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[beep] 7 00:00:10,532 --> 00:00:11,620 [clapperboard clapping] 8 00:00:11,663 --> 00:00:12,447 - My hair okay? 9 00:00:12,490 --> 00:00:13,317 - [Director] Yeah 10 00:00:13,361 --> 00:00:14,144 [clap] 11 00:00:14,188 --> 00:00:15,015 - Uh... 12 00:00:15,058 --> 00:00:16,233 - This is a lovely room. 13 00:00:16,277 --> 00:00:17,887 This is one of the best for an interview. 14 00:00:17,930 --> 00:00:21,064 And it's the people's house, so we might as well use it. 15 00:00:21,108 --> 00:00:22,674 [clapping] 16 00:00:22,718 --> 00:00:24,241 - We are on the fourth floor of the New York Times building. 17 00:00:24,285 --> 00:00:28,245 - Stupid is what stupid does, as Forest Gump says, right? 18 00:00:28,289 --> 00:00:29,420 - Is this fake news? 19 00:00:29,464 --> 00:00:31,248 [woman laughs] 20 00:00:31,292 --> 00:00:33,033 - This is not a complete dumper on him, right? 21 00:00:33,076 --> 00:00:34,512 - Check one, two, three. Check one, two, three. 22 00:00:34,556 --> 00:00:35,992 Check one, two, three, four. 23 00:00:36,036 --> 00:00:37,907 - I dare you to put this in the documentary. 24 00:00:37,950 --> 00:00:39,169 - [Director] I might give it a go. 25 00:00:39,213 --> 00:00:40,997 - Tensions beginning to run high. [chuckles] 26 00:00:41,041 --> 00:00:41,911 - Run the tape back. 27 00:00:41,954 --> 00:00:42,738 [tape rewinding] 28 00:00:42,781 --> 00:00:43,826 [clapping] 29 00:00:43,869 --> 00:00:45,567 - [Man] We're getting started! 30 00:00:45,610 --> 00:00:48,091 - You tell me when you're ready. I'm always ready. 31 00:00:51,094 --> 00:00:54,663 - Well, like most people, I didn't take it seriously. 32 00:00:54,706 --> 00:00:59,102 - When the entire country was laughing at him, 33 00:00:59,146 --> 00:01:00,016 they were mocking him... 34 00:01:00,060 --> 00:01:01,365 - Donald Trump has been saying 35 00:01:01,409 --> 00:01:03,106 that he will run for president as a Republican, 36 00:01:03,150 --> 00:01:04,977 which is surprising, since I just assumed 37 00:01:05,021 --> 00:01:06,414 he was running as a joke. 38 00:01:06,457 --> 00:01:09,417 [crowd laughing] 39 00:01:09,460 --> 00:01:11,984 - There was just no serious thought given 40 00:01:12,028 --> 00:01:13,290 to him as a candidate. 41 00:01:13,334 --> 00:01:14,987 - It's obvious that the Republicans think 42 00:01:15,031 --> 00:01:15,988 Trump's gonna lose. 43 00:01:17,381 --> 00:01:19,122 - Well, I can imagine it in a Saturday Night skit. 44 00:01:19,166 --> 00:01:20,776 - Utterly unqualified 45 00:01:20,819 --> 00:01:22,865 - He's an embarrassment to this country. 46 00:01:22,908 --> 00:01:24,475 - Hillary belongs in the White House. 47 00:01:24,519 --> 00:01:26,173 Trump belongs on my show. 48 00:01:26,216 --> 00:01:28,305 - Right now we have Hillary as about a 75 49 00:01:28,349 --> 00:01:29,393 or an 80% favorite. 50 00:01:29,437 --> 00:01:30,307 We have different versions 51 00:01:30,351 --> 00:01:31,613 of the forecast. - That high? 52 00:01:31,656 --> 00:01:32,483 - You're not gonna be president. All right? 53 00:01:32,527 --> 00:01:33,702 [audience laughing] 54 00:01:33,745 --> 00:01:35,791 - So discombobulated. So unconventional. 55 00:01:35,834 --> 00:01:38,010 - This is a joke, and it's an absurdity. 56 00:01:38,054 --> 00:01:39,838 - Donald Trump will never be elected 57 00:01:39,882 --> 00:01:41,231 President of the United States. 58 00:01:41,275 --> 00:01:42,972 - I don't think there's any way that Donald Trump 59 00:01:43,015 --> 00:01:44,887 gets elected President of the United States. 60 00:01:44,930 --> 00:01:46,802 - Donald Trump is not gonna be President 61 00:01:46,845 --> 00:01:48,064 of the United States. 62 00:01:48,108 --> 00:01:51,285 - You know, you guys sound like two kittens 63 00:01:51,328 --> 00:01:54,244 sitting on a train track, looking down at a train, 64 00:01:54,288 --> 00:01:55,854 thinking, "That train got a little bit bigger 65 00:01:55,898 --> 00:01:57,987 a few seconds ago, but I'm sure it's gonna stop. 66 00:01:58,030 --> 00:01:59,336 Hey, it got a little bit bigger, 67 00:01:59,380 --> 00:02:01,164 but no way it's gonna keep going. 68 00:02:01,208 --> 00:02:01,991 Hey, it-" 69 00:02:02,034 --> 00:02:03,427 Splat. 70 00:02:03,471 --> 00:02:06,256 Listen, if something is getting bigger and bigger 71 00:02:06,300 --> 00:02:08,432 and bigger every day, 72 00:02:08,476 --> 00:02:11,087 it's probably going to continue doing that. 73 00:02:11,131 --> 00:02:14,482 [dramatic electronic music] 74 00:02:14,525 --> 00:02:17,572 [electronic beeping] 75 00:03:47,270 --> 00:03:52,275 - 2015 U.S. was really a space of more than one America. 76 00:03:52,319 --> 00:03:55,147 [soft electronic music] 77 00:03:55,191 --> 00:03:56,061 - [Reporter] Breaking news coming in now 78 00:03:56,105 --> 00:03:57,672 from Charleston, South Carolina, 79 00:03:57,715 --> 00:03:59,587 where there are reports that eight people have been killed 80 00:03:59,630 --> 00:04:01,023 in a shooting at a church. 81 00:04:02,111 --> 00:04:05,070 - We as a country will have to reckon with the fact 82 00:04:05,114 --> 00:04:07,464 that this type of mass violence does not happen 83 00:04:07,508 --> 00:04:08,900 in other advanced countries. 84 00:04:10,206 --> 00:04:11,468 - There was this growing gap 85 00:04:11,512 --> 00:04:13,949 between rich and poor Americans 86 00:04:13,992 --> 00:04:16,691 and it was really one of the major challenges 87 00:04:16,734 --> 00:04:18,301 facing the country. 88 00:04:18,345 --> 00:04:20,782 - Sometimes I just don't buy groceries every months, 89 00:04:20,825 --> 00:04:23,698 and I live eating a meal a day. 90 00:04:26,091 --> 00:04:27,005 - We automated away 91 00:04:27,049 --> 00:04:28,790 four million manufacturing jobs 92 00:04:28,833 --> 00:04:31,575 in Michigan Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, 93 00:04:31,619 --> 00:04:34,143 and those communities have never recovered. 94 00:04:34,926 --> 00:04:38,495 - Today, we can say in no uncertain terms 95 00:04:39,496 --> 00:04:43,457 we've made our union a little more perfect. 96 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:47,287 [light electronic music] 97 00:04:47,330 --> 00:04:49,506 [helicopter whirring] 98 00:04:49,550 --> 00:04:51,987 - [Reporter] Orlando became the tragic scene 99 00:04:52,030 --> 00:04:55,643 of the worst mass shooting in American history. 100 00:04:58,167 --> 00:04:58,950 [train creaking] 101 00:04:58,994 --> 00:04:59,995 [car honking] 102 00:05:00,038 --> 00:05:02,519 [train rattling] 103 00:05:02,563 --> 00:05:04,826 [crowd cheering] 104 00:05:04,869 --> 00:05:08,960 [stark electronic music] 105 00:05:09,004 --> 00:05:11,311 [crowd shouting] 106 00:05:11,354 --> 00:05:13,878 - You killed that man! 107 00:05:13,922 --> 00:05:18,840 - Huge country, 340 million people, all Americans, 108 00:05:18,883 --> 00:05:22,322 but pretty distinct cultures regionally 109 00:05:23,453 --> 00:05:27,501 and drastically different political sensibilities. 110 00:05:29,807 --> 00:05:32,375 So you had people who were pleased 111 00:05:32,419 --> 00:05:34,595 with the performance of President Obama. 112 00:05:34,638 --> 00:05:37,511 [upbeat electronic music] 113 00:05:37,554 --> 00:05:39,469 - And that was a winning campaign. 114 00:05:39,513 --> 00:05:41,079 You just felt- 115 00:05:41,123 --> 00:05:44,648 Millions of people at these rallies, every age, every race. 116 00:05:44,692 --> 00:05:46,389 You felt the swell of excitement 117 00:05:46,433 --> 00:05:47,825 about this historic candidacy. 118 00:05:47,869 --> 00:05:51,655 - It was a creed written into the founding documents 119 00:05:51,699 --> 00:05:55,006 that declared the destiny of a nation. 120 00:05:55,050 --> 00:05:56,138 Yes, we can. 121 00:05:56,181 --> 00:05:57,531 [crowd cheering] 122 00:05:57,574 --> 00:06:00,403 There was just incredible enthusiasm for Obama, 123 00:06:00,447 --> 00:06:03,406 enthusiasm very rarely seen for a politician. 124 00:06:03,450 --> 00:06:05,234 He offered a message of hope and change 125 00:06:05,277 --> 00:06:07,628 that electrified the Democratic base, 126 00:06:07,671 --> 00:06:09,804 and they turned out in big numbers for him. 127 00:06:09,847 --> 00:06:14,548 - And CNN can now project that Barack Obama, 47 years old, 128 00:06:14,591 --> 00:06:18,160 and will become the president elect of the United States. 129 00:06:18,203 --> 00:06:20,945 [crowd cheering] 130 00:06:23,121 --> 00:06:24,166 - Walking down the street, 131 00:06:24,209 --> 00:06:26,298 people were just screaming, "Obama!" 132 00:06:26,342 --> 00:06:30,085 [energetic electronic music] 133 00:06:32,392 --> 00:06:36,570 - What Republican voters believed to their core 134 00:06:36,613 --> 00:06:39,616 was that Barack Obama had succeeded, 135 00:06:39,660 --> 00:06:42,358 that he had set out to change America, 136 00:06:42,402 --> 00:06:45,840 and he did, and he wrecked it. 137 00:06:45,883 --> 00:06:47,363 [somber electronic music] 138 00:06:47,407 --> 00:06:50,322 - You had a few different contingents 139 00:06:50,366 --> 00:06:51,976 that were starting to maybe look 140 00:06:52,020 --> 00:06:54,675 for a way to coalesce around something 141 00:06:54,718 --> 00:06:57,982 to replace president Obama, knowing that he'd be leaving. 142 00:06:58,026 --> 00:06:59,636 - I think Liberals and Conservatives 143 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,987 were both looking for someone who would go to political war 144 00:07:03,031 --> 00:07:04,815 for the issues that we care about. 145 00:07:04,859 --> 00:07:07,165 Obama pushed this country way to the left. 146 00:07:07,209 --> 00:07:08,819 Are you gonna keep that ground? 147 00:07:08,863 --> 00:07:10,647 Or are you gonna cede that ground? 148 00:07:10,691 --> 00:07:12,780 And to just elect somebody who was gonna come in 149 00:07:12,823 --> 00:07:14,869 and be kind of a caretaker of the status quo? 150 00:07:14,912 --> 00:07:17,001 No way. Nobody wanted that. 151 00:07:17,045 --> 00:07:17,828 [crowd cheering] 152 00:07:17,872 --> 00:07:19,308 - Hello, Iowa! 153 00:07:19,351 --> 00:07:22,050 [crowd cheering] 154 00:07:23,007 --> 00:07:24,705 I'm back! 155 00:07:24,748 --> 00:07:27,359 [crowd cheering] 156 00:07:27,403 --> 00:07:31,712 - Well, what Democrats believed as gospel 157 00:07:31,755 --> 00:07:35,324 was that Barack Obama had permanently changed 158 00:07:35,367 --> 00:07:37,152 the composition of the electorate. 159 00:07:37,195 --> 00:07:39,546 [stark electronic music] 160 00:07:39,589 --> 00:07:43,158 This ascendant coalition of African-Americans, 161 00:07:43,201 --> 00:07:46,335 of Latinos, of women, of Millennials, 162 00:07:46,378 --> 00:07:50,687 was going to turn out in the same levels that it had 163 00:07:50,731 --> 00:07:54,952 for president Obama's two successful elections. 164 00:07:54,996 --> 00:07:55,866 [crowd cheering] 165 00:07:55,910 --> 00:07:56,780 - The Democratic party was like, 166 00:07:56,824 --> 00:07:58,173 "You know what we should do?" 167 00:07:59,130 --> 00:08:00,218 Hillary Clinton. 168 00:08:00,262 --> 00:08:01,350 - Hillary Clinton. - Hillary Clinton. 169 00:08:01,393 --> 00:08:03,004 - Hillary Clinton. 170 00:08:03,047 --> 00:08:04,266 She is running for president. - I am running for president. 171 00:08:04,309 --> 00:08:05,485 - This was like the re-re-re-introduction 172 00:08:05,528 --> 00:08:06,921 of Hillary Clinton. 173 00:08:06,964 --> 00:08:09,010 Most people had already formed an opinion about her, 174 00:08:09,053 --> 00:08:10,272 and that's hard to change. 175 00:08:10,315 --> 00:08:11,621 [crowd cheering] 176 00:08:11,665 --> 00:08:13,493 - There had never been a candidate 177 00:08:13,536 --> 00:08:15,146 in the history of the United States 178 00:08:15,190 --> 00:08:18,976 who had been as famous for as long as she had been. 179 00:08:20,021 --> 00:08:22,545 - She's always prepared, she always does her homework, 180 00:08:22,589 --> 00:08:24,329 and she works very, very hard 181 00:08:24,373 --> 00:08:27,158 not to make a story of herself. 182 00:08:27,202 --> 00:08:30,205 - Has had 25 years to figure out how to do this perfectly. 183 00:08:31,075 --> 00:08:33,034 All the money in the world. 184 00:08:33,077 --> 00:08:35,123 All the smartest people around her. 185 00:08:35,166 --> 00:08:36,559 And it was inevitable. 186 00:08:36,603 --> 00:08:38,518 There was no way that she would ever be denied 187 00:08:38,561 --> 00:08:41,521 the idea that she'd be the President of the United States. 188 00:08:41,564 --> 00:08:44,219 Those segments were all convinced 189 00:08:44,262 --> 00:08:45,960 that Hillary Clinton was the next president. 190 00:08:46,003 --> 00:08:50,268 I don't mean like 90-to-10 or 85-to-15. Every one of them. 191 00:08:50,312 --> 00:08:52,575 [crowd cheering] 192 00:08:52,619 --> 00:08:54,969 - It was all math and no poetry. 193 00:08:55,012 --> 00:08:58,059 It was all about identifying Obama voters, 194 00:08:58,102 --> 00:09:00,017 building this Hillary coalition. 195 00:09:00,061 --> 00:09:02,803 And I thought, well, maybe this is just how Hillary wins. 196 00:09:02,846 --> 00:09:04,892 Sort of a dreary, mechanical slog. 197 00:09:05,893 --> 00:09:10,724 - And that kind of canned political candidate, 198 00:09:10,767 --> 00:09:12,595 Over-managed by consultants, 199 00:09:12,639 --> 00:09:15,729 over work-shopped by a giant committee of people, 200 00:09:15,772 --> 00:09:17,121 that's what people are tired of. 201 00:09:17,165 --> 00:09:20,255 People are tired of being sold a polished product. 202 00:09:20,298 --> 00:09:22,910 They want something that feels like a real person, 203 00:09:22,953 --> 00:09:25,608 even if that real person is all kinds of weird. 204 00:09:25,652 --> 00:09:29,307 [intense orchestral music] 205 00:09:34,530 --> 00:09:37,228 [crowd cheering] 206 00:09:38,403 --> 00:09:41,363 - I don't believe he intended to become president 207 00:09:41,406 --> 00:09:43,626 when he declared his candidacy. 208 00:09:43,670 --> 00:09:45,802 - When he came down those stairs, the escalator, 209 00:09:45,846 --> 00:09:47,674 I did not think he was a serious candidate. 210 00:09:47,717 --> 00:09:50,459 I thought it was all for publicity purposes. 211 00:09:50,502 --> 00:09:51,982 - This was a marketing exercise. 212 00:09:52,026 --> 00:09:53,810 This was a yolo campaign. 213 00:09:53,854 --> 00:09:55,333 Even if he lost, he'd win, 214 00:09:55,377 --> 00:09:57,553 because he'd raise his profile even higher. 215 00:09:58,554 --> 00:10:01,818 - I think his expectation was that, 216 00:10:01,862 --> 00:10:04,038 "I'll do well and do better 217 00:10:04,081 --> 00:10:06,736 than people initially thought I would," 218 00:10:06,780 --> 00:10:08,259 which was a smart bet, 219 00:10:08,303 --> 00:10:11,785 "And I'll increased my brand share, my market share." 220 00:10:11,828 --> 00:10:13,656 [bright orchestral music] 221 00:10:13,700 --> 00:10:17,442 - I think he intended to provoke a conversation 222 00:10:17,486 --> 00:10:19,227 about Donald Trump. 223 00:10:19,270 --> 00:10:20,184 - Wow. [energetic rock music] 224 00:10:20,228 --> 00:10:21,664 Whoa! 225 00:10:21,708 --> 00:10:24,536 That is some group of people. Thousands! 226 00:10:26,495 --> 00:10:29,019 - I think he was contemplating turning 70 227 00:10:29,846 --> 00:10:32,153 and thought, "How do I want to go out? 228 00:10:32,196 --> 00:10:35,069 Oh, I want to go out in a blaze of attention." 229 00:10:35,112 --> 00:10:37,332 And what better vehicle for getting attention 230 00:10:37,375 --> 00:10:38,725 than a presidential campaign? 231 00:10:38,768 --> 00:10:40,683 [audience members cheering] 232 00:10:40,727 --> 00:10:42,772 I am officially running... 233 00:10:42,816 --> 00:10:45,035 [crowd cheering] 234 00:10:45,079 --> 00:10:47,777 for President of the United States... 235 00:10:47,821 --> 00:10:48,691 [audience cheering] 236 00:10:48,735 --> 00:10:51,128 and we are going to make... 237 00:10:51,172 --> 00:10:53,087 our country great again! 238 00:10:53,130 --> 00:10:55,219 [audience cheering] 239 00:10:55,263 --> 00:10:56,786 [dramatic orchestral music] 240 00:10:56,830 --> 00:10:58,745 - It's something that's been in the back of Trump's mind 241 00:10:58,788 --> 00:11:00,311 for a long time. 242 00:11:00,355 --> 00:11:02,313 - Could the Manhattan magnate be eyeing the White House, 243 00:11:02,357 --> 00:11:05,055 or is he just calling a bluff? 244 00:11:05,099 --> 00:11:07,797 - As early as 2000, he floated the idea publicly 245 00:11:07,841 --> 00:11:09,103 of running for president. 246 00:11:09,146 --> 00:11:11,671 - I think that nobody's really hitting it right. 247 00:11:11,714 --> 00:11:13,673 The Democrats are too far left. 248 00:11:13,716 --> 00:11:15,544 The Republicans are too far right. 249 00:11:15,587 --> 00:11:17,807 - He was thinking about it in the 1990s. 250 00:11:17,851 --> 00:11:21,028 - This sounds like political, presidential talk to me. 251 00:11:21,071 --> 00:11:22,682 - I do get tired of seeing what's happening 252 00:11:22,725 --> 00:11:24,509 with this country, and if it got so bad, 253 00:11:24,553 --> 00:11:26,294 I would never want to rule it out totally. 254 00:11:26,337 --> 00:11:29,384 - He talked about running on the Reform Party ticket. 255 00:11:29,427 --> 00:11:31,778 - Do you have a vice presidential candidate in mind? 256 00:11:31,821 --> 00:11:34,041 - Well, I really haven't gotten quite there yet. 257 00:11:34,084 --> 00:11:37,131 - He came very, very close to running in 2012, 258 00:11:37,174 --> 00:11:39,568 and people, I think, have slightly forgotten that. 259 00:11:39,611 --> 00:11:42,440 He was front runner at one stage in the polls. 260 00:11:42,484 --> 00:11:45,966 - Are you or are you not going to run for the presidency? 261 00:11:46,009 --> 00:11:47,576 - I am seriously thinking about it. 262 00:11:47,619 --> 00:11:50,318 Well, I am thinking about it, but we'll see what happens. 263 00:11:50,361 --> 00:11:53,060 - And ended up endorsing Mitt Romney 264 00:11:53,103 --> 00:11:55,192 and making a big show of it in Las Vegas. 265 00:11:55,236 --> 00:11:56,324 [audience cheering] 266 00:11:56,367 --> 00:11:57,891 He was always someone who, I think, 267 00:11:57,934 --> 00:12:00,937 as part of his showmanship, felt that he deserved to be 268 00:12:00,981 --> 00:12:02,504 on the biggest stage in the world. 269 00:12:02,547 --> 00:12:04,201 - The country is doing very poorly. 270 00:12:04,245 --> 00:12:07,814 Our country is in serious, serious trouble. 271 00:12:07,857 --> 00:12:10,077 The country is going to hell in a handbasket. 272 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:13,123 This country can not continue to support Japan 273 00:12:13,167 --> 00:12:14,734 and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. 274 00:12:14,777 --> 00:12:16,779 You look at what China's doing to us, 275 00:12:16,823 --> 00:12:18,781 how they're just ripping us left and right. 276 00:12:18,825 --> 00:12:20,174 They're taking our jobs. 277 00:12:20,217 --> 00:12:23,699 I'll bring back our jobs from China, from Mexico, 278 00:12:23,743 --> 00:12:26,484 from Japan, from so many places. 279 00:12:26,528 --> 00:12:29,444 I'll bring back our jobs, and I'll bring back our money. 280 00:12:30,837 --> 00:12:33,143 - I really believe that this was a gimmick 281 00:12:33,187 --> 00:12:36,364 to get NBC to raise up his salary 282 00:12:36,407 --> 00:12:38,192 and to keep "The Apprentice" on. 283 00:12:38,235 --> 00:12:39,323 - Well... 284 00:12:39,367 --> 00:12:40,803 - And I would bet the farm on that. 285 00:12:40,847 --> 00:12:41,848 - [Interviewer] Some say Donald Trump 286 00:12:41,891 --> 00:12:43,458 entered the race to win it. 287 00:12:43,501 --> 00:12:45,503 And the other half say he entered 288 00:12:45,547 --> 00:12:46,678 to see where it took him. 289 00:12:46,722 --> 00:12:47,810 - He absolutely- 290 00:12:47,854 --> 00:12:49,681 And I talked to him before he ran 291 00:12:49,725 --> 00:12:50,987 and talked to him throughout the race. 292 00:12:51,031 --> 00:12:53,642 He absolutely ran to win it. 293 00:12:53,685 --> 00:12:56,558 And he also said, we'll see how it goes. 294 00:12:56,601 --> 00:12:59,256 The usual political motivators 295 00:12:59,300 --> 00:13:01,171 that attend to people running for president 296 00:13:01,215 --> 00:13:02,825 did not apply to Donald Trump: 297 00:13:02,869 --> 00:13:07,395 money, fame, position, bankability, power. 298 00:13:07,438 --> 00:13:08,962 He had all that. 299 00:13:09,005 --> 00:13:10,615 He had a great life in New York City. He's Donald Trump! 300 00:13:11,616 --> 00:13:14,402 - Think about the opening of "The Apprentice". 301 00:13:14,445 --> 00:13:18,362 ["The Apprentice" theme music] 302 00:13:19,668 --> 00:13:22,236 ♪ Money money money money 303 00:13:22,279 --> 00:13:26,849 It's Donald Trump in a helicopter narrating the scene 304 00:13:26,893 --> 00:13:29,373 as he approaches the island of Manhattan 305 00:13:29,417 --> 00:13:31,549 and talks about what a big deal he is. 306 00:13:32,550 --> 00:13:37,599 - New money, boorishness, is quintessentially American 307 00:13:37,642 --> 00:13:42,473 From the Gold Rush, this idea of striking it rich 308 00:13:42,517 --> 00:13:44,214 and celebrating it. 309 00:13:44,258 --> 00:13:45,607 There's no restraint. 310 00:13:45,650 --> 00:13:48,610 Trump lives like a rap star. 311 00:13:48,653 --> 00:13:52,396 - He is a master marketer who had a celebrity resonance 312 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:53,876 with the American people 313 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,227 as a successful businessman and a strong leader. 314 00:13:57,271 --> 00:13:59,142 [stark music] 315 00:13:59,186 --> 00:14:02,929 - This establishes for America 316 00:14:02,972 --> 00:14:06,062 that Donald Trump really is the mogul he claims to be. 317 00:14:07,629 --> 00:14:08,848 Now, I say claims to be 318 00:14:08,891 --> 00:14:11,546 because he isn't the mogul he claims to be. 319 00:14:11,589 --> 00:14:14,375 He's not nearly as rich as he says he is. 320 00:14:14,418 --> 00:14:16,072 But it doesn't matter. 321 00:14:16,116 --> 00:14:19,510 This is a thing that he intuits, but he also knows. 322 00:14:19,554 --> 00:14:23,340 He knows that the truth is really beside the point. 323 00:14:23,384 --> 00:14:26,604 It's what are you selling, and can you sell it, 324 00:14:26,648 --> 00:14:28,258 and will people buy it? 325 00:14:28,302 --> 00:14:30,173 In every case he was selling himself, 326 00:14:30,217 --> 00:14:33,873 and that is the best preparation possible for a politician. 327 00:14:35,222 --> 00:14:37,311 [overlapping shouts] 328 00:14:37,354 --> 00:14:38,834 - If you're a kind of narcissist, 329 00:14:38,878 --> 00:14:40,401 where as long as your name's being mentioned 330 00:14:40,444 --> 00:14:43,143 it really doesn't matter if it's good or bad, 331 00:14:43,186 --> 00:14:45,058 if that's good for your marketing campaign 332 00:14:45,101 --> 00:14:46,668 and building a larger brand. 333 00:14:46,711 --> 00:14:48,322 - Three weeks, when I started, 334 00:14:48,365 --> 00:14:50,324 I thought he was probably born in this country, 335 00:14:50,367 --> 00:14:52,935 and now I really have a much bigger doubt than I did before. 336 00:14:52,979 --> 00:14:54,328 - But based on what? - And you know what? 337 00:14:54,371 --> 00:14:56,808 His grandmother in Kenya said he was born in Kenya, 338 00:14:56,852 --> 00:14:59,811 and she was there and witnessed the birth, okay? 339 00:14:59,855 --> 00:15:03,815 - I think he clearly saw how the criticism of Obama 340 00:15:03,859 --> 00:15:07,341 got him traction as red meat for the Republican base. 341 00:15:07,384 --> 00:15:08,820 - And I just say very simply, 342 00:15:08,864 --> 00:15:11,954 why doesn't he show his birth certificate? 343 00:15:11,998 --> 00:15:14,739 Perhaps it's gonna say Hawaii. 344 00:15:16,002 --> 00:15:18,221 Perhaps it's gonna say Kenya. 345 00:15:18,265 --> 00:15:19,657 - Are you a birther, Donald? 346 00:15:19,701 --> 00:15:21,921 - Something on that birth certificate 347 00:15:21,964 --> 00:15:24,358 - Oh my God! - Oh, that's a terrible thing! 348 00:15:24,401 --> 00:15:27,970 - If you really don't like what President Obama did, 349 00:15:28,014 --> 00:15:32,844 there certainly can be an underlying racial resentment. 350 00:15:32,888 --> 00:15:36,500 [crowds shouting] 351 00:15:36,544 --> 00:15:40,113 The idea that his presence was disproportionately good 352 00:15:40,156 --> 00:15:43,116 for non-white people, and thus your status as a white person 353 00:15:43,159 --> 00:15:45,248 may be endangered or in jeopardy. 354 00:15:46,162 --> 00:15:47,772 - He tapped into that group. 355 00:15:47,816 --> 00:15:51,037 Yeah, there are more things, but race was a major issue, 356 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:53,256 and people will say it's not, but it was. 357 00:15:53,300 --> 00:15:54,823 He started chanting and, 358 00:15:54,866 --> 00:15:59,828 and the rhetoric was shrill about race. 359 00:15:59,871 --> 00:16:02,135 - When Mexico sends its people, 360 00:16:02,178 --> 00:16:04,093 they're not sending their best. 361 00:16:05,051 --> 00:16:08,315 They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, 362 00:16:08,358 --> 00:16:09,403 they're rapists. 363 00:16:09,446 --> 00:16:12,797 And some, I assume, are good people. 364 00:16:12,841 --> 00:16:15,409 - Remember, after Mitt Romney lost in 2012, 365 00:16:15,452 --> 00:16:17,498 most of the Republican establishment thought 366 00:16:17,541 --> 00:16:19,848 it was because he alienated Hispanic voters 367 00:16:19,891 --> 00:16:21,719 with self-deportation. 368 00:16:21,763 --> 00:16:23,808 Kellyanne was one of a very small group 369 00:16:23,852 --> 00:16:25,723 of Republican professionals 370 00:16:25,767 --> 00:16:28,509 who thought it was actually the opposite, 371 00:16:28,552 --> 00:16:31,338 who thought that you could take a populist message 372 00:16:31,381 --> 00:16:34,297 against immigration, not more liberal, 373 00:16:34,341 --> 00:16:36,517 but more conservative on immigration, 374 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,650 and you could get not just Republican primary voters 375 00:16:39,694 --> 00:16:42,827 but a lot of blue-collar, white, working-class voters, 376 00:16:42,871 --> 00:16:45,656 particularly in the Rust Belt, the upper Midwest. 377 00:16:45,700 --> 00:16:49,965 - I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, 378 00:16:50,009 --> 00:16:53,142 and I will have Mexico pay for that wall. 379 00:16:53,186 --> 00:16:54,056 Mark my words. 380 00:16:54,100 --> 00:16:55,579 [woman cheering] 381 00:16:55,623 --> 00:16:56,754 - Are you concerned about alienating the Hispanic vote 382 00:16:56,798 --> 00:16:58,887 by saying that Mexico is not our friend 383 00:16:58,930 --> 00:17:00,497 and we're building a wall? 384 00:17:00,541 --> 00:17:02,891 - If it's good for me or bad for me, I don't think of that. 385 00:17:02,934 --> 00:17:04,501 I think of saying the right thing. 386 00:17:04,545 --> 00:17:07,069 And people have to be alerted to the fact 387 00:17:07,113 --> 00:17:09,854 that we are getting some really bad characters 388 00:17:09,898 --> 00:17:11,465 coming into this country. 389 00:17:11,508 --> 00:17:13,858 - How can you succeed when you say things like that? 390 00:17:13,902 --> 00:17:14,816 - Well, you can't- 391 00:17:14,859 --> 00:17:15,686 Again, Gayle, if the question is, 392 00:17:15,730 --> 00:17:16,861 how can you become president, 393 00:17:16,905 --> 00:17:18,385 you can't by saying things like that. 394 00:17:18,428 --> 00:17:19,864 - Are you racist? 395 00:17:19,908 --> 00:17:23,520 - I am the least racist person that you have ever met. 396 00:17:23,564 --> 00:17:25,218 - He was fearless. 397 00:17:25,261 --> 00:17:28,569 When Donald Trump denounces Mexicans, 398 00:17:28,612 --> 00:17:30,701 and people are outraged, 399 00:17:30,745 --> 00:17:35,010 and he loses the PGA Championship from 400 00:17:35,054 --> 00:17:36,925 does he back down? 401 00:17:37,969 --> 00:17:38,883 No. 402 00:17:38,927 --> 00:17:41,016 He doubles down. 403 00:17:41,060 --> 00:17:43,410 - Donald J. Trump is calling for a total 404 00:17:43,453 --> 00:17:48,371 and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States 405 00:17:48,415 --> 00:17:51,809 until our country's representatives 406 00:17:51,853 --> 00:17:55,465 can figure out what the hell is going on. 407 00:17:55,509 --> 00:17:58,164 [audience cheering] 408 00:17:58,207 --> 00:18:00,035 - It is, in fact, the case 409 00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:03,778 that you have a big chunk of racists in this country. 410 00:18:03,821 --> 00:18:06,302 But, worse than that, you have a big chunk of people 411 00:18:06,346 --> 00:18:09,697 for whom racism is not a disqualifier. 412 00:18:09,740 --> 00:18:11,177 And Trump understood that. 413 00:18:11,220 --> 00:18:15,224 - [Audience] Build that wall, build that wall! 414 00:18:15,268 --> 00:18:19,272 - Build that wall, build that wall, build that wall, 415 00:18:19,315 --> 00:18:23,537 build that wall, build that wall, build that wall, 416 00:18:23,580 --> 00:18:26,627 build that wall, build that wall! 417 00:18:26,670 --> 00:18:28,585 [intense music] 418 00:18:28,629 --> 00:18:31,414 - He realized this wasn't about ideology. 419 00:18:31,458 --> 00:18:34,287 It was about who was the angriest. 420 00:18:34,330 --> 00:18:37,159 It was about who was the angriest at Obama, specifically, 421 00:18:37,203 --> 00:18:41,294 and who could embody that anger the most authentically. 422 00:18:41,337 --> 00:18:42,860 And so it didn't matter that he wasn't 423 00:18:42,904 --> 00:18:45,472 a conventional conservative on all kinds of metrics. 424 00:18:45,515 --> 00:18:47,735 What the base was really looking for was just, 425 00:18:47,778 --> 00:18:50,607 who could be the most opposed to Barack Obama? 426 00:18:53,088 --> 00:18:55,917 - Were it not for the transformative love 427 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:57,353 of Jesus Christ? 428 00:18:57,397 --> 00:19:00,313 - What makes our country exceptional? Faith and freedom. 429 00:19:00,356 --> 00:19:02,184 It's no exaggeration to say 430 00:19:02,228 --> 00:19:05,274 we're at the most critical point in our nation's history. 431 00:19:05,318 --> 00:19:08,059 - The greatest nation the world has ever known. 432 00:19:08,103 --> 00:19:09,583 - I see a great country on the verge 433 00:19:09,626 --> 00:19:11,062 of its greatest century. 434 00:19:11,106 --> 00:19:13,804 - A new, American century. Thank you, God bless you. 435 00:19:13,848 --> 00:19:14,675 [crowd cheering] 436 00:19:14,718 --> 00:19:16,242 God bless the United States. 437 00:19:16,285 --> 00:19:17,721 - Donald Trump was blessed 438 00:19:17,765 --> 00:19:20,811 with the biggest field in modern Republican history. 439 00:19:20,855 --> 00:19:22,030 [intriguing electronic music] 440 00:19:22,073 --> 00:19:23,901 - Oh, there's no doubt in my mind 441 00:19:23,945 --> 00:19:27,296 that the Trump campaign was delighted 442 00:19:27,340 --> 00:19:30,256 by the fact that there were so many other candidates. 443 00:19:30,299 --> 00:19:33,563 - This was possibly the most qualified group 444 00:19:33,607 --> 00:19:36,479 of Republican candidates in history. 445 00:19:36,523 --> 00:19:37,828 - Every single one of them who ran 446 00:19:37,872 --> 00:19:39,613 thought there was at least some chance 447 00:19:39,656 --> 00:19:42,442 that they could get lightning in a bottle 448 00:19:42,485 --> 00:19:43,660 and win this thing. 449 00:19:43,704 --> 00:19:45,575 - Ted Cruz is my man. 450 00:19:45,619 --> 00:19:46,968 He fits the bill. 451 00:19:47,011 --> 00:19:48,970 - They thought that you go out, you get your base, 452 00:19:49,013 --> 00:19:51,842 you're gonna fight this out in the states. 453 00:19:51,886 --> 00:19:54,018 Jeb Bush is gonna get X constituency, 454 00:19:54,062 --> 00:19:56,282 Rubio's gonna to get this constituency, 455 00:19:56,325 --> 00:19:57,718 and so forth and so on. 456 00:19:57,761 --> 00:19:59,198 [crowd cheering] 457 00:19:59,241 --> 00:20:02,201 - They were prepared and responsible and ready to lead. 458 00:20:02,244 --> 00:20:05,291 They were not prepared to play the lowest common denominator 459 00:20:05,334 --> 00:20:07,206 every day to maximize attention. 460 00:20:09,033 --> 00:20:11,210 - So, along comes Donald Trump. 461 00:20:11,253 --> 00:20:14,604 And what Donald Trump understood is that- 462 00:20:14,648 --> 00:20:18,347 - Republicans were not looking for the smartest candidate 463 00:20:18,391 --> 00:20:20,480 or the most sophisticated candidate. 464 00:20:20,523 --> 00:20:23,961 They were looking for a gut puncher, a street fighter. 465 00:20:24,005 --> 00:20:26,137 [crowd shouting] 466 00:20:26,181 --> 00:20:27,878 - Rubio, total lightweight. 467 00:20:27,922 --> 00:20:30,794 And little mouth on him. Bing, bing, bing. 468 00:20:30,838 --> 00:20:34,145 - A con artist will never get control of this party! 469 00:20:34,189 --> 00:20:36,800 - Jeb Bush is a low energy person. 470 00:20:36,844 --> 00:20:39,629 - I think Donald Trump is trying to insult his way 471 00:20:39,673 --> 00:20:41,762 to the presidency, and it's not gonna work. 472 00:20:41,805 --> 00:20:45,461 - Do you believe Senator Ted Cruz is a natural-born citizen? 473 00:20:45,505 --> 00:20:47,376 - I don't know, to be honest. 474 00:20:47,420 --> 00:20:49,770 - Donald Trump alleges that my dad 475 00:20:49,813 --> 00:20:51,859 was involved in assassinating JFK. 476 00:20:51,902 --> 00:20:55,689 - And he's like this, "And we will... [gasping] 477 00:20:55,732 --> 00:20:58,169 I need water. Help me, I need water!" 478 00:20:58,213 --> 00:21:00,302 - This man is a pathological liar. 479 00:21:00,346 --> 00:21:02,913 - And he knew that all he had to do 480 00:21:02,957 --> 00:21:06,134 was seem different from the typical Republican, 481 00:21:06,177 --> 00:21:09,442 and he would naturally draw the public's interest. 482 00:21:11,139 --> 00:21:14,142 [audience laughing] 483 00:21:16,927 --> 00:21:18,320 Unbelievable. 484 00:21:18,364 --> 00:21:19,626 - [Reporter] Trump's latest poll numbers matching 485 00:21:19,669 --> 00:21:21,976 his larger-than-life personality. 486 00:21:22,019 --> 00:21:24,195 In a reversal from when he entered the race, 487 00:21:24,239 --> 00:21:27,851 Republicans increasingly believe Trump has staying power. 488 00:21:27,895 --> 00:21:30,854 But the question remains, can Trump turn his poll numbers 489 00:21:30,898 --> 00:21:32,160 into actual votes? 490 00:21:33,379 --> 00:21:35,642 - Because his name ID was so high, 491 00:21:35,685 --> 00:21:38,601 because he was such a spectacle from day one 492 00:21:39,689 --> 00:21:41,648 that, in a giant field, 493 00:21:41,691 --> 00:21:43,606 his name bumped to the top of polling, 494 00:21:43,650 --> 00:21:45,782 and then it sort of feeds off of itself, 495 00:21:45,826 --> 00:21:47,218 because, once he's the leader, 496 00:21:47,262 --> 00:21:50,352 oh, maybe I'm maybe I'm for the leader too. 497 00:21:50,396 --> 00:21:52,093 Yeah, sure, that sounds interesting. Donald Trump. 498 00:21:52,136 --> 00:21:55,052 [stark music] 499 00:21:55,096 --> 00:21:59,405 - In reality television, the villain is always the star. 500 00:21:59,448 --> 00:22:00,841 All the way back to American idol. 501 00:22:00,884 --> 00:22:03,626 You know, Simon, he was rude and mean. He's the star. 502 00:22:03,670 --> 00:22:06,629 That's a trope in reality TV. 503 00:22:06,673 --> 00:22:08,022 [crowd shouting] 504 00:22:08,065 --> 00:22:10,807 - Who would you rather have negotiate with Iran? 505 00:22:10,851 --> 00:22:13,157 Trump or Jeb? 506 00:22:13,201 --> 00:22:14,550 - [Audience] Trump! 507 00:22:14,594 --> 00:22:16,247 - But here's the problem with Rubio. 508 00:22:16,291 --> 00:22:18,815 When you sweat that much. 509 00:22:18,859 --> 00:22:20,426 [audience laughing] 510 00:22:20,469 --> 00:22:22,253 "Hello. Hello. 511 00:22:22,297 --> 00:22:23,994 Can I have some water?" 512 00:22:24,038 --> 00:22:25,082 And Putin's sitting there, 513 00:22:25,126 --> 00:22:26,388 "What the hell kinda stuff is this?" 514 00:22:26,432 --> 00:22:29,652 This is not exactly a poker player, folks. 515 00:22:29,696 --> 00:22:32,002 Not exactly a poker player. 516 00:22:32,046 --> 00:22:34,918 She said, "I never expect to hear that from you again." 517 00:22:34,962 --> 00:22:36,659 She said, "He's a pussy." That's terrible. 518 00:22:36,703 --> 00:22:37,486 [audience yelling] 519 00:22:37,530 --> 00:22:38,357 Terrible. 520 00:22:43,318 --> 00:22:46,147 - He had this reality TV experience, 521 00:22:46,190 --> 00:22:49,498 which I contend people watch for the humor. 522 00:22:50,412 --> 00:22:54,634 It's not jokes, but they just laugh at what's happening. 523 00:22:54,677 --> 00:22:59,595 I think that, with Trump's candidacy, 524 00:22:59,639 --> 00:23:02,468 that the news became comedy. 525 00:23:02,511 --> 00:23:05,688 - This is a TV star who knew how to work 526 00:23:05,732 --> 00:23:07,342 the medium of television. 527 00:23:07,386 --> 00:23:09,388 And because most of the Republican candidates 528 00:23:09,431 --> 00:23:12,434 were cowed into thinking they shouldn't expose themselves 529 00:23:12,478 --> 00:23:15,959 too much, Trump sucked up all the airtime. 530 00:23:16,003 --> 00:23:17,570 - Why don't you turn your camera? 531 00:23:17,613 --> 00:23:20,224 Show 'em how many people come to these rallies. 532 00:23:20,268 --> 00:23:21,922 Turn 'em! Go ahead, turn 'em! 533 00:23:21,965 --> 00:23:22,749 [audience booing] 534 00:23:22,792 --> 00:23:23,576 Go ahead! 535 00:23:23,619 --> 00:23:26,622 [audience cheering] 536 00:23:33,324 --> 00:23:34,151 Brutal. 537 00:23:37,372 --> 00:23:38,895 - Immediately thought that Donald Trump 538 00:23:38,939 --> 00:23:41,637 had climbed over the wall from the world of entertainment 539 00:23:41,681 --> 00:23:43,465 into the world of politics. 540 00:23:43,509 --> 00:23:44,858 That's not what he did. 541 00:23:44,901 --> 00:23:47,774 He pulled the world of politics over the wall 542 00:23:47,817 --> 00:23:49,428 into the world of entertainment. 543 00:23:50,994 --> 00:23:53,170 I'm Mike Huckabee. I'm delighted to be on this stage. 544 00:23:53,214 --> 00:23:55,042 - I'm Jeb Bush, and I believe America's 545 00:23:55,085 --> 00:23:56,783 on the verge of its greatest century. 546 00:23:56,826 --> 00:23:58,306 - I'm Ted Cruz. 547 00:23:58,349 --> 00:24:00,874 I'm the son of an Irish-Italian mom. 548 00:24:00,917 --> 00:24:02,615 - My wife, Jeanette, and I are the proud parent. 549 00:24:02,658 --> 00:24:03,964 We've been married 17 years, 550 00:24:04,007 --> 00:24:05,879 and we're the proud parents of four children. 551 00:24:05,922 --> 00:24:10,100 - I'm Donald Trump. I wrote "The Art of the Deal." 552 00:24:10,144 --> 00:24:13,452 I say, not in a braggadocious way, 553 00:24:13,495 --> 00:24:15,541 I've made billions and billions of dollars 554 00:24:15,584 --> 00:24:17,673 dealing with people all over the world. 555 00:24:17,717 --> 00:24:20,894 - The thing that makes Trump the most unique 556 00:24:20,937 --> 00:24:24,027 is not any one element of his personality, 557 00:24:24,071 --> 00:24:25,768 his skillset, his history. 558 00:24:25,812 --> 00:24:28,815 It's the lethal combination of them. 559 00:24:28,858 --> 00:24:32,514 I've referred to this as a talent stack, 560 00:24:32,558 --> 00:24:33,776 or, in this specific case, 561 00:24:33,820 --> 00:24:35,996 you could call it a persuasion stack. 562 00:24:36,039 --> 00:24:37,519 It's a bunch of skills that, 563 00:24:37,563 --> 00:24:38,955 if you put them together, 564 00:24:38,999 --> 00:24:41,480 you would say each of these individual skills 565 00:24:41,523 --> 00:24:43,743 is not the best I've ever seen, 566 00:24:43,786 --> 00:24:46,572 but almost nobody has this combination. 567 00:24:46,615 --> 00:24:47,442 [audience applauding] 568 00:24:47,486 --> 00:24:50,619 [soft electronic music] 569 00:24:50,663 --> 00:24:53,361 - Donald Trump took center stage in that first debate 570 00:24:53,404 --> 00:24:56,364 in early August, 2015 and never lost center stage. 571 00:24:56,407 --> 00:24:59,149 - Positioned on the stage by how they stand in the polls. 572 00:24:59,193 --> 00:25:01,282 In the center of the stage tonight, 573 00:25:01,325 --> 00:25:03,414 businessman Donald Trump. 574 00:25:03,458 --> 00:25:06,548 [audience cheering] 575 00:25:06,592 --> 00:25:08,419 - When Donald Trump raised his hand and said 576 00:25:08,463 --> 00:25:10,900 that I might not support the nominee, oh, I just... 577 00:25:10,944 --> 00:25:12,641 - Can I see hands? 578 00:25:12,685 --> 00:25:16,036 Who is unwilling tonight to pledge your support 579 00:25:16,079 --> 00:25:18,995 to the eventual nominee of the Republican Party? 580 00:25:20,214 --> 00:25:20,997 [audience booing] 581 00:25:21,041 --> 00:25:21,868 Mr. Trump. 582 00:25:26,394 --> 00:25:29,615 - People aren't watching these primary debates 583 00:25:29,658 --> 00:25:31,965 to really learn about the candidate. 584 00:25:32,008 --> 00:25:33,706 It's a show. It's a TV show. 585 00:25:33,749 --> 00:25:36,143 [audience applauding] 586 00:25:36,186 --> 00:25:37,361 - Mr. Trump... 587 00:25:37,405 --> 00:25:39,886 - He was in this situation with Megyn Kelly 588 00:25:39,929 --> 00:25:43,106 that I don't think anybody could have escaped from 589 00:25:43,150 --> 00:25:47,328 If they were a standard politician with a 590 00:25:47,371 --> 00:25:51,158 - You've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, 591 00:25:51,201 --> 00:25:53,987 slobs, and disgusting animals. 592 00:25:54,030 --> 00:25:55,075 [audience laughing] 593 00:25:55,118 --> 00:25:55,815 Your Twitter account lists several- 594 00:25:55,858 --> 00:25:57,164 - Only Rosie O'Donnell. 595 00:25:57,207 --> 00:25:58,818 [audience laughing] 596 00:25:58,861 --> 00:26:01,385 - [Moderator] No, it wasn't. 597 00:26:03,257 --> 00:26:07,174 - The Trump method is not to deny everything. 598 00:26:07,217 --> 00:26:10,873 It's to own a little piece of the terrible thing. 599 00:26:10,917 --> 00:26:12,571 - Everyone on stage with him that night 600 00:26:12,614 --> 00:26:13,876 got the memo too late 601 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:15,443 that we were playing a different game. 602 00:26:15,486 --> 00:26:18,577 - You had serious policy debates in 1960. 603 00:26:18,620 --> 00:26:20,317 56 short years later, 604 00:26:20,361 --> 00:26:22,276 you don't have serious policy debates anymore, 605 00:26:22,319 --> 00:26:24,974 because the phone changed everything, right? 606 00:26:25,018 --> 00:26:26,889 Because what happened is the phone shortened up 607 00:26:26,933 --> 00:26:28,325 everybody's attention span. 608 00:26:28,369 --> 00:26:30,371 Trump understood that, "I'm in this 609 00:26:30,414 --> 00:26:32,373 and I'm out of this thing in 30 seconds. 610 00:26:32,416 --> 00:26:34,244 That's gonna show up on everybody's media page. 611 00:26:34,288 --> 00:26:36,595 That's gonna show up on soundbites in the news 612 00:26:36,638 --> 00:26:38,422 and I'm going to beat the guy controlling the narrative. 613 00:26:38,466 --> 00:26:39,336 They're not." 614 00:26:39,380 --> 00:26:40,642 - We don't need a weak person 615 00:26:40,686 --> 00:26:42,688 being President of the United States, okay? 616 00:26:42,731 --> 00:26:43,732 We don't need that. 617 00:26:43,776 --> 00:26:44,603 [audience booing] 618 00:26:44,646 --> 00:26:45,429 We don't need that. 619 00:26:45,473 --> 00:26:46,779 Nasty guy. 620 00:26:46,822 --> 00:26:48,215 Now I know why he doesn't have one endorsement 621 00:26:48,258 --> 00:26:49,433 from any of his colleagues. 622 00:26:49,477 --> 00:26:50,870 - All right, John, I get to respond. 623 00:26:50,913 --> 00:26:52,175 - [Moderator] Senator Cruz, pick from the buffet. 624 00:26:52,219 --> 00:26:53,655 - Rand Paul shouldn't even be on this stage. 625 00:26:53,699 --> 00:26:56,658 He's number 11. He's got 1% in the polls. 626 00:26:56,702 --> 00:26:58,051 - I don't know. - You're not beating Hillary. 627 00:26:58,094 --> 00:26:59,356 - Well, then, if I can't... 628 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:00,619 Hey, if I can't, if can't beat her 629 00:27:00,662 --> 00:27:02,446 you're really gonna get killed, aren't you? 630 00:27:02,490 --> 00:27:04,144 [audience shouting] 631 00:27:04,187 --> 00:27:05,406 So let me ask you this, 632 00:27:05,449 --> 00:27:06,581 'cause you're really getting beaten badly. 633 00:27:06,625 --> 00:27:07,887 I know you're embarrassed. 634 00:27:07,930 --> 00:27:09,236 I know you're embarrassed, but keep fighting. 635 00:27:09,279 --> 00:27:11,673 Keep swinging, men. Swing for the fences. 636 00:27:11,717 --> 00:27:13,457 Let me just tell you. Let me just tell you.. 637 00:27:13,501 --> 00:27:16,025 - I mean, they were all ready for each other, 638 00:27:16,069 --> 00:27:17,287 but they weren't ready for him. 639 00:27:17,331 --> 00:27:19,507 Okay, he was like the human wrecking ball. 640 00:27:19,550 --> 00:27:23,032 He was the Howard Stern of presidential candidates. 641 00:27:23,076 --> 00:27:26,775 He was the first smash-mouth, shock jock candidate. 642 00:27:26,819 --> 00:27:28,385 So he came in there with his tongue. 643 00:27:28,429 --> 00:27:29,691 He used them as boxing fists. 644 00:27:29,735 --> 00:27:31,214 He was just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. 645 00:27:31,258 --> 00:27:32,041 Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. 646 00:27:32,085 --> 00:27:33,260 - Quiet. 647 00:27:33,303 --> 00:27:34,130 - And he's knocking 'em left and right, 648 00:27:34,174 --> 00:27:34,783 and they couldn't handle it. 649 00:27:34,827 --> 00:27:37,525 [audience booing] 650 00:27:39,658 --> 00:27:42,095 - That's all of his donors and special interests out there. 651 00:27:42,138 --> 00:27:43,313 [Jeb laughing] 652 00:27:43,357 --> 00:27:44,140 So... 653 00:27:44,184 --> 00:27:45,446 [audience booing] 654 00:27:45,489 --> 00:27:48,144 Two days ago he said he would take his pants off 655 00:27:48,188 --> 00:27:50,190 and moon everybody, and that's fine. 656 00:27:50,233 --> 00:27:51,495 Nobody reports that. 657 00:27:51,539 --> 00:27:52,888 He gets up and says that. 658 00:27:52,932 --> 00:27:56,326 - Jeb's crowd, as you know, right down the street. 659 00:27:56,370 --> 00:27:58,981 They're sleeping! They're sleeping now. 660 00:27:59,025 --> 00:28:02,028 - There's a lot of technique in the linguistic kill shot, 661 00:28:02,071 --> 00:28:02,855 as I call it. 662 00:28:02,898 --> 00:28:04,030 - He's very low energy. 663 00:28:04,073 --> 00:28:06,554 I'm not used to that kind of a person. 664 00:28:06,597 --> 00:28:10,036 - If you looked at a Jeb Bush before the nickname, 665 00:28:10,079 --> 00:28:11,385 you probably thought what I did 666 00:28:11,428 --> 00:28:13,213 which was, hey, this Jeb Bush guy 667 00:28:13,256 --> 00:28:18,261 looks like a real cool, calm, even-headed leader. 668 00:28:18,740 --> 00:28:22,657 - But the moment that Trump said he was low-energy, 669 00:28:22,701 --> 00:28:24,485 you couldn't unsee it. 670 00:28:24,528 --> 00:28:25,573 - Please clap. 671 00:28:25,616 --> 00:28:27,096 [audience applauding] 672 00:28:27,140 --> 00:28:28,968 - Simple fact is, Donald, you cannot take- 673 00:28:29,011 --> 00:28:30,796 - More energy tonight. I like that. 674 00:28:30,839 --> 00:28:32,972 - And then he got to "Lying Ted". 675 00:28:33,015 --> 00:28:35,496 Well, look at him. He looks shifty 676 00:28:35,539 --> 00:28:36,584 - And he cleverly made it 677 00:28:36,627 --> 00:28:37,193 Lyin' with an apostrophe, not a G. 678 00:28:39,282 --> 00:28:43,765 - L-Y-I-N-apostrophe Lyin' Ted! 679 00:28:43,809 --> 00:28:46,159 - And by the time he did "Little Marco"... 680 00:28:46,202 --> 00:28:47,856 - Little Marco, Little Marco. 681 00:28:47,900 --> 00:28:48,683 [audience laughing] 682 00:28:48,727 --> 00:28:50,511 - I knew this stuff works. 683 00:28:51,599 --> 00:28:55,298 - It was the idea that Trump was assigning people names. 684 00:28:55,342 --> 00:28:57,648 That conveys a sort of authority. 685 00:28:58,824 --> 00:29:00,434 - Don't worry about it, Little Marco, I will. 686 00:29:00,477 --> 00:29:02,566 - All right, well let's hear, Big... 687 00:29:02,610 --> 00:29:03,959 - Don't worry about it, Little- 688 00:29:04,003 --> 00:29:05,308 Don't worry about it, Little Marco. 689 00:29:05,352 --> 00:29:06,570 - [Moderator] Gentlemen! 690 00:29:06,614 --> 00:29:07,789 Sometimes the only way to deal with a bully 691 00:29:07,833 --> 00:29:09,704 is to knock him on his ass. 692 00:29:09,748 --> 00:29:11,793 - He's always calling me Little Marco. 693 00:29:11,837 --> 00:29:13,273 And I'll admit, the guy, he's taller than me. 694 00:29:13,316 --> 00:29:15,492 He's like 6'2", which is why I don't understand 695 00:29:15,536 --> 00:29:18,147 why his hands are the size of someone who's 5'2". 696 00:29:18,191 --> 00:29:21,194 Have you seen his hands? They're like this. 697 00:29:22,543 --> 00:29:24,980 And you know what they say about men with small hands... 698 00:29:25,024 --> 00:29:26,808 [audience gasping] 699 00:29:26,852 --> 00:29:30,812 - Everyone criticizes Rubio for going dirty on Trump, right? 700 00:29:30,856 --> 00:29:34,207 Oh, he messed up his brand, and that was never his brand. 701 00:29:34,250 --> 00:29:38,559 It was exactly that... It was cringe-worthy. 702 00:29:38,602 --> 00:29:40,953 - He hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. 703 00:29:40,996 --> 00:29:42,215 I've never heard of this one. 704 00:29:42,258 --> 00:29:44,304 Look at those hands. Are they small hands? 705 00:29:44,347 --> 00:29:46,219 [audience laughing] 706 00:29:46,262 --> 00:29:48,134 And he referred to my hands, 707 00:29:48,177 --> 00:29:50,919 if they're small, something else must be small. 708 00:29:50,963 --> 00:29:53,530 I guarantee you there's no problem. I guarantee it. 709 00:29:53,574 --> 00:29:54,880 [audience laughing] 710 00:29:54,923 --> 00:29:56,055 - You have young children. 711 00:29:56,098 --> 00:29:57,665 Do you regret where this has gone? 712 00:29:57,708 --> 00:29:59,145 - Look, I... 713 00:29:59,188 --> 00:30:01,103 I regret the way that campaign has become, absolutely, 714 00:30:01,147 --> 00:30:03,279 because Donald Trump, for the last year, 715 00:30:03,323 --> 00:30:05,151 has made it one of the most vulgar spectacles 716 00:30:05,194 --> 00:30:07,109 in American political history. 717 00:30:07,153 --> 00:30:08,807 [overlapping shouts] 718 00:30:08,850 --> 00:30:12,549 - Trump ran through the Republican field like a buzzsaw. 719 00:30:13,681 --> 00:30:15,814 - The Bush dynasty is done. 720 00:30:17,511 --> 00:30:20,470 There were Republicans who were rising stars, 721 00:30:20,514 --> 00:30:21,732 whether you're talking about a Chris Christie 722 00:30:21,776 --> 00:30:25,345 or a Marco Rubio, a Rick Perry, who are done, 723 00:30:25,388 --> 00:30:27,826 done in American life. 724 00:30:28,783 --> 00:30:30,393 And then it got to the Democrats. 725 00:30:30,437 --> 00:30:32,700 - Part of Hillary's whole strategy in the primaries 726 00:30:32,743 --> 00:30:34,354 was to elevate Trump to make sure 727 00:30:34,397 --> 00:30:36,051 that the media took him seriously. 728 00:30:36,095 --> 00:30:38,010 - Now, some transformation has happened, 729 00:30:38,053 --> 00:30:41,143 and Republicans, whether they support Donald Trump or not, 730 00:30:41,187 --> 00:30:44,146 seem to think that he really is their best chance 731 00:30:44,190 --> 00:30:47,280 of winning the general election next November. 732 00:30:47,323 --> 00:30:49,151 - Anne, which Republican candidate 733 00:30:49,195 --> 00:30:52,328 has the best chance at winning the general election? 734 00:30:52,372 --> 00:30:55,462 - Of the declared ones, right now Donald Trump. 735 00:30:55,505 --> 00:30:57,943 [audience laughing] 736 00:30:57,986 --> 00:31:00,554 - There was a feeling of like the Clinton campaign 737 00:31:00,597 --> 00:31:03,383 felt like this is great. 738 00:31:03,426 --> 00:31:05,602 He'll destroy the Republican Party 739 00:31:06,516 --> 00:31:10,738 and make it impossible for a Republican to win. 740 00:31:10,781 --> 00:31:13,915 - Donald Trump's continue ascent in the Republican Party 741 00:31:13,959 --> 00:31:17,310 could mean the end of the Republican Party as we know it, 742 00:31:17,353 --> 00:31:19,921 that George W. Bush could be the last 743 00:31:19,965 --> 00:31:22,097 elected Republican president. 744 00:31:22,141 --> 00:31:24,970 - The RNC apparatus... 745 00:31:25,013 --> 00:31:27,711 eventually panicked... 746 00:31:27,755 --> 00:31:30,018 at the idea of Donald Trump being the nominee, 747 00:31:30,062 --> 00:31:32,803 and they started to be more aggressive behind the scenes 748 00:31:32,847 --> 00:31:34,240 to try to derail it. 749 00:31:34,283 --> 00:31:37,765 If we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, 750 00:31:37,808 --> 00:31:41,029 the prospects for a safe and prosperous future 751 00:31:41,073 --> 00:31:42,248 are greatly diminished. 752 00:31:42,291 --> 00:31:43,423 - You can see how loyal he is. 753 00:31:43,466 --> 00:31:45,164 He was begging for my endorsement. 754 00:31:46,034 --> 00:31:47,949 I could've said, "Mitt, drop to your knees." 755 00:31:47,993 --> 00:31:51,126 He would have dropped to his knees. He was begging! 756 00:31:51,170 --> 00:31:52,736 - We've confirmed that both presidents 757 00:31:52,780 --> 00:31:55,914 George W. Bush and his father George H.W. Bush 758 00:31:55,957 --> 00:31:58,612 will stay silent and not endorse anyone. 759 00:31:58,655 --> 00:32:02,703 - He's a race baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. 760 00:32:03,573 --> 00:32:05,184 He doesn't represent my party. 761 00:32:05,227 --> 00:32:06,663 - They wanted him to write checks. 762 00:32:06,707 --> 00:32:08,361 They viewed him as a donor. 763 00:32:08,404 --> 00:32:10,667 They did not view him as a serious candidate. 764 00:32:10,711 --> 00:32:12,843 They viewed him as a threat to everything 765 00:32:12,887 --> 00:32:15,107 that the RNC had been working for. 766 00:32:15,150 --> 00:32:17,500 And what the RNC didn't realize 767 00:32:17,544 --> 00:32:19,938 is that the American people could really have cared less 768 00:32:19,981 --> 00:32:21,635 what their point of view was. 769 00:32:21,678 --> 00:32:24,290 - CNN projects that Donald Trump 770 00:32:24,333 --> 00:32:27,989 will be the winner of the New Hampshire Republican Primary. 771 00:32:28,033 --> 00:32:30,035 - Oh, wow! 772 00:32:30,078 --> 00:32:31,471 Wow, wow, wow. 773 00:32:31,514 --> 00:32:32,994 - [Reporter] Donald Trump is the winner 774 00:32:33,038 --> 00:32:34,430 of the Nevada Caucuses. 775 00:32:34,474 --> 00:32:37,825 - We won with young. We won with old. 776 00:32:37,868 --> 00:32:41,872 We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. 777 00:32:41,916 --> 00:32:44,397 I love the poorly educated. 778 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,529 - [Reporter] A 22-point margin in Alabama, 779 00:32:46,573 --> 00:32:49,054 14-point victory in Tennessee and Georgia. 780 00:32:49,097 --> 00:32:50,359 - Yeah, baby! 781 00:32:50,403 --> 00:32:52,187 - [Reporter] Very big nights for Donald Trump. 782 00:32:52,231 --> 00:32:53,319 - They got destroyed. 783 00:32:53,362 --> 00:32:55,321 Donald Trump, all five states called 784 00:32:55,364 --> 00:32:57,366 relatively early in the night. 785 00:32:57,410 --> 00:33:00,979 - People thought that Conservative values voters 786 00:33:01,022 --> 00:33:03,677 were gonna care more about personal morality 787 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,375 than political and policy alignment. 788 00:33:06,419 --> 00:33:07,898 And at the end of the day, it turns out 789 00:33:07,942 --> 00:33:10,031 they don't care that much about personal morality 790 00:33:10,075 --> 00:33:10,945 for their leaders. 791 00:33:10,989 --> 00:33:13,600 [audience cheering] 792 00:33:13,643 --> 00:33:16,255 - He exposes the fact that it's not about ideas. 793 00:33:16,298 --> 00:33:17,430 It's about emotions. 794 00:33:17,473 --> 00:33:19,736 This is not about actually ideology. 795 00:33:19,780 --> 00:33:22,478 It's, oh, you know, he talks like me, 796 00:33:22,522 --> 00:33:25,264 he thinks like me, in some cases he hates like me. 797 00:33:26,917 --> 00:33:29,703 They felt like the two major parties 798 00:33:30,660 --> 00:33:33,750 had failed the country in the most fundamental ways, 799 00:33:33,794 --> 00:33:35,578 and they simply weren't listening, 800 00:33:35,622 --> 00:33:37,754 and they wanted to find the person 801 00:33:37,798 --> 00:33:40,279 who could personify their anguish 802 00:33:40,322 --> 00:33:41,715 about the country's future. 803 00:33:45,632 --> 00:33:47,808 [crowd cheering] 804 00:33:47,851 --> 00:33:51,507 - [Audience] Bernie, Bernie, Bernie, Bernie! 805 00:33:53,292 --> 00:33:55,207 - Well, look, nobody saw Bernie Sanders coming, 806 00:33:55,250 --> 00:33:56,773 least of all the Hillary Clinton campaign. 807 00:33:56,817 --> 00:33:58,775 And even Bernie Sanders himself was surprised 808 00:33:58,819 --> 00:34:01,300 by how much traction he got. 809 00:34:01,343 --> 00:34:04,477 - [Announcer] Senator Bernie Sanders! 810 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,480 [audience cheering] 811 00:34:07,523 --> 00:34:10,526 - What this campaign is about is creating 812 00:34:10,570 --> 00:34:13,834 a political revolution in America. 813 00:34:13,877 --> 00:34:16,880 [audience cheering] 814 00:34:19,100 --> 00:34:21,102 - CNN projects that Bernie Sanders 815 00:34:21,146 --> 00:34:24,801 will win the Wisconsin Democratic Presidential Primary, 816 00:34:24,845 --> 00:34:26,368 beating Hillary Clinton. 817 00:34:26,412 --> 00:34:28,675 A big, big win for Bernie Sanders. 818 00:34:28,718 --> 00:34:30,459 He won five of the last six states. 819 00:34:30,503 --> 00:34:32,374 - We've now won, I guess, nine states. 820 00:34:32,418 --> 00:34:34,333 And a lot more are yet to come. 821 00:34:34,376 --> 00:34:36,639 I think Bernie Sanders was... 822 00:34:36,683 --> 00:34:38,989 said a lot about weaknesses in her candidacy 823 00:34:39,033 --> 00:34:40,861 that he gave her such a hard run. 824 00:34:40,904 --> 00:34:44,778 - Her campaign refused to take seriously 825 00:34:44,821 --> 00:34:47,433 that there had been an insurgency in her party, 826 00:34:47,476 --> 00:34:51,828 and a 149 year old socialist from Vermont 827 00:34:51,872 --> 00:34:55,963 who nobody ever heard of got 47% of the vote against her. 828 00:34:56,006 --> 00:34:59,749 She went to Michigan and got beat to a bloody pulp 829 00:34:59,793 --> 00:35:01,142 by Bernie Sanders. 830 00:35:01,186 --> 00:35:04,014 That lets you know that there's a problem for you 831 00:35:04,058 --> 00:35:05,799 in the industrial heartland. 832 00:35:05,842 --> 00:35:07,148 - The fact that he was able to pull off 833 00:35:07,192 --> 00:35:09,324 that incredible upset showed people 834 00:35:09,368 --> 00:35:13,241 that there is still a very vocal constituency 835 00:35:13,285 --> 00:35:14,721 in the Democratic base. 836 00:35:14,764 --> 00:35:18,203 - What we see is a populism rising, 837 00:35:18,246 --> 00:35:21,554 but a populism that is formed 838 00:35:21,597 --> 00:35:24,644 by a lack of economic gain 839 00:35:24,687 --> 00:35:27,342 and movement in the middle of the economy. 840 00:35:32,042 --> 00:35:35,524 - A very large swath of the country has felt left out 841 00:35:35,568 --> 00:35:37,831 by the economic miracle that's taken place 842 00:35:37,874 --> 00:35:39,180 over the last 30 years. 843 00:35:41,051 --> 00:35:42,966 [soft music] 844 00:35:43,010 --> 00:35:45,012 In the process of globalization, 845 00:35:45,055 --> 00:35:48,276 there's been rising living standards all over the world, 846 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:49,712 but the American middle-class 847 00:35:49,756 --> 00:35:52,715 and American lower middle-class missed out on this. 848 00:35:54,456 --> 00:35:57,329 - In the United States of America today, 849 00:35:58,243 --> 00:36:01,289 there is massive injustice 850 00:36:01,333 --> 00:36:05,337 in terms of income and wealth inequality. 851 00:36:05,380 --> 00:36:07,643 - When you have no real wage growth, 852 00:36:07,687 --> 00:36:12,692 when 67% doesn't have $1,000 dollars in savings, 853 00:36:13,214 --> 00:36:17,218 when all the economic gains accrue at the top, 854 00:36:17,262 --> 00:36:20,917 that will ultimately destabilize politics. 855 00:36:20,961 --> 00:36:23,093 - Remember, 76% of Americans 856 00:36:23,137 --> 00:36:25,008 do not have a four year college degree. 857 00:36:25,052 --> 00:36:26,967 More than two thirds of Americans 858 00:36:27,010 --> 00:36:29,622 have never been to college at all. 859 00:36:29,665 --> 00:36:32,668 So, what you're excluding is the vast majority 860 00:36:32,712 --> 00:36:35,976 of the country from the possibility of 861 00:36:36,019 --> 00:36:37,064 of the upper middle class. 862 00:36:37,107 --> 00:36:39,197 - Those people were angry. 863 00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:42,243 - [Audience] Bernie Sanders! [clapping] 864 00:36:42,287 --> 00:36:43,766 Bernie Sanders! 865 00:36:43,810 --> 00:36:47,248 - [Audience] Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump! 866 00:36:47,292 --> 00:36:48,641 - Boo! 867 00:36:48,684 --> 00:36:50,991 - Things he's saying I've been saying for years. 868 00:36:51,034 --> 00:36:53,036 When he wins, we all win. 869 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:54,342 [soft music] 870 00:36:54,386 --> 00:36:58,303 - He tapped into a vein of the American mindset 871 00:36:58,346 --> 00:37:01,828 that believed that the American dream was aspirational 872 00:37:01,871 --> 00:37:03,351 but no longer achievable. 873 00:37:04,483 --> 00:37:06,833 - I'm tired of the politicians in Washington. 874 00:37:06,876 --> 00:37:08,791 I'm tired of the way the country's being run. 875 00:37:08,835 --> 00:37:10,271 And I want some change. 876 00:37:10,315 --> 00:37:12,795 I want somebody new, and the man knows what he's doing. 877 00:37:12,839 --> 00:37:14,754 - If you want a candidate 878 00:37:14,797 --> 00:37:17,974 who's gonna help create a government 879 00:37:18,018 --> 00:37:22,414 which for all of us and not just the 1%... 880 00:37:22,457 --> 00:37:27,245 - The jobs, incomes, and security of the American worker 881 00:37:27,288 --> 00:37:30,857 will always be my first priority. 882 00:37:32,511 --> 00:37:33,686 - And this guy is saying, 883 00:37:33,729 --> 00:37:36,297 I'm not gonna ship your job jobs overseas. 884 00:37:36,341 --> 00:37:38,256 I'm not going to trade with people 885 00:37:38,299 --> 00:37:40,214 who will undermine our economy. 886 00:37:40,258 --> 00:37:42,129 I'm not gonna let people into the country 887 00:37:42,172 --> 00:37:43,696 who will jeopardize your security. 888 00:37:43,739 --> 00:37:45,175 That's what they're looking for. 889 00:37:45,219 --> 00:37:47,743 - I am going to be... 890 00:37:47,787 --> 00:37:50,659 the greatest jobs president... 891 00:37:50,703 --> 00:37:52,661 that God ever created. 892 00:37:52,705 --> 00:37:53,706 Remember that. 893 00:37:53,749 --> 00:37:55,229 [audience cheering] 894 00:37:55,273 --> 00:37:57,013 - I think a lot of people go, "Oh my gosh! 895 00:37:57,057 --> 00:38:00,234 Look at this Trump, he's upending everything!" 896 00:38:00,278 --> 00:38:02,541 And this is some disease that just popped out of nowhere 897 00:38:02,584 --> 00:38:03,759 in the American polity. 898 00:38:03,803 --> 00:38:05,631 And it's like, no, he's actually a symptom 899 00:38:05,674 --> 00:38:07,720 of the fact that many people have felt alienated 900 00:38:07,763 --> 00:38:11,289 for a long time, have felt disappointed in their vehicles 901 00:38:11,332 --> 00:38:13,595 for reaching Congress, in Congress, 902 00:38:13,639 --> 00:38:16,946 in this entire sort of system. 903 00:38:16,990 --> 00:38:20,123 - Our system is rigged. 904 00:38:20,167 --> 00:38:22,474 The system is corrupt. 905 00:38:22,517 --> 00:38:24,563 The system is broken. 906 00:38:24,606 --> 00:38:26,347 [somber music] 907 00:38:26,391 --> 00:38:29,568 - They were waiting for someone who just would grab 908 00:38:29,611 --> 00:38:32,788 the people of Washington, the leeches and the lawyers 909 00:38:32,832 --> 00:38:34,616 and the lobbyists and all of them, 910 00:38:34,660 --> 00:38:37,706 just grab them by the neck and say get the fuck out. 911 00:38:37,750 --> 00:38:40,753 - We are going to drain the swamp. 912 00:38:40,796 --> 00:38:45,801 It is time to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C. 913 00:38:46,411 --> 00:38:48,369 We're draining the swamp. 914 00:38:48,413 --> 00:38:51,416 [audience cheering] 915 00:38:54,723 --> 00:38:56,290 - [Interviewer] Some people have told us 916 00:38:56,334 --> 00:38:59,380 that Trump voters were dumb and that he manipulated them. 917 00:38:59,424 --> 00:39:02,427 - It is a mistake to say, or to believe, 918 00:39:02,470 --> 00:39:04,342 that people who voted for Donald Trump are stupid, 919 00:39:04,385 --> 00:39:05,647 just like it's a mistake to say 920 00:39:05,691 --> 00:39:08,346 that they're sexist or racist or xenophobic. 921 00:39:09,434 --> 00:39:11,784 It is fair to say, though, that they were duped. 922 00:39:11,827 --> 00:39:13,438 Because if you're looking for a champion, 923 00:39:13,481 --> 00:39:15,527 if you've been squeezed as a member of the middle-class 924 00:39:15,570 --> 00:39:18,399 for a Rust Belt city, a billionaire populist 925 00:39:18,443 --> 00:39:21,228 who lives on Fifth Avenue is not gonna be your savior. 926 00:39:21,271 --> 00:39:22,447 Now, to Donald Trump's credit, 927 00:39:22,490 --> 00:39:24,144 he was able to connect with them. 928 00:39:24,187 --> 00:39:25,624 - And I'll tell you what. 929 00:39:25,667 --> 00:39:30,150 The big business in this country, and I'm a part of it, 930 00:39:30,193 --> 00:39:31,586 but I decided- 931 00:39:31,630 --> 00:39:34,067 I'd been on the other side. You do know that, right? 932 00:39:34,110 --> 00:39:35,721 I understand the other side. 933 00:39:35,764 --> 00:39:36,896 - In some way, it's possible that, 934 00:39:36,939 --> 00:39:39,333 because he owned being the rich guy 935 00:39:39,377 --> 00:39:41,770 who was going to help everybody do better, 936 00:39:41,814 --> 00:39:44,643 it, in a way, circumvented the criticisms 937 00:39:44,686 --> 00:39:46,122 that he's just some rich guy. 938 00:39:46,166 --> 00:39:47,820 - Large numbers of Americans have thought 939 00:39:47,863 --> 00:39:49,430 for a very long period of time 940 00:39:49,474 --> 00:39:52,346 that, if we can only get a businessman in there, 941 00:39:52,390 --> 00:39:53,782 someone who understood business, 942 00:39:53,826 --> 00:39:56,306 we could make the government run like a business. 943 00:39:56,350 --> 00:39:57,960 Which is kind of a funny point of view 944 00:39:58,004 --> 00:40:01,834 when you think of all of the senators and governors 945 00:40:01,877 --> 00:40:03,792 who were businessmen, who were elected 946 00:40:03,836 --> 00:40:06,404 and generally have been a disastrous politician. 947 00:40:06,447 --> 00:40:09,015 [helicopter whirring] 948 00:40:09,058 --> 00:40:13,454 - He was out there giving helicopter rides to children, 949 00:40:13,498 --> 00:40:15,978 spending tons of money showing anything 950 00:40:16,022 --> 00:40:17,676 but humble beginnings. 951 00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,287 but that's who his persona was, 952 00:40:20,330 --> 00:40:23,899 and that made him seem authentic. 953 00:40:23,943 --> 00:40:27,642 - So he wore a suit where other people don't wear suits. 954 00:40:27,686 --> 00:40:31,385 He stayed looking presidential in every situation. 955 00:40:31,429 --> 00:40:33,169 [overlapping shouts] 956 00:40:33,213 --> 00:40:35,041 - Mr. Trump now has security 957 00:40:35,084 --> 00:40:37,522 equal to the President of the United States. 958 00:40:37,565 --> 00:40:40,046 - We commonly refer to our activity as the show, 959 00:40:40,089 --> 00:40:43,745 and the reason being is because it was a show. 960 00:40:43,789 --> 00:40:46,618 If you think about the optics, the black vehicles, 961 00:40:46,661 --> 00:40:48,968 the limousines, the agents that jump out 962 00:40:49,011 --> 00:40:51,274 with sunglasses and earpieces, 963 00:40:51,318 --> 00:40:53,538 there's a sense of importance and gravitas 964 00:40:53,581 --> 00:40:56,149 that comes with the show. 965 00:40:56,192 --> 00:40:58,847 And Donald Trump had that almost one year 966 00:40:58,891 --> 00:41:00,980 in advance of the election. 967 00:41:01,023 --> 00:41:02,938 - And he made sure that, when he landed his plane, 968 00:41:02,982 --> 00:41:05,245 that it looked a lot like Air Force One. 969 00:41:05,288 --> 00:41:07,987 That there would be plenty of camera time for that. 970 00:41:10,380 --> 00:41:12,382 - The American people would have been disappointed 971 00:41:12,426 --> 00:41:15,385 if he had appeared at any airport 972 00:41:15,429 --> 00:41:17,387 in any other jet. 973 00:41:18,171 --> 00:41:22,131 The black and gold and red Trump color scheme, 974 00:41:22,175 --> 00:41:25,744 and the giant block letters of gold, Trump, 975 00:41:25,787 --> 00:41:30,400 are things that people respond to now emotionally. 976 00:41:30,444 --> 00:41:33,578 It's not just that they're amused and riveted by it. 977 00:41:33,621 --> 00:41:35,057 They like it. 978 00:41:35,101 --> 00:41:36,885 - They admire Donald Trump the same way 979 00:41:36,929 --> 00:41:38,800 they once admired Elvis. 980 00:41:38,844 --> 00:41:41,760 They see a man who's living large, who's enjoying life, 981 00:41:41,803 --> 00:41:43,370 Who's doing what they would probably do 982 00:41:43,413 --> 00:41:45,372 if they were worth billions of dollars. 983 00:41:45,415 --> 00:41:48,244 - Trump is the guy that the working class man would be 984 00:41:48,288 --> 00:41:49,855 If he won the lottery. 985 00:41:49,898 --> 00:41:52,292 There's something about Trump's wealth, the gold-platedness, 986 00:41:52,335 --> 00:41:55,556 the eating a bucket of KFC on his airplane. 987 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,167 [soft electronic music] 988 00:41:58,211 --> 00:42:00,779 - He's one powerful person 989 00:42:00,822 --> 00:42:04,260 who's gonna stand up and stand between 990 00:42:04,304 --> 00:42:08,526 the regular folks and the elite and say, "I'm with them." 991 00:42:10,528 --> 00:42:11,877 - He has money. 992 00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:13,966 He's supporting this campaign from his own money. 993 00:42:14,009 --> 00:42:14,967 He believes in this. 994 00:42:15,010 --> 00:42:16,272 - I'm here for Donald Trump 995 00:42:16,316 --> 00:42:19,145 because he loves America and he loves Texans. 996 00:42:19,188 --> 00:42:20,189 - And veterans. 997 00:42:20,233 --> 00:42:21,887 - Yes! Yes! 998 00:42:21,930 --> 00:42:25,804 - We need jobs and we need more jobs. 999 00:42:25,847 --> 00:42:29,024 I mean, it's getting bad, but it's gonna get better, 1000 00:42:29,068 --> 00:42:30,330 'cause he's gonna be our president. 1001 00:42:30,373 --> 00:42:32,550 - He wants to eliminate some of the corruption 1002 00:42:32,593 --> 00:42:33,986 that's in the government. 1003 00:42:34,029 --> 00:42:35,248 And there's a lot of corruption in this government 1004 00:42:35,291 --> 00:42:36,902 at the present time. 1005 00:42:36,945 --> 00:42:38,425 - If you were afraid that your child was being indoctrinated 1006 00:42:38,468 --> 00:42:41,602 in high school or college, Trump had a message for you. 1007 00:42:41,646 --> 00:42:44,170 If you were angry about the cultural signals 1008 00:42:44,213 --> 00:42:47,782 that Hollywood was sending, he had a message for you. 1009 00:42:47,826 --> 00:42:49,349 And if you were... 1010 00:42:50,219 --> 00:42:53,179 resentful that the media wasn't telling the whole story, 1011 00:42:53,222 --> 00:42:55,311 boy, did he have a message for you. 1012 00:42:55,355 --> 00:43:00,142 And it became Trump versus this cultural elite. 1013 00:43:00,186 --> 00:43:03,581 [grave electronic music] 1014 00:43:08,847 --> 00:43:13,329 - If you look at a Trump rally, you see the joyful faces, 1015 00:43:13,373 --> 00:43:16,332 people laughing, people having fun. 1016 00:43:17,856 --> 00:43:21,033 - He was electrifying audiences 1017 00:43:21,076 --> 00:43:23,601 of 10 to 20 to 30,000 people. 1018 00:43:23,644 --> 00:43:25,298 - I would go early to the events. 1019 00:43:25,341 --> 00:43:27,343 They would be lined up around the block, 1020 00:43:27,387 --> 00:43:30,172 into the second block, into the third block. 1021 00:43:30,216 --> 00:43:31,609 Never seen anything like it. 1022 00:43:32,566 --> 00:43:35,787 - They would show up in labyrinth, snake-like lines 1023 00:43:35,830 --> 00:43:37,658 to go to a rally just to say they were there 1024 00:43:37,702 --> 00:43:39,965 when he was there and be part of his movement. 1025 00:43:40,879 --> 00:43:43,403 [stark music] 1026 00:43:44,622 --> 00:43:47,276 - [Audience] We want Trump! We want Trump! 1027 00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:48,495 We want Trump! 1028 00:43:49,670 --> 00:43:51,672 [audience cheering] 1029 00:43:51,716 --> 00:43:53,021 We want Trump! 1030 00:43:53,065 --> 00:43:55,328 - When you start to draw 10,000 people, 1031 00:43:55,371 --> 00:43:59,985 15, 20,000, in Trump's case 30,000 people... 1032 00:44:00,028 --> 00:44:01,987 and they're all cheering your name... 1033 00:44:02,030 --> 00:44:04,380 And you're Donald Trump... 1034 00:44:04,424 --> 00:44:05,904 It's better than Oxycontin. 1035 00:44:05,947 --> 00:44:08,689 I mean, it is the most addictive thing in life, 1036 00:44:08,733 --> 00:44:10,952 even more than private jets. 1037 00:44:10,996 --> 00:44:11,910 Just... 1038 00:44:11,953 --> 00:44:12,737 [audience cheering] 1039 00:44:12,780 --> 00:44:14,042 - Unbelievable! 1040 00:44:15,522 --> 00:44:16,349 Thank you! 1041 00:44:17,829 --> 00:44:19,874 Ah, that's so beautiful. 1042 00:44:19,918 --> 00:44:22,921 - Donald Trump is very, very hard to understand 1043 00:44:22,964 --> 00:44:26,446 if you come at him through the lens of an educated person. 1044 00:44:26,489 --> 00:44:28,143 I went to a number of his rallies 1045 00:44:28,187 --> 00:44:30,885 in New Hampshire and in South Carolina. 1046 00:44:30,929 --> 00:44:32,713 And I would listen to Trump's speeches, 1047 00:44:32,757 --> 00:44:35,150 and it seemed to me as if he was changing thoughts 1048 00:44:35,194 --> 00:44:36,674 in the middle of a sentence, 1049 00:44:36,717 --> 00:44:38,501 not just in the middle of the paragraph. 1050 00:44:38,545 --> 00:44:40,025 There were so many unfinished thoughts 1051 00:44:40,068 --> 00:44:41,983 and so many imprecise wordings. 1052 00:44:42,027 --> 00:44:44,333 I thought, my gosh, what does this guy even talking about? 1053 00:44:44,377 --> 00:44:46,335 - Did you read about Starbucks? 1054 00:44:46,379 --> 00:44:48,947 No more "Merry Christmas" on Starbucks. 1055 00:44:48,990 --> 00:44:50,557 Then you say, sorry, we're leaving. 1056 00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:52,559 You go out, you double up the sanctions. 1057 00:44:52,602 --> 00:44:55,127 By the time your plane lands 1058 00:44:55,170 --> 00:44:57,651 at one of our decrepit airports, they're all decrepit. 1059 00:44:57,695 --> 00:45:00,785 This was said to me by one of the great musical geniuses. 1060 00:45:00,828 --> 00:45:02,264 I won't tell you his name. 1061 00:45:02,308 --> 00:45:04,223 I don't want to get in trouble. 1062 00:45:04,266 --> 00:45:06,747 But he said, "Donald, you're the greatest in the world. 1063 00:45:06,791 --> 00:45:09,097 You're the only one that can fill an arena 1064 00:45:09,141 --> 00:45:11,796 without a guitar," meaning without music. 1065 00:45:11,839 --> 00:45:15,451 I don't want Oreos made in Mexico! 1066 00:45:15,495 --> 00:45:16,801 [audience booing] 1067 00:45:16,844 --> 00:45:17,671 Right? 1068 00:45:17,715 --> 00:45:19,020 - It's baffling to me... 1069 00:45:19,847 --> 00:45:22,589 why people would say that he... 1070 00:45:22,632 --> 00:45:26,680 that Trump gets anyone in the Rust Belt, 1071 00:45:26,724 --> 00:45:28,813 any middle-class person. 1072 00:45:28,856 --> 00:45:30,553 Not only... 1073 00:45:30,597 --> 00:45:34,296 Yes, does he literally live in a gold tower in New York City 1074 00:45:34,340 --> 00:45:38,648 and a mansion in Beverly Hills, on a golf course in Florida 1075 00:45:38,692 --> 00:45:41,216 I never saw a speech of Donald Trump's 1076 00:45:41,260 --> 00:45:43,958 where he addressed the needs of the working class. 1077 00:45:44,002 --> 00:45:46,265 I never saw a single speech of Donald Trump's 1078 00:45:46,308 --> 00:45:50,704 where he talked about anything but himself and his enemies. 1079 00:45:50,748 --> 00:45:53,402 - And yet, when I talked to the people in the crowd, 1080 00:45:53,446 --> 00:45:55,100 I found that he was resonating with them. 1081 00:45:55,143 --> 00:45:57,145 - We're gonna win so much, 1082 00:45:57,189 --> 00:45:59,495 you may even get tired of winning! 1083 00:45:59,539 --> 00:46:01,889 And you'll say, "Please, please! 1084 00:46:01,933 --> 00:46:03,369 It's too much winning! 1085 00:46:03,412 --> 00:46:05,371 We can't take it anymore! 1086 00:46:05,414 --> 00:46:07,503 Mr. President, it's too much!" 1087 00:46:07,547 --> 00:46:09,070 And I'll say, "No, it isn't! 1088 00:46:09,114 --> 00:46:10,637 We have to keep winning! 1089 00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:12,117 We have to win more! 1090 00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:13,466 We're gonna win more!" 1091 00:46:13,509 --> 00:46:14,641 - You can mock it. 1092 00:46:14,684 --> 00:46:15,990 You can say you don't agree with it. 1093 00:46:16,034 --> 00:46:18,036 You can say it wasn't sophisticated enough. 1094 00:46:18,079 --> 00:46:19,341 But you can't say he didn't have it. 1095 00:46:19,385 --> 00:46:21,648 He knew exactly what he wanted to tell people. 1096 00:46:21,691 --> 00:46:22,954 - People came to the rallies 1097 00:46:22,997 --> 00:46:24,651 because they had no idea what he was gonna say. 1098 00:46:24,694 --> 00:46:27,088 They had no ideas whether there were gonna be fights. 1099 00:46:27,132 --> 00:46:28,176 You didn't know. 1100 00:46:28,220 --> 00:46:30,352 - His campaign violence gone viral. 1101 00:46:30,396 --> 00:46:32,050 Those are the big questions this week 1102 00:46:32,093 --> 00:46:33,660 after the ugliest two days 1103 00:46:33,703 --> 00:46:36,706 of a dangerously angry White House race. 1104 00:46:36,750 --> 00:46:38,970 - Oh, we have a protester. 1105 00:46:39,013 --> 00:46:40,362 We have a protester. 1106 00:46:40,406 --> 00:46:42,756 [audience booing] 1107 00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:44,062 I love the old days. 1108 00:46:44,105 --> 00:46:45,454 You know what they used to do to guys like that 1109 00:46:45,498 --> 00:46:46,978 when they were in a place like this? 1110 00:46:47,021 --> 00:46:49,676 They'd be carried out on a stretcher, folks. 1111 00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:51,939 [audience cheering] 1112 00:46:51,983 --> 00:46:53,245 Ah, it's true. 1113 00:46:54,724 --> 00:46:55,725 Get 'em outta here! 1114 00:46:55,769 --> 00:46:56,814 Get 'em out! 1115 00:46:56,857 --> 00:46:58,032 Out, out, out! 1116 00:46:58,076 --> 00:47:00,121 Bye! Go home to mommy. 1117 00:47:00,165 --> 00:47:02,167 - [Reporter] Do you regret saying any of those things 1118 00:47:02,210 --> 00:47:03,646 about punching protesters, 1119 00:47:03,690 --> 00:47:05,735 sending them out on stretchers? 1120 00:47:05,779 --> 00:47:08,129 - No, I don't regret it at all. 1121 00:47:08,173 --> 00:47:09,348 - Racist go home! - Build that wall! 1122 00:47:09,391 --> 00:47:10,653 - Racist go home! - Build that wall! 1123 00:47:10,697 --> 00:47:14,005 - Is there anything more fun than a Trump rally? 1124 00:47:14,048 --> 00:47:15,397 - [Audience] No! 1125 00:47:15,441 --> 00:47:17,486 - The ancient Romans said that the electorate 1126 00:47:17,530 --> 00:47:19,662 was motivated by bread and circuses. 1127 00:47:19,706 --> 00:47:23,449 So the idea that giving people a show 1128 00:47:23,492 --> 00:47:26,017 is not unique to 21st century America 1129 00:47:26,060 --> 00:47:28,193 or 21st century world. 1130 00:47:29,629 --> 00:47:31,805 But Trump Is good at it. He's good at provoking people. 1131 00:47:31,849 --> 00:47:33,154 He's good at getting a rise out of people 1132 00:47:33,198 --> 00:47:34,329 in whatever medium. 1133 00:47:34,373 --> 00:47:35,765 ISIS... 1134 00:47:35,809 --> 00:47:36,854 is honoring... 1135 00:47:37,898 --> 00:47:39,117 President Obama. 1136 00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:39,944 [audience booing] 1137 00:47:39,987 --> 00:47:41,946 He is the founder of ISIS. 1138 00:47:41,989 --> 00:47:43,338 He's the founder of ISIS. 1139 00:47:43,382 --> 00:47:45,210 - Trump has launched a new line of attacks 1140 00:47:45,253 --> 00:47:47,168 trying to link the Obama administration 1141 00:47:47,212 --> 00:47:48,561 to the founding of ISIS. 1142 00:47:48,604 --> 00:47:51,869 - Founding ISIS would be, I mean, that's treason. 1143 00:47:51,912 --> 00:47:53,435 - I know what you meant. 1144 00:47:53,479 --> 00:47:55,133 You meant that he created the vacuum, he lost the peace. 1145 00:47:55,176 --> 00:47:57,135 - No, I meant he's the founder of ISIS. 1146 00:47:57,178 --> 00:47:59,093 He was the founder of ISIS. 1147 00:47:59,137 --> 00:48:00,181 Absolutely. 1148 00:48:00,225 --> 00:48:03,402 - Every night I had to sit on set... 1149 00:48:04,446 --> 00:48:07,972 cable news, and listen to people explaining 1150 00:48:08,015 --> 00:48:11,410 how Trump is moments away from self-destructing, 1151 00:48:11,453 --> 00:48:13,934 how the most recent thing he's done is so terrible 1152 00:48:13,978 --> 00:48:15,196 and he'll never survive it. 1153 00:48:15,240 --> 00:48:17,024 - And I think what Trump understood better 1154 00:48:17,068 --> 00:48:20,593 than really anybody is the truth of being in the media. 1155 00:48:20,636 --> 00:48:22,377 There's not a liberal or a conservative bias 1156 00:48:22,421 --> 00:48:24,292 as much as there's a conflict bias, 1157 00:48:24,336 --> 00:48:27,121 and Donald Trump provided daily conflict. 1158 00:48:27,165 --> 00:48:29,428 - You gotta see this guy, "I don't know what I said! 1159 00:48:29,471 --> 00:48:30,255 [mumbling] 1160 00:48:30,298 --> 00:48:31,821 I don't remember!" 1161 00:48:31,865 --> 00:48:34,302 - That reporter he is talking about is Serge Kovaleski, 1162 00:48:34,346 --> 00:48:35,782 who now works for the New York Times. 1163 00:48:35,825 --> 00:48:37,653 - Do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no? 1164 00:48:37,697 --> 00:48:38,654 As a principle. 1165 00:48:38,698 --> 00:48:41,135 - The answer is that... 1166 00:48:41,179 --> 00:48:42,963 there has to be some form of punishment. 1167 00:48:43,007 --> 00:48:43,790 - For the woman? 1168 00:48:43,833 --> 00:48:45,226 - Yeah. 1169 00:48:45,270 --> 00:48:47,359 - Have you even read the United States Constitution? 1170 00:48:47,402 --> 00:48:49,491 - If you look at his wife, she was standing there. 1171 00:48:49,535 --> 00:48:50,666 She had nothing to say. 1172 00:48:50,710 --> 00:48:52,320 She probably, maybe she wasn't allowed 1173 00:48:52,364 --> 00:48:53,321 to have anything to say. 1174 00:48:53,365 --> 00:48:54,757 You tell me. 1175 00:48:54,801 --> 00:48:56,629 - That's a famous Mussolini quote. You retweeted it. 1176 00:48:56,672 --> 00:48:57,717 Do you like the quote? 1177 00:48:57,760 --> 00:48:58,805 Did you know it was Mussolini? 1178 00:48:58,848 --> 00:49:00,502 - It's okay to know it's Mussolini. 1179 00:49:00,546 --> 00:49:02,069 Look, Mussolini was Mussolini. 1180 00:49:02,113 --> 00:49:04,202 I'm gonna bomb the shit out of 'em! 1181 00:49:04,245 --> 00:49:05,029 [audience cheering] 1182 00:49:05,072 --> 00:49:05,899 It's true. 1183 00:49:05,943 --> 00:49:07,205 I don't care. 1184 00:49:07,248 --> 00:49:10,121 They give us the most dishonest reporting, 1185 00:49:10,164 --> 00:49:11,731 and that's the way it is, folks. 1186 00:49:11,774 --> 00:49:14,038 That's the way it is, and we just get used to it. 1187 00:49:14,081 --> 00:49:16,997 - Whenever Trump would appear on television, 1188 00:49:17,041 --> 00:49:18,651 the ratings would go up. 1189 00:49:18,694 --> 00:49:20,174 - Man, who would have expected the ride 1190 00:49:20,218 --> 00:49:21,784 we're all having right now. 1191 00:49:21,828 --> 00:49:24,265 It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS. 1192 00:49:24,309 --> 00:49:25,179 That's all I got to say. 1193 00:49:25,223 --> 00:49:26,833 [audience laughing] 1194 00:49:26,876 --> 00:49:28,922 - So they had this endless appetite for Trump, 1195 00:49:28,966 --> 00:49:31,316 because they had an endless appetite for ratings. 1196 00:49:31,359 --> 00:49:33,883 [audience cheering] 1197 00:49:33,927 --> 00:49:35,494 - Trump's a racist! 1198 00:49:35,537 --> 00:49:38,497 [audience laughing] 1199 00:49:38,540 --> 00:49:40,368 - Yeah, I mean, it's symbiotic, right? 1200 00:49:40,412 --> 00:49:41,891 And everyone should admit 1201 00:49:41,935 --> 00:49:44,894 that this is a symbiotic relationship that... 1202 00:49:44,938 --> 00:49:46,200 he rates... 1203 00:49:47,201 --> 00:49:49,116 we cover him 'cause he rates. 1204 00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:50,726 You could just put a camera on him 1205 00:49:50,770 --> 00:49:54,208 and guarantee that it was gonna be entertaining in some way. 1206 00:49:54,252 --> 00:49:56,254 - Because he's a controlled car crash. 1207 00:49:56,297 --> 00:49:57,864 And once in a while he'll hit the guard rail 1208 00:49:57,907 --> 00:50:01,563 doing 75 miles an hour and sparks will come off the car, 1209 00:50:01,607 --> 00:50:03,261 and you're like, okay, where's this thing gonna go? 1210 00:50:03,304 --> 00:50:04,784 I gotta watch this thing. 1211 00:50:04,827 --> 00:50:07,004 - At first, he would do an interview with anybody. 1212 00:50:07,047 --> 00:50:08,788 He was calling in to TV stations 1213 00:50:08,831 --> 00:50:10,442 and radio stations left and right. 1214 00:50:10,485 --> 00:50:12,879 - I'm joined now on the phone from New York by Donald Trump. 1215 00:50:12,922 --> 00:50:14,533 - On the phone, Donald Trump. 1216 00:50:14,576 --> 00:50:15,969 - Donald Trump on the phone 1217 00:50:16,013 --> 00:50:17,971 - We have a phone call from somebody. 1218 00:50:18,015 --> 00:50:19,233 - Good morning, darling. 1219 00:50:19,277 --> 00:50:20,626 - Nobody had ever seen that before. 1220 00:50:20,669 --> 00:50:25,370 Usually you have walls and walls of media handlers 1221 00:50:25,413 --> 00:50:28,895 between a candidate and the media system. 1222 00:50:28,938 --> 00:50:29,896 What's on the Facebook page? 1223 00:50:29,939 --> 00:50:30,766 What's on the Twitter page? 1224 00:50:30,810 --> 00:50:32,377 Who's he talking to when? 1225 00:50:32,420 --> 00:50:36,424 Trump just kept accelerating his share of the media market. 1226 00:50:36,468 --> 00:50:37,643 [cameras snapping] 1227 00:50:37,686 --> 00:50:39,166 - It was partly it was Trump's celebrity 1228 00:50:39,210 --> 00:50:42,561 and the expectation that he would say something outrageous. 1229 00:50:42,604 --> 00:50:43,823 - It may be. 1230 00:50:43,866 --> 00:50:44,780 Again, I don't have the data, 1231 00:50:44,824 --> 00:50:46,304 but I'm just gonna make a guess 1232 00:50:46,347 --> 00:50:49,133 that Donald Trump was the most televised candidate 1233 00:50:49,176 --> 00:50:51,004 in the history of candidates. 1234 00:50:51,048 --> 00:50:53,572 - He's someone that commands media attention 1235 00:50:53,615 --> 00:50:55,356 and television oxygen. 1236 00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:57,576 And actually, what happened is everyone, 1237 00:50:57,619 --> 00:50:59,621 in the liberal media in particular, 1238 00:50:59,665 --> 00:51:01,797 continued to underestimate him. 1239 00:51:01,841 --> 00:51:03,756 - I think there is a large segment of the population 1240 00:51:03,799 --> 00:51:07,064 in the United States that wants to blame somebody, 1241 00:51:07,107 --> 00:51:09,457 and the media becomes an easy target. 1242 00:51:09,501 --> 00:51:12,765 - But I do think that there were things done for him, 1243 00:51:12,808 --> 00:51:16,116 like photos of the empty podium, waiting for the presser, 1244 00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:18,814 because it was guaranteed conflict, good TV. 1245 00:51:18,858 --> 00:51:21,121 - Front-runner Donald Trump expected to speak 1246 00:51:21,165 --> 00:51:22,383 at a campaign rally. 1247 00:51:22,427 --> 00:51:23,602 - So we're just expecting him. 1248 00:51:23,645 --> 00:51:24,994 - [Reporter] We're awaiting his remarks. 1249 00:51:25,038 --> 00:51:25,734 - [Reporter] Still waiting for that Donald Trump. 1250 00:51:25,778 --> 00:51:26,953 - Any minute now. 1251 00:51:26,996 --> 00:51:29,303 - All the news coverage just got sucked up 1252 00:51:29,347 --> 00:51:32,132 and focused on him, because he continued to be 1253 00:51:32,176 --> 00:51:33,481 the most interesting story. 1254 00:51:33,525 --> 00:51:34,613 You can't even remember 1255 00:51:34,656 --> 00:51:37,006 what the other candidates were about. 1256 00:51:37,050 --> 00:51:39,879 - But the media is not the one that told 1257 00:51:39,922 --> 00:51:44,797 all of his competitors not to do interviews. 1258 00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:47,713 They were running an old game and an old playbook. 1259 00:51:47,756 --> 00:51:52,979 Trump, to his credit, understood that new media world. 1260 00:51:53,022 --> 00:51:55,286 And he took advantage of it. There's no question about it. 1261 00:51:55,329 --> 00:51:58,506 - That led to just an unconscionable amount 1262 00:51:58,550 --> 00:52:00,552 of free media coverage 1263 00:52:00,595 --> 00:52:03,032 that we could sort of quantify in dollars. 1264 00:52:03,076 --> 00:52:04,773 It would be a really, really high number. 1265 00:52:04,817 --> 00:52:07,167 - You know, people say that he got a billion dollars 1266 00:52:07,211 --> 00:52:08,255 in free media in the primary, 1267 00:52:08,299 --> 00:52:09,865 but a lot of that was negative. 1268 00:52:09,909 --> 00:52:12,520 A lot of that would have been considered not a campaign ad 1269 00:52:12,564 --> 00:52:14,957 for his campaign but for his opponents. 1270 00:52:15,001 --> 00:52:17,177 - I supported him. He lost, he let us down. 1271 00:52:17,221 --> 00:52:18,570 But, you know, he lost. 1272 00:52:18,613 --> 00:52:20,180 So I never liked him as much after that 1273 00:52:20,224 --> 00:52:21,007 'cause I don't like losers. 1274 00:52:21,050 --> 00:52:22,095 [audience laughing] 1275 00:52:22,139 --> 00:52:23,227 But Frank, Frank, 1276 00:52:23,270 --> 00:52:24,141 let me get to it. - He's a war hero. 1277 00:52:24,184 --> 00:52:26,055 He hit me. - He's a war hero. 1278 00:52:26,099 --> 00:52:28,580 You hear me say, "But he's a war hero." 1279 00:52:28,623 --> 00:52:29,972 I couldn't believe it. 1280 00:52:30,016 --> 00:52:31,278 He's a war hero. And I said it like that. 1281 00:52:31,322 --> 00:52:32,453 - He's not a war hero. 1282 00:52:32,497 --> 00:52:33,454 - He's a war hero. 1283 00:52:33,498 --> 00:52:34,281 - He's a war hero- 1284 00:52:34,325 --> 00:52:35,500 - Five and a half years. 1285 00:52:35,543 --> 00:52:37,284 - He's a war hero 'cause he was captured. 1286 00:52:37,328 --> 00:52:38,938 I like people that weren't captured, okay? 1287 00:52:38,981 --> 00:52:40,157 I hate to tell you. 1288 00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,028 - And I thought to myself at that moment 1289 00:52:42,985 --> 00:52:45,205 the gentleman who is sitting across from you 1290 00:52:45,249 --> 00:52:48,469 is in the process of lighting himself on fire. 1291 00:52:48,513 --> 00:52:50,297 - Oh, that was my first moment 1292 00:52:50,341 --> 00:52:52,995 where I naively was like, well, this guy's done. 1293 00:52:53,039 --> 00:52:54,258 [laughs] 1294 00:52:54,301 --> 00:52:56,085 - Supposedly, that's something that the right 1295 00:52:56,129 --> 00:52:57,348 does not tolerate. 1296 00:52:57,391 --> 00:53:00,264 You cannot go after members of the military. 1297 00:53:00,307 --> 00:53:01,656 - You know, I'm just speechless. 1298 00:53:01,700 --> 00:53:04,877 'cause I just can't believe such reckless words 1299 00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:06,792 out of a person's mouth. 1300 00:53:06,835 --> 00:53:09,882 - He did 10 things, from the announcement 1301 00:53:09,925 --> 00:53:11,710 through the first vote in Iowa, 1302 00:53:11,753 --> 00:53:13,625 10 things that would have killed any other candidate. 1303 00:53:13,668 --> 00:53:15,540 And each time, he just got stronger. 1304 00:53:15,583 --> 00:53:18,107 - This is going to be a nightmare of a campaign. 1305 00:53:18,151 --> 00:53:22,634 If he insists on being so uncivil and so disrespectful, 1306 00:53:22,677 --> 00:53:25,027 but you better get ready for it. 1307 00:53:25,071 --> 00:53:26,551 - They say I have the most loyal people. 1308 00:53:26,594 --> 00:53:27,943 Did you ever see that? 1309 00:53:27,987 --> 00:53:29,815 Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue 1310 00:53:29,858 --> 00:53:32,296 and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? 1311 00:53:32,339 --> 00:53:33,471 It's incredible. 1312 00:53:33,514 --> 00:53:34,776 [audience laughing] 1313 00:53:34,820 --> 00:53:37,344 - You're encouraged to be modest, to be humble, 1314 00:53:37,388 --> 00:53:39,694 not to show off, not to be brash, 1315 00:53:39,738 --> 00:53:42,306 not to say provocative things, to be very careful, 1316 00:53:42,349 --> 00:53:45,309 to tip toe around the niceties of language. 1317 00:53:45,352 --> 00:53:47,354 Trump just ignored all the playbook. 1318 00:53:47,398 --> 00:53:50,575 Trump just went, "No, actually, I'm gonna be me. 1319 00:53:50,618 --> 00:53:53,447 For better or for worse, I'm gonna to be authentic." 1320 00:53:53,491 --> 00:53:56,972 - And that was tremendously attractive to an audience, 1321 00:53:57,016 --> 00:54:00,106 and I think a country, that is perhaps rightly tired 1322 00:54:00,149 --> 00:54:02,456 of politicians who seem bound 1323 00:54:02,500 --> 00:54:05,372 by what they considered political correctness 1324 00:54:05,416 --> 00:54:07,809 in not saying those things. 1325 00:54:07,853 --> 00:54:10,856 [audience cheering] 1326 00:54:13,424 --> 00:54:16,035 - What happens with Trump 1327 00:54:16,078 --> 00:54:20,474 is that he uses the same method over and over again 1328 00:54:20,518 --> 00:54:22,171 until it fails. 1329 00:54:22,215 --> 00:54:26,219 And in the primaries, he discovered that it didn't fail. 1330 00:54:26,263 --> 00:54:30,049 - An outsider who read the mood of Republican voters 1331 00:54:30,092 --> 00:54:32,878 better than anyone now controls a party 1332 00:54:32,921 --> 00:54:35,446 that fought him every step of the way. 1333 00:54:35,489 --> 00:54:38,144 This evening, his last opponent dropped out, 1334 00:54:38,187 --> 00:54:40,146 ensuring that Donald Trump 1335 00:54:40,189 --> 00:54:43,802 will be the party's first nominee since Eisenhower 1336 00:54:43,845 --> 00:54:46,326 to run with no political experience. 1337 00:54:46,370 --> 00:54:50,330 - I saw an organization that was the most pathetic 1338 00:54:50,374 --> 00:54:53,028 of anything I've ever seen in American politics. 1339 00:54:53,942 --> 00:54:55,901 His polling operation was weak. 1340 00:54:55,944 --> 00:54:59,078 His grassroots was almost non-existent. 1341 00:54:59,121 --> 00:55:01,950 They refused to spend money for advertising. 1342 00:55:01,994 --> 00:55:05,214 All the elements of what you spend or invest in the campaign 1343 00:55:05,258 --> 00:55:06,564 were not happening. 1344 00:55:06,607 --> 00:55:11,046 - We hit the 1237, right? 1237. 1345 00:55:11,090 --> 00:55:13,222 - [Reporter] Trump celebrated the victory tonight 1346 00:55:13,266 --> 00:55:14,615 with McDonald's. 1347 00:55:14,659 --> 00:55:16,530 - Here I am, watching Hillary fight, 1348 00:55:16,574 --> 00:55:18,445 and she can't close the deal. 1349 00:55:18,489 --> 00:55:20,926 And that should be such an easy deal to close. 1350 00:55:20,969 --> 00:55:23,363 It could be we're gonna run against Crazy Bernie. 1351 00:55:23,407 --> 00:55:24,321 That could be big. 1352 00:55:24,364 --> 00:55:25,147 [audience booing] 1353 00:55:25,191 --> 00:55:26,671 Could be Crazy Bernie. 1354 00:55:26,714 --> 00:55:29,935 He's a crazy man, but that's okay. We like crazy people. 1355 00:55:29,978 --> 00:55:32,633 - Certainly, great politicians master new media. 1356 00:55:32,677 --> 00:55:34,896 Right, so, FDR was the king of radio. 1357 00:55:34,940 --> 00:55:37,116 JFK used TV. 1358 00:55:37,159 --> 00:55:39,814 Obama used the internet and nascent social networks 1359 00:55:39,858 --> 00:55:42,991 very well, but Trump and Twitter, 1360 00:55:43,035 --> 00:55:46,821 it was a particularly powerful, toxic combination. 1361 00:55:46,865 --> 00:55:50,608 - Well, I think Twitter is a unique kind of network 1362 00:55:50,651 --> 00:55:53,828 in that it brings together a social network 1363 00:55:53,872 --> 00:55:55,221 and a broadcast network. 1364 00:55:55,264 --> 00:55:56,614 [intriguing electronic music] 1365 00:55:56,657 --> 00:55:58,137 You have millions of followers, 1366 00:55:58,180 --> 00:56:00,531 you're effectively a broadcaster. 1367 00:56:00,574 --> 00:56:03,838 And these two modes interact. 1368 00:56:05,579 --> 00:56:07,712 Sometimes a tweet goes viral, 1369 00:56:07,755 --> 00:56:11,455 where eventually millions or tens of millions of people 1370 00:56:11,498 --> 00:56:13,413 will see that one message. 1371 00:56:13,457 --> 00:56:15,633 - It was his understanding of Twitter 1372 00:56:15,676 --> 00:56:18,940 and how to make that entire platform his, 1373 00:56:18,984 --> 00:56:22,335 in a way that creates direct intimacy with his supporters. 1374 00:56:22,379 --> 00:56:24,772 It was unbelievable, what he was doing. 1375 00:56:24,816 --> 00:56:27,122 And I recognized that immediately. 1376 00:56:27,166 --> 00:56:29,690 It was like I was sitting there going... 1377 00:56:29,734 --> 00:56:33,346 almost reverential, like, "Oh my gosh!" 1378 00:56:33,390 --> 00:56:36,218 - It was Mr. Trump himself 1379 00:56:36,262 --> 00:56:40,571 who drove that social media platform train 1380 00:56:40,614 --> 00:56:43,443 by directly communicating with the people, 1381 00:56:43,487 --> 00:56:46,272 and the media had to cover the candidates' tweets. 1382 00:56:46,315 --> 00:56:48,274 - Matt, I want to put up that tweet again this morning, 1383 00:56:48,317 --> 00:56:50,494 of course tweeting, "I love Hispanics." 1384 00:56:50,537 --> 00:56:52,365 - I want you to look at this graphic of one of his tweets. 1385 00:56:52,409 --> 00:56:53,627 I'm sure that you have seen this. 1386 00:56:53,671 --> 00:56:57,152 A star that is the shape of the Star of David. 1387 00:56:57,196 --> 00:56:59,938 - Donald Trump very successfully used 1388 00:56:59,981 --> 00:57:03,289 not only Twitter as a tool in and of itself 1389 00:57:03,332 --> 00:57:06,118 but Twitter as a tool to disrupt legacy media. 1390 00:57:06,161 --> 00:57:08,076 - I would be on a live TV set, and I'd be mid-sentence, 1391 00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:10,427 they'd be like, "Hold on, Kellyanne, breaking news." 1392 00:57:10,470 --> 00:57:11,819 And I'd say, "Oh, God forbid, what happened?" 1393 00:57:11,863 --> 00:57:14,735 And they'd say, "Your boss, your candidate 1394 00:57:14,779 --> 00:57:16,215 just tweeted the following..." 1395 00:57:16,258 --> 00:57:17,738 And I'd look at it, and they'd ask me to comment on it. 1396 00:57:17,782 --> 00:57:21,438 But he literally would make news instantaneously. 1397 00:57:21,481 --> 00:57:23,962 - And maybe a lot of that innermost decision-making 1398 00:57:24,005 --> 00:57:26,573 and kind of tuning of messaging 1399 00:57:26,617 --> 00:57:29,968 was happening by the man himself, and... 1400 00:57:31,404 --> 00:57:36,409 and the speed and the agility that you need to surf... 1401 00:57:37,541 --> 00:57:41,240 a near real-time medium, which is what Twitter is, 1402 00:57:41,283 --> 00:57:43,634 that might be a huge strategic advantage. 1403 00:57:43,677 --> 00:57:45,766 - I just can't think of a worse candidate 1404 00:57:45,810 --> 00:57:47,159 in the Twitter era. 1405 00:57:47,202 --> 00:57:50,031 I mean, Hillary isn't like a bite-sized candidate 1406 00:57:50,075 --> 00:57:52,991 who would just fire off things without thinking about them. 1407 00:57:53,034 --> 00:57:54,949 And to her credit, a lot of people 1408 00:57:54,993 --> 00:57:57,256 would like a president who puts a lot of thought into things 1409 00:57:57,299 --> 00:57:59,824 before they release them to the world. 1410 00:58:02,522 --> 00:58:06,178 There would be a whole team to approve a simple tweet. 1411 00:58:07,309 --> 00:58:08,746 Ultimately that... 1412 00:58:08,789 --> 00:58:11,052 I think that people saw that and could tell 1413 00:58:11,096 --> 00:58:15,492 a lack of spontaneity or genuine emotion. 1414 00:58:15,535 --> 00:58:19,626 - I am honored to be here amongst you 1415 00:58:19,670 --> 00:58:23,500 on behalf of what really made this country great, 1416 00:58:23,543 --> 00:58:25,676 working people, men and women. 1417 00:58:26,677 --> 00:58:29,157 - The new currency... 1418 00:58:30,419 --> 00:58:34,119 that's rare and needed in politics is no longer money. 1419 00:58:35,033 --> 00:58:37,862 It's attention. It's name recognition. 1420 00:58:37,905 --> 00:58:39,472 That is the new currency. 1421 00:58:39,516 --> 00:58:44,216 And Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had oodles of that. 1422 00:58:44,259 --> 00:58:46,566 The difference is how they used it. 1423 00:58:46,610 --> 00:58:48,350 [stark electronic music] 1424 00:58:48,394 --> 00:58:51,615 Hillary Clinton tried to stay out of the spotlight, 1425 00:58:51,658 --> 00:58:54,139 away from interviews, and just rest on the fact 1426 00:58:54,182 --> 00:58:56,358 that she had the biggest brand in American politics. 1427 00:58:56,402 --> 00:58:58,665 - [Reporter] Secretary Clinton... 1428 00:58:58,709 --> 00:59:00,275 we haven't heard from you in a month. 1429 00:59:00,319 --> 00:59:03,061 - Yeah, maybe when I finished talking to the people here. 1430 00:59:03,104 --> 00:59:04,628 How's that? 1431 00:59:04,671 --> 00:59:07,979 - She tried to walk in a parade. To cordon off the press... 1432 00:59:08,022 --> 00:59:11,635 They were put in this moving rope line. 1433 00:59:11,678 --> 00:59:13,637 - This is the worst visual metaphor. 1434 00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:15,943 Before you could say she's not talking to reporters, 1435 00:59:15,987 --> 00:59:17,554 but you can't cover not talking. 1436 00:59:17,597 --> 00:59:19,947 You can show this image over and over again, and it's awful. 1437 00:59:19,991 --> 00:59:22,559 - Her press strategy was essentially to ignore us. 1438 00:59:22,602 --> 00:59:24,778 She felt like the front runner 1439 00:59:24,822 --> 00:59:27,433 and didn't think that she necessarily needed to talk 1440 00:59:27,476 --> 00:59:29,478 to the gaggle of reporters 1441 00:59:29,522 --> 00:59:32,743 who traveled with her everywhere, covering 1442 00:59:32,786 --> 00:59:35,136 - I am so happy to have all of you with me! 1443 00:59:35,180 --> 00:59:36,268 - [Reporter] Have you missed us? 1444 00:59:36,311 --> 00:59:38,400 - I've been just waiting for this moment! 1445 00:59:38,444 --> 00:59:40,489 - The relationship between the Clinton campaign 1446 00:59:40,533 --> 00:59:43,188 and the press is just hostile on both sides. 1447 00:59:43,231 --> 00:59:44,972 And it's early for that. 1448 00:59:45,016 --> 00:59:46,844 - She gave very few interviews. 1449 00:59:46,887 --> 00:59:50,238 She did almost no print interviews that I'm aware of 1450 00:59:50,282 --> 00:59:51,892 before the general election. 1451 00:59:51,936 --> 00:59:54,416 - The criticism is directed at the Clinton campaign on this. 1452 00:59:54,460 --> 00:59:56,897 We're trying to wrap her in bubble wrap 1453 00:59:56,941 --> 00:59:58,333 this entire campaign 1454 00:59:58,377 --> 01:00:01,423 and not let her actually associate with real people. 1455 01:00:01,467 --> 01:00:03,774 - Nobody wanted any kind of moment to go wrong 1456 01:00:03,817 --> 01:00:05,471 and go viral and look bad. 1457 01:00:05,514 --> 01:00:07,865 And so I think there was an extreme caution 1458 01:00:07,908 --> 01:00:11,956 that prohibited her from having more of those moments 1459 01:00:11,999 --> 01:00:13,914 that could have ultimately helped her. 1460 01:00:15,699 --> 01:00:19,746 - We saw a systematic difference between members 1461 01:00:19,790 --> 01:00:23,271 of the what we call Trump tribe and Clinton tribe. 1462 01:00:23,315 --> 01:00:27,188 just more retweets, more tweets, more replies, more activity 1463 01:00:28,363 --> 01:00:32,672 per account from the Trump tribe versus the Clinton tribe. 1464 01:00:32,716 --> 01:00:34,892 And so we describe that as a passion gap. 1465 01:00:36,154 --> 01:00:38,678 And at some point, you know, someone on our team said, 1466 01:00:38,722 --> 01:00:42,639 "It's almost like there's a public awakening." 1467 01:00:42,682 --> 01:00:45,467 We're seeing something happening 1468 01:00:45,511 --> 01:00:48,993 in the nature of the conversation where... 1469 01:00:50,429 --> 01:00:55,434 Donald Trump seems like a far more serious possibility 1470 01:00:56,130 --> 01:01:00,308 than the polling numbers or anything else would indicate. 1471 01:01:00,352 --> 01:01:02,659 - I think that the key is that Donald Trump's 1472 01:01:02,702 --> 01:01:04,791 defiant authenticity resonated, 1473 01:01:04,835 --> 01:01:07,141 and that's something I think all politicians 1474 01:01:07,185 --> 01:01:08,273 can learn from. 1475 01:01:08,316 --> 01:01:09,970 That doesn't mean simply play 1476 01:01:10,014 --> 01:01:11,798 to the lowest common denominator every day, 1477 01:01:11,842 --> 01:01:13,191 But it does mean, for God's sakes, 1478 01:01:13,234 --> 01:01:15,497 be yourself and talk like a goddamn human being. 1479 01:01:16,847 --> 01:01:18,675 - What's what's something that you always carry with you? 1480 01:01:18,718 --> 01:01:19,588 - Hot sauce. 1481 01:01:20,546 --> 01:01:21,329 - Really? 1482 01:01:21,373 --> 01:01:22,156 - Yeah. Yeah. 1483 01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:23,375 - Really? 1484 01:01:23,418 --> 01:01:24,681 - Are you getting in formation right now? 1485 01:01:24,724 --> 01:01:25,507 [laughing] 1486 01:01:25,551 --> 01:01:26,378 - Hot sauce? 1487 01:01:26,421 --> 01:01:28,728 - Hot sauce in my bag swag? 1488 01:01:28,772 --> 01:01:29,598 - Hot sauce. 1489 01:01:29,642 --> 01:01:30,730 - Really? - Yes! 1490 01:01:30,774 --> 01:01:31,775 - Now, listen, I want you to know 1491 01:01:31,818 --> 01:01:32,993 people are gonna see this and say, 1492 01:01:33,037 --> 01:01:34,081 "Okay, she's pandering to black people." 1493 01:01:34,125 --> 01:01:36,649 [laughing] 1494 01:01:36,693 --> 01:01:37,955 - Okay. 1495 01:01:37,998 --> 01:01:39,217 Is it working? 1496 01:01:39,260 --> 01:01:42,089 [laughing] 1497 01:01:42,133 --> 01:01:46,267 - Don't forget what a terrible campaign Hillary Clinton ran. 1498 01:01:47,225 --> 01:01:49,662 Her campaign, to this day, 1499 01:01:49,706 --> 01:01:51,664 nobody can remember a thing about it. 1500 01:01:51,708 --> 01:01:53,057 - [Interviewer] A quick soundcheck. 1501 01:01:53,100 --> 01:01:56,190 What was written on Donald Trump's baseball cap? 1502 01:01:56,234 --> 01:01:57,757 - "Make America great again". 1503 01:01:57,801 --> 01:02:01,065 - Make America great again. - Make America great again. 1504 01:02:01,108 --> 01:02:02,501 - Oh, make America great again? 1505 01:02:02,544 --> 01:02:04,938 - [Interviewer] What was Hillary's campaign slogan? 1506 01:02:04,982 --> 01:02:07,506 - I'm still trying to figure it out. 1507 01:02:07,549 --> 01:02:08,594 - Ready for Hillary? 1508 01:02:08,637 --> 01:02:09,421 I don't know. 1509 01:02:09,464 --> 01:02:10,509 - I don't remember. 1510 01:02:11,423 --> 01:02:12,772 - Together? 1511 01:02:12,816 --> 01:02:14,121 Forward together? 1512 01:02:14,165 --> 01:02:15,644 - I don't know. 1513 01:02:15,688 --> 01:02:17,777 - Oh, I don't actually know what it said on her plane. 1514 01:02:17,821 --> 01:02:19,257 What was her slogan? 1515 01:02:19,300 --> 01:02:21,955 - And she had "stronger together", whatever that means. 1516 01:02:21,999 --> 01:02:23,870 - On one point, being this well-known 1517 01:02:23,914 --> 01:02:26,786 made it hard for her campaign to craft a narrative, 1518 01:02:26,830 --> 01:02:28,788 but it also made it just hard for Hillary. 1519 01:02:28,832 --> 01:02:32,226 I mean, she's lived in this cloistered, rarefied world 1520 01:02:32,270 --> 01:02:33,532 for a very long time. 1521 01:02:33,575 --> 01:02:35,403 And so, to emerge from that world 1522 01:02:35,447 --> 01:02:38,058 and try to really connect to voters 1523 01:02:38,102 --> 01:02:42,236 suffering in these steel towns where Trumpism took hold 1524 01:02:42,280 --> 01:02:44,325 I think was very difficult. 1525 01:02:44,369 --> 01:02:45,587 The sounds so old school, 1526 01:02:45,631 --> 01:02:47,938 but we wouldn't see any Hillary yard signs. 1527 01:02:47,981 --> 01:02:49,766 You saw a ton of Trump yard signs. 1528 01:02:49,809 --> 01:02:52,812 [anxious music] 1529 01:02:52,856 --> 01:02:55,946 - I never got the sense that they had really captured 1530 01:02:55,989 --> 01:02:58,731 the energy of people out there, 1531 01:02:58,775 --> 01:03:00,472 connected with them in that way. 1532 01:03:00,515 --> 01:03:02,648 Often you get a sense that a candidate 1533 01:03:02,691 --> 01:03:07,696 will fight for every inch, and she just never exuded that. 1534 01:03:08,523 --> 01:03:11,004 - It was all bullshit. 1535 01:03:11,048 --> 01:03:12,876 It was all sloganeering. 1536 01:03:14,703 --> 01:03:16,836 - I'm just chilling in Cedar Rapids. 1537 01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:19,317 I try to figure out how we get them 1538 01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:22,450 to have Pokemon Go-to-the-polls. 1539 01:03:22,494 --> 01:03:24,322 [audience laughing] 1540 01:03:24,365 --> 01:03:27,760 [audience cheering] 1541 01:03:27,804 --> 01:03:29,414 - I think just viscerally 1542 01:03:29,457 --> 01:03:32,330 she missed the anger that had taken root in the electorate. 1543 01:03:32,373 --> 01:03:35,855 - Secretary Clinton does represent the establishment. 1544 01:03:35,899 --> 01:03:38,815 I represent, I hope, ordinary Americans 1545 01:03:38,858 --> 01:03:41,818 and, by the way who are not all that enamored 1546 01:03:41,861 --> 01:03:43,341 with the establishment. 1547 01:03:43,384 --> 01:03:45,430 - It's always been the case, going back to 2008, even, 1548 01:03:45,473 --> 01:03:48,172 that Hillary Clinton just wasn't an inspirational figure, 1549 01:03:48,215 --> 01:03:49,826 whether it was her speaking ability, 1550 01:03:49,869 --> 01:03:51,131 whether it was her record, 1551 01:03:51,175 --> 01:03:55,005 whether it was the way she saw the world. 1552 01:03:55,048 --> 01:03:56,658 It was an issue that her campaign 1553 01:03:56,702 --> 01:03:58,312 was in complete denial about. 1554 01:03:58,356 --> 01:04:01,185 They thought it was Bernie who convinced 1555 01:04:01,228 --> 01:04:04,188 a lot of left-leaning people not to like Hillary. 1556 01:04:04,231 --> 01:04:06,103 But in fact, this was just a fact 1557 01:04:06,146 --> 01:04:08,453 that Sanders and his campaign saw and exploited. 1558 01:04:08,496 --> 01:04:10,194 It was a preexisting condition for Hillary 1559 01:04:10,237 --> 01:04:12,109 that people just didn't really like her. 1560 01:04:12,152 --> 01:04:14,851 [anxious music] 1561 01:04:16,504 --> 01:04:21,466 - We have won, at this point, 45% of pledge delegates. 1562 01:04:22,336 --> 01:04:25,731 But we have only earned 7% of superdelegates. 1563 01:04:27,994 --> 01:04:30,605 [crowd booing] 1564 01:04:31,519 --> 01:04:34,000 So in other words, the way the system works 1565 01:04:34,044 --> 01:04:37,134 is you have establishment candidates 1566 01:04:37,177 --> 01:04:39,919 who win virtually all of the superdelegates. 1567 01:04:39,963 --> 01:04:41,965 - NBC News is now declaring Hillary Clinton 1568 01:04:42,008 --> 01:04:43,749 the presumptive Democratic nominee. 1569 01:04:43,792 --> 01:04:44,793 [group cheering] 1570 01:04:44,837 --> 01:04:47,013 [crowd cheering] 1571 01:04:51,583 --> 01:04:55,369 - At the Democratic Convention, I went down to the protests, 1572 01:04:55,413 --> 01:04:57,545 the Bernie or Bust protests. 1573 01:04:57,589 --> 01:04:59,417 [protestors shouting] 1574 01:04:59,460 --> 01:05:00,766 Kids from all over the country, 1575 01:05:00,809 --> 01:05:02,420 people in their teens and 20s, 1576 01:05:02,463 --> 01:05:05,423 who said the Democratic Party has lost me for a generation, 1577 01:05:05,466 --> 01:05:06,772 I don't have something to believe in 1578 01:05:06,815 --> 01:05:08,687 if Bernie is not on top of the ticket. 1579 01:05:09,688 --> 01:05:11,168 - [Protestors] We won't vote for Hillary! 1580 01:05:11,211 --> 01:05:12,996 - [Reporter] Many Sanders backers just aren't willing 1581 01:05:13,039 --> 01:05:14,301 to shift their loyalties 1582 01:05:14,345 --> 01:05:16,825 from the U.S. Senator's progressive platform. 1583 01:05:16,869 --> 01:05:19,089 - I mean, that was a tense convention. 1584 01:05:19,132 --> 01:05:20,960 - Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine 1585 01:05:21,004 --> 01:05:23,484 want to build an economy that works for everyone... 1586 01:05:23,528 --> 01:05:24,485 [crowd booing] 1587 01:05:24,529 --> 01:05:26,661 not just the people at the top. 1588 01:05:26,705 --> 01:05:29,273 [crowd booing] 1589 01:05:35,061 --> 01:05:37,977 [crowd shouting] 1590 01:05:38,021 --> 01:05:39,631 - If I didn't know any better, I would have thought 1591 01:05:39,674 --> 01:05:41,198 I was at Bernie Sanders' convention last night. 1592 01:05:41,241 --> 01:05:42,634 It rose to the rafters. 1593 01:05:42,677 --> 01:05:45,202 [crowd booing] 1594 01:05:48,031 --> 01:05:50,642 - There was a sense that the DNC 1595 01:05:50,685 --> 01:05:53,775 had kind of tilted the table in her favor, 1596 01:05:53,819 --> 01:05:55,647 there hadn't really been a fair contest 1597 01:05:55,690 --> 01:05:57,431 between Hillary and Bernie. 1598 01:05:57,475 --> 01:05:58,998 - There's no question to my mind, 1599 01:05:59,042 --> 01:06:02,306 and I think no question to any objective observer's mind, 1600 01:06:02,349 --> 01:06:05,265 that the DNC was supporting Hillary Clinton 1601 01:06:05,309 --> 01:06:07,964 and was in opposition to our campaign. 1602 01:06:08,007 --> 01:06:09,313 - Rigged! Rigged! 1603 01:06:09,356 --> 01:06:11,010 Remember hashtag rigged? 1604 01:06:11,054 --> 01:06:14,057 How offensive to say it was rigged. 1605 01:06:14,100 --> 01:06:18,452 How dare you say that our democracy could be rigged? 1606 01:06:18,496 --> 01:06:20,150 How dare you say that? 1607 01:06:20,193 --> 01:06:21,673 And, it was rigged. 1608 01:06:21,716 --> 01:06:24,197 - I actually think Hillary and some of her top advisors 1609 01:06:24,241 --> 01:06:26,808 are more angry at Bernie Sanders than they are Donald Trump. 1610 01:06:26,852 --> 01:06:29,550 They thought that he gave her sort of a lukewarm endorsement 1611 01:06:29,594 --> 01:06:31,117 when he finally got around to it. 1612 01:06:31,161 --> 01:06:34,294 - And I move that Hillary Clinton be selected 1613 01:06:34,338 --> 01:06:37,384 as the nominee of the Democratic Party 1614 01:06:37,428 --> 01:06:39,604 for President of the United States 1615 01:06:39,647 --> 01:06:41,606 [audience cheering] 1616 01:06:41,649 --> 01:06:45,697 - Senator Sanders has moved in the spirit of unity 1617 01:06:45,740 --> 01:06:47,481 to suspend the rules. 1618 01:06:51,703 --> 01:06:54,662 - Bernie Sanders lit the place on fire. 1619 01:06:54,706 --> 01:06:58,101 I mean, he came out of nowhere and God bless him. 1620 01:06:59,972 --> 01:07:01,234 Bernie was an Independent. 1621 01:07:01,278 --> 01:07:03,062 He agreed to run in Democratic primaries, 1622 01:07:03,106 --> 01:07:04,977 but he was an Independent. 1623 01:07:05,021 --> 01:07:07,545 And of course there are going to be associations 1624 01:07:07,588 --> 01:07:10,504 and friendships and loyalty built up to somebody 1625 01:07:10,548 --> 01:07:12,985 who's been a Democrat their whole life. 1626 01:07:13,029 --> 01:07:14,378 - That's why you're an insurgent. 1627 01:07:14,421 --> 01:07:17,250 You're an insurgent because there's a status quo 1628 01:07:17,294 --> 01:07:18,643 establishment in the party, 1629 01:07:18,686 --> 01:07:20,688 and there's an establishment candidate. 1630 01:07:21,863 --> 01:07:26,868 - And so, my friends, it is with humility, determination, 1631 01:07:27,826 --> 01:07:31,786 and boundless confidence in America's promise 1632 01:07:31,830 --> 01:07:35,138 that I accept your nomination 1633 01:07:35,181 --> 01:07:38,010 For President of the United States 1634 01:07:38,054 --> 01:07:39,446 [audience cheering] 1635 01:07:39,490 --> 01:07:41,535 - I do think that she matched up with the mood 1636 01:07:41,579 --> 01:07:43,450 of the electorate particularly badly. 1637 01:07:44,277 --> 01:07:46,627 A lot of people felt the system was rigged, 1638 01:07:46,671 --> 01:07:49,021 and the Clintons, for many people, and fairly, 1639 01:07:49,065 --> 01:07:51,023 were a symbol of a rigged system. 1640 01:07:51,067 --> 01:07:54,287 - And so, you put all that together, 1641 01:07:54,331 --> 01:07:56,681 you have a real big problem for Hillary Clinton 1642 01:07:56,724 --> 01:07:59,771 going into that election with a divided party 1643 01:07:59,814 --> 01:08:01,816 and an arrogant campaign 1644 01:08:01,860 --> 01:08:03,688 that believed it could not be defeated. 1645 01:08:03,731 --> 01:08:06,995 [uneasy music] 1646 01:08:07,039 --> 01:08:11,087 ♪ We are the champions my friends ♪ 1647 01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:14,002 [crowd cheering] 1648 01:08:14,046 --> 01:08:16,962 - Even Trump may have underestimated Trump. 1649 01:08:17,005 --> 01:08:20,444 I knew he wanted to be the great disruptor 1650 01:08:20,487 --> 01:08:21,836 who would attract more eyeballs 1651 01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:23,273 and create this reality show. 1652 01:08:23,316 --> 01:08:26,145 I knew he wanted to do that. That was clear. 1653 01:08:26,189 --> 01:08:27,973 But did he want to stay the whole way 1654 01:08:28,016 --> 01:08:29,583 and make it into a general election? 1655 01:08:29,627 --> 01:08:32,412 Because if he did, he was gonna be there. 1656 01:08:32,456 --> 01:08:34,284 - Friends... 1657 01:08:34,327 --> 01:08:35,981 delegates... 1658 01:08:36,024 --> 01:08:38,244 and fellow Americans... 1659 01:08:38,288 --> 01:08:40,116 I humbly... 1660 01:08:40,159 --> 01:08:44,294 and gratefully accept your nomination 1661 01:08:44,337 --> 01:08:47,949 for the presidency of the United States. 1662 01:08:47,993 --> 01:08:50,996 [audience cheering] 1663 01:08:53,041 --> 01:08:56,001 - I suspect that Donald Trump 1664 01:08:56,044 --> 01:08:59,396 did not decide he really wanted to be president 1665 01:08:59,439 --> 01:09:02,268 until he turned to face Hillary Clinton. 1666 01:09:02,312 --> 01:09:05,750 - This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: 1667 01:09:05,793 --> 01:09:10,668 death, destruction, terrorism, and weakness 1668 01:09:11,799 --> 01:09:15,020 [audience cheering] 1669 01:09:15,063 --> 01:09:18,197 - It was gonna be one of the more negative campaigns 1670 01:09:18,241 --> 01:09:19,590 in the history of the country. 1671 01:09:19,633 --> 01:09:20,895 Why? 1672 01:09:20,939 --> 01:09:22,506 Because I might be able to get you to stay home 1673 01:09:22,549 --> 01:09:24,812 instead of voting for Hillary Clinton. 1674 01:09:24,856 --> 01:09:27,554 - Hillary Clinton was a perfect foil for him. 1675 01:09:27,598 --> 01:09:30,253 She embodied, or could be made to embody, 1676 01:09:30,296 --> 01:09:32,255 everything that he said he was against. 1677 01:09:33,299 --> 01:09:34,996 And some of this was just Trump's gut. 1678 01:09:36,128 --> 01:09:39,871 And some of this is Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway 1679 01:09:39,914 --> 01:09:44,789 and others building an actual, coherent worldview 1680 01:09:44,832 --> 01:09:46,660 around Trump's gut. 1681 01:09:48,967 --> 01:09:51,491 - I always knew Hillary Clinton could lose the election, 1682 01:09:51,535 --> 01:09:52,971 which is one way of answering the question 1683 01:09:53,014 --> 01:09:55,278 of when I thought Donald Trump could win the election. 1684 01:09:55,321 --> 01:09:56,496 - [Reporter] Down the stretch they come. 1685 01:09:56,540 --> 01:09:57,845 We've been talking about Hillary Clinton 1686 01:09:57,889 --> 01:09:58,977 opening up that lead. 1687 01:09:59,020 --> 01:10:00,108 - [Reporter] He struggles with women. 1688 01:10:00,152 --> 01:10:01,675 He struggles with minorities. 1689 01:10:01,719 --> 01:10:02,981 - [Reporter] Mr. Trump, with the support 1690 01:10:03,024 --> 01:10:05,810 of 2% of African American voters. 1691 01:10:05,853 --> 01:10:10,467 - By the time I came on board, we were down in the polls. 1692 01:10:10,510 --> 01:10:13,165 I said we're way behind, the window's closing, 1693 01:10:13,209 --> 01:10:13,992 but it's still open. 1694 01:10:14,035 --> 01:10:14,906 We're way behind. 1695 01:10:14,949 --> 01:10:16,690 And he said, oh, the polls. 1696 01:10:16,734 --> 01:10:19,040 And I said, I looked at the polls, and she's winning, 1697 01:10:19,084 --> 01:10:20,999 but she doesn't have to. You can. 1698 01:10:21,042 --> 01:10:23,088 - She had a lot more paths to victory than he did. 1699 01:10:23,131 --> 01:10:25,873 - He can win Florida, he can win North Carolina, 1700 01:10:25,917 --> 01:10:29,529 and he can win Ohio and still be short. 1701 01:10:29,573 --> 01:10:31,052 That's important. 1702 01:10:31,096 --> 01:10:34,317 He can win Arizona and still be short. He can win Utah. 1703 01:10:34,360 --> 01:10:36,841 - And then, even then, he's gotta go and get 1704 01:10:36,884 --> 01:10:39,626 maybe it's a Michigan or a Wisconsin 1705 01:10:39,670 --> 01:10:41,193 to put him over the top. 1706 01:10:41,237 --> 01:10:44,631 - A normal Republican can not take your terms, frankly, 1707 01:10:44,675 --> 01:10:46,459 I hate to say this, cannot think in terms 1708 01:10:46,503 --> 01:10:47,591 of bringing in Michigan. 1709 01:10:47,634 --> 01:10:50,463 - He represented a great push forward 1710 01:10:50,507 --> 01:10:54,641 in our demonstrable quest to bust through 1711 01:10:54,685 --> 01:10:57,470 Hillary Clinton's very real blue wall, 1712 01:10:57,514 --> 01:10:59,516 beginning with the upper Midwest. 1713 01:10:59,559 --> 01:11:04,042 So, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania. 1714 01:11:04,085 --> 01:11:06,218 - They've taken our jobs out of Pennsylvania. 1715 01:11:06,262 --> 01:11:08,655 We're gonna be bringing 'em back, folks. Believe me. 1716 01:11:08,699 --> 01:11:09,613 [audience cheering] 1717 01:11:09,656 --> 01:11:12,616 We're bringing 'em back. 1718 01:11:12,659 --> 01:11:16,315 - This is industrial. This is blue collar. 1719 01:11:16,359 --> 01:11:18,143 There are a lot of towns 1720 01:11:18,186 --> 01:11:21,973 that have been hurt by globalization. 1721 01:11:22,016 --> 01:11:24,018 - We talked a lot about the white working-class vote, 1722 01:11:24,062 --> 01:11:26,151 particularly white working-class men 1723 01:11:26,194 --> 01:11:27,631 in those Rust Belt states. 1724 01:11:27,674 --> 01:11:29,720 Hillary is notably weak with these voters, 1725 01:11:29,763 --> 01:11:32,157 losing them by as much as two-to-one or more, 1726 01:11:32,200 --> 01:11:34,333 10 to 15 points weaker than Barack Obama 1727 01:11:34,377 --> 01:11:35,726 with white, working-class men. 1728 01:11:35,769 --> 01:11:37,293 - We were competing in states 1729 01:11:37,336 --> 01:11:40,861 that Obama-Biden had carried twice. 1730 01:11:42,515 --> 01:11:46,867 But had also elected a Republican statewide as senator 1731 01:11:46,911 --> 01:11:48,652 and/or governor in the interim, 1732 01:11:48,695 --> 01:11:51,437 and where Hillary Clinton had never gotten to 50% 1733 01:11:51,481 --> 01:11:53,134 and stayed there for very long. 1734 01:11:53,178 --> 01:11:56,747 - Hillary Clinton just didn't go to these states. 1735 01:11:56,790 --> 01:11:59,793 She was hanging out in places like Arizona 1736 01:11:59,837 --> 01:12:02,405 and Texas, inexplicably. 1737 01:12:02,448 --> 01:12:04,581 - When your allies are putting a lot of effort 1738 01:12:04,624 --> 01:12:08,889 into red states right now, Arizona, Utah, 1739 01:12:08,933 --> 01:12:10,978 you're doing this even though it's still neck-and-neck 1740 01:12:11,022 --> 01:12:13,198 in a lot of the traditional battleground states, 1741 01:12:13,241 --> 01:12:15,983 Ohio and Iowa, Florida. 1742 01:12:16,027 --> 01:12:17,985 Are you guys getting over-confident? 1743 01:12:18,029 --> 01:12:19,378 - There's a special opportunity 1744 01:12:19,422 --> 01:12:21,337 that popped up late in Arizona. 1745 01:12:21,380 --> 01:12:22,729 It is possible to win it. 1746 01:12:24,340 --> 01:12:27,168 - Arizona has not, 12 of the past 13 presidential elections, 1747 01:12:27,212 --> 01:12:28,692 has not voted for a Democrat. 1748 01:12:28,735 --> 01:12:30,650 And so you saw this extreme confidence 1749 01:12:30,694 --> 01:12:33,131 on the part of the campaign that they could expand the map, 1750 01:12:33,174 --> 01:12:35,046 that they could bring in new voters 1751 01:12:35,089 --> 01:12:36,917 in places like Arizona and Georgia 1752 01:12:36,961 --> 01:12:39,137 that are sort of going purple. 1753 01:12:39,180 --> 01:12:43,010 - While Donald Trump is up in these states, 1754 01:12:43,054 --> 01:12:46,318 saying I'm gonna make America great again. 1755 01:12:46,362 --> 01:12:49,365 [somber music] 1756 01:12:49,408 --> 01:12:52,237 - In August, after she had a 10-point lead 1757 01:12:52,280 --> 01:12:54,979 after her convention, after a successful convention, 1758 01:12:55,022 --> 01:12:57,851 she basically disappeared in the Hamptons to fundraise. 1759 01:12:59,679 --> 01:13:01,289 Her campaign would get very defensive about this: 1760 01:13:01,333 --> 01:13:03,640 we need money, we need a lot of money to go against Trump. 1761 01:13:03,683 --> 01:13:06,338 But every single day, Trump was doing rallies. 1762 01:13:06,382 --> 01:13:07,557 [jet whooshing] 1763 01:13:07,600 --> 01:13:09,472 [stark electronic music] 1764 01:13:09,515 --> 01:13:13,040 Then she re-emerged Labor Day, and she was sick, 1765 01:13:13,084 --> 01:13:15,434 and she just had sort of a string of bad luck. 1766 01:13:15,478 --> 01:13:17,784 - I think that was a very troubling moment for her. 1767 01:13:17,828 --> 01:13:19,743 That was her worst weekend in many ways. 1768 01:13:19,786 --> 01:13:22,572 September 11th, very early in the morning, 1769 01:13:22,615 --> 01:13:24,574 she had her spill. 1770 01:13:24,617 --> 01:13:27,141 [tense music] 1771 01:13:30,318 --> 01:13:34,061 - She's supposed to fight all of these different things, 1772 01:13:34,105 --> 01:13:36,586 and she can't make it 15 feet to her car. 1773 01:13:36,629 --> 01:13:39,066 Give me a break. Give me a break. 1774 01:13:39,110 --> 01:13:42,113 [audience cheering] 1775 01:13:46,813 --> 01:13:48,336 - Thank God she was okay health-wise. 1776 01:13:48,380 --> 01:13:50,469 But the worst thing for her was two days earlier, 1777 01:13:50,513 --> 01:13:52,471 when she was caught on tape. 1778 01:13:52,515 --> 01:13:56,040 You know, to just be grossly generalistic, 1779 01:13:57,345 --> 01:13:59,957 you could put half of Trump's supporters 1780 01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:02,263 into what I call the basket of deplorables. 1781 01:14:02,307 --> 01:14:04,788 - Hillary Clinton on Friday evening, 1782 01:14:04,831 --> 01:14:06,790 "basket of deplorables" already entered 1783 01:14:06,833 --> 01:14:09,009 into the annals of campaign flubs. 1784 01:14:09,053 --> 01:14:11,577 - They are not a basket of anything. 1785 01:14:11,621 --> 01:14:15,886 They are Americans and they deserve your respect. 1786 01:14:15,929 --> 01:14:18,671 - [Narrator] People like you, you and you... 1787 01:14:18,715 --> 01:14:19,977 Deplorable. 1788 01:14:20,020 --> 01:14:21,544 You know what's deplorable? 1789 01:14:21,587 --> 01:14:24,068 Hillary Clinton viciously demonizing 1790 01:14:24,111 --> 01:14:26,374 hardworking people like you. 1791 01:14:27,419 --> 01:14:31,379 - It as a reflection perfectly of what the coastal elites 1792 01:14:31,423 --> 01:14:34,252 in the United States feel about the people 1793 01:14:34,295 --> 01:14:37,777 trapped in the working-class counties 1794 01:14:37,821 --> 01:14:39,300 and cities of the country 1795 01:14:39,344 --> 01:14:41,912 that have been decimated by globalization. 1796 01:14:43,217 --> 01:14:47,439 - And it was like, wow, we thought you thought that of us, 1797 01:14:47,483 --> 01:14:48,875 and now we know for sure. 1798 01:14:50,573 --> 01:14:52,618 [upbeat music] 1799 01:14:52,662 --> 01:14:55,665 [audience cheering] 1800 01:14:59,451 --> 01:15:01,540 - She is a really gifted debater, 1801 01:15:01,584 --> 01:15:03,542 maybe one of the best debaters we've seen 1802 01:15:03,586 --> 01:15:04,761 on a stage in a long time. 1803 01:15:04,804 --> 01:15:07,851 - Why won't he release his tax returns? 1804 01:15:07,894 --> 01:15:10,114 And I think there may be a couple of reasons. 1805 01:15:10,157 --> 01:15:13,857 First, maybe he's not as rich as he says he is. 1806 01:15:13,900 --> 01:15:17,556 Second, maybe he's not as charitable as he claims to be. 1807 01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:18,775 - We're gonna come up with three or four clever things 1808 01:15:18,818 --> 01:15:21,125 that were gonna hit Trump with tonight, 1809 01:15:21,168 --> 01:15:23,475 and you'll say them in the following sequence. 1810 01:15:23,519 --> 01:15:26,609 - I call it Trumped up trickle down, 1811 01:15:26,652 --> 01:15:28,567 because that's exactly what it would be. 1812 01:15:28,611 --> 01:15:31,265 - And she was picking out her outfit to look perfect. 1813 01:15:31,309 --> 01:15:33,703 - He's showing up with a tie down to his ankle. 1814 01:15:33,746 --> 01:15:35,748 Give me the microphone. I'm ready to go. 1815 01:15:35,792 --> 01:15:38,882 - I don't believe that Hillary has the stamina. 1816 01:15:38,925 --> 01:15:39,709 - [Moderator] Let's let her respond. 1817 01:15:39,752 --> 01:15:41,580 - Woo! Okay! 1818 01:15:41,624 --> 01:15:44,148 [audience laughing] 1819 01:15:44,191 --> 01:15:46,977 - He stood there, waiting to be exposed. 1820 01:15:47,020 --> 01:15:49,980 - As soon as he travels to 112 countries 1821 01:15:50,023 --> 01:15:53,766 and negotiates a peace deal, a cease fire, 1822 01:15:53,810 --> 01:15:55,594 or even spends 11 hours 1823 01:15:55,638 --> 01:15:58,597 testifying in front of a congressional committee, 1824 01:15:58,641 --> 01:16:00,904 he can talk to me about stamina. 1825 01:16:00,947 --> 01:16:02,558 - But Hillary invested a lot, 1826 01:16:02,601 --> 01:16:06,126 instead of doing rallies that 20,000 people 1827 01:16:06,170 --> 01:16:07,998 on an amazing night would see, 1828 01:16:08,041 --> 01:16:12,002 how about we just bunker down and invest in these debates? 1829 01:16:12,045 --> 01:16:14,613 - And I just left Detroit, and I just left Philadelphia, 1830 01:16:14,657 --> 01:16:15,962 and I just, you know, you've seen me, 1831 01:16:16,006 --> 01:16:17,485 I've been all over the place. 1832 01:16:18,530 --> 01:16:21,141 You decided to stay home, and that's okay. 1833 01:16:21,185 --> 01:16:23,317 - I think Donald just criticized me 1834 01:16:23,361 --> 01:16:26,103 for preparing for this debate. 1835 01:16:27,104 --> 01:16:28,235 And yes, I did. 1836 01:16:29,149 --> 01:16:30,760 And you know what else I prepared for? 1837 01:16:30,803 --> 01:16:32,500 I prepared to be President. 1838 01:16:32,544 --> 01:16:34,241 And I think that's a good thing. 1839 01:16:34,285 --> 01:16:36,200 [audience applauding] 1840 01:16:36,243 --> 01:16:39,246 - I think the consensus was that she won all of them. 1841 01:16:39,290 --> 01:16:42,119 - Did anybody see that debate last night? 1842 01:16:42,162 --> 01:16:43,120 [audience cheering] 1843 01:16:43,163 --> 01:16:45,644 [somber music] 1844 01:16:45,688 --> 01:16:46,993 Oh! 1845 01:16:47,037 --> 01:16:47,951 Yes! 1846 01:16:50,040 --> 01:16:52,259 One down, two to go. 1847 01:16:52,303 --> 01:16:53,609 - I want a word or phrase 1848 01:16:53,652 --> 01:16:57,264 to describe Donald Trump's performance tonight. 1849 01:16:57,308 --> 01:16:59,136 - Strong start, weak finish. 1850 01:16:59,179 --> 01:17:00,833 - Missed opportunities. 1851 01:17:00,877 --> 01:17:02,443 - Bombastic. 1852 01:17:02,487 --> 01:17:03,662 - Not presidential. 1853 01:17:03,706 --> 01:17:04,794 - Sloppy. 1854 01:17:04,837 --> 01:17:06,012 - I want a word or phrase to describe 1855 01:17:06,056 --> 01:17:07,666 Hillary Clinton's performance. 1856 01:17:07,710 --> 01:17:08,624 - Prepared. 1857 01:17:08,667 --> 01:17:09,450 - Firm. 1858 01:17:09,494 --> 01:17:10,756 - Powerful. 1859 01:17:10,800 --> 01:17:13,324 - I think she had one of the best debate preps 1860 01:17:13,367 --> 01:17:15,021 that I have seen in the last 25 years. 1861 01:17:15,065 --> 01:17:17,676 - I think she came across more presidential. 1862 01:17:17,720 --> 01:17:18,721 - It seemed, for all the world, 1863 01:17:18,764 --> 01:17:20,548 like something of a victory lap. 1864 01:17:20,592 --> 01:17:21,941 - Yeah, and I think Hillary Clinton 1865 01:17:21,985 --> 01:17:23,551 deserves a victory lap this morning. 1866 01:17:23,595 --> 01:17:25,858 [crowd cheering] 1867 01:17:25,902 --> 01:17:27,468 - One history professor, meanwhile, 1868 01:17:27,512 --> 01:17:30,036 says that Donald Trump will be 1869 01:17:30,080 --> 01:17:32,082 the next leader of our country. 1870 01:17:32,125 --> 01:17:34,693 - Professor Allan Lichtman from American University, 1871 01:17:34,737 --> 01:17:36,347 good enough to join us now. 1872 01:17:37,304 --> 01:17:38,915 - I delivered my Trump prediction 1873 01:17:38,958 --> 01:17:43,006 in a Washington Post interview in September, 2016, 1874 01:17:43,049 --> 01:17:45,269 and people wondered if I had gotten too old 1875 01:17:45,312 --> 01:17:46,879 and lost my sanity. 1876 01:17:46,923 --> 01:17:50,666 My system forgets the pundits, forgets the polls, 1877 01:17:50,709 --> 01:17:53,712 does not look at the day-to-day events of the campaign. 1878 01:17:53,756 --> 01:17:56,933 I don't look at debates. I don't look at ads. 1879 01:17:56,976 --> 01:17:59,370 I don't look at campaign tricks. 1880 01:17:59,413 --> 01:18:01,720 And I predict elections in advance. 1881 01:18:01,764 --> 01:18:04,288 In other words, I put myself on the line 1882 01:18:04,331 --> 01:18:09,032 and have been doing so successfully since 1984. 1883 01:18:09,075 --> 01:18:13,471 And for 32 years, everyone has asked me the same question: 1884 01:18:13,514 --> 01:18:16,256 Couldn't there be an October surprise? 1885 01:18:16,300 --> 01:18:19,129 Couldn't there be something so extraordinary 1886 01:18:19,999 --> 01:18:21,740 that it could turn around your prediction? 1887 01:18:21,784 --> 01:18:24,787 And there never has been an October surprise 1888 01:18:24,830 --> 01:18:26,179 that's doomed a candidate. 1889 01:18:26,223 --> 01:18:28,704 Everybody talks about it, but it's never happened. 1890 01:18:31,924 --> 01:18:35,014 [gentle vocal music] 1891 01:18:49,681 --> 01:18:51,683 - I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. 1892 01:18:51,727 --> 01:18:52,510 You just kiss. 1893 01:18:52,553 --> 01:18:53,337 [laughing] 1894 01:18:53,380 --> 01:18:54,599 I don't even wait. 1895 01:18:54,642 --> 01:18:56,035 And when you're a star, they let you do it. 1896 01:18:56,079 --> 01:18:56,906 You can do anything. 1897 01:18:56,949 --> 01:18:57,776 - Whatever you want. 1898 01:18:57,820 --> 01:18:59,299 - Grab 'em by the pussy. 1899 01:18:59,343 --> 01:19:00,257 [laughing] 1900 01:19:00,300 --> 01:19:01,301 You can do anything. 1901 01:19:03,826 --> 01:19:06,959 - My assumption from the bus is that he was done. 1902 01:19:07,003 --> 01:19:08,656 - A recording of Donald Trump, 1903 01:19:08,700 --> 01:19:11,050 made more than a decade ago, has surfaced. 1904 01:19:11,094 --> 01:19:13,923 It is lewd, it is vulgar, and we caution you, 1905 01:19:13,966 --> 01:19:16,012 you won't want young children to hear it. 1906 01:19:16,055 --> 01:19:17,317 - Every single Republican 1907 01:19:17,361 --> 01:19:19,319 is going to have to answer the question, 1908 01:19:19,363 --> 01:19:21,713 what did you do the day you saw the tape 1909 01:19:21,757 --> 01:19:24,629 of this man boasting about grabbing a woman's pussy? 1910 01:19:24,672 --> 01:19:25,456 Period! 1911 01:19:25,499 --> 01:19:26,631 - All right. We'll be- 1912 01:19:26,674 --> 01:19:27,458 Will you please stop saying that word? 1913 01:19:27,501 --> 01:19:28,285 My daughter is listening. 1914 01:19:28,328 --> 01:19:31,505 [overlapping shouts] 1915 01:19:31,549 --> 01:19:33,072 Don't tell me you're offended when I say pussy, 1916 01:19:33,116 --> 01:19:35,379 but you're not offended when Donald Trump says it 1917 01:19:35,422 --> 01:19:36,684 - Exactly. - I am very offended. 1918 01:19:36,728 --> 01:19:39,122 - What was your response when you first heard it? 1919 01:19:39,165 --> 01:19:40,514 - Horrible remarks. 1920 01:19:40,558 --> 01:19:42,560 They're remarks you certainly don't want to hear 1921 01:19:42,603 --> 01:19:44,997 from anyone, much less a presidential candidate. 1922 01:19:46,259 --> 01:19:51,395 - This was a powerful individual speaking freely and openly 1923 01:19:51,438 --> 01:19:53,789 about sexually predatory behavior. 1924 01:19:53,832 --> 01:19:55,573 - I saw it, and I said the election is over. 1925 01:19:55,616 --> 01:19:57,053 There's no way you come back from this. 1926 01:19:57,096 --> 01:19:58,445 Folks are gonna stay home. 1927 01:19:58,489 --> 01:20:01,100 - This race is over 1928 01:20:01,144 --> 01:20:03,929 Tomorrow morning, the money will dry up, 1929 01:20:03,973 --> 01:20:05,931 the Republicans will start to hide. 1930 01:20:05,975 --> 01:20:08,847 [anxious music] 1931 01:20:08,891 --> 01:20:10,240 - One top Republican said to me, 1932 01:20:10,283 --> 01:20:12,633 we're gonna to see the fastest cut and run 1933 01:20:12,677 --> 01:20:14,331 in American political history. 1934 01:20:14,374 --> 01:20:17,160 - I'm not sure of the Republican party's gonna survive. 1935 01:20:17,203 --> 01:20:20,337 - The fundraisers, the donors, they're all walking away. 1936 01:20:20,380 --> 01:20:24,254 - I'm out. I can no longer endorse Donald Donald Trump. 1937 01:20:24,297 --> 01:20:26,299 - I think Donald Trump should step aside, 1938 01:20:26,343 --> 01:20:28,214 which I've been asked many times today. 1939 01:20:28,258 --> 01:20:29,085 Yes, I do. 1940 01:20:30,651 --> 01:20:33,829 - I passed and a TV... 1941 01:20:33,872 --> 01:20:36,309 that literally said Trump's female campaign manager 1942 01:20:36,353 --> 01:20:37,702 expected to quit. 1943 01:20:37,745 --> 01:20:39,530 You know, she's got four young children. 1944 01:20:39,573 --> 01:20:43,316 She's a devout Catholic. There's no way she can stay. 1945 01:20:43,360 --> 01:20:45,405 - How she stood up there and defended him 1946 01:20:45,449 --> 01:20:47,451 when nobody else was willing to do so. 1947 01:20:47,494 --> 01:20:51,237 - This is suggesting sexual assault, and- 1948 01:20:51,281 --> 01:20:52,804 - That's a very unfortunate phrase, 1949 01:20:52,848 --> 01:20:54,284 and people really should stop using that. 1950 01:20:54,327 --> 01:20:55,633 - Why? 1951 01:20:55,676 --> 01:20:57,156 - Because I know him better, and I know better. 1952 01:20:57,200 --> 01:20:58,375 - But it's what he said. 1953 01:20:58,418 --> 01:20:59,680 - He did not say the word sexual assault. 1954 01:20:59,724 --> 01:21:00,812 - No. 1955 01:21:00,856 --> 01:21:02,422 - And I remember watching her, thinking, 1956 01:21:02,466 --> 01:21:04,903 A, that's a very courageous thing for a woman to be doing; 1957 01:21:04,947 --> 01:21:07,123 secondly, it was really helping him. 1958 01:21:07,166 --> 01:21:10,778 It managed to take the sting out of the tail. 1959 01:21:10,822 --> 01:21:14,043 - Nobody was saying, oh, it's nothing. 1960 01:21:14,086 --> 01:21:15,827 - [Reporter] This was locker room banter, 1961 01:21:15,871 --> 01:21:17,437 I apologize for it. 1962 01:21:18,874 --> 01:21:20,788 - Mr. Trump apologized for it. 1963 01:21:20,832 --> 01:21:22,268 He spoke about it. 1964 01:21:22,312 --> 01:21:24,270 - I've never said I'm a perfect person 1965 01:21:24,314 --> 01:21:26,794 nor pretended to be someone that I'm not. 1966 01:21:26,838 --> 01:21:30,233 I've said some foolish things, but there's a big difference 1967 01:21:30,276 --> 01:21:33,453 between the words and actions of other people. 1968 01:21:33,497 --> 01:21:36,065 Bill Clinton has actually abused women. 1969 01:21:36,108 --> 01:21:38,632 - And I felt it was really important 1970 01:21:38,676 --> 01:21:42,636 for us to talk about what he would do for you as president, 1971 01:21:42,680 --> 01:21:46,902 transport you away from this moment and into his presidency 1972 01:21:46,945 --> 01:21:48,860 and the promises he was making. 1973 01:21:48,904 --> 01:21:51,994 And I did famously say there's a big difference to voters, 1974 01:21:52,037 --> 01:21:53,299 and indeed all Americans, 1975 01:21:53,343 --> 01:21:56,955 between what offends you and what affects you, 1976 01:21:56,999 --> 01:21:58,478 and voters were making that choice. 1977 01:21:58,522 --> 01:22:00,219 - All men do it, and women do it. 1978 01:22:00,263 --> 01:22:01,829 - Honestly, you gotta stick with him. 1979 01:22:01,873 --> 01:22:03,048 Hillary's no better. 1980 01:22:03,092 --> 01:22:04,397 I mean, she's just lying through her teeth 1981 01:22:04,441 --> 01:22:05,964 left and right, over and over again. 1982 01:22:06,008 --> 01:22:08,662 Here's the thing. He's not running to be the Pope. 1983 01:22:08,706 --> 01:22:11,404 Look at the culture of our country. 1984 01:22:11,448 --> 01:22:14,973 - I don't care! Nobody cares! 1985 01:22:15,017 --> 01:22:18,150 - Hillary Clinton said that the women who make allegations 1986 01:22:18,194 --> 01:22:19,369 deserve to be heard, 1987 01:22:19,412 --> 01:22:21,458 except the ones who accused her husband! 1988 01:22:21,501 --> 01:22:23,112 - If I remember, October 7th this happens, 1989 01:22:23,155 --> 01:22:25,636 October 8th, we have a meeting in Trump Tower. 1990 01:22:25,679 --> 01:22:27,290 He knew people were going to have 1991 01:22:28,117 --> 01:22:29,292 some tough recommendations. 1992 01:22:29,335 --> 01:22:30,989 Reince Priebus told him to drop out, 1993 01:22:31,033 --> 01:22:35,254 drop out or stay in and lose by the most in history. 1994 01:22:35,298 --> 01:22:40,085 But, as is Donald J. Trump's custom, he did it his way. 1995 01:22:40,129 --> 01:22:43,306 There was no time for him to be inauthentic and phony. 1996 01:22:43,349 --> 01:22:44,916 And so I think people saw that, 1997 01:22:44,960 --> 01:22:48,659 and they probably thought he would fold in the next debate, 1998 01:22:48,702 --> 01:22:50,748 but it almost reinvigorated him. 1999 01:22:50,791 --> 01:22:51,967 And then of course, you know 2000 01:22:52,010 --> 01:22:53,664 the Clinton accusers were there as well. 2001 01:22:55,100 --> 01:22:57,102 - There you see in the middle of your screen, Donald Trump, 2002 01:22:57,146 --> 01:22:59,975 but from left to right, Kathleen Willey 2003 01:23:00,018 --> 01:23:02,499 Juanita Broaddrick, then Donald Trump in the middle. 2004 01:23:02,542 --> 01:23:06,068 These are women who have made very strong accusations 2005 01:23:06,111 --> 01:23:07,591 against Bill Clinton. 2006 01:23:08,940 --> 01:23:10,724 - It was several people's idea. 2007 01:23:11,638 --> 01:23:13,379 And... 2008 01:23:13,423 --> 01:23:17,253 it was an idea that had been floated for a while though. 2009 01:23:17,296 --> 01:23:18,994 Hillary Clinton, and really Mark Cuban, 2010 01:23:19,037 --> 01:23:21,344 made a big deal that he was gonna go sit in the front row 2011 01:23:21,387 --> 01:23:22,910 and torment Donald Trump. 2012 01:23:23,911 --> 01:23:26,131 And so it was like, well, we'll see you one Mark Cuban, 2013 01:23:26,175 --> 01:23:29,526 and we'll raise you four or five Clinton accusers. 2014 01:23:30,440 --> 01:23:31,571 [chuckles] 2015 01:23:31,615 --> 01:23:33,051 See how much fun I had? 2016 01:23:33,095 --> 01:23:34,531 [dramatic music] 2017 01:23:34,574 --> 01:23:38,578 What he's basically saying is, hey, go fuck yourself. 2018 01:23:38,622 --> 01:23:42,104 I'm not going to be attacked by you, 2019 01:23:42,147 --> 01:23:45,890 who's now all of a sudden the champion of women. 2020 01:23:45,933 --> 01:23:49,546 - If you look at a Bill Clinton, far worse. 2021 01:23:49,589 --> 01:23:51,765 Mine are words, and his was action. 2022 01:23:51,809 --> 01:23:54,333 - What he basically says is 2023 01:23:55,421 --> 01:24:00,252 both sides are guilty, let's muddy the contrast here, 2024 01:24:00,296 --> 01:24:02,037 even though Hillary Clinton is in some ways the victim, 2025 01:24:02,080 --> 01:24:04,039 obviously, of her husband's infidelity. 2026 01:24:04,082 --> 01:24:08,086 - So you can say any way you want to say it, 2027 01:24:08,130 --> 01:24:10,828 but Bill Clinton was abusive to women. 2028 01:24:10,871 --> 01:24:13,048 Hillary Clinton attacked those same women 2029 01:24:13,918 --> 01:24:15,876 and attacked them viciously. 2030 01:24:15,920 --> 01:24:17,400 Four of them are here tonight. 2031 01:24:17,443 --> 01:24:20,751 - He gave the right wing something to hold on to. 2032 01:24:20,794 --> 01:24:22,057 And they really- 2033 01:24:22,100 --> 01:24:23,710 The only thing uniting the Republican coalition 2034 01:24:23,754 --> 01:24:25,669 isn't Donald Trump; it's hatred of Hillary Clinton. 2035 01:24:25,712 --> 01:24:26,800 [intense music] 2036 01:24:26,844 --> 01:24:29,107 [faint chatter] 2037 01:24:29,151 --> 01:24:31,153 - And he does have a way, this is what many people 2038 01:24:31,196 --> 01:24:33,242 right of center in this country like about him, 2039 01:24:33,285 --> 01:24:36,810 of not letting Democrats off the hook 2040 01:24:36,854 --> 01:24:38,116 for their bad behavior. 2041 01:24:38,160 --> 01:24:39,248 I'd like to know, Anderson, 2042 01:24:39,291 --> 01:24:40,945 why aren't you bringing up the emails? 2043 01:24:40,988 --> 01:24:42,381 I'd like to know why aren't you 2044 01:24:42,425 --> 01:24:43,252 getting to the emails? - We brought up the emails. 2045 01:24:43,295 --> 01:24:44,166 - No, it hasn't. It hasn't. 2046 01:24:44,209 --> 01:24:46,124 And it hasn't been finished at all. 2047 01:24:46,168 --> 01:24:47,560 - Trump had a lot of luck, 2048 01:24:47,604 --> 01:24:50,781 in that the FBI was... 2049 01:24:50,824 --> 01:24:52,826 very vocal about their investigation 2050 01:24:52,870 --> 01:24:54,654 into Hillary's private server. 2051 01:24:54,698 --> 01:24:58,441 - There is evidence that they were extremely careless 2052 01:24:58,484 --> 01:25:00,443 in their handling of very sensitive, 2053 01:25:00,486 --> 01:25:02,140 highly classified information. 2054 01:25:02,184 --> 01:25:04,186 - [Reporter] Questions over a classified email. 2055 01:25:04,229 --> 01:25:05,448 - Email account. 2056 01:25:05,491 --> 01:25:07,145 - [Reporter] Emails, in one form or another, 2057 01:25:07,189 --> 01:25:10,148 they have been dogging Clinton throughout this campaign. 2058 01:25:10,192 --> 01:25:12,150 - Two years after she had left office 2059 01:25:12,194 --> 01:25:13,543 for it to become clear 2060 01:25:13,586 --> 01:25:15,545 that she had been using this private email 2061 01:25:15,588 --> 01:25:18,461 and that she had handed over 30,000 emails, 2062 01:25:18,504 --> 01:25:21,290 and that 31,000, almost 32,000, 2063 01:25:21,333 --> 01:25:24,162 had been deleted in this process. 2064 01:25:24,206 --> 01:25:29,428 - She deleted the emails... She has to go to jail 2065 01:25:29,472 --> 01:25:31,169 His narrative of "Crooked Hillary", 2066 01:25:31,213 --> 01:25:32,649 he had this giant data point 2067 01:25:32,692 --> 01:25:34,868 of this looming FBI investigation. 2068 01:25:34,912 --> 01:25:37,654 - I didn't think I'd say this, but I'm going to say it. 2069 01:25:37,697 --> 01:25:40,918 And I hate to say it, but if I win, 2070 01:25:40,961 --> 01:25:43,834 I am going to instruct my Attorney General 2071 01:25:44,878 --> 01:25:49,318 to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. 2072 01:25:49,361 --> 01:25:52,625 - It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament 2073 01:25:52,669 --> 01:25:56,542 of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country. 2074 01:25:56,586 --> 01:25:57,804 - Because you'd be in jail. 2075 01:25:57,848 --> 01:25:58,805 - [Moderator] Secretary Clinton- 2076 01:25:58,849 --> 01:26:00,981 [audience laughing and cheering] 2077 01:26:01,025 --> 01:26:03,897 - The fact that he was willing to say to her face 2078 01:26:03,941 --> 01:26:06,770 on national television, "You belong in jail," 2079 01:26:06,813 --> 01:26:09,294 is exactly what voters wanted to hear from him 2080 01:26:09,338 --> 01:26:11,470 to know that he was serious. 2081 01:26:11,514 --> 01:26:14,473 - [Crowd] Lock her up! Lock her up! 2082 01:26:14,517 --> 01:26:16,562 Lock her up! Lock her up! 2083 01:26:18,042 --> 01:26:19,522 - It's all right. 2084 01:26:19,565 --> 01:26:21,176 - We're gonna beat her on November 8th. That's better. 2085 01:26:21,219 --> 01:26:22,351 [audience cheering] 2086 01:26:22,394 --> 01:26:26,006 - We're gonna beat her on November 8th. 2087 01:26:26,050 --> 01:26:27,660 - Three weeks isn't typically too early 2088 01:26:27,704 --> 01:26:30,228 for the October surprise. 2089 01:26:30,272 --> 01:26:33,057 But with our current short attention spans, 2090 01:26:33,100 --> 01:26:35,929 courtesy of social media, Twitter and other things, 2091 01:26:35,973 --> 01:26:37,801 three weeks actually, I think, was too early. 2092 01:26:37,844 --> 01:26:40,195 Instead, there was time for the Comey letter to come out 2093 01:26:40,238 --> 01:26:43,067 and resuscitate all those concerns about Hillary Clinton. 2094 01:26:44,590 --> 01:26:46,897 - They're reopening the investigation 2095 01:26:46,940 --> 01:26:48,681 into crooked Hillary Clinton. 2096 01:26:50,422 --> 01:26:53,251 Crooked Hillary. She is crooked. 2097 01:26:53,295 --> 01:26:55,035 She is a crooked one. 2098 01:26:55,079 --> 01:26:58,300 - A new possible investigation by the FBI 2099 01:26:58,343 --> 01:27:00,171 into Hillary Clinton's emails. 2100 01:27:00,215 --> 01:27:02,260 - [Reporter] Just 11 days before the election, 2101 01:27:02,304 --> 01:27:04,393 the announcement creating shock waves. 2102 01:27:04,436 --> 01:27:07,134 The FBI reopening the investigation 2103 01:27:07,178 --> 01:27:09,702 into Hillary Clinton's email use. 2104 01:27:09,746 --> 01:27:11,965 - We are 11 days out 2105 01:27:12,009 --> 01:27:14,838 from perhaps the most important national election 2106 01:27:14,881 --> 01:27:16,143 of our lifetimes. 2107 01:27:16,187 --> 01:27:18,450 So the American people deserve to get 2108 01:27:18,494 --> 01:27:21,627 the full and complete facts immediately. 2109 01:27:21,671 --> 01:27:25,283 - The FBI situation significantly hurt 2110 01:27:25,327 --> 01:27:27,285 - Their outrage today certainly suggests 2111 01:27:27,329 --> 01:27:29,156 that they are nervous about this. 2112 01:27:29,200 --> 01:27:31,898 They are furious that this came 11 days before election day. 2113 01:27:31,942 --> 01:27:34,161 - Donald Trump, meanwhile, and his team 2114 01:27:34,205 --> 01:27:36,903 clearly reveling in this latest plot twist. 2115 01:27:36,947 --> 01:27:40,820 - The FBI, after discovering new email... 2116 01:27:42,953 --> 01:27:44,781 The news this morning is... 2117 01:27:44,824 --> 01:27:48,219 This is bigger than Watergate. 2118 01:27:48,263 --> 01:27:49,351 This is bigger. 2119 01:27:49,394 --> 01:27:51,222 - And if you look at the trend line, 2120 01:27:51,266 --> 01:27:54,747 Hillary had peaked shortly after the three debates, 2121 01:27:54,791 --> 01:27:57,794 which she was thought to have won by most observers. 2122 01:27:57,837 --> 01:28:00,623 And then there was a gradual tightening 2123 01:28:00,666 --> 01:28:03,016 all the way up until election day, 2124 01:28:03,060 --> 01:28:06,455 and the Comey letter in the waning days of the campaign 2125 01:28:06,498 --> 01:28:08,021 accelerated that. 2126 01:28:08,065 --> 01:28:11,155 The question, though, that a lot of Democrats had, 2127 01:28:11,198 --> 01:28:12,635 why was she ever in a position 2128 01:28:12,678 --> 01:28:14,463 where that could have been decisive? 2129 01:28:14,506 --> 01:28:16,465 To most people's minds, 2130 01:28:16,508 --> 01:28:20,207 to most of the conventional political class's thinking, 2131 01:28:20,251 --> 01:28:23,385 this is someone she should have been beating by 20 points. 2132 01:28:23,428 --> 01:28:25,604 This was a bigger issue that she had. 2133 01:28:25,648 --> 01:28:26,997 It was a bigger issue 2134 01:28:27,040 --> 01:28:29,652 that she was never able to put Trump away. 2135 01:28:32,219 --> 01:28:33,308 [jet whooshing] 2136 01:28:33,351 --> 01:28:34,439 - [Air Traffic Control] One, zero. 2137 01:28:34,483 --> 01:28:36,267 Runway two, three clear for takeoff. 2138 01:28:36,311 --> 01:28:38,443 Contact departure is 126.55 2139 01:28:38,487 --> 01:28:41,403 Have a nice flight, and thanks for making ATC great again. 2140 01:28:43,230 --> 01:28:45,058 - [Reporter] Tonight, Donald Trump, 2141 01:28:45,102 --> 01:28:47,017 with one last battleground blitz. 2142 01:28:47,060 --> 01:28:48,932 A whirlwind sprint to the finish. 2143 01:28:48,975 --> 01:28:50,847 Eight States in 24 hours 2144 01:28:51,804 --> 01:28:53,763 - Part of it was the reality of budget. 2145 01:28:53,806 --> 01:28:56,548 We were understaffed and under-resourced financially 2146 01:28:56,592 --> 01:28:57,767 and had to become creative. 2147 01:28:57,810 --> 01:29:00,335 [jet whooshing] 2148 01:29:00,378 --> 01:29:02,380 - You have one to make every dream 2149 01:29:02,424 --> 01:29:04,948 you ever dreamed for your country come true. 2150 01:29:06,515 --> 01:29:07,951 [crowd applauding] 2151 01:29:07,994 --> 01:29:11,476 Real change also means restoring honesty to government. 2152 01:29:11,520 --> 01:29:13,478 First thing you should do is get rid of Clinton. 2153 01:29:15,350 --> 01:29:18,135 - But our two greatest assets all through the campaign 2154 01:29:18,178 --> 01:29:19,832 were Donald J. Trump and Michael R. Pence. 2155 01:29:19,876 --> 01:29:21,138 And they were willing to go anywhere. 2156 01:29:21,181 --> 01:29:22,531 And they were willing to go to many stops a day 2157 01:29:22,574 --> 01:29:24,184 those last four weeks. 2158 01:29:24,228 --> 01:29:26,970 They were doing five, six, seven stops a day each. 2159 01:29:27,013 --> 01:29:29,276 - This is the last day of our campaign. 2160 01:29:29,320 --> 01:29:30,930 Who would have believed it? 2161 01:29:30,974 --> 01:29:34,412 They say it's the single greatest movement, 2162 01:29:34,456 --> 01:29:36,153 politically speaking... 2163 01:29:36,196 --> 01:29:37,546 [audience cheering] 2164 01:29:37,589 --> 01:29:39,286 in the history of this country. 2165 01:29:39,330 --> 01:29:40,679 Could you believe that? Can you believe it? 2166 01:29:40,723 --> 01:29:43,421 [audience cheering] 2167 01:29:43,465 --> 01:29:44,988 - Coming in, yes, we do see the lines, 2168 01:29:45,031 --> 01:29:46,642 we see the rallies, we see all the people. 2169 01:29:46,685 --> 01:29:48,252 But will they vote? 2170 01:29:48,295 --> 01:29:51,951 No, they waited in line in a tent for two days in the rain 2171 01:29:51,995 --> 01:29:54,606 just to have a seat in a 20,000 person arena, 2172 01:29:54,650 --> 01:29:57,348 but they're not going to show up on election day. 2173 01:29:57,392 --> 01:30:02,397 - So it's now officially Tuesday, November 8th. 2174 01:30:03,354 --> 01:30:06,357 [audience cheering] 2175 01:30:09,360 --> 01:30:11,797 Did you ever think you'd be hearing a major speech 2176 01:30:11,841 --> 01:30:14,365 at around close to one o'clock in the morning? 2177 01:30:14,409 --> 01:30:15,627 Are we crazy? 2178 01:30:15,671 --> 01:30:16,454 [audience cheering] 2179 01:30:16,498 --> 01:30:18,325 And we don't need... 2180 01:30:18,369 --> 01:30:22,329 We don't need Jay-Z or Beyonce. 2181 01:30:22,373 --> 01:30:26,769 We don't need Jon Bon Jovi. 2182 01:30:26,812 --> 01:30:29,032 We don't need Lady Gaga. 2183 01:30:31,556 --> 01:30:36,561 All we need is great ideas to make America great again. 2184 01:30:37,127 --> 01:30:39,129 That's all we need. That's all we need. 2185 01:30:39,172 --> 01:30:42,175 [audience cheering] 2186 01:30:46,179 --> 01:30:48,225 - Hillary's closing message was very much 2187 01:30:48,268 --> 01:30:51,968 about Trump's unfitness for the presidency. 2188 01:30:52,011 --> 01:30:54,449 She thought she could sway a lot of Republican-leaning, 2189 01:30:54,492 --> 01:30:57,626 suburban, white, college educated women 2190 01:30:57,669 --> 01:31:01,281 by pointing out how how offensive Trump was 2191 01:31:01,325 --> 01:31:02,500 to so many people. 2192 01:31:02,544 --> 01:31:06,417 - There is a clear choice in this election. 2193 01:31:07,636 --> 01:31:12,771 A choice between division or unity. 2194 01:31:12,815 --> 01:31:16,209 Between strong, steady leadership 2195 01:31:16,253 --> 01:31:20,953 or a loose cannon who could put everything at risk. 2196 01:31:20,997 --> 01:31:22,259 [booing] 2197 01:31:22,302 --> 01:31:25,523 Because none of us, none of us want to wake up 2198 01:31:25,567 --> 01:31:30,267 on Wednesday morning and wish we had done more. 2199 01:31:30,310 --> 01:31:32,617 [anxious music] 2200 01:31:32,661 --> 01:31:35,968 I think we can all agree it's been a long campaign. 2201 01:31:36,012 --> 01:31:38,971 But tomorrow, you get to pick our next president. 2202 01:31:39,015 --> 01:31:41,713 - Her campaign is not cocky, but confident. 2203 01:31:41,757 --> 01:31:44,934 They believe that victory is well within their grasp. 2204 01:31:44,977 --> 01:31:47,545 She is holding her election night watch party 2205 01:31:47,589 --> 01:31:49,765 in an atrium that is conveniently 2206 01:31:49,808 --> 01:31:54,073 and symbolically equipped, Gayle, with a glass ceiling. 2207 01:31:54,117 --> 01:31:57,381 - We have the presidency at about 89% 2208 01:31:57,424 --> 01:31:59,209 For Hillary Clinton. 2209 01:31:59,252 --> 01:32:00,819 - I'm calling it. 2210 01:32:00,863 --> 01:32:04,301 Hillary Clinton, the winner of this presidential election. 2211 01:32:04,344 --> 01:32:06,259 - The president's race is over. 2212 01:32:06,303 --> 01:32:08,348 - Let's make history together. 2213 01:32:08,392 --> 01:32:10,742 I'm Hillary Clinton and, one last time, 2214 01:32:10,786 --> 01:32:12,570 I approve this message. 2215 01:32:17,749 --> 01:32:21,274 - The day before the election I got a call, off the record, 2216 01:32:21,318 --> 01:32:22,667 from senior members of the campaign 2217 01:32:22,711 --> 01:32:24,364 who were affiliated with the RNC. 2218 01:32:24,408 --> 01:32:26,802 And they were calling a bunch of editors in chief, 2219 01:32:26,845 --> 01:32:28,804 and they're saying, "Look, we're gonna lose tomorrow, 2220 01:32:28,847 --> 01:32:30,849 but we want you to know it's not our fault. 2221 01:32:30,893 --> 01:32:33,504 We've got the greatest data operation in human history." 2222 01:32:33,548 --> 01:32:35,506 And I said, "Okay, well, how bad do you think it's gonna be? 2223 01:32:35,550 --> 01:32:36,986 You think you're gonna feel... 2224 01:32:37,029 --> 01:32:39,336 You think you're gonna keep the Senate?" 2225 01:32:39,379 --> 01:32:40,946 Long beat. 2226 01:32:40,990 --> 01:32:43,122 And the operative replied, "We feel good about the House." 2227 01:32:43,166 --> 01:32:46,691 [intense electronic music] 2228 01:32:59,617 --> 01:33:02,359 [crowd cheering] 2229 01:33:10,846 --> 01:33:12,848 - She wins her state of Illinois, 2230 01:33:12,891 --> 01:33:16,155 New Jersey, and Massachusetts, another 11 electoral votes, 2231 01:33:16,199 --> 01:33:19,637 Maryland, carries the state of Rhode Island, Delaware. 2232 01:33:19,681 --> 01:33:22,205 - Donald Trump has won the state of Ohio. 2233 01:33:22,248 --> 01:33:23,946 No Republican has ever won the White House 2234 01:33:23,989 --> 01:33:25,774 without winning Ohio. 2235 01:33:25,817 --> 01:33:27,950 - And we are about to make a major call. 2236 01:33:27,993 --> 01:33:30,779 Donald Trump has won the state of North Carolina. 2237 01:33:30,822 --> 01:33:33,085 This is exactly what he needed to do. 2238 01:33:34,347 --> 01:33:35,348 - Anderson, this night is turning out 2239 01:33:35,392 --> 01:33:37,612 to be a real nail-biter. 2240 01:33:37,655 --> 01:33:40,310 [anxious music] 2241 01:33:41,703 --> 01:33:43,356 And CNN projects Donald Trump 2242 01:33:43,400 --> 01:33:45,663 will carry the state of Florida. 2243 01:33:45,707 --> 01:33:48,492 [crowd groaning] 2244 01:33:49,798 --> 01:33:51,147 - I wouldn't call anything encouraging 2245 01:33:51,190 --> 01:33:52,278 for Hillary Clinton at the moment, 2246 01:33:52,322 --> 01:33:54,237 to be honest with you, my friend. 2247 01:33:54,280 --> 01:33:55,673 - He will win Wisconsin 2248 01:33:55,717 --> 01:33:57,370 with its 10 electoral votes. 2249 01:33:57,414 --> 01:33:59,329 He's cracked the so-called blue wall 2250 01:33:59,372 --> 01:34:01,766 that Hillary Clinton that tried to create. 2251 01:34:01,810 --> 01:34:03,420 [somber music] 2252 01:34:03,463 --> 01:34:05,640 - [Reporter] Donald Trump has won the state of Pennsylvania. 2253 01:34:05,683 --> 01:34:08,773 - [Reporter] That is the race, frankly. 2254 01:34:08,817 --> 01:34:11,297 There is no path forward for Hillary Clinton. 2255 01:34:13,735 --> 01:34:16,476 [crowd cheering] 2256 01:34:19,436 --> 01:34:22,047 - Everybody should head home. 2257 01:34:22,091 --> 01:34:23,527 You should get some sleep. 2258 01:34:24,702 --> 01:34:28,314 - Hillary Clinton has called Donald Trump 2259 01:34:28,358 --> 01:34:29,664 to concede the race. 2260 01:34:33,668 --> 01:34:35,800 - [Reporter] Donald Trump wins the presidency. 2261 01:34:35,844 --> 01:34:38,281 [grim music] 2262 01:34:55,428 --> 01:34:59,911 - What happened here is the more competent 2263 01:34:59,955 --> 01:35:04,263 and qualified candidate, Secretary Clinton, 2264 01:35:04,307 --> 01:35:07,092 got 3 million more votes 2265 01:35:07,136 --> 01:35:09,704 across the country than Donald Trump got. 2266 01:35:09,747 --> 01:35:11,270 - Look, I don't think- 2267 01:35:11,314 --> 01:35:14,665 You can't argue that much with the Clinton sales pitch. 2268 01:35:14,709 --> 01:35:16,841 You could argue could have been better, 2269 01:35:16,885 --> 01:35:19,409 but in the end they won the popular vote. 2270 01:35:19,452 --> 01:35:21,106 This wasn't a race that they lost 2271 01:35:21,150 --> 01:35:23,805 because they didn't have a message 2272 01:35:23,848 --> 01:35:24,936 that could win enough votes. 2273 01:35:24,980 --> 01:35:26,546 - And it wasn't like a nail-biter. 2274 01:35:26,590 --> 01:35:30,942 I mean, he lost by 3 million votes. 2275 01:35:30,986 --> 01:35:34,119 That is a larger number than Nixon beat Humphrey. 2276 01:35:34,163 --> 01:35:36,556 It's a larger number than Kennedy beat Nixon. 2277 01:35:36,600 --> 01:35:39,951 That is a significant victory for Hillary. 2278 01:35:39,995 --> 01:35:42,171 - Well, hold on a second. That's not the race. 2279 01:35:42,214 --> 01:35:44,651 The race is to zig and zag through the country 2280 01:35:44,695 --> 01:35:46,653 and beat the person in the electoral college. 2281 01:35:46,697 --> 01:35:48,481 And he did that, and he beat her in places 2282 01:35:48,525 --> 01:35:50,788 where Republicans typically don't win. 2283 01:35:50,832 --> 01:35:53,791 - They took Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania 2284 01:35:53,835 --> 01:35:56,533 and places like that for granted, 2285 01:35:56,576 --> 01:35:58,274 that they were gonna to win them 2286 01:35:58,317 --> 01:36:00,711 without having to do a whole lot, 2287 01:36:00,755 --> 01:36:02,844 without having to put a big get out the vote effort 2288 01:36:02,887 --> 01:36:04,367 on the ground. 2289 01:36:04,410 --> 01:36:07,196 - She refused to spend any money for grassroots turnout 2290 01:36:07,239 --> 01:36:11,548 in Michigan, in Indiana, in Pennsylvania, 2291 01:36:11,591 --> 01:36:14,681 because her data dummy pollsters told her 2292 01:36:14,725 --> 01:36:16,901 she had it in the bag based on polling. 2293 01:36:16,945 --> 01:36:20,383 - There's gonna be an incredible, long, deep, 2294 01:36:20,426 --> 01:36:23,647 rigorous autopsy done on the polling 2295 01:36:23,690 --> 01:36:25,605 that pervaded this campaign. 2296 01:36:25,649 --> 01:36:28,217 Public polling and the Clinton campaign zone data, 2297 01:36:28,260 --> 01:36:30,262 which obviously was wrong in a lot of ways. 2298 01:36:30,306 --> 01:36:34,571 - The big falsehood was that her ground game was good. 2299 01:36:34,614 --> 01:36:36,399 It actually wasn't. 2300 01:36:36,442 --> 01:36:38,967 And she never went to Wisconsin, 2301 01:36:39,010 --> 01:36:40,446 which is something we all should have noticed 2302 01:36:40,490 --> 01:36:41,491 in retrospect. 2303 01:36:41,534 --> 01:36:43,058 - I think a big swing in Wisconsin 2304 01:36:43,101 --> 01:36:45,277 was Hillary never coming here. 2305 01:36:45,321 --> 01:36:46,931 I think she just assumed that Wisconsin 2306 01:36:46,975 --> 01:36:48,193 was gonna go her way, 2307 01:36:48,237 --> 01:36:49,804 and that didn't work out too well for her. 2308 01:36:49,847 --> 01:36:53,111 - This is a state that Hillary Clinton hasn't even visited 2309 01:36:53,155 --> 01:36:57,289 since the Democratic Convention over the summer. 2310 01:36:57,333 --> 01:36:58,725 - Wisconsin's always tight, 2311 01:36:58,769 --> 01:37:01,119 and what happens in the end is Democrats always win. 2312 01:37:01,163 --> 01:37:02,860 But that was before Governor Walker 2313 01:37:02,904 --> 01:37:04,340 had instituted a series of reforms 2314 01:37:04,383 --> 01:37:05,689 that made the unions less powerful. 2315 01:37:05,732 --> 01:37:08,823 President Obama would have gone to Wisconsin. 2316 01:37:08,866 --> 01:37:13,088 By all kinds of reports, he wanted to go to Wisconsin, 2317 01:37:13,131 --> 01:37:16,352 but the campaign told him, and his people, 2318 01:37:16,395 --> 01:37:17,919 that there's no reason to go there. 2319 01:37:17,962 --> 01:37:19,050 - Do you think it would have made a difference 2320 01:37:19,094 --> 01:37:20,008 if she'd come on your show? 2321 01:37:20,051 --> 01:37:20,878 - Hillary? 2322 01:37:20,922 --> 01:37:21,705 - Yes 2323 01:37:21,748 --> 01:37:23,185 - I do 2324 01:37:23,228 --> 01:37:25,187 It's 70,000 votes, and in those states I am popular, 2325 01:37:25,230 --> 01:37:28,059 particularly Pennsylvania, for example 2326 01:37:28,103 --> 01:37:30,322 - If you don't catch the signal 2327 01:37:30,366 --> 01:37:32,672 that you've got a big problem in the industrial heartland 2328 01:37:32,716 --> 01:37:35,545 when you can't when your own primary in Michigan, 2329 01:37:35,588 --> 01:37:37,547 if you can't respond to that on the ground 2330 01:37:37,590 --> 01:37:40,811 when people are begging for help, you're gonna get beat. 2331 01:37:40,855 --> 01:37:43,988 At the end of the day, it is a ground operation 2332 01:37:44,032 --> 01:37:45,816 that was not funded in the heartland 2333 01:37:45,860 --> 01:37:47,252 that cost this campaign. 2334 01:37:47,296 --> 01:37:50,255 It was political malpractice of the highest order. 2335 01:37:50,299 --> 01:37:52,649 Donald Trump saw that hole in her plan, 2336 01:37:52,692 --> 01:37:54,607 and he went to the heartland, and he beat her there. 2337 01:37:54,651 --> 01:37:55,478 It's her fault. 2338 01:37:57,697 --> 01:38:01,310 - Our campaign was never about one person 2339 01:38:01,353 --> 01:38:03,660 or even one election. 2340 01:38:03,703 --> 01:38:05,923 It was about the country we love 2341 01:38:05,967 --> 01:38:08,012 and about building an America 2342 01:38:08,056 --> 01:38:11,450 that's hopeful, inclusive, and big hearted. 2343 01:38:11,494 --> 01:38:14,366 [crowd applauding] 2344 01:38:15,933 --> 01:38:20,198 - At some point, we, the voters... 2345 01:38:20,242 --> 01:38:23,158 we have to take responsibility for this. 2346 01:38:24,637 --> 01:38:27,031 And if, yes, it's been true for a while, 2347 01:38:27,075 --> 01:38:30,905 not just in 2016, but it's been true for a while, 2348 01:38:30,948 --> 01:38:32,297 and you put it very well, 2349 01:38:32,341 --> 01:38:35,039 that voters are being treated like an audience. 2350 01:38:35,083 --> 01:38:35,953 And... 2351 01:38:37,302 --> 01:38:41,959 as long as we keep responding as an audience... 2352 01:38:43,265 --> 01:38:47,791 that's how they're gonna try to win elections. 2353 01:38:47,834 --> 01:38:50,446 The moment we, the voters, 2354 01:38:50,489 --> 01:38:54,232 insist on a higher level of debate, 2355 01:38:54,276 --> 01:38:55,842 that's when we'll get one 2356 01:38:55,886 --> 01:38:57,235 - [Reporter] Clearly we have missed something 2357 01:38:57,279 --> 01:38:58,323 on the polling side. 2358 01:38:58,367 --> 01:39:00,717 How did polling get this so wrong? 2359 01:39:00,760 --> 01:39:02,632 - [Reporter] A lot of those people were not willing 2360 01:39:02,675 --> 01:39:05,722 to say to a pollster they were willing to vote for him. 2361 01:39:05,765 --> 01:39:07,071 - Are they not talking to us? 2362 01:39:07,115 --> 01:39:09,030 Are they not interested in doing surveys? 2363 01:39:09,073 --> 01:39:13,469 - That term "hidden Trump voter", "undercover Trump voter" 2364 01:39:13,512 --> 01:39:16,211 was met with international derision and ridicule. 2365 01:39:16,254 --> 01:39:17,864 Thank you, everyone. 2366 01:39:17,908 --> 01:39:20,998 And they said on election day, they'll still be hidden. 2367 01:39:21,042 --> 01:39:24,828 Well, that was to explain not that people were embarrassed 2368 01:39:24,871 --> 01:39:26,351 to say they're voting for Donald Trump, 2369 01:39:26,395 --> 01:39:28,788 but they weren't supposed to be. 2370 01:39:28,832 --> 01:39:29,964 [crowd cheering] 2371 01:39:30,007 --> 01:39:31,443 They're women who are supposed to vote 2372 01:39:31,487 --> 01:39:33,445 for the first woman President of the United States. 2373 01:39:33,489 --> 01:39:35,230 They're hispanics who were supposed to not like 2374 01:39:35,273 --> 01:39:36,753 his immigration policy. 2375 01:39:36,796 --> 01:39:38,798 They're young who were supposed to say 2376 01:39:38,842 --> 01:39:40,278 the Democrats are woke. 2377 01:39:40,322 --> 01:39:43,238 If you are a union worker in any of these states 2378 01:39:43,281 --> 01:39:44,804 we were talking about earlier, 2379 01:39:44,848 --> 01:39:47,285 how in the world can you vote for Donald Trump? 2380 01:39:47,329 --> 01:39:48,939 And so they just don't want to argue 2381 01:39:48,983 --> 01:39:50,506 with people in their circle of life, 2382 01:39:50,549 --> 01:39:53,030 their family, their friends or their colleagues anymore. 2383 01:39:53,074 --> 01:39:54,423 But they came out for him. 2384 01:39:54,466 --> 01:39:57,904 - I think the idea that it's only the dumb people 2385 01:39:57,948 --> 01:40:01,821 who would fall for Trump doesn't stand up to science, 2386 01:40:01,865 --> 01:40:05,825 because there are plenty of brilliant Republicans 2387 01:40:05,869 --> 01:40:07,044 who are pro-Trump. 2388 01:40:07,088 --> 01:40:08,437 - A lot of rich guys voted for him, too, 2389 01:40:08,480 --> 01:40:09,655 in case you didn't know. 2390 01:40:09,699 --> 01:40:11,135 They closed the curtain. 2391 01:40:11,179 --> 01:40:13,920 They said, okay, can't tell anybody. 2392 01:40:13,964 --> 01:40:14,834 Trump. 2393 01:40:14,878 --> 01:40:15,966 And then they open the curtain. 2394 01:40:17,315 --> 01:40:19,578 - He tapped into a lot of frustration 2395 01:40:19,622 --> 01:40:21,363 and people who, at the last minute, just said, 2396 01:40:21,406 --> 01:40:24,148 fuck it, let's take that a risk. 2397 01:40:24,192 --> 01:40:27,673 [crowd cheering] 2398 01:40:27,717 --> 01:40:32,809 - There was this divided, fragmented nation, 2399 01:40:32,852 --> 01:40:34,898 and really an understanding gap 2400 01:40:34,941 --> 01:40:36,813 that we didn't even have a sense 2401 01:40:36,856 --> 01:40:38,119 of what was necessarily going on 2402 01:40:38,162 --> 01:40:40,295 on the other side of the communication divide. 2403 01:40:40,338 --> 01:40:41,644 And within that "we" 2404 01:40:41,687 --> 01:40:43,994 I would include a lot of our journalists. 2405 01:40:44,038 --> 01:40:46,649 - Obviously we missed it, right? 2406 01:40:46,692 --> 01:40:47,693 But a lot of people missed it. 2407 01:40:47,737 --> 01:40:48,825 - [Reporter] Everybody missed it. 2408 01:40:48,868 --> 01:40:50,131 Just about everybody missed it. 2409 01:40:50,174 --> 01:40:52,089 - I don't think that the mainstream media 2410 01:40:52,133 --> 01:40:54,048 was lying about what was going to happen. 2411 01:40:54,091 --> 01:40:58,139 I think we missed the overarching story, 2412 01:40:58,182 --> 01:41:00,271 - And see so many in the American media today. 2413 01:41:00,315 --> 01:41:02,447 And in the last, I'd say 72 hours 2414 01:41:02,491 --> 01:41:04,101 having the self-reflection 2415 01:41:04,145 --> 01:41:06,103 and telling themselves they need to look in the mirror, 2416 01:41:06,147 --> 01:41:09,976 that this was not a shock to millions of Americans, 2417 01:41:10,020 --> 01:41:12,631 but it was a shock in the newsrooms at 2418 01:41:12,675 --> 01:41:14,633 at The New York Times, at CNN. 2419 01:41:14,677 --> 01:41:18,420 - I actually believe that what we watched happen 2420 01:41:18,463 --> 01:41:21,466 in the 2016 election was an example 2421 01:41:21,510 --> 01:41:25,296 of this very new set of affordances, if you will, 2422 01:41:25,340 --> 01:41:28,082 of the media system. 2423 01:41:28,125 --> 01:41:30,823 The gatekeepers of the old media system 2424 01:41:30,867 --> 01:41:32,651 no longer are the gatekeepers. 2425 01:41:32,695 --> 01:41:34,914 Once upon a time, we had audience members 2426 01:41:34,958 --> 01:41:37,265 who were each sitting in their own living rooms, 2427 01:41:37,308 --> 01:41:40,616 watching this television broadcast, 2428 01:41:40,659 --> 01:41:43,140 and maybe shouting back at the TV. 2429 01:41:43,184 --> 01:41:44,620 That landscape has completely changed, 2430 01:41:44,663 --> 01:41:46,535 because now we have audience members 2431 01:41:46,578 --> 01:41:47,840 who are all on the internet, 2432 01:41:47,884 --> 01:41:50,016 all on different social media platforms, 2433 01:41:50,060 --> 01:41:51,757 connected with one another... 2434 01:41:52,715 --> 01:41:54,282 and talking with each other 2435 01:41:54,325 --> 01:41:56,501 about new political possibilities. 2436 01:41:56,545 --> 01:41:59,939 When we're now connected to more of our friends, 2437 01:41:59,983 --> 01:42:02,812 and we have the ability to self-select 2438 01:42:02,855 --> 01:42:07,860 and tune into networks of people who think like we do. 2439 01:42:09,993 --> 01:42:12,474 - [Reporter] Facebook is admitting Russia agents 2440 01:42:12,517 --> 01:42:15,172 bought thousands of ads during the election. 2441 01:42:15,216 --> 01:42:16,521 Now the social media giant says 2442 01:42:16,565 --> 01:42:18,480 it will turn over those ads to Congress. 2443 01:42:18,523 --> 01:42:20,264 - And now you throw this into the mix, 2444 01:42:20,308 --> 01:42:22,266 where it really sort of raises questions, again, 2445 01:42:22,310 --> 01:42:24,181 about the legitimacy of his election. 2446 01:42:24,225 --> 01:42:27,141 - The clear evidence that Russia tried to influence 2447 01:42:27,184 --> 01:42:30,100 the outcome of the election is unprecedented. 2448 01:42:30,144 --> 01:42:32,798 They were clearly trying to sow the seeds of confusion 2449 01:42:32,842 --> 01:42:34,626 and discord, play to identity politics. 2450 01:42:34,670 --> 01:42:37,803 But they had a favored candidate. That's 2451 01:42:37,847 --> 01:42:41,155 - I do not believe in a giant global conspiracy 2452 01:42:41,198 --> 01:42:42,765 whereby the Trump campaign, 2453 01:42:42,808 --> 01:42:44,636 which literally didn't even know it was winning 2454 01:42:44,680 --> 01:42:47,465 at like eight o'clock that night... 2455 01:42:48,727 --> 01:42:51,817 orchestrated this in order to beat Hillary Clinton. 2456 01:42:51,861 --> 01:42:53,123 - But what I definitely think happened 2457 01:42:53,167 --> 01:42:54,690 is that the Russians were interfering 2458 01:42:54,733 --> 01:42:56,300 as much as they could do 2459 01:42:56,344 --> 01:42:59,129 in the mindsets of American people, 2460 01:42:59,173 --> 01:43:00,739 through Facebook through WikiLeaks, 2461 01:43:00,783 --> 01:43:02,219 through all sorts of stuff. 2462 01:43:02,263 --> 01:43:05,962 The Russians were everywhere, trying to create noise 2463 01:43:06,005 --> 01:43:09,226 around probably Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. 2464 01:43:09,270 --> 01:43:13,056 Was Donald Trump responsible for that activity? No. 2465 01:43:13,099 --> 01:43:15,232 Did he mind it? I doubt it. 2466 01:43:15,276 --> 01:43:17,974 You know, all's fair in love and election war. 2467 01:43:18,017 --> 01:43:20,237 But is the central charge true 2468 01:43:20,281 --> 01:43:22,108 that Donald Trump was only there 2469 01:43:22,152 --> 01:43:23,893 because of Russian interference? 2470 01:43:23,936 --> 01:43:25,373 I just don't buy that at all. 2471 01:43:29,203 --> 01:43:31,117 - [Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen, the president-elect 2472 01:43:31,161 --> 01:43:33,511 of the United States, Donald John Trump. 2473 01:43:34,817 --> 01:43:37,820 [audience cheering] 2474 01:43:40,953 --> 01:43:45,784 - I think America always gets the president it deserves. 2475 01:43:45,828 --> 01:43:48,831 This is an age distorted by greed, 2476 01:43:48,874 --> 01:43:53,836 distorted by inequality, distorted by social media. 2477 01:43:53,879 --> 01:43:56,795 Why wouldn't we be offered the chance 2478 01:43:56,839 --> 01:44:01,844 to elect a president whose main skill is self-promotion? 2479 01:44:02,540 --> 01:44:04,803 That makes him the ultimate American. 2480 01:44:06,196 --> 01:44:08,242 - A guy like Trump was inevitable. 2481 01:44:08,285 --> 01:44:10,766 You're calling it the accidental presidency. 2482 01:44:10,809 --> 01:44:14,030 It may be an accident that Trump is the president, 2483 01:44:14,073 --> 01:44:17,990 but it is not an accident that someone well-known, 2484 01:44:18,034 --> 01:44:21,124 outside of politics would suddenly rise. 2485 01:44:22,691 --> 01:44:24,649 - We can no longer assume that what we've known 2486 01:44:24,693 --> 01:44:27,913 for the last 50 years has any relevance or resonance. 2487 01:44:27,957 --> 01:44:31,308 We can't tell that anymore, because the public has changed. 2488 01:44:31,352 --> 01:44:32,614 Politics has changed. 2489 01:44:32,657 --> 01:44:33,919 - You can't go back now. 2490 01:44:33,963 --> 01:44:37,140 You can't have boring, robotic leaders anymore. 2491 01:44:37,183 --> 01:44:39,925 The rise of populism around the world, 2492 01:44:39,969 --> 01:44:41,971 driven a lot by people like Donald Trump, 2493 01:44:42,014 --> 01:44:44,365 is because people have had a reaction, I think, 2494 01:44:44,408 --> 01:44:46,410 to robotic politics. 2495 01:44:46,454 --> 01:44:48,499 And I think, in America, Trump tapped into 2496 01:44:48,543 --> 01:44:50,545 the same sentiment about Washington 2497 01:44:50,588 --> 01:44:52,982 and said that Washington is broken, 2498 01:44:53,025 --> 01:44:55,593 it's paralyzed, it's not working. 2499 01:44:56,855 --> 01:45:00,294 - He offered, as the demagogue does, 2500 01:45:00,337 --> 01:45:04,994 easy answers to complex questions. 2501 01:45:05,037 --> 01:45:09,825 We live in this era where we're being disrupted... 2502 01:45:10,826 --> 01:45:15,831 by globalization, by technology revolution, by automation. 2503 01:45:16,353 --> 01:45:18,181 How does Donald Trump win? 2504 01:45:19,400 --> 01:45:20,401 How does he not win? 2505 01:45:21,706 --> 01:45:23,229 - We're still talking about the 2016 election 2506 01:45:23,273 --> 01:45:24,927 because it's still the case 2507 01:45:24,970 --> 01:45:26,145 that no one has wrapped their head around it. 2508 01:45:26,189 --> 01:45:27,756 And the president is no exception. 2509 01:45:27,799 --> 01:45:30,715 He won't shut up about the 2016 election either. 2510 01:45:30,759 --> 01:45:33,370 We're still trying to figure out what the heck happened 2511 01:45:33,414 --> 01:45:34,763 and whether it's a fluke. 2512 01:45:34,806 --> 01:45:36,634 To me, that's why we keep covering politics, 2513 01:45:36,678 --> 01:45:37,809 because we don't know. 2514 01:45:38,680 --> 01:45:39,637 What I'm trying to figure out, 2515 01:45:39,681 --> 01:45:42,161 what I'm trying to cover is... 2516 01:45:42,205 --> 01:45:44,468 has our political framework changed? 2517 01:45:44,512 --> 01:45:45,426 Has it been destroyed? 2518 01:45:45,469 --> 01:45:48,559 Has Trump realigned the way that 2519 01:45:48,603 --> 01:45:50,518 the American electorate works? 2520 01:45:50,561 --> 01:45:52,563 Or was it just a really weird fluke 2521 01:45:52,607 --> 01:45:54,783 that took advantage of the imbalance 2522 01:45:54,826 --> 01:45:57,351 between the popular vote and the electoral college, 2523 01:45:57,394 --> 01:45:59,440 the Russians, Jim Comey 2524 01:45:59,483 --> 01:46:02,617 a fractured Republican field, a divided Republican party? 2525 01:46:02,660 --> 01:46:05,794 Was there just this really specific set of circumstances 2526 01:46:05,837 --> 01:46:08,971 that allowed something really unusual to happen? 2527 01:46:09,014 --> 01:46:11,408 [soft music] 2528 01:46:12,496 --> 01:46:14,977 - We're going to face many challenges. 2529 01:46:15,020 --> 01:46:20,112 But this is truly an exciting time to be alive. 2530 01:46:20,156 --> 01:46:21,940 [audience cheering] 2531 01:46:21,984 --> 01:46:25,248 The script is not yet written. 2532 01:46:25,291 --> 01:46:29,426 We do not know what the page will read tomorrow. 2533 01:46:29,470 --> 01:46:32,429 But for the first time in a long, long time, 2534 01:46:32,473 --> 01:46:36,128 what we do know is that the pages 2535 01:46:36,172 --> 01:46:41,307 will be authored by each and every one of you, and you. 2536 01:46:41,351 --> 01:46:44,354 [audience cheering] 2537 01:46:46,661 --> 01:46:50,491 [intriguing electronic music]