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Joe Biden finally answers a question about a woman's accusation that he penetrated her with his fingers. Bill O'Reilly is on fire about this. Pat Gray and Thomas Massey talk about the food shortage and how we can fix it.
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Welcome to the podcast. Big news today. Joe Biden, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., the seemingly the
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Democratic candidate for president of the United States, finally got asked after 35 days of an
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accusation of sexual assault, was finally asked in the media. And honestly, you got to give Mika
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some credit. She actually pushed him pretty hard on this stuff. We'll get into that today,
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kind of as it's happening. The comparison between Joe Biden and Brett Kavanaugh kind of
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spins some differences, I've noticed. Also, Bill O'Reilly is on. Bill was on fire today. He is
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really fired up about this. And he goes on about not only the Biden situation, but also the media
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handling of it. We get into that. Pat Gray joins us as well. And Thomas Massey about our food supply.
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Are we going to be able to get the food that we need? He's got a plan to try to make sure that
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that actually happens. And we talk about how this weekend in Texas, we can go out to dinner.
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Joe Biden apparently has finally addressed the Tara Reid issue after what? 35 days without anyone
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asking him to explain himself. 35 days. In fact, when when yesterday when the press was going
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was was talking about this, they went after Donald Trump somehow. They made it about Donald Trump.
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So he's finally come under under enough pressure because the Uber left and I will say this about
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the Uber left. They actually believe in something. I mean, Ilan Omar believes in something, you know,
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it's the destruction of America, but she does fully believe it and she's willing to do it where most of
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the Democratic Party is. And I'm talking about the leadership. They just don't care. I mean,
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they're just in it for the money or the power or to win. They're not actually diehard and they'll do
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anything to win. So the Uber left has started to come out and say, excuse me. And they're turning
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on the press first. And that's why you're seeing now the press and the Washington Post did an
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editorial yesterday. And then the New York Times did an editorial like they've been covering this
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and demanding answers. Nobody's asked him. But now they're like, this is getting ridiculous.
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He's got to answer for this. And so he did. And here's what he said on MSNBC just a few minutes
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ago. And please, to our viewers, please excuse the graphic nature of this. But I want to make sure
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that there is no question as to what we're talking about. She says in 1993, Mr. Vice President,
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that you pinned her against the wall and reached under her clothing and penetrated her with your
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fingers. Would you please go on the record with the American people? Did you sexually assault Tara
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Reid? No, it is not true. I'm saying unequivocally, it never, never happened. And it didn't. It never
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happened. I, you know, I really expected him to say, yeah, dang it. I was hoping you wouldn't ask me
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the question. You got me. You got me. Yeah, I did. Yeah, I did. Penetrate her with my, yeah, I did.
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Dang it. Why did you have to ask? I've been doing so well for 35 days. Yes. Why did you ask me that?
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Ah, you forced me into it. I wish I didn't have to say it, but I do. Yes. Yes, I did.
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I strangely feel, but I strangely feel better now. I do. I feel better. Now that I've got it off my
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chest, you know what I brought in? In fact, I, I brought in a notebook. I've got this little black
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notebook of all the people that I've penetrated with my fingers. Uh, and I just, I just like to just,
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strangely, uh, it, uh, starts with Alan Spector. Uh, Arlen Spector is, uh, Arlen Spector is in this
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and, uh, I don't remember it, but, uh, yeah. In fact, Jill, Jill, can you come on in here? I got
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some things to admit to you. Uh, come on in. Let me tell you about this stuff. I would not put any
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of this past Joe Biden, by the way, this can actually happen. Oh, at this point he is. And
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everybody would be looking at the, you know, in his rec room, looking at him like, what are you
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doing? No, no, no, no, no. Oh, I'm, oh, I'm supposed to the other way. Oh, okay. He'd have
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absolutely no idea. I mean, I'm, uh, I'm not surprised by the response, but I am surprised
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that he seemed to know, uh, who he was talking to, what he was talking about, right. You know,
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his name, um, uh, the fact that he even was a Senator, do we have, we have more of
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this? I know this just broke. And, uh, so we are trying to get, I just, but just give
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me the raw audio. Uh, Martin, if you're in the control room, if you can just give me
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the raw audio, I just like to play the whole thing because apparently Mika did hold his
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feet to the fire, uh, a little bit. Uh, and you know, she was very, very somber. Uh, and
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I just want to, and you'll, you'll notice there wasn't a man on the screen. Well, except for
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Joe Biden. Uh, but there wasn't a man on the screen. Um, you know, they, this was, this
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a big moment for Mika. It's a big moment. And, and I think she is, uh, I think she is
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she, do you think she's one of these people on the left that actually believes in stump
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something? Um, no, but I think she is, um, not, we should ask her that question. Cause
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I'm sure she'd come out and go, yeah, no, I actually don't. I was hoping you would ask me
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that question, but I strangely feel better now. Yeah. I mean, does she stand for something?
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Remember her behavior during the 2016 election? She was Donald Trump's best friend when she
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didn't think he was going to win. She was all over him. Um, and then when he, all of a sudden
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he started winning, like, Oh, I'm very mad and I'm going to stop going to Mar-a-Lago every
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weekend. So no, she stands for nothing, but I wouldn't say that is right. She is one of those
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people where I could see her, uh, realizing that this is not going well and not trying
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to sink or trying to put him on, put his feet to the fire here. Because I mean, look, if
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you're a Democrat, this is all going to happen. Like whether you let it happen now or you let
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it happen in October, uh, on a debate stage, he, Donald, uh, Joe Biden's going to be pressed
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on all of this stuff. So you might as well test him now and see if he can get through this.
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Because if you give, if you push him now and he falls apart and crumbles, there's a chance
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you can replace him. You can go another direction. You let this sit and then let him take the
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nomination. You're going to have to deal with it in October. It's going to be a disaster.
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Which is probably why you're finally dealing with it.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Uh, yesterday I was, uh, I was asked to speak, uh, online to, uh, the
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clear channel or, or I heart radio, uh, programmers from radio stations all across the country.
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And, um, the, the last question I was asked, uh, was kind of just a, you know, fun question,
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I think, uh, which was, uh, any predictions on what's coming? And I said, yeah, I don't
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think Joe Biden's going to be the guy. I don't think he's going to, I don't think he's going
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to be the guy that they're actually running against Donald Trump. And I know that sounds
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crazy, but I'm telling you, uh, he was a placeholder. He was like the unnamed Democrat
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that everyone was for. Cause they didn't like anybody else. And they're like, yeah, now,
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now they're coming up to it. A guy who is totally in bed with China, totally in bed. Anything you
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thought about him with Ukraine? Oh, it's a thousand times worse with China. I mean, nobody's talking
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about it now, but if he's the candidate, all of this stuff is going to be everywhere. I mean,
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remember, he's the guy who said, look, you know, they're one child policy, uh, in China. I mean,
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you know, it's not American, but I understand it. And I think it works for them. I mean, he is just,
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he is in the pocket of China. Um, and now this, everybody's going to get to the convention and go,
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come on guys, we're not serious, right? I mean, listen to him. He's, if he had,
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if he wasn't going senile and I don't say that with glee and I don't, cause we're all going to
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be there. And I don't, I don't, I don't find any joy in saying that somebody who is even a guy,
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I completely disagree with all the time, a guy who has served his whole life, uh, and,
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and had a decent image, uh, if you will, for a politician is now, let me just put it this way.
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I've told my children as I've watched them, and I've said this seriously,
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if your father ever starts to sound and look like that, you must come and tell me, dad, it's time,
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it's time to go. I feel bad for Joe Biden on that. But if you are looking to pick a president
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of the United States, are you kidding me? You have to believe the Democrats are going to come
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to the convention and go, come on guys. Do you remember? We can't have him. You remember what
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they were saying about, uh, Ronald Reagan in 1984 during the election? You can't reelect this guy.
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He's senile and he wasn't even showing any signs yet. I mean, it was only, no, he was a,
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he, he, in 1984, it wasn't until what? 1991 or something late. Yeah. It was 90, 91 in there
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somewhere where he really, where they finally announced it where they finally announced it.
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And he still had good years ahead of him. Yeah. You know, he wasn't sounding like, uh,
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like Joe Biden is now. And I'm not saying that Joe Biden has Alzheimer's. I just think he's going
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into, you know, his very, uh, difficult twilight years where he's not processing. Right. This guy
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cannot be president of the United States. And I think even the Democrats will understand that
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by the time we get to August, which brings me to this. I know Michelle Obama says she doesn't want
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to run for president. She doesn't want to be president, but if someone offered the Obamas a
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chance to go back to the white house and you don't have to even run Michelle, you'll win. If it's it's
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September, you just have to remain standing until November and it's yours and your husband's already
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done it. I, I just, uh, who in who that actually believes something and is already in politics,
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who doesn't say, well, I'll seriously consider that. I don't have to actually do the campaigning.
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I just have to walk in and the office is pretty much mine.
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It's pretty tempting. That's it. It's very tempting. Terrifying scenario to
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she'd win scenario. She would absolutely win. I think she would, you know, she would come in as
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the favorite. I mean, her polling would look really nice at the beginning of it. I mean,
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she's got like 80% approval right now. Right. If you are, you got to deal with Donald Trump,
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given pressuring you for a month and a half, it would be tough. Uh, it's a, a black woman.
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He'd look like a bully. They would, I mean, they would just smear him and you know,
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that may not stick to him that, you know, what else can they do? Um, but he, it would be,
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it would not be an easy thing. And she probably would not go out and do very much, you know,
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during his election, no one would push her on anything. I mean, like at least Hillary,
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you know, like they, she was a bad, really bad, unlikable candidate. And she was at least
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pressed occasionally by the media. Obama would have a, you know, if you think Joe, if you think Joe
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Biden is untouchable with the press, I mean, Michelle Obama could have inserted her entire
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body into Tara read and they would never ask. Thank you. Yes, I did insert myself, uh, shoes and all
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handbag too. I had a big handbag. Anyway, the best of the Glenn Beck program, Mr. Bill O'Reilly,
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who has got a cute little podcast. I remember when I remember when podcasts were like, Oh,
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and he's got a podcast. Now podcasters are disrupting everything. And Bill is part of that.
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Welcome to the program. Mr. Bill O'Reilly from billoreilly.com. Thank you, Beck. Thanks for having
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me back. You bet. You bet. I want to start with, uh, a couple of clips in case you haven't heard
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them yet. I'm sure you have, but let me play them for the audience. A couple of clips from, uh, Joe
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Biden about an hour ago on MSNBC addressing Tara read listen. And please, uh, to our viewers,
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please excuse the graphic nature of this, but I want to make sure that there is no question as to
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what we're talking about. She says in 1993, Mr. vice president, that you pinned her against the wall
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and reached under her clothing and penetrated her with your fingers. Would you please go on the
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record with the American people? Did you sexually assault Tara read? No, it is not true. I'm saying
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unequivocally it never, never happened. And it didn't never happened. Okay. So he, he unequivocally,
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uh, denies it, but then he's pressed with some questions and maybe it's his growing, um,
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you know, senility. Um, but he didn't handle it. Well, I want you to hear, uh, here's cut to the
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first is about your university of Delaware records. Do you agree with the reporting that
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those records were supposed to be revealed to the public and then they were resealed for a longer
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period of time until after you leave quote public life. And if you agree with that, if that's what
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happened, why did that happen? Because look, the fact is that there's a lot of things that of speeches
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I've made positions, I've taken interviews that, that, that I did overseas with people,
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all of those things relating to my job and the idea that they would all be made public. And the fact
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while I was running for public office, they could be really taken out of context. Their papers are
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position papers. They are documents that existed. And, and, uh, that, that when I, for example, when I
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go, when I met with Putin or when I met with whomever and all of that to be fodder in a campaign
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at this time, I don't know of anybody who's done anything like that. And so the national archives
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is the only place there would be anything having to do with personnel records. There are no personnel
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records in the Biden papers at the university. So personnel records aside, are you certain there
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was nothing about Tara read in those records? And if so, why not, why not approve a search
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of her name in those records? Approve a search of her name? Yes. And reveal anything that might be
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related to Tara read in the university of Delaware records. There is nothing they wouldn't, they're,
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they're not there. And if they, if it's, I, I, I, you know, I don't understand what you're the point
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you're trying to make. Holy cow. Let's just stop there and let's talk to, uh, uh, Bill O'Reilly
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about this. Um, Bill, what, what are your, what are your initial thoughts? Well, there's a lot of
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stuff there. So let's just do the fact-based thing. Biden doesn't know what the search question was.
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He doesn't understand what that was. All right. Correct. I agree. Which is not, hang on just a
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second, which is not helpful, which is not helpful for, I mean, they said, you know, George Bush just saw
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a scanner at a supermarket, which was not true, but that was used against him. This is somebody not
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understanding that you can search records for a name. I mean, that's incredible. Yeah. That woman's
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name would be in his archives are a thousand one. Um, that would, even if it, even if the name, uh,
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or any document was there is gone now. Um, so I'm not putting any credence into that. The reason he
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doesn't want the Delaware records made public is because today is the anniversary of bin Laden's
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takedown. He was the only member of the Obama cabinet to object to that Navy SEAL raid.
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That's why he doesn't want that open. A lot of people have forgotten about that. Wow. All right. And
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you did too, didn't you? Yeah, I did. I did. All right. That's why you have me on here back.
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Uh, that's why he doesn't want that. All right. It's the kickbacks that the overall denial. All right. I
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have no idea, but I can tell you that in the past, vice president Biden has convicted many men of
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heinous things, denying all of them due process. So this is karma. That's what Bill, I would imagine
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that you are taking the same stance that I'm taking, which is the standard that anyone is being judged on
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is so absolutely insane and, um, and really un-American. Um, you just can't try these
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things and convict people in the court of public opinion. I mean, you're just destroying lives.
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I can't going on. It's been going on. Oh, I know that. I know that, but I think, I think it's
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important to point out to the left and to not to the left because they don't care to the average
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Democrat. We're against it when it's Joe Biden. We're against it when it's Joe Biden. It's not
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right to try people like this. Uh, if you have facts, then bring the facts forward, but we can't
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just judge people on, he said, she said, look, the worst here is Nancy Pelosi, who had the gall
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to say yesterday that there was no record of a filing against Joe Biden, that the story changed,
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that all of what she has heard doesn't stack up. The same thing was in play with Blasey Ford and
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Kavanaugh and Pelosi convicted Kavanaugh. Exactly the same thing. No, no, I disagree with you. I,
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I disagree with you. There was much, much less with Kavanaugh, much less about Pelosi.
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Pelosi said there was no initial filing of complaint. Okay. It's, there's no record of
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it. There was no record of any filing of a complaint with Kavanaugh. All right. The woman's
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Tara Reid story has changed. So did Blasey Ford's story yet in Tara Reid's case, she dismisses,
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Pelosi dismisses, but supported Blasey Ford for exactly the same presentation. Exactly.
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I, I, I can't tell you, I said I'm on billoreilly.com. It used to be, I thought Nancy Pelosi was
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misguided. Now I believe she's evil. She is an evil person in a position of tremendous responsibility in
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this country. Wow. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Thomas Massey.
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Thomas Massey. Sure. It's not quite as sexy when you say Thomas Massey, uh, but he's with us,
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uh, representative Congressman Thomas Massey from Kentucky. There's a couple of things I wanted to
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talk to him about. One, he had the greatest tweet of all time yesterday. Uh, I think it was yesterday.
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Uh, if no one goes into Congress, uh, to vote on bills, who's writing the bills? I love that question.
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Uh, but at first I want to talk about the, um, uh, the prime act, uh, Thomas Massey has been on the
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food shortage thing, uh, early, early, early, and on the meat shortage. And there is an answer for this
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and we should all be looking to this, not just for today, but also in the future. Welcome to the
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program, Thomas Massey. How are you? I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on Glenn. You bet. You sound
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good. You sound good. You sound like you're either on a super confidential spy phone or you've, you've
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updated something in your home. We've got a com rec system. The last time I talked to you,
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you asked if I was at Chernobyl because the line was so bad. That's right. You shamed me. You shamed
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me into buying a real system. All right, good, good. I'm glad to have you. Okay. So, uh, Congressman
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talk to me about the prime act first, tell people what they should expect in their grocery store
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soon. Well, you're going to see shortages and these aren't going to be temporary shortages.
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You're, you're being assured in the news that the factories that process this meat will open right
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back up and there'll be no problems, but here's the real problem. They're aborting piglets right
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now. They're causing the sows to abort. And so the animals that would be going into the pipeline that
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would be showing up in your supermarket in a couple of months aren't being born. So it's not
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just a problem at the processor. Now the farmers are responding rationally to their concerns that
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the, that they'll have to euthanize more hogs. By the way, there are slaughter ready hogs.
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They're being euthanized, shot, destroyed, buried. The same with, same with cattle. If it's not
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happening on a mass scale, it, it probably will be happening on a mass scale, uh, to where they're
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just the chickens, cattle, they can't process them. Uh, and so they have to kill them and bury
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them. Uh, and it's, this is not good. That's right. It's already, uh, it happened a few weeks
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ago with chickens. It's happening with hogs this week. We've got more leeway, a lot more leeway in the
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cattle market. By the way, I raise cattle. I have 60 head of cattle. I took two of them to a
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processing facility yesterday. Yeah. Rookie. Sorry. Yeah. Um, and so I took two to the processing
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facility yesterday and, uh, where I, where I saw something I've never seen before. There were dairy
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cattle being hauled to the processing facility for beef. Wow. And so, because, you know, whenever they
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take, uh, uh, cows out of the dairy production and turn them into beef, that also has a long-term
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effect. And that, but that's just farmers responding rationally to what they're seeing, which is prices,
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you know, when you saw the price of oil going negative, we're, we're there with slaughter ready
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hogs, um, in, in certain circumstances, there are these processing facilities that are canceling their
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contracts claiming act of God, you know, to the farmers. And so anyways, I saw this coming. I was
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on your show, like you said, weeks ago, I know talking about this. When I saw the milk being poured
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out, I said, you know what, they're going to be pouring out animals too. And it's one thing. Yeah,
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go ahead. Go ahead. It's one thing to watch milk being poured out because everybody spilled a glass of
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milk. It's another thing to see a thousand pigs piled up in a pile that are going to be wasted.
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So Thomas, this is really something, I mean, this happened in the great depression, um, and the
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government was actually paying for people to, to destroy animals, uh, that way they could drive the
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price up. And it was, it was a nightmare and it happened in the Soviet union as well. And it, it leads
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to famine in countries that are not as sophisticated as ours. Um, and it's going to, we're going to have
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famine all around the world, all around the world. Um, and the United States, Brazil, and Canada
00:26:49.780
are, we provide 60% of the meat for the rest of the world. Um, when we, when we look at these,
00:26:58.120
these slaughterhouses or processing plants, the problem is, is that you can go down to the processing
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plant and you can have your cattle, uh, uh, you know, a butchered the same with me. I do it. I do
00:27:13.120
it locally cause I eat my own, uh, beef. Um, and so we can do that, but you can't have a local
00:27:21.020
processing plant, which are great. Um, actually provide that meat at the grocery store, which is
00:27:28.820
what we should be doing. It should be local. I mean, every environmentalist should be all over
00:27:35.520
this. It's absolutely right. Things local. That's absolutely right. Do you realize 80% of our meat
00:27:42.040
supplies processed by four different companies and one of them is owned by the Chinese and the other
00:27:47.680
zone by Brazil. And those, so what we've done is we've made our supply line very brittle. We've relied
00:27:55.040
on foreign investment to process the meat that our farmers are growing before it can get to the
00:28:00.280
consumers. We do this. Uh, I mean, Brazil is one thing, but China is another. Can we stop selling
00:28:08.360
things to the Chinese? God help us. I think we should. And you, and you put your finger on the
00:28:14.560
solution, Glenn. There are still thousands of small mom and pop American owned. There's not a single
00:28:20.880
foreign investment dime, you know, in these little mom and pop shops where you take your cattle and I
00:28:26.580
take my cattle, but the USDA has regulated them out of the market because what they require is that
00:28:34.720
you have a full-time employee of the USDA at your facility. You have to give them an office and all
00:28:40.920
this other stuff. Your drains and your floors have to be a certain size and all of these rules, you know,
00:28:46.700
they may be appropriate when you invite the Chinese into your country to process your food for you.
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But what they've done is they've kept the small guys from being able to produce meat and selling
00:28:56.900
it in the supermarket. So you're going to have, you're going to have the ironic situation. It's
00:29:01.700
already happening where, uh, in Iowa, for instance, you have farmers slaughtering hogs. And then at the
00:29:09.720
supermarket, there's a shortage of pork just a few miles away. And while there's a processor,
00:29:15.560
a local guy who, you know, can do your deer if you shoot one, if you shoot a deer or you can do
00:29:22.420
your cattle, if you're just selling it to your friends and family and they have ownership in the
00:29:26.900
cow. And so what I've, I've recognized this five years ago, Glenn, and I introduced the bill called
00:29:33.180
the PRIME Act and everything's a ridiculous acronym in Washington DC. So I've, I've was compelled to come
00:29:39.900
up with an acronym that makes PRIME the word PRIME and don't laugh, but it stands for processor
00:29:46.100
revival, intrastate meat exemption. What? And at the time I was like, well, who would ever care about
00:29:54.380
reviving the processors? Well, the processors are shutting down. And so I think right now this week,
00:30:00.360
people understand we need to revive the processing and it's going to become more acute. When you go to
00:30:05.560
the supermarket, it's going to be like Soviet Russia. You're going to go to buy chicken wings
00:30:10.520
and they're going to say, sorry, no chicken wings, take a pound of chuck roast. And, and so we won't,
00:30:16.660
we won't have famine here because what'll happen before that happens is we'll be importing meat.
00:30:22.700
The poor countries will realize, you know what? We can, we can eat beans and rice and we'll sell our
00:30:28.760
beef to the Americans. Yeah. And that's already starting to happen. We're getting meat from like
00:30:35.520
Africa or somewhere and we can stop all this nonsense. If we would pass the PRIME Act, here's
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what it does. It's real simple. It says, if you've got a farmer and a processor and a grocery store and
00:30:51.500
a consumer who are all in the same state, as long as we're not crossing state lines with this
00:30:56.600
transaction, as long as everybody is abiding by state laws and state regulations in that transaction,
00:31:04.380
then the USDA can't put a farmer in jail for selling a hamburger to somebody. This will never,
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you know this as well as I do, Thomas, this turns the Commerce Act back on its head, back on the way
00:31:18.280
that it should be. Yes. They, in the, in the Great Depression, they turned it upside down. This would
00:31:24.240
turn it right side up and the federal government will never, never give into that. Never. There are
00:31:31.540
two groups that are opposing this. Obviously the lobbyists in DC that represent the big meat packers.
00:31:38.320
Yeah. Okay. That's one big group, but, but also. Which is a, it's corrupt. The meat industry is
00:31:44.200
absolutely corrupt. And, and some of these organizations are disguised as farming organizations
00:31:50.560
that are supposed to represent farmers, but they're actually financed by the processors.
00:31:56.640
And I can tell you, they, they flip the table on the farmer when they get to Washington DC and they
00:32:02.980
act like they're representing the farmer, but it's all about the meat processor. This is why they got
00:32:07.560
rid of country of origin labeling on beef and pork five years ago. And, and you had the farmers who were
00:32:13.860
against getting rid of the country of origin labeling. If you're an American farmer, you want your
00:32:18.080
stuff labeled in the supermarket, but if you're a meat processor, you, you'd be just as happy to get
00:32:25.280
that animal from Mexico, grind it up, put the USD able, a DA label on it and sell it in the supermarket
00:32:33.560
and have people think it was made in USA. Okay. Um, Thomas, let me ask you this question. Uh, are you
00:32:40.780
introducing this bill again? Yes. In fact, I introduced it last May. We've, I had, uh, before
00:32:46.980
this week, I had 24 co-sponsors set six of them are Democrats. And this week alone, I've picked up
00:32:53.640
eight co-sponsors because people are calling their Congressman and they're saying, what's your solution?
00:32:59.020
And if you don't have a solution, sponsor the prime act boy, call your Congressman then and tell them to
00:33:05.440
do the prime act, tell them to do this. Cause this, this changes so much, so much. If this change
00:33:12.380
actually is passed, uh, this would change a lot of regulation. This is, there could be nothing better
00:33:21.500
that could happen. This is profound change if they would pass this. Uh, so call your Congressman and
00:33:28.540
tell them to do the prime act and they may not even understand that they may not even, you know,
00:33:34.140
they'll, they'll pass anything. I mean, they're not even there. Um, but if this is brought up,
00:33:38.880
this would be really good, really good. And I'll tell you why it's good. It can't be temporary.
00:33:43.960
It can't be temporary. This is not an emergency thing just for this virus. Yeah. This gets the
00:33:49.000
meat processing back in the hands of Americans and, and people, the small mom and pops, they will
00:33:55.480
invest. They'll hire more people. They'll expand their production. And instead of everything going
00:34:00.900
across one bridge, we'll have a hundred or a thousand bridges between the farmer and the table.
00:34:06.460
That's the way, I mean, you redundancy, redundancy, to get this program on the air. There is,
00:34:13.240
there are three lines that are running, um, on this program right now. One of them is, is being used
00:34:21.320
to bring my voice to you, but two others are redundant. We have an uplink that takes this thing
00:34:28.380
in New York, in, in, uh, Denver and also Los Angeles. You, you, redundancy with, it's something
00:34:36.320
important. You have redundancy. We don't anymore and it's wrong. And that's the one thing we should