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Summary
Glenn Beck's 21st anniversary is upon us, and he's here to remind us all that Bitcoin is a real thing, and it's not going away anytime soon. He also talks about the President's concession speech, and a phone call he received that was disturbing, and deeply affects all of us that believe in the Constitution.
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Hey, podcasters. It's Friday. Great show. In fact, the whole show really is worth just the last 25 minutes, I think.
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We have Bill O'Reilly on. We talk about what the president said yesterday in a speech.
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It was a concession speech and a speech that I think he needed to give.
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We talk about that. We talk about also something in the middle of the show.
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I got a phone call that was very disturbing, and it deeply will affect you and us, all of us that believe in the Constitution.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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And I'm begging my wife, please, please, twenty-one years together, please buy more Bitcoin today.
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It was nineteen at Christmas, and this time it's real.
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That's why people are perceiving this, and this is happening because of the unrest,
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This is big, big money that is happening, and it might correct itself, you know,
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but it might correct at forty-three or two forty-three.
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It might go up to fifty or sixty and then correct at forty-three.
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Just wrong timing, but he said exactly forty-thousand.
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If you listen to the show for a long time, you know we were pretty early on the Bitcoin
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But, like, I think a lot of people were like, ah, we missed out on that.
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And then there was the bubble, and it burst, and ah, that's over.
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If you have a hundred dollars, still put it in Bitcoin.
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If you have a hundred dollars, still put it in Bitcoin.
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If those people who saved their money and are keeping their money in the bank in dollars,
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And we should point out that Glenn does not give investment advice.
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Well, there's two things that you should know about investments.
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And if Pat Gray ever actually invests in Bitcoin, I will dump everyone I have.
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So, Pat, we haven't heard your take, unless we listen to the show.
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We haven't heard your take on this show about the week.
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By the way, I curse all of you who said, I can't wait for the new year.
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We've already blown the nice hope for 2021 in the first week.
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I mean, it's already worse than all of 2020, wasn't it?
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I am telling you, vampire space bunnies are coming and we'll accept it.
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Can I just pet your soft fur as you suck all the blood out of my neck?
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At any Trump supporters who were doing what they were doing at the Capitol building?
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I wasn't upset at anybody who was at that rally on the ellipse.
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The breaking the windows and the destruction at the Capitol building.
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I believe there were left-wing people there, but there were also right-wing QAnon people there.
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I think the conservatives were doing conservative things.
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They were standing there and they were protesting.
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Yeah, I think there were some regular conservatives that were in there that were just swept up.
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Guy from Idaho was inside and I think he went in and sat in the speaker's chair.
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And he's apologized to the country, to the president, to the movement.
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There's one guy who was a CEO of some sort of company and was there and somehow got swept up.
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I mean, look, you're going to wind up paying a price, I think, legally.
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But still, it's good to at least hear the contrition.
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And quite honestly, I was a little perturbed at the president.
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It bothered me that he was, as he was telling people to go home and go home peacefully, he
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was telling them we wanted a landslide and they stole it from us.
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You know, I was looking at it from his perspective when he did it.
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And I thought, because I heard somebody say this and I thought, that's possible.
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You want to speak the language of the people and say, I understand you.
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I think, because Ivanka got some heat for her tweet about this, where she said, you
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know, American patriots, we don't do this sort of thing.
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Like, if you call them, hey, fascists, and they're not going to, you know, you're trying
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to say, like, you're trying to, you know, to relate to them and to move them in a particular
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And people who are standing up for transparency, standing up and asking their government to
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It's just when you cross over into violence that it doesn't become patriotic.
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And sadly, you kind of discredit everything along the way.
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And then when the media starts saying, yeah, five people died, and it looks like it was
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Trump supporters who killed them, and that's not what happened, then you've got the whole
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And I think Donald Trump really hurt himself, and his knee-jerk reaction should have been
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Forget Gandhi, I was thinking of Glenn Beck as president in that moment, and I've been
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in so many of these situations with Glenn, and so have you, Pat, where, you know, there
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are things you should do and things you shouldn't do.
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And I, 100% in this situation, Glenn Beck is not making a statement on Twitter about
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You are going down to the Capitol yourself, and you're saying, screw you, Secret Service,
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and you're going to walk down there and physically remove people from that building.
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Tell me, tell me that is not what you would do in that, in that moment.
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I think I would have gotten in, oh, Secret Service, you're not going to drive me?
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And I'd drive the beast up, or I'd find an old truck if I had to, and I would get up
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on the stairs of the Capitol and say, back off.
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If the president would have been like that, I mean, not driving to the Capitol, that's
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But if he would have been like that, he would have preserved a leadership role for after.
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You know, right now, they have everything that they need just to shut him down, to silence
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And it's sad because he had the opportunity, and hopefully he can regain it.
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He had the opportunity to have righteous indignation, but stand for the right things and say, the
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This is an ongoing battle, and we are going to fight the right way.
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I mean, honestly, to say we needed 10 days, 10 days, that's all we're asking for.
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And if he would have come out and said, we need 10 days, and look, I'm not looking for
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You cannot have people not believe in the vote.
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It is important for America going forward that we believe in the vote.
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So I'm not motivated to prove what I do believe is true.
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I'm motivated to find out exactly what happened.
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And if we can't prove it in 10 days, that's fine.
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But there needs to be a special counsel to find out because Americans need to believe in
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Now, he is a guy who keeps coming back and coming back, coming back after he's been punched
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But he's not going to have the bully pulpit to do it now.
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Yeah, it's going to be very difficult for him now.
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He had a sweet Republican kingmaker role carved out.
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That would have been an amazing life with lots and lots of power.
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And I think also, you know, I still pretty much believe he's going to wind up running
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I think anything past Safe Harbor Day was harmful.
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And the way he's pushed this to the very, very end, I think, has been wrong.
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But I do understand, you know, it's frustrating.
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My wife keeps saying, like, can you imagine going through what he's gone through?
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I mean, he's been going through these four years of everyone beating you up every
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I mean, this has got to change you as a person.
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And, like, you know, it's really hard to hit a free throw with three seconds left,
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I have to tell you, I really feel for him because I really feel he's alone.
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And has taken more beatings to the head than anybody I've seen.
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I mean, more beatings to the head than Muhammad Ali had.
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But he needed to say early on, I will never, until it's proven, I will never believe I
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But if that's what Congress and the people say, I will leave on January 20th.
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However, with that being said, I urge all Americans to go to their state houses and demand that
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there is an investigation in this and laws are strengthened to make sure it doesn't happen
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But it's worth playing again what he said yesterday, because he did basically say all
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And he really took on the people who went into the Capitol and caused harm.
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They should be prosecuted if they committed crimes.
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Mr. Bill O'Reilly, the author of Killing Crazy Horse and the namesake behind Bill O'Reilly
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dot com, where he has his no spin news every day.
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I am a little tired after analyzing all this stuff.
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I just want to say thank you for the nice mention of Bill O'Reilly dot com is free for
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everybody this weekend, because I think we have had incisive fair coverage, unlike the
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corporate media, which is, again, you know, reach the nadir word of the day.
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You're not going to learn anything from those people.
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And those people are are going to start clamping down on on all of us.
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And I urge you to please, as a listener, if you appreciate the frankness of Bill O'Reilly
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or or the blaze or whoever, if you hear somebody who is telling the truth, please support them
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and join them because sponsors are going to be attacked soon.
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We have we have one guy who Elijah Schaefer, who has risked his life to go in and be right
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He went in and he was right on the front lines at the Capitol recording and and reporting live.
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And now they're saying that he's a revolutionary, not a journalist.
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This is this is just as bad as what Antifa was doing.
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And now they want him shut down, which means they'll be coming after us.
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And my first thought was, if this young guy can get in there and give you firsthand look,
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you know, an immediate look at what's happening.
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Why can't the big networks with all their resources have somebody in there?
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So you got this guy, this young guy in there, and he's providing the best coverage you could
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So where are the others with all their hundreds of millions of dollars?
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I mean, you know, and that's one of the reasons the country is in such a chaotic state is the
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collapse of the media, which was given special privileges, as everybody knows, by the founding
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To tell the folks, look, here's what John Adams is really doing.
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And you're never going to get what's really happening.
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But if this continues, I think you're absolutely right.
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But I don't want people on the conservative traditional side to think.
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And some of them do, because I got a stack of mail that says that violent revolution is
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And I'll submit to you that 70, 75 percent want nothing to do with violence.
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Oh, I think that I think that number is higher.
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I bet you there's 10 to 13 percent that that would be OK with violence.
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The reason I take it at 75, maybe 80, is that there is a criminal element that exploits
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So in the Capitol intrusion, in the riot, there were professional agitators there.
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There were people who came to Washington for the sole purpose of fostering violence, just
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There were criminals among the protesters that were just waiting to loot and to burn and to
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We saw it on the left and it has some sympathy in the right.
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I had one letter yesterday from a guy who says, well, O'Reilly, you don't understand how
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many people were applauding the anarchist action.
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Because the same crew was applauding the looters.
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They weren't the same people, but it's the same mindset that criminality and violence is
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If I want to do it for whatever reason, you can have an election, you can have the killing
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But there are, I'd say, all right, 20 percent of Americans who have that mindset.
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So people who are thinking, well, there's going to be a violent revolution in America, that's
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For Donald Trump to come out and say what he said yesterday, I applaud.
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Compare that to what he said during the actual riot there inside the Capitol.
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If you're going to analyze Trump in a fair way that benefits the American people, you have
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So you just can't pick it up this week, as, of course, all the media did, pro and con Trump.
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So Donald Trump, in his mind, believes that he's been persecuted for five years.
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So he sees himself as a victim, as millions of Americans do, for one reason or another.
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So when he lost the election, and I can just hear the chorus now, oh, he didn't lose, he
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When he lost, because the system said he lost, he became unhinged.
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And I know that, because I know people very close to him.
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Now, I have not talked to the president since two days before the first debate, when he...
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I talked to him a week ago, week and a half ago.
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You will never hear me say, I lost this election fairly.
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He said, you'll never hear me say it, because I don't believe it.
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He was lucid, at least for 20, 25 minutes with me.
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When I use the word unhinged, he wasn't analyzing reality.
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So when he was talking to you, he was saying, look, this is the way I feel, and this is what
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But from the very beginning, there was no chance that Donald Trump was going to overturn this
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There was no chance that losing by 7 million popular votes and having all of these controversies,
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in the beginning, everybody paid attention, and we were waiting for, I certainly was, Rudy
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Once that was established, that it was theoretical, it was over.
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And he continued to believe, and he did believe it.
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I was made fun of and mocked because I tried to explain the way he thinks.
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This is not from conversations with him or anything else.
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But you know, and I know, he is a Norman Vincent Peale devotee.
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He is a guy who believes what you think becomes.
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And don't ever speak things into existence that you don't want.
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And I believe he truly believed in the power of positive thinking, not necessarily to that it was going to change everything, but he was not going to speak anything into existence that he didn't believe was true.
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And that's why he was, he is disciplined in that one principle.
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I am trying to say that this is where his thinking is coming from.
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But if you want to win anything, you have to outthink your opposition.
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So from the very beginning, instead of running around saying it's a fraud, it's rigged, it was stolen, it was this, it was that.
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The president should have methodically said to Congress and to the justice department, there are millions of Americans who do not trust this election.
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Attorney General Barr, please appoint a special counsel and houses of Congress.
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Please launch an investigation into the following and list the states.
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That would have been much, much better than going to Georgia and the night before the vote, the most crucial vote we've had in the Congress, attacking the state of Georgia for being corrupt.
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I know you are under a tremendous amount of pressure in your own life.
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I know last night at midnight, my wife and I were talking about the kids in school and how difficult this is.
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I know the pressure you're under and, uh, I don't want to add more to it.
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I want to let you know what's going on and I want to make a promise to you.
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And I have been saying for a very long time, they are going to come after anyone with an opinion that they disagree with.
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Ted Koppel himself told me, uh, you know, there should be a panel of people like me that grant you a license.
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I've told you the minute that Donald Trump was gone, they were going to turn those cannons that have been so effective on smearing and doing everything they can to destroy Donald Trump all on us.
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Let me give you, before I tell you about the phone call that came in.
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No, let me tell you about the phone call that came in first.
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A couple of days ago, I started seeing tweets, uh, from the left about our Blaze TV correspondent, Elijah Schaefer.
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Uh, I guess the, they didn't like the fact that he was reporting on the Capitol riots.
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Um, even though he was against the Capitol riots, he was, uh, saying things that pissed his followers and his audience off, uh, like nobody's business because he knows his job is to tell the truth on what's going on.
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The truth doesn't matter to the left, the daily beast, which is, I mean, the beast really is the appropriate name for these people.
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One might say that I might say that attorneys might say that, but they wrote a piece about Elijah Schaefer.
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Here's the headline daily beast, Glenn Beck employee boasts of breaching Nancy Pelosi's office alongside revolutionaries and quote, uh, okay.
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He was there as a journalist and he was reporting.
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There's many ways to take revolutionary, uh, a good way and a bad way.
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Historically in America, we look at revolutionaries as a good thing.
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He was not referring to the good kind of revolutionary.
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Just as he has reported when he's been in the belly of the beast and risking his life with Antifa and he has provided you in the media with much of your video because you don't have anybody there.
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Now, at first, my reaction was, this is what they do to independence and conservative voices.
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But then, Mr. Fang Bang himself, Eric Swalwell, goes a step further.
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He suggested that the FBI arrest Elijah, a reporter, for doing his job, something protected by the First Amendment.
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Eric Swalwell tweets, dear FBI, meet Elijah Schaefer.
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Elijah Schaefer took a picture inside of Nancy Pelosi's office.
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And he said, I'm inside with Nancy, inside Nancy Pelosi's office with the thousands of revolutionaries who have stormed the building to put into perspective how quickly staff has evacuated.
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Here, emails are still on the screen alongside a federal alert warning members of the current revolution.
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This is something the New York Times should have done.
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Elijah deleted that because we said you should not put what was on the screen open in the public.
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There was nothing wrong with it, but we felt uncomfortable.
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And Elijah, outside of the heat of the moment, felt uncomfortable, too.
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I encourage everyone to watch my Wednesday night show where Elijah was on and I asked him journalistic questions.
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Glenn, I've been to the neo-Nazi, you know, protests and violent protests.
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You are not going to find a hint that he is sympathetic to violent rioters.
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In fact, he led in the reporting to squash the rumors that Antifa was behind the siege.
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He was on the front line debunking his, quote, own side.
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They alerted Facebook that one of the deplorables must be depersoned.
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And as of this morning, Elijah Schaefer's personal, personal Facebook and Instagram account have been deleted.
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The pictures of him with his dog and his family.
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The left is now going after him because they know he'll tell the truth.
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They know his work is dangerous because he will actually go in when the rest of the media is saying, oh, no, these people are mostly peaceful.
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And he'll show the people who are shooting and gunning people down in the streets.
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He will also show the faces and identify the faces of those who were breaking glass and trying to harass and God knows what in the Capitol.
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30 minutes ago, 45 minutes ago now, I learned that CNN thinks it's worth using their precious resources now to investigate Elijah, a credentialed reporter.
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They have started digging around, trying to call his family and all of his past colleagues to find out who he really is.
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I can guarantee you they will go all the way until he was, what, six?
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They are going to go into everything about him.
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If he said something when he was 12, I don't really give a flying F.
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I want you to know I will never fire Elijah Schaefer because Elijah Schaefer doesn't work for me.
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We believe an attack on one is an attack on all.
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They are going to come after his press credentials.
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They're coming after Mark Levin, who's also part of blaze media.
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CNN is leading the charge to find out why Newsmax, One America News, and yes, Fox News,
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are still being carried by AT&T and Comcast and all of the cable and satellite networks.
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The next thing, they're coming after Rush Limbaugh.
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Today, they're coming after Rush Limbaugh and trying to pressure Clear Channel in Premiere.
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Quite honestly, it is Rush Limbaugh that saved AM radio.
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Your local radio station exists today because of Rush Limbaugh.
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There is freedom of speech that could be heard on a mass media because of Clear Channel, because of Premiere Radio.
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And I can guarantee you, they will come after our sponsors.
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I know it to be true because I've lived it before.
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To do what this network does takes enormous amounts of money.
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There's going to come a time you won't have to worry about if this is commercial free or not.
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Because I believe there are going to be very few people that will advertise.
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Because they are going to come under such beating that their business will be destroyed.
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I think there are a few advertisers that will say, fine, bring it on.
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And if it's not the blaze you don't think I have and the blaze doesn't have anything to offer, I'd suggest that you look at it again.
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But if you don't find the blaze and Steven Crowder and Mark Levin and Elijah Schaefer, all of these voices, Ali Stuckey, if you don't find us to offer anything, that's fine.
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Find somebody who does offer the truth to you and is going to stand.
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Because today is the day I have feared for at least 10 years.