Tonight is the night in Atlanta, Georgia, where Donald Trump and Joe Biden take center stage at the first presidential debate of 2020. It's a night of firsts. The first time either of them has been on a debate stage since 2020, the first time a debate has been held so early in the campaign, and Trump is the first convicted felon to ever participate in a presidential debate.
00:01:45.720I think they will be tough to both sides.
00:01:47.680And I think the hostility from what we're seeing already from the Trump campaign is coming from Trump.
00:01:54.240Home prices set another record high in April, up 6.3% nationally from April of last year.
00:02:00.280This just feeds into what is now one of the least affordable housing markets in U.S. history.
00:02:05.420The DNC bought out five of these billboards here in the Atlanta area where they're mocking Trump for his felony conviction in New York.
00:02:12.560I think he has to go after Trump on everything in a restrained but very sharp way.
00:02:20.260He's running against a convicted criminal and adjudicated rapist.
00:02:24.480He should not be afraid of saying that.
00:02:26.100Hosted by CNN in Atlanta without a live audience would be the equivalent of Joe Biden agreeing to do a Fox News hosted debate in Alabama with 3,000 live audience members.
00:02:36.740So I give Donald Trump a lot of credit for that.
00:02:38.680If you're going to lead the country, you've got to be able to show up.
00:03:15.560Or should I say the second debate night?
00:03:18.980So if any of you guys were watching last night, we did hold the debate right here in this very studio, Real America's Voice Studios, but hosted by Zero Hedge.
00:03:30.280My debate with Ryan Gerdusky against Robbie Suave and the libertarian candidate for president, Chase Oliver.
00:03:37.820I got to say, I thought for the most part, I wish I could say it wasn't chaotic, but we saw what happened.
00:03:53.460And something that really came out of it was this.
00:03:55.500Those guys have this view that is sort of the George W. Bush Chamber of Commerce view that a country is just a collection of cogs.
00:04:08.280There are workers, there are middle class, and there are the upper class.
00:04:11.960But those people are interchangeable, and that all people from all around the world are interchangeable.
00:04:17.160So it doesn't matter if you come from Europe.
00:04:18.900It doesn't matter if you're coming from Asia or the Middle East or the Third World or Africa or Latin America or South America, any of this.
00:04:27.040And what we should be doing is handing out visas to anyone who wants to come in for as little as money possible and allow them to work here legally.
00:04:35.160So these are talking about pathways to citizenship.
00:04:39.700When I brought up taking action against the cartels, that was totally opposed.
00:04:44.400When I said that immigration is already too high, that we've been flooded by illegals, we've been flooded by so many foreign-born population, and that this population flips states.
00:04:55.060They said, well, name one state that's been flipped by migration.
00:05:38.340And I was able to go over a huge thank you and so gracious to Stephen K. Bannon, who is doing now a special book with us, a special edition, the Political Prisoner Edition of Un-Humans.
00:06:08.140Ladies and gentlemen, one of the best ways that you can support us here at Human Events and the work that we do is subscribing to us on our Rumble channel.
00:08:15.960I play a guy that when he was in Indonesia in his 20s, he was surfing there.
00:08:20.380And he got in a fight with a guy, and he killed him.
00:08:22.060He ended up getting the death penalty in an Indonesian prison.
00:08:25.580And during the time he was in prison, he found God, and he became a pastor within a church.
00:08:31.000And saved many souls, not only inmates, but also fellow guards as well.
00:08:35.320And ultimately, he was executed in 2015, so it's really not that long ago.
00:08:42.480And Cuba Gooding Jr. is in the movie with me as well.
00:08:44.940And it's a story of finding redemption and hope in a place that's as dark and dreary as a foreign prison while you're sitting on death row.
00:08:58.380And it shows you that there is hope anywhere in the world.
00:09:00.920And I think it's perfect timing for a movie like this to come out.
00:09:04.160Because as you can see, the world's absolutely crazy and insane.
00:09:06.940And the archangels of death and anger and hatred are doing a very good job of not only creating chaos in America, but around the world as well.
00:10:15.640DVDs are dying out, but people are still buying them.
00:10:18.220But I think when you're in a theater and you've got a good group of people that are with you,
00:10:24.760I think there's a bigger effect on the emotions that go through the movies.
00:10:27.780Whether it's laughter, whether it's crying, whether it's emotion, like just finding that there is a place out there that there has hope and redemption in it.
00:10:35.940So that's why I think this movie is going to go in theaters first.
00:10:38.960I've got the Reagan movie coming out as well, August 30th, with Dennis Quaid.
00:10:53.100I've always been attracted to them, the movies that I've done in the past and movies I'm getting ready to do later this year and next year.
00:10:58.000So I think theaters still carry a positive emotional roller coaster for people.
00:11:32.160When you're on the phone, you're at home, you're on the phone, you're scrolling, you're looking at something, you're watching human events daily, of course.
00:11:38.860But you're not totally focused and totally locked in.
00:11:42.060And when you get a group of people doing that, you're going to have a more emotionally connected, shared experience.
00:11:48.760That's why when you leave a theater, right, you can actually talk to people as you're walking out.
00:11:54.180Oh, my gosh, this is my best, my favorite part.
00:11:56.380Or when that guy said that, that totally destroyed me.
00:33:34.080And he was willing to go in and actually talk, gave a great speech, and showed why, if your philosophy is libertarian-leaning, Donald Trump's the guy for you.
00:33:45.740I mean, the things that he did when he was president, to me, a couple of the most important things that libertarian philosophy really shows us is how detrimental war is, how expensive it is,
00:33:59.020and also how dangerous the government can be when it turns its focus on the people that it's supposed to serve.
00:34:05.980And we've seen both these things, sadly, in America over the past several decades.
00:34:11.200Trump is the first president, in recent memory, not to start a new war, was actually in the process of winding down the overseas engagements.
00:34:18.740And at this point, he's been in the crosshairs of the deep state, and I actually relish Donald Trump walking into the Oval Office knowing that he's going to take care of some of this,
00:34:32.520and he's going to just rip the deep state out root and branch.
00:34:36.000Well, and this is similar to, so Dave Smith, by the way, who was also at the conference or at the convention, he made a similar point because he said that there's one move,
00:34:50.980and that move is you could try to run against Trump, and you could fight against Trump, or what if you made a pragmatic move and made a deal?
00:35:00.120And I believe President Trump came out of there saying, I would appoint a libertarian to my cabinet.
00:35:06.320So that's pragmatism versus ideology and idealism.
00:35:25.380So, Kenny Cody, let me pass it to you then.
00:35:27.920When you wrote this, tell me some of your underpinnings, you know, and really your background.
00:35:34.100Do you come from more of a libertarian background in terms of belief system, or is this something where you find that you can agree with people and you're trying to make that connection?
00:35:46.200I mean, my first writing job came with the Libertarian Republic with fellow human events contributor, Austin Peterson, actually.
00:35:51.720He offered me a job as a writer back in 2019 to 2020.
00:35:55.940And I've always identified with the libertarian perspectives of foreign policy, anti-government intervention, you know, trying to fight against the deep state, want to abolish things like the ATF, the FBI, the CIA.
00:36:06.580I do identify with that, even on the border and immigration and a few other different policies I don't necessarily agree with them on.
00:36:13.280But this piece really came to mind because there's a lot of libertarians back in 2016 and 2020 that did relate to Donald Trump.
00:36:19.840You know, you saw even kind of more so in 2020, ironically enough.
00:36:22.820You know, Gary Johnson got like 3% back in 2016.
00:36:26.160Joe Jorgensen got like 1% in 2020, which kind of showed more of a shift towards Trump and the libertarian party.
00:36:33.000And we're trying to make the same kind of appeal because the guy that they nominated, Chase Oliver, seems to be more of a left-leaning libertarian than a right-leaning libertarian.
00:36:41.360It's not like Dave Smith or people from the Macy's Institute or anything else.
00:36:44.300It's these left libertarians that are not willing to stand up to progressive cultural change, cultural Marxism, and a number of different cultural issues.
00:36:52.260And Donald Trump's willing to fight all those things while still fighting against his own government, fighting against his own bureaucratic weaponization that the federal government is going after him on, such as the Buddhist organization.
00:37:03.000Such as the attempt to literally imprison him for his political beliefs.
00:37:07.440He can identify with a libertarian party unlike any other candidate in American history or in any one of the major parties ever for in American history because he can identify with that ideology.
00:37:17.960He can identify with that cultural approach.
00:37:19.640And if we, as Republicans, can make that appeal to libertarians to come over and vote for the most anti-establishment, anti-government, and this century or maybe even the history of the United States since the literal founders of this country, I think we need to do that.
00:37:34.680We need to make that appeal the same way Donald Trump did at the Libertarian National Convention, like Mayor Jacob said.
00:37:38.780Well, and that's kind of the thing too, because when I see left, when I hear people say we want to fight wokeness, we want to fight wokeness, and then you go to talk to the left libertarians, like the current candidate for the Libertarian Party, and this didn't really come up so much last night, but they're totally for all the left-wing cultural changes that we see going on.
00:37:56.800Things that, personally, I would describe as forms of cultural Marxism, transing the children, teaching this propaganda and this agenda in the classroom, thinking that it's perfectly okay to do this.
00:38:11.740BLM, Antifa, yeah, they're totally fine with that because they say, no, that's okay because that's a private sector thing.
00:38:20.800So as long as it's the private sector doing it, then it's perfectly okay.
00:38:24.860And that's something I categorically reject.
00:38:27.480And anyone, by the way, can go watch the clips from last night where they're talking about, well, we just need open borders and the way to deal, I love this part, they said the way to deal with illegal immigration was to make it easier for more people to come in, and then if we just flood the country with as many as possible, I was like, so that's pathway to citizenship, that's amnesty.
00:38:47.820You guys are just for amnesty, as if that's some big coverall when we don't even know the 20 million plus that we currently have here.
00:39:00.060So, Glenn, you know, obviously, the libertarian movement.
00:39:03.160There is sort of this left libertarian faction, and it seems like those are the ones that are kind of, at least for this year, the ones that have gotten on the ticket.
00:39:12.160Yeah, it seems like that as far as the LP is concerned.
00:39:17.540You know, we also have to think about libertarianism as a political movement and a philosophy as opposed to the political party, and those are really two different things.
00:39:26.940You know, you look at someone like Rand Paul, Thomas Massey, you know, those folks who are libertarians, and I would argue Mike Lee as well, you know, in the federal government, and obviously the godfather of it all, Ron Paul, you know, but their philosophy is basically libertarianism, but they don't agree with all of this.
00:39:48.760Kenny was talking about earlier, you know, all of the tenets of the libertarian party, nor do I, and, you know, what you were talking about as far as some of the things that kind of left libertarians gravitated to, those are things that are being pushed by the government.
00:40:02.600I mean, that's what we have to understand.
00:40:04.400Those are things that are being pushed by the government.
00:40:07.620They're not organically happening in society, and for no other reason, so much of it is coming from academia, and who funds academia?
00:40:15.740You know, so I think that there's an argument to be made that, you know, if we were to look at a libertarian world, it would actually be much more socially conservative than what we have now because you wouldn't have people in government pushing all these different things.
00:40:29.540It would be what most people are least offended by, and in this case, you know, when you're thinking about things like, you know, trans and kids and all that sort of stuff, you know, that just has no place in any sort of society, and I don't think that you can see it.
00:40:43.860It's totally government-first as well.
00:41:13.940The view count is going through the roof.
00:41:16.360This impassioned pitch, why libertarians should vote for Trump.
00:41:22.240And of course, coming off the heels of me debating the libertarian candidate for president yesterday, but there's another debate coming up tonight.
00:41:30.520So let me throw it to Kenny Cody to kick things off.
00:41:34.520What's your prediction for the debate tonight?
00:41:37.940Do you think that Trump's going to come in guns blazing?
00:41:40.780Do you think Biden's going to collapse?
00:42:04.560I think he is a cult of personality, unlike any other.
00:42:08.040And I think he needs to come off likable.
00:42:09.320So kind of like he doesn't need to come off too mean.
00:42:13.420But I think he needs to come at the policies, come at the weaponization of the government that Biden has used against him and against pro-life Christians, against conservatives, against January 6ers.
00:42:23.520Come out against that dehumanization that Biden has come around, make Biden out to be the monster.
00:42:27.740I know a lot of people think that Biden is just this incoherent old man.
00:42:33.340But the evil things he has done while in his administration have got to be highlighted because the American people cannot see him or have any sympathy for him.
00:42:40.640And I think Trump needs to acknowledge that.
00:42:42.640While not coming off too nasty, acknowledge the evil things he's done.
00:42:45.880Let the American people know that this just isn't just a belligerent old man.
00:42:49.300This is a bureaucratic, weaponized tyrant that is using every bit of his power to go after his political opponents.
00:42:55.320Make him come off as a political prisoner and attack every failure that Biden has had while he's been in office.
00:43:01.380And I think that's how you sell to the American people that you are the competent one.
00:43:04.860You are the guy that has to lead the country forward and reverse the current course the country is on right now.
00:43:10.300All right, Glenn Jacobs, you know what it's like to square off in prime time one-on-one, shall we say.
00:43:37.300Biden locked himself away, sequestered himself from the world, met with his team of experts, and just practiced and practiced and practiced.
00:43:44.180And I probably think that most of that practice will have left his brain by the time he actually gets behind the microphone.
00:43:52.780But I also think that what we're going to see is just the natural difference between two candidates.
00:43:57.420You know, normally when you think about these debates, you have two, you know, polished candidates that just repeat talking points and blah, blah, blah.
00:44:04.720This one's going to be completely different.
00:44:06.880You know, because you have Donald Trump, who speaks his mind, and Joe Biden, who doesn't have anything on his mind.
00:44:13.020So I think really it's Biden that's going to have a huge problem tonight, because if he functions like he has at other public events, there's no hiding this.
00:44:24.060In fact, I'm a little shocked that they would have this debate because we can see that cognitive decline that sadly has occurred.
00:44:33.720But nevertheless, that's going to be for all the world to see.
00:44:36.460So you're going to see, you know, an old man who looks like an old man who doesn't function very well.
00:44:43.040And then, of course, he'll point out that Trump is not a young man either.
00:44:46.400The difference is Trump is very energetic.
00:45:38.000You know, the number of folks that have crossed the border illegally is huge.
00:45:42.220My orcas is going around the country now claiming victory to have a secure border.
00:45:46.020You know, it's literally they're telling the American people, don't believe your lying eyes for their base.
00:45:51.980Obviously, that's what they're going to do.
00:45:54.960But for all the people that are undecided in the middle, I think they're going to be insulted by a lot of the things that they hear, because obviously the empirical evidence shows something completely different.