The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Senator Ted Cruz & Bill O'Reilly ｜ 1⧸24⧸20

00:00:00.000 Hey, it's Friday. Got a great Friday show for you right out of the box with Senator Ted Cruz.

00:00:05.520 Then we go over some of the evidence that, you know, they if I can use the word evidence, can I use the word evidence for day two of the impeachment trial?

00:00:14.280 Bill O'Reilly stops in. Then we continue on this crazy timeline that The New York Times was was actually defending from the trial.

00:00:24.560 Well, what's good in theaters this weekend? And Elizabeth Warren is confronted by a dad who is not, I don't think, even political at all.

00:00:34.080 Just mad. He's lived the right life. He's worked hard to save money for his daughter's college.

00:00:39.020 She's worked since she was 10 to save money. Does he get his money back?

00:00:44.120 Elizabeth Warren's response is unusual and expected. But you're looking at another Joe, the plumber against a socialist.

00:00:54.560 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:08.660 All right, let's go to Senator Ted Cruz. Hello, Senator. How are you, sir?

00:01:13.400 I'm doing terrific, Glenn. How are you doing?

00:01:15.080 Good. I want to talk about your new podcast on this every day. You're distilling all of the things that you are.

00:01:21.060 But I also want to ask you personally, I can't take this this just relentless going over the same, quote unquote, facts over and over and over again.

00:01:31.100 And the lies. What is it like to have to sit there and not say anything and not have any distractions?

00:01:39.720 What is this like for you?

00:01:41.260 Well, it has been pretty relentless. You're right that the House Democrats, their strategy has apparently been to just be so redundant, to repeat the same things over and over and over again and to try to, I guess, bore the American people to death.

00:01:59.260 It's a strange strategy.

00:02:00.440 I've never seen anyone try a case by by repeating the same point 100 times and playing the same video clip 100 times.

00:02:08.980 But it's what they're doing. And they've got another day of it.

00:02:12.120 We start today at 1 p.m. again. And they have another they have another nine hours left of their 24 hour opening argument.

00:02:20.660 So so at least that will be done by this evening.

00:02:23.400 Has there been anything that has opened anybody's mind and went, no, wait a minute, hang on.

00:02:28.340 I didn't know that. What did they have? They made any good points.

00:02:33.100 You know, look, I think there have been moments.

00:02:35.640 I will say Adam Schiff is a talented trial lawyer.

00:02:38.740 Really?

00:02:39.300 He he he has done he is effective at walking through information.

00:02:44.560 Now, he at times gets gets condescending and begins lecturing people.

00:02:49.220 And I think that becomes much less effective.

00:02:51.100 But when he's not on his high horse, he's he does an effective job of walking through through various facts.

00:03:00.060 Now, he ignores the other side completely.

00:03:03.340 He ignores the counterarguments.

00:03:05.640 And and I'll tell you, I think yesterday was a very consequential day because yesterday that the House managers effectively threw Joe Biden under the bus.

00:03:16.840 And I don't know if they did so intentionally or not, but the reason they did so is they doubled down on what they had started doing on the first day of arguments, which is making the case.

00:03:27.000 Their entire case now is based on the proposition that there is zero evidence that justifies investigating Burisma.

00:03:36.660 Burisma is the Ukrainian natural gas company on whose board Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's son sat and was paid a million bucks a year.

00:03:43.780 And their whole case now is based on the proposition that that that that it was that there was an investigation into Burisma was a fraud, a sham.

00:03:55.060 It was bogus that it was completely without merit.

00:03:58.020 And the only reason anyone might want to wanted to investigate Burisma is because of improper political motives, because Joe Biden would be the president's one of his possible opponents in 2020.

00:04:10.620 Now, as you know, and you've done some great reporting on this, Glenn, that proposition that there's zero evidence to investigate Burisma is utterly and completely absurd.

00:04:22.100 And so I am looking forward to Saturday when when when the president's lawyers will begin presenting his case, because what the Democrats have done is they have opened the door to this.

00:04:32.260 And I hope that the president's lawyer lawyers will stand up and systematically lay out the case.

00:04:38.540 Glenn, you mentioned I've launched a podcast.

00:04:40.980 The podcast is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

00:04:44.140 And what I'm doing is every night when this thing ends, even if it ends at two in the morning, I'm heading over to the studio, jumping to the truck, heading to the studio and recording it that night, typically within the hour.

00:04:54.780 My thoughts, my assessments, about a half hour each night and last night's podcast that we recorded just after midnight went through systematically.

00:05:04.500 Here is all of the overwhelming evidence of corruption from Burisma that any president not only had the authority to investigate, but the responsibility to investigate.

00:05:16.300 And that ultimately is why President Trump's going to be acquitted at the end of this process.

00:05:20.940 So you you made quite a statement the other day.

00:05:23.260 You said, hey, they just opened themselves up for Hunter Biden being a witness.

00:05:26.360 Tell me tell me about because you mentioned it in, I think, Wednesday's podcast that, you know, the Republican secret weapon.

00:05:33.460 Tell me what what you mean by that and how you see this playing out.

00:05:38.900 So so so the phrase open the door.

00:05:41.740 It's a phrase you'll see trial lawyers and litigators often make reference to.

00:05:46.160 And what it means is when one side makes an issue contested, makes an issue important to their case, it opens the door then for the other side to bring in the reputation of that.

00:05:58.720 So when they stand up yesterday, the House managers stood up absurdly and argued for about an hour that there's no reason at all to investigate Burisma.

00:06:07.600 That opens the door to, well, here are all the reasons.

00:06:11.320 And that means they've been arguing Hunter Biden is completely irrelevant to this case.

00:06:17.180 Well, the House managers have now through through their arguments made made Hunter Biden not only relevant, he was always relevant, but critical now because their case is based on that.

00:06:28.780 They built the entire case like a house of cards of the proposition that that that that that there was no reasonable basis to investigate Burisma.

00:06:37.940 And that's just absurd. So I haven't heard your your podcast yet on Burisma and everything else.

00:06:44.940 But do you tie in the fact that what was his name?

00:06:48.200 Call of call of shops. I can't remember his name, but the the head guy of Burisma is also the head guy of Privat Bank.

00:06:55.700 And the money was going through going through going through Burisma to Privat Bank and then it all disappears.

00:07:02.580 I mean, it's the same guy. And and they're doing an investigation now.

00:07:08.600 Ukrainian. Yes, they're there. And he's the Ukrainian oligarch who who has been investigated as assets seized for money laundering.

00:07:17.340 And Joe Biden was right in the middle of this. And as you know, but not enough people across the country know Joe Biden bragged about I mean, was proud of that.

00:07:27.860 He threatened to hold up a billion dollars in Ukrainian aid and in foreign loan guarantees on unless and until Ukraine fired the prosecutor that was investigating Burisma,

00:07:41.380 the company that was paying his son a million dollars a year. I mean, it is he also I mean, he also claims that there wasn't an investigation going on at the time.

00:07:52.480 And we have the court documents to show that it was filed.

00:07:55.840 And we also have inside State Department memos where they are they are notifying and saying there's an investigation starting.

00:08:06.940 What should we do? Blah, blah, blah. I mean, we know they knew there was an investigation going on.

00:08:12.700 And Hunter Biden was one of the targets when Joe Biden sat down and said, you got to you got to you got to fire this corrupt prosecutor.

00:08:21.760 So their their entire case is built on on really. I don't know how to say it other than this lies, verifiable lies.

00:08:32.860 That is exactly right. You know, last night after I did the show, I tweeted out a timeline.

00:08:38.820 My Twitter handles at Ted Cruz and you can see the timeline if you want to look at one document that just lays out some of the key facts that played out.

00:08:46.440 And the timeline is damning. If you want to understand what happened, you just look at the timeline of the key facts.

00:08:54.780 And as everything played out, it appears clear on its face that Burisma was paying a million bucks a year to the vice president's son because they wanted to curry favor.

00:09:04.440 They wanted the vice president to help him out. And it sure looks like Joe Biden was was in on the deal and more than happy to comply because he delivered everything they wanted.

00:09:15.780 So the the thing with the witnesses, John Bolton, what are your thoughts on John Bolton and the whistleblower and Hunter Biden?

00:09:25.240 Any of this going to happen? So I don't know. I actually it's an open question and it's not clear the way it's going to play out.

00:09:32.880 House managers have another day of opening arguments today. The president's lawyers have up to three days.

00:09:38.680 They have Saturday. They have Monday. They have Tuesday if they can if they want to take it.

00:09:42.400 I don't know that they'll take all three days. We then move into questions from senators.

00:09:46.840 Sixteen hours of questions from senators. We don't ask them directly. Instead, we write them out and the chief justice asks them for us.

00:09:54.540 At that point, there is a scheduled vote and the Senate will vote on whether or not it is in order to subpoena and call additional witnesses and additional documents.

00:10:04.800 If 51 senators say no, no, that we've got plenty, we've got all we need to decide this, then it's over.

00:10:12.980 Then we'll move directly to final judgment. We'll vote and the president will be acquitted because the House managers haven't proven their case and they haven't met the constitutional standards for high crimes and misdemeanors.

00:10:23.440 OK, so, Ted, let me ask you, let me ask you this, because there's two trials going on and I want you to take off your lawyer hat for a second and even your political hat.

00:10:32.700 You know, the president, if he is if he is indeed not guilty, which I believe he's not and and he should not be removed when you've won the case, lawyers should sit down and not.

00:10:48.340 Well, let's roll the dice. You've won the case. Close it.

00:10:51.480 However, there's another trial going on, and that is this. I sat down with Stu and I was I was going over yesterday's impeachment hearing and I I said to Stu, I have no faith.

00:11:03.700 If this is what this government can do to the president of the United States and get away with it, what even if he is even if he is voted to remain in office, I don't have any trust in our judicial system.

00:11:18.620 I have no trust in our system. How can you make sure that the American people see it as a fair trial and and do enough to hear from people that on both sides are like, well, I wouldn't mind hearing from that person without torching the other side, which is the legal side of, hey, what?

00:11:38.760 Why open any doors? He's won.

00:11:40.560 Well, I think the Senate has already done much, much better than the House and in that the House did a one sided partisan show trial.

00:11:50.580 They would own they only allowed witnesses for the prosecution.

00:11:53.720 They would not allow the White House to call witnesses.

00:11:57.200 They wouldn't allow the White House to cross examine evidence.

00:11:59.500 It was it was it was a kangaroo court.

00:12:01.540 It was it was only prosecution witnesses allowed.

00:12:04.860 The Senate has already done much better.

00:12:07.520 We're in the middle of giving giving the House managers 24 hours to fully present their case, to argue it, to argue it ad nauseum.

00:12:15.200 They've now argued it a thousand different ways to Sunday.

00:12:18.380 We're going to give the president that same opportunity, the first opportunity the president has had to argue his case.

00:12:25.420 We're respecting due process and we're holding a fair trial, as is our constitutional responsibility.

00:12:31.080 I hope what happens is I hope the president's lawyers do an effective job making this case, laying out the defense.

00:12:39.500 I pulled the president's lawyers aside last night and urged them that they need to systematically walk through less of the process, but the substance.

00:12:49.600 Make the case why the president is innocent.

00:12:52.340 And I think Burisma is front and center.

00:12:54.680 And so so so what I walked through on the podcast last night of the evidence of corruption at Burisma, I encourage them, walks, walk through that.

00:13:04.400 Play the clips, play the clip of Joe Biden bragging about forcing Ukraine, pressuring Ukraine to fire the prosecutor.

00:13:12.260 He admits it out of his own mouth.

00:13:13.880 You don't you don't have to infer that he did that.

00:13:16.800 He admits that.

00:13:18.780 Make that case.

00:13:20.020 And once that case is made, there are one or two paths will go down.

00:13:25.660 If 51 senators say, you know what, we've got enough to decide that, then it's fine.

00:13:30.260 And you're right.

00:13:30.820 Once you've won your case, you don't need to do any more.

00:13:33.340 So I'm perfectly fine with that outcome of saying we've got enough.

00:13:37.280 Let's move to judgment.

00:13:38.760 Let's vote not guilty and acquit the president.

00:13:41.720 On the other hand, I look, I can't control how the other 99 senators vote.

00:13:45.140 Forty seven senators, all of the Democrats will vote for more witnesses because they want a fishing expedition because they know they haven't proven their case.

00:13:53.220 It is at least possible that four Republicans will join them.

00:13:56.920 There are several Republicans that have talked about joining them.

00:14:00.440 The case that I've made to the other Republican senators is I've said, listen, if we go down the road of witnesses, then at a minimum, we can't be unfair and partisan like the House was.

00:14:12.540 We need to respect the principle of reciprocity.

00:14:15.680 That means if the prosecution gets a witness, the defense gets a witness.

00:14:19.560 So if the prosecution gets John Bolton, then the defense gets Hunter Biden.

00:14:24.120 And I think there is widespread agreement among the Republican conference that we will do that, which means it's either over next week with final judgment and acquittal, or this thing is going on for potentially weeks or months.

00:14:39.000 But we're going to get be even handed, which means we'll get to hear from these defense witnesses.

00:14:44.160 The House Democrats wouldn't allow to testify.

00:14:46.140 Senator Ted Cruz, you can follow him at Senator Ted Cruz.

00:14:50.920 And I have verdictpodcast.com, but that's different than what you said.

00:14:56.300 What is the verdict?

00:14:57.960 Verdictpodcast.com is it.

00:14:59.520 You can download it on on on Apple podcast.

00:15:03.140 You can you can subscribe and put five stars.

00:15:06.020 And I'll tell you, Glenn, it's a look crazy.

00:15:07.880 We launched it three days ago and it's already become one of the top 10 podcasts in the world.

00:15:13.420 Great.

00:15:13.840 And so so so it's nice to see that people are paying attention for substance, which which you put out every day as well.

00:15:20.160 And that's why your listeners coming back.

00:15:22.320 Thank you very much, Ted.

00:15:23.200 I appreciate it.

00:15:23.800 It's verdictpodcast.com.

00:15:25.800 He records it right after the trial ends every night in the middle of the night.

00:15:31.460 Verdictpodcast.com runs 30 minutes.

00:15:33.160 Well worth your time.

00:15:33.920 Thank you so much, Ted.

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00:15:57.560 Mr. Bill O'Reilly.

00:15:59.760 I want to start right at the impeachment with you.

00:16:02.760 Uh, and we can get into specifics, but overall, what is your impression?

00:16:10.100 Well, I call it Adam in Wonderland.

00:16:13.240 Um, Adam Schiff has dominated the proceedings and he's an interesting guy, Adam.

00:16:20.140 He's demanding a fair trial that removes Donald Trump.

00:16:24.040 Mm-hmm.

00:16:24.340 Mm-hmm.

00:16:24.520 Mm-hmm.

00:16:24.680 All right.

00:16:25.660 That's not how fair trials work, Bill.

00:16:27.480 Yeah.

00:16:27.940 If it doesn't remove him, it's not fair.

00:16:29.900 We want a fair trial.

00:16:32.780 Bill, and he's talking to the teacup and he's talking to, you know, all of the Adam in Wonderland

00:16:39.500 characters.

00:16:40.980 Um, so the big story is how Americans are processing this.

00:16:49.880 All right.

00:16:50.120 Would, do they like this?

00:16:51.560 Do they feel that this is beneficial to their lives?

00:16:54.660 Nope.

00:16:56.340 Um, I have to say, I mean, I'm asking everybody that I run into, I mean, we're talking about,

00:17:02.200 uh, waiters and deli counter people and, and, uh, mechanics of fix your car.

00:17:09.460 You know, is this good for you?

00:17:11.960 You think this is worthy?

00:17:13.520 That's a hundred percent.

00:17:14.820 No.

00:17:16.040 I mean, I don't get anybody going, yeah, this is really good for the nation.

00:17:19.280 It shows we're a vibrant democracy and we're interested in fairness.

00:17:25.560 Um, so I think that once it's over, and I hope that's pretty soon, maybe another 10 days,

00:17:33.700 uh, wipes out, by the way, the Iowa caucus, she just wipes that off the face of the earth. 1.00

00:17:38.340 Sure does.

00:17:38.840 Um, I think that people will say, you know what, we don't want to replay of this.

00:17:42.960 We got to really re-examine who we're going to vote for.

00:17:45.540 So we have, uh, we have members of the house right now, Maxine Waters is one of them that

00:17:52.040 says, we're going to try him again.

00:17:54.320 We'll do it again.

00:17:56.580 No, that won't happen.

00:17:58.380 I mean, Maxine Waters, come on.

00:18:00.760 Um, that's not going to happen.

00:18:03.040 Once this, uh, is over, then it'll be full, uh, time, uh, campaign.

00:18:10.060 And the media, which is driving this, if you read my column last week, you know that the

00:18:14.860 media is driving impeachment.

00:18:16.720 That, that, it would not have happened without the New York Times, Washington Post signing

00:18:19.960 off on it.

00:18:20.720 That gave Pelosi and Schiff another cover.

00:18:23.340 And they were assured of being heroes if they did it.

00:18:26.560 And that's why they did it.

00:18:27.780 But the media is not going to get behind another one.

00:18:30.500 They're going to basically throw all their energies into getting whoever the Democratic

00:18:33.900 nominee is elected.

00:18:35.000 So, uh, let me ask, let me ask you this, um, have you ever seen a memo like the one that

00:18:41.540 came out of the Biden campaign that said, get in line press, um, it, you are committing,

00:18:49.720 uh, journalistic malpractice if you don't debunk every conspiracy theory out there on Joe Biden.

00:18:58.940 And they went in and said, you have to say every time it's not enough just to dismiss it.

00:19:05.000 You have to say, there's no evidence of any of these things being true when there's plenty

00:19:11.160 of evidence.

00:19:12.220 Have you ever seen a memo like that from a candidate?

00:19:16.200 And what would your, let's say Trump did that and we were both still at Fox news.

00:19:22.120 How do you think Fox news would have responded to that kind of memo?

00:19:27.280 Um, well, number one, I don't know even why they bother with the memo because the media is

00:19:32.240 already doing that or is there one media operation, hard news operation that is, uh, scrutinizing,

00:19:41.940 uh, vice president Biden?

00:19:43.600 No, no.

00:19:44.840 Even Fox news, um, basically they're saying, oh, well, he's this, he's that, but they don't

00:19:51.660 have people over in Ukraine.

00:19:53.580 Right.

00:19:54.260 Hunting around.

00:19:55.320 They don't have anybody like that.

00:19:56.760 Nobody's doing that.

00:19:58.500 Um, so I don't, you know, Biden was, he's a very funny guy, Biden.

00:20:03.280 I really get a kick out of him.

00:20:05.100 So he's in Iowa and, and he's got a huge advantage now again, because, um, everybody's

00:20:11.360 on the campaign trail.

00:20:12.620 Yeah.

00:20:13.140 And Warren and Klobuchar doesn't matter, but they're, they're, you know, sipping milk in

00:20:18.060 the Senate.

00:20:19.000 They can't get out.

00:20:19.820 And then Biden and, and Buttigieg running around.

00:20:23.140 I was like, oh yeah, this is great.

00:20:24.720 So one reporter had the temerity, word of the day, Stu, um, to ask Biden, hey, um, you

00:20:32.220 know, if you get called subpoenaed by Republicans in the Senate, are you going to go in there?

00:20:37.440 Oh no.

00:20:38.780 Oh no, no.

00:20:39.340 It's a constitutional issue.

00:20:41.540 I go, oh wait, wait.

00:20:43.240 Isn't that what Trump is saying?

00:20:44.980 Trump says we have executive privilege.

00:20:46.600 We're not going to parade these guys in there. 0.98

00:20:48.940 That's ridiculous. 0.96

00:20:50.380 Biden's saying exactly the same thing. 0.96

00:20:53.300 Exactly.

00:20:54.180 I'm not showing up there.

00:20:55.340 Are you kidding me?

00:20:56.320 I'm vice president.

00:20:57.360 I, I'm not going to, uh, violate executive privilege.

00:21:00.660 So, uh, forget it.

00:21:02.300 And nobody of course reported or picked it up.

00:21:05.140 It's exactly the same thing.

00:21:07.080 So I think at this point, everybody knows this is a hollow exercise.

00:21:11.940 Nobody's watching it.

00:21:13.220 You see the TV numbers.

00:21:14.780 Awful.

00:21:15.240 And nobody's covering it.

00:21:16.740 ABC, NBC, CBS.

00:21:17.960 No, they're, they're not even, they're not even forcing us to watch it, you know?

00:21:24.340 No, but, but NBC, again, very funny.

00:21:29.320 They were, the MSNBC, the commentators are going, some of the Democrats aren't even paying

00:21:35.500 attention to this.

00:21:37.040 Do your job.

00:21:39.180 You know, they're sobbing that senators are nodding out.

00:21:44.300 And then, uh, who is it that was playing a little game?

00:21:46.660 Elizabeth Warren.

00:21:47.640 Apparently he's playing a little tic-tac-toe.

00:21:50.820 Uh, you know, she'd. 0.99

00:21:52.880 Bill, honestly, I would, I would be fashioning a noose for myself if I were sitting in the

00:21:59.520 Senate right now.

00:22:00.700 This is what the Democrats have done for 24 hours is made the same case with no new evidence

00:22:07.740 over and over and over again.

00:22:11.260 At some point you're like, I got it.

00:22:13.340 I got it.

00:22:15.040 You know, if it was Jennifer Aniston doing it, okay, but do I have to look at Nadler 0.99

00:22:19.960 for hours?

00:22:21.800 And it's not just, it's not just that you've got the spooky, creepy eyes with, uh, with

00:22:26.760 Adam Schiff and, and Jerry Nadler.

00:22:28.680 It is, there is nothing interesting.

00:22:32.160 I would chew my own arm off to get out.

00:22:34.500 Well, I, I'd like to see that back. 0.97

00:22:36.720 Um, you chewing your own arm off.

00:22:38.720 Well, I'd have to be a Senator.

00:22:40.120 That would be very interesting.

00:22:41.080 Do you think they have the, you know, the old timey rule about the milk and the water

00:22:44.540 just because they knew senators would just be drinking?

00:22:48.280 Uh, maybe.

00:22:49.740 I mean, the best rule is no electronics.

00:22:52.280 I mean, they're, they're in detox.

00:22:54.260 Yeah.

00:22:54.680 Um, you know, these feet, their thumbs actually move.

00:22:57.360 If you watch their hands, there's nothing in them that the thumbs move like in, in a spasm.

00:23:02.940 Um, no, they're torturing, you know, McConnell is torturing these senators and he's 0.96

00:23:08.520 saying, I, you know, you, this is ridiculous. 0.96

00:23:10.780 So we're going to torture you and say, we'll do it again. 0.99

00:23:13.680 So here's the thing.

00:23:15.220 There is nothing so far that I've heard that would sway anybody either way.

00:23:22.040 You know, if you.

00:23:22.960 And the polls show that.

00:23:23.860 Right.

00:23:24.700 Americans say, number one, I think this is boring.

00:23:28.240 And number two, if I'm a Democrat and I hate Trump, I want him out of there and I don't

00:23:32.340 really care whether there's any evidence.

00:23:34.400 I just want him out.

00:23:35.260 And if I'm a Republican, I love Trump.

00:23:37.480 I don't even care if Trump went over there with a baseball bat, like Al Capone and the 0.96

00:23:42.420 untouchables and killed everybody. 0.86

00:23:44.860 I still love him and he's not going anywhere.

00:23:47.060 So, so how does this, how does this end?

00:23:49.940 Do you think that the, the Trump lawyers, because I just talked to Ted Cruz a few minutes

00:23:53.640 ago and, um, he is looking for a very interesting Saturday and next week when the, when the president

00:23:59.780 steps to the plate, uh, because he believes that they have, the Democrats have opened themselves

00:24:05.500 wide open for all of the stuff, uh, that is the president's, you know, vindication, all

00:24:13.560 of the corruption that was going on with Burisma and Pravatt bank, all of that stuff looks like

00:24:19.160 it's going to come out next week.

00:24:20.660 But Americans aren't going to pay attention back, even if it does come out, just as we

00:24:26.420 just said two minutes ago, they don't care.

00:24:28.940 It's if they're like Trump, let's get this over with him.

00:24:31.520 I don't like Trump.

00:24:32.300 I don't care what you have.

00:24:33.500 Let's throw them out.

00:24:34.800 So, you know, the people who are really micro involved in this, uh, I guess they'll be excited

00:24:40.920 next week, but it's Superbowl week.

00:24:43.800 I'm actually going to the game and that's what people are going to be talking about next

00:24:47.660 week.

00:24:48.160 So, um, Stu's going to be there.

00:24:51.080 I'll be there too, Bill.

00:24:51.740 You want to hang out?

00:24:52.400 You want to maybe get, grab dinner?

00:24:55.100 I'll meet you in Orlando, Florida, Stu.

00:24:57.580 Oh, okay.

00:24:57.920 Great.

00:24:58.300 Just right.

00:24:58.860 Just right there at that place.

00:25:00.520 Just, yeah.

00:25:01.420 Okay.

00:25:01.980 I'll just, I'll just wait there for you and just let me, okay.

00:25:04.680 Just wait.

00:25:05.000 If I'm a little late, don't get nervous.

00:25:06.760 Okay.

00:25:06.980 Um, but anyway, um, I, Beck, I disagree with you.

00:25:12.800 I just don't think there are any headlines coming out of this.

00:25:15.840 Well, there won't be any headlines.

00:25:17.320 They could, they could, they're done with it.

00:25:19.940 Yeah.

00:25:20.180 It's over.

00:25:20.720 Yeah.

00:25:20.920 It's, there won't be any headlines because the press is not going to report on what was

00:25:24.740 said and no one is actually watching this thing.

00:25:27.160 So that leads me to this question, Bill.

00:25:30.040 Uh, we are in a situation right now that I, I, you know, I've always believed in truth,

00:25:35.680 justice, and the American way.

00:25:36.940 And I know we have problems and we've had problems.

00:25:39.760 Uh, I know that injustices have been done in the court system, et cetera, et cetera.

00:25:43.700 But this is the eyes of the world are upon it.

00:25:48.600 Everybody is watching this in a, in a way history is watching this.

00:25:53.040 If this is the kind of lies, deception, corruption that they can get away with on a, on the president

00:26:01.240 of the United States, what chance does the average human being have?

00:26:06.100 If you cross these people, this is so obscene.

00:26:09.780 It makes me lose complete faith in justice because it's not enough.

00:26:15.400 That's a very interesting thesis.

00:26:17.700 Um, but number one, they're not going to get away with it because Trump wait.

00:26:21.580 Yes, they are.

00:26:22.360 It's like Jesse small yet.

00:26:24.120 He can disrupt.

00:26:26.040 He can make all kinds of charges.

00:26:27.680 He can split us apart.

00:26:29.200 And then where's, where's the penalty career is over.

00:26:32.460 He's done.

00:26:32.940 He's finished.

00:26:33.480 And what I was going to say is they're not going to get away with it because there's a

00:26:37.840 good chance Donald Trump be reelected.

00:26:39.840 Yeah, but.

00:26:40.380 And, and this will play into that.

00:26:43.140 So, but I, but nobody is, nobody is paying for it.

00:26:47.560 You know, we have, they've wasted millions of dollars.

00:26:50.760 A direct price for it.

00:26:52.900 Yes.

00:26:53.420 And I agree with you that the justice system in the United States, uh, no longer exists.

00:27:00.600 Once in a while, you'll get lucky and you'll have a jury that actually listens and a judge

00:27:06.660 that will actually obey the law and go by the tenets of evidence, due process once in

00:27:13.460 a while.

00:27:14.200 But the media will never do that again, ever.

00:27:17.240 You're convicted.

00:27:18.240 You're guilty if they want you to be.

00:27:21.080 And that's what we're witnessing.

00:27:22.540 And that I think is the most important story.

00:27:25.460 It really is.

00:27:26.060 So how do we survive as a Republic if that's not corrected?

00:27:32.120 Because it's, it's basically, we're a balkanized country.

00:27:36.000 Now we're no longer a united country.

00:27:38.780 And the only thing that would ever bring that back would be a foreign attack on us.

00:27:43.680 And we're going to have to, in our, the rest of our lifetimes deal with a country that 0.92

00:27:49.440 really is two countries.

00:27:50.760 One country believes that America is noble and always has been despite slavery and despite

00:27:57.520 mistakes that we've made in our historical past. 0.96

00:28:00.320 And the other country believes we're a bunch of exploiters, white supremacists, all of that.

00:28:07.620 That country doesn't exist. 0.83

00:28:08.640 And it's not, not going to change.

00:28:10.560 Yeah.

00:28:10.720 And that country doesn't last.

00:28:12.600 It just doesn't last.

00:28:13.620 There's no way you can serve two masters like that.

00:28:16.840 Uh, because one is, they're not there yet to control.

00:28:20.200 That's why this coming election is the most vital in our lifetime.

00:28:24.000 And I, I'm hoping, I'm praying that a message will be sent to the radical left and the corrupt

00:28:29.320 media.

00:28:29.860 You lose.

00:28:30.620 Okay.

00:28:31.040 I want to talk to you about that message in Iowa.

00:28:33.840 And, uh, because we have the Superbowl, then we have Iowa, then we have the, uh, the state

00:28:40.880 of the union.

00:28:41.500 Uh, all boom, boom, boom.

00:28:43.080 So we really do have a divided nation, but I, I am still holding out hope that the, there

00:28:50.120 are many Democrats in the middle of the country that may just be tired of all of this.

00:28:58.000 I'm white and I'm really ashamed because I have privilege.

00:29:01.240 I should sit in the back of the bus.

00:29:03.240 Uh, and everybody is guilty without proof.

00:29:06.440 They, they want to fundamentally transform America into a socialized, uh, uh, country.

00:29:14.080 And, uh, I think there are a lot of people that are very uncomfortable with the democratic

00:29:18.500 message as it's coming from these extremists, which is why I think such a weak candidate like

00:29:23.300 Joe Biden is, is holding up nationwide.

00:29:26.560 And that's because at least they don't, they don't think he's a communist or socialist and

00:29:33.260 they don't think he'll be a radical agree.

00:29:36.580 I think that's true.

00:29:37.760 I think that's, uh, Biden's only advantage and, but it's a disadvantage in the sense that

00:29:43.420 the progressive press does not like him, which is why you saw the New York times endorse Elizabeth

00:29:48.600 Warren.

00:29:49.420 And you just step back from that, step back from that a minute.

00:29:54.740 You're happy.

00:29:55.320 You have a major corporation.

00:29:57.860 The New York times saw it sells on the New York stock exchange, basically saying to its

00:30:03.940 employees and the, and the nation, we want a woman who's going to come in and confiscate 1.00

00:30:10.120 private property.

00:30:11.680 We want a woman who does not believe in due process. 1.00

00:30:14.820 As we saw in the Kavanaugh hearing, we want a woman who's going to come in here and basically 1.00

00:30:21.560 take apart the entire country piece by piece.

00:30:26.220 That's what we want.

00:30:27.860 I mean, it's staggering.

00:30:29.420 It's stunning.

00:30:30.420 Could not have happened four years ago, but it is happening now, but it's a bigger, it's

00:30:35.900 bigger than Joe Biden because Joe Biden is basically a guy who it's going to be demonstrated

00:30:42.140 over the next 10 months is a very corrupt individual.

00:30:46.120 You're going to see that.

00:30:47.100 Now you can make an argument that President Trump has delved into corruption.

00:30:53.280 You can make an argument for that.

00:30:56.000 But Biden, his corruption is a lot easier to understand.

00:31:00.760 His family are all multimillionaires because he was vice president.

00:31:07.280 His corruption also is in the name of the state.

00:31:09.400 What do you mean by that?

00:31:12.600 His corruption, Joe Biden's corruption is is based on him being a U.S. senator, but more

00:31:21.460 so a vice president of the United States.

00:31:24.000 He turned his office, his public office and our tax money into a ATM machine for his family.

00:31:32.620 But he didn't do that really as a senator because he didn't have that kind of juice.

00:31:37.420 But once he got into being a vice president and having a authority worldwide because Obama

00:31:45.660 ceded that Obama wasn't interested in Ukraine or China, he couldn't care less about either

00:31:50.740 of those things.

00:31:51.680 So he said, you dig it, Joe.

00:31:53.240 You go over there.

00:31:54.200 I'm not going over there.

00:31:55.580 You just do it.

00:31:56.700 And then Biden, whatever, allowed.

00:32:00.460 I don't know how much he knew.

00:32:01.800 I'm going to give Biden due process.

00:32:04.700 I don't know how directly involved he was, but certainly he allowed his family to enrich

00:32:11.480 themselves to a point that U.S.

00:32:14.780 Grant would be embarrassed.

00:32:16.340 Now, I know that's an oblique reference.

00:32:18.220 Yeah, that's a good one.

00:32:19.560 But but Grant's brother caused all kinds of trouble because of the exact same thing.

00:32:24.860 He was running around making all kinds of money because his U.S. was Ulysses was president.

00:32:31.780 So it's been going on for a long time.

00:32:34.100 But in the Biden situation, even Maxine Waters could understand it.

00:32:40.240 And that, I mean, we're breaking it down so Maxine could get it almost immediately.

00:32:46.540 So and that's going to hurt Biden big time.

00:32:49.280 OK, so let's talk about Iowa specifically.

00:32:52.780 Yes.

00:32:53.140 We're a week away.

00:32:54.680 We can change.

00:32:56.840 What do you think is what do you think is happening?

00:32:59.680 The hawk I state people need to understand the Iowa caucus is controlled by the Democratic

00:33:05.600 Party.

00:33:06.160 It is not a statewide vote.

00:33:08.100 Very few people in Iowa actually cast ballots in the caucus.

00:33:13.720 Most of those who do on the Democratic side are radical progressives.

00:33:19.180 So Sanders has an advantage.

00:33:23.140 Do you remember when you said about the anchor babies that there's nothing you can do about

00:33:28.520 it?

00:33:28.780 And I said, yes, there is.

00:33:30.140 And I was right about it.

00:33:31.460 I was right on the anchor.

00:33:32.920 The courts have ruled twice against the anchor baby stuff.

00:33:35.600 You'd have to get a constitutional amendment passed to overturn that.

00:33:38.740 You might be able to do it.

00:33:40.000 You might be able to do it.

00:33:40.900 But you just don't have to do a constitutional amendment.

00:33:43.840 This goes around and around and around.

00:33:44.620 You need an act of Congress.

00:33:47.860 I don't know how you two are friends, but I like it.

00:33:50.860 You are absolutely you were absolutely right on that.

00:33:53.820 I don't know when that came from.

00:33:55.180 But Trump has put another rule in to try to stop anchor babies without going through for

00:34:02.680 a constitutional amendment.

00:34:03.860 Your thoughts?

00:34:05.040 Well, I'm glad, you know, I was right when I was telling the candidate.

00:34:09.320 Yeah, he was in a candidate that you just can't blow out something in the Constitution.

00:34:15.820 But cleverly, it's pretty clever.

00:34:19.220 He's basically now saying that it's illegal to come to the United States to give birth.

00:34:24.940 If that's your goal, that's illegal.

00:34:27.740 You can do that.

00:34:28.900 It's going to be hard to enforce it.

00:34:31.540 And I don't think he's going to there'll be a lot of enforcement going on.

00:34:35.820 But that's what he wants to do, basically sending a message that he hasn't forgotten

00:34:40.240 about the issue.

00:34:41.060 And by the way, it's a valid issue because it is a con.

00:34:46.560 I mean, people are coming here to give birth.

00:34:48.240 So their kids are American citizens.

00:34:50.260 They're going around the legal immigration process.

00:34:54.360 So I'm not sympathetic to the anchor baby industry, but it is in the Constitution.

00:35:00.060 It's what they call a loophole.

00:35:02.220 All right.

00:35:02.340 Let me go to speaking of babies.

00:35:04.120 Let me go to Trump is the first president to speak at the big pro pro pro life rally.

00:35:10.480 March for life.

00:35:12.020 Yeah, today.

00:35:14.720 Very interesting.

00:35:17.100 If you read the United States of Trump, he was never real interested in this issue.

00:35:24.320 And most of his life, he was pro choice.

00:35:27.860 Now, the conversion to pro life, I can't tell you how that happened.

00:35:37.320 But he knows that his base is primarily pro life people.

00:35:42.760 But I think it would be wrong and cynical of me to say it's a political play.

00:35:47.980 But he may have thought about the issue and says, look, you know, unborn babies need protection, too.

00:35:56.560 So it is a historical thing that's happening today.

00:35:59.820 You'll get no media coverage, as you know.

00:36:01.560 But it is a huge development, at least for those members that believe in in life.

00:36:07.840 All right.

00:36:08.400 Let me go to Clinton and Tulsi Gabbard and and her lawsuit against Hillary Clinton.

00:36:15.520 Yeah, it's going nowhere.

00:36:18.400 It's an opinion.

00:36:19.700 She's not going to be able to show damages. 0.67

00:36:21.900 Tulsi, you have to do that if you're a famous person.

00:36:25.160 Tulsi is a really interesting person.

00:36:29.380 Keeps herself in the limelight by doing all this.

00:36:32.360 Genuinely despises Hillary Clinton.

00:36:35.140 Really doesn't like her.

00:36:36.840 I just give her some jazz, giving her a hard time.

00:36:39.200 See, I don't think this is giving her jazz.

00:36:40.980 I think if that was me and I was running and trying to, you know, be president and have credibility.

00:36:48.180 If another candidate came out and said, yeah, they're grooming her and the the the Russians have her on her on their radar and they're helping her right now.

00:37:01.380 That's really damaging.

00:37:03.200 Really damaging.

00:37:04.320 She has to show it, though.

00:37:05.580 She has to show, look, this I lost this amount of votes and I can prove I did.

00:37:10.760 And I, you know, she might be able to say she didn't get into the debate.

00:37:14.540 That's, you know, probably her strongest argument.

00:37:17.360 I just don't in America's court system.

00:37:19.360 We talked about this in the last segment.

00:37:21.600 Very little justice going on.

00:37:23.940 Did Hillary Clinton defame her? 1.00

00:37:26.500 Yeah.

00:37:27.660 Yeah.

00:37:28.420 And if we had the British system of litigation, civil litigation, Mrs. Clinton be in trouble. 1.00

00:37:34.480 Is this bill here in the United States, you can say and do anything to famous people almost and get away with it.

00:37:42.700 Is this bill just about settling scores for Clinton?

00:37:45.140 Because she keeps coming out.

00:37:46.020 She did this Tulsi Gabbard thing and Gabbard, you know, famously endorsed Sanders in the primary. 0.74

00:37:50.740 It was a big deal at the time.

00:37:51.840 She's kind of wanted revenge since. 0.99

00:37:53.360 Then we have the additional thing where two weeks before Iowa, she's on this documentary talking about how no one likes Bernie Sanders.

00:38:01.080 He's not effective.

00:38:02.920 I mean, is this just about settling 2016 scores for Clinton?

00:38:06.520 Look, she's an unhappy woman. 1.00

00:38:08.100 We all know that.

00:38:09.980 I mean, you know, she just hasn't been able to realize what she wanted to be, which is President of the United States.

00:38:18.840 It's being a senator from New York, being Secretary of State wasn't good enough.

00:38:24.140 She had to be president. 0.80

00:38:25.420 She's not going to be president. 1.00

00:38:26.900 She doesn't like Bill.

00:38:29.400 She's just not in a good place.

00:38:31.540 And so she lashes out.

00:38:33.220 I mean, that's my amateur analysis of her.

00:38:36.820 The coronavirus, they this virus in in China, they have now put yesterday, it was 11 million people.

00:38:48.560 Today, I think it's 34 million people and shut them off from the rest of the world.

00:38:55.320 They've just closed these cities down.

00:38:57.380 You can't come in or out.

00:38:58.920 And in China, you can do that.

00:39:00.740 I mean, they say you're not coming out of your house.

00:39:04.060 You're not coming out of your house.

00:39:05.280 So there's not a lot of constitutional rights in China.

00:39:10.140 Right.

00:39:10.320 So what's really going on?

00:39:13.260 I don't know much about these diseases.

00:39:17.840 It strikes me to be similar to the Ebola virus, that some people are going to die, unfortunately, and then it will kind of peter out in a month or so.

00:39:27.040 So I hope that, you know, look, these are things that happen in life.

00:39:33.660 They're like disasters.

00:39:35.560 Australia is on fire.

00:39:37.700 You know, and you just there's nothing anybody can really do about it.

00:39:41.500 One last question on the Australia fires.

00:39:45.960 Stu gave me a stat last week that I could not believe on the Australian fires.

00:39:53.060 Basically, the amount of acreage burned in Australia is actually on the low end of the last 20 years.

00:40:01.860 In fact, it's, I believe, the second lowest year so far over the past 20 years.

00:40:06.860 The difference here is that it's hit more populated areas, which is why people are freaking out about it.

00:40:12.440 But that wouldn't, you know, the populated areas wouldn't indicate an increase because of global warming.

00:40:18.120 It would be the total acreage that would be the issue there, which obviously is not showing up.

00:40:22.820 And the media has made it seem as though this is the biggest fire of all time.

00:40:28.960 And, I mean, the things have been crazy to see it.

00:40:32.760 And you just got this impression that the entire country burned down.

00:40:36.280 It's the second lowest acreage fire in 20 years.

00:40:42.440 That's interesting, Stu.

00:40:43.800 I did not know that.

00:40:44.820 Good work.

00:40:45.780 Thank you.

00:40:46.440 You know, what I was, what caught my eye was Beck went to Australia.

00:40:50.520 And then as soon as he came back, everything went to hell.

00:40:53.440 I have to tell you, man, I left that cigarette smoldering there in the ashtray.

00:40:58.000 Yeah, I mean, that's what caught my eye.

00:41:00.020 Yeah.

00:41:00.380 Look, any excuse to promote global warming and climate change, the left media is going to use.

00:41:09.440 It's as simple as that.

00:41:10.400 So here in New York, where I am, we've had a very benign winter.

00:41:16.180 No major snowfalls in December and January.

00:41:21.580 Yeah, I mean, you know, this is kind of good for us up here because when it snows, it's crazy.

00:41:27.980 And you wanted to, I want to get into the State of the Union.

00:41:31.760 You wanted to talk about that?

00:41:32.840 Yeah, yeah, go ahead.

00:41:33.300 Okay, so I'm going to predict that the president is going to open the State of the Union with a very simple message to the American people.

00:41:44.620 I think we can all assume somewhere in that address those words will be spoken.

00:42:00.680 I would not bet against that, Bill.

00:42:04.080 I would not.

00:42:04.840 You know, I'm going.

00:42:05.960 I want to see.

00:42:06.740 This is going to be amazing because the trial is either going to continue to be going on or...

00:42:11.980 No, we're going to dump it.

00:42:13.880 McConnell's going to get out of it.

00:42:15.000 You wait and see.

00:42:15.940 Nobody can stand it anymore.

00:42:17.900 And nobody.

00:42:18.900 So I'm predicting that.

00:42:20.300 I don't know the time frame, but, you know, they'll suspend it or they'll take a break or they'll all go to Club Med or something will happen.

00:42:28.500 And they just can't do it anymore.

00:42:30.180 By the way, I got invited to analyze the State of the Union on the Blaze.

00:42:36.680 Was that a mistake or did you guys do that?

00:42:39.180 No, I've been pushing for that.

00:42:41.300 I'd like to have your analysis on the Blaze for all of the big nights this year.

00:42:50.820 Are you willing to do it?

00:42:52.260 Yeah.

00:42:52.660 Do you guys have a lot of money?

00:42:54.640 Well, let's discuss details at our Super Bowl dinner in Orlando.

00:43:00.640 I'm going to do the State of the Union gratis.

00:43:04.800 I'm going to do it free.

00:43:06.200 Really?

00:43:06.980 Wait, so are you going to be in Washington or in New York?

00:43:09.660 I'm going to be in New York.

00:43:10.660 Okay.

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