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For instance, Hunter Biden and his jail sentence.

I think this is misdirection.

I think it's their way to brush off everything else.

So what is the right sentence for that?

We talked to Andrew McCarthy about the trial,

a fair verdict, and a fair sentence.

Will he get one?

I hope so.

Also,

we wanted to go into some of the things that the uh global governance people are looking to do in september i've got a big show on it tonight on blaze tv but we went into it a great deal today there's something that happens in september with the un

that can change everything in one emergency that you need to know about um that and oh um janice deen joined me also from fox she's uh she's been talking about andrew cuomo and covid forever well he had to testify in front of congress yesterday and I believe he absolutely perjured himself several times.

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Welcome to the Glenbeck program.

One of the greatest prosecutors of all time.

I watched him on Fox News after the conviction of Donald Trump.

He was fabulous.

People said he couldn't be better.

I didn't believe it because he was better.

And he's great.

Andy McCarthy is with us now, the National Review Contributing Editor, National Review Institute Senior Fellow.

former chief assistant U.S.

Attorney.

Welcome to the program, Andy.

How are you?

Glenn, great to be with you, as always.

Yeah.

So, Andy, I'm excited to talk to you because all I want is

real, true justice.

And, you know, you can't compare Donald Trump's trial to this one.

The only thing they have in common,

kind of in a reverse way, was they are...

They pushed this one to be rushed to trial, where

the government did everything they could to stop this one from even going to trial.

But after it went to trial, there were no hijinks or, I mean, this was done step by step the way the law requires.

Yes, and I think that's all about the judge, Glenn.

I think, you know,

this is a judge who simply gave both sides a fair trial, which is what's supposed to happen.

It is an advantage.

for prosecutors if the judge treats the case like it's serious business.

I'm not talking about like putting a thumb on the scale to the prosecutor, but making the jury aware that you're doing, you know, if there's serious allegations and you're doing serious business.

Correct.

That's what all good judges do.

That's what Judge Noreka did.

But other than that,

that's the big difference between the two cases.

That end, I think

if you pick 20 people randomly off the street and ask them what Hunter Biden was convicted of, they'd be able to tell you, you know, reasonably closely

to what the death was.

Whereas if you you asked 20, the same 20 people what Trump was convicted of, they still couldn't tell you after a single trial that was covered, you know, day by day.

Yeah.

So, Andy, so the trial was fair, which is a victory for the judicial system.

The sentencing, they're saying he could get up to 25 years.

I don't think that's going to happen.

What do you expect?

What's average?

About 18 months?

I think he's...

I've done his

little computation of his sentencing guidelines.

And the important thing with this, Glenn, is that the media always covers things as if the statutory sentence is going to be the sentence.

The statutes have these big ranges, like, you know, zero to 20 years for one thing and zero to ten

years for another.

But sentencing, realistically, is done under the federal guidelines.

The judges don't have to follow them, but they almost always do.

All the arguing about the sentence is about that.

I don't think Hunter has to be

in a prison sentence situation because I think there's a good interpretation of the guidelines that could bring his sentence as low as zero to six months, which is a range where the judge would be allowed to do something other than a prison sentence.

There's another way of computing it where he'd be at a level where the he'd max out at like fifteen to twenty one months and the judge would give him the bottom of the range, which would be about 15.

But I'd be surprised if that happens.

Okay.

And that is, that would be fair and just.

That's no cutting any deals or anything.

That's just fair and just.

Yeah.

Okay.

I do it too.

He's the first offender.

It's a non-violent crime.

And

the guidelines have an adjustment that say if you just got the gun for sporting purposes, not for a crime or something like that, then you can get a low guidelines range.

So if I lied on my

background check, this administration would want people to pay a much, much higher price.

So the lying part on that bothers me because it's very, very clear, you don't lie on this, which he did.

However, the idea that

you could take guns away from, I don't know, people who smoke pot or, you know,

drinking alcoholics.

I mean, I'm a recovering alcoholic.

I have guns.

I wouldn't want my guns taken away from me.

I mean, there is a constitutional argument that maybe this shouldn't be a crime.

Yeah,

there's a very fluid Second Amendment

argument in the federal courts, in the appellate courts, because in the Bruin case back in 2022, the court basically said we meant what we said when we said that the you can't restrict the Second Amendment beyond what the original understanding was when the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791 or at most when it was applied to the states by the 14th Amendment in 1868.

So the thing is, Glenn,

there's a long tradition in this country of disarming people if they were adjudicated to be mentally incompetent.

But as far as there's not a lot of tradition for

drug abuse regulations, but there was for alcohol.

And the tradition in the country at the founding was that

if you were actively drinking or if you were intoxicated, they could take your guns away from you while you were drinking or intoxicated, but then they gave them back to you and there was no restriction on you having them.

So the question is, is drug

i think we're going to have to like draw a line between drug use and drug addiction but if you're a casual drug user like that right the um there's one appellate court that found like somebody who was a recreational marijuana user that it violated the second amendment to take the guns away on the other hand if you're an addict and you're in in someone like Hunter's position, the question is, is it more like mental illness or is it more like alcohol abuse?

And I think that's what the courts are grappling with.

So good day for the Republic

or not?

I think any day justice is done is a good day for the Republic.

I think it would be a bad day for the Republic if the history of this was

distorted.

So I resent the Biden Justice Department and David Weiss in particular taking a victory lap on this when they not only delayed justice by six years,

they've really

rigged this so that Hunter will actually never

see justice in terms of ultimately this case and the tax case.

Because by the time

their sentences and those cases are adjudicated, we'll be beyond election day and President Biden will simply pardon him, and that'll be the end of it.

And that's because of the strategic delay by the prosecutor.

And I have to tell you,

in the grand scheme of things, the least important thing that I would try him for is what we've been talking about.

I think this is a distraction and a way to delay from getting to the real crimes that were also on the laptop.

And

so

it's a bad day

in the way that you were just saying with the Justice Department.

There's no justice coming from this Justice Department, you know, if you have the right name, and God help you if you have the wrong name.

Yeah, no, that's exactly right.

And a lot of this is a sideshow to distract attention from the work that the House committees have done, which I just looked this morning before we started to speak.

They're up to like $35 million

in just the period between 2014 and 2019 that went into the coffers of the Biden family.

If you count up the money they got directly, the money their associates got, and these loans that they got that were never expected to be repaid were up to 35 million.

Jeez.

How many $35 million loans have you had that you weren't expected to repay?

Because

I haven't had one yet.

Yeah, and how many $35 million transactions where like the money crosses the table, but nothing comes back in return?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, I don't have to do anything.

They just love me just that much.

Andy, thank you so much.

God bless.

And keep up the good work.

You're really doing some important work right now.

Thank you.

Thanks so much, Glenn.

You bet.

Andy McCarthy.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

So we have the Liberty Sentinel Media CEO on with us.

He's a journalist, also the author of Indoctrinating Our Children to Death.

Alex Newman is with us.

And Alex, if I'm not mistaken, you've spent almost a decade working over in different countries in Europe and reporting on Europe and European policies and politics.

And I thought you could maybe bring us a better understanding of what happened over the weekend and what's still to come.

Well, thank you for having me,

Beck.

It's great to be here with you.

And yes, I spent over a decade working in Europe and longer than that, living in different European countries, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, France.

And the media, of course, is being pretty dishonest about what has happened in this election on several fronts.

For one, they're portraying this as a win for the far right, and yet they don't actually tell you what that means.

They want to conjure up images of Adolf Hitler and goose-stepping Nazis.

And it could be further from the truth.

The parties that really did very well in this election are not even close to Nazis.

In fact, if anything, they're more closely aligned with like the Libertarian Party or conservative parties that just want some controls on immigration.

So right there, we have a fake narrative from the fake media.

And another part of the deception, I would say, is that this is going to have some sort of devastating effect on the globalist agenda or the mass migration.

I mean, that's simply not true either.

This was an election for the European Parliament.

This isn't a parliament in the sense that we think of a sovereign legislative body.

In the EU, you have the European Commission, which is basically a hybrid legislative-executive branch.

It's very different than our system, and the Parliament serves more as a rubber stamp than as a legislative body.

So several big, big deceptions.

But the results do speak to something very important.

Europeans, like Americans, are tired of the globalism.

They're tired of the mass migration.

They're tired of the economic suffering because of the inflation and the climate policies and the war on farmers and all the rest, and they want something different.

And so from that perspective, this was a very significant election.

So what did Macron do when he

called for new elections?

I don't even understand that system.

What did he do?

Why was that a big deal?

And

how is that going to work out for him?

Well, he had to, essentially, after the election results, his party was absolutely crushed.

I mean, and I mean, crushed.

The result was devastating for his globalist establishment political party.

And the party that won by a massive margin, that used to be the National Front, now they call it the National Rally, is basically the antithesis of Macron's party.

They're very strong French nationalists.

They want to preserve French identity.

They want to do deportations.

They want to remove criminals and illegal aliens out of France.

In some ways, you might call them anti-Islamic.

They are opposed to what they call the Islamization of France.

And, you know, they're not necessarily like

a conservative Republican party, if you will.

They're on the left on quite a few issues, but they are a nationalist party.

They want to preserve French identity.

In fact, until recently, they wanted to get France out of the European Union.

They have now walked that back a little bit.

They're more reformist, whereas Macron wants to basically surrender all French sovereignty to the EU and open up the borders wide for anybody to come in.

So the contrast is very clear.

And what happens in these parliamentary democracies, like they have across Europe, is that when you have an election like that and the prime minister or the president, in the case of France, has a party that is decimated at the polls, they really have no choice but to call for a snap election and then eventually step down because they are obviously in a position of weakness.

They have clearly lost the support of the public.

And so the correct thing to do then is to call an election and let the people decide their fate

so the people that were were elected they remain they're just re-electing the rest of parliament well i don't i don't i'm sorry for sounding so naive but i just don't care about foreign governments because to me they don't make any sense but no i don't get it what is the

yeah

So the French system, like many of the other European parliamentary systems,

the whole system is different, right?

In the United States, we have kind of the two-party system.

Every congressional district represents a particular group of people.

So when you have elections in most of these European democracies, what you have is proportional representation in parliament.

And so typically you'll have governing coalitions that take shape, like the recent government that just took over in the Netherlands, a huge blow to the establishment.

They kicked out the liberals, the liberals by American definitions,

the globalists, and replaced them with conservative parties.

So what what happens then is when you have these kinds of elections, and it's the same in Canada, our neighbors to the north and in Australia, when you have these elections and it becomes very, very clear that the ruling party or the ruling coalition no longer has public support, the correct and proper thing to do then is to step down and let people have new elections.

So this election was, like I said, for the European Parliament, but what it showed is that the French people are no longer with me.

So he has to do the right thing here in Cooper.

Okay, so this vote that happened over the weekend, let's see if I follow you, the vote that happened this weekend has very

few teeth, if you will.

But calling for a new election, if the results turn out the way it appears they might turn out,

it will have some teeth.

The Conservatives will have some teeth.

Yeah, so if in this snap election, Marie and Le Pen's National Rally Party performs as well as they did in the European Parliament elections, France will look very, very different when the new government takes over.

And that's a very real possibility.

It is possible that

the French voters wanted Marine Le Pen's party in the European Parliament, but not governing France.

That's possible.

We'll see what happens in this election.

But yes, this could lead to some very, very profound changes in the way France is governed.

And that, by extension, then would lead to some profound shifts across Europe.

France is obviously one of the powerhouses of the European Union, one of the major economies, one of the most significant military forces.

So this could have a very, very profound effect if the election goes the way the European parliamentary election suggests it does.

But you're right.

When you look at the European Parliament, again, I think the name is kind of misleading because people assume that this is like, you know, for example, the U.S.

Congress, that they're going to have the power to radically shift trajectory of things.

In the European system, that's just not the case.

The parliament, I think, is best thought of as a rubber stamp, almost like a decoration for the Europeans to be able to feel like they have some kind of influence in the way the EU is governed.

The EU is really governed by unaccountable, unelected bureaucrats at the European Commission.

So have you heard

there's a new summit that's happening at the United Nations annual meeting?

It's called the Summit of the Future, which kind of sounds a little freaky.

And

it'll cover everything from climate change, international security, science, technology, youth.

It's the typical bullcrap from the United Nations, except

one of the things they're addressing is transforming global governance.

And

Action 36, we commit to transforming global

governance.

Action 41, we'll reform and strengthen the United Nations.

They go into all kinds of things like our common agenda, and they're giving the United Nations

extra

powers that can be enacted in emergencies.

And so they're getting around the sovereignty saying, by saying, oh, this would only happen in a global emergency, but we all know emergencies are always right around the corner.

Do you know much about this?

I do, Glenn.

Actually, I broke that story in the Epoch Times over a year ago.

It's very, very important.

I'm glad we're talking about it.

In fact, I will be there covering the summit for the New American magazine, so we'll be providing live updates from there.

But I think of this as kind of like an attempted constitutional convention for the UN.

They want to throw off the shackles that have kind of restrained their power grabs over the decades and usurp vast new powers.

And that's not speculation.

The Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, who, by the way, before becoming the head of the UN was the leader of the Socialist Internationale, which traces its lineage directly back to Karl Marx, anyway.

And he has put out a series of what he calls policy briefs.

One of them, as you mentioned, deals with emergencies.

And I encourage people to read this document, if I remember correctly, it's only about 24 pages.

And it is just incredibly transparent.

It basically says in any declared emergency, global emergency, the Secretary General will assume all these new powers.

The decision-making entities will be the agencies of the United Nations.

It says nation states, governments, civil society, business, all of them will be taking their marching orders from this Secretary General and his minions.

And I mean, it gets worse.

They give a list of possible emergencies, and it could be anything.

It could be an economic emergency, a climate emergency, an environmental emergency.

It doesn't even have to be a global emergency.

It could be regional.

So we're talking here about an incredible power grab where all they have to do is say emergency, the magic words, and suddenly we have basically a global police state.

So people need to be paying attention to this.

And this is something, we're covering this tonight on my

9 p.m.

TV show.

And

in doing our homework on it,

it is something that a lot of people will go, oh, well, that's no big deal.

They're voting on this and doing this in September,

you know, before

we have a vote here in America.

And if they pass this stuff,

What you said is absolutely true.

Any emergency will just circumvent all of our governments and put all of the power into one government in the UN.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

I mean, that's a proper description of what's going on here, Glenn.

And the amazing thing is that you can actually read these documents.

You don't have to read between the lines.

You don't really have to read through the UNEs.

It's just right there in plain sight.

They're talking about global restrictions on free speech.

They're talking about globally seizing control of economic decisions.

They're talking about incredible powers, powers that would be flatly unconstitutional, even for the U.S.

government to exercise.

And they're talking about now having these powers exercised at the international level by people who were not elected by any people.

It's frankly terrifying.

I think people really need to be paying attention.

It's most of the city is not talking about it.

Yeah.

Thank you so much for everything you do.

And if you missed our last podcast, when was it we did that?

Dude, that was actually.

Remember, I have no concept of time.

It was.

I know.

It's like everything.

There's so many things that happen every day that you're like, I don't know.

Was that three years ago?

I have no idea.

But we had a fantastic, fantastic conversation.

And if you missed it, go look up the podcast with me and Alex Newman.

And let's see, it was called

It's a Global Cabal, a Conspiracy theory um you can you can find the podcast with me and alex and it is well worth your time listening to alex thank you as as always god bless thank you for having me appreciate it go bless you

you bet and don't forget tonight at 9 p.m i'm doing a special on that un document uh please take it seriously um you have to be informed i i have to tell you i am at times i'm so blackpilled at times uh i've just like have have you seen the

new documentary out, Stu, on

we just put it out with Sarah Gonzalez?

Voter fraud exposed.

How elections can be stolen.

Have you watched it yet?

I have not, no.

Oh, my gosh.

Just the open.

Now, luckily, we go into some solutions and things that have to be done, but oh my gosh, it is these problems are so huge that you're like, I don't know what to do.

In the voter fraud exposed, there are things to do that will actually make a difference.

And tonight, we go into this.

The first thing you have to do is you have to know what is happening in September.

It's really, really critical that you know and spread the word.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Hey,

so it's me, Andrew Cuomo.

Yeah, so I got to testify in front of Congress yesterday, you know?

Hey, what's a little perjury between friends?

It's not like I'm killing people.

Anyway, Janice Dean is with us now.

Janice is the Fox News senior

meteorologist, and she took a big gamble and started to speak out against Andrew Cuomo and what he was doing, and which I believe was killing people in nursing homes.

He said yesterday that he was just following federal regulations.

And it's like,

what federal regulations were those?

Janice, welcome to the program.

Glenn, thank you for having me.

And thank you for following the story.

You know, I think a lot of people are sick of hearing about COVID and don't want to talk about it.

I know we have a lot of PTSD when it comes to what happened.

We were all locked away for years, depending on where you live.

And I think a lot of people just want to brush this under the rug, but we can't, especially with stories like what happened in New York and what happened with my in-laws.

You know, our government

kills people.

You're exactly right.

And for the first time, families got to see Andrew Cuomo answering questions under oath.

And

what was the

answer and the question, the line of questioning that you feel really stuck out to you?

Then he continued to do the same thing that he's been doing for four years, and that is deflect, lie, blame

everything,

everyone else, Trump, New York Post, Fox News,

the nursing home residents, the people who worked at the nursing homes, everybody and everything except the man that signed the March 25th order that was in place

for six weeks to allow over 9,000 COVID-positive patients into nursing homes.

And many times he kept saying it was the CDC, it was the federal government, but you know what?

At one point he did have to admit that the language was different and that it was issued by the state.

So that's an important

tidbit that we got out of the subcommittee yesterday.

They have not released this transcript.

I don't think they will for a number of weeks because they're bringing in Melissa DeRosa, who is his right-hand henchwoman.

And I believe actually,

in some cases, I believe her

testimony will be more important because I think she's the one that edited

a lot of the documents that were out there and falsified the death toll.

So for people who don't remember, take us through the story.

He,

at the beginning, to take the pressure off of the hospitals so he could say the hospitals were running running fine and everything.

He was taking COVID positive people and putting them in nursing homes, which is

the worst possible idea

and killing all of these people.

And then he started to suppress the numbers and saying, no,

these people aren't dead.

That didn't happen, right?

What he did was he didn't count those that got COVID in their care facilities and were transported to the hospital where they died in the hospital.

That happened to my mother-in-law.

She contracted COVID in her assisted living residence.

She was tested once she got to the hospital.

She died in the hospital.

But Cuomo's administration was the only administration across the country that didn't count those that died in the hospital.

And the New York Attorney General filed a report that basically said at points they were lying about the numbers by 50%.

And that's a big tell, obviously.

Why is he hiding the numbers?

You know, if he's going to blame the federal government, don't you think he wants to ramp up those numbers to make sure he blames Trump and the CDC instead of himself and the mandate that he had his name on?

So, you know, there were hours and hours of questioning yesterday.

I am so grateful to Chairman Brad Winstrup, who headed up the subcommittee and wanted to find out answers because he's doing more work than Kathy Hochul in Albany Albany has done in the last four years.

So what do you expect to happen?

Because I think the average American listening to this is like, oh, he perjured himself.

He's lying.

He's got caught.

But the average American also says, nothing's going to happen.

He'll just go on.

Might be governor again.

Well, maybe not governor, but certainly mayor.

There is a lot of talk that he is going to run for mayor next year for 2025.

And I believe it.

You know, he's actually got a campaign website up and running on the internet.

But I believe I'm on the side of the angels.

And,

you know, gauging from what happened yesterday for the first time ever, you know, questioned under oath for hours and hours about, you know, all of the things that we have wanted answers to.

Again, he deflected a lot, but I do believe there were many times where he did lie.

And, you know, if you look at some of the timeline that we've been working on and some of the evidence, there was certainly

he was

certainly perjuring himself.

And I think there are going to be criminal recommendations once

the transcript is released.

And I also believe we're probably going to see him on television testifying again in the fall.

Well, you have done just a miraculous job on keeping this story alive and bringing national attention to it while it was happening.

Nobody wanted to talk about it.

And you stepped out pretty much alone at the very beginning.

And I just have so much respect for you, Janice.

And thank you so much.

Well, thank you for following the story.

I really, really appreciate that.

And to Stu as well.

You know, he's been somebody that's been sounding the alarm on this.

And

he can't get away with it because it just can't happen.

I'm not going to let it happen.

Yeah.

Thank you so much.

I love you.

She, yeah, Janice just said everything true up until the the stew part, and then I lost a lot of respect, a lot of respect.

Thank you so much, Janice.

God bless you.

You know, she was just talking about mayor of New York.

They're so desperate in New York.

I want to give you

something that came in from a friend who is a,

well, I better not say because I don't want to out them.

But they're not something, they live in New York, okay?

Been a New Yorker for 20 years they're

you know in an industry that you would not think oh yeah of course the conservatives are hanging out there dear Glenn I'm a big fan of yours and something happened last week I thought you might find interesting I recently moved to East Harlem I've been a New Yorker for more than 20 years but I had never ventured into this neighborhood before moving here It is a forgotten land with no closed subways and not many businesses.

Most people never see this neighborhood.

It's dirty.

Our trash doesn't get picked up regularly.

Our streets don't get swept on schedule.

Our city councilwoman even spearheaded the program to give out free needles to junkies.

I volunteer at a local children's garden, and on Saturday evenings, it's become a meeting place for neighbors, some with children, some without, to meet and share snacks and drinks and talk about grocery store prices, school functions, and watch the kids play tag.

We're a mix of Puerto Ricans, blacks, whites, Chinese, mostly between 30 and 50 years of age.

Last Saturday, our talked turned to politics by way of complaining about the filthy conditions of 116th Street.

I'm a conservative, and in New York, I've learned to keep my mouth shut.

So I was surprised as one woman said, I'm a lifelong Democrat, but things have to change around here.

Then a younger woman said, my life was so much better under Trump.

I'm voting for Trump.

Then all my self-identifying Democratic neighbors agreed.

Yes, life was better during Trump.

Things were cheaper, streets were cleaner.

I asked if anyone had gone to the Bronx Trump rally held only a few miles from here.

No one had gone, but everyone knew somebody who had, someone who said it was great and loved it.

They felt it was meaningful to Trump to even visit the hood when our own politicians don't come around.

It was unanimous that while none of them had voted for Trump in 2020, they all would be voting for him in November.

This is an area that always votes blue, no matter what.

And I was amazed to hear so much support for Trump here.

It's amazing.

I think people are really fed up.

I think they are just sick and tired of this and fed up.

And it is, you know, they're going to try to make it about guns.

They'll try to make it about Trump's a felon.

It's going to come down to the economy.

It is going to come down.

How much are you paying for food?

How secure is your neighborhood?

How's your business doing?

How's your personal economy doing?

How do you feel?

Are you feeling comfortable and safe in your job?

I don't know anyone who does.

And I mean at any level of the spectrum.

I don't know anybody who's like, oh, yeah, well, no matter what happens, we're good.

I don't know a soul that feels that way.

Do you, Stu?

No.

And of course, the price, you know, we still see,

there's a report out today, an inflation report, where they're saying, oh, it's very good.

It's, you know, it's the inflation is down year over year and all of these things.

And it's like, well, it's still a record high.

It's still up from last

from last month.

I mean, the rate is down year over year, but

we're still seeing an increase.

And I don't know.

I mean, I think that's the type of thing that hits people.

You know,

there's a new prediction model out from 538 where they do this every election cycle where they release the percentage chance of

who's going to win.

And it has Joe Biden ahead, I think 52 to 48% or 53, 47, something like that, as who percentage of chance that they would win.

But, you know, a lot of that's based on just, you know, the fundamentals that are underlying this.

If the election were held today, it's something like 80-20 or 75-25 that Trump would win.

And like, I think there's this belief that because as we get closer to the election, there will be, you know, the media will be stepping in.

People will wake up to the fact that they really don't like Trump.

A lot of these voters, black voters, Latino voters, younger voters, will all say, wait a minute, we can't go with Donald Trump.

We're going to go back to Joe Biden.

That's sort of the assumption that underlies so many of the predictions right now.

And it might be true.

I mean, it might wind up being true.

We may very well see that Joe Biden wins this election.

But man, like, it's just hard to imagine a country embracing what they've seen over the past four years.

How can you reward it?

And listen to this.

This is the way CNN spins it, but you can't spin the basic fact.

Listen to this.

Cut two from CNN, please.

Homeownership up 26%.

That cut, please.

Bankrade found that on average, Americans are spending $18,000 a year to own and maintain their home.

That is obviously a lot of money.

When you think about it, it's almost like the cost of buying a used car a year.

This is 26%

more than in 2020.

And of course, this is all on top of your mortgage payment, right?

We're talking about the cost of energy, the cost of property taxes.

And the biggest drivers, according to Bankrate, are the fact that it's gotten more expensive to maintain a home and also the cost of home insurance.

Now we've seen premiums spike, right, for two reasons.

One, it's the fact that there's the climate crisis has made it more likely to be disasters, right?

We've seen wildfires and hurricanes and flooding.

Then the cost of living, labor, materials,

so it's more expensive to repair when this happens.

I spoke to a woman in California yesterday who told me that her home insurance rate doubled with no notice because of concerns about wildfires.

On top of that, they have to spend $10,000 to repair the plumbing.

Now she's taking on extra hours to try to make ends meet.

And she's not alone, Kate.

yeah not alone

climate crisis is hitting us all here glenn uh it is really a fascinating uh

you know tale here and and this story this this uh stat came out when you were gone uh glenn but i i'd love to i'd love to run this by you think about this for a moment economists put it to me like this this is a new york times report on the housing market if you were to sell your house today and buy an identical one across the street, your payment would double.

This has nothing to do with how much the other house has gone up in value over the time that you've owned the house.

This is just, if you have the rates that we had a few years ago, you had that rate going forward, house across the street, same price, identical home, your payment is double.

And that is, by the way, not reflected in any of the inflation reports.

When it comes to these rates, it's not

reflected in there.

So, like, people are feeling that in a real way, and the numbers are coming out telling you a totally different story.

And everyone's like, oh, well,

the inflation number is coming down.

That's really good for Biden.

I don't see that

in reality.

People know.

They don't see it in reality.

People know.

Everybody, no matter what level on the spectrum, everybody is talking about this.

It is insane.

It's insane.

It can't go on and it's going to get worse.

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