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Glenn and Stu talk about God, lightning, the election and much more. Glenn's new book is out now and it's available for pre-order on Amazon Prime and Vimeo. Click here to get your free copy now!
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Stu, have you ever thought that maybe God hates you?
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I mean, he doesn't, I mean, he usually likes, you know, he loves all of his children.
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Some of them maybe he just kind of likes, you know what I mean?
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But then I don't think there's people like you that, ooh, I think he hates you.
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Every time I come in in the morning and sit next to you, I think that.
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Well, let me give you, let me just give you an example.
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Your whole life, you could buy a car and you can get it right away.
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But this time, as God is souring on you for some unknown reason, probably your lifestyle,
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And so he says, Ford Motor Car or whoever makes the GM, you go ahead and slow down Stu's car.
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When you get it, I believe it has rained almost every single day since you got it.
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I haven't even taken it out of the garage since I got it because I don't want to get it.
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And if I don't react to when the facts change on the ground and my understanding, then who
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Admit the truth, even though you don't like it.
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Just so when I walk out in the rain today, lightning doesn't immediately strike.
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Wouldn't it be crazy if lightning struck you and you died this weekend?
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And then he walks out, struck by lightning, dead.
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And by the way, don't play this part, but I give you full permission to just milk this
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Well, maybe not Monday or Tuesday because of the election, but I'm going to talk about
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The reverse repro rate, which I barely understand.
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It allows central banks to borrow money from our Fed.
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It is at an all-time high in the last few days.
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That is a sign that something is very, very broken, and you should hold on to your underpants
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And any time, you could walk out of the house and lightning strikes just like it will stew.
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I want you to call Goldline and find out ways you can protect what you have.
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Do all your own homework and give them the code MYB.
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And they're going to give you a silver bar with that on it just as a thank you for calling
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So go to Goldline.com or call them at 866-GOLDLINE, 866-GOLDLINE or Goldline.com.
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You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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Mr. David Barton from Wall Builders and Mercury One.
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Now, you know, most people don't know, David, that you are and have been forever very involved
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First, let me before we get into, you know, what you're looking for and what the teams are
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Have you seen anything like this on the ground before, far as you're all, I call you and you're
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like, I'm in Alabama and 10 minutes later, I'm in New York and you're all over the country.
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Are you seeing anything different and unusual this time around with what you're seeing on
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the ground attitude or, you know, to give you any indication of how it's going to go?
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The last time I saw something like this was in 94.
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So with 94, that was New Gingrich, Contract with America.
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That's the last time I've seen this kind of buzz in the grassroots.
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So this is not even, this is beyond the Tea Party 2010?
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That's amazing because that was, I mean, everybody knew it then.
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I mean, what we've done, we've just got off the road.
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We've been in 132 cities in 24 states in 76 congressional districts we think are flippable.
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There's been things that we have seen now in the off-year election in 91 where you had Virginia, etc.
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And then what we're seeing right now, and this is particularly on the process side.
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A lot of people are really interested in the glitzy side of elections, want to see the results.
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We've been recruiting people to be in the process, get on the front end of elections, not the back end of elections.
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Don't just watch them be reported, be part of them.
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I kept warning Trump, you know this, David, over and over and over again.
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They rightfully said, you should have been saying this before the election.
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So having these people out and monitoring, and I know, I mean, thank God, the right is fighting in the courts and trying to get things as clean as possible.
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Where are you concerned the most about possible voter fraud?
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We're concerned the most about places where we don't have much influence on the process, quite frankly.
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If everybody gets an equal shot at the table, you know, if everybody can sit at the table, we're okay.
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Was it their Supreme Court that came out and said that you or was it?
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Yeah, it was in Michigan where the where the courts came out and said, you've got to have both sides at the table and you have to let the right and the Republicans see everything.
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Yeah, and that is that is really what you asked for is both sides.
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And I don't want I don't want the reverse of what that's right now.
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If I'm a Republican, I want Democrats at the table as well.
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And by the way, in Texas, we prosecute Republicans as well as Democrats for election fraud.
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I saw some numbers from you yesterday that were shocking.
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How sure are you that this is what is happening?
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Well, we're sure of what we're seeing ourselves with our people on the ground.
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We have the reports of that and those are firsthand reports.
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And so based on that, I'm pretty sure of what we see.
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I can't tell you what else is out there, but I know what we're finding.
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One of the things that we think is super important.
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And by the way, I work with Chad Connolly with Faith Wins.
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Faith Wins is, bar none, the best thing I've seen in a long time.
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Yeah, Chad and I have both been involved in politics from the local level through the federal level.
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So we've got a lot of experience in politics behind the scenes and in process.
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And I'm going to go back to where we started in Virginia because it worked really well there.
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A 79-year-old lady said, I want to do something about elections.
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And so she went to the local election board with her Sunday school class and said, what can we do?
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And talking to Chad said, well, what you need to do is just look at the voter rolls.
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And they found one guy who registered to vote in 27 locations.
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Yeah, the 91 election where Yonkin was elected governor.
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Well, there's five states that have off-year elections.
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So Virginia is one of those that is an off-year election.
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So she took her Sunday school class, and they started looking at voters' roles.
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But look for them and just make sure they're real people.
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And by the way, we just found this in Michigan just a couple weeks ago.
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We found a guy named Jason Daniel who was over 100.
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He lived through the Civil War, and he's still voting in 2020.
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So Jason Daniel, we're looking for those kind of people.
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And that's what Ms. Bessie and her class was looking for.
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Look for people who are over 100, or look for more than six people registered at the same address.
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Not that they can't be, but just check and make sure.
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And so they went through, and they found one address with 17 people registered there.
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And they called Chad and said, what do you think?
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And they went and looked, and it was a cow pasture.
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Open structure, and 17 people voted out of that empty address.
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So I want to make sure that we're really clear on this, because you can go to prison now for any kind of misinformation, I hear.
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You're not saying that this is enough to throw an election, or you can't trust the election or anything else.
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You're saying your people are going in and cleaning up all the stuff that both Democrats and Republicans should be upset about.
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Yeah, and we don't know if this will win an election or not.
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But we do know that if you do this up front, when you get done with the election, both sides can have confidence that it was a fair election and done appropriately.
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And that's the big deal, is you want to take the question marks away from the elections.
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It's not good for the Republicans if either side is questioning the election.
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As a Republican, if I lose the election, but I had all my people doing poll watching, and we've checked the list, then we lost the election.
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And that's the way you – we used to trust it.
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And starting in 2000, you know, from 2000 on, the Democrats haven't lost an election that they haven't claimed fraud.
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And so, in Michigan, in addition to finding Jason Daniel, Michigan, they had the names and sheets of 100.
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And in Virginia, it was saying, hey, every Friday, I want to see all the newly registered voters.
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But in Michigan, one of the voter lists we got, the top 67 people on it, we found obituaries for, and they're still voting.
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That's a problem, when you find obituaries for people who are active voters.
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The last time, they started covering up the windows during 2021.
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It doesn't even mean that something was going on.
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But you see that, and you're like, wait a minute.
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It just suggests to you that it doesn't pass the smell test.
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And if I can see what they're doing to a pizza to assemble it, why can't I see what's happening in an election?
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This is one of the things that Chad and I have been working on,
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is getting church folks to show up and just be poll watchers.
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Article 2 of the Constitution makes it clear that the states control elections.
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So, some states, you can be a poll watcher and be anywhere in the state.
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Some states, you have to be from the county in which you're going to do poll watching.
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So, we get people trained on the rules in their states.
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And at this point now in Nevada, we got word last week, we have a poll watcher at every polling place in the state of Nevada.
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We have a poll watcher at every polling place in the state of Michigan.
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If they're being told, you've got to go stand over here.
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And I think eyes is – we learned from Virginia eyes is really important.
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When we had these poll watchers like Ms. Bessie go to places, there were three election clerks in Virginia that quit once they found someone who was watching them.
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One of those election clerks was arrested last month for voter fraud in 2021.
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So, if an election clerk doesn't want to be seen, doesn't want somebody just standing in the room watching, again, it doesn't pass the smell test.
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It doesn't mean that there's something going on.
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But that – I mean, I would never have anybody – you know, I'm counting money for something, and I know they're not here to rob me.
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I have no problem with somebody watching me count the money.
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You can't confront people in line and say, show me your idea.
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And so, that's what we're trying to do is get people with eyes on the process in every single state.
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So, I was with Mike Lee last night in Washington County, the reddest county in America, I believe.
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About half of the audience raised their hand and said they had voted early.
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But when he said, look, if you haven't voted, make sure you take out your ballot that was sent to you.
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And the crowd went nuts, no, go to a polling place, and they just don't trust the mail-in ballots.
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Have you seen anything where it was a little shaky last time, that it's been cleaned up at all?
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Well, we don't know if it's been cleaned up until we see what happens this time.
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But we do know that there's been a bigger push for people to vote early because of the fact so many people showed up last year, last election on election day and said, no, you've already voted.
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He's like, he was afraid that because of they've put so much money into the ballot system that they won't be staffed enough or there'll be something that would happen that is just because they didn't have the money, they were planning on more people voting by mail, that you'll get there and you may not have time to do it or whatever.
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But there were a lot of people who felt like somebody voted for them by mail that wasn't them.
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And so, that's why they're urging early voting because get there before someone can do a potential fraud.
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There was nothing on it except just the anecdotal evidence that people said, I haven't voted and you show that I have.
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Well, we're not going to let you vote because you showed they already have.
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And so, if that's fraudulent, you don't want that going on.
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NBC said yesterday that voter ID laws disproportionately affect transgender people.
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And they are worried that people asking for voter ID from transgender people is voter suppression and could, I mean, is really hurting the transgender vote.
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But if your picture on your driver's license shows you to be a male and you walk in with a dress, that might confuse people a little bit.
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But I don't think you're fooling anybody that you're not a man myself.
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I think I could look at that and go, dude, the lipstick's not working for you, but here you go.
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The worse your transition, it looks, the better chance you have to vote.
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If you're really good at it, you might have problems.
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So, David, the one thing that the Democrats are setting up for with this, you know, a danger to democracy is they Hillary Clinton just came out and said they're already planning on stealing the 2024 election.
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And what her idea of stealing is, is that the Republicans will stand against the federal government taking over the vote.
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But see, and I've got to just add a commentary here.
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That's another proof to me that Democrats don't read the Constitution much because when you're saving our democracy, you haven't read Article 4, which prohibits a democracy.
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Because in Article 4, it does say states have all the power.
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So, what is the argument against the Democrats amending it?
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And what's happened is Congress has always respected the states and left them alone.
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They've always left alone the process side and say that's up to the states.
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And even election dates, when you have federal elections, that's all set.
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But the states can choose their own state election dates as five states do, like Louisiana and like Virginia.
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And others who choose to have it on an odd number year rather than an even number year.
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So, Congress has always left that alone to the states.
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Now, the federal elections is what Congress can have a lot more influence over.
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And the Constitution does say you have to have results reported by a certain day.
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And that's where they've gone to kind of federalizing as a standard federal election day.
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But they left the states alone and other things.
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I've got to tell you, this whole talk about, you know, it may be days before we find.
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This is like COVID and us just walking into a store and they say, hey, there's no potato chips and we won't have them until probably three months from now.
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You know, it's like it's the United States of America.
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I should be able to get potato chips, you know, on demand.
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Man, we've done this my whole life and had, generally speaking, we've had most of the results.
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We knew which way it was falling, you know, except for exceptions like the year 2000.
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I don't accept that we have to wait days to find it.
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And Pennsylvania is already saying it may be weeks for them this time.
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And when you're saying something like that, you're raising questions and that's bad for the state of Pennsylvania to make an announcement like that.
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David, thank you so much for everything that you do.
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If you want to get involved, just go to wallbuilders.com, wallbuilders.com and join the fight.
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I think the Democrats are showing real signs of desperation.
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Is there anything I can do to make your life more pleasant?
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This is a disturbing question from Bill O'Reilly.
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Yeah, you can give me some perspective on some of the things that are happening.
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The first one, the U.S. economy is strong as hell.
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So the big lie, Ron Klain, that Trump won the election, up against the three massive,
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So I just want to bring a little bit of perspective about the big lie.
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Now, as far as the election is concerned, here's how I have it, Beck.
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I am here, patiently waiting for your predictions.
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So there is 100% certainty that the House will go GOP.
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That's grand old party, for those of you who don't have a historical reference.
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And I believe that the pickups will be in the 40s, 40 seats.
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But I remember, back in Clinton, Clinton lost 65 seats, and Obama lost in the 50s, I believe.
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But we were starting from a closer starting point here, right?
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Yeah, but that doesn't matter, because it's about who, which party accumulates the power.
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So you're going to have a very solid House of Representatives in the Republican hands.
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I got it in the Senate right now, and this could change.
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I got four pickups for the Republicans, 52-48, the final call there.
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52 will still be a problem, because you can never count on Mitt Romney, who, by the way,
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yesterday tweeted that the reason for the red wave is Mitch McConnell, and America should
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You know, look, I don't care about Mitt Romney.
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I actually put an interview request for him this week.
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So he's afraid, and he's playing a lot of games.
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The Rhinos are worried about this new class coming in.
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And the Democrats, you know, they show their desperation when they are clearly just going
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Just the fear of the Republicans and what they can do.
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They know they're just trying to get their base to show up, I think.
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Yeah, that's what the Barack Obama play is all about.
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That's what Kamala, who came to New York yesterday, they're basically pleading with African Americans
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But as far as the Rhinos are concerned, I couldn't care less about that.
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The essential thing that Americans need to know is that now we live in an age of unreality,
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which means that the President of the United States can go out last week, just last week,
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and look into the camera and say to the American people and to the world,
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the United States is one of the lowest inflation rates in the developed world.
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And right after that, on the No Spin News, on BillOReilly.com,
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I put 20 countries that have lower inflation rates than we do, right after that soundbite.
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Now, does Biden know there are 20 countries with low?
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But the corporate media, where if Trump said something like that, that would be five days of evisceration.
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Biden can say outright these things that aren't true.
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And nobody in the media, which is the funnel of information to the American people.
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Nobody believes the media, and nobody, even their base is questioning now,
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and looking and going, that's, I mean, that's crazy talk.
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That speech last week about American democracy being in peril if you vote for the Republicans,
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So you look in there, and you're going, we have one of the most robust elections, midterm elections,
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If everyone is engaged in this midterm election, where is the threat?
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But the threat to them, of course, if you don't vote for us, the other people are not going
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to take your Social Security away, and they're going to do this.
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Let me give you a really good example, and you might like this, Beck.
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Not that I really care whether you like it or not.
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So the most popular cable news show is The Five.
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That gets the highest ratings, if you can believe it.
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I would have committed seppuku, Japanese term, if I had been in prime time and a five
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And, of course, Fox stacks it four to one, conservatives against liberals.
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She's an intelligent woman, and she is taking Juan Williams' place.
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I tried to forget him, but thanks for bringing him up again.
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Anyway, so Jessica Tarlov looks into the camera and says,
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Republicans are going to destroy Medicare and Social Security.
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The other four, I don't think they even pay attention to what she says anymore.
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But I'm sitting there going, the easy question is, what do you base that on?
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What data shows that any Republican candidate in the entire country wants to do away with
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So this propaganda is now so easy to spit out there, unchallenged, that we live in this
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But here, the anger is going to help the Republicans.
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I have to tell you, Bill, there is some of this, I think, has been so overplayed.
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For instance, I noticed this week when they were saying, you know, democracy is at stake
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I thought to myself, you've called us everything under the sun, and I'm so sick and tired of
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No, it doesn't mean anything to you or conservative people or Republican people, traditional people.
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I mean, you have to be an unbelievable moron to buy into any of this.
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The point is that we are in an angry time in history.
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The last election, the anger worked for the progressive Democrats.
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And many independents did as well that Trump lost.
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Not because of how he governed, because that was fairly good, but because of the emotion
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Now, two years later, that anger has shifted into the conservative precincts, the Republican
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So that's why you're going to see a red wave on Tuesday.
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And that anger is not going to dissipate in three days, particularly if you're shopping
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So, Bill, tell me what you think is coming for, let's say, first of all, Pennsylvania.
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Okay, and I need 30 seconds at the end, if you would.
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Pennsylvania really comes down to South Philadelphia.
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So desperate measures are being taken in the city of brotherly love, which right now is one
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I saw a $35 million home in Pennsylvania, new $35 million home.
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The owner who built it, tried to sell it, only got 9.4.
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So, African-American voters have to come out en masse for Fetterman.
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Now, Fetterman has absolutely no connection other than he lets violent criminals out of
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As are most victims, African-Americans are mostly victimized by violent crime.
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But, I mean, to be fair, he also held an innocent black man at gunpoint because he thought he
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If the African-American voters mobilize in South Philly for Fetterman, he'll win.
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Let me ask you about the race for governor in New York.
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They're desperately trying to mobilize African-American votes in the city.
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I think Zeldin's going to take 90% of the counties in New York State.
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But if they can stack the votes in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Manhattan for Hochul, then it's going to be a real close deal.
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So are you going to be, I mean, will they be able to pull that off?
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This goes way back to Tammany Hall in New York.
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So the precinct commander of the Democrats and the block commanders go out with 20s, all right, and send, and they give the people money.
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And they direct the people in, if they're registered voters, and they say, you're going to vote for Hochul.
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They don't even know who Hochul is, many of them.
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And that is done literally on a block-by-block basis because the blocks contain thousands and thousands of people in the apartments.
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And so you don't know the distractions that are going to be there on Tuesday, but you do know that that operation is well underway because that's the only hope.
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And I have liberal friends, and they won't admit to me they might vote for Hochul, but I say to them,
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if you vote for this woman, you are voting for more black people dead because that is who's getting killed.
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So if you cast a vote for Kathy Hochul, you want more black people dead.
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I don't know if you think that's extreme, but it's true.
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She is not going to do anything about the violent crime problem in New York.
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All right, real quick, I just got to throw this in.
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And I noticed you didn't say the big story of the week, which was reported by CNN.
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After the U.S. Capitol attack on January 6th, members of the Oath Keepers met for a late-night dinner
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at an olive garden in suburban Virginia and spent hundreds of dollars on an Italian feast.
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And they're not divulging what was talked about there, but anyway.
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All right, we've got to get running, so go ahead and...
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Yeah, I just want to update everybody on Killing the Legends.
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I know you're very interested in how that book is performing.
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All the lists, everyone, and excellent Christmas gifts, Killing the Legends, The Lethal Danger
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of Celebrity, and it ties right in to the attack on the Pelosi home.
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Which, by the way, I mean, are people believing that this hippie was really a conservative?
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But here's the kicker on this, Beck, and I know you have many, many more important guests
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If the Pelosi's believed in self-protection, that story might have been 10 seconds.
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She is the Senior Director of Policy at the Conservative Partnership Institute.
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Rachel was on a podcast, I think, a couple of weeks ago.
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She's a big thinker and is talking about the things that we should all be talking about.
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Instead of just freaking out about what they're doing, what should we conserve and what should
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So I'm looking at the commitment to America, and this is Kevin McCarthy's plan.
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And, you know, there's some really important things on it, but I don't think there's any
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Why aren't we talking about fundamental changes in our approach to freedom?
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I think because there is still no agreement on the right that that's even necessary.
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And, you know, you and I have discussed this before, but there's just, you know, the Republican
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conference in the House and the Senate is a lagging indicator always of where the base
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We're supposed to rule in this country from the bottom up, not the top down, but the
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And my hope is that with this election, they do.
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The problem is Republicans, they always learn the wrong lessons from winning an election.
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They think, oh, you know, we've been given power because we said the right things and
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No, in this case, especially the voters are coming to you because they want the beatings
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They're coming to you because the other guy has just gone so completely insane that, you
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So instead of thinking they've won a mandate, they actually have to prove themselves.
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And, you know, I don't see a whole ton of sweeping inspiration, to be completely honest,
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But what I'm really going to look at, which I think people should really hone in on to see
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how serious these guys are, is when they come back in December in the lame duck session,
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the first thing they're going to have to deal with is a government funding site.
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There are some Republicans right now who are saying we should just pass a year, a year
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Why on earth, why on earth would you, and just put this in very plain terms, what that
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would do is essentially lock in all these insane leftist Democratic priorities for the
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Why on earth would you, a newly elected Congress, just cut your legs out from under you if you're
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I have to tell you, I am for putting together, let's say, a bill that will, you know, keep
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it functioning for the next four months until you have your crap together to then stop this,
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put a new budget together, pass it, have the Appropriations Committee, put them back
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You can't, without the power of the purse, you will not stop the DOJ, you will not stop
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the Department of Education, you will not stop the IRS, you just won't.
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Yes, so much of what is happening in this country is funded through the federal government, and
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that's exactly, and what you laid out, Eddie, I think is exactly right.
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What they need to do is that short-term funding bill, a short-term continuing resolution to
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February or March of next year, and then they really dig into how the federal government is
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funding this tyranny against us, because as you point out, with the power of the purse,
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And I'm sorry, I think oversight hearings are great, but not if they're not tied to
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You're calling, you're calling, you know, the CDC up in front to say, oh, we want to
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Otherwise, sir, you don't get any more funding.
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The thing that I think, and I'd like to get your opinion on this, I think Wednesday, we
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should all pledge to each other that we are going to hold these people responsible, and
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And the first thing that we have to do is get rid of Mitch McConnell.
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Mitt Romney just tweeted yesterday that Mitch McConnell is really all the thanks to this
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Yes, that was one of the most tone-deaf things I've seen.
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And I've worked in Republican politics, so I see a lot of tone-deaf things every day.
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But that was really significantly bad, especially when you consider Mitch McConnell pulled money
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out of winnable Senate seats in Arizona and New Hampshire.
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And in Utah, he hasn't spent a single penny supporting incumbent Mike Lee.
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And Mitt Romney, the same state colleague, has also not endorsed Mike Lee, which is just
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Mitch McConnell is taking credit for Joe Biden's accomplishments, essentially, because he has
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not really done anything, in my mind, to really push this majority across the finish
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And if you threaten to become an independent thinker in the Senate, you will not receive
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So I not only think voters have to be aware of this dynamic, but I think Kevin McCarthy is
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going to have to stand up to McConnell as well, because especially on these funding battles,
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even if McCarthy keeps his conference in line, his biggest opponent is across the Capitol,
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in Mitch McConnell, in Senate appropriators, in Senate Republicans, you know, who want to
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see these massive bloated funding bills that do nothing except for, you know, potentially
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They don't want to fight for the priorities that people care about.
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So what we have to see from McCarthy is aggression, I think, against Senate Republicans.
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Do you think we will see is McCarthy just another empty, you know, power lover?
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Or do you think he actually wants to fix the system?
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You don't reach that position without being one.
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But I will say this, this is my candid assessment, is that he is running and playing smarter than
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And I think he is actually open to being led a little bit by his conference in ways those
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You saw a very adversarial relationship between Boehner and Ryan and the conservatives in his
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McCarthy has at least rhetorically been open to them, and that's encouraging.
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So I don't know how he's going to end up, but I hope that he understands the stakes of
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And to be honest, it's been shoved in his face to some extent.
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Pelosi has ruined the House of Representatives.
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House Democrats have just gone completely insane.
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So I think maybe perhaps better than Senate Republicans.
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He understands how the absolute lunacy that's taken over the Democratic Party.
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And so I hope that that is a mugging by reality that forces him to deal with these things.
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So, I mean, I know the policies, but what has Nancy Pelosi broken in the House?
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Well, I mean, you just look at, if you want to talk about the rules, she, you know, has
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stripped the last vestige of any minority rights that existed in the House at all.
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The motion to vacate the chair, which is what Mark Meadows used to unseat John Boehner, that's
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now gone because, you know, she wouldn't want that being used against her.
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But then also look at the January 6th committee.
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I don't think people fully grasp how that turned the institution upside down.
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It is the most powerful committee that's ever existed in Congress, where suddenly you
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can demand the text messages and emails of your own colleagues, where you can demand that
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You can haul, you know, your political opposition into depositions and you can threaten them with
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But she has fundamentally destroyed any attempt at collegiality in the House of Representatives.
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And I would hope that that comes back to bite them to some extent.
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You know, and I haven't even discussed proxy voting, the shame of proxy voting.
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You know, magnetometers to enter the House floor.
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I mean, to me, who spent a lot of time working in the House of Representatives, the institution
00:47:39.640
Rachel, one of the priorities has to be that we root out all of the things, you know, we sit down with Fauci and find out, were you lying?
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We have to start fixing some of these things that are so wildly broken where we know people have done wrong.
00:48:10.520
And Fauci, I believe there's enough evidence there to put the man in jail.
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But let's let's actually do the right thing and have a fair hearing and a fair trial.
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When it comes to the president, this president is so deep in corruption that he cannot serve the rest of his term.
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If the Republicans start on all of these hearings and the economy goes through the floor,
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the Republicans are just going to be they're going to say they're nothing but a do nothing Congress.
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All they care about is hearings and trials and they could lose support.
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So there's two things that I really only want to see from this Congress in the next two years.
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And I say the next two years because we are potentially, well, very likely in a divided government
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where you have a Democratic president and a Republican Congress.
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Joe Biden is not is going to fight tooth and nail against any major Republican legislation.
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So the only two things I want to see out of this Congress are funding fights,
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where, again, as we just discussed, so much of this tyranny is operating through these funding bills and impeachments.
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What we have learned, what we have learned from the Durham investigation,
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what we've learned from all these special counsel investigations and DOJ,
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But I think the lesson there is the only accountability these guys have will be is through is through Congress,
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And so the only thing I want to see from divided government is funding fights and impeachments.
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And if they are not prepared to turn oversight in that direction,
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And I think there's a great temptation, you know, for that to happen,
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because every member loves to go to these oversight hearings and create a viral YouTube moment.
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What we need are people doing the hard work, people going through the documents,
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hauling them before Congress, you know, demanding documents,
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and then taking that information and holding them accountable for it.
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I will tell you, I will tell you, if they do just those two things,
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but they do them at a rapid, breathtaking pace,
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they have a chance of actually turning the country around
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and being looked upon as more than just, you know, a do-nothing Congress.
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They've got to move quickly and get through it as fast as they can and as reasonably as they can.
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They've had four years now or three years on Hunter Biden.
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Because the American people, they need to see the, you're exactly right,
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Somebody has got to stand up against it and against these executive orders.
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I don't know if the people will ever elect Republicans again.
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I think there's, they need to understand how serious this is.
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And, you know, you have to kind of clear through this oversight mess,
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hold people accountable, get the funding bills under control
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in terms of what we're spending, but also what we're spending it on.
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And then, you know, hopefully with that in the rearview mirror,
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you know, you have a Republican president in 2024.
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You have a Republican Congress that can come in with an actual forward-looking agenda
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and begin to implement those big changes, those big reforms to the country.
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You know, and save us from this downward spiral.
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But, you know, we can't just do the talking points.
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We can't just be pounding the dais in hearing rooms.
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They won't do it if we just go to the ballot box, vote them in,