The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Jeffy Fisher ｜ 7⧸31⧸19

00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. Pat and Stu in for Glenn today. Jeffy, of course, joins us as well. Sorry about that.

00:00:06.320 We have a lot of going over the debate to do today, I would say, is the focus of the program. 0.90

00:00:14.440 Because there's a lot of crazy people on the left, and they did a lot of crazy things last night.

00:00:18.740 So we wanted to tell you about them, so you didn't actually have to watch the debate.

00:00:22.080 Oh, what? I didn't have to watch it?

00:00:23.820 No, you didn't have to watch it.

00:00:25.040 Here's the thing. If your favorite football team is going to the Super Bowl,

00:00:27.820 you watch the other conference championship game.

00:00:30.340 Because you want to know what team is going, what their strengths are, what their weaknesses are.

00:00:34.320 So that's why we actually waste time doing this.

00:00:36.900 And so we go through that kind of in-depth today.

00:00:39.960 Also tell you about another sports-related thing, as I'm making a sports analogy, Pat.

00:00:44.460 The soccer team. The U.S. women's soccer team.

00:00:47.600 Yeah, the women are so discriminated against and making so much less than the men. 1.00

00:00:51.340 It's really, really, really tragic and wrong and discriminatory.

00:00:54.700 We somehow find out that that's not true.

00:00:57.580 It's not Islamophobic at all.

00:00:58.260 And Islamophobic.

00:00:59.200 It's Islamophobic?

00:01:00.140 Yeah, it's Islamophobic.

00:01:01.620 Islamophobia, I think, has a lot to do with it.

00:01:03.500 I do.

00:01:03.860 Wow.

00:01:04.300 I wouldn't have seen that one coming.

00:01:05.780 There's also some soccer phobia in there.

00:01:08.060 I believe that.

00:01:08.740 It all needs to stop.

00:01:09.480 And you're part of that.

00:01:10.100 I am soccer phobic and proud of it.

00:01:12.300 That's what I've said for years now.

00:01:13.760 Make it go away.

00:01:14.680 Glad to hear you finally admit it.

00:01:16.080 We'll go into that and a preview of tonight's debate as well on the podcast.

00:01:19.760 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:01:29.920 What a great debate last night.

00:01:36.900 Was that fun?

00:01:37.980 Was that fun?

00:01:39.020 Oh, man.

00:01:39.920 I had a blast.

00:01:41.400 I could watch it all night and really kind of did because it lasted a long, long time.

00:01:47.260 Could that have been longer?

00:01:48.440 Well, it ended 15 minutes ago.

00:01:50.380 So, yes, it could still be going on.

00:01:52.540 At one point, I'm like, what time is it?

00:01:56.040 And it's like 20 minutes after the start of the debate.

00:01:58.220 And all they've done is sing the national anthem, have the color guard come out, and do opening statements.

00:02:02.580 They hadn't asked one question 20 minutes into the debate.

00:02:05.280 I know.

00:02:06.620 But it gave people a chance to catch up on the debate if they joined it late.

00:02:11.580 Like Jeffy said, he joined it late, and so he didn't miss anything.

00:02:14.940 No, you can't.

00:02:15.680 There was no joining it late because there was nothing good.

00:02:18.360 Right.

00:02:18.600 Did you have a moment there where you're thinking to yourself,

00:02:21.180 it was awesome when we had a country where capitalism was a part of it,

00:02:26.640 where people thought that the Constitution was something that we should think about occasionally.

00:02:31.280 Yeah, where class warfare wasn't practiced every single minute of every day by Democrats.

00:02:37.200 Maybe that would be great.

00:02:38.440 Yeah, that would be great.

00:02:39.380 I mean, I can't believe this idea, and this is the narrative coming out of the media today,

00:02:45.420 which is there was this battle for the soul of the party between the moderates and the left.

00:02:52.660 You know, you got the socialists out there, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in the middle of the stage,

00:02:56.740 and then you had all these moderates coming after them.

00:02:59.620 Yeah, no.

00:03:00.040 Where were the moderates exactly?

00:03:01.480 I didn't see any.

00:03:02.180 What time did they get on the stage?

00:03:04.560 Because I missed all of them.

00:03:06.960 You know, the moderate, think about this, the moderate position now in the Democratic Party

00:03:12.980 is only two years of free college for every single person in America.

00:03:17.800 That's the moderate position now.

00:03:19.740 That used to be an insane left-wing position.

00:03:23.600 Now it's the moderate position.

00:03:25.300 Even Steve Bullock last night said he's a progressive.

00:03:28.740 He's not a moderate.

00:03:30.040 Everybody's saying he's a moderate.

00:03:31.440 He says he's a progressive.

00:03:33.900 Well, okay, then you're saying essentially that you want the socialist policies.

00:03:38.360 They do.

00:03:38.740 You just want to progress there gradually.

00:03:40.680 Right.

00:03:40.940 That's all that is.

00:03:41.860 Oh, yeah.

00:03:42.220 And that was a fascinating part of this because the discrepancy between Elizabeth Warren,

00:03:48.480 Bernie Sanders, and people like John Delaney, and Bullock, and others, and Klobuchar,

00:03:54.720 none of it was based on the idea that getting to full socialism was a bad idea.

00:04:00.260 That that would be a terrible outcome.

00:04:02.220 It was all based on we can only get certain things done.

00:04:05.840 Let's be realistic and get the parts of it we can get done now and keep advancing.

00:04:09.680 The only one who sort of stood up for some sort of sanity is Hickenlooper, right?

00:04:17.800 And he was, I would say, probably the worst one in the debate. 0.92

00:04:20.320 He's awful. 0.97

00:04:21.340 Ryan is really bad, too. 1.00

00:04:22.340 He's also a guy who went to, like, a porn movie with his mom when he was 18. 0.97

00:04:30.520 I mean, you know.

00:04:32.260 This is a fact.

00:04:32.900 It's kind of weird stuff.

00:04:34.480 And he's a weird guy.

00:04:35.600 But at least he is saying, look, we need to ground this party in reality.

00:04:42.600 We can't be socialists.

00:04:44.160 We can't.

00:04:44.780 We will lose the election if we're – and I hope he's right about that.

00:04:47.860 But again, what you're saying is key.

00:04:50.240 It's not that socialism is bad.

00:04:52.720 Right.

00:04:52.940 It's we need to be realistic or we'll lose.

00:04:55.280 Yeah.

00:04:55.680 Because some of the American people don't see the brilliance of our socialism yet,

00:04:59.460 so we need to slow play this thing.

00:05:01.020 That is a totally different point than saying socialism is bad.

00:05:05.160 I mean, Hickenlooper is a guy who's best known for basically saying,

00:05:08.820 you know that Second Amendment?

00:05:09.960 What if we didn't have it?

00:05:12.420 That's basically what he did in Colorado.

00:05:15.220 That's what he's famous for.

00:05:16.700 It's true.

00:05:17.120 You know, that whole Second Amendment thing, they probably didn't mean that one, right?

00:05:21.720 Like, that is where he comes from.

00:05:23.280 And he's, again, the moderate.

00:05:24.980 I mean, Delaney, I thought, had really good points against Sanders and Warren.

00:05:31.620 And they went back and forth quite a bit about, you know, whether you can have Medicare for all.

00:05:36.940 Do you really want to force 100 million people to abandon their health care

00:05:43.160 and go on government health insurance?

00:05:46.640 Yeah.

00:05:47.200 And is that the type of thing we want to be?

00:05:50.300 As a Democratic Party, do we want to be the party that says,

00:05:52.860 hey, we're taking away that thing that you like?

00:05:55.480 Right?

00:05:56.000 And that's a good point.

00:05:57.200 It is a good point.

00:05:57.940 However, he's not making it with the idea of, well, the proper outcome is people should always be able to choose

00:06:05.400 and the free market should have these wonderful forces to help control costs and all this.

00:06:10.420 It was like, well, if we do that, people will get mad at us and they'll elect Donald Trump

00:06:15.380 and we won't be able to get any more socialism.

00:06:17.440 So if we do it my way, we'll get a good chunk more socialism

00:06:20.360 and then we can do it again next election.

00:06:22.540 Right?

00:06:22.840 We can slow play this.

00:06:23.960 It's like people didn't like Obamacare at first.

00:06:26.640 So we can get Obamacare.

00:06:28.020 Then next election, which is, by the way, what they're doing,

00:06:32.160 they can come in and say, well, now we need Obamacare times two or times three or times four. 0.61

00:06:36.340 Which, again, is exactly what we said was going to happen.

00:06:39.060 And here it is playing out just like everybody knew it was going to happen.

00:06:42.260 Triple eight, seven, two, seven, back.

00:06:48.040 I'm also in love with the climate change hysteria, too, because that's, that's just good fun.

00:06:54.440 When they tell us that we have 10 years.

00:06:58.200 But there was a little discrepancy.

00:06:59.680 It's either 12 years or it's 10 years and then catastrophe now.

00:07:02.940 And that was, by the way, disproven by the people who did the study they're quoting.

00:07:08.520 They have outwardly come out and said, no, it's not 12 years or 10 years.

00:07:12.980 That's not what the study says.

00:07:14.500 Why do people keep saying that?

00:07:15.760 Thank you for giving us the opportunity to clear it up.

00:07:17.760 There's, and it was fact, it was actually fact checked by NBC and others.

00:07:22.340 And they said, there's no catastrophe after, you know,

00:07:25.860 at 2030 is not the demarcation of catastrophe for the, for the climate change thing.

00:07:30.300 It's not.

00:07:32.960 What they're trying to say is that they need to do something.

00:07:36.080 You know, we need to get really serious about it.

00:07:38.300 They're just, they're not saying it's going to be catastrophic if we don't.

00:07:41.700 No, but who is going to respond if you say we need to get serious about it within 12 years?

00:07:47.760 They're like, nobody, right?

00:07:49.380 That's the problem.

00:07:50.300 And that's, and they know that.

00:07:51.440 And that's why they keep doing the hysteria.

00:07:53.720 And that's why.

00:07:54.340 Yeah.

00:07:54.740 This is why they.

00:07:55.660 That's been their plan forever. 0.65

00:07:57.160 Lie.

00:07:57.700 Yeah.

00:07:57.900 This is why they lie about it because they know, you know,

00:08:01.280 they're trying to get people to act on this thing.

00:08:03.640 And it's a wonderful way to push this stuff through, right?

00:08:05.880 The Green New Deal was the most clear illustration of this, right? 0.98

00:08:11.200 How long has, have conservatives said global warming is essentially the way the left uses it,

00:08:17.620 a front to bring in large government control.

00:08:20.560 So slash socialism slash every other freaking policy they've asked for for the past few decades.

00:08:25.620 Why not get it all done through environmental means? 0.56

00:08:28.280 And then they kept saying like, what are you talking about?

00:08:31.220 This is science.

00:08:32.000 We have scientists here.

00:08:33.600 They're all saying how bad this is going to be.

00:08:35.500 This is crucial.

00:08:36.240 It's the most important issue.

00:08:37.700 It's not Al Qaeda.

00:08:38.700 It's not a school shootings.

00:08:40.460 It's not opioids.

00:08:42.160 It is this.

00:08:43.080 This is the most important thing.

00:08:44.380 It's not even nuclear weapons.

00:08:46.360 It's this.

00:08:47.120 It's the globe warming 0.9 degrees over 100 years.

00:08:50.280 That's the most important thing.

00:08:51.720 So what's the policy you want to address with it?

00:08:53.420 Oh, here's the Green New Deal. 0.91

00:08:54.660 Why does it have Medicare for all in it?

00:08:57.260 Why does it have required jobs in it?

00:09:01.100 Why is it, why are you talking about every left-wing fever dream for the past half century?

00:09:07.740 Why are all of those things in the Green New Deal? 0.81

00:09:10.900 Because honestly, if you want to help the environment, the best thing we can do is let people die.

00:09:16.560 If people just die, then we'll cut the CO2 emissions.

00:09:20.700 You don't want extra health care.

00:09:22.600 It's the worst thing in the world for the environment.

00:09:24.200 People living is terrible.

00:09:26.000 That's their cell.

00:09:27.440 Did you guys talk about a couple of weeks ago, Mo Brooks was, they were doing a hearing on climate change.

00:09:32.060 And Mo Brooks got four scientific global warming experts on to admit that the Earth has been warming for 20,000 years, ever since the last ice age.

00:09:47.560 Essentially, off and on, other than a few dips for little ice ages and whatever, in the meantime, it's been warming for 20,000 years.

00:09:56.720 Was that caused by global warming?

00:09:59.280 Was that caused by humans?

00:10:00.600 Oh, of course it was.

00:10:01.320 And every one of them said no.

00:10:03.120 And so the average temperature increase, he said, over the centuries, per century, was 0.4 degrees.

00:10:17.080 I think because it's gone up 11 degrees in 20,000 years.

00:10:20.900 Okay, so I think it worked out, I don't remember all the specifics, but what he got them to admit was, the average of the last 20,000 years is about the same as it's been the last 100 years.

00:10:34.720 It's really no different.

00:10:36.880 And yet, they're attributing all of this in the last 100 years, or the last 50, or the last 30, to humans, to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.

00:10:48.580 Amazing.

00:10:48.880 When it's the same as it's been, the Earth's natural climate-changing situation that's happened forever.

00:10:57.260 Do you know, I can see the denial coming from you right now.

00:11:00.760 I can see it emanating.

00:11:02.120 You can see it?

00:11:02.520 Mm-hmm.

00:11:02.860 Yeah.

00:11:03.300 And it's scary because I live on this Earth.

00:11:06.520 Yeah.

00:11:06.960 Yeah, I know you do.

00:11:07.600 My children live on this Earth.

00:11:09.400 Yes.

00:11:09.580 And what you're doing to them right now.

00:11:10.780 Mine do as well.

00:11:11.740 But with your denial.

00:11:12.900 Mm-hmm.

00:11:13.680 What am I doing to your children?

00:11:15.100 You're terrifying me.

00:11:16.420 Oh, boy.

00:11:16.800 You know, this is why we can't just go with the moderate proposal for how to deal with global warming from someone like John Delaney, who's offering a too conservative an approach of only spending $4 trillion, his number, on global warming.

00:11:33.420 Mm-hmm.

00:11:33.680 Now, he's below a Beto who I think is at $5 trillion.

00:11:36.520 We need to go $90 trillion.

00:11:37.080 And it goes up from there.

00:11:38.140 Yeah.

00:11:38.460 Are you saying about $90 trillion?

00:11:39.580 I'd say $90 trillion a month is about the number I'm comfortable with.

00:11:43.600 $90 trillion a month.

00:11:44.960 Can we fix it at $90 trillion a month?

00:11:47.140 We cannot.

00:11:47.820 Oh.

00:11:48.360 You know?

00:11:48.860 Okay.

00:11:49.060 Because the problem is at that point, you're printing so much money that just the machines to print the money cause more global warming.

00:11:54.880 So you need to spend more.

00:11:56.920 But I mean...

00:11:57.680 That's probably true.

00:11:58.340 I will say this.

00:11:59.200 $90 trillion a month is not enough.

00:12:01.860 Mm-hmm.

00:12:02.220 And you've seen these hardcore right-wing proposals from, again, the quote-unquote moderates last night in the debate.

00:12:10.860 John Delaney did mention this briefly, but I've looked at the extensive plan.

00:12:15.860 His plan, again, the moderate, the guy that you watched last night, I think everybody in this audience, if they watched the debate last night, watched and said,

00:12:21.820 that guy actually kind of seems sensible on some of this stuff.

00:12:24.600 Like, he's okay on health.

00:12:25.560 I mean, I don't agree with him, but he's much better than Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

00:12:29.760 He introduced a plan that would require every person, when they turn 18 years old, to serve the government in a mandatory fashion for one or two years,

00:12:42.760 doing things like installing solar panels and...

00:12:48.080 I love this one.

00:12:50.920 Increasing awareness about sustainability.

00:12:53.780 Now, I don't know what that means exactly.

00:12:56.840 I assume it's like you have a megaphone.

00:12:59.300 You're like one of the, like, end-of-the-world preachers who are just going, like, you know,

00:13:02.800 the end-of-the-world is coming!

00:13:05.420 Sustainability!

00:13:07.340 No one is...

00:13:08.500 Be aware of it, because I've got to increase the awareness of sustainability!

00:13:12.640 So, sustain, if you would, please.

00:13:18.460 Thank you.

00:13:19.960 That is...

00:13:20.480 So, you have to actually...

00:13:21.880 You're brought into service.

00:13:24.600 You're going to go to places and install solar panels, because what 18-year-old who can't get my order right at a fast-food restaurant wouldn't be capable of installing a solar panel?

00:13:35.540 I mean, of course, that's going to be just...

00:13:36.920 It's going to come natural.

00:13:38.120 But they'll train them all, too, and they'll pay them, and they'll put them up in housing,

00:13:42.340 and it will be a requirement for every 18-year-old to do.

00:13:47.860 That's the moderate in this party.

00:13:50.960 Have you heard this?

00:13:51.960 Let's take a 60-second break here, Pat.

00:13:54.580 And we should come back.

00:13:55.880 And remember...

00:13:56.740 Do you remember the Obama era?

00:13:57.980 Do you remember this?

00:13:59.220 Do you have any recollections of Barack Obama as president of the United States?

00:14:03.280 I actually do.

00:14:03.840 And remember how liberal they were, like, really far left, and we were complaining about it all the time?

00:14:09.020 And there were crazy people like David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel who were kind of going...

00:14:13.480 They're just saying all these crazy left-wing things, and no one could believe it?

00:14:16.820 Yeah.

00:14:17.220 Let me tell you where these people stand now.

00:14:19.480 So, back in the day, back in the old days when Barack Obama was president, there were a lot of figures we talked about.

00:14:25.120 People like Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, who had really far left-wing views that none of us were comfortable with.

00:14:30.360 They were views that were, you know, rejected by big portions of the United States.

00:14:34.880 Remember, Obamacare was entirely unpopular.

00:14:38.580 The entire time it's existed since it was proposed, until very recently.

00:14:42.780 It was very unpopular, underwater, in almost every way.

00:14:45.700 Well, Rahm Emanuel came out the other day and said, hey, I'm noticing these candidates going really far to the left.

00:14:56.720 And, you know, I don't think they understand what the middle of the country is like.

00:15:01.540 They're going so far left, they're never going to win in these states, you know, because he's obviously in Illinois.

00:15:06.740 But, I mean, the states that surround him are not hardcore left states.

00:15:10.860 Yeah.

00:15:11.100 He recognized that.

00:15:11.860 Wisconsin, Michigan.

00:15:13.440 Yeah.

00:15:13.840 They lost him last time.

00:15:14.960 This is a guy who dealt with the realities of, you know, governing a country.

00:15:18.300 Obviously, I think they did it very poorly, but at least he has awareness.

00:15:21.380 Yeah.

00:15:22.100 So, that first Rahm Emanuel comes out and says that yesterday, or two days ago.

00:15:26.420 So, here's David Axelrod talking about where this party is going.

00:15:33.400 Again, this is not some conservative critique of the Democratic Party.

00:15:36.560 This is David freaking Axelrod.

00:15:38.400 Listen.

00:15:39.060 You said something interesting, which was it isn't good enough to argue that the country doesn't want this.

00:15:44.520 It does seem, if you're running for president, that you ought to take into consideration what the country wants.

00:15:49.760 And the fact is, large numbers of people oppose the Medicare for All proposal if it replaces private insurance.

00:15:59.580 We've seen it in poll after poll after poll.

00:16:01.940 A large number of people in this country do not believe the border should be decriminalized.

00:16:06.660 A large number of people in this country don't believe that undocumented immigrants should qualify for publicism.

00:16:14.660 Yeah.

00:16:14.940 And, by the way, he's right on all those things.

00:16:16.540 The polls show about 25% to 27% for all three of those policies.

00:16:21.500 So, free health care for illegal immigrants, decriminalizing the border, Medicare for All, eliminating private insurance, which is the Bernie and Elizabeth Warren plan.

00:16:31.280 You're talking about 26% or 27% support by Americans.

00:16:35.520 And I believe all three of those policies are underwater with Democrats.

00:16:40.260 Okay?

00:16:40.620 So, think about this.

00:16:41.460 The people who are winning, somehow winning right now with the exception of Biden.

00:16:44.480 He's the only thing in between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders leading this race.

00:16:50.520 They're in the center of the debate last night.

00:16:52.600 And they're talking about policies that are underwater with Democrats.

00:16:56.080 How about John King from CNN talking about how far the party has moved to the left?

00:17:02.680 What Senator Sanders was just describing, what Senator Warren is describing, has not happened in our lifetime.

00:17:08.040 That a Democrat can run in a national election to be for Medicare for All, for free college tuition, maybe for reparations, for giving health care to undocumented immigrants, a host of liberal proposals.

00:17:18.660 Way to the left of the last Democrat who won Barack Obama.

00:17:21.460 Way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way left to Bill Clinton, the Democrat to win before that.

00:17:25.940 My first campaign was Dukakis.

00:17:27.540 He was not as liberal.

00:17:28.520 I mean, this is remarkable.

00:17:32.020 Yeah.

00:17:32.460 Everyone is admitting this now.

00:17:35.200 This is something we've talked about forever, Pat.

00:17:38.460 You know, Bernie Sanders in 2013 proposing Medicare for All and getting zero co-sponsors on it.

00:17:45.660 Zero.

00:17:46.520 Yeah.

00:17:47.260 Now, I don't think he'd be able to stop people from co-sponsoring it.

00:17:50.120 He'd want the credit for himself, and everyone's jumping on his bandwagon.

00:17:53.580 And, you know, you can watch that debate last night and I think pull out a lot of different things.

00:17:56.640 I thought Bernie Sanders, I mean, the man has never had a happy moment in his life.

00:18:01.040 I've never seen anyone who is more angry and awful.

00:18:04.280 There's no, I cannot imagine a candidate like that winning in the United States of America. 0.99

00:18:11.360 He is just an angry curmudgeon. 0.76

00:18:14.060 Yes. 0.84

00:18:14.540 And I, you know, look, people talk about Trump's anger and he gets pissed off a lot too, but

00:18:18.540 at least occasionally he makes jokes. 1.00

00:18:20.540 Sanders is miserable, a miserable human being. 0.98

00:18:23.460 But I will say this, and I don't think he did a great job in the debate last night, but 0.99

00:18:27.680 how can you not say he's the winner here?

00:18:30.100 He has absolutely transformed this party from a party that was really super liberal to a

00:18:37.600 party that is outwardly socialist.

00:18:40.200 Mm-hmm.

00:18:40.680 I mean, the fact that John Delaney, who is a Maryland congressperson, a former Maryland

00:18:45.880 congressperson, looks like a conservative on the stage, is really revealing.

00:18:50.160 David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, John King there talking to you about how, how far this party

00:18:57.060 has moved so quickly.

00:18:58.520 I mean, Bernie Sanders, you know, his loss in 2016 and then the subsequent Hillary Clinton

00:19:05.220 loss has told this party they should just be honest about it.

00:19:10.060 It's exactly what Glenn said all those years, you know, to take the mask off, be honest about

00:19:14.540 it.

00:19:14.700 They've done that.

00:19:15.420 I cannot believe they're admitting that they want these policies.

00:19:17.300 I mean, Elizabeth Warren last night on stage saying we should decriminalize border crossings. 0.96

00:19:23.100 Yeah.

00:19:23.320 And she was asked point blank.

00:19:24.560 Are you saying you would decriminalize illegal border crossings?

00:19:28.480 Yes.

00:19:29.160 It was just a flat yes.

00:19:31.360 And she went to battle something else afterwards, but she did say yes.

00:19:36.360 Oh, that's wow.

00:19:38.200 Incredible.

00:19:38.960 Yeah.

00:19:39.160 And I love this as it combines to their gun policies, because it's like you say what

00:19:44.320 you want to do is have an assault weapons ban.

00:19:48.240 Okay.

00:19:48.640 You want to take away guns from law abiding citizens here in the United States.

00:19:52.500 But at the same time, you want to open up the borders.

00:19:56.560 And we have no idea who's coming in.

00:19:58.180 Right.

00:19:58.360 What do you think is going to happen?

00:19:59.960 You know how drugs come across the border?

00:20:02.140 Yeah.

00:20:02.360 Do you think some guns might also come across that border when you open it up?

00:20:06.280 Is it possible a terrorist or two could come across the border?

00:20:09.720 It seems like it.

00:20:11.080 Isn't that such a strange combination of policies? 0.99

00:20:14.000 No, it's asinine. 1.00

00:20:14.800 It is asinine. 0.99

00:20:15.640 I don't think they care, though. 0.98

00:20:16.900 At this point, I think they're just resting this whole thing on, well, we think we can beat

00:20:20.580 Trump.

00:20:21.740 And it's got to be a fascinating thing to watch.

00:20:26.980 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:20:28.820 Hey, it's Glenn.

00:20:36.740 And if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat Gray Unleashed.

00:20:40.820 His podcast is available wherever you download your favorite podcast. 0.99

00:20:44.760 What we remember is Bernie Sanders yelling, I wrote the damn bell. 1.00

00:20:49.420 Oh, shut up, Bernie. 1.00

00:20:50.780 I mean, another moment. 1.00

00:20:52.140 Another moment.

00:20:52.900 He probably prepared for and they probably planned that out before the debate even happened.

00:20:56.840 Oh, he's awful.

00:20:57.720 Oh, he's terrible. 1.00

00:20:58.340 I mean, and could there be a more miserable human being? 0.91

00:21:02.620 He cannot have had an experience in his life, a moment of joy.

00:21:08.680 Where he was happy.

00:21:09.100 Yeah.

00:21:09.560 There's never been a time where he like woke up and said, wow, look at the sun, the sky.

00:21:14.380 It's sunny and there's not a cloud out there and this is a great day.

00:21:17.980 There's never been a moment like that for Bernie Sanders in his entire life.

00:21:22.100 No. 0.98

00:21:22.860 Even when he's singing, he sounds miserable.

00:21:24.960 As I went walking that rivet of highway.

00:21:29.380 Oh, God.

00:21:29.860 I love this.

00:21:30.520 I saw above me.

00:21:31.560 I saw above me.

00:21:33.200 That endless skyway.

00:21:34.760 Again, no R in the word saw, Bernie.

00:21:37.180 Are you sure? 0.70

00:21:37.820 Doesn't he sound miserable even when he sings?

00:21:40.480 As I went walking down that highway.

00:21:46.420 Why are you so mad about Bernie?

00:21:48.120 It's a song.

00:21:49.260 What has happened to you?

00:21:51.280 What in your life has happened?

00:21:52.920 I think he had like, he asked a girl out in like eighth grade and she berated him and mocked him and did like, maybe he did like a carry thing.

00:22:04.200 Like at one point he was standing in front of his high school and someone dropped pig blood out of a bucket onto his head.

00:22:09.300 And this is his revenge.

00:22:11.560 He just got miserable ever since.

00:22:12.980 I mean, I think at one point he stood up during the debate and he waved his arms around and all the doors closed in the back of the auditorium.

00:22:19.100 Like, what is happening with him?

00:22:21.620 He is constantly furious.

00:22:24.200 Constantly.

00:22:25.220 And there's no, there's no modulation.

00:22:29.180 You know, there's not a moment where he's like calm and introspective.

00:22:32.680 It's just nonstop anger.

00:22:34.440 Which is why I can't understand for the life of me why he's popular with millennials.

00:22:39.900 I don't understand it. 0.99

00:22:42.300 He's a miserable curmudgeon. 1.00

00:22:44.320 Yeah. 0.99

00:22:44.880 Why do you like him?

00:22:46.260 What is it about him?

00:22:47.780 You just want free stuff, I guess.

00:22:49.380 I guess.

00:22:50.000 I guess that's the only appeal.

00:22:51.580 There is that appeal of, I think, the unrelenting ideology that is appealing to you when you're young.

00:23:00.020 And it's honestly appealing to me, too.

00:23:02.620 I just don't like his ideology.

00:23:04.020 I think a lot of that happened with Ron Paul.

00:23:07.020 When Ron Paul was running, there was the same sort of energy.

00:23:09.680 That's true.

00:23:10.160 You know, Ron was not nearly as angry as Bernie is.

00:23:13.480 But he wasn't a happy guy.

00:23:14.900 Right.

00:23:15.280 But he was unrelenting, right?

00:23:17.080 He'd be the guy on stage.

00:23:18.500 You know, the libertarian philosophy is basically we don't go to war.

00:23:21.780 He's the guy on stage next to Rudy Giuliani sticking to it.

00:23:26.540 Being like, yeah, no, he shouldn't have done anything about 9-11.

00:23:28.620 He should have just ignored it.

00:23:29.700 I mean, I'm totally exaggerating there for all the Ron Paul fans out there who will now email me.

00:23:33.660 But you know what I'm saying?

00:23:34.320 That exchange was like, it's a tough thing in a Republican debate to stand up and say, yeah, the whole 9-11 response was not good.

00:23:41.460 And he stuck by it.

00:23:42.500 And I think I like that.

00:23:44.020 I know I liked it when Cruz was running.

00:23:46.080 And he would stand up in Iowa and say, you know what?

00:23:49.360 You know the whole ethanol thing?

00:23:50.380 No.

00:23:50.660 Like, I like that.

00:23:53.580 And I think if you're an ideological person or at some level, when you're young, you have that sort of aspirational thing going on where you like the fact that people aren't apologizing.

00:24:06.180 They're unrelenting in what they believe.

00:24:08.360 And I think Bernie has that going on for him.

00:24:10.500 I think Elizabeth Warren has that going on for her at some level. 0.99

00:24:13.660 And it's why some of the energy of the party is there.

00:24:17.600 But I mean, you have to look at this if you are a Democrat.

00:24:22.040 And I'm glad they don't look at it this way.

00:24:24.060 As can you actually win this election?

00:24:28.320 And you throw out a Bernie Sanders.

00:24:31.740 How on earth can you expect to win?

00:24:33.880 An Elizabeth Warren.

00:24:35.220 How on earth can you expect to win with these candidates?

00:24:37.160 And I guess that's why Joe Biden is still winning.

00:24:41.180 You know, I mean, Kamala Harris, I think, will try to walk the middle ground. 1.00

00:24:44.000 Maybe Buttigieg is trying to do that.

00:24:45.860 But I mean, these candidates are not good.

00:24:49.720 You can't.

00:24:50.200 It's hard to imagine a person who is an old school Democrat.

00:24:55.280 You saw Tim Ryan on the stage last night.

00:24:57.180 I mean, he's hard to notice, but he was there.

00:24:59.540 And he's from Ohio.

00:25:00.900 And he sounded like a Democrat.

00:25:03.080 He sounded like, what's the guy you always bring up when we talk about presidential candidates that he's going to run at any time?

00:25:07.160 Richard Gephardt.

00:25:07.680 Richard Gephardt.

00:25:08.340 He sounded like Richard Gephardt.

00:25:09.940 He did.

00:25:10.720 He sounded like, remember when Democrats used to be awful 20 years ago? 0.78

00:25:16.320 He sounded more like that awful Democrat than the awful Democrat of today.

00:25:20.680 And those people exist in places like Ohio and Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

00:25:26.940 They're the reason why Donald Trump is president.

00:25:29.380 Because they voted for Obama and then Trump. 0.98

00:25:31.680 And those people are going to look at Elizabeth Warren like she's as insane as she is. 1.00

00:25:39.820 And I just, I mean, if you're trying to win this election, I don't know how you go down that road if you're a Democrat.

00:25:44.200 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

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00:26:23.540 What did you think of Buttigieg in his performance last night?

00:26:27.960 So, I don't think he did anything impressive.

00:26:31.580 I don't think he stood out.

00:26:33.360 I think he has a massive problem that he is not recognizing.

00:26:40.360 And somebody on his staff is telling him it is a good idea.

00:26:43.960 Dude.

00:26:44.380 And he's got to stop it.

00:26:46.060 Or he has no chance of being president of the United States, which I don't think is necessarily a bad thing.

00:26:50.860 I don't want to be president of the United States.

00:26:51.980 No, that's a great thing, actually.

00:26:52.660 But this is him talking about standing up for the right policy.

00:26:56.360 Here's what he said.

00:26:59.520 Cut six.

00:27:01.280 Pete Buttigieg. 0.93

00:27:02.240 If it's true that if we embrace a far-left agenda, they're going to say we're a bunch of crazy socialists.

00:27:08.940 If we embrace a conservative agenda, you know what they're going to do? 0.97

00:27:12.120 They're going to say we're a bunch of crazy socialists.

00:27:14.240 So, let's just stand up for the right policy. 0.78

00:27:16.820 Go out there and defend it.

00:27:18.160 That's the policy I'm putting forward.

00:27:19.660 Not because I think it's the right triangulation between Republicans here and Democrats here.

00:27:23.040 Because I think it's the right answer.

00:27:24.380 People like my mother-in-law, who is here, whose life was saved by the ACA,

00:27:28.360 but who is still far too vulnerable to the fact that the insurance industry...

00:27:32.120 Thank you, Mark Buttigieg.

00:27:32.660 ...does not care about the law.

00:27:33.320 Thank you, Senator.

00:27:34.340 Now, that's a good...

00:27:35.240 Like, I think an untrue point, but a good one for a Democratic debate, right?

00:27:42.980 To say that basically they're going to call us socialists no matter what we say.

00:27:45.620 We might as well just come out and go for the things that we want.

00:27:48.860 And, of course, that should always be true, right?

00:27:50.380 That shouldn't be something you need to clap for.

00:27:51.940 You should always be promoting the policies you think are best.

00:27:55.480 But, you know, in debates, this is the way you work it, I guess.

00:27:59.300 Here he is invoking scripture.

00:28:00.900 Cut 15.

00:28:01.900 Buttigieg invoking scripture because we're oppressing the poor.

00:28:05.140 Some of this is low-tech, too.

00:28:06.640 Like, the minimum wage is just too low.

00:28:09.000 And so-called conservative Christian senators right now in the Senate are blocking a bill to raise the minimum wage

00:28:16.240 when scripture says that whoever oppresses the poor taunts their maker.

00:28:20.640 Oh, my.

00:28:20.940 Mayor, thank you very much.

00:28:22.460 Yeah, see, that's what you should.

00:28:23.940 You can't be doing that.

00:28:25.100 He's got to stop that.

00:28:26.080 You can't play it both ways.

00:28:27.680 Seriously.

00:28:28.800 Is that what you really want to do is invoke scripture?

00:28:31.420 Because, you know.

00:28:33.420 It's incredible.

00:28:34.120 If you want to play that game, people can play that game all of a sudden, right?

00:28:38.340 I mean, it's fair game.

00:28:39.480 If you're going to start casting aspersions at Christians in the Republican Party,

00:28:44.440 can they not cast aspersions back at you?

00:28:48.120 They could.

00:28:48.880 And I don't know if they will.

00:28:51.340 But you really should stop using scripture for your points.

00:28:55.200 It comes off horribly.

00:28:57.640 It's absolutely terrible.

00:28:58.100 I mean, I don't know who he's trying to please with it.

00:29:00.220 I think it's the media.

00:29:02.360 Because the media looks at Christianity as a political tool to hurt your opponent.

00:29:09.900 Yeah.

00:29:10.180 Right?

00:29:10.300 So they think, okay, well, look, this is a great point by Buttigieg because he's using their rhetoric against them.

00:29:17.120 Right.

00:29:17.300 You know, they say they're so Christian.

00:29:19.520 Well, they don't want this government policy for minimum wage.

00:29:23.200 Right.

00:29:23.420 And we can squeak and nail them with their Christianity. 1.00

00:29:26.340 That is not how Christians look at Christianity.

00:29:28.620 I don't know if you know this.

00:29:29.980 This is a majority Christian country.

00:29:31.920 This is a country that if you get into the general election and want to win any of the states that are anywhere near the Midwest where you are supposedly from and you represent those values.

00:29:42.000 If you want to do that, trying to weaponize Christianity against the moderates who might actually put you in the White House is not a good idea.

00:29:53.700 Really not good.

00:29:54.060 I know that feels good in that room.

00:29:55.860 I know afterwards when, you know, John King is interviewing on CNN.

00:29:59.020 You nailed him.

00:30:00.500 Oh, you got this great point.

00:30:01.920 That is not going to win you any elections.

00:30:03.560 No, it's not.

00:30:03.880 Now, look, it's also completely wrong.

00:30:06.680 And it's a fourth great argument.

00:30:08.020 It's a single tenet of Christianity where the government is called on to do anything for the poor or anybody else.

00:30:14.440 What they don't want you.

00:30:15.360 Jesus never said, hey, Rome needs to take care of people. 1.00

00:30:17.920 I'm tired of the Romans not taking care of people. 1.00

00:30:20.920 Right.

00:30:21.380 The last, what they don't want you to do is what everyone on that stage did last night, which is worship government.

00:30:27.300 Yeah.

00:30:28.120 They had another idea about who you should worship.

00:30:31.280 It was, it's not government.

00:30:33.380 It's not Pete Buttigieg.

00:30:34.380 And the fact that Pete Buttigieg is going to be this preacher who's going to come at us and tell us how to be Christians is utterly, let's put it this way, utterly a very poor, a very poor plan politically at the very least.

00:30:50.800 Especially when he's trying to have it both ways because he's also calling out Mike Pence for taking the Bible literally.

00:30:56.380 Yeah.

00:30:56.740 Against him.

00:30:57.540 Yeah.

00:30:58.060 And that's a great point.

00:30:59.160 And I will say that it's very possible what he's trying to do is goad right wing, you know, the wings, you know, the far right and the right wing to come out and start saying bad things about him personally and trying to goad him into being a victim.

00:31:13.240 He's trying to make himself a victim, essentially inviting these attacks.

00:31:16.680 But again, I don't know that any, I don't know that he can understand how insulting it is to hear that from him, especially when it's such a basic argument.

00:31:25.720 The guy's a smart guy and the fact that he comes with a fourth grade argument about Christianity, the idea that any Christian understands that is a BS argument.

00:31:34.660 I almost said the whole word there.

00:31:36.140 Not very Christian to me. 0.92

00:31:39.100 That is just not the right move for him.

00:31:45.600 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:31:55.720 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:32:13.980 The head of the, is he the head, Tom Perez?

00:32:17.660 Yeah, he is.

00:32:18.260 He is the head of the DNC, right?

00:32:20.400 He kind of set the stage for the whole thing before the debate got underway last night.

00:32:24.500 Yeah, and no one watched this, of course, because you'd be insane to do it.

00:32:28.980 Sadly, it's at least peripheral to my job.

00:32:33.140 Because I only did it by mistake, to be honest with you.

00:32:36.320 I tuned in a few minutes early, so I was getting dinner ready.

00:32:40.160 I didn't realize I would see Tom Perez.

00:32:42.840 If I knew it, I would not have done this.

00:32:45.580 Because I just, it immediately set me off before the debate even started, Pat.

00:32:50.340 I mean, that's tough.

00:32:52.420 That is.

00:32:52.780 Because you don't want to go through a situation where you're angry going into something that's

00:32:58.820 going to make you even angrier.

00:33:01.240 Yeah, that's a bad situation.

00:33:03.380 But let me give you this.

00:33:04.260 This is Perez talking about Medicare, an amazing accomplishment by the Democrats, and the legacy

00:33:15.080 of Medicare and what it can teach us today.

00:33:18.420 Here's Tom Perez from right before the debate yesterday.

00:33:20.920 Democrats dreamed of putting a man on the moon, and we did just that.

00:33:25.080 We dreamed of a great society, and we built it.

00:33:28.440 We dreamed that seniors and people with disabilities and people who are poor could get access to

00:33:35.440 health care.

00:33:36.300 And 54 years ago today, President Johnson signed Medicaid and Medicare into law.

00:33:42.540 Those are terrible programs.

00:33:48.860 And I will note, parenthetically, what did Republicans who opposed it call those laws?

00:33:55.740 Socialism!

00:33:56.540 Yes, this is a class exercise.

00:33:57.920 That's what it is.

00:33:59.440 Socialism.

00:34:00.380 Ronald Reagan said, and I quote, Medicare will lead to socialized medicine.

00:34:05.240 Medicare will lead to socialism in America.

00:34:08.220 That's what he says.

00:34:09.400 He was full of it then, and these folks are full of it now when they try to distract you.

00:34:14.580 What?

00:34:14.940 It is leading to exactly that.

00:34:17.820 It was legitimately a perfect prediction.

00:34:19.720 I mean, that's like a spooky prophecy from Ronald Reagan.

00:34:24.520 It would lead to socialism, and now what are we talking about?

00:34:27.800 Socialized medicine.

00:34:28.720 He is on stage, literally standing in front of a podium in the center of the stage, in

00:34:37.640 which the person leading the field of this debate is an announced socialist.

00:34:42.880 And he makes that point.

00:34:45.300 The person standing next to him is, for all intents and purposes, a socialist as well.

00:34:52.380 They have the identical policies.

00:34:54.160 So, Warren and Sanders are leading the field that's about to stand behind him, and he has 0.62

00:35:00.580 the balls to mock a prediction that Medicare would lead to socialism. 0.88

00:35:04.980 Wow. 0.99

00:35:05.200 And you know what?

00:35:06.640 Medicare's leading to socialism.

00:35:09.160 And this is not something that a lot of people like to hear, because Medicare is a very popular

00:35:14.380 program.

00:35:15.280 And yet, it, in and of itself, is a form of socialism.

00:35:19.400 It is.

00:35:19.540 It's a big government program.

00:35:21.420 It is.

00:35:21.900 That's virtually socialism.

00:35:23.840 Yeah.

00:35:24.160 I mean, it, you know, it is.

00:35:25.480 It's what it is.

00:35:26.300 I mean, look, it is something that you might like.

00:35:29.780 You might think it's a good idea.

00:35:31.040 You've come to rely on it.

00:35:32.100 Exactly.

00:35:32.680 And a lot of people do.

00:35:34.020 Yep.

00:35:34.620 But it is absolutely a socialist program.

00:35:38.640 And because of it, it has, it has cleared the path for many more programs like it.

00:35:44.860 And it's part of a long run from going back to FDR.

00:35:48.780 But Medicare in particular is a massive driver of our debt.

00:35:54.360 It is a complete and utter disaster.

00:35:57.920 Let me give you this stat.

00:35:58.620 In the next 30 years, the CBO projects we are going to get an additional $80 trillion of

00:36:06.580 debt.

00:36:07.440 $80 trillion of debt in the next 30 years is what they're predicting right now.

00:36:11.140 Not including unfunded liabilities.

00:36:12.960 No, this is just, this is just what we're going to actually get in the next 30 years.

00:36:17.160 And that does, of course, not include any of the plans you've heard talked about on stage

00:36:21.040 last night. 0.71

00:36:21.660 It doesn't include any of the other crazy crap they're going to actually pass in the 0.94

00:36:24.860 meantime. 0.89

00:36:25.360 We know it's going to be more than that.

00:36:26.580 But $80 trillion is what they project right now.

00:36:28.560 The way they get to that number is Social Security and Medicare are projected to be $103 trillion

00:36:36.540 in debt.

00:36:37.680 And the rest of the budget is supposed to be $23 trillion in surplus.

00:36:42.600 So to get to $80 trillion, it's $103 trillion of Medicare and Social Security.

00:36:48.120 And it actually backs off from that back to $80 because of other parts of the budget.

00:36:53.220 That's how bad these programs are.

00:36:55.120 They're destroying our nation when it comes to debt.

00:36:58.160 Now, they may be important.

00:36:59.400 They are incredibly popular when you poll them.

00:37:01.600 I mean, 70% of Republicans approve of these programs.

00:37:05.000 But that is the issue.

00:37:07.220 That is what Reagan was talking about.

00:37:08.740 Because now it's natural.

00:37:11.360 Now that dependence is part of your life as an American.

00:37:15.420 It's locked in.

00:37:16.820 It's yours.

00:37:18.180 No one fights about it.

00:37:19.700 When people come out and say, I'm going to change the year you're eligible by one year

00:37:25.100 they get voted out of office.

00:37:26.480 We now have both parties who run candidates who say, I will not touch one little tiny part

00:37:33.020 of Medicare or Social Security.

00:37:35.600 Now, look, if you paid into the system, do you, you know, under an agreement, you, you know,

00:37:40.700 you deserve what you should get, right?

00:37:42.800 I mean, like you've paid into it.

00:37:44.260 That's not the situation.

00:37:45.220 None of these programs ever touch people who've already paid into it.

00:37:47.800 They always grandfather people in because of that, because of that argument.

00:37:51.860 But I think conservatives a lot of times will look at these big government programs and

00:37:56.060 say, you know, what is a bad one?

00:37:57.500 The Obama phone, right?

00:37:58.960 You know, what's a bad one is welfare.

00:38:01.240 You know, what the bad one is, is, you know, even Obamacare, right?

00:38:05.200 Where so someone who is theoretically in need of something, the government gives them hands

00:38:10.740 out, handouts.

00:38:11.420 And sometimes those things get abused.

00:38:13.200 Those things are bad in a lot of ways.

00:38:15.580 But much worse is the universal program, Social Security and Medicare, because every

00:38:20.960 Bill freaking Gates can get Medicare. 0.99

00:38:23.760 Bill freaking Gates can get Social Security. 0.72

00:38:26.480 Why?

00:38:28.080 Delaney made a great point last night where he was, he said, you know, why are we going

00:38:32.000 to get rid of private insurance for everyone?

00:38:33.780 That would be like when we pass Social Security, we should have made pensions illegal.

00:38:38.020 That is a good point.

00:38:39.080 And it's true. 0.56

00:38:39.780 It's a good point.

00:38:40.380 This is all it is.

00:38:41.460 It's the government forcing you into this long term scam, right?

00:38:45.920 Because we know the money isn't actually going to your health care.

00:38:48.720 But in theory, you pay a tax your whole life.

00:38:51.800 So later on, they give you it's a government forced savings program where you get basically

00:38:56.560 no interest on your money.

00:38:58.480 It is insanity.

00:38:59.680 But now it is so locked into the character of this country because, you know what?

00:39:03.760 These things work.

00:39:04.560 Socialism works.

00:39:05.660 When it comes down to manipulating public opinion, it works.

00:39:10.540 This is why when it when Obamacare was at 38 percent approval, they forced it through

00:39:14.820 anyway, because they knew if they let they let it stick in there long enough, people would

00:39:18.480 get used to it, would get dependent on it and it would become popular.

00:39:21.380 Yep.

00:39:22.180 More coming up in a minute.

00:39:26.260 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:39:28.720 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:39:30.620 The good news is if you missed the debate last night, you're in luck.

00:39:37.060 There's night two tonight.

00:39:39.900 And, you know, the two main players in this one will be Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

00:39:44.460 That should be interesting because as Biden described it, Kamala Harris took a two by four 0.99

00:39:49.380 to him last time.

00:39:50.180 So I don't think he's going to be quite as pleasant.

00:39:52.380 Oh, no.

00:39:52.940 Oh, no.

00:39:53.680 That's going to it's going to be messy.

00:39:55.300 I think there's a lot of interest.

00:39:56.180 This might be fun dynamics in this one.

00:39:57.720 Obviously, the number one dynamic is how does Joe Biden respond to being destroyed last

00:40:03.860 time?

00:40:04.940 He has had time to prepare.

00:40:07.460 No excuses.

00:40:08.940 He needs to be massively ready and he needs to be able to do a good job tonight.

00:40:14.660 Not a not as typical, you know, middling performance in a debate.

00:40:18.600 He needs to do a good job.

00:40:19.660 He's a show that he's not slipping because it looked last time like he was slipping.

00:40:24.860 Did.

00:40:25.620 Yeah, it did.

00:40:26.060 And so I'm going to be interested to see that, I think, is the number one takeaway from what

00:40:30.620 we're going to see tonight.

00:40:32.440 And will Harris go after him again?

00:40:35.220 And I think Harris and by the way, you can get I did the there's a new edition of the

00:40:39.200 power rankings, Democratic power rankings out.

00:40:42.600 And, you know, we ranked from 25 to one all the candidates and how they're doing.

00:40:47.440 And it's worth checking out for a little pre pre debate prep if you want to look at how

00:40:52.560 they're doing and also make fun of them a little bit.

00:40:54.420 But Kamala Harris is an interesting one. 0.75

00:40:56.460 She actually finished second behind Biden overall in the field in this edition of the

00:41:01.980 power rankings.

00:41:02.740 But I think there's stuff to worry about there because more than anyone else, Kamala Harris's

00:41:08.380 run here is based on one spectacular moment.

00:41:11.180 And you can win a lot of basketball games by shooting 60 percent from three point range, but

00:41:17.620 you can't depend on that every game.

00:41:19.820 If she if her path to the presidency is a perfect debate performance every time, she's not going 0.89

00:41:25.020 to win.

00:41:25.940 She needs to be able to do more.

00:41:27.760 She needs to be more consistent in between these debates. 0.53

00:41:30.060 And if she has a bad performance tonight, you can see her support going away quickly.

00:41:34.760 It's amazing how that moment is perceived to be so great, too, because what was it she

00:41:39.660 was talking about?

00:41:40.620 She didn't even tell the story.

00:41:42.000 Well, there's a there's a person on a bus.

00:41:45.100 That person was me.

00:41:46.140 I was five years old at the time.

00:41:48.860 Usually, I mean, to create a little thing where you get drawn into it.

00:41:53.480 And then at the end, oh, by the way, I was that five year old girl.

00:41:57.480 She didn't even do it like she didn't even do it. 1.00

00:41:59.300 It was bad.

00:42:00.160 She didn't do it.

00:42:00.640 Well, I thought she did OK with it, but it's a story that is irrelevant, irrelevant.

00:42:05.580 It's and it's substance free.

00:42:07.380 I mean, we find out later that basically she agrees with him on busing, which is even more 0.92

00:42:11.060 ridiculous.

00:42:11.760 But again, she had she had several good moments in that debate. 0.93

00:42:14.680 Overall, she had a good performance.

00:42:16.680 I mean, I think she had when it comes down to a large field debate.

00:42:22.300 I don't know that I've ever seen anyone have a better night.

00:42:24.880 But that being said, that that is not a you don't win elections as she's seeing.

00:42:30.220 Right.

00:42:30.520 She had a nice burst up to about 15, but she's down to about 12 again.

00:42:34.000 Yeah.

00:42:34.340 You know, everything settled kind of back to where it was before the debate.

00:42:37.600 I mean, she definitely took a step up. 1.00

00:42:39.820 She probably she was probably about five or six, maybe seven percent before that jumped 0.90

00:42:44.340 up to about 15 and this held on to about 12.

00:42:46.720 So she's held maybe two thirds of the bump where Biden lost about 10 points and has regained

00:42:52.700 probably two thirds of the of the loss.

00:42:54.780 So it was not a devastating thing.

00:42:57.060 But at some point, Democrats are going to look at Biden if he continually turns in poor

00:43:01.400 performances and said, wow, if Kamala Harris is doing this to him.

00:43:04.740 Yeah.

00:43:05.180 What's Trump going to do to him?

00:43:06.940 So I think that that's going to be interesting.

00:43:09.060 Another thing I did to draw your attention to, if you happen to be watching this disaster

00:43:12.760 tonight, is Tulsi Gabbard.

00:43:14.780 Now, Gabbard, since the Kamala Harris or Kamala Harris debate has has run large amounts of

00:43:25.040 interference for Joe Biden.

00:43:26.980 She has criticized loudly Kamala Harris stance on busing and defended Joe Biden.

00:43:36.660 She has said Kamala Harris is not qualified to be president of the United States. 0.64

00:43:41.180 Probably the most aggressive attacks in this entire primary so far have been in the past

00:43:49.340 month from Tulsi Gabbard at Kamala Harris.

00:43:52.720 And it signals to me very strongly that Gabbard wants in on a Biden administration, whether

00:43:59.540 it's VP or secretary of defense, something like that.

00:44:02.600 She I mean, defense is her big thing. 0.99

00:44:04.060 Very well might be secretary of defense.

00:44:07.060 But Kamala Harris needs to be prepared because Gabbard is pretty smart. 1.00

00:44:10.660 And she's a good debater. 0.91

00:44:13.060 And she if she's ganging up essentially on Harris with Biden, Harris better be prepared

00:44:20.780 for that because it's one thing to attack some old white guy.

00:44:24.000 You know, Tulsi Gabbard is not going to go away so easily.

00:44:26.520 So that's, I think, an interesting thing to watch as you go through this tonight.

00:44:30.280 Another amazing part of this is when you look at the field, the way they set up this field

00:44:34.040 is the two people who are leading the polls are in the middle.

00:44:36.380 Right.

00:44:37.600 Biden and Harris, two people who are the least the worst in the polls, de Blasio and Michael

00:44:43.120 Bennett are on the ends.

00:44:44.140 And it goes in from there.

00:44:45.560 Who's standing next to Kamala Harris? 0.99

00:44:48.420 Think about this field for a second.

00:44:50.500 Who would you think?

00:44:51.440 You know, Cory Booker, Julian Castro, Kirsten Gillibrand, Jay Inslee, right?

00:44:57.340 Andrew Yang.

00:44:58.220 Andrew Yang is what you would say, I guess, is third place in this field right now.

00:45:05.720 And he had almost no time to talk in the first debate.

00:45:09.420 They wouldn't let him say much of anything.

00:45:10.960 And he was not aggressive enough.

00:45:12.320 He did.

00:45:12.580 You know, he just did not have a good night.

00:45:14.240 But, you know, first one of those these things.

00:45:16.260 We interested to see if he can do anything tonight.

00:45:18.180 He also called last night's debate.

00:45:20.000 He likened it to a boring football game.

00:45:23.540 Oh, really?

00:45:23.820 It's kind of interesting.

00:45:24.600 Yeah.

00:45:24.920 Because Democrats criticizing Democrat debates.

00:45:28.120 That doesn't happen all that often.

00:45:29.320 Does not happen much.

00:45:30.380 Yeah.

00:45:30.740 888-727-BECK.

00:45:32.720 More Pat and Stufer Glenn coming up.

00:45:33.940 Will there be anyone tonight who will continue the rich tradition of Democrat debate yodeling?

00:45:41.500 That's that's the one question.

00:45:43.360 Will will we have a yodeler as we did last night?

00:45:45.960 Way over there with Bernie and Elizabeth normally way over there with Bernie and Elizabeth normally way over there with Bernie and Elizabeth.

00:45:52.640 My hope is that, yes, there will be yodeling again tonight.

00:45:55.580 I hope it's in Spanish, though.

00:45:56.780 I heard no Spanish last night.

00:45:58.000 Oh, that's just what's hateful is what it is.

00:46:00.960 Yeah, it's hateful.

00:46:02.100 What about those people?

00:46:03.740 I think in America who speak Spanish.

00:46:05.740 My requirement for every candidate is that they at least say one sentence in every debate in each language available to them.

00:46:12.420 Wouldn't that be the inclusive thing to do?

00:46:14.120 Two worlds and languages.

00:46:15.420 I think Klingon should be included in that.

00:46:17.340 I think some of the.

00:46:18.480 There are people who speak it.

00:46:20.660 Are you saying that they're wrong?

00:46:22.220 No.

00:46:22.360 That they identify incorrectly?

00:46:24.040 Absolutely not.

00:46:24.080 Is that what you're saying?

00:46:24.980 Democratic candidates?

00:46:25.740 I hope not.

00:46:26.800 I am saying that somebody should speak it to them.

00:46:28.840 There you go.

00:46:29.600 I like that.

00:46:31.160 That should be interesting.

00:46:32.400 Yes.

00:46:32.680 I will be interested to see, too, if the two people on stage who have a long-standing immunity to shame and embarrassment, Cory Booker and Bill de Blasio, I expect fireworks out of both of them, particularly de Blasio because he's got nothing to lose.

00:46:51.940 I mean, he's basically at zero or one percent.

00:46:55.060 He's going to.

00:46:56.160 He will get to the left of everyone on stage.

00:46:58.140 And he is literally begging for money for donations because he's trying to get to that $130,000 mark now.

00:47:04.060 Right.

00:47:04.380 And he's nowhere near that.

00:47:05.700 No.

00:47:06.120 So he is.

00:47:06.740 Just please.

00:47:07.460 A dollar.

00:47:08.140 Just send me a dollar.

00:47:09.480 Give me anything.

00:47:10.160 Yeah.

00:47:10.580 And that's a fascinating part.

00:47:11.900 The one thing I thought Bill de Blasio would be good at would be getting money.

00:47:15.940 The guy is running a city, which is the financial center of the world, which is filled.

00:47:24.360 The entire city is filled with rich Democrats.

00:47:27.740 How does he not have more money than everybody else?

00:47:31.280 Because everyone hates him.

00:47:32.760 Yeah.

00:47:32.920 That's the answer.

00:47:33.600 He hasn't made a lot of friends.

00:47:35.200 Everyone hates him.

00:47:36.460 But he will try really hard.

00:47:37.900 First of all, he'll try to get to the left of everyone on stage.

00:47:40.100 And secondly, I would be stunned if he does not go after Biden in particular because he

00:47:46.100 wants the viral moments.

00:47:47.580 He's all about trying to get these viral moments to get attention.

00:47:50.400 Cory Booker, to a lesser extent, I think will try the same thing.

00:47:54.060 Booker's pissed because Booker was actually criticizing Biden before Kamala was.

00:47:59.540 And then Kamala got the big moment out of it because Booker's terrible.

00:48:03.300 Like Kamala, say what you say about her, can at least perform a little bit. 1.00

00:48:07.520 You know, where Booker is just awful.

00:48:10.280 In every way, he's just not good at this thing he's trying to do.

00:48:14.580 You know, a lot of people try a lot of different things.

00:48:16.840 Sometimes you're successful.

00:48:17.880 Sometimes you're not.

00:48:18.620 When you're not and you realize you're bad at this thing you're trying to do, sometimes

00:48:22.540 it's better to try something else.

00:48:23.840 Stop doing it.

00:48:24.280 Stop.

00:48:25.200 He is like the guy who comes in and like the first episode of American Idol and tries

00:48:29.840 out for singing.

00:48:30.660 Right.

00:48:30.880 And he thinks he's fantastic.

00:48:31.940 And he thinks he's good.

00:48:32.900 He's nailed it.

00:48:34.120 And his family's been telling him he's great.

00:48:35.720 Yeah.

00:48:35.920 For years.

00:48:36.780 Yeah.

00:48:37.320 And he goes in and he nails it.

00:48:38.660 And then Simon just disassembles him.

00:48:42.040 That is Cory Booker.

00:48:43.800 And he's going to try something tonight, I'm sure, to get himself on the highlights.

00:48:49.040 Mm-hmm.

00:48:49.320 And he's got some Spartacus-esque line that he's going to try to roll out there tonight.

00:48:55.420 And that's going to be an embarrassment.

00:48:57.100 Because that's what he does.

00:48:58.120 It's just, it's pitchy, Doug.

00:49:00.440 It's just a-

00:49:01.040 Super pitchy.

00:49:01.440 It is pitchy, Doug.

00:49:02.640 For me, it's a no for me.

00:49:04.520 It's a no.

00:49:04.900 It's a no.

00:49:05.540 It's a no for me.

00:49:06.500 And that's what he's going to get from all the judges.

00:49:08.200 Yes.

00:49:08.580 I don't even think Democrats like Cory Booker.

00:49:11.700 Otherwise, he'd be, you know, in the teens at least right now.

00:49:15.200 Where is he?

00:49:15.780 Two percent?

00:49:16.680 Two or three.

00:49:18.440 At best?

00:49:19.100 Yeah.

00:49:19.640 He's still behind Beto, and Beto is virtually imploded.

00:49:22.940 The Beto thing is really rough.

00:49:24.500 That's an amazing-

00:49:25.260 You almost feel sorry for him.

00:49:26.600 Yeah.

00:49:27.200 But not quite.

00:49:27.900 Beto crossed an interesting line for me last night, which is,

00:49:30.200 my expectations have now become so low, he actually exceeded them.

00:49:34.340 Did he?

00:49:34.960 Yes.

00:49:35.540 Really?

00:49:35.900 I thought he was just only bad.

00:49:37.600 Was it the 10-year thing on the climate change that swayed you?

00:49:42.040 No.

00:49:42.740 Listen to that again, and maybe it will sway you this time.

00:49:45.080 Here's Beto talking about, you know, how desperate the climate change situation is.

00:49:49.880 Congressman O'Rourke, your response.

00:49:51.320 I've listened to scientists on this, and they're very clear.

00:49:54.000 We don't have more than 10 years to get-

00:49:56.840 No, they're not clear on that.

00:49:58.180 Right.

00:49:58.460 And we won't meet that challenge with half steps or half measures or only half the country.

00:50:03.580 We've got to bring everyone in.

00:50:05.080 Everybody.

00:50:05.100 Everybody.

00:50:05.280 The people of Detroit and those that I listened to in Flint last week, they want the challenge.

00:50:09.740 They want those jobs. 0.97

00:50:10.600 They want to create the future for this country and the world.

00:50:13.080 Those community college students that I met in Tucumcari, New Mexico, understand that wind

00:50:17.480 and solar jobs are the fastest growing jobs in the country.

00:50:20.840 And those farmers in Iowa say, pay me for the environmental services of planting cover crops

00:50:25.360 and keeping more land in conservation easements.

00:50:28.980 That's how we meet the challenge.

00:50:30.300 So 10 years to climate catastrophe, according to Beto O'Rourke.

00:50:34.780 And he said he wanted to listen to the scientists.

00:50:36.400 I will tell you that the actual scientist who did the report he's talking about said specifically

00:50:42.280 he was wrong on it in a fact check on Beto saying this.

00:50:46.120 But yet he's still saying it on stage at a debate.

00:50:49.300 It's amazing.

00:50:50.180 They've got no shame.

00:50:51.560 Yeah.

00:50:52.040 Absolutely no shame.

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