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In this episode of the Glenn Beck Program, Glenn talks about the President's speech, the DoJ's executive order, and the latest in the polls. Glenn also talks about his own health problems and how he's trying to figure out a way to get better.
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of information we talked about the president's speech last night and why it is so important
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we talk about the doj and this um executive order that still even though 50 congressmen and senators have
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asked for this executive order to be released we still don't know what the plan is for election day
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uh something the doj says that they're going to start implementing next week and they're going to
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be there they're going to watch i have no idea what it means but we'll get you a little closer
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to the truth with uh one of our guests we also have an amazing republican hispanic republican woman uh woman
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you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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so joe biden spoke last night and his doj is considering laws that would put people in prison
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for misinformation but i don't think they understand what misinformation is quite honestly
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they're now saying that this is from the washington post that releasing the video
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on paul pelosi is just a way to extend the conspiracy theory now i don't think anything
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happened there except this a crazy hippie went down a rabbit hole went even more crazy
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and tried to kill or hobble nancy pelosi that's what happened that's what happened except the washington
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post talks about how um the conspiracy theories are spread the same reason that q anon itself did
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that there are reward mechanisms for sowing doubt that don't exist for sharing the less exciting truth
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there are political rewards certainly various political actors got new surges in attention by
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spreading false claims about the attack it is the same as suggesting that authorities have been lying
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about an audience builder since the days of ufo chatter on am radio you mean the ones that now the
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pentagon is verifying there's one throw that out there so they go in to say that look the conspiracies
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don't happen because you don't have the information conspiracies happen because you do give them the
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information and you give these people release the video release the video what are you hiding
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if information is suppressed it reinforces the conspiracy theory if it's released it becomes evidence
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that contributes to the conspiracy theory colored yarn is pinned to it and pinned to another
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another uh cork board um okay so great yeah that's the way people are but that's not a reason for not
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releasing information they he quotes the lawrence lessig's uh 2009 essay against transparency in which he warned
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publishing information in the interest of governmental transparency would simply give people scads of
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material to generate their own narratives so they're arguing now that the government should not release
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information in what world does that make sense i will explain in the world of the washington post
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megan mcgardle of the washington post has just written a story where she believes that the media
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was mistaken to report on the public comments and expressions of a prominent figure who was running
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for president who was hosting campaign rallies attended by thousands she said we were responsible for trump
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wow and she said we covered him but we didn't get the effect we were hoping for what effect were you
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hoping for let me ask you as a journalist you are to journal the news you're supposed to tell people
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what happened today you're not supposed to steer us like sheep miccardo believes she and her peers
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failed the public but she believes the voters failed even more they're supposed to look at what the media is
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saying and come to the same conclusion there's a great article on this in in the federalist
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so she says that rather than leaping to condemn his every pronouncement we should just treat trump's
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twitter account the way we would treat some random account with five followers we just ignore them
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they're beneath our notice that's called a blackout
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mcgardle's former post colleague the federalist points out margaret sullivan also said last month the
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old-style journalism will no longer suffice in political coverage instead she said all her little
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friends should be thinking about what coverage serves the public best in other words what serves her
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interest or the media's interest or her collection of friends interest they don't know everyone in the
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country yet they are steering everyone into the country on their belief because they are convinced
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that they're right this is extraordinarily dangerous by the way the fbi official that was one of the head
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guys that suppressed the hunter biden laptop story is still involved in the government's disinformation
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role this is one of the guys making the decisions now another question this one comes from reason
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have you seen what they're charging pelosi's attacker with and and i have to tell you he should go to prison
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or a mental institution like john hinckley did okay we're letting john hinckley out now i don't think we
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should do that you you attack somebody like that you go to jail forever however this man should be put away
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and i want that to be very very clear what he did was very wrong we have no place in our society for it
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but they uh they are charging him and really double charging him everywhere everywhere um
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he according to the justice department they're prosecuting him for violating you know some statute
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which applies to someone who assaults a member of u.s officials immediate family with intent to retaliate
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against that official on account of the performance of the official duties when the assault results in bodily
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injury it's punishable up to 30 years they're also violated saying he violated uh 18 usc 1201
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which applies to someone who attempts to kidnap a federal official on account of performance of official
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duties he also faces six state charges some of them overlap with the federal charges the state
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charges include first degree residential burglary assault with a deadly deadly weapon elderly abuse
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false imprisonment and threatening a member of an elected official's immediate family he is also
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charged with attempted first degree murder okay i i i have to tell you
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i'm sure i'm sure many of these things are accurate okay i'm not an attorney here's what i'm concerned of
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is paul pelosi's life more important than anyone else is paul pelosi's uh i mean is uh
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nancy pelosi's husband more important than the mom in buffalo i don't know if you've been following this
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there was a guy who was arrested 45 years old adam benningfield
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he was arrested because of the savage beating of his estranged wife
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but because of the changes the democrats have made in cash free bail
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and this mother of three is executed by this guy
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is holding hochel and saying what are you doing of course we care about crime
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and there was no bail for a domestic violence incident
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hochel has said yes the laws could use some tweaking
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nobody i know would have anything to do with it
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family and freedom i love you cassie i love you thank you so much good luck next week
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thank you so much glenn thank you for having me on you bet cassie garcia i think that should be
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this is historic america we are five days away from the fundamental transformation
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because this is historic this is a minority this is a hispanic and a hispanic woman
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they've never elected a hispanic woman because they're so misogynistic i guess but this is
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historic we can now change the world i have hope for change let's break that glass ceiling together
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shall we let's do that uh cassie garcia cassie for congress.com this one is winnable but it
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requires boots on the ground and people digging uh this one will be a massive massive loss
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you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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just a few minutes i hope to uh be able to get a hold of the uh
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the government accountability legal director this guy was a a big guy um at the fbi don't hold that
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against him he's on the good team now um he served in the fbi as a supervisory special agent leading a
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large section in the fbi's directorate of intelligence he's also served in the army he led
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more than 300 combat missions in iraq um rescued hostages i mean the guy's really solid and there
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was a story that came out um let's see a couple of days ago i think uh that is warning about the
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doj's memo that was released they released a summary of their comprehensive election day
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plan for next tuesday they said they're just wanting to ensure that all qualified voters have
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the opportunity to cast their ballots and have their votes counted free of discrimination intimidation
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or fraud in the election process okay sounds great i'm all for it consistent with the long-standing
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justice department practices and procedures the civil rights criminal and national security divisions
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are going to spearhead the effort the plan says the civil rights division will conduct monitoring in
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the field and that civil rights division attorneys will be prepared to receive complaints that day in
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real time also it said prosecutors at the public integrity section will be on duty while polls are
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open to take election integrity complaints and the doj is prepared to hear complaints about
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intimidation at the polls and practices that have a discriminatory purpose or a discriminatory result
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propping up because the fear is is that they will um they'll go into republican areas and uh really
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concentrate there and turn a blind eye in democratic areas we have him on the phone we have stewart
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whitson he is uh with the foundation for uh government accountability he's their legal director
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and he has been ringing the bell on this one tell me what this means stewart
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hey good morning glenn thanks for having me on sure yeah so this doj press release is just part of a much
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bigger scheme that kind of centers on biden's eo eo 14019 which maybe we can talk about in a second but
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but this press release in a nutshell it's basically just a thinly veiled threat to conservative states
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that have passed new election integrity laws especially ones related to poll watchers
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and it's basically saying look if you try to enforce these laws if you try to carry out you know the poll
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watching activities which everyone knows the right has been working really hard to recruit and train folks to do
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oh yeah uh that the doj civil rights division is going to come after them um so yeah so in what way
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for what it the state is the one that makes the law it's in the constitution
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well so what they're threatening i guess you could say is they're setting up hotlines
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and they're saying they're using phrases like you know intimidating voters um or doing some sort of
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election practice that would lead to a discriminatory purpose or a discriminatory result and basically what
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it is is they're setting up these hotlines and they're inviting left-wing you know their left-wing
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followers uh to call into these hotlines and file these kind of complaints but then the doj civil
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rights division which is led you know obviously by political appointees of biden can then come in
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and launch investigations and try to exert pressure on these local election offices and try to discourage
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them from carrying out state election laws that have recently passed and so it's basically just a way
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it's just one again one of many different things they're trying to do to try to tip the scales in
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favor of the left this is something we're working hard to stop uh you know i i know you were high up at
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one point with the with the fbi but the fbi and the doj have become gestapo light no comment on that
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are you there no no no okay i mean i think no so of course so i would so i'd say like in this again
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i'm obviously biased because i came from the fbi yeah but it's like 99 of the organization are good
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honest people who believe in the constitution they've sworn to uphold and defend the constitution
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against all enemies foreign domestic and they truly believe that but the problem is if you have weak
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leadership or corrupt leadership in either doj or fbi at the top then that can color everything wrong
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and then and people can be allowed to do things that you know the rest of the organization um would
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just abhor but but you know it's it's kind of like really bad things happen when good men do nothing
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um isn't it you know you can't say you're just following orders if you know that this is wrong
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you need to come out and speak up against it don't the because i agree with you the agents that i have ever
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met uh have always been kind and and professional and everything else and i i want to believe
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that but the silence you know when you only have 25 people who are and that's a lot but you only have
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25 people who are whistleblowers on what's going on in the fbi and the doj that's concerning
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yeah well and i think you know the fbi so for instance i the most all the work i did involved
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international terrorism terrorism right and so there's large groups of the fbi and doj that aren't
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that have no you know because everything's compartmented and you don't you stay in your
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uh lane um but i will say i think you point to a good point there's 25 whistleblowers who've come
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forward so people that are in a position to see things that they think are wrong are coming forward
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and i think once things go the way it looks like things are going to go with the midterm elections
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elections and you know republicans gain some control in the house the ability to utilize the
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oversight powers and really you know drive that home that's going to be good for the american people
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it's going to be and frankly it's going to be good for doj and fbi when that happens i have to tell you
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the the the the trap they're laying for the american people is just remarkable it's very well thought
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out and planned and if there isn't oversight if we don't turn this thing around in this election and
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you don't get oversight from opposing parties um this becomes very very dangerous for the american
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people they're they're talking about misinformation being felonies that's yeah not good you're exactly
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right this is this is a plan but i gotta tell you like the biden administration doesn't deserve all the
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credit for coming up with this plan right this plan was actually developed and dreamed up by a left-wing
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think tank known as demos and so demos they crafted a plan to issue an executive use the power of a
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presidential executive order to try to exert the federal executive branch into some into an area
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where it does not belong which is the administration of elections as you alluded to earlier obviously
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article one section four clause one the elections clause leads the time places a manner of elections to
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the states with limited oversight from congress but nowhere is the president of the united states
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allowed to insert himself that's exactly what the president is trying to do with eo 14019 and that's
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why fga is working so hard to stop that effort and so basically i you know i know a lot of your
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listeners are going to be familiar with the zucker bucks yeah like that's going to be something
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they're very familiar with well this thing we call this biden bucks because eo 14019 is is zucker bucks
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on steroids right instead of mark zuckerberg it's joe biden and instead of 400 million dollars it is
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unlimited power and resources and reach of the federal executive branch led by biden's political appointees
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and so that's that's the problem um and so last year we tried to get to the bottom of this
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and we filed a number of foia requests to shed some light on the scheme right when we saw this
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eo come out the eo came out in march of 2021 yep and i should just say the eo for listeners if they
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haven't seen it it orders every federal agency so this is by ordering every federal agency to develop
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a strategic plan to do two things promote voter registration and promote voter participation
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so voter participation that's another way to say that is get out the boat right yep and so it gets
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even worse the order also commands all federal agencies to solicit so to actually reach out and
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try to solicit and support quote approved third party groups to engage and and registration efforts
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and mobilization efforts on federal agency property using federal resources god heavens the order doesn't
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say you know who gets to decide which groups are approved what's the criteria all that is a
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mystery because the biden administration won't disclose it and that's what our foias are trying
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to get at um obviously if it's being you know so the effort i should say is being led by the domestic
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policy advisor which many listeners will know is susan rice um that doesn't give any extra comfort
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yeah either yeah um and so obviously so that's the key that we're trying to get to and so basically
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what happened last year we filed foia requests to try to get these answers and this is going to
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shock you glenn but the biden administration stonewalled us yeah so just ignore the foia
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request that the foia law doesn't matter to them right we're with uh stewart whitson he's with the
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foundation for government accountability legal director he's been ringing the bell now for a while and they
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are on top of it uh on what uh the administration has done with a new executive order and what the
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fbi and doj will be doing uh next tuesday um stewart last night the president said we need to be patient
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for the results he's expecting many races he said won't be decided or called perhaps for weeks
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is this alluding to maybe the effects of the executive order it definitely could and so that
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but that's the whole million dollar question is no one knows so not even over 50 members of congress
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have demanded to see copies of the strategic plans created by all these agencies to carry out this order
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secretaries of state from across the country uh more than 13 attorney generals
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signed a letter demanding the rescission of the executive order everyone is kind of united around
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the fact that this order is improper it is illegal unconstitutional and unethical on its face but we
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can't get answers and so that's why fga has turned to the kind of the one source left which is the courts
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and using the power of the courts to compel doj and the biden administration to comply um i also think
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following what you know knock on wood right don't want to jinx anything but the red wave that's going to come
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november 8th i think you're going to see congressional oversight committees in a really strong position
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to gather evidence and i think the other thing that's going to come is state ags so state attorneys general
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is following the midterm elections are going to be well positioned to file lawsuits to help stop this
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executive order because because again that's the big long play is going to be 2024 yeah i don't think
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they're organized enough to get all their ducks in a row in time for the midterms i think you
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there is there are a ton of efforts that are already underway you've seen probably reporting on that with
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hud and a ton of other agencies engaging in unprecedented efforts um but again there's more at this point
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we know less uh than we should so we're working hard so isn't it interesting to you i mean it seems
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completely unreasonable to say the questioning of our elections is somehow or another disinformation
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misinformation or you know a felony when executive orders like this are not fully explained when when
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the administration is changing things that have always been in place isn't it unreasonable to expect
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that people won't have questions yeah of course it is and that's and we are you know one of the
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things we always say with election integrity so obviously we're trying to make it easy to vote but
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hard to cheat but the key with election integrity isn't just stopping fraud it's also inspiring voter
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confidence correct and that is really is the difference between the left and the right the right
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genuinely believes that they just they want everyone right and left to wake up the morning after an
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election and just have confidence that whether your candidate won or lost yep you at least know it
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was fair right and if your candidate lost hey you got to roll up your sleeves and get to work
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that's the kind of world the right ones the left doesn't want that the left doesn't care and so that so
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that's that's kind of the big difference and so of course that's what they do they vilify it that's
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why they're again going back to that press release they're going after poll watchers like these are good
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people good folks who are literally devoted hours and hours of their time to take training to get qualified
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in their state to serve as a poll watcher and all they want to do is just go there to help do their civic
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duty to help promote free and fair elections and what are they doing they're literally trying to intimidate
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them and so it's unacceptable we're going to do FDA can do everything we can to stop this as a matter of fact we
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actually filed a motion this morning in federal court to compel DOJ once and for all to disclose
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the documents that it's withheld so it's strategic plan so that order is now in the hand of a judge
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and so because we're a florida-based company our 501c3 we're based in florida we actually have the
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ability to get you know fair judges that are impartial and apply the law and so we have a trump
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appointed florida-based judge who we believe is going to fairly apply the law um and so we're
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optimistic good either way we're going to continue our fight we're going to share everything we got
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with attorneys general and congress and try to help stop this good thank you for everything that you guys
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are doing uh i really appreciate we'll follow up with you after the election the foundation for
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government accountability find out more follow this stewart whitson the legal director thank you so much