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Glenn Beck is joined by Azra Nomani and Victor Davis Hanson to discuss the latest in the scandal surrounding Merrick Garland and his use of the FBI to go after Virginia school board members and their families. Plus, Bill O'Reilly goes to a weird place with Bill.
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Today is a fabulous podcast. Stu, I would say today is the big show. Yesterday was the pre-big
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show. We thought it was the big show. Yeah, we don't want to say that every show we continue
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to hype as the greatest show to try to sell people out. But this one truly is. We're just
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rating it that way. We're just rating it. Yesterday we were wrong. Sorry if you got
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sucked into that trap. Today we have Bill O'Reilly kind of gone, really went to a weird
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place with Bill today. That's probably weird even to say just that. We also talk about
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the sellouts in Congress. We explain exactly why Merrick Garland is now using the FBI to
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go after all those moms and dads, especially in Virginia or anybody that's questioning their
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school board. And we have Victor Davis Hanson on to talk about the dying citizen. What does
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it take to bring America back? And my review of the new James Bond movie. All that and more
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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I want to bring in a real patriot, Azra Nomani. She is the vice president for strategy and
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investigations at Parents Defending Education, where she is the editor of the Indoctrination
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database and FOIA work. She's also the coalition of the co-founder of Coalition for TJ, a group
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of parents and community members in Virginia. She's a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal,
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co-director of the Pearl Project and co-founder of the Muslim Reform Movement. This woman has been
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fighting a good fight for a very long time. Yesterday, she came out with a story that is so
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important. As our FBI and the Department of Justice under Merrick Garland are coming out and and looking
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for the terrorists that are the parents. She her group got a tip that Merrick Garland might have a
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conflict of interest. And she is with us now to explain. Azra, welcome to the program.
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Azra, are you there? Hear me? Yes, I can hear you. Okay, great, great, great. Thanks. Yeah, thank you. Thank
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you for your kind words, too. But I was so looking forward to talking to you because you're an
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investigator. So you know how to follow the money. And and I knew that you would get this story and
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you would understand how important it is. Oh, yeah. Okay, so let's let's go through. Yeah, his daughter,
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Merrick Garland's daughter is married to what's his name? Tanner. No, I know. I'm going to I'm
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going to make you go through this. No, I'm going to make you go through this. This is another example
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of how ridiculous it is. His actual name is Alexander, but he goes by Zam. Because that's what
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every nickname is for Alexander, right? Oh, yeah, sure. So his daughter, his name is Rebecca Garland.
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And the daughter grew up in, you know, the comfortable life of her dad and mom, and went
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to Yale. And then at Yale, she reconnected with an old childhood acquaintance, Van, and they got
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married. And it should have just ended there as a happy, you know, love story. Yes, right. New York
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Times wedding announcement, the whole thing. And what's in the first paragraph, of course, that
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her father, Merrick Garland attended. And then a few paragraphs later, Van was a co-founder
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Panorama Education. That sounds epic. What do they do?
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Yeah, it sounds so tame, right? It's just they pick the perfect, perfect disguise. It's a
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perfect Trojan horse. So let me just fast forward to the fact that we now have venture capitalists
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investing in Panorama Education. So it must be hot. Yeah. And one of those investors is a man by the
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name of Mark Zuckerberg. Wow. Yeah, why would Mark Zuckerberg be interested in this education
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company based in Boston by a couple of Yale graduates, because it is a data mining company.
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And what Panorama Education does is they use these fancy words called social and emotional learning.
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So just think about that, like combination of words so bizarre, social and emotional learning. What
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does that mean? Well, when my kid was small, it was just like, learn to have critical thinking and
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have character and be nice to others. Now, they are using it as an excuse to mess with kids' heads.
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And some of the questions in these, quote, screeners, that's what they're calling their surveys,
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are things like, are you gender fluid? What's your position on race? Are you happy? Are you sad?
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And literally, parents are not even aware about these surveys.
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Okay, so here's the thing. If you listen to Megyn Kelly, she kind of talked about this,
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but she didn't know necessarily what it was. But her child came back home and said,
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I'm asked if I still feel like I'm a boy. And they do it every week.
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Exactly. It's from one company or the other. It is an industry. So Panorama Education is just
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the tip of the iceberg in this multi-million dollar industry. And let's be clear about what
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they are. They're government contractors. They're not just an education company. They're not just
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like, oh, we're here for child welfare. They are government contractors. And so Merrick Garland's
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son-in-law is profiting off the backs of our country's children. And we're not talking little
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Yeah. Let me give you, let me get some facts here. Fairfax County, Fairfax County public schools
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signed quietly an $1.8 million contract with Panorama Education for their screening, where they ask the
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students questions whether they feel sad or gender fluid, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah. The Panorama
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Education staff gets status now as school officials. So they have a right to the private student data
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under federal law. Yeah. Just, just people need to just absorb what you just said. I mean,
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it's so dramatic. Contractors are getting status as school officials equal to teachers or principal,
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school board members. And they are basically data scientists or even data nothings, you know, but just
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absorbing this information about kids. And Glenn, this is the breaking news headline for you because
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I know you love breaking news. $1.8 million was the agreement in June. Nobody even knew about it.
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They started having board meetings and they just mentioned, oh, we got COVID money, okay, over the
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summer. And guess what? We're going to spend it on this screener. So there was this vigilant mom who
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heard just this mention in a school board meeting and she asked them, what is the screener? So that's how
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she got the information about the $1.8 million contract. And then she called us at Parents
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Defending Education and gave us the tip. But guess what? They then quietly signed another agreement,
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an addendum in September, raising the number to $2.4 million.
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That's one school district, one school district.
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And that happened in early September. And then within a month, I went to the school board and I
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protested the wastage of this money. And days later, the school board association, you know,
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summons the FBI. I'm not saying it's because of me, but I know that they know that parents' eyes are
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on these contracts. And then we got this edict from Merrick Garland to shut us up.
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So here's the, here's what I want you to know. The federal government is data mining our children.
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They are asking that they, they themselves are allowing contractors funded by Zuckerberg,
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uh, and Merrick Garland's son and daughter, son-in-law and daughter. It's their company.
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They're going into our school districts in the cover of night with the school board.
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They are getting this information. They are deeming the people who are processing this information as
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school officials so they can have access to all of this and share it with third parties without
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parental notification or consent. Yeah. And so then what happened is that we raised questions about it
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and then they suddenly announced, Oh, there's going to be an opt out form that parents can sign,
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but it wasn't available for days. It wasn't even unclear. Who do you send it to? And then guess
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what? Parents started filling it out and they then started getting emails literally asking,
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did you make a quote mistake? Are you sure you wanted to opt out as if these parents made a mistake?
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And by the way, the opt out date, the final date is today, right? And then can you believe that,
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you know, the opt out day for a school district in Northern Virginia, but that's how important it
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is. That's, and you know, the details matter. Yeah. Uh, and I also know if people start looking into
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their own school board, you're going to find, uh, you're going to find, are there any other
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country, uh, companies, um, besides panorama education that people should be looking for?
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Oh my gosh, this is so fantastic. So one other little nugget I want to just share with you and
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your listeners is that, that Fairfax County public schools, we have discovered also shared
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information on all of the students before a single opt out form was even presented to parents.
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So, yeah. So they got the student name, the student ID number, their class and, um, their school. And
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everybody needs to remember that the, this child, the market of children, as any parent knows,
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they spend a lot of money. We spend a lot of money on them. So this is a big market that,
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that companies want to understand. So let me tell you. So what happened is that this
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eagle eye mom also submitted a FOIA to find out who were the other bidders, because this one of all
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things, we actually had other bidders and, and I'm going to name some of the companies that weren't
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bidders in Fairfax County, but there's a company called Castle, C-A-S-C-L. They are huge in this
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business. C-A-S-T-E-L. C-A-S-E-L. E-L. Castle. Okay. Yeah. Castle is a big company. Okay. Then,
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then we have, um, another company that, um, they're all such like strange names that you kind of start
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forgetting what they are. Yeah. But, um, but then New York University has a company, um, and they,
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it's their education department. So you just have to look up if there's a contract with New York
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University. Um, and then we have, uh, this other company that is culturally responsive and they do,
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you know, to make it all sound so good. So culturally responsive is the name of the company.
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Yeah, exactly. Um, okay. And I'm going to get you a whole list. Okay. Please do. And I will,
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I will tweet it out today. If you're in the Fairfax County school district, your opt out date
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ends today, you better get on the stick. If this is the first time that you've heard about this. Um,
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this is, this is, um, once again, our kids being sold for power and money, uh, and you know,
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don't mess with my kids, man, don't mess with my kids. And this is the, the, the, uh, kindest thing
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I could say is Merrick Garland, just this really brilliant guy that should have been on the Supreme
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Court, just didn't see the conflict of interest, uh, you know, about, uh, saying we're going to go
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after these parents who are standing up against these things with the FBI when his daughter and
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son-in-law are making millions of dollars data mining the children in the very counties that he's
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saying we're going to have to send the FBI into it. It's sickening. Yeah. What we've done now is
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yesterday we sent a letter to Senate commerce committee to ask for a hearing on this very
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important issue of big tech data mining our kids. And I hope everybody will support us like
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write a letter to your Senator or representative because this, this matters because these surveys
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are then used, I hope everybody understands as a way to make an excuse to get programs of
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indoctrination into the schools. Oh, our kids are sad. So we need to have some uplifting anti-racism
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training. You know, that's how they get their, their programs in. It's a Trojan horse.
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Ezra, thank you so much. Uh, if you want to find out more information, go to defending ed,
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defending ed.org, defending ed.org. Every parent must be involved. Oh, we're getting that time of
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every day. Um, it's nothing has changed just the device. I mean, you're not watching it on a cable
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TV. Um, but you're, you're watching the same show that he's always done and it is just as entertaining
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and just as smart. Um, Bill O'Reilly, welcome to the program. Beck, I need your help. I need your
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help. All right. And that hurts me. It hurts me to say it. Okay. Um, so I'm interviewing Donald Trump
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next week and I want to do a different kind of interview. Yeah. I don't want to have him venting
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about the election and all of that. Okay. Yeah. So I'm asking you, and I hope we can do this in the
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last three or four minutes of our, uh, interview today for suggested questions. All right. Let's,
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let's take that towards the end of the show, the bottom of the, uh, bottom of the hour. Okay. Bill.
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Yes. The, the 11 senators that saved America last night, the 11 GOP senators, um, people like Ted Cruz,
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Mike Lee, others all said, are you, are you out of your mind? What are you doing? Uh, they were
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bluffing. Um, what do you think? Well, they let the Democrats have a little safety shoot. Um, but a lot
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of this stuff is not apparent to you or me or any other American. There's back room dealing and Mitch
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McConnell is the biggest back room dealer, I think probably in U S history. Yeah. That's the problem.
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Right. So we don't know what the deal was with Mitch and the other 11. Right. The deal might have
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been, you give us this extension and we'll bring down the 3.5 trillion to two or one eight or
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something. No, that's not a deal. I want it's not a deal. That's fine. But I don't know if your
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precedent is really taken into account by Mitch McConnell. No, I know that, but I mean,
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he should listen to the GOP that they are, they are, I'm sorry, the voters, not the GOP. The voters
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are done with this and they don't want to aid and abet this, uh, this, uh, transformation of our
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country. That's true. That's true. But the deal that McConnell is making, he's thinking four or five
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steps out. Yeah, I am too. Um, yeah, I know. I'm not saying I'm not sticking up. Oh yeah. You know,
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it's no, I'm going to take it all out on you today. Yeah. You can take it out. I'm sorry.
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Um, I'm not sticking up for the turtle. Yeah. I'm just telling you something that isn't reported or
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there are deals that are made. Okay. So tell me the deal, but tell me what selling your country out
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would be worth. Look, look back back. The big picture is this. These Democrats and the Biden
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administration want to turn the United States into a quasi socialist state where the economy is run by
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the government. Yes. Everybody knows that. Yes. Right. All 80 million Americans who voted for Biden
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are partially responsible for that. Yes. They're going to fail, but they could fail very quickly
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if in the midterms of 2022, there is an overwhelming landslide for the Republican party. Okay. That's the
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only mechanism that stops the madness. Okay. O'Reilly. O'Reilly. O'Reilly. Wait a minute. Just a second.
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Um, you're right about that. Of course. Unfortunately, in that three and a half trillion dollar bill
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are all kinds of infrastructure pieces. Do you remember the, hang on? Oh, yes, they are.
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No, they aren't. Yes, they are. Um, do you, uh, are, are, do you, you remember the, uh, the song
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by Johnny cash one piece at a time? Okay. Where he, where he was building a Cadillac, he was working
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at GM and he decided instead of buying a Cadillac cause he could never afford it, he was going
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to steal it and take it out in his lunchbox. One piece at a time. Took him like 40 years,
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but he finally got a Cadillac that was a hideous monster. Right. That's exactly what's happening
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here. Every bill they pass, every bill they pass has another piece of the great reset.
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That's right. And you're absolutely correct. And I'm not arguing with you about that.
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I am saying once again, when you have 80 million Americans casting a vote for a man like Joe
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Biden, and they were warned by you and me and most astute commentators that you have to,
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you will suffer the consequences. And we are, but after every mistake, there is a remedy. And the
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remedy is next year. You're not going to stop the Biden administration from wasting trillions of
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dollars on equity, climate change, or whatever other nutty thing they come up with. There's no
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mechanism to stop it because the Republicans don't control either side of the house and Manchin and
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Sinema who are saving the country, the two Democrats who won't vote for the 3.5 trillion, they're under
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unbelievable pressure. And if the Republicans don't compromise a bit, they'll fold, they'll
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fold and Biden will get the whole thing. So now what Mitch boy is doing is saying to Manchin and
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Sinema, you know, we're not unreasonable. We will compromise a little bit. So you just hang
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in and we'll get this thing done in a responsible way. Of course it isn't responsible. You know,
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we have now a government wasting, literally wasting trillions of American taxpayer dollars.
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And that's not responsible, but it's never going to stop until the American people wise up.
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Right. And that's why they should vote John Barrasso in Wyoming out, Roy Blunt, Missouri,
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Shelly Moore Capito from West Virginia, Susan Collins, John Cornyn from Texas. You're dead to me,
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John. Mitch McConnell, Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski in Alaska. Hang on, hang on. Rob Portman in Ohio,
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Mike Rounds, Richard Shelby in Alabama, and Senator John Thune. Those were the 11.
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All of the 11 that voted for an extension of the debt ceiling you want out.
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Yeah. I wish there was one more so I could technically call them the dirty dozen that were
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the saboteurs, but I can't. It's one shot. Calm down now. Stu, do you have a wet claw if you can
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dab his forehead? We can work on that. Okay. Now, I did some research today because you always ask me
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on Fridays, what is the most important story of the week? Yes. Okay. So I have something that no one
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knows about that is vitally important, and I'd like to tell you about it. All right. Go ahead.
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All right. The most important story in the United States this week is a quiz on BillOReilly.com.
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The quiz is called, Does It Make Sense? And there are 10 questions to the quiz, and I'm going to give
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it to you and Stu right now. It's a yes or no answer. That's it. This is the quiz. Are you ready to take it?
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Ready. First question. Does it make sense to allow millions of foreign nationals to enter the USA
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unsupervised? No. Okay. All right. Question number two. Does it make sense to abandon Afghanistan
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completely, leading to human rights abuses by the Taliban? No. No. Three. Does it make sense to shut
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down the Keystone Pipeline just to turn around and ask Saudi Arabia to expand their oil sales? No. No.
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Okay. Three no's. Fourth question. Does it make sense to support critical race theory teaching in
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schools that divides children on a skin color basis? No. No. Question number five. For the federal
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government, does it make sense to spend so much money that inflation explodes? No. Does that make sense?
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Does not. Question number six. To support, does it make sense to support no bail laws that allow
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criminals to commit more crimes? No. No. Okay. Question number seven. Does it make sense to be one of only
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seven countries in the entire world that allow unrestricted abortions? No. Does that make sense? No.
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Okay. Question number eight. Does it make sense to oppose voter IDs? No. All right. Nine. Does it make
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sense to say that white supremacists are a larger terror threat than jihadists? No. No. And the final
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question is, does it make sense for a president of the United States to accuse his own country of
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systemic racism? No. Does it make sense? No. Okay. So you guys scored a hundred percent on the quiz. You
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guys, I'm all right. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Now, I, okay. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
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All right. Okay. Every one of those questions has been endorsed by President Obama. Right. President,
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and probably Obama too. Yes. But Biden. He's really running it. Every one of them. Yes. And if you just
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see it in black and white, if you go to BillOReilly.com, it's in black and white and download it and send it
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to your liberal friends, the Biden people. Does any of this make sense? Ten questions. Simple man, simple
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questions. Okay. Once you see it, it becomes devastating. It becomes devastating that we have
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a president who is out of control and hurting the nation in every single area. So now, does it make
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sense? I've got a question for you. Yes. Does it make sense that those powerful ten statements
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all came together out of incompetence or senility? No, no. It's, it's, this is by design. All of those
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questions are by design. No, I don't mean that. No, I mean that the things that they're doing
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is by design. They didn't, this is not a coincidence. It's not just a horrible accident that all of those
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things are happening. The only one that isn't by design is the Afghanistan withdrawal. So I don't think
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the progressive said, um, we're going to go in there and we're going to botch the withdrawal
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from Afghanistan. So Biden will look terrible. That doesn't make sense. What they did was say,
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we are going to do things, uh, that will separate America from her allies, show American military what
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they really are. And we're going to ignore the military experts, damn the consequences. Correct.
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Yeah, but I, I just, I disagree with you guys. I don't think that was policy going in. I think that
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was just, just rank incompetence on a part of Biden. Yeah, I think so. I think he, he did not
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listen to his military experts and pushed through all of their recommendations of common sense because
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he was getting back pressure from the Susan Rice's of the world to, you know, get out and be a big
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progressive hero. Okay. But all the other nine are absolutely what the progressive left wants. And
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we have this befuddled president who does everything they want. I mean, that's the frightening situation.
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So he's got to be neutralized by the Republicans. And I don't believe they are the best guys and gals
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in the world. I just, as we were talking about top of the program, I mean, I'm not a big,
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oh, the Republican party is so good. No, but at least they're saying this, what we have now is
00:28:02.000
Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow Hoover Institution and author of The Dying Citizen.
00:28:09.320
Ah, Victor, how are you, sir? Very good, Glenn. Thanks for having me on.
00:28:15.080
I don't know if I'm looking forward to this interview or not because you nail, you nail the
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Well, it's called it. It's called a dying. Not quite. I didn't use the title dead citizen,
00:28:29.760
right? But it's, it's, it's on a, uh, it's, it's on its last leg. It seems it's in, uh,
00:28:38.120
it's in intensive care. And I'm, I'm wondering what we have to do to be able to save it.
00:28:48.160
Well, you know, Glenn, if we'd had this conversation, I was writing this book
00:28:51.740
in the last two years of the Trump and I was worried, but had we had this conversation,
00:28:58.300
then we would have said for all of the lawsuits and the subterfuge, the border is finally becoming,
00:29:04.480
let's say by, I don't know, August, 2020 secure. And we had gone back to the idea that if you're
00:29:11.080
going to come in the United States, you had to do so legally in measured fashion and preferably with
00:29:17.060
a diverse immigration policy globally. Right. And I think we also, I think you would agree that
00:29:23.080
for all the, and I had been very critical. I know you had two of it's spending out of control by
00:29:29.660
Donald Trump's administration, but we still had low inflation and low interest and low employment.
00:29:36.360
And we didn't have people staying home or we didn't have the port of LA backed up beyond the
00:29:42.180
horizon. And you could say abroad that the Abrams 8 court had turned a new chapter in US foreign
00:29:49.100
policy. We were gradually starting to get out of Afghanistan. People had come to a consensus that
00:29:54.500
now with energy and sufficiency, we're sufficient in energy. We don't have to have these optional wars
00:30:00.540
in the Middle East that don't pan out in terms of blood and treasure for our interests, much less
00:30:05.500
the people who fight them. So we were on a trajectory that I think was, you could call it a remediation
00:30:11.100
or are we not a complete anecdote, but we were making some progress. And then we had this woke
00:30:19.340
revolution. We had COVID, we had the economic voluntary recession. We had the George Floyd riots. We had
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this 102 million absentee ballot election. And it just, and by the time I finished the book, this was
00:30:35.800
happening. And I was, I thought, you know, nobody wants to read about these abstract historical and
00:30:41.440
cultural and social reasons why we lose citizenship. But then it's like, here it is you're writing about
00:30:48.960
there. It is. Yeah. It's, uh, it's really, it's really, truly terrifying how well orchestrated this
00:30:56.720
has been. I mean, this is, it's brilliant in the architecture of bringing us down to our knees.
00:31:02.980
I think so. I think in the sixties, protesters threw rocks at the Pentagon or, you know, they threw
00:31:11.220
paint on the corporate, uh, logo at the, at a corporate headquarters, or they went and stormed
00:31:16.740
the Dean's office. But now those people, they are the Dean, they are the corporate. Correct. They are
00:31:23.320
the general generals in the Pentagon. So this is a kind of a top down, uh, revolution. You know, it's,
00:31:30.080
it's, it's, it's Phyllis Quellar's, the BLM co-founder of Marxist on her fourth home,
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or even Kendi charging us $20,000 for an hour of indoctrination on Zoom per corporate person.
00:31:44.380
So it's a very strange revolution. It's, it's among the elite taking these organic forces that have been
00:31:50.840
going on, weakening the middle class, weakening the purchasing power of the middle class, destroying
00:31:55.460
our borders, confusing residency with citizenship, and then re, you know, re-tribalizing. So we
00:32:01.540
identify by our race, our ethnic rather than our common American identity. But that was, that was
00:32:07.560
empowered by these elites that want to change the constitution. They grew the administrative state.
00:32:13.180
They, they unleash people, you know, General Miley, James Comey, James Clapper, John Brennan,
00:32:20.100
Eric Kleinsmith, Peter Strzok. And then we've got these people who all of a sudden, I don't know
00:32:26.520
what happened, but 180 year filibuster, no good. 50 state unions, 60 years, no good. 150 year tradition
00:32:34.760
of nine justices in the Supreme Court, no good. 233 years of electoral college, no good. 233 years of the
00:32:41.960
states have primary responsibility and national elections, no good. And that's the beginning.
00:32:47.040
They're, they're questioning what, and today in the LA Times, somebody's questioning why,
00:32:50.520
and I mentioned that in the book, actually, why we need two senators, why not make them
00:32:54.500
proportionally represented? Why should Wyoming or Idaho have any senators?
00:32:58.360
Good heavens. Read the Federalist Papers. All of the answers are in that. Good heavens.
00:33:06.700
Um, so where do we even begin? I mean, the, the, the average citizen is being taught a lesson.
00:33:15.760
Um, they're being taught a lesson, get the vaccine and like it. And don't you dare say anything about
00:33:22.060
it, uh, or lose your job. There is no law. There is no Biden mandate. Nothing's been written down.
00:33:28.660
This is just people, him suggesting it. And then everybody going, oh, there's a mandate. Um,
00:33:35.480
there be, and it's not even based on the science, Glenn. I mean, if you have had COVID, we were told
00:33:40.820
you that we were told that was an inadequate prophylaxis. Now we're told that natural acquired
00:33:46.360
immunity is superior to vaccinations, but you still need to be vaccinated. So we've got these people in
00:33:51.600
military and hospitals, some of whom a lot of them, a hundred million people have had COVID.
00:33:56.720
They have better immunity than vaccinated people. According to Biden, you have to have both, but
00:34:02.200
maybe people like me that got vaccinated, but didn't get COVID should now go out according to that logic
00:34:07.220
and get real immunity by getting right. I mean, it's, it's incoherent. Yeah. And it's, it's scary
00:34:14.000
because, uh, we're losing, uh, we've losing our minds. All of a sudden we're, we're trying,
00:34:20.820
we're firing people at UCLA who don't want to use race as a criteria to punish or reward students,
00:34:27.620
or we're shutting down small businesses, but Amazon and Walmart and target are, are just exempt.
00:34:35.760
Uh, we're putting people in jail for violating quarantine, but a thousand healthcare professionals
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swear that it's better for the mental health of the nation that BLM protesters be exempted from
00:34:48.360
quarantine law. It doesn't, it's, it's asymmetrical is what I'm saying. We really saw that with
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Senator, I mean, uh, Senator Sinema in the bathroom incident where she was chased by those undoc,
00:35:00.200
and then on an airplane or when Chuck Schumer yelled at the Supreme court and said, we're going to
00:35:05.720
make you pay Gorsuch and in front of a mob, or they, they rush flake. And then you compare all of that
00:35:11.680
to what they do to other citizens. It's so asymmetrical and it's a weaponization of the FBI,
00:35:18.560
the DA, the, the U S military top brass, the, the FBI, the Capitol police. I mean, it just,
00:35:26.820
it just doesn't end. And they're sending the message, sit down, shut up, do as you're told,
00:35:32.440
or we'll destroy you. And, um, it's really critical in my opinion that the, that we understand they're
00:35:41.080
only doing that because they know you can be really, really effective. If all of us start to
00:35:48.640
stand up and go, I don't care about your mandate. I don't care. Um, I, I don't care if you try to
00:35:54.120
destroy me. I don't care. I believe these things are self-evident life, liberty, pursuit of happiness,
00:36:00.300
and those aren't the only rights. And I believe in the bill of rights and I believe in the
00:36:04.040
constitution. And I don't believe that just because you're white, you have to pay for something that a
00:36:09.660
bunch of white people you're not even related to, uh, did 150 years ago. I'm not standing for it
00:36:17.160
anymore. I know. And you can already see indications of that Glenn. I mean, suddenly the Tony awards,
00:36:25.040
the Grammy awards, the Oscar, they've just disappeared from the popular American mind. Nobody cares anymore.
00:36:30.060
Those used to be national events to watch the Oscars 50 years ago. Nobody wants, nobody watches the
00:36:35.680
NBA. The only reason that exists is because of a $1.4 billion Chinese, a person Chinese market and the
00:36:43.780
endorsements and the money that flows in. And I think people are kind of retreating to a monastery
00:36:49.960
of their mind. They're, they're tuning out network news or network programming or the latest going to
00:36:56.440
the theater to see the latest Hollywood movie. And so they're starting to, and they're starting to
00:37:01.980
resist. And I think that's, that's very scary. And I think the military, when we hear general Milley
00:37:07.540
and general Austin, we're going after white rage and white supremacy, but they don't produce any data
00:37:12.680
that support those really, uh, inflammatory accusations. And then I, so I, I, when I heard that,
00:37:19.460
I thought, okay, general Austin says he wants proportional representation in the military
00:37:24.460
and, or else. And Milley said, we're going to go after all these supposed young white people that
00:37:29.780
are prone to supremacy. Let me look at the dead, the fatality statistics in Afghanistan and Iraq.
00:37:35.660
And I, and I, you look at them and they're 75% white males, not women, not minorities, white males
00:37:42.520
who have died in those two wars. And I'm thinking according to their own logic, then they would say,
00:37:47.460
well, we have to pull them out of combat because they've died disproportionately according to their
00:37:52.020
percentages. Is that, is that the kind of country we want? But that's what, that's the trajectory that
00:37:57.000
they're taking us to. And I think a lot of people are getting sick of it. It's, and it's just a
00:38:02.520
question. I think there's going to be a big pushback in the midterms. I hope I see these
00:38:07.660
Hispanic communities where I live in the central, central Valley that I think Mexican American males
00:38:13.900
voted 50% to recall Gavin Newsom, 43% of the Hispanic population. And then we see these border
00:38:21.420
communities where Republican or conservative city councilmen and mayors are being elected. So
00:38:26.840
something happened, I think good to the, one of the things I mentioned at the epilogue is that the
00:38:31.520
Republican party is starting to shed the caricature that it's a wealthy golfers, white,
00:38:38.460
blue stocking, um, you know, sort of a Mitt Romney party. It's more of a populist,
00:38:44.780
nationalist, middle-class party. Except it does, except for, uh, you know, the Mitch McConnell's of the
00:38:54.400
party that still seemed completely out of touch with the American people. And I want to,
00:39:00.800
I want to talk to you about that. And also some of your solutions, Victor Davis Hanson,
00:39:05.140
senior fellow Hoover institution. The name of the book is the dying citizen,
00:39:09.040
how progressive elites, tribalism, globalization are destroying the idea of America. So let me,
00:39:16.320
let me ask you about what happened yesterday with the GOP, because I have to tell you, I don't,
00:39:21.940
I don't see the GOP rallying around, um, our bill of rights or our constitution. And I see them
00:39:31.600
seemingly just sitting on their hands. And then last night, 11 of them decide, yeah,
00:39:44.760
Yeah. I think we're in a period of transition, but we've got an ossified leadership, especially in
00:39:51.740
the Senate. But what gives me some hope is that I don't see a national, maybe you do, because
00:39:58.820
I'm maybe too naive, but I don't see a national campaign run on the principles of the old Republican
00:40:06.440
party. And that's the start. What I mean is nobody's going to say anymore, as Jeb Bush did,
00:40:11.360
that, uh, illegal immigration is an act of love. And nobody's going to say that the more that you,
00:40:16.720
uh, concede to China and bring it into the global community and overlook, uh, cheating and, uh,
00:40:23.620
patent and, and copyright infringement, the more they're going to repay that magnanimity with
00:40:29.060
reciprocal magnanimity. I don't think anybody believes that anymore. I just don't think anybody
00:40:33.380
believes that you can write off the industrial heartland of America and say, well, the job's
00:40:38.240
left because these guys are all opeds, these clingers and drags and deplorable. I don't think
00:40:43.440
that's going to be. And that was pretty much, I think it was what John McCain, that was the
00:40:48.760
subtext of John McCain and Mitt Romney's campaigns. I mean, I voted for them, but I did it very
00:40:54.300
reluctantly. Wow. These are always the people that I never felt I had anything in common with.
00:41:00.560
But, but, so I think there's been a change there that at least
00:41:04.320
rhetorically that people in this next campaign will, will run on the Trump agenda. Now they may
00:41:11.720
tweak it or not be sincere about it, but I don't think anybody's saying we got to get back to the
00:41:16.640
principles of Mitch McConnell and what, maybe he did some good things with the outsmarted his rivals
00:41:22.360
on judicial appointments, but I don't think that he's, he and what he represents is what most people
00:41:28.440
aspire to. Now it's just a question of how much damage you do in a realistic, pragmatic, short-term
00:41:36.000
sense by getting rid of him versus who's going to report it and, and the interfraction squabbling
00:41:42.160
why the Democrats are imploding. So I think there's a lot of people who say, well, there'll come a time
00:41:47.380
for Mitch to step down, but right now do we want to have a big fight when these people are socialist
00:41:52.880
and they want to destroy us? And they seem to be destroying the country and themselves in the
00:41:58.000
process. The problem is, is we've been down this road with the Republicans before and they say a
00:42:04.240
good game. Well, we got to take care of this first. They don't ever mean it. They don't ever mean it.
00:42:09.880
No, they don't. That's why I'm not a Republican. I'm not a registered Republican just for that reason.
00:42:15.200
And I was, I was shocked though, that they really did do certain things under Trump that I didn't
00:42:21.760
think they would do. I didn't think they would actually rebuild that rickety wall and start to
00:42:26.300
rebuild some new air, build some new areas. I never thought they'd do that. I thought that was all
00:42:31.100
going to be rhetoric. And I never thought that, uh, that we would go into ANWR or say that we want
00:42:37.900
gas and oil on federal lands. I didn't, or deregulate. I never thought that.
00:42:42.920
I know. Well, that was really, I don't think that was a Republican. I think that was Donald
00:42:46.880
Trump. Most of it, uh, Victor Davis Hanson. Thank you so much for being a part of the program
00:42:52.180
today. Thanks for everything that you do. The, the author of the book, the dying citizen. Uh,
00:42:57.560
I believe it came out just this week, the dying citizen, how progressive elites, tribalism
00:43:01.820
and globalization are destroying the idea of America common sense. And you need to pick the book up.