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00:00:35.500 This BuzzFeed story that I now find out is not actually a BuzzFeed story.

00:00:42.880 We think CNN broke this with Jake Tapper.

00:00:46.840 About Donald Trump and Russia is some of it is so horrible, and I don't believe it,

00:00:56.960 that I can't believe that it's now out in the open air.

00:01:03.040 I don't know what to make of this story, but now that it's out, we have to talk about this story.

00:01:11.200 We can't accept it, and we can't dismiss it at this point.

00:01:16.160 We have to know what the story is first, look at all of the possibilities, and then expect, I don't even know, then expect what?

00:01:29.600 Then expect what?

00:01:30.860 The internet?

00:01:32.500 In a world of fake news, this is fake news.

00:01:37.820 At this point, this is fake news.

00:01:42.900 But then again, at the devil's advocate, when Drudge came out with the blue dress, before there was a blue dress, wasn't it fake news?

00:01:55.140 How does the media do their job, and how do you decide what's real and what's not?

00:02:03.160 Alright, we begin there, right now.

00:02:06.160 I will make a stand, I will raise my voice, I will hold your hand, cause we are one.

00:02:15.320 I will beat my drum, I have made my choice, we will overcome, cause we are one.

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00:02:31.580 Alright, this is an incredible story.

00:02:35.120 This is from BuzzFeed.

00:02:36.980 Now listen to the way this is written.

00:02:38.820 Listen carefully.

00:02:40.440 BuzzFeed, here's the headline.

00:02:42.800 These reports allege Donald Trump has deep ties to Russia.

00:02:46.980 Ooh, want to click on that one.

00:02:48.460 What is that story?

00:02:50.180 Listen to the first paragraph.

00:02:51.480 A dossier compiled by a person who has claimed to be a former British intelligence official alleges Russia has compromising information on Trump.

00:03:06.160 The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors.

00:03:12.600 Period.

00:03:13.660 But other than that...

00:03:14.900 But other than that, let's run the story.

00:03:16.900 I mean, you listen to just this, and there's no reason why BuzzFeed should read this, run this story.

00:03:23.960 Now, it was my understanding that this was the original source of the story.

00:03:29.500 That BuzzFeed was the first one to come out.

00:03:32.880 So you know, we think...

00:03:35.340 Remember when Harry Reid came out and said,

00:03:38.380 Wait a minute.

00:03:38.900 James Colmey, you think that it's okay to release that we're looking at a computer that you've never seen of Hillary Clinton's without any information.

00:03:50.880 You think it's okay to release that when we know you have information about Russia and Donald Trump.

00:04:00.060 You need to release this.

00:04:03.260 Apparently, this is what...

00:04:05.560 This information is what Harry Reid was talking about.

00:04:08.560 And we have confirmed, by the way, CNN did break this story.

00:04:11.140 Okay.

00:04:11.920 So I want you to hear, because what I just read from BuzzFeed is outrageous.

00:04:17.740 Outrageous.

00:04:18.640 Anyone who would come into my office and say,

00:04:20.840 Glenn, we've got to do this story.

00:04:22.680 And it's pretty bad.

00:04:26.300 We'll give you the facts here in a second.

00:04:28.660 And they would say, look, I've got a dossier.

00:04:31.240 Well, who did it?

00:04:32.360 Well, it was a person who claims to be a former British intelligence official.

00:04:36.980 What do you mean claims?

00:04:38.080 Well, I'm not really sure.

00:04:40.420 But, listen, they allegedly have Russia on the record saying they have compromising information.

00:04:48.780 They allegedly?

00:04:49.440 So you don't know for sure?

00:04:50.500 No, that's just what they're alleging.

00:04:51.920 Nobody's backing that up?

00:04:53.060 No.

00:04:53.300 So the allegations, yeah, they're unverified.

00:04:57.200 And also the report contains errors.

00:05:00.380 I would say, get the hell out of my office.

00:05:03.060 But now I want you to listen to the way CNN framed this when they first broke the news with Jake Tapper,

00:05:09.260 or when they were talking about it with Jake Tapper.

00:05:12.080 Listen to this.

00:05:12.580 Jim, walk us through what we've learned.

00:05:14.800 I want to be very precise here.

00:05:16.300 Multiple U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell CNN that classified documents on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election,

00:05:24.420 presented last week to President Obama and to President-elect Trump, included allegations that Russian operatives claimed to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump.

00:05:36.200 The allegations were part of a two-page synopsis.

00:05:40.040 These were based on memos compiled by a former British intelligence operative whose past work U.S. intelligence officials consider credible.

00:05:48.760 The FBI is now investigating the credibility and accuracy of the allegations, which are based primarily on information from Russian sources.

00:05:57.040 But the FBI has not confirmed many essential details in the memos about Mr. Trump.

00:06:03.200 The classified briefings last week, I should note, were presented by four of the senior-most U.S. intelligence chiefs.

00:06:09.440 That is, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, the CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers.

00:06:18.680 Okay, so that's a totally different view than what BuzzFeed has there.

00:06:24.420 Correct.

00:06:24.680 But as I listen to that, out of the experts that go in and deliver this to the President and to Donald Trump,

00:06:32.660 two of them are completely politicized.

00:06:35.980 I don't believe Clapper for a second.

00:06:39.640 Comey is credible to me, but Comey was the guy who was allegedly on Hillary's side.

00:06:48.880 Hillary's side or Trump's side?

00:06:49.980 Trump's side.

00:06:50.460 So why would, if he's on Trump's side, why would he come in with anti-Trump stuff?

00:06:55.040 You know what I mean?

00:06:56.420 Right.

00:06:56.920 And the point is, obviously, I have no positive opinions about James Clapper either, but he's still one of the lead intelligence agents.

00:07:04.340 He's been wrong a lot.

00:07:05.760 Again, can we start here?

00:07:07.920 Can we start here?

00:07:08.480 Let's agree on the premise first, okay?

00:07:14.620 On the premise of what we're doing.

00:07:17.220 We have to, as citizens, now figure out whether or not we should look at this and discuss this or not.

00:07:31.860 And here are the two sides.

00:07:33.380 One side will say, and break it down in classic logic, the President gets the best intelligence, right?

00:07:44.460 Yes.

00:07:45.500 Although it's not always accurate.

00:07:47.340 Right.

00:07:47.580 Hang on just a second.

00:07:48.620 The first premise is, the President gets the best intelligence.

00:07:53.020 This was given to the President.

00:07:55.920 Therefore, this is the best information.

00:07:58.540 Now, there are going to be people who are making that.

00:08:00.260 Look, they didn't make this up.

00:08:01.320 This was given to the President.

00:08:03.360 You don't believe the President's briefings?

00:08:05.980 That's the first side.

00:08:07.680 They'll immediately accept it because this is credible information.

00:08:11.940 It's coming from those four guys.

00:08:13.960 But that's false because of what Pat said.

00:08:18.580 The middle sentence is incorrect or incomplete.

00:08:22.760 This was given to the President.

00:08:24.160 The middle sentence should be, this was given to the President.

00:08:27.560 But a lot of the stuff he's getting lately has been politicized, and sometimes it's incorrect.

00:08:35.880 Just ask him about weapons of mass destruction.

00:08:38.180 Exactly right.

00:08:39.380 Okay?

00:08:39.960 So, the other side will tell you, the President gets the best intelligence.

00:08:45.920 Yeah, but it's all politicized now.

00:08:49.100 Therefore, we have to dismiss it.

00:08:51.780 But, no, no, both of those are wrong.

00:08:59.040 Logic will tell us, the President most times, or the President gets the best intelligence available to him.

00:09:11.060 What is given to the President is sometimes wrong.

00:09:19.020 Therefore, we must not dismiss or accept, but instead investigate.

00:09:29.420 So, this is up to us now because it's been dropped into the laps of the American people.

00:09:36.500 So, let's logically, dispassionately look at what we have and not accept or dismiss anything.

00:09:50.860 Anybody who says, I'm not listening, you're a fool.

00:09:55.000 Anybody who says, I'm not listening, trying to you, trying to excuse it all, you're a fool.

00:09:59.920 I'm not listening to you because you're talking about Donald Trump, you're a fool.

00:10:03.420 Because, let's take it from the Trump side.

00:10:09.520 This is Donald Trump's birther problem now. 0.53

00:10:14.220 This will forever be the birth certificate of Barack Obama.

00:10:21.100 From here on out, the left will use this information to try to discredit.

00:10:26.980 And they will say in all kinds of fake news, well, yes, he's proved that's wrong, but I've got better sources.

00:10:37.900 And let me show you, I'm going to be making a statement about some better sources that will show you he's lying.

00:10:44.920 And it will be used against Donald Trump from here on out.

00:10:48.760 So, you better build a strong case based on logic, not on fear, not on anger, not on blind loyalty.

00:10:58.380 Because they, the other side, will build it that way. 0.97

00:11:02.900 And we're talking about the President of the United States.

00:11:05.620 Both sides owe it to themselves and to the country to dig into this and investigate it.

00:11:13.080 We were never birthers, but I will tell you that there were many people around us that were passionate about Barack Obama's birth certificate at the very beginning.

00:11:23.240 Passionate.

00:11:24.340 And we dispassionately investigated.

00:11:28.200 We did our own homework.

00:11:30.180 We were never birthers.

00:11:31.980 We dismissed it.

00:11:33.080 But, I'm sorry, at first, we took this approach.

00:11:37.660 Not on the air, but internally, we took this approach.

00:11:41.060 Neither dismiss it nor accept it.

00:11:44.580 It's out there.

00:11:46.180 Let's do our homework and find out whether or not it's credible or not.

00:11:51.960 We found it to be completely uncredible.

00:11:57.200 So, we dismissed it.

00:11:58.540 Let's do the same thing here.

00:12:02.860 Because I guarantee you, this is going to be his birth certificate problem.

00:12:07.900 Yeah, I mean, at least part one of it.

00:12:09.780 Part one of it.

00:12:10.240 Who knows how many things are going to come out like this.

00:12:12.360 There's two things that he has going against him.

00:12:16.340 How do you cry foul that you can't believe a source when you were the one accepting the National Enquirer?

00:12:24.440 When you were the one who said, I have additional information on his birth certificate, and he never produced it.

00:12:33.840 You're not going to gather a lot of sympathy from the people who don't like you.

00:12:40.000 Right.

00:12:40.340 There's no fairness points coming your way unless they really are trying to be better people.

00:12:47.260 Look, we look at this and we try to look at it, as you point out, soberly, dispassionately, and look at the information.

00:12:53.000 Barely.

00:12:53.320 Right now, what we know, as far as these reports go, and we haven't really talked about what's in the report.

00:12:59.380 Yes, we'll do that next.

00:13:00.280 We can do that here in a second.

00:13:01.560 But there's no, it's almost important to look at it the way it's presented, which is, I think, fair, the journalistically correct way is the way that Tapper's team did it.

00:13:14.160 And by the way, what we clipped from that was who was on Tapper's team.

00:13:18.780 I mean, it was.

00:13:19.620 Carl Bernstein.

00:13:20.160 It was the cream of the crop of journalists.

00:13:23.880 That doesn't mean anything to a lot of people, but it is the best we have.

00:13:29.160 Right.

00:13:29.300 But, I mean, if you want to find out how to report a story, a good place to start is to see how Jake Tapper reported it.

00:13:34.260 Yes.

00:13:34.400 And you're going to be on the right side of that about 99% of the time.

00:13:37.740 Yes, I agree.

00:13:38.120 So, and you see there, I think what happened with the BuzzFeed part of this is they all, all these media organizations have had this information since what they believe since August.

00:13:50.880 And my initial inclination on a story like this is they would never do, look at this, they're just trying to take down a Republican president.

00:13:57.260 They would never do this.

00:13:58.260 But to the other side, they could have released this information before the election.

00:14:02.320 They had it.

00:14:03.040 In fact, Harry Reid was demanding it.

00:14:05.060 Yes.

00:14:05.640 So, they could have done this before the election.

00:14:08.720 The CNN report, I think, breaks a lot, but they're not the only people with this information.

00:14:14.200 CNN reports it, and then BuzzFeed says, well, we have this, let's get our piece of this story out there and try to claim as much of the reporting as we can.

00:14:24.000 Correct.

00:14:24.660 And did they step over the line?

00:14:26.340 I think, you know, probably.

00:14:28.500 But, I mean, I understand their motivation there.

00:14:30.560 I understand.

00:14:30.740 Well, I actually, I mean, the BuzzFeed story, I hate to give this the, because I didn't know CNN broke this.

00:14:38.280 I thought CNN, I thought the events were reversed.

00:14:40.820 Were reversed.

00:14:41.600 I thought CNN came out and did that.

00:14:43.640 And I was like, okay, well, that's the credible way of presenting.

00:14:47.500 Is BuzzFeed the only one reporting the most salacious stuff?

00:14:51.280 They released the actual documents.

00:14:53.640 Inside the documents, it says things about prostitutes, we can get into here in a minute, and also financial connections.

00:15:00.460 But CNN didn't really go into that.

00:15:01.900 They didn't even mention it.

00:15:02.980 Right.

00:15:03.240 Well, they did say the most salacious personal parts.

00:15:08.060 They're not even talking about that.

00:15:09.420 I mean, it is the other parts of this that are equally disturbing.

00:15:18.040 I will tell you that the personal parts are almost irrelevant to me, you know, because, you know, you've either made your mind up about who Donald Trump is as a man, one way or another.

00:15:31.960 Right.

00:15:32.060 And so this is about whether he's compromised as a president.

00:15:34.860 Correct.

00:15:35.360 Correct.

00:15:35.860 Correct.

00:15:36.140 You know, so the sex, this part of it doesn't matter, except is he compromised as a president?

00:15:45.040 But the first part of it is bad enough to be compromised as a president.

00:15:50.160 And a lot of the debate today is about, oh, you know, people are saying, well, he didn't do that.

00:15:54.740 He's innocent.

00:15:55.320 He didn't have all these prostitutes in Moscow. 0.96

00:15:57.760 We'll get into the details as to why that's not important.

00:16:00.660 I don't think it is important.

00:16:01.520 I would also say that I don't think there's any reason to even entertain the idea that those things are true.

00:16:09.660 At this point, there is such limited information.

00:16:12.120 Except for this.

00:16:13.300 I want everyone in the audience to make up their mind now.

00:16:16.120 If it is true, does it matter?

00:16:17.480 Does it matter?

00:16:18.440 He just, it's the Bill Clinton situation.

00:16:20.800 This is going to drag on for months, if not years.

00:16:23.200 If it's true, does it matter?

00:16:25.060 Do you care about this guy's character at all?

00:16:27.120 Is there anything in this story that matters?

00:16:30.520 If it were true.

00:16:31.200 Because I don't think it's true.

00:16:32.440 And I don't think there's any reason to think it is at this point.

00:16:34.700 At this point, there's not.

00:16:35.780 But there's other reasons why it's important information.

00:16:38.320 And we can get into that.

00:16:39.020 Yes.

00:16:39.320 Okay.

00:16:39.560 So we'll do that coming up in just a second.

00:16:41.460 First, we're going to get to the full information in just a moment.

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00:17:30.180 I want to make sure that we all understand that there is, before we get into this, there is a, there's subtext to all of this.

00:17:40.700 And I want to make sure that that subtext we deal with right out of the gate.

00:17:47.520 Trump won.

00:17:49.460 Trump won legitimately, fairly, and he won on his own approach.

00:17:57.060 It wasn't because anyone helped him in Russia.

00:18:01.040 It's not because of Comey.

00:18:03.240 It's because Hillary Clinton was a bad candidate. 1.00

00:18:06.880 People were tired of the progressive, jam-down-your-throat approach of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

00:18:14.440 There were too many things, even for Clinton supporters, that made her, made her a flawed candidate.

00:18:24.260 The vast, the vast number of people that went out and voted, not only voted for Donald Trump, but some voted against Hillary Clinton, and some voted for Trump, even though they had questions.

00:18:45.520 But no one voted and rigged the election.

00:18:52.300 Russia did not rig this election.

00:18:56.220 Did WikiLeaks play a role?

00:18:58.360 Yeah.

00:18:58.920 But I don't think it made an impact in the election.

00:19:02.740 Comey made an impact in the election.

00:19:05.700 But that's different.

00:19:07.100 That's the FBI.

00:19:08.400 That's the federal government.

00:19:09.540 So, A, Trump won legitimately, fairly, and on his approach.

00:19:14.940 His case on this, however, is hurt by him because he said, when he thought he was losing, the election was going to be rigged.

00:19:24.820 But, it was and is fair and legitimate.

00:19:32.060 It was not in question, nor is it in question, that Trump is the legitimate president, no matter what we find in these documents from Russia.

00:19:43.640 Let's make sure we make that clear.

00:19:47.380 Now, we'll read the documents to you when we come back.

00:19:51.220 Okay.

00:19:51.940 Who's on?

00:19:52.520 Yes.

00:19:54.820 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:20:08.360 So, let's look at the actual briefing that was received by the president yesterday, which, or earlier, it was released yesterday.

00:20:18.500 Let's ask ourselves, how is it that I am holding the documents that the president received?

00:20:25.140 How is it that I am getting the president's briefing here?

00:20:32.020 That's interesting.

00:20:33.220 I think I can answer that.

00:20:34.600 Yes.

00:20:34.780 So, the way to think about this, because the whole debate today is going to be, did Donald Trump have really weird sex with a bunch of prostitutes in Moscow?

00:20:44.940 Is that true or not?

00:20:46.920 And Donald Trump will say, no, it's not true.

00:20:48.900 And people who don't like Donald Trump will say it is true, or we really need to consider it seriously.

00:20:53.120 I think the right way to think about this story is, even the intelligence sources weren't saying they thought it was true.

00:21:02.160 It's an important thing to understand.

00:21:03.520 They're not saying they investigated this, and what they found is Donald Trump was hooking up with prostitutes in Moscow.

00:21:09.420 What they are saying is, Russia was trying to influence our election, and these are the sorts of things they were floating around to try to do that.

00:21:20.740 That's why that information was important to the president and the president-elect.

00:21:25.040 Not that it's true.

00:21:25.960 Not that it's true.

00:21:26.940 That it was, this is the sorts of, these are the sorts of things they were doing to try to influence and threaten operatives for Trump and others.

00:21:37.280 Okay, so we're going to give you the report, but I want you to know that all of this, it's possible that all of this is true.

00:21:43.920 It's possible that all of this is false.

00:21:46.300 It's possible that, and most likely, that some of this is true, and big portions of this are false.

00:21:54.460 We have to decide if it matters, why it matters, but we have to also ask ourselves the question, who benefits from this information getting out?

00:22:06.100 We have a former military intelligence guy who's on our staff who came up to me in the break, and he said, I mean, this is Russia's fingerprints all over it.

00:22:18.060 I can't believe that this actual dump of this information has Russia's fingerprints all over it.

00:22:26.340 Okay, so there's multiple levels to look at, and this is a three-dimensional chess game, so let's get into it.

00:22:35.580 U.S. presidential election, Republican candidate Donald Trump's activities in Russia and compromising relationship with the Kremlin.

00:22:42.240 Summary, Russia regime has been cultivating, supporting, and assisting Donald Trump for at least five years.

00:22:50.160 Aim, endorsed by Putin, has been to encourage splits and divisions in the Western alliance.

00:22:56.940 Okay, can we just take this one?

00:22:59.080 The Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting, and assisting Trump for at least five years.

00:23:03.620 I believe that is true.

00:23:06.460 It has nothing to say about Donald Trump.

00:23:08.680 I believe that the Russian government has been doing that with any large businessman in America that has done business or wants to do business in the former Soviet Union.

00:23:20.820 That's what they do.

00:23:22.780 So, does that say anything bad about Donald Trump?

00:23:26.920 No.

00:23:27.780 It's important for Donald Trump to know that so he knows, okay, I'm a target.

00:23:32.160 I got it.

00:23:33.260 Not a problem.

00:23:35.900 Putin, this has been endorsed, and Putin has encouraged splits and divisions in the Western alliance.

00:23:42.160 We know that from Putin himself.

00:23:43.780 Putin himself, his advisors, and he himself have been on record talking about things like that, splitting up NATO and splitting the United States of America.

00:23:55.220 So, nothing really new there at all, I think.

00:23:58.420 So far, Trump has declined various sweetener real estate business deals offered him in Russia in order to further the Kremlin's cultivation of him.

00:24:07.600 That's a good thing on Donald Trump.

00:24:09.280 Right.

00:24:09.380 Okay.

00:24:10.100 He's not done it.

00:24:11.820 However, he and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other political rivals.

00:24:21.360 Okay.

00:24:22.000 Let's talk about that one for a second.

00:24:26.720 You're a big businessman.

00:24:28.540 You go over to Russia.

00:24:30.420 You've not met with Trump, or with Putin, but you've gone over there, and you meet with the top bankers,

00:24:37.060 who we know are directly connected to Putin.

00:24:40.640 Everybody's directly connected to Putin if you're a position of power.

00:24:44.380 Okay.

00:24:44.620 It's an oligarchy.

00:24:46.440 So, they're directly connected.

00:24:49.600 Some, then this is the way intelligence works.

00:24:54.200 Putin doesn't get on the phone with, or a spy doesn't get on the phone with Donald Trump.

00:25:01.000 They use a third party, and that third party may even be somebody who is not knowing that the person that is giving them the information is FSB.

00:25:13.060 So, the Kremlin says, we've got to get this to Donald Trump.

00:25:18.720 You know the head of the bank.

00:25:21.420 The bank is talking to this KGB agent, FSB agent, who he does or does not know is FSB, but knows he's connected and has material.

00:25:32.720 He goes to a friend at the bank, and he says, hey, by the way, listen, I've got some information.

00:25:38.600 You know, there's this information here on Hillary Clinton.

00:25:43.060 Don't ask me how I got it, but it's pretty good.

00:25:45.360 I hear from upper levels.

00:25:47.340 They've got this information.

00:25:49.020 You might want to give it to a friend.

00:25:51.240 The guy at the bank says, wow, thank you.

00:25:54.740 Donald Trump, he calls up Donald Trump, who does a lot of business with him, and says, listen, Donald, I got this from a friend.

00:26:00.120 He's a good guy.

00:26:00.900 I've known him for a long time.

00:26:02.360 Doesn't know that he's FSB.

00:26:04.660 Known him for a long time.

00:26:05.880 He's got great connections.

00:26:06.960 Hey, listen, I'm going to send you some information he gave me.

00:26:10.300 It's on the Hillary Clinton.

00:26:12.520 Don't know if it's true or not.

00:26:13.660 You should read.

00:26:15.360 Has Donald Trump done anything wrong?

00:26:18.060 No, I mean, other than the fact that he has said himself he has no connections business-wise to Russia for this scenario to play out.

00:26:25.380 But, I mean, yeah, I don't think so in that particular case.

00:26:28.500 Has he done anything wrong?

00:26:29.280 Do I have this right, Jason?

00:26:30.540 I'm looking at the intel guy.

00:26:32.180 Yeah, that's the way it works, right?

00:26:34.480 Donald Trump hasn't done anything wrong.

00:26:35.760 So, on the first two things, you can't accuse Donald Trump of doing anything wrong.

00:26:45.860 Former, next one, former top Russian intelligence officer, except being naive or stupid.

00:26:52.260 I mean, you know, we all know if you're going in there.

00:26:55.240 And he does with that information, too.

00:26:56.480 I mean, if he just listens to it and says, we should look into this and they never find anything.

00:27:01.340 I mean.

00:27:01.620 Oh, but if they look into it and they do find something, wouldn't you use it?

00:27:05.920 Would you use it?

00:27:06.540 I mean, yeah, of course you would.

00:27:08.340 Right.

00:27:08.440 I mean, your only accusation is you're stupid or naive if you think you're dealing at high levels in Russia.

00:27:18.060 And especially if you're running for president and you're not getting that.

00:27:23.200 And Putin doesn't know you're getting that information.

00:27:25.700 You're foolish.

00:27:27.240 Okay.

00:27:28.160 Former top Russian intelligence officer claims FSB has compromised Trump through his activities in Moscow sufficiently to be able to blackmail him.

00:27:36.780 According to several knowledgeable sources, his conduct in Moscow has included perverted sex acts, which have been arranged and monitored by the FSB.

00:27:46.580 Last one, a dossier of compromising material on Hillary Clinton has been collated by the Russian intelligence services over many years and mainly comprises bugged conversations she had on various visits to Russia and intercepted phone calls rather than any embarrassing conduct.

00:28:02.940 The dossier is controlled by the Kremlin spokesperson, the person directly on Putin's orders.

00:28:09.280 However, it has not yet been distributed abroad, including to Trump.

00:28:13.060 Russian intentions for its deployment still unclear.

00:28:16.340 Okay, so they're not going to do anything on Hillary Clinton unless Hillary Clinton is a problem to them.

00:28:22.440 If she was president, she would have been compromised. 0.90

00:28:25.080 So what do we have here?

00:28:27.420 The guy who's elected might be compromised.

00:28:30.860 The woman who could have been elected might be compromised. 1.00

00:28:38.780 That's what you're looking at.

00:28:42.140 The rest of it is salacious details.

00:28:46.040 Am I mistaken?

00:28:47.700 That's what I get from the summary.

00:28:49.500 The rest of it just says detail.

00:28:51.960 Right.

00:28:52.100 And the details, obviously, are the thing that everyone's talking about today.

00:28:55.560 Correct.

00:28:55.940 But before you get into the details, am I right?

00:29:02.740 Donald Trump, they are trying to groom him.

00:29:07.280 He has rejected all sweetheart deals.

00:29:11.960 That's a plus in his column.

00:29:14.920 And this is an opposition research file.

00:29:16.980 So, I mean, they're looking for intentionally bad things about Trump.

00:29:20.560 For him to say he's resisted these sweetener deals is definitely a point in his favor.

00:29:24.020 Is a point in his favor.

00:29:26.760 So that's the first one.

00:29:29.100 They have been trying to cultivate him.

00:29:32.660 Unless you're a moron.

00:29:35.140 And unfortunately for him, what he needs to come out and say is,

00:29:39.960 Of course I know that when you're dealing in Russia, you're dealing, at the highest levels,

00:29:46.280 you're dealing with Vladimir Putin.

00:29:48.440 And of course, you would think this would play into his ego.

00:29:52.040 Of course Putin wants me in his little chess game.

00:29:57.100 Of course.

00:29:58.240 I'm a powerful man before I was president.

00:30:00.860 Of course he wanted to control me.

00:30:03.820 I'm smarter than that.

00:30:06.520 That's why I didn't take any of his sweetheart deals.

00:30:08.760 The problem, though, is that he has made the case over and over again

00:30:12.800 that he has no dealings whatsoever with the country.

00:30:16.860 Period.

00:30:17.660 I mean, so he can't make any of these other points

00:30:20.060 because he has said he has no dealings whatsoever.

00:30:23.860 And, you know, of course no one knows

00:30:25.260 because he hasn't, you know, released the information

00:30:27.420 on the details of his business.

00:30:29.900 Again, that doesn't, you know,

00:30:32.160 doesn't mean any of this report is true.

00:30:34.760 And that's why this, you know,

00:30:36.120 this story as a whole is important and interesting, I think,

00:30:39.340 because really what they're saying is,

00:30:41.140 hey, other candidates commissioned opposition file reports

00:30:46.540 and we believe these things came from Russian sources

00:30:50.740 that had, that were leaking things

00:30:54.500 at the behest of the Russian government.

00:30:56.740 This is not something that our intelligence agencies

00:31:00.540 have checked out and said,

00:31:01.960 you know what, looks like he did do these things.

00:31:04.340 This is just an example as to what he was being accused of

00:31:08.260 in these circles, which is important

00:31:10.520 because the case they were making to him was,

00:31:13.020 hey, they were trying to influence it.

00:31:15.680 You know, that's the case,

00:31:17.200 which he keeps saying wasn't going on.

00:31:19.840 We know it is.

00:31:20.920 It would be unnatural if it wasn't.

00:31:27.500 It would be unnatural.

00:31:29.020 It would be like saying Ronald Reagan

00:31:30.740 did not try to interfere

00:31:33.700 for our interests in the former Soviet Union.

00:31:39.140 Of course we did.

00:31:41.380 We all know we did.

00:31:43.660 We all know we had operatives on the ground.

00:31:45.920 We all know that we had people

00:31:47.420 in their own press, in their own organizations,

00:31:50.280 doing everything we could

00:31:52.260 to bring them to their knees

00:31:54.140 and to split them as a union.

00:31:57.220 We know it.

00:31:58.720 For us to think that it's not happening to us

00:32:02.260 is beyond primary thinking.

00:32:07.780 It's just, it's infantile

00:32:11.280 to think that that's not happening.

00:32:13.920 Of course.

00:32:14.440 And I think, too,

00:32:15.420 another thing we have to entertain here,

00:32:16.900 and you brought this up earlier

00:32:18.500 as to why do we even know about this report?

00:32:21.680 It's important that it went to the president,

00:32:23.260 I think.

00:32:24.280 Absolutely, the president

00:32:25.140 and the president-elect

00:32:25.760 should know this information

00:32:26.660 was being circulated about Donald Trump.

00:32:28.360 Absolutely.

00:32:29.420 Why do we know it?

00:32:30.760 Well, it was an opposition report

00:32:32.180 filed that had been circulating

00:32:33.600 through media circles for months.

00:32:35.880 Again, this could have been released

00:32:37.260 before the election,

00:32:38.640 and that's something important to note.

00:32:40.480 However, there's also an interesting part of this,

00:32:42.420 which is Donald Trump has made such a big deal

00:32:46.760 at dismissing and disparaging

00:32:48.920 our intelligence sources.

00:32:50.760 I think this is the biggest thing.

00:32:52.220 That I think it's very possible

00:32:54.200 that this is their way of telling Donald Trump,

00:32:59.280 stop screwing with us all the time.

00:33:01.980 Oh, I think it is really possible that,

00:33:06.320 I mean, there's two people.

00:33:07.700 Our intelligence guy is saying yes.

00:33:09.300 There are two organizations

00:33:11.640 that you do not screw with

00:33:13.460 as president of the United States.

00:33:14.580 Number one, the Fed.

00:33:16.920 They'll screw your economy

00:33:18.280 and make you the worst president 0.65

00:33:20.300 of all time.

00:33:21.900 And they did it to Ronald Reagan.

00:33:23.800 Ronald Reagan was taking on the Fed

00:33:25.000 until the Fed started screwing with him.

00:33:26.540 Then all of a sudden he was like,

00:33:27.340 you know what?

00:33:27.680 I think we're going to leave the Fed alone.

00:33:28.960 And then everything went well.

00:33:30.740 Okay?

00:33:31.160 So the Fed, don't screw with the Fed.

00:33:33.620 That's what, lesson number one,

00:33:35.760 I think we can all say a president knows.

00:33:38.660 Number two, don't screw with the intelligence community.

00:33:41.080 Because this is what they do for a living.

00:33:45.300 They want to discredit you.

00:33:47.580 They will.

00:33:49.400 The problem with that is,

00:33:51.420 if our intelligence community is doing this,

00:33:57.040 then who does our intelligence community

00:33:59.680 really work for?

00:34:02.260 Is the tail wagging the dog?

00:34:04.820 Do they work for the American people?

00:34:06.760 Do they work for the president?

00:34:07.900 Or do they work for themselves?

00:34:11.220 If they're willing to do this,

00:34:14.300 what aren't they willing to do?

00:34:16.380 How much trouble are we in?

00:34:19.420 We'll get into more

00:34:20.460 and actually get into the details

00:34:22.680 coming up in just a second.

00:34:25.620 Glenn Beck Program.

00:34:26.940 888-727-BECK.

00:34:29.700 Mercury.

00:34:31.520 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:34:35.800 888-727-BECK.

00:34:36.900 Welcome to the program.

00:34:39.180 We're going to bring in Jason Batrill,

00:34:41.120 who used to be with military intelligence.

00:34:45.260 He now works for me as a researcher.

00:34:47.760 And he has been on this for, what,

00:34:52.140 two years, three years?

00:34:53.100 We've been talking about this.

00:34:54.500 And we said before the holidays

00:34:57.540 that Russia is involved

00:35:00.940 and they are going to discredit

00:35:03.020 and they're winning

00:35:04.940 this intelligence game.

00:35:08.660 He has insight

00:35:11.100 as a former Intel guy

00:35:13.100 who you would help

00:35:14.660 prepare some reports like this,

00:35:17.720 would you not, Jason?

00:35:18.560 Yep.

00:35:18.780 Okay.

00:35:19.780 Does this,

00:35:20.840 without saying,

00:35:22.100 at this point,

00:35:22.580 we don't have time,

00:35:23.740 does this read

00:35:24.720 one way or the other?

00:35:26.880 Absolutely legit

00:35:27.940 or absolutely false?

00:35:29.500 Seems like a total.

00:35:30.860 Coming up next.

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00:36:24.760 You know,

00:36:25.520 fake news

00:36:26.280 is a problem

00:36:29.080 when somebody

00:36:30.180 just makes something up,

00:36:31.120 but that's usually

00:36:31.960 the kind of stuff

00:36:32.760 that we can figure out

00:36:34.560 pretty quickly.

00:36:35.100 When fake news

00:36:37.100 comes from

00:36:38.320 the highest levels

00:36:39.900 or government sources,

00:36:41.440 that's when

00:36:42.760 it's a real problem.

00:36:45.520 The new

00:36:46.720 confidential

00:36:47.480 sensitive source

00:36:48.820 report

00:36:49.320 that was apparently

00:36:51.300 given to the president

00:36:52.680 and Donald Trump

00:36:53.740 and the media

00:36:56.100 has had since August

00:36:57.560 came out

00:36:58.520 yesterday afternoon.

00:37:00.960 There's something

00:37:01.940 really wrong here.

00:37:03.600 I don't want to

00:37:04.780 dismiss it,

00:37:06.100 nor do I want

00:37:06.980 to accept it.

00:37:08.260 I want to

00:37:09.100 digest it

00:37:10.400 because it's out.

00:37:12.600 Now what do you

00:37:13.480 do with it?

00:37:14.100 What does it mean?

00:37:15.440 And what does it say?

00:37:17.520 You have an advantage

00:37:18.660 today.

00:37:19.340 You don't have

00:37:19.980 just me,

00:37:20.620 a talk show

00:37:21.520 blowhard. 0.92

00:37:22.400 You have

00:37:23.000 Jason Betrill

00:37:24.240 who is with us.

00:37:25.380 He's former

00:37:26.040 military intelligence.

00:37:28.480 This is the kind

00:37:29.700 of stuff

00:37:30.300 that he used

00:37:31.320 to do.

00:37:33.460 He says

00:37:34.660 he's never

00:37:35.440 seen anything

00:37:36.280 like this before

00:37:37.520 and yet

00:37:39.040 it seems

00:37:39.780 all too

00:37:40.520 familiar.

00:37:41.420 We'll get that

00:37:42.160 beginning right now.

00:37:43.440 I will make

00:37:45.740 a stand

00:37:46.660 I will raise

00:37:47.880 my voice

00:37:48.960 I will hold

00:37:50.080 your hand

00:37:51.220 Cause we are one

00:37:53.160 I will beat

00:37:54.380 my drum

00:37:55.380 I have made

00:37:56.600 my choice

00:37:57.600 We will overcome

00:37:59.300 Cause we are one

00:38:02.000 The fusion

00:38:02.880 of entertainment

00:38:03.940 and enlightenment.

00:38:06.120 This is

00:38:06.680 the Glenn

00:38:07.540 Beck

00:38:08.540 Program.

00:38:09.580 Let's go to

00:38:11.760 Jason Betrill

00:38:13.340 We're talking

00:38:14.180 about this

00:38:14.600 news story

00:38:15.700 that came out

00:38:16.300 that BuzzFeed

00:38:18.160 did not break

00:38:18.920 CNN broke

00:38:20.340 They broke

00:38:21.380 this yesterday

00:38:22.140 It is a

00:38:22.940 opposition

00:38:25.100 research paper

00:38:26.440 that has been

00:38:27.440 floating around

00:38:28.360 All of the news

00:38:29.320 media has had it

00:38:30.080 since August

00:38:30.880 Nobody went out

00:38:32.540 and reported on it

00:38:33.640 Yesterday

00:38:34.180 for some reason

00:38:35.180 it was made

00:38:36.720 public

00:38:37.720 by Jake Tapper

00:38:39.060 who is a good

00:38:39.880 journalist

00:38:40.360 and a panel

00:38:42.520 of good journalists

00:38:43.380 who said

00:38:43.760 they have been

00:38:44.080 looking at this

00:38:44.700 for a long time

00:38:45.540 and they came out

00:38:47.540 and they did not

00:38:48.600 get into the

00:38:49.160 salacious parts of it

00:38:50.180 They were just

00:38:51.060 talking about

00:38:51.840 the

00:38:52.880 cyber attacks

00:38:55.160 and the

00:38:56.300 manipulation

00:38:57.340 of the United

00:38:58.180 States

00:38:58.620 and Russia

00:38:59.440 when it comes

00:39:00.740 to Donald Trump

00:39:01.500 We have Jason

00:39:03.460 Betrill

00:39:03.780 in because

00:39:04.300 can you give

00:39:04.980 a little bit

00:39:05.320 of your background

00:39:05.960 just real quick

00:39:06.700 I was in

00:39:08.180 military intelligence

00:39:09.060 for the Marine Corps

00:39:09.680 I was on a

00:39:10.600 maritime special

00:39:11.140 purpose force

00:39:11.680 that dealt

00:39:12.020 with counter

00:39:12.440 intelligence

00:39:13.040 urban intelligence

00:39:14.100 misinformation

00:39:15.840 a lot of

00:39:17.260 things like that

00:39:18.620 So when you

00:39:21.060 saw this

00:39:21.880 this morning

00:39:22.720 I want to

00:39:23.020 take this

00:39:23.560 piece by piece

00:39:24.900 and you know

00:39:27.420 you said

00:39:28.020 this is how

00:39:28.500 misinformation works

00:39:29.620 and I said

00:39:30.880 an hour before

00:39:31.600 you got in

00:39:32.240 this is how

00:39:32.980 the devil works

00:39:34.000 this is how

00:39:34.280 Satan works

00:39:34.860 he takes

00:39:35.760 a little bit

00:39:36.500 of truth

00:39:36.980 and then he

00:39:38.120 mixes it

00:39:38.720 with lies

00:39:39.480 that's how

00:39:40.320 misinformation

00:39:40.800 works

00:39:41.720 they don't

00:39:42.840 take a whole

00:39:43.620 lie

00:39:43.940 they mix it

00:39:45.240 with truth

00:39:46.120 so you don't

00:39:47.060 know where

00:39:47.880 the truth

00:39:48.380 stops and

00:39:49.060 where the

00:39:49.340 lie begins

00:39:50.080 am I right

00:39:50.800 right

00:39:51.340 okay

00:39:51.740 so let's go

00:39:52.840 through what

00:39:53.260 was in the

00:39:53.960 report

00:39:54.380 Russian regime

00:39:55.380 has been

00:39:55.760 cultivating

00:39:56.280 supporting

00:39:56.740 and assisting

00:39:57.280 Donald Trump

00:39:57.800 for at least

00:39:58.360 five years

00:39:59.240 endorsed by

00:40:00.300 Putin

00:40:00.680 they have

00:40:01.360 been encouraged

00:40:01.900 they are

00:40:03.100 encouraging

00:40:03.620 splits

00:40:04.280 and divisions

00:40:04.940 in the

00:40:05.460 western alliance

00:40:06.160 it does not

00:40:06.860 say that

00:40:07.160 Donald Trump

00:40:07.560 was aware

00:40:08.080 of that

00:40:08.540 it doesn't

00:40:10.140 accuse him

00:40:10.580 of being

00:40:10.840 aware of

00:40:11.220 that at

00:40:11.540 this point

00:40:12.080 do you

00:40:14.200 believe that's

00:40:14.820 true

00:40:15.260 that Putin

00:40:16.120 is doing

00:40:16.460 that

00:40:16.720 absolutely

00:40:17.240 but I

00:40:18.120 bet you

00:40:18.460 could say

00:40:18.980 that about

00:40:19.640 every major

00:40:20.500 businessman

00:40:20.900 that's

00:40:21.180 traveled to

00:40:21.700 Russia

00:40:21.960 but the

00:40:23.040 caveat is

00:40:24.220 did they

00:40:24.580 have knowledge

00:40:25.000 of it

00:40:25.340 if they

00:40:25.980 did

00:40:26.300 he would

00:40:26.820 be in

00:40:27.100 jail

00:40:27.240 right

00:40:27.440 now

00:40:27.600 if he

00:40:27.900 did

00:40:28.020 he would

00:40:28.200 probably

00:40:28.400 be in

00:40:28.660 jail

00:40:28.780 right

00:40:28.980 now

00:40:29.180 but they

00:40:29.560 don't

00:40:29.660 have evidence

00:40:30.060 to that

00:40:30.360 so he's

00:40:30.600 not in

00:40:30.780 jail

00:40:30.960 so far

00:40:31.600 Trump

00:40:31.880 has

00:40:32.080 declined

00:40:32.440 various

00:40:32.860 sweetener

00:40:33.220 real estate

00:40:33.700 deals

00:40:34.120 offered him

00:40:35.060 in Russia

00:40:35.780 in order to

00:40:36.680 further the

00:40:37.120 Kremlin's 0.61

00:40:37.540 cultivation

00:40:37.940 of him

00:40:38.720 agree

00:40:40.660 that happens

00:40:41.780 all the time

00:40:42.280 it happens

00:40:42.820 all the time

00:40:43.200 and his

00:40:43.460 people probably

00:40:44.040 rightfully

00:40:44.460 warned him

00:40:45.080 about that

00:40:45.520 and he stayed

00:40:45.800 away

00:40:46.000 okay

00:40:46.420 and he

00:40:47.320 turned it

00:40:47.640 down

00:40:47.800 so that

00:40:48.080 actually

00:40:48.360 looks good

00:40:48.860 good for him

00:40:49.340 however

00:40:49.900 he and his

00:40:50.760 inner circle

00:40:51.220 have accepted

00:40:51.780 a regular

00:40:52.240 flow of

00:40:52.720 intelligence

00:40:53.120 from the

00:40:53.620 Kremlin

00:40:53.880 including on

00:40:54.980 his democratic

00:40:55.520 and political

00:40:56.260 rivals

00:40:56.700 if done

00:40:57.760 the way

00:40:58.100 I explained

00:40:58.700 last hour

00:40:59.440 where

00:41:00.260 it's through

00:41:00.920 a third

00:41:01.300 party operative

00:41:02.100 you are

00:41:02.760 friends with

00:41:03.260 this person

00:41:03.700 they have

00:41:03.980 credibility

00:41:04.360 with you

00:41:04.880 you don't

00:41:05.620 know that

00:41:05.940 they're being

00:41:06.320 fed by

00:41:06.840 FSB

00:41:07.440 maybe they

00:41:08.040 don't even

00:41:08.380 know they're

00:41:08.680 being fed

00:41:09.220 by former

00:41:10.100 KGB

00:41:10.560 there's nothing

00:41:11.460 wrong with that

00:41:11.880 is there

00:41:12.160 nope

00:41:12.600 he would have

00:41:13.260 no knowledge

00:41:13.880 that's not

00:41:14.280 the way

00:41:14.480 they operate

00:41:15.000 he would

00:41:15.460 there would

00:41:15.780 be a random

00:41:16.300 private

00:41:16.660 investigator

00:41:17.160 that handed

00:41:17.640 him something

00:41:18.080 like oh

00:41:18.540 look what I

00:41:18.960 got

00:41:19.220 former top

00:41:21.300 Russian

00:41:21.560 intelligence

00:41:22.020 officer

00:41:22.440 claims FSB

00:41:23.400 has compromised

00:41:24.020 Trump through

00:41:24.620 his activities

00:41:25.120 in Moscow

00:41:25.740 sufficiently

00:41:26.380 be able to

00:41:27.380 blackmail him

00:41:28.700 according to

00:41:29.540 several knowledgeable

00:41:30.100 sources his

00:41:30.760 conduct in Moscow

00:41:31.500 has included

00:41:32.040 perverted sexual

00:41:32.800 acts which have

00:41:33.600 been arranged

00:41:34.120 monitored by the

00:41:34.880 FSB

00:41:35.400 I'm not going to

00:41:36.000 ask you if you

00:41:36.540 think this is

00:41:37.100 true because we

00:41:38.420 have no way of

00:41:38.980 knowing if that

00:41:39.440 is true 0.89

00:41:39.840 is that the

00:41:40.720 kind of stuff

00:41:41.140 Russia does 0.95

00:41:41.960 I've seen that

00:41:42.900 first hand I've

00:41:43.560 been a part of

00:41:44.080 operations where we

00:41:44.920 try and stop that

00:41:45.920 first hand in

00:41:46.780 Moscow so yes that

00:41:47.980 happens all the

00:41:48.640 time to every

00:41:49.940 political person

00:41:51.040 that goes to

00:41:51.500 Russia and

00:41:52.700 especially big

00:41:53.400 business man

00:41:53.880 happens all the

00:41:54.460 time okay

00:41:55.180 dossier of

00:41:56.620 compromising

00:41:57.920 material on

00:41:58.540 Hillary Clinton

00:41:59.220 has been

00:41:59.680 collated by the

00:42:00.420 Russian intelligence

00:42:01.080 service over many

00:42:01.860 years mainly

00:42:02.840 comprises bugged

00:42:03.860 conversations she

00:42:04.640 has had on

00:42:05.120 various visits with

00:42:06.080 Russia intercepted

00:42:07.300 phone calls rather

00:42:07.940 than any

00:42:08.420 embarrassing conduct

00:42:09.520 sure but why

00:42:10.760 highlight Hillary 0.99

00:42:11.320 Clinton they have

00:42:12.260 those on every

00:42:13.180 again person

00:42:14.000 that's ever

00:42:14.340 operated in Russia

00:42:14.980 and the United

00:42:15.480 States correct

00:42:16.060 okay so there's

00:42:17.360 the first part I

00:42:18.560 have no problem

00:42:19.380 believing any of

00:42:20.340 that I think

00:42:21.360 those are all

00:42:22.080 true by the way

00:42:23.060 so far that's

00:42:23.740 super unusual we

00:42:24.520 probably do this

00:42:25.120 many of the same

00:42:25.760 things good point

00:42:26.560 absolutely we do

00:42:27.300 everything that

00:42:28.260 they say that we

00:42:28.980 do that they do

00:42:29.820 to us we do to

00:42:30.580 them okay and I

00:42:32.140 have no problem

00:42:33.460 believing any of

00:42:34.780 of this that so

00:42:37.180 far that they are

00:42:39.140 trying to do that

00:42:40.140 and have tried to

00:42:40.880 do that to Donald

00:42:41.560 Trump I do not

00:42:43.140 accept you know

00:42:44.520 they said that he

00:42:45.760 went to the Ritz

00:42:46.400 Carlton I mean

00:42:47.620 this is how crazy

00:42:48.460 this is he went

00:42:49.640 to the Ritz

00:42:50.020 Carlton he found

00:42:51.000 out that he was

00:42:51.460 staying in the

00:42:51.820 presidential suite

00:42:52.580 and Michelle and

00:42:54.600 Barack Obama had

00:42:55.460 just stayed there

00:42:56.220 and so he quote

00:42:57.300 wanted to defile

00:42:58.680 the bed and so

00:43:00.380 he brought

00:43:00.760 prostitutes in to 0.60

00:43:02.080 have a golden

00:43:02.660 shower party that 0.71

00:43:04.100 he watched I

00:43:05.600 don't believe that

00:43:06.860 I don't I don't

00:43:08.600 believe that I

00:43:09.340 just don't believe

00:43:10.400 that at all I

00:43:10.920 don't even I

00:43:11.660 don't think there's

00:43:12.140 even a reason to

00:43:13.460 entertain believing

00:43:14.800 it at this point

00:43:15.580 I don't think so

00:43:16.340 it's the it's so

00:43:17.880 thinly sourced and

00:43:18.920 19th hand information

00:43:20.780 there's no way to

00:43:21.800 prove that it's

00:43:22.440 ridiculous the only

00:43:23.220 way you're going to

00:43:23.600 prove it is it says

00:43:24.840 the FSB has tape so

00:43:26.160 they can blackmail what

00:43:27.480 would be the advantage

00:43:28.200 of releasing that

00:43:29.040 kind of story even if

00:43:30.440 it's untrue Jason

00:43:31.680 especially if it's

00:43:32.520 untrue well there's no

00:43:33.880 reason that this should

00:43:34.780 ever made it to light

00:43:35.600 anywhere I mean that

00:43:36.560 so this was a release

00:43:37.400 as part of an what

00:43:38.120 was it what was the

00:43:38.840 official research

00:43:40.340 opposition research

00:43:41.960 opposition research

00:43:42.600 I have opposition

00:43:43.320 research papers for

00:43:44.440 you as your chief

00:43:45.260 researcher that I

00:43:45.880 would never show you

00:43:46.740 because you would

00:43:47.120 laugh me out of the

00:43:47.800 building because most

00:43:49.060 of it's just rumor and

00:43:49.840 just something we're

00:43:50.300 looking into if I

00:43:51.420 would have done this in

00:43:52.380 my former capacity as

00:43:53.240 an intelligence officer

00:43:53.980 I would have gotten

00:43:55.400 busted down and

00:43:56.200 probably kicked out of

00:43:56.940 the job forever

00:43:58.180 introducing something

00:43:59.100 that we're researching

00:43:59.980 because most of it's

00:44:00.980 rumor most of it's

00:44:02.020 rumor there's

00:44:02.640 something called it's

00:44:03.500 a joke it's called

00:44:04.100 rooment rumor

00:44:05.140 intelligence they have

00:44:06.080 human intelligence

00:44:07.040 signals sigent rumor

00:44:08.600 intelligence is a joke

00:44:09.600 it's like you know if

00:44:10.420 it's considered if it

00:44:11.200 goes into the umbrella

00:44:11.760 of rooment you

00:44:12.860 never bring that to

00:44:14.100 anybody higher it's

00:44:15.320 just something you're

00:44:15.860 looking into this is

00:44:17.220 this is so unprecedented

00:44:18.400 that even a hint of

00:44:19.700 this made it to the

00:44:20.580 president but in and

00:44:22.180 then even then was

00:44:23.020 released to the public

00:44:24.000 this there are so many

00:44:25.560 there are so many

00:44:26.140 stories like that about

00:44:27.120 Glenn you know that

00:44:29.240 he was he was arrested

00:44:31.120 in Baltimore for drunk

00:44:32.520 driving and you were

00:44:33.380 with me in Baltimore

00:44:33.880 killed a nine-year-old

00:44:34.880 girl yeah I mean

00:44:36.040 there's all kinds of

00:44:37.600 stuff and it's all

00:44:38.220 nonsense she's clearly

00:44:39.920 10 but still I think

00:44:41.220 but let me ask you this

00:44:44.260 though when you have

00:44:45.880 someone who is saying

00:44:47.400 outwardly that Russia 0.98

00:44:50.040 did not Russia they're

00:44:52.580 the good guys they're not

00:44:53.520 helping they're not going

00:44:54.460 after us they are they are

00:44:56.320 not trying to influence us

00:44:57.800 they have no so the case

00:45:00.080 being made to Donald Trump

00:45:01.400 and to the president in this

00:45:02.880 particular case was hey they

00:45:04.960 really did try to manipulate

00:45:06.480 this election right that's the

00:45:08.100 case being made not the

00:45:09.760 case that that he actually

00:45:11.280 went to this hotel and

00:45:12.280 defiled a bed but the case

00:45:13.980 is they actually did try to

00:45:15.440 manipulate you here's

00:45:17.440 evidence of them trying to

00:45:19.460 manipulate you not evidence

00:45:20.780 that the stuff is true in the

00:45:22.020 report but just that the

00:45:23.380 report exists and this is

00:45:24.760 what they were circulating if

00:45:26.500 that on that level that is I

00:45:29.460 think viable information to

00:45:30.700 bring to the president and to

00:45:32.100 Trump Trump should know what

00:45:34.140 Russian sources are circulating

00:45:35.660 about him even if obviously

00:45:37.740 it's completely untrue agree

00:45:39.100 or disagree well I would

00:45:41.220 agree that he should well no

00:45:45.700 I I struggle to agree with

00:45:47.660 it because it depends on how

00:45:49.860 reliable that so you know

00:45:51.240 quote this said sources are

00:45:52.920 okay so MI6 MI5 is like

00:45:55.840 Homeland Security FBI and

00:45:57.560 MI6 is is CIA right okay

00:46:01.480 what's MI3 we'll get to that

00:46:03.180 later that's a mission

00:46:04.660 impossible so I think it's

00:46:05.960 the guy who who gathered

00:46:07.820 this intel is former MI6

00:46:10.860 supposedly the United States

00:46:13.740 has used his information

00:46:14.860 before he's always been

00:46:16.220 reliable etc etc but that's

00:46:19.640 the source that's where this

00:46:21.520 came from why would we be

00:46:23.880 good why would we be quoting

00:46:25.120 a the work of a English 0.84

00:46:28.600 operative who is no longer a

00:46:30.940 part of MI6 what why why

00:46:33.540 wouldn't we take the guy who's

00:46:35.160 no longer part of MI6 take

00:46:37.380 his information then verify it

00:46:39.780 through our own sources and

00:46:42.040 then go to the president say

00:46:43.180 look there's much rumors out

00:46:44.200 there but we've checked into

00:46:45.420 him these are the important

00:46:47.040 things that have a semblance of

00:46:49.620 truth to them that we could

00:46:51.500 verify why why why would any of

00:46:54.740 this be out this is not the way

00:46:56.800 this big there's questions

00:46:58.320 because this is not the way it's

00:46:59.720 usually done the intelligence

00:47:01.120 community would never quote a

00:47:02.880 former MI6 operative they would

00:47:05.140 for one he would be source he

00:47:07.020 would be an CIA source that we

00:47:08.920 would work just the same way we

00:47:10.360 would work a Russian source or

00:47:12.160 whatever that just bringing him up

00:47:13.760 that he is a credible former MI6

00:47:16.140 operative is highly unusual I can't

00:47:18.580 think of a time that we would even

00:47:19.540 do that I think this is why the

00:47:20.580 story is so freaking convoluted is

00:47:22.480 that they didn't they didn't even

00:47:24.740 it was not included in their

00:47:26.940 intelligence report right the MI6

00:47:28.740 information that was opposition

00:47:30.460 research done by other political

00:47:32.300 campaigns who used this guy who

00:47:34.760 was supposedly credible and is

00:47:37.080 reported as credible so this is the

00:47:39.140 stuff he went out there to try to

00:47:40.700 find bad information about Donald

00:47:42.920 Trump and the the credibility level

00:47:45.780 here is not whether the events

00:47:47.880 occurred the credibility is did this

00:47:50.080 come from Russian sources that

00:47:52.480 that were filtered from the

00:47:53.380 government that's what they believe

00:47:54.860 is credible about the

00:47:55.660 information not that he did these

00:47:58.240 things but that they came from

00:48:00.300 Russian government sources the

00:48:02.500 rumors the lies let's call them

00:48:04.020 lies I'm completely comfortable

00:48:05.600 calling them lies the lies about him

00:48:08.160 having prostitutes came from

00:48:10.180 Russian sources and that's the

00:48:12.080 information they deem credible here

00:48:14.200 and I think that's an important

00:48:15.720 distinction not the information right

00:48:17.640 the fact that it came from Russia

00:48:19.280 right the people who who were

00:48:20.920 spreading it were people known to

00:48:23.380 have associations with the Russian

00:48:25.400 government and the FSB what do you

00:48:26.540 think of that Jason well no I agree

00:48:28.920 and I think that this is so

00:48:31.900 unprecedented that I believe that and

00:48:34.160 you hit it the nail on the head like a

00:48:35.880 couple breaks ago that that this is

00:48:38.560 this is not the way it's done this is

00:48:40.760 this would never get to their ears

00:48:42.600 unless they could actually put it in

00:48:44.140 the actual intelligence report say like

00:48:45.780 this is verified information it's

00:48:47.620 actually so verified like some of the

00:48:48.960 stuff is so explosive we were like

00:48:50.440 we've got the FBI knocking on Donald

00:48:52.080 Trump's door right now to take him to

00:48:53.440 jail that's that's pretty much when it

00:48:55.480 would go to him because this stuff

00:48:57.380 this stuff that is in this report

00:48:59.240 these guys are candidates for the

00:49:03.000 electric chair yeah I mean the three

00:49:05.760 people that they name in this one of

00:49:08.980 them not being Donald Trump but all of

00:49:10.680 them working for Donald Trump it's

00:49:12.900 electric chair stuff oh so why would we

00:49:16.520 get this report if it were true why

00:49:19.720 would we get this report when we always

00:49:22.780 hear and believe me I've had it used

00:49:24.860 against me in a court by the

00:49:26.340 government we can't give you that

00:49:28.080 information because it's an ongoing

00:49:30.060 investigation well there would be an

00:49:32.100 ongoing investigation now you're

00:49:33.980 looking at high treason so what the

00:49:38.500 hell there's two possibilities I see

00:49:41.340 one but I'd love to hear your

00:49:44.300 opinion one Russia released this and

00:49:48.740 Russia's putting this in to poison the 0.91

00:49:51.600 water even more in our country to to

00:49:56.140 divide us and to get us yelling at each

00:49:58.800 other even more and distrustful of our

00:50:01.680 own agencies our own intelligence

00:50:03.820 everything else to the our own

00:50:08.340 intelligence agency is trying to teach

00:50:11.100 Donald Trump a lesson don't screw with

00:50:14.980 us is it one the other both or

00:50:19.880 something else well I think it's both

00:50:22.140 to go to point number one I think that

00:50:24.480 Russia has been actively involved more

00:50:27.500 so since around 2014 to you know kind of

00:50:31.660 destabilize America and it's happening 0.88

00:50:33.420 really I mean we're at each other's

00:50:35.100 throats the media has taken the small

00:50:37.440 little revelation I really what did

00:50:38.700 what did Russia actually reveal in the

00:50:40.700 DNC hacks a couple of stupid little

00:50:42.820 things that what they're minor pay to 0.96

00:50:44.540 play oh and that and DNC didn't like

00:50:47.780 Bernie Sanders right whoa you know I

00:50:49.660 mean did that really influence I mean

00:50:51.840 people that like hated Hillary Clinton

00:50:53.660 hated her more the people that loved her

00:50:55.460 they didn't really care you know I mean

00:50:57.300 like so what really did it do nothing

00:50:58.860 well it's causing all of this hubbub and

00:51:00.920 the media is taking this to brand new

00:51:02.840 levels now it's part two the

00:51:06.120 intelligence community is yeah I believe

00:51:08.540 and you said this earlier I think they're

00:51:10.340 striking back you cannot you cannot call

00:51:13.600 out the intelligence community call them

00:51:15.220 stupid say that everything they're

00:51:17.700 releasing has been lies and it's been

00:51:18.920 lies since the Iraq war you cannot do

00:51:20.700 that if you do you're going to pay for

00:51:22.340 it you're going to pay for it this I'm

00:51:24.560 telling you this is not how the

00:51:26.140 intelligence community operates this is

00:51:27.860 not how they release information this is

00:51:29.140 not how they brief their hires this was

00:51:31.240 released in a strategic way in my

00:51:32.840 opinion I think it was released in a

00:51:34.680 strategic way I don't think that they

00:51:36.220 think this is going to up in the you

00:51:37.940 know that you know it's smart enough to

00:51:39.680 know Jason they're smart enough to go

00:51:41.700 they war game as much as you do as much

00:51:43.920 as I do they know how fragile America is

00:51:46.600 they know pulling us apart even more and

00:51:50.180 in creating this distrust of them as

00:51:53.160 well is a horrible horrible move I

00:51:57.000 remember I learned about you know I

00:51:59.580 learned about the Bubba effect from

00:52:01.700 them the number one thing they were

00:52:04.040 worried about in 2000 what six and they

00:52:07.880 said this is coming in our future so the

00:52:10.380 last thing they would do unless they

00:52:12.640 were just evil SOBs is throw logs on the 1.00

00:52:16.360 fire so how could you say that they

00:52:19.760 would do that why wouldn't they quietly do

00:52:23.600 something to a president and say don't

00:52:26.720 screw with us they definitely chose a

00:52:29.800 method that can be very explosive and

00:52:32.340 volcanic that's for sure I I don't think

00:52:35.800 that you believe that the because I

00:52:38.600 don't that the at the highest levels are

00:52:43.280 our intelligence operation is putting our

00:52:47.020 next president in his place publicly yeah

00:52:50.900 I remember I said on we I said on you on

00:52:53.360 your think tank show not ago that there

00:52:55.200 would be you said this was coming for this

00:52:57.360 that we have not seen the last of it they

00:52:59.060 are going to strike back in some way this

00:53:01.360 is a huge way and you know what to be

00:53:04.060 honest I don't think they're done I

00:53:05.540 really don't because a lot of this stuff

00:53:07.300 like I said is is alleged and it's the

00:53:09.320 wreckage on the other side what's the

00:53:12.300 wreckage on the other side you know they

00:53:13.780 are chess players what's the wreckage on

00:53:16.000 the other side think about that for a

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00:53:55.200 this is the Glenn Beck program it really

00:53:59.020 hard to I find it really hard to believe

00:54:00.680 that this is a US government false report

00:54:09.540 here that that the CIA is trying to teach

00:54:14.040 him a lesson do I believe that the CIA would

00:54:17.000 revel in teaching him a lesson yes I think

00:54:20.120 they would make this up and and release

00:54:22.260 this the damage it would do and oh this

00:54:25.300 is not a lesson they released rumors the

00:54:27.900 real lesson will put him in jail and I

00:54:29.920 guarantee you they had it this is like

00:54:32.260 look bud are you a conspiracy theorist all

00:54:34.760 of a sudden what I mean I mean that's what

00:54:36.320 you did for a living you are a spook so this 1.00

00:54:39.000 is what he does for his job I know these

00:54:42.080 things are obviously real as a possibility

00:54:45.500 right I mean the one thing I'll get me to

00:54:47.300 if you want to say it was not intelligence

00:54:49.020 releasing this information you can you can

00:54:51.980 argue that I mean these reports as

00:54:55.240 opposition research before they were had

00:54:57.240 anything to do with intelligence they were

00:54:59.140 being circulated through media circles for

00:55:01.440 months and months and months and months

00:55:03.040 media organizations have been checking into

00:55:04.740 these six months before the election so

00:55:08.080 it's possible they had this the whole time

00:55:10.020 and they just waited to release it and so

00:55:11.880 but why until after it was handed to the

00:55:14.000 why would it be handed to the president now if

00:55:16.200 they've had it for months

00:55:17.760 you're listening to the Glenn Beck program you

00:55:30.960 know we'll have some idea if the government

00:55:34.140 takes this report at all credible on Donald

00:55:37.340 Trump because in that report it says that

00:55:39.000 that Russia has made several deals on energy

00:55:43.100 with Trump or the Trump surrogates I mean

00:55:48.260 again where are we getting this how is it

00:55:51.640 happening there's no reason to accept this

00:55:54.880 information and there's no reason to dismiss

00:55:57.160 this information it's just out now and it is

00:56:00.240 what it is we have to use some logic but we'll see if

00:56:03.860 anybody takes this seriously seeing that Tillerson

00:56:07.760 is having his confirmation hearing today

00:56:11.920 president of Exxon let's see if a senator brings

00:56:14.760 that up if they don't that speaks volumes about

00:56:18.260 the credibility of this Yarnbrook is here from

00:56:21.420 the Ayn Rand Institute how are you sir I'm good

00:56:23.940 good how about you crazy times yeah I know we had

00:56:26.400 some plans to talk about some other things

00:56:28.300 today that are important but first I want to

00:56:31.080 get your thoughts on on this what this is you're

00:56:36.180 a very logical reasoned man yeah we are living in

00:56:40.920 a time beyond reason and logic it is because

00:56:44.180 reason and logic require facts they require

00:56:47.900 evidence they require the ability to to look at

00:56:51.220 the world and know what's true and what's not or at

00:56:53.240 least have an indication of what's true and

00:56:54.740 what's not we're living in an era of fake news

00:56:57.680 you don't know where this is coming from why

00:57:01.540 this is being reported who's reporting it it's

00:57:04.120 very hard to get your head around it and use

00:57:06.320 reason can I ask you a question I have I have a

00:57:08.740 two-volume set I think it's actually in my

00:57:10.520 office I have a two-volume set from 1926 it's a

00:57:13.900 reprint from the New York Historical Society and

00:57:17.060 it's from the committee on the the committee

00:57:21.740 looking into the conspiracies of the Revolutionary

00:57:24.540 War it was con it was conveyed or convened right

00:57:28.140 after the Revolutionary War they wanted to find

00:57:30.340 out where all these rumors came from where all

00:57:32.640 this fake news came from and it's I mean it's you

00:57:37.080 know probably 500 pages sure sure so fake news is

00:57:40.400 not new yes it's always been this way yeah but it's

00:57:43.700 different it's never had the credibility it has

00:57:46.200 today I mean people are taking it seriously yes in a

00:57:48.540 way they never did before and generally we don't

00:57:52.400 discuss issues in a reasonable logical way this

00:57:56.660 election more than any other election I think was

00:57:59.400 based so much on pure emotion yes and and what we're

00:58:03.440 what we're seeing today is the media we're seeing our

00:58:05.740 political leaders we're seeing our intellectuals so

00:58:08.940 universities promote emotion as the means towards

00:58:13.360 knowledge rather than thinking and reasoning and

00:58:15.580 using logic we don't teach our kids logic so how would

00:58:17.960 you how would you logically look at this story and say this

00:58:22.060 is how we begin to untangle this story well I mean you

00:58:25.500 really have to look at what are the real sources without

00:58:28.900 sources it's really hard to untangle anything and but you

00:58:32.600 also have to look at okay what are the incentives what are

00:58:36.120 what's going on here and look the Russians are bad guys the 1.00

00:58:40.340 Russians are bad guys Putin is not a good guy so and and I

00:58:45.120 think there's there's some evidence to suggest there's a

00:58:47.880 relationship there between Putin and and and Trump something

00:58:51.120 is going on there Trump is so adamantly defending Putin was

00:58:55.760 throughout the campaign is now there's some relationship

00:58:59.860 between between Trump and Russia we don't know what it is you

00:59:04.380 know there's no reason to believe these particular

00:59:06.500 allegations but one has to be skeptical about what is going

00:59:10.420 on given how adamant Trump is in in defending anything Russian

00:59:15.560 could it be could it be let's talk about Tillerson yeah

00:59:19.160 Tillerson is a deal maker okay what is our foreign policy I

00:59:25.300 don't know we put a deal maker in and he's best at making

00:59:28.900 deals where well Russia in the Middle East and and I think I

00:59:33.440 think much of our foreign policy we are not going to be tough I

00:59:37.180 can with Tillerson there we're not going to be tough on Russia we're

00:59:40.320 unlikely to be tough on Saudi Arabia in in in the Gulf

00:59:43.180 States and you like Tillerson I like Tillerson Tillerson's an

00:59:46.060 Atlas Shrug fan he's a he's a he's a nice guy he's obviously

00:59:48.960 incredibly competent CEO he did a good job I like CEOs I like

00:59:52.700 businessmen I think they're great right but is he a foreign policy

00:59:56.700 expert it does he bring a principled view of foreign policy I

01:00:02.280 mean maybe I just don't know I haven't heard anything to

01:00:05.040 suggest he does Donald Trump is a pragmatist as far as I can tell

01:00:09.480 there's no principle driving a Trump administration and the people he

01:00:14.340 surrounded himself with are mostly pragmatists on a case-by-case basis

01:00:19.560 they might make the right choice they might make the wrong choice but

01:00:22.220 there's no principle what is America's and and granted there hasn't

01:00:27.440 been a principled foreign policy in the United States for a very very long

01:00:31.140 time but but this is taking pragmatism to the next level because it's you know

01:00:37.220 usually people apologize for not having principles these guys embrace the fact

01:00:41.680 well they don't it's not that it's it's like to me we've always said or people

01:00:46.220 have always said we just so I wish somebody would run this country as a

01:00:49.360 business you're now going to see it run like a business and that's we don't have

01:00:54.860 the CEO of the United States of America that's not the way this job works it

01:00:59.300 shouldn't we're gonna see how it works as CEO of America I I've come to call

01:01:03.840 Donald Trump the central planner in chief yeah because that's how he's acting he's

01:01:09.220 acting as a central planner I'm gonna fly to Indiana talk to carrier I'm gonna go

01:01:14.480 and talk to the CEO Ford I'm gonna I'm gonna be the CEO of CEOs I'm gonna tell

01:01:19.300 the business world I'm gonna tell markets how they should run how they should

01:01:23.320 function as if I'm the CEO of the marketplace but that's that's central

01:01:27.680 planning and we know we know if anything the 20th century has taught us

01:01:32.060 central planning does it does not work and it used to be what Democrats were

01:01:38.240 proud of their central planners and Republicans pretended at least not to be

01:01:41.960 central planners they were for free markets well only now that distinction

01:01:44.980 has gone they pretended I know only after only after Hoover because Hoover was

01:01:49.420 the last guy we had that was very much Donald Trump he was a central planner he was a

01:01:53.740 builder well yes I mean Hoover was the last businessman to be president he gave

01:01:58.120 a smooth holly yep which was the tariffs that drove us into Great Depression yep he

01:02:02.680 increased taxes he didn't decrease taxes he was a terrible terrible president you 0.52

01:02:07.420 know this this trend you know to a large extent accelerated under Hoover but it

01:02:12.340 really goes back to Wilson yes it is the first president you don't have to be a

01:02:16.180 central planner to bring it yeah to bring it into the United States you're plowing

01:02:20.560 an old field let's plow a new one here the the GOP and what they're going to do

01:02:26.800 with Obamacare we have had we have had years for this moment it's unbelievable to me six

01:02:33.960 years right since Obamacare was passed they'd be talking about repeal replace

01:02:37.720 repeal replace with okay so where's your plan right you've had six years to put

01:02:42.360 together a plan the plan is not that hard we've seen outlines of this plan in the

01:02:47.680 Wall Street Journal everywhere there is a plan out there find it put it together

01:02:52.020 it might be flawed it might not be the perfect plan but don't come out as

01:02:55.620 babbling idiots and and and and we've got a plan maybe we'll see you know it 0.78

01:03:00.960 might take six months it may take three years who knows I mean this is really

01:03:05.160 Republicans living up to the stupid party label what they're doing with Obamacare

01:03:09.360 right now now on top of that there are suggestions that they want to keep real

01:03:14.820 important parts of Obamacare yeah pre-existing conditions if you load

01:03:19.320 pre-existing conditions onto insurance companies they're not insurance

01:03:22.680 companies anymore right they're just Social Security type companies yes and

01:03:26.460 they're subsidiaries of the government and the Democrats love this Obamacare was

01:03:30.240 always planned to fail the whole purpose of Obamacare was to fail but to fail as a as

01:03:37.020 as a as we tried markets we tried right places we let you have your private

01:03:41.620 insurance that doesn't work so we have to have single-payer universal health care

01:03:45.840 run by the government if Republicans play into that by keeping pre-existing

01:03:49.900 conditions or by doing other things that are get basically destroy insurance

01:03:53.760 markets they're just playing into the hands of the what you're saying right now is

01:03:58.780 one of my biggest fears is that people look at whatever is going to come out of the GOP now

01:04:05.900 as a conservative small government constitutional answer and I'm not seeing those yet I hope to

01:04:14.940 but I'm not seeing them especially when it comes to Obamacare when they fail or God forbid make things

01:04:21.740 worse look this is then then everybody will say it's time to go all the way let's go Marxist I mean this is the lesson

01:04:30.140 everybody learned from from the George Bush years right yes if this is what

01:04:34.820 small government conservatives are then we don't want anything to do with that and

01:04:38.300 we got Obama and we got everything that Obama represents if this is what

01:04:41.800 defending America means going to Iraq and screwing it up then we're gonna we're 0.89

01:04:46.780 gonna we're gonna get a an Obama to to clean up the mess so yes the backlash

01:04:52.660 against Republicans when they do really really stupid things is is what this is

01:04:56.980 part of what destroys this country and there's nothing to suggest that this

01:05:01.540 administration is going to be significantly different now we've seen have you seen

01:05:05.020 anything that that surprises you that say wow like this is good you know some of

01:05:11.200 his a point some of their appointments were yeah are not bad right I mean labor

01:05:14.320 secretary I forget the guy's name but but seems like a good guy he gets gets

01:05:18.280 minimum wage he gets he gets some of these issues on the right way you know

01:05:22.940 prices a secretary of human health and human services I thought was a good choice

01:05:28.780 price actually has a plan to replace Obamacare you know with free market

01:05:33.080 reforms why not just embrace that right right he's the is a secretary of health and

01:05:38.200 human services but for some reason the House and the Senate and this is

01:05:41.980 partially because Republicans are such cowards they can't actually embrace a

01:05:46.660 free market solution to anything the one thing we will get and we can guarantee

01:05:50.600 this right is a tax cut Republicans are good at cutting taxes right they don't cut

01:05:56.080 spending so the consequences the next president has to raise taxes in order to

01:06:00.520 close the the deficit gap or pretend to close the deficit gap but we'll get tax cuts

01:06:05.220 and that's a good thing right I'm not gonna demean tax cuts but if you don't cut

01:06:08.940 spending yeah it doesn't matter okay so so one last thing here

01:06:13.140 yarn broke from the Ayn Rand Institute and and one of the best critical thinkers

01:06:18.540 in America when we're looking at all of the things that were were about to see what

01:06:30.100 what is the what is the flag that you would raise up and say we have to do this one thing is it is

01:06:42.100 it a policy is it we have to get a handle on on our our uniting with each other on fake news on what

01:06:51.580 see I I don't buy into this uniting stuff I mean we're not gonna be united we're split in this country

01:06:57.680 we're split 50 50 we don't agree and and I I don't have a problem with the fact that we don't agree

01:07:02.860 there there are clearly different points of view out there I think some of us are right and and most

01:07:08.280 people are wrong but but that's the reality there's there's disagreement and and I I for example have

01:07:13.900 always loved gridlock in Washington I like disagreement in Washington because then they don't miss miss when I say when I say uniting I mean not

01:07:21.180 not tearing each other not dehumanizing one another I mean that would be nice able to live next to each other and say why I really

01:07:28.300 disagree with him but it's gonna be difficult I mean I think what we need to rediscover to unite us and to do a lot of other

01:07:35.000 things is what is America I I think we've lost that I think in that sense Obama's one we have become another European country in in 0.88

01:07:43.340 many respects the American spirit what made us uniquely American what what what what are the foundation ideas the

01:07:50.440 foundational concepts of what America stands for the founding the true founding principles of this country

01:07:57.560 that that is not in the debate nobody talks about it and this presidential you know run was was more than

01:08:06.600 ever Donald Trump never mentions the founders he never really talks about the Constitution it's not

01:08:10.960 important to him right those are principles God forbid we should have principles we need to rediscover what

01:08:15.980 we are what what is American exceptionalism people throw that out all the time and they claim oh we're

01:08:22.540 pro-american we love America but Donald Trump has raised that question up what does it mean to be pro-america

01:08:27.920 what does America first actually mean unless you understand what America is America is not a

01:08:32.980 geographical place idea it's an idea and the question is what is that idea and I think very few

01:08:40.060 Americans today know what that idea is I think that's reflected in our politics that's reflected in our dialogue

01:08:46.380 very few people know what the principles that this country was founded on are and what made us the greatest nation in

01:08:54.120 human history let's have you back and and let's do a let's do an hour of just that yeah what is America what is

01:08:59.400 America will you do that would be fabulous great love that Aaron thank you very much and you're on the book is equal is

01:09:04.060 uh is on is unfair right equals I'm sorry I did not I am sorry I was not even told you had a book

01:09:09.880 well you I I handed you a book not that long ago with the nice autograph okay but but the book is

01:09:15.820 called equal is unfair it's it's available everywhere and uh uh it takes on one of these big issues is

01:09:22.140 what does it mean when the founders say uh all men are created equal does it mean what the left suggests

01:09:29.140 equality of outcome or even equality of opportunity and I argue no it just means

01:09:33.520 equality of freedom equality of liberty equality of rights equality before the law the law properly

01:09:39.900 understood uh and the whole idea of equality is a false god it's a false god

01:09:45.400 we have one the Glenn Beck program mercury

01:09:51.600 triple eight seven two seven back this is the Glenn Beck program holy cow stew has a uh stew has his own

01:10:05.920 chalkboard uh on this uh Donald Trump briefing we'll get to here in a little while also his response he's

01:10:12.560 supposed to go live here right after uh the top of the hour uh stations we will be taking that uh as

01:10:18.320 well if it does happen um and we have good news to share we do sometime during the course of the day

01:10:24.380 yeah we got good news to share yeah let's do I mean do we have time how much time do we have

01:10:28.580 um 30 seconds no that's not enough there's some good news that we have to be happy for more than

01:10:34.580 30 seconds is there a song that's coming on there might be there might be a song all the way a song

01:10:39.020 happy happy news uh coming up and assuming this thing starts on time we're going to have this press

01:10:44.000 conference here in a little bit obviously the story we've been talking about all day uh will be

01:10:48.520 discussed at the same point the Rex Tillerson secretary of state hearings are going on Tillerson just said

01:10:54.580 that Russia today is a danger um so he seems to disagree with Donald Trump it's a very strange

01:11:02.580 this is a strange rollout as you'd expect uh but we'll see more here in just a few minutes

01:11:08.360 the Glenn Beck program mercury

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01:12:00.740 800-600-1645 hello america and welcome to the Glenn Beck program we are waiting now for a

01:12:09.600 news conference with president-elect trump on this the latest on this back and forth of russia

01:12:17.540 we have spent two hours talking about it today trying to look at it logically we can't make heads

01:12:23.960 or tails of this it doesn't ever lead any place good and we don't buy into all the stuff that it says

01:12:29.760 about donald trump um we'll see what he has to say uh and see if he can bring any reason to any of this

01:12:36.940 as he comes out we will do that also i understand we have some good news we'll get to there right now

01:12:42.700 i will make a stand i will raise my voice i will hold your hand

01:12:50.500 because we are one i will beat my drum i have made my choice we will overcome

01:12:58.500 because we are one the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the Glenn Beck program

01:13:08.940 yeah we're waiting for uh donald trump press conference here uh which is coming up in a

01:13:16.160 second but first we got some really good news now before we get to that may i may i read this is from

01:13:21.280 the court yesterday on this day court considered the anti-slap motion to dismiss motion to dismiss

01:13:25.840 files by defendants the blaze inc and Glenn Beck collectively the blaze parties pursuant to chapter 27

01:13:31.620 after considering the motion to dismiss any responses and replies there to any supporting or official

01:13:37.660 affidavits uh the motion to dismiss is granted therefore ordered the motion to dismiss filed by

01:13:45.000 the blaze parties is in all things granted in its entirety this is in the clock kid right

01:13:51.660 achmed the clock kid uh clock med we we call them so allegedly clock man allegedly this was so what an

01:14:01.040 anti-slap is in the united states or i mean in texas which really is the united states now um is

01:14:07.520 a a remedy that people can take um if your first amendment uh rights are being questioned

01:14:15.320 to stop really kind of frivolous lawsuits yeah it's basically a frivolous lawsuit defense and so

01:14:21.520 if you remember right that it was the kid who went to school with the clock and he said it was a clock

01:14:27.640 it looked like a bomb and originally we were pissed off at the school district before we were for him

01:14:32.860 we were for the kid we were defending the kid and then we saw the picture of it we're like well

01:14:37.140 well of course they thought it was a bomb of course they thought it was a bomb looks just like one and

01:14:41.800 and we also then heard that he was told by a teacher hey don't bring this into other class don't show

01:14:48.420 this anybody it looks like a bomb and and so he didn't do the you know first degree look like weapon

01:14:53.720 he used common sense and said hey put that away don't do that anymore another teacher won't be so cool

01:14:58.760 with that and they weren't and he kept doing it almost as if he was trying to he was trying to

01:15:04.300 almost as if yeah we don't know if that's what it was allegedly looked that way in our humble opinions

01:15:08.960 we reported it uh and we reported it accurately uh on this program and uh and yesterday the judge

01:15:17.620 threw that case out fortunately showing that apparently free speech is still alive however i will

01:15:24.000 say that it the first amendment uh is not real healthy and we have not talked about the other

01:15:31.800 court case uh that we settled in boston and we will uh so you know i settled that case but i settled it

01:15:42.480 with the um the understanding and the legal uh ability to open up the entire record of the case

01:15:53.240 that case is not sealed and we did settle for a small sum of money uh because it was going to go

01:16:02.640 all the way to the supreme court it should have but it would have probably cost me about five million

01:16:06.440 dollars instead i settled with it unsealed because we are going to present this to you and show you

01:16:15.360 exactly what happened in the boston bombing case there is something very wrong and it has

01:16:22.760 little to do with the guy who uh was suing me and everything to do with the united states government

01:16:30.440 which was the point in the first place but in this particular case it's over a little celebration

01:16:37.240 is appropriate because he made a clock that looked like a bomb his family was proud especially his

01:16:46.220 mom we told the truth so he tried to sue but the judge just said screw you oh he made a clock it looked

01:16:54.400 like a bomb his family was proud especially his mom we told the truth so he tried to sue but the judge

01:17:01.840 just said screw you yeah the judge just said screw you allegedly not at all not at all he didn't say

01:17:10.480 that at all just to put it right

01:17:12.240 but he did throw out the case yes yes so we actually won i hope you have uh some documents

01:17:22.780 that show that his mom was especially proud more than other relatives and his mom was allegedly

01:17:29.280 especially proud you know you know what's amazing about that case is the amount of stuff that was

01:17:36.480 sent from people like zuckerberg and and everybody else when it turns out that that wasn't exactly what

01:17:42.500 happened that that's not and and the judge is you know now you know now because he sued i don't even

01:17:50.600 know how many people he his family has come back and sued everybody they're a hero ben ferguson

01:17:56.980 looking for a payout we're the set we're the second um case to be dismissed and there's a line of

01:18:03.680 people that are going to court you know who else has been dismissed do you do you know or can you say

01:18:07.800 no i don't i don't know um i don't remember but there were two we i think we we were in court with

01:18:14.500 two of the people i think the mayor of irving irving is still involved right she's still we all have

01:18:20.920 court we all have court cases and it's the same i think it's the same argument i don't i don't know

01:18:26.100 i'm not involved in anybody else's you would think so yeah ridiculous so um so we're waiting

01:18:30.840 for the uh the donald trump press conference to begin he has not walked out yet but when he does

01:18:35.820 stations you should know that we will go why don't we go there you know what why don't we break early

01:18:39.700 so when he comes out we don't have to um uh we don't have to interrupt him with commercials

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01:19:30.280 know at glenbeck.com okay you want to talk about fake news this is a very good chance that this is

01:19:37.820 this is all fake news that uh president-elect trump is now going to have to respond to um cnn reported

01:19:45.040 um on a briefing that the president and donald trump received recently uh from the intelligence

01:19:52.260 community it included two pages of what buzzfeed reported yesterday after cnn reported on the two pages

01:20:04.080 um and buzzfeed released then the 35 pages that were whittled down to two for the president and mr trump

01:20:14.600 um and um so buzzfeed is being called irresponsible i know i wouldn't have published them

01:20:22.160 um myself they didn't this is the media has had this since august nobody published this they did publish it

01:20:30.760 after cnn talked about that two page report in a credible way then they dumped out onto the internet

01:20:39.680 uh the 35 page report i don't think i would have done that even after cnn had made this um public

01:20:47.880 because i think it's poison because i think a lot of it is bogus um and poison now he has to face

01:20:56.100 these questions about russia um there's some you know i bet what it was presented to the president

01:21:03.860 was not bad um otherwise donald trump would have been arrested quite honestly on some of these charges

01:21:11.220 um right and i don't even think they're trying to say that they're true i mean right there's there

01:21:16.080 they included it and it was not even clear that it was discussed with either the president or trump

01:21:20.620 um saying like here's an example of what they were doing to you to try to compromise uh you

01:21:28.540 donald trump and there's that that's good information to have it's you got you got to know what people

01:21:32.760 are saying about you and and it was being circulated widely by political opponents i mean you know

01:21:37.760 people trying to come up with stuff and some of the stuff that is on in buzzfeed and buzzfeed recognizes

01:21:43.100 at the beginning which is why i wouldn't publish it a lot of the stuff is wrong i mean they have

01:21:47.980 one guy in that works for trump in prague when you can verify that it looks like he was in southern

01:21:53.220 california at a baseball game with his son i mean you know there's there's stuff in here that's just

01:21:58.000 not right um and now it's out and a lot of people like birth certificate will believe it

01:22:05.340 and they'll say oh you know what he was he was doing horrible things with women in uh russia

01:22:12.240 no there's no reason there's no reason to believe any of this here's here's here's what's reason to

01:22:19.240 believe russia is not our friend russia does target every big businessman and political person like

01:22:28.800 donald trump and trump didn't take the bait now here he is donald trump he's stepping up to the

01:22:34.900 microphone in new york at trump tower at the press conference united states of america donald trump

01:22:43.620 thank you very much it's very familiar territory news conferences because we used to give them on a

01:22:57.300 almost daily basis i think we probably maybe won the nomination because of news conferences and

01:23:03.920 uh it's good to be with you uh we stopped giving them because we're getting quite a bit of inaccurate

01:23:09.420 news but i do have to say that uh and i must say that i want to thank a lot of the news organizations

01:23:17.420 here today because they looked at that nonsense that was released by maybe the intelligence agencies

01:23:27.920 holy cow who knows but maybe the intelligence agencies which would be a tremendous blot

01:23:33.700 on their record if they oh my gosh he comes out swinging blot because a thing like that should

01:23:40.260 have never been written it should never been had and it should certainly never have been released

01:23:46.080 but i want to thank a lot of the news organizations for some of whom have not treated me very well over

01:23:53.260 the years a couple in particular and they came out so strongly against that fake news and the fact that

01:24:01.700 it was written about by primarily one group and one television station so i just want to compliment many

01:24:11.100 of the people in the room i have great respect for the news and great respect for freedom of

01:24:16.060 the press and all of that but i will tell you there were some news organizations uh with all that was

01:24:23.040 just said that were so professional so incredibly professional that i've just gone up a notch as to

01:24:31.520 what i think of you okay i hope you would increase in that we've had some great news over the last

01:24:37.020 uh couple of weeks i've been quite active uh i guess you could say in an economic way for the country

01:24:43.540 uh a lot of car companies are going to be moving in we have other companies big news is going to be

01:24:48.340 announced over the next couple of weeks about companies that are going to be building in the

01:24:52.920 midwest you saw yesterday fiat chrysler big big factory going to be built in this country as opposed

01:24:59.580 to another country for just announced that they stopped plans for a billion dollar plant in mexico and

01:25:06.920 they're going to be moving into michigan and expanding very substantially a an existing plant

01:25:12.520 i appreciate that from ford i appreciate it very much from fiat chrysler i hope that general motors

01:25:19.140 will be following and i think they will be i think a lot of people will be following i think a lot of

01:25:25.380 industries are going to be coming back we have to get our drug industry coming back our drug industry has

01:25:30.920 been disastrous they're leaving left and right they supply our drugs but they don't make them here

01:25:36.040 to a large extent and the other thing we have to do is create new bidding procedures for the drug

01:25:42.700 industry because they're getting away with murder pharma pharma has a lot of lobbies a lot of lobbyists

01:25:50.160 and a lot of power and there's very little bidding on drugs we're the largest buyer of drugs in the world

01:25:57.380 and yet we don't bid properly and we're going to start bidding i'm going to save billions of dollars

01:26:03.100 over a period of time and we're going to do that with a lot of other industries i'm very much involved

01:26:09.700 with the generals and admirals on the airplane the f-35 you've been reading about it and it's way way

01:26:17.880 behind schedule and many many billions of dollars over budget i don't like that and the admirals have

01:26:25.680 been fantastic the generals have been fantastic i've really gotten to know them well and we're

01:26:30.900 going to do some big things on the f-35 program and perhaps the f-18 program and we're going to get

01:26:38.840 those costs way down and we're going to get the plane to be even better and we're going to have some

01:26:44.540 competition and it's going to be a beautiful thing so we've been very very much involved and other

01:26:49.700 things we had jack ma we had so many incredible people coming here mr arnaud they're going to do

01:26:59.280 tremendous things tremendous things in this country and they're very excited and i will say if the

01:27:06.020 election didn't turn out the way it turned out they would not be here they would not be in my office

01:27:09.760 they would not be in anybody else's office they'd be building and doing things in other countries

01:27:14.300 so there's a great spirit going on right now forever we're going to create jobs i said that

01:27:20.380 i will be the greatest jobs producer that god ever created and i mean that i really i'm going to work

01:27:28.120 very hard on that we need certain amounts of other things including a little bit of luck

01:27:34.340 but i think we're going to do a real job and i'm very proud of

01:27:38.800 what we've done and we haven't even gotten there yet i look very much forward to the inauguration

01:27:44.900 it's going to be a beautiful event we have great talent tremendous talent and uh we have the all of

01:27:53.020 the bands or most of the bands from the different and uh we have the all of the bands or most of the

01:27:58.500 bands from the different from the different segments of the military and i've heard some of

01:28:05.000 these bands over the years they're he really didn't talk about it have a very very elegant

01:28:08.660 day though he's going to get the 20th is going to be something that will be very what he did come

01:28:13.500 out and i think we're going to have massive crowds because we have which is to me a headline

01:28:17.160 movement like the world he comes out swinging blaming the intelligence community of creating

01:28:23.440 this leave it up a little bit so we can hear um did get it right but uh he's coming out swinging

01:28:28.820 which and that was a beautiful scene on november i think that's as remarkable those states that he

01:28:35.060 would do that and we focused very hard on those states and they really reciprocated and those

01:28:41.540 states are going to have a lot of jobs and they're going to have a lot of jobs and they're going to

01:28:44.580 have a lot of security they're going to have a lot of good news uh for their veterans and by the

01:28:49.840 way speaking of veterans uh i appointed today the head secretary of the veterans administration

01:28:58.160 david shulkin and we'll do a news release in a little while i'll tell you about david he's

01:29:03.080 fantastic he's fantastic he will do a truly a great job one of the commitments i made is that we're

01:29:10.120 going to straighten out the whole situation for our veterans our veterans have been treated horribly

01:29:15.660 they're waiting in line for 15 16 17 days cases where they go in and they have a minor early stage

01:29:25.040 form of cancer and they can't see a doctor by the time they get to the doctor they're terminal

01:29:29.960 it's not going to happen it's not going to happen so david is going to do a fantastic job we're going

01:29:36.660 to be talking to a few people also to help david and we have some of the great hospitals of the world

01:29:42.620 going to align themselves with us on the veterans administration like the cleveland clinic

01:29:48.800 like the mayo clinic a few more that we have and we're going to set up a a group these are hospitals

01:29:56.300 that have been the top of the line the absolute that's going to be top of the line and they're

01:30:01.500 going to get together with their it's going to be great doctors dr toby cosgrove as you know from

01:30:07.940 the cleveland clinic has been very involved okay so is he going to take questions great men of business

01:30:14.280 yeah he's just got a little speech here he can't be patient the guy's going to be president i know

01:30:18.800 that we wouldn't have listened to this much of barack obama at the very beginning and the first day

01:30:23.640 he's not even in office yet i think we would have the information on this is first talking about

01:30:28.080 and i think we're getting drugs very impressed with the job i would be happier if you just read

01:30:33.240 his tweets at least oh here we go here we go questions some good some not so good but we had a lot

01:30:39.780 of talent and uh it's beautiful we think this selection will be something that will with time

01:30:45.720 with time straighten it out and straighten it out we'll get to the question he's coming to a question

01:30:51.560 here in a second okay we're going to take a quick break uh and uh come back with the with the questions

01:30:59.040 uh for donald trump um and it will be interesting to hear him i'm assuming someone will ask him to

01:31:07.140 clarify if he is blaming this report on uh the intelligence community if you don't know what's

01:31:14.780 happening a report came out yesterday i believe the television station that he's talking about is cnn

01:31:19.820 they first broke the news about a two-page report that went to him and barack obama that we don't know

01:31:26.080 exactly what it included but we know it included some of the things in the 35 page report that buzzfeed

01:31:32.820 and every other media organization apparently has had uh since august yesterday buzzfeed made it

01:31:40.680 available uh and it is i believe full of horrible lies and some truths and half truths um but it

01:31:51.540 shouldn't have been released we'll get to the questions to the president next

01:31:55.180 in this press conference looking at some of the uh release statements uh from uh president trump

01:32:14.140 he apparently says as far as hacking i believe it is russia so that is a difference um

01:32:20.100 of what he where his stance has been let's go to the press conference now and um and hear the press

01:32:27.300 the press and donald trump financial or otherwise and if not will you release your tax returns to prove

01:32:32.540 it so i tweeted out that i have no dealings with russia i have no deals in russia i have no deals that

01:32:41.740 could happen in russia because we've stayed away uh and i have no loans with russia as a real estate

01:32:49.060 developer i have very very little debt i have assets that are and now people have found out how big the

01:32:54.180 company is i have very little debt i have very low debt but i have no loans with russia at all

01:32:58.900 uh and i thought that was important to put out i certify that so i have no deals i have no loans and i

01:33:05.300 have no dealings we could make deals in russia very easily if we wanted to i just don't want to

01:33:10.260 because i think that would be a conflict so i have no loans no dealings and no current pending deals

01:33:17.060 now i have to say one other thing over the weekend i was offered two billion dollars

01:33:24.260 to do a deal in dubai with a very very very amazing man a great great developer from the

01:33:31.220 middle east hussein demac a friend of mine great guy and was offered two billion dollars

01:33:40.740 dollars to do a deal in dubai number of deals and i turned it down i didn't have to turn it down

01:33:50.180 because as you know i have a no conflict situation because i'm president which is i didn't know about

01:33:56.180 that until about three months ago but it's a nice thing to have but i don't want to take advantage of

01:34:02.020 something i have something that others don't have vice president pence also has it i don't think he'll need

01:34:09.140 it i have a feeling he's not going to need it but i have a no conflict of interest provision as

01:34:16.420 president it was many many years old this is for presidents because they don't want presidents

01:34:21.380 getting i understand they don't want presidents getting tangled up in minutia they want a president

01:34:25.620 to run the country so i could actually run my business i could actually run my business and run

01:34:32.740 government at the same time i don't like the way that looks but i would be able to do that if i wanted to

01:34:38.900 i'd be the only one that would be able to do that you can't do that in any other capacity but as a

01:34:43.300 president i could run the trump organization great great company and i could run the company

01:34:49.140 the country i'd do a very good job but i don't want to do that now all of these papers that you see

01:34:54.820 here yes go ahead do you believe the hacking was justified and will you release your tax returns to

01:35:01.300 prove what you're saying about no deals in russia uh well i'm not releasing the tax returns because as

01:35:05.940 you know they're under audit since the 70s has had a required audit from the irs i've never heard

01:35:11.860 that but as president sir you know the only one that cares about my tax returns are the reporters

01:35:16.180 okay you don't think the american public is concerned no i don't think so i i won do you believe

01:35:22.660 no i don't think they care at all they i don't think they care at all i think you care

01:35:27.380 i think you care first of all you learn very little from a tax return what you should do is go down to

01:35:31.860 federal elections and take a look at the numbers and actually people have learned a lot about my

01:35:36.500 company and now they realize my company is much bigger much more powerful than they ever thought

01:35:41.940 we're in many many countries and i'm very proud of it and what i'm going to be doing is my two sons

01:35:49.380 who are right here don and eric are going to be running the company they are going to be running it

01:35:58.900 in a very professional manner they're not going to discuss it with me again i don't have to do this

01:36:05.300 they're not going to discuss it with me and with that i'm going to bring up sherry dylan and she's

01:36:11.540 going to go these papers are just some of the many documents that i've signed turning over complete and

01:36:18.020 total control to my sons russia good morning it's my honor and privilege to be here today at president

01:36:30.020 elect trump's request he's asked me as you just heard we didn't need to take this um his his press

01:36:38.100 conferences remain bizarre uh just uh absolutely bizarre and and and uh i get more information out

01:36:46.340 of his tweets yeah he get more information out of his tweets an interesting thing he brought up

01:36:50.740 there um i think trying to make the point that uh i'm not going to be influenced by the business

01:36:59.060 end of things he had a two billion dollar offer um the other day to do these projects in dubai

01:37:06.580 and he's using that as an example of hey this is great i i rejected this um it is kind of terrifying

01:37:12.980 i guess though that this is still possible i mean donald trump is correct he's able to still

01:37:17.780 run his companies but i mean let's just say he's the greatest guy of all time and he's able to resist

01:37:22.660 these pressures okay of someone offering you two billion dollars for god knows what favor uh it's

01:37:28.980 probably a loophole we need to close after this because you know let's say the next president uh isn't uh

01:37:35.220 doesn't have the high principles of donald trump and can't withstand an offer like that it probably

01:37:40.020 shouldn't be available to the president of the united states that loophole probably should be

01:37:44.180 closed after this um and i don't think it's reassuring that people are offering him two

01:37:48.740 billion dollars five days before it becomes the president fill me with confidence it did not fill me

01:37:56.180 um with confidence um well running the business and the country didn't fill me so i'm glad he's giving

01:38:02.500 up one of them right yeah because there's no way you could do both now well even don said he could

01:38:06.820 but he could you know but he says but there's also you know you're not the ceo of america you don't

01:38:13.380 run america i could run both the president doesn't run both he doesn't run the country that's the

01:38:22.900 problem you know we need to stop thinking about it that way right and and if if we as conservatives

01:38:30.420 allow others to believe that's what happens well then this is i don't mean to use this word i want

01:38:38.740 to use this word the way it was used in the 1920s that's fascism that is a government helping

01:38:47.620 um uh companies run the company they collude openly with privately held companies

01:38:57.380 and they go and say you guys we are going to go this way as a country so you should develop

01:39:04.980 as much as you can of these things and they work together that was the idea behind fascism

01:39:11.380 fascism wasn't always a dirty word it was a ceo it was the country run as a company by a leader

01:39:20.820 that's not what we are can you imagine george washington standing up at a press conference

01:39:26.020 and talking about his holdings martha and i have incredible holdings as you know we've got a

01:39:31.060 massive business as you know martha and i have been running this we moan most of virginia as i think

01:39:36.180 you know my holdings inflation adjusted would be around a billion dollars i'm the richest president

01:39:40.820 there's ever been i i mean it's it's just the weirdest thing to still sit and listen to and that

01:39:47.620 is true by the way weird and it is true and you know washington was by far the richest president

01:39:52.820 we've ever had and and by far one of the most humble presidents we've ever had yeah i mean he

01:39:58.740 no he would not be saying and i've i've got dealings in the slave trade from from from in all points of

01:40:06.580 the uh the compass and uh and uh it's a beautiful beautiful my sons are going to be uh at the beautiful

01:40:13.860 the portico it's beautiful and we're going to be expect because i can i could with the port in the

01:40:21.060 uh and the expansion and the slaves and as you know i could be king if i wanted to i've been

01:40:27.220 offered that and i've said no i've said no i'm not going to be king and don't bring that up to me

01:40:31.780 again but as you know i could be king if i wanted to create a great look they were they were putting

01:40:36.500 together the constitution and they couldn't get it done and so they came to me and they said uh george

01:40:41.940 and i said i was there in my beautiful lobby of my house uh it's more of a lobby than an entrance

01:40:48.340 way it's more of an edge a mansion of course in a house in a state if you will it's beautiful it's

01:40:53.060 wonderful my son my daughter was upstairs and she and she's wonderful she had some beautiful friends

01:40:59.220 and she was with us out on a vacation a few weeks ago in fact let me bring her up and she could talk

01:41:05.780 she's beautiful here she is yeah but what the hell did you just say yeah that's what he just did

01:41:11.860 on that press conference i don't know what the hell he i want to know what your stance is with

01:41:18.900 russia well there we did answer the one question about uh russia did say that he believes donald trump

01:41:24.900 believes russians were responsible for the hacking that's a pretty big headline that's a big headline

01:41:30.660 and it's because that's the opposite of what he's been saying right yeah he's he i mean he says he

01:41:35.540 thinks so it doesn't mean he's sure uh but he believes the uh the intelligence briefing i bet i guess

01:41:40.820 he received indicates that yes that is probably the source of these hacks that is a big deal and

01:41:45.700 he has not talked about that at all uh but oddly will he again probably uh during our uh our interlude

01:41:52.980 into the george washington press conference uh you have not missed anything from donald trump

01:41:57.540 his attorney is still standing up there i guess explaining um all the conflict of interest

01:42:02.340 laws and how he's getting around those and not uh and nobody's asking about that we don't he's

01:42:07.700 exempt i don't know that we even care about that we should i mean we do but that's not the current

01:42:13.460 issue okay okay if i said to you if i said to you look i'm not gonna run i'm pat i am going to

01:42:23.780 completely focus uh i am going to completely focus on uh on other things and uh and uh and and my my

01:42:34.580 son will be doing everything on my primary business that i've i've staked my entire life

01:42:41.620 on and is my life fortune my sons are going to do that but i promise you for the next four to eight

01:42:47.380 years zip not a word not i'm i've got a whole bucket coming his way i mean that's where he's asking us

01:42:57.060 to do the impossible his and not because it's nefarious his son comes to there there's a crisis

01:43:04.180 let's say the world goes into a crisis and his his son is looking at their financial empire starting

01:43:12.500 to crumble you don't think the son goes to dancing dad i gotta have your help on this ridiculous i mean

01:43:18.740 it's ridiculous jared kushner is a good example of this it's a son-in-law he's going to be named an

01:43:23.620 official he's a senior advisor to the president united states and then everyone's like well uh we

01:43:28.180 have to see what's going to go on with these nepotism laws and because he would be affected

01:43:31.820 by these things he has to divest all of his interests it's a big deal for jared kushner to go

01:43:36.200 through this however what you're telling me that you're going to you're going to enforce these laws

01:43:41.980 and then instead of him being a senior advisor they're just going to talk about it around dinner

01:43:46.380 like they're going to call and text each other these things anyway all of this is going to go on

01:43:51.520 it's better we learn this from hillary clinton you just don't you use the hrc email you don't

01:43:58.760 use at state right but there's nothing to prevent them from talking to each other it just it's no i

01:44:04.120 know title of senior advisor correct all they're doing is circumventing the law but i mean it's but

01:44:10.640 it's it's ridiculous i know of course i know of course he's going to talk to his son-in-law isn't it

01:44:16.060 the same that we just saw just a different i mean they were doing the same thing they just said oh

01:44:21.720 you know what just don't use the the server use this server and we'll be okay okay so that's what

01:44:26.580 they did to get around it and everybody yawned now he's just saying to his son-in-law you know what

01:44:32.040 we can't talk about it here we'll see it ate for more soup son right and they're going to talk about

01:44:38.600 then you're not going to prevent a person from talking to his family members uh about important

01:44:44.120 things in their lives when they're trusted confidants and and that's why i'm just saying

01:44:47.620 that especially a family that is business that is their family relationship and that's not being

01:44:53.120 critical of donald trump i mean jared kushner i mean while a big democrat and a much more liberal

01:44:58.820 than anybody uh probably in the audience has been a trusted advisor of trump throughout the entire

01:45:05.000 process uh and that's not going to be a huge surprise that they're together uh he's you know

01:45:11.020 a big businessman and well versed in his own right and and of course they're going to be together but

01:45:14.980 but i mean like you know i don't know that i've ever seen anything like this in this press conference

01:45:18.480 however where you're getting someone essentially a spokesperson for the president of the united states

01:45:22.400 in the giving us an intermission we're getting we're getting a intermission of this where he

01:45:28.300 she explains all of this and it is kind of an interesting turn it's it's also really interesting to me

01:45:33.600 that this is where they're turning and i guess you know they want to turn the news cycle but

01:45:38.540 everybody wants to know about russia the big news out of this is quite honestly i think that

01:45:47.240 donald trump came out blaming the u.s spy agencies for planting this story about him that is

01:45:58.480 remarkable because let's just take it at face value that that's true

01:46:02.560 that they were sending you a message yeah don't screw with us it's not going to get better if that

01:46:11.740 were true and the and the spooks are evil spooks that are sitting behind their desk and they're like

01:46:16.160 we taught him a lesson and he came out and he said that was very wrong in the spy agencies and

01:46:20.420 you know we're going to see how that shapes up you don't think that that big evil spook that's in the

01:46:25.800 movie isn't going that rat bastard now it's war i mean that's crazy it's crazy some battles you fight 0.81

01:46:36.740 behind the curtain thank you you're listening to the glenn beck program

01:46:43.020 mercury the glenn beck program i really want to take and tree diagram uh the press conferences

01:46:54.340 and his answers to the press conferences because he gets so distracted he does he is more riddled

01:47:00.420 with add than i am he and maybe anybody on earth yeah he it's so distracted yeah by you know if you

01:47:08.340 if you look at his sentences if there's a noun in it for instance uh i hear you're running yes i was

01:47:17.140 running and i've got these great tennis shoes shoes new noun the next sentence will be about shoes

01:47:23.160 then if he describes the shoes uh and how they were on the road the next one will be about his

01:47:29.020 favorite road and you're you're eight degrees away in eight sentences from the question and the topic

01:47:36.240 at hand yeah master at that this is the glenn beck program mercury

01:47:45.380 great

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