On today's show, Glenn Beck and John Roch take a deep dive into the report from Robert Mueller's report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Glenn and John discuss the winners and losers from the report, and what we should take away from it.
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00:00:20.060different looks at this situation and it's one of those days there is plenty to say. Boy there's
00:00:24.820plenty to say. We start the podcast with the actual reading of the attorney general's report
00:00:32.340on the investigation and this is so important because as you will see as the podcast unfolds
00:00:40.500it answers all of the questions that the democrats are asking right now. They are not being genuine
00:00:47.560on this. This is a total disingenuous ask of the American people. Well we need to see the whole
00:00:52.500full report. Why won't they release the full report? Well they didn't they didn't make this
00:00:57.660decision um you know on the facts. They were looking at whether or not uh Mueller could indict
00:01:04.840the president. No. As you will find out none of that is true. Yeah we also go through the big winners
00:01:10.360and losers all the things that you should take out of this and what we took out of this as a day
00:01:15.020and then you know one of the points you made Glenn was that we spent two years thinking about the
00:01:19.680Mueller thing when we could have been focusing on more important things one of which is life
00:01:24.020and we go into that story with a movie coming out this weekend. Yeah called Unplanned Abby Johnson
00:01:29.280and Ashley Bratcher who plays Abby in this movie um that opens this weekend. I cannot recommend it
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00:02:07.120All right so I I want to I want to take you through the attorney general's letter that came
00:02:13.280out last night. Now it's interesting usually bad news on the government is dumped on a Friday. Uh this
00:02:20.960report was filed by Mueller on Friday and I immediately thought of course it's good for Trump
00:02:27.340because if it's not good for Trump it would come out on a Monday. But it's good for Trump so it's coming
00:02:33.520out on a Friday. Now you can play that one way or another or it was just time to release the report.
00:02:40.160Now the attorney general yesterday he issues a report on the report. So we're never going to see
00:02:49.000the report and that's by law. Um you this is under a uh like a grand jury kind of rule. It is full of
00:02:57.500raw information and you don't just release this by law. So nobody can really release it. They can
00:03:04.960release parts of it but you can't release and dump the whole thing. And uh and that's a good thing.
00:03:11.640Otherwise you end up with what we had that started all of this. That's stupid Russia gate uh story uh
00:03:19.300with um uh what was his name from MI5 that that released all of this information you know that he
00:03:26.480was peeing on people and everything everything else. You don't want the raw information. So here is
00:03:32.680the attorney general's letter that came out yesterday. On Friday the special counsel submitted
00:03:39.100to me a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declaration a declination of
00:03:45.680decisions that he has reached as required by blah blah blah. This report is entitled report on the
00:03:51.960investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Although my review is
00:03:58.240ongoing I believe that it is in the public interest to describe the report and to summarize the
00:04:04.000principal conclusions reached by the special counsel and the results of his investigation.
00:04:09.840The report explains that the special counsel and his staff thoroughly investigated allegations that
00:04:16.060members of the president's campaign of Donald J. Trump and others associated with it conspired with
00:04:22.740the Russian government in its efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election or sought to
00:04:29.760obstruct the related federal investigations. In the report the special counsel noted that in completing his
00:04:37.380investigation now listen to this he employed 19 lawyers who were assisted by a team of approximately 40
00:04:45.940FBI agents, FBI agents, intelligence analysts, forensic accountants, and other professional staff. The special counsel issued more than 2,800 subpoenas, executed nearly 500 search warrants, obtained more than 230 orders for communication records, issued 50 orders authorizing the use of pen registers.
00:05:09.220Find out what that is, would you? Made 13 requests for foreign governments for evidence and interviewed approximately 500 witnesses. Would you say that's thorough? Sounds like it. The special counsel obtained a number of indictments and convictions of individuals and entities in connection with his investigation, all of which have been publicly disclosed. During the course of his investigation, the special counsel also referred
00:05:38.960several matters to several matters to other offices for further action. The report does not recommend any further indictments, nor did the special counsel obtain any sealed indictments that have yet to be made public. Below, I summarize the principal conclusions set out in the special counsel's report.
00:05:56.680So the first thing he's saying is pretty thorough. Pretty darn thorough. We talked to a lot of people, spent a lot of money, and almost two years of everybody's life. Here's what we found out.
00:06:11.400First, Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The special counsel's report is divided into two parts. The first describes the results of the special counsel's investigation into Russia interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
00:06:26.660The report outlines the Russian effort to influence the election and documents crimes committed by persons associated with the Russian government in connection with those efforts. The report further explains that a primary consideration for the special counsel's investigation was whether any Americans, including individuals associated with the Trump campaign, joined the Russian conspiracies to influence the election.
00:07:26.340activities. Is everybody clear on that? The Russians were influencing our election. Something we told you would happen in 2014. Something we warned the government. We told everybody that would listen to us. This is what they're planning on doing.
00:07:46.300The Trump administration had nothing to do with it. The campaign, nor anyone involved with the campaign.
00:07:54.020The special investigation determined that there were two main Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election.
00:08:01.660The first involved attempts by Russian organization, the Internet Research Agency, IRA, to conduct disinformation and social media operations in the United States.
00:08:14.640The first involved in the United States. It was designed to do with the United States.
00:08:15.640The first involved in the United States. It was designed to do with the United States. It was designed to sow social discord.
00:08:18.360Let me say that again. Designed to sow social discord.
00:09:21.320The special counsel did not find that any U.S. person or Trump campaign official or associate conspired or knowingly coordinated with the IRA in its efforts.
00:09:48.500Although, the special counsel brought criminal charges against a number of Russian nationals and entities in connection with these activities.
00:09:59.600The second element involved in the Russian government's effort to conduct computer hacking operations designed to gather and disseminate information to influence the election.
00:10:09.840The special counsel found the Russian government actors successfully hacked into computers and obtained emails from persons affiliated with the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party organizations.
00:10:28.540They also publicly disseminated those materials through various intermediaries, such as WikiLeaks.
00:10:35.120Based on these activities, the special counsel has brought criminal charges against a number of Russian military officers for conspiring to hack into computers in the United States for purposes of influencing an election.
00:10:50.040But as noted above, the special counsel did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts, despite multiple offers from Russian affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.
00:11:10.480This is really critical because this goes to why they did not pursue a conspiracy or, I'm sorry, a warrant or an indictment of obstruction of justice.
00:11:26.220They're saying that they made several attempts and they were turned down by the Trump campaign every time.
00:11:34.200Every time they would make the attempt, the Trump campaign may take that meeting, but it was exactly as Trump said.
00:11:50.000By the way, I'm reading this whole thing because we just spent two years of our life, two years of our country's precious time arguing about this.
00:12:02.920How many millions of dollars have we spent?
00:12:06.100How much could we have done had we not wasted all of this time?
00:12:13.000I think that it is fine to have done this.
00:16:23.160I have to tell you, what's amazing to me is they didn't, they wouldn't listen.
00:16:28.940I mean, you know, the audio you just played of Obama saying, hey, listen, I had more latitude and you transmit that to Vladimir for me.
00:16:35.440They weren't interested in even talking about it, let alone investigate.
00:16:41.920They weren't even interested in talking about it.
00:16:43.800Had this come back and Mueller had found evidence of collusion, I would have seriously looked at it, wanted to know the facts, wouldn't have taken it from the media, want to know the facts.
00:16:56.100And I would have supported that, assuming that it was real information, you know what I mean?
00:17:02.740If the rule of law was followed and they found him guilty, I would have gone and said, we got to, come on, guys, we have to stand against this.
00:17:13.800They, the Democrats are not willing to do that.
00:18:20.420Like, he actually looked at what the Russians did and got incredibly valuable information about their game plan, the players involved, how they did these things.
00:20:12.060All the people that we warned about, he has now distanced himself from.
00:20:15.180The only one that's kind of an exception to this is Michael Flynn, who I would not be surprised at all if he gets pardoned out of this because Flynn lied during this investigation.
00:20:24.160I never got the sense Trump actually wanted to fire him at that time.
00:20:27.940You know, he went along with it because, you know, he had lied to Pence, supposedly.
00:20:33.040And that was, you know, that's a huge problem.
00:20:34.700You got to have some standards in your White House.
00:20:37.040But I've always felt that he thought Flynn kind of got a raw deal.
00:20:40.780And he's the least of the worries out of that group.
00:20:44.200Flynn just gets a pardon from the president on this.
00:20:46.880But, you know, the other people, people like Manafort, who were doing things years and years and years ago that got, you know, caught for all sorts of stuff.
00:21:21.620I mean, look, they did, I think it was a half dozen Trump associates got indicted, all of them, though, for either things completely unrelated or lying to investigators.
00:21:31.640Good lesson to not lie to investigators here in the middle of this.
00:21:35.840Should have learned that with the claimant investigations.
00:21:37.760Yeah, because that's the only thing that anybody went down for in that one.
00:21:44.360And I didn't, I don't recall saying this, but just in case I ever did, if I ever said that Mueller was a hack, I don't remember any of her saying this, anything like this.
00:26:19.400No, and you can understand their motivation.
00:26:21.680If they can get 50,000 pages, they certainly will be able to mine out a couple of things that are at least politically embarrassing to the president in some way.
00:26:31.460Right, there's going to be something in there that they can use to their advantage, which is why they want to see the whole thing.
00:26:36.620So I went on the air, when I was at Fox, I went on the air and I said, President Obama is a liar.
00:26:44.140Do you remember during the State of the Union where he was saying, you know, the cost of your health care is going to go down and we're not going to use this for any illegals.
00:27:08.820And I was called into Roger Ailes' office, who everybody thinks is this evil, you know, Republican who just would do anything he could to destroy Barack Obama.
00:27:41.540I think people want to know the truth and people are tired of hearing I misspoke when the evidence points to they know we have the evidence that he knew this would not work.
00:27:56.320It was a Trojan horse to bring us to single payer health care, which is where we're what they're arguing about.
00:28:02.640Now, we knew that because we had audio tape of him saying.
00:28:06.420And so I continued to say he was a liar.
00:28:13.560I think I think Roger was right in the long run that people don't want to hear that.
00:28:18.720And if you are on the other side, you certainly are affected by that and it pushes you away and makes you say, you know what, I just can't even listen to you.
00:28:33.580That's a compelling case not to call the president a liar.
00:28:36.600However, that doesn't reach to this level.
00:28:42.920The American people do not want to hear that their president was colluding with a foreign government that makes him a foreign agent and an enemy of the American people.
00:29:49.580Now, for you to continue down this road, which the Democrats are, they are bleeding on the table and they will drain themselves of all the blood.
00:30:00.020And quite honestly, I'm kind of thrilled about it.
00:30:03.100But the American people and good Democrats will not want to hear any more about him colluding because it's now been proven.
00:30:14.500And if you're just going to continue to do this, it's best just to wrap it up and then go find something else if that's what you want to do.
00:30:21.860And you realize the moment, the heat of the moment allows such odd decisions to be made.
00:30:28.820For example, the left has said this entire time, assuming that Trump had done something illegal and something horrible, they went the entire time building up the credibility of Bob Mueller.
00:30:39.920Now, alternatively, I think on the other side of this, you know, Trump and the and on the people on the right spent the entire time degrading the credibility of Bob Mueller.
00:30:50.880So it's like neither of those was a good decision.
00:30:54.300Right. I think from the from the Democrats position, now they have to completely go back on themselves and say, well, what we meant to say was he totally did not.
00:31:05.340Now, because their first answer is just, well, we're sure there's something in there that he found, but, you know, that's not in the summary.
00:31:11.460So they're going to go after Barr first.
00:31:13.140But if they get a lot more material from Mueller and they don't get the crimes that they want, they're going to look ridiculous because they're going to have to start turning on Mueller.
00:31:20.760And I think the same thing can be said about the right.
00:31:22.980I mean, yes, there's no reason to there was no reason, especially when obviously Donald Trump had exclusive information in this.
00:31:29.540Right. He had information that no one else had, which is he didn't actually do it right.
00:31:33.360Like he knew the whole time that he didn't do it.
00:31:35.340So he knew the whole time that there was a really good chance that they were going to find nothing was going on.
00:31:40.720So, I mean, he was protecting, I think, himself and I think people around him were protecting themselves in case something came out that they thought was wrong, that they would be able to say, well, this guy's a hack.
00:31:52.660But, you know, like, well, I don't think that was ever true.
00:31:55.800And now that he's come out and exonerated the president completely when it comes to collusion, you know, the Republicans are all over the place on record saying Mueller was in the middle of a witch hunt, which is just, you know, I don't think that that's a fair analysis of what he was doing.
00:32:09.540And again, like you go back to Salem, they weren't like, oh, we couldn't find any witches today.
00:32:20.360So the whole thing, though, Stu, is both sides were wrong for saying that it was a witch hunt because you had to know what Mueller was doing.
00:33:18.740They hyped and looked at everyone who could possibly say something bad about the president.
00:33:25.200And they ridiculed anybody who said anything good.
00:33:28.460Now, let me ask you, and I hope you can answer this easily.
00:33:35.620We are on the air today saying the president was cleared.
00:33:41.040Now, it is still open on interpretation, and I think it's a valuable exercise, but I happen to agree with the attorney general on this, that he did not engage in obstruction of justice.
00:35:50.380You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:36:04.000With the Blaze TV is Eric Bolling, and Eric is up in Washington, friends with the president.
00:36:09.780How are things in Washington today, Eric?
00:36:11.660What's the feeling at the White House?
00:36:14.260I think they were, let me tell you, I've been on the phone and texting and talking to a lot of my friends there, not the president himself, but just about all his, you know, the senior advisors to him and whatnot in his communications department.
00:36:31.200They really were kind of holding back a little bit and just watching the events unfold on TV and in the media.
00:36:40.480And I found it very interesting that they didn't jump immediately.
00:36:44.380They spent a couple of days trying to figure out the reaction.
00:36:46.580Maybe they were waiting for A.G. Barr's assessment of what was going on.
00:38:47.100I just find it very odd that the day after the report is released that the leftists start saying, oh, boy, can you believe this wall-to-wall coverage on this thing?
00:38:57.960When, meanwhile, for the last two years, that's what they had every single hour on MSNBC and CNN had led with literally almost every single hour of the last two years all day long on each of the networks with something Trump and Russian collusion-related.
00:39:13.860And now they're saying, well, you know.
00:39:16.220Well, they've trained their audience like a Pavlov dog.
00:40:18.640This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:40:33.920There is one thing that we can do that will make or break us.
00:40:39.080I believe if we miss this opportunity, the United States of America will exist no longer, at least in the form that any of us recognize, and we will become a very, very dark nation, and that is abortion.
00:40:57.000It has never been more clear than it is right now how you can be hearing politicians talk about ending the life of a child after they're born.
00:41:09.340And the country doesn't seem to really react like, oh my gosh, that's a killer, is beyond me.
00:41:19.080And if we don't stand together and turn back to God and turn for that one basic principle of life, I think we're toast.
00:41:57.000Quickly, I will tell you, I am flying out to Utah on my own dime to be able to be at the Jordan Commons at 630 and Thanksgiving Point Theater at 745.
00:42:09.180I'm going to do premiere opening screenings of this movie in Utah.
00:42:15.440It is rated R, but as you'll find out, there's no reason for it to be rated R except for political reasons.
00:42:22.380Jordan Commons and Thanksgiving Point.
00:42:48.180She is the CEO and founder of And Then There Were None, and she was the author of Unplanned, which is now a movie, the true life story of her life.
00:42:57.960And Ashley Bratcher, she is the one who could have ruined this movie and didn't.
00:45:22.640Um, and then when we'll get into this in a little while, then you had something happen to you in the clinic that changed your course forever.
00:45:30.860So, you are not one to point the finger.
00:45:35.340You're not, you're whole, the reason why I think you'll change the world is because the movie starts with the people who are hanging, you know, holding the posters up that are, you know, showing the dead babies and they're calling them baby killers.
00:45:49.420You're not going to appeal to anybody with that.
00:45:54.280And you start with that and it shows you pointing that out and the good guys that you're now, you know, with, they're saying we're not with them either.
00:46:27.900Um, but I, I, I sometimes wonder, you know, if, if I had gone in that day, that first day that I went in to volunteer.
00:46:37.060And those aggressive people were not on the sidewalk, let's say they weren't there.
00:46:44.920And it was just people peacefully praying on the sidewalk.
00:46:50.340I wonder if I would have come back or not.
00:46:53.060I think maybe I wouldn't have, because I remember thinking if that's the Christian pro-life movement, somebody dressed up like the grim reaper, yelling baby killer, calling them murderers, telling them that they're going to go to hell.
00:47:07.280I don't want to have anything to do with that.
00:47:15.140It allows you to frame it in your head that you're being compassionate because you know, these women are going through hell and to have those guys outside, you're actually being compassionate by walking them into Planned Parenthood.
00:47:30.600Well, that's what I tell people when you're out there screaming at someone or pointing the finger, then you are creating a safe space inside that abortion facility.
00:47:43.220And you never want the abortion facility to be seen as a safe haven.
00:47:49.460Those are the people that are going to take your child's life.
00:48:50.200Uh, I had this crazy lady on Instagram, send me a message and tell me that she had heard from God and thought that I was meant to play the role.
00:48:56.340I was like, this lady's insane, insane.
00:48:59.180And so I blew it off, but she was really persistent and she kept messaging me and saying, Ashley, I really, really think that you were supposed to play this role.
00:49:06.320Will you please let the producers send you a script?
00:50:24.840And so I was calling Abby, texting Abby, listening to her book on Audible, reading the script, learning everything I could about the pro-life movement because I was not involved beforehand.
00:52:21.460Like, I'm really praying I don't have to go to Oklahoma for eight weeks.
00:52:24.720So, um, so anyway, yeah, I mean, it was, it was a little nerve wracking because, um, I didn't know anything about Ashley and, uh, I knew about a film she had played in.