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Bill O'Reilly, Chris Stewart, and Jerry Falwell Jr. join host Glenn Beck to discuss the Democratic Socialists of America's rapid growth in the past few years and what it means for the 2020 election. Governor Jay Inslee lays out a new plan to combat the spread of the measles and other communicable diseases.
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Welcome to the podcast. Today, we talk about the wonderful growth for the Democratic Socialists
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of America. Bet you're excited about their progress as much as we are. Representative
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Chris Stewart talks to us about the latest developments with Michael Flynn. Bill O'Reilly,
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his weekly hit, spends hour two with us talking about everything from the system of justice
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and all the holes being poked in it, as well as the 2020 election and more. And we talked to a
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suspended because he decided to open up the business that he owned. And Jerry Falwell Jr.
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Governor Jay Inslee from the great state of Washington has now laid plans out for statewide
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contact tracing initiative. Sounds like fun. The initiative is robust. I'm quoting. It's vigorous
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and it's comprehensive. Wow. It sounds like common core. And he said it needs to be all three to be
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successful. If we don't succeed in this second stage of our efforts, this virus might come back
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and bite us. I got news for you. It's going to come back. It's going to come back next fall and
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it's going to come back the fall after and it's going to come back the fall after that. It's always
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going to be with us. Hey, it's like the flu. It's good. No, I don't mean the symptoms. It's like
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the flu. It's a virus. It's a virus. Okay. Uh, contract tracing involves interviewing people with
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positive COVID-19 tests to identify who they've been in contact with, getting those people tested
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and making sure they isolate themselves and their families. Okay. So wait, so now you have to keep a
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list of everybody that you've come in contact with and then you have to give that list. Let me see
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who you've been talking to. It will be interesting because I mean, obviously some of that, right, is
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very basic disease prevention, right? If there's a measles outbreak, they would do that. I mean,
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it's, you know, that's just interviewing. They've been doing that forever. The question is when it comes
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to a Jay Inslee approach to that, is it going very, very, uh, very, very far down that road?
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Well, he needs 100% compliance, uh, just a hundred percent, just a hundred percent. He needs a hundred
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percent. Uh, and, uh, they're going to send people to your home and, uh, they're going to be conducting
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these interviews. And if you refuse to take another test or self isolate or give them the names
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of people you have been with lately, uh, then, um, I want to quote him exactly. We will have attached
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to the families, a family support person who will check in with them to see what they need on a daily
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basis and help them. If they can't get a friend to do their grocery shopping, we'll help them with
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their groceries in some fashion. Um, as far as refusal, it shouldn't come to that. Uh, and it really
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hasn't so far, we've had good success, uh, but individuals that refuse to cooperate with, uh,
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contact tracers or refuse testing will not be allowed to leave their homes to purchase basic
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necessities as groceries or prescriptions. So, so there's just starve the people to death if they
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don't agree with this. Uh, is that, is that, no, no, no. He said they're going to have somebody to go
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grocery shopping for you. Just, you'll just be in prison in your home. You will not be allowed
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to ever leave your home unless you participate and only a hundred percent need to do that.
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Oh, okay. So yovul. Cause I, I thought what he was saying was if you participate in the program,
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they will bring you the groceries because you're isolated. So you're, if you do, if you're saying
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if they don't participate in the program, they're still going to shop for them. Yeah. Wait a minute.
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Wait a minute. Wait a minute. There's a board who will check and see what they need. Oh yeah.
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Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. You're right. You're right. It's just that we're just going to starve them out.
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Eventually they're going to be like, Oh cool. Take my names. I'm really hungry. I need Cheetos.
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And eventually it works. You know what? It, it worked in those really nice. I don't know if
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you saw these, the subdivisions that the Germans made in Poland for the Jews. They were beautiful
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little subdivisions had gate. It was a gated community that they built. Uh, and I think this
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is wonderful. Now I was thinking that it might be a little, uh, Hitlerian, uh, to do this, but
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then I thought, I'm not sure cause this sounded familiar. And so I looked this up, um, and that
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no man might buy or sell save that he had the mark or the name of the beast or the number
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of his name. That's from a little book. I don't remember. It's a kind of a dusty book, but there
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was something about not being able to buy, sell, uh, get groceries, anything unless you
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received the mark. Uh, and, um, I would think just most people, right. Are very interested
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if they find out they've had COVID right to tell the people they've been in contact with
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that they have COVID so they can get tested. That's something that most people are going
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to want to do. Uh, that doesn't mean that they want to play with Jay Inslee. Right. Right.
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But some people may not. I mean, you know, we had this with the AIDS virus. They were people
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that went out intentionally and those people went to jail. They went out intentionally to
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infect people. Okay. That that's different. But now I have to have a list of everybody I've
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come in contact with. And you know what they say? The, the, the supporters of this said
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it's really not going to be a problem because we'll just monitor the cell phones of everybody
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that comes into contact with them anyway. Oh my gosh. Okay. Even more scary. Now the
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County of Los Angeles has partnered with hotel associations to identify sites that will meet
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the operational needs of the program that they're unveiling. And that is housing the homeless
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to make sure that they don't have a Corona virus. Uh, and, uh, and you know, commandeer that they,
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they need to have rooms that they can lock down people. And so they're, they're now saying that
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if the hotels don't participate, they will just commandeer the hotels. They will just take those
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hotels over the city of Los Angeles is saying this. Uh, could I, may I just point out we're on a
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crazy train to hell here. I mean, you know, I am, I am actually, I believe Dr. Fauci, I don't, I believe
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that he believes he's right. And I believe he is instructing us just on health. There needs to be
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the balance of psychological help, uh, our rights and our economy. Okay. So when we balance him,
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I'm fine. Uh, but the media seems to only be taking his side of it and then trying to pit him
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against Donald Trump to break up this relationship like they do all the time. And you know, I would
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just like to ask the, the liberals and the media, you split those two apart. If you actually believe
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that Donald Trump is trying to kill everybody in this, in the country and Dr. Fauci is the hero,
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what the hell are you doing? Getting him out of the white house? What are you doing? Yeah.
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Wouldn't your goal be to write the stories about how they have a really good working relationship
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and how, how, you know, Donald Trump, like you, you understand how this stuff works. You come out
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here and make a media divide. It's like if you, if your friend is dating a girl that you don't like
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and you're just constantly leaking, you know, trying to break them up because it's irritating to you.
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No, no, no, no. May I give you, may I give you a real world, uh, example on just exactly what
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you're saying? The guy who I grew up with, Robert, um, he's like my brother. Okay. He lived in my house
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for a long time and, and we grew up together and I was dating a girl in high school and he, as my best
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friend and he would say all the time, I mean, why are you dating her? I mean, I don't get it.
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That's nice. I mean, really? Yeah. I don't get it. Uh, I mean, just, I mean, really? And so just
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planted a seed of doubt and I'm like, Oh, he's right. He, as soon as I broke up, he started dating
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her. He's now married to her. He's married to her. Okay. Yes. Colleen. I dated Colleen.
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And Robert was right. I mean, the one time we did kiss, it was like a kisser. Good night at the
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doorstep. And it was, and we both looked at each other and went, that was weird. It was like, it
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was like kissing your sister or something. Uh, so he was right about it, but he's the guy who was
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planning the seed of doubt. And that's what the media is doing. Yeah. And they will wind up dating
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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
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CNN, uh, round table commentator. And I will say this about Fauci cause he takes a lot of
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heat from the right. And as you point out, even in his testimony, he says, I'm not advising
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on economic matters at all. That's like, he's just saying that he thinks if the perfect world
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for a medical, like, I don't understand how people don't get that relationship job. That's
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his job. Okay. Real quick. Cause I've got so much. We have, we have a Chris Stewart coming
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up in a second. I've got to just shoehorn some of the, pardon the pun on this one.
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South African stores will now only sell shoes if they are closed toe and short sleeve shirts,
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if they are promoted or displayed to be worn under jackets or jerseys. So in other words,
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if you have a really cool t-shirt and it has a design and it's, it's, uh, displayed or promoted
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as somebody just wearing a t-shirt, you can't sell it. So the, if undergarments are made for warmth,
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you can sell them crop bottoms worn with boots or leggings are okay, but crop bottoms without boots
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or leggings, you cannot sell. This is craziness. It is absolutely crazy.
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And it's not a coincidence that something else is happening at exactly the same time here in
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America. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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I wanted to bring a Congressman Chris Stewart on, uh, Chris is a friend of mine and a friend of the
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program. He, uh, is serving now, uh, on the permanent select committee on intelligence,
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also on the budget committee and the appropriations committee. So there's a lot to talk to him about,
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but I wanted to start with Michael Flynn. Uh, welcome Chris. How are you?
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Good morning, Glenn. I was up near your ranch the other day and it's beautiful up there. You should
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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,
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New York times bestselling author of, of fiction. I mean, really great stuff. Um, a world record setting
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air force pilot. You were an owner, uh, and CEO of a, of a small business. Now you went to Congress,
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you have a lot of credibility on, uh, intelligence, but you're also on this intelligence, uh, committee.
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So I kind of wonder if you can even tell us stuff because you get in serious trouble unless it's all
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out in the open, right? Yeah. And the other thing, Glenn, is we actually Republicans abide by the rules.
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And that's why this thing with Michael Flynn, the unmasking and the list goes on and on. This is
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stuff that we've known for three years, but we couldn't talk, talk to people about, because
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unlike some of my democratic colleagues, we don't go down in the skiff and then go out and leak it to
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the press so that they can be dishonest and lie about people and create this false narrative.
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And what we've seen with general Flynn is absurd that this thing went forward the way it did to
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these accusations against him. I can't tell you how many times I talked to you and said,
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Chris, what's really going on? Um, you were in all of these things where you heard Brennan and
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Clapper and power and everyone else rice saying we have zero evidence. There's no evidence on any of
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this, how that must've killed you not to say while they were on television saying, Oh yeah, I mean,
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they're getting close to something. Yeah. Glenn, imagine we are, we're downstairs. We're in a
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classified setting where they have to tell the truth and they answer these questions. Nope. No
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evidence, no evidence, no evidence. And then they go upstairs and I'm talking about the clappers and
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the, and the Comeys and the others in the world who then go on television and say, Oh yeah, the walls
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are closing in. Oh yeah. I actually think he might be a Russian puppet. And for us to not be able to
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respond to that other than just to say, it's not true. And people would look, have you lost your
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mind? Because the evidence says it is true. And for three years we've lived with that.
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So Chris, this is the time to respond. Are these people going to be prosecuted?
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I think attorney general bar is the most important man in America right now next to the president.
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And I really mean that because he is the person with, uh, with his, uh, assistance of Mr. Durham,
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who are, they're like a starving dog on a bone on this. And they are committed and always have been
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to a telling people the truth and to be work through whatever legal process is appropriate.
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The problem that we have, and this is, uh, I mean, so the good news is I think there will be,
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there certainly should be. And, and I think the American people are going to demand it the more
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they understand this. The problem is, and this is the concern I have is, is talking with the attorney
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general a few weeks ago, he said, these are smart people and they had time to cover their tracks.
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So he's got a challenge ahead of him. He's not working, uh, uh, doing a job against a bunch of fools.
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Uh, but, but Glenn, you can't look at this information and it begs the question about,
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will they be held accountable? And, uh, they have to be Chris. Yeah. I was, I was talking to
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somebody yesterday who's a really logical, he and his wife, really logical. Um, they're big Trump
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supporters. And, um, and in the course of a conversation, uh, he said, you know, we're even
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starting to doubt Trump. And I said, what? And he said, yeah, I know it's crazy. But I thought,
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you know, for a couple of days last week, I was like, maybe he's being blackmailed. Is he being
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blackmailed? I said, what, what would make you say that? And he said immediately, you know what it is,
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Glenn? I don't trust anyone because everyone lies about everything and no one's held accountable.
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And so what am I supposed to do when I see something that doesn't fit? I immediately now
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jump to the crazy thoughts because crazy stuff is happening and no one is paying a price.
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You and I both know, Chris, a marriage will not survive. If there is not trust, there's no trust
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in America. If we don't restore trust, we do not make it. No, I couldn't agree with you more. Glenn,
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when I came back from Moscow, this was a couple of years ago and I was doing some talks with people
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about that. And I did an interview and someone asked me, and we get asked this question all the
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time because, you know, sitting on Intel committee, it's what we do. They say, what's the greatest
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threat facing our nation? Again, I was asked that question. And without thinking, I said, it's that
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no one knows what is true anymore. And I surprised myself with the answer, but I was thinking about it
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after and I thought that's absolutely true. That is the foundation upon which everything that we have
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is based. And we've lost that. And let me ask you this as a kind of an appendage to that.
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If two FBI agents came in and just said to you, hey, we just want to chat with you about something,
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there's no one in the country who would do that any longer. I mean, this institution,
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which is so important to us under the leadership of Comey, has lost that trust that you were talking
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about, that foundation of what is true anymore. And it's going to take a long time for us to rebuild
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that to where people can say, I think this is true and this is good. And this isn't, we've lost
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that. Chris, somebody, if, if this stuff isn't exposed entirely and they're not cleared out,
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somebody needs to go to jail. A good guy needs to go to jail to say, this is what's going on. And I
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know I'm violating all kinds of codes, but no one's doing anything. And the American people have to
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know, you want to arrest me for exposing this, then arrest me. Because we don't survive if this
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is not cleared up. Talk to me a little bit about how about unmasking. They say this is no big deal.
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It happens all the time. Tell me how this is different. Well, then let's ask this question.
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How many times did the vice president of the United States ask for a US person's name to be unmasked
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in the eight years he was in office? And who was it? Because that will give this context.
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You know, if it turns out that vice president Biden is asking for people to be unmasked on a daily
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basis, then yeah, you're right. It's not a big deal. But if it turns out he wasn't, then it begs
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further questions. How many times did Susan Rice ask for unmasking in the two months between the
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election and the inauguration and compare that with her activity and unmasking in the previous
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number of years? That's what gives this context. And if they can argue, hey, we were unmasking
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US citizens all the time, then there's no there there. But if it turns out that they weren't,
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and by the way, they weren't, then this does give us a greater understanding into what motivated them
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to unmask on us, particularly not just General Flynn, but particularly on General Flynn, because
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it was so it is politically motivated. It also, it has to be answered, you know, Samantha Power,
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she's the Secretary of the UN. What the why is she unmasking Flynn seven times in a month? Why is she
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doing that? And then saying, I didn't, I didn't do that. It might have been somebody else. Isn't that
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a breach of your security clearance in the first place? But why is she unmasking? And did that
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information go to someone else? And then use that as I was talking to a very high, high level source who
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said, this, this and this, that that's how the media was, was getting all of this was from these
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unmaskings. Yeah, that's exactly right. And that's the key to this. Look, if you can justify your
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unmasking, then as as a normal course, you work, then I accept that. Or if perhaps there's just a
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there's just a question there. I mean, that's fair. But there's got to be two things to that. Number
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one is, was there justification? Because in this unmasking process, you're supposed to put the reason
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for why it can't just be random. You have to have an actual reason why. And did this is a question
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on their request? Did they justify it? And then the second thing, which is why did this?
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Yep. Well, the second thing is, who did you talk to about that? Because we know that this was leaked
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and Glenn, this is important. It's not just General Flynn. That's important about this. This revealed the
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fact that we were listening to the Russian ambassador. And a lot of people didn't realize
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that before. And now everyone in the world knew it actually hit hindered our ability to gather
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intelligence. This was an important national security element to this at leaking. And that's
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the key to this is who unmasked, but more importantly, who talked to the press about it?
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Well, I mean, how do you explain the January 5th meeting?
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Yeah, that's exactly right. If you'd asked me that, uh, some time ago, uh, I would have said,
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I don't know. Uh, although he is involved in this and this is, this is vague, but it's very,
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very important. He's the one who selected these leaders. And by proxy, he's responsible.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. He, you know, the Susan Rice memo that she wrote walking out of the
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office said the president wanted to make sure that we did it by the book, that we didn't
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involve ourselves in the normal course of justice, that we didn't tell the police or
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investigators what to do on January 5th. It's documented. That's what he held a meeting for
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and with Comey and, and everybody else and told them, get him. Yeah, they were ready to drop the case.
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Yeah. And that's, that's what I was, the point I was just going to make is a couple,
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a couple months ago, I didn't know how to ask that question, but now we have to ask this question
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about what did the president know at that time? Because during that meeting, he was aware of
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things, already aware of things that no one claims responsibility for having briefed him for.
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No, we don't know how he knew about the, the Michael Flynn, uh, uh, investigation that's going
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forward because so far everyone has denied ever talking to him about that. Correct. So I think
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there's some questions about that that need to be asked. Okay. Um, let me just play. Do we have
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from yesterday the, uh, Senator Church meet the press, uh, audio? Okay. I want to play something
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for you, Chris. This is Senator Church, uh, from the Church Commission, 1975. Remember that date,
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1975. Think of the technology and how it's changed since. This is what he said when we found a little
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bit of this in 1975. There would be no place to hide. If this government ever became,
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a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the
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intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny. And there
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would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to
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the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know.
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Such is the capability of this technology. Now, why is this investigation important? I'll tell you why.
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Because I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there
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to make tyranny total in America. And we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess
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this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that
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abyss. There, that's the abyss from which there is no return. Are we, we've crossed the abyss.
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Are there enough people in Congress and the Senate that will demand that these people are held
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accountable and it does stop now? Well, Glenn, I hope so. I'm going to answer it that way. But I can
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tell you that there are a number of us. Remember, again, the work we did on the intel committee for
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three years has been focused on this. How many times have I said to people, you can't give the
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Department of Justice, the FBI, these other agencies, the power to know everything about you,
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to read your emails, to look at your computer, to talk to your friends, to go through your garbage,
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give them that power and then say, hey, go do whatever you want. We don't, we don't want to
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know. We trust you. It can never be that case. That can never be the case that we don't hold
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them accountable. And that's what we've been trying to do now for years in this case. And by the way,
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Glenn, it stuns me how many people seem to be comfortable with a police state. How many people
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are actually defending this and saying, hey, it's no big deal. You guys are paranoid. It's
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another conspiracy theory. You know, you're investigating the investigators, breaking down
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the rule of law. For heaven's sakes, that's nonsense.
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So Liberty University did the unconventional thing while everybody else panicked and just
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sent everybody home. Liberty University decided that they were going to just be smart and do
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online classes because they're a leader in online classes. They've been doing it since 1985.
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Um, and they're really, their online stuff is really, really good. Um, but, uh, they decided
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just to send whoever they could home, but there were foreign students and other people that had
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elderly, you know, parents or grandparents that live with them and they couldn't go home. So
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they kept them in the dorms and they did all kinds of things just to keep everybody safe.
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Well, as you can imagine, oh, these Christian nuts are crazy and they're going to get us all killed.
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Well, as it turns out, uh, no, the opposite happened. They are now the model for what
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schools should be doing, uh, to be able to open back up. That hasn't stopped the New York
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Times and others from really lying about, uh, what was happening at Liberty University,
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but no stranger to controversy, Jerry Falwell, uh, is now going to sue the New York Times, uh,
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for some of the things they did. Welcome to the program, Jerry Falwell. How are you?
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It is. It is. It is. I, I, that is one of the greatest things anybody's ever done for me. I,
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I just love it. It's provided lots of, uh, uh, very good memories. Uh, Jerry, um, it's good,
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good to talk to you, my friend. Um, so first of all, congratulations on not backing down,
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doing the right thing for the students. And I think for the country, um, tell us the steps that
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you did take, cause you just didn't say, well, I don't care. We're opening up the doors. You took
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it seriously. What did you do? Well, you know, there were some schools, some Ivy League schools
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that didn't even do online. They were too good for that. So they just sent everybody home.
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So, you know, your, your credit this semester is your problem. Forget it. There were a lot of other
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schools who did exactly what we did, Texas A&M, USC, Virginia Tech. And, and all that was,
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it was simply, we did not reopen. We, during spring break, the governor decided, issued an executive
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order, said no more than a hundred people in a gathering. Well, we have lots of classes with
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over a hundred students. And then he went down to 10 during spring break. Well, obviously we,
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we couldn't, we couldn't start classes again. So we went to the all online format, which, um,
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we've got one of the best in the world. And then we, um, we realized quickly that there's students
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who can't do online at home cause they don't have high speed internet. And there's students who have
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elderly relatives at home. And there are students, international students who can't go home.
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So we knew we were going to have to house a certain number of students. And so just like USC and Texas
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A&M and Virginia Tech, we housed those students and we, um, implemented measures. We, um, we had
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two surprise inspections by the governor black, blackface who came down and
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gave us glowing reports on how well we were complying with every order. We had this social
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distancing. We had signs on chairs saying, don't sit here, but okay, let's sit here. And we had all
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the academic buildings open. Campus built for 16,000 had 1200 people on it. And so you could,
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it was like a ghost town. We had, um, I'll take out food at all the restaurants. We had,
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we had, uh, cleaning. I mean, the gym, we had double the force of janitors cleaning every
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hour. And we had, you know, it's just every imaginable step that could possibly be taken
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to, uh, protect our students. We put up no trespassing signs at every entrance to keep
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the cases that might be in the community from leaking into campus. If you didn't have official
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business on campus, you were forbidden to come on campus. Well, guess who violated the
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trespassing warrant? I was just going to say that stopped everybody except the New York
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Times, except the New York Times. That's right. So we swore out warrant for their arrest. And
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we've been working with local, um, Commonwealth's attorney here and, and we're, um, it's working
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out fine. I mean, it's, it's, um, they're, they're admitting their, their wrongdoing, but
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we, we just, um, you know, we have no choice but to sue because when the New York Times reported
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there, that there were 12 COVID, but they basically said in the financial times is there were 12 COVID
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cases on campus. Well, that was completely false. They had talked to a doctor who didn't even work
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for Liberty who owned a practice in town. And he had described to the reporter just cause he's a
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nice guy that, yeah, we've had some upper respiratory, you know, colds and, and allergies
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and different things. And, you know, about 11 or 12 of them. Well, he actually gave us the text
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that he sent to the reporter that said, I have no official role at Liberty university. I'm just
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telling you what I've seen in my practice, but that's not what they printed. They printed
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12 COVID cases at Liberty. We had none that students left May 6th and we had absolutely
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zero cases of any student faculty or staff on campus. We had, we had a couple of off-campus
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cases like bus drivers whose family members had it, but as soon as they learned it, or we're just
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one, I shouldn't say family members, but as soon as they learned that they had it, they quit working.
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They went and got tested. Everybody who had been around them was quarantined, tested negative.
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So we did everything imaginable to protect our students and our campus community. But yet Texas,
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Texas, Arizona state had 15 positive cases. They did the same thing we did. No, no bad press.
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Texas A&M no bad press for doing what we did. Um, yeah. So why, why, why you Jerry? I mean,
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if I know the answer, but why, why you guys? Well, the same reason I believe this is my theory.
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They've spent three years on Russia and the impeachment and then, um, lately hyping this
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thing. Um, of course this is a serious thing, but I think the media has hyped it. And most doctors
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will agree with that way beyond where it should have been hyped. I think it's because they know
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what's coming from John Durham. And I think they've known since election night, 2016, when Hillary Clinton
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came out and I think it was the next day. And she said, this is going to be painful for a long time.
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Um, she knew, I'm not, I think she meant that. I think she said that because she knew what
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they had done with the Obama justice department had done. And then all the shenanigans they pulled
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between the election and the inauguration. And you know, John Durham, my dad used to say,
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you don't, you never know how long a snake is till you kill it. And so he's in the process of
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killing the snake. And it's no telling, it's no telling how long that snake's going to be. My opinion.
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I, uh, I, I think this is, uh, bigger than Watergate ever was this, this, and it involves,
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it involves the New York times and everybody else that, that aided all of these people.
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They're, they're not coming out. You know, they're guilty because now that we have the
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documents that prove that the people that were on their air were lying because they went
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to under oath and they said, we've got nothing. Then they'd go on the air and say, yeah,
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we're really close. I can't talk about it, but the next shoe is going to drop that they
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haven't ratted those people out and said, I demand an apology. We, you know, we, we've
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trusted you as a source. It shows that they, they don't care or they were part of it. Uh,
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and, and I think this, I think this thing's going to rain down like, like fire on their heads.
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And I think they've seen that coming for a long time. So they've been desperately trying to do a
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preemptive strike and against not just Trump, but anybody who supported Trump. And that happened
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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,
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uh, I think it's the worst thing that could happen is they stop talking about you. My dad used to say
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there's no such thing as a bad publicity. There's a lot of truth in that. Yeah. Uh, Jerry, thank you
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so much. I appreciate it. Um, I'm glad we could, uh, uh, clear this up for the people that, uh, you
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know, maybe the two people that read the New York times, uh, on what was happening at Liberty
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University, but thanks for your leadership. Appreciate it. Well, it'd be great to have you back at
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Liberty sometime soon. You would recognize the place.