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Sen. Rand Paul joins the show to talk about his new book, "Do What You Said You Would Do," and to discuss the upcoming Virginia primary election and whether or not he thinks he can win it. Also, we have a call from someone who thinks Kaepernick is on the right track on that and the Joe Rogan effect.
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Hey, great show for you today on the podcast, the Bill Maher segments right back to back
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with our guest, Rand Paul, to talk about these vaccine mandates and Fauci and what the future
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We actually had a call from somebody who really thought that he was on the right track on
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And the Joe Rogan effect, standing with people you can't believe you're standing with.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Jim Jordan from Ohio, the House ranking member for the GOP, author of Do What You Said You
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I watch your clips and I'm like, oh, thank God somebody is saying this.
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Are we losing as badly as it feels like we're losing?
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I mean, look, the Democrats haven't done anything that's been helpful to the country.
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We, you know, I said we went from energy independence to the spectacle of the president of the United
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We went from safe streets to violent crime because they defund the police in every major
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We went from respect around the world to the debacle that was the Afghanistan exit.
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So, yeah, we're not winning, but I think we might win today.
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And I think this, I really think this memo from the attorney general a few weeks ago that
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became public where he's going after parents of school.
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I think that's sort of the last straw in Americans are like, we've had it with the attacks on
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And if Glenn Youngkin wins tonight, I think that's a huge sign that the country is about
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We are, we're standing, even if he doesn't win tonight, because I don't know about the
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vote, but even if he doesn't win tonight, people shouldn't get discouraged because I'm
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I mean, the courts just reversed the mandate thing in Chicago for the police, which is
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They must have been freaked out of their mind with even less police officers on the street.
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But people are, people are starting to find their voice, which I haven't seen before.
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And, and frankly, it's because it's been for now over a year of government assaulting people's
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Every, I told a group the other day, every single right we enjoy under the First Amendment
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Your right to practice your faith, your right to petition your government, right to assemble,
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One person stands up, then three people standing up.
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And I think you're seeing sort of reawakening and embracing of freedom starting to happen
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Do you, do you see the, the president's bills passing?
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So, so four different times, the Speaker House has said, today's the day of the vote.
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And twice she's brought the, the president of the United States to Capitol Hill, and he's
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So let's, let, you know, the odds seem to be moving in our direction.
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So hopefully you don't get the votes for this thing.
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And it's not just the crazy $3 trillion in spending.
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It's the policies contained in the legislation.
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I told, I told this, I was speaking, I said, think about the Democrats' economic plan.
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The Democrats' economic plan is basically lock down the economy, spend like crazy, pay
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And then for everyone who has been working, oh, we're getting ready to raise your taxes.
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So let's hope this stuff, yeah, let's hope this stuff doesn't pass.
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You wrote the book, Do What You Said You Would Do.
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It seems like obvious advice, but how come people don't do that when they go to Congress?
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Because it's so easy to get here and just go along.
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And the whole town is rigged against doing what you told the voters back home, what families
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and taxpayers and small business owners want you to do.
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That's why I was so impressed with what President Trump was able to do.
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And yet, in spite of all that, he actually did more of what he said he would do than any
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And so it's really, I always tell folks, we make this job way too complicated.
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What did you tell the voters you were going to do when you ran for the job?
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We take them behind the scenes and interactions with the president.
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I've been fortunate to be involved in every big investigation that's happened here.
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The IRS, the Benghazi investigation, of course, the impeachment.
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And so we give them a feel for what it's like behind the scenes and all those investigations.
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So one of the things, Jim, that I think people are so frustrated on is, what do all these
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Unless it's, you know, the bogus investigations, the bogus stuff that was done with the Justice
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And frankly, it used to be the number one question I get.
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People walk up to me all the time and say, when is someone going to jail?
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And they were mostly back during the Mueller investigation and the whole crazy Trump-Russia
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But all we can do in Congress, I can't put anyone in jail.
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All I can do is get the facts out to the American people and hope we have a Justice
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Department that's actually willing to hold people accountable and not let this double
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standard continue to happen, which is maybe more than anything, Glenn.
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And I know you get this from your callers and your listeners.
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I get it from constituents and folks I see all over the country.
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They hate that, you know, Lois Lerner can do one thing, but we can't.
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Or if Clinton gets away with this and Andy McCabe gets, Garland just gives him all his
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back pension and pays for his attorney fees, even though he lied several times to the inspector
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I don't think we want, we don't want that treatment.
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I think Americans, and this is what the left missed, Americans are fair.
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And, you know, from the time you're a kid, you're, you know, someone at school gets two
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It's just instinctively we get fairness and we want fairness.
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But when we don't see it happening, it is frustrating.
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Let me switch to the, to the virus and the masking and the, all of this craziness about
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And how come it hasn't been, you know, headed off at the pass yet?
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And I, I guess I said this earlier, but, but, you know, Kyrie Irving stands up and says,
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And then you got, you got parents at school board meetings.
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And then you have healthcare workers in New York.
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Again, I think you're seeing more and more Americans say, wait a minute, this is not how
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We know instinctively this is, this is not constitutional.
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Once OSHA comes up with their final ruling and is actually, you know, so I think Americans
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I don't think it is constitutional, but that doesn't seem to stop this administration.
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You know, they just continue to do one stupid thing after another, one unconstitutional move
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And again, it's why they're at what, what, what was the 71% of the country thinks Joe Biden
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And I do think in the end, freedom has a way of winning out.
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Even if it takes, even if it's difficult and tough and in a long, long road, I think it
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And more and more, more Americans are doing the right thing and standing up for, for their
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You were great when Viola Garcia was, was being, you know, the letter that was, was given
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to the white house and then the justice department, um, is anything going to come of this with
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And the idea that, you know, one day after that hearing, uh, two weeks ago in the, in
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the house judiciary committee, when, when Merrick Garland said the only basis for his memorandum
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was in fact, the original letter sent from the school board association to the president.
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And then the school board association apologizes the very next day.
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And I told them some group is, this doesn't happen in DC where a major left-wing group
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apologizes and it wasn't just your normal apology.
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We, we, we, we regret and apologize for the letter.
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So this was a full, you know, full backpedal because they saw how bad this was hurting,
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So what we did yesterday is we've sent a letter to every U S attorney in all 94 districts.
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Cause remember his memorandum said he wanted, he wanted action taken in all the judicial
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And, and never forget the day he sends this memorandum on October 4th, accompanying the
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And the press release said, we're going to get the national security division of the
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justice department involved, but that's a division that deals with domestic terrorism.
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So this idea that they weren't treating parents as domestic terrorists is just not, I mean,
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it's, that's what they were doing as, as indicated by the fact in your press release,
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accompanying the memorandum on the same day, you're talking about the national security
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division being involved in the task force to deal with moms and dads at school board
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And again, this is why parents are saying, no, no, no.
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When you start telling parents that, oh, government's smarter and knows better about your kids
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than you do as moms and dads, moms and dads are going to say, wait a minute, wait a minute.
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And they are speaking out, standing up and defending the truth and defending their, their rights
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So I think this is going to backfire on them big time.
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And I do think in the end he'll rescind it, but he hasn't yet.
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We're talking to Jim Jordan, the Republican from, from Ohio and the author of the new
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book, do what you say you, you do what you said you do.
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I want to ask you about the, the freedom of speech caucus that you have going on the campus
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Well, this, this is, I mean, you know how the cancel culture mob and the woke mob, what
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And, and, and it's most prevalent sometimes I think on, on college campuses, Mary Weiss,
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when she, when she resigned from the New York times and she wasn't even on the right, she
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was actually center left when she resigned and talked about the, the, the cancel culture
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mindset that dominates so much in mainstream press and so many places, so many institutions.
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Now she says, if you go against the woke mob, you will face what, what she termed was the
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And I thought, what an appropriate term you will, you will, they will attack you, your family,
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Well, on college campuses, they just come after you're not allowed to speak out.
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And so this is something we're doing with some young, brave students around the country.
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Kat Kamek, a new member from, from Florida, young, new young member.
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We're also working on legislation to go after big tech.
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Specifically, the first bill that we want is to get rid of the, the liability protection
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So there's a number of things we're trying to do that will, that will push back and stop
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this attack on, as I said earlier, every right we enjoy under the first amendment.
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And of course, of those five rights we have under the first amendment, you know, the most
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important one, even more important than your right to practice your faith is your right
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Because if you can't speak, how do you really get to practice your faith?
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How do you really get to, to worship the way you're supposed to worship?
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Um, and we're trying to push back on, on what's happening out there in the culture every
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Jim Jordan, the author of the book, do what you said you would do.
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It's available everywhere now, wherever books are sold.
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Uh, Jim is, uh, a leader in the, uh, freedom caucus.
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Have you thought if you take over the house, have you thought about asking Donald Trump
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Um, I mean, that's something that the president would be interested in that.
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That's certainly something I think, uh, that, uh, that, that, that people would, would entertain.
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But I think mostly what, uh, most likely what's going to happen, he's going to run for president.
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Kevin McCarthy is going to be speaker and, uh, we're going to have to focus on doing what
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Stopping this nonsense from, uh, from the Biden administration and the Democrats that
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Um, but I think president Trump's going to run for president.
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I've already said I'm for him a hundred percent.
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We need him back in there again, you know, talk about doing what you said you would do.
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When we go to the white house with president Trump, they had the big whiteboard there in the
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West wing and they had every single campaign promise they made.
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And then they put a check mark when they got it done.
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That's how you're supposed to lead in this great country.
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And we have way too few people who are willing to actually say one thing at the election and
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And what a contrast the American people now see between what he did and this Biden guy.
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The name of the book is Do What You Said You'd Do.
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But who we see engaging in similar thinking and truth telling has changed.
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We would have never thought of being at the same table because we're on opposite sides.
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This is from a podcast with Heather Haying and her husband that are what I always thought were far, far left.
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The adversity that we're going through, it breaks people out of these categories because you have to examine what people are really for.
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There's this time where we are going to find ourselves standing together with people that you wouldn't expect.
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You know, Nicki Minaj, for a brief moment, we were fighting for the same thing.
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Now, it was a brief moment, but it was a moment.
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All of a sudden, your ideological opposites are suddenly your allies.
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When they stick around and when you stick around, it's because you're bonded together for a cause.
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Because there's something worth fighting for together.
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And when it comes to Heather Haying, it is freedom of speech and diversity of thought and being able to express yourselves.
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There is something that I'd like you to prepare for, and that is the welcome wagon.
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I don't think they have them anymore, but a welcome wagon used to be when you'd move into a neighborhood.
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The neighborhood would all get together, and somebody was selected to bring the welcome wagon over.
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And it was food and just kindness from the whole neighborhood.
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Because if you were in the neighborhood, and this is the one I want to really emphasize, if you're in the neighborhood, chances are you're friendly.
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There are people in the neighborhood that are bat crap crazy.
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But we have to look for people that are in the neighborhood.
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What is the final piece of adversity that will bring us together as the strangest of bedfellows?
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When rappers, listen to this, when rappers, Republicans, actors, environmentalists, truck drivers, NBA players, liberals, millionaires, moms, pop stars, sports anchors, comedians, and historians are all on the same team,
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you're starting to have a pluribus unum, they're starting to stop arguing about the things that don't matter and start standing together for the things that do.
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I just made it up, but it's the Joe Rogan effect.
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The Joe Rogan effect describes the countless Americans that have just come up to a line where they're just not going to cross.
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Regardless of politics, career, background, anything, they're just like, nope, not going there.
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And Joe Rogan has come up to that line himself with the vaccine mandates, and he's just not going to cross it.
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If they can figure out a way to force you into carrying papers, into carrying something that lets you enter businesses, or lets you do this, or lets businesses open,
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as soon as you give politicians power, any kind of power that didn't exist previously, historically, they don't relinquish that power.
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Remember about a year ago I said, where is your line?
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Too many are missing the opportunity, and it's going to put them too far down the field, I fear, to turn around at some point.
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It's the pressure to apologize for his comedy special, and he said, I will not cross it.
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Jonathan Isaac of the Orlando Magic reached the line he won't cross with the mandates.
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At this point in time, it is going to take courage.
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It is going to take boldness to stand up for what it is that you believe in, to say it proudly and to say it loudly.
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If you listen to this program, you heard, believe it or not, the rap artist Bryson Gray tell you on this program that when you've reached your line, it's time to stand up.
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It's time for us to, like, stand up and stop allowing and succumbing to what's going on in this country.
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What's great about this is it brings me back to this woman that we, my family and I met in Poland.
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I've told you the story a million times that said the righteous didn't suddenly become righteous.
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They just refused to go over the cliff with everyone else.
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The Rogan effect is when you get to the cliff and you're like, okay, this is madness.
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Then after everybody else has jumped off the cliff, you look around and see, holy cow, I'm standing with you.
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You're starting to see the people that won't jump off the cliff and sometimes they're surprising.
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It's people who believe differently, live differently, think differently, dress differently.
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But the one thing we all have in common is we didn't go over the cliff.
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And each in our own way, we're trying to persuade others, don't go over the cliff.
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Not going over the cliff makes you part of this team.
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Because this is the kind of momentum on the side of liberty like we haven't seen in America for quite some time.
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It's not even people that generally agree on a lot of stuff.
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It's just that we agree on the things that matter.
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Things don't always work out the way you want them.
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And if you're being raised in a world and you believe those things not to be true, that you're always going to have fair play.
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But we were always raised that life isn't fair.
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But there's a lot of stuff that makes you ordinary.
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Usually, people who are extraordinary, it's only in one little area.
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These people who don't agree with each other are starting to stand together.
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Well, what brought us together in the first place?
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That God built us with these rights that nobody can take away.
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And that it's up to you to take those things that you have and make the best of them.
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And sometimes people are going to win unfairly.
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And a government should protect those people who are trying to do the right thing and living by those few rights and responsibilities.
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That parents should have the right to say to the teachers,
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And I have a right to say what I believe with my child.
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And you're not standing there with a bunch of people who all voted for Trump.
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Or who all like the flavor of chocolate for their ice cream.
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You're standing around probably the most diverse group of people.
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You are probably in the most diverse group in all of America today.
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If you found your line and you just won't cross it.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Missouri, you have somebody good to replace you as the Attorney General?
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There'll be a long line of people on that job, I'm sure.
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You were here in Texas just a couple of weeks ago.
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And you were here because you were supporting a lawsuit against the Biden administration of Texas.
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Tell me about that lawsuit first on the border.
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So we went to El Paso with the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and announced our lawsuit for Joe Biden to finish the wall.
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The fact is $3.8 billion was appropriated by Congress.
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The president has no authority to not spend that money on the border wall.
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Under the take care clause of the Constitution, he swears an oath to uphold the Constitution and faithfully execute the laws of the country.
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So there's a constitutional argument, to be sure.
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There's also an administrative law argument that basically this is arbitrary and capricious, their decision not to do it.
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Because when the Trump administration moved forward with that wall, they gave a lot of great evidence in the record as to why walls are important.
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And traveling with those Border Patrol agents, it's amazing, Glenn.
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You go from no wall to some wall to a haphazard wall to a permanent wall to no wall.
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All the while, there are materials 20 feet away for a 30-foot-high permanent wall.
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And Missouri's interest in this is, just like it was with the Remain in Mexico lawsuit that we filed with Texas that we won at the Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision.
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Now, amazingly, we have to go back to court to enforce that.
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This is the really bad thing about this administration.
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Usually the administration, I mean, first of all, the president's job, the veto, is supposed to be for something he thinks is unconstitutional, not something he doesn't like, something that is unconstitutional.
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Instead, he is supporting things that they say are unconstitutional.
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But then when they come back and say it's unconstitutional, they don't change their behavior.
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We've got to go back in court now and enforce that.
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And it goes to show you, I think, how far the left is willing to go.
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But you don't have to look very far in the Senate right now.
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You're a senator or two away from adding states to the union, packing the Supreme Court, federalizing our elections.
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And so that's why I think it's very important for the attorneys general across the country to step up in our system of federalism.
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Which, by the way, the founders knew very well human nature.
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And they devised a system of government that spread out power, diffused it to no one branch, no one person ever got too powerful.
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And the states play an important role in that, too.
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The states created the federal government, a government of limited powers.
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By the way, one of those limited powers is securing the border.
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And so it's up to the states now to push back and say, you need to do your job.
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You have the money, $3.8 billion, to finish this border wall.
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There is a policy in place that can protect our southern border, the remain in Mexico policy that we want in the Supreme Court.
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And by the way, all that, Glenn, is meant to protect individual liberty, right?
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It diffuses power so individuals can live their lives.
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The problem is, is that everything at the federal level, all of the checks and balances seemingly have broken down.
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It's on you guys in particular, the attorney generals.
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I had somebody, one of my very, very cynical producers, who wasn't so cynical, you know, just a few years ago, say, what good do these attorney generals do?
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I mean, it's a it's a press conference and then nothing happens.
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Well, unfortunately, the courts move a little bit slower, slower than we'd like to.
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But I think we're starting to see those results.
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And so the truth is, I mean, he's been in office for less than 300 days.
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Amazingly, it feels like a lot longer than that.
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But it does feel like a culture in our country is slipping away.
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And I think it is up to the AGs right now to push back.
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The the federal leasing are the the drilling on federal lands.
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Meaning that Biden on day one, there are two, I think, two major policy priorities for him on day one, energy and immigration.
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So what he did was is he came in on day one and tried to undo everything.
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And all the successes that President Trump had.
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He created a working group called well to to analyze what the quote unquote social cost of greenhouse gases is.
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Now, here's this is like Nostradamus, not Newton.
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John Kerry, the climate czar, leads this group.
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Leads this group, predict hundreds of years into the future what migration patterns and warfares look like.
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And they attribute all of that cost to greenhouse gases.
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Pull it back into real time, present day value and then charge these agencies to go tax and regulate agriculture manufacturing.
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And by the way, that's going to seep into all these regulatory actions.
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Anyway, you see some of this rhetoric that's being spouted off by Biden over in Europe right now as they applied to fly in their private jets there and have their cars idling for them.
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This is the next round of executive actions and continual emergency orders like we're seeing with the vaccine.
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He said yesterday that he is issuing an emergency order on on climate change.
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And I was just having this debate with somebody just the other day about what he it doesn't stop with the covid-19.
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If you allow them this amount of play, the next thing that is a health hazard is climate change and gun control.
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And you've got J.B. Pritzker in our neighboring state already rattling that saber a little bit, talking about a public health crisis and emergency orders.
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So in Missouri, I have been very aggressive, not just pushing back against the federal government overreach, but also these local petty tyrants.
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The county executive has tried to, on his own, issue a mask order.
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We fought him in court and won to stop the forced masking of a million people.
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This is about who we've been and who we're going to be.
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We've been the freest country in the history of the world.
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That's when we talk about American exceptionalism.
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Our founders believed that everybody has a right to pursue their dreams.
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And that they knew human nature and that tyrants throughout the course of human history and even today try to accumulate and aggregate and exert power and control.
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I said on a video that went viral that I don't want to live in some futuristic biomedical dystopian medical state.
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And so my job right now is to fight back on every front with everything I've got to protect individual rights and liberty.
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So let's talk about what you're doing with the mandates, because we got a call from some 3M plant workers in your state.
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And they're like, look, we I mean, we're going to lose our job.
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Where are we going to work if these mandates happen?
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Missouri led a 10 state coalition against the federal contractor mandate vaccine mandate, which is an enormous power grab by the federal government and could, according to the Department of Labor, affect about 25 percent of workers who have some connection connection to a federal contract, even though they're not working on anything related to any federal dollars.
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And again, I think it fits into a much larger picture.
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We anticipate the employer mandate coming in a matter of days.
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So you can't file anything for like against 3M or against, you know, all companies doing this until they're actually.
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So once that order is actually issued for the employer mandate.
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Once that order is issued, then we have the ability to sue.
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Right now, what he's doing, Joe Biden's doing is he said this weeks, month over a month ago.
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And I think he's applying a lot of pressure to these entities before he actually issues and you don't have a right to stop.
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But he's trying to pressure these businesses into doing it, which is cynical at best.
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And I think they're also waiting because they know they're going to lose.
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It could be that they're waiting because it's Virginia race to who knows is.
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I mean, all these things are incredibly unpopular.
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People see it for what it is, which is the heavy hand of government forcing people.
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To do things that in their own good conscious might not do.
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I think people ought to be able to make these decisions.
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It's like the the forced masking of five year olds.
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And by the way, the the left has dreamed of this scenario for a long time.
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To have the state enter our lives in every conceivable way and continue to get bigger and bigger.
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And I think that as a conservative, the the maximum amount of space between the state and
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the individual so they can pursue their dreams, make their choices is the right place for us
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And we have to fight for it's never been in more danger than it is right now.
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He is the Missouri attorney general and a candidate for the U.S.
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I want to get into the details of this Google lawsuit that really kind of came out yesterday
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If those things are true, it's stunning what Google is actually doing.
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So we're talking to Eric Schmidt, the Missouri attorney general and U.S.
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I want to talk to you a little bit about the the Google lawsuit.
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By the way, not to be confused with the Eric Schmidt from Google.
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The the the lawsuit, we've heard talk about it for a for a while that it was coming.
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And yesterday is at least the first time I saw it.
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I think more details are starting to come out about the allegations for sure.
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So I'm I'm looking at it and it's like one hundred and seventy pages and the the things
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they're doing, the antitrust things that they appear to be doing, the way they are just
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manipulating, lying and controlling of so much online is terrifying.
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And I think this is the, you know, the tyranny of big tech is a real thing.
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And in my view, if you want to take a step back, originally, you know, when the Internet
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was the first came into the public consciousness, it was sort of this big IBM machine.
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This is this supercomputer somewhere, which certainly connoted the connotations were that
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Then you see in the 90s, this kind of democratization.
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Which is kind of my view of what the Internet should be.
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People have access to information and people can freely communicate.
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And by the way, that's when those Section 230 protections came into play in 1996, because,
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hey, if you're just going to be a platform for people to put their ideas out, we're not
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going to hold you accountable like a publisher.
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Now we see the centralization again by a few companies that control a massive more information
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that the world has ever had at its fingertips in the history of mankind.
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Ninety percent of the searches are controlled by Google.
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And if you think about that, that is immense power.
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And when that power is utilized in a way that Google is utilizing it, it's very scary.
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Yeah, they're they're they're not only violating privacy, they're colluding with Facebook to
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thwart investigations into them from the federal government, if I'm not mistaken.
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And they are they are telling people that are doing business with them that you're going
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If you are paying to be, you know, advertising.
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And you're on and you maybe you're not a favored industry or company and you end up on page
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Nobody gets to see behind the curtain with, you know, in the land.
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I don't think I've made it past three and that's what I was really looking for something.
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You know, the bad stories are at the front of the line.
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But but yeah, this the the the antitrust essentially, if you wanted to boil it down into layman's
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terms, is that they have created an anti-competitive atmosphere, right, by using their power, particularly
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with the deals that they have with Apple, with Verizon or not Verizon, but Microsoft,
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Microsoft, basically be the preferred search engine.
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And they will do anything to maintain the position at the top of the heap.
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And the practices that they're employing to do that are anti-competitive and violate antitrust
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But I think as it relates to big tech, this is a one of the most important issues that
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not a lot of people are talking about, but that think about it.
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There's more power in these iPhones than sent people to the moon in the late 1960s.
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And if you've got people who, by the way, have made a decision, Google made a decision to
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work with the Chinese military, with AI, machine learning.
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But we're woke enough, I guess, not to do it with the United States of America.
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So we're committed to moving this lawsuit forward.
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Now, these things, antitrust cases take a long time.
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But the discovery that could come from all of this, I think, would be telling, too.
00:41:26.720
Well, I think all in all, there's a couple of different lawsuits.
00:41:29.680
Now, interestingly, different states come at this for different reasons.
00:41:34.260
You know, it's, it's really an interesting kind of when the political spectrum looks more
00:41:42.320
So, um, one last thing they're putting through, I've got one minute, uh, they're putting through
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a new FCC commissioner, uh, and we're very concerned about freedom of speech, especially
00:41:55.740
Um, you are one of the, the, uh, attorney generals that will stand for broadcasters.
00:42:03.720
And like we did, by the way, for second amendment rights and that, that nominee got spiked,
00:42:08.540
Uh, we were the, we pushed back against Merrick Garland for sickening the DOJ and, uh, the
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Nothing could be more important than the free expression of ideas.
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It's the, it's the pressure release valve for our Republic.
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Eric Schmidt and important, as he said, to point out, not the one from Google.
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Uh, he is the Missouri attorney general and running for us Senate.
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You can find his, uh, information at Schmidt for Senate.com.