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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's Stu, in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program today.

00:00:03.180 Glenn is at a Lady Gaga concert.

00:00:05.040 I will explain that during the program.

00:00:07.600 You're going to want to know that is actually a real thing.

00:00:11.560 Today we talked about Ukraine and Mulvaney.

00:00:14.100 There's a breaking news development during the show on Ukraine.

00:00:17.040 And the Mulvaney comments, what did he mean?

00:00:19.540 Is this the end of the road? Is it serious?

00:00:22.380 We'll get into that.

00:00:23.540 Tell you the latest what's going on in Syria and Ukraine.

00:00:27.480 We dive into the policies of Bernie Sanders and how much they'll actually cost.

00:00:32.520 It basically sounds like a made-up number by the end.

00:00:35.280 But these are actual estimates, and you're not going to believe how ridiculous they are.

00:00:38.980 And we go into the spectacular collapse of Beto O'Rourke, Robert Francis O'Rourke, Bob Frank O'Rourke.

00:00:47.640 That and the latest comments from AOC as well.

00:00:51.620 It's all today on the podcast.

00:00:56.800 All right, so Mick Mulvaney was the big story.

00:01:11.480 Mick Mulvaney, yesterday, the media is going crazy over this.

00:01:16.840 He did a press conference.

00:01:17.720 He came out to talk about the quid pro quo, which we have to do a montage of quid pro quo mentions.

00:01:27.040 Because the use of quid pro quo in the media was approximately once every six months until about two weeks ago.

00:01:36.380 And now it's 75 times an hour.

00:01:38.720 You cannot watch the news for five minutes and get past it without hearing quid pro quo said.

00:01:43.980 And now they're starting to do the thing where they're like, well, that's the quid and that's the quo.

00:01:49.760 We got it.

00:01:50.780 We got it.

00:01:51.140 You're trying to be cute.

00:01:52.020 Quid pro quo.

00:01:52.960 We got it.

00:01:53.600 You're talking about it constantly.

00:01:55.540 The idea here is Mulvaney admitted to the quid pro quo.

00:02:00.340 Let's start here.

00:02:01.100 This is him talking about politics.

00:02:03.500 And is there an influence of politics in foreign policy?

00:02:08.160 This is a huge mistake from Mulvaney.

00:02:10.680 And I'll explain why in a second.

00:02:12.160 Here's Mick Mulvaney yesterday.

00:02:13.420 We were holding up money at the same time for, what was it, the Northern Triangle countries.

00:02:18.360 We were holding up aid at the Northern Triangle countries so that they would change their policies on immigration.

00:02:25.040 By the way, and this speaks to an important point, because I heard this yesterday, and I can never remember the gentleman who testified.

00:02:31.720 Was it McKinney, the guy?

00:02:32.860 Is that his name?

00:02:33.560 I don't know.

00:02:34.340 He testified yesterday.

00:02:35.260 Yes.

00:02:35.480 And if you go, and if you believe the news reports, because we've not seen any transcripts of this.

00:02:40.160 The only transcript I've seen was Sondland's testimony this morning.

00:02:43.040 If you read the news reports and you believe them, what did McKinney say yesterday?

00:02:47.060 Well, McKinney said yesterday that he was really upset with the political influence in foreign policy.

00:02:51.940 Uh-oh.

00:02:52.860 That was one of the reasons he was so upset about this.

00:02:54.940 Oh, no.

00:02:55.160 And I have news for everybody.

00:02:56.140 Uh-oh.

00:02:56.500 Get over it.

00:02:57.160 Oh, oh, my.

00:02:58.420 Did you guys hear that?

00:02:59.580 Did you hear what he just said?

00:03:01.120 Get over it?

00:03:01.880 Are you kidding me?

00:03:03.300 Get over it.

00:03:04.840 Politics in foreign policy, that is absolutely unacceptable.

00:03:10.840 He said get over it.

00:03:11.620 He admitted it in front of the entire nation.

00:03:15.240 This is a terrible mistake, my Mick Mulvaney.

00:03:18.640 And a lot of the president's defenders are going to tell you he did a good job there.

00:03:23.340 Terrible mistake there.

00:03:24.340 He was actually honest.

00:03:27.140 And you're not supposed to be doing that in Washington.

00:03:29.960 This is completely off limits, apparently.

00:03:33.000 You're not allowed to go out there and tell people what actually occurs.

00:03:37.900 Because who would believe that there was any political interest when it comes to foreign policy?

00:03:42.800 Sure, we're talking about politicians.

00:03:45.200 So you'd think maybe politics would be involved in it.

00:03:47.900 And sure, they all run campaigns and talk about their foreign policy and the politics surrounding it.

00:03:53.040 But when they get into the office, they become pure.

00:03:55.920 They become these clean, crystal clear individuals who have no agendas and never do anything other than just serve.

00:04:06.240 That's the reality of Washington, guys.

00:04:09.740 Of course, politics are involved when it comes to foreign policy with every single president since the beginning of time.

00:04:18.120 This is what politicians do.

00:04:23.120 They do politics.

00:04:25.920 Now, politics have a very bad reputation, largely because of politicians.

00:04:32.100 But politics are the pursuit of what you believe the right thing to do is.

00:04:37.720 That's what politics are when it comes to our government.

00:04:41.940 This should not be a surprise.

00:04:43.900 But he went on.

00:04:44.520 He didn't just stop there.

00:04:46.500 He admitted to the crime.

00:04:49.560 Mick Mulvaney admitted to it in front of the country.

00:04:54.020 Huge mistake here by Mulvaney.

00:04:56.200 Once again, here he is talking about the quid pro quo.

00:05:02.040 I'm talking to Mr. Carl.

00:05:04.620 That is going to happen.

00:05:05.840 Elections have consequences.

00:05:07.080 And foreign policy is going to change from the Obama administration to the Trump administration.

00:05:11.220 And what you're seeing now, I believe, is a group of mostly career bureaucrats who are saying,

00:05:17.200 you know what, I don't like President Trump's politics.

00:05:19.760 So I'm going to participate in this witch hunt that they're undertaking on the Hill.

00:05:23.980 Hmm.

00:05:24.620 Okay, that's not the right clip.

00:05:25.740 When we play the longer clip, does he have the long clip pulled?

00:05:29.660 It's the one with the quid pro quo.

00:05:31.160 It was the 243 clip, I believe, he pulled earlier this morning.

00:05:35.540 We talked to a little behind-the-scenes baseball here.

00:05:38.840 Let me know if you have that.

00:05:39.760 He talked about having the quid pro quo because that was an important part of this, right?

00:05:44.580 Like, and it was part of the defense initially, right?

00:05:47.400 One of the first thing was, oh, you know, this was, you know, they weren't talking about this.

00:05:52.480 And then it got to, well, there was no quid pro quo.

00:05:55.060 There was no quid pro quo, meaning they didn't give, they didn't hold back the money for Ukraine.

00:06:01.400 In exchange for anything, they held back the money because they thought it was the right thing to do.

00:06:07.680 It wasn't in exchange for the investigation of Biden.

00:06:15.200 And do we have the clip or I'll just explain it?

00:06:17.520 Basically, he said, very, okay, here we go.

00:06:22.800 Let's hear it.

00:06:23.120 What you just described is a quid pro quo.

00:06:25.380 It is funding will not flow unless the investigation into the Democratic server happened as well.

00:06:33.420 We do that all the time with foreign policy.

00:06:36.780 We were holding up money at the same time for, what was it, the Northern Triangle.

00:06:40.160 There it is.

00:06:40.620 Okay, stop.

00:06:41.100 So we do this all the time.

00:06:42.960 It's a quid pro quo.

00:06:43.700 We do this all the time.

00:06:45.100 This is the admission of the crime to the media today.

00:06:48.240 This is the whole case.

00:06:49.520 He came out and he said, first they said no quid pro quo.

00:06:52.840 John Carl said, hey, isn't that a quid pro quo?

00:06:54.780 And he said, yeah, we do it all the time.

00:06:56.820 Now, this is more of a problem with their initial defense, right, where they said there's a no quid pro quo.

00:07:01.940 I don't know why they said that, especially considering what they knew was on, you know, the call and the transcript of the call where, you know, he doesn't, it's not a specific quid pro quo, but he mentions the investigation very closely.

00:07:13.880 And it's easy to read that if you want to.

00:07:16.800 Okay.

00:07:17.140 But here Mulvaney actually says it.

00:07:18.720 Yes, we do this all the time.

00:07:20.260 We hold back money all the time for outcomes of policy that we want from foreign countries.

00:07:24.060 And he goes on to explain that, gives multiple examples.

00:07:26.620 Let me give you another example of this.

00:07:29.400 Here's Joe Biden talking and bragging in front of an audience about him engaging in quid pro quo.

00:07:37.580 Listen.

00:07:42.980 Okay.

00:07:43.460 Well, we don't have that either.

00:07:44.480 Wow.

00:07:44.620 This is a good start to the show.

00:07:46.100 We're off to a raging set.

00:07:47.080 This is what happens when Glenn's not here.

00:07:48.440 He's at Lady Gaga right now.

00:07:50.180 And people are just, I think everyone's asleep.

00:07:54.140 Everyone's asleep.

00:07:55.780 We have the video of a Biden from, we played this with Ukraine a bunch of times, where he says, if you've heard it before, this audience has already heard this stuff.

00:08:02.440 It's in the special.

00:08:03.440 But basically, Biden says, yeah, I held back the billion dollars so that they would fire this prosecutor.

00:08:11.900 He's bragging about it on stage.

00:08:13.520 It's actually the foundation.

00:08:15.460 The reason, at least from my perspective, it was when we kind of got introduced to this Ukraine story in real terms, because there were always rumors about Biden talking about his son Hunter and all of the benefits that they got.

00:08:30.540 There's, that's always, that's always been there.

00:08:33.840 However, it was really escalated when we uncovered, and I believe it was John Solomon who initially uncovered it, audio and video of Joe Biden saying he did it.

00:08:43.360 He said, I will withhold a billion dollars from Ukraine unless you fire this prosecutor.

00:08:48.940 Think about what's being said there.

00:08:51.580 I will withhold money unless I get this outcome involving a prosecution in Ukraine.

00:08:57.100 The accusation against Trump is that he was withholding money so that he could get an outcome with a prosecution in Ukraine.

00:09:09.820 They are nearly identical stories.

00:09:12.440 The difference, of course, being that Biden admitted to it a long time ago, and now it's a massive, huge, mega impeachment story because Mick Mulvaney admitted it yesterday.

00:09:29.100 And I think this is sort of complicated for the average person that maybe isn't listening to talk radio every day.

00:09:36.560 You have to put yourself in the perspective of a voter that isn't you, because you're sitting here listening to this every day.

00:09:42.600 You've heard all these stories.

00:09:43.960 You know all these audio clips.

00:09:45.340 You've been following this stuff, but you're not average.

00:09:49.860 I hate to tell you this.

00:09:51.700 You're way too nerdy for this society, okay?

00:09:54.740 You actually care.

00:09:55.940 Remember the person who said to Ben Franklin, you know, what have you given us?

00:09:59.240 And he's like, a republic if you can keep it.

00:10:01.600 Well, you're kind of trying to do that.

00:10:03.260 That's not everybody else.

00:10:05.040 There's a lot of people watching, you know, a lot of Kardashians.

00:10:07.880 So this is, they don't see these stories, and they don't understand every single, all the ins and outs here.

00:10:15.040 We all know, we know Donald Trump enough.

00:10:19.760 He's been around.

00:10:20.420 He's been one of the most popular and well-known figures in American society for nearly 40 years.

00:10:28.080 This is not some, we know what Donald Trump's like.

00:10:30.520 One of the reasons why he's in office is because we like the idea that he's coming out and he's just saying the stuff, right?

00:10:37.820 He's saying all the stuff that people accuse politicians of, some of it good, some of it bad.

00:10:43.720 He's coming out and admitting it.

00:10:44.920 He's saying, you know what?

00:10:45.640 Yeah, I do this, and yeah, I do that.

00:10:47.380 It's one of the things people really like about him.

00:10:49.100 And I just wish we could skip to the end of the story where we realize that, look, Donald Trump, every interaction he has, he's asking people about Ukraine and what Joe Biden did there.

00:10:59.320 That's probably true.

00:11:01.020 Every time he gets into an Uber, he asks the person, hey, you know, hey, what do you know about, you know, Biden, Ukraine?

00:11:06.260 You ever drive him around?

00:11:07.080 Was he ever talking about it?

00:11:08.220 Hey, Taco Bell delivery guy, did you ever talk to, what about you?

00:11:11.580 You over there.

00:11:12.240 How about you?

00:11:12.700 The guy who's fixing his electricity.

00:11:14.220 Did he know anything about Biden?

00:11:16.200 To say no, that's what Trump does.

00:11:18.560 Can we skip to the end of that story and admit that that's just what's happening here?

00:11:22.440 It's what he cares about.

00:11:24.020 So what he cares about is what he talks about.

00:11:26.620 And that's what people like about Trump.

00:11:29.080 And it's hard, I think, for the average person to look at this and say, wait a minute, it's just, why is this happening?

00:11:35.240 Is this true?

00:11:37.060 Is it fair the way the media is treating him?

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00:12:00.660 So George Kent, a deputy assistant secretary of state, testified this week that he was worried that Hunter Biden's position at the firm Burisma would complicate efforts by U.S. diplomats to convey to Ukrainian officials the importance of avoiding conflicts of interest.

00:12:15.960 I wonder why that was a problem.

00:12:18.820 Sure, the vice president is head of Ukrainian policy.

00:12:21.440 And this is a giant Ukrainian gas company.

00:12:23.380 What could possibly be the conflict of interest hiring his son who had no experience in natural gas or Ukraine?

00:12:30.600 I can't think of anything that could possibly go wrong there.

00:12:34.960 This is something that Biden campaign is, of course, struggling with.

00:12:39.600 The vice president said he didn't have the bandwidth to deal with the issue when it was brought up to him.

00:12:45.260 Mild problem.

00:12:46.380 And it's also in conflict with what Joe Biden is actually saying.

00:12:51.980 This is Joe Biden from the debate talking about his dealings with Hunter Biden and Burisma.

00:12:59.180 No, no, no, no, no, I don't.

00:13:01.840 And because I never discussed with my son anything having to do with what was going on in Ukraine.

00:13:08.400 That's a fact.

00:13:10.240 Never discussed it with him.

00:13:11.500 Now, this is at odds, of course, with the words of Hunter Biden, who said they did discuss it in passing once.

00:13:21.380 Did not say that they talked about it a lot.

00:13:23.580 Did not say they went into a lot of detail.

00:13:25.640 But basically what Joe Biden said was, hey, Hunter, I hope you know what you're doing on this thing.

00:13:30.460 And Hunter was like, oh, I do.

00:13:32.480 Now, that is a separate issue, right?

00:13:34.100 It's not just the situation where Joe Biden does actually talk to Hunter Biden about Burisma when he said multiple times, not only there, but also in the debate, that he was, that he never said anything to Hunter about this.

00:13:52.100 Which is such an impossible strain on any level of credibility.

00:13:59.260 They were on a plane together to Ukraine.

00:14:04.240 What the hell else do you talk about on that plane trip?

00:14:07.040 There's nothing else to talk about when you go to Ukraine.

00:14:09.800 Chernobyl?

00:14:10.760 Maybe?

00:14:12.060 I mean, maybe?

00:14:12.920 I can't think of no one.

00:14:14.500 Bizarrely, every single Democrat seems to find a reason to send their children to Ukraine, which is a place where every Ukrainian parent tries to get them out of. 0.53

00:14:25.740 Half the country is littered with nuclear waste.

00:14:28.220 The other half looks like a sequel to Hostel.

00:14:30.760 This is not a good place to enjoy a vacation.

00:14:35.040 Yet every single Democratic politician was like, hey, kids, there's a summer camp in Ukraine.

00:14:40.240 I'm thinking it would be a good place for you to go live.

00:14:42.420 The best place, the best thing about it, 50 grand a month or more.

00:14:46.640 So for some reason, this is vacation paradise for every Democrat.

00:14:50.420 It doesn't make any sense.

00:14:52.580 There's no way, I mean, there's no way it's true.

00:14:56.860 Can we get to that point?

00:14:58.100 There's no way they didn't discuss this.

00:14:59.960 He's the head of, he's the front man for policy on Ukraine.

00:15:04.920 His son has a job at a giant company in Ukraine.

00:15:09.660 Hunter says they talked about it once.

00:15:11.440 That can't possibly be true.

00:15:13.540 They talked about it a thousand times.

00:15:15.640 They talked about the political ramifications of it.

00:15:18.020 They talked about what was actually happening.

00:15:20.160 They probably talked about, you know what?

00:15:23.080 This guy who's going after Burisma on not one investigation, but multiple investigations.

00:15:29.280 That guy, he happens to be a guy that we don't really trust that much anyway.

00:15:33.860 So maybe I'll put lots and lots of pressure and make sure he's not going to be in power anymore.

00:15:38.420 You're telling me that didn't come up?

00:15:39.720 I just don't believe it.

00:15:41.680 So far, there's no evidence of that conversation.

00:15:44.300 But I'm just saying as a human being, I don't believe that dad and son went on a 9,000 hour plane trip to Ukraine and what they were doing there never came up.

00:15:54.560 It's just impossible.

00:15:55.920 Is it not?

00:15:56.360 Are we not human beings and know how human beings interact?

00:16:00.500 We know that happened.

00:16:02.800 But we don't have concrete evidence.

00:16:06.300 We don't have the transcript of that conversation.

00:16:08.580 But it seems very, very plausible that that occurred.

00:16:14.440 And let's go on beyond that.

00:16:16.760 Not only is he saying he didn't ask Hunter about it, and Hunter is saying we talked about it once, and Joe Biden's question was, hey, you know, I hope you got this.

00:16:26.940 I hope you know what you're doing.

00:16:28.500 He is talking to a man who has had basically a series of personal problems that would make Sean Penn embarrassed.

00:16:38.640 This is a guy, Hunter Biden, who I'm sure tries really hard to avoid these things.

00:16:45.700 But there are real people with real problems that have real difficulty dealing with life.

00:16:50.440 And Hunter Biden is one of these people.

00:16:52.960 He's had all sorts of drug problems.

00:16:56.200 He's had drug-infused car accidents in rental cars.

00:17:00.740 He left a rental car at Hertz with white powder on the dashboard.

00:17:05.740 This is not a minor mistake.

00:17:07.340 This is happening while he's at Burisma.

00:17:10.980 And somehow, Burisma was like, you know who needs to come here?

00:17:15.480 Do you know who needs to come here for $50,000 a month or more and be a board member of our company in a country he's never been to with a product he's never dealt with?

00:17:26.940 That guy.

00:17:27.800 The white powder on the dashboard guy.

00:17:29.980 That's the guy.

00:17:33.120 This is blatantly insane.

00:17:35.140 And it shows Joe Biden's judgment that if this story is true, it might actually be worse.

00:17:41.760 If Joe Biden's idea of judgment is to go to his son, who is Ben, I have a list of 28 individual personal failings that have gone on in Hunter Biden's life that we know of.

00:17:57.020 Including when he took a cigarette laced with another drug from a random, I believe he called him North African person in a parking lot.

00:18:12.200 But that person is the person Joe went to and said, I hope you know what you're doing.

00:18:18.280 He doesn't know what he's doing.

00:18:20.740 Is it not clear that this person does not know what they're doing?

00:18:24.500 This person has tried to manage his life unsuccessfully at every single turn.

00:18:31.480 The idea that you just turn over this random responsibility to not only protect your dad's political future, but also to avoid future allegations of corruption.

00:18:47.780 And also just to be able to get up and tie your shoes every day.

00:18:51.420 None of these things Hunter has been able to be trusted with in his life.

00:18:54.840 And I don't say that as making fun of him.

00:18:57.040 It's just he, he, you know, it's hard for me running a mile.

00:19:01.380 You know, it's hard for Hunter waking up and not going into rehab.

00:19:05.000 That's his life.

00:19:05.900 That's how difficult it is.

00:19:06.960 He went into rehab, I believe, eight times, eight times.

00:19:12.380 And dad's question is, I hope you know what you're doing.

00:19:15.020 He doesn't know what he's doing.

00:19:18.600 Maybe we get into this.

00:19:19.720 I'm going to give you a little bit of detail here on Hunter Biden.

00:19:23.920 You need to hear the, the events that lead up to him getting this job.

00:19:30.500 Think about offering a job to this person.

00:19:33.820 All right.

00:19:34.480 Welcome back.

00:19:35.300 It's a Stuart for Glenn of the Glenn Beck program.

00:19:36.740 I kid you not.

00:19:38.380 He went to a Lady Gaga concert and that's why he's not here.

00:19:42.300 I'm not making that up.

00:19:43.780 Usually I make things up when Glenn is out and I, I lie to you and I tell you all sorts

00:19:47.620 of crazy reasons he's not here.

00:19:49.020 This time it's true. 0.91

00:19:50.020 He's at a Lady Gaga concert.

00:19:53.440 Full stop.

00:19:54.880 Just wanted you to know.

00:19:56.220 Now, speaking of really irrational personal choices, let's go into Hunter Biden.

00:20:01.760 Hunter Biden, this is the guy hired for $50,000 a month.

00:20:05.240 This is the guy trusted in these, in these high level dealings, billions of dollars on

00:20:10.840 the line in China.

00:20:12.260 This is his history.

00:20:13.700 When he was in college, he started using cocaine.

00:20:16.120 Now look, we were all in college and used cocaine.

00:20:18.600 I'm sure this is certainly a long time ago.

00:20:21.700 By the way, I wasn't in college or used cocaine.

00:20:23.620 So I'm perfectly clear from this one.

00:20:27.280 He was in college and used cocaine.

00:20:28.780 It's one of those things.

00:20:29.780 I guess you can excuse, right?

00:20:31.360 Like in all seriousness, it's not something that I know a lot of people who, but we, you

00:20:36.660 know, I can think of a couple that I do know who have done that.

00:20:39.920 And it was a long time ago and it was college and everybody tries crazy things in college,

00:20:43.840 apparently.

00:20:45.320 Now, uh, he got a, uh, he got a laced cigarette crack.

00:20:51.920 It was laced with crack in college.

00:20:54.100 Now look, that probably happens to a lot of people too.

00:20:57.200 You're going to have a regular cigarette.

00:20:58.520 Ah, it's laced with a little crack.

00:20:59.720 It happens.

00:21:01.280 I think he actually tried to make crack into a cigarette was this one.

00:21:03.800 Actually, he got crack, didn't know what to do with it, decided to smoke it in a cigarette

00:21:07.880 and didn't really get high, I believe was his telling.

00:21:11.380 2001, he's plastered on a train.

00:21:15.440 2003, he finally realizes I've had this problem and I'm not going to drink for 30 days.

00:21:21.020 Okay.

00:21:21.920 And he does not drink for 30 days.

00:21:24.760 Impressive.

00:21:25.820 And then he drinks on day 31 and then he starts over again.

00:21:28.780 He goes 30 days because that's his goal.

00:21:30.880 Gets past his goal.

00:21:32.120 And then on 31, day 31, he does it again.

00:21:34.640 And he says, he repeats this over and over and over again.

00:21:36.720 He goes 30 days, I got to get through 30 days.

00:21:38.380 He gets through 30 days and then on day 31, he blows it.

00:21:40.820 It's like me with a diet.

00:21:43.380 September 2003, he goes into rehab for the first time.

00:21:46.780 Later on, he goes into Alcoholics Anonymous.

00:21:50.400 Then he has a pretty good stretch, about seven years, where he is reportedly sober.

00:21:56.160 And these are all his tellings here.

00:21:57.420 I'm not unearthing any incidents.

00:22:01.920 In 2010, he has a relapse, has three Bloody Marys.

00:22:05.560 Between 2010 and 2011, he drinks heavily for several months.

00:22:09.560 2011, goes back to rehab.

00:22:10.960 And that's rehab two.

00:22:12.320 Or three.

00:22:12.900 It depends if you count AA.

00:22:14.020 I guess that's also kind of rehab.

00:22:16.020 2013, he gets the shingles.

00:22:18.780 I don't want to even think about the shingles. 1.00

00:22:20.800 It really grosses me out.

00:22:21.780 But the point is, he gets the shingles, he gets painkillers, and that sends him back

00:22:25.680 into a problem.

00:22:27.700 In May 2013, he stops at a bar.

00:22:31.960 And this is where he gets the laced cigarettes from the North African, which hasn't had that

00:22:36.960 happen to him.

00:22:37.980 Now, this is all before he started at Burisma.

00:22:41.460 Okay?

00:22:41.840 So, I mean, look.

00:22:42.760 You can't even count that stuff.

00:22:45.520 2013, he has cocaine in his system.

00:22:49.340 And it's found by the military.

00:22:50.820 Now, that's a problem.

00:22:51.540 I will say this.

00:22:54.140 He says it's because he had that laced cigarette from the North African.

00:22:58.220 So, it's the North African's fault. 1.00

00:22:59.940 We can all blame the North Africans on that test. 1.00

00:23:03.900 Then, he goes to rehab again.

00:23:06.380 This time in Tijuana, because who wouldn't go to Tijuana to get your rehab?

00:23:10.380 But this is rehab where they're using some illegal substance here in the United States.

00:23:15.660 It's like some controversial, probably not scientific rehab.

00:23:19.340 Where he takes some weird herb in Tijuana.

00:23:23.040 It's like, you know, Andy Kaufman when he was trying to get his cancer cured.

00:23:26.140 That's basically what we have here.

00:23:29.580 Then, he leaves that rehab and goes, where else would you go, to rehab in Arizona.

00:23:35.440 Which is, this is now what, number four or five we're on, as far as rehab goes.

00:23:40.760 Around 2015, this is when he's coming home from a devastating funeral.

00:23:47.480 He's going through couples therapy.

00:23:49.340 By the way, he is now at Burisma, earning all this money, $50,000 a month.

00:23:54.600 So, they hired him with all the stuff I've given you so far.

00:23:57.820 Now, he's there, and this stuff is happening.

00:24:00.540 He goes to couples therapy.

00:24:02.320 They're talking about how terrible it is.

00:24:04.180 If you drink one more time, you've got to move out.

00:24:06.140 He leaves couples therapy and goes and drinks a bottle of vodka.

00:24:11.140 Then, he has to move out.

00:24:12.420 In 2015, one of his relapses is actually with the guy from Burisma.

00:24:20.240 He's on his boat doing shots.

00:24:23.300 His relapse is with the Burisma guy. 1.00

00:24:26.060 They continue to employ him through this.

00:24:28.040 2016, he becomes a shut-in.

00:24:33.180 He's very depressed with the whole situation with his brother has gone on.

00:24:36.720 His relationships are breaking up.

00:24:38.260 And he becomes almost a shut-in.

00:24:41.180 And he says himself, I only leave for vodka at this point.

00:24:46.960 February 2016, he's back in rehab.

00:24:50.440 What are we at, six?

00:24:51.500 Is that six now?

00:24:52.400 Six rehab stints?

00:24:53.960 In June 2016, he goes to Monte Carlo because what a great place for you to visit if you happen to be in rehab six times.

00:25:02.260 Why not go to Monte Carlo?

00:25:03.640 I believe this visit, too, was another conference related to Burisma.

00:25:07.480 And he does what we all do when it's time to go potty.

00:25:10.620 He had cocaine with a guy in the bathroom who was a stranger.

00:25:15.300 Because what better decision-making capability can you have than to snort something off of a bathroom sink counter from a stranger?

00:25:26.700 Why not put some white powder up your nose from some guy you just met in a bathroom?

00:25:32.080 I mean, just forget the cocaine.

00:25:33.800 I don't want to sniff that close to anything in a bathroom.

00:25:36.560 It's a terrible idea in every way.

00:25:38.160 So, in fall 2016, he's on his way to rehab again, which I think would be number seven, something like that.

00:25:46.880 And while he's there, he loses his wallet.

00:25:49.780 Now, this, of course, has happened to everybody.

00:25:51.580 Everyone lost their wallet.

00:25:53.220 Well, he left his on the plane.

00:25:55.260 That's tough, right?

00:25:55.980 If you left your wallet on the plane, what are you going to do?

00:25:58.720 Luckily, he also happened to have a credit card in his pocket, which is what everyone does when they have a wallet,

00:26:04.380 which is keep one credit card in your pocket, but leave your wallet somewhere else.

00:26:09.120 This is not something I've ever heard occur, but I've never smoked crack with a North African either.

00:26:16.200 Now, he lost his wallet, but then still finds a way to buy crack, which, again, I'm not that familiar with the financial arrangements with your everyday crack dealer.

00:26:29.660 But I would assume that's a little odd, but maybe he was taking cash advances with his credit card?

00:26:34.520 I don't know.

00:26:35.920 With over the next week, he goes back and buys crack, as he says, a few more times.

00:26:40.480 Then he gets in a fight at a bar.

00:26:43.420 By the way, all still getting $50,000 a month here from Burisma throughout this entire period.

00:26:48.740 He goes and he has a guy, some guy, I wish I had his name in front of me.

00:26:53.760 It's like Sloppy Joe is his name or something.

00:26:56.820 It's something like, I remember thinking it reminded me of like a rapper name, like the Notorious B.I.G. or something.

00:27:05.100 It was like some guy, I think he actually may have been a rapper, a local rapper.

00:27:08.960 And he rescued him because he felt bad for Hunter Biden, some local rapper.

00:27:14.960 And he gets him money to get a rental car.

00:27:17.880 Hunter takes the rental car, is of course on drugs while he's driving it, and crashes it.

00:27:21.840 And Hertz says, hey, I guess, you know, we have a deal where we're supposed to pick people up when they have accidents.

00:27:27.260 So they bring a new car out to him, which he promptly, I believe, crashes again,

00:27:31.480 but certainly returns to Hertz with drugs left on the counter, or the console.

00:27:40.080 He's got white powder in the Hertz car, along with his government identification still left in the car after he leaves.

00:27:46.460 The reason he got in the second accident is because he believes he hallucinated an owl.

00:27:52.640 I'm not making any of this up.

00:27:55.480 Finally, he gets divorced, and he goes immediately after the divorce because there's press reports that he had problems with strip clubs.

00:28:03.040 He says, I've never been to a strip club in many, many years.

00:28:05.780 But what does he do when he sees the reports?

00:28:07.360 He goes immediately to a strip club by his own admission.

00:28:10.260 This does not include any of the personal life sort of stuff that went on with his relationship,

00:28:14.600 where he was married, then he got divorced, then he started dating the widow of his brother,

00:28:22.580 and then he met a South African woman, and a week later married her like a couple of months ago from right now.

00:28:30.880 That's this history we're talking about.

00:28:32.540 This guy was trusted with these decisions by a man who wants to be president of the United States.

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00:29:15.100 We've been looking at some of the Democratic proposals.

00:29:17.700 We obviously had the debate this week, and there's a little bit of a competition going back and forth

00:29:22.300 as to how much government is going to grow, how many of these new policies are going to go into effect,

00:29:31.400 and how much it's going to cost us.

00:29:32.760 Kind of a famous thing going back with Elizabeth Warren, who will not admit that she's raising taxes on middle-class people,

00:29:39.060 which is so weird and awkward and strange.

00:29:42.640 She has this red line or something that she doesn't want to give a commercial to Republicans, 1.00

00:29:46.480 and she's so bad at avoiding and being evasive that she just winds up repeating herself over and over again

00:29:52.540 with that deer-in-headlights look that she gets. 0.97

00:29:54.660 And this is the type of thing that Donald Trump is going to expose in a dramatic way in a debate

00:30:00.000 if she actually becomes the nominee.

00:30:01.760 But we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

00:30:04.620 Let's talk for a minute about Bernie Sanders and his proposals.

00:30:09.340 And Brian Riedel is with us.

00:30:10.480 He's a senior fellow at Manhattan Institute.

00:30:12.940 And this is a guy who, Brian, you know, you're not some crazy person here.

00:30:18.080 You're a person that, you're not some partisan conservative.

00:30:21.520 You're looking at these things, and you're saying, what are the costs,

00:30:25.480 to the extent that even Vox has printed your analysis on many of these policies?

00:30:30.320 Hi, Stu.

00:30:30.840 Yeah, when I decided to add up the cost of everything Bernie Sanders was offering,

00:30:36.780 which, by the way, is difficult because every time you finish, he proposes something new.

00:30:41.320 To the extent that it was possible, I relied on Bernie's own numbers.

00:30:46.660 I relied on the Congressional Budget Office.

00:30:49.720 I relied on the existing information.

00:30:52.740 I wasn't, you know, trying to do some right-wing agenda, cook the numbers.

00:30:58.560 I said, for all proposals, let's first look for Bernie's data.

00:31:03.040 And if Bernie's data is not available, let's look for the Congressional Budget Office.

00:31:07.000 And only then, if there's no score, I will ballpark my own score for a proposal.

00:31:12.080 But then I'll walk the reader through how I calculated it so that they could put in their own score if they want.

00:31:17.520 And it's very detailed, your breakdown here.

00:31:19.620 We're going to tweet out the article, make sure that everybody can read the full detail.

00:31:23.500 But let's start from the bottom, and we'll build to the actual total cost here,

00:31:28.680 because it's almost to the point where you think it's a made-up number.

00:31:32.120 We're almost there.

00:31:33.880 Here we go.

00:31:34.800 Starting with public school teacher salaries, that's an easy, low-cost expense.

00:31:39.960 How much is that going to cost us over the next decade?

00:31:41.580 Sanders wants to spend $400 billion over 10 years, ensuring that all public school teachers earn at least $60,000 a year from day one.

00:31:53.000 Okay. All right. That's easy.

00:31:54.080 I mean, $400 billion is almost nothing these days.

00:31:57.400 How about more education spending?

00:32:00.040 This is from K to 12.

00:32:02.000 That is $800 billion, just general expansions across the board.

00:32:07.300 Did he make any specificity as to what he's spending this on?

00:32:12.320 A lot of it would be Title I, low-income grants.

00:32:15.260 A lot of it would be special education.

00:32:17.920 A lot of it would be typical government special interest handouts for teachers who implement policies the Bernie Sanders way.

00:32:26.200 Okay.

00:32:27.060 Now, we know eventually we're going to get to infrastructure week.

00:32:30.380 We know it's around the corner at any time.

00:32:32.820 Bernie's got a nice big infrastructure week going on.

00:32:35.100 If he becomes president, how much does that cost us?

00:32:37.540 $1 trillion.

00:32:38.980 Now we're at, what, $2.2 trillion.

00:32:41.160 This is nothing.

00:32:42.060 Not a big deal at all.

00:32:43.400 Okay. Next up.

00:32:44.580 It's nothing.

00:32:45.320 It's only the cost of the Republican tax cuts that were supposed to end the world.

00:32:48.440 Oh, yeah.

00:32:49.060 That's right.

00:32:50.500 Has the world ended yet?

00:32:51.520 I have not been keeping track.

00:32:52.740 No, no.

00:32:53.300 But remember when $2.2 trillion was more money than you could imagine two years ago?

00:32:59.740 Yeah.

00:33:00.100 Now it's, meh.

00:33:01.680 That's nothing.

00:33:02.300 I have a theory that the tax cuts and net neutrality, that we're both going to end the world, canceled each other out, and that's why we're still alive.

00:33:08.780 Yeah.

00:33:08.920 That's just a theory, though.

00:33:10.620 Okay.

00:33:11.460 Paid family leave is another big one.

00:33:13.980 Popular proposal.

00:33:14.980 People really seem to like it.

00:33:16.460 How much does that cost?

00:33:17.580 $1.6 trillion.

00:33:19.680 So now we're at $3.8 trillion, if I'm keeping this scorecard correctly.

00:33:24.720 Explain the Bernie Sanders housing proposal, because it's pretty freaking expensive.

00:33:32.260 It's $2.5 trillion.

00:33:35.040 It's pretty vague.

00:33:36.940 The $2.5 trillion comes from Sanders himself, but it's a way to basically guarantee low-income housing for all.

00:33:44.680 He doesn't really specify that much how he would do it, other than there would be huge grants to states to build more houses and guarantee housing for all, paid for by you, the taxpayer.

00:33:58.680 Now, I know Bernie's got a bunch of houses, but the $2.5 trillion isn't actually coming from Bernie himself.

00:34:04.220 He's not paying out of his own pocket for this, of course.

00:34:07.420 Oh, heavens no, you're paying.

00:34:08.560 All right, I want to make sure, because I knew Bernie had some cash.

00:34:11.660 I did not know he had $2.5 trillion.

00:34:13.260 All right, so now we're at $4.1, $5.1, $6.3 trillion.

00:34:19.460 What would the total budget be for the United States over this period?

00:34:25.600 Do we know?

00:34:26.440 Well, the baseline, over the next 10 years, the federal government is going to spend $60 trillion.

00:34:31.520 Okay, so we've already spent an additional $7 trillion, so we're already up over 10%.

00:34:35.080 Next up, we have the expansion of Social Security.

00:34:41.300 Yes, Social Security is going bankrupt, and Sanders wants to put more money so that it can go bankrupt faster.

00:34:49.480 That's higher benefits, higher benefits at the bottom.

00:34:53.680 Let's redistribute even more money upward to wealthy seniors than the current system already does. 0.99

00:35:00.160 And that costs how much?

00:35:01.180 That is about $1.8 trillion.

00:35:04.600 Yeah, $1.8 trillion.

00:35:05.760 Unbelievable.

00:35:06.360 Okay, so we're at $1.8 trillion, and we haven't started getting into the big stuff yet.

00:35:11.280 This is, we are still at the bottom of this budget for Bernie Sanders.

00:35:15.760 We're at about $8 trillion, which used to be an impossible amount of money, and now it's a rounding error.

00:35:21.820 Amazing.

00:35:22.460 Okay, so now Bernie wants to make sure that people have a living wage.

00:35:27.980 This is a big problem for Bernie.

00:35:29.560 He wants to make sure people are making $15.

00:35:32.340 What's that?

00:35:33.540 Did we skip education?

00:35:34.740 Or did we skip our college education?

00:35:36.160 Oh, okay, sorry.

00:35:36.780 College free.

00:35:37.440 He wants free.

00:35:38.860 I did skip that one.

00:35:40.200 Free college education.

00:35:41.240 What's that cost?

00:35:42.280 $3 trillion to pay off everybody's student loan in America and guarantee that every public college is free moving forward.

00:35:52.860 Of course, the private colleges would not be free, and they would be completely hammered by this policy because everyone would just stampede to the free public colleges.

00:36:03.540 Right.

00:36:03.720 The private schools would be decimated.

00:36:06.120 That's about $3 trillion.

00:36:07.020 So I just skipped $3 trillion.

00:36:09.940 Please forgive me, but it was just, you know, I didn't see it sitting over there.

00:36:13.040 There was a big pile.

00:36:13.860 I didn't even realize what it was.

00:36:14.880 So an extra $3 trillion over in the corner.

00:36:16.460 We're now up to $11.1 trillion.

00:36:19.060 Now, and I will say, too, one minor thing about this free college thing that I don't hear tossed around that often, the value of college to an individual goes down when everyone's going.

00:36:30.980 Right?

00:36:31.180 Like, you're no longer separating yourself for high-level jobs if every single person is going for free.

00:36:37.700 Then it comes back to a merit-based system, which we were supposed to have anyway, but you've just wasted multiple trillions of dollars figuring it all out.

00:36:45.320 Right, you go from standard K-12 to standard K-16, and academic standards are going to be lower because schools aren't going to want all these new people flunking out, especially with it that'll cost them their government money.

00:36:58.240 So, yeah, I mean, they're just going to lower standards, and we'll all have our standard K-16, and you'll have to find different ways to signal to an employer that you know what you're doing.

00:37:06.900 All right, now we're going to get to the $15 an hour, full benefits, everybody out there.

00:37:11.560 And I've heard that this may cause up to something like 50% of all people to be employed by the government, which would be an interesting proposal.

00:37:21.240 How much does this cost, though?

00:37:22.780 It has to be massive.

00:37:24.200 This is one where I had to walk the reader through my own estimate because nobody has really costed it out.

00:37:30.240 By my estimate, guaranteeing everybody who wants one a $15 an hour job plus full benefits would cost $30 trillion over the decade, and that's probably an underestimate.

00:37:45.460 That's a lot of money.

00:37:46.760 Why is it an underestimate?

00:37:47.780 Because the numbers that we used are based on a $56,000 per person cost that a liberal think tank came up with that was based on only paying $11.83 per hour.

00:38:02.400 Bernie wants to pay $15.

00:38:04.300 Wow.

00:38:04.600 We also assume that only half – you're not just going to get the unemployed join this program.

00:38:10.700 Right.

00:38:10.880 You're going to get everybody who's currently making less than $15 an hour is going to want in, yet I only assume half of the people who would get a raise actually quit their job and go into this.

00:38:22.860 Wow.

00:38:23.300 Nor do I account for a recession or anything else like that where you're going to get even higher enrollment.

00:38:28.640 So, I mean, you could actually – it could be double the $30 trillion if everybody who would actually get a raise from this and would take advantage of the fact that you can't be – this is a new job that you can't be fired from, no matter how lazy you are, and that you get $15 an hour.

00:38:46.280 I mean, if everybody who would get a higher raise joined, it would actually be about $60 trillion.

00:38:51.180 So, I'm going to put that on the side, an extra $30 trillion that may be in cost because everything – and I'm glad you brought that up because it shows how detailed you are here.

00:38:59.360 This is not you're trying to inflate these numbers.

00:39:01.320 You're actually undercutting them by a lot.

00:39:04.220 And I will say the quality of work you're getting out of a person that you're paying $15 an hour for that cannot be fired no matter how bad they are at the job, it's not going to be a high quality of work.

00:39:15.260 And think of the effect on the economy in terms of productivity.

00:39:17.980 We're going to have people quit their private sector jobs to move into government make-work jobs that were created just to keep them busy and that they can't be fired from.

00:39:29.200 And we're going to put, by my estimate, 45 million workers into these make-work community service jobs.

00:39:37.980 Think of what that's going to do to the productivity in the economy.

00:39:41.580 I mean, you're going to have an immediate recession.

00:39:44.120 All right.

00:39:44.500 That's incredible.

00:39:45.300 We're up to $41.2 trillion, at least.

00:39:49.080 Now we have the biggest challenge that we fight as a planet, global warming, climate change.

00:39:56.680 Obviously, Bernie's got to dish a bunch of cash at that. 1.00

00:39:59.480 How much is he going for?

00:40:00.880 Bernie has promised $16.3 trillion over 10 years to save the planet.

00:40:07.160 I think he's channeling the Green New Deal in Congress.

00:40:10.360 I mean, and that's what he's admitting to.

00:40:13.980 We all know that he's going to spend more than everything he's admitting to because every government official, Republican and Democrat, does that.

00:40:21.660 So we're up to now $57.5 trillion.

00:40:26.240 How much is the entire budget projected to be for the next 10 years again, Brian?

00:40:29.420 $60 trillion.

00:40:30.200 So we're basically now doubling the entire budget.

00:40:33.560 And you may notice I have not mentioned one more thing, which is Medicare for all.

00:40:39.600 Medicare for all.

00:40:40.480 It's not Medicare for all who want it.

00:40:42.080 It's not a public option.

00:40:43.600 It's eliminating private insurance and giving free health care to every single person, quote unquote, free health care, to every single person over a 10-year period.

00:40:52.780 What's the cost of that?

00:40:53.640 If you even ask Bernie Sanders, he now concedes up to $40 trillion over 10 years.

00:41:01.680 $40 trillion over 10 years.

00:41:05.720 Yeah.

00:41:06.200 So now we are at, you want to give the big final number here, Brian?

00:41:10.340 The total cost of the Sanders agenda, using mostly his own numbers, is $97.5 trillion over 10 years.

00:41:18.780 We are about to cross the $100 trillion barrier for just new proposals.

00:41:26.200 Remember, this is in excess of the $60 trillion we're already planning on spending, which is always underestimated.

00:41:32.280 We're going to take $60 trillion, add on another $97.5 trillion.

00:41:36.540 Plus, I would argue your number to the high side is going to be more accurate with the jobs, which would add another $30 trillion.

00:41:43.680 We're at $125 trillion, $127 trillion.

00:41:47.660 Brian, how long until we have to teach America what the word quadrillion means?

00:41:54.380 Yeah, we're heading that direction.

00:41:56.080 There's an old joke that, you know, by the time we get to the Iowa caucuses, Bernie's going to be spending 100% of GDP at the rate he's going.

00:42:04.320 I mean, I'm sure he'll top $100 trillion soon.

00:42:08.260 Because every time I would finish this dumb article, Bernie would propose something new and I would have to redo my numbers.

00:42:14.500 Brian Riedel from the Manhattan Institute.

00:42:16.060 We're going to tweet this whole article out.

00:42:17.700 You can see all the details.

00:42:19.020 It is absolutely fascinating to go through this.

00:42:21.340 Because wait till you, I mean, I wish we had more time with you.

00:42:23.620 Because going through the numbers, comparing it to other countries, he says he's a European socialist.

00:42:28.520 He's far exceeding anything that's happening in Europe as far as spending goes.

00:42:33.200 Read all about this in Brian Riedel's great article.

00:42:36.160 He's at Brian underscore R-I-E-D-L on Twitter.

00:42:39.660 Brian, thanks for coming on the program.

00:42:41.040 Thanks a lot, Stu.

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00:43:04.880 You know, sometimes life gets in the way of what's actually happening.

00:43:11.800 I believe it was the philosopher Ferris Bueller who said, life moves pretty fast.

00:43:16.540 If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

00:43:20.660 It's true, you know, what Ferris said.

00:43:23.200 And it is one of those things that I think affects all of us.

00:43:27.260 We get in the middle of these huge news stories, these huge news cycles, and we sometimes miss

00:43:31.140 massive things.

00:43:33.020 Things that we should be all either celebrating or be horrified by.

00:43:37.760 Things that define an era.

00:43:40.140 Things that people look back on later on and say, hey, remember when that happened.

00:43:45.920 You know, just the most massive events at the time don't always seem so massive.

00:43:56.700 You know, when something that you depend on collapses in horror, you know, you kind of

00:44:04.520 in the middle of a news cycle like this, you could lose something.

00:44:07.580 And I think when these things happen, we need to focus on them a little bit and understand

00:44:11.060 the historical context.

00:44:12.520 I mean, if you can think about like, you know, we now look back at new Coke collapsing,

00:44:18.020 right?

00:44:18.140 They bring in new Coke.

00:44:19.140 Oh my gosh, it's a horror show.

00:44:20.900 Then classic Coke comes back.

00:44:22.440 They finally start calling it Coke 2 for some reason, which was a really weird moment.

00:44:27.120 And then they get rid of it.

00:44:28.400 Crystal Pepsi comes out, right?

00:44:30.020 It's this big thing, millions of dollars of advertising, and then it's just gone.

00:44:34.500 One day, tens of thousands of employees of Bennegan's went to work.

00:44:42.520 To serve people Monte Cristo sandwiches, and the doors were locked.

00:44:47.900 And the company had gone bankrupt, and basically every Bennegan's closed.

00:44:52.880 Unexpectedly from one day to the next.

00:44:55.020 Just gone!

00:44:56.520 Now, you might think Bennegan's might not be that big historically, but it is responsible

00:45:01.400 for much of my weight gain from back in those days.

00:45:04.000 Because the Monte Cristo was a devastating sandwich.

00:45:06.720 I mean, you've got ham, turkey, two types of cheese, the three pieces of bread.

00:45:12.980 So you've got kind of a Big Mac set up.

00:45:14.660 And then all of that, you're taking, and you're going to dip it in batter.

00:45:19.740 Then you're going to pop that puppy into the deep fryer.

00:45:23.320 Then it's going to come out of the deep fryer.

00:45:24.660 You're going to sprinkle the top of it with powdered sugar.

00:45:26.940 And then they're going to give you, on the side, because that's not enough.

00:45:31.700 They're going to give you, on the side, a little bit of raspberry jam to dunk that thing in. 0.96

00:45:36.280 I mean, that was like a month of constant thanksgivings in one meal.

00:45:42.120 Somehow, that place closed in America, which must have been a really crappy business, man.

00:45:46.540 I remember growing up, and I lived a very difficult life.

00:45:52.480 Difficult childhood in suburban Connecticut.

00:45:54.380 And I remember, though, the one place of paradise down the highway, which I thought was paradise.

00:46:01.900 You know, now when I drive through it, it's just East Haven, Connecticut.

00:46:04.760 But in East Haven, Connecticut, they had, right next to each other, a Toys R Us and a place called Child World.

00:46:14.340 Now, these were competing toy stores right next to each other.

00:46:17.660 Toys R Us and Child World.

00:46:19.100 And Child World was this really cool toy store, and it had, like, a panda as its mascot.

00:46:25.220 And I assume with a name like Child's World, the CEO was probably, like, Jeffrey Epstein.

00:46:29.360 I don't know who it was.

00:46:31.060 Looking back at it, it's a strange thing.

00:46:32.520 But it was right next to Toys R Us.

00:46:34.180 And then one day, it wasn't.

00:46:36.300 One day, it was just Toys R Us.

00:46:38.440 And Child World had closed.

00:46:39.940 It was a devastating moment of my childhood.

00:46:41.760 And then I passed that devastation of capitalism to my son and daughter this past year, when every Toys R Us closed.

00:46:50.300 It was brutal.

00:46:51.640 It's historic.

00:46:54.580 And that's the way we need to look at the utter, spectacular collapse of Beto O'Rourke.

00:47:05.000 I want to think of how significant this is.

00:47:08.940 This is not something you look back at, and who was that guy?

00:47:11.280 This is a cataclysmic destruction of one's own career in front of our very eyes.

00:47:18.640 We've all been able to witness it, to soak it in over the past year.

00:47:23.380 And I can tell you, it's particularly tasty in Texas.

00:47:29.340 Oh, it's delicious here in Texas.

00:47:32.480 It's Monte Cristo at Bennigan's Delicious here in Texas.

00:47:37.500 Beto O'Rourke, this candidate that, can you even remember the time he was surrounded by constant, fawning media coverage?

00:47:50.020 This was the golden child.

00:47:52.220 This is the guy who, on the cover of, what was it, Vanity Fair, said,

00:47:56.320 that I was the chosen one.

00:47:57.880 I was born for this.

00:48:02.120 About himself.

00:48:03.180 That Robert Francis O'Rourke, that Bob Frank O'Rourke, is now, has now just dropped to the levels where it's almost impossible to be embarrassed further.

00:48:20.460 He launched into this campaign, people don't remember this, in second place behind only Biden, who wasn't in the race yet.

00:48:28.540 He was right there, 15%.

00:48:30.420 Him and Sanders were right there at the top.

00:48:34.560 And now, he might not even make the next debate.

00:48:38.500 In fact, I don't think he's going to, unless things change dramatically.

00:48:41.300 And I, he's not been able to do that so far.

00:48:44.060 He's shown no ability to be able to change his own fortunes.

00:48:49.800 Theranos was a company that said they invented this blood testing, this blood test that could detect all these dozens of diseases at the same time in one drop of blood.

00:49:01.000 It was massive development in medical technology.

00:49:03.820 Huge people, statesmen, even General Mattis was on the board of this company.

00:49:08.160 It was huge.

00:49:08.800 Everybody believed they had this technology.

00:49:10.420 It went to a $9 billion corporation.

00:49:13.560 And then everyone said, oh, wait a minute.

00:49:15.480 Can we see the technology in action?

00:49:18.020 Because you hadn't really showed us that it works yet.

00:49:20.900 And whistleblowers inside the company said, yeah, this doesn't actually work.

00:49:24.900 We're just sending the test out to another company.

00:49:27.740 Bottom line is they're now bankrupt and there's charges all over the place.

00:49:30.900 They never even had the ability to do these tests.

00:49:33.620 A $9 billion company down the drain.

00:49:36.200 I don't even think that approaches what has happened with the Beto O'Rourke campaign.

00:49:40.420 This guy is flailing about so pathetically right now.

00:49:45.980 And for some reason, he continues to campaign.

00:49:49.420 Why does he do this to himself?

00:49:51.240 Why does he do this to his family?

00:49:52.980 Why does he do this to America?

00:49:56.160 It's almost impossible to understand.

00:49:59.620 It's almost as possible to understand as to why his name is Beto and not just Robert.

00:50:08.620 We go in to some of the specifics and the way he's handling this utter, historic, cataclysmic attack on his ability to win this campaign.

00:50:20.100 His campaign is, I mean, it is toast, toast, but he continues to try.

00:50:29.400 And with every increasing percent of desperation, he becomes more and more entertaining.

00:50:35.100 The Blaze Radio Network.

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The Glenn Beck Program - October 18, 2019

Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Brian Riedl ｜ 10⧸18⧸19

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