The Glenn Beck Program - November 04, 2022


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： David Barton & Rachel Bovard ｜ 11⧸4⧸22


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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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00:00:00.000 Stu, have you ever thought that maybe God hates you?
00:00:05.880 I mean, he doesn't, I mean, he usually likes, you know, he loves all of his children.
00:00:10.780 Some of them maybe he just kind of likes, you know what I mean?
00:00:13.920 Sure.
00:00:14.300 But then I don't think there's people like you that, ooh, I think he hates you.
00:00:20.020 You know, it's funny.
00:00:20.660 Every time I come in in the morning and sit next to you, I think that.
00:00:23.300 Right.
00:00:23.800 God hates you.
00:00:24.660 God probably is not a big fan.
00:00:25.840 Well, let me give you, let me just give you an example.
00:00:27.720 You want a new car.
00:00:30.560 Yes.
00:00:31.080 Okay.
00:00:32.280 Your whole life, you could buy a car and you can get it right away.
00:00:35.640 That's right.
00:00:36.280 But this time, as God is souring on you for some unknown reason, probably your lifestyle,
00:00:42.300 what you think and what you do.
00:00:43.520 Or proximity to you.
00:00:44.440 Right.
00:00:45.140 And so he says, Ford Motor Car or whoever makes the GM, you go ahead and slow down Stu's car.
00:00:56.080 It takes you 14 months to get it.
00:00:57.780 Well, just over 14.
00:00:58.860 Yeah.
00:00:59.000 Just over 14 months.
00:01:00.280 Okay.
00:01:00.800 When you get it, I believe it has rained almost every single day since you got it.
00:01:06.840 I haven't even taken it out of the garage since I got it because I don't want to get it.
00:01:09.740 No.
00:01:10.040 I don't want to get it dirty.
00:01:10.820 Right.
00:01:11.720 It is.
00:01:12.520 Yes, I do.
00:01:13.140 Okay.
00:01:13.360 Fine.
00:01:13.660 Yes.
00:01:14.100 God hates you.
00:01:14.780 You've presented a good case.
00:01:16.460 And if I don't react to when the facts change on the ground and my understanding, then who
00:01:21.580 am I?
00:01:22.080 Yeah.
00:01:22.320 You know, I'm just.
00:01:22.920 Right.
00:01:23.460 Exactly right.
00:01:24.400 Admit the truth, even though you don't like it.
00:01:26.300 Mm-hmm.
00:01:26.700 Yeah.
00:01:27.120 You know.
00:01:27.540 Hey, well, I appreciate that.
00:01:28.840 I still love him.
00:01:29.920 Just to be clear.
00:01:30.880 Good for you.
00:01:31.060 So we're on record.
00:01:32.160 Isn't that cute?
00:01:33.200 Just so when I walk out in the rain today, lightning doesn't immediately strike.
00:01:37.560 Wouldn't it be crazy if lightning struck you and you died this weekend?
00:01:42.680 The show's ratings would be huge on Monday.
00:01:45.460 Because I could play this and go, right?
00:01:48.480 Yeah.
00:01:48.760 And then he walks out, struck by lightning, dead.
00:01:51.000 And by the way, don't play this part, but I give you full permission to just milk this
00:01:55.560 for ratings.
00:01:56.260 Oh, just explode the hell.
00:01:58.120 You don't have to give me permission.
00:01:59.340 You'll be dead.
00:01:59.940 Oh, yeah, that's true.
00:02:00.380 I'll do it.
00:02:00.860 Anyway, I could haunt.
00:02:02.840 Really, really full, overstuffed.
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00:02:14.760 I read a story this morning.
00:02:16.420 I'm probably going to talk about it.
00:02:17.440 Well, maybe not Monday or Tuesday because of the election, but I'm going to talk about
00:02:20.400 it soon.
00:02:21.320 The reverse repro rate, which I barely understand.
00:02:25.960 So it is something the Fed does.
00:02:28.520 It allows central banks to borrow money from our Fed.
00:02:37.640 It is at an all-time high in the last few days.
00:02:41.300 All-time high.
00:02:42.480 Biggest jump ever in this.
00:02:44.660 That is a sign that something is very, very broken, and you should hold on to your underpants
00:02:53.720 because we could be headed for a real storm.
00:02:58.760 And any time, you could walk out of the house and lightning strikes just like it will stew.
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00:03:45.820 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:03:49.640 Mr. David Barton from Wall Builders and Mercury One.
00:03:57.040 How are you, David?
00:03:57.980 Good, man.
00:03:58.680 Good.
00:03:59.480 Now, you know, most people don't know, David, that you are and have been forever very involved
00:04:05.740 in politics.
00:04:07.520 Yes, sir.
00:04:07.960 Yeah.
00:04:08.400 And been doing this for a long time.
00:04:10.560 First, let me before we get into, you know, what you're looking for and what the teams are
00:04:17.080 out looking for, for voter distortion.
00:04:22.600 Have you seen anything like this on the ground before, far as you're all, I call you and you're
00:04:29.880 like, I'm in Alabama and 10 minutes later, I'm in New York and you're all over the country.
00:04:35.740 Are you seeing anything different and unusual this time around with what you're seeing on
00:04:42.820 the ground attitude or, you know, to give you any indication of how it's going to go?
00:04:49.160 The last time I saw something like this was in 94.
00:04:52.460 So with 94, that was New Gingrich, Contract with America.
00:04:57.420 That's the last time I've seen this kind of buzz in the grassroots.
00:05:00.680 So this is not even, this is beyond the Tea Party 2010?
00:05:05.040 Yes, this is beyond the Tea Party.
00:05:07.460 Wow.
00:05:09.400 That's amazing because that was, I mean, everybody knew it then.
00:05:13.440 Everybody knew it.
00:05:14.720 This is so quiet and underground.
00:05:17.860 There's no rallies or anything.
00:05:19.940 There's a lot of rallies.
00:05:21.320 They're just not covered well.
00:05:22.880 I mean, what we've done, we've just got off the road.
00:05:25.460 We've been in 132 cities in 24 states in 76 congressional districts we think are flippable.
00:05:32.240 And we're not the only ones doing that.
00:05:34.140 There's plenty out there.
00:05:35.640 There's just very little coverage of them.
00:05:38.200 How is the church getting involved?
00:05:40.760 Are they actually stepping to the plate here?
00:05:44.460 That has been our exclusive focus is there.
00:05:47.720 And I would say absolutely, yes.
00:05:49.600 There's been things that we have seen now in the off-year election in 91 where you had Virginia, etc.
00:05:57.080 And then what we're seeing right now, and this is particularly on the process side.
00:06:01.200 A lot of people are really interested in the glitzy side of elections, want to see the results.
00:06:06.020 But very few get involved in the process side.
00:06:08.740 And that's where we've been.
00:06:09.620 We've been recruiting people to be in the process, get on the front end of elections, not the back end of elections.
00:06:14.660 Don't just watch them be reported, be part of them.
00:06:16.500 That was the problem.
00:06:17.440 I kept warning Trump, you know this, David, over and over and over again.
00:06:22.820 Look, this is going on.
00:06:24.020 You've got to be ready for it.
00:06:25.760 And what happened after the election?
00:06:27.760 They rightfully said, you should have been saying this before the election.
00:06:32.640 That's right.
00:06:32.940 We could have helped you before the election.
00:06:34.720 We can't help you now.
00:06:35.780 That's right.
00:06:36.040 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.
00:06:50.460 Where are you concerned the most about possible voter fraud?
00:06:55.440 We're concerned the most about places where we don't have much influence on the process, quite frankly.
00:07:01.020 If everybody gets an equal shot at the table, you know, if everybody can sit at the table, we're okay.
00:07:06.080 I saw Michigan.
00:07:07.080 Was it their Supreme Court that came out and said that you or was it?
00:07:13.280 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.
00:07:24.240 Yeah, and that is that is really what you asked for is both sides.
00:07:28.660 And I don't want I don't want the reverse of what that's right now.
00:07:31.900 That's right.
00:07:32.240 I just I want it to be clean and fair.
00:07:35.100 If I'm a Republican, I want Democrats at the table as well.
00:07:37.960 Watch the election.
00:07:38.700 Why?
00:07:39.060 And by the way, in Texas, we prosecute Republicans as well as Democrats for election fraud.
00:07:43.540 So it happens on both sides.
00:07:45.080 Yeah.
00:07:45.800 So what are you seeing?
00:07:46.980 I saw some numbers from you yesterday that were shocking.
00:07:50.920 How sure are you that this is what is happening?
00:07:55.960 Well, we're sure of what we're seeing ourselves with our people on the ground.
00:08:00.460 We have the reports of that and those are firsthand reports.
00:08:03.920 And so based on that, I'm pretty sure of what we see.
00:08:07.280 I can't tell you what else is out there, but I know what we're finding.
00:08:09.900 OK, so what are you finding?
00:08:11.560 One of the things that we think is super important.
00:08:13.960 And by the way, I work with Chad Connolly with Faith Wins.
00:08:16.620 We've partnered on this.
00:08:17.560 We've done the rallies together.
00:08:18.560 He is fantastic.
00:08:19.480 Faith Wins is, bar none, the best thing I've seen in a long time.
00:08:25.340 Yeah, Chad and I have both been involved in politics from the local level through the federal level.
00:08:29.560 So we've got a lot of experience in politics behind the scenes and in process.
00:08:33.880 And I'm going to go back to where we started in Virginia because it worked really well there.
00:08:38.780 It was called the Missabessi Project.
00:08:40.700 A 79-year-old lady said, I want to do something about elections.
00:08:44.460 And so she went to the local election board with her Sunday school class and said, what can we do?
00:08:49.000 And talking to Chad said, well, what you need to do is just look at the voter rolls.
00:08:52.960 Just see who the active voters are.
00:08:54.820 See who voted.
00:08:55.520 See what you can find out.
00:08:56.680 And they did that.
00:08:57.740 And they found one guy who registered to vote in 27 locations.
00:09:01.380 That's not a good deal.
00:09:02.520 This is in Virginia.
00:09:03.380 In Virginia.
00:09:04.000 This is in Virginia in 91 or pre-91 election.
00:09:07.940 Wait, wait.
00:09:08.400 Pre-91?
00:09:09.240 91?
00:09:10.020 Yeah, the 91 election where Yonkin was elected governor.
00:09:13.620 So prior to that election.
00:09:16.380 Go ahead.
00:09:17.380 I don't understand the 91.
00:09:19.480 Well, there's five states that have off-year elections.
00:09:22.140 They don't elect numbers even years.
00:09:24.420 So Virginia is one of those that is an off-year election.
00:09:27.160 Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, and Louisiana.
00:09:29.160 21.
00:09:29.700 What did I say?
00:09:30.400 91.
00:09:31.140 Oh, my gosh.
00:09:32.180 I'm like, why are we going back to 1991?
00:09:34.100 Because I'm a historian.
00:09:35.220 Okay.
00:09:36.700 I'm stuck in history.
00:09:37.840 No, it's 21.
00:09:38.980 21, okay.
00:09:39.780 21.
00:09:40.200 So Yonkin elected in 21.
00:09:42.080 So she took her Sunday school class, and they started looking at voters' roles.
00:09:46.060 And told them to look for two things.
00:09:47.980 Look for people who are over 100 years old.
00:09:50.400 Not that people over 100 can't vote.
00:09:52.140 Right.
00:09:52.520 But look for them and just make sure they're real people.
00:09:55.460 And by the way, we just found this in Michigan just a couple weeks ago.
00:09:59.180 We found a guy named Jason Daniel who was over 100.
00:10:02.460 He voted twice in 2020.
00:10:04.720 And that's not the story.
00:10:05.640 The story was he was born in 1850.
00:10:07.400 He lived through the Civil War, and he's still voting in 2020.
00:10:10.500 So that's a little issue.
00:10:12.820 So Jason Daniel, we're looking for those kind of people.
00:10:16.280 And that's what Ms. Bessie and her class was looking for.
00:10:19.460 And that's where they found a guy.
00:10:20.880 Well, two things.
00:10:22.020 Look for people who are over 100, or look for more than six people registered at the same address.
00:10:26.260 Not that they can't be, but just check and make sure.
00:10:29.160 And so they went through, and they found one address with 17 people registered there.
00:10:33.620 And they called Chad and said, what do you think?
00:10:35.320 He said, I think it's a really big house.
00:10:36.860 Why don't you go look at it?
00:10:38.060 And they went and looked, and it was a cow pasture.
00:10:39.740 It was an open field.
00:10:40.620 There was not even a barn on it.
00:10:41.800 Open structure, and 17 people voted out of that empty address.
00:10:45.800 So that's what we have people looking for.
00:10:47.940 That's what they flag on.
00:10:48.980 That's what they're looking for.
00:10:49.980 That's what they're going after.
00:10:50.780 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.
00:11:02.580 You're not saying that this is enough to throw an election, or you can't trust the election or anything else.
00:11:08.520 You're saying your people are going in and cleaning up all the stuff that both Democrats and Republicans should be upset about.
00:11:17.740 Yeah, and we don't know if this will win an election or not.
00:11:20.140 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.
00:11:28.180 And that's the big deal, is you want to take the question marks away from the elections.
00:11:32.480 It's not good for the Republicans if either side is questioning the election.
00:11:37.800 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.
00:11:45.300 That's just the way it is.
00:11:46.300 And that's the way you – we used to trust it.
00:11:48.900 That's right.
00:11:49.240 And starting in 2000, you know, from 2000 on, the Democrats haven't lost an election that they haven't claimed fraud.
00:11:58.580 And that's really damaging.
00:12:00.800 And it's damaging if we do it, too.
00:12:03.660 The way you fix it is not shutting people up.
00:12:06.700 That's right.
00:12:06.920 The way you fix it is –
00:12:09.020 Open the process.
00:12:09.920 Open the process.
00:12:10.580 Put eyeballs on it.
00:12:11.320 Get both sides in there to watch it.
00:12:13.480 That's exactly right.
00:12:14.500 And so, in Michigan, in addition to finding Jason Daniel, Michigan, they had the names and sheets of 100.
00:12:21.560 So, you asked for the active voter list.
00:12:23.060 And in Virginia, it was saying, hey, every Friday, I want to see all the newly registered voters.
00:12:27.740 And so, you just look at the list.
00:12:29.460 And you go down through all the lists.
00:12:30.660 You check everybody.
00:12:31.440 Make sure they're legitimate.
00:12:33.020 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.
00:12:39.060 Oh, my gosh.
00:12:39.620 That's a problem, when you find obituaries for people who are active voters.
00:12:43.340 So, David, let me take you back to Michigan.
00:12:48.600 The last time, they started covering up the windows during 2021.
00:12:53.400 And that raises questions all by itself.
00:12:55.320 Well, just that.
00:12:56.340 Just that.
00:12:57.320 It doesn't even mean that something was going on.
00:13:00.600 That's right.
00:13:01.160 But you see that, and you're like, wait a minute.
00:13:03.940 It just suggests to you that it doesn't pass the smell test.
00:13:06.760 Right.
00:13:06.960 I mean, I grew up in the Pacific Northwest.
00:13:10.500 We had Shakey's Pizza.
00:13:12.440 They had a window where I could see all of it.
00:13:15.440 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?
00:13:22.680 Okay.
00:13:22.900 So, are we at all of the polling stations?
00:13:28.380 And has that been cleaned up in states?
00:13:31.340 This is one of the things that Chad and I have been working on,
00:13:33.860 is getting church folks to show up and just be poll watchers.
00:13:38.320 Just let us train you.
00:13:39.620 And every state is different.
00:13:40.880 And that's really cool.
00:13:41.900 Article 2 of the Constitution makes it clear that the states control elections.
00:13:45.960 Time, places, manners of elections.
00:13:47.860 So, some states, you can be a poll watcher and be anywhere in the state.
00:13:51.120 Some states, you have to be from the county in which you're going to do poll watching.
00:13:54.040 The rules are all different.
00:13:55.140 Right.
00:13:55.260 So, we get people trained on the rules in their states.
00:13:57.660 And here's what it is in your state.
00:13:59.280 Here's what you can do.
00:14:00.540 So, we've recruited and recruited hard.
00:14:03.280 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.
00:14:10.300 That's excellent.
00:14:10.860 We have a poll watcher at every polling place in the state of Michigan.
00:14:14.160 So, those –
00:14:14.860 And they know how to behave.
00:14:17.140 They know how to –
00:14:18.020 They've been trained.
00:14:18.500 If they're being told, you've got to go stand over here.
00:14:21.860 That's it.
00:14:22.700 Yeah.
00:14:23.080 They know what to do.
00:14:23.780 Here's what you can do.
00:14:24.400 You can't interfere with this.
00:14:25.720 Correct.
00:14:26.120 You can put eyes on it.
00:14:27.620 And I think eyes is – we learned from Virginia eyes is really important.
00:14:31.880 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. 1.00
00:14:40.980 One of those election clerks was arrested last month for voter fraud in 2021.
00:14:47.240 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.
00:14:55.800 Right.
00:14:55.920 Election clerks –
00:14:56.480 It doesn't mean that there's something going on.
00:14:57.960 That's right.
00:14:58.340 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.
00:15:07.960 I have no problem with somebody watching me count the money.
00:15:11.420 As long as you don't interfere with it.
00:15:12.040 I actually feel better about it.
00:15:13.960 Yeah.
00:15:14.180 You can't confront people in line and say, show me your idea.
00:15:17.280 You can't do that.
00:15:18.300 Yeah.
00:15:18.560 But if you're there, just eyes on the process.
00:15:21.420 And that's a really important thing.
00:15:23.580 And so, that's what we're trying to do is get people with eyes on the process in every single state.
00:15:27.960 So, I was with Mike Lee last night in Washington County, the reddest county in America, I believe.
00:15:38.280 And there were people there.
00:15:40.740 About half of the audience raised their hand and said they had voted early.
00:15:45.800 But when he said, look, if you haven't voted, make sure you take out your ballot that was sent to you.
00:15:50.720 And the crowd went nuts, no, go to a polling place, and they just don't trust the mail-in ballots.
00:16:04.200 Have you seen anything where it was a little shaky last time, that it's been cleaned up at all?
00:16:10.680 Well, we don't know if it's been cleaned up until we see what happens this time.
00:16:13.640 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.
00:16:23.280 You can't vote.
00:16:24.120 Wait a minute.
00:16:24.660 I haven't voted.
00:16:25.480 Yeah, you did.
00:16:25.960 You did a mail-in ballot.
00:16:27.340 But I haven't voted.
00:16:28.400 Yes, you have.
00:16:29.380 So, there were a lot of people.
00:16:30.400 That's what Mike was saying last night.
00:16:31.820 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.
00:16:56.780 And there's that possibility.
00:16:58.960 But there were a lot of people who felt like somebody voted for them by mail that wasn't them.
00:17:03.960 And so, that's why they're urging early voting because get there before someone can do a potential fraud.
00:17:09.860 And you don't know if it's fraud.
00:17:10.920 There was nothing on it except just the anecdotal evidence that people said, I haven't voted and you show that I have.
00:17:16.840 Well, we're not going to let you vote because you showed they already have.
00:17:19.760 And so, if that's fraudulent, you don't want that going on.
00:17:22.300 Oh, boy.
00:17:23.300 I didn't even think about this.
00:17:24.920 I didn't even think about this.
00:17:26.460 And I'm suddenly against voter ID.
00:17:29.640 NBC said yesterday that voter ID laws disproportionately affect transgender people.
00:17:40.020 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.
00:17:51.960 I can see that.
00:17:53.220 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.
00:17:59.860 Right.
00:18:00.600 But I don't think you're fooling anybody that you're not a man myself.
00:18:06.300 I think I could look at that and go, dude, the lipstick's not working for you, but here you go.
00:18:12.120 The worse your transition, it looks, the better chance you have to vote.
00:18:17.460 Yeah.
00:18:17.700 If you're really good at it, you might have problems.
00:18:19.800 Might have a problem.
00:18:20.460 Yeah.
00:18:20.560 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.
00:18:39.700 And what her idea of stealing is, is that the Republicans will stand against the federal government taking over the vote. 0.96
00:18:53.540 And they should.
00:18:54.840 And they should.
00:18:55.700 Constitutionally.
00:18:56.200 But see, and I've got to just add a commentary here.
00:18:59.240 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.
00:19:07.020 You have to be a republic.
00:19:08.160 And there's a big difference between the two.
00:19:09.140 So, help me out on that.
00:19:10.080 Because in Article 4, we have two minutes.
00:19:13.360 Because in Article 4, it does say states have all the power.
00:19:17.860 Maintain a republican form of government.
00:19:19.060 Right.
00:19:19.360 And it does say that states.
00:19:20.880 Now, it also.
00:19:21.580 It says Congress can.
00:19:22.860 Can.
00:19:23.160 That's right.
00:19:23.980 That's right.
00:19:24.680 Amend this from time to time.
00:19:27.100 That's right.
00:19:27.420 So, what is the argument against the Democrats amending it?
00:19:32.780 Well, they can.
00:19:33.620 And what's happened is Congress has always respected the states and left them alone.
00:19:37.160 Now, they will come in with uniform dates.
00:19:39.180 We want all elections on this day, whatever.
00:19:41.840 They can do something like that.
00:19:43.120 They've always left alone the process side and say that's up to the states.
00:19:47.240 And even election dates, when you have federal elections, that's all set.
00:19:50.680 But the states can choose their own state election dates as five states do, like Louisiana and like Virginia.
00:19:57.080 And others who choose to have it on an odd number year rather than an even number year.
00:20:01.560 So, Congress has always left that alone to the states.
00:20:04.240 Now, the federal elections is what Congress can have a lot more influence over.
00:20:08.440 And the Constitution does say you have to have results reported by a certain day.
00:20:12.520 And that's where they've gone to kind of federalizing as a standard federal election day.
00:20:16.820 Right.
00:20:16.860 But they left the states alone and other things.
00:20:18.660 I've got to tell you, this whole talk about, you know, it may be days before we find.
00:20:24.280 There's no reason for this.
00:20:25.740 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.
00:20:34.320 You know, it's like it's the United States of America.
00:20:36.340 I should be able to get potato chips, you know, on demand.
00:20:39.720 Man, we've done this my whole life and had, generally speaking, we've had most of the results.
00:20:45.140 We knew which way it was falling, you know, except for exceptions like the year 2000.
00:20:52.600 I don't accept that we have to wait days to find it.
00:20:57.480 And Pennsylvania is already saying it may be weeks for them this time.
00:21:00.000 Oh, my God.
00:21:00.460 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.
00:21:07.060 David, thank you so much for everything that you do.
00:21:09.220 If you want to get involved, just go to wallbuilders.com, wallbuilders.com and join the fight.
00:21:18.780 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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00:21:26.880 Mr. Bill O'Reilly.
00:21:28.620 Welcome to the program, sir.
00:21:31.020 How are you doing, Beck?
00:21:32.260 I'm doing pretty good.
00:21:33.840 You okay?
00:21:34.540 Yeah, I am.
00:21:35.440 I am feeling good about the election.
00:21:38.340 I kind of like living in this hopeful period.
00:21:43.260 Mm-hmm.
00:21:44.500 But I do think it's going to go well.
00:21:47.300 I think the Democrats are showing real signs of desperation.
00:21:52.320 Is there anything I can do to make your life more pleasant?
00:21:55.980 This is a disturbing question from Bill O'Reilly.
00:22:00.940 Yeah, you can give me some perspective on some of the things that are happening.
00:22:04.680 You bet.
00:22:05.560 So the big lie, right?
00:22:07.820 Yeah.
00:22:09.260 This is a quiz for you, Beck.
00:22:12.000 I'm going to give you three scenarios.
00:22:14.620 Big lie, medium lie, little lie.
00:22:18.520 Okay.
00:22:19.300 Okay.
00:22:20.020 All right.
00:22:20.300 The first one, the U.S. economy is strong as hell.
00:22:24.760 A big lie.
00:22:25.960 Oh.
00:22:27.260 The border is secure.
00:22:30.680 Massive, massive, bigly lie.
00:22:34.540 Inflation is transitory.
00:22:38.460 Crazy lie.
00:22:39.460 Oh.
00:22:40.620 All right.
00:22:41.440 So the big lie, Ron Klain, that Trump won the election, up against the three massive,
00:22:50.080 according to you, lies, right?
00:22:52.760 Mm-hmm.
00:22:52.980 That we have here?
00:22:53.700 Mm-hmm.
00:22:53.840 Yeah.
00:22:54.320 All right.
00:22:54.840 Okay.
00:22:55.460 So I just want to bring a little bit of perspective about the big lie.
00:23:00.060 Now, as far as the election is concerned, here's how I have it, Beck.
00:23:03.440 Stu, are you there?
00:23:04.220 Is Stu there?
00:23:04.800 I am here, patiently waiting for your predictions.
00:23:07.420 Write this down, please.
00:23:08.400 Yes, sir.
00:23:09.960 So there is 100% certainty that the House will go GOP.
00:23:17.560 That's grand old party, for those of you who don't have a historical reference.
00:23:21.600 And I believe that the pickups will be in the 40s, 40 seats.
00:23:27.980 Wow.
00:23:28.800 Okay.
00:23:29.620 Not a while.
00:23:30.180 But I remember, back in Clinton, Clinton lost 65 seats, and Obama lost in the 50s, I believe.
00:23:38.920 I think it was in the 60s, too, yeah.
00:23:40.160 But we were starting from a closer starting point here, right?
00:23:43.820 I mean, this is a very, you know, a 90-
00:23:45.420 Yeah, but that doesn't matter, because it's about who, which party accumulates the power.
00:23:52.160 So you're going to have a very solid House of Representatives in the Republican hands.
00:23:58.260 I got it in the Senate right now, and this could change.
00:24:02.360 I got four pickups for the Republicans, 52-48, the final call there.
00:24:10.140 52 will still be a problem, because you can never count on Mitt Romney, who, by the way,
00:24:17.420 yesterday tweeted that the reason for the red wave is Mitch McConnell, and America should
00:24:27.040 be grateful for him.
00:24:29.800 That's nice.
00:24:32.840 You know, look, I don't care about Mitt Romney.
00:24:35.920 I actually put an interview request for him this week.
00:24:39.720 It will be your least-watched show.
00:24:41.920 No.
00:24:42.520 Well, no, you're right.
00:24:43.180 He has a big family.
00:24:44.380 But he's so afraid, and he won't do it.
00:24:48.020 And I know him for a long period of time.
00:24:49.700 Yeah, I know.
00:24:51.300 So he's afraid, and he's playing a lot of games.
00:24:54.920 He's very bitter.
00:24:56.360 Very bitter.
00:24:57.500 Yeah, here's the thing, Bill.
00:24:59.460 The Rhinos are worried about this new class coming in.
00:25:04.820 And the Democrats, you know, they show their desperation when they are clearly just going
00:25:11.560 for their base.
00:25:13.160 Everything is about their base right now.
00:25:16.620 Just the fear of the Republicans and what they can do.
00:25:20.840 They know they're just trying to get their base to show up, I think.
00:25:24.380 Yeah, that's what the Barack Obama play is all about.
00:25:28.700 That's what Kamala, who came to New York yesterday, they're basically pleading with African Americans 0.97
00:25:34.980 to come out and vote.
00:25:35.980 Pleading with them.
00:25:38.300 So you're right there.
00:25:39.980 But as far as the Rhinos are concerned, I couldn't care less about that.
00:25:43.540 I don't analyze party politics.
00:25:45.180 I don't care what Mitch McConnell does.
00:25:46.980 I don't get into any of that.
00:25:48.480 The essential thing that Americans need to know is that now we live in an age of unreality,
00:25:58.280 which means that the President of the United States can go out last week, just last week,
00:26:03.720 and look into the camera and say to the American people and to the world,
00:26:08.580 the United States is one of the lowest inflation rates in the developed world.
00:26:12.840 And right after that, on the No Spin News, on BillOReilly.com,
00:26:18.780 and I know you're there every night, Beck.
00:26:20.240 Every night.
00:26:21.020 I put 20 countries that have lower inflation rates than we do, right after that soundbite.
00:26:29.140 Now, does Biden know there are 20 countries with low?
00:26:32.360 No, because he doesn't know anything.
00:26:34.460 He's foggy.
00:26:35.420 He just walks around as fog.
00:26:36.880 But the corporate media, where if Trump said something like that, that would be five days of evisceration.
00:26:47.540 I'm sorry for the big words, too.
00:26:49.620 But five days of pounding, pounding, pounding.
00:26:54.000 Biden can say outright these things that aren't true.
00:26:58.740 And nobody in the media, which is the funnel of information to the American people.
00:27:05.020 Nobody believes the media, and nobody, even their base is questioning now,
00:27:11.520 and looking and going, that's, I mean, that's crazy talk.
00:27:14.540 It's just crazy talk.
00:27:15.480 It is.
00:27:15.980 It is a whole thing.
00:27:17.060 That speech last week about American democracy being in peril if you vote for the Republicans,
00:27:26.020 that was the theater of the absurd.
00:27:29.140 So you look in there, and you're going, we have one of the most robust elections, midterm elections,
00:27:35.720 in the history of this republic this year.
00:27:39.380 Okay?
00:27:40.000 So I don't understand where the peril is.
00:27:43.460 If everyone is engaged in this midterm election, where is the threat?
00:27:51.560 But the threat to them, of course, if you don't vote for us, the other people are not going
00:27:57.080 to take your Social Security away, and they're going to do this.
00:27:59.900 Let me give you a really good example, and you might like this, Beck.
00:28:04.080 Not that I really care whether you like it or not.
00:28:05.980 I know.
00:28:06.460 I know.
00:28:06.740 I know who you are.
00:28:08.540 So the most popular cable news show is The Five.
00:28:14.020 That gets the highest ratings, if you can believe it.
00:28:16.880 It's all a prime time.
00:28:18.240 And I would have committed...
00:28:20.860 Yeah.
00:28:21.320 Really?
00:28:21.920 On some nights.
00:28:23.580 Yeah.
00:28:23.960 And substantially over him.
00:28:24.820 I would have committed seppuku, Japanese term, if I had been in prime time and a five
00:28:30.560 o'clock show beat me.
00:28:31.740 I think it did a couple of times.
00:28:33.140 I can't remember.
00:28:34.080 I remember a couple nights.
00:28:34.980 I remember a few nights.
00:28:35.720 I remember a couple nights.
00:28:36.840 A few nights.
00:28:37.400 Yeah, but that's when I was on vacation.
00:28:40.580 Okay.
00:28:41.860 So anyway, you got this five, right?
00:28:44.040 Mm-hmm.
00:28:44.440 And, of course, Fox stacks it four to one, conservatives against liberals.
00:28:50.800 One liberal, four conservatives.
00:28:53.780 Okay.
00:28:54.420 So that's...
00:28:56.060 And we understand.
00:28:57.140 Yeah.
00:28:57.940 So the conservative is Jessica Tarlov.
00:29:00.660 I mean, the liberal is Jessica Tarlov.
00:29:02.260 You know her?
00:29:02.820 No.
00:29:03.500 Okay.
00:29:03.860 So I used her when I was there for a little...
00:29:07.620 She's an intelligent woman, and she is taking Juan Williams' place. 0.59
00:29:13.920 Remember Juan?
00:29:14.780 I tried to forget him, but thanks for bringing him up again.
00:29:17.240 So Juan just went off the...
00:29:20.760 Anyway, so Jessica Tarlov looks into the camera and says,
00:29:26.520 Republicans are going to destroy Medicare and Social Security.
00:29:33.200 She says this on national television, right?
00:29:36.060 Not a word in opposition.
00:29:42.140 Nothing.
00:29:43.540 It's like...
00:29:44.340 You mean on the five?
00:29:45.740 Yeah.
00:29:46.500 The other four, I don't think they even pay attention to what she says anymore.
00:29:51.220 They weren't even listening.
00:29:52.480 In fact, I know Gutfeld doesn't pay attention.
00:29:54.580 No, I know.
00:29:55.360 No, I know.
00:29:55.940 Okay, fine.
00:29:56.620 But I'm sitting there going, the easy question is, what do you base that on?
00:30:02.840 Right.
00:30:03.120 What data shows that any Republican candidate in the entire country wants to do away with
00:30:12.480 Medicare and Social Security?
00:30:14.680 That's an easy question, right?
00:30:16.380 Right.
00:30:16.720 No.
00:30:17.460 No.
00:30:18.500 No.
00:30:19.380 And this is what I mean.
00:30:20.420 So this propaganda is now so easy to spit out there, unchallenged, that we live in this
00:30:28.780 nation of cacophony.
00:30:31.380 Another big word, Stu.
00:30:33.020 Cacophony.
00:30:34.220 And people are so angry about it.
00:30:37.860 But here, the anger is going to help the Republicans.
00:30:43.020 I have to tell you, Bill, there is some of this, I think, has been so overplayed.
00:30:49.720 For instance, I noticed this week when they were saying, you know, democracy is at stake
00:30:55.460 of these evil Republicans.
00:30:57.400 I laughed.
00:30:58.640 I mean, I just laughed out loud.
00:31:00.880 I thought to myself, you've called us everything under the sun, and I'm so sick and tired of
00:31:08.300 it.
00:31:08.480 It means nothing.
00:31:10.520 No, it doesn't mean anything to you or conservative people or Republican people, traditional people.
00:31:15.040 It doesn't.
00:31:16.120 All right.
00:31:16.440 I don't think it means anything to the left.
00:31:18.660 I mean, you have to be an unbelievable moron to buy into any of this.
00:31:23.180 Right.
00:31:23.280 The point is that we are in an angry time in history.
00:31:28.260 Yes.
00:31:28.560 The last election, the anger worked for the progressive Democrats.
00:31:35.500 Correct.
00:31:35.860 Because they hated Trump so much.
00:31:38.240 Right.
00:31:39.120 And many independents did as well that Trump lost.
00:31:43.100 Not because of how he governed, because that was fairly good, but because of the emotion
00:31:48.800 of anger.
00:31:49.720 Sure.
00:31:49.920 Now, two years later, that anger has shifted into the conservative precincts, the Republican
00:31:57.580 precincts.
00:31:58.740 So that's why you're going to see a red wave on Tuesday.
00:32:02.300 And that anger is not going to dissipate in three days, particularly if you're shopping
00:32:08.680 for groceries.
00:32:10.680 So, Bill, tell me what you think is coming for, let's say, first of all, Pennsylvania.
00:32:16.540 Okay, and I need 30 seconds at the end, if you would.
00:32:20.860 Pennsylvania really comes down to South Philadelphia.
00:32:27.000 So desperate measures are being taken in the city of brotherly love, which right now is one
00:32:33.900 of the most dangerous places on the planet.
00:32:36.060 I know.
00:32:37.220 Hang on just a second.
00:32:38.200 I saw a $35 million home in Pennsylvania, new $35 million home.
00:32:45.920 The owner who built it, tried to sell it, only got 9.4.
00:32:52.360 That's how bad things are in Philadelphia.
00:32:55.400 Anyway, go ahead.
00:32:56.040 So, African-American voters have to come out en masse for Fetterman.
00:33:01.980 Now, Fetterman has absolutely no connection other than he lets violent criminals out of
00:33:08.740 prison, and most violent criminals are black. 0.74
00:33:11.440 As are most victims, African-Americans are mostly victimized by violent crime.
00:33:19.020 Right.
00:33:19.200 But, I mean, to be fair, he also held an innocent black man at gunpoint because he thought he
00:33:25.340 shouldn't be in his neighborhood.
00:33:26.320 I believe it was a shot.
00:33:27.500 It might have been a bazooka.
00:33:29.000 Right.
00:33:29.420 If he had one, he would have used it.
00:33:31.300 Anyway.
00:33:32.340 Anyway, so that's what it's about.
00:33:35.780 If the African-American voters mobilize in South Philly for Fetterman, he'll win. 0.90
00:33:42.540 Because Oz is a terrible candidate.
00:33:44.980 He looks like Bela Lugosi out there.
00:33:47.320 Anybody remember Bela?
00:33:48.300 Yeah, I do.
00:33:48.840 Let me ask you about the race for governor in New York.
00:33:54.180 Yeah, I think Zeldin could win.
00:33:56.660 It's the same exact thing as in Philadelphia.
00:33:59.580 They're desperately trying to mobilize African-American votes in the city.
00:34:04.040 I think Zeldin's going to take 90% of the counties in New York State. 0.99
00:34:10.060 20 million people here.
00:34:11.700 They'll take 90% of those counties. 0.95
00:34:13.500 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.
00:34:23.800 So are you going to be, I mean, will they be able to pull that off?
00:34:28.060 I mean, New York is a nightmare right now.
00:34:31.340 I know they might be able to.
00:34:32.380 Look, it's about ward precincts.
00:34:36.300 This goes way back to Tammany Hall in New York.
00:34:39.160 All right?
00:34:40.160 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.
00:34:49.080 And they direct the people in, if they're registered voters, and they say, you're going to vote for Hochul.
00:34:55.320 They don't even know who Hochul is, many of them.
00:34:58.180 Okay?
00:34:58.960 But they go, okay.
00:35:00.520 And that is done literally on a block-by-block basis because the blocks contain thousands and thousands of people in the apartments.
00:35:10.800 And this is what's going to happen.
00:35:13.740 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.
00:35:27.560 Look, Zeldin would attack crime.
00:35:30.880 Hochul won't.
00:35:32.660 And I have liberal friends, and they won't admit to me they might vote for Hochul, but I say to them,
00:35:38.720 if you vote for this woman, you are voting for more black people dead because that is who's getting killed. 1.00
00:35:47.380 So if you cast a vote for Kathy Hochul, you want more black people dead. 1.00
00:35:53.900 I don't know if you think that's extreme, but it's true.
00:35:57.500 It is absolutely true.
00:35:59.900 She is not going to do anything about the violent crime problem in New York.
00:36:06.060 All right, real quick, I just got to throw this in.
00:36:08.120 And I noticed you didn't say the big story of the week, which was reported by CNN.
00:36:13.400 After the U.S. Capitol attack on January 6th, members of the Oath Keepers met for a late-night dinner
00:36:20.180 at an olive garden in suburban Virginia and spent hundreds of dollars on an Italian feast.
00:36:29.420 Breaking news from CNN.
00:36:31.780 So they went to an olive garden?
00:36:33.200 They went to an olive garden, yeah.
00:36:34.680 And they spent hundreds of dollars?
00:36:36.040 Hundreds of dollars.
00:36:37.000 And they're not divulging what was talked about there, but anyway.
00:36:41.320 I'm shocked.
00:36:41.860 All right, we've got to get running, so go ahead and...
00:36:45.240 Yeah, I just want to update everybody on Killing the Legends.
00:36:48.340 I know you're very interested in how that book is performing.
00:36:50.800 Still a major bestseller.
00:36:53.860 All the lists, everyone, and excellent Christmas gifts, Killing the Legends, The Lethal Danger
00:37:01.360 of Celebrity, and it ties right in to the attack on the Pelosi home.
00:37:06.220 Which, by the way, I mean, are people believing that this hippie was really a conservative?
00:37:17.780 No, you don't believe that.
00:37:19.180 You believe what you want to believe.
00:37:20.560 Yeah.
00:37:21.080 Okay?
00:37:21.620 Yeah.
00:37:21.900 But here's the kicker on this, Beck, and I know you have many, many more important guests
00:37:25.640 than me.
00:37:26.660 If the Pelosi's believed in self-protection, that story might have been 10 seconds.
00:37:32.340 Yeah.
00:37:32.660 You know what I'm talking about?
00:37:33.380 Yep, I do.
00:37:34.700 All right.
00:37:35.240 Thank you so much, Bill.
00:37:36.520 Okay, guys.
00:37:36.780 Appreciate it.
00:37:37.420 Bye-bye.
00:37:37.800 Bye-bye.
00:37:41.940 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:37:51.020 Rachel Brevard is with us now.
00:37:53.240 She is the Senior Director of Policy at the Conservative Partnership Institute.
00:37:59.320 Rachel was on a podcast, I think, a couple of weeks ago.
00:38:03.380 I had a great conversation.
00:38:05.580 She is in her 30s.
00:38:07.980 She's a big thinker and is talking about the things that we should all be talking about.
00:38:14.520 Instead of just freaking out about what they're doing, what should we conserve and what should
00:38:21.500 we get rid of?
00:38:22.720 What is our agenda?
00:38:25.260 Rachel's on to talk about that with me.
00:38:27.280 Hi, Rachel.
00:38:27.760 How are you?
00:38:29.160 Hey, Glenn.
00:38:29.900 Good to be with you again.
00:38:30.740 Thank you.
00:38:31.280 So I'm looking at the commitment to America, and this is Kevin McCarthy's plan.
00:38:38.720 And, you know, there's some really important things on it, but I don't think there's any
00:38:44.700 really huge thinking on this at all.
00:38:48.920 And they're redesigning all of America.
00:38:53.020 Why aren't we talking about fundamental changes in our approach to freedom?
00:39:01.480 I think because there is still no agreement on the right that that's even necessary.
00:39:09.660 And, you know, you and I have discussed this before, but there's just, you know, the Republican
00:39:13.500 conference in the House and the Senate is a lagging indicator always of where the base
00:39:19.520 of the country is.
00:39:21.120 And in some respects, that's by design, right?
00:39:23.560 We're supposed to rule in this country from the bottom up, not the top down, but the
00:39:28.300 top has to get it at some point.
00:39:30.320 And my hope is that with this election, they do.
00:39:33.260 The problem is Republicans, they always learn the wrong lessons from winning an election.
00:39:38.100 They think, oh, you know, we've been given power because we said the right things and
00:39:42.320 they must love us.
00:39:43.380 No, in this case, especially the voters are coming to you because they want the beatings
00:39:47.240 to stop.
00:39:48.060 Right?
00:39:48.240 They're coming to you because the other guy has just gone so completely insane that, you
00:39:53.860 know, they don't love Republicans.
00:39:55.180 They just think maybe they'll be less crazy.
00:39:57.440 Right.
00:39:57.620 So instead of thinking they've won a mandate, they actually have to prove themselves.
00:40:01.960 And, you know, I don't see a whole ton of sweeping inspiration, to be completely honest,
00:40:07.340 in that document.
00:40:08.540 But what I'm really going to look at, which I think people should really hone in on to see
00:40:13.580 how serious these guys are, is when they come back in December in the lame duck session,
00:40:19.600 the first thing they're going to have to deal with is a government funding site.
00:40:22.760 Yes.
00:40:23.260 There are some Republicans right now who are saying we should just pass a year, a year
00:40:28.800 long funding bill, a massive omnibus package.
00:40:31.720 No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:40:33.740 Why on earth, why on earth would you, and just put this in very plain terms, what that
00:40:39.240 would do is essentially lock in all these insane leftist Democratic priorities for the
00:40:45.500 next year.
00:40:46.240 Why on earth would you, a newly elected Congress, just cut your legs out from under you if you're
00:40:50.980 a Republican majority?
00:40:51.760 I have to tell you, I am for putting together, let's say, a bill that will, you know, keep
00:40:59.080 it functioning for the next four months until you have your crap together to then stop this, 0.62
00:41:06.000 put a new budget together, pass it, have the Appropriations Committee, put them back
00:41:12.640 into work, and start turning things off.
00:41:16.840 You can't, without the power of the purse, you will not stop the DOJ, you will not stop
00:41:24.180 the Department of Education, you will not stop the IRS, you just won't.
00:41:29.080 You'll have hearings, and that's it.
00:41:31.700 Yes, so much of what is happening in this country is funded through the federal government, and
00:41:37.040 that's exactly, and what you laid out, Eddie, I think is exactly right.
00:41:39.880 What they need to do is that short-term funding bill, a short-term continuing resolution to
00:41:44.060 February or March of next year, and then they really dig into how the federal government is
00:41:49.780 funding this tyranny against us, because as you point out, with the power of the purse,
00:41:54.100 that is how you control the bureaucracy.
00:41:56.080 That is how you control all these agencies.
00:41:57.800 And I'm sorry, I think oversight hearings are great, but not if they're not tied to
00:42:02.160 legislative action.
00:42:02.700 Correct.
00:42:03.560 They have no teeth.
00:42:04.940 Who cares?
00:42:05.520 You're calling, you're calling, you know, the CDC up in front to say, oh, we want to
00:42:12.540 know what's really going on.
00:42:14.000 You have no teeth.
00:42:16.420 What are you going to do about it?
00:42:18.120 I want answers, and I want them now.
00:42:21.560 Otherwise, sir, you don't get any more funding.
00:42:24.380 We'll be laying everyone off tomorrow.
00:42:28.160 Now, come in here with the answers.
00:42:31.340 The thing that I think, and I'd like to get your opinion on this, I think Wednesday, we
00:42:40.940 should all pledge to each other that we are going to hold these people responsible, and
00:42:47.560 we are going to be in their face all the time.
00:42:50.400 And the first thing that we have to do is get rid of Mitch McConnell.
00:42:55.740 Mitt Romney just tweeted yesterday that Mitch McConnell is really all the thanks to this
00:43:02.460 coming red wave should go to Mitch McConnell.
00:43:05.940 He saved us.
00:43:07.200 Are you out of your mind?
00:43:09.240 It's in spite of Mitch McConnell.
00:43:11.080 Yes, that was one of the most tone-deaf things I've seen.
00:43:14.720 And I've worked in Republican politics, so I see a lot of tone-deaf things every day.
00:43:18.080 But that was really significantly bad, especially when you consider Mitch McConnell pulled money
00:43:23.760 out of winnable Senate seats in Arizona and New Hampshire.
00:43:27.820 And in Utah, he hasn't spent a single penny supporting incumbent Mike Lee.
00:43:32.360 And Mitt Romney, the same state colleague, has also not endorsed Mike Lee, which is just
00:43:37.260 insane.
00:43:37.660 Mitch McConnell is taking credit for Joe Biden's accomplishments, essentially, because he has
00:43:43.180 not really done anything, in my mind, to really push this majority across the finish
00:43:49.480 line.
00:43:49.740 He wants people who agree with him.
00:43:52.280 That's who he funds.
00:43:53.360 And if you threaten to become an independent thinker in the Senate, you will not receive
00:43:56.620 funding from Mitch McConnell.
00:43:58.040 So I not only think voters have to be aware of this dynamic, but I think Kevin McCarthy is
00:44:02.860 going to have to stand up to McConnell as well, because especially on these funding battles,
00:44:06.360 even if McCarthy keeps his conference in line, his biggest opponent is across the Capitol,
00:44:11.880 in Mitch McConnell, in Senate appropriators, in Senate Republicans, you know, who want to
00:44:16.640 see these massive bloated funding bills that do nothing except for, you know, potentially
00:44:21.340 fund the war in Ukraine.
00:44:23.840 That's what they want.
00:44:25.040 They don't want any accountability.
00:44:26.100 They don't want to fight for the priorities that people care about.
00:44:29.280 They don't want to rock the boat.
00:44:30.460 So what we have to see from McCarthy is aggression, I think, against Senate Republicans.
00:44:35.140 Do you think we will see is McCarthy just another empty, you know, power lover?
00:44:44.360 Or do you think he actually wants to fix the system?
00:44:51.860 So I think McCarthy is an operator, right?
00:44:54.520 You don't reach that position without being one.
00:44:56.460 But I will say this, this is my candid assessment, is that he is running and playing smarter than
00:45:03.180 John Boehner or Paul Ryan ever did.
00:45:05.740 And I think he is actually open to being led a little bit by his conference in ways those
00:45:11.340 two were not.
00:45:12.040 You saw a very adversarial relationship between Boehner and Ryan and the conservatives in his
00:45:16.620 conference.
00:45:17.700 McCarthy has at least rhetorically been open to them, and that's encouraging.
00:45:21.420 So I don't know how he's going to end up, but I hope that he understands the stakes of
00:45:29.160 this moment.
00:45:29.700 And to be honest, it's been shoved in his face to some extent.
00:45:32.860 Pelosi has ruined the House of Representatives.
00:45:35.900 House Democrats have just gone completely insane.
00:45:38.820 And McCarthy has to see that.
00:45:40.560 I mean, it's been in his own workplace.
00:45:42.780 So I think maybe perhaps better than Senate Republicans.
00:45:45.720 He understands how the absolute lunacy that's taken over the Democratic Party.
00:45:51.400 And so I hope that that is a mugging by reality that forces him to deal with these things.
00:45:57.640 So, I mean, I know the policies, but what has Nancy Pelosi broken in the House? 1.00
00:46:06.380 Well, I mean, you just look at, if you want to talk about the rules, she, you know, has
00:46:12.800 stripped the last vestige of any minority rights that existed in the House at all.
00:46:18.740 She gutted the motion to recommit.
00:46:20.980 She has removed any check on her own power.
00:46:24.940 The motion to vacate the chair, which is what Mark Meadows used to unseat John Boehner, that's
00:46:29.060 now gone because, you know, she wouldn't want that being used against her. 0.96
00:46:33.220 But then also look at the January 6th committee.
00:46:35.680 I don't think people fully grasp how that turned the institution upside down.
00:46:40.360 It is the most powerful committee that's ever existed in Congress, where suddenly you
00:46:45.300 can demand the text messages and emails of your own colleagues, where you can demand that
00:46:51.200 on U.S. citizens with no check at all.
00:46:53.900 You can haul, you know, your political opposition into depositions and you can threaten them with
00:47:00.660 contempt of Congress and subpoenas.
00:47:03.520 That has never happened before.
00:47:05.680 Ever in Congress.
00:47:07.460 And now those precedents exist.
00:47:08.980 If Republicans want to use them, they can.
00:47:12.360 But she has fundamentally destroyed any attempt at collegiality in the House of Representatives. 0.97
00:47:17.920 And I would hope that that comes back to bite them to some extent.
00:47:23.100 You know, and I haven't even discussed proxy voting, the shame of proxy voting.
00:47:27.200 Oh, it's horrible.
00:47:28.080 In the House of Representatives.
00:47:29.220 Horrible.
00:47:29.740 You know, magnetometers to enter the House floor.
00:47:33.700 I mean, to me, who spent a lot of time working in the House of Representatives, the institution
00:47:38.680 is unrecognizable.
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?
00:47:56.260 And if you were lying, he should be tried.
00:47:58.860 And if he's found guilty, jailed.
00:48:01.160 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.
00:48:15.260 But let's let's actually do the right thing and have a fair hearing and a fair trial.
00:48:22.240 When it comes to the president, this president is so deep in corruption that he cannot serve the rest of his term.
00:48:33.200 If the Republicans start on all of these hearings and the economy goes through the floor,
00:48:39.620 the Republicans are just going to be they're going to say they're nothing but a do nothing Congress.
00:48:45.440 All they care about is hearings and trials and they could lose support.
00:48:52.300 What should they do?
00:48:55.000 So there's two things that I really only want to see from this Congress in the next two years.
00:49:01.900 And I say the next two years because we are potentially, well, very likely in a divided government
00:49:07.000 where you have a Democratic president and a Republican Congress.
00:49:10.880 Joe Biden is not is going to fight tooth and nail against any major Republican legislation.
00:49:15.960 So the only two things I want to see out of this Congress are funding fights,
00:49:20.140 where, again, as we just discussed, so much of this tyranny is operating through these funding bills and impeachments.
00:49:26.720 And I mean, impeachments, plural.
00:49:29.360 Yeah, I agree.
00:49:30.380 What we have learned, what we have learned from the Durham investigation,
00:49:34.480 what we've learned from all these special counsel investigations and DOJ,
00:49:39.120 they never punish anyone.
00:49:40.940 No one is ever held accountable.
00:49:43.480 And that's disappointing.
00:49:44.760 But I think the lesson there is the only accountability these guys have will be is through is through Congress,
00:49:49.940 is through congressional impeachment.
00:49:51.780 And so the only thing I want to see from divided government is funding fights and impeachments.
00:49:56.100 And if they are not prepared to turn oversight in that direction,
00:49:59.720 then the oversight is meaningless.
00:50:01.520 And I think there's a great temptation, you know, for that to happen,
00:50:05.040 because every member loves to go to these oversight hearings and create a viral YouTube moment.
00:50:10.320 Right.
00:50:11.120 And that's all they're good for.
00:50:12.540 What we need are people doing the hard work, people going through the documents,
00:50:16.740 people issuing subpoenas for bureaucrats,
00:50:20.140 hauling them before Congress, you know, demanding documents,
00:50:22.980 and then taking that information and holding them accountable for it.
00:50:26.640 I will tell you, I will tell you, if they do just those two things,
00:50:31.160 but they do them at a rapid, breathtaking pace,
00:50:35.580 they have a chance of actually turning the country around
00:50:39.540 and being looked upon as more than just, you know, a do-nothing Congress.
00:50:46.460 They've got to move quickly and get through it as fast as they can and as reasonably as they can.
00:50:55.800 Nobody wants to see a long, drawn-out thing.
00:50:57.980 They've had four years now or three years on Hunter Biden.
00:51:03.040 You should have all of that.
00:51:05.060 Let's go.
00:51:06.140 Get it done.
00:51:07.500 Move on.
00:51:08.180 Because the American people, they need to see the, you're exactly right,
00:51:15.040 the funding cut off from these things.
00:51:18.180 Somebody has got to stand up against it and against these executive orders.
00:51:24.060 And if it's not Congress this time around,
00:51:26.580 I don't know if the people will ever elect Republicans again.
00:51:32.860 I think there's, they need to understand how serious this is.
00:51:37.040 People want to see action.
00:51:39.880 And, you know, you have to kind of clear through this oversight mess,
00:51:43.240 hold people accountable, get the funding bills under control
00:51:46.720 in terms of what we're spending, but also what we're spending it on.
00:51:50.460 Yes.
00:51:50.660 And then, you know, hopefully with that in the rearview mirror,
00:51:54.480 you know, you have a Republican president in 2024.
00:51:57.060 You have a Republican Congress that can come in with an actual forward-looking agenda
00:52:01.700 and begin to implement those big changes, those big reforms to the country.
00:52:06.480 You know, and save us from this downward spiral.
00:52:10.500 Yeah.
00:52:10.920 But, you know, we can't just do the talking points.
00:52:13.360 We can't just be pounding the dais in hearing rooms.
00:52:15.700 We have to do the hard work.
00:52:16.960 And to your point, we have to do it quickly.
00:52:19.040 And I think that is what is on our shoulders.
00:52:22.580 They won't do it if we just go to the ballot box, vote them in,
00:52:25.860 and then just let them run.
00:52:27.400 We've got to be on them every step of the way.
00:52:30.960 Thank you so much, Rachel.
00:52:31.940 I appreciate it.
00:52:32.820 God bless.
00:52:33.140 It's my pleasure.
00:52:33.740 You bet.
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