>> CNBC HAS BEEN HIT BY CRITICISM SINCE LAST NIGHT,
PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE ON THE RIGHT, EVERY CONSERVATIVE,
SAYING THEY WERE UNFAIR TO THE CANDIDATES, BIASED, DID NOT
CONTROL THE DEBATE, THEY WORE UGLY SUITS, THEY WERE THE WORST.
WE WILL GO THROUGH A LOT OF THESE.
FIRST FROM REINCE
PRIEBUS, THE RNC CHAIRMAN --
>> THAT IS TRUE, THEY DID THEIR BEST.
UNFORTUNATELY THEY DID NOT
SHARE ANY GOOD IDEAS.
HE SAID --
>> EVEN WORSE THAN FOX, PERHAPS, WHO THEY CRITICIZED IN THE SAME
WAY.
JEB BUSH --
>> SO HE WAS NOT HAPPY.
WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF DONALD TRUMP,
WHY DON'T WE GO TO VIDEO 2, WE WILL SEE DONALD TRUMP AFTER THE
DEBATE DOING SOME COMPLAINING OF HIS OWN.
>>I THOUGHT IF YOU LOOK AT HILLARY'S DEAL A COUPLE OF WEEKS
AGO THE QUESTIONS WERE MUCH SOFTER, EASIER, NICER, IT WAS
LIKE A GIANT LOVEFEST.
THAT DID NOT TAKE PLACE HERE, IT WAS
PRETTY TOUGH.
BUT I WOULD SAY THAT IS THE WAY YOU WANT IT TO
GO.
HILLARY'S QUESTIONS WERE EASIER THAN THE QUESTIONS WE
WERE GIVEN TONIGHT.
THAT WAS QUITE BORING, I THINK THIS WAS MORE EXCITING, BUT
THESE WERE MUCH TOUGHER QUESTIONS.
>> WE CRITICIZED EARLY ON SOME OF THE EARLY QUESTIONS AT THE
DEMOCRATIC DEBATE, BUT EVEN THEN IT WAS NOT LIKE THEY WERE GOTCHA
QUESTIONS.
ARE CRITICISM WAS NOT THAT THE QUESTIONS WERE WRONG,
IT WAS THAT THEY STOOD IN CONTRAST TO THE SORTS OF
QUESTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN ASKED AT THE FIRST TWO REPUBLICAN
DEBATES.
I DON'T THINK OVERALL THEY WERE SOFT.
THEY ASKED
LINCOLN CHAFEE WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING ON THAT STAGE, THEY
ASKED BERNIE SANDERS HOW CAN YOU SAY YOU ARE SOCIALIST, WHY
SHOULDN'T PEOPLE BE TERRIFIED OF HOW YOU WOULD RUN THIS COUNTRY?
WHY ARE YOU SO OUT OF STEP WITH YOUR GUN POLICY?
WE WILL GO TO
SOME THINGS THEY ASKED THE REPUBLICANS, BUT BRINGING UP THE
ATTACK ON MARCO RUBIO, HE DID NOT REALLY EVEN HAVE TO ANSWER
IT.
IT IS IRONIC FROM MY POINT OF VIEW TO COMPLAIN ABOUT HARD
QUESTIONING WHEN YOU ARE ALLOWED TO SIMPLY NOT ANSWER IT, AND
THEN GO AND WHINE TO THE PRESS AND SAY THEY WERE UNFAIR.
>>I AGREE.
WHAT KIND OF HARD QUESTION WOULD YOU WANT?
BEN
CARSON, DO YOU WANT A B12 SHOT?
MAYBE SOME ESPRESSO?
I CAN'T REMEMBER THE PHRASING, BUT THEY REALLY DO TREAT
DONALD TRUMP LIKE A CLOWN AND HE DOESN'T LIKE IT TOO MUCH
ANYMORE.
>>THEY SAID THE COMIC BOOK PRESIDENCY.
>> YES.
>>THEY DO TREAT HIM LIKE A CLOWN.
>>I KNOW, BUT IT IS LIKE, AGAIN -- A LITTLE MORE SUBSTANCE,
I WOULD'VE APPRECIATED.
>>THE PROBLEM AT THE DEBATE, JOHNNY, WAS THE HARD QUESTIONS
FROM THE CORPORATE NEWS REPORTERS ON CNBC, THE LAPDOGS
OF CORPORATIONS AND WALL STREET.
THEY GAVE THE REPUBLICANS TOO
MANY TOUGH -- THAT WAS THE PROBLEM, THE MODERATORS.
NOT THE
CRAZY LIE-SPEWING, HATEMONGERING, GOP CANDIDATES.
THAT IS NOT THE PROBLEM, THE PROBLEM WAS THE MODERATORS.
THEY HATED FOX NEWS.
>>NOT CONSERVATIVE ENOUGH.
>> FOR WEEKS DONALD TRUMP WENT ON A TIRADE AGAINST MEGYN KELLY
FOR ASKING GOTCHA QUESTIONS, BUT NOW ON CNBC, TOO TOUGH OF
QUESTIONS.
THEY JUST DON'T LIKE QUESTIONS.
THEY ARE LIKE, THE
QUESTIONS -- THEY WERE ASKING GOTCHA QUESTIONS, ALSO
KNOWN AS QUESTIONS.
>>A GOTCHA QUESTION LIKE, YOUR TAX PLAN, CONSERVATIVE THINK
TANKS HAVE SAID IT WILL COST US $9 TRILLION OVER 10 YEARS.
HOW
COULD YOU POSSIBLY FUND THE GOVERNMENT?
WELL, THIS SEEMS
UNFAIR TO ME.
YEAH, IT SEEMS UNFAIR THAT YOU WOULD TRY TO RUN
THE COUNTRY BY BANKRUPTING IT.
THAT IS THE BIG PROBLEM.
LET'S
RUN THROUGH A COUPLE OF OTHER COMPLAINTS.
LET'S LOOK AT THE
FRONT PAGE OF DRUDGE REPORT, SHAME OF THE NATION.
THEY WERE
VERY CLEAR.
THOSE THREE INDIVIDUALS, BY THE WAY --
>>IS HE TALKING ABOUT THE DRUDGE REPORT?
>>THAT IS THEIR TAGLINE.
DRUDGE REPORT: SHAME OF THE NATION.
>>THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT.
MANSON ALSO DID A THING, MURDERERS!
>> BEN CARSON SAYS --
>> ALSO THINKING IT WAS UNFAIR.
>>SUCH FUCKING WHINING BITCHES.
>>HERE IS WHY THEY ARE COMPLAINING, BECAUSE THEY
WEREN'T ASKED WHAT WOULD YOUR SECRET SERVICE CODENAME BE?
WHO WOULD YOU PUT ON THE $10 BILL?
>>WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SAY TO GOD?
>> IT IS HARD BY THAT COMPARISON.
>> IN NONE OF THESE DEBATES HAS ANYONE ASKED DONALD TRUMP ONE
QUESTION ABOUT THAT THING ON HIS HEAD.
THEY ASKED HIM ABOUT ALL DIFFERENT THINGS, BUT NOT THAT.
RAND PAUL WON'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT EITHER.
>>HE SUFFERS FROM PERPETUAL BED HEAD SYNDROME.
>>HE IS A BIG FISHERMAN, THAT IS FISHING WIRE.
RAND PAUL.
HE HAS IT CURLED UP ON HIS HEAD.
>>HE IS PREPARED.
LET'S JUMP AHEAD TO VIDEO 4, RUBIO ON FOX
AND FRIENDS, BECAUSE RUBIO WILL ATTACK THE MODERATORS AND THE
DEBATE, AND FOX AND FRIENDS, THEY JUST EXPERIENCED BEING ON
THE OTHER END OF THIS CRITICISM A MONTH AGO, AND YET THEY ARE
ALREADY -- AND I UNDERSTAND THEY ARE IN THE POCKET OF DONALD
TRUMP AND THAT SORT OF PERSON, BUT THEY WILL DEFEND THE
CANDIDATES AND ATTACK CNBC.
>> A NUMBER OF PEOPLE SAY YOU WERE ONE OF THE WINNERS LAST
NIGHT, BUT IT SEEMS UNIVERSAL THAT THE BIG LOSER WAS CNBC.
WHAT KIND OF AN AGENDA DID THEY HAVE GOING INTO THAT DEBATE
WITH YOU GUYS?
>> I DON'T THINK IT IS ATYPICAL FROM WHAT YOU SEE AMONG MOST
PEOPLE IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA, WHICH IS PRIVATELY THEY BELIEVE
THEY ARE SMARTER THAN THE PEOPLE RUNNING AND THEY CAN'T WAIT FOR
THEIR CHANCE TO SHOW OFF IN FRONT OF THEIR BUDDIES BY ASKING
SOME QUESTIONS THEY THINK WILL EMBARRASS ESPECIALLY
REPUBLICANS.
I THINK THE BIGGER FRUSTRATION IS THAT ALL THE
CANDIDATES ON THE STAGE HAD PREPARED FOR A SUBSTANTIVE
DEBATE, EVERYBODY WAS READY TO TALK ABOUT TRADE POLICY AND TAX
POLICY AND THE DEBT, EVERYBODY WAS.
THEN YOU GET QUESTIONS LIKE
THE ONE EVERYBODY GOT, WHICH WERE CLEARLY DESIGNED TO EITHER
GET US TO FIGHT AGAINST EACH OTHER OR SAY SOMETHING
EMBARRASSING ABOUT EACH OTHER, AND THEN ASK US TO REACT.
THAT IS WHAT THE PURPOSE OF THESE QUESTIONS WAS.
IT BECAME IRRITATING.
>>WE WANT TO SHARE WITH EVERYBODY A LITTLE BIT OF YOUR
RESPONSE TO THOSE MODERATORS AND THE MAINSTREAM BIAS.
WE ASKED
OUR VIEWERS TO SEND IN QUESTIONS SINCE THE MODERATORS DID SUCH A
LOUSY JOB GETTING TO THE ISSUES --
>>LOVE US, PLEASE.
>>POOR RUBIO.
>>MARCO RUBIO, HE IS NOT A MILLIONAIRE, HE'S JUST A REGULAR
EVERYDAY JOE WHO CANNOT BE BOTHERED TO SHOW UP FOR HIS
$170,000 YOUR JOB.
>> WHY SHOULD HE?
HE STILL GETS PAID.
>>THE THING THAT BOTHERS ME, THIS CAREER POLITICIAN, I DON'T
LIKE HOW -- AGAIN, THE QUALIFICATION FOR BEING THE
CHIEF EXECUTIVE WHEN YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN A CHIEF EXECUTIVE,
YOU HAVE BEEN THIS CAREER POLITICIAN YOUR ENTIRE
EXISTENCE, WHAT SORT OF SUBSTANCE IS THAT?
ASIDE FROM
EVERYTHING ELSE THAT IS WRONG WITH HIM.
>> LIKELY AMERICANS WOULD NEVER ELECT A DUMB CHIMP TO BE
PRESIDENT.
>> I WANTED TO ADDRESS THIS GROUP THAT BOUGHT THESE ADS
UNDER THE GUISE OF A NONPROFIT, TAKING PEOPLE'S MONEY, OBVIOUSLY
YOU CAN'T DO THAT --
I AM HOPING THAT THE IRS DOES MORE WITH THIS.
>>AND YOU HAVE TO WORK PRETTY HARD IN THIS COUNTRY TO FIND AN
AREA WHERE YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SPEND MONEY IN POLITICS.
AND
THEY SOMEHOW WERE ABLE TO DO THAT, THAT IS IMPRESSIVE.
I
HATED EVERYTHING RUBIO SAID THERE.
HE IS SUCH A WHINER.
WE
WERE ALL PREPARED TO TALK ABOUT TAX POLICY?
WHAT WAS UNFAIR
ABOUT THE QUESTIONS THEY ASKED OF BEN CARSON?
THEY SAID, YOU
WANT TO SET UP A SYSTEM BASED ON BIBLICAL TITHING TO PAY FOR THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
HE SAID IT IS NOT 10%, THEY WERE LIKE,
FINE.
HE SAID 15, THEY SAID IT WOULD HAVE TO BE 27.
A FLAT TAX,
TO PAY FOR OUR CURRENT OBLIGATIONS IT WOULD HAVE TO BE
27.
HE WANTS TO DO ABOUT HALF OF THAT.
AND THEN HE THINKS I AM
ONLY DOWN ABOUT $800 BILLION, HE SAYS HE IS DOWN $800 BILLION IN
TERMS OF BEING ABLE TO PAY FOR GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS, AND THAT
IS UNFAIR.
I THOUGHT HE WAS PREPARED.
AND MARCO RUBIO, THEY
SAID THAT YOU GIVE A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF IMPROVEMENT BY
TAXES TO THOSE AT THE HIGHER END OF THE TAX SPECTRUM, AND HE SAID
NO, IT IS ONLY WHEN YOU DO THE ABSOLUTE NUMBERS.
IT IS NOT THE
PERCENTAGES.
HE WAS WRONG, HE GIVES A BIGGER PERCENTAGE CUT TO
THOSE WHO ARE MAKING A MORE.
HOW IS THAT UNFAIR?
AND HOW WERE YOU
PREPARED, WHEN YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN
ABSOLUTE NUMBER AND THE PERCENTAGE?
I DON'T KNOW WHAT
THEY EXPECTED TO BE ASKED?
THEY WERE ALL PREPARED TO HAVE A POLICY DISCUSSION?
>>DO YOU THINK THEY ARE REALLY SINCERE IN THEIR CRITICISM OF
CNBC?
THOSE WERE THE EASIEST QUESTIONS THEY EVER GOT, AND
THEY IGNORED THEM WHEN THEY FELT LIKE IT.
AND THE CNBC -- THEY
WERE SHITTY, I THINK THEY WERE, BUT THEY WERE SHITTY IN THE
OPPOSITE.
THEY WERE WAY TOO SOFT.
THOSE ARE NOT JOURNALISTS,
THOSE ARE PEOPLE WHO PUT ON MAKEUP AND SIT IN FRONT OF THE
CAMERA.
LIKE US.
>>AND THEY DEFEND BUSINESSES AND PROGRESS TOWARD WHAT THE
BUSINESSES WANT.
>>CNBC IS THERE TO SUPPORT THE POWER STRUCTURE OF AMERICA,
THEY ARE NOT A SHARP STICK IN THE EYE OF THE POWERFUL.
>>BY THE WAY, ON BOTH SIDES OF THE DESK, THOSE PEOPLE ARE BEING
PAID BY THE PEOPLE WHO RUN THOSE BUSINESSES.
HOW CAN YOU PRETEND
THAT YOU HAVE OPPOSING INTERESTS WHEN YOUR PAYCHECKS COME FROM
THE SAME OFFICE?
>>GOING BACK TO BEN CARSON, AND I CAN DO A GOOD BEN CARSON
IMPRESSION ACTUALLY --
>>LET ME GET THE MOST DEADPAN FACE I CAN GET, WHAT WOULD JESUS
DO?
THAT IS HIS TAX PLAN IN A NUTSHELL.
THEY WENT DOWN THE
LINE.
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
A FLAT TAX.
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
A FLAT
TAX.
WHY DON'T WE CLUMP THEM ALL IN ONE BIG WAD AND MAKE ONE BIG
FLAT TAX?
THERE WAS NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE TAX PLANS EXCEPT FOR
HIS CONVOLUTED -- I DID NOT GET THAT.
>>TRUMP'S IS NOT A FLAT TAX, BUT IT WOULD PRODUCE LESS REVENUE
THAN BEN CARSON'S FLAT TAX.
TED CRUZ WAS ON SOME SORT OF MISSION
TO PROVE HE WOULD NOT TAKE ONE SINGLE DOLLAR IN TAXES.
SOMEHOW
HE THINKS HE CAN RUN THE COUNTRY.
YOU REFERRED TO THAT WE
CAN'T ELECT PEOPLE WITHOUT THIS EXPERIENCE, I SAW A TWEET FROM
BEN CARSON TODAY.
HE HAS BEEN GETTING CRITICISM THAT HE IS NOT
QUALIFIED FOR THE PRESIDENCY, WHICH SEEMS FAIR.
HE TWEETED OUT, BEAR IN MIND, THE ARK WAS MADE BY
AMATEURS AND THE TITANIC WAS MADE BY PROFESSIONALS.
CASE CLOSED, WE ARE READY TO ELECT YOU TO THE HIGHEST
OFFICE IN THE LAND.