Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Bill O'Reilly & Rabbi Daniel Lapin
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Summary
Glenn Beck and Rabbi Daniel Lappin talk about Israel, socialism, Bill O'Reilly, and why Rashida Tlaib and Joe Biden should be allowed to visit Israel. Also, why the media should be mad at Rashida.
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Well, hello, America. It's Friday, and we start on the podcast with kind of a rundown of some of the week's news that we hadn't gotten to.
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Somehow or another, we got to crazy water parks of Stu's childhood.
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Then Bill O'Reilly stopped in. We talked about Epstein's death, Netanyahu versus Tlaib and Omar, Warren right behind Joe Biden.
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Interesting stuff. And as always, fascinating conversation with Rabbi Daniel Lappin.
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We also talk about Israel, but we get all the way to socialism and the Tower of Babel and AI.
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You don't want to miss it all on today's podcast.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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I guess I'm in a good mood because yesterday I got to this has never happened to me before.
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Yesterday I was going home and as I'm leaving the office, they said, OK, don't forget Bill O'Reilly tomorrow.
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And I'm like, no, no, no, no. Tomorrow's Thursday. And they went, no, tomorrow's Friday.
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And I'm like, no, no, come on. Seriously, it's come on. It's Wednesday.
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No, it's Thursday. I didn't believe them. I asked somebody else and they said, no, it's Thursday.
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I get into bed with my wife and we're setting the alarm clock.
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And she looked at me like crazy, like, yeah, don't you feel like it was Thursday on Monday?
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And I'm like, for some strange reason, no, this is the first time in my life that I've screwed that up.
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Usually it's Wednesday and they're like, and you're like, oh, tomorrow's Friday.
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May I suggest that everyone takes two weeks off every other week.
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So in other words, you come back for a week, take it because next week, it's not going to be like this.
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So take, I want to make sure I understand the advice.
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Come back to work for a week, then take two weeks off, then come back for a week.
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It's like, I mean, yes, we'll be like France, but we'll have that moment of joy on a Friday morning going, I can't believe it.
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I just want to go down to the news because we have Rabbi Lappin on today.
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He's got some, you want to talk about good insight on Tlaib and Omar being banned from Israel.
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Pre-planned, but this is going to be really interesting to hear his perspective.
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You know, the Israeli law has perspective on it.
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And the Israeli law says that they shouldn't be able to come in.
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And so what we're asking for is special privilege for Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
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I mean, I guess Tlaib's getting it now because she's going to go visit her grandmother, which
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But still, they act as if it's like this crazy idea that Donald Trump had last week.
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It was a law passed in the country that if you support the BDS movement, you're not going
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I don't know how they think they can get away with that.
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Look, we want to make sure that nothing from Israel is ever brought into our country.
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And the media just can't be pleased with no matter.
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First, he says Rashida Tlaib should go back to her country and they get all mad.
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And now they're saying, don't go back to her battle.
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Now, have you seen how Patrick Byrne from Overstock is being treated?
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Did you see that his stock went down because he was on Fox going, yeah, I got some news for you.
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I was strangely kind of in a Hitchcock movie kind of way, found myself in the middle of, you know, both the Clinton scandal and also the Trump-Russia scandal.
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And it's going to be a big scandal when it comes out.
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And it, you know, but the good thing is the attorney general's on it.
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And I've already given my testimony to the attorney general and the New York Times and everybody else like this guy's crazy.
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First of all, he's not saying anything on either side.
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He's like, look, I'm telling you, the FBI is corrupt.
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And so the New York Times is saying that he's crazy because he's inserting himself into this story.
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Well, he has some crazy romance with this Russian agent.
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Eric Metaxas, well, he might have DM'd me on this.
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No, I think he posted last night on Twitter and he was like, I know her.
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This is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice I've seen.
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They found that she just didn't register as a foreign agent.
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But when you say agent, you're like, bum, ba-da-dum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, ba-da-dum, bum.
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Yeah, I mean, I guess if you're an investor, you just don't like any uncertainty, right?
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So if there's a new thing coming out and you're not sure how it's going to play out, maybe that's what's hurting the stock price.
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But that's a bizarre—because as of now, there's nothing that would indicate that he's doing anything erratic, right?
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He actually was acting very responsibly if what has been reported is true.
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Yeah, I think he's really—like, uber—he's done everything he was supposed to do.
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Yeah, it's the stuff that—you know, frankly, it's the stuff they yelled at Donald Trump for not doing.
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It is what every time you're like, well, okay, yeah, maybe they should go to prison.
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So he calls the FBI, does exactly what all of us are screaming at our televisions that all these politicians should do.
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He actually does it, and the New York Times is like, he's crazy.
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Now, I am one of these guys who always has—I have real hope for the future because of the younger generations.
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I see them as, you know, waking up, and then some—
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Yeah, and I observe them, and that's the other thing.
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Like, I actually observe them, honestly, and so I have the opposite opinion.
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Right, and some days, like today, I'm feeling like the old, get up, my lawn guy.
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What are you, a fan of their concentration camps?
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Yeah, they take care of all the burial expenses.
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For you and your whole family, if you're lucky enough.
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Did you hear about the artist that painted Bill Clinton in a dress?
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This is Jeffrey Epstein in his apartment in New York, which apartment is a weird word
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It was one of the biggest residences in the entire city, but he had a painting of Bill
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Clinton in a blue dress, and some found that to be a little strange.
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Well, he was wearing red heels and a blue dress, like a Monica Lewinsky blue dress, and
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he was kind of, you know, slung over a chair in the White House.
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And when, you know, when that came out, somebody took a picture of that, and they were like,
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I mean, you know, but some people do have dogs playing poker.
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No, I'm not saying that that's not weird, but certain things hit a cultural line in which
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Like, people also have, you know, singing fish on their walls.
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I was in, when I was in Australia, I mean, the days go on forever.
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And so we would go to, like, these flea market, you know, things.
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They have animals, you know, heads of animals on walls, you know, at these flea market places.
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You're like, whoa, I think that's a cow to most people over here, but I've never seen
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And so I was walking through, and I'm like, how can I get this on the commercial flight?
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Would it be weird if I was, like, taking this animal?
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But I just wanted, my son looked at me and said, why do you want that?
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And I said, because I want to make, like, a little automatic mouth that I can, you know,
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I want to be able to have, like, a big animal head.
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Like, I have this, like, big, huge buffalo head.
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And there's part of me that, I mean, I don't want to do it because it feels, I mean, it
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feels weird that it's like, hey, we killed this buffalo.
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So I kind of feel bad about it, but not that bad.
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If I was married to somebody who still enjoyed my sense of humor, it'd already be a talking
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And I'd be able to turn music on, and it would look like it was singing.
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Or, you know, I could have, like, a Mr. Microphone where I'd be like, hey, welcome to the
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You know, something where I could freak people out.
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I will say you do own a giant, real polar bear.
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A real polar bear that has been, that died in, like, 1960-something.
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Do we have anybody in the audience that could make that polar bear so its hips swing?
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It would be a disgrace to do it to a bear that had been killed in 1971 and is like, you don't
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do that to bears, but we did back in the old days.
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Do I have not enough reference for a polar bear that died?
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Have you ever seen people who, like, I was, again, Australia, it's weird, but they're a
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It's a place that had all the heads on the wall.
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It wasn't like a sign that says, we have exotic heads on the wall.
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Well, if there's exotic heads on the wall, you don't need a sign that says we have exotic
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There was a lot of them to not say, you know, not have that as a calling card.
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You know, you're looking in the phone book and you're like, where can I buy exotic heads?
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But there was this creepy cat, a cat, like a house cat that had been stuffed.
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Like it was like walking and looking at like...
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If my dog died, Victor died, Uno died, Ella died, you know, I'm not going to stuff them
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and then like, oh, look, he can talk now too and sing songs in his hip swivel.
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This is a bear that was dead before you were born.
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But I mean, you already own it and have used it for a prop a hundred times.
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If you could animate a real polar bear life size.
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So when his hips swivel, he's like doing the hula.
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Is there anyone in the audience that can think about how to chop this bear up?
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I'd be pissed if you like chopped it up and you're like, yeah, it didn't work.
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I don't know what credentials you would have to have to go, no, I can do this.
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Well, not with a polar bear or any other animal like this, but...
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Things are going too well in this company lately.
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It's time to blow a couple million dollars on a dancing bear.
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You could even put a bunch of other fish inside if that's...
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Look, if you'd like to take this on, it's like, I made the bear.
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Who else has a hula dancing polar bear from 1971?
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There's got to be like an enterprising taxidermist who's like...
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First of all, you can explain why when I was filling in for two weeks, you didn't bother
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I thought you were like putting the nose up into the air.
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All I was thinking about was doing an interview with you for an hour all week, and then both
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Well, I think one week I wasn't, but the other week I could have done it.
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He was on a big plane over to Australia, correct?
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I mean, I don't have a copy of the book to read.
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I mean, you did send a book to my mom signed, and for that I will be ever grateful.
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I know you like the book because you would not have read it had it
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I tweeted, and I think I Facebooked, at LAX, waiting for my red out of Sydney,
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about halfway through Bill O'Reilly's tome on Trump out in September,
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Tough questions, even uncomfortable answers, but fair,
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and a very different look at the real Donald Trump.
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And you did the best you can with a guy who's constantly watching TV over your shoulder.
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I mean, he was not engaged in this process at all.
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He's not a I'm-going-to-my-high-school-reunion type of guy.
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But I thought the stories you told about him, the perspective that you gave,
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I really think it, you know, if anyone is, I wrote another Facebook post or something
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and said, if anyone in the media is actually, if they really want to understand Donald Trump
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and take a different look and go, well, now, wait a minute, maybe it's this.
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But it honestly, without sugarcoating him, without, you know, avoiding the tough things,
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you looked at him and you brought a perspective to him that I never thought.
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You know, I really, that's high praise from you.
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Whether you like Donald Trump or not, he's a president of the United States.
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If you love your country and you're engaged in the process of evaluating the president
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fairly, then you need to know the entire story.
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You're either getting, we love him, we love him, we love him, or we hate him, we hate
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And that, as we have discussed, is based on money.
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There is ideology involved as well, but it's a primary money play.
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So I said to myself, you know, I had a killing book, it's already done, but we said, all
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And I'll write this Trump book because it's a history book and we need this in America
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So were you, were you, um, I mean, I don't know how you, well, you love confrontation.
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I mean, I, I think you kind of like, I hate confrontation though.
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We veered away from that, but that's a philosophical.
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You know, I grew up in an alcoholic family and it's like, you know, mommy and daddy are
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Um, uh, but you don't mind it, but you, you confronted him with things when you're, when
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you were leading up to, you know, what you're about to ask him, you're, you're thinking,
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And then you wrote some things about it and said, look, here's what some people say.
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I think it's probably this or that, but we don't really know for sure.
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And you're thinking, okay, how does he like Bill O'Reilly?
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Well, I'll tell you an interesting story in a moment, but, um, two things about it.
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So when you have somebody, uh, commenting on the president or you, he's saying it himself,
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So for example, Don jr, his son, I thought was very good in giving an insight into Donald
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Trump, the parent, but I had to check a lot of the stuff that Don Trump jr told me.
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I thought he was very, very strong in the book, but.
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The confrontational aspect of the book is this.
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I did ask Donald Trump about his father and some of the things that his father did about
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Donald Trump himself, but I didn't do it in a confrontational way.
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And that's why the pages about Megan Kelly and her debate.
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And I thought that was one of the strongest parts of the book, because we got the true
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That's never been told about that ambush on Trump and the woman.
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You were underline and I was like, give me a pen.
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While you were gone, I was in Trump's presence at a fundraiser in the Hamptons.
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So I went as a reporter and I was the only national reporter there that campaign banned
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Nobody else could go to this fundraiser, which raised 5 million bucks for his campaign.
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I sat right in front of him when he gave his 40 minute speech.
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And he's, and about 10 minutes of the speech is directed to me.
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Um, but I think that he respects me, um, because he knows that it's not a sugarcoated deal.
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And he actually told the audience that, that after some of the interviews that I did with
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And then his wife would say, what are you talking about?
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I don't know about the rest of us, but, um, uh, thank you.
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I mean, I'm down to you and we're not really friends.
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You know, you should go on a website, friendsitrust.com.
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So, uh, so Bill, let's, uh, let's start with, let's start with Philadelphia.
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Cause that's kind of a story that kind of, uh, you know, went by the wayside.
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And I think it is a crazy story, crazy story about the suspect, uh, that now is in custody.
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The people from Philadelphia, some of the people in Philadelphia were at some point, you know, mocking the police as they're in this shootout.
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Number one, Barack Obama made a very big show out of telling the American people that most drug crimes are nonviolent.
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The narcotics industry in America is the most violent industry we have, which is why the mafia chieftains in the fifties and sixties wouldn't even deal with it.
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Even though they could have made gazillions of dollars, it was so nasty.
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And the, uh, the warrant, uh, for, if you please execute a warrant, he starts shooting at them.
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You know how many times he's convicted of violent felonies, including gun crimes.
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He's serving two years here, two and a half years there said dangerous man.
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He should have been away for 30 or 40, but no, you can't do that because then if you put somebody in jail for that long, you're persecuting people of color.
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So you're against the prison reform that the president just did.
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If it's very specific, but I have said for years that if you commit a crime with a firearm in this country, you go to federal prison for 10 years, mandatory first conviction.
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How many, how many decades do I have to say this?
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If you're a criminal using a gun in a crime, it becomes a federal crime.
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And you have a mandatory 10 that stops gun violence.
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I get so angry because the rest of this gun stuff is B.S.
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You put the criminals with guns in prison for 10 years.
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You know, it's funny that you say that because if you have, if you have a firearm, you are caught with a firearm in New Jersey and you don't have the bullets, you know, locked in your trunk and, you know, and the, and the trigger underneath your seat in the car and locked in the glove box is the slide.
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I mean, they throw you to jail, throw you in jail.
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I think it's in New York and New Jersey for 10 years for carrying a firearm without a concealed carry.
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You could just, that's the absurdity of, right?
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I know leave, leave the law abiding people who want to protect themselves alone.
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And concentrate on the guy in Philadelphia who's selling heroin and carries around an AR 15 to protect his operation.
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It, it, look back, you know, and I know we live in a corrupt world and this is as corrupt as it gets.
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The United States of Trump, the new Bill O'Reilly book, it's released September 24th.
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You can find it on Amazon or anywhere else that they're schlepping these things.
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Um, his neck was broken in several places after he hung himself with paper sheets.
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I talked to a New York city coroner about this and, uh, this is obviously the biggest topic of discussion, uh, among the corners in the city.
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And, uh, the consensus is, and, and that the autopsy is honest and this is absolutely could have happened physiologically to this guy.
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Um, secondly, I walk into my local deli, um, a couple of days ago.
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I'm besieged by mostly women telling me he was murdered and I have to find out who did it.
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And I'm looking around going, can I get, can I get my muffin?
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Um, I mean, it's a popular story and it's one of those stories like the Kennedy assassination where it's going to run wild with this stuff.
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But I'll tell you from what I know, and I, my sources are pretty good.
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Nobody could have gotten into that cell to kill him because there are cameras all over the place.
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And it would have been impossible for that to happen.
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They say he hung himself, but it basically strangled himself with whatever he had as far as a covering was concerned.
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The coroner's report reflects that and it absolutely could have physiologically happened.
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The real story is where the guards brought, because they had to know that this guy, um, was up to no good.
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So that has to be investigated by the attorney general bar because it's a federal facility.
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Um, other than that, I mean, I think people have to step away from the hysteria.
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I know it's fun and entertaining, um, but I don't think it leaves us anywhere.
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So speaking of hysteria, uh, this, this, um, this inversion, the yield inversion that happened this week, which the media was only giving half the story.
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Every recession we've had in the last 50 years has been pointed out by a yield inversion, but there've been several yield inversions that did not lead to a recession.
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Um, the New York times, the Washington post, they want it because they know that the democratic field.
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And I think we know enough now, um, there's another debate coming up in three weeks.
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You've got actually dangerous people running for president there who would put this, you think a recession might come?
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If Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren get elected president, we might have a depression, not a recession, a depression because corporate America would be corporate Belgium.
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They're going to get the hell out of here with these socialist people.
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I mean, it would be a flight of capital out of this country.
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You're looking at a catastrophe and this is fact-based.
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So, I mean, don't tell me about an aversion that might lead to a, uh, recession.
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The democratic party, if their wishlist were fulfilled, I mean, I'm, I'd be in the Bahamas.
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I'd be calling you call me in the Bahamas because I'm not staying here with a wealth tax.
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Um, I think he's in Greenland because Trump's going to buy Greenland.
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First of all, I need to know, you know, when was the last time the kitchen was updated and
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Uh, uh, because you know, that's where you really drop all your monies on kitchens and
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Um, it's just another story that gets floated out and I can't tell you who floats it, um,
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You have to understand that Trump's on vacation this week.
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He plays real golf, but it's hot and humid and nobody wants to go to Jersey to play with
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You know, I was shocked that there, we've tried to buy it twice.
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I think it was, was it Eisenhower or Truman was the last one.
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So I don't know what's going on in Denmark, but I think if Trump made them a good offer,
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Denmark, I think they would, I don't know if there's anything that we need from Greenland.
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It goes a thousand miles, I think, into kind of Russian area.
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Uh, but you know, is there anything else we can exploit by digging it all up?
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I was just going to say, I count, I'm marking the days on the calendar.
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We so far have 3,000 people on this ship that are going to come with us.
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I've added some extra shows on the, on the trip.
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I think that that's, I mean, that's what we're going for.
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To actually vacation with a few thousand of our closest friends is wonderful.
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Let me just start with the news of the day with Rashida Tlaib and Ilan Omar.
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They, they're, the story yesterday came out as Donald Trump just called his best friend,
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Benjamin Netanyahu and said, don't let these crazy people in.
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I mean, Israel has a problem with people who are running BDS and they passed a law.
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And let's remember the left has a problem in general with the idea of national borders
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And so the notion that Israel should exert any form of sovereignty is profoundly disturbing.
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So, so then Benjamin Netanyahu said, because Tlaib said, I've got a grandmother and this
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He said, well, you can apply for a humanitarian.
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Tlaib said, no, I, I can't go under these conditions.
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I refuse to see my grandmother into these conditions.
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Well, I mean, I think the main condition is grandma probably said, keep her out.
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But, uh, so the idea that a country is going to let people in who are actively trying to
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I don't think they actually even cared on going.
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Uh, and one of the things they announced in advance they were going to do is visit the
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Uh, some Friday with Tlaib and Omar on the temple mount, that would not have been good.
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No, it would, uh, would unquestionably have precipitated drama, which is exactly what they
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Look, I mean, there's a bottom line to it all, which is that, um, uh, these are two
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Of course, uh, the, the, the, there are huge numbers of people, uh, they speak for and they're
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with, but, uh, these are people essentially, um, who are haters of a Western civilization and
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doing everything in their power to undermine it.
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It so happens that the, uh, most effective defenders of Western civilization in a hostile
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world right now are the United States of America and the state of Israel.
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And so for these reasons, uh, these two countries arouse the intense hostility, uh, of all those
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the unifying theme on the left, I think is hatred of Western civilization and everything
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Um, so, uh, what, what exactly is it that you do?
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I just saw a, a poll today that said, while the approval rating of China is collapsing, uh,
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not necessarily with millennials, at least not collapsing as fast.
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Millennials are saying, Oh, I kind of liked the idea of what China is doing.
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Uh, you know, part of it, of course, millennials, um, I think is a, uh, a catch all phrase that
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probably includes a lot of people who don't agree on everything in exactly the same way
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as there's no such thing as America's black community.
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And there certainly isn't such a thing as America's Jewish community.
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As a matter of fact, if you gathered all the self-identified Jews of America into a huge,
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you know, four million seat auditorium and said, we're here to find the one thing we
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Um, they would only all agree that Hitler was a very bad man.
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So, uh, the notion that all millennials agree on something is, is childish and it's just
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a notion pushed by, um, by some of the, the pundits with nothing to say.
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Uh, you know, there's, there's, there's a part of them, I would say that, that, that
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appreciate the, the rapidity of the rise of China.
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Um, many people dislike the, um, the, the freedom with which they have purloined the
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intellectual products of the West, uh, through, um, uh, through literal theft and, and through
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They don't think it's a good thing, but they say, you know what?
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Um, when you, when you look at China, it is very hard not to see, uh, a nation on the
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And what we, uh, want to try and do everything we can to, um, to avoid is America becoming
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Uh, it's now getting ready to leave the stage and make room for China.
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And all the, the work you've been diligently devoting yourself to these many past years has
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But I think for many people, they kind of welcome and look forward because their contempt
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for America as a representative of civilization is so deep that, uh, even to be displaced by
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But I think that, uh, also there is another, there's another set of people that don't want
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to see America leave the stage, don't hate America, et cetera, et cetera, but, uh, are
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tired of the leadership role because they think that, that, because we've all been convinced,
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not all of us, but we've been convinced that, you know, to lead means you have to be the
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For instance, Hong Kong, uh, I don't know what to do about Hong Kong, except if I were
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president, I would be stating as firmly as I could, knowing who owns our national debt,
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that we stand with people who, you know, search for freedom and, and understand the universal
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When Taiwan falls, if Hong Kong, if these guys are all rounded up and killed, Taiwan is
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You know, the only thing is though, if they really wanted Taiwan, the time to have taken
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it was during the Obama administration, when there would have been a yawn and an explanation
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to the public as to why this makes sense in the, in the new world order.
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Uh, so I'm not sure they actually wanted and, and for the sake of, of a discussion, Glenn,
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I would say that, um, from a strategic point of view, it's not really a good idea to ever
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point a gun at anybody, particularly if it's not loaded.
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Um, and so I don't think that making a statement about Hong Kong is, is necessarily a good idea,
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particularly since we're not willing to send in troops.
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I mean, you can say that you're standing with people who, uh, have freedom, but that doesn't
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mean anything other than we salute you for standing, for recognizing these universal truths,
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I'm reading a book right now called The Volunteer.
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It's about a guy who's been erased from history by the Soviet Union who volunteered to go into
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Auschwitz to find out what was really going on and create, uh, an underground movement in
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I always read your recommendations, your book recommendations, and I'll read that one too.
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He's been there for about two and a half years and it's, you know, it's, it's Auschwitz.
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The information got out, but what are you going to do about it?
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So we all know that was a mistake, but aren't we making those same mistakes with the prisons
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in North Korea or the prisons in, in China, these giant re-education camps.
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We know that that's what's going to happen to these people if they survive in Hong Kong.
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I believe the, now as an individual, Glenn Beck might decide to support a ministry that
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that, uh, that tries to get people in there to help them.
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But as a government of the United States with coercive taxing authority, uh, to become the
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effective policeman or for, or even worse, the spinster aunt of the world, wagging a bony
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finger, uh, with absolutely no strength behind it.
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That's not, that's not what the government of the United States has respond.
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Nobody appointed them to promote values around the world.
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We promoted them to follow the constitution, which says nothing whatsoever about being the
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It's on the contrary, uh, for, for many years, the, uh, early Americans knew the important
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thing was to absolutely stay out of the old world and its problems.
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Um, and so I can't see any, but don't forget some of the right to ignore what was happening
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Should we have just done something as individuals, but we were right to stay many, many people
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were doing things as individuals, but this idea that somehow the allies were evil for failing
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I see what you're saying, but we, I'm talking about before we even engaged in the war.
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You know, a lot of this stuff could have happened, you know, may have happened differently, but
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then again, world war two is really caused by world war one and our big nose into everything
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It's just a weird place because I think the country, I think there's a lot of conservatives
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that are transitioning that are, have always been for, you know, like these people who are
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like, I, you know, let's go save the little guy.
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But you look at the world and you're like, no, no, we only make it worse.
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It seems like there's like a certain hurdle to clear, right?
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You know, there's a certain level of risk and a certain level of damage being done.
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Like Hong Kong, they're protesting in airports.
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I think moral support is important and we can do that as individuals.
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You know, Germany and the Holocaust is a different situation, right?
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There's a much higher threat level to us at that moment and also a much higher damage level.
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Even in Rwanda where there's a huge, massive damage, that's not necessarily what's happening
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So there is, I think that our level has to be, our response without deep thought needs
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And only when it raises to some insane level do we jump in.
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The clarity is that he says, this is all about America.
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You want to use tax money and the goodwill of the American people.
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It's amazing to me how people still on the left will say, oh, well, Donald Trump's a
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We haven't had, I mean, we haven't had one that is this piece going, I think, since maybe
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This guy is just like, no, it doesn't rise to this level.
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You know, and going back, I mean, as you mentioned, the Middle East, the only rationale
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for dealing with Iraq was the conviction that there were weapons of mass destruction,
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which at the time was not an unreasonable assessment.
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But other than that, this foolishness that permeated so much of the Republican establishment
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And we've got to bring democracy to the Middle East.