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On this episode of the Glenbeck Program, Glenn and Stu discuss the recent assassination attempt on President Donald Trump and the aftermath. They also discuss what it's like to be shot in public, and what it takes to go back to work after being shot.
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Stu your favorite part of the podcast today I mean the third part what the third part the third
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part yeah I was gonna say the second see this is why we are so good sometimes we disagree on things
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you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program welcome to the glenbeck program
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we're facing an election and there's a lot of things that i'm against but there's a lot of things that i
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am for and that's what we should be talking about i am for our kids not being sexualized
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i am for a return to innocence for our children to allow them to be children i am for our schools
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not indoctrinating our children but teaching them math reading science
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i am for parents being responsible for their children that doesn't mean just not the government
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that means parents should take responsibility for their children
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i'm for absolute equal rights i'm not for special rights
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i'm absolutely for equal justice not social justice
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i'm for a sane legal and orderly immigration policy that does what's right for america's future
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i am i am for the end of mutilating our children and actually following real science
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i'm for the little guy the hard-working person that keeps getting it in the butt from this government
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i am for the end of the weaponization of this country
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that if you're connected or you're in the right group
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steve scalise is supposed to call in sometime today
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what it's like to walk off or be carried off a a field after being shot
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how long does it take you before you aren't feeling the aftershock of that
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and now he wants to go back to the exact same field
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right after the assassination attempt said i'm going back
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it seemed like maybe the secret service had said please don't do that or something
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he's going back to the exact same place i mean that is
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i don't know man i i wouldn't be able to do that
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i know i know um listen i i just wanted to ask you
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yeah glenn and you know and i was in the hospital for three and a half months
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you know attitude where you know you've been through something like that
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and and of course those three and a half months i was fighting for my life so
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you know but part of that was i i made an early decision because i really need to put
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had to you know learn you know was i even going to be able to do things like that go back to work
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and so you know once i got that mindset i said you know what i'm not looking back
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and believe me i've talked to president trump about this since butler
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and you know and we you know talked about kind of because he came to the hospital the day of the
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shooting you know which is it was his birthday but he and melania came
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really consoled my family at that lowest moment but i i just made a decision i'm not going to be a victim
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i'm not going to focus on why you know he did it why i got here
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i've got to put all my energy into getting better or else i won't get better
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and once i did that it really just kind of changed my my outlook and my focus
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you know i went back to the ball field when i got out of the hospital because i wanted to do
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that i wanted to confront that and you know and go kind of like i'm not going to live in fear and
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and just we you know we did that and it was therapeutic you know it was emotional but it
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was therapeutic and then just you know i got on with my life and i i said you know god
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i and believe me i have a deep faith but i put my faith in god and he
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you know he he took care of me that day there were miracles performed but
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you know you kind of at some point have to say it's in his hands he knows
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what's going to happen next more than we do uh he he gives us the tools but he he also gives us
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the freedom to go fail or go to go succeed to do whatever we want to do uh but but he also looks
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out for us and and you know at some point you have to just have that that faith that god's got
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the bigger plan you've got to control your day-to-day by you know what are you going to focus your
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energy on today are you going to be positive or negative and i choose to be positive do you in
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in watching donald trump i mean he went down on the ground uh i mean he would have moved his head
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just slightly differently and and he would be dead today it would have been the worst live uh television
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broadcast of all time um and uh but you know he moved his head that way i think that was i think
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that was god interacting there was divine intervention absolutely absolutely and look
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he knows that too glenn he you know that was part of you know the conversation we had as he knows like
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steve i know i shouldn't be here and i think that recognition where you recognize life's bigger than
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yourself you know somebody else does have a a hand in all of this and and you've just gotta let let
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some of that go and realize you can do all everything right and get hit by a truck one day like you
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don't know what's going to happen so just go live your life you know do the best you can every day
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i mean here's a man donald trump who's who's put himself up for persecution by so many different
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people who have gone after him and yet you know figuratively literally legally all of that and yet
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he still moves forward he still knows i have to do this for the country and and he believes that and
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believe me the country believes that too that you know you go to a trump rally you go to you know any
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part of the country and and you know people know we are at a very volatile time right now and a
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and a fragile time for the country you know which direction are we going to take as a nation i mean
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these are bigger questions than any individual but donald trump represents that you know do we want to
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get back to what our country was really founded on you know free market principles you control your
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destiny government is there to do the basics not to control your life not to tell you what you can and
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can't do this this is going to decide all of that on november 5th and he knows he's the only one
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right now who can who can really turn this around and i believe that i think most people do uh and so
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he uh he recognizes yeah there's there's people that that want to stop him i mean we've seen it twice
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now directly and it's scary but you know you just gotta you can't let fear drive your life i'll tell you
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my favorite line from him was come on guys let me play through after yeah i was two under par i was
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having a great that is crazy he's crazy but look you have to have that mindset you know if you live
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in fear just just go lock yourself in a room and go in the fetal position and and you'll be neutered
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he's not going to be neutered he's not going to live in fear and you know you got to put your trust in
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other people obviously secret service is one of those groups and that's why we're fighting so hard
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to get reforms it's at the secret service because they they have a mission one single mission not
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diversity or wokeness it's to protect presidents former presidents vice president and they were
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failing at that and we we are pushing hard to get them to refocus to increase the security we finally
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got that uh addressed to to increase the level of security president trump has because they were not
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uh giving him that opportunity and that that led to some of these problems but um you know at the
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end of the day you just got to say i i'm still going to go to the rallies i'm still this is who i am
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and that's who he is you know the majority of americans think that there will be another assassination
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attempt before the election which is really a sad commentary do you believe do you believe that
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this really was simply just a series of unbelievable mistakes uh or is there any room for
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maybe some of these decisions were were conscious not i'm not saying that they set it up but
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just let it slide a little bit like i'm not a big believer in coincidences you know you you live you
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live long enough you see things that you know not everything adds up but but if you if you connect
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the dots you know you realize okay wait there's something else going on here i i really do think
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that you know when you look there there are people who and this is why i'm really really vocal about
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the language you know when kamal is saying not just hey i don't like his tax plan i don't like this
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or that it's he's a threat to democracy he's he's like hitler he's this or that that's telling
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people and there's there are you know unhinged people out there unfortunately and they hear that
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as like a call to action and that's what was going on i mean the second attempted assassin flat out used
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her exact language about threat to democracy in his mission to go try to kill the president you know
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and so they've got to stop doing this it's not hey we all need to dial it down no there's one side
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that's saying very specific things that's being taken as as literally calls to action to go try to
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assassinate the president that's what they have to stop because you know whether it's truly
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coordinated in a broad scale or not it doesn't matter if somebody's taking what you're saying
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as okay i need to go take action in my own hands and try to kill somebody you've got to stop saying
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that at some point you got to look in the mirror and go my words are causing somebody else to want to
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kill somebody and and if you think oh i can just say whatever i want you know there's free speech
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and then there's you know yelling fire in the theater i mean there's a line and uh and and now
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you've seen where they've crossed it and they've seen it they need to stop doing it so i had a uh a
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brush not nearly like yours or or donald trump's uh but a brush similar to the one that he had on the
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uh golf course um and i know that freaked me out immediately i thought what am i willing to die
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for what what it changed my language you know it changed i i was not going to die for things i didn't
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absolutely believe did that go through you as well it was it was more a shift in focus like what is
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really important in life you know what what are you doing all of this for you know we all know you
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know especially you get into politics you run campaigns and you say you know i'm going to fight
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for this or that i mean you know i have strong beliefs i go to washington and you find out quickly
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not everybody believes in everything exactly like you do so you need to then start putting coalitions
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together you know finding people that maybe believe in 80 percent of what you believe in because
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you're not going to get it done on your own yet you yet you still want to advance your cause and i
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still want to advance the things i believe in but i also know what was most important and that's my
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family you know i wanted to see my family that was first thing that came to my mind when i was
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laid out and not sure if i was going to make it through the day you know it wasn't gee whiz what's
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my next title going to be or what's my you know you know the next bill going to be you're not thinking
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about any of that you know we all are going to walk away from these jobs and what are you going to look
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back on what's the thing you want correct well first of all you you better want to walk back home to
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the family you started with and have your integrity intact and then you can start thinking
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about you know wow i was able to move the needle on this i was able to advance what i believe in
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you know 20 30 more yards on that and and hopefully you can say you did that there are some people
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that won't even be able to look back because they spent all their time you know just talking and trying
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to get attention and they never advanced their own causes and you don't want to waste your time in
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life and so you do realize time is important life is important make every minute count
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steve scalise uh from louisiana the house majority leader thank you so much for coming on with me
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steve i appreciate it god bless you always a pleasure glenn and god bless you too thank you
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this is the best of the glenn beck program and we really want to thank you for listening
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it's lear capital rob rob schneider is with us hi rob hey glenn good to be back man yeah a while
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how are you very good i've been watching your clips on uh i don't even know if it's x or or
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wherever but i've been seeing your clips come up very funny stuff very funny thank you wherever i'm
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allowed to to pop up you know it's funny you mentioned about bomb making anything i was thinking
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how is it that the democrats seem to get away with like madonna saying i've often thought about
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bombing the white and that nothing happens the secret service doesn't visit you know johnny depp can say
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you know who is the last actor who assassinated a president like what is that i mean how is that
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not like on a list somewhere yeah how did they get away with that it's just because it's not an equal
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it's not a uh it's it is definitely a two-tiered system and one tier gets away with everything
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so how do you feel about when you're traveling the country how do you feel about how things are shaping up
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do you think people are waking up fast enough to turn the tide this election or
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i think so i think what you have i think you have like uh that stanley milgram study you know
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1961 yale study where he kind of which we kind of reinforced in 19 well during the um the covid
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tyranny which basically you know the study stanley milgram he did this thing where he had um
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people in white coats telling uh seeing somebody in another room with these pushing these buttons
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that and the guy was in the other room was an actor pretending to get these electric shocks they
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would push the electric shock and keep pushing the button until the point of death if a person of
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authority figure told them and the the real truth of that is 65 percent of people will go along with
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authority no matter what so it kind of broke down to me uh during during the covid uh tyranny and lies
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uh was that a third are can get fanatical and will go along with whatever the government says
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and a third will just go along because it's easier and they don't necessarily believe it
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right or they're not saying and then a third and luckily a third in america said no to it and so
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do you know why rob have you ever thought why why are you awake why am i awake why what what is it
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about us that just says no i'm not going down that road i think i think when you get attacked and you
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survive something rational and logic for using your brain and then you see you see people who are you
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know the word that i think really makes sense is bad faith actors because you have somebody who who
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their their faith it's a knowing lie and it's evil and and then but what happens is in our society
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and i think it's become more and more prevalent now i guess the arising evil that we you know you
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and i've talked about is that there's a higher prevalence for that um this this evil that is
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rising and um i think people do wake up to it and i think people are appalled by it and i think once
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they try once they try to destroy you and you survive you get emboldened and and that's really what i felt
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like and and i felt like the same thing when you were attacked you know and and how dare you try to
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start your own media company how dare you try to you know to follow your faith right and to love your
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country so i i think that happens but and and i also feel like you know my parents you know raised me
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my my mother was a war survivor in the philippines who came from nothing and my father you know i remember
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my father you know telling me stories about uh you know the you can't trust the government completely
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because um they don't have your best interests in mind and that kind of stuck with me and i didn't
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want to believe it but i think we have come to the point now where i think it's hitting an apex where
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we need more people to stand up but the good is that uh a third is all we need uh and you know that's
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what we had during covid a third of the people said f you to the covid tyranny and you know during
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the the revolution you know the during the great american revolution unlike the french revolution
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which was bloody and awful people cutting off heads our revolution we still kept property rights
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and we kept the rule of law and so um and it was a a great revolution something to be proud of it
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was based on under god and had principles um and basically a third of the colonists were uh loyalist
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to the to the crown to england and the greatest power in the world at the time a third were ambivalent
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and a third were you know for getting behind the uh the the revolution and we won that war yeah and i
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think it was only about 15 or 20 percent that was actually die hard that was like we are not going back
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uh to the king so it doesn't yeah it doesn't take that much when we won the war it was at 30 percent
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yeah and so at that 30 percent is roughly what we have right now so i'm buoyant about it and i do
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think when i travel around the country i mean the problem is you know people come up to me say thank
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you for speaking your mind i can't go anywhere without it and that's the title of my book you know
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my you know rob schneider's uh you can do it speak your mind america because we got to get back
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to that i mean that and that when people come up to me the problem is people aren't hearing the
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truth because we have and that's why thankfully you know your program is so important because we have
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to break the heck of money of this um illiberal because it's not liberal it is illiberal uh media
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which is 90 90 plus of what the media out there and they don't want you to have that they don't
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even want glenn back they don't want you to have yours so so it is dictatorial and it is
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we have to break that and and people are are waking up to it and and they're coming around
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i believe it so wanda sykes was out yesterday and she said you know they're going to put us if
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if trump wins they're going to put comedians like me in jail which is just ridiculous um uh and and
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yet i was talking to uh roseanne barr yesterday and i think you would echo this i said you know
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comedy was almost dead they almost killed it i said but it's coming coming back and she cut me off
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and said with a vengeance it's coming back she said and the best comedy is conservative comedy
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right now without a doubt you know and and the you know the democrats i'd love to hear like um oprah
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and the governor pritzker talking these billionaires complaining about you know middle people and and
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and uh how what the problems are no this is a land of opportunity it's not a guaranteed land of
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success it wasn't to be um a perfect system it was you know uh it was supposed to be an you know a
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better union it was supposed to be have an opportunity and so you know for them complaining
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it's funny because you know again the media is 95 percent in their camp yeah what are they complaining
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about look at the wealth in america now the republican party has become the party of the people
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that can be percent of the wealth in america is in the hands of the democrats and what are they
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complaining about i love they complaining about we're not going back well they've been the ones
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in control yeah we we are going to go back we're going to go back to where people know which
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bathrooms to use i'm sorry that you don't democratic party but we're going to go back to a country that
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doesn't allow 14 year olds here we have 14 year old girls a lot of these are artistic autistic girls
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we need to get america healthy again that's another point but the they're not allowed to drive
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get a tattoo to vote to get a gun because they're not mature enough to make decisions and yet you know
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the evil medical establishment is allowing them to make these life-altering choices and in europe and
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many countries are already stopping this this mutilation nonsense the surgical conversions of young
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girls mostly and they're outlawing it and changing it the cast report in england if anybody wants to
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look to that has changed everything it just shows that this has all been based on all lies and it's
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amazing to me that america is so far behind that we are still pushing while europe is running from this
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absolutely because it is an is absolutely evil and i just tell this to people this this really helps
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get through to people i say you can't even rent a car in america until you're 25 you know what does
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hurts rent the car avis and enterprise know that the medical establishment and the liberal
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intelligence seems to be so ignorant about right but they're but they're full of this chronic kind of
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crap but you know you it's racist to ask for somebody's identification somehow or another because i guess
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blacks can't figure that out um but i guess but i guess bolivia is all racist then yeah you have to
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show your id to vote there well they also wanted a vaccine id they wanted to make sure everybody had
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an id of vaccination and everybody could figure that one out thank god yeah i mean thank god we did but
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they're not done i mean the problem is glenn is that i just think the first it was the first it was
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just the first volley the first sobo it was the first launch and it was just the first quarter it was
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like the first inning of this uh potential tyranny and i think that the global elites uh learn their
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learn their lessons what didn't work they learned that they couldn't control the glenn vex they couldn't
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control all the podcasts and that they're going to regroup and figure it out and do better next time
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so but we need to arm ourselves and i will say and i say this to everybody and it seems to get through
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to people even even the on the fence liberals and i tell this to people i say there are no real
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conservatives anymore in america what we have is liberals that aren't crazy liberals that aren't
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lost their minds it's true we all want you know not judge people by the color of their skin we all
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want people to express and be able to to live their life and freedom in this country and and that is the
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traditional liberal values that have been manipulated again by bad faith actors and we need to move forward
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as as a country but that means moving back into our traditional values and i tell this to people and
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let's get through to people we need the people on the fence we need the hundred thousand voters in
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arizona i know didn't vote and if we're republican registered people out vote we need to get people
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to go and do this and it's simply this there will be no marines that will that are going to land on the
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beaches to save america there will be no food drop in america while we're still while this administration
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is still allowing trying to buy our our farm farmland there will be no marshall plan there will be no
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financial uh aid that will come to the united states while we're continuing to print and give another
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800 million dollars to that criminal zelensky in ukraine there will be we are our marines we are our farmland
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we are you know that that's why you know kamala harris would love to disarm us because that's all we
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got you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program
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so for people who think maybe bad guys don't ever pay for their crimes
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good guys never win you remember the irs whistleblowers that blew the whistle on hunter biden's
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tax crimes these are the guys who said uh wait there's something going on we were told not to
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look into it they slow walked it etc etc well they were smeared and really destroyed um and uh one of
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the guys is is is pretty amazing uh he's um he's known throughout the world this is an irs agent
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known throughout the world uh for his work on global tax enforcement he was selected to create
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a new international organization called the joint chiefs of global tax enforcement
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he's a supervisory special agent of the international tax and financial crimes group
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where he leads 12 elite special agents who are subject matter experts in complex international tax and
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other related financial crimes the guy has uh i mean he started his career as a americorps volunteer
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then he went to work for the defense department and intel and then he joined the irs and criminal
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investigations he's out to get the bad guys um he joins us now uh welcome gary uh uh shapley how are
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you very good thanks for having me glenn i appreciate it oh yeah um thank you for your courage for
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speaking out thank you for doing the right thing i also want to bring in uh tristan levitt tristan is a
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guy who uh worked with uh chuck grassley trying to help all of the whistleblowers um he helped
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expose operation fast and furious and and a lot of different things um and is really um strong on
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protecting the whistleblowers they are so important tristan welcome thank you so much glenn so where do
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we start uh gary because you are now suing hunter biden and you're suing him for what 20 million
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dollars yeah to be clear we're we're the alleged uh defamation is against uh abby lowell the attorney
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for hunter biden and uh yeah the uh the amount is uh 10 million uh for me and also uh joe ziegler
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for a total of 20 million yes so what do you claim they did so the complaint alleges that that mr
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lull defamed us and and it was part of a overall smear campaign to uh to attack both uh joe ziegler
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and i for coming forward following the law going to congress and disclosing the preferential treatment
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um that his client was receiving by the department of justice and you know our disclosures weren't
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weren't even though hunter biden was it was the topic our disclosures were against the malfeasance
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at department of justice um fbi and and irs um so it's really interesting that it was this third
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party that came in and became the uh you know as a legend our complaint the uh the main defamer and
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smear of both joe ziegler and i so tristan that is not uncommon though is it i mean you're a
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whistleblower they attack whistleblowers now like there's no tomorrow yeah that's absolutely right i
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testified yesterday in front of the or maybe i guess two days ago uh in front of the weaponization
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committee and and there are three of our fbi clients that have been there in the past one was
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with me again and it's very very common for whistleblowers to be you know lied about and defamed
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and and so that's part of why we really want to create consequences for that we we started
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you know we are we are supporting we are funding this lawsuit um that uh gary and joe are bringing
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against abby lowell our organization of power oversight that i'm the president of and we want
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to you know if this is a way to hold people accountable we want to do it in other cases because
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we just think that there's never any consequences for people just lying with impunity they just get
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away with it and so we we want to fight back and that's not something that that you see happen a lot
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so that's why we're trying to raise money from the public um you know we have this this uh website
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defend whistleblowers.com to build up this fund precisely for suits like this where gary and joe
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were just trying to do the right thing and you know they went to congress to what was right but again
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as so often happens they were lied about but in in their case it can have real consequences for their
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careers i will tell you i saw i saw the one of the whistleblowers um marcus allen uh with the fbi that guy
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seemed like he was dirt strong uh in you know standing up for the right thing but he looks like
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he had been dragged through and just just punched repeatedly in the gut it was it was amazing to
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watch him these whistleblowers are really truly the best of america yeah i sat right next to him as he
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as he gave that statement the other day as i testified there also and he he is unlike some of the other
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whistleblowers that testified with us a year and some change ago he's not been on social media
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he's just been holding it in so that we could get his pay reinstated and get his security clearance
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back and now that he finally is through all of that this was his real you know this was the first
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time people saw just what everything he's been through it's horrible so what are the odds of i mean
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what are you fighting against they'll they're going to fight you with everything they have and
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lots of money law firms do not want this one to win
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yeah that's that's absolutely right so yeah the the real thing that you know gary and joe gary gary
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can share this right but i mean they're they're not suing for the money in any way right i mean yes
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it's a 20 million dollar defamation suit but the the point of this is that they you know that as a
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legend of the complaint it's not right for someone like abby lull who's well known well um you know
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identified as a really big name a really big litigator he represented you know jared and
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ivanka trump even but for him to go if he goes on tv and says these guys broke the law by sharing
00:34:51.580
hunter biden's tax information with congress lots of people believe it and even mitch langberg the
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defamation attorney who's representing you know our defamation expert on our legal team um who who is
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one of the foremost experts in the country you know without having a background he said my general
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impression was these guys had broken the law until he studied this case and read what we shared and he
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said wow they have they you know they haven't been treated fairly here and so you know we want to we
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want to educate the public and set this right so that people know these guys did you know not only
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the right thing but they did it in the right way so gary did you did you at all have conversations
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amongst yourself of should we do this you know it's going to happen to us did you have that conversation
00:35:30.820
well i mean overall right people say why'd you come forward and it really wasn't a choice
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um for me um just my conscience wouldn't allow me to sit there knowing what i knowing what i knew and
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uh seeing what was going to happen in this case um so i mean of course we talked about the the risks
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but at the same time um you know fortunately uh for the american people unfortunately for me personally
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um you know the the risk were real and and many of them are coming to fruition through retaliation
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by my employer irs and and the department of justice against me so i went in with my eyes wide
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open and you know i have no regrets i i feel like we've been vindicated by the uh i mean you went from
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charges that weren't even going to be charged that even before the the generous plea deal fell apart
00:36:20.980
where he was going to have to plead guilty of two misdemeanors you know there were there were they
00:36:25.500
were going to give him a deferred prosecution agreement and when we were coming forward uh you know doj
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doj and and david weiss knew they were coming forward he said oh no no that's not going to work
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out so we're going to have to make him plead guilty then of course the judge had the the amicus brief
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from congress where uh they included our testimony that they voted out and made public and uh you know
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that information made it pretty clear that that uh that under biden was receiving that preferential
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treatment once again it's the department of justice and irs here that is the one that engaged in
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and and the conduct in which we blew the whistle again so um you know i have no regrets and and i
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hope the american people have confidence in in the irs and of government employees because of what joe and
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i did here's what i would like you to do if you are um if you have five dollars uh there is nothing
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better than than uh cleaning out this rat's nest of liars and thieves in our justice department in
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really in all throughout uh the government they have to be taught a lesson and unless we do it from
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the outside the inside's never going to punish itself um and i would urge you to go to empower
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e-m-p-o-w-r dot u-s uh and if you can make a donation this thing's going to cost a lot of money
00:37:54.440
um but we have to have the best lawyers on it we have to have the the the strongest case possible
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otherwise this continues over and over and over again and good people are destroyed so please go
00:38:06.220
to empower e-m-p-o-w-r no e there dot u-s and uh and give if you can thank you so much guys i appreciate
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it thank you glenn you bet appreciate it you bet bye-bye um let me just play this whistleblower um
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so this guy is the guy that that uh tristan was just talking about that he sat next to i don't know
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if you saw this but he's an fbi agent who was a whistleblower life destroyed hasn't said anything
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publicly until the other day and listen to what he said it's cut three i considered the hearing
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today my last act of service as a public servant for the united states of america uh and i'll give
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you my professional opinion i was an intel professional for our country for many years
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and i would give recommendations and i'd also look at indications and warnings so i would offer this to
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american people as my warning to them since this is a warning to the american people i say
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i personally have no confidence that the fbi will rein in its own conduct
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i've been persecuted along with garrett steve and kyle and countless other whistleblowers
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it is my opinion that the bureau used reprisal and fear to control the workforce
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it has been a seemingly effective tactic i personally believe that there are no current
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effective checks and balances against them conducting lawless action with any type of
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correction in a legitimate time frame i welcome the work of the ig but i think
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any type of lawless action there's no legitimate time frame to rein them back in
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their ability to over classify information can allow them to stonewall forever
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to the american people you have a duty as a citizen to vote and i strongly urge you to do so
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it's how you participate in the american experience i know people have doubts about election integrity but
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you must vote it is your claim state your claim and don't forfeit it willingly have your voice heard
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my other recommendations are in the natural order first vote the second is the second amendment arm
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yourself and know how to defend yourself make three to four friends in your neighborhood and promise to
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come to each other's mutual aid in times of harm hardship and during the great depression people
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stocked up a pantry so i think that's a good practice especially in our economic times and make
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sure you have three to four months of food as a person of faith i'd say pray the rosary go to the first
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friday devotions that's for everybody all my brothers and sisters of all faiths and i know i'm catholic
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and read the gospel of our lord and savior jesus christ and live it every day and that's all i have
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to say thank you for the time you hear how his voice is shaking yeah this is how do people dismiss
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that warning that that is i mean we are living in unprecedented times and i tweeted that out the
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other day i should retweet it now um these guys are so brave and you can tell they are they're not
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playing politics listen to that warning and share it with your friends