nor attacked by rush limbaugh.e approach of not going all the way in for trump. is that right? >> that's right. i think now that the primaries have wrapped up, you know, he'll be pulling for trump, particularly against his hated hillary clinton. in the primaries, he was agnostic. i think that spoke to his business sense. he knew about half his audience loved trump, about half hated it, so he went down the middle. >> he is a mart businessman, but it seems like the ground has shifted underneath. we'll see what he does in july when the contract is up. ethan, thanks so much for being here. >> thanks so much. >>> up next here on the program, does tech billionaire peter thiel pose another -- ko other outlaws as well? it doesn't make. sort of like marrying a man you met on tv. i love you. i love you too. yeah. world saleilton is on honors members save up to 25% on brands like hampton, doubletree, hilton garden inn, and waldorf astoria so stop clicking around. book direct at hilton.com now that's satisfaction. it's more th

in fact i think it was rush limbaugh that referred to me as a "pointy headed intellectual that didn't know the first thing about the marketplace." >> hinojosa: and what do you say to that? i mean, were you taken aback a little bit by the criticism when you were just saying, "look, i'm a social scientist, i conducted experiments..." you know, the jam problem. people may have heard about the jam problem, which is your experiment of putting jams in a supermarket, and whether or not people would choose a preferred jam, and if they had too many choices, they ended up perhaps not ending up buying one of the jams. but if you gave them three choices, then they would usually say, "out of these three, i can see which one i like, and i think i'm going to go buy it." >> yeah. i mean, to be honest with you, when i first ran the experiment, i didn't have an agenda. i didn't have a particular ideology that i was trying to promote. i just ran the study, and i was just as surprised as anybody else was. and then when rush limbaugh went out there and critiqued me, and a lot of people kind of got scared

he specifically admired rush limbaugh, even 20 years ago, before rush limbaugh was quite as much of a household name as he is now. i asked him about national ,"view -- "national review which for some time, since 2005, it had been more reportorial and news-oriented then events-oriented than it once was. there were people who did not really like that. rusher said he was fine with that, he was for that. , and ih, he also told me don't believe this was a that when buckley himself retired from the actual -- itship of the magazine was in stages. them, that he told it was very important is his " notthat "national review be just another conservative magazine. that it was important for it to maintain its identity and its brand. it is clear from that, and he specifically mentioned its catholic tinge. veryey's family was all catholic. rusher was not catholic but respected it as part of the magazine's sensibility. withd no real beefs "national review" in its later years, that he did think there were some younger people who probably should no more history or more of the right wing side of history.

now, there's a contrary argument and rush limbaugh articulated it. let's listen. >> if trump moves to the republican agenda, it's no t good for trump. that would be an error. he is where he is because he is not perceived as part of that. >> charlie, doesn't limbaugh have a point and stating up to the extent that you're in that and he gets what got him this far. >> well with, i would perhaps days green with rush limbaugh on that point. look at foreign policy. donald trump has talked about withdrawaling from nato. that's a huge mistake approximate for the alliance. it's the centerpiece for the national security and foundation and nuclearizing for asia and japan. he has talked about a number of other issues on that regard that are settling to me and the foreign policy and statement a week sor so ago and that's back from the 1930s. i think that a lot of o americans and thoughtful republicans you including so many in the base would have the concerns on the policy approximate positions. that's the things that paul ryan wants to talk about and which many of

rush limbaugh, i listen to because i get him, and mark levin, i love him. he is a constitutional genius. i love ted cruz for the same reasons. and i wanted to say as far as god goes, okay, man is an arrogant creature. he cannot accept the idea of only nip pent god. and as far as capitalism goal, if you ever heard ayn rand, she says if there nor rich or prosperous, the poor would never be able to benefit. okay? and cheese said, i have come to give you life abundantly, and that doesn't mean spiritually. he wants everyone to pros sir so all your points i say good, for you, mr. prager, and if could get you i'd listen to you. thank you for taking my call. >> guest: thank you. well, i generally respond to those who differ more at greater length than those who agree. so thank you very much. you can get me, you can watch prager university.com. >> host: if terry were to find you on the enter note, how should she do that? >> guest: there's both android and mac apps. den nit prager show. download the app and listen to the show sometime you want. you can go to prager-t

rush limbaugh, i listen to because i didn't and marc levin, i love you. he is a constitutional genius. i love ted cruz for the same reasons, and i wanted to say as far as god goes, okay, man is an intricate creature, okay? he cannot accept the idea of a transcendental god. i put it comes from his arrogance because in the bible it says the fool has said there is no god. my ways are not your ways. resource capitalism goes, if you've ever read ayn rand, okay, the was a big proponent of capitalism, she said if there were no rich or prosperous, the board would never be able to benefit. and jesus i've come to give you life abundantly. >> guest: thank you. agenda respond to those who differ more at greater length in those who agree. so thank you very much. you can podcast me, listen to be on the internet. in any event, thank you. >> host: if she were to find on the net, how should she do that? >> guest: there's both android and mac apps. dennis prager show, download the app, listen to the show anytime you want. you can go to praeger tobia.com and then you can ge

everything.ecause rush limbaugh i listen to because i get him, and mark levin. i love him. he is a constitutional genius. i love ted cruz for the same reasons. and i wanted to say as far as god goes, okay? man is an arrogant creature, okay? he cannot accept the idea of a transcendental, omnipotent god. i believe it comes from his arrogance, because in the bible it says the fool has said there is no god. my ways are not your ways. and as far as capitalism goes, if you've ever read ayn rand, okay, who is a proponent, a big proponent of capitalism, she said if there were no rich or prosperous, the poor would never be able to benefit, okay? and jesus said i have come to give you life abundantly. and that doesn't mean just spiritually. he wants everybody to prosper. with goods, okay? so all your points, i say good, good for you, mr. prager. and i could get you, i'd listen to you. thank you so much for taking my call.. >> guest: thank you. well, i generally p respond to those who differ more at greater length than those who agree. [laughter] so thank you very much. you can get me

. >> host: day you listen to rush limbaugh?>> guest: i listeo >> we're on at the same time so it's a little difficult and i do listen. yes. i listed in the same way so that fascinates me to see these other issues that i do. >> caller: base for being of voice for conservatives. i have been intrigued to of that doctrine in state to bed jewish approach of natural blonds. >> guest: that is a tough question because i don't hate you can add to that extent from the natural state of the world it doesn't provide a moral guide its with the good eddie will coming space to beecher the only law that is the survival of the fittest that is what stolid believed. >> host: thank you for your time. author of "the ten commandments" still the best moral code". >> immediately i am so honored to be here i am a book reviewer and i have the panel now 130 about the book that changed my life my recent in college that is why get the privilege to be here today and i love it our panelists does not need an introduction however the host of her show on npr and

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it's rush limbaugh. andthing about democracy this is what politics is noble.forces you to recognize the other people in the room. you may wish the way you may think they are jerks but they are the room. rose: that has been the biggest problem we've had in this country for a while. the absence of people willing to compromise. ronald reagan said it's better to have a piece of the pie than no pie. we lost that. brooks: if we were attacked by canada we would get it all back. we need a hostile force to unify us. it's a matter of scale. i do a guy named richard dharma garmin to work for the first president bush. please regale me with stories of craftsmen like skill. there was a guy who was defense secretary under next seven melvin layered who go to the white house and it was a barbershop in the white house in those days. he did not have much hair but he would go to the white house at 3:00 every wednesday. he didn't really need a haircut but he would go. so it's a lot on schedule which everyone can see where it went to the white house. understood the tribunal games.

the conservatives in the republican party get to say, again, it is because we didn't nominate -- rush limbaughnate a true conservative. after rush has backed trump all the way. >> therefore, he was a jerk, and couldn't be -- >> they never bother to explain, why the true conservatives don't win the nomination. they have never care body that explanation. we just say, we lost the general because we didn't have a true conservative. >> they attack the g.o.p. for rigging the rules against them. they got ronald reagan, that worked better. if you look at cruz, i see the answer there. day one. day one. they are going to say, this is not a strategy party, it is a right party, you didn't take that seriously. this civil war will not be resolved by this. >> that is what they are going to say if trump loses. if trump wins -- we are out of time for that. that will have to be another painful night. it's over. donald trump, a reality tv star and businessman from new york with no political background is the new standard bearer of the republican party, like it or not. with that reality comes a moment of truth fo

in the old day republicans put secret damaging information with fox news and with rush limbaugh but now he said there is an outrageous style and he does not need the middleman. >> he changed the riles and he says this stuff and it is working because everyone is talking about it. everyone is talking about a 1993 death of vince foster. who thought that would be part of the dialogue. he is actually making progress in trying to ruin hillary clinton's effort to win the women's vote because he is bringing up the past things that make her less attractive to female voter, an important strategy because the biggest weakness is female voters. >> and it threes for broader pieces about donald trump and conspiracies. >> when ted cruz was still in the race, donald trump speculated of a stab lloyd rumor learning ted cruz' father to j.f.k. assassination. >> i watched in jersey city, new jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as the willing came down. >> some call him a conspiracy theorist? fair? >> a it is fair. >> he talks about it until the press covers it as a "process," story

if you think about talk 1987, when those restrictions were gone, rush limbaugh took over.ig, drudge report. cable news, cnn, then boom! fox news, number one. conservative thought takes over because it's thought. >> monologue topic. it will be good. >> one of the interesting pieces of the story the whistleblowers told us is black lives matter wasn't trending. they figure out where the volume is coming in. facebook felt guilty and forced the curators to push it to the top of trending and created an atmosphere. it was a self-fulfilling prophesy. >> i don't know the reality but that would be corruption. if that's the fact, you have an agenda and you are pushing your agenda. i must say, every news organization has an agenda. >> you are saying facebook has an agenda? >> of course. in fact -- >> that's not a news organization. it's a social network for lonely people like me. >> it is a news organization. you know how many people get their news from them? it's the number one spot. >> the number one site was fox news last year. number one brand on facebook, 2015. facebook, should w

rush limbaugh i listen to them because i get him, i love ted cruz for the same reason and i wanted to say, as far as that goes, man is an arrogant creature. he cannot accept the idea, i believe it comes from his arrogance because in the bible it says the fool has said there is no god. my ways are not your ways. as far as capitalism goes, if you've ever read the proponent of capitalism, they said if there were no rich or prosperous, the the poor would never be able to benefit. jesus said i have come to give you life abundantly and that doesn't make and spiritually. he wants everybody to prosper. so all your points, i say good for you and if i could get you, i would listen to you. thank you for taking my call. >> while i generally respond to those who differ then those who agree, so thank you very much. you can podcast me or listen to me on the internet. but in any event, thank you. >> if terry were to find you on the internet, where should she go and how should she do that? well there are both android and apple apps. you can get commercial free and download any of my shows andha share

. >> host: day you listen to rush limbaugh?>> guest: i listeo >> we're on at the same time so it's a little difficult and i do listen. yes. i listed in the same way so that fna

glenn beck, rush limbaugh. >> about the jfk stuff and erick erickson saying, you know, what's going on "national review." we've never had this media landscape. >> that i agree with. they have to find their hero quick. >> the numbers show that donald trump was more there. >> how does this complicate your pivot to the general election which you already started, i asked. they said not at all. we're ready for everything donald trump is going to bring us. they're going to essentially do the very opposite of what the gop candidates did in this race. >> at the ground level, tara, they are prepared, that they have done -- they have already worked those muscles in a way donald hasn't. they have a field operation. that's how they came up. they know how to do the blocking and tackling. >> this is important where hillary clinton has a major advantage in a general election. people have said, you know, donald trump has gotten this far without a strong ground campaign. yes, in a primary. with massive name recognition against people who have less name recognition, now you're going into a general elect

ted cruz got a lot lot of love from rush limbaugh and mark levine. that is disingenuous. deirdre: i don't know that i heard that said before so i'm glad you made it. nomiki, want to bring you in implying that former husband president bill clinton will have a role in her administration if she is elected. here is her comments and trump's reaction to it. >> i told my husband if i'm fortunate enough to be president i want him to do something to work as hard as he can, he did a pretty good job when president, created a lot of jobs. i want to see him take it on. you will be sick of seeing him. >> here we go again, remember all the scandal they had, all the problems not only with monica, but whitewater, and all of the things that went wrong, it was a mess. deirdre: so, nomiki, trump is willing to be tough on clintons, frankly why a lot of people support him but how does the clinton side see a general election of trump versus clinton? >> there is a lot of very legitimate arguments to be made against bill clinton's legacy. hillary clinton is running against bill clinton and a lot

that are vial and disgusting that attack conservatives, like donald trump and sarah palin, and rush limbaughirdre: when you interacted with them -- i understand what you are saying, they may have come to their senses because you are part of the fox family, it is a big brand, did they do the right thing by you. >> they did they apologized they don't owe me an explanation, they are the ones paying bills, and they are -- this is disappointing, there big community where people from all view points come, they say, but in fact that is not the case. deirdre: what do you make of this meeting tomorrow at facebook headquarters, mark zucker everything is inviting leading voices, are you hopeful, or do you think that is a show, he does not want the stock price to go down. >> to be honest, it a hooey. i don't think they will change one thing. for years they have been cracking down on conservative be we have traffic evidence this is what -- photographic evidence this is what they consider to be inappropriate, it is okay to have a page that says blank you don't don, but god forbid, you post something about

he specifically admired rush limb ba even 20 years ago, before before rush limbaugh was as much of a household name as he is now. i asked him about "national review," which for some time -- . is is about 2005 or so for some time, it had been more news oriented and current events oriented than it once was. yeah, there were people who didn't really like that. rush he -- rusher said he was fine with that, although he also told me -- i don't believe this as really a confidence -- that when buckley himself retired from the actual editorship of the magazine. well, it was in stages, but he told them -- and i don't know if it was personally to buckley or what, that it was very important that "national review" be not just another conservative magazine, that it was very important for it to retain its identity and its brand. and so it's clear from that -- and he specifically mentioned its catholic pinge. rusher was not a catholic but he very much admired that and respected that as part of "national review's" message and sensibility. he wanted that to continue. so he had no real beefs with "nati

>> you look at the howard stern audience, it reminds me of the rush limbaugh audience just in terms of its reach. it's a wide spread one. one that doesn't get mainstream attention. the working class ethic, those are the kind of people especially in certain rust belt states in the northeast have really connected with trump. >> he was the beginning of the crudification of the media. he took pride in going past these. i found some clips of donald trump where they are talking about j.lo's back side and whether it's too big or not. he asked about if his breasts wife were injured. he's enabling and validating stern. he said stern was his buddy. this is why he's unfavorable with women much more than men. a lot of women haven't heard this stuff. >> they'll hear it now. watch his reaction. >> do you believe voters have a right to see your tax returns before they make a final decision in. >> i don't think they do. i say this. i will gladly give them. they're not going to learn anything. it's under routine audit. when the audits ends i'll present them. >> what is your tax rate? >> it's none of yo

profile battles of substantive issues like reproductive rights and health care access and with rush limbaugh and failed senate candidate richard murdoch and todd akin. frustration and indignation of what they insist is a false narrative created solely and cynically for political gain. >> we have a president that says if you're pro-life you're waing a war on women. >> democrats spent a lot of time trying to cop kokt a war on women. >> the war on women i agree is contrived totally. i don't think there is a war on women. >> the democrats, i think, in agency in of the anger of women in america saying oh republicans are waing a war on women. >> i don't want to hear about the phony war on women. first, i am a women and, second, i have been to war and this is not a war. >> now, the republican party has chosen as its standard bearer somebody that embodies the very caricature they refute. joining us jennifer brown and michael steele, former chairman of rnc and now msnbc political analyst. >> michael, i remember during the peak heat of war on women, many saying it's totally libelous and ridiculous if

. >> i just hear so much outrage from now and the never trump movement and as rush limbaugh pointed out, where was this outrage, about the iran deal? where was this concerted effort and the millions and millions of dollars and the outrage they see now against donald trump, no one, none of you have exhibited that over the left wing extremism in washington and it's interesting that it comes out now against your own. >> part of the reason for this is that hillary clinton and barack obama cannot destroy the conservative brand. donald trump can. donald trump can redefine what it means to be a republican and what it means -- in a way, trump is more dangerous to conservatism than obama and hillary because he is posing as a conservative. >> do you think the story we're seeing play out is the breakup of the gop and will this party exist in december of this year. this is making for strange bedfellows and we're used to a certain cleavage here and for example, normally speaking you might have people like national review and intellectual conservatives and writers who are supporting people like marco

. >> i'm not saying i agree with it, people said that rush limbaugh said trump is wrong because actuallyou just -- he should have sent people to fight for the delegates. and that's not what trump was saying. >> i don't like the whole sim. i think the system should be revamped so that the people are voting have much more say and that much easier to figure out which delegates are this and which delegates are that and states should have one uniform system national election. if you want to do state elections do whatever you want. new poll. good news for trump in the fox news poll. do you know why trump is surging? by the way? do you know? >> i'm not surprises, frankly. i can't say exactly why i know why i just want to know if you are as smart as me. >> did he come on the factor? >> no, he always comes on the factor when is he not mad at me. here is why trump surged because there are no more opponents, the people rooting for the opponents, all right, opponents are gone. some of those people have come over to trump and said look, is he inevidence tillable. don't like hillary clinton. therefore

why he wasn't picking up the phone and calling rush limbaugh and sean hannity, trying to bridge the gap's answer was, i don't need to. mitt romney, came late i think to embracing and trying to go after the tea party, make sure that they were enthusiastic about him. he doesn't have as much success as he might have had. donald trump saying this weekend, i don't need the conservatives. that is crazy. he doesn't have the conservatives, the conservatives beyond the never trippers, he will lose. >> ted cruz wouldn't answer today whether he would officially endorse donald trump. he wouldn't take the question, really. marco rubio said he is supporting the nominee. he signed a pledge. what does it take to get these guys to say -- i'm in? >> i mean some are unwinnable. trump has insulted them personally. i don't think you can overstate the effect of that. he's gone after them and their legacy, the legacy of the bush administration, they're stung by it they're not going to support him. >> isn't hillary clinton the unifying factor? >> you've seen some republicans come out and endorse her. he should

rush limbaugh, you will remember early on in president obama's presidency, you know, said that he hopedhe president would fail. other there were others in congress that wanted to make sure he was a one-term president. it was ineffective, it didn't work and all of those attempts to keep president obama a one-term president actually gave rise to donald trump. >> mitch mcconnell being one of the people who said that. >> and ted cruz also who ensured that he'd shut down the government and all of a sudden saying he did not do it. >> so on the one hand george will instructing the party to focus their entire efforts on trying to limit the next president's effectiveness, which is what they did to barack obama. but this other piece that seems to have -- >> but also helping break government at the same time by saying we want her elected for a one-term presidency. >> what do you make of the fact that this puts donald trump and reince priebus on the same side. reince priebus saying the party has to unite even if it's trump. so you have people like george will saying save the party and the head of t

that by everybody except my mother most people do think i am a middle-aged white guy including rush limbaughnd glenn beck there were some choice words for some of the stories i have written. >> what do you hope readers take away like me personally? what would you like me to know or feel or steed differently? >> what i tell people is a was surprised that critical mass existed that there is something we could never reach. so critical mass is close in more than you think it is. so with the economic necessity we're at the cusp to bring women fully into the workforce. via the year 2030 we will be fully aged out and we will be short 26 million workers. one way of that shortfall is to bring in immigration or bring women up to full employment. they will have to deal with this issue. so i write in the epilogue there are models that we could use in their solution is to impose quotas. canada and the u.k. drinks 30 percent of women into the workforce with middle management but i think the best example was a program in australia us that is very true but called neil champions for a change. it is true it t

others are highlighting trump for going after the media conservative radio host rush limbaugh says this is the news conference waiting for for decades. >> how many years have people been begging for a republican to just once take on the media the way trump did? all the way from the premise to the details, to the motivation. near the end of it a frustrated journalist, mr. trump, mr. trump, mr. trump, is it going to be this way? are you going to be attacking us after you become president? oh my god. because, folks, if the age of internet trolling, manners are out the window. it's a waste of time asking for manners here. >> the "on the record" political panel is here. abc news political director rick klein and "fortune magazine" nina easton. rick, first to you since you are a colleague or abc got one -- got a shout outtoday called a sleaze. >> tom is a terrific reporter. he didn't deserve that from donald trump. >> he will be fine. >> he will be fine. this was a political event from the beginning. donald trump did this because he didn't want to go to a debate on fox. he decided to create t

. >> it's rush limbaugh, a lot of different people. >> rose: there is a vast difference between the two of them. >> i agree. but i do think you have to -- the thing about democracy, and this is why politics is noble, it forces to recognize other people are in the room, and you can wish them away, you may think they're jerks, but they're in the room. >> rose: but it hasn't worked. that's been the biggest problem we've had in this country for a while, it is the absence of people willing to compromise, willing to say, as ronald reagan said, it's better to have a piece of the pie than none of the pie, right? >> right. >> rose: and we've lost that. and everybody knows that. >> if we got attacked by canada, we would get it back. we need a hostile force to attack us. but, no, it's a manner of technological and of skill. i knew a guy named richard darmond. budget director under the first president bush, and we would occasionally go to lunch and he would regale me with stories of graftsman-like skill. a guy who was defense secretary under nixon named mel leonard. he would go to the barbershop in

to use the news stories for character assassination by suspicion and if you get your news from rush limbaughour parent's basement on twitter hate mongering, this might be relevant to you. >> oh, oh, oh. >> but this election will see who can speak to the future of our country, that's what it's all about. >> mark, were you stoned in your parent's basement -- >> he was eating cheetos before this segment. >> there you go. you know, robert, i feel sorry for you because it must be hard 20 years coming up with new excuses for these people either single time -- >> never a reason for an excuse -- >> the reality -- look, the reality, as catherine harris reported, broke the news in january, the fbi investigation into hillary clinton has expanded beyond the e-mail noogs a public corruption investigation and the nexus between the donors, the clinton foundation and efforts to influence the state department. "the washington post" reported in 2015 there are 175 mcauliffe donors who overlap with the clinton foundation donors -- >> and what's wrong with that? and by the way, i'm one of -- >> let him make the

only one left is kasich and the rnc is saying he's the guy that you will start to see perhaps rush limbaugh, you will start to see this come out and what they'll do is they'll turn their fire on hillary. >> they'll remember how much they hate hillary. they'll remember that the enemy isn't obama anymore. the enemy is hillary clinton and that will bring a lot of republicans over to trump i'm sure. >> it will, but republicans alone can't win the election. he's going to have a hard time just getting all the republicans. for example, married women, they are republicans. mitt romney won married women by 7 points. he had a decisive win with married women. hillary is winning married women by 12 points. she can lose them by six and still do better than obama who won. >> as a married women i can tell you his message does not resonate with me and i am right in his wheelhouse. >> it's not enough to go to them and say i hate hillary and she's evil and awful. he has to find ways to reach out. contrast that with hillary clinton. she's going to reach out to the sanders voters. she's going to reach out to t

>> politically, right now, you look at the howard stern audience, it reminds me a lot of rush limbaugh audience, just in terms of its reach. it's a subculture, all on its own, and it's a widespread one, one that doesn't often get mainstream attention. and that working class ethic that the stern audience has, those are the kind of people, especially, in certain rust belt states and in the northeast, they've really connected with trump. >> let me ask you about that. tell me about stern. i don't know anything about him. what's the audience like? >> i think there are people going for crude. he was there at the beginning of the crudeification of the immediate. and he took pride in going past these,, you know -- >> you know, don imus crossed a lot of time and got in trouble for it. but stern always crossed the line. >> that was the point. crossing the line and talking about sex and really on jbjec y objectifying women over and over. i found clips talking about j.lo's backside and if it was too big or not. and they asked the question, if melania was in a car accident and still love her. and t

that most people look at my name and think i am a middle-aged white guy, frankly, and including rush limbaugh and glen beck, some interesting, choice words for this guy, to some of the stories i'd written. >> what do you hope readers take away from the book? like me personally. when i'm done reading it what would you like me to either know or feel or see differently? >> this is a great question. it's a bit unusual. i'm not used to having a partner here. what i usually tell people is i was really surprised that critical mass existed. thought we would have to get to parity and parity just seemed like a million years away to me. like something we'd never reach. i was delighted that critical mass is actually really close and it's closer than you think it is. so, as i mentioned it was economic necessities that broughtwoman into the work force, that first brought women into the work force, and we're at the cusp of bringing women fully into the work force. by the year 2030 the baby-boomer generation will be fully aged out of the work force and we'll be short 26 million workers. there's only two ways

go to the major stats, analytic sites, is dwarfing msnbc and all of glen beck and rush limbaugh's sitesombined. one website with about six people working on it they just have all the flash so it's a giant hoax and they know people are looking behind the curtain now that the emperor has no clothes and so they are openly announcing internet tracking, internet taxes, the white house gulation czar has called for banning, "conspiracy theorists" anybody that questions the official story. the system is losing credibility. it is circling the wagons with government and the big six megacorporations to start curtailing alternative media because we are kicking their hind end. >> are you worried that somebody is going to kick your hind end and take you out of business? >> i think that the corporate media has to change its ways. and they've learned it. i don't think -- i mean, both with newspapers and with television. i don't think it's just that they're losing audience because of the internet. for a long time they've been gate keepers preventing most views, most people from being heard. think this y

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forefront, that rewarded divisive rhetoric by people like laura ingraham and ann coulter, that made rush limbaughht leader of the republican party. that's why you have a climate where the donald trump emerges. >> clearly his message is resonating with hundreds of people. he has said it's important to be flexible when pressed on changes in his policy but flexibility can also mean flip-flopping which typically is a bad thing. it doesn't seem that way for donald trump, but does flexibility mean he's going to etch-a-sketch to the middle as we keep hearing that concern from conservatives and democrats? >> well, first of all, let me just go against ront on this one issue. i think jon stewart is absolutely right. i think both the republicans and the democrat voters are completely frcomplete ly frustrated because they thought they were electing something to office that had not fulfilled the promises. that's why you see in states like pennsylvania, florida, ohio, key red states are now one point difference between hillary clinton and donald trump. so there's frustrations being expressed by the voters on b

stuart: i once had dinner with him at four seasons in new york city, i tried to persuade him to put rush limbaughay night football. [laughter] >> how did that go? >> didn't go well and he didn't do it, it was a very short dinner. how about looking at macy's, part of the retail stage, it's down and down big. they give a weak outlook for the future. there's lots of bricks and mortar companies are not getting foot traffic because of the internet liz: that's right, lower sales versus last year. coming in worse than expected and the holiday season is hanging on them because people have switched toward tj maxx, marshall's, h&m, amazon to do shopping. macy's saw this trend and take it's taking hold. >> one of the things about malls, they're being toing the same. they're looking at what already is trending, there's nothing unique. you have a banana republic that's forgotten the nature of their buyer. you stop going to the mall and find unique things on-line. stuart: bricks and mortar retail, look at that, macy's, penny's, target, kohl's all of them down. i think this is the internet, i think it's on-line

i read the wall street editorial page in '94 and listened to rush limbaugh.ative, nicole, that's what they have been doing this year. >> if you look at the last two presidential races with little success, but i agree with what you're saying. i think that the republicans that run and live in fear of the social conservative activists, they were dealt a decisive loss. i mean, donald trump does not talk their talk. he's not pandering to their issues. he's good on guns but doesn't know the language of the culture of life. there's a question mark because the wall street editorial page and the national grassroots social conservative groups who do not have a dog in the fight now. >> well, we'll play it later, but after what ted cruz said yesterday afternoon about donald trump, that's going to be a hard thing to climb back from. he was losing it. >> the press conference earlier in the morning, yeah, i agree. >> also the bigger picture here is the beginning of the massive pivot toward the general election that we saw last night. everyone was talk about donald trump's c

rush limbaugh put it in great perspective yesterday. >> it's not unusual tabloids is no different than e entertainment television or tmz, they have various locations on the strata, but that kind of gossip is going to have an audience, trump is getting it early for a reason. he told everybody he's getting it out there. nobody else will touch it. nobody else has wanted to touch this stuff ever, any of it. >> tabloids work. people watch the tabloid magazine shows, the access hollywood's, the entertainment tonight. >> he says donald trump is doing the job the mainstream media won't. he's getting the word out there. >> some people don't like it. they are old school. other people are saying no one has gone after the clintons and finally someone is. >> and no one will ever go after heather nauert like that. mitt romney didn't go through the jugular. he didn't go for the win, and donald trump said it. mitt romney did not do a -- he didn't close it. he wants to show that he will do anything to close it. >> i think this is our first ever heather and mitt romney talk. >> we need to remind people

rush limbaugh said i'll never vote for him.r -- even when i said clinton eastwood was a failure, national convention abject failure, mitt romney's campaign in trouble, i get massacred in the conservative press. willie, one thing to say this in the spring. you get to the spring, again, a lot of coalescing in the fall. >> this is new and fresh and painful for people, the republican party that this just happen happened. you get to october and want hillary clinton to be president, that's a scary prospect for people and you pull the trigger for trump. >> life is a series of choices. between donald trump and hillary clinton. he remembered in '76 when people were really upset coming out of the convention. he said i think there will be a lot of people who will be surprised who will get on board in the end. might take time but evenings they will. >> totally agree. all right. still ahead on "morning joe." >> this an individual not in a combat mission. he was in a dangerous place. his position came under attack. he was armed, trained, and

social media, rush limbaugh had an interesting point the other day. which is a lefty outlet, has an article about limbaugh, not a lefty, saying that donald trump has introduced trolling to campaigning. and there is no question that these campaigns have waves of haters who come after the media and others who go against them. what do you make of the dynamic? >> well, i think that's exactly right, and i think that donald trump has put a very unique role in doing that, and that's because he's been more active on social media and especially twitter than any presidential candidate in history. at the same time, he's run a campaign that has been full of some pretty hateful rhetoric, and certainly in the case of julia yaffy, you have a campaign that sort of trafficked in male chauvinism and at the same time pr propagated strong anti-rhetoric, you see those two ahead of the case of julia and the anti-semitic strain as well. i think donald trump has a very aggressive and vocal group of supporters, and while with can't identify every anonymous twitter troller, a

. >> bill clinton, apart from the sections on breitbart or rush limbaugh.o gain by trying to crack the guy? >> he's popular personally, but look at what hillary clinton's doing with his policies. she's running almost as much against bill clinton as she is against donald trump. she's running against the crime bill, she's running against welfare reform, she's running against free trade. well, those are huge achievements. >> but she's not running to be the third term of bill clinton. she's running to be the first term of hillary clinton. and you know what, she is a brilliant woman whose had her own successful career, who has served in the united states senate and as a secretary of state and was led on children's issues, she needs to be be her own person. she doesn't need to defend her husband's term. >> hillary, i'm going to just throw this in, hill have i not going back to the 1990s, in fact, she's going after trump on the business record, not releasing his tax returns, let's run that sound so we can get your reaction to that. >> it may be that he hasn't paid