The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guests: David Barton & Rachel Bovard | 11/4/22

Episode Date: November 4, 2022

WallBuilders founder David Barton joins to highlight the importance of protecting the integrity of our elections and what he’s doing to help stop election fraud on both sides of the political aisle. Bill O’Reilly joins for his weekly news recap, discussing the upcoming midterm election. Senior tech columnist for the Federalist Rachel Bovard lays out what Republicans should do if they gain control. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yeah. That, ooh, I think he hates you. You know, it's funny. Every time I come in in the morning and sit next to you, I think that. Right. God hates you? God probably is not a big fan. Well, let me give you it.

Let me just give you an example. You want a new car. Yes. Okay. Your whole life, you could buy a car and you can get it right away. That's right. But this time, as God is souring on you, for some unknown reason, probably your lifestyle, what you think and what you do.

Or proximity to you. Right. And so he says, he says, Ford motorcar, whoever makes the GM, you go ahead and slow down Stu's car. It takes you 14 months to get it. Well, just over 14. Yeah, just over 14 months. When you get it, I believe it has rained almost every single day since you got it. I haven't even taken it out of the garage since I got it because I don't want to get it.

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So go to goldline.com or call them at 866 Goldline, 866 Goldline or Goldline. Remember, tell them MIB promo code. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck. from wall builders and mercury one how are you david good man good now you know most people don't know david that you are and have been forever very involved in politics yes sir yeah and been doing this for a long time first let me before we get into you know what you're looking for and what the teams are out looking for for voter distortion um have you seen anything like this on the ground before,

far as you're all, I call you and you're like, I'm in Alabama and 10 minutes later, I'm in New York and you're all over the country. Are you seeing anything different and unusual this time around with what you're seeing on the ground attitude or, you know, to give you any indication to how it's going to go?

The last time I saw something like this was in 94. So with... That was New Gingrich. That was New Gingrich, contract with America. That's the last time I've seen this kind of buzz in the grassroots. So this is not even... This is beyond the Tea Party 2010? Yes, this is beyond the Tea Party.

Wow. That's amazing because that was... I mean, everybody knew it then. Everybody knew it. This is so quiet and underground. There's no rallies or anything. There's a lot of rallies. covered well. I mean, what we've done, we've just got off the road. We've been in 132 cities

in 24 states and 76 congressional districts we think are flippable. And we're not the only ones doing that. There's plenty out there. They're just very little coverage of them. How is the church getting involved? Are they actually stepping to the plate here? That has been our exclusive focus is there. And I would say absolutely yes. There's been things that we have seen now in the off-year election in 91, where you had Virginia, et cetera, and then what we're seeing right now, and this is particularly on the process side. A lot of people are really interested in the glitzy side of elections, want to see the results, but very few get involved in the process side. And that's where we've been. We've been recruiting people to be

in the process, get on the front end of elections, not the back end of elections. Don't just watch them be reported, be part of them. That was the problem. I kept warning Trump. You know this, David, over and over and over again. Look, this is going on. You got to be ready for it. And what happened after the election? They rightfully said, you should have been saying this before the election. That's right.

We could have helped you before the election. We can't help you now. That's right. So having these people out and monitoring, and I know, I mean, we're, thank God, the right is fighting in the courts and trying to get things as clean as possible. Where do you, where are you concerned the most about possible voter fraud? We're concerned the most about places where we don't have much influence on the process, quite frankly. If everybody gets an equal shot at the table, you know, if everybody can sit at the table, we're okay.

I saw Michigan, was it their Supreme Court that came out and said that you, where was it? Yeah, it was in Michigan, where the, where the courts came out and said, you've got to have both sides at the table. And you have to let the right and the Republicans see everything. Yeah. And that is really what you asked for. Right. Both sides. And I don't want the reverse of what we have now.

That's right. I just, I want it to be clean and fair. If I'm a Republican, I want Democrats at the table as well, watching elections. And by the way, in Texas, we prosecuted Republicans as well as Democrats for election fraud. So it happens on both sides. Yeah. So what are you seeing? I saw some numbers from you yesterday.

that were shocking. How sure are you that this is what is happening? Well, we're sure of what we're seeing ourselves with our people on the ground. We have the reports of that, and those are firsthand reports. And so based on that, I'm pretty sure of what we see. I can't tell you what else is out there, but I know what we're finding. Okay. So what are you finding? One of the things that we think is super important. And by the way, I work with Chad Connolly with Faith Wins. We've partnered on this. We've done the rallies together. She is fantastic. Faith wins is, bar none, the best thing I've seen in a long time.

Yeah, Chad and I have both been involved in politics from the local level through the federal level. So we've got a lot of experience in politics behind the scenes and in process. And I'm going to go back to where we started in Virginia because it worked really well there. It was called the Missa Bessie Project. A 79-year-old lady said, I wanted something about elections. And so she went to the local election board with her Sunday school class and said, what can we do? And talking to Chad said, well, what you need to do is just look at the voter rolls. Just see who the active voters are. See who voted. See what you can find out. And they did that. And they found one guy who registered a vote in 27 locations. That's not a good deal.

This is in Virginia. In Virginia. This is in Virginia and 91, or pre-91 election. Wait, wait, pre-90-91? Yeah, the 91 election where Yonkin was elected governor. So prior to that election. Go ahead. I don't understand the 91. Well, there's five states that have off-year elections. They don't elect numbers or even years. So Virginia is one of those that is an off-year election. Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Louisiana. 21. What did I say? 91. Oh, my gosh. I'm like, why are we going back to 1991? Because I'm a historian. I'm stuck in history. I'm stuck in history. It's 21. 21. Okay. 21. So Yon-elected in 21. So she took her Sunday school class, and they started looking at voters roles and told them look for two things. Look for people who are over

100 years old, not that people over 100 can't vote. Right. But look for them and just make sure they're real people. And by the way, we just found this in Michigan just a couple of weeks ago. We found a guy named Jason Daniel who was over 100. He voted twice in 2020. And that's not the story. The story was he was born in 1850. He lived through the Civil War and he's still voting in 2020. So that's a little issue. So Jason Daniel, We're looking for those kind of people. And that's what Ms. Bessie and her class was looking for.

And that's where they found a guy. Well, two things. Look for people who are over 100 or look for more than six people registered at the same address, not that they can't be, but just check and make sure. And so they went through and they found one address with 17 people registered there. And they called Chad and said, what do you think? He said, I think it's a really big house. Why don't you go look at it?

And they went and looked, and it was a cow pasture. It was an open field. There was not even a barn on it. Open structure. 17 people voted out of that that empty address. So that's what we have people looking for. That's what they flag on. That's what they're looking for. That's what they're going after. So I want to make sure that we're really clear on this because, you know, you can go to prison now for, you know, any kind of misinformation I hear. You're saying, you're not saying that this is enough to throw an election or you can't trust the election or anything else. You're saying your people are going in. and cleaning up all the stuff that both Democrats and Republicans should be upset about. Yeah, and we don't know if this will win an election or not, but we do know that if you do this up front, when you get done with the election, both sides can have confidence that it was

a fair election and done appropriately. And that's the big deal, is you want to take the question marks away from the elections. It's not good for the republic if either side is questioning the election. As a Republican, if I lose the election, but I had all my people doing poll watching, and we checked the list, then we lost the election. Yeah. That's just the way it is. And that's the way you, we used to trust it. That's right.

And starting in 2000, you know, from 2000 on, the Democrats haven't lost an election that they haven't claimed fraud. And that's really damaging. And it's damaging if we do it too. What the way you fix it is not shutting people up. That's right. The way you fix it is open the process. Open the process. Get both sides.

in there to watch it. That's exactly right. Yeah. And so in Michigan, in addition to finding Jason Daniel, Michigan, they had the names in sheets of 100. So you asked for the active voter list. And in Virginia was saying, hey, every Friday, I want to see all the newly registered voters.

And so you just look at the list. And you go down through all the lists, you check everybody, make sure they're legitimate. But in Michigan, one of the voter lists we got, the top 67 people on it, we found obituaries for, and they're still voting. Oh, my gosh. That's a problem. When you find obituaries for people who are. active voters. So, David, let me, let me take you back to Michigan the last time they started

covering up the windows during 2021. And that raises questions all by itself. Just that. It doesn't even it doesn't even mean that something was going on. But you see that and you're like, wait a minute. It just suggests to you that it doesn't pass the smell test. Right. I mean, I could, I mean, I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. We had Shakey's Pizza. They had a window where I could see all of it. And if I can see what they're doing to a pizza to assemble it, why can't I see what's happening in an election? Okay, so are we at all of the polling stations? And has that been cleaned up in states?

This is one of the things that Chad and I've been working on is getting church folks to show up and just be poll watchers. Just let us train you. And every state is different. And that's a really cool article two of the. Constitution makes it clear that the states control elections. Time places manners of elections. So some states, you can be a poll watcher and be anywhere in the state. Some states you have to be from the county in which you're going to do poll watch. The rules are all different. So we get people trained on the rules in their states. And here's what it is in your state,

here's what you can do. So we've recruited and recruited hard. And at this point now in Nevada, we got word last week. We have a poll watcher at every polling place in the state of Nevada. That's excellent. We have a poll watcher at every polling place. place in the state of Michigan. So those and but they know how to behave. They know how to they've been trained if they're being told you got to go stand over here. That's it. Yeah. They know what you can do. You can't interfere with this. Correct. You can put eyes on it. And I think eyes is we learned from Virginia eyes is really important. When we had these poll watchers like Miss Bessie go to places, there were three election clerks in Virginia that quit once they found someone was watching them.

one of those election clerks was arrested last month for voter fraud in 2021. So if an election clerk doesn't want to be seen, doesn't want somebody just standing in the room watching, again, it doesn't pass the smell test. It doesn't mean that there's something going on. That's right. But that, I mean, I would never have anybody, you know, I'm counting money for something and I know they're not here to rob me. I have no problem with somebody watching me count them. money. As long as you don't have fair with it. Yeah, you can't confront people in line and say,

show me your eye. You can't do that. Yeah. But if you're there just eyes on the process, and that's a really important thing. And so that's what we're trying to do is get people with eyes on the process in every single state. So I was with Mike Lee last night in Washington County, the reddest county in America, I believe. And there were people there about Half of the audience raised their hand and said they had voted early. But when he said, look, if you haven't voted, make sure you take out your ballot that was sent to you. And the crowd went nuts.

No. Go to a polling place. And they just don't trust the mail-in ballots. Have you seen anything where it was a little shaky last time that it's been cleaned up at all? Well, we don't know if it's been cleaned up until we see what happens this time, but we do know that there's been a bigger push for people to vote early because of the fact so many people showed up last year, last election or the election day and said, no, you've already voted. You can't vote. Wait a minute. I haven't voted. Yeah, you did. You did mail-in ballot, but I haven't voted.

Yes, you have. So there were a lot of people. That's what Mike was saying last night. He's like, he was afraid that because of, they've put so much money into the ballot system that they won't be staffed enough or there'll be something that would happen that is just because they don't they didn't have the money they were planning on more people voting by mail that you'll get there and you may not have time to do it or or whatever and there's there's that possibility but there were a lot of people who felt like somebody voted for them by mail that wasn't them and so that's why they're urging early because get there before someone can do a potential fraud and you don't know if it's fraud.

There was nothing on it except just the anecdotal evidence that people said, I haven't voted. And you show that I have, well, we're not going to let you vote because we showed they already have. And so if that's fraudulent, you don't want that going on. Oh, boy. I didn't even think about this. I didn't even think about this. And I'm suddenly against voter ID. NBC said yesterday that voter ID laws disproportionately affect transgender people.

And they are worried that people asking for voter ID from transgender people is voter suppression and could, I mean, is really hurting the transgender vote. I can see that. If your picture on your driver's license shows you to be a male and you walk in with the dress, that might confuse. people a little bit. Right. But I don't think you're fooling anybody that you're not a man myself. I think I could look at that and go, yeah, do the lipstick's not working for you, but there you go. The worse your transition it looks, the better chance you have to vote. Yeah. If you're really good at it, you might have a problem. Might have a problem. So, David, the one thing that the Democrats are setting up for with this, you know,

know, a danger to democracy is they, Hillary Clinton just came out and said, they're already planning on stealing the 2024 election. And what her idea of stealing is, is that the Republicans will stand against the federal government taking over the vote. And they should. And they should. Constitutionally. And I've got to just add a commentary here. That's another proof to me that Democrats don't read the Constitution much because when you're saving our democracy, you haven't read Article 4, which prohibits a democracy, you have to be a republic. And there's a big difference between the two. So help me out on that. Because in Article 4, it, we have two minutes. Because in Article 4, it does say states have all the power. Maintain a Republican form of government. And it does say that states. Now, it says Congress can amend. this from time to time. That's right. So what is the argument against the Democrats amending? Well, they can. And what's happened is Congress has always respected the states and left them alone. Now, they will come in with uniform dates. We want all elections on this day, whatever. They can do

something like that. They've always left alone the process side and say, that's up to the states. And even election dates, when you have federal elections, that's all set. But the states can choose their own state election dates as five states do, like Louisiana. and like Virginia and others who choose to have it on an odd number year rather than even number year. So Congress has always left that alone to the states. Now, the federal elections is what Congress can have a lot more influence over. And the Constitution does say you have to have results reported by a certain day. And that's where they've gone to kind of federalizing as a standard federal election day. But they left the states alone on other things. I've got to tell you,

this whole talk about, you know, it may be days before we find. There's no reason for, this. This is like COVID and us just walking into a store and they say, hey, there's no potato chips and we won't have them until probably three months from now. You know, it's like it's the United States of America. I should be able to get potato chips, you know, on demand. We've done this my whole life and had, generally speaking, we've had most of the results. We knew which way it was falling, you know, except for exceptions like the year 2000. I don't accept that we have to wait days to find it. And Pennsylvania is already saying it may be weeks for them this time. Oh my gosh. And when you're saying something like that, you're raising questions. And that's bad for the state

of Pennsylvania to make an announcement like that. David, thank you so much for everything that you do. If you want to get involved, just go to wallbuilders.com, wallbuilders.com and join the fight. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget, rate us on iTunes. Mr. Bill O'Reilly. Welcome to the program. sir. How are you doing, Beck? I'm doing pretty good. You're okay?

Yeah, I am. I'm feeling good about the election. I kind of like living in this hopeful period. Mm-hmm. But I do think it's going to go well. I think the Democrats are showing real signs of desperation. Is there anything I can do to make your life more pleasant? This is a disturbing question from Bill O'Reilly.

Yeah, you can give me some perspective on some of the things that are happening. You bet. So the big lie, right? Yeah. This is a quiz for you, Beck. I'm going to give you three scenarios. Big lie, medium lie, little lie. Okay.

Okay. All right. First one. The U.S. economy is strong as hell. A big lie. Oh. The border is secure. Massive, massive, bigly lie.

Inflation is transitory. Crazy lie. Oh, all right. So the big lie, Ron Claim, that Trump won the election, up against the three massive, according to you, lies, right? Now we have here? Yeah. All right. Okay.

So I just want to bring a little bit of perspective about the big lie. Now, as far as the election concern, here's how I have it, Beck. Stu, are you there? Is Stu there? I am here. Patiently waiting for your predictions. Write this down, please. Yes, sir. So there is a hundred percent certainty that the house will go GOP.

That's grand old party, for those of you who don't have a historical reference. And I believe that the pickups will be in the 40s, 40s, 40 seats pickups. Okay? Not a while. I remember, back in Clinton, Clinton lost 65 seats, and Obama lost in the 50s, I believe. I think it was in 60s, too, yeah. But we were starting from a closer starting point here, right? Then this is a very, you know, a 90-

Yeah, but that doesn't matter because it's about who, which party accumulates the power. So you're going to have a very solid House representatives in a Republican hands. I got it in the Senate right now, and this could change. I got four pickups for the Republicans. 52.48, the final call there. 52 will still be a problem because you can never count on Mitt Romney, who, by the way, yesterday tweeted that the reason for the red wave is Mitch McConnell, and America should be grateful for him.

that's nice you know look I don't care about Mitt Romney actually put an interview request for him this week it will be your least what show

no but he's so afraid and he won't do it and I know him for a long period of time so he's afraid and he plays playing a lot of games he's very bitter very bitter

yeah here's the thing Bill. The rhinos are worried about this new class coming in and the Democrats they show their desperation when they are clearly just going for their base. Everything is about their base right now. Just the fear of the Republicans

and what they can do. They know they're just trying to get their base to show up, I think. Yeah, that's what the Barack Obama play is all about. out. That's what Kamala, who came to New York yesterday, they're basically pleading with African-Americans who are pleading with them. So you're right there. But as far as the rhinos are concerned, I couldn't care less about that. I don't analyze party politics. I don't care what Mitch McConnell does. I don't get into any of that. Okay. The essential thing that Americans need to know is that now we live in an age of

unreality, which means that the President of the United States can go out last week and look into the camera and say to the American people into the world, the United States is one of the lowest inflation rates in the developed world. And he doesn't, and right after that on the NOSPN News on Bill O'Reilly.com, and I know you're there every night, Beck. Every night. I put 20 countries that have lower inflation rates than we do, right after that soundbite. Now, does Biden know there are 20 countries would know? Because he doesn't know anything. He's foggy.

He just walks around his fog. But the corporate media, where if Trump said something like that, that would be five days of evisceration. Right. I'm sorry for the big words, too. But five days of pounding, pounding, pounding. Biden can say outright these things that aren't true. media, which is the funnel of information to the American people.

But nobody believes the media and nobody, even their base is questioning now and looking and going, that's, I mean, that's crazy talk. It's just crazy talk. It is. It is a whole thing. That speech last week about American democracy being in peril if you vote for the Republicans, that was the theater of the absurd. So you look in there.

And you're going, we have one of the most robust elections, midterm elections, in the history of this republic this year. Okay? So I don't understand where the peril is. If everyone is engaged in this midterm election, where is the threat? The threat to them, of course, if you don't vote for us, the other people are not going to take your Social Security away and they're going to do this. Let me give you a really good example. And you might like this, Beck. Not that I really care whether you like it or not.

I know. I know. I know who you are. So the most popular cable news show is the five. That gets the highest ratings, if you can believe it, it means all a prime time. I would have committed. Yeah. Really?

And substantially over him. I would have committed Sapuku, Japanese term, if I had been in brief. prime time and a five o'clock show beat me? I think it did a couple of times. I remember a couple nights. I remember a few nights. Well, that's when I was on vacation. So anyway, you got this five, right?

And of course, Fox stacks it four to one conservatives against liberals. One liberal, four conservatives. Okay, so that's, and we understand. Yeah. So the conservative is Jessica. Tarlov. I mean, then liberal is Jessica Tarlov. You know her? No. Okay. So I used her when I was there for a little. She's an intelligent woman and she is taking Juan Williams's place. Remember Juan? I've tried to forget him, but thanks for bringing him up again. So Juan just went off. Jessica Tarlov looks into the

camera and says Republicans are going to destroy Medicare and Social Security. She says it's on national television, right? You mean on the five? Yeah, I don't think they even pay attention to what she says anymore. In fact, I know Gutfield doesn't pay it. No, I know. But I'm sitting there going, the easy question is, what do you base that on? Right.

What a Republican candidate in the entire country wants to do away with Medicare and Social Security? That's an easy question, right? Right. No. No. No. And this is what I mean. So these propaganda is now so easy to spit out there, unchallenged, that we live in this nation of cacophony.

Another big words, too, cacophony. And people are so angry about it. But here, the anger is going to help the Republicans. I have to tell you, Bill, there is some of this, I think, has been so overplayed. For instance, I noticed this week when they were saying, you know, democracy is at stake of these evil Republicans. I laughed. I mean, I just laughed out loud. I thought to myself, you've called us everything under the sun.

And I'm so sick and tired of it. It means nothing. No, it doesn't mean anything to you or anything. conservative people, Republican people, traditional people, it doesn't. I don't think it means anything to the left. I mean, you have to be an unbelievable moron to buy into any of this. The point is that we are in an angry time and history. Yes. The last election, the anger worked for the progressive Democrats. Correct. Because they hated Trump so much. Right. And many independents did as well that Trump lost. Not because of how he governed, because that was fairly good, but because of the

emotion of anger. Now, two years later, that anger has shifted into the conservative precincts, the Republican precincts. So that's why you're going to see a red wave on Tuesday. And that anger is not going to dissipate in three days, particularly if you're shopping for groceries. So, Bill, tell me what you think is coming for, let's say, first of all, Pennsylvania. Three seconds at the end, if you would. Pennsylvania is really comes down to South Philadelphia. So desperate measures are being taken in the city of Brotherly Love, which right now is one of the most dangerous places on the planet. I know.

I saw, hang on just a second. I saw a $35 million home. in Pennsylvania, new, $35 million home. The owner who built it tried to sell it only got 9.4. That's how bad things are in Philadelphia. Anyway, go ahead. So African-American voters have to come out en masse for Federman. Now, Federman has absolutely no connection other than he lets violent criminals out of prison

and most violent criminals are black. as our most victims, African Americans are mostly victimized by violent crime. Right, but I mean, to be fair, he also held an innocent black man at gunpoint because he thought he shouldn't be his neighborhood. I believe it was a shock. It might have been a bazook. Right. If he had one, he would have used it. Anyway.

Anyway, so that's what it's about. if the African-American voters mobilized in South Philly for Federman, he'll win. Because I was a terrible candidate. And he looks like Bella Lagosia out there. Anybody remember Bella? Yeah, I do. Let me ask you about the race for governor in New York. Yeah, I think Zolting can win.

It's the same exact thing as in Philadelphia. They're desperately trying to mobilize African-American votes in the city. I think Zeldon's going to take 90% of the counties in New York State. 20 million people here. He'll take 90% of those counties. But if they can stack the votes in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Manhattan for Hockel, then it's going to be a real close deal. So are you going to be, I mean, will they be able to pull that off?

I mean, New York is a nightmare right now. I know they might be able to. look, it's about Ward precincts. This goes way back to Tammany Hall in New York. Yeah. All right. So the precinct commander of the Democrats and the block commanders go out with 20s, all right, and send, and they give the people money, and they direct the people in if they're registered voters. And they say, you're going to vote for Hocel.

They don't even know who Hocel is many of them, okay? But they go, okay. and that is done literally on a block-by-block basis because the blocks contain thousands and thousands of people in the apartments. And this is what's going to happen. And so you don't know the distractions that are going to be there on Tuesday, but you do know that that operation is well underway because that's the only hope. look, Zeldon would attack crime.

Hockel won't. And I have liberal friends, and they won't admit to me they might vote for Hockel, but I say to them, if you vote for this woman, you're voting for more black people dead, because that is who's getting killed. So if you cast a vote for Kathy Hockel, you want more black people dead. I don't know if you think that's extreme, but it's true. it is absolutely true. She is not going to do anything about the violent crime problem in New York.

All right, real quick, I just got to throw this in. I noticed you didn't say the big story of the week, which was reported by CNN. After the U.S. Capitol attack on January 6th, members of the Oathkeepers met for a late night dinner at an olive garden in suburban Virginia and spent hundreds of dollars on. an Italian feast. Breaking news from CNN. So they went to an olive garden? They went to an olive garden. Yeah. And they spent hundreds of dollars? 100 of dollars. And they're not divulging of what was what was talked about there.

But anyway. I'm sure. All right. We've got to get running. So go ahead and I just want to update everybody on killing the legends. I know you're very interested in how that book is performing. Still a major bestseller, all the lists, everyone. And, uh, I. Excellent Christmas gifts, killing the legends, a lethal danger of celebrity, and it ties right in to the attack on the Pelosi home. Which, by the way, I mean, are people believing that this hippie, it was really a conservative? No, I don't believe it. I believe what you want to believe. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. But here's the kicker on this back, and I know you have many, many more important gifts than me. If the Pelosi's believed in self-protection, that story might have been 10 seconds. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about? Yep, I do. All right. Thank you so much, Bill.

Okay, guys. All right. The best of the Glenn Beck program. Rachel Bavard is with us now. She is the senior director of policy at the Conservative Partnership Institute. Rachel was on a podcast, I think a couple of weeks ago. Had a great conversation. She is in her 30s.

She's a big thinker and is talking about the things that we should all be talking about. Instead of just freaking out about what they're doing, what should we conserve and what should we get rid of? What is our agenda? Rachel's on to talk about that with me. Hi, Rachel. How are you? Hey, Glenn. Good to be with you again.

Thank you. So I'm looking at the commitment to America. and this is Kevin McCarthy's plan. And, you know, there's some really important things on it, but I don't think there's any really huge thinking on this at all. And they're redesigning all of America. Why aren't we talking about fundamental changes in our approach to freedom? I think because there is still no agreement on the right that that's even necessary.

And, you know, you and I have discussed this before, but there's just, you know, the Republican conference in the House and the Senate is a lagging indicator always of where the base of the country is. And in some respects, that's by design, right? We're supposed to rule in this country from the bottom up, not top down. But the top has to get it at some point. And my hope is that with this election they do. The problem is Republicans, they always learn the wrong lessons from winning an election. They think, oh, you know, we've been given power because we said the right things and they must love us. No, in this case, especially, the voters are coming to you because they want the beatings to stop, right? They're coming to you because the other guy has just gone

so completely insane that, you know, they don't love Republicans. They just think maybe they'll be less crazy. So instead of thinking they've won a mandate, they actually have to prove themselves. And, you know, I don't see a whole ton of sweeping inspiration, to be completely honest, in that document. But what I'm really going to look at, which I think people should really hone in on to see how serious these guys are, is when they come back in December in the lame duck session, the first thing they're going to have to deal with is a government funding site. Yes. There are some Republicans right now who are saying we should just pass a year, a year long funding bill, a massive omnibus package.

No, no, no, no, no. Why on earth? Why on earth would you, and just put this in very plain terms, what that would do is essentially lock in all these insane leftist Democratic priorities for the next year. Why on earth would you, a newly elected Congress, just cut your legs out from under you if you're a Republican majority? I have to tell you. I am for putting together, let's say, a bill that will, you know, keep it functioning for the next four months until you have your crap together to then stop this.

Put a new budget together, pass it, have the appropriations committee, put them back into work and start turning things off. You can't without the power of the purse. you will not stop the DOJ. You will not stop the Department of Education. You will not stop the IRS. You just won't. You'll have hearings and that's it. Yes.

So much of what is happening in this country is funded through the federal government. And that's exactly. And what you laid out at it, I think is exactly right. What they need to do is that short-term funding bill, a short-term continuing resolution to February or March of next year. And then they really dig into how the federal government is funding this tyranny against us because as you point out with the power of the purse that is how you control the bureaucracy that is how you control all these agencies and i'm sorry i think oversight hearings

are great but not if they're not tied to legislate correct they have no teeth who cares you're calling you're calling um uh you know the CDC up in front uh to say uh we want to know what's really going on you have no teeth what are you going to do about it i want answers and i want answers and i want them now. Otherwise, sir, you don't get any more funding. We'll be laying everyone off tomorrow. Now, come in here with the answers. The thing that I think, and I'd like to get your opinion on this, I think Monday, sorry, Wednesday, we should all pledge to each other that we are going to hold these people responsible and we are going to be in their face all the time. And the first thing that we have to do is get rid of Mitch McConnell. Mitt Romney just tweeted yesterday that Mitch McConnell is really

all the thanks to this coming red wave should go to Mitch McConnell. He saved us. Are you out of your mind? It's in spite of Mitch McConnell. Yes. That was one of the most tone deaf things I've seen. And I worked in Republican politics, so I see a lot of tone deaf things every day. But that was really significantly bad, especially when you consider Mitch McConnell pulled money out of winnable Senate seats in Arizona and New Hampshire. And in Utah, he hasn't spent a single penny supporting incumbent Mike Lee. And Mitt Romney has not, you know, the same state colleague has also not endorsed Mike Lee, which is just insane. Mitch McConnell is taking credit for Joe Biden's accomplishments, essentially, because he has not really done anything. in my mind, you know, to really push this majority across the finish line.

He wants people who agree with him. That's who he funds. And if you threaten to become an independent finger in the Senate, you will not receive funding from Mitch McConnell. So I not only think voters have to be aware of this dynamic, but I think Kevin McCarthy is going to have to stand up to McConnell as well, because especially on these funding battles, even if McCarthy keeps his conference in line,

his biggest opponent is across the Capitol in Mitch McConnell, in Senate appropriators, in Senate Republicans, you know, who want to see these massive bloated funding bills that do nothing except for, you know, potentially fund the war in Ukraine. That's what they want. They don't want any accountability. They don't want to fight for the priorities that people care about. They don't want to rock the boat. So what we have to see from McCarthy is aggression, I think, against Senate Republicans. Do you think we will see? Is McCarthy just, another empty, you know, power lover? Or do you think he actually wants to fix the system? McCarthy is an operator, right? You don't reach that position without being one. But I will say this. This is my candid assessment is that he is running and playing smarter than John Boehner or Paul Ryan ever did. And I think he is actually open to being led a little bit by his conference in ways those two were not. You saw a very adversarial relationship between Boehner and Ryan and the conservatives in his conference. McCarthy has at least rhetorically been open to them, and that's encouraging. So I don't know how he's going to end up, but I hope that he understands the stakes

of this moment. And to be honest, it's been shoved in his face to some extent. Pelosi has ruined the House of Representatives. House Democrats have just gone completely insane, and McCarthy has to see that. I mean, it's been in his own workplace. So I think maybe perhaps better than Senate Republicans, he understands how the absolute lunacy that's taken over the Democratic Party. And so I hope that that is a mugging by reality that forces him to deal with these things. So, I mean, I know the policies, but what has Nancy Pelosi broken in the in the House? Well, I mean, you just look at If you want to talk about the rules, she, you know, has stripped the last vestige of any minority rights that existed in the House at all. She gutted the motion to recommit.

She has removed any check on her own power. The motion to vacate the chair, which is what Mark Meadows used to unseat John Boehner. That's now gone because, you know, she wouldn't want that being used against her. But then also look at the January 6th committee. I don't think people fully grasp how that turned the institution upside down. It is the most powerful committee that's ever existed in Congress where suddenly you can demand the text messages and emails of your own colleagues, where you can demand that on U.S. citizens with no check at all. You can haul your political opposition into depositions and you can threaten them with contempt of Congress and subpoenas. That has never happened before, ever in Congress.

And now those precedents exist. if Republicans want to use them, they can. But she has fundamentally destroyed any attempt at collegiality in the House of Representatives. And I would hope that that comes back to bite them to some extent. You know, and I haven't even discussed proxy voting, the shame of proxy voting in the House of Representatives. Horrible. Magnetometers to enter the House floor. I mean, to me, who spent a lot of time working in the House of Representatives, the institution is

unrecognizable. Rachel, the, one of the priorities has to be that we root out all of the, the things, you know, we sit down with Fauci and find out, were you lying? And if you were lying, he should be tried and if he's found guilty, jailed. We have to start fixing some of these things that are so wildly broken where we know people, have done wrong. And Fauci, I believe there's enough evidence there to put the man in jail, but let's actually do the right thing and have a fair hearing and a fair trial. When it comes to the president, this president is so deep in corruption that he cannot serve the rest of his term.

if the Republicans start on all of these hearings and the economy goes through the floor, the Republicans are just going to be, they're going to say they're nothing but a do-nothing Congress. All they care about is hearings and trials and they could lose support. What should they do? I really only want to see from this Congress in the next two years. And I say the next two years because we are potentially, well, very likely in a divided government where you have a Democratic president and a Republican Congress. Joe Biden is not, is going to fight tooth and nail against any major Republican legislation. So the only two things

I want to see out of this Congress are funding fights where again, as we just discussed so much of this tyranny is operating through these funding bills and impeachments. And I mean impeachments, plural. Yeah, I agree. Because what we have learned, what we have learned from the Durham investigation, what we've learned from all these special counsel investigations and DOJ, they never punish anyone. Correct. No one has ever held accountable. And that's disappointing, but I think the lesson there is the only accountability these guys

have will be is through Congress, is through congressional impeachment. And so the only thing I want to see from divided government is funding fights and impeachment. And if they are not prepared to turn oversight in that direction, then the oversight is meaningless. And I think there's a great temptation, you know, for that to happen because every, member loves to go to these oversight hearings and create a viral YouTube moment, right? And that's all they're good for. What we need are people doing the hard work, people going through the documents,

people issuing subpoenas for bureaucrats, hauling them before Congress, you know, demanding documents, and then taking that information and holding them accountable for it. I will tell you, I will tell you, if they do just those two things, but they do them at a rapid, breathtaking pace, they have a chance of actually turning the country around and being looked upon as more than just, you know, a do-nothing Congress. They've got to move quickly and get through it as fast as they can and as reasonably as they can. Nobody wants to see a long, drawn-out thing. They've had four years now, or three years on Hunter Biden. You should have all of that.

let's go get it done move on because the american people uh they need to see the you're exactly right the funding cut off from these things somebody has got to stand up against it uh and against these executive orders and if it's not congress this time around i don't know if the people will ever elect republicans again they need to understand how serious this is uh People want to see action. And, you know, you have to kind of clear through this oversight mess, hold people accountable, get the funding bills under control in terms of what we're spending, but also what we're spending it on.

Yes. And then, you know, with, hopefully with that in the rear view mirror, you know, you have a Republican president in 2024. You have a Republican Congress that can come in with an actual forward-looking agenda and begin to implement those big changes, those big reforms to the country. and save us from this downward spiral. Yeah. But, you know, we can't just do the talking points.

We can't just be pounding the dais in hearing rooms. We have to do the hard work. And to your point, we have to do it quickly. And I think that is what is on our shoulders. They won't do it if we just go to the ballot box, vote them in, and then just let them run. We've got to be on them every step of the way. Thank you so much, Rachel. I appreciate it.

God bless. My pleasure. You bet. You can find her work at cPI.org. And follow her on Twitter at Rachel Bavard.