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Glenn Beck and John Dershowitz discuss the latest in the ongoing saga of the Trump-Russia scandal, a new report from the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee, and the latest on the Prince Andrew appearance on the Glenn Beck Christmas Show.
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Hey, before we get to the podcast today, I don't want you to forget if you're anywhere in the Salt Lake City area, we have a few seats that have just opened up to the Christmas show, which happens this Saturday, December 7th.
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It's this Saturday, December 7th, only in Salt Lake City.
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Okay, on today's podcast, Senator John Kennedy.
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Yeah, we dug him up and we put a phone right there.
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We answer that question all on today's podcast.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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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.
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He's using the same tactic to save his job now that he's faced with impeachment over his political pressure on Ukraine.
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Trump is now waiting to hear the formal case against him because he doesn't have to.
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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.
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I mean, because that does definitely strike me as a political analysis piece, which I would say is a piece piece of something.
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One cent is about the maximum I would bet on this.
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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.
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The message of the document, less of a defense of Trump on its merits, but rather an endorsement of his counterfactual denials.
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Nothing Trump did when it came to Ukraine was wrong, the report said.
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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.
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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.
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It's really frustrating the way they're doing this right now.
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They are, they are, let me give you another one here.
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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.
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The evidence presented, now this one reads like a news story.
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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.
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The Republicans asserted this in the 123-page report, a copy of which was obtained by the Post.
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Dueling versions of the case against the President following two weeks of the House Committee, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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They are, uh, the, the mainstream press is working overtime right now to do a couple of things.
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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.
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One of Giuliani's earliest contacts in Ukraine was given a dismissal notice last week.
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Okay, so, prosecutor who aided Giuliani's hunt for damaging details on Biden is fired in an anti-corruption purge.
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That these people were removed for justifiable good reasons because they're just, we take an action against the bad guys.
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he and more than 500 prosecutors from the last regime were fired because they failed to
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take some exam that they felt was biased against them and so they failed to take this exam on what
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happened in the last administration they didn't take it so 500 of them more than 500 of them were
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interesting yeah um this man has denied meeting with giuliani but his former associates say he
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prepared a seven-page dossier which was passed along to giuliani the former prosecutor later
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appeared in a report by the hills john solomon to whom giuliani fed dubious claims to fuel the
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debunked narrative that biden had a prosecutor terminated while he was investigating a
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ukrainian firm that employed his son how is that debunked how is that debunked we have the court
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documents that were filed by that prosecutor three weeks before he was fired by joe biden he went to
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court and filed a a a court document for an investigation to be able to have the powers
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to do the investigation on burisma and joe biden's son yeah so where has this been debunked well and
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what they fall back on usually here is there were multiple investigations going on against burisma
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one of which had ended before the biden situation occurred so they say well the the the investigation
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was over as you point out they had filed uh papers for a new investigation there were other investigations
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going on on burisma at the same time we should also report that this stated uh uh thing that joe biden
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was doing in ukraine totally separate from burisma no big deal had nothing to do with them all he was doing
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was investigating corruption in the oil and gas industry with his focused attention on burisma's number one
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competitor now cert it wasn't even about burisma it was only about their number one competitor in the
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same industry that's all obviously there are more questions and to just say it's debunked is easy right
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because you know what i sometimes this does happen right sometimes republicans uh do uh throw around
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theories that are bs and sometimes they do so what they try to do with things like this is say well
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look there you guys know they're all conspiracy theorists we've been telling you that everything
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they've been doing is debunked and this is just another example don't look into it we're telling
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you right now it's another example a little different than the do your own homework approach that we
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take with these investigations check it look at it read the documents please do here they are
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we have the documents we have them so when you say they're debunked you'll notice they're not quoting
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any document they're not quoting anyone and showing a document that disproves our documents
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our documents in this case are from the court system in ukraine i mean so please debunk that i i'll
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i'll correct that just show me what makes that report and those documents invalid show that to me
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they can't they can't nor will they listen to this giuliani told blaze host glenn beck last month
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that he used solomon to push the claims in the u.s senior state department official george kent
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but he also testified last month that solomon's reporting if not entirely uh is made up in full
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cloth it was filled with non-truths and non-sequiturs so he's saying uh that solomon that rudy giuliani
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told me that he used solomon to push these things no i don't think that's what he said correct me if
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i'm wrong stew i think he said that yes he gave this information to john solomon right they're just
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inserting the context he pushed false claims but like that's not correct of course what giuliani or
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solomon was that's like you'll you'll you'll notice that up on my giant chalkboard uh there is um
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oh what is his name the um oh the the press guy uh michael isikoff i've never said anything about
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michael isikoff except that chalupa was working with michael isikoff on giving him a story which he ran
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and that story was used for the fisa request okay i'm not saying that michael isikoff was was
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part of this conspiracy i'm not saying that michael isikoff is completely discredited i'm not saying
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any of that i'm only stating the fact that i know that chalupa was working the press and she was
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specifically in her own words in her own documents and emails to the dnc working on michael isikoff for
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a blockbuster story and that blockbuster story well that blockbuster story happened to lead right down
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to the uh the black ledger which got paul manafort fired is that michael isikoff's fault was he part of
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it i've never made that charge no i mean if you're a journalist it was a real story it should have been
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reported correct and you know we shouldn't dismiss the idea no uh that uh people were convicted in
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the release of this uh black ledger that led to the uh resignation and eventual imprisonment of a guy
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running one of the two campaigns going running for president at the time um you know that manafort
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thing is not a little detail i mean imagine what a big 2016 was so freaking crazy and so many details
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happened and so many wild swings happened in that election but there are most elections in u.s
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history the biggest story of the entire campaign would be the guy running the campaign gets fired
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because of corruption that's leaked out of a country overseas uh is quite still at some level is
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questioned even by the mainstream media whether it's whether it's fraudulent or not was not entered
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into the uh the actual case court case as evidence the prosecution never used the black ledger because
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they felt that it was it had too many flaws in it they didn't want to it seemed like it was a good
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possibility that it wasn't real it does seem like the a lot of the information in it was real um however
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but it was a manufactured collection of evidence presented in a specific way for a specific result
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correct and which by the way got the result i mean someone in ukraine released a document that got
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the head of a campaign fired to the united states but it wasn't we're telling everyone tells us it
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it's debunked right there were convictions in ukraine over this there's a tape from ukraine about this
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and that guy that was convicted there were two of them one of them was the head of the anti-corruption
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bureau which was set up by obama clinton the state department and george soros that's what that
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organization is and the head of that organization was convicted of interfering in a u.s election i knew
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you couldn't get through a whole segment without anti-semitism i knew it i knew it
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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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this show make sure you check out pat gray unleashed it's available wherever you download
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your favorite podcasts let me go to ethan in virginia before we get to pat hello ethan
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how's it going good how are you i'm doing good hey i wanted to uh ask you um in our state of
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virginia uh the democrats are like in full control and they're getting ready to change all kinds of
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gun laws for us so the counties our surrounding counties are changing into second amendment sanctuary
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counties so my question is uh how much protection to the gun owners will that say will that second
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amendment sanctuary how much protection will that give us well i would i i happen to think that
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sanctuary cities for the second amendment are all cities uh the second amendment is the constitution
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it is constitutionally protected right so when you know with sanctuary cities with illegals that's like
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uh yeah we're not gonna enforce the law because we disagree with it this is we are going to
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enforce the law uh it will all come down to your sheriffs if you have a really good sheriff um the sheriff
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does not answer to the governor does he i'm trying to remember pat in the constitution i think sheriffs are
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the only ones that don't that don't have a hierarchy they answer to the people i'm not sure i know the
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sheriff hierarchy that is up on the hierarchy of sheriffdom right i should be i'm pretty sure it's
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definitely made whether it's never been right that i know i've never been tested right but the but the
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idea is is that the sheriff is not an appointment uh from anybody and doesn't answer to anybody but the
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people and that's why the counties are doing it because the county sheriff if you have a good one
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is saying that's my constitutional right i respond to the people not to the governor or anybody else but
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you will have a fight uh between the sheriff and uh the governor that's why you need to be all americans
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should pay very close attention to who they have as their as their sheriff and make sure you really know
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that person and that person understands the constitution and will stand thanks so much
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ethan hope that helps uh answer your question you should also be very much aware of the presidential
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candidate most likely uh to do something about this gun situation and that's michael bloomberg
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of course he wants to he wants to take the guns off the streets which is great and uh and i think
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well which is great to take the guns off of the streets if they were just laying there in the
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streets yeah i don't know i was like you know could somebody pick these up my issue is it's a tire
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hazard i'm constantly popping tires because of all the guns on the streets yeah right and then they go
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off just by themselves especially those bayonets right because they're always on the end of the guns
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and then just in case the same thing happens at home he's gonna come and get them out of your
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house too just to make everything really good obviously there's no reason to have something that was
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developed specifically to kill this is this is one of the i mean remember this is the guy who what
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over the weekend said no president z is not a dictator he he answers to his constituency yeah no he
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changed the law so he doesn't answer to anybody yeah communists don't have constituents really they
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don't they really don't his thing was oh you think the people around him if he starts going bad you
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don't think that they'll and he couldn't bring himself to yeah kill him right oh so you're saying
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a coup is the constituency i don't know if you've noticed a lot of dictators survive a long time
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before a coup really bites them yes uh you know a lot of ill family yeah yeah the ill family or the
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kim family yeah it's actually yeah you're right yeah it's the kim reverse yes uh but he's got some
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other great uh policies uh he tried to explain one of them last year and uh i think the the poor are
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really going to respond to this when he's talking about taxing the poor and and how great that will
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be love it here's michael say well taxes are regressive but in this case yes they are that's
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the good thing about them because the problem is in people that don't have a lot of money and so
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higher taxes should have a bigger impact on their behavior and how they deal with themselves so i
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listen to people saying oh we don't want to tax the poor well we want the poor to live longer so that
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they can get an education and enjoy life oh and that's for them why you do want to do exactly what
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a lot of people say you don't want to do the question is do you want to pander to those people
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or do you want to get them to live longer and there's just no question if you raise taxes on
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full sugary drinks for example they will drink less and there's just no question that full sugar
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drinks are one of the major contributors to obesity and obesity is one of the major contributors may i
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just disease and cancer and a variety of other things yeah yeah shut up so may i just may i just
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point out some people that have money also have big bellies really can you name any some do you
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have any no i can't think of anyone someone like maybe even the media spotlight for a while maybe
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earned a lot of money over the years and i can't think of a single one seems to grow but it's not
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right in this room like this obesity bro wait a minute what that's oddly specific what um it's
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it's it's not like it's just the poor that are drinking soda right i think his point is though
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that if they have less money the poor right because like if you glenn beck is going to buy whatever soda
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he wants no matter how much the taxation is but for someone who has a lower level of income they may
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avoid it because of the taxation i think that's such a great argument the less they have the less money
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they have the less damage they can do yes to themselves because they're all pathetic with
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the money right so they won't hurt themselves with the food they eat or intake or drink this is pat
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progressive theory 101 right and bloomberg knows better than them they don't know what to buy for
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themselves he has to make them buy the thing he wants them to buy he and elizabeth warren so dangerous
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people yeah they're interchangeable they're the same people this is a guy who what 10 years ago was
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supposedly a republican 15 years ago and then he was an independent and now he's just a communist i
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mean no he's not i don't think he is a dangerous people i think he was replaced by a communist but i
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don't think he is a communist he is clearly a capitalist but he is a progressive yeah capitalist yes
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he is the he is the icon of the progressive wing of the uh of the republican party he's the he's the
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ultimate now that john mccain is gone he's the ultimate you know he believes in all of the big
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government stuff he just happens to fancy himself a republican until it becomes unpopular is there anybody
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who is against trump uh getting rid of the credentials for bloomberg reporters like because
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i we've been critical of sometimes i think trump gets too hypersensitive of what the media writes
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about him and he's banning reporters but this one is clearly right they have come out and made a
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statement that they will not investigate any democrats and they will only investigate trump
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like how on earth can a news organization bloomberg get away with that and maintain any level of
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credibility i understand that he's the guy that owns the company and there's weird things there
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and it makes sense even what would they say you're not going to investigate bloomberg or the democrats
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but you have to apply that also to trump what would they say if murdoch were american and would run for
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president of the united states right what would they say they would say you cannot have fox you know
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it would be ridiculous to think that they would be fine with that they'd be out of their minds over
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that out of their minds this isn't fox and uh and murdoch this is bloomberg and bloomberg news yeah i mean
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and they're already making that case i know when i i was called up into the office um of rupert murdoch
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the first talent i am told by roger ailes to ever been called up to rupert murdoch's office before
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and uh he was nervous and i was like cool i'm gonna meet the guy hi what's happening down under
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uh and um i sat there with him and the first question he asked me was are you running for
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president and i knew what that was about yeah about this yeah are you running for president it was right
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after 8 28 and i said no what are you gonna do with all this power what power you just called the
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largest group of people together as a private citizen roger and i spoke about it this morning we
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cannot think of anybody who was a private citizen who has called that many people and had that many
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people come without an entity behind him so who do you represent what do you and i'm like i don't
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want any of that i just thought we should all get together on the mall and they really didn't
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understand but but the first question it was important are you running for president because you
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can't mike huckabee if he was running for president he loses his show yeah you can't do that
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how is it that you know anybody like mike huckabee is different than michael bloomberg
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how can the guy who owns it and they say oh by the way we're only going to investigate this
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and how is it those journalists don't rebel go wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute
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you're telling me i'm not like there's a big story about about elizabeth warren and we can't report
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on it basically you're saying oh all we can do is aggregate other people's reporting we can't do
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any investigations like if you're a journalist you got into journalism to do investigations and
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now you're like well you can just these people are off limits yeah remember the whole do not
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the do not prosecute list we talked about in ukraine that was so controversial like that's
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essentially what they've done they've created a do not investigate list how can you how can it have
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any credibility and a lot of this stuff just comes from the news organizations fox news fires those
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people not because uh you know fires them late late let's makes them leave their shows yeah because
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they're running for president not because necessarily they have to on cable because they have the the
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they have standards they're saying to themselves we we're not gonna allow we can't avoid even the
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appearance what are they gonna say when trump leaves office in 2028 just to screw with people
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i mean bloomberg went for three terms why not there you go and he changed it he changed the
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constitution of new york city that's right uh so when when donald trump leaves in 2024 and he starts
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the trump television news network which is almost certainly going to happen it's going to happen
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it's going to happen uh what are they going to say what are they going to say are they going to allow
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trump's uh reporters into the uh into the white house of course not no of course not ban all of them
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especially if trump was running for president you've got bloomberg running for president and
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trump says i'm not letting him in i'm not letting his people in here no i think president west would
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allow them in you know president kanye west i think he'd probably allow him yeah yeah well that's 2024
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you know that's happening in 2024 so it'll be a whole new world when we have president west
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in office guys i actually thought adam west that's that when he said west that's i was how old am i
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i know i was singing wild wild west i was like what what is that was a jim gordon or what was that
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guy's name i don't even think you should have an election just give the presidency to kanye west it's
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obviously going to some kardashian so let's just pick one at least kanye seems kind of republican
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i mean kardashian has to be the next president of the united states and look he's black he has a
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relative that is transgender uh yeah i mean he's got it all he has everything he's gonna he's gonna
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do very well in the intersectionality olympics yeah he'll be great he'll be great
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great state of louisiana not a great not as great as texas but still pretty great uh we have senator
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john kennedy joining us now hello senator how are you sir glen i am well and and let me tell you texas
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you mentioned texas texas is right next door to louisiana yeah we love texas texas is five and a
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half times bigger than we are but louisiana's ten and a half times more interesting well let's not
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start anything here uh let's just because we want to part friends um uh senator you are uh you are being
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lambasted in the press now uh as a conspiracy theorist and let me let me start with this question
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can these two statements be true russia tried to cause chaos by trying to hack into our election systems
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spread disinformation online by taking extreme positions on both sides and hacked the dnc computer
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that's statement number one can it can it also be true that the ukrainians were convinced that
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hillary clinton would be better for their country they were involved in gathering evidence against
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donald trump and his surrogates to assist a hillary clinton win in collusion with the dnc members of
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the state department our embassies and the anti-corruption bureau in ukraine are those two
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statements true yes um and and you you stated the propositions very eloquently i was asked glenn on a
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show several in fact was it russia or ukraine who tried to influence the u.s election and i said both
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and they said what's your basis for saying ukraine and i referred them to articles op-ed pieces and long
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investigatory articles in politico in the financial times in the hill in the washington examiner
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on cbs news in the economist bloomberg news and new york times for example the headline in politico
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january 2017 quote ukraine efforts to sabotage trump backfire the financial times august of 2016
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the the headline was quote ukraine's leaders campaign against trump close quote uh third this is an op-ed
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piece written written in the hill by the ukrainian ambassador to the united states this is the headline
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to his op-ed piece the ukrainian ambassador not the hill quote trump's trump's comments send wrong
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message to the world and i could go on um now did ukraine uh try to influence our election
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in as sophisticated a manner as russia no russia is the master um russia is a a third world country but
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it has great spies great cyber skills and nuclear weapons but the two are not mutually exclusive and
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i mean just from the reporting i don't believe these are all reputable uh members of the media
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uh their lawyers aren't going to let them print lies um and i don't think it's fake news so um senator
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may i um may i direct you to glennbeck.com where we have laid this all out and i'm not using other
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people's reporting uh i have the direct evidence in their own words from state department documents
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from dnc documents uh we have payments we have videotape of them admitting to this um we have
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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
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them up pretty soon justin thank you so much thanks glenn you bet bye-bye the blaze radio network