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There is a massive move happening in the gold market that nobody really understands. Is it our Fed or the Treasury buying up a lot of gold? And what could be the reason for that? We explore that in hour one of our podcast. Also, Alan Dershowitz on should everything be released? The radical transparency on all of these scandals. And Ross Douthat's new book on faith. Why it's easier and better to believe there is a God than there isn't.
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Hey, on today's podcast, there is a massive move happening in the gold market that nobody really even understands what's happening.
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But it looks like somebody is buying up enormous amounts of gold.
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Is it our Fed or the Treasury buying up a lot of gold?
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We explore that in hour number one of our podcast.
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Also, Alan Dershowitz on should everything be released?
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The radical transparency on all of these scandals?
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Why it's easier and better to believe there is a God than there isn't.
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You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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There is a great thread from Matt Smith that I retweeted last night.
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What the average person is going to be talking about is, my groceries are going up.
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That is from all of the lies that the media was telling you that things were strong and it's getting better and yada yada.
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Those numbers and all of that stuff were garbage.
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These two things have to happen in a coordinated fashion.
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Because remember, most of our GDP, a lot of our GDP, is coming from the government.
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So if you cut, our GDP goes down, which means all kinds of numbers start to fluctuate from interest rates and everything else.
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So we want a growing GDP, which means we have to grow real wealth.
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And the one guy that I think can do it is Donald Trump.
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But there's a tweet that caught my eye yesterday because it starts with gold.
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There's something going on with gold and nobody really knows what it is.
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Somebody here in the United States is buying a crap load of gold.
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We think, I hope, it's the Treasury or the Central Bank, the Fed.
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But somebody is taking huge physical deliveries and it's causing shortages in London where they buy and sell gold.
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There are shortages now of gold because somebody is buying it and shipping it here.
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The government right now claims on its balance sheet as an asset all of this gold.
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In case you haven't heard, it's $2,900 an ounce.
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So they're talking now about boosting the price of gold, at least market to market, but maybe even making it $5,000 an ounce.
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If that happens, the balance sheet starts to fall into line and our debt to GDP is not as bad as it really is right now.
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Just start claiming the truth about gold and our balance sheet starts to come into line.
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Start taking our minerals, start taking our oil and claiming those as assets and putting those on the balance sheet, which we can do.
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And it's not a bad idea unless we lose in the end because then we lose all of our assets, our natural assets.
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This helps strengthen the United States because we're coming to a place where we're not going to be able to finance the debt.
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Who wants to write the United States a new long-term loan at less than really market value?
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And market value, I mean, you know, if you walked into a bank and you had the credit report that the United States of America has, what do you think the bank is going to charge you an interest?
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Now, they might write you a check if you have all of this stuff on your balance sheet, okay?
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They're trying to reshore up our balance sheet, make ourselves healthier than we are because we're at the end of the dollar.
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It's why tariffs are being, you know, brought in.
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It's to force others to start to see the sorry situation they're in.
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I mean, Europe, if this deal with Ukraine goes through, which, by the way, yesterday had a great, a perfect phone call with Putin, and it did go really, really well.
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And Donald Trump is saying, yeah, you know, we might have to have the resources from you.
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We might, we want your rare earth minerals because of what we've already given you.
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He's doing that as a negotiating tactic with everybody.
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And he's putting on notice, the European Union, we're not in this anymore.
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And we're not going to guarantee its protection.
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They're talking $3 trillion to be able to rebuild and protect.
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So he's putting everybody in the same situation.
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It will punish the average person because of tariffs and everything else.
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If they're not done exactly right, it'll punish with higher prices.
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However, he's betting that wages will also rise because he's forcing people to keep their profits here and make jobs here.
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If everything goes right, what the trade on gold is showing us is that we may be going towards a gold-backed financial system or a gold-backed currency of some sort.
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So if what do you do as a regular person, you need to understand that the dollar could be by design being collapsed.
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That's exactly what the Biden administration was doing, collapsing the dollar.
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But they didn't have a plan to replace it other than a digital dollar and global slavery.
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I'm not sure what the plan is here, but it seems much more American-centric, good for America, and eventually good for the rest of the world.
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And it doesn't look like it is taking freedom away from people, but we have to watch it.
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The situation with the situation with the economy is really dire.
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What we have is one of the best mechanics who have hired the rest of the best mechanics to come in, put up the hood, and say,
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We don't know what direction, but a huge sign that something big is coming is the amount of gold that is being purchased.
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And the key here that you have to understand, shortages in London, gold flowing into the U.S. at record levels, somebody with deep pockets, this is what Matt Smith, is scooping up gold.
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They're reshoring gold that might have been leased out.
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That the United States is buying all this gold.
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Because they're reshoring the gold that might have been leased out.
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That's just the word away from the word that I said.
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If you see rehypothecation begin to be bantered around, look out.
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What rehypothecation is, is we've taken one asset and we've counted it on several different accounting books.
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So we counted it the United States, but also we've leased this gold out to Germany.
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So Germany could get more money based on their gold.
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But their gold is our gold, and our gold is England's gold.
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So that's how dire this is, is we're beginning to enter the world of rehypothecation, which means no one owns anything.
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Because your house, you say, well, I got my loan through Citibank.
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But Citibank has used rehypothecation to put that on their balance sheet as that's their house.
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But they sold it in a package to eight different banks, and they're all counting that house, yours, as an asset.
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So when they all start to go down, they all say, well, we've got all these assets.
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This is such a Ponzi scheme where, you know what this is?
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Do you ever see the movie or the stage show, Mel Brooks, The Producers?
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Because they were selling over 100% of the play.
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All thinking that it's not, that that particular show wouldn't make any money.
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So it will close, and nobody's going to audit and say, wait a minute, you sold 100%.
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But if it's a success, they now have to pay 100% of the proceeds to 14 different people.
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They have sold 100% of your house, or in this case, the gold, to several different people.
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When everybody says, I'm in trouble, I want my money back.
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I mean, it just seems like the type of thing that it's almost impossible to unwind, right?
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Or do you just protect yourself and your family?
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For you, you make sure that if your house is paid for, if you have anything paid for, you have the title.
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You know where the title is, you have the title, okay?
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So you're not in as bad of shape if you own things.
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It's really good if you're buying a house to make sure that that loan is staying local,
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that they're not reselling that loan, that it's staying with one bank,
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and it's not being sold in, you know, what were those called?
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That it's not being sold like that because that's what causes the problem.
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especially if they are going to start counting that on the balance sheet.
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If they change the price of gold from $45 to $4,500,
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that means they're going to have to do that worldwide.
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So gold all of a sudden becomes $4,500 an ounce.
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As your dollar goes down, your gold will go through the roof.
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This is much better when Margot Robbie is telling me about it in a bathtub.
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I find your book and your premise here to be so true just right off the bat
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that it is easier to live with faith than to live without it.
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And when you really start to question and engage your mind on faith,
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you have to reject so much science, I think, and common sense if you dismiss God.
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I think we're in a moment right now in our culture where it's kind of an inflection point.
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We've lived through about, you know, 20 or 25 years where religion has been in decline.
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You know, there's been scandal, sex abuse, politics, all of these things.
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And right now, it seems to me that you've got a kind of a reconsideration where a lot of people,
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especially younger people, are taking a new look at religion or sort of interested in it again.
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But there's this hurdle that gets to what you're saying, Glenn, that people feel like they need to get over,
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where people are like, well, it'd be nice to be religious, but I feel like I have to leave my reason at the door.
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And a big part of what I'm doing in this book is saying, no, in fact, that's not true.
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In fact, the world, the universe, the human place in the cosmos actually makes much more sense under religious premises
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than it does if you start out with the assumption that, you know, it's all random, accidental, and so on.
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And in fact, most of what science has suggested, physics especially in the last 50 or 100 years,
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The universe is, in fact, made and not accidental.
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And that, I think, should lay a stronger foundation for people who are, you know, who would like to believe, right,
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It's amazing to me because I think if God exists, which I believe he does,
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he has to be the greatest scientist because he created all this.
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And the math on the universe is exact and universal.
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It just doesn't seem to be something that could randomly just appear
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I don't know if you've ever heard Thomas Jefferson's quote.
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He was writing his nephew, Peter Carr, and he said, you know, explaining different things,
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and he said, when it comes to religion, above all things, fix reason firmly in our seat,
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because if there is a God, he must surely rather honest questioning over blindfolded fear.
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You know, you should be asking these hard questions
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because you can find a lot of the answers, a lot you're never going to know.
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But science plays a real role in the discovery of God, right?
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And there's, I mean, one thing that has shifted in the last few generations is it was always the case,
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I think, that science suggested that the universe was made by someone with, let's say,
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That, you know, and just the fact that human beings in our limited reason could understand
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these universal laws and figure out how calculus works, figure out theoretical physics, all of these
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things, all of those things, I think, already pointed towards some kind of divine architect.
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But then you get into just the fascinating reality that we've only recently figured out,
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which is that all of these values that sort of keep the universe together, the cosmological constant,
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the strong nuclear force, these sort of very particular aspects of physics are set in these really precise ways
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that if, and we're talking not like one in a hundred, we're talking, you know, one, you know,
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one in a hundred billion to produce stars, planets, life itself.
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And if you tweak those in one direction or another, in just a tiny way, you would have an empty,
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dead cosmos, a cosmos that flies apart, a cosmos that collapses in on itself.
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And our universe really is in this kind of Goldilocks jackpot zone for making us possible.
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And what's fascinating is that even atheistic, non-believing scientists basically acknowledge this,
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and they've sort of taken refuge in the idea of, you know, the multiverse, right?
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Like, one reason that every superhero movie now has this idea of the multiverse is it has actually
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become really important for the atheist to believe, well, we can't, we can't, we seem special,
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but in fact, there must be, you know, a gazillion other universes we can't see.
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And the motto of modern atheism is basically, better a gazillion universes we can't see than one god.
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So how would you deal with quantum physics or, you know, quantum computing even?
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Well, the quantum revolution is also, that's another really fascinating case, right?
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Where quantum physics is sort of the place where our reason, our ability to fully understand the world
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You end up with these really weird things where, you know, something, is something a wave or a particle,
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It all, you know, depending on, it all depends on observation, right?
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Like whether, you know, basically to really oversimplify, it seems like at the deepest level of reality,
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there's a kind of possibility that only collapses into reality when we ourselves are looking at it
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It gives it a, it gives the quote, you know, or the old saying, you know,
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if a tree falls in the woods and nobody's there to hear it, did it actually happen?
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Quantum physics said maybe it did or maybe it didn't.
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But the implication, the implication of that is, in fact, a religious implication,
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because it says, look, mind actually precedes matter, right?
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And the human mind participates every time you're looking around at the world.
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We are, you know, in a bizarre but fascinating way,
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participating in the literal creation or an existence of the world.
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And obviously this has implications for creation itself, right?
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Because there was a very long period of, you know, cosmological history
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where human beings weren't around as observers.
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But the religious perspective has always been that it's the mind of God
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that holds that, that holds reality together in total, right?
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And that, I think, is something that is deeply consonant with what quantum physics
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has figured out about how our own minds relate to reality.
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We are, in fact, made in the image of God in the sense that we, like God,
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participate in taking possibilities and turning them into physical realities,
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But it is, in fact, like the most, I think, the most plausible interpretation
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Give me your explanation on why you think that it is easier to live life with
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Like, there's a sort of practical case for religion that a lot of people
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who aren't deeply religious can still get behind, right?
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Which is to say, you know, it's good to have a sense of meaning and purpose,
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And I think, you know, a lot of, one reason among many that you see a lot of
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depression and anxiety and even suicidality among younger people these days
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is that they're the first generation in American history where large numbers of
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them have been raised, you know, not even with like a weak form of faith,
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No basic Sunday school, you know, nothing, nothing like that, right?
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And there's a way in which religious belief just offers you a basic grounding
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You have a place, you're here for a reason, it's not an accident.
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You know, human civilization is not just like a candle that's about to be snuffed
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And then related to that, there's, you know, faith as a form of community, right?
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There's solidarity, there's support, all of the kind of things that Alexis de Tocqueville
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So the role that religious institutions play in building social capital, all of
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But in, in the book, I'm trying to push a little bit beyond that because I think I
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I write for the New York times, obviously has, you know, a fairly secular
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I have a lot of readers who, yeah, it's an understatement.
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But, but a lot of religious readers as well, I can assure you.
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And, but there's a lot of people who will go that far with you.
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They'll say, yeah, religion, it's good for you.
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It's good for you to, it's good to take your kids to church, gives them a moral
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It's good to, you know, have some faith and purpose in the universe.
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But in the end, isn't it still kind of unreasonable?
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And the case I'm making in the book is no, in fact, the practical benefits of
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religion are there because religion is in fact a better description of reality than
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And in fact, you know, there's a line attributed to the scientist John von Neumann, right?
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He said something like, there, this is actually something he supposedly said to his mother.
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So there's some debate about whether he said it or not.
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But the line goes, you know, there probably is a God.
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A lot of things make a lot more sense if there is one.
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And that's, that's what I'm trying to persuade people of here, that in fact, it's not just
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that religion is good for you in an immediate day-to-day sense.
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It's that it's good for you because there probably is a God.
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You're probably going to meet him when you die.
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You probably should be organizing your life to some degree around that reality.
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And that is, in fact, the reasonable thing for people to do.
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So, but wait, but wait, the, the, you know, that's, that's like, I've always joked, you
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know, if I'm an atheist, I'm just going to hedge my bet a little bit, you know what I mean?
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So that's, but that's not what you're saying, is it?
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Well, I, well, I am, I am saying, so there's a kind of depth hedging where you're like,
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okay, you know, maybe there's a one in a thousand chance that there's a God.
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And if there is that chance, I should pay attention to it because, you know, even a one in a thousand
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chance of entering eternity is a pretty big deal.
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I'm saying there's a very, very strong probability that there is a God.
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And that strong probability is the starting place for going out there, going to church,
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reading books, praying, and seeing if you can have a relationship with this God, right?
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So in the end, you can't, look, you can't think your way to a relationship with God because
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it's a relationship, but you can think and reason your way to the point where you can say,
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It makes sense to seek, to knock and see if the door is opened unto you.
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I can't wait for the entire list to be produced.
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I want every photograph because they will prove that I had nothing to do with anything.
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Indeed, the woman who accused me has now admitted publicly, withdrawn her lawsuit, admitted publicly
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that she may have confused me with somebody else, misidentified me.
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I wanted to show that, yes, I was on the island once with my wife and my 10-year-old daughter
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when Jeffrey Epstein, who was his lawyer, had just bought the island and he wanted to show me the island.
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There was nobody on the island except for me, Epstein and his workers, and a professor at Harvard named Michael Porter and his wife.
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We had an intellectual dinner, left the next day, and so if my name is just on the list, oh, somebody who was on the island.
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I flew down on his airplane in order to represent him in front of the court and in front of the district attorney in Palm Beach County.
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I was his lawyer, and as his lawyer, of course, I was in his home.
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And the only woman who accused me has now admitted that she may have confused me with someone else,
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misidentified me, and caused me over a million dollars in legal fees, expenses, and all kinds of difficulties.
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I want every word, every videotape, every tape, every black book, everything.
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I want the world to see everything so they can make a judgment.
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But what we shouldn't see is selective disclosures.
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Oh, here's an address book that has so-and-so's name in it.
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I was having dinner at the home of Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the president,
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and the other guest at the dinner was Bill Clinton.
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And he was president of the United States, and my wife was there.
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And the Secret Service man comes over to the president and gives him the phone and says,
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Clinton walks away for about 15 minutes, and then he comes back and says,
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And so I was curious, who the heck was President Clinton talking to for 15 minutes?
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He said, well, I need your legal this and this and that.
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And I had this legal issue and that legal issue.
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We talked for a couple of minutes, made an appointment, and that was the end of the discussion.
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But, you know, he's had conversations, obviously, in business dealings with Bill Gates.
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He went down to Cuba and met with Fidel Castro to try to help him on economic issues.
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He met with presidents and governors and senators, and let's have it all out there.
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I've spent, what, five years explaining my situation.
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And, you know, obviously the world now knows that I was completely, totally, categorically,
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falsely accused by a woman I never met, never heard of, and never saw,
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and was never in the same place with in my entire life.
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So what does it mean, do you think, his client list?
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I think there is a, I know I've seen an address book.
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And the address book, you know, has everybody in the world's name in it, you know, princes
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And, for example, I'm on the plane logs, but always with other lawyers and never with
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I've never been on a plane with him with anybody young or anybody suspicious.
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So I would love to see the plane logs all out there.
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I want to see what kind of company I'm in, whoever, which other lawyers, you know, he
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was represented by some of the biggest law firms in the country, Kirkland Ellis and some
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And the names of the lawyers, of course, are going to be on lists.
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There is, as far as I know, I wish there were a list that said list of people who had
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I would love to see that list because, of course, I wouldn't be on it.
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Um, and, uh, you know, Jeffrey once said to me, Alan, um, you have the happiest and best
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He said, you're the only person I've seen have a good marriage.
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So, you know, there's no way he would ever have suggested in a trillion years.
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Uh, I had sex with no human being other than my wife from the day I met Jeffrey Epstein.
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I get websites accusing me of being a pedophile.
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I have a lawsuit now, uh, against some anti-Israel person because the anti-Israel group has gotten
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together and they all say, Oh, Dershowitz, how can you trust Dershowitz?
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So they're still using the fact that I was Epstein's lawyer as a way of trying to diminish
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That's why it's important that everything be out there and everybody in the world know
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that I never had any contact with anybody, uh, that was sexual or improper in the years
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I am pleased to hear you say this because a guilty man would not say release everything.
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Um, I said, by the way, the day I was falsely accused, this now 11 years ago, that day I
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I have been memo books going back from the time I started teaching at Harvard and I will
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Uh, I'm an open book and I knew you can do the same with my wife and my children.
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And, uh, of course, uh, my wife was interviewed and, uh, she and everybody else confirmed everything.
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I have records, American express records, uh, purchase records proving that I couldn't have
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And certainly never during a period of time when anything improper could have taken place.
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So the more that's out there, the better for an innocent person.
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So, uh, the thing that is surprising to me is you did go through five years of hell of people.
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You, you had to, you had to prove you're innocent, 10 years, 10 years.
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And yeah, but I did, I was able to, because fortunately I keep very careful records because
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I have to account for every hour, but I have careful records of every hour, which could
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prove, and not only that, they're all backed up by American express.
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But this is, this is what I wanted to talk to you about.
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Um, uh, not you, but the possibility of witch hunts for other people that might be in your
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Look, I did business with him, et cetera, et cetera.
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But I, because everybody's going to claim that everybody's going to say, Oh no, I know
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I was down there and I blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Some innocent people might be scooped up into this.
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If it is his address book, how do you, how do we stop?
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Saying to everybody, well, you're going to have to prove your innocence.
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I think in America, we have a freedom of speech and we have transparency.
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You let it all hang out and, uh, let the public judge based on the totality of the evidence.
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The one thing that couldn't happen, that shouldn't happen.
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And that did happen in this case, the judge in this case said, I'm letting this out, but
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And the judge withheld information that would have proved innocence.
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And that's what I'm afraid is happening in this case.
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There are going to be people who are going to say, we want this to be out because it
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shows suspicious conduct, but we're not going to let this out because it deals with, for
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And we're not going to let that out because we don't want anybody to attack the credibility
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God forbid, even if there's a false accusation.
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The worst thing is that free speech for me, but not for the, and, uh, only some people
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And here you have only some information that could be that raise questions about people
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But the information that proves the innocence is going to be withheld.
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We know it's a matter of record that, um, there was somebody who worked for him who
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And so the police in Palm beach installed tapes to try to catch the robber.
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Now, whether they installed them in bedrooms, as well as in living areas, I don't know the
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I hope there were tapes of every single second.
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And not only was I falsely accused, but, uh, the, the former, uh, uh, majority leader
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of the Senate, uh, uh, Mitchell, he was accused of having sex.
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And by the way, they were all accused of having unprotected sex with somebody who allegedly
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had sex with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people.
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Imagine any reasonable person having unprotected sex.
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Uh, so it was, uh, uh, Mitchell, it was, um, the Senator Richardson was accused, the prime
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minister of Israel, a hood Barak was accused, Andrew, David Copperfield, uh, Leonardo DiCaprio,
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Al Gore, Richard Branson, Stephen Hawking, which that one, I believe Michael Jackson.
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And they had a story, they had a story of me and, and, and, uh, this man in a wheelchair
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I mean, I just imagine the idea of me trying to jump over the wheelchair to get at some
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young, you know, it's, it's, some of it is the most bizarre, preposterous thing.
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Um, uh, and, and, and, you know, some of the, some of the allegations themselves, you
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know, prove questions about the credibility, but the important point is all should come
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There shouldn't be anything withheld right now.
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The courts are withholding certain of the information because they don't want information
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out there that could cast doubts on the credibility of the accusers.
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If you're going to accuse, you have to have everything out there.
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I have to tell you, I am for radical transparency.
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I'm concerned about witch hunts, but I am for radical transparency because these names
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held in secret and having some things held in secret, not everything out.
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It just, uh, provides the opportunity for blackmail and, and everything else.
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It's too much information for any one agency or, or any government or anybody to hold and
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Cause when you don't know what's in there, uh, and you don't know, you know, you, there
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might be exonerating things for you in this information, but they can hold it back.
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Uh, uh, as a result of all this, I was canceled as a speaker at the 92nd street.
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Why canceled as a speaker at temple Emanuel in New York, the largest reform temple in the
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United States, um, canceled all over the country, uh, as a speaker, uh, canceled basically by
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the New York times, um, just as a result of an accusation, which has now been, uh, the
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legally withdrawn and the woman admitted that, you know, she may have confused me with somebody
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else, but just as a result of the accusation, that's why I wrote a book called guilt by accusation.
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Not now I don't stand by everything in the book, cause a lot of things have changed since
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that book was published sub seven or eight years ago.
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But again, who would publish a book, uh, laying it all out if they had anything to hide, I have
00:42:47.920
Um, and, uh, you know, you talk about perfect attendance, use the word perfect in terms of
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I've had a perfect sex life in the sense that since the day I met Jeffrey Epstein, I never,
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ever, ever violated any vows or did anything improper.
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And yet half the world believes that I was guilty of charges, even though they've been
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essentially, uh, the woman admitted, she may have confused me with somebody else.
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Alan, I know I'm going to, I'm going to get heat from some members of this audience for
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having you on, uh, cause I do every time because they're like, they're convinced.
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Um, a court wasn't convinced she took her, uh, her accusations back and he's been straight
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And I don't think that there's, you know, what else happened?
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Four or five days after I was accused, I wrote an op-ed for the wall street journal, inviting,
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inviting the FBI to investigate me saying I will have no privileges.
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Have you ever heard of a guilty person asking for an investigation by the FBI?
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And I was upset the FBI didn't investigate me because if they did, obviously they would
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have concluded as now, I think any reasonable person included that I was either, either the
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The woman admitted she may have confused me with somebody else or a deliberate plot.
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I never paid a nickel, uh, to any, and I never would pay a nickel to anybody who falsely
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Alan Dershowitz, uh, host of the, uh, Dershow and, uh, you can follow him, uh, to
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