SOTU 2026 Recap: Trump's BEST and Democrats' WORST Yet? | Guest: Sheriff Jim Cooper | 2⧸25⧸26
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In a world that feels increasingly unstable, it s easy to stay the words well maybe not today. Not anymore, not anymore I Stand With Israel, standing with Israel is a decision to show up with real help when it matters most.
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uh i gotta tell you i could have rolled in today you know two minutes before i cracked the mic
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and had plenty of stuff to talk about and without breaking a sweat i last night
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a few things happen one i don't think i've ever made it to the end of a state of the union address
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i don't think i've ever made it to the end especially one that was two hours long i've never
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i you get 15 minutes into it and i'm like i can't take it anymore i can't take it anymore
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when will this guy shut up that's what i'm saying about every single president that has ever
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when will these people stop clapping sit down so we can get through this and when will this guy shut
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up last night i was riveted absolutely riveted and i oh i have a lot to say we learned a lot
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last night we'll get into that here in 60 seconds first let me tell you about the international
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fellowship of christians and jews what does what does it actually mean in 2026 to stand with israel
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in a world that feels increasingly unstable it's easy to stay the say the words well maybe not not
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maybe not today not anymore i stand with israel oh good luck with that the headlines are constant
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the threats are real the region around israel remains volatile and you may have lost friends
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if you say yeah i believe jews have a right to live in their own nation and defend themselves
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i don't necessarily have to agree with their wars i don't have to agree with the way they fight them
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i don't have to go join them on that but i agree that they have a right to live oh my gosh when that
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gets dangerous you know the world is in trouble the international fellowship of christians and jews
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is providing tangible support they don't send bombs they build bomb shelters they deliver emergency
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supplies they care for those who are at most risk in a shaking world standing with israel is a decision
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to show up with real help when it matters most learn how you can bless israel and possibly be blessed in
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return visit ifcj.org that's ifcj.org be the blessing live the word answer the call ifcj.org all right
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i'm going to give you my overview and then i'm going to take it uh bit by bit uh and tell you
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i guess there's places i just we just have to go you just have to go i just have to play the audio
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because it was incredible last night last night was not a speech okay last night it was a mirror
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and if you were watching carefully not through twitter not through the spin room not through cable
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chyrons but actually watching the room you saw something that you should concern every democratic
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strategist in america you saw something in the room that if you vote for the democrats should have
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made you question who am i standing with the damage was not done by the president the damage was done
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by the people who refused to stand or clap for the most obvious things
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let me say something um plainly here this was the best speech president trump has ever given
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i mean you want to talk about a mic drop and i urge you go back and look at the when he was walking out
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i mean i think you will see it now when i point this out you will see it when he's walking out and
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he's shaking people's hands on the way out the guy looks 20 years younger he looks like he's 60
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when he walked he's walking out he walked in strong clear disciplined not tired not wandering
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he was on prompter yes but he commanded the prompter unlike any time i've ever seen him give a speech
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he had humor that landed he had key moments like the hockey team that was humor that was human that
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was light that was confident the opening statistics i thought were overwhelming rapid fire border inflation
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energy jobs there was a rhythm to this speech the most important thing is he did not look like he was
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defensive and donald trump has has been on the defense for most of his presidency not necessarily this term
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but last term and then when he was running for president and even towards the beginning of this first
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or this second term he has been saying look it's going to be great
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he no longer had to say that last night he was on the offense last night he looked certain
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he knew what he had done and he was commanding as president of the united states but that's not the story
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although that's big news that's not the story the story was the democrats
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when you have a third of them not standing for the u.s hockey team
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what is going on no real applause for the olympics or the world cup coming to america
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muted response for the first world war ii veteran
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um polite restrained clapping for the coast guard rescue mission what what
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the moment that was the most powerful moment i have ever seen any president uh give other than
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mr gorbachev tear down this wall there was no moment in presidential history in my lifetime
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that was as strong as that until last night stand if you agree the first job of government is to
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protect the american citizen and not foreign citizens that's the easiest applause line ever presented
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in american politics that is you shouldn't even think you just stand up that's not even partisan
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is the job of the american government congress to protect the american city a citizen or illegals
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hesitation folding of arms looking down no one clapping no one standing up on that side of the
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that's something that even if you don't believe in you stand up for it's something that you you go
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like i don't believe in this but this is going to look really really bad we all got to stand up
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you don't damage your opponent when you do that you damage your brand this was the worst night for any brand
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and maybe and maybe twice as bad for the night that coca-cola came out and said we're getting rid of the original recipe and we're going right for new coke
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i mean that did brand damage like i've never seen before this i'm not sure the democrats survived the brand damage that they're doing right now
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you know what i mean when you when you when you don't you can't stand for that
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the american people last night were not watching like operatives
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if you can't stand for protecting citizens something is very broken something is very wrong
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calling for commercial license to be denied to illegal immigrants
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dangerous rapists and criminals from the country
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uh in the future as well um all right so jason and sarah what was the big takeaway that you took
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last night from the state of the union let's start with you sarah well mine is i felt that trump
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from the apprentice was there last night especially yeah especially at the end when he was given the
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fighter pilot the medal and he had melania do it i was like he wants a heart attack right now he wants
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those ratings that was pretty impressive yeah he was i gotta tell you he was uh he the one thing
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that you know ronald reagan was so good he was the great communicator because he was an actor
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donald trump is not an actor although i would make the case he's a good comedian um he's a tv guy
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he that came out last night that was the best produced tell that was great television last night
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one of the things we were talking about in the meeting before the show was that moment that
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sarah is talking about and and then also presenting the medal of freedom to the warrant officer i don't
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want to say yeah or else jason will call me out who led the raid on maduro who is still injured
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in a walker yeah and it's it was such an amazing television moment but i was i wondered
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has any other president presented medals of freedom and medals of honor during state of
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the unions before no he's the first to break precedent so rush limbaugh must have been the
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first one he was in 2020 that was such a memorable moment i mean he has changed the state of the union
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if anybody else can pull it off he's changed the state of the union they've always brought up let me
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tell you a story and i've hated it every year i hate it let me tell you a story about little sally
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muck and fudge who is uh you know has a child with no eyes she was born without eyes and so i've
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been growing eyes in the basement of the white house because that's the american thing to do and i hate
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those stories every time i hate those stories because i just feel we got it last night every story was
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riveting every person was personal it was emotional it i mean he cracked the code on the state of the
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union last night i think ricky i think you said it when he first came in he's like he should not give
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another state of the union speech ever again because that was just rerun that one it was great it was
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great you know who wrote that one they will never never say tell you but if i had to guess
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hints of steven miller in there it was really really good and you notice he sticked to the prompter
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he doesn't usually do that he usually is like on the prompter a bit and he'll just read blah blah blah
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and then he'll riff last night he was the best i've ever seen him on prompter he stuck to the script
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and his asides were critically important like you people are crazy these people are crazy
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hello america the speech last night state of the union the best the president has ever delivered
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but the speech wasn't the story the reaction was the story um when you have the democrats they cannot
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stand for the country they won't clap for safety security they um they cause the inflation that they
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now criticize they're offering outrage last night he was offering solutions and not just solutions like
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hey this is what we're going to do in the future he was pointing out here's what i've done in just the
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last year and the dividing line was stark and simple protect citizens or protect ideology homes for
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families or homes for hedge funds energy independence or managed decline nation building for our children in our own nation
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or applause lines for the base that's what it came down to last night and i want to take you through some of the
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critical sections um because i saw things i've never seen a president do last night i saw some things
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um that i don't think any other president maybe reagan but he didn't do it uh could have pulled off
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so uh last night i want to start with the um audio which i have never ever seen anything like it
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um he uh he is calling out where is that audio here okay this cut 13 listen to this where he is
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just asking people just stand just stand if you believe this listen so tonight i'm inviting every
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legislature to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle if you agree with
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this statement then stand up and show your support the first duty of the american government is to
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protect american citizens not illegal aliens they're not clapping the democrats none of them are standing
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none of them and donald trump just motions towards them like look at that look at
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this is the biggest political mistake i've ever seen a party make
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in that shame you should be ashamed of yourself not standing up you should be ashamed of yourself
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that is why i'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities okay do you notice here i've
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i've never heard the president speak so forcefully as i mean he was almost like this a couple of times
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where you're like what what is happening it's because he was trying to drown out the shouts from the
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high schoolers that call themselves congressmen who were shouting you kill american citizens i mean insane
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stuff that's why he was shouting so loud that's why i'm introducing because he wanted to drown them
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out i've never seen anything like it from a country that went from joe wilson saying you lie and the whole
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nation stopped how dare you do that to the president united states i don't care if you disagree with him or
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not you don't you don't disrespect the president in the state of the union to that i was surprised they
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didn't start throwing things at him and i mean that sincerely i was shocked they didn't start throwing
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things at him it was not a good look now do we have the uh do we have the
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the uh place to where he is uh talking about here let's play cut 12 him calling for the you know for
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ending the shutdown listen to this cut 12 as we speak democrats in this chamber have cut off all
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funding for the department of homeland security it's all cut off it's all cut off they have instituted
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another democrat shutdown the first one costing us two points on gdp two points we lost on gdp which
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probably made them quite happy actually now they have closed the agency responsible for
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protecting americans from terrorists and murderers tonight i'm demanding the full and immediate
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restoration of all funding for the border security homeland security of the united states and also for
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helping people clean up their snow we have no money because of the democrats and it would be nice
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we'd love to give your hand to clean it up but you gave no money nobody's getting paid it's a shame
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so you have to think about it we have in case you didn't know pretty large snowstorm out there
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you know what he didn't say you want to be petty but accurate but anybody who thought he was
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petty you know what he didn't say has been defunded secret service secret service dhs and secret service
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as they continue to try to kill this president they're defunding secret service
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i it it it to me that took a man much bigger than me because i would have said i've had attempt on my
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life after attempt on my life and you people are responsible because you keep saying i'm a nazi
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and you have the gall to cut the budget and stop paying secret service to protect not just me but
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our our judges and some of you how dare you do that you have a responsibility to protect the constitutional
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order he didn't say that and he would have had everywhere they just tried to kill him again
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he'd have every right to do that every right now it's amazing to me how some some people are saying
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you know well here he didn't he didn't get any of facts right he didn't get any of the facts right what
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so let's let's look at what he said last night because a lot of them that they say he didn't
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get right well it was mostly true but we don't have enough evidence yet okay that that doesn't make it
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false okay the economy i had inherited a nation in crisis with stagnant economy inflation at record levels
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uh yep yep the economy was was not growing um now bls said it wasn't stagnant um he says inflation is
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plummeting core inflation down to the lowest level in more than five years in the last three months of
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2025 it was down to 1.7 percent the uh bls says core cpi uh is at 2.5 to 2.6 year over year
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uh december and january 26 the lowest in years but not at 1.7 gasoline he said now below 230 dollars
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a gallon in most states a dollar 99 where i've seen it and a dollar 85 a gallon i saw at a gas station
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in iowa the uh the press is saying that's false the national average is 292 to 295 well it's sure the
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hell better than four bucks a gallon isn't it um and that was in february of 2026 no wide spread
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sub two dollar and 30 cent prices no widespread he said i saw a gas station in iowa and in uh most states
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it's two dollars and 30 cents that's not sub 230 is it interesting mortgage rates are the lowest in
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four years and falling fast the annual cost of a typical new mortgage is down almost five thousand
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dollars since i took office slight exaggeration is what they mark this rates fell in 2025 but not to
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a four-year low across the board exactly notice that uh exact five thousand dollar savings not
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independently verified at scale okay uh the stock market is at 53 all-time record highs
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uh dow jones broke 50 000 four years ahead of schedule mostly true but exaggerated on 53
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dow jones hit uh 50 000 in early february not at 53 000 that's not what he said he said the stock market
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did he not he wasn't saying it was at 53 000 um it just broke because he follows it all-time
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highs jow jones broke 50 000 four years ahead okay even if it was 50 53 in 12 months i've secured
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commitments for more than 18 trillion dollars new investments fact checkers unverifiable
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i mean where is he getting that number well no into this quote no independent government or news
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confirmation of exact 18 trillion figure in commitments okay but what is the figure that you
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have if it's not 18 trillion what is the figure because when you look at those numbers and you add
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them up and if they actually come through and this is all you need to say 18 trillion dollars okay
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that's what he says but that money is trickling in there's maybe been a trillion of it that has come
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in so far it's over five years we'll watch but if that happens then it's true um american oil production
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is up by more than 600 000 barrels a day plausible but unconfirmed is the exact figure of 600 000
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american natural gas production is at an all-time high true more americans are working today than
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any other time in the history of our country 100 of all jobs created were in the private sector
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true let me say that one again more americans are working today today than at any time in the history
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of our country 100 of all jobs created were created in the private sector true why is that important
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that's important because we're not growing the size of the government all the jobs that have been
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created in the last you know during the last administration the vast majority of them were
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all government sector they're not okay we cut the record number of job killing regulations lifted 2.4
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million americans off of food stamps exaggerated snap rolls declined but exact 2.4 million record not
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independently verified as largest one in one year okay all right um largest tax cuts in american history
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no tax on tips no no tax on overtime no tax on social security interest on auto lines auto loans tax
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deductible if made in america mostly true they say the typical 401k balance is up by at least 30 000
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dollars fact checkers plausible strong 2025 market gains boosted balances but not exact averages increase
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varies by source so we found another source that said it was what 23 000 the average is up 23 so
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we're not sure 23 000 30 000 what difference does that make honestly because there's no verified number so
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you can pick either and say either one of those is true and probably won't be wrong um or that wrong
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the point is is that america's 401ks i didn't even think of that i didn't think that for the average
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american 401k let's just use 23 000 did you know that nobody's checking their 401ks everybody checked
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their 401ks in 2008 i heard every day do you know how much i've lost in the stock market you know how much
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my 401k how am i going to retire in the last year if your 401k is up 23 000 or 30 000 that's a big deal
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in one year the flow of deadly fentanyl across our border is down by a record 56 percent in one year
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true uh the murder rate saw its single largest decline in recorded history it's the biggest
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decline lowest number in over 125 years mostly true homicides fell 21 in 2025 across major cities
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largest single year drop on record national rate likely lowest likely lowest since 1900
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okay all right members of the somalia community uh have pillaged an estimated 19 billion dollars
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minnesota california massachusetts maine even worse they say that's exaggerated real fraud cases existed
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in feeding programs etc but the totals were in the hundreds of millions not 19 billion nationwide
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i think we have that to play out yet and i don't think i take the press on their number more than i take
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what the president is saying on the number i'm telling you right now a third of our debt a third of our debt
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is going to in the end be because of fraud that's how big i think the fraud is in the united states
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government i think a third of our debt not our deficit our yearly deficit what did he say yesterday
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um i think he said uh didn't he say half or a third of our debt he said we would wipe out our national
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deficit if we just eliminate the fraud we will wipe out our national deficit and we will balance the
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books i think that is absolutely true absolutely true crime in dc is now at the lowest level ever
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recorded and murders in dc this january were down close to 100 percent uh fact checked exaggerated
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homicides homicides homicides are down sharply 67 percent year to date early 2026 versus prior january 2026
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very low only one to two cases not almost no crime or exactly 100 percent that that's how they
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not almost no crime or exactly 100 okay all right well we get it the point is is that when he said that
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and he said crime is down dramatically we're at the lowest crime in over a hundred years
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the murder rate is down the democrats didn't applaud
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during the election do you remember democrats or republicans democrats i can't remember do i fail
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this test no i i just remember because i thought it was lunacy they said he's going to stop all ivf
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treatments he's going to ban it he's going to ban ivf what did he do he lowered the car and he said he
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was going to do this and the media and everybody else twisted everything he was to say and saying
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he's talking about banning ivf he had katherine uh rayner there last night woman who has been taking
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ivf treatments four thousand dollars a treatment she just bought her treatment for under five hundred
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dollars now you would think that anybody who cares about the country cares about the cost of living cares
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about the average person and health care costs you would be thrilled with that as he said these
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guys have been saying they're going to fix it forever they weren't interested in fixing it they
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just grew the size of the corruption they weren't fixing it i fixed it and they would not go you know
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what i got to give him on that one i got to give him that one that's fixed going from five thousand
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dollars for ivf to 500 especially when i said he was going to stop all ivf treatments i gotta admit i
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was wrong on that one americans saw a very stark contrast last night and uh it i've never seen anything
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like it one side just is hateful dark doesn't seem to love america doesn't seem to even like america
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and the other side's offering solutions and doing it all right let me tell you about the international
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fellowship history has shown what happens when the world looks away bad things happen and they don't
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happen all at once they happen gradually words turn into threats threats turn into actions and too often
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the people who should have spoken up convince themselves that's not really my fight the jewish
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so last night at the state of the union uh the uh the president celebrated
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the fentanyl decline and the murder decline listen cut seven
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the flow of deadly fentanyl across our border is down by a record 56 percent in one year
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and last year the murder rate saw its single largest decline in recorded history this is the biggest
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decline think of it in recorded history the lowest number in over 125 years year 1900
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so he goes on to say you know the problem is is in then some of these cities some of these states
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they're just releasing these people and we're having to do it all over again a great example of this is in
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happening in sacramento county we have the sheriff jim cooper on with us i saw this press conference with the
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sheriff the other day where they have just california has just released this this this monster who i believe
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got three life sentences three um the uh sheriff has said this is the monster that parents fear most a man
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who lured kids as young as three with candy and toys then kidnapped and horribly horrifically
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assaulted them yet the parole board just reaffirmed his suitability for release after serving only 27
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years sheriff how is this happening it is insane when in california has to amend a law that allows these
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predators early early release the majority of states excute heinous crimes like this such as murder and
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child molest this program was meant for those who no longer pose a risk obviously mr funston does
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so um why are they giving them early release because they're elderly but isn't that didn't they pass
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this law and say elderly is now 50 and that's so ironic think about this to retire with social security
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at 62 people work well into their 60s and 70s and that's the big issue and where's the moral compass
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on this with the board of prison terms they read the report it was eight kids seven girls and one boy
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the three-year-old victim who testified at my hearing uh took her from in front of her aunt's house took
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her to his home bathed her molested her threatened to kill her with a knife if she told anyone
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him he had toys barbie dolls and then dropped her off and told her again don't tell anyone i'll kill
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you three years old he's about to go free another seven-year-old girl offered her candy in his car
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and she went for it he pulled her in drove her molested her beat her gave her a bloody lip and then
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pushed her out of the car 50 miles away from her house so when i'm reading these reports over this
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weekend and i'm reading all all eight reports and i'm wondering how could anybody rationalize that this
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person deserves to get out early she's not illing she's not in bad physical health uh we have a broken
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system that needs to be fixed but they keep making it worse i mean it's not it's not like it's a broken fix
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system that nobody will will fix their fixes are are seemingly going towards the the criminals and
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not the victims well it's been that way here and that's that's the unfortunate part about it um
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and we're trying to fight it so hopefully with your help and others uh making this known um they
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will introduce a bill this year there's several bills introduced right now to change this law it's
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got to change and like i said going back and reading those reports 30 years ago um what those
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kids went through they were very resilient and they gave detailed descriptions and the four-year-old boy
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picked funston out in a photo lineup four years old imagine the horrors he went through and to have
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the resilience to pick that photo out says a lot about those kids and we have to make sure we protect them
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and other kids sheriff if there's anything we can do if we can talk to you know the parents or the
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survivors now that they're older um and help you with your campaign to get this changed you just
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please let us know well i'll do anything to help you this is this is an abomination and i honestly
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you know i feel for the the victims and the families because i don't know how you can think that this is
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justice um but i also what came to mind immediately was you guys how how do cops and and deputies and
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sheriffs handle doing all of this work to gather all of the evidence get this guy arrested
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get it get enough information for the prosecution the prosecution brings it to a trial in california
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which is hard they give him three life sentences and then they let him out i mean isn't it incredibly
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frustrating for you guys do you ever look and go what why are we even doing this what what difference
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it's very it's very frustrating when they make our job harder and the job of the perpetrator a much
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easier to do that and that's what's troubling and it really has to change with this and really people
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have to stand up and make their voices known but but i still go back to when you read the reports in
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the board a parole hearing they read the exact reports i read how do you reconcile that he's a
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changed individual he has remorse now of course you can have remorse you've been in jail you want to get
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out how do you change that and that's what disturbed me a group of unelected individuals
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made this decision consciously to choose him over the victims and that pisses me off it it is happening
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all over the country and mainly in blue states where this is happening where it seems like the the
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criminals the abusers are the ones that are are getting the brakes and never never anybody who is the
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victim uh and you know and and all from people who claim to be for justice you know where we're
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shouting for justice where's the justice in this one well we shouldn't be fighting for justice for
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children children should be protected and multiple criteria used in which this board deem this monster
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no longer a risk protecting truth is not rhetoric it is coming no that he he's remorseful he had a bad
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childhood give me a break give me a break something like this and this is 30 years ago glenn so there
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was no internet no phone really he was learning with candy the monster hey don't talk to strangers
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don't take candy don't get in the car imagine he's out now with cell phones the apps on games it's
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much easier to contact children and you see law enforcement nationwide doing investigations where
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predators try and lure kids yeah but he's elderly so you know we've never had a case of a grandfather
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molesting children what a bunch of bull crap that is yeah we have a lot of those and i'm 60 i know
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he's 64 he's in he's in good shape so so like i said it's a get out of jail free card and that's what it
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is and your listeners should be very angry well sheriff thank you for talking to us about this
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just tell us what we can do what can the average listener do can they get involved can they help you in
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in any way hanging off the top of your head no please make your voice known let your your
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legislators know that you want this bill passed and please pray for the victims and what is the bill
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that you're pushing uh there are actually several bills in the legislature right now but it's going
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to be a battle because some folks don't want anybody held accountable
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okay let's just say i don't understand that but there's so much i don't understand about today
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um it doesn't yeah it does it defies common sense it does sheriff thank you for everything you guys do
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thank you all your deputies and everybody you stay safe thank you thank you lynn appreciate you yeah
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can we see if we can get those victims yeah i was just actually messaging the team to say we need
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to get the bills that he's referencing up at glennbeck.com so the listeners that you do have
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in california can help make a difference and those outside can uh you know still light up some phone
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lines but you want to talk to some of the victims i want to talk to the victims because i think
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you know you you it's one thing to it's one thing to read about it no there were some victims it's
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another to actually hear from the victims and see what their life is like today and what that means
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to them letting somebody out you know the justice the insiders want is millstone treatment
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well you know if there is any if there is any reason for millstone it is for child molesting it it
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absolutely is i mean that that just goes on and on and on and on generationally
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it is such a horrific thing and i speak from experience coming from a family who uh
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i had a grandfather who was scary as hell one grandfather was magic and santa the other
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grandfather was scary as hell um and uh and he was one of those guys and nothing was ever done and
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you know it's back in the 60s and early 70s everybody just kind of looked the other way
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uh and um and it was all in family and just bad just really really bad i have zero sympathy for those
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guys you know because show me how you're going to get better show me how do you prove you're not going
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to molest another child i'm sorry you cross that line once you lose the right to ever be trusted with
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that line ever again period because there is no test that shows oh you're you're free and clear of
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that you're cancer free you're molestation free it doesn't happen you do not get the chance to be around
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children ever again period i am so sick and tired this is this is what happened at the state of the
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union last night this is the difference donald trump was saying do is the job of the government to
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protect the american citizen or is it to protect the illegal alien when he said stand up if you agree
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that the job of the government is to protect the american citizen first not the illegal citizen you
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could not have you couldn't have had a bigger contrast no one on the democratic side stood up
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we're talking about such bright lines right now when he was talking about the little girl that was
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stabbed 27 times by an illegal alien and that's the kind of people we need off the streets and they would
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not applaud how do you not applaud that how do you not stand up for that who are you representing
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when you say you're for justice justice for whom
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for whom the the molest the molestation guy in california the person that got in had absolutely
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no right to be driving an 18 wheeler but it was your state because you have compassion you're looking for
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justice you put a guy behind the wheel that couldn't speak a word of english and he almost kills a little
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girl did you see her kiss her father last i'm gonna cry just thinking about it
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the way she moved you could tell she'll never be the same and the way she kissed
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her father how do you not have you don't have a heart you don't have a heart
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democrats i i really don't care if you disagree with me on policies i don't care if you disagree
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with me on tax policies and everything else but we're not talking about that stuff anymore we're
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talking about good versus evil we're talking about protection of monsters
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dennis brager said to me the other day this podcast that's out it'll be it's out for torch
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insiders right now um and it'll be available everywhere on youtube and everything on saturday
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and it's so worth watching but he said you know i had this woman come to me and she said i you know
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you were against the death penalty and i've always disagreed with you dennis and she said but i'm not
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i'm for it now and he said what changed your mind she said my brother was killed and i want the death
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penalty and he said that's not the reason to be for the death penalty he's like it's not when it happens
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to you it doesn't mean as much when you change your mind because it just happened to you
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you you have to see the pain in others and it's as if the democrats just cannot see the pain
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in the mothers all of those mothers that were there last night all of them that were crying that were
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wounded because their precious child had been killed or wounded by an animal
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and it's as if they just cannot relate to that pain but i guarantee if it happened to them oh they
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remember irena zarutska she was the girl on the train uh came from ukraine her mother was at the state of
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the union last night the democrats couldn't even stand for her as she is crying and weeping you
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couldn't even stand with her and in north carolina that guy had been arrested 14 times but his mental
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health took priority over the health of the community we're living in an insane time insane
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times when you can rape children mutilate children you can stab people in the streets you can set them on
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fire you can do anything anything and the democrats will stand with that person over the victim and
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still cry that they are the ones for justice makes no sense and america's on to it
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entertainment and empowerment this is the glenn beck program
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last night at state of the union the president honored a lot of people including uh charlie
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kirk's wife and i don't know if this is just me but every time i see her and somebody is honoring or
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whatever they'll say something like and three months ago her husband was killed last night and
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five months ago her husband was killed and every time i think five it's only been five months
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five months like like time has no meaning to me anymore it's the weirdest thing i don't know if
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you're like that but that seems like a lifetime ago it seems honestly like two years ago that happened
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doesn't it is it just me five months now i tell you that because i want to give you perspective
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i have a lot to talk about today and i really really want to get to the somali thing and i really
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want to get to ilan omar and really uh what's her name talib um
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but there's something else that i'm not blind to and everybody is forcing everybody to get into this
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fight and i'm not getting into the fight i'm just not going to do it and here's why
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i have a policy on school shooters and i don't always hold to it but i try i don't want to mention
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the name of school shooters because that's what they want that's what they thrive on is attention
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to whatever it is they're wanting to talk about i'm not going to give it to them because i know that's
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what they want but i do from time to time feel i should say something um
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and not about the personalities but about principles if you've listened to this show
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when we started you know the tea party started and that was all about politics and i said
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the 912 project is not about politics it's about principles values and principles that's what this show
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is if you and i'm not talking about you those who say you know glenn beck hasn't spoken out about
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this and he's got to speak out about it go to hell who are you to tell me what i have to do
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second thing you don't think if you don't know where i stand on issues especially when it is
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regarding jews you don't know by now you've never listened to this show okay you've never listened to this show
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um and if you think that you you are more outraged than i am have your children been dragged into it
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have your children uh been questioned like why were they there you know he loves the jews and they were
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suspiciously close to him when he died were your children brought into it because mine were for me it's
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personal but that's no that's no business of yours or anybody else that's for me and my wife and my
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family i want to talk to you about principles so let's let me lay out a couple of principles here
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i've lived my life since i was 13 years old behind a microphone okay and i have been uh successful and a
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failure and successful and failed and successful again okay i've lived long enough to see what fame
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can do to me and to others and it's not the applause that's harmless on the surface not the money because
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that's just paper on the surface fame is battery acid for the soul i've said that for a long time but
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i want to go into this principle a bit fame burns slowly it doesn't scar all at once it corrodes you
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from the inside it corrodes your identity if you don't know who you are before the spotlight hits you
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that bright garish spotlight that spotlight will then tell you who you are and it will lie to you every
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step of the way this is an important principle for you to understand because the spotlight is on all of
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us my when i got into this i had to work to build an audience now members of my audience have an audience
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okay you can have an audience this applies to all of us in this age of social media being the one
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one is very dangerous and when i say the one the one that's trending the one that it's exposing the
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one that is feared the one that's being debated about the one that is changing minds and hearts
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the one whatever it is it's intoxicating and it feels like purpose it feels like destiny it feels like
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righteousness yeah but it's a drug and it's interesting because you are both the user and the dealer
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because media social media or mainstream media it's not you you are using the drug and it's lying to
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you but you're also dealing the drug because you might have hit something that was honest but then
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if things start to slide at all you have to find out what that next honest thing is that will take
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you to the next level and that's really hard you have to be able to walk away from all of it you have
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to be able to say it's not that important to me you have to be how many times have i offended this
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audience how many times have you probably listened to the show and went what the hell is wrong with you
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why would you say that do you not know who the audience is yeah i do i do and there have been
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times when i've almost driven you away because i felt well a couple of times because i was arrogant
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and i thought i knew better than you that was a huge mistake that's my fault that's stupidity
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but other times like for instance when i printed um addicted to outrage thank you i can barely remember
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because it sold like four books when i published addicted to outrage i knew it wouldn't do well i
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knew it wouldn't do well but it was important for me to talk about what outrage can do to you
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it was important for me to say you know what i've made mistakes and i've learned from it for me
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but when you are when you're addicted to that high you addict others to that high as well you got to
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keep the audience high which means you have to push harder you have to dig deeper you have to reveal
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something darker something more shocking than what i told you yesterday something even more forbidden
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because yesterday's outrage isn't a big enough drug that's what got me high yesterday it won't get me high
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today today and sometimes that pursuit uncovers real corruption sometimes it does serve justice
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but sometimes if we're honest it becomes escalation for the sake of escalation not because truth demands
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it but because the machine demands it and once you walk down that road it's stopping walking down the
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road is almost impossible okay you have no idea when i left fox it screwed with me for four years
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hard it is so hard to walk away so hard roger rails told me you're not walking away nobody ever does
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when he said that i realized oh my gosh i really now have to walk away because he's right nobody does
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but when you walk away from just the outrage part not the fame just the outrage part i guarantee you
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you're going to be accused of selling out if you show restraint you've been compromised if you choose
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mercy you're protecting evil and it's the very crowd that lifted you up that will turn on you the moment you
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refuse to go further one of the saddest things for me is you've listened to me for 25 or 30 years and
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i can say one thing and all of a sudden you'll say you're a traitor and it's like what really is that
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this is principle and here's the principle that i think we have to defend
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and it goes right to the the bride of charlie kirk can we leave the grieving to their grief
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you may not like somebody you may not trust somebody you might disagree with them you might
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believe they're wrong about everything but grief is sacred ground and it's not battleground for
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speculation if someone dies and you believe a crime occurred there's a process to that there are
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investigators there are courts if you have evidence give it to the authorities if you have resources
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quietly fund the pursuit of facts you don't conduct a trial through thumbnails and trailers
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because i'm a former alcoholic dj let's say a small town family loses their father in an accident
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suspicious however the town is divided rumors are starting to swirl and one local radio host like
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me begins asking questions not with evidence but with feelings i don't know i feel and they're very
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very guarded and careful they'll hint they'll imply they will build the audience on suspicion but
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they'll never truly accuse because i'm gonna pay for that one in a court of law but i have this feeling
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what happens soon the widow can't buy groceries without whispers every time she goes into the store
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the children hear theories about their mom at school five months later nothing has been proven
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but the damage is permanent and even if later the host says you know i was just asking questions the
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community is fractured that damage is permanent that's the principle at stake free speech matters deeply i will
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defend someone's right to say the things i will defend their right to say the despicable things
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they've said about my children and me because they have a right to say it and the moment we start
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silencing people that we disagree with we lose we lose our freedom we lose the republic but free speech is
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not the same as moral obligation and responsibility free speech comes with responsibility and the first
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amendment protects your right to speak it does not compel you to speak it doesn't sanctify escalation
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it does not require you to monetize suspicion because there's a difference between investigation
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and insinuation between courage and compulsion between truth seeking and audience feeding
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and fame if you're not careful convinces you that every instinct must be broadcast i suffer with this
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so badly i don't know i have this feeling i should say that no not everything you think not every suspicion
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not every silence is weakness sometimes it's strength sometimes restraint is the highest form of strength
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we should be rallying around principles that make us more human not more viral decency process
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presumption of innocence respect for grief it's been five months put yourself if this society can no longer
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put itself in another man's shoes and see what those five months must be like and you were dog piling in the
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once we normalize turning mourning into content none of us are safe from being content ourselves
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isn't just influencers it's us because we click we share we debate we fuel the machine we demand
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people get involved and that demand creates supply
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so instead of saying what the hell happened to fill in the blank of the influencer
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what the hell has happened to the right or to the left maybe the question is what is happening to us
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if we don't anchor ourselves in who we are and my opinion shouldn't matter more than your opinion
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glenn's got to speak out on this because his opinion my opinion is no more important than your opinion
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if you are waiting for me to endorse your opinion you're lost don't have power there's power in you
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but you got to know these things before the likes before the numbers before the praise
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or all of us are going to be swept by swept away by whatever gets the most reaction
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truth requires patience justice requires evidence grief requires space these are not partisan values
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these are civilization values if you lose the civilizational values it doesn't matter who wins the argument
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i don't think i'm going to be able to say this all in three minutes so i'm going to wait um
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let me tie what i just said into the state of the union last night not about charlie kirk's
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uh wife do you see where charlie kirk's wife erica was sitting last night where did where did
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donald trump in the grand scheme of that room where did he put charlie kirk's wife did you notice
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charlie kirk's wife was sitting right next to anna zaruska that's irena zaruska remember she was
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stabbed in north carolina do you know what the last tweet from charlie kirk was
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but there is a direct tie there but let me make another tie
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and he told a story of what did they all have in common that the democrats missed
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they all had stories that required empathy they all had stories that
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i mean if you didn't if you weren't touched by at least one of those stories last night
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i i i don't know what i don't know how you do it but they all were to awaken empathy in you
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and there is a group of people in washington that are so dead inside that they cannot recognize that
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because politics and ideology is more important than the humans
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dennis prager talks about this in his podcast that we're doing with him it's available right now
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at glennbeck.com slash torch get it now watch it it'll be available at youtube for everybody
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so we were talking uh just a minute ago um about principles over people and i said you know the
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reason why i don't want to you know talk about people it sometimes there's a few few people that you
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know supposedly you know are in our camp and i don't agree with them and you know there's lots of
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people i don't agree with um some of the some of the people i really vehemently disagree with um but
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it's their right to say it and i think it's you know despicable but it's their right and you know
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i'm not going to change their mind and they're not going to change my mind um and i just would
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suggest that we all use principles to be able to see the truth and we'll come to different conclusions
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whatever but i also think that there are those who um i don't judge people for what they say
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uh or their actions because i don't know them you know i said to you yesterday be careful of judging
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people i told you a story personally of of how people judge me and they had no idea what was going
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on in my life at the time so i don't want to get into people over principles because i have no idea
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what's going on in their life uh and and and you know well i can't say you know these people were
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good friends of mine i knew them i know them and i don't understand what's happening you know now
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there's others that are not friends of mine um that i've never known and um you know i uh
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uh and i want to talk about that because there are those who go awry um there are those who have
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something going on in their life where they got lost because i've done that um and then there there's
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there's others that got lost by fame or fortune and they haven't figured that out yet and then
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there's the carnival barkers okay the loudest man in the room the one who intentionally shocks you
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the one who says things decent people won't say not because it's brave but because it's shocking
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this week christopher rufo looked deeply into one of those figures i'm not going to give you a name
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because this guy i kind of well i'm not even gonna say that i'm not i'm i don't give out the names of
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people who want me to say their names and if you stay on the surface and all you see is spectacle
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you see clips you see outrage you see memes you see performance but when you dig and i mean really
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dig you don't find rebellion what you find is wreckage and this is really important and this
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is the reason why i really want to make it clear on on this particular individual what you're dealing
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with you're finding when you look you find men who young men who have blown up their relationships
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young men who have lost their jobs young men who have made themselves unemployable because they
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decided to mimic a shock artist um and made that a substitute for building an actual real life okay
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one of the largest known financial backers uh of this guy transferred 250 dollars 250 000
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in bitcoin and then took his own life think about that think about that
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at least two um mass shooters have been fans of this in particular in particular this individual
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okay and fans of his content that's not politics that's not even activism that is gravity pulling
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downward downward and here is the pattern that i think we need to all recognize
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there's a skilled demagogue who understands something very old about human nature
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if you give a young man a villain a grievance a permission to burn down everything they will mistake that for
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your strength you just have to drop racial slurs you just have to mock jews you just have to joke about
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violence against women some people treat that as ideology i don't i don't sickness uh death
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but more importantly theater it's shock for profit it's the digital version of jerry springer except
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of broken chairs it's broken futures he creates outrage the outrage creates clicks the clicks create
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influence and the cost it's not paid by him he's a performer he makes the money
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that's the part nobody really wants to talk about who actually pays the price because he keeps the
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platform but they keep the criminal record he keeps the microphone but they lose their marriage or the
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opportunity to marriage or the opportunity to have children he keeps the donations but they lose their
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chance at a normal life and here's what's happening beneath all of it it's not a political movement it's not
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politics requires responsibility it requires persuasion it requires the slow dare i say it adult work
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of building coalitions and governing this is something else that really the left understands
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really really really well this is digital nihilism it's selling permanent adolescence to men who are afraid
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to grow up because they have been they've been told there's nothing for you it's peter pan for the resentful
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honestly it is you don't have to build anything you don't have to take responsibility the system is rigged
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stay angry stay aggrieved stay 17 forever we've seen the cycle before history is full of charismatic
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men who fed on grievance and left nothing but ruins behind them not because they were strong
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honestly most of them were really weak but they were convinced that they could convince other
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there's really nothing rebellious about burning down your own future you know these rebels in portland
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that are burning down portland nothing glorious in that you're burning down your own future you're
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burning down your own city same thing in minneapolis it's despicable what's happening there is nothing
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courageous about becoming unemployable at 28 because you wanted applause in the chat room real rebellion
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real strength you know what that is doing the hard really hard things building a family having children
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starting a business serving your country raising children that are better than you
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my dad said to me once the goal of every father should be to raise a son who is better than he is
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and in the hopes that he will figure it out maybe even 10 minutes sooner than the father did
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i've thought about that every day with my children
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did i do enough to have my kids want to be a better man or a better person than me
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that's hard that's adult that's powerful that's what women want to marry
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but it doesn't trend and that's the quiet tragedy here
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young men who should be building are trained to sneer
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men who could lead are being taught to perform outrage energy that could construct and build is
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being redirected to burn and destroy and the man at the center of it he just moves on to the next
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i mean we all say that we hate that the elites get away with it but look at this look at this
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those who follow these people they destroy their lives
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the one who did the destroying he just moves on
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that's the difference between a provocateur and a leader one harvests attention
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and you are wondering what life is about life is about
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being better tomorrow than you are today in one way shape or form anything
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life is about mastering your emotions life is about being the master of your own life no matter what
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anybody tells you you know i can always tell really successful people have something in common
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they've had somebody in their life say you're not going to be able to do that
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you're never going to be able to do that you'll never
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make it successful men successful people they say oh yeah and i can guarantee you anytime somebody
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has said that will never work doesn't mean they were wrong but anytime somebody has said to me that
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will never work that's a stupid idea you can't do that i've done it
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i've done it and they've given me the motivation to prove them wrong
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why are you listening to the people who are saying burn your life down
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there's nothing worth everything is in front of you we are living at the greatest stage of all mankind
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we are witnessing miracles every day every single day and you can concentrate on what you don't have
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you can concentrate on what has been done to you or you can honestly man up
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and say you know what that was yesterday that's what somebody else wants me to believe about me
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i know who i am i'm going to do it you can be a frenchman and give up or you can be an american and
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say i'm going to cross that mountain even though everyone said i can't do it i'm crossing that mountain and
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i'm going to do it when it's in snow you have to ask yourself do you want clicks or do you want a life
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that you have to answer which is it that you want
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all right let me go to our uh vip hotline a torch insider uh randy in illinois hello randy
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hey glad glad to talk to you thank you very much thank you for being a torch member yes i am can you hear
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me yes yeah barely hear you how can i help you all right well i was gonna i told you a screener that
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me and my wife we always argue during the state of the union addresses because she's been a school
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teacher for 40 years in a teacher union and i kind of dread these because i here comes again we're going
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to argue and the first time last night we agreed really what did you agree on what i thought too
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uh she said don't they're not standing up she said they're crazy and then the next line trump said you
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people are crazy i said see you agree with me it was what she said it was it was amazing
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so uh have you talked to her yet today no no i get up at 4 30 and go to work
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okay i'd be interested to know you got to check back in with the insiders and so i can see but you
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got to tell us what happens when you get home because it might be like i don't remember that
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i was drinking you know well she's not political she didn't know who aoc or you know the the setting
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in there she goes they need to escort those two women out with her f ice on button you know she
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said that's not right i said that's two of their big stars they can't escort them out wow i hope there
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were a lot of people like your wife that were watching because i that's the point i've been making
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today is i really think that the average person what trump did was he's like there's people that love
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america people that hate america people that want to protect the violence and everything else and
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people who don't and he just compared and contrasted and they did all of the work he didn't do any of it
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he didn't have to say you people are crazy i think he said that not to make sure everybody realizes these
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people are crazy i think he said that as a real actual reaction to them like in disbelief i cannot
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believe you people are crazy yeah it was it was what everybody's thinking he just said it
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he just said it that is always the best that is always the best it is randy thank you so much i uh god
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bless you uh but by the way um if you want to become an insider uh this is the last week when does it end
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