The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Senator John Kennedy & Justin Haskins ｜ 12⧸3⧸19

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00:00:28.580 Okay, on today's podcast, Senator John Kennedy.

00:00:33.520 Yeah, we dug him up and we put a phone right there.

00:00:36.960 A different John Kennedy, yeah.

00:00:39.400 Really?

00:00:39.980 Different Kennedy, different John.

00:00:41.740 All right.

00:00:42.380 Prince Andrew, is he going to be on the show?

00:00:44.280 No.

00:00:45.720 Wow.

00:00:46.540 And Dershowitz, will he float?

00:00:49.540 We answer that question all on today's podcast.

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00:01:04.420 The 123-page document written by GOP members on three House committees formalized the president's own cycle of distraction and denial that he used out to ride out the Russian scandal.

00:01:25.540 He's using the same tactic to save his job now that he's faced with impeachment over his political pressure on Ukraine.

00:01:32.860 This just reads like a news story.

00:01:35.180 It does, doesn't it?

00:01:35.640 It's so newsy.

00:01:36.640 It's almost overwhelmed by the journalism.

00:01:38.600 CNN news.

00:01:39.840 Trump is now waiting to hear the formal case against him because he doesn't have to.

00:01:46.300 He's no longer waiting.

00:01:47.900 Ultimately, it'll make little difference since his defense was so long ago unmoored from fact and is based on selling a disinformational narrative to his followers that sows confusion and devalues truth for everything else.

00:02:04.480 This has got to be an opinion piece.

00:02:05.860 This is not a news story.

00:02:07.700 Who wrote this?

00:02:08.280 You have an author?

00:02:09.160 I don't just have it.

00:02:10.380 It's just marked CNN, Washington, CNN.

00:02:13.260 No, it's Dateline, Washington, CNN.

00:02:16.380 I'm just looking again.

00:02:17.740 No, I don't even.

00:02:20.180 There's no byline on it.

00:02:21.540 It's just CNN.

00:02:23.800 Hmm.

00:02:24.280 I mean, because that does definitely strike me as a political analysis piece, which I would say is a piece piece of something.

00:02:32.540 Yeah.

00:02:32.800 But is not.

00:02:34.060 That cannot be a cannot be a news story.

00:02:37.160 You want it?

00:02:37.900 How much are you going to put down on it?

00:02:39.580 I will.

00:02:40.620 I'm totally got that.

00:02:42.400 One cent is about the maximum I would bet on this.

00:02:46.280 The report released by the president's House Republican allies on Monday was, in effect, a pre-bottle of a report on the Democratic impeachment investigation set to be released by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff.

00:03:00.720 The message of the document, less of a defense of Trump on its merits, but rather an endorsement of his counterfactual denials.

00:03:09.720 It was simple.

00:03:10.800 Nothing Trump did when it came to Ukraine was wrong, the report said.

00:03:14.160 His scheme run by his scheme run by personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to coerce Ukraine to investigate a political foe, Joe Biden, was just fine, according to the partisan document.

00:03:27.160 Contrary to what top officials testified, there was no quid pro quo, House Republicans claim, and the whole Ukrainian drama amounts to a coup by his deep state enemies, despite an avalanche of evidence otherwise.

00:03:43.700 Wow.

00:03:46.920 It's really frustrating the way they're doing this right now.

00:03:49.520 They are, they are, let me give you another one here.

00:03:55.020 This is from the New York Post, so.

00:03:58.320 House Republicans on Monday released a report ripping Democrats' impeachment proceedings, arguing that the evidence collected in the probe so far does not support the accusations leveled against President Trump or the rise, or rise to the level of removal from office.

00:04:12.480 The evidence presented, now this one reads like a news story.

00:04:16.960 The, um, the evidence presented does not prove any of these Democratic allegations, and none of the Democratic witnesses testified to have any evidence of bribery, extortion, or any high crime or misdemeanor, end quote.

00:04:30.120 The Republicans asserted this in the 123-page report, a copy of which was obtained by the Post.

00:04:36.060 Dueling versions of the case against the President following two weeks of the House Committee, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:04:40.700 They are, uh, the, the mainstream press is working overtime right now to do a couple of things.

00:04:50.580 Listen to this story from Salon.

00:04:53.080 A Ukrainian prosecutor who aided Trump attorney, Ruli Giuliani's search for damaging information on former Vice President Joe Biden, was among hundreds of prosecutors fired in a sweeping anti-corruption purge.

00:05:10.360 One of Giuliani's earliest contacts in Ukraine was given a dismissal notice last week.

00:05:16.180 Okay, so, prosecutor who aided Giuliani's hunt for damaging details on Biden is fired in an anti-corruption purge.

00:05:26.480 What does that headline tell you?

00:05:29.920 What is it supposed to tell you?

00:05:32.400 Anti-corruption purge.

00:05:34.420 That these people were removed for justifiable good reasons because they're just, we take an action against the bad guys.

00:05:48.000 Is that accurate?

00:05:49.280 No.

00:05:49.720 he and more than 500 prosecutors from the last regime were fired because they failed to

00:06:00.500 take some exam that they felt was biased against them and so they failed to take this exam on what

00:06:08.760 happened in the last administration they didn't take it so 500 of them more than 500 of them were

00:06:14.440 interesting yeah um this man has denied meeting with giuliani but his former associates say he

00:06:22.400 prepared a seven-page dossier which was passed along to giuliani the former prosecutor later

00:06:28.740 appeared in a report by the hills john solomon to whom giuliani fed dubious claims to fuel the

00:06:35.980 debunked narrative that biden had a prosecutor terminated while he was investigating a

00:06:42.060 ukrainian firm that employed his son how is that debunked how is that debunked we have the court

00:06:50.700 documents that were filed by that prosecutor three weeks before he was fired by joe biden he went to

00:06:59.120 court and filed a a a court document for an investigation to be able to have the powers

00:07:07.520 to do the investigation on burisma and joe biden's son yeah so where has this been debunked well and

00:07:16.280 what they fall back on usually here is there were multiple investigations going on against burisma

00:07:21.280 one of which had ended before the biden situation occurred so they say well the the the investigation

00:07:30.160 was over as you point out they had filed uh papers for a new investigation there were other investigations

00:07:35.500 going on on burisma at the same time we should also report that this stated uh uh thing that joe biden

00:07:43.340 was doing in ukraine totally separate from burisma no big deal had nothing to do with them all he was doing

00:07:49.800 was investigating corruption in the oil and gas industry with his focused attention on burisma's number one

00:07:58.080 competitor now cert it wasn't even about burisma it was only about their number one competitor in the

00:08:05.160 same industry that's all obviously there are more questions and to just say it's debunked is easy right

00:08:12.600 because you know what i sometimes this does happen right sometimes republicans uh do uh throw around

00:08:19.840 theories that are bs and sometimes they do so what they try to do with things like this is say well

00:08:26.280 look there you guys know they're all conspiracy theorists we've been telling you that everything

00:08:29.520 they've been doing is debunked and this is just another example don't look into it we're telling

00:08:32.620 you right now it's another example a little different than the do your own homework approach that we

00:08:36.400 take with these investigations check it look at it read the documents please do here they are

00:08:42.120 we have the documents we have them so when you say they're debunked you'll notice they're not quoting

00:08:49.940 any document they're not quoting anyone and showing a document that disproves our documents

00:08:55.960 our documents in this case are from the court system in ukraine i mean so please debunk that i i'll

00:09:06.160 i'll correct that just show me what makes that report and those documents invalid show that to me

00:09:16.260 they can't they can't nor will they listen to this giuliani told blaze host glenn beck last month

00:09:24.760 that he used solomon to push the claims in the u.s senior state department official george kent

00:09:30.720 but he also testified last month that solomon's reporting if not entirely uh is made up in full

00:09:37.140 cloth it was filled with non-truths and non-sequiturs so he's saying uh that solomon that rudy giuliani

00:09:47.000 told me that he used solomon to push these things no i don't think that's what he said correct me if

00:09:54.820 i'm wrong stew i think he said that yes he gave this information to john solomon right they're just

00:10:00.820 inserting the context he pushed false claims but like that's not correct of course what giuliani or

00:10:06.440 solomon was that's like you'll you'll you'll notice that up on my giant chalkboard uh there is um

00:10:12.620 oh what is his name the um oh the the press guy uh michael isikoff i've never said anything about

00:10:22.460 michael isikoff except that chalupa was working with michael isikoff on giving him a story which he ran

00:10:32.680 and that story was used for the fisa request okay i'm not saying that michael isikoff was was

00:10:41.380 part of this conspiracy i'm not saying that michael isikoff is completely discredited i'm not saying

00:10:47.620 any of that i'm only stating the fact that i know that chalupa was working the press and she was

00:10:55.780 specifically in her own words in her own documents and emails to the dnc working on michael isikoff for

00:11:05.260 a blockbuster story and that blockbuster story well that blockbuster story happened to lead right down

00:11:12.940 to the uh the black ledger which got paul manafort fired is that michael isikoff's fault was he part of

00:11:20.400 it i've never made that charge no i mean if you're a journalist it was a real story it should have been

00:11:25.180 reported correct and you know we shouldn't dismiss the idea no uh that uh people were convicted in

00:11:31.600 the release of this uh black ledger that led to the uh resignation and eventual imprisonment of a guy

00:11:38.140 running one of the two campaigns going running for president at the time um you know that manafort

00:11:43.200 thing is not a little detail i mean imagine what a big 2016 was so freaking crazy and so many details

00:11:51.020 happened and so many wild swings happened in that election but there are most elections in u.s

00:11:57.480 history the biggest story of the entire campaign would be the guy running the campaign gets fired

00:12:03.620 because of corruption that's leaked out of a country overseas uh is quite still at some level is

00:12:10.360 questioned even by the mainstream media whether it's whether it's fraudulent or not was not entered

00:12:14.760 into the uh the actual case court case as evidence the prosecution never used the black ledger because

00:12:22.160 they felt that it was it had too many flaws in it they didn't want to it seemed like it was a good

00:12:28.560 possibility that it wasn't real it does seem like the a lot of the information in it was real um however

00:12:34.320 but it was a manufactured collection of evidence presented in a specific way for a specific result

00:12:40.820 correct and which by the way got the result i mean someone in ukraine released a document that got

00:12:46.500 the head of a campaign fired to the united states but it wasn't we're telling everyone tells us it

00:12:51.200 it's debunked right there were convictions in ukraine over this there's a tape from ukraine about this

00:12:57.000 and that guy that was convicted there were two of them one of them was the head of the anti-corruption

00:13:03.980 bureau which was set up by obama clinton the state department and george soros that's what that

00:13:12.600 organization is and the head of that organization was convicted of interfering in a u.s election i knew

00:13:19.600 you couldn't get through a whole segment without anti-semitism i knew it i knew it

00:13:23.660 the best of the glenn beck program

00:13:27.780 hey it's glenn and you're listening to the glenn beck program if you like what you're hearing on

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00:13:43.720 your favorite podcasts let me go to ethan in virginia before we get to pat hello ethan

00:13:48.960 how's it going good how are you i'm doing good hey i wanted to uh ask you um in our state of

00:13:59.060 virginia uh the democrats are like in full control and they're getting ready to change all kinds of

00:14:06.260 gun laws for us so the counties our surrounding counties are changing into second amendment sanctuary

00:14:12.480 counties so my question is uh how much protection to the gun owners will that say will that second

00:14:20.120 amendment sanctuary how much protection will that give us well i would i i happen to think that

00:14:27.340 sanctuary cities for the second amendment are all cities uh the second amendment is the constitution

00:14:34.960 it is constitutionally protected right so when you know with sanctuary cities with illegals that's like 0.98

00:14:42.320 uh yeah we're not gonna enforce the law because we disagree with it this is we are going to

00:14:49.760 enforce the law uh it will all come down to your sheriffs if you have a really good sheriff um the sheriff

00:14:59.060 does not answer to the governor does he i'm trying to remember pat in the constitution i think sheriffs are

00:15:06.740 the only ones that don't that don't have a hierarchy they answer to the people i'm not sure i know the

00:15:14.140 sheriff hierarchy that is up on the hierarchy of sheriffdom right i should be i'm pretty sure it's

00:15:21.360 definitely made whether it's never been right that i know i've never been tested right but the but the

00:15:27.260 idea is is that the sheriff is not an appointment uh from anybody and doesn't answer to anybody but the

00:15:33.820 people and that's why the counties are doing it because the county sheriff if you have a good one

00:15:39.620 is saying that's my constitutional right i respond to the people not to the governor or anybody else but

00:15:46.760 you will have a fight uh between the sheriff and uh the governor that's why you need to be all americans

00:15:54.840 should pay very close attention to who they have as their as their sheriff and make sure you really know

00:16:01.880 that person and that person understands the constitution and will stand thanks so much

00:16:08.580 ethan hope that helps uh answer your question you should also be very much aware of the presidential

00:16:14.380 candidate most likely uh to do something about this gun situation and that's michael bloomberg

00:16:20.480 of course he wants to he wants to take the guns off the streets which is great and uh and i think

00:16:27.740 well which is great to take the guns off of the streets if they were just laying there in the

00:16:32.320 streets yeah i don't know i was like you know could somebody pick these up my issue is it's a tire

00:16:37.300 hazard i'm constantly popping tires because of all the guns on the streets yeah right and then they go

00:16:42.240 off just by themselves especially those bayonets right because they're always on the end of the guns

00:16:46.640 and then just in case the same thing happens at home he's gonna come and get them out of your

00:16:50.660 house too just to make everything really good obviously there's no reason to have something that was

00:16:55.760 developed specifically to kill this is this is one of the i mean remember this is the guy who what

00:17:02.160 over the weekend said no president z is not a dictator he he answers to his constituency yeah no he

00:17:09.960 changed the law so he doesn't answer to anybody yeah communists don't have constituents really they

00:17:17.820 don't they really don't his thing was oh you think the people around him if he starts going bad you

00:17:23.080 don't think that they'll and he couldn't bring himself to yeah kill him right oh so you're saying

00:17:29.500 a coup is the constituency i don't know if you've noticed a lot of dictators survive a long time

00:17:35.300 before a coup really bites them yes uh you know a lot of ill family yeah yeah the ill family or the

00:17:41.940 kim family yeah it's actually yeah you're right yeah it's the kim reverse yes uh but he's got some 0.92

00:17:48.660 other great uh policies uh he tried to explain one of them last year and uh i think the the poor are

00:17:56.840 really going to respond to this when he's talking about taxing the poor and and how great that will

00:18:00.620 be love it here's michael say well taxes are regressive but in this case yes they are that's

00:18:07.440 the good thing about them because the problem is in people that don't have a lot of money and so

00:18:13.300 higher taxes should have a bigger impact on their behavior and how they deal with themselves so i

00:18:20.300 listen to people saying oh we don't want to tax the poor well we want the poor to live longer so that

00:18:27.280 they can get an education and enjoy life oh and that's for them why you do want to do exactly what

00:18:34.520 a lot of people say you don't want to do the question is do you want to pander to those people

00:18:40.060 or do you want to get them to live longer and there's just no question if you raise taxes on

00:18:46.800 full sugary drinks for example they will drink less and there's just no question that full sugar

00:18:52.560 drinks are one of the major contributors to obesity and obesity is one of the major contributors may i

00:18:57.580 just disease and cancer and a variety of other things yeah yeah shut up so may i just may i just 0.55

00:19:03.140 point out some people that have money also have big bellies really can you name any some do you

00:19:12.060 have any no i can't think of anyone someone like maybe even the media spotlight for a while maybe

00:19:17.740 earned a lot of money over the years and i can't think of a single one seems to grow but it's not

00:19:22.540 right in this room like this obesity bro wait a minute what that's oddly specific what um it's

00:19:28.160 it's it's not like it's just the poor that are drinking soda right i think his point is though

00:19:36.280 that if they have less money the poor right because like if you glenn beck is going to buy whatever soda

00:19:41.480 he wants no matter how much the taxation is but for someone who has a lower level of income they may

00:19:45.860 avoid it because of the taxation i think that's such a great argument the less they have the less money 0.97

00:19:50.380 they have the less damage they can do yes to themselves because they're all pathetic with 0.88

00:19:56.400 the money right so they won't hurt themselves with the food they eat or intake or drink this is pat 0.90

00:20:02.080 progressive theory 101 right and bloomberg knows better than them they don't know what to buy for

00:20:06.740 themselves he has to make them buy the thing he wants them to buy he and elizabeth warren so dangerous

00:20:11.440 people yeah they're interchangeable they're the same people this is a guy who what 10 years ago was

00:20:16.440 supposedly a republican 15 years ago and then he was an independent and now he's just a communist i

00:20:22.940 mean no he's not i don't think he is a dangerous people i think he was replaced by a communist but i

00:20:28.880 don't think he is a communist he is clearly a capitalist but he is a progressive yeah capitalist yes

00:20:35.420 he is the he is the icon of the progressive wing of the uh of the republican party he's the he's the

00:20:45.400 ultimate now that john mccain is gone he's the ultimate you know he believes in all of the big

00:20:51.900 government stuff he just happens to fancy himself a republican until it becomes unpopular is there anybody

00:21:00.940 who is against trump uh getting rid of the credentials for bloomberg reporters like because

00:21:07.760 i we've been critical of sometimes i think trump gets too hypersensitive of what the media writes

00:21:12.320 about him and he's banning reporters but this one is clearly right they have come out and made a

00:21:18.480 statement that they will not investigate any democrats and they will only investigate trump

00:21:23.300 like how on earth can a news organization bloomberg get away with that and maintain any level of

00:21:30.680 credibility i understand that he's the guy that owns the company and there's weird things there

00:21:35.640 and it makes sense even what would they say you're not going to investigate bloomberg or the democrats

00:21:40.280 but you have to apply that also to trump what would they say if murdoch were american and would run for

00:21:45.760 president of the united states right what would they say they would say you cannot have fox you know

00:21:52.100 it would be ridiculous to think that they would be fine with that they'd be out of their minds over

00:21:56.920 that out of their minds this isn't fox and uh and murdoch this is bloomberg and bloomberg news yeah i mean

00:22:06.980 and they're already making that case i know when i i was called up into the office um of rupert murdoch

00:22:15.160 the first talent i am told by roger ailes to ever been called up to rupert murdoch's office before

00:22:22.660 and uh he was nervous and i was like cool i'm gonna meet the guy hi what's happening down under

00:22:29.800 uh and um i sat there with him and the first question he asked me was are you running for

00:22:34.860 president and i knew what that was about yeah about this yeah are you running for president it was right

00:22:40.480 after 8 28 and i said no what are you gonna do with all this power what power you just called the

00:22:46.640 largest group of people together as a private citizen roger and i spoke about it this morning we

00:22:51.560 cannot think of anybody who was a private citizen who has called that many people and had that many

00:22:57.240 people come without an entity behind him so who do you represent what do you and i'm like i don't

00:23:02.640 want any of that i just thought we should all get together on the mall and they really didn't

00:23:08.000 understand but but the first question it was important are you running for president because you

00:23:13.120 can't mike huckabee if he was running for president he loses his show yeah you can't do that

00:23:18.780 how is it that you know anybody like mike huckabee is different than michael bloomberg

00:23:25.920 how can the guy who owns it and they say oh by the way we're only going to investigate this

00:23:32.480 and how is it those journalists don't rebel go wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute

00:23:38.240 you're telling me i'm not like there's a big story about about elizabeth warren and we can't report

00:23:43.860 on it basically you're saying oh all we can do is aggregate other people's reporting we can't do

00:23:48.340 any investigations like if you're a journalist you got into journalism to do investigations and

00:23:55.560 now you're like well you can just these people are off limits yeah remember the whole do not

00:23:58.600 the do not prosecute list we talked about in ukraine that was so controversial like that's

00:24:03.580 essentially what they've done they've created a do not investigate list how can you how can it have

00:24:08.220 any credibility and a lot of this stuff just comes from the news organizations fox news fires those

00:24:12.620 people not because uh you know fires them late late let's makes them leave their shows yeah because

00:24:18.020 they're running for president not because necessarily they have to on cable because they have the the

00:24:23.780 they have standards they're saying to themselves we we're not gonna allow we can't avoid even the

00:24:29.740 appearance what are they gonna say when trump leaves office in 2028 just to screw with people

00:24:37.600 i mean bloomberg went for three terms why not there you go and he changed it he changed the

00:24:42.240 constitution of new york city that's right uh so when when donald trump leaves in 2024 and he starts

00:24:48.780 the trump television news network which is almost certainly going to happen it's going to happen

00:24:52.760 it's going to happen uh what are they going to say what are they going to say are they going to allow

00:24:59.420 trump's uh reporters into the uh into the white house of course not no of course not ban all of them

00:25:07.100 especially if trump was running for president you've got bloomberg running for president and

00:25:14.620 trump says i'm not letting him in i'm not letting his people in here no i think president west would

00:25:20.400 allow them in you know president kanye west i think he'd probably allow him yeah yeah well that's 2024

00:25:27.160 you know that's happening in 2024 so it'll be a whole new world when we have president west

00:25:33.200 in office guys i actually thought adam west that's that when he said west that's i was how old am i

00:25:40.780 i know i was singing wild wild west i was like what what is that was a jim gordon or what was that

00:25:46.340 guy's name i don't even think you should have an election just give the presidency to kanye west it's

00:25:50.160 obviously going to some kardashian so let's just pick one at least kanye seems kind of republican

00:25:54.720 i mean kardashian has to be the next president of the united states and look he's black he has a

00:26:00.920 relative that is transgender uh yeah i mean he's got it all he has everything he's gonna he's gonna

00:26:08.580 do very well in the intersectionality olympics yeah he'll be great he'll be great

00:26:12.920 this is the best of the glenbeck program

00:26:18.460 hey it's glen and if you like what you hear on the program you should check out pat gray unleashed

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00:26:51.180 great state of louisiana not a great not as great as texas but still pretty great uh we have senator

00:26:56.700 john kennedy joining us now hello senator how are you sir glen i am well and and let me tell you texas

00:27:03.900 you mentioned texas texas is right next door to louisiana yeah we love texas texas is five and a

00:27:09.940 half times bigger than we are but louisiana's ten and a half times more interesting well let's not

00:27:16.400 start anything here uh let's just because we want to part friends um uh senator you are uh you are being

00:27:23.760 lambasted in the press now uh as a conspiracy theorist and let me let me start with this question

00:27:30.940 can these two statements be true russia tried to cause chaos by trying to hack into our election systems

00:27:39.020 spread disinformation online by taking extreme positions on both sides and hacked the dnc computer

00:27:46.620 that's statement number one can it can it also be true that the ukrainians were convinced that

00:27:54.420 hillary clinton would be better for their country they were involved in gathering evidence against 1.00

00:27:59.680 donald trump and his surrogates to assist a hillary clinton win in collusion with the dnc members of

00:28:07.880 the state department our embassies and the anti-corruption bureau in ukraine are those two

00:28:14.980 statements true yes um and and you you stated the propositions very eloquently i was asked glenn on a

00:28:24.720 show several in fact was it russia or ukraine who tried to influence the u.s election and i said both

00:28:33.200 and they said what's your basis for saying ukraine and i referred them to articles op-ed pieces and long

00:28:41.500 investigatory articles in politico in the financial times in the hill in the washington examiner

00:28:51.840 on cbs news in the economist bloomberg news and new york times for example the headline in politico

00:29:01.920 january 2017 quote ukraine efforts to sabotage trump backfire the financial times august of 2016

00:29:14.840 the the headline was quote ukraine's leaders campaign against trump close quote uh third this is an op-ed

00:29:27.860 piece written written in the hill by the ukrainian ambassador to the united states this is the headline

00:29:36.500 to his op-ed piece the ukrainian ambassador not the hill quote trump's trump's comments send wrong

00:29:44.780 message to the world and i could go on um now did ukraine uh try to influence our election

00:29:54.900 in as sophisticated a manner as russia no russia is the master um russia is a a third world country but

00:30:05.020 it has great spies great cyber skills and nuclear weapons but the two are not mutually exclusive and

00:30:13.880 i mean just from the reporting i don't believe these are all reputable uh members of the media

00:30:21.380 uh their lawyers aren't going to let them print lies um and i don't think it's fake news so um senator

00:30:30.480 may i um may i direct you to glennbeck.com where we have laid this all out and i'm not using other

00:30:37.260 people's reporting uh i have the direct evidence in their own words from state department documents

00:30:44.280 from dnc documents uh we have payments we have videotape of them admitting to this um we have

00:30:52.580 the court documents out of ukraine we have the official documents and it is so uh outrageous

00:31:01.380 that the press is saying that these are conspiracy theories etc etc the you know reporters can spin

00:31:09.780 reporters can do whatever they want documents do not lie and the documents outline all of it and it's

00:31:17.900 all in their own words when you look at uh cheramella uh who is possibly the whistleblower his fingers are

00:31:27.100 all over all of that this is why donald trump blew a hole in a wall and he was a hand grenade and he and

00:31:36.480 rudy giuliani went off and they blew a hole in the wall that exposed all of this stuff that was going

00:31:43.720 behind the scenes in ukraine and our former administration clinton and the state department

00:31:50.920 and members of our intelligence community were all involved and we have the documents the question is

00:31:57.460 will the senate actually take this on or are we just going to you know defend against trump and not expose

00:32:08.760 the exact corruption that i think is poison to the republic

00:32:14.340 fair question glenn answer is i don't know i'm i'm i'm labor i'm not management in the senate i'm not a

00:32:25.720 committee chairman um i will tell you that as you alluded to i've gotten a lot of uh pushback from

00:32:35.920 my democratic friends about my statement that both russia and ukraine tried to influence the election

00:32:43.380 i think they're worried somehow that admitting that ukraine tried to influence their election would

00:32:50.880 somehow hurt their impeachment uh proceedings against the president i don't understand that

00:32:58.800 i mean i think most fair-minded people recognize that the ukrainian government in the past not the

00:33:05.660 people but the government um under president poroshenko and president um yanukovych

00:33:13.820 the governments are and were organically and historically corrupt um and i think that's been

00:33:23.020 been uh been well documented it has been and we exploited when i say we the democratic party and the

00:33:31.900 former administration exploited uh that corruption and it is it is vital that that is exposed if it is

00:33:42.100 not the state department is going to know from here on until the end of time they run the show and they

00:33:50.120 can do whatever they want it also will um institutionalize the kinds of things that the

00:33:56.900 democratic party was doing in ukraine to try to thwart our election look if donald trump uh would have

00:34:04.180 been found as coordinating or in collusion with the russians i would have been for impeachment on him

00:34:10.680 but he wasn't they didn't find that evidence but that evidence is available in documents in court documents

00:34:19.600 two people were were uh uh were tried and convicted in ukrainian court two people for interfering in our

00:34:29.740 election to try to help hillary clinton win if we don't get a handle on this our elections and the 0.99

00:34:37.000 the the the the the whole system is in question i don't care who goes to jail i want a fair

00:34:44.560 election system well you are correct there it was a federal uh district court in kiev in december of

00:34:56.180 2018 which ruled that uh senior ukrainian officials did meddle did try to influence

00:35:05.900 the presidential election in the united states and here's the headline from the article in the

00:35:12.280 bloomberg news reporting it quote ukrainian officials meddled in 2016 election by leaking secret

00:35:23.420 manafort ledger court says in quote yes now i didn't make this up and in fact bloomberg news is only

00:35:34.060 reporting what a ukrainian court did now my democratic friends say dr hill who testified in president trump's

00:35:44.060 impeachment proceedings in the house says this is all russian propaganda and my response to that is

00:35:51.460 well first i i don't think politico in the financial times and the hill magazine and the washington

00:35:59.340 examiner and bloomberg news are agents for uh vladimir putin who's a thug i don't believe that and secondly dr hill

00:36:09.600 is certainly entitled to her opinion i'm just saying i don't believe these articles by reputable members of the

00:36:18.420 media uh by reputable reporters i don't think they're fake news and you know their lawyers aren't going to let them

00:36:26.280 print lies i know that much senator i i i know you have to run we have to let you go but uh i uh i wish

00:36:34.460 you all the best and i pray literally every night for spines to be found uh in congress and in the senate

00:36:42.540 because what you are talking about uh is is institutionalized and metastasized and it must be cut

00:36:52.160 out it is a cancer to our system and i'm i'm hoping that uh this is when it gets to the senate we

00:37:00.540 actually have a trial about the truth and we call these people to uh to answer for the lies that we

00:37:09.120 have seen now in this impeachment hearing glenn a very wise person told me yesterday in a phone call

00:37:16.920 calling he called to say uh keep telling the truth he said uh leaders or he said people don't follow

00:37:25.300 leaders they follow courage and uh that meant a lot to me and i think it's true senator uh keep speaking

00:37:34.680 the truth thank you so much god bless thank you glenn thanks for having me you bet bye-bye

00:37:38.760 this is the best of the glenn beck program

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00:38:06.880 with us hello justin hi glenn how you doing i'm you know i'm doing pretty good i'm doing pretty good

00:38:12.860 you're the editorial director of the heartland institute which i absolutely love you guys have

00:38:18.240 done uh so much to fight um many things but in lately you're really focusing on the fight against

00:38:26.900 socialism you just did a new rasmussen uh study on likely voters can you can you take us through this

00:38:34.460 yeah absolutely so uh it was a poll conducted in middle of november november 13th and 14th a thousand

00:38:42.880 likely voters and we asked them a variety of questions about um bernie sanders and elizabeth

00:38:47.880 warren uh some questions about socialism and then some questions about free speech um and i think that

00:38:53.940 the most important interesting question was about free speech free speech rights um it was should

00:38:59.960 federal or state governments ban speech that a majority of americans believes to be offensive

00:39:05.640 including speech considered to be racist or sexist that's exact wording that we gave uh to to the

00:39:11.400 respondents and the results were a quarter of of likely voters said yes we should ban speech governments

00:39:19.140 should ban that speech and among varying groups based on age 37 percent of younger people said yes to

00:39:26.440 that question that was the highest of any demographic uh based on age and 42 percent of government employees

00:39:34.720 which this might be the most interesting part of the survey said yes to that question so 42 percent of

00:39:40.480 government sir of government employees that we surveyed said that we should ban speech of course that a

00:39:46.320 majority of people think is offensive that makes total sense to me it makes sense to you

00:39:50.240 it makes absolute sense to me especially when you think of this as a national survey right we're not

00:39:56.080 polling people who are in washington dc so so we're polling government workers across the country well who

00:40:01.680 are most government workers in most parts of the country well they're teachers uh and i think that

00:40:08.100 that's why you're seeing this this very far left view of free speech but it's it's incredibly disturbing

00:40:14.340 when you when you realize that most of these people are probably your local government workers you're

00:40:19.620 probably mostly public school teachers so let me go through some of this because i think it's it's

00:40:25.180 odd uh which is better a free market economic system or socialism 69 percent which is you know good for

00:40:33.000 today i guess 69 percent said a free market economic system 12 percent said socialism and 18 percent said not

00:40:41.680 sure okay that's right would you vote for a presidential candidate who identifies him or herself as a

00:40:48.420 socialist 26 percent said yes there's only 12 percent that would identify as a socialist 26 percent said yes

00:40:56.540 50 percent said no 24 percent said not sure not where i'd like it but not horrible if you will

00:41:05.120 um do you have favorable somewhat favorable somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impressions of bernie

00:41:11.420 sanders 18 percent very favorable 29 percent somewhat favorable uh 17 somewhat unfavorable 31 uh very unfavorable

00:41:23.020 and five not sure what do they what do any of these numbers taken together begin to tell you anything

00:41:30.020 yeah i think that the most important thing uh in the numbers that you just mentioned is that

00:41:36.580 really a large percentage of americans uh even people who identified as democrats um in our cross tabs

00:41:43.640 we found that it's basically one in three democrats said that they do not they would not vote for a socialist

00:41:49.080 candidate um i don't know if donald trump is listening but this might be helpful information in 2020

00:41:55.680 because if you can classify people as a socialist if you can if you can show americans

00:42:01.920 that what bernie sanders and elizabeth warren and other people are proposing out there is socialist

00:42:07.320 is socialist policies then i think most americans are going to reject it uh one of the really interesting

00:42:13.960 things that we found in the data is that twenty percent about twenty percent of both bernie sanders

00:42:20.540 and elizabeth warner elizabeth warner's own supporters said that they would not vote for a socialist

00:42:28.500 candidate we're talking about the the people who had the highest favorability view of bernie sanders

00:42:34.720 said that they would not vote for a socialist candidate for president well that's that's really

00:42:40.320 interesting do they not realize that bernie sanders is a socialist i mean do they not know that that's who

00:42:46.200 they're that they're supporting and i mean i think that that tells you that a lot of people are very

00:42:52.160 confused about what they're hearing from people like bernie sanders and elizabeth warren

00:42:56.400 do you support legislation that would ban private ownership of assault rifles 49 percent said yes

00:43:03.880 43 percent said no and only eight percent are not sure

00:43:08.720 yeah very very disturbing um i think i think that the the the not just the assault rifle question but

00:43:18.260 also the question that we asked about the second amendment do you support repealing do you support

00:43:23.000 repealing the second amendment which currently guarantees america's right to bear arms 24 percent

00:43:29.740 said yes 10 percent said not sure 66 percent said no that's right and a third of 18 to 39 year olds

00:43:39.180 um a third 33 percent said that they would support banning the second amendment so uh it's 24 percent

00:43:46.980 overall of all likely voters but 33 percent of younger people so over time this is going to get

00:43:52.480 it's only going to become a bigger problem and about a third by the way of democrats said that they

00:43:57.940 support repealing the second amendment so i think we have a lot of work to do glenn teaching people

00:44:04.020 about the importance of the second amendment and what it really means well it's what's what's frightening

00:44:08.380 is this this is showing the the deterioration of the bill of rights the first amendment and the

00:44:14.980 second amendment you lose those you lose everything else yeah without question and i think it goes all

00:44:20.640 the way back to what we talked about earlier in the conversation when we were saying that uh there's such a

00:44:26.020 high support for socialism amongst government workers and most of those government workers are teachers

00:44:32.460 what are they teaching our kids yeah they're teaching our kids that the second amendment is

00:44:37.220 awful and that it should be repealed they're teaching our kids that hate speech that things

00:44:41.760 that are considered to be offensive speech should not be allowed in a free society they are they are

00:44:46.860 teaching our kids to reject the constitution to reject the bill of rights to reject individual 0.93

00:44:51.740 liberty and that's why i think you're seeing younger people support these socialist policies at a much

00:44:57.640 higher rate than you're seeing older people so i just want to give i just want to restate these 46

00:45:04.500 of those who identified as working for the government you say that's mainly teachers support legislation

00:45:10.940 that would ban private ownership of assault rifles only 43 of independents and 32 of republicans

00:45:19.760 say they support legislation that would ban private ownership of assault style rifles 32 of republicans

00:45:26.940 of republicans would well you got to remember that third that i think that that's pretty accurate

00:45:35.660 these are likely voters i think that that's a reflection of what's been going on with the media

00:45:41.020 and the fact that media has been banging this drum for a very long time and that most people still don't

00:45:47.740 really understand what assault rifles are uh support amongst republicans for repealing the second amendment

00:45:53.520 uh was pretty low um so i think that's a positive but i i think that people don't understand what

00:46:00.380 socialism is i don't think they understand what assault rifles are i don't think that they understand

00:46:04.700 what rights um what rights are right i think fundamentally they do not understand the importance

00:46:10.940 of freedom i think that's what this shows predominantly and that's where we need to focus our attention i think it's

00:46:17.660 worse with younger people than with older people it's worth worse with democrats than with republicans

00:46:22.800 it's even worse with bernie sanders supporters and elizabeth warren supporters but it's it's not good

00:46:29.080 all across the board we have to start with foundational core principles and work our way up from there

00:46:35.360 how do you do that justin i mean i know this is what you do for a living

00:46:40.640 at the heartland institute this is what you do for a living how do you do that how do we turn this around

00:46:46.940 when it's it's our it is institutionalized in our educational system from birth to graduation

00:46:54.960 right so the two things i think the two most important ways to battle

00:47:00.380 uh these problems to fight against socialism number one you absolutely every single parent

00:47:07.400 every single grandparent aunt uncle friend family member who's concerned about this issue needs to

00:47:12.280 talk to younger people about these issues they need to teach kids while they're in the school system

00:47:17.540 before they get into the public school system basic core concepts about individual rights and respecting

00:47:23.300 other people's rights that's number one we have to take that seriously number two we need to get

00:47:28.820 we need to break the stranglehold that the government has on public education and we and the only way to do

00:47:35.800 that is with school choice there are universal school choice ideas that have been out there for

00:47:40.240 a very long time universal education savings accounts programs etc we don't have them even in

00:47:45.860 the most conservative states why don't we have that in states like texas and alabama and places where 0.57

00:47:52.200 Republicans have been in charge for a long time we don't have it there either it is shocking to me

00:47:57.100 how bad texas you know i lived here in the 80s and texas was a different place in the 80s compared to

00:48:03.040 what it is now it is drifted far um texas you know has very powerful unions and teachers you know

00:48:10.680 the teachers uh federation here is very very strong they have they have taken over our schools

00:48:19.300 and nobody wants to do anything about it at least in the upper levels you're right and it's it's not

00:48:25.600 just in texas it's all across the country it's the most conservative states in the country the teachers

00:48:30.800 unions are still the most powerful political organization at the state level in many cases

00:48:36.760 but especially at the local level i mean the local at the local level teachers dominate virtually every

00:48:42.720 election they decide who is going to be put in control of school boards and local elections for

00:48:49.160 for city council and things like that's mostly decided by teachers and teachers are being taught at

00:48:54.640 far left teachers colleges across the country where they're being indoctrinated with the idea that

00:49:00.240 they need to be indoctrinating other people about socialism and so it's this endless cycle this drift

00:49:06.680 in in conservative states and in liberal states and in moderate states it's this drift towards socialism

00:49:12.540 because foundationally uh the people who are teaching younger people are all on the left side of the

00:49:20.540 political spectrum and the only way to get rid of that is to have school choice so that parents can

00:49:26.140 take their kids out of those schools and put them in schools that embrace the values that they believe

00:49:31.880 in but right now unless you can afford a private school or unless you can afford to homeschool your

00:49:36.320 child you don't have that that option and so conservatives need to make it clear that if no republican

00:49:44.540 should be supported no conservative candidate should be supported no democrat no political candidate

00:49:50.220 should be supported unless they embrace school choice well thank you for uh doing the survey and uh

00:49:56.720 and uh breaking that uh survey here and uh hopefully it will be picked up because i i think so many

00:50:04.220 people uh have no idea how bad things are really truly getting in america uh and something better wake

00:50:12.500 them up pretty soon justin thank you so much thanks glenn you bet bye-bye the blaze radio network

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