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00:00:00.000 Hello, America. Welcome to the program. We have Shaq on Kobe and, you know, what sense can we make out of all of this?

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00:02:10.720 So last night, TNT just went onto the floor of the arena and there was no game that was played.

00:02:22.280 And they decided just to talk about Kobe Bryant.

00:02:25.000 Yeah, which is kind of a cool thing.

00:02:26.460 As you mentioned, the Clippers and Lakers were supposed to play.

00:02:28.680 The game got canceled and they decided to just talk about it.

00:02:32.620 You know, of course, one of the people on the broadcast is Shaquille O'Neal and Shaq.

00:02:37.480 It was interesting to hear him talk about it because it's been well known for a very long time that they butted heads a lot.

00:02:43.260 Shaq and Kobe, they were teammates, won three straight championships, wound up, you know, kind of at each other's throats at times.

00:02:50.020 At least at least that was the public perception of everything.

00:02:52.940 So here he is talking about Shaquille O'Neal, talking about Kobe and the way we all live our lives.

00:02:59.140 We, uh, we up here, we work a lot.

00:03:04.420 And I think a lot of times we take stuff for granted.

00:03:07.900 Like, I don't talk to you guys as much as I need to.

00:03:11.220 The fact that, uh, we're not going to be able to joke at his Hall of Fame ceremony.

00:03:21.140 We're not going to be able to say, ha, I got five, you got four.

00:03:24.320 The fact that we're not going to be able to say, if we would stay together, we could have got ten.

00:03:31.940 Those are the things that you can't get back.

00:03:35.100 And with the loss of my father, my sister, and my thing, that's the only thing I wish I could just say something to him again.

00:03:42.520 Last time I talked to him was when we were here and I asked him to get 50, and he got 60.

00:03:48.740 It's the last time I spoke to him.

00:03:50.420 And I just wish I could have, you know, so it definitely changes me.

00:03:56.160 I have to, because I work a lot.

00:03:58.180 You guys know what I do.

00:03:59.460 I work probably more than the average guy.

00:04:02.900 But I just really have to now just take time and just call and say, I love you.

00:04:08.940 Rick Fox finally called me.

00:04:10.600 He said, man, I love you.

00:04:12.660 B. Shaw called me.

00:04:14.180 So I'm going to try to do a better job of just reaching out and just talking to the people rather than always procrastinating.

00:04:21.500 Because you never know.

00:04:23.080 Life is too short.

00:04:23.940 I never, I could never imagine nothing like this.

00:04:29.460 I can't relate to Kobe Bryant because I never watched him.

00:04:34.720 I'm not a basketball fan.

00:04:35.820 I'm not a sports fan.

00:04:37.520 And so I didn't relate to this at all on Monday.

00:04:43.900 And the closest thing I could come to it is my weird response to Don Imus.

00:04:51.440 Don Imus was a guy that I respected because I listened to him.

00:04:55.740 Long before I knew Don, I listened to him.

00:05:00.720 And he was a, he was a giant.

00:05:04.120 And he was, he was, he was an innovator.

00:05:10.220 The thing I've learned about Kobe Bryant is his relentless dedication to excellence.

00:05:20.800 He wasn't trying to play a good basketball game.

00:05:24.400 He was trying to play a perfect game.

00:05:27.960 And in today's world, you don't see that.

00:05:33.600 In today's world, you, you see somebody in sports.

00:05:38.560 From my perspective, you're watching from afar and you don't really know the, and all you know is this guy was accused of rape in 2003.

00:05:49.960 But you don't know how he really appeared to completely turn his life around.

00:06:05.940 You don't see his devotion to his family and his daughters.

00:06:10.660 I wanted to play that clip today because I thought it was really important.

00:06:28.800 I'm glad I said all the things I did to Don Imus.

00:06:38.340 I'm glad I said the things I did to my dad.

00:06:40.660 I've been thinking about my Aunt Joanne every day for, I don't know, months, months.

00:06:56.540 And I feel guilty because I haven't called her.

00:07:00.740 And every time I call her, it's like a holiday or something like that.

00:07:04.640 And I literally have been thinking about her every day. 1.00

00:07:08.000 And there's that stupid thing. 0.99

00:07:11.600 I'll call her tomorrow. 1.00

00:07:13.760 And it's getting worse and worse and worse.

00:07:15.680 And I hate it.

00:07:16.660 And I know that it's wrong.

00:07:17.960 And I've, I've, I've lived this before.

00:07:20.980 And I don't know why.

00:07:31.980 But I just, I got a call.

00:07:36.380 Because I'll live the rest of my life. 1.00

00:07:39.600 Should she die? 1.00

00:07:41.240 God forbid. 0.99

00:07:41.880 And I don't know why we do this.

00:07:45.540 And I don't know why we don't recognize.

00:07:49.400 I guess it's because they're just always there.

00:07:59.640 Yesterday, there was a bright spot in the Twitter world.

00:08:06.300 Can you even say that?

00:08:09.200 Less hellish than usual?

00:08:14.220 But the number one trend last night was hashtag girl dad.

00:08:21.320 And in a world where everyone has said, oh, guys don't matter.

00:08:27.000 Guys don't matter. 1.00

00:08:29.000 Men don't matter. 1.00

00:08:30.080 Women don't need men. 1.00

00:08:31.860 Girl power, girl power, girl power. 0.91

00:08:33.760 Yeah, in this environment, I kind of assumed girl dad was just like, girls can be dads too.

00:08:38.240 That's kind of what I, that's where I thought they were going to go with it.

00:08:40.200 Right?

00:08:41.400 It wasn't.

00:08:43.020 And it was inspired by Kobe and his daughter.

00:08:46.240 And how much he loved his daughter.

00:08:48.300 You know, he was asked recently in an interview, because she was a basketball player, how many times do you go out and practice a week?

00:08:57.680 And he looked at the interviewer, kind of like he was from another planet.

00:09:03.380 And he laughed and he said, every day, seven days a week, we're out every night.

00:09:08.660 We practice every night.

00:09:11.340 And when I heard that, I thought, what do I do every night with my kids?

00:09:15.740 I mean, I consider myself a pretty good dad.

00:09:21.300 I made, I made mistakes the first time around, big mistakes.

00:09:28.000 But I've done really hard work to try to turn that around.

00:09:32.160 And I've done it with my younger kids.

00:09:37.880 I love, I love cooking with my daughter, Hannah, or doing something in art with my daughter, Hannah.

00:09:47.360 She is a, she's a brilliant mind. 0.64

00:09:50.560 She's, she knows how to write. 0.95

00:09:53.260 She knows how to edit. 0.98

00:09:54.180 She knows how to do design. 0.91

00:09:58.020 She really is an amazing cook. 0.99

00:10:00.440 And she is also somebody who does her own homework and researches things and then knows what she believes and why she believes it.

00:10:11.580 And I love that.

00:10:13.320 I love just hanging out with her and I don't do it enough.

00:10:16.860 I love just hanging out with my daughter, Mary, and I don't do it enough.

00:10:19.980 My daughter, Mary, is one of the spiritual giants in my life.

00:10:30.860 I don't know anybody else who is like this.

00:10:32.920 She has such clarity on things.

00:10:38.060 And sometimes it's hard to get to because she had strokes and so she has a hard time with language. 0.96

00:10:44.400 And so it's, it's, for a dad, especially now, you have four kids, I have four kids.

00:10:52.940 I don't know how to be a good dad and give everyone the time they need, plus do all of the work.

00:10:59.960 I don't know how to do it.

00:11:02.580 But it takes, there's no such thing as quality time.

00:11:05.080 It's just time.

00:11:07.380 My daughter, Cheyenne.

00:11:09.040 Oh my gosh, she's funny.

00:11:10.400 She's, she's Lucille Ball.

00:11:12.240 She's just this funny, funny girl.

00:11:17.000 And just full of joy.

00:11:22.540 She wants to be an actress. 0.96

00:11:24.440 I'm doing everything I can to say no.

00:11:29.480 Every night I read her stories about Weinstein.

00:11:34.140 I don't know if that's a good thing or not, but.

00:11:36.100 And there's something different about being a dad of a girl.

00:11:48.260 There is a.

00:11:53.740 I don't know.

00:11:56.220 It's a.

00:11:57.060 It's just a different bond.

00:12:01.800 And I see Kobe.

00:12:04.980 And I see all that he did with his kids.

00:12:07.460 And I see how he, he left.

00:12:11.320 The court.

00:12:13.900 And just.

00:12:15.240 He didn't.

00:12:18.100 Center his life on business.

00:12:20.300 He didn't center his life.

00:12:21.500 He had the luxury.

00:12:24.500 Of not having to do that.

00:12:32.160 But how many of us are lost in other things.

00:12:36.400 Or we say we're going to do it tomorrow.

00:12:42.660 Or we're just too tired.

00:12:44.020 Life is so.

00:12:51.360 Precious.

00:12:52.720 And the one thing that maybe.

00:12:56.400 Somebody like me who's.

00:12:58.840 Who didn't grow up looking at.

00:13:01.560 Sports figures.

00:13:05.680 That you can take from Kobe Bryant is.

00:13:09.860 Relentless.

00:13:12.620 Relentless.

00:13:13.180 Pursuit.

00:13:14.420 Of excellence.

00:13:16.860 Not just in his job.

00:13:20.460 But in his family.

00:13:23.920 And especially with his children.

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00:13:36.720 Hey, it's Glenn.

00:13:37.680 And you're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:13:47.900 Look at this live shot from Los Angeles.

00:13:50.080 Or this shot from Los Angeles.

00:13:51.660 Where you know the tribute is happening for Kobe Bryant.

00:13:55.920 And there's.

00:13:57.380 I mean there's you know.

00:13:58.980 A minute of silence around you know different communities.

00:14:02.080 They're doing all kinds of stuff.

00:14:04.000 I haven't seen this.

00:14:06.720 Maybe since Michael Jackson.

00:14:09.060 Elvis.

00:14:10.400 But what sports figure.

00:14:12.940 Do you recall getting this kind of.

00:14:17.560 Adulation and.

00:14:19.500 Ending.

00:14:19.960 I mean I think this might be the first sports figure that I've seen.

00:14:23.240 That has had.

00:14:24.560 Kind of that pop.

00:14:27.000 You know.

00:14:27.680 King of pop.

00:14:28.320 King of rock and roll.

00:14:29.840 Princess Diana.

00:14:30.920 Kind of.

00:14:31.840 Send off.

00:14:32.320 Or reaction.

00:14:33.200 I think.

00:14:33.460 Yeah.

00:14:33.600 There's two factors there.

00:14:34.520 One I think is.

00:14:35.260 The tragic death.

00:14:36.220 Right.

00:14:36.420 It's not.

00:14:36.900 Yeah.

00:14:37.200 It's not.

00:14:37.660 You know.

00:14:37.880 The old age.

00:14:39.280 Or disease.

00:14:40.000 Or even.

00:14:40.400 Like it's a.

00:14:41.560 Tragic sudden thing.

00:14:42.660 Where people still sort of.

00:14:44.240 Hidden disappeared from the public eye.

00:14:45.840 Right.

00:14:46.060 I mean.

00:14:46.240 He was still around.

00:14:47.100 That's one.

00:14:47.540 I think two is L.A.

00:14:48.960 I mean you know.

00:14:49.900 Was it last year or the year before?

00:14:51.100 Roy Halladay.

00:14:52.260 Who I know you're a huge fan of Glenn.

00:14:53.960 Love Roy.

00:14:55.260 Died.

00:14:55.780 Loved him.

00:14:56.320 Now.

00:14:56.760 He was like.

00:14:57.500 One of my all time favorite players.

00:14:59.520 How old was he?

00:15:01.600 43.

00:15:03.300 Something like that.

00:15:04.380 He was a great pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays.

00:15:07.200 Later for the Phillies.

00:15:08.640 One of the.

00:15:09.240 One of the most underrated pitchers of all time.

00:15:11.600 Hall of Famer.

00:15:12.340 Like.

00:15:13.000 Unbelievable.

00:15:13.960 But.

00:15:14.220 And he died in a plane crash.

00:15:15.720 And there was like.

00:15:16.640 There was.

00:15:17.120 Kind of what you would almost expect.

00:15:18.900 Right.

00:15:19.160 Like ESPN.

00:15:19.960 Noted it was very sad.

00:15:21.440 And it was.

00:15:21.860 You know.

00:15:21.980 It hit me hard.

00:15:22.660 Because it was one of my favorite players.

00:15:23.980 But.

00:15:24.460 You know.

00:15:24.740 It wasn't like this.

00:15:25.700 This is L.A.

00:15:26.660 He's a massive superstar.

00:15:28.360 And certainly he's a bigger.

00:15:29.320 You know.

00:15:29.560 He's a bigger.

00:15:30.160 Right.

00:15:30.380 Figure.

00:15:31.320 So.

00:15:31.820 You know.

00:15:32.340 That's.

00:15:32.780 That's seemingly it.

00:15:33.880 And he was.

00:15:34.320 He was so beloved by L.A.

00:15:36.280 I mean.

00:15:36.540 He really was.

00:15:37.960 And of course.

00:15:38.360 This is where.

00:15:39.420 So much of the media is.

00:15:40.740 So I think.

00:15:41.480 You know.

00:15:41.920 That's what's.

00:15:42.800 The outweigh.

00:15:43.360 The bigger impact of that.

00:15:44.760 You know.

00:15:44.940 I mean.

00:15:45.120 And it's just seemed like a good guy.

00:15:46.640 Like.

00:15:46.840 You got to that point where you really started rooting for him.

00:15:48.740 Even if you hated him as a player.

00:15:49.840 I was not a huge fan of those Lakers championship teams.

00:15:53.040 But.

00:15:53.760 He.

00:15:53.960 He won people over.

00:15:56.300 Over a long time.

00:15:57.360 And it's.

00:15:57.720 That was shocking.

00:15:58.360 So go back to this.

00:15:59.220 Is this the first.

00:16:00.340 Kind of.

00:16:00.760 I can't think of one.

00:16:01.500 King of rock and roll.

00:16:02.660 King of pop.

00:16:03.360 Kind of.

00:16:04.420 Sports figure.

00:16:05.140 Back in the day.

00:16:05.740 There was probably like Thurman Munson.

00:16:07.360 Right.

00:16:07.560 Like you'd go back.

00:16:08.220 Way back.

00:16:08.700 And you could find some of that.

00:16:09.640 The guy from the Munsters.

00:16:10.760 Yes.

00:16:10.920 The guy from the Munsters.

00:16:11.760 All right.

00:16:13.660 Why would the guy.

00:16:14.460 It's last name.

00:16:14.900 If it was Munson.

00:16:15.660 Be the guy from the Munsters.

00:16:16.960 It doesn't make any sense.

00:16:17.920 It wasn't based on a real story.

00:16:19.540 I don't know.

00:16:20.060 There's lots of different reasons.

00:16:22.180 Yeah.

00:16:22.400 There's.

00:16:22.780 There's been a few of these things.

00:16:24.360 I mean.

00:16:25.620 There's.

00:16:26.220 But.

00:16:26.440 I mean.

00:16:26.760 I can't think of anything.

00:16:27.420 Like black and white days.

00:16:28.360 Right.

00:16:28.880 Yeah.

00:16:29.140 Yeah.

00:16:29.380 You're going way back.

00:16:29.820 Like Lou Gehrig.

00:16:30.520 Pat.

00:16:30.820 You should be able to.

00:16:32.120 Anything that you can think of on this level.

00:16:34.020 I mean.

00:16:34.180 I'm sure I'm missing something.

00:16:35.300 I mean.

00:16:35.400 Like you think of OJ Simpson.

00:16:36.800 Right.

00:16:37.020 In a totally different way.

00:16:38.640 Yeah.

00:16:38.780 That was people on the bridge.

00:16:40.040 Just going.

00:16:40.840 Hey. 0.96

00:16:41.340 Slice another throat. 0.91

00:16:42.480 Right.

00:16:43.040 Yeah.

00:16:43.360 That was a weird moment in our history.

00:16:44.840 That was a weird moment.

00:16:45.640 But I mean.

00:16:45.960 That one was.

00:16:46.860 Oh my gosh.

00:16:47.520 This guy.

00:16:48.140 Who is.

00:16:49.100 Beloved.

00:16:50.160 Superstar in the same level as Kobe.

00:16:52.160 For sure.

00:16:52.760 Who.

00:16:53.600 You know.

00:16:54.380 His life blew up in front of our eyes.

00:16:56.280 Well.

00:16:56.400 He was still kind of.

00:16:57.160 Again.

00:16:57.480 In the public eye.

00:16:58.340 Doing commercials.

00:16:59.440 You know.

00:16:59.680 Doing movies.

00:17:00.820 You know.

00:17:01.000 Kobe just won.

00:17:01.560 What.

00:17:01.720 Was it an Oscar?

00:17:02.540 Or a Grammy?

00:17:03.380 No.

00:17:03.700 Yeah.

00:17:05.400 I think he won an Oscar anagrammy.

00:17:07.360 Was it both?

00:17:07.940 I think so.

00:17:08.220 I know an Oscar was for a short film.

00:17:10.140 Yeah.

00:17:10.360 I mean.

00:17:10.460 He was very much in the public eye still.

00:17:12.520 So that just shocking end.

00:17:14.040 On just some random day.

00:17:15.200 That you don't expect it.

00:17:15.960 Is like incredible.

00:17:16.660 Yeah.

00:17:16.780 I can't think of anybody at this magnitude.

00:17:19.160 In sports.

00:17:21.300 No.

00:17:21.640 I don't think so.

00:17:22.140 I think it's a first.

00:17:23.080 Yeah.

00:17:23.360 I think it's a first.

00:17:24.880 All right.

00:17:25.240 Let me.

00:17:26.200 So let me switch.

00:17:27.180 To people who are not excelling.

00:17:29.900 For excellence.

00:17:30.840 And that's anybody in Washington D.

00:17:32.760 C.

00:17:33.580 Especially those members of Congress.

00:17:35.680 And the Senate.

00:17:37.360 Yesterday.

00:17:38.200 The House impeachment trial.

00:17:40.100 The Republicans.

00:17:42.260 Finished their closing arguments.

00:17:44.060 So now we're in this really cool place.

00:17:46.920 Where anything can happen.

00:17:48.900 It's anything can happen day.

00:17:51.060 Where the senators get to now submit questions.

00:17:55.920 To both sides.

00:17:57.080 And say.

00:17:58.240 You said this.

00:17:59.380 What about this?

00:18:00.180 I have a question about this.

00:18:01.960 They can't speak.

00:18:03.500 Which is a blessing.

00:18:05.120 I wish that was a blanket.

00:18:06.340 On all of them.

00:18:08.200 At all time.

00:18:08.880 Every day.

00:18:09.540 Every day.

00:18:10.280 Yeah.

00:18:10.620 But they can't speak.

00:18:12.440 At least.

00:18:13.400 While the.

00:18:14.440 Quote unquote.

00:18:14.980 Court is in.

00:18:15.900 In session.

00:18:16.920 John Roberts.

00:18:17.560 Reads all the questions.

00:18:18.440 Reads all the questions.

00:18:19.860 And gives them the answers.

00:18:21.140 But also.

00:18:22.060 Now.

00:18:22.440 Comes the time.

00:18:23.020 Where they decide.

00:18:23.760 On additional.

00:18:25.520 Witnesses.

00:18:26.600 Mitch McConnell.

00:18:27.380 Said last night.

00:18:28.200 He doesn't have the votes.

00:18:29.220 To stop new witnesses.

00:18:30.520 Which I think.

00:18:31.200 Is actually a good thing.

00:18:32.620 Because I think.

00:18:33.440 It makes.

00:18:33.840 John Bolton's book.

00:18:35.840 Worthless.

00:18:36.720 Everybody in.

00:18:37.240 Simon & Schuster.

00:18:37.900 I'm sure.

00:18:38.480 Like.

00:18:38.800 Oh no.

00:18:39.320 He can't testify.

00:18:40.240 He can't testify.

00:18:40.980 Because his book.

00:18:41.980 Will be old news.

00:18:43.500 And what's better.

00:18:45.040 Is.

00:18:45.780 He will have.

00:18:46.660 He will have.

00:18:47.460 Said it.

00:18:48.180 It will have been.

00:18:49.900 Questioned.

00:18:50.900 Thoroughly.

00:18:51.420 You know.

00:18:52.440 The.

00:18:52.700 The.

00:18:53.480 Trump lawyers.

00:18:54.320 Are not going to let him.

00:18:56.040 Just say those things.

00:18:57.420 Like CNN.

00:18:58.220 Would let him.

00:18:59.200 Say those things.

00:18:59.920 They will ask.

00:19:00.680 Real tough questions.

00:19:01.980 So it will be.

00:19:03.340 Questioned.

00:19:03.900 The way it should be.

00:19:04.860 And it will be old news.

00:19:06.380 And.

00:19:06.520 And by the way.

00:19:07.060 It will be followed.

00:19:07.740 By.

00:19:08.540 Almost definitely.

00:19:09.620 An acquittal.

00:19:10.280 Right.

00:19:10.540 So like.

00:19:10.900 You have the.

00:19:11.480 The charges get brought up.

00:19:13.360 You have an acquittal.

00:19:14.340 It's going to be very easy.

00:19:15.440 Again.

00:19:15.640 This is just another.

00:19:16.500 Pure strategy.

00:19:17.480 But like.

00:19:17.800 I'd much rather have him up there.

00:19:19.520 Yeah.

00:19:19.740 Let him get questioned.

00:19:20.460 By actual.

00:19:21.140 Attorneys.

00:19:22.160 That instead of like.

00:19:23.600 You know.

00:19:23.760 A fawning.

00:19:25.020 Media tour.

00:19:26.240 And then.

00:19:26.800 It's over.

00:19:27.540 You have an acquittal.

00:19:28.280 You have an.

00:19:28.680 An end to the process.

00:19:30.280 Yep.

00:19:30.500 You can all say.

00:19:31.040 Look.

00:19:31.300 This was already litigated.

00:19:32.840 Yeah.

00:19:33.020 We.

00:19:33.220 This is.

00:19:33.460 He's already been acquitted.

00:19:34.200 On these charges.

00:19:35.060 Right.

00:19:35.520 And then you have.

00:19:36.320 Doesn't matter.

00:19:36.640 And if he adds anything new.

00:19:38.740 Then he looks. 0.98

00:19:39.640 Like a liar. 0.99

00:19:40.440 Right. 0.88

00:19:40.820 I mean.

00:19:41.140 Why didn't you say that in court.

00:19:42.860 From a purely.

00:19:43.420 You know.

00:19:43.520 I mean.

00:19:43.660 Strategy standpoint.

00:19:44.700 I would.

00:19:45.000 I would want.

00:19:46.000 I do too.

00:19:46.380 And think about it from the opposite side too.

00:19:51.140 To say first of all.

00:19:52.060 That's your best.

00:19:52.640 They're blocking.

00:19:53.280 They're blocking all our witnesses.

00:19:54.220 They don't even let this guy talk.

00:19:55.300 I can't believe it.

00:19:56.100 Then.

00:19:56.560 They weren't looking for truth.

00:19:57.740 Right.

00:19:58.080 Then the thing's over.

00:19:58.880 So you get to complain about process the whole time.

00:20:00.880 Yep.

00:20:01.020 Then the book comes out anyway.

00:20:02.520 The story comes out anyway.

00:20:03.960 Then they all get to go on a fawning media tour.

00:20:06.800 Where every single claim he makes.

00:20:08.880 Is taken without any questioning.

00:20:10.420 Yep.

00:20:10.960 And it winds up going into the public anyway.

00:20:13.760 And what's the point of this?

00:20:14.720 They're not looking to get a conviction in removal.

00:20:16.940 They're looking to get political points scored.

00:20:19.000 And they're going to get a lot more of them.

00:20:20.140 With the book later on.

00:20:20.860 So now here's the question.

00:20:22.100 Who do you want? 0.96

00:20:23.620 And they said.

00:20:24.340 You know.

00:20:24.640 Chuck Schumer said.

00:20:25.540 There's no negotiation.

00:20:27.140 Really?

00:20:27.440 Because you don't have the votes.

00:20:29.140 You don't have the votes to stop negotiation.

00:20:31.620 If you get one.

00:20:32.820 I think America would feel it's only right.

00:20:35.460 The other side gets one.

00:20:36.860 And I want to hear from really two people.

00:20:39.740 One.

00:20:40.180 The whistleblower.

00:20:41.520 And two.

00:20:42.060 Hunter Biden.

00:20:43.140 But Hunter Biden.

00:20:44.700 May actually backfire.

00:20:46.560 Not because he doesn't have something to say. 1.00

00:20:48.400 But he is such a pathetic, pathetic human in his life right now. 1.00

00:20:54.020 Where he's just. 1.00

00:20:55.240 Everybody knows how screwed up he is. 0.99

00:20:58.160 They know all of this. 0.99

00:21:00.500 But he might be able to pull off some sort of a sympathy thing where it could backfire.

00:21:05.680 The one that really can't because he's a god-like figure to us now is the whistleblower.

00:21:12.600 And there's a lot the whistleblower can tell us.

00:21:16.440 Except for the fact is nobody knows who he is.

00:21:18.880 Really?

00:21:19.620 No one knows his name.

00:21:20.260 I've seen his name printed.

00:21:21.260 No one knows Eric Charmella's name.

00:21:23.300 Nobody.

00:21:23.720 It's really weird that Eric Charmella has been so, you know, ambiguous, so invisible, so out there yet not.

00:21:34.040 I wish we knew Eric Charmella's name.

00:21:36.180 But we don't.

00:21:37.400 We don't.

00:21:38.020 That's sad.

00:21:38.640 That's sad.

00:21:39.080 Wasn't it printed?

00:21:40.060 It was not redacted in forms and released by these committees.

00:21:43.880 It was in the Mueller report.

00:21:45.800 I mean, we know who he is.

00:21:47.820 I don't see how it could be.

00:21:49.380 We know who he is.

00:21:50.420 And there's a reason that Adam Schiff said at the beginning, we have to hear from him.

00:21:57.820 We have to hear from him.

00:22:00.000 And then once it was realized, oh, crap, we can knit him together on a hundred different things.

00:22:06.040 Then he didn't even know who it was. 0.85

00:22:07.560 I've never even met him.

00:22:08.900 I've never heard of a guy.

00:22:10.240 I don't know who he is.

00:22:12.480 Amazing.

00:22:13.260 So who do you want?

00:22:14.480 I think I'd rather have the whistleblower as well.

00:22:16.840 Me too.

00:22:17.140 It's going to be hard to get anything worse out of Hunter Biden.

00:22:24.740 Like, you can get him to answer some questions, but the people's perception, even on the left, basically, their argument is, well, Biden wasn't trying to help him. 0.98

00:22:31.920 But, yeah, he was a dirtbag. 0.91

00:22:33.100 Like, that's the left's argument on him. 0.97

00:22:35.480 So what are you going to get out of him?

00:22:37.280 Everyone kind of knows he was corrupt.

00:22:39.140 Everyone kind of knows he has massive problems.

00:22:41.600 And he may very well.

00:22:42.920 I mean, he's an educated guy.

00:22:44.120 He's done media interviews before where he hasn't looked terrible.

00:22:47.980 He may come off better than the actual perception of Hunter Biden at this point.

00:22:52.800 Still, though, you're putting him under oath.

00:22:54.360 Again, like, from a person who wants the truth perspective, right, you know, I want to know the truth.

00:22:59.240 So I want him up there because I want these questions asked.

00:23:01.400 But from a strategic perspective, it may be better to go the other way.

00:23:04.520 See, I want both because, one, the whistleblower will tie in the State Department, the intelligence community, and the whole corruption of Adam Schiff.

00:23:15.520 I mean, that will—

00:23:16.440 That's huge.

00:23:16.920 Yeah.

00:23:17.360 If he will testify truthfully under oath, which I'm not sure he will.

00:23:22.120 I'm sure he won't.

00:23:23.060 Yeah.

00:23:23.440 But, I mean, it's—I mean, you can make a very strong case on all of the stuff that we have made.

00:23:29.860 I mean, it's an open-and-shut case.

00:23:32.000 The documents prove who this whistleblower is and what axe he has to grind.

00:23:39.020 I'd like to see him.

00:23:40.120 I'd like to see not just Hunter, but Joe.

00:23:42.280 Middle-class Joe.

00:23:43.500 On lunchbox Joe?

00:23:44.380 Yeah.

00:23:45.120 And put under oath.

00:23:46.320 Both of those guys put under oath.

00:23:47.680 Not to mention, I think I'd call Adam Schiff and find out what he knew and when he knew it.

00:23:52.800 And whether or not he worked with Eric Charamilla to concoct this.

00:23:57.120 Isn't that interesting?

00:23:57.980 Or the aides, at least the aides of Adam Schiff, right?

00:24:00.120 Like, who's supposedly talked to him?

00:24:01.860 Yep.

00:24:02.180 I mean, Adam Schiff would then have an opportunity to question himself.

00:24:05.700 Well, yes, he would.

00:24:07.240 It's weird because, you know, Ken Starr was the one who did the investigation, and he went under oath.

00:24:13.060 He had to answer questions.

00:24:15.200 Why isn't this guy having to answer questions?

00:24:19.840 Right.

00:24:20.800 He should.

00:24:21.740 And under oath.

00:24:22.860 So, if you're going to lie about it, there's going to be consequences once this comes out.

00:24:28.560 Are there consequences?

00:24:29.920 Are there?

00:24:30.400 Yeah.

00:24:30.660 Are there?

00:24:31.340 Are there any consequences?

00:24:33.080 No.

00:24:33.480 No.

00:24:33.800 Probably not.

00:24:34.540 In fantasy land, there are consequences.

00:24:36.440 Yes.

00:24:36.760 Yes.

00:24:37.020 In this land, there aren't.

00:24:37.920 In the America that we used to have.

00:24:39.380 Yes.

00:24:39.800 There would have been.

00:24:40.240 There were some consequences.

00:24:41.180 By the way, on our previous conversation, Dale Earnhardt would probably have called for this.

00:24:46.140 Look who's checking their social media or email.

00:24:50.460 People are calling in.

00:24:51.800 They're emailing.

00:24:52.700 They're tweeting.

00:24:53.840 Yes.

00:24:54.300 Dale Earnhardt is one on that level.

00:24:56.560 Yeah.

00:24:56.980 I'm not a car.

00:24:58.360 I mean, I'm not a big car guy.

00:24:59.720 But still.

00:25:00.580 That was huge.

00:25:01.820 That was a huge one.

00:25:02.520 I mean, there's been a few of them, but it's pretty rare that you get to this level.

00:25:07.520 Yeah, it is.

00:25:08.140 It really is.

00:25:09.020 Yeah.

00:25:09.500 So, that's the one that we were able to come up with from the listeners.

00:25:13.940 Okay.

00:25:14.180 When do they actually start talking about, they start to submit questions now, right?

00:25:20.960 Today and tomorrow.

00:25:21.660 Today and tomorrow.

00:25:22.400 When do they actually vote?

00:25:24.020 Friday.

00:25:24.580 Friday.

00:25:25.080 For witnesses.

00:25:25.720 For witnesses.

00:25:26.640 Okay.

00:25:27.620 And that can just take as long.

00:25:29.840 We think that could take up to two to three weeks, right?

00:25:33.620 And then it's over.

00:25:34.960 Once the witnesses are done, it's over.

00:25:38.040 Then is he guilty or is he convicted or not?

00:25:40.400 You wouldn't believe what the mainstream media is.

00:25:42.740 Well, yes, you would.

00:25:43.540 Yes, you would.

00:25:45.280 Let me just give you this on what they're saying.

00:25:48.820 What happens next?

00:25:49.980 This is good.

00:25:51.500 What happens next if the Senate acquits?

00:25:54.200 Well, Trump is unchanged.

00:25:57.400 Unchained.

00:25:58.400 Everything we know about Trump's behavior suggests that he will view acquittal as vindication of his strongman tactics.

00:26:03.640 Yeah.

00:26:03.720 Foreign actors get ready to be asked for political favors.

00:26:06.840 That's what they called Muammar Gaddafi.

00:26:08.580 I know.

00:26:09.000 A strong man.

00:26:09.800 Yeah, yeah.

00:26:10.420 And if Trump wins re-election in November, Democrats won't have any means left to restrain him, having already exhausted their most powerful check on presidential power.

00:26:19.520 Only the slow-moving judicial system will stand in his way now.

00:26:23.740 The Constitution will be changed, they say.

00:26:26.580 Trump's defense could set a precedent that abuse of power isn't enough to impeach a president.

00:26:31.020 It never has been.

00:26:32.240 It never has been.

00:26:34.780 They accused George Washington of abuse of power.

00:26:39.760 They accused Adams and Jefferson and John Quincy Adams.

00:26:44.800 And Abraham Lincoln.

00:26:45.640 And Abraham Lincoln.

00:26:47.020 And most of the presidents, Wilson, which I would agree with, but they never could impeach.

00:26:54.320 Why?

00:26:54.800 Because it sets up a parliamentary system.

00:26:57.460 You can't have somebody, unless he breaks a law, you can't have abuse of power.

00:27:05.760 Because that just sets up, if you have a Congress and a Senate that is on the other side, they just vote for impeachment, and he's out.

00:27:18.540 It sets up going through presidents like Britain goes through prime ministers.

00:27:23.360 And our founders did not want that.

00:27:26.140 So you have to have a crime.

00:27:30.220 And it has to be a political crime.

00:27:33.860 Now, you can disagree with the political side of it, because that's our argument with perjury.

00:27:40.900 It wasn't a political crime.

00:27:42.760 And we said, lying to the American people matters.

00:27:46.960 But they didn't think so then.

00:27:48.820 But that was an actual crime.

00:27:51.000 There's no crime here.

00:27:52.860 What they're saying is, we don't like this president.

00:27:55.300 We don't agree with what he did.

00:27:57.360 Well, that's tough.

00:27:58.720 You have to let the people decide that.

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00:28:38.280 So what was the story coming out of Virginia last week?

00:28:41.760 Oh, my gosh.

00:28:42.540 We just narrowly avoided disaster.

00:28:45.600 If they wouldn't have put all those fences up, if they wouldn't have had the police presence out there,

00:28:50.340 it would have been blood in the streets is what we would have read.

00:28:56.340 Thank goodness the progressive Democratic governor rushed to the aid to make sure that no harm befell the great state capitol or anybody else in Virginia.

00:29:13.020 Unfortunately, there's something called freedom of the press.

00:29:19.820 And according to the FBI's own court filings, there's a different story to tell.

00:29:27.140 One in which white extremists stumbled from one surveillance trap to another without any awareness of what was really going on.

00:29:37.120 The FBI had this this small group of three people under surveillance the entire time.

00:29:44.440 But as if that's not enough, the New York Times, the Associated Press and BuzzFeed centered around the arrest of three men,

00:29:55.520 William Bilborough, Brian Lemley and Canadian national Patrick Matthews.

00:30:03.360 They're all members of what's called the base.

00:30:08.140 Now, this is a white supremacist organization that interacts mostly online, aims to create a white ethno state.

00:30:16.280 Now, the the media implied the group was arrested while planning an attack at the Virginia rally.

00:30:23.480 And that's definitely how the stories read.

00:30:25.340 That was that was that was that was really what they did.

00:30:28.200 Yeah. Yeah.

00:30:29.220 According to the FBI documents that were submitted to court.

00:30:31.440 No, that's not what happened.

00:30:32.340 At first now, it's three guys, three guys, three.

00:30:37.200 And first they decided not to go to the rally.

00:30:40.440 They were going to go to the rally.

00:30:41.280 And then they said no.

00:30:42.680 And the FBI has all of this.

00:30:44.440 They decided, no, they're not going to start any violence.

00:30:49.300 They were just going to wait in Delaware for the race riots to begin. 0.63

00:30:55.420 And as soon as the race war began, they would be prepared.

00:31:00.520 So during the rally, they were going to a shooting range in Delaware where they could practice their skills and make sure they were ready for the race war that they were sure was right around the corner. 0.67

00:31:15.860 And then they would watch it and see who was participating in it and who those three could join.

00:31:24.980 Records show police were long in position to prevent these men from successfully attacking anyone.

00:31:31.980 The FBI had been tracking their movements since September 2019 and installed video and audio recording devices inside their Delaware home.

00:31:43.040 Here's the plan as spoken from the leader to another one in the group, all on tape.

00:31:55.860 Now listen to this and see if anything jumps out.

00:31:58.580 So this, so like this plan of mine, it was like, this is like an Adderall idea.

00:32:05.780 I mean, I really, it didn't click until I took an Adderall and then I was like, oh crap, I got a plan.

00:32:10.740 So this is what I'm thinking.

00:32:12.960 First of all, does that sound like a scary guy?

00:32:14.980 Does that sound like a guy who could pull off anything?

00:32:18.020 Okay.

00:32:19.080 Instead of going to Richmond, now listen up.

00:32:22.020 Why don't we like take a look at a map and find a gun range that's like in, you know, an outer county or a campground.

00:32:31.120 We'll spend the weekend training and camping.

00:32:33.840 And while we pay close, close attention to the news and live streams.

00:32:38.360 And that way, if it's go time, we're already in position and we can then watch and then link up with, you know, our, our whatever, our national socialist forces.

00:32:49.560 That happened to be there on the scene.

00:32:53.140 Did you, did you notice the words national socialists?

00:32:56.880 Huh?

00:32:57.100 Did you?

00:32:58.060 Huh?

00:32:58.420 What does that mean?

00:32:59.180 Hmm?

00:32:59.860 There's no, uh, there's no candidate in, in the race here that is saying that they're a socialist.

00:33:04.780 Are there?

00:33:05.700 No.

00:33:06.260 None of those.

00:33:07.180 No.

00:33:07.660 Okay, good.

00:33:08.540 Probably if they were, I will tell you this on the Republican side.

00:33:11.940 I'll tell you that much.

00:33:12.960 Yeah.

00:33:13.320 Of course they are.

00:33:14.120 The Republican socialism is a big thing.

00:33:16.300 Yeah.

00:33:16.420 Yeah.

00:33:16.700 Big, big, big, big.

00:33:17.920 Well, well, base members did talk in vague terms about attacking the demonstration, attacking the demonstration.

00:33:25.880 Now, why would you attack the demonstration?

00:33:29.460 You're attacking the, the people that were in trouble were not inside the Capitol.

00:33:35.080 The people that were in trouble were the ones standing for the constitution that bothered the white nationalists.

00:33:44.500 Strange how that works.

00:33:46.200 By the way, it's nice that the government, the state government disarmed all those people.

00:33:50.660 So if they were attacked, they couldn't do anything about it.

00:33:52.640 They couldn't do a darn thing.

00:33:53.820 So Matthews and Lemley traveled to and from a Maryland gun range where they intended to camp out during the rally, um, returning to their Delaware residence and being arrested.

00:34:05.020 Early in the morning, January 16th, federal agents executed federal arrest warrants for Lemley and Matthews at the Delaware residence before Lemley and Matthews submitted to the agents.

00:34:14.320 However, they both smashed their cell phones and dumped them into the trash can.

00:34:18.800 Their activity was fully captured on video and audio surveillance installed in their home.

00:34:24.920 That is why the governor declared a state of emergency.

00:34:32.240 Incredible.

00:34:33.580 Incredible.

00:34:34.700 There's, I mean, that's nothing.

00:34:36.600 That's nothing.

00:34:37.520 And it was all under control.

00:34:38.900 And not only was the FBI all over it, had them under constant surveillance.

00:34:43.280 Not only that, they were national socialists that were going to attack the rally goers.

00:34:50.640 You'll notice that, uh, the governor wasn't talking about protecting the rally goers.

00:34:56.540 He was talking about protecting the Capitol and protecting the people inside of the Capitol. 0.94

00:35:01.640 He didn't give a flying crap that the evidence showed that the real target was the rally goers.

00:35:07.740 That is, I mean, how long is this going to last? 0.98

00:35:13.840 How long is this going to last before the people finally just rise up and say, enough is enough?

00:35:20.640 I mean, I think that there is a real chance that they lose Virginia, that Virginia goes to, to Trump hard.

00:35:28.780 Really?

00:35:29.220 I mean, they just went big to the Democrats in 2018.

00:35:32.480 Right.

00:35:33.380 But that's because the Republicans didn't, the Republicans failed.

00:35:37.160 They didn't put up enough people that were good.

00:35:40.240 They didn't have anybody that was really representing them.

00:35:43.660 And I have to tell you, I know I'm really active as a constitutionalist.

00:35:49.240 I know there's nothing that's going to stop me from voting because I know what I'm up against.

00:35:53.800 If I'm in Virginia with this kind of stuff going on, are you not going out to the polls?

00:35:59.000 A lot of this stuff moves reflexively as well.

00:36:01.160 If you are in a state where you're seeing massive pushback against your rights as far as the Second Amendment goes, a lot of times those elections bounce back the other way quickly.

00:36:13.140 We saw that in Colorado over the past few years where they passed a lot of big gun restrictions and then elected some Republicans afterwards.

00:36:19.800 You see that a decent amount where it just snaps right back.

00:36:24.480 So that could be something.

00:36:25.400 I mean, Virginia has had some close elections lately.

00:36:27.660 Some Republicans have almost won in that state.

00:36:30.080 You know, it wasn't really a borderline state in the presidential election, but you could see that as a...

00:36:35.300 I mean, look, you not only have a guy who's dressing, you know, putting blackface on and somehow surviving the scandal as your governor. 0.54

00:36:41.000 He's the guy who's saying abortion after birth is something we should consider.

00:36:45.680 He's the guy with all sorts of Second Amendment restrictions.

00:36:47.880 He's doing the Bernie Sanders playbook, right?

00:36:51.120 He's going down that road.

00:36:53.400 Not as far as Bernie would go, but he is on that road.

00:36:55.880 On that road.

00:36:56.580 Yes.

00:36:57.220 And so there could be a big pushback against that.

00:37:00.160 You had the governor saying last week, these people are not coming for a peaceful protest.

00:37:05.720 They're coming to intimidate and to cause harm.

00:37:08.960 He said that about the rally goers. 0.99

00:37:10.820 He said everybody that's coming is just nothing but white nationalists.

00:37:14.260 The governor knew because of the FBI.

00:37:16.880 He knew that there were only three people, three, that were targeting the rally goers.

00:37:23.260 And so what does he do?

00:37:24.480 He declares a state of emergency, which the FBI would not have given him the indication, I'm sure, based on three people that, oh, yeah, you need a state of emergency.

00:37:36.860 Gave him all kinds of power.

00:37:38.620 Then he comes out and he says they're here to intimidate and cause harm.

00:37:42.900 No, they were there to intimidate and cause harm to the constitutionalists because they were national socialists.

00:37:51.140 They were not against you, brother.

00:37:53.900 GQ claimed bloodshed, great and heavy and perhaps unprecedented on American soil was narrowly averted.

00:38:02.920 Oh, yeah.

00:38:03.620 Was it unprecedented in Virginia, American bloodshed in on Virginia soil, unprecedented at a rally?

00:38:12.280 I think that's a hard one to make, but maybe that's just me.

00:38:16.820 You have a little history work that needs to be done on that one.

00:38:19.860 I know you don't go past, you know, 1970, but maybe go back 110 years.

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00:38:51.580 All right, so let's look at the polls.

00:38:55.020 Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden.

00:38:56.840 Joe Biden yesterday came out and said, you know, it's important on who you pick as a vice president,

00:39:03.340 but my pick for vice president really has to be carefully chosen because I'm old.

00:39:09.640 I don't think this guy wants to win.

00:39:11.700 It doesn't seem like it sometimes.

00:39:13.560 Look, there's a lot of people saying that I'm corrupt.

00:39:16.120 And hey, who knows?

00:39:17.220 Could be.

00:39:18.360 But vote for me.

00:39:19.140 I mean, it's weird.

00:39:21.740 It's an odd approach.

00:39:22.520 I will say maybe it's smart to lean into it, you know, and just say, look, yeah,

00:39:26.340 I mean, I got to make sure I pick up somebody because I am old.

00:39:29.060 I mean, everyone's thinking it.

00:39:30.860 What are you going to do?

00:39:31.400 To hide it?

00:39:32.460 You know, the information is out there that he's 712 years old.

00:39:36.940 So you might as well admit it.

00:39:38.120 Only people are thinking that.

00:39:39.420 Like, you do think of Bernie Sanders as old, but you look at him as a guy who's just like,

00:39:45.460 I don't know what, I mean, I don't know what he's taken.

00:39:48.400 Maybe he's got that Nazi, you know, super soldier drug that just keeps him going. 0.83

00:39:54.100 He's been dead for 15 years, but he's just keep going.

00:39:57.340 I mean, he seems like he's just a heart attack.

00:40:01.160 Didn't slow him down.

00:40:02.260 Yeah.

00:40:02.500 No, you know, Donald Trump.

00:40:04.060 He's he's totally he's old, but he doesn't seem old at all.

00:40:08.440 You only people are thinking it is because look at him.

00:40:11.660 And it's his performance level really more than anything else.

00:40:14.620 It just doesn't seem like he's as sharp as he needs to be.

00:40:17.140 Right. It's not I don't mean look at him like, look, he's got gray hair.

00:40:20.420 Yeah. Look at me.

00:40:21.200 Yeah.

00:40:22.700 But I mean, like he's in his 70s and you think, oh, well, he might not be healthy.

00:40:25.960 It's not like he's, you know, I mean, like, you're like, oh, he's he's going to have a heart attack and collapse.

00:40:31.840 It's more of like, is he mentally is he capable of doing it?

00:40:35.600 Yeah.

00:40:35.840 And he's made such a rapid decline in four years.

00:40:39.860 It's a little scary.

00:40:40.520 What are the next four years going to be like?

00:40:42.300 One thing I wanted to talk about here.

00:40:43.980 We had these new polls have come out and they come out in Iowa all the time.

00:40:47.180 They're kind of all over the board.

00:40:48.340 And it's so hard to make sense of what they mean.

00:40:50.560 Why?

00:40:50.900 Is it just because polls suck like a legitimate question or is it just that they're asking all different people?

00:40:57.180 How does this work?

00:40:58.480 And there's a great example that just came out over the past couple of days.

00:41:01.180 Two different polls.

00:41:02.300 One poll showed I think Bernie Sanders up by seven or nine over Joe Biden.

00:41:07.860 And another poll coming out today that shows Joe Biden leading by two.

00:41:14.180 They're like right next to each other.

00:41:15.540 They're both asking people in Iowa.

00:41:17.380 What's the problem here?

00:41:18.460 What's the flaw?

00:41:19.140 And this is why a lot of times you see these polls with like wildly different results.

00:41:24.160 And it's easy to just kind of think, well, they just don't know what the heck they're doing, right?

00:41:27.180 They're just asking people.

00:41:28.740 They're screwing this up.

00:41:30.200 That's kind of like how I used to feel about it.

00:41:32.780 There's a great example here of why that happens.

00:41:35.680 So it comes down to basically what the likely voters screen.

00:41:39.640 They're trying to figure out, these pollsters, who's likely to vote.

00:41:43.160 So if you went and you asked someone, hey, who are you going to vote for?

00:41:45.840 They said Bernie Sanders.

00:41:46.760 And then you said, how old are you?

00:41:48.000 I'm seven.

00:41:49.140 You know not to include that, right?

00:41:51.240 Like that's an easy likely voter screen.

00:41:52.860 They're not likely to vote.

00:41:53.980 They're not 18.

00:41:54.920 Right.

00:41:55.220 But it gets more complicated.

00:41:57.000 So these two polls, listen to the difference.

00:41:59.220 In which way would you answer this?

00:42:00.380 I don't even know.

00:42:01.460 So one poll asked, are you going to caucus?

00:42:04.720 Are you likely to go caucus?

00:42:06.180 And the person said yes.

00:42:08.040 Do you include those people in the poll?

00:42:09.780 Yes.

00:42:11.620 You think yes, right?

00:42:13.300 The other poll also asked, are you likely to caucus?

00:42:15.900 But then followed up with a screen to try to figure out whether they were telling the truth or not.

00:42:21.820 Okay.

00:42:22.400 So the telling the truth, here are the levels.

00:42:24.300 They had to fail all of these tests to not be included.

00:42:27.900 It was...

00:42:29.780 Are you going to the caucus?

00:42:30.920 Are you going to the caucus was the first one.

00:42:32.560 Then you have...

00:42:34.560 Hold on, I'm scurrying down.

00:42:38.300 Here we go.

00:42:39.480 So did you vote in 2018?

00:42:43.100 Did you vote in 2016?

00:42:46.740 Did you...

00:42:48.500 Did you...

00:42:50.980 Let's see, where's the other one?

00:42:51.940 Did you...

00:42:53.080 If you fail one of those?

00:42:55.320 So like if I had...

00:42:56.300 If I voted 2016 but I didn't vote in 2018...

00:42:59.560 You only have to get one of them.

00:43:00.940 You only have to get one.

00:43:01.700 You have to answer no on all of these.

00:43:03.260 And it was...

00:43:03.560 Did you caucus in one of the years?

00:43:05.420 And I think it was where you registered in one of the other years.

00:43:08.500 Okay.

00:43:09.080 So again, you might say, well...

00:43:11.640 This person didn't vote in 2016.

00:43:13.960 One of the biggest presidential election years.

00:43:15.960 They didn't vote this last time.

00:43:17.760 Right.

00:43:17.940 They weren't even...

00:43:18.520 They didn't caucus in 2016.

00:43:21.580 This person is not likely to vote.

00:43:23.480 So one pollster says, we're not going to include them.

00:43:25.840 Okay.

00:43:26.280 So the people who say, we're not going to include those voters who didn't vote in those previous elections,

00:43:30.520 that poll shows it very close with Joe Biden leading.

00:43:35.200 The other poll that does include people who never voted before, didn't caucus before,

00:43:40.140 but say they're going to caucus this time, that one shows a big lead for Bernie Sanders.

00:43:44.020 Okay.

00:43:44.300 So now that makes sense on both ways.

00:43:47.760 Yeah.

00:43:47.980 Because Bernie Sanders people probably didn't do any of that stuff before because they didn't believe in it

00:43:53.800 or they didn't think that they had the right candidate or they weren't old enough.

00:43:56.740 Right.

00:43:57.660 So it could be that they just got excited by Bernie.

00:44:01.460 It could be that...

00:44:02.300 Correct.

00:44:02.600 There's a million different reasons why they might come out to vote.

00:44:05.780 However...

00:44:06.300 So which one do you believe?

00:44:07.520 They are not reliable voters, probably.

00:44:10.060 Right?

00:44:10.320 They're people that didn't bother to show up two years ago in a very highly publicized election.

00:44:14.600 They didn't caucus.

00:44:15.740 They didn't go in 2016.

00:44:17.780 Some of them might have been under 18, so that would explain it.

00:44:20.020 But some of them also might just not have been that interested in it.

00:44:22.780 Are they going to be interested to go out and caucus this time?

00:44:25.440 And it's a fascinating thing to see because these pollsters actually have to make really difficult decisions like that all the time.

00:44:31.400 Right.

00:44:31.640 But you had to make the same...

00:44:33.100 Bernie Sanders, in many ways, is the Donald Trump of the left.

00:44:38.040 He's bringing in new voters, people who haven't voted for a long time,

00:44:42.580 people who have been disgusted by the system, people that have wanted to change.

00:44:46.260 Those voters, yes, they are unreliable, but not if the candidate is strong enough to really make them believe he'll do these things.

00:44:56.580 And Bernie Sanders is like Donald Trump.

00:44:59.100 He will do those things.

00:45:00.820 Yeah.

00:45:01.000 I pulled an ad from, I think it was like Reddit the other day, and it was an ad to people to support Bernie Sanders.

00:45:07.200 And it was titled as like, we've never had someone like this.

00:45:12.260 It's true.

00:45:13.020 This close to the presidency.

00:45:14.260 They've never, I mean, this totally, when they were, the way this is written, Glenn, reminded me exactly of these James O'Keefe videos that keep coming out,

00:45:21.620 of these people who are in the campaign who have never seen the possibility of a socialist in their entire lives to be president.

00:45:29.100 And this guy is this close.

00:45:31.240 And if he loses, God only knows what these people are going to do.

00:45:36.480 Imagine a libertarian, a real libertarian president who could be the nominee of the GOP.

00:45:45.380 Do you know how the libertarians, they're not staying at home, and they may not have voted in 10 years or their whole life,

00:45:51.880 but they would not stay home.

00:45:54.140 I think the same thing is true with Bernie Sanders.

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