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00:00:05.980 Welcome to the podcast.

00:00:07.580 So it was an interesting show today.

00:00:10.040 There was a lot of Kavanaugh stuff, obviously.

00:00:12.420 We could go Kavanaugh 24-7 right now.

00:00:14.780 It's the huge story, and we went through a lot of the details, the inconsistencies.

00:00:18.840 There's a new letter out from the prosecutor who was, you know, her resume is amazing.

00:00:24.880 It's not some right-wing, evil, conservative resume.

00:00:28.020 And she was one of the people who questioned the witnesses during the Kavanaugh hearings.

00:00:33.700 This is a situation where she's now released kind of her final view on this,

00:00:37.180 and it is not positive to the accusations against Kavanaugh.

00:00:41.160 Kavanaugh comes off looking like there's just not much of a case against him.

00:00:45.620 We go into the details of that today.

00:00:47.300 Also talked to Giancarlo Sopo.

00:00:48.680 He's a Democrat who, I don't know, if you're like me, you have these moments where you're like,

00:00:53.140 how can there be no Democrats who are standing up and saying,

00:00:55.720 look, I don't like Kavanaugh, I don't think he's going to rule the way I want him to rule, 0.97

00:00:59.300 but this is ridiculous. 0.94

00:01:00.820 How come we have not heard more of that from just a normal, sane Democrat? 0.96

00:01:05.200 Well, we've got one for you today.

00:01:06.460 You're going to hear that from Giancarlo Sopo.

00:01:08.520 He goes into the details as to why this is happening and, you know, where it's coming from.

00:01:14.940 It's kind of scary.

00:01:15.740 And we talked to Larry Sharp, who's running for governor of New York.

00:01:19.340 He's a libertarian candidate, and he talks a little bit about the Kavanaugh thing as well.

00:01:22.700 It's nice to hear people who aren't looking at this from a partisan perspective,

00:01:26.860 hitting what seems to be the same viewpoint.

00:01:30.380 And we talked about a brand new podcast, which you right now should go subscribe to.

00:01:34.740 It is called Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher.

00:01:38.340 Jeffy comes on and talks about his new podcast, which launches today.

00:01:41.520 So if you're listening to this podcast, take a second, go over, search Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher,

00:01:47.420 and click on Jeffy's wonderful, beautiful face, and click subscribe.

00:01:52.580 You're going to get that every single day, Jeffy's very unique viewpoints on the world.

00:01:57.920 So do that. 0.56

00:01:58.520 We'll talk to Jeffy about what's coming up on that.

00:02:00.100 And, you know, Kanye West, his comments, his appearance on Saturday Night Live was crazy.

00:02:04.900 We get into that as well.

00:02:05.900 It's all today on the podcast.

00:02:07.020 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:20.620 It's Monday, October 1st.

00:02:23.120 Glenn Beck.

00:02:24.400 Hey, some good news, California.

00:02:26.180 Things in your state are going to get even better.

00:02:27.960 You now have to have women on the board of directors for your company. 1.00

00:02:34.160 If you've got all men, out of luck, government's going to tell you that's not enough now in California.

00:02:40.780 Yes.

00:02:41.660 Yes.

00:02:42.520 They're just helping you.

00:02:44.740 And net neutrality has returned to California.

00:02:48.980 Governor Jerry Brown just signed into law more or less the same Obama-era law that regulated the Internet on a federal level.

00:02:57.000 So now, by the way, California, do you know why it costs you so much money to pump gas into your car?

00:03:03.380 In California, you can go right across state lines.

00:03:05.720 It's a lot cheaper.

00:03:06.680 You ever notice that?

00:03:08.020 Yeah.

00:03:08.280 When you travel elsewhere, it's not because we have gas ferries.

00:03:11.700 It's because the government doesn't tell us that we need super special blends that only exist in California.

00:03:20.460 That's why you pay so much.

00:03:21.800 But don't worry about it.

00:03:22.920 I'm sure this will be completely different when you just regulate the Internet differently.

00:03:27.300 Before we get into the dumpster fire that is this, let's take a look at the state of California.

00:03:35.780 The People's Republic of Californiastan, I'm just saying, I think they hate having business done within their borders.

00:03:46.460 Is there any other way to look at this?

00:03:48.300 I just despise business.

00:03:51.640 It is literally you against the state and you, the American business owner, caught behind the Iron Curtain of California.

00:04:02.980 California, they have now responded with unprecedented rulings.

00:04:11.940 Companies are hightailing it out of California like never before.

00:04:15.680 They've just passed Proposition 30 in 2012.

00:04:19.480 That was the last straw, I think, for many businesses.

00:04:23.000 And can I tell you something?

00:04:25.240 Californians, you're thinking about moving.

00:04:26.760 You can't believe how crowded and the traffic here is even worse than California.

00:04:31.780 Don't come to Texas. 0.75

00:04:33.200 It's awful here. 0.92

00:04:34.800 We're really bad. 0.92

00:04:36.280 It's nothing but rednecks and hillbillies. 1.00

00:04:38.740 Don't move to Texas.

00:04:40.900 Here's an idea.

00:04:41.980 Fix your own state.

00:04:44.880 You were just hit with $6 billion in new taxes.

00:04:50.580 That kicked off the mass corporate excess out of the Sunshine State and here to Texas.

00:04:56.760 The companies included Carl's Jr., Toyota, Jacobs Engineering, Occidental Petroleum, Chevron, Kubota Tractors, Nestle.

00:05:08.740 Any more you can think of?

00:05:10.500 Because they're coming in by the day here.

00:05:13.220 Since 2008, some analysts have calculated that up to 10,000 companies have left California.

00:05:21.460 I always wanted to grow up in California.

00:05:23.060 I mean, when I was growing up, I always wanted to live in California.

00:05:25.320 Just wanted to live in San Diego.

00:05:26.520 My whole life, working.

00:05:28.440 KFMB, San Diego.

00:05:30.300 16 years old.

00:05:31.200 That's all I wanted.

00:05:33.980 You couldn't get me to California.

00:05:37.780 California?

00:05:39.020 Really?

00:05:39.720 It's no longer what the West used to be.

00:05:43.840 California was the place that people went for opportunity.

00:05:47.600 People would pack up their entire family and they would brave the hostile Indian country to reach California in search of prosperity. 0.99

00:06:00.340 Now it's just the opposite.

00:06:03.860 People are packing their bags and heading to the center of the country.

00:06:08.700 Again, don't move to Texas or Utah.

00:06:13.720 You're wrecking both of them.

00:06:15.320 And now, net neutrality.

00:06:18.300 It threatens California's biggest asset, Silicon Valley.

00:06:21.860 What are you going to do, California, when big tech and internet companies surrounding the Bay Area pack their bags?

00:06:29.440 They've already spent the past year lobbying heavily against this new state net neutrality law.

00:06:35.000 Because no matter how hard the left tries to sell net neutrality as a law that protects consumers, what it really does is open the gateway to full government regulation of the internet.

00:06:46.680 Are you a dreamer, creating a new Google or Apple inside your garage?

00:06:55.720 Well, in California, you're not going to have that opportunity.

00:06:59.680 In fact, you already don't.

00:07:02.120 Microsoft says Bill Gates couldn't do what he did.

00:07:06.460 Now with the laws that are on the books?

00:07:09.160 You will never have the freedom that Larry Page or Sergey Brin enjoyed.

00:07:16.680 The mighty state of California will put its boot on your throat and choke the innovation right out of you. 0.86

00:07:25.700 But don't worry.

00:07:27.760 As they have their boot on your throat, they'll talk to you about how fair it is.

00:07:33.460 The call for freedom and prosperity is no longer go west, young man.

00:07:39.360 You can't certainly say go east. 0.98

00:07:41.780 Because if you go too far, you run into the same damn craziness. 0.69

00:07:45.080 It's just on another coast with a bunch of snow. 0.93

00:07:50.660 There's just a few bastions of freedom left in the country.

00:07:55.180 We're all huddled and squeezed directly in the middle.

00:07:58.460 Google, Facebook, Amazon, Flyover Nation.

00:08:01.900 Well, I would like to say they're waiting for you, but I don't know if they are really waiting for you.

00:08:09.820 I don't know if you'll be welcome in those communities either.

00:08:14.980 Of course, you'll just move all of your people into the center of the country, 1.00

00:08:19.520 and then you'll destroy the center of the country like you have the coasts.

00:08:22.900 Congratulations, California.

00:08:25.980 You just took one more step at turning the once great state of California

00:08:31.420 into the formerly great city of Detroit.

00:08:35.720 It's Monday, October 1st.

00:08:44.840 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:08:46.800 I got something last night.

00:08:58.200 Have you seen the copy?

00:08:59.120 By the way, hello, Stu.

00:09:00.400 Have you seen the copy of Rachel Mitchell's memo?

00:09:06.640 Yeah, I'm reading a little bit about it.

00:09:08.060 Okay.

00:09:08.540 Pretty amazing.

00:09:09.200 This is really amazing.

00:09:10.140 Now, remember, Rachel Mitchell is the Maricopa County sex crimes prosecutor. 0.95

00:09:14.240 She is the one who interviewed Kavanaugh's accuser, Christina Ford.

00:09:20.760 She was the woman that was made fun of on Saturday Night Live this weekend.

00:09:27.400 She, well, she was a highly respected advocate for sexual abuse victims.

00:09:32.120 She has 25 years experience.

00:09:34.720 She's not political at all.

00:09:36.100 In fact, she was recognized by Barack Obama's head of Homeland Security

00:09:40.560 as the sexual assault prosecutor of the year.

00:09:44.680 Let me say that again.

00:09:46.540 The woman that the Republicans selected to dig in and find out whether or not 1.00

00:09:55.100 Dr. Ford's claims were legitimate or not

00:09:58.560 was Barack Obama's head of Homeland Security sexual assault prosecutor of the year.

00:10:07.120 So she's not a Democratic hack. 1.00

00:10:11.580 And also not a defense attorney, right?

00:10:13.840 She's a prosecutor. 0.98

00:10:14.880 Yes.

00:10:15.100 She tries to prove these things true.

00:10:17.500 She goes in.

00:10:18.640 Her expertise is on old crimes to be able to go in and say, all right, how did this happen?

00:10:26.060 And be able to put it together to make sure that the prosecution can win.

00:10:30.940 All right, before I continue and tell you what's in her memo, let me just preface it with this.

00:10:39.440 You're not going to see any—CNN's not going to be leading with this.

00:10:43.500 New York Times is not going to have this on the front page, but it should.

00:10:46.840 The reason why they won't is because it is devastating for Senate Democrats.

00:10:53.060 Left-wing activists, the media, this is absolutely devastating to you.

00:10:57.780 I want you to know, if you're easily triggered, you might want to turn off the radio for just a minute.

00:11:05.420 Here's what she wrote.

00:11:07.280 Quote,

00:11:07.920 Here's my bottom line.

00:11:11.100 A he-said-she-said case is incredibly difficult to prove.

00:11:16.300 But this case is even weaker than that.

00:11:20.800 End quote.

00:11:21.340 So I've been saying he-said-she-said, that's pretty difficult.

00:11:27.560 She said the same thing.

00:11:28.820 That's not what—she's saying this isn't even a he-said-she-said case.

00:11:32.980 It's weaker than that.

00:11:35.900 Dr. Ford identified other witnesses to the event, and those witnesses, I'm still quoting,

00:11:42.020 have either refuted her allegations or failed to corroborate them.

00:11:46.340 She then adds, I do not think that a reasonable prosecutor would bring this case based on the evidence before the committee.

00:11:55.880 I don't think a reasonable prosecutor would bring this case not to the court, not for prosecution, but before the committee.

00:12:08.480 Nor do I believe that this evidence is sufficient to satisfy the preponderance of evidence standard.

00:12:14.660 End quote.

00:12:16.280 It's pretty significant, don't you think?

00:12:18.280 Yes.

00:12:19.380 Again, like, she's being portrayed as this Republican hack to go after this poor woman because she was a girl. 1.00

00:12:26.460 You mean Barack Obama's—

00:12:27.580 Yeah.

00:12:27.940 Barack Obama's Homeland Security Prosecutor Sex Crimes of the Year?

00:12:32.380 They picked someone who should have incredible amounts of credibility, even with the left.

00:12:36.380 Yes.

00:12:36.680 So, she's saying that it won't stand up in court, wouldn't—no prosecutor would even bring it, and no prosecutor should even bring this to the committee.

00:12:47.880 This explains, in my opinion, why it was leaked in the final hour, because everyone who saw this knew exactly what it was.

00:13:00.240 Now, she explains why.

00:13:05.160 She says, Ford has significantly changed her story several times in recent months in ways that are shady, have not been explained, and defy common sense.

00:13:18.920 Okay, wait a minute.

00:13:22.740 It may look like she's credible, but based on what she said, not how she looked, if you're looking at what she said, her story falls apart.

00:13:35.720 The most glaring issue with Dr. Ford's story is that she is given four different dates for when the attack occurred, and we're not talking about the difference of a few days.

00:13:45.960 According—this is from her memo.

00:13:49.120 According to the Washington Post, the 2013 notes from her therapy session list the attacks of having occurred when she was in her late teens.

00:13:58.940 Fast forward five years, July 6th of this year.

00:14:02.740 In a text message to the Washington Post reporter, Ford said the attack happened in the mid-1980s.

00:14:09.320 This would be consistent with her therapist's notes, since Ford was born in late November 66 and would have been in her late teens from 1984 through 1986.

00:14:21.400 But then something changed.

00:14:23.760 Three weeks later, in a July 30th letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein's office, the date of attack changed to the early 80s.

00:14:32.440 Now, you might say, what difference does it make?

00:14:37.140 Well, if you say you're in your late teens, 16, 17, 18, 19, you're in high school, so you're 17 or 18.

00:14:46.460 Late teens.

00:14:47.680 You've been saying mid-80s.

00:14:49.800 Anytime you've ever talked about this, before it became political, mid-80s, late teens.

00:14:56.980 Why did it change?

00:14:58.480 And how did it change within a span of three weeks?

00:15:03.560 She changes the date by a couple of years? 0.98

00:15:09.160 It gets better.

00:15:10.460 This is, again, I'm quoting, I'm quoting the report.

00:15:15.880 It gets better.

00:15:17.020 One week later, when she goes to take a polygraph test with her lawyers, she was asked to write down a statement describing the events.

00:15:24.120 In that statement, Ford wrote, the alleged attack happened in the early 1980s.

00:15:31.240 But then something strange happens.

00:15:34.480 If you look at her written testimony for the lie detector test, she scratches out the early 1980s and leaves it the 1980s.

00:15:47.620 Perhaps because she knew early 1980s was false?

00:15:54.460 And it was fresh in her mind and might set off the polygraph?

00:15:57.960 Then finally, by mid-September, on her first on-the-record interview with the Washington Post, Ford narrowed the date of the attack down to the summer of 1982.

00:16:09.620 So, let me recap.

00:16:10.860 Dr. Ford provided four different dates over the span of a couple of weeks for what was supposedly one of the most traumatic and important events of her life.

00:16:20.320 Why is this significant?

00:16:24.400 Well, because if the attack happened when she was in her late teens or in the mid-80s, as she first told the Washington Post and her therapist, Brett Kavanaugh would have been 300 miles away at Yale University as a full-time student.

00:16:39.960 So, it couldn't have happened in the mid-1980s or in her late teens.

00:16:45.520 There's more in the memo, and we'll get to it.

00:16:48.680 But this is a bombshell that no one will discuss.

00:16:54.660 It not only discredits Ford's allegation against Brett Kavanaugh, it obliterates it.

00:16:59.940 It casts serious doubts over her testimony.

00:17:03.800 Now, maybe the FBI finds some new groundbreaking evidence.

00:17:09.220 But this allegation should be considered debunked.

00:17:14.420 The Democrats know this.

00:17:16.440 The media knows this.

00:17:18.680 And that's why they are shifting gears.

00:17:21.800 Have you noticed now they're talking not about Ford?

00:17:25.820 Now they're talking about, was he lying about teenage fart jokes?

00:17:30.220 I'm not making that up.

00:17:32.400 Was he lying about fart jokes and drinking games? 0.98

00:17:36.880 They tried to make him a rapist. 0.99

00:17:40.900 Then they tried to make him a gang rapist. 0.97

00:17:44.500 That argument is losing. 1.00

00:17:46.060 Now they're going to make him look like a liar. 1.00

00:17:48.120 It's pathetic. 1.00

00:17:50.180 It's dishonorable. 1.00

00:17:51.920 It's un-American. 0.82

00:17:53.780 And none of us should fall for this.

00:17:55.700 Senate Democrats, Senate Democrats, the American people see what this is.

00:18:02.620 Look at the polling numbers.

00:18:04.460 This is a sham.

00:18:05.880 It's an attempted coup of the United States and the Supreme Court under the guise of the hashtag MeToo movement.

00:18:15.100 You need to speak and stand right now.

00:18:19.620 And if you don't, I think the American people will speak and stand in November.

00:18:27.200 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:18:38.640 Hey, our Addicted Outrage tour begins, when is it, August 25th or something?

00:18:44.980 Yeah, August is a good month to start a book.

00:18:47.000 I mean, it's a little delay.

00:18:49.200 We're going to wait about 10 months and then start a tour.

00:18:51.520 That's what we're going to do.

00:18:53.040 It's already passed.

00:18:55.040 Well, we can start next August.

00:18:56.280 No, October 25th, 26th and 27th from Texas.

00:19:00.840 November 1st in Virginia.

00:19:03.040 November 2nd in Pennsylvania, as well as the 3rd.

00:19:05.960 And we've got Cleveland on the 4th.

00:19:07.560 Kansas City, Evansville, Tulsa, Tampa, and December in Orlando.

00:19:12.120 Do you notice that those groups of dates, they all center around the midterm election?

00:19:19.560 We are going to have a lot to discuss on tour.

00:19:24.600 And it'll be a great place to hang out and have some fun.

00:19:28.220 Grab your tickets now for the Addicted Outrage tour.

00:19:31.300 We're coming to a city near you.

00:19:32.900 You can find them online at glennbeck.com slash tour.

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00:19:39.100 All right.

00:19:39.880 We're talking about the Kavanaugh thing.

00:19:42.760 And I want to talk to those people who I think are reasonable, who can look at Ford and see her testimony and say, okay, so why wouldn't we just do the FBI thing?

00:20:00.140 In a reasonable world, you're absolutely right.

00:20:05.000 In a reasonable world, you're right.

00:20:07.260 But this is not about Ford.

00:20:10.260 And this is not about making sure that these charges stick.

00:20:14.240 It's why as soon as this happened, as soon as Jeff Flake said, no, no, wait a minute, hang on.

00:20:22.340 We want an FBI investigation.

00:20:25.900 As soon as that happened, the narrative changed.

00:20:28.780 Now they're going after and saying he lied about drinking beer.

00:20:33.960 Okay.

00:20:34.580 He was for the love of Pete, people.

00:20:38.620 So this is just about.

00:20:39.680 And the accusation is that he wasn't blackout drunk.

00:20:42.400 I know.

00:20:42.520 How would you confirm he was?

00:20:44.080 I know.

00:20:44.540 I know. 0.97

00:20:45.020 It's ridiculous. 0.91

00:20:45.920 I know. 0.77

00:20:46.020 So we'll get into that later because I've, as an alcoholic, I got a lot to say on that one.

00:20:52.520 But they've changed the narrative and they are playing the American people.

00:20:59.100 And here's, and here's how it's working.

00:21:02.080 What they've done is they've turned this into something that is more than Kavanaugh.

00:21:08.640 Look, if Kavanaugh is a guy who did this, I don't want him on the Supreme Court.

00:21:12.460 None of us do.

00:21:13.700 Nobody does.

00:21:14.400 That's a bad thing.

00:21:16.980 But you can't just smear somebody.

00:21:18.760 You have to have some evidence.

00:21:20.420 So because of the lack of evidence, what they've done is they've not made this about Kavanaugh.

00:21:26.300 They've instead made this about victims.

00:21:32.320 Evidence?

00:21:33.640 Play the elevator encounter with Jeff Flake.

00:21:36.720 I told the story of my sexual assault.

00:21:39.040 I told it because I recognized in Dr. Ford's story that she's telling the truth.

00:21:43.900 What you are doing is allowing someone who actually violated a woman to sit in the Supreme Court.

00:21:50.920 This is not tolerable.

00:21:52.680 You have children in your family.

00:21:55.060 Stop.

00:21:55.880 This woman has obviously a horrible experience in her life. 0.99

00:22:01.160 So when she hears an accuser, she immediately believes the accuser.

00:22:06.080 Well, that's not reasonable.

00:22:08.480 She's obviously very, very upset because of what happened to her.

00:22:14.340 And she wants to send a message that that's not right.

00:22:18.500 I agree with that.

00:22:20.620 But that's not the standard of justice or the way we get justice.

00:22:24.940 Let me take you to a real-life scenario.

00:22:26.760 I didn't understand America when O.J. was let go.

00:22:32.080 I didn't understand it.

00:22:33.200 I had no idea.

00:22:34.100 What is happening?

00:22:35.300 How can the African-American community be cheering this guy?

00:22:40.280 Well, it's very easy.

00:22:42.020 Once you're away from it emotionally and you actually look into it, it's easy.

00:22:45.500 What was happening was African-Americans were feeling that there was no justice in America. 0.51

00:22:52.540 It's always the black guy that gets blamed. 0.92

00:22:55.060 And then he goes to court and the white system puts him behind bars. 0.96

00:22:59.240 And so they weren't rooting for him.

00:23:02.480 They wanted anyone to beat the system.

00:23:06.220 They wanted anyone to prove that a black guy could go to court and not be guilty. 0.94

00:23:14.080 That's what they wanted. 0.68

00:23:15.500 They wanted a victory against the system.

00:23:19.920 Totally understandable.

00:23:22.400 You ask the African-American community now, same people, did O.J. Simpson do it?

00:23:29.120 Yes.

00:23:30.080 We're all in agreement now.

00:23:31.560 Now that the emotions are gone, we're all in agreement that O.J. Simpson was guilty.

00:23:38.020 So the question is, was justice done?

00:23:43.140 The answer is clear.

00:23:44.860 No, it's not justice.

00:23:50.140 That's social justice. 0.98

00:23:52.600 That's I want to feel good.

00:23:55.460 That's social justice, not real justice.

00:23:59.620 Social justice is evil.

00:24:02.400 When it is played the way the post-modernists and the progressives are playing it now.

00:24:08.860 It does not provide any kind of real justice.

00:24:14.140 That woman who was in the elevator, her plight, I'm sure, was real.

00:24:20.180 I know I could tell her feelings were real.

00:24:22.540 And I feel sorry for her.

00:24:24.600 And I don't know what happened in her case.

00:24:26.620 I don't even know if it happened here in America or where it happened.

00:24:29.860 But I will tell you this.

00:24:32.600 In the case of Ford, we cannot help as a society if you don't ask for help.

00:24:42.500 If you don't ask anyone in your circle of friends for help.

00:24:48.500 We can't help you later, especially 35 years later.

00:24:52.660 We can't help you.

00:24:53.680 Now, I'm shocked that someone could be as traumatized as Dr. Ford was.

00:25:00.680 And no one in her circle of friends in high school.

00:25:03.400 Let's say she was a sophomore in high school.

00:25:06.020 Well, no, she can't be a sophomore.

00:25:07.800 Could she?

00:25:08.200 Could she be a sophomore?

00:25:09.680 She'd have to be a freshman or a junior.

00:25:11.460 I'm trying to figure out when Kavanaugh is at Yale and they're both still in school.

00:25:15.640 But let's just say it was sophomore year.

00:25:17.580 This happened to her.

00:25:19.220 This happens to her. 0.99

00:25:20.440 Are you telling me that there is no one in her life, no one, her mother, her sister, her best friend, that wasn't told, but now when told, doesn't go, oh, my gosh, I remember.

00:25:36.460 Yes, it was that summer and all of a sudden you didn't want to go to any parties anymore.

00:25:40.920 Would you go to a party if you experienced what she experienced?

00:25:44.700 Would you want to be by yourself at a party?

00:25:47.160 Would you change fundamentally at parties enough for your best friend to at least now be able to go, I remember that you were really weird that summer?

00:26:03.400 That didn't happen.

00:26:06.080 That didn't happen.

00:26:08.320 Nobody remembers anything.

00:26:09.600 She doesn't remember the year that it happened.

00:26:11.720 Nan, as the investigator has pointed out, she's changed this now four or five times.

00:26:19.460 We can't help you.

00:26:21.840 You have to tell someone.

00:26:24.160 You have to tell the police.

00:26:25.840 We are not the country of the 1940s.

00:26:30.540 We, I want to make sure that nobody goes to jail that is innocent.

00:26:36.340 But you know what that requires?

00:26:40.100 Not social justice.

00:26:41.900 Not believing the accuser.

00:26:45.220 But looking at the facts.

00:26:48.360 You say you're for prison reform.

00:26:52.020 And at the same time, you will not look at facts.

00:26:56.040 You only want to go with the mob mentality.

00:26:59.400 You only want to go with what is politically correct and deliver social justice.

00:27:04.740 You say you're against putting innocent people behind bars and that our justice system is so corrupt that it has put black men behind bars because of white society.

00:27:20.900 Look at what you're doing right now.

00:27:23.780 And if you were honest about the way you actually feel, think of the construct that is built by the left. 0.98

00:27:30.960 All police are really bad people that are going to throw innocent black people in jail. 0.99

00:27:37.140 White people are racist against black people. 0.99

00:27:39.960 How would, let's say, real racist cops and racist women deal with an African-American who they say has assaulted them in the past? 1.00

00:27:50.420 Think of the standard you're creating.

00:27:52.160 Black people have been victims of this in the past where they were unfairly accused of crimes.

00:27:58.620 I mean, you can go back to Emmett Till, right?

00:28:00.540 Like, you can go back.

00:28:01.120 There's a lot of these things that have happened over the years.

00:28:03.120 You are asking for that standard to return.

00:28:06.940 How are you going to react when a black man is accused unfairly about some assault they didn't commit?

00:28:14.300 Are you going to believe the white woman then? 0.68

00:28:16.100 I, I, I, this standard they are creating is insane and I feel for the woman in the elevator.

00:28:21.440 You can tell she's very passionate.

00:28:22.940 I don't know if it's about politics or not.

00:28:24.180 I don't know her story.

00:28:25.020 I don't know.

00:28:25.100 But the one thing I do know about her story is Brett Kavanaugh wasn't responsible for it.

00:28:29.240 He had no role in what happened to her.

00:28:32.280 No.

00:28:32.960 No role.

00:28:33.880 No responsibility.

00:28:36.040 None.

00:28:36.440 Now, the argument on the other side is we're only asking for five more days.

00:28:41.320 We're only asking for five more days.

00:28:43.620 Well, if everyone was quiet for five days, that would be something.

00:28:49.280 Okay.

00:28:49.560 We got five days to look at this.

00:28:50.840 We have a week.

00:28:51.820 We have until next Friday to look at it.

00:28:53.740 But that's not what they're doing.

00:28:55.020 They've now moved the goalposts.

00:28:57.180 They're using these seven days to come up with something new to move the goalposts.

00:29:03.000 He lied about, you know, how much he drank.

00:29:07.160 No, he...

00:29:08.120 Oh, my gosh.

00:29:11.220 All right.

00:29:11.720 And now they're saying, well, yes, you gave us the FBI investigation, but it's not thorough enough.

00:29:16.060 It's not enough time.

00:29:17.140 The only thing here is their delay tactics.

00:29:21.840 And how you can tell this, and I think we are...

00:29:24.360 And I'll be honest enough to understand this.

00:29:26.340 If Brett Kavanaugh, let's just say politics fail him, and Flake and Collins and Murkowski bail, 0.80

00:29:31.220 and the vote comes down, and he gets voted down, there won't be a soul who gives a crap about this woman's story. 0.92

00:29:39.820 They will all go... 0.96

00:29:41.240 They will not even...

00:29:42.100 She will not get a phone call returned, because you can still investigate this, by the way.

00:29:47.300 There is no statute of limitations on felony sexual assault in Maryland.

00:29:52.120 They could still go after this.

00:29:53.520 The second Kavanaugh is not in that seat, they will forget about her, and she will be a non-story.

00:29:58.140 Because they don't care about her story.

00:30:00.460 It has nothing to do with that.

00:30:01.360 They're just trying to delay this to try to get it past the election.

00:30:04.200 Now, here's the second point I want to make.

00:30:09.980 Republicans, if this falls through, and the very next day you don't have a qualified candidate

00:30:20.780 that you're going to put through, you're out of your mind.

00:30:27.560 May I suggest right now that if Kavanaugh falls through, you don't have the spine,

00:30:35.880 something comes up, whatever, there is one guy that has already gone through all of the confirmation hearings,

00:30:43.020 one guy who has already had every FBI background check,

00:30:47.660 one guy that everybody in the Senate knows, and that's Mike Lee.

00:30:53.120 If Kavanaugh goes down in flames Monday morning or Saturday,

00:30:59.580 the president should announce his next Supreme Court justice pick of Mike Lee,

00:31:04.860 and you should vote on it next week, because there's no need to delay.

00:31:10.540 He's already had all those FBI background checks, and each senator knows exactly who he is.

00:31:18.260 He's qualified, he's clean, and quick.

00:31:23.440 Mike, you could get that done long before the election.

00:31:29.200 If I hear the Republicans, if this falls through, we are not prepared.

00:31:34.180 We weren't prepared for the—I'm going to lose my mind.

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00:32:55.040 Giancarlo Sopo is on the phone with us.

00:32:58.680 Giancarlo is a Democrat.

00:33:01.420 You still consider yourself a Democrat, Giancarlo?

00:33:04.720 Yeah, I mean, I have remained the same.

00:33:07.820 I haven't changed.

00:33:08.500 I actually take these political quizzes every now and then,

00:33:11.300 and my ideology has stayed the same.

00:33:14.000 And what's happening, though, is that the party itself has gone absolutely insane.

00:33:19.960 This is not what I signed up for.

00:33:22.980 Right.

00:33:24.000 I've been watching you on Twitter, and you've been one of the only Democrats that have come

00:33:31.420 out and said, this is nuts.

00:33:34.100 Give me your view in the lay of the land from a Democratic point of view, from your point of view.

00:33:41.380 Sure.

00:33:42.020 I think it's perfectly legitimate to oppose Brett Kavanaugh's nomination on the basis of differences in judicial philosophy.

00:33:49.440 You know, if you believe certain things and he doesn't align with those beliefs, that's fine.

00:33:53.280 That's what the Democratic process is for.

00:33:56.260 Now, that being said, you leave it at that, right?

00:33:59.700 You don't go ahead and try to chop off someone's head and promote these outrageous accusations against them,

00:34:07.020 specifically the one by this woman, Julie Swetnick, who just don't even pass this notice.

00:34:12.640 I mean, they are so absurd.

00:34:15.240 I actually attended an all-boys Catholic school, too, so I could kind of speak to the culture and how those communities operate.

00:34:22.120 I mean, the thought that a group of 15-year-olds would be running a gang-rape cartel all throughout high school

00:34:28.820 and that nobody would know anything about it up until now is just ludicrous.

00:34:33.700 And then that an adult, this woman who must have been like 20 years old at the time that this happened,

00:34:38.760 that she was frequenting parties with high school sophomores for two years.

00:34:43.660 I know as high school sophomore myself, oh, man, me and my buddies, we were – the college chicks were all over us. 1.00

00:34:55.420 You know, women usually look for a younger man, you know, especially those in high school. 0.97

00:35:03.060 That never happens.

00:35:04.480 That never happens.

00:35:05.680 Especially Brett Kavanaugh, who – let's just be clear. 0.98

00:35:09.260 The guy sounds like he was a complete dork when he was in high school. 0.52

00:35:13.840 This is somebody who kept – you can see on his calendar, he literally has notes of what his parents would ground him. 0.99

00:35:20.540 I mean, this guy was a complete dork in high school. 0.76

00:35:23.420 He's like the kind of guy who if he comes home with your daughter or your sister, you'd say, 0.99

00:35:27.280 she really did well for herself.

00:35:28.660 This is great.

00:35:29.140 I'm really happy. 0.97

00:35:29.720 So the thought that this guy was running a gang-rape cartel in the suburbs of Maryland is just asinine on its face. 0.87

00:35:37.260 But the thing is that we have entered – I think that we've abandoned traditional forms of religion,

00:35:43.260 and now we're in the church of the social justice, right, where we just believe things based on a matter of faith,

00:35:49.900 based on historical patterns of injustices and notions, and that's what's happening here.

00:35:54.700 They want to believe that this guy did all these horrible things because women have had it rough for many years,

00:36:02.760 and there has been a lot of sexism, and it still exists.

00:36:06.200 Therefore, he's guilty, right?

00:36:08.100 It's very similar to the rationale that we saw in the O.J. Simpson trial, but almost in reverse.

00:36:13.500 This is like reliving the O.J. case again, where O.J. apparently – all the evidence pointed that he was guilty,

00:36:19.620 but half the country thought he wasn't guilty because the LAPD is allegedly racist, right?

00:36:27.080 So, you know, Giancarlo, I just did a monologue on this about a half hour ago that African Americans rightfully felt 1.00

00:36:36.320 that the justice system had gone against the black man for so long.

00:36:40.960 Here is a black man fighting for his life, and they wanted him to beat the system.

00:36:47.980 I don't think at the time they actually believed he was innocent more than they wanted a black man to beat the system.

00:36:56.480 You go back and you look at the polls then to the polls now in the African American community,

00:37:01.820 they all know that he killed Nicole.

00:37:04.840 They all know it.

00:37:05.880 So what they were doing was saying they were rebelling against a system that was geared against them,

00:37:12.860 and they wanted that social justice.

00:37:15.740 That's exactly what's happening here.

00:37:18.960 Exactly, yeah.

00:37:19.600 And let me tell you, I think Dr. Ford, who testified she's a serious person,

00:37:25.040 she's as qualified as a witness as someone could possibly want on the witness stand, right?

00:37:31.020 But when you actually start dissecting her testimony, I think, as you pointed out earlier,

00:37:36.780 it has tremendous flaws.

00:37:38.080 It's just a series of inconsistencies that would make it physically impossible for Brett Kavanaugh to have done this.

00:37:46.500 Or at least, at the very least, it severely limits the window of opportunity, right?

00:37:51.100 So the fact that the entire apparatus of the Democratic Party, which I understand how it works.

00:37:57.840 I used to work in communications, in political communications.

00:38:01.000 So I understand how talking points are circulated and how people get on TV shows.

00:38:06.740 The fact that everything has been mobilized to support, look, the evidence just isn't there, right?

00:38:12.820 You don't crucify someone with zero evidence.

00:38:15.280 And then what they're doing now is that they're moving the goalposts, right?

00:38:20.080 I saw Lawrence Tribe this morning.

00:38:23.180 He's, like, tweeting.

00:38:24.280 This guy's a respected Harvard scholar, law professor, who's talking about, well, you know,

00:38:31.120 he must have drank when he was in college or whatever.

00:38:33.880 I mean, who cares?

00:38:35.280 It's completely irrelevant now.

00:38:37.180 I mean, I felt like tweeting at him, hey, Lawrence, those goalposts seem kind of heavy.

00:38:40.880 Let me know if you need help moving them.

00:38:45.300 So, Giancarlo, we're talking to Giancarlo Sopo.

00:38:48.620 He is a Democrat who has not lost his footing with reason.

00:38:57.800 So address people who are, let's say, 20-something female that says, you know, 0.99

00:39:06.820 but if there's a chance that this guy did this, you know, I don't want that guy on the Supreme Court.

00:39:17.020 Yes, and there's also a chance that he was D.B. Cooper, right?

00:39:20.840 I mean, you have to go by the evidence in the case.

00:39:23.620 You have to evaluate cases based on the, you know, the unique dynamics of that particular situation.

00:39:30.420 There are other people that are just as qualified.

00:39:33.060 Why don't we just go?

00:39:34.140 I mean, this guy, why don't we just go to somebody else?

00:39:37.820 Well, because what he's essentially being accused right now, he's essentially on a summary public execution trial

00:39:44.480 of the worst crime in the United States of America in our legal system, short of murder.

00:39:52.620 So the question now is, did he commit this, right?

00:39:55.480 And there's no evidence to reach that conclusion.

00:39:58.760 In fact, all of the evidence that has been presented is exculpatory, right?

00:40:02.780 The guy's calendar clears him, right?

00:40:05.640 The testimony of his friends, clear him.

00:40:07.600 The absence of evidence also clears him.

00:40:10.440 So you have to cast that aside.

00:40:13.080 And then if you want to oppose his nomination based on his judicial record, that's absolutely fine.

00:40:17.380 That's a debate I'm willing to have with people.

00:40:19.320 But what we cannot do is become a banana republic where we just start convicting people, you know, air quotes, on mere accusations.

00:40:29.100 That's not the way that works.

00:40:30.040 But this isn't a court of law.

00:40:31.720 This is not a court of law.

00:40:33.660 You don't have to have that kind of evidence.

00:40:35.760 Right, but you are absolutely right.

00:40:40.440 This would not meet any kind of legal standard, but it doesn't even meet a standard of common sense.

00:40:46.600 Because what you have here is a series of accusations that have been made with zero corroborative evidence, zero independent evidence to back this up.

00:40:55.880 And then when you actually analyze the little evidence that exists, which is in the form of testimony of the alleged victim, her testimony, she contradicts herself in ways that are significant.

00:41:06.780 She changed the timeline of when this happened four times.

00:41:09.760 So I think people need to cast this aside unless the FBI finds something new.

00:41:15.560 Well, but that guy, that guy, that guy, you know, the friend, Judge, Mark Judge, he sure seems like a bad guy.

00:41:22.260 Why won't he testify?

00:41:23.320 Well, he is going to testify to the FBI.

00:41:27.440 But what we cannot do is play guilty by association, right?

00:41:31.600 Mark Judge, I've never met the man.

00:41:34.160 Nobody, nobody, 99 percent of this country has never met this man, right?

00:41:37.640 So we're just going off of hearsay right now and based off his own memoirs of somebody who was a very troubled person who had serious drinking issues.

00:41:45.880 It's not Brett Kavanaugh.

00:41:47.300 We're not nominating Mark Judge for the Supreme Court.

00:41:49.780 It's Brett Kavanaugh is the one who's who's being nominated.

00:41:52.420 And if people want to take issue with his judicial philosophy, that's fine.

00:41:55.900 But what we can't do is destroy someone's life, destroy his family.

00:41:59.360 The guy has like two young daughters.

00:42:00.700 He coaches basketball for crying out loud, right?

00:42:03.300 We cannot destroy somebody's life based on mere allegations just because we disagree with them politically or ideologically.

00:42:10.880 That's insane.

00:42:11.540 That's what they do in in in banana republics and in third world countries. 0.83

00:42:15.100 It's not who we are in the United States of America.

00:42:17.420 Giancarlo Sopo, a Democrat.

00:42:19.320 When when we come back, I want to ask you, if you don't mind holding on for a second, Giancarlo, do you have time?

00:42:24.520 I actually have to run to a meeting.

00:42:26.140 Oh, OK. All right.

00:42:26.920 We'll run to a meeting.

00:42:27.620 We'll talk.

00:42:28.120 We'll talk some other time.

00:42:29.460 Thank you so much.

00:42:30.200 I really want to I really want to hear from people that can respond to what I'm hearing from the Democrats now, which is we just have to stop all of these people, the people, all the people on the all the people on the right.

00:42:47.760 You know, we need to break up their dinners. 0.62

00:42:51.420 You know, as I said earlier, one one prominent Democrat said we should what stops us from disturbing people where they sleep?

00:43:02.040 Well, that would be their home because these people are destroying our republic.

00:43:07.280 I have one question for people who think that the other side, either side is the enemy.

00:43:14.540 One question that must be answered.

00:43:17.760 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

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00:43:32.740 So here we are about a month from the election and things are changing.

00:43:37.560 Dynamic change is just over the horizon for our entire country.

00:43:42.820 And New York is trying to select, are we going to stay the course with Governor Cuomo or are we going to change course?

00:43:53.120 Now, the Democrats are basically they have they they are Democratic Socialists.

00:43:59.720 Now, the Republicans, I think, are just the status quo is state by state.

00:44:05.480 You'd have to look at each.

00:44:07.280 But in New York, there is another choice.

00:44:10.400 A guy who seems wildly qualified for the job.

00:44:15.000 His name is Larry Sharp.

00:44:16.900 He's a teacher and guest instructor who has taught English management business at Yale, Columbia, John Jay College.

00:44:24.560 He's a Marine Corps veteran.

00:44:27.220 He is professional life.

00:44:29.360 His mother was having some issues and he's like, I got to find help her find a job.

00:44:35.340 I'm going to start a trucking company.

00:44:37.340 He did.

00:44:38.120 It was a big success.

00:44:39.440 And then he's a serial entrepreneur from there.

00:44:42.960 Larry Sharp, welcome to the program.

00:44:44.820 Thanks for having me.

00:44:45.540 I appreciate it.

00:44:46.260 So, Larry, let's talk about what it means to be a libertarian in New York.

00:44:53.420 It's actually a great thing, believe it or not.

00:44:55.360 I mean, to be forward with you, it's the only the only party that actually crosses the line.

00:45:00.240 Right now, we have a situation to where Republicans don't want to vote for Democrats, Democrats don't want to vote for Republicans, and we have 70 percent of New Yorkers who actually don't vote.

00:45:08.800 This is actually learned helplessness.

00:45:11.020 It's an issue where people are saying it doesn't matter.

00:45:13.160 In fact, most New Yorkers, if you ask them, they're thinking about leaving the state.

00:45:16.880 We have over 100,000 leaving every single year.

00:45:19.300 Over a million have left in the past eight years.

00:45:21.260 You know, I will judge my term by a very simple number, and that is, are there still 100,000 New Yorkers leaving every year?

00:45:30.540 If so, I failed.

00:45:32.120 If not, I'm winning.

00:45:33.280 I'm a business guy, and customers matter.

00:45:35.460 And as a governor, my customer is my population.

00:45:37.780 Am I drawing people into my state, or am I pushing them away?

00:45:41.460 And right now, we're pushing them away.

00:45:43.360 That's what's happening right now.

00:45:44.460 The Democrats have basically run our state on a statewide level for about 16 years, give or take.

00:45:49.020 So if they were going to fix this state, they would have already fixed it.

00:45:52.560 The Republicans, they've been watching this for 16 years.

00:45:55.620 So my question to any Republican is, where's their plan?

00:45:59.200 Where's their movement?

00:46:00.480 It doesn't exist.

00:46:01.820 I've been doing this for one year, and in one year, I have both a plan and a movement.

00:46:06.680 They have nothing.

00:46:07.900 They have the other guy is evil.

00:46:10.060 I have actual ideas.

00:46:11.360 I am the only non-establishment candidate in this race, which is why we can win.

00:46:15.600 And you've seen it.

00:46:16.700 Non-establishment is the answer.

00:46:18.340 Left or right, it's the answer.

00:46:20.420 And I'm one who can actually – I can give the right what they want and the left what they want as long as you don't enforce your will on others.

00:46:28.100 And that's libertarian.

00:46:29.800 Amen.

00:46:30.420 I will tell you, Larry, I think that the libertarianism is really dicey because sometimes there's libertarians who are, you're not libertarian enough.

00:46:42.520 Well, wait a minute.

00:46:43.360 Isn't that the point?

00:46:45.660 All the time.

00:46:46.620 Yeah, all the time.

00:46:48.460 And there are those libertarians that I think the last candidate for president was still kind of big state on many issues.

00:46:57.420 The great thing about libertarianism is it allows the individual to be as socially liberal as you want, but it also requires you to be fiscally responsible because it's turning things back to where they belong, into the hands of the people.

00:47:18.100 So tell me – go ahead.

00:47:20.100 In New York State specifically, we don't want one city running the entire state.

00:47:24.660 And this is common in many areas, right?

00:47:26.440 New York State is so varied.

00:47:28.440 We have mountains as good as Colorado.

00:47:30.560 We have farmland as good as the Midwest.

00:47:32.480 We have lakes.

00:47:33.780 We have rivers.

00:47:34.420 We have Niagara Falls.

00:47:35.780 We have New York City, the biggest city in the entire nation.

00:47:38.740 We have it all in my state.

00:47:40.220 How in the world can that be run by one city?

00:47:42.600 It's impossible.

00:47:43.620 I want to allow counties to be counties and regions to be regions and people to be people.

00:47:48.820 And it's totally fine.

00:47:49.960 The issue becomes, why do I want to enforce my will upon you?

00:47:54.060 I want you to be as conservative or as liberal as you want to be.

00:47:58.360 People tease me and say, Larry, you're from Queens.

00:48:00.360 How do you know what's right for upstate?

00:48:02.600 I don't.

00:48:03.940 That's the point.

00:48:05.240 And guess what?

00:48:06.000 You don't know what's right for me in Queens either.

00:48:08.000 We're even.

00:48:09.060 How about I let you be you, you let me be me, and we can all be free together.

00:48:14.380 What a concept.

00:48:16.180 It can work.

00:48:17.260 It has worked.

00:48:18.660 That's our original idea.

00:48:21.160 We just haven't done it in a long time.

00:48:23.360 So, Larry, tell me, day one, you're governor of New York.

00:48:28.520 What do you do?

00:48:29.480 There are several things I have to work.

00:48:31.040 And to be clear about this, when I win this thing, I can win this thing with about 30%

00:48:35.760 or so of the vote because it's a five-way race in New York State, and we are a plurality

00:48:39.620 state, not a majority state.

00:48:40.800 So we don't require 51%.

00:48:42.000 There's no runoff.

00:48:43.460 Whoever has the most, that's how New York State works.

00:48:46.360 So I could actually win this thing with 30%.

00:48:48.560 So it's actually a winnable race.

00:48:50.620 So assuming that I win this thing, I'm going to have 30%.

00:48:53.860 30% of the vote for a third party is a mandate that will shock everything.

00:48:58.320 To be forward with you, Glenn, this is the most important single election in the entire

00:49:03.780 nation.

00:49:04.360 Not as a whole.

00:49:05.300 There are many other things that work more importantly as a whole.

00:49:07.320 But as one single election, if I come in first, it changes the entire nation overnight.

00:49:13.740 It does.

00:49:14.180 Not just for the Libertarian Party, but for any third party.

00:49:17.180 It breaks the duopoly.

00:49:18.740 Yeah.

00:49:18.860 This is, I think, if people thought Donald Trump was groundbreaking, a Libertarian winning

00:49:25.800 in New York would be an earthquake.

00:49:30.780 I mean, it would just change the political system overnight.

00:49:33.600 Absolutely.

00:49:34.220 It is that important.

00:49:35.040 Even coming in second would shock people.

00:49:38.820 But first would literally change the nation.

00:49:40.720 It would give every third party a better chance.

00:49:42.880 It would make better Democrats and better Republicans.

00:49:45.520 Because right now, Republicans just have to talk about, I'll protect you from the Democrat.

00:49:49.640 They don't have to worry about small business.

00:49:51.460 They don't have to worry about smaller government.

00:49:52.980 They don't have to worry about lower taxes.

00:49:54.520 It's not important.

00:49:55.300 It's just, I'll protect you from the evil left.

00:49:57.640 And the left is the same thing in return.

00:49:59.120 They don't have to care about civil liberties.

00:50:00.500 They're supposed to be, but they don't.

00:50:01.960 They're supposed to just go, I'm going to protect you from the evil right.

00:50:04.960 But when there's a third party there, when Libertarians can point the finger and say,

00:50:08.680 Democrats, what happened to civil liberties?

00:50:11.820 Republicans, what happened to smaller government?

00:50:14.500 Now they have to change.

00:50:15.740 They have to be better.

00:50:16.920 It will change how everything works.

00:50:18.560 So day one is I have to recover from the shock.

00:50:22.560 There will be a massive culture shock within the state and within the nation.

00:50:28.220 But something else, I don't have a career to protect.

00:50:31.420 I don't have people to pay back.

00:50:33.780 I don't have that.

00:50:34.860 So I can actually just do what I want, which is amazing.

00:50:37.780 I'm assuming that I will be in court my entire four years.

00:50:40.460 That's my assumption.

00:50:41.080 And I'm fine with that.

00:50:42.040 But I have to focus on several things.

00:50:43.860 One, a complete reboot of education.

00:50:46.080 Two, a complete reboot of how we mandate every local county to pay for things that the people don't want to pay for,

00:50:53.360 a thing called unfunded mandates.

00:50:54.760 That's how Albany, which is our capital in New York State, and Washington, D.C. control every local county and take the power away from local governments.

00:51:03.780 Next, I have to create a culture of transparency because the problem with local governments now is they're enforcing the king's will.

00:51:09.920 So they are not transparent.

00:51:13.200 They are constantly being bullied.

00:51:14.760 And I don't want the state government to be, I'm the king and I enforce my will.

00:51:19.340 I want the state government to be, I will protect your rights of the individual against the local bully.

00:51:25.300 Sounds like you've read the Constitution.

00:51:27.860 What is that?

00:51:28.560 I don't know.

00:51:28.920 Yeah, I know.

00:51:29.560 I know.

00:51:29.940 Don't worry.

00:51:30.700 It's an old, dusty, outdated document.

00:51:32.460 There we go.

00:51:32.720 New York State, I think we threw it away a while ago.

00:51:35.700 But yes, that's my point.

00:51:37.100 I want to make sure that, look, if we focus on the individual more, we will have better individual families, better individual businesses,

00:51:43.900 better individual people who are trying to do their jobs, growth locally.

00:51:48.600 I want the local communities to provide more value to each community.

00:51:52.460 We don't do that well in New York State at all.

00:51:54.200 We have things called regional economic development corporations, which Albany, which is our capital again, decides where the money is spent.

00:52:01.920 And Albany decides where taxpayer money is spent within an individual county.

00:52:05.720 How about instead the counties can start their budgets at zero so they can decide what they want? 0.55

00:52:09.880 How about we add new ideas of volunteerism?

00:52:12.120 How about the concept?

00:52:13.420 I'll give you two interesting concepts.

00:52:15.040 One, instead of me focusing on lowering taxes, how about I focus instead on raising money through ways other than taxation and through lowering spending?

00:52:24.200 Here's one idea that does both of those.

00:52:26.620 We have bridges right now in New York State, and one of them is named the Mario Cuomo Bridge.

00:52:31.720 We literally have an imperial bridge named after our royal family.

00:52:34.880 That's embarrassing.

00:52:36.160 How about instead that bridge is named the Staples Bridge or the Verizon Bridge or the Apple Bridge, and we can lease naming rights for the bridge.

00:52:44.000 We retain the asset.

00:52:45.320 Again, I'm a business guy.

00:52:46.100 I'm not giving my asset up.

00:52:47.500 I'm going to lease naming rights.

00:52:49.180 No hybrid model that fails every time.

00:52:51.680 Straight contractual.

00:52:52.760 That's all.

00:52:53.320 These are companies that are paying billions of dollars right now every year on marketing.

00:52:57.200 They drop $20 million on a stadium name that's used on the weekends.

00:53:00.600 I got a bridge you can name, and that bridge gets mentioned hundreds of times on every single day during rush hour in a 16-million-person metro area, and hundreds of thousands of cars pass it every single day.

00:53:13.100 You will easily drop $50 million on that, if not more.

00:53:16.040 I love that.

00:53:17.700 Texas.

00:53:18.380 Hang on just a second.

00:53:19.280 Texas.

00:53:20.060 New York's not going to listen to this guy.

00:53:21.280 Texas, you should listen to this guy.

00:53:23.280 This is a good idea.

00:53:25.240 Yes.

00:53:26.160 Absolutely.

00:53:26.780 But here's the best part.

00:53:27.780 Now we have them do it with maintenance. 0.76

00:53:29.340 Again, we own it, so we still inspect it.

00:53:32.960 So damage is still our responsibility.

00:53:35.060 Their job is just to repair it, right?

00:53:36.760 They begin to repair it.

00:53:37.840 What does that mean?

00:53:38.320 We're not spending money on the repairs, lower spending, not just that contracts don't come through Albany, less corruption.

00:53:45.100 Someone else is spending it, so guess what?

00:53:47.140 We'll actually fix bridges.

00:53:48.440 Bridges right now in New York State collapse.

00:53:50.180 We don't have enough money.

00:53:51.140 These guys do.

00:53:52.240 We'll actually have safer bridges, less money, and guess what?

00:53:54.700 We can start with tolls.

00:53:56.020 In New York City, some bridges cost $15 to cross.

00:53:59.500 If you're a truck driver, I know for being a truck driver, you pay by the axle.

00:54:03.980 You're dropping $75 to $100 to cross a bridge.

00:54:07.220 Less money, less corruption, safer, better service.

00:54:11.660 Boom, we raise billions of dollars.

00:54:13.480 This is just one idea, and there are many of them.

00:54:15.540 No one else talks about them.

00:54:17.480 This is what we have to work on in New York State.

00:54:19.300 We can do that.

00:54:20.220 So, Larry, you are, you, it's amazing to me how we are running headlong, just willing to give up everything that we have already, the freedoms that we have, and embrace democratic socialism.

00:54:40.000 Yes.

00:54:40.800 But we won't embrace this very American idea.

00:54:45.200 How do you, how do you get the common sense Democrat and Republican who has been raised in New York, so their mentality is, I mean, this would sell in Texas.

00:54:58.640 How do you get them in New York to see, guys, this, this, this works?

00:55:02.700 It's already selling.

00:55:03.760 To be forward, the Republicans in New York have given up.

00:55:05.860 I mean, they don't show up.

00:55:07.040 The Democrats think, I'm afraid, so let's just vote Democrat.

00:55:11.940 The reality of it is, again, 70% of New Yorkers don't vote.

00:55:15.640 Those who do vote vote because of fear.

00:55:17.740 We can't have fear be the reason why people vote.

00:55:20.260 It's simply the wrong answer.

00:55:22.200 Oh, man.

00:55:22.900 But I would say that in reality, I'm trying to change this to make it so that people stop voting for the less of two evils and instead vote for someone.

00:55:29.940 And it is working.

00:55:31.100 I am actually using, if you've noticed, I'm using nontraditional media.

00:55:35.820 Traditional media does not want to cover me, and polls don't want to deal with me.

00:55:38.380 But nontraditional media is working, and I'm getting out there, and people are seeing me.

00:55:43.380 They're responding to me, and this is what's working.

00:55:45.800 The way to make this happen is through nontraditional media.

00:55:48.500 And believe it or not, people are getting it.

00:55:50.520 They actually like it.

00:55:51.780 I hear all the time people say, Larry, I don't agree with everything you're saying, but you actually answer questions.

00:55:57.800 You actually have a plan.

00:55:59.400 And they love it.

00:56:00.080 And that's what I say.

00:56:01.060 And look, my plan may be faulty.

00:56:02.980 Maybe they won't – we can't lease all the bridges.

00:56:05.860 Maybe we can't raise $50 billion.

00:56:07.400 Maybe we can only raise $30 billion.

00:56:09.320 That's still a win.

00:56:10.340 Yeah, I know.

00:56:11.360 I'm still happy with that.

00:56:12.580 Let me ask you.

00:56:13.540 Can I hold you over for one more break?

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The Glenn Beck Program - October 01, 2018

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