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00:00:30.000 I start and it might sound like I burst a blood vessel, but I don't think I did any permanent damage in my monologue on CNN elites versus Americans.

00:00:47.120 The pit of despair on CNN and a warning never to ask me a certain question ever, ever again.

00:00:58.200 Also, cooking with bats.

00:01:00.500 You know, why not?

00:01:01.960 China is doing it. 0.86

00:01:03.000 Are they better than us?

00:01:04.680 We talk about Alan Dershowitz, the Constitution on Constitution porn last night with Alan Dershowitz.

00:01:13.420 All this and so much more on today's podcast.

00:01:23.860 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:28.000 In case you haven't been on social media in the last 12 hours, good for you.

00:01:39.220 Good for you.

00:01:40.820 For those of us who watch it because we have to.

00:01:45.600 Let me show you what was on social media last night coming from the pit of despair.

00:01:51.240 I like to call CNN.

00:01:53.960 Listen.

00:01:54.840 And obviously it's false.

00:01:56.600 And look, he also knows deep in his heart that Donald Trump couldn't find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter U and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it.

00:02:04.740 He knows that this is, you know, an administration defined by ignorance of the world. 0.99

00:02:09.860 And so that's partly him playing to their base and playing their audience, you know, the credulous boomer rube demo that backs Donald Trump that wants to think that Donald Trump's a smart one and they're all elitist or dumb. 0.99

00:02:27.240 You elitist with your geography and your maps and your spelling. 0.98

00:02:31.960 Even though my math and you're reading.

00:02:33.840 Yeah, you're reading, you know, your geography, knowing other countries, sipping your latte.

00:02:40.340 All those lines on the map.

00:02:44.480 Only them elitists know where Ukraine is.

00:02:48.900 Sorry.

00:02:54.540 Let me just say this.

00:02:58.400 These rubes. 0.86

00:03:01.620 The don't know math, don't know how to read.

00:03:04.580 Let me just say this to, yes, the elitists.

00:03:10.400 What is an elitist?

00:03:12.340 Somebody who thinks they're better than everyone else.

00:03:16.180 What was that?

00:03:17.940 A demonstration that you think that half of the country that voted for this president, half of the country. 1.00

00:03:26.200 It's nothing but ignorant, just dummies that can't even read. 1.00

00:03:32.320 That is the pure definition of an elitist. 1.00

00:03:36.580 Somebody who thinks they're better than everybody else.

00:03:40.460 You think because you voted against Donald Trump or you don't like him, you are better than everyone else.

00:03:48.120 Well, let me tell you something.

00:03:49.760 These rubes, they know, they do know geography and those lines on that map.

00:03:56.080 Boy, today, that one looks like Ohio.

00:03:59.340 This one looks like Pennsylvania.

00:04:02.080 That one looks like Florida.

00:04:04.680 You know what?

00:04:05.440 We might even be able to find our way on the map to Michigan.

00:04:08.760 We might even be able to find Wisconsin after the Bernie people burn it to the ground.

00:04:19.760 I am so sick and tired.

00:04:26.520 We have to coexist.

00:04:29.920 You know, it used to be that the day that America came together was the day after the election.

00:04:36.500 But that doesn't happen anymore.

00:04:38.760 Go back and listen to my monologue the day after President Obama was elected in 08.

00:04:45.520 Go back and listen to it.

00:04:49.060 He's my president now.

00:04:51.180 He's all of our presidents now.

00:04:53.200 We have to hope for the best, pray for the best, and do all we can to stop any policies that we truly believe are damaging to our country.

00:05:04.300 But we don't wish for his failure.

00:05:08.800 What were your monologues during the swearing in?

00:05:13.620 The day after the election?

00:05:15.600 Get him.

00:05:17.180 Impeachment.

00:05:18.240 Get him.

00:05:19.000 I so strongly disagreed with this candidate, Donald Trump, because I didn't think he would do any of the stuff that he said he was going to do.

00:05:29.940 And much to my, one of the greatest surprises in my life, he did.

00:05:36.820 What did I say the day of the election?

00:05:42.340 He's my president now.

00:05:43.980 And I have to do everything I can to help him make things right.

00:05:52.120 I will stand against him when I must.

00:05:55.280 And I will stand with him when I can.

00:06:00.420 And he has given me opportunity to stand with him over and over and over again.

00:06:04.640 Even though I don't like some of the stuff he does.

00:06:08.820 I can stand with him because I'm a human being that can think.

00:06:13.280 That's spelled T-I-N-K. 0.98

00:06:19.660 I think.

00:06:20.480 You were plotting this.

00:06:28.980 You know why nobody's watching any of this impeachment?

00:06:32.680 Because they don't believe it has anything to do with the truth.

00:06:37.400 They don't believe that truth or justice.

00:06:41.080 They don't even know what the American way is anymore.

00:06:43.400 But they certainly don't believe that truth and justice is happening anywhere near Washington, D.C.

00:06:49.180 Or in the hallowed ivory tower halls.

00:06:53.900 Of, yes, the elites that look down from their tower.

00:06:58.240 And all of the rubes down there. 0.99

00:07:00.600 Look at them.

00:07:01.860 Look at them.

00:07:02.940 I have not wanted to secede from this union more than right now.

00:07:18.800 Do it without us.

00:07:21.340 Go ahead.

00:07:22.520 Do it without us.

00:07:25.060 See how long you last.

00:07:28.040 Grow your own food.

00:07:30.440 Fight your own wars.

00:07:32.140 Do it.

00:07:34.480 You are so close to becoming the capital city as in the Hunger Games.

00:07:39.300 Oh, look.

00:07:41.300 Look at the little rubes. 1.00

00:07:43.460 They work for a living.

00:07:45.380 Oh, darling, we must get you into some nice makeup and clothing. 0.98

00:07:50.920 Really?

00:07:52.780 Those are the real people.

00:07:54.420 And even President Snow knew you needed them.

00:07:59.920 You don't think we play a role at all.

00:08:06.620 You know what this battle is really all about?

00:08:12.780 When it comes right down to it, the State Department and the intelligence community.

00:08:18.520 And all those who think to themselves, and it's with every president, Republican or Democrat, I don't care what the president says because we already have a plan and we're executing it.

00:08:32.500 And we've been here longer than any president.

00:08:35.140 They come and go.

00:08:36.460 Well, what are those people saying?

00:08:38.500 We don't care what the American people say.

00:08:41.940 It's why we vote over and over and over again, including a guy last time who said, I'm going to shut down Guantanamo.

00:08:50.220 I'm going to stop all these wars.

00:08:52.140 Did he?

00:08:53.340 No.

00:08:53.920 Why?

00:08:55.080 Because he's not truly in charge.

00:08:58.880 They give him enough.

00:09:01.920 But he's not going to change anything.

00:09:03.960 And this guy goes in, like him or hate him, he doesn't care.

00:09:09.740 Oh, look at him.

00:09:10.660 He said, why don't we put alligators down on the border? 1.00

00:09:15.340 You know why he said that?

00:09:17.360 You know why he said that?

00:09:18.780 Because everyone around him is coming up with some sort of an excuse.

00:09:26.420 Well, we can't build that wall because of environmental reasons, because of political reasons, because of international reasons.

00:09:34.480 I want the country secure, is what he's saying.

00:09:39.180 I want it secure.

00:09:40.960 Now, I've come up with a billion ideas.

00:09:43.300 Nobody in this room is helping me secure it.

00:09:46.620 And the American people came, sent to me, here. 1.00

00:09:51.140 I came here on behalf of the American people who say they want their border secure.

00:09:56.300 I don't care how you do it.

00:09:58.880 Alligators.

00:09:59.820 Put alligators down. 0.89

00:10:01.380 If you geniuses can't come up with anything else, we're doing it.

00:10:06.960 See, I understand Donald Trump.

00:10:09.960 I do understand the one thing that he does.

00:10:14.460 Because I have worked in corporations my entire life.

00:10:19.380 I have worked with...

00:10:21.960 I remember them telling me, back in 1981, I said, I want to go over to the Soviet Union.

00:10:33.820 I want to broadcast from the Soviet Union.

00:10:36.320 And it's about to fall.

00:10:39.920 It was 1979.

00:10:41.920 It's about to fall.

00:10:43.280 I want to go broadcast.

00:10:44.160 Can't do it.

00:10:44.780 Can't do it.

00:10:45.300 Can't do it.

00:10:45.800 Can't do it.

00:10:46.340 Can't do it.

00:10:46.800 So I started doing it myself.

00:10:51.160 And then somebody who had support in the company, they found themselves over in the Soviet Union.

00:10:58.340 I know how corporations work.

00:11:01.060 I know how the favors are played.

00:11:05.880 I know how people are just like, can't be done.

00:11:08.660 Can't be done.

00:11:09.720 I'm the guy who put 500,000 people on the mall in Washington, D.C.

00:11:14.280 No, I'm sorry.

00:11:15.800 I didn't put them there.

00:11:16.920 I suggested it.

00:11:18.740 And America responded to it.

00:11:21.000 And you put yourself there.

00:11:23.240 Everyone said, don't do it.

00:11:26.480 Everyone said, you can't broadcast and do a restoring event from Israel.

00:11:31.640 Can't be done.

00:11:32.340 Never been done.

00:11:33.700 Right.

00:11:34.560 That's why I did it from the temple stairs.

00:11:36.980 The only Christian to speak there since the Romans. 0.74

00:11:40.460 It can be done.

00:11:45.860 But all of the people around, especially a president, all want to say no.

00:11:52.020 This is about him actually changing the way things work in America.

00:11:58.460 And you don't like it.

00:11:59.980 Because he doesn't care what you think, members of the media.

00:12:04.720 He doesn't care.

00:12:05.980 How dare him call us the enemy of the people.

00:12:11.680 Tell me what that action was.

00:12:14.480 Tell me what that actually says to me.

00:12:20.020 It says you don't care about me.

00:12:23.200 You don't care about people who live here. 0.99

00:12:25.800 Oh, well, we go into the middle of the country and we're treated like crap. 1.00

00:12:28.840 Because we're in the middle of the country watching you talk to all of your friends and you're dissing us, calling us names, treating us like crap. 1.00

00:12:41.660 Despicable. 1.00

00:12:43.000 Despicable.

00:12:46.460 You know what?

00:12:47.280 Zucker should have walked into that control room in the middle of that broadcast and say, shut it down.

00:12:53.200 Tell Don Lemon to act like an adult.

00:12:57.640 And those two are not to be on this network again.

00:13:02.200 Because the only ones that like that were the people just like them.

00:13:07.940 The only people that like that were the people in the capital city.

00:13:13.320 All the journalists, they loved it.

00:13:15.520 They laughed.

00:13:18.360 I've been in that pit of despair at CNN.

00:13:21.160 I know who those people are.

00:13:25.880 I also know how many people are there keeping their mouth shut.

00:13:31.380 Because as inclusive as you say you are, you're not inclusive at all.

00:13:36.920 You're absolutely inclusive of anybody who agrees and will say everything that you believe and say.

00:13:47.340 It's despicable. 0.99

00:13:48.660 So today, I just want to talk to all damn rubes. 1.00

00:13:58.440 You know, the people who are paying attention to the news. 0.99

00:14:01.820 People that aren't watching the coverage of the impeachment because they're not rubes.

00:14:08.420 They know that you think we are and you think you can say anything.

00:14:12.960 You think you can tell us that a man can be a woman and can have a baby and we buy into it.

00:14:20.480 Well, we don't.

00:14:22.580 Period.

00:14:23.660 We don't.

00:14:24.920 And we never will.

00:14:27.060 Period.

00:14:27.460 You know who the rubes are? 0.99

00:14:31.620 The ones who think we actually believe what you're saying.

00:14:35.800 You know who the rubes are? 0.99

00:14:37.560 The people like Brian Stelter.

00:14:39.940 The people who think every time they can get on and just say, this is what really happened.

00:14:47.660 This is, you know what, media matters.

00:14:49.540 Can we just talk about how the right just lies and could get anything on the news?

00:14:56.020 Tell me about it, media matters.

00:15:00.080 We're not the rubes.

00:15:01.360 If we were, we'd be watching and lapping this all up.

00:15:06.040 We know.

00:15:08.220 And we no longer find you amusing.

00:15:17.960 Here's what I want you to do right now if you've not done this before.

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00:15:42.680 Today, I'm going to offer 20% off.

00:15:47.240 Go to blazetv.com slash Glenn until they can get to the computers and change it.

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00:16:08.120 This is getting out of control.

00:16:12.160 Totally out of control.

00:16:15.500 How do you even, do you know, I ran a, let me see if I can find it here.

00:16:21.640 I looked at all of the headlines today and I wanted to find exactly what everyone was saying about last night.

00:16:32.080 Did you watch the impeachment last night?

00:16:33.920 I know it was really hard to because even Fox was breaking away.

00:16:39.200 Everybody, I mean, can we watch the impeachment?

00:16:43.060 This is the first time the president has had the ability to defend himself.

00:16:49.900 Can we watch it?

00:16:51.160 Because we're not going to get the truth from anyone.

00:16:55.680 So go through the five major news sources today.

00:16:58.840 New York Times did not have a single story on their front page that talked about Trump's defense.

00:17:04.520 Everything in the top section was about John Bolton, which I'm going to get to next hour.

00:17:09.820 The Washington Post led with Bolton and a few stories down had a headline.

00:17:15.360 No description about his defense.

00:17:17.760 CNN led with a defense story, but it was their typical CNN analysis lead where they basically said Trump's defense was just talk radio talking points.

00:17:27.520 Fox had Dershowitz and Bolton in their top story headline.

00:17:30.740 Politico led with Romney making his move.

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00:18:14.880 This John Bolton mess has, it's like an octopus.

00:18:20.840 So let me just cut it off arm after arm.

00:18:24.660 First arm that has to go.

00:18:27.420 Do you want John Bolton to testify?

00:18:29.160 If John Bolton has something to say, yes, I want him to testify.

00:18:36.020 But I also want the whistleblower.

00:18:38.840 I also want Hunter Biden.

00:18:41.420 Hunter Biden, if you have watched any of our specials, I don't care what the press says.

00:18:47.240 They're lying to you.

00:18:49.000 And so is Adam Schiff.

00:18:50.880 This is not a conspiracy theory.

00:18:52.960 This is about $1.8 billion that was just lost.

00:19:01.600 And it was fine by the State Department, by Joe Biden.

00:19:06.420 They did everything they could to cover it.

00:19:09.160 Next Thursday, I have the final piece.

00:19:13.000 We're going to do one more special on Ukraine.

00:19:15.580 And it's the final piece.

00:19:17.220 And I went over it last night.

00:19:18.800 We're still tying up some loose ends on it.

00:19:20.640 We want to make sure we get it exactly right.

00:19:23.720 But it will tell you exactly why.

00:19:28.100 All of this needs to be investigated.

00:19:31.740 So do I want to hear from John Bolton if he has something important to say?

00:19:36.300 Yes.

00:19:37.500 The whistleblower.

00:19:39.740 Yes.

00:19:44.520 Biden, Hunter Biden.

00:19:46.180 Absolutely.

00:19:47.140 Yes.

00:19:47.500 Do we need to open this thing up and just keep going and going and going?

00:19:51.760 No.

00:19:52.180 Why?

00:19:52.620 Because the Democrats are on a fishing expedition.

00:19:57.660 Now, let me give you two sides of this.

00:20:00.160 One, I want it because I actually want the truth.

00:20:03.900 But I also want that testimony so no one can say afterwards,

00:20:07.800 Look, they didn't even take, we had the witness of the century who was going to say that at night he takes a mask off and he's actually the devil.

00:20:19.100 I want all of that laid to rest.

00:20:21.400 Go ahead.

00:20:23.160 Give it your best.

00:20:24.620 They already have.

00:20:26.180 But now they see another opportunity.

00:20:28.940 The timing on this, which I will get to, it's another leg of the octopus, which I will slay here in a second.

00:20:33.360 The timing is more than suspicious.

00:20:38.160 However, let him testify.

00:20:41.420 Let's lance this boil and really expose what the Democrats have been doing.

00:20:49.300 And if he has something that is impeachable, bring it on.

00:20:53.460 So far, everybody that's been promising, oh, he's got something impeachable.

00:20:58.940 So far, nothing.

00:21:00.280 Nothing.

00:21:00.640 Been three years.

00:21:01.700 Nothing.

00:21:03.180 So I'm not afraid of the truth.

00:21:09.080 On the other hand, you have to look at this as the president of the United States.

00:21:15.760 You have to look at this as a court case.

00:21:18.920 Now, the problem is, this is a political case, not a court case. 0.98

00:21:23.580 In a court case, when you win, shut up. 0.96

00:21:28.720 If you win, no. 0.95

00:21:31.260 I'm not bringing any new evidence, new witnesses.

00:21:34.080 If I have a say so, no.

00:21:35.820 They're only doing this because we just won.

00:21:38.080 I don't know what they have.

00:21:39.460 I don't know what this is.

00:21:40.980 No.

00:21:42.220 But this is political.

00:21:44.300 And that's why I say, yes, you have to.

00:21:46.220 If this was just a legal thing, I'd say no.

00:21:51.680 But I don't think, and I don't think, honestly, the president has anything to worry about.

00:21:56.140 I don't think that John Bolton, what I've read so far from the release of the book, which is another leg of the octopus, which I will cut off next.

00:22:05.940 Anything that he has said doesn't seem to be to be a problem.

00:22:09.960 It's like everything, you know, Schiff was like, this letter, it said right there, I'm going to give you money if you will just give me a bunch of bad stuff on Joe Biden.

00:22:23.680 Remember, that's almost what he said when he was in Congress and he first talked about the whistleblower.

00:22:29.880 Didn't turn out that way, did it?

00:22:31.160 So I'm not really concerned about what the Democrats think they have this time.

00:22:38.040 Fool me once, shame on me.

00:22:40.440 Fool me what?

00:22:43.300 875 times?

00:22:45.320 I am a rube.

00:22:48.000 Now, John Bolton and the book.

00:22:51.160 I know John Bolton.

00:22:59.160 I have always admired John Bolton.

00:23:03.040 I've always known what John Bolton was, and that is a serious hawk.

00:23:10.800 And that hasn't been the most, you know, appealing side of him.

00:23:16.640 He is a realist.

00:23:18.940 But he is, let's, let's, let's say,

00:23:21.160 Let me go back to what we used to talk about on this program a lot before people knew what progressives were.

00:23:27.880 But the progressive party was started by the Republicans.

00:23:32.740 And Teddy Roosevelt had this idea that we not only had the responsibility,

00:23:38.660 we had the right to go around the rest of the world and tell them how to live their life.

00:23:46.140 That we needed to spread this thing called freedom.

00:23:49.560 And while that's a noble thing to do, that's not the way it works.

00:23:55.800 You don't change people's mind by going in and forcing it on them.

00:24:00.600 You change their hearts.

00:24:02.960 You lead by example.

00:24:06.000 You leave people alone.

00:24:08.920 But that wasn't Teddy Roosevelt.

00:24:10.820 And that's not what the progressives were or are, I emphasize that, or are in the Republican Party now.

00:24:17.920 There are lots of progressive Republicans.

00:24:21.520 It's why they say one thing to your face and then they go back and they're like, wait, you're spending all that money?

00:24:26.220 What did that just happen?

00:24:27.300 Because they are progressives.

00:24:29.360 And the idea internationally is the same idea between the Nazis and the communists.

00:24:38.160 See, this is why the left calls us Nazis.

00:24:43.120 And the right calls the left communists.

00:24:47.760 Because pretty much they are.

00:24:50.880 Now, I'm talking about the serious control freaks of those.

00:24:56.140 The progressives, like Teddy Roosevelt, believed in a big state that could tell you what to do, who to have, who to marry.

00:25:05.940 And one of the worst things I've ever read from Teddy Roosevelt was a letter he wrote from The Overlook and where he was talking about how, you know, our farmers, they breed our cattle.

00:25:17.020 Why would we just let our people breed with somebody they chose? 0.93

00:25:22.300 They believe in total control from the state down.

00:25:28.480 That's why we have blood tests.

00:25:30.480 That's why we have to go get a license to get married. 1.00

00:25:32.860 Because you can't just do that on your own. 1.00

00:25:35.640 It came from the progressive era, let's weed out all the imbeciles. 0.99

00:25:40.080 So, they believe, Republicans that are deep progressives, believe in the same kind of control. 0.99

00:25:50.160 But they believe in it in a national way.

00:25:52.820 That's why nationalism, this is going to be Nazis. 0.92

00:25:56.660 No, believing in your country is different than nationalism.

00:26:00.500 Being proud of our country is different than nationalism.

00:26:03.780 Nationalism is, we're first, we'll always be first, first at any cost.

00:26:11.440 Being proud of your country is, look at what we've done.

00:26:14.880 This is really good.

00:26:16.220 I'm not trying to jam it down anybody's throat, but this is really, this is exciting what we've done.

00:26:22.120 And you know what?

00:26:23.920 We don't want to, we don't want to, we don't want to screw this up.

00:26:27.420 I don't, I don't want to interfere with anybody else.

00:26:30.420 But don't let them interfere with us.

00:26:32.380 We've got to do what's right for us first.

00:26:35.540 Because if we're going to save people, we have to be healthy.

00:26:39.580 That's the difference between a constitutionalist, what I call a patriot, and a progressive nationalist.

00:26:48.060 A progressive nationalist is one step away from either communism or Nazism.

00:26:55.480 If they believe a communist, a communist believes in internationalism and a, and a progressive on the right believes in nationalism.

00:27:04.380 But that's the only difference.

00:27:05.960 Same things come.

00:27:07.700 Same gulags, same death camps, same control.

00:27:11.140 That's what happened with Germany and what happened with Russia.

00:27:15.100 One is, oh, how dare you just think about yourselves in Germany.

00:27:19.740 We're thinking about the whole world. 1.00

00:27:21.980 Shut up. 0.98

00:27:22.980 International socialism and national socialism. 0.99

00:27:26.100 That's the only difference.

00:27:27.420 So, take that now and look at the fruit of that.

00:27:33.200 And come back away from the communism and the Nazism. 0.94

00:27:37.400 Just filter that out a little bit and see what we're fighting.

00:27:41.780 What this, what this impeachment is truly all about is who is controlling the world, who controls the country, who controls you, and who controls the world.

00:27:57.540 And the fight is between the communists and the national socialists.

00:28:05.000 That's what it's, that's, that's what this fight really is at the end of the road.

00:28:12.320 And it dismisses everyone who believes in the constitution.

00:28:15.980 It dismisses anybody who believes in, you know what, I don't care what you call yourself.

00:28:20.460 I'm not going to call you a happy butterfly because you're not.

00:28:23.560 But if you want to call yourself a happy butterfly, that's fine.

00:28:26.900 Oh, men have babies too? 0.90

00:28:29.520 No, they don't.

00:28:30.660 But if you want to believe that, that's okay.

00:28:32.660 It's going to come with some consequences because you're living in a fairy world. 1.00

00:28:36.660 You're, you're living a fairy tale.

00:28:38.720 No.

00:28:40.720 But if that's who you are, that's fine.

00:28:44.540 That's where people used to be in America.

00:28:50.420 Now, not everybody was like that.

00:28:53.160 A lot of people on the right and a lot of people on the left wanted to force you into their point of view.

00:28:58.400 When George Bush told me, um, personally, don't worry, Glenn, whoever sits behind this desk, doesn't matter who they are, are going to make the almost the same exact choices that I make overseas because they will realize they don't have any choice.

00:29:15.740 It's really, the president's hands are tied.

00:29:18.740 Well, who tied those?

00:29:22.640 I don't believe that a president or my hands or your hands are tied on anything.

00:29:28.900 Every day we can start over.

00:29:31.420 Every day we can change our life.

00:29:34.300 Every day the United States can decide, you know what we've been doing for the last hundred years with this progressive nonsense?

00:29:40.180 Doesn't work.

00:29:42.440 Every time we interfere in somebody else's country, it seems to go awry.

00:29:47.240 It seems like we're on the losing end.

00:29:49.960 No, I don't agree with this anymore.

00:29:53.560 And that's what this impeachment is all about.

00:29:57.020 So some people are saying that John Bolton is just greedy.

00:30:00.960 Hmm.

00:30:01.840 Maybe.

00:30:02.680 Maybe.

00:30:03.460 Let me tell you how the book world works.

00:30:06.080 Let me tell you what really happened, in my opinion, on this book.

00:30:10.180 And tell you why John Bolton, I think, is fine with this release.

00:30:20.180 And why he should be ashamed of himself.

00:30:24.880 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:30:27.360 Hey, it's Glenn.

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00:30:59.280 All right.

00:30:59.620 So, Stu, I had a problem with this tweet last night.

00:31:02.520 I think it's pretty good.

00:31:04.780 It is inaccurate.

00:31:06.280 I know the human race can eat anything they want. 0.99

00:31:10.420 But does that really mean that you can make a effing soup out of a damn bat? 1.00

00:31:19.380 Well, okay. 0.99

00:31:21.580 The effing bat caused Ebola, Corona, rabies. 0.84

00:31:24.700 It might cause even more diarrhea. 0.99

00:31:27.320 You know, the people who are eating bats, you should know you'll die from some new ass plague. 0.96

00:31:32.080 Well, I just, I took umbrage on this. 0.94

00:31:38.540 And I wanted to correct because, you know, he said you can't make bats into a soup.

00:31:45.720 And, yeah, we can.

00:31:47.580 We can.

00:31:48.700 You can make bats out of a soup.

00:31:52.380 But you can't make a cake out of a bat. 0.63

00:31:56.180 You make a cake to look like a bat.

00:31:57.680 But I've never seen any recipe that would call for bat in your cake.

00:32:02.520 You could add bat.

00:32:03.940 But that's just a cake with bat meat in it. 0.90

00:32:08.080 This is a soup that would be the basis of the soup would be the bat. 0.98

00:32:12.460 And I think you can make that.

00:32:14.060 Well, I think that's how the coronavirus started.

00:32:16.900 Started.

00:32:17.380 Yes.

00:32:17.660 Someone actually having bat soup. 0.51

00:32:20.000 Now, is it, question, do I have to throw out the bat soup I already purchased? 0.99

00:32:25.540 Or can I?

00:32:25.920 What's the expiration date?

00:32:27.680 And we should look into the batch.

00:32:29.000 I have till March on that.

00:32:29.440 You have till March?

00:32:30.160 Yeah.

00:32:30.300 I think you're safe.

00:32:31.100 If you have bat soup now in your kitchen, is it unopened and refrigerated if it is? 0.99

00:32:35.440 It is open.

00:32:36.780 It's not opened yet.

00:32:38.100 It's not open.

00:32:38.760 It's just a can of bat soup? 1.00

00:32:39.460 It's just a can of bat soup. 1.00

00:32:40.440 Yeah, you're fine.

00:32:41.100 But I did purchase it from China about a week ago.

00:32:45.460 Okay.

00:32:45.820 I'd throw that one away then.

00:32:47.240 Yeah, I'd throw that away.

00:32:48.340 If it's been in your cupboard for six months or so, I think you're fine.

00:32:51.280 Then you're fine.

00:32:52.020 Yeah.

00:32:52.320 Okay.

00:32:52.680 But throw away your bat soup. 1.00

00:32:54.160 If you want to make it, I mean, you make it fresh, I would, first I would boil the bat 1.00

00:33:00.240 to get the skin to come off.

00:33:01.760 Okay?

00:33:02.200 Okay.

00:33:02.760 And you'd cut the wings off, take out the eyes to get the guts out, and then just throw

00:33:07.660 it into some boiling water, and then just, you know, scoop the skin out, and then get

00:33:14.520 rid of the fangs and the feet, and then just filet, or just, it really should just fall

00:33:21.920 right off the bones.

00:33:23.240 So then you have that, and then just chop it up, then put it into like some, you know,

00:33:26.840 a hot skillet, and put some onions and some garlic and maybe some celery in there.

00:33:31.760 A skillet.

00:33:32.420 Okay.

00:33:32.900 And then just, you know, just fry that up a little bit, brown it, and make sure you

00:33:39.640 get all the bat scrapings off the bottom of the pan as you're pouring in. 1.00

00:33:44.740 Like, I would use chicken stock.

00:33:46.500 Maybe beef is better, but I think chicken stock would probably, because they're both birds,

00:33:52.220 kind of, in a way.

00:33:53.720 Not really.

00:33:54.140 You know.

00:33:54.580 They both have wings.

00:33:56.840 They both fly.

00:33:57.920 Well, one doesn't, but the other one does.

00:34:00.700 So anyway, so I would use chicken stock and just let that thing simmer, you know, for

00:34:05.420 a few hours, and when you get home, let it reduce so you get all that bat flavor. 0.82

00:34:10.440 So you think you're okay with a fresh bat soup right now? 1.00

00:34:14.000 You take the chance on a fresh bat soup. 1.00

00:34:15.840 You just wouldn't want to necessarily import it from the area in China that's affected.

00:34:20.060 No, but I could go to my local cave, you know, and get some fresh bats, and I think I'd

00:34:25.620 be okay.

00:34:26.540 I think I'd be okay.

00:34:27.220 I have pulled up here, by the way, an actual recipe for bats.

00:34:31.540 Because you're pretty close.

00:34:32.500 I think you're pretty close.

00:34:34.020 That's how you make soup, man.

00:34:35.860 You know, you, by the way, you can throw some noodles in that.

00:34:38.200 Delicious with noodles.

00:34:39.520 A bat noodle soup? 1.00

00:34:40.400 Yeah.

00:34:41.780 Bat noodle soup. 1.00

00:34:42.700 I like that.

00:34:43.380 Yeah.

00:34:43.680 We should make this on the air.

00:34:45.440 I think we should make a batch of bat noodle soup. 1.00

00:34:46.920 Yeah, I mean, or another option would be not to, not to make it.

00:34:51.240 No.

00:34:51.840 That's another, that's one of the two options available.

00:34:53.860 The biggest country in the world is making bat soup. 1.00

00:34:56.560 What, we're afraid?

00:34:58.260 And we can't keep losing to China. 0.81

00:34:59.640 Yeah.

00:34:59.800 We keep losing to China. 0.98

00:35:01.020 They've got all the, we should be making bat soup in giant, in batches and sending it 1.00

00:35:06.580 over to them.

00:35:07.120 Not to mention all these new diseases come from China. 0.92

00:35:09.720 Where are we?

00:35:10.780 Right.

00:35:11.200 We're never creating the new diseases.

00:35:12.900 Right.

00:35:13.240 You know, occasionally somebody will take a flight from, you know, from China over here.

00:35:17.580 But that's just us importing our new diseases.

00:35:22.200 That's all that's happening.

00:35:23.320 Right.

00:35:23.860 And why don't we, why aren't we leaders in this country?

00:35:25.920 Well, that could be part of our, our bat soup campaign. 1.00

00:35:29.660 That could be.

00:35:30.300 Start making your own bat soup. 1.00

00:35:31.840 I think that's good.

00:35:32.480 Here's how you make bat soup. 1.00

00:35:33.680 First of all, three to four fruit bats.

00:35:37.080 Okay.

00:35:37.580 All right.

00:35:38.280 Well washed.

00:35:39.760 Good idea.

00:35:40.560 Of course.

00:35:40.940 Of course.

00:35:41.800 But neither skinned nor eviscerated.

00:35:44.640 Ah.

00:35:45.360 Okay.

00:35:45.660 Okay, so you cook them with the guts and the skin.

00:35:48.160 You're just washing it and you're just popping it in there.

00:35:49.900 Oh, that sounds good.

00:35:51.000 I don't even, I'm not even creeped out by the idea of washing a bat.

00:35:55.520 You know what I mean?

00:35:56.020 That's really creepy.

00:35:57.120 Yeah.

00:35:57.440 Are bats hairy?

00:35:58.680 What'd you say?

00:35:59.340 No.

00:35:59.800 No hair?

00:36:00.220 Well, yeah, I think there is a little, yeah.

00:36:02.900 We should, have you ever seen the, we opened up the, the, the, the side of our house.

00:36:09.180 They got into a crack and they went from the wood siding on the house.

00:36:13.660 Yeah. 0.98

00:36:13.820 In between, Stu, it was the creepiest damn thing. 0.96

00:36:17.480 There were thousands of them. 0.94

00:36:20.040 It was like the scene from Batman when he's in the cave and they just all, as a kid, that

00:36:25.220 was me.

00:36:25.880 Ah!

00:36:26.900 It was crazy.

00:36:29.080 I have to show you the video.

00:36:30.300 I'll post it.

00:36:30.900 I'll post it.

00:36:31.340 That sounds horrific.

00:36:32.160 It's horrific.

00:36:33.480 There is a, uh.

00:36:34.280 But I think they do have hair. 0.67

00:36:35.420 I've never gotten that close to them for very long.

00:36:37.800 Now I have.

00:36:39.060 Oh, you have?

00:36:39.520 Yeah, because there, well, at least there's a, there's a story in my family that when I

00:36:42.580 was a child, I was bitten by a bat, uh, sitting in the, in the backyard.

00:36:46.740 Boy, that explains a lot.

00:36:48.020 But it explains a lot.

00:36:48.940 Like, you know, cause you, you watch the Twilight movies, all those guys that look like really

00:36:52.320 like sexy and that you could see that they based it off me clearly in some way.

00:36:56.040 Maybe not.

00:36:56.620 That's not the.

00:36:57.560 That's not the exact name, but like the basic storyline of just sexy guy gets bit by bat.

00:37:04.540 That, I mean, it's my story.

00:37:06.020 I don't think so, but anyway, the bat soup. 1.00

00:37:09.520 So bat soup, three to four fruit bats, well washed, but neither skin nor eviscerated. 0.74

00:37:13.280 Water.

00:37:14.240 Of course.

00:37:14.720 Easy.

00:37:15.400 One tablespoon of finely sliced, uh, uh, fresh ginger.

00:37:19.380 Ooh, ginger. 0.99

00:37:20.380 That's going to be a little spicy.

00:37:21.620 You get a little kink to it.

00:37:23.020 Yeah.

00:37:23.600 One large.

00:37:24.720 Bites back.

00:37:25.280 Ha ha ha.

00:37:25.800 That could be a slogan for it.

00:37:27.200 That bites back.

00:37:28.100 Yeah.

00:37:28.500 The bat soup. 1.00

00:37:29.340 It bites back.

00:37:30.140 I liked it.

00:37:30.800 It's like the alternative of you biting the bat, which doesn't, it doesn't work exactly,

00:37:34.460 but one large onion quartered.

00:37:37.920 So you don't quarter the bat, but you do quarter the onion.

00:37:40.140 What I like about this recipe is I'm just thinking when you bite into the bat, it's like, 1.00

00:37:44.260 uh, it's like a donut with fruit filling, you know, it just.

00:37:48.680 Mmm.

00:37:49.080 No.

00:37:50.180 Okay.

00:37:51.720 Like a, it's like a jelly donut.

00:37:53.740 That's what you're.

00:37:55.760 Ah.

00:37:56.600 Okay.

00:37:57.200 So garlic and lots of it.

00:37:59.140 Sure.

00:37:59.680 Yes.

00:38:00.200 Yeah.

00:38:00.440 Garlic.

00:38:00.940 Yeah.

00:38:01.360 Lots of garlic.

00:38:02.760 Which is yet another reason you're not going to want to kiss someone after they eat that

00:38:05.620 soup.

00:38:05.860 Like take all of Italy.

00:38:07.320 Yeah.

00:38:07.660 And put it into the soup.

00:38:10.500 Sea salts to taste.

00:38:11.980 I'd imagine a lot of sea salt.

00:38:13.360 Yeah.

00:38:13.660 I would imagine.

00:38:14.140 The ocean.

00:38:14.540 Mm-hmm.

00:38:14.780 So you take Italy and you boil it in the ocean.

00:38:18.540 You throw four fruit bats in there.

00:38:20.780 Oh, it's going to be delicious.

00:38:21.940 It's going to be delicious.

00:38:22.600 Yeah.

00:38:23.180 Uh, chopped scallions.

00:38:24.840 Mm-hmm.

00:38:25.900 Soy sauce and coconut milk.

00:38:28.300 Ooh.

00:38:28.640 It's an interesting little, it's going to be a little creamy soup, isn't it?

00:38:31.160 Ooh, yeah.

00:38:31.480 A little creamy soup there.

00:38:32.920 Oh, God.

00:38:33.940 It's a little creaky.

00:38:35.020 There's a bat head floating around in there, but. 1.00

00:38:38.060 Okay.

00:38:39.760 This is a serious recipe.

00:38:41.220 This is a serious.

00:38:41.780 Wait, wait.

00:38:42.440 I.

00:38:43.520 And here it comes.

00:38:44.440 Hold on.

00:38:44.760 Let me give you how to make it.

00:38:45.800 Mm-hmm.

00:38:46.180 Because the end of it, you're not going to believe.

00:38:48.740 Oh, man.

00:38:49.960 That's how close this line.

00:38:52.620 Okay.

00:38:53.820 Place the bats in a large kettle.

00:38:56.000 Add water to cover.

00:38:57.460 Ginger, onion, garlic, and salt.

00:38:59.960 Don't be.

00:39:00.620 I'm serious.

00:39:01.680 This is not a bit where I'm throwing water in a garbage can.

00:39:04.160 I'd be very careful.

00:39:06.000 You're on the borderline already?

00:39:07.140 I'm on the borderline. 0.89

00:39:08.000 This is so gross.

00:39:08.760 No, this is not going to gross you out, I promise.

00:39:10.920 Bring to a boil and cook for 60 minutes.

00:39:13.440 Strain broth into second kettle.

00:39:15.600 Take the bats.

00:39:16.580 Oh, God.

00:39:17.680 Skin them.

00:39:18.440 Oh.

00:39:19.300 And discard the skin.

00:39:20.620 Well, that's a good step.

00:39:21.640 I feel like.

00:39:22.640 We're starting to discard stuff.

00:39:24.100 I feel like that's a good step.

00:39:25.800 Any discarding in this recipe, I'm for.

00:39:27.700 Mm-hmm.

00:39:28.460 Remove meat from the bones.

00:39:29.940 Mm-hmm.

00:39:30.440 And return meat and any of the viscera that you fancy

00:39:33.880 to the broth.

00:39:35.420 Now, you might say, what's viscera?

00:39:38.940 Let's give you the definition.

00:39:40.260 I know what viscera is.

00:39:41.380 You're a viscera.

00:39:42.280 I got it.

00:39:42.700 The internal organs and main cavities of the body,

00:39:44.800 especially those in the abdomen, like the intestines. 0.74

00:39:49.620 Okay?

00:39:50.140 So how much do you want to keep in there?

00:39:51.480 That's up to you.

00:39:52.420 I want you to know.

00:39:53.260 Oh, man.

00:39:55.600 Any level of intestine usage you want to make in this suit.

00:39:59.460 I don't know why.

00:40:00.340 I can do this to animals.

00:40:02.100 I can do this to birds.

00:40:03.100 I can do this to chicken.

00:40:03.940 I can do this to fish.

00:40:05.260 A bat just.

00:40:07.200 Oh, boy.

00:40:07.940 A bat just makes me sick.

00:40:10.020 Really?

00:40:10.640 Yeah.

00:40:10.980 And maybe that's the point.

00:40:12.700 Maybe that's the point that China should learn. 0.79

00:40:15.440 Bats make you sick.

00:40:18.180 That's a good lesson.

00:40:19.280 They should put a billboard or two up.

00:40:20.600 Yeah.

00:40:21.260 Don't eat the bats.

00:40:22.940 So you heat it.

00:40:24.680 You serve liberally, sprinkled with scallions and further seasoned with soy sauce and or coconut cream.

00:40:30.380 It makes four servings.

00:40:32.160 But here's the kicker.

00:40:34.700 Where does this come from?

00:40:36.500 Of course.

00:40:38.200 The New York Times Natural Foods Cookbook from Gene Hewitt in 1971.

00:40:44.980 Oh, my.

00:40:45.500 So who's the real cause of this coronavirus?

00:40:49.340 The New York Times.

00:40:50.840 Oh, my.

00:40:59.180 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:41:12.240 Did you watch the impeachment at all last night with Alan Dershowitz?

00:41:17.300 Yeah, some of it.

00:41:18.260 Yeah.

00:41:18.520 I mean, he was pretty effective.

00:41:19.820 It's funny now how the process has begun where now Alan Dershowitz, who's been a very liberal lawyer and has been favored by the media forever, now has turned into a – he's a celebrity attorney.

00:41:36.280 He is – he's no constitutional expert.

00:41:39.380 He's a defense attorney.

00:41:40.440 I mean, you know, this guy is not – he's not in the circles of intellect that we respect.

00:41:46.540 Alan Dershowitz is at Harvard?

00:41:48.520 It's unbelievable what they're trying to do to this guy.

00:41:50.160 Harvard, he was the – he was tenured, I think, at 24 at Harvard.

00:41:54.640 He was the youngest tenured Harvard teacher ever.

00:41:58.780 And he started talking about how – oh, I'd just like to say hello to all my students that are here today.

00:42:03.240 In the Senate?

00:42:03.960 In the Senate?

00:42:04.780 Yeah.

00:42:05.000 Several of them?

00:42:06.140 So this guy has tons of credibility.

00:42:08.920 I will tell you that I've – except for the O.J. Simpson trial, I've always liked Alan Dershowitz.

00:42:17.280 I've always found him to be credible, even during – he just pissed me off during the Alan Dershowitz trial.

00:42:21.960 And he's always interesting, right?

00:42:23.360 Yeah.

00:42:23.480 He's always –

00:42:24.260 He's certainly very good at what he does.

00:42:25.160 Don't just dismiss Alan Dershowitz.

00:42:27.480 So he comes on last night, and I swear to you, it was like I haven't heard that much talk about the Constitution in a thoughtful way coming out of Washington, I don't think ever.

00:42:38.340 I mean, it was real deep constitutional – I kept thinking about Mike Lee and Ted Cruz, and I thought, I'm wondering if they're hearing, like, this kind of music behind Alan Dershowitz, you know?

00:42:51.220 This isn't quite right, but we – it's like, oh, yeah, baby.

00:42:57.020 I don't know.

00:42:57.720 You know, it's – it's just kind of, you know –

00:43:01.680 Well, yeah.

00:43:04.520 You see what I'm saying?

00:43:05.920 It's like a slow jam a little bit.

00:43:07.240 You got a little slow jam vibe here.

00:43:08.360 A little slow jam.

00:43:09.260 I mean, it is Mike Lee and Ted Cruz, so it's not full, you know, Constitution on Constitution porn.

00:43:16.760 Right.

00:43:16.980 Can we not talk about Mike Lee or Ted Cruz in this conversation ever again?

00:43:24.440 What, in Alan Dershowitz?

00:43:26.040 What?

00:43:26.480 Sounds like a terrible idea.

00:43:28.420 Yeah.

00:43:29.100 It's funny, though, like –

00:43:30.300 Ding dong! 0.99

00:43:31.340 Who is it?

00:43:32.700 The Constitution.

00:43:35.600 Somehow we've come to a point where Adam Schiff gets praised talking about the Constitution, but Alan Dershowitz is ignored.

00:43:42.240 He's just some celebrity.

00:43:43.740 I know.

00:43:43.980 I mean, you listen to both of their – and I – there's a – there are constitutional arguments from our founders that can be made to support both the Alan Dershowitz argument and, like, let's say, the Justin Amash argument.

00:43:58.720 Right.

00:43:59.120 Amash basically – I mean, you look at the Amash argument, and he looks at it and says anything that breaks the public trust is impeachable, which is a very – like, to me, very loose standard on impeachment,

00:44:11.800 where you can impeach almost anybody in office today.

00:44:14.680 And here's where – here's how Alan Dershowitz dismissed that.

00:44:17.580 And I thought it was really good.

00:44:18.720 He said they did not want a parliamentary system.

00:44:22.280 You know, the reason why we don't usually understand Great Britain is because at any time they can have a vote of no confidence.

00:44:28.140 Right.

00:44:28.620 That would be our impeachment if you could impeach on anything.

00:44:32.380 Mm-hmm.

00:44:32.580 But, you know, Alan Dershowitz was saying they did not want that.

00:44:37.560 And so the standard was very high.

00:44:39.400 And it says high crimes – it says treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors.

00:44:47.800 So you think it should be something on the level of treason and bribery?

00:44:50.700 The way he explained it was, look, they were being very, very specific.

00:44:55.020 Mm-hmm.

00:44:55.860 Treason, bribery – let's just say this.

00:44:58.300 You know what, Stu, finish this grouping.

00:45:05.340 Kobe Bryant, Lou Gehrig, and – can you put anybody else in there?

00:45:14.040 I guess it would have to be a dead sports celebrity.

00:45:18.580 I'd have to pick another, right?

00:45:19.840 Yeah, or it could be –

00:45:21.740 Babe Ruth.

00:45:22.580 Magic Johnson, maybe, maybe.

00:45:24.920 Because it would at least be in the sports.

00:45:26.160 And it would be in sports, and it would be somebody who had disease or was defying death

00:45:32.920 or, you know, thought was going to die.

00:45:35.760 You could make that case.

00:45:37.580 But it's just in sports, right?

00:45:38.060 Right.

00:45:38.400 But if I said those two and then I said Mickey Mouse, what?

00:45:45.300 Right.

00:45:45.540 That doesn't make sense.

00:45:46.420 Right.

00:45:46.720 The third one doesn't belong.

00:45:47.620 So, right.

00:45:48.540 And so what they're saying is they said treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors.

00:45:56.980 Didn't say or, and other high crimes and misdemeanors.

00:46:00.720 So what are high crimes and misdemeanors?

00:46:03.860 He said you have to go into that category.

00:46:07.280 So, yes, the president can be impeached, but they didn't want it to be parliamentary for a no vote just on political things.

00:46:15.620 It has to be political of nature.

00:46:17.960 He said that's why I was against Bill Clinton getting impeached because it wasn't political.

00:46:25.420 That was private, he said, but if it's part of his job and it's akin to treason, bribery, then he can be impeached, but not below.

00:46:39.640 And he said if there's doubt, the standard, according to Blackstone, the standard of English law has always been when in doubt you go smaller, you lessen the scope, you don't broaden the scope.

00:46:54.080 Right.

00:46:54.540 That makes sense.

00:46:55.420 And so what he's saying is.

00:46:57.020 Baring on the side of innocence until proven guilty, really.

00:46:59.280 You err, you err, and you narrow the scope if you're not sure.

00:47:03.640 He said, but nobody here is talking about narrowing the scope.

00:47:07.020 He said they're going all the way to what?

00:47:10.240 He held back aid, something that a president can do, always does, and that's actionable?

00:47:18.820 It's not actionable.

00:47:20.020 That's not treason.

00:47:20.780 That's not bribery.

00:47:21.460 That's nothing in that category.

00:47:24.280 Yeah.

00:47:24.540 And while I have always felt that you can, you can get a president out for crimes, I think he's right.

00:47:34.500 He went back to Madison's words.

00:47:37.580 He went even back to Hamilton and showed how it is being misread.

00:47:41.940 And I think he's right.

00:47:43.000 I think separate from the constitutional arguments as well, I think it's just a more functional system, right?

00:47:52.900 If you're throwing out a president every few years because the other party gets control, that's not a functional government to me.

00:48:03.140 You're right.

00:48:03.920 It's very much like the parliamentary system in some ways.

00:48:05.960 He said you have to, A, have to have a crime, and B...

00:48:11.060 I don't think that's true.

00:48:12.080 I mean, because, for example, people brought this example up, which I think is compelling.

00:48:16.500 If the president of the United States decided to move to Moscow, just live there, right? 0.63

00:48:22.540 Whether it's Trump, Obama, anybody.

00:48:24.100 Just live there.

00:48:24.560 He's going to run the country from there.

00:48:26.520 That's not crime to move to Russia.

00:48:29.780 Like, that's not a criminal action.

00:48:31.060 But we would not accept it.

00:48:32.740 Obviously, we'd impeach anybody who did that.

00:48:35.180 That's why you have an election every four years would be the case.

00:48:38.340 Yeah, but you're going to let the president run the country from Moscow for three and a half years?

00:48:42.340 I think if the president...

00:48:43.020 I mean, I think that's so extreme.

00:48:44.440 It is.

00:48:45.060 But what I'm saying is that there are...

00:48:46.160 You would have different problems on your hand if the president wanted to move to Moscow.

00:48:51.560 Yeah, but the way you deal with those problems is impeachment.

00:48:54.560 Yeah.

00:48:54.940 I think.

00:48:55.460 I don't think...

00:48:56.580 But again, I think that is on the level of treason.

00:48:59.040 It's not treasonous to move to Russia, but it would be on the level of treason. 0.81

00:49:03.480 I think it's just part of the job requirement.

00:49:06.900 Right.

00:49:07.160 As it applies to his job, it's on the level of treason or bribery, right?

00:49:11.100 You're not.

00:49:11.720 Yeah.

00:49:12.260 Well, you're just not even fulfilling the job as president.

00:49:14.840 The president of the United States has to be in the United States, cannot live in Moscow, period.

00:49:18.640 Is that a law?

00:49:19.600 No.

00:49:20.160 No.

00:49:20.380 It's a law, right?

00:49:21.580 I mean, he...

00:49:22.200 But I mean, there's a hundred examples of this.

00:49:23.920 Because let's say every single cabinet person, every single fact in his cabinet, he only hires his family members.

00:49:31.900 Like, that's not a law to hire a family member.

00:49:33.700 Obviously, this president has hired family members.

00:49:35.800 But it would be really, really bad if every single person in the cabinet was one of his family members, some of which were not at all qualified for what they were doing, right?

00:49:44.540 Like, there are lines here where you don't think that would be impeachable.

00:49:47.820 I think that would just set the country on fire and he would resign because he would have zero support.

00:49:54.700 Yeah.

00:49:54.760 I mean, I...

00:49:55.440 Now, if he was...

00:49:56.260 If all the families were getting rich off of it, yeah.

00:50:00.500 But I think Congress would just shut all of that down.

00:50:03.100 But there's plenty of ways to get rich from your government status without breaking the law.

00:50:08.940 There's tons of reasons.

00:50:10.740 There are.

00:50:11.140 But if the president was, let's just say, putting all his family, nobody else but his family was in the cabinet.

00:50:17.260 And...

00:50:17.460 I mean, you're going really...

00:50:18.420 I understand these are just general examples.

00:50:22.240 But, I mean, obviously, there are things that the president can do that are not technical crimes that would elicit this sort of reaction from the...

00:50:31.480 You know, I mean, and I think, like, that's a...

00:50:34.300 That doesn't mean anything about Donald Trump because these things aren't any...

00:50:37.640 We're close to that level, right?

00:50:39.440 Correct.

00:50:39.760 There is a theoretical level you can get to.

00:50:41.780 That level should be high.

00:50:43.060 And that's why I would argue more for the Dershowitz standard than the Amash standard.

00:50:47.140 You need this level...

00:50:49.020 Like, to take a president who was elected out of office has to be an incredibly high bar.

00:50:54.520 And look, over the history of the country, it has been, right?

00:50:58.380 It's only happened three times.

00:51:00.080 And it has happened approximately zero times where they've actually removed him.

00:51:04.440 Zero times.

00:51:05.620 So of all the actions, of all the presidents in our entire history, we're to believe that this phone call...

00:51:12.400 Is the worst thing.

00:51:14.120 Is the one thing we should throw somebody out of office for. 0.99

00:51:16.360 To me, that is just completely ridiculous. 0.99

00:51:19.520 Completely ridiculous. 0.99

00:51:21.180 That doesn't mean that you have to love the action. 0.96

00:51:25.120 It doesn't mean that you have to think Donald Trump made a perfect phone call.

00:51:28.400 But you do have to put it in perspective of this would be the world's superpower removing its leader for the first time in its entire history over what you think may have been something...

00:51:42.400 Something where he was asking for an investigation, which I still can't get anybody to explain to me...

00:51:47.800 How, if he got this Zelensky guy that nobody knew as of a few months ago, other than he was a comedian who was...

00:51:56.200 I think a comedian was elected president of Ukraine.

00:51:58.740 To get that guy to announce an investigation.

00:52:00.600 What impact at all that would have actually had on the election?

00:52:03.700 No one would have cared.

00:52:04.760 The media would have completely ignored it, as they always do when there's an inconvenient fact for Democrats.

00:52:11.420 So, they would have just ignored this anyway.

00:52:13.880 So, the idea that this is the thing of all the presidents that's going to change the way our system has been handled for 200 years...

00:52:24.760 When, I might remind you that in nine months you all have an impeachment vote.

00:52:32.080 You can all go out and impeach Donald Trump in November.

00:52:35.560 So, with that on the line, and it's never happened in history, this is the one time this is supposed to happen? 0.98

00:52:40.900 It's completely ridiculous.

00:52:42.360 And that's why Dershowitz was making the point last night, you will have a parliamentary system. 0.84

00:52:47.160 If you okay this, if you vote for this because of this, you will have a parliamentary system.

00:52:53.160 Because you will have set the level so low that you could now, just because we have control of the House of Representatives,

00:53:03.200 and we don't like what the president is doing, we can move to impeach and make a case.

00:53:07.800 And if we can get the Senate to go along with it, if we can just get a few people to move, well, then, we got it.

00:53:14.780 It can't be for this, especially right up next to an election.

00:53:19.340 And, you know, I want to say one more thing on this.

00:53:21.600 They said that the reason why they have to do this now, and there's pressure mounting, we've got to move quickly,

00:53:27.020 is because this president is undermining the next election.

00:53:33.380 How?

00:53:34.980 Can you give me any evidence of that?

00:53:36.680 You say that's what he was doing in Ukraine, but you caught him.

00:53:41.140 So is he still doing something?

00:53:43.520 What is he doing?

00:53:44.920 How do we know?

00:53:46.140 I mean, unless you're part of Minority Report and you're all mind readers, 0.86

00:53:50.640 what exactly is he doing now to undermine the next election?

00:53:54.780 You are undermining the next election by teaching everybody on the left that it's okay to say without any evidence,

00:54:03.660 you can't count on this next election because he's going to throw it.

00:54:07.120 If he still is in office, he's going to throw it, and you can't count on it.

00:54:10.460 Predictive crimes.

00:54:11.340 Yeah, predictive crimes.

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