The Glenn Beck Program - Watch What You Wish For? | Guests: Bill O'Reilly, Rabbi Daniel Lapin, Andrew Heaton, & Jonathon Dunne | 2/22/19
Episode Date: February 22, 2019Hour 1 Proud of transforming the Democrat Party?...Bernie Sanders is a terrifying nightmare, if he were President?...Disrupting the system ...America would have voted for anyone in 2016?...Trump's d...one, if the economy goes down ...Getting Serious about the Declaration of Independence?...America's original blue prints?...When life is too easy?...Maybe, this is not how the world is? Hour 2 Doubling down with Bill O'Reilly?...Jussie Smollett's metal health needs to be checked?...It's time to disengage on this story?...A world of delusion and the media's witch hunters?...MSNBC actually did their best to ignore the Smollett story, while CNN defends it?...How much jail time is coming?..."It's Chicago"?...The Big undeveloped story that's yet to come?...the Mueller report is ready to drop, but does anyone really care anymore? ...Who Are We? with Rabbi Daniel Lapin...Watch BlazeTV for Free? Hour 3 Fun with Parody?....Bernie Sanders, aka Andrew Heaton, from BlazeTV's 'Something's Off' joins GB? ...2020 Diamonds in the Rough?...Nike shoes and their stock market plunge? ...Jonathon Dunne, from 'Freedoms Disciple' podcast, joins to give us an update on Brexit?...America was built on the premise of 'doing the right thing' ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Well, I wouldn't say they ruled that, unfortunately, but we're moving down the path.
You're talking about civil asset forfeiture.
Yes.
I mean, it is moving.
They basically asked for that case.
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You know, you've got the really exciting, the dynamic, I would call him a dynamo, myself, Bernie Sanders, now running for president.
And there seems to be a lot of, what?
Do you want to maybe stop and say that he's going to be on the show today?
That'd be a good time to.
I'm sorry, you're right, you're right, you're right, when you're right, you're right, when you're right, you're right.
Bernie Sanders, going to be joining us on the show.
Is that hour number three?
Yes.
Yeah, top of the hour of hour number three of today's broadcast.
Wanted to talk to him for a long time.
Would never come on.
I really I seriously would like to talk to him because I have respect that he is open and honest about what he says.
I mean, what he believes.
There was an incident on the socials last night, Glenn, where Alyssa Milano, noted brainiac and genius Alyssa Milano pointed out that Democratic socialism isn't real, just a trick by Republicans to scare you into not voting for Democrats because you're going to think they're socialists.
now the people who have identified themselves as democratic socialist,
I'm not exactly sure what they say about that.
They don't exist. They don't exist.
It's like someone calling themselves a unicorn.
Yes, Muppets and maybe CGI.
I'm not sure.
They're deep fakes.
They're deep fakes.
For sure, we know that.
They might be Muppets.
You could convince me that Bernie Sanders is just an automatron.
You could convince me that he is the Muppet up in the balcony.
Oh, yeah.
Oh yeah, except he wouldn't, he, he, isn't that too elitist for him?
Yeah, he wouldn't be.
He would say, we shouldn't sell these tickets to other people.
I will hold on to this lakefront property or balcony for now until socialism fully kicks in.
So we can all share in the wealth.
Yeah.
Right.
Okay.
So here is, uh, here is the, the, the conundrum that I face today.
All of this stuff is coming out negative about Bernie Sanders.
Hmm.
And I think Republicans are pretty.
thrilled that Bernie Sanders is running yet again.
I think this is a very exciting thing to see that Bernie Sanders is going to be, has even the
possibility of being the top of the ticket.
So what?
He's probably the front runner right now.
Right.
Well, he is and fundraising and things like that.
And polling.
Yeah.
So there's no reason for anybody to torpedo him.
You should celebrate him.
But yet there are all these leaks of all this old news that's coming out.
And I'm wondering, who would release that?
Who would have the motivation to go and do all the wet works now on Bernie Sanders?
This is the latest.
Here is Bernie Sanders in 1986.
For some reason, I was being very excited when Fidel Castro made the revolution in Cuba.
I was a kid and I remember reading that
and it just seemed right and appropriate
that poor people were rising up against
rather ugly rich people.
And I remember, again, very distinctly,
a very distinct feeling.
I was watching the debate.
You remember the famous Nixon-Kennedy debates?
That was the first time
when the presidential candidates actually debated.
And I was becoming increasingly interested in politics,
didn't know much, but was interested.
I remember sitting in the student lounge at a dormitory
watching the debate.
And at that time, I can talk about Cuba now.
I was very excited and impressed
by the Cuban Revolution.
Even the Democrats weren't excited by the Cuban Revolution.
Now here he is in 1988.
He was impressed by the revolution that the poor people would rise up and get rid of the ugly rich guys.
And now in 1988, he sees the fruit of the revolution of 1919 in the Soviet Union.
Most of the people here also were extremely impressed by their public transportation system.
The stations themselves were absolutely beautiful, including many works of art, chandeliers that were beautiful.
It was a very, very effective system.
Also, I was impressed by the youth programs that they have, their palaces of culture for the young people,
a whole variety of programs for young people, and cultural programs which go far beyond what we do in this country.
We went to a theater in Yaroslavl, which was absolutely.
beautiful, had three separate stages.
Their cultural programs are put on by professional actors and actresses, including a puppeteer
area.
And the cost, the highest price of the ticket that you can get was the equivalent of $1.50.
Oh, my gosh.
That would that be wonderful?
Now, the gulags and the torture and the cries of the oppressed and, you know, the millions
that were killed.
But have you seen the chandelier?
I mean, I hate rich people in their opulence.
But as long as the people have a chandelier in their subway system, and it was beautiful.
It was gorgeous.
You didn't see it.
I didn't.
I mean, there's a cost-benefit analysis to everything.
And I mean, for me, a chandelier at a train station worth about four or five hundred thousand dead.
If I can get at one chandelier per 400,000, I've starved to death in the fields or executed as they tried to get potatoes, I think that's about the right ratio.
Well, some people might say it's a little lower and a little higher.
That's the debate.
Right.
I would like to have more than one chandelier, and I also want these great youth programs because
I was very impressed with their youth programs. You know, when they're turning their parents into the KGB,
that's one of the youth programs. That's one of the youth programs. I love that. I love that too.
And to me, a good youth program, you're talking 1.2, 1.3 million dead. I trade, you know,
let's say it's after school basketball. That's about 1.6 million for me.
If you get a theater with three stages in a puppet theater, I might go to 2 million dead for that.
Really?
Yeah, I think that's about...
And the chandeliers?
Well, if you put the chandelier in the building, I'm at 2.5.
Yeah, 2.5.
I'm at 2.5. Okay.
Well, we could debate on 2, 25, 3.
Right.
You know, how many million have to die.
But I was impressed by this.
This guy is a nightmare.
This guy's a nightmare.
He's terrifying as a president in the United States.
I have to tell you.
I don't know.
Woodrow Wilson.
Here's what happened.
Woodrow Wilson was that kind of guy.
He was that kind of guy.
He was the kind of guy who was like, yeah, well, you know,
you're going to have to kill a few people.
You're going to have to kill a few people.
We have to put a few people buying bars.
We'll have to do it because it's the right thing for the state.
For the collective.
Yeah, for the collective.
And so that was, that scared the American people so much that they backed away and we got the roaring 20s.
We went with Harding and then Coolidge and we got the roaring 20s.
So they had to soften everything after that.
And we didn't have any kind of reemergence of the progressive until the Great Depression.
So I've been waiting to see what our bottom is.
And I don't think we're going to hit our bottom.
I really don't.
Our bottom has not come yet.
There's not enough pain for the American people.
It's the line in the Declaration of Independence.
And I can't remember it.
Look up the Declaration of Independence for me real quick.
but there's a line in it that says basically people will suffer all kinds of oppression.
Does this keep going?
Because they would rather have the known than the possible pain of a switch of the unknown.
And so they just get worse and worse and worse.
But then there comes a point to where they're like, okay, I've had enough.
And they rise up.
Do you realize how fast this is going to happen if we allow it to happen?
It could happen in 2020 that they completely redesigned this country and flip the entire constitution upside down, that we lose the free market system.
Now, as long as we don't lose the vote, as long as we don't lose true representation, which is always the first thing that people do, as long as we don't lose that, we might be able to turn it back around and set it right, might.
might. We did it before under Wilson. We might be able to do it. The difference between Wilson and
today is infrastructure. Wilson didn't have the universities. He didn't have the media. He didn't
have the government infrastructure. He didn't have Department of Homeland Security and all of these
things. They had to do it from the outside. And that's why it was easily shut down in the next election.
I don't think it goes back.
I don't think it goes back.
I think once you flip this system upside down, it calcifies because there's so many employees now.
And in one term, the federal government would grow at an exponential rate.
Yeah.
I mean, think about Bernie Sanders, let's say he wins the nomination, which is a, it's a possibility.
I still don't find it to be the most likely possibility, but he's the current front front.
Yeah, but he's going to, they'll count him out just because of the Democrats will destroy him.
And remember, too, Sanders is a little bit different than some of the other candidates who believe in socialism in that he is an ideologue, not a politician, number one.
And number two, he's 493 years old and has nothing to lose.
He's not the type of guy who's playing for the future here of his political life.
He's playing for the future of I want socialism in this country.
He's a disruptor.
Right.
So he comes in, wins that nomination.
in that scenario, if he actually wins the presidency,
they absolutely are holding onto the House and they're definitely taking the Senate.
Can they get to 60 votes in the Senate?
Probably not.
However, as we've seen over the last two cycles here,
each side has taken another thing that used to have to be 60 votes and change it into 50.
You've seen the Democrats did it with judges.
Republicans did it with Supreme Court this time.
And Donald Trump has said many times that he thinks that filibuster should go away so he can get things done.
the fact that Trump has said that, you're telling me Sanders isn't going to get in there and make that same argument.
And if they can get that through, then they'll pass all of this crap.
Listen, this is why this is happening to the Democrats.
Why has the socialism train all of a sudden just picked up, it's like, you know, in Back to the Future two?
Is that the one where it's the Wild West?
That's three, isn't it?
That's three.
Okay.
So, and remember they throw those logs into the train and they throw that last.
bundle and that's what gets it up to 88 miles an hour. It's as if the Democrats or the Democratic
Socialists have thrown that last bundle in and all of a sudden we are hyper speed to the cliff.
Does it not feel that way? Why did that happen? What caused that? I'll tell you in a minute,
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Yeah.
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And that's the problem with master plans. That's the problem with anybody saying, I, you know what
we're going to do is if we do this, then they'll do that. Okay. And you're always wrong.
You're always wrong. At some point in that, in that equation. At some point, you may be right for the
first couple of moves, but then something happens that you never anticipated and you're like,
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Okay.
That's why master central planning doesn't work.
Now, let me take this to just the last election and something that we all felt was good.
And that's a disruption of the system.
We want to disrupt the system.
And I said at the time, people who are saying, I want a disruption.
I want somebody to go in there and kick these guys butt.
I get it and I'm with you.
But the people who said, I want somebody to burn it down.
I warn, don't.
You don't want to burn this down.
Okay.
Well, the Democrats viewed this last election as a burning down of the house.
They saw that one guy can come in and turn the Republican Party upside down.
good or bad doesn't matter.
He turned the Republican Party upside down.
Now they're for trade barriers.
Republicans have never been for trade barriers.
And he is such a disruptive figure that he can get away with just about anything.
Well, they like that.
They've been trying to get away with everything for a very long time.
So they like this disruption.
That's why Democratic Socialists have taken.
taken off the masks because you're not running against in 2020.
You're not running against Jeb Bush.
You're not running against George Bush.
You're not running against somebody like you're running against a disruptor.
And so the left wants a disruptor as well.
It's the log.
Donald Trump was that last bundle of logs that the Democrats now have taken
into their socialist, Democratic socialist train and thrown it into the fire.
And he's created such a white,
furnace that they're like, you know what?
We can get away with anything.
As long as we're thinking big and thinking differently, that's why you're hearing about
the new Green Deal.
Because he's a disruptive figure.
And to beat him, you need an even bigger disruptive figure.
Because every one of their voters will vote for whoever they nominate because it's not
Donald Trump.
And they believe there's enough independence and others that will vote against Donald Trump to
put in anyone.
So if we're going to get anyone on our side, why not?
not go for it. This is why they have to investigate. This is why they have to have scandal because they are
creating for their side a candidate that will feel to them as Hillary Clinton felt to us.
We all said there's no way we're going to, I mean, I won't vote for Hillary Clinton. She's totally
corrupt. She's totally, she's wrong on everything and totally corrupt. And so they need him to be
totally corrupt because we would have voted for anyone.
We would have voted for anyone.
Any Republican that wasn't her, right?
Yes.
And another similarity to 2016 here is, and it's a notable one for us right now,
which is the Democrats had an analysis of that election that they could do anything that
they could think of to make Donald Trump the nominee because they all wanted to run against
Donald Trump because he was the one that they could beat.
he was the easiest one to beat.
This guy says all sorts of crazy stuff,
and he's not a politician.
He's going to screw up a million times
and all these tapes are going to come out
and who knows what they thought was going to happen.
And so they all cheered for Donald Trump to win
so that Hillary could dispatch with him easily.
The same thing is happening now reversed.
We're all looking at these socialists
and these crazy people.
And it's like to me, and I feel this way as well,
I would love Bernie Sanders to be the nominee
because how can Bernie Sanders get elected in this country?
How is it possible?
However, watch what you wish for here.
Because if you get someone who's as ideological as Sanders and it comes into a one-on-one with a big personality like Trump, anything can happen.
And if a socialist gets elected, I mean, we can see these things accelerate faster than we ever imagined.
Here's my prediction.
If the economy goes down and Donald Trump doesn't become more presidential and gain about.
11 points of likability.
Your president and vice president will be Joe Biden and Beto.
They're going to put Beto on the ticket with Joe Biden.
And that will be the ticket because you'll have that Democratic Socialist
tip of the hat, that new reformer.
With Beto.
With Beto.
And then you will have the, oh, he's not crazy.
Have you met Joe Biden?
He's not crazy.
He's not.
And he's a punch.
That's interesting, because I think I see Biden more as, I feel like if the economy crashes, the idea of a socialist, one of these real far, far left of the left candidates, like a Sanders, like a Harris, like a Warren winning is intensified.
Where I think Biden is more likely if things stay the same to be the nominee.
The uglier it gets in the economy, the more beatable Trump looks, the more likely they go socialist.
Yes. But that's just the look at I have today.
Right. Yeah. Today I can change for sure.
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would be probably six months with certain unalienable rights that among these rights are life,
liberty in the pursuit of happiness, period.
That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men.
There's your definition of government right there.
Governments are instituted to protect rights, deriving their just powers from the consent
of the governed.
Notice it doesn't say powers.
It says just power.
that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, meaning they are starting to squash your rights, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness.
Prudence, and this is the line I was talking about earlier, prudence indeed, this is where we are.
will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes,
and accordingly all experience has shown that mankind is more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable
than to write themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
And the last line.
But when a long train of abuses of usurpations pursuing invariably the same object
invinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism.
It is their right, comma.
It is their duty, comma, to throw off such government and provide new guards for their future security.
Now, why doesn't public education work?
Because public education cannot teach that.
A government cannot teach this.
We have taken and said, hey, it's our government that is.
going to protect these rights.
But over time, I felt uncomfortable even reading.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations invariably reduce them to absolute despotism
and is their right, is their duty to throw off such government, why did I feel uncomfortable with
that?
Because it's revolutionary.
Because so many people say, see, look, they're calling for revolution.
How could a government teach that revolution is good under despotism?
teach what those rights are and what the proper role of government is,
how could they be teaching that and spending all the money and creating the curriculum
and at the same time say, you know what, we're going to create some new rights here.
They wouldn't.
They can't.
Not only that, but the line well before that, in doubt by their creator.
Yes.
They don't want to talk about that at all.
No.
Because that might offend somebody.
And not everybody believes there is a creator.
So we can't talk about a creator.
You know what? It's not even that. It's not even that. Progressives will tell you, and whether they believe in God or not, they will tell you that they believe in God, some of them, most of them. And I think most of them would consider themselves spiritual that there is some higher power. But that's not, in their opinion, where rights come from. They have to believe that rights come from the body in Washington, not the body of Christ, but the body in Washington. And so that's the real breakaway.
Yep. It's a higher power. It's just not the one that was necessarily intended.
Correct. Correct. If we would just teach that, we could, we could save the country.
If America just had a serious, like we used to in, you know, the 1700s, not everybody had it.
But the history teaches us that the taverns were full of people who were debating.
Well, which right is it? What is that? What do you mean that right? And why should we give the government that much power?
etc, et cetera, et cetera. The people were engaged. They're not engaged. They're engaged on what the
latest tweet was from somebody they despise or someone they love. That's not a battle of ideas.
And I don't think they even talk about the Declaration of Independence anymore. They ignore the
Declaration of Independence. Like, that's not a founding document anymore. Like, it has nothing to do
with the Constitution. The Constitution is, you know, is somewhat important. But the Declaration
of Independence, that means nothing now. The Declaration of Independence is,
mission statement and our constitution is the blueprint on how to build it. Without the mission
statement, you're just building a machine and it could do anything. You have to have the mission
statement. That's what set us apart. Name the mission statement of Great Britain. The Magna Carta.
The bad teeth act. Right. Right. Name the mission. I forgot about the bad teeth act. Name the mission statement
of Germany or France.
There isn't.
No.
Britain kind of has one.
But Britain and France really don't.
You just said Britain?
No, you said Germany and France.
I mean, Germany and France.
Yeah. Germany and France.
Yeah.
But Britain has one.
Britain, you know, they started things like this with the Magna Carta.
Yes.
I mean, that's where the miracle started, right?
Yeah.
In many ways, that was that enlightenment was vital.
That's kind of our mission.
I mean, that started our mission statement.
It did.
It did.
Very closely related.
But really, that's why America is different.
You know, make America great again.
It's not about jobs.
It's not about it.
It's our mission.
What is our mission?
Our mission is to show the world that all men are created equal.
And when you treat people like that, look what they can accomplish.
Just leave them alone.
That's, that's, that's, that's what's bred inside of us.
And that's what we're not.
talking about.
And again, though, we're not talking about it because that's by design.
The founders and everything they said and everything they stood for has been disparaged.
And it's been it's been ridiculed.
It's been mocked.
And it's been nullified by a hundred and probably 50 years of founder bashing.
Of founder belittling of making them out to be nothing but racist, white, rich, old guys who are uncompletely.
unrelatable. Right. And
not worth paying attention to
anymore. Yeah. I mean, look,
the other thing, too, is I think
the country is at some level
and these, this battle
of ideas is at some level a casualty
of the success of the founders.
I mean, when you can, they created
a country that
95% of people can never
watch a news broadcast and just care about
what Kim Kardashian tweets
and it still is the
best country on earth. Right? That's how good things are.
Right? Yeah.
It still basically runs itself to be the most prosperous nation on earth.
And it's like, well, you know, it's hard to make the argument you should care.
Less and less people care and things get better and better.
People are being, you know, dragged out of poverty all over the world because this capitalist engine and the free market has generated so much for so many.
At some point, it becomes difficult to defend because people take it for granted.
And I really think that's where we are.
That's sort of the focus of Jonah Goldberg's book.
I mentioned it a minute ago with the mirror.
Like the suicide of the West.
It's like we're making this choice to no longer defend these things because we take them for granted completely.
We do.
We do.
You guys are going to have Jonathan Dunn on later, right?
Yeah.
He doesn't take it for granted.
He doesn't take it for granted.
He doesn't take it for granted.
He doesn't take it for granted.
It takes an Irish guy to remind us about the unbelievable rights and the foundation of this of this country.
that he doesn't have.
We take for granted and he doesn't have.
So he doesn't take it for granted.
And people in Britain who understand it don't take it for granted.
And to listen to him talk about the Constitution is a pretty special thing.
It's pretty inspiring because it, you know, I think it takes a foreigner to remind us sometimes of what we have here because nobody else has it.
And we forget that sometimes.
And we just have taken it for granted our whole lives to the point where we don't even pay attention to it.
and most people don't even read it.
Most people don't even know what's in those documents anymore.
I'm so proud of my son the other day.
He came to me about a month ago,
and we've been struggling with some stuff.
And so we've been just having these really great talks.
And he said, Dad, I've been thinking about what we talked about yesterday.
And he said, you know what I think the problem is, really?
He said, no.
he said,
I think my life has been too easy.
And now you'd say that to me,
and I really wanted to pounce and say,
oh,
I'll make it tough for you.
But he was right.
And he,
I mean,
the wisdom of this kid,
if we just would look at ourselves and say,
I mean,
his life,
I mean,
he's had some issues,
but he's also had a sweet life
that nobody else, nobody else has had.
You know, he's been raised in a family that has opportunities that nobody else has.
But he also still struggles with everything else that everybody else struggles with.
That is really the American story.
We are, we are throwing, we're throwing temper tantrums because, this is so difficult.
No, you don't know what difficult is.
You don't know what difficult is.
And we're not willing to say, you know what.
The reason why we're complaining, the reason why we're walking around pouty, the reason why we're walking around throwing temper tantrums is because we're spoiled.
We're spoiled.
We've, we've had it too easy.
If we could just come to that one understanding, our country would change.
But we don't.
We want to, we are rewarding people who are victims now.
With the Jesse Smollett or Jesse Smollett case, he's, he knew he would be.
rewarded if he was a victim.
What kind of country is that?
Don't forget about the Native American
who was beating the drum in the kid's face,
knew he'd be a victim.
Right.
The Rolling Stone case with the Virginia rape situation,
you know, there's a fetish...
You're fetishizing it, right? That's the word, right?
You're taking it, you're making it into this, like,
sexual preference, something you're all...
Everyone's striving for. It's sexy.
to be a victim in this freaking country
where she wasn't a victim
and everybody found out
her excuse was
well but this does happen
and I'm just bringing that to light
so it's okay
it's always the case so even that was fine
yeah that was great
they're saying that was small ad they're saying that was small ad
the blaze has a list of stories I think they've been expanded on what we did on
a Monday I think I have 30 fake
hoax cases revolving around Trump
people saying Trump supporters did X, Y, and Z.
There's a list on the blaze of like 30 of them.
And they're all fake.
And they're all fake.
All fake.
All turned out to be fake.
And of course, the vast majority of them overwhelmingly embraced by the media who said,
wow, this is a real sign of what's really happening here, guys.
And look, there are people who are awful and that do awful things.
We just saw a guy arrest, this guy who was arrested, the Coast Guard guy who was, you know,
who's trying to emulate with the Norwegian mass murderer.
It could have been really, really bad.
There are really bad people.
But that normally doesn't happen.
But again, they, as I think it was the Washington Post, Glenn, you pointed out, the writer saying, I want this to be true.
It needs to be true.
Because I want to show everyone, this is how the world is.
Well, maybe it's not.
You ever stop and think?
Maybe it's not.
Maybe all of your guesses as to what white people and Trump supporters think.
Maybe they're wrong.
Has that crossed your mind at all?
When we show you dozens of cases where the same thing happens?
where you incentivize people to climb to the top of the ladder of our society by being a victim,
and then shockingly, they all fake it and try to become a victim.
Well, of course they do.
You're telling everyone this is the best thing you can be.
Was it, it might have been John Ziegler the other day who said,
you know, it's a, think of how intoxicating this must be for someone on the left.
To go in, you, this happens to you.
Everyone fawns.
Everyone says, oh my gosh, you're so brave.
everyone says you're so strong you're making a difference you're a hero i'm so sorry this happened to you
those people are evil all the people that you don't like are bad and you're great i mean you can understand
why someone would be incentivized to do something like this is why when i went to mexico i was so disgusted
with our country i i didn't say it at the time i i just i i almost almost couldn't come into work for a week
because it was the week we were tearing down the statues and i had just done a three-day tour in
Mexico talking to actual slaves, people who had chains around their neck and scars on their
back from being whipped.
Okay. Women who were in their 20s.
And I asked one of them, as we were filming something, I said, I want you to say your name
and that I was a slave, but my life is a blank piece of paper and only I write my story.
And she looked at me and she said, no.
and through a translator
she told me
you could say I was a slave
others could say I was a slave
but even with a chain around my neck
I was never a slave
to me
that's inspiring
I leave that
where a woman was actually enslaved
to a bunch of college kids
in beautiful universities
with everything going for them
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Bernie Sanders has thrown his hat into the ring.
Smollett.
And what's happening there, an incredible, incredible story.
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Bill, you are, I have so much I want to talk to you about.
You're going to have insight that we have maybe missed this week.
But I want to start with dessert.
I want to start with this crazy story out of Chicago and Jesse Smollett.
Crazy story.
And, you know, he's doubling down by telling the Hollywood pinheads, oh, I didn't do it.
You know, this is not true.
I mean, the Chicago police are lying about me.
me. So that tells me the guy is mentally ill. Is that fair?
It does seem to be relatively fair.
I'm not saying it as a joke.
No, I think that might be fair. I think it might be a cop-out.
Yes.
Compiled by the Chicago police, which treated him with respect in the beginning.
And the guy still claiming that, you know,
two white guys jumped them at 2.30 in the morning and 14 below zero weather when he came back
from his subway. But he's going, he's doubling down even more than that. His lawyer came out
yesterday and said, this is what we thought we were dealing with was bad enough. But now look
at the justice system. Now he's been persecuted by the authorities. Oh my gosh. So I think that at this
point you have to disengage. And this is a lesson for people in their personal lives as well.
once you get into a point where there's it's irrational and that truth and facts don't matter anymore
so you're in a delusionary world you got to get away okay so i'm putting that story behind me and that
and i feel bad for any human being that self-destructs that way but the political story here
Kamala Harris and Corey Booker, two senators.
Yep.
In my opinion, have destroyed their credibility forever.
So cast members, cast members of Empire have come out and said, this is horrible.
They are destroying him.
Fox has distanced themselves.
And not Fox News Channel, Fox has distanced themselves.
And yet the presidential candidates don't?
Well, they do, but they don't know what to do.
do because both Booker and Harris on their resume have the witch hunting against Brett
Kavanaugh.
So this is two, all right?
So they're witch hunters.
That's who these people are.
And I'll submit to you that no American is going to vote for a, well, I shouldn't
even say that because we live in a different country now.
But they're witch hunters.
And Harris had a pretty good shot at the number two spot.
on a Biden ticket.
But now, if Biden puts her there,
all you're going to hear about is Jesse Smolett.
That's all you're going to hear about.
I mean, Trump will go to town on that,
and so will Pence like crazy.
So that's a big unintended consequences
of this whole thing that the media will never report.
The second big story off this
is that many millions of Americans now believe CNN,
you had their media critic, the ball guy, what's his name?
That vicious animal there?
Stelter?
Oh, Brian.
I think of Brian Stelter, potentially?
All right, Stelter, yeah.
Vicious beyond belief, this man.
Okay?
And Lara Logan pointed that out this week.
He comes out and he says, he says, on the air,
Mainstream media covered Smollett responsibly.
That's the end to him.
Yeah, delusional.
Delusional.
So I looked at the numbers.
I just got them from last night for CNN cable news.
They are now evaporating.
What are their nightly numbers like?
They have declined in the last few weeks about 20, 25%.
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah.
How many?
Because the MSNBC, what they did was they just ignored it, if you can believe it.
They were all over, Smollett, when it first started, oh, this is terrible,
and then the usual virtue signaling that they do.
We're noble, and the country is terrible.
But we, MSNBC, we are so noble and so smart.
And then when it turned, what MSNBC did, and this is all corporate, we've discussed this,
before, they're ordered what to do and say, was they didn't cover it.
They ignored it.
Even their big show Matt out.
Okay.
But CNN tried to defend it.
You see the difference?
So the liberals who don't want to see this anymore or hear this anymore, they went to MSNBC
because even they couldn't stomach the lies coming out of CNN.
I mean, so you get two really big stories off Smollett.
you've got the disintegration of two presidential candidates and the disintegration of CNN.
Now, how long people will remember?
I don't know, but it can be brought up at any time.
Well, you have, may I have one more big story?
I agree with everything you just said.
One other story that is big and yet undeveloped,
and that is how much time will he get for this?
Now he's accused of sending his own letter to himself, a threatening letter to himself.
Probation and a fine.
That's a mistake.
Wait a minute.
Hang on.
If you did that, the penalty is seven to ten years for just postal fraud.
I know.
Hang on just a second.
One to three for the reporting of a crime.
If this guy, he is facing from basic sentencing, eight to 13 years.
I understand
Where you can carry a gun
Be a gang member
And they won't even give you any jail time
So here's the here's the
The undeveloped story yet to come
And that is
If if this guy
We have 30 on the blaze today
We have added last weekend
A reporter went through and they found like 20 different
Stories that were fake
Today the blaze has a
comprehensive story on 30 of these fake left-wing, you know, I was, you know, I was
victimized somehow or another by Donald Trump supporter. If you don't, if you don't make an
example out of this guy, there is no truth on the local level. Police won't be able to believe
anything. They're not going to do it, Beck. I'm telling you, this is Cook County, Chicago. I know.
What's going to happen is they're going to, the lawyers of Smollett will go in and say our client has psychological and emotional problems.
We want to make a plea deal.
Don't put him in jail.
He'll get therapy.
Give him probation.
He'll pay a fine for all the expenses that the Chicago PD put out.
And that's what will happen.
Wow.
That will send a really bad signal.
It's Chicago.
I know.
I know.
I know.
All right.
A big question on Bernie Sanders and his announcement.
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let's start with the audio of of of Bernie Sanders there's been two releases but the I want
the second cut where he's talking about how great the Soviet Union is back in 1988 most of the
people here also were extremely impressed by their public transportation system the stations
themselves were absolutely beautiful, including many works of art, chandeliers that were beautiful.
It was a very, very effective system. Also, I was impressed by the youth programs that they have,
their palaces of culture for the young people, a whole variety of programs for young people,
and cultural programs which go far beyond what we do in this country. We went to a theater in Yaroslavl,
which was absolutely beautiful
at three separate stages
where cultural programs
are put on by professional actors and actresses
including a puppeteer area
and the cost, the highest price of the ticket
that you can get was the equivalent of $1.50.
Well, that was the cost of the ticket,
$1.50 plus about $50 million dead.
But that's, for a puppet show,
that price could never be high enough.
Bill, who is releasing this?
Is this stuff coming from the right
or is this stuff coming from the left?
Mueller put it out.
It's Russian collusion.
Seriously, the Democrats do not want Bernie Sanders as a front runner.
No.
If you look at history, you know, if Bernie never, never would submit for an interview with me.
Because he knew that it would be the end.
He's on with me in 45 minutes.
No, he's not.
Yes, he is.
Is he coming on with you?
45 minutes from now.
Okay.
Now, here's what you ask him.
Okay.
Say, okay, Bernie, what's the difference between the Soviet Union that you were praising in that year and the Third Reich?
What's a difference?
Third Reich.
I will ask him that.
All right.
I'll also ask him what he thinks about you.
If you look at the historical atrocities, leveled by Hitler as opposed to Stalin, pretty much equal.
Stalin was a little more effective.
for a longer period of time.
Well, there you go.
Yeah.
There you go.
Yeah.
And then you, an American citizen, are standing there in a land where 30 million people were murdered
to impose a governmental system.
Mm-hmm.
And you are praising that system.
If you asking that question back, he's through.
Because that's what he did.
So, Bill, the Democratic.
Socialists. This has been
turbocharged all of a sudden. I
explained it earlier as if,
I don't know if you ever watched Back to the Future
Three, where they went back to the Wild West.
Oh, that's my favorite. Right? Okay.
One and two,
hated it. Three, loved it.
Okay, I got it. So at one point,
Doc and
Marty, they have to throw this bundle into that
engine for the
train to get it to go to 88 miles
an hour, and it takes off like a rocket ship.
something has happened with the Democratic Socialist movement.
What is that bundle that they threw in to the fire that has made this a nonstop train right to the cliff?
I think it is that they learned that somebody who is really very disruptive to the whole system can make it like Donald Trump.
And they think they can now just pull the masks off and go, yeah, you know what?
want a new world order, and we're going to change everything.
And they think that will work with the American people because it, it worked in some way
with Donald Trump.
I see it a bit differently.
Okay.
Tell me.
I think the Amazon thing in New York really hurt the socialistic movement.
I agree.
25,000 jobs vanish.
The Uber left communist mayor, de Blasio.
And he's on the same part of Bernie Sanders.
Oh, yeah, he is.
Okay. He, even he, was outraged by the socialism that caused Amazon to pull out of here.
Now, even though most people don't live in New York, and I don't care what happens in New York, the message got out.
Now, the wise guys who run the Democratic Party, and I'd use that term for the Republican Party as well, I mean, the real money men, the real behind-the-scenes people, the Bonner Group, the shadowy people that live in Washington,
raise all the money. They don't want this. They don't want these socialists, okay? They want Biden. They
want somebody who's moderate because they know it's McGovern. It's George McGovern coming down the
track to run against Trump. All right. They know that. All internal polling shows that. What is they're
up against is the media. The media loves the far left progressives, which is why they made Cortez
an amazing star. So Cortez, not a congresswoman. She's a celebrity who just happens to be in Congress.
But believe me, she has no interest in Congress at all. She wants to be a celebrity and hang with the swells.
All right? So the establishment money raisers inside the Democratic Party, you don't know who they are. You never see them. They're up against the New York
Times, the Washington Post, okay, who for some reason think all this progressive stuff, all
this socialist stuff is really good, which is just stunning to me.
It's stunning to me that the Washington Post has that opinion when the Washington Post
owner is the guy who lost in New York City, pulled out.
Well, not only that, but he's going to have to write a $100 million check to the Covington
kid, all right? They're going to lose that.
If that ever got to a jury, which it won't, the jury probably given $300 million.
Yeah.
All right.
So the Washington Post is in real trouble, but it's Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, who owns the pose who's going to have to write that check.
Lynn Wood, that lawyer in Atlanta, he's jumping up and down.
This is the easiest case he's ever gotten in his life.
Yeah.
I want a jury.
I want a Kentucky jury.
All right?
And I'm going to parade my 16-year-old client in there,
and he's going to tell you how to Washington Post and others ruined his life.
Are you kidding me?
How much money is that?
Bill, let me ask you this.
If I offered you a 9-to-1 return on your money,
and it was pretty guaranteed,
I could even say to you,
five-to-one,
sure, but it's going to be, right? You're insane. What are you giving me? I'll take it.
Correct. Everyone, the poorest among us would be insane if I said, you'll only have a dollar.
But if you give that dollar to me, I'm going to return five to nine dollars. And I'm being generous by saying five.
It's a $9 return on the investment. That's what this investment of $3 billion was for the state of New York.
It was a nine to one return. And not only that, I live here.
I mean, this whole complex was 10 miles away from my house where I'm talking to you right now.
Every single person in Western Queens would have benefited.
Every poor person in the borough.
You imagine what your house would have been worth?
Well, it's a palace now.
Every pizza owner, every shopkeeper,
Yes.
Everybody looking for a job, every high school kid who wants to work after school.
So, Bill, when I come back, I want to talk to you about then the real people that maybe your help talks to that live in that area.
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It is Friday.
We're talking about the loss of Amazon to news.
York and what that means politically, AOC and others are celebrating.
The New York Times had a deal on their daily podcast today about what it means for New York,
and they were so arrogant saying, well, New York doesn't really need Amazon.
And we'll get those jobs anyway.
Quote, we create in New York City thousands of jobs every month anyway.
Oh, do you?
Really?
but what do the real people think on the streets?
And, you know, from Bill O'Reilly's house, there is a vantage point to where you can look down at the little villages and towns where real people actually live.
How are the average Democrats looking at, you know, job creation?
This isn't job creation.
These are serial killers when it comes to job creation.
25,000 jobs lost.
Okay.
Number one, I'm glad you follow the New York Times because I don't.
Yes.
You know why I don't?
Because everything.
They're liars.
Okay, got it.
All right.
And they lied today if what you're reporting is accurate.
It is.
I have no, yeah, I have no reason.
Believe it is.
So little Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York State, and I use the word little because
he's shrinking in my estimation.
almost every day.
Little Andrew Cuomo comes out two weeks ago and says,
we are $2.5 billion light on tax receipts.
So we expected $2.5 billion more taxes in New York State.
And the reason we don't have them is because large wage earners like Glenn Beck,
and he cited you specifically.
I'm sure he did.
I've moved out of the state, which you did.
No, you're in Connecticut, but we have moved out.
Okay.
So that's a fact in stone.
So then the New York Times comes in and says,
oh, no, we don't need Amazon.
We create jobs all the time.
Then they're, of course, contradicting little Andrew.
All right.
So you can't believe a word those people say.
Nothing.
Now, your question before the break was,
are the folks who elected Ocasio Cortez going to wise up and see what she's peddling is hurtful to them and the country?
And I'm not sure.
And I'll tell you, I don't know if the news penetrates now through to 75% of the American people.
Well, hang on.
25% of us follow it.
But 75% of us are so addicted to the machines and everything else that they don't.
So let me give you a prime example of this.
Here's Accio Cortez trying to explain how taxes work to a show that will appeal to 75% of Americans.
Watch.
All right, enough without that.
Why are you trying to take a lot of money away from us?
We just signed a showtime, and now you're trying to put the wild tax.
Seriously, though.
Please look straight to camera and explain the tax for the dumb motherfuck that keeps saying,
if I make a million dollars, just going to take $70 million away from me.
So a marginal tax rate is saying if you make more than $10 million in one year,
which is a pretty good year, that's a damn good year.
If you make more than $10 million, yes, seriously, if you made more than $10 million, yes, seriously,
if you made more than $10 million.
in one year, your $10 million and $1
$70,000 gets taxed at 70%,
which, by the way,
we used to have marginal tax rates under Republican presidents
of 90%.
And it was when we experienced some of the largest rates of economic
stupid whole that.
You know what's crazy? Like, she totally explained it, and I don't have $10 million,
but even though I'm just like...
And it really comes up to the question of,
isn't $10 million enough?
Like, when does it say?
stop.
Yeah, when it's too much.
Right?
Like when, at what point
is it a moral that we're building
Jeff Bezos, the helipad
when we have the most amount
of homeless people in New York City.
Listen, there it is.
So this is the Badega Boys.
That's how people get their news.
Well, that was Jake Tapper interviewing.
I mean, how much is that?
You like, like, I think,
uh, okay.
Okay.
So, um,
what you have now is somebody who really wants to be a Kardashian.
All right.
So she doesn't understand macroeconomic.
She doesn't understand that anybody making $10 million is already paying 50% of that.
Okay?
Not on a corporate level.
Okay.
Now, the corporate level, I think the government should go in there,
and I don't think Amazon should be paying no taxes,
which they did last year.
Nothing.
I don't think so.
I think that's wrong.
Okay, and so I'm with Ms. Cortez on that.
But for me, when I earn money, you know, I pay half, half in state and federal taxes.
And that's not enough for this woman?
I'm sorry, achievement should be celebrated, not punished.
All right.
Bill, let me switch subjects here in the last few minutes.
The Mueller investigation is supposed to be finished next week.
A, true or false, B, what happens?
What are we going to see?
CNN reported that.
I don't trust anything CNN says,
but I think the indications are that the new attorney general made a call to Mueller
and said, when are you going to have it?
I think that's what happened.
And I have that on fairly reliable information, as Stu always knows.
Of course.
So Barr got in.
The first call was to Mueller.
When are you going to have it?
And then it leaked out.
Okay.
So I'm going to go with it that Mueller will put out something,
but it's not going to be public.
It'll go to Barr.
And then Barr will brief congressional people.
As soon as he does that, it'll leak out.
And that's true.
The way that this works, Bill, is that it basically,
basically falls onto Barr to do a summary of the Mueller report. Is that right? Yep. And then
Barr didn't have to make that public. You don't have to put it out to the folks. And I don't
believe there's going to be anybody in Barr's office going to put it out. He does have to brief Congress,
though, right? Because they're so scared now, the Department of Justice that they're not going to do
that. But as soon as he goes over to the Hill and it gets into the committees and says, this is what
it says two seconds later, but you're not going to get an accurate appraisal of it.
So Schiff and those guys, they're going to spin it negative no matter what it is.
And then the Republicans, even though it was terrible, they'd say it isn't terrible.
So the folks will not get a real accurate barometer.
And then, of course, the news agencies won't report it accurately.
They'll, they have too much invested in it.
So what comes out of this in the end, Bill?
Does this mean for the...
Unless there is a charge leveled against Donald Trump, it means nothing.
I mean, what if it's one of the kids, Donald Trump Jr.?
It's not going to be one of the kids.
It's not going to be anything like that.
And if it were, it would have already leaked out.
Here's what it's going to be.
And you guys have this on tape and you can play it back.
It's going to be Donald Trump did not understand that he,
his organization was violating the spirit of our elections by interacting with Russian agents,
bad actors. They're going to use that word during the campaign. And the Russians tried to
subvert our election, but the Trump campaign was so naive and so distracted and so incompetent
that it played into their hands, the Russians' hands. That's what it's going to be.
and is it true, Bill, that
because what we're going to get, essentially,
if I'm reading this right,
is we're going to get Barr's report,
a Trump appointees report about what the Mueller report says.
So you'll get the Mueller report.
Right.
So Barr can't distort it.
He can't.
So that's going to come from what?
The people he,
the whole in the press, of course,
will never report accurately because they can't.
So they've already convicted Trump of Russia.
collusion. They can't report it accurately. And then the people who are invested in Trump,
who have defended him, can't certainly say, oh, he was, he did something wrong. They can't do that.
Everybody's got to stay where they are. It's like Jesse Smollett. Yeah, you just keep going.
He can't admit it. Well, this has to be subpoenaed to get the actual full report down the line.
They'll put it out. They'll put it out. I mean, you can't pay all this money. The taxpayers pay 30,
million dollars. I mean, he can't say we're not going to show it to you. But it'll be,
it'll be redacted. It's like, it's like Glenn Beck's life. You have to redact half of it.
Yeah. A lot of it's ugly. A lot of it's ugly. I don't know if I don't know, I don't know if I'd
go there in that challenge with me there, Bill, but, uh, thank you so much, Bill O'Reilly,
bill o'Reilly.com. Good to talk to you. Talk to you again next week. Okay. God bless.
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They are really, really good. It's a sometimes a 90-minute conversation with deep, deep thinkers,
people that are in the news, and then people like Rabbi Lapin, who once in a while,
you'll just learn so much from this guy.
If you, if, you know, about once or twice a year, I get a chance to spend time with him.
and he's always just a fountain of information and wisdom that I asked him to come and do a podcast.
This weekend, it's going to be Rabbi Lapin.
We talk about socialism.
We talk about what's coming with the country.
We talk a little bit about history.
And the most basic of human questions, who are we?
Listen.
The Bible is not man's book about God.
If it was, we talk about the creation of the universe.
It's God's book about man.
And fundamental to that is this basic question of what are we?
Are we nothing but a creature on the continuum that starts with bacteria and moves up to people?
Or are we a completely different creature, as I say, touched by the finger of God?
That's really what we have to ask ourselves, because everything flows out of
that once we decide that question and you can never know it you have to it's
like everything else in life when you get married to a woman there is no way you
can possibly know everything about her before you get married that is a step you
take with faith when in almost every major decision in life when you choose a
career you have no idea all the implications that that's gonna have 30 years later
and so similarly on on this decision you also
make a decision in your life. You say, look, there's two ways to live my life. I either have to
live my life as if I am truly a purposeless collection of molecules of nitrogen and oxygen and
and carbon, or I am something that God created and put here with a purpose. And the implications
are absolutely huge. And the kind of society, first of all, the kind of person I'm going to
try and make myself become, the family I'm going to raise, the society I'm going to be part of,
all of this is shaped, as I said earlier, by a belief along these lines as opposed to any facts.
Rabbi Lapin, the latest in our series of interviews with fascinating people, people that I don't
necessarily agree with, some people I absolutely agree with, but each of them are people that I
really want to talk to. Coming up in the next couple of weeks, we've got a guy who,
is I think the only survivor to ever jump off the Golden Gate Bridge.
And his story is phenomenal.
And he's now a motivational speaker trying to get people to understand, oh, I've been there.
You know, he was kept alive by seals.
I mean, not like Navy SEALs, but like SEALs?
Seals?
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Seals?
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Seals.
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could get to him. Oh, wow. That's going to be amazing. That's incredible. A lot of deep conversations
you've had on this podcast and a lot of really interesting things. Can I make a recommendation for
another one? Yes. Do we have the short clip from this Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez interview we just did?
I think you should talk to this guy because this is insight. You're not going to hear anywhere else.
Go ahead. You know what's crazy? Like, she totally explained it and I don't have $10 million,
but even though I'm just like, nah.
So you know what's crazy. Yeah. Like, she totally explained it. And I don't have
$10 million, but even though I'm just like, nah.
I mean, that's, you need to get this guy on.
This is a huge, can we hear that one more time?
That's amazing.
I'm not sure.
You know what's crazy?
Like, she totally explained it and I don't have $10 million, but even though I'm just like,
nah.
I got to get, we need bumper stickers printed with that on it.
I mean, can you imagine that is deep?
One more time, that's really deep.
Listen to it.
You know what's crazy?
Like, she totally explained it and I don't have $10 million, but even though I'm just like,
nah, no.
I don't.
I think about it.
I am. I really...
Yep, I bet you are.
I have no idea. Was he for or against?
I bet you are.
I want you to sit back and think about that, America today.
Just think about that.
I mean, he just explained it, and yet I'm still kind of like,
nah.
You know what's crazy? Like, she totally explained it,
and I don't have $10 million, but even though I'm just like...
No.
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It is a kind of, it's a good, it's a good starter to kind of investigate the history of
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Yeah.
And I am 13 times more Native American than Elizabeth Warren.
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We go now to Bernie Sanders, who is joining us, I think, are you in New Hampshire, sir?
I'm in Vermont.
Vermont is the people's New Hampshire.
Right.
New Hampshire's the 1% of Vermont.
I would never step foot in New Hampshire into the primaries.
Okay.
Well, welcome to the program.
Thank you.
It's good to be here.
I would like to say hello to you and to your listeners, specifically the ones who make
less than $47,000 a year.
Those are the hardworking Americans that I'm here represent.
Thank you, Glenn.
Yeah, well, what about the other people that are, you know,
making 50, 55, even 100,000.
Oh, you mean the Rockefellas of the United States that are sucking wealth out of the middle class,
the hardworking middle class that's composed of people that work in coal mines and chimney sweeps?
I have nothing to say to those people.
So what exactly is, why do you think you've connected to the people so dramatically now?
I think we're finally awaking as a country that wealth is entirely dependent upon theft.
and their understanding that the way to handle it
is to either take the money of rich people
or potentially break them into smaller organs in pieces
and redistribute them to the masses.
And I am the only person that wants to actually take blood
out of Jeff Bezos and resupply it
to other more hardworking people.
You actually want his blood.
Yes.
That way, at that point,
because you have access to the bank account
that if you have blood, not a lot of people know that.
But there was a law in the 70s that if you get somebody else's blood,
you have some recourse to their checking account.
I don't think that's true, sir.
Now, some of the proposals that you're making are, I mean, they sound like the former Soviet Union.
I will acknowledge their robust proposals to try and save the United States from descending back into a plutocratic hellhole where aristocrats with top hats are beating coal orphans with whips for their amusement.
Yes, Glenn, if that's what you mean.
If people haven't worn top hats for a very long time around the time of Abraham Lincoln, I believe.
And that is entirely due to the New Deal of FDR.
If it went for the FDR, there will be top hats everywhere and cold orphans living in caves.
So you are, you're for the Green New Deal, I suppose.
I had a lot of problems with it, as I imagine you did.
I thought it was fairly anemic and very tiny in its scope.
I thought it could have been three, four times more robust than it was.
And when I'm elected president, I will make a hyper neon green deal that's new.
A hyper neon new green deal.
Okay.
and what's in that hyper new green deal.
Thank you, Glenn.
I appreciate that.
I know you and I don't always see eye to eye.
However, I appreciate being able to spell out the policies.
These are important to the working people in the United States.
The number one thing, Glenn, is Medicare for all.
Now, I know what you're going to say, Glenn.
You're going to say, how can the United States afford the pay for Medicare for all of the people of the entire planet Earth?
And I tell you, we have enough money to do that, and it is unconscionable.
Wait a minute.
The wealthiest country in the history of the world can't give health care to everyone,
earth. So you want Medicare for all, for all, for all, for everybody. For everyone on
earth and if there are other planets that have life, we will also give it to them. But right
now, everyone on earth. Okay. So, so do we have borders in your world? Yes, we do. We do
have to be, you have to be aware and conscience of rich people from other countries. You
have to be able to stop them from coming in. So you have borders around rich people? Yes. Ideally,
we would not let in anyone from the Cayman Islands or from Switzerland.
Those two places are awful.
And if we do not outright declare war on them, we should quarantine them.
Okay.
All right.
How do you, how do you, for instance, New York just rejected, you know, Amazon.
And they said, New York doesn't need, you know, Amazon's jobs.
We create thousands of jobs every month anyway.
We're bigger than Amazon.
and you killed 25,000 jobs.
Glenn, this is a fundamental misunderstanding of how the economy works.
The economy naturally produces wealth.
It comes up, it kind of bubbles out of the ground.
Like you're probably a proponent of trickle-down economics.
I'm a proponent of dribble-up economics, like from a septic tank.
It rises from the bottom, and it just naturally happens.
And evil people take more than their fair share.
So the job of the government is to allocate theft, which is what all commerce is,
into smaller units that are more equally distributed.
And the people of New York did that.
They saw the benefit in having a type of leader who is a technocrat with a sweater vest
and having them in charge of money.
That is the future of Mankind, England.
All right.
So, Bernie, there's been a lot of dirt that has come out on you.
That essay that you wrote about how men have a fantasy of women on their knees
bound and gagged and beaten.
That's their sexual fantasy.
and women, they're fantasizing about being raped by three men at once.
Glenn, that essay was a long time ago.
I believe that was 1973, which is also the last time I had sex.
Right.
I have not had any relations since that time.
I believe I should be expunged due to the good behavior that I have had.
Of not having any sex.
Not at all.
Not at all.
And tell everyone's having an equal amount, I refuse to engage in carnal relations with any Americans.
Right.
Okay.
Are these things being, like the videotape of,
you praising, you know, Castro's revolution.
You still stand by that?
Castro was a great leader and a great man.
He did a lot of, he brought universal education to the island of Cuba.
He was a fanatic for cigars, but they were also made by good working Cubans.
And he was an excellent baseball player, which I myself am a fan of.
I don't know if you know this.
I'm originally from Brooklyn.
And the Brooklyn Dodgers were there until capitalists stole them and sent them to Los Angeles.
But Castro himself was a killer.
Castro had a couple of details.
You know, all leaders have a couple of things
that maybe are foibles that they have to deal with.
You know, I frequently am criticized on my fashion
because I like to store the two suits that I own in a Pringles can.
Does that detract from my excellent policy chops?
I say no.
But having a crumpled suit and killing, you know,
hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people,
I don't, I wouldn't compare them.
Again, again, I think the issue, Glenn, is we're trying to make a better, more just, more equitable society.
Occasionally, people might die, but they will die less than in a capitalist system,
which is based on making a puree out of workers and then giving it the cows to feed them,
and then we eat the cows, and that creates gases.
There's all sorts of cycles that I don't think you're acknowledging in the capitalist system.
Some might say that you're crazy, Bernie.
I am crazy like FDR was crazy.
I'm crazy for justice, crazy for equality.
Does that make me crazy?
Glenn, I say no.
Okay.
All right.
We'll just one more question.
You know, you've come out against Howard Schultz.
Yes.
Because he's wealthy.
Yes.
But you said to run as an independent is horrible.
You are an independent.
I am an independent strategically when it suits the ambitions of me
and the working class people. Howard Schultz
is a billionaire. Every billionaire is
a policy disaster in the United States.
I think his money should be taken and every
Starbucks should be converted into some sort of
organic farming facility
for iceberg lettuce, not for kale. Kela's
the top 1% of vegetables. It's just for iceberg lettuce.
All right, so you are, you're for
the Democratic Party. All the rifts between
you two have healed.
There's nothing but love with you
and the Democratic Party. I am
a strong proponent of the Democratic Party.
I am enjoying the Democratic Party.
I am proposing legislation actively that we should all legally be friends,
and I believe once that's passed that we were lusher in a new utopia.
All right.
And just if anybody wants to pitch in on your campaign, what do you recommend?
You can go to my website, Bernie Sanders, two suits and a crumpled pringlescan.org.
The other ones were already taken, unfortunately, but that one was still available.
And you can go there and donate on my Patreon account,
and I'm trying to crowd fund a new state in between Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
a new state.
Yes, it's going to be Vermont, too.
And it will be Vermont only slightly better.
So there's a lot of projects to get involved in.
The main one is to get me elected president.
I think I'm going to pull it off this time.
If I don't, I'm going to keep doing it at least to 2040.
All right.
Thank you very much, Bernie Sanders, for being a part of the program.
My pleasure.
Thank you, Glenn.
Thank you.
I do like that he's honest.
Yeah, he doesn't mind.
The Vermont, too, I think we should explore next time because I don't know.
I've seen Vermont, you know, Vermont One.
I don't know how you'd make it.
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the Senate is voting on abortion. Well, not really. They're not voting on abortion.
They're voting on whether you should kill kids that are alive.
Yes.
After they've been born.
Have you seen...
It's not even an abortion argument.
Have you seen the video of this woman going in, wanting to kill her baby late third term?
And it's a hidden camera.
And what this woman says, can we have this audio?
Yeah, here it is.
Yeah, from 2013, it's a few years ago.
But it gives you kind of a vision into what this, what's really going on in these places.
This is from live action.
And they're talking to an abortion doctor who's describing how, what happens to born alive babies from unsuccessful abortions?
Listen.
What if it was like twitching or like something like that?
Like, the solution will make it stop.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's not going to be moving around in the jar.
Okay.
The solution would make it like.
Yeah. That's the whole purpose of the solution.
Okay.
So like if it looked like it was like like breathing or something.
something like that it automatically stop it won't be able to it won't be it okay so I'm not
even going to see it no so okay so I mean like if that has sleep they take it out and it goes
into our lab where they do the stuff with the jar and cleaning and all that okay so what is
the solution it's just like something like toxic or something yeah okay we have to keep it
clean and you know because by the time it gets to the lab it still needs to be freshly you know
they don't yeah so so they could weigh it so it could be proper weight to make sure that everything
came out of you like there's no pieces left in you so like you'll make sure like i don't have to deal
with it it will die like you're done you're done once you start this today that's it you're not
gonna see it we're not gonna show you your sonogram pictures we're not gonna you know yeah all right so
i'm like if i feel like i'm having like labor pain kind of thing yeah call us call you yeah we have an
emergency line like what if it like pops out like at home like if it comes out yeah then it comes out
then it just like flush it yeah but you still have to come in okay we have to make sure that
everything came out but we never had a situation like that because if it's like what if it's like on the
floor like you know what I'm saying yeah what would we do with it that's what I'm saying
like you guys would come and like if anything you know we'll tell you to put it in a bag or something
or somewhere and bring it to us um so a human being they're talking about yeah so um that's really
going to be up for a vote on Monday uh if somebody has a botched abortion and the baby comes out
alive. Do we flush it? Do we neglect it or do we have to treat it like a human being? That's
happening on Monday. On Tuesday, they're going to vote on whether or not to accept the national
emergency for the border. The next week's a big week. And supposedly, the Mueller report is
quite close as well from being finished. I mean, the report, again, as Bill O'Reilly correctly
pointed out, it was CNN reporting this, so who knows. But it's supposed to be.
be towards the end, maybe next week, it will be coming out.
There's a lot of stuff going on.
It's next week CPAC, too?
Yeah, Friday, I open the session, CPAC.
I'm the opening act for, uh, shoot, from, uh, Texas, um, patch on his eye.
Oh, yeah.
Dan Crenshaw.
Dan Crenshaw, yeah.
Um, so I'm, I'm opening for Dan Crenshaw, which is, it should be exciting.
Should be really exciting.
I, I like him a lot.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, he is, he's made quite an impact in a very short time.
And almost, I mean, everything I can think of is because he's just kind of done the right thing in a position where he didn't have to.
I mean, that was when the Saturday Night Live guy was making fun of him and, you know, saying he didn't have an eye and joking about it.
He lost it in a, you know, serving our country.
And he handled that incredibly well.
He didn't play victim.
Didn't play victim?
I mean, that's great.
Look at that against Jesse Smallette from this week.
You know, Dan Crenshaw easily.
Remember, this was on the verge of an election.
This is the Saturday before the election, I believe.
And he could have easily exploited that to win more votes, to get more donations.
And instead, he was just like, look, you know, we've got to stop being offended by every little joke.
You know, I don't like what he said that much, but, you know, I'm sure he's a good guy.
And then he went on Saturday Night Live and joked around with him about it.
They made fun of each other.
And that was kind of it.
You know, it was like, it's the exact way you're supposed to handle those things.
and Dan Crenshaw did it really well, and everything I've seen from him since has been really solid, and he seems like a great guy.
I mean, every once in a while, you get surprised by somebody kind of coming up out of nowhere.
I didn't know Dan really before the election.
And, you know, I'm excited that there's someone who seems like there's a lot of potential there.
Yeah.
And things are changing.
This is a new generation.
It's just a new generation.
And so I'm anxious to see what's happening at CPAC.
I'm anxious to see if we really understand what we're up against.
I'm going to be talking, I think the theme of CPAC this year is what makes America great.
And I'm going to be talking about capitalism.
That's what makes America great, not socialism.
And the differences between the two.
It promises to be good that it's Friday morning.
I think it's the opening session like at 7.30 or something like that.
And then Dan Crenshaw.
And then you're going to be on radio right after that.
If you go into the 2018 congressional draft
and you're picking some, you know, a diamond in the rough,
you select Dan Crenshaw, the other team selects Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
or Elon Omar.
Who's going to win?
I'm feeling pretty good about that draft.
Yeah, yeah.
That's the right way to do it.
Or they could pick Jussie Smollett.
That is probably his next role, right?
He's probably, he'll probably, after the subway sponsorship dries up.
Do you believe then he goes to, I think he runs for Congress?
and gets elected as a democratic socialist.
By the way, how did you not bring up, talking about sponsorships,
how did you not bring up Colin Kaepernick's company Nike and the blowout that happened?
Oh, does Colin Kaepernick own it now?
Is that?
Yeah, no, I want Nike to own it.
I want Nike to own it.
Their stocks fell 2% overnight because there was a tennis shoe blowout between Duke and.
Yeah, because Zion Williamson, for.
some reason was wearing tennis shoes on the basketball court.
No one understands why he was doing such a thing, but he was.
Now, his shoe blew out, and he was wearing a basketball shoe, a basketball sneaker,
and his shoe blew out and he got injured.
He's out for a few weeks.
Luckily, it wasn't super serious.
You can play that way?
Well, I mean, I just, if it's not a tennis shoe, if he's playing basketball,
it's a basketball shoe.
All right.
But, no, he can call it a tennis shoe if you wish.
Okay, just, I didn't know we were bringing the big guns.
Just let me get the 50 Cal.
I'll just have to just boil it just a little bit.
Take me about three minutes.
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Sometimes somebody who is not in the family, so to speak, can look at the family and go,
you know what?
Here's what's happening, guys.
And nobody really sees it because you're too close to it.
Jonathan Dunn is known as Freedom's disciple.
He does a podcast on The Blaze.
He is from Ireland.
He so desperately wants to live here in the United States.
But, you know, actually getting a visa here is ridiculously devastating.
difficult. And so he is in Ireland and he comes in to visit from time to time. And then he speaks
around the country about America. And what makes us, I love this, not what makes America great,
but what makes us exceptional. Welcome to the program from Ireland, Jonathan Dunn.
Thank you, sir. Awesome to be here. Yeah, it's good to have you here. You're at home in America,
aren't you? Yes. It's where I feel comfortable. When I come over here, I'm saying I'm going home.
Monday when I fly back, it's, I'm back to Ireland. And it's the way it is. It's, it's,
life. It must be hard for you because I can't imagine America. There's not a lot of people
that are there in Ireland who are like, you know what America's really got it on. No. Yeah.
But the thing is, the frustrating thing of why I do what I do is there's not many Americans today
who can actually tell you why it's an exceptional nation. I talk to many people on all sides and
I get, America's great because we're Americans. No, you're great because you're a set of values and
principles. You know, I was very blessed. I've shared this story with you and you know this well.
When I came over first, a 7, 8 year old boy, I went to Clearwater, Florida, to my grand
aunt. I fell in love with your country. Then I fell in love with your people because you're
awesome, you're open-minded, your inspiration, you're always looking forward. You've got this
can-do attitude. Then with the international, learning from people like you and Mark Levine,
I fell in love with America, the idea. It's the idea that makes you exceptional. When I hear people
on all sides of the aisle, say, you need to be more like Europe. You need to be like everyone else.
No, we need to be more like you, not because you're Americans, but because of certain ideals,
the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the right that you have the right
to pursue your happiness.
You can do anything you want.
It doesn't matter because of your race, your class, your background, your education, your parents.
People don't see the difference between you.
I mean, they would think Scotland, Ireland, England, I mean, I can go over there and be whoever I want to be.
Why can't you be that over there?
Because there's no incentive to be.
So people, let me break that down into certain.
policies that you need to be aware of. So everyone now, you're running for 2020 and you're talking
about progressive tax codes and it's about the millionaires and the billionaires. The problem
with that is it might start there, but eventually it attacks the average Joe, the middle class person.
Let me give you some stats about Ireland. Ireland is a proud progressive nation with a proud
progressive tax code. Every cent, everyone earns over 32,000 euros, which is ballpark with exchange
rates, about $34,000, is taxed at 40%. Oh my gosh. Why would you work? Why would you do
the incentive. My mother is over 60 and she made some changes in her life a couple of years ago
and she worked five days a week all her life and she was on decent money for what she did. I sat her down
and she was like, I need to do a bit less and I need to just want to do different things. I want to live
a bit more. I sat down and they did our numbers and said, if you do a three and a half day week or a three
day week, you'd only lose like 100 bucks. She was like, but that's two days less work. How is that
work? Because I brought her right under the 32,000, 30,000, 30,000 euros. She saved so much money. She was
effectively spending two of our days effectively working for the government, putting herself
through that hassle. If you have that incentive or lack of incentive, why work hard? Why come in
early? Why want a bonus? But that's only for a worker. When you're innovating, why would you want
to do it? Why would you want to work and give 40% of income tax to the government? That's income tax.
Then we have PRSI. Then we have a USC. Then we have a USC. It goes up to nearly 50. It goes up to nearly 50.
So it's pay-related social insurance. And then there's a USC, which is a social charge,
which all supposedly goes into the healthcare.
But we are like a government like you all where it's supposed to go into these different funds, but it doesn't go into one big posh.
And then everyone just takes out of what you will.
So you up are up to 50, but that's pretty much.
I mean, Bill O'Reilly talked about it today.
50% of his paycheck because he lives in New York goes to taxes.
About 46 or 47% of my paycheck goes to taxes.
So we're doing that.
It's just on the rich that that's happening.
you think the difference is the rich had a chance to get there.
Yeah.
The reason the frustrating thing for me is about socialism and about big government is
you have to understand, when I hear Bernie Sanders and some of the socialists speak,
they're usually right on the problem.
It's the solution they fall down on.
The reason that free market capitalism is the answer is because it creates the same level playing field for everyone.
These big businesses that lobby government and use these policies
and you use these regulations and tax policies,
they've made their money.
They can pay the 40% tax.
Other people don't.
It's why America is the exception
if we go back to your history.
You study the history of the world
and pretty much every revolution.
You're the exact opposite.
Because usually revolutions,
and you're seeing this in France right now
with the yellow best protest,
they're the people at the bottom of society,
and I mean this not from a class
or not from a standard,
from an income point of view,
with nothing to gain
and everything to lose
wanting their slice of the pie.
Your founders were the exact opposite.
If I use modern-day language,
You're 54 signers of the Declaration of Independence.
We're the bourgeoisie.
We're the greedy capitalists, the millionaires and billionaires of the day.
If they wanted to, they probably could have gone to the king and said, hey, listen, King, we're
all these people.
We are all these people with status, with money, with well known, with land, with property,
with businesses.
Give us a better deal and just screw the average American.
They didn't.
They fought for freedom for everyone.
I have studied the founders so many times, and I've never looked at it that way.
That is a great observation.
They had everything to lose.
That is why they're incredible.
But let's go even one step further.
The frustrating thing for me is because you're using certain words in your culture right now,
and one of them is winning.
Everyone on my friends on the left, my friends on the right, they say,
I just want to win.
America was never about winning.
Let's go into some of the stories about winning, shall we?
Your 54 sign is your Declaration of Independence.
One was a judge from New York.
This is very rare for today.
He was respected by both sides of the.
the aisle as a fair judge. After he signed the Declaration of Independence, how many cases did he hear? Zero.
Why? Because it wasn't about winning. It was about doing the right thing. Other people who signed
your Declaration Independence lost their property, lost their stature, lost their fame, had their wives,
their mothers, their sisters raped. What was winning like to them? But then you go into the
Revolutionary War, the people who fought, who went and actually went into battle, who lost their brothers,
who had no shoes, who hadn't got guns, who hadn't got the right training. What did winning look like to
them. America was not built on a great idea of winning. If you want to win, study the French
revolution, because that's all they wanted. They wanted to get their bit of power and win and
compel the other side, and that ended with the guillotine. America was built on the premise of
doing the right thing. It's why you had divine provenance. If you get that and you understand
it's not about winning, you have to do the right thing. And your answers are in your constitution,
are in the Bill of Rights. And if we have these conversations, you win. Can I share an example
which you have someone I had a conversation with this week.
Someone went, John, I hear you talk
about government and stuff.
But Bernie Sanders, you have to admit
money in politics is a problem.
And I went, I absolutely agree with you.
Money in politics is a problem.
Lobbying is a problem.
He went, how do you fix it?
And I went, why don't you tell me how you fix it?
You're a Bernie Sanders supporter.
How do you do it?
He's like, well, campaign finance for law.
I said, no, the answer is the Constitution.
What's in that document that fixes that?
Article 1, Section 8,
18 causes are there of what the federal government can do.
Everything else is left to the states.
I know you've said, you believe this, you share this.
If you follow that, everything else has got to go to the states.
You don't have lobbyists in Washington.
You come to Texas.
You come to Austin.
You come to New York.
You come to Chicago.
But even states like Texas, you all meet, what, two months every two years?
So for 22 months of the year, lobbyists can't do anything in Texas.
Then you encourage that to go elsewhere.
That's how you solve these problems, the Constitution.
The sad thing about your country right now, and you've come so far off your government,
your founder said there's aiding things.
the federal government can do. Everything else is to the states. Here's the sad truth about your country.
Can you name aiding things the federal government won't do? No. Can you name one? They tell you what
toilet you can go to. They tell you what cars you can drive. They tell you what mortgage you can have.
They can tell you how much income you have. They tell you what sweets you're allowed. They tell you
what medicine you have. Name one thing the federal government cannot do in your life.
Because here's where the difference is. America's founders are so exceptional. They said,
your rights come from your creator and there's limits on government. Why I'm terrified
that no one addresses this problem, you want to know the real battle of the day? It's not Donald
Trump, it's not Democrats, it's not Republicans. The battle of the day that we need to start
explaining to people, it's not even Liberty versus Tierney, it's the law of man versus the law
of nature. You're exceptional for a fact because every other nation, whether it's a king, a dictator,
a monarch, an oligarch, a theocracy, any of them are all based on the law of man. There's no
foundation, it changes with popular
opinion and with elections,
wave elections. Yours founder
said, no, no, no, no. We're going to base
it off the laws of nature's law and nature's
God because there's principles.
They were true 240 years ago.
They're true today. And they will be true
250 years from now. It is why
socialism
doesn't work. Because it
takes away and
is in the face of
the law of nature.
It does, it
It says that men are not animals and that somehow or another we can equalize everything and make everybody the same.
It's in nature, nothing is the same.
All the lions are not even equal.
You know what I mean?
But you want that.
We want difference of people.
You know, we want people to do different things because there's the key word that you need to emphasize in your declaration independence.
You have a right to pursue your happiness.
You're not guaranteed happiness.
but you have the right to pursue it.
It's about the individual.
We all have different things.
If you want to go be,
sell up the blaze, which you did,
and you wanted to have this empire
to stand and be a baking for truth,
go for it.
Couldn't do this in Ireland?
No, absolutely not.
Not a hope in hell.
But also, there's no market for it.
That's the reason you have a difference.
So people say, what's the difference
between Ireland and every,
or in America and the rest of the world?
You have a beacon.
You're not using it right now,
but you have a roadmap to success.
We don't have that.
We don't have names.
nature's law. We don't have a fundamental belief. We're all created equal. We have a class system.
That's how I got my show. I don't know if you remember. I rang in, you were annoying me one week.
I said, Glenn, please stop using the word middle class. It goes against the founding of a
principle of America. Because if you have a, you're Glenn, your upper class, stew, you're middle
and I'm lower. But yeah, we're all fully created equal. How does that work? You can't have it.
They're oil and water. I'm much more upper class than either of you.
Well, I'm the lower class, not at all, because we're basing of an income. But the idea that you
have that idea. If you want to go be a baseball star
and earn, like, Mani Machado, I'll give you a baseball
right. If you want to be Mani Machado and you want to
sign a 10 year, $300 million deal,
go for it. If you're like me and who happens
to like to speak and I want to do that for free,
go for it. It all goes to your pursuit of happiness.
If you want to set up a business, or if you want to
be a stay-at-home mom because that's popular to
attack today. If that's your dream in life,
go for it. It fundamentally comes back
to you're an individual and you can do whatever
it is you want. You have one opportunity
in life, and we need to encourage
people, because here's the cultural difference
between America and the rest of the world.
Every other country pulls people down.
There's a saying, I'm sure you may have heard it,
you're getting too big for your britches.
Or you can't do that.
You got a bit successful.
Then you're now rich.
You have all these things.
You have your big car, new car.
You have all this money.
You're all these millions.
I googles you.
I see how much money you're worth.
You're too big.
You need to pay more.
America was about, you know what?
Go for it.
Why don't you do it yourself?
You can do it.
There's nothing stopping you.
It's all up here in the mindset.
So many people have become a victim of,
I could never do that.
I can't, why could I do? I don't come from the right class. It doesn't matter. It's all in your mind. Dream big. You were here a couple of years ago. Quickly, we have about a minute, minute and a half left. Tell me what, if anything, is different since the last time you were here. Well, the good news to report is I've been around a lot of Texas and Oklahoma and St. Louis. Your people are still awesome. It hasn't, the way you treat each other online hasn't infiltrated how you treat people on the street, which thank God, touch wood.
never does. You're still open. There's no racial issues. I have to have conversations with black people,
white people, gay people, straight people. There is nothing there. The biggest thing I've learned
is there's an appetite for founding principles because everyone right now, they won't have might and admit
because of their politics are going, things aren't making sense right now. What we need to do, if you want to
go big and you want to actually make America exceptional again, now is the time to make the case for
your founding principles. You have to understand the declaration and the penance and make the case,
not about the Republicans or the Democrats or left versus right.
Make the case for principles.
Because here's the thing.
People say to me, can America prosper again?
Can America be exceptional again?
That's not the question.
The question is, yes, you can.
The question is, do you want to?
The question is, are you willing to go through the pain and sacrifice
that your founders went through to get us?
This is why we gave him a show on The Blaze.
It's a podcast. You can listen to it.
Freedom's disciple, Jonathan Dunn.
I urge you to seek that podcast out and listen to him and support him.
And one day, I hope to welcome him as an American to our shores.
This year you will.
Jonathan, thank you so much.
Appreciate it.
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Do you agree with what Bill O'Reilly said today about
Jesse Smollett
that he's not he's going to get off.
I kind of don't.
I think this is one of those crimes.
I kind of feel like it's actually worse to be a celebrity
when you commit it.
Because a lot of people did the,
have had Trump hoax attacks.
And we went through a list of them.
Most people didn't get anything.
Blaze has a great story on it today.
Yeah.
On the 30 plus hoaxes.
But I think he has he has poked a finger in the eye of Chicago police.
They are really upset about it.
Yeah, they're upset because they've redirected resources away.
And the superintendent actually said, you know, I wish people cared as much about, you know, the violence on the streets as they care about this.
Yeah.
I mean, it's got to be frustrating if you're in Chicago.
You're dealing with real problems.
And then here's this situation.
And Empire has written him out of the last two episodes.
Yeah, he's teeth toast.
I mean, let's be honest about it.
He is done.
All right, have a safe weekend.
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