The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Senator Ted Cruz ｜ 12⧸10⧸19

00:00:00.000 Well, hello, podcasters. Today was a kind of a busy, busy news day. The impeachment articles were filed right at the top of the podcast. And I love them. I love them. And we'll explain why. Ted Cruz was also with us. Mark Levin. We talked a little bit about that.

00:00:19.720 We went through the I.G. report and the inaccuracies. They're not inaccuracies. They're lies. And we expose all of it on today's podcast.

00:00:38.280 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:00:42.320 The senator from the great state of Texas, Senator Ted Cruz. How are you, Ted?

00:00:52.420 Glenn, my friend. Always great to be with you.

00:00:54.080 Thank you. First, your your comments on the articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

00:01:01.000 Well, you know, it reminds me a little bit of Sherlock Holmes, famous dog that didn't bark, which is which is I think the these articles of impeachment represent that an admission of failure on the part of the Democrats.

00:01:16.040 I think so, too. Just two, three weeks ago, you may remember that that every Democrat in Washington were using the word bribery.

00:01:25.340 They were saying bribery over and over and over again. The reason for that, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had focus grouped it.

00:01:33.000 They'd done focus grouped and then polled it and they discovered that bribery was really bad.

00:01:38.120 And when they said bribery, people reacted understandably badly and said, oh, I don't like bribery.

00:01:43.780 And so and so in a 24 hour period, just about every Democrat in the House began saying bribery, bribery, bribery.

00:01:49.860 Here's the problem. They don't have evidence of bribery. They don't have evidence of criminal conduct.

00:01:56.700 And as the hearings went on, they brought in one witness after another, after another, and they couldn't prove what they were alleging in significant part because the president released the transcript of the phone call on the face of it.

00:02:08.300 And there's nothing illegal or criminal in it. And it came to really a really revealing moment this weekend when the House Democrats put out a 55 page memorandum in which they they they called it a scholarly memorandum in which they argued that that for impeachment, you don't have to prove any criminal offense or even any law was violated.

00:02:30.700 You don't have to prove that the president had a speeding ticket, that instead they said you could just be impeached for amorphous abuse of power, which is what they just did a few minutes ago.

00:02:42.220 What that reveals, you know, as you know, poker, you know, poker, Glenn, yes, in the game of poker, if someone has a tell, it's when they have a really bad hand and they reveal it, they twist their ring or they pull on their hair.

00:02:57.020 They do something to reveal, I got a terrible hand. The Democrats have a tell.

00:03:02.200 They're revealing that they haven't been able to prove any of what they said they were going to prove, but they're going to impeach the president anyway because they hate him.

00:03:10.380 This is a partisan exercise and it's been nothing but a partisan show trial for months.

00:03:17.100 But but the good news is once the House is done with it, the Senate's going to take it up and this is going to be thrown out.

00:03:23.420 This is going nowhere. And every Democrat who is voting to impeach knows that this has zero percent chance of succeeding in the Senate.

00:03:30.860 So here's the thing that I want to talk to you about, because you did a great job on Meet the Press and they just would not let you speak.

00:03:38.740 And they mocked you for it. And this is what I hope we do find out in the Senate.

00:03:44.020 I know Grassley, Johnson and Graham are starting to put together witness lists that they want to dig into the Ukrainian scandal.

00:03:53.700 And the first person they want to bring on is Chalupa, the DNC operative.

00:04:00.620 The other one is Andrei Teleshenko, who have had on this program before, who tells a very different story.

00:04:07.080 Can you explain why the media should not be laughing at the the the the claim that the Democrats were using Ukraine to interfere in this election?

00:04:23.860 Well, sure. And the simplest answer why the media shouldn't be laughing is that it's a fact that they're supposed to be journalists.

00:04:30.280 But they're not journalists anymore. Most of the media, they are propagandists.

00:04:36.120 They don't pretend to be fair and objective. And the reason they're laughing, the reason they're mocking and attacking any claim about Ukraine is they're terrified.

00:04:45.420 You know, on Sunday when I did Meet the Press, I've done Meet the Press a lot of times.

00:04:49.640 Chuck Todd knows how to be a real journalist. He's capable of asking questions that are real questions.

00:04:56.560 I've never seen Chuck Todd panic as much as he did on Sunday.

00:05:01.280 And all of the media is panicking because they see the Democrats case collapsing and they're running like rats from a ship.

00:05:08.680 So here's the game the media has played is they for the past several weeks, they try to pose to anyone in public, Republican politicians or anyone else.

00:05:18.620 Are you saying that Ukraine and not Russia interfered in 2016? 1.00

00:05:25.080 They try to pose it as a binary test so that anyone who says, well, yes, aha, you're a fool. 0.98

00:05:30.220 You're denying the Russian interference. Well, look, that's utter nonsense. 1.00

00:05:34.100 Let me say unequivocally, yes, Russia interfered in our 2016 election.

00:05:38.460 Russia is not our friend. Vladimir Putin is a KGB thug, which, by the way, the Democrats in the media were apologists for during the entire Obama administration.

00:05:47.280 They've suddenly discovered Russia, Russia are bad guys. 0.99

00:05:50.960 I'm glad they did so after about 70 years of kissing up to the Soviet Union. 0.94

00:05:58.200 But the fact that Russia interfered in our election does not mean that nobody else on Earth did also.

00:06:05.940 We know for a fact a number of other countries have actively interfered in our elections, including China, including North Korea and including Ukraine.

00:06:14.340 And the simple facts. So in 2016, in the fall of 2016, the sitting ambassador from Ukraine authored an op-ed published in The Hill blasting Donald Trump.

00:06:28.480 The Ukrainian embassy pushed that out on their official website.

00:06:32.120 That is very, very unusual for a sitting ambassador to try to inject themselves into the middle of an American presidential campaign.

00:06:40.220 Not only that, publicly, the sitting interior minister of the Ukrainian government was blasting Donald Trump.

00:06:47.340 The former prime minister of Ukraine was blasting Donald Trump.

00:06:51.540 Two parliamentarians in Ukraine held a press conference where they accused their government of illegally trying to influence the U.S. election to help elect Hillary Clinton.

00:07:01.640 Those are all facts. And as you know, a Democratic operative who worked for the DNC was meeting repeatedly with the Ukrainians.

00:07:11.500 And it is at least alleged was coordinating closely with Democrats and Hillary Clinton to attack Donald Trump.

00:07:18.760 This week, the House has finished their show trials and now moved into the articles of impeachment.

00:07:25.740 And it's on its way to the Senate, where it's going to be taken apart.

00:07:32.560 Rumor has it that Trump wants to do this before Christmas or during Christmas.

00:07:37.640 I think he should demand prime time.

00:07:41.660 I think he should be in the balcony someplace and he should let everybody know.

00:07:46.920 I just might blurt some things out.

00:07:49.520 Everyone should watch this.

00:07:50.840 If the Republicans do their job and you actually have a fair trial, I think it changes the whole world.

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00:09:12.620 You also have a court case in Ukraine.

00:09:18.180 The guy who was the head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, which was partly funded by George Soros and put together by our own administration, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and running through our Justice Department.

00:09:32.280 You have the head guy of that on tape saying that, yeah, I was working to help Hillary Clinton win the election.

00:09:44.720 He and another guy were both nailed and found guilty of interfering with the U.S. election.

00:09:56.460 They say that this was overturned.

00:09:58.280 It wasn't overturned.

00:09:59.620 They just couldn't give them a sentence because in Ukraine, you can't go after a sitting parliamentarian.

00:10:08.340 And so they both walked away, but it was not overturned, and we have it on tape.

00:10:14.760 Yep.

00:10:15.160 And you know what, Glenn?

00:10:16.600 The media knows all of this.

00:10:18.280 I mean, it was in January 2017.

00:10:21.500 Politico wrote a long expose about Ukraine interfering in the election.

00:10:26.040 The reporter is now a reporter at the New York Times.

00:10:28.280 CBS wrote about it.

00:10:29.320 The Economist wrote about it.

00:10:30.420 The Financial Times wrote about it.

00:10:31.760 All of the media know this.

00:10:33.400 And back when they were just trying to report news, of course they'd report it.

00:10:37.300 Today, the reason they get so hysterical when you say it is because the Democrats' impeachment case is collapsing.

00:10:45.800 And number one, Ukraine was interfering trying to benefit Hillary Clinton, and all of the mainstream media wanted Hillary Clinton to win.

00:10:54.320 So they agree with that interference.

00:10:55.780 That's interference on their side.

00:10:57.180 They're okay with that.

00:10:58.420 But number two, they are desperately trying to preserve the narrative.

00:11:01.840 I have to say it has been hysterical to see the media screaming.

00:11:06.060 So if you acknowledge the facts, and what you and I just said, there are simple facts, they scream that you're a Russian asset.

00:11:13.660 And that was a quote from the Washington Post on Sunday where they called me a Russian asset.

00:11:22.500 John Harwood, the reporter at CNBC, who even among mainstream media reporters is remarkably partisan.

00:11:30.660 He was so bad, he got NBC fired from hosting Republican debates in 2016 because he's just – he can't resist letting his partisan bias come out.

00:11:42.060 He sat down on Twitter and said, well, now Cruz is just a mouthpiece for Russian propaganda. 0.98

00:11:46.680 No, it's ridiculous.

00:11:47.540 This is – I've been proudly against Russia, and I know you have been, at least in my case, since 1964. 0.98

00:11:53.500 So please stop with this nonsense.

00:11:56.580 Let me ask you this.

00:11:57.720 Well, in my office, there is a 15-foot-wide painting of Ronald Reagan standing before the Brandenburg Gate and uttering the most important words of this last century, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

00:12:13.400 I mean, go back to the Obama-Mitt Romney debate.

00:12:16.480 I know. I know.

00:12:17.360 Where Romney was rightly pointing out the dangers of Putin and Russia, and Obama looked at him and said, Mitt, the 1980s call.

00:12:24.580 They want their foreign policy back.

00:12:26.740 The Dems are apologists for Russia, but they've taken it on as convenient.

00:12:31.960 And listen, the fact that they get so hysterical is revealing.

00:12:35.360 It tells you something.

00:12:36.060 It shows how scared they are.

00:12:40.020 They don't have any evidence.

00:12:42.440 And what they're going to do next week, which is vote to impeach, they decided they wanted to do in November of 2016.

00:12:51.860 So it's unrelated to any facts.

00:12:53.520 It's not related to evidence.

00:12:54.520 So, Ted, I've got less than a minute here with you, and I just want to ask you, because you started the conversation off with, we're going to throw this out in the Senate.

00:13:02.460 Please tell me that you are going to hold an impeachment trial and expose all of this stuff in the Senate, won't you?

00:13:12.680 We will have a trial in the Senate.

00:13:14.860 Unlike the House, where there was no due process and no fairness, I believe the Senate will be much more fair.

00:13:20.220 We'll allow both sides to present the case.

00:13:22.120 So the House managers can present their arguments, but we're going to allow the White House and the president to present their defense.

00:13:27.420 I believe that means if the president wants to call witnesses, the president should be able to call witnesses.

00:13:32.180 If the president wants to call Hunter Biden or the whistleblower, whomever the president wants to call, we should allow both sides to present their case.

00:13:39.880 And then on the facts, this is going to be thrown out because the Democrats have not – they're abusing the Constitution.

00:13:47.840 Not only have they not proven an impeachable offense, they know it, and they're just abusing the Constitution for partisan ends.

00:13:54.300 Great to talk to you, Ted.

00:13:55.220 Thank you so much.

00:13:55.940 Senator Ted Cruz, you can follow him at cruz.senate.gov.

00:14:00.800 Thank you for clearing that last one out.

00:14:05.100 I was afraid they were going to throw it out.

00:14:06.680 I'm glad to hear that Ted is saying they're going to have a trial, and they should call the whistleblower and Chalupa and everyone else involved because I think it destroys the DNC.

00:14:20.400 Hey, it's Glenn, and you're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:14:42.020 All right, the articles of impeachment have been filed, and here they are.

00:14:46.120 Abuse of power.

00:14:48.200 The president using the powers of his office for personal gain, ignoring the national interest, which is based on your opinion.

00:14:59.220 If you believe the president didn't want to know anything except Joe Biden, didn't care about where our $8 billion went, didn't care about the throwing of the election in 2016 and the actual collusion with the Democratic Party.

00:15:20.140 If you think that was all personal, if you think that he was only going after Joe Biden because he was a candidate and it had nothing to do with making sure that the vice president wasn't enriching his family at our expense, go ahead.

00:15:39.560 Try to prove that.

00:15:40.660 I don't know how you're going to, but try to prove that.

00:15:43.000 Pat Gray joins us along with Stu Bergeer, our executive producer.

00:15:46.160 The second one is obstruction of Congress, not obstruction of justice, but obstruction of Congress.

00:15:53.320 This one is truly laughable because the president can obstruct Congress.

00:15:59.880 They're an equal branch, an equal and separate branch.

00:16:05.100 So the Congress cannot tell the president what to do, and the president cannot tell Congress what to do.

00:16:11.280 They can try, and they've tried over and over again for the last 200 plus years, but the Supreme Court has decided over and over and over again, it is absolutely the president's right to not allow people to testify or turn over records.

00:16:28.440 David French wrote about this, and he's exactly what you outlined.

00:16:32.000 Both parties have asserted this immunity for generations.

00:16:34.060 Listen to this, for nearly a half century, the Office of Legal Counsel, the Department of Justice has consistently opined that, quote, the president and his immediate advisors are absolutely immune from testimonial compulsion by a congressional committee on matters related to their official duties.

00:16:48.720 OLC has reaffirmed this position more than a dozen times over the course of the last nine administrations of both political parties.

00:16:55.600 William Rehnquist, when he was assistant attorney general, did this in 1971.

00:17:01.880 He said, the president and his immediate advisors, that is, those who customarily meet with the president on a regular or frequent basis, should be deemed absolutely immune from testimonial compulsion by a congressional committee.

00:17:14.140 They not only may not be examined with respect to their official duties, but they may not even be compelled to appear before a congressional committee.

00:17:21.400 This opinion was reaffirmed by the Clinton administration in 1996 and by the Obama administration in 2014.

00:17:29.860 As the Obama DOJ explained, this asserted immunity is rooted in the constitutional separation of powers and in the immunity of the president himself from congressional compulsion to testify.

00:17:39.960 Since the president is the head of one of the independent branches of the federal government, if Congress could force the president or one of his immediate advisors to testify,

00:17:47.360 then the president's independence and autonomy from Congress would be threatened.

00:17:51.400 And that is as open and shut a case as you can possibly imagine.

00:17:56.000 There is no grounds to impeach the president on obstruction of Congress.

00:18:00.600 It's their job to do an investigation if they want to do one, but they don't have, they can't force people associated closely with the president to come and testify.

00:18:08.240 That's just not how it works.

00:18:09.540 If you want to do that, you can go to the Supreme Court and you can have them rule on it and individual cases.

00:18:16.680 Is this outside of their everyday duties?

00:18:18.580 There are some ways you can get around those things, but the court has to rule on them.

00:18:23.020 Several of these witnesses that have been called have asked the court to rule on it.

00:18:27.320 And the Democratic Congress said, no, it's going to take too much time.

00:18:31.300 We got to get a Christmas break or whatever their argument is.

00:18:34.340 It is an open and shut case on that one.

00:18:36.320 It's an embarrassment and it shows how weak their hand is that they would even try that as one of these articles of impeachment.

00:18:42.880 So I talked to Ted Cruz, you can hear him on the podcast later today, but I talked to Ted Cruz about an hour ago and he said, we are absolutely going to take this up and we have questions.

00:18:52.960 Now, there are three senators that are starting to put together a probe and a witness list.

00:19:03.520 And the first two on their witness list, Chalupa, the woman who was at really, I think, the head of the DNC collusion with the Ukrainians and Andrei Teloshenko, who worked first for the prosecutor's office, then was transferred and worked for the embassy here in the United States for the Ukrainians.

00:19:28.260 And has details. We've talked to him on the program.

00:19:32.380 He has details and names and times and places of what Democrats were there and what they were doing with Chalupa and what was happening on this collusion to throw our 2016 election and throw Donald Trump under the bus.

00:19:46.140 Now, if the Democrats get their way and the Republicans do not truly open up everything and they don't investigate the whistleblower, the collusion with the Democrats, if we don't uncover all of this and come with an answer, a satisfying answer, the Republic is deeply, deeply hurt.

00:20:15.440 Now, I want to, you know, they like to talk about the Constitution and their and their constitutional duty here in Congress right now.

00:20:26.360 But what does the Constitution say that there are three jobs in the preamble?

00:20:32.120 What are the three jobs, Pat, of the of of the government?

00:20:37.520 Common defense. Provide for the common defense.

00:20:40.940 Promote. Promote the general welfare and.

00:20:44.780 And. And.

00:20:47.280 No, no, no, no.

00:20:48.120 No.

00:20:49.520 Fixing up the declaration with the preamble.

00:20:52.880 And.

00:20:53.380 Promote the general welfare.

00:20:54.560 Provide for the common defense.

00:20:56.080 Promote the general welfare.

00:20:57.900 And.

00:20:58.560 Geez, now I forgot it.

00:21:00.120 And.

00:21:03.040 Promote domestic tranquility.

00:21:05.460 OK.

00:21:06.860 Providing for the common.

00:21:07.760 So hard to remember trying tranquility because we haven't seen it in so long.

00:21:11.000 Are they providing for the common defense?

00:21:14.240 Yeah.

00:21:16.480 Yeah.

00:21:16.920 I mean, I think I think some of the things like civil society 2.0 and the State Department is is hurting that.

00:21:23.380 But they are providing for common defense.

00:21:25.420 OK.

00:21:25.600 We have the Air Force and the Navy and everything else.

00:21:28.840 Are they promoting the general welfare?

00:21:31.340 No.

00:21:31.860 I don't think so either.

00:21:33.060 Look at what the headlines are in the UK.

00:21:37.360 Nationalized health care is falling apart.

00:21:39.600 The big story is the kid that was sleeping on a pillow out in a hallway because there was no there were no beds in the hospital for him.

00:21:47.620 It's completely falling apart over there.

00:21:50.620 So, you know, promoting the general welfare?

00:21:54.180 No.

00:21:55.340 And promoting domestic tranquility.

00:21:58.600 We all know that's the exact opposite.

00:22:01.180 The exact opposite.

00:22:02.480 I'm going to put everybody in that boat.

00:22:04.960 I'll put everybody in that boat, knowing that some are are not shouldn't be in that boat.

00:22:10.040 But let's all look at our own parties and say, are you promoting domestic tranquility?

00:22:16.020 Now, how do you do that?

00:22:18.640 You do that by pretty much doing the opposite of what everything in Washington is happening right now and in the media.

00:22:26.780 And that is look for truth.

00:22:30.100 Domestic tranquility is all screwed up when you don't know what the truth is anymore.

00:22:36.060 When there is no absolute truth, when there is no arbiter of truth and justice and fairness.

00:22:42.780 When it is all in question, there is no domestic tranquility.

00:22:48.600 Now, I want to take you not just to what has happened and these these two unbelievable charges that anybody in the media who is telling you, well, this is a pretty serious charges.

00:23:01.680 They're lying to you.

00:23:03.820 They are absolutely lying to you.

00:23:06.580 They are disappointed to the core because there's nothing to these charges.

00:23:13.880 Now, let's go over the IG report that also came out yesterday.

00:23:19.260 So the IG report came out and said that the Russia investigation began as justified and unbiased.

00:23:27.980 But then something happened along the way.

00:23:32.100 Steele, the DNC, FISA, the FBI all went off the rails.

00:23:38.080 And they they put this 500 page report out and they are they said that there are 17 inaccuracies or errors that were made.

00:23:49.660 And when you hear some of these errors or inaccuracies, remember, we're talking about going to a FISA court.

00:23:57.720 This is a secret court.

00:23:59.760 This is so anti-constitutional. 0.82

00:24:03.900 It's sickening.

00:24:05.120 But this is a secret court.

00:24:07.360 And the FBI went, this should have the highest, highest standard for any kind of warrant.

00:24:19.360 So they go to this secret court and they go and they say, we have to know this stuff because this presidential candidate.

00:24:26.360 Looks like he's doing some really bad things.

00:24:32.660 OK, but let's remember, we're dealing with the the possible president of the United States.

00:24:39.260 We're asking the courts and the FBI to get involved in an election.

00:24:43.820 I am totally fine with somebody getting involved, the FBI and vetting.

00:24:49.940 If if Donald Trump would have been in bed with Russia, it would have been really bad and he should have been impeached if that were the case.

00:25:00.980 And I like the fact that the FBI will look into these people.

00:25:05.880 However, their omissions or their inaccuracies all amount to the FBI lying to the court.

00:25:15.960 And some of them are really, really bad.

00:25:19.020 For instance, they omitted information the FBI had obtained from another U.S. government agency detailing its prior relationship with Carter Page,

00:25:31.480 including that Page had been approved as an operational contact for another agency from 2008 to 2013,

00:25:40.940 and that Page had provided information to the other agency concerning his prior contacts with certain Russian intelligence officers,

00:25:48.180 one of which overlap with the facts asserted in the FISA application.

00:25:53.140 So in other words, the FBI came to the court and said, hey, we got this guy, he's talking to Russian agents and he's working for Donald Trump.

00:26:00.700 And we just we just we just really need to wiretap.

00:26:04.280 OK, well, is the guy you sure the guy's not working for us or any other agency?

00:26:08.960 No, not working for any other agency.

00:26:11.920 Well, that's not true.

00:26:13.760 Are you sure he hasn't said anything about working with these people for us?

00:26:20.000 Has he ever reported any of that?

00:26:22.160 No, he hasn't done that.

00:26:23.300 Well, they knew that he did.

00:26:27.180 Now, is that just an inaccuracy or is that a lie?

00:26:31.940 Well, one of those you can say is an inaccuracy.

00:26:36.680 But wait until you hear the 16 others.

00:26:41.200 In the one conversation with the courts.

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00:27:21.440 So the impeachment articles have been filed today.

00:27:24.620 Abuse of power because the president went for personal gain against the national interests.

00:27:32.640 No way you can prove that.

00:27:34.840 No way you can prove that.

00:27:36.800 In fact, I think you make a strong case that all of it was for the national interest.

00:27:42.120 And I'll get into that a little bit tomorrow.

00:27:44.720 The second is obstruction of Congress.

00:27:47.400 Notice they don't say obstruction of justice.

00:27:49.420 They say obstruction of Congress because he didn't let people testify.

00:27:53.780 Well, neither did Congress.

00:27:56.320 But the reason why he held them back is because the president has a right to.

00:28:01.460 In fact, many of the witnesses said, look, I have one branch of government tell me to testify.

00:28:08.040 Another branch of government tell me not to.

00:28:10.620 If Congress wants me to testify, they got to bring it to the court.

00:28:13.980 If the court tells me a third branch that I have to testify or not, then I'll do it.

00:28:18.820 But they didn't do that because the courts have been very, very, very clear.

00:28:23.520 When it comes to one branch over the other, they have the right to say no, unless the third branch gets involved and says yes.

00:28:34.320 And it's been decided in our courts over and over and over again with the language along the lines of clear rights.

00:28:44.560 So they're not going to be able to prove corruption or what was it, obstruction of Congress.

00:28:54.960 Now, you want to talk about the national interests.

00:29:00.800 You want to find out if the national interests are there and if anyone has abused power.

00:29:07.580 Tonight at five o'clock, I'm going to show you how the Congress has abused their power in unbelievable ways.

00:29:17.580 And nobody seems to care.

00:29:20.360 But that's all going to change as soon as it goes into the Senate.

00:29:24.760 Now, Mark Levin, who is, you know, co-founder of the Blaze with me, Blaze Media, is on this like white on rice.

00:29:36.280 Oh, my gosh. Is that racist?

00:29:38.320 I mean, that is why white rice and not brown rice.

00:29:41.320 Thank you very much.

00:29:42.740 It's just like white and brown on on rice.

00:29:46.640 It's just like that.

00:29:48.080 He's been all over this.

00:29:49.580 I want to give you a little piece of what he said about what's really happening in this impeachment and what it's really all about.

00:29:57.820 Listen to this.

00:29:59.060 No president in American history has ever been treated like this, let alone a president who's facing impeachment.

00:30:06.280 No federal judge, all 18 of them, that faced impeachment, they weren't all found guilty, but 18 of them, have ever been treated like this.

00:30:14.760 This is the most grotesque abuse of power by the House of Representatives under the control of the Democrats we've ever seen,

00:30:23.160 because it is a silent coup, the purpose of which is to remove a duly elected president and disenfranchise the almost 63 million people who voted for him.

00:30:32.800 The reason the Republicans are all united, all united from all parts of the country, some more conservative than others in the House, they're all united.

00:30:42.780 Not because every single one of them loves the president, but every single one of them is absolutely flabbergasted by what's taking place in this phony House of Representatives.

00:30:55.360 This is Mark Levin from his Blaze TV show.

00:30:59.860 He is very clear.

00:31:01.020 I hope to have him on today at 5 o'clock if we can make our schedules match.

00:31:06.300 He'll be on, and I really want to hear him on these two articles of impeachment.

00:31:11.800 I mean, he's a constitutional scholar, and I think these two are absolutely laughable. 0.99

00:31:18.780 The second one is complete garbage. 1.00

00:31:20.460 Garbage. 1.00

00:31:21.020 Garbage. 0.99

00:31:21.960 The first one, I mean, I don't believe, and I would not have hoped for it, but I mean, at least you can, the abuse of power has been a commonly constructed idea in the past. 0.88

00:31:31.580 But I like your analysis of this, and I like Mark's analysis of this.

00:31:35.180 I just wish I could get them in one place, maybe under one particular subscription.

00:31:39.540 No, impossible.

00:31:40.620 Yeah, I know.

00:31:41.080 I'm not saying it's possible.

00:31:41.980 I'm just wishing.

00:31:43.000 It would take a group.

00:31:43.840 It's near Christmas.

00:31:44.280 It would take a group of people, like, I mean, it would be great to have, like, Dave Rubin.

00:31:47.360 Oh, yeah.

00:31:47.860 Right?

00:31:48.300 Yeah, sure.

00:31:48.560 Steven Crowder.

00:31:49.480 Yeah.

00:31:49.760 All these people.

00:31:50.320 You know, get it, like, 40 people together. 0.98

00:31:52.300 Now you're getting ridiculous. 0.71

00:31:53.140 I'm just saying you and Mark would be great. 0.99

00:31:54.940 You couldn't get those egos to do it.

00:31:57.120 I mean, my ego to share a space with somebody like, no way. 0.99

00:32:01.760 You're terrible.

00:32:02.000 I never do that. 1.00

00:32:03.140 In every way, you're terrible.

00:32:04.320 Unless you went to blazetv.com and subscribed for blazetv.com.

00:32:09.500 Yeah.

00:32:09.720 Now I don't want to spend the whole thing.

00:32:10.820 I'd rather save $10.

00:32:11.960 What would I do then?

00:32:12.600 Well, you'd have to use the promo code Glenn.

00:32:14.700 Yeah.

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00:32:26.880 We're really excited about what we have to offer you at blazetv.com.

00:32:32.480 All right.

00:32:34.840 So what haven't we covered today?

00:32:37.360 So we've gone through the entire IG report and given you pretty much every single one

00:32:42.080 of the major errors, quote-unquote errors.

00:32:44.860 I love this.

00:32:45.380 Yesterday, I was reading the New York Times story about this, and they're going through

00:32:48.340 the inaccuracies.

00:32:50.860 The inaccuracies.

00:32:51.420 This one they called an error.

00:32:53.060 And I want to understand how this is an error.

00:32:55.660 It was an email that a, quote-unquote, low-level staffer edited the email to take out things

00:33:03.120 that did not agree with their FISA application.

00:33:06.520 This error was then replicated on multiple...

00:33:08.780 This act didn't just, like, change a comma.

00:33:11.400 No, no.

00:33:12.100 Changed and printed and wrote in the reverse of the line.

00:33:18.560 That's not an error.

00:33:19.900 No.

00:33:20.240 Okay?

00:33:20.880 That is an intentional act.

00:33:22.920 The errors and intentional acts are not the same thing.

00:33:26.440 Like carry the one.

00:33:27.580 I forgot to carry the one.

00:33:28.520 I forgot.

00:33:29.500 It was a mistake.

00:33:30.640 I was trying to do something right, and instead I made a mistake, and it was wrong.

00:33:36.200 That's an error.

00:33:37.160 This is, I was trying to do something wrong, and succeeded.

00:33:40.600 That's not an error.

00:33:41.620 This is like the Keystone Cops.

00:33:43.200 You know what we should do?

00:33:44.020 We should just take all of the footage of Mueller, his team, Congress, and the hearings,

00:33:49.940 and just speed it up so it looks, and put it in black and white so it looks like those

00:33:54.400 old Keystone Cop movies.

00:33:56.560 Because that's really what you have to believe.

00:33:58.820 That this government is so inept that they would make these, what is it, 17 or 19, 0.63

00:34:05.620 inaccuracies, which all go one way. 0.93

00:34:10.440 I mean, it's one thing to say they're making errors, and they're making errors.

00:34:13.380 If it cut both ways, it's an error.

00:34:17.260 If you have 19, quote, mistakes, and one of them goes for this way, one of them goes the

00:34:24.180 other way, but 19 mistakes that all happen to favor one side, that's statistically impossible.

00:34:34.560 It does seem to be that way.

00:34:36.100 It is.

00:34:36.900 A couple of other things from this report.

00:34:38.400 One being, the dossier was central, according to the IG, was central to how they acquired

00:34:45.640 these FISA warrants, which is a big deal. 0.97

00:34:48.200 And the dossier was shown to be really the piece of crap that we kind of all thought it 0.73

00:34:53.460 was, in that they went to try to actually figure out how many of these things were true. 0.89

00:34:57.520 The only things that were true in there were publicly available information, which is 0.90

00:35:01.960 embarrassingly pathetic.

00:35:03.480 I mean, if you can't get, none of the things that came to this report. 0.99

00:35:08.080 The golden shower?

00:35:08.880 No.

00:35:09.400 They were not able to confirm that one.

00:35:10.580 Huh.

00:35:10.900 In fact, they had witnesses, not witnesses of that because it didn't happen, but people

00:35:15.400 who were in places to know and actually said, no, actually, that's the opposite of what

00:35:20.380 happened.

00:35:20.760 That didn't happen.

00:35:21.600 Right.

00:35:21.880 So that's a big, that's kind of a big deal.

00:35:23.900 And it also shows, like, would anyone, for any reason, hire Christopher Steele for anything

00:35:29.240 after this?

00:35:30.260 I mean, he was trying, he was charging a fortune to get high-level information from sources

00:35:36.720 around the world and came up with literally nothing except for publicly available information.

00:35:42.560 I mean, Fusion GPS got really ripped off.

00:35:45.280 Well, I guess the DNC got ripped off at the end of it.

00:35:48.360 I mean, now it comes to this, right?

00:35:50.860 They've got an impeachment potentially out of it.

00:35:53.240 So it is central.

00:35:54.940 But he didn't do anything, right?

00:35:56.660 Like, he pushed an agenda, but he didn't actually get them any information. 0.99

00:36:00.160 And that's pretty pathetic. 0.81

00:36:01.620 No, they have the information that the DNC got from Fusion GPS, the information they 0.97

00:36:08.700 had, if you had a decent press who would say, we're going to, even if it was exposed, because

00:36:17.060 what was it?

00:36:18.060 What was the website that just exposed it and just published it?

00:36:23.780 And then CNN, yeah, BuzzFeed.

00:36:25.640 And so CNN said, we have to, okay, so what you do is you say, these charges are out.

00:36:31.000 We're going to let you know what these charges are, but we're not going to discuss this.

00:36:34.520 We're doing our own investigation into this report, how this report came to be.

00:36:39.660 And we're going to try to corroborate any of these things.

00:36:43.580 They didn't do that.

00:36:44.840 They didn't do that.

00:36:45.900 So the DNC got what they wanted.

00:36:49.660 The other one that they were working on was in Ukraine.

00:36:53.320 They wanted to bring down Paul Manafort.

00:36:56.300 And I'm telling you, there's one thing I can't put my finger on, but I'm telling you, Tony

00:37:00.760 Podesta is involved in this.

00:37:04.380 He, I think, has done the same things that Paul Manafort did.

00:37:08.760 And because I cannot explain why the day that Paul Manafort thing breaks, he closes up shop.

00:37:16.200 One of the most important lobbyists in Washington, D.C., he turns the lights off, fires everybody

00:37:24.240 and says, this is our last day.

00:37:25.700 Goodbye.

00:37:26.140 Oh, man.

00:37:26.640 And that was really weird.

00:37:27.760 I mean, it was reminiscent of like, you've got a dictator in control of a country and they

00:37:32.720 come to you and they say, hey, people with torches are walking this way.

00:37:35.980 There is a plane on that tarmac.

00:37:38.260 You will never return to this country. 0.99

00:37:39.800 Do you want to get in it?

00:37:41.000 It's that type of scenario.

00:37:42.940 It was so weird.

00:37:44.240 He just, all of a sudden, he just abandons ship, leaves behind this incredible business

00:37:49.240 and no one ever asked another question about it.

00:37:51.940 So how does that happen with Tony Podesta?

00:37:54.940 Why?

00:37:55.480 At the same time, when he's doing the same job that Manafort is doing.

00:38:00.600 Okay.

00:38:01.180 With a lot of the same people.

00:38:02.060 With the same people.

00:38:03.200 Ones get paid, the other doesn't.

00:38:06.520 Very, very strange.

00:38:07.780 Really, really weird.

00:38:09.280 But what did they get?

00:38:10.660 They got the same thing as the Steele report.

00:38:13.360 They get a report that is so badly put together and so obviously not real that when they go

00:38:22.560 to court, the FBI doesn't even use it.

00:38:26.840 Doesn't even enter into evidence.

00:38:28.000 The Justice Department told the DNC, all we need is another reason.

00:38:34.720 If you just give us any reason, it doesn't have to be true, just has to be something that

00:38:39.440 gives us reason to open this up because we blew another case.

00:38:42.960 But we could take it again if you give us a reason to open it.

00:38:46.900 And so they did.

00:38:47.900 But it was such a bad reason that they didn't even use it in court.

00:38:52.480 And one last, I think, important takeaway from this, the big headline for the mainstream

00:38:58.340 media is that they found no political bias in this report.

00:39:01.800 That is not, however, the truth.

00:39:04.060 What they found was, what they said was, we found no political bias at the beginnings

00:39:10.280 of this report.

00:39:10.880 It's not started because of political bias.

00:39:12.700 However, what they said is documentary evidence of political bias.

00:39:16.880 They could not find that, which is, in other words, me saying, like, if I text you, Glenn,

00:39:20.040 and I say, hey, we got to start a movement to take Trump out, anything at our disposal,

00:39:25.300 go for it.

00:39:26.220 Right?

00:39:26.480 Like, that is something that you would do.

00:39:28.580 And it sometimes does happen in these investigations.

00:39:30.420 They actually catch people saying it that overtly.

00:39:33.060 They didn't catch them doing that here.

00:39:35.100 But there's something that happened where this investigation started.

00:39:39.060 Some of it was for legitimate reasons.

00:39:41.380 And some of it was for legitimate beliefs.

00:39:43.520 But went political, or at least followed the exact path it would have taken if it was

00:39:48.520 political bias.

00:39:49.360 It's hard to imagine it was something else.

00:39:50.960 Let me just give you this one line.

00:39:53.160 Remember, the media is telling you that they found no political bias.

00:39:56.540 Steele's handling agent told us that when Steele provided him with the first election

00:40:00.980 reports in July 2016, and described his engagement with Fusion GPS, it was obvious to the agent

00:40:09.300 that the request for the research was politically motivated.

00:40:15.400 Okay.

00:40:16.140 And they went along with it anyway.

00:40:17.180 They went along with it anyway.

00:40:18.240 And didn't tell FISA, the FISA court, that very fact.

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The Glenn Beck Program - December 10, 2019

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