>>WE HAVE RECENTLY HAD MORE REVELATIONS FROM WIKILEAKS, THEY
APPARENTLY GOT MANY TYPES OF LEAKS, INCLUDING WIKILEAKS,
APPARENTLY THEY HAVE GOTTEN TO JOHN PODESTA'S, EMAILS, HE IS
RUNNING THE CAMPAIGN FOR HILLARY CLINTON, AND BOY HE WOULD KNOW.
AND NOT JUST HIS EMAILS, BUT ONCE SENT TO HIM, A LOT OF
INSIDE INFORMATION.
IN THIS STORY I WILL CONCENTRATE ON WHAT
THEY WERE CALLING THE PIED PIPER CANDIDATES ON THE REPUBLICAN
SIDE.
THIS WAS EARLY ON IN THE PROCESS, I THINK AROUND APRIL
2015, THEY DON'T KNOW WHO WILL EMERGE VICTORIOUS ON THE
REPUBLICAN SIDE, SO THEY WANT TO FOCUS ON THIS.
WHAT DO THEY MEAN
BY PIED PIPER?
THIS IS WHAT THEY SAY --
>>NOW, THIS IS A STRATEGY MEMO FOR THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN, THEY
HAVE STRATEGY MEMOS.
THIS IS NOT A SURPRISING THING, WE
UNDERSTAND THAT, IT'S JUST THE STRATEGY THEY HAVE TELLS YOU A
LITTLE BIT ABOUT THEMSELVES.
I DON'T THINK THIS IS ANYWHERE
NEAR THE MOST DAMAGING OF THE WIKILEAKS, I COVERED A LOT OF
THAT ON FRIDAY, BUT I THINK IT IS INSTRUCTIVE.
FIRST OFF, I
WOULD HAVE A SLIGHT ISSUE BECAUSE THEY THINK IT IS A GOOD
STRATEGY TO HAVE THE ENTIRE PUBLICAN FIELD MOVED TO THE
RIGHT SO THEY WANT TO EMPHASIZE THESE GUYS WHO THEY THINK ARE
LOSERS AND WON'T MAKE IT ANYWAY, BUT MOVE THE REPUBLICANS SO FAR
RIGHT AND THEY CAN'T WIN.
IS THAT A RATIONAL DECISION-MAKING
PROCESS IF YOU ARE TRYING TO BEAT THEM?
YES, I GET IT, I
UNDERSTAND THAT.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME YOU MOVE THE ENTIRE
CONVERSATION TO THE RIGHT, AND THAT IS NOT OVERLY HELPFUL TO
THE COUNTRY IF YOU ASK ME.
I KNOW THEY WILL DISAGREE, THAT IS
MY TAKE ON THIS.
BUT WE ARE JUST GETTING STARTED.
THEY GO ON TO
SAY --
>>BEFORE I GET TO THEY ARE, THAT IS THE ONE THAT PROBABLY
DISTURBED ME THE MOST.
NO, THOSE ARE THE PARTY.
EVEN THE CLINTON
CAMPAIGN, TO THIS LATE DATE, DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY IS EXTREME, THEIR VOTERS ARE EXTREME, POLL
AFTER POLL INDICATES IT, 65% OF DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTERS THINK
OBAMA IS A MUSLIM, 30% WOULD NOT ALLOW GAYS INTO THE COUNTRY.
SO
WAKEY WAKEY, THEY THINK THE REPUBLICANS ARE PERFECTLY NORMAL
BUT HAVE A COUPLE OF FRINGE GUYS, AND THOSE GUYS ARE NEVER
GOING TO WIN, THEY ARE PIED PIPER, BUT LET'S PRETEND
REPUBLICANS AGREE WITH THEM.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO PRETEND, THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY DOES AGREE WITH THEM.
BUT LET'S BE FAIR TO THEM,
LET'S FIND OUT WHO THEY THINK ARE THE PIED PIPER IS WHO HAVE
NO CHANCE TO WIN --
>>TED CRUZ CAME IN SECOND, OOPS.
>>WHAT DOES THAT SHOW YOU?
THAT SHOWS YOU A COUPLE THINGS.
NUMBER ONE, THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON IN THIS
COUNTRY.
AND THESE ARE ALL THE TOP POLITICAL EXPERTS ON THE
DEMOCRAT SIDE.
THE GUYS WHO HAVE NO CHANCE OF WINNING, DONALD
TRUMP AND TED CRUZ, CAME IN NUMBER ONE AND NUMBER TWO.
OOPS.
THEY HAD NO IDEA WHAT WOULD HIT THEM.
NUMBER TWO, LET'S PROMOTE
THESE GUYS WHICH WILL HURT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WHICH IS NOT
ALIGNED WITH THEM.
IT TURNS OUT THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS ARE
PERFECTLY ALIGNED WITH DONALD TRUMP AND TED CRUZ, AND FOR A
WHILE, CARSON WAS NUMBER ONE, THE ONLY GUY WHO EVER HAD A LEAD
ON DONALD TRUMP.
SO THEY PICKED THE THREE GUYS WHO HAD THE ONLY
CHANCE OF WINNING.
WHEN WILL YOU GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK
SKULLS, REPUBLICANS ARE NOT A REASONABLE PARTY?
HILLARY
CLINTON TALKING TO THE BANKERS TALKS ABOUT THE REASONABLE LEFT
AND THE REASONABLE RIGHT AND THEN THERE ARE THE FRINGES --
THERE IS NO REASONABLE RIGHT.
VOTERS OVERWHELMINGLY VOTED FOR
CRUZ AND TRUMP BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT THEY WANT ON THE REPUBLICAN
SIDE.
AND THEY ALWAYS THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE FUN AND GAMES, SO
EASY -- UNTIL RECENTLY, NOT THAT EASY.
AND FOR A WHILE HILLARY
CLINTON WAS TIED WITH DONALD TRUMP.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH
FOR.
THE LAST PART, THEY SAY --
>>IN OTHER WORDS WE DON'T TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY, THEY DON'T TAKE
THEM SERIOUSLY, BUT LET'S PRETEND THEY DO.
TED CRUZ AND
DONALD TRUMP, YOU SHOULD TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY.
BUT THAT
STRATEGY FED THE BEAST, AND THE BEAST BECAME REAL, AND COULD
HAVE OVERWHELMED US ALL.
SO THEY'RE PLAYING DICE WITH THE
REPUBLIC HERE.
AT THIS POINT WITH A MONTH LEFT BEFORE THE
ELECTION IT LOOKS LIKE TRUMP'S ODDS OF WINNING AREN'T GOOD, BUT
THAT WAS A HELL OF A GAMBLE AND YOU ARE MISSING THE LARGER
PICTURE, WHICH IS THE COUNTRY IS IN AN ANGRY, POPULIST MOOD.
AND
IF YOU THINK THESE POPULISTS HAVE NO CHANCE, AND REALITY
UNFORTUNATELY THEY HAD A PERFECTLY GOOD CHANCE.
SO IF YOU
KEEP PLAYING WITH FIRE AT SOME POINT YOU WILL GET BURNED.
YOU
MIGHT CALL THEM PIED PIPERS NOW BUT AT SOME POINT WE MIGHT ALL
BE PAYING THE PIPER.