Did you see that Lindsey Graham had some good things to say about Kamala Harris and thought she could be a force to be reckoned with? I believe that's true. So I think she got a weak start, Harris did, but she came on strong during the debates and she showed she has a lot of range and I think that's gonna help her.

But there's nobody in the contest who is competitive with Trump. Now I don't know how any of the Democrats are going to survive the hand-raising stuff when they were asked questions such as how many of you would want to, you know, the country, I don't know I forget how it was worded, but how many of you were in favor of giving up private insurance for public insurance and some other questions that are just going to be too hard for them to deal with in the future.

All right. Just looking at your comments. Do you have any questions?

All right. I also saw somebody complaining that they thought President Trump was just trying to get a Nobel Prize for North Korea. And I think to myself that is the lamest attack because how do you get, there's only one way to get a Nobel Peace Prize. You have to do something that's worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize. Can you really be mad at a leader for trying to get a Peace Prize? I would say that's the very best motivation I can imagine. I would want all of my presidents to be at least trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize. You know maybe you don't get one but you should be doing something that would move you in that direction.

Everybody who says, let me tell you what I'm just absolutely sick of hearing and it's early, I am so sick of hearing people complain about Harris, you know, so-called sleeping her way to the top or getting her job because she had an affair with a married man and all that. Now I'm not gonna say it's not true the way you're characterizing it. I am gonna say it's 2019 people. It's 2019. And none of that stuff happened too recently. Let it go. Just let it go.

It's not gonna have any influence on the election. None. It's not interesting. It's not fun. It's not new. Just let it go. I mean there are plenty of reasons that she could lose to Trump but the integrity of her personal sex life is just not the thing that's gonna make the difference. There's nothing less important than that.

You people have identified literally the least important thing about her and decided to focus on it. Just trust me on this. I know you want to attack her and it's fun because she's on the other team and you know it's fun to say naughty sex stuff about people but just let it go please. Just let it go. Or if you don't want to let it go just let it go when you're on Periscope with me because it's not useful. It's not fun. It's not interesting. It's just words. It just doesn't have any meaning. It's 2019. Time to move on.

All right. Oh great there's some other people saying the same. Where's Trump's campaign manager? That's a good question. Oh Acosta was grabbed. Somebody remind me what was the, so was Jim Acosta said something to Trump. He asked him a question about whether he was worried about offending somebody and he said to Acosta, I don't mind if any people, you should know that to Acosta. Which is just like one of the best comments ever.

Somebody says do I still think a settlement with Iran is possible? Yes. Yes I believe that some kind of a positive development that involves Iran as well as larger parts of the Middle East is absolutely possible. Yes. Now I wouldn't go so far as to say it's likely. I will only say that we've never been closer to a table that's been set with all the right players and all the right situations to get something done that looks like a more lasting peaceful situation. We've never been closer. And I wouldn't be surprised if everybody recognizes that.

Now Iran's supreme leader, let's talk about Khashoggi. All right so Warmbier, Otto Warmbier, and Khashoggi are exactly the same situation. Yes we care about them. Yes we care that they were brutally murdered. We care at whatever is the maximum you can care about such things. But we live in a big complicated ugly world in which you have to look at all the costs of things versus all the benefits of a thing before you decide to move. And there are lots of costs and if you do it right there are lots of benefits.

The Khashoggi thing is one of the variables. If you decide to make it the only variable and say to yourself, and a friend of mine recently made this argument, that from a moral standpoint you should never deal with Saudi Arabia because their leader did something we don't like. Now suppose that prevents you from having peace in the Middle East. Would that be the right trade-off?

Would you take an ethical stand that says we can't deal with MBS, then we can't deal with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia because you know we assume he was involved in this murder? If you do that you're making that one variable the thing that there's a difference between war and peace, the death of thousands, the death of millions potentially. How does that make sense? How do you justify that with your morality?

Now these are what I call half opinions. A half opinion is when you look at just the cost of something or just the benefit and you just sort of pretend that the other stuff doesn't exist. And it's not a good way to go through the world.

Who do I think will be the Democratic nominee? I picked Kamala Harris one year ago. So one year ago I said it would be Harris and today I would say it's going to be Harris.

Picture this. Will you? Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris and Joe Biden on stage. Can you imagine? Let's say the final three comes down to Harris, Warren, and Biden. Well it's not going to be Biden I don't think as I think he will just continue to self-destruct. I believe that Biden will never have another day. There will never be a poll again that shows Biden gaining on the crowd. Every poll from now on he will be lower than he was relative to the other people in the crowd. So that's my first prediction. Every poll Biden will be lower until he's out of the race.

Now let's say you've decided there are two women in the top two at least in the polling. I think that's gonna happen. Maybe you know Bernie seems to be relevant. I think it was Dana Perino who said quite insightfully she said nobody was talking about Bernie Sanders after the debate. And that was a really good comment because I always love it when people look at the blank space on the canvas. The people who notice the thing that's not happening. That's always harder to notice right because we're attracted by shiny objects.

So if you're looking at the shiny object you're missing all the other stuff. And as Dana Perino pointed out, who's talking about Bernie Sanders? Nobody. Nobody's talking about Bernie Sanders. So that I think that tells you where that's going to end up.

So I think it's gonna be Warren and Harris in the final two. Now you're a Democrat. Think of Warren. Just hold a mental picture plus a picture of her policies and personality. Just hold it in your head. Now put it right next to Harris in your head. Do you see it? Warren is the weak washed-up version of Harris. Because in your mind you're gonna say they're both women so you can automatically say that these two need to be compared. And they're both women. Personalities. But one is younger and one is a little tougher and that one is Harris.

So I think the younger, tougher, and let's be honest the one who's the person of color has got an advantage. She's got an advantage. So I think Harris lines up well with Warren when it gets to the final two. And you don't see it as much when there's a big crowd. When it's a big crowd you're not comparing any one person to any one other person. You're comparing each person to the crowd.

If you compare Warren to the crowd she was great. Like she's way better than the average of the crowd. But assume this is one on one, Harris versus Warren. Warren's gonna disappear a little bit. She's sort of an older washed-down version. A little less flavor. A little less spice than Harris has. So I think Harris matches that better and it's going to be those two. Those will be the final two. And then Harris I think can edge out Warren.

And by the way I think Warren is good. Let me make the provocative and offensive prediction. I'll make it a prediction. If Elizabeth Warren continues to wear the same spectacles that she wears now she will not win the nomination. I'm gonna say that again. If Elizabeth Warren continues to wear the same glasses that she's been wearing so far she will not win the nomination. Because it makes her look like a grandmother.

And she's gonna be standing on stage probably next to Kamala Harris who just seems newer, younger. She's just gonna seem like the shiny object. If she changes her glasses to something that might look a little more modern or goes with contact lenses if that's an option or something she has a chance to take a number of years off her age. Yeah she has granny glasses. And something's saying if she took five years off of her age by simply just changing the glasses.

And by the way the reason I mention this is that I did the same thing. Do you remember the glasses I was wearing a year ago? Did they make me look a lot older? They did right? As soon as I changed to a more modern spectacles I looked probably five years younger just by changing the glasses. And it's not so much how you look physically. It makes you look like you have a little more let's say connection to youth. It's not that you look younger per se. They say you will seem younger. Thinking because you know at least you got your outward look right.

You know her haircut. Somebody's mentioning Elizabeth Warren's haircut. That's not bad. I mean I think it needs to be shaped a little differently to make it a little more modern for the same argument as the glasses. But the hair is pretty good. I do like her hair and I think that could be a little more modern but it wouldn't take much.

Warren has Trump hair. It's funny. Everything looks like Trump hair. Warren looks younger than 70 anyway she does. So I would say Warren has impressed me as a candidate and as a person because she is in great shape. She's got great energy and she is definitely making a serious run for the presidency. So I respect that even though her policies seem a little impractical.

All right. Oh yeah I've heard a number of people say that Harris sounds like their crazy ex-wife. You know and I guess everything this is very subjective but when I listen to back in the Hillary Clinton days I could not stand listening to her talk. I mean I just couldn't stand it. It was like stick a hot poker in my ears. But I don't really hear that with either Harris or Warren. I don't get the you know whatever it is that makes you hate somebody's voice. I don't really get that from either of them. But I hear from a number of you that you do so I'm not going to discount that.