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Carter Page files a lawsuit against the FBI and several former high ranking law enforcement officials, alleging his civil rights were violated in connection with the unlawful surveillance and investigation of him by the U.S. government. On today's show, we talk to Carter about his suit, the FBI's surveillance of him, and the lack of transparency surrounding the matter.
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Hey, we've got a great podcast we want to get right to.
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We had the state senator from Pennsylvania that held the big conference last Saturday
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We also talked to a guy who is Bitcoin rich beyond belief, Patrick Byrne, who is self-funding
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an investigation that has been going on since August.
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I have a feeling this this is where some of Sidney Powell's information may be coming
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He gave us some exclusive information on the voting machines and and was this a fraudulent
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Also, Daniel Horowitz and so much more on today's podcast.
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We want to talk to the former Trump campaign aide, Carter Page.
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Friday, he filed a seventy five million dollar lawsuit against the FBI and several former
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high ranking federal law enforcement officials, including James Comey, Andrew McCabe, alleging
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his civil rights were violated in connection with the unlawful surveillance and investigation
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He was one of the first four people in the that the Bureau identified as possible suspects
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during the opening days of the Russia investigation.
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Of the three, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos were all convicted of federal
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crimes, even though Flynn has now been pardoned.
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This suit matters because the DOJ's inspector general found the errors and they weren't errors.
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They were out and out lies in the applications to acquire wiretap for a page using FISA, the
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If they can do it to the president and Carter Page to get to the president, what won't they
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The Patriot Act was put in for very specific reasons, and I don't think they are the reasons
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I wish we were going to see, you know, an end to this, you know, or do you think we're
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going to see any repercussions from any of this, Carter?
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So my hope is that this will be an important step forward.
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Really, the problem that resulted in the huge violations of law, you know, that targeted the
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Trump campaign via myself during the last election four years ago have now just, you know, it's
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another subset of a larger problem, you know, particularly after this month's most recent
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And unfortunately, you know, a lot of Americans, similar to the battles I've been fighting
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for over four years now, you know, people feel like they are in some ways powerless.
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And I think, you know, we really need to fight back for the integrity of our elections.
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And this was all about a election interference campaign by some very dishonest people.
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You know, you if you look back where we were even four years ago, when we thought the Democrats
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were using FISA and they would, you know, they were looking into Russian connections, et
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Very few people believed that what we found out in the last year or the last four years
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And and and people would not go to jail for it.
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No one would pay the price and the media would cover up.
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And I think that's I think that's why, you know, your book, Abuse in Power is important,
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because I don't think people understand what happened here.
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And unfortunately, I mean, there's a there's a very fundamental problem, Glenn.
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And that is and this is, you know, this is exactly what Chairman Lindsey Graham, what Congressman
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Devin Nunes, so many leaders in Congress have been trying to address.
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And that is exactly the way that these criminal attacks happened against me in the Foreign
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And the warrants that were disclosed were the first time ever that such warrants were ever
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uncovered in the history, the 40 year plus history of this court.
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So, I mean, when you have this culture of, you know, behind behind closed doors and, you
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know, behind the shroud of secrecy, it just creates the potential for a lot of problems.
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I think it's similar to what we're dealing with right now.
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I was talking to the audience yesterday and I said, I we do need a great reset, just not
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We need to clean out our CIA, our intelligence, possibly DOJ and and our State Department, because
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And if you just take five seconds to take off your team jersey, you see that something's
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Is there a way to get out of this now at this point?
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Well, I think it's exactly as President Trump has talked about.
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And despite these costs, despite the inconvenience, I mean, there are two choices.
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You can either just roll over and go along with it, which is exceptionally disastrous and
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problematic for everyone and for our country, or you can take proactive steps to, you know,
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demand the truth and demand that the right things are done.
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And I mean, it's exactly as we're seeing across the country with several of the ongoing battles
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in this most recent election interference campaign.
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You were, you know, you graduated from the Navy Academy, you had a scholarship there, you've
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done really well, you've worked for the government.
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I think you even worked a bit for the CIA, right?
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And again, this is part of the lies, and this is part of where, you know, if you have these
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false court filings submitted in Washington, D.C. by government bureaucrats and their political
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allies in the Democrat Party, things can go really off the rail very quickly, as again,
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You just said a minute ago that, you know, you kind of just roll over.
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At what point did you realize, oh my gosh, this, these are not the people I know, or I
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This is the FBI and the CIA and, and the, the judicial system.
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Yeah, well, look, it's, unfortunately, it's been a step-by-step process.
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And I remember when you and I were talking earlier this year, uh, in that in-depth interview
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about the, uh, right after the FISA abuse report came out, you know, Mr. Horowitz at DOJ, uh,
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he comes out with this 400-plus page report last December.
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And the last several years before that, uh, crime after crime was unveiled, you know,
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particularly, uh, a big shout out goes out to Chairman, uh, Lindsey Graham and Chairman
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Chuck Grassley in the Senate Judiciary Committee who put together that, you know, one of the
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first documents are really dug into this, as well as, uh, then Chairman Devin Nunes of the
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And this is going back, you know, with the Nunes memo and the Grassley-Graham memo, that
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There are, and this is the difference between President Trump and some of the Washington,
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He has done a lot to be proactive and address the problems in our country, whereas there is
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this tendency in Washington going back for many, many decades, if not more, to just, you
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know, go with the flow and look out for the, uh, the, you know, the chosen few and, uh, the
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ones who are kind of politically protected in the Washington establishment beltway bandit
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Do you think we're going to see any reports coming out before the end of the year?
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Look, I mean, the bottom line for my case, uh, which was just filed late last week, is
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I mean, this is, crimes have clearly been committed, you know, and there is, uh, definitively
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a number of people who, um, who got involved in this, uh, collaboration.
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Um, and so, I mean, you know, vis-a-vis my particular case, I think I'm, I'm in great
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shape to the extent, again, you know, similar to the step-by-step process we're talking about,
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to the extent we do get more transparency and more information, I think it's only a, uh,
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a win-win situation for, um, for all Americans.
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And, you know, I, I think people have been calling for this.
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I can't tell you the question you just asked me.
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I'm, I'm, I've constantly been asked going back many, many months, if not years.
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And unfortunately, the wait continues now, so we'll see.
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I'm not a suing guy, and I hate these things, but if the federal government has anything
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to do with it, that, that's a, that's a rounding error.
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Well, look, Glenn, I mean, this, I, I am up against literally some of the most powerful
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So, and I, I'm, I'm lucky that I have a team of, uh, you know, attorneys who are, who are
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I'm, I'm very fortunate that Lynn Wood and the Fight Back Foundation has, has been helping
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But these are long, ongoing battles, and I'm up, like, you know, I, I've got the help of,
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uh, Lynn at, at, at Fight Back Foundation and, you know, our, our small team of attorneys.
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But we're, again, we're up against literally dozens of, uh, bad, you know, actors within
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DOJ and their, their former employees who were at the center of all this.
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So, I mean, to the extent, to the extent people can help, uh, Fight Back.law, there's, you
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know, any, any small amount would be, uh, would be appreciated, but, you know, it's, it's a
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So, you have to, you have to sort of, you know, pick your battle.
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It says, you know, that the complaint says 75, um, you know, no less than 75 million.
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And I, I think if people do the right thing, then, uh, you know, justice will eventually
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And I can tell you anything that I do get, I will give back tenfold in terms of, you
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know, future, future philanthropy to help fix these problems, which have plagued our
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country for, uh, at least four years and, and in reality, many years longer.
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So, when you hear a bunch of state senators put together some hearing, uh, in a hotel,
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It kind of cheapens, uh, who this in particular state senator is.
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I don't ever read resumes on the air, but this one needs to be heard.
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He was an Eagle Scout, worked as a paperboy janitor, security guard, short order cook,
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Well, he was commissioned in the U.S. Army in 1986.
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He served on the Iron Curtain with the 2nd Armory Cavalry Regiment in West Germany.
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He then served along the East German and Czechoslovakian borders, where he witnessed the end of the Cold War,
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then deployed to Iraq for Operation Desert Storm to liberate Kuwait.
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His regiment led the attack against Saddam's elite Republican Guard forces.
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Then he went on to serve in Washington, D.C. for the 3rd Infantry Division.
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After 9-11, he was the lead planner for the operation to invade Iraq via Turkey.
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He served four years with NATO, deployed three times to Afghanistan.
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He is also, he was the director of NATO's Joint Intelligence Center in Afghanistan, leading 80 people from 18 nations.
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He also, on his own, has led seven relief operations to help Afghan orphans.
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He completed his career as a professor of the U.S. Army War College in Pennsylvania.
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He taught strategic studies at a master's degree level.
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He also is a doctor of history, Ph.D., and he has four master's degrees.
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In 2019, he was elected to serve as the senator for Pennsylvania's 33rd District, which includes all of Adams County,
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most of Franklin County, and parts of Cumberland and York Counties.
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Welcome to the program, sir, and thank you for your service.
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I'm one of our local affiliates here in Chambersburg, News Talk 1037, and my office is right above it, conveniently.
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So, Doug, let me start with, before we get into the ins and outs of all of this, why are these hearings being held in hotels?
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Why are they being held instead of in the state capitol?
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So we're trying to find a venue large enough, obviously, with all the COVID restrictions from our illustrious Governor Tom Wolfe,
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and this venue, obviously, is large enough to accommodate a fair amount of people.
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We want the hearings to be public, and if we do it in the capitol, the hearing rooms, sadly, are too small to accommodate a good amount of the public.
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We wanted at least 100 people to eyewitness this, and we invited all the media.
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And it's funny because this was an earth-shaking, earth-changing, historic-changing moment in Gettysburg once again,
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and they tried to ignore it, but they couldn't because, as John Adams said, facts are stubborn things,
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and we found a lot of facts here that are very troubling.
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So tell me some of the facts that you found that we may not know,
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because there's so much disinformation, so much bad information,
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and who do we go to to be able to decide what's true and what's not?
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You know, like everyone else in America, I'm trying to figure out what happened on Election Day,
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and we're hearing all this naysaying, and we're hearing from the mainstream media,
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But I remember back in 2000, as you mentioned, you know, Bush v. Gore,
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or, you know, hey, there's a process. Be patient.
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And just out of frustration, literally, no exaggeration, no hyperbole,
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tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians were reaching out to me and my colleagues about fraud, abuse,
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being excluded from polling, being pushed out from observing.
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And I'm like, I'm a senator. We're a co-equal member of this government.
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We have responsibility to the people for transparency.
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So I called together this hearing, and I wanted eyewitnesses.
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And by God, we got eyewitnesses here that we spoke about, as you saw with, of course,
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the data analysts, you know, 337 ballots being counted at one spike,
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and then in total almost 600,000 ballots, almost all for Biden in the end,
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and one particular day with only 3,200 for Trump.
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You know, mathematically, that's almost impossible.
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And then, of course, we had firsthand testimony from Leah Hopes and others
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who tried to do their constitutional responsibility and what is right by the law
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to watch poll workers, to, you know, watch the collection of ballots
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and the submissions of ballots, and were forced out.
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One guy was almost attacked by several members in Philadelphia.
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It seems like most of the bad things, sadly, happened in Philadelphia.
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We see bags and bags of ballots showing up without any good chain of custody,
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and all this smells very rotten, and something's gone wrong.
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So is there any way to tackle this and change this?
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I mean, you don't have a friendly Supreme Court.
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They've been very unfriendly, even in the lead-up.
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Is there any way to find out the truth on this?
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Is there any force out there besides a group of, you know, ragtag soldiers like you
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that are trying to fix this and really want true answers, no matter where the chips fall?
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You know, any American, and for me, this is a bit of an alien concept here.
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When so many people in America view things through partisan eyes, you know,
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people like you and I try to look at things through American eyes.
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What's best for the Constitution and the United States?
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We might not like certain outcomes, but, you know, if Biden won fair and square, so be it.
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And so our challenge is, you know, what does a Pennsylvania legislator do?
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And we have a lot of issues, obviously, because our governor, Tom Wolfe,
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has declared that there's all but no cheating in Pennsylvania because he's happy with the outcome as it stands,
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and he doesn't want to do an audit or an investigation.
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And his secretary of state, of whom I've called for her resignation, Kathleen Buchvar,
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she as well agrees with her governor that there's nothing to see here.
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And to make matters worse, you think our attorney general as the senior law enforcement officer of our state would care.
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Because if there's one viable claim of disenfranchisement, cheating, fraud,
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if Republican or Democrat, you'd imagine they'd want to investigate that.
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In fact, he declared Biden the winner before one vote was counted.
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So with the legislator, it's time for us to rise up and to exercise our constitutional powers, you know, under Article 212.
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I know there's been a lot of talk about it on your show, but the ebb and flow of this, sadly,
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our General Assembly has delegated that power to the very same people now who seem bent not to look into any of these accusations of fraud.
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In 1878 and 1938, they've delegated the power to the Secretary of State.
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So we have to figure out a way to get that power back under the federal constitution.
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I mean, it's not going to happen by, you know, January.
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They stick together and they know how to run out the clock.
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You know, we try to abide by the rules and all that.
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I feel like we're the redcoats sometimes, you know, in 1776.
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Can you tell me why Dominion backed out of the hearing?
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So my colleagues in the House led the way in this investigation.
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They wanted to ask Dominion questions because I think it's about 14 counties, upper 67 in
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Pennsylvania actually used Dominion voting machines.
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Hey, is there are they susceptible to fraud and can they be reprogrammed and all that?
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And yeah, the morning of the hearing, they bailed out.
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They refused to answer questions from a customer on how safe and secure the machines were.
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You would again, like you said, transparency is all people want.
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I just want to know it's the voice of the people.
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I want to make sure that it is, you know, here in Texas, our voting machines, we fill
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It spits out a ticket that says on the machine and on your ticket who you're who you voted
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I don't know why we don't have those voting machines all over the country.
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I mean, and that's what we need in Pennsylvania and elsewhere here.
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You know, for far too long, shenanigans and cheating and fraud has happened to people
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But I want to mention some obscure case in 1994.
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There was a state Senate race here in Pennsylvania, in Philly of all places, and of course, the
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And the majority for the Senate was at risk in the balance.
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And they rigged the election, cheated with so much fraud that their guy Stinson won.
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The Republican, who lost overwhelmingly, did a lawsuit and demonstrated without any doubt
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that there was extensive systematic fraud and abuse and cheating that the district judge
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threw out the results, took the Democrat senator out of the office, and put the Republican
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who lost in because the results were so corrupted.
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So right now, where we are in this whole process here in Pennsylvania, it's really up to the
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Trump team to demonstrate with such strength and with so much information that likewise,
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in 2020, the presidential elections in Philadelphia were so corrupted that the results need to be
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They've been saying they've got all this evidence, but then we don't see anything being
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filed or anything actually being argued in court on this.
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When they were in Gettysburg on Wednesday, Glenn, the Trump team was through 250 affidavits,
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Obviously, I didn't have time to go through it all.
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But if that is presented to the U.S. Supreme Court, I do believe it is very compelling.
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And maybe there'll be a similar outcome to 1994.
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You know, the irony, Glenn, is not lost on me here.
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You know, where it all happened, you know, and we know we're a republic, so I forgive
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But there was a guy in Philadelphia that had a sign a couple weeks ago, democracy dies in
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I really appreciate everything that you have done.
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If I could part on a final thought here, and I know you've spoken about this here, but
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in 1775, George Washington commissioned really what was our first flag.
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And it's a white background with a Douglas fir tree and an appeal to heaven.
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So I'm asking people to appeal to God to intervene on behalf of our country, that the truth
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I don't know why I didn't expect to like him, but I liked him.
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This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.
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Eric Clapton is now being shunned, along with Van Morrison.
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They announced that they're going to do a anti-lockdown song released in early December, and it didn't
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sit well with all of the powers to be in all over the world.
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They are currently working hard to discredit Eric Clapton.
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I don't know how you discredit a guy who, like, didn't he do heroin for a long time?
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I think he's beyond caring what you think about him.
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Van Morrison has already done several protest songs, and where is he from?
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Our Scottish listeners right now are going, it is not Ireland!
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Born to be free, as I walked out, and no more lockdown are the three that he has done,
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and the UK government has come down hard and said his songs are dangerous.
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How is the song dangerous, but Cardi B, none of her stuff is dangerous.
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No, it doesn't affect anyone, but this new Eric Clapton, Van Morrison song?
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By the way, Cardi B, I don't want to just throw her out here.
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Without telling you that she has apologized now, because she, on Instagram, posted some
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She confirmed later on Twitter that she had 12 kids and 25 adults over for the holidays,
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Us little peons are not allowed to have those gatherings.
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Andrew Cuomo was planning to bring up his mom, who's very elderly, to have a Thanksgiving
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He was so sure no one was going to say anything that he just, like, blurted it out.
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County supervisor who voted to shut down all outdoor dining for all 31,000 restaurants in
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Two hours later, went out to a restaurant and ate at an outdoor restaurant in Los Angeles.