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On this episode of the Glenn Beck Show, host Glenn Beck is joined by CNN's Scott Jennings to discuss the latest in the Epstein scandal and the new book, "The Devil Next Door" written by Glenn's good friend and former White House Correspondent Scott Jennings.
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On today's podcast, what do the leaked Epstein emails actually say? Do they actually prove Trump
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was the bad guy or the whistleblower against him? Also, you've seen Scott Jennings, I'm sure,
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on CNN. You'll know who he is. The guy who makes sense. Yeah, that guy joins me. He's got a new book
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out about the changes and what has happened, the shockwaves that have happened because of Donald
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Trump in this first year. Also, the end of the progressive era and the beginning of the socialist
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era. How is that working? How can you really understand what's happening in politics today?
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Well, you can understand it if you know that we have changed eras. And I explain that all in today's
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podcast. Let me tell you about the burner launcher. Everybody has that one moment where they think,
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what would I do if something actually happened? You know, actually in a life or death situation,
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you hear a noise outside of the dog starts barking. Suddenly you're standing, you know,
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in the dark holding, I don't know, a TV remote. That's a relatable feeling to me. And that's why
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I kind of like the burner launcher. You know, burner is a non-lethal self-defense tool that can
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to keep anywhere at home, in your car, even in your bag when you travel. I have to tell you,
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I wish I would have had this. The scariest thing that ever happened to me was I heard my wife heard
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something and everybody's asleep in the house. Glenn, did you hear that? No, I didn't hear
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anything. Go back to sleep. No, I'm telling you there's somebody in the house. Get your gun. So
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I got my gun walking out and I get to the front living room and I'm like, I have a gun and I will
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shoot. If there is somebody in the house, identify yourself or I will shoot. Nothing. Heard the noise
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is around the corner. And I, I had my gun aimed right around the corner, right at the corner.
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And I said, I'm coming, I'm turning the corner and I have a gun. If you don't identify yourself,
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I, I, I fear for my life and my family's life and I will shoot you. And that's when my son said,
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dad, it's me. And he was like 12. And I mean, had I not been that clear with him and he knew that I
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would shoot. He may not have, I could have shot my own son. Burna. It'll stop that from happening.
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So to restate your question again, so I fully understand it and I can answer it clearly here.
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Well, I think thinking about taking out the fact of who we would want to win in this
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sort of eternal battle for a moment, just speaking strategically as to how you would approach it if
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you were a Democrat. I initially kind of proposed the question as to how you might deal with the
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Trump administration. Would you maybe look for the gains that you can get while he's in power that
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may be common ground? He's talking about getting rid of the filibuster, for example.
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You know, every day that I was alive up until a certain gentleman came down a very nice escalator,
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Democrats loved tariffs and were arguing for them constantly. And like, if you have an ally with
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that on that one issue in the White House, why wouldn't you sit here and try to go as far as you
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could down that road and help him along on that instead of just making him into an enemy and calling
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him Hitler all the time? And that led to us talking about, well, you mentioned that, you know,
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because the strategy has changed. It's no longer a progressive strategy where you're trying to move
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policy a specific direction. It's about a revolution and, you know, changing this into a socialist
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place where you now need, you now want the chaos on the streets. You now want people to be at odds
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like that. And so we led that to, you know, did the Democrats, are they moving too fast in this
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strategy? If they want to eventually admit, take the masks off and say they are socialists,
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we're all socialists now. We're getting that with Mom Donnie and AOC and Bernie Sanders and the like.
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To me, part of the reason they lost in 2024 is they went really far, really fast with things like
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gender and the like, things that people kind of just like crinkled their brow and said, whoa,
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whoa, whoa, whoa, I don't want that. So did they move too fast? And is this the right strategy for
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them? Okay, so let me start with that. That, I believe, is a strategy of chaos. And so it was
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accepted because it is just this deconstruction kind of idea that has been preached now from the
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universities and the intellectuals and the, you know, the Democrats, many of them buy this,
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you know, this garbage from the universities. But it was all started really by socialist revolutionaries,
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okay, as a product of chaos. Would you agree with me that there are at least two different kinds
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of Democrats? Democrats that, you know, might vote for Schumer and don't think that they, you know,
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they don't believe that there's, you know, this great change coming in there. They want the same
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kind of America, the, you know, that we want. There's that Democrat. And then there's the
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socialist, the revolutionary Democrat. Yeah, probably not the same America we want,
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but one that's reminiscent of what we remember about a country. Right. Yeah. Correct. Correct. Correct.
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Okay. So that has been since early 1900s, that's been the progressive way. Forget Democrats. It's a
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progressive. Democrats became progressive in the early 20th century. And when they became progressives,
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they did it because the Democrats did not want a revolution. They believed in socialism. They
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believed in communism. Remember, this is before communism had been tried and failed over and over and
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over again. So, but they believed in that and they really thought it was the right thing to do and
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that science was going to be able to control society and everything else. Uh, and so it would
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have all the answers and we have to go that because this is, this is the scientific way. Okay. And it's
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also the right way to do it. You know, spiritually, it's the right way. They were making this case.
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Those were progressives. Socialists were like, yeah, it is the right way. So let's do it now.
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Progressive said, no, we'll get to your socialist utopia, but we'll do it one step at a time.
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You think you can relate to this because how many times do we have to be Charlie Brown
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and our, and our own side is Lucy with the football? Oh, okay. That's exactly what I was
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thinking about as you were laying that out. Correct. And what was the response from our side?
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Our side always said, look, we just need to win that next election. And if we win that next election,
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we'll move the ball down. Don't worry. I'll hold the ball right here so you can kick it. We just have
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to win that next election first. Uh-huh. And when that was over, what did we do? We hired
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the world's largest wrecking ball, Donald Trump. Okay. We're like, we're done with that. We don't
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believe you anymore. We're done with that. Correct. Now imagine that you've been playing this game
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since the early 20th century and you are a diehard socialist and you've been moving the ball
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incrementally. But there's been times where during the great depression, during the 1960s, you could like,
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we could take it now. We could take it now. Okay. During Jimmy Carter, we can take it now,
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but it's always just moving a little bit closer. Then finally in 2008, it's your shot. You have a guy
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who you know is a Marxist. Okay. He was steeped in all of this stuff and the Democrats are going to run
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this guy. And you're like, yeah, they're running him and he's a Marxist. They, I don't know if they
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believe in that, but this guy's going to get it done. This guy believes this stuff. They get all
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excited. And what happens? He makes big changes, but it's progressive change. And he becomes a guy
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that they no longer trust. Wait a minute. You were just part of the system. You got rich. You did all
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the things that you said you were against when you were a young Marxist. Hey, look at you. Then what
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do the Democrats do? The next person they run is Hillary Clinton. She's not a, she's not a communist.
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She doesn't want revolution. She wants authoritarianism. She wants globalism. There's a
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very big difference between those two. Okay. Then after that one, you get Joe Biden. And what does he do?
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He engages or allows all the chaos to happen. Okay. So it works to their advantage. He,
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the socialists want all of this chaos. They want all of this control, but so do the Democrats,
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the new kind of Democrat. They want control. They just want global control. They, they want,
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they're much more fascistic. And I say that literally fascistic because Joe Biden talked about it all the
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time. These public private partnerships, what does socialists want? They want to control schools,
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socialist communists. They want to control schools, but so do the authoritarians. They want to control
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schools. They want a, uh, a communist system where all the means of production are owned by the people
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through the state. Um, but the authoritarians on the left, they want, they will never call it this,
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but a fascistic system. Okay. It's, it's, it's a globalist system where all of these giant
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corporations work with the government and do what the government says. And they'll allow you to be
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successful as long as you do exactly what the government says to do. The communists, they don't
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want the constitution and the bill of rights. Socialists don't want that. They want a bill of
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responsibilities. What the government must do. Our bill of rights is what the government cannot ever
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do. That's an impediment to socialism. You got to discredit and get rid of that. The,
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the Democrats don't want to lose that. They just want to weaken it. They just want to confuse it,
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but they don't want to get rid of it because they still need the illusion of America.
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America. And they're, and they're for some of the stuff because it's been transformed by them
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over a hundred, you know, a hundred years. They want the fed. Do you think the socialists want the
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fed? No, they don't want the, the socialists don't want the W E F. They don't want just a
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restructured, uh, social order. They want a completely restructured. So social order, the Democrats,
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the authoritarians, they want friends in the media. They want friends at tech. Do you think
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the socialists want friends in the media? They'll drag those people out in the streets and beat them
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to death so fast. And they'll do the same with all the people in tech. Okay. That's what will happen.
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That's the different, you have revolutionaries and then you have politicians. Now you get,
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you get Barack Obama in, and then you get Joe Biden in and they see, they see what's happening
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with Joe Biden. He is building a global government. That's what's happened. He's in bed with the W E F.
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That's a global government. That's even, that's even worse than what we have right now. Well,
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we can take advantage of the instability when the Democrats blow it. I really believe the,
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the socialists have said enough is enough. You know, guys, we just need one more election and then
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you'll get what you want. Enough is enough. You're never going to give us this socialist utopia.
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You're not for those things. And we have danced with you at this party forever. And you know what?
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You didn't notice how strong we were getting. Now you brought us to the dance, but is it still that
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way? Now we're in charge of the dance and we're shaking you. Get out. That's what's happening.
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And it's because they're so sick and tired. So there's no, the actual socialists don't have the
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same strategy as the Democrat, the, uh, the Democrats do because they don't have the same
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end goals. And I think that's what makes the socialists so dangerous. That's why we're seeing
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the uptick in violence because Democrats, and it's hard to say this because so many Democrats I think are
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really confused because I think they've just been herded into the PSYOP operation is PSYOPs have
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happened to them over and over again. And so they're just convinced that everybody else is Hitler
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and they don't see what's happening in their own party. They think that the socialist is the Democrat.
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It's not. And socialists do believe ends justify the means. Socialists do believe kill them.
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And if they get in your way, kill them. That's why you're seeing the uptick of that is because it's
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the socialists now that are in control of the party, almost completely in control. They're not
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completely in control because you still have the Chuck Schumers hanging around, but the Chuck Schumers
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of the world, they're afraid. They know they're no longer the lead at the dance. They know
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they're about to be eaten if they don't just do what they what they're told to do. Just
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you are going to stand against this. You're going to shut down the government because that works to
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the advantage of the socialists, not the Democrats to the socialists. The socialists need the economic
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chaos. They need the poverty. They need all of those things so they can dramatically change. You can only
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weaken a government so much. You can only weaken an economy so much before it's not in your advantage
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anymore because you won't be able to fix it. Look how fast Donald Trump fixed in 2016 what Obama had
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done. There was so much damage done to the economy in 20 by 2020 to 2024. You look how long it's taking
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him to fix things. It's not easy anymore. Democrats know that we can't completely destroy everything
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unless you have the framework and you're going to drop it into a new world order.
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It's just the time now to fight for them. Are we a globalist new world order that loves all these
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Now back to the podcast. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget,
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rate us on iTunes. Scott Jennings, welcome to the program. How are you?
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I'm great. It's an honor to be with you. I've been a longtime fan and an admirer of yours. And
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to be with you today is very special for me. So thanks for the invitation.
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Oh, my gosh. Well, you are more than welcome. I have to tell you, you know, I just was about to
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say I don't know what your life is like, but I know exactly what your life is like as I as I
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worked there. And it was a lonely, lonely place. But you are doing an amazing job, really an amazing
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job. Well, thank you for saying that. And I have to say, you know, I credit CNN for creating this
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10 o'clock debating show where I most often appear and giving a conservative a chance to fight it out.
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And I think PV is kind of boring when it's just six people sitting around congratulating themselves
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on increasing levels of smugness. I think I think a little debate and a little common sense injected
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into some of the conversations and a little reframing of some of these debates is exactly
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what they need. And I think there's a hunger for that kind of content out there. So I'm glad they're
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doing it. And it's a privilege to have the seat right now. So the days you walk away going, I just
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can't do it. I mean, there has to be. Well, I occasionally meet people who say crazy things. I was on
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not too long ago with a guy who was a real life ear truther. He did not believe Donald Trump had
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been shot in Butler, Pennsylvania. And he said to me live on the air, well, I wasn't there. How am I
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supposed to know? And I thought this is who I'm dealing with. And I think I debate people who,
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if not but for being contractually obligated to do so, wouldn't know or interact with a single other
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Republican. I'm the only one they know. And so I think I think if you're interested in popping
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ideological bubbles like I am, and like I know you are, it's a good thing to do. It does make me
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shake my head. But I do think the I do think there's value in us. I mean, I believe in our
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ideas. And I think if our ideas get out to more people, more people will gravitate to our cause.
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I agree. All right. So let's talk a little bit about the book Revolution of Common Sense.
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You say that your dad was the first one that said Donald Trump's going to win. And this is early on.
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You laughed it off, says he's not going to win. Is that true? I did. That's absolutely true. My
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father was the biggest Clinton Democrat I knew. I come from a family of Democrats. He was a
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factory worker and a garbage man. And even though I was a Republican political operative,
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my dad was a Democrat for a long time. But in 2014, 2015, my dad was telling me it's going to be
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Trump. And I, like everybody else who'd been trained in the old ways, was like, you know, come on,
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dad. And he turned out to be right. But he was sort of the leading indicator for me about what
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was going to happen in middle America. All these working class Americans who live in hollowed out
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communities that feel like the political elites had left them behind. That was my dad. And he was
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speaking to my dad. But as you know, he was speaking to millions of people. And he defeated the
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Republican establishment. Then he defeated the Democratic establishment. And it was because
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of people like my dad who recognized in him, we're trying to hire somebody to smash these guys who
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forgotten about us and crushed us. And my dad knew it. My dad knew it. And it's not the only time in
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my life where my dad was right. And I was wrong. I can tell you that. Yeah. The you spent a lot of
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time with Donald Trump when you're writing this book. Did you know him beforehand? I did not. I met
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him really for the first time in February when I pitched him on the book and got to observe him in
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action in the Oval Office. I flew with him. Yeah. It's funny. He kind of dominated, you know,
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every conversation I've had in my professional life for the last 10 years. But I didn't really
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know him. But I did spend some time with him in the White House. I flew to Michigan with him on his
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100th day in office. And he gave a speech in Michigan that day. And he said something true to
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his inaugural address. He said, whether you're on the left or whether you're on the right, whether you're in
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the middle, it's just common sense. And I think the rebranding of the party as the common sense party
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has allowed so many more people in. I think it's one of the most genius political marketing moves in
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American history. It's amazing because he's not he's not saying he's not necessarily making a case
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for being conservative or anything else. It's just he is fighting for the things that we all used to
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think. We're like, yeah, well, that makes that makes sense. I mean, no, that's a dude. He can't shower
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with my daughter. You know, it's it's that kind of stuff that should be really uniting. Why is he why do
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they hate him so much? Because I think they believe the left believed that they had control of all the
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institutions, universities, media. They were even taking control of corporate America. And you look around at
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all the institutional strength in our country. The left had been on a long project to co-opt,
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infiltrate and take these things over. And Donald Trump and of course, while doing that, they make
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you believe things. You have to accept that, you know, you can wake up and change your gender one
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day. You have to accept, you know, the DEI nonsense. You have to accept our radical ideology or we'll
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ostracize you from this institution or we'll crush you. Trump shows up and says, I'm just not going to put
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up with it. And there were millions of Americans who were dying for someone to try to restore sanity
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to these, I think, conversations that you rightly say. It just used to be common sense. He said what
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everyone else was thinking, but everybody had been basically made too afraid to say because of
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punishment, cultural punishment. Trump was their champion and he still is today. And that's why he
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has a base that's never going to leave him because he knows they know that he is going to never,
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ever back down to this mob that's trying to turn everything upside down and tell you right is
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wrong and left is right and red is blue and up is down. That's, that's what they want. And he will
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not allow it. And whoever we nominate next cannot allow it either because they will come right back.
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What, what, what do you think his strongest ability is? And the one that maybe is something you're
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seeing coming on the horizon. You're like, ah, he's got to be paying attention to this. He's got to fix
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this. Well, I think this artificial intelligence conversation, he has a really strong handle on.
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I think he knows we cannot allow the Chinese to control this conversation. I think he knows what
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we have to do on the energy front to win this conversation. And so I think his vision on that,
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when we think about legacy, um, this may be some of the most consequential policymaking
00:24:42.880
that he does. I also, frankly, just think his ability. I told him, I told him that I thought
00:24:48.040
he was going to be remembered as the AI president. And he said, no, I'm not going to be, that's not,
00:24:53.060
that's not my thing. Well, I asked him a couple of, a couple of, maybe a month ago, you know,
00:24:58.060
uh, do you consider the AI race to be your space race? You know, is this, is this that big? Is it
00:25:03.860
your cold war? And he said, it's all that wrapped up in more. And so I, I don't know,
00:25:08.260
I get the feeling he is, he is increasingly understanding that the decisions he makes
00:25:13.880
today, the course that we set today will determine. So in 10 years and 15 years, when we control this
00:25:20.300
and when it, you know, it's the free world that's, uh, on top of the AI situation and not the
00:25:25.660
communist Chinese, it'll be because of Donald Trump. And so I think he's setting all that in
00:25:30.020
motion today. I also think what he's doing in the middle East and standing up to the barbarians.
00:25:34.940
I mean, the, it is amazing to me, the propaganda campaign that went on after October the 7th and
00:25:41.380
how the West, Western governments and Western media sided with the barbarians. I mean, if you go
00:25:46.220
there and listen to what happened and it's been total propaganda, but Trump had total moral clarity
00:25:51.720
on this. He's standing up to the people who would leave this world in darkness, ideologies that are
00:25:57.700
the enemy of human liberty. And he knows it. And he's been totally clear on this. And so I think too,
00:26:03.460
you know, occasionally someone has to stand up and say, no, enough is enough. And he did that. And he
00:26:08.940
did it strategically at the right time. I think it's going to pay dividends for years to come.
00:26:14.160
What do you, spending the time with him, what did you feel was something that maybe surprised you
00:26:20.080
and something that you think, gosh, if America just understood this one thing, it might change
00:26:27.220
things. Well, the caricature of him would lead you to believe that he is not a good listener or that
00:26:33.200
he is not someone who absorbs a lot of information that informs his opinion. I came away with a totally
00:26:39.180
opposite review. I watched him listen to people having debates. He asks questions. He kind of lobs
00:26:46.460
in his views, but he really does absorb. I think these debates among this excellent cabinet and this
00:26:52.800
excellent staff that he has. And then he makes a decision. What's great about this president versus
00:26:57.620
the last one is he's decisive. You know, once he listens and takes in everything, he makes a
00:27:04.020
decision and that's what they do. Biden was famously indecisive, which leads to weakness, which of course
00:27:08.400
leads to the disaster of that administration. But Trump doesn't suffer from this. That's number one.
00:27:13.280
Number two, this man is genuinely funny. He is warm. He is hospitable. You know, talking about my dad,
00:27:20.260
when we were together once, he had his hat on, his famous red hat, and he said, do you want my hat?
00:27:25.880
And I said, no, but I know someone who does. It was the first man to ever tell me you were going
00:27:29.780
to be president. And he said, sounds like a smart guy. And he took the hat right off his head.
00:27:36.000
And so he's actually a warm, nice, funny person. And of course, the caricature of him painted by the
00:27:42.400
media is that you wouldn't believe that. And I lived through this when I worked for President Bush.
00:27:46.240
They caricatured him as adult. Totally not true. They caricatured Dick Cheney. They caricatured
00:27:52.340
Mitt Romney. They take our Republicans and they turn them into something they're not.
00:27:57.780
And of course, that's the power of the left when they control cultural institutions. So
00:28:01.800
I think they've done it to Trump to some degree. But of course,
00:28:04.620
his personality tends to cut through the clutter sometimes.
00:28:08.980
You'll be surprised. Next time you see him, could be a year from now,
00:28:12.160
and he's going to ask you how your dad was. I know. I watched him interact with people in that
00:28:18.560
way. It is an innate political talent. And the good ones have it. And he does care about people.
00:28:25.180
I watched him do it. And he's loyal to people, too.
00:28:29.820
What do you think the thing that is happening now that should be being paid attention to,
00:28:37.340
that maybe the media is missing? What's the thing that's most overblown and most underplayed?
00:28:45.480
Oh, gosh. Well, I think the thing we ought to be paying attention to on the left
00:28:48.960
is the energy and the radicalism on the left. You know, the elections the other day,
00:28:55.100
I said on CNN that night, I thought this was the beginning of the end of Chuck Schumer. But
00:28:59.160
it's really the beginning of the end of any semblance of any shred of the possibility of
00:29:05.400
returning to sanity in the Democratic Party. I mean, look how they treat John Fetterman for
00:29:10.120
simply occasionally saying something that's basic common sense or having a backbone. The energy in
00:29:16.580
the socialist, radical socialist movement on the left is real. It happened in New York. It happened
00:29:22.980
in Seattle. They elected a mayor out there who lives in her parents' basement, but got elected on
00:29:27.600
the power of a socialist agenda. AOC is the leader of this faction. Bernie Sanders is the intellectual
00:29:34.060
godfather of it. And these people will change America. They think the American experiment was
00:29:39.620
rotten at its core. They think it ought to be ripped out root and branch and replaced with something
00:29:43.660
that neither you nor I would recognize as American. They fundamentally hate the system that we have
00:29:51.460
lived with for 250 years in this country. And I don't think we can understate how much energy they
00:29:57.380
have on the left right now, how much momentum they're feeling. And so I know we talk about it
00:30:03.040
and we've talked about the rise of socialism before, but the urgency of it right now, as we head away
00:30:08.860
from the Trump era and we get into an open presidential election in 28, we cannot allow our country to be
00:30:14.320
taken over. So that's number one. Number two, on what's being overblown, I think the Democrats trying
00:30:22.280
to pin the affordability tail on Donald Trump is the most laughable thing I've ever heard.
00:30:27.140
They took prices to the moon. Gas was $5, grocery prices, healthcare craziness. They took prices to
00:30:34.660
the moon and they want to pin this on Donald Trump or pin this on Republicans. Give me a break. And so
00:30:39.560
the media buying into this is totally overblown, but we have to fight back hard or we're going to have
00:30:45.020
a rough ride in 26. You're streaming the best of Glenn Beck. To hear more of this interview and
00:30:50.020
others, download the full show podcasts wherever you get podcasts. Hello, Stu. How are you? Good,
00:30:57.240
Glenn. How are you? Good. Besides football, anything exciting happening in your life this weekend?
00:31:02.500
Are you talking, when you say football, you're talking about the Eagles victory over the Detroit
00:31:05.980
Lions last night? Is that what you're talking about? I specifically said anything other than that.
00:31:10.760
I was just trying to clarify. I was just trying to clarify. No, I know. Sure you are. Yeah. Yeah.
00:31:16.720
Sure you are. Um, yeah. Anything, do you do anything, anything exciting? I had a whirlwind weekend.
00:31:24.020
Uh, I, I had a weekend. I got to go to the hospital, uh, which was fun. I always love spending
00:31:30.060
time. My son got a little injured and, uh, and, uh, okay. Is everything okay? He's okay. He was climbing
00:31:37.720
a fence and, uh, fell and, um, uh, punk, I punctured his leg, which apparently is just a giant bag of
00:31:45.680
blood. Uh, I, I mean, I, I, these things happen. He's 14 years old. There are muscles and stuff in
00:31:53.040
the leg. I don't think not. I don't think you're like, his is just all blood because I pulled up to
00:31:58.620
this place where it happened and he had been sitting on this, uh, you know, like a pillar,
00:32:04.040
like he, it was on, he was sitting up there and I, you know, until the, uh, the, uh, ambulance
00:32:09.260
came. Um, but, uh, it, I, I didn't think it was that big of a deal and I, I pulled up and
00:32:14.260
it looked like there was a human sacrifice on the top of this pillar. The entire side,
00:32:19.340
it looked like it was out of a horror movie. Uh, it was just blood. I, I was this, it was
00:32:24.960
a terrifying moment, but he's totally fine. Have you ever had, have you, any of your kids
00:32:29.080
ever had a head wounded at any of any kind? Like they, they, they get, if they have to
00:32:35.480
have like five stitches in their head, it's like all of the blood in their body has just
00:32:40.280
been gushing, gushing. The head bleeds a lot. Yeah. I, I, you know, I hate to start a week
00:32:46.060
this way, but yeah, my, he, when he was a little kid, he, he had like stitches right near
00:32:50.720
his eye and it was, it was, it was just absolutely horrific and I, it scars, you know, more than
00:32:57.220
scars them. It does. It does. And you know, you get used to it. You have, you have a few
00:33:02.560
kids, the first kid that happens to, and you're like bag of blood. No, he was hemorrhaging
00:33:07.320
to death. I'm telling you, you got to get here right now. After you, after like two or
00:33:11.280
three kids, you're like, yeah, he's fine. Give him a bandaid. What are you complaining
00:33:15.360
about? Have some water, maybe some orange juice. Yeah. He's still bleeding. Sure. But
00:33:20.400
don't worry about it. It'll eventually clog up. It's fine. Yeah. Uh, that was my weekend.
00:33:25.900
You had a big one though. You had a much happier weekend. It seemed like I saw you with your
00:33:30.260
daughter. Yeah, that was yesterday was with my daughter, uh, for the premiere of her movie
00:33:36.240
that she is in her first movie. And it was, it's really exciting. It was really cool to
00:33:40.360
be at a premiere and watch it, you know, in a theater. Um, but, uh, also Friday I spent
00:33:45.460
time with about 500 state legislators from all over the country and learned an awful lot
00:33:52.440
and, um, and saw what they are going through and, uh, and their thought processes. And we
00:33:59.360
have time. I'll talk about that. Um, also, Oh, Saturday, Saturday, I spent a few hours with
00:34:07.580
the CEO of Cracker Barrel. Now that was interesting. I bet that was interesting. You had a conversation.
00:34:14.880
Uh, yeah, yeah. Uh, I had a great conversation. It's going to air, uh, well, it's in two parts.
00:34:22.380
Uh, I talked to the, they, they have like a historian at Cracker Barrel that is in charge
00:34:28.740
of everything around the walls of Cracker Barrel. And so I went into their gigantic warehouse
00:34:35.520
of American history and it was, I mean, it was candy land for me. Um, uh, but, uh, it wasn't
00:34:41.700
really candy land for the C for the CEO. Uh, and you'll, you'll see. Um, yes, I did make
00:34:49.040
her cry. Oh, good. Well, of course, of course you did. But it was, uh, it was, it was after
00:34:55.440
the question, I mean, are you surprised at all that you, you haven't been fired? Um, it was,
00:35:04.640
it was a very frank conversation and she was very frank as well. I thought she was, I thought she
00:35:10.040
was really good, um, on her answers and what, what happened. Uh, you're going to have to decide
00:35:17.220
for yourself on whether, whether or not it was good enough. I mean, I pushed her, I pushed her.
00:35:23.600
It'll be up to you to decide how you feel about it. But you know, everybody else at Cracker Barrel,
00:35:29.140
they're all, they're all, I mean, salt of the earth people, you know, and it's just like,
00:35:34.640
uh, you feel bad because they are just really struggling because of this really struggling.
00:35:41.560
And, and, and if she said, I'm really, really sorry. Once she said it a million times, I'm
00:35:48.760
really, really sorry. I take all responsibility for this. I'm really, really sorry. Uh, but
00:35:56.860
you'll see that, uh, this week on the Glenn Beck podcast, I think. Um, all right now Jeffrey
00:36:05.060
Epstein's back in the news today. Could we just for the love of Pete release everything
00:36:13.200
that we have so we can move on from the Jeffrey Epstein thing? Here's the answer. No,
00:36:20.860
even if we release everything that we still have, this is going to go on for the rest of
00:36:29.020
our lives. It will always, and probably into our children's lives. Do you know Jeffrey Epstein
00:36:35.700
and Donald Trump were the reason we never went to the moon? It's going to happen. It's just
00:36:43.020
one of these conspiracy theories that will never, ever go away. Why? Because no one was honest
00:36:48.880
about it in the first place. Once you start to lie, you lie once, once. If you're a very
00:36:57.400
honest person, you will lie once. And then people were like, what, what, why would you
00:37:02.300
lie about that? What, what is going on? He's not like that. But if you're the United States
00:37:07.220
government, you already have no credibility whatsoever. Stop lying to the American people.
00:37:16.200
Just stop it. You know, I said something a minute ago. One of the reasons why you're hearing
00:37:20.720
lies is because it works to the advantage of a color revolution. You know, there, there
00:37:27.760
are reasons why people are lying to you. Some of them, they're just dirt bags and they're
00:37:33.480
liars. Some of it is just they're politicians. And so they're liars. Some of it, however, a
00:37:39.160
good deal of it is we lie because we know it causes damage to the credibility of this
00:37:46.180
entire system. We know it does damage to the culture of America. And we are here trying
00:37:53.440
to destroy the culture of America because we want to try something new. And the only, you
00:37:59.060
won't vote for it. So the only way we can get America to change and do something entirely
00:38:04.340
different that they will never vote for is just to cause chaos and disbelief in everything.
00:38:13.060
So, as I said a minute ago, you know, it's not the news. Many times it's a reflection of
00:38:19.040
a plan. And when it comes to the Epstein thing, this is absolutely a plan. The way this thing
00:38:28.040
has been played out, Democrats are completely against bringing anything out about Epstein.
00:38:32.940
They don't want to do anything about it. The media, do you remember the ABC anchor that
00:38:39.060
went into a commercial break? And she was like, you know what? I got to tell you, Epstein, you
00:38:44.200
know, we had the goods on him, dead to rights, Clinton, all of it. And we were told, pull it.
00:38:49.880
Do you remember that? Remember that gang? They pulled it at ABC. They, I think they fired
00:38:56.680
the person who tried to, who released that video or tried to fire the person. I think
00:39:02.880
they either were working then over at CBS or whatever, but that person was in trouble for
00:39:08.580
releasing that behind the scenes tape. They had no intention of it. Now everybody wants
00:39:14.480
the Epstein tapes. Wait a minute. You didn't want them when Biden was in and you could have
00:39:19.900
said something Democrats and you could have released it all. And you know, it's funny is
00:39:25.300
it is just so full of stuff about Donald Trump. Then why wouldn't they release just that?
00:39:34.500
Why wouldn't have the Democrats released anything in the Epstein file? You're telling me they're
00:39:40.500
like, we got to find something on him. Hey, I've got the Epstein file. Yeah. Yeah. We got
00:39:45.000
to find something on him. Hey, I've got some information here about Epstein, him and Epstein.
00:39:50.080
They were fooling around. Yeah. Shut up for a second. Is there anything at all that we can
00:39:55.440
construe and manufacture about his banks? I know he's got a secret signal between his bank
00:40:05.480
and the Russian bank. I've got stuff about the Epstein. Come on. If they had stuff about
00:40:11.760
the Epstein, they would have gone to the stuff about the Epstein files. They don't have anything.
00:40:18.920
They don't have anything. Now, let me speak directly to conservatives. They're not going
00:40:26.860
to release anything about the Democrats because they had the Epstein files. Do you think that
00:40:34.200
it let's just say I'm not even name names. Let's just say the most powerful people on the
00:40:41.460
earth, the most powerful people with powerful connections to government, they knew their names
00:40:49.420
were there on little guest books at the island or whatever. You don't think they called in some
00:40:57.220
favors and said, hey, I need that. Can you remove that? You don't think that there were people that
00:41:04.500
were like, hey, you know what? We'll remove that. We need a hundred million dollars from you to help
00:41:09.980
out on this campaign. I mean, whatever it is, those names are gone too. They're gone. How do I know
00:41:17.340
this? Because the government is completely dishonest. That's how I know that. But anyway,
00:41:26.460
you don't think now Donald Trump, you don't think anything of interest would be in these files? I mean,
00:41:32.260
I think we've already seen some stuff of interest in the emails. No, I think there are stuff of
00:41:39.280
interest. I don't think that there is going to be anyone at a very high level that is going to get
00:41:46.420
there's going to be like, holy cow, look, here's pictures with him with a 14 year old girl.
00:41:52.640
It's not going to happen. That stuff, at least at the upper level is not there.
00:41:57.740
Now, here's what is interesting. The timing of the release of a few documents last week,
00:42:05.220
the Democrats released some documents and they released them at the same time that Johnson was
00:42:14.460
saying, by the way, we are going to expedite the releasing of everything. So there's no reason to
00:42:20.680
leak anything, but the Democrats decide to leak some stuff. They leak a memo. And in that,
00:42:28.420
oh my gosh, look at what was said. What was said in that memo? Well, it was said, you know,
00:42:40.000
the only dog that hasn't barked is Trump. Well, what did he mean by that? He's keeping it quiet.
00:42:49.380
All of these things, all these innuendos and everything. Well, now we know from a guy who
00:42:54.720
wrote the book, all the president's women, Donald Trump and the making of a predator.
00:43:00.440
That guy came out this weekend and said, no, no, no, that's not what he meant.
00:43:05.780
So Barry Levine comes on and he's on MSNBC this weekend and he's asked, so tell me,
00:43:13.320
I mean, we saw this email between you and Epstein. What did he mean when he said the dog has that
00:43:20.920
hasn't barked is Trump? What do you think he's referring to? Okay. What was he referring to?
00:43:27.920
I think Epstein is referring to the fact that he believed that Donald Trump talked to Michael
00:43:33.140
Ryder, who was the Palm Beach police chief in 2004 and began the first investigation into Jeffrey
00:43:39.940
Epstein. So in other words, he was the whistleblower. Yeah, but he's got all kinds of
00:43:47.380
stuff in his, in, in Jeffrey Epstein's black books. He's the whistleblower. The one thing you don't do
00:43:55.060
is blow the whistle. When you know, you've got fingerprints all over the dead body and the handgun
00:44:01.100
that killed him. You know what? I think you could find that handgun in this alleyway. Your fingerprints
00:44:09.080
are on it, man. Why would you blow the whistle? The suspect, uh, he said, I suspect that Jeffrey
00:44:16.300
Epstein was saying he was 75% there believing that Trump might've been the whistleblower at the time.
00:44:22.420
He believed at 75%. Now, how do you release something? I mean, if you think things are going
00:44:33.340
to be released that are going to get Donald Trump, why would you release that? Where after two days of
00:44:39.560
it being out, the guy who was part of that email who hates Donald Trump is like, yeah, that's not what
00:44:46.100
it means. It means he was the whistleblower. That is interesting. And I will say, you know,
00:44:53.040
it is, it's amazing that that's what they released and chose to release. That's another, that's the
00:44:58.280
same email, by the way, that you're mentioning that they blacked out the name of, uh, of Virginia
00:45:05.240
Jeffrey, which, which they did intentionally because she has said that he was nothing but respectful and
00:45:11.740
never was with any of the girls at all in not only her book, but also in, in testimony, uh, under oath.
00:45:20.280
And, uh, the other one that they released, which said, um, uh, Trump, uh, uh, he says, of course he
00:45:28.000
knew about the girls was the other big one that they released, which they left out the, I mean,
00:45:33.520
they didn't leave it out, but they just hoped you didn't focus on the next part of the sentence,
00:45:37.700
which he says he, of course he knew about the girls as he asked Jelaine to stop, which would
00:45:44.060
indicate, even if he was aware of this, which I don't think this had anything to do with the sex
00:45:48.560
stuff. I think this was about him taking the poaching, poaching employees, girls from Mar-a-Lago
00:45:54.700
employees. He knows that we're poaching these girls. Doesn't mean he knows what they're, he's doing
00:46:00.740
with him. Stop taking my employees. Right. Okay. Yeah. Now, if you suspect he's the whistleblower
00:46:08.540
and he knew you were taking employees from him, you know, in retrospect, you know, looking at it
00:46:15.680
later, you go like, Oh man, he's the whistleblower, but he also knows about the girls. He knows we were
00:46:21.160
taking them. Does he know what we were doing with the girls? Right. I mean, this does not hurt
00:46:28.140
Donald Trump. It helps Donald Trump. Well, what about the one where they released from
00:46:31.920
Jeffrey Epstein, where he said, I've met some very bad people and none are as bad as Trump.
00:46:36.780
I mean, what if they come up with bad comments from Jeffrey Dahmer about Donald Trump? What will
00:46:41.480
you say then? It's just so dumb. I've eaten some bad eggs in my life, but I would not eat Donald
00:46:49.200
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