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00:00:00.000 Hey podcasters, what a great day to have the blaze and to listen to all of the programs for

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00:00:20.060 different looks at this situation and it's one of those days there is plenty to say. Boy there's

00:00:24.820 plenty to say. We start the podcast with the actual reading of the attorney general's report

00:00:32.340 on the investigation and this is so important because as you will see as the podcast unfolds

00:00:40.500 it answers all of the questions that the democrats are asking right now. They are not being genuine

00:00:47.560 on this. This is a total disingenuous ask of the American people. Well we need to see the whole

00:00:52.500 full report. Why won't they release the full report? Well they didn't they didn't make this

00:00:57.660 decision um you know on the facts. They were looking at whether or not uh Mueller could indict

00:01:04.840 the president. No. As you will find out none of that is true. Yeah we also go through the big winners

00:01:10.360 and losers all the things that you should take out of this and what we took out of this as a day

00:01:15.020 and then you know one of the points you made Glenn was that we spent two years thinking about the

00:01:19.680 Mueller thing when we could have been focusing on more important things one of which is life

00:01:24.020 and we go into that story with a movie coming out this weekend. Yeah called Unplanned Abby Johnson

00:01:29.280 and Ashley Bratcher who plays Abby in this movie um that opens this weekend. I cannot recommend it

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00:01:43.640 couple of different theaters with the premiere of this movie this Friday. You can grab your tickets

00:01:47.600 online. We'll have more on that and it's also in the podcasts.

00:01:58.700 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:07.120 All right so I I want to I want to take you through the attorney general's letter that came

00:02:13.280 out last night. Now it's interesting usually bad news on the government is dumped on a Friday. Uh this

00:02:20.960 report was filed by Mueller on Friday and I immediately thought of course it's good for Trump

00:02:27.340 because if it's not good for Trump it would come out on a Monday. But it's good for Trump so it's coming

00:02:33.520 out on a Friday. Now you can play that one way or another or it was just time to release the report.

00:02:40.160 Now the attorney general yesterday he issues a report on the report. So we're never going to see

00:02:49.000 the report and that's by law. Um you this is under a uh like a grand jury kind of rule. It is full of

00:02:57.500 raw information and you don't just release this by law. So nobody can really release it. They can

00:03:04.960 release parts of it but you can't release and dump the whole thing. And uh and that's a good thing.

00:03:11.640 Otherwise you end up with what we had that started all of this. That's stupid Russia gate uh story uh 1.00

00:03:19.300 with um uh what was his name from MI5 that that released all of this information you know that he 1.00

00:03:26.480 was peeing on people and everything everything else. You don't want the raw information. So here is

00:03:32.680 the attorney general's letter that came out yesterday. On Friday the special counsel submitted

00:03:39.100 to me a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declaration a declination of

00:03:45.680 decisions that he has reached as required by blah blah blah. This report is entitled report on the

00:03:51.960 investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Although my review is

00:03:58.240 ongoing I believe that it is in the public interest to describe the report and to summarize the

00:04:04.000 principal conclusions reached by the special counsel and the results of his investigation.

00:04:09.840 The report explains that the special counsel and his staff thoroughly investigated allegations that

00:04:16.060 members of the president's campaign of Donald J. Trump and others associated with it conspired with

00:04:22.740 the Russian government in its efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election or sought to

00:04:29.760 obstruct the related federal investigations. In the report the special counsel noted that in completing his

00:04:37.380 investigation now listen to this he employed 19 lawyers who were assisted by a team of approximately 40

00:04:45.940 FBI 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.

00:05:09.220 Find 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

00:05:38.960 several 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.

00:05:56.680 So 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.

00:06:11.400 First, 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.

00:06:26.660 The 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.

00:06:56.340 which would be a federal crime.

00:07:26.340 activities. 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. 0.87

00:07:46.300 The Trump administration had nothing to do with it. The campaign, nor anyone involved with the campaign.

00:07:54.020 The special investigation determined that there were two main Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election.

00:08:01.660 The first involved attempts by Russian organization, the Internet Research Agency, IRA, to conduct disinformation and social media operations in the United States.

00:08:14.640 The first involved in the United States. It was designed to do with the United States.

00:08:15.640 The first involved in the United States. It was designed to do with the United States. It was designed to sow social discord.

00:08:18.360 Let me say that again. Designed to sow social discord.

00:08:22.320 Designed to sow social discord.

00:08:25.880 In this, this is my commentary, in this, the Russians succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.

00:08:36.600 Look at what they've done.

00:08:38.100 I would be interested to see if there was any Russian effort after to also accuse Trump and to defend Trump,

00:08:50.740 because that's exactly what they were doing during the campaign, taking both sides and stirring them up. 0.95

00:08:58.720 Any more of this over this stupid thing on the election, any more of this, in my opinion, is only helping the Russians. 0.98

00:09:12.240 We all know now there was no collusion. 1.00

00:09:16.640 There was no cooperation.

00:09:19.020 There wasn't any of that.

00:09:21.320 The 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.

00:09:48.500 Although, the special counsel brought criminal charges against a number of Russian nationals and entities in connection with these activities.

00:09:58.040 Good.

00:09:59.600 The second element involved in the Russian government's effort to conduct computer hacking operations designed to gather and disseminate information to influence the election.

00:10:09.840 The 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.

00:10:23.660 This publicly disseminated.

00:10:26.920 Hang on just a second.

00:10:28.540 They also publicly disseminated those materials through various intermediaries, such as WikiLeaks.

00:10:35.120 Based 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.

00:10:50.040 But 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.

00:11:10.480 This 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.

00:11:26.220 They're saying that they made several attempts and they were turned down by the Trump campaign every time.

00:11:34.200 Every time they would make the attempt, the Trump campaign may take that meeting, but it was exactly as Trump said.

00:11:41.400 Who wouldn't take that meeting?

00:11:43.720 But we never did anything on it.

00:11:48.120 Is everybody clear on this?

00:11:50.000 By 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.

00:12:02.920 How many millions of dollars have we spent?

00:12:06.100 How much could we have done had we not wasted all of this time?

00:12:13.000 I think that it is fine to have done this.

00:12:16.900 I think we needed to do this.

00:12:19.240 It's important to know.

00:12:21.500 However, the back and forth all the way, we've been saying, wait until the report is out.

00:12:27.760 Wait until the report is out.

00:12:30.460 Now the report is out.

00:12:32.440 Has anybody really read it?

00:12:35.400 We've taken two years.

00:12:38.320 Let's take a moment and just look at the facts before we start arguing even more.

00:12:44.440 And let's maybe perhaps outline a direction on where we can heal the country.

00:12:52.000 I think the president has an enormous opportunity in front of him.

00:12:56.540 He has the Kavanaugh moment and he has to seize it today or tomorrow.

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00:14:01.440 Pat, your take.

00:14:02.720 Well, I'm a little disappointed that, you know, you're spinning it the way you are.

00:14:06.960 Really?

00:14:07.480 Yeah, a little disappointed.

00:14:08.460 Okay.

00:14:09.060 I thought better of you.

00:14:09.960 Really?

00:14:10.460 And Stu.

00:14:11.220 Okay.

00:14:11.640 And obviously you're ignoring the blatant evidence of the president and his Russian collusion.

00:14:19.720 Whatever.

00:14:20.080 Whatever.

00:14:21.140 No, it's fine.

00:14:21.920 What's the blatant evidence?

00:14:23.120 I mean, we played it on my show because I'm a truth teller.

00:14:25.980 Okay.

00:14:26.300 And I don't know about you.

00:14:27.360 All right.

00:14:28.320 But here's the blatant evidence of the president colluding with Russia.

00:14:32.340 Okay.

00:14:32.720 Right here.

00:14:33.560 My last last trade for you.

00:14:34.900 Yeah.

00:14:35.420 And this time I watch and I have more talks about it.

00:14:38.800 Yeah.

00:14:39.300 Yeah.

00:14:39.560 I understand.

00:14:40.380 I transmit this information to the legume of the United States.

00:14:43.300 Wait.

00:14:44.060 So, hang on.

00:14:45.320 That's the last president.

00:14:47.060 Well, yes, but it is a president colluding with Russia.

00:14:49.400 And I'd really kind of like to know why nobody cared about that as he colluded on camera with Russia. 0.57

00:14:59.480 But this, this is amazing.

00:15:01.940 So, I...

00:15:02.600 I have to tell you, I am, I really thought that there was going to be something.

00:15:08.380 I really did.

00:15:09.300 Because of Trump's reaction to it.

00:15:11.240 He was so negative about the Mueller investigation, almost to the point where people thought he was going to fire.

00:15:18.680 Fortunately, he didn't fire Mueller.

00:15:20.520 Wouldn't that have been a disaster?

00:15:22.040 Yeah.

00:15:22.280 Had he fired Mueller.

00:15:23.220 Yeah.

00:15:23.520 And then who knows who would have taken over and what would have happened with that.

00:15:27.440 And it would have looked really bad.

00:15:29.100 Mm-hmm.

00:15:29.340 As it is, to have complete exoneration on the collusion thing is amazing.

00:15:37.460 Amazing.

00:15:38.000 To the point where CNN actually called him exonerated.

00:15:41.780 And MSNBC said vindicated.

00:15:44.860 And I never thought I'd hear that come out of their mouths.

00:15:46.840 ABC News as well.

00:15:48.100 ABC.

00:15:48.920 Yeah.

00:15:49.140 I mean, they're all saying it's a huge, huge win for the president.

00:15:51.480 And you know how that galls them.

00:15:52.920 Oh, they didn't want to have to.

00:15:54.120 They didn't want to do that.

00:15:56.800 And that's the problem here.

00:15:58.360 That's the problem. 0.92

00:15:59.580 They were rooting for a president to actually be a traitor.

00:16:04.140 What's his face?

00:16:05.480 Brian Stelter actually had a guy on who said, you probably remember this, that the president might be a Russian agent.

00:16:13.820 That he might have not just colluded with Russia, but he was a Manchurian candidate who may have grown up as a Russian agent.

00:16:20.640 I mean, they went that far with this.

00:16:23.160 I have to tell you, what's amazing to me is they didn't, they wouldn't listen.

00:16:28.940 I 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.

00:16:35.440 They weren't interested in even talking about it, let alone investigate.

00:16:41.920 They weren't even interested in talking about it.

00:16:43.800 Had 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.

00:16:56.100 And I would have supported that, assuming that it was real information, you know what I mean?

00:17:02.740 If 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.

00:17:13.800 They, the Democrats are not willing to do that.

00:17:17.460 They're not willing to do that.

00:17:19.440 And I don't mean the Democrats in the middle of the country.

00:17:21.800 I mean the ones in Washington.

00:17:22.960 They're not, they are operating on, if he's not guilty of this, we know he's guilty of something.

00:17:30.980 That's a witch hunt.

00:17:32.180 That is the definition of a witch hunt.

00:17:34.880 I think the one thing that gets left out of this a little bit is the witch hunt existed from the media.

00:17:40.940 It existed from the Democrats, but there's no evidence that it existed from Mueller.

00:17:46.080 No.

00:17:46.520 And, and, you know, witch hunts typically find their witches.

00:17:50.180 There's not a lot of witch hunts that are like, ah, you know, couldn't find a witch.

00:17:53.280 Right.

00:17:53.460 Like, this is one where they, if it was a witch hunt, you don't hire Bob Mueller for it.

00:17:57.620 He would have made something happen.

00:17:59.500 Yeah.

00:17:59.720 You come out and you get somebody who's going to find something on him.

00:18:03.320 And, and what happened here is they didn't find anything.

00:18:05.140 And I think that speaks to the idea that Mueller actually took the title of this report seriously.

00:18:11.120 The title of the report is Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election.

00:18:16.880 Not, how do we get Donald Trump, which is what the media was looking at.

00:18:20.000 Right?

00:18:20.420 Like, 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.

00:18:32.560 This is...

00:18:32.880 And they actually did things.

00:18:33.980 And they did things.

00:18:34.860 And they did try to influence the election.

00:18:35.980 Of course they did.

00:18:36.600 It's just not in conjunction with Donald Trump.

00:18:38.860 Right.

00:18:39.180 Or his campaign.

00:18:39.960 And that's the other thing.

00:18:41.260 Nobody in the campaign was implicated in this.

00:18:43.700 That's pretty amazing.

00:18:44.620 Now, they did come out with some other things, but they were not.

00:18:48.320 All those people who had been arrested had nothing to do with this.

00:18:51.940 It had everything to do with things they were doing also on the side, which we told you about during the election.

00:19:00.260 That was one of our biggest problems with Donald Trump.

00:19:03.620 A, I didn't believe that he was going to do the things that he said he was going to do.

00:19:08.520 He has done most of those.

00:19:10.660 I stand corrected.

00:19:12.340 B, he surrounded himself with the worst people imaginable. 0.88

00:19:17.900 And I said, you're going to have massive investigations because these guys are dirty.

00:19:25.040 And I remember saying at the same time, and yet, he's raised these great kids.

00:19:31.340 I don't understand it.

00:19:33.040 Okay?

00:19:33.840 His kids, I was worried about Ivanka, who has turned out to be good.

00:19:38.740 I was worried about her with the green thing and her relationship with her dad.

00:19:43.920 Would he cave?

00:19:45.120 He didn't.

00:19:46.000 I was wrong on that.

00:19:47.360 But we were right on the people who he surrounded himself with.

00:19:52.340 Those are the people that they found were doing other things.

00:19:57.160 Roger Stone.

00:19:58.000 Right.

00:19:58.420 Not necessarily related to this.

00:20:01.040 Michael Cohen.

00:20:02.160 Right.

00:20:02.740 All those people.

00:20:03.560 All of those people.

00:20:04.380 So this is an old problem now that has corrected itself because he fired most of those people.

00:20:11.940 Yeah.

00:20:12.060 All the people that we warned about, he has now distanced himself from.

00:20:15.180 The 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.

00:20:24.160 I never got the sense Trump actually wanted to fire him at that time.

00:20:27.940 You know, he went along with it because, you know, he had lied to Pence, supposedly.

00:20:33.040 And that was, you know, that's a huge problem.

00:20:34.700 You got to have some standards in your White House.

00:20:37.040 But I've always felt that he thought Flynn kind of got a raw deal.

00:20:40.780 And he's the least of the worries out of that group.

00:20:42.980 I would not be surprised at all.

00:20:44.200 Flynn just gets a pardon from the president on this.

00:20:46.880 But, 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.

00:20:53.160 I mean, those are really bad.

00:20:54.400 Trump was wrong on Manafort.

00:20:56.260 He came out and said Manafort got a bad raw deal.

00:20:59.220 No, he didn't.

00:21:00.280 No, he didn't.

00:21:00.760 He's only serving, I think, seven years.

00:21:03.200 He should be in jail for the rest of his life.

00:21:05.020 That guy was a bad guy long before he met Donald Trump.

00:21:08.980 What he was doing with Ukraine was absolutely true. 0.98

00:21:13.240 And things unrelated to Trump, completely.

00:21:14.020 Completely unrelated.

00:21:15.240 Completely unrelated.

00:21:16.420 That guy was a criminal long before he met Donald Trump.

00:21:20.400 Definitely.

00:21:21.620 I 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.

00:21:31.640 Good lesson to not lie to investigators here in the middle of this.

00:21:35.840 Should have learned that with the claimant investigations.

00:21:37.760 Yeah, because that's the only thing that anybody went down for in that one.

00:21:41.560 So let's lead by example.

00:21:44.360 And 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.

00:21:57.480 But let's just lead by example.

00:22:01.020 Mueller is not the guy that the right has made him into.

00:22:07.440 The Democrats were right about Mueller.

00:22:11.380 And many Republicans, especially at the beginning.

00:22:14.000 Yes.

00:22:14.280 Right.

00:22:14.420 Like people came out and said, yeah, I mean, Mueller's a great pick for this.

00:22:16.780 And over time, the narrative became.

00:22:19.420 Everybody picks sides.

00:22:20.260 Yeah.

00:22:20.680 I mean, look, it doesn't seem that that was the case at all.

00:22:23.540 Right.

00:22:24.200 So we were wrong about Mueller.

00:22:26.940 Anybody who said that on our side was wrong about Mueller.

00:22:30.460 As far as we know.

00:22:31.180 As far as we know.

00:22:31.940 But it seems as though he was very thorough.

00:22:36.020 The attorney general said he was given everything that he asked for.

00:22:41.520 There was nothing that they turned him down that he wanted to do.

00:22:45.460 He was very thorough and he came out with a very thorough report.

00:22:50.440 And when it was in question, he said, it's in question.

00:22:53.680 I don't want to make this decision.

00:22:55.520 It's in question.

00:22:56.660 I don't know.

00:22:57.720 That took great balls to not fall on one side or the other.

00:23:01.960 That took great balls. 0.99

00:23:03.000 People are going to say, oh, well, he just wimped out. 0.96

00:23:05.240 No, he didn't.

00:23:06.340 No, he didn't.

00:23:07.220 He couldn't prove it.

00:23:08.100 He couldn't prove it.

00:23:09.420 And so that is the hardest position, I think, to take.

00:23:13.740 Especially because I bet he has personal feelings one way or another towards the president.

00:23:19.500 Now, let's see if the media and those in Congress can say, you know what?

00:23:26.980 We were wrong about the president.

00:23:28.380 We said we said that he was lying, that he was colluding, that he was treasonous to listen

00:23:34.560 to Maxine Waters.

00:23:35.720 That's not how they're going to handle it.

00:23:37.840 So, well, we should dismiss anyone who can't handle it that way.

00:23:42.360 Yeah.

00:23:43.020 We should dismiss anybody who is still stirring this up because what we learned in the first

00:23:47.780 half of this investigation in the report that came out yesterday was they wanted to

00:23:53.800 stir up the Russians wanted to stir up animosity between the American people. 0.85

00:24:00.080 They've done it.

00:24:01.500 We now know the president was not involved, nor was anybody else.

00:24:05.460 No other American was involved in that.

00:24:07.860 Thank God.

00:24:08.600 No other American was involved in that and took that bait.

00:24:11.700 But we as the American people have taken the bait.

00:24:15.680 We now know what happened.

00:24:17.720 We now know the truth of what they were looking to do.

00:24:20.200 It is up to each of us now to say, I'm not a Russian operative.

00:24:25.160 I know what they're trying to do.

00:24:26.880 And I play that game.

00:24:27.680 I will not stir this up even more.

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00:24:56.680 All right, so the Mueller report came out on Friday.

00:25:00.200 People are starting to say, we've got to see the whole thing.

00:25:02.400 Well, you can't.

00:25:03.300 It's explained in the attorney general's letter.

00:25:06.700 We went over that last hour.

00:25:09.360 But anybody who is calling for that is being disingenuous, or at least hasn't done, hasn't even read the four-page report.

00:25:17.800 I mean, you can say you want it, right?

00:25:19.680 And you can say you want the maximum amount released that is legal.

00:25:23.860 Yes.

00:25:24.100 Right, that's an okay position.

00:25:25.200 It's the position that Barr took in the letter.

00:25:28.580 We want to make as much of this public as possible, but some of it is restricted by law.

00:25:33.580 We're bringing in the special counsel to determine what parts of this can be released.

00:25:37.940 And we'll release it as soon as we can, and we'll release what we can.

00:25:41.140 Totally a fair way of looking at this.

00:25:42.660 All these calls of, why won't they release it at this point, is ridiculous. 0.96

00:25:46.080 It's absolutely ridiculous. 0.89

00:25:47.780 All right, so let me give you the winners and the losers. 1.00

00:25:51.300 The loser, big loser, Democrats. 1.00

00:25:54.680 Second biggest loser, media. 1.00

00:25:56.800 And I only say that the Democrats are the biggest loser because the Democrats are not going to learn from this. 0.99

00:26:05.440 They are not going to turn and they're going to double down. 0.95

00:26:09.420 And it's going to make them look even more extreme. 0.99

00:26:12.640 It's going to make them look absolutely ridiculous. 0.98

00:26:15.620 Nobody wants to hear this anymore. 0.98

00:26:17.940 Nobody wants to hear it.

00:26:19.400 No, and you can understand their motivation.

00:26:21.680 If 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.

00:26:31.460 Right, 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. 0.98

00:26:36.620 So I went on the air, when I was at Fox, I went on the air and I said, President Obama is a liar.

00:26:44.140 Do 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. 1.00

00:26:58.340 And somebody shouted, liar! 0.95

00:27:00.100 Yeah, Joe Wilson, you lie. 0.99

00:27:01.880 Yeah, you lie.

00:27:03.180 And I went on the air and said, he's right.

00:27:06.980 He is lying.

00:27:08.020 He is lying. 0.55

00:27:08.820 And 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.

00:27:19.180 And he said, do not say that again.

00:27:22.800 And I said, what are you talking about?

00:27:25.960 He may misspeak.

00:27:27.720 He may have a different point of view. 0.97

00:27:31.240 But no American, I don't care what side you're on, wants to hear that their president is a liar.

00:27:39.140 Now, I happen to disagree with that.

00:27:41.540 I 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.

00:27:56.320 It was a Trojan horse to bring us to single payer health care, which is where we're what they're arguing about.

00:28:02.640 Now, we knew that because we had audio tape of him saying. 0.90

00:28:06.420 And so I continued to say he was a liar.

00:28:09.140 Now, did that help my case at all?

00:28:11.660 I don't think so in the long run.

00:28:13.560 I think I think Roger was right in the long run that people don't want to hear that.

00:28:18.720 And 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.

00:28:30.060 I can't even listen to you.

00:28:31.280 And so we draw sides.

00:28:33.580 That's a compelling case not to call the president a liar.

00:28:36.600 However, that doesn't reach to this level.

00:28:42.920 The 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.

00:28:56.200 Nobody wanted to hear that.

00:28:57.900 But that's what the press and the Democrats have been saying now for two years, two years.

00:29:03.560 Now, the evidence shows that's not true.

00:29:06.960 You can say whatever you want about the president.

00:29:09.260 You can say he exaggerates.

00:29:11.260 He does lie on this or that.

00:29:12.960 He does this or I think he's out of control on his tweets or whatever.

00:29:16.540 You can say all of that.

00:29:18.280 But this particular charge.

00:29:22.080 He's been exonerated.

00:29:23.840 He had nothing to do with Russian with the Russians trying to get information and to hack into our election.

00:29:32.140 He had nothing to do with it.

00:29:34.540 And it's now been proven by the special counsel.

00:29:38.540 Every single person on the left loved said was the archetypal guy, the perfect guy to have.

00:29:47.620 Well, he's just ruled.

00:29:49.580 Now, 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.

00:30:00.020 And quite honestly, I'm kind of thrilled about it.

00:30:02.560 I'm thrilled.

00:30:03.100 But the American people and good Democrats will not want to hear any more about him colluding because it's now been proven.

00:30:14.500 And 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.

00:30:21.860 And you realize the moment, the heat of the moment allows such odd decisions to be made.

00:30:28.820 For 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.

00:30:39.920 Now, 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.

00:30:50.880 So it's like neither of those was a good decision.

00:30:54.300 Right. 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.

00:31:05.340 Now, 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.

00:31:11.460 So they're going to go after Barr first.

00:31:13.140 But 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.

00:31:20.760 And I think the same thing can be said about the right.

00:31:22.980 I mean, yes, there's no reason to there was no reason, especially when obviously Donald Trump had exclusive information in this.

00:31:29.540 Right. He had information that no one else had, which is he didn't actually do it right.

00:31:33.360 Like he knew the whole time that he didn't do it.

00:31:35.340 So he knew the whole time that there was a really good chance that they were going to find nothing was going on.

00:31:40.720 So, 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.

00:31:51.300 We don't want to listen to him.

00:31:52.660 But, you know, like, well, I don't think that was ever true.

00:31:55.800 And 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.

00:32:09.540 And again, like you go back to Salem, they weren't like, oh, we couldn't find any witches today.

00:32:14.000 They always found witches.

00:32:15.380 A witch hunt indicates that you're finding people that are guilty of nothing.

00:32:18.720 So you don't need to create things.

00:32:20.360 So 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.

00:32:30.040 And Mueller was quiet.

00:32:31.880 But it was a witch hunt on the media side.

00:32:35.660 Yeah, I think that's totally true.

00:32:37.060 It was absolutely a witch hunt.

00:32:38.820 They would have taken absolutely anything.

00:32:41.720 And they got nothing.

00:32:42.780 Yeah.

00:32:43.000 And it wouldn't have mattered what they got.

00:32:45.100 They would have taken anything. 1.00

00:32:47.080 And that's why they are an incredible loser on this. 0.93

00:32:50.880 Instead of waiting for the facts, they wanted it to be true so badly that they put people like John Brennan on. 0.96

00:32:58.220 Former CIA, you want to talk about somebody who has no credibility?

00:33:01.100 He was on the air saying this guy is a traitor, that the president has committed treason against the United States.

00:33:09.240 And the media went with it.

00:33:11.580 The media should be asking today, John Brennan, where are you here?

00:33:16.420 What happened here?

00:33:18.740 They hyped and looked at everyone who could possibly say something bad about the president.

00:33:25.200 And they ridiculed anybody who said anything good.

00:33:28.460 Now, let me ask you, and I hope you can answer this easily.

00:33:35.620 We are on the air today saying the president was cleared.

00:33:41.040 Now, 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.

00:33:56.580 He's just a horse in a hospital.

00:34:00.080 That's what he is.

00:34:01.080 He's a horse in a hospital.

00:34:03.540 No one knows what the horse is going to do.

00:34:05.760 This is, what's his name, the comedian that did this whole thing on a horse in a hospital.

00:34:10.360 And it's so true.

00:34:11.500 We don't know what the horse is going to do because there's never been a horse in a hospital.

00:34:15.720 Okay?

00:34:15.920 So that, to me, that is a good enough explanation on why he was firing people, et cetera, et cetera.

00:34:23.060 And there was no crime, so what would he be covering up?

00:34:26.480 If they would have found that he was involved with the Russians, do you believe we would be on the air today saying, oh, that's not true.

00:34:39.740 Bob Mueller is wrong, and we've got to stop these people.

00:34:42.880 Or do you think we would be on the air saying, okay, that's an indictment.

00:34:48.300 Now it has to be proven in front of a court of law.

00:34:51.120 That's a bad thing for the president, but we don't know until we see all of the facts, and we can run it through.

00:35:00.360 But this will probably mean impeachment.

00:35:02.640 Do you think we would be saying that today?

00:35:06.080 Or do you think we would just be towing the line to support the president blindly?

00:35:12.000 Is this a listener quiz?

00:35:13.280 Yeah.

00:35:13.580 I hope you would say that we would be saying, looks like it's going to be impeachment, and let's wait for all of the facts to come out.

00:35:20.380 But this doesn't look good.

00:35:23.140 Do you have that from your media source today?

00:35:27.360 Ask yourself about every media source, left and right.

00:35:31.340 Are they behaving consistently?

00:35:36.220 Would they be saying the same thing if it had turned out the other way?

00:35:41.920 And what are they saying today?

00:35:44.460 Ask that about your candidates.

00:35:50.380 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:36:04.000 With the Blaze TV is Eric Bolling, and Eric is up in Washington, friends with the president.

00:36:09.780 How are things in Washington today, Eric?

00:36:11.660 What's the feeling at the White House?

00:36:14.260 I 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.

00:36:31.200 They really were kind of holding back a little bit and just watching the events unfold on TV and in the media.

00:36:40.480 And I found it very interesting that they didn't jump immediately.

00:36:44.380 They spent a couple of days trying to figure out the reaction.

00:36:46.580 Maybe they were waiting for A.G. Barr's assessment of what was going on.

00:36:51.140 But, you know, there was an anxiety.

00:36:53.720 They're ready to go, and they're ready to basically tell the world this has been what we've been saying for the better part of two years.

00:36:59.460 And finally they're vindicated.

00:37:01.000 They feel good.

00:37:01.880 They're very confident.

00:37:02.860 They feel very, very good.

00:37:04.180 This is a win for the president.

00:37:05.960 This is a win for the administration.

00:37:07.820 This will be the 2020, you know, motto.

00:37:13.720 You know, they try.

00:37:15.220 They try.

00:37:15.460 You know what, Glenn, I tweeted this morning.

00:37:18.460 I tweeted, and, you know, I held off, too, the whole weekend also.

00:37:22.680 I tweeted this morning.

00:37:23.660 It's my first tweet since Friday.

00:37:25.460 And it was this.

00:37:26.100 It was since the New York Times and the Washington Post each received a Pulitzer Prize for their reportage on Trump and Russian collusion.

00:37:35.140 And now we know that was all fake news.

00:37:37.080 Do I get nominated as a potential Pulitzer Prize winner for taking the other side of that argument for the last two years?

00:37:46.420 And so I just find it very, very interesting.

00:37:48.380 I watch a lot of cable, and the breathless change in the tone.

00:37:53.900 Like, all of a sudden, Mueller, who was the best investigator the world had ever seen, is now, well, he left a lot of holes.

00:37:59.580 He left a lot of opportunity.

00:38:00.720 He left a lot of opportunity for states to pick up where he left off.

00:38:05.240 Well, we've seen this.

00:38:06.660 This is really nothing new, is it, Eric?

00:38:09.400 I mean, this is what they did with Covington.

00:38:11.980 They said, look at this kid.

00:38:13.540 Look at this kid.

00:38:14.200 Look what's happening.

00:38:14.980 And then when that turned out not to be true, they said, well, those kids are guilty of something.

00:38:20.340 I mean, look at these old pictures from 20 years ago that don't have anything to do with these kids.

00:38:25.980 I mean, they will go, and they'll give it a day where they say, okay, all right, well, it must have been wrong.

00:38:32.780 And then the less-reasoned heads will gather around, and they'll say, yeah, but he's guilty of something else.

00:38:41.240 Well, yeah, and there's no evidence of that whatsoever.

00:38:46.220 They're just grasping.

00:38:47.100 I 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?

00:38:57.960 When, 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.

00:39:13.860 And now they're saying, well, you know.

00:39:16.220 Well, they've trained their audience like a Pavlov dog.

00:39:21.460 They've trained their audience.

00:39:22.680 You come here, and we're going to feed you this food.

00:39:24.680 And now that there is no food left in the bowl, they don't know what to feed their audience because their audience is used to this.

00:39:33.600 They're trying to feed them that, oh, it's not over.

00:39:37.600 It's not a Trump win, but it is.

00:39:39.860 I mean, at least some of the – Washington Post, for example, said no collusion on their headline.

00:39:45.140 Finally, they're going to be honest with their readers and say, look, we wasted our time for two years.

00:39:51.860 I'll never forget.

00:39:52.680 I was on Fox the day they announced that they were going to go ahead and hire Mueller to come on.

00:39:59.880 I said, this is going to be a massive waste of time and money, and here we are two years later.

00:40:04.500 Yeah.

00:40:04.860 Eric Bolling, thank you so much.

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00:40:33.920 There is one thing that we can do that will make or break us.

00:40:39.080 I 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. 0.92

00:40:57.000 It 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.

00:41:09.340 And the country doesn't seem to really react like, oh my gosh, that's a killer, is beyond me.

00:41:19.080 And 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.

00:41:28.720 I think this is our last call.

00:41:30.220 The good news is I was watching a film recently.

00:41:35.020 It was screened in advance for me, and I went into it with much trepidation because I know the person who the story is about.

00:41:42.240 And I thought, please don't wreck this story.

00:41:44.800 Please don't wreck this story.

00:41:45.820 It was something that's really preachy and just only Bible people will watch. 0.98

00:41:50.020 Please don't wreck this story.

00:41:51.960 And they didn't.

00:41:53.360 It is called Unplanned.

00:41:55.100 It opens this weekend.

00:41:57.000 Quickly, 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.

00:42:09.180 I'm going to do premiere opening screenings of this movie in Utah.

00:42:15.440 It is rated R, but as you'll find out, there's no reason for it to be rated R except for political reasons.

00:42:22.380 Jordan Commons and Thanksgiving Point.

00:42:24.720 That is this Friday.

00:42:26.160 You can go to megaplextheaters.com.

00:42:28.380 I don't think they have them up for sale yet, but I'm told by noon Pacific they'll be up.

00:42:35.160 But that is this Friday.

00:42:36.540 Please come and see this movie and join me.

00:42:40.440 Joining me now is the woman who I know, who I thought, oh, please don't wreck this movie.

00:42:46.960 It's Abby Johnson.

00:42:48.180 She 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.

00:42:57.960 And Ashley Bratcher, she is the one who could have ruined this movie and didn't.

00:43:06.360 Thank you.

00:43:07.280 You're welcome.

00:43:08.320 You're welcome.

00:43:09.820 She plays Abby in the movie, so we're thrilled to have both of you guys here.

00:43:14.560 First of all, Abby, you're, I think, about to change the world.

00:43:23.720 Oh, well, that's kind.

00:43:26.540 I don't know.

00:43:27.800 I, you know, I've, people have said, oh my gosh, well, you know, what has this been like?

00:43:33.900 And I don't know.

00:43:37.300 It's, it's very, um, it feels very vulnerable to have this out.

00:43:44.260 You know, it's one thing to write your story.

00:43:48.900 It's something else to see it, see it and, and have it visually out there for everybody.

00:43:56.400 And you're 25 feet tall.

00:43:58.720 Yes.

00:43:59.740 Yeah.

00:44:00.460 Yeah.

00:44:00.840 Um, but it's, you know, I, I tell people all the time, I didn't, I didn't sign up to do this

00:44:06.980 film so that, you know, Abby Johnson would be a household name. 1.00

00:44:10.820 I really did it so that people would see that God's redemption and his mercy is something that

00:44:19.640 should be talked about in every home and, and to make it in a way that it's not cheesy and it's not the same fear.

00:44:27.800 Oh, for sure.

00:44:28.780 Yeah.

00:44:28.980 When I, when I first got the email and I, and, uh, I found out who these guys were and they said, you know,

00:44:35.760 Oh, we, you know, and I found out they were the directors of God's not dead.

00:44:38.900 I thought, well, I'm being real honest.

00:44:45.520 That's exactly what I thought.

00:44:47.200 Okay.

00:44:47.640 Well, I was like, well, I don't know.

00:44:51.800 Like I, my story is not like a God's not dead sort of story.

00:44:56.500 You know, I think it's the opposite.

00:44:58.320 I think what, what makes this story so powerful is for people who don't know who you are, you had an abortion.

00:45:05.960 Two.

00:45:06.580 You had two abortions.

00:45:08.100 You then ran, you joined working at a Planned Parenthood as a, uh, a volunteer.

00:45:14.620 Then you ran the clinic for Planned Parenthood.

00:45:17.680 You became their employee of the year nationally.

00:45:21.640 Yeah.

00:45:22.640 Um, 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.

00:45:30.860 So, you are not one to point the finger.

00:45:35.340 You'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.

00:45:49.420 You're not going to appeal to anybody with that.

00:45:52.820 You're just not.

00:45:54.280 And 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.

00:46:06.260 Right.

00:46:07.360 Your whole message is one of love the mothers.

00:46:10.800 Yeah, I can't point fingers.

00:46:13.320 I mean, I, that's what I tell people all the time.

00:46:15.860 I, I've had two abortions.

00:46:18.080 I have overseen over 22,000 abortions.

00:46:21.760 I'm not one that can condemn or point the finger at anybody.

00:46:25.520 I mean, I've, I've done it.

00:46:27.900 Um, 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.

00:46:37.060 And those aggressive people were not on the sidewalk, let's say they weren't there.

00:46:44.920 And it was just people peacefully praying on the sidewalk.

00:46:50.340 I wonder if I would have come back or not. 0.80

00:46:53.060 I 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.

00:47:07.280 I don't want to have anything to do with that.

00:47:09.880 That's not who I am.

00:47:11.540 And so this film though, really shows.

00:47:14.500 Hang on.

00:47:15.140 It 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.

00:47:30.600 Well, 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.

00:47:43.220 And you never want the abortion facility to be seen as a safe haven.

00:47:49.460 Those are the people that are going to take your child's life.

00:47:53.080 They're not your savior.

00:47:54.780 But when you're out there acting like maniacs, that's the perception.

00:48:01.140 That's what happens to the one. 0.84

00:48:02.460 And I mean, in no, on no planet anywhere.

00:48:06.460 Would I, as a woman who has had a crisis pregnancy, be like, that guy in the Grim Reaper suit, he seems really approachable to me.

00:48:18.680 Some good points over there.

00:48:20.320 Yeah.

00:48:21.480 You know. 0.98

00:48:22.320 That guy telling me I'm going to hell. 0.97

00:48:24.200 Right. 0.84

00:48:24.380 I want to talk to him.

00:48:26.640 And that sickle is kind of hot.

00:48:29.560 That and the robes.

00:48:31.020 Yeah.

00:48:33.360 So let me, let me, let me switch over to Ashley here for a second. 1.00

00:48:38.000 Did you know her story before you got the phone call?

00:48:41.580 No, I had no idea who Abby was.

00:48:44.100 Well, I knew when they had offered me the role who she was, but when I auditioned, I knew nothing about her.

00:48:49.180 I blew off the audition.

00:48:50.200 Uh, 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. 0.98

00:48:56.340 I was like, this lady's insane, insane. 1.00

00:48:59.180 And 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.

00:49:06.320 Will you please let the producers send you a script?

00:49:09.300 And I was like, okay, why not?

00:49:11.160 And so like Abby, I was kind of curious, who are these guys making this movie?

00:49:15.760 I thought it was going to be another cheesy Christian movie. 1.00

00:49:18.600 I had no idea who it was.

00:49:20.500 And I read a couple of pages and, um, Abby was working at Planned Parenthood and the script that I got.

00:49:25.880 And I thought she was a pistol. 1.00

00:49:27.780 I was like, wow, she's really fun.

00:49:30.020 Um, I kind of want to get to know who this lady is. 1.00

00:49:32.600 And I looked her up online and I watched one of her videos and I was floored.

00:49:39.260 And I knew immediately after hearing her testimony, my heart was broken.

00:49:43.400 I had been blinded.

00:49:44.760 And I just remember crying and telling my husband that I had to be a part of telling this story to the world.

00:49:49.460 And you didn't get the job until the day before the filming?

00:49:56.520 I got a phone call that said, hey, Ashley, the role is yours.

00:50:00.820 Can you get on a plane in five hours?

00:50:03.300 And without hesitation, because I had really committed to praying over it and I was so moved by the story.

00:50:09.780 I said, yes, I just got on the plane, hit the ground running in Oklahoma.

00:50:13.580 And we had four days of pre-production to get ready to film.

00:50:18.080 And I, as you know.

00:50:18.940 And to memorize the script.

00:50:20.060 Yeah, that's what I was just going to say.

00:50:20.920 And the script is over 100 pages.

00:50:22.520 I'm in 99% of the movie.

00:50:24.840 And 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.

00:50:34.500 It was a nonstop learning effort.

00:50:37.620 In four days.

00:50:38.980 In four days.

00:50:39.960 And then it just continued on from there.

00:50:41.620 I mean, every single day there was, I just took it step by step, scene by scene.

00:50:45.740 And I was learning as I went.

00:50:47.720 How many days were you in production?

00:50:49.840 I think there were 32 on the call sheet, but, you know, we didn't work on Saturdays and Sundays.

00:50:56.940 Remarkable that that happened.

00:50:59.060 How nervous were you, Abby, that somebody is playing you?

00:51:02.960 I can't even imagine what that would be like.

00:51:05.240 Well, I was actually more nervous that they didn't have somebody to play me because everybody else had been cast except for me.

00:51:12.360 And I was like, okay.

00:51:15.500 It's kind of important.

00:51:17.520 I'm not an actress.

00:51:19.380 It's like a John Wayne movie without John Wayne.

00:51:22.600 I was like, I can't step in and play myself.

00:51:25.820 So we need to find somebody.

00:51:28.380 And they had offered the role.

00:51:30.540 They had talked to two gals previously about it. 0.98

00:51:34.160 And they were just very honest.

00:51:36.460 The directors were very honest with them and had said, you know, you may never work in Hollywood if you take this role.

00:51:45.160 I mean, this could be a career killer for you.

00:51:47.400 They were both young, younger.

00:51:51.260 And they were just like, I'm just not ready.

00:51:56.240 And that's fine, you know, but they wanted them to know ahead of time.

00:51:59.300 So, and then they called me or text me or something and they said, okay, we have found, we found the girl to play you.

00:52:12.920 So we're going to offer her the job. 0.58

00:52:15.620 Please be praying that she takes it.

00:52:17.660 And I thought, I've been praying.

00:52:19.820 Please be praying.

00:52:20.620 I've been praying.

00:52:21.460 Like, I'm really praying I don't have to go to Oklahoma for eight weeks.

00:52:24.720 So, 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.

00:52:44.600 And I was like, thanks Abby.

00:52:49.420 So I was about the film or her.

00:52:51.760 Cause she's, I, I think, Ashley, you're really, you're really good in this.

00:52:56.780 It was, Stu and I looked at each other before it started.

00:53:00.480 And after the first scene, we looked back at each other like, okay, all right.

00:53:04.740 All right.

00:53:05.020 All right.

00:53:05.480 This will be good.

00:53:06.260 Yeah.

00:53:06.780 We're not, I'm not holding onto the seat as much as I thought I would.

00:53:10.340 In fact, I wasn't holding on by within 10 minutes.

00:53:12.900 I mean, you're really good.

00:53:14.280 Thank you.

00:53:14.780 You're really good.

00:53:15.260 Well, to be fair, I've grown as an actress.

00:53:18.060 No, I wasn't, it wasn't, it was just a, it was just not a good film.

00:53:21.760 And I was like, oh, I hope this isn't representative of like what this film is going to be like.

00:53:27.900 I mean, really.

00:53:28.780 So you had actor and then the God's not dead thing.

00:53:32.740 You went, you went in positive.

00:53:34.740 You went in positive.

00:53:36.280 Okay.

00:53:36.680 We're coming in hot here.

00:53:38.140 Like we're going to, but we did like each other when we talked on the phone the first time.

00:53:41.880 Yeah.

00:53:42.240 We got along immediately.

00:53:43.440 And, and so I thought once I talked to her, I was like, okay, like, I don't think she's going

00:53:47.640 to cheese it up.

00:53:48.540 Like, I think she's going to do a good job, but I mean, it is nerve wracking because I

00:53:53.580 don't want somebody that's not going to represent me and my story.

00:53:58.200 Well, you know, okay.

00:54:00.600 So I got to take a break and then we come back.

00:54:02.200 I want to, I want to see how you felt, you know, as you were making it and as you were

00:54:08.200 talking to her.

00:54:08.820 And then with the final outcome, you know, I, I would have lost, I would have lost 10

00:54:13.860 pounds of sweat going into the movie theater.

00:54:17.560 You know, Abby, uh, Glenn said he couldn't imagine someone portraying him on screen.

00:54:22.440 However, he has been portrayed by both Homer Simpson and Eric Cartman.

00:54:26.120 Well, uh, so I have been, and I thought they were pretty darn good.

00:54:31.480 They were pretty good.

00:54:33.760 So that's great.

00:54:35.020 Thank you for reminding me of that.

00:54:36.600 I got to rewatch those now.

00:54:38.260 I know I do.

00:54:39.120 I forgot about the Eric Cartman.

00:54:40.800 Yeah.

00:54:41.300 And you put me in, you put me in a parka and it's pretty much Eric Cartman.

00:54:45.020 It's pretty, it's pretty much it.

00:54:46.940 Uh, all right.

00:54:48.580 So, uh, uh, so Ashley, tell me about, uh, tell me about the experience of actually filming

00:54:57.020 it and getting into it and, and doing it.

00:55:01.220 It was the most incredible and challenging experience I've ever had as an actor because

00:55:06.120 telling Abby's story, there's a tremendous responsibility to tell it accurately and honestly

00:55:11.700 and to make sure that she's proud of me.

00:55:13.880 Uh, and I wanted to make sure that I understood everything that she went through coming from

00:55:18.920 the pro-life side.

00:55:19.740 It was easier for me to understand, but being able to work on the pro-choice side of it up

00:55:25.820 front and see some of the things that she saw and take part of the POC room, the pieces

00:55:32.140 of children room and being able to do that scene.

00:55:34.820 I had to walk out several times before I could get through that scene and I had to call her

00:55:39.200 and say, okay, like, how, how did you think of this?

00:55:41.580 How can I get through this?

00:55:42.720 And, and so I'd like to ask that of Abby, first of all, everything in the movie is accurate.

00:55:49.740 What was said by the Planned Parenthood people?

00:55:53.520 I mean, anything of importance, they didn't come take the sign down at the end, but, um,

00:55:57.620 they did.

00:55:59.100 Well, okay.

00:56:00.240 Yes, but not Mike Lindell.

00:56:01.780 Not Mike Lindell.

00:56:02.960 But the sign did come down.

00:56:04.180 Okay.

00:56:04.200 All right.

00:56:04.820 So, um, uh, when you're, is it POC?

00:56:10.600 Is that really what it stands for in Planned Parenthood?

00:56:13.780 Well, I mean, it stands for products of conception, but we said parts of children or pieces of

00:56:18.720 children.

00:56:19.560 As a joke almost.

00:56:21.340 As a joke, yeah.

00:56:22.780 Uh, so it shows in the movie that you go in and usually I would imagine that they take

00:56:28.320 people in and they don't start with the feet and the hands and, and everything because

00:56:33.980 it's disturbing.

00:56:35.160 Uh, but the first time you were in the POC room, that's, that's what they showed you

00:56:42.740 and you didn't seem to have a problem with it.

00:56:45.500 And I've got to take a break now.

00:56:47.320 So when I come back, I want you to talk about that experience and why that wasn't a turning

00:56:55.220 point for you at all.

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The Glenn Beck Program - March 25, 2019

Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Eric Bolling, Abby Johnson & Ashley Bratcher ｜ 3⧸25⧸19

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