The Glenn Beck Program - August 27, 2019


Social Credit Scores Are Coming HERE | Guests: Eric Bolling, Craig Strazzeri, & John Solomon | 8⧸27⧸19


Episode Stats

Length

2 hours and 3 minutes

Words per Minute

153.9688

Word Count

18,992

Sentence Count

44

Misogynist Sentences

16

Hate Speech Sentences

14


Summary

Struggling with the heat in Dallas, Texas? What do you do in the summer in the scorching Texas heat? What s going on in the rest of the world, and is China becoming a true police state or "police state"?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 welcome back stew thank you glenn i'm glad to be here are you no really i am not yeah i didn't
00:00:07.320 think so i didn't i was lying thank you for you i wish you where were you where did you go what
00:00:11.700 did you do uh the dallas fort worth metroplex wow yeah it was beautiful i hear it is exotic
00:00:18.820 oh it was 147 degrees oh yeah oh beautiful you just lay out in the sun and just bake oh i sure
00:00:25.580 did yeah it was wonderful yeah yeah and i was basically mainly around here we had some stuff
00:00:29.580 going on uh work on the house and such so oh nothing better yeah oh that's it's called a vacation
00:00:35.760 you know you got the cruise coming up uh next next spring yeah sure you could do that yeah but what
00:00:44.320 about staying at home in 147 degree heat while work's going on at the house yeah that's great
00:00:49.400 what if you could like fix the roof oh you know what last last summer we had somebody fix our roof
00:00:56.220 and it was in in the middle of summer and i'm looking at those guys i just can i just hose you
00:01:01.160 guys down up there can i constantly run no the water's too hot i mean it's crazy all right back
00:01:07.980 in a second great show coming up man was assaulted outside a portland bar for wearing a make america
00:01:15.220 great again hat two people have been arrested court orders idaho to pay for a sex offenders trans
00:01:23.360 surgery thank you the governor of idaho said no i don't think so no i'm not going to do it
00:01:30.680 a ton of email on my comments about 5g oh and silicon valley is building a chinese style social credit
00:01:40.340 system for us you know this is great we start there in one minute this is the glenbeck program
00:01:50.440 somewhere in america within the sound of my voice there's a man with a whistle around his neck
00:01:59.080 he's aching to hear its shrill call one more time he walks the sidelines of a dew-covered gridiron
00:02:06.220 his tekova's boots making a fine firm noise time was he took these boys to state almost every year
00:02:16.040 and every time it was almost as satisfying as if he had managed to go himself back into the old days
00:02:22.120 those boys stood for something immortal in their game just as these tekova's boots stand for something
00:02:30.480 immortal in him they're not just part of his life they're part of his frontier they're part of the
00:02:38.600 game you know tekova's boots kind of root you they they speak of real character they're made from the
00:02:48.380 most exotic leathers available they're handcrafted by world-class boot makers takes 200 steps to make
00:02:54.460 a pair of tekova's boots and yet their boots cost about half of what a similar boot will cost you
00:03:00.120 elsewhere you should check out not only their selection of boots but all the other fine
00:03:05.040 leather and clothing products that they make you can find your pair at tekova's.com slash back
00:03:10.800 that's t-e-c-o-v-a-s dot com slash back tekova's western wear for your frontier
00:03:30.120 okay for anybody who hasn't been paying attention i want to explain the chinese social credit system
00:03:39.620 since 2014 in china the social credit system um is it has been implemented and is evolving into
00:03:51.160 a single nationwide point system for all chinese citizens and it is akin to a financial credit score
00:03:59.720 it follows you everywhere there is no place to hide from the cameras it is evolved now into you have
00:04:10.460 to have a certain app on your phone and they monitor you you every day you take a um you take this app
00:04:19.560 you open it up and you have to kind of take a test about what the great leader is doing today
00:04:26.100 and he you know it gives you all the news of what the great leader is doing and what the communists
00:04:31.520 are doing that is so good for you then you have to take a test if you don't open that app every day
00:04:37.780 your social credit goes down if you're not taking that test your social credit goes down
00:04:43.660 they track you and feed you everything that they want to feed you and you must consume it
00:04:53.340 if you jaywalk across the street your social credit goes down if you are if you speak ill about the
00:05:00.600 country your social credit goes down if you are talking to someone who has a low social credit score
00:05:07.340 your social credit goes down it is uh it is horrible what is happening in china it is becoming a true
00:05:19.060 police state orwellian 1984 and it aims to punish for any kind of transgression that can include
00:05:26.420 membership in or support for the falun gong or the or tibetan buddhism if you haven't paid your debt if
00:05:33.900 you have excessive video gaming criticizing the government late payments failing to sweep the
00:05:41.220 sidewalk in front of your store or house smoking or playing loud music on trains jaywalking anything
00:05:47.620 that is unacceptable by the chinese government it also awards points for charitable donations even
00:05:54.400 taking one's own parents to the doctor and the punishments are harsh there are bans on leaving the
00:06:01.840 country bans on using public transportation so in other words uh sorry all of a sudden you get to
00:06:08.360 the bus and your phone says offender not enough social credit you have to walk you're not taking
00:06:15.720 a bus you can't check into certain hotels you will immediately not be hired for any high visibility job
00:06:23.520 if you have spoken out against the government you have posted something that shouldn't have been posted
00:06:29.540 your children will be pulled out of the private school and may not even make it into a public school
00:06:35.760 it can result in slower internet connections and also uh social stigmatization um because you are
00:06:45.040 you are now registered on a public social blacklist your your face actually goes up on billboards
00:06:54.060 electronic billboards in your neighborhood and anyone who interacts with you their social credit goes down
00:07:01.960 they brag that they can keep people locked in their house just because they won't they won't be able
00:07:12.960 to go anywhere it is authoritarianism gamified now i've told you for a while
00:07:22.960 if google and silicon valley is helping them do these things what makes you think that they won't do the same
00:07:30.940 here well they are there are now 40 or so pilot projects operated by local governments at least six
00:07:42.600 run by tech giants now beijing is is doing this china is doing this they have two nationwide lists
00:07:50.900 one called the black list the other one is the red list that's kind of like a a white list here
00:07:56.140 uh the chinese government shares its list with all technology platforms
00:08:01.180 um they uh they give you every month a social credit and that social credit uh is determines the rest of
00:08:11.540 your life now some chinese people are unaware that this even exists at this point because they haven't
00:08:18.000 gotten it all to the entire country but their goal is china 2020 to have the entire country on this
00:08:25.180 surveys done by the government show that 80 percent of the chinese citizens that are surveyed
00:08:31.380 strongly approve of the social credit system of course they do you're tracking them
00:08:40.480 now if you are disturbed by any of this let me tell you what's going on now in america the new york
00:08:50.320 state department of financial services announced earlier this year that life insurance companies can
00:08:56.820 base premiums on what they find in your social media posts if you have an instagram picture showing
00:09:02.760 you teasing a grizzly bear at yellowstone with a martini in a hand and a bucket of cheese fries in the
00:09:08.000 other you're going to pay a higher rate however if you are doing yoga you're going to pay a lower rate
00:09:16.760 anything that shows you're healthy and wise you're going to get a lower rate anything that shows you that
00:09:26.380 you are doing anything at all dangerous you're going to get a higher rate now that seems kind of
00:09:33.640 reasonable it's like well you know i have i have insurance uh on me i can't go to a war zone i can't
00:09:42.060 fly a plane uh i can't go cliff you know climbing all the stuff i'm never gonna do i'm fine with they
00:09:49.620 were like you can't do these things anymore and i'm like does that include jumping out of a perfectly
00:09:53.640 good airplane with a parachute and they're like yeah and i'm like good check that one off my list
00:09:58.460 so you don't have a problem with it per se unless you do those things if you are somebody that is
00:10:08.200 into adventure sports you better tell the truth or you're going to pay a very high penalty now there's
00:10:16.160 also something called a patron scan so the insurance companies are kind of like well i think that's
00:10:22.540 probably okay you say you don't smoke and then you're seen smoking on facebook that's probably
00:10:28.120 okay but now now we have patron scan this company sells three products kiosk desktop and handheld
00:10:36.980 systems and what it is is designed to help bar and restaurant owners manage customers patron scan
00:10:44.420 is a subsidiary of the canadian software company a biometric company it's now on sale in the united
00:10:51.960 states canada australia and the united kingdom and it helps spot fake idea ids but it also tracks
00:10:59.280 troublemakers so when you arrive at let's say a patron scan uh using bar what they do is they ask
00:11:07.840 you for id they scan it the company maintains a list of objectionable customers designed to protect
00:11:15.780 venues from people who have previously had a problem in any bar fighting sexual assault
00:11:21.940 drugs theft theft or any other bad behavior but the bad behavior that list is up to each restaurant
00:11:31.120 so if you go into some restaurant with a maga hat can you be put on this scan now if you are banned in
00:11:45.180 one bar you will be banned in all bars that use this system and that's in australia the united states the
00:11:54.260 united kingdom no matter where you go you are known as someone who can't go into the bar
00:11:59.420 now the kind of behavior all up to the individual bar the owners of each bar can ignore the bands if they
00:12:10.080 want the data of non-offending customers is deleted in 90 days so even if you're not doing something wrong
00:12:18.920 they're still holding all your information for 90 days uh the they keep a private list that are not
00:12:28.460 shared with other bars if they want but if you are a bad customer it can be kept for five years
00:12:35.540 um they do have uh an appeals process but it's up to the company whether they listen to it or not
00:12:43.400 uber and airbnb we all know that when you get into an uber if the driver has written something bad about
00:12:52.860 you you're probably not going to get into another uber if you have somebody who who didn't like you can
00:13:01.200 say whatever you're going to not be able to use uber airbnb is now the same and that is a private
00:13:09.460 list so if you are in a an airbnb and think about how big airbnb is now if you're in an airbnb and the
00:13:19.040 owner didn't like something or said you did something even if you didn't do it they can alert airbnb
00:13:28.160 it's kept confidential you have no right to see what your accuser is telling you and you are banned
00:13:35.140 from all airbnb whatsapp also developing for communications a new uh social credit score
00:13:45.300 for example you can be banned on whatsapp if too many other users block you you can also get banned for
00:13:51.840 selling uh for sending spam threatening messages trying to hack or reverse engineer the whatsapp
00:13:57.720 app or using the service with an unauthorized app now this is small potatoes in the united states but
00:14:05.160 not for the rest of the world because in many parts of the world this is the main form of communication
00:14:10.280 not being allowed to use whatsapp in some countries is like not being able to use a telephone in america
00:14:18.780 now here's the problem nobody likes anti-social violent rude unhealthy reckless people we got it
00:14:30.140 so what's wrong with this technology as i have said before what is now being built completely changes our
00:14:41.680 system we have always had protections of the first and second amendment we've had protections of privacy
00:14:51.680 supposedly under the constitution we don't anymore first amendment freedom of speech nope uh how about
00:15:03.120 freedom of assembly nope freedom of of of assembly with people that you choose nope it's not protected
00:15:11.780 freedom of religion no uh they they're banning christian ads now just because they're christian
00:15:21.780 that doesn't sound like a good thing i mean that's protected by the constitution not really
00:15:30.020 uh second amendment nope anybody can say no no guns here and they don't have to do anything about it
00:15:39.560 they can pressure banks now to say don't do business with the gun manufacturers or the gun businesses or
00:15:47.360 people who have a gun don't do business with them we're going to cancel their their financial services
00:15:52.920 totally fine because it's a private company don't quarter soldiers in the house well the nsa is already
00:16:00.240 doing it but so is so is google so is amazon they're listening to your conversation there is no such thing as
00:16:07.360 privacy anymore and no law can stop these things because they're private companies they can do whatever
00:16:18.320 they want in china they're doing it by force because the government china is going this way
00:16:25.360 just as orwell predicted in 1984 but just as brave new world predicted huxley said it would come with a big
00:16:37.180 happy face on it it would come through service and and it would be great and you'd want this service
00:16:43.780 both of those i remember a time within the last 10 years people were saying oh looks like huxley was
00:16:52.180 right orwell was wrong no they were both right one 1984 fits the east huxley applies to us in the west
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00:19:06.620 so uh eric bowling sat down with mike pence yesterday we're going to get a recap from him in just a few
00:19:23.180 minutes also uh coming up in about 15 minutes we have uh uh the people that are arguing in front of
00:19:31.660 the supreme court today uh about prager being banned from or or shadow banned uh on with google
00:19:42.140 this is a really important supreme court case we'll talk to him uh just before he goes into the courtroom
00:19:49.620 here in a few minutes to argue the case in front of the supreme court so yesterday uh we talked a little
00:19:57.240 bit about 5g and john bolt who is one of my favorite employees and i just love working with him
00:20:03.240 um he he is the guy who reads you know most of the email that comes in and he hates it when i talk about
00:20:10.240 how much i hate cats because all of the cat lovers write in and he's like glenn you just wrecked my day
00:20:16.820 so i apologize uh but i do really hate cats anyway um he said the only thing that has come close to
00:20:24.820 rivaling it is what i said yesterday about 5g 5g there is no evidence that 5g causes cancer none zero zip
00:20:36.900 it is most likely i believe uh it's just as likely if not more likely that this is a rumor that was
00:20:46.380 started by china or russia to shake americans off the track you have to understand
00:20:52.860 if if it if we don't uh do 5g if we fall behind things are going to change dramatically i believe
00:21:07.080 we lose our superpower status almost overnight silicon valley will collapse on itself invention
00:21:14.140 american ingenuity gone because it will if you miss this train it will be like being in the second
00:21:21.760 grade and in a year everyone else that was with you in the second grade is now in the 12th grade
00:21:28.220 and you're not even sure that you are going to be able to make it to the third grade it is really
00:21:35.200 really a huge deal uh and we can get into more of that probably on tomorrow's show but what i do want
00:21:43.800 to say is i did some more research and yesterday i told you it doesn't cause cancer i want you to know
00:21:49.980 that i was wrong doing more research i found that it does cause cancer but only in the heads of cats
00:21:58.760 and so i i urge you now even more strongly to make sure that we all have 5g because you'll have high
00:22:09.780 speed internet and cat cancer and if you disagree make sure you're right in uh because john loves
00:22:18.180 loves these emails uh so and and i you know i think it's fair that 5g would kill all the cats
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00:23:48.420 december 7th in salt lake city cats are not welcome welcome to the program fellow uh blaze co-worker
00:24:00.240 uh eric bowling who is heard on the blaze yeah do we get minimum have they raised the minimum wage yet
00:24:07.360 no they haven't told me that i'm no i'm i'm a long way from making a uh 15 an hour and that's why i'm
00:24:15.420 voting for uh bernie sanders um so uh you met yesterday with the vice president tell me about
00:24:22.460 it so um yeah real interesting there's a faith and freedom conference um i guess a fundraiser
00:24:29.220 that jeff duncan was putting on in south carolina and uh i had the opportunity they said you want to
00:24:34.820 you want a little exclusive one-on-one with the vice president i said absolutely i drove i live in
00:24:39.080 charleston now so i drove up to greenville and um i got a few i got like 12 minutes with the vice
00:24:45.180 president one-on-one exclusive and it was fantastic because you know i'm driving up there and i'm
00:24:51.880 thinking i i there's so much going on right now there's so much going on in trump world do i do this
00:24:58.820 um how how how much you know as you know glenn you get someone that you've who's doing kind of
00:25:06.480 you know reaching out to you doing your favor doing a one-on-one exclusive how hard do you press
00:25:11.200 the gas i said you know what there's too much happening right now i gotta go full throttle and
00:25:15.280 i did i asked them the important stuff i asked them what's what's the stuff with nikki haley
00:25:20.200 you know the ambassador tweeting that calm down everyone we're we're good friends with with the
00:25:26.340 vice president i said yeah yes and point blank is nikki haley vying to be the vice president in 2020
00:25:32.780 you know and then i said has the president told you you are his running mate in 2020 i mean
00:25:39.780 those are questions i think he wasn't expecting me to ask but yeah but i will tell you this i because
00:25:45.740 i floated the theory uh among friends um uh at the white house and i have said you know i have nothing
00:25:54.340 against mike pence i really like mike pence and i think mike pence was a uh one of the reasons why
00:26:00.760 donald trump was elected because he was able to galvanize the religious right um and and make
00:26:07.800 people feel comfortable with uh with donald trump however uh i think having nikki haley on the ticket
00:26:15.940 with donald trump with no offense to mike pence uh i think would be very advantageous for the president
00:26:24.340 uh this time around yeah i i agree i think he uh he couldn't lose with either one um i think you're
00:26:31.740 probably right that maybe you know you check another box with with nikki haley the you know
00:26:36.780 trump you know let's be honest he's i believe he's going to win with a wider margin than last time but
00:26:42.340 a lot of it's going to come down to the suburbs and and you know the female vote and nikki haley
00:26:46.320 certainly uh firm up that but i did you either way but i think it's an easier ride with with a
00:26:51.860 with a female vice president i know that i i mean i know when you have 12 minutes you probably have
00:26:56.580 four questions maybe if the person wants to wants to talk um did you get into the economy at all and
00:27:05.320 the trade war is are they do you get the sense that they are very well aware that if the economy turns
00:27:13.040 this president's going to have a real uphill battle yeah so so yes and that that's where i started
00:27:19.800 because you know like i had said at the time the president was flying back from the g7 and i said
00:27:25.260 that we were in the midst of a trade war china we've had conflicting comments coming out one from
00:27:30.260 the president one from stephanie grisham his comms director another one from the president again
00:27:34.440 i said look are we are we prepared the president said he's prepared to continue to raise tariffs on
00:27:40.480 china infinitum if they don't if they don't relent and play ball and he says we are and i said well
00:27:46.080 i said miss oh you know in all honesty mr vice president i'm i'm against tariffs and i love a
00:27:53.380 lot of things that you guys are doing but tariffs is not one of the things i like i said but it seems
00:27:57.860 to be working i said is this is this president trump's idea or is this steve mnuchin talking in
00:28:03.480 his ear with larry kudlow in the other ear you know playing hardball with china or is this coming
00:28:07.520 from the president he said he laughed he said eric as you know and i've known the president for 15 years
00:28:13.440 as you know the president for a long time he has a lot of smart people around him but he everything
00:28:18.680 he does just comes directly from the president so he did he weighed in on that and he's ready to play
00:28:23.340 hardball with china but i also said well in that case can i ask you this what's this idea about nuking
00:28:28.300 hurricanes and he he laughed again he said oh you know that that that didn't happen all right all
00:28:38.180 right so when does this uh interview air we're gonna put it up live tonight um they tell me it's
00:28:44.220 going to be up around 7 p.m on the on the blades uh platform like usual you know my show usually
00:28:50.080 comes out around 7 p.m on tuesday wednesday thursday so that will come out tonight you know it's
00:28:54.720 it's really fascinating because i got into some of the i asked him what's what's the what's the
00:28:59.740 greenland uh idea what's that all about he really explained it in a way that i hadn't ever thought
00:29:05.640 like it became you know when i went into it thinking you know trump sees it as uh you know
00:29:12.140 a real you know high profile real estate buy and and maybe some sort of you know what was the
00:29:19.900 motivation i went through it is it security is it financial yeah um and he really broke it down and
00:29:26.140 it made a ton of yeah i mean donald trump the press has made fun of donald trump on this one
00:29:31.300 nobody should we've had three or four presidents that have wanted to buy greenland and it is always
00:29:37.400 gone sideways but it actually is a very wise move if somebody could get it done eric we'll watch for
00:29:44.560 that tonight only on blaze tv if you are not a subscriber please subscribe and support the talent
00:29:52.280 that is trying to find the answers for you um you know we we are a good solid team
00:29:59.160 and uh and voices that are across the spectrum of the conservative movement but we are all doing
00:30:06.680 our very best to get you the truth eric does america you can't spell america without eric in the middle
00:30:13.320 uh that's tonight you don't want to miss it it'll be downloaded around 7 p.m subscribe to the blaze
00:30:20.040 now thanks eric we're gonna go to the steps of the supreme court in just about four minutes
00:30:27.020 stand by for that there's a huge case going into oral arguments today about uh google and can they
00:30:35.080 ban and shadow ban uh things like prager university now maybe you didn't notice that girl from
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00:31:51.320 this is the glenbeck program
00:31:56.320 we go to uh craig straziri who is um uh the cmo with prager university prager uh has been going
00:32:19.860 through trouble with google they are they are starting their lawsuit against google today ninth
00:32:26.900 circuit court i thought it was the supreme court but it's not there yet it's ninth circuit court
00:32:31.000 which is a crazy courtroom welcome craig how are you i'm great thank you go ahead thank you for having
00:32:38.360 me sure so as you're getting ready to go in and and and present the oral arguments tell me tell the
00:32:44.280 listeners first exactly what you are you're fighting yeah so google and youtube as you know
00:32:52.240 they are a giant corporation that has a lot of power and control and can control what people see
00:32:57.920 and so over the past few years uh the problem has only continued to get worse and so there are now over
00:33:03.000 200 prager you videos that are being restricted and get this glenn five of the videos that dennis
00:33:08.540 prager does on the 10 commandments are being restricted so they don't even hide their bias at this
00:33:12.960 point it's it's uh really unfortunate so our case uh our case is really centered around this argument
00:33:18.880 about a public forum the distinction between a public forum and a publisher and so a public forum
00:33:25.000 which could be a physical location or it could be a website is a place where the business invites
00:33:30.480 someone to come on excuse me sorry the business invites the public to come and use their platform
00:33:36.560 for speech so youtube says anyone can come on here and give us their opinion but then they turn around
00:33:42.180 censor us for their political viewpoint so uh that's the basis of our of our lawsuit what do you think
00:33:48.400 the odds are of winning because this this doesn't just affect you that affects really anybody who is
00:33:54.260 being uh shadow banned uh and it is in my opinion critical that you win this if you lose this uh and
00:34:03.640 i'm guessing you will in the ninth circuit court of appeals because they're insane um but if if you do lose
00:34:10.380 this this this is a very bad blow to freedom of speech these corporations will have no restrictions
00:34:17.960 uh on on any of their behavior
00:34:21.540 no that's right that's exactly right and the ninth circuit is crazy and and if we lose it we're in big trouble
00:34:28.440 it's getting more and more scary and if they have the power to to control what people see and just
00:34:33.660 restrict content that they disagree with uh then this is this is really scary and most of america
00:34:38.860 doesn't even know this is going on because the mainstream media has completely ignored this issue
00:34:42.420 well they're they're doing things like for instance they they are banning uh prager university
00:34:48.500 um as you said 200 different videos dennis is the best voice ever on the ten commandments i mean his
00:34:57.620 books on you know his books on the old testament and his his uh his videos on the ten commandments
00:35:04.360 there's just nobody even close to him there's nothing uh that is you know political partisan
00:35:11.500 that is going on with that this is just an anti-religious uh bias that they have
00:35:18.120 yeah exactly i mean it clearly shows that they're targeting us for our identity and uh i'm sure your
00:35:25.280 your listeners may be aware that project veritas just had a couple google whistleblowers come out you
00:35:30.380 know one of them mentioned that you guys you and your show is on a blacklist but they've also
00:35:34.520 mentioned that prager you has been targeted their own employees are coming out and admitting that
00:35:38.960 they're targeting conservatives and like you said dennis's message and the ten commandments are so
00:35:43.200 mainstream uh that it's really getting to be absurd at this point their own employees are admitting it yet
00:35:48.200 they they continue to go in front of congress and they continue to say that they're politically
00:35:52.140 neutral which is which is obviously a lie so what is your what is your attack i mean what is the
00:35:57.900 you know you're going up against google has who has more money and power than god at this point
00:36:03.520 um what is your strategy well this is a classic case of david and goliath and one one reason i'm
00:36:11.060 really proud to work and represent prager you is that we're fighters dennis always says that courage
00:36:16.500 uh with our goodness without courage is is useless so we're very courageous at prager you and we're
00:36:21.420 we're really fighting for freedom of speech not just for prager you but for all americans so
00:36:25.180 uh this is a very important case and there's going to be a lot of supporters there today at the
00:36:29.440 courthouse for prager you which is very exciting a lot of people recognize how important this case is
00:36:34.520 and so uh yes the ninth circuit is crazy but we're going to take this as far and as long as we need
00:36:39.120 to all the way up to the supreme court uh to keep fighting well the good news is if you're um turned
00:36:44.540 down by the ninth circuit court they are the most overturned court in the country i mean if they say
00:36:50.700 if they say the sky is blue i'll swear to you that it's red because they're wrong almost every time
00:36:55.980 that is true yeah all right craig best of luck uh anything that we can do to help
00:37:02.360 yes i would encourage your listeners to please go to prager you.com we have a petition against
00:37:07.540 youtube that 600 000 people have already signed um if they're so willing and generous that we are
00:37:12.440 a non-profit and any donation will help us keep spreading public awareness on this issue
00:37:16.380 um so we got to keep fighting and i appreciate you having me on you bet thanks craig appreciate it
00:37:21.220 there is there are only a handful of things that i believe are godsends and things that will
00:37:30.980 actually help save the country um operation oh you are the underground railroad the saving of of
00:37:40.060 children uh in the sex slave racket 40 million slaves around the world that the nazarene fund i think is
00:37:51.760 critical and um and prager university is another one it is i just don't think that there's anybody that
00:38:01.520 reaches as many people especially young people as prager university i mean they are up to i think
00:38:09.440 their billionth view uh and they have just swept the internet and they're watched all over the world
00:38:17.400 and it's really important work if you can support them and that's either financially or just through
00:38:23.600 a prayer today would be helpful prager university yeah things like their uh their video on the electoral
00:38:31.320 college like it's something like that that is like one of the only things standing in the way
00:38:36.060 of younger people just getting on the national popular vote bandwagon when it's actually explained
00:38:41.460 which never happens in the media uh people understand it pretty easily but it takes four
00:38:47.540 or five minutes and is that is that is something that you know the media will actually dedicate to
00:38:52.360 an important topic like this no you know yesterday i did uh a special hour hour number two this week
00:38:59.060 or at least for the next i think two or three days uh is going to be about the economy
00:39:03.780 and all the things that you need to know today the truth about recessions recessions are good
00:39:11.080 and bad for the politician and will explain uh the truth about recessions that nobody really ever
00:39:20.260 explains anymore we've completely gone off the deep end on on this um and it's because of the fed
00:39:26.220 yesterday we explained i had so much mail yesterday and people came in uh to my office yesterday and they
00:39:33.000 were like glenn thank you for that monologue on how important america is we gave you some stats
00:39:40.140 yesterday about how the sovereign funds from almost all of the countries around the world are all
00:39:48.840 investing in our stock market and in our bonds because it's the only return we are the last one that is
00:39:56.380 offering real returns and you can't make money anyplace else if if we fail if we falter the entire world
00:40:07.900 falters if we get off of the free market which elizabeth warren will do the entire world goes to hell
00:40:18.700 and that's not hyperbole if we fail economically everything goes to hell in a handbasket and by the
00:40:29.640 way the poll that came out yesterday i've been waiting to ask you about it and it came out yesterday
00:40:34.580 that's a that's a real poll isn't it the monmouth poll yeah showing a three-way tie basically at the top
00:40:40.720 yes absolutely one of the highest rated pollsters there is now it's one poll um there's only been one
00:40:45.860 another one that's shown a result like this that one was a little bit shaky but this one is a plus
00:40:51.180 yeah i'm an a plus rated pollster i mean elizabeth warren could be our next president you're listening
00:40:56.400 to glenn beck
00:40:58.040 we have um we have an hour on the economy yesterday we told you why america's economy
00:41:15.840 was so important uh today we talk about recessions they're good for economies they're bad for people
00:41:24.680 and presidents and uh you'll learn the nasty secret about recessions that the media will never tell you
00:41:45.840 the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the glenn beck program all this week
00:41:58.920 in this time period i'm going to be talking to you about the economy what's coming what you need to know
00:42:06.760 explaining things that maybe the mainstream media just can't find time to explain yesterday i explained
00:42:14.760 why china is so dangerous playing playing uh some sort of uh chicken with china is not necessarily a
00:42:25.020 very good idea they have a trump card no pun intended and i told you about that yesterday also whose fault
00:42:32.120 is it if the economy goes down if you didn't hear it yesterday please go back to the podcast and
00:42:39.620 listen to it today we're going to talk to you about recessions what are they well they're good for
00:42:48.840 economies they're just painful for people and very bad for presidents we begin there in one minute
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00:44:37.980 recessions good for economies harsh on people bad for presidents now i don't want to sound like bill
00:44:53.100 maher and i don't want to step into his quagmire of sounding like i'm wishing or supportive of a
00:44:58.120 recession striking the u.s economy let me start by emphatically stating i neither hope for a recession
00:45:06.320 nor am i forecasting one to occur now soon next year or at any particular time we're off the charts
00:45:15.940 on on recessions so no one knows mar has gotten himself into trouble because he's openly wishing for
00:45:24.980 the economy to crash into recession despite the fact that it will be devastating to millions of
00:45:30.760 americans who will lose their jobs many of them will lose their homes or their businesses he believes
00:45:37.120 that he we should have a recession uh between now and november 2020 because trump will lose his
00:45:43.040 re-election bid and that would make it worth it even though other people are suffering now that's easy
00:45:48.740 for a guy who's worth over a hundred million dollars to say but let me say i pray every day that we do not
00:45:56.160 experience a recession because unlike maher i'd really rather not see any american whether i agree
00:46:04.500 or disagree with them suffer an economic downturn uh and also because when it comes to the re-election
00:46:12.340 of donald trump i think bill maher is right about that if a recession happens and the economy goes off
00:46:18.780 the wet rails he will be blamed first term presidents are really susceptible to recessions
00:46:26.860 dooming their chances at serving a second term and trump has attached much of his presidency and his
00:46:34.540 campaign performance of the u.s economy if you're taking credit for everything you're going to get
00:46:41.640 blamed for everything as well but first before we really get into this let me explain so we're on the
00:46:49.080 same page for today's purposes i'm discussing the textbook definition of an economic recession
00:46:56.840 that's two or more quarters of declining gross domestic products six months or more where the total
00:47:04.160 financial output of the united states is shrinking now historically speaking the united
00:47:11.360 states experiences a recession about every seven years remember that number every seven years we
00:47:18.820 have a recession it's going to come into play later and you're going to be i think it's a piece a puzzle
00:47:25.440 piece that falls in and you're like oh my gosh now we're currently sitting at 10 years since the last
00:47:31.960 recession the great recession followed you know that followed the 2007 2008 financial crisis it's been 10 years
00:47:38.760 now this represents the period we're in now the longest period of financial expansion in all of u.s history
00:47:48.980 that should tell you something so in a way we are way overdue for our next recession already
00:47:58.980 you know but that's you know like saying los angeles oh they're overdue for a major earthquake because
00:48:04.400 they hadn't had one in a while you know it makes for you know great headlines and everybody wants to
00:48:09.000 read it but it's not science now there's a great misconception about recessions and this comes from
00:48:17.180 the progressive movement around the turn of the century it's all really due because of politicians
00:48:23.700 in part because the media and in part because of our general tendency toward finding escapes scapegoat
00:48:31.360 when something quote goes wrong end quote but here's the counterintuitive truth
00:48:39.820 you might need duct tape to wrap around your head so your head doesn't explode when i say this to you
00:48:48.180 just because a recession occurs it doesn't necessarily in fact it usually does not mean anything has gone
00:48:59.220 quote wrong end quote in a healthy functional market economy recessions are normal they're natural
00:49:09.280 and a healthy process of the business cycle now that's hard to say i'm a small business owner i am also a rancher
00:49:20.160 i have a farm i know what farmers are going through right now we're going through it i am a business
00:49:28.560 small business owner i know what it is like i know homes can be foreclosed on by banks families are
00:49:36.460 evicted during recessions life savings can be wiped out farmers lose their land ranchers are forced to
00:49:43.940 sell their herds small business owners are forced to cut back on workers have to lay people off or they
00:49:50.200 lose their business so i have been through that process myself it is painful it is emotional and it has
00:49:58.300 a real world impact nobody wants to go through that nobody wants to see anybody else go through that
00:50:05.520 it's a hard time but that is the trap everything is supposed to be easy well life is not naturally easy
00:50:19.520 when something is truly easy when something is truly easy all the time it goes against nature
00:50:25.100 a financial downturn can negatively impact many people so we attend we tend to automatically think of
00:50:34.540 them as bad things and so we look for ways to stop them that's natural but it's wrong because it is
00:50:45.400 going against the natural force to stop them we invent organizations like the federal reserve
00:50:52.000 that was created to stop the so-called boom and bust cycles that we were you know you know in great pain
00:51:01.300 from we had boom and bust cycles we had depressions that would last a year everybody would lose everything
00:51:08.240 and then it would start back up and everything would be good for seven to ten years and then it got bad
00:51:14.220 so what we did is we invented the federal reserve did it work no no two years after the federal reserve
00:51:22.620 was formed the u.s experienced an economic depression 1920 i think it was then 12 years later the stock
00:51:31.480 market suffered the worst crash ever america entered the great depression and we've had a dozen
00:51:37.800 recessions since then in fact since the creation of the federal reserve system both the frequency and the severity
00:51:45.520 of u.s recessions has increased not decreased and you're going to understand why in a minute
00:51:52.960 to stop a recession we create national job programs we enact government infrastructure spending programs
00:52:02.520 we bail out banks we bail out auto auto manufacturing entire industries the fed pumps trillions of dollars
00:52:11.760 into the economy by buying bad mortgages government bonds stocks and failing pension funds yet each recession
00:52:20.960 we fight makes the next one much much worse
00:52:26.700 let me take a quick break and then i'm going to come back and tell you exactly why we shouldn't be
00:52:34.980 intervening into financial markets because it makes things worse and i'll show you exactly how and why
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00:54:30.160 continuing part two on our week-long series on the economy and things that you need to
00:54:48.880 know and understand if you're going to weather the storms that are ahead
00:54:53.000 um i want you to imagine for a minute that there is no federal reserve yay there's no legal authority
00:55:00.960 for the government to bail out any person or any industry we just have a simple truly free market
00:55:08.360 economy now in this world that you're imagining now during periods of economic expansion investments
00:55:16.300 get made people are inventing things they launch new businesses they speculate by investing in
00:55:22.980 stocks banks loan money to entrepreneurs people buy new cars new phones tvs jet skis they take out
00:55:30.360 loans to build an addition to their home things are expanding and things are good however the bank
00:55:37.980 can't you know make every investment that the bank is making by giving loans a great investment
00:55:46.140 people can't do that people have really good ideas for businesses maybe their timing is off
00:55:52.920 maybe they misread the market maybe it's a crappy idea but businesses fail not every investment
00:56:00.740 gets that gets made is equally wise or good not every product that is launched or business idea has the
00:56:07.680 same market value investments whether made to launch a new business or in a given stock eventually
00:56:15.300 either work out or they don't the smarter wiser wiser wiser or luckier investment goes up in value and there's a payout
00:56:26.000 the foolish risky or just unlucky investment lose values and goes bad this is not necessarily anybody's fault
00:56:35.900 sometimes it is sometimes it's not you could have an entire society of very well-intentioned hardworking and
00:56:42.300 perfectly moral people and this will occur because not every idea meets with success
00:56:49.460 so some investments work out some don't and when the bad or the unlucky investments go bad
00:56:57.120 they have to get flushed out of the system and the capital and the energy in which has been allocated to
00:57:03.740 that unproductive investment has to be redeployed to new hopefully more productive ones
00:57:09.560 so the small business owner who opened a restaurant that just didn't end up being as popular
00:57:15.620 uh as they hoped has to close the doors the homemakers whose handcraft handmade crafts are
00:57:23.720 not selling on etsy has to close down her website the company who invested billions of dollars trying to
00:57:30.920 invent the perpetual motion machine has failed and now has to lay off all of its employees and close their
00:57:37.400 doors that's the normal cycle some things are good some things are bad no outside shock or stock market
00:57:46.060 crash was needed no yield curve inversion no war no drought or hurricane ivan there were no nefarious
00:57:53.600 actors or crooks like gordon gecko or bernie madoff it was just the natural business cycle of self
00:58:01.320 organizing systems coming back into balance and reallocating energy and resources from underperforming
00:58:08.860 activities to more productive ones it's how we grow and get better there's a setback we learn from it we get
00:58:17.980 better now let's go back to seven years why does every recession happen tend to occur every seven years
00:58:30.780 it's because the average business loan is five to seven years long so it's as simple as that don't let
00:58:43.220 any economists tell you anything different about two years into economic expansion money is lent out
00:58:50.780 in earnest by banks to entrepreneurs who start or expand their business some of those businesses fail
00:58:59.160 some succeed and because the average loan is about five years long the businesses that are failing tend to
00:59:07.560 start start not paying things back about six or seven years into the economic expansion so banks have to
00:59:16.580 write off those losses they lend less businesses lay people off the economy absorbs the cycle of higher
00:59:25.180 higher unemployment and financial slowdown as a recession it's a period usually less than a year where the
00:59:32.700 economy shrinks as bad investment bad debt and bad ideas flushed out of the system now the president of
00:59:41.580 bridgewater capital eats that's one of the world's largest head fund uh calls this part of the cycle the
00:59:47.160 de-leveraging phase unsound or unlucky investments have to be flushed out of the financial system
00:59:54.920 and then a new period of investments and economic expansion occurs now yes when a recession occurs
01:00:04.160 otherwise innocent people are negatively impacted sometimes severely the server at the restaurant they
01:00:11.020 didn't do anything to deserve being laid off she's gonna have to deal with not having a job not having
01:00:17.000 income her children are going to suffer everyone's going to suffer the auto worker whose bosses decide to
01:00:23.180 invest billions in that perpetual motion engine didn't make a bad decision it was the bosses that did
01:00:30.140 but they're going to be laid off they deserve our sympathy and i believe more importantly they deserve
01:00:37.760 our help and assistance but not through a federal system instead as a community as people with a social
01:00:49.760 contract that we have with our neighbors we help people the further we get away from farming the further
01:00:58.760 we get away from this truth you might be the best farmer but for some reason something went wrong
01:01:07.100 weather water whatever it is something went wrong and you have a failing crop the other farmers around
01:01:15.540 you know i'm going to help this person and they rally around and they help each other because they know
01:01:22.720 some year down the road they're going to need the help and it's a social contract it's what keeps our
01:01:29.780 farming community solid now instead of doing those things instead of understanding the natural and healthy
01:01:39.700 cycle that exists within a free market economy which rewards the best ideas with sustained overall growth
01:01:47.620 we try to create a centrally planned system that will provide for positive growth for everybody
01:01:54.780 no one will ever ever suffer it's going to be great for all businesses at all time
01:02:01.020 we tend to believe that somehow this politician or this central banker can prevent a recession from
01:02:09.620 ever occurring it's not possible if the government were in charge of everything then smart bureaucrats and
01:02:19.040 committees could decide on what ideas are good and bad what to build when this is the elizabeth
01:02:24.740 warren plan what consumers want need all by harvard trained economists who now live in georgetown and
01:02:32.500 they are much smarter than ma and pa kettle in small town usa let me continue you will understand the free
01:02:43.020 market you will understand bernie sanders and elizabeth warren and why a recession is normal and natural
01:02:53.580 and you should not freak out instead we should actually freak out that the government is bailing
01:03:01.200 everyone out we've had 10 years past our last recession the next one could be worse
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01:04:35.940 welcome to the program the glenn beck program i uh i'm talking about recessions today and it's
01:04:47.180 important for you to understand this i'm trying to give you a week uh at this hour of of economic
01:04:54.060 food to chew on because i believe between now and 2030 the world is going to be facing economic collapse
01:05:04.100 and even the strongest free market advocate when they're affected they're going to rush towards
01:05:11.180 socialism we if if this economy doesn't hold together um if donald trump loses this race god
01:05:21.540 help us all because you're going to have somebody like elizabeth warren and she is going to use
01:05:27.940 the motherly we just need to take care of each other kind of thing and we will end the free market
01:05:34.860 it's part of her plan um so it's important that we all know what is right and why it's right
01:05:44.040 now recessions can be prevented they can be lessened with zero percent interest loans they
01:05:51.620 they can flood the market with with cheap money it doesn't usually help the lower class uh and middle
01:06:00.060 class doesn't really get rich it actually expands the distance between the poor and the wealthy
01:06:06.240 but financial mishaps can be prevented with government bailouts that's what we did in 08 poor investments
01:06:13.640 can be prevented with economic district planned you know by appointed committees financial cycles
01:06:21.240 can be prevented completely now listen to this by way of the modern monetary theory mmt and this is a
01:06:31.900 new theory it's not it's a very old theory and it is it does not work it's magic um we'll get into this uh
01:06:40.880 later on this week but it is where governments simply print money they need at any time they determine
01:06:47.820 they need it and any level of money it is it's zimbabwe it is venezuela and it will end our way of life
01:06:57.500 and you have people in washington now discussing it as a brilliant new idea so you can do a lot of
01:07:06.260 things but what tends to occur when governments and central banks interfere with financial markets
01:07:11.080 is they make the recession much worse so the next recession you know becomes a depression
01:07:18.080 it wouldn't have happened that way if you would have let it just go and people pay for the mistakes that
01:07:24.720 they made it creates a distortion in our financial market by injecting policies and currency and false
01:07:32.620 demand where it would not have otherwise been it makes it impossible the deleveraging process
01:07:39.800 doesn't happen it doesn't flush the bad business ideas and investments out of the system and make
01:07:46.100 room for new better ideas the banks never had to pay for their mistakes and they are much worse today
01:07:52.900 even with all the new regulation than they were before 2008 now i want to show you the worst example
01:07:59.780 of a centrally planned and controlled economy and how it makes things worse it's china yesterday i told you
01:08:06.860 that their debt to gdp is running at 400 and what was it 87 um percent to gdp
01:08:17.820 what we're running at about 68 percent of gdp which means take 68 percent of everything that we have
01:08:29.800 made and sold and purchased for the year take 68 percent of that and just add that to our debt
01:08:37.100 they're at 400 and negative 488 87 percent they are centrally planned they have 13 special economic
01:08:48.020 zones each one has a committee to determine what to build what investments to make what resources to
01:08:54.600 and for years pundits the media people uh in banking they all talk about the chinese miracle
01:09:03.300 an unprecedented 22 years in a row of gdp growth at least on paper this is why they have ghost cities
01:09:14.400 entire gigantic cities with no one living in them according to merrill lynch more than 50 percent of
01:09:23.660 the companies in china are actually bankrupt 50 they are zombie companies they're kept alive not
01:09:31.440 because they're able to produce a profit or pay debts but because their debts are continually
01:09:36.740 refinanced by the central bank in a never-ending cycle of more debt to cover the bad investments
01:09:43.820 it's the very definition of good money after bad this is why as i told you yesterday they had to create
01:09:52.640 50 trillion dollars in new currency since 2014 50 trillion so you know all the currency in print from
01:10:00.720 all over the world today is 60 trillion so they almost they printed almost what every country in the world
01:10:09.240 has in in currency and half of that went into these zombie companies wow now what happens when bad
01:10:20.820 companies and poor investments aren't allowed to fail for political reasons
01:10:25.340 well one analogy is think of forest fires think of forest fire we we have this knee-jerk reaction
01:10:33.900 when a forest fire occurs oh no there's a fire something's gone wrong we've got to put it out
01:10:38.760 we've got to save the the forests well no now wait a minute hold it just a second the forest will grow
01:10:45.400 back it will grow back it is natural now if somebody is doing arson that's different but lightning is
01:10:53.780 natural we have more forest now than we've ever had because why we don't let them burn like it happened
01:11:05.000 in nature and we also plant an awful lot of trees we all know that it's settled science that fires are
01:11:13.880 a very important part of ecological the ecological cycle it helps keep the forest healthy
01:11:21.600 it also removes the older unhealthy and dead plants and converts them into a nutritional resource for the soil
01:11:30.920 and it allows a much healthier forest to grow our continued intervention into that natural cycle of forest fire
01:11:41.180 prevents the dead underbrush and the fallen trees from being removed this is why california has fire
01:11:48.280 after fire after fire the fire when when you do that the fire just rolls through it becomes an out of
01:11:59.440 control firestorm that destroys the entire forest and not just the dead and unhealthy underbrush
01:12:06.520 the credit cycle is the same it is the natural way for self-organizing markets to ensure that resources
01:12:14.960 are allocated to the healthiest and most productive ideas products and companies and when they go out
01:12:20.080 of business when people learn their lesson they pay the price for bad decisions it's painful just like a
01:12:26.660 forest fire is but it adds nutrients to the soil of the free market so it's good for economies
01:12:34.620 however if you interfere it's very bad a little spot fire pops up in the economy we extinguish it with
01:12:47.620 mountains of zero interest loans bailouts from government and investments we are we are making it much
01:12:55.280 much worse our economy is strewn now with overgrown companies and programs that simply grow the bubble
01:13:04.060 even bigger it's happening in the banking sector which brings us to presidents it is understandable that
01:13:13.560 politicians do not like recessions i don't want a recession and i'm telling you if the economy goes
01:13:19.860 to hell in a handbasket which many people are rooting for it means the president loses this and if he loses
01:13:28.260 this race we become a planned society without a free market during recessions everybody's looking for
01:13:37.780 somebody to blame because we think recessions are not natural that they're bad the president the most
01:13:44.540 visible politician he has the most authority and so he gets an you know outsized share of the blame when
01:13:52.640 quote something goes wrong and if you look at the presidency since world war ii every one-term president
01:13:59.740 had their first term marred by a recession ford carter bush one ford probably was doomed anyway because
01:14:07.860 of nixon but the trend holds before world war ii recessions also took their toll with you know the
01:14:16.060 with four one-term presidents suffering through a recession or depression during the first term
01:14:20.620 two others were assassinated and and fdr did break the mold uh but he was you know he elongated i think
01:14:29.400 the worst economy in u.s history and he sold the the uh people a line of lies that were were just that they
01:14:40.100 were lies they were not helping anyone they were elongating things and he did it out of compassion
01:14:46.360 which can be misplaced trump however i think is the most acute case of recession impacting re-election
01:14:56.900 chances that we've ever seen because he has built his presidency on the economy he has taken credit for
01:15:05.060 everything so stocks are up unemployment low gdp growth been solid every quarter top line metrics look good
01:15:13.420 he talks about it he says see what we're doing is good it makes him vulnerable to a downturn very
01:15:20.660 vulnerable especially in this where the media and everybody else is just not telling you the truth
01:15:25.920 he knows this and he's going to be keenly focused on the economy let's make sure it doesn't slip into
01:15:34.200 recession i think it'll cost he and his team are already advocating a fed cut for interest rates restart the
01:15:41.740 quantitative easing by just buying distressed assets like farmers that are losing their farms and we
01:15:50.320 should expect more of that over the next few months now here's some good news everybody in the fed they
01:15:59.260 are looking at they look at themselves like heroes they are uh they are um jesus neo from the matrix
01:16:08.620 uh you know and ben bernanke all rolled up into one they just they didn't learn anything from this
01:16:15.700 they think what they did was save the economy and in some ways they were right
01:16:20.460 the the federal reserve did reload uh do you did reload after the bailouts of 2009 central banks around
01:16:30.780 the world did not but we raised our interest rates off the zero percent level we got them up to
01:16:38.060 2.5 and we sold a lot of that bad debt until recently every time we sold it the market crashed
01:16:46.240 20 percent first in january then in april then october to christmas um and since then they haven't
01:16:52.980 deleveraged anything but they do have some ammo to stave off a recession at least for a while but it will
01:17:00.120 make the next one worse now here's what we can do we can prepare ourselves and our families our
01:17:09.340 businesses and our communities we can keep what we have in safe places we can make sure that we have
01:17:16.060 savings and it may mean that you sacrifice you know something you want today uh for you know so you
01:17:24.200 have something when it's raining outside you can pay off the debt where you can you can refinance in
01:17:32.220 uh um right now into a lower interest rate get those credit card debt get it down um get your interest
01:17:40.440 rate then the credit cards from 18 to 4 if you can cut back on all unnecessary expenses and i know this
01:17:49.940 sounds stupid but i think one of the reasons why we suffer so much today is because we have broken
01:17:57.600 our covenant as a covenant nation every single day we have chased god out of our schools out of our
01:18:04.880 churches many of them we don't have any rules anymore we don't believe in in truth anymore and we were
01:18:13.880 a covenant nation we have to start living the covenant we have to start behaving like god's people
01:18:23.920 which means we have to start serving each other more we have to start being decent more we have to
01:18:30.060 restrain the natural man in us and the biggest part of that is getting down on our knees humbling
01:18:39.860 ourself asking for forgiveness and praying for our country praying that what his will is is done
01:18:50.060 whether we like it or not whatever he deems is best for us that it's done and we accept it and that our
01:18:59.380 hearts are softened so we can help one another through whatever comes more tomorrow
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01:19:16.200 to hear its shrill call just one more time he gets up in the morning he goes for a walk and he walks
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01:20:22.860 yeah congratulations to the republican governor of idaho brad little is his name
01:20:41.200 um he was told by the three judges on the ninth circuit court of appeals that the state of idaho
01:20:49.540 must pay a pay for the male to female gender reassignment surgery of an inmate sentenced to
01:20:56.360 10 years in prison for sexually abusing a 15 year old boy um only attracted to boys i guess because
01:21:04.640 he's actually a female and he wants to be reassigned as a female that's about uh a 20 to 30 thousand
01:21:13.300 dollar surgery uh the governor said no i don't think the taxpayers are going to pay for that
01:21:18.900 i agree 110 percent pain and suffering cruel and unusual punishment is what the court says
01:21:30.040 you're listening to glenn back
01:21:35.080 i am happy i'm back thank you very much hillary because you vacationed at home it's not a vacation
01:21:53.880 it was not a vacation did you do that by choice or did your wife make it was just a long weekend
01:21:59.060 i had uh you know we had some work going on at the house what do you have going on in that we had
01:22:04.380 some stuff like getting fixed and installed and then i've been like you know you know those things
01:22:08.380 that build up on your lists of things to do i've got a whole i've been avoiding them now for about
01:22:13.840 five years yes and i've got to take care of all of them now and it's like
01:22:18.140 we live on the street that was built in like 2006 2007 2008 like all the houses on it so
01:22:25.940 right before the housing collapse um and so all the houses that were built in that time frame
01:22:32.600 yeah like within the last like two months have all replaced their roof and i'm like this is freaking
01:22:37.340 coming to me isn't it oh yeah this is like and i we haven't had to do it yet we have any issues but
01:22:41.120 like i'm what those are fun oh no i don't want to do that those are fun i don't want to do it all
01:22:45.800 right rob henderson is joining us next he wrote a great article in the new york post i read this
01:22:50.020 weekend luxury beliefs are the latest status symbol for rich americans great points
01:22:55.680 next
01:22:56.240 the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment
01:23:13.380 oh you know what lovey climate change everyone should have renewable energy
01:23:22.940 why don't why doesn't everyone get renewable energy well maybe because uh most people can't afford it
01:23:31.780 you know marriage is uh yeah you know monogamy is outdated and not good for society
01:23:39.620 of course i'm married but marriage isn't for everyone yet the rich their marriage rate is the
01:23:47.600 same as it was in 1960 everyone else is collapsing you know religion is really not good oh really is it
01:23:56.180 there's a great article from rob henderson i read it this weekend in the new york post
01:24:02.420 luxury beliefs they're the latest status symbol for rich americans just that is so true but when you hear
01:24:11.960 the effect of what that status symbol is doing to everyone else it really rings home as something
01:24:19.840 that is very very bad for our society we go there in one minute this is the glenbeck program
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01:26:31.580 so rob henderson writes in the new york post a former classmate from yale recently told me that
01:26:56.340 monogamy is kind of outdated not good for society so i asked her what her background is and if she
01:27:02.340 planned on marrying she said she comes from an affluent family works at a well-known technology
01:27:07.840 company and yes she personally intends to have a monogamous marriage but quickly added that marriage
01:27:13.180 shouldn't have to be for everyone but she was raised by a traditional family she planned on having a
01:27:19.080 traditional family but she maintained that traditional families are old-fashioned and society
01:27:24.160 should evolve beyond them i asked myself what could explain this welcome to the program rob henderson how
01:27:31.960 are you sir good glenn thanks for having me you bet i i really enjoyed your article um what explains
01:27:39.880 that and why is it a problem yeah well you know glenn i study social psychology and how people are
01:27:48.300 influenced by others as a phd student at cambridge and you know based on a lot of research it seems
01:27:53.560 that social status is a key driver in how people think and how how we behave and in fact you know
01:28:00.060 a lot of this research shows that you know respect and admiration from our peers contributes more to
01:28:05.300 our sense of well-being than even how much money we make and so this is sort of how i came up with
01:28:09.400 the idea of luxury beliefs and so this we experienced this sort of pleasure to or pressure to display
01:28:16.300 our status in new ways and you know one way we do this is by displaying you know sort of our prestige
01:28:22.760 our intelligence our education and you know we do this by coming up with sort of clever and bizarre
01:28:27.880 arguments you know and so one concern that i have is that you know the beliefs of the upper class
01:28:33.740 you know they continue to to change and update as people below them adopt these beliefs and so
01:28:39.960 their beliefs the upper class beliefs become more wild and more exotic and further distance themselves
01:28:44.440 from ordinary people they're sort of constantly updating their belief wardrobe so what is what
01:28:50.580 is is causing them to do that um and and because in the old days if you were rich you might have
01:28:59.940 lived a different lifestyle like the vanderbilts lived a different lifestyle but they didn't want to be
01:29:06.400 known as as um denigrating or or um tearing apart everyone else they wanted to be seen as the average
01:29:17.040 decent american what's happened yeah well i think uh you know two things might be going on one is that um
01:29:25.860 so sort of luxury goods and and having you know uh fancy uh items it's just these goods are becoming
01:29:33.000 more affordable so everyone can uh purchase them and another is that um it's it's maybe not so cool
01:29:41.360 to display your wealth with with material goods anymore um i think a lot of people maybe think it's
01:29:46.820 uh sort of tacky or it sort of um makes people feel bad to you know if i get to afford this item but
01:29:53.100 you don't get to have it and so both of those things simultaneously make material goods not so appealing
01:29:57.940 so a new way that the upper class can display their status is to have these sort of unusual
01:30:04.380 and in some cases even bizarre beliefs um and you know in many cases they hold these beliefs um with
01:30:12.460 good intentions they think that they're maybe doing the right thing but i think alongside that maybe more
01:30:18.600 kind-hearted motive is also this motive to sort of display their social class so give me a give me
01:30:26.240 some examples of luxury beliefs sure so one belief that i talk about in the new york post article is
01:30:34.600 the belief that all family structures are equal there's this sort of non-judgmental attitude that a
01:30:40.000 lot of you know educated people have um you know whether you're single parent or step parent or have a
01:30:45.920 you know polyamorous sort of situation with the parents um you know they're all equal but you know
01:30:52.100 the actual empirical evidence is clear that families with two married parents are you know the safest
01:30:57.300 and most beneficial for young children and you know often it's it's members of the upper class who
01:31:02.640 you know as you as you noted uh reading the article there that grew up with two married parents and
01:31:07.420 you know somehow these are the sort of you know on the uh of the belief that you know monogamy is
01:31:13.300 outdated or that you know marriage is some kind of uh you know an oppressive structure or that you
01:31:18.800 know all families are exactly the same um and i think this relaxed attitude about monogamy and
01:31:24.780 marriage it trickles down to the working class and the poor and you know as you said you know marriage
01:31:29.240 between or marriage rates between the upper class and lower class americans were actually quite similar
01:31:34.100 uh in the 1960s because there were strong social norms in place um and then affluent americans during
01:31:41.880 that time started expressing more skepticism about marriage and monogamy and this sort of trickled
01:31:48.140 down to the lower classes and eroded the social norms for for those people but for the upper classes
01:31:54.100 marriage rates actually remained roughly steady such that they're basically getting married at the
01:31:58.440 same rates today so why the disconnect why the people preaching it they say this do they not believe it
01:32:08.320 you know that's an interesting question about belief um i think that they many of them probably do
01:32:14.940 believe it on some level but i'm also not entirely sure how much belief actually matters i think that
01:32:21.420 this drive for social status is so strong that people can kind of convince themselves of you know
01:32:27.540 strange beliefs if it gives them the sort of respect and the admiration of their peers you know if it's
01:32:32.780 trendy and cool in the moment uh in one social group to say that you know
01:32:37.540 polyamory is is is fine then people will just say that because they don't want to risk being
01:32:42.820 ostracized and outcast by you know their peers so so help me out on on one thing how did it become
01:32:51.560 a uh a luxury um to have some of these beliefs for instance all families are equal that really started
01:33:01.000 at least the way i see it either one of two ways um it either started as a you know deconstruction kind
01:33:09.460 of post-modernism plan uh and was planted to to destroy our society or it came from a place to where
01:33:19.680 nobody wants to nobody wants to harm or say things that makes the single mom uh you know or the mixed
01:33:28.320 family feel bad um and so you're like no you know you have a good you have a good marriage and you
01:33:35.600 have a you know or you have a good family and your family is mixed and so that's fine whatever
01:33:40.420 but we we can't seem to find it within ourselves to actually go the extra step and say nothing to do
01:33:50.540 with you but if there is a choice it's best that the family stays together i know this first i'm a
01:33:58.940 divorced guy and from my first marriage i have two children it would have been a lot better for them
01:34:06.240 if mom and dad were still together their life dramatically changed their scars and everything
01:34:11.980 else which is normal that doesn't make me a bad guy or you know or mom a bad guy a bad person it's just
01:34:19.960 that happens sometimes but we should be able to say yeah but that's the goal to get here how come we
01:34:28.880 don't say that how come that how come why is that gone yeah well i mean uh i think the the first
01:34:38.060 reason you you posited there about you know sort of post-modern deconstruction i think that that's
01:34:44.580 that's an example of sort of displaying one's intelligence and education you know you can only
01:34:50.080 learn an idea like that in an elite university or or at college right i mean you know ordinary people
01:34:55.900 um aren't spending their days reading about you know derrida or foucault or something like that
01:35:01.280 right um and and i think the second reason you said you know this this idea of like you know we
01:35:05.800 don't want to we don't want to make people feel bad um we don't want to judge people um
01:35:11.060 yeah i think there's this you know belief that you know they're they're downtrodden and we shouldn't
01:35:15.420 make others feel bad and we shouldn't um you know sort of elevate ourselves above them um by telling
01:35:20.860 them that certain things certain behaviors lead to better outcomes than others um so yeah i think on
01:35:25.800 the one hand it makes us feel good to have these you know sort of fancy beliefs about post-modernism
01:35:30.960 and then we also don't want to make others feel bad about their lifestyle choices
01:35:35.960 and a luxury belief would be um the one that uh maybe comes from you understanding post-modernism
01:35:45.180 and understanding uh or is it just at the level of i just don't want to be ostracized and this is what
01:35:52.640 my peers are saying because they went to college and were indoctrinated with this crap i think both of
01:36:00.000 those are are you know sort of key components of of luxury beliefs and you know the way that luxury
01:36:06.760 beliefs impose costs on others you know first you know they're the expression of luxury beliefs require
01:36:13.260 you know learning that sort of complicated vocabulary and then you know on the other hand uh the luxury
01:36:19.640 belief of it doesn't matter you know things are exactly the same i don't want to judge and yeah i think
01:36:25.420 that there's a there's sort of both of those components at work here um so that the outcome
01:36:32.380 is that the person expressing this belief is raising their status while also you know intentionally or
01:36:38.320 not creating harm for for people below them you you point something out that i think is so good in this
01:36:44.540 you talk about the um religion is irrational or harmful members of the upper class are likely to be
01:36:52.240 atheist or non-religious uh but they have resources and access to thrive without a unifying social
01:36:58.180 edifice of religion um tell me why the upper class is different than the lower class in this
01:37:06.440 you've talked about it in your article yeah i mean yeah a lot of members of the upper class seem to have
01:37:13.980 a sort of passe attitude towards religion that you know they're they're non-religious or you know
01:37:19.060 atheist or agnostic and they sort of approach religion from an intellectual standpoint um but they
01:37:26.160 also have you know in their own lives the upper classes tend to have resources and social connections
01:37:31.400 to to thrive um without having to rely on their neighbors or their community you know the sort of
01:37:40.900 people who who are around them and i think religion sort of provides that like unifying social
01:37:46.720 um so that people can come together and have a reason to to care for one another um and i i think
01:37:53.960 that yeah denigrating the importance of religion doesn't really harm the rich very much i think it
01:37:58.020 harms the poor you know lack of religion can give rise to sort of meaninglessness and feelings of
01:38:03.680 despair well whereas the rich they already have those resources they already have the access
01:38:08.080 and oftentimes they find their meaning through you know traveling the world or through unusual hobbies or
01:38:15.440 or even their work as you point out even their profession they might have a profession but most
01:38:20.960 people have a job and there's a huge difference right um yeah exactly most i i only have about uh 40
01:38:28.880 seconds left can you can you just tell me where are we in this trend i mean you know fashion clothing
01:38:37.060 goes out of style are we at the beginning of this middle of this where are we yeah so it's interesting i
01:38:45.240 think that um one one sign uh that we may be shifting trends here is the popularity of this
01:38:53.260 article in of itself um you know i think that a lot of the things that i point out in that article
01:38:57.880 used to be known as sort of conventional wisdom you know like a two-parent family is good for kids
01:39:02.620 correct i'm not sure when that became you know sort of uh an edgy thing to say but a lot of people now
01:39:10.360 seem to uh resonate with it and agree with it and i think we may be slowly turning the tide such that
01:39:16.080 a lot of people are coming around back to um these more you know sort of typical conventional beliefs
01:39:22.260 they don't feel the need to you know sort of jump on the bandwagon for the for the latest you know
01:39:27.880 bizarre luxury belief i hope that you are right uh rob henderson thank you so much i appreciate it
01:39:34.060 thank you glenn you bet uh i want to talk to you a little bit about times gone by you know as we're
01:39:40.840 talking about these things uh these luxury beliefs you know there things used to be a lot simpler
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01:39:53.220 you know how much was it it wasn't 75 bucks to go to a movie theater and every flat top wearing dad who
01:40:02.980 ever had a house with a picket fence knew how to work his own car when it broke down how to maintain
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01:41:41.940 you think of business people he would be one of the names that would pop up into your head
01:41:46.780 like you know donald trump i say say you know famous business person donald trump uh this guy is is in
01:41:53.920 that category and he wrote to me um out of the blue uh obviously he was listening to the program
01:42:02.040 and he said glenn patrick byrne is insane and he said uh you don't don't put your trust in patrick
01:42:15.600 burn this is nuts it's he's nuts uh and uh and just don't believe him he's the overstock ceo until
01:42:25.000 recently right um you know patrick is is really quirky but so is this guy so is donald trump
01:42:35.420 people who are like that so is you know so is warren buffett he's quirky um these people tend to be
01:42:43.320 quirky but i don't i don't see this with patrick byrne uh as something i've i've heard patrick say
01:42:51.880 some crazy things like hey bitcoin's gonna be the future i know crazy right when he said it was
01:42:58.840 30 and now it's what 11 000 yeah that's crazy um sometimes you're right sometimes you're wrong but
01:43:05.720 this one makes sense to me i believe patrick on this do you you're talking about his um
01:43:13.220 claim that there was a deep state that was trying to uh the there's a there's a strain of fbi people
01:43:20.280 or justice department people not all of them that he was involved with that uh we're asking him to do
01:43:29.040 things that he didn't understand he's got a national security clearance uh and then once he saw the trump
01:43:34.920 investigation in this russia stuff he was like whoa this is all a setup and he mentioned it
01:43:42.860 recently because he's saying that bill barr is going to clean it up and you're going to know
01:43:48.420 about it soon and uh and whether he said that to make sure that bill barr and the justice department
01:43:56.280 kind of include some of these things or have to respond to it i don't know but i believe him and
01:44:03.200 john solomon he is the executive vice president of the hill he's an opinion contributor because he's
01:44:09.880 conservative uh but he is a great great investigative journalist we're going to talk to him about the
01:44:16.280 hillary clinton investigation which he's been following and i want to ask him about what does
01:44:21.000 he know about patrick byrne in one minute you're listening to glenn beck oh i hate insomnia
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01:45:54.260 the man who previously worked at the associated press the washington post the washington times he
01:46:08.760 is an award-winning investigative journalist and now the executive vice president at the hill his name
01:46:14.540 is john solomon he is somebody who actually is looking for the truth and i appreciate uh his work
01:46:22.200 and his willingness to come on the um on the program welcome john how are you ah good good to be with you glenn
01:46:29.880 yeah so uh tell me i i want to i want to talk to you about a couple of things first of all the fbi
01:46:37.440 seems to be investigating the clintons again well uh that is a good question the fbi should be
01:46:45.760 investigating the clintons again based on the fact that uh there was a discovery of some highly
01:46:50.220 classified evidence that the fbi never examined as part of its clinton email server investigation
01:46:56.600 it's remarkable we're three years uh past the close of that investigation that's a very controversial
01:47:02.340 closed down case james comey remember all the things that went on with that yeah uh we now we
01:47:07.280 learned three years later that there was this highly classified pile of documents very important
01:47:12.640 information information that the agents working the case themselves said was going to be important
01:47:17.600 to look at before they made a determination on hillary clinton's culpability and they never looked
01:47:23.360 at it they looked the other way somebody wouldn't allow them to look at that evidence and so three
01:47:27.280 years later thanks to some letters between senator grassley senators grassley and johnson and the
01:47:33.300 inspector general of the justice department michael horowitz we learned of the existence of these
01:47:37.480 documents and the fact that the fbi never looked at them and and what's frustrating is those senators
01:47:42.820 can't get an answer from the justice department and fbi it's the bar trump justice department has not
01:47:48.160 answered these senators about whether they're going to take a look at this evidence why do you suppose
01:47:52.780 that's happening it's a remarkable thing the inertia inside bureaucracy right and so uh there is
01:47:59.640 something in these documents that must be remarkably sensitive and perhaps may may cause pressure or
01:48:04.500 questions to reopen the case and uh it does not appear the fbi wants to go down that path but uh it isn't
01:48:11.220 fair to us in america and it is an equal justice system if you don't complete the job you started we
01:48:16.320 gave mrs clinton a pass during the 2016 election even though there was broad evidence that she
01:48:22.140 transmitted highly classified information on a private server she did not get prosecuted then and
01:48:27.140 we find out that a key piece of evidence wasn't examined that always makes us suspicious in the
01:48:32.580 american public so john it's not i'm not as concerned about the investigation in the clintons because
01:48:37.780 i think i know what you know i think i know what they are i am really concerned that we should be
01:48:46.500 investigating the entire justice department um i don't think that everybody in the fbi is dirty i
01:48:53.160 don't think everybody in the justice department is dirty but there are people apparently that are
01:48:59.080 dirty and will move things for political reasons and that is that's not america once we lose trust
01:49:07.480 in our justice system we become you know mexico or haiti or whatever right no it's so integral
01:49:16.000 and we always expect that whether you're democrat or republican white or black uh live in connecticut or
01:49:23.480 live in florida we're all going to be treated the same when the justice department looks at us and
01:49:27.420 over the last few years we've seen a really strong body evidence that people got treated differently
01:49:32.860 based on their political connections or their political affiliation and that troubles the
01:49:37.340 everyday american i go out when i'm out and about traveling in the real world people come up to you
01:49:41.500 and say you know it feels like there's two justice systems one today for the democrats and hillary
01:49:45.060 clinton and the other for republicans and everyday common man and i think that perception is deeply
01:49:51.100 troubling and and and and really cuts at the roots of our our great democracy and i think bill
01:49:56.780 barr has an enormous opportunity to fix this justice department put the people that are so good in it
01:50:02.360 they're 99 of them are amazing agents and investigators and lawyers get the one percent out and get this
01:50:08.600 house put back in order so that we can trust the uh the legal system do you believe bill barr is that guy
01:50:14.220 i think he is he certainly has uh the credentials to do it he has shown early on in the russian
01:50:20.600 investigation to talk candidly and honestly and not use the euphemisms in the bureaucratic
01:50:25.260 blarney that we heard earlier people using that job uh the real question will come down to will he
01:50:31.500 really identify the faults will he really punish people will there be real criminal prosecution
01:50:36.240 and uh the next three months are our telling point we're going to learn from the inspector general just
01:50:42.260 how bad the russia fisa was we're going to learn from john derm just how much spying went on on a
01:50:47.940 political campaign and then it will be in bill barr's corner to decide how who does he punish how does he
01:50:53.760 punish them how does he fix this how does he make sure this never happens to another presidential
01:50:58.360 candidate or another american ever again what does your gut tell you my gut tells me there will be a
01:51:05.700 lot of shaming there will be a really honest accounting like we got after 9-11 if you remember
01:51:10.340 all the mistakes that the fbi made failing to connect the dots before 9-11 there'll be a lot of
01:51:15.700 shaming a lot of honest discussion about what was wrong no more of these euphemisms and spin
01:51:20.600 jobs that we've gotten from the justice department and fbi i think the threshold for prosecuting a
01:51:26.160 former fbi agent or an fbi justice department official is very high in this because of the
01:51:32.280 natural inertia in the justice department i don't think that's right but i do think that it exists
01:51:37.120 uh and we'll we'll find out uh you know whether the justice department is serious if they they carry
01:51:43.480 out some prosecutions we know for 15 months now andy mccabe has been sitting there identified having
01:51:49.600 conduct uh created or committed criminality uh clearly lied just like we accused mike flynn just
01:51:55.980 like we've accused papadopoulos and in 15 months he hasn't been uh charged despite two trump attorney
01:52:01.560 generals so when you look at that case you have to wonder are they going to do it now the statute of
01:52:06.540 limitations is coming up on that and it's going to be judgment time pretty soon if andy mccabe gets
01:52:11.380 indicted for lying just like the other people in the russia case did then i think people will feel
01:52:15.780 feel justice is done if he walks this continuing question of two justice departments or two systems
01:52:21.420 of justice is going to persist and i don't think it's just one for the republicans and one for the
01:52:27.480 that's right for the democrats i think it is one for the privileged and then for the rest of everybody
01:52:33.200 else um that's a very good point um john talk to me about the article that you wrote uh a few days ago
01:52:40.700 the 10 declassified russian collusion revelations that could rock washington this fall yep so uh behind
01:52:48.520 the scenes there's been an apparatus that the president has been building hasn't unveiled it
01:52:52.360 yet but it's going to be a special office that's going to declassify and give us true visibility into
01:52:57.480 what really went on in the russia case from from the beginning origins all the way back to march when
01:53:02.040 george papadopoulos first met with an academic in rome all the way through the uh end of the muller
01:53:08.180 report okay hold on hold on hold on hold on sure is this a real office or is this a political office
01:53:15.080 this is a real office okay going to be empowered with the power of the presidency
01:53:19.100 and uh it's going to fulfill the very public statement that donald trump made that he was
01:53:24.940 going to declassify this information i think a lot of people thought when he gave the declassification
01:53:29.780 authority to bar that bar was going to do this sort of public relations declassification explain all
01:53:34.960 the documents he gave that the power to bar so that he could do his investigation if the cia fbi
01:53:40.000 didn't want to give up something he had the power to go get it declassified and look at it or share
01:53:44.280 it with prosecutors and fbi agents working on the case but for the public the president has always had
01:53:49.460 a a different idea in mind somebody that could tell a story explain it all in layman's terms help
01:53:54.740 us understand what happens so it never happens again that office is being set up and i would begin
01:53:59.700 to i believe that in mid-september forward we're going to see the documents be declassified that
01:54:04.960 we've been waiting for for more than two years i picked my 10 favorite that i know from all the
01:54:09.300 investigators i've talked to are the most transformational and uh and they they range from
01:54:14.740 statements that george papadopoulos and carter page made to fbi informants or on tape uh where they
01:54:21.440 were clearly expressing their innocence and that was not provided to the fisa court to uh you know really
01:54:27.100 basic information like what was in the fisa and what was excluded in the fisa we still don't know
01:54:31.900 what was in all those redacted pages there is a significant amount of very important information
01:54:37.160 that will really uh rankle washington in the fall when these documents uh get get public i'll give you
01:54:43.940 one fun one because it just teases the the imagination uh the house investigators that did the house
01:54:50.840 intelligence review they had 53 interviews of really key people most of the main players in the
01:54:55.480 investigation there's a revelation in one of those interviews that the democratic national
01:54:59.760 committee was in touch with the cia and you have to ask yourself the cia has no responsibility on
01:55:05.180 domestic soil the dnc is a political organization why were these two organizations talking and i think
01:55:10.980 when we get that answer we'll see just how big a dirty political trick the russia probe really was
01:55:16.000 holy cow all right um one more question i had somebody um a very well-known big business person
01:55:25.100 who wrote to me and said glenn patrick byrne is out of his mind insane uh and i know patrick he is
01:55:33.040 he is different he thinks differently he's a libertarian um but i don't think he's dishonest
01:55:40.120 uh have you looked into this stuff with patrick are you heard anymore what do you think
01:55:45.420 i have done a lot of reporting over the weekend after his cnn interview so what i've learned is that
01:55:50.700 the original material that my my old colleague sarah carter fantastic journalist one of the best in
01:55:55.720 the country reported early on about patrick byrne is spot on those are accurate uh facts and and that
01:56:02.540 her storyline is the accurate storyline of what byrne did and didn't do with the fbi and what was going
01:56:07.040 on there was some soft operation going on now how much he initiated it versus the fbi controlled him
01:56:13.440 is in dispute but i believe the justice department lawyers who interviewed burn a few months back found
01:56:19.360 him credible and that his timeline matched the other timelines of things that they're finding in
01:56:24.180 the ongoing investigation i think his more recent comments what i've been told by people who are in
01:56:29.060 the know of the evidence his more recent comments spinning a more elaborate conspiracy of multiple
01:56:34.520 people and the fbi controlling him i don't think those are going to pan out with the facts but i do
01:56:39.620 believe there was contact and exchange of information and the fbi might have been using him as a soft way
01:56:45.480 of probing this trump russia uh collusion theory which of course has fallen apart uh very clearly
01:56:51.580 before our eyes but i think it's those are the sort of revelations we're going to get in these
01:56:55.960 documents in the fall there were multiple efforts to probe monitor spy on the trump campaign and we
01:57:01.600 don't know them all we think we do but we don't i don't think we know 70 of what really went on in
01:57:06.520 this investigation yet this fall will be that opportunity for accounting boy oh boy i mean if
01:57:11.820 there's real if if people are actually looking for the truth and it is half of what i think it might be
01:57:19.380 uh we have a we have a a government or a justice department that is really out of control not all of them
01:57:28.200 just some there's a strain in there that is really out of control i agree i i talked to this senior
01:57:35.960 justice department official who has been in the game non-partisan been in the job 20 30 years and
01:57:41.040 he said things that he's seen have shocked his conscience and he said i thought i saw everything
01:57:45.340 in my 30 years i think people are beginning to realize that this was a political operation
01:57:50.460 conducted under the authority of the u.s intelligence community that's something we never envisioned as
01:57:55.580 america would happen and we have to expose it get it out there punish the bad guys and then it won't
01:58:01.300 happen again i think i think that's the the right recipe for solving what happened here i think so too
01:58:05.920 but i have i'm a different man than i was 20 years ago i wonder i wonder if anyone really will be
01:58:12.780 punished uh we have the same concern we'll have to wait and see yeah i think that's a real legitimate
01:58:17.960 concern john solomon thank you so much executive vice president of the hill thank you you bet bye
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02:01:10.960 know of course she's she's a great gop person she's no she's so republican oh gosh so because they
02:01:18.040 always say the conservative columnist she's not conservative on how are you even trying that at
02:01:22.940 this point here she is listen to this jen rubin we should be doing is shunning these people shunning
02:01:29.280 shaming these people is a statement of moral indignation that these people are not fit for
02:01:35.000 polite society i think any institution in university of virginia for example for a bit had a relationship
02:01:40.580 with mark short who is now back with the administration i think it's absolutely abhorrent
02:01:45.560 that any institution of higher learning any um news organization or any or entertainment
02:01:51.980 organization that has a news outlet would hire these people it's not only that trump has to lose
02:01:57.760 but that all his enablers have to lose they have to we have to collectively in essence burn down the
02:02:03.520 republican party um we have to level them because if there are survivors if there are people who
02:02:09.540 weather this storm hang on just a second hang on so what she's saying here i've heard it before
02:02:14.700 and i just want to point it out could could we play this audio same thing
02:02:19.620 there will be no survivor no not yet my men are here i'm here but soon you will not be here
02:02:34.180 i mean jen get a new routine
02:02:40.900 yeah i mean we're gonna burn down and there will be no survivors
02:02:46.940 no it's a credible no it's a it's a credible point of view uh if i disagree with you i should
02:02:54.480 shun you and no one should ever hire you again
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