The Media’s Working Hard to 'Debunk' FACTS | Guests: Sen. John Kennedy & Justin Haskins | 12⧸3⧸19
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Glenn and J.F. Kennedy are joined by Glenn Beck to discuss the latest from Washington, Elizabeth Warren, the Deep State, and much more. Glenn Beck is a conservative commentator and host of the conservative radio show "The Glenn Beck Show" on the Fox Business Network.
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Now Democrats are warning that we better not impeach President Trump because he's not going to go with Mike Pence.
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Mike Pence will not be the one. It'll be Nikki Haley and that'll be a whole nother can of worms and we won't be able to fight that.
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Oh, so it is about politics. It's not about what you actually believe is constitutional.
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We'll get into the latest from Washington. Also, Elizabeth Warren not doing so well.
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We've tried on this pair of shoes. We walked around it, walked around in the store.
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And so now everybody's trying on Michael Bloomberg.
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So we were talking to the people at My Patriot Supply a few weeks ago.
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We were discussing how people prepared, you know, 2010.
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As soon as Obama left the White House, a lot of people stopped preparing.
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They started they were like, oh, well, it's not Hillary.
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I'm here to tell you that mentality is dead wrong.
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And now I think it looks to me like we're just not even going to the Democrat.
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The Republicans are just not even going to get into this.
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Well, there was a pitch that you're talking about actually going through and going into all the.
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I mean, I think we have Senator Kennedy on today.
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And maybe he'll have an idea on their direction, because I think it's important.
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Well, you know, this is he was the one who was on TV and they said, well, you know, did Ukraine?
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You don't think Ukraine hacked our elections, do you?
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And and, you know, our our intelligence said it was Russia.
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It's like, well, two things can be true at the same time.
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I would like to hear, you know, because it was sold in the media that he backed off his statements and said, no, it actually was Russia.
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I would like to be I would like to see if his opinion is is a little bit more nuanced than that.
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And I know we're in the middle of a commercial, but I mean, I think this is just as important.
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I mean, look, if they don't break this Hydra up, by the way, we're in the new Hydra wear today.
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You can get the Hydra hats and the and it would be great is if you know George Soros that drives him nuts.
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Anyway, you look at what's happening and we are in a very precarious situation.
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There are forces that are trying to destroy our nation, due process, privacy, the Constitution, our financial system, all of it.
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The 123 page document written by GOP members on three House committees formalized the president's own cycle of distraction and denial that he used out to that he used out.
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He's using the same tactic to save his job now that he's faced with impeachment over his political pressure on Ukraine.
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Trump is now waiting to hear the formal case against him because he doesn't have to.
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Ultimately, it will make little difference since his defense was so long ago unmoored from fact and is based on selling a disinformational narrative to his followers that sows confusion and devalues truth for everything else.
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I mean, because that does definitely strike me as a political analysis piece, which I would say is a piece, but a piece of something.
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I'm totally got one cent is about the maximum I would bet on this.
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The report released by the president's House Republican allies on Monday was, in effect, a pre-bottle of a report on the Democratic impeachment investigation set to be released by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff.
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The message of the document, less of a defense of Trump on its merits, but rather an endorsement of his counterfactual denials.
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Nothing Trump did when it came to Ukraine was wrong, the report said.
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His scheme run by his scheme run by personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to coerce Ukraine to investigate a political foe, Joe Biden, was just fine, according to the partisan document.
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Contrary to what top officials testified, there was no quid pro quo, House Republicans claim.
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And the whole Ukrainian drama amounts to a coup by his deep state enemies, despite an avalanche of evidence otherwise.
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It's really frustrating the way they're doing this right now.
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House Republicans on Monday released a report ripping Democrats impeachment proceedings, arguing that the evidence collected in the probe so far does not support the accusations leveled against President Trump or the rise or rise to level of removal from office.
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The the evidence presented does not prove any of these Democratic allegations and none of the Democratic witnesses testified to have any evidence of bribery, extortion or any high crime or misdemeanor.
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The Republicans asserted this in the 123 page report, a copy of which was obtained by the Post, dueling versions of the case against the president following two weeks of the House committee, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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They are the the mainstream press is working overtime right now to do a couple of things.
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Listen to this story from Salon, a Ukrainian prosecutor who aided Trump attorney Ruli Giuliani's search for damaging information on former Vice President Joe Biden was among hundreds of prosecutors fired in a sweeping anti-corruption purge.
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One of Julia Giuliani's earliest contacts in Ukraine was given a dismissal notice last week.
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OK, so prosecutor aided Giuliani's hunt for damaging details on Biden is fired in an anti-corruption purge.
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That these people were removed for justifiable good reasons because they're just we take it.
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He and more than 500 prosecutors from the last regime were fired because they failed to take some exam that they felt was biased against them.
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And so they failed to take this exam on what happened in the last administration.
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So 500 of them, more than 500 of them were fired.
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This man has denied meeting with Giuliani, but his former associates say he prepared a seven page dossier, which was passed along to Giuliani.
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The former prosecutor later appeared in a report by the Hill's John Solomon, to whom Giuliani fed dubious claims to fuel the debunked narrative that Biden had a prosecutor terminated while he was investigating a Ukrainian firm that employed his son.
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We have the court documents that were filed by that prosecutor three weeks before he was fired by Joe Biden.
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He went to court and filed a court document for an investigation to be able to have the powers to do the investigation on Burisma and Joe Biden's son.
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Well, and what they fall back on usually here is there were multiple investigations going on against Burisma, one of which had ended before the Biden situation occurred.
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So they say, well, the the the the investigation was over, as you point out, they had filed papers for a new investigation.
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There were other investigations going on on Burisma at the same time.
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We should also report that this stated thing that Joe Biden was doing in Ukraine, totally separate from Burisma, no big deal, had nothing to do with them.
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All he was doing was investigating corruption in the oil and gas industry with his focused attention on Burisma's number one competitor.
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It was only about their number one competitor in the same industry.
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Sometimes Republicans do throw around theories that are B.S.
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So what they try to do with things like this is say, well, look there.
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You guys know they're all conspiracy theorists.
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We've been telling you that everything they've been doing is debunked.
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A little different than the do your own homework approach that we take with these investigations.
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So when you say they're debunked, you'll notice they're not quoting any document.
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They're not quoting anyone and showing a document that disproves our documents.
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Our documents, in this case, are from the court system in Ukraine.
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Just show me what makes that report and those documents invalid.
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Giuliani told Blaze host Glenn Beck last month that he used Solomon to push the claims in the U.S.
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He also testified last month that Solomon's reporting, if not entirely, is made up in full cloth.
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It was filled with non-truths and non-sequiturs.
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So he's saying that Solomon, that Rudy Giuliani told me that he used Solomon to push these things.
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I think he said that, yes, he gave this information to John Solomon.
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They're just inserting the context that he pushed false claims.
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But that's not, of course, what Giuliani or Solomon was intended to do.
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That's like, you'll notice that up on my giant chalkboard, there is, oh, what is his name?
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I've never said anything about Michael Isikoff except that Chalupa was working with Michael Isikoff on giving him a story, which he ran.
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OK, I'm not saying that Michael Isikoff was was part of this conspiracy.
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I'm not saying that Michael Isikoff is completely discredited.
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I'm only stating the fact that I know that Chalupa was working the press and she was specifically in her own words, in her own documents and emails to the DNC, working on Michael Isikoff for a blockbuster story.
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And that blockbuster story, well, that blockbuster story happened to lead right down to the the black ledger, which got Paul Manafort fired.
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I mean, if you're a journalist, it was a real story.
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And, you know, we shouldn't dismiss the idea that people were convicted in the release of this black ledger that led to the resignation and eventual imprisonment of a guy running one of the two campaigns going running for president at the time.
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You know, that Manafort thing is not a little detail.
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I mean, imagine what a big 2016 was so freaking crazy and so many details happened and so many wild swings happened in that election.
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The biggest story of the entire campaign would be the guy running the campaign gets fired because of corruption that's leaked out of a country overseas is still at some level is questioned, even by the mainstream media, whether it's whether it's fraudulent or not, was not entered into the the actual court case.
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The FBI, the prosecution never used the black ledger because they felt that it was it had too many flaws in it.
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It seemed like it was a good possibility that it wasn't real.
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It does seem like a lot of the information in it was real.
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However, but it was a manufactured collection of evidence presented in a specific way for a specific result.
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I mean, someone in Ukraine released a document that got the head of a campaign fired to the United States, but we're telling everyone tells us that it's debunked.
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And that guy that was convicted, there were two of them.
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One of them was the head of the anti-corruption bureau, which was set up by Obama, Clinton, the State Department and George Soros.
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Boy, have you seen that the GOP is not letting Dershowitz testify?
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A guy who is, first of all, voted for Hillary Clinton, is obviously known liberal and one of the preeminent legal scholars of our time.
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Yes, but he probably was molesting small children with Epstein.
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Again, I've yet to see any evidence other than just an accusation that was seemingly intentionally leaked.
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And he, again, of course, you've heard him on the show, but possibly he's absolutely defended himself and says he's completely innocent.
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Obviously, we weren't there until they leak a document about us.
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And maybe Dershowitz would understand this as a legal scholar.
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It's called innocence until you're proven guilty.
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If we were really conserving the things from the past, we would go with the...
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We tie a giant rock around him and we throw him into the river.
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You know, why he won't submit to that kind of inquiry is beyond me.
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Anyway, this is the reason why they're not letting Dershowitz testify this week.
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Because they think that the Democrats will just make it all about Jeffrey Epstein.
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Why is it that only Prince Andrew is in trouble on this Epstein thing?
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Seems like there's some others that could be questioned.
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I just looked up, we have on one of our screens, we have the things that we talked about just so we keep logs of everything we talked about.
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And the last break is just, sorry, this is very inside baseball, but it just says, Dershowitz, will he float?
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And he would call him right now and say, I would not float.
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Let me go to Ethan in Virginia before we get to Pat.
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Hey, I wanted to ask you, in our state of Virginia, the Democrats are like in full control and they're getting ready to change all kinds of gun laws for us.
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So the counties, our surrounding counties are changing into Second Amendment sanctuary counties.
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So my question is, how much protection to the gun owners will that Second Amendment sanctuary, how much protection will that give us?
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Well, I happen to think that sanctuary cities for the Second Amendment are all cities.
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Because the Second Amendment is the Constitution.
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So when, you know, with sanctuary cities with illegals, that's like, yeah, we're not going to enforce the law because we disagree with it.
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If you have a really good sheriff, the sheriff does not answer to the governor, does he?
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In the Constitution, I think sheriffs are the only ones that don't have a hierarchy.
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I'm not as up on the hierarchy of sheriffdom as I should be.
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I'm pretty sure it's definitely made whether it's never been right that I know I've never been tested.
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But the but the idea is, is that the sheriff is not an appointment from anybody and doesn't answer to anybody but the people.
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And that's why the counties are doing it, because the county sheriff, if you have a good one, is saying that's my constitutional right.
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I respond to the people, not to the governor or anybody else.
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But you will have a fight between the sheriff and the governor.
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That's why you need to be all Americans should pay very close attention to who they have as their as their sheriff and make sure you really know that person.
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And that person understands the Constitution and will stand.
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You should also be very much aware of the presidential candidate most likely to do something about this gun situation.
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Of course, he wants to he wants to take the guns off the streets, which is great.
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And and I think which is great to take the guns off of the streets.
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Well, I was like, you know, can somebody pick these up?
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I'm constantly right in tires because of all the on the streets.
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And then just in case the same thing happens at home, he's going to come and get them out of your house to just to make everything really good.
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There's no reason to have something that was developed specifically to kill.
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This is this is one of the I mean, remember, this is the guy who what over the weekend said, no, President Xi is not a dictator.
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His thing was, oh, you think the people around him, if he starts going bad, you don't think that they'll and he couldn't bring himself to kill him.
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Oh, so you're saying a coup is the constituency.
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I don't know if you've noticed a lot of dictators survive a long time before a coup really bites them.
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Uh, but he's got some other great, uh, policies.
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And, uh, I think the, the poor are really going to respond to this when he's talking about taxing the poor and how great that will be.
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Here's Michael say, well, taxes are regressive, but in this case, yes, they are.
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That's the good thing about them because the problem is in people that don't have a lot of money.
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And so higher taxes should have a bigger impact on their behavior and how they deal with themselves.
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So I listen to people saying, oh, we don't want to tax the poor.
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Well, we want the poor to live longer so that they can get an education and enjoy life.
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And that's why you do want to do exactly what a lot of people say you don't want to do.
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The question is, do you want to pander to those people or do you want to get them to live longer?
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If you raise taxes on full sugary drinks, for example, they will drink less.
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And there's just no question that full sugar drinks are one of the major contributors to obesity.
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And obesity is one of the major contributors to heart disease and cancer and a variety of other things.
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May I just point out, some people that have money also have big bellies.
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Someone who was maybe in the media spotlight for a while, maybe earned a lot of money over the years.
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It's not like it's just the poor that are drinking soda.
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I think his point is, though, that it only affects the poor.
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Because if you, Glenn Beck is going to buy whatever soda he wants, no matter how much the taxation is.
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But for someone who has a lower level of income, they may avoid it because of the taxation.
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The less money they have, the less damage they can do.
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So they won't hurt themselves with the food they eat or intake or drink.
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He has to make them buy the thing he wants them to buy.
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This is a guy who, what, 10 years ago was supposedly a Republican 15 years ago, and then he was an independent, and now he's just a communist.
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I think he was replaced by a communist, but I don't think he is a communist.
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He is clearly a capitalist, but he is a progressive capitalist.
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He is the icon of the progressive wing of the Republican Party.
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Now that John McCain is gone, he's the ultimate.
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You know, he believes in all of the big government stuff.
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He just happens to fancy himself a Republican until it becomes unpopular.
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Is there anybody who is against Trump getting rid of the credentials for Bloomberg reporters?
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Like, because I, we've been critical of, sometimes I think Trump gets too hypersensitive of what the media writes about him, and he's banning his reporters.
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They have come out and made a statement that they will not investigate any Democrats, and they will only investigate Trump.
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Like, how on earth can a news organization, Bloomberg, get away with that and maintain any level of credibility?
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I understand that he's the guy that owns the company, and there's weird things there.
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And it makes sense, even, to say you're not going to investigate Bloomberg or the Democrats.
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What would they say if Murdoch were American and would run for president of the United States?
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It would be ridiculous to think that they would be fine with that.
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I know, when I was called up into the office of Rupert Murdoch, the first talent, I am told by Roger Ailes,
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to ever been called up to Rupert Murdoch's office before.
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And he was nervous, and I was like, cool, I'm going to meet the guy.
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And I sat there with him, and the first question he asked me was, are you running for president?
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You just called the largest group of people together as a private citizen.
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We cannot think of anybody who was a private citizen who has called that many people
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and had that many people come without an entity behind him.
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I just thought we should all get together on the mall.
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Mike Huckabee, if he was running for president, he loses his show.
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How is it that anybody like Mike Huckabee is different than Michael Bloomberg?
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How can the guy who owns it, and they say, oh, by the way, we're only going to investigate this.
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Go, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
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Like, there's a big story about Elizabeth Warren, and we can't report on it.
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Basically, you're saying, oh, all we can do is aggregate other people's reporting.
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Like, if you're a journalist, you got into journalism to do investigations.
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And now you're like, well, these people are off limits.
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Remember the whole do not prosecute list we talked about in Ukraine that was so controversial?
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And a lot of this stuff just comes from the news organizations.
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Fox News fires those people not because, you know, fires them, makes them leave their shows because they're running for president.
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Not because necessarily they have to on cable, because they have standards.
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They're saying to themselves, we can't avoid even the appearance.
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What are they going to say when Trump leaves office in 2028?
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He changed the Constitution of New York City to do it.
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So when Donald Trump leaves in 2024 and he starts the Trump television news network.
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Are they going to allow Trump's reporters into the White House?
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You've got Bloomberg running for president and Trump says, I'm not letting him in.
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Very excited to have Senator John Kennedy on with us tomorrow.
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Actually, today, tomorrow, we have John F. Kennedy.
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Which probably will be a bigger interview, I'm guessing.
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John is going through some problems right now with the press because he has been articulating,
00:40:01.640
and I think with all deference to the senator because he's one of the only people trying to do it,
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he's been put into an almost impossible situation of trying to explain Hydra,
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and the press is just trying to make this into a conspiracy theory.
00:40:25.920
Russia meddled in our election, but so did Ukraine.
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And he is really the only one that I have seen articulating this,
00:40:35.860
and I'm very disappointed in his Senate colleagues,
00:40:38.940
but we wanted to get him on and, A, give him some praise for standing up and speaking about the truth,
00:40:47.680
and also to see what he thinks the chances are of the Republicans actually going after this Hydra.
00:40:58.100
and I'm so afraid this is just going to be swept under the rug.
00:41:04.800
It's a real problem because the State Department will take this as,
00:41:12.180
As long as we institutionalize it, we control the president.
00:41:20.420
And it has nothing to do with the impeachment per se.
00:41:25.040
It has everything to do with the system they set up
00:41:28.120
and how the Democrats used that system to hurt him in the election.
00:41:39.240
I should say facts because we've got stacks and stacks of documents to prove it.
00:41:46.120
We talked to Senator John Kennedy about what the future is on impeachment when we come back.
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He is getting a lot of fire from the media who they are trying to make.
00:42:24.360
They're trying to say that anything that the Democrats did in Ukraine is a conspiracy theory.
00:42:30.860
We have massive files of documentation, much of it coming from FOIA requests in their own handwriting, with their own signatures, in their own words.
00:42:43.320
We have videotape of them doing these things and even confessing to trying to throw our election.
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And the media is trying to make that a conspiracy theory.
00:42:53.540
And they're trying to make it also that if you believe that, then you somehow or another don't believe that Russia was trying to do what it was trying to do.
00:43:02.960
I told you in 2014 what Russia was going to do because they spelled it out.
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They talked about infiltrating our Internet and trying to throw our election.
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We asked Senator John Kennedy that and also, what's going to happen now?
00:43:27.660
Is this, is any of this corruption going to be exposed?
00:43:31.820
Because he seems to be one of the only ones in the Senate that is actually fairly on it.
00:43:37.940
And so we want to give him a little safe space to talk openly with us next.
00:44:05.800
So what happens next with the impeachment process?
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Are the Republicans going to stand up and fight against this corruption?
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Because I think there is, I don't think, I know there is massive corruption.
00:44:30.060
And the State Department, the former president, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, they're all involved in this.
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Conspiracy theory is, you know, what this kind of looks like is, but once you have the documents, once you have the videotapes, once you have everything to back it up, it's no longer a theory.
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Are we willing to actually root out corruption?
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Senator from Louisiana, John Kennedy, who is under fire now for conspiracy theories, joins us in one minute.
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We have, from the great state of Louisiana, not as great as Texas, but still pretty great,
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And let me tell you, Texas, you mentioned Texas.
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Texas is five and a half times bigger than we are, but Louisiana is ten and a half times
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Senator, you are being lambasted in the press now as a conspiracy theorist.
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Russia tried to cause chaos by trying to hack into our election systems, spread disinformation
00:47:15.020
online by taking extreme positions on both sides, and hacked the DNC computer?
00:47:23.180
Can it also be true that the Ukrainians were convinced that Hillary Clinton would be better
00:47:31.040
They were involved in gathering evidence against Donald Trump and his surrogates to assist a
00:47:36.860
Hillary Clinton win in collusion with the DNC, members of the State Department, our embassies,
00:47:52.740
And you stated the propositions very eloquently.
00:47:57.280
I was asked, Glenn, on a show, several in fact, was it Russia or Ukraine who tried to influence
00:48:07.540
And they said, what's your basis for saying Ukraine?
00:48:09.740
I referred them to articles, op-ed pieces, and long investigatory articles in Politico, in
00:48:20.840
the Financial Times, in The Hill, in the Washington Examiner, on CBS News, in The Economist, Bloomberg
00:48:32.760
For example, the headline in Politico, January 2017, quote, Ukraine efforts to sabotage Trump
00:48:50.420
The headline was, quote, Ukraine's leaders campaign against Trump, close quote.
00:48:59.540
Third, this is an op-ed piece written in The Hill by the Ukrainian ambassador to the United
00:49:09.560
This is the headline to his op-ed piece, the Ukrainian ambassador, not The Hill.
00:49:15.480
Quote, Trump's comments send wrong message to the world.
00:49:23.000
Now, did Ukraine try to influence our election in as sophisticated a manner as Russia?
00:49:35.880
Russia is a third world country, but it has great spies, great cyber skills, and nuclear
00:49:47.680
And, I mean, just from the reporting, I don't believe these are all reputable members of
00:49:56.740
Their lawyers aren't going to let them print lies.
00:50:04.040
So, Senator, may I direct you to glennbeck.com, where we have laid this all out, and I'm not
00:50:10.900
using other people's reporting, I have the direct evidence in their own words from State
00:50:31.280
And it is so outrageous that the press is saying that these are conspiracy theories, etc., etc.
00:50:41.380
The, you know, reporters can spin, reporters can do whatever they want.
00:50:53.820
When you look at Cheramella, who is possibly the whistleblower, his fingers are all over
00:51:04.440
This is why Donald Trump blew a hole in a wall, and he was a hand grenade.
00:51:10.000
And he and Rudy Giuliani went off, and they blew a hole in the wall that exposed all of
00:51:16.880
this stuff that was going behind the scenes in Ukraine.
00:51:20.180
And our former administration, Clinton, and the State Department, and members of our intelligence
00:51:30.740
The question is, will the Senate actually take this on?
00:51:36.120
Or are we just going to, you know, defend against Trump and not expose the exact corruption
00:52:02.620
I will tell you that, as you alluded to, I've gotten a lot of pushback from my Democratic
00:52:11.080
friends about my statement that both Russia and Ukraine tried to influence the election.
00:52:17.680
I think they're worried somehow that admitting that Ukraine tried to influence their election
00:52:24.840
would somehow hurt their impeachment proceedings against the president.
00:52:33.400
I mean, I think most fair-minded people recognize that the Ukrainian government in the past, not
00:52:39.760
the people, but the government, under President Poroshenko and President Yanukovych, the governments
00:52:49.940
are and were organically and historically corrupt.
00:53:02.220
And we exploited, when I say we, the Democratic Party and the former administration exploited
00:53:15.880
If it is not, the State Department is going to know from here on until the end of time, they
00:53:23.100
run the show and they can do whatever they want.
00:53:26.100
It also will institutionalize the kinds of things that the Democratic Party was doing in
00:53:35.900
Look, if Donald Trump would have been found as coordinating or in collusion with the Russians,
00:53:48.280
But that evidence is available in documents, in court documents.
00:53:54.080
Two people were tried and convicted in Ukrainian court.
00:54:00.780
Two people for interfering in our election to try to help Hillary Clinton win.
00:54:06.980
If we don't get a handle on this, our elections and the whole system is in question.
00:54:22.820
There was a federal district court in Kiev in December of 2018, which ruled that senior
00:54:36.180
Ukrainian officials did meddle, did try to influence the presidential election in the
00:54:43.460
And here's the headline from the article in the Bloomberg News reporting it.
00:54:48.420
Quote, Ukrainian officials meddled in 2016 election by leaking secret Manafort-Ledger court
00:55:06.400
And in fact, Bloomberg News is only reporting what a Ukrainian court did.
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Now, my Democratic friends say, Dr. Hill, who testified in President Trump's impeachment
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proceedings in the House, says this is all Russian propaganda.
00:55:23.680
And my response to that is, well, first, I don't think Politico and the Financial Times
00:55:31.620
and the Hill magazine and the Washington Examiner and Bloomberg News are agents for Vladimir Putin,
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And secondly, Dr. Hill is certainly entitled to her opinion.
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I'm just saying I don't believe these articles by reputable members of the media, by reputable
00:55:57.580
And, you know, their lawyers aren't going to let them print lies.
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And I pray literally every night for spines to be found in Congress and in the Senate,
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because what you are talking about is is institutionalized and metastasized.
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And I'm I'm hoping that this is when it gets to the Senate, we actually have a trial about the truth.
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And we call these people to to answer for the lies that we have seen now in this impeachment hearing.
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I don't, I'm so frustrated because, and I'm not frustrated, I think,
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But where's the staff of, you know, the other senators?
00:59:17.280
Why, why, why, why is the Senate so quiet on this?
00:59:22.160
I mean, quite honestly, when you know all the details, it doesn't,
00:59:28.600
What you need to do is open up a hearing on, wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:59:38.920
Who was, what was, what was pulling what string here?
00:59:46.280
Now, this is my, this is my opinion, but I'm not convinced this has anything to do
00:59:55.320
This is just the, the, the red meat that makes it able to be chewed on, but they are trying
01:00:08.200
State department, the intelligence community, we control policy, not the president.
01:00:14.100
And this is extraordinarily dangerous, especially when you have people making millions and millions
01:00:20.600
of dollars off of it who are in high positions.
01:00:27.500
And I don't know why the Senate isn't outraged.
01:00:31.380
Well, I mean, they have their chance to be outraged.
01:00:33.700
Maybe they're just waiting for the process to play out, right?
01:00:37.640
If the, if the impeachment goes forward as kind of everybody expects, either by the end
01:00:43.140
of the year or early next year, and then the Senate will have a chance to come out
01:00:48.440
You know, there's a report today that, that Trump read the, uh, Republican memo on this
01:00:55.680
and is now like, look, just dismiss the whole thing.
01:01:03.860
Trial is great for him if everybody wants it exposed.
01:01:08.460
But I think this is the kind of, this is, I mean, this is every spy movie.
01:01:13.900
This, this corruption is so deep and so high up that this is when everything just disappears.
01:01:24.100
And all of a sudden it just goes away and you only get the lower level people.
01:01:28.860
And those other people just kind of shapeshift and move away.
01:01:35.280
If this trial in the Senate does not expose all of this stuff, this is very dangerous.
01:01:42.960
And honestly, it's hard to imagine the Republicans not at least going down this road a little
01:01:52.400
This is, you have to convince the American people that this call and the actions taken
01:02:01.040
around the call with Ukraine were taken for a good reason.
01:02:05.540
And you heard Senator Kennedy lay out a good chunk of that good reason.
01:02:10.840
You've obviously gone into much more depth on, on the TV show, multiple specials about
01:02:15.240
But if you don't say that it was for a good reason, you have no defense.
01:02:20.760
The Hunter Biden thing isn't just a political attack.
01:02:25.640
It's about showing that there was legitimate reason for the president of the United States
01:02:30.760
to withhold this money because he believed corruption was real.
01:02:34.920
That is really the standard we're talking about here.
01:02:37.680
And if they don't present that case, then there's no way to defend it.
01:02:41.320
I mean, because if you just take it off on the surface, I mean, the guy's last name is
01:02:46.180
the guy who is the same last name as the person who's leading the field on the opposition.
01:02:50.760
That's how the American people are going to hear this unless they hear the real reasons
01:02:56.800
So if the Senate doesn't want, uh, if the Senate wants to be a minority party without the White
01:03:04.520
House, then for Republicans, then they will just let this thing slide and not do anything.
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I mean, just from their own political survival, if this guy gets impeached and thrown out
01:03:17.540
They're going to have 40 senators and they're going to have no White House and no House.
01:03:22.060
And they're going to get anything done for years and years and years and years.
01:03:24.800
So you better step up and make a defense of this and show that there was.
01:03:34.240
Stu, last night on the TV show, we showed you the connections again that keep growing
01:03:40.580
We keep finding more and more connections and more and more documents that prove our case.
01:03:49.840
This whole Russia investigation, the way they went after Donald Trump was a setup that doesn't
01:03:57.800
mean that Russia wasn't doing stuff, but the, but the, all of the accusations around that
01:04:04.440
with him were fueled from the Ukrainian disaster by the, the DNC.
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And they were all connected to the DNC with Chalupa and Hillary Clinton and the state department.
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And then others were making money by being as corrupt as Ukraine.
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In fact, we were exploiting their corrupt system.
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I mean, they never seem to have a chance to have somebody not put their, their, their boot
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We just came in and we did the same thing that the, the, the, the Russians were doing.
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You're going to answer to us and we're going to bilk you of billions of dollars while we
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This is, this must be covered, must be covered.
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I'm very excited, uh, to, uh, announce our next resolution.
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A storing event, which I believe I will be doing Thursday.
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Well, it's because I'm just speaking it into existence.
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I will tell you, it may not happen, uh, because, uh, this is an extraordinarily, uh, difficult
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Uh, and so we just want to make sure that it's in the Ukraine.
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Which is, and people are saying, oh, Glenn, you can't do it.
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You can't have a giant event for a lot of people inside the nuclear fallout.
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So it actually might be easier to get that venue than what you're trying to pull off.
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Uh, we've been working on this for a very long time and, uh, hopefully Thursday we will
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Uh, but we just want to make sure that everything is buttoned up.
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And if we don't do it, I'm just going to announce it to the audience in, in, uh, in Salt
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Cause I've got a, there's a $2 million nondisclosure agreement that everybody in the audience has
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There's a few tickets that have opened up, uh, holds and such.
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Uh, if you get online right now, go to glenbeck.com and get your tickets.
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I would say if you want to go to this thing, I wouldn't, I certainly wouldn't wait to buy
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Uh, and it's going to be, I've, uh, seen portions of, uh, what you're going to be doing
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And I, I await the fallout from your family disintegrating.
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You know, I don't have any personal interest in it.
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You know, what's so interesting, uh, to me is you can tell new staff members all the
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Uh, you can tell them when they come on, you can tell them all the time, all this work
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That's, that's the, that's the way we do things around here.
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What you do is you invest a lot of your time, like away from your family, you know, your
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You know, you don't really have a good connection with them.
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They don't recognize you when you walk in the house.
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Um, and all of that was to, to, to usually work towards a goal of a big event of some
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sort and that all that work gets poured into the event.
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And then a few moments before the event starts, you throw it all out and do whatever you want.
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Well, I told everybody that was working on this.
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In fact, I said this before I went on vacation for the holiday.
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You know, I wouldn't put a lot of thought into, you know, finishing up all of this.
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Cause, um, I'm just feeling that I'm just going to go a different way.
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I mean, we have all this stuff produced and I'm like, yeah, you're just agonizing.
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So, uh, I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to be doing on stage, but I know this, it
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Uh, and it will be about, uh, it'll be about Christmas.
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Glenbeck.com slash Christmas, I believe is the address.
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Ah, so let me, um, let me go over Prince Andrew here for a second, which I don't like
01:11:03.900
It's like talking about Joe Biden's hairy legs.
01:11:09.840
Uh, but why is Prince Andrew the only one that is going to be stuck out on this?
01:11:14.280
Why is, why is it the Royal family is beheading this guy?
01:11:19.620
If, if all of this is true, I think rightfully so.
01:11:23.080
Uh, but he is, I mean, he is, he's being punished hard for this.
01:11:30.320
And I think more punishment is coming his way, but was he the only guy?
01:11:36.400
Well, I mean, I think the answer to that is no clear.
01:11:40.740
And it's no right now, whether he, it certainly seems like Prince Andrew, uh, was down to some
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Um, it seems it would be incredibly horrible luck that he just happened to wrap his arm
01:11:57.900
around a 17 year old who was being, uh, routinely and systematically abused by the Epsteins, uh,
01:12:07.900
And he just, he just got unlucky, just wrapped his arm around that happened to be 17 year
01:12:14.100
Sometimes you, you got your fingers on, on a midriff of a 17 year old and oh man, it just
01:12:19.800
You know, I mean, I guess that's his defense other than the, well, it was Photoshopped,
01:12:24.740
which is the least believable thing in the universe.
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Did you hear this girl, uh, last night on, on BBC one?
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I knew, uh, she was, uh, she is being, uh, interviewed.
01:12:42.440
And Chad Prather talked about it yesterday, by the way we should talk about that.
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Uh, Prather, uh, Chad Prather has a three part.
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I believe he did a, an afterward as well, um, on the Epstein special.
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You should go to, uh, uh, Chad Prather on blaze TV or on YouTube or on a podcast and listen
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to the special cause he goes into the, you know, it's not everyone's talking about the suicide,
01:13:00.160
uh, or not lack of it, but the, the background of, of Epstein is incredible.
01:13:06.320
And, and Chad goes into it in, in, in real detail.
01:13:09.820
Nobody's really talking about this ranch that he, that he built.
01:13:15.620
And like, it's, it's surrounded by the governor, by the governor's land who, by the way, the
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King ranch, not to be confused with the King ranch here in, in Texas, but the King ranch
01:13:30.140
And so is, is that what's stopping investigations on that?
01:13:34.740
This, this thing was apparently, uh, you know, ground zero for pedophilia.
01:13:41.800
Well, he, I, he definitely wanted to do something big with it too.
01:13:46.560
Well, he don't know exactly what happened there.
01:13:48.620
I know he, he did bring people to, I believe his first victim he took to, um, uh, a ranch.
01:13:54.860
Uh, she was a, an artist, if I'm not mistaken, right.
01:14:04.420
But he was known for this type of behavior where he would get isolated locations.
01:14:08.920
Uh, obviously the, the Island being probably the most famous one, but there was a ranch
01:14:13.500
Uh, also the, the ranch in New Mexico where he would do all sorts of things.
01:14:18.280
Um, and you know, you, there's a level of, of investigation that needs to happen to flesh
01:14:25.220
Cause all the stuff we know really about Epstein with concrete detail is from Miami.
01:14:30.560
We know that there are lots of stuff that the, even the Island stuff, we're not really
01:14:37.100
We're not even really sure what happened in New York in extreme detail and New Mexico
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and Ohio or, or, or other locations where we know things happened.
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Miami is really the only one that has had the legitimate big investigation, legitimate
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And I don't think this story being swept under the rug, uh, is any different than the Ukrainian
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It's the same, very, very powerful collection of people that have the media silent either
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because, uh, I don't want to hurt them or silent because they'll sue the crap out of
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us and they have protectors all up and down the line.
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Are you watching, um, uh, have you watched the morning show yet?
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And Jennifer Aniston's in it, but Steve Carell is in it.
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Um, anyway, he plays the, he plays the, uh, executive producer of the show.
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Um, anyway, these, uh, it's a great show, but it is taking these things on.
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It is talking about, um, you know, what really is me too, but in a very entertaining and not
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And, and in a way you've never seen it before because nobody I'm, I'm convinced no one, but
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Apple, which is completely outside of the, you know, Hollywood and the news ecosphere.
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You know, I'm convinced they're the only ones that could take this on because everybody
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And so they're, they're talking about the me too thing and who's protected and who's
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It is really one of the best shows on television.
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I mean, I would be, I expected they have, it would be nothing.
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It would be a very traditional, we swear all men are evil type of look at this.
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And it's kind of like more nuanced than that and more.
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Oh, it's, it's, there were times that I'm like, yes.
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By the time you get to the third, fourth episode, you're seeing stuff that you thought, but nobody
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I just think it's, I think it's remarkable and I have absolutely no idea where it's going
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I mean, I, I just, I haven't seen anything like this on television.
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I have no idea what's going to happen even to the central, the Jennifer Aniston character.
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Pretty sure she's not going to, you know, be fired or be lost off the cast.
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But this last episode, I was, I thought there's a chance of that.
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I mean, I have no idea that's really rare in television.
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You know, I will say, and we were talking about Epstein.
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I also had no idea what was going to happen to Steven Crowder last week during his Epstein
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special when he simulated the, uh, the potential suicide of Jeffrey Epstein inside the cell in
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an evil Knievel outfit, uh, to make sure that you understood it was a stunt and, uh, it was
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And, uh, to put the, the correct amount of pressure needed to break all the bones in his
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Uh, and he had to angle himself, um, in a way that would not have been possible for
01:18:51.960
So he, you know, he's protected, but he, he had measurements like legitimate scientific
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measurements of, of how much pressure had to be put on the neck for this to occur.
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And it was, it was very funny, but also, uh, like you look at it and you're just like, it
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You know, the evidence on the other side, I mean, they say that the, the, the cameras,
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you know, a lot of talks a bit about the cameras were out.
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Well, but the cameras of the area weren't out and they show no one going into this
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Well, I put a little mirror up there, a picture of it happens all the time.
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Could there have been someone from another angle?
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Could have been another person from another cell that was able to, and there's a million
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But, uh, you know, him starting from a kneeling position, which is what they say
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happened and him hanging himself with his sheet from the top bunk.
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I will say, didn't look likely when, when, when seeing it acted out, did not seem like
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I don't even think this, this, the, we, we love to keep this alive, but there's no, there's
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We have coming up in just a second, some breaking news.
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He's with the Heartland Foundation and they have just done a new extensive survey on likely
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There's been a new survey that has been done by the Heartland Foundation and it is, it's
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We have the one, the only, Justin Haskins on with us.
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You're the editorial director of the Heartland Institute, which I absolutely love.
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You guys have done so much to fight many things, but lately you're really focusing on the fight
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You just did a new Rasmussen study on likely voters.
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So it was a poll conducted in the middle of November, November 13th and 14th, a thousand
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And we asked them a variety of questions about Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, some questions
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about socialism, and then some questions about free speech.
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And I think that the most important, interesting question was about free speech, free speech
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It was, should federal or state governments ban speech that a majority of Americans believes
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to be offensive, including speech considered to be racist or sexist?
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That's exact wording that we gave to the respondents.
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And the results were a quarter of likely voters said, yes, we should ban speech.
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And among varying groups based on age, 37% of younger people said yes to that question.
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That was the highest of any demographic based on age.
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And 42% of government employees, which this might be the most interesting part of the survey,
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So 42% of government employees that we surveyed said that we should ban speech that a majority
01:30:04.920
It makes absolute sense to me, especially when you think of this as a national survey,
01:30:09.680
We're not polling people who are in Washington, D.C.
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So we're polling government workers across the country.
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Well, who are most government workers in most parts of the country?
01:30:21.120
And I think that that's why you're seeing this very far left view of free speech.
01:30:26.480
But it's incredibly disturbing when you realize that most of these people are probably your
01:30:36.420
So let me go through some of this because I think it's it's odd, which is better, a free
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Sixty nine percent, which is good for today, I guess.
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Sixty nine percent said a free market economic system.
01:30:50.860
Twelve percent said socialism and 18 percent said not sure.
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Would you vote for a presidential candidate who identifies him or herself as a socialist?
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There's only 12 percent that would identify as a socialist.
01:31:14.860
Not where I'd like it, but not horrible, if you will.
01:31:19.040
Do you have favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impressions of
01:31:25.880
Eighteen percent, very favorable, twenty nine percent, somewhat favorable, 17, somewhat unfavorable, 31, very unfavorable and five.
01:31:38.160
What do they what do any of these numbers taken together begin to tell you anything?
01:31:45.280
Yeah, I think that the most important thing in the numbers that you just mentioned is that really a large percentage of Americans,
01:31:53.040
even people who identified as Democrats in our crosstabs, we found that it's basically one in three Democrats said that they do not they would not vote for a socialist candidate.
01:32:03.620
I don't know if Donald Trump is listening, but this might be helpful information in 2020, because if you can classify people as a socialist,
01:32:13.900
if you can if you can show Americans that what Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and other people are proposing out there is socialist is socialist policies,
01:32:22.920
then I think most Americans are going to reject it.
01:32:26.140
One of the really interesting things that we found in the data is that 20 percent, about 20 percent of both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warner,
01:32:35.820
Elizabeth Warner's own supporters said that they would not vote for a socialist candidate.
01:32:43.200
We're talking about the people who had the highest favorability view of Bernie Sanders said that they would not vote for a socialist candidate for president.
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Do they not realize that Bernie Sanders is a socialist?
01:32:57.960
I mean, do they not know that that's who they're that they're supporting?
01:33:01.800
And I mean, I think that that tells you that a lot of people are very confused about what they're hearing from people like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
01:33:10.940
Do you support legislation that would ban private ownership of assault rifles?
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I think that the not just the assault rifle question, but also the question that we asked about the Second Amendment.
01:33:36.280
Do you support repealing the Second Amendment, which currently guarantees America's right to bear arms?
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And a third of eighteen to thirty nine year olds, a third, thirty three percent said that they would support banning the Second Amendment.
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So it's twenty four percent overall of all likely voters, but thirty three percent of younger people.
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So over time, this is going to get is only going to become a bigger problem.
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And about a third, by the way, of Democrats said that they support repealing the Second Amendment.
01:34:13.500
So I think we have a lot of work to do, Glenn, teaching people about the importance of the Second Amendment and what it really means.
01:34:20.980
Well, it's what's what's frightening is this is showing the deterioration of the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment and the Second Amendment.
01:34:33.540
And I think it goes all the way back to what we talked about earlier in the conversation when we were saying that there's such a high support for socialism amongst government workers.
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And most of those government workers are teachers.
01:34:48.400
Yeah, they're teaching our kids that the Second Amendment is awful and that it should be repealed.
01:34:52.900
They're teaching our kids that hate speech, that things that are considered to be offensive speech should not be allowed in a free society.
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They are they are teaching our kids to reject the Constitution, to reject the Bill of Rights, to reject individual liberty.
01:35:06.040
And that's why I think you're seeing younger people support these socialist policies at a much higher rate than you're seeing older people.
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So I just want to give I just want to restate these 46 percent of those who identified as working for the government.
01:35:21.580
You say it's mainly teachers support legislation that would ban private ownership of assault rifles.
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Only 43 percent of independents and 32 percent of Republicans say they support legislation that would ban private ownership of assault style rifles.
01:35:42.200
Well, you got to remember that third that I think that that's pretty accurate.
01:35:50.800
I think that that's a reflection of what's been going on with the media and the fact that media has been banging this drum for a very long time and that most people still don't really understand what assault rifles are.
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Support amongst Republicans for repealing the Second Amendment was pretty low.
01:36:11.600
But I think that people don't understand what socialism is.
01:36:15.220
I don't think they understand what assault rifles are.
01:36:17.260
I don't think that they understand what rights are.
01:36:21.620
I think fundamentally they do not understand the importance of freedom.
01:36:29.060
And that's where we need to focus our attention.
01:36:30.940
And I think it's worse with younger people than with older people.
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It's worse worse with Democrats than with Republicans.
01:36:36.920
It's even worse with Bernie Sanders supporters and Elizabeth Warren supporters.
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We have to start with foundational core principles and work our way up from there.
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I mean, I know this is what you do for a living at the Heartland Institute.
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How do we turn this around when it is institutionalized in our educational system from birth to graduation?
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So the two things, I think, the two most important ways to battle these problems, to fight against socialism,
01:37:17.500
number one, you absolutely, every single parent, every single grandparent, aunt, uncle, friend, family member who's concerned about this issue needs to talk to younger people about these issues.
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They need to teach kids while they're in the school system, before they get into the public school system, basic core concepts about individual rights and respecting other people's rights.
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Number two, we need to break the stranglehold that the government has on public education.
01:37:48.400
And the only way to do that is with school choice.
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There are universal school choice ideas that have been out there for a very long time, universal education, savings accounts, programs, etc.
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We don't have them even in the most conservative states.
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Why don't we have that in states like Texas and Alabama and places where Republicans have been in charge for a long time?
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It is shocking to me how bad Texas, you know, I lived here in the 80s and Texas was a different place in the 80s compared to what it is now.
01:38:19.980
Texas, you know, has very powerful unions and teachers, you know, the teachers federation here is very, very strong.
01:38:30.420
They have they have taken over our schools and nobody wants to do anything about it, at least in the upper levels.
01:38:37.300
You're right. And it's not just in Texas. It's all across the country.
01:38:42.160
The most conservative states in the country, the teachers unions, are still the most powerful political organization at the state level in many cases, but especially at the local level.
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I mean, at the local level, teachers dominate virtually every election.
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They decide who is going to be put in control of school boards and local elections for city council and things like that.
01:39:04.740
That's mostly decided by teachers and teachers are being taught at far left teachers colleges across the country where they're being indoctrinated with the idea that they need to be indoctrinating other people about socialism.
01:39:17.660
And so it's this endless cycle, this drift in conservative states and in liberal states and in moderate states, this drift towards socialism, because foundationally, the people who are teaching younger people are all on the left side of the political spectrum.
01:39:35.260
And the only way to get rid of that is to have school choice so that parents can take their kids out of those schools and put them in schools that embrace the values that they believe in.
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But right now, unless you can afford a private school or unless you can afford to homeschool your child, you don't have that that option.
01:39:52.420
And so conservatives need to make it clear that if no Republican should be supported, no conservative candidate should be supported, no Democrat, no political candidate should be supported unless they embrace school choice.
01:40:06.420
Well, thank you for doing the survey and and and breaking that survey here.
01:40:13.160
And hopefully it will be picked up because I think so many people have no idea how bad things are really, truly getting in America and something better wake them up pretty soon.
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By the way, Justin is a guy who has helped write the next book called Arguing with Socialists.
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I think it comes out right right before the Super Tuesday, does it not?
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It's a great, great book, you know, cut from the cloth of the arguing with idiots and and an inconvenient book.
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You're going to love it. And it makes a great gift for anyone who is being indoctrinated in school.
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They may not like it so much, but they'll read if they just open it, if they'll just open it, all of the facts are in.
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I mean, I think this is the most footnotes we have of any book we've ever written and it's all well documented and it's hard to argue, hard to argue.
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Good luck with that, but buy it for them anyway.
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And maybe one day they'll be stuck in an elevator with it and they'll be forced to read it.
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What's going to happen is you're going to have it, you're going to read it.
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Is anybody else getting to the point to where you're like,
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I feel like Gene Wilder at the end of the producers,
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I think we were so beaten up with the Tea Party.
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And, you know, the 9-12 project was not about elections.
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And those are the things that we have to get back to teaching and to living in our own life.
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Yeah, I agree that that would be an ideal solution.
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I mean, I feel like it gets tougher and tougher,
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particularly right now with the way the media covers Trump,
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to think any, you know, further along than whatever today's news cycle item is.
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But don't you see that the news cycle is getting less and less credible.
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I mean, people are not watching it as much as they used to.
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we pay more attention to the mainstream media than I think the average person does.
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They'll get it from Facebook and everything else.
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They're not getting it, you know, from all of these shows that, you know, CNN, nobody's watching CNN.
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Yeah, I mean, that coverage, though, does inform all the other coverage.
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It's that 500 other sources report on what CNN reports.
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Well, you know, the only problem on fixing this,
01:45:19.580
and until we solve this, we're not going to be able to solve anything.
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Um, there is no investigative journalist news arm that is credible that the conservatives can all feast off of, you know?
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Like, for instance, we do investigative, you know, reporting on Ukraine.
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We're so busy that we don't necessarily see Ben Shapiro.
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But if Ben Shapiro, or if, if there was a news source that Ben was basing his opinion off,
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and it wasn't directly competitive for everybody,
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if there was a news source that was out there that maybe all of us put our money into,
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Right now, we can only respond to their narrative,
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because they're the only ones producing the news.
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But we need a conservative news that's credible, that is big, robust, and can compete,
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we're all going to be talking about what they want us to talk about.
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Italian police say that they have seized weapons and far-right propaganda material
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who are hoping to form a Nazi party in the country.
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It's also, you know, this is going to be extremely unpopular
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I completely understand in Germany why they did that.
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I mean, at the time, they banned the Nazi party.
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And, you know, at the time, I can't imagine, you know,
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if you just fought that war and you got out of a concentration camp
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and somebody's like, yeah, well, my neighbor's going to a Nazi rally.
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I mean, it's, it, so I don't know what I would have done in Germany.
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Um, however, the idea that the Italian police are going to shut down these people.
01:50:26.680
Um, but the idea of shutting down a party or shutting down speech really bothers me.
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You know, it, uh, it seems foreign is the way I would put it.
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You know, it, it seems like a weird cultural thing that would happen in Europe,
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but couldn't happen here because we have something called a first amendment.
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And no matter how bad the ideas are from a, I mean, there have been, I mean, the American
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Nazi party is, it was a, oh, in the 1930s, it was huge, huge.
01:50:58.280
But even way after the war, I mean, it was still active in the, in the United States.
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Uh, one of the, they had a presidential candidate who would run all the time, eventually was
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Um, but, uh, they, that was something that's real.
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And to this day, I mean, you know, we all know people in this audience, at least know
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that communists have killed a lot more people than Nazis have.
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We have a bunch of parties that represent communism.
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I have a real problem with the, the communist witch hunt to the 1950s.
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I mean, they didn't have a right to go in and, and that's, that's not American.
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It's not American to say that specific ideas should be banned.
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We win against them, but we don't ban political parties.
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Obviously there are exceptions at the extremes when you're talking about like, if a party
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is advocating the murder of the guy down the street, well, that's a totally different
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But I mean, an idea like up until including the idea that, Hey, um, you know, Bob over there
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He can form an entire party around how he's better than Jews and he can try to change
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Uh, I will fight every day to make sure that he does not succeed.
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Uh, and he won't succeed in this country because that is not, that's not what this country
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Uh, how can you be against white supremacy in the United States of America and the idea
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of living in a supremacist state based on race and class, but then support a state like Israel
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That is saying that Jews think they are supreme to everyone else.
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No, no, that's not, that's not what they think.
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Do I have a right to disagree with her vehemently?
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Do I have a right to say she should go to jail for that?
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Because once you take that right from her, it can be taken from you.
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And that's not even the, that's a good way to personalize it, but it's not the reason
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It's, you don't do it because it could be taken away from you, whether, whether you
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think that can happen or not, that's a good way of personalizing it.
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But in reality, if their ideas are terrible, they're still allowed to be said.
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We say this, a lot of people make this point, um, all the time with abortion, where they'll
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say, uh, people on the, on the right will say, look, you're aborting all these kids.
01:53:40.580
You could have aborted, uh, the next scientists or world leader.
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You also could have aborted a bunch of people who suck, who are the people that get in your
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way at McDonald's and the drive-thru and take too long.
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And the person who screws up your, your, your order at the window and right, exactly.
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Whether they're the next world leader or the next Einstein, it doesn't matter.
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And a lot of times we kind of personalize it and say, well, if we lose, uh, if they lose
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their right to speak, well, we might lose our right to speak.
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Well, whether we do or not, it's not the issue.
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So, you know what, you know, what happened is there was this perversion, I think of this
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American idea that you don't talk religion in politics.
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And you didn't do that because polite company, you just don't talk about that stuff, but that
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didn't come from, uh, anything other than, I mean, I got the lectures when I was a kid.
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Your parents would talk to you and say, they have a right.
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You can think that they're wrong all you want, but you don't tell them what to think.
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You don't tell them unless they're breaking the law and hurting other people, you don't
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But you certainly don't use the power of the state to stop them from doing something
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that's legal and not threatening someone else, right?
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That, you know, you can, I mean, look, faith is something that makes arguments and judgments
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There's nothing wrong with judging other people's behavior.
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You can say all the time, you think that their behavior is wrong.
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And I think there's some disagreement even on the right at this point on this.
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And it goes not only to sort of moral causes, but also economic ones where there's this
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Josh Hammer put this really well because of this dividing line on the right.
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I think this is a great way of thinking about it.
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But I do think that this is the divide on the right as it stands today.
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He says, the fundamental dividing question right now for those of us on the political
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right, is individual liberty worth pursuing as an intrinsically just end?
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Or is it merely a means sometimes worth pursuing toward a distinct political end like justice
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There is no justice if you shut people's thought and speech down.
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And even if the culture turns against the things that you believe are right, even if you're
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losing those battles, you fight harder, you try to win.
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But you don't bring the state in to put your values on the entire society.
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I think he's a smart guy and he makes this point well.
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But it's using the power of the government to go towards just specific economic goals that
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You know, you see this with people like Mike Huckabee, where he will take the power of
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I believe gluttony is wrong and people are too fat and we should change the way people
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Although sometimes his ends are liberal, sometimes they are.
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They were conservative, but he uses the state to push those things through.
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And, you know, when it comes, there are exceptions and there's nuance throughout this entire
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But to me, as a fundamental question, the freedom and liberty is the end.
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If you believe in the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Independence is our mission
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And we believe that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain
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Among these, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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And that the government is instituted among men to protect those rights.
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There's nothing in the Declaration of Independence that says, and because of that, we're going
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to redistribute the wealth or we're going to make things more fair as a government.
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And pursuit of happiness is really key here, too.
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It doesn't mean that we use the government to guarantee it because we think these things
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You have the freedom to be able to pursue what you believe will make you happy.
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You might fall flat on your face over and over again and never achieve it.
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So, anyone who says, well, we've got a social engineer.
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The mission statement, the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.
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was saying, this is what it looks like when we get there.
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A place where all men know that they are equal.
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And they can pursue that happiness any way they want.
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And the government's role is to protect that individual from doing what they feel is right
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as long as they're not killing people and, you know, stealing.
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We believe, as Americans, or at least we used to, we believe in the power of the individual.
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And if you want to empower individuals, you're going to have to live with the fact they're going to make choices that you're not going to like.
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When you're a parent, you know at some point you've got to let it go.
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They're going to make decisions that you don't agree with.
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Some of them are going to end exactly the way you thought that they would end.
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But you don't tell your children exactly what to do, or you drive a wedge between you and them.
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We are looking at our government as a parent and telling the parent to get involved in all of these adults' lives
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It automatically drives a wedge between people and between the government.
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I mean, the second part of this statement, which is,
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is individual liberty merely a means sometimes worth pursuing toward a distinct political end,
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The left uses individual liberty when they want abortion.
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It's a nice little trick to get you, because they want abortion.
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So that one thing, they say, individual liberty is really important.
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Can't get in the way of, between a woman and her doctor.
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It's just a means to get to whatever they want today.
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It is a intrinsically just end to pursue individual liberty.
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And we, we have, in the midst of the political arguments, we do lose that, I think, sometimes.
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We have to remember, you know, we're different from the left, not just because we want slightly different policies.
02:01:56.740
Because what happens is you get the Bloomberg thing, where Bloomberg has been a Republican and a Democrat.
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I don't know that he's changed positions on anything.
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He's just going down whatever road serves him at whatever time.
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And so he's able to use the power of the state to whatever ends he wants.
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I don't want to be anything like Michael Bloomberg.
02:02:19.500
I don't want him anywhere near me, the party I belong to, the, the, the principles that I have.
02:02:24.820
He's no, and it is largely soda based, my opposition.
02:02:42.180
And, uh, get out of my house, get out of my bedroom, get off of my phone, get out of my car, get off my streets.
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See, I don't think there's enough people, and it's getting harder and harder every day because you're counting clicks.
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You're counting likes as popularity, as success.
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And so I don't know if there is the understanding that pursuit of happiness does not mean success.
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You know, America has been made into a land of stuff and a land of plenty.
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You look at people in Hollywood and everything else, and I'm not saying you, but, you know, most of the people will look at that and say, you know, they're happy.
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Barbara Streisand, I don't care how much money or fame, I don't want to live like her.
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This bothered me so much when we first had children, and Tanya was a born mother.
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And she's done it, and that's pursuing her happiness.
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But the world was doing everything they could to convince her that you're a stay-at-home mom, you're worthless.
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Well, no, it might not be what that person wants to be, but that's what she wants to be.
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And happiness, believe me, does not come with money and success.
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You can rent it, but it's a very short term, very short term.
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Happiness comes from doing what you feel is right.