On today's Glenn Beck show, host Glenn Beck talks about the recent guilty verdicts for Michael Cohen and Michael Flynn, and why it matters or doesn't matter to him. Glenn also talks about why impeachment is unlikely to happen.
00:05:01.200That does not mean you're removed from office.
00:05:03.520It first goes to the House and they issue their indictment, which is an impeachment, impeachment papers, which says you have to show up for this trial because we think you're guilty of something.
00:05:14.680And then the trial is held in the Senate.
00:05:16.600The president basically, if he wasn't the president, uh, would be a, would be labeled today a unindicted co-conspirator.
00:05:53.400It has everything to do with who this president is and who he is surrounded by.
00:05:59.380But let's separate that from Russia. What Cohen is convicted of or about to be convicted of is paying off two women to influence the election at the request of the president, something that the president and Cohen both denied.
00:06:16.280Now, if he had proof that the president colluded, you can bet that the the prosecutors would have given him a plea deal to to testify against the president, because that's a pretty big deal.
00:06:33.920But he has no credibility. Now, the press is making this into a big deal.
00:06:38.580Well, look, he didn't even make a plea deal. He didn't make a plea deal. And he fingered the president.
00:06:45.480Yeah, but is anybody going to believe it? Was he lying then or is he lying now?
00:06:51.500He has no credibility and obviously no nothing to back that up, no evidence, or I'm guessing he would have gotten a plea deal.
00:07:04.100So we know we can't take his word for it.
00:13:11.500Can you imagine if Donald Trump was doing this, using the IRS to target Democrats?
00:13:18.240Do you think the press would be all over it?
00:13:20.560Do you think if the if the president came out and said, hey, you know, that that really bad thing that happened where all those people died, including an ambassador that was caused by a film?
00:13:32.740And he had the national security adviser and the secretary of state do the same lie.
00:13:40.080And it was all documented that they changed this story.
00:13:43.400Do you really think the press wouldn't care?
00:13:46.200Do you think Benghazi would have been treated differently if it were Donald Trump?
00:14:53.840And I want to give you some examples because it's important for the left to understand why this won't matter to so many people on the right.
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00:16:26.100In the next 15 minutes, I'm going to explain to you and explain to the left and the media exactly why you can't figure out half of America.
00:16:52.440And for you, anybody who's on the right, what's really going on?
00:16:58.560Why you don't necessarily understand what's going on.
00:17:02.280When we come to a recognition of the game that we all are playing and what our goals really are, then we could possibly break through some of this crap.
00:18:29.300No one is willing to call the exterminator or get a can of raid because everybody's in with the hornet's nest.
00:18:36.680Everyone, everyone's profiting off of this giant hornet's condominium, and it will eventually go so far that the people who are living in the house are going to be told, you know what?
00:18:51.680You're just living in the wrong house.
00:18:53.120This house belongs really to the hornets.
00:18:55.520They've they've they've built their nest right here and they're natural and they're really more important than you are.
00:19:02.920When you know that that's the direction of the people around you.
00:19:59.900So the press will not understand why it doesn't matter to the to the right.
00:20:11.560The news yesterday that came out, why it doesn't matter and why.
00:20:15.320How can people be standing with Donald Trump?
00:20:18.340They don't understand it because they refuse to look at the entire picture.
00:20:22.560Half of this country feels like they not only haven't been listened to, but they have been mocked and ridiculed for a very long time.
00:20:31.340They've been called stupid, uneducated.
00:20:33.580They have been called dangerous, anti-government, all kinds of names.
00:20:41.220We have been played over and over and over again, and people are done because they're seeing this hornet's nest on our front porch and they're seeing this hornet's nest.
00:20:56.660And it involves the economy, economics, bailouts, a growing welfare state, the fundamental transformation of America, the ignoring of terrorists.
00:21:10.640Do you know that the do you know that the police went in and they demolished the the death site or the the training camp in New Mexico?
00:21:20.620Do you know that that's been demolished now?
00:21:22.760Have you ever heard of a crime scene being demolished?
00:34:17.180I want to talk to you a little bit about the fires because I want to talk to you about filter by which is our sponsor this half hour.
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00:36:42.240Facebook wants to know Facebook is they have a new reputation score and you'll either be a one or a zero.
00:36:48.380For a year now, Facebook has been developing a system to rate the trustworthiness of you, the user.
00:36:56.820People are apparently given a trustworthy score of a scale to from one to zero or zero to one, whichever way you'd like to look at that, because we all look at things differently now.
00:38:14.100And it's a battle that is going to just continue to heat up because no matter what Facebook comes up with, people game the system.
00:38:23.380In 2015, for example, Facebook gave the users the ability to report a post as false.
00:38:30.040Well, at first, any post marked false was forwarded to a third party fact checker.
00:38:36.180Then a lot of users just were like, wait a minute, we can just mark this untrue because they disagreed with the person or the company posting the content.
00:38:44.580Now it's common for Facebook users on the left and the right to target publishers by flagging stories as false.
00:38:51.800The third party fact checkers were inundated.
00:38:54.960So Facebook built a system to try to determine if a post is likely to be false, you know, to save the actual human some time.
00:39:03.680But then Facebook went a step further and developed a way to assess whether users who were flagging posts as false were trustworthy themselves.
00:39:11.960Facebook is now monitoring users that flag a lot of published content as false.
00:39:18.420They're also looking at the data to discover which publishers users consider to be trustworthy.
00:39:24.260The Washington Post first reported the story yesterday, but Facebook will not reveal what else it tracks to determine, you know, your reputation.
00:39:33.080They also wouldn't say whether every Facebook user has a score or how the scores are used, why it's so secretive.
00:39:39.600Facebook is afraid that if it's too transparent about this, it'll enable hostile users to further game the system.
00:39:46.800How about we take the gaming out of this?
00:39:48.940How about you just allow us to adjust the algorithm to suit us?
00:40:57.140So Arthur Herman was on with us yesterday, senior fellow of the Hudson Institute.
00:41:02.440He wrote the book Freedom's Forge, which I had him on yesterday to talk about, and we never got around to talking about it because there was so much other stuff to talk to him about.
00:41:11.500I think he is, he's one of my favorite historians, favorite writer on history.
00:41:16.580Freedom's Forge is an absolute must read, and we never got around to it.
00:41:20.740And now, Arthur, I had you on today to talk about Freedom's Forge, but I don't think we're going to make it today either.
00:41:56.620And it's also what scares the media, because they, like the Washington establishment, prefer a political landscape which is highly predictable.
00:42:06.620And it follows the usual patterns and in which the usual alliances, both ideological as well as practical in a political sense,
00:42:17.700are pretty much what they have been for the last couple of decades.
00:42:22.120And Trump has destroyed all that, and this is the real point, isn't it, Glenn?
00:42:26.940It's his voters have destroyed all that.
00:42:29.360They think by going after Trump that somehow, if they get rid of Trump, things will go back to normal, what they see as their normal.
00:42:47.360And he was sent there with a mission by his voters to, they said, we need a bull in this china shop because we've got the china shop has a lot of crockery that badly needs breaking.
00:43:00.660And so all of these scandals that are now, you know, supposedly surrounding his links to Cohen and Manafort and Cohen one is, I think, the more the more pertinent right now because of their long relationship.
00:43:17.420But the point is, is that voters discounted this in 2016.
00:43:22.000So they're not going to be moved by this.
00:43:24.160And I think it'll be, I think once again, we'll have predictions by media and candidates that at long last we have found, we've found the magic bullet that will, that will kill the Trump presidency.
00:43:37.440We'll never have to deal with him again.
00:43:38.940And I think they're going to be wrong.
00:43:40.280So last hour, I likened him and our support of Donald Trump as we're living in a house and there's a giant hornet's nest right by our front door.
00:43:50.720And we know that all of the people who are said to, you know, be the bug, you know, killers and bug removal systems and everything else, they're all in with the hornets and they're all, they're all coming to the house to tell us, you know what?
00:44:05.340The hornets are protected and, and you really, they were here long before you.
00:44:09.700So you don't belong in the house as much as the hornets do.
00:44:12.280So we know we're about to lose our house to crazy people.
00:44:15.460And there's somebody in the house who we don't necessarily like, and we don't necessarily think is the best.
00:44:21.620We don't always agree with them, but he's like, you know what, before they get here, give me a broom.
00:45:02.400Because since Reagan, I think, I think Barack Obama was significant, really significant.
00:45:07.060Well, perhaps in a, perhaps in a negative way, but I mean, in a sense of Trump is really kind of totally reshaping the political landscape.
00:45:15.580Obama's, what Obama did in his eight years was to work within the existing political landscape to make certain changes in society, uh, in culture, the whole growth of the deep state that took place during his tenure.
00:45:31.300All of these were done in ways that didn't disturb or roil the, uh, conventional institutions within which Washington operates.
00:45:40.980And this is one of the reasons why he was able to get away with it.
00:45:43.340And, uh, in, but at the same time, what you saw was a growing revolt in the country itself.
00:45:49.880We saw that, didn't we, in the midterms.
00:45:51.600The midterms is where, is where you could see the wave of change coming that would ultimately, uh, put Trump into power.
00:45:58.720It started with the Tea Party, which, as you know, Republican Party establishment ignored and then tried to suppress.
00:46:05.760Uh, it came again in those, in those, those pivotal midterms in, in 2014, when it really became clear that there was going to be big changes coming in Washington.
00:46:16.180And Trump was, uh, it was the crest of that wave.
00:46:19.640But let's go back to the question about where Trump is with regard to his voters.
00:46:28.760And they were perfectly aware of the fact the man had, was, had a less than perfect past.
00:46:35.880Uh, they were perfectly aware that, for example, our evangelical friends, of the fact that Trump certainly doesn't fit the, the, the, the, the, uh, the stereotype of what a candidate that.
00:46:51.340But they saw through the attempts, and they, I think they do today, the attempts to make, to shame them into abandoning Trump because of his relationships alleged or, or real with porn stars or his behavior and inappropriate kinds of ways.
00:47:20.580This is the way in which Republican, uh, hopefuls and the last round of best hopes for changing Washington had been broken and destroyed.
00:47:28.620And they see the pattern that's taking place now.
00:47:31.000Now, the, the, the, the pursuit of Donald Trump, the indictment against Chris Collins, the indictment against, uh, Duncan Hunter.
00:47:40.800I don't know if it's a indictment yet, but on campaign finance reform, is this purely coincidental that, that the, that the, that the, that the earliest supporters of Donald Trump should find themselves.
00:47:50.580In this kind of legal trouble is this, is this just simply that, uh, one day the, uh, justice department had a look and said, Oh, look, these guys may be violating the campaign finance reform.
00:48:02.060Uh, when others walk away, Rosie O'Donnell is a, Rosie O'Donnell is a great example.
00:48:54.180And I think the Trump supporters want this to go away by having the left and the Democrats in the media and the never-Trumpers and the Republicans accept the fact that the man is elected president.
00:49:15.380The left and the Democrats in the media are never going to accept Trump.
00:49:18.480It's going to get worse before it gets better, I'm afraid.
00:49:21.060But the fact that we all recognize the fact that we don't want to be here, that this is not healthy for our country, I think, is a sign that at the end of all of this and at the end of all of the broken crockery, as I was saying before,
00:49:36.680and the end of the, of how this all unfolds, including the midterms in November, that at the end of it, I think we are going to come out okay, just a very different, and I think, and I hope, a better and healthier country at the end of it.
00:49:51.980Arthur, I've only got about a minute and a half left.
00:49:54.900See, I don't know if you can answer this question.
00:49:57.100Um, you know, I know you studied, uh, you know, the, uh, early progressive movement with Woodrow Wilson.
00:50:04.060Uh, you, you, you know how the violence reared its head in the sixties, also in the 1930s, uh, with the uprising of communists and America always, once it starts to see that violence and sees how radical things really are, Americans always recoil from it.
00:50:23.620Um, do you think that we're going to recoil from, from the antiphaz and the democratic socialists this time, or has the university system done its job?
00:50:38.920You put your, put your finger on one of the key aspects of this, in that this isn't just a revolt by the Trump supporters against the Washington establishment.
00:50:47.560It's also revolt on the part of the left.
00:50:49.580The Washington establishment thinks that they can recruit the left in order to defeat Trump on the right.
00:51:02.960And the reason is because we had a powerful, uh, section of the country, the South, which was willing to pull the country apart because they saw a brighter future in that happening.
00:51:13.440I don't see anyone in that position right now.
00:51:16.700I think that the, what people talk about the civil war here, what we're talking about is a series of, of verbal civil wars of a divided nation.
00:51:29.100It's just never been as pervasive in our culture and been as omnipresent thanks to social media and the main and cable news in the way in which it is today.
00:51:37.860I think that, but what I fear is, is that we're going to have one of those awful moments in which there's real serious violence in some place or somewhere.
00:51:47.320And then someone has to step forward and say, we just can't go on like this.
00:51:50.880I don't see that happening quite yet, but I think for now, we're still in a process, as I was saying yesterday, in which it's going to be a fight to the finish between Trump and his opponents.
00:52:02.820And the midterms are not going to give us, whichever way they turn out, are not going to make this issue go away.
00:52:12.040The left is not going to accept Trump, even if Republicans hold on to the House and Senate.
00:52:17.660And Trump is going to be right where it is, and Democrats won't be able to get him out, even if they do win the House.
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00:57:37.080You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.
00:57:38.880So we have a lot of heavy lifting to do.
00:57:42.100If you're a conservative, you have a lot of heavy lifting to do.
00:57:46.560And that is educating your friends on what else in the world is happening.
00:57:51.660Because there's a lot going on that, you know, CNN and everybody else, they'll cover, but they'll move past it so quick.
00:57:58.220In fact, let me play how MSNBC last night referred to Molly Tibbetts, or Tibbetts, how they referred to Molly Tibbetts, this girl who was kidnapped and killed by an illegal alien.
00:58:19.580The fact that he was even sworn in as president after the Access Hollywood tape let me know for a fact that the Republican Party is actually not working on behalf of the American people.
00:58:27.580They are working on behalf of Donald Trump.
00:58:29.560And he's been able to bully them into their silence.
00:58:31.500And I don't think that today changes much, unfortunately.
00:58:34.000I'm sure we'll hear what he has to say about this at his rally.
00:58:37.580But Fox News is talking about, you know, a girl in Iowa and not this, right?
00:58:42.200And tomorrow morning we know he'll wake up and tweet and sort of, you know, besmirch the reputation of Michael Cohen and all the people around him and really go back to Mueller.
00:58:49.520And this is obviously going to boil down to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
00:58:52.740There's no need to besmirch the reputation of Michael Cohen.
00:58:55.700He's done that long before, you know, years and years and years ago, which is a problem of why you would hire him and want him nearby you in the first place.
00:59:03.060But to be but to talk about, you know, Fox News talking about some girl in Iowa.
00:59:09.360This this is not just some random killing.
00:59:13.760I don't like it when when the press does, you know, when the press brings up something that is local and has no connection to anything else that's going on in the country.
00:59:22.840Because what are you going to do about it?
00:59:24.700However, this does MS-13, the gang, the Mexican gang, as as Stu pointed out, what is it, four times?
00:59:33.280Yeah, about four point three times the rate.
00:59:36.100MS-13 kills people at four point three times the rate that people have died in school shootings.
00:59:41.260And that's I think I can't remember what year that goes back to.
00:59:45.420So you're going to have to carry the water on that.
00:59:47.440You're going to have to carry the water on Venezuela and we're working hard to, by the way, if you know of somebody in Venezuela that is willing to talk to us.
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01:15:23.340In violation of campaign finance law at the behest of a candidate for federal office for the principal purpose of influencing an election, end quote.
01:15:57.560The reason for the lawyer speak in the wording of for the principal purpose of influencing an election is because saying it like that matches up directly with the wording of the campaign finance law.
01:19:15.560I think it's being made into a really large thing and it could be a very large thing, I think, for the future in that if Cohen or Manafort have something else, it could be, I think, a big deal.
01:19:31.440I don't think that we added to the story all that much yesterday.
01:19:34.120I mean, the one thing that you have, I think, there is Cohen admitting that he believes his payment to Daniels and the McDougal situation was a crime.
01:19:44.480Like, that's significant in that one of the people actually involved is admitting that what he did was illegal.
01:19:53.160But the bottom line is, before this, before the Cohen plea, we knew that Donald Trump and Michael Cohen worked together to pay off two women who accused him of having an affair about a week or two before the election.
01:20:39.620I think there's two kind of types of people, if you want to break it down this way.
01:20:43.660I think some people will look at the situation and say, hey, I'm talking only about the right here because the left obviously just hates him no matter what he does.
01:20:55.080You're going to look at this and you're going to say, look, I don't care about this because he's going to name good Supreme Court justices and he's going to do a good job with whatever issues that are most important to me.
01:21:09.020And because of his performance in the job, if you think it's good, you're going to overlook this and say, I can deal with the fact that he was doing this.
01:21:19.040I think the other side of that is because I and I find myself in this camp, admittedly, and I know it's probably not popular with the audience.
01:21:24.560But I can't I can't imagine casting a vote for a person who would pay a quarter of a million dollars to two people to hide information from voters a week before an election.
01:21:36.740And I understand that's uncomfortable and I understand that nobody likes that.
01:21:39.640But the bottom line is why, why, why wouldn't I do that?
01:21:45.420Yeah, I mean, I just want to know what the what the what the so, for instance, I could easily say I'm going to pay somebody, you know, just make this go away.
01:21:56.640It will kill the election and it's not true and we'll deal with it later.
01:22:00.060In this case, Donald Trump knew it was true and, you know, knew exactly what he was doing.
01:22:38.620You know, you were you slept with a married man a couple of weeks after they had a baby.
01:22:43.960Like, I don't thinking all that much about you, actually.
01:22:46.640So, you know, it could have affected the election.
01:22:51.200I don't know if it would have, but it could have affected the election.
01:22:54.600Yeah, I don't think you're just like, oh, jeez, man, just shut her up.
01:22:58.100I think the problem I guess I have with it is because I don't think it would have affected the election at all.
01:23:02.640Some of this stuff went up dribbling out anyway.
01:23:04.940I don't think it was a thing that affected the election.
01:23:07.100However, to make a decision where you're paying someone to hide information from voters and not letting them have the full picture to decide is is a fund.
01:23:54.420But it's like stealing something from someone, you know, in your private life is a is a real sign of character flaw.
01:24:03.200However, it doesn't necessarily mean that, you know, you've it wouldn't necessarily mean that you wouldn't be able to perform in your job.
01:24:12.060Like this is it was a fundamental thing where people should have had the information and he should not have been stepping in to pay them to be quiet about it.
01:24:20.120And look, I understand that that's I think there's a lot of really smart people, the overwhelming majority of people on the right who don't make decisions that way.
01:24:30.640You have to understand that my process goes through.
01:24:32.620I don't mind voting third party, so I don't look at it as, oh, well, if I can't vote for Trump, I have to vote for Hillary.
01:24:37.740I mean, right now, the choice we should be clear is not Trump or Hillary.
01:24:40.860It's Trump or Pence, which to me, there's a pretty clear choice of who I would prefer to have the job.
01:24:45.980But that being said, you know, you you have to be able to make a conscious decision based on as much available information as possible.
01:24:55.860And, you know, this is this is the type of thing that I think is as well.
01:25:03.120And I think people will admittedly make a pretty compelling argument that the world's changed.
01:25:08.780Right. Like, yeah, you can you can feel it.
01:25:10.520Go back to your whatever you thought in the 90s or whatever you believed your principles were in the 90s.
01:25:14.480The world's changed. It's a different world. Get over it.
01:25:16.700And that's a completely legitimate argument.
01:25:18.360And a lot of people make that argument.
01:25:20.720I just don't want the world telling me what my principle should be.
01:25:24.860I don't want to have a world where that decision is made for me.
01:25:30.200The world has changed. Therefore, I must change.
01:25:32.580I don't need to change. That's not how I make decisions.
01:25:35.480And I think it's difficult for people to to get out of that sort of day to day thing, because what you're talking about here is a timeline question.
01:25:45.720Right. Well, what's your timeline when you make these decisions?
01:25:48.480When we talk about winning and losing, what's your timeline?
01:25:50.660Is it the next election? Is it the next 10 years?
01:25:53.140Is the next hundred years? The next thousand years?
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01:50:16.700I want to thank you for listening and I want to thank you for opening up your mind and I don't know if, I don't know anything anymore.
01:50:32.360I don't have answers for anything anymore.
01:50:34.220I have more questions than answers and I'm right, I'm wrong, but I'm always questioning.
01:50:40.180And anybody who tells you that they do know exactly what's going on and this is the truth and the way it is, I think they're lying to you or they're Jesus.
01:50:51.400Maybe they have a channel to Jesus, but it's a clear channel to Jesus.
01:50:55.140I think we're all in the same boat trying to figure out where we go next.
01:50:59.020I think we're all in the same boat trying to figure out where we go next.