tv White House Briefing CSPAN February 20, 2018 3:00pm-3:31pm EST
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who had voted up to october 28, she was ahead by 3% to 5%. then exit polls, voters were asked, when did you make up your mind? among the voters who said the last week, before election day, meaning in the middle of the 24/7ated headline, television coverage, hillary clinton under criminal investigation, while she lost the entire she lost the last -- he lost to last-minute deciders by 30% to donald trump. host: from democrats line, atlanta georgia. caller: i am a democrat. i supported bernie. i held my nose and when voted for mrs. clinton. you are forgetting a couple things. hillary clinton's scumbag husband. he forced her to have to recuse herself.
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there are many factors in this election. you have hillary clinton calling people deplorables. nevermind the fact that she is -- has an assistant that is married to anthony weiner who is basically a pedophile. i'm not happy what comey did. bill clinton is such a scumbag. because of the fact that he pardons some of the people he pardoned. that is going to give trump the right to pardon who he wants to. the fact that bill clinton met with loretta lynch forced -- jim comey to do it he had to do. guest: first to get your facts wrong. she sent her opinions to the staff people that it would be a violation of the justice department's policy.
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get your facts straight. it had nothing to do with loretta lynch. you are certainly an individual who uses adjectives. i will not use the words you used about president clinton. i don't know if you look yourself in the mere and says -- ami describes you the minority that you are you. -- let me describe to you the minority that you are in. bill clinton had a 65% approval rating. that is the highest approval rating in the history of approval. you find yourself in a small minority. with all due respect, i am glad you are in a minority because most people do not use terms like that for an incumbent president with a 65% approval rating.
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caller: i just want to question the validity on the basis of your research. you are going strictly based off of holes leading up to and up -- based off of polls. if you are wearing a trump shirt out on the street, you would get beat up. host: that says a lot. thank you for reminding everyone. caller: can i finish my thought? i cannot say i was going to vote for trump. i was afraid of what people would say or think. your narrative and the people that you guys paid to go beat up protesters made it so that people would not tell the truth. entire basis of your study or book is false. host: i do appreciate the fact that you reminded people that trump supporters would beat up
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somebody wearing a t-shirt under the first amendment. that is a terrible thing. you did state that hillary clinton reporters would be up trump supporters. that is not a fact. i would invite you to look at the last chapter of my book. i'm sure you have not read it. everyone says that polls cannot be trusted. i did not just look at the polls. actual polls predicted within 1.2% the national vote margin that hillary clinton won by. that is within 1.2 accuracy. i did not trust the polls. i look the other data. positive versus negative impressions.
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the studies have shown that question is answered honestly by most people. they don't always want to say who they voted for. but if they say, the job a positive or negative impression, you will get an answer that is usually accurate. but the first time in 15 months, here are the facts. hillary clinton to 50-50 on positive versus negative. she and been under negative since the mail story broke. donald trump was three to one underwater. on october 28, she was about 50-50. within three days after those headlines, hillary clinton under new criminal investigation, she dropped within three days two to one negative and cap going down. only one thing cause that. that was the comey letter. host: and the lead up, you talk about the research you have done. i'm interested to talk to you about that. you write this, you say whatever the reasons are to impose an impeachment process, one of them cannot be to flout the popular will by overturning the electoral vote count that he would not have earned without the fluke of dams commies -- of james commies intervention --
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james comey's intervention. guest: every senior member of congress, every observer that the russians intervened in our democracy to get alan trump -- to get donald trump elected, he denies that. when i did this research, i was against impeaching donald trump and still am unless there is a bipartisan effort. the main argument against impeachment is the overturning of a popular election unimpaired by intervention. i cannot prove the russians elected donald trump. logic tells me that within pennsylvania, michigan, and
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wisconsin that their russians in favor of trump -- that the russians in favor of trump. i cannot prove that that cost hillary clinton the election. i can prove that right after the comey letter, she jobs like a rock. that means that trump cannot be opposed for a peek because you are -- for impeachment. there may be other reasons to impose it. the election was a fluke. it was the result of an improper intervention. james comey has never taken responsibility for giving this country as donald trump as president. james comey he gets to decide what the higher loyalty is. host: wisconsin i believe she went to once. guest: of course. in retrospect, you can look at lots of mistakes. i would just remind you that she has taken ownership for mistakes. two things can be true. one is a presidential candidate makes mistakes. that might've changed the
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outcome. october 28, she wins. on october 31, she dropped like a rock. the first effect is that she made mistakes. the second true fact is that without james comey's letter, she wins the election. host: what did she say you about -- what you say to you about the book? -- what did she say to you about the book? guest: when i showed her my data, -- not the head-to-head data. the accurate impressions of her. she recognize that i had assembled data that no one else had compiled. chapter eight is where all the charts are. host: did she encourage you to go ahead?
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guest: she encouraged me. host: did you get any reaction from mr. comey? guest: i asked to interview mr. comey. i asked the attorney general what happened? why did you decide to extend the letter? mr. comey declined to interview me. i know that happen because somebody very senior in the united states government asked him. he had a right to say no.
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guest: from baltimore -- host: from baltimore maryland. go ahead. guest: good morning -- caller: good morning. imagine that hillary clinton took ownership of her mistakes. the biggest mistake i saw of trying to be impartial and not be polarized like so many other people in this country are -- the biggest mistake i saw was that when they wanted to see her servers and your emails, she had her lawyers picking and deciding what was going to be accessible for the fbi and what was not. anybody else in the united
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states, the fbi would of confiscated personal computers and looked at everything with a fine tooth comb. she was above the law. she picked and choose what she was going to be giving to them. if she felt he had nothing to hide, she would've given everything and let them make an impartial independent investigation. based on the limited information he had to go with, he made a decision there was nothing they could press charges on. the conference that he had -- the conference was called not to destroy her reputation but to say based on the evidence we have, the limited evidence we have -- there is nothing we can press charges with. guest: you make a valid point. people were suspicious she did not allow everyone to read her personal email. unlike you, hillary clinton's personal him out what have been
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published in the tabloids and elsewhere. none other than former secretary of state colin powell and email advised -- in and email advise hillary clinton these two devices. one wars -- one where she could use her personal device. he used his own private device outside of the state department. he used aol's private server. his server during the run-up to the iraq war was hacked.
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james comey, after one year of forensic investigation verified the server. he said, we have no evidence there was ever a hack of hillary clinton server. in retrospect, mrs. clinton had said she should never have used a single device. he should've used separate devices. i think she has recognized that with the wins them bash with the wisdom of -- she did not have a state.gov you mail address because -- that is a fact that most people do not know. 80 or 90% of all the emails she received were from state department diplomats that she forwarded to others. those individuals, over 300 did not use a secure communication channel because none of the 33,000 emails she received -- not one was labeled classified.
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not one of the 33,000 emails that she received -- finally, james comey had to admit this. he said there were a few. it turned out zero had the conspicuous classification. 300 diplomats sent to her. they did not consider the information classified. there were judgments made in retrospect that some of the information was classified but was never labeled. that was why james comey could not charger. host: ryan, democrats line. ryan from jamaica. caller: the reason hillary clinton lost the election was because she had no vision. she had an underhanded way of working. the clinton foundation only donates about 10 to 13% of the money they actually receive. the rest is used for who knows. why you would take a hammer to
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blackberries and mysteriously elite 30,000 emails -- delete 30,000 emails when there is nothing to hide insult the intelligence of the average american to say she does not have anything to hide. the clintons are dirty. i agree with you. we really should not use language such as the gentleman on a previous call used about mr. bill clinton. i would ask you -- the me too movement. out ask you to look -- i would ask you to look at the women bill clinton abused. i would ask you -- the me too and i wonder if you wouldn't come up with the same kind of language for him. host: let him answer. guest: you are reading too much garbage on the internet when you say 10 to 13%. go to the national association that audits charitable donations. the clinton that -- the clinton foundation is rated the highest.
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for their use of money. over 90% of the money contributed to the clinton foundation goes to charity. your 11 to 13% comes from the garbage on the internet. it is repeated so many times that you believe it is false. i would respectfully suggest you that you at least take a look at the chapter of my book. there lots of mistakes that i said hit -- that i said hillary clinton could have done over. october 28, she would have one -- won. it proves she would have one on october 28. she was on her way up before the headlines. she still be donald trump -- she still beat donald trump by 3 million votes. she lost the electoral college because that last-minute route caused by jim comey's letter.
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host: irvine, california. larry, your next. caller: would you tell me if it is edited or not? the facts are not just your fax. there are other facts that deny your facts. hillary should be in jail. guest: is that a fact? you cannot name a single fact that contradicts my facts. after you tell me to say facts and you end up hillary should be in jail, if you think that is a fact consistent with the due process clause with our constitution, you better reread our constitution.
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host: independent line. caller: good morning. i would like to speak to the destruction of evidence that was subpoenaed. i'm sure this gentleman knows it was against the law. the computers that were subpoenaed by the government. they granted immunity to aids. the dnc was requested to submit their computers to prove they were not hacked. they did not do this. the law should apply to her. the gentleman is right. she should have been indicted and in jail. you should be a saint of yourself -- you should be ashamed of yourself. guest: just think of what you just said on national television.
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without a jury or trial -- james comey said an indictment is not necessary. very shame here and ignoring the country -- ignoring the constitution. i would remind you that what you read on the internet could be from the russian troller's that we now know existed. everybody in the u.s. government -- that donald trump appointed. the head of the cia. the entire intelligence community says that russia inserted into your information that you are misstating and believing to be true because they played you. everyone agrees that russia did
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that but one person in the united states that is an elected official. that is donald trump disagreeing with the people he appointed. you are denying those facts and reciting things on the internet including destruction of evidence. that is absolutely 100% false. they could come from russian troller's. nothing was destroyed after mrs. clinton received a subpoena. that is an absolute fact. your reading does not make it true. host: where did you get that from specifically? how wide are the sources? guest: i was completely obsessed. i started in november right after the election. i not only went to every poll published in the last two weeks of the election.
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host: give us an example of the polls. guest: i went from gallup to real clear. the abc washington post. the new york times. all the fox news pulls -- polls. i did not just look at the horse races. i reviewed 5000 poles. -- polls. that is a happen where people change their feelings -- the crash of numbers of going from 50-50 positive negative within days was shocking to me. i cap searching.
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-- i kept searching. when i look at the final results , there was a 1.2 percent of accuracy proving that polling head-to-head confirm to me the fact that james comey cost the presidency for hillary clinton. host: tim, go ahead. tim, go ahead. caller: how about the obama coalition not turning out for hillary? guest: i respect the fact that you are repeating what almost everybody says. she won by 3 million votes. that was a larger margin than what obama beat mitt romney by. --the states where she lost where she was head -- where she was ahead on the morning of the 28th, she was running ahead of the obama vote. myth thatt is a african-american turnout was much lower because hillary
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clinton the not connect with african-americans as well as barack obama. that would not surprise me. barack obama is one of the most inspirational candidates. i will tell you that the actual amongs about 2% african-americans. very small difference between herself. from clarksville, tennessee. george, republican line. caller: hello. comey -- lines of [inaudible] whited valerie jarrett
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leaked to the new york times that hillary was using a private service -- private server? host: that is actually not true. do not trust what you read on the internet. i implore the audience of this great program. the internet cannot be trusted. go to the original source. valerie jarrett never leak anything to the new york times. you just repeated something that you read. you may have googled it or seen it a million times. a million times 00 -- the server was broken one day after the first story in the new york times. the associated press reported that hillary clinton had a private server.
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on march 4, it was pretty easy to figure out she had a private email address. the story broke one day after the first year time story on march 3, 2015. host: one more call. independent line. caller: good morning. three weeks before the october fbi had, the new york sat on anthony weiner server. the people that was running the new york fbi had told comey at that time that they had found more you knows -- more emails. comey had to go and tell congress they had found more you nelson -- found more emails. lost --t that comey a
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comey lost the election for her. it was the fbi of new york. they knew they had the server. they could have went to the server long before comey came out. host: got you color. -- got you caller. guest: thank you. they did tell comey on october 3 that they found larry clinton emails -- found hillary clinton emails. it took six days to look at all of the emails. they started on october 31 and ended on november 5. we know it would have taken six days. have a look on october 3 and done the bath -- done the math, they should've done a full month to run positive advertisement.
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she would have won the presidency. the second thing to remind you of is that when rudy giuliani went on television and said something is coming -- the maniacal look on his face everybody noticed this guy is looking unhinged. on the morning of october 28, before the comey letter was announced, on talk radio, he said i got my information from active and former fbi agents. he withdrew the word active a couple words later. he was all over the media -- all hillary clinton over the media. all of a sudden, dawn. -- gone. the media -- where in the root -- where in the world is rudy giuliani. is he afraid to be questioned under oath?
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why did you know three days before hand? who told him? was he part of a criminal conspiracy to leak information. those are questions under oath he decided he did not want to face. that is a whole new area for investigation. host: there is more in the book from lanny davis. >> it look inside the white house briefing room, waiting to hear from press secretary sarah sanders. itsbriefing postponed from original time, it still has not yet started. also happening at the white house shortly in the east room, a ceremony for first responders to the congressional baseball practice shooting. later, a discussion
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about the influence of politics on race relations. killer murdered 17 people and injured more at a high school in florida. the president visited the hospital -- the hospital last week. law enforcement's and first responders. the white house, the victims and his families have constantly been in our thoughts and prayers. we pray for the enforcement's rf those injured and the peace and comfort of those lost. our hearts are filled with gratitude as we heard the stories of incredible heroism. 15-year-old anthony shot five times while his body was used as a human shield. he remains in hospital.
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they chose to open the door and let students run into state -- into safety. members of the community will attend this listening session, as will individuals impacted by past school shootings, including the columbine and sandy hook tragedy. thursday, hosting local officials including members of the law enforcement community to continue the conversation. it is the right of every american child to grow up in a safe community. it begins in the neighborhood where the brave men and women have the president's support and it extends to schools and teachers across the nation invest their lives. no parent should have to wonder if their child will return home.
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