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Join us for a jam packed show featuring a recap of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, a look back at the events of the night before, and a look ahead to the 2020 election. We also have a special guest on the show who was in studio with us on the night of the convention.
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hey america welcome to the glenbeck program man what a jam-packed great show for you today a
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recap of the convention um we had a representative vernon jones on from georgia he's a democrat who
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spoke last night charlie kirk also joined us we also went to um elijah schaefer who was was out
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in wisconsin he had a gun pulled and dry fired in his face last night he's in danger there's a lot
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of people that really need uh our prayers mike lindell also he was torn apart on anderson cooper
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and it's it's a crazy story on what's going on we had him in studio with this covid covid uh but
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don't worry we're all you know eating crystals so we're all fine i'm i'm sure that's totally fine
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uh and of course the recap of last night's uh of last night's uh convention which i thought was
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incredible still i don't know i didn't say anything like that actually the stuff i saw was raining the
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whole time i thought it was really good what i saw yeah uh tonight uh convention night number
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two were covered on radio here's today's podcast you're listening to the best of the glenn beck
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program america is at a crossroads and that crossroads is the choice we have to make right now
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between returning to the founding message and the founding promise of you can do it let's just get
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government and people out of your way you can do it it's a it's a place of law and order and fair
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and honest justice not one of social justice and certainly not a cancel culture and everyone
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is involved last night i saw the democrat the republicans do a couple of things i have not
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seen them do before one actually produce something that wasn't a piece of crap i mean usually the
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republicans produce things and they're just like oh come on just stop it's like the the version of
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like the bad you know uh religious movie that gets released yes and it looks like it's gonna that
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looks like a good story and then you watch it you're like gosh what do they put twelve dollars into
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this budget oh so awful last week the democrats did what i expected the republicans to produce
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okay and it was horrible and i and i'm like just can we learn from that let's not do that
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well they didn't in fact it wasn't that they just didn't do that they did something really really
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good and i think actually covid helped i think the fact that there were no crowds there allowed
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everyone except guilfoy to talk to you one-on-one to actually just speak to you we didn't have the
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annoying applause lines we were like come on come on come on come on yeah it gets through it a lot
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faster you get more content you get more content and personal it allowed people to be really really
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personal so what happened last night was no bells and whistles no you know no no fakey balloon drop
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you know where where the clintons or the bidons were like whoa what happened balloons where did
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they come from i never would have imagined balloons in the situation there was there was none of that
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uh and it it was it was honest it just felt real to me uh i don't know how many people watched it
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i almost didn't watch it because i'm like oh this is one of those it's gonna be uh and then i watched
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it and i couldn't believe how good it was now the second thing i said i haven't felt this way since
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1980 with ronald reagan here's why what happened in 1980 is we had gone through 10 years 10 years more
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than that 12 years of just being beat to crap from 1968 to 1980 america was the worst we went from burn
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it down everybody's a racist to crap you can't trust the president all politicians are corrupt to jimmy
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carter and the economy and ronald reagan came in and said enough of that it's not who we are and america
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was so hungry to be told you're part of the solution the problem is the government that's what happened
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last night and we are 12 years in to being told how crappy we are so we're repeating this is like 1968
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to 280 this is 08 to 20 and and we're tired the other thing that happened that i have not seen in my
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lifetime because it probably happened maybe in the 60s um but in by 68 uh you know with the with the um
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great society garbage the democrats worked some sort of magic and hypnotized all of african americans
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and uh and basically said if you're you're not black if you don't vote for democrats and the republicans
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in my lifetime have just given up they're like they're never going to change they're never going
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we're never going to be able to get anything why waste the time and you're like because they're americans
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last night without any placating without any promises of i'm going to make sure that you have
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a new big screen tv they actually invited african americans to the table and said help us make america
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better come and claim your seat at this table and i thought it was extraordinarily powerful extraordinarily
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powerful let me give you a couple of pieces and highlights first of all well let me just give you
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a couple of highlights first let's go to uh kim klasik she was on with us last week and i said boy
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the republicans need to listen to her well they did and here's a piece of her speech the days of blindly
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supporting the democrats are coming to an end in baltimore we have the highest number of black
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republicans in the entire country running for office this election cycle joe biden believes we
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can't think for ourselves that the color of someone's skin dictates their political views
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we're not buying the lies anymore you and your party have neglected us for far too long
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we want safety in our neighborhoods we want to make the most of the federal opportunity zone i'm
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standing in right now in west baltimore we want higher paying jobs and more business opportunities
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we want lower taxes we want school choice we want a chance to get ahead not just get by
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that's what president trump promised and that's what president trump delivered
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i want baltimore to be an example to republicans around the country that we can compete in our
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inner cities if we reach out to the citizens and deliver real results there was a real concerted effort
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to speak to african americans um as as if they are actually capable of doing something on their own
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where you don't get that from the democrats you don't get it they're they're always like oh these poor
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people that have always been you know kept down blah blah blah the republicans gave you dignity
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i mean it was a dignified approach to saying hey stop it stop come over here and just do what
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you're meant to do and help us build a better america it was i thought it was so refreshing
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so refreshing then herschel walker and it wasn't just a speech or a package it was the theme of the
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whole night and it was for all colors but they had so many powerful african americans speaking
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uh herschel walker here's the next cut cut to i take it as a personal insult that people would think
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i've had a 37 year friendship with the races people who think that don't know what they're talking about
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growing up in the deep south i've seen racism up close i know what it is and it isn't donald trump
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just because someone loves and respects the flag our national anthem in our country doesn't mean
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they don't care about social justice i care about all those things so does donald trump he shows how
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much he cares about social justice in the black community through his actions and his actions
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speaks louder than stickers or slogans on a jersey now that was another theme that i thought was subtle
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but very very good you'll notice that last week with joe biden it was all about oh i know joe i've
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known him for 40 years i've watched him over the years and i know him he's a good guy that was the
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message last week this week the message was i've met him i don't know him i mean we're not pals i haven't
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watched him over the 40 years in fact this is only the second time i've been with him or i was only
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with him once but i feel like i know him because look at what he did that was the difference joe biden
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was yeah yeah he's got a long record of saying he can do things and there hasn't been a lot of stuff
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done um but but i know him trust him this one last night was i don't know him but i know what he's done
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that was much more powerful it was a secondary theme i don't know if anybody picked up on it
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but it it was that theme look i don't know him but because of this this happened and i saw him
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in action let me give you one more this is uh tim scott who just hit it out of the park last night
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on the evolution of the southern heart after starting my small business and spending some time in local
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government i decided to run for congress in 2010 the district is based in charleston south carolina
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where the civil war started against a son of our legendary senator strom thurman you may be asking
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yourself how does a poor black kid from a single parent household run and win in a race crowded with
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republicans against the thurman because of the evolution of the southern heart in an overwhelmingly
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white district the voters judged me not on the color of my skin but on the content of my character
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thank you that is america that's america this is what we heard last night the real america it was so
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nice to hear people say we're not a racist nation we're not the people of the 1960s
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mike is a friend of mine and that goes beyond business i'm not having him on because he's a
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sponsor he has not asked me to be on um and i don't ever put people on that say i'm a sponsor i gotta be
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on that's a fast ticket to not getting on um but uh mike is here because i've i've saw something last
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week with you mike that i've never seen ever before i've never seen anyone treated like you were treated
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by a friend of mine anderson cooper who i just question everything i know about him uh because of
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the way he treated you i'm gonna we boiled this down to one minute but we can we can edit it in
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it's a 20 minute segment we edited into one because one minute was just like the other 19
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listen i am just telling you this is the answer once you want to save lives this is what my heart
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is i gave it to my friends and family you really are like a snake oil salesman i mean this is you
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could be in the old west standing on a box telling people to drink your amazing elixir
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glory to god i do what god i do what jesus has me do i give the glory to god and i want to help
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people that's my passion i'm not driven i'm not money driven remedies that are not remedies that
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they've never been tested driven and why would i do this ask yourself why would money my reputation
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if i didn't if i don't have a great reputation you don't have a great reputation well you know
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you say that i'm gonna pray i'm gonna pray for the better business bureau you're you're in my
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prayers answer because they destroyed me when i went all in for this great president that's what
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it was i was the better business bureau of minnesota is going after you because you said the answer to
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that is yes because mike actually told me that story a few months ago um off the air i know the story
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of the better business bureau in minnesota and yes it is because of donald trump um treated wildly
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unfairly um mike welcome to the program thanks i apologize for a guy i thought i knew before donald
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trump was elected yeah it was i was i was surprised but uh i guess i was surprised i was supposed to be a
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five-minute interview it was 23 minutes 23 minutes of attacks and i'm going wow i must really be on the
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right page here you're the right course you know it was it was um um an absolute bloodbath and i just
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i was when i saw it the next morning i was like oh i wish mike would have known this piece of
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information um stew you look this up till we have it all right uh i believe um the chris cuomo doctor
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the remedy that the chris you know chris cuomo yeah guy on writer before after i don't know because i
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don't watch cnn but the guy that proceeds or follows anderson cooper what had uh covid his doctor
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and his wife's doctor were uh were on television and on the internet talking about astro bodies and
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how um crystals and weird oils and everything else wow really are are the the key to changing
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everything wow they never questioned do you remember that still yeah she she runs a little
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like lifestyle website and like publication and in there it's that's all they talked about
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and and and she she blogged every day when they had covid and chris was being treated by this doctor
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uh who had all sorts of claims remedies right yeah right and whatever you know you do what you want
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to do but it's still like for them for cnn of all places to come after you is it's just remarkable
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for that remarkable for that because you said that you had uh found something that and are you selling
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it no no i'm not here's the thing yeah it's not for sale it's not for sale this guy called me a little
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back background here i went to you know when i spoke at the rose garden well at that point from that point
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on everyone in the country would reach out to me for um 24 hours sanitizers and all these uh
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cures and everything well this guy called me on uh on easter sunday and it just sounded different he
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said i have we have all the phase one and phase two testings done it's uh it just came out of uh
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university of texas medical branch uh on the in the lab it was all tested and it and it works and
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and uh and i said really well then i called uh my friend secretary carson where and uh he's on the task
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force i called him immediately like i do turn other things in and he looked into it with them
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and he says wow you know he was just this is the real deal it was safe they said because it passed
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all the safety things i started taking it myself as a prophylactic and and then any of my friends and
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family that got that got covid give it to them in two days they're fine yeah so i had my own due
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diligence plus all these testing i i read the stuff they had tested on over a thousand people
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uh they was for 19 years have been around for um they had done it for cancer treatments so that's
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where they got their safety tests from okay well anyway these guys this company turned it into the
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fda and everything in april in april just to get on the dietary supplement list because you know
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there's no reason not to put on because it's past everything and uh now i see it work more and more
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and i see these other tests they're doing on people and i'm seeing it from my own eyes i'm going
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this has to get out there this is going to save our country it's going to save lives i'm saving
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personal lives and people that knew me are calling me up hey i got the covid and and uh they would be
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you know a couple days they're fine and then they're tested negative they're back at work
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i mean it was it was just it's like hydroxychloroquine yeah it's where they suppressed it where they where
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it's almost as if people don't want things to work right it's almost like the left is trying to
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destroy look i don't care if if chris cuomo was sucking on a crystal every night and he thinks
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it thinks it works go ahead talk about it i'm not going to suck on a crystal but why why do i have to
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make him into the worst person in the world yeah yeah well you know that's what they we know what
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especially when it's actually medicine it's not crystals there's actually yeah there's actually
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medicine yeah this is a medicine and it's either you know so the fda then for the last four months
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they've been dragging their feet on this for both either the diatrias or an ind just let's try it
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it's safe so why won't we try it well this company then you know i've obviously fallen along i wanted
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to you know to get out to the public to save lives well then the company said this about two weeks ago
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about was the same week i went on to anderson cooper they said would you be on our board and
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because they when this thing was getting ready we thought the fd is getting ready to put it out there
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so we needed to scale it they don't know how you know this is scale yeah this is a massive thing and
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i'm pretty good at that i've scaled a lot of things and and so i went all in i said yeah i said
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yeah i'll come on your board and i said i'll look at your manufacturing which is right here in the usa
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and it would be probably you know very inexpensive care for our save our country and i would never
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believe in something if i didn't see it work with my own eyes and stuff so i did that and then for
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anderson cooper going you know you did this for money i've everything i do i don't i'm not doing it for
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money i do it to help people and then the money will take care of itself if if not it that's fine
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too you know like my mask he got me he tried to get he didn't say on the mask i have four million
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dollars of my own money into that did i you know give away of the bottom line dollars just giving
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away and and uh all the stuff that that we've done mike i i do have to ask you this what the hell
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were you thinking it's cnn what were you thinking here here's here's what i thought you know i've
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every time i'm controversial i the cnn they never have me on they the view never has me on they say
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they're gonna and then they don't and i wanted to go right into the lion's den right into the you know
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right into the hurricane and so because the word gets out there more now when i went in when i went
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on there i expected okay i expected some you know him to attack but but it actually kind of worked
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out the way i wanted because of everybody knows about this now even though it's negative but now
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all the good media is coming out about it and you know what there should be some pressure on the fda
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because i'll tell you what if they're suppressing let's just say i'm telling you 100 true which i
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would put everything i have in this world on it that's all that's all i'm all in on it well let's
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just say that it is the answer okay now if it's the answer and the fda in this time of this pandemic
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and they're suppressing it or holding it back and how deep this thing goes you know why would
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cnn you know would not want this out there why would anderson cooper if he has family members not
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want it you know so you wonder how deep it goes and you wonder what they do to our medicine in this
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country um if there's not a pandemic yeah you know cures that are in israel and mexico and every
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place else that never get to fruition so i understand that but if i didn't know you for instance i know
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the story of what happened in minnesota with the better business bureau right if i didn't know you
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if i only knew you from the guy in the commercials with the pillow right um i'd think you might be a
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snake oil person i might watch that and go well anderson i mean he's got a he knows and wow the
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better business bureau i didn't know that and well that's ridiculous that the bbb would do that because
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of politics i think they i think they uh what is it liable or slander i mean both yeah i think
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defamation of character you know i mean he went over the top and he did hurt he did hurt us in that
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in that uh you know you're bringing up stuff from the past that uh he didn't even give me a chance to
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you know address but i think i'm you know one of the things is it's kind of uh i'm so branded with
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the president yeah in that respect so people are going oh a lot of them probably said oh they're
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just attacking him again because he backs this great president you know but like you say there
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is a whole segment because i watched my twitter and i watched the facebook and the social media
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this made worldwide news i know it went all the way across the world and so yeah there was a there
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was a lot of defamation there and uh a lot of libel i mean he's attacked call me a snake oil
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salesman then he tried to you know backtrack uh well i don't even know you i know you don't know
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your guest you know yeah because i think the people in his ear telling him stuff in his ear
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i i think he was fed stuff and i think he he knew he went too far because he was getting angry
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and i don't know why he was getting angry when you know it was because i kept you know it's not
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standing my ground i don't know but it's like he's trying to destroy me and i've never backed down
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in my life i'm not going to back down now so it's kind of you're kind of doing some frivolous
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things here mr cooper because i'm not going to back down and the fact um mike i don't think
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people know you i mean we did a podcast together and i urge you to watch the podcast with mike it's
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a you know there's one thing to because i mean no offense mike but i mean you were a guy on a tv
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commercial and you were a guy that kind of looked to me like you know the you know the the mattress
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mac guy who's a really good guy in houston but he's you don't see any of that you just see the
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salesman right getting to know you you you have uh depth unlike what i've seen in most people that
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are in television uh you know or doing business or anything else but you are actually driven by god
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you are driven whether you want to make fun of that or you believe that or not right i know mike
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believes that yeah absolutely you know he didn't mention that i was an ex-crack cocaine addict you
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know he didn't mention that you know people like to hear they like to see hope especially where we're
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at now the american dream mine's like the american dream on steroids i mean it's you know i come from
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the depths i come from all these different addictions and set free by god and you see what god you know
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that in the bible with god all things are possible well here i am and and it's also being in the
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united states of america the freedoms we have that we're in you know that we could lose this wouldn't
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be possible hardly any other place in the world my story i'll guarantee you know you would not my
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friends are seeing me sitting in the white house with the president they're going jesus is real there's
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no way this crack addict is sitting next to the president that's a miracle no these all these miracles
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that have happened in my life and i think that maybe that's what mr cooper was afraid of is that
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you know he's seeing you know i i feel that you know i pray every time i go on anything and pray for
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you know that god guides my words and guides my path this is the best of the glenbeck program and
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but i was keeping one eye on the uh convention and the other eye on kenosha and the riots that were
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going on uh there main reason is because a co-worker of mine elijah schaefer uh is uh what was smack dab in
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the middle of it and uh i find out later that a gun was pulled on him uh i guess the guy was not
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threatening you but it sounds on the videotape that you have that he actually pulls the trigger
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so it wasn't it appears to have been an empty gun if that was the trigger pull uh and he was explaining
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what he was going to do to cops if they rolled on him uh at that point elijah is uh with us now
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elijah you're in wisconsin you're safe yes glenn i am safe and thank you so much for having me on
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the show but unfortunately uh this city already under the um heavy pressure of covid and race tensions
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is definitely in a very bad position right now tell me what happened last night what did you see
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what i saw is something that i don't think you would ever want to see especially in this this
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country um something that looks like it's from a movie these are wild people um under the guise of
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fighting for black lives and against police brutality indiscriminately destroying public property
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and what i mean is i've never seen this before they destroyed every single lamp post these are large
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you know 15 25 foot high public lampposts they knocked them down um in in the street broke open every
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window they could find lit buildings on fire in in huge acts of arson destroyed dozens of um city
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vehicles with molotov cocktails and they just just they burned the city to the ground
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so where were where was anyone to stop it was there a police presence at all i mean this this was
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this is city under curfew they blocked the freeway exits to make sure that people were not exiting into
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downtown doing everything they could uh you know as a curfew but were was there any police
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was there anything to slow these people down glenn i know your viewers probably already can predict
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what i'm about to say but despite the national guard being there uh they were deployed despite
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what appeared to be some sort of state or county troopers and police they were not there to protect
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the private property they were not there to protect the citizens of the town they were in a line
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protecting the county courthouse and believe it or not the only people that were there deterring crowds
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during the state of emergency in the curfew were what appeared to be vigilante or and or right-wing
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militiamen who were armed in brigs and were successfully deterring rioters from burning down and destroying
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additional businesses while law enforcement pretty much did nothing while that's not a slight that's just
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a report of the facts well the the law enforcement on the street is not making the decision on what to
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do uh those are the people above them that's the governor and the mayor so this is i mean madison
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wisconsin is one of the most progressive uh cities in the country wisconsin is a progressive uh state
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what uh what are the city leaders saying today what's their plan
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well i'll tell you this um i'm i'm on the streets i'm with you know some of my friends
00:28:47.440
george ventura of the daily caller and caitlin delmeida ascriber news and we're out here um
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where's abc where's cnn where's msnbc but most importantly where are the leaders um i haven't seen them
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and i'm looking at business owners people that are just confused because they're experiencing
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something that you shouldn't have to experience in the most powerful country in the world we have
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the power to stop this and there's not much that the city leaders can say besides condemning the
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violence but when you condemn something but yet turn a blind eye to it allow it to take place
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your words really don't mean anything but are they actually condemning it are they saying
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antifa and uh these riots are they saying these are peaceful protest you know the usual crap from
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seattle and portland is are the leaders in wisconsin any different than those leaders
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you know as of today uh i'm not sure of any public statements that have been made i could be wrong if
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one of your your listeners uh it will you know correct me i'd love you to reach out to me elijah
00:29:55.320
schaefer on twitter and let me know if you know something i don't um but i know that some of the
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live streams that happened yesterday they were not adequate to condemn this to the full extent and
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what happens is and i think you'll notice i i'm predicting it's possible that the violence and the
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arson could be worse tonight because it accelerated last night from the night before um because the
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city this is glenn this is this is where it gets crazy i showed up after the first day you know i drove
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up here from chicago covering protests and riots in chicago about an hour and a half south and when i
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came here they had not even cleaned up the city from the night before there were still burned city
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vehicles that were in the streets they were barely putting up some barriers there was gonna be two
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police officers that i saw within a few square blocks of the uptown region i mean this city was not
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prepared for what happened they did not properly prepare the following day and from what i could
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see they did not provide the the resources to this area that were needed to prevent this and you have
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to ask yourself being from a state being from a country like this how do we not have the resources
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how do we not have the ability the national guard no we do have those resources especially in a
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national crisis like this but why were they not deployed it can only make you think and wonder
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well i will tell you this i've been saying that wisconsin was going to be burned down to the ground
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this summer because that's where the convention was supposed to be they should have been more
00:31:25.160
prepared on what to do in case of riots and civil unrest than any other city in america um it looks like
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you don't need the democrats to come to town they got their operatives there uh burning things down
00:31:38.160
anyway um elijah um uh i'd be interested in hearing from the uh owner of the car dealership that had the
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sign black lives matter up on the on the you know the car dealership sign and yet they burned every car in
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the lot yeah you know i'm actually sitting in front of it right now uh they this is to your surprise
00:32:07.940
so the first night they only burned part of the car lot last night they um successfully destroyed the
00:32:16.220
rest of it to the array of massive explosions of fuel tanks combusting due to high temperatures
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and absolutely un tolerable uh or intolerable i should say intolerable that just yeah yeah intolerable
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heat um that you just could not handle from even even 20 30 yards away i mean this these are these
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are intense flames i'm looking at that sign right now i'm not sure that belongs to to the church right
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next to it or to the car lot but i will say this it is it is melted um these cars uh look like they're
00:32:50.340
out of a uh steven spielberg film set that's what i feel like i'm looking at i'm on a tour at universal
00:32:56.660
studios but unfortunately this one doesn't have a a nice end to it it just continues with violence
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and it has to make you wonder you're you'll love this the democratic the democratic building right
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next to this is just about a block away boarded up along with every other business and it has its
00:33:17.140
nice banners above says vote blue in november i'll tell you what i mean this is what you get when you
00:33:23.020
vote bloom it's ironic to tell people while your entire city is shut down it doesn't matter what you
00:33:29.480
put on your doors or your windows or your signs criminals do not follow party law and a party that
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allows criminals to remain and to act unlawfully without proper consequence is not really a party
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at all in fact they poised themselves against the american people and they aren't even ashamed or
00:33:47.520
hiding it anymore and it's just sad talking to elijah schaefer of blaze tv uh must follow on twitter
00:33:54.220
at elijah schaefer elijah you bring up something with this car dealership and i this is what i keep
00:33:59.620
coming back to over and over again with every story you're covering like this day one i understand
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like night one you have this incident there it's a surprise out of nowhere they burn half the car lot
00:34:11.840
to the ground night two i don't understand why on earth is the other half of this car lot being
00:34:18.620
destroyed on night two as if they were shocked that this was going to go on why isn't anyone there to
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stop it isn't there any uprising from the community saying this is crazy stop this
00:34:31.480
i wish but i'll tell you this this is not the only car lot that ended up being destroyed um there was
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at least three other car lots that were the targeting of of these uh vigilantes um both black
00:34:46.020
lives matter rioters which wore which wore the the colors etc um and the the markings but also uh there
00:34:53.780
were black block antifa i noticed some journalists and people from portland these people get around
00:34:58.400
they they move in directions um the same direction which is towards chaos and i i cannot tell you
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how sad it is to realize that we do live in a country where the government cannot protect your
00:35:14.460
property and cannot protect your livelihood and the only businesses that i saw that did not get
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attacked were the ones that took their own precautions put up boards and in many cases
00:35:22.880
and this is where i this is where i love uh love this uh middle eastern gas station owner
00:35:28.200
oh believe me he was out in front with his boys holding bats some very serious firearms and i'll tell you
00:35:34.420
what nobody damaged that business because he was he came prepared and he knew what it was going to
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take to live out the american dream it's crazy business still stands while the car lot next to
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it is completely burned to the ground okay um i've got so much to maybe we'll have you on tomorrow if
00:35:50.060
we can um to cover uh what happens tonight you say it's going to be worse um let me just let me just
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wrap up with with this the video let's play the video of the guy pulling uh the gun out of his
00:36:04.400
pants and pointing it right at elijah and pulling the trigger what do we do that's right that's right
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man um and what he was talking about is what he was going to do to the police but when somebody
00:36:16.860
pulls a gun out a large gun uh and pulls the trigger what did that feel like
00:36:24.100
well uh amidst multiple gunshots in the area constant explosions i didn't realize he dry fired
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until i got a call from the ceo of blaze tv saying that you just got dry fired yeah you did
00:36:40.040
be be safe you know get out if you need to get out and i i i'll tell you what i i i realized that
00:36:48.460
this is why it's so volatile i mean if that was had been loaded or if it had not jammed or whatever
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happened i might not be here today and i think that governors mayors uh city officials senators need to
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realize that we are in a culture of civil war and we are very close to this becoming violent not
00:37:08.540
because of the people they're accusing but simply because when people are emboldened and you know to
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commit crimes because they're not held accountable all it took was just one bullet in that gun to
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change this from a normal night to a bloody night so that's where i'll leave it uh thank you elijah
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i appreciate it elijah shaffer blaze tv host slightly offensive