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Hillary one. Look at you all laughing. I mean, it's easy to laugh now. I mean, we were given our odds the day before the election. Linda was Linda was the most bullish. She knew her pencil venue would come through. Ethan and I were at the 50 50 range. Where were you sunshine? Lauren.

Land slide. You were at the land. You were not at landslide. Where are you? Wow. And I think Jay Son, you were with me pretty much or a little bit hopeful. I said I was going to be disappointed if it wasn't a landslide, but I from the beginning, since he'd won the primary said that he was going to win. Yeah, listen, it was never easy. And I one thing I feel good about. Look, as we look back on this whole process and it is probably by every account way too long.

I am proud of this fact that we made a promise. Then we all sat down. Remember the meeting in early 2015. And we sat down and I said, this is how we're going to handle the election. And what you don't remember the meeting. You don't even what you don't even look and listen to me. She does. She is not paying attention to me. You're not listening one bit. There's a show going on here that you're supposed to listen to. This is my.

My favorite show ever. Yeah. Okay. You didn't hear one word. I said, what did I say? You know what? With great specificity and clear clarity, 94 million out of the labor force, 54 trillion on food stamps. You know, this is this is unprecedented. Thank God for Trump. Okay. That's not what I said at all. And you weren't listening and you were talking to the snap. All right. Well, forget it. The one thing that I am proud of is that we set out of strategy. How to handle the election with you are listeners in mind. How?

We can best serve you and same with TV. We have the same strategy. We have the same meeting. And I remember I got from Matt Schlapp. I think you know, Matt Schlapp is married to Mercedes Schlapp. And he married way out of his league. And they have the cutest girls. I've ever seen in my life. They have the cutest family.

Anyway, so Matt had invited me at the time, whether or not I would come back to CPAC, which I had kind of abandoned over the years for different reasons, like other conservatives had. And I said, I would. And he said, I want you to take on a pretty significant role. And I said, I'd be glad to. And he said, I want you to do your radio show from here. And I said, I would be glad to. And maybe even your TV show. And I said, that's fine. And he said, I want you to start interviewing those people that we think or have said that they're going to run. And I said, I'd be glad to do that too. And so I had to make a decision. I mean, there was a lot of things that I wanted to do. I said, I want to do that. I said, I want to do that. I want to do that. I want to do that. I want to do that. I want to do that. I want to do that

for 17 people running. And of the 17, I probably liked all of them. I don't think there's anybody that had a dislike for. And I remember I interviewed Donald Trump and interviewed Rick Perry and interviewed Ted Cruz and interviewed Ram Paul and interviewed Marco Rubio and Ben Carson. And we had all these guys on. And it was part of an effort to bring you as much access to the candidates as we could.

And I said, at the time, I said, that was going to be my mission for the next year. Then you fast forward to this year, 2016. And these guys were battling it out with each other. And then we get to the primary season. It was maybe just the primary started in February. I think it was one month later, we're back at CPAC. And it was kind of down at that point already to Trump Cruz, Kasek, Rubio. And it was getting tighter. I said, Trump, yeah.

And yeah, Jabba, think we're still on it at that point. And I said, I'm going to continue doing what I just did. And that is, I'm going to let you decide. And that's when I gave my speech at CPAC where I said, at the end of this process, I asked the audience, I said, some of you are going to be extremely upset and unhappy.

And I said, if you don't get on board, it's not going to be good. And I asked everybody at CPAC, I said, wait, hang on. Don't stand yet. I said, do you promise that if your guy loses, you'll support whoever the eventual winner is. I had no idea in March of this year who the nominee was going to be an I don't think anybody else did either.

And then I made a promise that whoever the nominee was that I would support them. And I'm glad I did. And I'm glad we went all in. And very much very similar to 2008.

Because we do this in spite of all the media coverage, it's a surprise to them every four years that I go all in for the candidate that I think is going to best serve the American people whose policies I believe the most did.

And I did that in 2007 and eight, we were vetting Barack Obama. I mean, we were doing hours about the radical who's about to take the White House.

And we were telling you things and digging deep with information that nobody else would seem to be willing to give you.

And the whole country collectively seemed to be caught up in Obama, Mania. And it was like a mental condition for some people.

And nobody wanted to hear one negative thing, but we did our job anyway. And we were criticized greatly for it.

And in the end, sadly, he got elected. And then sadly, I was more right than I thought I would be. And I tried to warn you again in 2012.

I still do this day. We'll stick by the fact that I think Mitt Romney would have been a good president.

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