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Speaker 53 Bell, hello, Stu.

Speaker 72 Welcome to Friday.

Speaker 73 Glad you're here.

Speaker 1 Thank you, Glenn. Welcome to Friday.

Speaker 74 Yeah.

Speaker 75 The Michael Cohen testimony. Woo!

Speaker 1 Such a trustworthy guy. It's hard to believe that he'd have some inconsistencies on the stand, but

Speaker 1 he can't.

Speaker 1 anything's on the table these days. You know, who would have thought?

Speaker 6 Amazing.

Speaker 79 Listen, I want to play cut one, Anderson Cooper talking about this last night.

Speaker 81 The last 20 minutes of court today, right before the lunch break, it was incredible. I mean, it was,

Speaker 81 you know, Ellie Hoenig on my program last night had talked about, you know, on a cross-examination, lawyers want to kind of put

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 Seemingly kind of, I mean, one could say buying time to try to figure out what, how he wants to answer.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 1 Adjust his memory is a great phrase.

Speaker 10 Let me play one more cut from a CNN.

Speaker 84 This is an analysis on CNN about that moment.

Speaker 86 Listen, cut to.

Speaker 87 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.

Speaker 87 I've certainly seen very effective cross-examinations of cooperating witnesses.

Speaker 87 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.

Speaker 70 So here's what happened.

Speaker 84 Michael Cohen is on the stand, and he's testifying about a phone call that happened.

Speaker 8 The whole case is really pinned to this phone call.

Speaker 89 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.

Speaker 30 Okay.

Speaker 15 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,

Speaker 75 which was Trump's

Speaker 6 security guy.

Speaker 74 Keith Schiller, yeah.

Speaker 24 Yeah.

Speaker 62 And so

Speaker 73 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.

Speaker 11 I'd love to know who that 14-year-old kid is.

Speaker 62 I'd like to give him some meat.

Speaker 91 But anyway,

Speaker 101 he's writing and texting back to the security and saying, this kid is

Speaker 75 constantly calling me.

Speaker 9 What do I do? How do I do it?

Speaker 19 Who do I talk to?

Speaker 62 And the security guy says, I can help.

Speaker 30 Call me.

Speaker 103 That was two minutes before the phone call.

Speaker 23 So they started with the testimony saying, Really? So

Speaker 38 you were calling Trump.

Speaker 48 It looks like you didn't talk to Trump. It looks like you talked to security.

Speaker 25 What did you talk about?

Speaker 53 Well, I told him we were going to...

Speaker 107 Really?

Speaker 101 Because two minutes before, you're asking him about a phone call and he says, call me, and you called him right back.

Speaker 8 Well, that was part of it.

Speaker 31 And the whole thing fell apart from there.

Speaker 109 Yeah, I mean, this is devastating.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, the claim by Cohen now, again, there's been...

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 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...

Speaker 99 Please, if you're the 14-year-old or know the 14-year-old, please have him call me.

Speaker 1 He's not 14 anymore, but yes.

Speaker 8 I know, but I would love to, I'd love to hear his story.

Speaker 1 Yes. So he's a 14-year-old.
He's pranking Cohen.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 They call Schiller. They have a text message exchange about this with Schiller.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 the Stormy Daniels payment.

Speaker 73 But wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 10 On Tuesday, he didn't mention the other part.

Speaker 99 Right. He didn't mention the 14-year-old.

Speaker 69 Right. No, I know.

Speaker 1 This is his. I'm trying to keep these all separate.
This is his new telling of the story. Right, right.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 This all occurs in 96 seconds.

Speaker 1 Now, look, it's not impossible, I guess, if just everyone goes, okay, all right, here he is.

Speaker 1 Okay, bye. Like, I guess all that detail could theoretically be jammed into 96 seconds.

Speaker 82 There's not a chance.

Speaker 1 It doesn't make sense.

Speaker 103 The email, the first email about that 14-year-old kid is, this kid is calling me.

Speaker 95 I don't know what to do.

Speaker 56 Blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 115 The guy says, call me.

Speaker 97 Just explaining.

Speaker 1 Explaining that. Right.

Speaker 84 That's 90 seconds.

Speaker 102 That's a minute and a half.

Speaker 107 Just explaining that.

Speaker 109 What do you then say about the Trump thing?

Speaker 11 Oh, tell Donald Trump we're going to be doing the, you know, we're doing the cash thing too.

Speaker 35 Click.

Speaker 96 I mean, it makes no sense.

Speaker 16 And if it was done that way,

Speaker 5 there was no conversation.

Speaker 106 He just blurted it out.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 This is a guy who was in front of everyone's face, lying constantly, constantly

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 112 Everyone

Speaker 112 gets this guy.

Speaker 11 You know, he'll get what he deserves.

Speaker 19 He'll get the life that he deserves, which is to be completely discredited.

Speaker 57 As somebody who was an alcoholic

Speaker 27 and lost my credibility,

Speaker 27 when I hit bottom, I lost my family, I lost absolutely everything.

Speaker 85 I was living in an apartment.

Speaker 70 Stu was an intern at the time.

Speaker 6 We lived in the same building.

Speaker 111 It's true.

Speaker 66 I mean, I was at rock bottom.

Speaker 1 I was literally making $0 an hour and had the same, and this was in the same apartment building as you.

Speaker 86 uh so you know and when you lose everything

Speaker 28 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.

Speaker 15 When you lose your credibility, you have nothing.

Speaker 83 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.

Speaker 22 You've just lied to everybody and you've burned every bridge.

Speaker 100 And that's usually what an alcoholic does just to hide their alcoholism.

Speaker 27 And there's nothing more valuable.

Speaker 29 You can lose everything, but if you lose your word and your honor, you have nothing.

Speaker 124 Nothing.

Speaker 72 Believe me, I've been there.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 6 And it happened right after the testimony, and it has nothing to do with the media.

Speaker 122 I'll tell you that coming up in 60 seconds.

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Speaker 41 Okay.

Speaker 41 So

Speaker 130 after the

Speaker 7 testimony yesterday, Matt Gates

Speaker 93 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.

Speaker 17 Listen.

Speaker 132 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.

Speaker 132 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.

Speaker 132 And he committed these lies for his own benefit.

Speaker 132 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.

Speaker 132 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.

Speaker 132 Potato Head doll of crimes, where they had to stick together a bunch of things that did not belong together.

Speaker 132 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.

Speaker 132 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.

Speaker 132 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.

Speaker 41 Okay,

Speaker 23 so there's that he's surrounded by the Freedom Caucus.

Speaker 101 I think that's significant.

Speaker 133 Freedom Caucus and Donald Trump don't always agree.

Speaker 121 The Freedom Caucus is constitutional, small government, small spending, etc., etc.

Speaker 34 And Donald Trump, I think, has had a problem with some members of the Freedom Caucus in the past.

Speaker 134 The Freedom Caucus is now showing up, taking time

Speaker 84 from from their day and showing up and showing support and sitting behind Donald Trump.

Speaker 70 Donald Trump appreciates loyalty.

Speaker 84 He appreciates people who will stand with him in tough times.

Speaker 78 This is the smartest move the Freedom Caucus can do.

Speaker 22 You'll notice that the regular Democrat or Republican isn't there.

Speaker 88 You'll notice Mitch McConnell's not taking time to be there.

Speaker 53 Donald Trump will remember who supported him.

Speaker 78 And I think this is the most significant thing

Speaker 46 that I have seen in a long time and strategically brilliant.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Do you think, Glenn, too, I mean,

Speaker 1 you've seen a certain,

Speaker 1 you know, number of Republican politicians come in here. We saw J.D.
Vance there.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 I'm in this moment. I can't defend myself.
What can you do on my behalf?

Speaker 8 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 And it seems like, you know, this is almost like we're seeing an episode of The Apprentice sort of play out live.

Speaker 104 Right.

Speaker 84 So I think that that is true when it comes to the individuals that he's considering for president.

Speaker 26 But that was a crowd. That was the freedom conference.

Speaker 1 That's interesting, yeah.

Speaker 9 Yeah, they were all there.

Speaker 11 They're not all running for vice president.

Speaker 109 No.

Speaker 73 They're showing their block is with him.

Speaker 85 And I think, you know, Donald Trump could have made,

Speaker 78 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.

Speaker 96 He will listen.

Speaker 78 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.

Speaker 127 Done.

Speaker 135 Trust me, I know.

Speaker 126 Done with you.

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Speaker 1 willing to consider.

Speaker 112 No, he's forgiving. He is.

Speaker 107 He wants to. But he won't be forgiving.

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Speaker 32 He called me the day I made good on my promise

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Speaker 70 And I said it because he was doing things that I said on the air before he was elected.

Speaker 6 He will never do these things.

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Speaker 27 Don't trust him.

Speaker 6 He'll never do these things.

Speaker 105 And I said, if he does, I'll be the first to admit that I was wrong.

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Speaker 99 I don't remember what the last one was.

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Speaker 91 I'm not sure.

Speaker 107 But he did a whole bunch of stuff and he was making great decisions.

Speaker 141 And I said on the air, I apologize to the president.

Speaker 100 I apologize to the audience.

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Speaker 27 And we've had a good relationship ever since.

Speaker 6 And we don't agree on stuff.

Speaker 11 That phone call lasted, I don't know, 40 minutes, 30 minutes.

Speaker 46 And we talked about China and things that we disagreed with.

Speaker 107 And he was open to hearing

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Speaker 109 I'm sorry, I'm doing you this. And it was fine.

Speaker 79 He works with people.

Speaker 27 He will never work with the Democrats because of what they've done.

Speaker 70 And I think he hates the GOP almost as much.

Speaker 75 And if the GOP would work with him and treat him right when he gets in, he will work with him.

Speaker 73 But the Freedom Caucus standing now at his hour of need,

Speaker 15 en masse, not just individuals, but en masse, that's that's going to be significant in his presidency coming.

Speaker 1 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.

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Speaker 1 Maybe not happy, but I would be okay saying it if it was the opposite. It's just not.
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Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 this is the Cohen's former attorney, Costello is his name. Robert Costello.
Robert Costello.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Now, in the interim, since that went on, Cohen allowed Costello to get out of his attorney client privilege.

Speaker 57 Why?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And he, you know, he was transparent now, and he's had this big awakening.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He didn't get in trouble over the stuff he had to do with Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 110 Hang on just a sec.

Speaker 15 Taxi medallions are a New York thing.

Speaker 27 You have to have this big metal medallion on the hood of your taxi.

Speaker 1 No, that's not.

Speaker 1 That's not what it is. No.

Speaker 38 No, it's not taxi medallions like that.

Speaker 41 No, no.

Speaker 1 What was it? So taxi.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 There's only a certain amount of medallions they give out. And if you get a medallion,

Speaker 105 you can drive a cab around the city.

Speaker 1 Exactly right.

Speaker 99 Those are marked on the car by this medallion that they put on.

Speaker 53 And they're hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Speaker 122 Hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I was picturing Michael Cohen with a giant gold chain as you said that.
So I don't know.

Speaker 111 It's not okay.

Speaker 112 No, no, no. Yes.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But the bottom line was this was a very desperate moment for him. And I want to bring this now back to the

Speaker 1 testimony in the House. This is his former attorney at that time, Robert Costello.

Speaker 144 Through further cross-examination, Cohen told me that he knew there was money missing from the Trump inauguration.

Speaker 145 I see where you are now.

Speaker 144 Thank you. Okay.
And then on the next page,

Speaker 144 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.

Speaker 144 So he decided he would take care of it himself.

Speaker 145 Absolutely. And that is contrary to what this guy testified to in court in New York yesterday.

Speaker 144 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 Hone testified that it was a conspiracy between Giuliani and Costello as of this date. Totally false.

Speaker 145 In any event, he also said that he didn't discuss the Stormy Daniels matter with us, and he certainly did.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 Did Donald Trump have anything to do with it?

Speaker 104 No.

Speaker 145 Did you get the money from Donald Trump? No. From any of his organizations? No.
From anybody connected to Donald Trump?

Speaker 147 No.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 I didn't want my own wife to know because she's in charge, he said, of the Cohn family finances.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 120 There had to be a motivation.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 That's completely different to what he's testifying to in New York. Nobody has heard this side of the equation.

Speaker 41 Right.

Speaker 17 This is incredible because this is Michael Cohen's former lawyer, who Michael Cohen gave him permission to

Speaker 136 violate attorney client privilege.

Speaker 5 That is absolutely,

Speaker 12 absolutely falls directly in line with who we know Michael Cohen is.

Speaker 1 I mean, it does.

Speaker 15 And the grand jury wouldn't listen to this.

Speaker 125 They tried to cut him off, cut him off, cut him off.

Speaker 15 Listen to this.

Speaker 27 When was this clip from Fox?

Speaker 1 It's a couple days ago, but this is from Fox News.

Speaker 148 Before I testified on a Monday before the grand jury,

Speaker 148 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.

Speaker 148 But when I appeared before the grand jury,

Speaker 148 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.

Speaker 148 Those questions they were asking me were not going to elicit the exculpatory information that I had.

Speaker 148 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

Speaker 148 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

Speaker 148 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.

Speaker 148 I asked them, are you going to put the rest of them into evidence? And they said no.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He was a prosecutor. He's done all of this stuff.
He's well respected.

Speaker 111 Yeah.

Speaker 57 Yeah, respected attorney.

Speaker 1 Yes,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 design questions. so that he won't be able to get to the information he's brought in.

Speaker 1 And he realizes this as someone who's gone through this process. He's a former prosecutor.
He knows how this stuff works.

Speaker 1 So he realizes they're trying to lead him away from the stuff that will actually make Michael Cohen look bad.

Speaker 1 And he, of course, has a major issue with this. Glenn, I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Do you extend this and call Costello to the stand next week?

Speaker 111 I would.

Speaker 53 I absolutely would.

Speaker 141 And because

Speaker 23 he's not a friendly witness, he's a neutral witness.

Speaker 137 He's just telling the truth and has the stuff to back it up.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 15 Because all of the information now is there.

Speaker 92 And

Speaker 79 this whole thing from

Speaker 25 the Russia gate, all of this stuff, we now have the truth.

Speaker 70 But nobody's tied all of it together to show you this plot.

Speaker 6 We know it, we've lived it, but somebody needs to document in hard facts

Speaker 75 the entire plot from 2015 all the way to today.

Speaker 90 Because I've never seen anything like it, and no one has paid a price for it.

Speaker 75 It's extraordinary in American history.

Speaker 27 I don't think there's ever been anything like this.

Speaker 17 And this is a modern-day assassination attempt.

Speaker 127 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.

Speaker 110 They would at least consider an actual assassination if this doesn't work.

Speaker 17 And that's terrifying, but this is a modern-day assassination of a man's character,

Speaker 92 and

Speaker 30 it's

Speaker 27 a gigantic conspiracy that is now out in the open.

Speaker 1 In the sense of the Clarence Thomas high-tech lynching, right? It's that same type of approach.

Speaker 57 Exactly right.

Speaker 1 So, do you buy

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It had nothing to do with it. I don't think they slept together.
All this stuff.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Trump gives him Costello because he knows he'll get this out of him and then he can use it against him later.

Speaker 7 Okay, so here's how I would respond to that.

Speaker 57 First of all,

Speaker 16 explain the testimony yesterday from Cohen.

Speaker 136 Explain it.

Speaker 35 You can't.

Speaker 85 You now know,

Speaker 55 and even CNN has admitted it looks very much like he lied.

Speaker 117 Okay,

Speaker 16 so we know who he is.

Speaker 15 We know he's lied in the past.

Speaker 106 And now a credible attorney under oath, who is able to say attorney client privilege, who has no record of being a liar,

Speaker 6 he comes and he says this.

Speaker 142 So wait a minute.

Speaker 23 So

Speaker 24 the left, they knew that Cohen was lying under Donald Trump, and so did we when he was a friend of Donald Trump.

Speaker 46 We knew he was lying.

Speaker 16 So he was a liar then.

Speaker 99 We know from yesterday, he's a liar now.

Speaker 110 This attorney says

Speaker 97 he's not only a liar, but Alvin Bragg is so distorting the truth that he's a liar.

Speaker 10 But forget about

Speaker 22 Bragg.

Speaker 89 Just look at Cohen.

Speaker 135 When do you, how do you pick and choose when Cohen is lying?

Speaker 35 You can't.

Speaker 128 He has no credibility.

Speaker 38 He cannot, you cannot trust a word he says.

Speaker 34 And this guy hasn't lied, at least that I know of.

Speaker 27 So he has credibility as

Speaker 22 a credible attorney.

Speaker 110 The only thing they can do is, again, assassinate a man's character.

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Speaker 39 Well, hello, you sick freak.

Speaker 43 Welcome.

Speaker 73 It is Friday.

Speaker 53 We're glad you're here.

Speaker 50 I've got something

Speaker 45 that I would say wrap your head in duct tape because your head will explode.

Speaker 40 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.

Speaker 129 It was a cat fight.

Speaker 44 There's the horse on the highway.

Speaker 46 It was a cat fight yesterday in Congress.

Speaker 66 I can't wait to

Speaker 46 give you my perspective on that.

Speaker 53 Also,

Speaker 63 the other story that I really want to talk to you about is about the Kansas City kicker.

Speaker 20 Oh, I think Harrison Butker has...

Speaker 84 He has some comments from me that are well deserved.

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Speaker 106 So, Stu,

Speaker 76 I find this a little bit frivolous,

Speaker 139 but not really.

Speaker 115 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?

Speaker 120 Oh,

Speaker 1 it's amazing that you can ask these questions out of nowhere, and I think I know where you're going.

Speaker 1 It's the guy who was caned in the

Speaker 1 House in the Senate. Senate, thanks.

Speaker 30 Yes, Charles Sumner, a senator.

Speaker 62 He's standing in the well of the Senate, and he says, basically, neither the Whigs or the Democrats, Republicans didn't exist.

Speaker 155 Neither party is serious about, you talk a good game on

Speaker 49 slavery, Whigs, but you're not going to do anything.

Speaker 26 And the South and the Democrats are sleeping with the whore of slavery.

Speaker 110 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.

Speaker 27 He had a very heavy cane with a brass end on it,

Speaker 6 and used it as a baseball bat and nearly beat this guy to death.

Speaker 113 Sumner never really fully recovered.

Speaker 5 And that guy, just like today, just like today,

Speaker 36 the guy who hit him walked off.

Speaker 52 He hit him so hard, he broke the cane.

Speaker 109 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.

Speaker 10 That guy was never charged, never questioned, never stopped.

Speaker 129 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.

Speaker 30 Okay?

Speaker 136 I mean, does that sound familiar?

Speaker 62 So I've been waiting for this, and not in anticipation, just as a big warning sign.

Speaker 97 I'm not sure if we had an episode of Dynasty or if we had the beginning of the fight.

Speaker 28 This is Marjorie Taylor Green against Jasmine Crockett.

Speaker 91 They're in a hearing room,

Speaker 85 and

Speaker 26 well, let me just play what started it all.

Speaker 66 You know what you're here for.

Speaker 158 Well, you don't want to talking about...

Speaker 159 I I think your fake eyelashes are messing up. No, nothing.

Speaker 54 Hold on, hold on.

Speaker 120 Order.

Speaker 54 That's beneath even more.

Speaker 48 Okay, so they say, Marjorie Taylor Greene says, I think your fake eyelashes, you can't see the truth,

Speaker 49 which is, you know, a slam.

Speaker 17 But it goes nuts cut too.

Speaker 160 You just voted to do it.

Speaker 54 You gotta vote again.

Speaker 54 Order.

Speaker 158 I'm trying to get clarification.

Speaker 158 Calm down. Calm down.
No, no, no, no, because this is what y'all do.

Speaker 54 I'm trying to get clarification.

Speaker 54 I can't hear you with your yelling.

Speaker 161 Don't want me to.

Speaker 162 Calm down. No.

Speaker 158 Don't tell me to calm down. Calm down.
Because y'all talk calm down.

Speaker 162 And then you put it.

Speaker 158 Because if I can chair, if I come and talk sh ⁇ about her.

Speaker 54 Y'all don't have a word. Mr.

Speaker 120 Chairman, Mr. Chairman.

Speaker 120 Chair,

Speaker 41 order.

Speaker 163 Chair now recognizes

Speaker 163 Ms. Green for four minutes and 21 seconds.
Four minutes. Let Ms.
Green talk, and then you all can.

Speaker 120 I'll recognize her.

Speaker 164 I move to strike her words for a second time based on her second set of personal remarks, attacking another member.

Speaker 158 Who? Chairman Cohen. Because you all cannot see

Speaker 160 to apply the rules of the committee.

Speaker 164 We have to do this every time.

Speaker 159 I'm recognized. I'm recognized.

Speaker 54 I'm going to go ahead and start talking.

Speaker 38 Look, I know, I know. Look.

Speaker 120 I don't know if you've noticed it.

Speaker 12 I have two hearing aids.

Speaker 163 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?

Speaker 164 We cannot, because of the rules of the committee, Mr. Chair.

Speaker 164 That is what I'm trying to communicate in the present moment.

Speaker 111 Okay, the rules.

Speaker 8 The rules went out.

Speaker 24 And now I'm watching this, and this is what I'm thinking.

Speaker 102 Look at this scene and remember the scene from that old TV show Dynasty.

Speaker 44 No, wait, wait, wait, wait. Can you start it earlier than that, BJ?

Speaker 120 Okay, well, anyway, there's a fight, and it happens because

Speaker 38 one woman walks in and is like, I don't like your voice.

Speaker 165 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.

Speaker 165 Everyone knows that you're nothing but a second-rate lounge act.

Speaker 165 I don't care what you say to my face, you viper. Retract this or I'll cram it down your throat.
Will you?

Speaker 120 Is that not just what happened in Congress?

Speaker 36 I mean, go play the real, go play the

Speaker 39 green versus jasmine Crockett, the second cut again, will you?

Speaker 160 You just voted to do it.

Speaker 54 You kept voting to do it.

Speaker 8 Order.

Speaker 54 Order.

Speaker 158 I'm trying to get clear for Kay. Look at it.

Speaker 44 Calm down.

Speaker 158 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 54 Because you just had the punches and the music, and we're watching an episode

Speaker 64 of the worst behavior ever on television, at least at the time.

Speaker 66 All right, stop.

Speaker 22 Now let me go to Green versus AOC.

Speaker 136 One last thing.

Speaker 163 Okay. Ms.
Green agrees to strike her words.

Speaker 120 I believe she

Speaker 54 apologizes. No, no, no.

Speaker 40 Perry.

Speaker 163 Hold on. Then after Mr.
Perry's, you'll be recognized. Then Ms.
Green.

Speaker 120 Hey, stop for a second.

Speaker 14 They were insisting that her eyelash comment be stricken from the record.

Speaker 105 This is what they're talking about.

Speaker 79 This is what AOC and Crockett are so upset about.

Speaker 18 The fake eyelash thing.

Speaker 110 And so Marjorie Green says, fine, I don't care.

Speaker 19 Strike it from the record.

Speaker 72 But that wasn't good enough. Go ahead.

Speaker 120 Guys,

Speaker 159 I am not apologizing.

Speaker 120 Come on, guys.

Speaker 159 Why don't you debate me?

Speaker 144 Mr. Chairman.
That's Green.

Speaker 54 The minority is self-evident.

Speaker 120 Yeah, you're not

Speaker 159 enough intelligence.

Speaker 163 The chair recognizes Mr. Pennsylvania.

Speaker 8 That's not green.

Speaker 54 I move to stop the ladies.

Speaker 73 So they're arguing about the freaking eyelashes

Speaker 106 and they want it struck from the record.

Speaker 76 And Green says, why don't you just debate me?

Speaker 128 And Crockett says,

Speaker 73 what?

Speaker 156 Are you kidding me?

Speaker 135 She says that, and it's not a problem.

Speaker 62 Finish the clip, please.

Speaker 54 Move the rest of the story.

Speaker 164 That's two requests to strike. That's two requests to strike.

Speaker 159 Oh, they cannot take the order.

Speaker 132 There's another motion to strike your words again, please.

Speaker 120 Okay, here's another question.

Speaker 163 Here's the correct part of what you do. Ms.
Green, do you ask unanimous consent? Do you agree to unanimous consent?

Speaker 81 to strike your words.

Speaker 159 I repeat again for the second time. Yes, I'll strike my words.
But but i'm not apologizing without objection without objection

Speaker 164 that is absolutely unacceptable how dare you

Speaker 66 are you now let me ask you

Speaker 107 are we getting healthier as a country or sicker as a country

Speaker 149 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?

Speaker 5 Is our political system

Speaker 108 more trustworthy than it was four years ago or less trustworthy than it was four years ago?

Speaker 155 Is our judicial system more trustworthy or less trustworthy?

Speaker 1 I mean, this is...

Speaker 96 This is so easy to answer if people get out of their

Speaker 20 out of their teams.

Speaker 96 It's so easy to see.

Speaker 135 Let me play cut four here on small businesses.

Speaker 80 Listen to this.

Speaker 167 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.

Speaker 167 This high of a delinquency rate hasn't been seen since the heart of the pandemic and is up 4%

Speaker 167 from just one year ago.

Speaker 8 Okay.

Speaker 8 43%

Speaker 10 of small businesses couldn't pay their rent in full last month.

Speaker 96 43%

Speaker 111 of small businesses.

Speaker 31 This is compared to when the government shut everything down and small businesses had to pay their rent when they had zero customers.

Speaker 8 Okay?

Speaker 48 43% of all small businesses.

Speaker 105 What?

Speaker 141 Who creates jobs in this country?

Speaker 19 It's the small business.

Speaker 27 They create between 70 and 80% of all jobs are created by small businesses.

Speaker 114 The Trump tax cuts,

Speaker 21 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.

Speaker 129 It means that small businesses, their taxes will go up by 20%.

Speaker 31 If they can't pay their rent now,

Speaker 149 how are they going to pay an extra 20%?

Speaker 38 Is that a better plan than we had under Trump or a worse plan?

Speaker 90 Give me the cut five, please.

Speaker 168 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%.

Speaker 168 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

Speaker 143 um

Speaker 101 a thousand dollars a month since the pandemic and then it never came down why

Speaker 15 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.

Speaker 137 Grocery prices are up since Biden took office by 25%,

Speaker 51 and they're still going up, up 1%

Speaker 40 this year, not going down, but up.

Speaker 70 Is your life easier?

Speaker 155 Is it easier to feed your family or harder to feed your family?

Speaker 17 Are the policies that the president is proposing, all of the spending on, you know,

Speaker 32 God only knows, queer butts

Speaker 27 studies in the Congo,

Speaker 106 is that helping you?

Speaker 129 Or is that directly hurting you?

Speaker 8 Oh, God.

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Speaker 150 All right, there's a couple of things.

Speaker 92 Yesterday,

Speaker 56 we had

Speaker 13 the mom on from North Carolina, and I about blew a gasket.

Speaker 44 And

Speaker 122 it just,

Speaker 107 did it bother you, Stu, as much as me?

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 wrongly targeted at a school, if you missed the story. And

Speaker 1 while I did have a lot of anger about it,

Speaker 1 it struck me as one that was, you know, like we've heard the story a lot. It seems to be happening so often.

Speaker 1 But you seem to have an elevated

Speaker 1 sense of emotion over it. I mean, it really seemed to piss you off.
I mean, do we know where this is going?

Speaker 4 Yeah, we do. And

Speaker 80 I have some emails and I have some posts.

Speaker 4 And we're going to get back to this Monday.

Speaker 46 But I just want the school board in, what was the name of the county, do you remember?

Speaker 1 I believe it was Davidson.

Speaker 11 Davidson, North Carolina.

Speaker 6 I just want the school board to know.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 101 It's not going to make you look good.

Speaker 16 So maybe, you know, you would resign, those who have

Speaker 6 just smeared this woman.

Speaker 70 I think the reason why,

Speaker 96 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.

Speaker 105 He did it for you.

Speaker 156 He did it for me.

Speaker 70 He didn't do it for the collective.

Speaker 52 He did it for the individual.

Speaker 84 And when the individual actually accepts that atonement and it changes their life as it has mine, I was not this guy.

Speaker 17 I just wasn't. I fired a guy once for bringing the wrong pin to me because I needed a Sharpie at a signing.

Speaker 33 signing and I actually fired him for bringing the wrong pin and I thought it was reasonable.

Speaker 52 I was a monster

Speaker 9 and the Lord changed my life and I have worked really hard to not be that guy, to be

Speaker 92 I hate to say this because I am so not, but as Christ-like as I can, and I work every day on it.

Speaker 85 And

Speaker 79 for somebody, it bothered me for a long time

Speaker 27 when the press was coming after me and calling me a liar and everything else.

Speaker 7 But I've just gone numb inside on that because I work hard on my credibility.

Speaker 99 If you're a long-term listener, you know, I will apologize for my mistakes.

Speaker 32 I will lead with my mistakes because I'm trying to get it right.

Speaker 139 But this mom,

Speaker 4 she served time in jail.

Speaker 75 She served time.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 97 And she's trying to help them not make the same mistake.

Speaker 6 And you can hear it in this woman.

Speaker 70 She's a good woman.

Speaker 99 that has learned from her mistakes.

Speaker 105 She has paid the price.

Speaker 17 She has accepted the atonement of Christ.

Speaker 105 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.

Speaker 21 It's Jean-Valjean.

Speaker 29 How dare you?

Speaker 27 That's what motivates me.

Speaker 65 And we're taking it on again Monday.

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Speaker 44 People

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Speaker 69 Okay.

Speaker 6 Jesus talking about it there just made me so mad again.

Speaker 7 And it wouldn't have made Jesus mad.

Speaker 82 That's why I say I'm trying.

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Speaker 44 Hello, America.

Speaker 22 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 45 Our Attorney General in the great state of Texas is joining us, Ken Paxton.

Speaker 11 That should be kind of an explosive interview coming up.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 There was a trial, an eight-day trial.

Speaker 1 The jury wound up saying he was guilty of murder.

Speaker 8 Now, again,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It was something that there was a bunch of process that had to lead us to this moment. But, I mean,

Speaker 1 you know, Paxton.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 140 this was this was justice this was absolute justice he'll explain why

Speaker 169 coming up in just a few minutes I've got a couple of things to say here and

Speaker 57 Stephen in Master Control I'm going to use Sot Sheet 2 the latest clips not the early morning clips

Speaker 24 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.

Speaker 123 I've seen him, you know, kick, but I don't know anything about

Speaker 24 his name.

Speaker 1 He is probably either the best or the second best kicker of the league.

Speaker 111 That's what my son says.

Speaker 49 So, Harrison Butker is his name.

Speaker 25 And he was asked at the Benedictine College,

Speaker 38 Benedictine College, what comes to mind when I say Benedictine?

Speaker 38 Do you have anything that comes to mind, Stu?

Speaker 1 Catholic?

Speaker 77 Thank you.

Speaker 104 Catholic.

Speaker 126 Benedictine.

Speaker 65 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.

Speaker 24 No.

Speaker 25 Benedictine, a Catholic college.

Speaker 96 He gives his speech.

Speaker 27 I want to play cut one on Saw Sheet 2, please.

Speaker 49 Kansas City kicker blast Biden in grad speech.

Speaker 146 Bad policies and poor leadership have negatively impacted major life issues.

Speaker 146 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.

Speaker 146 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.

Speaker 146 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.

Speaker 146 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.

Speaker 146 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.

Speaker 146 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.

Speaker 146 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.

Speaker 146 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.

Speaker 146 and preach more hard truths about accepting your lane and staying in it.

Speaker 146 The world around us says that we should keep our beliefs to ourselves whenever they go against the tyranny of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Speaker 146 We fear speaking truth because now, unfortunately, truth is in the minority.

Speaker 16 What part of that, if you're a Catholic and a Christian, what part of that is wrong?

Speaker 115 And listen to what he said.

Speaker 1 First of all, he's at a Catholic college.

Speaker 25 He's a Catholic talking about the Catholic religion and theology.

Speaker 96 They say you have freedom of speech.

Speaker 70 They say you have freedom of religion.

Speaker 107 You just keep it in your church.

Speaker 79 He's keeping it in the church. He's speaking at a Catholic college.

Speaker 155 So there's lie number one from the left.

Speaker 24 They do not want you to speak your mind about religion, even in

Speaker 36 your own house of worship, in your own college, for the church.

Speaker 53 Second thing, he said, that I think is so important, I never wanted, nor never thought I would have

Speaker 105 a voice or a platform, but the Lord gave me this platform, and I have no other choice.

Speaker 10 I feel exactly the same way.

Speaker 7 The things I say, a lot of times, Stu will know, you can always tell because I pause a long time before saying it.

Speaker 49 And that's when Stu's looking at me like, oh dear God, what are you going to say?

Speaker 98 And it's when I'm weighing, Lord, I'm praying quickly, Lord,

Speaker 74 yes, no.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 105 I try to do what he asks me to do because this is his platform.

Speaker 70 You've listened to this show.

Speaker 123 I am not good enough to be where I am in this industry, in the hall of fame, really, with

Speaker 109 a massive show.

Speaker 38 I'm not talented enough.

Speaker 111 God gave me this platform, and he gave you whatever platform you have.

Speaker 27 And

Speaker 17 if you want to be a person that is a person of

Speaker 101 righteousness and

Speaker 53 significance to where you can go home when you die and the Lord will say, thank you.

Speaker 72 Good job.

Speaker 9 Good job.

Speaker 124 You have to speak out and say the things the way he said them.

Speaker 17 He wasn't saying anything but what he believes is the truth.

Speaker 156 He believes in God.

Speaker 121 He believes that another Catholic is not living the Catholic faith.

Speaker 106 Even the Pope

Speaker 53 would tell you that.

Speaker 79 You can't be pro-life and abortion and also be a Catholic in good standing.

Speaker 1 Pro-choice, yeah.

Speaker 89 Yeah, pro yeah, pro-choice. Sorry.

Speaker 62 Now, let me play the second cut here from him.

Speaker 146 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.

Speaker 146 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.

Speaker 146 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?

Speaker 146 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.

Speaker 146 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.

Speaker 146 I'm on this stage today and able to be the man I am because I have a wife who leans into her vocation.

Speaker 146 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

Speaker 146 would convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one of the most important titles of all: homemaker.

Speaker 44 Stop.

Speaker 104 This is

Speaker 1 the way that's been reported.

Speaker 61 Oh my gosh.

Speaker 79 Yeah, this is so incredibly beautiful.

Speaker 23 He's not saying women shouldn't work.

Speaker 141 He's saying that most women,

Speaker 11 he's guessing, not all, most women are most excited about their marriage and their children.

Speaker 114 Guys

Speaker 102 may not be because

Speaker 97 we're not built the same.

Speaker 9 But I will tell you.

Speaker 11 When I was 20, that was not what I was excited about.

Speaker 169 When I was 30, that's not what I was excited about.

Speaker 52 When I was 40 and I started living a good life and really living and really have enough wisdom, I can tell you now,

Speaker 23 all the accolades, all of the accomplishments, everything

Speaker 75 means nothing compared to my children.

Speaker 38 They are the number one thing

Speaker 31 that I think about, that

Speaker 52 I regret doing things, you know, of I've screwed up my kids because I did this.

Speaker 156 It is, it's, it's the only thing.

Speaker 102 It is truly the only thing.

Speaker 6 And to deny that is

Speaker 127 criminal.

Speaker 5 It's criminal.

Speaker 18 We are made to procreate.

Speaker 156 Moms intent are, I mean, think of how,

Speaker 138 think of how God

Speaker 90 came up with the way for a woman to feed her baby.

Speaker 149 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.

Speaker 15 I mean, this is what we were built for.

Speaker 23 You can do other things, and that's fine.

Speaker 46 By the way, I don't want to announce something outside.

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 7 And when they announce it, then, you know, I'll announce it.

Speaker 157 But she's so honored.

Speaker 117 And she said,

Speaker 62 I don't have any, I don't have anything to say.

Speaker 115 I said, honey, take the word homemaker out because it sounds so 1950s.

Speaker 93 You're a CEO, and she is.

Speaker 85 She's a CEO, and I can't run this house in our life.

Speaker 30 I really can't.

Speaker 34 I call her. She's gone for a week.

Speaker 27 Everything falls apart.

Speaker 53 And I'm like, honey,

Speaker 95 what happens now?

Speaker 50 What do I do now?

Speaker 73 Who is that?

Speaker 9 She's a CEO, but she's a CEO of our children and our home and our life.

Speaker 109 That is important.

Speaker 6 And he's getting so much heat for this, but I just want you to hear.

Speaker 53 It's the vast minority who have nothing to do with it that are complaining.

Speaker 62 Listen to the end of the speech as he gets a standing ovation.

Speaker 146 Make no mistake, you are entering into mission territory in a post-God world, but you were made for this.

Speaker 146 And with God by your side and a constant striving for virtue within your vocation, you too can be a saint. Christ is king to the heights.

Speaker 146 You hear any moves?

Speaker 65 A standing ovation.

Speaker 59 That's Harrison Butker.

Speaker 20 Listen to that.

Speaker 62 Kansas City Chiefs kicker.

Speaker 8 Harrison,

Speaker 33 I don't even know if you know who I am, but I know who you are.

Speaker 11 We watch you all the time.

Speaker 109 I'm not a fan, you know, a big fan of sports and football, but I have to tell you, I am a huge fan of you as an individual.

Speaker 28 Thank you for having the courage.

Speaker 27 And I know you know this.

Speaker 83 Standing up for what Christ wants you to do and say at these times, you're going to pay a heavy price for it, but you are going to be rewarded on the other side.

Speaker 4 You're a good man.

Speaker 62 Thank you for speaking the truth.

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Speaker 45 All right, welcome to the program. It's a twist and priest.

Speaker 45 Glad you're here. It's Friday, which is always very nice.

Speaker 63 Coming up in just a few minutes,

Speaker 100 we have the Attorney General of the great state of Texas, Ken Paxton.

Speaker 42 He's going to be joining us.

Speaker 7 You don't want to miss it.

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Speaker 98 On Monday, we're going to go back and talk some more about

Speaker 27 AI and what AI can do right now.

Speaker 74 What's happening is

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Speaker 109 The time I have been telling you is coming for the last 15 years on AI is now here and it's going to change the world.

Speaker 91 And we'll talk about that on Monday as well.

Speaker 62 Can I just play something I saw yesterday on, I don't know,

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Speaker 62 Cut nine, please, is a comedian

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Speaker 111 Listen to this.

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Speaker 171 My son does identify as a cat, but I cannot take him to a vet because I tried that and the veterinarian told me that because he has human anatomy, that he does not know how to work on him or diagnose him with anything.

Speaker 171 And he legally cannot. So, and while I do think that is a form of discrimination,

Speaker 171 because, you know, my son, if he says he's a cat, he is a cat.

Speaker 171 And he needs to be treated like that, like one, you know.

Speaker 58 But

Speaker 171 I'm not going to press charges

Speaker 171 because I know that he could lose his license if I if he did work on my son. So

Speaker 171 I'm not going to, I'm not going to try to sue him or anything, so don't worry. worry.

Speaker 171 But this is something that I want to raise awareness on because I do think that people that identify as an animal should be able to go to the vet.

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Speaker 37 I think we're

Speaker 24 wow, that's not a sign of our absolute denial.

Speaker 50 She's serious as a mother.

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Speaker 40 We have Ken Paxton joining us.

Speaker 46 He's the Attorney General of the great state of Texas.

Speaker 59 The governor pardoned somebody yesterday here in Texas. Controversial for some, justice for most.

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Speaker 22 Our Attorney General from the great state of Texas, Ken Paxton.

Speaker 99 Ken, how are you?

Speaker 53 Welcome.

Speaker 154 Well, great to be back. Happy Friday.

Speaker 117 Thank you.

Speaker 118 Yesterday, the governor did something that I am very grateful for.

Speaker 93 He pardoned Daniel Perry, who shot and killed a Black Lives Matter protester in self-defense.

Speaker 27 A jury in 2023 found that he was guilty. Tell the story and why it was logical and important to pardon him.

Speaker 154 Well, so I called on his, I called for his pardon immediately when he was convicted. You have to realize where he's at.

Speaker 154 First of all, he's in Austin, Travis County, one of the most liberal Soros-funded DAs in the country.

Speaker 52 For people that don't know, Austin is the closest thing you can get to San Francisco

Speaker 152 in Texas.

Speaker 154 Yes, we hate to say it that way, but it's true.

Speaker 53 It's a super liberal city.

Speaker 154 Yeah.

Speaker 154 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

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 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

Speaker 154 driver, and he ended up in the middle of a protest with BLM and Black Lives Matter.

Speaker 41 And surrounding his car, right?

Speaker 154 Surrounding his car.

Speaker 154 I mean, you're talking about intent. You know how those protests.

Speaker 112 We've seen it a million times.

Speaker 154 Yeah, and there was damage. People got hurt.
Property got hurt. It wasn't like they were all peaceful protests.

Speaker 53 Most of them weren't.

Speaker 154 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

Speaker 154 the guy with

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 66 How do you know that?

Speaker 154 That's what they said.

Speaker 154 That's what the prosecutor tried to do.

Speaker 38 I got to tell you,

Speaker 110 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.

Speaker 27 I'm stupid for pointing a gun, loaded, unloaded, a toy, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 154 Exactly. And you've nailed it on the head and somehow

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 You have to defend yourself and you have to make a split-second decision, which is not an easy decision.

Speaker 117 So he was convicted

Speaker 118 by a jury of his peers, and yesterday, Governor Abbott

Speaker 108 did what you've been asking for for a while, pardoned him.

Speaker 91 A,

Speaker 7 is there a reason why it took this long because he was convicted in 2023?

Speaker 11 And what are the ramifications of the pardon?

Speaker 47 I applaud Governor Abbott for what he's done.

Speaker 154 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

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 I mean, Abbott appoints them, but as far as what they need to go through, what process needs. So they went through their process.

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 So I applaud that justice actually can happen in this country, but sometimes it's not in a liberal Democratic court in Austin.

Speaker 91 So

Speaker 68 when they did this, I mean, it's been, you know, almost a year since he's been

Speaker 7 found guilty and he's been in jail.

Speaker 83 When they did this, they started that process right away.

Speaker 86 Let me ask it this way:

Speaker 9 they did due diligence.

Speaker 7 I mean, they tore this.

Speaker 99 It wasn't something like, you know, I read this in the paper and I think this is wrong.

Speaker 93 What do you think, Bill?

Speaker 9 They did

Speaker 53 worked hard on due diligence, right?

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 So it's not like it was some, you know, little

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 And I'm glad we have this process.

Speaker 107 And this is a really, this is a huge change in Texas.

Speaker 110 I mean, we are, we are a right to carry state, open carry without a license.

Speaker 13 We are a...

Speaker 49 We're a state that has the CASEL doctrine, and it is, we hold true to that.

Speaker 17 Here's a guy who

Speaker 28 was shooting in self-defense,

Speaker 11 and it went to the court, and they found him guilty.

Speaker 101 That in Texas, that's massive, isn't it?

Speaker 154 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

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 But should he have carried a weapon and should he have pointed it?

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 It's crazy to have to wait for people to shoot you before you can actually exercise your right to defend yourself.

Speaker 99 And he didn't pay any price for brandishing a firearm.

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 Some of the Democratic politicians that are calling Abbott and calling him out on this, saying that he's a white nationalist or something.

Speaker 154 What about the guy that actually had the weapon?

Speaker 154 Why do they never talk about that? They never talk about it.

Speaker 23 Does this establish any precedent in

Speaker 49 law at all in Texas?

Speaker 110 Is this something that's going to come and haunt us,

Speaker 53 this ruling by the jury and judge?

Speaker 154 You know, it's Austin. I think we're going to be haunted by Austin for a long time.

Speaker 8 Okay, but it won't affect other.

Speaker 53 No, no, no.

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 31 Good. Can I change the subject?

Speaker 42 And unfair, because we didn't alert you that I would talk about this, so I don't know if you're.

Speaker 154 Those are my favorite topics, the ones that I've talked about.

Speaker 91 I know.

Speaker 32 Have you been watching the Trump trial in New York?

Speaker 154 I was there.

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 But when I sat there in the morning, and

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 77 Right. So they say object, and then

Speaker 19 this is the way it works, at least on TV.

Speaker 58 I object, Your Honor.

Speaker 53 On what grounds?

Speaker 108 And then they have to say it, and then he says, Overruled or sustained.

Speaker 85 And

Speaker 115 he's not asking the defense. And I understand he's not even asking the

Speaker 18 prosecution,

Speaker 138 right?

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 I don't typically do litigation, but I know enough about like, you know, hearsay.

Speaker 154 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?

Speaker 154 That never was allowed that I saw.

Speaker 40 That's insane.

Speaker 10 Unbelievable.

Speaker 62 How do you do you see the testimony yesterday from

Speaker 53 Cohen?

Speaker 154 I did not see the testimony.

Speaker 11 Yeah, I'd love to hear your opinion on that.

Speaker 91 Even CNN said they've never seen a witness cut in half like this.

Speaker 126 He was caught in his own lie about the phone call that he made.

Speaker 62 I mean, the prosecution just

Speaker 53 barbecued him.

Speaker 117 In New York, is it like Austin?

Speaker 15 Do you think

Speaker 27 facts will matter when they're that clear?

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 There's no accident to that. No.

Speaker 15 One last thing.

Speaker 100 You know, our universities around the country have been set on fire.

Speaker 11 We know, we've tracked it.

Speaker 17 we know they're being funded by the deep left, George Soros, really bad organizations.

Speaker 13 They're very well planned.

Speaker 15 They're planning on all kinds of things this fall.

Speaker 56 Are we prepared for what could happen in the fall?

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 It's hard to be fully prepared because

Speaker 154 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

Speaker 154 destroyed.

Speaker 85 Ken, thank you so much.

Speaker 42 Have we made any progress on securing the vote?

Speaker 154 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

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 I don't know if that's an accurate number, but I truly believe that's the game. Get them elected, get them here.

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 152 So

Speaker 96 only three states have that?

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 154 I think there's total six states that have tried. We had it in Texas, Glenn.

Speaker 154 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.

Speaker 72 Well, that's really disheartening.

Speaker 77 Thank you so much.

Speaker 7 Thank you so much, Ken, for everything you do.

Speaker 123 Keep us up to speed on these things and anything we can do to help

Speaker 53 the good guys.

Speaker 154 Let me just say this one thing.

Speaker 154 It is disheartening, but there is hope because in the end, we know that God can do anything.

Speaker 154 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?

Speaker 53 Yeah, I know.

Speaker 154 Here we are today.

Speaker 27 Everything but God.

Speaker 122 Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

Speaker 6 I don't mean to discourage anybody.

Speaker 117 You know, I think you felt discouraged about how out of control our country is.

Speaker 123 But if we all go out and vote,

Speaker 11 I mean everybody who cares about the Republic.

Speaker 52 This is the moment.

Speaker 18 I mean, the campaign slogan should be, save the republic, not make America great again. Save the Republic.

Speaker 13 We all have to go out and vote.

Speaker 77 All right.

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Speaker 47 Hello, America.

Speaker 111 It's Friday.

Speaker 11 It feels good. The weekend is here.

Speaker 16 Let me play some audio.

Speaker 6 And, Stu, I'd like to get your opinion.

Speaker 3 We played this earlier, but

Speaker 126 I expressed what I think it means, the total breakdown of our system.

Speaker 3 But I'd like to hear your opinion on it, your take.

Speaker 28 This is what happened in Congress between Marjorie Taylor Green and who was it?

Speaker 154 Connolly?

Speaker 99 Oh, Jasmine Crockett.

Speaker 21 Crockett, yep.

Speaker 1 And Crockett. AOC in there as well.

Speaker 109 Right, and AOC.

Speaker 140 So,

Speaker 17 sorry, Marjorie Taylor Greene

Speaker 62 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.

Speaker 89 That started an absolute cat fight.

Speaker 3 Here's part of it.

Speaker 160 You just voted to do it.

Speaker 54 I can't vote for you.

Speaker 54 I'm trying to get clarification.

Speaker 158 Look at it. Calm down.
Calm down. No, no, no, no, Because this is what y'all do.

Speaker 54 I'm trying to get clarification.

Speaker 54 I can't hear you with your yelling. Don't want me to.
Calm down.

Speaker 162 No.

Speaker 54 Please calm down.

Speaker 158 Don't tell me to calm down. Calm down.

Speaker 44 You know what I thought?

Speaker 101 My first thought when I saw this was, this is a freaking Denny's fight.

Speaker 149 You know when you see those on

Speaker 75 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.

Speaker 17 And it's a knockdown, drag out fight that you see you've seen those a million times right Stu?

Speaker 1 I've seen those videos here for sure.

Speaker 137 That's what I thought this was.

Speaker 70 What do you think this says about us?

Speaker 1 Oh wow, that's a

Speaker 1 how much time do we have?

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 a government that even is serious in any way.

Speaker 112 In any way.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 122 How is it? I haven't started yet.

Speaker 1 It's really good. I mean, it's really, really good.

Speaker 1 I am definitely down the road where I believe he's right on what he's talking about.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 world experiment we all engaged on

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 92 Well, I'm sure now that we have AI, it's going to get even better.

Speaker 1 Because we're about to do another one, another big experiment. Let's see how that one works out.

Speaker 76 That is honestly what we've done.

Speaker 6 We've experimented, especially on our children.

Speaker 116 We don't talk to each other anymore.

Speaker 138 You know, I hate to say this.

Speaker 6 You know, they say, you know, be interested in what your kids are interested in and listen.

Speaker 102 And I try.

Speaker 6 But I got to tell you, when my son comes and says, oh, dad, I saw this thing on the internet.

Speaker 21 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.

Speaker 41 It's just garbage.

Speaker 129 I have the hardest time caring because it's garbage.

Speaker 133 It doesn't mean anything.

Speaker 108 It's the worst.

Speaker 80 of our society.

Speaker 111 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I have no idea if this made it into your world or not, Glenn, but I don't know. Some of these sites that

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 53 Yeah,

Speaker 53 I have to tell you.

Speaker 4 I'm, you know, I'm down with all that.

Speaker 7 I come from the mean streets.

Speaker 57 That's true.

Speaker 46 That's true. But because of my eye surgery, I haven't seen it.

Speaker 62 So fill me in.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 139 Yes.

Speaker 51 I never know those stories or care about any of those stories.

Speaker 1 Often I don't even know the people involved. Exactly right.
Right? And so I don't know.

Speaker 85 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.

Speaker 130 Right.

Speaker 1 And that and I it was a circuitous route to get there. But

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 I'll be honest about it. I can get sucked into it as well.
But, like, this is not a serious nation.

Speaker 1 Like, no, this, they're fighting over eyelash length. They're swearing at each other.
AOC is trying to form sentences.

Speaker 76 I swear to you, I think it almost,

Speaker 75 we are one degree away from one of them getting up and just punching the other and having a Denny's fight.

Speaker 112 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, maybe we should move Congress to Denny's.

Speaker 1 It might make more sense. Delicious pancakes

Speaker 1 and just idiotic fights,

Speaker 1 people jumping over booths at each other, because that's basically where we are.

Speaker 120 You know what?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I was going to say, we're just prioritizing performance a little bit too much here.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 36 I mean,

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 talking about conservative politics, believe me.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And we're prioritizing idiocy far too often.

Speaker 32 Are we getting better as a civilization, or are we going down the toilet?

Speaker 36 Are we better?

Speaker 58 Remember,

Speaker 100 the Democrats ran because Donald Trump was just, nothing was normal.

Speaker 11 And Joe Biden's going to make things normal again.

Speaker 38 Are we more normal now than we were four years ago?

Speaker 137 Because I don't think so.

Speaker 6 And it's not all because of Biden.

Speaker 46 It's not all because of Trump.

Speaker 27 It's not all because of politics.

Speaker 6 We are sick and no one is addressing this.

Speaker 118 I don't even think our churches are truly addressing this.

Speaker 18 We are a sick, very sick.

Speaker 122 I had a friend over from Israel last night, and we spent the night talking.

Speaker 27 And he talked, he lost members of his family in the Holocaust, and they lived in Germany.

Speaker 89 And he was talking about how his grandfather, who survived, but everybody else in the family died, his grandfather

Speaker 35 still,

Speaker 79 after the Holocaust, still said, you know, Germany is great and we're the best at science.

Speaker 3 And, you know, if you really want to cure a headache, you got to use bear aspirin.

Speaker 121 Okay, they helped kill children.

Speaker 31 You know what I mean? You were there.

Speaker 29 They killed

Speaker 27 Bear and its original company in Germany.

Speaker 108 They were responsible for a lot of the bad stuff that happened.

Speaker 125 And he said, I've never understood how my grandfather can't understand

Speaker 108 that Germany became a science-based, leading the world in science, and became science-based, and then lost God.

Speaker 103 And that's what the problem was.

Speaker 97 He said, I could never get him to connect that.

Speaker 110 And it's so bizarre.

Speaker 6 We're doing the same thing.

Speaker 75 We're a technological wonderland in this country.

Speaker 92 And our science is taking us to extraordinarily bad places, and our society is falling away from God and traditional values.

Speaker 9 We don't recover from this without God.

Speaker 5 We just don't recover.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 They had passed human nature, right? They had progressed beyond the limitations of human nature. They had scientifically solved it.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 62 And you know what's crazy, Stu?

Speaker 79 John Hopkins was the first

Speaker 5 German

Speaker 4 school in America, German university in America.

Speaker 31 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

Speaker 70 the original source of all of the same poison that was

Speaker 4 in Germany.

Speaker 17 And then it spread next to Columbia.

Speaker 10 And Columbia taught all of the teachers through this progressive way.

Speaker 21 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.

Speaker 23 And it's phenomenal.

Speaker 76 And

Speaker 5 if you don't look at the fact that

Speaker 6 the German society was run

Speaker 22 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.

Speaker 105 It was the elites that did it.

Speaker 10 And we're headed down that same path.

Speaker 122 And

Speaker 42 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.

Speaker 10 If we don't turn around,

Speaker 6 evil is not going to just destroy our country.

Speaker 98 It's perverting our country.

Speaker 143 And the...

Speaker 34 all of our technology, all of our elites, they won't be destroyed.

Speaker 22 They'll be perverted and in charge.

Speaker 78 And with our technology, we will make the Germans look like rookies.

Speaker 22 We've got to turn around and turn back to God.

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Speaker 162 or two pounds. That is gonna get nowhere with that.

Speaker 161 No, he ain't, is he? No, he know he ain't.

Speaker 174 That's wild bad, isn't it?

Speaker 161 I should know.

Speaker 162 And he only does bloody card.

Speaker 161 Stuck there in my cash.

Speaker 161 Bloody hell.

Speaker 174 That's wild bad, isn't it?

Speaker 120 Wild bad.

Speaker 44 Yeah.

Speaker 161 Yeah, Benny can hear me.

Speaker 6 Do you have any idea what she's talking about?

Speaker 1 Ice cream.

Speaker 66 Yes.

Speaker 1 And a pound?

Speaker 8 Okay.

Speaker 1 I mean, I legitimately got no more than 5% of that.

Speaker 6 Okay, so you don't know, you didn't get the gist of even what she was talking about.

Speaker 1 I have absolutely no idea.

Speaker 10 So she's in the park, and

Speaker 3 there's an ice cream truck.

Speaker 135 And she goes over to the ice cream truck and she said, two ice creams, her and her friend, two ice cream cones, please.

Speaker 70 And he was asking for

Speaker 17 two ice cream cones were nine quid.

Speaker 75 I don't know how much that is, but it's inflation and it's really expensive.

Speaker 105 And so this, like, what, seven-year-old, she's like, that's crazy.

Speaker 106 And so she's telling her mom, he wanted nine quid for two.

Speaker 17 We're not getting ice cream for a nine quid.

Speaker 134 That's ridiculous.

Speaker 156 Bloody hell.

Speaker 79 It's ice cream.

Speaker 112 I love this.

Speaker 1 That was, first of all, an incredible rant. Yeah.
But also, I did not get any of that.

Speaker 1 How is that the same language we're speaking? I don't even understand it.

Speaker 23 I just love it. I just love it.

Speaker 125 I would love a little English kid.

Speaker 11 I mean, I don't want to have him all the time.

Speaker 7 I just keep him upstairs in a closet or something.

Speaker 1 That's an interesting thing to take out of context. Let's put that audio.

Speaker 135 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.

Speaker 135 That is so cute.

Speaker 1 And I don't hate English accents.

Speaker 112 That was adorable.

Speaker 1 It's just, I can't. That's a Guy Ritchie movie what we just listened to.

Speaker 1 I can't understand any of it.

Speaker 1 I just don't understand it.

Speaker 46 And it's the same language we speak.

Speaker 8 All right.

Speaker 39 Have a blessed and safe weekend.

Speaker 83 Thanks for listening.

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