The Glenn Beck Program - The Sickening Impeachment Process Carries On | 12/19/19

Episode Date: December 19, 2019

All this impeachment nonsense has Glenn feeling downright nauseated. Mitch McConnell addresses the Senate and lays out everything wrong with what Democrats have done. If the Senate takes up the impeachment, it will forever lower the bar to impeach a U.S. president, and the parties will never stop impeaching. Tulsi Gabbard simply voted "present" on the articles of impeachment. Even the press understands how partisan the impeachment is. Rep. Karen Bass and her "uncontestable" facts on impeachment turn out to be quite contestable. Chuck Todd, of all people, thinks Donald Trump doesn't revere the Constitution. Remember when Democrats warned against a partisan impeachment? What a difference 20 years makes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the podcast. Glenn is in Florida today for Turning Point USA's convention. He's going to be speaking there. You can check that out. I hope at least he's going to make it to the speech because he seemed a little unhealthy, a little unwell during the program. And there were a couple of incidents you might catch if you're really, really perceptive. And it is a little troubling that it kept happening right around the same pieces of audio. I hope he's feeling better. We'll have that. We have some clips from Mitch McConnell, who was speaking today about. the impeachment, just giving a riveting electric speech that only Mitch McConnell can give. And we have the uncontested facts. So one of the things that you heard Democrats go back to over and over again is the facts are uncontested. No one is disagreeing with the facts here.

Except every time they said that, they would list things that are absolutely contested. We broke those down as well. And we get into everything that has happened with the impeachment in this quote unquote historic day. here on the Blaze and the Glenn Beck program. Quickly, also want to remind you if you're looking for a Christmas present for someone that you love or someone that you don't like all that much, you can go to blazedtv.com and give them a subscription. You get 20 bucks off of it right now or buy one for yourself.

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Okay, we'll try to go through all of the audio of this sacred, sacred moment and this really, this heavy weight that was around the necks of the Democrats yesterday. We will start there in 60 seconds. This is the Glenn Beck program. All right, let me tell you about our sponsor. When it comes to buying their first home or managing the mortgage you already have,

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Well, it's a big news day, obviously. It is a big news day. Yeah. And you just don't look great. I mean, well, that's not very kind, but oh, my, oh, hang on. Oh, all right. Yeah.

I hate that feeling. You know, you know, when you get to that place where you're just like, oh, I just wish I would throw up, you know? And do you think it would be better if you just did? And then once you're doing it, you're like, no, that was a horrible, horrible mistake. And it's the worst moment of your life for about 30 seconds. Yeah. But then at the end, you do actually feel better, usually.

Okay. All right. Well, let's let me just, you know, let's play some audio here. because maybe that'll I can get past things. Let's play some audio here. This is this is Chuck Todd

talking about the president yesterday and how he feels about the and how he feels about the Constitution. Here's Chuck Todd. You know, I think this is the real challenge with sort of dealing with this president is that I don't think he really even appreciates the Constitution.

All right. I don't know if he has this reverence for it that most elected officials in Washington eventually do end up having a reverence for it. He doesn't seem to sort of understand the founding. I mean, I think one of the fairest criticisms of him by historians is that he doesn't seem to understand the story of America, if you will, and the story of America begins in those pages in the Constitution.

So I don't think he really appreciates it. I don't think he reveres it. I think he just is very dismissive. All these are just more silly rules. you know, it's no different than a something hearing. I apologize, America. I, ooh, man, that's one of the most unprofessional things I've ever done. I'm sorry, Stu, what was he saying there about?

He was talking about how the president, you know, doesn't really revere the Constitution, and he was discussing how, you know, how Chuck Todd is, you know, type of person who can kind of like make that determination. No, no, no. Oh. That was largely the, the concept he covered there. Okay, I apologize. I didn't, I didn't even.

Do you want to do more audio? Is that? I, yeah, I don't think I can go on. Can we listen to, uh... What else do we? Oh, let's listen to, uh, Andrew Mitchell on, uh, on NBC,

uh, from yesterday about Nancy, Pelosi and and her attire. The seriousness of this as it is being taken by the Democrats as well, reflected symbolically, perhaps in the colors being worn or the lack of colors being worn. Oh, really? The members, the women members choosing to wear dark colors. Nancy Pelosi is a woman of a person of primary colors.

You see it. If she's not wearing white, she's wearing bright colors. She's certainly always, you know, well-appointed and beautiful, beautifully arrayed, if you will. She's wearing black. Oh, God. Oh, God. And that is a symbolic expression of how somberly they are taking. Somebody empty.

It's sacramental. It's sacramental. And you can talk about the politics of it. There's no question that Nancy Pelosi came to this reluctantly. Yes. Oh, my. I'm not sure if you heard any of that, Glenn, but it was Nancy Pelosi. And they were talking about Nancy Pelosi's dress and how importantly symbolic it was,

that Nancy dressed in black because she normally dresses in primary colors. Are you okay? Okay. I'm, I'm, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm okay. I'm okay Okay Did you want to react at all To the

No I You know what? Can we You know maybe we should take a break Let me just take a break For just a Just a couple of minutes We'll just take a quick break

Okay Sure Probably help me out Just a bit Oh Okay All right Can somebody give me a toothbrush

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Terms and conditions do apply. We have 10 seconds, station ID. I don't think we should play anymore. We changed the subject for just a few minutes. I just need to change the subject for just a... Well, I know you didn't really get a chance to comment, though, on the solemn event that Nancy Pelosi was discussing in her black outfit. Yeah, let's let's let's let's let's let's let's let's let me just change the subject.

Well, I don't want it to pass without you having a chance to actually address it because he played the whole audio clip and kind of just weren't able to... I'm sorry, I don't know if I hope. Well, just a review. So Nancy Pelosi was a very solemn, serious event. And the type of event where she really respects the Constitution and she wore black to, like almost a... Because it was a sad and she came at this... Okay, okay, okay, we got to change this.

we have to change the subject. We can still talk about Nancy Pelosi here, but let me just. She refused to commit last night to delivering the articles of impeachment to the Senate, citing concerns about, get this, an unfair trial on removing President Trump from office. Senior Democratic aide say the House was very unlikely to take the steps necessary to actually send. the articles to the Senate. I have to tell you, if you want to impeach the

president, impeach the president. But you have so, no pun intended, trumped everything up. You have accused him of everything but murder. You continue to say you have the facts, you have the case. And then it turns out you don't have

the case. And so you have to come up an article of impeachment of of what was it defying Congress or what was that one Stu the they have abuse of power and then obstruction of Congress not an destruction of justice an obstruction of Congress that's not even a thing if you are a co-equal branch you can obstruct Congress you you you you you have to take it to the Supreme Court. And that's what Donald Trump was saying. That's what the Republicans were saying. Some of the people who wanted to testify said, I've got one branch telling me to testify. I have another branch that is equal telling me not to testify. I need the third

branch to tell me what to do. If the third branch would have had a chance to rule on it, one way or another, then you could say you're obstructing justice if the president didn't move and the court system said he had to. But you don't have obstruction of justice. It doesn't exist with three equal branches. Obstruction of Congress, yeah. And it's interesting. There was one Democrat that voted yes on the abuse of power, but no on obstruction of Congress. there was one singular Democrat.

This is a Soviet-style court. That's what's happening. I try to remember what they called them. They were like phone courts, Soviet phone courts, where the judge actually had a phone right next to his bench. And at any time, the phone could ring, and the premier would be on the other end. And he's like, he's guilty rule now.

Okay, guilty, guilty, guilty. Execute now. That's what this is. And you can tell by the sound effects that are being tested on the stamp. Sorry, we're backstage right now in West Palm for Turning Point USA. So if any of the dramatic movie, it's because I'm starring in a new film called Shark Nato. And it's happening right now. Oh, my gosh, the sharks are coming.

Okay. So you're just going to have to put up with this in the... background. They are running. This is ridiculous now. It's funny, though. It makes it seem like you're making a really important speech. It does.

Like the aliens have invaded and you're about to inspire Randy Quaid to stop them. Right. I think this is my walkout music tonight. I'm giving a speech. I told them to make me sound like almost a god. And I think they've done a pretty good job of it, quite honestly. Okay, good. Now,

The Democrats, to have Nancy Pelosi, everything they've accused Donald Trump of, they have done themselves. They accused him of colluding with a foreign government to influence our election. They did that in Ukraine. How do we know? We have it on tape. We have a recording made of the guy who is the head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, which was run by the O'Brien Bureau, which was run by the Obama administration and spooky dude himself. And it was the State Department's little toy over in the Ukraine that told them what they could prosecute and what they couldn't.

So we have the head guy on tape at a bar talking to somebody saying, yes, this is what I did to throw election for Hillary. We worked together and we did these things. convicted two convictions in Ukrainian court for tampering with the U.S. election. So they say they colluded, Donald Trump colluded? Well, no, the Mueller report showed. No, he didn't collude. And more on the Mueller report as that comes out.

I'll tell you about this here in a few minutes. So they colluded. Then, what else did they say? Abused power. just to destroy his opponent in 2020. Okay, let's say that's true. Let's say that's true. But when you know how the FBI,

under the Obama administration, and with members of the DOJ, State Department, CIA, and what they brought to the FISA court, what is that? Is that not trying to smear and destroy their political opponent in 2020?

The Democrats have done this for the last three and a half years. They have used their power and their offices to destroy a man. They know they're not going to be able to beat. Instead of actually listening to the people and giving the people a good option,

they've run this socialist thing that is so out of touch with America. they have praised anybody who spits on the flag. They have praised anybody who is teaching that our founders are old white, racist slave owners. They have preached that the Constitution is an old dusty document that cannot possibly relate to our times. Wait a minute.

And now you're preaching the exact opposite? They've conspired with the FBI, the State Department, with the aid of the Oval Office under Obama, with the help of Hillary for president and the DNC to smear, accuse, lie, literally forged documents submitted to a court, illegally obtained FISA warrants. They have spent millions of your tax dollars

as funding for this, I believe, secret anti-Trump operation. They used official government resources to fraudulently accuse, smear, and destroy their 2020 opponent. They have used their offices to coordinate radicals, NGOs, foreign governments, universities, unions, and the vast majority of the press, as dare I say it, co-conspirators in a relentless campaign against a sitting duly elected president of the United States, who, by the way, if I might remind you, I was not for. I still don't like many things this president does.

I don't personally, I really don't agree with him. I really appreciate some of his policies. I try to call it as I see it. I really thought, really thought collusion with Russia was a real possibility. It didn't happen. They have used, they have taken their oath of office to protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, which this is going to be an important and scary one,

and quite dramatic, you can tell, because the music is starting again, I think. Oh, good. Maybe the call is coming from in the House. Oh, boy. So let me read it this way. The members of our U.S. Congress have used their oath of office to protect and defend

the Constitution of the United States, which explicitly states in its preamble that the government should promote domestic tranquility. Has your Congress done that? Are members of the U.S. House promoting domestic tranquility and bringing us closer together as a nation? Or are they doing the exact opposite of promoting tranquility in every possible way and every possible opportunity?

I say you let the music stand. I think you let the music speak for itself. I think that's God. I'm not sitting backstage while they're just trying out different things. No, no, no. If you're hearing music, it's coming from God because I don't hear any music. They have done the exact opposite in promoting tranquility. And they've done it every possible way at every possible opportunity.

One of the things, they claimed in 2016 that Donald Trump would destroy the faith of the American people in our free and fair elections, claiming everything from an unprecedented attack on our most sacred institutions to an act of hostility approaching sabotage that we would only expect from a foreign agent. Yet they themselves claimed that the election was stolen right after the election and that Trump, was an illegitimate president, that he was somehow or another, a foreign agent. Is anyone going to be held responsible for any of this? You want the trial, you impeached him. Let the trial happen. This is an unconstitutional act.

You are not promoting domestic tranquility, period. Back in a minute. All right. Let me tell you, you know, when the founders crafted the Constitution, Oh my gosh, it sounded like Pelosi. When the founders crafted the Constitution, they had one thing in mind above everything else, and that was individual liberty.

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The sale ends December 31st, so go to SimplySafeBek.com now and find out how much money you're going to save when you order today. Remember the sale ends at December 31st at Simplysafback.com. Welcome to the program. I am backstage at Turning Point USA, where I'm giving the opening keynote tonight. for the convention. The president is going to be here tomorrow. This is an amazing organization that didn't even really exist five years ago, and now it is sweeping the colleges and universities. Tonight's crowd of about 5,000 is all between the ages of 18 and 24 years old. This is an amazing American movement. And Charlie Kirk, who I think is Charlie going to join us

today or is that tomorrow? He is really quite a genius on the way he has put this whole thing together. I think tonight I'm going to be talking to future senators and future Congress. You know, assuming that there is Congress and

Senate and everything else down the road. For Nancy Pelosi saying that she's not going to transmit the documents for impeachment is in itself an abuse of power. Do we have Mitch McConnell speaking on this here in a few minutes live? President Trump. Yeah. Oh, here he is. Over the last 12 weeks, House Democrats have conducted the most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern history.

Now, as concluded in the first purely partisan presidential impeachment since the wake of the Civil War, the opposition to impeachment was bipartisan. Only one part of one faction wanted this outcome. The House's conduct risks deeply damaging the institutions of American government. This particular House of Representatives has let its partisan rage at this particular president create a toxic new precedent that will echo well into the future. That's what I want to discuss right now. The historic degree to which House Democrats have failed to do their duty, and what it will mean, for the Senate to do ours. So let's start

at the beginning. Let's start with the fact that Washington Democrats made up their minds to impeach President Trump since before he was even inaugurated. Here's a reporter in April of 2016. April of 2016. Donald Trump isn't even the Republican nominee yet,

but impeachment is already on the lips of pundits, newspaper editorials, constitutional scholars, and even a few members of Congress, April 2016. On inauguration day, 2017, the headline in the Washington Post, the campaign to impeach President Trump has begun. That was day one. In April, 2017, three months. months into the presidency. A senior House Democrat said, I'm going to fight every day until he's impeached.

That was three months into the administration. In December 2017, two years ago, Congressman Jerry Nadler was openly campaigning to be the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, specifically, specifically because he was an expert on impeachment. That's the Nadler's campaign to be the top Democrat on judiciary. This week wasn't even the first time House Democrats have introduced articles of impeachment. It was actually the seventh time. They started less than six months after the president was sworn in. They tried to impeach President Trump for being impolite to the press.

You're hearing Mitch McConnell from the floor of the Senate. His response to Nancy Pelosi and the impeachment in the House yesterday. We're changing President Obama's policy on transgender people in the military. All of these things were high crimes and misdemeanors, according to Democrats. Now, this wasn't just a few people. Scores, scores of Democrats voted to move forward with impeachment on, three of those prior occasions. So let's be clear. The House's vote yesterday was not some neutral judgment that Democrats came to with great reluctance. It was the predetermined end

of a partisan crusade that began before President Trump was even nominated, let alone sworn in. For the very first time in modern history, we've seen a political faction in Congress, promise from the moment, the moment of president election ended, that they would find some way to overturn it. A few months ago, Democrats three-year-long impeachment in search of articles found its way to the subject of Ukraine. House Democrats embarked on the most rushed, least thorough and most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern history. Chairman Schiff's inquiry was poisoned by partisanship from the outset. Its procedures and parameters were unfair in unprecedented ways.

Democrats tried to make chairmanship into a de facto special prosecutor, notwithstanding the fact that he is a partisan member of Congress, who'd already engaged in strange and biased behavior. He scrapped the precedent to cut the Republican minority out of the process. He denied President Trump the same sorts of procedural rights that houses of both parties had provided a past presence of both parties. President Trump's counsel could not participate in Chairman Schiff's hearings, present evidence or cross-examine witnesses.

The House Judiciary Committee's crack at this was even more a historical. It was like the Speaker called up Chairman Nadler and ordered one impeachment. Rush delivered, please. The committee found no facts on its own, did nothing to verify the shift report. Their only witnesses were liberal law professors and congressional staffers. So, Mr. President, there's a reason. The impeachment inquiry that led to President Nixon's resignation required about 14 months of hearings, 14 months,

in addition to a special prosecutor's investigation. With President Clinton, the Independent Counsel's inquiry had been underway literally for years before the House Judiciary Committee actually dug in. Mountains of evidence. Mountains. mountains of testimony from firsthand fact witnesses, serious legal battles to get what was necessary.

This time around, House Democrats skipped all of that. It's been just 12 weeks. Twelve weeks. More than a year of hearings for Nixon, multiple years of investigation for Clinton, and they've impeached President Trump in 12 weeks. 12 weeks. So let's talk about what the House actually produced in those 12 weeks.

House Democrats rushed and rigged inquiry yielded two articles, two, of impeachment. They are fundamentally unlike any articles that any prior House of Representatives has ever passed. The first article concerns the core events which House Democrats claim are impeachable, the timing of aid to Ukraine. But it does not even purport to allege any actual crime. Instead, they deploy the vague phrase, abuse of power, abuse of power, to impugn the president's action in a general, indeterminate way. Speaker Pelosi's house just gave into a temptation

that every other house in history has managed to resist. Let me say that again. Speaker Pelosi's house just gave into a temptation that every other house in our history has managed to resist. You're listening to Senator Mitch McConnell, his response and the impeachment proceeding. not even allege has committed an actual crime known to our law. We're going to continue to take this as long as we can. We'll push our break as late as we possibly can.

They disagree with a presidential act and question the motive behind it. So let's look at history. Andrew Johnson impeachment involved around a clear violation of a criminal statute, albeit an unconstitutional statute. Nixon had obstruction of justice, a felony, under our laws. Clinton had perjury, also a felony. Now, the Constitution does not say the House can impeach only those presidents who violate a law, but history matters. History matters and precedent matters.

And there were important reasons why every previous House of Representatives in American history restrained itself. restrained itself from crossing this rubicon. The framers of our Constitution very specifically discussed this issue, whether the House should be able to impeach presidents just for, quote, maladministration. Just for maladministration. In other words, because the House simply thought the President had bad judgment or was doing a bad job, they talked about it. They talked about all this when they wrote the Constitution.

The written records of our founder's debate show they specifically rejected this. They realized it would create a total dysfunction to set the bar for impeachment that low. That low. James Madison himself explained that allowing impeachment on that basis would mean the president serves at the pleasure of the Congress instead of the pleasure of the American people. It would make the president a creature, a creature of Congress, not the head of a separate and equal branch. So there were powerful reasons, Mr. President,

why Congress after Congress for 230 years, 230 years, required presidential impeachment to revolve around clear, recognizable crimes, even though that was not a strict limitation. Powerful reasons why for 230 years, no house opened the Pandora's box of subjective political impeachments. That 230-year tradition died last night. Now, Mr. President, House Democrats have tried to say they had to impeach President Trump on this historically thin and subjective basis because the White House challenged their requests for more witnesses. And that brings us to the second article of impeachment.

The House titled this one, obstruction of Congress. What it really does is impeach the president for asserting presidential presidential. privilege. The concept of executive privilege is another two-century-old constitutional tradition. President starting with George Washington have invoked it. Federal courts have repeatedly affirmed it is a legitimate constitutional power. House Democrats requested extraordinary amounts of sensitive information from President Trump's White House. Exactly the kinds of things over which presidents of both parties have asserted privilege in the past. Predictably and appropriately, President Trump did not simply roll over.

He defended the constitutional authority of his office. No surprise there. It's not a constitutional crisis for a House to want more information than a president wants to give up. That's not a constitutional crisis. It's a routine occurrence. The separation of powers is messy by design. Here's what should have happened. Here's what should have happened.

Either the president and Congress negotiate a settlement or the third branch of government, the judiciary, addresses the dispute between the other two. The Nixon impeachment featured disagreements over presidential privilege. So they went to court. The Clinton impeachment featured disagreements over presidential privilege. So they went to the courts. This takes time.

It's inconvenient. That's actually the point. Due process is not meant to maximize the convenience of the prosecutor. It's meant to protect the accused. But this time was different. remember 14 months of hearings for Richard Nixon years of investigation for Bill Clinton stations we're going to take our network break I'm cutting my live commercial just so we can get to your local break now we break and back in just a moment you're listening to Glenn Beck Mitch McConnell is still speaking from the

the Senate floor and we will continue to monitor it here at the top of the hour. And when we come back, we will summarize it all for you. I think he's leading to something. I'm not sure what he's leading to yet. But we'll have that right after your local news, station identification, and we'll come back and put that into perspective. So much to cover. It is historic.

not in the way the Democrats think it is. What comes next? We'll explain when we come back. You're listening to Glenn. Hello, America, from Turning Point USA. We want to move our commercial just a little bit, see if we can go back to the Senate floor with Mitch McConnell. If he is still talking, he was just a few seconds ago.

It sounds like he is starting to say that the Senate won't pick this up because it's unjust and too low of a bar. We'll go back to him as the program begins right now. This is the Glenback program. Okay. Let's go right to, let's go right back to the floor of the Senate. In 2016. He's been talking over about 30 minutes.

Which outcome would serve the stabilizing, institution preserving fever-breaking role for which the United States Senate was created and which outcome would betray it. The Senate's duty is clear. The Senate's duty is clear when the time comes

we must fulfill it. What does that mean? Now, Mr. President, I understand there are three bills at the desk due a second reading in block. still what does that mean that they will take this on the second time on block HR 397

an act to a mental revenue code of 1986 so I mean you know it's hard to tell I mean there's been a lot of talk over the past 24 hours that the House won't even send the articles of impeachment to the Senate

because they are we are they're trying to come up with some sort of negotiation to change the terms they think it's not going to be fair, which is obviously, I mean, this is all ridiculous. I'm just making their arguments for them. Yeah, this is unconstitutional.

Look, the Democrats are now... Constitutionally, it's their right to do whatever they want. They don't have to send it over. It's just completely against all, you know, traditions. For them, for them to demand certain standards or whatever they want to demand, after rejecting them in the House,

the House does not have control of the Senate. the House's role is to act like a grand jury, to gather evidence, to have an investigation, to then, if they find those in committee to be actionable, to then put together articles of impeachment, and then vote on them. Then if they voted in the affirmative that, yes, the president is impeached, then they have to transmit it over to the Senate. This is where Nancy Pelosi has said, we're not going to transmit him. We don't know when we'll do that. But this doesn't look like it's going to be fair, so we may not transmit them. Well, what the hell is that? You pass to them.

Now send them over to the Senate. And if the Senate isn't fair, let the chips fall where they may. Your job is done. You are not the judging body. you are supposed to be the investigatory body. Now, what I just heard from Mitch McConnell, by the way, let me break this down because there are so many people that are waking up today and they're thinking that Hillary Clinton is now our president. Let me explain impeachment. Impeachment is in the Constitution and it doesn't have to be a crime.

It doesn't have to be something. historically it has always been a crime. This is the first time in American history where there is no crime alleged. And there is no evidence. It is literally opinion. One of the articles of impeachment doesn't, that's not even, it doesn't even make sense. Obstruction of Congress. There are separate powers in each branch.

So anyway, they have come up and they've decided that what they found in the Schiff stuff, this has nothing to do with Russia, nothing to do with anything that you've heard about for three and a half years, this is the last 12 weeks and only those things that relate to Ukraine. And so in the last 12 weeks, they've put together this case, if you can call it that, and they have voted on it yesterday. and that means their job is done. They are like a grand jury. Now it has to go to trial.

The trial is in the Senate. However, remember, this is like a courtroom, but it is a political courtroom. So the political courtroom, the political grand jury can, never has until today or yesterday, but can say, no crime is committed, but we think that he's violated the trust

of the American people. And so we want him impeached. Okay, well, there's no crime there. But they have the right to do that because this is a political courtroom. Now they send that, just like a grand jury, sends that to a prosecutor in court. You will now have the court in Senate. And you will have the Chief Justice, Supreme Court Justice Roberts. He will come in and he will sit in the,

the vice president's chair, if you will, in the Senate. He will be the judge and you will put on an actual court case. However, because this is political, if the Senate decides there's nothing to this, just like a judge can do in a criminal case, they can throw the case out and say this is a ridiculous case. case dismissed case

thrown out this happens all the time in courtrooms now that is looking like what the Senate is going to do if they throw it out the

the Democrats can then go back and impeach him if they win the Senate highly unlikely but if they win the Senate and he's still the president, they could take this back up and re-impeach.

For the same stuff, if the Senate decides to acquit him, then it's different. Then it's double jeopardy. Then you cannot bring this up again. So they can throw the case out, they can acquit him, or they can have a trial.

Now, fair trial? Well, fair is I guess all in the eyes of the beholder here because there are Democrats that think what happened in the House was fair I don't believe it was I think it was the craziest thing

I've ever seen in my life and believe me if you've listened to me for more than 10 minutes if you've listened to me over the years you know even if it is the most unpopular thing I can possibly say.

It would be destructive to my own career. I have a long record of doing that. If I really believed that this president did these things. I said this when they started the Russian investigation. I thought there was a good chance that he did, that he was colluding with him. He wasn't. And now we find out even more from the FISA court. That it was even worse.

The FBI was making things up out of whole cloth. There's nothing here. And so what Mitch McConnell just said was when our time comes, we'll do our job. But before that, for 30 minutes, he was pretty much laying out a case that if the Senate takes this, if we accept this case and try this case, it will set the press. that this is enough to impeach a president. This is enough. And he said, we'll never stop impeaching.

Both sides now will just come up with whatever they want to come up with, and they'll impeach. And it's true. I was talking to a legal friend of mine who is a constitutional scholar. And I asked him during the Hillary thing, why the hell is she not in jail? Now, I can't take another second of how the Democrats are saying, no one's above the law.

Really? Really? That's what you're going for? No one is above the law? Because it seems every illegal alien is above the law. It seems like any time you want to say they're above the law, they're above the law. Anytime it's political expediency. anytime the Clintons have done anything, they are above the law.

Anytime Sandy Berger, Sandy Berger went into the National Archives. He took documents and destroyed them pertaining to what the Bushes and the Clintons knew about the Saudi relationship. We don't even know what those documents were. I don't know how that's possible because I'm sure we had records of them.

He took them out, smuggled them out. You know what his penalty was? He lost his national security clearance for a couple of years. If I went into the National Archives, I've been into the vaults of the National Archives. I've stood in the room with the documents. You're not allowed to even touch them. If I would have tried to take one document from the National Archives, from the National Archives,

I would have gone to prison. He loses his security clearance for a couple of years? Really? Does that sound like justice? Now, maybe this has gone on forever, and we could play the, well, what about?

We could do that. We could do that. But that's a fundamental misunderstanding of who we really truly are. Here's who we are. And we had to explain, it to a very powerful man a long time ago because a decent respect of people demands an explanation. If we're going to sever the bonds between each other, then it demands that we say why.

And here's why. Because we hold these things self-evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain, an alienable rights, and among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And government is instituted among men to protect those rights. That's who we are. Yeah, well, we've never gotten there. No, we haven't. Martin Luther King, he didn't say burn the system down.

He said, America, remember who you are. remember the charge our founders gave you. This is our mission statement. So don't tell me about what aboutism. We have to start over every single day, because every single day we make mistakes. See, we used to be a Judeo-Christian country. We used to accept that.

And what did that mean? You were forced to go to church. No. No. What that meant was, we believe that there is a God and that he's going to judge us. And we should serve our fellow man. That's the best way to serve God is to serve our fellow man.

And because we know we're human and not God, we believe in forgiveness. We believe in justice, not punishment, justice. And once you've served your time, once you've paid your debt, you can come back. We don't believe in forgiveness anymore. We play what aboutism on both sides. This is very easy for me to say, oh, really? People aren't above the law?

Look at your record. But I'm only going to say those things to those people in power. Because those people in power, no matter what Chuck Todd says on how. how everybody reveres the Constitution. Have you ever talked to somebody in Washington, D.C.? Because I have. They don't give a flying crap about the Constitution. It's the last thing on their minds.

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They made a big deal leading up to it because they were so confident that Hillary would win. And what happened, Trump won and they immediately said, oh my gosh, this is an illegitimate president. And as if that wasn't bad enough back then, Hillary has gone on a world speaking to her, claiming now as fact, as have members of the House, claiming that he is already conspiring to steal the next election. How is that helping? How is that helping?

Helping us. As a nation, you don't have any proof of that. If you do produce that proof. They're co-conspirators in this, the mainstream media, have claimed, all of the charges against the president from House members, from the steel dossier, everything true, verified. The steel dossier verified, or at least partially verified by officials, eventually saying that officials have not disproven anything in the steel dossier, which begs the question to me, now that we know about the steel dossier, which officials in the House actually verified this? We know from the idea.

report, the charges in the steel dossier were found quickly to be akin, and I'm quoting, to internet rumors. In other words, conspiracy theories. So we have to know which officials claimed otherwise. Why? For how long? What did they gain? The FBI, now we know because of the Inspector General, forged, admitted, distorted, and outright lied to the FISA courts. The FBI continued to use steel as a source and instructed a DOJ official to meet with him 13 times after the FBI closed him as a source with cause, not just an unusual, never done. Who at the FBI ordered this? Who ordered the agents to falsify and doctor documents for the FISA courts? Was this done to destroy or discredit a candidate for president, or did they do this routinely?

And this is vital for us to find out because of national security. The question is today that we should be asking, who is going to be held accountable for the lies, the corruption, the abuse of power, the obscene abuse of the secret FISA courts? Who will be held accountable for the use, publication, and weaponizing of the steel dossier? Who will be held accountable for the millions of dollars and man hours spent on this hoax? Our sponsor would like to remind you that they have a huge holiday offer going on. In fact, it's their biggest sale of the year. I think this is the biggest sale. I started with SimplySafe when literally I think they had five people in the office.

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All right. Glenn, you mentioned last half hour. you were going through that whole litany of just absurdity that we're dealing with. And you mentioned that the left had talked an awful lot about how Donald Trump, if he loses this election, is going to say that he actually won and ruin our democracy over it. And he will cause distrust. He will separate people from this sacred, trusted institution of the polling place. And it's important in the context of listening to every Democrat yesterday wax poetic about the Constitution to realize that they don't mean any of that.

I mean, it's the second that the opposite argument will benefit them, they will just continue to make it. And because our news cycles go so fast these days, we forget how prominent an argument this was by Democrats in the lead-up to the 2016 election. This is just a minor collection of some of the commentary coming from Democrats as we went into 2016. On this solemn day, I recall that the first order of business for members of Congress is the solemn act to take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Our duty first and foremost is to protect the Constitution and to protect the interests of the American people. That is why we must take this solemn step today. Ben Franklin said we have a republic if we can keep it. Just remind us of the words of George Washington,

the Constitution is a guide which I will never abandon. And liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty. Okay, sure. This is interesting. This is not what you called for, but this is very, very entertaining. No, good reminders of their pandering to the Constitution. the past few days. And, you know, seeing Sheila Jackson Lee actually uphold George Washington is an interesting thing. It's a, it's something new. To me, there's like physical pain

involved hearing Democrats talk about the Constitution in a positive way. Yes. Because you just know they don't care about it. And I guess we're at a different level when they start throwing the God thing around using that for their political advantage, which is all another segment. But here is the 2016 clips. We are here today because the Republicans in the House are paralyzed with hatred. And until the Republicans free themselves of this hatred, our country will suffer. With allegiance to our founders and a heart full of love. Well, apparently we don't have the 2016 clips.

I don't know what to tell you at this point. I feel like this show today. This is, this is, this is, this is amazing. This is the, this is the third most. impeachment process. Yes, this show is the third most listened to show in America, okay, which probably makes it the third largest broadcast in the world. And we, oh, we're this bad. It just shows you how horrible the free market has solved this problem of a good national radio program.

I mean, you'll have to take my word for it, I suppose, here. I suppose it was good. But this was a big thing. This was something, and you know what? What's really frustrating about it is when Democrats make these arguments, when they fall back on these traditional, constitutional, God-based, the solemnity of our times, the sacred nature of our constitution and our democracy and our institutions, we, number one, know all of those arguments are fake. They only use them when they need to use them.

And number two, we know the media will act as if they believe they're serious. And that's what's so frustrating about it. Well, no, what's really frustrating is a court document that comes from the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. It was filed two days ago in Washington, D.C., and it was mentioned in the press. But I just want to put this in context. The Democrats who have put this whole investigation together and have abused their power by abusing the FBI and getting the FBI as a co-conspirator, the DOJ, the State Department, and now FISA without their knowledge. I just want to read what came, what was filed by the United States Foreign Intelligence Service Court.

This order responds to reports that personnel of the FBI provided false information to the National Security Division, the NSD, and the Department of Justice, and withheld material information from the National Security Division, which was detrimental to the FBI's case in connection with four applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for authority to conduct a law. electronic surveillance of a U.S. citizen named Carter W. Page. When the FBI personnel misled the NSD in ways described above, they equally misled the FISA court. Now, that's the opening paragraph. Now, remember, this is the House investigation with Robert Mueller. So they're overseeing this investigation. And they are on television saying, we have proof positive. They had nothing.

They had nothing. And what they did have had been falsified. This is the FISA court. This is unprecedented. No time since the FISA court has started, was there ever a time that any name was even verified that we were looking into them? So Carter Page is the first person that the first person that the FISA court. FISA court has allowed to be known that they were surveilling. Now they are scolding the FBI.

Now listen to the second paragraph of this filed by the FISA court just two days ago. In order to appreciate the seriousness of that misconduct and its implications, it's useful to understand certain procedural and substantive, substantive, substantive, again, the third most listened to, how did this guy ever get on radio. Substantative requirements that apply to the government's conduct of electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes. Title I of the Foreign Intelligence Service Act requires the government to apply for and receive an order from FISC approving a proposed electronic surveillance. When deciding whether to grant such an application, the judge must determine, among other things, whether it provides probable cause to believe that the proposed surveillance target is a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power.

So they had to be convinced that Carter Page was an agent of a foreign power. Those terms defined by FISA is an agent of foreign power cannot solely be based on activities protected by the First Amendment. So in other words, hey, he's going to communist rallies. They have to have evidence that he is colluding with a foreign power. An electronic surveillance application must be made by federal officers in writing upon oath and affirmation. When the FBI seeks to conduct that surveillance, the federal officer who makes the application is an FBI agent who swears to the facts of the application. The FISA judge makes the required probable cause determination on the basis of the facts submitted by the applicant or the FBI. These statutory provisions reflect the reality that in the first instance, it is the applicant agency that,

possesses information relevant to the probable cause determination, as well as the means to potentially acquire additional information. Notwithstanding that the FISC assesses probable cause based on information provided by the applicant, quote, Congress intended the pre-surveillance judicial warrant procedure under FISA, and particularly the judge's probable cause findings, to provide an external check on executive branch decisions to conduct surveillance in order to protect the Fourth Amendment right of any U.S. person. Accordingly, the government has a heightened duty of candor to the FISA courts in ex parte proceedings.

That is, ones in which receive the government does not face an adverse party, such as proceedings on electronic surveillance applications. The FISC expects the government to comply with its heightened duty of candor in ex parte proceedings at all times. Cander is fundamental to this court's effective operation. With that background, the court turns to how the government handled four applications it submitted. On December 9th, the government filed with the FISA courts public and classified versions

of the OIG report. report. The report describes in detail the preparation of four applications for Mr. Page. It documents troubling incidences in which the FBI personnel provided information to the National Security Bureau, which was unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession. It also describes several incidences in which FBI personnel held from the court, information in their possession, which was detrimental to their case for believing Mr. Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power. It goes on and on and on. The handling of the Carter Page application as portrayed by the OIG is antithetical to the heightened duty of candor. The frequency with which

representations were made by the FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession and also in which they withheld information detrimental to their case. It calls into question whether information contained in all other FBI applications is even reliable. Who's going to pay for that? Who's going to get fired for that? Who's going to go to jail for that? Who's investigating that?

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Like, we're not stopping news coverage and dealing with it every single time it happens. It would happen probably all the time. The founders predicted very clearly that it would eventually become a part. issue and it shouldn't. But here we are. I mean, this is what this was. A partisan vote that I don't think means much of anything. No, it doesn't. It doesn't mean anything. This is purely politics now. And that's why I think it's so grotesque to see the mixing of the sacredness of the day in the Constitution with politics. Hello America and welcome to Thursday, live from West Palm in Florida. where it's not so sunny. It's raining. Kind of sucks. Florida, we expect more from you. I'm at Turning Point USA for the weekend. And it is going to be a crowd tonight as I give the opening keynote of about 5,018 to 24-year-olds that are on fire, really on fire for the Constitution and for America.

It's remarkable what Turning Point has become and what they have done in such a short period of time. More on that and the impeachment in one minute. This is the Glimbeck program. So the holiday season when everybody's out panic shopping for the last minute, the last gift, the combination golf club fishing pole, or the combination foot warmer Bluetooth speaker. Love that one. Why not be the one that gets something really special for that special person in X-chair? I'm getting one for my wife, and it's no secret because she told me that's what I was getting her for Christmas,

which actually I am both disgusted by and really grateful because no matter what I buy my wife, nope, she didn't like it. Now, she went shopping the other day. I'm pretty good. I mean, I'm sorry. I've lost my man card a long time ago. but I am pretty good at clothes shopping for my wife. I love to go clothes shopping with my wife.

No, no, no. With a woman who is willing to try something different. Willing to try? My wife with me? Not willing to do anything. Not what I'm. She's like, I'm not wearing that. That is ridiculous.

I'm not wearing that. That shirt would make me look so fat. So she goes out, what, two days ago with my son-in-law, who is like this, you know, he used to work at a really fancy store in Manhattan, and he was a professional shopper. And so he went, she went out with him. And I swear to you, Stu, when you see the clothes that she bought, everything she pulled out, I wanted to say, that's that, I sent that to him to say, have her try this on, ever try this on.

She would have never, I told her at the end after she did a little fashion show. And I told her at the end, I said, admit it. You would have never tried any of these on had I said it. And she's like, yeah, you're probably right. So anyway, I'm both disgusted that she's telling me what to get her and grateful that she's told me to get her in X chair. An X chair is the best chair. She sits in mind when she comes to the office. She'll sit in mine from time to time.

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Do we have that ABC reporter? Can you play that, please, for me? A divided country indeed. And it's worth noting that this is the first impeachment of the three that is like this, that is absolutely almost rock solid along party lines. People may not remember that in the Clinton impeachment, four articles of impeachment were. sent to the floor by the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee. Two of them failed in the Republican-controlled House. People made up their own minds individually.

This is absolute partisanship right down the line here. Absolute partisanship. This is from a member of the press who were unindicted co-conspirators, in my opinion. So this is a member of the press saying that, and that's exactly what happened. Tulsi Gabbard, she actually came out and said, look, I'd vote for censure or something. I think something happened. But this is, I want to vote for something. But I also have seen how ridiculous and unfair this whole thing has been.

I can't vote for this. So she abstained. You also had, what, two other Democrats? It was a four? How many Democrats? So you had two Democrats? So you had two Democrats that voted with the Republicans. You had one Democrat, Tulsi Gabbard, who voted present.

And you had a fourth Democrat who split, who said, yes, I'm impeaching on abusive power, but not on obstruction of Congress. Which totally makes sense. Totally makes sense. In some ways. Abuse of power is at least a legitimately impeachable offense if you do it, right? The question is whether Trump did it. Obstruction of Congress is not an impeachable offense even if you do. it. It's just a made up

nonsense. The president not listening to Congress and saying, no, I have a right as an executive branch is required by the Constitution. It's required. If they

wanted the answer, they should have taken him to court, but they wouldn't do that. And so it's, what we have is direct partisanship. And if, if you look at the Federalist paper 65.

Federalist 65. James Madison talks about this, talks about what this is going to become. And listen to what he says. This is, I mean, I find this to be kind of amazing. This is, yeah, it's Hamilton and Federal 65, as you mentioned.

In many cases, impeachment will connect itself with the preexisting factions and will enlist all of their animosities, partialities, influence, and interest on one side or the other. And in such cases, there will always be the greatest danger that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of the parties than by real demonstrations of innocence or guilt. I mean, is that not where we are exactly? Right. And people are claiming that this is, that all of these facts are there.

There are no uncontested facts. It's a matter of opinion. It's a matter of whether you see, the president as a bad guy that can do no right or as a guy that might have done something but didn't in this case. Listen to this. Yesterday, who was it, Stu, that was speaking and gave their presser and said, you know, there are uncontested facts. Uncontested facts. And she wanted to go over them.

Do we have that? Yeah, Karen Bass. There's a three-part thing here. And she's talking about the facts are uncontested. She has three facts. I wanted to see if you could contest them in any way, because I know I couldn't. They're uncontested. Karen Bess, she's a Democrat from California.

Let me look. The facts are uncontested. Fact one. Uncontested. The president abused the power of his office by attempting to shake down the president of a country that has been our ally. Trump wanted President Zelensky of the Ukraine to dig up, to make up dirt on Vice President Biden because he sees him as the biggest threat to his reelection.

Okay. Boy, that's a hard one to contest. No, the president was looking into corruption in the Ukraine, which is exactly what the last president was also apparently doing when he was using and abusing the Anti-Corruption Bureau and actually transmitting information to the U.S. and to the press to decide. credit Donald Trump that those two people went to prison or were sentenced to prison and convicted in a court of law in the Ukraine. But what we think happened was that the president said, hey, I want to know about these things. And by the way, there's a $8 billion of ours that is missing. We want you to reopen all of these investigations. And one of those happens to be on Hunter Biden. Now, you could say that he is just trying to shake down and dig up and told him to make up details, but you have no proof of that. None. That's your reading of that. Right. It's completely contest.

So I can contest it. Half the country contests. And I don't even know, making up dirt is almost like a, not even accused. I mean, that's just like, he's just taking, she's just taking it to the 10th level. No. And calling it unconstitutional. People were, people last night were saying, bribery, bribery, bribery. Well, that was something that the Democrats were saying, but you'll notice that's not one of the charges. Nope. Because they don't have any evidence of it. It doesn't fit. So all of these charges that you have heard, this just hearsay, rumor, conspiracy theories, all of it in an echo chamber between the house and the co-conspirators in the press. There's no facts there.

Well, maybe you just didn't know about fact number two. Listen to this uncontested one. Fact two. Trump wanted Zelensky to go to before the press and announce an investigation of Biden, hoping the mere announcement would create doubt about Biden and strengthen Trump's hand in the 2020 election. Now, okay. So may I contest? Please.

Please do. Okay. The president did say he wanted Zelensky to make an announcement that he was investigating all of the things that he was talking about. Well, we should point out though quickly before you move on off that point. That was what Sondland said. And he's, as far as I know, the only person who has actual knowledge in his mind, at least, that this was the thing that actually was needed. In fact, other people have come out since his. testimony and said that is not what they

actually wanted. They did not want an investigation. In fact, the officials in Ukraine have also confirmed that. So that one, I mean, it's certainly contested by the people involved in it. Hang on. The Ukrainians did say that they were going to make an

announcement, but they didn't think that it was required by Trump. Well, they talked about going on CNN. Is that what you're talking about? The interview, they were going to go on CNN. They lately have been saying, we were just going on CNN and there was a scheduling issue. So they are denying it now, of course.

Right. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, the Sondland thing was Sondland said that I told them that this is conditional. You have to do these things or the president is just not going to give you this money. And the Ukrainian said, no, that was never our understanding. Sondland never said that to us. We were going to make an announcement, but it was a scheduling thing. We just didn't make the announcement. but we never thought it was because we had to.

And beyond this point, even if it is true, here's the real problem. The real problem is if I have $8 billion before I give you anything else, because the president said in the springtime, I don't trust them, they're all dirty, I don't care who they are, I want nothing to do with Ukraine. So if he has that attitude going in, you know what, before I give you any money, I want to see that you're serious about ending corruption. So go ahead, make some announcements. I'm not going to take you on your word because, as he said in the phone call, I think some of the people around you are part of the problem. I think you still have people around you that are part of the problem.

As it turns out, the president was right on that. So how is that hurting anything? How is that not in our national interest? Contested. You could read it either way. All right. Our sponsor this half hour is all about cybercrime and how to fight it with Norton 360. I mean, man, we are just entering a really frightening time.

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Well, she has me on the rope so far So far you're in big trouble She said they were uncontested And I mean sure You contested both of them And so by the way Not only is multiple pieces of testimony But also half the country are contesting them

But you can't contest this third one This is where she puts you away Right and okay All right Here is fact three from Karen Bass Fact. Fact three. Trump obstructed Congress by engaging in a cover-up. Trump has refused to comply with congressional subpoenas and has blocked current and past employees from testifying before congressional committees. Congress is a co-equal branch of government, and one of our central responsibilities is to provide oversight and investigation of the administration.

The very checks and balances the framers built into the Constitution, so no one branch would have unchecked power. Interesting. The House of Representatives has no choice but to vote and pass articles of impeachment because President Trump has abused his power and obstructed the ability of Congress from performing our constitutional duty. Okay. All right. Okay. First of all, can everyone agree that this is a partisan vote? That's all this is. Partisan. We know it. They voted. Not a Republican voted for it. In fact, some Democrats, the only thing partisan or nonpartisan was the vote against this. impeachment. All right. So she said it right there, and I think I can contest it. She said that they are co-equal branches. Okay. So when you're a co-equal, for instance, you and your wife, you're co-equals, right? You're doing your house together. Co-equal. If there is something that you cannot agree on, Your wife, nor you, can say, we're doing it my way without becoming a monster, a dictator.

Now, you can negotiate that, or you can take that to a marriage counselor or to a divorce court. That's how you would have to solve it. Now, Congress cannot tell a co-equal branch what to do. otherwise you would have the co-equal branch, the co-equal branch telling the other branch, you're going to do this or I'm going to put you in jail. You can't do that. The president has a right and President Clinton, President Obama, president from presidents throughout history, have done exactly what President Trump did.

You even have White House people saying, I have one branch telling me one thing, another branch telling me the other. What do you need? The third branch. Two against one. The third branch is then required to settle the argument between the two branches. It's a brilliant system of checks and balances. But Congress doesn't know how to balance all. they know how to do is write checks.

That's their only understanding of anything called checks. I mean, to summarize your point here, I think I can do it rather eloquently here, Glenn, if I may. Yes. The very checks and balances the framers built into the Constitution, so

no one would have unchecked power. That's a quote from her accusation, but that is actually the defense of why they wouldn't do it. If they're a branch that has their own ability, to say no to you. That's what they're doing.

And as you point out, it's been established and reestablished through nine different presidencies including Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. They have both said, they do not have to let these people testify.

It's insane. It's insane. And that's why they didn't want to take it to court. Because they know they'd lose. Look, they have, this is why they had to falsify the FBI falsified documents to get it to the Pfizer report.

Why? Because they knew they didn't have the evidence if they dealt honestly. Why didn't they take this to the court? Because the court has already ruled on this over and over again, and they didn't have any compelling evidence. None. Yeah, I mean, the phrase used is absolute immunity. If you are a close advisor to the president to have to come testify. Absolute immunity. That's how clear it is.

And again, this is every single president. More lies and conspiracy theories from Stu. When will it end? And the conservative source of the Obama DOJ. Oh, my, oh my. Oh, my gosh. Now he's using Obama. It was somehow different under Obama.

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This kid starts turning point. And it is now in all 50 states. There are 5,000 attendees tonight. They're all between 18 to 24 years old. And it's just remarkable what this organization has done. It's been pretty... Tonight I'm going to give... Pretty impressive.

Tonight I'm going to give the keynote. And I'm a little nervous because they're... I mean, I've never been cool. Ever. No, I know. Yeah, that's something I'm pretty... And it's a room full of... On board with.

...a cool kids. Yeah, thank you, Stu. I appreciate that. Yeah, because these are... I mean, you are not exactly... in the demographic for turning point USA. No, I was never cool when I was 18 to 24 years old. I was never, I was, I was like 50 when I was 20.

And now that I'm 50, I'm like 700. Yeah. I've never been cool at any stage of my life. And so, you know, walking, this is going to be like walking into my lunchroom in high school. I just feel like it's going to end up with me getting beat up after the speech. I don't know what conference you're at. I don't think that you're going to get beat up at your speech. Just the way it feels.

How many? Compare yourself, though, from, you know, back in your 18 to 24 days. I mean, how many people are at the conference that you've seen dressed in colonial garb or doing magic tricks? Is there anything that you've seen? Shut up. That matches your experience? No. No.

No. No. No. I have nothing relatable to be able to share. I will say you're the list of people who. who are there. I mean, they have everybody. I mean, I mean, you know, obviously, first of all, Donald Trump Jr. will be there when you're talking about the president. You got Eric Bowling,

you. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is there. Ben Shapiro. Rand Paul, Laura Ingram, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Ali Stucky from the Blaze as well. We'll be there. Candice Owens, Benny Johnson, Graham Allen, Dinesh D'Souza is there. Rudy Giuliani's there. I mean, Ted Cruz is going to be there. Dave Rubin from the Blaze will be there. James O'Keefe will be there.

And Chad Prather will be there as well from Blaze TV. I mean, a lot of people there and then you. And it just seems like there's a... One of these things just doesn't belong? Yeah. Are you going to be out like behind... Like by the dumpster behind? Is that where the speech happens?

I really... Yeah, thank you for that. No, I think I'm speaking. I think I'm delivering the keynote open tonight. But any idea what you're going to say? I don't know. To get those 18 to 24 year olds all riled up in the Glenbeck style. Card tricks, have you considered card tricks?

I have considered that. I have considered that. It's going to be the longest 30 minutes of my life. I really am expecting, you know, I might just say halfway through food fight. I don't. I just don't know. Anything to distract because they're just going to be like, This guy wasn't cool when he was supposed to be cool.

That's true. And, you know, I will say, I'm a little concerned, you know, given your ability to remain broadcasting today. There was some health issues, and I, you know, you don't look great. Well, it's butterflies. No. Thank you. It's, thank you. It's butterflies.

And, you know, hey, I showed up, even though I, you know, my stomach is a little, is a little weak. but I think I'm past it and I think I'm okay. I apologize if you were listening earlier, but, you know, I think I'm okay. I'm feeling much better now. That's good. I was glad to hear.

Would you like to hear some audio kind of the coverage of the last 24 hours? Because it's been a historic day, Glenn. Yeah, it was a historic day. History. History was on a plane yesterday when much of it was made, so I don't know exactly what was said. I'll say a lot of people on the right are mocking this idea

that it was a historic day. And I can understand why because it kind of seems like this passing piece of, you know, I don't know, partisan nonsense. However, I will say if you look at the secondary definition of the word historic, which just says of the past, I mean, it has passed. Okay. So, I mean, technically it is historic. In that way, it has occurred during history. Right. But everybody kept it in perspective that this was a partisan.

deal and you know they didn't make it about the constitution or you know god or anything like that no that's true i i i appreciate when they make it uh about how they love the constitution so much that's my favorite chuck todd no no no let's do this don't don't don't talk oh i just got a wave of yeah i just got a wave again of uh just a not are you okay little lasia there yeah okay i don't know what triggered that well that's okay we'll cover it with here uh chuck todd uh talking about uh you know how much Trump reveres the Constitution? You know, I think this is the real challenge with sort of dealing with this president is that I don't think he really even appreciates the Constitution.

All right. I don't know if he has this reverence for it that most elected officials in Washington eventually do end up having a reverence for it. He doesn't seem to sort of understand the founding. I mean, I think one of the fairest criticisms of him by historians is that he doesn't seem to understand the story of America. if you will, and the story of America begins in those pages in the Constitution.

So I don't think he really appreciates it. I don't think he reveres it. I think he just is very dismissive. Oh, these are just more silly rules. You know, it's no different than a zoning hearing. I don't know what is making me vomit like that. Oh, I am, this is so unprofessional. I am so sorry.

I, oh, something is going on that is just turning my stomach. And I am sorry. I don't know. It's been going around. You're not the only one. It's been going around a lot. I mean, should I just turn off my microphone?

Well, we can just play. Yeah, no, it's a little unprofessional, but we can play some audio here to cover. This is Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC. Listen. The seriousness of this as it is being taken by the Democrats as well, affected symbolically, perhaps, in the colors being worn or the lack of colors being worn. Oh, really? The members, the women members choosing to wear dark colors.

Nancy Pelosi is a woman of a person of primary colors. You see it. If she's not wearing white, she's wearing bright colors. She's certainly always, you know, well-appointed, beautifully arrayed, if you will. She's wearing black. And that is a symbolic expression of how somberly they are taking this. In Sacramento. It's really.

And you can talk about the politics of it. It's no question that Nancy Pelosi came to this reluctantly. No question. She came to it reluctantly. Oh, my. You okay, Glenn? Oh, it's almost sacramental at this point. It's just well-appointed in Sacramento.

It seemed like there's a real wave of nausea that hit you when, when Andrea Mitchell corrected herself from calling Nancy Pelosi a woman and referred to her as a person. Oh, no, please. That was pretty rough. What were you saying? Well, she was saying, you know, Nancy Pelosi is a woman, I mean a person who, and I thought that that correction, it seemed like there was a wave of nausea that hit you at that exact. Nancy Pelosi is a woman of a person of primary colors.

see it. I think I should take a break. I'm starting to vomit. Blood. There's a lot of blood coming out now. Is that a bad sign? Should I, do people vomit blood sometimes? Concerned that people are laughing at you in the background when you're vomiting blood.

Democrats. They're all Democrats. A turning point USA, huh? Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, we're going to. we're going to burn him at the steak later. Oh.

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You might have kippers for breakfast. I don't even know what a kipper is. Trout. You can have trout for breakfast. You know, go out and see a mountain. Anybody who is, anybody who lives in the east,

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Rectechgrills.com. All right. I want to go a little then and now. Some audio with the Democrats warning against and then later embracing a strict partisan impeachment. This from 1998 and 2019, then and now. We are here today because the Republicans in the House are paralyzed with hatred. And until the Republicans free themselves of this hatred, our country will suffer. With allegiance to our founders and a heart full of love for America. Today, I am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. There must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment supported by one of our major political parties and opposed by the other.

And if there's no Republican votes, so be it. It's up to them to decide whether they want to be patriots or partisans. It seems to me that no good case has been made for witnesses. TRIALs have witnesses. That's what trials are all about. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say any or all crimes and misdemeanors. If we cannot vote to impeach, then we ought to just modify the Constitution and get rid of impeachment altogether. We leave here today void and empty because our president will have been toppled against the will of the people of the United States.

going to continue to educate the American people and ultimately vote our conscience on the articles of impeachment. I am greatly disappointed in the raw, unmask, unbridled hatred and meanness that drives this impeachment coup d'etat, the unapologetic disregard for the voice of the people. We can make the decision to override any opinion about whether or not he's indictable. That's what impeachment is all about. Here in America, we generally condemn. coup d'etat in foreign countries. We have an obligation to act today to uphold the Constitution, but also to show our children and grandchildren that no one is above the law. They are not going to sit highly by and allow the Republicans to stage a bloodless coup d'etat

to remove our president from office. I think sometimes you have to do the right thing and not worry so much about the polls. Unbelievable. Each one of those voices with the same people, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And, you know, the one that amazes me the most, really, is Nancy Pelosi, where she starts out and talks about it is the hatred of this president. And then Maxine Waters with the hatred of this president and the mean things that have been done to him. And without any regard today at the meanness and the meanness and the thing. things that have been said about this president, not only this president, but the mean and nasty things and the lives that have been destroyed because you were a supporter of the president

or you dare wear a make America great again hat. The meanness? Absolutely remarkable. We are living in remarkable times. And if we don't remember who we are, if we don't remember what's important. If we don't remember that we're all in this together and there is rule of law. But to hear the Democrats talk about no one's above the law,

it's very hard for me to say dreamers are dreamers above the law? Is Hillary Clinton above the law? You know, we had a guy who was on a sub who took a picture of something that wasn't classified of the sub for his son.

He went to jail. Hillary Clinton's staff was chopping off classified document, chopping that off the top so they could email it and they could fax it to her. No one's above the law? You have FBI agents

that forged documents to give to the FISA court, to put this guy away, to make sure they got Carter Page. Carter Page was innocent. Is anyone going to pay for that one? Because no one is above the law. We used to be a nation of laws and not of men,

and that's what set us apart. And if we don't reclaim that, and I don't care if that means this president, the last president, the next president goes to jail, my favorite president, no one is above the law. And we must have

true, impartial, and fair trials of people. They must not be deemed guilty until they prove their innocence.