The Glenn Beck Program - The Sickening Impeachment Process Carries On

00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. Glenn is in Florida today for Turning Point USA's convention. He's going to

00:00:04.220 be speaking there. You can check that out. I hope at least he's going to make it to the speech

00:00:07.860 because he seemed a little unhealthy, a little unwell during the program. And there were a

00:00:13.660 couple of incidents you might catch if you're really, really perceptive. And it is a little

00:00:19.560 troubling that it kept happening right around the same pieces of audio. I hope he's feeling better.

00:00:24.340 Uh, we'll have that. We have, uh, some clips from Mitch McConnell who was speaking today about

00:00:29.880 the impeachment, uh, and just giving a riveting electric speech that only Mitch McConnell can

00:00:36.320 give. Uh, and we have the uncontested facts. So one of the things that you heard Democrats go back to

00:00:42.000 over and over again is the facts are uncontested. No one's disagreeing with the facts here. Uh, except

00:00:47.340 every time they said that they would list things that are absolutely contested. We broke those down

00:00:51.920 as well. And, uh, we get into everything that has happened with the impeachment in this quote

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00:02:24.820 From turning point USA in West Palm beach, Florida. This is the Glenn Beck program. And, uh, I,

00:02:34.360 I, I swear to you, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm a recovering alcoholic and normally you could

00:02:40.600 explain this at a convention when you just feel so queasy in the morning. Uh, but I, I went to bed

00:02:46.940 early last night. I haven't done anything. I don't know why, but, uh, I'm here. I just,

00:02:53.140 I want to keep just, uh, Oh boy. Uh, keep a trash can handy today. Cause, uh,

00:02:59.600 uh, just, uh, not really feeling real well. Um, but I'm, but I'm here and, um, and we'll try to go

00:03:09.380 through the, Oh boy. Uh, okay. We're, we'll try to go through all of the audio, uh, of this sacred,

00:03:17.280 uh, sacred, sacred moment. Uh, and this really, this heavy weight that was around the necks of the,

00:03:26.300 the Democrats yesterday. And we will, uh, we'll start there in 60 seconds.

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00:05:15.280 Stu, are you there? Yeah. Are you okay? Yeah. Normally, uh, you know, I wouldn't come in,

00:05:20.720 but, uh, I'm, uh, you know, I want to be professional and, uh, and really do my job.

00:05:26.000 Well, it's a big, uh, big news day, obviously. It is a big news day. Yeah. And, uh, you just don't

00:05:32.880 look great. I mean, well, that's not, I mean, very kind, but Oh my. Oh, hang on. Ooh. All right.

00:05:43.780 Yeah. I hate that feeling. You know, you know, when you get that place where you're just like,

00:05:47.420 Oh, I just wish I would throw up, you know, and you think it would be better if you just did.

00:05:52.360 And then once you're doing it, you're like, no, that was a horrible, horrible mistake. And it's

00:05:56.040 the worst moment of your life for about 30 seconds. And then at the end, you do actually

00:06:00.220 feel better usually. Okay. Um, all right. Well, let's, uh, let me just, uh, you know,

00:06:08.260 let's play some audio here, uh, because maybe that'll, uh, I can get past, uh, things. Let's play

00:06:13.980 some audio here. This is, uh, this is, uh, Chuck Todd, um, uh, talking about the president

00:06:21.180 yesterday and, and how he feels about the, and how he feels about the constitution. Here's Chuck

00:06:27.280 Todd. You know, I think this is the real challenge with, with sort of dealing with this president

00:06:31.080 is that I don't think he really even appreciates the constitution. All right. I don't know if he,

00:06:36.700 he has this reverence for it that most elected officials in Washington eventually do end up having

00:06:43.120 a reverence for it. He doesn't seem to sort of understand the founding. I mean, I think one of

00:06:48.620 the fairest criticisms of him by historians is that he doesn't seem to understand the story

00:06:53.580 of America, if you will, and the story of America begins in those pages in the constitution.

00:06:57.800 So I don't think he really appreciates it. I don't think he, he reveres it. I think he just

00:07:03.940 did. It was very dismissive. Oh, these are just more silly rules. Um, you know, it's no different

00:07:09.360 than assuming hearing. Oh, I apologize, America. I, Ooh, Ooh, man. Uh, that's one of the most

00:07:23.460 unprofessional things I've ever done. Uh, I'm sorry, Stu, what was he saying there? He was

00:07:28.460 talking about how the president, uh, you know, doesn't really revere the constitution and,

00:07:34.180 and he was, uh, discussing how, you know, how Chuck Todd is, is, you know, the type of person

00:07:42.800 who can kind of like make that determination. Oh, that was largely the, the, the, the concept he

00:07:52.860 covered there. Okay. I apologize. I didn't, uh, I didn't, I didn't even, do you want to do more

00:07:58.640 audio? Is that I, yeah, I don't think I can go on. Can we listen to, uh, what else do we?

00:08:04.940 Oh, well, let's listen to, uh, Andrea Mitchell on, uh, on NBC, uh, from yesterday about Nancy

00:08:14.120 Pelosi and, and, and, uh, her, her, her attire. The seriousness of this, as it is being taken

00:08:23.400 by the Democrats as well, uh, reflected symbolically, perhaps in the colors being worn or the lack of

00:08:30.260 colors being worn, the members, the women members choosing to wear dark colors. Nancy Pelosi is a

00:08:36.680 woman of, uh, a person of primary colors. You see it. If she's not wearing white, she's wearing bright

00:08:42.140 colors. Uh, she's certainly always, you know, well-appointed, beautifully, beautifully arrayed,

00:08:49.100 if you will. She's wearing black. Oh God. Oh, symbolic expression of how somberly they are

00:08:56.860 taking somebody. It's sacramental. It's sacramental. And you can talk about the politics of it. It's

00:09:04.740 no question that Nancy Pelosi came to this reluctantly. Yes. Oh my. All right. But she was,

00:09:14.840 I'm not sure if you heard any of that, uh, Glenn, but, uh, it was Nancy Pelosi. Um, and they were

00:09:22.200 talking about Nancy Pelosi's, uh, dress and how importantly symbolic it was, uh, that Nancy,

00:09:28.920 uh, dressed in black because she normally dresses in primary colors. And are you okay? Okay. I'm,

00:09:38.600 I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm okay. I'm okay. Okay. Who, uh, did you want to react

00:09:46.080 at all to the, the, the, the clip about Nancy Pelosi? No, I, you know what? Can we, uh, you know,

00:09:50.640 maybe we should take a break. Let me just take a break for just a, just a couple of minutes. We'll

00:09:55.320 just take a quick break. Okay. Um, sure. Probably help me out just a bit. Oh, okay. All right. Um,

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00:11:46.240 do apply. We have 10 seconds. Station ID.

00:11:48.960 I don't think we should play anymore. We changed the subject for just a few minutes.

00:12:01.720 I just need to change the subject for just a... Well, I know you didn't really get a chance to

00:12:06.160 comment though on... No, no.

00:12:07.920 ...on the solemn event that Nancy Pelosi was discussing in her black outfit. Yeah, let's, let's, let's, let's,

00:12:12.760 let's, um, let's, let me just change the subject. Well, I don't want you to, I don't want it to pass

00:12:18.300 without you having a chance to actually address it because you played the whole audio clip and kind

00:12:22.700 of just weren't able to, to... I'm sorry. I don't know if I, I, I hope... Well, just to review. So Nancy Pelosi

00:12:29.020 was saying it was a very solemn, serious event and the type of event where she really respects the

00:12:34.600 constitution and she wore black to like almost a, because it was a sad and she, she came at this

00:12:41.060 unwillingly. Okay. Okay. Okay. We got to change. We have to change the subject. Let me, we can still

00:12:48.360 talk about Nancy Pelosi here, but let me, let me just, um, she refused to, um, commit last night to

00:12:56.580 delivering the articles of impeachment to the Senate, citing concerns about, get this, an unfair trial

00:13:04.140 on removing president Trump from office. Uh, senior democratic aid say the house was very unlikely

00:13:11.100 to take the steps necessary to actually send the articles to the Senate. The, I am, I have to tell

00:13:18.960 you, if you want to impeach the president, impeach the president, but you have, you have so no pun

00:13:28.060 intended Trumped everything up. You have accused him of everything, but murder. You keep, you continue

00:13:35.700 to say you have the facts, you have the case. And then it turns out you don't have the case.

00:13:42.420 And so you have to come up with an article of impeachment of, of, uh, of, uh, what was it?

00:13:48.920 Defying, uh, Congress or, uh, what was that one? Let's do the, the, they have abuse of power

00:13:56.180 and then, um, uh, obstruction of construction of Congress, not of an obstruction of justice,

00:14:02.080 an obstruction of Congress. That's not even a thing. If you are a co-equal branch, you can

00:14:11.460 obstruct Congress. You, you have to take it to the Supreme court. And that's what Donald Trump

00:14:17.260 was saying. That's what the Republicans were saying. You, some of the people who wanted

00:14:22.340 to testify said, I've got one branch telling me to testify. I have another branch that is

00:14:28.280 equal telling me not to testify. I need the third branch to tell me what to do. If the

00:14:36.600 third branch would have had a chance to, uh, uh, rule on it one way or another, then you could

00:14:45.160 say you're obstructing justice. If the president didn't move and the court system said he had to,

00:14:52.320 but you don't have obstruction of justice. It doesn't exist with three equal branches

00:14:59.720 obstruction of Congress. Yeah. And it's obstruction of Congress. There was one Democrat that voted

00:15:06.140 yes on the abuse of power, but no on obstruction of Congress. There was one singular Democrat.

00:15:12.420 This is a Soviet style court. That's what's happening. I try to remember what they called

00:15:19.960 them. They were, they were like phone courts, Soviet phone courts, where the judge actually

00:15:24.640 had a phone right next to his bench. And at any time the phone could ring and the premier

00:15:32.540 would be on the other end. And he's like, he is guilty rule now. Okay. Guilty, guilty,

00:15:38.580 guilty, guilty, execute now. That's what, that's what this is. And you can tell by the sound

00:15:46.280 effects that are being tested on the staff. Sorry. We're backstage right now, uh, in, uh,

00:15:51.560 West Palm for, uh, turning point USA. So if any of the dramatic movie it's, it's because I'm

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00:16:03.960 are coming. Ah, okay. So you're just going to have to put up with this in the background.

00:16:12.040 They are right. This is ridiculous. Now I, it's funny though. It makes it seem like you're

00:16:16.780 making a really important speech. It does. Like the aliens have invaded and you're about

00:16:21.260 to inspire Randy Quaid to stop them. Right. I think this is my walkout music, uh, tonight.

00:16:27.780 I, I'm giving a speech. I told them to make me sound like almost a God. And I think they've

00:16:35.360 done a pretty good job of it, uh, quite honestly. Okay, good. Now the, uh, the Democrats to,

00:16:43.060 to have Nancy Pelosi, everything they've accused Donald Trump of, they have done themselves.

00:16:51.000 They accused him of colluding with a foreign government to influence our election. They did

00:16:56.060 that in Ukraine. How do we know? We have it on tape. We have a, a recording made of the guy

00:17:04.940 who is the head of the anti-corruption bureau, which was run by the Obama administration and

00:17:12.600 spooky dude himself. And it was the state department's, uh, little toy over in the Ukraine that told

00:17:22.280 them what they could prosecute and what they couldn't. So we have the head guy on tape at a

00:17:29.320 bar talking to somebody saying, yes, this is what they did to throw elections for Hillary.

00:17:34.160 We worked together and we did these things, convicted two convictions in Ukrainian court

00:17:41.300 for tampering with the U S election. So they say they colluded with Donald Trump colluded.

00:17:48.420 Well, no, the Mueller report showed no, he didn't collude and more on the Mueller report.

00:17:54.180 As that comes out, I'll tell you about this here in a few minutes. So they colluded. Then what else

00:18:03.160 did they say? Abused power just to destroy his opponent in 2020. Okay. Let's say that's true.

00:18:11.840 Let's say that's true. But when you know how the FBI under the Obama administration and, and with

00:18:22.140 members of the DOJ state department, CIA, and what they brought to the FISA court, what is that?

00:18:32.540 Is that not trying to smear and destroy their political, uh, opponent in 2020? The Democrats

00:18:41.760 have done this for the last three and a half years. They have used their power and their offices

00:18:46.620 to destroy a man. They know they're not going to be able to beat instead of, instead of actually

00:18:53.960 listening to the people and giving the people a good option. They've run this, this socialist thing

00:19:02.480 that is so out of touch with America. They have praised anybody who spits on the flag. They have,

00:19:09.960 they have praised anybody who is teaching that our founders are old white racist slave owners.

00:19:16.820 They have preached that the constitution is an old dusty document that cannot possibly relate to our

00:19:24.980 times. Wait a minute. And now you're preaching the exact opposite. They've conspired with the FBI,

00:19:34.020 the state department, with the aid of the oval office under Obama, with the help of Hillary for president

00:19:39.660 and the DNC to smear, accuse, lie, literally forged documents submitted to a court, illegally obtained

00:19:49.540 FISA warrants. They have spent millions of your tax dollars as funding for this, I believe, secret

00:19:58.820 anti-Trump operation. They used official government resources to fraudulently accuse, smear, and destroy

00:20:06.340 their 2020 opponent. They have used their offices to coordinate radicals, NGOs, foreign governments,

00:20:14.780 universities, unions, and the vast majority of the press as, dare I say it, co-conspirators in a relentless

00:20:23.540 campaign against a sitting, duly elected president of the United States, who, by the way, if I might

00:20:29.400 remind you, I was not for. I still don't like many things this president does. I don't, personally,

00:20:40.480 I really don't agree with him. I really appreciate some of his policies. I try to call it as I see it.

00:20:49.820 I really thought, really thought collusion with Russia was a real possibility. It didn't happen.

00:20:59.800 They have used, they have taken their oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution of the

00:21:08.540 United States of America, which, this is going to be an important and scary one, and quite dramatic,

00:21:13.360 you can tell, because the music is starting again, I think. Oh, good. Maybe the call is coming from in

00:21:22.300 the House. I don't. Oh, boy. So let me read it this way. The members of our U.S. Congress have used

00:21:30.940 their oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, which explicitly

00:21:37.420 states in its preamble that the government should promote domestic tranquility. Has your Congress done

00:21:47.480 that? Are members of the U.S. House promoting domestic tranquility and bringing us closer together as a

00:21:56.540 nation? Or are they doing the exact opposite of promoting tranquility in every possible way and every

00:22:05.080 possible opportunity? I say you let the music stand. I think you let the music speak for itself. I think

00:22:13.580 that's God. I'm not sitting backstage while they're just trying out different things. No, no, no. If

00:22:20.800 you're hearing music, it's coming from God, because I don't hear any music. They have done the exact

00:22:27.980 opposite in promoting tranquility, and they've done it every possible way at every possible opportunity.

00:22:35.140 One of the things they claimed in 2016 that Donald Trump would destroy the faith of the American

00:22:43.160 people in our free and fair elections, claiming everything from an unprecedented attack on our

00:22:49.420 most sacred institutions to an act of hostility approaching sabotage that we would only expect from

00:22:55.780 a foreign agent. Yet they themselves claimed that the election was stolen right after the election,

00:23:03.380 and that Trump was an illegitimate president, that he was somehow or another a foreign agent.

00:23:09.120 Is anyone going to be held responsible for any of this? You want the trial? You impeached him.

00:23:17.000 Let the trial happen. This is an unconstitutional act. You are not promoting domestic tranquility.

00:23:25.080 Period. Back in a minute.

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00:26:00.360 Welcome to the program. I am backstage at Turning Point USA, where I'm giving the opening

00:26:13.100 keynote tonight for the convention. The president is going to be here tomorrow. This is an amazing

00:26:18.560 organization that didn't even really exist five years ago, and now it is sweeping the

00:26:25.280 colleges and universities. Tonight's crowd of about 5,000 is all between the ages of 18

00:26:32.500 and 24 years old. This is an amazing American movement. And Charlie Kirk, who I think is Charlie

00:26:43.060 going to join us today or is it tomorrow? He is really quite a genius on the way he has put

00:26:52.460 this whole thing together. I think tonight I'm going to be talking to future senators and future

00:26:58.700 congressmen, you know, assuming that there is Congress and a Senate and everything else down

00:27:05.000 the road. For Nancy Pelosi saying that she's not going to transmit the documents for impeachment

00:27:14.080 is in itself an abuse of power. Do we have Mitch McConnell speaking on this here in a few

00:27:20.900 minutes live? President Trump. Yep. Oh, here he is. Over the last 12 weeks, House Democrats

00:27:27.600 have conducted the most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern

00:27:36.600 history. Now, their slapdash process has concluded in the first purely partisan presidential impeachment

00:27:48.280 since the wake of the Civil War. The opposition to impeachment was bipartisan. Only one part

00:27:59.320 of one faction wanted this outcome. The House's conduct risks deeply damaging the institutions of

00:28:10.700 American government. This particular House of Representatives has let its partisan rage at this particular president create

00:28:22.700 a toxic new precedent that will echo well into the future. That's what I want to discuss right now. The historic

00:28:35.060 degree to which House Democrats have failed to do their duty and what it will mean for the Senate to do ours. So let's

00:28:46.100 start at the beginning. Let's start with the fact that Washington Democrats made up their minds to impeach

00:28:53.900 President Trump since before he was even inaugurated. Here's a reporter in April of 2016. April of 2016. Donald Trump isn't even the Republican nominee yet. But impeachment is already on the lips of pundits, newspaper editorials, constitutional scholars, and even a few members of Congress. April 2016.

00:29:22.140 On inauguration day, 2017, the headline in the Washington Post, the campaign to impeach President Trump has begun. That was day one. In April 2017, three months into the presidency, a senior House Democrat said, I'm going to fight every day until he's impeached.

00:29:51.180 That was three months into the administration. In December 2017, two years ago, Congressman Jerry Nadler was openly campaigned, campaigning to be the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, specifically, specifically because he was an expert on impeachment.

00:30:14.980 That's the NADLers' campaign to be the top Democrat on judiciary. This week wasn't even the first time House Democrats have introduced articles of impeachment. It was actually the seventh time.

00:30:30.280 They started less than six months after the president was sworn in. They tried to impeach President Trump for being impolite to the president.

00:30:40.660 You're hearing Mitch McConnell from the floor of the Senate, his response to Nancy Pelosi and the impeachment in the House yesterday.

00:30:48.460 They're changing President Obama's policy on transgender people in the military. All of these things were high crimes and misdemeanors, according to Democrats.

00:31:02.680 Now, this wasn't just a few people. Scores, scores, scores of Democrats voted to move forward with impeachment on three of those prior occasions.

00:31:15.040 So let's be clear. The House's vote yesterday was not some neutral judgment that Democrats came to with great reluctance.

00:31:27.720 It was the predetermined end of a partisan crusade that began before President Trump was even nominated, let alone sworn in.

00:31:40.800 For the very first time in modern history, we've seen a political faction in Congress promise from the moment, the moment a president election ended, they would find some way to overturn it.

00:31:57.720 A few months ago, Democrats' three-year-long impeachment and search of articles found its way to the subject of Ukraine.

00:32:10.540 House Democrats embarked on the most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern history.

00:32:22.120 Chairman Schiff's inquiry was poisoned by partisanship from the outset.

00:32:27.720 Its procedures and parameters were unfair in unprecedented ways.

00:32:36.060 Democrats tried to make Chairman Schiff into a de facto special prosecutor,

00:32:41.540 notwithstanding the fact that he is a partisan member of Congress who'd already engaged in strange and biased behavior.

00:32:50.720 He scrapped the precedent to cut the Republican minority out of the process.

00:32:58.680 He denied President Trump the same sorts of procedural rights that houses of both parties had provided to pass presidents of both parties.

00:33:09.180 President Trump's counsel could not participate in Chairman Schiff's hearings, present evidence, or cross-examine witnesses.

00:33:16.440 The House Judiciary Committee's crack at this was even more ahistorical.

00:33:23.300 It was like the Speaker called up Chairman Nadler and ordered one impeachment.

00:33:29.600 Rush delivery, please.

00:33:31.100 The committee found no facts on its own, did nothing to verify the Schiff report.

00:33:39.880 Their only witnesses were liberal law professors and congressional staffers.

00:33:45.120 So, Mr. President, there's a reason.

00:33:48.060 The impeachment inquiry that led to President Nixon's resignation required about 14 months of hearings.

00:33:52.940 14 months, in addition to a special prosecutor's investigation.

00:34:01.360 With President Clinton, the independent counsel's inquiry had been underway literally for years,

00:34:07.240 before the House Judiciary Committee actually dug in.

00:34:11.800 Mountains of evidence.

00:34:13.660 Mountains.

00:34:14.720 Mountains of testimony from firsthand fact witnesses.

00:34:19.160 Serious legal battles to get what was necessary.

00:34:21.720 This time around, the House Democrats skipped all of that, spent just 12 weeks.

00:34:30.260 12 weeks.

00:34:32.040 More than a year of hearings for Nixon.

00:34:35.320 Multiple years of investigation for Clinton.

00:34:38.320 And they've impeached President Trump in 12 weeks.

00:34:42.800 12 weeks.

00:34:44.860 So let's talk about what the House actually produced in those 12 weeks.

00:34:51.720 The House Democrats' rushed and rigged inquiry yielded two articles, two, of impeachment.

00:35:01.580 They are fundamentally unlike any articles that any prior House of Representatives has ever passed.

00:35:07.900 The first article concerns the core events which House Democrats claim are impeachable.

00:35:18.260 The timing of aid to Ukraine.

00:35:22.960 But it does not even purport to allege any actual crime.

00:35:29.000 Instead, they deploy the vague phrase, abuse of power.

00:35:33.820 Abuse of power.

00:35:35.760 To impugn the President's action in a general, indeterminate way.

00:35:42.340 Speaker Pelosi's House just gave in to a temptation that every other House in history has managed to resist.

00:35:51.200 Let me say that again.

00:35:54.740 Speaker Pelosi's House just gave in to a temptation that every other House in our history has managed to resist.

00:36:03.400 You're listening to Senator Mitch McConnell, his response in the impeachment proceeding.

00:36:08.640 They impeached a president that they do not even allege has committed an actual crime known to our law.

00:36:11.620 We're going to continue to take this as long as we can.

00:36:13.980 We'll push our break as late as we possibly can.

00:36:16.680 They impeached simply because they disagree with the presidential act and questioned the motive behind it.

00:36:23.600 So let's look at history.

00:36:27.640 Andrew Johnson impeachment involved around a clear violation of a criminal statute, albeit an unconstitutional statute.

00:36:36.580 Nixon had obstruction of justice, a felony under our laws.

00:36:43.440 Clinton had perjury, also a felony.

00:36:46.840 Now, the Constitution does not say the House can impeach only those presidents who violate a law.

00:36:56.460 But history matters.

00:36:59.140 History matters and precedent matters.

00:37:03.320 And there were important reasons why every previous House of Representatives in American history restrained itself.

00:37:10.600 Restrained itself from crossing this Rubicon.

00:37:14.040 The framers of our Constitution very specifically discussed this issue, whether the House should be able to impeach presidents just for, quote, mal-administration.

00:37:29.780 Just for mal-administration.

00:37:32.420 In other words, because the House simply thought the president had bad judgment or was doing a bad job.

00:37:39.420 They talked about all this when they wrote the Constitution.

00:37:44.800 The written records of our founders' debates show they specifically rejected this.

00:37:50.060 They realized it would create a total dysfunction to set the bar for impeachment that low.

00:37:57.020 That low.

00:37:57.580 James Madison himself explained that allowing impeachment on that basis would mean the president serves at the pleasure of the Congress instead of the pleasure of the American people.

00:38:12.720 It would make the president a creature of Congress, not the head of a separate and equal branch.

00:38:21.320 So there were powerful reasons, Mr. President, why Congress after Congress for 230 years, 230 years, required presidential impeachment to revolve around clear, recognizable crimes.

00:38:39.600 Even though that was not a strict limitation.

00:38:43.340 Powerful reasons why for 230 years, no House, no House opened the Pandora's box of subjective political impeachments.

00:39:00.300 That 230-year tradition died last night.

00:39:04.180 Now, Mr. President, House Democrats have tried to say they had to impeach President Trump on this historically thin and subjective basis because the White House challenged their request for more witnesses.

00:39:21.660 And that brings us to the second article of impeachment.

00:39:28.000 The House titled this one, Obstruction of Congress.

00:39:34.180 What it really does is impeach the president for asserting presidential privilege.

00:39:42.280 The concept of executive privilege is another two-century-old constitutional tradition.

00:39:51.040 Presidents, starting with George Washington, have invoked it.

00:39:55.100 Federal courts have repeatedly affirmed it is a legitimate constitutional power.

00:40:00.520 House Democrats requested extraordinary amounts of sensitive information from President Trump's White House.

00:40:08.620 Exactly the kinds of things over which presidents of both parties have asserted privilege in the past.

00:40:16.460 Predictably and appropriately, President Trump did not simply roll over.

00:40:21.220 He defended the constitutional authority of his office.

00:40:27.260 No surprise there.

00:40:29.940 It's not a constitutional crisis for a House to want more information than a president wants to give up.

00:40:37.440 That's not a constitutional crisis.

00:40:39.540 It's a routine occurrence.

00:40:42.740 The separation of powers is messy by design.

00:40:46.660 Now, here's what should have happened.

00:40:50.920 Here's what should have happened.

00:40:52.820 Either the president and Congress negotiate a settlement,

00:40:56.360 or the third branch of government, the judiciary,

00:41:00.880 addresses the dispute between the other two.

00:41:05.660 The Nixon impeachment featured disagreements over presidential privilege.

00:41:09.980 So they went to the courts.

00:41:22.380 This takes time.

00:41:25.320 It's inconvenient.

00:41:28.220 That's actually the point.

00:41:31.820 Due process is not meant to maximize the convenience of the prosecutor.

00:41:36.060 It's meant to protect the accused.

00:41:42.380 But this time was different.

00:41:45.120 Remember, 14 months of hearings for Richard Nixon,

00:41:50.320 years of investigation for Bill Clinton.

00:41:54.320 Stations, we're going to take our network break.

00:41:57.660 I'm cutting my live commercial just so we can get to your local break.

00:42:03.420 Now, we break and back in just a moment.

00:42:09.040 You're listening to Glenn Beck.

00:42:17.380 Mitch McConnell is still speaking from the Senate floor,

00:42:20.660 and we will continue to monitor it here at the top of the hour.

00:42:25.440 And when we come back, we will summarize it all for you.

00:42:31.360 I think he's leading to something.

00:42:33.140 I'm not sure what he's leading to yet.

00:42:35.140 But we'll have that right after your local news station identification.

00:42:41.540 And we'll come back and put that into perspective.

00:42:45.380 So much to cover.

00:42:47.560 It is historic, but not in the way the Democrats think it is.

00:42:52.220 What comes next, we'll explain when we come back.

00:43:01.000 You're listening to Glenn Beck.

00:43:10.420 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:43:14.780 Hello, America, from Turning Point USA.

00:43:20.800 We want to move our commercial just a little bit,

00:43:24.360 see if we can go back to the Senate floor with Mitch McConnell.

00:43:27.200 If he is still talking, he was just a few seconds ago.

00:43:30.640 It sounds like he is starting to say that the Senate won't pick this up

00:43:38.800 because it's unjust and too low of a bar.

00:43:43.720 We'll go back to him as the program begins right now.

00:43:48.160 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:43:50.760 Okay.

00:43:52.000 Let's go right to, let's go right back to the floor of the Senate.

00:43:57.000 In 2016.

00:43:59.000 He's been talking now for about 30 minutes.

00:44:01.520 Which outcome would serve the stabilizing, institution-preserving, fever-breaking role

00:44:09.580 for which the United States Senate was created?

00:44:14.720 And which outcome would betray it?

00:44:19.400 The Senate's duty is clear.

00:44:23.340 The Senate's duty is clear.

00:44:25.100 When the time comes, we must fulfill it.

00:44:38.640 What does that mean?

00:44:40.340 Now, Mr. President, I understand there are three bills at the desk

00:44:42.980 due to a second reading in block.

00:44:46.280 Still?

00:44:47.320 What does that mean?

00:44:48.360 That they will take this on?

00:44:49.580 I wouldn't say it's clear at this point.

00:44:54.580 Turn this down.

00:44:55.520 Okay, we can get rid of this.

00:44:57.000 So, I mean, you know, it's hard to tell.

00:44:59.500 I mean, there's been a lot of talk over the past 24 hours

00:45:01.820 that the House won't even send the articles of impeachment to the Senate

00:45:06.560 because they are trying to come up with some sort of negotiation

00:45:11.540 to change the terms.

00:45:14.540 They think it's not going to be fair, which is obviously,

00:45:16.980 I mean, this is all ridiculous.

00:45:18.080 I'm just making their arguments for them.

00:45:19.220 Yeah, this is unconstitutional.

00:45:22.420 Look, the Democrats are now...

00:45:24.560 Constitutionally, it's their right to do whatever they want.

00:45:26.920 They don't have to send it over.

00:45:28.320 It's just completely against all, you know, traditions.

00:45:31.600 For them to demand certain standards or whatever they want to demand

00:45:37.600 after rejecting them in the House,

00:45:40.360 the House does not have control of the Senate.

00:45:44.040 The House's role is to act like a grand jury,

00:45:47.740 to gather evidence, to have an investigation,

00:45:51.740 to then, if they find those in committee to be actionable,

00:45:57.760 to then put together articles of impeachment and then vote on them.

00:46:02.840 Then, if they voted in the affirmative that, yes, the president is impeached,

00:46:09.400 then they have to transmit it over to the Senate.

00:46:13.320 This is where Nancy Pelosi has said,

00:46:16.100 we're not going to transmit them.

00:46:17.540 We don't know when we'll do that.

00:46:19.500 But this doesn't look like it's going to be fair,

00:46:21.600 so we may not transmit them.

00:46:23.500 Well, what the hell is that?

00:46:24.640 If you passed to them, now send them over to the Senate.

00:46:30.160 And if the Senate isn't fair, let the chips fall where they may.

00:46:35.140 Your job is done.

00:46:37.840 You are not the judging body.

00:46:41.680 You are supposed to be the investigatory body.

00:46:46.640 Now, what I just heard from Mitch McConnell,

00:46:49.900 by the way, let me break this down,

00:46:51.480 because there are so many people that are waking up today

00:46:54.700 and they're thinking that Hillary Clinton is now our president.

00:46:57.740 Let me explain impeachment.

00:47:02.240 Impeachment is in the Constitution,

00:47:04.700 and it doesn't have to be a crime.

00:47:06.960 It doesn't have to be something.

00:47:09.020 Historically, it has always been a crime.

00:47:12.620 This is the first time in American history

00:47:15.180 where there is no crime alleged,

00:47:18.500 and there is no evidence.

00:47:21.760 It is literally opinion.

00:47:23.840 One of the articles of impeachment doesn't even make sense.

00:47:32.680 Obstruction of Congress.

00:47:34.760 There are separate powers in each branch.

00:47:38.880 So anyway, they have come up and they've decided

00:47:41.480 that what they found in the Schiff stuff,

00:47:45.760 this has nothing to do with Russia,

00:47:47.920 nothing to do with anything that you've heard about

00:47:49.740 for three and a half years.

00:47:51.220 This is the last 12 weeks.

00:47:53.840 And only those things that relate to Ukraine.

00:47:58.600 And so in the last 12 weeks,

00:48:00.480 they've put together this case,

00:48:03.200 if you can call it that,

00:48:04.700 and they have voted on it yesterday,

00:48:07.260 and that means their job is done.

00:48:09.440 They are like a grand jury.

00:48:11.720 Now it has to go to trial.

00:48:13.620 The trial is in the Senate.

00:48:15.800 However, remember, this is like a courtroom,

00:48:18.760 but it is a political courtroom.

00:48:20.880 So the political courtroom,

00:48:24.220 the political grand jury,

00:48:26.080 can, never has until today or yesterday,

00:48:29.400 but can say,

00:48:30.820 no crime is committed,

00:48:32.520 but we think that he's violated the trust

00:48:35.480 of the American people.

00:48:37.220 And so we want him impeached.

00:48:39.180 Okay, well, there's no crime there.

00:48:42.940 But they have the right to do that

00:48:44.980 because this is a political courtroom.

00:48:48.060 Now they send that,

00:48:49.480 just like a grand jury sends that

00:48:51.200 to a prosecutor in court.

00:48:53.420 But you will now have the court in Senate,

00:48:57.720 and you will have the chief justice,

00:49:00.140 Supreme Court Justice Roberts.

00:49:03.940 He will come in,

00:49:05.140 and he will sit in the vice president's chair,

00:49:10.020 if you will, in the Senate.

00:49:12.260 He will be the judge,

00:49:14.340 and you will put on an actual court case.

00:49:17.100 However, because this is political,

00:49:22.200 if the Senate decides there's nothing to this,

00:49:27.120 just like a judge can do in a criminal case,

00:49:30.560 they can throw the case out

00:49:32.640 and say this is a ridiculous case.

00:49:35.880 Case dismissed.

00:49:38.280 Case thrown out.

00:49:40.980 This happens all the time in courtrooms.

00:49:44.160 Now that is looking like what the Senate is going to do.

00:49:50.700 If they throw it out,

00:49:53.520 the Democrats can then go back and impeach him

00:49:59.440 if they win the Senate, highly unlikely.

00:50:03.440 But if they win the Senate,

00:50:05.380 and he's still the president,

00:50:08.100 they could take this back up and re-impeach

00:50:12.140 for the same stuff.

00:50:14.160 If the Senate decides to acquit him,

00:50:17.860 then it's different.

00:50:21.360 Then it's double jeopardy.

00:50:23.160 Then you cannot bring this up again.

00:50:25.440 So they can throw the case out,

00:50:27.700 they can acquit him,

00:50:29.240 or they can have a trial.

00:50:32.060 Now, fair trial?

00:50:34.640 Well, fair is, I guess,

00:50:37.460 all in the eyes of the beholder here.

00:50:41.000 Because there are Democrats

00:50:42.340 that think what happened in the House was fair.

00:50:45.680 I don't believe it was.

00:50:47.440 I think it was the craziest thing

00:50:50.000 I've ever seen in my life.

00:50:52.100 And believe me,

00:50:54.000 if you've listened to me

00:50:55.800 for more than 10 minutes,

00:50:57.660 if you've listened to me over the years,

00:51:00.300 you know,

00:51:01.120 even if it is the most unpopular thing

00:51:04.120 I can possibly say,

00:51:05.820 it would be destructive to my own career.

00:51:09.820 I have a long record of doing that.

00:51:12.520 If I really believed

00:51:15.500 that this president did these things.

00:51:18.120 I said this when they started

00:51:19.500 the Russian investigation.

00:51:21.840 I thought there was a good chance

00:51:23.960 that he did.

00:51:25.800 That he was colluding with them.

00:51:28.880 He wasn't.

00:51:30.800 And now we find out even more

00:51:32.700 from the FISA court

00:51:34.000 that it was even worse.

00:51:36.400 The FBI was making things up

00:51:38.140 out of whole cloth.

00:51:39.240 There's nothing here.

00:51:46.160 And so what Mitch McConnell just said

00:51:48.460 was,

00:51:49.540 when our time comes,

00:51:51.700 we'll do our job.

00:51:52.940 But before that,

00:51:54.880 for 30 minutes,

00:51:55.820 he was pretty much laying out a case

00:51:57.680 that if the Senate takes this,

00:52:01.520 if we accept this case

00:52:04.240 and try this case,

00:52:05.980 it will set the precedent

00:52:07.820 that this is enough

00:52:10.220 to impeach a president.

00:52:13.280 This is enough.

00:52:14.740 And he said,

00:52:15.400 we'll never stop impeaching.

00:52:17.880 Both sides now

00:52:19.140 will just come up with

00:52:20.180 whatever they want to come up with

00:52:21.620 and they'll impeach.

00:52:23.740 And it's true.

00:52:25.020 I was talking to

00:52:29.740 a legal friend of mine

00:52:32.180 who is a constitutional scholar.

00:52:35.740 And I asked him

00:52:37.000 during the Hillary thing,

00:52:38.320 why the hell is she not in jail?

00:52:41.420 Now, I can't take another second

00:52:44.040 of how the Democrats are saying,

00:52:46.600 no one's above the law.

00:52:48.000 Really?

00:52:49.200 Really?

00:52:49.840 That's what you're going for?

00:52:51.680 No one is above the law

00:52:52.980 because it seems

00:52:53.740 every illegal alien

00:52:54.900 is above the law.

00:52:58.700 It seems like

00:52:59.660 any time you want to say

00:53:01.700 it's above the law,

00:53:02.840 they're above the law,

00:53:04.160 they're above the law.

00:53:06.040 Anytime it's political expediency,

00:53:09.140 anytime that you,

00:53:10.200 anytime the Clintons

00:53:11.380 have done anything,

00:53:12.920 they are above the law.

00:53:14.140 Anytime Sandy Berger,

00:53:15.640 Sandy Berger

00:53:16.840 went into the National Archives

00:53:20.220 He took documents

00:53:24.020 and destroyed them

00:53:25.580 pertaining to what

00:53:27.340 the Bushes

00:53:28.400 and the Clintons

00:53:29.580 knew about

00:53:30.840 the Saudi relationship.

00:53:32.760 We don't even know

00:53:33.440 what those documents were.

00:53:34.920 I don't know how that's possible

00:53:36.240 because I'm sure

00:53:37.520 we had records of them.

00:53:39.660 He took them out,

00:53:41.280 smuggled them out.

00:53:43.040 You know what his penalty was?

00:53:44.920 He lost his national security clearance

00:53:47.700 for a couple of years.

00:53:50.220 If I went into

00:53:51.500 the National Archives,

00:53:52.600 I've been into the vaults

00:53:54.000 of the National Archives.

00:53:55.420 I've stood in the room

00:53:56.940 with the documents.

00:54:01.460 You're not allowed

00:54:02.580 to even touch them.

00:54:04.680 If I would have tried

00:54:06.340 to take one document

00:54:08.580 from the National Archives,

00:54:10.300 I would have gone to prison.

00:54:13.220 He loses his security clearance

00:54:15.720 for a couple of years?

00:54:18.960 Really?

00:54:20.640 Does that sound like justice?

00:54:28.320 Now maybe this has gone on forever

00:54:30.320 and we could play the,

00:54:32.320 whoa, what about?

00:54:33.180 We could do that.

00:54:34.020 We could do that.

00:54:36.000 But that's a fundamental

00:54:37.220 misunderstanding

00:54:37.880 of who we really truly are.

00:54:40.560 Here's who we are.

00:54:41.360 And we had to explain it

00:54:44.540 to a very powerful man

00:54:46.540 a long time ago.

00:54:50.360 Because a decent respect

00:54:52.340 of people

00:54:53.760 demands an explanation.

00:54:55.780 If we're going to sever

00:54:58.340 the bonds between each other,

00:55:00.800 then it demands

00:55:02.160 that we say why.

00:55:03.280 And here's why.

00:55:07.940 Because we

00:55:09.140 hold these things

00:55:12.460 self-evident

00:55:13.980 that all men

00:55:16.040 are created equal

00:55:16.920 and endowed

00:55:17.640 by their Creator

00:55:18.540 with certain

00:55:19.700 inalienable rights.

00:55:21.000 And among these

00:55:21.900 are life, liberty,

00:55:23.480 and the pursuit

00:55:23.980 of happiness.

00:55:27.120 And government

00:55:28.220 is instituted

00:55:29.760 among men

00:55:30.800 to protect

00:55:32.160 those rights.

00:55:36.620 That's who we are.

00:55:39.020 Yeah, well,

00:55:39.820 we've never gotten there.

00:55:40.860 No, we haven't.

00:55:41.960 Martin Luther King,

00:55:42.880 he didn't say

00:55:43.640 burn the system down.

00:55:45.200 He said,

00:55:45.800 America,

00:55:47.200 remember who you are.

00:55:49.560 Remember the charge

00:55:51.080 our founders gave you.

00:55:53.640 This is our mission statement.

00:55:56.380 So don't tell me

00:55:57.240 about whataboutism.

00:55:58.840 We have to start

00:56:00.340 over every single day

00:56:02.500 because every single day

00:56:03.580 we make mistakes.

00:56:08.040 See,

00:56:08.620 we used to be

00:56:09.480 a Judeo-Christian

00:56:10.720 country.

00:56:12.460 We used to accept that.

00:56:14.560 And what did that mean?

00:56:15.920 You were forced

00:56:16.660 to go to church.

00:56:17.640 No.

00:56:19.240 No.

00:56:22.360 What that meant was

00:56:23.940 we believe

00:56:25.980 that there is

00:56:28.780 a God

00:56:29.400 and that he's

00:56:31.600 going to judge us

00:56:32.400 and we should

00:56:33.860 serve our fellow man.

00:56:35.300 That's the best way

00:56:36.460 to serve God

00:56:37.440 is to serve

00:56:38.260 our fellow man.

00:56:42.000 And because we know

00:56:43.460 we're human

00:56:44.260 and not God,

00:56:46.440 we believe

00:56:47.480 in forgiveness.

00:56:50.640 We believe

00:56:51.580 in justice,

00:56:52.540 not punishment,

00:56:54.380 justice.

00:56:55.040 and once

00:57:01.080 you've served

00:57:01.500 your time,

00:57:02.620 once you've

00:57:03.400 paid your debt,

00:57:05.000 you can come back.

00:57:11.520 We don't believe

00:57:12.420 in forgiveness anymore.

00:57:15.140 We play

00:57:15.980 whataboutism

00:57:16.740 on both sides.

00:57:17.860 because it's

00:57:21.220 very easy

00:57:21.940 for me to say,

00:57:22.740 oh, really?

00:57:23.700 People aren't

00:57:24.740 above the law?

00:57:26.020 Look at your record!

00:57:29.320 But I'm only

00:57:30.060 going to say

00:57:30.460 those things

00:57:31.740 to those people

00:57:32.580 in power

00:57:33.260 because those

00:57:34.440 people in power,

00:57:35.520 no matter what

00:57:36.180 Chuck Todd says

00:57:37.400 on how everybody

00:57:38.220 reveres the Constitution,

00:57:40.320 have you ever

00:57:40.840 talked to somebody

00:57:42.460 in Washington, D.C.?

00:57:43.740 Because I have.

00:57:45.140 They don't give

00:57:46.360 a flying crap

00:57:47.700 about the Constitution.

00:57:49.180 It's the last thing

00:57:50.600 on their minds.

00:57:52.460 He says,

00:57:52.900 you know,

00:57:53.180 at least when

00:57:53.840 they've been here

00:57:54.460 for a while,

00:57:55.100 they really start

00:57:55.820 to revere.

00:57:56.420 No,

00:57:56.880 when they get there,

00:57:58.000 they might revere it.

00:58:00.000 After they've been

00:58:00.980 there for a while,

00:58:02.000 they don't care.

00:58:11.220 Who were we

00:58:12.160 yesterday?

00:58:15.140 You know,

00:58:17.020 one concept

00:58:20.580 that I really

00:58:21.440 enjoyed learning

00:58:22.620 in science

00:58:23.740 is the concept

00:58:26.980 that there is

00:58:27.740 no space

00:58:29.260 or time.

00:58:31.980 There is only

00:58:33.520 a compound word

00:58:35.440 called

00:58:36.340 space-time.

00:58:39.220 Time is only

00:58:40.820 a creation

00:58:41.660 of man

00:58:42.420 to mark

00:58:43.300 where you are

00:58:44.680 in space.

00:58:48.020 What were you

00:58:48.800 doing last summer?

00:58:50.700 Well,

00:58:50.900 last summer

00:58:51.520 plots a place

00:58:52.720 in the universe,

00:58:53.860 in space.

00:58:55.200 We know

00:58:56.000 where the earth

00:58:56.660 was last summer.

00:58:58.020 We know

00:58:58.340 where we were

00:58:59.140 last summer.

00:59:04.340 Yesterday

00:59:04.900 doesn't matter.

00:59:07.000 Tomorrow

00:59:07.540 may never come.

00:59:08.560 but what we

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00:59:10.960 and choose

00:59:11.800 today

00:59:12.680 may change

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01:01:02.800 You know,

01:01:15.300 I have to tell you,

01:01:16.560 I have to tell you,

01:01:17.740 the Democrats

01:01:21.900 said before Obama

01:01:25.340 or before Trump

01:01:27.140 was elected

01:01:27.740 that there would be

01:01:30.440 an unprecedented

01:01:31.240 attack on our

01:01:32.060 most sacred

01:01:32.760 institution,

01:01:33.700 our most sacred

01:01:34.420 institution,

01:01:35.540 and that is

01:01:36.300 the voting booth.

01:01:38.360 And he was going

01:01:39.360 to actually

01:01:40.760 declare

01:01:41.540 after the election

01:01:42.660 that Hillary Clinton

01:01:44.060 was an illegitimate

01:01:45.600 president,

01:01:46.000 and that would be

01:01:46.540 the worst thing

01:01:47.240 that could happen.

01:01:48.900 They made a big deal

01:01:50.040 leading up to it

01:01:50.840 because they were

01:01:51.300 so confident

01:01:52.100 that Hillary would win.

01:01:53.820 And what happened?

01:01:54.920 Trump won,

01:01:55.500 and they immediately

01:01:56.520 said,

01:01:57.720 oh my gosh,

01:01:58.840 this is an illegitimate

01:02:00.580 president.

01:02:01.820 And as if that

01:02:02.520 wasn't bad enough

01:02:03.360 back then,

01:02:04.960 Hillary has gone

01:02:05.940 on a world speaking

01:02:07.280 tour claiming now

01:02:08.480 as fact,

01:02:10.760 as have members

01:02:11.780 of the House

01:02:12.600 claiming that he

01:02:14.320 is already conspiring

01:02:15.800 to steal the next

01:02:17.360 election.

01:02:19.260 How is that helping?

01:02:20.940 How is that helping?

01:02:21.880 How is that helping us

01:02:22.560 as a nation?

01:02:24.320 You don't have

01:02:24.900 any proof of that

01:02:26.260 if you do

01:02:27.100 produce that proof.

01:02:30.600 Their co-conspirators

01:02:31.800 in this,

01:02:32.500 the mainstream media,

01:02:33.580 have claimed

01:02:34.020 all of the charges

01:02:35.320 against the president

01:02:36.220 from House members,

01:02:38.400 from the Steele dossier,

01:02:40.040 everything

01:02:40.440 true,

01:02:41.800 verified.

01:02:42.920 The Steele dossier

01:02:43.820 verified,

01:02:44.700 or at least partially

01:02:45.600 verified,

01:02:46.360 by officials,

01:02:48.000 eventually saying

01:02:48.800 that officials

01:02:49.320 have not disproven

01:02:51.220 anything

01:02:51.980 in the Steele dossier,

01:02:54.220 which begs the question

01:02:55.520 to me,

01:02:56.060 now that we know

01:02:56.740 about the Steele dossier,

01:02:58.380 which officials

01:02:59.560 in the House

01:03:00.360 actually verified this?

01:03:02.940 We know from the

01:03:03.860 IG report

01:03:04.560 the charges

01:03:05.080 in the Steele dossier

01:03:06.160 were found

01:03:07.080 quickly

01:03:07.740 to be akin,

01:03:09.020 and I'm quoting,

01:03:10.340 to internet rumors,

01:03:12.340 in other words,

01:03:13.120 conspiracy theories.

01:03:15.060 So we have to know

01:03:16.580 which officials

01:03:17.820 claimed otherwise.

01:03:19.200 Why?

01:03:19.700 For how long?

01:03:20.600 What did they gain?

01:03:21.980 The FBI,

01:03:23.060 now we know

01:03:24.100 because of the

01:03:24.700 Inspector General,

01:03:25.920 forged,

01:03:26.860 omitted,

01:03:27.740 distorted,

01:03:28.560 and outright lied

01:03:29.800 to the FISA courts.

01:03:31.820 The FBI continued

01:03:32.960 to use Steele

01:03:33.940 as a source

01:03:34.820 and instructed

01:03:35.980 a DOJ official

01:03:37.040 to meet with him

01:03:38.080 13 times

01:03:39.860 after the FBI

01:03:41.460 closed him

01:03:42.600 as a source

01:03:43.420 with cause.

01:03:44.960 Not just an unusual,

01:03:46.480 never done.

01:03:48.860 Who at the FBI

01:03:49.960 ordered this?

01:03:50.780 Who ordered the agents

01:03:53.320 to falsify

01:03:54.160 and doctor documents

01:03:55.540 for the FISA courts?

01:03:57.300 Was this done

01:03:58.140 to destroy

01:03:58.720 or discredit

01:03:59.440 a candidate

01:04:00.060 for president,

01:04:00.900 or did they

01:04:01.400 do this routinely?

01:04:03.280 And this is vital

01:04:04.420 for us to find out

01:04:05.600 because of

01:04:06.260 national security.

01:04:07.760 The question is

01:04:08.720 today that we

01:04:09.480 should be asking,

01:04:10.620 who is going

01:04:11.560 to be held

01:04:12.500 accountable

01:04:13.120 for the lies,

01:04:14.660 the corruption,

01:04:15.420 the abuse of power,

01:04:16.580 the obscene abuse

01:04:18.120 of the secret

01:04:18.820 FISA courts?

01:04:20.060 Who will be held

01:04:21.000 accountable for the use,

01:04:22.500 publication,

01:04:23.320 and weaponizing

01:04:24.380 of the Steele dossier?

01:04:26.440 Who will be held

01:04:27.320 accountable for the

01:04:28.160 millions of dollars

01:04:29.100 in man-hours

01:04:29.940 spent on this hoax?

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01:05:55.380 Hello, and welcome

01:06:04.620 to the Glenn Beck

01:06:05.140 program.

01:06:05.700 I've got to make

01:06:06.080 up some commercials

01:06:06.760 because today's show

01:06:08.200 has been kind of

01:06:09.040 a little scattered

01:06:09.720 because of breaking

01:06:10.380 news.

01:06:11.020 We're at Turning Point

01:06:11.900 USA in West Palm

01:06:13.680 Beach, Florida.

01:06:14.620 We're thrilled to be

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01:06:16.660 All right, let me

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01:06:18.800 You're standing

01:06:19.300 with your son

01:06:19.860 at the foot of the

01:06:20.480 lake early morning

01:06:21.420 watching the fog

01:06:22.480 slowly burn off

01:06:23.560 the surface of the

01:06:24.400 water.

01:06:24.780 Can you see that

01:06:25.480 in your mind?

01:06:27.400 Next to you,

01:06:28.440 two lucky guys,

01:06:29.540 is a five-gallon

01:06:30.580 bucket filled with

01:06:31.440 water and the fish

01:06:32.300 that you spent

01:06:32.840 all morning catching.

01:06:34.620 You pull out your

01:06:35.560 phone, realizing,

01:06:38.340 as you do, that

01:06:40.540 this is the first

01:06:41.040 time you looked at

01:06:41.600 it all morning.

01:06:43.440 You fire up your

01:06:44.640 RecTech grill

01:06:45.480 remotely.

01:06:46.260 It's at home.

01:06:48.060 You smile at your

01:06:48.740 son and say,

01:06:50.100 come on, let's

01:06:51.600 clean these fish

01:06:52.580 and

01:06:52.740 put them for

01:06:55.080 breakfast on the

01:06:55.740 grill.

01:06:58.180 You can do that

01:06:59.140 even if your

01:06:59.560 home's far away

01:07:00.280 from that lake

01:07:00.980 and it'll be

01:07:02.140 ready to put

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01:07:04.460 the grill.

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01:07:06.220 Perfect.

01:07:08.300 This holiday,

01:07:09.440 why not give the

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01:07:11.260 to bring you and

01:07:11.960 your family,

01:07:13.380 you and your

01:07:13.880 son, closer

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01:07:15.520 Why not give the

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01:07:18.500 people, there

01:07:19.860 are a few things

01:07:21.960 that are really

01:07:22.360 important to teach

01:07:23.340 your son.

01:07:24.960 Really good

01:07:25.800 manners, how to

01:07:27.180 treat a woman,

01:07:28.360 make sure that he

01:07:29.520 opens the door for

01:07:30.840 his mother if you

01:07:31.940 don't do it.

01:07:33.580 Make sure that no

01:07:34.780 matter what society

01:07:35.880 says, he treats a

01:07:38.240 woman differently,

01:07:40.180 with real respect.

01:07:41.420 teaching your son

01:07:45.440 how to dress

01:07:46.860 nicely, how to

01:07:48.900 be able to

01:07:49.480 wear a black

01:07:50.620 tie or a

01:07:51.740 tie, is

01:07:54.260 important.

01:07:55.960 As I say,

01:07:57.660 son, some of

01:07:59.900 these things I'm

01:08:00.420 teaching you will

01:08:01.940 make you very

01:08:02.500 popular with the

01:08:03.580 ladies, because

01:08:05.300 you'll be the only

01:08:06.140 one who does it,

01:08:07.220 and it will set you

01:08:08.220 apart.

01:08:08.600 And the last

01:08:10.020 thing is teaching

01:08:11.780 your son how to

01:08:12.420 grill food.

01:08:14.920 Because it's

01:08:15.840 somehow or

01:08:16.260 another a guy

01:08:17.680 thing to do.

01:08:19.180 I mean, my wife

01:08:19.900 does it, but I

01:08:21.760 kind of feel awkward

01:08:22.460 because she's better

01:08:23.140 at it than I am,

01:08:24.480 because I never did

01:08:25.160 it with my dad.

01:08:25.860 I never learned.

01:08:28.420 Share that moment

01:08:29.300 with your son.

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01:08:44.720 All right.

01:08:45.640 Glenn, you

01:08:45.960 mentioned last

01:08:47.000 half hour, you

01:08:47.680 were going through

01:08:48.320 that whole litany

01:08:50.480 of just absurdity

01:08:51.840 that we're dealing

01:08:52.340 with.

01:08:53.420 And you mentioned

01:08:54.580 that the left

01:08:56.820 had talked an

01:08:58.480 awful lot about

01:08:59.280 how Donald Trump,

01:09:00.600 if he loses this

01:09:01.580 election, is going

01:09:02.340 to say that he

01:09:03.660 actually won and

01:09:04.760 ruin our democracy

01:09:06.660 over it.

01:09:07.260 And he will

01:09:08.480 cause distrust.

01:09:11.500 He will

01:09:11.800 separate people

01:09:12.920 from this

01:09:13.540 sacred, trusted

01:09:15.280 institution of the

01:09:16.500 polling place.

01:09:17.260 And it's important

01:09:17.780 in the context of

01:09:19.420 listening to every

01:09:20.440 Democrat yesterday

01:09:21.560 wax poetic about

01:09:23.200 the Constitution

01:09:24.060 to realize that

01:09:25.480 they don't mean

01:09:26.280 any of that.

01:09:27.340 I mean, it's the

01:09:28.020 second that the

01:09:28.960 opposite argument

01:09:29.940 will benefit

01:09:30.620 them, they

01:09:31.140 will just

01:09:31.460 continue to

01:09:31.920 make it.

01:09:32.860 And because our

01:09:33.600 news cycles go so

01:09:34.440 fast these days,

01:09:35.020 we forget how

01:09:36.920 prominent an

01:09:37.880 argument this was

01:09:38.980 by Democrats in

01:09:40.520 the lead up to the

01:09:41.140 2016 election.

01:09:42.360 This is just a

01:09:44.000 minor collection

01:09:44.940 of some of the

01:09:46.260 commentary coming

01:09:47.080 from Democrats

01:09:47.740 as we went

01:09:48.580 into 2016.

01:09:53.740 On this

01:09:54.500 solemn day, I

01:09:55.920 recall that the

01:09:56.980 first order of

01:09:57.820 business for

01:09:59.180 members of

01:09:59.680 Congress is

01:10:01.660 the solemn

01:10:02.240 act to take

01:10:04.120 an oath to

01:10:04.660 protect and

01:10:05.300 defend the

01:10:05.900 Constitution of

01:10:07.320 the United

01:10:07.740 States.

01:10:08.320 Our duty, first

01:10:09.560 and foremost, is

01:10:10.900 to protect the

01:10:11.560 Constitution and

01:10:12.940 to protect the

01:10:13.700 interests of the

01:10:14.880 American people.

01:10:16.400 That is why we

01:10:17.320 must take this

01:10:18.140 solemn step today.

01:10:20.460 Ben Franklin

01:10:21.020 said we have a

01:10:21.760 republic if we

01:10:22.540 can keep it.

01:10:23.820 Just remind us

01:10:24.800 of the words of

01:10:25.400 George Washington,

01:10:26.360 the Constitution

01:10:26.960 is a guide which

01:10:28.380 I will never

01:10:29.560 abandon.

01:10:30.600 That liberty may

01:10:31.360 be endangered by

01:10:32.860 the abuse of

01:10:35.460 liberty.

01:10:35.900 Okay, sure.

01:10:36.780 This is

01:10:37.860 entertaining.

01:10:39.560 This is not

01:10:39.940 what you called

01:10:40.440 for, but this

01:10:41.020 is very, very

01:10:41.720 entertaining.

01:10:42.440 Good reminder

01:10:43.040 of their pandering

01:10:44.440 to the Constitution

01:10:45.380 over the past

01:10:45.960 few days.

01:10:46.920 And, you

01:10:47.460 know, seeing

01:10:48.020 Sheila Jackson

01:10:49.240 Lee actually

01:10:51.180 uphold George

01:10:52.740 Washington is an

01:10:54.240 interesting thing.

01:10:55.280 It's something

01:10:56.080 new.

01:10:57.360 To me, there's

01:10:57.780 like physical

01:10:58.300 pain involved

01:10:59.180 hearing Democrats

01:11:00.080 talk about the

01:11:00.700 Constitution in a

01:11:01.480 positive way.

01:11:02.120 Yes.

01:11:02.420 Because you just

01:11:03.020 know they don't

01:11:04.800 care about it.

01:11:05.700 And I guess we're

01:11:06.160 at a different

01:11:06.680 level when they

01:11:07.400 start throwing

01:11:07.840 the God thing

01:11:09.100 around using that

01:11:10.100 for their political

01:11:10.760 advantage, which is

01:11:11.420 all another segment.

01:11:13.080 But here is the

01:11:13.940 2016 clips.

01:11:17.680 We are here

01:11:18.680 today because the

01:11:20.220 Republicans in the

01:11:21.160 House are paralyzed

01:11:22.220 with hatred.

01:11:23.580 And until the

01:11:24.180 Republicans free

01:11:25.080 themselves of this

01:11:25.940 hatred, our country

01:11:27.180 will suffer.

01:11:27.960 With allegiance to

01:11:28.900 our founders and a

01:11:30.260 heart full of love.

01:11:31.300 Well, apparently we

01:11:31.940 don't have the 2016

01:11:32.680 clips.

01:11:33.180 I don't know what to

01:11:35.380 tell you at this

01:11:35.880 point.

01:11:36.440 This show today, this

01:11:38.640 is, this is, this

01:11:40.820 is, this is, this

01:11:42.720 is amazing.

01:11:43.300 This is the, this

01:11:43.860 show is going as

01:11:44.520 well as the

01:11:45.020 Democratic impeachment

01:11:45.880 process.

01:11:47.600 Yes.

01:11:48.020 This show is the

01:11:49.040 third most listened

01:11:50.160 to show in America.

01:11:52.160 Okay.

01:11:53.000 Which probably makes

01:11:54.380 it the third largest

01:11:55.940 broadcast in the

01:11:58.020 world.

01:11:58.700 world and we, or

01:12:01.040 we're this bad.

01:12:02.620 It just shows you

01:12:04.300 how horrible the

01:12:06.240 free market has

01:12:07.240 solved this problem

01:12:08.520 of a good national

01:12:10.100 radio program.

01:12:11.320 I mean, you'll have

01:12:12.480 to take my word for

01:12:13.300 it, I suppose, here

01:12:14.060 that there is.

01:12:15.060 I suppose it was

01:12:15.300 good.

01:12:15.720 It was, but this

01:12:16.400 was a big thing.

01:12:18.600 This was something

01:12:19.440 and you know what,

01:12:20.460 what's really

01:12:21.040 frustrating about it

01:12:21.980 is when Democrats

01:12:23.280 make these arguments,

01:12:24.520 when they fall back

01:12:25.720 on these traditional

01:12:26.900 constitutional

01:12:28.120 God-based

01:12:29.900 the, the

01:12:32.160 solemnity of

01:12:33.280 our times, the,

01:12:35.160 the sacred nature

01:12:36.680 of our constitution

01:12:38.020 and our democracy

01:12:39.060 and our institutions.

01:12:42.180 We, number one,

01:12:43.700 know all of those

01:12:44.660 arguments are fake.

01:12:45.820 They only use them

01:12:46.680 when they need to

01:12:47.300 use them.

01:12:47.680 And number two,

01:12:48.580 we know the media

01:12:49.560 will act as if they

01:12:50.880 believe they're serious

01:12:52.020 and that's what's

01:12:52.540 so frustrating about it.

01:12:54.060 Well, no, what's

01:12:54.620 really frustrating

01:12:55.440 is a court document

01:12:57.460 that comes from

01:12:58.620 the United States

01:12:59.560 Foreign Intelligence

01:13:00.780 Surveillance Court.

01:13:02.480 It was filed

01:13:03.720 two days ago

01:13:05.140 in Washington, D.C.

01:13:07.440 and it was,

01:13:08.740 it was mentioned

01:13:09.620 in the press.

01:13:11.560 But I, I just

01:13:12.660 want to put this

01:13:13.140 in context.

01:13:14.380 The Democrats

01:13:15.020 who have put this

01:13:16.320 whole investigation

01:13:17.180 together

01:13:17.800 and have abused

01:13:19.360 their power

01:13:20.080 by abusing

01:13:21.080 the FBI

01:13:21.900 and getting

01:13:23.360 the FBI

01:13:24.140 as a co-conspirator,

01:13:26.280 the DOJ,

01:13:27.420 the State Department,

01:13:28.880 and now FISA

01:13:30.320 without their knowledge.

01:13:31.720 I just want to read

01:13:32.960 what came,

01:13:34.000 what was filed

01:13:34.860 by the United States

01:13:36.520 Foreign Intelligence

01:13:37.320 Service Court.

01:13:38.500 This order

01:13:39.500 responds

01:13:40.440 to reports

01:13:41.200 that personnel

01:13:41.940 of the FBI

01:13:43.240 provided

01:13:43.940 false information

01:13:45.440 to the National

01:13:46.680 Security Division,

01:13:48.800 the NSD,

01:13:50.000 and the Department

01:13:51.300 of Justice

01:13:52.020 and withheld

01:13:53.360 material information

01:13:54.900 from the National

01:13:56.140 Security Division

01:13:57.240 which was detrimental

01:13:58.840 to the FBI's case

01:14:00.900 in connection

01:14:02.040 with four applications

01:14:03.540 to the Foreign

01:14:04.380 Intelligence

01:14:05.040 Surveillance Court

01:14:06.160 for authority

01:14:07.240 to conduct

01:14:07.860 electronic surveillance

01:14:09.220 of a U.S. citizen

01:14:10.760 named Carter W. Page.

01:14:13.340 When the FBI personnel

01:14:15.100 misled the NSD

01:14:17.020 in ways described above,

01:14:18.920 they equally

01:14:20.140 misled

01:14:21.120 the FISA court.

01:14:23.100 Now that's

01:14:24.120 the opening paragraph.

01:14:26.740 Now remember,

01:14:27.440 this is

01:14:27.760 the House

01:14:30.600 investigation

01:14:32.060 with Robert Mueller.

01:14:35.720 So they're

01:14:36.960 overseeing

01:14:37.660 this investigation

01:14:38.560 and they are

01:14:40.200 on television

01:14:40.960 saying we have

01:14:41.840 proof positive.

01:14:43.500 They had nothing.

01:14:45.340 They had nothing.

01:14:46.380 And what they did have

01:14:47.800 had been falsified.

01:14:51.020 This is the FISA court.

01:14:53.320 This is unprecedented.

01:14:55.400 No time

01:14:56.760 since the FISA court

01:14:57.960 has started

01:14:59.340 was there ever

01:15:01.420 a time

01:15:01.840 that any name

01:15:02.980 was even verified

01:15:04.140 that we were

01:15:04.940 looking into them.

01:15:06.340 So Carter Page

01:15:07.300 is the first person

01:15:08.860 that the FISA court

01:15:10.300 has allowed

01:15:11.600 to be known

01:15:12.460 that they were

01:15:13.240 surveilling.

01:15:13.840 now

01:15:15.880 now they are

01:15:18.580 scolding

01:15:19.740 the FBI.

01:15:20.940 Now listen to the

01:15:22.040 second paragraph

01:15:22.780 of this filed

01:15:24.060 by the FISA court

01:15:25.420 just two days ago.

01:15:27.060 In order to

01:15:28.740 appreciate

01:15:29.460 the seriousness

01:15:30.860 of that

01:15:32.040 misconduct

01:15:32.960 and its implications,

01:15:34.320 it's useful

01:15:35.820 to understand

01:15:36.740 certain procedural

01:15:38.000 and substantive

01:15:38.980 substantive

01:15:41.980 again

01:15:44.480 the third most

01:15:45.420 listened to

01:15:46.020 how did this guy

01:15:47.320 ever get on radio

01:15:48.220 substantive

01:15:49.260 requirements

01:15:50.280 that apply

01:15:51.040 to the government's

01:15:51.980 conduct

01:15:52.400 of electronic

01:15:53.220 surveillance

01:15:53.800 for foreign

01:15:54.520 intelligence purposes.

01:15:55.920 Title I

01:15:56.980 of the Foreign

01:15:57.460 Intelligence Service Act

01:15:58.840 requires the government

01:16:00.240 to apply for

01:16:01.440 and receive

01:16:01.960 an order

01:16:02.400 from FISC

01:16:05.400 approving

01:16:06.140 a proposed

01:16:06.840 electronic surveillance.

01:16:08.580 When deciding

01:16:09.360 whether to grant

01:16:10.260 such an application

01:16:11.200 the judge

01:16:12.200 must determine

01:16:13.240 among other things

01:16:14.180 whether it provides

01:16:15.400 probable cause

01:16:17.260 to believe

01:16:17.840 that the proposed

01:16:18.720 surveillance target

01:16:19.920 is a foreign power

01:16:22.120 or an agent

01:16:23.320 of a foreign power.

01:16:25.440 So they had

01:16:26.080 to be convinced

01:16:27.080 that Carter Page

01:16:28.540 was an agent

01:16:29.600 of a foreign power.

01:16:31.140 Those terms

01:16:32.300 defined by

01:16:34.020 FISA

01:16:34.660 is an agent

01:16:36.860 of foreign power

01:16:37.820 cannot solely

01:16:38.760 be based on

01:16:39.620 activities

01:16:40.280 protected by

01:16:41.440 the First Amendment.

01:16:42.280 So in other words

01:16:42.800 hey he's going

01:16:43.900 to you know

01:16:44.480 communist rallies.

01:16:46.060 They have to

01:16:46.820 have evidence

01:16:47.500 that he is

01:16:48.480 colluding

01:16:49.120 with a foreign

01:16:50.480 power.

01:16:51.960 An electronic

01:16:52.500 surveillance application

01:16:53.520 must be made

01:16:54.180 by federal officers

01:16:55.180 in writing

01:16:56.040 upon oath

01:16:57.140 and affirmation.

01:16:59.300 When the FBI

01:17:00.000 seeks to conduct

01:17:01.640 that surveillance

01:17:02.320 the federal officer

01:17:03.300 who makes the application

01:17:04.440 is an FBI agent

01:17:05.980 who swears

01:17:06.860 to the facts

01:17:07.620 of the application.

01:17:09.840 The FISA judge

01:17:11.040 makes the required

01:17:12.160 probable cause

01:17:13.460 determination

01:17:13.920 on the basis

01:17:15.420 of the facts

01:17:16.480 submitted

01:17:17.060 by the applicant

01:17:18.360 or the FBI.

01:17:20.020 These statutory

01:17:20.880 provisions

01:17:21.940 reflect

01:17:22.620 the reality

01:17:23.740 that in

01:17:24.520 the first instance

01:17:25.780 it is the

01:17:26.920 applicant agency

01:17:28.080 that possesses

01:17:29.200 information relevant

01:17:30.340 to the probable

01:17:31.280 cause determination

01:17:32.200 as well as

01:17:33.440 the means

01:17:33.940 to potentially

01:17:34.720 acquire

01:17:35.300 additional

01:17:35.920 information.

01:17:37.540 Notwithstanding

01:17:38.420 that the FISC

01:17:39.840 assesses

01:17:42.040 probable cause

01:17:43.100 based on

01:17:43.760 information

01:17:44.220 provided by

01:17:44.860 the applicant

01:17:45.360 quote

01:17:46.420 Congress

01:17:46.940 intended

01:17:47.720 the pre-surveillance

01:17:49.000 judicial warrant

01:17:50.120 procedure

01:17:50.780 under FISA

01:17:51.760 and particularly

01:17:53.140 the judge's

01:17:54.160 probable cause

01:17:55.160 findings

01:17:55.700 to provide

01:17:56.900 an external

01:17:57.760 check

01:17:58.380 on executive

01:17:59.340 branch

01:17:59.800 decisions

01:18:00.340 to conduct

01:18:01.400 surveillance

01:18:02.020 in order

01:18:03.080 to protect

01:18:04.020 the Fourth

01:18:04.700 Amendment

01:18:05.140 right

01:18:05.600 of any

01:18:06.660 U.S.

01:18:07.400 person.

01:18:08.400 Accordingly,

01:18:09.220 the government

01:18:09.660 has a heightened

01:18:10.780 duty of candor

01:18:12.980 to the FISA

01:18:14.220 courts

01:18:15.420 in ex parte

01:18:17.000 proceedings.

01:18:18.120 That is,

01:18:19.260 ones in which

01:18:20.080 receive

01:18:20.720 the government

01:18:21.840 does not face

01:18:23.280 an adverse

01:18:24.200 party,

01:18:25.220 such as

01:18:25.780 proceedings

01:18:26.240 on electronic

01:18:27.160 surveillance

01:18:27.740 applications.

01:18:29.100 The FISC

01:18:29.620 expects the

01:18:30.360 government

01:18:30.660 to comply

01:18:31.440 with its

01:18:31.880 heightened

01:18:32.220 duty of

01:18:32.900 candor

01:18:33.360 in ex parte

01:18:34.120 proceedings

01:18:34.740 at all

01:18:36.000 times.

01:18:37.100 Candor

01:18:37.480 is fundamental

01:18:38.340 to this

01:18:39.020 court's

01:18:39.380 effective

01:18:39.900 operation.

01:18:41.280 With that

01:18:41.740 background,

01:18:42.500 the court

01:18:42.800 turns to

01:18:44.040 how the

01:18:44.760 government

01:18:45.120 handled

01:18:45.700 four

01:18:46.260 applications

01:18:46.960 it submitted.

01:18:48.700 On December

01:18:49.420 9th,

01:18:49.760 the government

01:18:50.120 filed with

01:18:50.860 the FISA

01:18:51.840 courts,

01:18:52.400 public and

01:18:52.980 classified

01:18:53.480 versions of

01:18:54.540 the OIG

01:18:55.340 report.

01:18:56.400 The report

01:18:56.860 describes in

01:18:57.760 detail the

01:18:58.320 preparation of

01:18:59.000 four applications

01:18:59.880 for Mr.

01:19:01.000 Page.

01:19:01.560 It documents

01:19:02.480 troubling

01:19:03.120 incidences in

01:19:04.360 which the FBI

01:19:05.160 personnel provided

01:19:06.320 information to

01:19:08.860 the National

01:19:09.480 Security Bureau,

01:19:12.320 which was

01:19:13.560 unsupported or

01:19:15.320 contradicted by

01:19:16.620 information in

01:19:17.780 their possession.

01:19:18.540 It also

01:19:19.500 describes several

01:19:20.640 incidences in

01:19:21.960 which FBI

01:19:22.680 personnel held

01:19:24.140 from the court

01:19:25.200 information in

01:19:26.340 their possession,

01:19:27.300 which was

01:19:27.780 detrimental to

01:19:28.860 their case for

01:19:29.700 believing Mr.

01:19:30.480 Page was

01:19:31.380 acting as an

01:19:32.220 agent of a

01:19:32.940 foreign power.

01:19:34.160 It goes on

01:19:35.080 and on and

01:19:36.080 on.

01:19:36.840 The handling of

01:19:37.760 the Carter Page

01:19:38.580 application as

01:19:39.520 portrayed by the

01:19:41.200 OIG is

01:19:42.820 antithetical to

01:19:44.200 the heightened

01:19:44.640 duty of

01:19:45.240 candor.

01:19:46.100 The frequency

01:19:47.000 with which

01:19:47.820 representations

01:19:48.520 were made by

01:19:49.240 the FBI

01:19:49.700 personnel turned

01:19:50.820 out to be

01:19:51.340 unsupported or

01:19:52.480 contradicted by

01:19:53.500 information in

01:19:54.200 their possession

01:19:54.740 and also in

01:19:56.280 which they

01:19:56.660 withheld

01:19:57.220 information detrimental

01:19:58.760 to their case.

01:19:59.820 It calls into

01:20:00.620 question whether

01:20:01.620 information contained

01:20:02.820 in all other

01:20:03.860 FBI applications is

01:20:05.840 even reliable.

01:20:09.260 Who's going to

01:20:10.000 pay for that?

01:20:11.180 Who's going to get

01:20:12.020 fired for that?

01:20:12.620 Who's going to go

01:20:13.060 to jail for that?

01:20:14.220 Who's investigating

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01:21:43.560 Welcome to the

01:21:54.020 program.

01:21:54.740 This is the Glenn Beck

01:21:56.300 program.

01:21:56.680 We're just discussing

01:21:57.660 impeachment and and how

01:22:01.300 it has has changed.

01:22:03.880 I mean, you could make an

01:22:04.760 argument that impeachment

01:22:06.940 was meant to be used,

01:22:08.620 especially, I think, for

01:22:09.900 courts was meant to be

01:22:12.140 used a lot.

01:22:13.740 You know, when's the

01:22:15.300 last time we ever had a

01:22:16.940 judge impeached?

01:22:19.080 Not it's not that

01:22:20.000 common.

01:22:20.500 But I mean, if you're

01:22:21.240 going to use it a lot

01:22:22.020 like that original version

01:22:23.780 of it, then it's not a

01:22:25.820 big deal.

01:22:26.140 Like we're not we're not

01:22:26.840 stopping news coverage and

01:22:28.140 dealing with it every

01:22:29.180 every single time it

01:22:29.980 happens.

01:22:30.280 It would happen probably

01:22:31.280 all the time.

01:22:32.280 The founders predicted

01:22:33.380 very clearly that it would

01:22:34.320 eventually become a

01:22:35.380 partisan issue and it

01:22:36.380 shouldn't.

01:22:37.160 But here we are.

01:22:38.140 I mean, this is what

01:22:38.680 this was a partisan vote

01:22:40.260 that I don't think means

01:22:41.640 much of anything.

01:22:43.420 No, it doesn't.

01:22:45.080 It doesn't mean anything.

01:22:46.660 This is purely politics

01:22:48.760 now.

01:22:49.480 And that's why I think

01:22:50.640 it's so grotesque to see

01:22:52.340 the mixing of the

01:22:53.720 sacredness of the day in

01:22:55.740 the Constitution with

01:22:57.420 politics.

01:23:03.000 The fusion of

01:23:04.680 entertainment and

01:23:06.040 enlightenment.

01:23:07.160 Hello, America, and

01:23:10.540 welcome to Thursday

01:23:11.660 live from West Palm

01:23:14.460 in Florida, where

01:23:16.960 it's not so sunny.

01:23:17.800 It's raining.

01:23:18.540 Kind of sucks.

01:23:19.440 Florida.

01:23:20.020 We expect more from

01:23:21.000 you.

01:23:21.820 I'm at Turning Point

01:23:23.040 USA for the

01:23:24.740 the weekend.

01:23:26.480 And it is going to be

01:23:27.940 a crowd tonight as I

01:23:29.160 give the opening

01:23:29.760 keynote of about

01:23:31.240 five thousand 18 to

01:23:32.880 24 year olds that

01:23:34.640 are on fire, really

01:23:36.540 on fire for the

01:23:37.740 Constitution and for

01:23:39.420 America.

01:23:39.920 It is it's

01:23:41.840 remarkable what

01:23:43.420 Turning Point has

01:23:44.560 become and what they

01:23:45.740 have done in such a

01:23:47.820 short period of time.

01:23:49.280 more on that and the

01:23:52.100 impeachment in one

01:23:53.400 minute.

01:23:54.160 This is the

01:23:55.540 Glenn Beck program.

01:23:59.840 So the holiday season

01:24:01.320 when everybody's out

01:24:02.500 panic shopping for the

01:24:04.120 last minute, the last

01:24:05.780 gift, the combination

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01:24:11.920 Love that one.

01:24:12.680 why not be the one that

01:24:14.700 gets something really

01:24:16.060 special for that special

01:24:17.760 person in X chair.

01:24:19.360 I'm getting one for my

01:24:20.600 wife and it's no secret

01:24:21.740 because she told me that's

01:24:23.320 what I was getting her for

01:24:24.320 Christmas, which actually I

01:24:26.340 am.

01:24:26.600 I am both disgusted by and

01:24:29.140 really grateful because I

01:24:31.020 no matter what I buy my

01:24:32.660 wife.

01:24:33.520 Now she didn't like it.

01:24:35.400 Now she went shopping the

01:24:36.300 other day.

01:24:36.880 I'm pretty good.

01:24:38.000 I mean, I'm sorry.

01:24:38.940 I've lost my man card a long

01:24:40.240 time ago, but I am pretty

01:24:41.680 good at clothes shopping

01:24:43.000 for my wife.

01:24:44.040 I love to go clothes

01:24:45.320 shopping with my wife.

01:24:47.220 No, no, no.

01:24:48.500 With a woman who is

01:24:50.840 willing to try something

01:24:52.940 different, willing to try

01:24:54.500 my wife with me, not

01:24:56.740 willing to do anything.

01:24:57.780 Not what she's like.

01:24:58.520 I'm not wearing that.

01:24:59.600 That is ridiculous.

01:25:00.620 I'm not wearing that.

01:25:01.680 That shirt would make me

01:25:03.040 look so fat.

01:25:04.340 So she goes out.

01:25:06.620 What?

01:25:07.220 Two days ago with my

01:25:09.060 son-in-law.

01:25:10.240 Who is like this, you

01:25:12.400 know, he's a, he used to

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01:25:17.920 he was a professional

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01:25:20.200 Uh, and, uh, so he was,

01:25:22.140 she went out with him and

01:25:23.880 I swear to you, Stu, when

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01:26:47.660 All right.

01:26:49.040 All right.

01:26:51.840 So do we have the ABC

01:26:53.620 reporter that says this is

01:26:55.480 the first impeachment upon,

01:26:57.560 you know, that has gone

01:26:58.520 right down party lines.

01:27:01.060 Do we have that ABC

01:27:01.820 reporter?

01:27:03.600 Can you play that please

01:27:04.680 for me?

01:27:05.480 A divided country indeed.

01:27:06.980 And it's, it's worth noting

01:27:08.160 that this is the first

01:27:09.380 impeachment of the three

01:27:11.660 that is like this, that is

01:27:13.540 absolutely almost rock solid

01:27:15.540 along party lines.

01:27:16.620 People may not remember

01:27:17.620 that in the Clinton

01:27:18.620 impeachment, four articles

01:27:20.840 of impeachment were sent to

01:27:22.080 the floor by the Republican

01:27:23.420 led House Judiciary

01:27:24.700 Committee.

01:27:25.740 Two of them failed in the

01:27:27.640 Republican controlled

01:27:28.760 House.

01:27:29.360 People made up their own

01:27:30.680 minds individually.

01:27:31.680 This is absolute partisanship

01:27:33.400 right down the line here.

01:27:37.260 Absolute partisanship.

01:27:38.800 This is from a member of the

01:27:40.660 press who are on in,

01:27:42.980 on indicted co-conspirators,

01:27:45.240 in my opinion.

01:27:46.440 So this, a member of the press

01:27:48.720 saying that, and that is

01:27:49.520 exactly what happened.

01:27:50.800 Tulsi Gabbard, she actually came

01:27:53.360 out and said, look, I'd vote for

01:27:54.900 censure or something.

01:27:55.940 I think something happened, but

01:27:57.980 this is, I want to vote for

01:28:00.800 something, but I, I also have

01:28:04.520 seen how ridiculous and unfair

01:28:08.100 this whole thing has been.

01:28:10.180 I can't vote for this.

01:28:11.860 So she abstained.

01:28:13.880 You also had what, two other

01:28:15.740 Democrats?

01:28:17.280 It was a four.

01:28:18.560 How many, how many Democrats?

01:28:19.640 So you had two Democrats that

01:28:20.860 voted with the Republicans.

01:28:22.120 You had one Democrat, Tulsi Gabbard,

01:28:25.720 who voted present, and you had a

01:28:27.940 fourth Democrat who split, who

01:28:30.200 said, yes, I'm impeaching on

01:28:32.400 abuse of power, but not on

01:28:34.020 obstruction of Congress.

01:28:35.720 Which totally makes sense.

01:28:38.340 Totally makes sense in some ways.

01:28:39.680 Abuse of power is at least a

01:28:41.120 legitimately impeachable offense

01:28:42.880 if you do it, right?

01:28:44.220 The question is whether Trump did

01:28:45.620 it.

01:28:46.460 Obstruction of Congress is not an

01:28:47.960 impeachable offense, even if you do

01:28:49.500 it.

01:28:49.980 It's just a made up nonsense.

01:28:52.560 The president not listening to

01:28:56.360 Congress and saying, no, I have a

01:29:00.040 right as an executive branch is

01:29:02.160 required by the Constitution.

01:29:05.040 It's required.

01:29:06.620 If they wanted the answer, they

01:29:08.380 should have taken him to court, but

01:29:09.620 they wouldn't do that.

01:29:11.840 And so it's, what we have is

01:29:13.780 direct partisanship.

01:29:15.020 And if you look at the Federalist

01:29:19.800 paper 65, Federalist 65, James

01:29:23.700 Madison talks about this, talks about

01:29:25.800 what this is going to become.

01:29:27.820 And listen to what he says.

01:29:29.980 This is, I mean, I find this to be

01:29:32.200 kind of amazing.

01:29:34.220 This is, yeah, it's Hamilton and

01:29:36.740 Federalist 65, as you mentioned.

01:29:38.120 In many cases, impeachment will

01:29:39.700 connect itself with the pre-existing

01:29:41.140 factions and will enlist all of their

01:29:43.260 animosities, partialities, influence

01:29:45.700 and interest on one side or the

01:29:47.100 other.

01:29:47.680 And in such cases, there will always

01:29:49.300 be the greatest danger that the

01:29:51.240 decision will be regulated more by

01:29:53.560 the comparative strength of the

01:29:55.080 parties than by real demonstrations

01:29:57.140 of innocence or guilt.

01:29:59.520 I mean, is that not where we are

01:30:00.800 exactly?

01:30:02.240 Right.

01:30:02.480 And people are, people are claiming

01:30:05.820 that this is, that all of these facts

01:30:09.720 are there.

01:30:10.320 There are no uncontested facts.

01:30:15.040 It's a matter of opinion.

01:30:16.880 It's a matter of whether you see the

01:30:18.900 president as a bad guy that can do no

01:30:21.940 right or as a guy that might have done

01:30:27.040 something but didn't in this case.

01:30:31.260 Listen to this.

01:30:32.540 Yesterday, who was it, Stu, that was

01:30:35.220 speaking and gave their presser and

01:30:37.940 said, you know, there are, there are

01:30:39.940 uncontested facts, uncontested facts.

01:30:44.260 And she wanted to go over them.

01:30:45.720 Do we have that?

01:30:46.240 Yeah.

01:30:46.440 Karen Bass.

01:30:47.240 There's a three part thing here.

01:30:49.320 And she's talking about the facts are

01:30:50.480 uncontested.

01:30:51.360 She has three facts.

01:30:52.020 I wanted to see if you could contest

01:30:52.980 them in any way because I know I

01:30:54.340 couldn't.

01:30:54.660 OK.

01:30:54.880 They're uncontested.

01:30:55.560 You couldn't.

01:30:55.840 OK.

01:30:56.040 Karen Bass, she's a Democrat from

01:30:57.040 California.

01:30:57.380 Let me look.

01:30:58.400 The facts are uncontested.

01:31:00.180 Fact one.

01:31:00.860 Uncontested.

01:31:01.220 The president abused the power of his

01:31:02.880 office by attempting to shake down the

01:31:05.100 president of a country that has been

01:31:06.780 our ally.

01:31:07.740 Trump wanted President Zelensky of the

01:31:09.720 Ukraine to dig up, to make up dirt on

01:31:12.480 Vice President Biden because he sees

01:31:14.760 him as the biggest threat to his

01:31:16.600 re-election.

01:31:17.960 OK.

01:31:19.260 Boy, that's a that's a hard one to

01:31:21.140 contest.

01:31:22.020 No, the president was looking into

01:31:24.400 corruption in the Ukraine, which is

01:31:27.340 exactly what the last president was

01:31:29.780 also apparently doing when he was

01:31:33.960 using and abusing the anti-corruption

01:31:37.380 bureau and and and actually

01:31:40.820 transmitting information to the U.S.

01:31:45.280 and to the press to discredit Donald

01:31:48.100 Trump that those two people went to

01:31:50.400 went to prison or were sentenced to

01:31:53.360 prison and convicted in a court of law

01:31:56.900 in the Ukraine.

01:31:58.300 But what we what we think happened was

01:32:03.240 that the president said, hey, I want to

01:32:05.340 know about these things.

01:32:07.040 And by the way, there's eight billion

01:32:09.180 dollars of ours that is missing.

01:32:10.860 We want you to reopen all of these

01:32:13.900 investigations.

01:32:14.780 And one of those happens to be on

01:32:16.980 Hunter Biden.

01:32:18.580 Now, you could say that he is just

01:32:23.440 trying to shake down and dig up and

01:32:26.440 told him to make up details.

01:32:29.660 But you have no proof of that.

01:32:32.540 None.

01:32:33.520 That's your your reading of that.

01:32:37.360 Right.

01:32:37.600 So I can contest that half the country

01:32:41.220 contested.

01:32:41.860 And I don't even know.

01:32:43.120 Making up dirt is almost like a not

01:32:45.960 even accused.

01:32:46.900 I mean, that's just like, no, he's just

01:32:48.580 taking.

01:32:49.000 She's just taking it to the 10th level

01:32:50.520 and calling it.

01:32:51.380 People with people last night were

01:32:53.360 saying bribery, bribery, bribery.

01:32:55.120 Well, that was something that the

01:32:56.380 Democrats were saying.

01:32:57.340 But you'll notice that's not one of

01:32:58.680 the charges.

01:32:59.380 No, because they don't have any

01:33:01.780 evidence of it.

01:33:03.340 It doesn't fit.

01:33:04.680 So all of these charges that you have

01:33:07.080 heard, this just hearsay, rumor,

01:33:11.620 conspiracy theories, all of it in an

01:33:14.980 echo chamber between the House and the

01:33:17.780 co-conspirators in the press.

01:33:19.540 There's no facts there.

01:33:21.620 Well, maybe you just didn't know about

01:33:23.240 fact number two.

01:33:24.620 Listen to this uncontested one.

01:33:26.460 Fact two.

01:33:27.380 Trump wanted Zelensky to go to before

01:33:29.620 the press and announce an investigation

01:33:31.660 of Biden, hoping the mere announcement

01:33:34.160 would create doubt about Biden and

01:33:36.600 strengthen Trump's hand in the 2020

01:33:38.620 election.

01:33:39.880 Now.

01:33:40.620 OK, so may I contest?

01:33:42.880 Please.

01:33:43.860 Please do.

01:33:44.280 OK, he the president did say he wanted

01:33:49.400 Zelensky to make an announcement that

01:33:51.380 he was investigating all of the things

01:33:54.360 that he was talking about.

01:33:55.560 Well, we should know quickly before you

01:33:57.080 move on off that point.

01:33:58.160 That was what Sondland said.

01:34:00.740 And he's as far as I know, the only

01:34:02.420 person who has actual knowledge in his

01:34:07.700 mind, at least, that this was the thing

01:34:09.900 that actually was needed.

01:34:11.820 In fact, other people have come out

01:34:13.560 since his testimony and said that is

01:34:15.520 not what they actually wanted.

01:34:17.180 They did not want a an investigation.

01:34:21.280 And in fact, the officials in Ukraine

01:34:23.320 have also confirmed that.

01:34:24.800 So that one, I mean, is certainly

01:34:26.160 contested by the people involved in it.

01:34:28.340 Hang on.

01:34:28.960 They the Ukrainians did say that they

01:34:31.360 were going to make an announcement, but

01:34:33.060 they didn't think that it was required

01:34:34.600 by Trump.

01:34:37.120 Well, they talked about going on on CNN.

01:34:39.260 Is that what you're talking about?

01:34:39.940 The interview, they're going to go on

01:34:41.000 CNN.

01:34:41.940 They lately have been saying we were

01:34:44.220 just going on CNN and there was a

01:34:45.440 scheduling issue.

01:34:46.120 So they are denying it now.

01:34:47.480 Right.

01:34:47.900 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

01:34:49.580 The Sondland thing was Sondland said

01:34:51.740 that I told them that this is

01:34:53.820 conditional.

01:34:54.640 You have to do these things or the

01:34:57.320 president is just not going to give

01:35:00.060 you this money.

01:35:01.480 And the Ukrainians said, no, that was

01:35:03.460 never our understanding.

01:35:04.980 Sondland never said that to us.

01:35:06.860 Um, we were going to make an

01:35:08.720 announcement, but it was a scheduling

01:35:10.040 thing.

01:35:10.500 We just didn't make the announcement,

01:35:12.060 but we never thought it was because

01:35:14.680 we had to.

01:35:16.220 And, and beyond this point, even if it

01:35:18.880 is true, here's the, here's the real

01:35:20.980 problem.

01:35:21.500 The real problem is, um, uh, if I have

01:35:27.080 $8 billion before I give you anything

01:35:30.220 else, because the president said in the

01:35:33.040 springtime, I don't trust them.

01:35:34.520 They're all dirty.

01:35:35.560 I don't care who they are.

01:35:36.700 I want nothing to do with Ukraine.

01:35:39.080 So if he has that attitude going in, you

01:35:42.060 know what, before I give you any money, I

01:35:44.700 want to see that you're serious about

01:35:46.360 ending corruption.

01:35:47.900 So go ahead, make some announcements.

01:35:49.740 I'm not going to take you on your word

01:35:51.420 because as he said in the phone call, I

01:35:54.040 think some of the people around you are

01:35:56.800 part of the problem.

01:35:58.380 I think you still have people around you

01:36:00.960 that are part of the problem.

01:36:01.920 As it turns out, the president was right

01:36:04.600 on that.

01:36:06.580 So how is that hurting anything?

01:36:09.620 How is that not in our national interest

01:36:11.360 contested?

01:36:12.820 You could read it either way.

01:36:15.380 All right.

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01:39:10.580 Okay.

01:39:12.140 Stu.

01:39:13.920 You asked what?

01:39:15.180 Do you want fact number three or are you afraid

01:39:16.960 of it?

01:39:17.280 Are you afraid of these facts?

01:39:18.860 You're afraid of them?

01:39:20.160 Well, she has me on the rope so far.

01:39:23.400 So far.

01:39:23.840 She has me on the rope.

01:39:24.920 Big trouble.

01:39:26.120 Big trouble.

01:39:27.120 She said they were uncontested and I mean, sure, you

01:39:30.380 contested both of them.

01:39:31.860 And so, by the way, not only is multiple pieces of

01:39:34.280 testimony, but also half the country are contesting

01:39:36.300 them.

01:39:37.240 But you can't contest this third one.

01:39:38.420 This is where she puts you away.

01:39:40.000 Right.

01:39:40.560 Okay.

01:39:41.120 All right.

01:39:41.620 Here is fact three from Karen Bass.

01:39:43.700 Fact.

01:39:44.180 Fact three.

01:39:45.260 Trump obstructed Congress by engaging in a cover-up.

01:39:48.700 Trump has refused to comply with congressional subpoenas

01:39:51.720 and has blocked current and past employees from

01:39:54.940 testifying before congressional committees.

01:39:57.500 Congress is a co-equal branch of government and one of

01:40:00.140 our central responsibilities is to provide oversight and

01:40:03.280 investigation of the administration.

01:40:05.240 The very checks and balances the framers built into the

01:40:08.180 Constitution so no one branch would have unchecked power.

01:40:12.160 Interesting.

01:40:12.300 The House of Representatives has no choice but to vote and

01:40:15.080 pass articles of impeachment because President Trump has

01:40:18.020 abused his power and obstructed the ability of Congress from

01:40:21.360 performing our constitutional duty.

01:40:23.560 Okay.

01:40:24.180 All right.

01:40:24.640 Okay.

01:40:25.100 First of all, can everyone agree that this is a partisan

01:40:28.680 vote?

01:40:29.380 That's all this is.

01:40:30.640 Partisan.

01:40:31.300 We know it.

01:40:32.280 They voted.

01:40:33.080 Not a Republican voted for it.

01:40:34.960 In fact, some Democrats, the only thing partisan or

01:40:38.700 nonpartisan was the vote against this impeachment.

01:40:43.560 All right.

01:40:44.580 So she said it right there.

01:40:46.380 And I think I can contest it.

01:40:48.920 She said that they are co-equal branches.

01:40:53.920 Okay.

01:40:54.160 So when you're a co-equal, for instance, you and your wife,

01:40:57.380 you're co-equals, right?

01:40:59.220 You're doing your house together.

01:41:02.000 Co-equal.

01:41:02.960 If there is something that you cannot agree on, your wife nor

01:41:08.140 you can say, we're doing it my way without becoming a monster,

01:41:13.880 a dictator.

01:41:14.540 Now you can negotiate that, or you can take that to a marriage

01:41:19.100 counselor or to a divorce court.

01:41:22.420 That's how you would have to solve it.

01:41:25.400 Now, Congress cannot tell a co-equal branch what to do.

01:41:32.180 Otherwise, you would have the co-equal branch, the co-equal branch,

01:41:40.020 telling the other branch, you're going to do this or I'm going to put you in jail.

01:41:45.140 You can't do that.

01:41:47.200 The president has a right.

01:41:49.520 And President Clinton, President Obama, presidents throughout history have done exactly what

01:41:58.560 President Trump did.

01:41:59.900 You even have White House people saying,

01:42:03.300 I have one branch telling me one thing, another branch telling me the other.

01:42:08.840 What do you need?

01:42:10.440 The third branch.

01:42:12.820 Two against one.

01:42:15.120 The third branch is then required to settle the argument between the two branches.

01:42:22.280 It's a brilliant system of checks and balances.

01:42:27.320 But Congress doesn't know how to balance.

01:42:29.800 All they know how to do is write checks.

01:42:32.340 That's their only understanding of anything called checks.

01:42:36.120 I mean, to summarize your point here, I think I can do it rather eloquently here, Glenn, if I may.

01:42:42.480 Yes.

01:42:43.040 The very checks and balances the framers built into the Constitution so no one would have unchecked power.

01:42:50.660 That's a quote from her accusation.

01:42:54.120 But that is actually the defense of why they wouldn't do it.

01:42:57.440 If they're a branch that has their own ability to say no to you, that's what they're doing.

01:43:02.760 And as you point out, it's been established and reestablished through nine different presidencies,

01:43:07.960 including Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

01:43:11.380 They have both said they do not have to let these people testify.

01:43:15.380 It's insane.

01:43:17.040 It's insane.

01:43:18.080 And that's why they didn't want to take it to court, because they know they'd lose.

01:43:22.740 Look, this is why they had to falsify the FBI falsified documents to get it to the FISA court.

01:43:31.760 Why?

01:43:33.360 Because they knew they didn't have the evidence if they dealt honestly.

01:43:39.220 Why didn't they take this to the court?

01:43:41.140 Because the court has already ruled on this over and over again, and they didn't have any compelling evidence.

01:43:49.200 None.

01:43:50.400 Yeah.

01:43:50.560 I mean, the phrase used is absolute immunity.

01:43:53.560 If you are a close advisor to the president to have to come testify.

01:43:57.260 Absolute immunity.

01:43:59.140 That's how clear it is.

01:44:00.420 And, again, this is every single president.

01:44:03.780 More lies and conspiracy theories from Stu.

01:44:06.980 When will it end?

01:44:09.000 And the conservative source of the Obama DOJ.

01:44:11.820 Oh, my.

01:44:12.700 Oh, my.

01:44:13.620 Oh, my gosh.

01:44:15.360 Now he's using Obama.

01:44:17.020 It was somehow different under Obama.

01:44:20.600 More in a minute.

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01:45:49.420 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program, live from West Palm in Florida for Turning Point USA, an amazing organization.

01:46:06.160 I just saw Charlie Kirk walk by a few minutes ago.

01:46:08.780 He has gone from a guy who, you know, is watching me on Fox as he tells the story and, you know, learn so much and realize I've got to do something to save the country.

01:46:21.580 And here he is.

01:46:23.360 I mean, he was, I think, 20, wasn't he, when he started Turning Point?

01:46:27.160 This kid starts Turning Point, and it is now in all 50 states.

01:46:32.720 There are 5,000 attendees tonight.

01:46:35.020 They're all between 18 to 24 years old.

01:46:38.880 And it's just remarkable what this organization has done.

01:46:43.820 Tonight I'm going to give the keynote, and I'm a little nervous because they're, I mean, I've never been cool, ever.

01:46:57.980 No, I know.

01:46:58.680 Yeah, that's something I'm pretty, it's a room full of cool kids.

01:47:02.940 Yeah, thank you, Stu.

01:47:03.660 I appreciate that.

01:47:04.280 Yeah, because these are, I mean, you are not exactly in the demographic for Turning Point USA.

01:47:11.280 No, I was never, no, I was never cool when I was 18 to 24 years old.

01:47:16.060 I was, I was never, I was, I was like 50 when I was 20, and now that I'm 50, I'm like 700.

01:47:23.600 Yeah, yeah.

01:47:25.640 I've never been cool at any stage of my life.

01:47:28.500 And so, you know, walking, this is going to be like walking into my lunchroom in high school.

01:47:34.140 I just feel like it's going to end up with me getting beat up after the speech.

01:47:37.960 I don't know what conference you're at.

01:47:41.860 I don't think that you're going to get beat up at your speech.

01:47:44.540 Just the way it feels.

01:47:45.460 Just the way it feels.

01:47:46.220 Compare yourself, though, from, you know, back in your 18 to 24 days.

01:47:49.080 I mean, how many people are at the conference that you've seen dressed in colonial garb or doing magic tricks?

01:47:54.500 Is there anything that you've seen?

01:47:56.000 Shut up.

01:47:56.740 That matches your experience?

01:47:58.480 No, no, no, no, no, I have nothing relatable to be able to share.

01:48:05.880 I will say, you're the list of people who are there.

01:48:09.620 I mean, they have everybody.

01:48:11.100 I mean, I mean, you know, obviously, first of all, Donald Trump Jr. will be there when you're talking about the president.

01:48:15.380 You've got Eric Bolling, you, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is there, Ben Shapiro, Rand Paul, Laura Ingram, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin,

01:48:25.540 Ali Stuckey from the Blaze as well will be there, Candace Owens, Benny Johnson, Graham Allen, Dinesh D'Souza is there, Rudy Giuliani is there.

01:48:36.480 I mean, Ted Cruz is going to be there, Dave Rubin from the Blaze will be there, James O'Keefe will be there, and Chad Prather will be there as well from Blaze TV.

01:48:45.880 I mean, a lot of people there, and then you.

01:48:49.420 And it just seems like there's a—

01:48:51.860 One of these things just doesn't belong?

01:48:53.240 Yeah, are you going to be out, like, behind—like, by the dumpster behind—is that where your speech happens?

01:48:58.760 I really—yeah, thank you for that.

01:49:01.200 I—no, I think I'm speaking—I think I'm delivering the keynote open tonight, but—

01:49:08.980 Any idea what you're going to say yet?

01:49:10.860 I don't know.

01:49:11.000 To get those 18 to 24-year-olds all riled up in the Glenn Beck style.

01:49:17.300 Card tricks.

01:49:17.860 Have you considered card tricks?

01:49:19.660 I have considered that.

01:49:21.260 I have considered that.

01:49:22.520 It's going to be the longest 30 minutes of my life.

01:49:24.640 I really am expecting—you know, I might just say halfway through, food fight!

01:49:31.180 I—I don't—I just don't know.

01:49:33.860 Anything to distract, because they're just going to be like, this guy wasn't cool when he was supposed to be cool.

01:49:39.820 That's—it's true.

01:49:42.100 And, you know, I will say, I'm a little concerned, you know, given your ability to remain broadcasting today.

01:49:52.380 There was—there were some health issues, and I—you know, you don't look great.

01:49:56.200 Well, it's butterflies.

01:49:57.420 No?

01:49:57.760 Thank you.

01:49:58.180 It's—thank you.

01:49:58.980 It's butterflies.

01:49:59.520 And, you know, hey, I showed up, even though I—you know, my stomach is a little—is a little weak.

01:50:05.440 But I—I think I'm past it, and I think I'm—I'm okay.

01:50:09.020 I apologize if you were listening earlier, but, you know, I think—I think I'm okay.

01:50:14.800 I'm feeling much better now.

01:50:15.820 That's good.

01:50:16.220 I'm glad to hear.

01:50:17.500 Would you like to hear some audio, kind of the coverage of the last 24 hours?

01:50:22.040 Because it's been a historic day, Glenn.

01:50:23.420 Yeah, it was a historic day.

01:50:25.460 History.

01:50:26.140 History was—

01:50:26.860 I was on a plane yesterday when much of it was made, so I—I don't know exactly what was said.

01:50:31.340 I'll say a lot of people on the right are mocking this idea that it was a historic day.

01:50:35.700 And I can understand why, because it kind of seems like this passing piece of, you know, I don't know, partisan nonsense.

01:50:43.560 However, I will say, if you look at the secondary definition of the word historic, which just says, of the past, I mean, it has passed.

01:50:55.720 Okay.

01:50:56.080 So, I mean, technically, it is historic.

01:50:57.700 It has passed, so it is historic, yeah.

01:50:59.060 In that way, it has occurred during history.

01:51:02.100 Right, but everybody kept it in perspective that this was a partisan deal, and, you know, they didn't make it about the Constitution or, you know, God or anything like that.

01:51:10.900 No, that's true.

01:51:11.460 I appreciate when they make it about how they love the Constitution so much.

01:51:15.800 That's my favorite.

01:51:16.480 Chuck Todd was doing this.

01:51:18.240 No, no, no, don't talk.

01:51:19.900 Ooh, I just got a wave of—yeah, I just got a wave again of—ooh.

01:51:25.860 Just a—

01:51:26.600 No.

01:51:27.920 Are you okay?

01:51:28.340 A little lagia there, yeah.

01:51:29.800 Okay.

01:51:30.020 I don't know what triggered that, but go ahead.

01:51:31.500 That's okay.

01:51:31.840 We'll cover it with here.

01:51:32.980 Chuck Todd talking about how much he—how much Trump reveres the Constitution.

01:51:37.760 You know, I think this is the real challenge with sort of dealing with this president is that I don't think he really even appreciates the Constitution, all right?

01:51:45.800 I don't know if he has this reverence for it that most elected officials in Washington eventually do end up having a reverence for it.

01:51:55.280 He doesn't seem to sort of understand the founding.

01:51:57.960 I mean, I think one of the fairest criticisms of him by historians is that he doesn't seem to understand the story of America, if you will.

01:52:05.740 And the story of America begins in those pages in the Constitution.

01:52:08.520 So I don't think he really appreciates it.

01:52:11.140 I don't think he—he reveres it.

01:52:13.600 I think he just—it was very dismissive.

01:52:15.880 Oh, these are just more silly rules.

01:52:18.840 You know, it's no different than a zoning hearing.

01:52:21.200 I don't know what is making me vomit like that.

01:52:24.700 Oh, I am—this is so unprofessional.

01:52:26.780 I am so sorry.

01:52:28.260 I—oh.

01:52:30.460 Something is going on that is just turning my stomach.

01:52:33.620 And I am sorry.

01:52:35.160 I don't know what—

01:52:35.720 It's been going around.

01:52:36.720 You're not the only one.

01:52:38.280 It's been going around a lot.

01:52:40.060 So—

01:52:40.500 I mean, should I just—should I just turn off my microphone?

01:52:43.780 Well, we can just play—

01:52:44.760 Let's play—

01:52:45.860 Yeah, I know.

01:52:46.300 It's a little unprofessional.

01:52:47.240 But we can play some audio here to cover.

01:52:49.020 This is Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC.

01:52:51.780 Listen.

01:52:51.860 The seriousness of this as it is being taken by the Democrats as well.

01:52:56.780 Affected symbolically, perhaps, in the colors being worn or the lack of colors being worn.

01:53:02.240 Oh, really?

01:53:02.700 The members—the women members choosing to wear dark colors.

01:53:06.760 Nancy Pelosi is a woman of—a person of primary colors.

01:53:10.920 You see it.

01:53:11.600 If she's not wearing white, she's wearing bright colors.

01:53:13.700 She's certainly always, you know, well-appointed, beautifully, beautifully arrayed, if you will.

01:53:21.020 She's wearing black.

01:53:22.360 And that is a symbolic expression of how somberly they are taking this.

01:53:29.120 It's sacramental.

01:53:30.940 It's sacramental.

01:53:32.480 And you can think about the politics of it.

01:53:35.640 It's no question that Nancy Pelosi came to this reluctantly.

01:53:38.320 Oh, no question.

01:53:40.340 She came to it reluctantly.

01:53:44.520 Oh, my.

01:53:48.040 You okay, Glenn?

01:53:49.860 Oh, it's almost sacramental at this point.

01:53:57.560 It's just well-appointed and sacramental.

01:54:02.260 It seemed like there was a real wave of nausea that hit you when Andrea Mitchell corrected herself from calling Nancy Pelosi a woman and referred to her as a person.

01:54:13.520 Oh, no, please.

01:54:18.360 That was pretty rough.

01:54:19.240 What were you saying?

01:54:20.300 Well, she was saying, you know, Nancy Pelosi is a woman—I mean, a person who—and I thought that that correction, it seemed like there was a wave of nausea that hit you at that exact moment.

01:54:32.260 Oh, all right.

01:54:35.080 Nancy Pelosi is a woman—a person of primary colors.

01:54:39.480 You see it.

01:54:40.200 Ah.

01:54:41.440 Hmm.

01:54:48.220 I think I should take a break.

01:54:51.280 Yeah, probably a good idea.

01:54:52.480 I'm starting to vomit blood.

01:54:55.060 There's a lot of blood coming out now.

01:54:57.140 People are—

01:55:00.020 Is that—

01:55:00.740 Is that a bad sign?

01:55:03.100 Should I—do people vomit blood sometimes?

01:55:05.900 I'm concerned that people are laughing at you in the background when you're vomiting blood.

01:55:10.400 Democrats.

01:55:11.140 They're all Democrats.

01:55:12.400 At Turning Point USA, huh?

01:55:14.640 A lot of—

01:55:15.800 Yeah.

01:55:16.500 Oh, okay.

01:55:17.500 Hmm.

01:55:17.820 Yeah, we're gonna—

01:55:20.260 We're gonna burn them at the stake later.

01:55:23.240 Oh.

01:55:24.480 Oof.

01:55:25.180 You're looking better.

01:55:26.780 Okay, yeah, I'm feeling a little—I'm gonna put—I'm gonna keep it close, but I'm gonna put this—

01:55:32.000 Oof.

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01:56:06.580 You might have kippers for breakfast.

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01:56:12.020 You can have trout for breakfast.

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01:56:25.640 Kippers.

01:56:26.260 We have kippers.

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01:57:22.360 All right.

01:57:36.640 I want to go a little then and now.

01:57:39.260 Some audio with the Democrats warning against and then later embracing a strict partisan impeachment.

01:57:48.940 This from 1998 and 2019, then and now.

01:57:53.860 We are here today because the Republicans in the House are paralyzed with hatred.

01:57:58.800 And until the Republicans free themselves of this hatred, our country will suffer.

01:58:03.220 With allegiance to our founders and a heart full of love for America.

01:58:08.180 Today, I am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment.

01:58:13.060 There must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment supported by one of our major political parties and opposed by the other.

01:58:21.460 And if there's no Republican votes, so be it.

01:58:24.320 It's up to them to decide whether they want to be patriots or partisans.

01:58:27.800 It seems to me that no good case has been made for witnesses.

01:58:31.760 Trials have witnesses.

01:58:35.220 That's what trials are all about.

01:58:37.480 Nowhere in the Constitution does it say any or all crimes and misdemeanors.

01:58:43.580 If we cannot vote to impeach, then we ought to just modify the Constitution and get rid of impeachment altogether.

01:58:53.580 We leave here today void and empty because our president will have been toppled against the will of the people of the United States.

01:59:01.180 We're going to continue to educate the American people and ultimately vote our conscience on the articles of impeachment.

01:59:07.440 I am greatly disappointed in the raw, unmasked, unbridled hatred and meanness that drives this impeachment coup d'etat, the unapologetic disregard for the voice of the people.

01:59:20.260 We can make the decision to override any opinion about whether or not he's indictable.

01:59:26.340 That's what impeachment is all about.

01:59:28.780 Here in America, we generally condemn coup d'etats in foreign countries.

01:59:33.920 We have an obligation to act today to uphold the Constitution, but also to show our children and grandchildren that no one is above the law.

01:59:41.980 We are not going to sit idly by and allow the Republicans to stage a bloodless coup d'etat to remove our president from office.

01:59:50.000 I think sometimes you have to do the right thing and not worry so much about the polls.

01:59:56.340 Unbelievable.

01:59:57.420 Each one of those voices, the same people, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

02:00:03.000 And, you know, the one that amazes me the most really is Nancy Pelosi, where she starts out and talks about it is the hatred of this president.

02:00:14.340 And then Maxine Waters with the hatred of this president and the mean things that have been done to him.

02:00:22.380 And without any regard today at the meanness and the things that have been said about this president, not only this president, but the mean and nasty things and the lives that have been destroyed because you were a supporter of the president or you dare wear a Make America Great Again hat.

02:00:46.280 But the meanness, absolutely remarkable.

02:00:52.940 We are living in remarkable times.

02:00:55.480 And if we don't remember who we are, if we don't remember what's important, if we don't remember that we're all in this together and there is rule of law.

02:01:07.860 But to hear the Democrats talk about no one's above the law, it's very hard for me to say dreamers are dreamers above the law.

02:01:20.040 Is Hillary Clinton above the law?

02:01:27.040 You know, we had a guy who was on a sub who took a picture of something that wasn't classified of the sub for his son.

02:01:35.000 He went to jail.

02:01:36.000 Hillary Clinton's staff was chopping off classified document, chopping that off the top so they could they could email it and they could and they could fax it to her.

02:01:51.760 We do.

02:01:52.580 No one's above the law.

02:01:54.340 You have FBI agents that forged documents to give to the FISA court to put this guy away to make sure they got Carter Page.

02:02:07.840 Carter Page was innocent.

02:02:10.680 Is anyone going to pay for that one?

02:02:13.720 Because no one is above the law.

02:02:17.620 We used to be a nation of laws and not of men.

02:02:21.840 And that's what set us apart.

02:02:24.260 And if we don't reclaim that, and I don't care if that means this president, the last president, the next president goes to jail, my favorite president.

02:02:34.540 No one is above the law.

02:02:37.060 And we must have true, impartial and fair trials of people.

02:02:44.140 They must not be deemed guilty until they prove their innocence.

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