In this episode, Glenn and Mike discuss the ongoing saga of the Articles of Impeachment of President Donald Trump and what the Democrats are doing to delay the vote on articles of impeachment in the Senate. They also discuss why the House of Representatives is holding on to the vote and what will happen if the vote goes forward.
00:00:00.000Hey, thanks for being here. My name is Mike Broomhead, Phoenix, Arizona in for Glenn today. Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah. We are thrilled that you joined us for part of your day. So much to talk about this morning, of course, impeachment. We'll talk about how great the economy is and some of the things that are moving forward. The big moves China is making that's even going to make our economy even better. And we're going to move forward. We'll talk about this FISA investigation, the IG report Horowitz, and of course, the criminal investigation that's going on as well.
00:00:28.320So much of that happening and they all are so intertwined. It's amazing. Let's start with impeachment this morning as the Democrats rushed to impeachment. I thought that I thought Mitch McConnell said it best when they rushed through impeachment in the House of Representatives only to sit on it. Now, what are they afraid of? I don't know that they're afraid of anything. We've heard all the conspiracy theories as to why Nancy Pelosi is holding on to articles of impeachment.
00:00:53.460But moving forward, what will the Democrats do? How will they do it if they do anything? Let's start this morning.
00:01:02.440The majority whip James Clyburn is talking about articles of impeachment and how long they're willing to hold these from the Senate.
00:01:10.060Now, this is a fairly long clip. I just want you to hear a quick a little bit of what Clyburn answered when talking about this holding on articles of impeachment.
00:01:18.740The president had more House members vote to impeach him than any president in history. To an extent, the outcome was predetermined. We knew it after the president was impeached.
00:01:30.640A bit of a surprise to many people when the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested that she might wait to transmit the approved articles of impeachment to the Senate, which could possibly delay the Senate trial.
00:01:45.400I want you to listen to what she said last night. Delay transmitting the articles of impeachment and also sending over the House managers. Listen to this.
00:01:53.900We cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the Senate side.
00:01:59.620And I would hope that that will be soon, as we did with our legislation, our Resolution 660, to describe what the process would be.
00:02:09.020So far, we haven't seen anything that looks fair to us. So hopefully it will be fair.
00:02:14.980And when we see what that is, we'll send our managers.
00:02:20.800Well, the delay is made necessary because the majority of the Senate has made it very clear that he is not going to be impartial.
00:02:31.400He's not going to be fair. He will collude, if you please, with the White House, at least the White House's attorneys, in order to decide how he will go forward.
00:02:44.580So why would the Speaker of the House step into that without trying to determine exactly what the majority of the leader plans to do?
00:05:42.760How many days were they in that committee of a formal inquiry before they brought in one fact witness?
00:05:48.460As a matter of fact, the first three people they brought in, all three of those people admitted they weren't listening to that phone call.
00:05:55.820Most of them, I think all three of them admitted they'd never even had a conversation on any level with the president of the United States.
00:07:46.540But there are a lot of lawyers that listen to this program.
00:07:50.160How many of you could get into a trial and send it to the jury for judgment?
00:07:55.140Because that's what they did in judiciary when they voted on articles of impeachment and looking at the facts entered into testimony.
00:08:03.280If you're looking at the facts that have been testified to only, which is what you're supposed to do in a trial, how could you possibly move forward with impeachment?
00:08:10.820There wasn't one factual thing said about anything the president did wrong.
00:08:16.680They've moved the the the needle and the goalpost on all of this over and over again.
00:08:22.760Quid pro quo, extortion, bribery, abuse of power.
00:11:54.880Well, she is known as the liberal lioness of the court.
00:11:57.740If Ted Kennedy was the liberal lion in the Senate while he were alive, she has been the liberal lioness and has voiced her displeasure in this president a number of times.
00:12:06.640If she were to not able to stay on the court, it will be a Trump appointee that replaces her.
00:12:12.300So it is imperative for the left to get rid of Trump.
00:12:15.800And if not Trump, the consolation prize would be to flip the Senate.
00:12:22.340And I believe I mean, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.
00:12:24.920I don't believe in conspiracy theories.
00:12:27.080Often there are some things that we find out later are way too shady to not be true.
00:12:33.740We're going to get into that in a few minutes with what happened with Carter Page and the FISA investigation, because that turned out to be a nightmare for the FBI.
00:12:43.460But in this case, the the idea that they flip the Senate, if not replace Trump or both, is imperative because of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
00:12:55.220If the Democrats could control the Senate, they control the Judiciary Committee, which means they don't have to pass through any Trump nominee, not one.
00:13:04.440So what they're doing now is setting up Trump is the bad guy.
00:13:07.120They've got articles of impeachment that they know are really weak, as weak as it possibly gets over that phone call.
00:13:15.140The more people hear of that phone call, the more they hear of what the charges are against the president, the more American voters are saying this is not something that we want.
00:13:26.520This is not what impeachment was intended to do.
00:13:29.820And we are watching the unraveling of them.
00:13:35.500And I have to give Nancy Pelosi credit for politics.
00:13:44.940The reason why she's the Speaker of the House, she raises money like nobody's business.
00:13:48.720She is a great fundraiser, but she also is a power broker.
00:13:52.320Remember how she forced through Obamacare, making promises of fundraising and making promises of support and also promising bad things if her colleagues didn't get it passed.
00:14:03.760But you look at what they are doing right now or how they've done this with articles of impeachment.
00:14:09.460So this is what Nancy Pelosi's got going on.
00:14:12.160And we're going to talk about more of this here in just a couple of moments.
00:14:14.400Again, I'm Mike Broomhead on the Glenn Beck Program.
00:15:16.000All right, so let's get back to this with this idea of why they are impeaching.
00:15:44.260They really need – the importance here for them is getting rid of Trump, I believe, is judicial appointments.
00:15:50.200I think that's a big part of it, the Supreme Court and the other judicial appointments, because it's the longest-lasting legacy of any president.
00:15:56.680And this president has been appointing a lot of judges to the courts.
00:16:00.140I live in the Western United States, where the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is, the most overturned court in the land.
00:16:07.280They have been overturned more than any other court, but it's also more than double the size of any other appellate jurisdiction in the country.
00:16:15.180They would need to divide this into three parts for it to be the size of any other.
00:16:21.060If you divide it in half, they're still the two largest.
00:16:23.880So they have an overwhelming caseload, and they have been known as a liberal-leaning court.
00:16:29.480Well, the president has appointed quite a few judges there, and it's not that way anymore in the Ninth Circuit.
00:16:36.980So when liberals are judge-shopping, they're not able to find as friendly judges as they used to.
00:16:42.460If you remember watching them go to court over, you know, immigration was not a big topic for today,
00:16:49.140although ICE has come out with a video about how they were able in sting operations to get illegal aliens and fake colleges and universities.
00:16:56.140I live in a border state, so it's something that's on the front burner for us all the time.
00:17:01.600But if you remember, the president of the United States said he wanted to fix.
00:17:05.920He wanted to fix what was going on with the DREAMers and DACA.
00:17:10.220And he ordered the Congress in the next six months while he sunsetted the DREAM Act.
00:17:16.140He wanted them to fix the immigration system in this country.
00:17:19.660It would have protected two and a half more times DREAMers than are protected currently.
00:17:24.840And it would have fixed a lot of our immigration problems.
00:17:27.960It would have gotten rid of chain migration.
00:17:30.380It would have gotten rid of the visa lotteries.
00:17:34.080And what the Democrats did was went to court and found a friendly judge to their cause
00:17:38.940that said that this president could not reverse an executive order from a former president with an executive order.
00:37:00.780They went to a court and swore that what was in that dossier was evidence to the best of their knowledge.
00:37:09.200Now, can they get away with it by saying, well, it was to the best of our knowledge because we never investigated it?
00:37:15.680This was politicized from day one, and there is no counterintelligence investigation like this that doesn't go through the White House.
00:37:27.880I am not saying that Barack Obama knew about this, but I know the White House did, and so does anybody else in the surveillance business.
00:37:36.420You do not have a counterintelligence investigation against an American candidate for president that there isn't knowledge and approval from inside the White House.
00:38:32.700The FISC and the FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, was passed and designed to make sure this never happens.
00:38:43.300The fallout of this now, of course, is that every FBI agent legitimately working a case, trying to get a FISA order, is going to be fine-tooth combed.
00:38:54.120It is going to make good FBI agents suffer and cases suffer because of what Andrew McCabe and because of what James Comey did.
00:39:03.240There's no doubt about that whatsoever.
00:39:11.700Coming up next hour, great news for the American economy, and it keeps getting better.
00:39:16.920No matter what you hear from the left, I'm going to lay out the statistics that every single American is doing better than they were before as far as demographics go.
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00:42:28.580Going back to 2016, there was a story, economists, saying that a Trump win would tank the stock markets.
00:42:39.420There was one expert economist in 2016, right after the election, before the inauguration, and he was asked, how long will it take for us to recover from a Trump economy?
00:43:19.700I was 11 years old, and one of my first friends, and we grew up in the same neighborhood, rode the same school bus.
00:43:25.780We were inseparable as a group for years and years and years, and how we breathed the same air and became so polar opposites politically, I don't know.
00:43:34.180But we still, we argue like crazy, but we love each other like brothers.
00:43:39.040And his view of the economy being dismal, and he's a business guy.
00:43:44.220He's a guy that runs a business, is impossible for me to wrap my arms around outside of a disdain for Donald Trump.
00:43:54.380You can have a different opinion on feelings, but the facts are still the facts.
00:43:58.920We know that here in the month of December, the Dow Jones has added over 10,000 points since Trump was inaugurated.
00:48:18.420There is still so much more to talk about with the economy.
00:48:21.040Statistically proven for both local and the federal level.
00:48:24.160What this president has done with policies that has unleashed the American people and how it's going to bode for him in the next election cycle.
00:48:31.680All of these things, impeachment, all of it intertwined.
00:48:34.760And the economy is one of the key pieces of it.
00:48:36.800We're going to get to more of this coming up here in just a moment.
00:50:20.380But when it comes to the economy, you're hearing the Elizabeth Warrens and the Bernie Sanders and and well, even as the billionaires, the Styers and the Bloombergs, you hear them wanting to punish wealth.
00:50:32.780When you talk about paying their fair share, we can talk about the cliches forever.
00:50:37.760But let's look at what happened to unleash the American economy.
00:50:41.180And it's working, which is why they have to say it's not working.
00:50:45.280First of all, when the president took office, he did what he could do by executive order by rescinding a lot of regulation.
00:50:51.620If you would ask corporations five years ago, four years ago, what is more oppressive and what is harder for you to work around taxes or regulation?
00:51:02.040There are a lot of corporations who have a hard time answering that question.
00:51:06.160Compliance with big companies and even small companies is difficult.
00:51:09.200Trying to get around the federal regulations or to deal with federal regulations is costly.
00:51:16.640I was I was an electrician and then I had my own company for a while and you understand that compliance or nonproductive labor eats up a lot of money in your company, even if you're small.
00:51:33.660So you look at the compliance and the regulation that and restrictions that are put on businesses and the president began to rescind those.
00:51:41.900And the way he won the election is not with the Russians.
00:51:45.440If you look at the over 200 districts that President Trump won in swing states, those 200 plus districts in swing states that had twice voted for Barack Obama voted for him.
00:52:07.420And I would say to you, probably many of them working class Democrats, the president said, I am going to reduce regulation and taxes on your bosses.
00:52:39.780And they said they were going to give him a chance.
00:52:41.760This president will go back into those swing states and he will say promises made, promises kept because he reduced regulation where he could on his own without legislation.
00:52:51.540And then beyond that, he was able to get the Congress to fight over a tax cut.
00:52:56.460And the tax cut passed through and we watched the economy begin to soar.
00:53:01.940Now we talk about deficits and the Democrats are telling you the tax cuts are responsible.
00:53:06.860You can just Google search it yourself.
00:53:08.640Don't take my word for it if you're someone on the left that's listening as opposition here and is looking for a way to to defeat what I'm saying.
00:53:19.660The United States Treasury is collecting more income tax dollars from individuals and businesses now than ever in the history of America, even when adjusted for inflation.
00:53:30.600So exactly what this president said was we are going to broaden the economy.
00:53:34.980We're going to put people back to work and that will raise the dollar amount in the United States Treasury.
00:53:41.300The reason why we're having such high deficits is we are still spending at an alarming pace.
00:53:46.040There's no doubt that spending needs to be reined in.
00:53:48.800And the analogy I use with my local audience in Phoenix is I use the analogy of Black Friday after Thanksgiving.
00:53:59.860How is it that companies get in the black when they're drastically cutting their prices?
00:54:08.640So instead of Walmart selling 100 TVs on Saturday, Walmart sends sells 1500 TVs on Saturday because they're on sale or on Friday on Black Friday.
00:55:08.980This is the USMCA that Nancy Pelosi had on her desk for over a year and then came out last week and said, we're doing it because it's good for the American people, not because Donald Trump.
00:55:22.300Now the news that China is going to drastically reduce tariffs next year, beginning with a lot of them in January, which means that I am a free trade person.
00:55:36.720I was doubtful of the president and thought it was a bad idea to get into a trade war that it does hurt people economically when that happens.
00:55:44.220In the long run, the way it looks, our economy is soaring even more because it is the tariffs are going to start going away.
00:55:53.000China is starting to deal with the US, realizing they need to be a part of our economy.
00:55:59.500These are all good things that this president has done.
00:56:02.780I'm not saying it to defend him, to get him reelected president.
00:56:06.280I'm saying as an American, look at what's happened this time of year.
00:56:48.780They're willing to use a credit card because they believe their job is secure.
00:56:52.240These are the working class Americans.
00:56:54.520And when inflation stays low, they have more discretionary income.
00:56:58.360It's a huge difference for a working family.
00:57:00.580I spent my entire life until I got into radio 10 years ago as an hourly wage worker or an employer of hourly wage people.
00:57:09.720And a gas, a spike in gas prices is a tax on the working family.
00:57:14.200How many of us out there have spent time in our lives working for a living, you know, five-gallon bucket of tools in a work truck where you make a decision on Thursday, do I buy lunch or bring lunch?
00:57:26.660Because I may need that five bucks to get gas in my car to get to work tomorrow to pick up my paycheck on Friday.
00:57:47.160You look at the people that have investments in this country, and we've added over $11 trillion.
00:57:53.000It's approaching $12 trillion now, I believe.
00:57:55.420$12 trillion in wealth in the time that this president has been in office.
00:58:00.180This is a time, especially this time of year, when Americans take inventory about how blessed we are as a nation.
00:58:09.460This is a time when we should be overwhelmed with joy and thankfulness that we are in a time of prosperity in this country.
00:58:16.500But instead, because of American politics, they're going to take the facts I gave you and tell you that those aren't the facts for everyone.
00:58:23.220No, they're not the facts for everyone, but they are giving people an opportunity like they've never had before.
00:58:30.180I have grandchildren now, and I think about them, and the oldest one in 10 years is going to be making choices about either college, workforce, or military.
00:58:43.800Am I setting him up to be successful if he works hard?
00:58:48.380And the other thing I will say is charitable giving.
00:58:51.220The three things we have to offer this world, money, talent, and time, those are the three things we have to offer the world.
00:58:58.860And you will see a spike in charitable giving from every level because even the most working class, what we would call the working poor in America, are feeling blessed by improvement, and they tend to give even more.
00:59:12.100I say this as a form of encouragement.
00:59:16.480If you read the news, which I do every single day because of this job, half of America seems to think that we are on the verge of economic collapse.
00:59:25.480We have not seen these kind of great indicators in American economy, certainly in my lifetime.
00:59:30.820This is a time where entrepreneurs are taking risks, where people are changing jobs because they're available, where you're able to go out and earn more money.
00:59:41.160Nothing is perfect, and we're far from perfect, but we are so far improved from where we've come.
00:59:46.520And then we get into the argument about, well, how much did Obama add to the stock market and how much?
01:00:22.560And the policies of the left aren't working or weren't working, and we're seeing the policies of the free market and giving people more of their money and low taxes as being the fuel to an economy.
01:00:34.780It defeats everything these presidential candidates on the left stand for, and it defeats every bit of their message.
01:00:41.260So the only way to do it is to tell you that it's not true.
01:00:45.540In a few moments, we talk about impeachment, and we're going to get back into exactly why this is all happening.
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01:03:23.440No one saw her holding up these articles of impeachment the way that she is.
01:03:27.740And I'll tell you why in a moment, but I want you to hear Pennsylvania voters.
01:03:32.840Pennsylvania voters are talking about the impeachment process and what they think and why they think it.
01:03:38.320And this is, again, swing state, carried by Trump, thin margin, something that everyone is paying very close attention to in these states.
01:03:47.360And this is what the voters are saying.
01:03:49.340But what critics see as clear evidence of presidential abuse of power, CEO Philip DeVores sees as just the same old polarized Washington politics that moved him to vote for Trump in the first place.
01:04:01.560If it did anything, it would make me want to support him more.
01:04:04.500It's pretty much the same story down on the farm.
01:04:06.980This location, there's about 1,500 cows being milked.
01:04:10.940Milked from the Culp family, Derry goes into Hershey chocolate and Blander Lake's butter.
01:04:15.280Culp's business is improving, but his attitude toward impeachment is not.
01:04:55.920It is what it really is, is the process.
01:04:59.380The American people may not be educated on it, on the elections or on politics the way most of us would hope.
01:05:06.140If you are someone that is a, you know, an avid listener to talk radio, if you follow American politics like I always have, it's been it's been such a miracle to me to watch what our government has done.
01:05:17.420To be honest with you, if you look at the United States Constitution and the brilliance of that document, of a document that assumes power to the states and power to the individual, but then assigns certain power to the federal government.
01:05:31.520The United States Constitution actually limits the power of the federal government.
01:05:35.780It is a great document in and of itself.
01:05:37.860The separation of powers is such a brilliant idea and the way it's what's being abused right now, I believe, by Nancy Pelosi.
01:05:45.440But we've heard of abuses of it before.
01:05:49.000But why exactly are the American people are starting to, you know, fall away from wanting this to happen?
01:05:56.360Well, it's because we can see what's happening.
01:05:58.920The American people, even the casual observer, knows a load when they see it.
01:06:22.200And I will blame traditional media to a large extent.
01:06:25.220The CNNs and the MSNBCs, ABC, NBC, CBS, their lack of anything positive about this president, giving him credit for anything he's ever done, the seething anger and hatred, they have become a part of the story.
01:06:38.040But when you look at the narrative of what's happening, and I want you to think about American journalism in anything else, and it's controversy.
01:06:48.800When you look at, I'm a big sports guy, so I use a lot of sports analogies, when you look at rivalry games, whether it's college football or professional football, they're better attended and they're better viewed on television.
01:07:01.940The ratings are higher because there's controversy there.
01:07:05.220When you see even a rivalry game where one team dominates the other, other than the hardcore viewers of the winning team, people aren't interested.
01:07:14.700You can watch all of the Auburn, Alabama, or here, the Arizona State, Arizona games you want to.
01:07:23.080You watch those hardcore Michigan, Ohio State.
01:11:08.840But everybody hates him, so it's time to impeach him, which is pure fantasy number one and a horrible thing to say about the way the Americans voted.
01:13:55.840But remember, she is going to wipe out all student loan debt.
01:14:01.180She is going to cover everyone in America in a health care plan, and she's going to do all of this and only tax billionaires.
01:14:11.240Her and Bernie Sanders have decided that billionaires are wrong.
01:14:15.420No one should be a billionaire, so we're going to wipe out your billions, which is really funny to me because those are the job creators and the entrepreneurs, and it's just a farce.
01:14:26.320But so we did the math on the Mike Broomhead show, on my show, and I want to give it to you here on the Glenn Beck program.
01:14:34.140If you take the wealth of every billionaire on the planet, which we can't, but if you were to take that wealth from them,
01:14:41.620it's somewhere in the neighborhood of just under $10 trillion.
01:14:45.440That's if you confiscate it for one-time use.
01:14:49.900You couldn't pay for Elizabeth Warren's health care plan, and including what we spend in health and human services and add in health care for all, you couldn't fund it for two years.
01:15:00.120That's what the wealth of every billionaire on the planet confiscated.
01:15:05.740So how is she only going to tax billionaires to pay for her plan?
01:15:09.420Well, she isn't, which is why she is now backing off of this mandated health care for all.
01:15:16.700She wants people to have a choice, not Bernie Sanders.
01:15:19.840Bernie Sanders is still being a hardliner on you're going to get it.
01:15:23.100What I find interesting is the biggest support for Bernie Sanders seems to be the very young, the 18 to 24-year-olds.
01:15:30.120What they don't understand until it's explained to them, and there's a couple of the campus reform and others that have done the videos where they talk to young people,
01:15:38.420where there are young people that actually said to the interviewer,
01:15:40.760there's nothing you're going to say to me that's going to waver my support for socialized medicine, for health care for all,
01:15:47.940until they find out they have to pay for it.
01:15:50.740And when they're told they have to pay for it, they don't like it anymore.
01:15:54.300When they find out the costs, when they find out you can't have private insurance anymore, they don't like it anymore.
01:16:02.700Bernie Sanders has offered family persuasion guide for the holidays.
01:16:08.280It turns out that you can go online and get a family persuasion guide.
01:16:13.980So it's up to us as students and young people to make the moral appeal to our older relatives to join us in voting for Bernie,
01:16:21.980because let's face it, they won't be around for as long to deal with the consequences of this election, but we will be.
01:16:29.540Students for Bernie, family persuasion guide.
01:16:32.380And then when you go to them and don't even talk about political parties, you just explain what is involved just in the health care plan.
01:17:28.940I'm going to pay for a lot more of it than I want to.
01:17:31.100But they're going to pay and they're going to be forced into the program.
01:17:37.440It is it is an education that people need.
01:17:43.680And Bernie Sanders and these students are putting out a guide.
01:17:47.560So your children come home from college with their Bernie Sanders family persuasion guide.
01:17:53.060It's going to be a great holiday, isn't it?
01:17:54.880How is Christmas and Hanukkah going to be around your house?
01:18:00.180But they are touting an old tired message that the economy doesn't work for everyone.
01:18:04.840I've mentioned this before on the program.
01:18:06.520One of the best books you're going to read as a conservative to understand the mindset of the opposition is the Communist Manifesto.
01:18:13.320And I'm not calling all liberals communists.
01:18:15.200But if you look at the way they run their campaigns, there is a part of the Communist Manifesto called the immiseration of the proletariat.
01:18:22.160We understand the two groups of people, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, the working class of the proletariat.
01:18:27.700And the immiseration of the proletariat is this.
01:18:30.700If people don't realize because of their ignorance how bad they have it, it's our job to describe to them how bad they have it.
01:18:38.980There is actually the teachings that you go and tell people they're not as good as you think.
01:18:43.760Why do you think your raises and bonuses were called crumbs by Nancy Pelosi?
01:18:48.840That's the immiseration of the proletariat.
01:18:51.280Working class was feeling pretty good about those raises.
01:19:42.620You know, it is interesting that only a segment of America is concerned about what happened in this IG report where Horowitz did an investigation into the investigation to the Trump campaign.
01:19:53.060This is something that every American says they are terrified of, which is abusive power by the most powerful people in the country, which you tell me who has more power to arrest and to investigate than the FBI and the DOJ.
01:20:07.880And when you have leadership in both agencies, both of them doing the wrong thing, every American should be worried.
01:20:14.260If they can do this to a candidate for president, they can do this to anyone.
01:20:18.720They would have gotten away with this had it not been that Donald Trump got elected president.
01:20:24.040We would have never known that this happened.
01:20:25.840So exactly what at Horowitz find out and why didn't they see this coming?
01:20:30.280We talked about this or I talked about this over a year ago.
01:20:33.780This is something that should concern every single American out there.
01:20:38.640And it's the fact that leadership in the FBI was able to dupe a court into surveilling an American for political purposes.
01:22:29.840The important things that are facing this country right now, when the president said drain the swamp, this is a part of what the president said.
01:22:36.360But if I could, and I don't know that I can do it, I wish I could remove Trump from the equation because of the polarizing figure that Donald Trump has become.
01:22:45.540The left has a seething hatred for him.
01:22:47.500And you understand when you hate something, you can never do anything wrong to them and they can never do anything right.
01:22:52.560But what happened to President Trump, what we're seeing now, what's been revealed in a report, and there's some very important things about this IG report that America must understand.
01:23:03.000Number one, he had no arrest nor subpoena powers.
01:27:12.380So when Hillary Clinton's campaign says sources say this and sources say that, Donald Trump was doing horrible things with prostitutes in a hotel in Moscow.
01:27:20.620Well, the president's lawyer comes out and hands over his passport and says he wasn't even in Moscow when they say this happened.
01:27:39.760One, not one word of it, not one word.
01:27:42.480So if you have neighbors, if one of your neighbors said of you to the police, I think my neighbor is a drug dealer.
01:27:56.040I've been writing down the fact that there are kind of the strange cars show up at the house and they don't stay very long and they stay come at all hours of the night.
01:28:03.540And I'm pretty sure that they're dealing drugs.
01:28:06.100Here is a list of the cars I've seen in their driveway in the past 48 hours.
01:28:11.120So a police officer takes that information from you and goes to a judge and swears to a judge that this is the comings and goings that they've seen.
01:28:19.100And there's a reason now to surveil you either electronically or to search warrant for your house.
01:28:25.780That would be the most absurd thing you could imagine.
01:28:30.160But what they've done is exactly that.
01:28:33.540Those police officers take your information, they vet those license plates, they do their own surveillance, they do their own homework, and they go with evidence to a judge to get a search warrant if it's warranted.
01:28:43.620They don't take someone else's word for it.
01:28:46.280And that's exactly what happened in this FISA case.
01:28:50.100The long-term effects of this coming up in a moment.
01:28:52.680Again, if you're a social media user, I am on Twitter, at Broomhead Show is where you can find me on Twitter.
01:30:39.680If you remember after 9-11, we had the Patriot Act, and I was someone that said, hey, listen, if we are going to intercept inbound calls from known terrorist countries and it helps protect America, what are we worried about?
01:30:50.760I was one of the people that said that.
01:30:52.660And then I kept hearing from my friends and others that said, you know, the long-term effects and the abuse of power and unintended consequences, it's going to be abused, and you're going to see this get out of control.
01:31:03.100And sure enough, that's what happened.
01:34:26.860It may be that we need to make sure that the oversight is not a rubber stamp because we trust people.
01:34:32.440Maybe this is such a serious thing in surveilling an American that we need to have verification.
01:34:37.920But you know as well as I do in a working relationship with someone, even in an official capacity, you trust people's word.
01:34:45.500And when the FBI director and very high ups in the DOJ go to a judge and say, this is evidence,
01:34:53.620I don't think a judge really at that stage has any reason to doubt that it's evidence.
01:34:59.520But what we found out is that this was done by the highest level of people at the FBI and the DOJ.
01:35:07.920Just one bit of information that maybe people aren't aware of at this point.
01:35:11.620I'm guessing you are the fact that one of the, the higher ups of DOJ that worked on this case, his name is Bruce or the fact that Bruce or his wife,
01:35:23.160Nellie or worked for fusion GPS as a Russia expert and helped Christopher Steele with the dossier should be all you need to know about the illegitimacy of this entire dossier.
01:35:35.340That when I say fired, that's not the proper term that FBI uses when they terminate, separate, whatever you want to call it, an informant, because they're not paid, so they're not fired.
01:35:47.880But when they stop using an informant, it's unheard of that the DOJ or the lawyers continuing, continue a relationship with the informant.
01:35:57.180The FBI got rid of fire, whatever you want to call it, Christopher Steele as an informant.
01:36:03.260But he continued a relationship with Bruce or at the Department of Justice.
01:36:39.440Any American that this happens to Carter Page, Donald Trump, we as Americans should be concerned about.
01:36:45.780If you pull Donald Trump's name out of impeachment or you pull Donald Trump's name out of this report, it becomes crystal clear to anybody because the emotions are gone that the government overreached in this investigation into Carter Page.
01:37:02.100And what it ended up giving us was the Mueller investigation, two years, tens of millions of dollars in investigation and a Mueller report that found no wrongdoing.
01:37:12.520So you tell me, as much as Mueller did not like Donald Trump, it was pretty vocal about it, that he couldn't find any crimes committed by the president.
01:37:24.120As a matter of fact, the Mueller report said no one in the Trump campaign or any American, as far as they could find, colluded with the Russians.
01:37:31.800Two years and tens of millions of dollars.
01:37:36.080But how about the fact that Carter Page was surveilled and he'll never get his reputation back?
01:37:43.700And the higher ups in the government don't care.
01:37:46.840They will ruin anyone associated with Donald Trump.
01:37:50.780Look what they did to Brett Kavanaugh, Brett Kavanaugh, by all accounts and the people that know him, they they looked at his life under a microscope many times.
01:38:00.580You know how many FBI background checks that man has passed and none of this ever came up.
01:38:05.480But in the 11th hour, Dianne Feinstein makes an accusation of rape and that man's children, his daughters, watch their father be accused of rape.
01:38:15.800And witness after witness after witness that knew him came forward and said he is a good man.
01:38:22.400And I say this very honestly, if they had looked into my background, they would never find sexual assault in my background ever.
01:38:31.580But I can guarantee you this, there would have been a lot less kind things that came to light and a lot more things I don't want you to know that came to light.
01:38:40.560If they looked into my background, he was a Boy Scout compared to 90 percent of Americans.
01:38:45.800And they raked him over the coals because he was a Trump nominee.
01:38:49.600You look what's happening to William Barr.
01:38:51.760William Barr, this is the second time he has served honorably as the attorney general, except this time he works for Donald Trump.
01:38:58.580And now when he says something like he says he is now his character, he has no character.
01:39:40.580After that ended, Mueller said, we didn't investigate the president for obstruction of justice.
01:39:45.660So that's what Adam Schiff and the other five committees in the House were going to do that led us to where we are now with impeachment.
01:39:52.100And it all began with illegal surveillance and a political maneuver.
01:39:57.880However, the long term effects of what's happening in America right now depends on what happens with articles of impeachment.
01:40:04.440If Nancy Pelosi holds on to articles of impeachment and this dies or if it goes over to the Senate and this is all blown out of the water, America can be repaired.
01:40:17.140But what she's doing right now is is is is despicable, dragging this out for as long as they can into an election year.
01:40:27.840It is it is an amazing thing that's happened.
01:40:30.720And this starting with the surveillance of Carter Page has been a horrible thing for America.
01:40:35.100A comment and conversation about the Second Amendment and what's happening in the state of Virginia, what's going on and how how absolutely hypocritical it is for the for Virginia to do what they're doing, considering where they've come from.
01:40:53.200We're going to do that coming up here in just a few moments.
01:42:52.600I hope we are not on the verge of violence.
01:42:54.600I don't necessarily believe that we are.
01:42:57.240But what's happening in the state of Virginia and their governor or the Commonwealth of Virginia, they're doubling down on their gun control, gun confiscation plans.
01:43:08.600One of the scariest things I've heard, and I've been in talk radio professionally as a full time for 10 years now.
01:43:16.360One of the scariest things I ever heard was one of the people, one of the members of the state legislature, the assembly there in Virginia, saying I'm not the governor.
01:43:27.140But what started out in Virginia as, let me back up a moment, a couple of counties saying, hey, if we have sanctuary cities that don't comply with federal regulations or help the federal government with illegal aliens,
01:43:40.800we are going to be a Second Amendment sanctuary county where we aren't going to help with gun confiscation.
01:43:48.040And it grew so that now 90 percent of the counties in Virginia are sanctuary counties.
01:43:55.560And one legislator saying I'm not the governor, but the governor may have to call up the National Guard to enforce these laws.
01:44:03.560And it made such big news that they reached out to the National Guard in Virginia and the leader of the Virginia National Guard replied, no comment.
01:44:13.420Not that'll never happen, but no comment.
01:44:16.960And we are very military heavy in the state of Arizona, guardsmen and reserves, guardsmen and women and reserves here, a lot of them.
01:44:24.660We have Luke Air Force Base and Davis Monthon.
01:44:27.260And so there's a big military and a huge veteran presence in the state of Arizona.
01:44:31.760But it's I believe this is typical of the rest of the country.
01:44:37.920I do a lot of work with the military organizations and veterans groups here.
01:44:41.060It's a privilege to be able to do that.
01:44:45.300The idea for a guardsman or a guardswoman to be called up and be ordered by their commanding officers to take up arms and go door to door and confiscate the weapons of their neighbors.
01:44:59.020Can you imagine putting those people, our neighbors that we hold in such high esteem?
01:45:07.260I'm sure it's this way where you are, but I know where I am.
01:45:10.200There have been multiple deployments by the National Guard out of Arizona.
01:45:14.580These are people that live regular lives and have volunteered for service and they get called up for their duty.
01:45:19.220And their families are separated sometimes 11 months, 18 months at a time, multiple times over the last few years, last 15 years.
01:45:29.960And they do it because it's their duty.
01:45:32.060They do it because it's what they signed up for.
01:45:34.020And we hold them in the highest regard.
01:45:35.840And now it's possible in Virginia that they are going to call up the National Guard.
01:45:45.320Imagine someone in the Guard being told that their assignment, their order, and the governor of Virginia said it is constitutional.
01:45:54.980They wouldn't make up unconstitutional laws, which is scary enough.
01:45:59.640If they have to make two choices, either face court martial and jail or take up arms and go disarm the public.
01:46:11.300It is a thought that the people that I know in the Guard, I believe, would refuse.
01:46:16.660But I don't know that all of them would.
01:46:19.520But now about the reverse for the rest of us.
01:46:21.760First, I dedicate my volunteer hours with first responders because my brother is a cop and with the military and veteran groups because I lost a brother in Iraq at the very beginning of the war on Memorial Day of 03.
01:49:16.540What you see are the same reasonable people that wore it on their hip or kept it visible in their car are just as reasonable when they're in their pocket or within the waistband of their pants.
01:49:28.140Reasonable people with firearms are not the problem.
01:49:31.660And yet the demonization of reasonable people is the problem.
01:50:32.900The governor doubled down on this entire idea.
01:50:36.220And it is something that should scare all of us.
01:50:42.660I will defend my Second Amendment rights, I believe, you know, but I am also a law-abiding citizen.
01:50:47.960So you're going to put me in a position where I'm going to have to fight for my constitutional rights and disobey a law and possibly go to jail for something that we all know is absolutely illegal.
01:51:01.000And yet you look at what's happening in Virginia, and it's right in front of our faces.
01:51:43.740If this doesn't wake up the voters in Virginia, I don't know what will.
01:51:48.440I'm not talking about rising up with guns.
01:51:50.700I'm talking about rising up at the ballot box in 2020.
01:51:53.620Send a message in the House of Representatives.
01:51:56.640Have Nancy Pelosi hand that gavel off to somebody else.
01:52:00.940Make sure that there is more of a majority in the United States Senate that's going to work on the budget and work on the deficit with the president.
01:52:07.980And in your local elections, wherever you are, make sure that you are electing people that are going to adhere to what you believe in.
01:52:15.120The silent majority can't be silent anymore.
01:52:17.520I don't know where you live, but if it happened in Virginia of all places, it can happen where you are.
01:52:25.020It's complacent people that don't get involved.
01:52:29.920One more segment to go here on the show.
01:52:31.800I've got one more before I am done for the year.
01:52:58.700How's revenue pacing compared to last year?
01:53:01.500Now, most companies don't have a clear picture of their finances, so they make business decisions without that critical information based on their gut or worse, their fear.
01:54:00.180He's such a good friend and such a good guy who has been a mentor to me in talk radio.
01:54:05.240And I wish I could explain to you how blessed I feel to have him as a friend, but to also for him to trust me with the people that listen to his program.
01:54:13.580This time of year, I get very, very nostalgic about my life.
01:54:18.620And I mean that sincerely, that I take inventory of the people in my life that I have that I love so much.
01:54:23.840My family will be joining me for the holidays this week.
01:54:27.280And I can't tell you how much I admire my brother, my surviving brother.
01:54:32.420He has been my hero my whole life and to be able to spend the holidays with him and with my nieces and nephew and my sister-in-law is an amazing privilege.
01:54:40.900But when I look at, you know, we, the things we talk about on the show and we talk, they're important issues of the day that divide us politically.
01:54:50.000The fact that Bernie Sanders campaign has put out a guide to persuade people, it shows you what the opposition is to a lot of us.
01:54:59.100I truly have been focused on this time of year.
01:55:02.480Every year I focus on how blessed my life is.
01:55:05.880What you're seeing from the opposition is what consumes them, where you and I would say, I would say to you, because of my faith, this is the second most important day of the year in my faith, which is the birth.
01:55:20.080The most important day would be Easter when we celebrate the finishing of the promise.
01:55:24.900And I'm not going to preach a sermon, but for me, this time of year makes me reminisce of just how blessed I have been in my life and what God has done for me.
01:55:35.220And how little I've done in return, I believe, for others.
01:55:38.720And it makes me want to dedicate my time to do more for people.
01:55:43.760But we do talk about important issues that we're facing as a nation.
01:55:47.100And we look at the opposition with Bernie Sanders telling people, young people, this is what you do when you go home for Christmas.
01:55:53.160This is how you fight in the opposition.
01:56:00.140Government and socialism is their religion.
01:56:02.680It's they believe that the salvation or the saving from every problem, the solution to every issue facing a person is a government solution.
01:56:32.880And government has never been the answer any place in the entire world.
01:56:35.920And without preaching the sermon, I think for most of us that celebrate Christmas for what it is, we understand that this is the season where we celebrate the two solutions to problems.
01:56:45.420And that is my prayer for myself and everyone else is that the focus that we can have, even for this short time of year, that we're kinder to other people because we understand that we've been given a kindness shown to us that we can never repay.
01:57:05.020It may sound like a cliche to a lot of people, but no one knows my dark secrets like me and no one understands that I am as undeserving of any kind of kindness than God himself.
01:57:17.380And so I would rather have this feeling throughout the year that I want to be able to be a little bit more considerate of other people because I myself know I've been given consideration that I didn't deserve.
01:57:30.360And it when we talk politics, which I love talking about all the time, but we realize that for other people, that that is their religion, that is what they that is what they hold most sacred.
01:57:44.480And we are up against a battle that we have to be educated.
01:57:59.880We must be everything that is necessary.
01:58:03.800In order to push back what's facing us right now, we talked about Virginia and the gun confiscation, which we know goes against every American principle, the taking away of your freedom, the destruction of the of the insurance industry, the Federal Bureau of Investigation abusing its power.
01:58:23.700And it may not see the light of day and the complete unfairness of the United States media.
01:58:28.300All of that is a truth in the minds of conservatives.
01:58:31.580At the same time, we win when we discuss the issues.
01:58:56.420Again, it's a privilege to be on Glenn's show and speak with this audience as often as I can.
01:59:00.600And he truly is a great friend as well.
01:59:04.800So from the Mike Broomhead from Mike Broomhead here in Phoenix, Arizona, to all of you across the country, a Happy New Year and a Merry Christmas.