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Glenn Beck and Jason Buttrill discuss the latest in the Iran situation, a new report from the Joint Improving Relations with the Middle East Project and much, much more! Glenn Beck is joined by Stu and Jason as they discuss all of this and much more.
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of new information that now I'm even more confused. You're welcome. And and so much more all on today's
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Let's get this nasty snake off of our plate right away. Jason Buttrill is with us.
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Jason Buttrill is with us now, and he has a look at what has been happening with Iran this weekend.
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Hey, Jason. How you doing? Wow. Always at the end of the day on Friday, these things start getting
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crazy. It's hilarious every time. I still see this is how I've been analyzing this for the past couple
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weeks now. Iran's not operating from a position of strength. They're operating out of a position of
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weakness. So now they're pushing, pushing, pushing to see how far they can push.
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Um, to see if we'll get some kind of overreaction, whether that's we react poorly and then strike
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something, you know, and escalate the situation militarily. Uh, or they're trying to force us to
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the, to the negotiating table because sanctions are crippling them. Um, the last move before this
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was they were very public, made a statement and said that we've exceeded our enrichment, uh, Kate,
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you know, uh, production for uranium. And then they sat back and watched and waited.
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Nothing happened. We didn't do anything. We didn't go crazy. And so they were like, well,
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crap, basically, what do we do now? So things escalated some more with the drone. They flew
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a drone nearby. What would we do? You know, well, we shot the drone down. Um, that was really
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cool by the way. Uh, Marine Corps, uh, uh, radar blocking sent that. It was just really cool.
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It wasn't, we didn't shoot it down. We made it crash basically. Exactly. Which is pretty
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fascinating. Jammed it, took control of it and took it down. Really crazy. Um, but then again on,
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so on Friday evening, I believe was these oil tankers. Now what they're trying to do is,
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and I think it was a grossly miscalculated move by them because the geopolitics of oil coming out
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of the straight of her moves have changed. Now, if this would have happened in the eighties where a
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vast majority of, of our allies and us got a lot of our oil from, uh, through the straight of her moves,
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we might've reacted differently to this, but now we're just not compelled to, to, to react if they
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do pull a move off like this because the situation has changed. The economics have changed where the
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oil is coming from has changed. A smaller percentage that go to NATO, NATO allies, I would say with, uh,
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with the exception of Japan, don't really get the majority of their oil from that area anymore.
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So it's changed. So they seize one of these ships. They don't seize one of our ships. They seize a
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weaker ally in this. Um, I'll be at the UK, but they seize a weaker ally and they sit back and wait
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to happen. Now that, now the, the, I think this was a complete and total lie, uh, as far as of course,
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how they said this whole thing went down, but they, the, the, the UK ship said that they were going
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through the exact channel they're supposed to go through. By the way, it's very hard to steer off that
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because everything's automated. They know exactly where they're supposed to go, but they said all
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of a sudden the, their attack boats just, you know, start surrounding them. The helicopters came
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in. The Iranians said that they were acting aggressively and strangely, and then they
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wouldn't cooperate with them. So they escorted them back to Bandar Abbas, which was total and
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complete, just bull. Um, but then again, nothing will come from this. They're sitting back and waiting
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to see how we're going to react because they're doing everything they can to get us to the negotiating
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table. The president has to sit back and literally just check this out. You have to check your allies,
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make sure that everyone else doesn't respond with too much force. Just sit back and let things play
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out. This is, we are in a beautiful, beautiful position right here. We are exactly where we were
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just before the Obama administration let them just ruined it. Basically the, the people, the Iranian
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people were in the streets. They were rioting. Uh, they were this close to pulling off a regime
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change on their own, on their own. And then we ruined it. And now look at the ramifications.
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We are exactly in that spot, right? So are the people beginning, do you believe the people will
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begin to rise up again? And can they stand that because the crackdown will be quite hard? Um,
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it will be quite hard and it all depends on if they can get, um, their internal security force to
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switch over because that's, what's keeping them in check right now. So we say that this is ridiculous
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that they have our CIA agents, et cetera, et cetera. I don't think the CIA is necessarily there.
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It might even, I mean, but I wouldn't be surprised if we had somebody there, uh, including special
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forces. Uh, I, I know people that happened to be on the ground in Poland and other places when the
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Berlin wall fell, uh, and their job was to be able to stabilize things, uh, destabilize on the way
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out and stabilize on the way in. Um, do you think that they have 17 of our agents? No, that's, that's
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ludicrous. Total, again, a complete and total lie. Uh, the thing is, and if you look at the, they're more
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scared right now of internal problems. The external problems are not really mad about, or they're not
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really too concerned about right now. Their external problems are being forced that the sanctions are
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putting on them. But the main focus right now is that force is hurting the people. So like I said,
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we, I think we were last week, I think food staple prices were 80, uh, have gone up by 80%.
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Inflation is out of, imagine that 80%. So getting in milk, getting in, you know, chicken or eggs,
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all the prices have 80%. That is insane. Yeah. Um, water is running out. They're having water shortages.
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Now you have certain people within their government, within their security services, even IRGC,
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members in the government who are being approached by a lot of these street movements. And they're
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saying, Hey, what are you going to do? What do, what do you do? You know, what can we do? How can
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you help us? And then you start seeing some of these people getting accused of espionage by the CIA,
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which was just ludicrous. They are taking out systematically one by one, the people that
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might cause problems for them. Once this street movement really erupts, that's what's happening with
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them right now. So where does it lead? If we stay cool, where does it lead? So there's some good,
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there's some good scenarios and very bad scenarios on that. What I think is geopolitically a war does
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not make sense. They know this and we know this. That's why we're not going to do any kind of
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invasion, which is just stupid. We're not going to escalate it to a full on war. If you see troops
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being moved 500 troops of Saudi Arabia to support this, that's stupid. 500 troops in Saudi Arabia will do
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nothing but piss off a lot of jihadis that are already people like al-Qaeda that are in Saudi
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Arabia. But that's not going to do anything for Iran. It's purely symbolic. Moving a few F-35s into,
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you know, into wherever that, whatever air base they went to down there is insignificant. Again,
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it's not going to do anything. When you see five aircraft carriers start going towards that way,
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that's significant. But one aircraft carrier there, that's not. Everything is symbolic at this point.
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So they're not going to go to war. We're not going to do it. I see that either the sanctions will
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continue to put so much pressure that the people out in the streets will put pressure on the government
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to actually go back to the table and say, okay, how can we get back to the JCPOA? What are the things you
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want fixed in it? I can see them at least making that gesture and attempting to go back. Either that could
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happen, the street movement boils over and forces regime change, or the IRGC, which answers only to the
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Ayatollah Khomeini, does something very crazy. And then everything geopolitically that makes sense
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goes out the window and something bad happens. That would be an escalation.
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Like what would they do that would cause that? I mean, they're taking tankers. I mean, this seems to me
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very parallel to the Barbary pirates. The Barbary pirates would just take things and the world would
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put up with it and put up with it and put up with it until Jefferson came and said, look,
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a quarter of our money, a quarter of the budget is going to pay bribes to the Barbary pirates.
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We're not doing this anymore. It's out of hand. We're a long way away from that, but it seems
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almost like the Barbary pirates where they're just seizing things. What's the tripwire, do you think?
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It's an interesting parallel there. I've also thought it was interesting in studying that the
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Barbary pirate wars, they didn't really touch British ships too much. They didn't want to
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tangle with them. That's right. And notice the British didn't really want to help the new
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U.S. ships that were going through there. Or the French.
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Right. The Barbary pirates were helping them out.
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Yeah. I think that this could escalate if the IRGC attacks like a U.S. flagship, actually attacks
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them, or a U.S. naval ship. It's also interesting that the Houthis in Yemen have kind of, they
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haven't stopped operations against the Saudi forces and the allies that we have there, but
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almost stopped operations there. The Iraqi militias, the Shia militias in Iraq have kind of stopped
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their operations. So either they're not getting money or they don't want to push that hard
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because they fear that escalation. Something could happen to where, let's say they attack
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a U.S. base, their special forces and some of us die. That will send this over the edge.
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If they attack one of our naval boats, that will send this over the edge. And again, geopolitically,
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it does not make sense. So the actual government in Iran, like President Rouhani and his foreign
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minister, Zarif, they're saying don't do that. Do not do that. But the IRGC and Khomeini,
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they're 12 or she is, they don't care about an escalation. And that's all part of the
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global Islamic revolution. Yeah. And global chaos. Wash the world in blood. Exactly. And
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that's another thing that worries me. So that worries me and containing Israel worries me
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because they have a reality on the ground, which is we cannot let them continue to enrich
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uranium. You guys can sit back and say, hey, that's fine. Go ahead and do it. There'll be a
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breaking point. But Israel can't make that choice. They can't make that decision. They have to
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respond. So if I'm Pompeo right now, the Trump administration, I'm constantly on the phone
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every single day with Netanyahu saying, calm down. You know, we got this as our plan. We
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back you 100 percent. We're not going to let it get to that area. Right. But don't send
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there was a news article last week that said Netanyahu took three F-35s. And this is a leaked
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report that they wanted to test to see how far they could get to Iran without them detecting
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it on radar. They said they made it to Tehran and back with three F-35s was never detected.
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And they said Iran is freaked out right now. Good. Good. Good. But Israel's the one to
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watch right now and to calm. Yeah. All right. Thanks, Jason. I appreciate it.
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Hey, it's Glenn. And if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat
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Are you watching the Showtime special? The loudest voice. OK, nobody is watching this. And I think
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it's really nobody's. I didn't know the ratings were bad. Oh, horrible. Well, I don't know. They
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were for the first one, I would imagine. I've kind of enjoyed it. I actually have, too. Yeah,
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I've kind of liked it. Although they don't have everything right, obviously. I think if they are
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as right on the sex stuff and the evil stuff that, you know, that they're claiming as they are on us,
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they're about 40 percent right. That's about right. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. By the way, the ratings
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went way, way up for at least episode two. Oh, really? Up 600 percent. Oh, wow. So the first one was
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only 300,000, but they were up over 2 million for the second episode. So it seems like it
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for whatever reason, I don't know if there's something big competing against the debut.
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I don't remember exactly, but it seems like the ratings have bounced back to respectable
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levels. So we're watching it. This is a story about Roger Ailes and Fox and Roger Ailes that
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I never, never, never, never saw, um, the just, uh, sexual predator that I never saw. Uh, and I, you
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know, I don't, I don't know. I don't think that it's unlikely that he was like that. Um, but I have
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no evidence. Never saw, never saw anything, never heard it. Right. Never heard it. Uh, Roger was a,
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he was a good chameleon. He could, he could be who he needed to be around whoever he was
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around. Uh, he knew how to work a room. Um, but I think they have him pretty nailed, uh,
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with an exception of, uh, they make him seem insidious on all of the things that he does
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and says. And insincere that he doesn't, it almost seems like he doesn't believe the things
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that he's saying and doing, he's just doing them for power, uh, or for gain, for ratings,
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whatever. I, it's, it's a, the spin on it is like, uh, Fox was responsible for, well,
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for instance, last night, uh, after the Fox and friends appearance by you, which we need
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to get into in a minute, but they jumped right into the acorn thing. And, uh, there was a little
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space between those two things. And it, and it, and it was not coming. It did not come
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from Fox. That was not made up by Fox. That came from James O'Keefe. It did. And it wasn't,
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and they're, they're spinning this, like everybody took marching orders from, from Roger and that
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he had some big, uh, conspiracy that he was doing. I can tell you, uh, that with a, with a,
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a, an exception that I've heard of, but didn't, uh, but I have no personal knowledge of Roger did
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not, uh, control the spin of anyone. You know, I know that, uh, Bill O'Reilly was completely
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independent. Uh, I was completely independent when Roger never walked the halls. Uh, you know,
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if I ever saw him, I saw him in his office, he would call and say, can you come to my office?
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And there was maybe what, six times, eight times in two years, uh, that I saw him with,
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they never, I mean, they were always asking for our scripts, uh, in advance. And, you know,
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a lot of times I would go on the air and I'd go, yeah, turn the prompter off. I'm going to go a
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different direction. Uh, and, uh, it drove them nuts because they didn't know what I was going to
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say. They didn't know what I was going to do. Uh, and so there was no collusion with Fox at all
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that I know of with anyone. He was not a puppet master other than directionally saying, we believe
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these things. We are going for, you know, uh, a conservative American loving audience.
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Right. Like when he said, we believe president Obama is a racist and you need to say that on
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Fox and friends. Remember that whole, um, it is remarkable though, watching this special. Cause
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like in the, and we should play the clip, but like the reaction on the show is Glenn goes on Fox and
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friends. He says, president Obama is a racist and everybody freaks out. And it's like, what an
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antiquated time in which cable news personalities saying the president was a racist was at all
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controversial. That's for sure. Now it's required. It's, you have to do it to get on television.
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And it makes the accuser a racist. Yeah. That was a thing. Now every news person in the world would
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be a racist. And look at the guys who were against that in, at least in the movie, uh, from last night
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was, uh, Roger was for it, uh, apparently. And, uh, Brian Lewis was coming on glued. Brian Lewis,
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who was just the PR guy. And he's like, look, you can't be fair and balanced and say that the
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president is a racist. And I thought to myself, look at, look at the left making a movie about this
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and not even recognizing that they've, they've more than doubled down. They've, they've taken it a
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thousand fold. They also in this made a huge change. I think, um, here is the, uh,
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here is the, the showtime version of what have, should I play this one first? Yeah. Showtime
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one first. Showtime version first. And I want you to listen exactly how they put this together.
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Here's the showtime version of history. Welcome back to Fox and friends where we have a very special
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guest. Someone we're really looking forward to having. First of all, there was no special
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guest. Our good friend, Glenn Beck is joining us. And here he is. Glenn, so happy to see you.
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Tell us what's going on. How are your biceps, Glenn? Uh, not good. This one's pudding and that one's
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jello. Well, because you're going to need them. I hear they're having a beer fest on Thursday night
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at the White House. That is unbelievable. Why? Why? For a teaching lesson for the working class? Some
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sort of, who needs to learn what here? This president, I think, has exposed himself as
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a guy over and over and over again who has deep-seated hatred for white people or the white
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culture. You can't say he doesn't like white people. David Axelrod is white. Rahm Emanuel
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is chief of staff. He's white. 70% of the people he sees every day are white. I'm not saying
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he doesn't like white people. I'm saying he has a problem. He has a, this is a guy I believe
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Okay, we say Beck's views do not represent the views of Fox News or News Corp, and then
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Have you seen his numbers? We should give him more air time. That's all the ruckus.
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Beck, straight up called Obama a racist on Fox & Friends.
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Jesus Christ, Roger, we can't just say that. Okay, we have to put out a statement. We have
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to get ahead of this. Okay, fine. Well, you know, but let's just not rise to the occasion
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when there's no occasion. Just be clear. We're fully committed to Glenn. We're fully committed
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to his show. Fair and balanced doesn't mean a whole lot when one of your stars calls the
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president a racist. It makes it a little hard to protect the brand. I'll decide what the
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brand is. You put out the fires. I'll talk to Glenn.
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That's a fascinating quote. It is by Brian Lewis there. Fair and balanced doesn't mean anything
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when you're when your hosts call the president a racist. I mean, these people have completely
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changed on this issue. Okay, so now I want to play what just happened. I sat down. And what did I say
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in the Showtime version? You said the you he had a deep seated hatred for white people,
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white culture. And I said, Well, no, I'm not saying that. I'm saying he's a racist. I want
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If we have unbelievable why that the original from Fox and Friends.
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And it goes a little bit. Why? Yeah, why this for a teaching lesson, some sort of a some sort
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of a who needs to learn what here? This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy over and
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over and over again, who has a deep seated hatred for white people or the white culture. I don't
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know what it is. But you can't sit in a pew with Jeremiah Wright for 20 years to not hear
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some of that stuff and not have it wash over. Yeah. What kind of president of the United States
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immediately jumps on the police, just like what kind of president would ever say, Oh, well,
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yeah, well, he's black. Of course, he was breaking into the house. You never do that. This guy
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has a social justice. He is going to set all of the wrongs of the past right. But listen,
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he got you can't say he doesn't like white people. David Axelrod's white. Rahm Emanuel's
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is chief of staff. I think 70 percent of the people that we see every day are white. Robert
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Gibbs is white. I'm not saying that he doesn't like white people. I'm saying he has a problem.
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He has a this guy is, I believe, a racist. Wow. I've remembered it incorrectly. That's amazing.
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You reverse. That's amazing. I did, too. Still, they took out all context. Yeah. And, you know,
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the Jeremiah Wright stuff and the police acted stupidly because they were white stuff. And,
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you know, uh, the typical white person, I mean, did, does anybody remember this stuff that he said
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that he's a, she is a typical white person who, uh, you know, if she sees somebody on the street
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that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred into, uh, our experiences.
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Okay. We had that. We had that. Typical white person. If you said typical black person,
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you're automatically a racist. So he got completely excused from, from any, any, uh, racist tendency
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from that. Uh, and, and if you say somebody has something bred, a reaction bred into them,
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yeah, uh, that's, that's all racist. If you were to say typical black person and assign a positive
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attribute, you would be in trouble, right? Let alone a negative one that's been bred into them.
00:23:57.360
Mm-hmm. Jimmy, the Greek. Yeah. Ask him. Well, no, you can't anymore. You have to speak very
00:24:01.980
loud. Right. But there was context there. There was the police acted stupidly. There was the
00:24:07.540
clinging white people clinging to God and guns and, and an antipathy toward people who were different
00:24:14.600
than them. Then you got all the Jeremiah Wright stuff. You had this stuff in his book. I mean,
00:24:19.040
there was a ton of context there that led you to wonder whether the guy was a racist or not.
00:24:23.860
And so the, the, the, the show kind of shows it as a Roger being right with you a hundred
00:24:28.360
percent. Yeah. He walks out of that meeting and he's like, the guy is funny.
00:24:34.260
Now you didn't, when you talk to him, you didn't say, am I fired? Did you?
00:24:40.060
No, not that I remember, but now I'm questioning my memory because I, I had so strongly remembered
00:24:48.120
They got it right on the show. I don't know. I, I, all I remember of that, I think is your
00:24:54.900
face. Yeah. And I knew there was going to be a fire. I came back to the office and you
00:25:02.320
were there or were you with me? I was with you at Fox and we walked back to the office
00:25:06.240
together. And, uh, then we got to see Stu's reaction after he found out what you said.
00:25:10.740
I do remember, I do remember the walk back now because you, uh, I said, that was pretty
00:25:15.040
good. And you were just bone white. And, uh, I said, what? And you said, you called the
00:25:24.560
president of racist. And I said, yeah, but no, it was in context. I mean, look at what
00:25:29.520
it was. And I was trying to sell that. Cause I really, I really believed that it would be
00:25:34.560
kept in context. Uh, and not so much. Yeah. And you were like, I don't think that's going
00:25:39.700
to happen Glenn. And, uh, then we walked back. Had you seen it? I didn't see it. I'm
00:25:45.080
Pat pulled me aside, pulled me out of a meeting. I remember. And you're like, do you know what
00:25:49.780
happened this morning? I'm like, what? And he's like, you know, I'm called the president
00:25:52.780
of racist. And like, I'm the guy that freaks out over everything. Yeah. And I remember thinking
00:25:56.980
to myself, wait a minute, never in American history has someone who called someone else a
00:26:02.220
racist gotten in trouble for being a racist, right? Like everyone, like when you say, Hey,
00:26:08.360
that person is racist, that never makes you racist. But in this one instance in American
00:26:13.860
history, it did. We lucked out. We lucked out. We lucked out. Wow. Breaking new ground.
00:26:21.420
Okay. Uh, anyway, that's on Showtime. It's a, it's an interesting look. I don't know how
00:26:26.420
accurate it is. More accurate than our memory, apparently. Yeah. Well on that.
00:26:38.360
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And while you're there, do us a favor and rate the show. So what are the things that people heard
00:26:57.840
from Donald Trump? The press will tell you that he is racist because of his stance on the border.
00:27:08.360
He is, uh, racist because of what he said, uh, in what was it? South Carolina, right? Was it North
00:27:16.340
Carolina, South Carolina? Yeah. Uh, sure. Yeah. Charlottesville. Yeah. Right. Or going back to that.
00:27:21.920
Yeah. Okay. Okay. Sorry. Yeah. Sorry. I was wondering which one you're talking about. I mean,
00:27:25.500
look, they're going to find a different reason to call him racist. No, I know, but look at the big
00:27:28.880
ones, the big ones are the border. Cause he, you know, he says horrible things about Mexicans.
00:27:33.180
Charlottesville because he said some good people on both sides. Okay. Uh, and this one was a big
00:27:40.180
one, right? Uh, send them back. Send them back tweets. Send them back. Probably the three people
00:27:46.060
would cite most often. Okay. Can I give you three logical reasons why he would say this? Picking the
00:27:56.400
wrong words. He's not exactly a wordsmith. He's a guy who shoots from the hip and he has no filter,
00:28:04.420
but what the American people heard when, when he said things like, you know, the, a lot of them are,
00:28:11.840
are rapists and drug users, you know, sure. There's some good families in there, but a lot of them wish
00:28:18.160
us ill. How is that racist? Well, because the press and the left want to make sure that you never,
00:28:26.740
ever group anyone together, except if it's their approved group, uh, then you can group them
00:28:34.880
together. So, you know, the, uh, LGBTQI to whatever it is that, that group, they could, they put that
00:28:43.920
group together. So that's okay to group people, but you can't say anything about Mexicans without
00:28:50.300
being a racist. Okay. Well, what he was saying was true. Some are this, some are that, and we don't
00:28:58.600
know the difference between the two. What the American people are hearing is I'm tired of not
00:29:06.080
knowing who's coming in people taking from our system, taking, you know, advantage of us, uh,
00:29:13.420
you know, clogging our hospitals for free, uh, medication, uh, or free treatment. They're also,
00:29:20.340
uh, clogging our, our school systems and bogging them down. And you know what? They're changing my
00:29:26.680
community in ways that I don't think are in line with America. That's what they're, that's what they
00:29:34.940
were saying. My city is a, is a sanctuary city. We don't have sanctuary.
00:29:43.420
For people who break the law. And so many people in the government, both left and right,
00:29:50.020
and the media have just ignored it, ignored it. And then they started to take the stance
00:29:55.620
of, yeah, well, that's not really a law. And now they're at the point of welcome them
00:30:00.280
in. We want them to come, come on in, come across the border. We want an open border.
00:30:04.760
Come on, come all everybody free healthcare. So it's gone from something where, look, I've
00:30:12.480
got a concern and nobody's paying attention to it. And here's this guy who isn't real
00:30:17.600
eloquent, who just says what people are thinking, you know, look, some of them are good or some
00:30:22.980
of them are bad. We got to stop it. And because of an agenda and because the people in the media
00:30:30.840
and the politicians, they don't, they don't see things the way the average American does.
00:30:38.820
They don't see it. And so what happens? They immediately go agenda first because they're
00:30:45.780
blind. Second, they immediately jump to you're a racist. That only makes it worse for the American
00:30:51.720
people because the American people who have a real issue with the border, who are not racist,
00:30:56.800
they say racist. You're even more out of touch than I thought. And they'll accept more language
00:31:08.520
that is, is maybe shoot from the hip language against the politicians and against the media
00:31:15.300
because they feel like the media is calling them names and separating themselves. And they're
00:31:22.560
saying, no, I'm other than you. I'm not like you. We're other than you. We're the press. We're the
00:31:29.580
political class. And we kind of look down our nose. That only makes things worse. When he says
00:31:35.360
Charlottesville, I think, and I could be wrong, this is pure conjecture. And I think this comes from
00:31:46.240
Steve Bannon's influence. And Charlottesville is one that is really fascinating to explain if you
00:31:55.040
actually want to understand what may have been in the president's mind. Beyond that, it is what's in
00:32:03.560
the mind of many Americans. It has nothing to do with Nazis.
00:32:08.380
You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:32:32.180
If you're getting people pumped up for the special, you need to get the, you got to get pumped up so
00:32:35.780
they get something running through their heads all week. That's the issue right here. Do we have
00:32:39.320
the short version of this? Because I think people need to remember what we're dealing with for
00:33:04.200
Is that, is that what I asked, I asked for something on Friday. Is this what you brought
00:33:09.080
me? Something that's going to drive me out of my mind all week?
00:33:11.840
Well that, no, there's other things coming for, for the special.
00:33:15.500
But this one has been, I mean, we talk, we used to do this on the air all the time.
00:33:22.620
And it just gets in your head over and over again.
00:33:30.140
I promise, because this happened to me, when you hear it once, it'll just get in your
00:33:34.860
I know, it's already there. Play it again, please.
00:33:38.560
Special on Ilan Omar on Wednesday. You don't want to miss.
00:33:52.320
So, the special, you don't want to miss it, on Wednesday, it is going to go through this
00:34:00.160
scandal that I think there is enough evidence here to have a grand jury look at.
00:34:17.780
It's just difficult to really understand without a song that reminds you who it's about.
00:34:22.160
Do we have anything like that? Is there another potential song that would, is there a, let's
00:34:27.920
play that, if we have that version again? Because I mean, I think people need to remember who
00:34:35.580
No, no, just listen to this, because the name is in there several times.
00:34:45.400
And it's coming up on Wednesday on blazetv.com slash Glenn.
00:34:52.540
This is something that the mainstream media is not covering.
00:34:56.680
And I think they're not covering it for a couple of reasons.
00:34:59.680
One, it's very complex, but that's what we do best with the chalkboard and possibly some
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I have been looking for the real leadership for the world for a very long time.
00:35:59.120
And I don't know because I don't follow British politics as closely as perhaps I should.
00:36:15.700
I think this guy has the charm, the intelligence and the backbone of a Theresa May or a Theresa
00:36:26.240
A Margaret Thatcher or a Winston Churchill and could become a very effective ally for the
00:36:38.960
He's a contributor for Young Voices at youngvoices.com.
00:36:43.560
He has been watching Boris Johnson and can fill us in on who he is and what he thinks it means
00:36:54.700
Now, do I have Boris Johnson right that he is cut from the Margaret Thatcher, Winston
00:37:05.500
Well, yeah, I believe so, especially when we compare him to Theresa May.
00:37:09.900
Theresa May always tried to distance herself from the Thatcherite wing of the Conservative
00:37:15.840
Party, whereas Boris Johnson definitely tends to embrace it more so than she does.
00:37:20.840
Last week, for example, on Wednesday, he said that free market capitalism is the best way
00:37:25.600
to support the neediest and poorest in society.
00:37:37.120
He is he's Oxford educated, very, very bright, but always looks disheveled.
00:37:44.420
You know, has this attitude or maybe some say it's an act that he's always kind of surprised
00:37:53.800
on where he is and who am I supposed to be talking to here?
00:37:56.560
Uh, and then he just becomes really eloquent and funny and people like the disheveled kind
00:38:16.420
Um, he comes, he was an old Etonian, so he went to Eton.
00:38:19.300
He then went to Oxford, as you said, um, in reality, he is a classical scholar.
00:38:24.280
Um, he is a historian, as you mentioned, he wrote the book about Churchill.
00:38:36.760
See, this is what happens when a country starts to say, I'm breaking away from the EU.
00:38:43.460
Every phone call in the EU has gone fine today.
00:38:50.080
He's, uh, we're going to talk a little bit about, uh, Brexit with him.
00:38:57.960
Remember, he was the head of the exit party, um, or the Brexit party.
00:39:10.240
Uh, he almost won prime minister at that time, but it fell apart at the last minute.
00:39:16.200
Uh, and, uh, his critics say he doesn't have a plan.
00:39:21.400
He says he has a plan and that the EU will be leaving.
00:39:26.380
Uh, I'm sorry, that England will be leaving the EU by, what is it?
00:39:34.000
What I like about him is he is again, plain spoken.
00:39:39.300
He calls balls and strikes, uh, he is, he is from the upper crust, but he, he reflects
00:39:51.140
the average person in Great Britain and he understands them and is representing them.
00:39:59.720
And that I think is the problem of the, the political elite.
00:40:04.060
They don't understand, nor do they like the average person.
00:40:11.580
I, I hope that someday I'm proven wrong on that, but I really believe that the average
00:40:16.280
politician, after they spend times in the halls of power, they grow to despise the average
00:40:23.520
Um, and he doesn't, and he also doesn't hate the press.
00:40:28.960
The, the press at one point was, was staked out at his house because he's had a, uh, he's
00:40:36.740
had a baby with somebody who was working in his office, even though he's married.
00:40:42.220
Uh, and he just seems to be able to roll through all of this stuff by going, yep, yep.
00:40:50.160
Uh, and at one point he, they were staked out at his house and, uh, they'd been there
00:40:56.260
for like two days and he brings tea out to them at one point and says, look, I'm not going
00:41:00.980
to talk to you guys about anything, but I don't know.
00:41:05.460
You, I've really been feeling bad for you fellows out here in the rain.
00:41:17.020
It's, it's, you know, you, you compared him to Trump and a lot of people have made that
00:41:20.160
comparison and there's totally different styles.
00:41:23.360
But there's a real similarity in that, uh, both of their opponents can't figure out a
00:41:30.440
You know, there's like, there's that way of the same thing with Trump.
00:41:33.140
Like people would say all these things and they'd be like any other person would be, you
00:41:38.440
And he has that sort of Teflon that, you know, they used to say about Reagan, which
00:41:51.140
It's, you guys want to leave, you know, the EU and now your phone system's falling apart
00:41:55.920
because, you know, anyway, so, so tell me what this means.
00:42:01.760
First of all, do you believe he's going to win tomorrow or today?
00:42:07.200
Um, the recent YouGov poll, which is the biggest polling, uh, company in the UK predicts that
00:42:12.740
74% of Conservative Party members are going to vote for him.
00:42:16.680
And what we need to remember, it's the Conservative Party members which are voting.
00:42:24.620
So that's 160,000 people who are deciding their next leader.
00:42:32.580
Um, so, uh, so, so he's going to be the, the prime minister.
00:42:39.060
Uh, there I've, I've read, in fact, the New York Times was blabbing on about it today that
00:42:44.340
they don't think he actually has a Brexit plan that he's bluffing.
00:42:54.900
So the reason I'm probably saying it is because Boris Johnson, unlike Theresa May, is committed
00:43:00.480
to leaving the EU on the 31st of October, which is 101 days away now, um, with a no deal.
00:43:08.140
Whereas Theresa May, when she was in power, she refused to walk away from EU negotiations
00:43:12.940
with a no deal, which meant that the European Union, you never go into a negotiation saying
00:43:22.160
So that's why the EU gave the UK such an awful deal.
00:43:25.940
And there was nothing Theresa May could do about it.
00:43:28.040
So Boris is prepared to go in with, and he's willing to walk away with a no deal Brexit.
00:43:34.060
And that's beneficial because we can start planning for that.
00:43:37.200
And if the EU does want to offer us a better deal than what they already have, we are open
00:43:48.980
I mean, you don't bluff, um, and you have to be committed to the end goal and yet open
00:43:57.680
You know, if you, if you're negotiating with a company and they want you to come to work
00:44:02.540
for them, if you quit your job and say, all right, I'm just, I'm going to just work with
00:44:08.800
you on a deal and I don't like it, but I'm not why I'm, I'm coming to work for you.
00:44:17.900
So leaving it on the table, the possibility of walking away, um, and opening ourselves
00:44:23.680
up to international markets, he suggested that if a no deal Brexit does happen, um, we
00:44:28.860
of course try and adopt a UK USA free trade agreement.
00:44:32.920
He's raised the ideas of creating duty free ports.
00:44:36.460
Um, so that's basically free trading ports across the country, which, um, there is perhaps
00:44:42.440
the potential to create 150,000 jobs for the UK economy.
00:44:46.480
Um, and we have many other countries in talks of creating free trade agreements.
00:44:51.100
So being able to prepare for a no deal Brexit means we are able to go to the EU and we are
00:44:59.000
So are you, do you believe he wants to leave or he just wants a really good deal?
00:45:11.040
He's saying that as a last resort, but he is also saying that we must leave it on the
00:45:18.680
Um, otherwise if we're not leaving on the table, we might as well just have three more
00:45:22.480
years of what we've just had until Theresa May, um, leaving us.
00:45:26.320
So he doesn't want to leave with no deal, but he is prepared to, which really differentiates
00:45:31.080
him from Jeremy Hunt, who's the other contender in the leadership contest.
00:45:35.560
And that's why he's likely going to beat Jeremy Hunt, um, because he is far more committed
00:45:50.180
Um, but luckily we have been preparing for a no deal for a couple of months now, even under
00:45:56.260
Theresa May ever since the, the original Brexit deadline was pushed back.
00:46:02.420
Um, it's, it's a tall order, but we must remember that it's not, uh, no deal Brexit's
00:46:09.740
not going to be harmful in the short term to the UK economy.
00:46:15.280
Um, there's huge unemployment rates in Spain, in Italy, in Greece, um, Germany almost was in
00:46:22.380
We see the yellow, um, vest rights across France.
00:46:26.760
So they definitely need to trade with the UK and be on good terms with them.
00:46:31.780
So it'll cost them dearly too, if we were to leave with a no deal.
00:46:35.280
And it's not just the UK, um, that will suffer in the short term.
00:46:39.600
So I, I, I want to express something to you that I hope is not happening, but history, uh,
00:46:45.120
you know, sometimes doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
00:46:48.020
Uh, and I know you're, uh, well-versed in history, um, without getting into any kind
00:46:56.340
of conspiracy, there was in, before World War II, a group of, of, uh, I guess you would
00:47:03.900
call them, uh, not progressives, but, uh, uh, I guess, well, they're socialists, um, that
00:47:09.740
wanted a restructuring of the continent and a lot of the, uh, countries.
00:47:17.600
And so they were kind of pushing for, they were kind of excited about it because they
00:47:21.400
thought the war could happen quickly, be over in just a few months.
00:47:24.680
And you'd have, uh, a new world you could divvy up.
00:47:29.640
I've heard from people who in the EU that say there are those who would rather blow the
00:47:35.580
whole thing up, punish, uh, Great Britain, even at the expense of Europe, uh, just because
00:47:44.800
they believe it's, it's, it's got to be their way.
00:47:51.000
I definitely think there's some people in the EU who want to use, um, Brexit as an example
00:48:02.360
Um, for example, the Netherlands has quite a large, right.
00:48:07.200
There's a lot of people in Netherlands who'd like to leave in Italy as well.
00:48:10.260
So there's definitely some call to treat us like an example, but if they were to do that,
00:48:16.900
the, we have to remember the EU is shrinking as a portion of the world trade, um, the regulation
00:48:23.280
is becoming, uh, ever more extensive and bloated.
00:48:29.500
So the EU isn't just this one stagnant political move, a political union.
00:48:38.880
Um, so if Brexit didn't happen now or it didn't happen next year, what happens in five years
00:48:44.840
time when the EU suggests, okay, we're going to do an EU army now, that Brexit sentiment's
00:48:51.460
Um, and when we joined the EU in 1974, it was just for a single market.
00:48:56.260
And it was more of a free trade union than a big political entity.
00:48:59.620
And most of the people in the UK were very for that, but because it's turned into this
00:49:04.920
huge political, um, union with overbearing regulations following in, in the 1990s, that's
00:49:13.140
where the anti-EU sentiment has primarily come from.
00:49:17.560
So what time do they announce when he's prime minister?
00:49:23.520
So the ballot's shut in one hour's time and we'll know by tomorrow, um, who wins the
00:49:28.560
contest and then they'll come into power on Wednesday afternoon.
00:49:44.420
You know, Boris Johnson was actually born here in the U S and apparently, you know, you
00:49:52.900
Another thing wrong, uh, with, uh, Ray Pritton, I'm just saying.
00:49:58.560
Because he, they don't, they, they don't get a good birther controversy.
00:50:14.460
Like they're having another vote for prime minister, uh, in, uh, in Israel now, aren't
00:50:23.680
They couldn't put together a government's another voting again.
00:50:25.440
Um, well, and this one with great Britain, they're like, well, look, uh, you know, may
00:50:32.620
So it's just the head of the conservative party, conservative party.
00:50:35.140
You think of it like if the Republicans had control, right.
00:50:38.040
And then Republicans voted on who was the head of their party.
00:50:41.360
Uh, and let's say they said it was Donald Trump and Donald Trump decided he wanted to
00:50:45.300
Then Republicans all had a vote that said, well, do we want Mike Pence or do we want Paul
00:50:51.640
Like that's basically what happened, but they're saying now once they pick one, this
00:50:57.260
may very well get the rest of the, you know, if in our, in our example, the rest of Congress
00:51:02.540
to come together and enforce a new general election.
00:51:08.500
So wait, he, he may not be able to get a, what they call a consensus.
00:51:12.420
He'll get a, he will control the government now, but then to, if they want to push back
00:51:18.260
against this party, they can say, well, let's have another general election now to see if
00:51:26.320
Oh, it's just in, it's like, guys, schedule your elections a few weeks out.
00:51:33.860
The second, no Tuesday in November, something like that.
00:51:38.820
We get what's, we're so worried about our system.
00:51:46.400
So, but they can only trigger a vote if he can't cobble together a coalition, right?
00:51:54.180
So Israel with Netanyahu won the vote from everybody, but then tried to put together a
00:52:01.040
coalition government to get above 50% and was unable to do that.
00:52:09.500
So, but England can just go and just say, hey, he's got a coalition of 60, 70%, but
00:52:19.280
Well, if he has that coalition, then he probably will not have that problem.
00:52:22.980
The issue is though, this is, remember the coalition was built under Theresa May.
00:52:27.120
So will they all stick with Boris Johnson the same way?
00:52:30.840
There's an argument that the answer to that would be no.
00:52:32.960
If they don't, if he does something with Brexit that they don't like.
00:52:35.120
I guess it depends on, he's very popular with conservatives.
00:52:46.940
Because now I'd like, I'd like to know how popular he is with everybody else.
00:52:52.440
He's one of those guys that I think is well liked, though.
00:52:55.640
I don't necessarily think most people want him running the country.