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00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. It's Pat and Stu in for some guy, Glenn Beck.

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00:00:27.800 Today on the podcast, we're talking about the debates. Fallout is still kind of going on.

00:00:32.440 What's interesting about this is you get these follow-up comments now.

00:00:35.440 They're doing interviews afterwards, making statements, contradicting themselves, contradicting what they've been telling us for years and years and years,

00:00:42.400 especially with stuff like Obamacare. We go over that today.

00:00:46.460 We talk about fat lump Michael Moore, claiming that Michelle Obama would easily defeat Donald Trump in the election.

00:00:55.560 And sadly, I think he might be right.

00:00:59.300 He's not the only one who's saying that. 0.80

00:01:01.000 She's got like 73% approval ratings. 0.87

00:01:03.900 It would be interesting to see if this race fell apart.

00:01:07.600 Like they nominated Elizabeth Warren, and she's losing by 18 points.

00:01:10.520 Does she drop out?

00:01:12.000 And they draft Michelle Obama in.

00:01:14.100 It's not impossible.

00:01:16.060 Also, you have, there's some new fast food developments that you need to know about that we hit today.

00:01:20.940 The return of the National Football League was last night and just made us feel so special.

00:01:25.580 I love it.

00:01:26.640 I just, I know.

00:01:27.540 Wow, you should protest it.

00:01:28.840 I can't.

00:01:29.520 I'm not, I'm not capable of avoiding the NFL.

00:01:32.440 I'm sorry.

00:01:32.980 No, me neither.

00:01:33.560 We'll get into that and a lot more on the podcast today.

00:01:35.540 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:50.240 Did you see MSNBC, Pat?

00:01:51.960 I know you watch it every day.

00:01:53.020 Oh, man.

00:01:53.780 Pat's a huge fan.

00:01:54.700 I can't go a day without, you know, to me, a day without MSNBC is like a day without orange juice or whatever.

00:02:02.560 Wait, sunshine.

00:02:03.800 A day without sun.

00:02:04.440 A moonlight?

00:02:05.720 A cloud cover.

00:02:07.280 That's what it is.

00:02:08.300 A day without cloud cover.

00:02:10.520 A day without MSNBC is like a day without cloud cover.

00:02:13.840 That's their new slogan, isn't it?

00:02:14.820 Yeah, I think it is.

00:02:15.460 I did see that on the net.

00:02:15.920 If it's not, it should be.

00:02:16.860 It should be.

00:02:17.640 So they were a little upset that Democrats went after Barack Obama this week.

00:02:22.740 Listen.

00:02:23.300 It was more like Gulliver's travels.

00:02:25.240 I mean, there was Vice President Biden tied down after rope after rope for his long political career.

00:02:31.800 I had to defend every element of it going back, as Michael Bennett said, back 50 years on issues like busing.

00:02:38.960 It was very hard for him to play defense.

00:02:41.300 He was 100 percent better or maybe 200 percent better than he was in the first debate.

00:02:45.920 He seemed to be aware he was in a debate, which was a start for him.

00:02:49.520 And I thought he was reciting a lot of stuff.

00:02:52.100 In fact, a lot of times when he got to the end of his time, it was like he ran out of his recitation.

00:02:57.720 And the weirdest thing to me, which I'm having a hard time with, is is it a smart strategy to attack the Obama administration?

00:03:05.900 I mean, this is a Democratic president elected twice.

00:03:09.480 I think he's the only Democrat we've had, you know, with the margins he's had since FDR that did that remains wildly popular in the Democratic Party.

00:03:17.720 It was weird for me to watch about 40, almost 40 minutes of primarily attacks on the Obama administration's policies.

00:03:26.740 It was odd.

00:03:27.620 It's almost as if the debate forgot who's president because the attacks on Donald Trump.

00:03:32.380 I don't I don't remember his name being mentioned that much.

00:03:34.720 And so it was odd for me for these candidates to debate changes in health care and their different policies on immigration as if Trump doesn't exist.

00:03:42.280 Yes, they were attacking the Obama administration.

00:03:44.680 They were.

00:03:45.380 They spent a lot of time doing that.

00:03:46.920 I think if you're a Democratic candidate for president and you spend that you're not making I think you're not making progress.

00:03:55.540 It is weird.

00:03:56.560 It's a weird approach.

00:03:57.880 And I guess there's I don't know what you do.

00:03:59.700 Right.

00:03:59.960 If you're one of these opponents, why do you what do you say you're going to do that's going to be better than Biden?

00:04:03.940 If you say the Obama administration was great, it's a tough it's a tough sell.

00:04:07.960 But I mean, Barack Obama's approval rating, he's among Democrats.

00:04:12.800 There's a bunch of polls here, 83 to 10 approval rating, 88 to 10, 83, 13, 90 to 7.

00:04:19.300 He's a very popular guy among in this in the Democratic Party.

00:04:22.860 Yeah, he's not not, you know, overall, he's you know, he's he does.

00:04:25.700 He does well overall, but not nearly that well, obviously.

00:04:29.760 I mean, you know, you that is a these are really good numbers.

00:04:32.500 He's probably the most popular Democrat in America, with the maybe exception of Michelle Obama.

00:04:39.440 Right.

00:04:39.940 His wife.

00:04:40.620 Yeah.

00:04:40.740 I mean, that couple is probably the they're probably the two most popular people in the entire Democratic Party, which was mentioned by fat lump.

00:04:47.880 Michael Moore.

00:04:48.860 Again, he said it in another interview, another title or is that it's it's it's a new his name.

00:04:55.700 Is that on his business card?

00:04:56.900 Michael is now his middle name.

00:04:58.260 Fat lump is is first and second. 0.84

00:05:00.720 He's got two middle names. 0.74

00:05:01.660 So he's fat lump. 0.93

00:05:02.420 Michael Moore. 0.99

00:05:02.920 Fat lump.

00:05:03.300 Michael.

00:05:03.620 OK.

00:05:03.880 Yeah.

00:05:04.240 He said in a that there's only one candidate up to the challenge to beat President Trump.

00:05:09.580 In fact, he thinks he'd crush she'd crush President Trump.

00:05:14.300 He says that candidate is Michelle Obama.

00:05:16.780 Everybody watching this right now knows she's beloved and she would go in there and she would beat him.

00:05:22.220 I think we have the audio of this.

00:05:23.180 You want to hear this?

00:05:23.660 Yeah.

00:05:23.940 OK, here's an audio of Michael Moore talking about Michelle Obama running for president.

00:05:27.540 Who's the street fighter that can crush Trump?

00:05:30.400 And frankly, I think there's a person that could do this if the election were held today.

00:05:35.460 There is one person that would crush Trump and she hasn't announced yet.

00:05:40.960 And her last name rhymes with Obama.

00:05:44.960 In fact, it is Obama.

00:05:47.460 Michelle Obama.

00:05:49.100 Everybody watching this right now knows she is a beloved American and she would go in there and she would beat him.

00:05:55.980 She would beat him in the debates.

00:05:57.100 He wouldn't be able to bully her.

00:05:58.700 He wouldn't be able to nickname her.

00:06:00.860 And she is beloved.

00:06:03.100 Just go to C-SPAN and follow her book tour across the country.

00:06:06.900 She's playing 15,000 seat arenas in the Midwest. 0.99

00:06:10.820 They have to turn people away.

00:06:12.560 She takes the stage and she's so powerful and so good. 0.67

00:06:16.320 You just look at that and you think, of course, she could win.

00:06:20.280 But everyone's now saying, well, of course, she's not going to run.

00:06:23.040 Well, has anyone asked her?

00:06:24.280 Yes.

00:06:24.580 I think if she were asked.

00:06:26.800 Many times.

00:06:27.720 Look.

00:06:28.340 If you watch the book tour, she's at every stop at it.

00:06:29.980 We have to come back to you.

00:06:31.320 You have to go back to the White House.

00:06:32.820 Your country needs you.

00:06:34.060 If asked to serve, I believe she would serve.

00:06:37.740 Well, except for if you were asked to serve or I were.

00:06:40.560 Whatever our skill set is, wouldn't we do that?

00:06:43.000 I can't take any more Michael Moore today.

00:06:45.480 I think some of what he says is true, though.

00:06:47.920 She's really popular for some reason.

00:06:49.400 I don't understand it, but she is.

00:06:51.020 Yeah, I'm not a huge fan myself.

00:06:52.320 I will say, though, it's rare when Michael Moore agrees wholeheartedly with Bill O'Reilly.

00:06:57.560 That's exactly what Bill said about the election.

00:06:59.840 He said if they run a Michelle Obama, she would win by a lot.

00:07:04.280 I'm afraid of that.

00:07:05.720 There's a good argument to be made there.

00:07:07.240 I mean, you have to.

00:07:08.420 When you've never seen someone run for president, there's a big unknown factor of how they actually react in that sort of pressure situation.

00:07:15.700 And she's obviously been in this world for a while, but she's never been the focus of it.

00:07:20.880 And when she was the focus of it in the first campaign, she did not do well.

00:07:24.180 If you remember, they pulled her off the campaign because she kept saying things like, I'm not proud of my country until today.

00:07:29.360 She doesn't exactly love America, seemingly.

00:07:35.940 I mean, you know, like you said, she was proud for the first time when her husband was nominated for president.

00:07:41.740 That was her first pride in this country.

00:07:46.040 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:07:47.840 Hey, it's Glenn.

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00:08:03.900 The squad is fascinating because they can say kind of anything and get away with it because their only approach to life is to tell you how they've been victimized.

00:08:12.100 So every story that goes on with the squad always comes back to how they're a terrible victim.

00:08:18.880 You know, like there was a sign of this from the staffers of Kamala Harris this week.

00:08:24.640 When Kamala Harris and Joe Biden walked to the center stage, obviously Harris kind of hammered Biden in the first debate. 1.00

00:08:30.960 Biden walks up to him.

00:08:32.340 A nice moment.

00:08:33.500 He says, ah, go easy on me, kid.

00:08:35.300 What was the reaction from the Kamala Harris staffers?

00:08:38.220 Kid?

00:08:39.660 She's a senator! 1.00

00:08:42.100 How dare you refer to her an accomplished woman breaking a glass ceiling as a kid? 0.76

00:08:51.600 There's just constant victimization.

00:08:53.700 She won the battle and is still the victim, right? 0.73

00:08:56.460 Yeah.

00:08:56.740 It's just nonsensical.

00:08:58.720 And this is the attitude of the squad all the time.

00:09:02.000 Always the victim.

00:09:03.420 Someone's always oppressing them.

00:09:05.040 There's always a man there to push them down.

00:09:09.420 Despite the fact that we're talking about a person who was a bartender a year and a half ago and is running the Democratic Party.

00:09:16.700 That person is telling you that they are oppressed.

00:09:19.580 The same thing with Kirsten Gillibrand on stage.

00:09:24.200 Oh, gosh.

00:09:25.260 I mean, she's not part of the squad, however.

00:09:28.340 But she says, oh, gosh, you know what?

00:09:30.240 I'm the right person to be nominated as the Democratic candidate because I can go to suburban women and explain to them what white privilege is. 1.00

00:09:40.820 Have you ever heard of a more demeaning statement?

00:09:43.760 And then she said, you know, I know I'm a beneficiary of white privilege, which not in the polls, you're not.

00:09:51.860 I don't know where.

00:09:53.880 In fact, so far, she's not part of the next debate.

00:09:55.920 No.

00:09:56.320 Because she is not qualified.

00:09:57.500 She's not close to qualifying.

00:09:58.960 No.

00:09:59.360 On either one.

00:10:00.520 I think she's been over 2% in one poll, right?

00:10:05.040 But she doesn't have 130,000 donations.

00:10:08.720 Donors.

00:10:09.100 And you need both in this next debate.

00:10:10.540 So 130,000 individual donors, plus you have to hit 2%, and I believe it's four polls.

00:10:16.400 Now, there's going to be a lot of polls before here and there, but there's only certain ones that qualify.

00:10:20.740 So even if she hit 2% before this previous debate, that wouldn't count.

00:10:24.180 It's going to be something that leading up to this next one.

00:10:26.460 Can she get some additional support? 0.89

00:10:27.800 It's possible, but she's a disaster. 1.00

00:10:29.720 And the squad, you know, look, they're very well known but very unpopular.

00:10:33.440 I mean, Ilhan Omar has a 9% approval rating.

00:10:35.580 AOC's at like 20.

00:10:37.320 People know them very well.

00:10:39.180 They just don't like them.

00:10:40.540 And so AOC was on a radio show talking about marginalized communities.

00:10:49.020 And I think she – look, marginalized communities, again, marginalized.

00:10:54.000 Whoever she's talking about is a victim.

00:10:55.460 Victim.

00:10:55.960 And there's only one thing that they can do in this victimized situation.

00:10:58.960 Listen.

00:10:59.100 I believe that by marginalizing Palestinians, you create safety. 1.00

00:11:04.140 I believe that injustice is a threat to the safety of all people because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalized and marginalized, then you create a popular – like once someone doesn't have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot.

00:11:22.900 They have no choice but to do it, right?

00:11:23.680 Oh.

00:11:24.260 Hmm.

00:11:24.580 Wrong.

00:11:25.380 No.

00:11:27.280 Remember the riots of Flint, Michigan?

00:11:29.540 When they didn't have access to clean water, they just went nuts. 0.97

00:11:32.800 They just went ape crap and just started burning down that city. 0.79

00:11:37.020 It doesn't even exist today in Michigan. 0.97

00:11:39.780 There used to be – there's just a hole where Flint, Michigan was.

00:11:43.220 And they were pretty pissed about that.

00:11:44.400 Yeah, they were.

00:11:44.960 Interestingly enough, I've heard over and over again for years that Flint, Michigan was the result of this, I think, a Republican conspiracy to either kill African Americans or at the very least just because they wanted evil profits or something.

00:12:01.000 What we find out, by the way, on Flint, Michigan is their system with Detroit was actually working pretty well.

00:12:08.120 They had a long-term lease with water from Detroit.

00:12:10.660 It was working pretty well.

00:12:11.620 The water was cheap.

00:12:12.380 But they decided to change that.

00:12:14.900 Why did they decide to change that?

00:12:17.120 Shovel-ready jobs. 0.50

00:12:18.920 You see, they had to build a brand-new pipeline for the water.

00:12:21.880 And they were able to use stimulus to come in and say, oh, well, we can – not only are we going to get new water supply, but we'll also create a bunch of jobs for people to work on this pipeline.

00:12:30.760 So when they implemented that, it was something they didn't need.

00:12:34.640 They implemented it because of the government, because of a Keynesian economic argument of stimulus.

00:12:40.540 They decided to build these things.

00:12:42.800 That's when everything got screwed up.

00:12:44.680 So this is not a – and Republicans and Democrats agreed, by the way, to do this because Republicans no longer care about arguments on economics.

00:12:52.540 It's not a thing anymore.

00:12:54.360 But Republicans came on and said, yeah, we need new shovel-ready jobs.

00:12:56.780 And Democrats came on and said, yeah, we need new shovel-ready jobs. 0.69

00:12:59.200 So they built this pipeline, and wow, did that turn out well.

00:13:03.500 Yeah.

00:13:04.120 Well, like the president at the time said –

00:13:06.720 Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected.

00:13:12.580 This was funny.

00:13:15.140 I love it when they screw up policy like that and they lie to us, right to our faces.

00:13:19.160 Right to our faces.

00:13:19.740 It's so funny.

00:13:20.640 So speaking of AOC and how people have no choice but to riot if they don't have access to clean water,

00:13:34.260 that's one of her incredible thoughts of the last year.

00:13:37.160 Yeah.

00:13:37.720 Prospect Magazine has deemed her one of the world's top 50 thinkers of the year.

00:13:42.860 No, no, no, no, no.

00:13:43.620 Of the year.

00:13:44.080 No, they did not.

00:13:44.800 One of the year's top 50 thinkers.

00:13:48.640 No, thinkers.

00:13:49.880 No.

00:13:50.600 Is that amazing?

00:13:51.660 Top 50 thinkers?

00:13:53.160 She doesn't even know the requirements of her own job. 1.00

00:13:57.980 What's this thing in my sink?

00:14:00.800 When I flip a switch, it growls.

00:14:03.780 I'm scared.

00:14:06.660 Like, Israel is like, I don't know, like whatever.

00:14:13.180 Yeah, she's really thoughtful.

00:14:14.920 She's really brilliant.

00:14:16.180 I mean, look, you can definitely make the argument she's influential.

00:14:19.880 Yes, but she is not a thinker. 0.51

00:14:21.960 She doesn't know anything. 1.00

00:14:22.780 She's butt stupid, this woman. 1.00

00:14:24.580 The only thing of substance that she's actually produced was the FAQ for her Green New Deal, 1.00

00:14:30.780 which is she herself has denied.

00:14:33.420 She has now thrown to the sidelines and acted as if she somehow mistakenly wrote it.

00:14:39.540 It's like you don't mistakenly write things.

00:14:41.840 That's not how writing works.

00:14:43.240 You can't mistake.

00:14:45.420 Oh, I just mistakenly wrote this novel.

00:14:47.860 Oops.

00:14:48.340 Look at this.

00:14:48.840 It's a spy thriller.

00:14:50.400 Oh, how did that happen?

00:14:51.780 When you write things, it's intentional.

00:14:53.800 Well, she chisels her thoughts into stone so she can't take it back.

00:14:57.880 Okay.

00:14:58.360 Yeah, so there's no erasing it.

00:14:59.980 I didn't know that.

00:15:00.660 Yeah.

00:15:01.020 Because, I mean, this is...

00:15:01.880 You thought she was maybe using a word processor or something? 0.99

00:15:04.540 No.

00:15:05.020 No.

00:15:05.480 No.

00:15:05.660 Because they said, oh, that was half-baked.

00:15:08.980 We weren't done with that yet.

00:15:10.100 Well, first of all...

00:15:10.840 I mean, it showed.

00:15:12.380 It was terrible. 0.96

00:15:13.560 It was not only ridiculous ideas like retrofit every building in America. 0.95

00:15:19.160 Every country. 0.80

00:15:19.380 Yep.

00:15:20.620 To put high-speed rail to every place that airplanes fly.

00:15:25.040 Eliminate air flight within 10 years.

00:15:27.040 Within 10 years.

00:15:28.140 Get rid of all automobiles.

00:15:30.440 We're talking about free jobs for everyone who's willing to work, I think it was.

00:15:36.320 Or even unwilling, wasn't it?

00:15:37.740 And then they still get paid, I think.

00:15:39.100 Yeah.

00:15:39.240 You still get paid if you're unwilling.

00:15:40.940 And this all came out.

00:15:41.920 And how did...

00:15:42.800 It wasn't one of these things where...

00:15:44.960 Every once in a while you get this thing where the Blaze uncovers this hidden document.

00:15:50.280 It was sent to us by a source.

00:15:52.240 They sent it to NPR.

00:15:54.400 They were proud of this.

00:15:55.440 They sent the FAQ.

00:15:56.440 This is the one that also said, we can't quite solve cow farts yet.

00:16:00.560 They sent this to NPR to tell them how to cover it.

00:16:07.080 And then tried to deny later on that this was just a draft.

00:16:10.380 Well, where was the final product?

00:16:11.720 You never came out with a final product.

00:16:14.000 They didn't have a final product.

00:16:15.900 This was the final product.

00:16:17.340 And they were just embarrassed at the ridicule they received.

00:16:19.600 And they deserved every bit of it.

00:16:20.680 Oh, absolutely.

00:16:21.900 That was one of the things, too, by the way, Andrew Yang said in the debate that no one really pointed out.

00:16:26.440 Yang pointed out something that we've noted many times here, which is the U.S. is only 15% of global emissions.

00:16:35.140 15%.

00:16:35.460 Yeah.

00:16:36.200 Okay.

00:16:36.600 They don't like to hear that.

00:16:37.500 They don't like to hear that because if you put it this way, the entire transportation sector of the United States is about 20% of our total emissions.

00:16:45.880 Okay.

00:16:46.440 All cars, trucks, the entire transportation sector.

00:16:50.160 Okay.

00:16:51.460 If you turned it off, if you had a switch and you were able to just flip it off like a light switch, the entire transportation goes carbon free tomorrow.

00:16:58.900 You would save 3% of global emissions.

00:17:02.540 Three.

00:17:03.800 China is growing at between 1.5% and 2% per year.

00:17:07.780 So you would have, you would wipe out the gains, you know, whatever you were able to gain from AOC's, you know, turning off the transportation sector idea.

00:17:17.560 It would be wiped out by China in two years. 0.99

00:17:20.600 Unbelievable.

00:17:21.040 And we're talking about something that's impossible.

00:17:23.200 And yet turning off the transportation sector.

00:17:24.340 She's one of the world's top 50 thinkers.

00:17:25.920 Right. 0.92

00:17:26.700 Crazy. 0.73

00:17:27.220 Come on now.

00:17:28.100 They write, the voluminous coverage of 29-year-old Ocasio-Cortez, who was elected to Congress last November, is focused on her youth and personality.

00:17:35.000 Certainly her campaigning skills, mastery of social media, and up from the Bronx story are striking.

00:17:41.840 But what's most interesting about her meteoric political career is that her success is based on ideas.

00:17:47.820 Is it?

00:17:48.340 Yeah.

00:17:48.680 It was her manifesto, health care for all, tuition-free university, and a federal jobs program that set her on her path.

00:17:56.520 Wait a minute.

00:17:57.360 Bernie Sanders proposed all of those things before she was even born, I think.

00:18:01.760 And ran for president and finished second last time.

00:18:03.920 Jeez.

00:18:04.500 But they do admit she's the force behind the Green New Deal, which is embarrassing, and has put taxes and how much the rich pay back on the American political agenda. 1.00

00:18:13.740 It's always been on the political agenda.

00:18:14.580 Nobody ever talks about how much the rich pay.

00:18:16.440 Because if people actually knew how much they pay, they'd be flabbergasted.

00:18:20.300 They'd be stunned that they pay 45% or 50% or sometimes 55%.

00:18:25.640 Depending on what state you live in, you could pay up to 60% in taxes.

00:18:29.540 I think that would shock a lot of people.

00:18:31.680 Yeah.

00:18:31.800 They went back and they did a poll several years ago as to not just should we raise taxes on the rich, but what's the amount that's okay to charge them?

00:18:39.980 And people were like, well, you know, should it be more than 5%, should it be more than 10%?

00:18:45.840 And they go up the whole thing.

00:18:46.940 Yeah.

00:18:47.120 And most people, the majority of people said it shouldn't be more than 25%.

00:18:50.880 It shouldn't be more.

00:18:52.040 That's wrong to go over 25%.

00:18:53.900 Most people believe, because of the way that people talk about this, that they pay zero.

00:18:57.580 Right.

00:18:57.920 Right?

00:18:58.260 Because they'll say like, well, Amazon paid zero in taxes.

00:19:00.960 And so people are just like, oh, well, you know.

00:19:02.680 That's what the rich pay. 0.71

00:19:03.580 That's what the rich pay. 0.71

00:19:04.360 They're all getting away with it.

00:19:05.440 They're not paying anything.

00:19:06.260 And that's, of course, not true at all.

00:19:07.340 And now you get people like Bernie talking maybe 70%.

00:19:10.460 Yeah.

00:19:10.800 And AOC said that as well.

00:19:11.960 Unbelievable.

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00:19:35.580 Now, women in Saudi Arabia will no longer need the permission of a male guardian to travel.

00:19:41.880 What? 0.94

00:19:42.460 That country is going to hell in a handbasket. 0.97

00:19:45.080 Wow. 0.97

00:19:45.940 They are going to.

00:19:47.060 Oh, my gosh.

00:19:47.560 They can leave their house and drive around, say, Riyadh without a man? 0.97

00:19:55.420 Drive around?

00:19:56.380 They can drive.

00:19:57.740 Yes, I believe so.

00:19:58.920 This is horrible.

00:19:59.840 A few other changes that they're making right now.

00:20:02.420 I mean, next they'll be telling us they can vote.

00:20:04.320 Oh, my God.

00:20:05.180 No.

00:20:05.320 And then you might as well just forget it.

00:20:06.820 Then you just turn the country off.

00:20:08.120 Right?

00:20:08.560 Mm-hmm.

00:20:10.540 They're also thinking about allowing them to apply for passports.

00:20:15.700 No.

00:20:16.100 Register a marriage, divorce, or childbirth, and be issued official family documents.

00:20:24.260 Oh, my goodness.

00:20:26.840 Okay.

00:20:27.320 Official family documents?

00:20:29.420 Yeah.

00:20:29.600 Not rip off replicas?

00:20:31.380 No.

00:20:31.680 No, actually, official documents issued by the kingdom.

00:20:35.500 Mm-hmm.

00:20:36.200 It's interesting that this is happening.

00:20:38.900 And look, first of all, it actually is really positive.

00:20:41.680 Yeah.

00:20:41.900 It's ridiculously backward.

00:20:43.600 There have been some reforms lately.

00:20:45.620 Yeah.

00:20:45.900 They've moved.

00:20:46.920 It's interesting.

00:20:47.400 The guy who's, like, capturing his relatives and holding them hostage inside the Four Seasons

00:20:52.600 is a guy who's pushing for a lot of these reforms.

00:20:55.200 Mm-hmm.

00:20:55.660 And, you know, he's gone.

00:20:58.260 What seems completely ridiculous to us, that they would still have these restrictions on women.

00:21:04.280 It is positive.

00:21:05.760 You know, progress is positive on that front, right?

00:21:08.360 Mm-hmm.

00:21:08.540 So, you know, it's easy to mock, and I will mock it, but it's also positive, I guess, in

00:21:13.860 some roundabout sort of way, because there's still so much negative there, it's hard to

00:21:17.740 get excited about it.

00:21:19.360 But I find this interesting, and I was actually watching Handmaid's Tale last night.

00:21:24.020 Have you watched this?

00:21:24.840 I've never seen it, no.

00:21:25.700 It's probably a little dark for-

00:21:26.520 Is it HBO?

00:21:27.300 Is that what it is?

00:21:27.760 It is Hulu, I believe.

00:21:29.280 Hulu.

00:21:29.660 Okay.

00:21:30.280 And my wife loves the show.

00:21:31.820 Like, she's totally into it.

00:21:33.220 Every Wednesday, I think, the episodes come out, and she's like, I don't, you know, she just

00:21:36.700 disappears for an hour, because she has to watch it on the night it comes out.

00:21:40.600 She's that into it. 0.78

00:21:41.540 Mm-hmm.

00:21:41.740 And it's a really well-done show.

00:21:43.080 I mean, you could tell they spent a lot of money on it.

00:21:45.860 And it's a great, it's a fascinating premise.

00:21:49.360 I would love to see the show made in which they kind of, like, a prequel series would

00:21:55.440 be really fascinating.

00:21:56.380 Basically, the concept is, like, at some point, and we're going to butcher this, if you're

00:21:59.660 a fan, I'm sorry, I don't really watch the show, but at some point, there was a civil

00:22:04.060 war of sorts, in that, and somehow, like, a group of religious fanatics basically took

00:22:09.960 the country over.

00:22:11.440 Now, America, I think, still exists, but it's, like, only in Alaska.

00:22:15.840 And the, the place, most of what you would think of as America is a place called Gilead.

00:22:21.420 Okay, so it's a, it's a, and it's, like, a super religious fundamentalist place, where,

00:22:26.240 like, the guys have all the rights, they, the women are all basically slaves. 0.99

00:22:32.080 Because there's something to do with, like...

00:22:33.280 Because we're on the verge of that right now.

00:22:35.400 Well, it's fine.

00:22:35.860 Am I right?

00:22:36.280 Oh, my gosh.

00:22:36.820 We are just on the verge.

00:22:38.820 Yeah.

00:22:39.380 Yeah.

00:22:39.460 I mean, it's basically Mike Pence's fever dream.

00:22:42.280 This is what he wants to happen.

00:22:44.640 And, and that's kind of why...

00:22:46.080 Well, he won't have dinner with a woman other than his wife. 0.92

00:22:49.200 Which is the same thing.

00:22:50.460 Ah, same thing.

00:22:51.020 Same thing.

00:22:51.720 Same thing.

00:22:52.700 And there's something to do with, like, an infertility problem in the country.

00:22:58.220 So, I don't know what caused that.

00:22:59.880 I don't know if it's clear in the actual series, but basically, there's this sort of,

00:23:03.740 any fertile woman is going to have a lot of issues because she's basically going to 1.00

00:23:09.960 be raped over and over and over and over again by basically every commander or whatever 0.95

00:23:15.260 that wants to. 0.97

00:23:16.720 I will say it's really hard for me to watch it at all because it's, like...

00:23:21.820 It's pretty ugly.

00:23:22.740 It's basically, like, think of every awful thing that could possibly be done to a woman.

00:23:27.120 Here's a series about it.

00:23:28.240 Like, that's essentially the entire thing.

00:23:30.260 So, I don't know...

00:23:30.920 It's hard to watch, but it's really well done.

00:23:33.720 And, you know, you can understand why it's popular.

00:23:36.160 But the real reason why it's so popular in such a media darling is exactly what we were

00:23:40.360 just talking about.

00:23:41.120 It's like, it's a left-wing fantasy of what they think Donald Trump would do if he had

00:23:48.320 complete control.

00:23:49.280 Right?

00:23:49.400 It's, like, basically a statement against, women have no rights right now, me too, and 0.72

00:23:54.840 all of these other things combined to, we're essentially Gilead.

00:23:59.140 We're essentially this oppressed society.

00:24:02.780 We're what...

00:24:03.200 Donald Trump stays in power.

00:24:04.760 This is happening at the end.

00:24:05.760 It's kind of how I think the left looks at it.

00:24:08.220 Which is fascinating, though.

00:24:10.160 The...

00:24:10.640 And he's so fundamentally religious.

00:24:12.960 Oh, it's so deep.

00:24:13.520 There's no one more fundamentally religious than Donald Trump.

00:24:17.440 Oh, my gosh.

00:24:18.180 It goes back so far.

00:24:20.480 Look, he's been good on a lot of those issues, but I would not say it's to his core.

00:24:23.920 No.

00:24:24.240 But anyway, so he has a...

00:24:27.020 There's an episode last night where this commander guy, they're driving somewhere.

00:24:31.940 I don't know.

00:24:32.360 I don't know the whole story.

00:24:33.300 But...

00:24:33.460 And a minor spoiler alert if you're watching the series.

00:24:36.380 But they're driving down this road...

00:24:37.900 Now I know somebody's driving.

00:24:39.300 Great.

00:24:39.860 Thanks. 0.99

00:24:41.080 Crap. 0.98

00:24:41.580 Thanks for that. 0.99

00:24:42.120 I should have said spoiler alert first.

00:24:44.200 So they're driving down this road.

00:24:45.820 And at one point, there's this big moment where, like, you know, the music builds.

00:24:50.160 And this big moment where the commander says to his wife, do you want to drive?

00:24:53.880 And she looks at him like, what?

00:24:56.540 Drive me?

00:24:57.660 I'm a woman!

00:24:59.120 And they pull over, and they switch seats, and they put the top down, and they're just

00:25:02.800 driving down this road, and it's kind of like the old days.

00:25:04.580 She's remembering her freedoms of the old days and stuff.

00:25:06.740 And it's like, the left looks at this and says,

00:25:10.800 this is what Donald Trump wants.

00:25:12.540 And they don't look at it and say, this is what half the world is.

00:25:16.700 Right now, half the world is coming up with, you know what?

00:25:19.420 Maybe we should let women drive. 1.00

00:25:20.700 Maybe some of them should vote.

00:25:22.160 Maybe we should see more than just their eyes.

00:25:25.520 Because a big part of the handmaid's nails, they're all dressed up in these fundamentalist 0.98

00:25:29.060 ways.

00:25:29.660 They're all very much covered up.

00:25:31.020 You can only see their faces.

00:25:32.360 It's like, you guys realize that the people you're constantly defending, you're saying that

00:25:37.400 we should not say their culture is worse than ours.

00:25:40.620 That is happening in those places right now.

00:25:43.720 Yeah.

00:25:44.000 And we were just talking about the reforms in Saudi Arabia.

00:25:46.920 Yet, still, the rules are in place where they require male consent for a woman to leave 0.92

00:25:54.060 prison.

00:25:54.980 Male consent for a woman to exit domestic abuse shelters. 0.72

00:25:59.020 Can you imagine that?

00:26:00.420 So your husband has to come and let you out of a domestic abuse shelter? 0.59

00:26:03.440 That doesn't seem like a good idea to me.

00:26:05.460 That does seem like a problematic strategy.

00:26:07.460 They can't marry without male consent. 0.87

00:26:09.020 And women, unlike men, still can't pass on citizenship to their children. 0.94

00:26:13.920 I will say in most marriages, male consent is also used here.

00:26:18.180 It's a weird one.

00:26:19.500 What do you mean?

00:26:20.000 I guess, unless it's two women marrying each other, male consent's always part of that 0.98

00:26:23.560 package, isn't it?

00:26:27.360 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:26:29.720 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:26:31.540 888-727-BECK.

00:26:35.460 Uh, wow.

00:26:36.500 Do these things ever fade away, Pat?

00:26:38.160 Is there ever a moment in which these crazy warnings and fears are ever, is there a moment 0.74

00:26:45.880 where they later on go back and say, wow, we shouldn't have been, that was pretty ridiculous?

00:26:50.840 No, they never do that.

00:26:51.700 They never do that.

00:26:52.300 Like, I mean, really, before Trump and Pence went into the White House, there was a legitimate 0.90

00:26:58.380 outward fear that Mike Pence was going to start imprisoning homosexuals.

00:27:03.720 I don't know where that came from because he didn't, he wasn't really outspoken about

00:27:08.080 it to my knowledge.

00:27:08.840 No, at all.

00:27:09.500 I mean, you know, he had a, he might've had a couple comments in like the 90s when he

00:27:12.940 was in Congress that they didn't like.

00:27:14.420 I think he was pro-traditional marriage.

00:27:17.200 He was, he was for marriage between a man and a woman.

00:27:19.280 And I guess because Trump, obviously not known as the most religious guy, they had to find

00:27:23.840 a religious boogeyman, right? 0.99

00:27:25.480 And so they picked Pence and they were like, oh, he's going to spend all of his time, you 0.99

00:27:29.520 know, driving around cities, just picking up gay people and put them in the back of a 1.00

00:27:33.140 van and then bringing them to prison. 0.95

00:27:34.920 Are there gay people left in our society? 1.00

00:27:36.580 I'm not sure. 0.97

00:27:37.220 I feel like they are all in prison, right?

00:27:38.540 They are all in prison.

00:27:39.740 So that one was true. 0.51

00:27:40.800 Okay.

00:27:41.120 That's a bad example, Ben.

00:27:42.580 That Pence, man.

00:27:43.440 He just, first of all, he wouldn't have dinner with women that weren't his wife. 0.99

00:27:46.940 Then he decided to jail all the gays. 0.99

00:27:49.340 Oh my gosh. 0.99

00:27:50.120 You can't trust that guy.

00:27:52.460 The other one was, I was thinking of was, remember when they warned us that Cory Booker

00:27:56.220 was going to ban birth control?

00:27:57.700 Yeah.

00:27:58.140 And they ran this, Cory Booker, you know, a moderate Republican Senator from Colorado.

00:28:03.060 He's no hardcore conservative at no point did he ever consider trying to ban birth control.

00:28:09.420 And they ran tons of ads against him saying that when he got in there, that's what he's

00:28:13.600 going to do.

00:28:14.420 Right.

00:28:14.660 That was what his outcome was.

00:28:16.000 He was going to go in there and try to ban birth control.

00:28:18.320 That's right, Sweet Pea.

00:28:19.320 Cory Booker wants to ban birth control.

00:28:21.340 No, it was in that one.

00:28:22.180 It was, that's right, Sweet Pea.

00:28:23.420 Cory Booker banned birth control.

00:28:24.800 There's no condoms anywhere in America.

00:28:26.700 Right.

00:28:27.060 And that's, you know, it's essentially the same thing as Handmaid's Tale, right?

00:28:29.720 Like they.

00:28:30.380 Oh, Cory Gardner.

00:28:31.360 Yeah, not Booker.

00:28:32.140 What did I say?

00:28:32.540 Did I say Booker?

00:28:33.460 I thought I said Gardner initially, but maybe we changed it.

00:28:35.680 Yeah.

00:28:36.000 Cory Gardner banned birth control.

00:28:37.740 Cory Gardner banned birth control.

00:28:38.240 Well, he did this.

00:28:39.600 They're all out.

00:28:40.580 Did you try the corner market?

00:28:41.880 Of course.

00:28:42.660 Grocery store?

00:28:43.560 Sold out.

00:28:44.480 Drugstore?

00:28:45.140 Come on. 1.00

00:28:45.800 Stupid. 1.00

00:28:46.120 So everyone sold out of condoms. 1.00

00:28:48.700 Hmm.

00:28:49.660 How did this happen?

00:28:50.980 Cory Gardner banned birth control.

00:28:53.240 And now it's all on us guys.

00:28:55.100 Wow.

00:28:55.560 And you can't find a condom anywhere.

00:28:57.280 Can't find a condom.

00:28:57.980 And the pill was just the start.

00:28:59.600 Yeah.

00:28:59.780 The Pell Grants my little brother was counting on for college.

00:29:02.540 Gone.

00:29:02.840 Cory cut them.

00:29:03.900 Climate change that everyone knows is weirding our weather.

00:29:07.040 Weirding it.

00:29:07.400 Cory flat out denies it.

00:29:09.280 Sweet Pea.

00:29:09.860 Cory denies science.

00:29:11.440 Come on.

00:29:12.060 This guy has no idea what's going on in the real world.

00:29:15.200 I love that ad.

00:29:17.040 Such a great ad.

00:29:18.240 It's so, first of all, okay, if he's banned birth control, why are you going to all these

00:29:22.140 stores?

00:29:23.220 Right.

00:29:23.760 I guess, so he's banned the pill and condoms are theoretically available, but there's

00:29:29.200 not enough of them.

00:29:29.380 But there's been a run on them.

00:29:30.740 And so, yeah, they're completely out of stock.

00:29:33.760 Because now it's all on us guys.

00:29:36.620 I love that.

00:29:37.340 We shouldn't have to even think about it.

00:29:38.660 Us guys, we shouldn't have to even deal with it.

00:29:40.600 I love how dismissive he is of her when she asks about the drugstore. 1.00

00:29:44.100 Come on, you moron. 1.00

00:29:45.260 Come on, you moron. 1.00

00:29:46.420 Idiot. 1.00

00:29:47.040 Of course I checked there. 1.00

00:29:48.940 Why would I check the gas station and the grocery store and not the drugstore, you loser? 0.99

00:29:54.620 You know what? 1.00

00:29:55.200 Now I don't even want to have sex. 0.99

00:29:56.640 Now I don't even want to have sex with you. 1.00

00:29:59.060 Because you're so stupid that I can't bring myself to be interested. 1.00

00:30:05.840 I can't even look at you. 1.00

00:30:06.880 I can't.

00:30:07.280 I can't even look at you.

00:30:07.700 I'm just not into it anymore. 1.00

00:30:08.920 You're so dumb. 1.00

00:30:10.180 Why would you think I wouldn't look at the drugstore, idiot? 1.00

00:30:14.100 Sweet pea. 1.00

00:30:14.520 So essentially, right now, Cory Gardner has banned sex.

00:30:18.020 Yeah, you just can't have it.

00:30:18.740 Yes, you can't have it.

00:30:19.740 Yeah.

00:30:20.060 You just can't have it.

00:30:21.620 You can't have it.

00:30:22.260 Because, I mean, God forbid, you know, and it's like this idea.

00:30:26.360 So nobody comes back as, you know, like your first point.

00:30:29.600 Did they ever come back and say, hey, we panicked when we shouldn't have?

00:30:32.700 Did they ever say that about Cory Gardner?

00:30:34.700 No, yeah.

00:30:35.180 Who is not banned birth control, by the way.

00:30:36.900 And has made no moves to it.

00:30:38.460 Has introduced no bills that would do it.

00:30:40.500 Yeah.

00:30:40.720 Like, none of it.

00:30:41.660 How about, I remember before George W. Bush, when he was going for re-election, Cameron Diaz.

00:30:47.800 Remember her?

00:30:49.040 Yeah, the actress. 0.99

00:30:50.940 Yeah.

00:30:51.220 I mean, it's been a while.

00:30:51.860 So I just wanted to make sure people were familiar.

00:30:53.920 But she said that a vote for George Bush was a vote to legalize rape.

00:31:00.280 Literally, I mean, seriously said that.

00:31:03.840 Surprisingly, it's still illegal.

00:31:05.600 Is it illegal still?

00:31:06.700 Yeah, it is.

00:31:07.160 Okay, that's good.

00:31:08.040 Yeah, shockingly.

00:31:08.440 That's good.

00:31:08.880 I'm glad it's illegal.

00:31:09.600 It's not a good policy.

00:31:10.820 That's Gilead's policy.

00:31:12.180 Legalized rape.

00:31:13.100 Yeah.

00:31:13.280 We did not do that.

00:31:14.080 We didn't do it.

00:31:14.700 George W. Bush.

00:31:16.020 Did not legalize rape.

00:31:16.500 Because he was such a hardcore conservative that was just always pushing for those conservative policies.

00:31:21.500 Another fundamentalist, man.

00:31:22.700 Oh, my gosh.

00:31:23.780 You just...

00:31:24.540 No, didn't do that.

00:31:26.120 There's never a reckoning, right?

00:31:27.800 No.

00:31:27.920 There's never a point where you look back and say, wow, you know what? 0.96

00:31:29.820 None of that crap happened. 0.57

00:31:30.840 Well, how many predictions have been wrong about global warming? 0.98

00:31:34.560 Every one of them?

00:31:35.420 And there's never a moment.

00:31:36.120 All of them?

00:31:36.680 Never.

00:31:36.940 There's never a reckoning for that.

00:31:38.340 No.

00:31:39.280 I remember there was a book I read.

00:31:40.840 I think it was...

00:31:41.100 I want to say it was Nate Silver's book a few years ago.

00:31:43.240 And he wrote in there...

00:31:44.800 It's a chapter on global warming.

00:31:46.100 And he's no conservative.

00:31:48.240 But he was writing about this and saying, like, look, you know, it's all about prediction models and how to make predictions.

00:31:54.260 That's what the book is.

00:31:55.220 It's called The Signal and the Noise.

00:31:56.740 It's really...

00:31:57.100 It's a great book.

00:31:57.980 And so at one point, he's talking about global warming.

00:32:01.080 And he's like, you know, I think normally what you would do...

00:32:04.280 And he shows all the models and shows how typically these models have overemphasized the potential for too much warming.

00:32:12.340 Like, they've predicted incorrectly how much warming there was.

00:32:15.740 There was less warming in reality than there was in the prediction models.

00:32:19.080 And over time, when that happens over and over again, you would adjust your expectations.

00:32:23.600 Like, that's how you make an informed prediction.

00:32:26.080 You adjust your expectations.

00:32:27.880 If you see these models are always too warm, you need to think about where it's going to go.

00:32:31.220 And he got beat up.

00:32:32.580 A guy on the left got beat up because just saying the idea that these...

00:32:36.600 Just admitting the actual facts that the models were overheated was too much for anyone to take.

00:32:41.840 And to think that maybe we should readjust our beliefs and how we, you know, think about this.

00:32:47.620 And he wasn't saying, I don't think global warming is real or anything like that.

00:32:51.640 Bjorn Lundberg is another guy.

00:32:52.840 A guy who's said over and over again, he believes in global warming.

00:32:55.700 Says it's human caused.

00:32:58.280 And says, but the way we want to spend money on it and our priorities need to be thought of in a much more methodical fashion.

00:33:04.820 The guy is called a climate denier.

00:33:07.700 Amazing.

00:33:08.320 It's insane.

00:33:09.880 It really is. 0.99

00:33:10.380 Sweet Pete, that's absolutely ridiculous. 0.92

00:33:16.680 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:33:19.200 I will say there's a lot of great election debate analysis this week that you can go check out.

00:33:37.600 It's secondary in my mind because there was the return of something called the National Football League last night, which is really...

00:33:44.660 I can't believe it's time.

00:33:45.540 All I care about.

00:33:46.240 I love it.

00:33:47.000 I love it.

00:33:48.020 I mean, it's a meaningless preseason game.

00:33:50.040 It's the 12th string players.

00:33:52.120 But I just loved seeing it on my television.

00:33:54.140 You know, I was channel surfing the other day and came across the Longhorn Network, you know, the Texas UT's television network.

00:34:04.080 And just to kill time, because, you know, you've got to fill 24-7 worth of broadcasting on a channel that just really covers Texas football.

00:34:15.480 That's about it.

00:34:16.520 Yeah.

00:34:17.100 But they're doing a football game from 1976.

00:34:20.960 It was Texas, Arkansas.

00:34:22.300 And Keith Jackson was the play-by-play guy.

00:34:26.000 Oh, yeah.

00:34:26.720 And, you know, none of it is relevant to today.

00:34:30.100 I had no interest in either team, just the sound of the voice and the fact that it was football.

00:34:35.820 I must have watched it for an hour and a half.

00:34:38.640 It's embarrassing.

00:34:39.960 It's so bizarre.

00:34:41.120 Yeah.

00:34:41.360 It really is.

00:34:42.160 But I'm very...

00:34:43.160 I mean, I like watching baseball.

00:34:45.300 I like watching basketball.

00:34:46.580 But there's nothing like...

00:34:48.240 There's nothing like football.

00:34:49.360 There's nothing like football.

00:34:50.000 And for me, the National Football League, I know you are a more of a college guy.

00:34:53.640 But still, it's just the return of it.

00:34:55.460 It just feels good.

00:34:56.320 It feels right.

00:34:56.960 You know, especially when your options are watching Bernie Sanders or watching Kamala

00:35:02.620 Harris or Joe Biden.

00:35:04.600 That's not fun.

00:35:05.780 No, it is not.

00:35:06.520 They are trying to figure out...

00:35:08.300 They're trying to sort something out here on the left.

00:35:09.940 And I remember how the Republican primaries of 2016 just ripped the conservative movement

00:35:18.200 apart, right?

00:35:19.380 Like, there were people who absolutely freaking loved Ted Cruz, absolutely freaking loved Donald

00:35:24.680 Trump, absolutely loved Marco Rubio.

00:35:28.300 People had some mixed feelings about Jeb Bush.

00:35:31.780 There was passing interest in John Kasich at times.

00:35:36.620 Not...

00:35:37.220 Well, not...

00:35:37.580 By him.

00:35:38.240 Yeah.

00:35:38.560 His family.

00:35:39.200 Yeah, his mom.

00:35:39.740 His mom was very much...

00:35:41.160 Yeah.

00:35:41.440 Is a Kasich person.

00:35:42.740 Well, she was sort of divided, but...

00:35:44.760 Yeah, yeah.

00:35:45.080 She did wind up voting for Trump.

00:35:46.720 But she was... 0.99

00:35:47.860 She's thought about Kasich for a while.

00:35:50.060 But there...

00:35:50.420 I mean, there was a lot of passion there.

00:35:51.840 When you go back and think about that field, you know, I mean, you had people who made,

00:35:57.060 you know, no impact in the race that were really good candidates.

00:36:00.540 I mean, Bobby Jindal is a guy who turned around a state.

00:36:05.020 Yeah.

00:36:05.380 Was an incredibly executive.

00:36:07.140 He's a Rhodes Scholar.

00:36:09.060 Yep.

00:36:09.180 He, you know, introduces a very detailed, very good conservative healthcare alternative.

00:36:16.020 Mm-hmm.

00:36:16.860 And basically, it was at 0% until he dropped out.

00:36:19.700 I mean, like, that was a...

00:36:20.940 It was a big field.

00:36:22.200 But what was funny about that, and it wasn't funny at the time, is how much everyone basically

00:36:26.660 hated each other that considered themselves Republicans or conservatives.

00:36:30.420 Like, everyone had their guy and hated all the other guys.

00:36:33.560 And now we're seeing that on the Democrats, and it's a lot more fun.

00:36:38.440 It's like everyone who's a Kamala person hates all the Joe Biden people, and all the people 0.64

00:36:43.400 who are Biden people hate the Kamala people, and Cory Booker hates Biden, and there's like

00:36:49.800 three people who are Cory Booker people who are also not in love with Biden.

00:36:53.900 Uh-huh.

00:36:54.080 So, Biden was asked on TV this week about, is the party going too far left?

00:37:01.460 Is it...

00:37:02.900 We're getting a little out of control here with the movement towards, let's say, socialism.

00:37:08.660 Here's what he had to say.

00:37:09.940 Your party has changed as well.

00:37:11.960 Do you think it's moving too far into the left, even on immigration, where some of your

00:37:14.900 fellow Democratic candidates say that they want to decriminalize those who cross the

00:37:19.460 border illegally?

00:37:20.140 Well, look, it's not about moving left to right.

00:37:22.280 I think I represent the party.

00:37:24.200 I think my views are where the vast majority of the Democratic Party are.

00:37:27.680 There's a lot of really, really good people that got elected who are really pushing the

00:37:32.560 envelope, and it's good.

00:37:33.820 It's healthy to do that.

00:37:35.140 But the idea that they represent what the party is today does not comport with who gets

00:37:40.820 elected, does not comport with how we won last in 18.

00:37:44.600 It does not comport.

00:37:46.280 And so, but it's a totally legitimate debate to have.

00:37:49.860 The one thing we have to focus on, and the one thing I agree with Corey on last night,

00:37:54.600 let's focus on what it is we can do together.

00:37:58.060 We are so different.

00:37:59.180 Every one of those people on that stage has a fundamentally different view than Barack,

00:38:03.780 excuse me, they talk about Barack, but they have a fundamentally different view than the

00:38:08.820 present president of the United States is.

00:38:10.640 And let's argue who has the best path forward to lead this country to greatness.

00:38:15.340 I mean, I think he's right on that, right?

00:38:17.900 I think other than it does not comport that he kept saying over and over again, he's probably

00:38:22.900 right.

00:38:23.280 Like, he probably is a better representative of the average Democratic voter than someone

00:38:28.000 like, you know, Bernie Sanders.

00:38:30.460 But the activists are the ones that are voting in the primary.

00:38:33.200 They have all the energy.

00:38:34.540 AOC's on TV 24 hours a day.

00:38:35.560 They get all the attention, too.

00:38:36.400 They get all the attention.

00:38:37.460 Which makes it really tough for somebody like him.

00:38:39.460 Biden's no moderate, as we pointed out a million times.

00:38:41.700 But the fact that, you know, like the moderate position of only free college for two years

00:38:46.860 is the Joe Biden position.

00:38:48.300 That's not moderate.

00:38:49.680 That's like, that's something that Obama didn't, did he even suggest that?

00:38:53.300 Did Barack Obama even, I don't remember him suggesting it.

00:38:56.420 No.

00:38:56.740 I mean, I'm sure they would have, he would have loved it.

00:38:58.740 But now the idea that if you don't go for four years of college for free and a free

00:39:02.960 job and a universal basic income and let, you know, people cross the border with no

00:39:07.600 penalties and give them free healthcare.

00:39:08.700 If you're not that person, you're psychotically right.

00:39:11.180 You know, I just, I don't, I don't think that's the reality for the voters.

00:39:14.660 And it's probably why Biden's winning right now.

00:39:16.720 888-727-BECK.

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00:39:29.800 NFL.

00:39:32.020 I'm back to the NFL.

00:39:33.080 Well, I thought we were going to go to this Kamala Harris clip about employee-based insurance.

00:39:37.740 You don't want to.

00:39:38.180 No, no, we're not.

00:39:39.580 I've got that right here.

00:39:40.440 Because she's trying to defend.

00:39:42.640 All right.

00:39:43.360 I'll wait.

00:39:43.980 I'll wait for, how long is this clip?

00:39:46.180 This one is a little over a minute.

00:39:47.600 Is she talking about the NFL?

00:39:49.560 She may discuss that at some point in here.

00:39:52.000 Let's listen.

00:39:52.500 Here's Kamala Harris talking about whether she's going to eliminate employer-based insurance. 1.00

00:39:56.920 One of the things that has been charged is that you will not be able to keep your private

00:40:02.260 insurance.

00:40:02.620 If we get insurance through CNN, if GM workers get insurance through GM, under your plan, they

00:40:08.760 will not be able to keep that private insurance.

00:40:11.740 Is that true?

00:40:12.300 What the conversation was was about whether you can keep your private insurance through

00:40:19.940 your employer.

00:40:21.420 My plan will separate your health care from your employer, meaning your employer will

00:40:27.900 no longer dictate the kind of health care you receive.

00:40:31.220 Under my plan of Medicare for all, private insurance companies will be able to provide coverage

00:40:37.920 if they play by our rules.

00:40:40.220 And therefore, what that means in a very important way is that you don't have to be wed to your

00:40:46.840 employer to keep the insurance you like and that you need.

00:40:50.700 I am decoupling it.

00:40:52.220 So there will be private insurance.

00:40:53.700 There will be private plans.

00:40:55.080 This is interesting.

00:40:55.820 But it will not be coupled with your employer so you can have choices about where you work

00:41:00.980 and where you live.

00:41:01.860 And I understand the portability argument.

00:41:03.500 I already have that choice.

00:41:05.100 It is very important.

00:41:06.260 Did you say comport again?

00:41:07.220 What you have to convince voters of is that, yes, they may be able to keep a private insurance,

00:41:13.520 but it's not their private insurance, correct?

00:41:16.640 No, they get to make the choice.

00:41:18.120 No, because you're basically allowing for a Medicare Advantage plan where insurers can

00:41:22.900 enter that plan and they can choose it if they want to.

00:41:25.840 But if you're getting insurance from GM, from your employer, you will not be able to keep

00:41:30.300 that, correct?

00:41:30.920 Right.

00:41:31.660 You will have 10 years to transition.

00:41:33.900 She's trying so hard to.

00:41:34.780 The insurer who has partnered with GM is going to then have the opportunity to compete in

00:41:41.120 my Medicare for all plan.

00:41:42.940 And so you as the consumer can choose under my Medicare for all plan to have a public plan,

00:41:47.760 a government sponsored plan or a private plan.

00:41:50.660 She didn't say a single thing about the NFL, Stu.

00:41:53.000 I feel really deceived here.

00:41:54.920 No, she didn't talk about the NFL at all.

00:41:56.940 Really?

00:41:57.300 No.

00:41:57.800 Maybe we cut the clip off too early.

00:41:59.520 I think she went into the Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver situation right after this.

00:42:03.240 Yeah, yeah.

00:42:03.860 Right after this.

00:42:04.500 Is Tyreek Hill hurt?

00:42:05.420 We don't know.

00:42:06.980 So because this is a shade different than a Bernie plan, right?

00:42:11.040 Where she's saying, first of all, it's going to take 10 years to transition.

00:42:14.040 Second of all, what she's saying is, in theory, you could get a private insurance plan if

00:42:18.180 you want, right?

00:42:19.460 But you cannot get it through your employer.

00:42:22.060 Now, the idea of separating employer from insurance is not a liberal idea.

00:42:28.200 That is a, it's an idea that I would say most economists on the left and the right think

00:42:33.320 it would be good.

00:42:33.960 Plus, can I just point out, you can choose your insurance today because you don't have

00:42:40.280 to take a job where an insurance plan you don't like is offered.

00:42:45.780 You don't have to take that job.

00:42:46.900 And you can refuse it.

00:42:47.500 You can refuse it.

00:42:48.420 It's just, it's so much a better deal, right?

00:42:50.420 Like you're going to, because your employer is paying for part of it and, and they get

00:42:54.340 a group discount rate.

00:42:56.060 So everyone takes it.

00:42:57.500 Like I, I, cause I am very friendly to the idea of having insurance separate from my employer.

00:43:03.300 However, the employee, the insurance here is good.

00:43:05.520 So I take it, you know, and I think that's what everybody does.

00:43:08.320 I think in a perfect world, this would be a good thing.

00:43:12.040 Like the idea that you're tied to your employer with your insurance is actually not a thing

00:43:16.720 that Kamala Harris is making up conservative economists have been arguing for this forever.

00:43:20.880 They're just saying, go to a free market system on the other side of that.

00:43:24.520 Yeah.

00:43:24.680 She's saying you're going to allow competition state to state.

00:43:28.320 Yeah.

00:43:28.700 And that's a big part of a lot of that stuff.

00:43:30.460 Yeah.

00:43:30.740 And she's saying, okay, well, we're going to give everybody a government plan.

00:43:33.440 And then I guess if someone wants to come in and try to compete as a private plan, they

00:43:36.340 will.

00:43:36.760 Her argument in her belief is what they will do is subsidize these plans so much.

00:43:41.620 No one will pick the private insurance and eventually private insurance goes away anyway.

00:43:44.960 Like she's trying to do it a little bit through the back door where, where Bernie's just saying

00:43:49.720 it, he's just coming out and saying, we're getting rid of it.

00:43:51.440 It's going to be illegal for you to have private insurance.

00:43:53.420 So there is a little bit of a shade, I suppose, of difference there, but you just see these

00:43:58.360 people try to struggle to get through and, and, and say exactly what's happening with

00:44:03.400 their own plans.

00:44:04.420 She can't admit that healthcare is going away.

00:44:07.480 If you have it through GM, if you have it through CNN, you're not going to have it there

00:44:10.840 anymore.

00:44:11.300 It's over.

00:44:12.560 And that is a, something that polls in the mid twenties nationwide, mid twenties, and they

00:44:18.700 don't want to admit it because they know how unpopular it is, but that is what their

00:44:22.020 plans will do.

00:44:23.760 Bernie Sanders was on, um, as well.

00:44:26.080 And he's basically running a president, vice president thing with, with Warren.

00:44:31.340 They're just trying to figure out which ones, which ones first.

00:44:33.440 I don't think either one would name the other as their candidate, but they're running essentially

00:44:36.640 an alliance right now, like an old school survivor alliance.

00:44:40.220 And they're working basically together to fend off all these attacks and all their policies

00:44:44.640 sound almost exactly identical.

00:44:46.940 So CBS was asked or asked, uh, Bernie, can you explain what is the freaking difference?

00:44:52.020 between you and Elizabeth?

00:44:53.020 Listen, at some point you and Elizabeth Warren, as most pundits seem to indicate, we'll make

00:44:59.380 that, that next debate.

00:45:01.000 How will you differentiate yourself from her?

00:45:04.200 You, you're two progressives.

00:45:05.020 Well, I'll tell you, I'll let you guys and the punditry and the American people make that

00:45:10.380 decision.

00:45:10.900 What?

00:45:11.080 All I can say, all I can say.

00:45:13.780 What's one, what is the single principle, what is the biggest difference between you

00:45:17.240 and Senator Sanders?

00:45:18.260 It's not up to us, you've got to draw the distinction, Senator.

00:45:20.740 No.

00:45:21.580 No?

00:45:22.180 I have, no.

00:45:23.120 I have to tell the American people what I believe.

00:45:25.680 And I'm going to take on the greed of Wall Street, the drug companies, the insurance companies.

00:45:31.200 We are going to tell the fossil fuel industry that they cannot continue to destroy this planet

00:45:36.720 for their short-term profits.

00:45:38.500 Oh, I'm fascinated by this.

00:45:41.620 I am fascinated by this.

00:45:43.060 First of all, of course, he's got to draw distinctions.

00:45:44.720 I mean, if not, people are going to do it for you.

00:45:47.340 You know, she's going to, and you know, she's going to wind up beating him in this because 0.96

00:45:50.380 he's just, you know, he's just so curmudgeonly and awful. 0.96

00:45:53.260 Terrible.

00:45:53.540 But beyond that, what they just, what he just described as his philosophy was to say, I think

00:45:59.740 it was four different things were really bad.

00:46:02.220 Those four things are basically the fundamental basis of our civilization.

00:46:06.200 Fossil fuels, right?

00:46:10.640 Medicine, right?

00:46:11.640 Healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and health insurance.

00:46:14.780 And the last one was Wall Street.

00:46:16.140 And you might say, well, Wall Street's not the fundamental basis.

00:46:18.200 Well, it is.

00:46:18.640 It's the foundation of capitalism.

00:46:19.780 You know, the first stock was in the, you know, ever sold was in the 1600s back in the

00:46:27.040 Netherlands.

00:46:27.840 And that was the foundation of how capital gets moved around and eventually creates the

00:46:34.720 foundation of capitalism.

00:46:36.200 I mean, so Wall Street, while you can criticize things at all four of those groups, they are

00:46:42.120 the fundamental basis of our civilization.

00:46:45.020 If you eliminate, you know, things like faith, which obviously are important to some, but

00:46:48.220 not all.

00:46:48.980 But I mean, when it comes down to just human things, these are the greatest things that

00:46:53.280 have ever happened to us.

00:46:54.760 And their whole platform is just opposing them.

00:46:56.700 Yes.

00:46:57.300 They just demonize them. 0.60

00:46:58.440 That's all.

00:46:59.160 That's all Sanders does.

00:47:00.560 That's all Warren does.

00:47:01.740 That's all Harris does.

00:47:02.900 That's what they do.

00:47:03.800 They just demonize.

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