The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Alan Dershowitz ｜ 8⧸2⧸23

00:00:00.080 Great show today. We talk about the Biden crime family yet again.

00:00:04.080 No father would ever act the way Joe Biden is acting.

00:00:07.780 And the media is allowing this to happen.

00:00:11.080 They've now changed their tune that, yeah, Hunter Biden might have been doing stuff,

00:00:16.400 but dad certainly didn't know.

00:00:18.500 Well, let's just stop at the first place.

00:00:20.320 Wait a minute. You're now saying that Hunter Biden was doing things

00:00:23.600 and trading on his father's name without declaring himself a foreign agent?

00:00:29.780 That's illegal.

00:00:31.240 And even if it's not illegal to trade on your father's name,

00:00:34.980 his father then was entrapped by being introduced to these really bad oligarch criminals

00:00:42.380 that literally behead people.

00:00:45.040 And his father continued to take the calls to, like, the oligarch in Moscow.

00:00:51.920 Then the heads, the people who are high up in the Communist Party in China,

00:00:57.860 at no point does dad say, I'm the vice president.

00:01:01.940 I know who these people are.

00:01:03.400 I'm briefed about them because they're the really, really bad people.

00:01:06.360 Don't ever put me in that situation again.

00:01:08.760 Nobody's asking the right questions or using any kind of common decency or common sense

00:01:16.240 to wade through all of this.

00:01:18.980 We do.

00:01:19.860 We also talk to you about the financial downgrade and what it means to you.

00:01:23.920 The end of Yellow, the big trucking company, third largest in America,

00:01:28.600 went out of business.

00:01:29.760 Nobody seems to care.

00:01:31.620 It's important.

00:01:32.360 You know why they went out of business?

00:01:34.520 25% less shipping than expected.

00:01:39.560 That means something.

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00:02:45.440 You're listening to

00:02:46.680 The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:49.460 My entire life, from probably 2009 on,

00:02:57.980 I've been telling you about an economic crisis.

00:03:00.520 I told you about the 2008 crisis,

00:03:03.480 you know, from really 2004, Stu,

00:03:06.360 for about four years I rang that bell.

00:03:09.240 And it was conspiracy.

00:03:10.740 It's never going to happen.

00:03:11.880 You know, what is his education?

00:03:13.420 Blah, blah, blah.

00:03:13.900 And I started in 2009 telling you

00:03:16.140 that we are going to be downrated

00:03:18.480 and the dollar is eventually going to collapse.

00:03:22.080 It is, it's, it's clear.

00:03:25.000 You know, you can be overeducated and go,

00:03:27.300 oh, no, there's systems to make sure that won't happen.

00:03:31.300 But, no, there's no, there's no system

00:03:33.820 that will stop insanity

00:03:35.680 except for sanity.

00:03:38.380 And as long as people remain insane in Washington

00:03:42.300 or in Wall Street,

00:03:45.000 it's going to happen.

00:03:47.120 Now, I was a little bit wrong.

00:03:49.120 They're not necessarily insane.

00:03:51.000 They just have a different agenda than you do.

00:03:56.000 So, in 2011, we were downgraded,

00:04:00.460 which means if somebody is going to invest in us

00:04:04.340 by our bonds, our debt,

00:04:06.480 they're looking for something that is a sure deal,

00:04:09.500 especially now.

00:04:11.240 So, in 2011, we were downgraded by Fitch.

00:04:14.840 It's the ratings agency.

00:04:16.820 And we went from the top credit rating

00:04:19.840 of AAA to AA+, which is number two.

00:04:25.940 Well, now, yesterday,

00:04:27.800 in something that will never happen,

00:04:29.660 it's a conspiracy theory.

00:04:31.100 There's no way.

00:04:32.460 I mean, America is the best.

00:04:34.460 I mean, there's no competition for our dollar.

00:04:37.880 Uh-huh, uh-huh.

00:04:38.900 Well, yesterday, in, quote,

00:04:40.720 a surprise move,

00:04:43.040 the ratings agency Fitch downgraded us yet again

00:04:47.100 from AA+, which is number two,

00:04:50.620 to AA, which is now number three.

00:04:54.340 Once you start getting into the B category,

00:04:57.440 there's not a chance anyone's going to buy your bonds.

00:05:00.300 But don't worry.

00:05:01.200 Nobody is buying our bonds,

00:05:03.920 even before yesterday.

00:05:06.980 When you talk about bonds,

00:05:09.260 people don't, their eyes glaze over,

00:05:10.960 they don't know what it means.

00:05:12.380 What it means is,

00:05:14.340 every dollar that we are spending and printing,

00:05:17.660 every bailout,

00:05:19.000 every new project,

00:05:20.420 every new green new deal,

00:05:22.700 every dollar

00:05:23.700 that we are borrowing,

00:05:26.120 no one is giving us real money.

00:05:29.840 Nobody is buying that anymore.

00:05:33.340 It used to be that China and Japan 0.99

00:05:37.380 and countries all over the world

00:05:40.220 would buy our bonds

00:05:41.620 because we were good for it.

00:05:43.400 Now, not a single buyer

00:05:46.440 will buy our debt

00:05:48.100 except for the Federal Reserve.

00:05:51.660 Now, this doesn't just include,

00:05:54.980 you know,

00:05:56.720 the new stuff.

00:05:59.000 We're so good

00:06:00.460 that we sell 30-year bonds,

00:06:03.540 but not as much

00:06:05.500 as we do the one

00:06:06.480 and three and five-year bonds.

00:06:08.460 And those one,

00:06:09.660 three, and five-year bonds

00:06:10.900 have to be renewed.

00:06:12.440 So somebody bought that for a year.

00:06:14.720 Yeah, I'll roll the dice.

00:06:15.580 I'll put my money in

00:06:16.480 U.S. savings bonds

00:06:18.100 or treasury bonds

00:06:19.460 because they're the safest thing out there.

00:06:22.000 I don't trust anything else.

00:06:23.960 Well, when those come up,

00:06:25.980 who's going to buy them?

00:06:27.960 Nobody's buying them,

00:06:29.700 which means you have to raise

00:06:32.340 the interest paid on the bonds,

00:06:35.440 which you pay through taxes.

00:06:39.700 When you have a bond

00:06:42.740 that is paying 4% over the year,

00:06:45.780 you, the taxpayer,

00:06:48.240 have to come up with that 4%.

00:06:49.960 We are going to soon,

00:06:52.320 very soon,

00:06:53.400 be paying half,

00:06:55.860 half of all of the taxes paid

00:06:58.600 will go to just the interest

00:07:01.740 on, what is it,

00:07:03.820 $33 trillion now.

00:07:05.860 That's a lot of money.

00:07:07.100 That's a lot of money.

00:07:07.840 I don't know if you know that.

00:07:08.660 Just an interest.

00:07:09.340 That's a lot of money.

00:07:10.080 So the dollar went down again,

00:07:13.940 which means you have

00:07:15.480 less buying power.

00:07:18.760 And that's something else

00:07:20.300 people don't understand.

00:07:21.520 The target now of the Fed,

00:07:24.300 the target,

00:07:25.380 their hope

00:07:26.260 is that they can get us

00:07:28.640 into a period,

00:07:29.720 into a place

00:07:30.380 to where our inflation

00:07:31.480 is only 3% per year.

00:07:34.740 And you'd say,

00:07:35.860 well, inflation of 3%,

00:07:37.160 that's not bad.

00:07:37.960 Really?

00:07:39.520 Every year,

00:07:40.860 3%.

00:07:41.860 By the end of 10 years,

00:07:44.080 that means you've lost

00:07:45.680 about 38 cents

00:07:47.260 on every dollar.

00:07:49.420 It doesn't take very much

00:07:51.820 if they hit 4% inflation.

00:07:55.220 We're not even close to that.

00:07:57.840 This is why

00:07:58.900 everything is getting smaller

00:08:01.060 except the bill

00:08:03.200 at the grocery store.

00:08:04.600 It is getting larger.

00:08:05.860 And that is because

00:08:07.500 of out-of-control

00:08:08.800 spending in Washington.

00:08:11.540 Here's what happens.

00:08:12.900 When nobody buys our bonds,

00:08:15.520 our left pocket

00:08:17.260 says to our right pocket,

00:08:19.860 we need some more money.

00:08:22.260 And our right pocket says,

00:08:25.260 well, you should sell bonds.

00:08:27.780 And our left pocket says,

00:08:29.020 well, nobody's buying our bonds.

00:08:31.060 And so the right pocket

00:08:33.000 says to the left pocket,

00:08:34.100 well, you know what?

00:08:34.740 I tell you what.

00:08:36.480 I'll buy the bonds.

00:08:38.480 And then I'll just print

00:08:39.840 some more money

00:08:40.560 and you give me the bonds

00:08:42.980 in the left pocket

00:08:44.400 or the right pocket

00:08:45.360 and I'll give you new cash

00:08:47.480 in your pocket.

00:08:50.180 It's the same pair of pants.

00:08:53.260 This is a game.

00:08:55.420 This is the largest,

00:08:57.760 what is it,

00:08:58.460 five or six largest banks

00:09:00.240 banks in the country.

00:09:02.740 They are the Federal Reserve.

00:09:04.980 Okay?

00:09:05.300 This is a private corporation

00:09:08.680 and the ones who make up

00:09:11.740 the Federal Reserve

00:09:12.680 are the ones

00:09:14.060 that keep getting the bailouts.

00:09:15.980 They are going to be

00:09:17.120 the only banks left

00:09:18.920 at the end of this.

00:09:20.280 And then they'll fail

00:09:22.000 and it will turn over

00:09:23.480 to the Federal Reserve

00:09:24.760 and we'll write

00:09:26.160 a whole new thing

00:09:27.820 with all new money

00:09:29.200 and it will be digital money

00:09:31.360 and that digital money

00:09:33.200 will be programmable.

00:09:36.920 What does that mean?

00:09:38.820 Programmable means

00:09:39.740 they can make it expire

00:09:41.880 at any time.

00:09:43.260 They need you to spend your money.

00:09:44.800 So you have $1,000 in the bank.

00:09:47.800 $800 of that is going to expire

00:09:49.660 at the end of the month.

00:09:50.680 So you better spend it now.

00:09:53.060 Or, hey,

00:09:54.820 you really can't spend it on gas

00:09:57.560 because gas is getting too expensive

00:09:59.520 and you live close enough

00:10:02.360 to walk to the grocery store

00:10:04.060 and work or ride a bike.

00:10:05.640 So your money

00:10:07.720 in your account,

00:10:09.160 not everybody's,

00:10:10.080 but your money

00:10:10.940 because you're not

00:10:12.220 an essential worker

00:10:13.400 or you live close enough

00:10:15.280 in that 15-minute city

00:10:16.760 that you will never be able

00:10:18.860 to buy gas

00:10:19.800 with your digital dollar

00:10:21.460 from the U.S. Federal Reserve.

00:10:24.540 Well, for full faith

00:10:26.500 and credit, amen.

00:10:30.060 This is what they're going to do.

00:10:33.660 If you don't believe me,

00:10:35.340 please, please,

00:10:37.420 do your own homework.

00:10:39.560 Read the book, Dark Future.

00:10:41.600 It is footnoted.

00:10:43.340 It shows you exactly

00:10:44.940 how all of this is coming down,

00:10:46.980 how all of this is playing out.

00:10:49.100 It shows you what their plan is

00:10:51.220 in their own words.

00:10:53.980 Please, there is not a lot of time left

00:10:57.420 for you to protect yourself

00:10:59.100 and what you have.

00:11:02.380 And you might say,

00:11:03.140 well, I don't have anything,

00:11:03.980 so it doesn't matter.

00:11:05.060 Yes, it does matter.

00:11:07.300 It does matter.

00:11:08.220 Do you have a garden?

00:11:09.800 Do you have a backyard

00:11:10.900 you can turn into a garden?

00:11:12.360 Because, by the way,

00:11:13.760 food is also another controlling lever

00:11:18.160 and they are pulling that.

00:11:20.560 They are making our farmers

00:11:22.560 into the bad guy for the earth.

00:11:26.180 And don't worry,

00:11:27.560 Masanto is here

00:11:28.880 and Cargill is here.

00:11:31.320 So they are going to be

00:11:32.840 the great stewards of the earth.

00:11:35.240 And they, along with Bill Gates,

00:11:37.340 will control the farming

00:11:38.760 and they'll get you that food.

00:11:41.540 Of course, we're not going to make

00:11:42.460 a lot of food, you know,

00:11:43.520 with the land.

00:11:44.240 We're going to make it

00:11:45.380 in a Petri dish

00:11:46.560 and we're going to grow your food

00:11:48.200 through, you know,

00:11:49.780 pharmaceuticals

00:11:50.680 and better living

00:11:51.700 through chemicals.

00:11:53.460 So we found a way

00:11:55.420 to play God.

00:11:57.040 We can now make meat.

00:12:00.020 Uh-huh.

00:12:01.740 So we can protect the land.

00:12:04.280 Uh-huh.

00:12:05.020 Your freedom comes

00:12:08.660 from having access

00:12:11.320 to land and food,

00:12:13.820 to be able to grow your own food,

00:12:15.840 have farmers.

00:12:18.140 Your freedom comes

00:12:20.200 with you being able

00:12:22.180 to earn a dollar

00:12:23.220 and spend it the way

00:12:24.620 you want to spend it.

00:12:27.860 All of this is coming

00:12:29.640 to an end quickly.

00:12:32.440 You know, if people say,

00:12:33.820 well, you know,

00:12:35.120 I don't know

00:12:35.880 where my red line is.

00:12:37.220 Let me give you a red line

00:12:38.720 because we're running

00:12:39.940 out of red lines.

00:12:42.700 My red line came

00:12:44.300 a few years ago

00:12:45.660 and my red line,

00:12:47.340 one of my red lines

00:12:48.600 is don't screw

00:12:49.520 with my family.

00:12:51.080 Don't tell me

00:12:52.440 what I have to parrot back

00:12:54.420 that I know

00:12:55.180 is scientifically incorrect.

00:13:00.620 So I'm past my red line.

00:13:02.520 What is yours?

00:13:05.180 If you don't have one,

00:13:07.300 may I suggest a couple?

00:13:09.520 Now, they're very, very late.

00:13:12.200 But the red line should be

00:13:14.140 that I have access

00:13:16.960 to all information,

00:13:19.640 that I can do my own research,

00:13:22.920 and that I can question

00:13:24.440 even the most powerful

00:13:26.180 in the government.

00:13:27.860 And I can do it

00:13:30.760 without repercussions

00:13:32.120 because it is my right

00:13:34.680 to use my brain

00:13:37.120 to figure things out.

00:13:39.320 Now, I may be wrong

00:13:41.000 in the end,

00:13:41.780 but that is also my right,

00:13:43.680 that I can pursue truth.

00:13:47.420 The next line

00:13:49.040 should also include,

00:13:51.360 there's no one between

00:13:53.080 me and another citizen.

00:13:54.860 So I don't have,

00:13:57.520 when I am expressing

00:13:59.400 my point of view,

00:14:01.040 I can read

00:14:02.560 others' points of view,

00:14:04.000 and they can read mine

00:14:05.620 without somebody

00:14:07.360 in between saying,

00:14:09.000 well, no,

00:14:09.740 we're going to

00:14:10.500 de-emphasize this.

00:14:12.160 No, we're going to keep

00:14:13.080 this person quiet.

00:14:14.200 No, we're going to make sure

00:14:15.160 this person doesn't read

00:14:16.460 what that person is doing.

00:14:18.440 No one in between

00:14:20.000 me and the person

00:14:21.860 I want to have

00:14:22.400 a relationship with.

00:14:23.720 Even as the relationship

00:14:25.320 is, I disagree with you.

00:14:28.120 As long as it's not,

00:14:30.420 I'm coming to kill you,

00:14:32.380 then maybe, you know,

00:14:33.300 there should be somebody

00:14:34.120 that steps in.

00:14:35.320 But that's the way

00:14:36.460 it's always been.

00:14:39.760 Nobody has a right

00:14:41.440 to throttle my relationships

00:14:43.240 or get in between

00:14:44.500 me and someone else

00:14:46.280 or me and the truth.

00:14:47.600 And the last one is,

00:14:50.540 no, I own my land.

00:14:53.800 I own my land.

00:14:55.800 And I can be a good steward.

00:14:58.100 In fact, I'll be a better steward

00:14:59.780 than you are,

00:15:01.280 federal government.

00:15:03.020 I own my land

00:15:04.560 and I own my water.

00:15:06.480 And if I want to farm my land,

00:15:09.000 I can.

00:15:10.120 Once they take

00:15:11.420 the ability of the farmer away

00:15:14.500 to independently

00:15:16.540 grow vegetables,

00:15:18.080 food, cows,

00:15:19.100 whatever they want to do,

00:15:20.960 once that is taken away

00:15:23.520 from them

00:15:24.040 or made so onerous

00:15:25.660 that no one

00:15:26.820 except Cargill,

00:15:29.360 you know,

00:15:29.940 Monsanto

00:15:30.800 or the World Economic Forum

00:15:34.340 or the United States government

00:15:36.000 or Bill Gates,

00:15:37.700 when they take that ability

00:15:39.460 away from you,

00:15:40.960 the average person,

00:15:42.340 you're no longer free.

00:15:44.500 If you haven't set

00:15:48.040 a red line yet,

00:15:49.640 you might want

00:15:51.000 to consider it.

00:15:52.200 What is it going to take

00:15:54.140 for you to stand up

00:15:55.500 and say,

00:15:56.180 wrong direction,

00:15:57.620 no,

00:15:58.780 I'm not going there.

00:16:01.540 And let me just say

00:16:02.460 one more thing

00:16:02.980 and then we have to break.

00:16:07.800 Be very,

00:16:09.340 very careful

00:16:10.760 on who you align yourself with.

00:16:14.500 even your own faith

00:16:18.640 can be hijacked

00:16:20.480 and we can look

00:16:23.000 for a new Christian defender

00:16:26.140 who, you know,

00:16:28.380 we all love the Constitution,

00:16:30.040 but things, you know,

00:16:31.400 sometimes we have to do things.

00:16:33.460 And so we're going to give

00:16:34.580 this person extra power

00:16:36.960 and unleash him

00:16:38.920 to do what must be done.

00:16:41.060 Do not follow

00:16:43.660 that path.

00:16:45.740 Please

00:16:46.380 pay attention.

00:16:49.240 It's hard to see right now,

00:16:52.360 but it is going to become

00:16:53.680 very apparent soon.

00:16:55.540 the only restoration

00:16:58.260 we're looking for,

00:16:59.360 the only changes

00:17:00.260 we're looking for

00:17:01.380 is a restoration

00:17:04.020 of the Constitution

00:17:05.980 and the Declaration

00:17:07.020 of Independence

00:17:07.940 as written.

00:17:10.920 Period.

00:17:11.480 This is the best

00:17:13.880 of the Glenn Beck program.

00:17:15.820 Alan Dershowitz

00:17:16.500 is with us.

00:17:17.260 He is, of course,

00:17:17.900 the author of

00:17:19.120 Get Trump

00:17:19.880 and The Price of Principle

00:17:22.440 and host of The Dershow.

00:17:24.300 Alan Dershowitz

00:17:24.940 joins us now.

00:17:26.040 We would love

00:17:27.420 to understand,

00:17:28.800 Alan,

00:17:29.440 what exactly

00:17:32.580 is Donald Trump

00:17:34.980 being charged with

00:17:36.220 in this latest indictment?

00:17:39.200 The basic charge

00:17:40.900 is that he

00:17:42.000 personally

00:17:43.280 knew he had lost

00:17:44.900 the election.

00:17:45.600 He believed

00:17:46.480 that he had actually

00:17:47.940 lost the election

00:17:48.800 at Ferentz Square

00:17:49.560 and he engaged

00:17:50.880 in all these actions

00:17:52.620 with a corrupt

00:17:53.720 motive.

00:17:55.140 I don't think

00:17:56.040 the government's

00:17:56.660 going to be able

00:17:57.060 to prove that.

00:17:58.540 There is no...

00:17:59.060 First of all,

00:18:00.280 let me tell you something.

00:18:03.340 I talked to Donald Trump

00:18:04.900 probably about

00:18:06.740 two weeks before

00:18:07.740 January 6th.

00:18:09.320 There is no way

00:18:10.960 he believed

00:18:12.280 he lost that election.

00:18:13.720 There's still,

00:18:14.800 today,

00:18:15.520 he does not believe

00:18:17.140 he lost that election.

00:18:19.120 I can guarantee it.

00:18:20.620 You know him well enough

00:18:21.820 to know that.

00:18:23.580 He believes

00:18:24.740 he won the election

00:18:25.580 and he believes

00:18:27.140 it was stolen from him.

00:18:28.180 I think he's wrong.

00:18:29.840 Many people told him

00:18:31.140 he was wrong.

00:18:32.240 Many people are quoted

00:18:33.340 in the indictment

00:18:34.160 telling him he was wrong,

00:18:35.320 but that doesn't

00:18:36.320 make the crime.

00:18:37.720 Crime requires,

00:18:39.200 beyond a reasonable doubt,

00:18:40.740 that he himself

00:18:41.600 actually knew

00:18:42.920 and believed it

00:18:43.840 and acted

00:18:44.300 with a corrupt motive.

00:18:45.860 I don't think

00:18:46.820 the government's

00:18:47.460 going to be able

00:18:47.840 to prove that,

00:18:48.400 but to state

00:18:49.700 a broader point,

00:18:50.960 when the Attorney General

00:18:52.060 of the United States

00:18:52.820 authorizes an indictment,

00:18:54.400 as was done here,

00:18:55.340 against the man

00:18:56.620 running against

00:18:57.360 the incumbent president,

00:18:58.860 who is now tied

00:18:59.900 44-44

00:19:00.900 in the New York Times polls,

00:19:02.820 that indictment

00:19:03.920 better be the strongest

00:19:04.860 indictment

00:19:05.400 in American history.

00:19:06.880 There should be

00:19:07.380 a smoking gun,

00:19:08.400 fingerprints,

00:19:09.060 a videotape,

00:19:09.780 and a confession.

00:19:10.960 This document

00:19:12.260 is so flawed,

00:19:14.300 is so filled

00:19:15.220 with speculation.

00:19:16.380 Jack Smith's famous

00:19:17.240 for bringing

00:19:18.460 speculative cases

00:19:19.620 and then being

00:19:20.280 smacked down

00:19:21.020 by appellate courts.

00:19:22.440 This just doesn't

00:19:24.480 satisfy the

00:19:25.820 Banana Republic test.

00:19:27.600 In Banana Republics,

00:19:29.340 presidents prosecute

00:19:30.960 their political opponents,

00:19:32.500 and the stronger

00:19:33.340 their political opponents

00:19:34.340 are in the polls,

00:19:35.420 the more likely

00:19:36.280 they are to be prosecuted.

00:19:38.180 And we don't want

00:19:39.640 that to happen

00:19:40.360 in the United States.

00:19:41.980 And I think

00:19:42.940 this indictment

00:19:44.220 doesn't meet

00:19:45.020 what I call

00:19:46.080 the Nixon standard.

00:19:47.240 The Nixon standard

00:19:48.180 is Nixon's crimes

00:19:49.660 were so obvious

00:19:50.460 that even his

00:19:51.240 political supporters

00:19:52.220 favored

00:19:53.660 is being impeached

00:19:54.960 or being prosecuted.

00:19:56.460 That's not the case here.

00:19:58.520 Right now,

00:19:59.340 the only people

00:19:59.900 who seem to support

00:20:00.740 this indictment

00:20:01.500 are partisans

00:20:02.800 who are anti-Trump,

00:20:03.920 and that's just not enough

00:20:05.200 to heal the divisions

00:20:06.120 in this country.

00:20:07.760 So this indictment

00:20:08.560 will further the divisions,

00:20:10.120 especially if it's

00:20:11.560 ultimately reversed

00:20:12.400 on appeal.

00:20:12.960 Look, the indictment

00:20:13.900 is brought in

00:20:14.300 the District of Columbia.

00:20:15.380 The District of Columbia

00:20:16.200 jury will convict

00:20:17.420 anybody named Trump

00:20:18.440 for anything.

00:20:19.860 And that's why

00:20:20.820 the case should be moved

00:20:21.840 to Virginia.

00:20:23.400 It will be subject

00:20:25.180 to a motion

00:20:25.900 to change the venue

00:20:27.040 to Virginia

00:20:27.700 where you have

00:20:28.960 a level playing field.

00:20:30.080 It's a purple state.

00:20:31.000 This case should be tried

00:20:31.960 in a purple state,

00:20:33.200 not in a bright,

00:20:34.960 bright, bright,

00:20:35.840 bright, bright,

00:20:36.560 a Democratic state.

00:20:38.860 And that's where

00:20:40.220 it's being tried,

00:20:41.140 in the most Democratic

00:20:42.400 district in the United

00:20:43.580 States of America,

00:20:44.540 the most anti-Trump district

00:20:46.620 in the entire United States.

00:20:48.800 That's where the trial

00:20:50.060 is scheduled to be held

00:20:51.300 by a judge

00:20:53.580 who has a very

00:20:55.120 questionable background.

00:20:56.960 She worked for years

00:20:58.380 for a firm

00:21:00.400 that's highly questionable,

00:21:02.060 the David Boyes firm,

00:21:03.780 very, very Democratic-oriented.

00:21:06.500 They represented

00:21:07.760 Hunter Biden.

00:21:07.960 She was working,

00:21:08.920 right,

00:21:10.400 and Burisma,

00:21:11.320 and she was working there

00:21:12.340 at the time

00:21:13.220 of all of that stuff.

00:21:14.340 Not saying that she was

00:21:15.440 involved in it,

00:21:16.260 but...

00:21:16.940 Right.

00:21:17.620 David Boyes

00:21:18.380 and his firm

00:21:19.100 have been charged

00:21:20.180 with more cases

00:21:21.980 of corruption

00:21:23.500 and disbarbable conduct

00:21:25.920 than any law firm

00:21:27.740 in modern American history.

00:21:30.060 And it's well-known

00:21:31.820 for its being subject

00:21:35.520 to so many charges.

00:21:38.060 And she was part

00:21:38.980 of that firm.

00:21:39.800 And that's not something

00:21:40.820 I would brag about.

00:21:42.280 I got that firm disqualified

00:21:43.600 in a case because

00:21:45.060 of a conflict of interest.

00:21:46.620 And they've been charged

00:21:47.480 over and over again

00:21:48.860 with conflict

00:21:49.480 and other kinds of things.

00:21:50.760 And she spent most

00:21:52.000 of her career

00:21:52.580 in that firm.

00:21:53.460 So if I'm Donald Trump,

00:21:54.880 I don't want to be tried

00:21:55.820 in front of her.

00:21:56.940 I want to be tried

00:21:57.940 in front of a judge

00:21:58.840 who has a fairer

00:22:01.080 and better background.

00:22:02.080 And I want to be tried

00:22:03.360 in front of a jury

00:22:04.680 that isn't 90-something percent

00:22:06.960 anti-Trump voters.

00:22:09.420 Can he get that done?

00:22:11.820 He can try.

00:22:12.720 And if he loses,

00:22:14.160 it will be subject to appeal.

00:22:15.960 And that might be

00:22:17.360 the kind of thing

00:22:18.200 that could be appealed

00:22:18.980 immediately as well.

00:22:20.080 There's some dispute

00:22:20.980 about that.

00:22:21.540 Right.

00:22:22.000 But change of venue motions

00:22:23.640 can sometimes be subject

00:22:25.620 to what are called

00:22:26.420 interlocutory appeals.

00:22:28.500 So there's a lot

00:22:29.800 that will happen

00:22:31.240 before he stands trial

00:22:32.740 in the District of Columbia

00:22:33.920 in front of this judge.

00:22:36.660 This judge also

00:22:37.800 is the January 6th

00:22:39.940 hanging judge.

00:22:41.280 There hasn't been

00:22:41.860 a single case

00:22:42.740 that has come before her

00:22:43.820 that she hasn't given

00:22:45.560 tougher sentences

00:22:46.780 than even the government

00:22:48.280 was asking for.

00:22:50.660 Well, I mean,

00:22:51.840 you need to have,

00:22:53.240 in this case,

00:22:54.040 when you're trying,

00:22:54.760 the man who's running

00:22:55.540 against the incumbent

00:22:56.440 president,

00:22:57.500 there has to be,

00:22:58.280 it has to be

00:22:59.260 Caesar's wife.

00:23:00.900 It has to be clearer

00:23:02.200 and cleaner than anything.

00:23:04.480 And having the trial

00:23:05.340 in the District of Columbia

00:23:06.460 in front of this judge

00:23:07.660 on the basis

00:23:08.720 of an indictment

00:23:09.500 of this kind

00:23:10.380 is going to just

00:23:11.400 sow greater divisions

00:23:12.380 in this country.

00:23:13.580 People are not 0.99

00:23:14.440 going to be satisfied

00:23:15.340 that this is

00:23:16.800 fair, objective justice.

00:23:18.620 You know,

00:23:18.840 the Bible,

00:23:19.480 the Torah,

00:23:20.340 says,

00:23:21.040 lo takir ponim

00:23:22.260 to judges,

00:23:22.940 don't recognize faces.

00:23:24.820 Don't do justice

00:23:25.840 based on who

00:23:26.540 the person is.

00:23:27.780 Do justice

00:23:28.400 based on the law

00:23:29.420 and the facts.

00:23:30.340 And the law

00:23:30.780 and the facts

00:23:31.260 don't support

00:23:31.900 this indictment.

00:23:33.140 The author of

00:23:34.040 Get Trump

00:23:34.640 and the host

00:23:35.360 of the Dershow

00:23:36.060 podcast,

00:23:36.960 Alan Dershowitz.

00:23:38.180 So what do you think

00:23:39.360 about the first case,

00:23:41.860 as Jonathan Turley says,

00:23:43.480 making disinformation

00:23:45.280 a crime?

00:23:47.020 No, I think he's right.

00:23:48.140 I think this really

00:23:49.700 changes the nature

00:23:50.700 of American politics.

00:23:51.780 And if it were taken

00:23:53.320 to its logical conclusion,

00:23:55.220 half of Congress

00:23:55.960 would be in prison.

00:23:57.840 You can't make it a crime

00:23:59.720 to lie to the American public.

00:24:02.480 You know,

00:24:02.740 lying has been part

00:24:04.080 of American politics

00:24:05.500 since, you know,

00:24:07.600 Thomas Jefferson

00:24:08.480 ran against John Adams.

00:24:11.620 And the cure for lying

00:24:14.540 is the other side

00:24:16.000 tell the truth

00:24:16.660 and you win the election.

00:24:18.360 But the First Amendment

00:24:20.300 protects lies.

00:24:21.920 The First Amendment

00:24:22.580 protects so much speech

00:24:25.120 that we despise.

00:24:26.900 Look, I've defended

00:24:27.620 communists,

00:24:28.600 Nazis,

00:24:29.400 pornographers,

00:24:30.760 not because I like

00:24:32.160 any of them,

00:24:33.280 but because I like

00:24:34.560 free speech

00:24:35.380 and because the alternative

00:24:36.520 is a system

00:24:37.700 of censorship.

00:24:38.540 And this indictment

00:24:39.280 takes us

00:24:39.900 down the road

00:24:41.400 toward criminalizing

00:24:43.940 free speech.

00:24:45.280 And, you know,

00:24:46.240 what is true

00:24:46.940 and what is not true

00:24:47.840 is often in the eye

00:24:48.680 of the beholder,

00:24:49.380 particularly in the

00:24:50.580 political context.

00:24:51.620 Remember,

00:24:51.980 Chief Justice Rehnquist,

00:24:52.980 a conservative

00:24:53.540 chief justice,

00:24:54.740 said the First Amendment

00:24:55.960 doesn't recognize

00:24:57.540 a false opinion.

00:24:59.200 False opinions

00:25:00.040 and true opinions

00:25:01.520 have the same status

00:25:03.320 under the First Amendment.

00:25:05.200 And this is a case

00:25:07.280 criminalizing

00:25:08.500 false opinions,

00:25:11.320 what people believe

00:25:12.120 are false opinions,

00:25:12.760 what I believe

00:25:13.460 is a false opinion.

00:25:14.260 And I think that

00:25:15.040 President Biden

00:25:16.500 won the election

00:25:17.100 fair and square.

00:25:17.860 I wish there hadn't been

00:25:18.680 some of the Russia

00:25:19.980 dossier stuff

00:25:21.200 and some of the stuff

00:25:22.840 involving social media.

00:25:25.520 But the election count

00:25:27.000 itself was,

00:25:28.980 I think,

00:25:29.460 fair.

00:25:29.840 Was there some fraud?

00:25:31.460 Yeah.

00:25:32.160 Were there some

00:25:32.940 constitutional problems?

00:25:34.020 Yeah.

00:25:34.320 Pennsylvania violated

00:25:35.920 Article 2 of the Constitution,

00:25:37.500 in my opinion.

00:25:38.220 But it wouldn't have changed

00:25:39.280 the outcome of the election.

00:25:40.400 But Donald Trump has

00:25:41.320 the right to protest

00:25:44.000 and to be wrong

00:25:45.460 in his protests.

00:25:47.300 And that's what

00:25:48.340 the deepest problem

00:25:49.300 is here.

00:25:51.120 Can you go into this

00:25:52.840 a bit,

00:25:53.820 Alan?

00:25:54.140 Because I know

00:25:54.860 the founders,

00:25:55.520 they fought over

00:25:57.520 freedom of speech,

00:25:58.700 and especially when,

00:25:59.900 you know,

00:26:00.360 the Sedition Act

00:26:01.220 was imposed.

00:26:03.100 Right.

00:26:03.280 They went back and forth

00:26:04.920 and they said

00:26:06.380 the government

00:26:07.800 cannot ever be

00:26:10.180 the arbiter of truth.

00:26:12.200 It can't be.

00:26:14.380 Because sometimes

00:26:16.140 they're lying.

00:26:17.340 And if they're the only ones

00:26:18.900 that can say,

00:26:19.700 nope,

00:26:20.020 this is true,

00:26:20.840 this is not,

00:26:21.480 which they did in COVID

00:26:22.540 and everything else,

00:26:24.260 it is an unworkable society.

00:26:27.360 It eventually kills

00:26:29.140 all free speech.

00:26:30.420 Can you kind of explain

00:26:31.820 that in layman's terms

00:26:32.980 to people?

00:26:34.060 Yeah.

00:26:34.500 Well,

00:26:34.800 the 1800 election,

00:26:36.080 one of the great elections

00:26:36.880 in history,

00:26:37.560 was really about this.

00:26:39.320 John Adams,

00:26:40.080 and believe it or not,

00:26:40.860 even George Washington

00:26:41.940 had supported the alien,

00:26:43.340 and Alexander Hamilton

00:26:44.500 supported the Alien and Sedition Acts,

00:26:47.100 which punished opinions

00:26:49.220 that were contrary

00:26:50.460 to the opinions

00:26:51.280 of the government.

00:26:52.080 People actually went to prison.

00:26:53.840 Thomas Jefferson

00:26:54.380 ran against that,

00:26:55.540 and he overwhelmingly

00:26:56.820 beat John Adams,

00:26:58.900 who was a great man

00:26:59.960 and a great president.

00:27:01.500 But Americans wanted 0.85

00:27:02.940 free speech,

00:27:03.800 and Jefferson then

00:27:04.980 pardoned the people

00:27:05.780 who were convicted

00:27:06.620 under the Alien and Sedition Act.

00:27:09.320 And from then on,

00:27:11.020 I think the First Amendment

00:27:12.160 has been interpreted

00:27:13.380 very, very broadly,

00:27:15.760 which doesn't always

00:27:18.700 serve the interests

00:27:19.560 of the American public

00:27:20.980 immediately.

00:27:21.900 It means that

00:27:22.760 you do allow

00:27:23.760 adult pornography,

00:27:25.040 you do allow

00:27:25.680 communist speech

00:27:26.700 and Nazi speech

00:27:27.700 and hate speech

00:27:28.960 and anti-Semitic speech

00:27:30.240 and anti-Catholic speech

00:27:31.580 and anti-Christian

00:27:32.880 and anti-Muslim speech.

00:27:34.220 All of that is permitted.

00:27:35.300 Look what happened

00:27:35.760 in Sweden the other day.

00:27:36.960 They burnt a Torah.

00:27:38.900 They actually set it on fire.

00:27:40.680 They burnt a Torah.

00:27:42.240 And that would be permitted

00:27:43.280 in the United States

00:27:44.100 if it's your Torah

00:27:45.120 or your Koran.

00:27:47.080 Now, in Sweden,

00:27:47.980 they're trying to pass a law now

00:27:49.300 prohibiting the burning

00:27:51.180 of religious books,

00:27:52.300 and maybe that will pass.

00:27:53.500 But under our First Amendment,

00:27:55.280 we have extraordinarily

00:27:56.880 broad rights

00:27:57.940 to do the wrong thing.

00:27:59.560 And now,

00:28:00.360 President Trump

00:28:01.280 is being indicted

00:28:02.120 for doing what

00:28:03.040 this administration

00:28:04.340 thinks was the wrong thing.

00:28:05.960 I agree.

00:28:06.500 I think he did the wrong thing.

00:28:08.100 But he did say

00:28:09.160 when he made his

00:28:10.340 January 6th speech,

00:28:11.400 which I thoroughly disapprove of,

00:28:13.180 he did say

00:28:14.020 he wants people

00:28:14.800 to protest peacefully

00:28:15.880 and patriotically.

00:28:16.900 And when you leave that out,

00:28:18.640 that's as much of a lie

00:28:20.560 as anything

00:28:21.360 that Donald Trump

00:28:22.080 was accused of.

00:28:23.500 It's called

00:28:25.900 a lie of omission.

00:28:27.720 Alan, I appreciate it.

00:28:28.920 Thank you so much.

00:28:30.360 My pleasure.

00:28:30.820 I don't know

00:28:31.260 where all of this ends,

00:28:32.560 but I appreciate

00:28:33.540 your guidance on this.

00:28:35.460 Thank you so much.

00:28:36.200 Alan Dershowitz.

00:28:39.680 This is the best

00:28:41.000 of the Glenn Beck program.

00:28:42.700 This is amazing.

00:28:44.060 There's a Super Cup

00:28:45.120 now of the media

00:28:46.580 that I want to play

00:28:47.660 here in a second.

00:28:48.240 But I want you to remember

00:28:49.460 this is exactly

00:28:51.240 what I told you

00:28:52.460 happened during

00:28:53.780 the Lewinsky scandal.

00:28:56.380 First,

00:28:56.860 they said

00:28:57.420 he didn't do it.

00:28:58.340 He didn't do it.

00:28:58.960 We argued back and forth.

00:29:00.380 Yes, he did.

00:29:01.160 No, he didn't.

00:29:01.840 Yes, he did.

00:29:02.300 No, he didn't.

00:29:03.100 And then when we got to,

00:29:04.600 oh, here's the evidence,

00:29:05.920 people said

00:29:06.480 it didn't matter.

00:29:08.080 And that's pretty much

00:29:09.240 what we're hearing now.

00:29:10.400 Listen to the media

00:29:11.280 dismissing

00:29:12.160 Devin Archer's testimony

00:29:13.320 this week.

00:29:14.000 Joe Biden did nothing.

00:29:15.840 Nothing,

00:29:16.280 not even approximating improper,

00:29:18.340 much less wrong

00:29:19.160 or illegal.

00:29:20.000 It's wishful thinking.

00:29:21.120 They're trying to create

00:29:22.040 a scandal.

00:29:22.820 I think it's pretty clear,

00:29:24.100 at least so far,

00:29:25.100 there is nothing there.

00:29:26.180 House Republicans

00:29:26.820 continue their search

00:29:27.860 for any proof at all

00:29:28.860 tying President Joe Biden

00:29:30.220 to his son Hunter's

00:29:31.220 business dealings.

00:29:32.160 Joe Biden

00:29:32.880 had nothing to do

00:29:34.480 with Hunter Biden's

00:29:35.420 business dealings.

00:29:36.500 Because they wanted,

00:29:37.340 they wanted to dirty up

00:29:38.260 Biden's name.

00:29:38.960 You know,

00:29:39.220 Republicans have been

00:29:40.200 trying to use

00:29:41.020 Hunter Biden's behavior

00:29:42.240 against the president.

00:29:43.500 Did not know

00:29:44.440 about anything

00:29:45.640 that Hunter Biden

00:29:46.900 was doing.

00:29:47.620 scene of Biden

00:29:48.300 was simply involved

00:29:49.800 in his son's life

00:29:50.920 in a personal capacity.

00:29:52.620 Republicans from

00:29:53.220 consistently trying

00:29:54.360 to make this argument

00:29:55.460 and create the illusion

00:29:57.180 of some malfeasance

00:29:59.900 being there.

00:30:00.660 Spoke to

00:30:01.700 business associates

00:30:03.180 of Hunter Biden

00:30:04.460 to say hello,

00:30:06.260 to have small talk,

00:30:07.640 casual conversation.

00:30:09.260 Hunter Biden

00:30:09.720 talked to his dad

00:30:10.360 on the phone

00:30:10.760 all the time.

00:30:11.540 They talked

00:30:11.940 basically every day.

00:30:13.860 Sometimes Joe Biden

00:30:15.140 would say hello

00:30:15.880 to the people in the room

00:30:16.800 if he popped in

00:30:17.580 or on the phone

00:30:18.080 or whatever.

00:30:18.440 It's all casual

00:30:19.240 conversation,

00:30:20.760 niceties,

00:30:21.860 the weather.

00:30:22.720 They never discussed

00:30:23.540 the business.

00:30:24.240 These were more

00:30:24.780 of just cordial

00:30:25.980 hello types

00:30:26.740 of conversations.

00:30:28.040 Business was never

00:30:28.840 discussed on those calls

00:30:30.260 and that was more

00:30:30.860 casual sort of check-ins,

00:30:32.580 casual conversations.

00:30:33.900 President Biden

00:30:34.340 might have said,

00:30:34.960 hey,

00:30:35.880 quit putting me

00:30:36.720 on speakerphone.

00:30:37.700 You know,

00:30:38.580 are you having

00:30:39.540 a business meeting?

00:30:40.520 What is that about?

00:30:42.160 But do you hang up

00:30:43.160 on your phone,

00:30:43.820 on your side?

00:30:45.280 Yeah,

00:30:45.680 if you're the president

00:30:46.420 of the United States

00:30:47.180 and you have been

00:30:48.060 warned by the State Department

00:30:50.300 that this is highly irregular

00:30:54.580 and this is what was happening

00:30:56.760 during the Obama administration

00:30:58.060 and the Obama administration

00:30:59.600 completely dismissed it.

00:31:01.240 They were getting warnings

00:31:02.520 from all of their legal departments

00:31:04.940 at the State Department

00:31:06.660 and elsewhere saying,

00:31:07.880 he's involved in this bad stuff

00:31:11.280 and the president can't.

00:31:13.900 So the president was briefed.

00:31:15.600 Now the president

00:31:16.600 was speaking to his son

00:31:18.200 every day,

00:31:19.440 but he had no idea

00:31:21.160 what his son was doing.

00:31:22.820 As a parent,

00:31:23.980 do you believe

00:31:24.840 that could happen to you?

00:31:26.520 Do you believe

00:31:27.520 that your son

00:31:29.240 could be peddling

00:31:31.420 and dealing in your name

00:31:34.440 and selling influence

00:31:37.400 that is imagined?

00:31:39.100 Okay?

00:31:39.500 And you had no idea

00:31:42.040 when you are

00:31:43.280 the second most powerful man

00:31:45.000 in the country

00:31:45.920 where you have secret service

00:31:47.500 with your son

00:31:49.380 and with you

00:31:51.300 that you would have no idea

00:31:54.300 that your son

00:31:55.220 is doing dirty business

00:31:56.800 with oligarchs

00:31:57.980 and that he calls you

00:32:00.240 during those dinners

00:32:02.040 to introduce you.

00:32:02.840 But that's who you're

00:32:03.560 on the phone with, sir.

00:32:04.600 We were there.

00:32:05.480 Secret service was there.

00:32:06.580 These people are oligarchs,

00:32:08.620 very, very bad.

00:32:10.020 They're dirty businessmen.

00:32:12.320 You know,

00:32:13.100 nothing's going on,

00:32:14.060 I'm sure, with you,

00:32:14.920 but you have to know

00:32:16.300 that's who you spoke to.

00:32:18.580 We know

00:32:19.600 because the State Department

00:32:21.220 wrote to the vice presidential office

00:32:25.440 and said,

00:32:26.240 this is really bad.

00:32:27.980 Don't do this.

00:32:28.940 So they dismiss all of that.

00:32:30.980 But what they're doing now

00:32:33.020 is they're saying,

00:32:34.260 well, he was just,

00:32:36.400 he was mourning his son.

00:32:38.820 Listen to this from MSNBC.

00:32:41.440 Listen, cut six.

00:32:42.540 As far as Hunter Biden goes,

00:32:45.880 there's no doubt.

00:32:46.780 I mean, it's pretty clear,

00:32:47.880 even those close

00:32:48.620 to the Biden family

00:32:49.260 suggest that some of his behavior

00:32:50.340 was pretty unseemly.

00:32:51.460 That doesn't make it illegal.

00:32:52.900 And it also means

00:32:54.020 we don't know the role

00:32:55.260 that then-Vice President Biden

00:32:57.280 may have played.

00:32:58.020 And it seems like,

00:32:59.100 no, they haven't proven

00:33:00.000 that he had anything to do with it.

00:33:01.160 They haven't proven

00:33:01.600 that he profited from this at all.

00:33:03.880 Yet maybe he is guilty

00:33:04.940 of turning a blind eye

00:33:06.180 to some of his son's behavior.

00:33:08.720 And we should put this in context.

00:33:10.000 This is a time when Beau Biden,

00:33:12.000 the president's other son,

00:33:12.880 was ill and then dying

00:33:13.860 and then passed away.

00:33:15.700 So perhaps he was

00:33:17.120 not as attentive

00:33:19.120 to what he should have been here.

00:33:20.220 But again,

00:33:20.880 there has simply been

00:33:21.780 no evidence,

00:33:22.560 no evidence at all

00:33:24.160 that he was profiting from this.

00:33:26.140 Okay.

00:33:27.320 You're a jurist.

00:33:28.820 And let me just ask,

00:33:30.420 ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

00:33:32.400 we now have evidence

00:33:34.220 from the business partner

00:33:35.640 and others

00:33:37.000 that Joe Hunter Biden

00:33:39.520 was called

00:33:40.340 to an emergency meeting

00:33:42.120 in Dubai

00:33:42.920 because Burisma

00:33:44.600 was being investigated

00:33:46.340 by Victor Shokin.

00:33:48.380 Victor Shokin

00:33:49.240 was the state prosecutor

00:33:50.960 and he was looking

00:33:52.000 into corruption.

00:33:53.820 As testimony points out,

00:33:56.640 if the Biden,

00:33:59.360 what did they call it,

00:34:01.880 brand

00:34:02.480 was not a part of this,

00:34:05.640 that Burisma 0.99

00:34:08.420 would have gone

00:34:09.500 out of business

00:34:10.300 and all of these guys

00:34:11.740 would have lost their money.

00:34:13.300 But it was the Hunter brand

00:34:15.280 that saved it.

00:34:17.040 Now,

00:34:17.360 he was called

00:34:17.840 to this emergency meeting,

00:34:19.180 ladies and gentlemen

00:34:19.820 of the jury,

00:34:20.540 with all of the oligarchs

00:34:21.900 from Burisma.

00:34:23.020 They were telling him this

00:34:24.780 and telling him

00:34:25.820 that he had to call

00:34:27.020 his father

00:34:27.820 for the brand

00:34:29.760 to take care of it.

00:34:31.520 He then does.

00:34:32.940 Now,

00:34:34.340 the defense

00:34:35.360 would have you believe

00:34:36.460 that he calls them

00:34:38.160 during that

00:34:39.260 very important

00:34:40.200 emergency meeting

00:34:41.300 where tensions were high

00:34:42.480 and he just said

00:34:43.980 hello to his father,

00:34:45.500 introduced everyone

00:34:46.680 to them,

00:34:47.760 to him,

00:34:48.580 on the phone,

00:34:49.400 but nothing was said

00:34:51.760 except,

00:34:52.800 I miss my brother,

00:34:54.040 I know,

00:34:54.680 I lost my son,

00:34:56.260 the weather here

00:34:57.100 is fine in D.C.,

00:34:58.720 we'll talk later,

00:35:00.720 son.

00:35:00.960 And the business partners

00:35:03.820 that were paying a guy

00:35:05.180 who didn't speak Russian,

00:35:06.700 didn't speak Ukrainian,

00:35:08.920 did not know anything

00:35:10.260 about the oil and gas business.

00:35:12.200 He was specifically called

00:35:13.880 because the brand

00:35:15.540 was supposed to take care 0.62

00:35:17.320 of things like Viktor Shokin.

00:35:19.520 But nothing happened

00:35:20.880 until five days later,

00:35:23.800 Joe Biden goes

00:35:25.000 and withholds

00:35:26.640 $1 billion worth of aid

00:35:28.960 from the United States government

00:35:30.420 unless they fire

00:35:32.520 Viktor Shokin.

00:35:34.200 And then he comes out

00:35:35.740 and he brags about it.

00:35:37.400 Listen.

00:35:38.420 I'm desperately concerned

00:35:40.100 about the backsliding

00:35:42.060 on the part of Kiev

00:35:45.060 in terms of corruption.

00:35:47.020 They made,

00:35:47.840 I mean,

00:35:48.240 I'll give you one concrete example.

00:35:50.420 I was,

00:35:51.800 not I,

00:35:52.380 but it just happened to be

00:35:53.480 that was the assignment I got.

00:35:54.860 I got all the good ones.

00:35:57.500 And so I got Ukraine.

00:35:59.640 And I remember going over

00:36:02.080 convincing our team,

00:36:03.680 our brothers too,

00:36:05.140 convincing us

00:36:05.840 that we should be providing

00:36:07.080 for loan guarantees.

00:36:08.960 And I went over,

00:36:10.300 I guess,

00:36:10.920 the 12th,

00:36:11.920 13th time

00:36:12.720 to Kiev.

00:36:13.320 and I was supposed

00:36:15.320 to announce

00:36:16.040 that there was another

00:36:17.120 billion dollar loan guarantee.

00:36:19.140 And I had gotten

00:36:20.440 a commitment

00:36:20.980 from Poroshenko

00:36:22.140 and from Yatsenyuk

00:36:24.920 that they would take action

00:36:26.080 against the state prosecutor

00:36:27.420 and they didn't.

00:36:28.600 So they said,

00:36:29.480 they were walking out

00:36:30.360 to the press conference

00:36:30.860 and said,

00:36:31.160 no,

00:36:31.380 I said,

00:36:31.660 I'm not going to,

00:36:32.500 we're not going to give you

00:36:33.780 the billion dollars.

00:36:35.400 They said,

00:36:36.000 you have no authority.

00:36:36.880 You're not the president.

00:36:37.700 The president said,

00:36:38.480 I said,

00:36:38.780 call him.

00:36:39.220 I said,

00:36:41.100 I'm telling you,

00:36:41.540 you're not getting

00:36:41.960 the billion dollars.

00:36:43.360 I said,

00:36:43.800 you're not getting

00:36:44.360 the billion.

00:36:44.740 I'm going to be leaving here.

00:36:45.760 And I think it was,

00:36:46.320 what,

00:36:46.420 six hours.

00:36:47.100 I looked,

00:36:47.400 I said,

00:36:47.620 I'm leaving in six hours.

00:36:49.080 If the prosecutor's not fired,

00:36:50.640 you're not getting the money.

00:36:52.120 Oh,

00:36:52.420 son of a,

00:36:53.080 got fired.

00:36:55.200 And they put in place

00:36:56.600 someone who was solid

00:36:58.480 at the time.

00:36:59.980 Okay,

00:37:00.560 stop.

00:37:01.040 This was someone solid

00:37:03.240 at the time,

00:37:04.480 somebody who would not

00:37:05.880 investigate Burisma.

00:37:07.920 That,

00:37:08.480 ladies and gentlemen

00:37:09.340 of the jury,

00:37:10.100 you are asked to believe

00:37:11.660 was a complete coincidence.

00:37:15.860 Complete.

00:37:17.200 By the way,

00:37:18.020 you know,

00:37:18.280 when I will believe

00:37:19.640 that Joe Biden

00:37:20.920 has actually accepted

00:37:23.780 his granddaughter,

00:37:25.580 Hunter's illegitimate child, 0.97

00:37:28.320 when I believe

00:37:29.740 that he's accepted her

00:37:31.320 as part of the family,

00:37:32.500 is when they set up

00:37:34.100 a shell corporation

00:37:35.260 for her in her name.

00:37:36.800 that's when I'll believe

00:37:38.320 she's part of the family.

00:37:40.320 I'm just saying.

00:37:41.380 They do keep saying this

00:37:42.340 where they're like,

00:37:42.860 oh,

00:37:43.040 well,

00:37:43.160 there's no evidence

00:37:43.960 that he profited at all

00:37:45.280 from any of this.

00:37:46.040 It's like,

00:37:46.480 well,

00:37:46.740 what are all these bank records

00:37:48.340 with millions of dollars

00:37:49.520 being transferred

00:37:50.240 to shell companies

00:37:51.100 in names of

00:37:51.960 random Biden family members

00:37:54.500 that didn't have anything

00:37:55.900 to do with these businesses?

00:37:56.700 Like,

00:37:57.420 yeah.

00:37:59.800 Okay,

00:38:00.420 like,

00:38:00.680 how do you explain that?

00:38:01.480 How do you explain it?

00:38:02.280 Like,

00:38:02.420 come up with something.

00:38:03.520 Can you at least try

00:38:04.500 to explain it?

00:38:05.840 Can you try to explain

00:38:07.160 the WhatsApp message

00:38:08.100 where he's saying

00:38:08.680 he's in the same room

00:38:09.700 with his father

00:38:10.400 and we're holding

00:38:11.360 a grudge against you

00:38:12.320 and we are going to

00:38:15.400 make your life a living hell

00:38:16.540 if you don't get this payment

00:38:18.680 to come through right now.

00:38:20.100 Can you at least come up

00:38:21.180 with some way

00:38:22.700 of trying to explain that?

00:38:25.180 I mean,

00:38:25.940 they're sort of,

00:38:27.100 the media is sort of

00:38:28.500 taking this road of,

00:38:30.140 well,

00:38:30.480 it was Hunter

00:38:31.140 and he was bad

00:38:32.160 and he was selling

00:38:32.820 the illusion

00:38:33.380 of some sort of influence

00:38:37.400 from his dad

00:38:39.000 and it wasn't real.

00:38:40.120 But like,

00:38:40.940 why don't we have

00:38:41.780 the actual administration

00:38:43.280 saying that's what happened?

00:38:45.460 Why is it the media

00:38:46.500 carrying that water?

00:38:47.660 Why isn't the,

00:38:48.940 why isn't Joe Biden

00:38:50.200 required to come out

00:38:51.480 and say,

00:38:51.960 yes,

00:38:52.220 this was my son

00:38:53.080 doing this terrible,

00:38:54.020 terrible thing

00:38:54.940 and he's really,

00:38:56.380 really bad

00:38:56.740 and, you know,

00:38:57.040 we're not going to invite him

00:38:57.880 to the next state dinner.

00:38:58.940 So maybe he shouldn't be

00:39:00.220 in the room

00:39:01.060 with those people

00:39:01.760 next time.

00:39:02.960 Uh-huh.

00:39:03.880 Ladies and gentlemen

00:39:04.800 of the jury,

00:39:05.340 I would just like

00:39:06.160 to ask you this question.

00:39:07.980 The media is now saying,

00:39:10.000 yes,

00:39:10.240 what Hunter Biden did

00:39:11.540 was bad

00:39:12.500 and possibly even illegal.

00:39:14.580 It was illegal.

00:39:15.860 He was not a registered

00:39:16.820 foreign agent

00:39:17.700 and yet he was acting

00:39:18.940 as one,

00:39:19.980 meaning representing,

00:39:21.600 representing people

00:39:23.120 in foreign countries

00:39:24.480 and doing business

00:39:25.780 for them

00:39:26.360 in the United States

00:39:27.640 on their behalf.

00:39:29.080 He was never registered.

00:39:30.220 That's against the law.

00:39:31.780 Okay?

00:39:32.100 Can't do it.

00:39:33.080 He also was doing

00:39:34.540 something very nefarious.

00:39:36.260 Let's say he was doing

00:39:37.160 on his own.

00:39:37.680 His father had no idea.

00:39:39.480 He was trading

00:39:40.380 on the Biden family name

00:39:42.520 and selling the brand.

00:39:44.200 This is now accepted

00:39:45.820 by people in the media.

00:39:47.720 It was the brand.

00:39:49.080 He was selling the brand,

00:39:50.440 but the president

00:39:51.700 didn't have anything

00:39:52.840 to do with it.

00:39:54.280 Okay?

00:39:54.960 Let's take that

00:39:56.080 at face value

00:39:56.940 as it's absolutely true.

00:39:59.000 Why hasn't the president

00:40:00.040 come out and said that?

00:40:01.660 Why hasn't the president

00:40:02.640 come out and said,

00:40:03.800 look,

00:40:04.260 it's important

00:40:04.960 that you know

00:40:06.020 if your president

00:40:06.900 is a crook or not.

00:40:08.360 Well,

00:40:08.600 I'm not a crook.

00:40:09.800 My son,

00:40:10.900 I found out

00:40:12.180 while I was grieving

00:40:13.660 my son,

00:40:15.140 he,

00:40:15.600 my other son,

00:40:16.440 is trading

00:40:17.200 on my name

00:40:18.180 making it look like

00:40:19.500 I would provide deals.

00:40:21.680 You know,

00:40:21.960 my son is very troubled.

00:40:23.640 He has had

00:40:24.200 a very difficult time

00:40:25.580 with drugs.

00:40:26.360 He was out of control,

00:40:27.960 but I am not going

00:40:30.000 to stand in the way

00:40:31.380 of his prosecution

00:40:32.800 if that's what people believe.

00:40:35.100 But I want you to know

00:40:36.300 I'm shocked and horrified

00:40:38.160 by what my son did,

00:40:39.760 but I had nothing

00:40:41.680 to do with it.

00:40:42.520 He's not doing that.

00:40:44.320 Why?

00:40:45.380 Why?

00:40:45.760 Why is the media doing that?

00:40:47.400 But they're not insisting

00:40:48.940 that the president

00:40:49.740 should do that.

00:40:51.320 His whole thing

00:40:52.960 for the last five years

00:40:54.600 has been to lie

00:40:56.620 over and over again

00:40:58.200 to the media.

00:40:59.420 My son did nothing wrong.

00:41:01.940 Well,

00:41:02.220 we now know

00:41:03.140 and it's pretty well accepted

00:41:04.760 that he was trading

00:41:06.340 on the Biden name.

00:41:07.760 That is wrong.

00:41:10.120 He was acting

00:41:11.020 as a foreign agent

00:41:12.140 without being registered.

00:41:13.820 That's illegal.

00:41:15.840 Why won't the president

00:41:17.060 come out and say that?

00:41:18.600 Yeah,

00:41:18.800 and like,

00:41:19.220 I can certainly understand

00:41:21.160 why the president

00:41:22.440 doesn't want to come out

00:41:24.080 and say that.

00:41:25.040 I totally get it

00:41:26.280 because it makes him

00:41:27.060 look illegal

00:41:27.700 like he broke the law

00:41:29.100 and his family

00:41:30.100 is in turmoil

00:41:31.780 and his son

00:41:32.640 should obviously

00:41:33.340 go to prison.

00:41:34.100 I get why

00:41:35.020 he wouldn't want

00:41:36.120 to say that,

00:41:36.880 but I don't get why

00:41:37.840 the media

00:41:38.840 isn't requiring him

00:41:40.920 to come out

00:41:41.460 and say it.

00:41:41.980 They certainly

00:41:42.720 would do this

00:41:43.440 if it was

00:41:44.260 anyone else.

00:41:45.500 Any Republican

00:41:46.160 would be required

00:41:47.360 that he'd be pestered

00:41:48.460 every time he walked

00:41:49.340 in front of a camera.

00:41:50.320 He would be asked

00:41:50.920 to say that exact thing

00:41:52.500 and they're not

00:41:53.200 doing that at all.

00:41:54.800 They're not.

00:41:55.580 He needs to say

00:41:56.980 those things.

00:41:57.820 He needs to come out

00:41:58.540 and say those things

00:41:59.840 and he's not.

00:42:02.120 Of course,

00:42:02.780 we understand

00:42:03.400 why Joe Biden

00:42:04.680 is trying to avoid that,

00:42:05.960 but like if we had

00:42:07.380 a media with

00:42:07.900 any reasonable

00:42:10.400 integrity

00:42:11.740 and attachment

00:42:13.700 to journalistic principles,

00:42:15.160 this is all they'd be

00:42:16.240 focused on right now

00:42:17.520 and yet they keep

00:42:18.840 falling for the same

00:42:19.580 trick, Glenn,

00:42:20.540 that you've outlined

00:42:21.020 multiple times today.

00:42:22.080 The day after this stuff

00:42:23.260 comes out,

00:42:23.880 they do something

00:42:24.560 like indict Donald Trump

00:42:25.600 and now the entire media

00:42:27.480 is on that bandwagon

00:42:29.100 instead of the one

00:42:29.880 they should be looking at.

00:42:30.680 Na-na-na-na 0.95

00:42:32.240 Na-na-na 0.98

The Glenn Beck Program - August 02, 2023

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