Glenn takes a look at Joe Biden's new speech impediment, and how it could impact his 2020 campaign. Plus, an update from Venezuela on what's going on in that country, and an update on the latest on the Trump-Russia scandal.
00:02:04.180I saw some video today that I thought was a little disturbing and not that he is going senile or anything like that.
00:02:25.940He is just if I were working for Biden, I would be concerned a little bit.
00:02:33.440Yeah, you think maybe a little bit on this about a speech that he gave yesterday where he was if he was slurring his words a bit and he's starting to sound like a very old man.
00:07:41.360And Trump has the ability, too, that I don't think Biden has in that Trump can say, look, I will show up when 10,000 people are there or I won't show up.
00:07:51.300And no one's going to say, well, you're an elitist.
00:07:53.980Well, yeah, of course he's an elitist.
00:08:42.080I'm he's basically acting like he's a construction worker running for president.
00:08:45.140And of course, that's not true at all.
00:08:47.760So he's a having to lie about it and be like you can't run the Trump style when you're I'm a guy who wants to shake everybody's hands because I've got my sleeves rolled up.
00:08:57.180Biden's style is not conducive to the Trump approach and the Trump approach can be easier on a 70 plus year old person.
00:09:03.760So if he's sounding like this on day one, that is worrisome for me.
00:09:08.860So let me ask you this, because I saw some some people on the left say, ah, Trump took the bait.
00:09:16.620He's going after he's making Joe Biden the candidate, which is great for Joe Biden and great for the Democrats.
00:09:24.180I'm not so sure that Joe Biden is is the end all be all.
00:09:31.780I mean, who who do you think would be the best candidate?
00:09:36.460I mean, of the ones who have a chance, the best candidate to run against for Donald Trump.
00:09:42.640Oh, if Donald Trump could pick his candidate, if he could pick his candidate, Elizabeth Warren, if he could pick his candidate has a chance.
00:09:50.800Well, she's in the top. She's in the second tier of candidates, I would say.
00:09:54.040No, I mean, she's around seven percent.
00:09:55.640Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden.
00:10:32.020And when you got a giant black book filled with 100 million dead bodies that are all responsible, that are all from communism and socialism.
00:10:40.140The older voter looks at that and says, even if they are friendly to the policies, the word is still scary enough to remember, wait a minute, this goes wrong.
00:10:51.440I like universal health care, but these things go that far.
00:10:54.860And all of a sudden, whoa, where have we gone?
00:10:56.860And these things go down the hill fast.
00:11:23.740And it's a live special event tomorrow at 8 p.m.
00:11:27.600And we made it free for the reason that we strongly believe every American needs to see this.
00:11:36.520This is this is a document based on a document that we found that was smuggled into the United States from behind the Iron Curtain in the 1960s.
00:14:46.380So what happened was unexpectedly today because tomorrow was supposed to be a big protest in Venezuela since it was May 1st.
00:14:55.800And that's what the president had said, Guaido.
00:14:58.180But today we woke up to see a big chunk of the military uprising in Caracas as well as in other parts of the country with Guaido and as well as former political prisoner, now free, Leopoldo López, who had been in jail for a long time.
00:15:31.600So I think that if this is successful, we'll see Maduro and the rest of his regime members fleeing the country because that's what dictators do in these kinds of cases.
00:15:45.920Now, I'm still skeptical of, I don't want to say that it's successful when it's not because we've had this type of operation happen before, Glenn.
00:15:54.920So we really have to be careful in what we say.
00:15:56.980We have to check what the information that President Guaido is showing.
00:16:02.300And as you said, especially to inform Venezuelans inside Venezuela, they have shut down most social media.
00:16:51.340But I think that what the international community needs to be doing right now is supporting Guaido.
00:16:57.120And they need to express their support and also stand ready to actually take action if Guaido requested.
00:17:04.640Because if this is not enough, as you said, it might be the last chance to get freedom in Venezuela.
00:17:10.900And there's a terrible humanitarian crisis, which according to the UN, 7 million people are in risk of dying at any time if we don't get humanitarian aid in soon.
00:17:45.340And we could certainly use your support.
00:17:48.240If you would like to help those in Venezuela, if we can get in as soon as this thing is over and we can get in, we're going in with soup kitchens a-blazing.
00:18:02.700Because we know how dire the situation is.
00:18:09.260We are also stationed with the Nazarene Fund and Operation OUR right at the border as well to try to find those children who have been taken from their parents and are being smuggled out across the border.
00:19:29.880And executive vice president of The Hill.
00:19:32.480And John has been looking into the nefarious stuff that has been going on in Ukraine with really pretty much everybody, it seems, who's at the top of these parties.
00:19:47.480And now, if we're looking for collusion, John, do you believe we found it in Ukraine with not the Trump administration but the Obama administration?
00:19:57.540We clearly have a growing body of evidence there, Glenn.
00:20:01.220And I think if we wind back a little bit, about a month ago I reported that Ukrainian officials acknowledged that they had released a Black Ledger book during the 2016 election designed to tarnish Paul Manafort's reputation.
00:20:15.080And as part of that, they admitted that their goal was to help Hillary Clinton.
00:20:22.300There's a court ruling in Ukraine that says the Ukrainian government wrongly released this document in an effort to sway the 2016 election.
00:20:30.260And then there was a tape recording released by that court and by a parliamentary member in which a top – what you would call the FBI of Ukraine.
00:20:51.720What gave the idea of Ukraine to go look after or to release some dirt on Paul Manafort during the middle of the 2016 election, hoping to hurt Donald Trump and help Hillary Clinton?
00:21:01.740And what we found out was Ukraine officials were summoned to the Obama White House in January 2016.
00:21:08.280This is just as Donald Trump was beginning to rise in the polls and start to win his primary victories one after the other.
00:21:14.260And they brought these prosecutors together, including the very agency that leaked the documents, and gave them a mandate saying, hey, can you go out and help us find some dirt on Paul Manafort?
00:21:24.480And it was that meeting in January 2016 that gave rise to this sort of series of events where you have a foreign government now admitting on the record that it tried to intervene in the 2016 election.
00:21:55.820And I'm not saying that was part of the deal, just the flexing of the muscles that they knew if we don't help America out, they could cut us off at any time.
00:22:07.940And it's funny, both the Manafort case and the Biden case, what we call the Burisma case, both came up in that January meeting.
00:22:17.300And so the Democrats had two needs that they had from Ukraine.
00:22:20.720That's part of the reason why they took the extraordinary option of bringing them overseas, bringing them to the White House.
00:22:26.740Normally, prosecutors from a foreign government don't go to the White House.
00:22:29.720It's a rare episode to invite them into the White House and to have a discussion about what are really internal cases in Ukraine.
00:22:38.340The first one is Paul Manafort, as we just described.
00:22:40.780But the second one, according to the attendees at the meeting, the Obama White House also asked, could the Ukrainian authorities step down on their own investigation of a company called Burisma Holdings?
00:22:52.220This was a company that hired Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's son, to be a board member, and from which more than $3 million was paid in consulting fees to Hunter Biden during the 2014-2015 timeframe.
00:23:06.920So the second request at the meeting was, first, help us get dirt on Paul Manafort and Donald Trump.
00:23:11.720The second request was, could you guys stand down on the Burisma investigation?
00:23:16.940And if so, the FBI will take it over. Trust us. We'll do a good job investigating it.
00:23:22.060And that didn't happen. The Ukrainians wouldn't back down.
00:23:25.220So then two months later, what happened?
00:23:27.120Joe Biden shows up in Ukraine and says, if you don't fire the prosecutor leading that case, I'm going to cut off your foreign aid.
00:23:33.600And, of course, he got what he wanted.
00:23:34.980So that White House meeting had a dual purpose, according to the Ukrainians.
00:24:14.260I mean, it's a it's an overt ask as opposed to a passive receipt.
00:24:19.580So if you if you compare the two episodes of Trump Tower meeting, it was sort of a passive event where the Russians take the initiative, ask to come in, then don't deliver the goods.
00:24:30.420Here you have the Obama administration making an overt request of the Ukrainians.
00:24:36.200If we remember, you go back to January 2017, so long ago now that we forgot this, but Politico reported that around the same time as this meeting that I just documented at the at the Obama White House, that the Democratic National Committee in the form of one of its consultants was seeking dirt from the Ukraine embassy.
00:24:55.820And I'm going to have some new revelations on that.
00:24:58.480But you have the DNC going into the Ukraine embassy in Washington asking for dirt on Paul Manafort.
00:25:03.560You've got the White House asking Ukrainian authorities to help them restart the case on Paul Manafort.
00:25:12.900There was a concerted effort by Democrats, both in the government and in the political party system to try to get Ukraine's help in trying to make the case that Donald Trump was an agent of Russia, which we now know isn't true.
00:25:26.640And so now you have a foreign power involved and you have pretty clear overt asks being made by by Democrats of a foreign power to help them in the election.
00:25:35.400Do we have anyone in journalism at all looking into this besides you?
00:25:43.220Well, the good news is I've heard from my friends in Ukraine that that The Washington Post and The New York Times have been in country in the last few days asking questions.
00:25:51.740So hope springs eternal that more people will pay attention to this.
00:25:55.860I think as time goes on, the more important element to watch will be what Attorney General Barr does.
00:26:03.460He's taking a look at the entire intelligence community's behavior during the Russia investigation.
00:26:08.800And part of that could very well look at what was the source of this information, who solicited it, who was pushing the flesh on this.
00:26:15.520And I think when we get those answers, I think his inquiry almost certainly will lead in some directions towards Ukraine, because Ukraine was clearly playing in our election.
00:26:26.020They've admitted it now. And the question is, who was complicitous on the American side?
00:26:30.240And I think we're beginning to get a little bit of a portrait of who the conspirators or complicitous people were in the United States.
00:26:37.660OK, so but the Ukraine did not like Manafort.
00:26:41.460I mean, they had nothing. They had no love lost for Manafort. Manafort was I mean, he was a bad dude for Ukraine.
00:26:50.120He was on the right. He was corrupt and he deserved what he got, I think.
00:26:55.820Yeah, absolutely. Listen, he was helping the party that was the Russia aligned party that got thrown out of power in 2014.
00:27:03.900He collected a lot of money. He's not the only one.
00:27:06.220Remember, Obama's White House counsel, Greg Craig, has been indicted for taking money from the same party, helping them and then not properly accounting for it or reporting it here.
00:27:14.880So you had both Manafort and Greg Craig, a Republican, a Democrat, playing in this Ukraine field on behalf of the Russian back party.
00:27:23.180And the Ukrainians didn't like either.
00:27:24.900What's interesting, if you read my story, you'll find out that when the Ukrainians said, hey, we not only have stuff on Manafort, we have stuff on Greg Craig and the Democratic administration said, oh, no, no, we're not interested in that.
00:27:36.300And so you can kind of see the selective nature of what went on between the U.S. government and the Ukrainian prosecutors.
00:27:43.500So off the subject, what is your take of what's just happened with this new president who's a comedian?
00:27:51.300Do any gauge on him on where he's going to fall on things?
00:27:56.200Well, there are some. His name is Alinsky.
00:27:58.740He's a first time political newcomer, was the most famous comic on Ukraine television.
00:28:04.380He was sort of be what we would consider Jerry Seinfeld in the 90s to Ukraine.
00:28:08.960He's now the president elect, will be president shortly.
00:28:11.820And he has made quite a few soundings in the last few weeks that he wants to get to the bottom of this.
00:28:18.320He wants Ukraine to get clean on this.
00:28:20.600I think you're going to see a change in leadership in all the offices, including the prosecutor's office.
00:28:25.260One person that there's a lot of speculation in Ukraine about becoming the next attorney general, the next prosecutor general is a guy named Kulik.
00:28:33.800And Kulik is one of the people I've talked to several times on the record who has kind of told this story that the Ukrainians were playing in the election, that we got cut off in the investigation of Biden.
00:28:45.000If he becomes the next prosecutor general, the American administration will have a very strong counterpart if they so choose to investigate these allegations.
00:28:52.800Wow. Thank you so much for doing all this.
00:28:56.540John Solomon, he's the executive vice president of the Hill and a journalist, even though the left is trying to discredit him, saying, no, he's an opinion guy.
00:29:06.160Really, 20 years AP in Washington Post, that makes you an opinion guy.
00:29:10.140He's tracking down the facts without the opinion.
00:29:13.560And the left just doesn't like what he finds.
00:29:15.900You know, the New York Times had a headline recently.
00:30:00.060Sanders should deliver a detailed speech that chronicles exactly where Maduro went wrong and why he doesn't deserve the moniker of socialist.
00:30:08.520This is such revisionist history, which Stu is going to get into here in just a second.
00:32:15.740Only in America is the word used with such perceived menace.
00:32:25.560Now, check out this definition of democratic socialism.
00:32:28.640Democratic socialism is, briefly put, a noble tradition of civic consciousness that was historically a far greater degree than any of its champions or detractors today often care to acknowledge, grounded in deep Christian roots.
00:33:02.100In countries where, since World War II, the principles of democratic socialism have shaped public policy, basically everywhere in the developed world except here,
00:33:11.320the lives of the vast majority of citizens, most especially in regards to affordable health care, have improved enormously.
00:33:18.780Well, it turns out the New York Times specializes in commentary about socialism.
00:33:22.600In March, the article, Bernie Sanders scares a lot of people, and quite a few people of them are Democrats, captures the angst that democratic socialists are causing.
00:33:33.780A word of caution from the New York Times.
00:33:36.660The United States was founded as a contradiction to, not an extension of, Europe.
00:33:42.260Self-reliance is to America what fraternity is to France, part of its core.
00:33:47.120The American space, so immense, so un-European, conjures in Americans a bristling independence of spirit that wants government out of their lives.
00:33:58.320But other than that, it checks all the socialist boxes.
00:34:05.760Intellectuals are politicians armed with a policy agenda.
00:34:08.660As Mark and Engels understood, this was one of their core insights.
00:34:13.720What distinguished them from other socialist thinkers ever ready with their blueprints is the workers who get us there, who decide what and where there is.
00:34:24.940That, too, is a kind of freedom, a socialist freedom.
00:34:28.460Now, here's the lie, and here's the thing I'm going to give to you tomorrow on a special broadcast that we have made for free.
00:34:38.120I don't remember a broadcast we have worked this hard on for this long.
00:35:25.740And as the New York Times said, it's not, you know, socialism is not journalists, intellectuals, or politicians armed with a policy agenda.
00:35:37.100But in the intellectuals' blueprint, it describes this.
00:35:43.600And it talks about how you have to have democracy to get there.
00:35:49.700Now, listen, in order that the reformist, democratic way to socialism be complete,
00:35:56.160there had to be, of course, a denial of the basic condition of the possibility of victory for socialism, of the dictatorship.
00:36:05.520Our state has decided for socialization in the democratic manner.
00:36:10.920That is to say, at the ballot, and not through revolution or dictatorship.
00:36:16.960Thus, solving the problems of transition from capitalism to socialism, breaking the desperate resistance of the bourgeoisie,
00:36:25.880of expropriating the desperate resistance of the capitalists.
00:36:32.360Private capitalist production into socialist production on a large scale should be possible without the direction of policy by the worker's class,
00:36:42.340without a dictatorship, just by phrases about some sort of pure democracy.
00:36:49.080In other words, revision and denial of the basic Marxism of Marxist-Leninist theory of classes and class struggle.
00:36:57.780So they're saying, look, if we want to do this without revolution,
00:37:04.080what we have to do is convince the average person that you need pure democracy.
00:37:09.820Because people will vote for free stuff.
00:37:14.700So if we can get pure democracy, we can do it without a strong arm of revolution or a dictatorship.
00:37:22.240Then once we have it as it goes on, then the vice comes down.
00:37:31.560This is how they flipped other countries.
00:37:34.600The blueprint that we're going to show you tomorrow was one that was smuggled in from behind the Iron Curtain into the United States in the 1960s.
00:37:43.460And then it was just lost and people forgot it.
00:37:46.120And I'm not saying anybody is using this as their blueprint.
00:37:49.400I'm just saying we're getting to exactly the same place.
00:37:53.880They're doing exactly the same thing as this blueprint written in 1950 and used on Czechoslovakia.
00:40:38.960And the left seems to not care about it.
00:40:41.800And we have to care about the people that are in China, the Muslims that are in China that are being rounded up systematically and killed or tortured in China.
00:40:53.300We have to care about the Christians that are being killed and bombed.
00:40:58.440And we also have to care about our Jewish brothers and sisters.
00:41:01.600And I was so moved by what happened in California that the rabbi said to one congregant, could you bring your gun?
00:41:14.380Because he worked for the border security.