Will Our Country Get It Together

Tom reviews Wednesday night’s Democratic debate and looks ahead to November, and whether our country will give Donald Trump what he views as a “free pass” in the form of re-election.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I heard radio presents Tom Broke now here this Democrats
cross the country today must be saying to themselves, what
the heck was that all about? They seem to be
headed for a circle firing squad. In the Las Vegas debate,
they spent most of their time trashing each other and
especially Mayor Michael Bloomberg. To the mayor in a moment,

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but Amy and Mayor Pete, what was that all about?
Playground hiss? He fits a new level for Minnesota Pride
and the boys star out of Notre Dame. Joe, that is,
the former Vice president of the United States, was frustrated
because he couldn't seem to find his space on that stage.

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Bernie an aging heart attack patient with his self serving
outrage that not everyone sees the end of he seems
to be getting a free pass at this moment. Senator
Warren started it in a fit of anger directed at
Mayor Bloomberg and fan the flames until they were way
beyond any enlightened discussion, accusing him of everything, including grand theft, decency,

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whatever else. He has been an enormously successful businessman, a
successful mayor of New York City for three terms, and
of course we all know that he's rich big time.
Of course, he's made mistakes, so along the way he's
apologized for most of them, but not all. The mayor
looked peeved and impatient. He seemed just out of sync

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in the first half. Not just peeved, but it rhymes
with missed. For the duration of the debate, a growing
number of Democrats have been leaning toward Bloom, but by
the end of last night they were befuddled. So now
what for the Democratic Party? A big test is coming
up after Las Vegas Super Tuesday, effective a national primary

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for all the Democrats who hope to be their party's nominee.
If Bernie hasn't stopped, the Democrats will nominate Get this,
an aging socialist to run against a wild eyed, free
entrepreneur with lots of cash. Let's face it, an absence
of decency and playing by the rules, but he does

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have a boutique and growing Following muttering, a lot of
Democrats are saying to themselves, this is George McGovern all
over again. Remember nineteen sixty eight, George McGovern, the Democratic nominee,
won only one state, Massachusetts, could not even carry his
home state of South Dakota. He had a far left

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agenda against Richard Milhouse Nixon. One advisor in the McGovern
camp said, we're gonna give every citizen in America a
thousand dollars. It's kind of a jump start. That led
John Wayne to go around the country saying, where is
George McGovern? I want my thousand dollars. You can imagine
how effective that was. Nixon was quite liberal in his

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first term, but then in the second term he signed
on to the Watergate capers. But you must remember the
first term he did eliminate the draft, He reformed the
way we go into the nation services militarily. He also
expanded women's rights. He did a good job when it
came to dealing with the environment, and also declared war

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on cancer. But then he lost control in the second term.
It was really hubrious. The Nixon team thought that they
could do anything, breaking and entering, lying dirty tricks, and
many of them went to jail and lived out their
lives and disgrace and resignation. Nixon, of course, hung on
until the end. In August of the following year. After

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his election, he was forced to resign or certainly be
tried and convicted in the court of impeachment. In the
United States Senate Trump but this point is thrilled with
the chaos and the Democratic Party, and no question about it,
he is exceeding his constitutional powers, interfering with court cases,
belittling some of our most senior military officers. Hubris is

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inadequate to describe Trump's behavior these days. He has a
sense of entitlement that goes beyond anything that we've seen
in the Oval Office in my lifetime at least, but
it is working for him. A former friend of mine,
and I emphasized former, we've known each other since high school,
honestly believes that the press is making up all these

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stories about Donald Trump's sexual harassment, about Donald Trump's personal behavior,
about the shape and the condition of his personal financial situation.
He believes this is all a conspiracy against Donald Trump
led by the press, and he includes me, one of
his oldest friends. And all of that. I must say

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that Bloomberg is along. I am a friend of mine.
I've known him since surely after we moved to New York.
I watched him build a great empire. He's extraordinarily rich.
We all know that he can be kind of smart,
well smart ass frankly, and he can also be kind
of cynical, But the fact is that his charitable giving

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is to be envied by a lot of people. He
does have a lot to answer for, and he's been
trying to do that when it comes to stop and
frisk and some of the intemperate remarks that he's made
about women in the past. But we've got a long
way to go in this country, and Donald Trump is
the man who thinks that he's going to be the
president effectively forever. The Democrats have to decide who are

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they going to put up against him. Are they going
to put up a far left social lde or are
they going to go to someone in the middle like
the former Vice president Joe Biden. Are they going to
go to the boy mayor of Notre Dame? Or will
Donald Trump finally have his worst fears realized, and that
would be Michael Bloomberg getting his act together and showing

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the country that he's every bit as good as those
expensive television has that he's been buying. So that's where
we are at this point, and we're going to an
important time in our lives. We have to know if
Donald Trump will get a free pass effectively, and we'll
have four more years of an egomaniacal president of the

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United States. He's running the country as a family business,
and we know how many of those family businesses turned
out there in chapter eleven or worse. So buckle up, everyone.
We're approaching the gravity of nineteen sixty eight, when we
were going through Vietnam, when lb J was forced to resign,
when Dr King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated. Empowered Russia

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at that time, so it invaded Czechoslovaki to put down
a rebellion. There. We're in a new century, but the
old warning signs do remain. Power can be abused, but
only for so long under our system, and we're now
approaching a breaking point. How will the country respond? That,

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ladies and gentlemen, is a moment for history that will
all be witnessed to, and my hope is that will
all be participating in determining how this will turn out.
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