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y. You're going to say Scott, they recruit the smartest people in the world and the best people in their field. That's true. But then you find out they're all lax about this internet security. And what can I conclude? Because it's not like you can't do it. It's not like it's not easy. How do I know internet security is easy? 50 election people. Listen to me. All 50 election systems pristine, unhac…

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em is the easiest thing to fake. What could be easier to fake than a technical problem? By far the easiest. Yeah, by far the easiest. So yeah, I would expect some technical problem, whether they blame it on solar flares or not.

All right. Sage Steele is a journalist and she's telling us that when she did an ESPN interview for Biden that she was given the questions word for word and told she couldn't ask follow-up questions. So on ABC, ESPN, yeah I think they own ESPN, right? Their journalist. Now keep in mind this is a professional journalist. The journalist was given by management the questions to ask and told that she can't ask follow-up questions. So in other words if she asks a question and Biden just lies to her face she has to say next question and just let it lay. And that was her specific direction from her bosses. Yeah. In case you're wondering if things are as rigged as you think, oh yeah they're totally rigged.

All right. Trump is still thinking about how to clarify his abortion situation. I'm going to make a suggestion for the very best thing he could do. Are you ready? The single hardest persuasion challenge of all time. I'm going to tell you what Trump, and maybe Trump alone, maybe nobody else could get away with this, but there is an out. He does have a way to say what he believes at the same time it softens the problem for Republicans.

All right, listen to this carefully. And this is one that you've never heard anybody use before. I may have mentioned it but you've never heard a politician say this. This is what I'd say if I were president. The president of the United States should only favor life in every situation, no exceptions. American life. American life. The American president should always favor life and should never make decisions in those gray areas when it comes to Americans living or dying. But there are going to be cases where tough choices have to be made. You don't want the president to make those choices. You want your president to be commander-in-chief if somebody attacks you, right? If somebody attacks us, I say president, whoever you are, doesn't matter who it is, you have all the power you need. Do what you have to do.

Now in that case I want the president to make all the decisions, you know the immediate ones, obviously with consulting with experts and generals. But that's a case where you really want your president to take all the power because it's just the way you're going to stay alive. But if it's domestic and it's about American life, the president should never be on the side of anything that even in the most ambiguous case could reduce life in the United States. But somebody has to make those decisions. Who should it be? Well because it's life and death you want that decision to be driven as close as possible to the people directly involved. Ideally, you know, the doctor and the patient. But if you can't get it all the way down to the doctor and the patient, the state is a lot closer. And so the one thing I can get right as your president is I can take it out of my hands.

If you want to know my personal opinion, then you add your personal opinion. My personal opinion is, you know, I think this or that. But I do not want in any way to be part of the decision of life and death in your personal, very private moments. If the state wants to do it, that's between the state and its citizens. But absolutely the president of the United States should never ever be against life even if it's an ambiguous case.

Now could he get away with that? Yeah he could. Everybody would hate it but it would be hated equally. Just right. The Republicans who are, you know, ban abortion are going to say, ah we hoped you would do a national abortion bill, you know banning it. And Trump would say you don't want me in that business. And then the Democrats would say but you should be in favor of abortion. And then he would say you don't want me in that business. You want everybody else. There should be only one exception of the person who should say I'll take a pass. Just the president. He's the only one who should take a pass.

Could Trump sell that? Yes. Better than every other option. Now I don't think he'll do this by the way. I think what he'll do is some version of, you know, the states need to decide. But if it's up to me I would have several exceptions and I would treat it as sort of a negotiated middle ground. So that's probably what he's going to do. Is

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that good enough? I don't think it's going to gain him any votes. The best he can do is reduce how many votes he loses. And that would probably give him a little boost, you know, because it wouldn't be a hard commitment. But yeah, there's no right answer. Let's do a Trump lawfare update. We've got a judge who's doing some mind reading. Let's see. The judge has rejected Trump's bid to delay the hu…

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