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00:00:00.000 hello america uh it is monday great podcast in the works for you today um we started with uh

00:00:08.520 jamel hill um just a little i mean because i'm so appreciative of all of the things that she

00:00:14.320 has taught me about america aren't used to oh my gosh she's taught me so much yeah uh and i always

00:00:20.100 listen to everything that she says yeah especially when she makes absolutely no sense which is only

00:00:24.000 all the time right and she uh she has come out and just said that the the america's worse than

00:00:28.780 nazis because we taught the nazis and i just wanted to give her a quick history lesson on the

00:00:34.380 nazis and uh who learned what from whom and that is uh that's right at the top of the podcast uh then

00:00:42.120 did you you know there's another asteroid coming to hit us this one before election day the day

00:00:47.680 before election day according to nasa they say it's going to miss us but i'm rooting for the asteroid

00:00:51.720 yeah you made an endorsement in that race and i i like it i'm with you we talk a little bit about

00:00:56.400 the convention ari fleischer is on with us to talk about the press and the convention we've got a

00:01:01.940 lot on our plate miss a minute miss a lot

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00:01:15.460 ari fleischer former bush white house press secretary president now of ari fleischer communications

00:01:25.740 uh joins us now hello ari how are you great to be with you glenn yeah um so you are um

00:01:34.600 i i saw an interview what was it in the new yorker or the atlantic it was new yorker wasn't it

00:01:40.240 recently there was an article sure you're talking about my criticisms of the press yes everywhere yes

00:01:47.760 yes no there was a there was this this this question and answer thing that you did i think

00:01:52.460 it was the new yorker and it was the it was the most hostile interview uh that i have seen it's

00:01:58.980 just everything was yeah well what about this yeah well what about this and the left and the press in

00:02:05.780 particular they think they have a handle on the truth and what's going on and they just don't even

00:02:12.180 want to hear any anything that disagrees with them anything that right you know i've been in this

00:02:17.220 business a long time multiple decades dealing with the press i loved it i loved being a press

00:02:21.740 secretary on capitol hill at the white house what i do now and it used to be that the press was just

00:02:27.060 liberal you knew ideologically they were coming after you that republicans always have to work

00:02:32.200 harder than democrats just to get a fair shake but now it's just resistance donald trump has made the

00:02:38.540 press lose their minds and it wasn't hard for them to lose their minds and you see it almost every

00:02:45.140 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

00:02:50.800 he ran the first time um because of the chaos that he i think he loves he loves to live in it um and

00:02:59.560 the way he handled himself but i i will tell you he has exposed the press in ways i would have never

00:03:07.780 imagined uh he he is like a cat and they're a mouse and he just knows how to bat them and they

00:03:15.840 fall into that every single time and they've gone crazy yeah you know over the weekend the first lady

00:03:22.760 showed everybody the new rose garden yeah she made a lot of improvements to it put in a walkway to be

00:03:27.300 compliant for folks with wheelchairs and it was beautiful howard fineman who was a reporter with

00:03:34.680 newsweek when i was press secretary who used to have some some sway and some influence because he

00:03:39.800 was a big voice now he's an nbc analyst analyst he said it was a neo-fascist parade ground this comes

00:03:48.760 from a senior mature a reporter a neo-fascist parade ground the first lady's renovations to the rose

00:03:56.940 garden what's happened to the media what how did they lose the limits it used to be that they would 0.93

00:04:02.200 report then they would opine now they're just trolls yeah and they're trolls and bad taste and they're

00:04:08.520 they're also i've i've never gotten to the point until recently where there's absolutely no reason

00:04:16.860 for me to um read anything if i'm personally interested to read anything written in in certain

00:04:26.580 places like i've always liked the new york times i know that it's liberal but i've always liked the

00:04:32.360 coverage of the new york times i can't listen to the daily um at all because all i'm getting is

00:04:39.820 propaganda i knew this morning if i listened to the daily i'd be getting anti-gop propaganda i knew if i

00:04:47.580 listened last week they'd be saying it was the greatest television event in history and they never

00:04:52.820 surprised me yeah no that's that's exactly right and they really have crossed the line between

00:04:59.700 the one stage opinion seeped its way into the facts into when the news reporting analysis became what

00:05:09.140 they did but now it really has crossed the line to resistance they can't stand trump they want trump

00:05:13.980 gone everything is done through a filter of getting rid of trump on cnn and i watch cnn every morning

00:05:20.260 i deliberately watch cnn in the morning i watch fox in the afternoon i like a little diversity in

00:05:25.220 my news but cnn jumps down the throats of any republican guest i watched a republican congressman

00:05:31.800 from georgia on there this morning and the anchor jim shuto kept interrupting him badgering him they

00:05:36.960 never do that to the democrat guests every little bit about it from the way news is made to the decisions

00:05:42.500 about what is news it makes it on the air to the way the anchors behave now is done through the eyes

00:05:47.220 of anti-trump resistance and the press is just killing themselves that's the problem every survey

00:05:53.580 from gallup from pew shows that people's trust in the press to tell the news fully fairly and accurately

00:05:58.700 is at almost all-time lows they're only hurting themselves so do you think they're you know i called

00:06:06.840 people like chuck todd and everything when they were like you know what happened um after the 2016

00:06:12.940 and i i said to them if you really want to know there are people that can explain it to you but

00:06:19.480 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

00:06:25.160 where i went wrong and and what i learned um there was no interest at all there still isn't and i wonder

00:06:33.280 if they're not making exactly the same mistake they've just they just bet the house on it this time

00:06:40.180 they just said we're all in that's right that's right and it'll be a worse mistake if trump wins

00:06:45.080 in 2020 because they won't accept it they just can't acknowledge that they're wrong but here's

00:06:49.700 the fundamental problem with journalism today and it's cultural the people who go into journalism 1.00

00:06:54.640 school who become the next generation of reporters and this has been the case for decades are almost all

00:07:00.280 cut from the same college educated well-to-do democratic liberal cloth i have twice addressed students

00:07:07.600 from columbia journalism school once in 98 and the other actually in march of this year

00:07:11.720 in both cases i asked the students it was about 12 in each group in the last election how many of you

00:07:18.140 voted for the democrat how many for the republican in every one of those instances all 24 hands voted

00:07:23.940 democrat every single one the one exception was one guy in 1998 when the election was between bob dole

00:07:30.620 and bill clinton 11 hands went up for bill clinton so i said to the 12th guy so you are the only one

00:07:36.400 who voted for dole he looked at me and said no i voted for ralph nader oh my gosh you can't have

00:07:42.480 newsrooms that are 24 nothing and think they're fair think they're not biased think they're neutral

00:07:47.780 they by culture line up on one side there's nobody there to check their thoughts there's nobody there

00:07:53.940 so wait a minute there's another side let's think it through so they do instead is look for diversity

00:07:59.420 in terms of orientation right gender or race but ideology that which matters the most a world of

00:08:07.020 view is diminished so let me ask you this i you know i used to give people the benefit of the doubt

00:08:15.020 and then i actually worked in those uh places uh and i realized no they're just hardcore uh in their

00:08:22.660 belief and they don't have anyone in their circle uh to challenge them uh and so they they just they

00:08:29.840 think monolithically um now i am really wondering uh because of things like the post office what's

00:08:40.000 happening right now is the democrats and the press are setting up a scenario that is very dangerous

00:08:46.740 um saying that there's no problems with mail-in voting there's it's riddled with prop look at what

00:08:53.880 just happened in detroit it's so screwed up i don't know if you'll ever know the answer um and and yet

00:09:02.000 they are pushing this narrative that donald trump is somehow or another screwing with the the postal

00:09:09.800 service and they're going to challenge the if they don't win even if he won in a landslide they would

00:09:16.700 be challenging this and i think they're part of the problem i i think they know what they're doing

00:09:23.160 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

00:09:31.980 the president has framed this issue wrong the threat for mail-in voting is not fraud the threat for mail-in

00:09:40.060 voting is that the system can't handle it mail-in voting historically if you cast a vote by mail

00:09:45.760 absentee or otherwise it is three times as likely to get rejected as when you vote in person correct

00:09:50.920 voting in person is perfectly safe even in the covet environment we've been proving it with all the

00:09:54.860 primary elections so the switch to massive mail number one is not warranted by safety but two

00:10:01.160 unless the state is like washington state that's been doing this for a considerable amount of time

00:10:05.700 and did it in a bipartisan fashion the state's not ready for it so what happens is and the washington

00:10:11.440 post has done good journalism on this in the 2016 election you had some 500 000 ballots get thrown

00:10:17.740 out because of errors because it wasn't postmarked because about person didn't sign it it's going to

00:10:24.040 be more than a million ballots thrown out this time so it's not fraud it's going to be close elections

00:10:30.360 ballots are thrown out democrats cry voter suppression and then we're going to be arguing about should that

00:10:35.760 ballot count without a postmark oh and it's going to be voter suppression all over again that's what

00:10:40.260 they're going to allege shoot in the democrat new york city where democrats lost narrowly to each other

00:10:45.280 in primaries they were alleging voter suppression against each other so this is the risk here it's not

00:10:52.720 fraud and i wish the president wouldn't talk about it only in terms of fraud the risk is that the system

00:10:57.840 just can't handle it and well when you say the system i think i would correct you there it's it's not

00:11:03.640 the system it's not the post office it's the board of elections correct we are going we are headed

00:11:09.400 towards the hanging chad which i know you remember seeing that picture of that guy with the glasses

00:11:15.000 and he's like looking at that chad is that a dimple what exactly is happening with that chad

00:11:19.800 that's what we're headed for and then on top of it you're exactly right they're going to say

00:11:26.300 two million people or a million people their voices weren't heard they disenfranchised the voter

00:11:33.100 which just plays into all of this even if a vote comes in without a signature let it count even if

00:11:39.500 a vote comes in three days later let it count now here's where fraud can come in and i just wish the

00:11:45.100 president was more careful and precise with his words if there is a really close election whether

00:11:49.460 it's for the president or for the senator the governor or the dog catcher and you're allowed to

00:11:54.680 have a ballot come in without a postmark up to three days after the election particularly where

00:12:00.020 ballots were mailed to everybody and there's vote harvesting people can collect 100 200 ballots

00:12:05.600 take a chance send them in the next day deposit them into one of those boxes if you can deposit it

00:12:11.600 three days later and influence the course of the election yep and particularly if there's no voter

00:12:16.860 signature match i mean that's where the fraud can kick in after the election and again i go back to

00:12:22.640 fundamentals and voting in person is safe yeah we can socially distance we've proved that every day you

00:12:28.100 walk into a walmart you see how safe it is to do things in gigantic places we can have safe

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00:12:37.920 he he was a first-hand witness to the debacle that was the uh questioning of our of our postmaster

00:12:51.600 general on friday it seemed like a pretty open and shut case to me welcome congressman marshall

00:12:57.940 how are you glenn good morning from sunny kansas yes this is another nancy pelosi manufactured hoax to

00:13:06.300 attack the president the post office is fully funded for a year they have access to another 10 billion

00:13:13.760 dollars if they need it you know i've always been the believer that we can do two things at once we

00:13:19.540 can have a a safe and fair election and at the same time rehab the post office as well so both these

00:13:27.480 things need to happen and it's just a crime shame that pelosi wants to make this a political uh shootout

00:13:34.240 so sad day for america okay hang on just a sec let me play a little uh audio here specifically what

00:13:39.700 happened on friday you will give us your word today under oath that you have not taken any action

00:13:45.120 whatsoever in your capacity as postmaster general for any political reason or at the suggestion of any

00:13:51.020 any administration officials sir i will tell you my first election mail meeting what i instructed the

00:13:58.820 organization the whole team around us and out in the field whatever efforts we will have double them

00:14:04.720 i was greatly concerned about uh all all the political uh noise that we were hearing and uh uh we have

00:14:15.180 had we i've had weekly reviews on this since before this uh all the excitement came out we we are very

00:14:22.460 committed the board's committed the postal workers committed the union where our leadership is committed to

00:14:27.720 having a successful election and the uh the insinuation is quite frankly outrageous

00:14:33.860 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

00:14:43.260 there fixing the post office i don't think the post office is going to be the ones that screw this up

00:14:49.320 what this is is nothing more than um a way to cause riots in the streets and protests because if you up

00:15:00.140 the number of ballots that are going through the mail you are going to up the number of ballots

00:15:05.800 that are rejected and if you reject a million or two million votes because of the rules that have

00:15:13.340 always been in place it's very easy to say this is voter suppression this is nothing more than a

00:15:20.380 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

00:15:26.440 the chief of police for 25 years in my little hometown of el dorado kansas and in this country

00:15:32.060 was founded on law and order those riots are now spreading like a virus and we need those local

00:15:37.580 people to stand up but but yes every time we're being set up for failure here's what's happening

00:15:43.300 every time a human or a machine has to touch uh this polling uh ballot is an opportunity for fraud

00:15:50.900 we saw what happened in the last house election and goodness i think eight or nine of my my uh

00:15:56.280 colleagues on the house were winning on election night and the democrats kept harvesting ballots

00:16:01.260 people need to realize is that there we are randomly sending ballots out i even got two for my children at

00:16:07.340 my house applications thank goodness uh for two of my children that have not lived at my house for 10

00:16:12.520 for 10 years so uh the the whole system is wrought with fraud and and as republicans we got to keep our eye on

00:16:20.580 if the democrats think about doing things i just never would have imagined this this ballot harvesting

00:16:25.420 is one instance so they're setting us up for failure the post office should be able to handle this

00:16:30.500 situation every day they handle 450 million pieces of mail we're asking them to handle handle an extra

00:16:36.720 150 million at most over a couple weeks time they just did the census right i'm not sure how many uh

00:16:43.260 census applications went out in the mail but it had been i suppose you know close to you know 200 million

00:16:49.580 maybe 300 million more so we they should be able to handle the situation but where there's opportunity

00:16:54.980 there will be fraud by the democrats so tell me um tell me about why there seems to be

00:17:03.600 no appetite to uh shut down antifa and i mean if if they're not the definition

00:17:11.940 of domestic terrorists as they go through the neighborhoods at three o'clock in the morning with

00:17:19.220 guillotines telling people to give them their houses that that's not a political statement that is a fear

00:17:27.220 statement it's in the middle of the night you're being woken up your kids are looking out the window

00:17:32.040 they're worried about what's going on this is a domestic terror tactic when is somebody going to stand up

00:17:39.200 and do something well i certainly hope that our that the attorney general is finding a path to do

00:17:45.500 just that but but certainly i think it all starts at the local level that that we first of all as americans

00:17:51.620 have the right to protect our families and this is one more reason we need a second amendment and why

00:17:56.620 it's so important to be able to protect ourselves when you can't get the police and then and then beyond

00:18:02.120 that we need local county officers local uh governors if they can't handle it to reach out

00:18:08.340 to the president and americans to realize that president trump cannot send the the national

00:18:13.120 guard there without an invitation but hopefully that local folks will hold those local officials

00:18:18.440 accountable and elect somebody that will stand up to to all these hostile groups because we are a nation

00:18:24.640 of law and order and and glenn what we ask our police officers to do now is just incredible i remember

00:18:30.400 growing up what my dad had to do you know we expect them to be a traffic cop an expert marksman

00:18:35.700 uh detected that they also had to be a social worker and a family counselor a marital counselor

00:18:41.500 uh to take care of the homeless we expect an awful lot of our police we need they need more funding not

00:18:46.540 less funding but but you're right we need to declare some of these groups as terrorists and let the fbi

00:18:52.160 and the attorney general go after them um and there's nothing the federal government uh can do

00:18:58.960 on voting if i can just bring you back to that one uh just this one last time there's nothing the

00:19:05.280 federal government can do although nancy pelosi um uh put harvest uh ballot harvesting uh in the last

00:19:13.840 stimulus which i don't understand how the federal government has anything to do with that but if you

00:19:19.260 look at just detroit 72 percent of detroit's absentee ballot counts were off 72 percent when they went back

00:19:29.540 and and uh looked at it again their record ballot counts weren't so record they don't match the number

00:19:39.100 of voters in detroit and they're saying it's so screwed up that uh they don't know if they'll ever really

00:19:46.620 have the answer is this what we're facing in these democratic states exactly glenn i just hope that

00:19:54.420 america realizes the hoax that they realize that nancy pelosi has once more fabricated an entire hoax

00:20:01.860 a a false crisis and they'll just go right up the chain and they'll say look if this was a hoax

00:20:07.560 then the russian situation was a hoax as well and the whole impeachment process was a hoax and that

00:20:14.860 house of cards comes caving in uh we have to get president trump re-elected we have to keep the

00:20:21.000 majority in the senate we gotta flip the house back that this truly is a crossroads in history for the

00:20:28.400 united states do we want a socialist government or do we want the donald trump economy of less

00:20:34.120 regulations and lower taxes so i hope america wakes up smells of roses and this november

00:20:39.380 gets president trump back in there uh thank you very much for uh for taking time out of your day

00:20:45.700 and and joining us um we appreciate uh the work of anybody who is in fighting for the constitution

00:20:54.320 and and common sense uh and against socialism right now uh congressman robert uh roger marshall

00:21:00.700 from kansas thank you so much for being with us appreciate it

00:21:03.780 this is the best of the glenn beck program and we really want to thank you for listening

00:21:10.940 uh apparently another asteroid is uh headed towards earth uh the day before the election

00:21:25.880 and i am pulling for the asteroid are you endorsing i am endorsing i am officially endorsing the asteroid

00:21:36.040 uh it's the day before the election uh they say it is 6.5 feet in diameter and not potentially

00:21:46.500 dangerous no they say consider it to be potentially dangerous so it's 6.5 feet they found it 13 days ago

00:21:55.640 it's coming towards us the day before election it's supposed to either near miss us uh or hit us um

00:22:03.340 how did they find one like this but they missed the what was it was like the size of a bus or

00:22:10.040 it was much bigger it was much bigger and that one is the closest call we've had in decades and they

00:22:16.860 didn't see it till after it passed yeah they're like whoa what was that how'd you find this one

00:22:22.700 this is the size of a pea uh and uh i mean what it just feels right that we get hit by an asteroid

00:22:31.600 right now it just feels like the thing that does that that would happen doesn't it feel honestly

00:22:36.560 would you be surprised and i mean this sincerely i would have in the past if aliens appeared i would

00:22:43.900 have been like whoa didn't see that coming no not really no i wouldn't be surprised uh jesus 10 years

00:22:50.320 jesus is here how could you be surprised by that how could you be surprised i mean there is nothing

00:22:56.180 that would shock me anymore like gulags ah you know what uh the irs uh said that you didn't pay your

00:23:04.180 taxes no here's my tax i paid them here's the canceled check cashed by the irs yep gulag for you

00:23:10.960 i wouldn't be surprised

00:23:12.280 i wouldn't be surprised

00:23:12.300 i wouldn't be surprised

00:23:12.640 i wouldn't be surprised

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