Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly discuss the worst week for Joe Biden in his entire first year as president, and why he's the worst president in the history of our republic. They also debate whether or not he's better than any other president in his first year.
00:02:20.320So tell me about these poll numbers and what it means, because it doesn't seem like they are any less likely to stop doubling down on things.
00:02:27.920Okay, so the Quinnipiac poll has Joe Biden's job approval rating at 33%.
00:04:50.820And so this week, getting back to your what's the biggest story of the week, he got pummeled on every time he turns around, record inflation, record COVID cases,
00:05:04.960his insane legislation about Voting Rights Act, which is unconstitutional, by the way, is not going to happen.
00:05:13.420Build Back Better, not going to happen.
00:06:28.080I mean, I don't think that ever had a chance.
00:06:30.300That never was going to happen, because if you do that, then when the Republicans win the Senate next November, which they will, they just turn it on you.
00:06:45.360They revoke everything that you've done.
00:06:47.040Yeah, you can veto and all this, but you just tie it into an incredible knot.
00:06:52.320You've got to have the ability on controversial legislation to have an overwhelming majority in the Senate, or you don't have a country anymore.
00:14:53.700What the Supreme Court did was to say that the OSHA mandate that dealing with every employer, the part of the mandate that said 84 million Americans, including, by the way, 500,000 Utahns, are at risk of losing their jobs if they don't bow to presidential medical orthodoxy.
00:15:10.700Fortunately for all of us, the Supreme Court had the courage to stand up and say, no, no, they can't do that.
00:15:30.380So this is the part dealing with the 84 million Americans covered by the OSHA mandate.
00:15:34.480That dealing with the part that says we will find an employer with more than 99 workers if they don't fire every worker who refuses to get vaccinated.
00:15:43.540With respect to the so-called CMS, maybe, that dealing with Medicare and Medicaid programs and health care systems that interact with them, that receive money from them, the Supreme Court punted.
00:15:56.920The Supreme Court said, we're going to let this litigation play out.
00:15:59.440We're not going to weigh in right now.
00:16:00.600We're not going to stop this abruptly.
00:16:02.360And so this was, look, as between the two, if we were going to have to win one and have the court punt on the other, I'd a whole lot rather win the one that we did win yesterday.
00:17:36.200It was all about the future, not about the past.
00:17:39.100And I said to him, you know, things are so out of control that a serious pruning, and I would be for the shutdown of all these federal agencies, you know, to a skeletal staff.
00:17:51.580And I said, it's just completely out of control right now.
00:17:57.140It's almost like we need a system reboot and set it back to factory settings.
00:18:02.680That's going to be impossible to get this thing back under control unless we have a strong GOP that understands what we're fighting and what we're up against.
00:18:14.460And it's not Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
00:18:18.720Are you seeing troops starting to rally in the GOP, or are we playing the same game with the McConnells and stuff?
00:18:26.000Well, without question, I'm seeing this troop starting to rally, and I'm seeing fantastic, exciting new candidates like Josh Mandel in Ohio coming up through the ranks, people who are willing, as you say, to come back and reimpose the factory settings.
00:18:39.880What are the factory settings in our system?
00:18:41.880Well, in our system, that's the Constitution.
00:18:44.240And it's a document that still works today.
00:18:46.580It's as relevant as it was back when it was written in 1787.
00:18:52.380And one of the things that it says, the very first operative provision of it, is that Congress makes the laws.
00:18:57.800All legislative powers, here and granted, shall be vested in the Congress of the United States.
00:19:02.020We've drifted far from even that very first and critically important definition.
00:19:07.200There's a reason for that, because we entrust the lawmaking power, which is inherently the most dangerous power in government, only to people who are elected by the people at the most regular intervals.
00:19:18.120And if we ever cease to do that, as we have been lately, because we've been delegating it all to Tony Fauci's, we deviate from the factory settings.
00:21:11.780This becomes an endemic, which is really good.
00:21:14.820But speaking of doubling down, I'm seeing the president saying he wants to push businesses to choose to do this anyway.
00:21:23.820They are getting more and more draconian.
00:21:27.280There's calls today for getting Joe Rogan off the air and Spotify to fire him and censor him because of the COVID laws or the COVID lies, as they say, that he is spreading.
00:21:42.120They're talking now about much more draconian kind of rules and laws.
00:21:49.040Do you see this ending well here, Mike?
00:21:54.000I mean, we're at the tail end of COVID, and they seem to be going even crazier.
00:22:02.020You know, there's a reason why we have a First Amendment.
00:22:05.080There's a reason why we've decided that government ought not be able to punish people for contradicting government orthodoxy.
00:22:13.280And the reason is there's really disproportionate bargaining power.
00:22:17.060The one thing that makes government government is its ability to use force with official sanction, with the seal, with the badge.
00:22:28.120We should take these things very seriously.
00:22:31.020Whenever they come out and true government offices try to threaten, intimidate, belittle people, true government office, to the point that they can't express a differing opinion on a matter of public policy, that's really dangerous.
00:23:10.120And when you get to the point where a government is as big and is as powerful as the federal government is, as the executive branch in particular is, you have to stop and wonder whether we've just allowed it to get too big.
00:23:22.320Because if there's that much subtlety and sophistry within that system, we've got to tear it down and get it back to the basics of what the federal government is supposed to be doing.
00:23:31.200National defense, trademarks, copyrights and patents, immigration, naturalization, regulating trade or commerce between the states and foreign nations and with the Indian tribes.
00:23:38.880There are a few other powers, but that's it in a nutshell.
00:24:05.340So Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton and I, along with the rest of our colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee, questioned at length these officials from the FBI and the Department of Justice the other day.
00:24:16.700We asked the most basic questions about who was arrested, why, when, what was being investigated, what the situation was with Ray Epps.
00:24:24.860Time after time after time, they told us, I'm sorry, I don't have that information.
00:24:31.480Can you put that into perspective, Mike?
00:24:33.400How often does something like that happen?
00:24:36.160How out of the norm was this line of questioning and their answers?
00:24:42.520Well, it's not at all uncommon to have an executive branch employee or high-ranking official in front of a committee and to have us ask them a question and have them say, I don't know the answer.
00:24:55.180But what's different here is we were asking them questions about the very topic that they had agreed to come and testify about in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:29:26.760Well, we've known for a long time that there was a meeting in early February which Fauci attended,
00:29:34.640so did Francis Collins, so did Sir Jeremy Farrer of the Wellcome Trust,
00:29:38.760who was actually the person who asked for the meeting,
00:29:41.380and a bunch of other senior virologists on the phone on Saturday the 1st of February in which they discussed the widespread concerns among virologists at the time that it looked like this new virus was the product of manipulation in a laboratory,
00:30:00.980or at least it had mutated in a laboratory, that they couldn't explain how it came about in nature.
00:30:06.980We've known just the outlines of that, but when we sought the emails about that meeting that followed that meeting, we got totally redacted documents, you know, with everything blacked out.
00:30:19.360And that was a little intriguing, to say the least.
00:30:25.720Now, some of the Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have been allowed a sight of the unredacted emails and have transcribed some of the key paragraphs,
00:30:36.980and they are even more startling than we expected,
00:30:41.260because what they show is that Dr. Fauci, Dr. Collins, and other senior advisors to the government in both the UK and the US were briefed very clearly by virologists
00:30:56.800that at the time they thought there was a very good chance this had come out of a laboratory,
00:31:00.640they couldn't explain one feature in particular of its genome by any other way,
00:31:06.840and that they thought that theory should be taken very seriously.
00:31:10.720And yet the outcome of that meeting was to commission an article for Nature Medicine magazine,
00:31:18.060and another couple of articles came out shortly after that too, one of which had Farah on as a co-author,
00:31:24.220which basically rubbished that idea and said, no, it couldn't have come from a lab,
00:31:30.000and there was no evidence for that, and it was a conspiracy theory, and everybody should shut up about it.
00:31:34.500So what changed in the couple of days after that meeting to take these people from thinking it was a very strong possibility
00:31:43.340to thinking it was a nutty conspiracy theory that could be ruled out?