'Believing in People, Not Institutions ' - 4⧸20⧸18
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Summary
In light of the release of James Comey's memos, Glenn and I discuss what we can learn from them and what we should be worried about from them. Glenn explains why he thinks James Comey should have been fired and why he should have resigned.
Transcript
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The Comey memos, they were finally delivered. Congress had them in their hands.
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So, of course, those hands passed them immediately to the press.
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In record time, literally within minutes, Nancy Pelosi quickly tweeted last night regarding the contents of the memos,
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quote, the release of the hashtag Comey memos are further proof of at real Donald Trump's contempt for the rule of law.
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His attempts to intimidate, circumvent the law and undermine the integrity of law enforcement investigations
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demand immediate action to protect the Mueller investigation.
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Now, maybe Pelosi got her hands on a group of different memos because we've all read the 15 page leak
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In fact, it appears to me to be kind of the opposite.
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Comey's memos cover conversations with the president from January 7th to April 11th, 2017.
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And Comey has hinted that these conversations would prove that the president was guilty of a crime.
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In fact, they wouldn't release these to the Congress because, well, it would hurt the investigation.
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I don't wear how because I don't see collusion and I don't see obstruction in almost every single memo.
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The first one, the Russian hookers and the infamous, you know, golden showers rumor.
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The president seemed really worried about that and not because he thought it was true, but because how embarrassing it looked.
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Also, you know, I think Melania was probably a little upset, even if she knew it was untrue to have this said about your husband
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and have half of the country believe this stuff had to have been upsetting.
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The second thing, Comey notes that the president was really worried about the leaks.
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He should be both in the FBI and in the West Wing.
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Now, to me, if you didn't laugh out loud when you read this line from Comey, you have absolutely no sense of irony.
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Quote, I told the president that I was reliable in one way, but not in the way political people sometimes use the term.
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I explained that he could count on me to always tell the truth.
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I just I just leak this stuff and then write a book about it.
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Was Comey setting up the ultimate scenario for literary students in universities all over the world to understand the term poetic justice?
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Because within a few months of telling the president he's reliable, he doesn't leak.
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He's both leaking these conversations to the press and writing a tell all book.
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And lastly, the third and most common topic Comey mentions in the memos were mentions, any mention at all, that might have made reference to his job.
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The president never appeared ready or willing to fire him, but Comey seems overly hypersensitive to it.
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I would say that Comey's memos were just as disappointing and uneventful as one of his press conferences.
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But that wouldn't be entirely true, because out of the seven total memos, four of them have been redacted and classified.
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That means that there is hypersensitive, top secret information in four of the messages, memos.
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Well, Comey allegedly leaked four of these memos to his friend in order to be given to the press.
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That means, at the very minimum, one of those memos was classified.
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Is this the smoking gun that is really coming out of these memos?
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Oh, this is going to be a good day to have Bill O'Reilly on.
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He then pivoted to the Russians wanting an apology from Bill O'Reilly.
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I said I had seen that and O'Reilly's reply, which was to call him in 2023.
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The president then said O'Reilly's question about whether he respected Putin had been a hard one.
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He said he does respect the leader of a major country and thought that it was the best answer.
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I said the answer was fine, except the part of the killers, because we aren't the kind of killers that Putin is.
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When I said this, the president paused noticeably.
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I didn't know what to make of it, but he clearly noticed that I had directly criticized him.
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I can't wait to talk to Bill O'Reilly because he brings it up every week.
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Every week is like, and you know, another thing, Bill, what do you think about putting?
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Well, when I was talking to the president in my interview after the Super Bowl, I criticized his thinking about Putin.
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And I also like chocolate pudding, so he's going to he's going to have a lot to say about this today.
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I mean, I don't think there's much that's new in there.
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I mean, for all the beating that Comey has taken for selling the book, you just made that point, which I think is legitimate.
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You know, I mean, people have been critical of him as far as trying to make money off of this that gets fair.
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But on the other side of it, if his goal was solely to make money off of this, he has a terrible rollout of this material because he this is all just supporting evidence to what he said when he was in front of Congress.
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He's already testified about everything that seemingly is in the book.
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I've only seen the excerpts, but nothing that I've seen in the excerpts have led me to anything new.
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And these memos, I mean, I guess you could look at them if you are a Comey supporter and say, OK, I mean, they look like it.
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Was there a doubt when you were reading them that this stuff happened?
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I mean, it seems like they were legitimately what happened in these meetings and and most importantly, his impressions, not facts, but his impressions of of what happened in those conversations.
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So he seems to be highlighting things he felt were important in the conversation and how he felt about them.
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That's, I guess, what you do when you're making a contemporaneous memo.
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He's well known for making contemporaneous memos, right?
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Are there memos about his meetings with Lynch and Clinton?
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I think he did address that again in a previous conversation.
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Because he did not think of them as he didn't think he was going to be a dishonest conversation that the person would later lie about what what was said.
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So he believed he he had a distrust believed for Hillary Clinton and Loretta Lynch.
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He believed them and thought, well, they'll never be doing anything.
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I mean, he complimented Lynch specifically saying she was nice, but less competent, I think, was was the was the general vibe than Eric Holder.
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But again, she he worked for he's worked for Republicans and Democrats.
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He also didn't seemingly make those memos about George W.
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So I guess you could you could you could make I don't know, you know, again, I don't know.
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I guess I guess if you just you know, if you if you look at the president and say the guy is a serial liar, then you start to you start to make the memos.
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But if you don't if you don't also think that Hillary Clinton in the midst of an investigation about leaking secret documents that that might be used and turned around by Hillary Clinton and her operatives, you're you're an idiot, particularly when you're the one that's gone through an investigation in which you've called her extremely careless.
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And you've dealt with the Clintons for a long time.
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You know, there's a new book coming out by an author who was embedded in the Clinton campaign.
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And they and this is from a mainstream journalist, not a conservative, obviously, talking about how Biden wanted to run and decided partially not to because he knew he would be destroyed by the Clintons.
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And that's, you know, you know, if Joe Biden, a theoretical ally in every circumstance, except a primary, it feels that way.
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You'd have to believe that Comey, after going through an investigation that could, you know, hurt Clinton's chances at the presidency would feel that way.
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If I may, if I may quote the Daily Beast, no one in modern politics, male or female, has had to withstand more indignities and setbacks and criticism and cynicism.
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She's developed a protective armor that made the real Hillary Clinton an enigma.
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It's the fault of everyone else who just can't see.
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I'm may I I'm going to go a little I'm going to go a little farther.
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You were just talking about how Biden has confided off the record that he wanted to run.
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But Hillary Clinton on election night, quote, they were never going to let me be president.
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Our good friend Pat Gray has been in and out of the hospital for the last few days, and we would just ask for your prayers for him and his family.
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I saw him last night, and he's doing well, but he's had a rough week.
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He went into the hospital for some pain, thought it was kidney stones.
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He was out and under the knife by nine, and he's doing fine.
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They corrected everything, but it's been a bad week for Pat.
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He is on the mend and doing well, but it's weird because he's, you know,
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Pat, at one point, because he gets injections in his back, steroid injections in his back like I do, and you don't take those, you know, without anesthesia.
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You know, they're jamming needles into your back, and he didn't want to ask anybody to drive him home because you can't drive home after that,
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We go to the same doctor, and the doctor was like, I've never seen anything like it.
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I begged him not to do it, but he didn't want to bother anybody, so we haven't really known what's been going on with Pat.
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We've been getting bits and pieces, and I went over last night, and I'm like, okay, dude, what is happening?
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And he didn't know for most of the week, but he's doing much better.
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But, and out of the woods, I think, yesterday, I think he took a turn for the better, but it was a little touch and go, so.
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I think the risk with Pat is that he's in such terrible pain all the time that if you have a sudden increase in pain, he just thinks it's normal.
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So, you know, he probably doesn't rush to the hospital.
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I don't think I've ever seen anybody in more constant pain than Pat.
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His first back surgery was the year I met him, you know, so he's been in agonizing pain.
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So if I could just summarize it, basically, before he met you, he was pain-free, and now he's been, it's been pain since that moment, basically.
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Basically, incredible pain since he ran into you.
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What you're saying is his lower back could be described as his ass, and I would be the pain.
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Makes me feel really, it makes me feel super good.
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But yesterday, we went through a list and tried to make a list, and it kind of happened offhandedly.
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Yesterday was the 23rd anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing.
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And we were talking about it on the air, and this happened in 1995, and I was really, 1995 was a big year for me.
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I was just starting to sober up, and I was really starting to look at the world and try to figure out what I knew and what I didn't know.
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And in 1995, we had the Oklahoma City bombing in April, and then in October, the O.J. Simpson verdict came back.
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So while we were watching the O.J. trial, the verdict comes back just a few months later after the bombing.
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And it was, I remember standing watching the television and seeing people cheer that he was found not guilty,
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and I just shook my head, and I'm like, I don't understand my country anymore.
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How can this guy, who grew up here in America, just bomb this building and kill all these people?
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And then a few months later, how can O.J. Simpson, a hero of so many, cut the head off of his wife,
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which was hard to believe in the first place, and then be found not guilty?
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And then yesterday, I start going down this list of all of the things that happened after,
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then Monica Lewinsky, and then, you know, the Bush Gore, you know, Bush v. Gore,
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and, you know, selected, not elected, and then September 11th, and then the wars, and Michael Moore,
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and, you know, us, and fake news, and all of this stuff.
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Is there anything that has made us feel good about the institutions, and about our country, and about people?
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Is there anything that has happened where all of us have united, like we did on 9-12?
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So we started making this list, the miracle on the Hudson, Sully Sullenberger.
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That was a day that I think every American went, wow, miracles happen.
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The Houston Hurricanes, the response here in Houston,
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the rescue of Elizabeth Smart, the Paris shooting on the train with the three Americans,
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the Amish response to the shooting, the Charleston response to the shooting, even SpaceX.
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There have been some amazing things, but as I look at this last night,
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they make us believe in people, not institutions.
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And those institutions have been being battered time and time again.
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And one of the biggest battering we'll talk about next.
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So, Stu and I saw a movie earlier this week that comes out, is it released today?
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It is quite an amazing story of something that I don't think anybody really pays attention to.
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We were just talking about how our institutions have just taken a beating
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where we don't really trust any of our institutions.
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And I think it's because we no longer follow the Constitution of the United States.
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We are violating the Bill of Rights all the time.
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And it has become, you know, the way everybody just does business.
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You know, I can fire you or do whatever I want.
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I can take your wealth, seize your property, and just sell it off without any kind of charges
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It almost, in fact, I make the case that all of the top 10 in the Bill of Rights,
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the first 10, they've all been violated on a regular basis.
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We are a country that is based upon the idea that there are certain inalienable rights
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However, there is a case of evident domain that is phenomenal.
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And I remember when this court case came out, it was the Kelo case,
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I remember thinking, not really hearing anything about it until it was over,
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How can a city come in and take a bunch of houses
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and then give that property to a private corporation?
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And Scott Bullock, he is the president of the Institute of Justice.
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He's the lawyer that is portrayed in this movie,
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For anybody who doesn't remember the Kelo case,
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Suzette Kelo was a paramedic, lived in Connecticut,
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and she had left a bad marriage after raising five sons
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And she saw a little cottage when she was making one of her runs in the ambulance
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and fell in love with this place that, as she said,
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It was the first piece of property that she ever owned in her entire life.
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And she bought it, fixed it up, painted it her favorite color, pink.
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And about a year after she had finally found a little sanctuary for herself in life,
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she got a knock on the door and was told that because a new Pfizer plant was moving in next door,
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that the city wanted to do development to supposedly complement this Pfizer facility.
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And if she didn't sell, eminent domain was going to be used against her and her neighbors
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to clear them out to make way for these development projects
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because the city wanted more tax revenue and increased economic development.
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So that's exactly the opposite of what eminent domain was designed to be used for, of course,
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which is authorized under the Constitution only for public use.
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I used to work at Radio City Music Hall, and I would drive up to 30 Rock,
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and there are two buildings, and they are both part of 30 Rockefeller Center.
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There are two buildings that do not fit the Art Deco architecture.
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Even Rockefeller, who was building when nobody else was building,
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providing all kinds of jobs, all kinds of taxes for, I don't even remember what it is, 12 city blocks.
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Those two buildings that are now part of 30 Rock were left there
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because those were the two people that said, I'm not selling.
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Well, it happened over the course of many decades where,
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is where exceptions start being made to the Constitution
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It meant for true public projects like a road or a bridge
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like a railroad or a public utility where everybody had right to use the line.
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But then government started wanting to do these,
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what was then in the 50s and 60s called urban renewal projects.
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So they said, well, it would amount to taking land from one private owner
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That sounds like private use, not public use, as it stands in the Constitution.
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But they said, well, let's read the public use provision broadly
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And public benefits are more tax revenue, more jobs,
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And then it got to the point where not just Rockefeller,
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but just about any business, big box retail stores,
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condominium developers, Pfizer, and others could say,
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you know what, we would like to have this property.
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we'll just get the government to take it for them.
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Developers love that they get land on the cheap.
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maybe these projects will produce more tax revenue.
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And it's, of course, at the expense of our constitutional rights.
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You mean this point is very well illustrated in the movie
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as you're making your argument in front of the Supreme Court,
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where you talk about if there's a Motel 6 that is put up somewhere,
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they can actually tear down even a business to build a better hotel,
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because in theory that would bring in more tax revenue.
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exhibit A in this is all the government has to do in these instances
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We project that this will create X million dollars in new tax revenue
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and there's so many of these projects that have played out over the years
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that the projections at best fail to live up to expectations.
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This changed our country, and it was all done because of urban renewal.
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where they were going to build apartments and hotels and restaurants and movie theaters.
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So the city just seizes it and mows all of these houses down,
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There was a little water slide park in that town called Ocean Beach Park,
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And we used to go down there every summer, right down near this area.
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And, you know, it was not the nicest area in the world.
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If you purchase property, that should be the end of the story.
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And I think what you outlined, Scott, in the movie,
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and, of course, more importantly in your actual constitutional argument,
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is that, in a way, this ruling, if taken to its logical extent,
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almost invalidates the concept of private ownership of property.
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Because anybody could come up with a better use of your property
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we think this would be better used in the hands of this person over here.
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But the good news in the wake of the Kelo decision
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and people were so upset about this for that very reason.
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I mean, this is a case that everybody instantly understood
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and could not believe that the court would sign off on something like this,
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that many states changed their laws in order to better protect property owners.
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State Supreme Courts, nine state Supreme Courts,
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have gone in the opposite direction under their own state constitutions,
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Usually state Supreme Courts follow what the U.S. Supreme Court has done.
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So a lot of good has come out of the brave stand that Suzanne and her neighbors
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have took in this case, but more needs to be done.
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And historical memory, people forget the lessons of history, right?
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And so now you're hearing governments and private parties saying,
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you know, we've got to get serious about redevelopment again in our town.
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And so this movie is extremely timely because it reminds people what's at stake in this fight
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and to not go down the path that New London did in the Kelo case.
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So you say there's been a lot of progress because we were so outraged,
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but there has been another kind of seizing of property
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where the government can come in and take your property
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without accusing you of a crime or without a trial
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Right. I mean, I think you're talking about civil forfeiture.
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And that is something that has been a major part of our work,
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And this is something that has been growing again throughout the country over a number of years.
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And it's another thing, like eminent domain abuse,
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that people can't believe that this power exists in a country
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that's supposed to respect private property rights and rights to due process.
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The government can take your property without convicting or even charging you with a crime?
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the government can take your house and give it to Costco?
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Costco? What? How is that even possible in this country?
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and the way, the amount of those stories that is out there,
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once you start scratching at the surface, is remarkable.
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And it was started because, hey, we got to be able to seize the drug lords.
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And it seems to be growing at an exponential rate.
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And it's a huge problem, not only at the federal level, but in many states.
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we're seeing some states have actually changed their laws to better protect property owners.
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And what's driving it is the fact that at the federal level and in most states,
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law enforcement agencies get to keep the money that they forfeit for their own use.
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Every economist that tells you incentives matter.
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If you give people the wrong incentives, they're going to respond accordingly.
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Is there any real pushback that is hope on the horizon on this one?
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I mean, several states now have changed their laws.
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We've been doing a campaign to try to stop this.
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Nebraska, in the past year, it just basically abolished civil forfeiture at the state level.
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And there is sort of this, in the same way that eminent domain abuse unites left and right oftentimes,
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and people from both sides of the ideological spectrum are concerned about it,
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civil forfeiture is another one of those issues where there's some bipartisan agreement that this is a real problem.
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But the people in power, the people that benefit from this, of course, don't want the laws changed on this.
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So it is a Herculean struggle to try to fight back against this.
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We're talking to Scott Bullock from the Institute of Justice, an organization you need to know more about if you don't already.
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You know, arguing in front of the Supreme Court has got to be one of the craziest things.
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I mean, like, you know, when you start off in this field, this is like the top of the line, right?
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Tell us what it's like to actually do that, argue in front of the Supreme Court in a huge case like this.
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And then also, what's it like to see yourself portrayed in a movie?
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That's got to be bizarre and not what you're looking for when you start as a lawyer.
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I think the fellow that played me did a nice job with it.
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And what I also like about the case, too, is it keeps the focus on the clients, as we always do in our work, too, is to portray their stories.
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They're the ones who are, you know, out there standing up for their rights.
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And to argue before the Supreme Court, of course, is a great honor to do that.
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But what you also see, too, is that oftentimes the court has questions about where you draw the lines on this.
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Talking about the movie Little Pink House about Suzette Kilo.
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So I'm looking at the credits at the end of the movie, and do we have the still here for this?
00:36:48.280
If you look about two-thirds of the way down in here, Frederick Kondentrat, Glenn Beck, is in the movie.
00:36:59.680
If you were portrayed in the movie, it wouldn't have been a huge shock to me because we were talking about the story at the time.
00:37:05.760
The actor who's playing Frederick Coralondi is named Glenn Beck.
00:37:34.240
The president brought up the golden showers thing, and it really bothered him.
00:37:39.700
If his wife had any doubt about it, he then pivoted to the Russians wanting an apology from Bill O'Reilly.
00:37:46.260
I said I had seen that in Bill O'Reilly's reply, which was to call him in 2023.
00:37:53.280
The president then said O'Reilly's question about whether he respected Putin had been a hard one.
00:38:00.240
He said he does respect the leader of a major country, and he thought that that was the best answer.
00:38:05.680
He then said, you think my answer was good, right?
00:38:08.080
I said the answer was fine, except the part about killers, because we aren't the kind of killers that Putin is.
00:38:13.500
When I said this, the president paused noticeably.
00:38:16.720
I don't know what to make of it, but he clearly noticed I had directly criticized him.
00:38:31.840
I think that my question was a good one, a penetrating question to the newly elected president of the United States,
00:38:41.100
that, you know, how are you going to deal with this dictator in Russia, because the guy is a ruthless killer.
00:38:49.380
And the answer came back that, well, we're not, our country's not all that clean as well.
00:38:56.940
Well, you know, my job is to ask the hardest questions I can ask.
00:39:13.100
What do you think has been redacted here, Bill?
00:39:15.200
Well, I don't know what Trump told Comey about Putin, but it would have to be something about Putin to redact it so that he might have said something about Putin that could hurt national security at this point.
00:39:36.440
Is there anything, Bill, is it weird to know that the president of the United States, behind closed doors, talking to the FBI director, is whining about your questions?
00:39:44.120
I wouldn't say whining is a fair characterization of that, Stu.
00:39:55.380
He wanted an apology for a normal question about world relations?
00:40:00.180
You wouldn't describe if Barack Obama was whining about something like that?
00:40:04.340
I'd say he was concerned about it because the interview got international play.
00:40:12.480
You'll remember that Putin was demanding an apology from me, and I just said, yeah, I'll give you one in eight years, and I'll think it over.
00:40:27.740
Yeah, and he did say, he said, O'Reilly's question about whether he respected Putin had been a hard one.
00:40:39.860
I, you know, I tried to, I respect him as a world leader, right?
00:40:45.240
And his, and Comey was like, well, yes, but, you know, the killer part was a little disturbing.
00:40:52.780
Right, but remember something here, that James Comey is not your correspondent of objectivity.
00:41:03.760
When he writes these memos, he's writing them the CYA, cover his butt.
00:41:16.500
He's not doing it to relate to the American people.
00:41:21.260
I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm a little, um, uh, you know, for a guy who has always takes copious notes, you know, contemporaneous, uh, contemporaneous notes, uh, and, uh, he always documents meetings.
00:41:33.900
I'm amazed that he doesn't have anything on Loretta Lynch, on Hillary Clinton.
00:41:43.220
Well, I don't know what kind of memos that Comey has or has not.
00:41:46.980
I mean, Congress asked him for the memos with Trump.
00:41:49.560
So he may have other, uh, musings about dimension about Lynch and, and Hillary Clinton.
00:41:55.440
But I think that it's important for your listeners and for the American public to understand that even if you're the head of the FBI, or if you're the head of the CIA, the primary thing in your mind is protecting yourself from anything.
00:42:23.440
These are people who are saying, well, maybe down the line, somebody's going to do this.
00:42:28.220
So I'll cover my butt now and say this and write this.
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I'm sure if you had Trump in the room, he'd say, no, no, no, this is what I meant.
00:42:43.480
So, Bill, you've, you've lived a little longer than I have, maybe a hundred years or so.
00:42:47.860
And, um, uh, so you'll have a better memory of this than I will.
00:42:52.780
But I was thinking today, I don't even think that a J Edgar Hoover was, was doing this kind of stuff, at least out in the open.
00:43:06.880
The FBI and the Justice Department is clearly leaking, uh, things that I don't even think JF, uh, J Edgar Hoover did this.
00:43:21.300
Because Trump, Trump asked him, you know, the FBI leaking going, of course.
00:43:24.600
But, you know, you're right in the sense that it's totally out of control now.
00:43:32.880
And the leaks are designed to hurt one guy, President Trump.
00:43:37.620
And that's, that's, there's a torn of these leaks.
00:43:43.400
But in the J Edgar Hoover thing, the way he covered his butt was to get stuff on the President's.
00:43:51.060
To get dirt on JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr.
00:44:03.600
And then he let them know, look, you know, Mr. President, I hate to tell you, but, you know,
00:44:07.540
we picked up on a wiretap that you got a girlfriend in Chicago that goes out with Sam Giacana.
00:44:11.580
Now, gee, wow, I'll never tell anybody, but be careful what you say.
00:44:21.760
I'm not saying that it's good, but at least it was, at least we, yeah, at least we didn't
00:44:27.940
have, you know, golden showers known by everybody.
00:44:33.040
Yeah, the press never would have printed it back then.
00:44:35.860
You know, I made a, I made a point that I think you'll enjoy and Stu will really enjoy
00:44:49.160
And, and it's coming out of the Washington post.
00:45:00.620
Who was Ronald Reagan's best pal in Washington?
00:45:07.580
How about, how about, how about, uh, uh, uh, what's his name at, uh, CBS, whose brother
00:45:15.320
sure um oh you know who i you know what i mean yeah yeah yeah yeah but but the the outrage on
00:45:26.020
the part of the washington post that hannity is talking to president trump and has influence
00:45:32.100
and then i'm going you go into that building and you can't get it everywhere you look there's ben
00:45:37.900
bradley bradley's out on jfk's yacht jfk's call him every hour on the hour for advice and it's
00:45:44.580
funny because on the in the movie uh the post did you see it bill no i refuse oh no it's actually
00:45:50.740
really good but in the meryl streep is in it i know i know i know with you on that but uh
00:45:55.740
but for different reasons yeah i think she sucks so so um uh in the movie the ben bradley character
00:46:03.220
even comes to that conclusion saying i've i was used i i was used i mean like he didn't know it
00:46:12.140
even a meryl streep movie the characters come to the conclusion wow you shouldn't do that
00:46:21.700
no but the american people don't know it and and this is what i mean you you we have we're living
00:46:28.660
in such a dishonest age it's so from top to bottom you know where where are the truth tellers where are
00:46:37.160
the people looking out for the folks where are they they seem to disappear off the planet now
00:46:42.640
so what do you have the the fbi raids a lawyer's office and then within three hours calls the press
00:46:49.520
about some guy out in la has nothing to do with uh the trump investigation and ruins his life
00:46:56.220
that that's exactly what happened i mean what kind of people are these and a judge they don't judges
00:47:02.820
don't care well the judges the judge i'm trying to remember what the deal is with the judge but i i
00:47:08.000
made a note someplace on the judge this judge is um oh man yeah yeah yeah and and what was her
00:47:16.960
connection uh the clintons because she was named oh she was she married that's right any general yeah
00:47:23.100
but she was she was uh she's had hired a legal alien nanny yes yes she was the illegal alien nanny
00:47:31.500
uh lady uh the second one second one and she also uh was the was the judge that married george soros
00:47:39.020
which i you know this is just fun to throw in there um yeah i mean but you you know you just
00:47:45.680
step back and i want every listener that's hearing us now to step back so you're sitting there you're a
00:47:51.880
judge and you have the power to uh take all of this stuff and put it in camera all right which means
00:47:58.660
that the the press doesn't see it you see it so you can make responsible decisions all right but
00:48:04.320
you say no i'm not going to do that i'm going to let everything that the fbi picked up get out to
00:48:10.800
the press and i don't really care what lives are ruined or or who uh is is humiliated even though i
00:48:18.960
don't have anything to do with the trump investigation i don't let everything out there i mean come on okay
00:48:25.800
that's the age that we live in when we come back we're going to talk to bill about uh his friend
00:48:31.620
rudy giuliani who is now being uh hired by trump we'll get the uh wrap-up comments on uh anything
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else that he has to say about the comey memo that we have to take away and a really good op-ed that he
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has just published called the stalinists are here and i think that ties right directly into starbucks
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glenn beck ben shapiro joins us in this hour on monday jonah goldberg his new book suicide of the west
00:50:49.660
comes out tuesday one of his first interviews is on this program on tuesday and suzette kilo the woman
00:50:56.640
who the kilo case is named after on eminent domain there's a new movie out uh called little pink
00:51:02.980
house little pink house movie.com you can find out all about it that talks about eminent domain and
00:51:09.360
and reenacts the kilo case it's fascinating movie she's going to be joining us on friday and uh
00:51:16.480
also next friday bill o'reilly who's with us every friday hello bill back i'm back and and america has
00:51:24.180
just been waiting um so now so now tell me about rudy giuliani and the hire that donald trump made
00:51:31.620
there what do you what do you think that says well i think that the uh overall strategy on a part of
00:51:42.340
the white house now is to put pressure on muller to stop the investigation okay so that you got to
00:51:49.040
start there so giuliani knows muller and he knows a lot of the players and he brought in two people
00:51:56.720
with him who are former u.s attorneys as he is and i think that they're going to go in and say all right
00:52:04.600
we need a exit date you've got to you know tell us how long this is going to happen and if you don't
00:52:11.960
we're going to go on a tremendous pr blitz to destroy your credibility and you know giuliani can do
00:52:18.180
that he's a hard guy he's a tough guy and i think that's what this is is that the right thing for
00:52:24.360
trump it is because you just can't govern the way that this uh is unfolding look on billoreilly.com
00:52:34.720
what we've been able to do is to tell our uh listeners and our viewers on the website the damage
00:52:42.720
that they are experiencing that the regular american citizen is experiencing because of
00:52:49.800
all the chaos surrounding the attacks on trump whether it be by the media or by the special
00:52:55.660
prosecutor so americans themselves are being hurt and that is what should be marketed here i will tell
00:53:03.740
you that um you know if you look at what the average america is concerned about you do not see
00:53:09.800
that reflected on cable news um this no not all of this why their numbers yeah uh their ratings are
00:53:16.820
declining and then declining in a very dramatic way yeah and and if you look at the new polling
00:53:22.080
muller's unfavorable rating is going up and uh that's what giuliani is going to be tasked to do to negotiate an
00:53:31.880
end to this let me let me say the change subjects ms uh ms 13 horrible horrible gang um is infiltrated
00:53:42.300
america there's now i think 9 500 members extraordinarily violent the the new york chapter of ms 13 has just
00:53:50.980
come out and said um you know we're we're getting too much pushback here maybe it's time we start
00:53:56.280
killing politicians like we do in el salvador yeah well i mean that's just bluster i i covered the war
00:54:04.600
in el salvador back in 82 um and uh that's a totally chaotic violent society over there did not anybody uh
00:54:16.180
in control of that country so the poor people the poor men join gangs and ms 13 is the most powerful
00:54:24.340
gang so they say well we didn't there's not really a lot of money in el salvador so where should we go
00:54:29.160
to make money and it's like okay we have open borders in the usa let's go here and you think i'm
00:54:35.000
exaggerating i'm not how did these people even get here they're not they didn't get here by getting a
00:54:40.660
visa in san salvador all right right yeah just walk through the border like everybody else does
00:54:47.280
but to you uh liberal open border people out there so they take up camp here in long island where
00:54:54.320
i live because it's close to new york city and you know their their comrades can fly into jfk and
00:55:02.380
do their deals and sell their narcotics and shake down the hispanic community which is what they do
00:55:08.460
um and they establish themselves as the most violent ruthless gang on long island um and so what
00:55:18.380
are they you know trump is pointing them out the feds are going to try to destroy them the feds will
00:55:24.260
destroy them that will happen so now you get a little bluster from ms 13 so if you look at the
00:55:31.460
violence though that's happening across the border on our southern border in mexico um they are killing
00:55:36.940
mayors there they are they kill everybody because it's the same thing in mexico as it is in el
00:55:42.460
salvador and honduras and guatemala and uh nicaragua so what is no central authority so what is what's
00:55:50.820
going to turn the tide here bill for instance half of californians half support the travel ban
00:55:58.380
and increased deportations half of california right but and that's why there's a civil war in
00:56:07.400
california san diego county voted this week to support the lawsuit against uh jerry brown and
00:56:13.660
the sacramento crazies um that's the second largest county in california so there is a civil war in
00:56:20.540
that state but you'd never know it if you if you listen to the media because the people in fresno and
00:56:26.140
bakersfield and up in northern california they don't have a voice in the media they don't get a say
00:56:31.540
let me let me change um topics uh kind of you wrote a great op-ed um that we're going to get
00:56:41.960
into when we when we come back about the stalinists are here and you are seeing this everywhere uh where
00:56:50.900
you are being uh shouted down and silenced you're just talking about the uh the you know the half of
00:56:57.680
californians that don't have a voice um what happened at starbucks is remarkable to me and i'd
00:57:08.260
like to get your uh opinion on that uh well the the column is posted on billoreilly.com we want
00:57:14.420
everybody to read it if possible because it is an important column on starbucks you had a store
00:57:19.400
manager who made a mistake all right the mistake was a couple of black guys sitting in philadelphia
00:57:24.840
starbucks and they weren't buying anything okay hang on hang on all right i want to start
00:57:29.600
back with your premise of this was a mistake on the part of the manager uh when we come back
00:57:43.920
this is the glenn back program so bill started talking about starbucks uh before the break and
00:58:05.380
he he said it was a mistake on the manager to call the police and i i i think that was their policy to
00:58:11.940
do that and i bill i want to get your opinion on um you know there's there is a unspoken social
00:58:19.300
contract you you really see it if you live in new york for any period of time you'll really begin to
00:58:25.300
understand it because there are millions of people on the streets every day and the sidewalks are large
00:58:31.000
and they're packed everywhere and people don't speak english people may have just gotten off a plane
00:58:36.620
from china they they don't have the same uh rules they don't they don't know our culture and yet
00:58:44.800
the city works that when there's a red light generally people stop when there's a red you know
00:58:51.740
walking person there you generally don't cross the street and it's this unspoken i'm not going to express
00:58:59.700
myself differently in the middle of the road because i'll get hit by a cab in in in today's
00:59:06.700
america there are no consequences to break the social contract somebody walks in it's not unusual
00:59:13.820
for a business to say the bathrooms are for paying customers and if you really need to use the bathroom
00:59:20.020
in a place like starbucks you say uh okay can just i'll have a cup of coffee i'll have a small i'll have
00:59:26.140
i'll have a could i just get a you know a dollar's worth of that cookie please that's the social
00:59:32.120
contract these people broke it they sat there this is a no loitering kind of thing the police come they
00:59:41.340
the police tell them to leave three times and they tell the police no these are not these are people
00:59:48.000
with an agenda well sure and and if you look at what's happened in san francisco where nothing is
00:59:55.220
enforced and the whole city is collapsing and the uh director of the tourism agency there had to go
01:00:02.120
public and say we're not going to be able to get anybody to come here anymore because so many homeless
01:00:08.600
people are out of control and nobody's doing anything about it that's the collapse of the social
01:00:12.920
contract correct but i don't know if the manager of a starbucks in philadelphia looking at two guys two
01:00:21.980
black guys sitting there now the guys weren't doing anything um to disturb other customers they
01:00:27.900
were just taking up space they obviously were there um for other reasons than drinking coffee
01:00:34.860
now they asked them politely if you know to buy something or leave they wouldn't the police came
01:00:40.560
in asked them as you pointed out they wouldn't leave they felt entitled to sit there so then the
01:00:46.500
decision has to be made in america do you force them to leave thereby creating a giant giant outrage
01:00:58.020
of uh victimization or do you just allow them to do what they're doing because they're not
01:01:07.280
um harming your business at that point so i mean i feel bad for the for the all the managers that
01:01:16.320
have to make that decision but if you decide to evict a minority who's not doing anything causing
01:01:21.920
a disturbance you're going to get it the press is going to kill you and the victimization
01:01:26.440
industry is going to kill you and that's exactly what happened
01:01:29.040
this coming this coming this is amazing because this is this is um this is what has happened to all
01:01:37.860
of us with political correctness we just said oh you know what uh don't say anything it's just
01:01:42.460
better to move on you know don't say anything about you know the bashing of christians or anything
01:01:47.880
because it's just better to move on don't want to make a big deal out of it and when do we learn
01:01:52.760
our lesson on that you can't learn your lesson because the big money is behind the grievance industry
01:02:00.100
so it's not a level playing field i don't know whether you follow politics in europe but
01:02:06.840
hungary is making laws against george soros yes i know okay why because soros is undermining
01:02:14.640
the hungarian society doing the same thing he did here or he's doing here pumping tens of millions
01:02:23.440
of dollars into organizations like media matters that are designed to tear down the fabric
01:02:31.020
the traditional fabric of america in the end in hungary so the strong-armed leader in hungary
01:02:39.700
so we're going to pass a law against soros we're going to get him out of here now you couldn't do
01:02:44.060
that here because the media is sympathetic to soros here where in hungary they're not that's the
01:02:52.000
difference yeah so the the the amount of money that is going into organizations grievance organizations
01:03:00.240
tear down america organizations stalinist organizations people think i'm i'm exaggerating
01:03:06.760
read the column i back up every word i say bernie goldberg coined the term stalinist by the way
01:03:14.400
and that's exactly what these people are if you disagree with them they're going to destroy you
01:03:20.600
so here's but here's the here's the thing bill are you following are you following the latest attack
01:03:26.200
on the second amendment which i i don't hear anybody talking about this and this is the way they will
01:03:32.400
take it apart the city group came out a couple of weeks ago and said they are no longer going to uh
01:03:39.840
do offer any banking services to any company that manufactures or sells uh firearms with uh high
01:03:49.920
capacity magazines certain kinds of guns uh or any gun uh sale for anyone under 21 so they're cutting off
01:03:59.080
all financial services a week later bank of america comes out and says the same thing in fact they're not
01:04:06.880
going to make any loans or offer any banking services to any gun manufacturer at all period and then this
01:04:15.120
david hogg comes out with a whole list of people uh or funds wall street funds that invest in gun
01:04:23.380
manufacturers they are going to try to squeeze the gun manufacturers and the gun sales points of sale
01:04:32.300
by choking off all of their banking services and all of their investors and i'm sure the 17 year old
01:04:39.340
david hogg came up with this on his own oh yeah i'm sure i'm sure right um sure that's the attack
01:04:45.760
the attack is that will break the industry um but here's a here's a more accessible attack and by the
01:04:52.300
way tim cook the uh uh you of apple they threatened him great because they wanted to bring uh to tip for
01:05:01.360
him to pull off nra tv yes from his streaming service cook said no cook defied them he he actually said
01:05:10.360
this is in your article and i love this quote democracy without discourse is not a democracy
01:05:15.920
right okay let me give you more accessible than the uh behind the scenes gun financing
01:05:22.180
fox news channel is right on the cliff and thereafter they started with me a year ago
01:05:30.300
and now they thought they had hannity um last year he he fought back he survived they got ingram
01:05:40.480
now they're after hannity again okay and this is the same thing attack the sponsors of the fox news
01:05:50.180
channel make it impossible for the channel to make generate income generate revenue all right and it'll go
01:05:59.540
off the air or they'll water it down which they already have it's already getting watered down
01:06:04.860
like crazy okay so these techniques stalin just shot you in the head all right but what soros and the far
01:06:16.140
left is doing is they're choking you economically and who's going to do anything about it everybody's
01:06:24.100
afraid of them everybody is afraid of them including the judges and the courts and that's what we have
01:06:31.600
coming and they'll just they'll just knock them down one by one back i had one they're gonna knock
01:06:37.560
them out we had uh edwin black on i don't know if you know who he is but he was the author of ibm and
01:06:42.080
the holocaust years ago really well researched man um and he has been ringing the bell lately for
01:06:49.560
something that he calls um uh algorithmic ghettos and he says that you know uh during world war ii
01:06:59.680
germany would just put the the jews behind giant walls that nobody could see and what happened behind
01:07:05.960
those walls in those ghettos you just didn't you didn't see no matter how loud they cried you couldn't
01:07:11.040
hear them you couldn't see them and so out of sight out of mind if there is no jewish problem
01:07:15.400
um and he says there is an algorithmic ghetto that is now being uh used to silence voices like yours
01:07:24.540
like mine uh you know anybody who stands against planned parenthood etc etc ted cruz talked about
01:07:30.600
this with facebook um and he is very concerned that these voices are going to be you know the people
01:07:39.400
who uh who are the tree in the forest that falls but nobody's around we can scream we can shout we can
01:07:45.260
say everything we think we're getting the message out but because of the algorithm they have put us
01:07:51.780
in a ghetto with walls around us that nobody's hearing the message i don't think it's that bad yet
01:07:58.140
no he's saying it's there yeah he's saying that we're on that road he's not saying we're there yet
01:08:02.920
right yeah i mean we still have um uh we still have availabilities but they're shrinking yeah and um
01:08:11.420
but the legal system journalism shot not coming back ever all right the legal system really is
01:08:19.320
concerning me now because it doesn't seem to be any constraints contracts don't matter yeah threats
01:08:26.820
don't matter boycotts don't matter just destroy destroy destroy and there's nobody there to say hold
01:08:35.260
it this is not what a free society allows what we what we have to do bill is stop um admiring the
01:08:44.740
problems and i think start teaching the bill of rights because the bill of rights are common sense
01:08:51.380
and they they are the things that have always united us and the problems with our country all stem
01:08:57.920
from the violation of the of the bill of rights everything that is undermining of the whole concept yes
01:09:04.580
correct correct soros doesn't want the bill of rights the far left doesn't want it they want
01:09:09.940
totalitarianism funny you brought that up on saturday night back i'm going to be in dc
01:09:15.120
giving the keynote address for an organization called flag f-l-a-g this is a brand new organization
01:09:22.520
that is doing exactly what you said educating younger americans on what the bill of rights says
01:09:30.520
what the constitution says excellent and i'm doing it gratis and people if you're in the dc area or
01:09:36.300
whatever it's going to be at the uh at the trump hotel go to billoreilly.com we got the information
01:09:42.500
there but you're right it these are we have to start to bring this to the attention of the masses of
01:09:50.120
people you may have to sing about it on american idol to get their attention i may have to write
01:09:57.440
songs back about it oh boy you want to talk about destruction of everything we hold dear that that
01:10:04.160
would be it um bill o'reilly from billoreilly.com thank you so much we'll talk to you next week brother
01:10:11.460
billoreilly.com is the place to go to get all bills analysis by the way uh i think on monday
01:10:19.960
we're going to talk about uh this new polling that's out regarding uh the difference between
01:10:26.080
how much people consider guns to be a problem oh my gosh this is so good how much people believe
01:10:32.560
legal immigration to be a problem you've seen the news coverage which one if you to reflect from the
01:10:37.280
news coverage which one you think people are more concerned with on monday we're going to go
01:10:40.960
through this poll it's remarkable it's you look at what people are concerned about and then what
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they're showing us on television and what they're talking about in washington they're not aligned at
01:10:53.100
all which is causing this massive disconnect between the people the government and the press that's on
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glenn beck so we have brad melzer coming up in a few minutes good friend of ours uh great writer
01:12:35.540
little did we know really close personal friend with barbara bush i knew they knew each other but i had
01:12:43.720
no idea that they were they were pen pals for years yeah uh and uh i am interested to hear what
01:12:51.580
he has to say today as we remember barbara bush brad melzer joins us in just a few minutes also i have
01:12:56.320
a glenn beck prediction update oh boy i think it's a it's this is this concrete of an update on one of
01:13:04.460
your predictions uh that maybe we've seen in a long time really because i mean there's been
01:13:10.200
hints that this is that one of these predictions of yours was coming true but this one i don't know
01:13:16.280
like oh i can't wait i think this is the front page of your case really i think it is oh i can't wait
01:13:22.020
especially who's coming from interesting i have absolutely no idea i'll tell you who it's coming
01:13:28.740
from the new york times so again a glenn now first of all glenn the new york times is running a podcast
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now yeah called the caliphate called the caliphate these are which is completely amazing to me they
01:13:44.440
are at the thing that they mocked you for at the time for saying they are now embracing and running
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a for-profit enterprise yeah on how how it all happened
01:13:54.860
i wrote i wrote something somewhere about the new york times that's impossible you're running a podcast
01:14:05.500
about a caliphate that's the ramblings of a madman that's gonna be super frustrating oh my gosh and
01:14:11.580
that's why i like it so much um but also in addition to that this is another one uh that you've been long
01:14:16.980
a big one i yeah i think a really big one okay we'll get to that coming up in just a second also
01:14:21.860
uh tribute to uh barbara bush as um as they get ready to lay her to rest from brad melzer coming up next
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love courage truth glenn beck stop what you're doing pull up a chair even if you're in your car
01:15:04.660
pull up a chair put it in the seat and sit on that chair for a minute because this is important
01:15:11.180
time magazine has just come out with their list of the 100 most influential people on the planet it's
01:15:16.740
finally out now you remember i am one of the most influential people i've been in the time magazine so
01:15:23.040
i can speak from a position of authority on how important that honor really is so what
01:15:30.420
it's uh important that wasn't the adjective i was oh no oh no don't mock this okay okay uh what lucky
01:15:38.880
hundred humans has time anointed as head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to influence
01:15:46.420
well time has divided their list into categories like pioneers pioneers you know you immediately when
01:15:54.760
i say pioneer you immediately think of david hogg okay and the rest of the parkland five uh that
01:16:03.400
was uh i mean and the and the essay believe it or not was written by dana lash i don't believe it
01:16:11.380
okay you shouldn't believe it it was i don't know i'm gonna say you're exactly right you win
01:16:16.060
written by barack obama wow under the artists category is jimmy kimmel with his tribute written
01:16:25.360
by senator dick durbin that's not a joke durbin writes about kimmel night after night he sparred
01:16:32.580
with the politicians who tried to take health insurance from millions of americans oh i know
01:16:37.840
those darn republicans always hoping to see americans die in the street from no health insurance oh i can't
01:16:44.100
wait to get back to those good old days where people were dying of cancer on the sidewalk do
01:16:50.260
you remember that still piles of them on the way to work i'd step over them every day they would be
01:16:54.720
booted out of the hospitals just to make sure that those with insurance could see a doctor right away if
01:17:02.360
you went into the emergency room there was no weight in those days i mean if any hospital did that one
01:17:07.820
time they'd be breaking the law but let's ignore that sure let's ignore among those in the leaders
01:17:12.560
category we have justin trudeau naturally kim jong-un why not and nancy pelosi
01:17:19.760
pelosi's tribute is uh well it's written by the president of uh planned parenthood so if you're
01:17:28.520
making a if if you're if you're making a list of the top influencers in killing unborn americans
01:17:35.540
uh pelosi and richards would probably make the top 10 and with pelosi using your faith to justify
01:17:41.000
it makes you kind of shoot to the top of that list now under icons there is adam ripon
01:17:47.240
because nothing says icon like finishing 10th in your event at the winter olympics
01:17:53.720
yeah so he was the skater yeah this is a skater very important very important he's an icon
01:18:00.580
also under icons maxine waters because i actually have no idea how they came up with that one sorry
01:18:09.020
um now these are not the most influential people on the planet time i'm sorry they may be the loudest
01:18:16.120
they may be the most famous at the time they may be the most popular at the time i speak i'm going
01:18:22.040
back to the 2010 i speak from a position of knowing i'm sure there's some really great people on the
01:18:31.680
list and even some people have the power to affect our lives through technology or government policy
01:18:36.920
but they can never have the kind of deep genuine lasting influence that real people have on their
01:18:45.560
own families on their own children on their own friends and their own community how time every year
01:18:52.760
especially in 2010 overlook the people risking their lives to save others around the world is beyond me
01:19:00.440
this is why i mock the 100 most influential people
01:19:07.700
as alumni because the real influencers are more often the ones that we don't
01:19:15.560
hear about hard-working people like you trying your best serving your neighbors doing secretly
01:19:22.840
amazing things for people in their life and honestly if this truly is a list of the 100 most influential
01:19:32.300
people then honestly america we are far too easily influenced
01:19:39.760
it's friday april 20th you're listening to the glenbeck program
01:19:52.640
the author of the escape artist one of my favorite books of the year
01:19:58.040
brad melter is uh joining us now he's on his way to barbara bush's funeral uh which is happening
01:20:04.280
tomorrow uh brad i had no idea you were close personal friends with barbara um she is uh someone
01:20:15.040
i know it sounds it is one of the most unlikely friendships i've ever had and uh it's simply
01:20:21.500
because we have this one thing in common which we you and i share as well which is we don't care
01:20:27.020
where you're from we don't care what your title is we don't care where you went to school and we don't
01:20:31.600
care how much money you make uh the currency is do you have something interesting to say
01:20:36.660
and that is what i always appreciated about her you know she lives in a world of complete
01:20:41.160
fanciness and amazingness right a dynasty but would talk to me as quick as she would talk to the janitor
01:20:47.660
as quick as she would talk to the queen of england and that's what i appreciate about anyone it's just
01:20:52.040
that grounding and that sense of humor that's so sharp and uh and that's what we you know we always
01:20:57.040
hit it off yeah it's a it's a it's a pretty amazing thing i was we just had um bob goff in studio
01:21:03.260
uh who's a remarkable man uh and very few people come into the studios and pay attention to anybody but
01:21:12.060
me even sometimes they just kind of dismiss stew but most people uh always dismiss wait what yeah
01:21:20.980
yeah yeah i'd hate to bring it to you um but they always dismiss the crew and the makeup people
01:21:27.420
and the lighting people all the people behind the scenes you can always tell somebody's character
01:21:32.180
when they when they walk into a room and they say hello and what's your name and actually have
01:21:38.840
some bit of dialogue with the people who have no influence uh that can help them at all
01:21:46.420
and that's rare and one thing right i agree i teach my children one thing i if you're nice to me and
01:21:52.500
you're a jerk to the waiter you're a jerk yep and and barbara bush i think was always that person
01:21:59.480
i think that's why people like you know and the amazing party you know i remember the the first
01:22:05.180
time i met the bushes they read one of my thrillers and uh president bush had written to me about it and i
01:22:10.740
went to meet i remember the bushes in houston for a literacy event and he spent the first
01:22:15.340
10 minutes of our time together trying to convince my wife that he invented the phrase you the man
01:22:21.480
my wife is you know it's a great joke right and my wife is like brad did you know that president
01:22:28.460
bush invented the phrase you the man and and i'm like and barbara bush comes over she's like no he
01:22:33.800
didn't he's lying to you that is so funny totally took him down and it was just so great and and i
01:22:41.400
again i was completely intimidated the first time i met her because she she her strength is clear i
01:22:48.360
believe to this day the only reason the bush has got two people in the white house is because of
01:22:53.220
barbara bush i agree wasn't dad it was mom i agree she knew that and and the other thing that i always
01:22:58.380
appreciated beyond her sense of humor is that every time i saw her she didn't ask me about the famous
01:23:04.720
place i went or the famous person i met or what is it like to go to you know wherever it was i was
01:23:09.140
going she always asked me about my mom she remembered that my mom when my mom was dying
01:23:14.900
i took her to meet barbara bush and my mom was sick at this point i knew it was the end and i took her
01:23:21.180
to meet mrs bush and president bush of course treated they treated her like royalty but she always said i
01:23:27.760
remember how your mom sold books for you at the start of your career and the last time i was with her
01:23:32.280
she's 90 years old at this point i was at her 90th birthday and they she invited four authors to
01:23:38.080
entertain and i remember going wow who are you going to get she was like dummy it's you and i said
01:23:43.220
okay and even then at 90 a decade later was still going you know that story you told about your mom
01:23:50.040
15 years ago i still think about it and i love that she always understood the power of a strong
01:23:56.340
mother were you you were pen pals with her yeah you know so um i you know i don't want to overstate
01:24:04.520
we used to write back and forth these re she just was a great you know she didn't email so she would
01:24:09.380
write letters handwritten letters and so when we started doing the i am series the kids book series
01:24:14.580
we started with i'm amelia erhart and i am abraham lincoln and i get a letter in the mail that tells me
01:24:19.700
she you know she she had read the books and really enjoyed the books but she told me this whole story
01:24:24.680
in this letter about how she almost met amelia erhart she was actually felt like oh my gosh i can't go
01:24:31.480
over to and tell this incredible story and then in the ps of the letter she writes and by the way
01:24:36.480
i hadn't met abraham lincoln although i kind of feel as old and i wrote her back and i and i said you
01:24:42.100
know that's very funny but we all know you met george washington and martha washington and you know
01:24:46.880
she would write back and even funnier jokes like and then we would just kind of go back and forth
01:24:50.520
and every time it wasn't you know letter writing is an art form yeah it's a communication right that
01:24:57.020
is lost these days and she would her biting sense of humor would come through in every letter you'd
01:25:02.360
be like this is this is funny this isn't some bit that some staffer writes this isn't some you know
01:25:07.840
like kind of press thing where you have you know good saturday night live writers writing for the
01:25:11.340
president you're like oh he's got a sense of humor no he knows how to read that's what he can do
01:25:14.640
um this is truly an incredibly biting personality and and i think the most important thing is
01:25:20.640
and i i feel like you understand this as well as anybody i've ever met this is why our friendship
01:25:25.120
you know all these years is who your character is who you are behind closed doors when no one's
01:25:30.600
looking and what i love is you know you see a lot of first ladies who take on a cause and then the
01:25:36.960
moment they're out of the white house the cause is done right and you're like was that their cause
01:25:41.220
or was that something to do for four or eight years and i just appreciate that barbara bush spent
01:25:47.940
after the white house you know 40 50 more years working for literacy and she wasn't helping
01:25:55.100
you know she was helping poor people she was helping people from other countries from who
01:25:58.920
are immigrants here who are new and couldn't read she was trying to give people that leg up because
01:26:04.540
she knew that if you do that you give them the most powerful weapons in the universe books and ideas
01:26:11.120
and again i have to you know over and over year after year until she when she turned 90 she could
01:26:17.920
have had a big 90th birthday party and been on you know the stage show and everyone would have made a big
01:26:21.320
deal she said nope i want to take my birthday i want to invite the wealthiest people in the world
01:26:26.760
and they're all going to give their money all to literacy and that's what i'm going to do my 90th
01:26:30.220
birthday i was standing next to her when she blew out the candles and i remember thinking this is your
01:26:34.500
birthday party and you're giving it all to literacy at 90 at 90 you go you know what if i'm 90 god bless
01:26:41.080
i get there i'm gonna i want to relax but i love that this woman said nope i'm still going to use it to
01:26:46.340
help and and fight for other people that was incredible to me so brad can i ask you a favor
01:26:50.740
you're going to the funeral tomorrow yes sir um please pass on our condolences uh to the family i i
01:26:59.160
i think that um i agree with you that without barbara bush i don't know if there would have been
01:27:06.540
even one president bush um she was uh she was the one and i i think the bushes are honorable people as
01:27:17.580
it is but i i i have nothing to back this up just in meeting barbara bush a couple of times i don't i
01:27:25.480
didn't have a relationship like you did um but i think she was the one that um that taught those boys
01:27:35.580
hey hold your tongue you don't have something nice to say don't say anything support even the
01:27:41.620
people who are you or who are saying bad things about you you know just don't climb down into the
01:27:48.340
gutter with them and they have always done that and i think they've done a great service to their
01:27:54.520
to their mother she had to be extraordinarily proud of just that forget about all the accomplishments
01:28:01.260
just that is rare and i think it came from her yeah no i listen i think there are people i've met
01:28:08.100
every president from from bush 41 to our current president i've met them all i've had interactions
01:28:13.540
with them all um some bigger some smaller there are people and again that wasn't meant to be like a
01:28:20.260
a brag it was there are people that you meet and i usually don't like politicians right they're
01:28:25.080
always telling something but there are those you meet that are inherently decent there are people you
01:28:30.880
meet in the world that you meet them and you go they are inherently decent and to me barbara bush
01:28:35.860
and george bush i think are inherently decent people try and and you know how you know it and i'll tell
01:28:40.160
you my secret for how i know it is you ask the secret service when you talk to the secret service
01:28:45.960
agents who regarded them the one thing that comes up it will tell you immediately who's a jerk off
01:28:50.720
and who's good because they're the waiters right if you're nice to me and you're a jerk to the
01:28:54.540
waiters you're a jerk everyone loves those two bushes everyone who ever served with them everyone
01:29:01.500
who's guarding them now they are they you know they'll tell you they ask about my grandkids they
01:29:06.580
ask about my my nieces and nephew they know my my son is sick that they will tell you details about
01:29:12.720
their own families uh the bush is asking about them and and that's inherently decent and that's how
01:29:19.420
you're supposed to be and that's how you raise um you know your kids i'm not talking about being
01:29:23.720
president that's how we should all be raising our kids right is fighting to make sure that they
01:29:28.760
remember who they are where they come from and never to take ourselves so seriously and when we do mess
01:29:34.400
up which we never really will do we're all human that you learn how to be big enough to actually
01:29:39.180
apologize and say you know what i was wrong in that moment my anger got the best of me my ego got the
01:29:44.760
best of me whatever it might be um that is how you raise and and and get to be inherently decent
01:29:50.640
brad melzer thanks for sharing your thoughts on on barbara bush
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01:31:58.960
it is friday we've got a great week uh planned for you i'm going to be out in california next week
01:32:04.660
um we have jonah goldberg uh going to be joining us suzette kilo from uh the kilo case in supreme court
01:32:14.580
that you know i'm making a list of all the people that have been first-hand witnesses to history
01:32:21.480
that i could talk to now you know what i mean let me i'd love to interview these people and say okay
01:32:27.520
what was that like um and she's you know i just saw the movie uh little pink house um which you
01:32:36.220
can find at little pink house uh movie.com comes out today right yeah and um it's it's the story of
01:32:42.660
the kilo case and one of the actresses is you know oscar nominated yeah she was the you remember her
01:32:49.800
from well i consider her best role to be of course the 40 year old uh 40 year old virgin
01:32:54.520
um she was in that uh she was the steve carell love interest in that movie but she also was
01:32:59.640
nominated for two oscars capote and one other one uh but she's been i mean she's a you know you
01:33:05.580
definitely recognize her yeah um you know and there's a couple people that you definitely
01:33:09.580
recognize in the movie i mean the fact that hollywood that's why i was kind of amazed by this is
01:33:12.940
hollywood actually participating in a movie about libertarian constitutional principles
01:33:20.100
because there's nothing sexier than the takings clause for a good movie yeah uh but you know what
01:33:25.020
it is compelling it is compelling you watch it and you're like oh my gosh i mean you you the whole time
01:33:31.080
you're like she's a regular person she's an emt she is just she's just found this house that you know
01:33:38.360
she's putting her life back together after being in a bad marriage raising five boys she's finally
01:33:44.460
going to start her life over again she finds this great little house in the middle of nowhere right
01:33:50.240
down the street from a sewage plant she loves it and the government comes in and takes it away from
01:33:57.100
her yeah because they they think they can make more tax money by building hotels there which they never
01:34:03.260
do um and because i'm a complete loser instead of going to disney world on vacation i actually went to
01:34:09.040
uh one time i went back to connecticut to visit and went to this area for trumbull because i just
01:34:14.300
fascinated by that story just to see what it looks like today you can see the overheads if you search
01:34:18.620
for fort trumbull on google maps you can see the overheads of it you see about five fields just
01:34:24.180
fields this is where their houses were cleared out fields they never built anything there they never
01:34:29.140
developed it they ruined these people's lives destroyed their homes for no reason they got nothing
01:34:33.760
out of it and then the only building that stands on any of the fields is the italian dramatic club
01:34:41.260
now for some reason with i don't know what reason i don't know what reason that could be
01:34:47.600
somehow the italian dramatic club listen the mob doesn't exist and if it does exist i love the mob
01:35:09.820
you're listening to the glenn beck program welcome back to the program glad you're here
01:35:24.720
glenn beck prediction time can we get a glenn beck prediction update update okay yeah you say
01:35:32.460
that there is a new prediction or a prediction that i've made and it's a big one it's a big one
01:35:37.900
and we've seen some supporting evidence for it okay um but this one is just another step in that
01:35:42.620
process and i think a big one all right yeah i mean you look back at all the the glenn beck
01:35:46.680
predictions over the years there's been some bad ones yeah there's been a lot of bad there's been
01:35:50.240
some bad ones yeah there's been bad ones it feels like mainly around politics like i remember at one
01:35:54.840
point you like before 2008 because i get i set these little uh yeah yeah calendar reminders and
01:36:00.460
they pop up to me on important dates yeah and a lot of times they're funny because whatever you
01:36:04.800
predicted that looks insane yeah um right and it always i mean i can't say always because a lot of
01:36:11.340
insane ones uh have not come true um but uh uh i'm the worst when it comes to politics because i
01:36:17.920
have no idea i don't know i i cannot well you've hit some of those though i mean i you know but yes
01:36:24.900
you've missed some of those as well i think big one in 2008 you were thinking hillary clinton was going
01:36:28.860
to be the the candidate for the democrats she almost was yeah but she wasn't um and if you look back at
01:36:34.760
that during that time one of your predictions was if barack obama wins the next president we you called
01:36:43.980
him the the gravy stain candidate yes um however the summary that was a that was a shorthand for
01:36:49.700
a guy who talks like you who doesn't give a crap about uh i said if i remember right i said he would come
01:36:57.500
out and he'd be like oh i farted but don't we all fart and he would just be a guy who is
01:37:04.740
who was the guy at the end of the bar sitting on the stool that everybody could relate didn't seem
01:37:11.840
refined yes i mean if that's not donald trump i mean again that's one of the things that trump
01:37:16.400
supporters love about him right like that's the thing that they cite he doesn't try to be a
01:37:21.160
politician he just blurts stuff out yep he talks like me yep uh so that one i think completely came
01:37:27.460
true with trump the housing crash is a kind of a famous one from back in the day go back way back i mean
01:37:32.300
i remember being on wabc and in new york on the air in new york in the late 90s 98 99 yeah where you
01:37:38.900
talked about osama bin laden and a terrorist attack on new york city where you'd see blood and bodies in
01:37:46.180
the street always an uplifting program blood bodies and buildings in the street within the next decade
01:37:51.040
and it was what two or three years later yeah uh that wound up happening of course the caliphate we
01:37:55.180
talked about today already yeah with you talking about the caliphate coming everyone you know
01:38:00.420
mainstream media new york times everybody bashing you about being crazy for that almost like to
01:38:05.460
the point of like they thought it was a made-up word yes and uh it wasn't it was based on a lot
01:38:10.300
of research it was that you know yep uh and now the new york times has not only come along to the
01:38:15.680
point that there was a caliphate and that one was built but they've actually now memorialized it in a
01:38:21.440
new podcast called the caliphate how it happened which i gotta say i actually want to listen to
01:38:27.780
um i surely at some point they'll reference the fact that they mocked they mocked glenn beck about
01:38:33.560
anyway but there's another one you've made and we've seen some supporting evidence for this
01:38:36.900
about how we're going to hit a point that the left is going to take their masks off that they are
01:38:44.420
going to instead of denying that they're basically socialists in training long-term slow-moving
01:38:53.940
progressives that are going towards socialism they're going to come out and just say it
01:38:58.280
so we've seen some evidence backing that up this from the new york times today new york times new
01:39:05.940
york times can't wait quote headline yes i'm running as a socialist oh my god why candidates
01:39:14.080
are embracing the label in 2018 unbelievable listen to some of this there's no question uh primary
01:39:22.700
night in texas last month franklin bynum would win the democratic nomination to become a criminal
01:39:26.980
court judge in houston the 34 year old defense attorney had no challengers but for his supporters
01:39:31.580
who packed the mexican restaurant that evening there was still something impressive to celebrate
01:39:35.500
many in the crowd were members of the democratic socialists of america dsa a group that has
01:39:41.060
experienced an enormous surge of interest since the election of president trump do you remember
01:39:46.700
what they used to say when i brought up the dsa yeah i used to bring that up on the chalkboards
01:39:51.240
all the time and they called me a conspiracy freak and i'm like these people are still around and this
01:39:56.600
is what's coming our way oh my god mr bynum said yes i am running as a socialist end quote rather than
01:40:03.680
shy away from the being called a socialist a word conservatives have long wielded as a slur
01:40:08.500
candidates like mr bynum are embracing the label he's among dozens of dsa members running in the
01:40:14.240
fall midterms for offices all around the country at nearly every level wait wait the prediction was
01:40:20.040
that they would embrace it and they'd say damn right i'm a socialist because this doesn't work and
01:40:24.640
we have to try something we have to try something new did they say anything like that oh my god yes
01:40:29.900
oh my gosh oh my gosh let me get all right good so it's gone uh in membership in the dsa has gone
01:40:37.060
up seven times since november 2016 wow uh the number of organizations almost five times as many
01:40:43.560
including 10 in texas democratic socialists of america studies suggest that young people with few
01:40:49.380
memories of the cold war embrace socialism far more than older people do a 2016 survey of 18 to 29
01:40:54.780
year olds by harvard's institute of politics found that 16 percent identified as socialists while 33
01:41:02.400
percent supported socialism only 42 supported capitalism while a majority 51 said they did not
01:41:09.980
those results surprised the pollsters so much they thought they made a mistake he conducted a new study
01:41:16.980
this time of the general population and got the same result the only group that expressed net positive
01:41:22.980
support for capitalism were people over 50 years old oh my god that's amazing many socialist candidates
01:41:29.460
sound a lot less like revolutionaries and more like traditional democrats who seek to return the
01:41:33.920
radical pose for the radical ends um they want they want single-payer health care and remember when we
01:41:39.240
talked about obama and we said these are socialist tendencies he wants single-payer health care higher
01:41:43.460
minimum wage and greater protection for unions that was called a slur as they kind of associated here in
01:41:49.620
this in this article however they're defining it as exactly that others advocate more extreme
01:41:55.680
changes such as abolishing the prison system interesting okay some local democratic party
01:42:02.160
leaders worry that taking openly talking openly about being a socialist is only going to make it harder
01:42:07.000
to defeat republicans people are more willing to come out and say i'm a democratic socialist running
01:42:13.060
says jorge roman romero 24 who leads the dsa chapter in tulsa oklahoma wow where six democratic
01:42:22.220
candidates four of whom were willing to run as democratic socialists sought the group's endorsement
01:42:28.580
it's not a liability to say that anymore uh let's see wait can i can i give you a story that i found
01:42:39.260
that we're gonna do on monday uh you have more yeah uh let's see gerald uh bernberg former chairman
01:42:46.720
of the harris county democratic party harris county texas has discouraged mr bynum from talking about
01:42:51.540
socialism or bail reform on the campaign trail socialism is too taboo in texas not not so not
01:43:00.540
socialism is bad or wrong or terrible it's too taboo
01:43:04.840
uh i'm trying to think if there's anything else what was the what was the exact prediction there
01:43:10.120
was one line that specifically supported i said uh that i said that uh that they would not only come
01:43:16.260
out they would just say yeah you're right i am a socialist because this isn't working and we got
01:43:20.780
to try something oh yeah it was right after the polling section here because i know that exact same
01:43:26.540
thing was i think we can oh here it is the only group that expressed net positive support for
01:43:31.900
capitalism were people over 50 years old the largest generation of americans in history
01:43:35.780
millennials have lost confidence they are interested in finding a better way unbelievable
01:43:41.680
unbelievable that's exactly what you're talking about okay listen to this we're going to do something
01:43:46.120
on this monday a wealthy democratic donor club is plotting the future of the liberal movement in hopes
01:43:51.200
to be fighting for reparations by 2022 according to a document obtained by the washington free beacon
01:43:58.120
from democracy alliances spring conference this last week in atlanta the desire was stated in the
01:44:04.360
invitation for monday reception during the annual spring gathering attended by top democratic officials
01:44:09.580
such as the dnc chairman also terry mcauliffe etc etc etc the reception way to win 2022 victory party
01:44:18.840
was presented as a look forward what is possible if democrats can be effective in coming elections
01:44:24.640
it's 2022 quote and we are celebrating policy victories across the nations medicare for all free college
01:44:34.200
and next on the agenda reparations take a ride with us to hear from the true political geniuses
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that can make this happen this is the there the left is
01:44:54.620
very focused very very focused very very focused they know what they want
01:45:00.980
they are you could say that they're built on destruction but they're not they're built on
01:45:10.360
building something new reparations fairness for all social justice universal basic single-payer
01:45:21.460
health care a socialist state that is for some a positive vision especially for those who are young
01:45:30.860
because they don't know what socialism does they have been raised in this soup this toxic soup
01:45:39.940
in our educational systems that say it's all good it's just never been done right well when will
01:45:46.960
government ever do something right that is a positive vision and conservatives better come up with a
01:45:56.240
counter a brighter vision for tomorrow or we will lose
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and as we uh speak here the uh democratic national committee has filed a lawsuit suing the russian
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government the trump campaign and wikileaks alleging the three entities conspired to help president
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trump win the 2016 election on what on what evidence they have no evidence of this no evidence of this
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uh now that may come out and let's just say if you want to take their side of it maybe something
01:46:37.860
comes out in the muller investigation that shows that but they have nothing on you know what's
01:46:41.940
incredible why are they doing this they're only doing this so they can say we're standing against the
01:46:48.820
big evil trump they know they have no chance of winning but they'll raise a ton of money
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a couple of show notes uh here first of all i remember i remember when i first came to the
01:48:45.800
studios and uh a guy walked in and uh he i thought it was clint eastwood um he walked in and he had the
01:48:53.840
big uh long cowboy coat and he was clearly a cowboy and uh he even had the little cup or the bottle that
01:49:01.600
he was like uh spitting and i'm like we're in texas we're in texas uh travis uh has been uh
01:49:09.440
uh working with us for years now and is just a fantastic guy uh and uh this is his last show um
01:49:19.660
producing for us and we're or directing for us and we are grateful travis and we will all miss you
01:49:26.240
we won't miss the end of the cup we won't that doesn't still you're gonna miss that probably not
01:49:32.660
as much not as much but but uh we will we'll miss you on on everything else um we have uh also an
01:49:40.620
update on pat uh i talked to pat last night pat has been out he's you know he does the uh pat gray
01:49:47.280
radio roundup i think is what we call it uh no it's pat gray unleashed uh after this program on the
01:49:52.680
blaze radio network and uh first we heard that pat was uh passing a kidney stone not true not not
01:50:01.780
pleasant even if it were true yeah not pleasant um i saw him last night he's been in and out of the
01:50:06.700
hospital he had surgery earlier this week he woke up with pain uh they thought it was a kidney stone
01:50:12.060
uh they had to perform surgery right away uh emergency surgery and uh apparently um
01:50:19.360
uh you know his kidneys had gone into failure because i guess i think like uh you know out of
01:50:26.820
the fallopian tube there was like uh one of the i don't think are you a doctor i am not a doctor i'm
01:50:34.300
a doctor of humanities which mean i know everything there is about the human body okay i mean i guess
01:50:39.040
that's you i don't think that's what that means that's what yes you are no they they they bestowed
01:50:43.140
it upon me and and so anyway i can perform foot surgery kidney surgery whatever i'm pretty sure
01:50:48.000
anyway uh so so his kidneys shut down uh and he's had a really bad week you know when your kidneys
01:50:56.140
uh fail it's a bad week you need those yeah so uh but i saw him last night and uh cheered him up i
01:51:03.140
told him i said the audience is praying for you i said and they're they're praying for a miracle in
01:51:07.100
fact if i may pat i want to read you a tweet and so i read him uh the tweet from the listener that said
01:51:12.760
we are praying for a miracle uh and the miracle that we're praying for is that jeffy will not be
01:51:17.800
filling in for pat uh today and i think it's probably the first time in a week that pat has
01:51:24.000
laughed uh and he just said i love this audience so much uh but uh i think that miracle will be
01:51:31.800
happening on monday oh good i think he'll be back on monday so and uh for so after this program on the
01:51:37.780
blaze uh radio and tv you do get jeffy filling in for pat wow wow that's a good promotion i think
01:51:46.940
right there now we now we know why travis is jumping the ship like a rat is this what caused
01:51:52.000
this is because of jeffy jeffy's on for five days i'm losing my mind i can't like i don't know what
01:51:58.680
to do uh so we'll see you uh we'll see you monday uh live from los angeles all next week