The Glenn Beck Program - November 23, 2018


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Stu & Jeffy ｜11⧸23⧸18


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On today's show, Glenn and Stu discuss the Democratic Candidates for President in 2020 and debate whether or not stores should be open on Thanksgiving Day. They also debate the pros and cons of Black Friday opening earlier than usual.

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00:00:00.220 The Blaze Radio Network.
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00:00:08.640 Alright, welcome to the podcast.
00:00:10.940 Well, it's Jeffy and myself, Stu, here.
00:00:13.960 Black Friday special.
00:00:14.920 On a Black Friday special for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program today.
00:00:17.940 I want to tell you, next week we're going to be in Tampa and Orlando on November 30th and December 1st.
00:00:22.280 Go to glennbeck.com slash tour to pick up your tickets.
00:00:24.900 We would love to see you there, and if you don't, you're a communist.
00:00:26.960 On today's, speaking of communists, on today's program we go through the entire list of potential Democratic candidates for 2020.
00:00:37.340 Fascinating list.
00:00:38.120 It is a fascinating list.
00:00:39.100 I feel like there's maybe 8 to 10 real candidates in there, if it's that high.
00:00:43.980 But I think there's something like 40 on the list so far.
00:00:46.920 They think it could be, honestly, some of those people won't run, but that list could be in the 20s.
00:00:50.760 And we added a couple to their list, the list that was printed.
00:00:54.700 But it's so strange to actually start breaking them down, and you think, wow, these people actually are going to be out in our face.
00:01:03.140 So some of it's going to be fun, and some of it's going to be agonizing.
00:01:06.220 You've got a long year and a half.
00:01:07.360 I know.
00:01:07.940 I also kind of do a little rant on Black Friday and earlier, whether stores should be open on Thanksgiving or not.
00:01:16.600 I'm pro-capitalism.
00:01:17.920 I've got a pretty strong opinion on that one.
00:01:19.660 Yeah, you convinced me.
00:01:20.420 I was all for stores being closed and shutting everything down, but you convinced me.
00:01:24.380 I'll make the case.
00:01:25.380 And we go through some of the strange stuff going on, including whether you should have a free pass in your marriage,
00:01:30.920 whether you should be able to have a social credit system with the government
00:01:35.720 and what they're going to do to limit what you do in your life,
00:01:38.520 and whether terrorist threats at chicken restaurants are appropriate.
00:01:43.400 It's called one that, I don't know, you, you, it's really gross.
00:01:48.100 It's a gross one, but we'll give it to you.
00:01:49.700 It is a gross reference, and, you know, really what you should do,
00:01:51.960 I know you're listening to the Glenn Beck Program podcast,
00:01:53.920 but really you should just listen to Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher podcast,
00:01:57.440 and I'm about to be clear, that's the only one I care about.
00:01:59.780 I will say for that, for those types of stories, this is the place to go.
00:02:02.940 Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher.
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00:02:07.220 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:02:20.900 It's Friday, November 23rd.
00:02:23.460 Glenn Beck.
00:02:25.080 Welcome to Black Friday.
00:02:27.740 Yes, it's the day for people who actually have the energy to get off their own couches
00:02:32.820 and go out to stores and shop.
00:02:35.260 People used to do these things.
00:02:36.600 Did you know that?
00:02:37.540 Did you know that?
00:02:38.460 Are there people that do that?
00:02:40.200 It's Stu with Jeffy here today for Glenn Beck.
00:02:42.920 Apparently there are.
00:02:44.680 You know, I'm always amazed by this because, first of all,
00:02:47.800 this is very difficult for me to do, which is getting out of my house today
00:02:51.920 and coming in and doing a radio show when I could be sleeping
00:02:55.000 and eating more leftovers, and I barely have the energy to do this.
00:03:00.620 And this is a job where you just talk.
00:03:03.080 Like, there's no heavy lifting.
00:03:05.820 There's not a lot going on here.
00:03:08.500 But I'm amazed by people who are able to do that, and if that's you, more power to you,
00:03:12.700 supporting the economy, all those things.
00:03:15.840 Consumption, consumption, consumption.
00:03:17.340 I believe in it.
00:03:19.100 I'm actually supportive of it.
00:03:21.700 And I think a lot of people would disagree with that.
00:03:25.520 But there's a poll that came out.
00:03:27.580 I really don't.
00:03:29.120 I really think it's fantastic.
00:03:31.340 People always bash consumption.
00:03:33.080 They always say that this time of year shouldn't be about the gifts,
00:03:35.560 and I guess that there are other things, right?
00:03:38.400 Certainly there are.
00:03:39.960 There are other things other than stuffing your fat face and putting presents under the tree.
00:03:46.820 There are other important things.
00:03:48.540 But there's nothing wrong with presents.
00:03:51.040 There's nothing wrong with the wonder of the Thanksgiving dinner.
00:03:56.780 However, one of the things that comes around this time of year, and it's popped its head up again,
00:04:03.900 is the idea that stores are evil for opening on Thanksgiving.
00:04:09.480 57% of people say they are opposed to stores being open on Thanksgiving,
00:04:13.880 getting Black Friday started early.
00:04:15.760 Only 16% are in favor.
00:04:18.320 Well, you know what?
00:04:18.880 I am the 16%, okay?
00:04:22.440 I like the fact that they're open on Thanksgiving.
00:04:26.800 And I think that there's this thing where, you know, we kind of look at this,
00:04:30.540 and, you know, politicians are now embracing this, trying to shut down stores.
00:04:36.840 There's pressure groups assigned to pressure these, you know, retail outlets to make sure that they're closed.
00:04:44.880 The latest one, there's 70 now, 70 big stores will be closed on Thanksgiving.
00:04:50.420 I mean, there's a huge list of them.
00:04:52.020 And, you know, everything from American Girl to Lowe's to Costco, Crate and Barrel, Dillard's.
00:04:59.400 Now, of course, they were all closed yesterday, so you didn't need to go there.
00:05:02.000 Now you can go there, and now you can spend your money 24 hours later,
00:05:05.100 and apparently that's going to make everything better.
00:05:08.260 But, you know, if you're one of the people that look at this and say,
00:05:11.260 this just sounds like an anti-capitalist argument, well, congratulations, you're right.
00:05:17.420 Now, this argument comes almost exclusively from the left, although some people on the right kind of make it too.
00:05:21.960 And you can tell it's BS, because when is the last time the left defended traditional family values?
00:05:29.540 When is the last time the left became so incredibly passionate about your Thanksgiving gathering?
00:05:36.260 Because they just couldn't get enough of those good old family values.
00:05:43.200 How common is that?
00:05:45.080 Yes, sure, they just happen to be taking shots at capitalism.
00:05:49.600 Sure, they just happen to be berating employers and small businesses around the country.
00:05:55.600 Sure, they're doing that too, but the real motivation is they just love those mashed potatoes so much.
00:06:01.680 They can't get enough of them.
00:06:03.000 They can't get enough of a family dinner.
00:06:07.700 The left is not suddenly for traditional values.
00:06:10.500 This is just yet another argument against capitalism.
00:06:12.960 And I think a lot of people would say, well, I don't think, I don't want to go out and go shopping on Thanksgiving.
00:06:18.760 I want to spend time with my family.
00:06:20.400 Well, good for you.
00:06:22.000 If that's you, good for you.
00:06:25.040 Right?
00:06:26.280 But that does not mean that that is good for everybody.
00:06:30.620 Individuals make the choice.
00:06:31.880 Individuals get to make the choice.
00:06:34.860 They get to decide, hey, you know what?
00:06:38.300 My family happens to suck.
00:06:40.800 And maybe I don't want to spend all day with them.
00:06:43.960 Maybe I want to leave immediately and get to a store and it better be open because I can't just drive around in circles the whole day.
00:06:53.180 But I will.
00:06:53.780 But I will if I have to.
00:06:54.880 And, you know, look, I happen to have a family I like, but a lot of people don't.
00:07:01.800 A lot of people show up to Thanksgiving dinner and would love to have the excuse of I've got to go to Lowe's.
00:07:07.400 There's a bracket I need right now.
00:07:10.020 Some of us have family that say, isn't there something you could be doing?
00:07:13.260 Yes.
00:07:13.320 There's nothing wrong with that either.
00:07:17.140 We don't.
00:07:17.880 This is the point.
00:07:18.580 When you're a conservative, when you're a person who believes, who's an individualist, we don't make mass decisions for everybody.
00:07:27.300 If a store wants to stay closed, well, fine.
00:07:29.580 Let them stay closed.
00:07:30.500 If they want to open, let them open.
00:07:32.820 You're not losing anything by allowing people to make decisions on their own.
00:07:36.380 If you don't want to go shop, don't go and shop.
00:07:43.180 And this is, of course, you know, typical progressivism here where you're able to, you know, they're going to make decisions for you.
00:07:50.300 Now, I think the argument goes because that's too easy, right?
00:07:54.200 Like they know they're going to lose that argument.
00:07:56.080 So the argument goes, well, what we're doing is we're just protecting the worker.
00:08:00.760 You see what happens is someone goes, gets a job at Lowe's and they have to work and therefore are, you know, forced to go to work when they don't want to.
00:08:14.440 They can't spend time with their family because these evil corporations, they want you to work, right?
00:08:19.540 These evil profit seekers want to make sure they want to force the the average Joe to go work instead of instead of having a turkey dinner at home.
00:08:28.220 And again, it's clear by the way they talk about it, it reveals it's just a shot against capitalism, right?
00:08:35.500 I mean, like these evil corporations, this is the same standard crap you hear about the, you know, the minimum wage and the corporate income tax and every other.
00:08:44.760 Oh, they want to cut regulations.
00:08:46.480 Well, what about the average Joe who is protected by those regulations?
00:08:48.920 It's the same argument.
00:08:51.620 But it is important to realize that you have to look at this in multiple ways.
00:08:56.680 First of all, if you have, if you are an employee who works at a place that is open on Thanksgiving, you do have a choice.
00:09:03.280 You do.
00:09:04.360 Just like if you want free, free abortions covered by your work health care and free contraception covered by your work health care, you have a choice to go to another employer.
00:09:16.640 The progressive argument on that fact is no, every employer has to offer these things, right?
00:09:21.840 But you actually have a choice, right?
00:09:24.400 Conservatives believe the employer should have the choice.
00:09:26.920 And if you decide you don't want to work for that employer, you go to another one.
00:09:30.320 And you might say, well, you know, first of all, most employees work under an employer that is closed on Thanksgiving.
00:09:37.800 Almost all businesses are closed on Thanksgiving.
00:09:40.400 And that only gives you the choice of almost all employers when you're looking for a job.
00:09:46.280 Okay?
00:09:47.040 I understand that you might be really annoyed.
00:09:51.340 I know that we've had, in my family, we've had, there's always multiple Thanksgivings going on.
00:09:57.200 And we would adjust the time of Thanksgiving.
00:10:00.100 Wait, what?
00:10:01.520 Lots of Thanksgivings.
00:10:02.880 But, you know, you have family members, right?
00:10:04.140 You have one side of the family has Thanksgiving at one place.
00:10:06.640 One side has another place.
00:10:07.720 And a lot of people are bouncing back and forth.
00:10:10.080 They're going to multiple houses, right?
00:10:12.020 And we would adjust the times to make sure that those meals coincided when people were available.
00:10:17.820 There'd be an earlier one and a later one.
00:10:19.640 Because perhaps someone had to work.
00:10:22.060 Right.
00:10:22.280 Maybe someone had to work.
00:10:22.920 And they would say, well, I can be there after four.
00:10:24.700 Okay.
00:10:25.240 Okay.
00:10:25.560 That's when we have dinner.
00:10:26.500 If you're important enough, if it's that important.
00:10:29.520 Otherwise, it's like, yeah, with leftovers are in the kitchen.
00:10:31.780 Exactly.
00:10:32.400 Good to see you.
00:10:33.080 You learn a little bit about your standing in the family when they're like, yeah, well, the mashed potatoes,
00:10:36.640 they're still kind of warm.
00:10:37.920 They're sitting on the counter.
00:10:38.780 We were going to wait, but we didn't.
00:10:40.240 We didn't.
00:10:41.400 But the other side of this, too, is ask employees.
00:10:44.720 Ask people who work in retail, who are not always the most highly compensated employees in America.
00:10:49.820 When they're making $10 an hour working at a retail job, ask them if they want to make $20 an hour for one day.
00:10:58.660 If they want to make time and a half or double time or, in some cases, triple time for working on Thanksgiving,
00:11:04.200 we're going to take that choice away from the employees, the employees that are not the highest earning in our society.
00:11:09.500 We're going to take that away from them because it makes us feel good about traditional family values,
00:11:13.720 which there's no way the left or the media actually cares about at all.
00:11:17.440 No.
00:11:18.420 I mean, that's just, it's just, it's not even, it's not even a realistic point.
00:11:21.960 But the other thing is, I love the idea that retail is the only thing we focus on.
00:11:30.720 Think about your Thanksgiving day.
00:11:32.580 This is what my Thanksgiving day was when I was growing up.
00:11:35.880 You'd get up in the morning and you'd flip on the parade.
00:11:39.640 Of course.
00:11:40.040 The good old traditional Thanksgiving parade.
00:11:42.220 And you'd watch the big fat balloons go down in between the cities, blocks in New York.
00:11:48.660 And you'd wonder, how is this so popular?
00:11:51.180 It's just a very, a bunch of slow moving balloons.
00:11:54.340 I cannot get my kids into it to save my life.
00:11:56.420 They just don't, they're not impressed.
00:11:58.160 Okay.
00:11:58.780 But guess what?
00:12:00.040 What you're watching is tens of thousands of people working.
00:12:05.480 They're all working.
00:12:07.500 This, this, you know, the Pokemon balloon didn't blow itself up and fly down Fifth Avenue.
00:12:13.980 And they are not all volunteers.
00:12:15.540 No.
00:12:15.860 Some of them are.
00:12:16.800 But I mean, some of them are not.
00:12:18.060 Yeah.
00:12:18.360 You go to a turkey trot in the morning.
00:12:19.920 I know Jeffy's a big runner.
00:12:21.280 Oh, you can't keep me away from the turkey trot.
00:12:23.640 I like the early ones.
00:12:24.680 Get up early.
00:12:25.200 Get started.
00:12:25.760 Guess what's happening.
00:12:26.520 Those people are working there.
00:12:28.320 Then you go and you're, okay, it's time to go off to grandma's house for Thanksgiving.
00:12:32.240 And on the way there, well, we've got to stop for gas at a gas station where people are working.
00:12:38.180 They're working there.
00:12:39.720 Maybe you stop for a quick coffee or soda at a McDonald's where people are working.
00:12:46.060 Then, of course, you get to the place.
00:12:47.700 You get to grandma's house in there.
00:12:49.060 Ah, yeah, we never got those rolls.
00:12:50.560 We never got those dinner rolls.
00:12:51.820 Oh, we got to go out to the quick grocery store run.
00:12:54.540 Let's make a quick grocery store run, you know, where people are working.
00:12:57.920 And then you get inside.
00:13:00.960 And you're back inside.
00:13:01.820 You're getting ready.
00:13:02.460 The meal's coming together.
00:13:04.020 Nice family time.
00:13:05.040 And you know what?
00:13:05.500 You look outside and, wow, is it cold out there.
00:13:07.640 But it's not cold in here.
00:13:09.200 Why isn't it cold in here?
00:13:10.360 Because heat is running from a corporation that is producing that heat.
00:13:16.120 And there's a lot of employees there right now on Thanksgiving working.
00:13:21.960 How about that electricity?
00:13:24.000 Oh, isn't that a wonder?
00:13:25.120 Modern wonder.
00:13:26.720 Isn't it fantastic that the lights are all on in here?
00:13:30.720 That doesn't just.
00:13:31.540 There aren't magic elves in your wall running on hamster wheels to turn some magical power generation.
00:13:38.720 There is a power plant.
00:13:40.240 And, yes, they probably have less people than normal.
00:13:42.360 But there's a lot of people there working.
00:13:45.580 Oh, but then the traditional Thanksgiving.
00:13:47.320 You have the meal.
00:13:48.140 You sit down.
00:13:49.120 This is what I did yesterday.
00:13:50.260 A fat gut just falling out of your shirt.
00:13:52.980 And you flip on that TV.
00:13:55.520 And you watch the traditional football game where, you know, you got to watch the Cowboys.
00:13:59.760 Unfortunately, it's your choice.
00:14:01.020 But you got the Cowboys.
00:14:01.920 You got the Lions.
00:14:02.700 And you got now apparently another third game.
00:14:04.720 Yeah, you have to have the third.
00:14:05.820 Cover the day.
00:14:06.580 By the way, completely in favor of the third game.
00:14:08.720 One football all day.
00:14:10.140 But guess what you're seeing when you turn that on?
00:14:13.100 You're seeing, first of all, two teams worth of players and coaches and everybody else.
00:14:20.720 They're all working.
00:14:23.360 And guess what's happening?
00:14:24.640 How are you seeing this magical thing?
00:14:26.660 Well, I don't know, progressives.
00:14:28.360 Guess what you're seeing?
00:14:29.060 You're seeing people boarding cameras.
00:14:30.560 And you're seeing people directing shows.
00:14:32.600 And you're seeing all sorts of things going on.
00:14:35.280 And all of those people are in the stadium and at home and the home office working.
00:14:40.560 And then you're seeing tons of people who parked all these cars, parking attendants, and people who are inside the stadium running the concessions.
00:14:49.520 No, those aren't open.
00:14:50.220 No, they are.
00:14:51.040 They're all open and they're all working.
00:14:53.060 And it's like, well, this is, and of course, these are all, some of those are really important.
00:14:59.300 You have to have electricity and heat, of course.
00:15:01.040 And this is just mindless consumerism.
00:15:03.840 It's just shopping.
00:15:05.120 It's just shopping.
00:15:05.900 And if you need to shop so badly, just shop online.
00:15:09.500 Here's a crazy secret.
00:15:12.980 This is going to be, I know the left is going to be shocked by this.
00:15:16.980 But you know what?
00:15:18.000 Over at Amazon, there's a lot of people on Thanksgiving working.
00:15:23.520 They're all working for your benefit on these days.
00:15:27.460 You know, this is all.
00:15:28.100 Family values.
00:15:29.360 Family values, right.
00:15:30.400 It has nothing to do with family values.
00:15:31.860 These places, there are people out there doing their jobs every day.
00:15:35.960 And because we ignore all these thousands and thousands of people, we only have to stop,
00:15:41.060 you know, some retail outlet from actually opening up.
00:15:48.080 And here's the thing.
00:15:49.120 This is the craziest part of this.
00:15:51.080 Black Friday today is called that because, okay, well, this is the day that theoretically
00:15:56.840 retailers get into the black for the year, right?
00:15:59.820 They run in the red all year.
00:16:01.320 And then the Christmas season comes.
00:16:02.600 Black Friday turns to the black.
00:16:03.640 Now, that's not actually true, but that's why it was called that.
00:16:07.420 I've got news for you.
00:16:08.380 It's a lot harder for retailers to get in the black than it used to be.
00:16:12.580 Yeah.
00:16:13.500 You know, I don't know if you've noticed this.
00:16:14.960 All these places, there's no more Toys R Us locations in the United States.
00:16:19.520 It's hard for these companies to actually make it buy.
00:16:22.640 We're going to take a giant shopping day away from them because the left tells us they
00:16:27.500 care suddenly about traditional family values.
00:16:30.300 It sounds good.
00:16:31.880 It does sound good.
00:16:33.040 It does sound good.
00:16:34.080 It does.
00:16:34.680 I mean, it makes you feel good.
00:16:37.320 Nostalgic for the days when nothing was open and you'd go.
00:16:40.780 If you don't have it, you don't need it.
00:16:43.100 I understand that.
00:16:44.880 And that's, of course, true.
00:16:46.220 But that is not my decision to make for everybody else.
00:16:48.420 No, it is not.
00:16:49.200 And, by the way, it sounds good when you say, yeah, you know, I just don't want those
00:16:54.180 open.
00:16:54.480 I want to be able to stay home.
00:16:56.020 We're out of milk.
00:16:56.800 All right, I'll be right back.
00:16:57.660 Exactly.
00:16:57.980 And you run to a store where people are working.
00:17:00.440 I told you to get milk yesterday.
00:17:02.260 Why didn't you?
00:17:02.900 I thought we had enough.
00:17:03.960 All right, I'll go.
00:17:04.620 Think about this is a giant movement in the name of traditional family values that is basically
00:17:11.420 giving.
00:17:12.260 Amazon doesn't need another advantage. 1.00
00:17:14.700 They're open all the time.
00:17:18.480 Right.
00:17:19.080 They don't need yet another advantage here.
00:17:21.240 I love Amazon.
00:17:22.140 I have nothing against them.
00:17:23.080 But, like, when, you know, traditional retailers are already getting killed by places like Amazon
00:17:28.200 and you're going to take one of the most profitable theoretical days of the year away from them
00:17:32.520 because you think, you know, people should stay home with a family they may or may not like.
00:17:39.460 I know.
00:17:39.780 It's quite presumptuous to tell everybody else what they need to do on Thanksgiving.
00:17:44.540 I know.
00:17:45.220 I don't like it.
00:17:46.420 I don't like the idea that governments are now getting involved in it.
00:17:49.620 I don't like the pressure group element of it.
00:17:52.280 You can, I didn't go out shopping yesterday.
00:17:55.360 I didn't want to.
00:17:56.160 I wanted to spend time with my family.
00:17:58.320 Somehow, Jeffy wanted to spend time with his family, too.
00:18:01.140 I know they didn't want to spend time with him.
00:18:02.580 Remember I used the example of, isn't there something you should be doing?
00:18:05.740 Yeah, that's true.
00:18:06.840 So, let's take a minute here, like, and realize that just because I happen to like it
00:18:11.980 and Jeffy happens to like staying home with our families, that doesn't mean everybody has to.
00:18:16.580 No, you don't.
00:18:17.300 They should be able to run away as much as you want.
00:18:18.800 Absolutely.
00:18:19.340 And by the way, those movies that everybody went to see and fell in love with over the weekend,
00:18:24.700 amazingly, those don't just show up on the screen.
00:18:27.780 No.
00:18:28.280 There are people there working.
00:18:31.520 Triple 8, 727-BECK is the phone number.
00:18:33.860 By the way, welcome to Black Friday.
00:18:36.380 If you made the choice to stay home with your family and run out the second.
00:18:40.160 I love it.
00:18:40.780 They're like, oh, we chair about traditional family values.
00:18:42.560 By the way, stores open at 4 a.m.
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00:19:08.220 If you happen to be in a deep, deep holiday depression today, keep this in mind.
00:19:15.380 We are in the season of the 2020 election already.
00:19:19.660 And it was good things ahead.
00:19:22.260 Two freaking years of a presidential election.
00:19:25.800 But this one's going to be a lot of fun.
00:19:28.160 Because this time, we have a massive field of Democrats who are going to be beating each
00:19:34.120 other up for the next year and a half.
00:19:36.260 Oh, that's good.
00:19:36.900 And that is going to be massively entertaining.
00:19:39.400 That'll be fun.
00:19:40.120 Yeah.
00:19:40.340 It is going to be really fun.
00:19:42.260 So get used to it.
00:19:43.860 But I will say that something happened in a college football game the other day that
00:19:47.220 actually kind of reminds me of how I feel about just politics in general.
00:19:51.280 Every time I think about Washington, I think just like this, this referee.
00:19:54.940 Listen.
00:19:56.600 The play is a touchdown.
00:19:58.540 After the play, unsportsmanlike conduct on all players from both teams.
00:20:03.920 They'll be their first unsportsmanlike conduct style.
00:20:07.320 The playbook personal style.
00:20:08.640 I love that.
00:20:09.360 I don't think I've ever heard that before.
00:20:10.980 All players on both teams?
00:20:13.020 On every team.
00:20:13.720 Can you do that?
00:20:14.940 Yes, you can't now.
00:20:16.200 Apparently you can.
00:20:17.420 Everybody gets a check, Mark.
00:20:18.620 You're done.
00:20:19.160 I love that.
00:20:19.980 I honestly did not know you could just call mass, like, collective penalties like that.
00:20:24.380 But I like it.
00:20:25.200 Well, instead of, I mean, it's probably been done where they've called it on the team.
00:20:29.600 I guess.
00:20:30.640 The way he said it was great.
00:20:32.140 All players on both teams?
00:20:36.240 You are all unsportsmanlike conduct right now.
00:20:40.080 And if that's how you feel about Washington, wait until this next year and a half.
00:20:43.140 This is going to be amazing.
00:20:45.620 I want to spend some time on Black Friday.
00:20:48.380 As you're driving and going out and you're doing your Black Friday shopping or you're
00:20:52.520 more likely actually, you know, doing anything else if you're smart.
00:20:56.300 Because I don't want to go anywhere near these stores today.
00:20:58.060 I know.
00:20:58.360 But it's a whole other story.
00:21:00.260 We have a list of the potential candidates who are going to take on Donald Trump in 2020.
00:21:05.860 Well, not only will this be fun to watch and fun to have, it'll be fun to hear who
00:21:09.560 things can be, who they think can be.
00:21:11.060 Right.
00:21:11.240 Now, as I'm scrolling through, the list is pretty expansive.
00:21:16.620 Really?
00:21:17.280 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38.
00:21:40.240 38, 39, 40.
00:21:43.500 I see 40 here if I counted that right.
00:21:45.880 And by the way, there are already a couple of names that are not on this list that I think
00:21:51.780 are very possible.
00:21:53.900 So if you notice any, Jeffy, if you think of any during the time that might be on the list,
00:21:58.500 I'm interested to hear the 40, though.
00:22:00.000 Okay, here we go.
00:22:00.760 There's got to be, because some of these people cannot honestly believe that they have a shot.
00:22:06.220 Oh, no.
00:22:06.680 I think there are a lot of different reasons you run for president.
00:22:09.260 Like, why do you keep your name in the running?
00:22:13.700 Because you're relevant until you take it off the list.
00:22:16.400 That's true.
00:22:16.740 As soon as you say, I'm not running, and people believe you.
00:22:19.480 Now, this is not like Beto O'Rourke, right?
00:22:21.320 Like, Beto says, oh, I'm not running.
00:22:23.140 And nobody believes him.
00:22:24.220 Right.
00:22:24.500 So no one takes him off the list.
00:22:25.780 But when you are convincing, and you take your name off the list, everyone forgets about you.
00:22:29.280 You can't sell any books.
00:22:30.160 You can't book speeches.
00:22:31.340 It's all dead.
00:22:33.260 It's such a scam.
00:22:34.580 It's a money grab for a lot of these people, or a power grab, right?
00:22:37.500 Like, you're trying to raise your name up in the list so people will think that you're relevant.
00:22:42.940 But heaven forbid they just stick to the job that we elected them to do in the first place as congressman or senator.
00:22:48.480 That's terrible.
00:22:49.220 Well, let's start there.
00:22:50.080 We'll start with senators, okay?
00:22:51.040 Here we go.
00:22:51.540 We've got a list of 40 here.
00:22:52.980 And if you have anyone else you think is not on this list, feel free to call in.
00:22:55.620 888-727-BECK is the phone number.
00:22:58.100 It's Stu and Jeffy in for Glenn today, who's still eating mashed potatoes.
00:23:03.980 I'm pretty sure he probably is.
00:23:05.300 Probably is.
00:23:06.160 Okay.
00:23:06.780 They're first on the list, and this is not in any particular order other than they've grouped them by, you know, the place they're coming from.
00:23:13.000 For example, we start with senators, okay?
00:23:15.340 Cory Booker.
00:23:17.120 Now, Cory Booker, to me, has no chance of being president.
00:23:20.400 And I never, I know I should never say that because every time I say it, that person's president.
00:23:26.500 Right.
00:23:26.680 I said it about Barack Obama.
00:23:28.040 I was like, this guy's been senator for two years.
00:23:29.840 What, he's not going to be president?
00:23:31.000 And then he's president.
00:23:32.180 Right.
00:23:32.320 We've seen this happen over and over again.
00:23:34.320 So, Cory Booker, we all know that he had his I am Spartacus moment.
00:23:39.960 He sure did.
00:23:40.540 And this is why the big indication is he's going to run because he did everything he could to grandstand.
00:23:45.160 He did.
00:23:45.780 During the Kavanaugh thing.
00:23:47.320 The I am Spartacus thing was his way of saying, I am such an extreme opponent of a conservative justice.
00:23:55.420 I will break the law to stop him.
00:23:59.460 Now, that was his case.
00:24:01.180 We know he didn't break the law.
00:24:02.860 He was just, you can think about that.
00:24:04.460 He was actually saying, no.
00:24:06.040 It's like a, it's a, it's a police officer pulling you over and going, by the way, you were not speeding.
00:24:09.560 Yes, I was.
00:24:10.580 I sure was speeding.
00:24:12.160 And I was drunk and reckless driving too.
00:24:15.120 Like he was trying to convince everyone.
00:24:17.100 He was super tough.
00:24:18.180 So, the incentives are, he was trying to signal a 2020 run, trying to get activists on his side.
00:24:22.560 I do not think it worked.
00:24:24.540 I don't think it worked either.
00:24:25.740 He doesn't, I don't know.
00:24:27.020 Again, I don't want to say that he's not going to do it because we have been wrong.
00:24:30.500 But he doesn't seem likable enough.
00:24:34.440 Yeah.
00:24:35.000 And let's rate these as we go through.
00:24:36.520 Do they have any chance of being the Democratic nominee?
00:24:39.740 And do they have any chance of beating Donald Trump if they are?
00:24:42.780 I mean, I could see Cory maybe at the VP level.
00:24:46.660 Maybe.
00:24:47.020 Maybe.
00:24:47.300 Maybe.
00:24:47.560 That's a good point.
00:24:48.280 We'll add that question too.
00:24:49.440 So, there's three questions.
00:24:50.440 I like this.
00:24:50.980 Maybe.
00:24:51.440 VP, nominee, and beating Trump.
00:24:55.860 Maybe he has Spartacus to ride along.
00:24:57.540 I think that's the only one he has a chance for is VP.
00:25:00.140 And I think that would be a very bad decision by the Democrats.
00:25:02.520 I think so too.
00:25:03.860 All right.
00:25:04.000 We've got 40 of these.
00:25:04.880 So, let's go.
00:25:06.120 The second one, Sherrod Brown.
00:25:08.340 He is the senator from Ohio.
00:25:10.760 He just won an easy election in a state that is known as a swing state but is leaning red lately.
00:25:17.740 What he's known for, of course, is the Democrat that keeps winning in Ohio.
00:25:21.160 This is according to Politico, by the way, put together this list.
00:25:23.780 He has, of course, been focusing on re-election for this last campaign.
00:25:26.740 People are thinking he's kind of a left-wing populist in a somewhat red state that continues to win an important state for the election.
00:25:34.620 Would this be a good candidate?
00:25:36.480 No way.
00:25:37.280 So, let's go up the list here.
00:25:38.740 Could he be a VP candidate?
00:25:40.060 I think the answer is yes.
00:25:41.580 I think yes, it could be.
00:25:43.100 Could he be the nominee?
00:25:44.520 This is a question here.
00:25:46.360 I think it's possible.
00:25:48.920 I think there's a path there for Sherrod Brown.
00:25:51.060 I think it's a narrow path.
00:25:53.440 And I think the issue with him is he's not going to be seen as an extremist activist favorite.
00:26:00.920 He's not going to get a lot of the left-left-left-wing love.
00:26:03.720 He's only going to get left-left-wing love.
00:26:05.120 As a VP runner, though, as VP, he brings you Ohio.
00:26:08.640 Yeah.
00:26:08.820 Right?
00:26:09.220 Maybe.
00:26:09.980 Well, yeah.
00:26:10.620 That's the thought.
00:26:11.180 Right.
00:26:11.760 And he's not known enough to where he could be.
00:26:16.460 I'm not that extreme.
00:26:18.280 I'm on your side.
00:26:19.020 Right.
00:26:19.740 The VP one I can definitely see.
00:26:21.960 Because especially if you get a more left-wing candidate, more activist-level candidate running,
00:26:26.920 you could see them.
00:26:28.260 Okay, Sherrod Brown, he's been around.
00:26:30.860 It's kind of, you know, it's not a sexy pick, but you could see somebody picking him as a VP.
00:26:34.960 I do not think he's – people like him against Trump on the Democratic side.
00:26:40.020 The people who argue for him because he could pick off some of – that was the area that Trump won
00:26:45.360 that previous Republicans like Romney didn't, right?
00:26:48.260 That area, right?
00:26:49.540 Guys like Cory Booker.
00:26:50.700 I don't know that they know what they're up against.
00:26:53.340 I don't think so either.
00:26:54.800 All right, so there we go.
00:26:55.780 Kirsten Gillibrand.
00:26:56.960 She's the senator from New York. 0.99
00:26:59.920 She's, of course, been big on the Me Too thing.
00:27:02.900 She's kind of in the public face as far as senators go on the Me Too thing. 0.99
00:27:06.140 She said that Bill Clinton should have resigned during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
00:27:10.020 She led the campaign to get Al Franken to resign as well.
00:27:15.580 She's already visited New Hampshire and Nevada.
00:27:18.720 And she's gone to – she's kind of been known as a – not a super far-left Democrat.
00:27:25.200 Again, we're talking degrees of left here.
00:27:28.240 So I understand that she's very liberal.
00:27:30.380 But she's been trying to position herself as a little more moderate than the far-left people.
00:27:36.140 She also, though, has now been lately moving left to try to attract those activists.
00:27:41.280 She's saying she wants to abolish ICE, for example.
00:27:44.020 I mean, this is a very far-left wing.
00:27:46.220 And a federal jobs guarantee.
00:27:48.060 I mean, these are multiple trillion-dollar policies that she's supporting. 0.95
00:27:51.380 No, she could – I could see her definitely running. 1.00
00:27:54.080 Definitely – I mean, definitely running.
00:27:55.720 Yeah.
00:27:55.960 That's the fourth question.
00:27:57.000 Is she going to run?
00:27:57.860 Okay, now we're going to go.
00:27:59.360 Will she run? 0.90
00:28:00.480 I think the answer to that is yes.
00:28:02.280 Absolutely.
00:28:02.560 100%.
00:28:02.840 Could she be a VP?
00:28:03.680 I think the answer to that is yes.
00:28:05.080 Yes.
00:28:05.520 Could she be the nominee?
00:28:08.200 I don't know.
00:28:09.420 I wouldn't completely rule it out.
00:28:11.260 I don't know.
00:28:11.600 Could she beat Donald Trump?
00:28:13.540 I don't think so.
00:28:14.300 No way.
00:28:14.680 I don't think so.
00:28:16.600 No way.
00:28:17.020 It's not impossible, I guess, but I don't think so.
00:28:19.900 Again, you've got to understand, too, that the climate could be a little bit different than it is right now.
00:28:23.940 If the economy goes south, almost anybody can beat Donald Trump.
00:28:26.860 That economy has to stay together, and that is going to be very difficult.
00:28:31.700 If it doesn't stay together, there's going to be a lot of trouble there in this campaign.
00:28:35.400 Next up, Tim Kaine, the most forgettable VP candidate in history.
00:28:41.620 Somebody – I bet 80% of Hillary Clinton voters could not name who they voted for in that VP ticket. 1.00
00:28:47.480 Who they voted for in the VP?
00:28:47.940 That's probably true.
00:28:48.820 He was a giant zilch as a candidate. 1.00
00:28:51.800 He brought nothing to that.
00:28:52.060 Brought nothing to that ticket.
00:28:53.940 That was too bad.
00:28:54.680 I mean, I –
00:28:55.300 That did not work at all.
00:28:56.060 It didn't work at all.
00:28:57.520 At all.
00:28:58.120 I mean, again, you can always second-guess these things.
00:29:01.540 But, like, people beat up on the McCain pick of Sarah Palin, and it's like, well, Palin at least energized the base for McCain.
00:29:08.740 It was the only reason I voted for him, to be honest, for you.
00:29:11.000 Brought a big state.
00:29:11.380 At that time.
00:29:13.420 Yeah.
00:29:14.060 I mean, you can argue that Alaska –
00:29:15.340 They were going to win Alaska anyway, but yes, okay.
00:29:17.340 But, I mean, I think, too, you know, when you look at the exit polling, more people voted for the ticket because of Sarah Palin than voted against it because of Sarah Palin.
00:29:27.360 So, I mean, I don't know.
00:29:28.340 It didn't wind up working, and I think, you know, McCain second-guessed it before his death.
00:29:33.560 But he was – but, I mean, I don't know how you argue in McCain's favor here.
00:29:39.300 He did nothing.
00:29:40.620 He had a chance in the spotlight and did nothing with it.
00:29:43.760 It cannot be – he's not going to run.
00:29:45.500 He cannot be the vice president.
00:29:46.980 He's not going to be the nominee, and there's no way he could beat Trump.
00:29:49.540 All of those things I think were agreed on.
00:29:51.960 Yes.
00:29:52.240 Amy Klobuchar, she is the senator from Minnesota. 0.74
00:29:56.220 She is, you know, talked about in Democratic circles as a centrist.
00:30:00.440 She is – I don't necessarily believe that, of course, but that's the way she's talked about.
00:30:05.960 She is a Democrat in a state that leans blue but was pretty close in 2016.
00:30:11.840 There are now two female – I think, too, the female advantage here is important. 1.00
00:30:15.620 I would be – I would not be – I would be stunned if one of the two places on that ticket are not a woman. 1.00
00:30:23.920 Yeah, they almost have to be.
00:30:24.900 This is a party that is obsessed with identity.
00:30:26.680 Yeah, they almost have to be.
00:30:27.740 And so I think Klobuchar, absolute VP candidate as a possibility.
00:30:34.580 Do you think she'll run?
00:30:36.180 I think there's a good chance of it.
00:30:37.700 Really?
00:30:37.820 I'm not sold.
00:30:38.700 I don't know.
00:30:39.260 But she's not particularly well-known outside of her state.
00:30:43.020 Could she be the nominee?
00:30:44.860 I think there's a path there.
00:30:46.480 I think there's a path for almost every woman on this list that hasn't shown themselves to be particularly awful.
00:30:55.180 We'll get to some of those in a bit.
00:30:56.460 Like, can she beat Trump?
00:30:58.180 You know, that's going to be – that's going to be tough one.
00:30:59.940 You've got to have a fighter in that role, I think.
00:31:01.620 Yes.
00:31:01.940 I think they learned their lesson from that.
00:31:03.560 And they have to have someone that can – you know, someone that can take up – a fighter.
00:31:07.280 Yeah, I mean, that's the only way to say it.
00:31:08.620 They've got to be able to take those punches and punch back. 0.62
00:31:11.080 And punch back well.
00:31:12.340 Punch back well.
00:31:12.840 Hillary Clinton was terrible at that. 1.00
00:31:15.320 She could not do it at all.
00:31:16.660 And I think it was probably her biggest downfall as far as that election went. 1.00
00:31:19.400 Now, look, her policies are all terrible, too.
00:31:21.120 But Democrats don't care about that. 1.00
00:31:22.620 But the people who could have voted for Hillary and decided instead to vote for Trump, I think, just saw her as just incapable.
00:31:29.020 She couldn't deal – if she can't deal with the pressure there, can she deal with, you know, the Vladimir Putins of the world?
00:31:34.440 Look, she was Secretary of State in a period that wasn't exactly successful, in my estimation.
00:31:40.300 But, you know, we'll see.
00:31:41.480 Jeff Merkley, he is the senator from Oregon.
00:31:45.940 He is the only U.S. senator to endorse Bernie Sanders in 2016.
00:31:49.960 So you see the approach he's going for here.
00:31:51.580 That's a Jeff Merkley?
00:31:52.080 Jeff Merkley.
00:31:53.220 He's a big climate guy.
00:31:54.640 Big – I wouldn't call him a climate extremist in my mind, but he's a big climate guy.
00:32:00.140 He has been open about the possibility of running.
00:32:02.420 He's visited the early states.
00:32:04.140 He's reportedly hired staffers in Iowa and Nevada with a PAC there.
00:32:09.580 Again, I don't – maybe he's going to run.
00:32:11.620 It seems like he's leading that way.
00:32:13.480 I do not think he's a serious contender for the nomination or –
00:32:17.460 No way.
00:32:18.240 You know, someone's going to grab that Bernie Sanders mantle there.
00:32:20.780 And it may or may not be Bernie himself.
00:32:22.960 We'll get to him here in a second.
00:32:24.580 But I don't think it's going to be Merkley.
00:32:27.060 He's not known well enough.
00:32:29.040 Could he be a VP candidate even?
00:32:31.560 I mean, the only way I could see that happening is if you had a –
00:32:34.660 someone who was really considered to be a centrist Democrat somehow won,
00:32:40.780 and they wanted to pull someone over to get the left wing on their side.
00:32:43.660 But I don't see –
00:32:44.300 That says it all about Jeff Merkley because I actually looked him up.
00:32:47.140 I really meant it.
00:32:48.380 Who?
00:32:49.020 Yeah.
00:32:50.660 Education.
00:32:51.320 Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
00:32:54.180 There you go.
00:32:54.440 Number one.
00:32:55.320 There you go.
00:32:56.280 We're going through the 2020 candidates for president of the United States.
00:32:59.860 It's Stu and Jeffy in for Glenn.
00:33:01.080 And we have – we're down to Elizabeth Warren.
00:33:03.880 Now, when I talked just a moment ago about how you need to have someone,
00:33:06.660 if you want to beat Donald Trump,
00:33:07.640 they're going to have to pick somebody who can fight and hang
00:33:09.640 and deal with the pressure of the sort of stuff he brings, right?
00:33:13.520 Right.
00:33:13.900 Like Pocahontas, right? 1.00
00:33:15.300 She has proved she cannot handle that.
00:33:17.500 I know.
00:33:18.040 She is the ultimate example of somebody who is –
00:33:20.700 if they name her the nominee, if she gets that gig,
00:33:23.700 she is going to get destroyed by Donald Trump.
00:33:26.500 That's for sure.
00:33:27.160 And look, obviously, I don't want Elizabeth Warren to be president,
00:33:30.000 so go ahead and name her because she's going to lose.
00:33:32.600 But stranger things have happened in the world,
00:33:35.460 and so I do not want her being president of the United States.
00:33:37.840 Well, it's possible that they run her, though.
00:33:40.280 She's one of the top-tier people. 0.77
00:33:41.760 I will say I think she destroyed her chances with this whole –
00:33:44.840 I went to 23andMe.com, and they said I was 1,000th Native American.
00:33:50.900 It was so poorly –
00:33:52.380 That was a dumb move.
00:33:53.420 So poorly that I think, unfortunately, Democrats got the idea,
00:33:58.640 whoa, she's going to be a disaster if she's the nominee. 1.00
00:34:01.700 Listen to this.
00:34:02.180 This is from a podcast.
00:34:04.480 FiveThirtyEight did a podcast going through a bunch of the nominees as well
00:34:07.240 a couple weeks ago, and the crowd is very Democratic.
00:34:10.160 They're cheering Amy Klobuchar, and they're inside politics people, right?
00:34:14.220 So listen to the crowd reaction, however, to Elizabeth Warren.
00:34:17.680 Listen to this.
00:34:18.560 So, Claire, who is the number one overall choice in our 2020 Democratic primary draft?
00:34:23.680 I am sticking with my last first-round choice of Elizabeth Warren. 0.88
00:34:27.940 Elizabeth Warren.
00:34:29.060 Okay, there it is.
00:34:30.620 They don't like that.
00:34:32.700 I mean, that is not – it's not an endorsement.
00:34:35.880 They don't like that.
00:34:36.480 I'll tell you that.
00:34:37.900 And I think that's smart.
00:34:39.380 She cannot – no, she cannot.
00:34:41.140 She's not – I mean, I think she's going to run,
00:34:43.140 but I do not think she has a chance of winning.
00:34:45.640 How about Bernie Sanders?
00:34:47.100 Bernie Sanders is next up on the list.
00:34:48.740 No way.
00:34:49.140 We're going through – I think there's 40 of these, by the way.
00:34:51.200 Bernie Sanders.
00:34:52.500 Can he win the nomination?
00:34:53.360 I mean, he finished second last time.
00:34:54.980 He was competitive with Hillary.
00:34:56.740 There's an argument to be made.
00:34:58.060 I know.
00:34:58.760 But I do feel like he's old news, right?
00:35:00.560 Yes, he is old news.
00:35:01.460 And he's old.
00:35:02.480 And he's old.
00:35:03.080 He's 77.
00:35:04.100 I mean, that's – look, Elizabeth Warren has that issue too. 1.00
00:35:06.920 I mean, everybody wants to think of her as a little young spring chicken senator, 1.00
00:35:10.200 but she's not.
00:35:10.940 No, she is –
00:35:11.760 She's what, 67, 68?
00:35:13.700 Yeah, okay.
00:35:14.140 69.
00:35:14.740 Look, Donald Trump's not young either, though.
00:35:16.440 But I think, like, that's a smart thing for the Democrats to do
00:35:19.340 is probably pick somebody who can make that point, right?
00:35:22.920 Right.
00:35:23.500 If you've got a 50-year-old candidate, you can say,
00:35:25.540 look, I mean, Donald Trump's the old policy of the past.
00:35:28.220 You know they're going to say it anyway.
00:35:29.720 Bernie Sanders will be, I'm the future, the future of Marxism.
00:35:32.880 You know, I think, wow.
00:35:34.080 I'm going to dive into the future there, Bernie.
00:35:36.940 But I don't think he's going to win.
00:35:39.280 I would be stunned if he is the guy.
00:35:42.000 I think they can get the same policies from somebody in a better package.
00:35:47.080 Because when Bernie came out the first time, people were like,
00:35:49.280 oh, well, there's a lot of socialists in the Democratic Party.
00:35:51.100 Yeah, but they didn't say it.
00:35:52.060 Nope, they did not.
00:35:52.840 They didn't admit it back then.
00:35:54.200 And Bernie, one of the things that Bernie does is that, you know,
00:35:57.760 despite disliking him and he's old, he's actually, you know, he's not dumb.
00:36:02.840 You know, he knows how to word his stuff.
00:36:05.540 And where you have, what's-her-face from New York,
00:36:08.380 you're not going to get that from her.
00:36:09.520 It's too soon.
00:36:10.340 Ocasio-Cortez, what you're talking about, yeah.
00:36:11.700 Well, luckily, she's at least seven years away from having a chance to run for president. 1.00
00:36:15.520 But who knows in this world?
00:36:17.240 That needs to change.
00:36:17.940 I don't know who's responsible for that.
00:36:19.840 Yeah, exactly.
00:36:21.060 Bernie, I don't think it's going to happen for Bernie here.
00:36:24.120 But it's not completely impossible.
00:36:26.840 You have to think that there's a path there.
00:36:28.840 And whenever you get to a one-on-one, you know, one-on-one,
00:36:33.380 a lot of it has to do with what's happening at the time, you know, a major world event.
00:36:38.420 I mean, no one could have beaten Barack Obama in 2008 because of the financial collapse, right?
00:36:45.520 It happened a month before.
00:36:47.280 We were in the middle of a massive recession, no matter who the Democrats trotted out there.
00:36:50.980 And if they had a socialist, we would have elected one.
00:36:53.840 And now Barack Obama was pretty close in many ways to a socialist.
00:36:56.720 But let me give you the determination, the difference here.
00:36:59.580 Bernie Sanders in 2013 came out with a proposal for Medicare for everyone, universal health care.
00:37:05.720 He got no co-sponsors, zero.
00:37:09.340 Now almost everyone on this list of senators I just gave you has openly supported that bill.
00:37:14.700 That's how far we've come in a very short time.
00:37:16.840 But again, remember, we're talking about Democrats voting for this.
00:37:20.260 So can that happen?
00:37:22.920 Possible.
00:37:23.420 I think it can.
00:37:24.100 Yeah, I think Kamala Harris is in the top tier. 1.00
00:37:26.500 Sadly, I think that's true.
00:37:28.280 Mark Warner from Virginia, I don't know, right?
00:37:32.520 How about this, Jimmy?
00:37:33.260 I'll go through these names.
00:37:34.120 A lot of them are going to get more and more obscure.
00:37:35.740 We all know the only.
00:37:36.580 Okay, let's go through the list.
00:37:37.520 I mean, we all know the most important person from Virginia is Jim Gilmore.
00:37:41.200 I don't think Jim's running this time.
00:37:42.580 No, he's not.
00:37:43.140 He's giving it a rest.
00:37:43.940 But it's okay.
00:37:44.960 If you have one that we want to expand on, you can stop me.
00:37:47.780 But I think we're going to go through some of these and just say, you know, no.
00:37:51.060 How about John Delaney?
00:37:52.260 He's a U.S. representative from Maryland.
00:37:54.240 No.
00:37:55.080 Right?
00:37:55.340 He's not going to be the nominee.
00:37:56.620 This one's interesting, though.
00:37:57.920 Tulsi Gabbard?
00:37:59.280 Now, Tulsi Gabbard, I've never heard her name before.
00:38:03.560 She is a U.S. representative from Hawaii.
00:38:06.140 She was apparently a major in the Army National Guard and Hawaii representative.
00:38:10.460 She is actually, I've seen her speak a couple of times.
00:38:14.500 She's really good.
00:38:16.440 But nobody knows who she is.
00:38:18.120 Again, that's the problem.
00:38:19.300 Now, this opens us up to a different level of running for president.
00:38:23.100 You don't always run for president to be president.
00:38:25.420 Sometimes you run for president to be a vice presidential possibility.
00:38:30.260 And sometimes you run just to get known.
00:38:32.500 Get your name from 0% understanding to 30, 40%.
00:38:37.500 So next time when you want to run, you have a chance.
00:38:39.760 This might be what we're looking at here.
00:38:40.800 She's 37 years old.
00:38:42.120 Yeah, she would do that.
00:38:42.660 And she's a Bernie Sanders sort of Democrat.
00:38:45.500 Her approach to foreign policy, including a visit with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, put her outside many in the Democratic mainstream.
00:38:55.140 I don't know if that's true, but that would be an interesting thing to talk about.
00:38:58.820 But she has gone to early states, and apparently, again, I don't, it doesn't seem like this time would be the time for her, but it's someone to consider long term.
00:39:06.220 She needs to be recognized.
00:39:07.480 I mean, you're right.
00:39:08.340 If she runs, it's because she wants people to know who she is, and she needs to do that. 0.64
00:39:12.200 Yeah, expand.
00:39:12.940 Again, Hawaii's not a great state to come from.
00:39:15.880 However, obviously, we've seen someone born in Hawaii become president.
00:39:18.560 Also, I would argue the main one here is the potential is VP here.
00:39:24.320 There's not, if you have a 80, like if you have a Bernie Sanders actually wins, you could see someone like this being named as a VP candidate.
00:39:32.400 She'd be a great VP for that, yeah. 0.92
00:39:34.100 Joe Kennedy, representative from Massachusetts.
00:39:36.820 You got the name?
00:39:37.520 You got anything else?
00:39:38.420 I don't think so.
00:39:39.500 Right, no.
00:39:39.660 All you have is the speech sweat night, right?
00:39:43.060 Mm-hmm.
00:39:43.380 The lip balm night.
00:39:45.080 Lip balm night.
00:39:45.780 Isn't that him?
00:39:46.140 I don't know.
00:39:46.660 I think that was him, wasn't it?
00:39:47.860 He's the lip balm guy?
00:39:48.920 Yeah.
00:39:48.940 Okay, there we go.
00:39:50.180 Seth Moulton, he is a U.S. representative from Massachusetts, was in the Marine Corps, known for pushing hard to get more veterans to run for office.
00:39:59.740 He is pushed back against Nancy Pelosi.
00:40:02.500 He's been to New Hampshire and Iowa.
00:40:04.740 You know, I don't know.
00:40:06.120 I mean, again, probably in the outside picture for a VP, that's about it.
00:40:10.480 Maybe.
00:40:10.980 Beto O'Rourke, as you have to consider probably at this point oddly a top-tier candidate.
00:40:15.020 Yeah.
00:40:15.340 He is a U.S. representative from Texas.
00:40:17.160 Sure is.
00:40:17.720 Famously lost to Ted Cruz by less than three points.
00:40:20.980 They did like him.
00:40:22.220 He was a good campaigner.
00:40:23.340 I mean, he did a good job.
00:40:25.040 I mean, very, very liberal.
00:40:26.360 Way too liberal for Texas.
00:40:28.100 But when it comes to a mainstream Democrat right now-
00:40:30.800 I love him.
00:40:31.360 Probably right there.
00:40:32.200 Yes, absolutely.
00:40:33.400 So he's one that could really make a damage.
00:40:34.740 He's probably yes to all of these questions.
00:40:37.880 Could he run?
00:40:38.400 Almost definitely.
00:40:39.540 Could he be the VP?
00:40:40.720 Definitely.
00:40:41.820 Could he be the nominee?
00:40:42.760 I think the answer to that is yes.
00:40:43.840 Could he beat Trump in the right circumstance?
00:40:45.520 The answer is probably yes.
00:40:47.520 Again, I think that it depends on what happens with the economy.
00:40:50.280 I don't know how he would react to that sort of pressure.
00:40:53.180 Cruz is not the guy who brings it like Trump does.
00:40:55.760 So I don't know how that would go.
00:40:58.800 But it's not impossible.
00:41:00.340 Not impossible.
00:41:01.160 Again, we're just trying to eliminate people.
00:41:02.920 Tim Ryan from Ohio, a state senator that's there, now a U.S. representative.
00:41:09.220 He's been critical of Pelosi.
00:41:11.960 He's one of those Rust Belt guys.
00:41:13.820 I don't think so.
00:41:15.000 Eric Swalwell does look like he's going to run.
00:41:17.240 He's 37 years old.
00:41:19.060 He's a U.S. representative from California.
00:41:21.180 Most famously recently, he talked about nuking the United States in case people had guns.
00:41:25.020 I was just trying to think.
00:41:26.100 I know this name.
00:41:27.860 The nuke guy.
00:41:28.940 It does look like he's going to run.
00:41:30.380 I will say that.
00:41:31.140 But, again, I don't think he's a yes on any of our questions above that, though.
00:41:35.200 He's not going to be.
00:41:35.780 I don't think he's a VP candidate.
00:41:37.240 I mean, Trump will just spend the entire time beating him up for wanting to nuke the Second Amendment.
00:41:42.420 Right.
00:41:42.660 It'll be the end.
00:41:43.460 I guess.
00:41:44.400 I mean, he doesn't.
00:41:45.540 Again, when you're on Twitter making ridiculous comments like that, you're saying Swalwell is the perfect example of what I was talking about.
00:41:51.240 A guy who is not known nationally, wants to be known nationally, and is using a run for the presidency as his opportunity to get known that way.
00:42:01.180 So he's trying to raise his profile.
00:42:03.060 Maybe this leads to him running for Senate or governor of California at some point.
00:42:07.480 Most definitely.
00:42:08.400 You know, that is what you're trying to do.
00:42:10.540 You're not trying to become president as a 37-year-old congressman running with his profile.
00:42:15.460 That's just – it's not even what he's attempting.
00:42:16.680 He does anything he wants in California if he wants to nuke gun owners.
00:42:19.620 Yeah.
00:42:20.200 It's true.
00:42:20.660 It's odd, but true.
00:42:21.900 Steve Bullock.
00:42:22.640 He's the governor of Montana.
00:42:24.800 He is a red state Democrat, and that's a profile that a lot of people on the left are looking for and saying, hey, if we pick a crazy liberal, we're going to lose again.
00:42:33.840 Instead, we need to pick someone who comes from a red state who can talk to the middle of the country a little bit, who can say, hey, I understand that maybe not all gun owners are terrorists.
00:42:43.860 Right.
00:42:44.080 Do you think – I mean, he's visited the early states.
00:42:47.800 He definitely seems like he's going to run.
00:42:50.580 A VP candidate is probably in the picture for him.
00:42:54.280 Again, though, the profile probably not high enough.
00:42:56.400 Andrew Cuomo just reelected in New York.
00:42:59.300 I think Cuomo's got a lot of corruption issues he's going to have to deal with.
00:43:02.940 I don't think –
00:43:03.700 He thinks an awful lot of himself.
00:43:05.360 And nobody loves Andrew Cuomo than Andrew Cuomo.
00:43:08.320 But I don't think there's a legitimate chance he could – I don't think there's – he could run.
00:43:13.880 I don't even think he's going to run.
00:43:15.140 But he could run.
00:43:16.220 I don't think he could be VP or nominee or any of that.
00:43:18.840 I don't think.
00:43:19.280 No.
00:43:19.540 No.
00:43:19.840 Again, how many freaking New York people do we have to run?
00:43:22.100 Can we get another state to do anything?
00:43:23.860 I mean, what is this?
00:43:26.080 Both parties are running New York people all the time.
00:43:28.660 I was born in the state, and I don't want another New York president.
00:43:32.720 We've had enough.
00:43:34.380 We've got one right now.
00:43:35.480 We've got him.
00:43:36.120 He's in office.
00:43:36.660 When he decides to leave office and that's over, let's go to another state.
00:43:40.760 How about that?
00:43:41.720 John Hickenlooper.
00:43:42.960 I say no.
00:43:43.840 I love John Hickenlooper.
00:43:44.360 You do?
00:43:45.180 I say no because of the name.
00:43:46.640 No.
00:43:46.860 There's no way Hickenlooper.
00:43:49.200 No.
00:43:49.460 You're right.
00:43:49.740 You just can't have a president Hickenlooper.
00:43:51.200 No.
00:43:51.360 I just feel like it just doesn't work.
00:43:52.980 Like if 24 had a season where the president, his last name was Hickenlooper, it would not
00:43:59.040 work as a season.
00:43:59.700 No, because it just doesn't sound right.
00:44:01.740 It doesn't sound right.
00:44:02.540 No, it doesn't.
00:44:02.820 It doesn't sound right.
00:44:03.680 I don't know why.
00:44:04.420 That's not fair.
00:44:05.560 I understand that.
00:44:06.520 No, Hickenlooper is a grocery store in Illinois somewhere.
00:44:10.420 Now what Politico, Hickenlooper would be a great place to get chicken cutler.
00:44:15.340 You get those at Hickenlooper's, they're the best ever.
00:44:17.420 That does feel like a grocery store.
00:44:19.620 You're right.
00:44:20.300 You walk into Hickenlooper's, they've got great produce.
00:44:22.080 It's on sale.
00:44:22.980 Organic on the left.
00:44:24.000 I feel like that's possible.
00:44:25.000 What Politico says he's known for is he's a centrist.
00:44:28.900 He's a business-oriented governor, but he led the way on gun control.
00:44:33.380 And I do remember him from the gun control debate.
00:44:35.160 He is super far left on that issue.
00:44:37.860 So that's interesting.
00:44:39.660 He is big friends, by the way, with John Kasich.
00:44:42.380 Now, Kasich is not on this list.
00:44:45.040 But he wants to run.
00:44:46.040 But, I mean, look, you think he's at least exploring a run.
00:44:49.760 Yeah, he loves it.
00:44:50.200 If he can justify a run, he will do it against Trump.
00:44:52.720 And he'll justify it anyway.
00:44:54.040 Probably as an independent, right?
00:44:55.380 Yeah, he said he was looking at an independent or a third party.
00:44:58.000 Yeah.
00:44:58.360 I mean, or a third party.
00:45:00.080 Stop it, John.
00:45:00.980 Yeah.
00:45:01.380 I mean, look, Kasich has no chance of winning.
00:45:03.980 But also is, the thought here, though, is Kasich Hickenlooper or Hickenlooper Kasich running as a unity candidate.
00:45:12.180 I want that ticket now.
00:45:14.200 I do.
00:45:14.840 I'm voting yes to this ticket.
00:45:16.460 The bigger question is, do you get your stakes at Kasich's or Hickenlooper's?
00:45:19.700 Because I feel like both of them.
00:45:21.560 Okay.
00:45:21.920 Jay Inslee, he's the governor of Washington.
00:45:24.840 He was a U.S. representative.
00:45:27.140 Currently the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association.
00:45:29.940 Big climate guy.
00:45:31.320 That's kind of his thing.
00:45:32.060 I don't think climate's a path to the White House, though.
00:45:34.120 Nope.
00:45:34.460 Al Gore could maybe answer that.
00:45:36.360 But, you know, Gore had to run two terms as a VP to even get in the picture to be president.
00:45:40.900 And he's really the main guy on that issue.
00:45:43.340 And I just don't think, you can't be a one issue guy on climate.
00:45:47.820 People don't care enough.
00:45:48.800 They say they care, but they don't care.
00:45:50.160 And was he that bad when he was running?
00:45:54.040 Gore?
00:45:54.500 Yeah.
00:45:54.860 Well, no, he tried to run a little bit towards.
00:45:56.660 I don't remember him being as bad as he became.
00:45:58.720 No.
00:45:58.740 In fact, I remember going back and looking at his old books.
00:46:01.260 And that's where a lot of the stuff you found, the really crazy stuff.
00:46:03.900 It's like, oh, he wants to get rid of all cars.
00:46:06.100 You're like, wait, all right, I don't think this is.
00:46:08.160 Okay.
00:46:08.500 Terry McAuliffe, big Clinton ally.
00:46:11.120 Former governor.
00:46:12.060 He's current governor, excuse me, of Virginia.
00:46:14.080 He used to be the, he's a former DNC guy.
00:46:16.320 Yeah.
00:46:16.900 Real political insider.
00:46:18.440 Hillary guy all the way. 0.99
00:46:19.660 I think he could run.
00:46:21.060 I can't imagine they go down this road.
00:46:22.480 This is essentially running a male Hillary Clinton. 0.97
00:46:24.380 Yeah.
00:46:24.640 And I can't imagine that's a good idea for the Democrats.
00:46:27.220 And I don't think they're going to go that way.
00:46:28.560 No, the Clintons need to be gone.
00:46:32.460 And he's basically a Clinton.
00:46:33.680 Yes.
00:46:33.820 He's basically a Clinton.
00:46:35.300 And so I would say no.
00:46:36.500 I would say the Clintons make the Democratic Party untouchable. 0.75
00:46:39.560 Yeah.
00:46:39.720 We're talking about the Democratic nominees, a big list of them.
00:46:42.060 Which ones do you think have a chance?
00:46:43.740 Which ones are not even serious competitors?
00:46:46.220 Martin O'Malley.
00:46:47.040 I mean, he's not, he couldn't even win last time when there was three candidates.
00:46:49.660 There's going to be 30 this time.
00:46:50.620 He has no chance.
00:46:51.240 Deval Patrick, I don't think has done a good enough job as the governor of Massachusetts.
00:46:57.700 He's, you know, also with Bain Capital and he's done all sorts of stuff.
00:47:01.240 He's a close Obama ally.
00:47:04.380 But I feel like.
00:47:06.680 Yeah.
00:47:07.160 Yeah.
00:47:07.320 He's, it's, it's not, it's not out of the question, but I think, I still think unlikely.
00:47:11.640 Those are, we still have, we're halfway through.
00:47:14.200 We still have people, a bunch of big names left here in the Democratic docket.
00:47:18.880 Let's go through more.
00:47:19.680 888-727-BECK is the phone number.
00:47:23.060 Whew.
00:47:23.560 That's how they feel.
00:47:25.040 I mean, this is a big list, but it's a bad list.
00:47:28.200 Yeah.
00:47:28.480 I mean, there's not a lot in here.
00:47:29.820 This is not a deep bench.
00:47:31.360 There's a lot of people who want to run, not a lot of people who should.
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00:47:49.680 Another specifically curated story for Jeffy, because I'm so nice to you.
00:47:55.340 Of course you are.
00:47:56.760 There was a terrorist threat that happened at a chicken place.
00:48:00.680 Well, right now you've made me angry.
00:48:02.380 I mean, why is the terrorist is starting to affect chicken places?
00:48:06.260 Yeah.
00:48:06.400 This country has gone down.
00:48:08.360 Well, this one's a little bit different.
00:48:10.460 Arthur Posey is a 30-year-old.
00:48:12.020 He was booked on charges in connection to a bomb threat.
00:48:15.420 After his story...
00:48:16.600 So he was arrested for this?
00:48:17.920 Yes.
00:48:18.520 Okay.
00:48:18.700 It was in New Orleans.
00:48:20.880 It was at a Willie's Chicken Shack.
00:48:23.920 People heard him talking about blowing up the restaurant, or at least part of it, at the
00:48:29.800 Canal Street restaurant.
00:48:31.880 And he had an interesting excuse.
00:48:35.260 I mean, I understand if he's threatening to blow up the place.
00:48:38.940 Like what if they didn't give you enough chicken?
00:48:40.420 Yeah.
00:48:40.720 Okay.
00:48:41.460 No, that's not what this is about.
00:48:42.840 Okay.
00:48:43.440 He has a specific excuse.
00:48:45.520 According to the warrant, the restaurant's manager said a man, later identified as Posey,
00:48:51.440 went into the restaurant and approached the food preparation area, then asked her what
00:48:54.940 time the restaurant closed.
00:48:56.440 She told the man she did not know when the restaurant closed, the manager told police.
00:48:59.500 The manager stated the man, who wore a green hat, blue jacket, and carried a white bag,
00:49:03.080 said, y'all about to close right now because I'm going to get a bomb and blow this place
00:49:07.640 up.
00:49:10.060 You're laughing, but that's a serious...
00:49:11.900 That's a little scary.
00:49:12.740 It's a serious threat.
00:49:13.480 Yes, absolutely scary.
00:49:14.340 The manager told police she took the threat very seriously, as I think most people would.
00:49:18.140 Yes, absolutely.
00:49:18.620 I'm sorry.
00:49:19.040 I didn't mean to smile.
00:49:20.040 Notified the general manager, who instructed her to call police, and they did, and they
00:49:24.260 got this guy arrested.
00:49:25.980 Now, his excuse, I think, was very interesting, and this is why I brought the story up, because
00:49:32.080 in reference to you.
00:49:33.860 Posey claimed to the officer, when he was confronted about this, that he told a male employee he
00:49:39.940 was going to blow the bathroom up in reference to a bowel movement. 1.00
00:49:44.340 Okay, A. How does a girl not know what time the restaurant... 0.99
00:49:52.040 She's working there.
00:49:52.780 How does the girl... 1.00
00:49:53.400 The girl does not know what time the restaurant closes. 0.96
00:49:55.880 Well, I don't know the answer to that.
00:49:57.140 I don't know.
00:49:57.280 But she's still employed there by calling the bosses, saying somebody's claiming to...
00:50:00.960 trying to blow up the place. 0.57
00:50:02.240 Call the police.
00:50:02.840 I don't know why you're focusing on this.
00:50:04.300 How did the police actually arrest this guy?
00:50:06.760 Although, I've been pulled over by New Orleans police before in my life.
00:50:09.720 Shocking.
00:50:09.960 And they're fine officers.
00:50:14.580 Okay.
00:50:14.920 Fine officers.
00:50:15.880 Good to know.
00:50:16.380 I can understand how they would arrest someone making the...
00:50:19.740 About to blow this place up.
00:50:21.400 Blow the bathroom up? 0.97
00:50:23.140 I mean, who...
00:50:23.900 Not to mention, what a repulsive thing to say inside of a restaurant to somebody.
00:50:28.800 Like, I mean, it's always a...
00:50:31.600 Just a gross reference.
00:50:33.760 Yeah, it is.
00:50:34.180 But to say it, you know, in a restaurant line...
00:50:36.520 You're about to close now.
00:50:37.980 Yeah.
00:50:40.740 So, by the way, they didn't believe him.
00:50:42.820 It's the way this ended.
00:50:43.660 They think he actually did make a terrorist threat, and his cover story is the bathroom thing.
00:50:48.780 Did he have explosive devices and stuff on him in the bag or anything?
00:50:52.060 No.
00:50:52.160 It does not appear that he actually was going to bomb the thing.
00:50:54.400 But you can make a bomb threat and get him in trouble for it without actually bombing somebody.
00:51:00.500 There are bomb threats.
00:51:01.580 You're not supposed to make bomb threats.
00:51:03.100 Right.
00:51:03.880 So, that is, I guess, what they're saying he did.
00:51:06.780 And I...
00:51:07.420 That's kind of bad.
00:51:08.360 I don't know how they could check to see.
00:51:10.320 You know, I mean, there's...
00:51:12.120 I don't want to know.
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