The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Tulsi Gabbard & Salena Zito ｜ 2⧸3⧸20

00:00:00.000 Hey, welcome to the program. Got a great show for you today. Steve Dace is talking about the Iowa caucus.

00:00:05.780 Pat Gray joins me. Tulsi Gabbard. We have a great interview with Tulsi Gabbard from New Hampshire on what's happening in her party,

00:00:13.920 what's happening with her, why CNN and the Democrats are blocking her, and yet they're putting in candidates that have much less support. 1.00

00:00:23.900 She has 8% in New Hampshire. They just put Deval Patrick in, who has 2% support.

00:00:30.120 She's asked the DNC and CNN, and no one has an answer for her.

00:00:34.540 Also, Selena Zito, she's a woman who has the finger on the pulse. 1.00

00:00:39.880 What's going to happen tonight in Iowa?

00:00:49.760 You're listening to the Best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:00:53.900 Iowa, Iowa, Iowa.

00:01:02.980 This is Iowa, the true America.

00:01:05.560 Well, I mean, if there is such a thing.

00:01:07.420 But there isn't.

00:01:09.060 Or maybe there is.

00:01:10.400 I mean, there has to be.

00:01:11.960 There can't be.

00:01:13.600 There absolutely is.

00:01:16.120 Friendly people in general in Iowa.

00:01:18.840 Patient, courteous.

00:01:19.900 One of our reporters, Kevin Ryan, was out, and at one point he said he was at one of the train track intersections in the state.

00:01:28.040 The crossing gate lowered, the bell rung, and the train chugged by.

00:01:31.900 Several cars waited at the designated line.

00:01:34.680 And a few minutes later, the train just stopped.

00:01:36.780 But people kept pulling into the line of cars.

00:01:41.180 Nobody sped off.

00:01:42.100 Nobody honked their horns.

00:01:43.420 In Chicago or New York, you'd hear screeching and honking and curse words.

00:01:48.340 Peel outs.

00:01:48.860 Maybe even gunshots.

00:01:51.440 But this is a different state.

00:01:53.080 A charming place.

00:01:54.900 The way the land breathes under you.

00:01:57.600 Spread out like a blanket.

00:01:58.900 And the corn stalks lean with each breeze.

00:02:02.060 And the marigold softness on the horizon without the skyscrapers imposing their faces.

00:02:07.420 Everywhere you look, all you see is America.

00:02:10.700 The honey scent of fertilizer and livestock.

00:02:14.380 At night, the whole world gets dark and quiet.

00:02:17.120 So quiet you can almost, you feel like Adam and Eve.

00:02:20.460 Just looking up, alone in the garden, contemplating the electric sky full of planets and stars.

00:02:26.160 And other lives they couldn't understand.

00:02:30.360 Iowa is 170, sorry, 187 times bigger than New York City.

00:02:38.040 Yet there are only 3 million people in Iowa compared to the 9 million people in New York City.

00:02:44.900 There are actually more feral hogs than humans in Iowa.

00:02:49.440 That's an actual fact.

00:02:50.960 Yet, people stay in Iowa for generations and you can kind of see why.

00:02:57.000 You have to admire its stable geography.

00:03:00.660 It's the only state with parallel rivers as borders.

00:03:05.100 On the easternmost side, along the Mississippi River, there's the world's steepest and shortest railway.

00:03:11.420 On the other, along the Missouri River, a monument stands.

00:03:17.080 It's to Sergeant Floyd.

00:03:19.080 It's the only man to die during the Lewis and Clark Great Expedition.

00:03:22.980 And every July, for a whole week, cyclists traverse the divide, bumping along those uneven roadways.

00:03:31.100 By the way, I want to go back.

00:03:34.920 You did understand there are 21 million feral hogs in Iowa.

00:03:42.560 I just want to go back to that for a second.

00:03:44.480 That's roughly the population of Mexico City or San Francisco, Oakland and Phoenix and Seattle and Detroit combined.

00:03:53.820 They have more hogs than Mumbai has people. 1.00

00:04:00.560 And if the Iowa hogs divided in two factions and occupied different sides of the states, Iowa would have two megacities. 0.78

00:04:07.560 Classification earned only in America by Los Angeles and New York.

00:04:12.500 21 million hogs. 0.99

00:04:16.180 They arrived in the 1500s thanks to the ham-obsessed Spaniards led by DeSoto. 1.00

00:04:22.140 And for centuries, Native American tribes alone occupied the land.

00:04:27.220 The Sack and the Fox.

00:04:29.040 The Iowa, Dakota Sioux.

00:04:31.580 The Oto.

00:04:32.760 And before that, woolly mammoths roamed the plains.

00:04:37.700 In the 1700s, the French showed up with their fur trade and their treaties.

00:04:43.240 The area belonged to France until 1763, following a defeat by Spain in the French and Indian War.

00:04:48.940 The region flopped from one nation's hand to the next until the Louisiana Purchase happened.

00:04:56.820 When Thomas Jefferson was, they talked about impeaching him because he had the Louisiana Purchase.

00:05:04.000 He bought the land from Louisiana to Montana.

00:05:07.800 That would become the Midwestern and Southern states, including Iowa.

00:05:11.080 We paid $18 a square mile.

00:05:18.240 Shortly after the purchase, the territory's new residents got a little possessive, and soon enough, sellers were shoving the Indians off the land that they'd occupied since the Ice Age.

00:05:28.120 Some next-level gentrification, I guess.

00:05:30.840 But we've always had a bloody streak.

00:05:35.100 Man always does.

00:05:36.280 Not just America.

00:05:39.160 Especially back then, it was violent and cruel.

00:05:42.680 There was mayhem.

00:05:44.540 It was just out in the middle of nowhere on the wobbly plains.

00:05:48.260 Gunfights.

00:05:49.040 Stabbings.

00:05:49.960 Honest-to-God cowboy stuff with gunslingers.

00:05:52.380 Who knows what else happened there?

00:05:54.920 And then came the Civil War in the 1860s, the worst kind of war, the kind that guts a nation.

00:06:05.520 Iowa had only been a state for 15 years with a population of about half a million people.

00:06:10.880 Yet, with only 500,000 people, 75,000 Iowan men fought for the Union.

00:06:16.240 Now, that's the highest percentage of soldiers from any other state on both sides.

00:06:23.100 And they died like hell.

00:06:25.900 Drown in the mud, ransacked by cannonballs, bayonet to the gut or the neck or anywhere.

00:06:31.800 It was the cruel early stage of modern warfare.

00:06:38.520 But America's always been a rugged and unceasing territory.

00:06:46.080 We're roughnecks.

00:06:48.920 We're a chancer.

00:06:50.520 And most of the times, it pays off.

00:06:52.240 We fought the Civil War.

00:06:54.380 And we stayed together.

00:06:58.300 But then came the railroads, sprouting up all across the country.

00:07:03.200 It was the late 1800s.

00:07:07.700 Trains could haul produce from any part of the country to another part of the country.

00:07:11.160 So the farming jobs flourished in Iowa.

00:07:13.460 And the population grew.

00:07:15.180 In 1901, Quaker Oats was founded in Cedar Rapids.

00:07:19.480 Then, in 1937, Iowa State University professor John Vincent Anascoff and graduate student Clifford Berry created the first automatic electronic digital computer.

00:07:31.360 Wait a minute.

00:07:32.360 Wait a minute.

00:07:33.580 In Iowa?

00:07:35.500 The same state that gave us oatmeal also shoved us towards the creation, indirectly, to Grand Theft Auto V.

00:07:44.480 And iPhones and all of the luxuries that are now our reality.

00:07:52.020 Iowa had a thriving agriculture until World War I, then the Great Depression, then World War II.

00:07:58.220 And everywhere, all around the world, people wanted to live in the larger cities.

00:08:02.120 That's where things were getting done.

00:08:03.760 And Iowa had very few.

00:08:05.260 But they coped, how they could, replacing the agricultural with the industrial.

00:08:11.520 And during the war, Iowa built tanks, rifles, airplanes, armies, armor.

00:08:18.800 You should know, by the way, 8,389 Iowans died by the end of the war on September 2, 1945.

00:08:27.740 Imagine surviving the war and returning to the endless fields and the oceans of sky.

00:08:41.920 As the haze of wartime and the economy cleared, Iowans enjoyed, like the rest of America, a sense of renewal.

00:08:50.760 They had benefited from the change of industry.

00:08:53.000 Agriculture had always been the moneymaker, but now, Iowa was building refrigerators, farming equipment, stationery.

00:09:00.240 To this day, Iowa still is the largest producer of eggs, pork, and corn.

00:09:05.460 In 1958, Winnebago, the RV manufacturer, was founded in Winnebago County, Iowa.

00:09:13.220 And since that day, your home can be wherever it is that you want it to be on this continent.

00:09:17.980 A year after Winnebago was founded, a plane crash outside of Clear Lake, Iowa killed the music the day the music died.

00:09:32.240 It was in Des Moines on January 20, 1982, when a 17-year-old boy grabbed a dead bat, fangs, snout, and all, and threw it at Black Sabbath.

00:09:42.900 Even the performer Ozzy Osbourne, he grabbed the tiny little bat corpse and shoved it in his mouth and started gnashing. 1.00

00:09:53.640 He thought it was a rubber bat until that bat kind of exploded in his mouth and he found out that it was really a rat.

00:10:01.700 But he had started and he couldn't break the persona, so he just went on right after the show.

00:10:10.960 He was rushed to Broadlawn's Medical Center for rabies.

00:10:16.580 Ozzy Osbourne's bat decaptation stands as one of the most notorious moments in rock and roll history, and it was in Des Moines, Iowa.

00:10:24.800 Then there's Brit, Iowa, home to the National Hobo Convention, as well as the Hobo Museum.

00:10:34.900 Call the town quirky or gross for hosting such a thing, or you can see the humanity in it.

00:10:42.240 You can see the neighbors, the neighborliness.

00:10:47.460 My grandparents were from Iowa.

00:10:49.300 They say the name Iowa is a reference to when Indians discovered the land.

00:10:56.780 It was the first words they uttered.

00:10:59.500 When they looked at the beautiful sprawling land in the hills, they simply said,

00:11:04.740 Iowa, Iowa, Iowa.

00:11:08.520 It translates to beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

00:11:14.100 Maybe not so much today as we go now to the polls.

00:11:19.340 Iowa is a place that is sharply divided just within the Democratic Party,

00:11:26.220 and it is besieged with reporters and politicians and a circus every four years.

00:11:34.320 We get to that here in just a second.

00:11:36.080 Wow, I am still reeling, Pat.

00:11:43.260 I don't know about you, but I'm still reeling from that Bill Kristol announcement that he's a Democrat now.

00:11:50.380 Wow.

00:11:51.300 I mean, that's been coming on for how long?

00:11:54.960 When was he born?

00:11:56.680 60 years.

00:11:58.280 I mean, that is the least surprising story I have ever seen.

00:12:02.920 Yeah.

00:12:03.140 Anyway, Iowa today.

00:12:06.500 Any thoughts on Iowa?

00:12:07.700 We have Steve Dace coming up in just a little while.

00:12:10.940 We also have Tulsi Gabbard joining us today in hour number two.

00:12:15.620 I'm anxious to talk to Tulsi and hear her thoughts of what's happening in the Democratic Party.

00:12:23.740 They seem to be control freaks.

00:12:27.980 No.

00:12:29.820 They seem not to want Bernie again.

00:12:32.240 They didn't want him last time, and they don't want him this time.

00:12:36.460 So, have you heard about the poll, the Des Moines Register poll that comes out?

00:12:46.660 With Buttigieg?

00:12:47.640 No, no, no.

00:12:48.140 Yeah.

00:12:48.600 The one that comes out every year, day before, the Sunday before, and has the final poll.

00:12:56.500 And it was pulled back because they say there are errors, but there's all kinds of conspiracies floating.

00:13:06.120 Yeah.

00:13:06.980 There was a conversation with one of the people that they polled, and I think they got his name wrong.

00:13:15.560 They said his name wrong, or the person being polled said the name wrong.

00:13:21.320 But he voted for Buttigieg anyway.

00:13:24.720 And so, but there were questions about that, and so they just threw out the poll.

00:13:30.220 Even though the guy voted for Buttigieg despite, yeah, in the poll.

00:13:36.560 Right.

00:13:37.200 So, here's what it was.

00:13:40.180 Somebody who was just answering the phone raised the issue with the way the survey was being administered,

00:13:45.520 which could have compromised the results of the poll.

00:13:47.680 It appears a candidate's name, Buttigieg, was admitted in at least one interview in which the respondent was asked to name their preferred candidate.

00:13:56.720 And he said, what about Buttigieg?

00:13:58.480 And the guy was like, oh, sorry, Buttigieg.

00:14:00.900 And so, because of that, because of that, they're throwing the poll away.

00:14:07.700 Now, is that what happened?

00:14:15.000 Is that what happened?

00:14:16.140 Because, because I suppose if you saw the poll, you could see that Buttigieg was either way, way underperforming from all other polls,

00:14:26.760 and then you could say, okay, well, there's a problem.

00:14:29.140 But they didn't say there was a problem.

00:14:31.460 What they said was this one incident, and they made sure that they didn't publish the poll.

00:14:37.240 Now, there are some that are saying that this poll wasn't published because it was bad for Biden.

00:14:44.480 Others are saying it's really good for Sanders, and that's why they didn't publish it.

00:14:53.300 Because the Democrats don't want Sanders, and if it's bad for Biden, they don't want to lead into that.

00:14:59.820 And for the Des Moines Register to play along with them like that is the first time in the history of the Des Moines Register they have not published this poll.

00:15:11.920 That's really bad.

00:15:13.780 That is really bad.

00:15:15.460 You don't throw the poll out just because of one response?

00:15:18.800 Unless you come out and say, we found out that this person did not ask Buttigieg in others, or he was not confident.

00:15:30.820 Then you come out and you say that.

00:15:32.520 What they're coming out and saying is, well, because of this one guy, we're not sure, and yada yada.

00:15:38.380 Well, how confident are you?

00:15:40.260 Did you ask the guy?

00:15:43.180 I mean, it's remarkable to me because you're playing with fire when it comes to Bernie Sanders.

00:15:49.860 Oh, they've made that clear.

00:15:51.980 Oh.

00:15:52.600 Have they not?

00:15:53.300 Right.

00:15:53.620 I mean, when you threaten to burn Milwaukee to the ground, yeah, he's got a volatile base of people.

00:16:03.860 Can we play the Bill Maher audio from the Bill Maher show this weekend?

00:16:08.160 Listen to this.

00:16:09.540 But I tell you why Bernie Sanders is attractive to me now, because he's the only Democrat who, like Trump, has an army. 0.98

00:16:16.560 Who, when it gets to this other level, he's got a bunch of badass motherfuckers who will get in the streets. 1.00

00:16:23.620 Okay, so Trump doesn't have that. 0.99

00:16:26.060 Okay, Trump doesn't have that.

00:16:27.960 We've not gotten into the streets.

00:16:30.440 Nobody's claimed they're going to burn anything to the ground.

00:16:32.720 Nope.

00:16:33.340 Nope.

00:16:34.320 There's been no violent rhetoric from Trump supporters.

00:16:36.860 No.

00:16:37.280 In fact, the violent rhetoric is all from the other side against Trump.

00:16:41.760 I mean, look at what the state of Virginia did just to people who liked the Second Amendment.

00:16:47.480 Yeah.

00:16:47.760 Okay.

00:16:47.980 They immediately called all of those people names and bad names. 0.97

00:16:54.060 They were white supremacists. 0.99

00:16:55.740 They were Nazis. 0.97

00:16:57.800 You know, they mobilized against them.

00:17:01.180 So, I mean, you're dealing with fire.

00:17:03.460 I have more on this with Bernie Sanders coming up.

00:17:06.420 But this is something that we talked about literally 20 years ago.

00:17:14.140 20, no, it was about 15 years ago.

00:17:18.660 14 years ago, we talked about it.

00:17:20.700 And I spelled it out.

00:17:23.400 Democrats, here's what you're doing.

00:17:25.240 Here's what's going to happen.

00:17:27.040 Here's how it's going to end.

00:17:28.400 And we're now there.

00:17:29.800 And the Democrats are freaking out.

00:17:32.920 Freaking out.

00:17:34.160 They should be.

00:17:34.800 Yeah, they should be.

00:17:35.680 Because today in Iowa, I think everybody's been trying to calculate who could beat Trump, who could beat Trump.

00:17:41.980 They don't see anybody.

00:17:43.680 So there's either going to be a low turnout or I think people are going to go in and go, you know what?

00:17:49.060 It doesn't matter.

00:17:49.560 I'm just going to vote for who I want.

00:17:51.640 I'm going to vote for the person because I can't do the calculus.

00:17:54.520 I don't know who could beat Donald Trump.

00:17:56.260 And that could change things dramatically tonight.

00:18:00.800 Remember, this is not a poll like you normally do.

00:18:03.660 This is a caucus.

00:18:04.860 Very different.

00:18:08.200 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:18:09.940 Hey, it's Glenn.

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00:18:28.040 Okay.

00:18:28.460 Last night was the Super Bowl.

00:18:30.940 I'm not a Super Bowl fan.

00:18:32.820 Usually they're boring as snot because it's usually a runaway. 0.93

00:18:36.260 This was thrilling to the end.

00:18:39.600 Stu said it right last week when he said, you know, this is going to be a good Super Bowl because they're evenly matched.

00:18:46.560 Big time.

00:18:47.400 Yeah.

00:18:47.840 And it was just thrilling the whole time.

00:18:51.880 It was really good.

00:18:52.620 Yeah.

00:18:53.040 Going into the fourth quarter when it's 20 to 10 and then Kansas City rattles off 21 straight points to win it like that.

00:19:00.900 It was crazy.

00:19:01.920 And they did that the whole postseason.

00:19:03.560 It was just amazing.

00:19:04.480 Yeah.

00:19:04.780 It was really, it was really, really great.

00:19:07.460 And there's no team that I would rather see lose than those people who are stationed in San Francisco.

00:19:16.280 And I want you to, stationed is the right word.

00:19:19.900 And I want you to know, I was very proud of the San Francisco players. 0.95

00:19:24.480 None of them took a crap on the field. 0.97

00:19:26.460 No, that was good. 0.98

00:19:27.280 It went against their nature.

00:19:28.700 We know that.

00:19:29.180 It did.

00:19:29.560 Yeah, it did.

00:19:30.360 It did. 0.92

00:19:30.740 Um, but somebody did take a big crap on the field and, uh, it was the halftime show sponsored by Pepsi. 0.98

00:19:37.860 Oof. 0.89

00:19:38.520 Now, I think just by reading the reviews and if I may quote Jeb Bush, the 2020 Super Bowl halftime show is the best Super Bowl halftime show ever.

00:19:55.620 Oh, please.

00:19:57.580 Come on.

00:19:58.480 Excuse me?

00:19:59.660 Come on.

00:20:00.440 Really?

00:20:01.460 If Mount Everest was made entirely of Jell-O and it collapsed in some gigantic avalanche.

00:20:10.840 Jell-O avalanche?

00:20:11.940 Yes.

00:20:12.420 Yes.

00:20:12.740 A big Jell-O avalanche.

00:20:14.260 Yes.

00:20:14.720 Mount Everest size.

00:20:15.760 Right.

00:20:16.020 There'd be less jiggling parts than were contained in that Super Bowl halftime.

00:20:21.240 And there, and there is less Jell-O in that mountain than in Jeb Bush's spine.

00:20:30.660 That is true, too.

00:20:33.600 That's also true.

00:20:34.400 I mean, come on, man.

00:20:36.720 That was just...

00:20:37.900 It was bad.

00:20:39.200 Pandering.

00:20:40.240 He's pandering because of the Puerto Rican thing.

00:20:43.340 I think so, too.

00:20:43.880 That's all he's doing is pandering.

00:20:45.520 Yeah.

00:20:46.160 That was something you couldn't let your kids watch if you had small kids.

00:20:49.360 Oh, my.

00:20:49.500 Gosh, well, no, no.

00:20:50.400 Come on.

00:20:51.660 Come on. 0.87

00:20:52.120 The crotch cam. 0.89

00:20:52.820 And the pole dancing? 0.92

00:20:54.500 Yeah.

00:20:54.680 I mean, those are very appropriate.

00:20:55.620 Yeah.

00:20:56.020 I like...

00:20:56.600 I mean, you can't watch it with your kids.

00:20:58.560 J-Lo brought her 12-year-old daughter out to watch her pole dance.

00:21:02.520 That's true.

00:21:02.980 I mean, what's better than seeing mommy pole dance? 1.00

00:21:06.260 And some of the crotch shots, like you said, and the hand placement during those shots. 0.99

00:21:10.700 Yeah, well, we're... 0.60

00:21:11.700 Come on. 0.74

00:21:12.080 Michael Jackson, but now the hand placement, but the crotch camera, I've never seen a crotch

00:21:19.000 camera before.

00:21:20.220 No, I...

00:21:20.660 Never.

00:21:21.040 No.

00:21:21.420 No.

00:21:21.720 I know.

00:21:22.020 It was so uncomfortable.

00:21:25.800 Inappropriate?

00:21:26.720 Inappropriate.

00:21:27.240 That my son had four friends over.

00:21:31.960 Now, these are teenage boys.

00:21:34.180 So, I'm sure the teenage boys would have loved that if it wasn't also a room full of parents.

00:21:40.260 Mm-hmm.

00:21:40.760 And the teenage boys were so uncomfortable.

00:21:43.520 I bet.

00:21:44.060 They were like, Dad, can we change this?

00:21:46.360 And I'm like, yes, I'm trying to find the remote.

00:21:49.060 Dad, can we please change this?

00:21:51.060 Mr. Beck, can we change this, please?

00:21:52.940 Yes, I'm trying.

00:21:54.840 I had 15-year-old boys.

00:21:56.920 That's how inappropriate it was.

00:21:59.320 Wow.

00:21:59.500 The 15-year-old boys watching it on their own, they would have loved it.

00:22:05.060 Watching it with me in the room and my wife and other parents, they...

00:22:09.500 Yeah, not so much.

00:22:10.280 Not so much.

00:22:10.980 They were like, oh, good heavens.

00:22:12.940 And mainly because all of the adults were like, what the...

00:22:18.040 Mm-hmm.

00:22:18.700 I asked Tanya halfway through if I could get a lap dance from her. 1.00

00:22:23.120 I said, you know, I've got a dollar bill and...

00:22:26.480 Well, you've got a pool room, don't you?

00:22:28.440 Oh, of course we do.

00:22:29.260 Of course we do.

00:22:29.520 Where she dances from time to time.

00:22:30.400 And I said, look, honey, you don't have to...

00:22:31.740 I mean, J-Lo's there.

00:22:32.600 If you like I'm in a strip club, how about a lap dance? 0.99

00:22:34.600 I'll give you a buck. 0.99

00:22:36.040 She said, how dare you offer me a dollar for that? 0.96

00:22:41.100 Yeah.

00:22:41.320 If you hand me a bill, it better have a one on it and zeros after it.

00:22:47.400 Mm-hmm.

00:22:47.640 So she was really offended because I offered her a dollar.

00:22:50.420 Not really for the lap dance con.

00:22:52.140 No, I'm kidding.

00:22:53.880 It was really uncomfortable.

00:22:58.240 Anyway, it just shows how much we've changed.

00:23:01.420 Yeah.

00:23:01.720 I mean, remember the wardrobe malfunction?

00:23:04.600 Tame in comparison to what we saw last night.

00:23:06.640 Absolutely tame.

00:23:08.200 Yeah.

00:23:08.780 Absolutely tame.

00:23:09.520 And that was what, 2005, 2006?

00:23:12.100 Yeah.

00:23:12.680 Somewhere like that.

00:23:12.800 And it was a big deal and the NFL had to apologize.

00:23:17.260 There's not going to be an apology for this.

00:23:18.220 Oh, not at all.

00:23:19.220 I think they're proud of it.

00:23:20.260 Oh, yeah.

00:23:20.560 They love it.

00:23:21.260 They love it.

00:23:22.780 And you know what this is?

00:23:23.680 I think this is the internet.

00:23:24.660 I think this is the influence of the internet.

00:23:27.640 We are all watching stuff now online or our kids are exposed to things online.

00:23:36.060 And, you know, it's just everywhere.

00:23:37.780 And it's just lowered the standards.

00:23:40.460 It's just all been normalized.

00:23:42.320 Right.

00:23:42.460 And it doesn't shock us anymore.

00:23:43.720 No.

00:23:44.280 You know, I was thinking about this last night.

00:23:45.700 We've gone from a place where when Elvis first came on TV, you couldn't show him from

00:23:51.400 the waist down.

00:23:52.380 Right.

00:23:52.480 It would only show his upper torso.

00:23:55.000 Right.

00:23:55.220 That's how prudish we were.

00:23:58.780 I mean, honestly.

00:23:59.160 And look at what happens now.

00:24:00.820 I really thought the next step, and I'm not joking, the next step is let's just give him

00:24:06.720 a gynecological exam.

00:24:08.760 Okay.

00:24:09.420 That's just, hey, we've got, you know, we've got J-Lo out and she's going to sing a song

00:24:14.760 while we perform a gynecological exam.

00:24:18.300 Because, I mean, it was, there's nothing else left.

00:24:22.500 There's nothing else left.

00:24:25.220 And it's just, and did you notice this?

00:24:29.580 The women are all wearing nothing. 0.99

00:24:32.180 And then every time the guys were out, they looked like dump.

00:24:36.000 They looked like, hey, I just pulled my sweatpants on and I got my hat on and I'm sorry, I just

00:24:41.780 rolled out of bed.

00:24:42.600 What's going on?

00:24:43.900 I mean, the guys all looked like absolute dump.

00:24:47.760 Yeah. 0.99

00:24:48.760 Women were gypped. 1.00

00:24:50.100 Women were gypped. 1.00

00:24:51.200 In addition, I don't know who any of the guys were.

00:24:54.160 Are they famous people?

00:24:56.360 I don't know.

00:24:57.120 People who go with the songs as a rule?

00:25:00.080 So my son invited two friends that had just moved to Texas from California.

00:25:05.240 And yes, I let them in the house, but they're from San Diego, which I count as only partly

00:25:10.380 Californian.

00:25:11.620 Okay.

00:25:11.720 So they're in and, you know, they're like, yeah, we grew up in San Diego, man.

00:25:16.160 And so like we're Californians.

00:25:18.500 So I'm asking them all the way through the Super Bowl.

00:25:22.420 Did you guys understand that ad?

00:25:25.540 They're like, no, I don't even know what that ad was about.

00:25:29.600 What was that?

00:25:31.340 And did you notice like some of the, I think, I think they were not hip enough to even understand

00:25:37.620 some of the ads.

00:25:38.460 I don't even know what some of these ads, I knew what they were advertising, but I had

00:25:42.020 no idea.

00:25:42.520 I have a following and everybody at the end of the ad was like, what the hell was that?

00:25:46.340 Am I the only one that?

00:25:47.880 No, there were some, there were some weird, weird ads.

00:25:51.180 Like weird ads.

00:25:51.660 That made no sense.

00:25:52.460 Yeah.

00:25:52.840 Yeah.

00:25:53.200 The Tide ad, I loved.

00:25:55.200 The one that kept going through.

00:25:57.040 Yeah.

00:25:57.420 There were, there were a few, like I thought the Reese's ad was kind of funny.

00:26:02.560 The take five thing where they had all the cliches of where you're raised by a wolf and the 0.98

00:26:07.580 guy walks up at the end with his head up his butt. 0.98

00:26:10.440 Hang on. 0.99

00:26:10.960 Hang on.

00:26:11.220 Just play this video.

00:26:12.260 We have it.

00:26:16.540 What's that?

00:26:17.440 Reese's take five bar.

00:26:18.580 Chocolate, peanuts, caramel, peanut butter, pretzels.

00:26:20.760 Never heard of it.

00:26:21.560 Where have you been?

00:26:22.100 Under a rock?

00:26:25.600 Do it to me.

00:26:26.600 What were you born yesterday?

00:26:29.360 Really, Trish.

00:26:30.360 Me neither.

00:26:31.180 Were you raised by wolves?

00:26:32.960 Really insensitive, Trish.

00:26:34.600 Are you clueless?

00:26:37.000 Head in the sand?

00:26:38.280 That's offensive, Trish.

00:26:39.720 Yeah, Trish.

00:26:40.540 You from another planet?

00:26:44.240 I never heard of take five neither.

00:26:47.220 Again!

00:26:48.300 Oh, Trish.

00:26:49.320 None of us have heard of take five. 1.00

00:26:51.280 Don't look stupid now. 1.00

00:26:53.840 Reese's take five. 1.00

00:26:54.920 The best bar you've never heard of.

00:26:56.820 All right.

00:26:57.140 So there's a few of them.

00:26:58.900 Yeah.

00:26:59.100 I just don't think the Super Bowl ad thing is a thing anymore.

00:27:03.380 It's really not.

00:27:04.260 It used to be, but it's all too politically correct.

00:27:07.500 Everybody's afraid to offend anyone.

00:27:10.040 Right.

00:27:10.260 You know, which is why I loved the Donald Trump ad.

00:27:14.280 Do we have the Donald Trump ad?

00:27:16.360 Listen to the Donald Trump ad and tell me they didn't intentionally just go for it.

00:27:23.240 I'll play it here in a second.

00:27:24.520 Did you see it?

00:27:25.740 I saw a couple ads.

00:27:27.480 Oh, my gosh.

00:27:28.340 The Trump ad, the first one that played, and I think it's the only one.

00:27:31.860 He wanted to run two.

00:27:33.100 Only one ran, and the Democrats went crazy.

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00:28:16.460 We have Tulsi Gabbard, who is joining us now.

00:28:19.400 Hello, Tulsi.

00:28:19.960 How are you?

00:28:21.640 Hi.

00:28:22.160 Good morning, Glenn.

00:28:22.840 Good.

00:28:23.080 How are you?

00:28:23.560 Very good.

00:28:24.340 Thanks for coming on.

00:28:25.720 I'm sure there's a little trepidation in this, a little, perhaps, concern, and you shouldn't.

00:28:32.740 I respect you.

00:28:34.320 Everybody on the show here respects you.

00:28:36.320 We disagree with you, but we really feel you love your country.

00:28:40.860 You have served the nation.

00:28:42.700 I do.

00:28:43.180 And you're a solid citizen.

00:28:46.760 So thanks for coming on.

00:28:49.060 Thank you.

00:28:49.400 Okay, I want to ask you, first of all, about the debate that is happening this Friday.

00:28:56.880 You are polling at 8%, and yet you haven't been invited to be on this debate stage, and

00:29:03.880 Deval Patrick is polling at 2%, and he was invited.

00:29:08.100 What's happening?

00:29:08.740 You know, we've put in calls and sent messages to CNN to ask them exactly that question and

00:29:18.020 have not gotten any kind of response.

00:29:21.140 And to me, the biggest problem with all of this is CNN is making a choice to dishonor voters,

00:29:29.340 both here in New Hampshire, who will be voting here in eight days, as well as voters across

00:29:33.880 the country by barring them from being able to be informed about the different leading

00:29:40.860 candidates who are running for president, hearing the voice and the message and the issues that

00:29:45.400 I'm raising in this presidential campaign.

00:29:48.080 So their decision to exclude me from this is a disservice to New Hampshire voters, and

00:29:54.040 it's something they're not very happy about.

00:29:56.040 So I want to kind of get your opinion on where this is coming from.

00:29:59.980 And Bernie Sanders on Saturday said the target is not just the Republican establishment, but

00:30:06.000 it is the Democratic establishment.

00:30:08.540 He said that's a real enemy.

00:30:10.880 They need to bump off because the party is trying to kill this revolution of his.

00:30:17.100 Would you agree with that as well with you?

00:30:22.420 Well, I'll tell you what I'm experiencing here.

00:30:25.320 You know, I'm in New Hampshire.

00:30:26.420 We are campaigning hard as we're heading towards Election Day here, and voters recognize that

00:30:33.600 the political establishment in Washington is not serving the people of this country.

00:30:40.120 We have a Washington that is of, by, and for the powerful elite rather than of, by, and

00:30:45.760 for the people.

00:30:46.900 So in the town halls that we're holding every day across New Hampshire and some of the bigger

00:30:51.680 towns and the very small towns, districts that may be red or blue or a mix or whatever

00:30:58.400 it is, what we're seeing is we have Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and Libertarians

00:31:04.140 all coming together, having a respectful conversation, because as you opened our conversation today,

00:31:12.140 we respect each other.

00:31:13.240 We recognize that we are fellow Americans, and we care very much for our country's future,

00:31:19.200 and we see how the powerful elite in Washington are not working for the best interest of the

00:31:23.760 people, and that the only way to change that is when we, the people, stand up, work side

00:31:29.760 by side, and actually focus on putting country first, putting the people of this country first,

00:31:35.040 and actually get real solutions to the problems that we are facing.

00:31:38.740 And that's exactly what we're doing.

00:31:40.220 So, Tulsi, there is, I mean, listening to you speak, it sounds to me very familiar.

00:31:47.740 It sounds like what Tea Party members were saying back under Obama.

00:31:52.960 The establishment isn't listening.

00:31:55.520 They're not responding to what the voters are asking for, because I wanted hope and change

00:32:01.600 too.

00:32:02.000 I wanted transparency.

00:32:03.380 I wanted a change to what was happening.

00:32:06.120 And nobody was listening at all on either side, and those people were belittled, which made

00:32:13.740 them more angry.

00:32:16.140 Isn't this the same kind of feeling, just with different end goals?

00:32:22.380 One was a return to the Constitution, and in many cases with Sanders, it's, you know, an

00:32:28.000 end to the Constitution or the capitalism.

00:32:30.300 Isn't it the same feeling, though?

00:32:36.120 The sense of dissatisfaction, disenfranchisement, of being left behind, that our voices are not

00:32:44.820 being heard, I think is something that has continuously been growing over quite some time,

00:32:49.780 which points to the reality that the problems in Washington are not being correctly identified.

00:32:56.380 We go through these elections, and it's like, you know, Democrats good, Republicans bad,

00:33:00.540 Republicans good, Democrats bad.

00:33:02.220 And it's this hyper-partisanship about one party versus the other, and each trying to either

00:33:08.580 maintain or regain their power that leaves the American people and our voices behind.

00:33:15.100 And this is why I think something that you're identifying maybe happened a while back.

00:33:19.160 It's only continued to have grown, and it is coming from across party lines.

00:33:25.620 In our town halls, as we're talking about these issues every day, you know, everyone's nodding

00:33:31.120 their heads and recognizing, yes, we need to fix this.

00:33:34.160 We need to change this.

00:33:35.020 We've got to stop seeing everything through a partisan lens and actually just focus on the

00:33:39.040 reality that so many American families are struggling and hurting and are angry that their

00:33:47.780 government is not working for them.

00:33:49.840 So how would you identify yourself as, I mean, you endorsed Bernie Sanders, which made Hillary

00:33:56.640 Clinton love you forever.

00:33:59.960 All right, would you consider...

00:34:01.520 I have not gotten the love letter yet.

00:34:03.300 Really?

00:34:03.760 Oh, I thought, no, I thought she loved you for that.

00:34:06.340 I move around a lot, so I don't know, maybe I got lost.

00:34:08.400 Well, she might, when she accepts the lawsuit and signs for the lawsuit you filed against her, 0.82

00:34:13.800 maybe she'll give you the love letter in exchange for that.

00:34:17.700 But are you, would you, how would you classify yourself, and is democratic socialist, is that

00:34:23.920 a danger, do you think, or is that a good thing?

00:34:29.400 Is that where the democratic party should go?

00:34:31.120 I classify myself first and foremost as an American.

00:34:33.500 Right, I know that.

00:34:34.060 I love our country, and I approach issues as I have throughout my time in Congress, as

00:34:41.480 I do now, seeking to serve our country as President, Commander-in-Chief, really just

00:34:46.300 focused on the substance of these issues, not blindly placing myself or my thought process

00:34:53.140 into one box because I'm a Democrat, but actually actively seeking ideas, perspectives, and solutions

00:35:00.260 coming from across party lines because this is reality.

00:35:05.500 I'm a very practical and pragmatic person.

00:35:07.620 I'm an independent-minded person, and I call things like I see it.

00:35:11.340 I am just as willing and able to call out my own party when they're wrong as well as when

00:35:19.440 they're right as I am the Republican Party when they're wrong or when they're right.

00:35:23.820 And it's this kind of clarity and putting country first that I think voters across this country

00:35:31.380 are demanding as we're seeing some of these changes continuing to occur in this election.

00:35:39.480 Let me just touch on the Hillary lawsuit. 0.98

00:35:42.360 What are you hoping to achieve with that?

00:35:44.800 I've had several people say you will have to prove damages.

00:35:48.900 It's going to be almost impossible to prove the damages.

00:35:51.460 So what are you hoping to gain or say?

00:35:56.820 I will leave the legal machinery to the attorneys, but I'll tell you for myself, some in the media

00:36:05.040 are portraying this as, well, this is just another news story or this is just a media stunt,

00:36:09.260 but they don't understand that this is about my life.

00:36:13.260 You know, I've dedicated my entire adult life to serving our country.

00:36:17.280 After the attacks on 9-11, like so many Americans, I made that decision to serve and to protect

00:36:26.700 the safety, security, and freedom of the American people and being willing to put my life on the

00:36:31.120 line to do so.

00:36:32.340 I'm still serving in the Army National Guard now.

00:36:35.060 I've deployed twice to the Middle East.

00:36:36.740 And of course, I'm still serving in Congress now, seven going on eight years.

00:36:41.020 And so for Hillary Clinton and her powerful allies in Washington to essentially try to 0.96

00:36:50.720 portray me as a traitor to the country that I love, it takes away the very essence of who

00:36:58.300 I am.

00:36:59.380 The oath of loyalty that I have taken to the country that I love.

00:37:04.700 I mean, somebody like somebody.

00:37:05.940 And so this is a serious thing.

00:37:07.520 Yeah, somebody like Hillary Clinton saying that you're a Russian asset has got to make

00:37:13.880 an impact on you, your career, but also personally, just...

00:37:19.940 Very much so.

00:37:21.280 Very much so.

00:37:22.340 And personally for myself, but I'm actually thinking of the amazing patriots who I've served

00:37:28.400 with, people who have also dedicated their lives, literally their lives, willing to sacrifice

00:37:35.280 everything in service to our country.

00:37:38.100 This is what defines us.

00:37:40.120 And so for her and her powerful allies to so completely devalue that honor, that loyalty,

00:37:47.660 that sacrifice in service to our country, it cannot go unchecked.

00:37:52.860 And this is why I'm filing this lawsuit.

00:37:54.640 Is this just an old beef because of the Bernie Sanders endorsement?

00:37:58.100 Or is there something deeper there, do you think?

00:37:59.620 This is something that only she can answer.

00:38:04.380 I think from my perspective, I see two things that seem to be very clear.

00:38:09.260 Number one is that, that she hasn't let go of the fact that I resigned as vice chair of

00:38:14.020 the DNC to endorse Bernie Sanders very specifically for one reason, the vast difference in Bernie

00:38:22.040 Sanders and Hillary Clinton's foreign policy and worldview.

00:38:26.240 What kind of commander in chief they would be Bernie, largely non-interventionist, Hillary Clinton, 0.99

00:38:31.980 extremely interventionist and a neolib war hawk.

00:38:36.160 And consistently, the second thing is that throughout my time in Congress,

00:38:40.540 I have been speaking out strongly against the very foreign policy legacy that she represents

00:38:46.760 of being the world's police, waging regime change wars in other countries

00:38:50.420 that have not made us any safer and that have cost us tremendously the lives of my brothers

00:38:56.500 and sisters in uniform, as well as every American in taxpayer dollars, dollars that are coming

00:39:02.820 out of, you know, our schools, our classrooms, coming out of our infrastructure needs in our

00:39:07.600 communities, going as they are now in Afghanistan, $4 billion every month, $4 billion every month.

00:39:15.060 That's $5.5 million per hour. And I hear from people every day who question, my gosh, those

00:39:21.820 resources could be going towards opioid recovery and helping those who are struggling with substance

00:39:27.000 abuse and addiction here in New Hampshire and across the country. 130 Americans dying every day

00:39:33.000 from this opioid epidemic. So this cost is very real. And I see how Hillary Clinton and her powerful

00:39:41.340 allies are sending a message through what they are doing to me to say, if you dare cross us,

00:39:48.020 we will come after you.

00:39:50.260 I will tell you that I think your foreign policy is actually has more in common now with this new

00:39:56.660 Republican, I shouldn't say Republican, new conservative viewpoint on let's bring people home.

00:40:04.580 This is enough is enough. And we keep making the same mistake over and over.

00:40:10.500 Let me break for 10 second station ID and back with Tulsi Gabbard with Tulsi Gabbard, who is up in

00:40:17.160 New Hampshire. She's running for president of the United States and the Democratic Party. The 0.66

00:40:21.800 Democratic Party doesn't seem to want to have anything to do with her. She's running at 8 percent 0.99

00:40:25.840 in New Hampshire. She qualifies for the CNN debate. She can't get an answer on why she wasn't asked to

00:40:33.640 intend. But instead, Deval Patrick was and he's running at 2 percent. Tulsi,

00:40:40.640 we're up against impeachment now. We haven't heard from witnesses. I think legally it was the right

00:40:52.000 call. If I'm the president's attorney, you won the case, end it. Politically, I think we should have

00:40:58.080 heard from witnesses and I would have liked to. Let's say they vote on Wednesday to acquit,

00:41:05.100 which I think they will. Should there be should the House go into John Bolton? Should we hear from

00:41:13.760 the Biden? Should we investigate any of this stuff or is it time just to walk away from this?

00:41:19.720 I've spoken a lot about this and just pointed out from shortly how shortly after Donald Trump was

00:41:29.600 elected, there were immediately members of my party who were who were pushing for impeachment,

00:41:35.780 largely because of political differences, not willing to accept the outcome of the election,

00:41:40.940 policy differences and and their criticisms of Donald Trump. And I've spoken about how dangerous

00:41:48.580 it is to have this process be driven in a very hyper partisan way, frankly, on both sides and how

00:41:56.680 not doing so in an objective way really only further divides an already divided country. It's why I made

00:42:04.620 a very conscious decision to vote present when that those votes came before the House of Representatives

00:42:11.140 to take a stand for the center against this hyper partisanship in Washington, while also introducing

00:42:17.760 a censure resolution that actually included many more of the unconstitutional actions that President

00:42:25.620 Trump has taken. And frankly, something that I think would have been more likely to gain

00:42:29.760 bipartisan support. Unless I'm hearing from people. I'm sorry, we're up against the network break.

00:42:36.360 Unless you care to stay longer, we'd love to have you longer. How can people get involved?

00:42:41.820 Your campaign. Thank you. Tulsi 2020 dot com. I look forward. I'm the best Democrat,

00:42:48.540 best candidate to be able to defeat Trump in November of 2020. Appreciate you all people from

00:42:54.640 all party lines coming and joining us in our people powered movement. Thank you so much. Tulsi Gabbard.

00:43:00.000 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:43:17.760 Hello, America. It's Monday, day of the Iowa caucus. Tomorrow is the State of the Union. I will be in

00:43:24.200 Washington, D.C. in the Senate chamber for that speech. Or is it the House chamber?

00:43:34.280 You're going to miss it then because it's in the House chamber. I'm going to be in the House chamber

00:43:37.180 watching that. You see so much that television just doesn't show you. I don't watch the president.

00:43:44.100 I'm watching all the people and the floor show. It's pretty amazing. It's going to be a historic

00:43:50.800 speech because the next day he goes in for the vote to either acquit or to convict for his impeachment.

00:43:58.880 So it's kind of a busy week, politically speaking. Then on Thursday night at 8 p.m. Eastern,

00:44:06.320 a free special. We're making it available for everyone. Look for the Blaze YouTube channel

00:44:12.160 and make sure you're watching the live special 8 p.m. on Thursday. It's the final piece,

00:44:20.880 the Ukraine, the final piece, the billion dollar question. And we have the answer for you.

00:44:28.300 And it has nothing to do with really the impeachment of Trump, although it makes sense fully now.

00:44:35.060 The impeachment of Trump has very little to do with the Bidens or any of the stuff that we have

00:44:41.880 talked about. The final piece is much bigger than that. And quite honestly, I think it's going to

00:44:48.880 shock Democrats. It will make total sense, no denying it. And I think the anybody who voted for

00:44:57.960 Barack Obama is going to be disgusted by what this story is really all about. That is Thursday,

00:45:03.220 Ukraine, the final piece, 8 p.m. Eastern. All right, let me go back now to Iowa, which happens

00:45:08.800 today. One of the people that really had their finger on the pulse during the 2016 election was

00:45:16.260 Selena Zito, because she is a reporter that doesn't listen necessarily to all the other reporters. 1.00

00:45:23.120 She's listening to the people and she she travels by car and she stops in diners and she's actually

00:45:29.600 listening. I wanted to get her view on what's happening in Iowa today. Selena, welcome to the

00:45:35.520 program. Thank you so much for having me. And I have to tell you, you're absolutely right. When you

00:45:41.200 watch the State of the Union address, no matter who the president is, watching it in the House

00:45:47.380 chamber and if you're watching it from the gallery, it's just a fascinating moment of human behavior.

00:45:53.920 It really is. You see, you see what that president is dealing with and you see the little clicks and

00:46:03.480 it's amazing. The people should, you should have another camera just on the House and the Senate

00:46:10.180 because you learn an awful lot. Anyway. Absolutely, absolutely correct.

00:46:16.880 Okay. So, Selena, tell me what you think is going on today in Iowa. What are you sensing is

00:46:26.820 we're going to be talking about tomorrow at this point?

00:46:30.360 I think tomorrow at this point, we're going to be talking about Bernie Sanders.

00:46:35.180 And I think he has a high probability of winning this, the caucus. And here's why.

00:46:43.160 You know, in 2004, when we were heading into the caucus, everyone was like, Howard Dean, Howard Dean,

00:46:49.140 Howard Dean. But what they missed, and I remember writing this or saying this, I can't remember,

00:46:55.880 it feels like 5,000 years ago, right? But I remember noticing that they didn't have the ground

00:47:02.800 support that is necessary to get the voters out to caucus. Because if anybody knows anything about

00:47:09.900 how you caucus, it's an investment of your personal time. And I don't mean like 15 minutes,

00:47:16.760 you know, waiting in line and going to the ballot box. I'm talking about three to four hours

00:47:22.140 at night. It's usually cold. It's almost always snowing. And you have to really put it out there

00:47:29.540 in terms of who you are supporting. Everyone in your precinct knows who you supported.

00:47:36.080 And if that person does not miss, hit that threshold, then there's some bartering that

00:47:43.000 goes on. And it's really sort of fascinating. But Bernie has done, and I think this has been

00:47:49.180 underreported, his campaign team has done an incredible job of getting really good people,

00:47:57.420 people trusted in their community to get voters out. And that's how you win a caucus.

00:48:03.560 Right. And when you're searching for a candidate, which it seems many of the Iowans are, they're not

00:48:13.120 satisfied with any of them. They've been looking for somebody that they think could win. They don't

00:48:20.840 have a consensus on this. They keep going back and forth. It's like going to buy a pair of shoes with

00:48:26.540 a woman in a store. They're trying on every single pair, and they're going to walk away with none of 0.75

00:48:31.060 them in the end. That's the way this kind of feels. And the only one that has true, true, deep support,

00:48:40.240 I think, are Yang and Sanders.

00:48:42.940 Yes, you're absolutely right. Yang is this really sort of once-in-a-lifetime interesting

00:48:51.440 candidate for the Democratic Party. He's young, he's funny, he's brilliant. His politics are

00:49:02.840 are, are, are, are, are a real mixed bag. Yeah, I was gonna say, it's kind of, yeah, very left

00:49:09.240 and, and right. Yes. Yeah. He's like, he's like, he's like a buffet of, of choices, all in one

00:49:16.080 candidate. He, well, the thing that he has that none of the other ones have is he's very aspirational.

00:49:22.060 That is that thing that, that, that Barack Obama had in 2008 that made things click. Pete Buttigieg

00:49:30.240 has tried to project that, but he doesn't, has not done that effectively because I think in the way

00:49:38.020 that he has handled religion has been negative because he pits different denominations against

00:49:45.120 each other because she doesn't like that at all. So, um, what is, what is your thought on,

00:49:54.260 we have Steve Dace coming up, who is really good on the, uh, the Iowa caucus and he's, he's, uh, you

00:50:01.960 know, a political player that's been on the, the, uh, looking at this and on the inside for, you know,

00:50:08.380 20 years. And he said, he thinks there's a chance we go to a, uh, brokered convention because the

00:50:17.420 Bernie people, he thinks will win in Iowa, then in New Hampshire and in Arizona, maybe Biden wins

00:50:25.080 in South Carolina, but then Bernie is really kind of on this, this role. Um, but whether he can get

00:50:33.500 enough, you know, enough delegates, uh, to win, we may be entering a, a brokered convention. How

00:50:40.420 likely do you think that is? So he's not wrong. You know, every four years, um, uh, the reporters

00:50:47.020 love to throw that out and say, Oh, this could happen. Actually, this is the year that it could

00:50:51.880 happen. This is actually the year that could happen. And I see a similar scenario. I see the

00:50:57.680 possibility of Bernie, Bernie winning Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada. You know, people always

00:51:04.340 talk about Nevada as being, uh, about, um, Hispanic voters. It's not about Hispanic voters. It's about

00:51:10.920 union voters. Yes. People always miss that. And these are the to the left unions. These aren't the

00:51:17.920 sort of energy unions that you find out here in Western Pennsylvania or Ohio or Colorado or Texas.

00:51:24.120 And so I think there's, you, I could see a scenario where, where Biden or where, where Bernie wins

00:51:31.420 Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada. And the, because the race goes to South Carolina, Biden will still win

00:51:37.920 South Carolina, but not at all as strong as, as people anticipated. And I can see Lou Bloomberg saying,

00:51:45.860 you know what, it's time for me to step in. I can do this. And that's when everything just sort of

00:51:52.240 blows up. The Democratic establishment and the media do not want Bernie Sanders to be the nominee.

00:51:57.740 They just don't. He's not been part of their team. He doesn't listen in the way that other

00:52:04.100 candidates, they would anticipate other candidates or nominees to listen. And he's not part of the

00:52:09.760 club. And, uh, and isn't that, isn't that a reason for those on the left to vote for him

00:52:18.940 even more? Doesn't that make their case stronger? Exactly. Right. I mean, they learn nothing from

00:52:26.000 2016. Nothing. No, absolutely nothing. You know, it's the establishment class, the chattering class, 0.98

00:52:33.260 the Democrats and the media sort of conglomerate that, that sort of has been the ones that have not

00:52:42.040 understood 2016, not just because of Trump, but also because of Bernie. And I always think it's

00:52:49.400 sort of fascinating, even among establishment Republicans, that none of these, um, political

00:52:55.060 parties have said, Oh dear God, they picked him. Maybe we, we must have been really bad. Let's be

00:53:02.800 reflective about that. Yeah. No, they don't do that. Let's just make fun of those people. They're

00:53:07.180 dumb. Yeah. So, um, if Bernie does take off, doesn't that, I mean, because Bernie is the closest 1.00

00:53:16.780 thing to Donald Trump that that side has. I mean, I just saw him on TV just a few minutes ago on one

00:53:22.880 of the news channels and I'm like, look at him. There's no way this guy could win. Just look at him.

00:53:29.240 He's 78 years old. He looks angry. He's kind of mean. Um, he's just not a politician, um, in,

00:53:38.520 in the traditional sense. And then I thought that's exactly what people said. And I said

00:53:43.640 to about Donald Trump and look where he is now. Yeah. I think that what people, what, what people

00:53:51.100 within the establishment, um, and no end or, or not part of the movement don't understand about

00:53:56.380 populism is that, uh, populism today is the more, uh, um, um, skepticism about all things big that

00:54:06.640 includes government, that includes politics, that includes media, that includes entertainment.

00:54:11.880 They haven't sort of understood, have grasped and or understood, uh, what they have done,

00:54:18.660 how they have failed over these past 30 years. And they have created what has happened within both

00:54:25.400 parties. Also, um, technology really, really, um, has added to that because in our daily lives,

00:54:32.700 think about this, we have removed the curators from our lives. What do I mean by that? Think

00:54:37.540 about Sears. When we used to shop, Sears picked everything. If you wanted to buy an appliance,

00:54:43.060 it was Kenmore. If you wanted to buy tools, it was craftsmen. We let some dude in Sears tower

00:54:49.020 decide what to do. Well, why, why didn't anybody think that politics wasn't going to fall in the

00:54:54.200 same way? Right now, the biggest department store in this country is Amazon. We have blown up.

00:55:00.000 Technology is essentially blown up. These large political parties, they're still going to exist,

00:55:04.780 but they don't have the power that they used to have. Selina, let me switch topics and sides,

00:55:10.640 um, quickly. Cause I've only got about a minute and a half, uh, the ramifications of impeachment.

00:55:16.840 How's this going to play out? It's not going to impact anything at all. If anything,

00:55:23.820 I have a story just now out of Wisconsin. If anything, it has made people more, less likely

00:55:31.320 to vote Democrat because they see this as a political maneuver and more likely to at least

00:55:38.240 consider Trump or not show up to vote at all. And that is a problem for the, for the democratic

00:55:45.120 party and they don't understand it. And they don't realize it. And every time I write a story like

00:55:50.220 this and do this reporting, they make fun of it, but they're missing it again as they missed it in

00:55:55.660 2016. Do you believe that, uh, the Sanders people, the, the real radicals that are in his,

00:56:02.500 his followers, that there could be trouble in, uh, Wisconsin this summer if they don't give it to him?

00:56:10.940 Oh yeah. I mean, I think there's going to be some sort of prop, you know, problem, how extreme those

00:56:17.820 problems get, um, just depends on who gets attracted to them. Right. Uh, but you know,

00:56:24.520 there is certainly a lot of potent potential for that to become a problem. All right. Selena,

00:56:32.380 thank you so much. We'll talk to you again. Um, if you're available, maybe we'll, maybe we'll get

00:56:36.900 some analysis from you again tomorrow. Thank you so much. Selena Zito. Uh, you can follow her on 0.88

00:56:42.500 Twitter at Selena Zito, Z-I-T-O. Um, the blaze radio network on demand.

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