at the oranges."
I love imagining the stenographer
who had to type that one out.
"Take a look at the...
I don't know." Just make something up.
[ Laughter ]
That looks how a child would spell it
on a piece of cardboard
if they opened up their own fruit stand.
[ Laughter ] I mean, seriously, though.
Is...
Is the White House going do this
every time Trump makes up a new word?
I mean, what about this one.
-God bless the United "Shtates."
[ Laughter ]
Does that mean they are going
to have to change the signs at the airport?
And while Trump's hung up
on the oranges of the investigation
his supporters, like Fox News host Jeanine Pirro,
are hung up on a different obsession.
They want everyone associated with the report to go to jail,
although I have to say, the way she ended her rant
made it a lot less dramatic than she intended.
-This should never happen again,
and I can guarantee you it will happen again
unless we make an example of the traitorous,
treasonous group that accused Donald Trump
of being an agent of the Russian government.
These arrogant, lying,
condescending, leaking,
haters of you and me
and the America that doesn't have power
are going to do it again unless we stop them
and the only way to stop them
is with justice -- true justice --
and that's behind-the-bars justice.
And that's my open.
Let me know what you think on my Facebook and Twitter.
#JudgeJeanine.
-Now, it really undercuts your authoritarian call
for traitors to be thrown in jail
when you end it by asking people to like you on Facebook.
You never saw Stalin get on TV and say,
"We will crush the opposition
and root out the traitors amongst us.
And, as always, please remember, like and subscribe."
[ Laughter ]
[ Speaks indistinctly ]
So, it's been almost two weeks since Mueller's report
was delivered, and in that time,
the question on everybody's mind has been,
how would Trump respond?
Would this strengthen him politically?
What message would he focus on?
And now we have the answer,
as we learned at a rally last week
and again in the speech last night
Trump has decided to spend the rest of his presidency
doing the impressions of windmills.
-If Hillary got in, you wouldn't have that stat.
I can tell you right now.
You'd be doing wind. You can be doing windmills.
Whee.
Hillary wanted to put up wind, wind.
If you have a windmill anywhere near your house,
congratulations --
your house just went down 75% in value.
and they say the noise causes cancer.
You tell me that one, okay?
[ Imitates whirring sound ]
-So many questions.
First, the idea that noise from windmills
causes cancer is insane, but, second,
why does his impression keep clanging.
-Whee! [ Imitates whirring sound ]
[ Laughter ]
-[ As Trump ] You know, cats?
Cats -- they're either like meow or woof, woof, woof, woof.
[ Scattered applause ]
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[ Normal voice ] Trump's riff on cancer-causing windmills
was only the beginning.
He also told the Republicans in attendance
they say they should be more careful
about voter fraud, which is nonexistent.
In fact, the most prominent case of election fraud in 2018
was committed by a Republican in North Carolina,
but Trump kept insisting that something was going on.
-You got to watch those vote tallies.
You know, I keep hearing about the election
and the various
counting measures that they have.
There were a lot of close elections that were --
they seemed, to every single one of them,
went Democrat.
If it was close, they say the Democrat --
There's something going on, fella.
Hey, you to be little bit more paranoid than you are.
Okay?
-More paranoid?!
You already think windmills are causing cancer.
The only way you can be more paranoid
is if you thought the windmills were committing voter fraud.
[ As Trump ] The windmills -- they're wearing disguises,
and they're voting -- oh, they're voting!
I saw one in a polling booth.
Big hat, mustache.
[ Laughter ]
[ Speaks gibberish ]
[ Laughter ]
[ Normal voice ] Trump also expressed concern
in that same speech
that his remarks would get out to the press.
Trump is talking about something incomprehensible
that's honestly not even worth explaining.
The important part is the end of the clip.
They put names, and you pick a name.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm proud to announce so and so.
I don't want to use names 'cause I'll get in trouble.
Somebody's going to leak this whole damn speech to the media.
-Leak it to the media? You're on TV!
[ Laughter ] You're not...
Do you not see the cameras?
I can't believe I had to say it.
You should be more paranoid.
You're the president of the United States,
and you're on television.
We can all see you.
You're like a guy live-streaming himself on Facebook,
screaming, "I'm being watched."
I mean, I'm worried someone is going to leak this,
and he's going to see it.
[ Laughter ]
In fact, Trump was so afraid to use names
that when he after Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
who proposed the Green New Deal,
he referred to her by her previous job,
instead of the current one.
-The Green New Deal
done by a young bartender, 29 years old.
[ Laughter ]
A young bartender. -All right.
First of all, she is a member of Congress
and her name is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
[ Cheers and applause ] I mean...
We call you "Mr. President,"
not Crazy Windmill Cancer Guy.
It's like, so what if she was a bartender?
We need more working people and women of color in politics.
Right now, every Senate hearing --
Right now, every Senate hearing
looks like a Clint Eastwood movie,
where a bunch of old guys decide to pull one last heist.
[ Laughter ]
Whether you agree with the details or not,
AOC has an ambitious plan to deal with an existential
threat to the planet, and she's got everyone
talking about climate change.
Trump, on the other hand,
tried to explain his trade policy last night,
especially when it comes to countries that sell us cars,
and it made no sense whatsoever.
-I said, if you don't do this, we're gonna tariff every product
coming out of your country at 25%.
And every time I had a problem,
I would just take, you know -- especially cars.
I had a little plastic car on my desk,
and I'd have the leaders come over,
and I'd just take the car out, put it on the front of the desk.
They'd say, "Okay. We agree."
-I do not believe that story.
[ Laughter ]
-You take out a little plastic --
How does that even work?
"Mr. President, we have a trade deficit of $800 billion."
[ As Trump ] Counterpoint.
[ Laughter ]
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And while Trump rallies about windmills
and attacks the Green New Deal, the Democratic primary,
on the other hand, has been very policy focused.
The candidates are talking about everything from climate change
to health care to voting rights.
In fact, today, Senator Elizabeth Warren
unveiled a bill to make it easier
to jail executives for company abuses,
And when she was asked at a recent town hall
about her plans to increase taxes
on the wealthiest Americans,
she could not contain her excitement.
-Thank you, Senator Warren, for being here.
How do you plan to make sure the extremely rich
pay their fair taxes?
-Whoa!
[ Laugher ] -Damn!
She reacted like she just landed a rover on Mars.
Elizabeth Warren reacts to taxing the rich
the way the rest of us react to a surprise party.
"Surprise!" -Whoa!
[ Laughter ]
She's excited to talk about it because whether
you agree with it or not, people want to hear about it.
They don't really care that much about Mueller or Russia.
In fact, the website FiveThirtyEight
found this week that Trump hadn't seen a post-Mueller boost
in the polls, in part, because the Russia investigation
isn't a big priority for voters.
Most people have more immediate worries,
like whether they have enough gas in the car
or can pay their water bill,
and tomorrow is the kids' soccer game,
and it's their turn to bring...
-Oranges.
[ Laughter ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
Voters want to hear about stuff
like healthcare and climate change.
Trump doesn't have a plan to deal with any of those issues.
Instead, he's spending his time rambling about windmills.
To get through the next two years of this,
We're all going to need a really good...
-Bartender.
-This has been "A Closer Look."
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