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Welcome to Friday.

Glad you're here.

Thank you, Glenn.

Welcome to Friday.

Yeah.

The Michael Cohen testimony.

Woo!

Such a trustworthy guy.

It's hard to believe that he'd have some inconsistencies on the stand, but

he can't.

anything's on the table these days.

You know, who would have thought?

Amazing.

Listen, I want to play cut one, Anderson Cooper talking about this last night.

The last 20 minutes of court today, right before the lunch break, it was incredible.

I mean, it was,

you know, Ellie Hoenig on my program last night had talked about, you know, on a cross-examination, lawyers want to kind of put

the witness in a, you know, build a box around the witness and then slam it shut.

That's what Todd Blanche did to Michael Cohen.

It was an extraordinary cross-examination by Todd Blanche.

And Michael Cohen's, throughout the day, Michael Cohen, when cornered, when he found himself in a corner, he does have a pattern of suddenly not understanding the question that's being asked.

Seemingly kind of, I mean, one could say buying time to try to figure out what, how he wants to answer.

But he definitely suddenly starts to, you know, have Todd Blanche repeat questions and say, I I don't quite understand what you mean.

I'm confused by the question.

But this time, Michael Cohen was cornered in what appeared to be a lie, I think, to many in the room, and had to adjust suddenly his memory that he had just testified to on Tuesday.

Adjust his memory is a great phrase.

Let me play one more cut from a CNN.

This is an analysis on CNN about that moment.

Listen, cut to.

I don't think I've ever seen a star cooperating witness get his knees chopped out quite as clearly and dramatically as what just happened with Michael Cohen.

I've certainly seen very effective cross-examinations of cooperating witnesses.

I've seen aspects of their story cut into and called into question, but this goes to the heart of the allegation here, that phone call on October 24th, and it looks to the jury and to Anderson Cooper and Tara Scannell and Judge George Grosso, who are all in the in the courthouse, that that was a devastating moment.

So here's what happened.

Michael Cohen is on the stand, and he's testifying about a phone call that happened.

The whole case is really pinned to this phone call.

And Michael Cohen has been saying, yeah, I called the boss and I told him we're going through with a deal, need your approval.

Okay.

Well, what Michael Cohen didn't know, apparently, is that the defense had all of the text messages between Michael Cohen and the guy he actually called,

which was Trump's

security guy.

Keith Schiller, yeah.

Yeah.

And so

he was texting back and forth because Michael Cohen was having some 14-year-old hassle him and making crank phone calls to his phone, which makes me happy.

I'd love to know who that 14-year-old kid is.

I'd like to give him some meat.

But anyway,

he's writing and texting back to the security and saying, this kid is

constantly calling me.

What do I do?

How do I do it?

Who do I talk to?

And the security guy says, I can help.

Call me.

That was two minutes before the phone call.

So they started with the testimony saying, Really?

So

you were calling Trump.

It looks like you didn't talk to Trump.

It looks like you talked to security.

What did you talk about?

Well, I told him we were going to...

Really?

Because two minutes before, you're asking him about a phone call and he says, call me, and you called him right back.

Well, that was part of it.

And the whole thing fell apart from there.

Yeah, I mean, this is devastating.

Yeah, I mean, the claim by Cohen now, again, there's been...

He's told every version of the story.

So the whole point of this is we're supposed to believe him today and not the other times he's told the story.

But

on the stand, it seemed to change.

Basically, he says he, they had this text exchange about the 14-year-old.

And if you didn't think Cohen's...

Please, if you're the 14-year-old or know the 14-year-old, please have him call me.

He's not 14 anymore, but yes.

I know, but I would love to, I'd love to hear his story.

Yes.

So he's a 14-year-old.

He's pranking Cohen.

And apparently Cohen has an issue figuring out who he's talking to.

He's talking talking to actually a 14-year-old.

So, they're having a back and forth.

They think this might be a problem.

They call Schiller.

They have a text message exchange about this with Schiller.

Then he calls Schiller, and Cohen's testimony is basically he talks to him and has a full conversation about the 14-year-old prank calls, and then also has a conversation about

the Stormy Daniels payment.

But wait, wait, wait.

On Tuesday, he didn't mention the other part.

Right.

He didn't mention the 14-year-old.

Right.

No, I know.

This is his.

I'm trying to keep these all separate.

This is his new telling of the story.

Right, right.

The new telling is he has this conversation, and he has a conversation with another person on the same call, which is Donald Trump, and he updates him on the Stormy Daniel case.

This all occurs in 96 seconds.

Now, look, it's not impossible, I guess, if just everyone goes, okay, all right, here he is.

Okay, bye.

Like, I guess all that detail could theoretically be jammed into 96 seconds.

There's not a chance.

It doesn't make sense.

The email, the first email about that 14-year-old kid is, this kid is calling me.

I don't know what to do.

Blah, blah, blah.

The guy says, call me.

Just explaining.

Explaining that.

Right.

That's 90 seconds.

That's a minute and a half.

Just explaining that.

What do you then say about the Trump thing?

Oh, tell Donald Trump we're going to be doing the, you know, we're doing the cash thing too.

Click.

I mean, it makes no sense.

And if it was done that way,

there was no conversation.

He just blurted it out.

Yeah.

It is fascinating.

And it's fascinating to think about separately from just the Trump legal ramifications of this, but just the Michael Cohen ramifications.

This is a guy who was in front of everyone's face, lying constantly, constantly

when he was employed by Donald Trump.

And to the point that, like, every, I mean, I didn't know a lot of conservatives who liked him, but certainly every liberal hated him.

And now Cohen has reversed

course completely and is now lying against Donald Trump.

And of course, has received largely what you'd expect from the media, which is all of a sudden this newfound credibility.

All of a sudden, they love him, and all of a sudden, he's best friends.

Now he's lost everybody on the right, right?

So now the only thing he has left is on the left.

The only thing he has remaining is on the left.

Glenn, what happens to this guy if they don't get this conviction?

He is going to have no friends.

Everyone

gets this guy.

You know, he'll get what he deserves.

He'll get the life that he deserves, which is to be completely discredited.

As somebody who was an alcoholic

and lost my credibility,

when I hit bottom, I lost my family, I lost absolutely everything.

I was living in an apartment.

Stu was an intern at the time.

We lived in the same building.

It's true.

I mean, I was at rock bottom.

I was literally making $0 an hour and had the same, and this was in the same apartment building as you.

uh so you know and when you lose everything

i found when i was literally down on my knees feeling sorry for myself i i remember praying lord all i want back is my name i just want my credibility i will do whatever you tell me to do I just want to be able to look at people in the eye and say, this is what I believe is true, and for them to at least consider that I'm telling the truth.

When you lose your credibility, you have nothing.

So this guy is about to receive the worst punishment, I think, that you, and it's always self-imposed, well, not always in today's world, but it's usually self-imposed.

You've just lied to everybody and you've burned every bridge.

And that's usually what an alcoholic does just to hide their alcoholism.

And there's nothing more valuable.

You can lose everything, but if you lose your word and your honor, you have nothing.

Nothing.

Believe me, I've been there.

Now, I'm going to take a quick break and I'm going to come back because there's one part of this story that happened yesterday that I find absolutely incredible.

And it happened right after the testimony, and it has nothing to do with the media.

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Okay.

So

after the

testimony yesterday, Matt Gates

and the House Freedom Caucus, who are in the courtroom voluntarily every day to support Donald Trump came out and here's what Matt Gates said.

Listen.

Well, I'm honored to be here with my colleagues from the House Freedom Caucus where we watched Michael Cohen get dogwalked through the series of lies he has told.

There is literally no branch of government that Michael Cohen has not lied to.

He lied to investigators.

He lied to the judge who sentenced him.

He lied to the United States Congress.

And he committed these lies for his own benefit.

And while we're talking about what we saw in that courtroom going on for people's own benefit, we would be remiss if we did not mention this corrupt judge, this judge whose own family is making six figures off of Democrat politics that continues to gaslight the country that there's some sort of crime committed by President Trump.

This is a made-up crime.

No other American in the country would be charged with this type of crime.

It's like the Mr.

Potato Head doll of crimes, where they had to stick together a bunch of things that did not belong together.

Observing the jury, I could see that there was a great appreciation for the liar that Michael Cohen was, and we are not getting a fair shake in front of this judge.

The prosecutors don't even have to state the basis for their objections.

He's agreeing with the prosecutors without even hearing argument on these objections.

And there should be evidence getting in about the depth and breadth of Michael Cohen's lies that we're not seeing entered into it.

Okay,

so there's that he's surrounded by the Freedom Caucus.

I think that's significant.

Freedom Caucus and Donald Trump don't always agree.

The Freedom Caucus is constitutional, small government, small spending, etc., etc.

And Donald Trump, I think, has had a problem with some members of the Freedom Caucus in the past.

The Freedom Caucus is now showing up, taking time

from from their day and showing up and showing support and sitting behind Donald Trump.

Donald Trump appreciates loyalty.

He appreciates people who will stand with him in tough times.

This is the smartest move the Freedom Caucus can do.

You'll notice that the regular Democrat or Republican isn't there.

You'll notice Mitch McConnell's not taking time to be there.

Donald Trump will remember who supported him.

And I think this is the most significant thing

that I have seen in a long time and strategically brilliant.

Yeah.

Do you think, Glenn, too, I mean,

you've seen a certain,

you know, number of Republican politicians come in here.

We saw J.D.

Vance there.

It does seem like he's bringing in also the vice presidential, like, you know, the people at the final table of the apprentice, if you will, to kind kind of come in here and say, okay,

I'm in this moment.

I can't defend myself.

What can you do on my behalf?

Oh, yeah.

And it seems like, you know, this is almost like we're seeing an episode of The Apprentice sort of play out live.

Right.

So I think that that is true when it comes to the individuals that he's considering for president.

But that was a crowd.

That was the freedom conference.

That's interesting, yeah.

Yeah, they were all there.

They're not all running for vice president.

No.

They're showing their block is with him.

And I think, you know, Donald Trump could have made,

and I shouldn't say this way, the left could have made a lot of inroads with Donald Trump if they wouldn't have treated him like a monster.

He will listen.

He'll talk to dictators and he will you know, work with anyone if they show him respect and he feels like he's not under attack by them, if you attack Donald Trump, he's done with you.

Done.

Trust me, I know.

Done with you.

Again,

to the point you're making here, he's also

willing to consider.

No, he's forgiving.

He is.

He wants to.

But he won't be forgiving.

You have to actually...

He called me the day I made good on my promise

of saying I was wrong.

And I said it because he was doing things that I said on the air before he was elected.

He will never do these things.

He's a big New York guy.

Don't trust him.

He'll never do these things.

And I said, if he does, I'll be the first to admit that I was wrong.

Well, he did them.

I don't remember what the last one was.

It may have been Jerusalem.

I'm not sure.

But he did a whole bunch of stuff and he was making great decisions.

And I said on the air, I apologize to the president.

I apologize to the audience.

I was wrong.

He called me that day and said, thank you.

And we've had a good relationship ever since.

And we don't agree on stuff.

That phone call lasted, I don't know, 40 minutes, 30 minutes.

And we talked about China and things that we disagreed with.

And he was open to hearing

my point of view.

He asked my point of view on a few things.

And on China, he just said, Glenn, we're never going to agree on this.

I'm sorry, I'm doing you this.

And it was fine.

He works with people.

He will never work with the Democrats because of what they've done.

And I think he hates the GOP almost as much.

And if the GOP would work with him and treat him right when he gets in, he will work with him.

But the Freedom Caucus standing now at his hour of need,

en masse, not just individuals, but en masse, that's that's going to be significant in his presidency coming.

And Glenn, one of the things you've maintained over this entire period when Donald Trump did not like you so much and when he does is the ability to still say things against him when he's wrong.

But like that, and I have two.

Like I'll still be critical of Trump.

I don't care.

But at the end of the day, this is the worst case I've ever seen brought against like a citizen of the United States.

Oh, yeah.

This case is such nonsense.

I would be happy to say it.

Maybe not happy, but I would be okay saying it if it was the opposite.

It's just not.

This is terrible.

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You know, Glenn, we had this situation with Cohen testifying and saying one thing on the stand where sort of there's like almost like a parallel trial going on at the same time where

you have, it's not really a trial, but it's an attorney and it's sort of like, I mean, there's testimony going on at the house.

that is vitally important to what we're talking about here.

This is

this is the Cohen's former attorney, Costello is his name.

Robert Costello.

Robert Costello.

And he was the attorney.

If you think about the timeline of Cohen, Cohen's a big Trump guy.

He gets raided.

And in that moment, he needs an attorney.

And he gets Robert Costello to be his attorney.

Now, in the interim, since that went on, Cohen allowed Costello to get out of his attorney client privilege.

Why?

That part I don't actually remember.

I remember going through this a while ago and trying to understand that, and I don't remember how that ended up.

I think, you know, I mean, Cohen was certainly trying to portray to everyone that he was completely an open book and he didn't care about what anyone, you know, said about him.

And he, you know, he was transparent now, and he's had this big awakening.

I don't know if it was part of that process or what, but basically, Costello is now free to talk about his conversations in private with Cohen and go on television and talk about it.

So let me give you, let me set this up with a clip of him.

This is a longer clip, but it's of House testimony where Costello is talking about what Cohen told him in this moment in 2018.

And keep in mind, this is a weird period.

He hasn't fully turned on Trump at this point, but he is panicking.

And remember, he's not panicking.

He didn't get in trouble over the stuff he had to do with Donald Trump.

This was stuff that he had, Cohen had, on his own, like issues with taxi medallions and a bunch of nonsense and tax issues that he was in serious trouble for.

Hang on just a sec.

Taxi medallions are a New York thing.

You have to have this big metal medallion on the hood of your taxi.

No, that's not.

That's not what it is.

No.

No, it's not taxi medallions like that.

No, no.

What was it?

So taxi.

I mean, maybe with Michael Cohen, I would not be surprised if that's what he thought they were when he bought them.

But no, medallions are basically like a pass.

There's only a certain amount of medallions they give out.

And if you get a medallion,

you can drive a cab around the city.

Exactly right.

Those are marked on the car by this medallion that they put on.

And they're hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I don't know.

I was picturing Michael Cohen with a giant gold chain as you said that.

So I don't know.

It's not okay.

No, no, no.

Yes.

But yeah, it's basically the rights to have a cab.

Now, there's a limited number of them, so they became very expensive.

The very typical thing governments do, right?

They put a false scarcity on a market.

It makes these things really expensive.

People come in, they buy them, they sell them, they try to make lots of money.

Now, of course, Uber came around and blew

this whole thing up.

So anyway, he had all sorts of problems tied to that and other business dealings that we don't have time to get into.

But the bottom line was this was a very desperate moment for him.

And I want to bring this now back to the

testimony in the House.

This is his former attorney at that time, Robert Costello.

Through further cross-examination, Cohen told me that he knew there was money missing from the Trump inauguration.

I see where you are now.

Thank you.

Okay.

And then on the next page,

in that first paragraph, Cohen decided that while he didn't believe the allegation of the Stormy Daniels story, that he thought the story would be embarrassing for Trump and especially for Melania.

So he decided he would take care of it himself.

Absolutely.

And that is contrary to what this guy testified to in court in New York yesterday.

Well, and what's not being talked about is your next paragraph, like the reason and his motivation for that.

So if you could just kind of walk through that for the committee.

Yeah, obviously, when we started to talk about the NDAs, and this is the very first meeting at the Regency Hotel, when, by the way, Rudy Giuliani was not involved in representing Donald Trump at that time.

Hone testified that it was a conspiracy between Giuliani and Costello as of this date.

Totally false.

In any event, he also said that he didn't discuss the Stormy Daniels matter with us, and he certainly did.

I specifically asked him because he kept on going back saying, I can't believe they're trying to put me in jail for these MDAs.

So I said, Michael, tell me about the NDA.

Tell me about Stormy Daniels.

What did you do?

He said, I got a call from a lawyer representing Stormy Daniels who represented that she was going to testify that Donald Trump had sex with Stormy Daniels.

Michael Cohn said, I didn't believe the allegation, but I knew that such an allegation would be terribly embarrassing.

He said, it would be embarrassing.

He focused on Melania Trump.

He said, I didn't want to embarrass Melania Trump.

He said, that's why I decided to take care of this on my own.

I went back to that several times.

You did this on your own?

On my own.

Did Donald Trump have anything to do with it?

No.

Did you get the money from Donald Trump?

No.

From any of his organizations?

No.

From anybody connected to Donald Trump?

No.

Where did you get the money?

I took out a HELOC loan against my property.

I said, why would you do that?

He said, I didn't want anybody to know where I got this money.

I didn't want Melania to know.

I didn't want my own wife to know because she's in charge, he said, of the Cohn family finances.

He said, if she saw money coming out of my account, she'd ask me 100 questions and I didn't want to answer any of them.

It was clear after talking to him for several days after that, whenever we talked on the phone or in my office, that he kept on bringing up the subject that he felt he was betrayed by not being brought down to Washington, D.C.

This guy thought, he said to me, that he should have been Attorney General of the United States or at least the chief assistant to the president.

Ludicrous, but that's what he thought.

And he was very angry about that.

He wanted to do something to put himself back into the inner circle of Donald Trump.

That's why he took care of this on his own.

There had to be a motivation.

Michael Cohn is always working for things that benefit himself.

And that's what he was doing here.

That's completely different to what he said that he told the grand jury.

That's completely different to what he's testifying to in New York.

Nobody has heard this side of the equation.

Right.

This is incredible because this is Michael Cohen's former lawyer, who Michael Cohen gave him permission to

violate attorney client privilege.

That is absolutely,

absolutely falls directly in line with who we know Michael Cohen is.

I mean, it does.

And the grand jury wouldn't listen to this.

They tried to cut him off, cut him off, cut him off.

Listen to this.

When was this clip from Fox?

It's a couple days ago, but this is from Fox News.

Before I testified on a Monday before the grand jury,

I gave Alvin Bragg's assistant DAs the courtesy of about an hour and a half Zoom conference where I told them all of the exculpatory material that I had that they were supposed to put before the grand jury.

But when I appeared before the grand jury,

they were asking me questions that in my opinion, and I've been a federal prosecutor myself, I was deputy chief of the criminal division in the Southern District of New York.

Those questions they were asking me were not going to elicit the exculpatory information that I had.

So I began to expand upon my answers and the DA's office was trying to shut me down saying that I had finished my answer.

And I told them that

when I'm in the middle of answering a question, I'll decide when I finish my answer and I asked them not to interrupt me again.

But basically they only put in a small

cherry-picked group of emails.

I presented maybe two to three hundred emails and text messages to them.

I had them with me, luckily, in chronological order.

They They put two or three in to evidence.

I asked them, are you going to put the rest of them into evidence?

And they said no.

What's fascinating about this, a couple of things, Glenn, is Costello is not like a Michael Cohen.

He's not just some like crappy attorney.

As he mentions, he's had like high-level jobs.

He was a prosecutor.

He's done all of this stuff.

He's well respected.

Yeah.

Yeah, respected attorney.

Yes,

there's no debate about that.

And what he's saying he did is he went to Alvin Bragg and said, hey, like, you guys should know this stuff.

Like, you're in the middle of going through this and you're not aware that this guy has told the exact opposite story.

Let me lay it out to you.

He basically warns them, don't go forward with this because you don't have all the information.

They take that information and when they talk to him, specifically

design questions.

so that he won't be able to get to the information he's brought in.

And he realizes this as someone who's gone through this process.

He's a former prosecutor.

He knows how this stuff works.

So he realizes they're trying to lead him away from the stuff that will actually make Michael Cohen look bad.

And he, of course, has a major issue with this.

Glenn, I mean, I don't know.

I mean, if you were the Donald, if you're Donald Trump, you're looking at this and things have gone pretty well for you in this trial.

Oh, my God.

Do you extend this and call Costello to the stand next week?

I would.

I absolutely would.

And because

he's not a friendly witness, he's a neutral witness.

He's just telling the truth and has the stuff to back it up.

I have to tell you, Stu, as I'm listening to this, all I can think of is: who do I know that is a credible investigative journalist that will do all of the homework and join with me to write a book on the attempted assassination of the President of the United States.

Because all of the information now is there.

And

this whole thing from

the Russia gate, all of this stuff, we now have the truth.

But nobody's tied all of it together to show you this plot.

We know it, we've lived it, but somebody needs to document in hard facts

the entire plot from 2015 all the way to today.

Because I've never seen anything like it, and no one has paid a price for it.

It's extraordinary in American history.

I don't think there's ever been anything like this.

And this is a modern-day assassination attempt.

You and I both know, and I hate to even address stuff like this, but you and I both know there are those people, and I don't know who they are, and I don't know how many there are, but there are those people that hate Donald Trump so much because they will destroy, because he will destroy their plans for a new world order.

They would at least consider an actual assassination if this doesn't work.

And that's terrifying, but this is a modern-day assassination of a man's character,

and

it's

a gigantic conspiracy that is now out in the open.

In the sense of the Clarence Thomas high-tech lynching, right?

It's that same type of approach.

Exactly right.

So, do you buy

the left-wing pushback on Costello is basically that at this time, Cohen had not turned against Donald Trump.

So, the idea is that Cohen goes in there.

He's still defending Donald Trump because he has not turned on him yet.

And he's saying all these things, which is essentially his public line.

I know it was me.

I did it.

It had nothing to do with it.

I don't think they slept together.

All this stuff.

And Costello gets that out of him.

And the idea is Costello had a relationship with Giuliani, which is he kind of brought that up in one of the clips.

He's being accused essentially of being a setup.

Trump gives him Costello because he knows he'll get this out of him and then he can use it against him later.

Okay, so here's how I would respond to that.

First of all,

explain the testimony yesterday from Cohen.

Explain it.

You can't.

You now know,

and even CNN has admitted it looks very much like he lied.

Okay,

so we know who he is.

We know he's lied in the past.

And now a credible attorney under oath, who is able to say attorney client privilege, who has no record of being a liar,

he comes and he says this.

So wait a minute.

So

the left, they knew that Cohen was lying under Donald Trump, and so did we when he was a friend of Donald Trump.

We knew he was lying.

So he was a liar then.

We know from yesterday, he's a liar now.

This attorney says

he's not only a liar, but Alvin Bragg is so distorting the truth that he's a liar.

But forget about

Bragg.

Just look at Cohen.

When do you, how do you pick and choose when Cohen is lying?

You can't.

He has no credibility.

He cannot, you cannot trust a word he says.

And this guy hasn't lied, at least that I know of.

So he has credibility as

a credible attorney.

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Well, hello, you sick freak.

Welcome.

It is Friday.

We're glad you're here.

I've got something

that I would say wrap your head in duct tape because your head will explode.

But I think it's just, you know, run of the mill, another day in America, something I've not seen before.

A horse on the highway, if you will.

It was a cat fight.

There's the horse on the highway.

It was a cat fight yesterday in Congress.

I can't wait to

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I find this a little bit frivolous,

but not really.

I also find it incredibly important because what is the thing that I've said I'm looking for that would happen before Civil War?

Oh,

it's amazing that you can ask these questions out of nowhere, and I think I know where you're going.

It's the guy who was caned in the

House in the Senate.

Senate, thanks.

Yes, Charles Sumner, a senator.

He's standing in the well of the Senate, and he says, basically, neither the Whigs or the Democrats, Republicans didn't exist.

Neither party is serious about, you talk a good game on

slavery, Whigs, but you're not going to do anything.

And the South and the Democrats are sleeping with the whore of slavery.

And a congressman from the South heard about it, walked into the Senate, walked down the aisle, went to the well where he was speaking.

He had a very heavy cane with a brass end on it,

and used it as a baseball bat and nearly beat this guy to death.

Sumner never really fully recovered.

And that guy, just like today, just like today,

the guy who hit him walked off.

He hit him so hard, he broke the cane.

The only reason why he didn't kill him is because he was able to crawl under a desk where the guy couldn't hit him in the head anymore.

That guy was never charged, never questioned, never stopped.

And the Democrats, because they were so pro-slavery, the Democrats, a couple of weeks afterwards, actually made chains that they wore outside of their collars with a little teeny cane on it, basically saying, you go ahead, try, take us on, nothing's going to happen to us.

Okay?

I mean, does that sound familiar?

So I've been waiting for this, and not in anticipation, just as a big warning sign.

I'm not sure if we had an episode of Dynasty or if we had the beginning of the fight.

This is Marjorie Taylor Green against Jasmine Crockett.

They're in a hearing room,

and

well, let me just play what started it all.

You know what you're here for.

Well, you don't want to talking about...

I I think your fake eyelashes are messing up.

No, nothing.

Hold on, hold on.

Order.

That's beneath even more.

Okay, so they say, Marjorie Taylor Greene says, I think your fake eyelashes, you can't see the truth,

which is, you know, a slam.

But it goes nuts cut too.

You just voted to do it.

You gotta vote again.

Order.

I'm trying to get clarification.

Calm down.

Calm down.

No, no, no, no, because this is what y'all do.

I'm trying to get clarification.

I can't hear you with your yelling.

Don't want me to.

Calm down.

No.

Don't tell me to calm down.

Calm down.

Because y'all talk calm down.

And then you put it.

Because if I can chair, if I come and talk sh ⁇ about her.

Y'all don't have a word.

Mr.

Chairman, Mr.

Chairman.

Chair,

order.

Chair now recognizes

Ms.

Green for four minutes and 21 seconds.

Four minutes.

Let Ms.

Green talk, and then you all can.

I'll recognize her.

I move to strike her words for a second time based on her second set of personal remarks, attacking another member.

Who?

Chairman Cohen.

Because you all cannot see

to apply the rules of the committee.

We have to do this every time.

I'm recognized.

I'm recognized.

I'm going to go ahead and start talking.

Look, I know, I know.

Look.

I don't know if you've noticed it.

I have two hearing aids.

I'm very deaf.

I'm not understanding.

Everybody's yelling.

I'm doing the best I can.

Can Can we not recognize Miss Green and let her know?

We cannot, because of the rules of the committee, Mr.

Chair.

That is what I'm trying to communicate in the present moment.

Okay, the rules.

The rules went out.

And now I'm watching this, and this is what I'm thinking.

Look at this scene and remember the scene from that old TV show Dynasty.

No, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Can you start it earlier than that, BJ?

Okay, well, anyway, there's a fight, and it happens because

one woman walks in and is like, I don't like your voice.

I've heard you don't care for my singing.

That's right.

It's the truth that hurts.

The truth.

I hope you say that when I sue you in court for libel.

Oh, you'd only make a fool of yourself, Dominique.

Everyone knows that you're nothing but a second-rate lounge act.

I don't care what you say to my face, you viper.

Retract this or I'll cram it down your throat.

Will you?

Is that not just what happened in Congress?

I mean, go play the real, go play the

green versus jasmine Crockett, the second cut again, will you?

You just voted to do it.

You kept voting to do it.

Order.

Order.

I'm trying to get clear for Kay.

Look at it.

Calm down.

No, no, no, no.

Because you just had the punches and the music, and we're watching an episode

of the worst behavior ever on television, at least at the time.

All right, stop.

Now let me go to Green versus AOC.

One last thing.

Okay.

Ms.

Green agrees to strike her words.

I believe she

apologizes.

No, no, no.

Perry.

Hold on.

Then after Mr.

Perry's, you'll be recognized.

Then Ms.

Green.

Hey, stop for a second.

They were insisting that her eyelash comment be stricken from the record.

This is what they're talking about.

This is what AOC and Crockett are so upset about.

The fake eyelash thing.

And so Marjorie Green says, fine, I don't care.

Strike it from the record.

But that wasn't good enough.

Go ahead.

Guys,

I am not apologizing.

Come on, guys.

Why don't you debate me?

Mr.

Chairman.

That's Green.

The minority is self-evident.

Yeah, you're not

enough intelligence.

The chair recognizes Mr.

Pennsylvania.

That's not green.

I move to stop the ladies.

So they're arguing about the freaking eyelashes

and they want it struck from the record.

And Green says, why don't you just debate me?

And Crockett says,

what?

Are you kidding me?

She says that, and it's not a problem.

Finish the clip, please.

Move the rest of the story.

That's two requests to strike.

That's two requests to strike.

Oh, they cannot take the order.

There's another motion to strike your words again, please.

Okay, here's another question.

Here's the correct part of what you do.

Ms.

Green, do you ask unanimous consent?

Do you agree to unanimous consent?

to strike your words.

I repeat again for the second time.

Yes, I'll strike my words.

But but i'm not apologizing without objection without objection

that is absolutely unacceptable how dare you

are you now let me ask you

are we getting healthier as a country or sicker as a country

are is what's happening in congress better than it was four years ago and i'm telling you four years ago it was nuts but is it better than it was four years ago or worse than it was four years ago?

Is our political system

more trustworthy than it was four years ago or less trustworthy than it was four years ago?

Is our judicial system more trustworthy or less trustworthy?

I mean, this is...

This is so easy to answer if people get out of their

out of their teams.

It's so easy to see.

Let me play cut four here on small businesses.

Listen to this.

Recent report by Alignable Research Center found that 43% of small businesses that rent across the country were unable to pay their rent in full last month.

This high of a delinquency rate hasn't been seen since the heart of the pandemic and is up 4%

from just one year ago.

Okay.

43%

of small businesses couldn't pay their rent in full last month.

43%

of small businesses.

This is compared to when the government shut everything down and small businesses had to pay their rent when they had zero customers.

Okay?

43% of all small businesses.

What?

Who creates jobs in this country?

It's the small business.

They create between 70 and 80% of all jobs are created by small businesses.

The Trump tax cuts,

it will make the small business tax when they expire, which Joe Biden said, we are going to let that expire.

That's got to stop.

It's all for.

It means that small businesses, their taxes will go up by 20%.

If they can't pay their rent now,

how are they going to pay an extra 20%?

Is that a better plan than we had under Trump or a worse plan?

Give me the cut five, please.

So here's the breakdown.

When it comes to groceries, we're going to show you on the screen because from year to year, it's up by over 1%.

And since the pandemic, up by 25 percent so people are really feeling it at home they're cutting down on their budgets feeding a family of four now is almost an average of a thousand dollars a month that is a lot of money

um

a thousand dollars a month since the pandemic and then it never came down why

part of the reason all of the new rules from the WEF, all the things that the government is doing to squeeze farmers out of business and make it all go to big farm.

Grocery prices are up since Biden took office by 25%,

and they're still going up, up 1%

this year, not going down, but up.

Is your life easier?

Is it easier to feed your family or harder to feed your family?

Are the policies that the president is proposing, all of the spending on, you know,

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Yesterday,

we had

the mom on from North Carolina, and I about blew a gasket.

And

it just,

did it bother you, Stu, as much as me?

You know, it was interesting because I thought that the story was really terrible.

It was the story of a mom trying to fight for her kid who's, you know,

wrongly targeted at a school, if you missed the story.

And

while I did have a lot of anger about it,

it struck me as one that was, you know, like we've heard the story a lot.

It seems to be happening so often.

But you seem to have an elevated

sense of emotion over it.

I mean, it really seemed to piss you off.

I mean, do we know where this is going?

Yeah, we do.

And

I have some emails and I have some posts.

And we're going to get back to this Monday.

But I just want the school board in, what was the name of the county, do you remember?

I believe it was Davidson.

Davidson, North Carolina.

I just want the school board to know.

We're not going to let go of this story, and I'm going to read some of your texts and your emails on the air Monday.

It's not going to make you look good.

So maybe, you know, you would resign, those who have

just smeared this woman.

I think the reason why,

and this was one of my things with Obama with his, you know, collective justice bullcrap, collective salvation, Jesus Christ came down, sacrificed himself, and rose from the dead for the individual.

He did it for you.

He did it for me.

He didn't do it for the collective.

He did it for the individual.

And when the individual actually accepts that atonement and it changes their life as it has mine, I was not this guy.

I just wasn't.

I fired a guy once for bringing the wrong pin to me because I needed a Sharpie at a signing.

signing and I actually fired him for bringing the wrong pin and I thought it was reasonable.

I was a monster

and the Lord changed my life and I have worked really hard to not be that guy, to be

I hate to say this because I am so not, but as Christ-like as I can, and I work every day on it.

And

for somebody, it bothered me for a long time

when the press was coming after me and calling me a liar and everything else.

But I've just gone numb inside on that because I work hard on my credibility.

If you're a long-term listener, you know, I will apologize for my mistakes.

I will lead with my mistakes because I'm trying to get it right.

But this mom,

she served time in jail.

She served time.

Then her life changed so much that she started working with the, I don't know, county or the state to be able to help others, kids that were in their 20s like she was when she went to jail for drugs.

And she's trying to help them not make the same mistake.

And you can hear it in this woman.

She's a good woman.

that has learned from her mistakes.

She has paid the price.

She has accepted the atonement of Christ.

And for these people to take her on and smear her and use her past when she has done it, it is one of my favorite books is Les Miserables.

It's Jean-Valjean.

How dare you?

That's what motivates me.

And we're taking it on again Monday.

We'll have more.

Davidson County, North Carolina.

People

stand up and demand that that school board resign.

Glenn Beck.

Okay.

Jesus talking about it there just made me so mad again.

And it wouldn't have made Jesus mad.

That's why I say I'm trying.

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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

Our Attorney General in the great state of Texas is joining us, Ken Paxton.

That should be kind of an explosive interview coming up.

Yeah, they had this big story yesterday where Governor Abbott pardoned a guy, Daniel Perry.

You might remember the story from back in the Black Lives Matter 2020 days.

There was a protest that went on.

Perry claimed that he shot a guy named Garrett Foster in self-defense as protesters were banging on his car.

There was a trial, an eight-day trial.

The jury wound up saying he was guilty of murder.

Now, again,

the long story, and we'll get into the details on it, but there was some time in between this and yesterday Governor Abbott came out and a full pardon to this guy.

It was something that there was a bunch of process that had to lead us to this moment.

But, I mean,

you know, Paxton.

I'm sure he's on the same side as this, and I will be interested to hear the back behind the scenes part of this

this was this was justice this was absolute justice he'll explain why

coming up in just a few minutes I've got a couple of things to say here and

Stephen in Master Control I'm going to use Sot Sheet 2 the latest clips not the early morning clips

I want to talk to you about the Kansas City kicker I don't know anything about this guy other than I'm a fan of Kansas City my son my cousin my son we watch Kansas City, we root for the Kansas City Chiefs.

I've seen him, you know, kick, but I don't know anything about

his name.

He is probably either the best or the second best kicker of the league.

That's what my son says.

So, Harrison Butker is his name.

And he was asked at the Benedictine College,

Benedictine College, what comes to mind when I say Benedictine?

Do you have anything that comes to mind, Stu?

Catholic?

Thank you.

Catholic.

Benedictine.

It's not like, yeah, that's the stuff, you know, when I have itchy skin, my mom used to rub it on my arms.

No.

Benedictine, a Catholic college.

He gives his speech.

I want to play cut one on Saw Sheet 2, please.

Kansas City kicker blast Biden in grad speech.

Bad policies and poor leadership have negatively impacted major life issues.

Things like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, as well as a growing support for degenerate cultural values and media, all stem from the pervasiveness of disorder.

Our own nation is led by a man who publicly and proudly proclaims his Catholic faith, but at the same time is delusional enough to make the sign of the cross during a pro-abortion rally.

He has been so vocal in his support for the murder of innocent babies that I'm sure to many people it appears that you can be both Catholic and pro-choice.

He is not alone.

From the man behind the COVID lockdowns to the people pushing dangerous gender ideologies onto the youth of America, they all have a glaring thing in common.

They are Catholic.

This is an important reminder that being Catholic alone doesn't cut it.

These are the sorts of things we are told in polite society to now bring up.

You know, the difficult and unpleasant things.

But if we are going to be men and women for this time in history, we need to stop pretending that the Church of Nice is a winning proposition.

We must always speak and act in charity, but never mistake charity for cowardice.

It is safe to say that over the past few years, I have gained quite the reputation for speaking my mind.

I never envisioned myself nor wanted to have this sort of a platform, but God has given it to me, so I have no other choice but to embrace it.

and preach more hard truths about accepting your lane and staying in it.

The world around us says that we should keep our beliefs to ourselves whenever they go against the tyranny of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

We fear speaking truth because now, unfortunately, truth is in the minority.

What part of that, if you're a Catholic and a Christian, what part of that is wrong?

And listen to what he said.

First of all, he's at a Catholic college.

He's a Catholic talking about the Catholic religion and theology.

They say you have freedom of speech.

They say you have freedom of religion.

You just keep it in your church.

He's keeping it in the church.

He's speaking at a Catholic college.

So there's lie number one from the left.

They do not want you to speak your mind about religion, even in

your own house of worship, in your own college, for the church.

Second thing, he said, that I think is so important, I never wanted, nor never thought I would have

a voice or a platform, but the Lord gave me this platform, and I have no other choice.

I feel exactly the same way.

The things I say, a lot of times, Stu will know, you can always tell because I pause a long time before saying it.

And that's when Stu's looking at me like, oh dear God, what are you going to say?

And it's when I'm weighing, Lord, I'm praying quickly, Lord,

yes, no.

And

I try to do what he asks me to do because this is his platform.

You've listened to this show.

I am not good enough to be where I am in this industry, in the hall of fame, really, with

a massive show.

I'm not talented enough.

God gave me this platform, and he gave you whatever platform you have.

And

if you want to be a person that is a person of

righteousness and

significance to where you can go home when you die and the Lord will say, thank you.

Good job.

Good job.

You have to speak out and say the things the way he said them.

He wasn't saying anything but what he believes is the truth.

He believes in God.

He believes that another Catholic is not living the Catholic faith.

Even the Pope

would tell you that.

You can't be pro-life and abortion and also be a Catholic in good standing.

Pro-choice, yeah.

Yeah, pro yeah, pro-choice.

Sorry.

Now, let me play the second cut here from him.

The ladies present today, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment.

You should be proud of all that you have achieved to this point in your young lives.

I want to speak directly to you briefly because I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you.

How many of you are sitting here now, about to cross this stage, and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career?

Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.

I can tell you that my beautiful wife Isabel would be the first to say that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.

I'm on this stage today and able to be the man I am because I have a wife who leans into her vocation.

I am beyond blessed with the many talents God has given me, but it cannot be overstated that all of my success is made possible because a girl I met in band class back in middle school

would convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one of the most important titles of all: homemaker.

Stop.

This is

the way that's been reported.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah, this is so incredibly beautiful.

He's not saying women shouldn't work.

He's saying that most women,

he's guessing, not all, most women are most excited about their marriage and their children.

Guys

may not be because

we're not built the same.

But I will tell you.

When I was 20, that was not what I was excited about.

When I was 30, that's not what I was excited about.

When I was 40 and I started living a good life and really living and really have enough wisdom, I can tell you now,

all the accolades, all of the accomplishments, everything

means nothing compared to my children.

They are the number one thing

that I think about, that

I regret doing things, you know, of I've screwed up my kids because I did this.

It is, it's, it's the only thing.

It is truly the only thing.

And to deny that is

criminal.

It's criminal.

We are made to procreate.

Moms intent are, I mean, think of how,

think of how God

came up with the way for a woman to feed her baby.

When she feeds her baby, breastfeeds, she's holding, and the way you have to hold the baby to breastfeed, the baby is looking into the mother's eyes.

I mean, this is what we were built for.

You can do other things, and that's fine.

By the way, I don't want to announce something outside.

I don't want to tell you who, but my wife has been nominated for Homemaker of the Year nationally by a big organization, and she's just honored.

And when they announce it, then, you know, I'll announce it.

But she's so honored.

And she said,

I don't have any, I don't have anything to say.

I said, honey, take the word homemaker out because it sounds so 1950s.

You're a CEO, and she is.

She's a CEO, and I can't run this house in our life.

I really can't.

I call her.

She's gone for a week.

Everything falls apart.

And I'm like, honey,

what happens now?

What do I do now?

Who is that?

She's a CEO, but she's a CEO of our children and our home and our life.

That is important.

And he's getting so much heat for this, but I just want you to hear.

It's the vast minority who have nothing to do with it that are complaining.

Listen to the end of the speech as he gets a standing ovation.

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It's Friday, which is always very nice.

Coming up in just a few minutes,

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We have Ken Paxton joining us.

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Our Attorney General from the great state of Texas, Ken Paxton.

Ken, how are you?

Welcome.

Well, great to be back.

Happy Friday.

Thank you.

Yesterday, the governor did something that I am very grateful for.

He pardoned Daniel Perry, who shot and killed a Black Lives Matter protester in self-defense.

A jury in 2023 found that he was guilty.

Tell the story and why it was logical and important to pardon him.

Well, so I called on his, I called for his pardon immediately when he was convicted.

You have to realize where he's at.

First of all, he's in Austin, Travis County, one of the most liberal Soros-funded DAs in the country.

For people that don't know, Austin is the closest thing you can get to San Francisco

in Texas.

Yes, we hate to say it that way, but it's true.

It's a super liberal city.

Yeah.

And, you know, justice there is not justice like it used to be.

It's very political.

And so they prosecuted this guy.

And I can tell you, as somebody who's done some training

on shooting and doing simulations where you have hostage situations, those decisions that you have to make, when somebody's pointing a gun at you, you're probably too late.

And if you wait for somebody to fire, you're very likely dead, especially if it's AR-15.

So this guy ended up in the middle of an with a

driver, and he ended up in the middle of a protest with BLM and Black Lives Matter.

And surrounding his car, right?

Surrounding his car.

I mean, you're talking about intent.

You know how those protests.

We've seen it a million times.

Yeah, and there was damage.

People got hurt.

Property got hurt.

It wasn't like they were all peaceful protests.

Most of them weren't.

So, yeah, I mean, it's true.

It's just nothing ever happened to any of those people that I know of that did the property damage and hurt other people.

So

the guy with

the weapon pointed it at him and Perry shot him and defended himself.

And look, who knows what would have happened?

Who knows what the guy they're saying?

The guy didn't have any ammunition.

How do you know that?

That's what they said.

That's what the prosecutor tried to do.

I got to tell you,

if a cop points a gun, I'm holding a gun, it's empty, even if it's a plastic gun that looks like a gun and I'm pointing it at a cop and he shoots me, he's right right to shoot me.

I'm stupid for pointing a gun, loaded, unloaded, a toy, it doesn't matter.

Exactly.

And you've nailed it on the head and somehow

this guy ends up getting convicted and 25 years in prison for merely protecting himself.

You cannot know.

If you wait for the other person to shoot, especially if it's an AR-50, you are likely dead.

You have to defend yourself and you have to make a split-second decision, which is not an easy decision.

So he was convicted

by a jury of his peers, and yesterday, Governor Abbott

did what you've been asking for for a while, pardoned him.

A,

is there a reason why it took this long because he was convicted in 2023?

And what are the ramifications of the pardon?

I applaud Governor Abbott for what he's done.

Yeah, and I and I do too.

He did the right thing.

So it's not up to Governor Abbott initially to make the pardon.

He appoints

the Board of Pardon and Paroles, and then they have to look at it.

They have to analyze it.

However long they take, they take.

There's nothing that we can do about who's on that board.

I mean, Abbott appoints them, but as far as what they need to go through, what process needs.

So they went through their process.

It took longer than I would have hoped, but they at least went through the process.

And then Abbott can agree with it or not agree with it.

And he went with it.

So look, he put the right people on the board that took this seriously, spent their time, and commuted this guy's sentence, and then Abbott was able to pardon him.

So I applaud that justice actually can happen in this country, but sometimes it's not in a liberal Democratic court in Austin.

So

when they did this, I mean, it's been, you know, almost a year since he's been

found guilty and he's been in jail.

When they did this, they started that process right away.

Let me ask it this way:

they did due diligence.

I mean, they tore this.

It wasn't something like, you know, I read this in the paper and I think this is wrong.

What do you think, Bill?

They did

worked hard on due diligence, right?

Yeah, they took it seriously.

I mean, just from the time that it took to get this done, this didn't happen quickly.

This guy has still been in jail for, I think, well over a year.

So it's not like it was some, you know, little

half, um, half, half, a little amount of time.

They took it seriously and they took some time in trying to figure this out.

Well, was this justice?

And I think they got the right answer.

And I'm glad we have this process.

And this is a really, this is a huge change in Texas.

I mean, we are, we are a right to carry state, open carry without a license.

We are a...

We're a state that has the CASEL doctrine, and it is, we hold true to that.

Here's a guy who

was shooting in self-defense,

and it went to the court, and they found him guilty.

That in Texas, that's massive, isn't it?

Yeah, it is massive.

And we have now a castle doctrine that allows you to defend your home if somebody comes in.

You don't have to

ask them.

If they've come into your home, you have a right to defend it.

You don't have to wait for them to shoot you.

And the same is true if it's called stand your ground doctrine.

If somebody has a weapon that is pointed at you, and look, this guy had a right.

The guys with the AR-50 had a right to carry the weapon.

But should he have carried a weapon and should he have pointed it?

That's, I mean, that creates, if you've got that kind of weapon and you're pointing it, you should not expect that somebody might be worried that you're going to shoot them.

It's crazy to have to wait for people to shoot you before you can actually exercise your right to defend yourself.

And he didn't pay any price for brandishing a firearm.

As far as I know, no prosecution of him and no question of him carrying a weapon.

You would think like, you know, Austin and other places would have gone nuts.

Some of the Democratic politicians that are calling Abbott and calling him out on this, saying that he's a white nationalist or something.

What about the guy that actually had the weapon?

Why do they never talk about that?

They never talk about it.

Does this establish any precedent in

law at all in Texas?

Is this something that's going to come and haunt us,

this ruling by the jury and judge?

You know, it's Austin.

I think we're going to be haunted by Austin for a long time.

Okay, but it won't affect other.

No, no, no.

It's an individual jury ruling, and so no other place is required to prosecute and convict and put people in prison for self-defense.

You're not.

As a matter of fact, it's a violation of the law to do that, and it doesn't hold any kind of precedent at all.

Good.

Can I change the subject?

And unfair, because we didn't alert you that I would talk about this, so I don't know if you're.

Those are my favorite topics, the ones that I've talked about.

I know.

Have you been watching the Trump trial in New York?

I was there.

I showed up like two weeks ago.

I think I was the first person to show up.

And I went there, and I was, if you want to know my opinion, I was stunned.

Like, I knew it was bad.

But when I sat there in the morning, and

I went into the room of the president and his lawyers, and I kind of pulled his lawyers aside.

I said, I don't understand why you don't object to hearsay.

And they said, well, we're not even.

We're not allowed to object to it.

I said, what are you talking about?

You have to object to hearsay.

And I said, no, we're prevented by some rule that made no sense to me.

And sure enough, we go back in and they tried to object.

They said, Objection.

I think they were just trying to show me.

And they objected, and the judge said, Overrule.

And I'm like, Don't you have to state your objection before it's overruled?

You didn't even let them state the objection.

Right.

So they say object, and then

this is the way it works, at least on TV.

I object, Your Honor.

On what grounds?

And then they have to say it, and then he says, Overruled or sustained.

And

he's not asking the defense.

And I understand he's not even asking the

prosecution,

right?

I never saw, of course, I only saw one objection the whole day because it was overruled without them stating what the objection was, which I've been in court enough to know how objections work.

I don't typically do litigation, but I know enough about like, you know, hearsay.

It's pretty basic, right?

Objection, that's hearsay.

And the judge is supposed to give you a ruling on that based on the law and the rules of evidence.

And guess what?

That never was allowed that I saw.

That's insane.

Unbelievable.

How do you do you see the testimony yesterday from

Cohen?

I did not see the testimony.

Yeah, I'd love to hear your opinion on that.

Even CNN said they've never seen a witness cut in half like this.

He was caught in his own lie about the phone call that he made.

I mean, the prosecution just

barbecued him.

In New York, is it like Austin?

Do you think

facts will matter when they're that clear?

Here's what I'd say.

I think, in general, if you have a pretty liberal jury pool, many of them have already decided when they walked in, and that's why they've got them in that spot.

However, there's a lot of jurors, and you can just hope and pray that one of them, at least, will have the courage to actually listen to the testimony and listen to the evidence, if there is any, and make the right decision about this and realize this is something we've never seen before, where we're not just in New York, but all these other places where a former president is being prosecuted for things that happened a long time ago, and it's all being prosecuted six months before the election.

There's no accident to that.

No.

One last thing.

You know, our universities around the country have been set on fire.

We know, we've tracked it.

we know they're being funded by the deep left, George Soros, really bad organizations.

They're very well planned.

They're planning on all kinds of things this fall.

Are we prepared for what could happen in the fall?

I don't know if we're prepared because, I mean, all of this is sort of unprecedented, and it's hard when you don't control all the levers of government, whether it's the DAs and all these big cities or certain areas that are progressive, like Austin or San Antonio.

It's hard to be fully prepared because

we have different people and leadership that have a different agenda.

And there's certainly people that are sympathetic to Hamas and who would just as soon see Israel

destroyed.

Ken, thank you so much.

Have we made any progress on securing the vote?

You know what?

I told you when I was on there last time, my biggest fear, I just saw an article today that said between

10 and 27 percent of the illegals that have come into the country are registered to vote.

I don't know what the number is.

I don't know if that's an accurate number, but I truly believe that's the game.

Get them elected, get them here.

That's why they started day one of the Biden administration telling the cartels, bring your people and get them here, because they want to get as many registered to vote because only three states actually have laws that have been upheld that allow for citizenship to, if you're a non-citizen, to exclude you from voting.

So

only three states have that?

Three states have tried to pass it beyond that.

They're in the middle of litigation.

I think Kansas and there's a few others.

So potentially we could have in Alabama.

I think there's total six states that have tried.

We had it in Texas, Glenn.

But you'll know this name, Dade Phelan, a Republican speaker, killed it for the Democrats so that we don't have any protection from non-citizen vote because Dade Phelan went out of his way to make sure sure that non-citizens, illegals, could vote in Texas.

Well, that's really disheartening.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much, Ken, for everything you do.

Keep us up to speed on these things and anything we can do to help

the good guys.

Let me just say this one thing.

It is disheartening, but there is hope because in the end, we know that God can do anything.

So just like the founders had no, they had no hope, and they had no hope that France was going to help them.

And guess what?

Yeah, I know.

Here we are today.

Everything but God.

Thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

I don't mean to discourage anybody.

You know, I think you felt discouraged about how out of control our country is.

But if we all go out and vote,

I mean everybody who cares about the Republic.

This is the moment.

I mean, the campaign slogan should be, save the republic, not make America great again.

Save the Republic.

We all have to go out and vote.

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The weekend is here.

Let me play some audio.

And, Stu, I'd like to get your opinion.

We played this earlier, but

I expressed what I think it means, the total breakdown of our system.

But I'd like to hear your opinion on it, your take.

This is what happened in Congress between Marjorie Taylor Green and who was it?

Connolly?

Oh, Jasmine Crockett.

Crockett, yep.

And Crockett.

AOC in there as well.

Right, and AOC.

So,

sorry, Marjorie Taylor Greene

had the floor, and Crockett interrupted her, and she said, you can't see the truth because your false eyelashes are getting in the way.

That started an absolute cat fight.

Here's part of it.

You just voted to do it.

I can't vote for you.

I'm trying to get clarification.

Look at it.

Calm down.

Calm down.

No, no, no, no, Because this is what y'all do.

I'm trying to get clarification.

I can't hear you with your yelling.

Don't want me to.

Calm down.

No.

Please calm down.

Don't tell me to calm down.

Calm down.

You know what I thought?

My first thought when I saw this was, this is a freaking Denny's fight.

You know when you see those on

social media where they're arguing about pancakes and all these people just get up in arms and they start throwing stuff at each other.

And it's a knockdown, drag out fight that you see you've seen those a million times right Stu?

I've seen those videos here for sure.

That's what I thought this was.

What do you think this says about us?

Oh wow, that's a

how much time do we have?

You know what it honestly like there's a lot of different ways you can go here.

I mean I think we have kind of gotten completely away from

a government that even is serious in any way.

In any way.

But like what I don't know.

And this might be because I'm reading this Jonathan Haidt book that's out now, The Anxious Generation.

How is it?

I haven't started yet.

It's really good.

I mean, it's really, really good.

I am definitely down the road where I believe he's right on what he's talking about.

And if you don't know the concept of the book, basically he's talking about the major change that we've had since about 2015, 2012 to 2015, when it comes to, you know, social.

Yes, social, yeah, when it comes to society, it is really, really central to the change when it comes to iPhones and, you know, social networks.

And it's the sort of stuff that you kind of feel is true.

You've seen the difference.

But like, he has all the data to back it up.

And it's the change in anxiety and the change in depression and suicidal thoughts.

And almost all the negatives come from this one major.

world experiment we all engaged on

in with really no idea how it was going to turn out.

And now we're finding out how it's going to turn out.

Well, I'm sure now that we have AI, it's going to get even better.

Because we're about to do another one, another big experiment.

Let's see how that one works out.

That is honestly what we've done.

We've experimented, especially on our children.

We don't talk to each other anymore.

You know, I hate to say this.

You know, they say, you know, be interested in what your kids are interested in and listen.

And I try.

But I got to tell you, when my son comes and says, oh, dad, I saw this thing on the internet.

This one guy was saying this, and then the other guy said this, and it's not of political importance or, you know, religious or eternal or anything like that.

It's just garbage.

I have the hardest time caring because it's garbage.

It doesn't mean anything.

It's the worst.

of our society.

Yeah,

I have no idea if this made it into your world or not, Glenn, but I don't know.

Some of these sites that

you read, you see people posting stories, and there's been this back and forth between multiple rappers posting diss tracks of each other.

Basically, does anyone know Drake, Kendrick Lamar?

I don't know.

Yeah,

I have to tell you.

I'm, you know, I'm down with all that.

I come from the mean streets.

That's true.

That's true.

But because of my eye surgery, I haven't seen it.

So fill me in.

No, I will not fill you in because I have absolutely no interest in it.

And I couldn't, it kept popping up everywhere every news

news sources tweets social media all this nonsense and I'm like I don't care why they don't like each other why do I keep having why is this in my face constantly and there's so many stories like that right now it is so crazy have you ever you know I once in a while once in a great while I will look at what's trending on X or whatever.

Yes.

I never know those stories or care about any of those stories.

Often I don't even know the people involved.

Exactly right.

Right?

And so I don't know.

You know what's scary is we're talking about saving the Republic and what's trending is all of that crap and they have no idea what we're even talking about.

Right.

And that and I it was a circuitous route to get there.

But

your question was, what do you make of this clip in Congress?

And what it feels like right now is that we have a bunch of Twitter users in Congress.

That's what it feels like to me.

Like, and I, and, like, I will be honest with you, at times, some of them I like, right?

Because what they're on my side and they're wise asses, and I kind of like it sometimes, okay?

I'll be honest about it.

I can get sucked into it as well.

But, like, this is not a serious nation.

Like, no, this, they're fighting over eyelash length.

They're swearing at each other.

AOC is trying to form sentences.

I swear to you, I think it almost,

we are one degree away from one of them getting up and just punching the other and having a Denny's fight.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, maybe we should move Congress to Denny's.

It might make more sense.

Delicious pancakes

and just idiotic fights,

people jumping over booths at each other, because that's basically where we are.

You know what?

Yeah, I was going to say, we're just prioritizing performance a little bit too much here.

We're an idiotic talk show, right?

Like, we're supposed to say things that are, you know, maybe out there sometimes to get people to listen.

I don't know what we do.

I mean,

we try to present information in a way that is interesting to people and also with the goal of, you know, as you point out, saving the Republic.

It's why we're in this business, right?

I mean, it's why we got into this.

There's a lot better, there's a lot of better ways of making money than

talking about conservative politics, believe me.

But like, when you get into this world where we're taking people and putting them in constantly, we're filling seemingly every congressional conversation with people who are just looking for the best tweet possible to say verbally.

That is not a way to run a civilization.

And I think it comes back to the Jonathan Haidt book.

It's not just affecting kids, it's affecting every element of our society.

And we're prioritizing idiocy far too often.

Are we getting better as a civilization, or are we going down the toilet?

Are we better?

Remember,

the Democrats ran because Donald Trump was just, nothing was normal.

And Joe Biden's going to make things normal again.

Are we more normal now than we were four years ago?

Because I don't think so.

And it's not all because of Biden.

It's not all because of Trump.

It's not all because of politics.

We are sick and no one is addressing this.

I don't even think our churches are truly addressing this.

We are a sick, very sick.

I had a friend over from Israel last night, and we spent the night talking.

And he talked, he lost members of his family in the Holocaust, and they lived in Germany.

And he was talking about how his grandfather, who survived, but everybody else in the family died, his grandfather

still,

after the Holocaust, still said, you know, Germany is great and we're the best at science.

And, you know, if you really want to cure a headache, you got to use bear aspirin.

Okay, they helped kill children.

You know what I mean?

You were there.

They killed

Bear and its original company in Germany.

They were responsible for a lot of the bad stuff that happened.

And he said, I've never understood how my grandfather can't understand

that Germany became a science-based, leading the world in science, and became science-based, and then lost God.

And that's what the problem was.

He said, I could never get him to connect that.

And it's so bizarre.

We're doing the same thing.

We're a technological wonderland in this country.

And our science is taking us to extraordinarily bad places, and our society is falling away from God and traditional values.

We don't recover from this without God.

We just don't recover.

Yeah,

you are reminding me of a speech by Antonin Scalia that he made on Holocaust Remembrance Day years ago, where he talked about if you look at the Holocaust and you don't focus on the fact that this society that produced the Holocaust was the most educated, elitist sort of society that believed they had progressed past all these terrible things.

They had passed human nature, right?

They had progressed beyond the limitations of human nature.

They had scientifically solved it.

And if you don't focus on that part, that that society is the one responsible for the worst atrocities that we've seen in all of our lifetimes and beyond, you are missing the plot.

And you know what's crazy, Stu?

John Hopkins was the first

German

school in America, German university in America.

It was the progressives went over, they copied the German stuff, brought it over in, I don't know, when John Hopkins was founded, but John Hopkins is

the original source of all of the same poison that was

in Germany.

And then it spread next to Columbia.

And Columbia taught all of the teachers through this progressive way.

I've got a podcast coming out this summer, a series of six, that talks about how all of this happened and we tracked it.

And it's phenomenal.

And

if you don't look at the fact that

the German society was run

not by just a madman, it was run and pulled off by the elites of society who thought they were better than the rest of everybody else and they can pick and choose who died, who lived, who could procreate, you know, who had to be destroyed as a race.

It was the elites that did it.

And we're headed down that same path.

And

gosh, it carries so much more weight in my head now than it did when I said this in 2000, I don't know, 9 or 10.

If we don't turn around,

evil is not going to just destroy our country.

It's perverting our country.

And the...

all of our technology, all of our elites, they won't be destroyed.

They'll be perverted and in charge.

And with our technology, we will make the Germans look like rookies.

We've got to turn around and turn back to God.

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Stu,

I saw this and I thought, oh, I have to play this for Sue and Stu and see how much he can get.

I know how much you hate English accents.

This is the cutest little two little girls.

They're both from England.

And they're complaining to their mom.

I want to see if you can understand what they're talking about.

Okay.

Listen.

Girls, what's just happened?

So there's an ice cream band there selling just two ice creams with two twingums in it.

Yeah.

The bloody nine pound for two of them.

Nine quid for two.

Yeah, nine quid.

That is gonna get nowhere.

One that comes on my streets that have a one pound a p

or two pounds.

That is gonna get nowhere with that.

No, he ain't, is he?

No, he know he ain't.

That's wild bad, isn't it?

I should know.

And he only does bloody card.

Stuck there in my cash.

Bloody hell.

That's wild bad, isn't it?

Wild bad.

Yeah.

Yeah, Benny can hear me.

Do you have any idea what she's talking about?

Ice cream.

Yes.

And a pound?

Okay.

I mean, I legitimately got no more than 5% of that.

Okay, so you don't know, you didn't get the gist of even what she was talking about.

I have absolutely no idea.

So she's in the park, and

there's an ice cream truck.

And she goes over to the ice cream truck and she said, two ice creams, her and her friend, two ice cream cones, please.

And he was asking for

two ice cream cones were nine quid.

I don't know how much that is, but it's inflation and it's really expensive.

And so this, like, what, seven-year-old, she's like, that's crazy.

And so she's telling her mom, he wanted nine quid for two.

We're not getting ice cream for a nine quid.

That's ridiculous.

Bloody hell.

It's ice cream.

I love this.

That was, first of all, an incredible rant.

Yeah.

But also, I did not get any of that.

How is that the same language we're speaking?

I don't even understand it.

I just love it.

I just love it.

I would love a little English kid.

I mean, I don't want to have him all the time.

I just keep him upstairs in a closet or something.

That's an interesting thing to take out of context.

Let's put that audio.

Once in a while, just open the door, have him come down, and like, bloody hell, you're keeping me in a closet.

And you'd be like, that is so cute.

That is so cute.

And I don't hate English accents.

That was adorable.

It's just, I can't.

That's a Guy Ritchie movie what we just listened to.

I can't understand any of it.

I just don't understand it.

And it's the same language we speak.

All right.

Have a blessed and safe weekend.

Thanks for listening.

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