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Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck discuss the latest in the Mar-A-Lago case, and how the FBI handles controversial news stories. Plus, Mark Zuckerberg's interview with Joe Rogan and how they handle controversial stories.
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You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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We've got Bill O'Reilly talking about the news of the day.
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The rest of the affidavit part of the warrant on Mar-a-Lago is by a judge, must be released by noon today.
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We will cover it and read it to you as we get it, assuming that we get it before this program is over today.
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Could we please play cut one of Mark Zuckerberg in an interview with Joe Rogan?
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How do you guys handle things when they're a big news item that's controversial?
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Like there was a lot of attention on Twitter during the election because of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
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I mean, basically the background here is the FBI, I think, basically came to us, some folks on our team.
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It was like, hey, just so you know, like you should be on high alert.
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There was we thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election.
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We have it on notice that basically there's about to be some kind of dump of that's similar to that.
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What Twitter did is they said, you can't share this at all.
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What we do is we have if something is reported to us as potentially misinformation, important misinformation, we also have this third party fact checking program because we don't want to be deciding what's true and false.
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And for the I think it was five or seven days when it was basically being being determined whether it was false.
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The distribution on Facebook was decreased, but people were still allowed to share it.
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So when you say the distribution has decreased, how does that work?
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Basically, the ranking in News Feed was a little bit less.
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So fewer people saw it than would have otherwise.
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I don't know off the top of my head, but it's it's it's meaningful.
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But I mean, but basically a a lot of people are still able to share it.
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We got a lot of complaints that that was the case.
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You know, obviously, this is a hyper political issue.
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So depending on what side of the political spectrum, you either think we didn't censor it enough or censored it way too much.
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But we weren't sort of as black and white about it as Twitter.
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We just kind of thought, hey, look, if the FBI, which I still view as a legitimate institution in this country, it's a very professional law enforcement.
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They come to us and tell us that we need to be on guard about something that I want to take that seriously.
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Did they specifically say you need to be on guard about that story?
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I don't remember if it was that specifically, but it was it basically fit the pattern.
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I listened to a good chunk of this interview last night because I wanted to get the context.
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First of all, you know, it's interesting because you do you forget about the pressure they're getting from the other side, too.
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A lot of times I we talk about how we're all annoyed at Facebook and Twitter and all these places there.
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The other side is putting more pressure on them about making sure they do censor this stuff.
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And he went through that pretty interesting way.
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It's interesting when you listen to him, isn't it?
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Yeah, because you because he that's what he was saying to me.
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When I said at the table, he said, Glenn, the pressure.
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The pressure is just as heavy on the other side.
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He basically says, I don't want you could say he doesn't want any any responsibility for this whatsoever is essentially his point.
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Now, whether you believe him on that is another story.
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It was interesting to hear the lead up to this because Joe Rogan, I think five or six questions, 20 minutes before this question happened, he was leading to this question.
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I really seem like he I mean, he's you could tell he wanted to get something on this turned out to be quite smart interview.
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And the other thing was, I think you get from from this because it doesn't specifically say he sort of avoids that part of it where he says, I don't know why it started.
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You can understand them coming and saying, hey, there could be Russian influence.
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And we all know that some of that stuff goes on.
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He's not saying necessarily the FBI came to him and said, you've got to stop this Hunter Biden story.
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He said at that worst or I mean, at best, he said it fits the parameters of the story they were worried about.
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So and remember, the FBI had that story a year before and they had already.
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We found out yesterday they had already told their FBI agents, do not look into it.
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It's I mean, we're really blessed to have that computer guy save a copy.
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And give copies out or that thing would have been gone.
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And I think here when if you're looking at this with a critical eye, I think you're more concerned about the FBI than you are Facebook here, which is interesting.
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I think we've been talking about the the big tech platforms, which they're guilty of a million things.
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But at least the way this story is told, my suspicions more much more about the FBI and what they were telling Facebook rather than Facebook necessarily coming in and trying to make these decisions on their own.
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He actually came comes off as relatively normal in this interview.
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You know, he's either an accomplished sociopathic liar or he's doesn't really have control of his company.
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You know, he'll look you in the eye and say these things.
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And you're like, OK, well, he does have a point on that.
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And I think there's a level of this where these guys want to make a bunch of money.
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They have some sort of idea of what they want the world to be, surely.
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But like they also want to make a bunch of money and they don't want to be in constant political controversies.
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And they'd love for someone to take all of this off their table.
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Like they'd love to not be able, like to not have to worry about it.
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Well, how can we tell the fact checkers are biased?
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And his basic point was like, I mean, he didn't say this exactly, but his basic point was, I don't really care.
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I just don't want to have to make the decisions.
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I don't want to be I don't want us to be responsible for it.
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Like, it's just like, well, you are when you don't know who the fact checkers are.
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Like, you can say the algorithm is making the choice, but human beings have an impact on that.
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But the bottom line is, I think, like what he wants is no responsibility, which unfortunately for him is not.
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I mean, people are going to come to him on both sides and say, you need to take responsibility for your platform.
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I'm always shocked when somebody who I know is a fan of the show and will admit it out loud.
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When Hillary Clinton lost, which is understandable that she would lose, not exactly the most logical person in the room.
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And then when Kate McKinnon went out there on Saturday Night Live in the cold opening, she started dressed as Hillary Clinton and she starts playing Hallelujah.
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And I said, I literally prayed to her, please have a joke at the end.
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You can take the comedy routines, the comedy routines, you can take the comedic indoctrination process happening with each of the late night hosts and you can exchange them with each other.
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That's how you know it's not interesting anymore because there's no, there's no, it's not an independent voice anymore.
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It's just all indoctrination by comedic imposition.
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And you used to work in Saturday Night Live when a conservative and a liberal could work side by side and you'd hit both sides.
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We always lean more left because we were more liberal because that's where all the girls were.
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That's what, that was the whole, I got in the show business.
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And I realized that, hey, look, I'm five foot five, barely.
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And I said, I could have to do something to get these beautiful girls because this ain't working.
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And so, and so you get wrapped up into this and I guess I am a liberal, but we'd lean that way, but we also called it when it was necessary to be called.
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I thought there was no way that you would have hit Barack Obama and Joe Biden as hard as at least Joe Biden.
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Cause there was tons of things about Joe Biden.
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And truthfully, they just like, you know, and Lorne Michaels will say this.
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And, you know, he'll say the liberals, they're just, they're more sensitive.
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But like, I will say they were still doing great stuff.
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The real genius of Saturday Night Live is Jim Downey, the head writer.
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And he wrote this and he's also a conservative.
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Um, he wrote a great bit, like the great, the last great political bit was, um, during when Obama and Hillary in the primaries and, uh, in the press and how the press were deferential to Obama.
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He said, Hillary, so according to, you know, the Syria and the, the, you know, what's happening in Libya.
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And, uh, do you think that, that support that going against Assad and go, and then also supporting the, and Hamas is, uh, Hamas is what the creep of Hamas coming in, uh, in Lebanon.
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And there's a, do you think that, that, that, that the process would be, and they said, very complicated.
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And they said, so Senator Obama, who's your favorite basketball team?
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Cause that's kind of the press, the press was so, you know, and so, and that's funny.
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And I think at the end of the day, like all entertainers, including me when I'm going out performing and I talk about all this stuff, but my job is to entertain.
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I mean, I'm, I've been ostracized from show business.
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At no point in anyone's life has been, you know, I'm on, I'm going up.
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Wish I could give you some access to blaze tv.com.
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That's why I don't want you to watch the network because we just keep you busy just to keep
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But, uh, if that's what you're doing, that's a, that's a chair to black.
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But I will say, uh, you do get early access to all the podcasts, right?
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Uh, you can watch it now at blaze tv tomorrow on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.
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Where do you want to start the biggest story of the week?
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Well, you know, I want to start in a more general capacity because, um, you have, uh, the midterm
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elections, which could put an end to some of the madness.
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And so the progressive left, which has made unbelievable strides under Biden knows that.
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And now they're working in conjunction with the media to put out these phony polls that
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show the Biden administration surging in popularity and the Democrats in the generic ballot, um,
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It's not true, but it could have, uh, an effect if it's not countered by people like you and
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Um, because we live in a country where half of the voters don't know anything.
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And I'm not being super silly as back arrogant.
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They live in a world of their own, um, a world they create out of cyberspace.
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They don't understand anything other than gas costs me more.
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And so does brain, but that's all they have to stand.
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And, and so they're subject to unbelievable propaganda, but if Americans and, and I'm the Republican
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party don't start to really up the urgency of this.
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Well, that part of this is because of Mitch McConnell, Mitch McConnell has been heard to
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say that all we're going to do is just keep pointing out how bad the Democrats are.
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Um, there isn't a central force in the Republican party now at all.
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And really there isn't in the democratic party either.
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Cause Biden's not in control of his situation, but the democratic machine allied with the media
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out of K street in Washington, um, where these political action committees, um, operate, uh,
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they are well organized and the Republicans aren't.
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I mean, when you get a poll in Los Angeles, it shows that a progressive left is well out
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in front of a guy who says, look, I'm going to clean up the town.
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And you just look at, and that poll is probably accurate.
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And you say to the people in Los Angeles, okay, if this is what you want, this is what you
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You better get a gate and you better get a gun where security guards, because this is
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totally out of control and you're voting for it.
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I mean, it comes a point in history and you know that I am the history guy where a citizenry
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Like there might've been with a Bill Clinton or even a Barack Obama.
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This is a massive government takeover of everything in this country to diminish your personal freedom.
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But if the government wants to run education, pre-K to post-graduate, they want to run it
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all so they can indoctrinate, just like you do with the total twins ad, the students from
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If you agree with us, we'll pay for a lot of your education.
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They want to run personal protection, second amendment.
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They don't want you to have personal protection.
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But most of all, they want to run the economy to tell you, the American citizen, what you
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But you can see how this has happened in the past to other countries and how is now being
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Yeah, I've never really liked this the most important election of our lifetime because
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This is this could be the last midterm election under the United States of America as we know
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it the Constitution by 2024 could be gone if there's no speed bump in Congress.
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The the the executive orders bill, I've I've always been against executive orders when they
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I mean, we're writing we're not legislating anything anymore.
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Now, I think executive orders have to be stopped.
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They just have to be stopped because we are in a dictatorship when a president can do what
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But you're not going to stop it unless you have a Republican president elected in 24.
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So the founding fathers, they wanted a certain type of government, but they realized all of
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them in their personal letters and papers that this might not happen.
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OK, let me let me go to talking about personal papers.
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The redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit is supposed to be made public
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Are we just going to see a bunch of pages with nothing but black bars over it?
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Yeah, I mean, look, what you can expect to see is a generalized rationale for the search.
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You're not going to know what the person, all the grand jury that Trump took.
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I don't even think you'll get specific documents that they were looking for.
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This is just another example of a government trying to destroy an individual, in this case,
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So the government, the Biden administration trying to destroy the man because they know
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And the Republicans who hate him are siding with the Democrats, which is really, look,
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And I understand the eccentricities of the man and that he did do damage to himself and
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the country by being immature and undisciplined.
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And I've told it to him more times than you can even imagine, but he governed the country
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If you look at the border, if you look at the economic deals that he made.
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It had, I mean, we wouldn't be having this problem if we would have had Republicans with
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We have now the FBI not only with the Mar-a-Lago thing, but we also have FBI agents, whistleblowers
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at the highest levels, according to Grassley, saying that the FBI was ordered not to talk
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It was they were ordered not to look at any of that.
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Um, the, um, uh, Mark Zuckerberg was on Joe Rogan and he talked about how the FBI came
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to him and said, you know, there's going to be some Russian disinformation coming out.
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Plus we also have the story that the people who stole Ashley Biden's, uh, diary, which I'm
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They stole her diary, but this has really damning information in that, uh, in that diary.
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They arrested those two people, but nobody's looking into the Hunter Biden thing.
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So when, and I do believe this will happen, the house becomes Republican in November.
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And when that happens and they're all sworn in, in January, the first thing the Republicans
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And then these whistleblowers will come in and they'll say what they are going to say under
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oath and that will be the end of the FBI's reign of power.
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Because it'll then be destroyed and charges, actual charges might come from that.
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But I have to tell you, Bill, I'm concerned that I think we're a, a country, the United
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They have been monitoring these congressmen and everything else.
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And, you know, these congressmen are not the best moral character.
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Are you sure that the, the intelligence agencies and, you know, look at the power that, that
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I mean, I know it cause I wrote killing the mob and everything is in there about it, but
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So that's the FBI, but here's the worst FBI thing.
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They didn't even look into who leaked the, uh, Alito memo.
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Because if they had, they would have made an arrest.
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And probably out of those 20 over maybe six or seven.
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But doesn't that, but doesn't that, but doesn't that also fall to John Roberts because they
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do have their, their own, at least security force that can hire out, uh, to investigate.
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Uh, but I do know that if Trump were president and this happened, you would have had an arrest
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So when you see something that simple, all right, that blatant, that you have a person
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inside the Supreme court, there's not a lot of them.
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And they can't find that person who leaked that memo in a historical fashion, which makes
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If we can't even keep secrets at the Supreme court level, we're banana Republic.
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And so it is a terrible thing, but there is a resolution to this.
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If the house goes Republican, Bill O'Reilly, a guy who knows how inflation works, uh, too
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Um, so you want to, the, the, uh, the economy is overheating.
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You make sure that people don't have the money to spend.
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What Joe Biden did, uh, with this, uh, with this bailout of people's student loans is
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Bill talk to me a little bit about the fallout of this, what you think, if it's going to
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stand, um, Nancy Pelosi flip-flopping, uh, and what it's going to do to the economy.
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We still have a big consumer engine here in this country.
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I was at Yankee stadium for the Mets Yanks on Tuesday, 50,000 people there spending money
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Um, the loan forgiveness thing, uh, will be, uh, obliterated if there is a Republican president
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If the Democrats continue to hold power to be at about 700 billion, uh, the country cannot
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afford, obviously to keep running up this kind of debt.
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Uh, people don't understand who's going to get the loan, how it's tied into the department
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You, you, you say that this is going to has to wait till the next president.
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Do you not think this is going to go to the Supreme court?
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Um, Biden will veto any attempt to reign it in.
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Um, so, but you know, it's only really two years away now.
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I want to tell your audience back, cause I know you're very smart and big audience around
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Um, I did an interview with Newt Gingrich this week on billoreilly.com.
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The way I interview these people is totally different than anybody else.
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Um, and I got a lot of micro information about really what's happening because Gingrich,
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he went through this, all right, the whole thing, um, in the contract for America and
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So if you really want an astute analysis and get away from the propaganda you see on television
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The second thing is that people are getting hopeless now and I shouldn't.
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So yes, there are States like mine, New York and California and Illinois, almost irredeemable
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at this point, but also States like Florida and Texas.
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And other places that are wising up that are saying, you know, we want our freedom.
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I mean, people in California, New York, I'm shocked.
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They, they don't seem to respect their own personal freedom.
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They want a government to tell them what they can and can't do every single facet of life.
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Why do you want to sacrifice your personal autonomy to an incompetent boob like Joe Biden?
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Why would you ever want to give Nancy Pelosi power over you or Donald Trump or any other
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You know, you've got to fight for your independence and we're not there because that message is
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Well, that message also, you know, Newt Gingrich had the contract for America.
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I have been ringing the bell in Congress and Senate for a year contract for America.
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It's not going to happen this time around because there's no central leadership like
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Well, then Kevin McCarthy should definitely not be the guy in the house.
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If he can't get that done, then he should definitely not be the leader of the house.
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I don't follow that very closely because I don't, I know the games that are played.
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I want the American people to wise up to see what is happening in a non-paranoic way and
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to discuss it with their children, their families, their friends and say, you know, this is bad.
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When the powerful corporate media allies with the progressive left as it has, it's trouble.
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If you watched his no-spin zone for years, he's still doing no-spin news.
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I wanted to ask you if my feelings are valid here.
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And you may not want to get involved, but I think Texas, what they did, sucked.
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And I think because, if I'm not mistaken, Texas, at least in school books, Texas is a lot like
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When Texas just decided to take on BlackRock alone and only the E, so they're protecting energy, but not the people,
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and then only took on BlackRock and not the banks, is that a good thing?
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You know, Glenn, I applaud Texas for putting BlackRock on there, but I hear your sentiment.
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I'm disappointed because you look at the list of those other banks, European banks.
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I don't really care about credit suites that much here in the United States.
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I mean, certainly I do because they're part of the movement.
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But in terms of the entire ESG movement in this country, it's our own financial system that is doing this to us.
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I mean, this is why you have to, yes, the E is the way that we can really fight this.
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Whether you're talking about JPMorgan Chase paying for abortions, the rest of these financial institutions,
00:32:30.820
we've got to list these folks to stop this nonsense.
00:32:36.000
Because they can just shift their money around.
00:32:38.640
And it outrageous me that only BlackRock, as you said, all the other banks are foreign banks, nothing about U.S. banks.
00:32:56.240
I've not gotten any insight into what happened there.
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And to the listening audience around the country, we have to, in these other states where this bill has passed, this cannot be the bar.
00:33:14.680
Or if we're just looking to check a box, we all lose.
00:33:25.840
I'll sit there and I'll talk to congressmen and senators and states and the nation all over.
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And, you know, you'll see those who roll their eyes.
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And those who are just starting to hear about it.
00:34:03.120
To get to the point we are right now where they're able to use our own capital against us, control our economy, control policy through that capital.
00:34:14.920
I mean, they're setting the policy in this country, not through the ballot box, because they can't get it done at the ballot box.
00:34:29.660
Yeah, and I'm concerned just about, I mean, Texas.
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And, you know, each state is set up differently.
00:34:45.100
And as I recall correctly, the governor has more authority over banking contracts and the pension boards and things of that nature.
00:34:54.720
And Governor DeSantis has been doing a tremendous job because he's taken back control of those proxy votes.
00:35:01.360
That's something we're doing next year here in West Virginia.
00:35:03.760
In our legislative session, he's able to do it through executive authority.
00:35:31.800
So the proxy vote, and this is part of the problem, you have a duopoly.
00:35:36.600
There's two proxy vote advisors out there, ISS and Glass-Lewis.
00:35:42.320
Pension boards look to those advisors on how to vote.
00:35:55.060
When we contract, let's say, the state of West Virginia or Texas or Florida with BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, whoever it might be, in the contract, they control those proxy votes, right?
00:36:07.200
Because we're in passive investment vehicles like an index fund or things like that, where there are votes attributed to that.
00:36:16.860
Then they accumulate those votes as asset managers and then vote against our own interest here in this country or in the state of West Virginia,
00:36:25.840
like you had happened with ExxonMobil, where they were able to accumulate enough votes to say, you know what, you're an oil company.
00:36:35.760
The good idea would be, let's vote to reduce oil production by 20% last year.
00:36:45.900
So, State Street, Vanguard, BlackRock control 25% of all votes cast publicly traded companies in this country.
00:37:19.520
It could be, you know, Boeing, ExxonMobil, whatever.
00:37:26.220
Now, you think about, like, majority shareholders in some of these publicly traded companies.
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I mean, it's smaller percentages because, obviously, there's so many shareholders involved in publicly traded companies.
00:37:40.440
So, it doesn't take much to have the majority in power.
00:37:52.900
Who do you think is – well, first, before I ask that, did we put into any legislation – you're seeing anybody put ESG or any entity or program like that?
00:38:06.480
Because they're going to change the name ESG because we've made it very unpopular.
00:38:12.620
You know, just how woke doesn't exist now and critical race theory is not real.
00:38:17.100
So, yes, there will be – you know, they control language, obviously, in this country.
00:38:25.860
You know, I think there's good legislation that has been passed in Kentucky, in Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
00:38:34.440
Now, they do have the ability in that bill in Texas.
00:38:39.640
He has the ability, the comptroller, to go back and revisit that list every year at his discretion.
00:38:53.840
I understand Texas state legislature is looking at doing that again.
00:39:00.260
But, you know, there's a multifaceted approach to this.
00:39:02.520
It's dealing with the banks, the asset managers, proxy voting.
00:39:09.740
And then you have the attorney generals that are coming in on this SEC role from the government side,
00:39:15.940
where they're trying to control emissions all the way down to company supply chains,
00:39:20.560
where they're going to have to report this, which is total insanity.
00:39:24.540
And so you have the federal push that's also happening.
00:39:27.840
Congressman Andy Barr has been a real leader in this.
00:39:35.280
If we can get back control of Congress, I think that will go a long way in the White House
00:39:40.360
to bring us back to where we need to be in our pension funds in particular with his bill.
00:39:46.040
It just says all you can do is assess risk and return.
00:39:50.520
And then I want to see some antitrust lawsuits out there on.
00:39:58.560
Well, this just seems like if somebody would get the information and track,
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I know the ESG funds are tracking lower than the S&P 500.
00:40:08.960
I don't know what the threshold is, but there's got to be a class action suit against all of these people
00:40:15.800
for taking my retirement money and then telling me I should expect lower returns.
00:40:21.120
For a few years, that's that's not what I asked you to do.
00:40:24.680
I didn't ask you to put your money into something that is an ideological argument.
00:40:32.560
Why is there not a class action lawsuit being thought of?
00:40:37.820
I know that there is one being thought of, and there has been discussions, I know,
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amongst attorney generals and other people within the federal government,
00:40:46.580
our elected officials there in Congress, about the idea of an antitrust violation going on here,
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not only with the asset managers, but don't forget that duopoly that you have
00:40:56.860
in terms of proxy advisors, Glass-Lewis and ISS, 97%.
00:41:10.680
So Glass-Lewis and ISS, who are the proxy advisors on all of these pension boards,
00:41:27.760
I mean, Riley, this is really, I mean, this is the crime of the century.
00:41:34.560
The way the progressives have put this whole thing together, it is going to be admired.
00:41:39.720
I mean, hopefully for years, like we admire the Nazis being so evil and so brilliant
00:41:54.940
This is brilliant planning, really brilliant planning.
00:41:59.220
Well, you mentioning the Nazis brings me to a great point here.
00:42:03.080
We've sent out a letter with 17 other state treasurers on Morningstar.
00:42:10.060
Morningstar rates all the College 529 savings plans in the country.
00:42:16.460
Well, they have an ESG scoring arm in this, and they've decided to add in BDS,
00:42:24.380
Boycott, Divest, Sanction, Israel, as part of their scoring system.
00:42:28.880
So they're bringing in the anti-Semitic aspect of this as well.
00:42:33.080
And so if you don't think this is about the great reset and the new world order
00:42:38.600
that these people want to put into place, I got news for you.
00:42:43.140
Didn't a lot of states pass bills that they wouldn't invest if you were a BDS participant?
00:42:51.180
Yes, we have that in West Virginia, and many other states have anti-BDS legislation.
00:42:57.400
So our attorney generals have sent letters as well to them saying that they are going to look at this
00:43:07.500
And if it is, then we are going to have to break contract with them.
00:43:17.860
Because everybody who looks at a college savings plan looks at Morningstar's ratings.
00:43:31.060
And I thank you, Riley, for really being one of the good guys and leading on this.
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From West Virginia, the state treasurer, Riley Moore.