Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Senator Mike Lee ｜ 4⧸25⧸19
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In this episode of the podcast, , and discuss the latest in the Democratic primary field, the latest on Joe Biden's campaign, and what we should be looking for in a Democratic presidential candidate.
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hey welcome to the podcast really good one mike lee is with us today um you know asked him some
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questions i think it was really telling about how mike was talking about some of the people that
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are running for democratic nomination i thought that was the most fascinating part of the show
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because he you hear his commentary i mean look i'm reading into it like everybody else but you
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you hear the way he talks about certain senators from the democratic side and certain others
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i myself personally i felt like i read into it a little bit it's kind of like it's kind of like
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when your mom and dad came and said hey there's somebody you should date you know we have this
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friend and and you know they're like yes she's very pretty and blah blah blah but she's and then
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them coming to you and say you should date this and listen she has a really sweet spirit she's very
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kind right you're like oh my gosh she's horribly ugly she was in a fire right you see if you pick
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that up with mike lee also biden it was official and my nfl draft picks this was fascinating to see
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glenn try to select what top 10 players would be selected in the nfl draft and in today's world i'd
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say i did really really well in today's world where criticism is not allowed yes you did or in today's
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world where up is down and down is up yes uh all on today's podcast
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you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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let's get to the big exciting news joe-chella joe-chella is happening
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it is the burning man of politics he is there's so much excitement around this he is very excited
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uh and he has released the video joe biden is in the race officially oh we have to move him over on
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our fancy board over here oh yeah uh he is in the race he joins as the as the candidate leading in
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basically every poll and basically every state the only place he's not consistently leading is in new
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hampshire which there you have both elizabeth warren from next door and you have bernie sanders
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from next door um people who live next door to elizabeth warren don't like her that much so she's not
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close to the top yeah they're like we don't want her here we want her in washington can you just
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please yeah please america elect her president so she's not here and bernie uh is doing very well
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there but biden i think is second there he's way ahead in in south carolina he's way ahead in uh
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in nevada i think he only has one place to go though down yeah you know i go back and forth on
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this i think he's a he is a tougher general election candidate than a great fit for this
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particular primary so it's going to be it's going to be interesting i think that wing of the party
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the very tiny wing like you know every once in a while you get a bucket of wings and there's one
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like deformed wing right you could barely you're like i think this is a frog leg yeah and it does
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it doesn't have it doesn't have it's not coated in buffalo sauce it's coated in like fruit loops
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and you're like what happened in the kitchen that's kind of the size and scope of the of the
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moderate wing right democratic party right now but if everyone were to align around him he'd have a
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chance to get through the primary and if and he's certainly the favorite as of this moment yeah it
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really depends on whether the democrats are going to vote like the republicans voted last time which was
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anyone but hillary clinton and this guy will take her out right and and that is biden polls better
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against donald trump than every other candidate in the field so i did by a decent margin right if they
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if they are a and and i'm not i'm not sure that these are uh these are um things that we would be able
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to tell until the very end because people's rage on the left is so crazy about donald trump that they
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might just say anybody but donald trump and this guy could win and so they won't care about his policies
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on the other hand uh we'll see how much they do believe how the core of democrats believe in you know
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social justice and and uh you know environmental justice he's gonna say all the right things but
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he's not going to look like the reformer you know you gotta remember we live in a world now
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in a world gone mad we live in a world where a comedian was just elected uh president with no policies
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in ukraine okay that's a serious country with serious issues and they just elected a comedian
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that didn't lay out any policies so people are just sick of politicians that's gonna hurt joe biden
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but his scrappiness his willingness to um his willingness to you know be a dog fighter
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is gonna help him yeah he's yeah he he will mix it up he doesn't mind getting in he has he has some
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trump sort of qualities you know where the left will you know sometimes the right even will do this
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when trump says something that's maybe not right or maybe a little offensive or you know whatever
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there's a good portion of conservatives and republicans that are like ah you know look it's
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donald trump like look at his policies with joe biden gets that same treatment from the left and
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unlike donald trump he also gets it from the media so people when he says the you know dumb thing
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about television being invented in 1492 like he just ah it's joe joe just does these things and it's
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not you know look look at the big picture here he's got these policies hang on just a second but he
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doesn't make a lot of those crazy flubs i mean there's no way we have audio of him just making
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ridiculous statements oh no i don't think that's possible i'm uh lived in uh in long island for
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10 years or so uh god rest her soul and uh um although she's wait your mom's still your mom's
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still alive your dad passed god bless her soul chuck graham state senator's here chuck stand up
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chuck let him see you oh god love you what am i talking about a man who will be the next president
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of the united states barack america delaware the largest growth in population is indian americans
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moving from india you cannot go to a 7-eleven or a dunkin donuts unless you have a slight indian
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accent it's a fully i'm not joking you got the first sort of mainstream african america who was
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articulate and bright and clean and nice looking guy i mean it's that's a story they're gonna put
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you all back in chains all right here it is uh the the tape that we've all been waiting for
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here he is joe biden charlottesville virginia is home to the author of one of the great documents in
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human history very exciting we know it by heart we do we hold these truths to be self-evident
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that all men are created equal endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights okay stop
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for a second now this is something we've argued with people over before and there is a legitimate
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history there's a reason to say inalienable but when you are on the screen it says unalienable
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and in he's talking about knowing it by heart so he's actually this is a produced video obviously
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he's saying inalienable and on the screen it says unalienable which is what it actually says but
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there i mean you can say it either way say it either way historically speaking you could say it
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either way right but if you are quoting it and saying you know it by heart you should have
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unalienable i mean again because right this is not from a speech this is not you know if you were
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just doing you're recording this yes the one time you can be perfect and not make a flub you know
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somebody can say cut joe you got to say unalienable because that's what's going to be on the screen okay
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go ahead take it yeah exactly and like it's not as it's not a huge gaffe and it's like one of those
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things where technically it is unalienable however i mean you've done the history of this before and i
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can't remember it i can't remember it either it's but it's it's the same word inalienable
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unalienable i can't remember i can't remember what said by the founders in both ways at times and
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it's it's but it's just funny because here he is saying he knows it by heart it's on the screen
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as the opposite word it kind of goes to the idea of i want this job but not that much right i mean
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i'm not gonna work that hard but you haven't heard the passion that's coming okay okay all right
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listen to the intensity and passion of joseph robinett biden jr we've heard it so often it's
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almost a cliche but it's who we are we haven't always lived up to these ideals jefferson himself
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didn't but we have never before walked away from them charlottesville is also home to a defining
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moment for this nation in the last few years it was there on august of 2017 we saw klansmen and
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white supremacists and neo-nazis come out in the open i mean let me stop for a second think of the
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press we're giving these meaningless zilches of groups like white supremacists i mean they give
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them so much attention as if they're controlling the entire country there was like 300 people at
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this event and yes they were all horrible yes they were all saying jews will not replace us and are
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complete disasters remember when they tried to redo the event the next year and no one showed up
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like is this really we're launching a presidential campaign over a bunch of people that are just
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because in our society because people now know that fear is the is the currency of the day everybody
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in washington seems to know it yep maybe with the exception of our guest next half hour yeah
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mike maybe i mean but that's about it i mean there are not there are not a lot of exceptions to that
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one at this point all right go ahead the crazed faces illuminated by torches veins bulging
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at no point do you actually see any veins bulging now i think i get what he's going for they were
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angry but i there was not a there's not a noticeable vein issue with this particular event
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was there i know i i mean i wasn't i wasn't checking all of their body parts if it would have
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been on their face or on their neck i think i would have noticed now i know that is where joe
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usually goes though he's usually it's usually really close to the neck that vein maybe this is
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just the way he recognizes people he's he's always he's either the smell of the hair maybe it's not
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even the smell he's like he it's more of a they're not angry he just has to move their hair
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oh they're not angry that's what he's looking for there we go okay more from joe biden
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chanting the same anti-semitic bile heard across europe in the 30s and heard in the democratic party
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today and they were met by a crazy group of americans in a violent clash in syria
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and a brave young woman lost her life and that's when we heard the words of the president of united
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states that stunned the world and shocked the conscience of this nation he said there were quote
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some very fine people on both sides very fine people on both sides but those words the president
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united states assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those of the courage to
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stand against it and in that moment so i knew the threat to this nation was unlike any i had ever seen
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in my lifetime okay stop for a second so this is a guy who's a senator throughout like a good chunk of
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the cold war but the threat of donald trump saying there's very fine people on both sides is the
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greatest he's ever seen wow that's that's quite a that's that's quite a thing he may have poor
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eyesight yeah i think he may or bad judgment but it could be bad judgment maybe bad judgment this is a
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guy and now of course he says these things all the time like when he said getting uh osama bin laden
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was the most difficult decision in 500 years yeah which is there's a lot of there's been a lot of
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decisions in that time period we're gonna have a millennia here a lot of people make a lot of
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tough calls yeah yeah it's not like the rest of them were easy you know what i mean but i mean gosh
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i don't know maybe we should go try to find the biggest terrorist on earth that we've all been
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trying to find right you know a decade everybody who's on the side of good and not the side of
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the evil Allah right you know everybody's like i mean even muslims are like yeah no we gotta get him
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that guy of course we gotta get that even a lot of muslim extremists were like yeah he's too far
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like oh that was a real tough call from the white house somehow somehow it's hard to imagine okay um
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more joe biden yeah okay i wrote at the time that we're in the battle for the soul of this nation
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yes that's even more true today we are in the battle for the soul of this nation we are i believe
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history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant
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moment in time but if we give donald trump eight years in the white house he will forever and
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fundamentally alter the character of this nation stop just a minute but i thought you were for a
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fundamental transformation of the united states of america it was you're actually you actually
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campaigned on it joe right that was that was the deal fundamental transformation of the united states
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of america that's amazing yeah uh one thing you notice here from joe as well which separates him
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from every other candidate in the field including sanders is his he's going right after trump yep this
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is not a this is not a hey let me tell you about my wonderful vision for the future this is not
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necessarily like let me tell you about some great policy ideas let me introduce you really smart it's
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going after trump yeah head on and because that is the thing that will get him uh the nomination
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is the guy who can take on trump yep and if he picks the fight and trump responds to biden
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then it will be it'll be really a lock if he if trump starts to fight him now it'll be seen by the
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democrats as oh he's gonna take him on he can take him on he's got it he's got it uh
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and it will it's very smart on joe barton on joe biden's uh joe biden's part but whoa what a
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riveting what a riveting reason to elect joe biden
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like listening to this podcast if you're not a subscriber become one now on itunes and while you're
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uh with us uh really truly mike uh we are honored to have you you are a guy i remember the first time
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we spoke you were in your car i think i called you right yes and uh did you know i was gonna call
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i think somebody had told me i might be getting a call from you at some point yeah
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i was in provo canyon yeah and uh and he pulled his car uh to the side of the road and we chatted
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for probably a half an hour and uh i asked you some i think some pretty tough questions and
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right yes starting with are you concerned with the eternal welfare of your soul
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it's an interesting way to open up a conversation i think his response was
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hang on i think i need to pull over uh but we had a great conversation um and really it was about
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how how convicted are you on the principles the declaration of independence and the and the
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constitution of the united states and could you and your wife handle what you were walking into
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is it what you is it better worse or about what you expected about what i expected but a little
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worse in some ways i i think i had overestimated the extent to which the american people would rally
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quickly against the explosive growth of government that was happening at the time um and and underestimated
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the difficulty of changing things but in many respects it's the same and yes my wife sharon was
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with me and and we had to pull over in part because provo canyon has a lot of dead cell phone spots and in
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part because i wanted to make sure i could pay full attention to our conversation there were times when i
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had to mute it to say what do you think i don't know um let me ask you this we we just did an expose on
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joe biden he announced that he was running today and um we did an expose which which comes from a
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couple of really good investigative reporters uh one of them is peter schweitzer and the other one
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john solomon is john solomon the hill and um i mean they have this thing really locked down what he and
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his son and john carrey's son they started a uh a fund to be able to you know an investment firm uh and
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they started it right after dad was sworn into office they don't have any experience and they went
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over to the ukraine they were doing a deal while dad was doing a deal with ukraine uh you know joe biden
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is very proud that he got an investigator fired over there because of corruption but what people
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don't talk about is the fact that that investigator was investigating joe biden's son on the board of
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this very corrupt gas company in the ukraine he also went over and did a 1.5 billion dollar deal with
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the bank of china his son did while joe was meeting with the top ranking officials he got in he was uh they
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invested in a in the main kind of their lockheed martin of china which was trying to in fact did steal
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some of our stealth technology they also invested in a company uh that uh was um a nuclear company
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that was nailed by the fbi while joe biden's son was part of the board nailed by the fbi for uh stealing
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our nuclear secrets it's such cronyism nobody is paying attention to this and i wondered and mike
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maybe you can help me out on this is that because nobody wants to bring this up because everybody's
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doing this i can't imagine that everyone's doing that that's a pretty big deal there are people who
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don't do 1.5 billion dollars in deals in a whole year yeah in a whole year lifetime in an eternity
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um i can't imagine that that is terribly common and i can't imagine that that's not going to become
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an issue with the presidential it doesn't seem to be going anywhere and it's the same kind of thing that
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you know clinton was doing these shady deals uh over uh what was it with the with gas prom and it
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really never went anywhere and it was all you know circumstantial evidence this he it's all documented
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and i'm sure it's all legal but he is using the muscle of the united states of america when he was
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vice president peter schweitzer said he was the most corrupt vice president in all of american history
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do you suppose that a republican vice president doing such things would get away with that no not
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have it reported extensively and john carrey's son i mean when he was secretary of state and joe biden
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was the vice president and they had all this power the government of china was giving their sons 1.5
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billion dollars to invest that's very impressive and very stunning yeah in its uh significance for
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our system of government so i'm i'm i guess what i'm asking is uh you know i in some ways if we don't
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turn around we're we're probably 1989 uh russia where people in your position people in washington
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might begin to see the handwriting on the wall and say you know what we're not going to turn this ship
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i'm already positioning myself for what comes after and what comes after this is probably a really nasty
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uh oligarchy where you've got these people who are just pulling all the strings is are are is corruption
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so bad in washington that nobody cares about this or do they not know look i i don't think that
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washington is the kind of place where no one cares about this i suspect it has more to do with them
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not knowing i also gather that someone running for president if he has done this is going to have
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that exposed and that's going to become a problem for him are you concerned mike about uh the democrats
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that are running is there anybody i know you you get along with bernie sanders oh sure but you don't
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agree with any of his policies um do you see anybody on the other side you don't even have
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to name a name but do you see anybody on the other side that you think isn't really dangerous to the
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constitutional republic well let me put it this way i i see every single democratic presidential
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candidate seems to be moving to the left and they're all moving in lockstep it's like a one-way
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leftward turning ratchet each time any one of the moves further to the left they all try to outdo
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each other and it doesn't go the other way no it doesn't go the other way and the problem is this is
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not just a sort of red team versus blue team team a versus team b sort of a thing this is a different
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political ideology it's a different concept of what government is what it's for and what dangers it
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poses to the american people how close are we to turning on the constitution and declaration
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and not being able to reel it back you know i tend to believe glenn that we're always close to that
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point i i've come to believe that we have been close to that point at every moment since the american
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revolution freedom and constitutionally limited government life liberty and the pursuit of
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happiness the notion of the the inherent dignity of the immortal human soul relative to a big brooding
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omnipresence of a government these are things that are part of human nature and unless we make a
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deliberate decision that we're not going to have those things and unless that decision is remade every
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day and within every generation we will always reach that point you just we've not been to a place to
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where um the the left for instance on the second amendment you've got to watch about eight fronts
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on that they're going through the courts they're going through the banking system they're doing all
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kinds of stuff right now and any of them could um could mean the end of the second amendment
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as we know it that's right people trying to punish others for engaging in certain types of businesses
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if you transact in firearms for example you might find it difficult uh to get along in the banking world
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or any other disfavored industry uh anything deemed sufficiently unwoke uh runs the risk of falling
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victim to that kind of activity did you see did you see the aoc um questioning of uh the bankers
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which she said to the head of wells fargo no uh oh my gosh um you know what let me take a break and
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then we're going to find that audio because you have to hear it where she was basically threatening
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the banks uh saying you're engaging in lending you know money to oil companies we're going to start
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holding you responsible for anytime anything goes wrong and climate change it's remarkable mike lee who
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has just penned a new book that is important for everybody's collection important to read but also
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important to keep our lost declaration is the name of the book by senator mike lee he's with us here for
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uh probably about another 40 minutes um and then he's going to be on tv with me tonight uh lots to
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talk to him about i want to go over this audio uh from uh casio cortez and what she was saying to
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uh the wells fargo and other banking executives listen mr sloan why was the bank involved in the
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caging of children and financing the caging of children to begin with uh i i don't know how to
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answer that question because we weren't uh so in finance you've you were financing and involved in
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debt financing of course civic and geo group correct for for a period of time we were involved in financing
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one of the firms were not anymore and the other i'm not familiar with the specific uh assertion that
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you're making but we weren't directly involved in that okay so these companies run um private
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detention facilities run by ice which uh which is involved in in caging children but i'll move on
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so she goes on to talk about oil spills and climate change and you're lending money to oil companies so
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aren't you responsible shouldn't we hold you responsible for climate change damage your thoughts
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well first of all she's shaming someone for being the banking intermediary for someone assisting a law
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enforcement agency correct if she wants to disagree with our laws if she wants to disagree with how
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they're enforced she ought to take that up with lawmakers and law enforcement and law enforcers i don't
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quite understand why it makes sense to take that up with so i'll tell you why here it is he said for
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a period of time we were involved with financing one of the firms uh we were not uh we're not anymore
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so here's the thing they were wells fargo was featured november 2016 in a report along with line
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other banks of lending to core civic and geo group uh 444 million blah blah blah the same uh period of time
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in which the photo of caged children misattributed to the trump administration was taking uh was taken
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wells fargo and other banks decided to re-evaluate their lending activity to private prisons amid the
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controversy over the trump administration's immigration policies so she the reason why she's
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bringing it up is because it's working the public shaming yes public shaming of people who dare to
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provide financing for another company that provides outsourced law enforcement assistance you know
00:27:37.220
to a government agency you know that cuomo is doing that with the banking uh executives in new york
00:27:42.520
if you lend money to anybody who is a gun manufacturer or a gun uh store we're gonna have to send in more
00:27:51.600
investigators because we think those guys are up to shady things so if you want your you want your
00:27:57.380
approval every year you want your audit to go smoothly don't do business with them
00:28:02.260
i suppose the good news here is that we're not dealing with the government itself forcing it
00:28:09.220
we're dealing in some ways with uh shaming by public officials through private channels and
00:28:17.460
sometimes with a public stage i mean isn't that the same as the brown shirts it wasn't the government
00:28:23.460
it was an outside of the government arm yeah people can still arrange financing from another bank but
00:28:30.020
what happens when everyone turns against all other banks correct does that mean nobody will be able to
00:28:34.500
enter into a contract to provide support for a law enforcement agency right and if that happens what does
00:28:39.980
that do to our ability to enforce the law what does that do to president obama's administration's
00:28:47.820
ability to cage children as uh as happened we are we are sitting here at a time where people are not
00:28:54.580
abiding by the law we just had the district attorney here in dallas say that he is no longer going to
00:29:01.300
prosecute crimes if you uh break into somebody's house or their store and you steal something less
00:29:08.620
than 750 and you need it if you were just stealing it to enrich yourself he'll prosecute but if you need
00:29:18.260
it he won't prosecute senator mike lee uh just a an absolute wall around our constitution uh and we are
00:29:29.420
pleased to have him uh in studio hi mike great to be with you thank you so you've written new book called
00:29:36.060
our lost declaration which is a really important uh book i think and everybody should have at least
00:29:42.520
one copy hard copy uh to be able to keep and one to give to your kids or your grandkids um mike the
00:29:50.400
my understanding of the declaration of independence has changed so much it's gotten i just love this
00:29:56.180
document i just love it and i look at it as it's our mission statement and everybody says well we
00:30:04.100
haven't done those things well no because they're really hard that's an aspirational thing that no
00:30:10.480
one had ever said before and if we had accomplished all those things it'd be time for a new mission
00:30:16.000
statement it would and this mission statement remains achievable it remains desirable but we've drifted from
00:30:24.660
that understanding look our our children have been taught a distorted version of history one that
00:30:31.620
badly misstates the role and the mission of government and the risks associated with its abuse
00:30:38.160
i wrote this book to help fix that to give people the ability to help their children and their
00:30:43.620
grandchildren uh and themselves learn what they wish were being taught in our public schools and what
00:30:50.240
used to be taught in our public schools this is a companion book to another one i wrote a few years
00:30:54.620
ago about the constitution but the more i've researched and read into the constitution and it's
00:30:59.900
important the more i've come to realize you can't fully understand and appreciate and implement the
00:31:05.120
constitution without understanding the declaration and where it came from it is the the declaration of
00:31:09.620
independence is the mission statement we want to start a country and it's going to be this
00:31:16.180
and this is why we have to start our own country because of these problems but it leads with this
00:31:23.180
is who we're going to be the constitution is the owner's manual it's how to make that mission statement or
00:31:31.220
quite frankly any mission statement work that's right the constitution is the picture frame the
00:31:38.440
declaration is the picture correct it's the vision for where we want to go it's also the vision for what
00:31:43.020
happens when things go dangerously off course so can i ask you a question on the on the declaration
00:31:49.140
it says and for these purposes uh governments are instituted among men uh and what the purposes are
00:31:57.960
to protect those rights given by god and it is uh the duty uh if a government i'm badly mangling it now
00:32:09.360
i'm sorry but if the government uh goes awry and starts to go against those rights and they're not
00:32:15.080
protecting those rights it is the right and the duty of the people to alter or abolish
00:32:21.160
and institute a new system that will better serve that purpose right yeah so in the case of the civil war
00:32:34.160
that was not what they were trying to do they were not trying to protect rights they said they
00:32:39.900
were because they were saying state rights but they were violating all men are created equal they were
00:32:44.280
violating the basic human rights if a government becomes so horrible that it is taking away our
00:32:53.740
rights and it is mangling everything that we've ever stood for why doesn't a state have the right to say
00:33:01.640
no i i want to alter or abolish it and i'm going over here because we believe for our own safety and
00:33:09.200
happiness and the safety of those rights we can come up with a better way of doing it
00:33:14.520
that right exists i would clarify one thing there uh you referred to state it's not the state itself
00:33:20.540
a state is another government it's another layer of government it's ultimately the people that have
00:33:24.900
it governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
00:33:29.480
okay whenever government becomes destructive of those ends it is the right of the people to alter
00:33:33.820
or abolish it to alter or abolish their form of government and so that recognizes this beautiful
00:33:40.900
language penned by thomas jefferson some two and a half centuries ago identifies the fact that these
00:33:46.420
laws exist in a state of nature they exist out there they are pre-state they're pre-government
00:33:53.160
uh they exist because we exist and because god created us and we are the sovereigns that's what
00:34:00.520
was so revolutionary about this document and it's that thought the idea that we have god-given rights
00:34:06.060
that government is there to serve us and not the other way around it's considered revolutionary today
00:34:11.540
sadly because we've neglected it the um the idea that jefferson was a uh mentally tortured
00:34:23.060
man that lived in one foot in slavery one foot out i don't think is entirely accurate especially if
00:34:29.880
you read the first draft and it was two states i mean hancock said and i think he was right on this
00:34:38.740
look the the the king is going to divide us if there's any daylight between any of us 13
00:34:46.680
there he is going to use that and he's going to flip those people who have any kind of daylight
00:34:52.740
he will worm his way in and he will have you working against us so we have to be in
00:34:58.320
lockstep on everything so two states said no to jefferson's proposal in the first draft of
00:35:06.280
abolishing slavery that's right and i talk about this in our lost declaration in researching this i
00:35:12.560
discovered how much jefferson really wanted to put language in it identifying as one of the
00:35:19.180
grievances against king george iii that he had perpetuated slavery within the american colonies
00:35:24.360
doing so perhaps even to destabilize them and to make them dependent on that evil vile institution
00:35:30.320
as i researched for this book i also discovered that jefferson early in his career uh within the
00:35:37.380
state of virginia tried to get the state of virginia to abolish slavery now i also later in his career too
00:35:42.560
he tried several times he tried several times now i acknowledge in the book uh he does have a
00:35:48.220
complicated relationship with slavery because even as he's trying to do all this he still owns slaves
00:35:53.460
but he can't get rid of them because of state law he he can't unlike george washington he didn't make
00:35:59.720
arrangements for them to be freed after he and his wife had done not only that he couldn't because he
00:36:05.360
was in debt the law stated at the time if you're in debt at the time of your death you cannot get rid of
00:36:11.340
that property which is one of the great tragedies of the jefferson estate is that because of those
00:36:16.720
very same debts after he died uh his slaves were sold and in many instances families were separated
00:36:23.700
and sent to different parts of the country so yeah jefferson had a complicated relationship with this
00:36:28.500
but he knew what was wrong and he did try to do something about it he even put language in the
00:36:33.520
original draft of the declaration of independence to stop it and so we have to remember that jefferson
00:36:40.820
himself understood the nature of this he was able to identify good uh from evil and identify this as
00:36:48.600
part of the evil column should they go back in a time machine impossible question you're there
00:36:56.660
do you argue and say guys we cannot put this declaration together unless it includes slavery do you
00:37:06.420
i think every one of us would probably like to imagine that that is what we would say slavery is
00:37:14.260
so abhorrent and we're able to see that today and so i i think most of us would like to believe that if
00:37:21.780
we were there we would say okay let's rally around this so let me make a real life situation let's say
00:37:26.720
for some reason you know washington implodes and you're not there but a lot of the representatives you
00:37:32.500
know our government is gone we have to start over and we have to fight against an outside force and
00:37:39.480
we've got 40 states and 10 of them will not go for hey a pro-life declaration we are going to all people
00:37:51.560
are created equal and uh and endowed by their creator and we have to protect life and we believe life
00:37:58.700
begins at conception or whatever and you got 10 states that don't do it it's the same kind of
00:38:05.180
situation would you would you see a reason to compromise on that principle to be able to gather
00:38:14.920
a free country and and take care of it later you would hope yes i believe i would uh which is uh
00:38:23.560
illustrative here especially if we couldn't survive without those states unwilling to go
00:38:29.220
along with it and that i think was quite arguably the case at the time of the revolution uh these
00:38:34.520
were 13 colonies they understood that unless they were all united they couldn't survive not militarily
00:38:40.740
not economically and those two things were interrelated you couldn't get more pro-life than you are
00:38:47.540
that's correct and and if you couldn't survive and cobble this country back together because you
00:38:54.420
were pro-life and the and some states were not you would still say okay well let's work towards that
00:39:01.000
that's exactly right and so this is one of the reasons i tell the story uh about jefferson's attempts
00:39:06.640
uh to get rid of slavery in this book in in our lost declaration is i think it's important for us
00:39:12.260
to understand the historical context in which he operated uh back with mike lee in just a second
00:39:17.520
the book is on sale right now buy a copy for yourself buy a copy for your children and your
00:39:23.280
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00:39:28.180
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00:39:40.140
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from the less than frozen tundra in fact mostly warm and soggy tundra of lost
00:40:09.900
colinas texas glenn beck prognosticates the nfl draft we've given glenn a selection of 20 players
00:40:23.100
from the nfl draft and he is going to try to place them yeah so he says i've already narrowed it down
00:40:28.160
pretty deep yeah going pretty deep i'll tell you who doesn't have a chance today okay don't have a
00:40:32.720
chance of being drafted don't have a chance of being drafted they will they they will spend their
00:40:36.880
lives in obscurity uh now that you do do all those more picks past 10 so you're only picking
00:40:43.160
the top 10 they could get track picked at number 11 for example they could go play cute little
00:40:47.360
football someplace these people are over nick nick bosa he's over he's over done okay dwayne haskins
00:40:54.560
done uh christian wilkinson he might i'll explain he might have a chance uh leon farrell okay done
00:41:04.920
uh quinn and quinn and quinn and williams done done done off not gonna get it to me uh byron
00:41:12.060
coward oh coward done devon white no and are we gonna hear the reasoning there's a chance there's
00:41:19.200
a chance i'm only judging by pictures weight and height that's up to you you could have had
00:41:24.400
knowledge and let's watch football like every other male in america for the last 50 years
00:41:28.480
done yeah josh allen's done for sure yeah he's a clown yeah okay so you have those are the people
00:41:33.820
you've eliminated i've eliminated i've eliminated more than that but i i've i've i've got uh i've got
00:41:39.600
my picks okay so so should we do this with the first pick of the 2019 glenn beck nfl draft the
00:41:45.640
arizona cardinals select you're doing you're doing i'm not doing no i don't no no no that's how
00:41:50.780
what do you mean this is how the draft works we tell you we say that little thing you'll get all
00:41:56.340
10 of them filled in but i fill them in differently so what are you doing like a countdown no i'm not
00:42:02.500
doing a countdown i'm gonna start with number eight we're just starting with the eighth pick of the
00:42:07.400
draft yes okay detroit lions all right okay here we go all right the problem with that is and i know
00:42:14.340
you know this uh the eighth pick of the draft could be gone if you start at eight because number one
00:42:19.820
could pick eight no no number one is not going to pick eight number one is going to pick number one
00:42:26.060
i i see okay okay number eight is ed oliver he will be going to the lions ed oliver ed oliver he's six
00:42:34.660
three two hundred and ninety pounds he's from houston now i thought why well i thought for a while
00:42:42.280
i thought for a while that he could go to the tampa bay buccaneers because he's been playing
00:42:48.840
in severe heat in houston okay okay okay and uh and he's been playing in an open stadium i think
00:42:56.580
probably okay houston uh-huh and so you think probably you're not sure not sure uh but uh the
00:43:03.440
team that he plays for in houston they know him as a big tough guy that can run around in sweaty and
00:43:10.840
not pass out in a really hot sweaty day so you're saying this is essentially a humidity pick by the
00:43:15.960
no no i'm not sending him to tampa bay i almost picked him for number five okay because of the
00:43:22.480
humidity thing but instead he's going to number eight the detroit gotta look at him now look at
00:43:26.480
his picture okay he looks like somebody just hit him in the face with a shovel like what's the
00:43:32.220
he right now he looks he does he looks like what the okay surprised look on his face right
00:43:38.380
stepped on a rake boom what the that's where he looks in this now i would i should note to you here
00:43:43.920
that the thing you're looking at is a photograph which is a moment in time of one particular
00:43:50.480
fraction of a second all i got to go always look like he has a surprise look on his face that's all
00:43:56.200
i got to go okay okay all right so if you want to take away his surprise reaction then he goes to
00:44:01.400
tampa i know but he's going cold weather no he's going to detroit oh no everyone who lives in detroit
00:44:10.120
opens their door every day he goes what the when they realize they're in detroit so number eight
00:44:16.620
to detroit ed oliver all right hard to argue with that logic wow it is uh detroit is okay all right
00:44:22.960
detroit gets ed oliver now we go to the next pick which is not nine as you might expect but another
00:44:28.780
pick on well no this one's this one um tj hawkinson you know who he is we do yes okay six
00:44:34.720
five 245 pounds he's going to the seattle supersonics which is on another board yeah but
00:44:43.240
he's going to the seattle supersonics board because it's on a basketball board and also
00:44:47.320
they don't exist anymore uh they're now the oklahoma city thunder right yes seattle doesn't have a
00:44:52.940
basketball team anymore they do not no they do not these damn marxists they do have a football team
00:44:57.080
but they're not drafting in the top so the supersonics are over yes they've been over for
00:45:00.560
for a long time yes so they're going to be who knew that pick is going to be surprised when he
00:45:05.240
goes there and you know what he's playing football or basketball well he'll win so yeah because nobody
00:45:09.740
would be playing against him uh all right six five 254 pounds from wyoming what i was going to ask
00:45:18.120
what team we're drafting what position and the top 10 are we drafting i'm telling you in a minute
00:45:23.880
okay okay first let me introduce carl ganderson you know carl carl ganderson six five from wyoming
00:45:33.040
254 pounds i'm not familiar with carl frankly are you uh yes yes i am familiar with carl uh it's an
00:45:39.640
interesting pick for which team i'm gonna i i'm gonna pick him for denver number 10 okay okay he's
00:45:46.420
going to denver and the reason why if you look at this picture he looks like kind of one of those
00:45:51.620
go west young men statues you know is that because he's holding his football out in front
00:45:57.740
of him might be but look at look at his eyes he's like i'm determined i'm gonna go someplace
00:46:01.800
where it's where it's west so he is going to the denver broncos okay so so far we have the eighth
00:46:08.580
pick in the draft is ed oliver and the tenth pick is carl ganderson i wouldn't be surprised though
00:46:12.720
if denver was actually east of laramie um but that's a whole nother that's a whole different story
00:46:18.680
well i'm just saying yeah okay i know so here we go here we go from alabama six five three hundred
00:46:26.940
and one pound jonah williams you know jonah yes yes jonah that guy looks like
00:46:35.360
i think he's going to the oakland raiders the oakland raiders at number four yeah because he
00:46:45.060
looks kind of pissed off he looks like a guy who could live in oakland and be like what i'm going
00:46:51.720
to tear these people in from limb and uh and you have to if you're going to live in oakland that's
00:46:57.400
the way you have to look all right there he looks like he's from game of thrones kind of yeah he does
00:47:00.960
be right by the way he's from california play for the kings there you go oakland raiders select at
00:47:06.260
number four jonah williams for some reason the arizona cardinals at one still have not decided to make
00:47:11.120
their pick which is a controversial move here in this draft okay i do have uh hang on i've i've lost
00:47:16.180
the i've lost mr hunk a lot hang on he is where is he uh i've got one for san francisco he's really
00:47:26.900
a good looking guy okay and here he is drew lock from missouri okay yeah quarterback he's kind of in
00:47:34.760
this picture he kind of looks like tom cruise san francisco they're gonna like they'll love him
00:47:40.500
there they'll love him in san francisco number two pick wow lock going to san francisco drew lock at
00:47:46.660
number two yes for san francisco so we now have two four eight and ten have been selected here in the
00:47:53.420
glennbeck 2019 nfl draft tampa bay buccaneers number five okay the mothership of this program
00:47:59.600
yes big pick yes people on the edge of their seats right now six two three hundred and five
00:48:05.140
pounds from kentucky it's a big fella bunchy stallings all right bunchy bunchy has a good name
00:48:12.800
it's a good name he's a good name he's from kentucky he looks friendly he looks like a guy who'd be like
00:48:18.800
come on tampa's fun yeah he does he looks like he's having a good time in that picture i agree for
00:48:23.560
good times he's going to the tampa bay okay buccaneers bunchy stallings at number five okay
00:48:30.160
we still have the one three six seven and nine picks to go glenn the next election that's getting
00:48:36.660
tough now it's getting tough because i'm kind of down to just a bunch of people that are like yeah
00:48:41.280
uh based on their photos they're just yeah you were very excited about christian walk christian
00:48:50.360
wilkins christian wilkins clemson you know him yes okay yeah uh he looks like a homeless guy
00:48:57.180
why in that picture yeah he looks like a homeless guy in this picture he's got a beard and it's kind
00:49:03.540
of unkempt and uh he looks like a guy who's like hey dude hey dude uh you got some money let me wash
00:49:12.460
your windshield i don't think that's accurate but he just seems to have his mouth open and you're
00:49:17.040
judging it completely he's going to new york to wash windshields yes or no he's going to play for
00:49:23.540
the play for the giants and jets there's two teams so he's selected now that this guy goes to new york
00:49:30.860
but he doesn't know which new york team it is this is a good general manager you have all right i'm
00:49:35.600
going to play i'm going to pick jawan taylor jawan taylor okay from florida wait a minute don't you want
00:49:40.760
to decide where christian wilkins is going they both go to three and six they can work it out
00:49:46.320
between themselves which one they go to they don't get to work it out you have to pick them
00:49:50.700
yeah this is how this i'm gonna let them decide you can't you can't do that you have to select
00:49:56.160
which one is which three and six jawan taylor and christian wilkins i don't know the jets just seem
00:50:01.440
more like new york the giants seem more like a knockoff kind of girly team so i'm gonna put
00:50:09.020
jawine for the jets and uh christian wilkins because he looks happy but homeless uh we'll give
00:50:16.080
him to the giants but i say those two are interchangeable they could pick it could go to
00:50:20.060
six or three doesn't matter yeah again maybe there'll be a maybe this is the this way of glenn's
00:50:25.120
signaling there will be a trade made there between the giants and jets which has a good zero percent
00:50:29.040
chance of happening okay so we still have the what seven and nine picks to go and then the
00:50:33.920
number one overall in the 19 2019 glenn beck have i selected the number one the one that everybody is
00:50:39.640
like not yet not yet no you have not no you did discount one of the top three though uh in fact a
00:50:46.060
couple of the top three yeah i will say the most excited yes uh they're in the pile of discounted
00:50:50.760
most excited clellan feral quinnon no quinnon williams is quinnon williams but you can't put them
00:50:56.680
back in now nick bosa but i want to take a look at him i want to take a look at you can't change
00:51:01.060
them now you've already discounted them we need to take a break we need to do our we got three more
00:51:05.340
all right well i have the i have the number nine pick and the number one pick to go yes who's it
00:51:13.920
okay i'm gonna dismiss kyler kyler murray because he's 5 10 from oklahoma
00:51:24.920
and you're dismissing nobody's nobody 5 10 and 195 pounds in the nfl there have been people who've
00:51:32.380
made this point actually actually there there are a few there are a few but there's a few and there
00:51:37.600
have been a few but i mean kyler murray but you've discounted him so who's next can we get the next
00:51:43.260
three picks please well i still had him in my go pile but i was thinking about discounting him
00:51:47.320
daniel jones he's from duke you know daniel jones is yes we do okay i'm gonna put him
00:51:56.540
i'm gonna put him up in the buffalo bills because he just looks like an eater
00:52:00.020
and he's got his tongue out and he's like that looks delicious again glenn because in this photo
00:52:06.260
yes his tongue does not mean he walks around all the time with his tongue out he likes buffalo
00:52:10.200
buffalo wings okay uh they make great buffalo wings is the home of buffalo wings i'm gonna put
00:52:15.780
uh daniel jones up there intriguing number one from buffalo we still have number seven do you
00:52:21.040
want to do his number seven first and end on number seven oh the jaguars yeah it's not even a team
00:52:26.100
uh it actually is yeah it's a team in jacksonville uh-huh ah i'm gonna give it to kyler murray
00:52:33.180
because he's a fast runner he's gotta be a runner it's that small now why would why would
00:52:37.200
why would jacksonville need a runner per se what do you think because uh jaguars are like cheetahs
00:52:42.240
they're fast okay okay that's more logic than i thought you're still attached to that okay all
00:52:48.220
right all right so one more pick still on the number one pick i still have josh allen byron coward
00:52:55.980
i think those two are still out out quinnon williams he looks like a football player devon white
00:53:03.840
now you've already eliminated it i know i know and then we gave you too much information on that
00:53:08.480
you did so i know i hate to get rid of him you already had him you got rid of him that's why
00:53:13.040
we uh we we brought it up okay the number one okay okay number one pick i you just
00:53:23.720
didn't i get rid of nick bossa right yes whatever i got rid of him he's dead to me
00:53:31.880
now andre dillard and devon white uh-huh now i'm putting clean farrell back in uh because i have
00:53:40.920
some information that he is good at something uh i bet he is but if you look at them they all look
00:53:47.780
happy they do lean does not look he looks like he's faking it okay but if you look at andre dillard
00:53:56.260
and devon white they look sincerely happy that's nice that you're judging them that way i like that
00:54:03.060
but no one wants to play football in a thousand degrees okay all right it's true it's very hot in
00:54:10.920
tampa and the new stadium's not quite uh ready so i'm getting rid of andrew dillard we're doing
00:54:15.340
arizona though no oh arizona that's right well they do have an indoor stadium they do have an
00:54:19.480
indoor stadium they have an indoor stadium yes i'm going devon white because he looks the happiest
00:54:24.680
all right devon white he's like hey i just picked number one there you go there you go there it is
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so let's give you the rundown here arizona cardinals select devon white san francisco 49ers go qb
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with drew lock at two new york jets jawan taylor at three oakland raiders wait wait you didn't tell me
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that san francisco needed a uh quarterback they don't they don't but they selected a second one
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for some reason oh oh he's a quarterback he's a quarterback he was white i wanted to see if there
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was a chance that he was do they draft for owners oh that's right because i cory booker i mean i think
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the only white people are they don't draft owners they don't draft all the time that this is essentially
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slavery right players but drew lock cannot be an owner no of the san francisco 49ers he can't be no he
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they'll never draft him for that oakland raiders at four go jonah williams at five the tampa bay
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bucks with an interesting selection of bunchy stallings at five uh at six uh the giants like
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christian wilkins wilkins or jawan taylor you don't get your oars we'll give you credit if they switch
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if they trade those two picks we'll give you credit jacksonville jaguars select kyler murray
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and they are number seven which is kind of a surprise yeah detroit surprise detroit lions ed oliver
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yeah i almost cut him out i thought kyler i don't think he's really a football player
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do you think we're fooling you uh number nine daniel jones goes to the buffalo bills uh they've got a
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good quarterback situation there now too and denver broncos like carl ganderson at number 10
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so here's what it kept when we now these are locked in place yeah these are locked in yeah so what
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interesting selections here uh san francisco as we mentioned has a very highly paid quarterback
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and for them to select someone at number two that is a quarterback would be very surprising
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let me tell you if that happens whoever the quarterback is for the 49ers better watch your
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back because they're offing you because you are too expensive okay now it is believed that kyler
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murray the quarterback the one that you discounted because he's 510 and 190 will be the number one pick
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in the draft why would you do that is he a he's a fast runner he is also fast he's also fast throw
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now jacksonville just signed a giant quarter uh quarterback contract with nick foals at seven so
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it'd be surprising to see them draft another quarterback there kind of yeah but this is
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information that would have been helpful this all would have been information that would have been
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helpful you know if you would have told me their positions and what the teams needed maybe i could
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have helped you out a little bit more the blaze radio network