The Glenn Beck Program - April 18, 2019


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Episode Stats

Length

2 hours and 1 minute

Words per Minute

187.3048

Word Count

22,668

Sentence Count

1,835

Misogynist Sentences

32

Hate Speech Sentences

20


Summary

Robert Muller Day Part 2: The sequel to Part 1, where we get the redacted version of the full Robert Mueller report. Glenn and Stu talk about what they are looking for in the redacted report and why they think it could be a big deal.


Transcript

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00:01:17.100 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program.
00:01:25.580 It's Robert Muller Day Part 2. The sequel. Yes, we had the initial letter come out a couple of
00:01:32.320 weeks ago, but here it is. Today, we're getting the entire redacted report at some point today,
00:01:38.980 but not until after a press conference and it's going to be released to Congress and then we think
00:01:44.200 we're going to get it at some point today. We also expect to get this press conference coming up in
00:01:48.140 within like a half an hour. So, we will be covering that live as we go. Muller Day Part 2 here at Stu
00:01:54.480 on the Glenn Beck Program.
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00:03:46.520 So here we are, it's Mueller Day Part 2. And it seems as if that we are going to get some
00:03:54.020 expanded picture as to what's in the Mueller Report. Now, if you're like me, I think you don't
00:04:00.300 salivate over these things like the media does. The media loves to talk about this because there's
00:04:05.880 this great time that they have in this window of open speculation where they can say whatever they
00:04:12.060 want because there's no evidence as to what's going to be in the report yet, right? Like we know that
00:04:19.380 Barr came out and said there's no collusion and, you know, he's not exonerated from the obstruction of
00:04:25.680 justice, but there's nothing there to actually make it rise to criminal level.
00:04:31.640 And, you know, you have to think about what do we expect here? The press has had a field day since
00:04:36.620 this letter came out because what they've been able to do is say, why did we get this summary
00:04:41.740 from Barr? We don't care about some summary from some guy who works for Donald Trump.
00:04:46.440 We want to see the whole thing. We want to see every little bit of it because when we see every
00:04:50.340 little bit of it, we know we're going to catch him in something. We know that he was protected
00:04:54.260 somehow. This guy, Mueller, who we all said was the gold standard, was going to be able to go into
00:05:00.580 this and find every little detail because he's so well respected by both sides. Well, when he didn't
00:05:06.500 come up with a conclusion that we wanted, now we have to, they're still holding on to just that
00:05:13.640 little string, like that little kitty hanging from the string. He's hanging there. They're still kind of
00:05:18.040 just hanging in there, hoping that they can now dig through 400 pages instead of four and find
00:05:23.400 something really damaging, which I understand what they're doing, right? These are Democrats
00:05:28.860 trying to control the narrative. And they went into ridiculous mode last night because of the
00:05:35.700 announcement of this press conference, which is again coming up in about 20 minutes. We'll have it
00:05:40.180 here for you as it goes. The idea that they're trying to make the American people believe is that
00:05:51.040 Barr is protecting Donald Trump by having a press conference before they actually release the
00:05:58.440 report. So in theory, you'd have the report released and then people would be able to go
00:06:03.060 through it and then you'd have a press conference about it. What they're trying to say is, all right,
00:06:07.100 well, no, they're doing this in advance. So we don't have the report to ask sensible questions
00:06:11.580 about yet. And they're doing this to essentially ease whatever's going to come out. And we know it's
00:06:18.260 going to be something bad. They're trying to ease the horrible effects on the president's
00:06:23.820 administration. Now, is this true? I don't know. I mean, look, every presidential cabinet,
00:06:33.000 every presidential administration, when they think that something could be damaging to them,
00:06:39.660 if they don't take steps to protect themselves from that thing, they're morons. Everybody does it.
00:06:46.280 Everybody tries to control the narrative in Washington. What do you think the nonsense of
00:06:51.860 the last 24 hours has been about? What are Democrats doing? Democrats are stepping up and
00:06:56.940 Democrats are saying, well, if he's having this press conference, that means he must be hiding
00:07:00.900 something. They're trying to control the narrative. And what's interesting here, and you see this all the
00:07:05.920 time, is when Republicans are trying to control the narrative, you see extensive coverage as to what
00:07:13.380 they're trying to do in that process. This is how they're trying to protect the president. This is
00:07:17.300 what they're trying to do. Well, you know what? Allies of the president are trying to protect the
00:07:21.300 president. Of course they are. I mean, that does not mean that there's anything bad in here. We will
00:07:26.220 find out relatively soon what is in there. But the Democrats are doing the same thing, and they're
00:07:31.920 just treated as the experts on the topic. No one says, hey, Democrats are also trying to control
00:07:38.520 the narrative. The Democrats don't care what's in this report. The Democrats care about what they
00:07:43.740 can use against Donald Trump and whoever else in the administration is their next big target.
00:07:49.900 And that's what I think you have to look back at as we're going through this process.
00:07:54.420 We know, one thing we know, is that there was nothing a criminal level of collusion in this case.
00:08:00.600 We know that. That's already kind of done. As far as obstruction of justice, there was nothing
00:08:07.500 that rose to an obvious level of criminal issue. And that does not mean, however, that the Democrats
00:08:15.800 won't A, be able to find things that they will try to convince America of criminality. They may.
00:08:23.340 They may find something that's juicy enough that they can go in there and say, well, here's
00:08:27.100 this part of it is criminal, and we need to go after it. Why aren't they investigating this?
00:08:31.960 They can use their investigative powers to go in and look for additional documents. They can use
00:08:36.900 these things as sort of like lead paths into a new investigation. And then they can drag this out
00:08:42.000 over the next couple of years. And believe me, this is too much of an asset to them for them to let it
00:08:46.080 go. They are going to find something in this report that they are going to claim, and they won't believe
00:08:51.960 it, but they will, they weren't going to claim is serious enough for them to be able to go through
00:08:58.460 this and justify additional show in court. They're going to be able to find something that they can
00:09:07.460 put a show on. That's going to happen. And then additionally, beyond that, they're going to get to
00:09:13.660 a level where there's a strong possibility they're going to be able to find something embarrassing at the
00:09:21.760 very least. So that's kind of where I think this is realistically going to land. Is there going to be
00:09:27.460 a text exchange related to this investigation where a prominent Trump official says something
00:09:33.220 negative about Trump? Where they say something negative about the way something was handled?
00:09:38.620 Where they say something that's critical of their own administration? All these things are
00:09:43.560 legitimately possible. And, you know, that's the type of thing that is going to control a news cycle
00:09:49.840 for a week or two. It doesn't make, it has nothing to do with the actual real problem we have of a foreign
00:09:57.580 power, Russia, trying to influence our elections. That was the point of this. And I think at the end of
00:10:04.180 the day, you may look back at the Mueller investigation and say, wow, like, because, you know, the
00:10:09.640 investigations would have gone on anyway. They would have, they would have been throwing these things
00:10:13.920 out anyway. If the Democrats could have control of the House, they would have launched
00:10:16.960 investigations anyway. Now you have someone who every Democrat on the record has said is incredibly
00:10:21.000 credible, who said, well, there's nothing there. So it might wind up being a huge positive overall
00:10:25.800 for Trump. But if you remember when the hacking went on with the DNC, and a lot of this was obviously
00:10:32.060 tied to the Russia investigation. When that happened, what came out of it? What came out of it?
00:10:37.320 Anything of value? Not really. What came out of it was embarrassing things for some of the key
00:10:44.300 Clinton players, right? It was, oh, well, you know, we think Bernie, basically, we think Bernie
00:10:49.460 sucks. And we don't want him to get the nomination because he's going to lose. He's a freaking socialist.
00:10:53.720 So what can we do to help Clinton win? Is there any evidence that they moved 4 million votes to
00:10:58.640 Hillary Clinton? Remember, she won by 12 points in the primary 12 points. This was not that close.
00:11:04.400 But she won the primary election. And Bernie has held on to that as essentially he was wronged
00:11:10.340 in the primary campaign. There was a lot of infighting. There were certain officials and
00:11:15.160 people who had high level Democratic ties that were mocked by people like Podesta.
00:11:21.160 And those things were embarrassing to the Democrats. Will that type of thing come out here?
00:11:26.560 It's possible. It's legitimately possible. And that's all you're going to be hearing about for a
00:11:30.760 few weeks if that's what happens. But these things are not of fundamental importance to the United
00:11:35.880 States of America, which is supposed to be what we actually care about. That is supposed to be the
00:11:42.860 end game here. It's just very rare that you actually see that occur. So as we go through this
00:11:50.500 report, it's you're going to have something in there that's going to lead the news for at least some
00:11:56.440 time. The idea that this is coming out. I mean, you see this comes out on a Thursday. Tomorrow is
00:12:01.940 Good Friday. Then you've got Easter weekend. How long of the legs is something in here going to
00:12:07.640 have? The Democrats and the media are going to do as much work as they can to make sure the legs are
00:12:12.460 long. They want NBA level legs. They want legs. They want plastic man, stretch Armstrong legs.
00:12:20.840 That's what they want. And they're going to stretch this out as long as they can, because this is what
00:12:24.140 they have right now. They certainly can't talk about the economy. You know, they're going to make
00:12:29.120 their case and they're going to come out and they're going to say that that what went on here
00:12:33.800 is obstruction of justice. Literally, no matter what is in this report, that is what they're going
00:12:41.960 to say. Is there something so serious that it's going to convince the American people, people who
00:12:48.340 are in the middle, who are looking back and forth and saying, you know, I don't know who to believe
00:12:52.060 here. Are they going to be able to pull those people over? They're going to be able to pull someone
00:12:56.300 over to the Democratic side from the Republican side because of this report? I mean, I'm incredibly
00:13:03.440 skeptical of that idea. And the reason is that if they had something, there would have been more
00:13:10.260 here. Remember, there wasn't even an attempt by Mueller to subpoena Donald Trump to testify in
00:13:17.400 front of him. He could have. He could have done that. Now, whether it would have worked or not,
00:13:20.820 there would have been all sorts of court fights over that. Instead, he asked email questions,
00:13:24.860 essentially. Had him answer with the help of his attorneys and had Donald Trump answer questions
00:13:31.100 in written form. If he was sure that there was a borderline claim here, he would have subpoenaed
00:13:38.680 him and pushed this down the road a lot further than he did. Again, this is someone that both
00:13:44.460 Republicans and Democrats said was very credible, and he didn't even take that additional step to try
00:13:49.780 to subpoena him. And we've seen before, obviously, Bill Clinton was subpoenaed successfully.
00:13:54.920 This could have happened. So without taking that step, it's hard to imagine they're going to be
00:14:01.960 able to find something here. Is there stuff on Roger Stone? We're not going to know. Is there stuff on one
00:14:06.680 of his kids? Did Kushner or obviously his son-in-law or did Donald Trump Jr. say something bad in a text
00:14:16.560 that could be problematic? It's not impossible. And we're going to see some of that here. But
00:14:21.900 you have to remember, you have to set the scene here. And the scene is the Democrats, no matter
00:14:26.360 what, are going to say that Donald Trump is guilty of obstruction of justice. The media is going to echo
00:14:31.140 those sentiments. And it's going to be up to the real people in America, people like you, who actually
00:14:39.420 care about Russia's influence in the election, who actually care if Donald Trump did something
00:14:45.500 wrong. Because if he did, you'd be all over him, I hope. I know I would be. But we're going to look at
00:14:51.020 this with an open mind and say, all right, well, here's what he did wrong and here's what he did right,
00:14:55.480 if any of those things are there. And I think there's a great lesson for all of us here to learn
00:15:02.060 about how inaccurate we are with the direction we go in these stories. Because once again,
00:15:10.020 taking precedence over Russian influence over our elections. This is a foreign power. We all
00:15:15.720 realize the threat of Russia. And instead of talking about that, everyone's going to be talking about
00:15:19.420 some salacious text. So that's the scene that we have today. And we're going to get into that a
00:15:25.480 little bit more. Jason Butchell is going to be joining me here in a second to go over the schedule
00:15:28.760 of events today. We have the press conference coming up in about 10 minutes. It's Stu on the
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00:16:58.100 If you're catching the show live, we're about 10 minutes away from the press conference supposedly
00:17:17.480 starting here on the Glenn Beck program. Glenn's out here for a little bit. He's not feeling well.
00:17:22.740 He may be joining us here at any point. Jason Buttrell is also with us. Jason is... I mean,
00:17:30.060 yeah, he's got military experience. He's Glenn's the lead researcher, blah, blah, blah. The main
00:17:33.800 thing that Jason does on these days is we force him to read all the annoying reports.
00:17:38.940 All these dang reports.
00:17:39.920 Yes, and I'm happy to do it.
00:17:41.420 It's been two years, 24 months. I've been dreading today. I mean, how many of these have
00:17:46.720 we had to read and talk about over the last, what, year and a half?
00:17:49.700 Yes.
00:17:50.020 It feels like a ton.
00:17:51.000 I know. There's always a new 5,000-page government report poor Jason is stuck reading.
00:17:56.060 And it's not like you and Glenn are like, yeah, can you read all of these 5,000 pages and have
00:18:00.400 them done by the show today in two or three hours?
00:18:02.500 That's all we ask. I mean, it's not a big one. So, Jason, can you kind of walk us through the
00:18:07.280 schedule today? Because the press conference leads the day here in a few moments. We're going
00:18:11.740 to find out something about this, hopefully maybe a little bit about the process. Is that what
00:18:15.540 we're expecting here?
00:18:16.380 Well, that's what I'm hoping. And you were talking about how, you know, I didn't ever
00:18:20.240 actually think about that. That was an interesting way to look at that. I'm just controlling the
00:18:23.020 narrative. Because what I was hoping is that the narrative will be squashed. But I guess that's
00:18:27.940 in a way that's kind of controlling the narrative as well.
00:18:30.480 Sure.
00:18:30.600 But, like, it's been so frustrating after the initial, you know, four-page summary was
00:18:36.600 sent out. Because it's been spun in, like, a gazillion different ways. But I was like,
00:18:40.600 please. Like, when I heard about the conference, it was like, awesome. Like, at least just tell
00:18:44.200 us, look, this is why there was a four-page summary. Because the rules were changed after
00:18:48.340 Ken Starr and the new special counsel, you know, rules. Because I think much of the mainstream
00:18:53.600 media just doesn't even talk about that.
00:18:55.240 No.
00:18:55.500 They want to, like, create some kind of click-baity thing. You know what I mean? So, like,
00:18:59.780 yeah, tell us all about that. Lay it all out. Because we're not getting it on CNN. Let's
00:19:03.760 just get it straight from Attorney General Barr's, like, mouth. Then this is why we have
00:19:08.380 to redact things. We can't talk about certain things unless they, you know, pertain to a
00:19:12.860 crime. Or if they have stuff about, you know, non-public officials.
00:19:18.580 Yeah. And this is an important part. I think there's four different ways they're redacting
00:19:21.100 this information. They're going to color-code it so you know the reason they redacted it.
00:19:24.500 Part of it is grand jury. So, the grand jury testimony cannot be put in a public report
00:19:30.060 like this unless there's a special clearance from a judge, which they do not have. So,
00:19:33.640 some of this will be because of its grand jury information.
00:19:35.960 And that's so going to happen, right?
00:19:37.060 It's absolutely going to happen.
00:19:38.020 They're going to go for that.
00:19:38.880 That's number one. You also have, and this is an interesting one. Basically, they don't
00:19:43.480 want to throw information that could be personally damaging on someone who's sort of a periphery
00:19:47.820 character in this and ruin their life just because if it's a public report. So, you know,
00:19:53.700 if some guy at Starbucks had some interaction with Donald Trump, or McDonald's is probably a
00:19:59.460 better example. He likes the McD's. If someone at McDonald's had an interaction with Donald Trump
00:20:04.000 and it was embarrassing for the McDonald's employee, they're not going to include that
00:20:08.700 information. They're going to redact it because they don't want to, there's no reason to embarrass
00:20:11.980 the McDonald's employee over this.
00:20:13.340 Now, what's interesting is people were saying, hey, well, Donald Trump, if he wasn't charged
00:20:19.300 with anything, is he a character they're going to black out all the information on? Barr was
00:20:23.260 very clear. No, we're not going to redact information about Donald Trump. He's a public
00:20:28.620 official. And I think the wording he used was a public elected official.
00:20:33.680 But there's still a way they can get around that, though, actually. And this is why I think
00:20:37.280 there's some of the gray area because they also cannot talk about the current case of Roger Stone
00:20:41.840 because of the gag order. Yeah, that's another one of them.
00:20:43.880 So there could be text messages, emails, whatever, specifically between the two of them, the
00:20:48.180 president and Roger Stone. In theory. In theory. But that would be completely blacked out.
00:20:53.080 And correctly blacked out. They're in the middle of ongoing proceedings, so they don't want to tip
00:20:57.520 their hand on it as to necessarily what they have. They don't want to necessarily close down another
00:21:01.680 string of the investigation that might go from Roger Stone to someone else. These are, and if you
00:21:07.420 listen to actual legal experts on the left and in the right, they will tell you these
00:21:11.820 four categories of redaction are incredibly standard. They're the boring standard everybody
00:21:19.600 uses in this type of situation. Now, the left is going to say that Barr is applying them
00:21:27.460 incorrectly. Right? Like, they can say, well, we think he redacted too much. What you will
00:21:33.420 definitely get is a word count, essentially, as to what percentage of the documents were redacted.
00:21:40.520 No matter what number that is, they will say it's too high. They will say they redacted too
00:21:46.160 much information. And you know what? Because this is just like, it's like a, it's like a series,
00:21:51.000 Jason. It's like when you want to extend people to watch the next episode of Game of Thrones,
00:21:55.400 you give it a little cliffhanger. And what they'll do here is, well, we saw what they gave us,
00:21:59.440 but you know what's behind those black markers? That's the real stuff. And they won't give us that.
00:22:04.900 They released the whole thing and they will, they will stretch this out for another six months.
00:22:09.860 Yes. So, so that comes out at 11 Eastern, apparently only on CDs, just to Congress, right?
00:22:16.240 We're still using CD-ROMs.
00:22:18.360 And we don't know when the, the other less redacted version is going to come out.
00:22:22.560 Yeah. And it will be, I will say it will be available for a download on dial-up modem.
00:22:27.340 So that's going to be coming up. I can't wait for that release. That's going to be exciting.
00:22:31.580 We'll be back with more here in just a second. On the Mueller Report and the press conference
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00:23:51.780 It's 23andMe.com slash Beck. We have the Barr press conference on the Mueller report's release
00:23:59.100 coming up momentarily. Of course, he's going to delay this and make it awkward, but it's going to
00:24:03.480 be supposedly coming up in just moments here on the Glenn Beck program. Okay, we are just looks like
00:24:09.100 seconds away from Attorney General William Barr coming out and telling us what he knows or what
00:24:16.120 he's going to reveal today about the full Mueller report. And all eyes are going to be on this.
00:24:23.940 Obviously, it's going to be the topic of discussion, certainly for the foreseeable future, which seems
00:24:30.480 to be endless, doesn't it? I feel like we're never going to talk about any other country on earth
00:24:34.260 except Russia, and we're never going to talk about anything important that they're doing.
00:24:37.620 It's only going to be, we're going to instead focus on the palace intrigue, because this is all about
00:24:47.200 celebrities. They're trying to take down Donald Trump as a celebrity, it seems like.
00:24:52.380 Okay, William Barr is now going up to the podium, and let's listen in to William Barr.
00:24:58.820 William Barr is related to Russian attempts to interfere in our 2016 presidential election,
00:25:05.340 and he submitted his confidential report to me pursuant to department regulations.
00:25:12.360 As I said during my Senate confirmation hearing and since, I'm committed to ensuring the greatest
00:25:18.740 degree possible of transparency concerning the special counsel's investigation consistent with the law.
00:25:26.120 At 11 this morning, I'm going to transmit copies of the public version of the special counsel's report
00:25:34.380 to the chairman and ranking members of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees.
00:25:40.220 The Department of Justice will also make the report available to the American people
00:25:45.600 by posting it on the department's website after it has been delivered to Congress.
00:25:51.760 I'd like to make a few comments today on the report.
00:25:57.340 Before I do that, I want to thank Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for joining me here today,
00:26:04.640 and for his assistance and counsel throughout this process.
00:26:09.280 Rod, as you know, has served at the department for nearly 30 years with dedication and distinction,
00:26:15.160 and it's been a great privilege and pleasure for me to work with him since my confirmation.
00:26:22.300 He had well-deserved plans to step back from public service that were interrupted by my asking him to help in my transition.
00:26:33.780 Rod has been an invaluable partner, and I am grateful that he is willing to help me
00:26:38.200 and has been able to see the special counsel's investigation through to its conclusion.
00:26:44.420 Thanks, Rod.
00:26:45.500 Thank you.
00:26:45.900 Yeah.
00:26:48.280 I'd also like to thank special counsel Robert Mueller for his service
00:26:52.840 and the thoroughness of his investigation,
00:26:56.000 particularly his work exposing the nature of Russia's attempts to interfere in our electoral process.
00:27:02.120 As you know, one of the primary purposes of the special counsel's investigation
00:27:07.840 was to determine whether President Trump's campaign or any individual associated with it
00:27:14.160 conspired or coordinated with the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 election.
00:27:22.220 Volume 1 of the special counsel's report describes the results of that investigation.
00:27:27.440 As you will see, the special counsel's report states that his, quote,
00:27:32.940 investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated
00:27:38.720 with the Russian government in its election interference activities.
00:27:44.400 I am sure that all Americans share my concern about the efforts of the Russian government
00:27:50.260 to interfere in our presidential election.
00:27:52.740 As the special counsel report makes clear, the Russian government sought to interfere in our
00:28:00.280 election process.
00:28:02.200 But thanks to the special counsel's thorough investigation, we now know that the Russian
00:28:07.720 operatives who perpetrated these schemes did not have the cooperation of President Trump
00:28:14.160 or the Trump campaign or the knowing assistance of any other American, for that matter.
00:28:19.900 That is something that all Americans can and should be grateful to have confirmed.
00:28:27.060 The special counsel report outlines two main efforts by the Russian government to influence
00:28:32.520 the 2016 election.
00:28:35.280 First, the report details efforts by the Internet Research Agency, a Russian company with close
00:28:41.680 ties to the Russian government, to sow social discord among American voters through disinformation
00:28:48.300 and social media operations.
00:28:51.820 Following a thorough investigation of this disinformation campaign, the special counsel brought charges in
00:28:58.940 federal court against several Russian nationals and entities for their respective roles in this
00:29:05.060 scheme.
00:29:06.160 Those charges remain pending and the individual defendants remain at large.
00:29:10.980 But the special counsel found no evidence that any American, including anyone associated with
00:29:18.460 the Trump campaign, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government or the IRA in this
00:29:25.260 illegal scheme.
00:29:27.200 Indeed, as the report states, quote, the investigation did not identify evidence that any U.S.
00:29:32.940 person knowingly or intentionally coordinated with the IRA's interference operation, unquote.
00:29:38.760 Put another way, the special counsel found no collusion by any Americans in IRA's illegal activities.
00:29:48.380 Second, the report details efforts by the Russian military officials associated with the GRU, the Russian
00:29:56.740 military intelligence organization, to hack into computers and steal documents and emails from individuals
00:30:04.980 associated with the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's campaign for the purpose of
00:30:10.540 eventually publicizing these documents.
00:30:15.080 Obtaining such unauthorized...
00:30:20.560 Following a thorough investigation of these hacking...
00:30:23.480 Some audio issues here, obviously.
00:30:25.500 Still listening in.
00:30:26.420 ...of the court, Russian military officers for their respective roles in these illegal hacking operations.
00:30:34.980 Those charges are still pending, and the defendants remain at large.
00:30:39.280 But again, the special counsel's report did not find any evidence that members of the Trump campaign or anyone
00:30:46.600 associated with the campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these hacking operations.
00:30:54.280 In other words, there was no evidence of the Trump campaign collusion with the Russian government's hacking.
00:31:01.380 The special counsel's investigation also examined Russian efforts to publish stolen emails and documents on the Internet.
00:31:11.180 The special counsel found...
00:31:14.380 They found something, and his mic's cutting out here, which is incredibly helpful, I'm sure.
00:31:22.940 All the multiple years and millions of dollars you as taxpayers have spent on this report.
00:31:28.980 You didn't really want to hear what he was talking about here, did you?
00:31:32.240 No, of course not.
00:31:33.960 How about hiring an audio expert here?
00:31:36.920 I mean, that would be helpful.
00:31:39.380 He's going into kind of running through exactly the structure of the report, is what I would say.
00:31:44.660 Part one being the collusion, and then he's broken that into several parts so far.
00:31:51.560 If you're just joining us, we're listening to William Barr's press conference, the Attorney General, on the release of the Mueller report.
00:31:57.960 The CD-ROMs will be taken to Congress soon, so they can boot them up on their compact computers from 1989.
00:32:05.840 Copies on 8-Track will also be made available.
00:32:07.920 Thank you.
00:32:08.060 And a free membership to Freedom Rock for each one that comes out.
00:32:13.960 So the three kind of categories they've outlined so far, the charges against the Internet Research Agency.
00:32:18.420 It's obviously been highly reported.
00:32:20.220 This is the stuff they were doing to manipulate social media, trying to sow discord in our country about the elections.
00:32:26.440 And very clear wording there.
00:32:28.460 They did not identify any evidence that anyone in the Trump administration or anyone associated with it conspired or cooperated with the IRA or Internet Research Agency.
00:32:44.000 That is more than we knew.
00:32:48.320 And here's why.
00:32:49.120 Before this, well, in fact, instead of me telling you that, I know, listen, we've got the bar audio back.
00:32:56.580 Let's jump back in and we'll get to this in a second.
00:32:57.920 But did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those efforts.
00:33:04.020 After finding no underlying collusion with Russia, the special counsel's report goes on to consider whether certain actions of the president could amount to obstruction of the special counsel's investigation.
00:33:17.600 As I addressed in my March 24th letter, the special counsel did not make a traditional prosecutorial judgment regarding this allegation.
00:33:28.780 Instead, the report recounts 10 episodes involving the president and discusses potential legal theories for connecting those activities to the elements of an obstruction offense.
00:33:39.580 After carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report and in consultation with the Office of Legal Counsel and other department lawyers,
00:33:50.220 the deputy attorney general and I concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense.
00:34:01.980 Although the deputy attorney general and I disagreed with some of the special counsel's legal theories and felt that some of the episodes examined did not amount to obstruction as a matter of law,
00:34:13.560 we did not rely solely on that in making our decision.
00:34:17.720 Instead, we accepted the special counsel's legal framework for purposes of our analysis
00:34:22.440 and evaluated the evidence as presented by the special counsel in reaching our conclusions.
00:34:28.780 In assessing the president's actions discussed in the report, it is important to bear in mind the context.
00:34:36.040 President Trump faced an unprecedented situation.
00:34:39.620 As he entered into office and sought to perform his responsibilities as president,
00:34:44.260 federal agents and prosecutors were scrutinizing his conduct before and after taking office
00:34:49.860 and the conduct of some of his associates.
00:34:53.220 At the same time, there was relentless speculation in the news media about the president's personal culpability.
00:35:00.700 Yet, as he said from the beginning, there was, in fact, no collusion.
00:35:05.960 And as the special counsel's report acknowledges,
00:35:08.700 there is substantial evidence to show that the president was frustrated and angered by his sincere belief
00:35:16.380 that the investigation was undermining his presidency, propelled by his political opponents and fueled by illegal leaks.
00:35:25.940 Nonetheless, the White House fully cooperated with the special counsel's investigation,
00:35:31.620 providing unfettered access to campaign and White House documents,
00:35:35.880 directing senior aides to testify freely and asserting no privilege claims.
00:35:40.860 And at the same time, the president took no act that, in fact, deprived the special counsel
00:35:46.320 of the documents and witnesses necessary to complete his investigation.
00:35:51.460 Apart from whether the acts were obstructive,
00:35:54.940 this evidence of non-corrupt motives weighs heavily against any allegation
00:36:00.560 that the president had a corrupt intent to obstruct the investigation.
00:36:05.300 Now, before I take questions, I want to address a few aspects of the process
00:36:10.540 for producing the public report that I am releasing today.
00:36:14.860 As I said several times, the report contains limited redactions
00:36:18.820 related to four categories of information.
00:36:22.940 To ensure as much transparency as possible,
00:36:28.080 those redactions have been clearly labeled
00:36:30.080 so that the readers can tell which redactions correspond to which categories.
00:36:38.460 Now, as I recall, those categories are 6E material, grand jury material.
00:36:45.180 We're listening to William Barr, Attorney General.
00:36:47.200 We've gone through the report here.
00:36:48.340 He's going to go to questions here in a second.
00:36:50.000 He's now just going over the process, which we've already covered on today's program.
00:36:53.340 We have to take a break.
00:36:54.160 We're going to come back on the other side with these questions,
00:36:57.100 see where that goes.
00:36:57.980 That should be interesting here on the Glenn Beck program.
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00:38:25.640 All right, it's Stu and for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
00:38:27.540 We're talking about the release of the Mueller report
00:38:30.140 and the press conference going on with William Barr.
00:38:34.980 We're going to get to the questions here in just a minute
00:38:37.140 to kind of reset where we are and what we've heard so far.
00:38:40.520 They discussed the process a little bit earlier.
00:38:43.240 Barr went over the process of how this came out
00:38:45.200 and then went through the report a little bit.
00:38:47.600 Gave us highlights of what actually happened in the report.
00:38:50.160 Part one was about the collusion.
00:38:52.540 Not only was there no collusion,
00:38:55.580 but it actually went further than we've heard before
00:38:58.100 to say they had absolutely no evidence of anyone helping the Russians.
00:39:03.860 collusion, they used the term they could not identify any evidence multiple times.
00:39:10.320 I mean, this was not a borderline thing.
00:39:12.220 This wasn't the thing, well, there was some evidence,
00:39:14.460 but it didn't add up to collusion.
00:39:16.180 No, there was no evidence.
00:39:18.100 They could not identify any evidence that any American
00:39:21.180 worked willingly on any of the three things they investigated,
00:39:25.540 which is much further than we've heard before.
00:39:28.320 No American period.
00:39:29.240 Yes, no American.
00:39:30.120 That's also encouraging.
00:39:32.060 Not only is it a good thing for the Trump administration,
00:39:34.420 a good thing if you happen to be a Republican or whatever,
00:39:37.700 but it's also just a great freaking thing for, as an American,
00:39:40.340 we don't have people doing this, at least that we know of.
00:39:42.500 So that's one.
00:39:43.820 And I will tell you, it was so clear that there was no collusion in part one.
00:39:48.740 And I can tell you how you know how clear it was.
00:39:51.560 You're not going to hear word one about it for the rest of the day.
00:39:54.260 They're not going to talk at all about the collusion thing.
00:39:56.240 The collusion thing is dead.
00:39:57.820 Now, the only thing that lives here is obstruction of justice.
00:40:01.300 You can almost...
00:40:02.300 Bonnie died, but Clyde is still alive.
00:40:04.100 You can almost bet that every single Democrat right now in the House Judiciary Committee
00:40:07.600 and Senate Judiciary Committee are probably just skipping volume one.
00:40:10.980 Oh, yeah.
00:40:11.220 I'm not even going to read that part.
00:40:12.300 They don't care.
00:40:13.120 Beyond that, though, the obstruction stuff, there is going to be a lot,
00:40:16.160 because they identified 10 episodes where the president was involved in something.
00:40:20.940 They say Mueller tried to tie them together and say that there was something there.
00:40:24.760 And then there was a bunch of sort of, I would say, excuses as to excuse the behavior we're
00:40:30.460 about to read about from Trump, some of them very legitimate, some of them people are not
00:40:35.160 going to like.
00:40:35.660 But all you're going to hear now, what are these 10 episodes?
00:40:38.680 What happened in them?
00:40:39.800 We're going to know today.
00:40:40.900 We'll come back with the first media questioning here in just a moment.
00:40:43.700 Thank you, Hillary.
00:40:48.600 All right.
00:40:49.020 We're going through the Mueller report today.
00:40:50.160 Glenn got sick.
00:40:51.280 So he was here this morning.
00:40:52.760 He was prepping for this and kind of walked out right before the show and is not feeling well.
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00:42:00.340 This is the Glenn Beck Program.
00:42:02.940 It is Muller Day, part two.
00:42:05.680 That's right.
00:42:06.420 Muller Report coming out.
00:42:07.860 The bar press conference is now over.
00:42:10.700 We're going to go through everything that happened in his statements and what he went through,
00:42:14.940 as well as some of the questions.
00:42:16.740 There's maybe one kind of back and forth that was pretty interesting.
00:42:20.420 It was pretty tame, but we'll give you those highlights as well.
00:42:24.120 And we'll get to all of this here.
00:42:25.760 What do you need to know?
00:42:26.900 Where is the media going to go?
00:42:28.580 Where is the left going to attack?
00:42:30.300 What are the points they're going after?
00:42:31.780 We'll get all of that information to you this hour here on the Glenn Beck Program.
00:42:36.380 This is the Glenn Beck Program.
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00:44:20.420 So Glenn is, he was in this morning.
00:44:23.000 We're prepping the show.
00:44:23.640 And he just kind of walked out about 30 seconds before the show, not feeling well.
00:44:28.560 And so he has gone home.
00:44:30.140 So we are here to give you the breakdown of the Mueller report.
00:44:33.920 It's, I'm sure he was, it wasn't that he was feeling completely fine and just didn't want to deal with the Mueller report all day.
00:44:39.460 I'm sure that was not the real situation.
00:44:42.740 He was like, how many pages?
00:44:43.740 Yeah.
00:44:43.980 How many am I assigned?
00:44:45.040 Not feeling too well at the moment all of a sudden.
00:44:47.760 So I'm here with Jason Buttrell, who joins me.
00:44:49.640 He's a head researcher.
00:44:50.660 He's the guy we're going to task with.
00:44:52.160 I mean, we're all going to read it, but Jason's the one who's going to have to really get nerdy with it.
00:44:56.320 And that's why you're here, Jason.
00:44:58.360 I'm sliding into my X chair.
00:44:59.820 Here we go.
00:45:00.600 Got to have the X chair today.
00:45:01.780 Okay.
00:45:02.120 So I'm going to walk through here for a couple of minutes what we just learned from the Mueller report.
00:45:06.780 And I will say, Barr's press conference did reveal things that we did not know before and did give a significant idea as to what direction the coverage is going to go on this.
00:45:24.580 And so let me go through this a little bit.
00:45:26.320 First of all, kind of walk through the process.
00:45:28.100 What is happening now is we have in Congress, there are a bunch of CD burners.
00:45:34.540 They've bought the last six CD-ROMs from the shelves of Staples.
00:45:38.900 And they are now burning the CD-ROMs with the report.
00:45:43.200 And they're going to drag it over to Congress.
00:45:45.280 I mean, it's embarrassing.
00:45:46.740 I do think that if you have a dial-up modem, you may be able to get access to this.
00:45:51.360 Now, whether you can post it on MySpace, I'm not sure.
00:45:54.260 But you can check that.
00:45:57.680 And maybe you can even post it on Friendster.
00:45:59.280 We'll have to check with that.
00:46:00.120 I'm not 100% sure.
00:46:01.700 I mean, it's just embarrassing.
00:46:02.960 We spent how many millions of dollars on this report?
00:46:05.940 And then at the end of the day, what we're going to have is a bunch of CD-ROMs being physically brought across.
00:46:11.740 And, you know, you can make the argument, okay, well, you know, security reasons or whatever, you might not want to put them on the Internet.
00:46:17.500 We're posting it on the Internet later today.
00:46:19.880 This thing, it's 400 pages.
00:46:21.440 Email the thing.
00:46:22.680 You know what?
00:46:23.060 Post it on Amazon.
00:46:24.020 Let people buy it if they have to.
00:46:25.640 But there should be a nice fancy button at some point.
00:46:28.280 We should pull this up and make sure we're checking for this as we go.
00:46:31.520 And I'm blabbing here.
00:46:32.780 When that button comes up, we should be able to download the entire 400-page report.
00:46:36.680 And we will start going through it for quotes.
00:46:39.000 We'll start going through it for understanding an additional perspective on what's actually going on here.
00:46:44.560 And Barr came out and did, you could argue, what the Democrats were saying he was going to do.
00:46:52.900 And also, you could argue exactly what any administration would do.
00:46:56.840 He's trying to give you perspective so you understand what you're about to read.
00:47:00.680 So, let me give you this breakdown of what he went through.
00:47:06.140 The Mueller report comes in two different pieces, two different chunks, part one and part two.
00:47:12.020 Part one is about collusion.
00:47:13.880 Now, we have heard in the initial letter from Barr that there was not enough evidence.
00:47:21.340 There was, I believe, it did not rise to the level of criminality.
00:47:25.900 They, Trump was saying completely exonerated.
00:47:29.320 And I thought that was a pretty fair summary of the tone of this letter when it comes to collusion.
00:47:36.680 They went through and they said, look, there's no collusion here.
00:47:39.300 Um, and that is a, that's an interesting thing.
00:47:43.120 Like, when you say that there's no collusion, what does that mean?
00:47:45.560 It's a summary of all the evidence, right?
00:47:47.400 You're saying, okay, there may have been things here and there, but we, it didn't rise to any criminal level.
00:47:54.720 That was, I think, overthrown in the Barr press conference.
00:48:00.260 Because what William Barr said was not that there was, you know, some things here and there, but it didn't amount to collusion.
00:48:07.660 What they said was there was absolutely nothing.
00:48:12.480 They went so, I mean, he, look, if he's wrong on this, if he's lying on this, I mean, I don't see how he can.
00:48:17.400 He was quoting Mueller.
00:48:18.460 But they said over and over again that there was absolutely nothing, not only from Donald Trump, not only from Trump's family,
00:48:28.380 not only from Trump's campaign and all the people surrounding him, all the way down to, you know, the Carter pages of the world,
00:48:34.500 who I think maybe, like, gave Donald Trump a high five once in his life.
00:48:39.180 Not any of those people, not only them, but no American they were able to find any evidence of.
00:48:46.080 Can you?
00:48:46.400 Yeah, sure.
00:48:46.760 Go ahead, Jason.
00:48:47.080 So, put that in context of what that means for the other people that have been charged that surrounded his campaign.
00:48:52.880 Talk about Papadopoulos.
00:48:54.300 Yep.
00:48:54.920 That was a huge thing, if true.
00:48:57.460 So, what the heck was that?
00:48:58.940 Was that all just a made-up story?
00:49:01.080 I mean, between that ambassador and that weird, or was he just braggadocious?
00:49:06.060 Now, remember, he did not get charged with it.
00:49:07.600 He got charged with lying.
00:49:08.600 Right.
00:49:08.880 So, is it just that he was lying about it, but in reality, they didn't find anything to that incident?
00:49:13.840 Right.
00:49:14.180 That's a big deal.
00:49:15.100 And again, like, there was this idea that Trump colluded with Russia.
00:49:20.140 The letter from Barr came out, and everyone kind of realized, okay, it doesn't look like he colluded with Russia.
00:49:26.580 We are now at the point that, I mean, there's nothing to that claim whatsoever.
00:49:31.960 Now, we're going to look at this document.
00:49:33.720 Obviously, there's going to be more in there.
00:49:35.340 You never know, and, you know, what you're going to find in there.
00:49:39.480 There could be something that is, you know, you don't think is distasteful or whatever.
00:49:42.740 But the way it was worded, and this was worded not by Barr, but by Mueller, that there was, they were unable to identify any evidence.
00:49:51.760 This is a quote, any evidence of collusion with Russia by any American.
00:49:57.280 Let me give you the three ways they broke this down.
00:49:59.120 First of all, there was the Internet Research Agency.
00:50:00.920 If you remember, this is the social media sort of attacks.
00:50:03.620 They, of course, did come up with charges against the Russians, and this is another thing that's going to be left by the wayside here, but is incredibly important.
00:50:12.760 One of the things that this, the Mueller report establishes very clearly is that Russia did try to manipulate our elections.
00:50:23.460 To me, and I've said this many times before, it is not a witch hunt.
00:50:31.820 The only way this is a witch hunt is if the witch you're going for is Donald Trump.
00:50:36.540 And, of course, the media and the left, that is the witch they're going for.
00:50:42.420 They want to take Donald Trump down, so him calling it a witch hunt, oh, I can't believe they're doing that.
00:50:47.940 He's really bad.
00:50:49.660 It's not a witch hunt, not because of the Trump stuff, but because of the Russia stuff.
00:50:53.080 The idea that they found and identified, not only, was it 12 Russians or 13 Russians who were specifically in on this campaign,
00:51:00.240 but also identified the methods and the process of how they tried to manipulate American elections is incredibly valuable.
00:51:10.460 I mean, it's very, if we could have just erased all the nonsensical politics around this and stepped back and said,
00:51:17.920 hey, you know, it would be great if we actually focused on a hostile nation to us and what they're trying to do,
00:51:23.980 the Mueller report would have been fantastic.
00:51:27.540 And I hope that's what Mueller was trying to do.
00:51:30.500 You know, I really hope he was.
00:51:32.060 I'll say this.
00:51:32.920 He did, he may have had other motives too, but he did do that.
00:51:35.800 But we do know that they did try Russians and there was, we did indict Russians and, you know,
00:51:42.780 they're not going to go to jail because they're just going to stay in Russia, obviously, you know,
00:51:45.940 or they've been killed already by Vladimir Putin.
00:51:49.220 So I don't know how much jail would be really, I don't know if it would be that effective.
00:51:52.800 They may be begging for American jails from where they actually are.
00:51:56.000 The point, though, is that that is real and that did happen.
00:51:59.160 And we should note that we shouldn't, that's by far the most important thing that could come out of this
00:52:03.900 is what is Russia doing?
00:52:05.840 How do we stop it in the future?
00:52:07.700 So that's, that's that part.
00:52:08.960 Internet research agency, again, they said they could not identify evidence,
00:52:14.340 could not identify any evidence that any American colluded with Russia with the Internet Research Agency.
00:52:22.640 Part two was the GRU, they hacked the Democrats.
00:52:25.740 Now, this is the thing you remember with John Podesta's emails coming out.
00:52:29.320 You know, a lot of people like to, you know, the Clintons love to blame this as the reason they lost.
00:52:33.020 Really, what came out, I mean, step back for a second.
00:52:35.700 Can you remember anything that came out of the hacks of the Democratic National Committee or Podesta's emails?
00:52:41.920 I mean, honestly, the probably the most memorable thing was it started the Pizzagate conspiracies, right?
00:52:47.380 Like, I mean, there's, there's really nothing that came out of that.
00:52:51.200 The only thing was some infighting among Democrats that embarrassed them a little bit.
00:52:56.520 I mean, it did not turn the election.
00:52:58.220 It's absurd to think that it had turned, that it turned the election.
00:53:01.260 However, they also did not find any evidence.
00:53:05.940 That's a quote, could not find any evidence that anyone in the campaign, in the administration, in the Trump family,
00:53:14.600 anyone did anything to work with Russia when it comes to hacking the Democratic emails.
00:53:21.200 That's a pretty big deal.
00:53:22.900 They also talked about the publishing the emails of WikiLeaks.
00:53:26.320 All of this comes down to the end game, which is they could not find anything on this.
00:53:33.340 And that, and that report was amazing, by the way.
00:53:35.380 That's another one that I had to read.
00:53:36.960 But talking about the, what was it, 25-ish Russians that were indicted in that?
00:53:41.620 Was it that high?
00:53:42.260 It was something like that.
00:53:43.320 It was, I think it was, 25.
00:53:44.700 But like, if you want to know how this worked, read that.
00:53:47.580 It is so in-depth.
00:53:48.820 Yeah.
00:53:49.080 I mean, it's amazing investigative work.
00:53:50.860 They tracked Bitcoin payments.
00:53:52.600 They tracked server IP numbers.
00:53:55.120 They found out exactly where these people were in the world.
00:53:57.720 I mean, it's just amazing.
00:53:58.620 It's so in-depth.
00:53:59.240 But there's no question at all that Russia was behind this after you've read that.
00:54:02.500 And we, as thinking members of society, have to step back and not let the media control
00:54:09.000 where these things go.
00:54:11.500 If all we find out of this is the exact process and identify inner workings of Russian spy
00:54:19.340 activity, it was worth it.
00:54:21.520 Right?
00:54:21.940 Like, that's a huge thing.
00:54:23.580 That's the sort of thing that we should have been doing anyway and may have done anyway
00:54:28.380 in a private sense.
00:54:30.380 But it's not the investigation.
00:54:33.280 It's not the people working and tracking IP addresses and Bitcoin payments.
00:54:36.680 It's the media and the left that have derailed this into basically the only thing that matters
00:54:41.900 about it is how much can we screw Trump over on this thing.
00:54:46.620 So what I've just given you is part one of the report.
00:54:49.100 Part one of the report, all about collusion.
00:54:51.160 They could not find, again, quote, any evidence.
00:54:53.680 They could not identify any evidence that supported that theory.
00:54:57.520 And that's why this word right here is going to be the last word you hear about that in
00:55:04.100 the report.
00:55:04.660 No one's going to care about collusion anymore.
00:55:06.600 It's all going to be dead from this moment forward because it was so clear and so exonerating
00:55:13.160 for the president on, and not only just the president, everyone in his campaign and everyone
00:55:17.380 in the country, they could not find any evidence that anyone in the country colluded with Russians
00:55:21.720 on this.
00:55:22.640 Number one, it's going to be erased and no one's going to care about it anymore.
00:55:26.100 Collusion, that word goes away.
00:55:28.320 Number two, it's encouraging in a lot of ways.
00:55:32.360 I mean, you know, I don't put anything past any American.
00:55:35.700 And we walk into a Walmart or a Starbucks, you never know.
00:55:40.900 The next person over, I have no idea what they're going to do.
00:55:43.000 They're probably super, super duper creepy.
00:55:44.980 Joe Biden's got his hands on everybody's shoulders.
00:55:46.860 I have the very low expectations of people.
00:55:50.100 They could come up and sniff your hair at any time.
00:55:51.940 But at least we're not colluding with Russians.
00:55:54.820 So we have that.
00:55:55.940 We're going to take a one minute break.
00:55:56.900 We're going to come back on the other side.
00:55:58.040 With the obstruction stuff, this is going to be the focus of the media.
00:56:01.320 This is what they're going to care about.
00:56:02.660 And we'll get into that just in a moment here on the Glenn Beck Program.
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00:57:36.180 10-second break for Station ID.
00:57:47.180 You, yes, yes, yes, yes, you are.
00:57:51.060 Yes, you are.
00:57:52.620 Oh, you are.
00:57:54.340 It's Stu, by the way, on the Glenn Beck program,
00:57:55.920 along with Jason Buttrell.
00:57:57.400 We're filling in Glenn.
00:57:58.780 I got sick today.
00:57:59.460 But you are about to feel as if you are watching the David Letterman program,
00:58:04.920 you know, like the mid-90s.
00:58:07.540 All you're going to be hearing about is a top 10 list.
00:58:10.520 That is where we are.
00:58:11.820 Do you remember this?
00:58:13.020 I mean, this is what Letterman used to do every day,
00:58:14.980 and it would be all over the media the next day.
00:58:16.800 His hilarious top 10 list when everyone came together and said,
00:58:20.920 you know what?
00:58:21.960 At the end of that, those weren't really very funny.
00:58:24.000 And the worst one was number one.
00:58:25.380 Why does he always structure it that way?
00:58:27.060 And that is really going to be the debate over the next 24 hours.
00:58:30.580 In the obstruction section of the Barr press conference about the Mueller report,
00:58:37.080 he identified 10 episodes in which the president was apparently directly involved in
00:58:45.440 that the Mueller investigation attempted to string together through legal theory
00:58:52.720 to show that there could have been a case on obstruction of justice.
00:58:57.060 This top 10 list, what the situations are, how they went, what Trump did in these situations
00:59:05.020 is going to be the focus of the media throughout your celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ this weekend.
00:59:13.580 Like, that is all Easter weekend.
00:59:15.880 The media is going to be fascinated by this top 10 list and what Trump did in relation to this top 10 list.
00:59:22.280 My nightmare scenario, Stu, was three episodes.
00:59:26.060 That's what I was expecting.
00:59:27.300 And I was like, this is going to suck because this is going to guarantee the next 1700 years
00:59:31.940 of talking about this.
00:59:33.720 But 10?
00:59:35.160 10 scenarios?
00:59:36.180 And it's 10 coming from William Barr.
00:59:37.820 So, it's not, this is not a media report saying 10 and then you look at it and it's really nothing.
00:59:43.140 He's saying 10 episodes.
00:59:44.640 Now, again, this is, you know, this is what you do when you're a presidential administration.
00:59:49.960 And this happens at every business.
00:59:51.920 This would happen on this show.
00:59:53.100 If something was happening that was coming out bad, we would hope to get to you first to give you our perspective on it
00:59:57.780 so you'd at least understand it before believing everybody else.
01:00:01.040 We did this, I mean, this week this happened.
01:00:02.600 Glenn got accused of saying something he didn't say.
01:00:05.200 And, you know, the best thing we could do is come to you and say, look, this is what he did say.
01:00:08.980 And here's our, here's how this works.
01:00:10.840 Of course, the administration is trying to, they keep saying, oh, well, he might be setting the narrative.
01:00:14.500 Of course, he's trying to set the narrative.
01:00:16.420 This is what, this is the way these things work.
01:00:18.700 And you can sit here and say, well, he's not supposed to be doing that.
01:00:21.160 That's not his job at the Department of Justice.
01:00:23.320 He's, look, that's obviously fundamentally true.
01:00:26.620 You know what else is true?
01:00:27.880 The press secretary to the President of the United States works for us, not the President.
01:00:32.240 You know, the person who comes out and lies to you every day.
01:00:35.080 You remember the guy, you know, it was a Jay Carney in the Obama administration came out every day and said things.
01:00:39.460 You're like, this is a blatant lie.
01:00:40.920 In theory, he works for us.
01:00:43.200 Right?
01:00:43.880 Sarah Huckabee Sanders, no friend of the media.
01:00:46.160 In theory, she works for us.
01:00:48.740 She's an employee of us.
01:00:50.460 And she is a person who is supposed to communicate what the White House believes.
01:00:53.860 We all know in these real situations in politics, people do defend their own side.
01:00:58.480 And they do try to present the best case for it.
01:01:00.700 But that's why I think this was interesting.
01:01:02.840 I will say this.
01:01:05.060 One thing that's important about this is Rosenstein's buy-in.
01:01:08.680 And we'll get into that a little bit more.
01:01:09.960 Rosenstein has not been a figure that has been closely associated with Trump's support by any means.
01:01:16.000 And the fact that he's buying in on all of this is an incredible foundation of credibility when it comes to this.
01:01:25.460 This is somebody who has been at odds and had been criticized by the president.
01:01:29.300 The fact that he's agreeing with Barr's analysis here is big.
01:01:32.420 That's not a minor thing.
01:01:34.220 And I don't want to brush over that.
01:01:36.060 But the idea was there's these 10 episodes that could be viewed in the general realm of obstruction of justice.
01:01:46.040 And it didn't seem like the case from Barr was that any one of these individually could be obstruction by themselves.
01:01:55.040 He specifically noted that Mueller tried to tie them all together as a pattern of behavior that if you view as a whole from 50,000 feet, what you see there is obstruction of justice potentially.
01:02:07.720 Again, not enough to actually think he was guilty of it or they would have, you know, he could have charged him.
01:02:12.500 And they did say that that was not the reason that you can't die to sitting president.
01:02:15.700 They did say that that was not the reason that that occurred.
01:02:18.380 And the problem, though, is obstruction is very hard to prove.
01:02:20.940 Like you need something that says, hey, guess what?
01:02:23.880 I'm doing this because I want to obstruct justice.
01:02:26.160 You basically have to have that to do this.
01:02:28.660 Because it's a high bar and it's intent.
01:02:30.760 It's intent based.
01:02:31.960 So if you do something that just happens to help the other side and you didn't mean to do it, that's not that's not obstruction of justice.
01:02:36.800 But so these 10 things together are are going to be the focus of the media coverage for God only knows how long.
01:02:45.500 1700 years.
01:02:46.240 And going to be the focus of multiple Democratic investigations when it comes to the House.
01:02:51.700 They're not going to let this die.
01:02:53.060 We'll get into what Barr said about those 10 episodes.
01:02:57.160 And some of it was revealing.
01:02:59.160 We still don't have the full report.
01:03:00.960 Congress is supposed to get it in about an hour and a half.
01:03:03.280 We're supposed to get it sometime after that.
01:03:04.980 We don't know exactly when.
01:03:07.140 When it comes in, if it comes in, we will jump right on it and we'll give you these details from the press conference and some of the questions coming up on the Glenn Beck program.
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01:04:31.900 Come back on the other side of the break with more on the Barr press conference and the fallout of the Mueller report coming up.
01:04:44.740 So within the half hour, Congress will have the redacted Mueller report.
01:04:50.440 And this, of course, is a bizarre process.
01:04:54.200 It will go on CD-ROM and will be delivered via CD.
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01:05:18.800 You may be able to get some of the information on that as well.
01:05:21.180 We need a special counsel to investigate the lack of technology at the Department of Justice.
01:05:25.420 It really is embarrassing.
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01:05:32.980 Okay, so I want to go through some of this stuff real quick.
01:05:35.160 We're going to get—Trump is supposedly going to come out and talk as well about this.
01:05:39.100 We'll take that if and when it happens.
01:05:41.240 We have some of the questions we're going to get to here in today's program as well.
01:05:45.480 So a couple things that are important to know about the obstruction part.
01:05:48.160 You're going to see, you know, I think conservatives are going to focus on the collusion and show that there's absolutely nothing there.
01:05:53.540 The case was overwhelming as far as the presentation went from Barr on that one.
01:05:57.960 The obstruction thing is the only thing the mainstream media and the left and the Democrats are going to care about because they've already lost the thing they were arguing over for the last two years.
01:06:08.040 They're now on to the obstruction part of it.
01:06:09.660 And this one was interesting, I got to say.
01:06:13.300 So they said there's 10 episodes that we talked about earlier that they're trying to string together with legal theory in the Mueller report to say, if you kind of back up to 50,000 feet, look down at these 10 incidents, you can get kind of a picture of collusion.
01:06:26.800 It's sort of the crop circle argument, right?
01:06:28.740 Like, you're down on the ground.
01:06:30.020 It just looks like a bunch of weeds are knocked over.
01:06:32.280 You go up in the helicopter.
01:06:33.500 Oh, my God, aliens were here, right?
01:06:34.900 That's what they're hoping to put together.
01:06:37.920 Now, what is interesting about this is the way Barr handled it.
01:06:41.940 Is he trying to put the best face on this for the administration?
01:06:44.380 I mean, I don't think that, I think 100% these things happen on both sides, of course.
01:06:48.680 But he went into a list of, you could call them excuses.
01:06:55.280 You could call them context.
01:06:58.500 But he is, I think they have identified, Barr has identified, these things might look a little bad for the president.
01:07:06.400 And this is the only reason the media is going to care about this stuff.
01:07:09.940 Here are some of the things that Barr said about this.
01:07:13.900 He said there are 10 episodes, and then he said, but I want to give some context to these 10 episodes.
01:07:18.700 Number one, he was in an unprecedented situation.
01:07:23.120 Which is true.
01:07:23.940 Which is true.
01:07:24.620 I don't think any of these are untrue.
01:07:27.240 But they are explanations for, they're not explanations for good behavior.
01:07:32.720 They're explanations for things that the media is going to try to make look like bad behavior.
01:07:37.520 And who knows?
01:07:38.120 I don't know what they are yet.
01:07:38.820 We'll have to see.
01:07:39.640 So number one is unprecedented situation.
01:07:42.220 Number two, he was under a high level of news media examination.
01:07:46.440 Now, when you're in the president of the United States, you're always under a high level of news media examination.
01:07:53.660 But they've been looking into him not only as president, but before that.
01:07:57.600 Number three, Trump was frustrated at this time.
01:08:00.700 Now, to communicate the frustration of the president, which is, of course, real and many, many times completely justified, especially with what we now know, that he did not collude.
01:08:15.840 You know, Trump had really extra special information this entire time about the Mueller report, which was he knew he didn't do it, right?
01:08:23.020 No one else knew.
01:08:24.480 A lot of people guessed on both sides, but we didn't know.
01:08:27.500 Now we have this report out here.
01:08:29.180 We know that he didn't do it.
01:08:30.340 Trump knew that the whole time.
01:08:31.500 So imagine how frustrating that is when you're being accused of this all the time.
01:08:34.760 And you knew you know that you didn't do it.
01:08:37.380 You know, the people around you didn't do it.
01:08:39.840 You know that no one you have no idea that anyone ever did something like this.
01:08:45.920 That is a significant point and would be frustrating, though.
01:08:51.620 There's no reason to point out his frustration if if this isn't going to be potentially at the very least a PR issue for the for the president.
01:09:02.120 Next up, he said he was also angry at this time.
01:09:06.120 This is Barr essentially excusing the 10 incidents and saying these are the motivations.
01:09:10.620 He was unprecedented.
01:09:11.860 He was frustrated.
01:09:12.700 He was angry.
01:09:13.620 He said he was upset about the illegal leaks that were going on.
01:09:17.400 And then he said he cooperated even with all that going on.
01:09:20.700 He still cooperated with the investigation.
01:09:24.160 So all of those, if you kind of look at those and you're saying, OK, Barr is trying to say what you'll see in the media here over the next day or two.
01:09:31.320 And when the Mueller report comes out is may look bad in certain instances for the president.
01:09:36.400 But if you put it in context, you can understand why he acted that way.
01:09:40.440 That's the that's the Barr argument.
01:09:42.780 And I think that at some level, that's a compelling argument.
01:09:46.600 But it does also identify that they do think there are some problems here, I think.
01:09:51.500 And I think the biggest one, if I just finish this off here, they said at the end he had non corrupt motives.
01:09:58.260 That was a quote from Barr.
01:10:00.620 So it's a way of saying, like, yeah, he did things that don't look so great, but his motives were not bad.
01:10:06.940 He wasn't trying to screw the country.
01:10:08.380 He wasn't trying to protect himself.
01:10:09.620 He was just upset and frustrated and under a lot of pressure and, you know, maybe did some things that weren't right.
01:10:16.020 But I think all of those are potentially depending on how much probably honestly depends on what letter you have after your name, whether you think those are legitimate excuses or not.
01:10:25.040 But beyond that, they are identifying that they do think that there will be that type of problem here.
01:10:30.940 That does not mean he got, you know, convicted of any crimes.
01:10:34.400 It does not mean he's going to prison.
01:10:37.220 They're not going to drag him out of the White House today by any means.
01:10:40.440 But they do see, I think, at the very least, some PR issues here.
01:10:43.660 Jason Buttrell joins me.
01:10:45.000 He's going to be going through the report here as it's released.
01:10:47.780 Is that the take that you kind of had?
01:10:49.280 I was about to say the exact same thing, especially his quote on non-corrupt motives that you can already kind of frame or kind of guess on what the headlines are going to be or what these 10 incidents are going to be about, because he he knew that he was innocent.
01:11:02.640 Now, we know that the rest of the country, the special counsel didn't at the time, but he knew he was innocent.
01:11:07.420 Now, what would you do in that situation?
01:11:09.300 You're like, no, I don't.
01:11:10.940 Why are you going after General Flynn?
01:11:12.860 I want to let's do this like nothing.
01:11:15.460 There's no there there.
01:11:16.340 The problem is there was an investigation going on.
01:11:19.420 You can't step in and try to shut that down.
01:11:21.820 Even if you're completely innocent, you have to let that go.
01:11:24.780 And he did eventually.
01:11:25.660 Right.
01:11:26.140 He did consider things like, you know, the Comey, the Mueller firing was reported on.
01:11:32.820 You know, he did.
01:11:33.560 But, you know, that was one of the big bar points was, look, the bottom line is end of the day, this you're reading this report because you let it go on.
01:11:40.220 And we don't know now, but there's got to be corroborating evidence, you know, like a statement, a email, a something, you know, a testimony that someone gave that said, I heard him say this, you know, under oath that said, yeah, let's let's let's let's stop this so we can move on to something important.
01:11:55.780 Something like that.
01:11:56.480 Yeah, there's going to be in there.
01:11:57.340 But like it said, like they said, you know, he wasn't guilty of any crime, but it looks it looks kind of like it has a hint of guilt because, you know, maybe he was trying to like impede this so that this could go forward.
01:12:09.800 I don't know.
01:12:10.220 I think at the very least it's going to look, the question here is, do you give enough fuel to Democrats to act plausibly as if they believe there was a crime, right?
01:12:19.020 And that is this type of thing.
01:12:20.620 It seems like they're defending against right there.
01:12:23.740 They're coming out and saying, look, there were some incidents here and there.
01:12:26.600 There's 10 of them.
01:12:27.700 And if you remember, you know, if you're listening to Rick Dees in the weekly top 40 or Casey Kasem counting down the hits and you get to the top 10, most of the time, what happens?
01:12:36.900 You know, all those songs.
01:12:37.900 Those are the songs that have been playing like crazy on radio for the last year incessantly, right?
01:12:43.400 My expectation is 8 of the 10 are things you already know.
01:12:49.160 There are things like the Russia meeting.
01:12:51.580 There are incidents like that.
01:12:53.760 There are incidents like where you have a situation, you know, it's the changing of the story.
01:13:00.360 Remember, you know, reportedly Trump dictated this response about adoption when trying to talk about that.
01:13:08.420 Initial meeting at the Trump White House.
01:13:11.400 You know.
01:13:13.320 It's going to be that type of stuff.
01:13:15.440 So most of these songs you're already sick of here in the top 10.
01:13:20.000 They're counting down the hits.
01:13:21.800 We're already going to know almost all these.
01:13:23.900 If there's a new one in there, it will be the media mania for the next few weeks.
01:13:30.220 Most likely what and there may be additional details about those things as well.
01:13:34.300 But a lot of these there's been a lot of these stories that have come out.
01:13:37.460 Right.
01:13:37.860 And there's been a lot of these stories where we've heard.
01:13:43.200 For example, attempts at collusion.
01:13:46.380 Right.
01:13:47.000 The idea that the big Moscow, the big Trump Tower reporting meeting was essentially, you know, a very light, loose effort to see if they could get dirt on Hillary Clinton.
01:14:01.960 Didn't nothing came of it.
01:14:03.200 It kind of came and went.
01:14:04.700 You know, it's more than I would have thought was there.
01:14:06.640 But honestly, like in the end of the day, we already know about this.
01:14:09.680 It's already been litigated, basically.
01:14:11.120 Unless there are new details about that meeting, for example, Trump knowledge of it or something and not Donald Trump Jr., but Donald Trump, the father, the president.
01:14:21.000 So things like that might come out.
01:14:22.700 But I mean, in reality, when you step back, you know, there's been a lot of reporting on this incident.
01:14:27.320 I mean, the media has been completely obsessed with it and obsessed with him this entire time.
01:14:31.060 Again, to the extent that they've avoided the actual title of the report, which is like, hey, what?
01:14:37.860 It's not exactly this.
01:14:38.640 Hey, what the hell happened with Russia in these elections?
01:14:41.120 It wasn't supposed to be a Donald Trump report.
01:14:43.200 It's supposed to be what Russia did.
01:14:45.260 And we've ignored that because the media is continually obsessed with Donald Trump as a personality, as a president, as a what they view as this evil right wing ideologue, which they view as some totalitarian in the making.
01:15:01.320 And because of that obsession, that's the only focus that we've been able to get out of the media.
01:15:08.000 They don't care about any of this other stuff.
01:15:09.380 They don't really care about Russia.
01:15:10.580 And if you think it's bad before, I can only imagine how bad it's going to be now.
01:15:14.160 Because when I was watching bars say all this stuff, what I was instantly, you know, taken back to James Comey talking about, you know, trying to explain the intent that Hillary Clinton didn't have with her email.
01:15:28.740 And I'm like, dude, that is not your job.
01:15:30.800 Like, what are you doing?
01:15:32.060 And I was totally pissed off, which I think most people listening right now were, too.
01:15:36.360 And they still I mean, I still want it and want more on that.
01:15:39.220 But that's exactly how they see this.
01:15:41.320 They saw James Comey.
01:15:42.720 They saw that moment.
01:15:43.720 That was their moment for them saying, look, why are you doing all this is not your job?
01:15:47.280 Like, why are you making excuses for all this stuff?
01:15:50.420 And I, you know, I personally I I still need to read the report.
01:15:55.360 But I don't think that I really don't think that we're going to find a hard core evidence of obstruction.
01:16:00.120 I just don't.
01:16:01.000 Yeah.
01:16:01.300 I mean, if they did, they would have they would have made it more clear.
01:16:04.180 But again, it's hard to prove.
01:16:05.940 It's hard to prove.
01:16:06.820 So I think that they're saying, OK, look, this is very hard to prove.
01:16:08.860 We're never going to get a conviction on this.
01:16:10.720 So we're just not going to go forward on it.
01:16:12.720 That's what I think.
01:16:13.280 But it doesn't matter because they see the James Comey moment.
01:16:15.760 So they are going to dig into this again for seventeen hundred years.
01:16:18.980 It's going to be nonstop way past the next election.
01:16:22.600 Even if Donald Trump is reelected or isn't reelected, it's still going to go way beyond that.
01:16:26.720 We're still talking about the Hillary email investigation.
01:16:28.900 And we still feel like we haven't been vindicated on that.
01:16:31.040 We don't think justice has been done.
01:16:32.300 Yeah, the stuff doesn't go away.
01:16:33.400 That's how they're going to see it.
01:16:34.340 You'll get the same people who released books about how guilty Trump was on the on the collusion front.
01:16:40.740 And those same people will now write reports saying, forget my last book, read this one.
01:16:45.520 So we'll see that.
01:16:46.460 And I think one thing I think we could take back.
01:16:48.140 And this is going to be something that Congress is going to have to deal with in the aftermath of this is I will say this.
01:16:54.700 The law, the law here is is ridiculous.
01:16:58.660 Like, let's picture another situation.
01:17:00.420 Obama is in office and he's he's he's accused of Russian collusion.
01:17:06.520 And there, you know, there are there meetings and there's some and there's some things that make us think maybe he did it.
01:17:11.540 Right.
01:17:11.980 And then the report comes out and not only do we get a Eric Holder gets to release a letter setting the precedent of, you know, what what this report is going to have.
01:17:25.140 Then after that, Eric Holder comes out and does a big press conference and Eric Holder's the one making the decisions on all the redactions.
01:17:31.880 And Eric Holder is the guy who we would be just as suspicious as they're going to be.
01:17:36.020 Right.
01:17:36.140 Like I I know I would be I would be looking at this and be like, well, what did they redact?
01:17:40.100 Are you what what what is this?
01:17:41.760 What about this part?
01:17:42.600 This looks interesting.
01:17:43.340 Why can't I see that?
01:17:44.920 And so it's it's it's an odd choice to make a report like this come down.
01:17:50.840 All the decisions come down to someone who the president actually appointed.
01:17:54.640 It's almost impossible to investigate a president under this circumstance.
01:17:59.040 That's not to say that the investigation was not thorough.
01:18:01.280 I think it was.
01:18:02.120 But the way the process of it going through the attorney general who just went through an appointment by the president is odd.
01:18:10.000 And it's something that probably should change as nothing to do necessarily with, you know, Trump.
01:18:14.040 And I'm not accusing Barr of anything.
01:18:16.580 But I think conservatives rightly would be suspicious as well if it was Eric Holder and in his smug face telling us that nothing happened.
01:18:27.380 I would not be something I would necessarily trust.
01:18:29.460 We have more coming up here in just a minute.
01:18:31.300 But we need to get to this.
01:18:32.540 And we're only a few minutes away.
01:18:34.180 My kind of suspicion is they're going to give this to Congress and then very soon after give it to the public.
01:18:39.020 So we hopefully will have it here soon.
01:18:41.000 We'll go through all of this.
01:18:42.220 I want to take your calls as well.
01:18:43.220 If there's anything that you you picked up from the press conference or anything you're concerned about, give us a call.
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01:18:50.220 It's Stu in for Glenn here on the Glenn Beck program.
01:18:52.880 Ronald Reagan once said, freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
01:19:02.660 We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
01:19:04.880 It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
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01:20:49.300 All right, we're waiting word from President Trump, who's going to come out and do a press conference, we think, or make some comments about the release of the Mueller report.
01:20:57.540 I hope we can get to today, the Democratic candidate power rankings.
01:21:02.860 There's 18 candidates.
01:21:04.400 We've ranked them worst to first.
01:21:05.840 We've worked on this sort of model for a while.
01:21:08.120 We'll let you know who they are, in what order they are, and their chance of success, I guess.
01:21:15.580 If that's what you can call it when we're talking about socialism.
01:21:18.560 It's Stu, in for Glenn, on the Glenn Beck Program.
01:21:20.760 Back with more in a second.
01:21:27.520 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
01:21:31.020 This is the Glenn Beck Program.
01:21:32.960 It's important to have, assigning people important jobs, and I will say, Jason Buttrell has been assigned the job of constantly hitting refresh on the website to see when the actual Mueller report comes out.
01:21:47.020 When he does, he's going to download it and start reading, and we'll have some details on that coming up.
01:21:50.560 We're also monitoring a press conference, or at least a statement from Donald Trump that might be coming.
01:21:55.520 If anything interesting happens there, we'll bring that to you.
01:21:58.480 We have more from the actual release of the report, and we'll get into that.
01:22:02.200 And we're also going to go into the field of the Democrats.
01:22:04.160 Where do they stand right now?
01:22:05.280 We'll get into that here in just a moment on the Glenn Beck Program.
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01:24:01.360 So Donald Trump is walking to the podium as we speak.
01:24:05.360 Let's see if we can take a little bit of this and see if he addresses the Mueller situation at all.
01:24:10.900 Usually what happens in these situations is you go to a live press conference and you know what they say?
01:24:15.660 I'd just like to thank Bob.
01:24:17.620 And then I'd like to thank Frederick.
01:24:19.820 And then I'd like to thank Orlando and Reginald and Montigua and all of my friends from third grade.
01:24:26.800 Can we bring up the audio whenever we have it?
01:24:28.000 You know, whenever we have, I'd like to also thank my third grade teacher who I saw in the hallway before and gave me a scratch-off lottery ticket.
01:24:37.140 Didn't win, but it was pretty interesting.
01:24:39.260 Okay, here we go.
01:24:39.720 Let's see if he's going to comment on it.
01:24:41.180 We're deeply honored to be in the presence of true American heroes.
01:24:44.920 I want to thank our great Vice President, Mike Pence and Karen Pence, for being with us today.
01:24:51.520 Thank you, Mike and Karen.
01:24:52.800 Yeah.
01:24:53.460 Stand up.
01:24:54.440 Vice President.
01:24:55.640 Mike, stand up.
01:24:56.420 Mike, stand up.
01:24:57.100 Come on, Mike.
01:24:57.840 Get up.
01:24:59.100 Come on, Mike.
01:24:59.980 Stand up.
01:25:02.260 I don't know if Mike stood up.
01:25:03.540 They kept the camera on Trump the whole time.
01:25:04.920 Theirs is really a fierce devotion.
01:25:06.900 I can tell you that.
01:25:07.800 Speaking, I deal with Mike and Karen, and they have a fierce devotion to America's veterans, and we all do.
01:25:14.600 And thank you very much.
01:25:16.620 We're also grateful to be joined by Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan.
01:25:21.400 Patrick, thank you very much.
01:25:22.640 Great job you're doing.
01:25:25.200 Controversy.
01:25:25.700 He didn't make Patrick stand up.
01:25:27.200 I think.
01:25:28.300 Get that to the Daily Beast.
01:25:30.760 100% of the caliphate.
01:25:33.600 So that was great.
01:25:35.260 That was one of our early assignments, right, with you.
01:25:38.160 So I appreciate it.
01:25:39.020 Great job, Pat.
01:25:39.980 I assume he meant to eliminate 100%.
01:25:40.520 General Counsel of Veteran Affairs, Jim Byrne.
01:25:43.860 Jim, thank you very much, Jim.
01:25:45.640 Great job.
01:25:46.580 Yeah.
01:25:49.180 By the way, I was told by the New York Times there wasn't a caliphate until they did their
01:25:52.200 caliphate podcast.
01:25:53.220 Army Vice Chief of Staff General James McConville.
01:25:57.300 James.
01:25:57.920 James.
01:25:58.320 Thank you, James.
01:25:59.040 Thank you, James.
01:25:59.720 So James.
01:26:01.940 So is he going to talk about the Mueller report?
01:26:03.880 We'll see.
01:26:04.160 We also want to thank two great congressmen for being here.
01:26:07.880 Who are they?
01:26:08.300 And if we had room, we would have had a lot more.
01:26:09.660 Nancy Pelosi.
01:26:10.560 Bill Rowe.
01:26:10.920 Oh.
01:26:11.080 And James Baird.
01:26:12.580 No.
01:26:12.860 Thank you very much.
01:26:13.440 I picked her on.
01:26:17.780 Yeah.
01:26:19.940 And they're having a good day.
01:26:21.240 I'm having a good day, too.
01:26:22.460 Ah.
01:26:22.640 It was called No Collusion, No Obstruction.
01:26:26.460 Oh, yeah.
01:26:27.360 I'm having a good day.
01:26:32.760 Big smiles from the president.
01:26:33.960 There never was, by the way, and there never will be.
01:26:39.340 And we do have to get to the bottom of these things, I will say.
01:26:42.980 And this should never happen.
01:26:45.760 I say this in front of my friends, wounded warriors.
01:26:49.460 And I just call them warriors because we just shook hands and they look great.
01:26:54.000 They look so good, so beautiful.
01:26:56.420 But I say it in front of my friends, this should never happen to another president again.
01:27:02.840 This hoax.
01:27:03.740 This should never happen to another president again.
01:27:06.800 Thank you.
01:27:07.920 With us on stage today are the wounded warriors from the Air Force, the Army, the Navy, the Coast Guard.
01:27:13.980 It looks like he's going, obviously, by the way, we could spend much more important things on the actual wounded warriors.
01:27:19.580 And he pointed out something that is very interesting and it's a little depressing.
01:27:23.540 When you meet some of these heroes that have been wounded in battle, they come in here all the time.
01:27:28.940 They always have these great causes and they're doing these great things with their lives.
01:27:31.880 And they've obviously accomplished thousands of times more than I'll ever accomplish in my entire life.
01:27:37.060 And they come in here and they're all wounded and then you realize they're still in better shape than you.
01:27:42.760 Like they're in like a wheelchair and they can't walk, yet they still have much more muscle tone than you do.
01:27:49.040 And that is a depressing moment, I will say.
01:27:51.440 But these are great guys.
01:27:52.980 And we are now getting information.
01:27:55.240 Yes, it is.
01:27:55.960 It looks like we do have a posted version of the Mueller report.
01:27:59.280 So it's 448 pages.
01:28:01.980 Okay.
01:28:02.440 48 pages longer than it's been rumored to be.
01:28:04.820 And it is heavily redacted on some pages.
01:28:08.700 Like some pages, I'm just scanning through it really quick, have been completely blacked out.
01:28:12.760 And you'd expect that.
01:28:13.740 You'd expect that.
01:28:14.600 That's no surprise there.
01:28:15.900 I mean, they're going to make a big deal of whatever the percentage of redaction is.
01:28:19.320 We'll hear that number, I'm sure.
01:28:21.400 And what's interesting on this is the title of it is Report on the Investigation to Russian Interference into the 2016 Presidential Election.
01:28:27.980 Volume 1 of 2.
01:28:30.520 So I'm kind of confused on whether this is just half of it.
01:28:33.860 I think Volume 1 and 2, though, Volume 1 was collusion.
01:28:36.780 Volume 2 was obstruction.
01:28:39.340 Wow.
01:28:40.420 But I think Volume 2 is in that 448 pages, if I'm not mistaken.
01:28:44.460 It better be.
01:28:45.840 I'm sure they certainly didn't get away with not really, oh, we forgot about the obstruction part.
01:28:49.300 We'll get back to you in a couple of months.
01:28:50.300 I don't think that's going to happen.
01:28:51.700 I don't know if I can handle reading 448 pages times two.
01:28:54.800 Okay, so you're going to start going through this?
01:28:58.400 I'm on the case.
01:28:59.340 Okay.
01:28:59.640 We're going to take a break for one minute here, and then we're going to come back on the other side.
01:29:03.080 I'm going to give you an outline of the people who are going to try to take advantage of the Mueller report.
01:29:07.220 Who are the Democratic candidates?
01:29:08.560 Who can win?
01:29:09.540 Who's the favorite?
01:29:10.620 Where do these guys stand?
01:29:11.880 We'll give you this here in just a moment.
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01:30:37.920 It's due in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
01:30:51.640 He went home sick today.
01:30:52.380 Was here this morning prepping the show and then got sick.
01:30:54.780 So he went home.
01:30:56.100 We're going through the Mueller report.
01:30:57.120 We have Jason furiously going through it, assuming he can read.
01:30:59.540 I'm not 100% sure on that.
01:31:00.740 We'll see.
01:31:01.900 And for now, we're going to take a quick kind of sideline here as we're waiting to get the updates on this.
01:31:07.960 And kind of walk you through who are the people that are going to try to take advantage of this.
01:31:10.580 We have the new Democratic candidate power ratings out.
01:31:14.780 They're on glennbeck.com.
01:31:16.140 You can read the entire list right now.
01:31:18.420 And the way this works is we've been working for a few months on putting together an actual sort of model, statistical model,
01:31:23.920 that kind of measures a bunch of different things about campaigns.
01:31:27.640 They have 30 different categories we go over.
01:31:29.560 I won't bore you with all the details, but it's stuff like, you know, it's polling in all different areas.
01:31:33.200 It's, you know, it's everything from social media reach to fundamentals in the campaign.
01:31:38.560 There's fundraising in there.
01:31:40.600 You know, there's all sorts of stuff, about 30 categories measured.
01:31:44.720 And we're looking to see if we can kind of identify these.
01:31:47.980 It makes sense of this because half the freaking country is running for president for the Democrats right now.
01:31:52.260 So how do you make sense of that?
01:31:53.840 That's what the Democratic candidate power rankings are doing.
01:31:56.960 If you're a sports fan, you see this on all the sites.
01:31:58.820 You know, you have the NBA power rankings, you know, they rank the teams one to 30.
01:32:01.980 And you kind of get a sense of where people think they are.
01:32:04.420 Well, it's a little bit more scientific than that.
01:32:06.320 And that we're not just, you know, it's not just my opinion.
01:32:09.580 It is a lot of data going into this as well.
01:32:12.940 And so we'll kind of go through this, you know, from worst to first here.
01:32:16.400 And we'll start at number 18, Wayne Messam.
01:32:18.420 If you don't know he's running for president, you're not alone.
01:32:20.420 He's the mayor of Miramar, Florida.
01:32:22.440 And he, I think he was a wide receiver for Florida State in the mid-90s.
01:32:27.320 That's about his chance of winning.
01:32:30.740 We kind of have a score that this model spits out between 0 and 100.
01:32:35.600 Wayne Messam in 18th place has a 13 out of 100.
01:32:38.800 So I don't think there's any way a guy can go from a small town and small city mayor to president of the United States.
01:32:47.780 But forget that I said that as we get later on in this list, because there's some conflicting information.
01:32:53.980 Marianne Williamson, she's like a spiritual advisor for Oprah Winfrey and Kim Kardashian.
01:33:00.280 Perhaps if Kim Kardashian, like, paints her body with a Marianne Williamson for president sticker and releases a new sex tape, maybe she'd have a chance.
01:33:09.180 I think that's about it.
01:33:10.560 It's about her only chance.
01:33:11.660 She's in 17th place.
01:33:12.740 Her score, 17 out of 100.
01:33:14.920 In 16th place is Eric Swalwell.
01:33:18.200 You know the Eric Swalwells of the world because there's a certain brand of presidential candidate that's not actually running for president.
01:33:25.040 And that's Eric Swalwell.
01:33:26.920 Eric Swalwell is under no impression that he can actually win the presidency.
01:33:30.540 But where's the downside of running for president?
01:33:32.660 People will start knowing your name.
01:33:34.340 You'll be able to raise a bunch of money that you can even pull over to your House campaign later on.
01:33:39.860 Or if you want to run for Senate or something in California later on, you're raising your profile.
01:33:43.720 And, you know, Eric Swalwell continues to be able to raise his profile a little bit over the hundreds of nameless, faceless representatives that we have.
01:33:53.180 And you don't know who they are because he'll go on MSNBC and say really outlandish things for attention.
01:33:58.560 And that's what this is about.
01:34:00.080 It's an attention campaign.
01:34:01.720 Eric Swalwell, 16th place.
01:34:03.340 A score of 20.
01:34:05.100 John Delaney is next up.
01:34:06.800 He's a 20.3 is his score.
01:34:08.660 0 to 100.
01:34:09.380 He's been a candidate for the 2020 race since you were a small child.
01:34:14.460 When you got out of kindergarten, that's when John Delaney announced.
01:34:19.220 He's a very rich guy.
01:34:20.980 So he's been funding his own campaign, basically.
01:34:23.740 He's lent himself $16 million to run his campaign.
01:34:27.400 But the fact that you don't know he was running, and he's been legitimately running since July of 2017.
01:34:33.380 This has been going on.
01:34:34.580 He's been everywhere in Iowa.
01:34:36.180 He's trying to make this a thing.
01:34:37.620 It doesn't seem like it's turning into a thing, however.
01:34:40.580 He is, I will say, one of the few candidates on the Democratic side that will stand up against something like Medicare for all.
01:34:45.320 He's kind of running as a moderate.
01:34:46.680 He says, you know, capitalism's done some good things, but we need to change it.
01:34:50.620 There's this moderate wing of the party that's trying to make some noise, and they're almost all at the bottom of this list.
01:34:56.360 John Delaney in 15th place.
01:34:57.880 In 14th place, did you know he was running?
01:35:00.340 Tim Ryan.
01:35:01.240 Did you know who Tim Ryan was?
01:35:02.840 You know Paul Ryan.
01:35:04.140 You know Ryan Gosling.
01:35:05.260 Do you know Tim Ryan?
01:35:06.500 No, you don't.
01:35:07.360 Okay?
01:35:08.040 Unless you're in Ohio, you probably don't know who Tim Ryan is.
01:35:10.820 He's a representative there.
01:35:13.000 There's probably some very unlikely path to Tim Ryan being a vice presidential candidate.
01:35:18.740 I mean, he's from Ohio.
01:35:20.240 He's, again, running sort of as a moderate in the campaign.
01:35:24.080 He is, but doesn't that make it impossible to win in the Democratic Party right now?
01:35:28.000 If you're running as a moderate in the Democratic Party, unless your name is Joe Biden, and honestly, there's no real evidence that Joe Biden is going to run as a moderate.
01:35:36.560 Everyone keeps saying that.
01:35:38.220 But, I mean, every time Joe's asked about it, he's like, I'm the most progressive guy in this campaign.
01:35:42.240 I mean, he's not running as a moderate, even if you think 30 years ago he may have been moderate.
01:35:47.760 He was one of the most progressive candidates running for president in 2008 as a senator.
01:35:52.360 I mean, this idea that he's a moderate is perplexing to me.
01:35:55.660 But, Tim Ryan comes in in 14th place with a score of 21 out of 100 on the candidate rankings.
01:36:03.340 By the way, you can get all these again at glennbeck.com.
01:36:05.780 It's interesting to read through them and see where everyone stands.
01:36:08.740 In 13th place, Tulsi Gabbard.
01:36:11.580 She's got a score of 26.
01:36:12.900 Now, Tulsi is a weird, that's a weird bird, that Tulsi Gabbard.
01:36:16.300 She's from Hawaii.
01:36:18.160 She is very, very left.
01:36:20.480 She's in the Bernie socialist side of the party, which you may have noticed is kind of the only side of the party.
01:36:28.260 But I digress.
01:36:29.760 She has a very strange history, though.
01:36:31.920 She kind of came up as a right-winger.
01:36:34.820 She took positions.
01:36:36.480 Her dad was a big anti-gay rights activist type of person.
01:36:40.680 You know, it was on the gay conversion therapy thing.
01:36:44.380 She did, like, appearances and such for that cause.
01:36:49.400 So, she has, like, a very anti, if you think about this in a democratic primary, the idea that you took a stand a few years ago for gay conversion therapy, probably not going to help you in the primary race.
01:37:02.420 She loves the Bashir al-Assad.
01:37:05.300 She's, like, number one in the fan club.
01:37:06.820 It's her and David Duke.
01:37:07.800 They're the only two people in the Assad fan club.
01:37:10.720 She loves them.
01:37:11.600 She doesn't think he did anything wrong.
01:37:13.640 And she's just a strange candid.
01:37:15.060 She was actually sort of endorsed by David Duke in the past.
01:37:18.720 Again, this is a Democrat we're talking about.
01:37:20.720 I mean, if you know anything about history, it might not surprise you that David Duke would endorse a Democrat.
01:37:26.940 But that's something that would at least shock the media.
01:37:30.500 Whatever strain of the flu that allows Alex Jones and former socialist presidential candidate and Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney to be best friends,
01:37:43.480 whatever strain of the flu that is, that's kind of what Tulsi Gabbard has.
01:37:47.980 It's a weird combination of characteristics and a candidate.
01:37:52.120 I don't see how she wins the nomination, but she's in 13th place.
01:37:55.660 In 12th place, the Yang Gang makes their appearance.
01:37:58.980 Andrew Yang, a score of 27 out of 100.
01:38:03.700 Yang is interesting in that he's a pretty smart guy.
01:38:07.680 Like, if you heard his interview with Ben Shapiro, I would highly recommend it.
01:38:10.360 Every Democratic candidate should do these types of interviews.
01:38:12.580 We've invited a lot of them on.
01:38:13.720 Of course, they won't show up and talk to Glenn or any of us.
01:38:17.080 You know, Yang went on with Shapiro, and it was smart of him to do so because I think he convinced a lot of people that at least he's not insane.
01:38:22.400 However, I think he makes occasional sense, which is not something you can do in the Democratic Party right now.
01:38:32.960 You can't have a sensible take on something.
01:38:35.380 He does occasionally do that.
01:38:36.520 He also makes a lot of statements that don't make any sense.
01:38:39.460 He's big on the universal basic income.
01:38:41.980 But if you hear his description about why, it kind of flows from almost the conservative libertarian argument for it, which there is one, and it's a little convoluted.
01:38:54.800 I absolutely encourage you to listen to that Shapiro-Yang interview.
01:38:58.920 It was pretty interesting.
01:39:00.060 He is the only candidate to outline an anti-circumcision position, which makes him—he's now leading the field in commentary about the private parts of male babies.
01:39:09.440 And that is—that's something he can just take on his own.
01:39:12.060 He's the only guy doing that.
01:39:14.440 We're going through the top 18 candidates here.
01:39:16.640 This is where they stand at this moment.
01:39:18.320 In 11th place is Jay Inslee.
01:39:20.140 He has a score of 30 out of 100.
01:39:22.720 And Inslee—if you think of Inslee as a candidate, you think of like Lindsey Graham 2016.
01:39:27.320 If you remember Lindsey Graham and his candidacy, it was essentially a one-issue candidacy.
01:39:32.380 He wanted to get on stage in the debates and take foreign affairs, you know, the war on terror, a hawkish foreign policy into the debate.
01:39:44.160 People weren't really talking about it.
01:39:45.500 It was more of a domestic issues election.
01:39:47.160 And he ran for president largely to try to make people talk about foreign policy.
01:39:52.140 He ran a single-issue campaign in 2016 on hawkish foreign policy.
01:39:57.760 And now Jay Inslee is essentially a running one on hawkishly fighting the weather.
01:40:02.280 Like, he's a big climate guy.
01:40:03.960 He's the governor of Washington.
01:40:05.340 But he's been talking about the climate incessantly forever.
01:40:08.280 Maybe he's the type of person who could be in the picture for a vice presidential nod.
01:40:12.140 But he's really in the race to, you know, kind of force frontrunners left on the climate.
01:40:16.940 I don't know if he can stop that burning orb in the sky.
01:40:20.320 We'll see.
01:40:21.480 I mean, maybe if we elect him, he will.
01:40:22.880 He'll turn the whole thing off and everything will be dark, just like we wanted.
01:40:25.440 John Hickenlooper, yeah, he's running two.
01:40:28.900 By the way, how many so far have you heard that you knew were running for president?
01:40:33.260 I mean, two, maybe?
01:40:35.300 John Hickenlooper has a score of 32 out of 100 when it comes to quality Democratic primary chances to win.
01:40:42.920 We're looking at, you know, not whether they're good candidates or whether we would vote for them.
01:40:45.780 Certainly, they're all awful on that front.
01:40:47.880 But do they have a chance to win the Democratic nomination?
01:40:50.400 Hickenlooper, another former governor, you know, he has some moderate tendencies, I guess.
01:40:56.620 You know, he at least is trying to play those up.
01:40:58.480 Maybe you'd see him as like a, you know, the type of person who would get a VP candidacy behind a Cory Booker or Kamala Harris, somebody like that.
01:41:06.540 You have to wonder, though, if the Democrats want another, you know, kind of, you know, white bread, vanilla, unknown, zilch of a candidate again.
01:41:16.860 I mean, this is what they tried with Tim Kaine.
01:41:18.900 I mean, does anyone even remember that Tim Kaine ran for president?
01:41:22.460 I mean, at least people remember Dan Quayle.
01:41:24.600 Does anybody even remember Tim Kaine's name?
01:41:26.560 I bet 90% of Americans doesn't remember who ran with Hillary Clinton right now.
01:41:30.080 That's how much of, that's how little an impact he made.
01:41:33.280 And I don't know that you go with a guy like Hickenlooper after that experience.
01:41:36.940 I will say, I find it very hard to believe that President Hickenlooper could be a thing.
01:41:41.580 I just, it just doesn't feel like the type of name that would be president of the United States.
01:41:47.740 And that's not an actual reason to not be president, but it just doesn't feel like you could see Hickenlooper on a bumper sticker like that.
01:41:54.360 Though I guess it happened in Colorado when he became governor.
01:41:57.720 Julian Castro comes in ninth place with a 36 score out of 100.
01:42:03.280 And, you know, there was a time where it looked like Castro could be kind of big.
01:42:06.900 I mean, he was kind of picked out of the Democratic field, a young up-and-coming Democrat.
01:42:11.120 He's kind of like a, you know, four-star high school football recruit, gets the big SEC, you know, scholarship.
01:42:17.300 And then he's pretty mediocre, and he's going very late in mock drafts.
01:42:20.940 That's kind of where he is.
01:42:23.000 He does have a twin brother, though.
01:42:24.600 So, if he becomes president, and he sucks, I feel like we could just switch him out and just go with a brother.
01:42:30.920 I'm pretty sure that's in the Constitution.
01:42:32.740 It's kind of on the back.
01:42:34.100 It was written in pencil.
01:42:36.240 So, maybe it got erased or whatever, but I'm pretty sure it's in the Constitution.
01:42:39.340 We have the top eight candidates and more on the Mueller report coming up in just a moment.
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01:44:04.280 Get into the top eight of the presidential candidates who's going to try to take advantage of this whole Mueller situation.
01:44:08.800 And we'll get the details, what we know early on from the Mueller report.
01:44:12.140 It's been released.
01:44:12.920 You can read it online.
01:44:15.700 If you remember, we were at Willy Wonka.
01:44:17.240 There was that one girl who was really rich, and she had, like, the entire staff of people going through the Willy Wonka bars to find the golden ticket.
01:44:23.740 That's what we're doing right now with the Mueller report.
01:44:26.100 We have thousands and thousands of people reading it simultaneously.
01:44:29.280 And we're going to get the highlights of that.
01:44:30.740 I should tell you that tonight, if you go to BlazeTV.com slash Glenn, use the promo code Glenn if you're not a subscriber already.
01:44:36.600 You can watch tonight.
01:44:37.420 We have an hour-long sort of special right at 5 p.m. Eastern, going through everything we know about the Mueller report, where it stands, where we're going.
01:44:46.500 And we'll get into that in more detail as we get it.
01:44:49.520 We're kind of in the middle of going through it right now.
01:44:51.120 We're going to have some nuggets here for you in just a couple of minutes.
01:44:53.900 And we'll kind of find out where this is going.
01:44:57.100 You know, we know the media is going to find a way to make this into the story for the next few weeks.
01:45:01.520 And we want to know where it's going.
01:45:02.820 We want to know if any of it's true.
01:45:03.960 We want to know how much of it is, you know, a bunch of lie and spin.
01:45:07.040 And that's how we're going to approach this thing.
01:45:09.380 Let's see what we can find.
01:45:10.680 And when we have it, we will let you in on all of it as well.
01:45:14.980 You can get the report now online.
01:45:16.340 You can also get the Democratic primary power rankings here.
01:45:20.120 We have those right now online at glenbeck.com.
01:45:22.800 We're up to number eight on the list.
01:45:24.500 There's 18 candidates running.
01:45:26.120 Number eight, Kirsten Gillibrand.
01:45:27.960 Now, she was initially a moderate, supposedly, and then kind of transformed into someone to the far left.
01:45:35.040 And now she kind of seems to dabble in whatever news story is sort of popular at the moment.
01:45:38.620 But she became sort of the prominent voice of the Me Too movement when she asked for Al Franken to resign.
01:45:47.060 Kind of a problem that she didn't really realize at that moment, though, is that the left has no interest in consistently enforcing these new standards they've come up with.
01:45:56.300 They don't care about Me Too when it means getting rid of a crappy comedian who votes the way they like.
01:46:01.800 So the Al Franken thing is actually turning out to be a bad thing for Gillibrand in the primary because Democrats didn't care about what Al Franken did to some woman.
01:46:11.200 They don't care about that.
01:46:12.320 What they care about is Al Franken voted for a lot of left-wing socialist things.
01:46:18.420 That's what they care about.
01:46:19.240 So now Gillibrand's support of a woman who told her truth about an alleged series of assaults, with photographic evidence, by the way, it's now her Achilles heel in the Democratic primary.
01:46:32.000 Because you know what?
01:46:33.580 The old hashtag believe all women has its limits.
01:46:38.180 And she's learning that one.
01:46:40.220 It kind of was supposed to be Kirsten Gillibrand's time.
01:46:43.540 You know, now it's kind of hashtag times up.
01:46:46.060 And that's kind of how it looks for her right now.
01:46:48.040 She's in eighth place, a score of 38 out of 100.
01:46:51.840 If you're just joining us, we have a 0 to 100 scale.
01:46:54.380 And it's kind of a statistical model to see where these candidates actually stand.
01:46:58.860 In seventh place, Amy Klobuchar.
01:47:01.380 Now, Klobuchar has a decent case for a candidacy here.
01:47:04.520 She's a woman.
01:47:05.320 She's from the Midwest.
01:47:06.600 She's outperformed electoral expectations many times.
01:47:09.920 You know, they made a big deal about Beto O'Rourke.
01:47:11.740 When O'Rourke's run against Cruz, O'Rourke outperformed generic House Democrats by about
01:47:18.440 four points.
01:47:20.320 Klobuchar did that and outperformed House Democrats by 13 points.
01:47:24.760 She's been much more impressive electorally than Beto O'Rourke has.
01:47:29.540 She's got, she's probably a top tier candidate for vice president.
01:47:32.480 Um, and you know, I say these nice things about her so she doesn't throw something at
01:47:37.660 me, uh, because apparently she does that a lot as well.
01:47:40.440 In sixth place, Elizabeth Warren, a score of 46 out of 100.
01:47:45.760 You'll notice these, we haven't had one candidate over 50, 50 on the score here.
01:47:49.780 And we're all, we're all the way up to number six.
01:47:52.460 Elizabeth Warren, as we know, is not a good candidate.
01:47:56.120 She is a socialist on policy.
01:47:58.360 She's basically Bernie.
01:47:59.400 She gaffes constantly like a Joe Biden.
01:48:02.240 She is not likable at all.
01:48:05.680 Uh, when she tries to act natural, uh, she fails miserably.
01:48:10.180 She is, uh, you know, I mean, if you want to say something positive about her, she's at
01:48:14.100 least one of the only people who were releasing policy plans, but there are things like, I want
01:48:17.960 a wealth tax.
01:48:19.660 I am Native American.
01:48:21.020 You should believe me.
01:48:21.880 I also want to, you know, nationalize a good chunk of the prescription drug production in
01:48:28.300 America.
01:48:29.400 These are not things that most people would find appealing, but I guess in the, in the
01:48:33.780 primary, maybe they will.
01:48:34.940 I just don't think that right now the Democratic Party is about policy.
01:48:37.960 You'll see this again with a Mueller report reaction today.
01:48:40.380 The Democratic Party right now exists to do one thing, and that is to beat Donald Trump.
01:48:45.560 Get them out of office by any means necessary.
01:48:47.600 After that, they'll figure out who the next person is they want to get out of office or,
01:48:51.300 or, you know, their next goal.
01:48:53.240 But they don't care about these policies right now.
01:48:55.800 Um, bottom line is, uh, you just can't run Hillary Clinton part two against Donald Trump.
01:49:01.500 That's a terrible idea, and that's what Elizabeth Warren is.
01:49:06.480 In fifth place, Cory Booker.
01:49:08.480 He's got a score of 55.5.
01:49:10.880 Uh, you know, Cory's just an actor.
01:49:13.640 You know, he is, he's one of these guys, he's just constantly overacting.
01:49:16.580 He's trying to figure out, he's done this constant real-time assessment of every audience
01:49:21.820 to figure out what they think he should be.
01:49:25.920 And, you know, he overdoes it.
01:49:28.580 He's, his eyes are bulging all the time.
01:49:30.840 His arms are flailing.
01:49:32.040 It's part of his act.
01:49:33.620 And you can kind of feel him doing it.
01:49:36.040 When you're a guy who's calling yourself Spartacus in the middle of a hearing,
01:49:39.740 you just know the overacting is there.
01:49:42.140 And, you know, Cory Booker is not convincing.
01:49:44.040 You can feel him trying too hard.
01:49:46.320 All the time trying too hard.
01:49:48.440 And I think the fact that people will see through that eventually will be his downfall.
01:49:52.460 And he's not a great guy for vice president, I don't think, either, because he's so attention-hungry.
01:49:57.200 He really wants people to talk about him, look at him, think about him.
01:50:00.780 I don't spend much time doing that, but Cory Booker in fifth place on our top 18 candidates,
01:50:06.440 as it stands right now for president of the United States on the Democratic nomination side.
01:50:10.580 Number four, I mean, this is a surprise to me.
01:50:13.940 Never thought this would be the thing.
01:50:15.480 But Pete Buttigieg, a guy who's a mayor from South Bend, Indiana.
01:50:20.840 And remember, like, we're looking at this as a snapshot of where we are in this campaign right now,
01:50:24.780 not necessarily where this is going to turn up.
01:50:26.980 I mean, it's hard for me to believe that the mayor of South Bend, Indiana is going to be,
01:50:30.820 or is it Pawnee?
01:50:31.540 It's one of those towns in Indiana.
01:50:32.780 How is that person going to really go from there to president of the United States?
01:50:37.800 I mean, maybe.
01:50:39.840 It seems that that's the thing these days.
01:50:42.520 I don't know.
01:50:43.660 He is openly gay, and you should know that he's openly gay,
01:50:47.560 because you should not be prejudiced against people who are openly gay.
01:50:50.740 Remember the phrase, openly gay.
01:50:52.860 We all know you're evil.
01:50:53.960 You're already listening to the Glenn Beck program, so we know you're an evil person.
01:50:57.440 You need to understand that being openly gay doesn't mean that you aren't capable of governing
01:51:01.500 in an effective manner.
01:51:02.460 And I know, because you're listening to the Glenn Beck program,
01:51:05.480 you're on some talk radio station with evil conservatives,
01:51:07.980 you already think, you know what?
01:51:09.920 If he's gay, he can't govern.
01:51:12.260 But no, that's not true.
01:51:15.020 By the way, also, don't just treat him as some boring white guy,
01:51:17.880 because that's not true either.
01:51:18.980 He's historic.
01:51:20.220 You know what we should do?
01:51:21.680 Is constantly focus on the fact that he's gay,
01:51:23.940 but also forget that he's gay all the time.
01:51:27.800 You should just be thinking, is this person openly gay?
01:51:31.260 Yes, he is.
01:51:32.040 But on the other hand, you should not factor it into your decision whatsoever.
01:51:34.460 However, you should factor it into your decision because it's historic.
01:51:37.460 Remember all of these things at the same time.
01:51:40.640 That is Pete Buttigieg.
01:51:42.720 You know, look, I will say this,
01:51:44.200 and I mentioned this long before he's had this little bump.
01:51:46.820 The one thing about Buttigieg that is actually notable is he has internal Obama machine support.
01:51:54.820 Obama mentioned him before anybody knew who he was.
01:51:57.660 They like him because he's a military veteran.
01:52:00.460 He's a Rhodes Scholar, went to Harvard, all that.
01:52:03.520 So he kind of fits that Obama profile.
01:52:05.440 Not the military veteran part, but the other parts.
01:52:07.760 The military veteran part, they think, will appeal to people in the middle of the country.
01:52:12.020 He's calm.
01:52:12.860 He's an effective speaker.
01:52:14.120 He's not going to lose it.
01:52:16.160 And as Glenn kind of pointed out the other day,
01:52:18.620 running Cory Booker is trying to fight fire with fire with Trump.
01:52:22.260 Buttigieg is trying to fight fire with water.
01:52:25.340 He's the exact opposite of Trump.
01:52:26.960 He's going to sit back and he's not going to,
01:52:28.320 he's not going to give, his arms aren't going to flail.
01:52:30.020 He's not going to start, he's not going to make accusations.
01:52:31.520 He's not going to supposedly call people names.
01:52:33.860 He's trying to do the opposite.
01:52:35.980 I will also point this out.
01:52:37.700 No one has said a bad word about him yet.
01:52:41.840 This is not, this campaign is not going to end
01:52:43.720 with Pete Buttigieg winning the nomination without anyone criticizing him.
01:52:46.780 And there has been zero, count it, zero criticism of Pete Buttigieg.
01:52:52.940 They're not going to, the other Democrats are not going to just give this nomination to him.
01:52:57.080 They're going to fight against him.
01:52:58.320 They're going to come up with things that don't make him look so good.
01:53:01.180 They're going to try to put him in positions where he doesn't look so good.
01:53:03.680 And eventually that's going to take its toll.
01:53:05.920 Whether he can survive that is really the question of whether he's going to be the Democratic nominee.
01:53:10.160 In third place, Bob Frank O'Rourke.
01:53:13.740 You may know him as Robert Francis O'Rourke.
01:53:16.640 But if you know him as Beto O'Rourke, you're falling for something.
01:53:19.420 Because you know what, he's not actually Hispanic.
01:53:21.520 You can make the argument, he's more Hispanic than the average white Irishman, I suppose.
01:53:26.100 But he is not a Hispanic.
01:53:28.300 And he's 0% Hispanic.
01:53:31.340 You know, he is part of this sort of thing the Democrats are doing now,
01:53:34.460 which is like, hey, what if we run someone who's really famous for losing an election?
01:53:40.160 This is like a new thing among Democrats.
01:53:42.000 Oh, Stacey Abrams, she'll be great.
01:53:44.020 Gillum in Florida, he'll be wonderful.
01:53:46.500 Taking these candidates that they say impressively lost
01:53:50.400 and running them for higher office is now apparently a Democratic thing.
01:53:55.020 Now look, the fundraising is good for Beto.
01:53:58.080 He's got a lot of people on like, now this is YouTube channel that apparently like him.
01:54:04.240 He loves praising below average quarterbacks that have no business being in the NFL,
01:54:08.840 whether they kneel or not.
01:54:11.160 His hands, though, flail around like crazy.
01:54:13.760 I mean, his hands go in places, I don't understand the hand gesture thing.
01:54:17.080 They go in odd places, places that even Joe Biden's hands don't go.
01:54:20.940 And that could be an issue.
01:54:22.300 He's not a convincing speaker, I'll say that.
01:54:24.620 I'm watching him in the debates here in Texas.
01:54:27.620 You know, he's always jumping up on countertops like he's a cat.
01:54:31.500 I just, I don't know that Beto's going to be able to do it.
01:54:34.060 But again, this field is a crappy field.
01:54:35.740 He's in third place, 62.9.
01:54:38.140 Second place, Bernie Sanders.
01:54:40.740 Sanders is, I mean, he's the sign of the Democratic campaign right now.
01:54:48.140 I mean, this is a guy who got zero co-sponsors on his Medicare for All bill in 2013.
01:54:52.240 Here we are six years later and every candidate in the field, except for some of the people
01:54:57.280 in like 17th and 18th place, are supporting Medicare for All.
01:55:01.640 He basically outlawed your right to get a doctor outside of Medicare for All.
01:55:06.780 Outlawing private insurance.
01:55:08.360 It would be illegal.
01:55:10.100 And every senator that is running for president signed onto that bill.
01:55:13.580 That is where we are.
01:55:14.680 This is a guy, you're not going to out-socialist a guy who went to the Soviet Union on his honeymoon.
01:55:19.320 Like, you're never going to find a place to his left.
01:55:21.600 And as he goes, as the rest of the party moves left, Bernie goes even further left.
01:55:26.800 I just don't understand.
01:55:28.340 I mean, do Democrats really want to try this with Bernie Sanders?
01:55:31.340 Do you really want to take, you're a party that lost with Hillary Clinton in 2016.
01:55:35.280 And you want to try running a guy who's six years older, who's also most famous for losing
01:55:42.400 to Hillary Clinton in 2016.
01:55:44.740 That does not seem like the path to a victory.
01:55:47.940 But the Democrats may very well attempt that here.
01:55:51.480 With Bernie Sanders, number two, again, the scores are one to 100.
01:55:54.520 He's at 68.3.
01:55:56.060 Edging him out at 69.1 for first place right now is Kamala Harris.
01:56:01.620 Now, Harris has a lot going for her, I think, in the campaign.
01:56:05.520 She's not ahead in polling.
01:56:06.880 As of now, Bernie's well ahead of her.
01:56:08.740 But, you know, polling takes more of a precedent in these models as we get closer to the elections.
01:56:13.720 She's got a big, big money factory.
01:56:16.300 She doesn't hide that she wants to take big dollar donations.
01:56:19.160 You know, Bernie's like, oh, send me $2.
01:56:20.900 She's like, send me $2 million.
01:56:23.580 She's got a lot of money.
01:56:24.660 She's got a lot of big, wealthy power base.
01:56:27.620 You know, she has a history of some strict law and order policies, which are not going
01:56:32.460 to help her in the Democratic campaign.
01:56:34.260 But the things your opponent leaks against you in a primary are the things you put in
01:56:39.440 your own commercials in the general.
01:56:41.000 She's not going to be a pushover if she makes it.
01:56:43.780 She's not a Hillary Clinton.
01:56:44.980 She's used to dealing with, you know, she's a prosecutor.
01:56:47.000 She's used to dealing with high pressure situations, which is what Trump brings to the table.
01:56:52.240 That being said, she's way too far left to think that she could be nominated as President
01:56:57.440 of the United States and win an election in America.
01:56:59.680 I don't know how that happens.
01:57:02.400 But who knows?
01:57:04.060 Maybe it can.
01:57:05.900 She also did have an affair.
01:57:08.680 And what's interesting about that affair is here we are in the Me Too generation.
01:57:12.340 Kamala Harris benefited in her career by having an affair at work with a powerful male.
01:57:22.500 This is like the other side of the Me Too movement.
01:57:24.800 It's the side where it kind of worked out okay.
01:57:27.760 I don't know if that's a new hashtag.
01:57:29.280 Can we do Me Too part two?
01:57:31.300 Sometimes it works out great.
01:57:32.620 I don't know.
01:57:33.400 By the way, she had an affair with Willie Brown, who was voted 1984 as one of the top
01:57:37.900 10 sexiest men in the world by Playgirl magazine.
01:57:40.700 Who could possibly give up such an attractive job opportunity?
01:57:45.460 Kamala Harris tops our list.
01:57:46.540 The list is available at glennbeck.com.
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