led by its biggest star, rush limbaugh. whose nationally syndicated show first aired two years before the simpson mizoly bill in 1984. and when fox news, roger ailes' right wing propaganda operation joined the fray in 1986, the incentive structure of the republican party just fundamentally changed. by 2007, the george w. bush administration and a bipartisan group of senators reached a deal on an immigration bill that would have created a path to citizenship for the millions of post-1986 undocumented immigrants living in america. as well as a new temporary working program and stricter border security. many thought this would be the big legislative achievement of bush's presidency, until this happened. >> we heard that there was a bipartisan consensus of immigration. bipartisan and it was all good. president bush was signing on and republicans, and we had ted kennedy was happy. that's all i needed to hear. it had been left up to the major news networks or the regular cable networks, this would have been a done deal. this was

trump not only acknowledged limbaugh, rush limbaugh. >> thank you for your decades of tireless devotion to our but he's the teary-eyed broadcast. are they having first lady melania trump put the presidential medal of freedom around limbaugh's neck, right then and there, a spectacle that led to some blowback because of limbaugh's previous often disparaging characterizations of minorities and the lgbtq community he took the reagan-esque human moment and turn into a polarizing moment. wrestling bob is a polarizing figure for americans. >> it was a, we emotional moment for limbo because at the time he had been diagnosed with lung cancer, he died the following year. at that same address, trump ever the showman surprised amy williams and her children by reuniting them on the spot with amy's husband, army sergeant townsend williams, who'd returned from afghanistan then there are other, celebrities invited, like rockstar, bano, who was president biden's guest last year, honored for his humanitarian work, is a two-fer for the president that they get to seem like they know famous people but also

rush limbaugh was on the air forever.re watching a given video on tick tock for reals. for me, here is the most important thing in the real problem. the source of the word, news, is new. old things fade in memory and without the focusing event of a trial, the things that he did are old. and yet, but the evidence shows in public opinion data is that people's memory of that is fading and it's important to remind people of the covid response, january 6, everything happened during that tumultuous year of 2020 and i am worried that the news will be chasing new things as opposed to doing it civic duty to remind people what actually did happen. >> it seems the mechanism that we have right now that we were sort of hoping will break through and get people to think and focus is a criminal trial, because you know what i used to do, this is about proof beyond a reasonable doubt about whether someone could be locked up. this is a very different issue about, how do you get facts out there in the debate about facts and what somebody did

and then i listened to limbaugh.ted watching "the o'reilly factor" and this was it. it drove my parents crazy. literally drove my mom crazy, i would make her listen to limbaugh on car rides and she would have fits of road rage and almost drive into shrubbery. but i survived. some of the thanksgivings were awkward. here i am now on "the five" and "jesse watters primetime." i think i turned out okay. >> bret: i think so, too. the book is "get it together." all the subliminal talk, i think it's working. i'm sure it's going to be a big success. jesse, thanks a lot, man. >> jesse: thank you very much, bret. >> bret: up next be the panel on the presidential race and today's hearing about the afghanistan withdrawal. later, "tuesday x-tras." ♪ (fisher investments) at fisher investments we may look like other money managers, but we're different. (other money manager) how so? (fisher investments) we're a fiduciary, obligated to act in our client'' best interest. (fisher investments) so we don't sell any commission-based produc

like rush limbaugh.ing and no one knows how many people are watching a given video on tiktok . here's the most important thing for me and the problem. the source of the word "news" is new and old things fade and memory and without the focusing event of a trial, the things he did are old and yet, with the evidence shows in public opinion is that people's memory is fading and it's important to remind people of the covid response, january 6th, everything in that tumultuous year of 2020 and i worry that the news will be chasing new things as opposed to doing, i think, it's civic duty to remind people. >> it seems odd that the mechanism we have, we are hoping will break through and get people to think and focus is a criminal trial because what i used to do, it's beyond reasonable doubt whether someone could be locked up and this is a different issue about, how do you get facts in a debate about facts and what somebody did and what really happened or whether someone should have the privilege of running for off

with the bloodbath folks to justify stping trump by any means necessary deep to praying for war limbaugh>> what is going on in the deep state the embedded bureaucracy where the obama shadow government is doing everything it can to overthrow the trump presidency and make no mistake that is what is happening in the media is now doing the bidding of the obama shadow government all of these people leaking me up things nonfactual things allowing the media to run stories are nothing but specialization that fall on the of the seriousness of the charge. >> jesse: to a former cia officer and a host of the right report he joins me now you have seen how these operations go what are you looking at. >> you laid it out we have a bunch of people in washington sea and beyond who decided that this man cannot go back to the white house and they are going to lay on anything and everything that they can to stop him what the deep space is fundamentally is a bunch of folks that believe they are anointed to decide the fate of this country and they don't think that you are me or anyone watching tonight actually

>> jesse: i wanted to listen to limbaugh and my mom got road rage. >> steve: since that image, you havego to this cry spa. in new york for $20 you go in and cry your eyes out. >> jesse: i hear jessica tarlov is a member. she has a punch card, 10 cries and 11th for free. brian and i are from the older generation and men don't cry. >> brian: lawrence said he never cries. >> lawrence: are you kidding me? i was busting his chops. i have a story of jesse watters and i liked his watch. man, can i get a rolex like that? if you work harder, you could get one. what if i cried instead of working hard? >> jesse: then you would never get to sit next to ainsley. they tell us women want sensitive men. >> steve: steve and i do sad stories and we -- >> steve: i crack up. any time there is something about kids or anything like that. >> ainsley: i don't want to cry, i don't like to cry. >> steve: get it together, new book jesse premiered today. you have excerpt to read. >> jesse: i discovered people have issues and these issues are getting bigger and crazier. ground swell projection, people projecting pr

are looking to do to tiktok what elon musk did to twitter and murdoch did to creating fox and rush limbaughmer labor secretary of the clinton administration and a professor of public policy. robert, i am glad you are available because you were a person as cynical as i was and you are in my thoughts on your social media feed because as soon as i saw the vote came through to make tiktok sale, sell it to which billionaire and what you make of that? >> this is really a billionaires ball they are having over tiktok and you really do have to ask yourself do you trust american billionaires to guard your privacy and not manipulate you any more than you trust who? the chinese or anybody else around the world? and billionaires own more and more of our giant media conglomerates and technology and have more power in our system. i think the issue is really power like it is in so many other domains in our life. >> they are so afraid and there are democrats and republicans who believe this, that china will come in and start manipulating the minds of our young people. i am sorry. i read a story about disco

direction than president trump using the power an porch to honor a divisive controversial person, rush limbaugh. other administrations have used this night to do things that are a little more service oriented hosts, to talk about astronauts, veterans, people who served america's traditions. tonight we can tell you that the white house is spotlighting two figures, two mothers as republicans have cracked down on women's rights, abortion, ivf in the wake of the gop gutting roe v wade. we'redown now by washington correspondent who as observed and covered many of these, and back with us, ron klain, president biden's former chief of staff. yamiche, your thoughts there on who they're spotlighting. >> it's clear president biden wants to make it clear that women in this country, if he is reelected will have a president backing -- and access to reproductive rights as a whole. it's not lost on me that the excerpts the white house just put out are talking about reproductive rights. the president says in particular if congress sends me a bill i can act and have roe v. wade the law of the land, i will do it.

the last time donald trump gave a state of the union address, he literally gave a metal to rush limbaugh. so those are the arguments about president biden's speech that republicans are giving, is that been conceding? he got that one. >> let's be clear, not that he did something new here, he accepted the terms of the speech. over the past decade the speech has changed. when i was growing up you sat there, like going to church. right? that is not what it is like right now. some guy will get up and call you a liar, marjorie taylor green will get up and wear her hat. that is what the state of the union's, political performance. that is important to talk about. we need to linger on how people were feeling a before the speech. nervous. we were feeling this is someone older, also a rerun. we have been here before. simultaneously dread and boredom. that is what we were going into this with. >> dread, boredom, lack of enthusiasm. while mary, he set up for a great night. >> i think that performance was really important. he used the foils of the republican party. and stepped up to them. that was re

enter trump's been very political, he even awarded rush limbaugh the presidential medal of freedom.rish okay yeah. what do you make of this third party? >> i look at the bobby kennelly race -- or campaign and cornel west more so than no labels. right now no labelses, a free falls in the forest and nobody hears it, did it actually fall in the forest? if that's where no labels is with a ton of money behind it. i don't think it's going to have much of an impact >> you've got to have a candidate. that's the key, right? aishah: a recognizable candidate. >> they don't have any candidate right now, so that's going to be the toughest part. any candidate that doesn't want to be a spoiler for their party's nominee. aishah: really quickly matt, i want to ask you this, what does the former president have to do with all these people and joe biden? what do they have to do with all of these people that do not want to see a rematch? in i mean, i talk to people at home in iowan all the time, they're -- in indiana, they're sick of this, both sides. >> if i were donald trump, i would talk about what m

anyone can figure out what rush limbaugh is saying. important thing. and and the problem. the source of the world news is new. and without the focusing event of a trial, the things that he did are old. and yet, it shows that people's memory of that is fading and it is important to remind people of the covid response of 2020. i worry that the news will be chasing new things as opposed to doing i think its civic duty to remind people what actually did happen. >> it seems odd the mechanism we have right now that you were sort of hoping will breakthrough and get people to think and focus is a criminal trial. because you know, what i used to do, this is about proof beyond a reasonable doubt about someone being locked up. how do you get facts out there and what somebody did and what really happened for whether someone should have the privilege of running for office? >> you're saying should it be a different standard? should you be locked up and should you be president shouldn't be the same standard. >> that's where i'm going. >> like, someon

school student himself, a haunted embrace, the confederate rebel flag and listened every day to rush limbaugh and then parroted his views. he this that changed as he became friends with people different than him, including black students in his dorm at college. he heard fresh perspective on life in history, racism and racial equity, and even the black experience in the united states wasn't anything i had ever. he said he'd grown up believing the lost cause interpretathewar, including the myth that slavery benefited both blacks and whites by the time he graduated first as a f years later, after earning a teacher certification, he was eager to return to sullivan county and teach students like himself. in 2005, he began teaching at sullivan central high by by he. i'm skipping a little bit. by the time in 2008, he began teaching contemporary issues. it had priests prescribe syllabus or standards and standards and tech, no syllabus or standards and tackled current hot button issues, which is what, in 2021 became a problem he was teaching both online and in person and the things he was teaching abo

that's a very good clip to show about his own cognitive decline or whatever his problem is when he's limbaugh -- rambling and making no sense. this is not just dina phobia, this is a program of national security which dictators have always engaged in, whether they're right or left. you know, in fascist prime minister in italy, he's having a campaign to stop foreign words from entering the italian language, just like miscellany. this is more attempt by trump to other people to dehumanize people who are not white, christian, who only speak english. so, it's an attack on a multi racial democracy, more fantasy of trying to deny what we really are. speaking languages is very important for doing business in the world, for diplomacy. trump knows this very well. he's the biggest glove list of all. his business model was licensing his name abroad, you know, laundering money for foreign criminals. this is all just propaganda designed to bait races. >> yeah, he actually ironically doesn't have a problem with people who speak other languages from other places, as long as he's making money off of it. aaro

the last time donald trump gave a state of the union address, he literally gave a metal to rush limbaugh. so given that those are the arguments against president biden speech that republicans are giving, is that conceding, he got that one. >> let's be clear. it is not that he did something new here. he accepted the terms of the speech. over the last decade, the speech has changed. you used to sit there and it was like going to church. that is not what it is like right now. right now, some guy is going to get up and call you a liar. marjorie taylor green is going to get up and where her maga hat. that is what the state of the union is now. political performance. i think that is important to talk about because i think we have to linger a bit in how a lot of people work feeling before this speech. >> nervous. >> we were feeling like, this is someone who is older and also this is a rerun. we have been here before. so simultaneously, dread and boredom. that is what we are going into the speech with. >> dread, boredom, lack of enthusiasm. you were set up for a great night. >> but there was a l

limbaugh warned us whatdeep is going on in the deep state. >> be embedded in bureaucracy where the obama shadow government is doing everything it can to overthrow the trump presidency. and make no mistake, that is what's happeningcy and m. the media is now doing the bidding of the obama shadowa government. >> all these people leakinll og made up things, non factual things that allow the media to continue to run, storiese noh that are nothing but speculation that fall unde rsness the rubric of the seriousness of the charge. >>of brian dean, writer, formerf cia officer and the host of thei right report, and he joins me now. brian, you seen how these operationse go. what are we looking at here? . >> you laid it out for him, but we've got a bunch of people in washington, d.c. and beyond who have decided that this man, donald trump, cannot go back to the white c house and they aa going to lay on anythinganyt and everything they can to stohp him. but the deep state is fundamentally is a bunch of folks who believe that they are anointeddamentala tha to dey of this country. and they don't think

but this is the one where he gave a presidential medal to somebody who was, oh, rush, rush limbaugh. yeah. all that stuff and all he talked about was the election, the rest. and as speaker, i was offended because it is not a political rally. and by the way, he had what the convention at the white house, right. so, okay, let's get to what's important to america's working families instead of some of this. >> so he did mention you by name. president biden. yeah. can we roll that little clip? so you think the very idea of america's that we're all created equal and deserves to be treated equally throughout our lives? >> we've never fully lived up to that idea, but we've never walked away from it either. and i won't walk away from it. >> now. i'm optimistic. i really am, i'm optimistic. nancy hope you didn't hear it that time. hey, mr. >> he said, i'm optimistic. i'm i'm i'm optimistic. nancy, you didn't catch that the first time. i guess there's a lot of noise going on. >> noise? yeah >> why do you think he said that to you. do you, do you do you disagree with him privately about his opti

rush limbaugh went from reporting to g th presidential medal his "journalistic views" i don't trust peopleho make up views for money, just like i don't trust politicians who beg for support andey." tricia on facebook says, nalism has changed over the years. it used to be fact-based, and we decided how to digest information. now people throw their own opinions into the broadcast. let's hear from tom in ohio. caller: good morning. appreciate your platform. as far as the trust in the news, i have none. it is a 24 hour news cycle. it is something to keep the lights on, and opinions from journalists, so-called journalists, are not really what i'm interested in. just give me the news and let's move on. host: where you get the news? caller: i listen to all of them, including your show, of course, and local news, national news, cable news, i listen to all of them. i really want unbiased news that people can listen to and believe in. there isn't any right now. host: and ronald in new york. good morning. caller: good morning. unfortunately, i have no confidence in journalism or the media, and i will

he gave rush limbaugh a medal. best moments was when he was talking about abortion and the supreme court. he was just feeling the moment. i think he saw them in front of him. he's mad at them. he's a traditionalist, an institutionalist, as we all know. he called them out directly. i think there were people watching at home who have been outraged about dobbs who didn't know he had that in him. i thought it was one of his best ad libs. >> it's not just about volume and energy, which is what a lot of people focused on because of that low bar you were talking about. to me, it was about watching someone having that energy because he really seemed to come into a deep understanding of his purpose in this moment with that beginning of we haven't been threatened domestically, but our democracy since lincoln and in the world since fdr, and both are happening at the same time. you have this feeling of a man who understood even more clearly than before, this is the thing i was send here to do. that is a very powerful alchemy w