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Welcome to the podcast.
So it was an interesting show today.
There was a lot of Kavanaugh stuff, obviously.
We could go Kavanaugh 24-7 right now.
It's the huge story, and we went through a lot of the details.
The inconsistencies, there's a new letter out from the prosecutor who was, you know, her resume is amazing.
It's not some right-wing evil conservative resume.
And she was one of the people who questioned.
the witnesses during the Kavanaugh hearings.
This is a situation where she's now released kind of our final view on this,
and it is not positive to the accusations against Kavanaugh.
Kavanaugh comes off looking like there's just not much of the case against him.
We go into the details of that today.
Also talk to Jean-Carlosopo.
He's a Democrat who, I don't know.
If you're like me, you have these moments where you're like,
how can there be no Democrats who are standing up and saying,
look, I don't like Kavanaugh.
I don't think he's going to rule the way I want him to rule,
but this is ridiculous.
Listen, how can we have not heard more of that from just a normal sane Democrat?
Well, we've got one for you today.
You're going to hear that from John Carlos Sobo.
He goes into the details as to why this is happening and where it's coming from.
It's kind of scary.
And we talked to Larry Sharp, who's running for governor of New York.
He's a libertarian candidate.
And he talks a little bit about the Kavanaugh thing as well.
It's nice to hear people who aren't looking at this from a partisan perspective hitting what seems to be the same viewpoint.
And we talk about a brand new podcast, which you right now should go subscribe to.
It is called Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher.
Jeffie comes on and talks about his new podcast, which launches today.
So if you're listening to this podcast, take a second, go over, search Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher.
And click on Jeffie's wonderful, beautiful face and click subscribe.
You're going to get that every single day.
Jeffie's very unique viewpoints on the world.
So do that.
We talk to Jeffie about what's coming up on that.
And, you know, Kanye West, his comments, his appearance on Saturday Night Live was crazy.
We get into that as well.
It's all today on the podcast.
You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
It's Monday, October 1st, Glenn Beck.
Hey, some good news, California.
Things in your state are going to get even better.
You now have to have women on the board of directors for your company.
If you've got all men, out of luck.
government's going to tell you that's not enough now in California.
Yes, yes, they're just helping you.
And net neutrality has returned to California.
Governor Jerry Brown just signed into law, more or less,
the same Obama-era law that regulated the Internet on a federal level.
So now, by the way, California,
do you know why it costs you so much money to pump gas into your car?
In California, you can go right across state lines is a lot cheaper.
You ever knows that?
Yeah.
When you travel elsewhere,
it's not because we have gas ferries.
It's because the government doesn't tell us
that we need super special blends
that only exist in California.
That's why you pay so much.
But don't worry about it.
I'm sure this will be completely different
when you just regulate the internet differently.
Before we get into the dumpster fire that is this,
let's take a look at the state of California.
The People's Repul's Republic.
of California stand,
they, I'm just saying,
I think they hate having business done within their borders.
Is there any other way to look at this?
I just despise business.
It is literally you against the state
and you, the American business owner,
caught behind the iron curtain of California.
they have
they have now responded with
unprecedented
rulings
companies are high tailing it out of California
like never before
they've just passed Proposition 30
in 2012 that was the last
straw I think for many businesses
and can I tell you something
Californians you're thinking about moving
you can't believe how crowded
and the traffic here is even worse than
California don't come to Texas
It's awful here. We're really bad. It's nothing but rednecks and hillbillies. Don't move to Texas. Here's an idea. Fix your own state. You were just hit with $6 billion in new taxes. That kicked off the mass corporate exis out of the Sunshine State and here to Texas. The companies included Carl's Jr., Toyota, Jacobs Engineering, Occidental Petroleum,
Chevron, Kubota tractors, Nestle,
anymore you can think of, because they're coming in by the day here.
Since 2008, some analysts have calculated that up to 10,000 companies have left California.
I always wanted to grow up in California.
I mean, when I was growing up, I always wanted to live in California.
Just wanted to live in San Diego.
My old life, working.
KFMB, San Diego, 16 years old, that's all I wanted.
You couldn't get me to California.
California, really?
It's no longer what the West used to be.
California was the place that people went for opportunity.
People would pack up their entire family,
and they would brave the hostile Indian country
to reach California in search of prosperity.
Now it's just the opposite.
People are packing their bags and heading to the center of the country.
Again, don't move to Texas or Utah.
You're wrecking both of them.
And now, net neutrality.
It threatens California's biggest asset, Silicon Valley.
What are you going to do, California,
when big tech and internet companies surrounding the Bay Area pack their bags?
They've already spent the past year lobbying heavily
against this new state net neutrality law
because no matter how hard the left tries to sell net neutrality as a lot,
law that protects consumers, what it really does is open the gateway to full government regulation
of the internet.
Are you a dreamer creating a new Google or Apple inside your garage?
Well, in California, you're not going to have that opportunity.
In fact, you already don't.
Microsoft says Bill Gates couldn't do what he did.
now with the laws that are on the books,
you will never have the freedom that Larry Page or Sergey Brin enjoyed.
The mighty state of California will put its boot on your throat
and choke the innovation right out of you.
But don't worry.
As they have their boot on your throat,
they'll talk to you about how fair it is.
The call for freedom and prosperity is,
no longer go west young man you can't certainly say go east because if you go too far you run into the
same damn craziness just on another coast with a bunch of snow there's just a few bastions of
freedom left in the country we're all huddled and squeezed directly in the middle
google facebook amazon flyover nation well i would like to say they're waiting for you but i don't
know if they are waley waiting for you i don't know if they are waley waiting for you i don't know if
if you'll be welcome in those communities either.
Of course, you'll just move all of your people into the center of the country,
and then you'll destroy the center of the country like you have the coasts.
Congratulations, California.
You just took one more step at turning the once great state of California
into the formerly great city of Detroit.
It's Monday, October 1st.
You're listening to the Glimber.
program.
I got something last night.
Have you seen the copy?
By the way, hello, Stu.
Have you seen the copy of
Rachel Mitchell's memo?
Yeah, I'm reading a little bit about it.
Okay.
Pretty amazing.
This is really amazing.
Now, she, remember, Rachel Mitchell is the
Maricopa County Sex Crimes Prosecutor.
She is the one who interviewed
Kavanaugh's accuser,
Christina Ford.
She was the
She was the woman that was made fun of on Saturday Night Live this weekend.
She, well, she was a highly respected advocate for sexual abuse victims.
She is 25 years experience.
She's not political at all.
In fact, she was recognized by Barack Obama's head of Homeland Security
as the sexual assault prosecutor of the year.
Let me say that again.
The woman that the Republicans selected to,
dig in and find out
whether or not Dr. Ford's claims
were legitimate or not
was Barack Obama's
head of Homeland Security
Sexual Assault Prosecutor
of the Year.
So she's not a Democratic
hack. And also
not a defense attorney, right?
She's a prosecutor. Yes. She tries to
prove these things true. She goes in,
her expertise is, on old crime.
to be able to go in and say,
all right, how did this happen,
and be able to put it together
to make sure that the prosecution can win.
All right.
Before I continue and tell you what's in her memo,
let me just preface it with this.
You're not going to see any...
CNN's not going to be leading with this.
New York Times is not going to have this on the front page,
but it should.
The reason why they won't is because it is devastating
for Senate Democrats.
left-wing activists, the media, this is absolutely devastating to you.
I want you to know if you're easily triggered, you might want to turn off the radio for just a minute.
Here's what she wrote, quote, here's my bottom line.
A he said she said case is incredibly difficult to prove, but this case is even weaker than that, end quote.
So I've been saying he said she said, that's pretty difficult.
She said the same thing.
That's not what she's saying.
This isn't even he said she said case.
It's weaker than that.
Dr. Ford identified other witnesses to the event, and those witnesses, I'm still quoting,
have either refuted her allegations or failed to corroborate them.
She then adds, I do not think that a reasonable prosecutor would bring this case based
on the evidence before the committee.
I don't think a reasonable prosecutor
would bring this case not to the court,
not for prosecution,
but before the committee.
Nor do I believe that this evidence
is sufficient to satisfy the preponderance of evidence standard,
end quote.
It's pretty significant, don't you think?
Yes.
Again, like, she's being portrayed
as this Republican hack to go.
after this poor woman because she was a girl.
You mean Barack Obama's Homeland Security,
Prosecutor's Sex Crimes of the Year?
They picked someone who should have incredible amounts of credibility
even with the left.
Yes.
So she's saying that it won't stand up in court.
No prosecutor would even bring it
and no prosecutor should even bring this to the committee.
This explains, in my opinion,
why it was leaked.
in the final hour because everyone who saw this knew exactly what it was now she explains why
she says Ford has significantly changed her story several times in recent months in ways
that are shady have not been explained and defy common sense okay wait a minute
but based on what she said, not how she looked.
If you're looking at what she said, her story falls apart.
The most glaring issue with Dr. Ford's story is that she has given four different dates
for when the attack occurred.
And we're not talking about the difference of a few days.
This is from her memo.
According to the Washington Post, the 2013 notes from her therapy session
lists the attacks of having occurred when she was in her late teens.
Fast forward five years July 6th of this year.
In a text message to the Washington Post reporter, Ford said the attack happened in the mid-1980s.
This would be consistent with her therapist notes since Ford was born in late November 66
and would have been in her late teens from 1984 through 1986.
But then something changed.
Three weeks later, in a July 30th letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein's office, the date of attack changed to the early 80s.
Now, you might say, what difference does it make?
Well, if you say you're in your late teens, 16, 17, 18, 19, you're in high school, so you're 17 or 18, late teens.
You've been saying mid-80s.
Anytime you've ever talked about this before it became political.
mid-80s late teens.
Why did it change?
And how did it change within a span of three weeks?
She changes the date by a couple of years?
It gets better.
Again, I'm quoting the report.
It gets better.
One week later, when she goes to take a polygraph test with her lawyers,
she was asked to write down a statement describing the events.
In that statement, Ford wrote,
the alleged attack happened in the early 1980s.
But then something strange happens.
If you look at her written testimony for the lie detector test,
she scratches out the early 1980s and leaves it the 1980s.
perhaps because she knew early 1980s was false
and it was fresh in her mind and might set off the polygraph
then finally by mid-September on her first on the record interview with the Washington Post
Ford narrowed the date of the attack down to the summer of 1982
so let me recap Dr. Ford provided four different dates over the span of a couple of weeks
for what was supposedly one of the most traumatic and important events of her life.
Why is this significant?
Well, because if the attack happened when she was in her late teens or in the mid-80s,
as she first told the Washington Post and her therapist,
Brett Kavanaugh would have been 300 miles away at Yale University as a full-time student.
So it couldn't have happened in the mid-1980s or in her late teens.
There's more in the memo, and we'll get to it.
But this is a bombshell that no one will discuss.
It not only discredits Ford's allegation against Brett Kavanaugh, it obliterates it.
It casts serious doubts over her testimony.
Now, maybe the FBI finds some new groundbreaking evidence.
But this allegation should be considered debunked.
The Democrats know this.
the media knows this
and that's why they are
shifting gears. Have you
noticed now they're talking
not about Ford
now they're talking about was he
lying about teenage fart jokes
I'm not making that up
was he lying about
fart jokes and drinking
games? They tried to
make him a rapist then they tried to make him a gang
rapist
that argument is losing
now they're going to make him look like a liar
It's pathetic.
It's dishonorable.
It's un-American.
And none of us should fall for this.
Senate Democrats,
the American people see what this is.
Look at the polling numbers.
This is a sham.
It's an attempted coup of the United States and the Supreme Court
under the guise of the hashtag Me Too movement.
You need to speak.
and stand right now.
And if you don't,
I think the American people
will speak and stand in November.
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All right.
We're talking about the Kavanaugh thing.
And I want to talk to those people who I think are reasonable,
who can look at Ford and see her testimony
and say, okay, so why wouldn't we just do the FBI thing?
Okay.
In a reasonable world, you're absolutely right.
In a reasonable world, you're right.
But this is not about Ford.
And this is not about making sure that these charges stick.
It's why as soon as this happened, as soon as Jeff Flake said,
no, no, wait a minute, hang on.
we want an FBI investigation.
As soon as that happened, the narrative changed.
Now they're going after and saying he lied about drinking beer.
Okay?
He was for the love of Pete, people.
And the accusation is he wasn't blackout drunk.
I know.
How would you confirm he was?
I know, I know.
It's ridiculous.
I know.
So we'll get into that later because as an alcoholic, I got a lot to say on that one.
but they've changed the narrative
and they are playing the American people
and here's and here's how it's working
what they've done is they've turned this into something
that is more than Kavanaugh.
Look, if Kavanaugh is a guy who did this,
I don't want him on the Supreme Court.
None of us do.
Nobody does.
That's a bad thing.
But you can't just smear somebody.
You have to have some evidence.
So because of the lack of,
of evidence. What they've done is they've not made this about Kavanaugh. They've instead made
this about victims. Evidence? Play the elevator encounter with Jeff Flake.
I told the story of my sexual assault. I told it because I recognize in Dr. Ford's story that
she's telling the truth. What you are doing is allowing someone who actually violated a woman
to sit in the Supreme Court. This is not tolerable. You have to be a woman.
children in your family. Okay, stop. This woman has obviously a horrible experience in her life.
So when she hears an accuser, she immediately believes the accuser. Well, that's not reasonable.
She's obviously very, very upset because of what happened to her. And she wants to send a message
that that's not right. I agree with that. But that's not the standard of justice.
or the way we get justice.
Let me take you to a real-life scenario.
I didn't understand America when OJ was let go.
I didn't understand it.
I had no...
What is happening?
How can the African-American community be cheering this guy?
Well, it's very easy.
Once you're away from it emotionally,
and you actually look into it, it's easy.
What was happening was African-Americans were feeling
that there was no justice in America.
It's always the black guy that gets blamed.
And then he goes to court and the white system puts him behind bars.
And so they weren't rooting for him.
They wanted anyone to beat the system.
They wanted anyone to prove that a black guy could go to court and not be guilty.
That's what they wanted.
They wanted a victory against the system.
Totally understandable.
You ask the African-American community now, same people.
Did O.J. Simpson do it?
Yes.
We're all in agreement now.
Now that the emotions are gone, we're all in agreement that O.J. Simpson was guilty.
So the question is, was justice done?
The answer is clear.
No.
It's not justice.
That's social justice.
that's I want to feel good
that's social justice
not real justice
social justice
is evil
when it is when it is
played the way the postmodernist
and the progressives are playing it now
it does not provide
any kind of real justice
that woman who is in the elevator
her plight I'm sure was real
I know I could tell her feelings were
real and I feel sorry for her and I don't know what happened in her case I don't even know if it
happened here in America or where it happened but I will tell you this in the case of Ford we
cannot help as a society if you don't ask for help if you don't ask anyone in your circle of
friends for help we can't help you later especially 35 years later we can't help you
Now, I'm shocked that someone could be as traumatized as Dr. Ford was, and no one in her circle of friends in high school.
Let's say she was a sophomore in high school.
Well, no, she can't be a sophomore.
Could she be a sophomore?
She'd have to be a freshman or a junior.
I'm trying to figure out when Kavanaugh is at Yale and they're both still in school.
But let's just say it was sophomore year.
This happened to her.
This happens to her.
Are you telling me that there is no one.
in her life, no one, her mother, her sister, her best friend that wasn't told. But now when told,
doesn't go, oh my gosh, I remember, yes, it was that summer and all of a sudden you didn't
want to go to any parties anymore. Would you go to a party if you experienced what she
experienced? Would you want to be by yourself at a party? Would you change fundamentally at
parties enough for your best friend to at least now be able to go, I remember that. You were really
weird that summer. That didn't happen. That didn't happen. Nobody remembers anything. She doesn't
remember the year that it happened. And as the investigator has pointed out, she's changed this now
four or five times. We can't help you. You have to tell someone. You have to tell the police.
are not the country of the 1940s. We, I want to make sure that nobody goes to jail that is innocent.
But you know what that requires? Not social justice. Not believing the accuser, but looking at the facts.
You say you're for prison reform. And at the same time, you will not look at facts. You will not look at facts.
only want to go with the mob mentality,
you only want to go with what is politically correct
and deliver social justice.
You say you're against putting innocent people behind bars
and that our justice system is so corrupt
that it is put black men behind bars because of white society.
Look at what you're doing right now.
and if you were honest about the way you actually feel,
think of the construct that is built by the left.
All police are really bad people
that are going to throw innocent black people in jail.
White people are racist against black people.
How would, let's say, real racist cops and racist women
deal with an African-American who they say has assaulted them in the past?
Think of the standard you're creating.
Black people have been victims of this in the past
where they were unfairly accused of crimes.
I mean, you can go back to Emmett Till, right?
Like, you can go back.
There's a lot of these things that have happened over the years.
You are asking for that standard to return.
How are you going to react when a black man is accused unfairly
about some assault they didn't commit?
Are you going to believe the white woman then?
This standard they are creating is insane,
and I feel for the woman in the elevator.
You can tell she's very passionate.
I don't know if it's about politics or not.
I don't know her story.
But the one thing I do know about her story is Brett Kavanaugh wasn't responsible for it.
He had no role in what happened to her.
No.
No role.
No responsibility.
None.
Now, the argument on the other side is we're only asking for five more days.
We're only asking for five more days.
Well, if everyone was quiet for five days, that would be something.
Okay, we've got five days to look at this.
We have a week.
You have until next Friday to look at it.
But that's not what they're doing.
They've now moved the goalposts.
They're using these seven days to come up with something new to move the goalpost.
He lied about, you know, how much he drank.
No, he, oh my gosh.
All right.
And now they're saying, well, yes, you gave us the FBI investigation, but it's not thorough enough.
It's not enough time.
The only thing here is their delay tactics.
and how you can tell this,
and I think we're,
and I'll be honest enough to understand this,
if Brett Kavanaugh,
let's just say politics fail him
and Flake and Collins and Murkowski bail
and the vote comes down and he gets voted down,
there won't be a soul who gives a crap
about this woman's story.
They will all go,
they will not even,
she will not get a phone call returned.
Because you can still investigate this, by the way.
There is no,
there is no statute of limitations
on felony sexual assault.
salt in Maryland. They could still go after this. The second Kavanaugh is not in that seat,
they will forget about her and she will be a non-story because they don't care about her story.
It has nothing to do with that. They're just trying to delay this to try to get it past the election.
Now, here's the second point I want to make. Republicans, if this falls through and the very next day
you don't have a qualified candidate that you're going to put through.
you're out of your mind.
May I suggest right now that if Kavanaugh falls through,
you don't have the spine, something comes up, whatever.
There is one guy that has already gone through all of the confirmation hearings,
one guy who has already had every FBI background check,
one guy that everybody in the Senate knows, and that's Mike Lee.
If Kavanaugh goes down in flames Monday morning or Saturday,
the president should announce his next Supreme Court Justice pick of Mike Lee,
and you should vote on it next week because there's no need to delay.
He's already had all those FBI background checks,
and each senator knows exactly who he is.
He's qualified, he's clean, and quick.
You could get that done long before the election.
If I hear the Republicans, if this falls through, we are not prepared.
We weren't prepared for the...
I'm going to lose my mind.
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Jean Carlo Sopo is on the phone with this.
Jean Carlo is a Democrat.
You still consider yourself a Democrat, Jean-Carlo?
Yeah, I mean, I have remained the same.
I haven't changed.
I actually take these political quizzes every now and then,
and my ideology has stayed the same.
What's happening, though, is that the party itself has gone absolutely insane.
This is not what I signed up for.
Right.
I've been watching you on Twitter, and you've been one of the only Democrats that have come out and said,
this is nuts.
Give me your view and the lay
of the land from a democratic
point of view, from your point of view.
Sure. I think it's perfectly legitimate
to oppose Brett Kavanaugh's nomination
on the basis of differences
in judicial philosophy.
If you believe certain things, then he doesn't align
with those beliefs. That's fine. That's what the democratic process
is for. Now,
that being said, you leave it at that, right?
You don't go ahead and try to chop off someone's head,
and promote these outrageous accusations against them,
specifically the one by this woman, Julie Swetnik,
who don't even pass this note.
I mean, they are so absurd.
I actually attended in All Boys Catholic School, too,
so I could kind of speak to the culture
and how those communities operate.
I mean, the thought that a group of 15-year-olds
would be running a gang-raped cartel all throughout high school
and that nobody would know anything about it,
up until now is just
ludicrous. And then that eight, an adult,
this woman must have been like 20 years old
at the time that this happened, that she was
frequenting parties with high school
sophomores for two years.
I know, I know
his high school sophomore myself.
Oh, man.
Me and my buddies, we were,
the college chicks
were all over us.
You know, women,
women usually look for a younger
man, you know,
especially those in high school.
That never happens.
That never happens.
Especially Brett Kavanaugh, who, let's just be clear,
the guy sounds like he was a complete dork
when he was in high school.
This is somebody who kept, you can see on his calendar,
he literally has notes of what his parents would ground him.
This guy was a complete dork in high school.
He's like the kind of guy who, if he comes home with your daughter or your sister,
you'd say, she really did well for herself.
This is great.
I'm really happy.
So the thought that this guy was running a gang rape cartel in the suburbs of Maryland is just assonine on its face.
But the thing is that we have entered, I think that we've abandoned traditional forms of religion,
and now we're in the church of the social justice, right, where we just believe things based on a matter of faith,
based on historical patterns of injustices and notions, and that's what's happening here.
And they want to believe that this guy did all these horrible things because,
you know, women have had it
rough for many years and there
has been a lot of sexism and it still
exists. Therefore, he's guilty, right?
It's very similar to the rationale
that we saw in the OJ Simpson trial, but almost
in reverse. This is
like reliving the OJ case again
where OJ apparently
all the evidence pointed that he was guilty
but he, like
half the country thought he wasn't guilty
because the LAPD is allegedly
racist, right? So, you know,
Sean Carlo, I just did a monologue on this about a half hour ago that African Americans rightfully felt that the justice system had gone against the black man for so long.
Here is a black man fighting for his life and they wanted him to beat the system.
I don't think at the time they actually believed he was innocent more than they wanted a black man to beat the system.
You'll go back and you look at the polls then to the polls now in the African-American community.
They all know that he killed Nicole.
They all know it.
So what they were doing was saying they were rebelling against a system that was geared against them.
And they wanted that social justice.
That's exactly what's happening here.
Exactly, yeah.
And let me tell you, I think Dr. Ford, who testified she's a serious person,
she's as qualified as a witness as someone could possibly want on the witness stand, right?
But when you actually start dissecting her testimony, I think as you pointed out earlier,
it has tremendous flaws, just a series of inconsistencies that would make it physically
impossible for Brett Kavanaugh that had done this, or at least, at the very least,
it severely limits the window of opportunity, right?
So the fact that the entire apparatus of the Democratic Party, which I understand how it works,
I used to work in communications, in political communications.
So I understand how talking points are circulated and how people get on TV shows.
The fact that everything has been mobilized to support, look, the evidence just isn't there, right?
You don't crucify someone with zero evidence.
And then what they're doing now is that they're moving the goalposts, right?
I saw Lawrence tribe this morning.
Now he's like tweeting, this guy's a respected Harvard scholar,
right, law professor who's talking about, well, you know,
he must have drank when he was in college or whatever.
I mean, who cares?
It's completely irrelevant now.
I mean, I felt like tweeting at him,
hey, Lawrence, those goalpost seemed kind of heavy.
Let me know if you need help moving them.
So, Jean-Carlo, we're talking to John Carlos Sopo.
he is a Democrat
who has not lost his footing
with reason
so address people
address people who are let's say
20 something female
that says
you know but if there's a chance that this guy
did this
you know I don't
I don't want that guy on the Supreme Court
yes and there's also a
chance that he was DBB
Cooper, right? I mean, you have to go by the evidence in the case. You have to evaluate cases
based on the, you know, the unique dynamics of that particular situation. There are other people
that are just as qualified. Why don't we just go, I mean, this guy, why don't we just go to somebody else?
Well, because what he's, he's essentially being accused right now. He's essentially on a summary
public execution trial of a, the worst crime in the United States of America, in,
in our legal system, a short of murder.
So the question now is, do you commit this, right?
And there's no evidence to reach that conclusion.
In fact, all of the evidence that has been presented is exculpatory, right?
The guy's calendar clears him, right?
The testimony of his friends, clear him.
The absence of evidence also clears him.
So you have to cast that aside.
And then if you want to oppose his nomination based on his judicial record,
that's absolutely fine.
That's a debate I'm willing to have with people.
But what we cannot do is become a banana republic where we just start convicting people,
you know, air quotes on on mere accusations.
That's not the way that...
But this is in a court of law.
This is not a court of law.
You don't have to have that kind of evidence.
Right.
But you are absolutely right.
This would not meet any kind of legal standard, but it doesn't even meet a standard of common sense.
Because what you have here is a series of action.
accusations that have been made with zero corroborative evidence, zero independent evidence to back
this up. And then when you actually analyze the little evidence does exist, which is in the form of
testimony of the alleged victim, her testimony, she contradicts herself in ways that are significant.
She changed the timeline of when this happens four times. So I think people need to cast this aside
unless the FBI find something new. Well, but that guy, that guy, you know, the friend, Judge, Mark,
Mark Judge, he sure seems like a bad guy. Why won't he testify?
Well, he is going to testify to the FBI, but what we cannot do is play guilty by association, right?
Mark Judge, I've never met the man. Nobody, 99% of this country has never met this man, right?
So we're just going off of hearsay right now and based off his own memoirs of somebody who was a very troubled person who had serious drinking issues.
It's not Brett Kavanaugh. We're not nominating Mark Judge for the Supreme Court.
court. It's Brent Kavanaugh is the one who's
who's being nominated. And if people want
to take issue with his judicial philosophy, that's fine.
But what we can't do is destroy
someone's life, destroy his family.
The guy's like two young daughters. He coaches basketball
for crying out loud, right?
We cannot destroy somebody's life
based on mere allegations just
because we disagree with them politically
or ideologically. That's insane.
That's what they do in Banana
Republic and in third world countries. It's not
who we are in the United States of America.
John Carlo Sopo, a Democrat, when we come back, I want to ask you, if you don't mind holding on for a second, John Carlo. Do you have time?
I actually have to run to a meeting.
Oh, okay. All right. We'll run to a meeting. We'll talk some other time. Thank you so much.
I really want to hear from people that can respond to what I'm hearing from the Democrats now, which is we just have to stop all of these people.
Well, the people, all the people on the, all the people on the right, you know, we need to break up their dinners.
You know, as I said earlier, one, one prominent Democrat said we should, what stops us from disturbing people where they sleep?
Well, that would be their home.
Because these people are destroying our republic.
I have one question for people who think that the other side, either side, is the enemy.
one question that must be answered.
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So here we are about a month from the election, and things are changing.
Dynamic change is just over the horizon for our entire country.
And New York is trying to select, are we going to stay the course with Governor Cuomo,
or are we going to change course?
Now, the Democrats are basically, they are Democratic Socialists now.
The Republicans, I think, are just the status quo, is state by state you'd have to look at each.
But in New York, there is another choice.
A guy who seems wildly qualified for the job, his name is Larry Sharp.
He's a teacher and guest instructor who is taught English management, business at Yale, Columbia.
John Jay College.
He's a Marine Corps veteran.
His professional life,
his mother was having some issues,
and he's like,
I got to help her find a job.
I'm going to start a trucking company.
He did.
It was a big success.
And then he's a serial entrepreneur from there.
Larry Sharp,
welcome to the program.
Thanks, I appreciate it.
So, Larry, let's talk about
what it means to be a libertarian in New York.
It's actually a great thing, believe it or not.
I mean, to be forward with you, it's the only party that actually crosses the line.
Right now we have a situation to where Republicans don't want to vote for Democrats.
Democrats don't want to vote for Republicans.
And we have 70% of New Yorkers who actually don't vote.
This is actually learned helplessness.
It's an issue where people are saying it doesn't matter.
In fact, most New Yorkers, if you ask them, they're thinking about leaving the state.
We have over 100,000 leaving every single year, over a million have left in the past eight years.
I will judge my term by a very simple number, and that is, are there still 100,000 New Yorkers leaving every year?
If so, I failed.
If not, I'm winning.
I'm a business guy, and customers matter.
And as a governor, my customer is my population.
Am I drawing people into my state, or am I pushing them away?
And right now, we're pushing them away.
That's what's happening right now.
The Democrats have basically run our state and a statewide level for about 16 years, give or take.
So if they were going to fix this state, they would have already fixed it.
The Republicans, they've been watching this for 16 years.
So my question to any Republican is, where's their plan?
Where's their movement?
Doesn't exist.
I've been doing this for one year.
And in one year, I have both a plan and a movement.
They have nothing.
They have the other guy is evil.
I have actual ideas.
I am the only non-establishment candidate in this race, which is why we can win.
And you've seen it.
Non-establishment is the answer.
Left or right, it's the answer.
And I'm one who can actually, you know, I can give the right what they want and the left
what they want as long as you don't enforce your will on others.
And that's a libertarian.
Amen.
I will tell you, Larry, I think that the libertarianism is really dicey because sometimes
there's libertarians who are, you're not libertarian enough.
Well, wait, isn't that the point?
All the time.
Yeah, all the time.
And there are those libertarians that I think the last candidate for president was still kind of big state on many issues.
The great thing about libertarianism is it allows the individual to be as socially liberal as you want.
But it also requires you to be fiscally responsible because it's turning things back to where they belong into the hands of the people.
So tell me, go ahead.
In New York State specifically, we don't want one city running the entire state.
This is common in many areas, right?
New York State is so varied.
We have mountains as good as Colorado.
We have farmland as good as the Midwest.
We have lakes.
We have rivers.
We have Niagara Falls.
We have New York City, the biggest city in the entire nation.
We have it all in my state.
How in the world can that be run by one city?
It's impossible.
I want to allow counties to be counties and regions to be regions
and people to be people.
And it's totally fine.
The issue becomes,
why do I want to enforce my will upon you?
I want you to be as conservative or as liberal as you want to be.
People tease me and say, Larry, you're from Queens.
How do you know what's right for upstate?
I don't.
That's the point.
And guess what?
You don't know what's right for me in Queens either.
We're even.
How about I let you be you?
You let me be me.
And we can all be free together.
What a concept.
It can work.
It has worked. That's our original idea. We just haven't done it in a long time.
So, Larry, tell me your day one, your governor of New York. What do you do?
There are several things I have to work. And to be clear about this, when I win this thing, I can win this thing with about 30% or so the vote.
Because it's a five-way race in New York State, and we are a plurality state, not a majority of states.
We don't require 51%. There's a runoff. Whoever has the most. That's how New York State works.
So I could actually win this thing with 30%.
So it's actually winnable race.
So assuming that I win this thing, I'm going to have 30%.
30% to vote for a third party is a mandate that will shock everything.
To be forward to you, Glenn, this is the most important single election in the entire nation.
Not as a whole.
There are many other things that work more importantly as a whole, but as one single election, if I come in first, it changes the entire nation overnight.
It does.
Not just a libertarian party, but for any.
any third party.
Yeah, no, this is...
The duopoly.
Yeah, this is, I think, if people thought Donald Trump was ground-breaking, a libertarian
winning in New York would be an earthquake.
I mean, it would just change the political system overnight.
Even coming in second would shock people.
But first, would literally change the nation.
It would give every third party a better chance.
It would make better Democrats and better Republicans, because right now, Republicans just have
to talk about, I'll protect you from the Democrat. They don't have to worry about small business.
They don't have to worry about smaller government. They don't have to worry about lower taxes.
It's not important. It's just, I'll protect you from the evil left. And they'll let the same thing
in return. They don't have to care about civil liberties. They're supposed to be, but they don't.
They're supposed to go, I'm going to protect you from the evil right. But when there's a
third party there, when libertarians can point the finger and say, Democrats, what happened to
civil liberties? Republicans, what happened to smaller government? Now they have to change. They have to be
better. It will change how everything works. So day one is I have to recover from the shock.
There will be a massive, a massive culture shock within the state and within a nation,
but something else. I don't have a career to protect. I don't have people to pay back.
I don't have that. So I can actually just do what I want, which is amazing. I'm assuming that I
will be in court my entire four years. That's my assumption. And I'm fine with that. But I have to
focus on several things. One, a complete reboot of education. Two, a complete reboot of education. Two,
complete reboot of how we mandate every local county to pay for things that the people don't want
to pay for a thing called unfunded mandates. That's how the Albany, which is our capital in New York
State, and Washington, D.C., control every local county and take the power away from local governments.
Next, I have to create a culture of transparency, because the problem with local governments now is
they're enforcing the king's will. So they are not transparent. They are constantly being bullied,
and I don't want the state government to be, I'm the king and I enforce my will,
I want the state government to be, I will protect your rights of the individual against the local bully.
Sounds like you've read the Constitution.
What is that? I don't know.
I know. Don't worry. It's an old dusty, outdated document.
There we go, yes. I think we threw it away a while ago.
But yes, that's my point. I want to make sure that, look, if we focus on the individual more,
we will have better individual families, better individual businesses,
better individual people who are trying to do their jobs, growth locally.
I want the local communities to provide more value to each community.
We don't do that well in New York State at all.
We have things called regional economic development corporations,
which Albany, which is our capital again, decides where the money is spent,
and Albany decides where taxpayer money is spent within an individual county.
How about instead the counties can start their budgets at zero,
so they can decide what they want?
How about we add new ideas of volunteerism?
How about the concept?
I'll give you two interesting concepts.
One, instead of me focusing on lowering taxes,
how about I focus instead on raising money through ways other than taxation and through lowering spending?
Here's one idea that does both of those.
We have bridges right now in New York State, and one of them is named the Mario Cuomo Bridge.
We literally have an Imperial Bridge named after our royal family.
That's embarrassing.
How about instead that bridge is named the Staples Bridge or the Verizon Bridge or the Apple Bridge,
and we can lease naming rights for the bridge.
We retain the asset.
Again, I'm a business guy.
I'm not giving my asset up.
I'm going to lease naming rights.
No hybrid model that fails every time.
Straight contractual, that's all.
These are companies that are paying billions of dollars right now every year on marketing.
They drop $20 million on a stadium name that's using the weekends.
I got a bridge you can name.
And that bridge gets mentioned hundreds of times on every single day during rush hour in a 16 million person metro area
and 100,000 of cars pass it every single day.
You will easily drop $50 million in that, if not more.
I love that.
Texas, hang on just a second.
Texas, New York's not going to listen to this guy.
Texas, you should listen to this guy.
This is a good idea.
Yes, absolutely.
But here's the best part.
Now we have them do with maintenance.
Again, we own it, so we still inspect it.
So damage is still our responsibility.
Their job is just to repair it, right?
They begin to repair it.
What does that mean?
We're not spending money.
on the repairs, lower spending.
Not just that contracts don't come through Albany,
less corruption. Someone else is spending
it, so guess what? We'll actually fix bridges.
Bridges right now in New York State collapse.
We don't have enough money. These guys do.
We'll actually have safer bridges,
less money, and guess what? We can stop with tolls.
In New York City, some bridges cost $15 to cross.
I know. If you're a truck driver, I know from being a truck driver,
you pay by the axle.
You drop in $75 to $100 to cross a bridge.
less money, less corruption, safer, better service, boom, we raise billions of dollars.
This is just one idea and there are many of them.
No one else talks about them.
This is what we have to work on in New York State.
We can do that.
So, Larry, you are, you, it's amazing to me how we are running headlong, just willing
to give up everything that we have already, the freedoms that we have,
and embrace democratic socialism.
Yes.
But we won't embrace this very American idea.
How do you get the common sense Democrat and Republican who has been raised in New York so their mentality is, I mean, this would sell in Texas.
How do you get them in New York to see, guys, this, this works.
It's already selling to be forward.
The Republicans in New York have given up.
I mean, they don't show up.
The Democrats think, I'm afraid, so let's just vote Democrat.
The reality of it is, again, 70% New Yorkers don't vote.
Those who do vote vote because of fear.
We can't have fear be the reason why people vote.
It's simply the wrong answer.
Oh, man.
But I would say that in reality, I'm trying to change this to make it so that people stop voting for the less of two evils
and instead vote for someone.
And it is working.
I am actually using, if you've noticed, I'm using non-traditional media.
Tradition of media does not want to cover me, and polls don't want to deal with me.
But non-strithic media is working, and I'm getting out there, and people are seeing me, they're responding to me, and this is what's working.
The way to make this happen is through non-traditional media.
And believe it or not, people are getting it.
They actually like it.
I hear all the time people say, Larry, I don't agree with everything you're saying, but you actually answer questions.
You actually have a plan, and they love it, and that's what I say.
And look, my plan may be faulty.
Maybe they won't, we can't lease all the bridges.
Maybe we can't raise $50 billion.
Maybe we can only raise $30 billion.
That's still a win.
Yeah, I know.
I'm still happy with that.
Let me ask you.
Can I hold you over for one more break?
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