On today's program, Tulsi Gabbard talks about what s coming in prosecutions and additional information from the intelligence community, and Mike Lee talks about the outrageous action of the Senate. Also, we play a game where we try to decide which quote from Kamala Harris is real and which is fake, and how a documentary could lead to a pardon for Diddy Well.
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00:00:11.660scotia bank you're richer than you think on today's program a lot going on tulsi gabbard
00:00:18.020talks a little bit about what's coming uh in prosecutions and additional information from
00:00:23.840the intelligence community also mike lee the outrageous action of the senate we are way
00:00:31.420behind and you want to know why we don't have justice because the senate is not clearing the
00:00:37.880u.s attorneys they're not they're not uh passing the nomination they're not doing their job they
00:00:44.700need to also we play a game today stew and i try to decide which quote from kamala harris is real
00:00:50.700which year a outrageous covid conspiracy headline is from from the new york times
00:00:56.700and how a documentary could lead to a pardon for diddy well when i say documentary i mean
00:01:04.600smoky and the bandit all on today's podcast
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00:01:55.800you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program welcome to the glenn beck program
00:02:09.800conversation with glenn beck and mike lee now there's a barbecue conversation mike's actually
00:02:18.100really funny he is very yeah he's very funny never apparently on the air but uh he's with us now
00:02:24.980hello mike hello good to be with you as always i'm gonna cry really hard to be funny yeah i'm gonna
00:02:31.180try not even to be boring a little yeah no it's no it's always it's always great when people are
00:02:35.600trying to be funny too it's just it's it's really good um so uh mike uh thanks for being on i am i am
00:02:42.900so upset with the senate so upset with these republicans how many senators i mean uh how many
00:02:50.980nominations are sitting on the sidelines that for some reason our side doesn't want to confirm for
00:02:58.440the president well the confirmation backlog is at about 150 uh it was at 144 the other day
00:03:06.360and we added six just from the from two of the committees i served on uh yesterday alone so we're
00:03:13.020somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 right now now technically speaking it's not necessarily
00:03:17.960republicans don't want to confirm them just that the democrats are slowing down the process
00:03:22.760and republicans as republican senators we now have to decide what we're going to do about it
00:03:28.100now some would say well it's august we got to go home tomorrow is the first day of august people want
00:03:33.400to be home for august i get it uh washington's not fun this time of year and historically the senate has
00:03:39.540recessed uh at this time of year but you know sometimes you got to do the job that you signed up for
00:03:45.100and so we can complain all we want about the set the fact that senate democrats have delayed the
00:03:50.680process that's kind of become the job of the opposition party these days in the senate but
00:03:56.400once they delay and obstruct it's on us if we don't clear the deck and the way we clear the deck
00:04:03.360the only way to clear the deck is through the tool that we call exhaustion you keep them here you make
00:04:09.460some vote including and especially at times that they find inconvenient or undesirable this is that
00:04:15.640time so we need we need republican senators uh to start saying en masse we will say we insist on staying
00:04:24.580uh to get these nominees voted on and if it takes us all months so be it it probably won't take that long
00:04:31.100because people tend to all of a sudden become far more willing to negotiate and compromise when
00:04:38.360something that they want is on the line especially when what they want is to get out of dodge before we
00:04:43.120go back into politics tell me who is being held up tell me the the consequence of holding these
00:04:49.420these nominees up well look uh many months ago we got the cabinet confirmed and so most of these names
00:04:55.840are not in super prominent positions that every american is going to be aware of these are a combination
00:05:02.600that small handful of them are judges although we're really just getting started on on the judges um
00:05:07.460uh not many of them are judicial nominees most of them are a combination of ambassadors uh people
00:05:13.800representing the united states interests uh abroad as the president's personal representative and
00:05:18.480their personal representative of the u.s government they are uh under secretaries uh uh assistant
00:05:24.080secretaries division directors within various departments of the u.s government now let me tell you
00:05:29.380why that matters even though most of these departments aren't that important to most americans daily lives
00:05:35.340at least insofar as they think about them from day to day what happens is that with these lower level
00:05:41.580positions is where a lot of the work gets done and when you don't have a senate confirmed political
00:05:48.160appointee put in place by the president confirmed by the senate guess who runs those departments those
00:05:54.320divisions those agencies it's the deep state bureaucrats the deep state bureaucratic apparatus the regulators
00:06:02.140the career civil servant uh uh workers who basically can't get fired they lean overwhelmingly left and that is an understatement if ever there were one
00:06:13.380so this is much different than it would be if democrats uh were slowed down by republicans and they couldn't get all of their
00:06:20.500nominees through because the default is it's okay democrats are still in charge because they run the deep state apparatus
00:06:26.840we don't have that luxury we flip effectively control of the u.s government a huge swath of it
00:06:35.100from republican control which americans voted for in november over to democrats every day we refuse
00:06:42.700work decline or fail to do the work necessary to confirm these people into their jobs and it's high time we
00:06:48.080get it done where is thune on this he's he's from what i've seen in favor of holding
00:06:53.300people is that true or not yeah yeah i'm always cautious about talking for a colleague especially
00:06:59.320the senate majority leader in public but uh every conversation i've had with him and every
00:07:03.400conversation i've had heard him have in public and in private has been that he's he's in favor of doing
00:07:08.780it now the concern is and the concern that uh he and others have expressed is yeah but what happens if
00:07:14.100our people don't show up because uh apparently some republican senators have gone to him and others
00:07:19.400saying i won't be there if you have votes in august now these people aren't what's wrong with these
00:07:24.480well i don't i don't know i don't know i don't know what they've got planned maybe some of them
00:07:28.720um hey have some dire emergency they've got to attend to i really don't know because they haven't
00:07:34.560identified themselves to me or to the public as far as i'm aware but out of out of 50 people i'd give
00:07:41.940that excuse to maybe one of them i have a dire emergency everybody else yeah get to work
00:07:49.320it and if you've got a dire emergency we actually have a kind of a protocol for dealing with that
00:07:55.360sort of thing either a dire emergency or you've got something like i don't know you um uh an immediate
00:08:01.800family member has died some immediate family members getting married you got to be there
00:08:05.600the long-standing practice in the senate when you're in that circumstance very often you can go
00:08:10.040and uh find somebody across the aisle a member of the other party and say here i'm gonna bind i have
00:08:16.400really got to be in location x i'm having a lobotomy tomorrow or a uh wishful thing my son's bris or
00:08:23.520whatever it is would you be willing to pair your absence with mine and uh more often than not you
00:08:30.120can find somebody who's willing to do that so that's that's my point is that you know other than a few
00:08:35.480things like that which can be dealt with through paired absence arrangements um sure other people may
00:08:42.460have travel plans other things they would rather do international travel or travel around the country
00:08:46.980around their state whatever it is but those things can change and they can be delayed and here i think
00:08:53.960they must be because glenn if we leave if we leave if we recess as has long been planned uh you know by
00:09:01.900tomorrow if we recess for the entire month of august we'll come back these 150 nominees will still be
00:09:08.000here and you know what we're adding to that backlog at a rate of i don't know 10 or 15 new nominees per
00:09:14.240week as more nominees get get moved out if we were just to have these if these were the only people we
00:09:20.400had to confirm it would still take us until probably late april of 2026 just to get this current slate
00:09:28.040confirmed but by then glenn we'll have another 200 or so that we've got to confirm that eats into our
00:09:33.940ability to do everything to confirm others to confirm judges of which there will be a lot more
00:09:38.420in the coming months and even to get our legislative work done because then we're stuck on these uh
00:09:43.220executive nomination votes that's why the time how many clear the backlog is now it's got to happen now
00:09:49.600how many of these are um u.s uh attorneys uh there are a number of them who are u.s attorneys i wish i had
00:09:59.500the breakdown of exactly uh how many fall into which category we got a bunch of u.s attorneys
00:10:03.940who were in this group and u.s attorneys uh play a very important role i have to tell you mike i i i
00:10:11.840just had tulsi on about an hour ago and i said to her you know i the people in washington understand
00:10:17.420the crisis of confidence the american people have in our government and injustice i mean i've i've never
00:10:25.560felt it like this mike and i don't know if you guys feel it this way as much in uh you know in
00:10:30.940washington but you need to your your your uh colleagues need to understand they are at the
00:10:37.260end here of trust there's you know all this stuff that's coming out oh there's committee committee just
00:10:43.700found this and hey there's these new documents out that show this everybody's like uh-huh and so what
00:10:49.680what are you going to do about it another hearing and until things actually start to move and the u.s
00:10:55.960attorneys are the key to that if we don't have u.s attorneys and they haven't been confirmed you can't
00:11:03.920get anything done in the justice uh field yeah that's right and this is happening at exactly the same
00:11:11.840time when a lot of these interim u.s attorneys uh are are timing out they they're allowed to serve in
00:11:17.340that temporary capacity for a limited period of time and under a stupid law and acted decades ago
00:11:22.980that i have a bill to repeal uh they have federal judges in each district who can decide who will
00:11:30.960replace the interim u.s attorney at that point that's a barbaric and unconstitutional practice
00:11:35.480if ever there were one judicial personnel naming executive personnel that's wrong so we've got to get
00:11:40.720this done and i've talked to the president repeatedly about this including less than 24 hours ago
00:11:45.380uh presidents and going to agree with me as indicated by among other things the post on social
00:11:51.420media made over the weekend saying get this done you know stay in town get them confirmed do your job
00:11:57.540he needs it the american people expect it they demand it they voted for this in november
00:12:02.360and it is not appropriate for us to deprive them of that and make no mistake glenn
00:12:09.180if we leave and leave this backlog undone there will be consequences there will be harm and that
00:12:15.040is on us we can blame democrats all we want but when the democrats delay as is the prerogative of the
00:12:22.760opposition party these days it's just what happens in the senate if they delay and we do nothing to
00:12:29.320make them pony up for it and show up and vote and do the work uh to eat the consequences of their
00:12:34.780delay this is on us who are the by us i mean republican senators who are the people that we can
00:12:40.420nicely call to encourage that are on our side that might be uh open to fighting a little harder to get
00:12:49.900everybody to uh to stay who who should we you know i don't i don't want to call and be negative
00:12:58.060because i don't think that works um but you know when when people call and say hey you know i i know
00:13:04.660you're on the right side on this how can we help you push even harder because there's millions of us
00:13:11.440out here that want this done how can we help you get it done is there anybody do you think that's
00:13:17.320effective or what's the most effective approach i i do and i like the way you approach that and and
00:13:22.900here's what i would suggest in this circumstance we've got 53 republican senators if you live in a
00:13:28.540state where you're represented by a republican senator maybe even if you're not but you think
00:13:32.140somebody might listen to you call the office email uh the office probably call the office of
00:13:38.100those republican senators and encourage them to do it stay positive say i really appreciate it if you
00:13:45.060if you stayed and cleared the backlog we appreciate the other good things that you've done we appreciate
00:13:49.560how hard you work um uh and work off it that you can clear the backlog we ask that you do so i think
00:13:55.760that's very helpful because there's not not one of those 53 republican senators who couldn't benefit
00:14:01.800from that we all need to hear that uh across the board mike as always thanks for for everything
00:14:09.060thanks for how hard you're working and standing for the constitution even though you wanted to put
00:14:13.920a mcdonald's and some sort of coal-fired you know uh energy plant in right smack on top of our national
00:14:24.220parks well yeah and don't forget about the grilling rig and the nuclear reactor yeah yeah yeah but that
00:14:31.220was only in yellowstone if i remember exactly yeah right god bless you mike thank you so much thank you
00:14:38.180senator mike lee please please please please tomorrow is the day so call them today mike is exactly
00:14:46.520right on this if we don't get this done you want justice we cannot get justice without the u.s
00:14:55.200attorneys we need the u.s attorneys to be installed all they have to do is hold a vote on them
00:15:03.380they've got to be installed otherwise the president doesn't have anybody to investigate anybody to
00:15:09.060to put the cases together um to be able to prosecute them we we don't have enough people
00:15:17.120please call your senator uh they go on vacation possibly tomorrow tell them to stay beg them to stay
00:15:25.120ask them to stay be nice about it let's try that one see if that works this is the best of the
00:15:32.000lenbeck program hi tulsi how are you i'm good it's great to see you good to see you um first of all
00:15:40.560how's everything in hawaii we prayed for you and everybody thank you so much thank you thankfully um
00:15:47.340the tsunami passed without any real damage uh i was talking to my folks and friends uh and family there
00:15:54.560uh late last night here on the east coast and just trying to help make sure everyone was prepared
00:15:59.900for the worst which is what you have to do it looked like it was going to be quite potentially
00:16:05.020very damaging they were looking at one to three meter uh waves essentially like 10 foot waves
00:16:10.900horrible uh that you know in any respect is kind of a that's a tough day in the ocean but for a tsunami
00:16:17.020that would have been disastrous and so again thankfully everyone is safe and uh minimal minimal effect
00:16:23.640so let's go into what has been released and uh what is still yet to come you know as i look at
00:16:32.600the stuff that has you know in the declassified documents of russiagate um it confirms what many
00:16:39.780of us have already known um are you surprised at anything at the media not reporting any of this i mean
00:16:48.640we've known a lot of this but now the media is absolutely silent on it and and people seem to be
00:16:55.660deleting posts and no longer commenting online what's happening yes uh i am not surprised that
00:17:05.640the mainstream media is refusing to cover this and if they do mention it uh their approach is to try to
00:17:13.440diminish the effect and the impact of the revelations the historic revelations that were
00:17:20.060found in the documents that we declassified and released or to try to bring voice to detractors
00:17:26.960and critics who also just say oh well this is bizarre or this is crazy but when you actually look at the
00:17:33.300coverage and you look at some of the comments and the quotes that the mainstream media may be choosing
00:17:38.200to publish or highlight they're not actually getting after the very specific uh pieces of evidence that
00:17:46.080were released that quote people like john brennan who was the cia director and james clapper who was
00:17:51.960obama's director of national intelligence uh they are not giving voice to the intelligence professionals
00:17:58.280who in these reports that we released were protesting against the very malicious actions that
00:18:05.940people like brennan and clapper uh uh were taking at president obama's direction to create this
00:18:13.240intelligence assessment that was filled with falsehoods uh they're not giving voice to these
00:18:18.680intelligence professionals because they recognize that it would push forward a very inconvenient truth
00:18:24.740for the mainstream media because it exposes their complicity in pushing this lie and this hoax from
00:18:32.060not only day one but throughout president trump's entire first administration and all of these
00:18:37.880people are still i mean brennan clapper they they have been the source on so many things and they're in
00:18:45.040with the media and i wonder if this is just part of more of the same that they're asking them is there
00:18:51.360anything to this and they say no there's not in fact it's a whatever and then i also wonder
00:18:56.300how many people are you surrounded by that are still part of that old system
00:19:03.400it's it's a good question uh as we are finding these documents going through them declassifying
00:19:11.500and releasing them we are learning more about who is actually directly involved and implicated in this
00:19:17.460we're learning more about who may have been in the room and who was loudly protesting against it
00:19:23.820recognizing how wrong it was we have whistleblowers coming forward with their own documentation of
00:19:30.920their protests and their unwillingness to go along with this so yes there are people who are still
00:19:36.740working within the intelligence community who had a hand in this as we are identifying them
00:19:42.400it will give us the opportunity to make sure that they and others like them who again are are so
00:19:50.940willing to weaponize intelligence to subvert the will of the american people uh can no longer work
00:19:56.640in the intelligence community so devin nunez cash patel all these guys were in the last time trump was in
00:20:04.420this was produced in the last administration why wasn't this why did this come out then
00:20:11.320you know it's a good question and and it's an obvious one i can't speak for those who were there at
00:20:18.200that time but i've asked some of these same questions and they were facing i can't speak for
00:20:23.140all of them but for uh devin for example and for cash they were up against uh the deep state in many
00:20:30.600cases who refused to release these documents uh if you remember uh mike pompeo was president trump's i
00:20:38.340think he was his first cia director followed by gina haspel i was told gina haspel refused to release
00:20:45.820these documents so again the more that uh we find in the documentation as whistleblowers come forward
00:20:53.180i think the the story will continue to be told about what actually happened and why it is that
00:20:59.920here we are in 2025 and again this won't surprise many people who've been following this story very
00:21:06.580closely for years uh but the fact that we have documented evidence and proof is the thing that matters
00:21:13.420both to shine a light on the truth that this wasn't something that that was in someone's
00:21:17.960imagination or concocted but i think even most importantly that can drive towards accountability
00:21:22.940so uh fox news had an exclusive that said uh cash patel found thousands of sensitive documents
00:21:30.820related to the origins of the trump russia probe buried in multiple burn bags in secret rooms inside the
00:21:38.580bureau what's a burn bag a burn bag is something that you'll find in many offices throughout the
00:21:45.940intelligence community uh throughout you know these different workspaces in in national security
00:21:52.140basically if i have a document that's that's highly uh uh classified i read it i review it i'm done
00:21:59.940with it my copy can then go in the burn bag to make sure that it's not uh doesn't end up in in the
00:22:06.580wrong hands that there's not an unauthorized disclosure of classified information it's a
00:22:11.760very different story however if you use a burn bag to try to get rid of evidence of which maybe there
00:22:18.640is only one copy of and then hide it in a secret room in the fbi that is a tactic obviously that has
00:22:25.800been used by those deep staters these bad actors within the intelligence community to try to get rid of
00:22:30.480evidence another tactic that's often used is is over classifying information this is what happened
00:22:38.080with the steel dossier uh this was already widely publicized as a discredited document but what john
00:22:45.380brennan did and james clapper did as the cia director and the the obama's director of national
00:22:50.720intelligence they didn't want anybody to know that they used the steel dossier as a source for this
00:22:56.460intelligence assessment that was filled with falsehoods they published in january of 2017
00:23:01.040as well as other really really shoddy intelligence sources that would not be acceptable on any to be
00:23:09.020used on any topic because because they were not deemed credible they wanted to hide all of this
00:23:15.440from members of congress perhaps who were reading this and the american people uh and president trump
00:23:21.560then president elect trump at that time and so they they over classified it in a way that there were
00:23:28.040less than 10 people who could access it and then they locked up the only hard copy documents this this
00:23:35.100document did not exist um uh on digits the the document that actually exposed this was the document
00:23:41.800that we released uh they locked that document up uh and the the five copies that existed in a safe
00:23:48.480uh and the first time it had been seen uh certainly in public but even by many within the government
00:23:54.420was when we released it about a week ago uh sunday john radcliffe uh said that um there's more
00:24:03.440declassification of intelligence coming out that shows how deep this went he said it's stunning
00:24:09.440any idea on the timeline of that i it's going through the declassification process right now i expect it to be
00:24:17.120released uh very soon i think the document uh will speak for itself and once again it will i think
00:24:23.600confirm what a lot of people have already known to be true but it'll connect a lot of the dots that
00:24:29.860that uh have not been revealed in public before are you sensing with i mean let's see mark elias
00:24:37.440uh stopped posting on x uh brennan has lawyered up uh john carey has made his account private
00:24:45.520um peter struck deleted his entire x history um are you sensing they feel the walls are closing in
00:24:55.200that for in my view that's the only way that i can read this situation those who are truly innocent
00:25:02.660would not be taking those kinds of actions and once again this is why it's so important uh to declassify
00:25:09.740this information to get the truth out uh because it it it's something that for anyone who is mildly
00:25:17.080objective uh is is irrefutable and undeniable uh and can be used uh and is currently being reviewed by
00:25:25.220the department of justice uh to bring about accountability for those involved uh we were
00:25:31.900talking before we went on the air and uh i said you know i'm really i'm struggling with my job right now
00:25:39.740um because i don't i don't it at times doesn't seem like it it's worth it it makes any difference
00:25:46.560at all because i don't know what i believe in i don't know what's true anymore tulsi i don't know
00:25:51.400you know i can't sit here and on the air and talk about problems if there's not a solution it feels
00:25:58.180insane it feels insane i keep doing the same thing over and over again beating the head against the wall
00:26:03.180and saying look at here's proof here's proof here's proof and nothing happens do you do you sense that
00:26:10.500do you think the people around you understand how what danger the country is in right now because they
00:26:18.620just don't believe there's justice on any front well first glenn let me just tell you how important
00:26:28.680your voice is uh i think the first i'm serious i'm not just patronizing you uh it it is your voice
00:26:37.480and voices like yours where you have the ability to reach and impact people from uh all political
00:26:44.640stripes different backgrounds different walks of life across the country who are not paying as close
00:26:50.860attention i'm just going to keep talking we're not paying as close attention we're not paying as close
00:26:56.740attention to these things in the way that you and your team are and your ability to communicate
00:27:02.520first the first the first uh challenge and opportunity is to be able to communicate to the
00:27:09.760american people why they should care about this at all right what the implications of what we have
00:27:16.440released and exposed truly are not just for president trump not just for republicans or for democrats
00:27:23.640but for the integrity of our democratic republic and the tactics that are being used by the deep
00:27:30.540state and have been used in order to in this case uh essentially subvert the will of the american people
00:27:37.500because uh you know president obama and and his cohort were not happy that president trump got elected
00:27:44.340so the first thing is being able to really communicate clearly the implications of this on our republic
00:27:50.980the second piece of this yes it is the accountability piece and i understand the frustration but but our
00:27:59.680system is set up in the way that it is by our visionary founding fathers what we have to do is fulfill
00:28:07.360our duty focused on the constitution yes uh and providing uh this mechanism for accountability uh
00:28:15.700for accountability to take place and doing what the american people uh really have done best since
00:28:22.860the founding of our country which is recognizing the power in each of our voices to make sure that we
00:28:29.480are calling for that necessary action uh to begin to restore uh that trust but i i i'm sure you can
00:28:37.700relate i mean i um dan bongino posted a cryptic message on x the other day i read it yeah he said
00:28:44.120it shocked me what i found out that at my time at the fbi has shocked me down to the core we cannot run
00:28:51.380a republic like this and i'll never be the same after learning what i've learned i'm not expecting
00:28:56.880you to answer for him but have you felt that way when you've gotten with being there
00:29:01.960i have seen up close and personal the tactics that are used by those who care more for themselves
00:29:09.860their ambition their job their influence their political interests uh their selfish
00:29:16.840uh self-serving interests then they care about the constitution that every single one of these
00:29:23.260law enforcement and intelligence community professionals swear an oath just like i have
00:29:28.160both in uniform in the military and as a member of congress and as director of national intelligence
00:29:32.680to support and defend the constitution of the united states this is why what we are doing matters
00:29:37.860so much so yes i have my own frustrations trust me but my resolve is focused uh and is rooted
00:29:46.040in my love for our country and my belief in the values and principles that our country was founded upon
00:29:54.660and therefore the responsibility that i carry to do something about that which we are revealing that
00:30:02.840which i am seeing and experiencing firsthand uh it is a heavy responsibility but it's also an awesome
00:30:09.860one and i spend every day doing my best to fulfill it uh you know we've talked before and i've i've said
00:30:14.680to you you are in the second most dangerous job i think in the nation you know president trump is in
00:30:19.380the most dangerous job in the nation and i think you know you're working around some you know people
00:30:24.020that do this kind of stuff for a living and we pray for your safety uh every night you're listening
00:30:30.320to the best of the glenn beck podcast hear more of this interview and others with the full show podcast
00:30:35.640available wherever you get podcasts all right so stew let's play a game okay yes i like games which
00:30:42.240is kamala harris and which one did i make up okay okay two quotes two quotes one of them kamala harris
00:30:52.080said and the other one i made up okay okay this is gonna be this could be tough she spoke about her
00:30:58.180um her candidacy as uh as the gubernatorial candidate in california yes okay she's not gonna run
00:31:06.300no sad no that's sad okay so did she say upon some deep reflection for now my leadership and public
00:31:18.480service will not be an elected office over the past few months i've spent time reflecting on this
00:31:25.040moment in our nation's history and the best way for me to continue fighting for the american people
00:31:29.540and advancing the values and ideals i hold dear is that kamala harris okay that's option one option two
00:31:39.160so here's the thing when we talk about leadership and being a leader who leads we must understand
00:31:49.520that leadership is not always about the office you're elected to but sometimes about the space
00:31:54.620that is not elected yet still leadership and at this moment which is a moment that comes after many
00:32:01.220other moments i've been reflecting deeply intentionally profoundly on what it means to reflect
00:32:07.000as one does during reflection and through that reflecting i've come to understand that while i may
00:32:13.060not currently be in elected office i'm still very much in a place of public service which is service
00:32:18.880to the public for the people who are the american people which is who we are so i'll continue to do the
00:32:25.300work because the work must be done and that work is working for the ideals and values that are ideal
00:32:30.940and have value and those are the things that i hold and that i hold dear because if we don't hold
00:32:37.300them dear how can we say they are dear to be held i know it's a tough it's tough uh it's a trick
00:32:45.460question it's a trick question neither of them are her they're both too smart exactly right oh really
00:32:51.280exactly right one is obviously me and the other one is a press agent because there is absolutely
00:32:57.560no way she said the first one no way no because she didn't repeat herself no she did she once in
00:33:04.780there though i thought when you were reading it i was like gosh i don't know that that one
00:33:08.300yeah after some deep reflection yes for now my leadership of public service will not be in
00:33:13.560elected office for over the six months i've spent time reflecting right on this moment so i was
00:33:18.460that one i was like okay that sounds like her but it could be uh the second one was a little
00:33:23.760long yeah um but but if she would have said that if she would have said it on stage that's exactly
00:33:30.240what right if it wasn't a canned press statement if she was if someone just randomly walked up to
00:33:34.620her and asked her that's about what she'd come up with what she would have come up gosh darn it
00:33:38.720california look at the good news i mean it couldn't get worse i don't know about i mean
00:33:47.040would you rather have would you rather have your governor be kamala harris or gavin newsom that's a
00:33:52.900that's a legitimately another that's another game yeah gavin newsom or kamala harris is your
00:33:57.960governor has to be one of them who would you choose that is really hard this is like
00:34:02.640wow that's really hard suicide by being shot uh or suicide by electrocuting yourself yes it does
00:34:14.200okay yes all right something like i think i would pick kamala because i feel like while both are awful
00:34:20.700and both uh want uh terrible like terrible policies uh to be passed and enforced gavin feels more
00:34:29.040competently evil than kamala she's more like a clown car yes like it would be joke and it wouldn't
00:34:36.920things wouldn't go well yeah it wouldn't but you know not that they're going well in california now
00:34:41.820no yeah well that's oh that's what i mean i think it would be he'd be worse he's i wouldn't want
00:34:47.620patrick bateman in american psycho running my state you think sound great okay okay all right
00:34:53.520can i give you a third game okay third game third game wow are you ready for game number three game
00:34:58.040number three okay name name the year the year of this headline of this headline are you ready
00:35:06.440how conspiracy theories about covid's origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next
00:35:16.240pandemic wait say it again how conspiracy theories about covid's origins are hampering our ability
00:35:25.760to prevent the next pandemic i'll give you some options 2020 2021 2021 2022 2023 2024 or 2025 those are your
00:35:41.040options the way this game is going i should say i'd be surprised if it's even been written yet right
00:35:48.060that is yes but i mean if you're going to say logically 2021 2022 yeah maybe even 2020 yeah right
00:35:56.820like okay because they're you know yeah you're right there's a lot of conspiracy theories about
00:36:00.960origin very beginning yeah yeah yeah and maybe it trickled into 2021 i feel like 2022 would be pushing
00:36:06.860it yeah 2023 we kind of already had passed it 2024 would be completely insane we all admitted it even
00:36:14.440even the new york time everybody admitted yep yep all intelligence agencies say it came from wuhan
00:36:22.300yeah in a lab it the answer is today today today what is the story it is uh how conspiracy theories
00:36:34.080about covid's origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic one of the authors by
00:36:38.260the way well a couple of authors of note i would say one is christian anderson who is in the emails
00:36:44.340from 2020 talking about he was a wasn't he the guy who was like hey i think this has he was one of the
00:36:51.460guys saying like hey this this could be lab leak right and then changed right and changed mysteriously
00:36:56.840no one really understands it another guy is andrew rambo who is not like you know sylvester
00:37:04.060stallone rambo he's he's like a friend r-a-m-b-a-u-t like the renal rambo rambo he is like the one
00:37:15.260i am up in the woods living in the cave i surrender i surrender whatever the town wants to do i will do
00:37:22.140the worst rambo sequel ever a french rambo an instantly surrendering rambo take my guns i hate them
00:37:32.280i hate these guys the super exciting like dramatic scene that they build to is him just putting down
00:37:39.660all of his weapons he comes out he still has the bandana around his head i surrender to a mime last
00:37:48.320week uh but unbelievable and they're trying to say it's crazy you're nuts if you believe the uh the
00:37:55.140lab leak theory that's today today and you know what also today in the new york times is a uh op-ed
00:38:02.480from is it brennan and clapper who were saying this is just the weaponization of government this is
00:38:11.820this look at what they're oh this is oh no they don't they don't like the weaponization of government
00:38:17.440this is just a conspiracy theory that's all this is are you serious i'm serious in today's new york times
00:38:24.140in today's can't take it let me give you this yesterday we are living in clown world
00:38:32.520yesterday donald trump was talking about uh maybe giving a pardon to diddy because he was charged with
00:38:43.520the man act was he yeah was he actually talking about that or was just rumored rumored it does
00:38:49.280feel like when you get a donald trump pardoning rumor yes a lot of times follows usually like it
00:38:57.140does feel like a lot of times it happens so you can't verify that it came from it but a rumor is
00:39:01.300that he's going to be because he was he was arrested on the man act now if you don't know the man
00:39:07.780act if you're my age you say i don't i don't i don't think i've ever heard of the man act oh yes
00:39:14.580you have yes you have from a very famous scene from that documentary called smoky and the bandit
00:39:23.860listen who you chasing somebody chasing you nobody chasing me boy i've been chasing a
00:39:32.420mania all the way from that's a kind of texas really what's he a bank robber
00:39:38.980bank robin bank robin is baby alongside of what this dude is doing
00:39:47.020almost killed 20 law officers driving through people's backyards knocking down mailboxes got a
00:39:55.980fraud in the car took across the state line got the man out i don't think he's got a permission
00:40:03.260and that's getting on how's that behind this
00:40:06.540wow oh let me pay for it let me pay no no no i'm an officer the law i'd i'd i'd be honest
00:40:15.340yeah much applies where's it then i gotta get the squirt i'll ride back there
00:40:19.120i love that movie you've seen you've seen it a long time oh my gosh it's worth watching with your
00:40:44.960kids really it is one of our favorite movies it is smoking the minute hysterical it's just hysteric
00:40:52.400jackie gleason at his absolute best i'm gonna barbecue your ass
00:41:00.160it is so full of laughs they just love it but there's the man act so the man act and the man
00:41:08.400act was taking someone across state lines which is always the weirdest thing they're always
00:41:14.480that's the most concerning thing the law the law is like you can do whatever you want inside a
00:41:19.200state but if you take them across state lines that's no no no no that's what they always get
00:41:24.440them on it's always it's always like a trafficking charge who gets them on uh is that the feds the
00:41:31.360feds right otherwise it's state it's state it's that's how the fed that's how you know remember that's
00:41:37.180uh what was that uh uh shoot i can't remember the the supreme court ruling from the 1930s
00:41:43.680where uh the guy was growing wheat right remember yeah and he's growing wheat in his
00:41:49.020commerce clause yeah commerce clause and he's growing wheat in his own you know on his own farm
00:41:52.900yes but it could be taken across state lines and so the federal government has to regulate it wasn't
00:42:01.020it even more ridiculous wasn't it you selling it within your state could manipulate the market in
00:42:07.780other states i think it was yeah at least that was one of those cases yeah gosh i can't remember
00:42:13.680you're right i can't remember i'm too tired to remember the name of of that uh of that case but
00:42:18.120that was i think what it was because he wanted to sell it in his own state yeah he's like okay this
00:42:22.840got nothing to do with you with interstate commerce so like well if you sell a bunch of
00:42:26.860wheat here could lower the price in another state that's crazy it's great all those stuff has to be
00:42:34.000overturned if you would just overturn that that's a big one that would be a big one because you would
00:42:39.080just you would cut down the the power of the federal government so much so much and of course
00:42:44.460remember we're all anti-government here you know that's all we you know forget forget antifa
00:42:50.560you know forget the people who are actually shooting at ice nah it's us we're the anti-government
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