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Jill Savage, Dinesh D'Souza, and Allie Beth Stuckey join the show to talk about J.D. Vance's performance in the Democratic Debates. Also, Selena Zito talks about the dock strike and firsthand reactions from folks in Appalachia.
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Holy cow. Today was a jam-packed show. I know you've just dialed in to the best of,
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but today might be a full podcast show that you have to hear. Jam-packed. Jill Savage talks about
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the best moments that J.D. Vance had during last night's debate. Really good points. Dinesh D'Souza
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joined us to talk about vindicating Trump and how J.D. Vance did that in the debate last night as
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well. And Chip Roy joins the show to talk about Texas fighting off the invasion of dangerous
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Venezuelan gangs and what this means. He's saying we are at the end of the republic stage if we don't
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wake up and vote and vote the right way. Plus, on the full show podcast, more. You're going to hear
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from Liz Wheeler and Allie Beth Stuckey talking about the debate and really specifically about
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women and how do we, what should we send from the debate to our families and people who are
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skeptical. They know that Kamala Harris is in it, but they can't find themselves voting for Donald
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Trump. They talk about that. Also, Selena Zito talks about the dock strike and firsthand reactions from
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folks in Appalachia in last night's debate. It's really amazing. Got to hear all of it. That's the
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program. All right, you sick, twisted freak. We have Jill Savage with us now. She is the host of
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Blaze News Tonight, which airs every night, 7 Central, 8 Eastern. And welcome to the program.
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How are you? I am doing great. I'm doing great because we don't have to go through and say,
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oh, how did it go last night? Was it good? Was it bad? No. Everybody on the right that watched that,
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everybody that is a normie, Glenn, that watched that is like, wait, this J.D. Vance guy,
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they're trying to tell me he's weird. They're trying to tell me he's out there and crazy.
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This guy looks pretty normal. And you know what we get from that? The media, of course,
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anytime he's going to have a sit down interview, of course, they're going to try and frame it as
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whatever they can to make the right not in a good glowing image. Well, they worked hard at that last
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night. But with live debates, with live television, you can cut right through and speak directly to the
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American people without anyone interfering. And he shined so bright on that stage last night.
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The moment for me was when J.D. Vance came out, his opening remarks, and he hit it later with the
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economy stuff. But he brought back the American dream. Glenn, on this show, on any show that we're
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looking at over the last weekend, there's so much doom and gloom out there in the world right now.
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Right? We could have potential World War III, inflation, the port strikes. What's going on?
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People don't need to be reminded about how bad it is.
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You can tell you've been listening to this show for a long time.
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I love this show. I am one who wants the doom and gloom.
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She actually started watching when we were doing headline news at CNN. She was the one that watched
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But I look at it and say, okay, people are living their lives. It's hard enough as it is. And J.D.
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Vance went out on that stage multiple times last night and said, it's okay to still have the American
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dream. That, to me, is so important because we see poll after poll with millennials, with Gen Zers,
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and they say, you know what? I don't think that my life, my quality of life is going to surpass that
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that my parents had. Whether it's true or not, that's what they believe right now. And you need
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somebody to come back and say, no, it is still possible to live the American dream.
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So, I want to play that clip here in a second. But, you know, J.D. Vance, if I hear one more
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person say, you know, I grew up in a middle class. First of all, that's great. If you grew up in a
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middle class and you're now in upper class, fantastic. That's the story of America. But J.D. Vance came
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out and said, you know, I grew up in a middle class. I don't think he did.
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He grew up in the lowest of lower classes. I mean, his mom was addicted to heroin. I mean,
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He's underselling his story, which is hard to do. And they made the movie about it again. Go watch
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it this weekend on Netflix, Hillbilly Elegy. But when you look at what he was able to overcome
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from that childhood, and then Tim Walz is out there making fun of J.D. Vance for, oh, he went to Yale.
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Oh, okay. At what point are the leftists the one that are making fun of the Ivy League colleges?
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That's weird in and of itself. But the fact that J.D. Vance could stand there on stage at
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the RNC and say, my mom had struggled with addiction. And you know what? If I get into
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the White House along with Donald Trump, she will have her 10-year sober chip and we'll have that
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party in the White House. That story is incredible. And that's why the media will hate him even more.
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So listen to his opening statement. This is what Jill was talking about of hope. Listen to this.
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I want to answer the question, but I want to actually give an introduction to myself a little
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bit because I recognize a lot of Americans don't know who either one of us are.
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I was raised in a working class family. My mother required food assistance for periods of her life.
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My grandmother required Social Security help to raise me. And she raised me in part because my
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own mother struggled with addiction for a big chunk of my early life. I went to college on the GI Bill
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after I enlisted in the Marine Corps and served in Iraq. And so I stand here asking to be your
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vice president with extraordinary gratitude for this country, for the American dream that made
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it possible for me to live my dreams. And most importantly, I know that a lot of you are worried
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about the chaos in the world and the feeling that the American dream is unattainable.
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I want to try to convince you tonight over the next 90 minutes that if we get better leadership
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in the White House, if we get Donald Trump back in the White House, the American dream is going
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to be attainable once again. This is one of the reasons why I said he is the best vice president
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candidate of my lifetime. I can't think of anybody who's even in the category of this guy.
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He walks on stage. This is the first time Americans have seen him. Many Americans have seen him and
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seen him in a presidential debate. He could be president tomorrow. You know, I after 20 in 2028,
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assuming we still have elections in 2028, Ron DeSantis will have a run for his money because
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this guy is really solid. Absolutely. And he came out like a professor, right? What did he do last
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night in his opening statement? Here's what I'm going to tell you. Yes, we're going to learn. Here's what
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we're learning in the middle. And then at the end, wrapping it back up. Here's what we can do as a
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country. He knows how to frame a message. And oh, my gosh, you guys on the right, please. Can we have
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more of that? Ron DeSantis is very good at it. J.D. Vance is very good at it. It feels like the
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politicians, though, they forget that when they get on stage. All the messaging goes out the window and
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they're in front of the media. We need to clearly articulate our values, our principles, because we
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have the winning message. The masks are off. They are telling you on the left that they are flat out
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demonic. It's not it's not a hard game to play right now. This should be the easiest one to go
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through and message. It is a battle of good versus evil. And and we're on the winning side.
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So, you know, I'm I agree with you that this is a battle of good versus evil,
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but I don't think we get get anywhere by calling and I'm not saying you did this by calling Kamala
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evil or whatever. I think it is a bloodlust that comes from evil. But I actually think these people
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really think they're right. It's a funny line. I just drew there like I don't call him evil,
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but it is from a bloodlust that it results in evil. No, but it is saying it is. I'm not saying
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that it is a I'm not saying that they are knowingly doing this. They have they have built
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this bloodlust up thinking they're doing the right thing and not recognizing you might be in
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the service of the wrong guy. That's that. And it's that Nazi and that famous skater is like,
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are we the baddies? Yeah. Like it's that type of thing at this point. I mean,
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when you're sitting on stage arguing about the benefits of ending the lives of 63 million
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children, I that's that's their we should all note that's their good polling argument. Yeah,
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it's not just their fault. The fact that that is the argument that works in the polls to the point
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that our party is seemingly halfway running away from it is despicable in every way. I think the
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reason why so many conservatives have changed is because they demonized us. They called us Nazis.
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And so when somebody calls you a Nazi and a racist, if you're a thinking human being, you
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you do a little inventory on yourself. Am I what am I saying that is like that? And then you
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understand. Well, no, I'm not. And here's why. Yada, yada, yada. They haven't done that.
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They have not been pushed in any of their positions. So they just keep sliding lower and
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lower and lower and you can't defend it. That's why she's not doing any interviews. That's why
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Walls, this, alas, you'll see of him doing any interviews or anything else because they've never
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been pushed. So they can't they don't know how to defend it. Absolutely. And it showed on stage last
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night that Tim Walls has done one interview with Kamala Harris. And it was a very powderpuff CNN
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sit down interview. And J.D. Vance has been thrown out there. And you take all the press that you can
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if it's on a tarmac, if it's a if it's a sit down interview, we don't care. We're going to push him
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out in front of the American people. And you are going to clearly articulate our vision. But the
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leftists, they have they've gone so far down the rap that you just look at it and you say,
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where where do they even start to come back from this and get them back in the center?
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I think that it's too far gone for for the leftists that are that are truly believing
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that the abortion is the it's the number one issue and they will not budge from that. So
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so what do you do with the rest of America, the normies that are still out there that still say,
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you know what, I don't think that that's exactly the way that I want to go. Well, I think J.D.
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Vance articulated that in a very clear, decisive manner last night.
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You're sending a a text to a friend and you have one clip to pick. You would pick the opening
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statement, the opening statement. Yeah. And just the fact that he would come back and talk about
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the American dream a couple of different times in that debate, because people need to feel that
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there is still some hope out there. They can't go about living their days with the doom and gloom
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that is hanging over their head. That's going to be there anyway. We need somebody that is
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inspirational, that can say we can get through this and get out of this and end up better on
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the other side. Let me just end this. Thank you. Thank you so much, Jill. Let me just end this
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segment with his closing statement, which is bookend the entire debate.
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Senator Vance, your closing statement. Well, I want to thank Governor Waltz,
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you folks at CBS and of course the American people for tuning in this evening. And one of
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the issues we didn't talk about was energy. And I remember when I was being raised by my grandmother
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when she didn't have enough money to turn on the heat some nights because Ohio gets pretty cold at
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night and because money was often very tight. And I believe as a person who wants to be your next
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vice president, that we are a rich and prosperous enough country where every American, whether they're rich
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or poor ought to be able to turn on their heat in the middle of a cold winter night. That's gotten
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more difficult thanks to Kamala Harris's energy policies. I believe that whether you're rich or
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poor, you ought to be able to afford a nice meal for your family. That's gotten harder because of
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Kamala Harris's policies. I believe that whether you're rich or poor, you ought to be able to afford
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to buy a house. You ought to be able to live in safe neighborhoods. You ought to not have your
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communities flooded with fentanyl. And that too has gotten harder with Kamala because of Kamala Harris's
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policies. Now I've been in politics long enough to do what Kamala Harris does when she stands before
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the American people and says that on day one, she's going to work on all these challenges I just
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listed. She's been the vice president for three and a half years. Day one was 1400 days ago and her
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policies have made these problems worse. Now I believe that we have the most beautiful country in
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the world. I meet people on the campaign trail who can't afford food, but have the grace and
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generosity to ask me how I'm doing and to tell me they're praying for my family. What that has taught
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me is that we have the greatest country, the most beautiful country, the most incredible people
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anywhere in the world, but they're not going to be able to achieve their full dreams with the broken
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leadership that we have in Washington. They're not going to be able to live their American dream
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if we do the same thing that we've been doing for the last three and a half years.
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We need change. We need a new direction. We need a president who has already done this once
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before and did it well. Please vote for Donald Trump. And whether you vote for me or vote for
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Tim Walz, I just want to say I'm so proud to be doing this and I'm rooting for you. God bless you and
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good night. I make both those clips. I'd like to turn that into one clip and we'll post that so you can
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send that out. I'll tweet it. You got to send that to your friends. Donald Trump 2024. J.D. Vance 2028.
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Now back to the podcast. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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We're thrilled to have Dinesh D'Souza joining us, a best-selling author, award-winning filmmaker.
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His documentaries, 2016, Obama's America, and then America, Imagine a World Without Her. Some of the
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top-grossing political films of all time. He's got a new one coming out called Vindicating
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Trump. We're going to get into that in just a second. Let's first start with the debate last
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night. Yeah, I thought JD was terrific. He, well, he vindicated Trump in his own distinctive.
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It's the first time I think anybody has done that really well. Yeah, and he almost vindicated
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the virtues of an Ivy League education. Of course, Tim Waltz boasts that no one he's
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ever taught has gone to an Ivy League school. That's not something a teacher should say.
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He takes a certain pride in the lack of achievement of his.
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I've raised a bunch of kids. I taught them, and they've all gone on to, well, be farmers
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and plumbers, which is totally fine. But a teacher should be like, you know, and I really
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helped drive somebody to really go on and do something just amazing that they thought they
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Absolutely. I mean, the thing about Waltz is he's conveying a certain, I guess they brought
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him on to bring up, to make a left-wing populism, to counter JD's appeal to like the white working
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class. But I'm really not sure that that's Waltz's appeal at all. He has a kind of-
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Well, it's a kind of aw shucks goofballism, which is a little unbecoming the way I see it.
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I mean, I don't know if you saw that little scene where he's on the football field, he sees
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a mascot. And he just goes into a massive sports routine. He does the victory sign, he
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jumps up and down, he hugs the mascot. And you have to remind yourself, this is a 60-year-old
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man. The emotionalism is out of proportion with the event.
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And it's that exaggerated mannerism. I think there's a, you know, we all know there's a
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kind of fake fakery with Kamala Harris. I think there's a different kind of artificiality
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or fakery with Tim Waltz. The thing about JD Vance and Trump, by contrast, is authenticity.
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Right? JD came out from the kind of the dregs of society, as he writes himself.
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He said twice, I'm from middle class. No, he's not.
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And not only that, but it's in a kind of way worse because it's one thing to grow up
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in poverty, right? There are Indians who grew up in the slums.
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But you take a slum kid and you give him opportunity and he'll thrive. Why? Because
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he's actually got a family. He's got a kind of a social structure, even in the slum. He's
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just missing opportunity. With JD Vance, if you read about his family, his grandmother
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is setting his grandfather on fire. This is the cultural dysfunctionality. Mirrors anything
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Yeah. I mean, his mom is addicted to heroin. How many people do you know that grew up like
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that that have achieved just breaking that cycle? Just breaking that cycle is a huge
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victory. Going on and being a vice presidential candidate who held his own like he did last
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night. That is only in America. Literally only in America.
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You know, it's funny. He has the Indian wife. I had him on my podcast and my name, Dinesh,
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has said Dinesh in America. But in India, it's said a little differently. It's actually
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said more like Dinesh, right? So anyway, JD comes on. He goes, hello, Dinesh. And it kind
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of startled me. But then I remembered he got it from Usha. He probably said, call him Dinesh.
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And so I chuckled out loud. But so JD has this kind of wonderful life story of moving in a
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way from kind of rural Appalachia into a certain cosmopolitanism and a certain urbane style, which
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is very fact driven, very measured. So I thought he was very effective.
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So I think he was most effective last night at giving people who might want to vote for
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Donald Trump, but are just a little hesitant. You know, I don't know. I thought he made it
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OK to vote for Donald Trump for those people who are edgy about it. You know what I mean?
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We also can't forget that Trump is well into his 70s. And I think people who are voting for Trump
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have to look a little bit beyond Trump. And so JD has to make people comfortable that, hey,
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you know what, if something happens to Trump and I'm in the saddle, I'm going to be fine. And I think
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And it was, I mean, it shows Donald Trump is not planning on, you know, becoming king forever,
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because that is clearly a successor. He picked a successor.
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Yeah. And I think also Trump dispelled the idea, which was kind of circulating with Mike Pence,
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that somehow Trump is this alpha male and he picks people who are very passive,
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people who will never steal the limelight, people who are not smarter than he is.
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But JD is in a way competitive on all those fronts. And Trump appears to be very comfortable
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in picking a guy like JD. So I think it says a lot about Trump as well as about JD.
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He really likes, he likes JD. Let me, let me take that same kind of path of making it okay
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to vote for Donald Trump. I, I have been saying for a while, I'm so glad you're doing this.
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Somebody has to compile all of the things that have been said about Donald Trump and compare it to
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what the truth is. Now that we can prove all of the things that are true. I just, I just saw
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Leslie stall on 60 minutes back in 20, I don't know, 2017 or some, some time. And they were talking
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about his Russian collusion. And he said, Leslie, that's not true. And they are, they, they bugged my
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office. They were spying on, and she just became indignant. That's not true. There's no evidence of
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that. Well, now we know the evidence. So the vindication of Trump is so important.
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And the vindication of Trump is important because Trump himself does his own thing. There's a certain
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appealing shtick. Trump is a bit of a standup comedian. Of course, in, in the two assassination
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attempts, he showed, I think, a sublime level of courage. Oh yeah. And I don't know anyone alive
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who would respond to either assassination attempt that way. Not to mention, by the way, the 91 criminal
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charges, think of it, any other Republican facing two criminal charges would probably have exited
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the field. Yes. May never be heard from again. And Trump not only survives and endures, he is such a,
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he does so much legal rope-a-dope. He, he thwarts all the, all the gag orders. You know, he comes right
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out of the courtroom and starts speaking and taking on the judge. So his ability to forge ahead is sort
00:24:07.840
of legendary. It is. Now, that being said, when I remember flashing back to the Reagan days,
00:24:12.740
Reagan would stand up and make the case for himself. Here are the reasons to vote for me.
00:24:16.620
Right. Trump does not do that. And that's why this film, Vindicating Trump, it's in theaters now,
00:24:21.640
by the way, 800 and so some theaters around the country. And I have a book of the same title coming
00:24:26.540
out in about a week. Right. VindicatingTrump.com, if I can give the website. Yeah, yeah. Type in your,
00:24:32.080
you know, city or, or your town and boom, the theaters will, will pop right up. So this has been a,
00:24:37.520
I think an exciting project because like you say, we can now look back and see all the ways in which
00:24:44.760
devious things were done and present it as true. Here's a small example. Fauci recently comes out
00:24:50.500
and says, you know, that six foot social distancing rule, there were no studies behind that. There was
00:24:56.300
no science. All the follow the science was, was made up. The rule was made up. But then I always think
00:25:01.680
to myself, what, why, why did you make up that rule? And the answer I think is obvious. And that
00:25:06.680
is, if people have to be six feet apart from each other, you can't have a normal election. Because
00:25:12.180
in a normal election, people stand in line to vote. So the justification for mailing out millions of
00:25:18.360
ballots, mail and drop boxes, changing all the rules, all of this was connected in some way to the
00:25:24.800
social distancing that was presented as something that was a mandate. But as it turns out, was a
00:25:31.720
conjecture. Have we, have we even begun to turn the corner on any of this? I mean, I'm seeing like,
00:25:42.300
I think Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr., his running mate who is, you know, now she's even saying,
00:25:50.480
no, the election was stolen in 2020. She said, I didn't believe it before. I believe it now because
00:25:55.660
I've seen the inner workings of the Democratic Party. This is the point. I think there's been a
00:26:00.060
real, certainly a breakthrough in, in people grasping how deep this problem lies. In fact,
00:26:06.480
I think we have to give a little bit of rope to Trump in the sense that some of the mistakes that
00:26:11.060
Trump made were he came in from the outside. I think Trump thought, we know the media is left wing.
00:26:16.540
We know that Hollywood is left wing, but is the FBI left wing? Yeah. The CIA, the military, really?
00:26:22.660
Right, right. I think Trump thought if I bring in a general, John Kelly, this guy's going to do what
00:26:25.960
I say. He'll get it done. So the idea that the guys in the lab coats at the CDC and the NIH were
00:26:32.560
ideological, were corrupt, were lying. I don't think that crossed his mind. Yesterday, a couple days
00:26:38.660
ago, I saw George Conway raging on one of these shows and he was saying, you know, Trump is such a
00:26:43.380
narcissist. He only cares about himself. You know, he doesn't care about people. He doesn't care about
00:26:49.040
the country. And I'm thinking to myself, my mind flashed back to COVID. And I thought, here's Trump
00:26:53.460
in March of 2020. He's got a roaring economy, which is going to carry him on his little surfboard
00:26:59.240
right across the finish line. And then the people in the white coats come to him and say, you got to
00:27:04.660
shut it down. Right now, if Trump only cared about himself, he'd be like, I don't care. Let the
00:27:10.340
pandemic rage. That's not my problem. I want to get across the finish line. That's my goal. But no,
00:27:15.600
Trump immediately goes, you know what? I actually know that I'm killing the golden goose that I
00:27:20.780
created and I'm going to jeopardize my own chance of reelection. And he did it. So he did it more
00:27:27.380
effectively than what they're saying now. He went, he went beyond what they were saying. They were
00:27:34.620
saying, you know, the left was saying at first, you know, he's a racist. He and he's like, I'm
00:27:40.280
shutting it down. I'm shutting it down because this is the advice that is not remembered either.
00:27:46.560
No, no. And and and and the the achievement was that Trump said, look, we need to fight this and
00:27:52.560
we need to fight this with science. And so he deployed the the the effort to try to find a vaccine.
00:27:59.360
Now, apparently they found a vaccine that reduces the severity. But then they started lying about
00:28:04.000
that. Right. You you can't take the vaccine. This is Rochelle Walensky. You can't get COVID. You
00:28:09.080
can't give away, give COVID. The disinformation was coming from the government. That's the whole point.
00:28:15.360
So when Tim Walz stands up last night, he goes, well, you can't shout fire in a crowded theater.
00:28:19.420
We're not talking about shouting fire in the crowded theater. We're talking about the government
00:28:23.480
censoring critics who are saying truthful things in response to the government's own lies.
00:28:29.420
We're we're not. The theater already burnt down. We're outside saying who started the fire.
00:28:36.280
It appears maybe the firemen were involved. That's the difference. And that's when free speech
00:28:44.240
I think the key thing I'm trying to do here with Trump is answer on pass on or along the way,
00:28:49.580
the Republican who says something like this. I don't like Trump, but I like his policies.
00:28:54.220
Or they'll say, you know, he needs to shut his mouth or Dinesh, tell him to stop posting on social
00:28:59.300
media. So there's a certain idea out there that we need a new and different Trump, a kind of a
00:29:04.220
reform Trump. We need to remake Trump. But my point is that a lot of Trump's greatest qualities
00:29:09.560
come out of the same personality that is over the top. I mean, Trump is obviously, you know,
00:29:17.140
he's a salesman and he'll say things like the for him, the crowd isn't just big. It has to be the
00:29:22.060
biggest crowd ever. Right. The burgers at Mar-a-Lago aren't just good. They're like the
00:29:25.980
best burgers ever made. You know, that's Trump. And everyone knows that. Even his dictator for a
00:29:30.820
day is Trumpian shtick. Now, I'm not a dictator, but maybe for one day, you know, this is like
00:29:36.120
stand-up comedy. And the left pretends to take it seriously. I think that's the key point. They
00:29:40.360
pretend that he poses this severe threat. Deep down, they know he doesn't. But deep down,
00:29:45.980
they also do fear him like they don't fear any other Republican.
00:29:49.560
I've only got about 40 seconds. Tell me about the idea of 7% in the latest polling coming out of
00:30:00.520
Pennsylvania. There's a seven point spread between people who say they're going to vote for Trump
00:30:05.140
and people who say, I know Trump and his policies are better for me economically and for my life.
00:30:13.420
What's that gap? And does that go away? Do those 7% actually walk in and vote?
00:30:20.520
Yeah. I think if the American people could see there's a dimension of Trump, he's a genuinely
00:30:29.240
nice guy. So for example, he's famously egotistical in public, right? He loves praise.
00:30:34.360
In private, he's not. He's actually self-deprecating and he shows great curiosity about people.
00:30:39.840
He also is very, he has a certain generosity of spirit. And all of this is evident to people who
00:30:47.980
are around him. I try hard, the centerpiece of this film is a one-on-one with Trump. And I tried to
00:30:52.540
bring out that private dimension of Trump, which I think will give people a great deal of not just
00:30:58.000
comfort, but enthusiasm in supporting him. Okay. You can find out where this is playing
00:31:04.280
near you. Just go to vindicatingtrump.com. That's the website. And find it wherever you can. Make
00:31:11.960
sure you bring some friends with you. Vindicatingtrump.com. Also, we'll have you back when the book comes
00:31:17.680
out. Thank you, Dinesh. Thank you. Appreciate it. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:31:31.000
The lovely and talented Chip Roy is with us now. Hello, Chip. Good morning, Glenn. How are you,
00:31:37.580
brother? I am. I'm really good. I wish people were taking the crisis that we are facing on the
00:31:47.300
border more seriously. I think it's getting better, but I don't think people understand what we are
00:31:53.780
actually facing. And the state of Texas came out and called a spade a spade. The Venezuelan gang
00:31:59.740
has now been, by Texas, called what it is, a terrorist organization.
00:32:07.120
Well, you know, look, I do think the election season, J.D. Vance last night, broadly speaking,
00:32:13.140
where we've been trying to drive the message over the last few years, is taking root. It's taken
00:32:17.740
time. We obviously have a media that doesn't want to help. They covered up. They basically make
00:32:23.060
excuses for an administration that is purposely abusing our borders to achieve their political
00:32:28.700
aims. And in the process, they are endangering Americans. Americans are dying, and migrants are
00:32:33.720
getting abused. J.D. handled that very well, pushing back on that last night. I know we'll talk about the
00:32:38.460
debate in a minute, but on the issue, it's really important, because this comes up a lot. I know you
00:32:43.980
get this a lot as a man of faith. We get pushed back on it, saying it's unchristian-like, right,
00:32:50.320
that we are not being compassionate. And you hear the Pope out there talking about this.
00:32:55.460
If we want to have our borders be secure and stop the flow of illegal immigration. I think that is
00:33:02.460
exactly backwards. The Bible is very specific about sovereignty, about God's plan, about the
00:33:09.300
nations. You don't have to look any further than the history of Israel itself and how they dealt
00:33:14.200
with boundaries. And there's plenty of scripture recognizing sovereignty in God's plans. But
00:33:19.800
importantly, it is inherently unchristian and uncompassionate to allow these children to be
00:33:26.440
abused, to allow people to be abused, to be put in harm's way, to be used by the cartels,
00:33:30.740
to be then put in slave labor, to be put in the sex trafficking trade, to have 320,000 kids get
00:33:36.960
misplaced by our bureaucratic government, who's being supposedly compassionate. It's ridiculous.
00:33:43.760
We need to stand up for a sovereign nation because we have a right to do so. Elon Musk says this very
00:33:49.060
well. Are you truly going to invite 7.7 billion people on this planet to come join the 300 million
00:33:56.540
plus Americans and say that we don't have borders? Well, then we don't have a nation.
00:34:00.480
It just defies common sense. So the rule of law matters. And this is the last point I'll say.
00:34:05.860
The rule of law matters for the very people that are attracted to come here. Because if we don't
00:34:10.040
have the rule of law, if we don't have a nation, then they have no place to go. The huddled masses
00:34:15.980
have no place to long for and strive for. And then we weaken the rest of the world. We weaken the
00:34:20.840
Western Hemisphere. We empower our enemies. And you have 35,000 Chinese nationals coming here. You have all
00:34:25.840
of these terrorist organizations. You point out the Venezuelan gangs. They're real. I went out to
00:34:30.180
Aurora, Colorado. I went and met with the residents of those apartments who lost their ability to have
00:34:34.860
a home, who didn't have a manager on site. Venezuelan gangs were changing the locks. This is all real.
00:34:40.580
It's true. And thankfully, people are waking up. Some of us have been screaming this for five years,
00:34:45.900
some of the Congress. Finally, I think the American people are finally waking up.
00:34:50.360
So tonight on the TV show, I'm exposing some of the things that are happening overseas where they're
00:34:56.820
training for activities here in the United States, in places like Iran. We are in serious trouble.
00:35:08.000
Our Department of Homeland Security has said that it's only a matter of time now and all of the lights
00:35:15.980
are flashing red. I'm surprised we haven't been hit yet, but I would expect one after the election
00:35:22.360
or shortly before the election. What is it going to take for people to understand this is not going to
00:35:35.560
get better unless you make a massive change in leadership?
00:35:39.600
Well, I hope people are starting to see that. You know, what we see right now is the destruction of America.
00:35:49.820
Nothing less than that. And I think it's really important. And I think I'm in a unique position to make that point.
00:35:57.260
You no doubt have listeners who have long fully supported President Trump, maybe a few that were,
00:36:02.420
no, I support DeSantis, but now they're back to Trump somewhere.
00:36:05.000
I was out there advocating for Ron DeSantis. He's a good friend and a good man. And I very much
00:36:10.220
respect him. I can't overstate how critical it is and important it is that Donald Trump get elected
00:36:17.940
on November 5th. I cannot overstate that. If we don't get him elected, I don't believe the Republic
00:36:26.280
can survive. I don't think it is any, I don't think that's hyperbole, Glenn. Like we live in a world
00:36:33.360
where people do this stuff for clicks. They do this stuff and they say outrageous things.
00:36:38.200
I don't like making statements like that. I believe in our country. Our country turns 250 years old
00:36:43.840
in a, in, in, in a 2026 and July, July 2nd, when we voted to break away from England,
00:36:49.760
I believe in the values of this country and the greatness of so many Americans.
00:36:54.820
But this, this administration, the current radical progressive Democrat regime
00:36:59.900
have completely disintegrated our safety, security, and culture. They've invited masses of people into
00:37:08.180
our country, released known criminals, known murderers. Think about that. You saw that data
00:37:15.160
that was released last week with the 13,000, 15,000 known murders and whatever. We've known this.
00:37:21.020
We finally get a report from the administration confirming it. We've known it because you can
00:37:25.920
see it with your own eyes. Laken Riley's family knows it. Jocelyn Nungarey's beautiful mom, Alexis
00:37:31.120
Nungarey knows it. Kayla Hamilton's family knows it. Rachel Morin's family knows it. Do I need to
00:37:37.720
keep going down the list? That's what they're doing to us. So to take it back, you asked the question,
00:37:43.660
what will it take? I think we're seeing what it will take. I hope in real time, but we're going to
00:37:50.040
have to show up on November 5th and as President Trump says, make it too big to rig. So let me ask
00:37:55.140
you that question. Um, FEMA doesn't seem to be pulling out all of the stops to help the people
00:38:03.260
in Appalachia. Um, that is Trump country. Uh, I don't know who is working on making sure that the
00:38:13.140
people who don't have roads, cars, electricity, or in five weeks going to be able to pull a,
00:38:20.500
a, a lever for whoever they want to vote for. Are we doing anything about that?
00:38:28.000
Well, without getting into specifics, uh, with some good friends of mine in North Carolina,
00:38:32.240
I've been having conversations with about that very point, ensuring that we're able to get all
00:38:37.400
of the people who want to have a say in their elections and should have a say in their elections,
00:38:40.700
despite the absolute tragedy that has occurred in the Western part of North Carolina and the
00:38:46.620
Eastern part of Tennessee. Do you want to forget that as well? I know it's Appalachia and, and I
00:38:51.500
know you don't, I just meant, you know, broadly, we all keep talking about North Carolina and,
00:38:54.500
you know, parts of Georgia, parts of Tennessee, they're all got hit hard. And, but, but to your
00:38:59.240
point, yes, some conversations are going on to make sure we try to focus on that. I've had some
00:39:03.560
good conversations with the national GOP and there's a limit to what you can do to some degree,
00:39:08.020
right? It's local, you know, local registrars and they have to figure out how to get it done.
00:39:12.640
Um, obviously right now we're trying to get, you know, Elon, God bless him is donating Starlink.
00:39:17.480
We're trying to get that stuff out. FEMA is nowhere to be found. The FCC and all of the
00:39:20.760
federal government that walked away from allowing Starlink to be given out to increase broadband.
00:39:25.440
Um, instead of sitting around and now these people don't have anything. So, uh, Elon, others,
00:39:30.560
private sector people are stepping up. And, and I will say that's one thing, you know,
00:39:34.080
go back to the, the Cajun Navy from a few years back, right? You know, came over to help during
00:39:39.280
the floods and the hurricanes. My friend, Corey Mills down at Florida, he's working with private
00:39:43.740
sectors and some guys that are, you know, ex-military, they're flying in flying helicopters
00:39:48.540
and they're just sticking their middle finger up to the bureaucracy, to the federal government
00:39:52.260
and local government, by the way, that wants to get in the way of it all. Um, that's the way we
00:39:56.580
save our country. It's not getting in this weird, like, you know, internet battles in DC. Um,
00:40:02.540
I do my best up here to try to basically the way some of my friends put it, we're kind of
00:40:07.100
prophets to a degree. We have to like, kind of go look at what's going on, send up the warning
00:40:11.960
signals. You know, I wrote a letter in April about the George Soros radio issue. Um, because I saw it
00:40:18.920
coming. That's our job, right? As you look out, you go put that stuff out there and you try to
00:40:24.500
highlight for the people so we can raise the issue because like it or not, I'm one 435th of one half of
00:40:31.140
one third of this crap hole and we have to build numbers and the American people in our system are
00:40:36.500
the ones that help us build the numbers. So that's, you know, what we try to do. I got off
00:40:40.320
target. Sorry. No, that's, that's fine. Uh, are we going to actually look into the funding of those
00:40:45.720
George Soros, uh, funders? Yeah. I mean, we're, you know, I we're, we're looking into it. Um,
00:40:52.340
like I said, I rose the issue off, got some committee folks looking at it. Um, trying to figure out
00:40:56.580
there's some lawsuits, you know, some of our friends at America first legal, there's going to
00:41:00.380
be, I think some radio stations and some others that would have standing. We're trying to figure
00:41:03.480
out who would have standing. Um, I don't have standing. I don't think we're trying to figure
00:41:06.840
that out, how we can at least litigate it to try to stop it because what they're doing
00:41:10.420
is unprecedented. It's unlawful. We believe, uh, I have standing because I'm on some of those
00:41:16.060
stations. Do I have standing? You may be, and you might need to have that. I'm happy. Let's have
00:41:21.020
that conversation. You might have standing because we need to elevate that issue. It's a huge, huge
00:41:26.020
issue. You all, you know, better than I do. And so, um, you know, look, I was talking to Brendan
00:41:31.140
Carr and the FCC. He's been one of the leaders on this. I'm sure you've followed it. And he's been
00:41:38.040
putting this out there. I said, dude, what are we doing? He goes, God, we got to win in November
00:41:40.860
because we're outvoted. You know, they lost three to two. Uh, it was a bad decision, but that's what
00:41:45.300
happens. Like the people that run FERC, it's like the people that run everything else. If we don't win in
00:41:49.560
November, back to the point, you know, five minutes ago, we lose the country. That's what's
00:41:54.680
at stake. It's things like this, the FCC. Yeah. Tulsi Gabbard said to me last night, I was talking
00:42:01.380
to her after the debate and she said, uh, Glenn, this, this is all about freedom of speech. The,
00:42:06.520
the last thing that JD Vance said in the debate was this is about freedom of speech. And it is,
00:42:12.640
it, it, it, we are going to lose freedom of speech if they are reelected to another term.
00:42:20.560
And we are going to lose our very way of life as a result. And we're going to be attacked on our
00:42:26.600
second amendment. We're going to be attacked on all of the things upon which our nation was founded.
00:42:31.180
These rights come from our creator. They are our rights. The government that was created by the
00:42:35.840
founders recognize those rights. They didn't give us those rights. We have to flex our muscle as
00:42:41.780
people who, as the declaration lists out as Jefferson and to some degree, some help from Adams and
00:42:48.060
Franklin. As those guys wrote that out, it was very clear what they meant. Okay. And, and we are
00:42:54.620
supposed to live freely and we need this government to reflect that because we love our country. We
00:43:01.280
look at the flag with pride, we look at the history and all that it stood for. I believe we can take it
00:43:05.980
back, but let's remember we have a right to live free. That's the bottom line. Um, it, it, we, we,
00:43:12.500
that's what it actually boils down to at the end. Um, and so, uh, this election is going to decide
00:43:21.200
whether or not these 50 states can stand united and be a strong, strong and sovereign nation. This election
00:43:29.760
is going to decide that again, I don't like engaging hyperbole. Um, but when the founders talk about the
00:43:36.820
right to pursue happiness, um, we we've got to pursue happiness. I want it to be with this country. We
00:43:42.920
better win in November to make that happen. Okay. Uh, Chip, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. God