The Glenn Beck Program - 6/8/17 - Comey on the record. The audio. (Scottie Nell Hughes Joins The Program)

Episode Date: June 8, 2017

The Blaze Radio's Mike Opelka in or Glenn ...There's more to life than politics ...Big day on Capitol Hill with James Comey ...Mike's US senator neighbor ...Free drink per tweet? ...Jerry Seinfeld refuses a hug ...How a child's simple act gives us hope ...The Blaze's Jason Buttrill visits to discuss these intense, historic times ...ISIS is everywhere and being used? ...Syria is going Marxist? ...US embassy attacked overseas?...Why the obsession over the Comey testimony ...Political commentator Scottie Nell Hughes tells us what else is happening in DC today ...Is it bad to ask for loyalty? ...Drink specials at bars across the nation including Clooney's in San Francisco ...Comey answers questions and we listen to his answers ...Mika Brzezinski questions President Trump's mental health...Why Mike is keeping a close eye on Wimbledon today ...More audio from the James Comey hearing ...'Lordy, I hope there are tapes.' ...Alan Dershowitz: President Trump isn't guilty of obstruction of justice ...Taking kids away from Christian parents? ...Is the Comey investigation all about payback or his firing? ...Hillary Clinton admits to using slave labor ...Strange day in DC (par for the course) The Glenn Beck Program with Glenn Beck, Pat Gray, Stu Burguiere and Jeff Fisher, Weekdays 9a–12pm ET on TheBlaze Radio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blaze Radio Network On Demand of Entertainment and Enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Hello America, Michael Pelka, in for my friend Glenn Beck, on the Glenn Beck program. I am thrilled to be here. I am excited to be here. I'm angry about the day, but I'm also very happy about the day.

and how can I be both? Well, it's probably because I'm reflecting much of the sentiment that has felt all around the country. First, I should address who I am and why I'm here. I know, I sound like Rossboro's running mate, the late Admiral Stockdale. Who am I? Why am I here? You're probably wondering. Well, I'm an old friend of Glenn's. We go way back from our early days in Wacky Morning Radio,

when Glenn used to describe himself as a drunken rodeo clown. He's sobered up, he's still funny. I, of course, am still drinking, but not now, not this morning. I also worked at the Blaze and have written close to 3,000 pieces that you can find on the Blaze.com. And for the past three years, have been working on the Blaze Radio with a little program called Pure Opelka that follows this show on the Blaze Radio Network. So I'm happy to be here, thrilled to be here, kicking off the first hour of what will be a marathon day for me and probably a marathon day for you if you are interested in the politics. But you should know today and tomorrow, my fill-ins here on the Glenn Beck program, will not be just dedicated to or completely covering politics because there's more to life.

There's a whole lot more to life. We were talking about this this morning in the production room before the show. Everybody's enamored of the Wonder Woman movie. I haven't seen it yet. I'm not a comic book movie guy. But after hearing everybody talk about it, now I feel like I have to get out and see it. And there's a whole lot more to life than politics if you just open your eyes and turn off the news channels. I'm just stunned at how much coverage is wrapped up.

in this testimony that's going to happen. And the way that the country has, and now I say the country, because there are people that don't know anything about this event going on today, but it's being forced fed to them. But the way the news media is just totally enamored of Jim Comey going to testify.

And honestly, do we know anything more today than we knew three weeks ago, four weeks ago, when Comey talked about the fact he had memorialized his meeting with Donald Trump and that Trump then tweeted out that there might be tapes so Comey should be careful about what he might leak. Do we know anything else? No, we don't.

We really don't. And last night, when Jim Comey released the seven pages of his opening statement that is going to be read, although the whole world has read it, right? The mainstream media's read it. They've read it to you. If you haven't read it, and seven pages. Can everybody stop congratulating themselves for reading seven pages?

I heard Mika say it. I heard people on CNN say it. I heard people on Fox say it. Oh, I read the whole thing. It was seven pages. Pick up the Iliad. Why don't you read some Shakespeare? Seven pages does not a massive epic make.

So just everybody calm down a little bit. Do you think we're going to learn anything new today, as I said, that we haven't already heard? No, probably not. If you think I'm wrong, I want you to join the conversation. 888727 Beck. 888727-2325 is the number. Phone lines are going to be open throughout the show. You can also tweet at me.

My Twitter handle is at Stunt Brain, all one word. T-U-N-T-B-R-A-I-N. And you're probably saying, wait, stunt brain? Stunt brain? No, stunt brain. Think of a stunt man. It's from a consulting company I had years ago, and that's how he met Glenn,

consulting him as a spare brain. All right, so that's the opening. That's the welcome. What are we going to do today? I have actually asked a neighbor of mine in Delaware, where we live most of the, year to give us a call and tell us what might happen today. His name is Chris Coons. He's a senator. And yes, he's a Democrat. He's a really, really liberal Democrat. But he's a good guy and he's a dad.

And he's a, like I said, he's a neighbor. And I like him a lot. If Chris Coons will call us before, we might be able to get a little insight to what's going on. Coons is like many Democrats. They don't see any actual smoking gun. They don't see any evidence of collusion. But as they like to say, we don't know until we ask, and I look at them and say until we ask again and again and again. It just keeps going. So we'll try and talk to Chris Coons before the testimony happens.

One of President Trump's most ardent supporters all throughout the camp, happens to be a friend of mine. Her name is Scotty Nell Hughes. We're going to try and get to Scotty just before the testimony starts and see what she's up to. She doesn't work for the campaign. She doesn't work for the president,

but she is involved in a group that is supporting Donald Trump. Full disclosure, I voted for Donald Trump. He was not my first choice. I, like many of you, voted for Donald Trump in hopes of keeping the Supreme Court conservative.

And I think that's really an important issue for all of us to remember that at the end of the day, we want the Supreme Court to survive. Now, there will be some discussions today and some examples of craziness in the mainstream media, some examples of pure insanity. This very morning, Mika Brzeinski over at that morning Joe thing, soon to be Mrs. Scarborough. Total sidebar. Will, do you think she'll hyphenate? Do you think she'll be Mika Brzezinski-Scarboro? And if she is, will she make Joe add her name N-Hifunate? Will he be Joe Scarborough-Brasinski?

That's going to be a really gigantic welcome, Matt, isn't it? If you have to put that, the Scarborough Brzezinski's, the Brasinski Scarboroughs. But there was craziness this morning on Morning Joe. And I've clipped it. We'll play it for you. We're also going to talk outside of the politics. as I mentioned, about a couple of situations going on in the country that I can't believe. Are you a parent who has a kid in school sports? Can you imagine being told that you cannot watch your

child compete? Can you imagine that? If your child's playing a sport, whether it's football, soccer, baseball, basketball, can you imagine the school, the athletic department telling you there will be no parents allowed to watch. What would your first question be? What are you doing? What are you hiding? What's going on here? Well, that's happening. And it's happening in a red state.

So why? Why? We'll get into that. I've got a mountain of stuff here, a mountain of paper, and things I want to talk about all morning. I've also gotten, just gotten a notification that we will be talking with one of

the bars in Washington that has opened early today. And it's a bar that has decided that every time Donald Trump tweets during Comey's testimony that they're going to give a free drink. So it could be very expensive, could be very costly. But if Donald Trump would not tweet, I think it would be a terrific thing. I think that would be surprising to many people. And I think it would throw the left off their game. They're expecting Donald Trump to tweet. They're expecting Donald Trump to troll James Comey. And I believe that if he were to remain silent, it would be a massive distraction to so many on the left who are just waiting. They're standing by their desks in their offices, in their liberal media offices with a lighter, ready to light their hair on fire and run around the office the first time Donald Trump tweets something during Jim Comey. testimony. And each time it happens, Shaw's bar in Washington, D.C. has promised to give a free drink

for each tweet, up to 20 drinks. Because we all know at 20 drinks, that's where D.C. cuts you off. You know, you might, in every other state in the union, you might say, the bartender might say three or four drinks, hey, you need to calm down, especially if you're driving. In D.C., only in DC, do they set that bar at 20? And I believe that's known as the Kennedy limit, the Kennedy line. Senator, I think you may have had enough. Can I get your car for you? Just a little sidebar. So we're going to check in with them. There's also a bar in San Francisco that opened at 6 o'clock this morning, which is just about the same time this show started. And they are reportedly experiencing a packed house already. And so we hope to get to.

get our hands on some of the merriment, some of the revelry, some of the people who look at politics as sport on a day they like to look at as their Super Bowl. I wonder where Maxine Waters is today. Is she somewhere yelling impeach 45? Maybe, maybe not. Before we get into all the hyper-political madness that's going on in D.C. today, there are some international events that we have to cover. So right at the bottom of the hour, we're going to welcome in Jason Patrill, who will tell us what's going on. There was a massive terror attack in Iran yesterday. Nobody's talking about it. There have been almost daily attacks during Ramadan that have taken lives all over the globe. You know about London. You know about Paris. But do you know about the rest of

the world? An American embassy was hit with an explosive device before dawn this morning. Have you heard it mentioned anywhere? Anybody? Do we care that an embassy where Americans work and represent us and are employed by the State Department was under attack this morning? We'll talk to Jason about that. But when we get back from break, I want to kick off the day and some of the fun here

with one of the most magical moments that appeared on the Internet yesterday. No, I'm not talking about Jerry Seinfeld, not recognizing Kesha and refusing to hug her. I'm talking about a moment that shows that there's hope, a moment that shows that there's possibly a good group of kids growing up in this country. I'll do that next when the Glenn Beck program returns. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Mercury.

The Glenn Beck Program. 888-77 Beck. That is the number to call into the Glenn Beck program. My name is Mike Opelka filling in for my friend Glenn, who's vacationing. He'll be back Monday. So don't worry. He'll be back. And if you're following Glenn on Facebook, you know he's not disengaged.

He's very engaged. As a matter of fact, there been some stories on glenbeck.com that I will get to later today that have enraged me as well. Speaking of the phone number, Dan in New York is called in. Dan, good morning. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Show. Good morning, Mike. Thanks for having me. You're more than welcome. What part of New York, sir? I'm in Syracuse, central New York. Oh, so sort of normal New York, not New York City.

Yeah, no, nowhere near that, too. Well, what's going on in Syracuse today? What do you want to discuss this morning? Well, I'd just like to say, you know, first thank you guys and Jeff and all you guys for being on the radio I'm bringing us the news that you do and keeping us informed of the real news. And I'm just sick of all these politicians. I'm 57 years old. I'm a registered independent. I voted for Trump.

I'm a union carpenter. They wanted us to vote for Hillary, and there was no way I was going to give her my vote. Wow. Or Bernie. And I just sick of politicians and thought we needed some new blood in there. And I think he's a businessman. I think people just got to comment. down and give him some time.

You know, they're just so hyper. They're just spending too much time on him. How about just get together and run the country? Do what's right. They know in their hearts of hearts what's supposed to be done, but for whatever reason, they can't do it because it's not their idea. Dan, you got to quit this partisan shit is just, I'm sorry, it's just ridiculous. Okay.

That's one. That's the first one. It didn't take me a half hour, Glenn, to get one through, but hopefully they caught that. Dan, you bring up a really good point. And one of the big problems that we have as a nation is we don't recognize that we have the power to change it, that we have the responsibility and the obligation to change it. And we need to do it by trying to force politicians to really make term limits happen. And we've term limited the president.

Why don't we term limit the House and the Senate? We term limit governors in many states. why don't we do it for the national representatives? And the answer is they won't let it happen. And unless and until we as voters take that power back from them and remove this entitled royal class from really controlling our wallets, they set the taxation, they write the regulations, they're the ones who have their foot on our throats.

And unless we change it, and it really is our job, it's never going to change. Now, every time you bring up term limits, somebody who's against term limits says, well, your vote is term limits. You vote every time you vote, you express term limits. No, no, that's not true because there's such an advantage to an incumbent. And you'll see that. So we need to start pressuring guys like Ted Cruz, like Ben Sass, Mike Lee, to speak up four term limits. And you hope that Washington doesn't corrupt them. But if we can't move those guys out, if we can't rotate that government every few years,

we're going to be doing the same thing over and over again. There are seats that are called family seats. For example, Michigan has a seat in Congress that's basically known as the Dingle seat because somebody with the last name Dingell has been in that seat for decades. I think they're close to seven decades with a dingle in that seat. Now I know nobody in their right mind wants to say, I'm taking the dingle seat because it sounds filthy. But we need to replace those people left and right

who believe that they should be there for the rest of their lives. And there are as many Republicans as there are Democrats, but we need to make that change. So, Dan, I appreciate you for being out there. I support you on this. I got a little message during the break because I said I had to play a clip from yesterday. yesterday that made me feel good, that made me happy, and somebody said, you're not going to play

the Seinfeld clip? And then I thought, well, maybe, maybe not everybody has heard or seen the Seinfeld clip. So before we get to the one that elevated my spirits, I'm going to share the Seinfeld clip with you. Jerry Seinfeld was at a red carpet event. And if you've ever been to one of these, you know what it is. It's a gauntlet lined with different press people and the celebs walk down the line and their PR people stop and say, you need to talk to this guy, he's Bill from such and such

radio station or TV station. Well, Jerry Seinfeld was being interviewed by a guy named Tommy McFly. And in the middle of this little interview, a pop star, yes, wait, I'm sorry, pop star, I had to put in the air quotes, named Kesha shows up.

And she's all dressed up in her red carpet outfit, she looks like a celebrity, but Seinfeld doesn't recognize her, and it produced one of the more wonderful, uncomfortable moments of yesterday. It's hard to just sleep when you're tired, because people are tired most of the time. I guess I love you so much. Oh, thanks. Can I give you a hug? No, thanks.

No, thanks. A little one. Yeah, no thanks. I don't know who that was. It was Kesha. Okay. Well, I wish you the best. He still doesn't know who that was.

He still has no idea who that was. But it's a wonderful moment, and Jerry Seinfeld does what everybody should do when they're in an uncomfortable moment. At least try and laugh it off. So if you missed it, there it is. But now, the moment I'm talking about happened yesterday, and it went viral, I have these ring doorbells at our house. They're all over the property. So if you get anywhere within 25 feet of the house, I'm going to get an alarm. on my phone and be able to talk to you.

And you know what? I blathered on so long, I have to drag it over the bottom of the hour. I'll play it for you. It's just such a magical moment. And it'll make you feel better. Plus, Jason Betrell is going to join us. And we're going to talk about the world

and what you need to know next on the Glenn Beck program. Come on back. Is the Glenn Beck Program. Mercury. Glenn Beck Program. Glenn Beck Program. Welcome back to the Glenn Beck program. Michael Pelka sitting in for my friend Glenn back today and tomorrow.

And immediately following this show on the Blaze Radio Network is my own radio program, Pure Opelka. You're welcome to stick around, tell your friends. You're also welcome to go to the blaze.com. And the section that says channels, you can click on my face, which, you know, you can click as hard as you want. It won't hurt me. And follow me. And that means every time we release a special story, you will get a copy of it. Like a little later today, I'm going to play you something that is going to blow your mind.

Hillary Clinton had slaves and she admits it. Not parsing any words here. I'm not screwing around. Hillary and Bill had slaves and she talked about it. I know. Why didn't we know this? How did she become senator? How did she become Secretary of State?

How did she almost become president? Yeah, you're going to like this. Before we went away, I was teasing something. I've been teasing all day. And it's a clip that made me feel good because there's a whole lot to feel nervous about this inaction in D.C., the way that the Democrats have managed to wrangle this investigation

into Jim Comey and the alleged Russian collusion with the Trump campaign has frozen Washington. You know, for eight years, the Democrats screamed about the obstructionist Republicans, and now in less than 200 days they have frozen the Republican administration in place, so nothing is getting done. And it just feels like we were so hopeful, we were so positive after the election, and now it's all stopped. So, you know, we'll hopefully break this.

through that. We'll get through this when we realize this is a nothing burger. But in order to lighten the load a little bit, I have to share with you this clip. And I mentioned the ring doorbell. And there's a hundred different kinds of these doorbells now. But I have the ring doorbell. You put it up. You charge it. The charge lasts a month. And it connects to your Wi-Fi, et cetera. But somebody shows up. And the minute they get, the second they get 25 feet from your house, the camera goes on and it starts streaming to your phone. So this happened day or two ago and a little kid was riding a bike over to his friend's house, probably wanted to go play ball in the park. And as he gets off the bike, well, he stops because he

notices the American flag is flying in front of the house. Nobody's around. Remember, Remember Glenn always says you want to know about somebody. You pay attention to what they're doing when nobody's watching. You want to know someone's character? How do they act when they're not being observed? Well, in this case, this little guy stops, sees the American flag, and without any prompting, he starts saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Listen.

Then he gets off his bike and he goes up to ring the door, And he pushes the button that rings the doorbell. You hear it ring. And while he's waiting, he steps back. And what does he do? He stares at the flag. It's just one of the greatest moments. Nobody's watching this kid.

And yet he did the right thing. I saw it yesterday and I thought, we're going to be okay. We're going to be all right if this is what the kids do. if the kids know this and to whomever that child's parents are, thank you. Thank you for making

the rest of us realize that there's hope that there are good folks out there. Just a wonderful video. I may have to play that every hour today. I stand and say the pledge in my head as the kids doing it. But I love that he also corrected himself. Did you hear what he said? With liberty

and school. Liberty and Justice for all. Smart kid. Yeah, I hope that's a kid that ends up in government in the near future. We talked about term limits. We'll get back to that. But I have a guest here who's been dragged away from his work here at the Blaze. Jason Batrill is here.

Or Buttrill. I keep saying it wrong. Glenn says Betrille. He does. He does. Glenn, if you're listening, it's Buttrill, not Betrill. But Jason is a head writer and a guy who understands global security. because you were in the intelligence business, you serve this country, and you're a guy who gets it.

And as the whole nation is wrapped up and obsessed with the Comey testimony, we're checking things out, and I'm looking online, and in Iran and Tehran, the UN just announced we're flying our flag at half-mast in honor of the victims of the terror attacks from two days ago. The world's still on fire. And as a matter of fact, the flames seem to be getting bigger. What are we missing in the Middle East, Jason? What is this Sunni Shia split for somebody like me who doesn't understand it? How can we grasp it?

This is what we're missing. And it's actually amazingly historical because I would say the first time the lines of the map in the Middle East were redrawn in modern history. It was just after World War I. The English and the French got together, the famous Sykes-Pico agreement, and they redrew the lines in the Middle East. So that was basically the first time in modern history. We are seeing on pretty much the same exact scale, same thing happening right now. Only the difference is before it was foreign countries, even Russia was involved, France, England, all these foreign countries, they were taking control to the Middle East.

Now we have the people that actually live there are doing it by violent means, redrawing it themselves. So basically, Syria doesn't even exist as a country anymore. I mean, it's basically like a statelet in Damascus being propped up by Russia. It probably wouldn't even be there today if it wasn't for Russia. You have the Kurds who we have just signed on to arm them. And it's actually, there's a big distinction between the Kurds there in Syria and the Kurds that are in Iraq. The Kurds and Iraq are democratically based.

They're completely different. They have a different language. The language difference between the Kurds and Iraq and Syria is different between German and English. Really? It's that different. But they're both called Kurds. But they're all ethnically Kurds. But they're leader.

the Syrian Kurds. Their leader is a Marxist Leninist. He's a Marxist Leninist trying to set up a Marxist-Leninist state in northern Syria. That's who we're supporting. That's who we're backing to take Raqqa right now. That's the guy we're arming. Exactly. So if this surge proves

successful, the guy in charge is a Marxist Leninist who now has the weapons that we've given him. That's who we're looking at taking charge of northern Syria after ISIS is being expelled. So that's one of the lines that's going to, there's going to to be a Marxist-Lennan estate in northern Syria. It's probably going to happen. Turkey's going to have something to say about it, but that's another line, a brand-new country that might exist.

Now, in the meantime, ISIS has carved their own territory out. Right. Now, ISIS, and this goes towards the terror attack that just happening in Iran, ISIS is the problem that everybody has to deal with. The Arabs have to deal with them. Everyone has to deal with them. Iran now has to deal with them. But nobody wants to deal with them. What they want to do is use them as an excuse to help carve out their own territory in the Middle East. So ISIS is, they're back against the wall. Everyone pretty much knows that eventually they're probably going to be gone. Their caliphate's going to be gone. But what they're doing right now is they're using this Sunni-Shi-Shi split to carve their own areas out of the Middle East. Now, for the longest time, Iran has not had to deal with

Sunni terrorism. Now, why is that? I don't know. They never get hit. They have never gotten hit. The reason is, is because the U.S. Treasury released a report right after 9-11, after the 9-11 commission. that said, we have evidence that there is a pact between Tehran and al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, himself, that they will not mess with each other. What Iran will do, so al-Qaeda will not attack Iran. What they get in turn for that is Tehran will allow them safe haven in Iran. Their intelligence services allows, gives them a pipeline to travel through Iran as long as they go and hit Western interests or other interests. It truly is the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Exactly. And never mind that they're enemies at the end of the day. Nobody realizes once the friend or the enemy you have in common is eliminated, that you're just going to go back to fighting each other. Right. And that's what we have here. And so it came from Hussein himself, Saddam Hussein himself, inks this deal to give Al-Qaeda a free pass.

In other words, you guys can come and go as you please, use our transportation, get in and out of here as long as you're hitting Western influences. Osama bin Laden. He inked that deal with Tehran. Yeah. But that deal is still alive today. Well, now it begs the question is. So this is historical because now this deal was struck.

Basically, the predecessor, before ISIS was ISIS, they were al-Qaeda in Iraq. They had to abide by those rules. They didn't want to. They had a very, very harsh rhetoric, and Osam bin Laden had to put them in check. We actually have speeches, like actual transcripts of Osama bin Laden saying, hey guys, do not attack Iran. We have a deal with them. Do not mess with them. And ISIS has abided by that up until this past weekend. Is it because ISIS has been steadily, it's borders, and I use borders very loosely, but the territory that ISIS had claimed, which was pretty

substantial at one point, is now shrinking and getting smaller and smaller. So it's as if the ISIS forces are being shoved down towards Iran and they're claiming territory. that Iran is deciding maybe they don't want to seed? Yes. So ISIS has had a problem with supporters, the recruits. They're losing people by the thousands. They need more people. So you'll see as they're losing the territory,

we've seen an increase, an uptick, and all their foreign attacks. What this doing is is galvanizing all of the Sunni jihadists out there. Now, one of the things that they all agreed on was they could not stand the agreement that al-Qaeda made with Iran because they want to attack Iran. The Shiites are just as much as infidels as the rest of us are. They want to.

So what this does is for ISIS, they just got a lot more street cred with a lot more Sunni jihadists that we're not willing to take that next leap and join ISIS and join the caliphate. Now they're sitting back thinking, okay, there's a little bit, you know, there's a big, now they're on the real jihad that we were, that we were on. Now they're willing to take it to the untouchables, which Iran has been for so long. So now they're going to get a whole lot more support. I tell you what, Mike, I was in Iraq just a few months ago, not too long ago, and I was hanging out with some Peshmerger soldiers on their front lines, and I was like, what is the next ISIS? What are you guys worried about next? And they said the thing we're worried about the most is the Iranian Shia crescent. It is about to go from Iran through Iraq, through our territory, through Syria to Lebanon. That is their main geopolitical goal right now. Destroying ISIS is not. Taking advantage of the Sunni-Shiah split, that is what they're worried about. It's gone so far.

They're actually building, they built this, I think, 10-foot-tall berm to separate the Peshmerga lines from the Shia militias that are trained and funded in Iran. Because they know that the Shia militias in Iran, they're taking their territory next. That is the next ISIS. That's what's going to happen. And those are the new borders that are about to be drawn after ISIS is pushed out, you know, permanently. So the borders that came out in the late 40s when the rest of the world got drunk one night and drew the map of the... Middle East and said, okay, you're going to get this, you're going to get that. Israel, you're going to get this little quarter over here. Those are already just kind of wiped out.

And we should basically, a couple of years from now, be ready for a completely remapped Middle East, maybe with countries we've never seen before, theocracies we've never seen before, and just be ready because everything's changing. Everything is changing. And then everyone is trying to be the leader of this new redraw. it's insane. Turkey just now positioned troops down in Qatar because the Qataris and the other Gulf states don't like each other. They just

radically push through legislation to station troops. So Turkey is trying to, their Muslim Brotherhood, they're trying to align with the Qatar. They're all turning against Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Gulf nations. Everyone right now is trying to jump on and be the leader of this. Iran, the Turkey, Qatar. Everyone is at ahead right now.

And we're about to see some amazing things. Hang on one second. Can you stick around for one more break because I'm going to, there was an explosive device thrown at an American embassy overnight. I want to talk about that and wrap up everything before we get into crazy cominess. And we'll deal with that next on the Glenn Beck program.

Glenn Beck Program. AAA 727 back. Mercury. We have just a few precious moments left in this first hour. Michael Pelka substituting for my friend Glenn Beck. And joined by our friend and colleague Jason Buttrill

and Jason, we were talking about international stuff and in this little window of time. Our embassy in Ukraine was hit with an explosive device, but apparently not a big deal. Yeah, someone lobbed over. It seems like a small explosive device, but this comes on the back of a huge escalation in the fighting in eastern Ukraine.

Now, at this point, because Islamic extremism is so bad at this point, no one's claimed responsibility. That to me says that it probably wasn't Islamic extremism. It was probably part of this ramped up new wave of fighting. in eastern Ukraine, which is going to get a lot worse. Well, we'll have to keep an eye on that, no injuries, no real damage. The embassy is still open. The other one in about 35, 40 seconds.

North Korea lobbed a bunch of short-range missiles. They traveled 120 plus miles. We gotta be worried, but nobody's talking about it. Yeah, a direct response, in my opinion, to the third carrier that's about to show up. They're displaying that they have a counter to ships that are showing up. We haven't seen three carriers show up when since the Balkan War or since both of the desert storm and then enduring freedom, something like that. Something is about to go down pretty fast. So we should be keeping an eye on North Korea, on the whole sea of Japan area, pray for our people in the Ukraine and everywhere.

And we'll then focus on the, what is it, Comey Faye Faye, 2017. Is that what we're going to call it? Comey Faye Faye coming up next on the Glenn Beck program. This is the Glenn Beck program. Mercury. The Blaze Radio Network On demand. And enlightenment.

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pure opalcathon that's happening here today. Six hours nonstop. I bet I talk longer than Jim Comey does today. And we are obsessed, sort of we, I mean the nation, with Jim Comey and his testimony today. Comey has arrived. They're covering it. All the news nets are covering it. And the people I think who should be really angry today? C-SPAN. Because this is their turf. And if C-SPAN were a real gang, they'd be going over to all the networks and

cutting their cables going, you're in our turf today, man. You need to back it down. Get off my land. We're C-SPAN. We were the kings of boring stuff coming out of D.C. Not you guys. Go take your opinion, journalism, elsewhere.

We're giving you unfiltered access. So, after decades of being the channel of nerds. Guess what? Now C-SPAN invited to the cool kids table as CNN and MSNBC and Fox and everybody's there. It's too much. It really is too much. Help me understand this as a friend of mine. Again, full disclosure on this show,

I like to tell you all the inside stuff, and I do this on my show too. Scotty Nell Hughes is someone you saw during the entire Trump campaign. She's been a friend of mine for six years, going on seven, somebody who's been a leader not only among women, but among conservatives, somebody who understands the benefits, the values of holding up the principles that the founders gave us. And she's also been, as I said, someone who's been a spokesperson and out there supporting Donald Trump. Well, now she's part of a new group that is supporting and deputies.

defending the president. And I wanted to get her before we got knee deep into the Comey testimony. Because let's face it, even if he starts talking now, he's still got to read seven pages that have been read to us for the last 14 hours. So nothing new is happening. Good morning, my friend. How are you? Good morning, Mike. And thank you. You went right down the path that I was hoping you would go because you hit the nail on the head. People who are watching the Comey folks right now, they are folks that have time to take out of their day, out of their job, and watch a wide variety of television stations that have made this into a media circus seven pages that we've already read and dissected. And the rest of us in the real world had to leave

for work this morning. And we're lucky if we only have to work one job at 5 a.m. wondering how our day was going to go, where Comey was something that we're thinking we're just going to read on social media because we have to deal with real world issues. So, Mike, I want to start this off because your listeners are very hardworking, loyal listeners, because I'm one of them. And I want to let them know that Comey's not the only thing going on today. In fact, I love the media circus there, which is a huge distraction because this morning, you have Secretary Ryan Zinke, who is on the House floor right now talking to balance budgets with the House Appropriation GOP committee about the issues going on in the interior. You have Senator Mitch McConnell just proposed a fast track to the House bill for the repeal and replace Affordable Care Act. So luckily, there are things going on on Capitol Hill right now, which actually affects everyday Main Street Americans lives other than this circus that is quite disgusting.

I'm not going to lie to you, to watch. But in the end, I think we're going to find today and the end of tomorrow, it's going to blow up on the Democrats, not the Republicans, And hence why you've seen these leaks and these big distractions the last 48 hours because the Democrats realize the Comey interview actually has a chance, potential chance to hurt their fundraising and their negative connotation of the president and destroy that more than any damage it can do to the Trump administration or anyone affiliated with it. Well, we agree on so much here, Scotty. And when... I love to digest isn't it for breakfast? Well, it is, but it's also really important for us to realize that other things are going on. I have been ranting for a few days now saying that the Democrats, by constantly opening up more hearings and more hearings, despite the fact they have a special counselor investigating this, all they are doing is stopping every Republican moment or pushed to try and get the agenda through.

It's kind of heartening to hear Mitch McConnell is actually trying to fast track that bill. And you know what? If he does and manages to do it because so many Democrats are not in their offices today and not on the Senate floor, then good for him. Smart for him to push that through. I know Rand Paul has been out in front of the media saying we need to get the tax program in. We need to get the health care repeal in. So I know there are some people trying. But I also look at the Chuck Schumers, the Nancy Pelosi's, who Nancy Pelosi would rather show up. on the view to talk impeachment. Maxine Waters would rather show up on the view to talk impeachment than deny impeachment than they would to actually do the jobs they are hired and paid to do. So I'm glad to hear of this, Scotty. Can I ask you a question about the hearing today? Absolutely, please do.

If you were a panelist, if you were one of the senators, I don't care, left, right, independent, Bernie Sanders, socialist, whatever. what's the one or two things you would want to ask Jim Comey that you don't already know? First question. Why, when Trey Gowdy asked you under oath that you knew leaks were coming from your department, did you refuse to say that you refused to investigate the leaks that on your own department? Why do you feel like that right there was the right answer? Why do you refuse to investigate your own FBI?

You know that? Don't you know, if you know there's problems within your department, wouldn't you want to take care of those first? Well, that's always the stance I think we should take. You know, before you go looking for problems in somebody else's house, you should really clean up your own house first. And therein lies, I see part of the problem. I hadn't even thought about that.

What's your other question you'd ask, Comey? Because, you know, if this is truly the Senate hearing, the Intelligence Committee, you get the full five minutes on the first round. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. The second question, there's lots of questions, but what I think the two questions have not been. A second question is if you were so concerned about Russia,

even though you've denied three times that President Trump was being investigated or candidate Trump was being investigated, if you were so concerned about the Russian intervention and the Russian hacking, especially considering the main part of evidence that supposedly these DNC WikiLeaks emails, why did you never ask for the DNC servers to look at the emails yourself and to go through and look at the security? security on these servers. Do we know that he never asked for those servers? The DNC servers, well, I mean, don't you think if the director of the FBI asked for him, he would

have gotten them? But we know that they were never looked into by the FBI. That's amazing. And as someone who had his own phone number leaked and one of my emails leaked because of the DNC hack, I'm not happy about that. And I would have loved to have gotten more information. I would have loved to know about those servers. I'm just amazed. The question I would ask, and I'm betting it's going to be asked if it hasn't been, if he's not through his first seven pages of testimony. The question I would love to say, Director Comey, after you got out of Trump Tower, after you got into your government-provided FBI car, and you started writing your notes, your contemporaneous notes, why didn't you act on them the next day?

if you believed you were actually being squeezed in this scene that now people are painting, the liberal media's painting as something out of the Godfather series, that you were squeezed to do this favor for Mr. Trump. Why didn't you act on it? Why didn't you throw the flag and say, hold on a second, the president is trying to influence me? And I think that lays out on the sidewalk that he didn't really believe the president was trying to influence. him. He may have thought he was being given a little bit of a push, but as Alan Dershowitz said,

it's within the president's purview to do this. It's part of the president's executive privilege to actually be able to say, I don't want you to investigate this guy, I'm going to pardon him and let it go. And yet, he did nothing. He did nothing of the sword. Doesn't anybody wonder that? absolutely and if it was so much you remember according to the trump tower the time attorney general jeff sessions he did not recuse himself from this whole investigation for two more weeks so at the very least why did you not go to the attorney general your higher up your hierarchy why did you at least not mention to him but mike you brought up a very good point about these memos once again we are seeing this idea these concepts these things being thrown out there like memos

yet we have yet to see the actual memo. Why has he not released the memos? Are they going back? I mean, how are we supposed to have any sort of credibility? Are we just supposed to take their word to be truthful? After time and time, again, they have lied and we, the American people. That's the whole thing about Russia. There is still no tangible evidence that any of this exists.

It's all he said, she said, middle school drama that the truth is, I have to wonder, Democrats, I know you've died more death than a cat since Election Day because I watch the funerals daily. Is this like the big wedding celebration you're looking for that I think in the end you're going to find out that the groom is left at the altar? We're going to step aside and take a quick break. I have some questions about what the president's doing today and we'll follow up on that when the Glenn Beck program returns. This is the Glenn Beck program. This is the Glenn Beck program. It is the Glenn Beck program. Michael Pelka is sitting in for my friend Glenn back. By the way, Fridays on Glenn's show. Bill O'Reilly has been joining Glenn in this second hour of the show, and he will continue to do so, but he refuses to appear with me. No, that's not true. O'Reilly and Glenn just have a special friendship, and he's not going to appear with anybody else, but Glenn. So next Friday, a week and a day, a week and a day,

from right now, Bill O'Reilly will be on in his usual spot with Glenn. The two of them will be sparring verbally and eventually physically, I think. And, you know, while Glenn has the age advantage, I think O'Reilly's

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Beck, our buddy, Scotty Nell Hughes, who is someone who's been a longtime supporter of Mr. Trump and a longer friend of mine. We've known each other for quite a while, attended C-PACs together and covered conventions together. And now we're watching Comey-Fei-Fei-2017 together. Scotty, it's beyond crazy for me what's happening here.

This is, I don't remember any Hillary hearings getting this much coverage. I don't even remember the, what was it, the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings getting this much coverage. Let's go with Benghazi. Let's go down the list of things that happened underneath President Obama. I don't remember any of this media circus.

And I don't know where I dropped off the moment before, but here's the deal. I get it, Democrats. Do you have more lives than cats because I've been watching the funerals on your every day when I turn on the TV. I get it. Today is like this wedding celebration that you have been waiting for for a very long time. and you are wanting, but I have to tell you, I think your groom's going to be left at the altar, and you're going to be stuck with a high bill, because you have put so much into these testimonies, and when we already know the main issue is that there was no investigation to President Trump,

that right there makes all of this circus look to be completely what it is. It's a PR message for the Democrats that I think has a real great chance of being spoiled today, because in the end, the American people are going to see this is why that President Trump was justified in firing Comey. Well, I hope you're right, and I hope we can get past all this instead of just inspiring more demands, more commands for more investigations, which is I think that's what the Democratic prescription is. Because let's face it, we have not seen smoking guns.

You had Senator Warner say we haven't seen evidence. You had Maxine Waters, the leader of the Impeach 45, chant crew saying we have not seen any evidence of collusion. And now Comey, who yesterday, when he released the opening statement, actually verified what President Trump had told us weeks ago that Jim Comey had confirmed with him three separate times that he was not being targeted by the FBI for an investigation. And the fact that Comey verified it yesterday, I thought was a huge win for the president. I thought it was a huge win for the for the the GOP. And yet we're going to be mired in this for a while. If the Democrats are the big loser, who ultimately is the

real winner here? Because as an American, I don't feel like I'm winning anything today. But today is a chance for Americans to win. As we start up by saying, there are some real good things that are going through right now on the hill, which I don't know if it's good or bad, whether they're getting press attention, because maybe without the cameras on them, we might be able to get some things accomplished that we need to do for everyday Americans. Because what we're watching right now is Comey is truly just like a disgruntled ex-employee who has every chance to canny, who has the bully pulpit, to go after his former boss, who was justified in firing him because both sides at different points called for it to happen.

This is true, and I think that's what the Senate should be viewing this. I think that's how most Americans who have a logical mind are viewing this, that all they're doing is allowing this man to go on and have a free open mic to bash this administration that he only served under for a short amount of time. Well, here's the weird thing. I don't fully understand. It's not even a question you can answer. Why he's been brought back, because we've had this dance before. If there's anything that's really new to be revealed, I don't see. it happening. Just give us your notes. Tell us that. We're going to get how many hours of butt kissing by the Democrats who then had originally called for his firing. And you're going to get a few hours of butt kissing from the Republicans who are going to say, thank you for your service. You've been a good loyal employee. Now tell us what really happened. And he's going to say it's confidential. It's top classified stuff. I can't talk about it on television. I'll

tell you when we go to the private session. So I don't see us learning anything new. I think it's a giant waste of time, which ultimately becomes a giant nothing burger in my book, to quote Hillary Clinton. And I just see the rest of the world saying, how can you be focusing on this America? Well, first of all, London's trying to re-elect a government or form a new government. They're trying to deal with terrorism. Paris has got people running around with hammers and knives trying to attack us and you've got stuff blowing up all over the world. We look like we are a high school click that is arguing over whether that new kid who has all the money is cool enough to sit at our table. It's maddening to me. Scotty, I appreciate you. I hope you'll stay in touch and you'll

if you're out at a Comey-fefei-fe party, I hope you'll tell us what you see and give us an update. Absolutely. Enjoy hosting the rest of the five hours, five hours of 45 minutes. You're on air. Thank you. It's the, uh, the Puro Pelkathon. Take care, my friend. And there she goes. You should follow Scotty on, on the Twitter because she is an unabashed Trump supporter. If you're a Trump supporter, I think she's fair, too. And she also got parodied on SNL. Something that has never happened to me. Thank God. When we get back, we're going to try and reach one of the the Comey-fefe-Fa-Fa-Bars and see if we can get an update on the action. And if anything big happens in the hearings, we'll share that too. Plus, Hillary had slaves. Yeah, and she talked about it. We'll play that for you, too. Welcome back to the Glenn Beck program. Mike O'Pelke from Pure Opelka hosting for my friend Glenn Beck, and we're trying to keep abreast on everything from Comey Fayefei, 2017.

It's going on right now. So far, nothing really breaking, except that Jim Comey reportedly said the Trump administration, quote, chose to defame me. Yeah, welcome to politics, Bunky. That's kind of the way it goes. We'll see if we can pull that clip from him, but I have Sharon from Mississippi checking in this morning.

Sharon, welcome to the Glenn Beck program. How are you? Good morning, Mike. I'm great, and I'm enjoying the show. But I have a couple of things I'd like to point out. All right. Is when he was asking combing for, oh gosh, now I'm going to forget. Loyalty?

Loyalty, yes, thank you. Loyalty to me means two things. Number one, you do not lie to me, and you, number two. until you do not lie about me. It does not mean that you have to lie for me. That's a great, great point. I don't want you to lie to me. I don't want you to lie about me.

Right. And I don't want you to lie for me. Exactly. And they agreed, honest loyalty, which to me, that sums that up. That's what honest loyalty means to me. Well, you know, Sharon, I think part of the issue here is there was some wiggle room on that discussion between Trump and Komi

Komi. I think there was wiggle room for Trump to interpret that as Komi pledging his loyalty to him and Komi had some wiggle room there thinking, well I told him I was going to be honest and that's

basically what he thought, which can mean different things. You know, if you're pledging loyalty to someone, it's different than just pledging your honesty to them. What he was getting at was Comey had told him by that time at least once that he was not the subject of an investigation, and I think what he meant was, don't lie to me about that.

Don't tell me I'm not a subject and then be going around behind my back, bugging the Oval Office. Well, I can see that. And I want to wait to see if we hear more about that and the possible tapes that come out if they do. If they exist, we should hear them. I have to say thank you, Sharon, for checking in and holding. If you want to join the conversation, AAA 727 Beck, 727-2325. One of the places that decided to be a great capitalist and take advantage of this situation is Clooney's pub in San Francisco. And they're way out on the left coast.

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Very little. Now, do you have any drink specials for today? Is it half off on white Russians or black Russians today? But we do have some specials, right? So what are the specials? Are we allowed to say it on the radio? Oh, I see what you're saying. Impeach mint flavor drinks. Very good.

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And they've got, they still have got a few more seats, but they apparently are doing as much business right now as they did during the NBA finals game last night, when the Warriors took the three game to none advantage over LeBron. I feel bad for LeBron. But, you know, he's up against the super team. Kevin Durant is just ridiculous. I know.

It's not time for sports, Mike. For those of you who are wondering, what's with the bullhorn? I found this bullhorn in the office, and I picked it up, and somebody said, it doesn't work. Don't bother with that. Didn't have batteries.

It works now, and I might be needing it today. I'm just saying. We were talking about Jim Comey, and yes, we do have a statement from Comey, talking about the Trump administration trying to defame him. This is from seconds ago at the hearing, the Senate Intelligence hearing, as it was carried live. I was also confused by the initial explanation

that was offered publicly, that I was fired because of the decisions I had made during the election year. That didn't make sense to me for a whole bunch of reasons, including the time and all the water that had gone under the bridge since those hard decisions that had to be made. First of all,

doesn't every employee wonder or kind of not understand fully why they are terminated? I mean, unless you're caught stealing from the company red-handed on a security videotape, sometimes there's a little squishiness in the termination, and you always wonder, well, they didn't really have to fire me.

So that's kind of a normal reaction from somebody who's been fired. Let's let them continue. That didn't make any sense to me. Of course not. And although the law required no reason at all to fire an FBI director, the administration then chose to defame me, and more importantly, the FBI, by saying that the organization was in disarray.

Is there any question that the fact that the Democrats called for Comey to be fired, and then the Republicans were calling for Comey to be fired, is there any question that that consensus might be an indication that there was some justifiable reason for the firing of James Comey, and maybe that's an explanation of the reason that there might be some disarray within the ranks of the FBI? It just seems fair to me. Let's let the former director continue. It was poorly led that the workforce had lost confidence in its leader. Those were lies, plain and simple. And I am so sorry that the FBI workforce had to hear them,

and I'm so sorry that the American people were told them. I worked every day at the FBI to help make that great organization better. And I say, help, because I did nothing alone at the FBI. There are no indispensable people at the FBI. The organization's great strength is that its values and abilities run deep and wide. Well, he's throwing some platitudes out there. He's throwing out some great statements about the men and women, and there are many great men and women at the FBI.

But as he mentioned, he serves at the pleasure of the president. And the president did not need a reason to get rid of James Comey. And yet, when it happened, Comey didn't appreciate it. Amazing. In terms of was there any evidence, any doubt that Russia attempted in to interfere with our election. Comey said, no doubt, but was there any evidence that they actually made a difference, that they actually changed even one vote?

No. No, there's no evidence of that. And Comey has said that this morning. This really is a gigantic nothing burger. I'm going to keep saying that. Comey, Faye, I hope you're bringing in a ton of money. And speaking of which, there is an... ad that's being run on the cable networks today that's in support of President Trump.

Somebody took the opportunity to realize that this was going to be one of the most watched news days in our recent history. And I'll see if we can get that and play it for you. Now, how about the obstruction of justice? Comey was just speaking just a few minutes ago about the meddling, but what about the obstruction of justice? of justice. Did the Russians succeed in changing our election? No. But did the president in his meeting with Comey, the same meeting we're talking about, did he ask or actually show purposeful obstruction of justice? There might have been discrepancies between facts and his FBI testimony. Tony. In your estimation, was General Flynn at that time in serious legal jeopardy? And in addition

to that, do you sense that the President was trying to obstruct justice or just seek for a way for Mike Flynn to save face, given he had already been fired? The General Flynn at that point in time was in legal jeopardy. There was an open FBI criminal investigation of his statements in connection with the Russian contacts and the contact themselves. And so that was my assessment at the time. I don't think it's for me to say whether the conversation I have with the president was an effort to obstruct. I took it as a very disturbing thing, very concerning. But that's a conclusion I'm sure the special counsel will work towards to try and understand what the intention was there and whether that's an offense.

So we're going to leave this to the special counsel. But he can't say. Why can't you say? You've opined on everything else. You're no longer an employee. You're no longer held to the same requirements of an FBI director. Why can't you say? I would love to hear. I would absolutely love to hear. We'll see if there's more breaking news out of this. So far, it's just kind of been bent news.

It hasn't been actual breaking news. Nothing really big happening. And I do have to get to Hillary Clinton and her slaves because I actually have audio. It's not a joke. She actually had slaves. She and Bill, and she talked about it, and she knew it, and she let it continue,

because I guess she didn't want to make waves. I'll get that for you next when the Glenn Beck program continues. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. To the Glenn Beck Program. Welcome back to the Glenn Beck program. Michael Pelka, filling in for my friend Glenn Beck. You're welcome to join the conversation, Triple Eight. 727 B-E-C-K, that's 2325 if you're not doing the alpha-numeric thing.

I'm going to get to Nell in Florida in just a minute, but I have to play you something that I heard this morning. I got up very early combing through all the stuff ahead of Co-Fefi-Fei-2017. Comey-Fei-2017. And I heard Mika Brzezinski lose her mind. and she lost her mind by saying the president's lost his mind. It's about 50 seconds, but listen to the future Mr. Brzezinski-Scarboro,

try and talk Mika in off the ledge, as she really did declare the president to be mentally ill. I don't buy it. He knew exactly what he was doing. Well, I think he's such a narcissist. It is possible that he's, mentally ill in a way. And this is on the table. I said it months ago,

and now everybody's starting to say it like it's new and it's okay to say. He's not well. At the very least, he's not well, and he's so narcissistic, he does not believe the rules apply to him. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Mika, you're pointing a finger at the president

and saying he's narcissistic and not mentally okay. He's unwell. Three fingers pointing back at you, Mika. Let's let her go. They're just kind of letting it roll here. Joe and Willie and Mike Barnacle and the crew, they're just letting her go.

They're just, he keep feeding her a little more rope, Mika, keep going. That's where the ignorance label may apply, because this is a man who says he can grab women anywhere because he's famous. I think he can push her. Well, I think there's an innuendo to perhaps the, other sex, but anyhow, everyone has their ideas about why he said what he said. Joe's trying to reel her in.

The fiancé is trying to say, come in off the ledge, Mika, come on in. I think you're a little out there on this one. Listen to Joe, he's trying to save her, but the Mika train can't be derailed. But the point is that he feels he can say or do things that are different than the norm because he's famous, because he's a celebrity, because he has power. And you know what? I need an eject button. I need an eject button.

I need an eject button. Oh, poor Joe. I think Joe needs a hug. Mika said the president is crazy. And she's paid millions. Millions to do what she does. Nell in Florida, how are you this morning? Man, I was doing good until I heard that.

Yeah, that's a little bizarre, isn't it? It's very bizarre. Now, I was going to ask a question, but I asked a question to Ann. I just want to make a statement. Okay. With this, all with this going on and when it's found out there's nothing, is will there be an investigation on CNN because they conspired to instruct the election when they gave Hillary Clinton all the questions to their debate to unfairly give her an advantage

on a national television audience? That's the first thing that I would hope that we can do since we're such an objective society now and we're thinking in terms of rational and rationale. Now the second question is I'm seeing a lot, the real question is I'm seeing a lot of people run behind like they they counted down when Comey's testimony was going to be. Yeah. Like seriously, you know. I'm up against the, I'm up against the wall now. I'll answer your question about the possible lawsuits against CNN because I don't think it's happening, investigation. And we'll get into it. to Hillary Slaves.

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Comey Fafy 2017 has got the nation's attention, or at least everybody who can avoid going to work today and sitting at home and watching Jim Comey tell us either nothing or that he'll tell the senators in private or he's rehashing things we already knew. So gigantic waste of time for this giant nothing burger, except there was a moment that was just captured as Diane Feinstein, the senator from California,

was talking to Jim Comey, and mentioned the tapes, the tapes that Donald Trump alluded to when he tweeted after Comey talked about his memo, when Donald Trump tweeted that Jim Comey better hope, better hope I don't have tapes before he starts leaking things. And this was the exchange. Why didn't you stop and say, Mr. President, this is wrong.

I cannot discuss this with you. It's a great question. Maybe if I were stronger I would have. I was so stunned by the conversation that I just took it in. And the only thing I could think to say, because I was playing in my mind, because I was remember every word he said, I was playing in my mind, what should my response be? And that's why I very carefully chose the words. And look, I've seen the tweet about tapes.

I hope there are tapes. I remember saying, I agree he's a good guy as a way of saying I'm not agreeing with what you just asked me to do. Again, maybe other people would be stronger in that circumstance, but that's how I conducted myself. I hope I'll never have another opportunity. Maybe if I did it again, I would do it better. And how long before we have T-shirts that say this? I've seen the tweet about tapes. Lordy, I hope there are tapes.

Lordy, I hope there are tapes. This is getting more bizarre by the moment. I can't even imagine this. And I also wonder what the hell the rest of the world's thinking. Now, one of the great legal minds in this world is a guy named Alan Dershowitz. Alan Dershowitz is a liberal. Alan Dershowitz is not a guy that the GOP would normally call in to say, hey, can you back us up on this?

And Alan Dershowitz was talking with Anderson, Cooper last night on CNN. And they were discussing the seven-page statement that Comey put out. That was his opening statement today. So the whole world saw the opening statement already. And in there, we have said there is no evidence of obstruction of justice, while the Democrats are all saying, this is all obstruction of justice. At least the only guy who at CNN will say that is Jeffrey Tubin.

And then every Democrat quotes Tubin saying, Tubman says that it must be obstruction, but Alan Dershowitz gave us some great clarity on this. Professor Dershowitz, you said this is not obstruction of justice by the president, and that actually strengthens his position against Director Comey. How so? Well, first of all, let's look at the big constitutional picture. The president could have told Comey you are commanded, directed to drop the prosecution against Flynn. The president has the right to do that.

Comey acknowledges that. He says in the statement that historically, historically, presidents have done that to the Justice Department. So first of all, let's remember this. Historically, presidents have been able to tell the Justice Department and actually have told the Justice Department stop this investigation. It's within the power of the president. It's the president's right.

It's part of his executive powers. Dershowitz continues. The last few years we've had a tradition of separation, but that tradition doesn't create crime. Remember also what the president could have done. He could have said to Comey, stop this investigation. I am now pardoning Flynn. Two important points there in what Dershowitz said. And one that's key is saying there was a tradition of separation between the executive Branson and the Department of Justice,

even though the head of the FBI and the attorney general all serve at the behest of the president. but he said tradition does not make a crime. Tradition does not make a crime. A really key point there. And he did say that the president has the right to say, I'm pardoning Flynn, therefore there's no need for an investigation, ended here. Donald Trump didn't do that, but he had the power.

Komi, or Dershowitz continues. That's what President Bush did. In the beginning of the investigation of Casper Weinberger, which could have led back to the White House, to the first President Bush, President Bush on the eve of the trial, pardoned Caspar Weinberger, pardon six people, and Special Counsel Walsh said this is outrageous. He's stopping the investigation. Nobody talked about obstruction of justice. You cannot have instruction of justice when the president exercises his constitutional authority to pardon, his constitutional authority to fire the director

of the FBI, or his constitutional authority to tell the director of the FBI who to prosecute, who not to prosecute. So let's get out of the weeds and let's look at the big So there it is. From one of the most respected legal minds in the country who also happens to be a liberal, you cannot have obstruction of justice here. And what happened in no way was anywhere near obstruction of justice. So how will Chuck Schumer? How will Nancy Pelosi? How will Maxine Waters? How will all the hand-wringing Democrats deal with this? Well, you can bet they're going to keep hammering. They're going to keep hammering until they get something else,

something else that will slow down the process. There was also discussion, and I've been following thanks to the crew here, the research crew here. Keith has been digging up different quotes on this. Jamie Dupree, who covers Congress for a couple different radio and TV outlets, has been cherry-picking some of the most interesting moments from this hearing. and he said, Comey wrote memos about the Trump meetings and said, quote, I was honestly concerned he might lie about the nature of our meeting.

That's why he wrote it. So if he was actually nervous about it, we have to go back to the one question I would ask Comey, why didn't you bring it up? Why did you wait till after you were fired? Why did this all happen only after you were fired? The other statement that really, really makes me question, crazy, is Comey saying that the Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Bill Clinton meeting on the

tarmac, that meeting that all of us realized was not about grandkids and golf, that any thinking, sane person would say, no, they're not talking grandkids in golf for 45 minutes, because even I, a golfer who obsesses about playing the game, knows that you will bore the tar out of people if you talk about golf for longer than five minutes. Even golfers get tired of it. We don't want to hear about it. We want to play. So sitting on the tarmac for 45 minutes just when your wife, Hillary, happens to be under investigation, oh, I don't know.

And facing a possible breakdown in her dreams to become the president. And you got the Attorney General in front of you. Gee, do you think they were talking about grandkids in golf? No. But Comey says the A.G. Lynch and Bill Clinton. Carmack meeting was the reason he went public with the email investigation. Really? Was it because that meeting actually had something else going on and you couldn't let it just

slide away? So you had to bring up the email investigation in order to maybe bring back some reality to the world? This is amazing on so many levels. Very amazing. I'm going to step aside from Comey-fefei-fei-Fa-Fei for just a few minutes and take a look into the real world out there. I was wandering over to glenbeck.com,

and I encourage you to check out glenbeck.com because there are stories that are just vital to what we're dealing with in the world, but they're not all politics-based. For example, our neighbors to the north, America's favorite suburb, or as Homer Simpson calls Canada, America's hat. In Ontario, they pass a bill that's been called a totalitarian bill, which allows the government to take kids away from, are you ready? Christian homes. And if you don't think it can happen here, so much of what's going on in Canada is creeping into this country,

including what they have done to their health care system. But the story is out of Toronto, and it's Ontario's Kathleen Wynn. Kathleen Wins says liberals have passed what critics described as a totalitarian bill by a vote of 63 to 23. 63 to 23. So this wasn't a squeaker. Pro-family advocates warned that Bill 89 gives the state more power to seize kids from families

that oppose LGBT, QR, R, T, U, Y, X, WZ, and gender ideology agenda. And the government agencies can go in and ban couples who disagree with that agenda from fostering or adopting kids. Can you imagine? Can you imagine the situation? It also has now added gender identity and gender expression as factors to be considered in the best interests of the child. The state is taking over.

It's maddening if we don't stand up now and say, no, hands off the kids. And I'm warning you to keep an eye out for you homeschoolers. The homeschool families, I'm guessing the government's coming for you next. It would be a great concern for me if I was homeschooling. We have to protect your rights to be parents. I believe that there are so many progressives out there who actually think, as Hillary Clinton did in her book, it takes a village that the kids are part of all of ours. There are responsibility.

There are property. We must shape them and mold them. Well, speaking of that book, I want to play you a quote from that book. And it kind of exposes the fact that Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton had slaves. I'll play it for you next when the Glenn Beck program returns. The Black Program. Mercury. AAA 727 back.

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I'm guessing you're charged up about something. Well, I'm watching this, and it's obvious this is payback. Oh, yes. I mean, you'll be a rocket scientist to figure out that Comey came with one intent. That was, and, you know, my complaint about Comey is he could have said all these things in closed session if it was that big a deal before he was ever fired. Yes, he could. And I'll make two predictions. Some Republicans are going to fall away.

like a 60-cent pair of wet socks. And the Democrats are going to pull together, and they're not going to let this go, period. This is not, no matter what happens, and especially with a special prosecutor, I mean, he was a protege of Comey. He's going to do everything he can to lift Comey up and make him look as good as he can in this investigation,

And all I can say is, you know, I pray for Trump every day. But I also pray that, number one, he doesn't stick his foot in his mouth, and nothing else comes up because they're going to turn over every rock from Loo to Wissy to Russia to find something on this guy. And he better watch out. You're right, Russ, and I appreciate your call. Thank you for weighing in. People from Iowa.

Iowa is a fantastic state. I've known people from Iowa for decades. And at one point, Iowa tried to change the state motto to a state of minds. And I guess they didn't make it happen, but it's true. It's so true. So I appreciate you, Russ. You've come up with some great thoughts. This thing needs to be watched.

The Democrats aren't given up. Russ is absolutely 100% right. Trump has unified the Democrats. We would have thought a Hillary Clinton presidency, would have unified them. No, they have come together in their defeat. And it's been one of the most interesting things I've seen politically in all my years of covering the politics.

All right, shifting back to my years of covering the Clintons back in the 90s. And when it Takes a Village came out in 1996, Hillary Clinton got so many different awards. I think she won a Grammy for her recording of It Takes a Village. actually believe she beat out several different people in the area of spoken word. It should have been in the comedy category, maybe. No, just spoken word.

But she did win the Grammy. We know she didn't write the whole book. She had help. But that's what happens with these political books. They're put out. They try to show your real true political roots. And her progressivism was on display when she gave us, it takes a village. it's right there,

but also within the book was Hillary Clinton's admission of owning slaves. And I said that this morning and half the heads in here went, what? Hillary Clinton had slaves? Yes, she did and she talked about it.

It's in the book. You can hear it. I learned a lot as I... Wait, go Hillary. We enforced the rules strictly and sent back to prison any inmate who broke one. One unusual aspect of living in the Arkansas Governor's Mansion was getting to know prison inmates

who were assigned to work in the house and the yard. When we moved in, I was told that using prison labor at the Governor's Mansion was a long-standing tradition that kept down costs, and I was assured that the inmates were carefully screened. Now, I had defended several clients in criminal cases, but seeing them in jail or in court was not the same as encountering a convicted murderer in the kitchen every morning. I was apprehensive, but I agreed to abide by tradition until I had a chance to see for myself.

So Hillary Clinton admits that when she and Bill moved into the governor's mansion when Bill was governor of Arkansas, that they used labor, prison labor, for 10 years. That they actually used

unpaid labor. people that had been screened, they told had been, they picked the best. Does this remind you of anything? If you remove the word prisoner or inmate, and you insert the word slave, does it change anything? For my money, this is Hillary Clinton, and why this never came out before, why this woman was allowed to be a senator from New York and the Secretary of State and damn near the president. astounds me. If you don't believe me, it's all over the place now. It came out two days ago. Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, they didn't stand up and say, no, we don't want these people unpaid prison labor, slave labor from the state. I'm not crazy, am I?

Michael Pelka on the Glenn Beck program. We'll be back after the break. Don't answer that question. It was rhetorical. Mercury. It is the Glenn Beck program. Michael Pelka, sitting in for my friend Glenn back. And before we went away, I played a clip that's from Hillary Clinton's audio book from It Takes a Village. And it's where Hillary admits that she and Bill for 10 years used unpaid prison labor in the governor's mansion because it was good for the budget. It was money saving and that they knew these were good inmates, that these were the inmates that had been screened that they were safe. said that they were slaves, which basically I still stand by that.

Stacey in Indiana is calling me out on this, and I welcome this kind of dialogue, Stacey. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Nice to make your acquaintance. You say I'm pushing it. You think so? Just a little bit. Mostly, mostly because, you know, well, first off, if you're in prison, you're paying a debt to society. And they have work release programs and all that. I doubt that, you know, and what she said in the part that you had played of her reading, she made the comment about having a murderer in her kitchen. Yeah.

I call, I'm calling that one out big time. I seriously doubt any state prison would ever release a murderer or put a murderer and work release in the governor's house. Well, that's a good point. So you're saying she may have even exaggerated that statement. But in a sense, though, even though they're under the control of the state, that's the state providing manpower at no cost to the governor's mansion. These are essentially servants living or working under the roof of the governor and the First Lady of Arkansas.

To me, you know, it smells like slavery. If you're going to tell me, well, guess what? You're going to stay here every night. You can't leave your property of the state right now. And while you're here, you're also going to go do things for the governor. And we're only going to take the ones we think are worthy of being around the governor. It sounds a little slavy to me. You're allowed to disagree all you want.

But that's what this country's about. I think what you're saying on that. Yeah, I exaggerate to clarify. And that's sometimes what hyperbole is all about. I'm just saying it's odd to me that this never came up during any of her campaigns. I lived and worked in New York when she ran as the carpet. bagging senator and then she was our secretary of state and almost president damn near president it should be on her business card Hillary Clinton damn near president but but uh you know i appreciate

you weighing in on it stacey that's what this is about well i was thinking that uh i guess i was saying the reason i said it was pushing a little bit was because you know i mean when you're if you're in prison which i've never been but uh but work release in the governor's mansion would be a cakewalk compared to sitting in a prison. Even if you are doing work for the governor and everything, that's why I say it's, it's, I can kind of see it both ways. I get what you're saying about it, because yes, it is forced labor. But then again, if you're paying your debt to society, you know, would you rather be

sitting in that cell and playing in the prison yard and maybe getting shanked or would you rather be working in the governor's mansion? I'm betting those guys got screened and maybe they didn't, maybe they had a choice. Maybe they didn't. I don't know, but I get what you're saying, though. I mean, I can see it from both sides. Well, thank you, Stacey. There are some people who would say they would prefer hard labor in the yard as opposed to

hanging out with Hillary and listening to that shrill voice. I exaggerate again to clarify. Susan in Rhode Island is checking in. Susan, how are you? What's going on? Good morning, Mr. Elka. You're doing a great job. Well, thank you for your vote of confidence.

Please be here tomorrow. We need all of you. Oh, of course. I'm on with the Glenn Beck program. every morning. Oh, good. Good. I'm here every day. As far as the whole slave thing, look, they make license plates up here in Rhode Island, so they're always working. The prison is always working. They're on the highway. They're everywhere. Well, the question would probably be, were they paid? Because back in the day, when... About 25 cents an hour. Yeah, they don't get minimum

wage. You know, and if Hillary was really the advocate that she claims to be, she would have demanded minimum wage or, you know, the fight for 15, as we're hearing today. What's on your mind, though? What else is happening? What's really on my mind is this. You're not the last caller, the caller before. When he talked about he's afraid that the Democrats are not going to let go over this. Of course they're not. They're not going to let go of this thing with Trump and Comey, etc. Until Trump resigns. I am a devout conservative, a devout Christian. I support.

Ted Cruz even after he got out of the race. I wanted something spectacular to happen at the convention and it didn't. My fear in all of this, and what's a lot of people are not talking about as they should be, whether there is any ties to Russia or not, whether he actually asked Comey to lay off the investigation or not, what it's doing is damaging the conservative brand. And that's the thing we have to be most aware of, because right now he's the tittle ahead of the party, and a lot of people out there say he is a conservative, and he's not. We've heard this argument before. But what it's doing is damaging the things that we wanted to see done. Yes, we got Judge Gorsuch. Amen. I say prayers of thank you every night for that, but there's been nothing since. Now, Mitch McConnell,

pushing the House bill, ramming that through? It doesn't repeal Obamacare at all. What we heard today from Scotty Nell Hughes earlier was Mitch McConnell is pushing through the Senate bill, and we haven't seen it. So that's what my question should have been to Scotty was, what's in the Senate bill? Because I would love to know what the heck is in it. And they've said they've written their own bill, but have you seen it? No, I haven't seen it. I would love to see it, and we'll see.

And in terms of Trump resigning, I think the only thing keeping the Democrats from going whole hog on impeachment or trying to get Donald Trump out are the words President Pence, because they know what a strong conservative President Pence is. And my liberal friends are more terrified of him than they are of Donald Trump. Thank you for your call, Susan in Rhode Island. Greg in Utah is checking in all over the country. Greg, welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Thank you. Hi. To me, it's obvious that the Russians wanted Hillary to win, not Trump.

And it bothers me that no Republicans seem to be pointing this out. Well, can you lay out the case for the Russians? What would lead you to believe the Russians would want Hillary to win? Well, here's a 1994 treaty broken. Russia takes over Crimea. Third, first time since the 1970s, Russia gets back in a dominant position in the Middle East. Obviously, Trump's going to spend a lot more in defense production, which Hillary would never have done, knocks down the price of oil, and hurts Russia.

Well, you bring up some solid points, Greg, especially the points about the fact that a Democratic administration would pretty much let Russia and Putin and his agenda continue pushing forward. And a guy like Trump who will push our energy agenda, and that gives Putin problems because Putin is the guy who wants to go into the Arctic Circle and claim the Arctic Circle and all of the energy that's underneath it, which we understand is massive, is the property of Russia. He wants to run a pipeline under the ice and grab all the gas and the oil that's there. And Putin also does want to shape the Middle East. He wants to get control of as much of the world as he can. And you're right, Hillary would probably have backed off. So it does bring some interesting questions.

questions to bear on whether or not that's the case. Thank you for your call, sir. I just have been trying to grab a quick story from the testimony, because it's still going on. And every network's covering it. ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NBC itself. The New York Times has an army of people covering it. PBS is there. Twitter is live streaming it. If you want to see the full list of who's obsessed and covering Comey Fifee 2017, Glennbeck.com has it posted under the headline, Obsessed Much, media offer nonstop streaming of the Jim Comey testifying, and there will be endless analysis.

We will be on this. We covered some of the bars that are opening early. We talked to a bar in San Francisco, and we talked to a bar in D.C. that have all opened early today to cover this. But here's the curious thought about the coverage. And I try to be a little bit of a media watchdog. That's one of the things I attempt to look at is

who's bending their agenda or bending their coverage to meet their agenda on all of this news. And all morning long CNN has been cutting and posting little bits and pieces of Comey's testimony. and one of the most interesting things is not what they're posting, but it's what CNN is not posting that has me asking the question, what are you really saying, CNN? According to Jamie Dupree, a guy we monitor on Twitter, who gives, I think, a pretty good accounting of things,

Marco Rubio, the senator from Florida, the guy that ran a pretty reasonable campaign until he ran into Donald Trump, Marco Rubio asked three questions or talked about the three Trump asks to Comey. Trump asked Comey to be loyal, to let Flynn go, and to tell public that Donald Trump is not under investigation.

But you know what's missing in that five minutes of Marco Rubio's questioning of Jim Comey? You can't find it on CNN right now. they decided not to put this on. And I talked to Keith in the back during the break. He said, if you want to know why Donald Trump will be exonerated and will come out of this with a victory, vindicated, exonerated, free, watch the testimony of Marco Rubio,

the questioning of Marco Rubio and Jim Comey. He said, therein lies the complete answer. And I haven't seen it because, guess what? CNN's not running it. When we take a break, I'm going to look over and see if Fox is posting any of it. We'll find out if there is real fair and balanced reporting going on on Comey-Fa-Fa-2017. We'll be right back on the Glenn Beck program. This is the Glenn Beck Program.

Mercury. The Glenn Beck Program. It is the Glenn Beck Program. Michael Pelker, wrap it up my first day of a two-day fill-in. I hope you will be here tomorrow. as we finish the week and finish Glenn's vacation with another episode of the Glenn Beck program. We are going to break down in a more detailed fashion the best moments from today's Comey Fefei-Fei. It doesn't really roll off the tongue, does it?

Comey-Fei! It sounds like some sort of strange language that the people on Survivor created. Comey-Fei? Yes, indeed, we will. I'm going to grab a quick call before we get out of here. Tim from South Carolina's calling. Tim, I love your state. I love the golf courses.

I love the food. I love the people. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Show. Thanks. Doing a great job filling in. Thank you, except I didn't say program. I'm going to get a demerit for not saying the Glenn Beck program. Oh, no.

I know. It's tough. I hear you. Hey, I'm just calling you to give you a quick comment on the video book that you play from Hillary. Yeah. Maybe that murder issue is referring to being in the governor's mansion kitchen

would have been her and not a convict. You're saying that Hillary Clinton was the murderer in the kitchen? Just throwing it out there. Well, here's where you're wrong on that. That would have presumed that Hillary would then have been doing the cooking or the cleaning, and we know that didn't happen.

So I'm shooting down your theory, but I appreciate you being here, Tim. Thank you very much. One of the weirdest moments that's gone on in the Jim Comey testimony today, and I'm glad we got to cover with Jason Buttrill some of the stories happening around the world. It wasn't all just Comey Faye Faye today. I'm glad we got to cover what happened in Iran and what happened with our embassy in Ukraine. I didn't get to Fast and Furious.

I'm going to continue on my Blaze radio program talking about the latest on Fast and Furious. but one of the strangest moments in this marathon day just happened when Comey explained how the meeting with Trump actually got scheduled. He called me at my desk at lunchtime and asked me, was I free for dinner that night? I called himself and said, can you come over for dinner tonight? And I said, yes, sir. He said, well, six work.

I think he said six first. And then he said, I was going to invite your whole family, but we'll do that next time. I wanted you to come over. And is that a good time? I said, sir, whatever works for you? And then he said, how about 6.30? And I said, whatever works for you, sir?

And then I hung up and had to call my wife and break a date with her. I was supposed to take her out to dinner that night. That's one of the all-time great excuses for breaking it today. In retrospect, I love spending time with my wife. I wish I'd been there that night. I think this is almost on par with With the questioning of Clarence Thomas and the Anita Hill hearings, where we're starting to get into really bizarro territory.

I can't wait to see what else pops up, but I pledged you I'm going to comb through Marco Rubio's segment since they won't show it to us. I still maintain the greatest way to get these hearings done properly and expeditiously would to force these boboes to do the entire hearing standing up. because none of them would blowviate for the eight hours or whatever it's going to take today. They'd ask their questions, we'd get our answers, and would all be done. Join me again tomorrow on the Glenn Beck program.

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