The Glenn Beck Program - May 15, 2020


Best of The Program | Guests: Rep. Chris Stewart & Jerry Falwell Jr. | 5⧸15⧸20


Episode Stats

Length

35 minutes

Words per Minute

171.93513

Word Count

6,061

Sentence Count

443

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary

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.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. Today, we talk about the wonderful growth for the Democratic Socialists
00:00:04.960 of America. Bet you're excited about their progress as much as we are. Representative
00:00:10.460 Chris Stewart talks to us about the latest developments with Michael Flynn. Bill O'Reilly,
00:00:15.200 his weekly hit, spends hour two with us talking about everything from the system of justice
00:00:21.820 and all the holes being poked in it, as well as the 2020 election and more. And we talked to a
00:00:30.420 suspended because he decided to open up the business that he owned. And Jerry Falwell Jr.
00:00:36.620 will be on as well, talking about the backlash against Liberty University, since they decided
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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
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,
00:08:20.240 what the hell are you doing? Getting him out of the white house? What are you doing? Yeah.
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
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.
00:15:35.360 Uh, but, but Glenn, you can't look at this information and it begs the question about,
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
00:19:06.520 election and the inauguration and compare that with her activity and unmasking in the previous
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
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.
00:26:49.320 Well, as you can imagine, oh, these Christian nuts are crazy and they're going to get us all killed.
00:26:54.960 Well, as it turns out, uh, no, the opposite happened. They are now the model for what
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
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.