t they predicted. But the television news media, their business model requires them to crank things up to DEFCON 20 so that you're in a continuous fight or flight. So the people who watch the television the most, the people who follow the news the most, are probably at their highest rate of insanity. But I don't think that describes the general population who is clearly by now noticing that their life is going pretty well and they have more things to worry about than the news.

So that's my prediction is that the press will get increasingly crazy at the same time that the general public will get more and more calm because they're learning to tune out the crazy press. One way that you could measure that is in six months check with the popularity of President Trump. If his popularity continues to inch up even just a little bit, one percent, two percent, if the president is two percent more popular six months from now what are you going to conclude? I think you'd have to conclude that the temperature came down even as the press is painting a picture of the temperature going up. They need the temperature to go up for their business model to make money.

Florida has five minutes to give the count to the courts. What do you think is going to happen? Do you think Brenda Snipes will be taken out in handcuffs? Is that possible? Because I feel like it's heading in that direction. I feel like Brenda Snipes will actually be removed in handcuffs. Yeah I'm not going to make that a prediction but isn't it sort of heading in that direction? It feels like it is. Now that would be problematic in terms of the way it looks. So the look of it would be terrible. Well maybe that's a good reason to do it. I'm not entirely sure whose side the sheriff is on. Somebody saying the sheriff is on her side. Well if that's the case then is that the local authorities? It's the state. It's only the state who has authority, right? Is it possible that the FBI and the feds could get involved in the county's election results under the theory that the impact crosses state boundaries? Is there any theory that makes it a federal offense? It feels like they could make it federal.

Well that's pretty radical for you. Radical what? To remove somebody who's a criminal if it's shown, if it's shown that she's defying the court and it's actually holding up the country? It does feel like she should be removed in handcuffs. Doesn't that feel like the appropriate response to something that if it's shown, and you know I'm still on the side of we're in fog of war. Let her be innocent until proven guilty.

All right. So my view on Brenda Snipes is innocent until proven guilty. I know you hate that but let's keep a standard here. All right no matter who it is, innocent till proven guilty. I see the same stuff you see so I think that the odds of her being guilty are very high but let's keep her innocent until proven guilty.

All right it was a federal election but I don't know how the laws work in terms of authority over the voting machines and the voting count. That might be separate from the fact that it was a federal election. Voting is a civil rights issue. Is that good enough? That might be good enough. I don't know.

Oh yeah the big story in The Wall Street Journal about Trump's payoffs to women. I talked about this last night. Well just reiterate. So it's being called news that Trump knew about the payments to keep them quiet. Is there anybody in the entire world who thought he didn't know about it? It's not really news if a hundred percent of the world knew it before it was in the news. That would be an example of not news. In fact if I were to define what not news means it would be something that everybody knew for a year. That's like the very definition of non-news.

So it's not really news if the reporting that the president knew about it and if the issue is hey he lied about something in his personal life. I say if he can't lie about that what the hell can you lie about? Lying just to make this problem go away is exactly what I would want him to do for the benefit of the country. I would want the president to totally lie about irrelevant to the country, irrelevant to the country. If he needs to lie about that just to make it go away so he can get on with the business of work I'm all in. I'm a hundred percent supportive of lying about stuff that doesn't matter in your personal life. Completely on board with that.

Now somebody's going to say hey does the ends justify the means? To which I say yeah a lot. Because the ends were a minor lie about a personal situation totally trivial to the country. But he's the head of the country and so we want him to be effective in his job. So which one is more important? Being an effective leader of the United States or telling the truth about something in your personal life that doesn't matter to one freaking person on the whole planet? Do the ends justify the means? Yes. Unless you're an idiot. Unless you absolutely, the costs and the benefits can be compared. The cost is he lied about something trivial that we don't care about that we wish he had gotten away with the lie because we don't want to talk about it because we don't care what happened to his personal life. We didn't hire him for that. We did not hire him to be our role model, right? Compared to possibly destroying the United States and the entire world because he's become less effective because he has to deal with this issue. These are not even close to being as important. So I support the lie assuming it was a lie about his personal life. And if he does it again I support that too. In fact I support every lie the president tells and every other politician by the way. I just so you know I'm being consistent because this is the point where people jump in and say oh you apologist you will say anything to back the president.

In my defense the same argument I said about Bill Clinton when Bill Clinton was being taken down for this Monica Lewinsky stuff. I said loudly and often, we, I didn't have as much of a platform then but to anyone who would listen I said it's none of our business. Let him get away with a lie. Just get back to his personal life. It's not our problem. So I think the standard that I applied to Bill Clinton which is his personal life is not my problem and not my concern and if he wants to lie about it just to make