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00:00:10.460 Chris Stewart talks to us about the latest developments with Michael Flynn. Bill O'Reilly,

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00:01:28.820 Governor Jay Inslee from the great state of Washington has now laid plans out for statewide

00:01:41.220 contact tracing initiative. Sounds like fun. The initiative is robust. I'm quoting. It's vigorous

00:01:51.740 and it's comprehensive. Wow. It sounds like common core. And he said it needs to be all three to be

00:02:00.680 successful. If we don't succeed in this second stage of our efforts, this virus might come back

00:02:07.020 and bite us. I got news for you. It's going to come back. It's going to come back next fall and

00:02:11.620 it's going to come back the fall after and it's going to come back the fall after that. It's always

00:02:16.160 going to be with us. Hey, it's like the flu. It's good. No, I don't mean the symptoms. It's like

00:02:23.560 the flu. It's a virus. It's a virus. Okay. Uh, contract tracing involves interviewing people with

00:02:30.880 positive COVID-19 tests to identify who they've been in contact with, getting those people tested

00:02:37.120 and making sure they isolate themselves and their families. Okay. So wait, so now you have to keep a

00:02:45.240 list of everybody that you've come in contact with and then you have to give that list. Let me see

00:02:51.900 who you've been talking to. It will be interesting because I mean, obviously some of that, right, is

00:02:56.380 very basic disease prevention, right? If there's a measles outbreak, they would do that. I mean,

00:03:01.500 it's, you know, that's just interviewing. They've been doing that forever. The question is when it comes

00:03:05.800 to a Jay Inslee approach to that, is it going very, very, uh, very, very far down that road?

00:03:15.240 Well, he needs 100% compliance, uh, just a hundred percent, just a hundred percent. He needs a hundred

00:03:21.740 percent. Uh, and, uh, they're going to send people to your home and, uh, they're going to be conducting

00:03:27.120 these interviews. And if you refuse to take another test or self isolate or give them the names

00:03:34.380 of people you have been with lately, uh, then, um, I want to quote him exactly. We will have attached

00:03:45.880 to the families, a family support person who will check in with them to see what they need on a daily

00:03:50.520 basis and help them. If they can't get a friend to do their grocery shopping, we'll help them with

00:03:55.240 their groceries in some fashion. Um, as far as refusal, it shouldn't come to that. Uh, and it really

00:04:01.860 hasn't so far, we've had good success, uh, but individuals that refuse to cooperate with, uh,

00:04:07.980 contact tracers or refuse testing will not be allowed to leave their homes to purchase basic

00:04:14.140 necessities as groceries or prescriptions. So, so there's just starve the people to death if they

00:04:19.080 don't agree with this. Uh, is that, is that, no, no, no. He said they're going to have somebody to go

00:04:23.480 grocery shopping for you. Just, you'll just be in prison in your home. You will not be allowed

00:04:27.860 to ever leave your home unless you participate and only a hundred percent need to do that.

00:04:33.100 Oh, okay. So yovul. Cause I, I thought what he was saying was if you participate in the program,

00:04:36.920 they will bring you the groceries because you're isolated. So you're, if you do, if you're saying

00:04:41.320 if they don't participate in the program, they're still going to shop for them. Yeah. Wait a minute.

00:04:44.640 Wait a minute. Wait a minute. There's a board who will check and see what they need. Oh yeah.

00:04:48.760 Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. You're right. You're right. It's just that we're just going to starve them out.

00:04:53.840 Eventually they're going to be like, Oh cool. Take my names. I'm really hungry. I need Cheetos.

00:04:56.920 And eventually it works. You know what? It, it worked in those really nice. I don't know if

00:05:03.900 you saw these, the subdivisions that the Germans made in Poland for the Jews. They were beautiful

00:05:10.980 little subdivisions had gate. It was a gated community that they built. Uh, and I think this

00:05:16.080 is wonderful. Now I was thinking that it might be a little, uh, Hitlerian, uh, to do this, but 0.96

00:05:24.100 then I thought, I'm not sure cause this sounded familiar. And so I looked this up, um, and that

00:05:32.540 no man might buy or sell save that he had the mark or the name of the beast or the number

00:05:39.980 of his name. That's from a little book. I don't remember. It's a kind of a dusty book, but there

00:05:46.080 was something about not being able to buy, sell, uh, get groceries, anything unless you

00:05:51.940 received the mark. Uh, and, um, I would think just most people, right. Are very interested

00:06:01.360 if they find out they've had COVID right to tell the people they've been in contact with

00:06:06.440 that they have COVID so they can get tested. That's something that most people are going

00:06:09.640 to want to do. Uh, that doesn't mean that they want to play with Jay Inslee. Right. Right.

00:06:15.200 But some people may not. I mean, you know, we had this with the AIDS virus. They were people

00:06:18.920 that went out intentionally and those people went to jail. They went out intentionally to

00:06:23.220 infect people. Okay. That that's different. But now I have to have a list of everybody I've

00:06:29.380 come in contact with. And you know what they say? The, the, the supporters of this said

00:06:34.000 it's really not going to be a problem because we'll just monitor the cell phones of everybody

00:06:37.800 that comes into contact with them anyway. Oh my gosh. Okay. Even more scary. Now the

00:06:46.060 County of Los Angeles has partnered with hotel associations to identify sites that will meet

00:06:52.460 the operational needs of the program that they're unveiling. And that is housing the homeless

00:06:59.080 to make sure that they don't have a Corona virus. Uh, and, uh, and you know, commandeer that they,

00:07:06.420 they need to have rooms that they can lock down people. And so they're, they're now saying that

00:07:11.320 if the hotels don't participate, they will just commandeer the hotels. They will just take those

00:07:19.380 hotels over the city of Los Angeles is saying this. Uh, could I, may I just point out we're on a

00:07:28.600 crazy train to hell here. I mean, you know, I am, I am actually, I believe Dr. Fauci, I don't, I believe

00:07:36.240 that he believes he's right. And I believe he is instructing us just on health. There needs to be

00:07:43.960 the balance of psychological help, uh, our rights and our economy. Okay. So when we balance him,

00:07:53.320 I'm fine. Uh, but the media seems to only be taking his side of it and then trying to pit him

00:08:01.360 against Donald Trump to break up this relationship like they do all the time. And you know, I would

00:08:08.100 just like to ask the, the liberals and the media, you split those two apart. If you actually believe

00:08:14.760 that Donald Trump is trying to kill everybody in this, in the country and Dr. Fauci is the hero, 0.86

00:08:20.240 what the hell are you doing? Getting him out of the white house? What are you doing? Yeah. 0.86

00:08:24.200 Wouldn't your goal be to write the stories about how they have a really good working relationship

00:08:28.520 and how, how, you know, Donald Trump, like you, you understand how this stuff works. You come out

00:08:33.480 here and make a media divide. It's like if you, if your friend is dating a girl that you don't like

00:08:39.740 and you're just constantly leaking, you know, trying to break them up because it's irritating to you.

00:08:44.560 No, no, no, no. May I give you, may I give you a real world, uh, example on just exactly what

00:08:50.400 you're saying? The guy who I grew up with, Robert, um, he's like my brother. Okay. He lived in my house

00:08:56.780 for a long time and, and we grew up together and I was dating a girl in high school and he, as my best

00:09:03.720 friend and he would say all the time, I mean, why are you dating her? I mean, I don't get it.

00:09:09.360 That's nice. I mean, really? Yeah. I don't get it. Uh, I mean, just, I mean, really? And so just

00:09:19.220 planted a seed of doubt and I'm like, Oh, he's right. He, as soon as I broke up, he started dating

00:09:26.080 her. He's now married to her. He's married to her. Okay. Yes. Colleen. I dated Colleen.

00:09:38.120 And Robert was right. I mean, the one time we did kiss, it was like a kisser. Good night at the

00:09:43.940 doorstep. And it was, and we both looked at each other and went, that was weird. It was like, it

00:09:48.900 was like kissing your sister or something. Uh, so he was right about it, but he's the guy who was

00:09:54.500 planning the seed of doubt. And that's what the media is doing. Yeah. And they will wind up dating

00:09:59.300 Fauci if they break them up. Right. Like that's what they want to do. He'll be a CNN. Yeah. He'll be a

00:10:04.840 CNN, uh, round table commentator. And I will say this about Fauci cause he takes a lot of

00:10:09.240 heat from the right. And as you point out, even in his testimony, he says, I'm not advising

00:10:14.560 on economic matters at all. That's like, he's just saying that he thinks if the perfect world

00:10:20.060 for a medical, like, I don't understand how people don't get that relationship job. That's

00:10:24.640 his job. Okay. Real quick. Cause I've got so much. We have, we have a Chris Stewart coming

00:10:28.820 up in a second. I've got to just shoehorn some of the, pardon the pun on this one.

00:10:33.140 South African stores will now only sell shoes if they are closed toe and short sleeve shirts,

00:10:41.580 if they are promoted or displayed to be worn under jackets or jerseys. So in other words,

00:10:48.520 if you have a really cool t-shirt and it has a design and it's, it's, uh, displayed or promoted

00:10:55.060 as somebody just wearing a t-shirt, you can't sell it. So the, if undergarments are made for warmth,

00:11:04.060 you can sell them crop bottoms worn with boots or leggings are okay, but crop bottoms without boots

00:11:14.700 or leggings, you cannot sell. This is craziness. It is absolutely crazy.

00:11:25.060 And it's not a coincidence that something else is happening at exactly the same time here in

00:11:32.860 America. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:11:40.980 I wanted to bring a Congressman Chris Stewart on, uh, Chris is a friend of mine and a friend of the

00:11:57.140 program. He, uh, is serving now, uh, on the permanent select committee on intelligence,

00:12:03.960 also on the budget committee and the appropriations committee. So there's a lot to talk to him about,

00:12:08.380 but I wanted to start with Michael Flynn. Uh, welcome Chris. How are you?

00:12:13.020 Good morning, Glenn. I was up near your ranch the other day and it's beautiful up there. You should

00:12:17.120 come on up. Uh, I've, I'm, I am dying to go up there. Um, so people know who you are. Um, number one,

00:12:25.820 New York times bestselling author of, of fiction. I mean, really great stuff. Um, a world record setting

00:12:32.780 air force pilot. You were an owner, uh, and CEO of a, of a small business. Now you went to Congress,

00:12:39.900 you have a lot of credibility on, uh, intelligence, but you're also on this intelligence, uh, committee.

00:12:47.600 So I kind of wonder if you can even tell us stuff because you get in serious trouble unless it's all

00:12:53.880 out in the open, right? Yeah. And the other thing, Glenn, is we actually Republicans abide by the rules.

00:13:00.100 And that's why this thing with Michael Flynn, the unmasking and the list goes on and on. This is

00:13:05.880 stuff that we've known for three years, but we couldn't talk, talk to people about, because

00:13:10.820 unlike some of my democratic colleagues, we don't go down in the skiff and then go out and leak it to

00:13:15.820 the press so that they can be dishonest and lie about people and create this false narrative.

00:13:21.140 And what we've seen with general Flynn is absurd that this thing went forward the way it did to

00:13:25.820 these accusations against him. I can't tell you how many times I talked to you and said,

00:13:32.680 Chris, what's really going on? Um, you were in all of these things where you heard Brennan and

00:13:39.640 Clapper and power and everyone else rice saying we have zero evidence. There's no evidence on any of

00:13:47.360 this, how that must've killed you not to say while they were on television saying, Oh yeah, I mean,

00:13:54.820 they're getting close to something. Yeah. Glenn, imagine we are, we're downstairs. We're in a

00:14:02.820 classified setting where they have to tell the truth and they answer these questions. Nope. No

00:14:06.800 evidence, no evidence, no evidence. And then they go upstairs and I'm talking about the clappers and

00:14:12.520 the, and the Comeys and the others in the world who then go on television and say, Oh yeah, the walls

00:14:18.040 are closing in. Oh yeah. I actually think he might be a Russian puppet. And for us to not be able to 0.57

00:14:23.320 respond to that other than just to say, it's not true. And people would look, have you lost your

00:14:29.300 mind? Because the evidence says it is true. And for three years we've lived with that.

00:14:34.180 So Chris, this is the time to respond. Are these people going to be prosecuted?

00:14:42.280 I think attorney general bar is the most important man in America right now next to the president.

00:14:48.020 And I really mean that because he is the person with, uh, with his, uh, assistance of Mr. Durham,

00:14:54.220 who are, they're like a starving dog on a bone on this. And they are committed and always have been

00:15:01.060 to a telling people the truth and to be work through whatever legal process is appropriate.

00:15:07.560 The problem that we have, and this is, uh, I mean, so the good news is I think there will be,

00:15:13.080 there certainly should be. And, and I think the American people are going to demand it the more

00:15:18.240 they understand this. The problem is, and this is the concern I have is, is talking with the attorney

00:15:23.800 general a few weeks ago, he said, these are smart people and they had time to cover their tracks.

00:15:29.500 So he's got a challenge ahead of him. He's not working, uh, uh, doing a job against a bunch of fools. 1.00

00:15:35.360 Uh, but, but Glenn, you can't look at this information and it begs the question about, 0.98

00:15:39.960 will they be held accountable? And, uh, they have to be Chris. Yeah. I was, I was talking to

00:15:47.200 somebody yesterday who's a really logical, he and his wife, really logical. Um, they're big Trump

00:15:53.040 supporters. And, um, and in the course of a conversation, uh, he said, you know, we're even

00:15:59.580 starting to doubt Trump. And I said, what? And he said, yeah, I know it's crazy. But I thought,

00:16:06.500 you know, for a couple of days last week, I was like, maybe he's being blackmailed. Is he being

00:16:10.580 blackmailed? I said, what, what would make you say that? And he said immediately, you know what it is,

00:16:17.300 Glenn? I don't trust anyone because everyone lies about everything and no one's held accountable.

00:16:24.420 And so what am I supposed to do when I see something that doesn't fit? I immediately now

00:16:30.520 jump to the crazy thoughts because crazy stuff is happening and no one is paying a price.

00:16:37.320 You and I both know, Chris, a marriage will not survive. If there is not trust, there's no trust

00:16:44.840 in America. If we don't restore trust, we do not make it. No, I couldn't agree with you more. Glenn,

00:16:51.460 when I came back from Moscow, this was a couple of years ago and I was doing some talks with people

00:16:57.080 about that. And I did an interview and someone asked me, and we get asked this question all the

00:17:00.200 time because, you know, sitting on Intel committee, it's what we do. They say, what's the greatest

00:17:03.680 threat facing our nation? Again, I was asked that question. And without thinking, I said, it's that

00:17:08.800 no one knows what is true anymore. And I surprised myself with the answer, but I was thinking about it

00:17:14.060 after and I thought that's absolutely true. That is the foundation upon which everything that we have

00:17:18.660 is based. And we've lost that. And let me ask you this as a kind of an appendage to that.

00:17:24.460 If two FBI agents came in and just said to you, hey, we just want to chat with you about something,

00:17:28.840 there's no one in the country who would do that any longer. I mean, this institution,

00:17:33.640 which is so important to us under the leadership of Comey, has lost that trust that you were talking

00:17:39.180 about, that foundation of what is true anymore. And it's going to take a long time for us to rebuild

00:17:44.260 that to where people can say, I think this is true and this is good. And this isn't, we've lost

00:17:49.220 that. Chris, somebody, if, if this stuff isn't exposed entirely and they're not cleared out,

00:17:57.900 somebody needs to go to jail. A good guy needs to go to jail to say, this is what's going on. And I

00:18:05.940 know I'm violating all kinds of codes, but no one's doing anything. And the American people have to

00:18:13.540 know, you want to arrest me for exposing this, then arrest me. Because we don't survive if this

00:18:21.560 is not cleared up. Talk to me a little bit about how about unmasking. They say this is no big deal.

00:18:29.240 It happens all the time. Tell me how this is different. Well, then let's ask this question.

00:18:36.500 How many times did the vice president of the United States ask for a US person's name to be unmasked

00:18:42.760 in the eight years he was in office? And who was it? Because that will give this context.

00:18:49.740 You know, if it turns out that vice president Biden is asking for people to be unmasked on a daily

00:18:54.020 basis, then yeah, you're right. It's not a big deal. But if it turns out he wasn't, then it begs

00:18:59.980 further questions. How many times did Susan Rice ask for unmasking in the two months between the 1.00

00:19:06.520 election and the inauguration and compare that with her activity and unmasking in the previous 0.66

00:19:12.080 number of years? That's what gives this context. And if they can argue, hey, we were unmasking

00:19:17.820 US citizens all the time, then there's no there there. But if it turns out that they weren't,

00:19:23.180 and by the way, they weren't, then this does give us a greater understanding into what motivated them

00:19:29.760 to unmask on us, particularly not just General Flynn, but particularly on General Flynn, because

00:19:35.720 it was so it is politically motivated. It also, it has to be answered, you know, Samantha Power,

00:19:48.140 she's the Secretary of the UN. What the why is she unmasking Flynn seven times in a month? Why is she 1.00

00:19:55.600 doing that? And then saying, I didn't, I didn't do that. It might have been somebody else. Isn't that

00:20:01.500 a breach of your security clearance in the first place? But why is she unmasking? And did that

00:20:09.420 information go to someone else? And then use that as I was talking to a very high, high level source who

00:20:17.920 said, this, this and this, that that's how the media was, was getting all of this was from these

00:20:24.940 unmaskings. Yeah, that's exactly right. And that's the key to this. Look, if you can justify your

00:20:30.600 unmasking, then as as a normal course, you work, then I accept that. Or if perhaps there's just a

00:20:37.680 there's just a question there. I mean, that's fair. But there's got to be two things to that. Number

00:20:41.900 one is, was there justification? Because in this unmasking process, you're supposed to put the reason

00:20:48.700 for why it can't just be random. You have to have an actual reason why. And did this is a question

00:20:55.420 on their request? Did they justify it? And then the second thing, which is why did this?

00:21:01.320 Yep. Well, the second thing is, who did you talk to about that? Because we know that this was leaked

00:21:07.700 and Glenn, this is important. It's not just General Flynn. That's important about this. This revealed the

00:21:12.740 fact that we were listening to the Russian ambassador. And a lot of people didn't realize

00:21:18.200 that before. And now everyone in the world knew it actually hit hindered our ability to gather

00:21:24.120 intelligence. This was an important national security element to this at leaking. And that's

00:21:29.740 the key to this is who unmasked, but more importantly, who talked to the press about it?

00:21:35.820 Any doubt that Obama is involved in this?

00:21:38.680 Well, I mean, how do you explain the January 5th meeting?

00:21:43.060 Yeah, that's exactly right. If you'd asked me that, uh, some time ago, uh, I would have said,

00:21:47.400 I don't know. Uh, although he is involved in this and this is, this is vague, but it's very,

00:21:53.080 very important. He's the one who selected these leaders. And by proxy, he's responsible.

00:21:58.460 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. He, you know, the Susan Rice memo that she wrote walking out of the

00:22:04.060 office said the president wanted to make sure that we did it by the book, that we didn't

00:22:08.500 involve ourselves in the normal course of justice, that we didn't tell the police or

00:22:13.180 investigators what to do on January 5th. It's documented. That's what he held a meeting for

00:22:19.100 and with Comey and, and everybody else and told them, get him. Yeah, they were ready to drop the case.

00:22:27.620 Yeah. And that's, that's what I was, the point I was just going to make is a couple,

00:22:31.020 a couple months ago, I didn't know how to ask that question, but now we have to ask this question

00:22:34.600 about what did the president know at that time? Because during that meeting, he was aware of

00:22:39.320 things, already aware of things that no one claims responsibility for having briefed him for.

00:22:45.800 No, we don't know how he knew about the, the Michael Flynn, uh, uh, investigation that's going

00:22:50.880 forward because so far everyone has denied ever talking to him about that. Correct. So I think

00:22:55.640 there's some questions about that that need to be asked. Okay. Um, let me just play. Do we have

00:23:01.160 from yesterday the, uh, Senator Church meet the press, uh, audio? Okay. I want to play something

00:23:09.040 for you, Chris. This is Senator Church, uh, from the Church Commission, 1975. Remember that date,

00:23:15.400 1975. Think of the technology and how it's changed since. This is what he said when we found a little

00:23:22.200 bit of this in 1975. There would be no place to hide. If this government ever became,

00:23:30.740 a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the

00:23:38.720 intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny. And there

00:23:47.800 would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to

00:23:57.120 the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know.

00:24:03.840 Such is the capability of this technology. Now, why is this investigation important? I'll tell you why.

00:24:10.160 Because I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there

00:24:17.040 to make tyranny total in America. And we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess

00:24:25.840 this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that

00:24:33.200 abyss. There, that's the abyss from which there is no return. Are we, we've crossed the abyss.

00:24:39.680 Are there enough people in Congress and the Senate that will demand that these people are held

00:24:48.120 accountable and it does stop now? Well, Glenn, I hope so. I'm going to answer it that way. But I can

00:24:56.120 tell you that there are a number of us. Remember, again, the work we did on the intel committee for

00:25:01.240 three years has been focused on this. How many times have I said to people, you can't give the

00:25:06.300 Department of Justice, the FBI, these other agencies, the power to know everything about you,

00:25:12.680 to read your emails, to look at your computer, to talk to your friends, to go through your garbage,

00:25:17.360 give them that power and then say, hey, go do whatever you want. We don't, we don't want to

00:25:22.060 know. We trust you. It can never be that case. That can never be the case that we don't hold

00:25:27.700 them accountable. And that's what we've been trying to do now for years in this case. And by the way,

00:25:32.600 Glenn, it stuns me how many people seem to be comfortable with a police state. How many people

00:25:38.460 are actually defending this and saying, hey, it's no big deal. You guys are paranoid. It's

00:25:43.720 another conspiracy theory. You know, you're investigating the investigators, breaking down

00:25:48.260 the rule of law. For heaven's sakes, that's nonsense.

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00:26:02.600 So Liberty University did the unconventional thing while everybody else panicked and just

00:26:14.920 sent everybody home. Liberty University decided that they were going to just be smart and do

00:26:23.320 online classes because they're a leader in online classes. They've been doing it since 1985.

00:26:28.280 Um, and they're really, their online stuff is really, really good. Um, but, uh, they decided

00:26:34.480 just to send whoever they could home, but there were foreign students and other people that had

00:26:39.740 elderly, you know, parents or grandparents that live with them and they couldn't go home. So

00:26:43.560 they kept them in the dorms and they did all kinds of things just to keep everybody safe. 1.00

00:26:49.320 Well, as you can imagine, oh, these Christian nuts are crazy and they're going to get us all killed. 1.00

00:26:54.960 Well, as it turns out, uh, no, the opposite happened. They are now the model for what 1.00

00:27:01.480 schools should be doing, uh, to be able to open back up. That hasn't stopped the New York

00:27:07.980 Times and others from really lying about, uh, what was happening at Liberty University,

00:27:14.600 but no stranger to controversy, Jerry Falwell, uh, is now going to sue the New York Times, uh,

00:27:21.060 for some of the things they did. Welcome to the program, Jerry Falwell. How are you?

00:27:24.200 I'm doing wonderful. Is this Dr. Glenn Beck?

00:27:27.600 It is. It is. It is. I, I, that is one of the greatest things anybody's ever done for me. I,

00:27:33.820 I just love it. It's provided lots of, uh, uh, very good memories. Uh, Jerry, um, it's good,

00:27:41.400 good to talk to you, my friend. Um, so first of all, congratulations on not backing down,

00:27:47.520 doing the right thing for the students. And I think for the country, um, tell us the steps that

00:27:53.300 you did take, cause you just didn't say, well, I don't care. We're opening up the doors. You took

00:27:57.500 it seriously. What did you do? Well, you know, there were some schools, some Ivy League schools

00:28:02.020 that didn't even do online. They were too good for that. So they just sent everybody home.

00:28:06.500 So, you know, your, your credit this semester is your problem. Forget it. There were a lot of other

00:28:11.820 schools who did exactly what we did, Texas A&M, USC, Virginia Tech. And, and all that was,

00:28:19.740 it was simply, we did not reopen. We, during spring break, the governor decided, issued an executive

00:28:26.980 order, said no more than a hundred people in a gathering. Well, we have lots of classes with

00:28:32.040 over a hundred students. And then he went down to 10 during spring break. Well, obviously we,

00:28:37.780 we couldn't, we couldn't start classes again. So we went to the all online format, which, um,

00:28:44.280 we've got one of the best in the world. And then we, um, we realized quickly that there's students

00:28:50.680 who can't do online at home cause they don't have high speed internet. And there's students who have

00:28:55.600 elderly relatives at home. And there are students, international students who can't go home.

00:29:00.820 So we knew we were going to have to house a certain number of students. And so just like USC and Texas

00:29:06.680 A&M and Virginia Tech, we housed those students and we, um, implemented measures. We, um, we had

00:29:14.800 two surprise inspections by the governor black, blackface who came down and 0.64

00:29:20.440 gave us glowing reports on how well we were complying with every order. We had this social

00:29:34.540 distancing. We had signs on chairs saying, don't sit here, but okay, let's sit here. And we had all

00:29:40.420 the academic buildings open. Campus built for 16,000 had 1200 people on it. And so you could,

00:29:46.760 it was like a ghost town. We had, um, I'll take out food at all the restaurants. We had,

00:29:51.660 we had, uh, cleaning. I mean, the gym, we had double the force of janitors cleaning every

00:29:57.040 hour. And we had, you know, it's just every imaginable step that could possibly be taken

00:30:03.040 to, uh, protect our students. We put up no trespassing signs at every entrance to keep

00:30:09.240 the cases that might be in the community from leaking into campus. If you didn't have official

00:30:14.620 business on campus, you were forbidden to come on campus. Well, guess who violated the

00:30:20.040 trespassing warrant? I was just going to say that stopped everybody except the New York

00:30:25.800 Times, except the New York Times. That's right. So we swore out warrant for their arrest. And

00:30:31.860 we've been working with local, um, Commonwealth's attorney here and, and we're, um, it's working

00:30:38.340 out fine. I mean, it's, it's, um, they're, they're admitting their, their wrongdoing, but

00:30:43.380 we, we just, um, you know, we have no choice but to sue because when the New York Times reported

00:30:49.560 there, that there were 12 COVID, but they basically said in the financial times is there were 12 COVID

00:30:56.820 cases on campus. Well, that was completely false. They had talked to a doctor who didn't even work

00:31:03.520 for Liberty who owned a practice in town. And he had described to the reporter just cause he's a

00:31:09.180 nice guy that, yeah, we've had some upper respiratory, you know, colds and, and allergies

00:31:15.180 and different things. And, you know, about 11 or 12 of them. Well, he actually gave us the text

00:31:22.180 that he sent to the reporter that said, I have no official role at Liberty university. I'm just

00:31:28.080 telling you what I've seen in my practice, but that's not what they printed. They printed

00:31:33.080 12 COVID cases at Liberty. We had none that students left May 6th and we had absolutely

00:31:40.740 zero cases of any student faculty or staff on campus. We had, we had a couple of off-campus

00:31:49.940 cases like bus drivers whose family members had it, but as soon as they learned it, or we're just

00:31:55.900 one, I shouldn't say family members, but as soon as they learned that they had it, they quit working.

00:32:01.020 They went and got tested. Everybody who had been around them was quarantined, tested negative.

00:32:06.840 So we did everything imaginable to protect our students and our campus community. But yet Texas,

00:32:14.580 Texas, Arizona state had 15 positive cases. They did the same thing we did. No, no bad press.

00:32:21.820 Texas A&M no bad press for doing what we did. Um, yeah. So why, why, why you Jerry? I mean,

00:32:29.420 if I know the answer, but why, why you guys? Well, the same reason I believe this is my theory.

00:32:36.420 They've spent three years on Russia and the impeachment and then, um, lately hyping this

00:32:42.700 thing. Um, of course this is a serious thing, but I think the media has hyped it. And most doctors

00:32:49.020 will agree with that way beyond where it should have been hyped. I think it's because they know

00:32:54.320 what's coming from John Durham. And I think they've known since election night, 2016, when Hillary Clinton

00:33:00.640 came out and I think it was the next day. And she said, this is going to be painful for a long time.

00:33:06.980 Um, she knew, I'm not, I think she meant that. I think she said that because she knew what

00:33:14.160 they had done with the Obama justice department had done. And then all the shenanigans they pulled

00:33:20.240 between the election and the inauguration. And you know, John Durham, my dad used to say,

00:33:26.900 you don't, you never know how long a snake is till you kill it. And so he's in the process of

00:33:31.340 killing the snake. And it's no telling, it's no telling how long that snake's going to be. My opinion.

00:33:36.980 I, uh, I, I think this is, uh, bigger than Watergate ever was this, this, and it involves,

00:33:44.360 it involves the New York times and everybody else that, that aided all of these people.

00:33:49.040 They're, they're not coming out. You know, they're guilty because now that we have the

00:33:53.940 documents that prove that the people that were on their air were lying because they went

00:34:01.020 to under oath and they said, we've got nothing. Then they'd go on the air and say, yeah,

00:34:06.120 we're really close. I can't talk about it, but the next shoe is going to drop that they

00:34:10.240 haven't ratted those people out and said, I demand an apology. We, you know, we, we've

00:34:15.820 trusted you as a source. It shows that they, they don't care or they were part of it. Uh,

00:34:22.840 and, and I think this, I think this thing's going to rain down like, like fire on their heads.

00:34:27.720 And I think they've seen that coming for a long time. So they've been desperately trying to do a

00:34:33.400 preemptive strike and against not just Trump, but anybody who supported Trump. And that happened

00:34:39.940 to include me. So I, um, I'm, I'm fine with it though. Doesn't, I don't lose a bit of sleep. I just,

00:34:46.400 uh, I think it's the worst thing that could happen is they stop talking about you. My dad used to say

00:34:51.520 there's no such thing as a bad publicity. There's a lot of truth in that. Yeah. Uh, Jerry, thank you

00:34:58.200 so much. I appreciate it. Um, I'm glad we could, uh, uh, clear this up for the people that, uh, you

00:35:04.760 know, maybe the two people that read the New York times, uh, on what was happening at Liberty

00:35:09.060 University, but thanks for your leadership. Appreciate it. Well, it'd be great to have you back at

00:35:12.840 Liberty sometime soon. You would recognize the place.

The Glenn Beck Program - May 15, 2020

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