'The Beginning of The End?' - 4⧸9⧸18
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1 hour and 52 minutes
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Summary
The latest chemical weapons attack in Syria has left more than 60 dead and over 1,000 wounded. Russia and Syria deny it, and the White House says it's the work of the Assad regime. Will the U.S. retaliate?
Transcript
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The phrase that caught my eye this weekend came out of Russia.
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It was from a General Putin supporter who said,
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this may be the beginning of the last war of mankind.
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and yet another chemical weapons attack inside of Syria.
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that President Trump retaliated with 59 cruise missiles
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The images, if you had the stomach to see them,
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of the men, women, and children lying dead or foaming at the mouth.
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That reportedly prompted the President to strike last year.
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The UN has called for an emergency meeting for some time today,
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but really, does anyone expect anything to actually come from the UN?
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Again, when Assad used chemical weapons 12 months ago,
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the UN Security Council was blocked from retaliation
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It's going to be exactly the same scenario today,
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and all eyes will then shift to President Trump,
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For the first time ever in a tweet sent yesterday,
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placing the blame squarely on his shoulders for,
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Russia has responded in their typical Russian manner,
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Putin is in danger of becoming the international Alex Jones
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And the U.S. government is behind all of this conspiracy.
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Putin is going to be ripping his shirt off on TV
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Eight missiles struck a Syrian airbase last night.
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it'll probably be after today's U.N. Security Council meeting.
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Military action inside Syria has never been more dangerous.
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Both Russia and Iranian military troops are all over the place.
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Reports last night indicated Russian air defense units
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were scrambling to prepare for an imminent U.S. attack.
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If Russian soldiers die in a U.S. cruise missile strike,
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But I guess we can thank the Obama administration for this.
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Susan Rice, do you remember when she and the rest of the Obama administration
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promised us that Assad got rid of all of its chemical weapons,
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And Putin was, you know, there to say, oh, no, we verified.
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Because it was supposedly a masterstroke in diplomacy
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after the debacle of the infamous red line from President Obama.
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but he used that to have Assad's chemical weapons removed from the country.
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The responsible intellectuals when it came to foreign policy?
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And apparently, now with Vladimir Putin's blessings.
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Most Americans don't even know about it in Yemen.
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This is what the grown-ups are responsible for?
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who's our chief researcher and military expert,
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Like, well, no, he was actually against the Syria thing.
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basically, is what the Cold War was supposed to materialize into,
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were nothing compared to what's going on right now.
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all that stuff would have escalated the Cold War
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I remember in one of the interviews he just did,
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what would kick off actual kinetic confrontation?
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and the area where this chemical attack happened,
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in that area that launched the cruise missiles.
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U.S. kinetic operations that will kill Russians,
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and not piss off everybody else in the neighborhood.
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Everyone, because we're so involved in the region
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all the meetings that are taking place right now
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They're the ones that are doing all these talks
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and they're coming up with all these, like, cooperation packs.
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but they're still playing us off of one another.
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to where Iran is completely going to take over.
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we basically just hand over the region to Iran.
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And it may be that Israel is our proxy in this.
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Their shares have lost 50% of their value since Friday,
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So the ruble dropped to about 60 rubles per $1.
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but it's a proxy war going on at exactly the same time.
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And I'm going to do something on television tonight.
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of all of the things that are happening right now.
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the right half of the country will keep us secure.
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the corruption in Russia that we were dealing with
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We know what happened to the world when the United States said,
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but we have to be really careful because everything seems to be,
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And I know you don't have one to the idea that how did Syria commit a
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chemical weapons attack when there was a major international agreement
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that disarmed Syria of its chemical weapons just a few years ago.
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And Putin verified that those chemicals didn't exist.
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I think that China will probably veto or I know I think that China will
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So they're signaling that that's where they're going.
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I don't know if I actually mean the thank you very much.
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It might've been better if I could have lived in my blissful ignorance there on that.
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And then they went into socialism and the whole thing fell apart and they couldn't stop spending.
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The average salary for somebody who's living in Venezuela,
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the average has lost 25 pounds in the last 12 months.
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do you remember this is like 15 years ago when people were eating dog food here in America?
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This is such a good deal that I don't know why people don't,
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there is a Chicago based equity firm specializing in real estate investment,
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and they have sent letters to the city and the state of Connecticut cities and the state of Connecticut offering to spend $2 billion.
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to purchase publicly owned office building health care facilities and transit related properties.
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Anything else in the state and municipal governments might be willing to part with.
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They're insisting on 7.25% annual yield on the investment,
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and they're going to do it by raising the rent and leasing the properties back to the city and the state.
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the administration changes until you get fiscally responsible people in there.
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And that doesn't mean necessarily Republicans until you get people who say,
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this is a house of cards and it's just not going to work anymore.
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This is the one that backs up all of the state and,
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These pensions haven't really started to collapse yet.
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So there's no money left to be able to grab these insolvent,
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and Connecticut and all of these other big States,
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even the States that have done it relatively right are going to fall.
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what they'll end up doing is just printing money.
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Every time I go out to California for the last few years,
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And I am finding these people who are on the left and the right,
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we're starting to see the UNAM come back and it's going to start happening in
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there's enough people in the rural areas that believe like this is out of
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there was a story on Fox news and their op-ed section that,
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now there are several cities and towns all around California that are
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but it's lit the fire of something that I think has been smoldering in
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And I want to talk about that a little later on the program,
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People standing up that understand what common sense is.
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I had Chad and Logan Blythe on my television program.
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It was on a world down syndrome day and Chad and his 15 year old son,
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Diane moved to Utah from Illinois four years ago because the schools were
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Logan has down syndrome and he has been in the boy Scouts for the last four
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He has seen great improvement with his dexterity and also his speech because he
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He also is in special Olympics and his earned swimming medals and he joined the
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boy Scouts and everybody understood what the deal was.
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he operates with the mentality of about a four or five year old and he needs,
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he's not completing them necessarily to the exact handbook because he can't,
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but he's completing them to the best of his ability.
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it gets into the press and the national scouts see this and say,
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and so they told him and his parents that there's no way that he's going to be able to,
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go on and be an Eagle and to take away all of the merit badges.
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a boy who has been working for five years for that had started his Eagle project.
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down syndrome day and we bring the family on TV and we talk about it.
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And there's been kind of an outcry from the local community.
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we actually met with the national commissioner of the BSA.
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he was very apologetic for everything that we've been going through here and
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assured us that the merit badges that Logan has earned,
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can you tell me what their concern was or what happened,
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and how it was finally solved and what it means to them for future,
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I'm not exactly a hundred percent sure what happened there.
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They did indicate to me there was a bit of a miscarriage.
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Discommunication within the national boy scout organization itself.
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they have already made several changes that will allow,
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kids with special needs to actually request alternative merit badge
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you can actually request that it be substituted with maybe holding your
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not for a normal individual that can do those activities themselves.
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It's for someone that has some kind of mental or physical handicap
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volunteered their Eagle badges and Eagle scout awards to my son.
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it's been amazing to see just how much they were willing to support us,
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right now we're in the middle of the special Olympic season here in Utah.
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So he's got his mind focused more on that than anything else.
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which is sometime around the middle of the summer out here in Utah,
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this chemical attack clearly did not happen because the last administration took care of this problem.
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the Washington free beacon is here to remind you.
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I think ultimately that president Obama is the big winner here.
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it turns out we're getting chemical weapons out of Syria without having initiated the strike.
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we're getting the chemical weapons out of Syria.
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all you have to do is look at the fact that today,
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We should commend the administration for the result that they got.
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The removal of chemical weapons out of Syria is a substantial accomplishment.
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to bring all the chemical weapons out of Syria.
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We struck a deal where we got 100% of the chemical weapons out.
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100% of the declared chemical weapons out of Syria.
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We kept chemical weapons or got chemical weapons out of the area.
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Syria eliminating its chemical weapons and ultimately having them destroyed by the international community.
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Syria would still have a declared chemical weapons stockpile.
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Bashar al-Assad does not have a declared chemical weapons stockpile.
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We removed that declared chemical weapons stockpile,
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and we destroyed that declared chemical weapons stockpile,
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which means that Bashar al-Assad can't use those chemical weapons against his own people.
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And the purpose of the strike was to get the chemical weapons out of Syria.
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Weapons of mass destruction are taken out of the zone of conflict.
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Russia has helped to bring about the Iran nuclear agreement.
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Russia helped get the chemical weapons out of Syria.
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The destruction of the Syrian chemical weapons stockpile.
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when they said that they got rid of all the chemical weapons,
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because Syria didn't have any chemical weapons.
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the people who were saying that there were no chemical weapons
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most amazing things ever that's why in principle
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popular this was i took the stand of supporting
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bill maher not for what he said but what part of
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making people's lives miserable and so they get
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principle and the worst lesson that the parkland
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learning for all of this is that an inability to
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they don't like your viewpoint their their only
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response is to try to destroy your livelihood and
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drum you out of the market to me that is much more
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it's monday april 9th this is the glenn beck program
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so there was a movie that premiered on hbo over the weekend
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it was a movie about penn state robert de niro played joe paterno
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and uh it it ended looking like things were even worse
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i don't want to give away the end line in case you want to watch it but it was
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not making joe paterno look like it looked like he was uh
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like there was any shadow of a doubt that this guy was a bad guy
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well john ziggler is a friend of ours and a friend of the program he's a
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columnist at media he also uh runs the uh podcast the world
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according to zig which is worth a listen at free speech broadcasting
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dot com uh john has been john has been uh following the joe
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paterno uh case for a while and will not let it go
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uh and uh he was writing a massive story for newsweek
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it took months and months to do they spent a lot of money on it and then at the
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last minute they pulled it and uh and killed the story and
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quickly glenn this is my fault and i do this all the time i always i always
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confuse robert de niro and al pacino it was al pacino
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who played paterno it's my fault i did that to you in the break my bad
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uh yeah john has been on all over the story for forever
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uh and he joins us now uh john first of all did you see did you
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actually watch paterno on hbo i did eventually bring myself to watch
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i thought an accomplishment um but it was it was interesting historical fantasy
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it was a it was a fairy tale based in a media created myth and and to be
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fair uh to say i followed the story for a while
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well i i'm the only person who has looked at this from an independent
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perspective not within the media industrial complex that jumped to a
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ridiculous conclusion in two days back in november of 2011
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and i know more and this is not an exaggeration
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i know more about this whole penn state paterno and jerry sandusky story
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than anybody on the planet including jerry sandusky
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and jerry sandusky would be the first person to tell you that
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and it's been the worst decision of my life but it's also been the best work of
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my life because what i have found is a completely and totally different
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for the last seven years so john i want to get into this because i'm so
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fascinated by you and this this uh this cross that you carry because i know
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what it's like to know something and no one will listen i mean i i got the
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caliphate is coming oh you're an idiot okay all right and it's it it will drive
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you out of your mind but talk take me to newsweek because
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you thought okay finally somebody's going to do something and newsweek
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what was it like 11 000 words 20 000 words on the website 15 000
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in the magazine here's what happened for many of your listeners and viewers
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probably remember that a little over a year ago you guys had me in in dallas
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for a full day of interviews about this you're the only ones with the guts to
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do anything like this and i thought at the time all right you
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know what that's pretty much the end of this for me because there's nowhere else
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for this to go nobody you know you you guys you don't
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and so no other big media is ever going to accept this because they're too
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and so uh we got a huge break at the end of last year
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where newsweek hired as their top editor a guy by the name of bob roe
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and bob roe had worked on the mcmartin preschool sex abuse case here in california
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many years ago which turned out to be a fraud so bob roe got it and bob roe
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didn't care about any kind of criticism he was going to get he also had a
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previous relationship with my co-author on this uh with what would end up
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being this proposed uh again and accepted newsweek piece ralph
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ralph cipriano l.a times and philadelphia inquire reporter
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he and i've been working on the case for quite a while together
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and so he hired ralph ralph brought me on as his co-writer and then we
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and and we had gotten a huge other break in that
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ralph had been leaked all of the settlement documents
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from penn state's 118 million dollars that they gave the 36 accusers of jerry
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sandusky and i think all of the free report documents and i went to
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philadelphia for two days and reviewed the documents and they're
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unbelievable i was positive i was right when i was with you guys over a year ago
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now it it's not even remotely close okay so why what did you see in the
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documents that that make you say that it's all science
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fiction glenn every bit of it we and the the guys who were at trial told
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completely different stories when it came time to getting their money from penn
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state because that's how penn state was paying out their money
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we know that the so-called 70s accusers that supposedly implicated joe paterno
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that got referred to in that al pacino movie by the way incorrectly they
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couldn't even get the right accuser they can't even get their myth right
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in this movie uh they referred to a 1976 accuser they meant 1971
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these guys stories are hilarious and i now know the key thing glenn and
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and this actually goes kind of the parkland situation you know the parkland
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kids are protected right that's nothing compared to the sandusky accusers
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because i now know their identities and we have this bizarre situation where
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adults sometimes very old adults getting state money millions of dollars
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are not allowed to have their names it's not a legal situation it's a media
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decision because they're a cowardice they're not allowed to have their names
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be public because that would be insensitive to sex abuse victims well guess
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what when you know their identities you know a lot about them and you know how
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ridiculous their stories is all stories are all you have to do is go to their
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facebook pages they're all still huge penn state fans they're all still joe
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paterno fans they've got pictures of themselves at penn state games in penn
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state uniforms in penn state shirts their children in penn state shirts
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they're they all got massive uh expensive sports cars they're not they're all
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married they're all heterosexual which which i think goes to the heart of this
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whole baloney narrative there there's nothing about the story
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that makes any damn sense none of it and when you consider the fact and part of
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what newsweek was very excited about was that we have had a three and a half
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year sting operation on the number one lawyer named
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andrew shuban in state college pennsylvania and his therapist
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with with unimpeachable evidence that they took this fake accuser for three and a
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half years they embraced him he they manipulated him they gave him a
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completely false story then when he tried to tell him he wasn't really a victim
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of jerry sandusky they convinced him that he was even though he wasn't and they
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they he got uh diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder for something that
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didn't happen that he says didn't happen right because
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you've told the story let's be clear this is a purposely fake accuser he's a guy who who was in
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the second mile charity jerry sandusky's charity he knew him for much of his youth his mother knew
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him and he decided you know jerry is innocent this whole thing is baloney he went to the trial
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and and and it was told by matt sandusky who is now you know an alleged victim of jerry that this
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is all bull crap he knows that jerry is innocent and he decided to try to prove it and so and so he
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he went to the number one lawyer in the case that completely embraced him and he and he sat him down
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and totally changed his story made about made up a story because he knew that the original story
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he gave was given was so ridiculous and that penn state wouldn't pay it because it didn't fit the
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criteria so he gave him a brand new story and that there and he met with a therapist over a hundred
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times okay but the good thing is you're not passionate about this at all the important part
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but maybe the most important part of the accuser thing and this i think goes to how this kind of
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thing could happen because everyone wants to know how could this happen well this is a perfect storm
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and one of the perfect storms is everybody thinks everyone else is vetting we have evidence the
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therapist told our fake accuser that the lawyer had vetted the accusers and we have evidence the
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lawyer telling the fake accuser that the therapist had vetted the fake accusers and penn state thought
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the lawyers were vetting the accusers nobody was there was no vetting i've been i got contacted this
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weekend by a guy out of the blue i get this happens all the time where someone who got seven million
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dollars from penn state this guy got a call from his lawyer and then from the the guy who got seven
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million dollars offering him a truck if he would tell the his lawyer that he had witnessed jerry
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sandusky kissing him which never happened and the guy told him to go pound sand because he knew the whole
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thing was a scam this i get this all the time this was a this was a scam listen listen i recognize this
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frustration i lived this frustration so john so you had this huge story in newsweek when we come back i want
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you to tell us what happened because all of a sudden it was dropped and i need you to tell the story of
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of of of what you think happened to get this story spiked
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glenn beck so at free speech broadcasting dot com you can find the john ziegler uh article that was
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written for newsweek and then spiked uh at the last minute after months and months and months of
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agonizing over every word and meeting with attorneys and everything else to make sure they
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had it all right john we've got about three minutes why why did they spike this
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is he there the segment was that we had bob roe this guy with a history uh with a similar story
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in a prior relationship with my co-writer and i was urging uh ralph and and and bob we got to get
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this out now we hope we're hoping to get it out last year because i knew that things were not good
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newsweek and in this environment in this story anything that can go wrong will go wrong well
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bob got fired the day after the super bowl and i thought we were done at that point but those who
01:31:15.560
took over for him said wow this is a great story and they were so enthusiastic about the fake accuser
01:31:20.200
and the fact that we have a brand new date for the infamous mike mcquery episode that blows his
01:31:25.320
whole story apart we got all sorts of other bombshell evidence by the way the best place to go to find
01:31:29.640
this is framing paterno.com my website framing paterno.com where i posted the entire 20 000
01:31:35.640
word story that was going to be on the newsweek website and one day before one day before the
01:31:42.260
deadline everything fell apart and i believe the short answer is because of abject fear i think that
01:31:49.040
somebody within the infrastructure whether it was the lawyer or whatever realized that they were going
01:31:54.420
to get a whole bunch of crap for this and that it just simply was not worth it and i frankly think
01:32:00.260
the biggest problem we had glenn is our evidence and our facts are so powerful that that we cannot
01:32:06.980
conclude anything other than the fact that the whole thing is a scam and that jerry sandusky as bizarre
01:32:12.400
as it sounds is actually an innocent man had our evidence not been as strong i don't think they would
01:32:17.300
have been as afraid of the story they would have published it and instead i was forced to put it up
01:32:21.260
at framing paterno.com it's amazing stuff i hope people will check it out so you i mean this is
01:32:27.520
not written in your usual uh style of you know uh john ziegler rant this you can tell that this is
01:32:35.080
you've labored over every word you've checked every word um you had attorneys look at this
01:32:41.240
all the way through yeah the two editors uh bedded the whole thing and it was right i had discussions
01:32:48.720
with the printer and distributor of the magazine because i want to get extra copies i want to make
01:32:53.760
sure they got extra copies into the state of pennsylvania uh i mean this this was as done a
01:32:58.400
deal as possible they took the cover away from us at the last minute and put vladimir putin on
01:33:02.520
but i was like okay fine it's the biggest story news we've ever run it's at least it's out there and
01:33:07.560
then everything fell apart literally at the last minute and it's frankly because glenn as you know
01:33:13.460
popularity trump's truth now in the media and this is the ultimate proof of that this story this
01:33:21.180
whole perfect storm proves that in spades the truth no longer matters this is not a conspiracy theory
01:33:27.040
what i laid out is makes far more sense than the media myth that you've been told for the last seven
01:33:33.660
years of this incredible tragedy you know john i don't know if um you've ever heard the story of
01:33:39.140
tokyo rose uh and the real story behind her but when i was writing a uh one of our books uh and i i
01:33:46.680
took her story and told her story um she was she was wrongly accused she served two prison sentences
01:33:53.600
the government um uh you know trumped up the charges silenced witnesses uh in the navy that were
01:34:01.740
were going to be witnesses for her in her defense uh and she was eventually pardoned
01:34:08.500
she she's lived through this it's this is not a new thing i mean that was started by walter winchell
01:34:14.980
right well they wanted they wanted ratings well it's a good example but i think this one is way worse
01:34:21.440
because so many people were harmed the three administrators the paternal legacy yes the reputation
01:34:25.940
of a university hundreds of millions of dollars put out there a guy's got an innocent man and my
01:34:30.540
very strong view is going to die in prison and and most importantly if this can happen
01:34:34.920
our system is broken our media is broken the truth must still matter and if it doesn't matter in this
01:34:41.480
case it doesn't matter at all because it's clear cut when you get the details and you put it all
01:34:46.340
together like we have in a very credible fashion please check it out at framing paterno.com and glenn
01:34:51.420
thank you guys for caring about the truth they're the only ones that do and it's uh it's kept me
01:34:55.420
somewhat sane over the last somewhat i would leave it at somewhat john ziggler thanks so much
01:35:15.660
you're listening to the glenn back we've got a couple of things we we gotta we gotta race through a couple
01:35:27.820
of things we have some really important stuff to talk about but i uh i i saw ready player one this
01:35:33.380
weekend i read like it i read the book and everyone told me if you've read the book you're gonna hate
01:35:39.080
the movie it is not the book but it is a great movie oh okay it is it's good it's a great steven
01:35:46.200
spielberg movie yeah i think great is a little too far oh i think it's i think it's good i think
01:35:51.600
it's fun like it's fun t and definitely you know indiana jones it's a fun it's not a classic like et
01:35:57.320
though et is a class no no but it's good i thought it was really good i really liked it i really liked
01:36:01.960
it um and you guys saw chappaquiddick chappaquiddick yes really like that as well really good i mean
01:36:07.880
you know i thought they were incredibly fair on chappaquiddick it did it incredibly right yeah
01:36:12.840
everybody not feel political at all it it i think gave him in some ways the benefit of the doubt on
01:36:20.020
you know never said he was having an affair with her no it didn't seem like that's where that night
01:36:24.260
may have ended yes yes clearly they never however they never they never said it nope
01:36:29.740
the one the one hole is how do you get out of the car and if he got out of the car why couldn't
01:36:35.220
she get out of the car yeah why couldn't he have gone back the same way he came out and pulled her
01:36:41.200
out and bizarrely they they he claims to just have forgotten yeah how we got out of the car but again
01:36:48.620
i would not look a gift horse in the mouth no no no i mean no i'm not i can't believe hollywood
01:36:54.020
told this story in the way they did they didn't tell it while he was alive oh yeah
01:36:59.400
they waited until nine years after his death i'll take it i know we talked at least it's
01:37:04.800
restoring history yeah what was the the genesis of the script again it was it was uh the election
01:37:10.940
of uh of uh barack obama um and uh i think it was bill maher said well if ted kennedy uh would
01:37:20.400
have endorsed hillary clinton then hillary would have won but he endorsed uh um obama obama yeah that's
01:37:27.480
right and he and they said and that these two writers were like they're from texas they were
01:37:32.220
big fan of the kennedys and they're like you know why didn't he ever run for president and they started
01:37:36.700
looking into it and they were like holy cow how do i not know this story yeah he did run for president
01:37:40.820
yeah yeah yeah they didn't know he couldn't even get the democrat nomination yeah no no it happens when
01:37:46.420
you kill people yeah a chap according could have had a little something to do with that but i mean he
01:37:50.100
was praised uh up until i mean he spoke at obama that the conventions oh they loved him he the lion
01:37:58.320
of the senate always loved him still the i mean really obamacare really the reason you know i mean
01:38:04.200
that uh didn't get to change was because of his death i mean if you remember i mean it's really
01:38:10.860
he had a heck of a run after that oh despite that craziness he did evil is an actual legitimate power
01:38:18.440
anyway um if you look at the kennedy uh history it's hard not to think that there was something
01:38:26.220
going on i think there was i think there was holy cow i think there was one good guy in it and it was
01:38:31.240
bobby kennedy and the women i think the women were good um but i i really like bobby kennedy jack was
01:38:38.800
i mean you know it was his dad the root of all evil was joe p yeah i mean he's yeah and was that not
01:38:44.540
a great performance yeah like eight words really good in that movie really but he was great in that
01:38:49.220
oh he was you got just where he's coming from oh yeah oh yeah that guy was pretty he was pretty cagey
01:38:55.960
he was pretty brilliant and he was a millionaire by the time he was 30 and some of it you know he
01:39:01.000
came from shady uh sources yes uh most people believe he had mob ties most people believe he ran
01:39:08.100
liquor during the prohibition um but he also had some incredible business savvy and and he turned
01:39:15.560
what was maybe between five and ten million into like 400 million uh by 1940 yeah and then soon as you
01:39:23.660
get into the presidency into the into the senator house you know you can use insider trading to do
01:39:29.120
all kinds of well he was doing insider trading before he got anybody in the house he was doing
01:39:33.280
that from when it was legal though it was it was legal it was shady unethical but legal okay this
01:39:39.540
falls into the category by the way just quickly of of movies that we all wish get made by hollywood
01:39:45.600
and if if they make one we should go see it yeah and not just because of that this is a good movie
01:39:52.060
great it is a good movie it's a good movie my daughter who's 18 i thought she was gonna be so
01:39:56.200
bored um right she loved it loved it loved it i watched it with 20 somethings they loved it yeah
01:40:02.140
they loved it and it but it only brought in 6.2 million i don't know what it cost to make but
01:40:06.460
there was only seventh so go see it it's really good it's really good really good how did it do
01:40:11.720
it have a lot of theaters or no uh see it's in you guys worked out i need to bring troy walker in
01:40:18.080
oh cool troy is uh troy's actually a friend of yours that you and doc found on the blaze radio network
01:40:23.100
and i met him uh what was what troy what was it a week ago yes sir yeah uh and you guys came down
01:40:32.040
and you're just one of the most uh honest decent uh honorable guys i think i've met you know you
01:40:38.240
you you shake a man's hand you look him in the eye and you can usually tell uh and you are so sincere
01:40:44.760
what you're trying to do is you're you're making um you're making these wooden flags and they're
01:40:51.120
really great and they're great to hang on the wall and everything else and um but you're not making any
01:40:56.040
of these for your profit you're a former uh military man and uh you are trying to bury the
01:41:05.920
dead of some of these uh the servicemen that come back and kill themselves yes sir not only do we uh
01:41:14.320
pay for um suicide but we pay for any veteran who cannot afford a funeral because there's no other
01:41:19.860
recourse for them right troy there's uh the va provides them up to the va only yeah go ahead yeah
01:41:26.700
i'm sorry yes they pay provide up to 300 they provide another 362 if you die at the va that's why
01:41:34.440
you see a mass of suicides at the va because they're trying to get that extra 362 oh my gosh
01:41:40.840
that's the first i've heard of that wow gosh wow and and and it might not even be it might not
01:41:49.960
even be 300 right troy they start at 25 no yeah we like i like i said on your show we we have yeti
01:41:57.440
two payments the same out of 126 funerals it's anywhere between 26 and 298 is what i've seen
01:42:04.800
wait wait wait i mean i can't and i've never paid for a funeral but i can't imagine that getting
01:42:10.640
somebody buried is cheap isn't that i mean even if you go cheap that's in the thousands isn't it
01:42:16.020
yeah oh yes sir and you get free burials at national cemeteries however you have to pay for
01:42:22.300
the coffin transportation and bombing of the individual which usually runs anywhere between
01:42:27.480
25 and 35 hundred dollars my mom's funeral last year was 15 000 oh my gosh and that wasn't extravagant
01:42:34.620
not at all okay so um so troy um first of all let me just um give the information buy one buy one of
01:42:42.940
these wooden flags they're great you can hang them on your wall and all of the proceeds go to help
01:42:47.880
people out um dog tag furniture dot com dog tag furniture dot com how much are they about 100 bucks
01:42:54.740
they start off 125 and that includes free shipping and then for every logo you want it goes over there
01:43:01.940
okay so um so troy tell me about the i think it was a world war ii veteran that you just buried
01:43:09.320
yes sir uh sergeant uh willin he uh dropped out of high school and it was eight weeks and two days
01:43:17.580
after his 18th birthday he landed on the beaches of normandy for the first time he went through
01:43:23.060
normandy got wounded got a silver star at the beaches of normandy uh went through france got wounded
01:43:28.580
again they sent him to bastone for r and r to heal we all know what happened at bastone where he
01:43:35.040
received his third silver star in his second purple heart wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait three
01:43:41.280
silver stars yes sir wow holy cow okay and three he ended up getting his final third purple heart when he
01:43:51.620
was just crossing the border into germany when he lost the split he came back to minnesota he worked in a
01:43:57.640
factory all his life uh made some bad investments uh oh eight ended up in assisted living and then
01:44:04.820
when he died they they took all his assets and they called the va and said hey come and get your
01:44:09.560
veteran and the va goes no we don't do that we'll give you three hundred dollars up to three hundred
01:44:13.940
dollars oh my gosh oh so how did you find out about it the casual well actually i have ties with the
01:44:20.220
minnesota casualty office who ended up calling me the national guard ended up calling me and say hey we
01:44:25.380
have this veteran here we don't know what to do with them and we heard you pay for funerals will you
01:44:28.900
take care of them oh and that's when they that's when i saw a service record and i i'm like this guy's
01:44:34.120
these are the kinds of people that need to be remembered forever they they fought for us they
01:44:40.140
they endured the worst of the worst and they should at least get a burial
01:44:45.340
boy that doesn't even sound that doesn't even sound like a sentence that should be that needs to be
01:44:53.060
uttered they deserve a burial um troy i can't thank you enough and and again just meeting you just last
01:45:01.180
week was was a thrill for me um you know it's it's it's nice to meet people who are so genuine and are so
01:45:11.540
uh beyond the self-service and gratification and uh what you guys are doing is is really really
01:45:19.060
remarkable and good and and thank you for that well thank you so much for having me and for everything
01:45:26.460
you've done and uh you know we we're the only veteran organization that does it uh every other
01:45:32.720
veteran organization non-profit stops the minute the veteran dies we're the only ones that go beyond that
01:45:38.520
can people just make a donation can they go to you and make a donation yes please make donations
01:45:45.300
um that way the 100 of your donation goes towards the funeral fund we have to sell 45 flags to pay for
01:45:51.040
one funeral uh average funeral is uh we pay out at average of 3600 dollars um 100 of the proceeds
01:45:58.300
goes to pay for burial i do not take a sale neither does my wife uh my mother-in-law is going to be
01:46:04.420
answering phones today and i got two helpers in a shop today um all volunteers awesome dogtakefurniture.com
01:46:11.580
thank you so much troy appreciate it thank you sir you bet he gets nothing out of it i know i know
01:46:17.140
nothing he's just a former service guy and he's like i needed to do something to help just and he said i
01:46:21.900
could not believe that no one no one pays for these guys out of 72 000 veterans organizations zero
01:46:31.440
until troy paid for funerals zero it's amazing um so go to the website now it is uh dogtagfurniture.com
01:46:42.000
dog he needs a better dogtagfurniture.com but um call them up make a donation you can buy the flag if
01:46:50.400
you want they're nice you can hang them on the wall um or just as he said you know they have to pay for
01:46:55.280
the wood and the shipping and everything out of that um if you don't need the flag just just make a
01:47:00.320
donation um because this is these are remarkable people a three-time silver star winner and no one
01:47:12.960
remarkable dogtagfurniture.com back in a minute
01:47:40.720
it's amazing how you can do something in your life and then
01:47:44.400
it's and it's and do something really truly remarkable and uh and then it's it's meaningless
01:47:53.840
to later generations i mean three times silver star winner man i it's like i wish i would have i
01:48:04.320
wish i would have known him i wish i would have been able to talk to him you know did anybody talk to
01:48:09.280
him towards the end what what what what was that like
01:48:16.240
tax season is here identity thieves are at it again according to the irs they're filing fake
01:48:21.760
tax returns with stolen personal identification uh information like social security numbers
01:48:27.840
everybody is vulnerable to this uh but the southwest is particularly a bad region for identity
01:48:34.000
theft with nevada being the worst state and while tax fraud is at the top of the mind right now
01:48:39.760
remember identity theft affects americans year-round and it is a growing problem do you know i mean i can't
01:48:46.080
even imagine the trouble that um we're gonna have you know remember um um the vladimir putin said
01:48:53.600
the next war is going to be fought with ones and zeros did you see what apparently an american hacker
01:48:59.920
uh or hackers did uh to iran over the weekend i'll tell you in a minute it and they're um somebody
01:49:08.960
hacked in uh to uh iran and shut down a lot of their stuff and and uh left the message don't mess with
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beck an additional 10 off now at lifelock.com glenn beck mercury
01:50:24.880
welcome to the program i'm i'm glad you're here there's a
01:50:29.280
there's a couple of stories one of the big stories on the blaze today is uh the woman who
01:50:33.680
bashes mike rose worth ethics scholarship um her son was applying for a scholarship to become a welder
01:50:44.960
and um and uh she read the pledge that he had written and can you look up his pledge real quick
01:50:54.640
still he wrote a he wrote a pledge and it's it's a sweat pledge and it's it's it's good
01:51:01.360
skill and work ethic aren't taboo yeah that's what the pledge means and it basically it's it's like
01:51:07.840
you know you got to work hard you got to take responsibility for yourself everything else so
01:51:12.640
karen siegel said she was appalled when her son showed her the sweat pledge requirement uh she um
01:51:22.400
she she said where did you come up with this nonsense there's so many things wrong with this
01:51:26.560
document i don't even know where to begin suffice to say we will not be applying so mike mike roe wrote
01:51:33.440
and said to be clear i have absolutely no interest in paying for the training if he doesn't share my
01:51:38.960
opinions on the important importance of hard work ethics a positive attitude delayed gratification
01:51:45.200
and personal responsibility sorry but i made a promise to the people that contribute to this fund
01:51:51.200
and i'm not going to bend the rules fortunately lots of scholarship funds will hand out money
01:51:55.120
with no strings attached and if you poke around i'm sure you'll find one that's more in line with
01:51:59.040
your world but the world view but uh it's been my sad duty to inform lots of angry parents that this
01:52:05.600
particular pile of free money might not be for them or for their children i love micro we'll see
01:52:13.680
you at five o'clock on the blaze tv with the latest on russia and what comes next glenn back mercury
01:52:32.800
and then if you're listening to the fellow i'm certainly not happy