Tonight we shine the light on Bernie Sanders, and the people surrounding him, and why they are so important to the Democratic Party. We also discuss the Mueller investigation, the new Green Deal, and global warming. We have a great interview with Cliff Maloney, the President of the Young Americans for Liberty, to explain why we think the 2020 Democratic Candidates are so crazy.
00:17:59.100And it really was a big misunderstanding.
00:18:01.960And I went back to him after this, and I said, you know, a few hours later, I called him, and I said, you know, you've had a tough day today.
00:18:09.840And he said, you know, I'm actually at the gym right now working on my planks up to 44 minutes now, which is pretty impressive, actually.
00:18:17.420But he said, our discourse is like arm day.
00:18:21.800You know, when you're triceps and you're doing the skull crushers.
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00:30:24.660Glenn, I think this is, I think they figured out this is Mueller and his staff that this was the surest way to get their evidence to the Congress.
00:30:36.520And what I mean by that is if Mueller had decided that there was a, uh, there was an obstruction case,
00:30:45.020then he would have recommended that to the attorney general bar.
00:30:50.780Now, by the time this came around and bar was the attorney general,
00:30:57.500Mueller had to know that the theory under which he was investigating obstruction was different and not going to be acceptable to the Justice Department under bar.
00:31:09.580Because Barr has a very different idea, and I think it's the correct idea, but that's neither here nor there.
00:31:15.680They have different ideas about what obstruction is.
00:31:19.980Mueller was investigating it on a much looser theory.
00:31:23.220And I think that if he had recommended charges, then he would have had trouble getting that report out the door.
00:31:30.360Because then there would have been a big Justice Department to do over whether he had applied the right legal standard or not.
00:31:38.900Instead, what he did curiously, but I think probably in the end cleverly, was to say,
00:31:45.800I've got to decide, um, and here's what I'm going to do.
00:31:51.800I'm just going to give you the evidence on both sides of the question and not make a decision.
00:31:57.320And I'll rely for doing that on the Justice Department guidance that says you can't indict a sitting president anyway.
00:32:05.180And that way, he managed to get his evidence out the door.
00:32:09.340Whereas I think if he had recommended a charge, that this would have all gone very differently.
00:32:14.700So now, what, because last night what I heard were two things.
00:32:36.080I think, um, the, the big area of controversy that the media has focused on is that Barr testified that at least three times emphatically Mueller told him that his decision not to make a decision on, uh, obstruction was not because of the Office of Legal Counsel guidance that you can't indict a sitting president.
00:33:02.760And then, lo and behold, if you look at the report, that is exactly the reason that he relies on.
00:33:08.900So the, the, the argument was that Barr had misled everyone along these lines.
00:33:15.600And I think Mueller is conceding that he did say to Barr what Barr contends.
00:33:21.900That is, that the OLC guidance wasn't the reason.
00:33:24.120Now, what I think people are missing that we should focus on is the timeline.
00:33:30.060Here's what I think happened here, Glenn.
00:33:31.620The first time that they meet after Barr is confirmed is March 5th.
00:33:37.280And it's at that meeting that Mueller tells Barr, I'm not going to decide on the obstruction.
00:33:44.680Barr asks him, is that because of the OLC guidance?
00:40:46.200And as a matter of fact, my company, we develop products for wind and solar to make those forecasts more accurate.
00:40:53.680Because, you know, we had a situation in Texas, Glenn, for instance, I guess it was 2011,
00:40:58.100where you had a big freezing rainstorm in West Texas where all the wind turbines are.
00:41:03.080And, you know, you needed heat for Dallas and Houston, and the wind turbines can't turn.
00:41:08.340Well, if a power company knows that there's that threat four or five days away, they may acquire energy from another power company that's not having that kind of way.
00:42:59.220And if it becomes your life, what happens if someone attacks your idea, they're attacking your life.
00:43:04.500And, you know, there's also a lot of people on the other side that are reaching for the higher plane.
00:43:09.800So when you look at that, I try to tell people I try to be the dumbest man in the room because the dumbest man in the room, if you're hungry, is going to find the food, right?
00:43:21.740If you're the smartest guy in the room and all you're doing is looking at one thing, you're not going to see the very things that challenge you that you need to perfect your arguments.
00:43:34.000I realized a long time ago that the weather is an infinite, magic, majestic system.
00:43:41.280And the more I learn about the field, the less I know about it in the totality of it.
00:43:47.640There's a book out there called The Half-Life of Facts about how fast knowledge is expanding.
00:43:53.780And when you look at those things, it gives you a perspective of humility and understanding it's sorry you're not controlling the whole shooting match.
00:44:03.000So, Joe, I just read a story last week of a new wood is how they described it.
00:44:12.620But it's a new kind of wood that if we clad our homes in this and it's man-made wood, it will save us 50% to 80% on our electricity bills because it is such a good insulator.
00:44:31.840I mean, I just don't understand how if you really care about the environment, you should be A, vegan, B, for nuclear power plants, and you should be looking to the free market system because it's the free market system that is developing all of these things.
00:44:51.020Everything the government has tried to do fails.
00:44:55.080Yeah, well, that's – but that's the thing that makes me – you know, in the book, most of, for instance, is a chapter in there called The Weaponization of the Weather.
00:45:05.540That was put out a year ago saying this is what's going to happen.
00:45:09.300Every single event is going to be like that because when you look at it, the scientific argument is the same argument as who's better, Texas or Texas A&M and football, right?
00:45:19.580It lasts about 10 minutes, and then you move on.
00:45:24.140But what happens is this – and this is why I said the book is a love story because what I have loved since I was three years old – I mean, I remember my parents tell me when I was three I used to sneak outside, lie on my back, and stare at the sun through the clouds.
00:45:41.880That's how fascinated I was with the weather from being a little kid.
00:45:45.840So when you see this dragged through the mud and you see everybody – where were you when I was 15 years old crying because we missed a snowstorm in Atlantic City, for instance?
00:45:59.380And one of the other things that gets me is that they come out after the fact.
00:46:04.640Now, Glenn, you've been down there for a while.
00:46:06.540You guys have been down there for a while.
00:46:07.700Now, you know, after 2012, the Texas – there were a lot of people saying, oh, this is the beginning of a new Dust Bowl, the new perma-drought, right, because you had three straight years of – and it was just like 52 through 54, which I know about because growing up down at Texas A&M, I know about the Junction Boys and how bad the weather was in 52, 53, 54.
00:46:29.360And like clockwork, four years later, it turned around then and it turned around now.
00:46:35.120So I'm seeing stuff I guess it was USA Today had today.
00:46:38.240Well, this is a sign of climate change, all the wet weather.
00:46:49.160They wait until after the fact and say, see that?
00:46:52.100And, you know, in the weather and forecasting and in the private sector, what WeatherBell does, we have to tell people the why before the what and hit the forecast because you want to know something?
00:47:35.480The reason we have so many tornadoes is because it's so cold across much of the country.
00:47:39.4602008, 2011, and this year, we're the three coldest Mays in the northern plains and back into the southwest that we've recorded in the last 15 years.
00:47:49.820Well, guess where the tornado spikes are?
00:47:52.260Well, if you get a cold May, you're naturally getting warmer air coming out of the Gulf of Mexico.
00:47:56.920You're going to get big fights going on.
00:47:59.560But that's not because it's just warm everywhere.
00:48:02.200Last May was warm all over the United States.
00:48:05.180And we had a record low amount of tornadoes in the month of May.
00:48:08.280As a matter of fact, folks, there is ample reason to believe that the greening of the planet, which is occurring, and Dr. Will Happer talks about this all the time, that we're basically coming out of a CO2 drought, right?
00:48:22.220Plants grow better at four times the amount of CO2 in the air.
00:48:25.760What is the synergistic relationship between animal and plant?
00:48:30.000Since animals exhale 100 times more CO2 than they inhale, and plants then take that and grow from it.
00:49:14.520If you want the facts on the Green New Deal, on what climate change really is, what this is all about, the facts to be able to argue it, you'll get them from Joe in his new book, The Climate Chronicles.
00:50:05.360Any comments on Chris Cuomo before we move on to Venezuela and guns?
00:50:12.800Yeah, I mean, I think you're exactly right.
00:50:14.480He's kind of the face, if you will, of people who they want to lecture and act like they're playing both sides, and there's definitely more than one in every family.
00:50:23.580But, I mean, I don't know anybody under the age of 40 that watches him because you're just being talked at.
00:50:29.120You know, he's not talking with the viewers.
00:50:31.400He's kind of saying, hey, look, this is the way it is.
00:50:34.100And, you know, I'm holier than thou, and I know better than thou, and I don't think anybody's got time for that.
00:50:52.920I've gotten, you know, I didn't expect it to be as controversial as a topic.
00:50:58.360But, I mean, look, we all know gun control is the premise.
00:51:03.500It is the root foundation of socialism.
00:51:05.900I mean, if you are going to have control and if the government is going to dictate, you know, who does what, how they do it, when they can do it, you can't defend yourself.
00:51:16.360And I'm surprised, you know, I put this piece together.
00:51:18.920I mean, you look back in 2012 in Venezuela.
00:51:23.980They restricted the right to own firearms.
00:51:26.580They, you know, we know this as conservatives and libertarians that that means taking away the ability to defend yourself.
00:51:34.140And when it comes to a tyrannical government and what you're seeing right now in Venezuela, you know, and if you talk to normal people in Venezuela, I mean, some of the stories and some of the quotes and just what you're hearing from people is, damn, I wish we had the ability to defend ourselves.
00:51:49.600And so it's, to me, it's a perfect example of how socialism is just totally fixated on disarming the citizenry.
00:51:58.500And I think conservatives and libertarians should not sit back.
00:52:01.700We always try to say, oh, you know, it's for hunting and you hear the – no, it's to defend ourselves against a tyrannical government.
00:52:40.180Otherwise, bowling might be in the Constitution.
00:52:43.500It is about protecting yourself against a government gone insane.
00:52:49.840And you know what kills me, Glenn, is the hypocrisy of the left where they say, hey, the government should not have power because Trump is in charge.
00:53:00.760But if our guy is in charge, we want to give total power to the government.
00:53:06.300And I just – I can't handle this inconsistency for my friends on the left because it's like, look, you've got to stop giving your power as a citizen, your power to hold the government accountable.
00:53:18.900You can't just go with the whims of whether your party is in charge or your party is not in charge.
00:53:23.280No, no, no, no, but it's worse than that.
00:53:55.400So what has the controversy been about this?
00:53:57.720Because I know if you point out, hey, there's a result of a socialist nation, even though they were all on the record saying this is socialist utopia in Venezuela, now they claim it's – that wasn't socialism.
00:54:16.200What is the pushback on the argument with you on gun control in Venezuela?
00:54:25.560Yeah, so the first point is what you said when it comes to people say, oh, well, you really think this is to – the Second Amendment is really to defend against a tyrannical government?
00:54:36.400And to that I say yes, and to the points that you made.
00:54:40.740I mean – but people really don't see that.
00:54:43.640And I'm not even talking just on the far left, but just – and pretty much any of my Democrat friends, it's – they really don't understand that government power is inherently bad.
00:54:55.180When you centralize power and you need to have a check and balance, the second part is people are continuing to throw me the line, Cliff, this is not real socialism.
00:55:06.680And exactly my comeback for the past week and a half is what you said, Glenn, and that is every single person in the country that is pushing for this Democrat socialism call, whatever you want, they're all on record praising Venezuela over the past five to six years.
00:55:41.120And once again, I continue to tell my libertarian and conservative friends, do not back down.
00:55:46.780Do not give them one inch on this issue because this is a perfect example of the type of government control they want and what results when you put government control at such a high level over the ability of citizens to have guaranteed rights.
00:56:02.920I'm talking to Cliff Maloney from Young Americans for Liberty.
00:56:06.400Cliff, it's an interesting thing because I think there is a – the natural sort of inertia of human beings is bondage.
00:56:15.480And, you know, liberty is hard for a lot of people.
00:56:18.780And so a lot of times we slip back into this – since socialism has been around, there's always been times where it's flared up, even in the United States at some level, but all over the world.
00:56:30.940Can you explain at all the timing of while we're watching Venezuela essentially burn itself to the ground, now is the time where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is on the rise and Bernie Sanders is competing for the presidency.
00:56:44.880Why, of all times right now, we're seeing the worst failure of a government in – I mean, even worse than Zimbabwe, they're saying.
00:56:53.740We're seeing that right now, and now is the time that the Americans are deciding to walk towards socialism.
00:56:59.500Yeah, well, let me start off by saying this.
00:57:01.600I think that young people get a bad rap.
00:57:04.200You know, we work with college students, and I think that, you know, polls will show you like 43 percent of Americans support some sort of socialism.
00:57:12.500And that should scare the hell out of us.
00:58:10.000And what this does is it gives an opportunity – and I'm going to be very careful how I say this – to free-market capitalists.
00:58:16.760The problem I've had is the crony capitalists over the years, they are such a problem for us in the liberty camp because the crony capitalists create this environment where now the left can use the tactic that they use on us.
00:58:29.200And say, well, that – now we have to say, well, that wasn't real capitalism.
00:58:48.520And, yeah, so I would agree that I think we have to reown that messaging.
00:58:52.440And we have to go out there and we have to say, look, socialism, you know, you can only paint so many pictures.
00:58:57.120You can only point directly to Venezuela – they're all on the record for supporting it – and say these are false promises that don't work.
00:59:05.800But I really want to hit on the fact that, yeah, I mean, the capitalists and kind of the crony capitalists, they've made this battle so much harder.
00:59:13.140And they've opened the door for AOC and Bernie to prevent socialism.
00:59:17.040But we should take this as an opportunity.