The Glenn Beck Program - January 27, 2020


Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Steve Deace ｜ 1⧸27⧸20


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46 minutes

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633

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Steve Dacey breaks down the tragic crash of a private helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and his family to a youth basketball tournament in Calabasas, California. He also talks about the impeachment of Donald Trump and why it's important to pay attention to it.

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00:01:15.620 Great show today.
00:01:16.580 We've got Steve Dace, who gives us a great breakdown of Iowa.
00:01:20.500 We have talked about Kobe Bryant.
00:01:22.880 Also, the impeachment.
00:01:25.140 It's important for, I think, conservatives to be paying attention to the impeachment.
00:01:30.140 This is the first time you've heard the president's defense.
00:01:32.260 And I'm a guy who has been following it.
00:01:35.500 And on Saturday, I was amazed at how much I didn't know.
00:01:40.440 It's really, really critical that we pay attention.
00:01:43.460 We'll recap it for you on my TV show, available at Blaze TV.
00:01:48.220 We do that at 5 o'clock every day.
00:01:50.360 We'll be doing that until the impeachment ends.
00:01:52.160 And also on radio.
00:01:54.420 But here is today's podcast.
00:02:06.740 So in Calabasas, California, yesterday, Kobe Bryant was going to the Staples Center to...
00:02:20.380 No?
00:02:20.660 No, he's going.
00:02:21.580 He's going to his facility where he was hosting a youth basketball tournament his kid was playing in.
00:02:31.580 And already there.
00:02:32.780 What's that?
00:02:33.580 And already there, or was that the daughter?
00:02:36.000 The daughter was going to be playing in the game. 0.67
00:02:39.120 Yeah, very talented basketball player in her own right. 0.97
00:02:42.400 And he routinely took, you know, a helicopter to do this travel because of the traffic so bad there.
00:02:52.160 They had problems with really thick fog and circled, you know, for a very long time.
00:02:58.680 And, you know, there's all sorts of complications.
00:03:00.520 And, you know, obviously, as everybody knows at this point, the helicopter crashes.
00:03:05.520 Nine people total are killed in the crash.
00:03:08.640 And, you know, outpouring of real reverence and, you know, sadness for, you know, a guy who was really one of the all-time great players.
00:03:18.520 I mean, he is, you know, top five to top ten player of all time.
00:03:22.260 If I was, you know, I'm not in the majority on this, but if I'm starting a team and I'm going to get their primes, I'm picking Colby Bryant over LeBron James.
00:03:30.940 Well.
00:03:31.740 Without a doubt.
00:03:32.940 Well, you don't like LeBron James.
00:03:34.960 But, again, if I'm playing, if I'm starting a team, the liking aspect is not necessarily the most important thing.
00:03:40.600 It's the play.
00:03:41.000 I don't know if you can put your hatred for him aside.
00:03:43.140 You hate him so much.
00:03:44.260 I do hate him.
00:03:45.800 But that's not the real.
00:03:47.280 He's not.
00:03:48.000 Yeah, I know, I know.
00:03:48.260 Bryant is an incredible player.
00:03:52.120 And, you know, that is obviously secondary to what's actually happening here.
00:03:57.460 And everybody's heard all the, you know, it's been 24 hours now and that's 9,000 news cycles in this world.
00:04:03.620 So, I mean, everyone's heard all of this.
00:04:05.700 It is a really sad thing.
00:04:06.940 There's some amazing sort of sidebars going on with that story, though, where I find it fascinating to look back at.
00:04:15.000 For example, there's a reporter at The Washington Post.
00:04:17.440 Hey, before we go into that, was this, this was his private helicopter, right?
00:04:23.720 Who were the pilots?
00:04:25.520 You don't fly in that kind of, this was, this fog was so thick.
00:04:30.740 Yeah.
00:04:31.000 They said that in Calabasas, they don't see fog like that.
00:04:34.300 A lot of people had not seen it as thick like that in Calabasas for a while.
00:04:38.180 And, you know, any helicopter pilot would know you don't fly in fog.
00:04:45.660 Well, we'll know, we'll know this, I guess, going forward.
00:04:48.160 They hit a couple really bad patches of it.
00:04:50.140 And at times they thought they were going to be able to circle and then wait for it to clear and then make it past the fog once it cleared.
00:04:57.280 I know that they were saying that the police and rescue workers weren't even allowing their helicopters to go take off to go check it out because that fog was that bad.
00:05:07.980 But, you know, who knows?
00:05:09.800 I mean, we'll, I assume at some point we'll have the investigation and we'll know.
00:05:13.800 I mean, you know, we've seen this with people who are powerful before where you say like, no, we got it.
00:05:21.220 Come on.
00:05:21.640 You've flown that.
00:05:22.480 You've been in a helicopter 10,000 times.
00:05:24.360 Nothing ever happens.
00:05:25.760 You know, it's every.
00:05:26.740 But anybody who has a respect for a helicopter, anybody who flies in a helicopter should know you're, you are, you know, it's different than a plane.
00:05:35.000 Remember, JFK Jr. was killed in fog in his plane because your body doesn't understand.
00:05:41.480 You can be upside down and it doesn't.
00:05:43.660 I mean, so you have no bearings at all in fog in a helicopter.
00:05:49.600 Yeah.
00:05:50.180 I mean, who knows?
00:05:51.400 But the idea that they took a chance and maybe thought they were going to be fine and probably had tried it five other times and were fine.
00:06:00.020 That stuff does happen.
00:06:02.020 You know, it's just, it's unbelievable though, especially because he has, he had really kind of cleared out a lot of, you know, people knew him as so competitive.
00:06:10.880 They worried whether he'd be able to have a normal life afterwards where you're going and you're doing these other things.
00:06:16.360 How do you survive when you're that competitive and you lose the thing that you're so involved in?
00:06:21.400 And he had seemingly really figured it out.
00:06:24.700 Like he was, yeah, seemed to be a great father by all reports.
00:06:29.080 He had won a, was it an Oscar or what was it?
00:06:32.980 Over a short film that he had done.
00:06:35.040 He had built a, you know, all sorts of businesses and such when it relates to basketball with his camps and tournaments and all these things.
00:06:42.880 And seemed to really be doing a good job with all of this.
00:06:47.460 And then this happens.
00:06:48.400 It's just, it is unbelievable when you have someone that good, that's that well known and really, really treated almost like a God in LA.
00:06:58.900 And then, okay, so there's where I want to go to the Washington Post and to MSNBC.
00:07:04.060 This guy was not a good guy, at least at one point in his life.
00:07:08.200 I mean, the rape allegation is brutal.
00:07:12.960 And we're going to have to suspend you for bringing that up, Glenn.
00:07:15.120 I'm sorry.
00:07:15.820 Yeah.
00:07:16.040 Glenn has been suspended.
00:07:17.240 Yeah.
00:07:17.820 Because that's what happened to the Washington Post.
00:07:19.340 Can I go home now?
00:07:20.160 Yeah.
00:07:21.580 You're not supposed to say yes.
00:07:22.860 I'm the one that's like, okay.
00:07:26.000 Yeah.
00:07:26.560 Washington Post reporter tweeted an article from, I think it was 2016.
00:07:31.720 And it was basically the outlining of the actual evidence that was presented in the case against Kobe Bryant when it came to his assault in Colorado, or at least alleged assault.
00:07:41.980 And it goes through a lot of it.
00:07:44.120 It was not pleasant.
00:07:45.060 It was not a fun read.
00:07:47.940 No.
00:07:48.360 And she got suspended because she tweeted it a few hours after the crash goes down.
00:07:52.700 Everyone's in, you know, reverence mode, and you're not supposed to do that, which I think is probably a good piece of advice as far as timing.
00:08:01.180 Yeah.
00:08:01.400 I mean, it was on my desk this morning.
00:08:04.120 And before I read about the Washington Post reporter, I started reading the article, and I was like, whoa.
00:08:12.400 I mean, who is running this today?
00:08:15.180 Yeah.
00:08:15.680 You know, it's insensitive.
00:08:18.320 It's not the best thing to do on day number one, but you're suspended for it?
00:08:24.060 Yeah.
00:08:24.500 I think that's very strange.
00:08:25.920 You know, again, reporter in the Me Too era, right?
00:08:31.520 A woman, female reporter, reporting, you know, setting this out and saying, like, look, hey, let's basically, what's the point there?
00:08:38.020 Let's not remember this person only because he was a great basketball player.
00:08:41.600 There was some really dark stuff that went on, and here it is.
00:08:44.380 Look, is it the right time to do that a minute after?
00:08:46.600 No, but we're so used to that.
00:08:48.700 I mean, you know, people like Ronald Reagan die, and 10 seconds later, they're just trashing him all over the internet.
00:08:55.360 But you can't do that, apparently, to Kobe Bryant.
00:08:57.100 Now, look, I think Bryant, you know, he seemingly had turned his life around from that time, and that was 2003.
00:09:06.380 It was quite a long time ago.
00:09:09.520 It's just what I find really fascinating about this, and tell me if you think I'm wrong on this.
00:09:14.260 He has this accusation of rape against a 19-year-old who was working at the hotel.
00:09:20.520 And he comes out, and they have all this evidence that goes on, and it's pretty dark.
00:09:29.000 I mean, you know, at the very least, he cheated on his wife, which he admitted.
00:09:33.160 He admitted he was doing bad things.
00:09:35.540 It cost him a pretty penny.
00:09:39.580 Pennies actually weren't involved.
00:09:41.080 It's funny because that's exactly what the story basically starts as the Kobe Bryant rape case has, in the annals of popular culture,
00:09:46.860 been reduced to something of a punchline due to the aftermath.
00:09:49.200 Namely, the Bryant's $4,008,000,000 purple diamond apology ring that he gifted to his wife, Vanessa,
00:09:55.700 who's still, you know, still, they're still married, and they have four kids, I believe, together.
00:10:01.380 And she was not on the helicopter, thankfully.
00:10:04.080 But, you know, they go through all this evidence, and basically what happens in the case is it gets up to the point where the story,
00:10:10.880 the criminal case is about to begin.
00:10:13.060 And right before that, she tells the investigators and everybody, I'm not going to testify.
00:10:21.320 So because of that, the case gets dropped.
00:10:24.200 Now, a part of this is apparently a deal between Kobe and the accuser that says,
00:10:29.740 look, we're, we won't, if you don't testify in this case, which she doesn't, we will put out an apology.
00:10:39.540 Which she did.
00:10:40.320 Which she did.
00:10:41.500 And we will not abandon the civil case.
00:10:47.260 We're not going to try to, that's still going to go on as normal.
00:10:49.880 Because he was facing life in prison.
00:10:52.880 Yeah, I mean, it was charged with sexual assault and rape, right?
00:10:55.760 So, yeah.
00:10:56.320 And forced imprisonment, I think, as well.
00:11:02.400 Yeah, I mean, it was, yes, it was.
00:11:04.120 It was not good.
00:11:04.440 It was not good.
00:11:05.220 So she eventually goes and gets this, decides not to testify, and he releases an apology.
00:11:10.780 And the apology, in effect, says, I believe that this was consensual.
00:11:16.940 However, after looking at her words, hearing from her, going through all the evidence,
00:11:23.740 I truly believe that she did not believe it was consensual.
00:11:27.980 So not, I'm not questioning her account.
00:11:31.920 I'm not saying she's a bad person.
00:11:33.840 Because, I mean, that was what was going to happen in the trial, right?
00:11:36.300 They were going to come on and say she's had sex with all these people, and she's a bad person, 1.00
00:11:39.300 and, like, she can't trust her.
00:11:40.460 And she didn't want to go through that.
00:11:42.080 And he didn't want to go through that.
00:11:43.660 So he says, yes, I thought it was consensual.
00:11:47.920 But, yes, I believe she did not, right?
00:11:51.520 That is Me Too 101.
00:11:54.520 If that happens, this story happens in 2020, there is no 81-point game.
00:11:59.580 There is no MVP season.
00:12:01.300 There is no reverence tour.
00:12:03.320 There is no I'm going to retire next year.
00:12:06.720 There is no gold medal.
00:12:07.660 There is no second run of championships.
00:12:09.080 All of these things that he's being revered for today, this guy's thrown out of the league when this happens.
00:12:15.560 Because there is no disagreement about how this could have gone down.
00:12:20.160 There is no believing him.
00:12:23.260 This basketball player going to believe this massive basketball player and this tiny little woman. 0.94
00:12:29.020 We believe all women.
00:12:30.660 Everything they say can't be questioned.
00:12:32.400 All of these things that, I mean, if they'll believe the Brett Kavanaugh thing, I mean, Kobe Bryant would have been out of the league because of this.
00:12:42.360 And, look, if he did it, good, right?
00:12:45.220 He should be out of the league and he shouldn't have this reverence.
00:12:47.740 But this is a different world and they would have never given him this sort of nuance even available.
00:12:52.820 Let me give you two things.
00:12:53.740 First of all, there also would have been one other thing missing from the story today.
00:12:58.080 His 13-year-old daughter wouldn't have had his 13-year-old daughter, would have been in prison. 0.99
00:13:04.200 So she wouldn't have been lost.
00:13:07.380 But there's another way to look at this.
00:13:12.420 And it's controversial and highly unpopular.
00:13:22.800 But I think it's possible that it is true.
00:13:28.080 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:13:37.800 Hey, it's Glenn, and you're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.
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00:13:48.520 I want to tell you, my job is to tell you about good people, bad people, and dumb people.
00:13:55.340 And that is today's segment.
00:13:58.080 In that order.
00:13:59.680 Good people.
00:14:01.060 Bad people.
00:14:02.960 Dumb people.
00:14:04.820 Okay?
00:14:05.920 This comes for the good people.
00:14:08.140 This actually comes from New York City, which I...
00:14:11.280 We have all 12 of the good people in New York City right here.
00:14:15.160 They all happen to be at Delancey and Norfolk in the Lower East Side on Saturday.
00:14:22.940 A woman named Colby Drosser posted this video over the weekend, and it's pretty amazing.
00:14:31.800 She was about a block away, and she heard impact and screams.
00:14:36.440 And when you're in New York, you run towards the screams, not away from the screams.
00:14:41.900 That's the sign of a tourist.
00:14:45.180 Run from the screams.
00:14:47.220 And what she found, she got there, was this huge crowd around, and an SUV had hit a pedestrian and trapped her underneath the car.
00:15:00.660 Okay?
00:15:00.840 And she couldn't get out, and she was wedged there.
00:15:06.620 And so what did the New Yorkers do?
00:15:08.760 Remember, this is the good people section.
00:15:11.640 The good people of New York.
00:15:13.420 They didn't wait.
00:15:16.720 About 12 of them all got together and lifted the SUV and tilted it up, and a few others then dragged her out and set her free.
00:15:30.260 That's incredible.
00:15:31.120 It's nuts.
00:15:32.420 Because you would think that they would have, you know, for kicks, just rolled over her with another car.
00:15:38.940 Right.
00:15:39.100 Maybe, because I would assume that story with that beginning ends in the bad person or dumb people part of the segment.
00:15:48.980 But no, good people.
00:15:49.800 No, good people.
00:15:50.500 There you go.
00:15:50.940 Now, is the good person the person who hit the pedestrian?
00:15:53.900 No.
00:15:54.440 You didn't highlight that person.
00:15:55.580 No.
00:15:55.620 You're just ignoring that person.
00:15:56.660 I'm ignoring that person.
00:15:57.720 Who ran over her.
00:15:58.120 Could have been a mistake.
00:15:59.320 Could have been a mistake.
00:16:00.420 How many of us have dragged somebody, you know, a block and a half under our car before we realized?
00:16:06.700 Did you want to answer that for yourself?
00:16:08.320 Now we get to bad people.
00:16:16.140 Google took it off YouTube.
00:16:18.700 So I contacted Facebook.
00:16:22.020 Said bad person.
00:16:24.880 Bad person was referring to a heavily edited video posted on Facebook in 2019 that appears to show Nancy Pelosi slurring her words at a press conference.
00:16:36.060 Remember this?
00:16:36.920 Yes.
00:16:37.080 Bad person said, why are you guys keeping this up?
00:16:41.780 It's blatantly false.
00:16:43.900 She was talking about the Facebook decision to keep the video on the platform while suppressing its spread.
00:16:50.080 Your competitors have taken it down.
00:16:53.080 Bad person responded and continued saying.
00:16:56.780 Their response?
00:16:59.560 We think our users can make up their own minds.
00:17:02.560 Oh, my gosh.
00:17:03.280 The Pelosi video, which is also often called a cheap fake, was slowed down and designed to make Pelosi sound and look drunk.
00:17:11.520 YouTube removed the video, but Facebook and Twitter left it up.
00:17:14.560 Members of the media joined lawmakers shortly thereafter condemning Facebook for leaving up that video, which they said could alter the public's perception of Pelosi.
00:17:25.520 It's a huge worry.
00:17:27.800 Right, right.
00:17:29.860 Pundits cried foul after Facebook argued its adherence to free speech prevented the company from removing the video.
00:17:37.420 Bette Medler, Alyssa Milano, also bad people, but not the bad person we're talking about here.
00:17:43.560 And other several celebrities complained after Facebook executive Monica Bickert told CNN in May 2019 that the company determined dinging the video was the wrong move.
00:17:56.700 Bad person said for her part, the tech giant's endgame is much more sinister.
00:18:06.080 Facebook is not going to just re-elect Trump, but it intends to re-elect Trump, bad person told The Atlantic.
00:18:17.220 Oh, yeah.
00:18:17.880 I mean, Zuckerberg, huge Trump guy.
00:18:20.400 Right.
00:18:20.760 Right.
00:18:21.440 Right.
00:18:21.960 Who's with me on that?
00:18:22.880 Right.
00:18:22.920 So bad person continued to suggest that Zuckerberg's views on Facebook's role in society and American politics is Trumpian and authoritarian.
00:18:33.060 Bad person is not the only person to express concerns about Zuckerberg's supposed intentions.
00:18:40.680 Also, equally known bad person, billionaire financier George Soros and Elizabeth Warren also say that Facebook and Trump are in cahoots.
00:18:52.640 Clear.
00:18:54.140 Bad person said there's kind of an informal mutual assistance operation between Trump and Zuckerberg.
00:19:01.680 Mm-hmm.
00:19:02.400 Mm-hmm.
00:19:03.260 Yeah.
00:19:04.480 Bad person?
00:19:08.840 Hillary Clinton.
00:19:09.940 Ah, what a surprise.
00:19:11.560 What a surprise.
00:19:12.000 By the way, Glenn, I should point out, I did post a video about Nancy Pelosi myself this past weekend.
00:19:18.800 You did?
00:19:19.300 I didn't see it.
00:19:20.440 It was for a Nancy Pelosi commemorative pen.
00:19:22.780 If you remember when she signed the impeachment.
00:19:26.440 She did it with all these fancy pens with her signature on the side. 0.84
00:19:28.700 Right, right, right.
00:19:29.160 So we were like, it would be great to have a replica pen so that people could celebrate that moment.
00:19:34.240 Oh.
00:19:34.580 You know, it's really important.
00:19:35.560 They can remember what happened with the impeachment, this historic moment.
00:19:38.340 And we don't have the rights to the actual pen.
00:19:41.500 We had to slightly adjust it.
00:19:43.560 And that's why it has Nancy Pelosi. 1.00
00:19:45.820 Did you make it, did Goop make it, does it smell like her vagina? 1.00
00:19:48.480 It does not.
00:19:48.820 Thankfully, I didn't think of that detail before we made the commercial.
00:19:54.200 All right, I'm just saying, Gwyneth Paltrow and those candles.
00:19:56.560 I just thought maybe you were just.
00:19:59.700 The worst thing I've ever thought of in my life.
00:20:01.960 But thank you for.
00:20:02.820 You're welcome.
00:20:03.400 For that.
00:20:04.900 So we made this commercial for the pen.
00:20:07.320 And it said, just like Nancy Pelosi's signature, it's black with the gold signatures.
00:20:11.200 It's Nancy Pelosi.
00:20:11.920 That's nice.
00:20:12.100 We had to adjust it a little bit.
00:20:13.100 So it just says in the same font, Nancy Pelosi sucks.
00:20:15.800 No, I was worried about this exact same problem because people would say, that's not even a real thing.
00:20:23.700 You're putting up some fake Nancy Pelosi video and they might bring it down.
00:20:27.240 That's why we actually decided to make the pens and put them actually for sale.
00:20:31.520 So if you go to NancyPelosiSucksPen.com, you can buy the actual commemorative item.
00:20:41.500 I need one.
00:20:42.400 That says.
00:20:43.180 It's the black with the gold.
00:20:44.320 It looks just like it.
00:20:45.920 Except it says.
00:20:46.900 If you're a noted collector.
00:20:49.700 Yes.
00:20:50.000 You'll be able to tell the difference that it says Nancy Pelosi sucks instead of just Nancy Pelosi.
00:20:54.620 That's the only difference.
00:20:55.680 All right.
00:20:56.020 You can detect on here.
00:20:57.220 I love that.
00:20:59.420 NancyPelosiSucksPen.com.
00:21:00.540 Every single response is like, oh, this would be amazing if it's real.
00:21:03.760 I don't know why they allowed me to do it, but it's real.
00:21:08.280 NancyPelosiSucksPen.com.
00:21:09.160 Let me give you now dumb people. 0.58
00:21:18.980 A bank robber went in and was threatening the banking staff with a meat cleaver.
00:21:24.940 He actually left the branch with nearly $2,000.
00:21:31.960 He was arrested because he, well, he brought the meat cleaver in his disguise.
00:21:54.000 And then when he took the meat cleaver out, he put the disguise on.
00:22:00.000 And it doesn't stop there.
00:22:04.560 Not only did he walk into the bank not wearing the disguise, but carrying his disguise with a meat cleaver in it.
00:22:14.980 And then when he got to the teller, he took the meat cleaver out, and then he put on the disguise.
00:22:22.600 The disguise was a pillowcase.
00:22:25.000 Okay.
00:22:25.420 Okay.
00:22:26.340 Now here's the additional trouble with this.
00:22:33.760 He forgot to cut any eye holes in the pillowcase.
00:22:40.200 So he is in the bank talking to the teller with a pillowcase, and there's no way for him to see what's going on.
00:22:56.620 It didn't take police long to find him with the cash and the pillowcase with money that was consistent with the money from the bank.
00:23:16.980 Wow.
00:23:17.700 I love the way they worded that.
00:23:19.940 The money consistent with the money from the bank.
00:23:23.000 He's got a pillowcase, a meat cleaver.
00:23:25.140 You got him on picture.
00:23:26.700 I think he's probably the guy.
00:23:34.100 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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00:29:26.480 Steve Dace in Iowa.
00:29:28.400 Steve, you've lived in Iowa your whole life, right?
00:29:32.220 I was born here.
00:29:33.280 I've lived here most of my life, off and on.
00:29:35.740 I've lived all over the country.
00:29:36.740 Except for that prison, that time in prison?
00:29:40.380 Except we agreed we weren't going to discuss that.
00:29:42.400 Okay, I'm sorry.
00:29:43.200 Sorry, didn't mean to push it too far.
00:29:45.020 And how many years have you been involved in the Iowa caucus process?
00:29:50.140 Since 1996, when I was originally caucusing for Phil Graham.
00:29:58.460 So over 20 years.
00:29:59.860 Wow, Phil Graham, a blast from the past.
00:30:02.600 Okay, so tell me what is different this time.
00:30:07.780 Because it looks very volatile.
00:30:09.460 And this week, now Sanders in one poll is leading Biden by nine points.
00:30:17.540 What's happened is there's no establishment, whatever the Democratic establishment is.
00:30:25.860 And if you've been watching the fundraising in their party, where their candidates are raising ginormous amounts,
00:30:32.180 but no one is giving to the National Party after what it did in 2016,
00:30:36.960 we're not really sure what the Democratic establishment is anymore.
00:30:40.560 And I think that's why you're not seeing a whole bunch of people rush out to denounce Jeremy Corbyn.
00:30:45.000 I'm sorry, Bernie Sanders, the way they did Donald Trump on the right four years ago.
00:30:50.860 Because I think they're trying to figure out, hey, if we come out and denounce him, that's why we want Obama to do it.
00:30:56.140 His career is over.
00:30:57.160 If we come out and denounce him, he might be the new establishment.
00:30:59.700 This may be a reshuffling of the deck chairs here.
00:31:02.200 And so we're going to kind of wait and see what the first couple of states tell us.
00:31:05.400 And so I think that's the issue.
00:31:07.100 There's no Mitt Romney, there's no Hillary Clinton, there's no established, polished candidate.
00:31:14.140 Joe Biden was weighed, measured, and found wanting.
00:31:17.100 And I think that has now left this to a grassroots kind of free-for-all.
00:31:21.460 So you do think that Joe Biden, the shine is off in Iowa?
00:31:26.900 No, I think the shine's off everywhere.
00:31:28.800 I mean, if you look at his early state polling, except for South Carolina,
00:31:31.940 I mean, the national polling, we've talked about this before, it's irrelevant.
00:31:34.760 Except for South Carolina, largely based on black voters who don't watch cable news.
00:31:39.820 I know there's so much race-baiting on CNN and MSNBC, but it's almost all white woke people watching that.
00:31:45.640 Like Don Lemon doesn't have a black audience, for example.
00:31:48.200 Okay?
00:31:48.480 So they're not even really fully engaged in South Carolina yet, and they're going to react to the sifting that's gone on here in Iowa and New Hampshire.
00:31:56.160 That's what we always see.
00:31:57.280 So I think that's still up for grabs as well.
00:31:59.960 And so I think what you – and I think, you know, Joe Biden putting out statements about trans-civil rights, and he's grasping now.
00:32:07.740 You know, I used to say when I was a professional football analyst, when your team believes the game plan has failed, they just start trying things.
00:32:16.720 You know, you're just, well, let's try a run here, a pass here, a draw there, a play action there,
00:32:20.440 and see if we can get something to click because we're at a loss for why nothing we had game planned for is working.
00:32:26.020 And I think Joe Biden, at least in terms of Iowa and New Hampshire, which is all that matters right now, he's at the trying things stage.
00:32:34.200 So how is this going to break down?
00:32:37.340 Biden's – in a caucus, most Americans don't even understand how a caucus works.
00:32:42.360 Can you explain that and then a follow-up question?
00:32:45.580 Sure.
00:32:45.900 They're all little mini-conventions.
00:32:47.060 So there's rules of order, there's orders of business, there's delegate, you know, appointment.
00:32:52.480 It just depends on what all is on the agenda.
00:32:55.180 You know, on the Republican side, because a lot of those people are in private industry, they try to get in and out as fast as they can, and the process can still take an hour.
00:33:03.100 On the Democratic side, though, everyone's got to kvetch, so grab a Snickers.
00:33:07.320 You're going to be here for a while, okay?
00:33:09.120 And they're going to handle all of their business.
00:33:11.180 And this year it's different in that when they're gaveled – when you come into the caucus and have your name checked, and, yes, you do have to verify that you are you.
00:33:20.340 So apparently it's not racist when the Democrats do it to themselves.
00:33:23.540 When you do that, this year is different because of what happened in 2016 where Bernie Sanders won the popular vote, but Hillary Clinton won Iowa's electoral college with the delegates.
00:33:32.140 They're now making it so that you have to declare who you're for when you come in.
00:33:37.500 This has never happened before.
00:33:38.960 Usually there's been like a straw poll first to kind of figure out who the candidates are.
00:33:42.900 They're going to fall by the wayside.
00:33:44.300 You're now going to declare when you come in.
00:33:46.300 That's a huge advantage to somebody like Bernie Sanders because when you declare for him, I mean, the Soviets there are going to make sure that you follow through.
00:33:56.080 There's one candidate in this race that knows right now that he's not coming out of the room in Iowa with fewer votes than he had going in.
00:34:03.860 And the only candidate I think that can say that is Bernie Sanders.
00:34:06.960 So where we're going to decide this last week, guys, is what is his ceiling?
00:34:11.360 And you're going to see a lot of things thrown at him to try to mitigate his ceiling.
00:34:15.780 And I do believe he has a ceiling because if he hadn't had such a high name ID candidate, he would have been leading this race the whole time.
00:34:23.620 He does have a ceiling.
00:34:24.700 The problem is you can't replace nothing with nothing.
00:34:27.740 Somebody has to replace that.
00:34:29.900 Somebody has to be the place where everybody that thinks this guy is another Jeremy Corbyn and he can't win, where they believe they can settle on who that is.
00:34:38.220 And we're sitting here one week from Iowa after a year-long campaign, and they still don't know who that is.
00:34:45.540 And that's why it's advantage Bernie Sanders.
00:34:47.160 So when you say Bernie Sanders has a ceiling, does that include any of the voters from Elizabeth Warren?
00:34:54.420 Because they seem to be, you know, I wanted Warren, but she's not out or she's not going to make it, so I'm going to throw it to Sanders.
00:35:03.620 Does she lose members to Sanders in the end in Iowa? 0.99
00:35:09.840 Yes, and I think you're already seeing that's reflected.
00:35:12.860 We've had – there have been symbiotic relationships, and we've talked about these lanes before.
00:35:17.400 Buttigieg and Biden are in a lane because that's the lane Buttigieg chose.
00:35:22.060 And then you have Sanders and Warren are in a lane, and they've had – and symbiotic.
00:35:26.580 When one is up, the other's down.
00:35:27.860 When one is down, the other is up.
00:35:29.580 And now I think you have seen that the stunt that her and CNN orchestrated – I do believe they orchestrated it the last debate with the hot mics and stuff – it's blown up in her face and hasn't really helped her at all.
00:35:39.100 And so he seems to do well with calamity.
00:35:41.440 Like, his numbers rose after a heart attack.
00:35:43.480 His numbers rose after getting embarrassed by Elizabeth Warren.
00:35:46.500 It's a damnably weird thing, but it's the numbers are what they are.
00:35:50.620 And so she's now in danger of – you could have people who are just now at the point where I just want to vote for a woman, where you could see them now say maybe Bernie Sanders has drained all of her support that they were tethered together he could drain.
00:36:05.220 And maybe some of that now starts to go to an Amy Klobuchar because we might get down to I just want to be able to vote for a woman in the room. 1.00
00:36:13.640 It's the time of the woman. 0.98
00:36:15.540 And I think that's what the Des Moines Register endorsement was about, was to try to throw one more lifeline to Elizabeth Warren. 0.98
00:36:22.340 It's always a good idea to vote based on people's gender.
00:36:27.560 That's always a great idea.
00:36:29.320 Especially when it's fluid.
00:36:30.420 Yeah, exactly.
00:36:32.240 I was interested in – I wanted to ask you about Klobuchar because here she is. 0.73
00:36:35.740 She is kind of been the fifth candidate in this race for a long time.
00:36:40.700 She has – her polls are coming up.
00:36:42.560 The latest Emerson poll that came out today has her at 13% in Iowa ahead of both Buttigieg and Warren.
00:36:49.640 She seems to be making a late last-minute sort of run.
00:36:53.360 We've seen these things happen in Iowa before, on the Republican side with Santorum.
00:36:58.180 It's happened.
00:36:59.680 What do you think her chances are?
00:37:02.620 I think it's possible she could finish in the top three and survive as viable beyond here. 0.83
00:37:07.800 I don't believe she can get a percentage that would win.
00:37:11.340 You mentioned Santorum, and that's a good analogy.
00:37:14.720 If you remember, that campaign was the flavor of the month, and Rick never had his turn, and it got down to the end.
00:37:19.580 He never really had an impressive galvanizing moment, but it got down to the end.
00:37:23.540 And if you were a conservative that didn't want Mitt Romney as your nominee, he was the last one left that hadn't been branded or tarnished in some way.
00:37:30.560 She's running great ads right now, and they're very likable.
00:37:34.720 They're very, I can get things done.
00:37:36.400 Hey, let's be adults.
00:37:37.440 At some point, you know, we have to win an election once we're done, you know, checking our woke credentials.
00:37:42.640 She should have started doing this about two months ago.
00:37:45.820 If she had started doing this in the fall and built her name ID high enough, particularly as Warren and Sanders got, you know, really handsy, I think she could have, and Biden began to implode with his appearances, I think she could have really been a viable threat here.
00:38:01.760 She was too timid, waited too long to make her move and choose her lane as the adult in the room.
00:38:09.160 But the fact that she can still get a late rise here into a respectable finish is indicative of how weak we just got to win the election lane has become for the Democrats.
00:38:20.360 All right.
00:38:20.640 Can you hang on for a second, Steve?
00:38:22.860 Sure.
00:38:23.440 Steve Dace, who follows this program on the Blaze Radio and TV network.
00:38:28.640 You can find him at Steve Dace.
00:38:31.740 You follow him on Twitter.
00:38:33.020 It is the Steve Dace show, again, airs every day, Monday through Friday, after this program on Blaze TV.
00:38:41.320 Back with him in just a second.
00:38:45.220 So how did, with Bernie gone for the last few days, how is AOC doing?
00:38:52.960 And did you see much of the Soviet show that they were really putting on for Bernie?
00:39:00.440 No, and I think that that's great for us from a clickbait perspective, and it's going to be very harmful in a general election.
00:39:13.980 But right now, the biggest issue is Bernie Sanders is a defined entity, Glenn.
00:39:20.260 I mean, this idea now that we're going to get all this oppo research dump on him from the left, and it's going to hurt him with leftists, it's desperation time.
00:39:30.220 It's fouling at the end of a basketball game when you're down by 10 to prolong it, but you've already lost.
00:39:35.980 What they've got to figure out, they've got to come up with an alternative to him.
00:39:39.140 That's the argument.
00:39:40.260 That's the debate.
00:39:41.460 They have to have an affirmative alternative to him.
00:39:44.340 And focusing on him doesn't find them that affirmative alternative.
00:39:49.760 And here's something to keep in mind.
00:39:51.200 I mean, there was a Boston Globe poll out yesterday that had him way ahead in New Hampshire.
00:39:56.700 No one that has ever won both Iowa and New Hampshire has failed to win their party's nomination ever in either the Republican or Democratic parties.
00:40:05.540 So Bernie Sanders, you can – okay, you take him from 30 to 25.
00:40:09.620 Who is your candidate that's going to get 26? 0.72
00:40:12.060 They haven't figured that out yet.
00:40:14.560 Now, Buttigieg, I thought, shot himself in the foot this weekend with his response to a question from a Democratic voter.
00:40:23.680 In fact, can we play this?
00:40:26.360 Woman stood up and said, look, I'm a Democrat, but I don't seem to belong anymore.
00:40:31.420 Listen to this.
00:40:32.860 The Democratic platform contains language that basically says that we don't belong, we have no part in the party,
00:40:38.800 because it says abortion should be legal up to nine months, the government should pay for it.
00:40:42.640 And there's nothing that says that people have a diversity of views on this issue should be included in the party.
00:40:49.100 In 1996 and several years after that, there was a language in the Democratic platform that said that we understand that people have very differing views on this issue,
00:40:58.620 but we are a big tent party that includes everybody, and so therefore we welcome you, people like me, into the party so we can work on issues that we agree on.
00:41:06.880 So my question was, would you be open to language like that in the Democratic platform that really did say that our party is diverse and inclusive and we want everybody?
00:41:18.060 Well, I support the position of my party that this kind of medical care needs to be available to everyone.
00:41:27.360 And I support the Roe versus Wade framework that holds that early in pregnancy there are very few restrictions and late in pregnancy there are very few exceptions.
00:41:37.060 And again, the best I can offer is that we may disagree on that very important issue, and hopefully we will be able to partner on other issues.
00:41:45.360 That wasn't an answer to the question at all, and he got hammered for it.
00:41:51.280 Are there a lot of Democrats in Iowa that are in her situation?
00:41:57.060 No, there's not a lot of Democrats like this.
00:42:00.500 Well, there's not a lot of white Democrats in her situation really anywhere in the country.
00:42:05.420 Most of those people have either already become independents or Democrats because they got this message 10 years ago that this is the direction their party was going to go.
00:42:13.280 But where it does hurt him is his entire calculus.
00:42:17.200 Can we just be blunt?
00:42:19.260 Not that we haven't already.
00:42:20.640 He has no qualifications to be president other than how he has sex. 0.52
00:42:24.900 He's a unique special interest.
00:42:26.700 He qualifies as blunt.
00:42:28.800 Yeah, that is.
00:42:30.480 Okay.
00:42:31.260 You nailed it.
00:42:31.860 It was blunt.
00:42:32.380 If a straight individual that was mayor of Cedar Rapids, a town in Iowa, a town of 100,000, was running for president, would they have lasted this long?
00:42:39.700 Would they have been taken straight of any ethnicity, any color?
00:42:42.780 No, of course not.
00:42:44.140 And so that's his whole MO.
00:42:46.100 He's really politically inexperienced.
00:42:47.660 He has no resume.
00:42:49.080 No other reason to support him other than you just want to check that intersectionality box.
00:42:53.160 And he's run a very clever campaign where he doesn't highlight that really at all and tries to highlight his military service and I am a centrist.
00:43:01.000 Well, if you're going to run as I am a centrist, I'm going to run in Joe Biden's lane.
00:43:04.260 And then in the last debate, you get caught lying about, well, yeah, it's Medicare for all.
00:43:07.560 We can't have stragglers.
00:43:08.440 And then you turn around on national TV and say stuff or turn around in a forum and say stuff like that that goes on national social media.
00:43:14.880 It shows that the thin, narrow road, pardon the pun, that he has tried to carve out here for himself is an untravelable pass.
00:43:23.700 And it was only going to be a matter of time before it was going to be exposed.
00:43:27.940 He's undermined his own argument that I'm the person that can reach people we traditionally cannot get to build our coalition.
00:43:35.460 No, we can't.
00:43:35.960 Okay, so there is a new New York Times-Siena College poll of likely caucus goers, and it shows Buttigieg beating Biden by one point.
00:43:47.880 I think it's possible Joe Biden could finish second, and I think it's possible he could finish fifth.
00:43:52.900 I think that's very fluid.
00:43:55.260 I don't think there's any scenario, barring he's alive on February 3rd, Bernie Sanders is not in the top three in Iowa, any scenario.
00:44:03.600 And then after that, I don't know what happens after that.
00:44:06.740 I think Joe Biden could finish second to fifth.
00:44:08.620 I think Elizabeth Warren could finish still in the top three and then finish sixth. 1.00
00:44:13.060 I think Amy Klobuchar could get in the single digits and finish third. 1.00
00:44:16.100 The rest of this is very fluid because they haven't figured out who is the more polished candidate that can win those suburban, ex-urban voters that they took away from Trump in 2018 when it was a blind taste test, and they didn't have to put a candidate opposite him.
00:44:33.200 But you could just check yes or no in what you thought of Trump.
00:44:36.380 There was a 14-point swing.
00:44:38.160 That's the whole election, guys.
00:44:39.580 Trump overperformed suburban and ex-urban voters in 2016 from even the Republican Party's data and won those women by five points. 0.99
00:44:47.360 In 2018, he lost them by nine.
00:44:49.760 That 14-point swing is the whole election.
00:44:52.880 And the Democrats are struggling to figure out who is a candidate that won't scare those voters off so they'll just vote against Donald Trump and for us like they did in the 2018 midterms.
00:45:02.560 How's the impeachment working in Iowa for the regular person?
00:45:08.940 It's irrelevant.
00:45:10.420 I mean, there's an Associated Press story out today that says people don't care.
00:45:15.560 It's funny.
00:45:16.340 A lot of these networks now are running stories about how people in these early states don't care, and then they just go back to wall-to-wall impeachment.
00:45:23.920 Nobody knows what a John Bolton is.
00:45:26.360 Nobody cares.
00:45:27.340 Nobody can spot Ukraine on a map.
00:45:29.860 All right?
00:45:30.140 No one cares.
00:45:30.860 All right?
00:45:31.380 And so it's just not relevant.
00:45:33.680 And this whole exercise has also limited their ability.
00:45:37.920 It's no coincidence, gentlemen, that when this went on the front burner, that's also when Bernie's numbers went up.
00:45:44.040 Why?
00:45:44.660 Because he's the only candidate that knows his supporters are the freaking Postal Service.
00:45:49.420 Come rain, come snow, come sleet, come shine.
00:45:51.260 They're there.
00:45:51.820 It doesn't matter.
00:45:52.720 All right?
00:45:52.960 I mean, Jesus is going to have to open the 47th seal for Bernie Sanders voters not to show.
00:45:59.400 And he's the only candidate that has that kind of support, while the rest of them are now distracted.
00:46:04.600 Steve Dace, thank you.
00:46:05.900 Great analysis coming out of Iowa from Steve Dace.
00:46:09.220 The caucus is next Monday.
00:46:12.060 You've never been to a caucus.
00:46:13.400 It is a wild, wild ride.
00:46:16.360 It's nothing like you've experienced in any other state.
00:46:18.980 And we will be all over it next Monday with Steve Dace.
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