erin burnett outfront starts right now. erin burnett outfront starts captions by vitac www.vitac.com next, the interview ha has a lot of people talking. ted nugent says he s a changed man. even his own brother doesn t believe him. plus the president says the rich are getting richer. is it it the government s problem? and rush limbaugh blames the the homosexual lobby for bulling the arizona governor on a controversial bill. for real? let s go outfront. good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. ted nugent says he s a changed man. at least that s what he told me last night in an interview that got a lot of people talking. i confronted him about calling president obama a sub human mon
is a black president a climp pan zee, i would and should be fired. i didn t call the president. first, paul, please respond to ted nugent to the substance of what he had to say. obviously, he watched you on the show last week pretty closely. you were on with ben, i believe that night. well, there wasn t any substance. i shouldn t have called ted a has been. he was a star. it s not about the ted nugent. i probably i was trying to be goofy and funny. i am a goof ball. i accept that. i agree. it s about greg abbott. this is what mr. ferguson is talking about. greg abbott is the attorney general of texas. he could choose anyone to campaign with him and he chose this really incendiary, some people think hateful spokesman. the question is who s next? is he going to get vinnie polit politan vladimir putin to campaign for him on gay rights? paul, you really think that s a fair comparison?
little bit too hard to try to destroy greg abbott because of his relationship with ted cruz or i should say with ted nugent. it may be backfiring on them today. that s an incredible thing if it s true. that he would actual see the poll numbers. go up on the basis of that. yeah, i think they overblayed it. i do. i think people in texas that know ted nugent and know what to expect from him and take him with a grain of salt saw them try to destroy greg abbott many believe is a good man and think they may be overplayed their hand. that s an interesting question about how they re playing their hand, paul, because there wasn t just the mon grew comment in the comment that ted nugent originally made. he also used the word chimpanzee in i away that seemed to refer pretty clearly to the president. i wanted to play that exchange to you for your reaction because you re part of it, paul. i call my buddies in my band
approval rating because people still look at the grand what he did as president of the united states of america. democrats are campaigning with him today. and they look past that because they saw there was a personal mistake. ted nugent made a mistake. he made a mistake in what he said. that s the thing that people look at. final word goes to paul. ben, i have to beg you we stop using monica lewinsky from 20 years ago when we are discussing politics. i don t think we re helping ourselves. the point is though people look past failures. there s a lot of points we can take issue with in regards to bill clinton or hillary clinton who might be the potential candidate. i don t want to go back to relitigating what we did, what he did 20 years ago. please. final word goes to paul, the democrat. he s been very silent. i think the i m trying to be polite here. my goodness, this is a lively debate. i think the final word is this. the democrats have chosen the