On today's show, Glenn discusses the Democratic Debates, Star Wars Episode IX, and Bill O'Reilly joins us to discuss the latest in the Trump vs. Elizabeth Warren debate. Plus, we have a big announcement from Glenn.
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00:00:32.480Today, we talk about the debate that happened last night. Most people didn't catch a lot of that.
00:00:37.060You had Star Wars out. You had the impeachment thing going on. Christmas is going on.
00:00:43.660So we'll get you through what you need to know about the debate.
00:00:46.340We will also talk to you about Star Wars. I saw it last night. We will get into that a little bit.
00:00:51.480Also, Bill O'Reilly joins us. We have that going on.
00:00:55.120A big announcement from Glenn about something you might want to plan for, something coming up this summer that you might want to be a part of.
00:02:34.160It's clear why Americans can't agree on impeachment.
00:02:36.920We're getting our news from different sources, and it's making it hard for us even to agree on basic facts.
00:02:42.580Congressional approval rating, last I checked, was something like 17%,
00:02:45.680and Americans don't trust the media networks to tell them the truth.
00:02:49.560The media networks didn't do us any favors by missing the reason why Donald Trump became our president in the first place.
00:02:56.140If you turn on cable network news today, you would think he's our president because of some combination of Russia, racism, Facebook, Hillary Clinton, and emails all mixed together.
00:03:06.460But Americans around the country know different.
00:03:09.320We blasted away 4 million manufacturing jobs that were primarily based in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri.
00:03:20.560We blasted 40,000 manufacturing jobs there.
00:03:23.900The more we act like Donald Trump is the cause of all of our problems, the more Americans lose trust that we can actually see what's going on in our communities and solve those problems.
00:03:34.120What we have to do is we have to stop being obsessed over impeachment, which unfortunately strikes many Americans like a ballgame where you know what the score is going to be,
00:03:43.280and start actually digging in and solving the problems that got Donald Trump elected in the first place.
00:03:49.100We have to take every opportunity to present a new positive vision for the country, a new way forward to help beat him in 2020,
00:03:56.320because make no mistake, he'll be there at the ballot box for us to defeat.
00:03:59.880To me, he's the most serious candidate.
00:04:04.860To me, he is the guy that if they nominated him, you would have a chance of actually turning some heads,
00:04:15.600because he's serious, he's thoughtful, he's very left.
00:04:20.240But he has actually thought these things through, and he is speaking to the American people.
00:04:28.400I can guarantee you that a lot of the people that watched this last night, because they were Democrats,
00:04:34.760and I don't mean the Democrats who are, you know, out there campaigning right now,
00:04:39.480I mean the average Democrat, if they were paying attention last night and they saw that,
00:04:44.240I can guarantee you they were thinking to themselves, yes, finally, yes.
00:04:49.800Do you know that in the rally, where was that, in Michigan, just a couple of days ago?
00:05:01.240Is that where he had that? Michigan? Grand Rapids? Where was that?
00:06:30.180And, you know, when you listen to him in scenarios where he's not just on stage kind of quoting his own universal basic income program over and over and over and over again, you see he has depth.
00:06:52.260He's changing the paradigm a little bit.
00:06:53.620Let me ask you, as, as, as an American currently functioning in this nation.
00:07:00.660Would you rather have a debate where two people are calling each other names and it's a fight over racism or two people who were discussing universal basic income because the world is on the verge of change?
00:07:20.740And we are headed towards what experts say is permanent 30 percent unemployment in the next 10 years.
00:07:29.540And that's only because of the upgrades of AI and everything else.
00:07:34.960They believe that we will have a permanent 30 percent unemployment rate.
00:07:42.920You know, people say that every time, you know, we got rid of the horses and they're like, what are people, what are blacksmiths going to do?
00:07:48.760Yeah, it hurt for a while, but they found another job.
00:07:50.840So, it may not be true, but at least we'd be having a discussion about the future of the country and what we're really facing.
00:08:01.140I would so much rather have that conversation with somebody I really disagree with.
00:08:06.680I mean, I've I told you probably five years ago, at least, you need to you need to have the discussions about things like basic universal basic income, not because it's socialist, but because there's going to be a real outcry while we're in this transition.
00:08:28.720And just by pretending it's not coming is not going to be good enough, we'll be beaten by a really bad idea, universal basic income, because we won't even be addressing the problem.
00:08:44.120Andrew Yang is he sees over the horizon.
00:08:48.120He's wrong, I believe, on his policies, but he should be heard and he should be debated seriously.
00:08:55.340And you saw that, I think, for the first time a little bit last night, because we're down to seven candidates.
00:09:02.380He was actually able to speak a little bit.
00:09:06.840Now, he's still at the point where no one is finding any benefit in challenging his ideas or attacking him.
00:09:14.260So, he is in a, you know, he's in that nice little window where he's at four or five percent, and there's not a huge point in going after him.
00:09:20.740Unlike Buttigieg, who was the focus of almost every back and forth in that debate last night, which is interesting because, we said this from the beginning, at some point, they're not going to just hand Pete Buttigieg the nomination.
00:09:33.480At some point, someone's going to have to say something negative about the guy.
00:09:37.060They attempted that last night, which was sort of the big takeaway of the debate.
00:09:45.180I thought he, I mean, I thought he did well fighting it off.
00:09:48.680He, you know, you know, like, you got, you know, Warren went after him with this attack of like, well, you're doing these fundraisers in wine caves.
00:09:55.800And, you know, because he did this fundraiser with rich people in a wine cave and took these donations.
00:10:00.960And, of course, his comeback to that is.
00:10:29.040And it's amazing how they say, I mean, Warren said last night, we can't have people who have, who are, you know, super rich making the decisions for the electorate.
00:10:41.200And it's like, well, they're, I mean, one man, one vote applies to them too.
00:10:45.320They get a chance to say what they believe too.
00:10:49.260And if they, they get to make the same donations.
00:10:51.600No, Stu, Stu, Stu, nothing a billionaire has ever done has been any good.
00:20:43.160What I am concerned about is the Durham report, where I can't see how McCabe and Comey are not going to be indicted.
00:20:52.640I mean, maybe they won't be, but I can't see it.
00:20:56.200They absolutely are responsible for this bogus stuff being given to the FISA judges and absolutely responsible for illegal wiretapping surveillance of the Trump campaign.
00:21:08.760And so, I figure that Durham is going to find that out because now the FBI agents are going to give these guys up.
00:21:17.060You know they're going to give them up.
00:21:18.760They're not going to protect Comey and McCabe, fired.
00:21:22.060So, I expect that will happen in the late spring, early summer.
00:21:26.140I will tell you, Comey has been remarkable in this, acting as if he was an observer.
00:21:32.500You know, he comes on and I just found this out.
00:21:34.920You know, and he epitomizes what Washington, D.C. is.
00:21:39.880He just epitomizes the bureaucracy, the two-faced, the, you know, they'll know, oh, I'm so objective and I don't have.
00:21:54.020I know nobody watched this last night, but the debate, I was impressed with Andrew Yang, who at least gets this.
00:22:03.460He really scolded the Democratic Party last night and said, you've got to stop obsessing over Donald Trump and the impeachment because you just keep making this about, you know, corruption.
00:22:18.460And he was working with the Russians to get elected, which stops you from actually asking the question, why did people vote for him?
00:22:28.000And he went on this, went on this screed that was very well thought out that said, you know, it's because we're completely out of touch with the American people and their pain and they're sick of it.
00:23:25.320Honestly, Bill, 10 years ago, I would have thought immediately moving to higher ground mean, you know, meaning, you know, be better people.
00:33:56.900He was at the point where his liver is already deteriorating.
00:34:00.400There's no question they attempted to kill him.
00:34:02.880This is why he's in because we've tried to reach out to him.
00:34:05.740Our embassy will not allow him to come to the United States because our embassy is in this up to their neck, including the present one with Ambassador Phoney Taylor, who testified.
00:34:17.800Phoney Taylor is holding up this man coming to the U.S. because he can testify.
00:34:24.600This is not an unknown, anonymous whistleblower.
00:34:30.740This is a man who's willing to tell you his name, Victor Shokin.
00:34:33.500He's willing to put his hand on the Bible.
00:34:35.280He's willing to take the risk of perjury and he's willing to say, Joe Biden bribed my president in order to get me fired.
00:34:43.100And he is also, and his colleagues, four or five more of them, able to show us how much more money went to the Bidens than we even know, including money laundered money.
00:38:07.300And some of them are just plain crooks.
00:38:09.480And the ones in the Ukraine are just plain crooks.
00:38:11.400The reason I'm in a lot of trouble in Ukraine is I uncovered an eight-year-long money laundering system that started probably in 2012 with $7.5 billion being laundered by Yanukovych, the president at the time, pro-Russian president at the time.
00:38:27.340He laundered it through American institutions, interestingly, controlled by Democrats, controlled by one person who just came out of the Obama administration.
00:39:21.160We could have already had this whole thing investigated.
00:39:25.540They keep saying, the Southern District said this and Congress said this, that when they looked at these documents, it was nothing but a conspiracy theory.