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Glenn and Scooby discuss the possible indictment of Donald Trump and what it means for the economy and the rule of law. They also discuss the potential indictments of Michael Cohen, Michael Cohen and Michael Cohen's wife, Jillian Manus.
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right now we have chip roy on with us hello chip how are you sir good morning glenn i hope you're
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doing well well honestly chip i um i'm worried about just about everything i'm worried about war i'm worried
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about the supply chains i'm worried about the banks and now i'm really worried about our republic uh
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i mean i think this is a banana republic kind of uh a moment for us with the indictment possibly of
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of president trump yeah look this this is what happens when you've got democrats in charge of
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everything right and and this is uh something we should all be concerned and worried about you're
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right the banking situation is real the situation around the world and the rattling with russia and
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china getting together and meeting is real our energy situation that they're killing with their
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climate fetish is real the wide open borders are real this is having real consequences on americans
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and now you're pointing out rightly that we've got a two-tier or multi-tier justice system where you've
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got a radical uh you know manhattan da clearly doing the bidding of leftists in new york to basically
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trump up so to speak and go you know find a charge to levy against the former president uh because the
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feds passed on it i mean think about that for a second the feds passed on what we're talking about
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here probably because they looked at michael cohen as being kind of a dubious witness but now they're
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going to go try to back into this thing with some sort of business records thing uh and try to turn
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this into a felony when at most it's maybe a misdemeanor i mean there's there look at the end
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of the day you cannot walk away from the fact that the former president clearly paid a porn star off
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to hush up right before an election correct that occurred but when the prosecutors are trying to
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turn that which seems to be a very personal thing uh that he wanted to deal with just to get you know
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off the table and turn that into a you know cause celeb to go after the former president
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now you've got the politicization of the justice system the rule of law and you're turning into a
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banana republic this is why people don't understand how chip roy who supported the america first agenda
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but had issues with some of the things the president you know said and done and that i support ron
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de santis but yet this weekend i was blasting the manhattan da because they're politicizing the
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the uh the district attorney's office look man we're all going to be dead and gone in 20 40 50
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years we got to save this republic for our kids and grandkids and the rule of law matters and the
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rule of law can only be supported if you're not politicizing it and again i'm not brushing aside what
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could be a misdemeanor i don't know i haven't seen the indictment it's not out yet but it's clearly
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a politicized effort to target the former president that's wrong and it should send chills up the spine
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of every american about our justice system because if they can do it to him they can go after anyone
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you know for some breach of some of the thousands of statutes out there that have been passed
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wantonly for decades well what what concerns me here um is that you know the president said
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you know i hope that people are out on the street protesting people aren't going to be out in the
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street because if they're doing this to the president uh we know what they did to grandmas who
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you know spent time in jail for parading was the charge uh on january 6th i want the bad guys of
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january 6th to go to jail i want the people who weren't part of some conspiracy or revved up by people
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like ray epps uh to you know go free we have a system here where quite honestly chip i don't think
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the gop is standing up for our rights enough i i just don't see the the understanding that our republic
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is over if we don't stop the the administration from just making up new laws uh bailing out banks
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because they decide they can and others they don't want to we we we have no law and for the feds to pass
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on this for this district attorney to originally pass on this and now come back to it as a i got the guy
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let me find the crime we got nothing left where when when will the gop come together and say
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this is a real problem and we've got to stand up for the bill of rights
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yeah glenn you're you're uh you're preaching my language brother and i mean it uh you know i have been
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pushing my colleagues that we have got to be aggressive aggressive and going after how the
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bureaucracy in washington and generally in government is being weaponized against the american people
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um you brought up january 6th hey you can be an american and believe what you just said which is
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exactly right glenn that there were people there who made some really stupid mistakes and should be
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punished for it and there were some people there who are being railroaded by politicized uh quote
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unquote justice shoved through a system left in jail targeted for you know parading and so forth
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and you can you can believe two things at the same time you can believe that the president made a
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mistake and you know is you know having to deal with that by paying off again a porn star for a
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tryst or an alleged tryst right before an election but not believe that you should have a manhattan da as
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you just said who is now going after a quote falsifying business records which is a misdemeanor
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under new york law and trying to turn it into a felony by trying to connect it to saying it was in
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committing another crime but trying to use essentially the federal crime as the other crime which is the
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federal crime the federal law enforcement chose not to pursue look this is banana republic stuff we have
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an obligation to save this country and defend the rule of law that is why i took the path of saying that we
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should actually stand up and accept the electors two years ago that was hard to do because a lot of my trump
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supporters were like hey why are you doing this you know why because i had 50 sets of electors and i had an
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obligation to process 50 slates of electors i believe that you've got to objectively try to go fight for the rule of law if
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you want to save this republic for our kids and grandkids no matter what the political ramifications
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realities are yes the last point i want to make is we cannot as republicans unilaterally disarm
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while these ass clowns are destroying our republic and that's what they're doing they're doing it with
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the climate fetish killing energy in america they're doing it abroad by weakening us and engaging in
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endless wars and then we're getting our butts kicked by china while they're building their navy and we're running
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around talking about how great the defense is in terms of being woke and diversity equity and inclusion
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and we're doing the number one agenda is making sure we're not impacting the climate that's what
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your defense department is doing and you're losing recruiting look we need to shake the whole system as
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republicans we need to get out and say we're not going to spend another dollar we're not going to borrow
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another dollar we're not going to spend another dollar unless we stop funding crazy we're going to take
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back this system right now my message to republicans is good luck getting something to the rules
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committee with me on it or not blasting them from here to kingdom come if they don't stop funding the
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very things that you and i are talking about undermining our freedom fund a strong defense stop
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funding this woke weaponized garbage undermine and you know let's make the fbi you know uh feel like
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they've been you know totally undermined and lost their power rather than getting a new 400 million
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dollar headquarters in maryland right we should do our job in defense of the american people
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well i'm glad to hear you say that and i i knew that's what you would say because you have been
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blasting the gop but i am urging my listeners to call every member of the house and the senate uh and
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everybody they know that's in with the gop from the local level all the way to the top say i'm done with
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you if you don't start defending the constitution of the united states i'm done this clearly people are
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undermining governments are instituted among men to protect these rights when i don't feel comfortable
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marching in the united states of america i don't feel comfortable that i wouldn't be swept up into some
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sting operation or trumped up charges uh that's a problem this is supposed to be the freest nation
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when france can have demonstrations and they go ugly and you have the people who are being arrested the
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ones who are causing the problem and the other people go free and we don't feel we have that here
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there's a real problem a real problem and glenn here's the question that every republican should
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be asked when all of your listeners call in just literally ask them why on earth should they fund
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the expansion of the irs to the tune of 80 billion dollars why should they fund the continued payment of
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welfare to people not working and expansion of medicaid to people not working why should they fund the
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new 400 million dollar headquarters for the fbi why should they fund covid vaccine mandates and
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discrimination still going on as we speak at dod why should they fund a va that is changing its motto
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to eliminate the president lincoln quote which said to care for him who shall have born the battle and for
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his widow and for his orphan they want to you know politically correct that and take the his out
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why are we funding the world health organization why are we funding gender transition and other
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similar programs why would we fund the manhattan da's office to politicize the prosecution of a
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former president why would we continue to fund the massive department of homeland security that is
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literally ignoring the law and exposing american people to 72 000 dead fentanyl uh americans and actually
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killing migrants in the process i'm sick of it glenn and republicans better get religion this year or
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there will be no republican party and over my dead body are we going to pass garbage this year
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that doesn't change it god bless you chip thank you very much uh we'll uh keep you in our prayers
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thank you uh chip roy from the great state of texas one of the guys who actually means what he says
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this is the best of the glenbeck program mr alan dershowitz how are you sir i am doing great i wish the
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country were doing great i think that the impending prosecution of donald trump will destroy the rule
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of law in america which is why i wrote my book get trump because that's what they're doing they're
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focusing on a person rather than a crime you know the torah the bible gives prosecutors and judges two
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instructions one don't take bribes that's obvious the other is lo takir ponim do not recognize faces
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do not do justice based on who the person is that's a prohibition in the bible it's a prohibition
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in the constitution it's a prohibition in the bill of rights it's a prohibition into the rule of law
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and yet the district attorney of manhattan ignoring previous district attorneys ignoring uh the u.s
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attorney's office the justice department is going after brag on a made up crime a crime that doesn't
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exist it's part of get trump and if you want to protest get trump get my book get trump that'll
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send a message that we don't approve of that i tell you i don't think people are going to go out
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in the streets and protest and mass which a few years ago it would have happened uh but i don't think
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they're doing they're going to do it this time because we know this federal government this justice
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department does not protect the lawful uh uh gathering of american citizens to speak their
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voice we also are concerned about is that an fbi guy who is trying to get the get the crowd you know
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all whipped up into a frenzy yeah i mean we don't believe our rights are protected as an average citizen
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anymore that's a frightening place to be in america and it's not only the justice department it's the
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new york city da's office the new york city attorney general's office the attorney general of new york
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ran on the campaign of get trump that's where i got the title of my book from her campaign get trump
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she promised to get trump no matter what constitution be damned bill of rights be damned uh the rule of law
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be damned get trump that's the most important thing we have to stop him from running of course the irony
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is even if they indict him and convict him he can still run the constitution provides for only you
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know a handful of bases for running after he 35 you have to not have fought in the civil war against
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the north and you have to have been born in america and he satisfies all of those criteria
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so he can still run and this may backfire on on democrats who are abusing the law to get trump
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and i hope it does and i hope that maybe the district attorney will listen to reason and not indict
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him although trump has said that he's likely to be indicted uh tomorrow you know justice jackson once
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said that any prosecutor can rummage through the hundreds of statutes we have and and try to find
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something against anybody not just trump not just hillary clinton but you and me and your uncle charlie
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and your grandson uh they can find something and if this prosecution is allowed to go forward and
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culminate in the conviction it will mean that they will start making crimes up against the average
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person who they don't like can you can you take us through this um at all alan where sure because
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people will say okay i don't think you should be paying hush money um but is that illegal how are
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they what what charges are they going after has this ever been done before take us through this
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sure it's never been done before number one so they're charging him with a misdemeanor
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uh misdemeanor has a two-year statute of limitations this happened six years ago
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they're trying to turn the misdemeanor into a felony by saying that the reason he paid quote hush
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money it wasn't hush money he settled the case like so many other people do but the reason he settled
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the case was to help his campaign rather than to avoid embarrassment with his wife and his family
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his children etc they're not going to be able to prove that but as the former chief judge of the
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new york court of appeals once said a prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich and
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in new york you can probably get a petty jury to convict a ham sandwich as long as his name is trump
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and so there is a possibility that he'll get indicted and get convicted i think it will be reversed on
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appeal uh because the law doesn't permit targeting of individuals and making up crimes this is a
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making last crime uh so they say that he paid the hush money in order to help his campaign and
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therefore the payment was a campaign contribution it's never been done before they tried it once
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before on candidate edwards and it was a much much stronger case right and of course they lost in front
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of a jury um but uh it's never been tried since and uh that was a federal crime this is a state crime
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and uh it's a shame that a district attorney would abuse justice so so greatly and it it endangers
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justice for all of us so alan where where is anyone i mean when we get to a place to where we're taking
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out our opponents i mean i i spoke to mike lee about this uh with hillary clinton and what was
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going on with hillary clinton and he said glenn once you start going after a opponent you become a banana
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republic the republic is just over um because because retribution will the other side will say oh we're
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playing that game okay and then you're just done um look ahead of a banana republic one of the
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central american dictators once said for my friends everything for my enemies the law the law and
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that's what will happen and and senator lee is right senator lee's father was a good friend of mine we
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clerked together on the united states supreme court and lee is a brilliant brilliant guy and um uh he's
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right and we don't want to be a banana republic on either side and so but my my question my question to
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you is where are the classical liberals where are the people that don't like donald trump but will
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stand up and say this is about principle here well you're talking to them uh i'm the last standing
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democrat civil libertarian in the world uh oh i may have a a handful of colleagues but where are the
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civil liberties union people where are people who are supposed to care more about our liberty than
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they do about partisan politics they have disappeared they're not there and that's why i'm the one writing
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the books now get trump i'm the one who's trying as a liberal democrat as i've said over and over again
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i voted against trump twice i have a constitutional right to vote against them a third time and don't
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stop me from doing that it don't stop you from voting for him we shouldn't have district attorneys
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making the decision who can run for um president that is banana republic and we're moving toward that
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and it has to stop and there's no mechanism you know in california there was a mechanism
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you could withdraw and remove the district attorney um and if new york had a republican governor
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uh they would be removing the district attorney but with the democratic governor and no recall provisions
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um you know the district attorney gets his way and there'll probably be an indictment i don't know
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if it'll be tomorrow or not i don't know if we'll do a perp walk and handcuffs all of that of course
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would strengthen donald trump's uh base people will be so angry with him i've gotten calls from people
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who've read my book get trump and they say look we we would we're planning not to vote for trump we're
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planning to vote for de santis we're planning to vote for uh nikki haley but we're going to vote for trump
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because that's the way of showing opposition to this improper misuse and weaponization of the law
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um you know i have a better form of protest by my book then you don't have to vote for trump but
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uh it it it it is uh it will backfire now will it backfire in new york probably not probably brag
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increases his chances of getting elected he gets his 15 minutes of fame even if it's reversed on appeal
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he'll say oh that's not my fault that's the appellate judges i indicted him i convicted him
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uh vote for me uh you know we're the only country do you know this that we're the only country in the
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western hemisphere the only country in uh oh and uh among democratic countries that that elects
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prosecutors elects prosecutors in every other country they are civil service jobs and they're
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not subject to the whims of uh political uh fortunes uh but we have elected prosecutors and prosecutors
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prosecute people based on how much good it will do them in the next election and there's something
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very wrong with that well the whole system i mean i just keep saying you know have you tried unplugging
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it and plugging it back in and reset it to factory settings i mean yeah that's what has that's what has
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to happen it is so dirty all the way through um so so alan what what should the besides buying your your
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book what should the american people be doing right now well we should be protesting i don't call for
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people going out on the streets but i do call for people writing to their senators their congressmen
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to the new york authorities um having shows like yours which have a big impact on uh national opinion
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and um make sure that we're not silent about this we have to speak out and your message is as clear as
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can be where are the civil libertarians where are the people who would be saying look i'm in favor of
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biden i'm going to vote for him i don't like trump but i don't like the way he's being treated that's just
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not fair uh that's the american way the american way is to protest to to to petition your government
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for a redress of grievances that's in the first amendment and we ought to all take advantage of
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that we do have a double standard of of justice in america today i'm representing one of the young
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men uh and on january 6 he's a law school student he was denied the opportunity to graduate even though
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he was a top student because he went to the capital to legitimately protest patriotically and peacefully
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and then he was waved into the capital by police we have videotape showing it and yet he's being
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prosecuted for a felony whereas the people who destroyed property and hurt people in various
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parts of the country following the george floyd murder uh weren't being prosecuted and were being
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uh honored in some ways and so you can't have a double standard of justice that means no standard of
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justice so we're with alan dershowitz alan let me let me change the subject here to another uh family's
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troubles and this one is the biden family with what you're seeing uh comer come out with um and just
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looking at it at the surface what are your thoughts on this well there has to be an investigation a
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thorough investigation objective investigation but i don't want to see anybody targeted um but
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the way the criminal justice system works is first you find the crime or crimes committed then you look
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for who did the crime you don't look to find crimes on particular people so um there should be a thorough
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and complete investigation and whoever is guilty should be prosecuted but it should be done not on a
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partisan political basis should be done on the basis of just fair justice so why would his team say
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because they've said forever that it wasn't his laptop wasn't his laptop why would they now go in
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and try to say to sue the guy uh from the computer repair store and say you you violated my privacy
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it's a very hard uh line to draw to say it wasn't my laptop but i have standing to protest it's being
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obtained also when you bring a counterclaim as he did you open yourself up to massive discovery
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and so he'll be deposed there'll be interrogatories he'll be asked questions about his father it was not
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i think the wisest decision for him to bring this lawsuit and i don't know who advised him to do it i
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would not have advised him to do it um and when you have something like the family getting paid
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by a an energy company does anybody i mean do you i mean how does that work you could say well yeah
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they were they were on payroll but what was hallie biden bringing to this communist energy company
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well there are cases prosecutions where people have been prosecuted for fake jobs uh for jobs for
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which they were not qualified and the investigation is to determine whether they would disguise bribes
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uh that's a fair point to investigate but the proof has to be beyond a reasonable doubt
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that it was i mean you can make the argument that yeah they were hired not because they had this
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brilliant talent but because they were well connected well that's done all the time you have
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to show something beyond that you have to show essentially a quick pro quo and that might not be
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easy to do but having an investigation getting to the bottom of it that's also the american way so can i ask
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you another question on another topic and this is on the financial situation our fdic just decided
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with the treasury that they were going to cover everything all deposits but then they came out
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and said well but we're just going to decide which banks get that treatment um that's causing all kinds
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of confusion that's not the way we do business in america we have laws and rules and is there
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is there any violation of anything here it has to be a single standard and there you can bring
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lawsuits and lawsuits against the fdic lawsuits against the government it has to be a single
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standard you can't say we pick and choose among depositors and banks um and i think in the end they
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will cover everybody it's in the best interests of america to make sure that no individual depositor
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loses money uh the investors sure people who are speculating on the stock uh we're not protecting
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them but we have to protect the typical american who puts his or her um retirement in a bank in ira or
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something like that does that mean that that has to be does that also include businesses
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yeah i think it includes businesses you might you can have a limit and there are limits of course on
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right i see insurance so the big big giant companies probably are only covered uh to a small
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amount i'm not an expert in it i make sure to keep my money uh spread around to me if there's any
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failure it doesn't impact me greatly i think americans should always take precautions with their
00:28:29.280
investments um alan thank you so much oh it's always my pleasure keep doing great things thank you
00:28:34.940
the name of the book is get trump uh he is the host of the der show which is a podcast um alan dershowitz i
00:28:42.760
don't always agree with him um but i i i will tell you i always expect to hear the constitution
00:28:50.700
from him and a protection of civil liberties and rights
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you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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dave mccormick uh would have been our uh u.s senator from pennsylvania if pennsylvania hadn't gone
00:29:14.920
insane but uh i digress he's uh with us now he's got a new book out called superpower in peril
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um are we still a superpower we are but we're going to lose it we're on the we're on the wrong
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way glenn yeah we're headed the wrong direction time i mean when saudi arabia and iran start an
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alliance together i mean word is brokered by china right is that crazy crazy yeah so um you know you
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were um ceo of bridgewater associates which is a huge investment management firm uh you also were
00:29:52.660
uh department of commerce national security council uh u.s treasury um so you can talk about a lot of
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things so in the time that we have let's first talk about how much trouble are we in with the
00:30:07.840
financial sector right now yeah we're in trouble i mean the the whole premise of superpower imperils
00:30:13.360
were in decline and what's happening now economically is a good example of that and it's easy to get
00:30:18.240
focused on the bank and i'll talk about the bank in minutes silicon valley bank but what's happened
00:30:22.260
is a direct consequence of terrible policies under joe biden yes excessive spending 40 increase in
00:30:28.260
discretionary spending it's uh 31 trillion dollars of debt these three hugest pieces of legislation
00:30:33.320
that's driven up inflation um fed had to raise rates and that's created a big mismatch in our economy
00:30:39.980
between liabilities and assets and that mismatch is putting pressure on banks unfortunately the
00:30:45.380
silicon valley bank terribly managed terribly managed terrible oversight by our regulators we don't need
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more regulation we need our regulators to do their job but unfortunately it's the canary in the coal
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mine and i think there's more bad things to come i think the canaries are all dead
00:30:58.460
somebody just nobody has noticed yet hey guys the birds aren't moving anymore um could be and what's
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happened this is a response uh to protect the uninsured depositors in silicon valley bank and what's
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happened there just to make it clear is that the rich venture capital guy down the street
00:31:17.320
had his deposits protected right the guy who had the lawn mowing service that mowed the lawn around
00:31:23.580
silicon valley bank it was a creditor he got wiped out so that's the consequence of this policy so it's
00:31:29.660
a little bit of what the joe biden administration keeps doing which is taking care of the elites
00:31:33.940
at the expense of folks in bloomsburg pennsylvania where i grew up i was talking to uh alan dershowitz about
00:31:38.680
an hour ago and i said i mean you have to have something written down it can't be like yeah you
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know what bank of omaha we're not going to bail you out right it can't be that way right 60 percent
00:31:51.000
of all of our uh all of our loans for commercial purposes go through local banks right that is
00:31:58.380
devastating devastating no doubt and what's happened there's eight trillion dollars of uninsured
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deposits and we've certainly the policymakers have certainly set an expectation that those guys are
00:32:09.260
going to be protected on uninsured deposits too and that has lots of consequences so let me switch uh
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quickly i think we are on the road to war and i mean world war three destructive all-encompassing
00:32:23.320
war that we haven't seen in 90 years do you agree with that or not do you mean with china uh with china
00:32:29.620
russia it's i mean we're on a path we're on a path where this thing is absolutely we're we're at huge
00:32:35.400
risk and weakness in our leadership is at the core of that risk and uh you know the the mishandling of
00:32:42.540
afghanistan i think sent a a shockwave across the world that's one of the reasons i jumped into the
00:32:47.240
senate race it was such a disgusting thing to see america so humiliated on the global stage the signals
00:32:52.700
given to putin with nordstrom 2 invited putin's aggression in correct and uh and so we need to do two
00:32:58.760
things at the same time we need to build our muscle at home we need to go to the gym that's what the
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book superpower and parallel is about we need to educate our people we need to confront china we
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need to secure the country but we also need to project that strength abroad in a way that makes
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complete sense and is in america's interest and that's why we need to take on china in a very smart
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and thoughtful way to stop any aggressive behavior so we are becoming however so weak and they know it i
00:33:27.140
mean 2008 everybody said i was crazy i said there's going to come a time where you'll have communists
00:33:32.600
you'll have uh revolutionaries that are anarchists you'll have islamists you'll have all these people
00:33:39.400
who are against us all work together to drop us to the mat and not that they're coordinating
00:33:46.080
they just see now they are weak we can help push them over well absolutely and that's what i mean
00:33:53.380
two meetings in the last two weeks so the orchestration of iran saudi arabia with china
00:33:58.900
in the middle and now but that's a vacuum yes that's a vacuum yes there was a vacuum if you're
00:34:04.480
saudi arabia and you've been a long-standing ally of the united states and you see what's happened over
00:34:08.800
the last two years you say listen i need to look elsewhere that's what happened and with uh she's
00:34:13.700
engagement with putin to try to uh on the side of putin to try to negotiate peace in ukraine
00:34:19.220
that's another example of a belief that american leadership is weak and this is china china has a
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plan for global domination the question is what's our plan and that's the book that's the book because
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there there doesn't seem to be a plan in in your book you you talk about bringing credibility back
00:34:39.980
to our institutions cleaning them up how how do you even do that our kinds are it is so infested with
00:34:47.700
corruption and i mean from all sides yeah how are you going to clean this up how do you clean up
00:34:53.080
the state department let alone the state and uh department of interior and epa and uh i mean i'm
00:35:01.280
not i don't want to minimize it i don't want to minimize the first thing we got to do is we got uh
00:35:06.580
we got to win elections we got to get our leaders in place leaders at the top drive change whether it's
00:35:12.980
in corporate america or whether it's in the country leaders at the top drive change and so if i was
00:35:17.940
secretary of defense or secretary of commerce or secretary treasury it starts with the top of
00:35:22.840
bringing clarity to mission and driving out a whole progressive ideology that's deeply embedded
00:35:28.280
uh in our institutions we need to win elections and we need to have good ideas and we need to have
00:35:32.500
great leaders who can win elections and that's the key and i i don't want to be overly optimistic
00:35:37.140
but let me say the following i remember 1979 uh stagflation america was weak on the world stage
00:35:44.560
it felt over humiliation 80 of americans glenn thought the country was heading in the wrong
00:35:49.260
direction it felt a lot like now yeah i was 15 at the time right about same age yes you were same age
00:35:53.860
so now four years later i'm at west point walking down those beautiful walkways those beautiful
00:35:59.820
mountains america was back inflation was in check the economy was on fire we were building back our defense
00:36:05.000
we won the cold war six years later now ronald reagan's solutions from then aren't our solutions
00:36:10.300
for now correct but leadership is the answer leadership is the key we got to get the right
00:36:15.200
people in the right spots and we can drive change do you see i mean i'm not asking you to endorse
00:36:20.700
anybody do you see leadership either announced or unannounced yet one it's too early to tell but i'm
00:36:26.340
hoping i'm hoping that the conversation that'll take place in our primary will be mostly about the
00:36:32.060
future yes and when i say that that doesn't mean we didn't need no need to call balls and strikes and
00:36:36.220
the terrible things we're seeing but i'm convinced from my time on the campaign trail we need to spend
00:36:41.120
our time talking about how to bring back america and the people of pennsylvania and i think the people
00:36:46.220
that kind of do want to hear that i think that's what ronald reagan why he was successful that's right
00:36:50.420
he talked about look this isn't that hard yeah it's not and and it really isn't if if you have
00:36:57.480
leadership dedicated i'm so pissed off at the republicans i can barely see straight yeah the
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their job is to protect and defend the constitution and it is violated in a hundred different ways
00:37:12.040
every day it seems and nobody seems in washington very few seem to have the fire
00:37:20.660
uh within them to say enough is enough and call out their own party right if need be because you're
00:37:30.080
playing the game right somebody's got to stand up we i don't think we can win the game we don't want
00:37:35.920
to win the game we want to save the country yes saving the country requires us to to stand on
00:37:41.260
principle i was just earlier this week i went to the reagan library i did a thing there andrew jackson
00:37:46.280
is on the wall in reagan's office just like it was in uh president trump's office when he was
00:37:51.340
president why is that because reagan brought together the coalition of the working class
00:37:57.060
americans that are getting left behind and that's the big takeaway on the campaign people are so pissed
00:38:01.620
off and they have every reason to be because because the last 20 years has been terrible right for a huge
00:38:07.360
chunk of america we need to bring those people into the fold the only way to do that is with solutions
00:38:11.820
that that fix what's wrong with the country and you have a very um well laid out battle plan to renew
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america superpower in peril these are the kind of books that you need to read now because we need to
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be pushing up to the gop we want a straight i tell you the left by this time they are absolutely
00:38:33.420
strategizing on if they retain power what they do next yeah we're not doing that right we're not doing
00:38:40.980
that and we have to and what they're planning is going to is going to destroy the country
00:38:45.760
so the stakes could could not be higher right um the name of the book is superpower in peril
00:38:52.660
battle plan to renew america well one last thing what are your thoughts on what the what's happening
00:38:58.680
with the new york uh district attorney yeah i mean listen i'm just hearing as you are but i think
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anytime our justice system seems like it's being highly politicized against anyone including a former
00:39:10.100
president i think it uh it further erodes our trust in institutions and that's that's what i'm worried
00:39:15.480
about it's crazy just crazy i i somebody i wish we were more like hungry on one issue ban george soros's
00:39:23.340
influence his influence is has dark purposes behind it almost every time uh and uh at least i think there
00:39:33.440
are three countries that they were like hey you know he collapsed us maybe we shouldn't allow him to have
00:39:39.600
influence here anymore but that's just me thank you so much for thanks for having me it's a superpower
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in peril a battle plan to renew america by david mccormick