The Glenn Beck Program - December 04, 2019


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Nick Di Paolo & John Solomon ｜ 12⧸4⧸19


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Glenn and Pat are joined by Nick D'Paolo and John Solomon to discuss the latest on the latest in the Russia/Podesta scandal. Also, Pat takes a shot at a trans athlete in Australia.

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00:00:00.200 Hey, welcome to Wednesday's podcast. A great one today. You don't want to miss a second Wednesday.
00:00:06.360 That's so close to Saturday. I can't believe how close that is. There's only Thursday and then Friday and then Saturday.
00:00:14.220 So three days and on Saturday, you're going to be in Salt Lake City for your Christmas show.
00:00:20.820 And I don't appreciate what you did with Nick DiPaolo today on the podcast.
00:00:24.280 Oh, I love that. It's my favorite part of the podcast.
00:00:26.460 Yeah, I'll break your legs. 1.00
00:00:27.840 I'll break your legs. 0.97
00:00:29.760 The idea that a professional comedian is going to do, like, NFL film tape and analysis on your comedic performance.
00:00:36.280 Oh, I will break your legs. 0.99
00:00:37.820 It's worth it, honestly. My legs aren't that great. I don't move a lot anyway.
00:00:41.740 Okay, that's fine.
00:00:42.500 But I will say, if you want to go to the Christmas show and check this out live, and maybe you can report some facts back to Nick DiPaolo,
00:00:48.780 you go to glenbeck.com slash Christmas. There's a few tickets left. There's some that were kind of late releases.
00:00:53.600 You can pick them up now and join Glenn in Salt Lake City December 7th.
00:00:58.560 Thank you.
00:00:59.140 That's Saturday.
00:01:00.000 I appreciate that.
00:01:00.860 Okay, so we have Nick DiPaolo on. We also have John Solomon.
00:01:06.220 He has just...
00:01:07.540 What he has to say about, oh, Schiff has phone records.
00:01:11.840 What the Washington Post is saying about him and others.
00:01:15.920 We ask him, are you going to sue about any of this?
00:01:20.080 Also, Pat came by. He's a little upset about a trans athlete in Australia.
00:01:28.020 So we have that and so much more on today's podcast.
00:01:31.080 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program and welcome to Mr. Pat Gray, who does Pat Gray Unleashed every day.
00:01:52.940 Prior to this broadcast on the Blaze Radio Network, and you can listen to him wherever you hear podcasts.
00:01:58.980 Hello, Pat.
00:01:59.660 Can and should.
00:02:01.300 Well...
00:02:01.860 You know?
00:02:02.480 You can.
00:02:03.160 I know where you live.
00:02:04.960 Right, okay.
00:02:05.440 I'll track you down.
00:02:06.280 Now, we were talking about how Adam Schiff has just gotten the phone records from AT&T on his co-chair of the committee.
00:02:19.580 It's unbelievable.
00:02:20.480 And was not given a chance to defend himself.
00:02:24.560 And I don't know, Pat, if you've read, and I don't know if I have the strength right now to read the Washington Post article.
00:02:32.340 It's an article, not an opinion piece.
00:02:36.200 GOP embraces a debunked Ukrainian conspiracy to defend Trump from impeachment.
00:02:42.180 Republicans' promotion of Trump's Ukraine conspiracy theory is the latest example of their capitulation to him and of the GOP's rapid transformation on Russia from a party that for decades celebrated its hawkish stance towards the Kremlin to one that is reluctant to take a hard line and risk Trump's wrath.
00:03:04.740 I take a hard line all the time against Russia. 0.79
00:03:07.320 Now, there are some people who are on television, some people that are in Washington that are not, but Donald Trump has a much harsher policy on Russia than Obama ever did.
00:03:22.100 They sold the Kremlin uranium.
00:03:26.800 They sold our uranium to the Russians.
00:03:31.400 And let's not forget the Obama conversation with Medvedev that was captured on camera and microphone about after the election, he'd have a lot more leeway to do what Putin wanted him to do.
00:03:43.140 And let's not also forget that the Democrats have done the exact opposite of some Republicans.
00:03:49.160 And now, all of a sudden, to them, Russia is the greatest threat on Earth. 0.99
00:03:55.360 And it never was before.
00:03:58.100 Before, it was the 80s are calling, and they want their policy back.
00:04:00.960 We were voting for that guy.
00:04:02.980 We were voting for that guy when the Democrats and the press went and decided they were going to vote for the guy who said, yeah, right, well, the 80s called.
00:04:14.100 They want their policies back.
00:04:16.220 And we should point out the front runner for the Democratic nomination right now was in the administration that believed that Russia was such a non-threat that they could mock and say that, you know, mock him as an 80s Ivan Drago situation.
00:04:29.940 Yeah, it's not.
00:04:30.920 They've been a big threat the entire time.
00:04:32.620 And the fact that you're on the bandwagon now, I guess, is good.
00:04:37.020 But it's not real.
00:04:38.280 It's not real.
00:04:39.040 I mean, it's obviously just opposing Trump.
00:04:41.080 If it was real, did you guys know that I think it was Ohio was just hacked in the last election?
00:04:51.120 They were hacked by the Russians. 0.98
00:04:52.460 They tried to.
00:04:53.380 We should point out that they stopped it.
00:04:54.820 Well, they said that it was a very, very low budget kind of attempt.
00:04:59.680 Well, OK, we can stop low budget.
00:05:03.100 What are the Russians doing? 0.98
00:05:06.340 Are we is anyone even looking at this?
00:05:09.380 By the way, none of us have ever cozied up to the Russians. 0.91
00:05:12.020 We've never said the Russians aren't a threat. 1.00
00:05:14.060 We've never said Putin is a good guy.
00:05:15.820 I've never none of us.
00:05:17.040 I don't think have ever said any of that.
00:05:18.860 There was a Tucker Carlson monologue that said all of those things just the other night.
00:05:22.520 Yes, I know there are some there are some there are some.
00:05:24.920 But it's it's it's exaggerated to say that most Republicans.
00:05:28.280 I was talking about the people in this room.
00:05:29.760 Right.
00:05:30.160 I know.
00:05:31.060 I know you got to be careful because there are some people who have who have the right.
00:05:35.480 Some Republicans have totally capitulated to everything Trump says and does.
00:05:39.440 And it's it's it's just have it's insanity.
00:05:41.880 Yeah, it's insanity.
00:05:42.920 Follow his policies.
00:05:44.340 Right.
00:05:44.740 Not his words.
00:05:45.560 Follow his policies.
00:05:47.160 He is very tough on Russia.
00:05:49.420 Tougher than anybody has been since, I think, the Cold War.
00:05:52.520 By far.
00:05:53.100 Yeah.
00:05:53.600 So I mean, tougher than Russia or Obama.
00:05:56.520 It's not even close.
00:05:56.940 Not even close.
00:05:57.940 Not even close.
00:05:58.880 And and this this phone tapping situation.
00:06:02.980 They better have a warrant for that.
00:06:05.100 And I'd like to see how they got that warrant.
00:06:08.280 Can you do that through FISA?
00:06:09.840 It's not a FISA.
00:06:10.700 I think so.
00:06:11.260 We can't.
00:06:11.680 We don't think that it's a FISA.
00:06:13.080 I don't think you could.
00:06:14.100 Because there's who's who's the foreign who's the foreign agent. 0.89
00:06:17.360 Yeah.
00:06:17.820 Yeah.
00:06:18.280 It does look like.
00:06:18.980 By the way, we talked about Parnas and those two guys.
00:06:22.400 Lev.
00:06:22.720 Lev.
00:06:23.700 Parnas.
00:06:24.160 And I can never remember the other guy's name.
00:06:25.500 But bottom line, they look like they immigrated early in their lives.
00:06:27.920 So, yes, they would be U.S. citizens.
00:06:29.560 Would not qualify here.
00:06:30.800 Right.
00:06:30.900 So, but they can claim it's part of the Russian investigation, maybe.
00:06:36.200 Possibly.
00:06:36.780 Are they trying to tie that in?
00:06:38.280 Maybe it was.
00:06:38.640 No, you still have to be able to present evidence.
00:06:42.240 You're going after.
00:06:43.420 What kind of evidence, Pat, would you have to have to go after somebody that you are going
00:06:51.440 after, and he's the president of the United States, and you say, I need all of the phone
00:06:57.520 records between the president and his personal attorney?
00:07:03.760 I don't know.
00:07:04.860 I mean, that's insane.
00:07:06.740 Yeah.
00:07:07.100 You'd have to have solid evidence, you would think.
00:07:08.900 The only explanation that makes any sense is that it was caught up in another separate
00:07:15.220 investigation, like the Southern District of New York, where they were able to access
00:07:19.240 the records, though I don't, that does not seem.
00:07:21.320 And they're just handing those records over to the.
00:07:23.480 And that wouldn't be a FISA situation, though.
00:07:25.240 Maybe someone just mailed them to them, you know?
00:07:27.340 Maybe it's just some helpful, helpful person.
00:07:29.900 Just like, you know, like, let's say like in Ukraine, where there is a big situation going
00:07:34.580 on, and they just happen to have all the records of Paul Manafort put together in a nice
00:07:38.580 ledger, and they just happen to get to the press somehow.
00:07:41.520 That's not Ukraine investigating, you know, in inserting themselves in our election process
00:07:46.840 at all by getting the guy who was running one of the campaigns fired and arrested and
00:07:52.320 put in prison.
00:07:53.800 But maybe there was just a helpful person who was walking down the street, saw the records
00:07:58.340 on the ground, picked them up, and put them in the mail right to Adam Schiff.
00:08:01.780 Something like that may have happened.
00:08:03.560 They happen to be on the ground?
00:08:04.580 You know what?
00:08:05.100 Sometimes people drop things, and maybe he thought they were Adam Schiff's, and just sent
00:08:08.880 them there.
00:08:09.480 And Adam opened up and said, oh my gosh, I didn't ask for these, but look at this is important
00:08:13.920 information, and I think we have to bring it to the American people.
00:08:17.720 I will tell you, I talked to Mike Lee yesterday, and I said, so Mike, what's the Senate going
00:08:25.220 to do?
00:08:26.380 And he said, I don't know yet.
00:08:28.720 And I said, they're not pushing for a trial?
00:08:32.280 Well, he's meeting with the White House attorney today, and the White House is kind of dictating
00:08:37.060 the kind of the plan.
00:08:39.460 Mike thinks there should be a trial.
00:08:42.760 Absolutely.
00:08:43.080 I think it was...
00:08:45.860 I think he said that on the air, didn't he, at one point?
00:08:47.320 Yeah, I think so.
00:08:48.780 And I said to him...
00:08:50.800 Trump has said there should be.
00:08:52.000 Yeah, he did today.
00:08:54.880 But there's something else.
00:08:56.920 I said, so if there's not a trial, Mike, if some reason why, God only knows why, Trump
00:09:04.100 says, you know what, they have nothing here, just blow it off, which I think is a mistake.
00:09:10.440 Will you open up on the Intelligence Committee for the Senate, will you open up an investigation
00:09:19.200 on the whistleblower and everybody else and how this happened?
00:09:23.600 Because if there's not enough evidence, and this is the show that we all know it is, these people
00:09:32.140 have to pay for that.
00:09:33.880 They have dragged us through four years of this, spent millions of dollars, lied, deceit,
00:09:42.100 hiding witnesses, working and colluding with the press.
00:09:48.200 I mean, somebody has to pay for that, or we're a banana republic.
00:09:51.160 And he did come out and say, I can't tell you who, he said, but there are a couple of
00:09:57.260 people who are chair people on a couple of committees, and they are talking privately
00:10:01.920 about, we want to open up investigations because this is all dirty.
00:10:07.700 I hope they do that.
00:10:08.500 I hope they do, too.
00:10:09.620 Too often, the Republicans just roll over and play dead.
00:10:12.860 Too often, they just capitulate, and they forget about it, and they sweep it under the
00:10:16.060 rug.
00:10:16.280 Look, this needs to be dealt with.
00:10:18.580 This, I think it's really important to deal with this.
00:10:21.760 We should point out that they have a real opportunity to do that, and they haven't failed yet.
00:10:26.100 I mean, we kind of assume the failure.
00:10:28.400 Probably going to.
00:10:28.940 Because they only suck.
00:10:30.420 They always let us know.
00:10:31.760 They always suck.
00:10:32.300 I mean, it's true.
00:10:33.300 But they do have a Senate trial coming up, and they control it.
00:10:39.040 Constitutionally, they can do whatever they want with it.
00:10:41.000 Uh-huh.
00:10:41.440 So let's see them do it.
00:10:42.720 Yeah, like overturning Obamacare.
00:10:44.540 Well, they don't have a constitutional right to overturn Obamacare.
00:10:48.120 They do have a constitutional right to handle the Senate trial however they want.
00:10:51.720 And so they need to utilize that and actually make the case.
00:10:54.080 I'm not giving them a pass here, but we should at least wait until they fail, or at least
00:10:57.800 begin failing before we say they failed.
00:11:00.100 I'm not saying that they failed.
00:11:01.880 Yes, you are.
00:11:02.920 You're just saying there's a really good chance they're going to.
00:11:04.720 There's a really good chance they're going to.
00:11:06.720 And I'm going to be really pissed.
00:11:08.800 Over under the chances Nikki Haley runs for president in 2024, because that's 110%. 1.00
00:11:14.420 Yeah.
00:11:14.960 What is your percentage in your mind that they fail here?
00:11:17.180 That they fail?
00:11:17.800 Yes.
00:11:18.500 140?
00:11:19.040 Yeah, right.
00:11:19.700 That's what I'm saying.
00:11:20.800 I think.
00:11:21.120 Definitely over the chances of Nikki Haley.
00:11:24.220 Okay.
00:11:24.720 So one other thing I want to talk about.
00:11:26.940 You were on a transgender athlete, and you have so much hate that's inside of you. 0.85
00:11:36.260 No, I just want to show you that there's no difference between a trans woman, you know,
00:11:40.500 who's actually biologically a man still, and the actual biological woman.
00:11:45.460 You won't be able to tell.
00:11:46.840 Now, they're lined up here in Australia.
00:11:50.560 Hang on just a second.
00:11:51.760 If you need to go to the cry room, you can go to the cry room.
00:11:54.860 No, you're safe space right now, because Pat only goes worse from here.
00:11:58.560 No, this is better.
00:12:00.020 All right.
00:12:00.240 I'm going to show you that there's no difference.
00:12:01.660 There's no difference.
00:12:02.960 Okay.
00:12:03.420 What was that butter commercial?
00:12:04.660 There's no difference.
00:12:05.600 Remember that one?
00:12:06.460 No.
00:12:06.880 There's no difference here.
00:12:08.240 So they're lined up, and they're about to play Australian rules handball.
00:12:14.220 And if you could play the video for us, you'll see that you can't tell.
00:12:19.720 Weighing 100 kilos and blessed with a mighty kicking kick.
00:12:22.820 Can you pause it for a second?
00:12:24.440 Can you pause it right there?
00:12:25.740 No, I don't see.
00:12:26.460 No, you can't.
00:12:27.520 You cannot tell.
00:12:28.680 I can't tell.
00:12:30.460 I can't tell.
00:12:31.920 Which is the 6'2", 220-pound man, and which are the women? 0.99
00:12:38.280 There's no way to tell.
00:12:39.460 It's on the line.
00:12:41.660 It's on the line.
00:12:42.420 Well, I will say she does have breasts. 1.00
00:12:45.080 And not like my breasts.
00:12:46.320 She's had implants. 0.60
00:12:47.320 She's had implants. 0.60
00:12:48.260 Okay.
00:12:48.580 So she's living her life.
00:12:49.880 Good for her.
00:12:50.540 She was quite recently a he. 0.99
00:12:53.920 And was playing Australian rules football, which is rugby to us.
00:12:58.160 But apparently didn't dominate the men. 0.67
00:13:00.580 And so now dominating the women. 0.94
00:13:04.060 To the extent in rugby where they kicked her out of the league,
00:13:07.120 and now she's playing handball and dominating that league instead. 1.00
00:13:10.860 I just, come on.
00:13:13.020 Can we not?
00:13:13.920 I think Johnny Notchville made a movie that was roughly similar to this.
00:13:18.300 Except he was, I think, I think he was saying he was going to be in the
00:13:20.640 Special Olympics and dominate the Special Olympics. 0.98
00:13:23.740 And, you know, it's funny how.
00:13:26.000 How dare you compare us?
00:13:26.520 How?
00:13:26.980 Oh, my.
00:13:28.140 I'm not comparing.
00:13:29.240 I'm saying, and I don't know why you're saying that would be a bad
00:13:31.920 comparison.
00:13:32.480 What are you saying?
00:13:34.620 It is interesting.
00:13:35.860 Wait, who's saying the worst thing now?
00:13:37.180 I don't know.
00:13:37.820 I don't even know.
00:13:38.260 One of us.
00:13:38.700 Glenn's saying quiet.
00:13:39.460 What I'm saying is totally fine.
00:13:44.800 You can't just categorize it as totally fine.
00:13:47.980 You have to say something.
00:13:49.180 Until people can read minds, and that's coming soon.
00:13:52.420 It is.
00:13:53.000 I'm totally good.
00:13:54.000 First of all, the Knoxville movie, how was it made this recently?
00:13:56.720 It was only, what, 10 years ago.
00:13:57.960 It was okay to say you could pretend to be in the Special Olympics and
00:14:02.140 dominate.
00:14:02.720 Like, that was okay that recently.
00:14:04.900 But beyond that.
00:14:05.740 Stephen King called me Satan's mentally challenged younger brother.
00:14:10.740 Right.
00:14:11.200 So doesn't that qualify me as a Special Olympian?
00:14:16.260 It's fair.
00:14:17.080 It's a fair question.
00:14:18.040 All right.
00:14:18.480 It's a fair question.
00:14:19.300 But that is a, it's like a joke, right?
00:14:23.300 Like you, to be able to just change, I'm no longer a boy.
00:14:27.760 I'm now a girl.
00:14:28.900 And then you dominate women's sports. 1.00
00:14:30.900 Yeah.
00:14:31.040 Can I, can I, can I, it's happening all over the world, all over.
00:14:33.520 And it's, and it is hurting women. 1.00
00:14:36.480 It's hurting women. 1.00
00:14:37.380 What happened to the sensibility of protecting women?
00:14:39.720 By the way, the left is supposedly so concerned about protecting women.
00:14:45.280 Where are they now?
00:14:46.520 What a sexist.
00:14:47.000 Now he's much worse than me.
00:14:48.020 I think the line is clear now.
00:14:49.560 Pat is the big violation here.
00:14:51.540 Wait a minute.
00:14:51.900 What is it you're actually thinking though?
00:14:53.840 What?
00:14:54.440 Huh?
00:14:54.620 He's thinking something much worse than I just said.
00:14:57.260 We don't even have to be able to read minds.
00:14:59.360 We just know.
00:15:00.280 I'm thinking something that is absolutely not problematic.
00:15:03.740 That's what I'm thinking.
00:15:06.620 All right.
00:15:07.400 Thanks, Pat.
00:15:08.220 Appreciate it.
00:15:09.720 Pat Gray Unleashed on Blaze Radio and TV.
00:15:15.320 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:15:23.740 Hey, it's Glenn.
00:15:24.720 And you're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.
00:15:26.700 If you like what you're hearing on this show, make sure you check out Pat Gray Unleashed.
00:15:31.140 It's available wherever you download your favorite podcasts.
00:15:35.180 Nick DiPaolo joins us now.
00:15:36.780 He is the host of the Nick DiPaolo Show.
00:15:39.120 And you can find him at his website, nickdip.com.
00:15:43.440 How are you?
00:15:44.880 Where you been, lover?
00:15:46.800 This impeachment hearing thing is just relentless.
00:15:50.920 I gave up on it.
00:15:53.020 We already know how it's going to work.
00:15:55.240 Impeached in the house.
00:15:57.160 And then he's not going to get convicted.
00:15:59.160 It's like following a bad Judd Apatow movie.
00:16:03.920 You know?
00:16:04.780 The boyfriend's going to be the idiot at the end.
00:16:07.180 And the girlfriend's the hero. 0.63
00:16:08.680 Right.
00:16:08.820 I suggest you start watching more wrestling and football, Glenn.
00:16:13.620 Don't follow this crap.
00:16:14.800 I think, you know, I really, I follow it against my will.
00:16:19.700 I follow it because I'm paid to follow it.
00:16:22.680 But I honestly, I don't even know.
00:16:26.040 I have no idea how anyone thinks this is going to end up in their favor.
00:16:30.880 How does any Democrat think this is going to end up in their favor?
00:16:34.180 I think at this point, they're just doing it because they're not legislating.
00:16:40.160 They're not doing their jobs.
00:16:42.040 So they have to look busy.
00:16:43.640 And they've wanted Trump's head since he came down the escalator.
00:16:47.560 But you're right.
00:16:48.380 It's going to blow up in their face.
00:16:50.500 And I went to school with Jonathan Turley.
00:16:53.560 I went to George Washington.
00:16:54.800 And he tried to cheat off me.
00:16:56.540 So did he really?
00:16:58.720 You don't think I went to that school.
00:17:00.380 Did you?
00:17:01.480 Well, I mean, there's a chance.
00:17:03.260 You're a pretty smart guy.
00:17:05.340 But sounding like that, I don't.
00:17:07.800 I had a 2.4 in business administration at the University of Maine.
00:17:12.500 And that's with cheating.
00:17:14.280 Right, right.
00:17:16.280 But Turley's good.
00:17:17.280 So, Nick, what have you been paying attention to?
00:17:19.920 What have you been following?
00:17:21.020 What is?
00:17:22.280 Yeah, the NFL.
00:17:23.380 I've got a real gambling problem.
00:17:26.360 So what do you think of this Colin Kaepernick thing?
00:17:30.560 What was it?
00:17:31.220 Detroit had an opening.
00:17:33.860 They're going through everybody.
00:17:35.120 I think they called my daughter.
00:17:36.940 You know, would you be willing to try out Kaepernick?
00:17:39.160 Nothing.
00:17:41.120 I called your daughter, too.
00:17:42.940 Yeah.
00:17:43.660 Okay, that's disturbing.
00:17:45.400 That's really.
00:17:46.080 I have no idea how old she is.
00:17:47.720 That was just a joke.
00:17:49.180 But even.
00:17:50.300 I have a daughter who's 30 and 31.
00:17:53.080 That's still disturbing that you're calling her.
00:17:55.300 No, it isn't.
00:17:56.220 Yes, it is.
00:17:56.760 Oh, come on. 0.87
00:17:58.300 Kaepernick is a.
00:17:59.440 He's a patriot.
00:18:00.700 He's a true American.
00:18:01.840 He loves this country.
00:18:03.360 Let me.
00:18:04.100 Just his haircut says, I hate Whitey. 1.00
00:18:06.820 Okay.
00:18:07.100 I can't stand his terrorist beard.
00:18:10.840 He's biracial.
00:18:12.380 He acts like he's 2,000% black. 0.99
00:18:15.000 He's at Alcatraz the other day talking to Native Americans.
00:18:18.560 You really think.
00:18:22.160 Did you really think a team was going to bite on him?
00:18:25.260 The stadiums are still empty because of the crap he pulled.
00:18:30.520 And who would be dumb enough?
00:18:33.320 Hey, when the Detroit Lions pass on you.
00:18:38.720 I mean, not exactly the New England Patriots there.
00:18:42.200 I mean.
00:18:42.600 You know, I was just.
00:18:43.300 I was thinking about it when he did this.
00:18:45.480 You know, he did his own tryout.
00:18:46.980 And then he wanted his own place to do the tryout.
00:18:49.620 And I thought.
00:18:50.620 What team.
00:18:51.760 Even if he was great.
00:18:53.360 What team wants this kind of hassle.
00:18:57.620 All the time.
00:18:58.600 This kind of drama all the time.
00:19:00.720 It would destroy a team.
00:19:02.780 I agree with that.
00:19:04.580 But then, you know, Belichick went after Antonio Brown.
00:19:07.660 So I started to have second.
00:19:11.240 But yeah, the guy's a cancer.
00:19:13.260 He did such damage to the NFL.
00:19:16.400 Well, I really believe these half-empty stadiums, which you don't hear about, have to do with that whole thing about nailing down.
00:19:24.740 He started all of it.
00:19:26.300 And there's no team desperate enough to bring this on.
00:19:31.500 I really believe that.
00:19:32.820 He's finished.
00:19:34.140 He's got to find something else.
00:19:35.460 Nike's made him a zillionaire.
00:19:36.980 So why does anybody even buy anything Nike anymore?
00:19:41.140 I don't know.
00:19:41.640 I honestly don't know.
00:19:42.840 Let's not forget that Colin Kaepernick lost his job to Blaine Gabbert before he started kneeling.
00:19:48.000 This is not an NFL superstar.
00:19:49.500 Don't bring logic and reason into it, Stu.
00:19:51.020 That's a great point.
00:19:51.960 What's wrong with you, man?
00:19:52.580 This is about emotion.
00:19:54.160 And the racist country.
00:19:55.820 And gender.
00:19:56.920 And the systemic racism that keeps this guy down.
00:20:01.440 I have to tell you, I think there's a massive backlash coming to all this.
00:20:05.920 It is everything in me says that it's falling apart.
00:20:10.420 And there's just going to be just a large group of Americans who just stand up and go, shut up.
00:20:19.240 Shut up. 0.95
00:20:19.820 As long as they stand up during the national anthem, I don't have a problem with it.
00:20:23.420 When you say it back, I thought you were talking about the impeachment again.
00:20:26.560 Are we talking about Kaepernick or the impeachment?
00:20:29.820 Who's more anti-American, Adam Schiff or Colin Kaepernick?
00:20:34.160 Did you see what AT&T and Schiff did?
00:20:37.440 They somehow or another got the phone records of the co-chair, Nunez, and the president and his personal attorney.
00:20:49.000 That's insane.
00:20:50.840 How did they do that?
00:20:52.180 That's hacking.
00:20:55.420 The Washington Post said, presumably with a warrant.
00:21:01.640 Well, right there, you're supposed to, as a journalistic publication, isn't presumably the thing you don't want to say?
00:21:10.100 We heard forefand that they got a—
00:21:13.500 I mean, we just presume that they're doing this the right way.
00:21:16.860 The bathroom attendant at the Verizon building heard a guy rocking to a guy who got Nunez.
00:21:22.900 This is all underhanded.
00:21:25.180 It's all baloney.
00:21:27.760 Adam Schiff is creepy.
00:21:29.300 He's drunk with power.
00:21:31.580 And just after two and a half years of the Russia investigation, I can't believe people are still saying, yes, Trump should be impeached.
00:21:41.300 This country deserves what it gets, Glenn.
00:21:43.600 Nick, I'm telling you, I don't think people are saying that.
00:21:45.900 Nobody I talked to over the holiday, nobody was talking about this.
00:21:51.520 Well, that's a great sample size, Glenn.
00:21:54.040 And you and your uncle and two kids and—
00:21:56.320 No, no, no, no.
00:21:57.320 But I've asked other people as well.
00:22:00.200 I mean, were you really having arguments about this at the dinner table?
00:22:05.260 Because at the dinner table, even my dinner table, during the election, there was all kinds of back and forth and, you know, polite, but all kinds of back and forth.
00:22:15.400 Not on this.
00:22:16.520 Everybody's just like, I don't care.
00:22:18.120 Well, I got my sister-in-law on a headlock, and we knocked over the turkey and the cranberry sauce. 1.00
00:22:23.200 I almost choked her out, and then she saw it my way.
00:22:26.400 Trump is clean as a whistle.
00:22:28.960 We're going to get back to the news here in a second.
00:22:31.000 But, Nick, before we take a break here, this Saturday, Glenn Beck is going on the stage in Salt Lake City for his Christmas show, which some have described as stand-up comedy in the past.
00:22:46.680 Now, I'm interested to see what your opinion would be of something like this.
00:22:53.020 This is not friendly.
00:22:53.420 And I'm wondering if there's a way, if we were to get you video of some of this performance—
00:22:57.340 Don't you dare.
00:22:57.840 —if you would critique it and let us know if Glenn is actually good at this activity.
00:23:03.380 Oh, sort of like a Dancing with the Stars thing?
00:23:05.800 I'll be one of the judges.
00:23:06.520 Oh, my gosh.
00:23:07.320 Oh, my gosh.
00:23:08.420 I would love that.
00:23:09.320 I don't want to say the word roast, but, I mean—
00:23:12.140 No, I don't think we—
00:23:13.220 I couldn't do a roast on the Glenn Beck show.
00:23:15.100 I can't even say poop without getting arrested.
00:23:17.380 How am I going to do a roast?
00:23:19.140 But I would love to see this footage.
00:23:21.660 Glenn, are you dressed like an angel?
00:23:23.720 No, I have thought about that in the past.
00:23:26.360 You know what, Nick?
00:23:26.980 Honestly, this was something they've been asking me to do this because we used to—I used to do about 30, 40 shows a year.
00:23:34.600 And, as you know, stand-up comedy is really hard, and you have to really—you know, you work on it.
00:23:43.920 Well, this is a one-off show that, you know, I'm just going out and doing, and I'm so nervous.
00:23:51.540 It's just going to be flop sweat the whole time.
00:23:54.340 Alcohol is for Glenn.
00:23:57.660 For the love of—that's the first thing you put in your rider.
00:24:00.600 Right.
00:24:01.360 I want a six-pack of Mick Ultra.
00:24:03.700 Right.
00:24:04.480 In my dressing room.
00:24:06.020 Seeing that I'm an alcoholic, that might—well, it would work for a good show, quickly.
00:24:11.020 A thousand apologies.
00:24:12.780 Weed is what you're looking for.
00:24:16.280 No, I would love to see that.
00:24:18.160 Yeah, no.
00:24:18.540 You're a funny guy.
00:24:19.320 You did radio.
00:24:20.560 You shouldn't be nervous.
00:24:21.880 You talked to 10 million people a week.
00:24:23.740 Yeah.
00:24:23.880 Come on.
00:24:24.380 Relax.
00:24:24.900 Yeah.
00:24:25.220 They're Mormons.
00:24:25.920 They'll laugh at everything.
00:24:26.740 Yeah.
00:24:30.240 All right.
00:24:30.880 Nick DiPaolo, Nick Dip.
00:24:32.160 You can find his comedy special, A Breath of Fresh Air.
00:24:35.800 You can find that at nickdip.com.
00:24:39.080 You can watch it for free, nickdip.com.
00:24:41.820 Nick DiPaolo, thank you so much for joining us.
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00:25:20.360 Thanks.
00:25:20.820 I hate when John Solomon is on because I've just got to rattle through so many questions
00:25:25.460 because he is a treasure trove of information.
00:25:29.600 Welcome to the program, John.
00:25:30.860 How are you?
00:25:31.600 Good to be with you, Glenn.
00:25:32.720 Thank you.
00:25:33.420 Good.
00:25:33.640 I want to just try to keep this as rapid fire as we can.
00:25:37.220 Sure.
00:25:37.420 Because I've got about 14 pages of questions.
00:25:40.480 Wow.
00:25:41.260 The Democratic report is out.
00:25:44.340 Your name is all over it.
00:25:45.760 It includes your name on a list of AT&T phone records.
00:25:49.980 Right.
00:25:50.320 Does Schiff have the legal grounds to do this?
00:25:53.280 How did he obtain it?
00:25:54.900 Can he legally unmask an American citizen in the name in an official report like this?
00:26:01.920 Well, first off, I don't have AT&T as a phone service.
00:26:04.540 So those most likely aren't my records.
00:26:06.920 They're likely someone else's records where my phone calls show up.
00:26:11.880 And, you know, anytime the government uses its power in a subpoena or a warrant or a, you know,
00:26:20.120 I think these are probably congressional subpoenas.
00:26:21.640 As we know, they announced subpoenas for Lev Parnas and Rudy Giuliani.
00:26:25.940 My suspicion, without having been able to get confirmation yet, is that my phone records just simply show up in some of their call logs that we know were subpoenaed.
00:26:35.900 Anytime the government uses that power, it has a chilling effect on you as a reporter.
00:26:40.100 Who wants to call me the next time if they think, you know, their records could be subpoenaed or shown on screen?
00:26:45.120 But at the end of the day, what does it show?
00:26:47.480 It shows I'm a reporter that was engaged in reporting.
00:26:50.660 In March and April of 2019, the Russia Mueller report was coming down.
00:26:55.640 Of course I was talking to Rudy Giuliani.
00:26:57.820 So was the New York Times and every other major news organization in America.
00:27:01.600 They've made to look scandalous what it's supposed to be, what reporters do every day, talk to all sides of a story and do journalism.
00:27:09.760 I wonder if you're going to file a lawsuit at all about, you know, being followed by the government or with AT&T or the government if they didn't obtain it the right way.
00:27:21.540 Or really a lawsuit against the smears that are coming your way.
00:27:25.900 Let me read something from the Washington Post.
00:27:27.640 Last night, there was never any real story here.
00:27:30.960 There were only an effort by Giuliani to scare up a bogus line attack against Democrats in preparation for the 2020 presidential election.
00:27:39.280 The record demonstrates that Solomon's work advanced that campaign, end quote.
00:27:44.800 Yeah, I guess if you want to ignore the facts, you can take that position.
00:27:49.800 And then the Washington Post has a good history of ignoring the facts.
00:27:52.920 That's why they got large parts of the Russia collusion story together.
00:27:57.040 I'd compare my reporting on Russia collusion against theirs any days, and I think the American public's verdict will be clear.
00:28:03.080 But let me describe what are the political issues, and then people can judge for themselves.
00:28:07.820 Isn't it a fair issue to ask whether Joe Biden created the perception of a conflict of interest when he fired a prosecutor who he knew was overseeing an investigation of his son?
00:28:18.180 Regardless of his motive, because I never established one way or the other what the motive was.
00:28:21.940 I established the timeline and the facts that it happened.
00:28:25.020 Those are public interest issues.
00:28:26.460 And what did Adam Schiff's witnesses tell us?
00:28:28.440 The State Department, two years, three years before I wrote my story, shared those same concerns and tried to raise them with Joe Biden.
00:28:36.620 So there was a public interest there.
00:28:38.560 The Washington Post apparently doesn't see that because it affects a Democrat.
00:28:42.220 The second issue was there was a dysfunctional relationship between our U.S. embassy and the Ukraine prosecutors charged with fighting corruption.
00:28:50.200 Donald Trump's talking about corruption.
00:28:51.580 They're criticizing him for maybe considering withholding aid because of corruption.
00:28:54.860 Well, if the State Department has a bad relationship with the people fighting corruption, you're never going to solve the problem.
00:29:01.420 I highlighted those issues.
00:29:02.900 Every one of those issues were confirmed in Adam Schiff's testimony.
00:29:06.940 And then the third issue was there were isolated incidents by government officials in Ukraine to interfere in the U.S. election.
00:29:14.760 Now, was it as systemic as Russia was found to be by our U.S. intelligence committee?
00:29:19.260 No, nor did I ever claim it.
00:29:20.980 What I said was there were these isolated instances where a DNC contractor seeks dirt from the embassy, where the ambassador writes an op-ed criticizing Donald Trump in the mid-election, and where two government officials knowingly and willfully released evidence they weren't supposed to release to force Paul Manafort's resignation.
00:29:37.600 And, by the way, a Ukrainian court concluded that was an intrusion on the U.S. election.
00:29:41.640 Those are three legitimate journalism storylines.
00:29:45.380 And the Washington Post, by its own admission, shows its bias by not acknowledging the importance of those issues to the American public.
00:29:52.840 It's something I have just never – I've never seen anything so obvious as this before.
00:29:57.760 They are trying to make it look and paint this picture that you, Giuliani, and his two associates, they used you as the engine for some sort of giant propaganda and smear operation.
00:30:12.300 Can you address the relationship and communications with Giuliani and his two associates?
00:30:17.640 Absolutely.
00:30:18.640 So I have acknowledged from the beginning, and my bosses were fully aware and approved of this, that in March of 2019, after more than a year or nearly a year of reporting on Ukraine issues, I was still at a loggerhead.
00:30:35.880 I couldn't get some of these Ukraine officials to talk on the record.
00:30:38.600 I knew everything on background, had lots of documents.
00:30:40.620 But after a year of reporting, I didn't have anyone on record.
00:30:44.780 Joe DeGentleman, Victoria Tensing, are two of my lawyers.
00:30:49.360 I sent a draft or went over a draft with one of my stories with them saying, hey, can you go over libel and help me on some issues here?
00:30:55.560 And they said, listen, you're struggling with this issue being on the record.
00:30:58.420 And I said, yes, I want to get people on the record.
00:31:00.160 I want people to believe it because people put their name to it.
00:31:02.600 And they said, well, we have this guy named Lev Parnas that we work with on some of our Ukrainian cases.
00:31:07.660 He's a translator.
00:31:08.740 He's a facilitator.
00:31:09.860 He knows a lot of people.
00:31:11.260 Maybe he can help you get those people to talk on the record.
00:31:13.560 And so before I knew Rudy was involved or had anything to do with it, I talked to Lev.
00:31:18.440 Lev Parnas said, I know some of these people.
00:31:20.740 Give me a list of people you want to interview.
00:31:22.280 I gave him a list of four or five people.
00:31:24.060 And he opened the door.
00:31:25.620 When he opened the door, when he went out and got people say, listen, can you try talking to John Solomon?
00:31:30.720 I then went through the official channels, as I had been trying for months.
00:31:34.180 I went through the press office of the prosecutor general and the press office of Sergey Lyshenko and others.
00:31:39.120 And I confirmed these were legitimate interviews.
00:31:42.380 These are going to be done free will and that we can put them on videotapes so the world can see them.
00:31:46.980 And I did exactly what a journalist does.
00:31:48.820 And then and I got those interviews.
00:31:50.180 Now, after my stories began emerging, Rudy Giuliani, who I talked about, talked with a lot about the Russia case, because he was the president's defense man on that case, occasionally would call me and he would tell me something or he'd offer to help.
00:32:04.900 So in the end, nothing I can say this.
00:32:07.840 And I know Rudy would confirm this.
00:32:09.580 Why Rudy did pass some information to me in June when he finished his investigation.
00:32:13.080 That was long after my columns were done.
00:32:15.360 Nothing he gave me at any time or that he suggested or texted to me or emailed me ever showed up in any of my stories.
00:32:21.580 Why?
00:32:21.840 I either had it already or it didn't check out for me.
00:32:25.680 There are some things he's mentioned publicly that he's passed on to other reporters, myself included.
00:32:29.800 They didn't check out.
00:32:30.640 So I didn't report him.
00:32:31.520 I don't report things that aren't true.
00:32:33.420 So that's what reporters do on a daily basis.
00:32:36.120 And the idea that The Washington Post and Schiff could demonize this is bad for journalism, bad for free speech and certainly hurtful to me.
00:32:43.540 All right.
00:32:43.900 So you are all over this again.
00:32:47.160 You are the propaganda machine.
00:32:49.080 I guess you're like the Goebbels maybe of this story, according to the the the press and and the left.
00:32:57.080 But but they had did they call you to testify?
00:33:01.200 Have you been did you expect to be called?
00:33:03.700 Are you expecting to be called by the Senate?
00:33:06.720 I don't, you know, and again, I'd have to.
00:33:09.920 There are lots of obligations I have as a journalist, including the IP is owned by the Hill.
00:33:13.840 So if that event ever occurred, if I ever was sought to participate, I'd have to go through a process that all journalists have to go through.
00:33:21.580 But there is a lot of supposition that in all of these accusations and all of this smear campaign against me, nobody wants to look at the facts.
00:33:30.380 It's all designed to distract from the facts that I actually have reported.
00:33:33.960 The facts I have reported are incontrovertible.
00:33:36.700 They actually happened.
00:33:38.360 Joe Biden did force the firing.
00:33:40.120 He did use laid.
00:33:41.860 He knew the guy that he was firing was investigating his son.
00:33:45.620 He says he had one intention.
00:33:47.340 The prosecutor suspects he had another.
00:33:48.880 That's a he said, she said, but those facts are not in dispute.
00:33:52.560 And all of this effort by Adam Schiff, the Democrats and his allies in the media are designed to distract from the fact that the factual trail in my stories is true and unassailable.
00:34:04.100 So they engage in character assassination and assassination by affiliation or by assassination by phone records with no context.
00:34:11.420 I guarantee you, if you ran Rudy Giuliani's phone records, you'd find lots of other reporters in them.
00:34:17.760 Not the only one.
00:34:19.040 Why did they single me out?
00:34:20.440 Because my reporting has been inconvenient to the Democrats and The Washington Post and The New York Times for three years.
00:34:25.980 So I helped unravel the Russia collusion bogus narrative.
00:34:30.060 And now I put another narrative out there that's important, factual, worth debate that they don't like either.
00:34:36.260 All right.
00:34:36.420 I'm going to take a one minute break and then I come back because I want to talk to you about that factual information and why the Republicans don't seem to be using the actual documents and the recordings and the taped testimonies.
00:34:53.260 Why are they not using any of that?
00:34:55.980 What is the game plan that maybe you could see?
00:35:01.040 We're talking to John Solomon.
00:35:02.700 He is the guy who has really busted this story wide open, done all the research, and he is being smeared by the press.
00:35:11.800 He is being smeared by Congress.
00:35:15.020 Just one quick cleanup question.
00:35:17.660 Do you have any inkling or any feeling that you will go after the media or shift with some sort of a lawsuit on what's happening?
00:35:27.080 Listen, my lawyers and I are taking a look at some of the more outrageously false claims that are in some of these news articles, and we'll make a decision soon on whether to take some action.
00:35:38.340 If I do so, it's not to make money.
00:35:40.080 It will be to correct the factual record so that the American public can make a better judgment about what's going on.
00:35:45.980 But, you know, it's sad.
00:35:48.080 It's sad to watch a profession ignore the facts and engage in ad hominem attacks when they have so many of the facts wrong.
00:35:55.320 I mean, I can go through any story and disassemble half the facts, and they're just simply wrong.
00:36:00.160 And I have great moments.
00:36:01.480 I've talked to – I had a Washington Post reporter call me one night, and they said, we're writing a story debunking your story.
00:36:07.440 And I said, which one?
00:36:07.940 Oh, I don't know, the one they're talking about on the Hill.
00:36:09.820 And I said, well, have you read the story?
00:36:10.960 And she said, no, I haven't.
00:36:12.820 And I said, well, how can you debunk something you haven't read?
00:36:14.660 I said, I don't have time to read it.
00:36:15.980 And I said, well, there's a very important document in the story.
00:36:18.180 Well, you'll have to send it to me because I don't have time to go get it.
00:36:21.060 Unbelievable.
00:36:21.400 That's how American journalism has been committed against me, and it's really scary.
00:36:26.180 All right.
00:36:26.640 So it's not just about you, but I want to talk about Lusanko.
00:36:30.400 Now, I've talked to Rudy Giuliani, and he's even said, Lusanko is – you know, he says one thing, then he says another.
00:36:36.180 So you can't always take everything that he says at face value, you know, and they're all corrupt, as he said.
00:36:43.640 Everybody, you just have to assume going in, don't trust anybody.
00:36:47.320 However, with Lusanko, his name is in this report over 60 times, and every single time he's mentioned, they call him corrupt, but they never cite a charge.
00:36:59.380 Why is he considered corrupt now when Biden labeled him as one of the good guys just, you know, the years prior?
00:37:08.380 What did he do?
00:37:09.880 Is there any charge?
00:37:11.360 Is there anything?
00:37:12.420 Because no – they all call him corrupt, but there is no evidence that we can find anywhere that he was charged or questioned about anything.
00:37:21.880 Yeah, in every column I wrote in Ukraine, I carefully noted to the reader that everything in Ukraine is a Wild West. 1.00
00:37:30.560 There's a lot of corruption, a lot of politics.
00:37:32.720 Take everything with a grain of salt, but there's enough that here in the factual evidence that you should look at.
00:37:37.720 When I – and again, I don't know of any corruption charges that were lodged against Lusanko formally, certainly not in the time when I interviewed him.
00:37:45.580 He was the sitting attorney general of the country, pretty senior official.
00:37:49.300 But I didn't just take Lusanko's word for things.
00:37:53.140 I went and got the State Department's side of the story.
00:37:55.800 And here's the important part.
00:37:57.480 There's very little difference between the State Department and Lusanko.
00:38:00.540 They want to argue over the word whether a list was given from the ambassador to him.
00:38:05.260 Whether it was a list or a set of names, the State Department has testified under oath.
00:38:09.560 Yes, we did pressure the Ukraine prosecutor's office on multiple cases not to pursue certain people that we liked or that we considered anti-corruption activists.
00:38:20.060 So the thing that Lusanko was highlighting, that there was this pressure that created resentment between the Ukrainians and the State Department, remains true today. 0.69
00:38:29.660 Whether there was a list or just some names discussed, the State Department was interfering in internal investigations of the Ukrainian government.
00:38:37.140 And that made the prosecutors mad.
00:38:39.040 And that's what created that dysfunction I highlighted.
00:38:41.340 And I think that's the part that the Democrats want to ignore because it's true. 1.00
00:38:45.660 Okay, so this this is so easy to explain with Lusanko, but I know you saw the Kent testimony when Kent was asked, did we pressure?
00:38:55.320 Is there any pressure on the embassy, you know, from the embassy or from the State Department to not prosecute anybody?
00:39:03.800 He said, absolutely not.
00:39:05.800 I can't imagine we did this.
00:39:07.880 I know you have it.
00:39:09.720 We have it as well.
00:39:11.040 A three page letter written by Kent.
00:39:14.280 It must.
00:39:15.240 And he in the deposition, right?
00:39:17.400 So here's where here's where the State Department officials get exposed for their diplo speak and their double speak.
00:39:24.600 They'll say it really wasn't pressure when we wrote a letter saying there's no evidence and you shouldn't be pursuing George Soros's group called Antac.
00:39:32.200 It wasn't really pressure when we told them we don't think you should investigate the parliamentary member, Lusanko.
00:39:37.220 It really wasn't pressure when we told them not to investigate the journalist named Shabanan.
00:39:42.520 Well, guess what?
00:39:43.660 The Ukrainians took that as pressure.
00:39:45.140 And why?
00:39:45.680 Because they're relying on the U.S. embassy and their aid to survive as a country.
00:39:50.400 So they can play semantics with pressure.
00:39:53.700 They can play semantics with lists.
00:39:55.680 But what they did was specifically instruct the Ukrainians on multiple occasions, we don't want you pursuing, harassing, investigating, prosecuting these people. 0.77
00:40:06.240 And before I did my stories, I interviewed the State Department and they said, yeah, we did that.
00:40:11.660 Yep, that name we did.
00:40:12.640 Yep, that name we did.
00:40:13.500 And I put that in the story.
00:40:15.000 I did a lot of reporting that didn't rely on either Yovanovich or Lusanko's account of the meeting.
00:40:21.900 It relied on the bigger issue.
00:40:23.720 Is there a dysfunction and pressure going on between the embassy?
00:40:26.360 And that remains true today.
00:40:28.440 So, John, I mean, the volumes of information that you have, the documents that we have shared with you, you've given to us and we have found additional stuff.
00:40:44.120 But why, this case is so clear, why are the Republicans not sitting down when they're called a conspiracy theory?
00:40:54.920 Why are they not sitting in front of television saying, here's the document?
00:41:01.040 Why is this not happening?
00:41:03.700 You know, I don't know.
00:41:05.100 I don't know the answer.
00:41:05.920 In some cases they have.
00:41:06.920 I mean, Devin Nunes has made some pretty strong statements during the hearings.
00:41:10.020 And I think Lindsey Graham now is requesting some of these documents, right?
00:41:14.000 There was a document request just last week.
00:41:16.260 I think at the end of the day, you know, each side, each party is going to come to whatever they think their best strategy is, both for resolving impeachment and for 2020 politics and just for traditional oversight.
00:41:27.400 But there is a body of evidence that you have, I have, Rudy Giuliani has, ABC News has, New York Times has.
00:41:35.200 Remember, before the New York Times, Washington Post and ABC and all these others turned on me, they confirmed my stories back in May and April.
00:41:41.460 And then they abandoned them when the criticism of the Democrats began, which is a really odd dynamic in America.
00:41:47.880 But there is a body of trail that those three issues we talked about are true, and they're important oversight issues.
00:41:54.240 And somebody should step to the plate and look at them.
00:41:56.480 That's why I wrote the columns, not to demean any ambassador or cause anything to cause, to highlight public interest issues that probably needed oversight.
00:42:03.660 And, you know, I think the country, most, many people in the country appreciate what I did.
00:42:09.260 Hopefully Congress will do its job and do the oversight and get to the bottom of these issues.
00:42:13.400 I hope so, too.
00:42:14.620 I hope so, too.
00:42:15.460 John, thank you so much for your reporting.
00:42:18.340 And I feel for you.
00:42:20.060 I know what it's like to be.
00:42:22.200 You've been there.
00:42:22.900 Yeah.
00:42:23.220 And where do you go to get your reputation back?
00:42:26.640 I want you to know we are grateful, and there are millions of Americans that are grateful for what you've done.
00:42:32.900 John Solomon.
00:42:33.480 That means a lot.
00:42:34.360 You bet.
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00:43:02.480 I did about an hour or so with Nikki Haley, commercial-free, and it is on the impeachment and on her time and what she saw behind the scenes.
00:43:16.100 And I want to play a couple of clips.
00:43:17.800 If you're a BlazeTV subscriber, you'll get this tomorrow.
00:43:21.660 It'll be available online for the next couple of days.
00:43:24.380 Saturday, it will go everywhere else on my podcast, but you'll get it early, and it is really worth watching.
00:43:30.140 Here's Nikki Haley on the impeachment.
00:43:32.480 I think the investigation actually should start here in the United States.
00:43:35.940 I think we should look at what sort of conflict of interest Biden had, what was said to the prosecutor, because we've got the videos of things that he had said and things that he demanded.
00:43:45.560 I think we need to look into that.
00:43:47.000 But when you look at the facts, look at the phone calls that have all been provided, look at the facts.
00:43:54.840 He was talking to the president of Ukraine about corruption.
00:43:58.780 That president was elected to stop corruption.
00:44:02.620 So there were two presidents having a conversation.
00:44:06.260 Him bringing up the investigation.
00:44:08.240 The investigation didn't happen.
00:44:09.920 There's no sign of browbeating.
00:44:11.660 There's no sign of threats.
00:44:13.260 And the money flowed.
00:44:14.480 I don't know at what point that even qualifies for impeachment.
00:44:19.600 And that's the thing is it's just so desperate.
00:44:23.860 You know, it's been one investigation after another investigation after another one.
00:44:28.180 The people are getting tired.
00:44:29.940 But more than that, the Democrats might slightly have an ounce of credibility had they not been trying to do this since the day he was elected.
00:44:37.640 She goes into how the the attacks on the president are so unconstitutional and within his own cabinet.
00:44:50.960 Listen to her tell the story about Rex Tillerson trying to, quote, save the country.
00:44:55.960 This was a real concern for me because I saw that he was slow walking things or I saw that they just weren't doing what the president was asking in the National Security Council meetings.
00:45:06.220 But on this day, we had had a meeting in the Oval Office and it was about giving Palestinian aid.
00:45:12.220 And I wanted to pull the aid because they were anti-American.
00:45:16.480 This agency wasn't willing to reform.
00:45:18.480 It was a waste of taxpayer dollars.
00:45:20.860 The president agreed with me.
00:45:23.380 Kelly brought in Rex.
00:45:24.920 Rex countered it.
00:45:26.400 And so he said, y'all go out and figure this out.
00:45:29.820 So me and Rex and Kelly were sitting there and we were talking for about an hour.
00:45:34.380 And I basically was saying, this is what the president wants.
00:45:38.640 And that's when they came in and they said, look, we're not undermining the president.
00:45:45.160 We're trying to save the country.
00:45:47.240 And if we don't do what we're doing by stalling or changing what he wants, people will die.
00:45:55.140 Now, this would be different if they thought he was unfit.
00:45:58.360 This would be different if they thought that he wasn't stable.
00:46:02.040 That's not what their issues were.
00:46:03.600 This is the fact that they didn't agree with getting out of the Iran deal.
00:46:06.940 They didn't agree of getting out of the Paris Climate Agreement.
00:46:09.280 They didn't agree with moving the embassy from Telenet to Telenet.
00:46:11.100 It's not theirs to agree with.
00:46:12.520 These were policy issues.
00:46:14.080 So if you don't agree on policy, do what I did and go tell the president.
00:46:18.560 But they had every opportunity in National Security Council meetings or quit.
00:46:23.760 Right.
00:46:24.580 And so that was the bottom line was they just thought they knew better than the president.
00:46:30.560 And the reason this touched a nerve with me is I ran for governor.
00:46:34.300 I know how hard it is to get elected.
00:46:36.720 I know when you make promises to the people that elected you, you want to carry it out.
00:46:41.520 I was offended that they were looking in the mirror every day thinking that they could be president.
00:46:46.860 It's quite remarkable.
00:46:50.920 And this goes to what the impeachment, I believe, is really all about.
00:46:54.500 The State Department.
00:46:55.300 That's Rex Tillerson at that time.
00:46:57.220 The State Department thinking they know best and they will do whatever they want to do.
00:47:01.660 And they've institutionalized it.
00:47:03.040 And we've shown you all of the documents that prove that.
00:47:05.500 But it was in Trump's own house as well.
00:47:09.320 And they are making him pay.
00:47:11.080 And it's sending a message to any other president.
00:47:14.880 We control the policy, not you.
00:47:18.580 So Nikki Haley, as we're talking, you know, she didn't start out as a fan of the president.
00:47:24.820 Her mom was always a fan of Donald Trump, but she wasn't.
00:47:28.240 And so I asked her to take me through the hoop here of how she went from not for Donald Trump
00:47:42.520 to Donald Trump's really best selection and biggest defender.
00:47:52.380 You were not for Trump in the beginning.
00:47:55.200 In the beginning, I was not.
00:47:56.220 You were Marco Rubio and then you went to Ted Cruz.
00:48:00.480 Your mom was.
00:48:02.920 She was for the she was for President Trump the whole time from the very first day.
00:48:08.380 And and she's an immigrant.
00:48:11.000 Oh, and she loved how straightforward he was.
00:48:14.860 She loved the fact that he wasn't going to let the United States get taken for granted.
00:48:17.920 But more than that, she loved what he was going to do on illegal immigration because my parents
00:48:22.800 came to this country because they wanted a better life for their kids.
00:48:27.060 And they put in the time, put in the price and came here legally.
00:48:31.720 They are offended by those who come here illegally. 1.00
00:48:34.680 So she very much wanted to do that.
00:48:37.000 And it's funny because we had a lot of talent on that stage.
00:48:39.640 Sixteen people.
00:48:40.260 Oh, yeah, good people.
00:48:40.880 I was so giddy about that slate.
00:48:43.520 And I put my my backing on Marco Rubio.
00:48:47.300 And I remember the president tweeted Nikki Haley's an embarrassment to South Carolina in which
00:48:53.280 I responded and tweeted, bless your heart.
00:48:57.720 Anybody who knows anything about the Carolinas.
00:49:01.080 That's just that's just a polite way to say F you love that.
00:49:07.840 But, you know, once he won the primary, I supported him in the general and we were friends
00:49:13.320 before we actually knew each other.
00:49:15.440 He supported me when I ran for governor the first time.
00:49:18.040 And I got this white envelope with this great gold trim and there was a support check in it.
00:49:23.840 And there was a note that said you're a winner.
00:49:25.540 And we were in touch the entire time.
00:49:28.040 But he would fax you stories about you.
00:49:30.620 Oh, yes, he would.
00:49:32.300 And he'd say, keep up the great work.
00:49:33.860 So we were we were acquaintances.
00:49:35.700 But, you know, I mean, all of us had to choose a horse and 16.
00:49:41.780 It's a fascinating, fascinating conversation with Nikki Haley.
00:49:46.780 You can listen to the podcast free for everybody on Saturday.
00:49:50.060 If you're a Blaze subscriber, you can get that probably at midnight tonight, but definitely
00:49:54.320 by this time tomorrow it will be posted.
00:49:57.460 And and there's a there's a lot of stuff in there.
00:50:00.340 And if you like Nikki Haley, you're going to come out liking her even more.
00:50:06.120 Nikki Haley 2024.
00:50:08.300 It's it's a great interview.
00:50:10.440 Very, very, very astute.
00:50:12.400 Very, very smart.
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