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Over the weekend, a miracle happened. Over the weekend a technological miracle happened in the Middle East and around the world. Over 99% of Israel's planes were shot out of the sky by the Israelis. This is a miracle!
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well welcome back stew thank you glad i mean how much did you miss us really oh so much i thought
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you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program over the weekend a miracle happened i mean
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really honestly this is a technological miracle what uh happened with uh iran and israel iran sent
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300 300 missiles and drones uh over to israel from yemen and from i think four or five different
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locations in iran and 99 percent of them were shot out of the sky by israel that's
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incredible technology it's called the aero system please jason buttrell who joins us he's
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um our head researcher on the program and also uh watches over uh military uh kind of stuff for us
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please tell us we have the aero system here we i don't i don't think we do it's boeing was like the
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second half of the development of that so it's also an american we have dibs on it uh we have our own
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system a different system that is kind of pre-deployed on on naval ships all over the all
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over the world so we do have the same capability but that's the aegis system yeah so right it's it's
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that's not that's not shooting things from in space it is it is i don't yeah i don't remember
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there's two parts of it i don't remember the second part of it because the aegis system on ships is just
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a buttload of bullets coming out i mean it's just uh it's just round after round of big butt
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built bullets yeah it's it's called the blb uh buttload of bullets that's what we call it you
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know in the military terminology right sure yeah um it was more than just the aero system so this is
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what's so amazing you try to to really get the scope of this you have to look at this graphic the idf
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um submitted of where all this all this uh ordinance was coming from yemen iraq iran lebanon all
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converging on multiple different fronts all down on israel but they have a three uh prong system
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the the further one out is the arrow two and arrow three system which can that's when shoot in space
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that's the one can reach up and touch you in space the second one is called david sling
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now that shoots lower yeah i know they have such cooler names than ours does um that shoots like
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cruise missiles or like missiles that are flying low to the ground then you have the iron dome which
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everyone is talking about all of those things were firing all at once going on over the weekend
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but you also had israeli planes going up and firing on cruise missiles way the heck out there then you
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had u.s planes and planes from the uk all of this converging in the skies over the middle east over the
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weekend so is it that iran's missiles suck so much or is this as amazing as it sounds it's as amazing as
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it sounds so i mean cruiser these are these are these are current generation weaponry that we're
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talking about iran is exporting some of this weaponry giving it to russia so russia can attack
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ukraine so this is amazing 99 you know success rate does not happen it doesn't so i mean granted
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there's you know great technology here but i think there's some god work going on as well isn't there
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isn't there scriptures when uh the whole world comes to attack that it is that god just protects
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puts like a dome over no over israel it was so effective that i think that iran probably is
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rethinking some of their first strike strategy against israel now you know that they've all
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gamed this out and i'm sure part of this attack was that that goes into their plans like they know
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that they want to take out israel if they had to what do they need well they threw everything but
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the ayatollah's kitchen sink at israel over the weekend i think i was flying i think i saw that
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hit the ground the kitchen sink they probably use that too yeah with the disposal which is weird
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um so uh so if you would have had one of these nuclear tipped it i mean so you so all of that work
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for a nuclear weapon you ain't gonna deposit it through a missile right wouldn't that be the
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message that iran would get you're not now yeah i mean yeah that's i don't i don't this set i ran
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back i'm sure like probably several years as far as whatever their eventual goal is and that right
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there is the problem because we know that they're not going to stop no so when you're saying i you know
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when everyone's like pleading with her when biden was pleading with uh bb over the weekend to don't
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retaliate on one hand i'm like yeah because i don't want to see the middle east completely
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change overnight it's not just that but it's not just that if they retaliate iran has the ability
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to set europe and america on fire in the streets yeah and that's only a matter of time before it
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happens but i i don't know i'd like to delay it as long as possible yeah but if you're israel i mean
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you're going guys like we've just look at the overall picture here right they're surrounding
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them look at that look at that graphic of where all the missiles were coming from israel is surrounded
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the strategy now the international community is like israel just keep your walls just keep your
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walls up and you'll be safe when has that ever worked in military history never constantinople
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greece um troy pick your time your walls are an illusion they will keep you safe for a limited
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amount of time but the eventual goal of an invading army is to topple those walls that's iran's plan
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so how long do you delay i mean and and if they decide that if iran says okay we're not delaying
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anymore that is when the entire region changes forever they've been playing this little proxy
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game for 40 years this time is first time though that they have not used a proxy exactly right yep
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they're not you they it was it was iran no proxy it was iran yeah um and so i i saw and i honestly i
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thank god that we are pausing at least you know what i mean um because this will escalate into a world
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war that fast i just everything in me says once the middle east is set on fire russia and ukraine and
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everything else it's just going to be just dominoes um because if the middle east is on fire and iran
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is losing which they would uh they're just setting all of our countries on fire you know internally
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um so i i'm i was glad to see the pause however i was a little disturbed that the news came out
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from the white house because that should have come out from the prime minister's office in israel
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but instead joe biden calls bb netanyahu who apparently the war ministry all voted to retaliate
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and then joe biden called and said hey uh we won't support you don't don't do it don't retaliate
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that's what the white house is saying and so bb changed his mind well uh gee thanks for backing
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me into a corner i mean it might be a corner i like to be in but that's not the way you deal
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with an ally is it no yeah how they're dealing with this all across the board is not what you're
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supposed to do this attack happened and i 100 believe this this attack happened because of
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the biden administration's overall foreign policy within the middle east when you think when you
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when you refuse to stand up to their proxy hamas when you coddle them as they have things like
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this happen when you give billions of dollars back to iran when you try to go back into the jcpoa the
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nuclear agreement with them when you are doing everything possible to say let's play nice let's
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play nice when you refuse to stand up to a bully this is the type of crap that happens and i'm not
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saying that we go off and militarily attack them there is a formula for dealing with this it was
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actually working the abraham accords was working when you abandon that this is the type of crap that
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happens but if you could have the possibility of getting trump back in and quelling all of this i just
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i just want to make it to you know january in case he wins if he doesn't win it's i mean we're just
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going to keep seeing more and more of this because you're right it is our policies we are weak um we
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don't command any respect and honestly we're on the other side we're giving money to iran so our
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tax dollars went to iran and to israel so you can feel good on april 15th today that you paid for
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both sides of this what do you guys make of the really strange way this all unfolded where it was
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like hey drones are gonna be there in a few hours they're all coming i think that is that's that is
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in war and correct me if i'm wrong jason you would know more than than i would but i think that was the
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signal from iran hey we're going to do this right we're going to because otherwise you surprise you're
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right hey surprise but they let israel yes they telegraphed it let israel know prepare your people
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for this and then we're going to stop and that gives that gives the uh israelis an opportunity to
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say okay well we stopped you now don't do it again right because then their statement right after was
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like hey by the way that's the end of this just so you guys know that's all we're doing we now feel
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the matter is settled is it concluded yeah i mean so they're trying to say basically hey to our
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people we did something and then to israel hey we told you it was coming you blocked it all let's
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just call this call it a draw now of course israel of course gets the win here right they they wiped
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out important military uh officials and and people they really wanted to target in syria uh and they
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stopped the entire attack from iran i mean it's a massive escalation there's no way of denying
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that but like maybe there's a chance for us to avoid a real uh inflammation of the entire region
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i think we did you think it's over you don't think i know i mean netanyahu's been saying for years
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terror it's going to go back to terror now the missiles i think are over i mean netanyahu's been
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saying for years he wants to basically go right after iran directly believes they're doing all this
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he's been wanting this they are the head of the snake they are the problem it's true it's all up to
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israel's response now right and their perspective is completely different from ours so you don't
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believe that they are finished well because i mean according to the white house yeah well they're
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done i think that's what israel is juggling right now because it was heavy it was heavily telegraphed
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they even told iran told turkey that they were going to to do this attack and then turkey
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you know transmitted that to us i want to look at this uh from the israeli point of view i'm glad that
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they're stopped but if i'm an israeli i'm like go get them now they've just they've just blown
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megan kelly welcome to the program how are you megan hi glenn good to see you how you doing
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well good i mean what's gonna happen this time are they gonna get him this time
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they're gonna get him and i don't know about you but i don't know it's been you can kind of laugh at
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it and it's kind of absurd but now that it's i mean the first criminal trial of donald trump has
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just begun they're in the courtroom the witnesses will be called eventually after they pick the jury
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and they're going to try to put this guy behind bars potentially they're 100 taking their best shot
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at stopping him from winning this race and it really for me as a lawyer it's been a very sobering
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morning i'm just disgusted i cannot believe we're doing this i i it's like it's like princess diana
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behaving like a street whore that's what we're doing the united states of america doesn't do this
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and because we're in the hands of this scummy prosecutor multiple it's not just alvin brad but
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he's the lead on this we've gone down this road pretending a payment to a porn star who is
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threatening to expose an affair is a crime that warrants 34 counts and they're going to make it as
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sleazy as humanly possible we're going to hear about david pecker who ran the national inquire owned
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ami media and the catch and kill schemes to bury negative stories on trump and to inflate stories
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on on hillary great i can't wait to hear about fusion gps did was trump the only one trying to
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get dirt printed on his opponent because that's what this jury is going to be left with that he worked
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with dirty magazines to get hill hillary painted as fat and unwell and without talking about how his
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campaign was spied on she's been trying to get him impeached or thrown in jail along with president
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obama for years it politics is disgusting and dirty and underhanded and we wish it weren't so but guess
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what it's so welcome to america and never before have we put somebody on trial for antics around it or a
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man on trial for not screaming from the roof rooftops i paid off a porn star so she didn't humiliate me with
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my wife if we are embarrassing ourselves with this trial i feel appropriately disgusted what is the
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difference between uh this trial and the trial that didn't happen because i only lied about sex uh you
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know to save my marriage to make sure i didn't humiliate my wife that's basically why donald trump
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perjured himself um i'm not donald trump but uh bill clinton perjured himself and nothing happened
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there everybody just walked away what what's the difference between these two one's a democrat and
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one's a republican okay that's what i thought that's what i thought yeah if you're a democrat you can lie
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ask fanny willis ask nathan wade it's fine you can lie on the stand under oath like bill clinton did
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it's okay and just an affair oh wait that's what trump was doing too allegedly that's wait he was
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lying to cover up an affair in only one lane does it become a felony and just you know not to get too
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deep in the weeds glenn but let's not forget what's really happening here is a misdemeanor bookkeeping
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snafu or error or misstatement that the statute of limitations had run on right they reinvigorated a
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dead claim by saying well it was made to cover up an underlying felony which was a campaign finance
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violation you you made an in 130 000 donation quote unquote to your own campaign by paying off stormy
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daniels to win an election well guess what that's not a campaign finance violation the only way you get
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the campaign finance violation is if the payment could only ever have been made for one purpose and
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that is to help your campaign well guess what again hush payments have been made by men to shut
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women up since the dawn of time right it doesn't have to be to save one's campaign and that is the
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relevant legal test which alvin bragg should know because it's the reason the feds were not interested
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in pursuing this claim against donald trump so is it just a corrupt judge that is that is making all
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because the judge should have looked at that and said no you can't do this yeah yes i mean it's not
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just because we've got mr bragg um but yeah the the judge is a serious problem a non-partisan judge
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would have thrown this out on the papers pretty easily and i do believe there's a very good chance
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that this will ultimately no matter what happens with the jury get thrown out on appeal like most
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of the prosecutions against trump not the obstruction case but the j6 case could get thrown out soon
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actually if the supreme court throws out the obstruction charges in this other case that's
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going up involving j6 defendants not trump if the supreme court does anything on presidential immunity
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and then even if he loses that j6 case if there's a trial i think it could get thrown out on appeal but
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that he has to go through the humiliation we we america have to go through the humiliation of this
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criminal trial first we just saw our former president dragged into a criminal courtroom today
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and in typical trumpian fashion he said i'm proud to be here he said i'm very proud to be here well
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that's smart trump's smart he always does a positive spin on anything that happens to him but let's be
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honest this is not a proud moment not not for him not for us not for his family i'm ashamed of us for
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doing this so what do you say um about donald trump uh this is you know something that you know we
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would be disgusted by if it was something that was happening on the other side
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bill clinton comes to mind that we as conservatives would say this guy he shouldn't be doing this as
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president but i i in the clinton case it was illegal he perjured himself but there there really isn't
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anything illegal here and if there was it was it's past the statute of limitations right
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there's such a difference between those two cases let me tell you glenn no one is allowed to lie
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under oath correct it's a felony it's a felony it's perjury and a lawyer really isn't allowed to lie
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under oath you have additional duties of candor to a court before they admit you into the bar you swear
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not to do things like that so there are additional obligations on a lawyer which clinton was
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and on top of that there are additional obligations as president he violated them all he committed a
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felony donald trump made a bookkeeping misstatement that's what he did and for that he's being hauled
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into court there's just no comparison between the legal sins and look i don't have any doubt trump's
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going to be convicted and to be honest i don't have any doubt trump did this i i'm not i i don't really
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doubt that trump didn't write down the hush money to stormy daniels porn star who was threatening to go
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to my wife and the media about an affair i mean i probably did do that well he there was another one
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that he paid off where there was another one he paid off that it wasn't true so i mean we don't know
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right the doorman yeah i mean yeah that's well that's another piece of the ami media piece of
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this case which hasn't gotten as much attention but it's going to when you hear i think david pecker's
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going to take the stand the guy who ran ami owned it um he's going to take the stand and say yeah we
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caught and killed stories including from this karen mcdougall who was the 1998 playmate of the year
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who allegedly had an affair with trump and also took a payout from ami to write health columns
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instead of take the story to a publication that would run with it this is this is what
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the allegation is that if you were a friend of pecker like trump was you could get this kind of thing
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done for you and that's what he was doing for trump and we're going to have witness testimony
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to that effect and that's okay i it is anyone shocked that trump didn't want all of his affairs
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coming out no like i don't care i don't i'm sure he has had affairs i'm sure you know what i'm sure
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obama did too the sainted obama and i'm sure bill clinton did and the only reason the clinton thing
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became a story is because linda tripp decided to tape his lover and go public with the story wasn't
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neither pair of the lovers wanted that public linda tripp brought it public and then bill clinton
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rather than being a man and owning up to it lied under oath so we're back to that problem but this
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is just we shouldn't be knowing about any of this we shouldn't be humiliating ourselves and getting
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neck deep into the gory details of it but the democrats are going to be awash in in seedy trump affair
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details for the next six weeks and it's anything but accidental how do you think this plays with the
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american people i think they're going to be disgusted like i am but unfortunately i think the
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very group trump is struggling with women former republicans in the suburbs like where i live
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they're not going to like this you know because most of our husbands don't cheat on us with porn
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stars and playmates of the year and pay them all i would hope i would hope that it doesn't just
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that we don't yeah we're all cheating but not necessarily with porn stars and playmates you know
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and there's also also only so many playmates of the year they would be way too busy if everyone was
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you're way too busy i mean i think most husbands don't cheat on their wives i don't think they do
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and so they're not going to like this you can't forget maga okay i get like those guys who are out
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in front of the courthouse right now who are amazing the what the pro-trump guys with all their pro-trump
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gear and they're like the anti-trump guy did you see the guy with the flute
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he hates trump it's like liar narcissist felon and then he's playing lovely flute
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it's like god bless america anyway the hardcore maga they're not going to care i well know nothing's
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going to change their mind and most republicans are on team trump and realize this is a political
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persecution but there is a group of independents now center-right independents who used to be
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republicans who don't like trump and it would be very helpful to the republican party and trump
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if those people could be more disgusted with biden than with trump right and they might yet be
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but this is not going to help and i don't mean the conviction the conviction won't help either but
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six weeks of trump's a husband that's not going to help remember you we're on broadcast
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uh that's all right that's all right um so uh so megan does he go to jail you said he's going to be
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convicted does he go to jail and what what would that mean how much time would he be facing for this
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he's not going to gel on this case so he's not but you have lunatics like andrew weissman
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who honestly he's not a like this this guy's got a very legitimate legal resume i realized you know he
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he left the fbi and all that but um he was general counsel of the fbi was a u.s attorney and
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he's out there saying nonsense like well trump's a recidivist a recidivist to somebody who continues
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to commit crime after he's served time or been convicted you know like you just can't stop
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yourself from selling the heroin that's not trump so it is true that there's the potential for jail
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time if this judge somehow turns him into a repeat offender because he's facing three other criminal
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trials that that's not happening so i don't think he's going to jail for this one i think it'll be
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a matter of fines but if that doesn't change much i mean jail time would be far far worse
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but they still have their conviction and the thing is guys half of independents and still one-third of
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republicans are saying they like trump but they can't vote for a convicted felon and i was having
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this discussion with actually it was i think it was with you guys still you and dave marcus were on
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my show last week what if they mean it i know we don't think they mean it what if they do mean it
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what if they because i even look at this case like this or this case what if we're wrong what if we're
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downplaying this like no one everybody knows this is bs but we're wrong when we misread the polls
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and we do often because who the heck knows what to believe on polls anymore
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we get burned and so today really could be day one in trump losing this election
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it could be i i don't think it will be but i recognize the danger of what they're doing here
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and of course we all know that's why they're doing it
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i was i was hoping that it was going to backfire on them i think it it has to some degree i don't
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know when you add the actual felony uh you know to this but that's the question is the backfire
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bounce already baked in right like has he already gotten all the balance there is to get from the
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outrage over resetting norms that have been in place for almost 250 years and that's and that of
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course would be the democrats plan to boost him in the primary he'll get whatever back or whatever
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bounce he gets from the backlash and then it wanes over the course of what they hoped would be
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for criminal trials now it looks like just this one but this is their best shot six weeks
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disgusting man horrid husband and now convicted felon they don't need to hurt him much you know
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joe biden only won by 45 000 votes i know they don't need to hurt him much megan kelly host of
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the megan kelly show uh follows this program on sirius xm uh as always megan good to talk to you
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thank you you too see you guys the best of the glenn beck program
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congresswoman from florida anna paulina luna welcome to the program how are you
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hey glenn glad to be back good i'm glad to have you and uh thank you so much i saw your letter that
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came out today uh let me just read just a little bit of it last week we had the opportunity to reform
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and reauthorize a widely misused and abused system within fisa section 702 uh you go on to talk about
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how hey congress is now they're protected but you left everybody else out so what's happening today
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so basically what we did was we saw that there was this massive orchestrated effort and even
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from the intelligence community to really get members to vote for this version of fisa which
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is completely unconstitutional we allowed the bill to come to the floor however the warrant
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amendment that representative biggs had put forward that would require the federal government to get a
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warrant if they're going to surveil you that actually failed by one vote and so that is something that
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one if you're a member of congress and you're not supporting that you need to find a different job
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but also two we weren't going to go down without a fight and so i did something that is not commonly
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done by the governing majority and and i brought forward a motion to reconsider which means i made
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i objected to them passing this out of the house and basically wanted to give everyone a second chance
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to reconsider their decision um so what's happening today is at 6 30 we're going to have an opportunity
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to kill fisa that means that we're going to be voting on the motion to reconsider and of course
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members of the intelligence community are going to try to table that so we're urging all members to vote
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no on that and ultimately that would allow us to bring it back and potentially uh put forward that
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amendment and fix it before we send it over to the senate how long did you work in washington before
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your heads uh stopped hurting on just the i gotta vote no to be able to vote yes to be able to reconsider
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to not table it i mean i don't even understand so you have you have to vote you have to vote
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which no to the first part yeah we have to vote no on the motion to table the motion to reconsider
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so basically if you want to get involved i'm just i'm in my own capacity i'm urging everyone to call
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your congressman and ask them to vote to kill fisa and they'll know what that means okay vote to kill
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fisa that's all you have to say and where are you going to congress will know where are you going to
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fine because it was 12 to 12 or 2 12 to 2 12 i think wasn't it um that was on the amendment for
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the warrant so right now in order for fisa to go down we just need a simple majority which means we
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need 218 we need 218 members to stand together and say we will not go along with the unconstitutional
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surveillance of americans i love this um thank you for fighting sincerely thank you for fighting
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so um do you think you have the 218 you know i honestly don't know um i don't want to sit here
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and give everyone false hope but i did find a way to be able to get this letter to the democrats over
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the weekend you know they silo it so that we can't openly communicate some of these dear colleague
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letters and so i was able to reach out to some people so i think that you will see a change in in
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that number but again this is a simple majority so if we get the 218 we can kill it we can reform it
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and send it over before fisa lapses but i just want to remind people that you know for any member
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of congress saying that this wasn't violated that's a lie you know the fisa court found that the federal
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government actually violated it over 278 000 times and this didn't just stop at members of congress
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journalists and political commentators i mean it went into over 19 000 donors of congressional campaigns
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and even for some of the more progressive members of congress i mean we're talking about
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you know some of their protesters that had their civil liberties violated as well so i pointed
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that all out in the letter wow so uh but it was only 200 and how many how many thousand 78 000
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times right so it's only it's only that let me read this part uh the fisa court has documented many
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of these abuses according to fisa court the federal government used section 702 for searches for uh 141
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racial justice protesters and political activist groups that organize protest searches based on witness
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report that two men of middle eastern descent were loading cleaning supplies into a truck searches
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for a state court judge who reported civil rights violations to the fbi the fbi conducted batch search
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searches that included current and former federal government officials journalists political commentators
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am i on that list and 19 yeah 19 000 donors to congressional campaign the fbi conducted a search on a member of congress
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and a u.s senator uh that's uh that's not good it's not good it's not good at all and we do have the opportunity to stop it
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we don't just have to accept what they're trying to shove down our throats but i will say that
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you know um this no matter what will will end in two years and we'll have the opportunity to reform it
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then but i just i think it's really really awful that people would throw the fourth amendment out you
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know out like that in the name of protecting america they take away your freedom yeah i mean isn't the
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amendment thing about what congress cannot ever do that was the whole point of that amendment process but
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maybe it's maybe it's me i mean when they wanted to levy uh income tax they had to vote for an
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uh an amendment why why why aren't they going for an amendment on this other than they know it will
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never work why aren't they forced to go that way you know glenn um i've i've really had some kind of
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deep thought on the floor watching the board because if i could just explain for a moment what happened
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we saw members that you know the um i'm going to call them the intel bros had lined up that would
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if we were winning by a vote they would have someone else go down and flip their vote and i
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watched members do this i watched them do this i had senator mike lee uh standing next to me and we
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were seeing members flip their votes in order to intentionally kill it and when they had one more
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you know that would would join us they would again have someone go and change their vote so the fact is
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that there is this unicarty that exists in washington and i will say that there were democrats
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that were actually standing with us on this and they even told us you know uh behind closed doors
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that you know there is that block that will ensure that the agenda whatever it is will pass no matter
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what and so when we're seeing this happening when you're seeing how the control mechanism works and
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how it's in place i just all i'm going to say is in my own capacity is it's so incredibly important
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that people are getting involved for this next election because there's a lot on the line
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and i think that you know we are seeing a massive identity crisis and change in the republican party
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but it's for the better and this is just part of the growing pains but this can't continue yeah i
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this is different than the tea party was this is this time it's real um it's uh the people that are
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there like you are are actually committed to this and it's not just a populist thing it is an actual
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constitutional uh backing so i appreciate it and i thank you so much you bet bye-bye please call
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your congressman today and tell them to vote no on fisa huh i was trying to yes on the recommit no on the