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n't diagnose his mental health. We're not doing that. So this is not a diagnosis. I'm telling you my impression. If I saw that somebody like him owned a firearm I would start to think red flag. Seriously. That's not a joke. When he talks he looks mentally disturbed to me. To me he looks mentally disturbed. Now that could be a result of his service, right? I can't imagine that you could go through…

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the story. The last thing that Kamala Harris would do is bring in a vice president who becomes the main story. That's not going to happen. No way that's going to happen. So it's got to be somebody like Swalwell who you know he's not going to run for president and get very far. Yeah somebody like that. Pence. Somebody says Pence. Pence would be a good vice president.

So if she has to pick somebody weak that gives us the very real possibility that we end up with that weak president because Kamala Harris — you know the reason we have vice presidents is you need a spare. And although Kamala seems young and healthy anything could happen and we'd end up with Jesse Smollett as vice president.

I think Newsom is way more of a risk to beat Trump than you do. What do you think? Newsom versus Trump straight up for president. Who wins? Who wins? Yeah I think it's a toss-up. Newsom could beat him. He could. Newsom could beat him. I hate to say it. Yeah it doesn't matter what the polls say today. Once it becomes a Democrat versus a Republican it once again it becomes anybody but Trump. Newsom just has to be anybody but Trump. That's all it takes. It just has to be anybody but Trump. It worked the last time. It'll work again. And imagine somebody who's anybody but Trump but not mentally incompetent, right? No matter what you say of him he is capable. He's capable. You can't take that away from him. He's capable. I think he could win. I think he could. Does anybody agree with me? Do I have anybody who agrees with me? Okay I do have some agreements. Because all you have to do is get the Democrats on the same side. Newsom has one job. One job to get Democrats all voting on the same side. I think that's easy. Governor of California. You know more progressive but also you know reasonably not crazy. I don't know. I think he gets all the Democrats and then that's all you need. There are more Democrats than Republicans. That's all you need. And there'll still be people who say you know at least he looks sane. You know I don't like this Trump guy so I'm going to go for a Democrat. At least he's not crazy. Because there are a lot of people who didn't maybe love Trump but there was no way they were going to vote for Hillary Clinton. You know Newsom has his own critics but correct me if I'm wrong.

Let's do this on a scale of one to ten. A scale of one to ten Republicans would dislike Hillary Clinton ten. So far are you with me that nobody would be hated more than her? Probably sh

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e's probably a ten. What would Newsom be on the same scale of one to ten? It's more like you don't prefer him isn't it? It's different. Newsom is just somebody you don't prefer. Hillary is somebody you want to have a terrible accident. I take that back. You don't want that. You don't want anybody to be hurt. But the point is that people have a much worse opinion of Hillary than they do of Newsom.…

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