The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Erielle Davidson, Bill O'Reilly & Peter Schweizer ｜ 10⧸11⧸19

00:00:00.000 Man, this is a whirlwind show today. We have Ariel Davidson on. She's going to spend a few minutes talking about what's happening with Trump and Turkey.

00:00:08.540 It's a whole different look at things. We're just going to go through the insanity of the CNN debate last night.

00:00:16.360 Also, O'Reilly. We talk impeachment, Turkey, Syria, town hall on trans-gendered people. 0.56

00:00:24.200 What the president, he says the president is changing and he thinks that it is dangerous for the president.

00:00:32.480 I happen to agree with him. I've seen it. When you hear him talk about it, you'll understand.

00:00:36.360 And Peter Schweitzer is here to tell us all about the actual story behind Joe Biden and his son.

00:00:43.280 It seems like that isn't such an open and shut case. You'll hear about it all on today's podcast.

00:00:54.200 All right. I just want to go through some audio here because this is crazy what has been going on.

00:01:13.600 Let's first of all, let's start with the impeachment. Here's Mike Pompeo.

00:01:17.200 He hits back on a PBS host who says there's no proof of Biden wrongdoing.

00:01:25.220 I just finally, you know that there's been no proof of any misdoing on the part of Vice President Biden.

00:01:31.480 You all keep repeating that line as if you're working for the DNC.

00:01:34.540 I'm definitely not working for the DNC. I'm an independent journalist.

00:01:38.340 But the European Union, the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, the International Monetary Fund and other international organizations felt that that prosecutor was corrupt and thought he should be removed.

00:01:51.820 There's no evidence that what Vice President Biden was doing was corrupt in some way.

00:01:58.280 By the way, it's now the prosecutor that they all cheered for.

00:02:04.160 They all cheered for Lusanko to come in and replace Shokin. 0.85

00:02:09.160 He was the savior. This is the guy who's going to.

00:02:11.320 No, this is the guy you get 1.8 million billion dollars if you go ahead and replace Shokin with Lusanko.

00:02:17.280 It's Lusanko who's saying he's dirty and we need to investigate.

00:02:21.220 It's crazy. Yeah, I mean crazy. And by the way, the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, the U.S. Embassy, the ambassador is dirty. 0.95

00:02:33.400 She was just fired. And when you if you just watch. 1.00

00:02:36.560 Look, sweetheart, I know you're a PBS. You've been there since the I think you were there before they even had radio.

00:02:43.760 And I appreciate all the hard work that you've done. But listen, sweetie, just watch.

00:02:49.920 Is that too demeaning? It does seem like you're being a tad demeaning.

00:02:53.580 Yeah, that's unfortunate. I certainly.

00:02:57.440 Certainly would be disappointed if they would take it that way.

00:03:00.520 Just watch the chalkboard because the evidence is all there.

00:03:06.240 It's all there. OK, let me go to.

00:03:08.980 Let me go to. Let's see.

00:03:13.920 Let's try CNN's Avalon crudely.

00:03:19.100 I'd love to see any philosophical consistency in Congress rather than pure situational ethics.

00:03:23.940 But, you know, the problem is that he didn't need to shout it and be it.

00:03:30.280 We don't expect it because everyone's sort of knee deep in hypocrisy on this stuff.

00:03:33.660 The problem is it is the Constitution at stake.

00:03:35.300 This isn't a Benghazi type hearing. This is really serious stuff.

00:03:38.980 Yeah, I mean, Benghazi, what was the big deal there?

00:03:41.320 A couple of people died. You know, no big deal.

00:03:43.240 No big deal. No big deal. Don't worry about that.

00:03:46.520 Look, it's a fascinating thing.

00:03:47.640 You turn on cable news for one night and what you see is such a bizarre painting of what America supposedly is.

00:03:56.480 So can I tell you something? This is what happened in Germany.

00:03:59.180 There were two newspapers, two main news sources in Germany.

00:04:02.920 And in the 1920s, they were fined.

00:04:05.700 By the end of the 1920s, you could not tell that you were living in the same country.

00:04:10.500 They would have the same news reports, but one would say it happened this way and the other one would say it happened that way.

00:04:17.340 And there was nothing that would tell you that it was the same incident.

00:04:22.320 And people chose sides. Which newspaper do I go?

00:04:26.600 That's where we are.

00:04:27.260 Yeah. And they didn't listen to the other side.

00:04:29.720 And they just got hard and fast.

00:04:33.160 And that's what led to national socialism.

00:04:37.280 Let me go to the reporter getting cut off by asking the NBA players about China.

00:04:45.140 Incredible. Incredible.

00:04:46.420 The lady in the second row. 1.00

00:04:48.120 Thank you. Hi, Christina McFarlane, CNN.

00:04:51.000 The NBA has always been a league that prides itself on its player and its coaches being able to speak out openly about political and societal affairs.

00:04:58.960 I just wonder after the events of this week and the fallout we've seen, whether you would both feel differently about speaking out in that way in future.

00:05:08.260 Excuse me, we'll take the basketball questions only.

00:05:11.040 It's a legitimate question.

00:05:12.260 This is an event that's happened this week during the NBA.

00:05:15.340 This particular question has not been answered.

00:05:20.840 James.

00:05:23.160 That's a very well-crafted question.

00:05:26.400 Good for CNN.

00:05:27.640 Good job.

00:05:27.900 They're asking, so are you going to speak out about social justice stuff now?

00:05:31.380 I mean, how are you going to do it?

00:05:33.220 How are you going to do it?

00:05:33.920 Yeah, because they love doing that.

00:05:35.720 They love doing that.

00:05:36.840 But when it comes down to the social justice of all these people they supposedly care so much about in China, all these fans that they're so worried about, as their entire society is turning into an episode of Black Mirror, they don't seem to be worried about it at all.

00:05:51.280 Right.

00:05:51.700 So here's the thing.

00:05:52.960 The NBA, Nike, all of that stuff is coming undone.

00:05:56.740 And I want you to listen to this real quick because I think the next thing we're going to is the same, just a completely different topic.

00:06:03.600 The NBA was one of the first real cash machines in China.

00:06:11.820 They were there very, very early.

00:06:13.800 In fact, China started to fall in love with basketball back in around 1900.

00:06:18.600 The YMCA missionaries would come over and they would play.

00:06:22.940 And you could play it indoors and it was physical and it was fast and they loved it.

00:06:28.140 And so the Chinese people started to embrace basketball right around the same time that we did.

00:06:32.980 And it was brought over by American missionaries.

00:06:35.260 Then Mao took over.

00:06:37.240 Well, Mao banned everything that was Western.

00:06:41.140 And so people stopped playing basketball.

00:06:43.620 But what he didn't know is a lot of the generals in the communist military were were basketball fans.

00:06:51.520 They loved basketball.

00:06:53.180 And so they would play secret basketball games with the communist generals.

00:06:58.160 And they were playing basketball all the way through.

00:07:01.260 So when Mao died and China opened up and Nixon came down, the Chinese generals were all there going, we love basketball.

00:07:11.100 We love basketball.

00:07:12.160 And basketball was brought back in to China.

00:07:15.740 And it was brought in by the communists because they loved it so much.

00:07:20.160 What was his name?

00:07:20.720 David Stern, he was the commissioner of.

00:07:24.420 And why do I know him?

00:07:25.600 There was some scandal with him, wasn't there?

00:07:28.040 No, not really.

00:07:30.360 There's no reason for me to know him and I know him.

00:07:32.900 You know him because a friend of yours is friends with him.

00:07:38.300 That's how you know him.

00:07:39.160 You don't know David Stern, but you have a couple of separations from him.

00:07:45.440 So anyway, so David went in the 1980s and he went to China and he saw their love for basketball and he said, you know what?

00:07:56.260 Why don't you guys play highlight clips?

00:07:58.140 And he actually would mail the highlight clips to China once a week and they would play it on state television after the censors made sure they cut out everything that might be, you know, bad.

00:08:08.460 So they they loved it.

00:08:11.300 It became very popular.

00:08:13.080 And so then I think about 1990, they started in on live feeds.

00:08:19.940 Why don't we just give you the basketball games and you can watch them and run them on state TV.

00:08:26.180 Now, this is still in a time when we only had three channels.

00:08:29.100 So they're watching now basketball on the communist television network.

00:08:34.000 So the Chinese loved it.

00:08:36.860 This is in the era of of Larry Bird and Michael Jordan.

00:08:42.040 And that's as deep as I can go.

00:08:44.720 Magic Johnson.

00:08:45.160 You're going to get there.

00:08:45.720 Magic Johnson.

00:08:46.580 Yep.

00:08:47.040 OK, so so this is a really popular thing in China.

00:08:50.960 It starts to explode.

00:08:52.640 Michael Jordan plays a really big role because, you know, Michael Jordan could fly air Jordans Nike.

00:08:59.740 So now the NBA and Nike are in early on this Chinese market and it's exploding for them.

00:09:09.040 Nike is making a ton of money way before anybody else.

00:09:14.500 NBA making a ton of money way before anybody else.

00:09:18.320 So they start to the NBA says we've got to have our own league there.

00:09:22.840 They start their own league.

00:09:24.680 It was worth two billion dollars.

00:09:26.860 Today it's worth four billion dollars.

00:09:29.520 But the clincher is who's the big Chinese guy from the Rockets? 0.70

00:09:34.480 Yao Ming.

00:09:35.480 That's where it really goes.

00:09:37.100 Uh, and just explodes in China.

00:09:41.280 Now people are watching streaming basketball games from the NBA through the NBA of China

00:09:48.300 on their phones at work every day.

00:09:50.660 They're watching American basketball games that are being played at night here.

00:09:54.680 OK, so it's gigantic.

00:09:57.380 Nike loves this.

00:09:58.440 The NBA loves this.

00:09:59.680 Both of these have been all into social justice, but both of these companies have been lying to themselves.

00:10:07.420 They've been saying, you know, as long as I avoid the three T's, Taiwan, Tibet and Tiananmen Square.

00:10:15.320 You don't talk about those things and you're fine.

00:10:19.320 And they've let they know what monsters they're in bed with.

00:10:23.780 But they've just been saying we're just going to avoid those three things.

00:10:28.140 Well, now it's a little more complicated because they have concentration camps.

00:10:33.160 That's a C word, not a T word.

00:10:35.480 And they're they're taking people's rights away.

00:10:38.140 That's an R word, not a C word.

00:10:40.300 In Hong Kong, they're also now, as Stu said, black mirroring their their entire population. 0.98

00:10:48.540 It's not 1982 anymore.

00:10:51.720 Now, is it this is coming undone because the American people are seeing this and they're like, I don't like this.

00:10:58.900 I don't like China with with I don't mind the Chinese people. 1.00

00:11:02.520 I like China itself, but I don't like the Chinese communist government.

00:11:07.140 Look what they're doing.

00:11:08.140 And as they get worse and worse and worse, Nike, and I am so happy to say this.

00:11:15.020 But Nike is going to lose in the end.

00:11:19.140 And so will the NBA.

00:11:20.680 Those companies need to wake up and they need to answer that question.

00:11:24.800 I can't believe I'm saying this from that CNN reporter.

00:11:29.300 What are you going to do now?

00:11:30.520 You're still talk about human rights.

00:11:32.300 He's still going to talk about oppression.

00:11:34.040 Are you still going to talk about social justice?

00:11:36.480 Nike with Kaepernick is still going to do that.

00:11:39.540 Really?

00:11:39.980 You care about oppression that happened 150 years ago, but you don't care about the oppression that's happening today.

00:11:48.220 This is coming undone.

00:11:52.280 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:11:54.180 Hey, it's Glenn, and you're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

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00:12:12.220 We have Ariel Davidson on with us.

00:12:15.260 She's a staff writer at The Federalist, and she wrote a great article on what Trump is doing with Turkey.

00:12:21.980 Trump gave Turkey a choice on Syria, cooperate or risk catastrophe.

00:12:27.380 And this is what he keeps saying, but she's really laid this out well, and I wanted her on to explain it.

00:12:33.520 Ariel, welcome to the program.

00:12:35.780 Thanks for having me, Glenn.

00:12:37.000 I'm happy to be here.

00:12:37.840 You bet.

00:12:38.480 So tell me, just go through this story for the audience.

00:12:43.700 Sure.

00:12:44.100 Well, when I initially heard that Trump was pulling troops out of northern Syria, and I saw sort of the media have a collective meltdown, my initial reaction was, there's more to this story than we are hearing.

00:12:56.880 And I think that's why this piece has resonated with people, because they sort of went through a very similar thought process.

00:13:03.020 Essentially, what happened in Syria, in order to understand what Donald Trump's moves are, you have to understand kind of why we got to the place we are.

00:13:12.680 And the reason we're in the situation we are in is because back in 2010, when Obama was calling, or back in the mid-2010s, when Obama was calling ISIS the JV squad, and he realized that ISIS was a much bigger threat than he anticipated, he had to choose allies in the Middle East in order to combat ISIS.

00:13:32.160 And he chose to align the United States with the YPG, which was basically a group of pro-Assad Syrian Kurdish forces.

00:13:42.280 Now, the issue with that alliance is that those particular groups of Kurds were seen basically as a terrorist organization by the Turks.

00:13:50.140 Yeah, if you remember, the GOP got involved in this as well.

00:13:53.380 You know, John McCain was seen with these terrorists, and we're like, what are we doing?

00:13:57.960 We're in bed with really bad people.

00:14:00.800 Right, exactly.

00:14:01.960 And so he essentially, Obama chose those people because at the time, he was trying to not rock the boat with the Iran deal.

00:14:10.040 So he had to align the United States with pro-Assad, Iran-Cozy people. 1.00

00:14:14.700 And that's why he settled on the Syrian Kurds. 0.78

00:14:17.200 Now, I don't want to denigrate all the effort and the valiant fighting that the Syrian Kurds have done alongside American troops.

00:14:24.120 And that's a really important factor here.

00:14:26.360 But we also have to remember that when we choose our allies, we're not necessarily choosing people that everyone is going to like.

00:14:32.920 And for the Turks, that could not be more true.

00:14:35.760 And so essentially, we posted up these groups of what the Turks would regard as terrorists along the Syrian-Turkish border.

00:14:42.620 This was an unsustainable situation.

00:14:44.400 There was no way that in the long term, President Erdogan of Turkey would be okay with this situation.

00:14:52.640 Whatever, regardless of what your feelings are on the Kurds are, that's the perspective that Turkey had.

00:14:57.980 And so that's the situation when Donald Trump entered office, that was the situation that he entered upon.

00:15:03.800 And he essentially gave Turkey two choices.

00:15:06.300 He said, look, we will cooperate with you.

00:15:09.240 We know it's an uncomfortable situation.

00:15:11.460 We can share intelligence with you and maintain the defeat of ISIS.

00:15:15.660 Or if you're that disgruntled, we will just let you be.

00:15:20.280 And sort of whatever, wherever the chips may fall, they fall.

00:15:23.040 So if you decide to invade Syria, that's on you. 0.95

00:15:25.460 So if you want to face international condemnation, have sanctions slapped on you, that's on you.

00:15:31.020 We're not going to support that.

00:15:32.820 We will probably be part of the force that is slapping sanctions on you.

00:15:37.040 But we're giving you these two choices.

00:15:39.620 Choose wisely.

00:15:41.040 And Erdogan made his choice.

00:15:42.900 And so that's what we're seeing unfolding right now.

00:15:45.180 Donald Trump has actually been engaging in a very lengthy diplomatic process to arrive at this unfortunate conclusion.

00:15:55.540 But there were no good options here, Glenn.

00:15:57.800 Yeah, I agree with you, Ariel.

00:15:59.460 And I don't like being in bed with him in the first place.

00:16:01.780 What gives me pause on this is when you first hear about it, you're like, wait a minute.

00:16:08.220 These were people that we had said are our partners.

00:16:12.700 Well, yes, but I've I've come to look at it in the last couple of days in the same way that the Soviet Union was our partner against Hitler.

00:16:22.080 That didn't mean we like them.

00:16:24.640 It means we needed to defeat Hitler just like we needed to defeat ISIS. 0.94

00:16:29.720 And we got into bed with some really nasty people.

00:16:33.980 But we're not going to stand around.

00:16:36.720 I mean, you know, Truman comes in and he reverses that as soon as the war is over.

00:16:41.580 The Soviet Union is our enemy. 0.94

00:16:43.540 So did we betray them or did we just correctly identify them after the crisis was over?

00:16:52.460 Sure.

00:16:53.100 I mean, I think that's a really apt analogy.

00:16:54.920 But I'm sort of in I'm in the camp of leaving a minimal amount of troops as sort of a deterrent boots on the ground.

00:17:02.140 You know, I don't I think this idea that we can stay there indefinitely and have massive amount of troops there is just not it's illogical.

00:17:09.300 Well, Ariel, may I take that?

00:17:11.900 May I push that back just a bit and see how you respond on this?

00:17:15.760 We didn't bring those troops home.

00:17:17.880 They just went over to Iraq.

00:17:19.220 So it's not like it's not like these guys were like, hey, job well done.

00:17:22.980 Come home.

00:17:23.480 They just went to Iraq.

00:17:25.400 Right.

00:17:26.000 Or or other places in Syria.

00:17:28.800 Sure.

00:17:29.460 But my I'm saying that it's OK to leave a small number of troops in northern Syria in order to act as a deterrent in order to show also that we don't abandon our allies completely.

00:17:40.760 So this is this is again the quagmire that we are in is that we've allied ourselves, like you said, with some not so great actors.

00:17:49.320 But at the same time, we also send a message in the Middle East that we're not good on our word.

00:17:53.380 And I think there is a happy medium between the two.

00:17:56.840 This is something that Ted Cruz, Senator Ted Cruz, tried to hit upon on one of his tweets a couple of days ago where he talked about how balancing our international image is also really important.

00:18:09.520 But bringing the troops home is important as well.

00:18:11.800 And so I think, you know, we do need to recognize that when we enter into alliances, for better or for worse, I mean, these people did lose thousands of lives fighting next to us and joining a war that we told the entire international community was necessary to fight for our national security interests.

00:18:27.320 Did we did something that's worth thinking about?

00:18:31.220 But again, you know, what I wanted to highlight in the piece was that the media treating this as a situation where Trump went rogue or lost his mind is just completely untrue.

00:18:41.780 And it just shows, again, how much the media will avoid talking about Obama's foreign policy legacy, because they know if they did, it would show how poor it was.

00:18:53.660 And they're not prepared to do that.

00:18:55.280 They're constantly, I call the media the janitors of the Obama legacy.

00:18:58.620 You'll notice that most of these pieces don't bring up the fact that the reason we're in this situation is entirely because of specific choices Obama made to prop up the Iran deal.

00:19:08.920 And getting in bed with the wrong people at the time, which the conservatives were at the time against these people.

00:19:15.220 We were against getting into bed with these people and arming them and training them.

00:19:20.440 We were, at least I was, I was speaking out.

00:19:23.440 This is a bad move.

00:19:25.440 We're going to pay for this in the end.

00:19:28.620 And the media had Barack Obama done exactly the same thing and said, bring the troops home.

00:19:35.880 They would have been celebrating the end of the end of war.

00:19:39.600 We're finally coming back.

00:19:41.040 They would have, they would have done all of that stuff.

00:19:44.060 And so they have absolutely no credibility.

00:19:46.760 But I was, I was struck by your article in the Federalist that you really laid out a really good case on what Trump was doing.

00:19:57.020 That this is not just something that he got up in the middle of the night and said, you know what, let's pull our troops out.

00:20:01.680 This has been a long thought out methodical process with him and Erdogan.

00:20:07.500 Do you think that he means it?

00:20:09.720 Because he said, if you start going after the Kurds, we're going to crush your economy.

00:20:15.660 Do you believe that there is a trip wire that we should look for?

00:20:20.940 So there's two things that I think are important.

00:20:25.620 The first one is that Erdogan is supposed to visit the White House in November.

00:20:31.100 And I think he has that provide some sort of motivation.

00:20:34.040 That's sort of a carrot for him to behave himself.

00:20:36.620 And I do think that it might temper him a bit and it might force him to hold back, which would be helpful, obviously.

00:20:45.140 And the second thing I'll say is that Congress is already busily proposing bills to slap sanctions on Turkey.

00:20:51.940 And I think that's great because as many, you know, this sort of disgruntled pushback from Congress in terms of Trump's move to pull troops out of Syria.

00:21:01.260 Good.

00:21:01.680 Have them be angry.

00:21:02.660 Have them put as many sanctions as they want on Turkey.

00:21:04.960 That's what we want.

00:21:06.120 That's what we need.

00:21:06.920 We want to use anything we can without resorting to military force.

00:21:11.940 And sanctions is a really good tool for that. 0.74

00:21:14.160 One of the reasons that the Iranian regime didn't collapse in 2015 is because the Obama administration lifted sanctions.

00:21:22.500 The Iranian economy grew by 10 percent after we lifted sanctions in 2016.

00:21:27.380 So we could have the opposite effect by slapping sanctions on Turkey.

00:21:30.860 So I do think it will be super effective and I do think it will be a deterrent.

00:21:35.720 Thank you so much, Ariel.

00:21:36.860 I appreciate it.

00:21:37.820 Ariel Davidson, she is staff writer for The Federalist.

00:21:40.940 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

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00:22:18.180 I don't know what Bill O'Reilly's pronouns are, but welcome to the program, Mr. Bill O'Reilly.

00:22:22.340 You guys are babbling this morning.

00:22:24.320 I don't know what you're hearing.

00:22:25.520 What are your pronouns?

00:22:26.180 I'm trying to put it all together, but...

00:22:28.720 What are your pronouns?

00:22:30.700 My pronouns are, I have a new book out called The United States of Trump.

00:22:35.700 That's not a pronoun.

00:22:37.240 Those aren't pronouns.

00:22:38.460 No wonder I failed English.

00:22:39.660 Yeah, so Bill O'Reilly, welcome to the program.

00:22:42.520 Welcome to the program.

00:22:43.720 Where would you like to start?

00:22:45.080 We can talk about the CNN show that nobody watched, but it was crazy.

00:22:51.420 We could start with the impeachment, the latest updates on that.

00:22:56.920 Where would you like to start?

00:22:59.160 I've been watching Donald Trump very closely for the past two weeks as a human being, not a politician.

00:23:06.500 All right, that's where I want to start.

00:23:09.480 And I haven't talked about this even on Bill O'Reilly.com.

00:23:12.780 I have the first mention of this.

00:23:15.500 We'll alert the press.

00:23:16.480 This is an exclusive.

00:23:17.800 Well, the press will ignore you if you alert it.

00:23:19.920 They don't care about it.

00:23:21.000 Unless he dies, then they would care.

00:23:23.720 Okay, so in the last chapter of The United States of Trump, I interviewed the president after the Robert Mueller verdict came in.

00:23:31.920 It was the first time that I've ever seen him emotional in the 30 years I've known him.

00:23:37.520 Not crazy emotion, but if you read the last chapter, you'll see the emotion.

00:23:41.900 Okay, I noted that.

00:23:44.540 And now, with impeachment, all right, and every single day, he's guilty of this, he's guilty of that, he did this.

00:23:52.440 And this is a rerun of Mueller.

00:23:54.740 Almost the same wording, the same condemnation, the same conviction without evidence.

00:24:00.280 Exactly the same.

00:24:02.100 Groundhog Day.

00:24:02.900 So, I'm noticing now that he, President Trump, is starting to lose focus.

00:24:12.880 He's starting to lash out.

00:24:15.500 Now, they're going to say, look, O'Reilly always lashes out.

00:24:18.260 Twitter, this, that, and the other thing.

00:24:19.520 No, it's different.

00:24:21.120 Yes.

00:24:22.160 It has been, up until two or three weeks ago, a calculated lash.

00:24:27.900 Now, it's all over the place.

00:24:31.000 And I will submit to you, based upon my knowledge of the man, that this is getting to him.

00:24:39.580 So, this weekend, I'm going to Vermont.

00:24:44.800 I'm going to try to deliver a little candy to Bernie Sanders.

00:24:48.340 I know he's up there convalescing.

00:24:50.900 I'm actually going to be very close to his mansion.

00:24:53.900 But I'm doing it because I need a break.

00:24:56.300 I need to get some fresh air.

00:24:57.700 I need to look at the leaves.

00:24:58.800 I need to get a little maple syrup and pour it on my head.

00:25:01.540 I need to do that.

00:25:03.260 To get away.

00:25:04.720 You see what I mean?

00:25:05.560 Yeah.

00:25:05.920 Trump never gets away.

00:25:07.600 Never.

00:25:08.080 He doesn't sleep.

00:25:09.580 He's a vampire.

00:25:10.780 He has one hobby.

00:25:12.040 He hits the little golf ball.

00:25:13.480 But I think he's bored with that.

00:25:15.280 All right?

00:25:15.980 And he's, every day, obsessing.

00:25:19.300 And that's the word.

00:25:20.240 About, here they come again.

00:25:23.280 I didn't do anything.

00:25:25.120 They're trying to ruin me in another way.

00:25:27.580 And I've got to fight everybody all by myself.

00:25:32.000 That's a real tough place to be as a human being.

00:25:35.340 And I want all your listeners, who I think most are fair-minded, you know, to step back and say, you know, there comes a point in a country's history where the people have to rise up and say, enough.

00:25:48.440 It's 13 months before we vote.

00:25:52.260 13 months.

00:25:53.440 All of this now is a charade.

00:25:56.140 And, I mean, your head will blow off if you try to get in.

00:25:58.680 And, by the way, I did analyze your stuff on Ukraine that you put on the blaze.

00:26:03.680 It was very good.

00:26:05.740 I directed all my hundreds of thousands of followers over to it.

00:26:11.240 Thank you.

00:26:11.700 But in order to digest it, it's like you have to be crazed because there are names and this and that.

00:26:21.100 Nobody knows about Ukraine.

00:26:22.200 And so I do the overarch.

00:26:25.940 There is no crime.

00:26:27.880 All right?

00:26:28.220 This is not anything that should be submitted to the House for impeachment vote.

00:26:34.120 It's not there.

00:26:35.620 Maybe it'll be there in two weeks.

00:26:37.520 It's not there now.

00:26:39.060 This is purely a malicious plan to destroy a human being.

00:26:44.720 That's what it is.

00:26:45.640 So let me tell you this, Bill.

00:26:46.820 First of all, you're 100 percent right.

00:26:48.400 It is getting to him.

00:26:49.520 And it would get I mean, it's getting to me.

00:26:52.980 I saw what happened yesterday where they arrested two people.

00:26:57.440 The third one, I think, is still out.

00:27:01.400 And they were arrested and tied to Rudy Giuliani that, oh, my gosh, look at this.

00:27:07.220 Fundraising was going on, et cetera, et cetera.

00:27:09.160 The reason why the FBI and the Southern District of New York, this is your area, Bill.

00:27:16.100 There's something wrong with the Southern District of New York attorneys, federal attorneys.

00:27:21.260 These guys are the ones that turned down Lusanko and the prosecutors from Ukraine.

00:27:29.880 They came and tried to get to the United States and the embassy, the ambassador of the U.S.

00:27:35.860 embassy in Ukraine blocked them from getting a visa.

00:27:39.680 They wanted to go meet with the DOJ.

00:27:41.860 They wanted to go meet with our attorney general.

00:27:45.160 They were blocked.

00:27:46.260 Once Trump removed that blockage, they then got visas and they were told to bring it to the Southern District of New York.

00:27:54.640 And that attorney, those attorneys turned down even looking at the information.

00:28:01.000 They didn't want anything to do with that information.

00:28:03.960 Now, these are the same guys who seem to be eager to prosecute everything around Donald Trump,

00:28:12.600 even though the main guy is a Trump supporter, supposedly.

00:28:16.340 He is he is now prosecuting these guys and and going after them on the day before the ambassador is to testify in front of Congress.

00:28:29.860 This is a setup.

00:28:31.920 This is coordinated timing.

00:28:34.380 If I were Donald Trump, once you know the full story, you see how corrupt this deep state is.

00:28:43.180 And it is enough to drive you mad, especially because you can't explain it quickly to people.

00:28:49.960 And, you know, I don't know what William Barr, the attorney general, is doing.

00:28:57.500 I don't either.

00:28:58.080 He's the boss.

00:28:59.000 Right.

00:28:59.480 He's their boss.

00:29:00.680 So I'm going to let that play out because I don't know.

00:29:04.060 You know a lot more than I do about this.

00:29:06.280 And by the way, that is probably the only subject on the planet, you know, more than.

00:29:11.280 No, I knew it.

00:29:12.580 I know it.

00:29:13.080 Well, financial financial stuff, you know, more, more, more about it than I do.

00:29:17.080 But that hurt.

00:29:18.000 That hurt you.

00:29:19.060 That hurts.

00:29:19.620 It makes me.

00:29:20.520 I give credit where credit is due.

00:29:22.920 You know, you did a lot of good work on this and people should take it seriously and look at it.

00:29:27.520 But you say that this is a coordinated effort.

00:29:31.920 And I don't know whether that's true on a micro level, but I do know that the press and the Democratic Party are working together on this impeachment thing.

00:29:43.780 They coordinate, OK, through K Street.

00:29:47.540 K Street is a famous avenue in Washington, D.C., where the political action committees are.

00:29:56.300 And there are organizations that coordinate information between Democrats and the press.

00:30:05.080 All right.

00:30:05.520 So through K Street, because the press and I'm talking now the big boys, New York Times, Washington Post, NBC News, CNN.

00:30:15.020 Those are the four.

00:30:16.480 They know there's no Democratic candidate that can be Trump right now.

00:30:19.960 You're watching Elizabeth Warren tell another whopper about she got fired because she was pregnant or any of this.

00:30:27.360 Now we know because of good reporting from the Washington Examiner.

00:30:30.800 That's totally bogus.

00:30:32.440 All right.

00:30:32.660 This goes into her lineage of Native American.

00:30:37.180 So she is, you know, going to get destroyed if she gets the nomination. 0.99

00:30:43.440 Biden, he's already he's been the major casualty of Ukraine.

00:30:48.920 So next Tuesday night, when The New York Times and CNN team up to moderate the debate, the Democratic debate, the fascinating part of that will be, are you going to ask Biden about his son and all of this stuff in China and Ukraine?

00:31:04.880 Are you going to follow up with questions because, you know, Biden's going to have a prepared answer?

00:31:08.700 Are you going to ask Elizabeth Warren about this other bogus pregnancy thing? 1.00

00:31:13.360 No.

00:31:13.620 Are you going to push her on it?

00:31:14.860 What do you think?

00:31:15.500 You think they will?

00:31:16.720 No, I don't think they will.

00:31:17.660 They'll ask Biden, but they won't push him on it because they all say it's a conspiracy theory.

00:31:22.440 And it's easy to say it's a conspiracy theory if you're.

00:31:25.400 Yeah.

00:31:25.640 So one question.

00:31:26.900 And then Warren, I don't think she even gets.

00:31:29.420 How about Warren?

00:31:30.360 Did she get a pregnancy question? 0.97

00:31:31.680 I don't think so.

00:31:33.040 No, I don't think so.

00:31:34.400 So they're in the tank.

00:31:35.460 And if that happens, there's going to be an outcry in the conservative media, which is primarily talk radio, Internet, because Fox News is not in the conservative media anymore.

00:31:47.660 They've not done that.

00:31:48.920 Whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:31:49.520 Whoa, wait a minute.

00:31:50.420 What does that mean?

00:31:51.220 What do you mean by that?

00:31:51.880 Well, it used to be that Fox News had a traditional slant, which means this.

00:32:00.100 It's that the guy who ran the place, Roger Ailes, basically his philosophy was conservatives and traditional Americans are not heard in the media.

00:32:10.700 Correct.

00:32:11.680 OK, that's how he founded the channel.

00:32:15.020 So we all knew, all of us who were working for him, that we had to give voice, not exclusive voice.

00:32:22.700 I certainly didn't.

00:32:23.540 I mean, I balanced it out.

00:32:24.800 But we had to give voice to that side.

00:32:29.080 That's gone.

00:32:30.960 What makes you say that?

00:32:31.840 What makes you say that?

00:32:32.800 Banishing.

00:32:33.340 They're not banishing.

00:32:34.560 All right.

00:32:34.860 They're not saying, oh, you're conservative and traditional.

00:32:36.960 You can't come on Fox News.

00:32:38.100 There's plenty of conservative and traditional on there.

00:32:41.080 But the voice that used to be there is not there any longer.

00:32:47.780 So you have a network that's still pro-Trump in prime time, but not in daytime.

00:32:56.540 And that's an interesting shift.

00:32:58.860 And it's driving Donald Trump crazy.

00:33:01.300 Here's another thing.

00:33:02.780 Trump lashed out at the Fox News poll.

00:33:04.800 You guys saw that, right?

00:33:05.720 Mm-hmm.

00:33:06.520 OK.

00:33:06.900 Well, instead of doing a factual lash out, like he should have done, and say, did you know that the Fox News poll questions 8% more Democrats than Republicans on impeachment?

00:33:21.280 If you look at the methodology, the Fox News poll asked 8% more Democrats than Republicans.

00:33:30.640 And guess what the margin was for impeachment?

00:33:34.600 8%!

00:33:36.160 Oh, what a shock!

00:33:38.940 Nobody knows that, because nobody looks at the methodology.

00:33:43.400 I did.

00:33:44.840 But that's what he should have done.

00:33:47.700 Just say, you know, this is bogus.

00:33:49.740 This is a setup.

00:33:50.860 If you're going to ask 8% more of one certain party, then you're going to get 8% gap.

00:33:58.140 That's what you're going to get.

00:33:59.860 Right?

00:34:00.540 Am I crazy?

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00:34:25.520 I want to play, I think this is Judy Woodruff from PBS.

00:34:29.780 I want to play the audio from PBS talking to Mike Pompeo yesterday.

00:34:35.300 And they're talking about the Biden scandal.

00:34:37.880 And listen to what was said.

00:34:39.560 Just finally, you know that there's been no proof of any misdoing on the part of Vice President Biden.

00:34:45.720 You all keep repeating that line as if you're working for the DNC.

00:34:48.880 I'm definitely not working for the DNC.

00:34:50.980 I'm an independent journalist.

00:34:52.660 But the European Union, the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, the International Monetary Fund, and other international organizations felt that that prosecutor was corrupt and thought he should be removed.

00:35:06.240 There's no evidence that what Vice President Biden was doing was corrupt in some way.

00:35:12.600 Well, Peter Schweitzer, how would you respond to that?

00:35:18.620 Well, what they want to do is they want to go to the firing of the prosecutor.

00:35:22.140 They don't want to talk about the underlying financial arrangements that the Biden family had in Ukraine.

00:35:28.800 And that's sort of their get, right?

00:35:31.540 You can't prove that the crime occurred.

00:35:33.920 So there's nothing to see here.

00:35:35.520 Let's back up again and remember, you know, in February of 2014, the Russians had moved into Crimea in the Ukraine.

00:35:44.280 The Yanukovych government had fallen.

00:35:46.560 There was a crisis.

00:35:47.780 Joe Biden is appointed point person by Barack Obama on U.S. policy towards Ukraine.

00:35:54.200 The buck stops with him.

00:35:55.480 Literally two months after that fact, Glenn, his son, Hunter Biden, becomes a board member of Burisma, this corrupt Ukrainian energy company.

00:36:06.960 It's headed by Zlachevsky, this corrupt oligarch who was in the Yanukovych pro-Russian government to begin with.

00:36:14.860 And they pay Hunter, according to the banking records, $83,000 a month.

00:36:20.360 And he takes over $3 million in total from this Ukrainian company.

00:36:26.680 He has no background in energy.

00:36:29.120 He has no background in Ukraine.

00:36:31.180 And it's not even clear what he did, if anything.

00:36:34.820 Okay, hang on just a second.

00:36:36.060 I want to add to this.

00:36:38.000 His background, and I'm sure you've done enough reporting to know his background, especially at that time, he is a very unstable individual.

00:36:48.500 Yeah, I mean, you know, we obviously don't like to get into the personal situation.

00:36:55.020 And I don't want to say, I don't want to, look, I'm an alcoholic, so I don't want to denigrate him for that.

00:36:59.540 What I want to say is, he doesn't have any skills.

00:37:02.240 And at the time, he's also an unstable alcoholic and drug guy that has, if you were going to put somebody on the board, if he wasn't, if he didn't bring anything special, he didn't bring anything, any experience, and he was unstable, why would you hire this guy other than he's the dad of the vice president?

00:37:27.240 That's exactly right, Glenn.

00:37:29.600 He had substance abuse issues.

00:37:32.380 You add that on to the top of the fact that he had no experience and no background with this company.

00:37:38.220 And the question becomes, why was he being paid?

00:37:41.600 He's not being paid for his skill set or his expertise.

00:37:44.820 Why is he being paid?

00:37:46.020 Now, the response from a lot of the press corps, not all of it, but a lot of it, has been, well, this goes on all the time, as if that's A, acceptable, or B, if that's actually true.

00:37:58.160 It is true.

00:37:59.260 We've had a history of family members, of politicians, you know, trying to cash in.

00:38:05.320 You had Billy Carter back in the day.

00:38:07.060 You had some stuff with Neil Bush.

00:38:08.800 But what makes the Biden case unusual is how systematic and widespread it is.

00:38:13.900 It involves Ukraine.

00:38:15.240 It involves China.

00:38:17.200 There's this bank account that I think we've shared with you, Glenn, this Morgan Stanley account where Hunter Biden was drawing cash out of.

00:38:24.180 We got access to this bank account because of a criminal case involving Hunter Biden's business partner.

00:38:30.040 And that shows money coming from a Kazakh oligarch during this same period.

00:38:34.120 It shows money coming from anonymous Swiss bank accounts, particularly a small Swiss bank that has been implicated in money laundering in five countries.

00:38:44.700 So, I mean, to say, oh, well, nothing's been proven that it's wrong here is just laughable.

00:38:49.860 And it's this lack of curiosity.

00:38:52.960 Judy Woodruff doesn't even seem to be curious about any of this.

00:38:56.460 That is so bizarre.

00:38:58.040 She says here also that, you know, nothing has been proven and the embassy even says that, that this guy was.

00:39:08.680 What she's saying is that these international groups did not say that he didn't do anything wrong.

00:39:15.180 She's using those international groups saying this prosecutor needed to be fired. 0.98

00:39:20.600 Well, that's a different thing.

00:39:22.140 And by the way, the prosecutor that replaced that prosecutor is investigating Joe Biden's son.

00:39:29.580 Exactly.

00:39:30.220 And Glenn, this is a key point.

00:39:31.920 It's a key point to say, on the one hand, if people think the prosecutor should be fired and to say, on the other hand, that it is entirely inappropriate for Joe Biden to get this guy fired.

00:39:44.540 Those are not mutually exclusive.

00:39:46.300 Both of those are absolutely correct.

00:39:48.820 And the bottom line is, that is an abuse of power by Joe Biden, and he is using his office to directly or indirectly benefit his son.

00:40:00.660 And the problem is that they've lied about this repeatedly.

00:40:05.060 I mean, first they said, Glenn, no, there was no investigation by Hunter.

00:40:08.140 That was already over before the guy was fired.

00:40:10.780 The prosecutor has denied that.

00:40:12.420 And even the Burisma Company's lawyer, a guy named Mr. Beretta, who was hired in part at the suggestion of Hunter Biden, said the investigation was ongoing at this time.

00:40:23.520 It didn't end until later on.

00:40:25.420 So here's another thing, Peter, that maybe you can help shed some light on.

00:40:32.320 Joe Biden comes over, and this is all according to record.

00:40:35.380 He comes over and he says, look, I think we can help your gas and oil industry expand.

00:40:39.360 So he goes over and he says, we have $1.8 billion that we are going to give you in USAID, and it'll help you guys explore.

00:40:51.620 At the same time, Burisma hires Devon Archer and Joe Biden's son.

00:41:00.160 They're on the board, so they get the money.

00:41:02.420 Now, the money is put into a bank called Private Bank, and it's owned by the oligarch that is running Burisma.

00:41:12.380 That $1.8 billion just disappears.

00:41:17.300 We don't know where that money went.

00:41:20.340 So why isn't anybody talking about that part of it?

00:41:24.360 No, that's exactly right.

00:41:25.740 I mean, this is another oligarch.

00:41:27.820 There are two oligarchs that are involved with Burisma.

00:41:30.200 One of them is Lichefsky.

00:41:31.720 The other one is named Kolomoisky.

00:41:33.980 And this guy is basically a Bond villain.

00:41:36.860 He's out of a James Bond film.

00:41:38.340 In fact, he has in his office a large fish tank that has sharks swimming in it.

00:41:43.960 I'll just sort of tell you how this guy rolls.

00:41:46.900 And he owns Prevat Bank, which is this large Ukrainian bank, which U.S. and Western aid dollars and loan guarantees are sent into.

00:41:55.460 And the problem is that a large chunk of that money disappears, and Ukrainian anti-corruption groups have sort of traced what happened to the money.

00:42:06.560 And they make, I think, a very convincing case that Kolomoisky and his team set up a bunch of LLCs and siphoned off that money.

00:42:14.560 So now you have a situation of missing aid dollars that seem to have benefited Kolomoisky, who is paying, involved in the payments, to Hunter Biden of these board fees, $83,000 a month.

00:42:28.740 And Kolomoisky is also a guy who, before the Bidens arrived, was known as such a bad Bond villain that he is on a do-not-enter, no-visa list.

00:42:42.280 He cannot get a visa to come to the United States.

00:42:45.060 But in the month that we discover, oh, the money is missing, somehow or another, this guy gets a visa to be able to travel to the United States.

00:42:56.660 Who did that? 0.91

00:42:58.680 What was that?

00:43:00.460 Exactly.

00:43:01.320 And who arranged for that to be done?

00:43:04.520 We don't know, but it deserves investigation.

00:43:07.840 And this is the sort of thing that, to me, is so bizarre and has really further eroded what credibility a lot of news outlets have left,

00:43:17.280 that they've not even bothered really to lift a finger to look into this.

00:43:21.340 They've declared from the beginning there's nothing to see here.

00:43:24.520 They say that this research is discredited.

00:43:28.980 They never tell you why.

00:43:30.580 They never say, well, here's the bank account.

00:43:32.980 Tell us what's discredited about the bank account.

00:43:35.480 Tell us what's discredited about Hunter Biden not being qualified.

00:43:39.040 Tell us what's discredited about this missing money.

00:43:42.220 They don't want to answer any of those questions.

00:43:44.340 And what's clear to me is you see that Joe Biden has adopted the tack, that he is going to refuse to talk about this,

00:43:53.440 because I think he knows how explosive it is.

00:43:55.320 In fact, Bloomberg just a minute, a couple minutes ago, is reporting that they have put,

00:44:00.600 that the Biden campaign has put the other Democrats on notice to say,

00:44:05.060 if you bring this up during the October 15th debate, you are going to be revealing yourself to not be a Democrat,

00:44:13.400 that you are not a Democrat for even going there.

00:44:15.780 So they are basically saying, we're not going to answer any questions from the media.

00:44:20.040 If the media brings it up, we're going to lash out at you.

00:44:22.580 And if other Democrats bring it up, we're going to lash out at you.

00:44:26.320 The last thing they want to do is actually talk about this.

00:44:29.300 Well, it's interesting because it is exactly, I mean, Americans can understand it this way.

00:44:35.380 Joe Biden is China.

00:44:37.340 This topic is free Hong Kong.

00:44:39.980 And anyone who talks about it, you're out.

00:44:43.860 I mean, that is, this is chilling, chilling, especially the way they wrote about you.

00:44:49.940 They attacked you for that article in the New York Times.

00:44:53.340 You did a, you did an op-ed piece at the request of the New York Times.

00:44:58.800 That's right.

00:44:59.260 That day, which was what, two days ago, the Biden administration attacks the New York Times.

00:45:05.920 And what do they say to the New York Times?

00:45:08.260 They say to the New York Times, we cannot believe that you are running information that's been discredited by this discredited author.

00:45:16.800 And of course, again, they never explain what's discredited.

00:45:19.480 And what I'll tell you, Glenn, is we do, as I know you do, we do vigorous fact-checking here.

00:45:24.760 But for that piece, we talk about the deals in Ukraine.

00:45:28.340 We talk about the deals in China.

00:45:30.020 That was all fact-checked by the New York Times.

00:45:32.920 So there's really no dispute that these facts are there, the payments are there, the relationships are there.

00:45:40.220 But again, the Bidens don't want to respond about this.

00:45:42.960 Why do they not simply sit down, have Hunter come in, and he and his father say, we are going to take questions for two hours on this, and then we don't want to talk about it anymore?

00:45:53.500 That would be the simple, direct way to deal with it.

00:45:55.700 But they're not going to do that because there's not good or even great answers to these questions.

00:46:01.600 Here's the reason why he can't.

00:46:03.880 And even if it was, even if he was completely innocent of everything, you can't.

00:46:09.700 This, when, I mean, he was a mess, and he was married, and he was a mess.

00:46:14.940 And all throughout this, he was an active alcoholic.

00:46:17.620 Then he cleans himself up, his brother dies, he grieves, but he grieves with his widow, and then starts hooking up with his widow, gets a divorce from his first wife, marries his brother's widow, then starts having an affair with another woman, divorces her.

00:46:39.640 No, he doesn't have an affair, he just divorces the widow, leaves behind the widow, and now is married again after meeting this woman for 10 days.

00:46:49.320 The guy is out of control.

00:46:51.720 I mean, even if he's completely innocent, you couldn't put him on the stand.

00:46:55.880 He's not mentally healthy, I don't think.

00:47:00.080 Yeah, and that certainly is possible, that because of some of the personal demons he's dealing with, that's fine.

00:47:06.580 But then Joe Biden ought to at least be able to come out.

00:47:09.160 And the other thing is release some of the financial records.

00:47:13.340 I mean, all the things that we talk about, the fact that this fund in China, for example.

00:47:18.540 Hang on, don't go to China yet.

00:47:19.740 Wait, wait.

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