The Glenn Beck Program - February 05, 2020


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Rep Thomas Massie, Rep. Chris Stewart & Ezra Levant ｜ 2⧸5⧸20


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Glenn Beck is joined by Rep. Thomas Massey (R-Kentucky) to discuss the Democratic response to the President's State of the Union address, and what s next for America and the American press in the wake of it.

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00:00:00.000 Boy, do we have a look at the president's historic speech for you today, from outside, from the television perspective, and from inside the room.
00:00:11.480 This is a podcast you don't want to miss, more hostile than I have ever seen, the angriest, meanest, most hate-filled room I think I've ever been in,
00:00:23.960 and I've been in a lot of rooms feeling a lot of hate towards me, towards people, or from people,
00:00:31.360 and I have to tell you, the hatred this president is feeling from the left is unprecedented.
00:00:38.120 It was hostile third-graders today.
00:00:42.080 We're going to talk about that with several guests here in our Washington studio,
00:00:47.160 and what's next for America and the American press?
00:00:50.780 Well, let's look north to our neighbor, Canada.
00:00:54.420 What's happening there should frighten all of us, and a way for you to get involved, all on today's podcast.
00:01:07.660 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:01:11.780 Thomas Massey represents Kentucky's 4th Congressional District that stretches all across northern Kentucky,
00:01:25.520 280 miles of the Ohio River.
00:01:28.760 He is, you know, he's a smart guy.
00:01:32.940 I mean, he's no Glenn and Stu, but he did go to MIT.
00:01:37.720 He's on three different committees, the House Committee for Transportation and Infrastructure,
00:01:42.740 the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
00:01:45.800 I love you.
00:01:47.600 And the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
00:01:51.420 He's also the guy who last night took me down to the skiff and took a picture of me at the door of the skiff.
00:02:01.500 Wouldn't let me in for some reason.
00:02:03.360 Wouldn't let me in.
00:02:04.160 But we were down where all the secret meetings went on with the whistleblower.
00:02:11.880 Welcome, Thomas.
00:02:12.780 How are you?
00:02:13.840 Yeah, you bet.
00:02:15.940 First of all, let's start with the—well, we're halfway through a historic 24 hours.
00:02:25.440 Yeah.
00:02:25.660 We got the State of the Union last night, which was just outrageously good, in my opinion.
00:02:32.100 And then at, what, 4 o'clock this afternoon, the Senate's going to vote to acquit.
00:02:38.280 Yeah, this is an amazing slice of history, this 24-hour window.
00:02:42.860 Yeah.
00:02:43.160 And to be there last night was just amazing.
00:02:46.100 I started out by shaking the president's hand as he came in and thanking him for the work that he's done.
00:02:54.860 And then, boy, when he started into that speech, I think those Democrats had superglue on their seats because they refused to stand up for the—I mean, just if he had said apple pie or baseball or—I mean, at times—
00:03:13.960 He could have come out and said, I like socialism, and they would not have clapped and they would not have gotten up.
00:03:21.380 That's right.
00:03:21.900 I mean, no matter what he said, even if it was stuff they've always been for.
00:03:27.460 I mean, he talked about many things that they have been for, and they couldn't applaud.
00:03:34.640 They couldn't applaud at the lowest unemployment rate, the highest employment rate for African-Americans ever, the highest employment rate for Hispanics and Asians, women, nothing. 0.88
00:03:51.080 Nothing.
00:03:51.700 Nothing.
00:03:52.820 It was incredible.
00:03:54.200 He got a few of them to clap for criminal justice reform because they co-sponsored the bill.
00:03:59.900 But even people that voted for that bill wouldn't get up and clap or even acknowledge that the president did something good by signing the bill.
00:04:08.020 Let me ask you this.
00:04:09.500 Last year, I was your guest at the State of the Union, and I felt it was—remember, the president was kind of—he was almost squirrely at a couple of times.
00:04:21.980 He'd go, come on, you can clap for that.
00:04:23.680 Remember?
00:04:24.180 Yeah.
00:04:24.360 He would look over to the left and go, come on.
00:04:26.500 And it was still a little good-natured.
00:04:29.260 Right.
00:04:29.900 Last night, I felt from them hatred.
00:04:35.820 I mean, I—that room was full.
00:04:39.240 They hate him.
00:04:41.620 Seething.
00:04:42.420 Seething hatred.
00:04:44.040 And, you know, I shook the president's hand when he came in.
00:04:46.900 To do so, I had to sit on the aisle.
00:04:49.420 Yeah.
00:04:49.660 So I was just a few feet from those Democrats who would not stand up for the president for anything, for anything good about America.
00:04:57.920 And I would look over at them.
00:05:00.540 And literally, I could lean over and touch some of them and just look at them in the eyes and think, what is going through your head right now?
00:05:08.720 Why—what is it that you hate about this man so much that you're going to be so spiteful and hate our country?
00:05:15.680 I mean, when he just talked in generalities about the country and how we need to put Americans first?
00:05:22.820 They wouldn't stand up.
00:05:24.420 Not a single one of them could I see clapping when he said, we need to put America and Americans first.
00:05:30.480 Right.
00:05:31.520 I mean, there were things last night that he said—I thought this was a wildly uniting speech because there were things in there that pissed me off.
00:05:41.000 You know, when he was talking about—
00:05:42.220 Yeah, me too.
00:05:42.660 Yeah, high-speed internet for everybody.
00:05:44.420 I'm like, that's not the government's job.
00:05:46.200 And that's one of the things that they were demanding before was high-speed internet, high-speed internet for everybody.
00:05:55.000 Well, good.
00:05:55.860 I'm for that.
00:05:56.940 Let's have companies do that, not the United States government. 0.99
00:05:59.560 And they—I know—because how long did we spend on the stupid internet thing? 1.00
00:06:04.780 Remember, if you're a mother— 1.00
00:06:06.940 Oh, yeah.
00:06:08.000 What was the—the Lumbee tribe?
00:06:10.120 Yeah, the Lumbee tribe. 0.57
00:06:11.480 They didn't have any high-speed internet, and Obama wanted high-speed internet for everybody.
00:06:17.580 Here he's proposing it, and they won't stand up.
00:06:20.340 They won't even clap.
00:06:21.600 He didn't extend an olive branch.
00:06:23.400 He extended an olive tree.
00:06:24.940 He did.
00:06:25.300 An olive orchard.
00:06:26.400 He did.
00:06:26.700 Okay?
00:06:27.160 He did.
00:06:27.460 And they didn't take any of it.
00:06:29.880 The Family Leave Act? 0.83
00:06:32.000 I mean, holy cow.
00:06:34.160 By the way, I didn't vote for the Family Leave Act.
00:06:36.460 Yeah, and the—I don't know that.
00:06:38.080 And he's proposing to extend it.
00:06:40.640 Extend it.
00:06:41.340 Yeah, to private companies.
00:06:43.420 Right, right.
00:06:44.400 And to me, that was—he was trying to build a bridge to the Democrats.
00:06:47.940 Yeah, he was.
00:06:48.400 It was a—that was a bridge a little far.
00:06:51.180 Yeah.
00:06:51.700 But—
00:06:52.220 Well, all the stuff he talked about the unions.
00:06:54.280 Right.
00:06:54.480 He talked about the unions last night, and, of course, the new NAFTA agreement was a gift
00:07:00.960 to the unions.
00:07:03.320 Nothing.
00:07:04.880 Nothing.
00:07:05.700 Crickets on their side.
00:07:08.700 And, I mean, that's just incredible because some of those folks have co-sponsored those bills.
00:07:14.360 Right.
00:07:14.480 Some of them voted for those bills.
00:07:16.180 Right.
00:07:16.400 But they just hate him so much.
00:07:19.480 This is—
00:07:19.980 So how are we going to get through the next four and a half years?
00:07:23.620 Oh, you know, he's got to spank them at the ballot box again for them to learn that he's in line with American—Americans, and they're not. 0.70
00:07:34.300 I mean, this was basically laying the framework for the 2020 election or the stark contrast.
00:07:42.180 It wasn't about an election, but you could see the stark contrast between what President Trump stands for and what the Democrats stand for.
00:07:51.460 And he put—he laid out a vision for America.
00:07:56.140 And, you know, state of the unions or speeches are supposed to be and oftentimes are hopeful, and he did that at the end.
00:08:06.720 I mean, he was talking about—
00:08:08.860 That was the best speech.
00:08:09.800 That's the best speech he's given.
00:08:11.600 Last year, I thought it was the best speech he's given.
00:08:14.200 He's good at this, which Stu and I were talking about.
00:08:17.160 I never would have expected him to be good at a State of the Union address because he's just not a great reader and not a great speech giver.
00:08:25.500 He's good off the cuff in his own way.
00:08:28.140 I'd expect good rallies.
00:08:29.240 I'd expect good one-liners at debates.
00:08:30.720 I wouldn't expect a great State of the Union.
00:08:33.360 He's good at this.
00:08:33.800 I think this was a redefining of the State of the Union address.
00:08:38.560 I think this one—I mean, you know, there were so many—that thing is boring as snot every year, let's be honest.
00:08:47.300 But there were so many—
00:08:48.040 This was anything but boring, especially if you were in the room.
00:08:52.280 I don't know how this—how did it translate, not in the room, Stu?
00:08:56.520 Could you feel the hatred?
00:08:58.720 Not as much as you're saying.
00:09:00.180 I mean, they certainly—you could hear jeers occasionally.
00:09:02.860 Oh, they were nonstop.
00:09:04.960 Yeah.
00:09:05.380 They were nonstop.
00:09:06.360 You can't hear what's really going down on the floor.
00:09:11.240 I mean, you can't hear it.
00:09:12.400 You can't see it.
00:09:13.320 It was nonstop.
00:09:15.040 They got to a point towards the end—I don't know if you noticed this, Thomas, but you were close enough to it.
00:09:20.340 They got to a point to where one woman actually put her head in her hands and just laid down in her own lap, just like, I can't do it anymore. 0.50
00:09:32.820 I watched two or three of them walk out.
00:09:35.540 Yeah.
00:09:35.760 Three of them I saw.
00:09:36.980 Yeah.
00:09:38.120 And literally, at times, he had to speak over them because they were jeering so loudly.
00:09:44.380 Now, if you were watching it on TV, the sound was being picked up by his microphone.
00:09:48.280 So you wouldn't have gotten the entire ambiance of the room, which at times was jeers from the Democrats.
00:09:54.720 And he just—instead of acknowledging them—
00:09:56.880 He just plowed through.
00:09:58.240 He plowed through all that.
00:09:59.380 Yeah, he did—I mean, that was an expert last night, an expert performance at just plowing through.
00:10:08.640 And I wondered if you heard that because many, many times he was being jeered by them, and he just raised his voice, and he just didn't stop.
00:10:20.700 Yeah, no.
00:10:20.980 And that's what we're going to—
00:10:22.280 And that was smart because it was not detectable largely.
00:10:25.240 I wish it was.
00:10:26.660 I really wish people could see the State of the Union the way I've seen it the last two years because you—it's a totally different world.
00:10:37.720 Can I admit to breaking with decorum at one point in his speech?
00:10:42.700 In the beginning, we started chanting.
00:10:44.920 We started a little chant where I was, four more years.
00:10:48.220 I don't know if that came out on TV.
00:10:50.480 I heard it.
00:10:51.160 Did you hear that?
00:10:51.860 Yeah.
00:10:51.920 Okay.
00:10:52.260 Well, I participated in that completely.
00:10:55.240 Yeah, it was—and you know what's funny is every time the Republicans really responded with, yeah, was when he was covering for them.
00:11:07.960 That's right.
00:11:08.720 It—and it—I mean, can I admit?
00:11:12.120 Yes.
00:11:12.720 Can I admit something?
00:11:13.500 They didn't drag you out of the gallery.
00:11:14.980 They didn't drag me out of the gallery, but they might have.
00:11:19.060 But there was a couple of times to where I didn't necessarily even fully agree with, you know, the—I agreed with it, but I wasn't like, yeah!
00:11:31.600 But because they jeered, when people started to clap, I was first on my feet going, yeah!
00:11:40.840 You know?
00:11:41.620 And the guys next to me, I was with this guy from Oklahoma, and the other one was—oh, I can't remember where the other one was from—and a guy from North Dakota in front.
00:11:51.820 And they were—they were MAGA guys.
00:11:55.280 Yeah.
00:11:55.640 And they—they were lifting the roof off.
00:11:59.800 Well, the group that I sat with, we resolved every time that we heard the Democrats jeering at him while he was trying to speak, that when he was done speaking, that we would clap twice as loudly.
00:12:13.040 You heard it.
00:12:14.000 Yeah.
00:12:14.160 You heard it.
00:12:14.780 You heard that, at least in the room.
00:12:17.780 We're going to continue our conversation because there was—there were a couple of really touching things.
00:12:22.840 I watched Elon Omar and Rashida Tlaib closely, and their statement when they walked out, we just couldn't take it anymore.
00:12:33.560 Wait until I share what I witnessed, because I watched them like a hawk, because I watched them last year.
00:12:43.880 You can learn an awful lot from just watching those two.
00:12:47.720 And wait until I tell you the real story about their dramatic walkout where they just couldn't take it anymore, coming up in just a second.
00:12:58.200 Also, Chris Stewart is going to be joining us.
00:13:01.340 And we have Ezra Levant coming with us, and also John Miller, who is our White House correspondent.
00:13:10.640 He's going to be here.
00:13:12.480 He is a very good friend of mine.
00:13:14.660 He was actually my intern and then my assistant for a while.
00:13:18.200 He went to Columbia University.
00:13:19.860 He's a black guy. 0.90
00:13:21.400 And you want to talk about unpopular. 0.98
00:13:25.040 In his last class, they were asking, which fascist dictator—this is his professor at Columbia—
00:13:30.940 Which fascist dictator would they compare me to?
00:13:36.400 And here's this guy who hadn't said anything the whole term, and he raises his hand, and the teacher says, 0.96
00:13:45.800 Look at this black kid. 1.00
00:13:47.240 Yeah.
00:13:48.280 And he said, I don't know.
00:13:50.220 I'd go the other way.
00:13:51.320 I think I'd compare him to Martin Luther King.
00:13:53.440 It was great.
00:13:57.900 And I think the correct answer on the dictator thing is probably Idi Amin, just from size. 0.85
00:14:01.880 A size observation. 0.98
00:14:05.760 Well, laugh it up, you two clowns. 0.98
00:14:07.320 Laugh it up. 0.98
00:14:08.800 All right.
00:14:09.480 I got a congressman to laugh at my fat joke.
00:14:12.480 I'm laughing because you might have just lost your job.
00:14:14.640 Hey, it's Glenn, and you're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.
00:14:30.460 If you like what you're hearing on this show, make sure you check out Pat Gray Unleashed.
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00:14:38.200 I can't wait to give you my full picture of the State of the Union.
00:14:45.520 We'll do that a little later on in the program.
00:14:48.760 We have Congressman Chris Stewart from Utah who is with us.
00:14:55.360 He is on the – what committee are you on?
00:14:59.840 I'm on the House Intelligence and Appropriations, which are two great committees, and also budget
00:15:04.280 because I think the debt actually matters.
00:15:06.160 Yes.
00:15:07.080 Imagine that.
00:15:07.440 You're the one.
00:15:07.960 Yeah, I know.
00:15:09.280 But you were part of the – you had to sit there with Adam Schiff the whole time.
00:15:16.040 Yeah.
00:15:16.440 It was fun watching him and the others.
00:15:18.740 And that's the thing that I'm not sure people see or hear back home because like when the
00:15:23.400 president introduces his guests, the cameras focus on the guests.
00:15:26.940 And what they don't see are the Democrats sitting there and in some cases actually booing
00:15:31.860 and kind of hissing.
00:15:32.740 They're like this – kind of like a second grade.
00:15:34.640 When they had – when he reunited the Army family at the end, they were actually groaning
00:15:43.780 through that.
00:15:44.860 They were like, oh, come on.
00:15:47.380 I saw people turning around looking at each other like – I don't know what they were
00:15:52.380 saying, but they were like yelling at each other.
00:15:54.800 They were so mad.
00:15:56.160 Yeah.
00:15:56.600 They were yelling what they wanted to say to him.
00:15:58.840 They were saying to each other during that really nice moment.
00:16:02.320 Yeah.
00:16:02.500 And America didn't see it. 0.95
00:16:04.680 Yeah.
00:16:04.820 And they should.
00:16:05.540 They should.
00:16:06.100 Or the little girl that he gave the scholarship to.
00:16:08.340 Oh, my gosh.
00:16:08.920 I mean they should – they should – according to their constituencies and their interest
00:16:13.260 that they claim is important to them, they should have been clapping and cheering for that
00:16:17.040 to give her this opportunity.
00:16:19.020 And instead they sit on their hands.
00:16:20.500 And, you know, it's funny.
00:16:21.500 You mentioned Adam and I watched him and it was very clear.
00:16:24.060 He knew that the cameras were going to be on him at any time.
00:16:26.180 So he was always careful.
00:16:27.280 But his face never changed for the whole hour and a half.
00:16:30.760 He just sat and stared with this painted on smile and I know it bothered him and it
00:16:34.760 was a lot of fun to watch.
00:16:36.240 Yeah.
00:16:36.400 Because he could see the energy and the support.
00:16:38.600 And he knows – and this is really important, Glenn – he knows that they messed up.
00:16:43.300 He knows that this is backfire.
00:16:44.660 I do.
00:16:45.300 I do.
00:16:45.740 I think he's – look, Adam has a lot of things, but one of the things he is is smart.
00:16:50.160 And he can see and read and observe.
00:16:53.460 And I'm not saying he wouldn't do it again.
00:16:56.200 I'm certain that he would.
00:16:57.140 But he also knows that they failed in convincing the American people that this president is –
00:17:02.160 That they made him stronger.
00:17:03.120 Yeah, absolutely.
00:17:03.780 They made him stronger.
00:17:04.440 Absolutely.
00:17:04.700 If that president, the one I saw last night, showed up for the next, what, 270-some days,
00:17:12.220 every day that was the president that showed up, I think he would win in a Reagan-style
00:17:18.500 landslide.
00:17:19.240 It was – that was presidential.
00:17:23.500 That was positive.
00:17:26.100 Looking forward, no little snipes.
00:17:28.700 I mean, it was good.
00:17:30.060 It was terrific.
00:17:31.580 I mean, I've talked to so many people.
00:17:33.320 You know, they call and say, hey, what did you think?
00:17:35.920 What was it like?
00:17:36.660 And so many people have said to me, you know, there were a number of times I actually was
00:17:39.460 brought to tears last night.
00:17:40.700 I mean, it was an emotional, very positive.
00:17:42.740 It really was.
00:17:42.920 That's the other thing is there was nothing negative about this speech.
00:17:45.640 It was very, very positive.
00:17:47.100 That's not what the left is saying.
00:17:48.320 That's not what CNN and everybody else, they're saying this was a destructive, dividing speech.
00:17:53.900 I have a hard time finding it.
00:17:55.920 Well, you have to scratch really down low to find something.
00:17:59.540 I mean, look, some of the policies they disagree with.
00:18:01.640 I get that.
00:18:02.220 But but but this is a very forward looking, very, I thought, uniting event.
00:18:07.860 And it could have been if anyone had any hope and open heart about this at all.
00:18:11.660 So is Nancy Pelosi.
00:18:14.080 Has she gone totally insane?
00:18:16.420 I mean, I can't imagine what she was how she thought that was a win last night for her to do that. 0.95
00:18:23.140 And if I may, can we play the Joe Wilson moment?
00:18:26.640 This is this is from an Obama State of the Union.
00:18:31.880 Listen to this.
00:18:32.540 There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would ensure illegal immigrants.
00:18:37.820 This, too, is false.
00:18:40.420 The reforms, the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegal.
00:18:46.400 Look at Nancy Pelosi's face there.
00:18:53.880 And Joe Biden just shakes his head in despair.
00:18:56.980 And this was a big deal.
00:18:58.740 Joe Wilson was right.
00:19:00.460 Last night in the president's speech, he is saying we are stopping all of this health care going for free to illegal aliens.
00:19:10.240 So Joe was right.
00:19:11.940 It was in the bill the whole time.
00:19:13.860 And that was a week long walk of shame.
00:19:17.660 I think they tried to censure him, did they not?
00:19:19.980 Yeah, I believe they did.
00:19:21.440 And, you know, we're going to we're going to do something to call attention to this.
00:19:25.160 As I was saying to you before we came on the air, we just left a meeting where they're considering their options.
00:19:29.800 But she is the speaker of the House, but she is also just a member of the House. 0.94
00:19:33.220 And she has to abide by the same decorum that the rest of us have to.
00:19:37.140 And it was such a mistake.
00:19:39.020 It was so unnecessary.
00:19:39.780 It was so calculated.
00:19:40.820 I mean, she planned on doing this and how she thought that was a win.
00:19:44.380 I just don't I just don't get it.
00:19:46.080 It's like you said, has she lost her mind completely?
00:19:48.440 It's it's they're they're driven.
00:19:50.560 I've never understood the the Trump derangement syndrome.
00:19:55.960 And I think some people were driven by that with with Barack Obama.
00:20:01.340 They just were so blind by the lies and everything else.
00:20:06.160 They couldn't they just couldn't get past it.
00:20:09.220 We just stopped talking about it.
00:20:11.000 We just were like, OK, well, you know, American people have made their choice.
00:20:14.160 You know, great.
00:20:15.200 Let's look to the future.
00:20:16.800 These guys, they can't.
00:20:19.440 I'm they are driven by their hatred for him, which is going to make the election night in November so much fun.
00:20:28.500 Yeah, because I agree with you.
00:20:30.140 I think the president I think the president is in a wonderful spot right now.
00:20:33.520 I think he's in a very strong spot right now.
00:20:35.560 And they, as you said, hate him so viscerally.
00:20:39.480 I can't imagine what it's going to be like then when he's reelected and reelected, I think, in a pretty powerful way.
00:20:45.480 You know, what's amazing to me is what happened with Rush Limbaugh last night and their reaction.
00:20:51.960 They they have people on their side that have received presidential medals of honor that I have thought this is this a Marxist.
00:21:00.920 What are you doing?
00:21:02.180 You know, and there's been people also that have done really good in the past.
00:21:07.760 And then politically, I completely disagree with them, but I can sit there and see, OK, you know, this person means a lot to half of the country, whatever.
00:21:21.160 They couldn't even do that.
00:21:22.880 No.
00:21:23.100 And you may disagree with someone, but you still recognize that they were a leader and that they were a proponent, a powerful proponent for things that they believed in.
00:21:30.700 Right.
00:21:30.900 And we may not agree with those things, but there's still a powerful leader.
00:21:34.280 And we need to recognize that that's all we were looking for last night.
00:21:37.000 And not even I don't even think that here's a guy.
00:21:40.260 I mean, for the president to do that and to present it to him, which is a first to present it to him, should would lead one to believe that he is he's very ill.
00:21:55.280 He's very ill.
00:21:56.980 And and that was a humanitarian thing to do.
00:22:02.020 And they couldn't even give him that.
00:22:04.760 Yeah.
00:22:05.400 Well, you know, and so their reaction was very predictable there.
00:22:09.080 But I'll tell you what isn't predictable.
00:22:10.380 And it's even harder for me to understand.
00:22:12.320 And that's when the president says things like, you know, America is the greatest country God's ever given to man.
00:22:17.320 And they sit on their hands and scowl.
00:22:19.700 Yeah.
00:22:20.020 And if I were the president, I would turn to him and I'd repeat it and say, I'm going to say it again.
00:22:24.300 America is the greatest gift ever given to man.
00:22:26.520 And have the cameras focus on them and have them sit there showing them scowling. 0.94
00:22:30.540 I really think Congress should you guys should you guys should try to get cameras on them.
00:22:39.220 Yeah.
00:22:39.340 I've learned more about your job and his job in the last two years just going to the State of the Union.
00:22:48.200 Tanya and I went to the White House Correspondents Dinner once.
00:22:53.820 And honestly, I went home.
00:22:56.060 I went to the hotel and I took a shower.
00:22:58.600 I felt dirty after that.
00:23:00.320 It was awful.
00:23:02.220 And I both of us were like, never again.
00:23:04.460 We left early and never, ever again.
00:23:07.700 So I kind of expected that kind of thing here.
00:23:10.280 And it's not.
00:23:11.240 And you really you learn so much when I I watched Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and I watched them the whole time.
00:23:23.200 And when I go through and describe what they were doing the entire time and then they walked out and they issued the statement, we couldn't take it anymore.
00:23:36.000 It is I mean, I watched it.
00:23:39.960 It was a performance.
00:23:42.120 It's a performance.
00:23:43.840 They don't care.
00:23:46.060 Yeah.
00:23:47.260 You know, Barack Obama and I didn't agree on very much.
00:23:51.560 And there were some things that that he said and did that I found deeply offensive and I thought were unconstitutional and a danger to our republic.
00:24:00.040 But I still went to the State of the Unions.
00:24:02.580 And when he said something positive and true, I stood up and acknowledged that they just can't do it.
00:24:09.720 They just can't do it.
00:24:11.400 And it's not that it was you don't even have to give him credit.
00:24:16.780 You could just say America is stronger.
00:24:20.400 It's better.
00:24:21.100 The economy is stronger.
00:24:22.360 How can you deny the the evidence when when remember Barack Obama was saying that there are, you know, because of me, X number of jobs have been created or saved.
00:24:38.840 Yeah.
00:24:39.160 And you couldn't count saved.
00:24:40.800 What do you mean saved?
00:24:42.100 Yeah.
00:24:42.480 This is an actual unemployment number.
00:24:45.020 And they're like, well, the president is juicing those numbers.
00:24:48.000 It's the unemployment number.
00:24:50.160 Yeah.
00:24:50.960 Which is the lowest in my lifetime.
00:24:52.880 Right.
00:24:53.100 And the lowest ever for Hispanic community, African-American and the women and others. 0.99
00:24:56.900 But but putting that aside, coming back to this other thing, you have this little girl who they just changed her life by giving her this scholarship and they sit on their hands and boo.
00:25:06.140 You have the Tuskegee Airmen, 100 years old, a World War Two hero.
00:25:11.400 Yeah.
00:25:11.620 And they won't even acknowledge him.
00:25:13.140 And the only reason is not because they don't like him.
00:25:15.220 It's because they will not give this president a win on anything.
00:25:18.940 They won't acknowledge that he can do or say anything positive for our country.
00:25:22.780 And I think they hurt themselves.
00:25:24.880 This impeachment was a huge mistake.
00:25:28.500 Critical error on their point on their part.
00:25:31.800 Look at what they are doing in Iowa.
00:25:35.240 They had low voter turnout.
00:25:38.180 They don't really have a candidate that anybody is coalescing again for.
00:25:43.100 They're going to continue to have lower turnout with the president last night.
00:25:47.640 This is the first president that is overtly courted the minority.
00:25:55.360 Everybody else has written them off.
00:25:56.820 Reagan kind of did.
00:25:58.260 He just included everybody.
00:25:59.320 I think he just included everybody as an American and and and he there was no hostility there.
00:26:08.140 You have this president who is who is not ceding the ground that Republicans have ceded since the 1960s.
00:26:16.720 And he's exactly right to do that.
00:26:18.460 He shouldn't concede that ground.
00:26:20.280 I mean, he can go to the African-American community as he does.
00:26:22.980 And you ask him, what have the Democrats done for you in your lifetime?
00:26:26.340 Yeah. And the answer isn't isn't that much.
00:26:28.940 Yeah. And then he can make this argument.
00:26:30.400 Look what we've done done for you or tried to do for you for all Americans.
00:26:34.360 And it's a lot. 1.00
00:26:35.720 And and, you know, it turns out the American people aren't as stupid as some people think they are. 1.00
00:26:39.760 And they can look at their own lives and say, you know what? 1.00
00:26:42.320 I really am better off now than I was three years ago.
00:26:44.840 And I'm more hopeful for my future than I was three years ago.
00:26:48.520 And if they can answer those questions in a positive way that I think a lot of them would say, why wouldn't I support this president?
00:26:54.200 And on a final note, you are you've been on this impeachment committee the whole time trying to ring the bell and trying to, you know, let everybody know what was really going on.
00:27:12.400 I appreciate you sitting through all of those.
00:27:15.340 Thank you.
00:27:45.340 All of this is backed up.
00:27:47.240 We have all of the paperwork.
00:27:49.320 Please look into this.
00:27:50.820 This will shock even the left.
00:27:53.700 I think the left will turn against Barack Obama.
00:27:59.000 Mainly there is something that was going on that we reveal tomorrow that is.
00:28:04.280 Well, it's it was one of the worst scandals in my lifetime with another president.
00:28:12.060 Well, well, Glenn, if I could just very quickly, thank you for that.
00:28:14.720 You have done and a few others that you have done remarkable work on this.
00:28:18.980 And this is important work.
00:28:20.040 You said thank you for the work we've done on the impeachment on the Intelligence Committee.
00:28:24.500 I'm more proud of anything.
00:28:26.040 The work we did previous to that, where we said for three years, hey, the Department of Justice, the FBI and some of these directors were corrupt.
00:28:34.040 And they politicized these agencies in a way that destroys our democracy if we would not have known that.
00:28:40.000 So are we I've only got about 30 seconds.
00:28:42.340 Are you going to pursue it?
00:28:43.860 Are we going to pursue it as a nation and clean this up?
00:28:48.400 Well, I tell you who I have great faith in.
00:28:49.940 I really miss Attorney General Barr is very serious about this.
00:28:52.960 He's committed to doing it.
00:28:54.100 He doesn't have a dog in this race and he doesn't have to make a name for himself.
00:28:57.120 I'm very hopeful.
00:28:58.080 OK, Chris Stewart from Utah.
00:28:59.440 Thank you very much.
00:29:00.120 Thank you.
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00:29:36.920 Thanks.
00:29:37.560 I can't wait to give you my full picture of the State of the Union.
00:29:42.040 We'll do that a little later on in the program.
00:29:45.320 We have Congressman Chris Stewart from Utah who is is with us.
00:29:51.880 He is on the what what what committee are you on?
00:29:56.420 I'm on the House Intelligence and Appropriations, which are two great committees and also budget, because I think the debt actually matters.
00:30:02.760 Yes.
00:30:03.720 You're the one.
00:30:04.740 Yeah, I know.
00:30:05.800 But you were part of the you you had to sit there with Adam Schiff the whole time.
00:30:12.600 Yeah.
00:30:12.960 It was fun watching him and the others.
00:30:14.740 And that's the thing that I'm not sure people see or hear back home, because when like when the president introduces his guests, the cameras focus on the on the guests.
00:30:23.500 And what they don't see are the Democrats sitting there and in some cases actually booing and kind of hissing.
00:30:29.240 They're like this kind of like a second grade when they had when he reunited the the army family.
00:30:36.120 Yeah.
00:30:36.560 At the end.
00:30:38.060 They were actually groaning through that.
00:30:41.520 They were like, oh, come on.
00:30:43.980 I saw people turning around, looking at each other like I don't know what they were saying, but they were like yelling at each other.
00:30:51.320 They were so mad.
00:30:52.680 Yeah.
00:30:52.860 They were yelling what they wanted to say to him.
00:30:55.380 They were saying to each other during that really nice moment.
00:30:58.900 Yeah.
00:30:59.340 And America didn't see it. 0.95
00:31:01.220 And they should.
00:31:02.180 Or they should.
00:31:02.660 Or the little girl that he gave the scholarship to.
00:31:04.900 Oh, my God.
00:31:05.440 I mean, they should.
00:31:06.320 They should.
00:31:07.460 According to their constituencies and their interests that they claim is important to them, they should have been clapping and cheering for that to give her this opportunity.
00:31:15.280 And instead, they sit on their hands.
00:31:16.920 And, you know, it's funny.
00:31:18.020 You mentioned Adam and I watched him and it was very clear.
00:31:20.520 He knew that the cameras were going to be on him at any time, so he was always careful.
00:31:23.940 But his face never changed for the whole hour and a half.
00:31:27.280 He just sat and stared with this painted on smile.
00:31:29.900 And I know it bothered him and it was a lot of fun to watch.
00:31:32.740 Yeah.
00:31:32.940 Because he could see the energy and the support.
00:31:35.140 And he knows.
00:31:35.840 And this is really important, Glenn.
00:31:37.140 He knows that they messed up.
00:31:39.820 He knows that this is backfired.
00:31:41.180 I do.
00:31:41.860 I do.
00:31:42.260 I think he's.
00:31:43.120 Look, Adam has a lot of things, but one of the things he is is smart.
00:31:46.720 And he can see and read and observe.
00:31:49.280 And and I'm not saying he wouldn't do it again.
00:31:52.740 I'm certain that he would.
00:31:53.700 But he also knows that they failed in convincing the American people that this president is is made him stronger.
00:31:59.680 Yeah, absolutely.
00:32:00.340 They made him stronger.
00:32:01.000 Absolutely.
00:32:01.240 If that president, the one I saw last night, showed up for the next, what, 270 some days every day.
00:32:10.000 That was the president that showed up.
00:32:12.360 I think he would win in a Reagan style landslide.
00:32:16.260 He it was that was presidential.
00:32:20.000 That was positive.
00:32:22.880 Looking forward.
00:32:23.980 No little snipes.
00:32:25.280 I mean, it was good.
00:32:26.600 It was it was terrific.
00:32:28.080 I mean, I've talked to so many people, you know, they call and say, hey, what did you think?
00:32:32.440 What was like?
00:32:32.900 And so many people have said to me, you know, there were a number of times I actually was brought to tears last night.
00:32:37.240 I mean, it was an emotional, very positive.
00:32:39.280 That's the other thing is there was nothing negative about this speech.
00:32:42.180 It was very, very positive.
00:32:43.820 That's not what the left is saying.
00:32:44.920 That's not what CNN and everybody else.
00:32:46.820 They're saying this was a destructive, dividing speech.
00:32:50.240 I have a hard time finding it.
00:32:52.540 Well, you have to you have to scratch really down low to find something.
00:32:56.060 I mean, look, some of the policies they disagree with.
00:32:58.200 I get that.
00:32:59.500 But but this is a very forward looking, very, I thought, uniting event.
00:33:04.360 And it could have been if anyone had any hope and open heart about this at all.
00:33:08.180 So is Nancy Pelosi.
00:33:10.580 Has she gone totally insane?
00:33:12.960 I mean, I can't imagine what she was how she thought that was a win last night for her to do that. 0.95
00:33:19.660 And if I may, can we play the Joe Wilson moment?
00:33:23.160 This is this is from an Obama State of the Union.
00:33:28.420 Listen to this.
00:33:29.080 There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would ensure illegal immigrants.
00:33:34.300 This, too, is false.
00:33:36.940 The reforms, the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegal.
00:33:47.340 It's not true.
00:33:48.140 Look at Nancy Pelosi's face there.
00:33:50.020 And Joe Biden just shakes his head in despair.
00:33:53.220 And this was a big deal.
00:33:55.260 Joe Wilson was right.
00:33:57.000 Last night in the president's speech, he is saying we're stopping all of this health care going for free to illegal aliens.
00:34:06.760 So Joe was right.
00:34:08.460 It was in the bill the whole time.
00:34:10.400 That was a week long walk of shame.
00:34:14.040 I think they tried to censure him.
00:34:15.760 Did they not?
00:34:16.560 Yeah, I believe they did.
00:34:17.960 And, you know, we're going to we're going to do something to call attention to this.
00:34:21.680 As I was saying to you before we came on the air, we just left a meeting where they're considering their options.
00:34:26.320 But she is the Speaker of the House. 0.99
00:34:27.580 But she is also just a member of the House. 0.98
00:34:29.700 And she has to abide by the same decorum that the rest of us have to.
00:34:33.740 And it was such a mistake.
00:34:35.560 It was so unnecessary.
00:34:36.320 It was so calculated.
00:34:37.720 I mean, she planned on doing this.
00:34:39.180 And how she thought that was a win, I just don't I just don't get it.
00:34:42.620 It's like you said, has she lost her mind completely?
00:34:45.020 It's it's they're they're driven.
00:34:47.100 I've never understood the the Trump derangement syndrome.
00:34:53.520 And I think some people were driven by that with with Barack Obama.
00:34:57.880 They just were so blind by the lies and everything else.
00:35:02.780 They couldn't they just couldn't get past it.
00:35:05.960 We just stopped talking about it.
00:35:07.460 We just were like, OK, well, you know, American people have made their choice.
00:35:11.080 You know, great.
00:35:11.840 Let's look to the future.
00:35:13.500 These guys, they can't.
00:35:16.060 They are driven by their hatred for him, which is going to make the election night in November so much fun.
00:35:24.980 Yeah, because I agree with you.
00:35:26.600 I think the president I think the president is in a wonderful spot right now.
00:35:30.080 I think he's in a very strong spot right now.
00:35:32.280 And they, as you said, hate him so viscerally.
00:35:36.020 I can't imagine what it's going to be like then when he's reelected and reelected, I think, in a pretty powerful way.
00:35:41.540 You know, what's amazing to me is what happened with Rush Limbaugh last night and their reaction.
00:35:48.840 They they have people on their side that have received presidential medals of honor that I have thought this is this a Marxist.
00:35:57.320 What are you doing, you know, and there's been people also that have done really good in the past.
00:36:04.280 And then politically, I completely disagree with them.
00:36:08.940 But I can sit there and see, OK, you know, this person means a lot to half of the country, whatever.
00:36:16.000 They couldn't even do that.
00:36:19.400 No. And you may disagree with someone, but you still recognize that they were a leader and that they were a proponent, a powerful proponent for things that they believed in.
00:36:27.300 Right. And we may not agree with those things, but there's still a powerful leader.
00:36:30.800 And we need to recognize that that's all we were looking for last night.
00:36:33.400 And not even I don't even think that here's a guy.
00:36:36.680 I mean, for the president to do that and to present it to him, which is a first to present it to him, should would lead one to believe that he is he's very ill.
00:36:52.020 He's very ill. And and that was a humanitarian thing to do.
00:36:58.980 And they couldn't even give him that.
00:37:01.000 Yeah. Well, you know, and so their reaction was very predictable there.
00:37:05.620 But I'll tell you what isn't predictable.
00:37:06.900 And it's even harder for me to understand.
00:37:08.860 And that's when the president says things like, you know, America is the greatest country God's ever given a man.
00:37:13.860 And they sit on their hands and scowl.
00:37:16.240 Yeah. And if I were the president, I would turn to him and I'd repeat it and say, I'm going to say it again.
00:37:20.940 America is the greatest gift ever given a man.
00:37:22.880 And and have the cameras focus on them and have them sit there showing them scowling.
00:37:27.060 I really think Congress should you guys should you guys should try to get cameras on them.
00:37:35.760 Yeah. I've learned more about your job and his job in the last two years just going to the State of the Union.
00:37:44.460 You know, Tanya and I went to the White House Correspondents Dinner once.
00:37:50.000 And honestly, I went home.
00:37:52.580 I went to the hotel and I took a shower.
00:37:55.120 I felt dirty after that.
00:37:56.900 It was awful.
00:37:58.620 And I both of us were like, never again.
00:38:01.000 We left early and never, ever again.
00:38:04.220 So I kind of expected that kind of thing here.
00:38:06.760 And it's not.
00:38:08.480 And you really you learn so much when I I watched Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and I watched them the whole time.
00:38:20.720 And when I go through and describe what they were doing the entire time and then they walked out and they issued the statement, we couldn't take it anymore.
00:38:32.520 It is.
00:38:34.360 I mean, I watched it.
00:38:36.540 It was a performance.
00:38:38.760 It's a performance.
00:38:40.480 They don't care.
00:38:43.320 Yeah.
00:38:43.920 You know, Barack Obama and I didn't agree on very much.
00:38:48.100 And and there were some things that that he said and did that I found deeply offensive and I thought were unconstitutional and a danger to our republic.
00:38:56.580 But I still went to the state of the unions.
00:38:59.500 And when he said something positive and true, I stood up and acknowledged that they just can't do it.
00:39:06.260 They just can't do it.
00:39:07.940 And it's not that it was you don't even have to give him credit.
00:39:13.320 You could just say America is stronger.
00:39:16.900 It's better.
00:39:17.620 The economy is stronger.
00:39:18.880 How can you deny the the evidence when when remember Barack Obama was saying that there are, you know, because of me, X number of jobs have been created or saved.
00:39:35.360 Yeah.
00:39:35.480 And you couldn't count saved.
00:39:37.440 What do you mean saved?
00:39:38.660 Yeah.
00:39:39.020 This is an actual unemployment number.
00:39:41.580 And they're like, well, the president is juicing those numbers.
00:39:44.560 It's the unemployment number.
00:39:46.900 Yeah.
00:39:47.460 Which is the lowest in my lifetime.
00:39:49.340 Right.
00:39:49.580 And the lowest ever for Hispanic community, African-American and the women and others. 0.99
00:39:53.460 But but putting that aside, coming back to this other thing, you have this little girl who they just changed her life by giving her this scholarship.
00:40:00.780 And they sit on their hands and boo.
00:40:02.660 You have the Tuskegee Airmen, 100 years old, a World War Two hero.
00:40:07.960 Yeah.
00:40:08.160 And they won't even acknowledge him.
00:40:09.760 And the only reason is not because they don't like him.
00:40:11.820 It's because they will not give this president a win on anything.
00:40:15.460 They won't acknowledge that he can do or say anything positive for our country.
00:40:19.300 But I think they hurt themselves.
00:40:21.220 This impeachment was a huge mistake.
00:40:25.000 Critical error on their point on their part.
00:40:28.340 Look at what they are doing in Iowa.
00:40:32.060 They had low voter turnout.
00:40:34.720 They don't really have a candidate that anybody is coalescing again for.
00:40:39.300 They're going to continue to have lower turnout with the president last night.
00:40:44.040 This is the first president that is overtly courted the minority.
00:40:51.940 Everybody else has written them off.
00:40:53.360 Reagan kind of did.
00:40:54.800 He just included everybody.
00:40:55.860 I think he just included everybody as an American.
00:40:58.220 Reagan and and and he there was no hostility there.
00:41:04.760 You have this president who is who is not ceding the ground that Republicans have ceded since the 1960s.
00:41:13.260 And he's exactly right to do that.
00:41:14.980 He shouldn't concede that ground.
00:41:16.820 I mean, he can go to the African-American community as he does.
00:41:19.520 And he asks him, what have the Democrats done for you in your lifetime?
00:41:23.180 Yeah.
00:41:23.420 And the answer isn't isn't that much.
00:41:25.180 And then he can make this argument, look what we've done done for you or tried to do for you, for all Americans.
00:41:30.920 And it's a lot. 1.00
00:41:32.640 And and, you know, it turns out the American people aren't as stupid as some people think they are. 1.00
00:41:36.300 And they can look at their own lives and say, you know what? 1.00
00:41:38.860 I really am better off now than I was three years ago.
00:41:41.400 And I'm more hopeful for my future than I was three years ago.
00:41:45.080 And if they can answer those questions in a positive way that I think a lot of them would say, why wouldn't I support this president?
00:41:50.720 On a final note, you are you've been on this impeachment committee the whole time trying to ring the bell and trying to, you know, let everybody know what was really going on.
00:42:08.980 I appreciate you sitting through all of those.
00:42:11.880 You're one of the very few that I've given a an advance to.
00:42:18.960 In fact, here it is.
00:42:21.940 This is the special tomorrow that I'm doing.
00:42:25.340 Good, Chris.
00:42:27.440 This is.
00:42:30.460 We've worked about two and a half months on this special.
00:42:35.380 And I will tell you that this is worse than we thought.
00:42:41.980 All of this is backed up.
00:42:43.760 We have all of the paperwork.
00:42:45.980 Please look into this.
00:42:47.360 This will shock even the left.
00:42:50.220 I think the left will turn against Barack Obama.
00:42:55.540 Mainly there is something that was going on that we reveal tomorrow that is.
00:43:00.840 Well, it's it was one of the worst scandals in my lifetime with another president.
00:43:08.620 Well, well, Glenn, if I could just very quickly, thank you for that.
00:43:11.260 You have done and a few others, but you have done remarkable work on this.
00:43:15.500 And this is important work.
00:43:16.720 You said thank you for the work we've done on the on impeachment on the intelligence committee.
00:43:20.860 I'm more proud of anything.
00:43:22.600 The work we did previous to that, where we said for three years, hey, the Department of Justice, the FBI and some of these directors were corrupt.
00:43:30.800 And they politicized these agencies in a way that destroys our democracy if we would not have known that.
00:43:36.800 So are we I've only got about 30 seconds.
00:43:38.860 Are you going to pursue it?
00:43:40.380 Are we going to pursue it as a nation and clean this up?
00:43:44.780 Well, I tell you who I have great faith in.
00:43:46.460 I really miss Attorney General Barr is very serious about this.
00:43:49.500 He's committed to doing it.
00:43:50.580 He doesn't have a dog in this race and he doesn't have to make a name for himself.
00:43:53.660 I'm very hopeful.
00:43:54.600 OK, Chris Stewart from Utah.
00:43:55.980 Thank you very much.
00:43:56.660 Thank you.
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00:44:14.600 There is a guy that you may or may not know because he is Canadian.
00:44:20.580 He has been on the conservative front of Canadian politics for a very long time.
00:44:29.500 He is really in many ways the guy who is he's kind of the Rupert Murdoch of of the Canadian conservatives.
00:44:41.060 He has tried for a long time to make sure the conservative voices were heard in Canada and it's harder than it is here in America.
00:44:52.140 Ezra Levant is is with us now.
00:44:54.260 And and you have written a book that came out during the election of Justin Trudeau.
00:45:01.100 And you're now being investigated by the government.
00:45:05.560 Yeah, I'd love to tell you a story about this.
00:45:07.860 And I'd like your American listeners to think of an alternative history.
00:45:13.180 If, say, Hillary Clinton had won in 2016, what might be different now?
00:45:18.880 Because when I talk about Canada, it's like you have a dystopian time machine.
00:45:23.120 What could things be like if you go off course?
00:45:26.600 Yeah.
00:45:26.660 Or if you make the wrong choice.
00:45:29.680 So in the last Canadian election in October, I wrote a book.
00:45:33.260 I published a book about Justin Trudeau.
00:45:34.920 I called it The Libranos, a takeoff of The Sopranos.
00:45:38.240 It's not that funny.
00:45:39.060 But, you know, the book did well.
00:45:40.700 Went to number two on the Canadian bestseller list.
00:45:43.080 It was very critical of Trudeau.
00:45:45.400 There were 24 books about Justin Trudeau in that last election cycle.
00:45:49.460 Some most liked him.
00:45:50.900 Mine was critical.
00:45:51.560 Over Christmas, I got a registered letter from our version of the FEC.
00:45:57.360 It's called Elections Canada.
00:45:59.280 Saying I was being investigated for illegal campaign activity.
00:46:04.580 And would I present myself for an interrogation?
00:46:07.500 So I went to Ottawa to the high security headquarters of our FEC.
00:46:13.840 Where two 30-year veterans of the Mounties,
00:46:16.560 who are now federal investigators for Elections Canada,
00:46:20.360 grilled me for an hour in a small closed room about my book.
00:46:28.060 This is after the election.
00:46:29.680 Yeah.
00:46:30.040 So the election was over.
00:46:31.000 Trudeau was reelected.
00:46:32.180 He has a minority government.
00:46:33.660 But he's still in power.
00:46:35.200 And he's really moving forward on different kinds of censorship.
00:46:39.040 In fact, just last week, one of his cabinet ministers proposed
00:46:42.540 registering and licensing news websites.
00:46:45.700 So we're probably the first in line because we're...
00:46:50.460 That'll happen here.
00:46:51.760 Well...
00:46:52.080 I talked to Ted Koppel.
00:46:53.220 He wants that to happen.
00:46:55.060 Well, a lot of the incumbent media want that to rule out the insurgent media.
00:47:00.820 The legacy media is a way of protecting them.
00:47:03.740 So I have been investigated before.
00:47:07.040 About a dozen years ago, I was interrogated
00:47:09.360 because I republished the Danish cartoons of Mohammed.
00:47:12.220 And then it was a human rights commission that prosecuted me.
00:47:15.900 So I knew what was coming.
00:47:18.500 So I recorded my interrogation and didn't let the cops know about it.
00:47:25.840 They actually...
00:47:27.360 When I came in the room, they said,
00:47:28.660 no video recording of this for security reasons.
00:47:31.860 I thought, well, I'm going to ignore that advice.
00:47:35.040 I recorded the whole thing.
00:47:36.880 And I did so...
00:47:38.060 I don't normally do that.
00:47:40.340 In fact, I've never done that with a secret recording before.
00:47:43.120 But I thought, no one will believe me if I just tell them what happens.
00:47:47.640 For example, the first...
00:47:48.840 And I sent your producer some clips.
00:47:50.660 The first thing I said when I got in the room was,
00:47:52.780 you've summoned me here to Ottawa.
00:47:54.820 Can I see the complaint against me?
00:47:57.180 Can I know who complained against me?
00:47:59.300 I haven't seen it yet.
00:48:00.980 And I don't know if you have the time, but it's about a one-minute clip.
00:48:03.740 We do.
00:48:04.040 If you have that, can we play these?
00:48:05.640 Are these in order?
00:48:07.060 Is this the first clip?
00:48:09.000 I think so.
00:48:09.920 It's the one where I say, hey, guys, can you show me the complaint?
00:48:13.520 And their answer is shocking.
00:48:16.340 It's right out of the star chamber.
00:48:18.280 Let's see if this is it.
00:48:19.160 Go ahead.
00:48:19.500 Can I see the complaint against me?
00:48:23.260 The letter that you received?
00:48:24.880 No.
00:48:25.540 I presume that you're investigating me based on a complaint.
00:48:28.920 Yeah.
00:48:29.100 Oh, this is still part of the investigation.
00:48:30.500 So we'll have to, once the investigation's been completed, the commissioner will have to make a decision.
00:48:38.280 And at that point, she'll have to decide if that is releasable or not.
00:48:42.040 It's not something that usually is released.
00:48:43.720 So it's a secret complaint?
00:48:45.960 It's not a secret complaint.
00:48:47.180 It's just a complaint that's part of the investigation.
00:48:49.660 And to keep the integrity of the investigation right now, you'll understand that we can't share everything that we have.
00:48:56.800 Oh, I don't want everything that you have.
00:48:58.520 I just, if I'm here to meet a complaint, but you won't show me the complaint, how can I possibly meet the complaint?
00:49:07.360 How can I possibly respond to something that you won't show me?
00:49:13.060 Well, I think the letter was quite clear on what the infraction is alleged.
00:49:18.420 And this is what we want to clarify with you.
00:49:20.960 Well, did you generate the complaint or was it from an outside party?
00:49:25.880 No, we didn't generate the complaint.
00:49:27.360 Okay, so someone external to your office generated the complaint?
00:49:33.260 That is usually the case.
00:49:34.740 Is that the case in this case?
00:49:36.200 Yeah.
00:49:36.880 Yeah, we did not generate the complaint.
00:49:38.340 Okay, was it the Liberal Party that generated the complaint?
00:49:40.680 We can't go into that, sir.
00:49:42.080 So you won't tell me who the complaint is?
00:49:46.240 Who the complainant is?
00:49:47.400 Is that the secret?
00:49:47.820 Yeah, no, not at this point.
00:49:49.060 So at what point do you tell me who the secret is?
00:49:52.180 The commissioner is the ultimate responsible person for the investigation and how this is decided.
00:50:00.360 So how do I know what conduct has been complained about if he won't tell me?
00:50:07.100 This is, you don't have a right to face your accuser?
00:50:11.320 I don't even know if there is a complaint.
00:50:13.700 And I don't know if they're asking me questions as misdirection.
00:50:22.180 Later on, I mean, we were there for 55 minutes and I recorded the whole thing.
00:50:26.180 They were doing their best not to tell me anything, but I was asking as many questions as I was answering.
00:50:30.440 And one of them finally said he had been watching my shows, my videos.
00:50:35.600 And in one of them, I said, of course, I published my book during the election.
00:50:40.440 That's when people want to know about an election.
00:50:43.100 You don't publish a book after the election.
00:50:44.580 There's going to be a thousand books about Donald Trump this year.
00:50:47.100 Yeah.
00:50:47.960 You would publish them before, not after.
00:50:50.240 Right.
00:50:50.380 And he, there's a clip you have there where he says, I think it's number.
00:51:03.040 Here.
00:51:03.620 Yeah.
00:51:03.760 The timing.
00:51:04.600 Exactly.
00:51:05.080 Yeah.
00:51:05.140 Question.
00:51:05.600 This is clip four, please.
00:51:07.220 Investigators question Ezra on his release of the Trudeau book during an election.
00:51:11.140 They said that's what made it an election crime is that I wrote about the election during the election.
00:51:17.220 It's unbelievable.
00:51:18.080 He says it.
00:51:19.100 Watch.
00:51:19.200 So when you, when you came to your decision, you're going to author a book, release a book
00:51:24.720 in time for the election.
00:51:26.580 And I don't have your own words, but online you, when you received a letter from Madame
00:51:31.800 Gigou, you did a blurb online that I watched.
00:51:36.580 And you speak about, of course, that it was released in time for the election, which if that's
00:51:42.960 your position today, that wouldn't allow you to have the exemption for, for advertising,
00:51:49.200 for a book.
00:51:49.980 So that's why we wanted to clarify that with you.
00:51:52.820 Perhaps you were misspoken when you spoke online.
00:51:54.820 Or, so we're here to try to clarify.
00:51:59.280 What the hell does that even mean?
00:52:00.840 What exemption, what are you talking about?
00:52:02.180 There's the, the law as written says books and the promotion of books are exempt from prosecution.
00:52:09.400 And so I, when I first got this threat letter over Christmas, I did a video saying this
00:52:16.060 is ridiculous.
00:52:17.020 Books are specifically exempt. 0.85
00:52:19.040 This has got to be a mistake.
00:52:20.500 They hauled me in anyways.
00:52:21.660 And he, he had watched my video and he said, oh, you admitted that the book was timed for
00:52:27.580 the election.
00:52:28.180 Of course it was.
00:52:29.320 Of course it was.
00:52:30.720 John Bolton's book is worth something to Simon and Schuster because it was, they could leak
00:52:35.500 it at the time of the impeachment.
00:52:37.660 Of course.
00:52:38.260 That's not meddling in the election.
00:52:40.060 That's participating in the election.
00:52:41.660 Right.
00:52:41.980 And there, you know, I was not aware of the fact that 24 other books were published about
00:52:48.440 Trudeau.
00:52:49.280 Mine is the only one being investigated.
00:52:52.360 Let me play that clip.
00:52:53.140 That's a clip three. 0.66
00:52:54.280 Have you investigated any of the other authors who published books about Trudeau at the exact
00:53:02.960 same time as me?
00:53:04.020 Have you invested John, I've investigated John Iverson's book or Aaron Wary's book?
00:53:08.480 There's over 24 books that were published around that period.
00:53:11.220 You haven't answered my question.
00:53:12.220 Have you investigated John Iverson or Aaron Wary's books?
00:53:15.040 I haven't.
00:53:16.260 Have you?
00:53:16.920 I haven't.
00:53:17.360 Yeah.
00:53:17.800 Is anyone in your office investigating any other books about Justin Trudeau or just the book
00:53:21.480 that's critical of him?
00:53:22.380 So they're getting angry at you and they're dismissing.
00:53:27.420 There's one more clip and I know I'm showing a lot, but it was, it's sort of incredible to
00:53:31.980 believe.
00:53:32.120 These are 30 year Mounties.
00:53:34.640 Actually, they both worked organized, one worked organized crime.
00:53:37.300 They both worked terrorism cases.
00:53:38.680 Now they're federal investigators.
00:53:40.220 They've got five men on my case.
00:53:42.640 And, and one of them said, did you consider registering the book with the government?
00:53:47.780 And let me just say, I'm registering under Soviet domination in Romania, which was an Eastern 0.99
00:53:54.080 Bloc country. 0.98
00:53:55.100 If you had a typewriter, you had to register your typewriter with police and you had to
00:54:00.660 type out a sample because each typewriter in the olden days was slightly different.
00:54:04.080 They would keep a sample.
00:54:05.140 So if they ever found some Samizdat, some freedom type, they could compare it to all the registered
00:54:11.300 typewriters and know who the troublemaker was.
00:54:13.600 They registered typewriters in Romania under Soviet domination.
00:54:18.160 And this cop says, did you consider registering your book with the government?
00:54:23.880 Clip five.
00:54:25.500 The knowledge that you would have or not have of the, of the election, Canada elections
00:54:30.000 act, when you are planning the book and you, the, the, the new third party rules, because
00:54:38.780 I believe there's some comments on your set as well about that.
00:54:41.620 Did you give any consideration of saying, maybe I should register as a third party for
00:54:47.740 this circumstance, or maybe I shouldn't, um, because of my interpretation of what I'm
00:54:53.440 going to do, or did you, um, not make that determination?
00:54:58.780 Tim, I appreciate the question.
00:55:00.340 Yeah, I absolutely did think about that at great length.
00:55:05.900 Do you want to share any of those thoughts?
00:55:09.400 Well, sure, some of them.
00:55:10.180 I mean, I thought the day I register with the government to write a book is the day we
00:55:20.420 no longer are the true north strong and free. 0.99
00:55:24.600 And if Elections Canada's commissioners are stupid enough to prosecute me for writing, publishing, 0.99
00:55:33.300 and promoting a book about an election during an election, then that's an important fight 1.00
00:55:38.160 to have because we need to roll back these pencil neck bureaucrats and their blackface boss. 1.00
00:55:45.160 And we need to remind them that we're still a free country.
00:55:48.100 So I thought about it long and hard, Tim.
00:55:51.900 I was a little bit lippy there.
00:55:53.560 I was doing my best not to swear.
00:55:55.340 I was so frustrated.
00:55:57.600 Yeah.
00:55:57.760 And these guys, I felt like they were trying to get me to confess and do a plea bargain.
00:56:04.300 And I was blunt.
00:56:05.680 I said, no, I think you need to be told by a judge that what you're doing is wrong.
00:56:09.840 Now, I hope that the judge, because we do have in our constitution some protections for
00:56:14.260 free speech, but you wouldn't know it because these guys have five men on the case of my book.
00:56:19.700 Now, I should tell you, my book only hit number two on the bestseller list during the election.
00:56:23.620 Since I released this interrogation tape, my book hit number one.
00:56:28.380 So that's the irony about censorship in this day and age.
00:56:32.900 You want to read the things that people don't want you to read.
00:56:36.480 And why is it that Trudeau is so mad about a little book by an independent author that he
00:56:41.260 wants to ban it and he's six, five cops on it?
00:56:43.960 Like, what is it?
00:56:44.960 And in Canada, we have a state broadcaster, the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
00:56:50.760 It is larger than all private sector news media combined.
00:56:56.020 So it's so dominant.
00:56:57.820 Trudeau already has that.
00:56:59.380 And then he did a massive newspaper bailout where almost every newspaper in Canada now
00:57:04.060 gets payments from the government.
00:57:06.600 So the number of purely independent media in Canada, it's less than 10%.
00:57:11.220 It's probably, by readership, it's probably 5%.
00:57:14.660 But that last 5% is so irritating to him, he wants to snuff it out.
00:57:19.760 I believe that in a short order, there will only be two kinds of journalists in Canada.
00:57:24.540 Those who work for Justin Trudeau in some way or those who are being prosecuted by Justin
00:57:29.840 Trudeau in some way.
00:57:31.260 It's coming our way.
00:57:32.720 I think so.
00:57:33.620 I think I really...
00:57:35.000 If we don't turn around.
00:57:35.780 I think the EU, what happened with Brexit, is a big crack in the new wall.
00:57:43.020 And I think there is a chance that this stuff is turned around.
00:57:46.800 But if we don't turn these governments around and they don't start respecting the rights
00:57:52.560 of free people, they're going to continue to power grab and power grab and power grab.
00:57:57.680 And we will all be silenced.
00:57:58.940 You and I spoke on the radio once about Tommy Robinson, a dissident journalist who was put
00:58:04.440 in solitary confinement for 66 days because of his reporting about a rape gang.
00:58:11.140 That's worse than Canada and Canada is worse than America.
00:58:14.500 So this is your early warning. 0.95
00:58:16.440 The UK is terrible.
00:58:18.080 Canada is not as bad, but it's dangerous.
00:58:19.900 My friends, it's easier to fight in the first ditch than in the last ditch.
00:58:25.160 And it is so much harder to regain a freedom than to keep it.
00:58:30.380 And I just hope that...
00:58:31.620 I mean, you're one of the guys that they would want to censor.
00:58:34.760 Rush Limbaugh, the rage against Rush Limbaugh is because he didn't toe the line.
00:58:38.680 Yeah.
00:58:38.960 All right.
00:58:39.340 Back in just a second with just a little...
00:58:40.900 So, um, I just have to say this out loud.
00:58:47.940 Um, Ezra Levant is, um, he's the founder of the Rebel Media website up in Canada.
00:58:55.360 He is the host of the Ezra Levant, um, podcast.
00:59:00.360 Uh, he has been outspoken for a very long time.
00:59:04.380 Usually, usually, I mean, first of all, he, every time I see him, he introduces himself.
00:59:09.200 He's really, really humble and quiet.
00:59:11.580 But usually, if someone gives to somebody else's charity, and especially in a large way, they
00:59:16.820 make a big deal out of it.
00:59:18.580 I didn't know that you have been donating, your, your company, your team, and your listeners
00:59:25.440 have been donating to the Nazarene Fund now for a long time, $5,000 a month commitment.
00:59:32.680 Why?
00:59:33.340 What?
00:59:33.720 I mean, I'm so appreciative.
00:59:36.480 I didn't know that you were doing this.
00:59:38.440 Well, can we turn this thing up?
00:59:42.200 There we go.
00:59:42.940 Um, credit to our, our donors and our viewers.
00:59:45.940 I went to Iraq just over two years ago.
00:59:48.780 Yeah.
00:59:49.420 Uh, with a small team and we saw the genocide against Christians.
00:59:53.480 It's really ethnic cleansing and it's being ignored by all the powers of the world.
00:59:58.100 Yeah.
00:59:58.380 Even, I regret to say, I think even the church has ignored it.
01:00:02.820 I mean, some great exceptions.
01:00:04.360 Yes.
01:00:04.560 Uh, like Samaritan's Purse is a notable exception.
01:00:07.400 And so we did some videos about this, but I thought, well, let's help.
01:00:12.340 So let's raise some money for these, these Christians. 0.99
01:00:16.000 I'm Jewish myself.
01:00:17.000 And I saw so many analogies with the Holocaust, the desecration of the Christian cemeteries, 0.74
01:00:22.280 um, the marking of the door.
01:00:24.060 In Germany, it was the yellow star in Iraq.
01:00:26.840 It was the noon, the Nazarene symbol. 0.94
01:00:29.780 Uh, and also the fact that the West ignored it.
01:00:32.900 Yeah.
01:00:33.260 So I, it really, uh, was a lot of, um, echoes of the Holocaust. 0.75
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