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everybody I'm Lara Trump coming to you
from Studio 45 at Trump Tower in New
York City from impeachment to the
coronavirus to their own presidential
nomination the democrat establishment is
on the attack joining me is a
conservative commentator and podcast
host michael knowles
michael thanks so much for coming on the
show Laura thank you for having me so
let's start with Bernie Sanders we know
that the establishment did him wrong in
2016 they gave the nomination to Hillary
Clinton they've done it again or they're
trying to do it again right now
pushing Bernie Sanders aside but not
before their party was basically
hijacked by Democrats socialists what do
you think well this is the irony of it
is what the democrat establishment is
saying is Bernie Sanders isn't even
really a Democrat he's a registered
independent he doesn't really control
our party but of course he was a
registered Democrat in 2016 and his
ideas his radical socialist ideas have
become the mainstream in the Democratic
Party it's no random chance that Bernie
Sanders was able to win so many votes he
almost won the nomination in 2016
actually he may very well have won it
and had it taken from him and this time
he's come very close as well so now even
though Joe Biden doesn't even have half
the required delegates they're trying to
push Bernie out they're trying to say no
there's no path for you to victory I
don't think Bernie is going to get out I
think that he knows that he is winning
the ideological fight within the
Democratic Party
I think he's gonna stick in and make it
very difficult for Joe Biden and then I
think there's a very practical concern
which is just that Joe Biden has no
stamina whatsoever
he is slurring his words he can't
remember his boss's name you can't
remember his own name he can't remember
his creator's name in the Declaration of
Independence so I think what Bernie
Sanders is also thinking is gosh this
guy might not make it across the finish
line in which case if Bernie has a lot
of Delegates he'll he'll try to swoop in
and take the nomination back for himself
so I want to shift to President Trump
now because contrary to criticism from
the left this president has shown bold
moral leader
Jib while confronting the coronavirus
although of course they try to criticize
him in every turn
what are your thoughts how do you think
he's done with this I think he's done a
great job I mean what what does the left
expect the way you know that he's damned
if he does and damned if he doesn't is
they they attack him for opposite
reasons so he right away moves very
quickly to restrict travel from China
which which pretty clearly stops the
spread of this pandemic and they attack
him right they call him racist they say
it's an overreaction then he tries to
calm the markets he tries to keep some
steady leadership they attack him for
not doing enough they attack him for
doing too much you saw the classic the
Ron Burgundy of CNN Jim Acosta goes out
and called called president from a
xenophobe because he referred to the
Wuhan virus as the Wuhan virus and the
irony of course is that on January 23rd
Jim Acosta on his Twitter account did
exactly the same thing they're just so
furious they're trying to figure out any
reason to attack the guy I thought the
speech that the president gave was very
good I think he's got very stable
leadership during this time he's
appointed his number two to run the
political task force on coronavirus
obviously vice president Mike Pence
there's not really much more you could
ask of him and I think it's really ugly
in politics to use a pandemic like this
a public health crisis to try to score
cheap points against your opponent I get
it people take cheap shots in politics
that seems low though even for the left
yeah it is low and it's sad but that's
unfortunately how low they've gotten and
maybe it will get even worse from here
so during the impeachment hoax you
started hosting a popular podcast called
verdict with Ted Cruz tell us a little
bit about that so this show came
together very last minute you know the
Democrats had been talking about
impeachment since early 2017 right
representative Al Green said that if he
feared that if they didn't impeach the
president he might get reelected so we
knew this was kind of in the air but it
comes together and we get a call and
senator Cruz wanted to launch this
podcast against the impeachment hoax and
so I immediately flew out to DC and what
was so wild about
odd cast is that the hearings were going
on all day long so I'm sitting in my
hotel room watching the hearings
trying not to fall asleep well Adam
Schiff is throwning on and then I would
go to the studio
senator Cruz would come straight from
the Capitol to the podcast studio in the
middle of the night we're talking about
1:00 2:00 in the morning and then we
would we would record the podcast from
there he would give the
behind-the-scenes the inside baseball
not just what we saw on c-span but what
was going on between the Senators in the
cloakroom the arguments that people like
Adam Schiff were trying to make very
weak arguments and he would relay them
to us and then just explain why it was
all so bogus and it what's funny is
nobody wanted to pay attention to
impeachment itself no one was tuning in
the Democrats just couldn't get any
traction with it and yet our show
senator Cruz has shown mine verdict
jumped up to number one on the charts
and I think it's because people were
interested in this they're interested in
their government they just didn't want
the hack talking points that you get on
left-wing cable news they want to go a
little bit deeper and I think they
realized early on and certainly by the
end that the whole thing was a sham well
we know that's for for sure and the
great news is that the president was
acquitted by the Senate so and we did
epic front fundraising thanks to Nancy
calling for impeachment so thanks again
Nancy Pelosi for that
Michael you you really are a breath of
fresh air you know out in California
fighting for our country the president
every day want to say thank you for
everything that you do and we really
appreciate you coming on the show thanks
for joining us well thank you so much
lawyers really nice to be here as the
Democrat establishment rises up once
again Donald Trump is the only thing
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