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Jeff Kantz happened to be sitting in for Glenn.

Oh,

so

I know we're all here and we're expecting words of wisdom from Glenn.

And then this Jeff Katz character pops up.

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but it's me.

So I thought, you know what, I'm going to do.

I just wanted to be inspired.

I did.

I wanted to be inspired by someone who is so much smarter than I am and so much more talented.

No, I'm not talking about the president of Harvard University, but that's where I'm drawing my inspiration.

I just thought, if it's all right with you, what I will do is simply read a transcript of one of Glenn's programs and then it's, you know, it's just like Glenn is here with, of course, the obvious exception of the talent and the skill and all that good stuff.

Would that work?

Because that's what this Dr.

Claudine Gay has apparently done at Harvard University.

I've never written a doctoral dissertation.

And looking at my calendar and the way my life has tracked out so far, the chances of me ever writing a PhD dissertation and having to defend it are somewhere between slim and are you freaking kidding me, slim.

So I'm thinking I'm not going to have to go through this.

But I did write a few papers in school.

And I can remember even as a little guy,

third grade, by the way, best teacher I had in my entire life, Phyllis Gerson.

I remember Mrs.

Gerson to this day.

I kept in touch with Mrs.

Gerson

for years and years and years.

And she passed away a couple of years ago, but I compared every single teacher that I ever had.

teachers in elementary school, junior high school, high school, college, specialized training and instruction and courses.

I have compared every single teacher to Mrs.

Gerson my entire life

because she was the best teacher that I ever had.

And I think when I stack things up and I look at these things, I probably did learn more in third grade from Mrs.

Gerson than I did anywhere else.

Close second,

Dr.

Sheldon Brown.

He was my first ever psychology professor.

Just a brilliant guy and one of the nicest human beings that I ever met.

But it was clear to me, even in third grade, with Mrs.

Gerson, you got to do your own work.

You cannot copy off of anybody else's paper.

Didn't we all learn that?

Has that been lost?

Because I don't think it has.

I asked both of my sons last night.

And it was a quick interaction because, you know, they're home on vacation from college.

So they have a lot of really important stuff to do, and it doesn't usually involve chatting with dad about anything unless it's like, well, I need an airplane ticket somewhere.

Can you help me out?

Sure.

You know, I'm like a living, breathing ATM.

That's what I kind of figured out years ago.

But I asked them both.

And they go to very different colleges.

Harry is finishing up at Stanford.

Stanford University, one of the most exclusive institutions of higher learning anywhere.

And he's a bright kid.

I'm wearing one of my Stanford sweatshirts because I keep thinking with all the money I send to Stanford, they should actually send me a sweatshirt.

Dear Mr.

Katz, thank you so much.

We understand you only have one more kidney to sell, but luckily he's in his last quarter and it'll all be good.

And then I keep thinking, if I keep mentioning that he goes to Stanford, can I deduct his tuition

from my income?

And

a number of people, none of whom thankfully associated with the IRS, have said, yeah, that's not going to work.

But I asked him, where I just have to imagine that the academic standards are pretty rigorous.

What would happen if you plagiarized work?

And he said, well, you just can't do it.

And he didn't even realize that I was asking him with this background of this Dr.

Claudine Gay at Harvard.

He just thought I was making conversation.

I said, so you can't, he says, no, of course not.

I said, well, what happens?

What if you, you're in the midst of doing some really, really, really in-depth work, far above my pay grade, okay?

Stuff I couldn't understand.

And you're looking at

books and reports and files and all this other stuff put together by other egghead, brilliant people like you.

He liked that.

I said, what if you, you didn't mean to, but you're going through all this stuff and you got a million tabs open on the laptop and maybe you've actually got stuff printed and you've highlighted, and for whatever reason, you just, you write two or three lines and you honestly forget, honestly forget

to note somewhere in your thing, I called it a book report, and he's like, dad, I'm not in elementary school.

So I guess the whole idea of the shoebox diorama is totally off the anyway.

He said, well, you would probably if that's the only thing that you did

the professor to whom you were turning it in would say hey i was taking a look at this what happened there

and you could honestly say oh my gosh

that is absolutely i don't know uh dr huckenschmutz's statement and i just forgot to note it and if the professor likes you or at least has respect for you and and knows that this is not the way you operate.

You're not trying to get your degree via chat GPT or some other nonsense.

He or she would say, okay, well, just you got to go back and fix that.

And you could fix it.

And that's it.

Okay.

And I asked Joe.

Joe goes to a very different school.

Joe goes to Ithaca College.

And it is a good school.

He's a good kid, but it's, you know, it's not an Ivy League institution.

And that's okay.

I mean, it was the right school for him, and it all works, I think.

And I asked him the same question.

What if you're in the midst of doing some work and it just, whatever reason, you accidentally, inadvertently included a couple of lines

and you did not note somewhere in your

thing, your paper.

that that was actually someone else's comments or statement or work or what have you.

And he's only been there for one semester, but he's, I think he's finished up five courses, right?

Yeah, five course of your typical undergrad course load.

And he said essentially the same thing as Harry did.

Hey, well, you know, if you made a mistake, you made a mistake.

He says, now, just remember, I'm a freshman and it's my very first semester in college.

They might be more forgiving.

Or they might go in the opposite direction and be really, really tough because they think you're trying to get away away with something.

He said, but I think, and I haven't done this, of course.

I said, well, good.

He said, I think what would happen is they would say you need to go back and fix that.

So it's clear to both of those boys you can't do this.

But Dr.

Claudine Gay.

Who I'm told is just one of the most brilliant women to have ever...

Did I say woman?

I did.

Oh, you know me.

the Supreme Court says, I can't define what a woman is.

Yeah, actually, I can.

Okay, so she is one of the most brilliant women ever.

But she somehow, someway

did not understand that?

Or did she think she was going to get away with it?

Or had there been some indication throughout her academic career and her professional academic activities that said to her, hey,

you can do what what you want.

You don't have to worry about this.

You just, yeah, you can copy other people's work.

No worries.

This is a problem.

This is a big problem.

The latest report, and that's the New York Post, says there are now more than 40 allegations of Dr.

Claudine Gay at Harvard University plagiarizing other people's work.

I mentioned to you yesterday,

she'll probably get away with it, but not necessarily because of the reasons that a lot of people automatically assume.

Jeff, she's a black woman, she'll get away with it.

No,

that may play into this.

Now, maybe that played into it during the course of her academic career.

And she has built, by all accounts, a DEI empire at Harvard University.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Now, under the whole DEI rubric I think you can do any of this stuff so long as

you come from a group that is quote marginalized or oppressed you you got a free pass apparently

but believe it or not those are not the reasons in my opinion that she will get away with it The real reason behind all of it is that the Harvard Corporation, which fundamentally acts as the board of directors for Harvard University, oversees their billions of dollars in endowment.

They just hired her.

She's new to the job.

And if, in fact, they pressure her to resign, yes, there will be a backlash related to race.

There will be a backlash related to gender.

But there will be a bigger backlash against them

that says,

How flipping stupid could you be?

Did you not investigate any of this before you gave her one of the most incredibly attractive jobs in all of academia?

So I'm not sure that even the brand new allegations, more than 40 of them

related to plagiarism, will really stick.

CNN had a little something to say on this, and we're going to listen to that in just a moment.

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Now, I've got a clip from cnn and it's a little long if you will indulge me and and we may get to a point as you and i are listening to her and go okay that's enough that's enough and then we'll just stop it but cnn

is doing well they're doing what cnn normally does

which is covering for their fellow leftists their their fellow agenda item box checkers So I want you to take a listen to some of cut number seven, please.

You might recall Dr.

Gay, along with the presidents of MIT and Penn, giving generally seen as disastrous testimony on Capitol Hill earlier this month.

They failed to explicitly say that calling for the genocide of Jews on campus would violate their campus's codes of conduct.

Now, that, as well as Gay's commitment to progressive policies, have made her many right-wing enemies who have recently raised issues about her scholarship.

But regardless of the provenance of these allegations, There is also the matter of whether or not they're true.

Harvard's top governing body said a review revealed, quote, inadequate citations by Dr.

Gay in a few instances, but, quote, no violation of Harvard's standards for research misconduct, unquote.

Now, Harvard's guide on sourcing says this on plagiarism, quote, In academic writing, it is considered plagiarism to draw any idea or any language from someone else without adequately crediting that source in your paper, unquote.

Now, critics of Dr.

Gay and Harvard's review of the allegations say that there is a double standard going on here.

CNN's Matt Egan is following this.

What exactly is Dr.

Gay accused of here?

Claudian Gay's career is under a microscope, and now she's facing accusations of plagiarism.

Now, Gay recently submitted corrections to two papers that she wrote as a professional academic in 2001 and 2017.

However, there are clear examples of plagiarism that occurred in the 1990s when Gay was studying for her PhD at Harvard.

Now, in one example, Gay's 1997 dissertation lifted one paragraph almost verbatim

from another source without citation.

That offense appears to go against Harvard's current guide on plagiarism, which you stated earlier, Jake.

Harvard's plagiarism policy says that students who submit work without clear attribution to sources will be, quote, subject to disciplinary action up to and including requirement to withdraw from the college.

Now, the first publicly identified instance of plagiarism by Gay comes from a failure to properly cite sources in a 1993 essay.

Now, Harvard's top governing body said in a statement last week it became aware of plagiarism allegations against Gay in late October.

An independent review found a few instances of missing citations, but no violation of Harvard's standards.

However, it's not clear whether that review included Gay's 1997 dissertation.

In a previous statement, Gay said, quote, I stand by the integrity of my scholarship.

Throughout my career, I have worked to ensure my scholarship adheres to the highest academic standards.

Now we should note that the plagiarism allegations against gay were first circulated by conservative activists.

One of those activists has also criticized gay on Harvard's diversity policies.

And Gay's most outspoken critic has also highlighted the plagiarism charges and he's argued without evidence that Harvard only hired gay to fulfill diversity requirements.

Now, plagiarism experts that CNN spoke to stressed that this is a very complex issue.

These experts were divided on whether gay's omissions warrant any punishment, but none of them called for her to be fired, and they noted it's quite rare for academics to be fired for plagiarism.

Jake?

What else are critics and plagiarism experts saying about Harvard's review of these plagiarism allegations?

All right,

all right, all right, that's enough.

All right, go away.

Although, I got to tell you, Jake Tapper in the last couple of weeks or so seems like he, I don't know, got an early present, like he got a backbone in the spine.

Because he has legitimately been asking some tough questions and diving into things.

So hat tip to Jake Tapper.

Who's the guy going, well, you know, it's a very complicated question.

It's not a complicated question.

Is that your work?

No.

Thank you.

Move along.

Did you write it?

Yes.

Did you point out to us that somebody else wrote it first?

No.

Okay.

Thank you.

I mean, honest to God, unless you are Mike Barnacle and you wind up on MSNBC, I'm telling you, most people do not get away with this sort of stuff.

It's just, it's insanity.

It really is.

If it is so clear that even I understand it, man, it's got to be crystal clear.

I'm sitting here in my

home studio.

Sounds very impressive, doesn't it?

All right, but I know

it's not really a shed.

People say that.

It's not.

It's not a shed.

It's the plaque.

But I'm sitting here.

It's just me and my senior executive producer pixie the wonder dog she's a 10-pound chihuahua rescue four teeth it's just the two of us in here i'm still not the smartest guy in the room and you know what i still understand

you cannot copy other people's work and claim that it's yours

cnn chatting with people who are plagiarism experts

tell you who you need to ask stop going out and getting your your left-wing plagiarism experts and ask any kid

in elementary school.

Now, it won't be as fancy.

It won't be as colorful.

It won't be as filled with left-wing woke talking points, but the answer at least will be pretty easy to understand.

That child will tell you,

you cannot copy off of somebody else's paper.

That's what this boils down to.

Simple as that.

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Years ago, gosh, it's 20-some-odd years ago.

Now that I think about it, Heidi and I lived in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Very, very interesting experience.

Very interesting experience.

I loved it out there.

It was

right as the terrorist attacks of September the 11th, 2001 were unfolding.

And it was a really bizarre.

bizarre sort of a thing

we had just had

our first son.

I told you moments ago, Harry is now finishing up at Stanford.

And I do mention Stanford all the time in hopes that something will happen for me.

I'm telling you, a baseball cap would be nice for those people to send.

I'd love to open a box postmarked Palo Alto that just says, Dear Mr.

Katz, thank you so much for every single solitary cent you've ever earned.

Here's a baseball cap.

Nothing.

But Harry was a newborn.

And we had just brought him home from the hospital.

And it was, well, it was bizarre.

He was the

first child, the first grandchild.

My dad, with his ever-impeccable sense of timing, died five days before Harry was born.

Yeah.

My dad was an interesting carry.

I may share some of that.

But we brought him home.

And, you know, we're all sitting around.

All of us, the two of us, just looking at him, amazed by him, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada.

So it's a long time, and we haven't been back to Las Vegas in a long time.

But I came across a story today from Las Vegas, and I thought, oh my Lord, please tell me this isn't true.

Because Las Vegas was always an interesting place.

People didn't understand Las Vegas.

People from outside of Nevada thought, wow, you live in one of those hotels, right?

No, no, we live in a house.

We lived in a beautiful house, in fact.

What do you get paid in those

poker chip things, right?

No, no, no, no.

I get a paycheck like everybody else.

Oh.

I did have to explain to them that there were slop machines everywhere.

You went to the supermarket.

Smith's was the supermarket we used to go to.

Slot machines, big line of slop machines.

You'd go to a gas station.

Slop machines everywhere.

And the worst, oh God, it was so painful.

There used to be older folks who were clearly down on their luck

and they would be playing these nickel slot machines at the terrible Herpst gas stations.

But it's been a long time since we've lived there and I, as I think about it, I haven't been back in 20 years.

But I still kind of sort of follow some news out there.

And this story jumped out at me, and I thought, oh, please tell me it's not true.

The Clark County School District, which is Las Vegas and a few of the little surrounding areas, that's Clark County.

Clark County School District is now the target of a formal complaint over an incident that we're told happened earlier this year with a special education student who's Jewish.

So I got three things right away that jump out to me, right?

Las Vegas, Hey, I try and keep up with the stuff in Vegas.

I kind of miss Vegas.

Special ed student, well, I told you about Julia.

That jumps out at me in Jewish.

Yep, okay, so I'm three for three on this one.

This special education student, according to this lawsuit,

came home from school in Clark County with

a swastika carved into their back.

Now, there's an organization, it's called the Law Fair Project, and it advocates for Jewish people through legal action.

They announced they have filed the complaint against the Clark County School District.

They did it yesterday.

The complaint accuses the school district of state and federal civil rights violations on behalf of this student who attended a high school

when the suspected hate crime was reported in March of this year.

So, this is

before

the Hamas attacks of October the 7th, right?

Yeah.

Attorneys with a couple of law firms out in Vegas joined the action,

and their allegation is that this student did not receive the special education support that he was entitled to under federal and state regulations.

That's a nice, fancy, legal way of saying, what the hell happened here?

How can we send a child to school and have him come home with a swastika carved in his back?

Now, if it were a typically developing

child,

you would ask the child, correct?

Hey, what the heck happened to you?

What's going on here?

You and some of your knucklehead friends get into a dust-up?

Or

seriously, what's going on here?

And your son or your daughter would tell you.

You know,

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And it might be nothing.

I mean, it's a terrible thing, but in their mind, it might be nothing.

We all got into this thing, and

I don't know, people were scratching each other, but that's not what this is.

This is a young man who is autistic

and he is nonverbal.

That's a problem.

That's a huge problem.

For those of us with special ed kiddos

who are nonverbal

this

is a nightmare come true

earlier today i i put julia on the school bus

and

i don't ordinarily get to do that it's normally uh my wife that takes care of that but but heidi got a a shoulder replacement three weeks ago a whole brand new shoulder

and and you know because they're closing out the the model year.

And the 2023 shoulders, beautiful shoulders, great mileage, you know, lots of chrome and all that stuff.

So, so for 90 days, she cannot lift anything heavier than a coffee cup.

And she was trying to get the doctor to say coffee cup or wine glass.

So I have had the duty and will have it for another, I don't know, 60, 70 days of getting Julia ready for school in the morning, which can be be a challenge.

Again, 20 years old, chronologically, developmentally, 18 months old.

But I also have to get her on the school bus.

And putting her on the school bus has actually become a rather enjoyable thing because there's a young man on that school bus, another student and special ed,

who every morning, every morning sort of pops up from his seat with his big smile and says, good morning, Julia's dad.

And I say, good morning, Julia's friend.

And he says, you have a fabulous day, Julia's dad.

And I said, well, you have a fabulous day yourself, Julia's friend.

But Julia can't say anything.

Julia doesn't speak.

And

my fear

from the day we realized that Julia was never going to speak was that something terrible could happen to her and we would never know.

And I can guarantee you, these parents in Las Vegas who are dealing with this that's their nightmare

it's challenging enough to have the special needs child believe me when I tell you that

and then you add in this component of nonverbal

that's a huge problem

Now, in fairness to the Clark County School District, let me tell you that they said

they did a full investigation and that their investigation, which included interviews with the staff at the school and a review of available camera footage, quote, found no evidence that would indicate the origin of the injuries.

Wow.

So I don't know.

I don't know what really happened here.

And it will obviously be playing out in the courts.

And I will stay on top of it

because there's so many things there that interest me.

And if you're hearing the story and you're thinking, oh my gosh,

I worry about that with my son as well.

I worry about that with my daughter as well.

I just want you to know you're not alone.

There are a lot of us who are concerned about this,

who care

about this.

And hopefully, hopefully, somehow, some way, we get the full story as to what happened.

I do have that posted.

If you want to take a look at it, it's the story.

Now, the family is not named.

The child is not named.

The teachers, I mean,

it's an ongoing lawsuit.

But there is a photograph of this young man's back.

And again, people are saying that it would appear that what was carved into his back is a swastika.

You can take a look at that and you can let me know.

You can tell me, hey, Jeff, come on.

Doesn't even look like it.

He must have rubbed up against something on the wall.

Because I'm sure there'll be people who say that.

And there'll be others, including me, looking at it, who are saying, yeah,

it definitely, definitely looks like a swastika to me.

Horrible, isn't it?

Just absolutely, positively horrible.

Something else, a new attack on Christians?

It doesn't stop.

but we'll talk about it in a moment.

If you want to jump ahead, you want to take a look at any of this.

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Do you want your children involved in sexual activity?

No, of course not.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to answer for you, but the answer is no, of course not.

You have a 13-year-old daughter.

Do you want your 13-year-old daughter thinking about

involvement in behavior that let's be honest is for adults

I would say no

why then is ABC News huffing and puffing and jumping up and down because they have allegedly according to them suddenly unearthed an old German television profile that featured

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And his then 13-year-old daughter, Hannah.

They were at

a purity ball.

I don't know if, in fact, you have seen any of the footage of things of this sort or if you've been involved with them.

The purity balls took place, and I would assume they still take place, right?

I don't see them as much, the purity purity pledges.

Sometimes

folks got these little purity rings.

And the idea was really very simple.

While you're a teenager, and we who are not teenagers but live through our teenage years, we know how teenagers act and think, and we know that we got to put up some guardrails.

There's got to be some acknowledgement of the real world as well as a focus,

a focus

on what is really, really

important.

And so these purity movements, which I think are absolutely perfect, spot-on, amazing,

said,

we're going to help you through

a rather difficult time.

But our ultimate focus here

is saying to you, as young people,

be aware of what's going on in every sense of the word,

every sense of the word.

But Mike Johnson and his daughter, and anybody and everybody else, apparently,

as part of this ABC report,

is attacking anybody and everybody who was involved with it.

And it's from 2000

and 15.

It's old.

They apparently got somebody who had been involved in this and said, well, you know,

it's really, it's kind of creepy.

It's creepy.

And I thought, what exactly is creepy about it?

What is the message here?

Is the message that you should never grow up and get married?

No.

Although that's the allegation of what?

Well, they're trying to keep these girls as girls their entire lives.

I don't see that in anything that I've studied or researched on this.

I don't see it at all.

What I see is a movement

that said,

we would love for you

to remain abstinent until marriage.

Well, I know for a lot of people,

it's unbelievable, heavy lift.

And others are thinking right now, well, yeah, that's the way it's supposed to be

but there was nothing abusive about this there was nothing terrible about this

I would dare say that this was

quite useful for young people

it was a wonderful guidance

And because it was wonderful guidance and probably helped prevent teenage pregnancies and gave rise to healthier marriages, the left has to attack it.

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The Colorado Supreme Court said

We don't like Trump.

Well, let me rephrase that.

Four of the members of the Colorado Supreme Court said, We don't like Trump.

The other three, I don't think they like Trump either, but they didn't bother voting on this thing.

And

we're keeping them off the ballot.

Okay.

And Hunter Biden, I think, might be poised to get like a big-time get-out-of-jail free car.

There's a lot of legal stuff going on.

And when it comes to legal issues, I have exactly one person to go to.

Let me give you a brief look at Joe Moreno's resume, an attorney, ACPA.

He is part of the Judge Advocate General Corps in the United States Army.

He is admitted to practice law in England and Wales in addition to the United States.

For some reason, he's got something against the Scots.

I don't know what that it is.

And he is the father.

of nine amazing children.

He and his wife are just wonderful, wonderful people, beautiful family, and he is indeed a former federal prosecutor and, without question, the smartest lawyer on God's green earth.

Ladies and gentlemen, Joe Moreno.

Counselor, how are you, my friend?

Jeff, good morning, sir.

Great to be with you.

It is great to have you here.

Before we get into the whole Colorado thing and the Biden,

look, I just refer to them, as you know, as La Joe Sinostri, because I think there's a whole Ricoh thing going on there, but that's just me.

I've got a legal question that has been bugging me for decades, and I'm hoping you can answer it.

Okay, I'll try.

All right, amicus or amicus?

I like amicus.

I like the former.

But, you know, there's a difference of opinion on that, but I'm sticking with my Latin as best as I know it from Catholic school many years ago.

Okay, so we're going with amicus.

Okay, thank goodness.

I appreciate that.

I'm not going to ask about the second word in that phrase.

All right.

Let's talk about Colorado for just a second here.

The four members of that state Supreme Court said, we hate Donald Trump so much, we're not going to let him on the ballot.

Oh, and by the way, we think he led an insurrection.

Did they get any of this right?

Jeff,

I think that this is a,

forget about wobbly.

I think this is an absolutely laughable decision.

I had some hope because remember, there's about 25 of these 14th Amendment cases that are out there.

The first seven that got to verdict already, including several very blue states, including Michigan and Minnesota, all shot this down, saying, nope, this does not apply for various different, multiple different reasons.

I had some hope that maybe some courts out there had some sanity.

And then we get Colorado, number eight, which through this twisted set of logic, including just a bare majority, a four to three majority, said, we know better than these other states, we know better than Congress, we know better than the voters, and we're just going to say, yeah, Donald Trump engaged in insurrection, even though he's never been charged with that.

We're going to say, forget his presumption of innocence.

We're just going to basically declare him guilty, and we're going to use this tortured interpretation of the 14th 14th Amendment to say he is not eligible to be on a ballot.

It's wild.

And then to make matters worse, New York and California jumped right on board and said, you know what?

We're going to do this too.

So we're going down a path here of just absolute insanity.

There's nothing legal about it, though, right?

I mean, is there anything?

I read through the 14th Amendment.

And as you know, I'm not an attorney, but

I didn't craft the Constitution.

I didn't know any of the founding fathers or anything like that.

But I read through it, and then I looked at former President Trump, and I thought, whether you like him or dislike him, whether you hate his tweets or his hair or whatever, I just, I didn't see him leading, quote, an insurrection anymore, because that's a legal term.

You know, I mean, Jeff, as you know, we lawyers can, we can twist ourselves into pretty wells, and we can argue just about anything, right?

I mean, there's rather be people arguing both sides of any issue.

But as with most things,

this is common sense, a common sense reading of the amendment, a knowledge of the history behind it, and a sense of fairness, right?

Yes, insurrection is a very specific term.

It is not defined in the Constitution, but there is a law that's been passed by Congress called insurrection.

People can be charged with it.

People can go to jail for committing it.

And yet, Donald Trump was not charged with insurrection.

All the thousand people right here in Washington, D.C.

that have been prosecuted related to the January 6th riot, none of them have been charged with insurrection.

And yet, the Colorado Supreme Court thinks it can make its own definition and then make its own determination that not only are we going to define insurrection, but we're going to say Donald Trump is guilty of it without ever having been charged or having a criminal trial.

Are they just

trying to do away with that pesky due process situation?

Because it takes so much time to have these charges and trials, Joe.

Can't you just give them a fair trial and then take them out back?

Isn't it the same logic?

You would think, right?

Due process, presumption of innocence, right?

Some basic, basic tenets of our entire 200-year-old legal system.

And yet, four out of the seven members of the Colorado Supreme Court think they know better.

I would also point out, too, the three dissenters, all of whom are

Democrat-appointed, they virulently disagreed with their majority colleagues, including the Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

And I think the dissent is actually worth reading.

They tear into the majority and said, this is completely wrong.

We would have dismissed this, as have the other seven states that have so far ruled on this.

And yet, those four, and forget about, there's the legal insanity about it.

Then there's the undemocratic insanity that these four people are now going to prevent millions of Colorado residents to be able to vote for the person of their choice.

So it is not just legally wrong.

It is condescending and it is undemocratic.

Wow.

Joe Moreno is joining us.

Joe is a former federal prosecutor, an absolutely brilliant guy, and you probably, I hope you read his recent piece in the Washington Examiner.

You were talking about Joe Biden and his gang of grifters.

My term, not yours, just so in case the folks from the bar are listening.

But

your advice, I mean, your legal advice is basically, hey, get out while the getting's good.

Well, I mean,

Jeff, I would say if you're going to come out guns blazing and use your Justice Department against your political opponent, you really should have clean hands of your own.

And yet, the millions of dollars, we're up to $24 million we know about now that has flowed into the Biden family in the last six years, we have Hunter Biden's legal problems, which are not unserious.

You're talking about over a million dollars of unpaid taxes.

plus his drug gun case issues.

Then you have Biden's own mishandling of classified documents, which he had in his garage, apparently, for years.

You would think with all of this in his own background, he would say, you know what?

Let me just quietly leave the legal system alone and I'll beat Donald Trump or anybody else the old-fashioned way, you know, through campaigning and voting.

So

the nerve that he's have of not only coming after Trump, using his legal system as a basically a political weapon, while just ignoring his own problems and hoping, I guess, they're just going to go away.

I mean, that really takes some gall.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He has,

I'm going to use a phrase that so many others have, and I'm not pulling a Claudian gay and copying them.

I'm just saying they're right.

He has weaponized the Department of Justice.

He's using it as a cudgel against his political opponents.

And I I don't know about you.

I think that Merrick Garland is the most political AG we have seen since John Mitchell.

Oh, gosh, yes.

I mean,

I think that it's fair to say these cases, and I only two of them are from the federal government, the others are from various states, but these cases range from shaky to nonsensical.

And you would hope that if you're going to do something as historically unique as

bringing charges against your political opponent, they would be absolutely airtight from both a legal and a factual perspective.

And the fact that Biden, through Merrick Garland, hides behind this special counsel and says, you know what?

I have nothing to do with this.

This is all Jack Smith.

That's ridiculous.

Any prosecutorial power at the federal level emanates from the office of the president.

It flows through the Attorney General to the various federal prosecutors that are out there, but they all roll up.

And so again, not only is Biden allowing this to happen, he doesn't even have the courage of his conviction to look the American people in the eye and say, I believe in these charges.

This is why these charges are justified.

Instead, he hides behind the special counsel.

He gets, let's frank, let's face it, he gets no hard questions from the mainstream media about any of this.

And we're all supposed to just go along like this is normal.

Two quick questions, Joe.

And I want to remind everybody, Joe Moreno is joining us, former federal prosecutor and just an absolutely brilliant, brilliant legal mind.

Two things.

The indictments that just came down, the recent ones against Hunter Biden, people are saying, oh, see, this shows the DOJ is on the case.

Doesn't that just provide him with cover if he does show up in front of a congressional committee to say, hey, I can talk about that?

Sure.

I mean, so they want us to believe after five years of dragging their feet on this and then giving Hunter Biden an absolutely sweetheart deal that by Hunter Biden's own arrogance, he lost.

It blew up.

Now they're telling us, believe us, we're serious this time around, right?

We're serious about these gun and tax charges that we tried to sweep under the rug just six months ago.

But absolutely, it drags things out.

It gives Hunter Biden now the excuse that, well, I can't testify before Congress because I have Fifth Amendment rights and I'm exposed.

So I can't possibly testify.

And it just drags it out.

And look, I think we all know where this is going, right?

I can't imagine Joe Biden is going to let his son go to prison.

So either he torpedoes the prosecution at the last minute or he pardons his son.

I could be wrong, but that's my prediction.

Oh, well, now you just answered the question I was about to ask.

So, yeah,

this is headed for Joe Biden pulling one of those handy-danny pardons out.

Whether he wins or loses the next election, Hunter Biden gets the presidential pardon and he can go back to being whatever the heck it is this week.

Most likely.

I mean, Biden is pretty shameless, so I don't know why he would stop now.

And sure.

I mean, if he gets re-elected, then no one can really touch him.

And if he loses, well, then sure.

I mean, why not do this as you're going out the door?

So I expect, you know, again, we're all sort of being taken for fools here.

I mean, we're supposed to go along and pretend this is a real investigation.

I, frankly, would have more respect for the guy if he just stopped it in his tracks and pardoned his son now, instead of making us go through this charade.

But again, here we go, and he has a very obedient media that just goes along with it.

Oh, my God, the laptop media.

You're right.

Hey, Joe, I'm hoping folks read your stuff in the Washington Examiner.

They're seeing you, I know, on CBC and BBC and all over the place, Newsmax and Fox and all the rest of it.

But your website, you want to send people there?

Sure.

www.josephmoreno.com.

I do my best to post things up there.

And again, look, keep the dialogue going.

I mean, don't believe the talking head legal so-called experts that are out there.

Use your common sense.

I encourage people and, you know, really think about these issues and don't just accept what's being said to you.

I love it.

Joe, a very, very Merry Christmas to you and that beautiful family of yours.

And I always appreciate you making time.

Jeff, it's an honor.

Happy holidays and bless you, my man.

Thank you, sir.

That is Joe Moreno, and he really is the smartest lawyer on God's green earth.

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Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn.

If you are just hearing,

My friend Joe Moreno, please, you can follow him over on X, formerly known as Twitter and his website.

He's just a brilliant guy, and he is calling attorneys to account.

And I do love the fact that he lets us know right up front, listen, lawyers can argue over anything and everything, right?

And everybody's got a side, and everybody's got a position.

But here's the reality that you know, and I know, and it's common sense.

The Bidens are just as dirty as the day is long.

yesterday i apologized to uh to ric flair

because look i love ric flair

i really do

i i didn't grow up watching him

i grew up in philadelphia we had wwwf we had bruno and pedro but every once in a while we get the wrong tape And then all of a sudden, we'd have this NWA stuff, you know, Georgia Championship Wrestling or Florida Championship Wrestling.

And there'd be this Ric Flair character.

I only see it in the books.

It's like, oh, my God.

And he always said he was the dirtiest player in the game, but with apologies to Ric Flair, it's Joe Biden who is the dirtiest player in the game.

And he has been forever and ever and ever.

I said it's common sense to see that something's wrong here.

Joe Moreno said you just have to use your common sense.

Do you remember a lesson?

That was years ago that Glenn shared this lesson on the air.

And

I took it to heart.

I heard him tell this story, and I said, well, I believe Glenn.

I'm still going to go and look into it.

It was all about common sense.

Why do we call it common sense?

And there was this thought that most of us had, including me, well, it's just, you know, it's common.

It's amongst everybody.

And the answer was no, that's not really what it is.

The term common sense derives from a time when the vast majority of the populace was illiterate and uneducated.

There were a handful of people who knew how to read.

There were a handful of people who had some degree of education.

Right?

The landed gentry, some of the clergy, that was it.

So if something involved, quote, common sense, it was so clear,

so blatant,

that even a mere commoner

could

understand it.

You see where I'm going with this?

You don't have to be an attorney to understand

how dirty the Bidens are.

You don't have to be a member of any state Supreme Court anywhere to figure out

that the people,

the people,

have the right to nominate and then vote for the candidate of their choice.

It's not your role.

These are things that smack

of common sense.

And if we're going to give that up,

if we're simply going to say, yeah, we're going to leave it to the judges in Colorado to decide for the rest of us, then we've got a problem.

And I love the fact that Joe Moreno addresses the three justices out there, Democrats.

They're all Democrats.

They're not a Republican anywhere in the Colorado judiciary at this point.

But the three Democrats on the Colorado State Supreme Court who disagreed with us said, this

is baloney.

This is nonsense.

We would have dismissed it.

It is such an egregious, appalling overstep.

Even the commoners can understand that it's wrong.

If you get a chance, check that out.

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Thanks so much to the folks who are here in my home of Central Virginia, folks who ordinarily are listening on news radio, WRVA, in the afternoon.

They get to hear me mid-morning, which I love.

This is great fun.

Great fun.

Now, I,

like everybody else, getting ready for the holidays, blah, blah, blah.

Christmas coming up.

Got it, got it, got it.

But I still have an obligation to people who are kind enough to listen to me.

And I do something so, well, frankly, so that you don't have to.

I watch MSNBC so that you don't have to.

No, no, no.

It's okay.

It's okay.

You're welcome.

And I was watching the other day, right after this Colorado Supreme Court thing.

Right?

We, these four justices on the Colorado State Supreme Court,

as I said, where the air is thin and yet it's heavy with the odor of weed.

I don't know.

Go figure that out, right?

But they said we're kicking Donald Trump off this ballot.

Now, a couple of things happened after that.

Vivek Ramaswamy said, if you're kicking him off the ballot, then I'm taking my name off the ballot.

This is ridiculous.

The Colorado Republican Party said, hey, you know what?

Blank you and the gavel you wrote in on.

We're not going to be part of the Colorado primary election.

We're going to hold caucuses, which means you're not involved, which means this doesn't mean anything to us.

But on MSNBC, there was delight, actual squeals of delight.

I mean, they could not have been happier.

We are going to protect democracy, doggone it by,

well, taking people off the ballot that we don't like.

But I'm telling you, we're doing it for the right reason.

Just trust us.

The MSNBC people were just thrilled with this, with one exception.

Mr.

Mika.

No, no, Mr.

Mika

said on that show: no, no,

taking Trump off the ballot this way is just wrong.

Well, it would appear as if Mrs.

Mika said to Mr.

Mika, if you want to sleep in the main bedroom,

you better go and reconsider because what was it, 24 hours later, and here is Mr.

Mika in cut number four, flip flopping.

We all saw it with our own eyes.

This is one of those moments where are you going to to believe me or are you going to believe your lying eyes?

Americans saw this with their eyes.

They understand that Donald Trump did, in fact,

take part,

lead, encourage an insurrection to take place.

They know that he told people that they needed to storm the Capitol.

They needed to stop the count.

He got extraordinarily angry with the Secret Service when they stopped him from going up there because he wanted to march on the floor.

He wanted to be in the center of the insurrection.

So, yeah,

he committed insurrection.

Yes, if there were justice already, he'd be a lot more concerned about things than just not being on the Colorado Republican ballot.

He'd be concerned because he should be in jail.

We either have a Constitution or we don't have a Constitution.

Here's the factual question:

Did Donald Trump commit insurrection?

Yes.

If Donald Trump committed insurrection, then as Judge Littig said yesterday, it's not anti-democratic to follow the Constitution of the United States and Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

That's in fact the most pro-democratic thing that can be done.

Stay with me, because if in fact he committed insurrection against the United States,

this is the ultimate protectorate of that democracy.

I understand it's sad and it's pathetic that people will say, oh, Trump derangement syndrome, oh this, oh that, on other networks.

They're going to be

trying to confuse you.

They're going to be trying to move the ball.

They're going to be trying to confuse their own viewers, which they do quite regularly, quite often.

Fact is, the Constitution is crystal clear.

If a court finds, as a Colorado court found, Donald Trump committed insurrection insurrection against the United States government, then you either follow the Constitution or you don't.

And you can talk about democracy all you want.

I'm sure people that were following Hitler were talking about democracy a lot.

I don't know.

Muslim, everybody can, I guess they can go and wave the banner of democracy around when it's actually the opposite of democracy.

Actually the opposite of democracy.

Committing insurrection against the United States Constitution, trying to actually steal a presidential election, the antithesis of democracy.

You see what's going on right there?

These people would want you to believe that if the Constitution of the United States is followed, that's anti-democratic.

They want you to believe that the 14th Amendment is anti-democratic.

They want you to believe that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which is crystal clear, is anti-democratic.

The fact is, what it does is the 14th Amendment,

Section 3, protects us against those people and protects us against

the thug that sent those people to Capitol Hill.

Oh, my God.

Now, it goes on.

It's like another, I don't know, 12 hours or so.

All right, it felt like 12 hours.

But, you know, the payoff, and I guess we didn't get to this part.

I think the payoff is when he looked lovingly into Mika's eyes and said, is it okay now?

Can I come back to the big pad, please, Mika?

Oh, and the one guy to pipe in after Mr.

Mika said, well,

did he commit to insurrection?

Who said yes, was Mike Barnacle.

And anytime you hear Mike Barnacle speak, you have to ask yourself, huh, wonder who said that first?

No, seriously, because Barnacle's columns in the Boston Globe just were not the same after Mike Royko died.

It was a terrible, terrible situation.

I know.

Well, what are you going to do?

But they're passes all the way way around in all of this.

Not to worry.

Everybody's fine.

You don't have to like Donald Trump.

In fact, now here's the weirdest part about it.

You do remember, and it was former President Trump who pointed this out, that Mr.

and Mrs.

Mika, well, they used to be friends, right?

They used to like going to Mar-a-Lago when they were invited to Mar-a-Lago.

I've never been to Mar-a-Lago.

Oh, I would absolutely love to go.

I would love to go.

And you know what else I would do?

I actually had this conversation with Heidi the other day.

I said, in the event,

in the event that

President Trump is reelected

and I were asked to serve in some capacity, Lord knows I'm not going to be secretary of anything.

But I don't know, I might, right?

Possible.

I said, I would have to go.

I would have to go.

I mean, I love Central Virginia

and it would be a commute.

I could take the train.

I mean, I'm working through all these things.

And she's looking at me like,

well, she's married to me for 25 years, so she knows, but she did ask,

did anybody actually ask you to go work in D.C.?

No, but it could happen.

And if former President Trump were to be reelected and he said, hey.

I need somebody with exactly your skill set,

which would presume there's a skill set.

But yes, I'd like you to come somehow, someway, work in the administration.

I would be there in a second.

Absolutely without hesitation.

Why?

Because it's the right thing to do.

I cannot bring myself to say that for Joe Biden.

I've always tried to place the office of the presidency above any sort of politics.

And I can remember after Barack Obama was elected, and there were friends of mine,

very, very sincere, hardcore conservative Republicans who said, well, he's not my president.

And I said, yeah, he is.

He's the president of the United States.

Now, you may not like him.

And I know you didn't vote for him, nor did I, but he's the president of the United States.

And if Barack Obama had asked me to come to Washington, D.C.

to serve, my answer would have been no.

But if I would have been invited by him for some reason to the White House, I would have said yes.

If Joe Biden, for some reason, somehow, some way, were to invite me to the White House,

I would have to say no.

Now, I look at some of the cool things that happen when you get one of these little radio shows.

Like over the last couple of weeks, I've been at the executive mansion here in Virginia twice.

Once for a Hanukkah party that Governor Glenn Young and his lovely bride, First Lady Suzanne Youncin, threw.

And then for a Christmas party that they threw at the executive mansion.

And it's very, very cool.

And I can only imagine what it must be like to go to the White House for some event like that.

Because I've not been invited to those either.

But that's okay.

But this guy who's currently in the Oval Office, I'm just telling you, he's a bad dude.

And he has been.

And he's gotten away with so much because he's got this,

oh gosh, that's just Joe sort of thing working.

And man, everybody's working for him.

Oh, you know him.

He's always said stupid stuff.

Well, then maybe he's stupid.

Oh, you know him.

He always says something that's this, this, or that.

Well, maybe those are things, you know.

Do you not pay attention to these things?

I would.

And now, with that shuffle, oh, God, you see that same shuffle in the hallways of senior living facilities.

He just should stop with the charade at this point.

Put on the terry cloth bathrobe and the slippers and just shuffle along.

But I think it's part of something else.

I do.

I think

he's running the same game.

That mob boss did, that godfather guy did at one point.

Remember the guy in New York used to shuffle along in his bathrobe?

You remember that?

And the whole idea was to make people convinced that he was nuts.

While behind the scenes,

bad stuff was happening.

Sound familiar?

Don't forget, social media.

Man, I would love to have you with me on social media.

No, I don't have anywhere near the following of Glenn, obviously, and that's why I'm asking you to, you know,

throw a little love my way.

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It's not often.

In fact, I've never said this.

No, no, no.

No, I don't think I've ever actually said this out loud where other people could hear me.

John Fetterman is right.

Well, there you go.

I know.

You may have driven off the road, you may have dropped your coffee, but he's right.

He's actually right about two things.

I'm not crazy about his choice of sweatshirts or the way he dresses or the way he acts or a whole bunch of stuff.

A lot of problems I got with John Fetterman.

It's almost like, well, tomorrow's festivus.

I got issues with John Fetterman.

Airing of the grievances.

But you know what?

He was right in standing up to his own party, to the despicable Hamas caucus inside the Democrat Party, and saying to them,

you're wrong.

You're completely and totally wrong.

And if you're not with Israel, then you are with evil.

But he's right on something else.

U.S.

steel

is apparently going to be sold to a Japanese company.

It's called Nippon Nippon Steel Corporation.

It is a $15 billion

deal.

So I know

most of us look at $15 billion and say, wow, that's like almost real money there, isn't it?

But do I want U.S.

steel owned by any company outside the U.S.?

There are going to be those who say, well, Jeff, you're either in favor of the free market or you're against the the free market.

We believe in private ownership, but we don't want people involved except for the people who are involved in that business.

But

I believe

that there is

a very real concern.

And I'm not the only one who has this.

That if the United States of America does not protect businesses in the United States of America, we're going to see exactly what we saw during COVID.

We couldn't get anything because we didn't manufacture anything.

And we've thrown our lot in with some of the crazy people when it comes to these electric vehicles, which, by the way, do not save the planet and actually involve more petroleum usage in the manufacture than just standard internal combustion engines.

But we need to do something about this.

And I want you to peel off any animus you might have directed towards John Fetterman.

But we, as decent people, have to acknowledge he's right on this.

John Fetterman is right on this.

And U.S.

steel should be owned

by a U.S.

company.

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We're a couple of days out from Christmas.

And you know what's happened over, what, in the last

20 years?

I think it's about 20 years.

People all of a sudden have decided, well, we shouldn't say Merry Christmas.

Say happy holidays.

Well, you know, a lot of holidays going on, Jeff.

And each of those holidays is the same as the other holiday.

And so, therefore, if you say Merry Christmas to someone who's not celebrating Christmas, then they're going to be offended and terrible things will happen.

And so

we just don't say Merry Christmas.

And this has been examined and reviewed and

literally litigated throughout the years, right?

Well, I'm one of those guys who is thrilled, absolutely delighted when someone wishes me a Merry Christmas.

And I would share my words on this.

And I promise you, this is not a Claudine gay sort of a thing.

This is not a duplicative language or however they excuse that plagiarism.

I'm going to tell you exactly who wrote this.

And I am going to read it to you.

It's only a couple of lines, but I think it sums up exactly what I have felt for a long time.

There is

a cantor in the Philadelphia area.

His name is Scott Borski.

And Cantor Scott has what he calls a synagogue without walls.

He helps with life events, right?

Births, deaths, marriages, bar mitzvahs, bot mitzvahs.

And he doesn't have a

brick-and-mortar synagogue.

And he and I are friends on Facebook.

And you know how that is.

You're friends on Facebook.

And sometimes you think, I don't know if I actually even know this person because I've got, I have 5,000 friends on the one Facebook page.

And then there's 6,000 people following that page.

And then the other Facebook page has like 20,000 people.

And I swear to you.

I try to be nice.

I think I'm a relatively good person, but I don't have 5,000 friends.

But Scott Scott and I are friends on Facebook, and I'm trying to rack my brains, trying to remember how I may very well have known him from my time in Philadelphia.

But we are friends on Facebook.

And he had a post a couple of days ago, and I thought, wow, this is so spot on.

And it just,

it was exactly what I was feeling.

It's exactly what I am feeling.

So I just want to share this with you.

And again, full credit, Cantor Scott Borski from the greater Philadelphia area.

I think he's in South Jersey, as memory serves.

It says, his post says, this is certainly the week that Merry Christmas greetings have begun in abundance.

I've already received a handful on this rainy Monday, wrote it a couple of days ago.

He writes, as Christmas approaches, I'm Jewish, and I'm absolutely not offended when people wish me a Merry Christmas.

In fact, I love it.

I take no offense.

I never correct people who wish me a Merry Christmas.

They mean well and are blessing me and are being gracious and kind.

I thank them for their well wishes and I wish them a very Merry Christmas in response.

I do not make any PC statement,

tell them that I'm Jewish or embarrass them in any way.

Part of being Jewish and American is understanding that this country is mostly Christian.

So, if you don't know that I'm Jewish, a Merry Christmas greeting is just fine with me and welcomed.

I can never have too much merriment in my life.

Is that not spot on?

My gosh, that is perfect.

I want you to understand something.

The vast majority of people who you are told will be offended

are not actually offended.

We have a handful of people in this country who are not happy unless they are flipping miserable.

And the only way that they can be even more happy is to make more people more miserable.

How could anyone of any religion, any faith, any lack of faith, anything at all, be offended or hurt or insulted

if somebody took a couple of minutes to wish them a Merry Christmas?

I'm certainly not offended.

I think about friends.

And again, I'm not talking about 20,000 people on Facebook.

I'm talking about legitimate friends.

You know, friends, those are people you can call and say, hey, listen,

I've got a little situation here, and I don't want you to ask any questions, but I'm going to need you to meet me in the middle of the woods with

gloves and a shovel.

That's all I'm going to say.

Don't ask any other questions.

They go, okay.

That's a friend.

So I have friends, and I'll tell you what, I value their friendship.

And because we are friends,

I know the

personal faith

of the person

or the lack of faith.

I've got some friends who are

agnostic.

I've got some friends who are atheists.

I still don't understand that.

Honest to goodness, here I am.

I'm five decades into my existence here.

And as I gaze out my window,

I see grass and trees.

And

right now, clear skies and sunshine.

And for the life of me, I just can't figure out how you can look at that and say, yeah, I don't believe in God.

But another story for another day.

But I respect their opinions.

And so I

love Christmas cards.

I love sending Christmas cards.

And I love getting Christmas cards too, but I love sending them.

And I send them in a variety of different ways.

I have some folks I know who are more business acquaintances, if you will.

And I have Christmas cards designed for business interaction.

And I have some friends who are actually friends, but they kind of, they think it's kind of cool that they're friends with a guy who's on the radio.

And so I will send in many cases cards that have things that say like the Jeff Kat show or the website, you know, stuff like that, because it's cool for them.

And then I have friends who don't really care what it is that I do for a living,

but they, I think, like me as I like them.

And so I write out Christmas cards.

And my Christmas cards every year are the first ones that people get.

I don't don't know exactly when it started or how it started or why it started, but

Thanksgiving is the day that my Christmas cards go in the mail.

I always want my Christmas cards to be the first ones received.

That's kind of my game plan.

And I'm pretty good at it, actually.

I think I've done pretty well with that.

But I love sending those Christmas cards.

And I love getting notes from people saying, oh my gosh, Jeff,

I got your Christmas card.

It was the first one I got.

Thank you.

You're welcome, right?

That's the whole exchange.

It doesn't need to be more than that.

Do I send Hanukkah cards?

You betcha.

Absolutely, I do.

And I send them to people with whom I am friends.

And I know they're Jewish as I am.

And they're always the first Hanukkah cards that are received.

And that could be a little dicey because, you know, we're on the whole lunar calendar.

So Hanukkah could be the end of the month.

It could be at Thanksgiving.

I mean, we got a lot of options with that one, but nonetheless, they are always the first Hanukkah cards that people get.

And it's the same thing.

Oh, Jeff, I got your Hanukkah card.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

I love opening up the

mailbox.

getting Christmas cards.

I know some have moved to

the virtual Christmas card stuff through email.

Maybe it's an age thing.

And after my generation, maybe people don't even think about writing out cards anymore.

I don't know.

But to me, it's not the same getting it online.

It's not the same getting it virtually, no matter how fancy it is or how you, quote, have to open it or any of that stuff.

Just not the same to me.

But I want you to know that I, just like Cantor Scott Borsky outside of of Philadelphia,

I appreciate everybody who wishes me a Merry Christmas.

I appreciate every single solitary person who takes time out of their day

to say to me, Merry Christmas.

Whether I'm celebrating Christmas or not is irrelevant.

They could just as easily have said, hey, you, here's your receipt, get out.

Okay.

They could have said any number of other things that I've heard through the years.

But Merry Christmas is about as

pure

and kind and gracious and polite and caring as you can possibly get.

I cannot think

of very many phrases that are

more heartfelt,

that are more meaningful

than Merry Christmas.

You know,

I am a northerner by birth, but a southerner by choice.

I got here as quickly as I could.

And I just want you to know, if you're not from the South,

if somebody says to you, well, bless your heart, it does not mean what you may think it means.

So if they say Merry Christmas, you are good to go.

If they say bless your heart,

you might be Joe Biden.

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A couple of days before Christmas,

yesterday, right?

Yeah, yesterday, I said, we try and do experiences now.

That's the thing that Heidi and I have tried to figure out for ourselves.

And I would invite you to do that.

Not that you have to provide an experience for me, but provide an experience for yourself.

Invest in yourself.

I talked about some of the things that I've done over the last year or two, right?

Hey,

I love speaking and coaching and helping people.

And I said, well, I got to get some

real credibility there.

I need some training.

I need some insight.

And so I've done things with Zig Ziglar's organization and John Maxwell's organization, signed up for this great program with Dr.

Jordan Peterson.

And the thing I want to do this year, 2024, well, I have two things I want to do this year, this new year coming up.

May or may not be crazy, but I thought I'd share them with you.

Number one,

I'm trying to help a friend of mine who is a local sheriff here in Central Virginia.

Guy's name is Carl Leonard.

He's a sheriff of an area called Chesterfield County.

And Carl is just like, he's like three of the best people that I know.

And every year, he raises money for Special Olympics with the polar plunge.

And they do polar plunges all over America, right?

Now, the one for us in Virginia is held out at Virginia Beach, and it is cold when they go in that water.

Carl is originally from Buffalo, New York, so I don't think he even is aware that it's cold here.

It's all relative.

But every year he takes a team of his deputy sheriffs from Chesterfield County and he goes with them.

They call themselves the Super Sickles.

And they head out to Virginia Beach and they go in the water and they raise money for Special Olympics.

They do an amazing job.

So Special Olympics is kind of near and dear to my heart.

I love Special Olympians.

I love what Special Olympics has been able to do through the years.

And so I said, you know, I think I should probably be on your team this year if you would take an outsider, right?

I'm not a deputy sheriff in Chesterfield County.

Oh, not deputy sheriff anywhere, but

could I be on the team?

And he said, yes, you absolutely could.

We would love that.

So I said, okay, well, count me in.

And then here's what happened.

Heidi got herself

a brand new shoulder.

So for 90 days, I'm kind of sort of housebound helping her.

And so I can't do this polar plunge

but carl came up with this idea and it was a little crazy when he first pitched it but then i thought no this is this is good carl said if he was able to raise ten thousand dollars he would get the special olympics logo tattooed on himself live like on a facebook live cast last year he ate some oh some bizarre twisted hot pepper thing and raised a lot of money.

So I said, Yeah, well, that is so cool.

I said, Well, you know, I'll get one too.

He said, You will?

And then I thought, Oh,

yeah, yeah, I'll get one, but we got to raise $15,000.

So

that's one of the things I would like to do this year.

I would like to help him raise that money.

I really would.

I'd love to help raise that kind of money for Special Olympics.

And if he does it,

then at $15,000, I too will get a Special Olympics logo tattooed on me live on a Facebook livecast.

So if that's something you want to help me make come true, then by all means, find Carl Leonard on the Special Olympics Virginia page, and you can help us out.

That'd be great.

The other thing I want to do in 2024, talking about experiences,

and I talk about these things.

you know, Ziegler and Maxwell and Peterson and all that sort of stuff.

I've become something of a Tony Robbins Robbins fan.

And I haven't done as much with the Tony Robbins stuff as I've done with the others.

But I thought, well, yeah,

I think 2024, God willing, is the year I want to do one of those firewalks.

And I will have to find some way to tie it in with the charity because even I'm not crazy enough just to

do the firewalk.

But I've been looking at that.

You ever get hooked on something?

Because that's how I feel feel about that.

I've been watching the videos going, huh?

They seem to be having a good time.

Their feet have not burst into flame.

Oh, well, all right.

Most of their feet have not burst into flames.

And then you do a little research and there's all this science as to why it does work or it doesn't work or anything else.

And then, I don't know.

But that's just one of those things I'm thinking in the year 2024, I would like to do.

I've got a story I've got to share with you and your head is darn near going to explode.

There is a student in Seattle, Washington, who failed an exam in school

because, well, he said that only women can get pregnant.

In other words, in the year 2023,

telling the truth

is against the rules.

Telling the truth is darn near against the law.

Telling the truth will get you a failing grade on a biology quiz.

He marked two statements as true,

including one that said only women can get pregnant.

The teacher marked that wrong.

He marked another one that said men have penises.

The teacher marked that as wrong well, as well.

I thought, well, that's a problem.

But that, whether you and I realize it fully before now, that is exactly what is going on in high schools, in middle schools, in elementary schools, and Lord, we know in colleges as well.

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Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn.

A couple of days on front of Christmas Day.

You know what happens?

We're all wrapping up the year

and we're all thinking about what we've done.

What do we accomplish this year?

What are we going to do next year?

Of course, the first two weeks of January, the best time ever to stay away from gyms.

When I had an active gym membership, I was there just about every morning.

And

first two weeks of January, I just took off.

Why?

Because first two weeks of January is just crowded with everybody.

Oh, I'm going to lose 100 pounds this week and I'm going to march 82 miles today.

I just got to

get new sweats and I'll be all good.

And they'd all be in the gym and they'd be there for, well, one day for the most part.

By two weeks out, just about everybody had left.

And then you'd go back.

But you look back on the year as well.

What did you accomplish this year?

What did you achieve this year?

Did you do this?

Did you do that?

Well, there was a question that was asked of Admiral John Kirby.

Kirby is what?

The national security spokes flak for the Biden administration.

And Kirby, I think, is an interesting guy because during the entire

war that has erupted as a result of Hamas, despicable, bottom-feeding terrorist thugs slaughtering 1,200-plus innocent Israelis on October the 7th, John Kirby has actually stood up

and called reporters out for being nitwits and explained what the term genocide means.

They tried to explain what war involves.

So I've...

I don't know that I'm going to be sending him a Christmas card next year, but I do have a little more respect for him having taken those positions and zent things that he said.

Well,

he was asked,

he was just asked to name the biggest foreign policy achievement.

Just one, just one, just name the biggest foreign policy achievement for the Biden administration in the year 2023.

And as cut eight illustrates, he's got a little troubled with that.

Since we don't get to ask him ourselves, we would have last night maybe if he'd stuck around a little while.

What would the President say is his foreign policy achievement of the year?

There's a lot that we've achieved in foreign policy and Corine's already

made sure that

you know that we're running late and I don't want to belabor this so this answer could go on for like 20 minutes.

But I mean from the Indo-Pacific and the Quad and Akasteel to get Australia nuclear-powered submarine capability to what we've done with supporting Ukraine, pushing back, they've clawed back more than 50% of the territory that Russia took in the early months of the war.

You think they, you know, obviously they did that through courage and bravery on the field, but they certainly did that with the United States support.

Look at what Israel has been able to do to put pressure on Hamas in the wake of the worst terrorist attack

that they've ever succumbed to.

I mean, I could go on and on.

There has been, I think if I had to bucket into one thing,

one of the most important things he's done on the foreign policy front is shore up and revitalize our vast network of alliances and partnerships.

No other nation in the world has that kind of a network at their disposal the way the United States does.

And our leadership on the world stage is stronger because he took the time to invest in those relationships, many relationships that had been let lapse by the previous administration.

So

because he's like a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party and their friends over in Ukraine, Burisma et al.,

that's his accomplishment for the year?

Man.

You know, that's the sort of stuff I wouldn't talk about.

Jeff, how's the diet going?

Hey, put on 36 pounds last year.

It's going great.

It's the sort of thing you avoid.

Joe Biden and his reign of error have resulted in more conflicts around the world than we saw during the four years of President Trump.

Did you notice what didn't happen while Donald Trump was president?

Wars like this.

Do you think that Vladimir Putin just decided that he wanted Ukraine?

Like in the last year or so, sitting around the Kremlin,

picking the

red, white, and blue MMs out of the bowl and then just putting the red MMs back in, right?

Going,

you know what I want for, well, we don't celebrate Christmas.

Well, I want for something around this time of year.

I want Ukraine.

I've always wanted a vacation home there.

You think that's what happened?

Or do you think Vladimir Putin, who has been one way or another on the world stage for a long time

during President Trump's term said, yeah,

I would love to take Ukraine.

And you'll remember when Obama

was the president of the United States, Barack Obama, you remember him, right?

What did Putin do then?

Did any damn thing he wanted to because he knew that Barack Obama and Joe Biden, that whole gang in the White House, they were weak people.

They weren't going to do anything.

And they didn't.

I think Barack Obama ordered the airlifting of blankets as memory serves.

That was it.

So Vladimir Putin, for four years, looks at Donald Trump and says, man,

I'm not going to mess around.

And you may think,

Trump was crazy, because that was what a lot of people said.

You know that.

You heard it, same as I did.

People, he's just nuts.

Okay, you know what?

I'll take nuts over a week.

I really will.

The perception of nuts, because I don't think Donald Trump is nuts in any sense of the word.

He's not a crazy guy at all.

I think he's pretty doggone smart.

But Vladimir Putin looked at him, and whether Vladimir Putin said, well, he's really tough, so I don't want to mess around with him, or he's really nuts.

I don't want to mess around with him.

Either way, he didn't mess around.

And Vladimir Putin behaved himself for four solid years.

As soon

as Joe Biden shuffled into the Oval Office, man, Vladimir Putin said, oh, there we go.

Ukraine's going to have a going-out of business sale and I want me some.

That's what he did.

What about over in the Middle East?

Do you remember what President Trump did?

Do you remember the Abrahamic Accords?

Now, you won't hear it from the

bootlickers and the bottom feeders in the ranks of the legacy news media, but the fact of the matter is that Donald Trump brought peace to the Middle East in a way that has never, ever been done before.

And what happens when Joe Biden's in office?

Well, he continues the Obama policy of giving money to the mad mullahs in Tehran.

$6 billion?

Where they promise not to use it for bad stuff.

Oh, okay.

Well, as long as you got the promise from them, I guess we're all good, right?

Yeah, they did.

They'd like the double pinky swore and everything.

They're not going to use it for bad stuff.

All right.

$6 billion

to Iran.

Think about that.

And Hamas, which, in case you don't know, is the proxy army for Iran,

decides they got a lot of money.

Oh,

I know they didn't get any of that $6 billion,

but they got $6 billion other dollars that were then replaced in the bank account by those $6 billion.

That is called diplomacy.

And then they launched their latest

war against Israel.

And B.B.

Netanyahu said, no.

Because this is more than just

a battle, a war

with a nation and a proxy army and the rest of that.

This is a war for the survival of the Jewish people.

That's what's going on now.

And I will tell you, B.B.

Netanyahu, whether you like his personality or you like his politics or you agree with this or disagree with that baby netanyahu has on him right now

one of the heaviest burdens

that any man has ever had

he has on his shoulders now

a war for the survival of the jewish people

i can sit here in central virginia surrounded by great people I can't tell you how many friends I have who have said, well, you know, Jeff, we've got your back.

We've got your six.

We're there for you.

I decorated our house for Hanukkah this year like I've never done in 50 some odd years, ever.

Because I believe in the phrase never again.

I was a...

a JDL member when I was a teenager because I believe in never again.

Bibi Netanyahu has all of that on his shoulders right now.

And he's not getting helped by Joe Biden.

He's not getting helped by anybody in the Biden White House, but he's still doing because he has to.

It's an amazing, challenging situation.

Should we pay tribute to St.

Mary's College in Indiana?

St.

Mary's College in Indiana has now announced that as a Catholic women's college, they will only be admitting women to the class, to the college, which, by the way, should not be news.

It's a women's college.

However, well, you know where this started, right?

A couple of months ago, the college announced they would allow,

quote, transgender women, which is a two-word phrase that means guy,

into their college.

And then the women who attend St.

Mary's College and the parents of the women who attend St.

Mary's College and the graduates of St.

Mary's College who are women and their husbands have all stood up and said, no.

And now St.

Mary's College has said,

whoops,

don't worry about it.

We're calling a mulligan on that one.

So there you have it.

There is a solution to global warming.

I'm going to share that with you in just a moment.

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It is Jeff Catz in for Glenn.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Ever since he tried the rough greens for the first time, my dog Uno has changed.

He's a completely different dog.

I hear from people all the time in the audience.

I mean, hundreds and hundreds of letters have come in who have had the same experience with their dog.

They've heard me talk about rough greens on the show, they get some from themselves.

And as soon as they sprinkle it on the dog's food, the dog literally wolfs it down.

And it's really good for him.

It's not a dog food.

It's just chock full of vitamins, minerals, and probiotics, and omega oils that you sprinkle.

Your dog needs these things to be healthy.

My dog was easy from the first time he tried rough greens.

Uno was in love.

Some dogs take a little bit to get used to the new flavor, though.

Dr.

Dennis Black, the inventor of Rough Greens, was on the phone with me last week.

He doesn't want that to be a reason for you not to try.

So, right now, he's got a special gift available.

You can get a free bag of rough greens for your dog just to try out.

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It is the Glenn Beck program.

Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in

for Glenn.

There is a solution to global warming.

Even if you don't believe in global warming, and quite frankly, I

call these things seasons.

You know, sometimes it's warmer, sometimes it's colder, but there is a brand new study by something called the Center for Ecology and Hydrology.

It's located in Edinburgh, Scotland.

It said that methane and nitrous oxide in the air we exhale makes up 0.1%

of the greenhouse gas emissions.

And that

when you're accounting for,

well,

flatulence and burping.

Human beings are fueling the

climate crisis, the global warming, by also exhaling.

And you cannot overlook it, they say.

We would urge caution in the assumption that emissions from humans are negligible.

All right.

We report only emissions in breath in this study.

So they are telling you that

burping and, you know, the other stuff, that's putting all sorts of emissions into the air and we're doing terrible things.

But just breathing,

in fact, is

increasing global warming.

And so let's not kid ourselves.

What is the message here?

Stop breathing.

If only human beings would stop with this selfish respiration, respiration.

My God,

we could cure ourselves of this fictional climate change nonsense.

All you've got to do is stop breathing.

Why are you so selfish?

Please think, think about the planet.

Think about Al Gore.

Think about

something.

Did you watch Julia?

The first season I thought was a great show for the most part.

It's about Julia Child.

It's one of of those shows that Heidi and I can actually watch together.

Left to my own devices, all I would watch would be documentaries about prisons and

crime sprees.

And left to her own devices, she would watch nothing but

tedious costume dramas set in England.

But the Julia show, and I forget what network it's on,

is something we can both watch.

But here's the problem with it: they have one main character who is purely fictional,

and as we've headed into the second season of Julia, it is now all, it seems, focused on this one fictional character who's responsible for Julia Child's success, everything that ever went right, all of these great things with Julia Child.

Do I need to tell you that the fictional character happens to be a

black woman?

how do we just start adding fictional characters to things that are supposed to be biographies that are supposed to tell the true story of someone

but with your brand new woke view you change everything

and all the success comes from a fictional character makes no sense to me follow me if you would please say merry christmas jeff cat show on x the jeff cat show on facebook JeffKatz.us.

It is Jeff Catz in for Glenn.

This is the Glenn Beck program.