The Glenn Beck Program - February 04, 2020


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Senator Ted Cruz, Steve Deace & Nigel Farage ｜ 2⧸4⧸20


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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Michael Knowles (D-Massachusetts) join host Glenn Beck to discuss the Democratic National Convention in Iowa. They discuss the chaos that is the Iowa caucus and what it means for the future of the 2020 campaign.

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00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. Today, man, it's a big show today. We had Ted Cruz on the program, host of at least co-host of the number one podcast in America, which is Verdict with Ted Cruz. You may also know him as a senator. He was on today to talk about everything going on and Michael Knowles as well.
00:00:17.340 So Michael Knowles comes on later. He's the co-host of that same podcast, and he's great. He's on Daily Wire, and he's got all these stuff on not only impeachment and Iowa, but also we talked a lot about Rush Limbaugh and his announcement and what he's meant to radio and all of our lives as far as formulating an ideology, really, to that base level.
00:00:39.420 So Nigel Farage is on over here. You may have seen his great speech when it came to Brexit just the other day. He's going to the State of the Union tonight. He's in our studios during this podcast, and Steve Dace is in Iowa talking about everything going on there.
00:00:54.400 He knows the internal workings of Iowa politics better than anybody, and he just gave us all sorts of great background on what's going on in this embarrassing disaster of the Iowa caucus for the Democrats.
00:01:08.140 So it's all coming up on today's podcast.
00:01:16.460 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:01:24.980 Senator Ted Cruz. How are you, Senator?
00:01:27.680 Glenn, I'm doing fantastic. How are you doing?
00:01:29.140 I was watching last night, and I remembered being at the caucus for you in Iowa, and what a bizarre system that is.
00:01:42.200 Last night, I think the Democrats showed us that, oh, they're on top of securing the election results.
00:01:49.920 It is an absolute mess. It is chaos, and, you know, I've got to say, I really feel for all of the thousands of volunteers.
00:02:01.260 You know, you've got candidates who've spent a year or more crisscrossing the state, and as you know, you've got volunteers.
00:02:07.520 We had people come from Texas from all over the country in 2016, basically move to Iowa, stay in dormitories,
00:02:14.260 and go out in blizzards, knocking on doors, making phone calls.
00:02:18.680 They poured their hearts into it, and it's not too much to have at the end of the night an election result.
00:02:24.920 No, I mean, you know, that's a nice benefit.
00:02:28.420 I cannot imagine the frustration, the anger they're feeling.
00:02:32.700 So, Ted, what is your – I mean, let me give you some of the headlines.
00:02:38.800 Republicans gloat over Iowa caucus meltdown.
00:02:42.000 You're actually – this is from CBS News.
00:02:43.880 You're mentioned there.
00:02:45.880 Are you gloating?
00:02:47.340 A little bit.
00:02:48.640 I don't think there's anything –
00:02:50.700 Okay, so it's interesting they say that.
00:02:52.920 I've said a total of one thing today on that, which is I sent a tweet as I was driving in this morning,
00:02:57.360 and my tweet pointed out that Dems today can't even stand at a gymnasium and count who's standing under which sign.
00:03:06.640 These are the people they want to put in charge of our health care and everything else in our lives.
00:03:11.680 No, thank you.
00:03:12.260 No, thank you.
00:03:12.880 Like, these guys, it ain't that complicated.
00:03:15.680 You know, student council, okay, everyone for Joey, everyone for Susie, raise your hand.
00:03:19.460 We're done.
00:03:20.560 And these guys can't do that, but don't worry.
00:03:23.260 We'll keep you alive.
00:03:24.480 We'll keep your mom alive.
00:03:25.660 We'll decide everything in your life.
00:03:27.500 Yeah, no, we're smarter than you.
00:03:29.080 The age of the socialists put these geniuses in charge of everything that matters to you.
00:03:33.880 So the other Washington Post said,
00:03:36.980 Conservatives spread false claims on Twitter about electoral fraud as Iowans prepare to caucus.
00:03:44.320 You know, at this point, we don't have any evidence of fraud.
00:03:48.260 And I had an old boss of mine who used to say, never explain anything with malice that could be explained with incompetence.
00:03:56.860 Yes.
00:03:57.240 I think these guys just screwed up.
00:03:59.060 It's actually one of the reasons you and I are both really skeptical of big government.
00:04:03.680 Right.
00:04:03.880 Because it screws everything up.
00:04:05.260 So let's have it do what it needs to do.
00:04:08.700 But other than that, leave everything to the people.
00:04:11.420 And it's, you know, I'm sure there were a bunch of smart people who had a great plan and they had an app.
00:04:16.600 I think it's called Shadow.
00:04:18.340 Yeah.
00:04:19.000 Shadow.
00:04:19.560 If that doesn't give you confidence.
00:04:20.840 So now apparently these are the Peter Pan Democrats because they can't find their shadow.
00:04:25.200 Right.
00:04:25.700 Okay.
00:04:26.000 So let me go into just because I think it's incompetence.
00:04:30.420 I don't think there's anything going on.
00:04:32.460 But if on the other hand, it may be the secretive Joe Biden Illuminati.
00:04:37.460 Yeah.
00:04:38.020 Working to snuff out the Bernie revolution.
00:04:41.180 Right.
00:04:41.480 That's entirely possible, too.
00:04:42.960 Yeah.
00:04:43.220 Right.
00:04:44.180 And if I had blue hair and dreadlocks and things pierced all over my face, I would believe that.
00:04:49.460 I would believe that, too.
00:04:50.840 Especially after the paper, the leading paper, they always come out in Iowa, Des Moines Register,
00:05:00.060 and they come out and they say, you know, right the day before, here are the poll numbers.
00:05:06.180 Well, we now know that the poll numbers that were spiked were this, and this has now been confirmed.
00:05:16.880 Bernie Sanders, 22, Elizabeth Warren, 18, Pete Buttigieg at 16, Joe Biden at 13.
00:05:23.840 Wow.
00:05:24.220 So you put that together with what happened last time where they really were, you know,
00:05:33.440 torching, doing everything they could, it seemed, to take down Bernie Sanders.
00:05:38.400 You're a Bernie Sanders fan.
00:05:40.800 You're even an Elizabeth Warren fan.
00:05:43.740 This does nothing to help you believe in the party.
00:05:47.500 Well, look, there's no doubt that the Democratic Party machinery is terrified of Bernie and they're terrified of Warren.
00:05:56.240 And the problem is the base of their party is enthralled with crazy leftist ideas.
00:06:05.020 The base of their party is angry.
00:06:07.820 They've got pitchforks.
00:06:08.920 They've got torches in the street.
00:06:10.380 And so we saw four years ago the Democratic Party did everything they could to stop Bernie then.
00:06:16.620 And part of it is, look, Democrats are statists.
00:06:21.280 They're authoritarians.
00:06:22.660 They believe in centralized power.
00:06:24.640 So they have things like superdelegates.
00:06:26.780 The Republican side, we don't have superdelegates.
00:06:28.920 The Democrats have, like, had a big chunk of their vote to decide who their presidential nominee is
00:06:34.140 are lifelong career politicians who are called superdelegates who get to decide.
00:06:38.960 And they did that after Reagan won.
00:06:42.340 They saw that the Reagan revolution changed the Republican Party.
00:06:47.560 And they said, we don't want that to happen to us.
00:06:51.240 Inevitably, statists and authoritarians don't trust the people.
00:06:56.660 So the rhetoric is always the people.
00:06:59.020 We care about the people, so put me in charge of the people.
00:07:02.740 That's their message.
00:07:04.260 Someone that actually believes in the people said, all right, how about let's leave the people in charge of themselves?
00:07:08.960 And get government, you know, Jefferson referred to the Constitution as chains to bind the mischief of government.
00:07:16.500 The modern Democratic Party, they don't believe there's any mischief to be bound.
00:07:22.240 And it all comes down to they have incredible faith in their own ability.
00:07:26.680 They're smarter than you are.
00:07:28.260 They know better than you do.
00:07:29.640 And it's a combination of elitism and condescension and willingness to employ brute force.
00:07:36.240 If you don't disagree with them, they will use the coercive power of the state to make you agree with them.
00:07:42.320 Right.
00:07:42.400 So let's switch gears here.
00:07:48.860 First of all, any indication on when they're going to have a count?
00:07:55.400 So no clue.
00:07:56.800 They keep saying.
00:07:57.480 Last night they were like, no, we're just verifying.
00:07:59.460 We're just verifying.
00:08:00.660 It doesn't take you this long to verify.
00:08:02.240 This is worse than Florida.
00:08:04.380 I have no idea.
00:08:07.440 So, you know, I will say, as you know, I've sort of entered your world a little bit in the last couple of weeks.
00:08:13.420 Because we've launched a podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
00:08:17.120 It went from zero, nonexistent.
00:08:19.400 Yeah, number one.
00:08:20.080 It skyrocketed to number one in the country.
00:08:22.700 Yeah.
00:08:23.560 We were going to film a podcast last night.
00:08:26.600 We were sitting there to film a podcast.
00:08:28.800 Michael Knowles, who I think is coming in shortly afterwards.
00:08:31.060 So Michael and I were there in the studio.
00:08:33.120 And the whole plan is when the Iowa results come in, we'll go on and talk about it.
00:08:38.220 So we're sitting there.
00:08:39.660 And waiting.
00:08:40.100 And we're sitting there.
00:08:41.220 And we're sitting there.
00:08:41.840 I think we sat there three hours.
00:08:43.380 And we finally said, well, I don't think we're getting results.
00:08:46.120 Now, the nice thing about a podcast, you don't have a hard time.
00:08:49.780 It's not like I go on at nine.
00:08:51.340 And it's like, all right, if we don't have Iowa results, I'll tell you what.
00:08:54.000 Let's wait and do it tomorrow.
00:08:54.840 Let's actually know what the results are.
00:08:57.800 I went to bed figuring I'd know when I woke up.
00:09:00.240 Me too.
00:09:01.040 Who the heck knows?
00:09:02.280 Yeah.
00:09:02.660 All right.
00:09:04.020 Let's switch to impeachment.
00:09:06.420 First of all, were you mocking that?
00:09:10.340 Please say yes.
00:09:11.120 Were you mocking Nancy Pelosi's hand clap there on the Senate floor?
00:09:17.640 Of course.
00:09:18.280 Okay, good.
00:09:19.140 I just, sorry.
00:09:19.840 Although I did have folks who were wondering if I was paying up on losing a bet for the
00:09:25.100 Nationals-Astros because the Nationals did the whole baby shark thing. 0.98
00:09:28.220 So it could have been that.
00:09:29.260 Could have been that.
00:09:29.940 Could have been that.
00:09:30.660 So what happened?
00:09:31.620 I was talking to Mitch McConnell, and we were talking to a couple of other senators who were
00:09:35.760 there.
00:09:36.460 And we were talking about State of the Union.
00:09:37.660 And it wasn't clear when the vote in impeachment was going to be, and if it ended up being after
00:09:44.860 the State of the Union, which it is.
00:09:46.480 It's going to be tomorrow.
00:09:47.060 There was some discussion about the possibility that Trump might cancel the event, cancel the
00:09:52.900 State of the Union, say, I'll wait until after you vote on that.
00:09:55.460 And that was being discussed a little bit.
00:09:57.280 And we were saying, well, what if Pelosi won't invite him back?
00:09:59.720 What if she says, okay, you canceled it.
00:10:01.180 You don't get a State of the Union.
00:10:02.620 So we were talking about, well, we'll just invite him to the Senate.
00:10:06.020 We can do the State of the Union in the Senate.
00:10:07.660 And then I was looking around because the Senate floor is pretty small.
00:10:10.900 And so I said, well, where would we put the House members?
00:10:12.880 I guess we could put them up in the gallery.
00:10:15.200 And Mitch said, yeah, we could stick Nancy back behind the TV camera. 1.00
00:10:18.000 Is that a driver crazy?
00:10:19.780 And that's the point where I said, now, Mitch, you've got to give her some respect.
00:10:23.400 You know, she did invent a little clap. 0.99
00:10:25.780 And so we were laughing at that.
00:10:27.720 But that was the context of the conversation.
00:10:29.820 So this is the worst political strategy on her part I've ever seen. 0.99
00:10:36.780 The Democrats, does this taint Trump at all, free Trump from this?
00:10:44.860 Are they going to continue to do this, you know, in his second term?
00:10:49.060 What are the results of the – what is the meaning of all of this?
00:10:53.540 So, look, I agree with you.
00:10:54.520 It was a serious blunder.
00:10:57.800 I think Pelosi knows that.
00:10:59.360 She didn't want to go down the road of impeachment.
00:11:02.180 Less than a year ago, both Pelosi and Jerry Nadler both said you can't have a partisan impeachment.
00:11:07.680 It tears the country apart.
00:11:08.760 It divides us.
00:11:09.520 I think they didn't want to do this.
00:11:11.140 The reality they're facing is their base is angry.
00:11:15.380 The hard left base, they're motivated by rage.
00:11:18.560 Hatred of Donald Trump is their all-consuming vision and passion.
00:11:23.300 Right, right.
00:11:23.600 And I think the Democrats had no choice.
00:11:25.920 Pelosi felt she was basically a hostage of her angry base.
00:11:30.040 So they went down this road.
00:11:32.020 I've got to say where we are politically, I think the chances of Donald Trump being reelected have risen dramatically.
00:11:37.900 Oh, I think so, too.
00:11:39.120 And it's very much the same as – look, when Republicans impeached Bill Clinton, that was a mistake.
00:11:47.280 Republicans overreached.
00:11:48.480 And that got Bill Clinton reelected.
00:11:50.280 It was an enormous political benefit to Bill Clinton for the Republicans to overreach and try to impeach him.
00:11:56.340 And the American people said, enough already.
00:11:59.440 Focus on what matters to us.
00:12:01.020 Focus on jobs.
00:12:01.980 Focus on our future, our family.
00:12:06.360 I think that contrast is playing out beautifully.
00:12:10.300 And so my advice to the president for tonight, for State of the Union, is the same thing, is be positive and optimistic and lay out the future.
00:12:17.880 And just don't even talk about the impeachment.
00:12:20.200 Just look forward.
00:12:21.720 Here's what we've accomplished, and here's where we're going.
00:12:23.840 I don't know if the president, first-year Donald Trump, could have done that.
00:12:28.520 But he's changed.
00:12:29.720 He has become disciplined.
00:12:31.540 And there's a lot of worry from Republicans that I've heard that are saying, dear God, please don't say anything.
00:12:38.600 But I think he's so close to the finish line, and he knows the gravity of this.
00:12:43.120 I hope so.
00:12:44.040 I've given him that advice directly.
00:12:45.880 I know a lot of people have.
00:12:47.040 You know, I will say last week during impeachment, it was interesting.
00:12:50.700 I was at the White House twice last week with the president.
00:12:53.840 The first time was for the announcement of his effort to achieve peace in the Middle East.
00:12:59.460 And it was the announcement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:13:02.220 It was a fabulous event.
00:13:03.940 Great.
00:13:04.380 The next day I was back there because he was signing the USMCA, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement.
00:13:09.760 And the contrast of those two were really striking, where he's working on substance.
00:13:15.440 He's working on policies that make a difference in the economy, make a difference in jobs, for farmers, for ranchers, for manufacturers.
00:13:22.360 He's working on issues that matter, like world peace.
00:13:25.880 And the Democrats, they're just a mob wanting to attack the president.
00:13:31.640 I think that contrast, frankly, Bill Clinton drew that same contrast.
00:13:35.700 He did the same.
00:13:36.580 He focused on.
00:13:37.680 Exactly right.
00:13:38.400 Remember MoveOn.org?
00:13:40.120 Yep.
00:13:40.780 Rose up during that.
00:13:42.160 And the whole message of MoveOn.org was MoveOn.
00:13:44.220 And ironically, MoveOn.org is actively supporting impeachment now and is raising money for it.
00:13:53.480 And it's kind of like, did you guys read the name of your group?
00:13:59.000 Maybe start a different group.
00:14:00.520 Like, if you're going to do that, stayhere.com.
00:14:03.400 Stay right here.
00:14:04.280 Dwellonthis.com.
00:14:05.600 We're with Ted Cruz, and we are in Washington, D.C.
00:14:09.700 You told me last time you were on, you said, I think we're going to, I think we want, I think I'm going to vote for witnesses.
00:14:21.120 What changed your mind?
00:14:24.760 So what I have been saying from the beginning is that if we go down the road of witnesses, that we needed to respect the principle of reciprocity.
00:14:32.160 In other words, we couldn't do what the House did, have a one-sided show trial where only prosecution witnesses are allowed and you block every defense witness, which is what the House Democrats did.
00:14:43.780 And so what I early on was urging my colleagues to do is if we go down the road to witnesses, and I initially just kind of kept my mind open on whether we would have them or not.
00:14:53.200 But I said if we go down the road, we need to do it even handedly.
00:14:57.060 We need to be fair.
00:14:57.920 We need to respect the process.
00:14:59.240 That means if the prosecution gets a witness, the defense gets a witness.
00:15:02.920 That means if they get John Bolton, then the president gets to call Hunter Biden.
00:15:08.420 I think that principle was right.
00:15:10.320 I think it was valuable.
00:15:11.400 But I think it also ended up playing a big part in the final decision not to go down the road of additional witnesses.
00:15:19.140 And that ended up being an important vote.
00:15:22.240 I spent a lot of time within the conference trying to get us to 51 votes to say enough is enough.
00:15:29.240 The American people are tired of this.
00:15:31.500 There were 18 witnesses who testified the House proceeding.
00:15:34.300 We heard hour after hour of witness testimony of documents, the most important documents in the entire impeachment proceeding, which is the transcript of the call that's at issue here.
00:15:43.860 The president declassified and released.
00:15:46.540 And so we had a ton of evidence before us.
00:15:49.400 And on all the evidence, the president hadn't committed an impeachable crime.
00:15:53.660 He hadn't met – the House managers didn't meet the constitutional standard of high crimes or misdemeanors.
00:15:59.240 And so I, at the end of the day, agreed that we didn't need additional witnesses because they hadn't proven their case.
00:16:05.620 But I think laying out reciprocity, making clear that this will go both ways, I've got to tell you one of the consequences of that.
00:16:14.580 I think there were a whole bunch of Democrats who were terrified of going down the road of witnesses.
00:16:20.160 They all voted for it.
00:16:21.580 But I think it was one of those instances in the Senate where they voted yes and were hoping the answer was no.
00:16:26.400 Because if we'd gone down the road of witnesses, if we'd been hearing testimony from Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, I think it would have been very – Democrats are terrified of the evidence of corruption.
00:16:38.520 And, Glenn, let me commend you.
00:16:40.340 You were one of the very first to dig in to the substance of Burisma and the evidence of corruption and lay it out.
00:16:48.140 Everyone else caught up to you, but as is often the case, you were ahead of the pack by a good chunk.
00:16:54.240 I will tell you that I have a special coming up on Thursday that I will share with you off the air, the evidence that we have.
00:17:02.800 It's beyond anything that we found.
00:17:08.520 We found links through money laundering.
00:17:13.240 We found the money laundering leaks.
00:17:15.280 And there was something else going on that Congress needs to be aware of.
00:17:20.840 And I'll share that with you.
00:17:22.180 Will there be an investigation on how this thing happened?
00:17:33.340 I mean the whistleblower, Schiff, any of that.
00:17:36.580 Will anybody pay?
00:17:38.240 So I hope so.
00:17:40.120 A couple of nights ago I had on my podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham.
00:17:46.060 And so I invited him to join.
00:17:47.640 And actually, Lindsey and I had a lot of fun on the podcast.
00:17:50.340 It was very funny that we film in a basement studio here in D.C.
00:17:55.300 And Lindsey was cracking jokes, going, all right, if no one sees me again, I'm in an underground basement in Washington.
00:18:01.120 And look, it's pretty low budget.
00:18:03.100 So we got these giant microphones.
00:18:04.940 We had shag carpet.
00:18:05.960 And he's, like, looking around going, wait, if you guys are number one, who the heck is number two?
00:18:11.900 Some guy in a van by the park?
00:18:13.560 Like, what's wrong with you?
00:18:14.860 Anyway, I say all of that to say in answer to your question.
00:18:17.720 Lindsey said on the show that he wanted to see investigations into Hunter Biden and into Burisma.
00:18:24.240 And he wanted to see it on foreign relations.
00:18:26.860 Jim Risch chairs foreign relations.
00:18:28.820 Lindsey chairs judiciary.
00:18:30.040 It's got to be one of the committee chairmen that goes down the road.
00:18:32.480 I'm on both committees, so my answer to that is yes.
00:18:36.100 We should investigate because the law should apply fairly to everyone, regardless of party.
00:18:41.560 And people are frustrated.
00:18:43.180 How come people could commit corruption during the prior administration and get off scot-free?
00:18:48.320 That's not right.
00:18:49.000 There needs to be accountability.
00:18:50.260 Thank you so much.
00:18:51.760 Senator Ted Cruz will be watching you tonight at the State of the Union and listening to your new podcast.
00:18:57.240 You can get it wherever podcasts are found.
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00:19:24.780 We have Steve Dace, who is now in Iowa, and he is there to tell us what the hell is going on.
00:19:38.200 Steve, Iowa is making the counting process in Florida look absolutely professional.
00:19:48.300 What's going on, Glenn, is this is central planning.
00:19:51.900 It's only fitting that Bernie Sanders likely won the caucuses, because you're watching his worldview play out in real time.
00:20:03.220 I mean, this is the DMV.
00:20:05.540 This is an election brought to you by Iran is the lost city of gold. 1.00
00:20:11.340 Net neutrality and tax cuts will kill us.
00:20:14.120 Rape hoaxes, collusion hoaxes. 0.75
00:20:16.440 Michael Evanetti for president.
00:20:17.880 I mean, that's what you're watching, and the same people that want to ruin everything else in the culture are ruining the Iowa caucuses in real time as we speak.
00:20:29.080 So this is something that they said that they had, they were working on.
00:20:33.360 They said, we've got all kinds of backup.
00:20:36.360 There's not going to be a problem.
00:20:38.640 This app works wonderfully.
00:20:41.200 Firstly, first of all, do you believe that any of the crazy conspiracies that are going around, mainly, I think, from Bernie people, because if I were a Bernie person and they treated him like they did last time and now he's winning and you're taking that away, you lost the poll.
00:21:02.200 That just mysteriously was not fit to print the day before, and he was number one in that poll.
00:21:10.660 Do you believe any of the conspiracies?
00:21:14.400 Or is it just flat-out incompetence?
00:21:16.440 I believe the Des Moines Register polling conspiracy, but I think that had more to do with Pete Buttigieg than Bernie Sanders.
00:21:23.520 And with the caucuses, I think, you know, pardon me, Glenn, they had an Obamacare website ready to go to.
00:21:31.600 And I just think this is what central planning does.
00:21:35.500 This is what it does.
00:21:36.960 And what happened four years ago is they actively screwed Bernie over.
00:21:40.760 And so in order to alleviate that, they came up with a three-tiered bureaucracy, and then they attached an app to it.
00:21:49.320 And so this is a typical leftist solution.
00:21:52.280 When people don't like an existing bureaucracy, create even more that they'll hate all the more.
00:21:57.480 And that's exactly what's going on here.
00:21:59.460 And I think that's the part people need to understand.
00:22:02.700 For 50 years, we had these caucuses.
00:22:04.700 And we had one issue with Rick Santorum eight years ago when one rural county didn't count properly in a razor-thin election,
00:22:13.680 and it went from plus 8 to plus 12 on the certification process.
00:22:17.420 That was the only issue we had in 50 years.
00:22:20.360 They have turned this thing in to a cluster of epic proportions because this is what Medicare for all looks like.
00:22:29.440 This is what your education – this is like a John Stossel documentary on the public education.
00:22:34.700 system – this is waiting for Superman playing out with a caucus.
00:22:39.080 This is everything leftists do.
00:22:41.260 Every solution that they have is what is going on here in Iowa.
00:22:45.740 Now, they say that this new app, which I happen to have – in fact, Sarah, if I could open up this app.
00:22:53.800 They say it's, you know, very, very, very high-tech, and – I'm just opening it up.
00:22:59.920 Just a sec.
00:23:04.700 Hang on.
00:23:07.820 It's just – just have to –
00:23:10.080 All right.
00:23:12.840 Now I'm – now I'm fully connected, and so I can see what's going on.
00:23:18.000 I mean, what are they doing?
00:23:21.140 And why – if they said they had three different things, one, very high-tech, and they blamed it on slow internet speeds.
00:23:30.540 Uh-huh.
00:23:31.900 So they have that, but they said we have the paperwork.
00:23:35.520 We have photos of all the paperwork.
00:23:38.040 So we had a three-fold system.
00:23:39.820 You obviously didn't because it doesn't take that long to look at photographs or to count numbers on a page.
00:23:50.700 So –
00:23:51.420 No.
00:23:51.820 Are you going to be able to trust – are you going to be able to trust these numbers at all because they're clearly not telling you the truth of how bad it is?
00:24:00.440 I think it's obvious that they're not – that part, they're not telling you the truth.
00:24:04.440 And last time I heard that sound is when I met my wife because we met on an AOL chat room 25 years ago, okay?
00:24:11.940 And so it's – the whole thing is ridiculous, and I think what you're learning is that the counting process doesn't have full confidence and accountability, that they didn't do these counts properly because here's – the process is with the hurting process.
00:24:30.580 When your candidate's not viable and you've got to move from one candidate to another and all of that politicking is going on right there in real time, I'm sure a lot of your listeners saw this on cable news last night at caucus sites where, you know, Andrew Yang's not viable or at a lot of caucus sites, Joe Biden wasn't viable last night.
00:24:49.180 And so where are his supporters going to go?
00:24:51.580 And so trying to figure that out through the process of three counts, it's pretty obvious they're not sure about their own count because if they were, we'd have had these results by now.
00:25:02.960 Now we have California saying that they have a new app too, and they're going to be voting for the first time on an app.
00:25:12.500 You think that's going to change between now and the California primary?
00:25:18.340 I – you know, it's funny how we think that – and this is kind of the progressive mindset, isn't it, Glenn, that anything old is bad, anything old.
00:25:30.400 Yes.
00:25:30.580 And, hey, you know, we don't keep doing things because that's the way we've always done them, right?
00:25:34.600 That's the worst excuse to continue.
00:25:36.860 But maybe the reason why your great-grandmother passed her chocolate chip cookie recipe down to your grandmother and her – your grandmother passed it down to your mom and she's passing it down to you now is because it's the best damn chocolate chip cookie recipe anybody's found.
00:25:50.640 That's why it survived this long.
00:25:52.380 And I don't – not everything's got to be retconned and refinished and modernized and contemporized.
00:25:58.720 You know, it's just as simple as count heads, write the number down, and turn it in.
00:26:03.960 How hard is that?
00:26:04.880 How do the people in Iowa feel today, those people who worked their butts off, who canvassed neighborhoods, who have, you know, dragged people out to make sure that they were at caucus, their vote really almost doesn't matter now because Iowa is the first.
00:26:27.760 It sets the tone for the rest.
00:26:31.200 And if I were a voter, I would be so angry that my vote – I've been disenfranchised.
00:26:38.340 Even if they count it later, it doesn't – that's not what I went for.
00:26:43.740 We went to set the table and to start this thing, and now my voice hasn't been heard.
00:26:49.400 I think you've got two choices in how to react to this.
00:26:55.040 One is you don't want to admit the entire fallacy of your statist worldview.
00:27:00.920 And so you'll go to conspiracy because you don't want to admit that central planning on this level, bureaucracy on this level, simply can't be trusted and doesn't work.
00:27:13.360 That the same fallibilities in human nature that beguiles all of us doesn't go away when we put on a government uniform or we belong to a central structure.
00:27:24.660 We bring those same imperfections into the process with us.
00:27:29.040 And so you have a choice.
00:27:30.180 You can either admit that you have been a victim of your own worldview, that what you want to do to healthcare, what you already did to education and energy, the reason why you wrecked those industries is because it's – you don't need smarter people.
00:27:44.780 Your worldview is bad.
00:27:46.180 You can now admit this to yourself now that you're a first-person victim of this or because you don't want to admit this to yourself, you just say these particular people implementing it are bad, and you go down the road of a conspiracy.
00:27:58.740 I think that's the choice Iowa Democrats have today.
00:28:02.600 Steve, would you say it's fair, just judging by the way these candidates are reacting to the potential results that are on the way, that Buttigieg seemingly did pretty well and Biden did not do well?
00:28:16.860 I think if – you know, Bernie Sanders this morning put out what his canvassers had internally at about 40 percent or almost half of the precincts, and it lines up a lot with what the leaked results of the Des Moines Register poll that were never officially unveiled have to say.
00:28:33.320 And it goes with the trend line, Stu, that I tweeted out in the middle of the night last night, just following a lot of Democrats across the state reporting from their caucus sites on Twitter, pardon me, that it looked pretty close between Sanders, Buttigieg, and Warren, and it looked like Klobuchar could topple Biden for fourth place.
00:28:49.680 So I think what you see out of this process is Joe Biden is a mortally wounded candidate, and you're already seeing polls in South Carolina close.
00:28:58.860 This whole thing about the black vote is largely overblown because I think what people don't understand, because a lot of Republicans get their view of the Democratic Party from the media and Twitter.
00:29:08.920 And the reality is black folks aren't watching CNN and MSNBC.
00:29:13.540 They don't watch that stuff.
00:29:14.620 Rich, white, affluent people do.
00:29:16.540 And so they're going to pay attention to the race once it gets to them, and you're going to see the candidates that have the momentum are going to close the gap, similar to how South Carolina was going to be Hillary Clinton's black firewall in 2008.
00:29:28.700 And that's the place where Barack Obama essentially won the nomination after winning Iowa.
00:29:33.660 So I think that you're seeing Joe Biden is a mortally wounded candidate in this race.
00:29:41.900 So Sanders, I mean, it was either Sanders or Buttigieg that won last night, I think, just based on everything that we do know.
00:29:51.920 Sanders has been, and Buttigieg, I mean, Buttigieg hasn't been robbed as much as Sanders has, because Sanders could have used the momentum.
00:30:04.560 Buttigieg even coming in second really helps him a great deal.
00:30:10.980 Sanders not getting that push and seeing a dominant win hurts him.
00:30:17.920 Do you agree?
00:30:19.140 I kind of disagree.
00:30:20.020 I think this fits into his whole M.O.
00:30:22.560 System can't be trusted.
00:30:24.180 That's why we need radical solutions.
00:30:26.440 We need revolution.
00:30:27.860 Even the people that you have voted for all these years against those rascally Republicans, they'll try to screw you, too.
00:30:34.200 I think it plays right into his M.O.
00:30:35.840 I think Buttigieg is the candidate that got screwed more than anybody else.
00:30:39.400 I think that's why you saw him out there and declare victory last night openly, trying to capture some kind of momentum, because he lost a chance to kind of be the shiny object and the new hotness.
00:30:49.140 And I think what the National Democratic Party is wrestling with right now is if it's really a Bloomberg-Bernie Sanders choice for them, which is do they think Michael Bloomberg is somebody that can win enough of their base over to stop Bernie Sanders?
00:31:06.460 And if not, then time to get your seat in before the music stops playing, which is the Soviet national anthem.
00:31:14.920 But you've been playing it for years anyway.
00:31:16.720 Thank you very much from Iowa.
00:31:21.840 And I can't imagine being a voter in Iowa today.
00:31:25.140 Well, by the way, do you want to just touch base real quick, Steve, on the numbers of Donald Trump?
00:31:31.660 Tremendous turnout for Donald Trump last night in Iowa.
00:31:34.060 Yeah, I think they said it was a record for an incumbent president ever.
00:31:39.220 And I think that's another story, too, on the Democratic side, guys, is their record turnout never materialized.
00:31:45.400 I mean, they had about a 2016-level turnout, not the 2008 record turnout that they thought they were going to get.
00:31:52.040 And that's with a whole bunch of candidates that were all viable at the same time.
00:31:55.880 That does not bode well for them in a lot of these Rust Belt states going forward in the fall.
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00:32:37.440 First president I voted for was Ronald Reagan.
00:32:41.560 And I couldn't vote for him.
00:32:46.200 In 1980, I wasn't old enough.
00:32:49.500 In 1984, I was proud to be, I think, well, I think there were only four people that ended up voting for Mondale.
00:33:01.300 But I was proud to vote for Ronald Reagan.
00:33:05.100 But I was still learning an awful lot.
00:33:08.180 And back in those days, there were no teachers of what I now know.
00:33:14.380 There was no balance to the news, even though we had the fairness doctrine.
00:33:22.920 There was no balance.
00:33:23.940 Balance, you know, balance then was like CNN and MSNBC.
00:33:30.240 Oh, well, thank you for that.
00:33:33.800 And I heard a guy who was sweeping the country.
00:33:36.880 He was a guy that he was a guy that was just doing a local radio show.
00:33:44.540 And there was another guy, his partner, that left ABC radio.
00:33:49.740 And in his contract, he had a bunch of satellite time.
00:33:55.480 He had negotiated one of his contracts that, you know, for every year he gets so many hours of satellite time.
00:34:01.380 Well, back then, satellites were wildly expensive.
00:34:05.620 And that's what was required if you wanted to do a national show.
00:34:11.180 And there weren't a lot of national shows.
00:34:13.060 And there certainly wasn't anything like Rush Limbaugh.
00:34:15.820 And Rush Limbaugh had gone into San Francisco and other places.
00:34:20.060 And he had been turned down.
00:34:21.600 But he was in Sacramento and this guy happened to hear him and thought, this guy, that's a worthy use of my satellite time.
00:34:32.360 This guy could change things.
00:34:37.700 I remember first hearing him with talent on loan from God, from behind the golden EIB microphone.
00:34:48.040 And thinking, this guy is crazy.
00:34:53.820 He doesn't care.
00:34:56.120 He'd say anything.
00:34:59.560 And I learned from him.
00:35:03.800 He was a teacher.
00:35:06.600 Not radio.
00:35:09.640 He taught me how to find truth.
00:35:15.360 He taught me to question things.
00:35:22.140 He taught me why things are the way they are.
00:35:26.840 And I think the most important thing he taught me and all of America was, you're not alone.
00:35:35.420 It's not just you.
00:35:37.380 There are millions of us.
00:35:39.760 The message I want to send to Rush today is,
00:35:49.040 Rush learned that lesson.
00:35:54.280 And it's hard because of his life and what he does and how people treat people nowadays.
00:36:02.540 He lives behind golden gates much of the time.
00:36:08.240 And those of us who do this, we lose, it's a one-way street so many times.
00:36:16.680 And we can forget and we can feel like we're alone.
00:36:22.060 Rush, there are millions of us who are praying for you today.
00:36:26.840 I remember doing a show and having to go to ABC radio back in the early 90s.
00:36:38.620 And I was just starting to think about doing a talk radio show.
00:36:42.080 And we had to fill in for a national show.
00:36:44.000 I don't remember which one.
00:36:44.800 And Premier Radio Networks is who syndicates Rush and now syndicates me.
00:36:53.220 They said, we have a studio open in New York.
00:36:55.720 And we went into the studio and there it was, the golden microphone and the giant oil painting of Rush behind me.
00:37:07.200 And they said, yeah, just do it from here.
00:37:14.080 Rush hadn't been in it for probably a year.
00:37:16.600 But it was awesome just to be in that room and a little humbling to be behind the microphone.
00:37:29.040 Just a few weeks ago, I lost my good friend, Don Imus.
00:37:34.100 Don was a childhood hero of mine.
00:37:37.880 He was the only people in radio who really study it, which are very few people now, who really know the history of it.
00:37:49.240 He was a Jack Benny or a Bob Hope.
00:37:52.160 He changed radio.
00:37:54.760 He made his mark and changed mourning and comedy on radio.
00:38:03.440 He's an early pioneer, really, of talk radio.
00:38:09.980 He just wasn't talking about politics.
00:38:16.320 He was a legend.
00:38:18.720 But I think Rush Limbaugh is not only a legend, he's a pioneer.
00:38:25.080 The difference is, a pioneer knows they might get killed along the way.
00:38:35.940 Knows that they might get stuck in the mountains.
00:38:39.360 Knows that this is risky.
00:38:43.300 I'm alone.
00:38:45.320 And I'm making this trek over this mountain because I believe there is something on the other side.
00:38:51.540 But there's no real evidence that what you're looking for is actually there.
00:38:58.660 That's Rush Limbaugh.
00:39:06.960 Somebody, I was having dinner last night, and somebody at the table, we were talking about Rush.
00:39:12.420 And somebody at the table said,
00:39:13.900 Well, God forbid if the worst happens.
00:39:22.560 Who will replace him?
00:39:25.260 And I will tell you this.
00:39:28.220 I thought of that, but in a different way when I heard this news.
00:39:31.980 Because what I thought was, this changes radio.
00:39:35.960 This, there is so much pressure on these radio stations to stop doing talk radio.
00:39:41.780 And one of the reasons why they continue to do it is not because of Mark Levin or Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity.
00:39:49.960 It's simply because Rush Limbaugh is on that station.
00:39:56.180 Without him, I don't know what happens to the rest of us on talk radio.
00:40:00.580 And I sat there quietly at the table as people were banning around names.
00:40:07.640 And I finally said,
00:40:09.380 Guys, there is no replacement for Rush Limbaugh.
00:40:15.380 There is no replacement.
00:40:17.360 And I don't mean this to be humble or...
00:40:21.120 I mean this because it's true.
00:40:23.540 And maybe you can only understand this when you get to be my age,
00:40:30.600 but I remember being at the kiddies' table.
00:40:33.640 Then I remember being the newly married couple.
00:40:36.980 And there were several couples ahead of us.
00:40:39.860 There were the grandparents and the parents and the aunts and uncles.
00:40:44.000 And as I get older, I realize there are more people down towards the kiddie table and fewer towards the exit, if you will.
00:40:54.440 And you find yourself sitting there as the patriarch of the family at some point.
00:40:59.260 And you're like, wait, wait, how did this happen?
00:41:02.300 When did this happen?
00:41:03.180 And when I heard the news, I went through in my head the people that are still around.
00:41:14.460 The legends, the icons, the people who taught me, the people I watched, the people I admire,
00:41:22.680 the people that made this industry.
00:41:29.360 And Rush is the king of them all.
00:41:33.180 Rush, I'm not only praying for you because you're a good guy.
00:41:45.980 And I'm grateful for what you've done for me personally,
00:41:50.020 not for my career, but as a person in America that cared.
00:41:57.120 Thank you for being with us.
00:42:03.180 But I'm also praying for you because I don't know what happens to our voices
00:42:08.080 if you go away.
00:42:14.380 Because
00:42:14.940 you're the king
00:42:18.940 or the mayor of Reelsville, as you said yesterday.
00:42:22.160 as mayor
00:42:24.180 with none of your
00:42:28.200 your bogus
00:42:29.720 ego
00:42:31.160 in it that you express on the air,
00:42:33.400 but the real you
00:42:34.580 should know
00:42:35.660 if the
00:42:40.220 the patriarch
00:42:41.660 goes away,
00:42:43.360 none of us
00:42:44.240 are qualified
00:42:45.300 to sit
00:42:46.860 in that chair.
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00:43:12.400 Nigel Farage,
00:43:14.640 formerly
00:43:15.280 with the EU.
00:43:17.360 Welcome to the broadcaster.
00:43:18.920 Good morning.
00:43:19.920 Yes, I was made redundant.
00:43:21.340 Yes.
00:43:21.660 At 11 o'clock.
00:43:22.680 Yeah.
00:43:22.880 Last Friday evening.
00:43:24.340 I was the turkey that kept on voting for Christmas.
00:43:27.100 Right, yeah.
00:43:27.380 So I'm unemployed.
00:43:28.400 Yeah, that's great.
00:43:29.380 That's great.
00:43:30.340 Yeah.
00:43:30.760 So your speech last week was absolutely tremendous.
00:43:35.500 It
00:43:36.020 I have likened it to
00:43:38.800 a shot heard around the world.
00:43:40.500 All of our
00:43:42.800 governments,
00:43:44.740 it seems,
00:43:45.440 in the West
00:43:46.080 have
00:43:47.000 this flu,
00:43:48.780 this pandemic
00:43:49.680 of not listening
00:43:51.300 to the people.
00:43:52.560 The people will vote.
00:43:53.620 The people will speak.
00:43:54.640 They'll get in.
00:43:55.440 The politicians will say one thing,
00:43:56.960 but they'll do another.
00:43:58.520 You guys actually
00:43:59.820 broke the back
00:44:01.040 of two systems.
00:44:02.840 The corrupt system
00:44:04.440 in England
00:44:06.180 that was
00:44:07.060 all the politicians
00:44:07.980 that were just playing that game
00:44:09.740 and
00:44:10.860 the EU.
00:44:12.760 Yes.
00:44:13.420 I mean,
00:44:13.720 firstly,
00:44:14.440 you know,
00:44:14.760 if you look at
00:44:15.500 I take broadcasting
00:44:16.620 for argument's sake,
00:44:17.460 the dominance of the BBC
00:44:18.640 are state broadcaster,
00:44:20.600 which we have to pay
00:44:21.380 £150 every year to have.
00:44:23.880 And they were
00:44:25.000 they've always been
00:44:25.880 wall to wall
00:44:26.640 pro
00:44:27.320 the globalist project.
00:44:29.180 And as you say,
00:44:31.000 literally a handful
00:44:32.180 of exceptions
00:44:32.780 in the whole of the
00:44:34.040 House of Commons
00:44:34.800 in Westminster,
00:44:35.580 they were all pro EU.
00:44:37.420 It kind of makes
00:44:38.460 the
00:44:38.820 referendum result
00:44:40.180 in 2016.
00:44:41.520 Almost a miracle.
00:44:42.840 You know,
00:44:43.360 because those
00:44:43.740 we don't
00:44:44.220 we don't understand
00:44:45.320 this here in America.
00:44:47.340 You know,
00:44:48.020 we're talking about
00:44:48.760 Rush Limbaugh.
00:44:49.740 Yes.
00:44:50.120 Now being very ill.
00:44:51.860 Yes, I've heard.
00:44:52.160 Yeah.
00:44:52.380 And you don't have that.
00:44:54.340 You don't have talk radio.
00:44:55.840 You
00:44:56.040 you can't say
00:44:57.780 the things
00:44:58.440 that I can say.
00:44:59.640 So there's
00:45:00.020 there's no rallying
00:45:02.040 cry
00:45:03.180 except
00:45:03.880 except that
00:45:04.400 individual voice
00:45:05.280 that happens
00:45:06.020 to break through
00:45:07.060 and somebody
00:45:08.500 covers.
00:45:09.220 Yeah.
00:45:09.380 I mean,
00:45:09.660 for me,
00:45:10.160 what made it
00:45:10.780 for me
00:45:11.200 was my speeches
00:45:12.380 in the EU Parliament
00:45:13.260 10 years ago.
00:45:14.720 And sure,
00:45:15.320 the BBC wouldn't
00:45:15.980 cover anything
00:45:16.400 I ever said or did.
00:45:17.440 But YouTube
00:45:18.020 came along.
00:45:19.080 Yeah.
00:45:19.280 So suddenly,
00:45:20.620 suddenly,
00:45:21.000 I was doing stuff
00:45:22.260 and saying stuff
00:45:22.900 and beginning to reach
00:45:23.680 big audiences
00:45:24.340 through YouTube.
00:45:25.620 And, you know,
00:45:26.400 once you've got
00:45:26.800 several million views,
00:45:28.000 then the BBC
00:45:28.740 are kind of forced
00:45:29.580 to give you a platform
00:45:30.820 of some kind.
00:45:31.340 So that, for me,
00:45:32.180 was what made it.
00:45:32.900 We would never,
00:45:33.740 ever have achieved Brexit 0.65
00:45:35.020 if it hadn't been
00:45:35.720 for the growth
00:45:36.120 of the internet.
00:45:37.400 And we, you know,
00:45:38.980 we won that referendum
00:45:40.000 but it's taken us
00:45:40.920 three and a half years
00:45:42.020 to get delivery on it
00:45:43.520 because we've had
00:45:44.800 former prime ministers,
00:45:46.240 we've had businesses,
00:45:48.020 politicians,
00:45:49.200 literally saying
00:45:50.180 that the result
00:45:50.940 wasn't valid,
00:45:52.180 that the Russians
00:45:52.840 interfered
00:45:53.740 or we hypnotised
00:45:54.960 everybody or...
00:45:56.280 But in the end
00:45:56.680 we got there
00:45:57.300 and I tell you
00:45:58.280 what is significant.
00:45:59.200 I was talking yesterday
00:46:00.080 to Tony Abbott,
00:46:00.820 the former Australian
00:46:01.620 prime minister
00:46:02.160 and a big political thinker
00:46:04.100 and he says
00:46:05.080 Brexit is the biggest 0.97
00:46:06.520 geopolitical change
00:46:08.120 since the fall
00:46:08.880 of the Berlin Wall.
00:46:09.820 Agreed.
00:46:10.260 And I think we've dealt
00:46:11.300 an absolutely fatal
00:46:13.340 hammer blow
00:46:13.940 to the globalist project
00:46:15.740 and I, you know,
00:46:16.860 I've always wanted
00:46:17.640 my country
00:46:18.340 to be outside the EU
00:46:19.820 because I think
00:46:20.240 we should be
00:46:20.560 an independent
00:46:21.100 self-governing democracy
00:46:22.440 but I'm not finished yet
00:46:24.340 because I want to bring down
00:46:25.340 the entire EU project.
00:46:26.720 So now here's the issue.
00:46:28.560 We're seeing this
00:46:29.920 with Donald Trump.
00:46:31.660 Donald Trump
00:46:32.140 is a hand grenade.
00:46:33.620 You're a hand grenade.
00:46:35.460 And that hand grenade
00:46:36.740 goes off
00:46:37.500 and it's not like
00:46:38.900 nobody in the media
00:46:40.620 in Great Britain,
00:46:41.580 nobody in the EU,
00:46:42.760 correct me if I'm wrong,
00:46:44.640 is going to take
00:46:46.280 the time to go,
00:46:47.280 you know what?
00:46:48.300 I mean, England,
00:46:49.280 they were such good partners.
00:46:50.860 We lost them.
00:46:51.700 What were we doing wrong?
00:46:53.160 They're not doing that.
00:46:54.840 They're doubling down.
00:46:56.420 In fact, their conclusion
00:46:58.200 and that debate
00:46:59.240 that I was in last week
00:47:00.480 that you talked about
00:47:01.240 until they kicked me out.
00:47:02.600 Yeah.
00:47:02.900 But I've been kicked out
00:47:03.720 of better places than that.
00:47:04.600 It's fine.
00:47:05.600 But it was interesting.
00:47:06.340 In that debate,
00:47:07.420 speakers were saying,
00:47:08.320 well, with Brexit,
00:47:09.240 you know,
00:47:09.380 what do we do
00:47:09.820 to stop other countries leaving?
00:47:11.440 And their conclusion
00:47:12.300 is more centralization.
00:47:14.380 Their conclusion
00:47:14.960 is more bureaucracy.
00:47:16.440 They just don't get it.
00:47:18.780 They're not listening
00:47:19.620 to ordinary folk.
00:47:20.940 And I'll tell you something.
00:47:22.060 You know,
00:47:22.180 we could go right now
00:47:23.320 into outside Paris,
00:47:25.140 into rural France,
00:47:26.500 and we would have
00:47:27.000 a conversation
00:47:27.520 with French people
00:47:28.320 very much along the lines
00:47:29.700 that you and I are now.
00:47:31.620 And at the end of the day,
00:47:33.500 you know,
00:47:33.860 people want to live
00:47:35.100 in a nation state.
00:47:37.220 They want to have a flag.
00:47:38.780 They want to have an identity.
00:47:40.580 They've got their own,
00:47:41.500 you know, culture.
00:47:42.620 And I'm all for,
00:47:44.620 you know,
00:47:45.040 Europe,
00:47:45.700 where we cooperate
00:47:46.420 with each other.
00:47:47.180 We're friendly with each other.
00:47:48.280 We're next door neighbors
00:47:49.020 with each other.
00:47:49.680 But the idea
00:47:50.740 that we're going to abolish
00:47:52.260 the great ancient states
00:47:54.220 of Europe
00:47:54.700 and hand all this power
00:47:56.120 to these people in Brussels,
00:47:57.320 it's never,
00:47:58.160 ever going to work.
00:47:59.640 And the sooner it's,
00:48:00.820 the sooner it's ended,
00:48:02.160 the better.
00:48:02.820 So how do you get
00:48:03.940 the elites?
00:48:05.840 I mean,
00:48:06.460 you know,
00:48:07.600 this is,
00:48:08.060 this is why
00:48:08.860 there are revolutions
00:48:09.900 and why France
00:48:11.480 had guillotines,
00:48:12.680 because
00:48:13.260 they just
00:48:14.960 don't get it.
00:48:16.000 They think
00:48:17.080 they're above you.
00:48:19.540 Nothing's going
00:48:20.300 to change their minds.
00:48:22.060 The people
00:48:22.760 are revolting.
00:48:24.560 Yes,
00:48:24.960 they are.
00:48:25.520 Aren't they?
00:48:26.120 They're very revolting.
00:48:27.300 Repulsive.
00:48:27.960 Right,
00:48:28.320 right.
00:48:29.220 They're deplorable.
00:48:30.740 And so
00:48:31.680 how do you,
00:48:33.380 how,
00:48:33.880 how do you see
00:48:34.520 this continuing
00:48:35.420 without
00:48:36.400 real revolution?
00:48:39.000 Well,
00:48:39.500 it's very interesting
00:48:40.540 that the British
00:48:41.380 have been through
00:48:41.860 a revolution,
00:48:42.540 but,
00:48:42.760 but it's been
00:48:43.240 a relatively peaceful.
00:48:44.260 Very peaceful.
00:48:44.900 Revolution.
00:48:45.260 For nearly
00:48:46.620 half a century,
00:48:47.700 the Conservative
00:48:48.300 Party were
00:48:49.620 the key
00:48:50.380 proponents
00:48:51.260 and supporters
00:48:52.120 of the European
00:48:52.900 project.
00:48:53.820 Despite the fact
00:48:54.520 their voters
00:48:54.980 weren't,
00:48:55.760 but they were.
00:48:57.180 Sounds familiar.
00:48:58.080 I came along
00:48:58.840 and challenged,
00:49:00.400 you know,
00:49:00.760 their assumptions.
00:49:02.040 I mean,
00:49:02.360 the reason David Cameron
00:49:03.460 offered us a referendum
00:49:04.280 was I was eating
00:49:04.940 into his vote
00:49:05.640 in a very dramatic
00:49:06.700 way.
00:49:07.840 Then last year,
00:49:09.400 then last year,
00:49:10.240 over three years,
00:49:11.160 no Brexit, 0.98
00:49:11.900 a weak Prime Minister
00:49:12.660 and Mrs May, 0.78
00:49:13.660 and we had to fight
00:49:14.280 a European election.
00:49:15.260 And I formed
00:49:16.080 a brand new party,
00:49:16.960 the Brexit Party.
00:49:18.080 We won the election.
00:49:19.820 The Conservative Party
00:49:20.800 got less than 10%
00:49:21.880 of the vote
00:49:22.340 in a national election.
00:49:24.080 And they looked
00:49:24.900 into the mirror
00:49:25.380 and they said,
00:49:27.260 either we become
00:49:29.100 Nigel Farage
00:49:30.200 or we're finished.
00:49:31.300 So what's happened
00:49:32.140 is the Conservative Party
00:49:33.420 are now saying
00:49:34.340 all of the right things.
00:49:36.180 And that's,
00:49:36.580 that's the shape
00:49:37.420 of the revolution.
00:49:37.980 Well,
00:49:38.760 that's what we have.
00:49:40.500 They'll say
00:49:41.040 a lot of stuff.
00:49:42.200 They're saying
00:49:43.040 the right things,
00:49:44.000 but actually,
00:49:44.740 do you know what?
00:49:45.440 I think there is
00:49:45.840 a fundamental sea change
00:49:46.920 that's now occurred
00:49:47.400 in British politics.
00:49:48.260 I think they realise
00:49:49.040 that if they try
00:49:50.500 to betray
00:49:51.700 the promises
00:49:52.320 they've made again,
00:49:53.480 they are electorally
00:49:54.960 going to be finished.
00:49:56.060 So I think,
00:49:57.120 I think we've got this
00:49:58.020 to the right place now.
00:49:59.140 And even,
00:50:00.320 even Tony Blair,
00:50:01.800 you know,
00:50:02.260 who is a ghastly globalist,
00:50:04.000 even Tony Blair
00:50:05.200 said on Friday,
00:50:06.160 look,
00:50:06.480 we have to accept it
00:50:07.660 and try and make
00:50:08.400 the best of it.
00:50:08.920 Yeah, well,
00:50:09.340 Bill Clinton also said
00:50:10.600 the era of big government
00:50:11.760 is over.
00:50:14.740 Maybe I've been
00:50:16.060 too trusting.
00:50:17.180 But hey,
00:50:17.820 look,
00:50:18.280 I'm speaking to you
00:50:19.400 in the sort of
00:50:20.320 still euphoria
00:50:22.340 of being in
00:50:24.060 Parliament Square
00:50:24.680 on Friday night.
00:50:25.980 for people who
00:50:26.560 don't understand,
00:50:27.520 why is,
00:50:29.280 why is the EU
00:50:30.900 so evil?
00:50:32.260 Why is it so bad?
00:50:33.760 It's the globalist project,
00:50:35.080 all right?
00:50:35.360 The EU
00:50:36.000 is the epicentre
00:50:37.200 of the globalist project
00:50:38.360 and there are many
00:50:38.980 in America
00:50:39.480 in the Democrats
00:50:40.540 who, of course,
00:50:41.340 I mean,
00:50:41.460 had Hillary won last time. 1.00
00:50:42.920 She was all for tying America 0.98
00:50:44.380 closely into the European
00:50:45.660 single market.
00:50:46.900 What it's about,
00:50:48.160 it's about literally
00:50:49.340 the abolition
00:50:50.520 of nation-state democracies
00:50:52.740 and its replacement
00:50:54.180 with supranational government,
00:50:56.000 government
00:50:56.280 at a higher level
00:50:57.880 where the big decisions
00:50:59.300 are made by people
00:51:00.860 that you can't vote for
00:51:01.940 and you can't remove.
00:51:03.780 And guess who supports this?
00:51:05.440 The giant
00:51:06.240 multinational businesses.
00:51:08.780 They love it
00:51:10.220 because the more bureaucratic,
00:51:12.080 the more rules and regulations,
00:51:13.940 the harder it is
00:51:14.880 for small
00:51:15.640 and medium-sized competitors
00:51:17.000 to come along.
00:51:18.020 So it's kind of
00:51:18.860 what the EU has done,
00:51:20.160 it's destroyed capitalism.
00:51:21.560 It's replaced it
00:51:22.420 with this new form
00:51:23.380 of corporatism
00:51:24.640 where big business,
00:51:26.300 big banks,
00:51:27.280 big politics
00:51:27.960 operate hand in glove
00:51:29.580 to their own benefit
00:51:30.980 and to the distress
00:51:32.160 of virtually everybody else.
00:51:33.700 And they've kind of,
00:51:35.620 they've virtually purchased
00:51:37.520 the political class
00:51:38.540 across Europe.
00:51:39.600 But I think now,
00:51:41.000 now that Brexit's happened
00:51:42.120 and sure there are more debates
00:51:43.240 to be had
00:51:43.720 about the shape of trade deals
00:51:44.880 and whatever,
00:51:45.860 but I now think
00:51:47.000 there's going to be
00:51:47.800 a conversation happening
00:51:48.940 in every European country.
00:51:50.760 You know,
00:51:50.980 why did the British leave?
00:51:52.180 And once they understand
00:51:53.420 the logic of that position,
00:51:54.680 I think we can get back
00:51:56.160 to the nation state,
00:51:57.520 you know,
00:51:58.020 being the building block.
00:51:59.260 So do you see anybody
00:52:00.520 on,
00:52:01.380 in the media
00:52:02.100 or in politics
00:52:02.920 that is starting
00:52:03.700 to wake up anywhere?
00:52:04.880 Well,
00:52:05.160 I think the Italians, 0.88
00:52:06.280 I mean,
00:52:06.540 you know,
00:52:06.760 the Italians,
00:52:07.400 I mean,
00:52:08.260 they're,
00:52:08.500 of course,
00:52:09.020 quite a volatile people.
00:52:11.440 Just don't get them
00:52:12.340 together with the Germans.
00:52:13.220 I mean,
00:52:13.460 I love them,
00:52:14.080 but I think,
00:52:15.300 you know,
00:52:15.500 Italy was taken
00:52:16.260 into a currency
00:52:17.080 called the euro
00:52:17.740 20 years ago.
00:52:19.240 It's basically
00:52:20.260 the Deutsche Mark.
00:52:21.780 You know,
00:52:22.460 I mean,
00:52:23.120 this is a German currency.
00:52:24.880 It hasn't suited Italy.
00:52:26.680 You've got a country
00:52:27.600 there now
00:52:28.240 where there's been
00:52:29.060 zero growth
00:52:29.720 for 20 years.
00:52:32.600 I mean,
00:52:32.840 whole parts
00:52:34.220 of the north of Italy,
00:52:35.180 which in the 1990s
00:52:36.600 when I was in business,
00:52:37.360 I would visit
00:52:37.960 and they were vibrant
00:52:39.360 manufacturing cities.
00:52:41.360 It's gone.
00:52:42.260 It's dead.
00:52:43.240 And I think
00:52:43.640 there comes a point
00:52:44.400 where the Italians,
00:52:45.760 and they're beginning
00:52:46.280 to have this conversation.
00:52:47.440 There's a guy
00:52:48.020 called Matteo Salvini,
00:52:49.780 you know,
00:52:50.040 who's a very prominent
00:52:50.860 politician in Italy.
00:52:52.460 And I think
00:52:52.880 there comes a point
00:52:53.900 where the Italians 0.69
00:52:54.480 say,
00:52:54.800 you know what,
00:52:55.780 this is hurting us.
00:52:57.360 We can't go on with this.
00:52:58.620 You've got countries
00:52:59.240 like Poland 0.99
00:52:59.800 and Hungary,
00:53:01.380 countries who only
00:53:02.200 30 years ago
00:53:03.200 got out from the Soviet Union,
00:53:05.300 got out from Moscow
00:53:06.560 telling them
00:53:07.140 what they couldn't,
00:53:07.840 and now what have they got?
00:53:09.040 They've now got Brussels
00:53:09.880 telling them
00:53:10.480 what they can and can't do.
00:53:12.500 You know,
00:53:12.960 and just think of it.
00:53:14.680 I mean,
00:53:14.900 how can Germany 0.91
00:53:15.740 and Greece
00:53:16.360 be in the same country together?
00:53:18.360 They're culturally
00:53:19.080 so far apart.
00:53:20.760 And I,
00:53:21.500 you know,
00:53:22.040 I'm not anti-European.
00:53:23.360 I love Europe.
00:53:24.600 I love the diversity
00:53:25.540 of Europe,
00:53:26.300 you know,
00:53:26.660 the mix of all
00:53:27.800 the different cultures.
00:53:28.520 But that's what they're
00:53:28.640 getting rid of,
00:53:29.460 is the diversity.
00:53:30.480 They're trying to homogenize us.
00:53:31.680 Yes.
00:53:32.080 They're trying to harmonize us.
00:53:33.340 They're trying to pasteurize us.
00:53:34.800 You know,
00:53:35.340 they're trying to create
00:53:36.120 a new European people,
00:53:38.240 and that's why
00:53:38.760 they've got a flag.
00:53:39.960 It's why they've got
00:53:40.560 an anthem.
00:53:41.580 It's why they want
00:53:42.200 an army.
00:53:43.820 And there are many,
00:53:45.160 there are many,
00:53:46.220 particularly sort of Trotskyites,
00:53:47.800 who see the European Union
00:53:49.280 as being the prototype
00:53:50.420 for one global government.
00:53:52.880 That's what
00:53:53.400 the Globalist Project
00:53:54.160 is all about.
00:53:55.240 And I do believe
00:53:56.420 that Brexit
00:53:56.900 is the first
00:53:57.700 real kickback against it,
00:53:59.640 and it's the beginning
00:54:00.160 of the end.
00:54:00.720 All right,
00:54:00.980 so I want to talk about that
00:54:02.020 globally here
00:54:02.960 with Nigel Farage.
00:54:03.900 The Blaze Radio Network.
00:54:08.460 On Demand.