The Glenn Beck Program - January 08, 2024


Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Rep. Chip Roy ｜ 1⧸8⧸24


Episode Stats

Length

43 minutes

Words per Minute

177.46332

Word Count

7,792

Sentence Count

654

Misogynist Sentences

17

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary

On today's show, Glenn Beck is joined by Pat Gray and Steve Breguer to discuss why no one in the White House was informed that Lloyd A. Austin was in the ICU, and why the president didn't know about it.


Transcript

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00:01:17.260 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:01:32.020 Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.
00:01:35.520 We also welcome the one, the only Pat Gray to the program now, and my executive producer, Steve Breguer.
00:01:42.360 Hello, Stu and Pat. How are you?
00:01:44.340 Hello. I'm actually not the only one. There's a realtor named Pat Gray that if you Google him, he'll pop up there, too.
00:01:51.360 Wow.
00:01:51.700 Yeah, I'm not the only one.
00:01:53.080 Wow.
00:01:54.520 So that's good. I'm in West Palm. Thanks to the whole staff at 1290 WJNO for putting up with me for the next couple of days.
00:02:05.100 I'm here on some business, and I will be back on Wednesday, Wednesday morning show.
00:02:11.180 So, Pat, do you think it's a big deal at all that Lloyd Austin was in intensive care, right?
00:02:20.460 No.
00:02:21.000 There's nothing.
00:02:21.440 Why should the president of the United States know about that?
00:02:25.420 I mean, there's no reason for him to know that the guy's in intensive care for four days.
00:02:31.500 Why would you need to know that?
00:02:33.300 Hang on just a second.
00:02:34.300 It's, you know, the president doesn't need to know.
00:02:36.880 No.
00:02:37.700 You know, because he's not making the decisions, let's be, you know.
00:02:41.040 We just have, you know, the potential.
00:02:41.980 Was Barack Obama informed?
00:02:44.000 That's what we need to find out.
00:02:45.740 Yes.
00:02:45.860 Amen.
00:02:46.660 Amen.
00:02:47.060 Now, we have two, you know, theaters of war that we're fighting simultaneously in right now, Ukraine and, you know, in the Persian Gulf, where I believe Iranians are still launching rockets at our ships.
00:03:06.440 Was there no time in the last seven days where somebody was like, you know what, let's call the Pentagon.
00:03:12.480 Let's see if we have permission to do this.
00:03:14.540 Was there no time?
00:03:15.600 Really?
00:03:16.740 Yeah.
00:03:17.420 No.
00:03:17.860 Ha.
00:03:18.380 Mm-mm.
00:03:19.160 Oh, that's.
00:03:20.080 And we still don't even, at least I haven't heard, the reason behind the hospitalization.
00:03:25.660 He went in for elective surgery.
00:03:28.680 Correct.
00:03:29.400 And then had complications.
00:03:31.320 What was the elective surgery?
00:03:33.260 What other complications?
00:03:34.060 Well, it's his privacy.
00:03:35.920 No, I'm sorry.
00:03:36.900 When you're the defense secretary, you don't get medical privacy like that.
00:03:42.360 Oh, hang on just a sec.
00:03:43.120 Like, you could say he went in for an elective surgery, you know, having his hemorrhoids removed.
00:03:49.840 I don't need to know about the hemorrhoids, but, you know, so he's going in for elective surgery.
00:03:55.240 Uh, it's no big deal.
00:03:56.940 He should be fine.
00:03:57.920 Then complications happened.
00:04:00.900 Okay.
00:04:01.220 Wait, what, what complications?
00:04:02.860 Is he okay?
00:04:03.920 How out of it is he?
00:04:05.420 Right.
00:04:05.680 Uh, when's he going to be returning?
00:04:07.480 And of course the president needs to know that no one at the white house was informed when he was brought into ICU.
00:04:16.200 And I love this.
00:04:17.780 The deputy secretary of defense who was to assume the responsibilities, she was in Puerto Rico on vacation.
00:04:25.520 So for days, she was the acting secretary of defense, but she didn't even know it.
00:04:31.520 You're like, I, you know, I'm here in Puerto Rico.
00:04:33.620 I mean, do we have phones here?
00:04:35.600 I mean, what could I possibly do about it?
00:04:37.820 And they're like, oh, well, you know, Austin approved this before he had the surgery.
00:04:42.140 And it's like, okay, well, sometimes things change.
00:04:45.580 Like I, what if they had surrendered in the interim?
00:04:47.880 Would they, what would have happened?
00:04:50.060 It's, it's, it's honestly, what's, what's happening in the red sea with the Navy and you know, we're, we're shooting drones out of the sky like skeet and no one needed to get permission to do it.
00:05:04.940 That just didn't happen in a week.
00:05:06.880 I mean, you want to talk about a sock puppet regime.
00:05:09.580 It must be this who's making the decisions.
00:05:12.580 Yeah.
00:05:12.960 You know, Glenn, I talked to two people about this randomly as, as it was developing and, you know, both of their reactions were the same.
00:05:20.200 Well, I mean, you almost understand that they wouldn't tell Biden because, you know, he's out of it, but like, well, how do people in the Pentagon not know?
00:05:26.400 And it's like, how, how are we not recognizing that statement is a massive problem that the American people are actually in a position where they think it's normal that the president of the United States just is so out of it.
00:05:39.580 They wouldn't tell him that the secretary of defense was in ICU.
00:05:42.760 Yeah.
00:05:43.340 With two fronts being fought right now, two.
00:05:47.540 This is a major problem that's been going on though for a while.
00:05:50.700 I mean, look what happened to Mitch McConnell and we were never told what his deal is either.
00:05:54.600 I mean, the American people have no right to know anything about our leadership.
00:05:59.240 It's amazing.
00:06:00.700 I mean, we're told that was dehydration.
00:06:02.780 He freezes twice on two separate occasions and that's dehydration.
00:06:08.740 I've been dehydrated before.
00:06:11.620 How many times did you freeze?
00:06:13.160 A total of, carry the one.
00:06:15.800 None.
00:06:16.420 Zero.
00:06:16.780 Yeah, zero times.
00:06:17.540 Zero times.
00:06:18.200 Zero times.
00:06:19.520 Because you carried the one and everything.
00:06:21.660 I mean, where are we now as a nation?
00:06:25.200 It's astounding.
00:06:28.020 What we're seeing is a show.
00:06:29.880 Yeah.
00:06:30.280 And it's becoming more and more obvious.
00:06:32.480 When the president just doesn't have to, doesn't have to be aware, notified, when our leadership
00:06:41.660 can be wildly impaired, when, when, what's her name from California, when they were whispering
00:06:48.600 into her ear, just, just vote yes.
00:06:50.960 Yeah.
00:06:51.560 We're not being represented by the people we are being, what we are putting into office.
00:06:55.700 Somebody else is representing themselves, not us, themselves.
00:07:00.200 How, how does this happen?
00:07:01.540 There's no chain of command?
00:07:04.440 None?
00:07:05.580 I mean, shouldn't that bother everybody?
00:07:10.240 Yeah.
00:07:10.740 You know, Democrats.
00:07:11.840 Democrats, too.
00:07:12.420 Yeah.
00:07:12.760 Just, hello.
00:07:14.660 Mm-hmm.
00:07:15.300 Yeah, I mean, and look, we were honest, to bring up Pat's example, all of us called out
00:07:19.260 the Mitch McConnell thing as completely unacceptable when it happened.
00:07:22.120 Unacceptable.
00:07:22.240 Right.
00:07:22.460 And he should not be in the Senate.
00:07:24.000 Right.
00:07:24.140 I stand by that.
00:07:25.040 Me too.
00:07:25.900 He should be gone.
00:07:27.020 Yes.
00:07:27.280 They need to put somebody else in there.
00:07:28.480 You can't have two of those moments and continue in that job.
00:07:33.140 Nope.
00:07:33.700 It's totally separate from whether you think he's doing a good job or not, or whether you
00:07:37.200 think he's passing bills that you like or not.
00:07:39.320 It doesn't matter.
00:07:40.780 Mm-hmm.
00:07:40.920 This is, it's the country we're talking about.
00:07:43.340 And watching the way this is going down is not only, like, disturbing and makes you question
00:07:49.220 all sorts of things.
00:07:50.180 It's also just utterly embarrassing.
00:07:53.700 Mm-hmm.
00:07:54.000 It's embarrassing that we have a president who can't find the jet he's supposed to go on.
00:08:00.280 He can't figure out which side of the stage to walk off.
00:08:03.620 No, his wife has to come out and escort him off stage.
00:08:07.680 It's embarrassing.
00:08:09.480 It is.
00:08:10.060 It's embarrassing.
00:08:10.660 This is supposed to be the world's superpower we're talking about, not like a sketch comedy
00:08:17.560 troupe.
00:08:18.440 Mm-hmm.
00:08:18.800 And that's what it seems like we're sitting in the middle of right now.
00:08:22.000 Here's something from the Wall Street Journal, because this is very, very important.
00:08:25.160 The world's wealthiest person has used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, psychedelic mushrooms, often
00:08:33.160 at private parties around the world where the attendees sign nondisclosure agreements or give up their
00:08:37.620 phones to enter, according to the people who have witnessed his drug use and others with
00:08:41.640 knowledge of it.
00:08:42.300 Well, then you're in, I mean, I believe you would be in violation of your nondisclosure
00:08:46.420 agreement, but maybe that's just me.
00:08:48.780 Musk has previously smoked marijuana in public and has said he has a prescription for the psychedelic
00:08:53.880 ketamine.
00:08:55.720 So what they're talking about in this article is illegal drug use.
00:09:01.180 That's a violation of federal policies, and NASA is very concerned about it, okay?
00:09:07.760 That could jeopardize SpaceX billions of dollars in government contracts.
00:09:12.600 Oh, no.
00:09:13.320 They are coming after this guy again.
00:09:16.220 Oh, big time.
00:09:18.860 Now, by the way, so you know, when Elon Musk went on to Joe Rogan a few years ago and was
00:09:24.400 smoking pot, the NASA came and said, hey, we're a little concerned, you know, are you
00:09:32.320 doing illegal drugs?
00:09:33.400 And he's like, you know what?
00:09:34.380 You can test me anytime.
00:09:35.840 So he does random drug screening for, I think he had to do it for three or four years because
00:09:41.520 NASA said, we want to make sure that you're not on drugs when we're launching things.
00:09:46.260 So this isn't even an issue.
00:09:48.140 Why is the Wall Street Journal, we don't care that the president is so lost on stage.
00:09:57.380 He's the guy that has to make the decision, or is he, if we go to war?
00:10:03.420 And the second guy who is in that chain of command, the Secretary of Defense, he's in ICU
00:10:10.880 for a week and nobody knows it.
00:10:12.380 And you're worried about the drug use that you're already testing Elon Musk for, otherwise
00:10:17.680 he might, maybe he should lose his federal funding.
00:10:21.400 My gosh, this, everything is upside down.
00:10:24.560 Yeah.
00:10:25.660 And we have people in office who don't even understand what kind of government they have
00:10:32.080 been elected to.
00:10:32.980 You know, the Gene Shaheen quote over the weekend, the tweet that she sent out about Ben Franklin
00:10:40.160 saying that he said, we've got a democracy if you can keep it.
00:10:45.440 Oh my gosh.
00:10:46.940 She did not.
00:10:48.220 Yeah, she did.
00:10:49.520 Yeah.
00:10:49.680 I mean, that just shows you-
00:10:51.260 Center in the U.S. Senate, a democracy if you can keep it.
00:10:55.640 That's not what he said.
00:10:56.640 That's not what we are.
00:10:58.080 No.
00:10:58.880 No.
00:10:59.580 Unreal.
00:10:59.980 That just shows you are either so stupid or you know exactly what you're doing.
00:11:05.560 That's what I think it is.
00:11:06.840 And I think that too.
00:11:07.780 You can't know that quote and think it was democracy.
00:11:11.620 No, you can't.
00:11:12.780 I mean, the whole point of that quote is it's a republic and those are hard to keep.
00:11:21.280 It's incredible.
00:11:23.180 Again, it's embarrassing and it's incredible, but there is a concerted effort to make this
00:11:28.880 into a democracy.
00:11:30.000 They've been trying to get us used to that phrase for years now.
00:11:33.860 I mean, they are really pushing it hard, really pushing it.
00:11:39.140 So tell me, both of you, there is a story here.
00:11:46.720 Yeah.
00:11:46.920 J.P.
00:11:47.400 Morgan, one of the big guys at J.P.
00:11:50.240 Morgan Chase has just come out.
00:11:52.140 He's a strategist.
00:11:52.940 Come out and he's predicted.
00:11:56.720 The presidential race and it goes to Joe Biden.
00:12:00.640 He says, no, no, no.
00:12:03.020 His prediction goes to Joe Biden pulling out of the presidential race.
00:12:08.160 He says he's going to drop out after Super Tuesday and cite health reasons as he faces
00:12:16.060 dismal poll numbers.
00:12:18.780 You buy that?
00:12:20.660 I don't think that's going to happen, but I hope it does.
00:12:23.040 I mean, it should.
00:12:25.040 Who do you want?
00:12:25.600 Who do you want?
00:12:26.500 Who do I want?
00:12:27.360 Who are they going to give it to?
00:12:27.840 Yeah, who are they not want, but who you think they're going to give it to?
00:12:30.400 I think they'd turn to Gavin Newsom.
00:12:36.640 They'll try to get Michelle Obama, but I don't know that she wants it.
00:12:43.580 I don't think she does.
00:12:45.800 And so they'll have to turn to Gavin Newsom if that happens.
00:12:49.240 And I don't think Gavin Newsom wins.
00:12:52.180 I don't think there's any way.
00:12:53.980 California is in too bad a shape and he's overseen it all.
00:12:57.620 So, uh, I, I don't even know why you would consider him as an option, but that's, it's
00:13:04.780 so weird.
00:13:05.360 It's like, it's not like they, I mean, there are horrors and you could find Democrats that
00:13:08.640 maybe have untouched resumes and maybe think that they're good candidates.
00:13:12.820 I mean, Newsom has been terrible on everything.
00:13:16.080 He is legit.
00:13:17.640 His entire city is falling apart or his entire country is falling apart.
00:13:21.980 The city fell apart when he was mayor of San Francisco.
00:13:24.660 Yeah.
00:13:24.880 Uh, he, you know, he, he, and he got caught, he did a horrible job with COVID.
00:13:29.100 He got caught by the way, having dinner when everyone else was supposed to be locked in
00:13:34.860 their homes.
00:13:35.520 He, the other part about this that no one remembers that she had an, an infectious disease expert
00:13:40.720 as the head of their medical establishment ready to go.
00:13:44.500 And instead of giving the job to her, this is right before COVID, he gave it to some woman
00:13:50.440 who was completely unqualified because she happened to have a different skin tone.
00:13:54.420 It was a total DEI hire, according to multiple people inside the California government to the
00:14:01.240 point that she was so embarrassing.
00:14:03.220 When COVID started, they had to start hiding her, uh, from the, from the media and eventually
00:14:09.880 had to basically walk her out the door because she was a catastrophe.
00:14:13.900 All of this happened in front of her eyes.
00:14:16.440 Everyone saw it go on.
00:14:18.080 And then he's like, Oh, he's the leader.
00:14:19.300 Like that's how bad their bench is.
00:14:21.140 You know what?
00:14:21.680 But I have to tell you, I would hope that that is the case that they could get Gavin
00:14:25.980 Newsom, uh, to run and it kind of, I can make a case.
00:14:29.560 Let me do a commercial and then we'll, uh, I'll make the case that maybe this is what
00:14:33.400 they've been doing all along, but I'd rather have that than Michelle Obama.
00:14:36.900 Oh yeah.
00:14:37.880 Cause I, I think Gavin Newsom could, could be beaten.
00:14:40.960 Michelle Obama, I don't think could be beaten.
00:14:43.280 Uh, and, uh, it would be a nightmare.
00:14:46.320 Notice how you guys are all walking right past Kamala Harris.
00:14:49.520 You don't even care, you don't even care enough to bring her up.
00:14:53.280 No, we don't.
00:14:54.260 Oh.
00:14:58.720 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:15:04.840 All right.
00:15:05.880 Hello, Chip Roy.
00:15:06.560 How are you, sir?
00:15:09.300 Chip, are you there?
00:15:10.120 How are you, brother?
00:15:11.120 Ah, well, you know, I'm a, you know, I, I, I would be better if I thought you were
00:15:16.920 bringing, uh, happy news to the table.
00:15:20.340 Uh, but, uh, the house and Senate have put together a budget, uh, that they say is going
00:15:25.920 to cut spending.
00:15:27.540 Whew.
00:15:28.380 Boy, is it ever.
00:15:29.840 And, uh, and really has nothing to do with the border.
00:15:32.240 Does it?
00:15:33.980 Yeah.
00:15:34.380 Glenn, look, I mean, first of all, greetings from West Des Moines, Iowa, where it's a
00:15:37.960 big, a bombing 20 degrees outside, but, uh, uh, and it's no storm coming in, but the real
00:15:42.840 snowstorm coming in is coming into DC.
00:15:44.740 That's going to hammer the American people.
00:15:47.180 Republicans doing exactly what they always do, which is be the party of excuses.
00:15:51.200 The party that will never find a way to not potentially and spend more money that we don't
00:15:55.840 have and rack up more debt.
00:15:57.140 So what are we doing now under speaker Johnson, right?
00:15:59.620 New speaker, more of the same garbage.
00:16:01.540 We're going to have a bill that's $1.66 trillion.
00:16:06.520 That is almost, uh, I think that's about $58 billion more than the disastrous Nancy Pelosi
00:16:13.980 omnibus bill that Republicans opposed a year ago.
00:16:16.500 It is a hundred billion dollars more than what we would get if Republicans had the spine
00:16:22.640 to walk onto the house floor and send a simple year long continuing resolution over to the
00:16:28.480 Senate.
00:16:28.720 It would trigger the cuts all of the, all be they meager in the debt deal last summer.
00:16:34.420 It would trigger cuts that we could get 1.56, 2 trillion in spending.
00:16:40.060 They won't do that because they're all in the hip pocket of all the lobbyists and they
00:16:43.620 hide behind our military.
00:16:45.360 And now we're not going to get the border secure.
00:16:47.680 We're going to spend a hundred billion dollars more than we have to.
00:16:50.360 We're going to increase spending over the Nancy Pelosi spending deal.
00:16:53.240 And Republicans are going to go try to sell you and the American people that that somehow
00:16:57.420 will win.
00:16:58.320 Don't believe them.
00:16:59.460 This is what the American people are tired of.
00:17:01.380 And I'm look, I'm going to call balls and strikes.
00:17:02.960 I call balls and strikes on Kevin.
00:17:05.200 I'm going to call balls and strikes on Mike as speaker.
00:17:08.220 People should call balls and strikes on me.
00:17:10.100 That's the way it works.
00:17:12.540 So Chip, we're running out of time and options here.
00:17:17.580 I don't know if anybody in Washington has seen that, but the Republicans, they don't care
00:17:26.600 about, I mean, they are not in touch with the average American.
00:17:30.220 They're just not, at least in the ruling class of Republican circles.
00:17:38.180 They're, I don't know, in it for themselves or just completely delusional on what the country
00:17:44.220 is facing now.
00:17:46.040 The border alone is such a major stress on absolutely everything from national security
00:17:54.860 to the economy, to our social fabric, to our social services.
00:18:01.500 What are, what is the average person supposed to do at this point?
00:18:06.400 Well, I think, I think what Republican leadership would tell you in the House and the Senate
00:18:10.100 is that they're trying to negotiate a border deal right now on the back of a, of a Ukraine
00:18:14.460 spending fight.
00:18:15.240 Now, here's my problem with that.
00:18:17.700 Yet again, I'm being asked to accept in, in October, November, I was accepted, asked
00:18:22.220 to accept twice continuing resolutions of Nancy Pelosi's spending level.
00:18:25.960 Then I was asked to eat a National Defense Authorization Act, which got rid of almost all
00:18:30.400 of our policy changes we put in our version, and then extended FISA for 16 months so we can
00:18:35.900 have a government continue to spy on the American people.
00:18:37.960 And now I'm being asked to accept this ridiculous spending deal with no real border security measures
00:18:43.180 in it.
00:18:43.700 There'll be token so that I'll get a promise.
00:18:46.140 Trust me, right?
00:18:46.900 Trust me, Chip.
00:18:47.900 We will do border security on a Ukraine deal when half of the American people don't even
00:18:52.960 want to give another dollar to Ukraine anyway, irrespective of whether you actually got a
00:18:56.920 border deal, which neither you nor I nor your listeners believe will actually materialize.
00:19:01.680 So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, Chip, Chip, help me out.
00:19:04.880 Which one?
00:19:05.680 I mean, I think they're both a gun to the head, dangerous, but which one is more pressing
00:19:12.260 right now?
00:19:13.800 The financial, the budget deal, or the border?
00:19:19.500 In my view, they're actually both important, but I will take border security first.
00:19:23.980 Me too.
00:19:24.280 Here's the problem.
00:19:25.560 Here's the problem.
00:19:26.900 We can do both.
00:19:28.180 We have in our hands, because of the work we did last year, through all the speaker fights
00:19:32.040 and negotiations, I don't want to set aside.
00:19:34.280 I don't want people to totally give up hope.
00:19:36.500 We fought last year, and we did what we've never done before.
00:19:39.500 We passed a border security bill in HR2 that would actually do the job.
00:19:43.420 It is so good that the Wall Street Journal today was editorializing against it, saying
00:19:48.680 it was too hard.
00:19:50.100 That it had things in there about building the wall.
00:19:52.240 That it had E-Verify in there.
00:19:53.800 So if the Wall Street Journal is editorializing against your border bill, it's probably a
00:19:58.280 good border bill.
00:19:59.660 So you've got our border bill, which was effective.
00:20:02.580 We passed it.
00:20:03.640 We got it done.
00:20:04.580 I know you're chuckling.
00:20:05.440 You know I'm right.
00:20:06.560 I know.
00:20:07.320 Hey, look, side note.
00:20:09.280 It is the Chamber of Commerce Wall Street Journal Republicans who have totally screwed our
00:20:13.480 country for two decades, because they want their cheap labor.
00:20:16.660 They want to sit down at the Rio Grande.
00:20:18.140 They want to have a sign that says no trespassing while they're going wink, wink, nod, nod with
00:20:22.080 another sign saying help wanted.
00:20:23.800 Come on in.
00:20:24.660 We don't give a crap whether our border is wide open.
00:20:26.880 We don't give a crap if terrorists are coming again.
00:20:28.820 We don't give a crap if cartels are empowered.
00:20:30.840 We don't give a crap if our kids are dying from fentanyl.
00:20:33.400 That's what's happening right now.
00:20:34.960 So we've got a bill that we passed that was good.
00:20:37.760 Bird in hand.
00:20:38.620 We should use it to negotiate and get border security.
00:20:41.320 We have a bird in hand, which is caps on spending.
00:20:44.560 They weren't the caps that Glenn Beck and Chip Roy would negotiate, but they were caps that
00:20:48.820 actually now, if we were to pass a continuing resolution,
00:20:52.080 for the rest of this year, they would trigger $1.562 trillion, which would mean we would
00:20:58.380 cut spending between $40 and $70 billion, rather than, which is an additional $100 billion.
00:21:05.580 Can I, can I just, can I just point out, that's not a lot of money when you're spending $4 trillion.
00:21:12.240 I mean, I, I, it's, it's honestly, it's, it's like going to, it's, it's going to Bill Gates
00:21:20.220 and saying, Bill, your spending is out of control.
00:21:24.100 And I, I noticed you bought four new cars last year.
00:21:29.040 Uh, that we, we got to stop spending the four new car, four new cars.
00:21:34.180 He's got a Boeing business jet.
00:21:35.960 He's running around in.
00:21:37.140 I mean, this is so ridiculous to talk about these small numbers as being so substantial
00:21:44.120 because they're not, we lost, what was it?
00:21:47.800 $200 and $250 billion.
00:21:50.900 We just lost last year, just lost, send it out to the wrong people, overpaid.
00:21:57.680 What are you talking about?
00:22:00.180 Yeah.
00:22:00.720 I mean, Glenn, it's absolutely ridiculous.
00:22:02.020 The amount of waste and the spending, but more importantly, we're funding the very bureaucrats
00:22:05.540 that are targeting you and me and undermining our freedom.
00:22:07.520 We're targeting IR and we're funding IRS agents.
00:22:09.760 We're funding DOJ bureaucrats that go after the former president, go after you and me, go
00:22:14.380 after Mark Calc in Philadelphia.
00:22:15.800 We're funding a DHS to not secure the border.
00:22:18.040 And that smug Alejandro Mayorkas to sit up there on the stage and laugh at us and blame
00:22:22.220 it on Texas.
00:22:22.880 We're funding the lawyers to go to the Supreme court and challenge Texas in court saying we
00:22:27.180 can't cut razor wire.
00:22:28.580 I mean, you can't even put it into words.
00:22:30.080 I got to be honest with you.
00:22:30.960 I'm on the ground in Iowa.
00:22:32.700 OK, I'm meeting with voters every day, very focused voters, and they are ready to rumble.
00:22:37.860 They are ready for a change.
00:22:39.500 They are sick and tired of what's going on in the swamp.
00:22:41.880 They want somebody new.
00:22:43.080 They want a new direction.
00:22:44.000 They want some change.
00:22:45.480 You know, not to get into the political side.
00:22:47.340 I'm out here stumping for Governor DeSantis, obviously.
00:22:49.720 But they want somebody who will actually do what they friggin said they would do like Governor
00:22:54.500 DeSantis did in Florida.
00:22:56.280 And look, he's never flip-flopped.
00:22:58.620 And I heard on your show earlier, you asked about Vivek.
00:23:00.960 I like Vivek.
00:23:01.720 He says a lot of great things.
00:23:03.300 But he's flip-flopped a million times on vaccines, on Trump, COVID generally.
00:23:08.120 I could go down a list.
00:23:09.600 Governor DeSantis delivered up and down.
00:23:11.740 And so Governor DeSantis cut spending.
00:23:13.920 Governor DeSantis took on Fauci.
00:23:15.400 Governor DeSantis took on COVID-19.
00:23:16.980 He took on Disney and won.
00:23:18.680 He's now got Miami-Dade teachers' unions on the run.
00:23:22.580 He got Universal School Joyce passed.
00:23:24.580 He's got an economy booming.
00:23:26.280 That guy is actually a machine.
00:23:28.100 I've never seen anything like it.
00:23:29.260 And I've worked for good people.
00:23:30.680 You know that.
00:23:31.640 Guy is absolutely crushing it.
00:23:33.500 And he's doing great out here in Iowa.
00:23:35.560 I am a big fan of Ron DeSantis.
00:23:37.440 I'd vote for him in a heartbeat.
00:23:39.320 Big, big fan of Ron DeSantis.
00:23:41.380 And, again, I think the only reason why Ron DeSantis is not doing real well is because people are saying, well, I'll take Donald Trump because it's Ron DeSantis.
00:23:54.520 I don't think it is the same thing.
00:23:56.420 But that, I think, is what people are thinking.
00:23:57.980 Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis.
00:24:00.220 Well, hold on.
00:24:00.800 Let's just compare apples to oranges there, right?
00:24:03.960 If you want to talk about the border, Governor DeSantis has stood up.
00:24:06.880 He fought to get bills passed there when he was in the House.
00:24:09.260 He stood up to fight for good border security bills.
00:24:11.940 In 2018, Governor DeSantis was against Paul Ryan's amnesty bill.
00:24:16.780 Donald Trump was for it.
00:24:18.600 Governor DeSantis will actually fight birthright citizenship.
00:24:22.180 President Trump said in 2016 he would sign an executive order on birthright citizenship.
00:24:26.120 He didn't do it.
00:24:27.280 Donald Trump said he would build the wall and have Mexico pay for it.
00:24:30.100 He then got up and gave excuses about, well, we have no mechanism to make them pay for it.
00:24:34.000 We didn't get it built.
00:24:35.320 They didn't pay for it.
00:24:36.300 Well, Ron DeSantis stood up against Fauci, shut down COVID tyranny.
00:24:40.580 Frickin' President Trump gave Fauci a commendation on his way out of office in January of 2021.
00:24:47.500 Look, I can go down the list even further, but there's no comparison.
00:24:51.720 I mean, Governor DeSantis is the guy we've been waiting for who will deliver and he can serve for eight years.
00:24:56.740 I love President Trump for what he did to shake up the swamp.
00:24:59.540 But let's just be clear.
00:25:01.020 He did not deliver.
00:25:02.240 He didn't repeal Obamacare.
00:25:03.400 He let Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell wag him around town.
00:25:06.680 We didn't get Obamacare repealed.
00:25:08.300 Now you and I are screwed sitting here with high health care costs, letting insurance companies run our health care system.
00:25:14.160 And instead of actually having a health care freedom, we empowered Anthony Fauci to screw Americans.
00:25:19.260 Like, how many things do you have to fail on to then go around and say what a great president you are compared to a governor who's literally delivered on every single measure on the report card?
00:25:28.160 This is why President Trump will not debate Governor DeSantis, because Governor DeSantis would actually clean his clock if he compared his batting record with the former president.
00:25:38.740 So let me go back to the budget, the border, everything that is happening in America now.
00:25:50.160 Americans are starting to cancel all of their streaming services.
00:25:53.300 There's a great story in my show prep today about the restaurant owner that has broke down the math that causes him to charge $16 for a BLT sandwich.
00:26:06.060 And when you read it, at first you're like, $16 for a BLT.
00:26:09.940 Come on, man.
00:26:10.300 And then when you read it, you're like, okay, I'm surprised he's only charging $16 for that BLT.
00:26:16.540 Americans feel it.
00:26:18.760 They know their country is being taken.
00:26:21.720 They know the Justice Department is completely out of control.
00:26:27.560 The Pentagon didn't even have a leader for a week.
00:26:31.820 And we're starting to feel like, wow, we're at the end of this thing.
00:26:38.980 What do we do if the people in Washington don't listen to the people?
00:26:44.400 What do we do?
00:26:45.600 Well, there's a number of things.
00:26:47.380 One, we've got to elect somebody good.
00:26:49.620 I've already said my piece on that.
00:26:51.200 We've got to get a president who will do it.
00:26:52.560 Number two, we in Congress have to keep holding ourselves accountable,
00:26:56.520 and the people need to keep holding ourselves accountable to do what we said we would do in Washington.
00:27:00.300 I'm going to go back and fight this week.
00:27:01.940 I'm going to keep shining the light on it.
00:27:03.500 That's actually new.
00:27:04.820 Take hope.
00:27:05.760 We actually have a group of us there who are actually doing the hard work of exposing all the garbage in these bills
00:27:10.760 and making it harder for these guys to capitulate.
00:27:13.600 We'll get there.
00:27:14.620 Have hope that people like Riley Gaines are stood up to the woke establishment
00:27:18.340 and people like Scott Smith stood up to all of the abuses in Virginia.
00:27:22.020 Take hope that Chloe Cole stood up and said, you know what, these forced transition surgeries are garbage,
00:27:26.640 or Mark Houck stood up to the DOJ in Philadelphia.
00:27:28.860 We should follow their lead.
00:27:30.940 The American people should stand up and reclaim their inheritance and keep pushing.
00:27:34.820 Get people elected this year who will fight.
00:27:36.860 Pay attention to who they are.
00:27:38.380 Get out there and make a difference.
00:27:40.300 And keep holding us accountable.
00:27:41.800 But also, remember, if we want to save this country, you talk about inflation.
00:27:46.300 Talk about how everybody's suffering.
00:27:48.680 We have got to open up American energy.
00:27:51.020 We don't talk about that enough.
00:27:52.540 The Democrats are jamming through all of their subsidies for EVs.
00:27:55.420 I don't think the American people know there is a rule they're about to embrace that will mandate two-thirds EVs by 2032.
00:28:02.460 That will destroy the internal combustion engine.
00:28:05.220 It will destroy our ability to afford automobiles.
00:28:08.280 It will crush the economy, drive the cost of goods and services up.
00:28:12.000 And I just want Republicans for one frigging moment to fight Democrats with half of the energy, half of the energy,
00:28:19.620 that Democrats fight our country and our freedom.
00:28:21.620 That's when I'm going to go back to Washington.
00:28:23.460 When I fly back tomorrow, I'm going to absolutely rip into my Republican colleagues for this debacle of a spending bill.
00:28:29.580 And we're going to keep trying to force their hands.
00:28:31.480 There's another story about the Supreme Court taking on the Donald Trump ballot case.
00:28:37.860 They're taking their own sweet time to do it.
00:28:40.980 But this is something that is sweeping America.
00:28:43.020 If they take Donald Trump off the ballot, again, what do people do?
00:28:51.940 Well, it's a great question.
00:28:53.120 First of all, what they're doing.
00:28:54.560 And look, obviously, I supported Donald Trump in 2016, supported him in 2020.
00:28:59.060 These are nominee.
00:28:59.620 I'll support him.
00:29:00.340 What they're doing against him in Colorado is an absolute travesty.
00:29:04.060 It's politicizing the entire process.
00:29:07.360 There is no conviction for insurrection.
00:29:09.600 It's all a joke.
00:29:10.300 They're doing it purposely and politically.
00:29:11.720 We're going to have to start responding in kind.
00:29:14.400 I'm willing.
00:29:15.340 I think, I think, I think this court will strike this down and will call this out for what it is.
00:29:22.800 But we'll see.
00:29:24.100 Right.
00:29:24.340 And then, you know, if they don't, then I can I can assure you there's going to be then reactions, as Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said in Texas.
00:29:32.180 I think even Governor Sanders has brought it up like we start saying that, you know, Joe Biden needs to be pulled off the ballot because he's been a complete abomination,
00:29:39.280 violating our laws, violating his oath to the Constitution, endangering the American people, aiding and abetting our enemies in the cartels who are flooding our country.
00:29:47.480 So how is that not in violation of the 14th Amendment that, you know, aiding and abetting your enemies?
00:29:53.200 That's the language in the 14th Amendment.
00:29:54.680 So if we're going to play that game and adjudicate that based on the whims of whatever a state wants to decide, as opposed to some actual conviction after a civil war, you know,
00:30:04.300 a demonstration of insurrection after a civil war as was intended in the 14th Amendment, then what's good for the goose should be good for the gander.
00:30:10.820 We're going to have to fight fire with fire.
00:30:12.760 Right now, let's let's hope and pray the court gets this right.
00:30:15.940 I think they will.
00:30:17.540 But, man, these are strange times.
00:30:19.080 So, you know, we'll see what happens.
00:30:20.660 I assume you're like me that you think they will.
00:30:23.620 But I think I think they will.
00:30:26.540 But the Democrats, again, I think they will.
00:30:29.100 And that will pass.
00:30:30.120 But the Democrats will use that as see this this out of control conservative court.
00:30:35.760 You know, just has to be we have to have other new people on.
00:30:38.960 We got to get rid of these people.
00:30:40.380 I mean, that's that's what they're going to use it for.
00:30:42.280 I mean, that that that's the political game they'll play.
00:30:44.540 But then we just use it against them and say this is why we need a court.
00:30:47.220 I mean, look, we've got a couple of our guys getting older, you know, Sam Alito and Justice Thomas.
00:30:50.980 I mean, God bless them.
00:30:52.720 They're our two most conservative justices.
00:30:55.160 And, you know, we got it.
00:30:56.660 We got to replace those guys.
00:30:58.780 The people at least as good or better, because the three that Trump appointed were good.
00:31:03.640 But they're not as good as those guys.
00:31:05.080 Like they're not Scalia and Thomas.
00:31:06.600 Right.
00:31:06.900 They're just not.
00:31:07.800 You know, they're just OK.
00:31:09.860 Yeah.
00:31:10.680 Yeah.
00:31:11.500 Chip, thank you so much.
00:31:13.060 Enjoy the weather in Iowa.
00:31:16.140 It's lovely.
00:31:16.780 It ain't Dallas.
00:31:17.520 I can tell you that.
00:31:18.100 By the way, they're good friends at Patriot Mobile.
00:31:20.460 I'm glad you're advertising for them.
00:31:21.720 They're good friends.
00:31:22.780 God bless you.
00:31:23.620 And I'll be back in Texas sometime soon.
00:31:26.120 You got it.
00:31:26.560 Thank you.
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00:31:38.520 It is.
00:31:39.440 It's a head to head match.
00:31:40.840 I mean, it is going to come in by a nose.
00:31:43.360 I predict this.
00:31:45.360 This race for the GOP nomination is just thrilling, exciting and nail biting all the way to the end.
00:31:55.200 And we have our first contest to see when they all step into the ring, which one is going to come out as a victor.
00:32:03.080 And my man for color here, which is really kind of racist, is Steve Breguier, otherwise known as Stu.
00:32:11.200 And Stu, what are you looking at at this big match out on the mat in Iowa?
00:32:17.900 It is amazing.
00:32:19.300 We're seven days away, one week from Iowa.
00:32:21.920 And it doesn't feel that way, does it?
00:32:24.560 No.
00:32:25.260 No.
00:32:25.440 I mean, I think there's the sort of belief that we are in a primary that doesn't really exist, right?
00:32:33.020 Like that Trump is running away with it.
00:32:34.860 And in a few weeks, we will all know that.
00:32:38.100 It's as exciting as the Biden primary.
00:32:42.620 Yeah.
00:32:43.100 That has nothing to do with the voters.
00:32:45.140 The same thing with the Trump thing.
00:32:46.740 I mean, you've got to go out and vote, but it seems like it's just going to happen.
00:32:51.940 And then the nail biter is, is he going to end up in prison?
00:32:58.340 Right.
00:32:59.020 I think that's where people see the real contest taking shape.
00:33:02.200 But I think that's partially why it does matter what happens in these early states.
00:33:06.860 Because the second place primary is important when you have one of the two major parties trying to throw the other guy in prison, right?
00:33:14.680 Well, we haven't really had that kind of El Salvadorian kind of feel to our presidential elections.
00:33:22.560 That's true.
00:33:23.440 We haven't really done much of that.
00:33:26.260 So I started a kind of a new morning update podcast called State of the Race, which is on the Studios America feed if you go there and wherever you get your podcast.
00:33:35.700 And we're going to go through all of this every day because I think, you know, in a few weeks we might find out that Trump runs away with this and there's nothing to worry about about going to prison or being thrown off ballots.
00:33:45.460 And that stuff all clears itself out.
00:33:46.820 We don't have to worry about this, which would be great.
00:33:48.900 I mean, you know, I mean, if you don't have to worry about democracy crumbling in front of your eyes, that would be a positive.
00:33:54.180 It'll be surprising, but it would be great.
00:33:57.380 Yeah.
00:33:57.720 And you have a situation where, look, DeSantis is, do you think it's a, would you say it's a must win, Iowa, for DeSantis?
00:34:05.300 Or do you think he can show a strong second and, you know, stay, stay together enough to keep the race going?
00:34:12.940 No, I mean, I, I mean, I would say, yeah, because he's, he, it doesn't look like he's going to win in New Hampshire, does it?
00:34:21.860 No, he's, he's currently in fourth in the polling in New Hampshire.
00:34:24.980 Yeah.
00:34:25.140 Yeah.
00:34:26.020 And he's probably not going to win in South Carolina.
00:34:30.420 So, yeah, I would say he's got to win one of them.
00:34:34.020 Yeah. Now, if he wins Iowa, right, that's where you depend on the bump to change some of these secondary states.
00:34:40.660 But if, you know, if, and we just really, it's interesting because we all complain about the polls.
00:34:46.080 Everybody, you know, the polls are annoying and they don't always tell us the truth.
00:34:48.960 And we know the, we know that situation.
00:34:51.120 However, in a world where we have a lack of polling, which is this one, we have nothing really right now from these states that's updated.
00:34:58.940 We have a, the situation with the RealClearPolitics average, which is what people throw out all the time.
00:35:04.480 And RealClearPolitics does a good job.
00:35:06.220 Averaging polls is a good idea rather than taking one individual poll.
00:35:09.660 That's all true.
00:35:11.020 However, the most recent result from Iowa in the RealClearPolitics average is December 18th.
00:35:17.920 That's when it ended.
00:35:18.700 So you have a poll that's over three weeks old as Iowa gets close.
00:35:24.140 We don't know.
00:35:25.060 Like, is it possible that DeSantis has made a move?
00:35:28.020 Is it possible Haley's made a move?
00:35:29.600 Is it possible Haley now is in second place in Iowa and DeSantis is in third?
00:35:33.840 You know, it's hard to know.
00:35:34.960 We don't have anything updated at this point.
00:35:37.460 So in this world where we don't know, even the basics, it seems like, it would be, it's, it's, it's one of those situations.
00:35:44.880 You have to watch these other indicators.
00:35:46.680 You're seeing Nikki Haley's upping the spending all over these early states.
00:35:51.420 She's got the cash, Glenn.
00:35:53.040 I mean, she really is funneling.
00:35:54.580 Of course, she's taking it from Democrats.
00:35:56.360 Yeah, yeah, that's true.
00:35:57.860 I mean, it really is happening where she's taking a ton of money and dumping it into these races, now really leading the spending in a place like Iowa, which has not been the case for most of the campaign.
00:36:08.660 And DeSantis, like, again, we, you know, we've talked about DeSantis a lot.
00:36:11.620 We really, really like Ron DeSantis.
00:36:13.380 I think he'd be a really good president if he were to win.
00:36:16.120 I do too.
00:36:17.040 That being said, you know, it's, this is his time.
00:36:19.920 He needs to make the move.
00:36:20.920 And three weeks in Iowa is a lifetime, right?
00:36:23.320 I mean, it's a lot of time to see where this movement is happening.
00:36:26.660 And we haven't seen any updated polling.
00:36:28.780 I assume we're going to get one more Des Moines Register poll here before the election actually happens.
00:36:33.600 And that's kind of the big pollster in the state.
00:36:35.720 We will see if we get that.
00:36:37.840 But right now it's been shocking.
00:36:39.800 I mean, we keep getting these national polls.
00:36:41.780 Hey, here's where the race stands nationally, which means nothing.
00:36:46.500 Nothing.
00:36:46.720 These things, these aren't even elections that happen on the same day.
00:36:49.960 The caucuses and primaries happen weeks apart from each other.
00:36:53.460 A national poll gives you nothing but a general sense.
00:36:56.180 Give me the polls that you have from Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
00:37:02.080 Anything you have and then tell me the date they were last taken.
00:37:04.660 Okay, yeah.
00:37:06.160 I mean, you go to the polling has been less interesting in Iowa, where the race has seemed pretty stagnant for a while.
00:37:17.540 Again, these are going back a few weeks here.
00:37:20.980 But if you look at the polls for Iowa, you have a situation where you're about 51% to Donald Trump on average.
00:37:32.600 Ron DeSantis is about 19%.
00:37:34.820 Nikki Haley is about 16%.
00:37:37.200 And after that, you have, you know, Rahm Aswami, about six.
00:37:40.420 You have Christie, about three.
00:37:42.460 Asa Hutchinson, who's still in the race.
00:37:44.180 And people don't seem to be interested in his candidacy.
00:37:48.960 Right.
00:37:49.260 But he's interested.
00:37:50.500 Well, it's, yeah.
00:37:51.680 And that's what counts.
00:37:53.060 That's really what counts.
00:37:53.680 Good for you, Asa.
00:37:54.820 But, yeah, he is at zero.
00:38:00.180 He's legitimately at zero.
00:38:03.380 Now, those, again, are the averages of the race.
00:38:06.060 If you look at where those polls have been taking place, a couple of them were mid-December.
00:38:10.180 Some of them are early December.
00:38:12.220 You know, more than a month old.
00:38:15.100 And while it would be an unprecedented thing for Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley to be able to unseat Trump in Iowa in this short of a window, we have seen massive surprises before.
00:38:29.520 I mean, Howard Dean was up by, you know, 20 and 30 points.
00:38:33.480 Rick Santorum was way, way back in this race.
00:38:36.560 You know, Ted Cruz, even going into the polling, going into election or caucus day in Iowa, still showed that Cruz was not going to win in 2016.
00:38:46.440 And then he wound up winning.
00:38:47.940 You know, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards were all really tight in the Iowa caucuses leading up to that day.
00:38:57.120 So there are surprises, and they happen pretty frequently in Iowa late in elections.
00:39:02.480 This is just a different situation, right?
00:39:03.980 You have a president running who's an incumbent, basically.
00:39:07.520 A guy who is running as the standard bearer for the party and has been for eight years.
00:39:14.000 This is different than a Howard Dean who is kind of coming out of nowhere, right?
00:39:17.460 So that needs to be acknowledged.
00:39:18.920 The only way that Iowa becomes a surprise on the GOP is if people were saying they were going to vote for Donald Trump because they didn't want any backlash from the right, but they actually go in behind closed doors and they vote for somebody else.
00:39:37.080 I don't see that happening, but that's the only thing I could imagine.
00:39:42.260 If you were to say, how does Ron DeSantis have a success in Iowa where you would say, let's just say he wins or loses by two points, right?
00:39:52.880 A very, very close race that comes down to the wire.
00:39:58.220 That, I think, would be seen as a real overperform for expectations for DeSantis, and that might propel him forward.
00:40:05.280 How close does he need to be?
00:40:06.560 If he's down now by, on the average of, you know, 30 some odd points, if he's in single digits, is that enough to make a big statement for DeSantis and maybe propel the campaign forward?
00:40:19.380 Or does he need to get closer than that?
00:40:22.220 Well, if he's the big winner of the night and he's, you know, eight points behind, that is huge.
00:40:29.160 That would change the dynamics, I think.
00:40:31.140 It would be better if he were closer or actually won.
00:40:35.600 If he actually wins, that will be a big thing.
00:40:39.460 That would be huge, right?
00:40:40.500 That would change the, I think, the direction of the campaign.
00:40:44.500 Yeah, I agree.
00:40:45.160 And, you know, New Hampshire is interesting as well.
00:40:47.860 Haley is closer in New Hampshire than DeSantis is in Iowa, if you believe the polls.
00:40:56.160 And, again, they're not really updated.
00:40:57.740 One other interesting thing is one pollster has shown very close results between Haley and Trump in New Hampshire.
00:41:06.080 Now, this isn't shown everywhere.
00:41:08.500 You know, most of the other polls are not nearly as positive, where you see, you know, at best, low double-digit leads for Trump.
00:41:18.720 If you're Haley and you're, you know, like one poll showed a 14-point lead for Trump over Haley, 44 to 30, which is closer than it's been for a while.
00:41:29.420 However, American Research Group, which isn't a terrible pollster or a great pollster, somewhere in the middle, has shown two polls in a row with Trump up only by four in New Hampshire over Nikki Haley.
00:41:42.940 The most recent one is December 27th through January 3rd, so the most recent poll we have in any early state.
00:41:50.880 And that shows Trump at 37, Haley at 33, Christie at 10, DeSantis 5, Ramaswamy 4, Hutchinson actually showing up at 1%.
00:41:59.400 Congratulations to Ace on that one.
00:42:01.040 So, so what is, uh, Haley would have to win there.
00:42:06.140 Where is, um, DeSantis again?
00:42:09.560 Only at 5%.
00:42:10.620 So even, even a win in Iowa, it's difficult to see how DeSantis could make a big impact in a state like New Hampshire.
00:42:19.560 Now, maybe.
00:42:20.700 Why is he performing so poorly in New Hampshire?
00:42:24.480 I don't know.
00:42:24.960 I mean, he's, look, New Hampshire's a moderate state, maybe isn't as in love with the conservative credentials of a Ron DeSantis.
00:42:30.940 That's not entirely, uh, surprising, I suppose.
00:42:35.720 However, you know, you feel like if, if New Hampshire's taking the Haley route as the non-Trump option, where Christie is still in the race as well, doing, you know, okay, I guess, double digits in this poll.
00:42:48.160 You wonder if, if Iowa is going to be very competitive, does that translate into support for DeSantis in South Carolina?
00:42:55.480 I mean, he, I think he's basically skipping completely New Hampshire in his mind.
00:42:59.600 His path to victory doesn't matter what, what happens to him in South, in New Hampshire.
00:43:04.680 He's going to go right to South Carolina and hope a bump from Iowa translates there.
00:43:08.560 We have more, a more conservative voting base, but a pretty pro-Trump voting base base and a voting base who has Nikki Haley as their former governor.
00:43:18.160 So, it's a very complicated path forward for DeSantis, even with a good showing in Iowa.
00:43:24.680 Not impossible, but really a tough hurdle to clear.
00:43:27.640 Well, with a great track record, which DeSantis has, uh, and a great conservative message, which he has, uh, he hasn't been able to convince the American people yet that he's better than Trump.
00:43:41.580 Why is he better than Trump?
00:43:43.860 That's what he had to do on the road.
00:43:45.880 And I'm not sure that he has ever, uh, hit that to America's, or at least conservatives, satisfaction.
00:43:52.460 Na, na, na, na.