i'm going to finish my thought. the majority of americans do not want to defund it. but go ahead. good luck try it. >> it's been great. give yourself as big hand. thank you very much. as always thank you for being with us. let not your heart be troubled. the news continues. here is a man whose policies have done great damage to this country. have done great damage to the american culture, the american psyche. washington doesn't want to find the waste and fraud. one sixth of the economy is gone. government just took it. i don't think that the rest of the world is enamored of obama. if you read the foreign press you get the truth. i love radio. radio is the singest greatest opportunity i have to be who i am. >> rush limbaugh "on the record" you will hear rush say things

you have never heard him say before. but first, in our one-on-one interview, rush limbaugh tells us what he thinks of president obama's phony scandal campaign. >> let me ask you. talking about the scandals, president obama says the scandals are phony. why do you think he says they're phony? because he believes it? or is there a strategy? >> no, there's a strategy. i've been troubled by something with the obama -- i playfully call it the regime as i know it irritates them. it is. it's like a regime. and i've been amazed. here is a man whose policies have done great damage to this country. policies of great damage to the economy, have done great damage to the american culture, to the american psyche. i mean, there is a malaise. there's a sense of hopelessness and depression out there. and it's his policies that have

done this. and what has always amazed me is how he's not attached to any of it. he has an agenda. he's been implementing it. but the what i call the low information voters who voted for him and other democrats do not associate obama's policies and agenda with the condition of the country, the economy of whatever. that's always befuddled me. i've never never known a president to be immune from economic circumstances at an election as he was in 2012. it all became clear to me. there was a "new york times" story, i think one of their blog posts on the web back in february. it basically said, via poll data what i said to you. most people disapprove of the obama agenda. they don't like the direction the country is going. they like him and they think he's great for the country. i said how can that be intellectually? a majority of people, you know

they oppose obamacare by 55, 60% in a number of polls. they are worried about jobs. how until the world can they like him, re-elect him, and yet disapprove of everything he's doing? and i came up -- i call it the limbaugh theorum. you hear people saying he's a bystander president or he's outside washington. the way he does this, he never appears to be governing. that's why he's constantly campaigning. why is there a campaign going on for obamacare? it's already the law of the land. why is he out campaigning for all this stuff that's already law? it's already going to happen. and my theory is that obama has positioned himself as an outsider, not attached to anything that's happening. what he has made happen he positions himself as opposed to it. and against it. and fighting for everybody else to overcome what he has done.

and that's one of the reasons why the constant campaign, so he doesn't appear to be governing, so he doesn't appear to be part of washington, so he appears to have this mysterious, powerful bunch of forces that are opposing him and stopping him from creating jobs and stopping him from giving people proper health care and stopping him from making their home values go up. he's constantly out there fighting it. and he does that by constantly campaigning and never seen to be governing. so all of these scandals he calls them -- they're not distraction. they're real. but he likes them because they detract from the absolute reality of what has happened to this country as a result of his policies. now, let's take a look at selling obamacare. because i mentioned that. why in the world are you on a campaign to sell obamacare? i mean, it's the law. yeah, you got an effort by the republicans, two or three of them to defund it. but why the campaign? very simple. you go back to 2010, 2010

mid-terms the republicans, tea party created, cleaned the democrats' clocks. if you go back and look at the 2010 mid terms, that was one of the biggest shellacking the democrat party has had that long time. the republicans took back the house of representatives but democrats lost in total nation-wide all the way down over 600 seats. and it was because of obamacare and the rising debt and the fact that nobody was opposing it and nobody's stopping it. tea party gets created, these people show up. now, what obama the democrats really want, what they're salivating about now is winning the house in 2014. if they get that, hold the senate, there's no such thing as a lame duck second term. you won't even need a congress. all they are is gone going to be a rush stamp. whatever obama wants it signs it and does it, they rubber-stamp it. let's get going. they remember 2010. he's out there trying to change public opinion on health care so

that it doesn't replicate in 2014 what happened in 2010, the mid terms. he cannot afford for a bunch of tea party people, a bunch of anti-obama voters to show up in 2010, holding the house for the republicans and maybe winning the senate for the republicans. that's one reason he's campaigning. second reason he's out campaign for it is simply to continue this notion that he's not of washington, that he's outside fighting against these powerful forces doing everything he can to stand up for the american people. it's the most amazing thing i've ever seen. i've never seen a president get away with 4 1/2 years of not being seen as responsible for anything he's done when everything that's happened is because of him. he can't be stopped. the republicans don't have any power. all they can do maybe, if they get the cajones is stop things. they can't make anything happen. the republicans are totally powerless in terms of legislation and washington.

they have the house, but nothing in the senate. they can't stop him anywhere. so yet he's out acting like he's got to overcome all of this opposition and all of these mean people that want to prevent the american people from realizing their dreams. these dastardly republicans. so the phony scandals, it's just another vehicle to continue the same modus operandi and, by the way, to continue to blame the republicans being cold-hearted, mean-spirited, extremist, bigots, racist, sexist, homo folk phobes, war on women, all that stuff. >> a lot of people hate thei ir. in early may he says this is a serious problem. now it's phony. it's just a campaign tactic? >> he's got a slavish media. he can say whatever he wants and he's not going to be called on it. in the media he can do whatever he wants. i should have added in my

previous answer to your question that he couldn't get away with any of this without a slavish media. i mean, the media doesn't question him. in fact, that he's on board with his agenda and is trying to help him advance it. i've gotten to the point where what he says is irrelevant. so he's out there -- i could give you quotes of what he said in 2002, 2005, 2007 about health care. i could give you quotes of what he said about global warming and all these things that they're irrelevant. what you have to do is watch what he does. he's always going to tell you he's not doing what he's doing. he's always going to position himself as having nothing to do with what's happening. he's always going to position himself as it's the republicans. they're constantly complaining, whining. i fixed the irs. i fired whoever did this. it's reprehensible. all he's got to do is tell how reprehensible he thinks it is. media reports, obama thinks irs scandal is horrible and that's

it. the thing you have to know is, everybody says, i wonder if there's a smoking gun memo. it doesn't need to be one. he hires people, puts them in these places. he knows what they're going to do. they're all miniature obamas. there won't be a smoking gun. there doesn't have to be a memo. he doesn't have to give people that work for him instructioning or a manual on how to screw with the republicans or stop conservatives. that'swant to do themselves. plus they want to make him happy. so i think it's incredible what's happening. i think it's out of the world incredible that we have somebody whose policies have led to the malaise and destruction of the economy and the hijacking of the health care industry, and he's not held accountable for it. i think it's been out there, it's plain to see. republican party wants a new base. they just -- republican leadership isn't conservative. they're not particularly crazy about conservatives.

i mean, i'm fairly prominent in the media, conservative. i get more grief than the taliban gets. i get more grief than al qaeda gets. and all conservatives do. it's because we do constitute a threat to the way washington views the country. and i don't think it's so much conservative versus liberal, although it is. but it's washington versus the rest of the country is what's really transpiring now. and washington has a mindset and a desire for the country that doesn't dovetail with the majority of the american people. >> so what is the future of the republican party based on what you say? >> i really don't know. because politics' too unpredictable. there is anything that we're not even conceiving is possible with a scandal or some such thing that could happen which could cause people to start voting

against democrats in droves regardless what the republicans do. so it's dangerous to start predicting the demise of political parties and so forth. i'm not doing that. i'm just -- i'm just sharing with you the sense i guess as a conservative, 25 years of doing this on this show and watching it all, and so much of it on the surface intellectually it doesn't make any sense there. has to be a reason. these republicans are not stupid. they have to know that agreeing with the democrats on issue after issue after issue is going to equal democrat victory after victory after victory. >> who do you admire in republican politics and why? >> i admire any who are bold enough and brave enough to speak about what they truly believe. ted cruz is one and sarah palin is another. any of them who are fearless and have the courage of their

convictions and have no compunction about saying it. they're not embarrassed themselves. they're not insecure. they firmly believe what has to be done and they're willing to stand behind it. those are the people i admire. >> what are the chances those people would ever get a nomination in the republican party? probably not big. >> why would that be the case? >> because they're outside the mainstream of republican politics as you outlined it. >> well, i don't think the mainstream of republican politics can't be beat. there's a battle for the party going on. and sure, it would be a tough battle. but there's no other option. you don't want to go third party. that just -- that just ensures the democrats are majority party forever. you don't want to do that. so you have to do what you can to work within the republican party to take it over. i think the right conservative candidate could score -- reagan

did it. i know a lot of people -- would you stop talking about reagan? bus r but reagan is a real-life example of what can be done. and what happens when a prominent conservative triumphs. the country and the democrat party set out trying to revise history about him and destroy his reputation and image and so forth. it's a never-ending battle. but a lot of of people are probably saying, why? why are republicans and conservatives so for lack of better word dislike -- the real battle, folks, that i think is going on is on the one hand the country is founded with liberty and freedom and the government as a servant versus another view which says the government is all powerful and everything, it's the people who are servants. that's what the battle is right now. >> in the arena of ideas, what

would you do to solve a problem like detroit or even something bigger like the credible growing class of poor people? >> well, what you want to do first? >> either. take your pick. >> okay. detroit, the first thing i would do is analyze what really happened there. why did it go wrong? there's some obvious things. the city had been run by democrats unchecked since i think the last republican mayor was 1957. okay? you've had -- that town has been a petry dish of everything the democrat party stands for. everything the democratic party loves. massive unions, massive pensions, pay people pensions and health care long after they've stopped working. the math doesn't add up. you have massive welfare states where citizens are given things left and right in order to buy their votes. you have no opposition

whatsoever. then in the case of detroit, you throw race into the mix, and you bring on mayor coleman young who causes riots in 1967 detroit and mayor young caused a white flight to sub suburb-ia and detroit is left with nothing but liberal democrats running it. it is what it is. any place in this country that has similar circumstances, the same fate is going to happen to them. now what was your other thing about poverty? >> poverty. lbj said the war on poverty, we're going to have legislation to try to eradicate. the poverty's growing. it's not getting better. there are a lot of people suffering. >> yeah, imagine that. and it's been the number one issue of the democrat party out of their mouths for well, since 1964 when lbj first started it. poverty percentage-wise the same number of people. in fact under obama it's gotten

worse. four out of five american families are experiencing poverty. 9 million jobs have been lost. pardon me. since obama took office. 9 million. they're just gone. because of his policies. well, the arena ideas this is what the republican is not standing up. they're not pushing back. they're not articulating what is the opposite of this. and one of the things, i mean, you can point to successful people all over the country. no matter what successful, different levels of it. you point to them. how did they do it? how did they do it? well, there are recipes. they cared. they worked hard. they had ambition. they learned what they had to learn, some of them might have had connections here and there. nobody does everything by themselves. but you certainly are not going to eradicate poverty by creating dependency. santa claus is not a cure for poverty. it isn't going to happen. all it is is a way to buy votes. that's why the democrats want amnesty. >> think president obama likes his job?

>> i have no idea. i don't know him. i've never spoken to him. i don't know how to read those kind of tea leaves just watching him. all i can do is read what other people have written about how he doesn't show up early or whatever. i've read people say that the job's beneath him. he really needs to be running the world. to be challenged. to be envigorated. the united states is chump change. he needs the united nations. he needs to be running the whole shebang. i don't know what's true. i don't know whether he likes the job or not. i think he does and is relishing the opportunity to put into play what leftists have only dreamed about in faculty lounges for 50 to 75 years. i think he's thrilled with the opportunity he has to transform america and move it away from this unjust, immoral way it was

founded. and make it fair for everybody. i mean, whatever he's trying to do. i do think he's probably obsessed and very absorbed with that. whether he likes getting up and going to work every day and dealing -- i don't think he likes having opposition. i think it's beneath him. he doesn't want to negotiate. wipe them out. put it in the political sense. just get rid of them. that's his modus operandi. so i don't think he likes the process like dukakis did. >> straight ahead, rush limbaugh has much more to say. he insists washington doesn't want to find waste and fraud. what does he mean by that? you've not heard this and you will straight from rush. >> plus you will find out the real reason why rush loves his job. our sitdown interview with rush limbaugh continues next.

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you have never heard this before. rush limbaugh telling us in the eyes of washington waste and fraud are no big deal. once again, here here's rush limbaugh. >> why is there no enthusiasm to go after waste and fraud. we did a story last night in which we're paying money to dead familiarers. i don't care if you're republican or democrat, i cannot understand how that is not seized upon a politician and run with it. i would think it's popular. >> i would, too. but see, the answer to that again is, washington doesn't want to find the waste and fraud. not really. maybe a couple of isolated examples so they say here, look what i did. i'm shutting this down. they don't want to. they don't want to make the government smaller. i'll give you an example of the

way this works, i think. and i wish i'd have known this 25 years ago or 30. for all of our lives, ever since the late 60s, early 70s, we've been hearing we've got to stop our dependence on foreign oil. right? we've got to stop this. we've got -- the global warming debate has been about it. but we've got to stop importing so much oil. every party, republicans, democrats, it's been a mantra. well, there's an oil boom going on in one of the dakotas. i always get confused which one. fracking. fracking has made this country entirely energy independent. if we would go get every oil reserve that we've got that we could get right now with frack, we wouldn't need a barrel from the middle east. why aren't we doing it? why is obama not okay with the keystone pipeline? obama himself said, we've got to rid ourselves of dependence on

foreign oil. republicans have said it. why aren't we going and getting our own oil? why are there restrictions on getting our own oil on federal lands and efforts made on private lands? why? prince al waled whatever his name is the other die, you guys continue fracking in the united states, we in the middle east have got a big problem. they don't mean it when they say it, greta. when they talk about ridding the country of waste and fraud they say it. they think people want to hear it. when it comes to doing it doesn't happen. washington doesn't want to get smaller. washington doesn't want to take itself out of people's lives. washington does not want to reduce its power or its size. >> but waste? i mean, like paying dead people? i mean, i don't get how anyone could think paying dead people is a good idea. >> they don't think it's a good idea. they don't think there's anything wrong with it. it's no big deal.

we're not talking about that much money in the farm aid budget. at the end of the day they don't think we've got a debt crisis. i heard one of them say the other day, i've been hearing all my life how the national debt's going to destroy this country. well, i am now 65 years old. the national debt hasn't destroyed this country. i forget who it was. national debt, $17 trillion, up 6 trillion since obama, here you have the people who make this country work, the heart and backbone of this country, scared to death what's happening. because they don't think their kids and their grandkids are going to have any opportunity to acquire wealth. they don't think the education system is going to treat them properly. there isn't going to be a private sector economy big enough to grow enough to cut it up in enough ways that a lot of people acquire wealth. it's a simple contentment and pros pair py. it is getting smaller. the government is snapping it up. that's what health care is about. one sixth of the economy gone. government just took it. they don't know anything about health care. why do we invest in obama to run

health care or energy? what does he know? hasn't done didly squat. people think he's the expert because he cares more. what does washington know about any of this? yet we invest in them to have total control and power over it. so waste and fraud, debt, american people scared to death of it, washington, no big deal. bernanke keeps printing, they keep buying stock and securities with it. show the economy's growing, everything's fine. and the next time there's a crisis, like 2008, they'll go to the same rig ma role and give us 24 hours to fix it or the end of the world could happen. it's a rigged game. and it's designed to keep washington functioning as it is and keep washington big and to prevent -- look at, in politics when you control something you don't want to share it. you don't want to give it away. don't misunderstand me. this is all a political battle. i think it should take place in the arena of ideas, the arena of

politics. i'm not casting criminal motives on anybody. this is all political. but there's no push back to it from the republican party side. that's my main objective. so they must be complicit with some of it. >> coming up, rush limbaugh on the george zimmerman verdict and race relations in america. but first, rush gets personal. hear him talk about the radio, his job, and his life. things you've never heard before from rush. that's all next. at day it is! huh...anybody? julie! hey...guess what day it is?? ah come on, i know you can hear me. mike mike mike mike mike... what day is it mike? leslie, guess what today is? it's hump day. whoot whoot! ronny, how happy are folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico? i'd say happier than a camel on wednesday. hump day!!! yay!! get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. like carpools...

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might think of what i do. none of the normal constraints. it's just me. i have the total ability to do it the way i want to do it and to tell people what i think. and if it goes wrong the first time i'll come back the next hour, the next day, sorry, folks, what i meant yesterday was -- it's a never-ending opportunity to get it right, a never-ending opportunity to -- i mean, nothing anytime for me to lie about anything. i'm not going to gain anything by lying about what i believe or lying about facts. i really am trying to create the most informed, educated group of participating citizens they can. you asked me of the purpose of the radio show that would be it, after the business aspects which is creating and holding the largest audience possible, charge advertising rates. from the consumer's standpoint, informed, growing, intelligent,

educated, participating citizenry. that's why i mentioned earlier i find it -- i think it's a great compliment that all these media people say i'm losing because obama's won two elections. i haven't run against him. i can't give away money like he had does. i can't buy votes. and yet they've put me in that political arena to judge me, which must mean that i'm a bigger threat to them than they want to admit. i find it all flattering. because at the end of the day i'm just a guy on the radio. that's all i ever wanted to do. from age 8. was be on the radio. >> in down side to your job? >> well, yeah, down sides to everything. could you be specific? >> anything you hate about your job? >> no. >> any? >> no. because i've got tonight point now where i don't have to do anything i don't want to do. >> well, you have to show up

every day. >> yeah, but i love that. >> you can't sleep in. i mean until 3:00 in the afternoon if you ever wanted to. >> i can on saturday or sunday. >> right. but so you come here every single day thinking, i love this? >> yeah. the night before. life is show prep. i leave here at 3:00 every day and i go show and down for two or three hours. by 6:00 or 7:00 i'm right back at it. >> doesn't it drive your wife nuts? >> yeah, it does a little bit. but she's busy, too. we've got a bunch of joint projects going. we've got our little two if by tea ice tea company. she's the ceo and runs that. that's expanding and going great guns. she ran the host committee operation for the nfl for super bowls. and she is just -- she's as busy as i am, if not -- my job is sedentary. a lot of what she does she's on

the go quite a bit. but we get our time. week ends, vacations and so forth. but we both love what we do. it isn't work. that's the key. if i don't want to meet with somebody, i don't have to now. you know how many things i don't like about it? there are things i get mad at every day. misunderstanding what a caller is saying or see a media report that is obviously filled with misperception and lies. everybody goes through that. but that's just -- that's not something i would say, yeah, i hate, because it's part of it. and i've learned to -- i call me the mayor of realville. and i live in reality. an whatever happens, it is. and you have to accept it and deal with it. it doesn't do you any good to wish it wasn't happening. me, my reality is i have the opportunity to change and correct my mistakes.

in public. whenever i want to. it's really -- i've got a microphone. you know how many people are frustrated that can't tell people what they really think? frustrated about the way the country's going? i get to do all that. i don't -- the end of the day, i'm feeling 100% satisfied and fulfilled. >> random question. twitter. what do you think of it? >> i think it's representative of the pop culture. a lot of people are on twitter because a lot of people are on twitter. it's one of these things where people follow other people to it. i don't do it much. and the reason i don't is because you can't get it back. once it's gone and maybe retweeted, i'm very careful. but in addition to that, i want -- one of the reasons i don't do shows like this, i want people to come to my radio show to find out what i think. i don't want to satisfy them on twitter. i don't want to satisfy them on

facebook. we'll post some pictures of things now and then. but they are appetite wetters. w-h-e-t-t-e-r-s. i want people come together radio show. i'm an old-fashioned media guy. i think there are things you do to create an audience and hold it. one of the things is always leave people wanting more. never satisfy them. and certainly don't make yourself available anytime anywhere every day. people get tired of you that way. >> impact of the internet on politics. >> impact of the internet on everything is profound. >> that's all? >> yeah. i mean, it's allowed for people to be anonymously involved in things, which allows people to be more honest about what they really think. >> see, i think that allow people to do drive by hits. i like it better to know who's saying what. >> well, no, i'm not -- when i

say profound, i'm not going to judge whether it's good or bad because it is. you can't put the genie back in the bottle. what the internet illustrates is just how much real ignorance there is out there, that has to be dealt with if you're in any way devoted to improving people's lives or the country and growing it. there's a lot of ignorance that's out there. it's on display. proudly, people are proudly posting what they don't know, although they don't know they don't know it. but i'm not going to condemn it. that would be like condemning the beatles. it is what it is. and you have to when these things happen figure out a way to use them in ways that either make you happy for hobby purposes or enjoyment, or maybe maximize them in a business way. but it's there. greta, i used to be able to prep my radio show as recently as 1992.

that will be four years into it. with three newspapers, maybe four. because nobody was reading even that many of them. three to four newspapers, i was more informed than anybody in my audience. i mean, i cannot single-handedly acquire all the information that is available now as i used to be able to do in prepping the show. so there are areas of the internet that i have staff go and get and send me what they find. it all goes to the printer behind me. at 11:00 i start going through it and putting together a radio show. but it's just massive, the competition in what i do has never been greater. there have never been more people doing what i do. there have never been more people wanting what i have. there have never been more people wishing i wasn't doing what i've i'm doing. the competitive aspects of this have never ever been greater. one of the things i'm most proud of, i mentioned back 1988 i was

it. my radio show was it. the only national meeting. it was that way for seven or eight years. then fox starts in 1997, all these other conservative talk shows started. and none of it cannibalized me. we created a whole brand-new media piece of the pie. we actually expanded the media pie. i have not lost audience as all these conservatives have started doing radio shows. internet exists, fox news. it's been fabulous. i think the existence of this massive right wing media is another reason why the mainstream media is now so openly partisan. they're openly trying to eliminate their opposition. they can't get away with the pretense of their objective and simply reporting. the jig's up. everybody knows now what they've always been. they're partisan, leftists, trying to advance the agenda of the democrat party with rare

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officials are saying he was killed by cyanide-laced coffee. bulger is on trial for multiple murders. i'm marianne rafferty. now back to "on the record" for all your latest headlines log onto foxnews.com. rush limbaugh going on the record about the acquittal of george zimmerman and race relations in america. you have something to say about the zimmerman verdict? >> well, i was shocked, to tell you the truth. i was surprised by it. i thought the makeup of the jury and the condition of american pop culture and the fear civil unrest would cause the jury to say, you know what, let's come up with some form of guilty and get out of here.

and i was -- i was really proud. they looked at the evidence and they said, this case was overchallenged an the prosecution didn't prove anything. the defense ended up proving it. so i was happy about it. but i was prepared for a verdict that had nothing to do with the law. simply because the forces, the persuasive forces out there had been trying to gin people up in the sheriff's office. please don't riot? that's like saying please don't think pink. what are you thinking? there were people who were subtly, in a subconscious way, encouraging civil unrest. and i thought the jury would be aware of that and not -- it's a small town. sanford is a small town. who wants to live in that kind of circumstance? and i thought they'd just say the simplest way to get rid of this is come up with a little bit of a -- what's one guy. but they didn't. that was really i think

uplifting. >> what do you think about o'reilly's statements on race? >> what are they? >> i guess you didn't hear them then. >> no. what did he say in. >> he's basically said it's a much more involved discussion, but he has talked about the terrible things that are going on in the inner city and the families are deteriorating. basically the social issues. >> well, i've had black people calling my radio show for 25 years who have said -- and they profess to be conservative. they said rush, the problem is what the democrat party, what big government policies have done to the black family. they've destroyed it. 70% kids born without a father. i think -- this isn't news. i mean, i've had people calling for 25 years talking about this. i have responded and said it in my own way. i've gone so far as to say -- i don't know what o'reilly said -- but i think the policies of the democrat party have destroyed the black family.

i've said this for how many years. because i think it happens to be true. and it's not -- the republican party has nothing to do with this. the republican party has no power, they don't listen to them. it's democrat party policies. democrat party became the father, the democrat party became the husband with federal programs here. and that's why i've asked african-americans, you keep voting for 50 years for these people that are promising you this panacea and nothing's changing. and they all say, because the republicans are racists. and i know they don't like us. that's bogus. it's silly. the republicans are not racist. abraham lincoln was a republican. it's an unfortunate thing. i think this is detroit, black community, democrat party is their savior, right? how's it working out for them? straight ahead, egypt, russia, what does the world really think of the united states? rush limbaugh tells you what he

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now more with rush limbaugh. >> let me jump to international affairs. the middle east, our standing in the world. >> what? standing in the world? >> yeah. how are we doing? >> who cares? do you care? >> well, to the extent that we have to -- if there is any influence on world problems, i do care. >> with john kerry, hillary influence? we're a joke. you go back to 2008 and the campaign, and we're told that the world hated america. they hated bush. they hated us because abu graib.

we need democrats and liberals. people that understand europeans. we got all that and we don't have any influence over what's happening in the world. >> it's expensive. we spent a lot of money on it. >> we spend a lot of money on everything. but there's never an accounting for how much it works. look, we want to be careful about something. because the people in the u.s. military, and some people in the foreign service, are really true patriots. they really are trying to represent and maintain america's best interests in all of these places around the world. i don't want to appear to be casting aspersions. i think the short answer to your question is that contrary to what most low information voters in this country think, i don't think that the rest of the

world's enamored of obama. if you read the foreign press you get the truth about the incompetence, about the economic destruction. you read the british papers, british media, you'll get the truth reported about what's happening in this country. because they're not part of the agenda. you look at egypt. i thought morsi was obama's guy. i thought the muslim brotherhood was that's who obama wanted. well, egypt military said, screw all of you and they kicked morsi out and took back control of the country for better or worse. john kerry is in russia and putin's fishing. i mean, these people are -- i think they're clueless, and i don't think they have the slightest idea. they don't have a reference for the count-- a reverence for the country that you and i at least your question indicates. to them america is the problem in the world. america as a superpower makes

the world out of balance. it was better when the soviet union was around. madeline albright even said this. soviet union kept us in check. a competing superpower was able to help the united states be restrained. these people think, liberal democrats, leftists, that the american military's focus of evil in the modern world, that we are imposing freedom on people if you can believe that. and that united states is destroying the planet with global warming with our capitalism, with our wanton consumption of resources. they're about cutting this country down to size. people like me think the united states is the solution to problems around the world. but when you've got people who think, and the united states is responsible for these problems and on occasion have gotten close to apologizing, then i just don't take seriously what they're doing.

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