Donald Trump fires the interim attorney general. Glenn explains why this is not like the Saturday Night Massacre and the Monday Night Massacre, and why the media is out of control. Glenn also explains why the entire government is now starting to speak in the actual language of Donald Trump.
00:03:57.320A lot of people like to make a name for themselves when they have the opportunity at the very end of an administration to go out in flames, to go out as the hero.
00:12:32.400It's notable that this that the DHS lawyers objected to this ban, this Muslim order, specifically the exclusion of green card holders as illegal and also press that there be a grace period.
00:12:46.500So people currently out of the country wouldn't be stranded.
00:12:49.400And they were personally overruled by Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller.
00:12:53.340Also notable is that career DHS staff up to and including the head of Customs and Border Patrol were kept entirely out of the loop as the until the order was signed.
00:13:06.180Next, he cites the Guardian writing the mass resignations of nearly all senior staff of the State Department on Thursday were not, in fact, resignations, but a purge ordered by the White House.
00:13:17.800This leaves almost no one in the entire senior staff of the State Department at this point.
00:13:24.260It leaves the State Department entirely unstaffed during these critical first weeks when orders like the Muslim ban, which they would resist normally, are coming down.
00:13:35.640He then added that DHS agents were still detaining and still deporting individuals even after two major court rulings that said they can't do that.
00:13:47.800Some of what Zunger writes is true, the story goes on, in so much as it comes from CNN and other reputable outlets.
00:13:57.260But it appears to be an extrapolation or interpretation of the news.
00:14:03.220However, in the end, Zunger seems to believe that all the chaos means one thing.
00:14:09.080The administration is testing the extent to which the DHS and other executive agencies can act and ignore orders from other branches of the government.
00:14:20.860This is as serious as it can possibly get.
00:14:24.080All of the arguments about whether Order X or Y is unconstitutional means nothing if elements of the government are executing them and the courts are being ignored.
00:14:33.640Yesterday was a trial balloon for a coup d'etat against the United States.
00:14:41.600He also wrote that the orders are being made via the inner circle of Trump, Bannon, Miller, Priebus, Kushner, and possibly Flynn,
00:14:48.280and that the gutting of agencies and the shuffling of the National Security Council represents something nefarious.
00:14:54.720He speculated that Trump will want his personal security to take a higher position, writing,
00:14:59.140Keith Schiller should continue to run the personal security force, which would take over an increasing fraction of the Secret Service's job.
00:15:09.680Zunger has chosen to view the absolute chaos of the last 72 hours as a trial balloon for a coup d'etat against the United States.
00:15:34.820Nothing is out of the realm of possibility, and Trump's rhetoric suggests he views governing with a more centralized eye than most.
00:15:43.040However, there is another possibility that bears mentioning.
00:15:47.340By the way, this comes from Ben Shapiro's website.
00:15:50.840I want to explain this and show what the other probable explanation is after this.
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00:18:41.420So I read the Daily Wire almost every day, and this story that is showing what some on the left are now starting to say.
00:18:48.680It's the conspiracies of, you know, a coup d'etat that he's going to become an authoritarian dictator, and this is a trial balloon.
00:18:55.920This is amazing to me, especially since they are so non-self-aware that that was ridiculous and horrible to say about a human being just, oh, I don't know, six weeks ago.
00:19:10.520Now, of course, you can say anything about this president.
00:19:15.880Trump, Bannon, and Kirshner have provided another possible meaning behind what's happened in the last few days, besides a coup d'etat.
00:19:28.580They have absolutely no governing experience.
00:19:32.040Stephen Miller and Reince Priebus have some relevant political experience, but these five men are operating the executive branch as it has never been operated before.
00:19:41.860Therefore, pandemonium is a possible outcome.
00:19:45.600It's akin to plucking an intern from the mailroom and making him a CEO of a Fortune 500 company and then giving him four other mailroom interns, one that have been slightly around for slightly longer as his advisors.
00:19:59.620While all things are possible, it's best to look for what's most probable, and in the first six days, incompetence or basic corruption overruled a brilliantly and systematically executed coup d'etat.
00:20:16.200Time will further reveal the machinations of this group of men, but for now, it's more than premature to suggest a conspiracy.
00:20:23.820I read this story to you because the world has gone insane, and the left is going further than anything that we ever said.
00:20:40.840I mean, remember the people who were full-fledged, Barack Obama is going to take the government, and we're all going to be in prison camps.
00:20:52.200We all said, no, relax, I don't think that's going to happen.
00:20:56.320Not too many people on their side are saying, no, relax, that's not going to happen.
00:21:01.480And certainly, by the press reporting last night that it was the Monday Night Massacre, instead of saying, guys, it's not, relax, is not helping things.
00:22:20.420So, I got to believe that's going to just, that's going to pet the cat.
00:22:24.440It's going to really, no, that'll make everything much, much better when he announces his SCOTUS pick.
00:22:29.600We'll get to that at the top of the hour.
00:22:32.920More on the pause in Muslim immigration coming up in just a second.
00:22:38.480But let me introduce you to somebody real quick, because this is somebody who we hired, I don't know, a couple of years ago as an assistant.
00:22:50.520She was doing something, satellite, knocking out nuclear missiles in space.
00:22:55.520I have no idea, but she is, she started out as an assistant, and now she's a manager of some sort, and she walks around, and I'm not kidding you.
00:23:06.000She now, she'll stop me in the hall, and she'll be like, Glenn, listen, this is what you need to do.
00:23:19.900So, you have tried to talk to me about this contest that we're running about 400 times, and I never, I'll be honest with you.
00:23:28.500I catch you, I catch you at odd times.
00:23:31.040You're painting, you're running the halls, you're trying to get to your next shoot.
00:23:35.340Yeah, okay, that, it was either that or I wasn't really listening.
00:23:39.200But, so, so tell me, because this is a really exciting thing that we're doing.
00:23:44.320We're trying to, this is a first step into some things that we're going to be doing here in the future about trying to engage the people who are still in school.
00:23:56.480We're targeting high school with this and trying to teach history.
00:24:06.020I'm the merchandising manager there at the studios, and what we're doing this year is we're actually trying to come up with creative ways to engage our audience and also with the rest of America.
00:24:17.840And one of the things we come up with this year is a contest, an essay writing contest called Before They Were Famous.
00:24:24.300We all know the stories of our forefathers and who they were and the accomplishments that they made to make our nation what it is today, but who were they before they were famous?
00:24:36.080We are challenging high school students to compete for an essay writing contest, and every month it's going to be a different person in history that they get to write about.
00:24:47.060So, the way that the contest goes is history teachers.
00:24:51.780We're asking for history teachers to nominate their class.
00:24:55.060When they nominate their class, us as an organization will pick the teacher that has the most compelling story, and then we will assign the students in their class a person in history.
00:25:12.660We have, like, six different criterias that they'll rank from, and then we will pick a winner.
00:25:19.180And that winner has an opportunity to win up to $5,000 in the scholarship form from Mercury One.
00:25:26.360So, we have teamed up with Mercury One as well.
00:25:29.020Their essay is going to be published on glenbeck.com.
00:25:32.800They're going to be able to come to the studios and be able to see our artifacts that we hold there at the studio and also some of the artifacts that Mercury One has.
00:26:12.720So, if there is a home schooled organization or even as a parent, if you want to nominate, maybe if you're part of like a history club or something in your home school, you can nominate those students as well.
00:26:27.820So, the essays that I have read, and I know we're getting stacks of them, but I read a couple of them yesterday, and I love this one from this kid who is a legal immigrant.
00:26:42.580His family is most of them still in Mexico, but it's a very old-fashioned Mexican family that still the family is getting together, and the roles of the parents and the grandparents still really impact this kid.
00:27:02.940And he wrote this essay about George Washington being a farmer, and what his family was like, and how he lost his dad, and what the farm meant.
00:27:11.460Mount Vernon was not just an estate, it was actually a farm, and how he was close to his brother, and all the things that I never knew when I was in high school, never knew.
00:27:19.920And what was great about this essay was about halfway through, he stopped talking about George Washington and started comparing his life to George Washington's life, and how his family, with the heritage that he has from Mexico, how the strong family values impacted him, he started to see himself in George Washington.
00:27:45.320Which I thought was an absolute home run, and exactly the kind of thing that we're trying to encourage.
00:27:52.660So you just go to glenbeck.com, and what are you looking for, before they were famous?
00:27:57.440You go to glenbeck.com forward slash essay contest, and right now we do have the two people that are competing.
00:28:06.920We have both of their articles on there, so we want you to go on there, read both of the articles, and vote for your favorite.
00:28:13.080Voting ends at the end of next Monday, and then we'll be able to announce who the winner is.
00:28:19.600From there, we also have a George Washington Farmer t-shirt.
00:28:23.72030% of the proceeds are going to go back to the Mercury One Education Fund, and Mercury One, in turn, will give the student a scholarship.
00:28:32.260Great. Thank you so much, Jessica. I appreciate it.
00:28:36.620All right, Stu, what were your impressions last night on the firing of the attorney general and the way the press and the left is handling this?
00:28:47.260Well, I mean, obviously, them flipping out is bizarre.
00:28:50.780You know, I don't think that there's any argument to keep someone in place who's acting that way.
00:28:59.580That's not to say that she should do it, even.
00:29:03.600I mean, like, you know, I was thinking about this.
00:29:05.540If I was attorney general for some bizarre reason.
00:29:12.620A huge clerical error that made Jeffy president, and then he named me attorney general because he was the only person that he knew who would actually talk to him.
00:29:48.200Now, my path to this would probably be I would just step down because I would not want to do it.
00:29:54.540And maybe when I was out of office, I would write exactly why I was doing it.
00:29:59.720I would not do what she did, which was release a letter and make sure the media all knows about it and just say, well, I'm going to continue to take my paycheck but not do the job.
00:30:10.240No, all she was doing is trying to make a name for herself.
00:30:13.520This was a purely political move on her part to be a darling.
00:30:19.920Now, if you disagree with it, that's fine, but you don't handle it this way.
00:30:25.900And if it was a legal problem, if she said, look, as the interim attorney general, legally, this is wrong.
00:30:38.720But for somebody to say, I politically am on the other side of the aisle and I just won't do this, the only story there is people disagree.
00:30:49.280And that is the general gist of her letter is seemingly a moral or political stance.
00:30:56.440She does say that she's not convinced that the executive order is lawful.
00:31:50.620I mean, you know, this is what people do these days, right?
00:31:54.200I mean, this is so I'm not at all surprised by it.
00:31:56.980However, I don't think she should be necessarily vilified for not doing something she believes is wrong.
00:32:02.540I mean, the same way that if I was in there and some socialist came into office, Bernie Sanders won and he started passing executive orders.
00:32:31.260And I can't even I honestly don't understand the other side of the argument when it comes to people, you know, being critical of Donald Trump on this.
00:32:44.620You are coming into an administration where your top highest profile proposal is being is being, you know, derailed by someone else who was employed by the previous administration.
00:32:58.760Who's a couple of weeks away from not being in place.
00:33:01.760So you have an interim person come in for a couple of weeks that will execute what you want to do.
00:33:06.300Now, that's the same thing as if you had if you're if you're a basketball coach and the pregame press conference, you know, your your shooting guard says, yeah, by the way, today, I'm just not going to run any of the plays.
00:33:17.400I'm just I don't think these plays are smart.
00:33:19.660And I'm not, you know, I'm just not going to, you know, I'm not going to do it.
00:33:23.200I'm going to take every shot I want to.
00:33:24.500Well, of course, that you wouldn't put him in the game and they would be released in a couple of days if they didn't change their tune.
00:33:30.380That is a completely sensible thing for someone to do.
00:33:34.240Now, it is up to there are many checks and balances here that if this order does turn out to be unconstitutional or unlawful, there are roads to go down.
00:33:44.520And there are plenty of lawsuits already in progress that will attempt to prove that.
00:33:49.600But you don't just you don't just say, well, I you know what?
00:33:52.800I'm flippantly tossing away my job duties because I don't like X, Y or Z.
00:33:58.660And, you know, the one thing you can say about what is it, Sally Yates, Obama's attorney general is, you know what?
00:34:05.940It's consistent with what the Obama administration did throughout his second term.
00:34:10.220He every time he didn't like something, he didn't wind up doing it.
00:34:13.740And so you can understand why she would think this is an acceptable thing to do, but it's not in this country and it shouldn't be.
00:34:18.960So quickly, I I asked a constitutional attorney friend of mine, I said, because everybody was starting to say we're in a constitutional crisis.
00:34:28.380I don't see that. So I wrote him and I said, hey, is this a constitutional crisis out of our way?
00:34:32.940I want to read exactly what he wrote. I don't see this as a constitutional crisis kind of moment.
00:34:37.360I've been wrestling with a statutory text all week, and I am convinced that there's at least a plausible legal theory underlying the executive order.
00:34:44.360I can't be absolutely certain that it's the best policy to pursue right now, but it's no worse and potentially better than the failed policy we've had for the last eight years.
00:34:53.420The best thing that can be done right now is to have people calm down.
00:34:57.160This is a temporary program and one based on an executive order that appears to find support in the underlying statute.
00:35:03.980Whether you like the policy or hate it, it doesn't amount to a constitutional crisis.
00:35:09.160I know I know the left desperately wants it to be that way.
00:35:12.800They really want a constitutional crisis.
00:35:15.420If it were that, they'd be ecstatic because then they think they would have to deal with the reality of a legitimately elected president who scares them to death.
00:35:24.040More importantly, they wouldn't have to deal with the reality that people elected that man.
00:35:29.540But their dislike of this situation and their longing for a constitutional crisis does not turn this situation into one.
00:37:15.740I'm just watching the left cringe over this swing back towards Trump's version of statism.
00:37:21.080It kind of seems like, you know, the constituencies of certain politicians have the ability to hold them accountable.
00:37:27.860But that's not the focus of most voters.
00:37:31.140It seems like everyone is so focused on, you know, both sides are focused on pointing out the fraud and the problems.
00:37:37.520On the other side, it's like, you know, a group of parents just screaming about somebody else's kids and not watching their own kids themselves, even though they actually have some control over their own kids.
00:37:46.560But instead, everybody is so, you know, obsessed with the other side.
00:37:49.700And, you know, the biggest argument from the left over the last election was Hillary's not that bad.
00:37:55.320You know, it wasn't telling themselves.
00:37:56.860It was just all focusing on, you know, the other guy's work rather than, you know, kind of checking themselves.
00:38:04.900I really think it's time for us to take the beam out of our own eye and step up and be people of principle and of conviction and police our own self.
00:42:15.760Ensuring as many eyeballs as possible are on him tonight.
00:42:19.220According to the sources close to our program, out of the 21 candidates that Trump has released prior to the election, it's down to three, and more likely, it's between two of the three men.
00:42:33.380But here are the three finalists and what their nominations could mean to the future of the Supreme Court.
00:42:38.080Coming in at number three is William Pryor, the partisan, if you will.
00:42:45.860He is right of Alito and left of Clarence Thomas.
00:42:50.580Pryor is the judge from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
00:42:56.000He is the oldest of the possible choices, but he's still only 54.
00:43:00.200He still has a long career ahead of him on the bench.
00:43:03.520However, he is by far the most outspoken of the three and definitely the least liked by the Democrats.
00:43:14.420Choosing Pryor would fit the mold of Trump about not caring about what anybody says, but the president would be in for a fight if he was going to get him confirmed.
00:43:22.800Chances are he'd get him through, but he would expend an awful lot of political capital, which remains to be seen, if that even matters for this administration.
00:43:35.080One sticking point for the evangelicals was when he, as Attorney General of Alabama, had Judge Roy Moore ousted for refusing to obey a federal court order and remove the Ten Commandments from the state judicial building.
00:43:48.980Pryor said, at the time, I'm just following the court's order, but this was a knock on him for the far right, and they have held on to that, as well as his recent support for transgendered rights.
00:44:02.820He is not afraid to say what he believes, which is why the left calls him a bomb thrower and considers him a cultural warrior.
00:44:09.760Many on the right see him as a rising conservative star, and he is a fierce critic of Roe v. Wade.
00:44:18.240He has upheld the Georgia voter ID law and is called for sectarian prayers for opening a local commission meeting, constitutional.
00:44:29.200He is probably not Scalia in waiting, but who is?
00:44:33.500He is more in the mold of Alito, but all of this may be moot if the reports are correct, because he is, out of the three, the one who is really on the outside looking in.
00:44:47.840Second one, the centrist, Thomas Hardiman.
00:45:05.140And you might say to yourself, why the heck would Donald Trump appoint a centrist?
00:45:10.240Well, I mean, you know, there's a lot of reasons for it, but the one that they're talking about now, as far as the way these games work, is the rest of the court, they believe, will take a signal as to who Trump nominates here as to how Trump is going to treat this situation.
00:45:27.660So if he goes for someone who's really right wing and crazy, then people like Kennedy might say, well, I don't want to retire and let him name another crazy person to the bench.
00:45:38.060So they're thinking, and again, this is all crazy inside the beltway speculation, but the thought is, if he were to name a centrist, then Kennedy would feel more comfortable in his departure.
00:45:50.960And then if he departed, they could name a conservative to replace him.
00:46:00.280Honestly, you know what that sounds like to me?
00:46:01.640If I were sitting in the seat of the Oval Office, I would say, progressive BS-er, get behind me.
00:46:08.440It sounds like something that a progressive would say to an incoming president who really is trying to get the president to pick a centrist.
00:46:18.300Look, I'm telling you, if you do this this time, what will happen next time is...
00:46:23.280I mean, that just sounds like bullcrap.
00:46:24.860Right, but the question is, which progressive are you talking about?
00:46:28.040If that progressive happens to be Anthony Kennedy, then it might be a viable thing.
00:50:34.280He has cited against assisted suicide, but he has yet to rule on an abortion case.
00:50:39.920But they believe, because he has stated pro-life and he has gone against assisted suicide, which I don't understand how a libertarian does that.
00:50:48.420A libertarian should be pro-life if they think it's murder, which I do, so should be protecting the rights of the unborn child, but then to protect the rights of the living should be able to say,
00:51:07.120what you do with your own life is your business.
00:51:11.480And I don't know that he's—I think they're describing him as a libertarian.
00:51:13.820I don't know that he's stated that I am a libertarian.
00:51:17.640Yeah, well, I doubt he's stated he's a libertarian.
00:51:21.620This might help win some votes from the Democrats, while conservatives can still feel relatively comfortable on where he stands.
00:51:28.860His lack of record makes him less likely to be borked than the prior nomination could.
00:51:34.980I will tell you that where we get in trouble is people saying, hey, he doesn't have a record on these things, and so we guess on what their record is going to be.
00:51:45.640And by the way, also a big issue with Hardiman.
00:51:47.380I mean, I think his record's even thinner than Gorsuch.
00:51:51.460You know, I mean, they're both on the younger side as far as justices go, so they don't necessarily have the, you know, really long record of an older judge.
00:52:00.580But, I mean, you look at the—there's a sentence in the longer profile of Hardiman, which says he's never had any abortion rulings either.
00:52:09.160So the only one—I mean, you can be pretty darn sure that Pryor is going to be on the right side of that one, of these three.
00:52:18.100And I think Gorsuch, reading it in context, I mean, he is ruled in cases that would—you know, one of the big things about Gorsuch, which I liked, was this was the guy we talked about who is—he doesn't seem to be friendly to things that aren't in the Constitution.
00:52:32.160The dormant clauses, like the dormant privacy clause, which leads to abortion, or the dormant commerce clause.
00:52:39.920And that's why there's a large indication that he would be pro-life, but it's true.
00:52:43.620I mean, the record's not extensive on the top.
00:52:45.400If you look at his record that we know, and there are some disturbing things in there, but if you look at the record of the things that we know, he has the best chance, I think, of being game-changing for the Supreme Court.
00:53:05.240He also sided with Little Sisters of the Poor in upholding their right to follow their religious belief when it came to mandatory birth control for the nuns.
00:53:12.560And he's believed to have the libertarian streak of Scalia and the style of Roberts.
00:53:20.120He has stated that he's an originalist, meaning he believes in the interpretation of the Constitution as written rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views.
00:53:32.020It's amazing there's another side to that argument.
00:53:42.560So we don't know, you know, there's speculation that Justice Roberts was blackmailed at the last hour.
00:53:50.260That is something that I would really like to hear some, if there are any good facts on that one, because that ruling from Justice Roberts was just bizarre.
00:54:02.260And the fact that he showed up with puffy red eyes and it was obvious that he rewrote it in the middle of the night because of the way it was written.
00:54:12.040It shows that he was actually on the other side and it shows that he was actually on the other side and then just changed things, but it was rushed so quickly he didn't change all of it.
01:01:55.180So that's the first thing that jumps out is welcome back.
01:01:59.100Welcome back, press, to caring about our soldiers in the war.
01:02:02.560A SEAL team six and the other was an eight-year-old daughter of Anwar Al-Awlaki.
01:02:10.420Now, what jumps out at you about that one?
01:02:14.420Well, first of all, there's the, you know, sadness.
01:02:18.760I mean, there's an adorable picture of her and she's eight.
01:02:21.700And I mean, as much as obviously she's the daughter of a terrorist,
01:02:25.040it's still soul crushing to see a child have to, you know, go that way.
01:02:29.880But the other part of it is, of course, Trump talked about in the campaign that theoretically he would be interested in killing family members of terrorists to teach them a lesson.
01:02:39.860Now, there's no indication that this is part of that policy or that suggestion, but that is surely what they would tie it to.
01:03:15.280Senior military official said the eight-year-old girl was known as Nora, among the noncombatants killed in the raid, which also resulted in the death of several Yemeni women.
01:03:25.080U.S. officials say some of the women who were killed were combatants and had opened fire on the SEALs as they approached the al-Qaeda camp.
01:03:32.220The girl's grandfather, Nasser al-Awlaki, Yemen's former agricultural minister, told NBC News a different story.
01:03:40.520He identified his granddaughter as the dead girl from a photo taken at the scene of the raid, but based his description on what happened at the camp, on conversations with what he characterized as Yemeni sources.
01:03:50.320My granddaughter was staying for a while with her mother, so when the attack came, they were sitting in the house, and a bullet struck her in the neck at 2.30 past midnight.
01:03:58.440The other children in the same house were also killed.
01:04:01.300He said the girl died hours after being shot.
01:04:03.800The SEALs entered the house and killed everybody in it, including all the women, and then they burned the house.
01:04:08.640There's an assumption that there was a woman in the house from Saudi Arabia who was killed with al-Qaeda.
01:04:14.400All we know is that she was the children's teacher.
01:05:23.520That's what we're broadcasting around the world.
01:05:27.600All of these arguments, they're going all around the world.
01:05:31.060They're going to all of the leaders, all the financial experts, all of the people who are thinking about investing in the United States, all of the people who are thinking, you know what?
01:10:44.380And that was declaration or proclamation number one that Eisenhower had put as broadsides on all of the sides of buildings, on telephone poles, everywhere around Germany.
01:11:00.240And it said, we are here to kill the Nazis.
01:11:03.200If you were a member of the Nazi Party, then you are the enemy of freedom of man, and we will kill you, and we are looking for those who were members of the Nazi Party.
01:11:19.760But we are not the enemy of the German people.
01:11:37.620And we're not going to get that difference.
01:11:40.320Nobody's, you're not going to get that difference by having bluster and talking about a Muslim ban.
01:11:48.820That has to be done with some art in your soul.
01:11:55.120That has to be done carefully, precision, not carpet bombing with words, but precision bombing with words.
01:12:05.520That's really important for President Trump to learn.
01:12:11.040That is a difference that Americans will understand and accept.
01:12:15.000But you can't get it with a carpet bombing, and you'll never get it with the people who want to give excuses for everybody in the Middle East.
01:12:22.400Sorry, there are some bad guys and some good guys.
01:12:25.280And they're not just in the Middle East.
01:12:48.400Tax identity theft cost taxpayers $4.1 billion in 2016.
01:12:53.120By the way, one more thing, because I've got to say this.
01:12:55.680I hope that Trump learns that, as I just said.
01:13:01.200But that is not the only point of this monologue.
01:13:04.320The point of this monologue was the carpet bombing of the press.
01:13:07.940The reason why nobody believes us over there is because the press is spreading the poison that no one can be trusted, except them, in the United States.
01:13:20.300They have to be artful with their words as well and understand the platform that they're on.
01:13:26.680Tax identity theft cost taxpayers $4.1 billion last year.
01:13:31.420Most of it came from tax refund fraud.
01:13:34.120And that's when the thieves will send you an email and they'll say, hey, we need to get this information from you.
01:15:02.180Something that a while ago, I think it was BuzzFeed, did a separate investigation about some stuff in Europe,
01:15:09.120and Steve Bannon spoke to a group in Europe that they just happened to be there and capture this.
01:15:15.660This is long before Trump was even running for president.
01:15:19.480And, of course, a BuzzFeed title is something like, you know, Steve Bannon explains his views on the entire world.
01:15:25.140But he does kind of outline what he thinks about the world in it, and it's a long transcript, and the video is there as well in case anybody wants to watch it.
01:15:35.620But what was interesting is he went into depth about some of the stuff you've talked about when it comes to Russia.
01:15:55.380I would say mostly in a bad way, though he seems to refer to sort of the charm of what they're doing.
01:16:03.800Or maybe the charm's not the right word, maybe effectiveness is the right word.
01:16:06.820Talking about how, and you've spoken about this as well, where they're using sort of this appeal to traditionalism, this appeal to nationalism in a way that is effective for people who are in difficult positions, and utilizing it as a way to essentially cover your own corruption.
01:16:27.720And he's talking about that with Vladimir Putin, which he, you know, outwardly criticizes pretty extensively.
01:16:33.800If you understand the Neo-Eurasian movement from Russia, you will understand Bannon and how he is advising the president.
01:20:56.220So, Riaz, tell me what your thoughts are and your process through the last few days of what's been happening.
01:21:07.540You know, it's always a bit of an emotional process for me because we're talking about me.
01:21:14.160You know, as we're talking about this Muslim ban, and I'm using air quotes because, you know, I think that becomes part of the problem.
01:21:20.080When it becomes labeled as this Muslim ban, by association, we've yet again lumped 1.4 billion of us together in one world and one sort of people.
01:21:30.560But as you look at it, you realize, I would hope, I would assume, that you wouldn't be included because, strangely, he didn't include Pakistan.
01:21:42.140Yes, the first thing I noticed is it's not Pakistan, not Saudi Arabia.
01:21:46.740And so, to me, when it's labeled as a Muslim ban, it can't be.
01:21:50.940It cannot be specifically a Muslim ban.
01:21:52.740Indonesia, the most populated Muslim nation in the world, is not there.
01:21:56.340And so, you know, then there's a counterattack that he has business interests.
01:21:59.620I don't know what business interests he could possibly have in Pakistan.
01:22:02.800But it, to me, is not a full Muslim ban.
01:22:06.240And I get very nervous when the media and the left rile up this angry because in this yelling, you can't hear.
01:22:13.300And the hearing is what is key, is what I did in Alaska.
01:22:22.580And so, to me, I really want to make sure that in this deafening roar that people like Zudi Jasser are heard, people like Diyad Khan, who's an amazing woman.
01:22:32.020She's a filmmaker, did a TED Talk about how bad it is, the extremism in Europe.
01:24:38.760But they are limited, and they need to be targeted.
01:24:41.260But to me, the executive action of it makes me very nervous because Fareed Zakaria and I are brown people.
01:24:47.020And so whenever we're talking about this, there's a lifetime of abuse, a lifetime of racial epithets that have been thrown at us from age four and five.
01:24:57.140So it is hard to be completely objective when we're listening to things that are vilifying us.
01:25:18.340And I think I learned about them in Alaska, of all places.
01:25:21.160The executive orders that he had done to the lumber industry and, sorry, Clintons had done to the lumber industry ruined this town of Kachakan.
01:25:28.040So I absolutely – I don't think I was aware of how bad they were until recently, but they are.
01:27:06.240And my response is, well, then, do you have a better suggestion than just expecting the best out of people and encouraging people to do that?
01:32:09.020I mean, you know, we've all gone through periods where you get on social media and you're firing back at people and it makes you feel good for that one second and then you feel terrible afterwards.
01:32:18.760And you get to that point where, generally speaking, I just try to ignore it at this point.
01:32:23.100I don't know that it's probably better to replace it with something positive.
01:32:26.600That's probably what Reyes would tell us.
01:32:29.280But, you know, the less you can deal with that stuff, the better.
01:32:33.160I mean, you know, there's people that I.
01:35:02.160I'm really hoping for a question from the maybe Two Spicer today or Trump in some interview.
01:35:10.540Because I think there's an easy way for him to push off all of this Muslim ban talk that everyone keeps mentioning.
01:35:17.460Because the executive order does not say that.
01:35:19.320So if he did, and I understand why people are jumping to that.
01:35:24.440But that policy, which I opposed as vigilantly as anyone, his initial Trump proposal of a Muslim ban, I think, was unconstitutional and horrible.
01:35:37.420So here's an easy way to test the Trump administration.
01:35:40.280Population of Iran is made up of 89% Shia Muslims and 9% Sunni Muslims.
01:35:46.420In Iran, Sunni Muslims are a religious minority.
01:35:49.720If they were persecuted by a terrible Iranian government, would they be allowed to go to the front of the line once refugee admissions continue like other religious minorities?
01:35:57.940If Episcopalians started violently persecuting Presbyterians somewhere, no one would say, well, they're all Christians, so you don't have to worry about it.
01:37:01.500Doc Thompson does the morning show on the Blaze Radio Network.
01:37:04.900And you can hear live stream and also podcasts, all kinds of stuff on the Blaze Radio Network.
01:37:10.640And I'm happy to say the largest single stream in America, which I believe makes it the largest single stream in the world, is the Blaze Radio Network.
01:37:22.240It is the, I think, the 18th largest stream in the country, which everybody else has all of these different channels.
01:37:43.400But anyway, Doc leads the way every morning with the Doc Thompson radio broadcast.
01:37:48.740And he's really a, he's cut from the same cloth in some ways as I am.
01:37:56.420He is a deeply emotional guy and kind of a soft-hearted guy that will rip your heart out and show it to you before you fall down on the ground if he thinks you're wrong.
01:38:08.820But I've noticed, too, he actually uses a lot less cloth than you when it comes to cover the, just a textile sort of observation there.
01:41:11.340The Mike Lee thing, I don't think Lee is going to be picked.
01:41:14.760But quite honestly, because not Mike, but his brother, and I think it's because he's a Mormon,
01:41:23.520there is still, with some evangelicals, a problem with Mormons.
01:41:31.360And that is one of the things, is it Thomas Hardiman, I think he's Catholic.
01:41:38.160And while I don't think the evangelicals have a problem necessarily with Catholics, I don't think most have a problem even anymore with Mormons,
01:41:47.580although much more so, that won't go in his favor.
01:42:04.000It's only, I think it's, they're not going off.
01:42:07.620And while that is not a first in anybody's checklist, I know that that is one of the things that they would like somebody that reflects them on the court.
01:42:19.600I would be surprised if he went off the list of 20 here with his first pick.
01:42:24.260If one were to get blocked, I would not be surprised to see him leave that list of 20.
01:42:27.620But, I mean, I would be surprised if he left a list of 20.
01:42:30.800I would not be at all surprised if he left the most heavily reported three.
01:42:35.300I think one of the things that Trump likes about doing this type of delivery, if he does do it, is it helps his narrative that the media is wrong.
01:42:43.540Everyone's running stories today that it's one of these three guys.
01:42:46.700And then he's going to, if he were to do this, then he comes out and says, well, they all were reporting it was going to be one of those three.
01:42:55.040So I think he likes that sort of, that approach.
01:42:58.560Would not be surprised at all that it's somebody else.
01:43:00.320And I don't think, if he picks off the list of 20, I don't think any of us are going to be able to come in here tomorrow and say it was a bad pick.
01:43:06.000I think we can all say, I'm worried about, like Hardeman, for example.
01:43:08.740If he picks Hardeman, I'm very worried.
01:43:16.980There's not enough in his record that says he's not a conservative.
01:43:20.680He's been conservative on many things.
01:43:24.060It's just one of those things that once these justices get into action, it never seems to be that they move to the right of where you think they might go.
01:43:56.820He's never going to say, okay, you give me this, and I'll give you whatever you want.
01:44:00.460But as it should be if somebody is working with you like it is on everything, if I'm working around a bunch of people, Stu, if I have a coin toss and you say, Glenn, this really means something to me, I'll do it your way because it helps you, and you're my friend, and we work together, and we've been working well together.
01:44:25.000If it's a coin toss, if he doesn't give the evangelicals the pick that they want, this is literally, there is no one that can say that they won the election for Donald Trump besides Donald Trump and the evangelicals.
01:44:49.760Had the evangelicals not behaved the way that leadership of the evangelicals did, if they would have gone another way and really led by James Robinson and, shoot, what's his name, at Liberty University and Franklin Graham, if they would have not done what they did, Donald Trump would not be president today.
01:45:39.380Well, he usually does when somebody has really taken it on the chin for him and excused him of something that goes against what they believe.
01:45:49.360And if the evangelicals didn't do that for Donald Trump, I don't know who did.
01:45:53.240I mean, they made, they gave him credit and said, hey, this mea culpa is enough.
01:45:59.320And, I mean, they excused some pretty big things that no one else would have gotten a pass for.
01:46:24.700I think, well, there is a list there because I know some of these guys and I know, you know, they're good guys and, you know, they have the best intentions.
01:46:37.100And I don't know necessarily who's on the list.
01:46:51.720I think Thomas Hardiman is one of them.
01:46:55.080Yeah, I mean, you know, and one thing you might want to look for potentially here is if he if he says, OK, this list of 20 is acceptable to conservatives.
01:47:03.880That's what they told me when they gave it to me.
01:47:06.780It was generally well received by most.
01:47:08.980There are people that have problems with individual picks.
01:47:11.520But, you know, generally speaking, it was a well received list by conservatives.
01:47:15.160One of the things you might want to look for.
01:47:16.760And this is I know one of the issues that some religious groups have talked about.
01:47:21.720Is, you know, for example, Trump has continued the executive order by the Obama administration on the LGBTQ issues that happened this morning.
01:47:33.900And that was a question of whether he was going to take that back.