Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Ari Fleischer & Rep. Roger Marshall ｜ 8⧸24⧸20
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Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary and president of Ari Fleischer Communications, joins us to talk about the 2020 Democratic National Convention, the media's reaction to it, and why the press is worse than the Nazis.
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hello america uh it is monday great podcast in the works for you today um we started with uh
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jamel hill um just a little i mean because i'm so appreciative of all of the things that she
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has taught me about america aren't used to oh my gosh she's taught me so much yeah uh and i always
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listen to everything that she says yeah especially when she makes absolutely no sense which is only
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all the time right and she uh she has come out and just said that the the america's worse than
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nazis because we taught the nazis and i just wanted to give her a quick history lesson on the
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nazis and uh who learned what from whom and that is uh that's right at the top of the podcast uh then
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did you you know there's another asteroid coming to hit us this one before election day the day
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before election day according to nasa they say it's going to miss us but i'm rooting for the asteroid
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yeah you made an endorsement in that race and i i like it i'm with you we talk a little bit about
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the convention ari fleischer is on with us to talk about the press and the convention we've got a
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you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program
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ari fleischer former bush white house press secretary president now of ari fleischer communications
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uh joins us now hello ari how are you great to be with you glenn yeah um so you are um
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i i saw an interview what was it in the new yorker or the atlantic it was new yorker wasn't it
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recently there was an article sure you're talking about my criticisms of the press yes everywhere yes
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yes no there was a there was this this this question and answer thing that you did i think
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it was the new yorker and it was the it was the most hostile interview uh that i have seen it's
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just everything was yeah well what about this yeah well what about this and the left and the press in
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particular they think they have a handle on the truth and what's going on and they just don't even
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want to hear any anything that disagrees with them anything that right you know i've been in this
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business a long time multiple decades dealing with the press i loved it i loved being a press
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secretary on capitol hill at the white house what i do now and it used to be that the press was just
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liberal you knew ideologically they were coming after you that republicans always have to work
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harder than democrats just to get a fair shake but now it's just resistance donald trump has made the
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press lose their minds and it wasn't hard for them to lose their minds and you see it almost every
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day you pick up the news you know i tell you i was um you know i was not in favor of donald trump when
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he ran the first time um because of the chaos that he i think he loves he loves to live in it um and
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the way he handled himself but i i will tell you he has exposed the press in ways i would have never
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imagined uh he he is like a cat and they're a mouse and he just knows how to bat them and they
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fall into that every single time and they've gone crazy yeah you know over the weekend the first lady
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showed everybody the new rose garden yeah she made a lot of improvements to it put in a walkway to be
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compliant for folks with wheelchairs and it was beautiful howard fineman who was a reporter with
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newsweek when i was press secretary who used to have some some sway and some influence because he
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was a big voice now he's an nbc analyst analyst he said it was a neo-fascist parade ground this comes
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from a senior mature a reporter a neo-fascist parade ground the first lady's renovations to the rose
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garden what's happened to the media what how did they lose the limits it used to be that they would
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report then they would opine now they're just trolls yeah and they're trolls and bad taste and they're
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they're also i've i've never gotten to the point until recently where there's absolutely no reason
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for me to um read anything if i'm personally interested to read anything written in in certain
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places like i've always liked the new york times i know that it's liberal but i've always liked the
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coverage of the new york times i can't listen to the daily um at all because all i'm getting is
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propaganda i knew this morning if i listened to the daily i'd be getting anti-gop propaganda i knew if i
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listened last week they'd be saying it was the greatest television event in history and they never
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surprised me yeah no that's that's exactly right and they really have crossed the line between
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the one stage opinion seeped its way into the facts into when the news reporting analysis became what
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they did but now it really has crossed the line to resistance they can't stand trump they want trump
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gone everything is done through a filter of getting rid of trump on cnn and i watch cnn every morning
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i deliberately watch cnn in the morning i watch fox in the afternoon i like a little diversity in
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my news but cnn jumps down the throats of any republican guest i watched a republican congressman
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from georgia on there this morning and the anchor jim shuto kept interrupting him badgering him they
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never do that to the democrat guests every little bit about it from the way news is made to the decisions
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about what is news it makes it on the air to the way the anchors behave now is done through the eyes
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of anti-trump resistance and the press is just killing themselves that's the problem every survey
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from gallup from pew shows that people's trust in the press to tell the news fully fairly and accurately
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is at almost all-time lows they're only hurting themselves so do you think they're you know i called
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people like chuck todd and everything when they were like you know what happened um after the 2016
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and i i said to them if you really want to know there are people that can explain it to you but
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i'm not sure you really want to know but if you do you know give me a half an hour and i can tell you
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where i went wrong and and what i learned um there was no interest at all there still isn't and i wonder
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if they're not making exactly the same mistake they've just they just bet the house on it this time
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they just said we're all in that's right that's right and it'll be a worse mistake if trump wins
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in 2020 because they won't accept it they just can't acknowledge that they're wrong but here's
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the fundamental problem with journalism today and it's cultural the people who go into journalism
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school who become the next generation of reporters and this has been the case for decades are almost all
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cut from the same college educated well-to-do democratic liberal cloth i have twice addressed students
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from columbia journalism school once in 98 and the other actually in march of this year
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in both cases i asked the students it was about 12 in each group in the last election how many of you
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voted for the democrat how many for the republican in every one of those instances all 24 hands voted
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democrat every single one the one exception was one guy in 1998 when the election was between bob dole
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and bill clinton 11 hands went up for bill clinton so i said to the 12th guy so you are the only one
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who voted for dole he looked at me and said no i voted for ralph nader oh my gosh you can't have
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newsrooms that are 24 nothing and think they're fair think they're not biased think they're neutral
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they by culture line up on one side there's nobody there to check their thoughts there's nobody there
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so wait a minute there's another side let's think it through so they do instead is look for diversity
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in terms of orientation right gender or race but ideology that which matters the most a world of
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view is diminished so let me ask you this i you know i used to give people the benefit of the doubt
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and then i actually worked in those uh places uh and i realized no they're just hardcore uh in their
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belief and they don't have anyone in their circle uh to challenge them uh and so they they just they
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think monolithically um now i am really wondering uh because of things like the post office what's
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happening right now is the democrats and the press are setting up a scenario that is very dangerous
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um saying that there's no problems with mail-in voting there's it's riddled with prop look at what
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just happened in detroit it's so screwed up i don't know if you'll ever know the answer um and and yet
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they are pushing this narrative that donald trump is somehow or another screwing with the the postal
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service and they're going to challenge the if they don't win even if he won in a landslide they would
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be challenging this and i think they're part of the problem i i think they know what they're doing
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now do they they do i mean this is this is such anti-trumpism um but i i do have to say on this one
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the president has framed this issue wrong the threat for mail-in voting is not fraud the threat for mail-in
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voting is that the system can't handle it mail-in voting historically if you cast a vote by mail
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absentee or otherwise it is three times as likely to get rejected as when you vote in person correct
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voting in person is perfectly safe even in the covet environment we've been proving it with all the
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primary elections so the switch to massive mail number one is not warranted by safety but two
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unless the state is like washington state that's been doing this for a considerable amount of time
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and did it in a bipartisan fashion the state's not ready for it so what happens is and the washington
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post has done good journalism on this in the 2016 election you had some 500 000 ballots get thrown
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out because of errors because it wasn't postmarked because about person didn't sign it it's going to
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be more than a million ballots thrown out this time so it's not fraud it's going to be close elections
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ballots are thrown out democrats cry voter suppression and then we're going to be arguing about should that
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ballot count without a postmark oh and it's going to be voter suppression all over again that's what
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they're going to allege shoot in the democrat new york city where democrats lost narrowly to each other
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in primaries they were alleging voter suppression against each other so this is the risk here it's not
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fraud and i wish the president wouldn't talk about it only in terms of fraud the risk is that the system
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just can't handle it and well when you say the system i think i would correct you there it's it's not
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the system it's not the post office it's the board of elections correct we are going we are headed
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towards the hanging chad which i know you remember seeing that picture of that guy with the glasses
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and he's like looking at that chad is that a dimple what exactly is happening with that chad
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that's what we're headed for and then on top of it you're exactly right they're going to say
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two million people or a million people their voices weren't heard they disenfranchised the voter
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which just plays into all of this even if a vote comes in without a signature let it count even if
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a vote comes in three days later let it count now here's where fraud can come in and i just wish the
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president was more careful and precise with his words if there is a really close election whether
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it's for the president or for the senator the governor or the dog catcher and you're allowed to
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have a ballot come in without a postmark up to three days after the election particularly where
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ballots were mailed to everybody and there's vote harvesting people can collect 100 200 ballots
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take a chance send them in the next day deposit them into one of those boxes if you can deposit it
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three days later and influence the course of the election yep and particularly if there's no voter
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signature match i mean that's where the fraud can kick in after the election and again i go back to
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fundamentals and voting in person is safe yeah we can socially distance we've proved that every day you
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walk into a walmart you see how safe it is to do things in gigantic places we can have safe
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he he was a first-hand witness to the debacle that was the uh questioning of our of our postmaster
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general on friday it seemed like a pretty open and shut case to me welcome congressman marshall
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how are you glenn good morning from sunny kansas yes this is another nancy pelosi manufactured hoax to
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attack the president the post office is fully funded for a year they have access to another 10 billion
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dollars if they need it you know i've always been the believer that we can do two things at once we
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can have a a safe and fair election and at the same time rehab the post office as well so both these
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things need to happen and it's just a crime shame that pelosi wants to make this a political uh shootout
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so sad day for america okay hang on just a sec let me play a little uh audio here specifically what
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happened on friday you will give us your word today under oath that you have not taken any action
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whatsoever in your capacity as postmaster general for any political reason or at the suggestion of any
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any administration officials sir i will tell you my first election mail meeting what i instructed the
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organization the whole team around us and out in the field whatever efforts we will have double them
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i was greatly concerned about uh all all the political uh noise that we were hearing and uh uh we have
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had we i've had weekly reviews on this since before this uh all the excitement came out we we are very
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committed the board's committed the postal workers committed the union where our leadership is committed to
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having a successful election and the uh the insinuation is quite frankly outrageous
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so here's the thing uh i i i find it really the the post office is screwed up needs to be fixed i'm glad he's
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there fixing the post office i don't think the post office is going to be the ones that screw this up
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what this is is nothing more than um a way to cause riots in the streets and protests because if you up
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the number of ballots that are going through the mail you are going to up the number of ballots
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that are rejected and if you reject a million or two million votes because of the rules that have
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always been in place it's very easy to say this is voter suppression this is nothing more than a
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setup is it not you're you're right you know first of all i just got to mention law and order my dad was
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the chief of police for 25 years in my little hometown of el dorado kansas and in this country
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was founded on law and order those riots are now spreading like a virus and we need those local
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people to stand up but but yes every time we're being set up for failure here's what's happening
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every time a human or a machine has to touch uh this polling uh ballot is an opportunity for fraud
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we saw what happened in the last house election and goodness i think eight or nine of my my uh
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colleagues on the house were winning on election night and the democrats kept harvesting ballots
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people need to realize is that there we are randomly sending ballots out i even got two for my children at
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my house applications thank goodness uh for two of my children that have not lived at my house for 10
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for 10 years so uh the the whole system is wrought with fraud and and as republicans we got to keep our eye on
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if the democrats think about doing things i just never would have imagined this this ballot harvesting
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is one instance so they're setting us up for failure the post office should be able to handle this
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situation every day they handle 450 million pieces of mail we're asking them to handle handle an extra
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150 million at most over a couple weeks time they just did the census right i'm not sure how many uh
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census applications went out in the mail but it had been i suppose you know close to you know 200 million
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maybe 300 million more so we they should be able to handle the situation but where there's opportunity
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there will be fraud by the democrats so tell me um tell me about why there seems to be
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no appetite to uh shut down antifa and i mean if if they're not the definition
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of domestic terrorists as they go through the neighborhoods at three o'clock in the morning with
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guillotines telling people to give them their houses that that's not a political statement that is a fear
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statement it's in the middle of the night you're being woken up your kids are looking out the window
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they're worried about what's going on this is a domestic terror tactic when is somebody going to stand up
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and do something well i certainly hope that our that the attorney general is finding a path to do
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just that but but certainly i think it all starts at the local level that that we first of all as americans
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have the right to protect our families and this is one more reason we need a second amendment and why
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it's so important to be able to protect ourselves when you can't get the police and then and then beyond
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that we need local county officers local uh governors if they can't handle it to reach out
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to the president and americans to realize that president trump cannot send the the national
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guard there without an invitation but hopefully that local folks will hold those local officials
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accountable and elect somebody that will stand up to to all these hostile groups because we are a nation
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of law and order and and glenn what we ask our police officers to do now is just incredible i remember
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growing up what my dad had to do you know we expect them to be a traffic cop an expert marksman
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uh detected that they also had to be a social worker and a family counselor a marital counselor
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uh to take care of the homeless we expect an awful lot of our police we need they need more funding not
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less funding but but you're right we need to declare some of these groups as terrorists and let the fbi
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and the attorney general go after them um and there's nothing the federal government uh can do
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on voting if i can just bring you back to that one uh just this one last time there's nothing the
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federal government can do although nancy pelosi um uh put harvest uh ballot harvesting uh in the last
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stimulus which i don't understand how the federal government has anything to do with that but if you
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look at just detroit 72 percent of detroit's absentee ballot counts were off 72 percent when they went back
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and and uh looked at it again their record ballot counts weren't so record they don't match the number
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of voters in detroit and they're saying it's so screwed up that uh they don't know if they'll ever really
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have the answer is this what we're facing in these democratic states exactly glenn i just hope that
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america realizes the hoax that they realize that nancy pelosi has once more fabricated an entire hoax
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a a false crisis and they'll just go right up the chain and they'll say look if this was a hoax
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then the russian situation was a hoax as well and the whole impeachment process was a hoax and that
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house of cards comes caving in uh we have to get president trump re-elected we have to keep the
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majority in the senate we gotta flip the house back that this truly is a crossroads in history for the
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united states do we want a socialist government or do we want the donald trump economy of less
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regulations and lower taxes so i hope america wakes up smells of roses and this november
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gets president trump back in there uh thank you very much for uh for taking time out of your day
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and and joining us um we appreciate uh the work of anybody who is in fighting for the constitution
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and and common sense uh and against socialism right now uh congressman robert uh roger marshall
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from kansas thank you so much for being with us appreciate it
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this is the best of the glenn beck program and we really want to thank you for listening
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uh apparently another asteroid is uh headed towards earth uh the day before the election
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and i am pulling for the asteroid are you endorsing i am endorsing i am officially endorsing the asteroid
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uh it's the day before the election uh they say it is 6.5 feet in diameter and not potentially
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dangerous no they say consider it to be potentially dangerous so it's 6.5 feet they found it 13 days ago
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it's coming towards us the day before election it's supposed to either near miss us uh or hit us um
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how did they find one like this but they missed the what was it was like the size of a bus or
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it was much bigger it was much bigger and that one is the closest call we've had in decades and they
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didn't see it till after it passed yeah they're like whoa what was that how'd you find this one
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this is the size of a pea uh and uh i mean what it just feels right that we get hit by an asteroid
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right now it just feels like the thing that does that that would happen doesn't it feel honestly
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would you be surprised and i mean this sincerely i would have in the past if aliens appeared i would
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have been like whoa didn't see that coming no not really no i wouldn't be surprised uh jesus 10 years
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jesus is here how could you be surprised by that how could you be surprised i mean there is nothing
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that would shock me anymore like gulags ah you know what uh the irs uh said that you didn't pay your
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taxes no here's my tax i paid them here's the canceled check cashed by the irs yep gulag for you