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On today's show, Pat Gray tells the story of a man who says he was sexually assaulted by Don Lemon in a bar in the Hamptons, and how CNN is covering it up. Plus, the Rittenhouse trial, Russiagate, and Project Veritas. Plus a prediction on what America is facing.
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away. We welcome to the program Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed, the program that can be heard
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on the Blaze Radio and Television Network prior to this program, also available wherever you find
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your podcast. Pat, I don't know if you listen to the Megan Kelly show yesterday. Stu, did you?
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I did hear a good chunk of it. Yeah. Yeah, I listened to all of it this morning when I got up. It is
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incredible. It is the story of the guy that Don Lemon assaulted in a Hamptons bar. Oh, wow. And
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you know, I think I've read something about this, but not a lot. It's been around for several months
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and or several years. Actually, it happened years ago. But you're not hearing anything when you heard
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anything about Fox. It was everywhere. It was everywhere. But this guy's protected and CNN is
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protecting him. And I want you to hear the accusation. And there are several witnesses of
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it. So we know this did happen. And it's true. This guy walks in. His name is Dustin Heiss. He walks
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into this bar in the Hamptons. He's a bartender. He has the night off. His boss is with him.
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And they go into this bar. He sees Don Lemon. They're walking by. And he's like, hey, Don,
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let me buy you a couple of drinks. How about some lemon drops? And Don Lemon said, hey, man,
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I'm just trying to be left alone. And he's like, cool. Sorry. And walks away. He's standing at the
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bar. A few minutes later, like 15 or 30 minutes later, Don Lemon walks up to him in the bar.
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And I'm going to let him describe what happened.
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So I walk around the bar. And about five minutes goes by. And he walks. He comes around the bar
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and comes up to me. And he says, pardon my language, but he says, do you like me? Is
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that why you're with me? And I said, no, I just wanted to say what's up. And I was just like,
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what's this guy's problem? And I looked at my boss. And in that moment, he puts his hand down his
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pants and starts aggressively. Can you start that over? You're talking about Don. Go ahead.
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Yeah. So after he says, are you, do you like me? Is that why you're effing with me? And I said, no,
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just wanted to say what's up, man. And I look at my boss and I look back and he has his hand in his
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pants, rubbing himself aggressively. And he shoves his two fingers up underneath my mustache,
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thrust my head back and says, do you like pussy or dick? And he said it like two or three times after
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that. And I just said, what the hell, man? And I just ran out the back door.
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So forgive my indelicate question, but when you say he put his hands down his pants,
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what kind of pants was he wearing? And how do you know what he was doing in there?
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Well, he was wearing shorts. And I mean, it was pretty obvious to everybody that saw what he did,
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he was just rubbing himself. And, you know, with impunity, just pushed his hands up under my face
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enough to thrust my head back. Okay. Stop. So this guy runs out of the bar. He doesn't do anything
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except leave the bar. He leaves with his boss and they're just standing outside. And he's like,
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I'm just like shocked. He said, and it's reminded me of me when we had an incident, wasn't sexual in
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nature, but it was a violent incident. And I, when it happened, I said exactly what he did.
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Did, did that just happen? Right. Yeah. I was hit by a guy and I'm like, was I just hit by an adult?
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That's what I said to Pat. The same thing. That's what he said. He's like, did this just happen?
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And he's like, yeah. And he's like, should I go back in and say something or do something? He's
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like, no, man, leave it alone. Right. So, well, and as he points out in the interview, what is it,
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what happens to that story if he goes back in and punches him in the face? Oh, he's right. He's a
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homophobe, racist, racist, all these things. He's going to, they're going to lose in the
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intersectionality battle there. Yeah. So he just leaves. And, uh, he, then the next day he's at
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his bar cause he's a bartender and Jimmy Fallon is at the bar and there, you know, Jimmy is apparently
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a very nice guy and knows everybody. And, and, uh, he was, uh, talking to him and one
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of the guys said, Hey, did you hear what happened, uh, to, uh, Dustin with Don Lemon last night?
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And he's like, no. And, uh, they start telling him the story and, uh, Fallon looks at him and
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goes, geez, why would he, what? I'm sorry that happened. And that's interesting because
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in theory he would be able to testify that that story was told in the next day, next day.
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Yeah. And this is by the way, the Hamptons. So, you know, lots of rich people, lots of
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celebrities, celebrities, and they're all protecting themselves. It seems like a bizarre situation
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where like Don Lemon's in a bar one night and Jimmy Fallon's in the next night, but that's
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somewhat regular in that area. And, and it is a very tight community. Uh, one guy spoke
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out, uh, in his defense, uh, and his employer found out about it and they fired him. He was
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a private chef or some celebrity and they heard that he had spoken out against Don Lemon
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and fired him for it. This guy, he said, at first, I didn't know what to do. I just kind
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of laughed about it. He said, but as the summer went on, I became the laughing stock of the
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community. He said, every bar I walked into, they're like, Hey, how about a couple of lemon
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drops? Uh, and, uh, he was constantly mocked about it. And I don't know if it was necessarily,
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uh, mocking, like making fun of him, but bringing up a bad incident in your life.
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He didn't want to be known as that guy. Uh, and, and also he talks about it. He said,
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you know, I felt, you know, afterwards I felt like my manhood was challenged. And as somebody
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who is a, a lifetime weenie, uh, uh, I can tell you that I don't have the ability to punch
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back. I mean, if somebody was like doing that to me, I, it wouldn't even occur to me to punch
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back because, or to punch, because I don't, I don't even know how to, I think I would hurt
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my hand. This is why I carry a gun. Right. I would, it is. It's what I would throw a punch
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and I know I would be like, ow. And everybody who witnessed it would go, that's how you throw
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a punch. Okay. We've seen you throw a ball and that's how we were exactly what we said
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to you about that. Okay. So it's really bad. And as somebody who has, you know, uh, doesn't
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have a lot of masculinity in the first place because of things like that and made fun of
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as a kid, that would really bother me walking out and then not doing it. And then everybody
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going like, Oh, you know, you're the lemon drop. It would have bothered me that I didn't
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do anything. Well, he said he was trying to get past it until he heard Don Lemon give this
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There is no standard way survivors talk about sexual assault. It isn't always a police phone
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call and a rape kit or a report filed with HR. Sometimes they don't talk at all for years,
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even decades. Sometimes a little comes out in a conversation with a friend, a partner or
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a doctor. And sometimes it comes out all at once. Why is it so hard to talk about? Well,
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part of it is fear and part of it is doubt. Will I be believed? Will I be blamed? Will I have
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evidence? Do I have to relive what happened? Will everyone judge me? And if I speak out,
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will it even matter? People are tricky characters. Innocent until proven guilty must remain the law
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of the land. But at the same time, some guilty people do cloak themselves in innocence. Remember,
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after all, Bill Cosby was America's dad not so long ago. Are we interested in truth? Are we
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interested in healing? Or is there, as there always seems to be these days, a political game being
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played with people's lives? Okay. So he said, I couldn't do it. He's like, this guy is making him,
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he said, he had to move away from the Hamptons. He moved back to Florida. He's like, I couldn't take
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it anymore. And I just wanted to start my life over again. And so he moved back. And he said,
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then that monologue happened. And he's like, this guy is holding himself up as being the pillar of
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virtue and the Me Too movement against sexual harassment. And that's what he did to me. And he's,
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and so his lawyers came up with a hundred, uh, sorry, $1.5 million to sue him civilly.
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And he said in it, it's not about the money because she said, is there anything you would
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settle for? And he said, uh, it would have to start with an apology and an admission of guilt.
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He said, that's all I want is that I did that and it was wrong. And I apologize. And, uh,
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that's the one thing lemon's not willing to do. CNN is smearing Dustin. Yeah. Uh, and I just,
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I just, I think this is a really important story for a couple of reasons. Uh, one, uh, it's a horrible
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story for, for Dustin Heiss. And it's an important story that these people can't sweep these celebrities.
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What's the difference between this and, uh, and what's his name? The guy in Hollywood that did it for
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all those years and everybody knew Harvey Weinstein. Harvey Weinstein. Well, no, no, no, no, wait,
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wait, wait, wait. I know, I know on the levels, but sure their responsibility, they know this guy,
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they know Don Lemon has done this and they're protecting him because he's part of their group.
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Okay. It's the same thing when people see things and they're in their group, they don't say anything.
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So me too means nothing. The second thing is this is CNN protecting Don Lemon, Cuomo and Jeffrey
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Toobin. It is becoming a, a sick sexual club. It does seem to be the, uh, I don't know if it's
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the price to get in. Maybe it's like one of those situations. It's, it's pretty creepy. I have one
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other quick detail here, Glenn. I don't know if Pat, if you heard this either. Uh, he said that
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Don Lemon has already offered him $500,000 for this to go away. Wow. So like that was really
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compelling evidence that this did happen. Oh yeah. Uh, we know what's going to happen. It did happen.
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You know, it's such a weird and sick thing to do to somebody that, you know, he didn't start with
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that. That didn't, didn't just, that wasn't the first time it happened. He said anybody that acts
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like that in public with, without any fear of what it might do to somebody or the consequences
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it might have. That's a pattern. Yep. He's done it before. He's done something similar.
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And again, we're talking about arrogance. Yeah. The arrogance, the arrogance of Cuomo on night
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after night, after night, talking as a hero and a champion of women when he has sexually,
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uh, uh, uh, uh, harassed, uh, a, a boss, as soon as she wasn't his boss, she, he harassed her. Um,
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and, and he's held up as a champion to be the guy writing the words for his brother
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and saying, I'm not involved at all in any of this. And it's all sexual harassment for Jeffrey
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Toobin to, to, to do that. How can anyone look at him seriously? How could any woman that's working
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at CNN look at him and not think of him in the corner of their screen masturbating? And now Don
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Lemon look in their arrogance, they will fail. They are getting so arrogant, so arrogant. There's a
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dark side to that, but the only thing that happens is failure with stupid and criminal arrogance.
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Failure follows every time. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Andy McCarthy is, uh, with us, friend of the program. How are you, Andy?
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I am good. So I am, I am seeing a collision course here of arrogance and lies, uh, coming up right up
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against the truth. And I'd like to get your opinion on, on these three stories and tell me what's
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really happening. And can we start with the Rittenhouse trial? Sure. Okay. I want to play
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you some testimony from the Rittenhouse trial that came out yesterday. Uh, here it is.
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Right. Correct. It wasn't until you pointed your gun at him, advanced on him with your gun,
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now your hands down, pointed at him that he fired, right? Correct. Okay. So this is the prosecutor's
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case, the prosecutor's case. Um, and this is, I think the third witness that has shown that
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there he, this was clearly self-defense, you know, one, one was like, he only shot when the other guy
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lunged for his, his, uh, rifle. Uh, you know, this guy was pointing a gun at, at Kyle Rittenhouse.
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And that's when he shot him. Uh, I've never seen the prosecution put people on that should be for
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the defense ever before in my life. Have you not to this degree. And I think Glenn, you know,
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there's two alarming things that are going on here, which ought to upset people. One is there's
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obviously a divide that makes, that should make you busy between what goes on in today's prosecutor's
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offices where social justice is as important as constitutional justice in determining who gets
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charged and with what, because this is a case I think where the prosecution was clearly driven by
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the mob to bring a charge that shouldn't have been brought. And then the disconnect is in the four
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corners of a trial. If the judge is doing his job and applying the law, then constitutional law still
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applies. So when you try, when you take a case that should never been a case in the first place,
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it's one thing to say a bunch of stuff about it in the media. It's quite another thing to bring it
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into court. And as you're seeing what happens in court, where they have to prove beyond a reasonable
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doubt that the person they charged with murder committed murder, the case is collapsing.
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Collapsing in a spectacular fashion. I mean, I'm hearing the testimony, you know,
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the prosecution, when that guy said that yesterday, just put his head in his hands.
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I mean, it was a, it was a moment of incredible defeat. And I, I, I mean, I just feel like I know
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it won't happen, but I've just feel like the judge should be saying, what the hell is this even in
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my courtroom for? That's hopefully that's the question he'll ask at the end of the prosecutor's
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presentation. Once they've decided to go forward with the trial, I guess they have to let the
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prosecutors try to make their case or at least finish their presentation. But there is a point
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of law in a trial where the defense gets to move for dismissal of the case before they have to put
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on any evidence or decide whether to do anything. And so hopefully the case will end then.
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Do you think it will? Do you think, do you think that will happen?
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I think that there is at least one misdemeanor charge, which involves, and this is a vague charge
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that the judge may throw out for legal reasons, but if he allows that to survive, there's an argument
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that the jury should resolve whether Rittenhouse is guilty of possessing a gun illegally because he was
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under 18 under the statute. But it's, the statute is very clumsily written. It's not clear it applies
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to him, but that's the only charge that I can see so far that you could make an argument that the,
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you know, maybe the jury should resolve that, but the murder counts, they should go.
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So what does this tell you about Keith Ellison, who took and ratcheted the charges up to murder?
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Well, you have to look at the murder statute that is involved. You're talking about Ellison,
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um, Keith Ellison, the attorney general. Yeah. You know, I, I think for example, when you looked at
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the, um, he was the attorney general in the Chauvin trial in, yeah. Was it, so am I talking
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about a different case? Yeah. No, that's Minnesota. So who was the, who was the, it was the lead
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prosecutor or the, somebody above the team, uh, came in and said, ratchet it up. And I, I was thinking
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it was Keith Ellison, but I was in the wrong state. Yeah. Well, it's a good argument that
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Ellison did that too, but, um, the, the, uh, I don't know what the name of the prosecutor is,
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but the phenomenon you're talking about certainly happened, which is that the mob
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pushed for these charges. And the thing is justice in a courtroom is not a morality play. You know,
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you may look at the world and decide that we have, uh, endemic racism. And you may decide that
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there's a lot of things that are bad that are unrelated to murder. Like, you know, a 17 year
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old kid shouldn't have been out on the street in a melee like that. Um, you, you can have all those
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views, but in a courtroom, the issue is the charges that you bring. Can the prosecutors prove the elements
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of those charges beyond a reasonable doubt. And all the noise is supposed to be tuned out while we
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decide those very important questions. Prosecutors are supposed to analyze those questions
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objectively and dispassionately before they bring charges. But what you're seeing is that political
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pressures being brought to bear on the prosecutors to bring the charges and look, sometimes they get
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away with it in court. I think there's a lot of things that happened, uh, in the Chauvin trial that
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we just alluded to that were very disturbing. And that case may be held up on appeal, but he's got
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a lot of, uh, arguments to make about due process. All right. Um, I'm going to take a quick break.
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First of all, this is a federal prosecution because it's murder charges state state. So can the feds come
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in after this, if this is dismissed and recharge him? I don't see any evidence of a civil rights
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violation, Glenn, but that would have to be there. That would have to be their basis for coming in.
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I don't see it. Andy McCarthy is a former assistant U S attorney for the Southern district of New
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York. He was the guy who led the prosecution in 1995, uh, on the first world trade center bombing,
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uh, and the planning of a series of tax on a New York city landmarks. Uh, he has also, uh, been, uh,
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um, contributor to the prosecutions on many, many terrorists. He resigned from the justice department
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in 2003. Um, and as a, as a trusted, uh, uh, friend and guide here on some of these things,
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um, Andy, let's, let's go to the Durham case. I had given up hope that anything was going to happen.
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Now I'm not so sure. Can you tell me what you know about, uh, what the, um, what the indictments
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mean and where you think they're headed? Glenn, it looks like the two indictments that have been
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filed in the last six weeks, one against the Clinton campaign's lawyer, uh, Michael Sussman,
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or one of the lawyers. And now this other one against this guy, Igor Danchenko, who was the main
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source for the infamous steel dossier. Uh, they're very descriptive in terms of the narrative,
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even though the charges are, you know, pretty pedestrian. They're, you know, lying to FBI
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agents, but he lays out a theory where it looks to me like where he's going is that the Trump Russia
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collusion storyline was essentially a concoction of the Clinton campaign, which not only formulated it
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through the steel dossier, among other things, uh, but peddled it out to the media and to an all too
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credulous FBI, which enabled them to argue that to the electorate, that Trump was a Putin puppet and that
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he was under investigation by the FBI for being a Putin puppet. So I think that's what happened here. And
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the issue has always been, is the government in on it or is, are they, uh, dupes? And Durham seems to
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be going with the theory in these cases that the FBI was duped. I don't believe that for, well, yeah,
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I, I've always thought they were pushing on an open door and let's not forget we have a, when I say
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pushing on an open door, I'm saying the people who brought this anti-Trump information to the FBI,
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these guys were predisposed against Trump and they figured that if they investigated long enough,
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the evidence would bear out their predisposition. I think that's what happened, but that's a different
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thing from saying that they, that they committed a fraud on the court. Um, and I think, uh, what about
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the Pfizer stuff? Yeah, well, look, I think, um, what they did here was utterly irresponsible because
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they didn't corroborate the information they brought to the Pfizer court. I would point out
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that what they bring to the Pfizer court is called technically a verified application, which they make
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under oath. And the reason for that is because they're supposed to corroborate the information
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before they go to court here. They didn't interview Danchenko who was the main source until January of
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2017, when they first went to court in October of 2016. And by the time they interviewed the source,
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they're looking for their second 90 day warrant. So it's outrageous. It looks as though, uh, they,
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they knew though, by 2017, uh, it, it, the, the, it looks as though now that in 2017, the Washington
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Post knew, uh, and it was kind of an open secret in, uh, in the media, but they all continued to do
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it. What does that tell you? Well, it, it, it, it, from Durham's perspective, I think what it
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indicates is that the reason that Barr made him a special counsel. And remember when he started this
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investigation, he was the U S attorney in Connecticut. So he's just like a regular federal
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prosecutor. Barr put him in the same designation class as Mueller. And I think he did that because
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he recognized that there was a lot of abuse of power here and a lot of potential corruption here,
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but that it might be hard to charge a lot of it as criminal activity, but a special counsel is
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allowed to write a narrative report at the end, unlike normal prosecutors who just drop cases that
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they can't, where they can't bring criminal charges. So I think we're going to get a report
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and it'll be comprehensive. And what Durham's going to end up saying is that the Clinton had been,
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the Clinton, uh, campaign is the main culprit here, but that the FBI was utterly irresponsible
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in how they handled the allegations. So is anyone from the Clinton campaign? I mean,
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is Clinton going to pay at all? Is there going to be any real ramifications on this?
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Well, I think only in the sense that, you know, there'll be a historical document that lays this
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at her feet. And you know, what I, what I always say when I get asked a question like that is,
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um, we're not in the first year of the second term of president Hillary Clinton. I mean, it's not like
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she hasn't, uh, you know, it's not like nothing happened here. She didn't get elected. Uh, so
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there's some justice in that, but you know, look, I think if people want to see, uh, you know, a bells
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and whistles indictment and people get drawn and quartered at the end, they should disenthrall
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themselves because that's not going to happen. So people have asked me, why isn't this a coup?
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Why isn't this an attempted coup? They knew what was going on and they, all they were trying to do
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is to get the president either impeached, thrown out, stopped, whatever. Why isn't that a coup?
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Well, I mean, for, for sort of as Trump did win the election, you know, the, the objective was to
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stop him from winning the election and he did win. Yeah. But then when they knew they continued
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with the impeachment and everything else. Yeah, no. And look, I think it's fair to say
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that the law enforcement and intelligence apparatus of the government was used
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as a weapon by the incumbent Obama administration and the holdovers from the Obama administration
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who continued into the Trump administration to try to take Trump out. Uh, I guess it's not a coup
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cause they didn't succeed, but that doesn't mean they didn't try. So no punishment for an attempted
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coup. It depends on whether that's gone. It depends on whether they can find that he committed that
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they committed criminal violations and gross incompetence and political dirty tricks are
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reprehensible, but they're not necessarily violations of the criminal law. That's why,
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for example, with impeachment, we don't require a crime for impeachment, right? Because a lot of times
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very serious misbehavior is not misbehavior that's addressed by the penal code.
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So even the fact, I have one minute and I got a break and I want to hold you over because I have
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one more case that I think is, um, uh, the undoing of a lot of stuff. Um, the, uh, um, shoot. Now I
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lost my, my train of thought. Uh, even the fact that the president, now this goes to the impeachment
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trial that president Obama met with Joe Biden and they colluded against general Flynn, uh, against the FBI,
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even that that's not illegal. Well, I, I think it could arguably have been illegal, but Barr said
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during the Trump administration that, that Obama and Biden were not subject to the investigation.
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So, you know, they decided that I guess a higher standard should apply if the law enforcement is
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going to have impact on the politics. The best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Yesterday at this time, Stu, uh, Stu, uh, asked a question, um, because he was noticing a trend in
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our society, by the way, Bitcoin still at its highest level, isn't it? 67 real cool. Yeah. Really
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close. I think it's 68 and change last night for an all time high, but it's at right around 67,000
00:29:56.040
right now. Incredible. Um, and you started on, on not Bitcoin, but cryptocurrency. So re lay it out
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again. One of the things that, that sparked this was a tweet from Mark Cuban who noted that according
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to a poll, 4% of people have left their job due to cryptocurrency profits. And you know, you might look
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at that and say, okay, well, they made a lot of money. They can leave their job. However, the vast
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majority of them were people who made less than the average salary. They were people who were making
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like 25 to $35,000 a year in that range. And we were talking about this a little bit about the sort
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of weird incentive. Our society is currently sending to people. I mean, if you think about gambling as a
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whole, why don't you do it? Right. Everyone loves to win a gambling. Why don't you do it?
00:30:48.760
Because you could lose everything. Because you could lose everything. Right. But what if you
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couldn't lose everything? What if the government set a floor where you, that you couldn't pass below?
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So this is the argument that we made against TARP. Against TARP. Right. Because you're incentivizing
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riskier behavior. Because if you don't, if you socialize losses and privatize gains, you're setting
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up a really bad system. Correct. And if you think for the, for the average person, or maybe someone
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who's maybe earning enough money to keep themselves alive, but not enough money to give them the life
00:31:26.940
that they want financially, you might look at yourself and say, okay, I'm making $25,000 a year. I don't have
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a lot of money. Why wouldn't I take a little, whatever extra money I do wind up getting a lot
00:31:37.540
of times in government handouts, stimulus payments. Why wouldn't I throw that at the riskiest possible
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thing and get 10, 20, 30 X if I'm lucky. And if not, I'm left basically in the same position I'm
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already in with a floor that the government is going to provide me with handouts and giveaways
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that I can't pass below. So if you already think your life isn't that great, why would you save
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why would you even, you know, make it rational purchases, save for a rainy day, pay some healthcare
00:32:10.420
bill off when in reality, uh, the government's going to, going to catch you there anyway.
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And it creates this weird society that has the same problems as the banks had. If you hit on some
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dog cryptocurrency and it goes up a hundred times, you get to keep that money. But if you miss it,
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you could still get the handouts from the government on the other side.
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Okay. So I said, you're not going to like the, the answer to this, um, yesterday. And let me give
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you the historic context on this history is not, it does not just repeat itself. It is repeating
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itself right now. Um, and it more than rhymes. Think about what you're asking. You're, you're asking,
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and especially if by 2030, the 30 year old will have no recollection of America at all before nine 11.
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Okay. 30 year olds. Okay. When, when I'm 30, you're, you're starting to shape society at that point.
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Okay. Uh, you are the movers and shakers 30 year olds. This has happened before. Um, our nine 11
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was world war one to the Germans world war one. Everything was, was okay in Germany. Um, and they
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understood the Republic and everything else. They had some real rot there. Um, but the, you know,
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the churches and everybody got on board and rah, rah Germany, and let's go in God's on our side. And
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once, uh, once, uh, world war one ended and it was such a humiliating loss, the, the, the Republic kind
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of split and it split between the people who were part of the old guard. Okay. The older people and
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the younger people who really didn't know the Republic the way the older people did. Okay.
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And then they had all kinds of problems. They had financial problems, et cetera, et cetera. Uh,
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and then it seemed as though those financial problems were kind of a thing of the past because
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there was this new era in Germany, it's called Weimar. Okay. And the Weimar Republic was all about,
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uh, twisted, uh, views on everything, uh, and drugs were free flowing and sex and, and cabarets and,
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and all of this stuff. The average person couldn't keep up with it because the average person had a
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family. And so they had to take their money and leave the office and go to the grocery store and
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cash their check as soon as they could. Okay. They got to the point where you were paid twice a day
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and everyone would leave, go shopping, come back, get another paycheck, go shopping. Okay. That's how
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bad it was because of the inflation, because of the inflation. Here's the difference. The average person
00:35:17.520
that had a family had to do that. The average 20 something didn't, the average 20 something that
00:35:25.420
didn't have any children got rich because when everybody else went shopping, they went out,
00:35:32.600
grabbed something, but then they went to the stock market today's Bitcoin and they put it all in
00:35:40.300
Bitcoin. They put it all. And the, the society had changed in, in a way that would have been
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completely unrecognizable to the old guard and bankers were now 25 years old. People were Titans
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and they became very, very powerful and very wealthy because the average German, uh, was,
00:36:04.260
was fighting for their life with their family and also part of the old guard. And so this new kind of
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group rose up that I think is our 20 somethings and 30 somethings right now. Um, and it came with
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great arrogance. Okay. And they just knew they were right. Get out of here, old man. Does any of this
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sound familiar, get out of here, old man, it's a new world. And they had great arrogance to get
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inflation under control. Germany, uh, elected a new prime minister who came in and figured out how to
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reset the Reich mark and he reset it and he was old guard and he came in and he was the same kind of
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guy that you and I would probably vote for, uh, because they were like, uh, he understands Germans
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and he understands Germany. Okay. And thank God we're going back. So he was in charge and things
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were starting to really come back, but there was another problem as it was coming back to the old
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Germany and common sense was being restored. All of the kids, all of the young people that had gotten
00:37:19.260
rich and powerful, they're suddenly losing their jobs to the old guys again. They're suddenly kind of
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in this, this place to where now they're on the receiving end of, of things. Socialism is rising up at
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the same time. And socialism says, we'll take care of all of it. All of it. National socialism is part of
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it. Most Germans don't want the Nazis, the ones who were the most favorable for the Nazis.
00:37:49.240
were the young that had become wildly successful because they saw that the Nazis were all in a
00:37:58.360
hierarchy that you could kind of buy your way in or move in and kind of muscle people. It was just for
00:38:05.540
the meanest of the mean. And so if you were ruthless, like our left is becoming now, if you were ruthless,
00:38:13.640
there was a place for you and, uh, you could be, you could be rich and powerful. You just work with
00:38:21.700
them. Okay. Then the prime minister was, uh, he, I think he died of a heart attack. He dies. Now we go to
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a vote. Hitler wins because socialism, socialism is important. 30% of the population voted for the Nazis.
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And I believe a lot of those people also just kind of voted for socialism. It was this new idea.
00:38:51.380
It was happening over in Italy. And there were tons of people that wanted a different world and they
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no longer understood what it was to be a German. Okay. They had this new definition of a German.
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So let me world war one in that story is our nine 11. The Weimar Republic is really kind of right now,
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uh, where things, the truth doesn't matter anymore. All of the old things are just being rejected
00:39:24.900
because they're old. Uh, and, uh, you know, Hey boomer, that kind of attitude. Um, they are also,
00:39:32.020
you have people who are doing really risky things. That was the big thing in Weimar. If you had the
00:39:38.300
money, you're doing really risky things. Um, the next crash, the next crash is coming and we will have
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the downside of the downside of the Weimar Republic with inflation. There's two Americas and you see
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them. One that says hard work, ethics, ethical behavior, truth, put those things back in place and
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we'll be fine. The other side is doubling down. They're becoming more and more extreme and they
00:40:19.540
care less and less about the people who disagree with them. We are repeating exactly the same pattern
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thing. And you have to decide right now, which side you're on because of what Stu just pointed out. We will
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most likely all of us, and I include me in this most likely all of us are going to struggle to put food
00:40:45.920
on our table at some point. If they change the dollar to a Fed coin, if the world stops using our dollar as
00:40:55.460
the reserve currency, which is likely to happen, experts will tell you, no, I'm telling you it's likely to
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happen. When that happens, we will all have trouble putting food on our table. And with the things that this
00:41:10.460
administration is doing to our farmers, to our entire system through the Great Reset, it's going to be a tough
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slog. And we're going to need each other or we will turn to the government. A lot will turn to the