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You know, Stu, I think the best thing you said on today's show was

that was, yeah.

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wow.

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Today, we kind of go over

what happened on Friday at the summit.

People are still talking about it.

It's changing the media.

The mainstream media is really, truly over.

And how did the candidates do?

What did we learn?

We knew the New York Times learned, it's all about Jesus.

Uh-huh.

And Vladimir Putin.

All the Jesus people love Vladimir Putin.

So they really, I think they watched all of none of it.

But you'll get all of it here on the Glenbeck program.

Also, it's a special day, kind of hit me hard in the middle of the program.

My son's going to college and he left in the middle of the program.

So kind of a

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So, Stu, I have to start with this because this is

something that is really heavy on my heart

and going to happen in the next hour.

And

it's going to affect everything I do today because I'm a little scatter-brained because of this.

My mouth is dry because of this.

Do you remember the day, Stu, do you remember the week of shows

that

happen in North Richland Hills in Texas, just outside of Dallas?

And

they were my wife and I going down to this little town called North Richland Hills.

And

this very, very brave young girl, I think she was 15,

who had found herself pregnant.

And

she wanted to have the baby, but

she couldn't abort the baby, and she didn't know how to give the child up.

And that day, when her mother found out she was pregnant, she happened to be listening to this program.

And Tanya and I had been looking to adopt a child.

And

what's amazing is

Tanya came on that day, and we were talking about some reality show where you could adopt a child.

And I said, would you ever be on that show?

She says, no, you don't adopt them through television game shows.

And

this woman who is in Texas, she just laughed and thought, I like that lady.

And then her daughter called her and said, Mom, I couldn't face you.

I had to stop at a payphone and call you and tell you that I'm pregnant.

She said, come home.

Now, I had had a dream about a year before, maybe two years before, when Tanya and I were trying to get pregnant.

And I never figured out how that worked.

But anyway,

I thought I knew, but she said, no, that's not the way we do it.

Anyway,

so

about two years before, I said,

I think we're supposed to adopt.

Because in my prayer, I heard,

adopt.

Because we were both, I said to her over and over again, I can't wait to see your eyes in a child.

And

in my prayers, I thought I heard something along the lines of, you ego maniac, it's not about you.

Adopt.

and so when i told tanya she said no

i want to have a child

and uh so i went back to prayer and i said okay it's her it's not me i'm i'm on your side god

she's crazy

and i heard in my prayers

when you are ready when she is ready A baby boy will rush to you.

The week we talked about it on the air

is the week

that that baby boy rushed to us

and I has I have been convinced that he was going to be a leader of men and he was

always

against that Because he grew up in my family and he sees what happens to leaders in this country,

and he sees how people treat

leaders that they disagree with.

And

ever since he was a little boy, I stopped saying it to him because he would say, No, no, no, no, no, and he'd get very upset.

I'm not going to be a leader, I'm not going to be a leader.

No, I'm not a leader of men.

I don't want that.

He wanted to be Aaron,

not Moses.

And

I said, well, we'll just see what God has in store.

Fast forward

three years ago,

my son is picked up by a friend of his in the summer.

And

when I say picked up, I mean literally picked up.

His friend is a lineman and picked him up and said, I'm signing you up for football.

And Rafe said,

okay.

Now we have, you know me.

I mean, yes, I'm Mr.

Sportscaster.

And it would be hard for you to believe that I don't know anything at all about any sport.

I mean, you know, I know probably my dad played golf, so I know, you know, like if you get an eagle, That means an eagle picked up your ball on the fairway and dropped it into the little bucket thing there.

You know, double eagle means it took two of them.

Maybe they were tossing them back and forth with their claws.

I don't know.

But

my son tried out in Texas for football.

And

the coach pulled him off the field at the tryouts and said,

back,

come in.

And he looked at him seriously and he said,

have you ever even watched this game before?

And Rafe honestly said, no, sir, I really, no,

I haven't.

And he said, okay, and you want to play it?

And he's like, well, yes, sir, I'd like to try.

So they kept him on the team, kind of like, I don't know, kind of the mascot for a while.

But he worked and worked and worked and worked and worked.

And he became the head of special teams.

And when I say special teams, let's not question that too much, okay?

But

he was the head of special teams, and

they went all the way to the championship.

They lost, and I told him before they played the game, son, if you do lose, please don't ever become Uncle Rico, where you're sitting in your van in a field and you say, you know, if they would have just given it to me, I could have thrown it over those mountains there.

And he took the loss,

and that was his senior year.

And then he said to me, I want to go to college for football.

And I said, oh,

you know, maybe Texas A ⁇ M.

I'm like, oh, okay, okay, all right.

And I want to play in the NFL.

Okay, all right.

Now, all I'm hearing in my head is my father, as I said to him, I want to be a big broadcaster someday.

I'm 13 years old.

And he's like, oh, okay, all right.

And

I want to be on the radio.

I'm going to apply for a job to be on the radio.

Oh, okay, all right.

And what did my dad say?

Well, do you need a ride?

Yeah, dad, because I can't drive.

And he drove me to the appointments and he took me.

And I, looking back now, know he had to have thought, oh my gosh, what is this kid doing?

This is not going to, this is going to leave a mark.

This isn't going to work out.

But he took me and he would eventually before I was 15 I lived about 90 miles north of Seattle and I got a job at 15 years old

In Seattle at KUBE and it was the number one station in Seattle and my dad would drive me

every time 90 minutes wait for the broadcast to be over and then drive me back

So what am I going to say?

You'll never make it, son.

You'll never make it.

So

let me just tell you, long story short, what's happening.

After the

really amazing summit that we had on Friday, which we're going to get into in here a second,

I took my son to a university

where he had been talking to a coach,

friend of a friend of a friend,

just talking to this coach,

and he'd been talking to him on the phone for like a couple of weeks, he and the other coaches.

And he says, Dad, they want to meet me, and they're thinking about making me

a coach for

as the offensive coordinator.

I'd be his, you know, number two guy.

And I and I said, oh,

huh, that's uh, did you tell them that you hadn't really known anything about football two years ago?

And he said, Oh, are you kidding me?

Are you thinking I'm stupid?

Of course I did.

And I said, like, really told them that when you did watch the Super Bowl, we were really watching it for the commercials.

And he laughed and he said, that's exactly what I told them, Dad.

And I said, okay.

So I took my son to the summit, and then we flew to this university on Saturday.

And I watched my son

become a man.

And I watched him in the film room as they were putting X and O's and

drawing.

I'm thinking, you guys really need an art school here because those X's and O's, they could be, you could really draw the players so much better than that.

But

he's drawing the X, they're drawing the X's and O's, and my son is like, ooh, that's sneaky.

Because you want what you're trying to get defense to think is this, this, and this.

And he's talking about and keeping up with him, and I just couldn't believe him.

I couldn't just couldn't believe it.

And I

thought of my dad,

how great it is to have been raised

by a man

who said you can do whatever you set your mind to?

Of course, those are in the days before Simon Cowell, but

you can do whatever you set your mind to.

So, my son

is

leaving the ranch and flying back home today and packing his stuff up

and will be hitting the road

to be coach back.

You have been there.

Many have been here

when

you heard that Tanya and I were

trying to have a baby, and I probably shared too much about how that can just become icky after a while.

How we prayed and prayed and prayed, and then how Rafe came to us.

You've heard the probably

more of the struggles than the

good things, especially in the last couple of years.

I thought it was only right

today

to tell you if you're still in those struggle parts

or if you're still struggling to have a baby.

There is nothing you will do in your life

that is worth more than raising a child.

There is nothing harder, there is nothing more heartbreaking,

and there is nothing more glorious.

I thought you should know

that that little baby we adopted

today has become a man

you're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program all right so I uh

I gotta tell you the press is so

out of

touch This is from the New York Times.

Tucker Carlson turns a Christian presidential forum into a Putin showcase.

Jesus is out.

Vladimir Putin is in.

Did you hear that from any candidate or anything like that from anyone on stage

at the summit Friday, Stu?

Anyone?

Of course not.

No, I did not hear that.

Right.

Right.

In fact, everybody led with, who was anti-war, I don't like Putin.

Putin's not a good guy, but I don't think, you know, the Ukrainian president is really a good guy either.

And I went as far as saying, and I don't think at this time we're on the right side we're the good guys so i don't want to send my kids to a war where i can't identify the good guy no

but they they made it sound like it was nothing but a rah-rah

for president putin which it it wasn't um i'm going to get into some of those things here in a second but i i really wanted to spend some time on tucker carlson because We spent a couple of days with Tucker Carlson, and there is something happening, and this should give you great great

great hope

he said a few years ago i'm sorry a few months ago he's episcopalian and he was so funny when he was telling it he's like

you know i didn't even know there was a bible i'm an episcopalian i mean we don't use we don't use that whatever

and uh he said so i started reading it he said i i i just had the feeling a few months ago that i should start reading it he said so i finished the new testament and he said, that's amazing.

The way he was telling it is so funny.

When you, somebody who has actually, actually

read it and is interested in reading it, all of the things that they find that they discover, he's like, this is the greatest.

It's such a great story.

Why are we hiding this?

And then he started on the Old Testament and he is in Leviticus now, which is also fun, but he's actually enjoying it.

In talking to him over a few days, I just want you to know

God is using him.

There is something

different about Tucker Carlson.

And it, you know, we were not the best of friends 10 years ago.

We didn't really know each other.

We respected each other for what we had done, but we disagreed on a lot of stuff and vehemently 10 years ago on a lot of stuff.

That has changed.

And I think it became because I started really watching him then in Fox News.

He started really listening to me.

And we heard

the

core principles behind what we believe.

And

God is using him.

He has moved on him greatly.

Please add Tucker to your prayers.

Something really good is going to come of

what Tucker is doing, I think.

He gets it unlike,

let's say

I met with four people

in the last

three weeks.

And I've met probably 15,000 people.

And I've met with four that I think absolutely 100%

get it.

They know it from all of its angles.

Tucker is one of them.

He was very, very clear on things when he was asking, I think it was Nikki Haley.

He said, hey, did we blow up the Nord stream?

That's something I would ask.

But I wondered as he asked it, if I were Nikki Haley,

if I would answer that as a presidential candidate, just because of the ramifications

of that as a presidential candidate.

So I asked Tucker on this.

Here's what he said in our one-on-one interview, Cut One.

You said something that I absolutely believe,

and it is crazy to say it now.

I think we absolutely blew up the Nord Stream pipeline.

Of course we did.

Yeah, absolutely did.

Well, yeah, and I think it's a big deal.

I mean, on many levels, it was an environmental catastrophe.

I mean, like a profound environmental catastrophe.

It was also an act of vandalism, which I'm against.

You should build things, not destroy them.

It was also an attack on infrastructure, and more than anything, it was an attack on our closest NATO ally, Germany, which used that pipeline to fund its entire manufacturing center.

We just attacked our ally.

I know.

This is insane behavior.

And I don't know why no one's been held accountable.

Yes, we did it, whether it was through Poland or Norway.

A NATO nation did it with our assistance and approval.

And like everyone knows it, everyone's afraid to say so.

Why?

I don't know why.

Can you say that?

I just did.

Well, no, but I mean, I mean, I'm unemployed.

I can do it whenever I want.

I mean, as a...

I mean, what are the ramifications of...

Thank God

that Russia has not retaliated.

This is the worst act of war I have ever seen us make, right?

So, and it's crazy.

It's the kind of like late-stage hubris on display with people.

It's all of it.

It really is.

Like, I'm God.

I can do whatever I want.

There are no consequences.

The rules don't apply to me.

And when you adopt that attitude, when there's no humility at all or long-term thinking, this is, you know, people who don't have like a stake in the future, like 80-year-old presidents, they just don't care.

And when they start to behave like that, you can actually wreck the whole thing.

You can take a country down doing stuff like that, in my opinion.

I talked to him about the media, you know,

completely determined to suppress the truth.

Listen.

And I really thought, Tucker, and I don't know if you were, if there was a turning point with you,

there was with me when I realized, oh my gosh, none of these people in the media actually care or are intellectually curious at all.

They're just

kyping away, doing their thing, reading a prompter.

Nobody is actually,

because I really thought if I could make the case, which you did every night, you were making a great, solid case.

And if you are intellectually curious and you disagree, you go, well that can't be right.

Let me look it up.

Let's do some investigative work on what he just said.

They don't do that.

And that shocked me.

Shocked me.

But then you have to wonder why.

So it's like

no one in Washington or in the media is ever triggered, is ever outraged by a lie.

So I can come out here and tell the most preposterous lies, say the most lunatic things.

You know, climate, you're driving a suburban is causing more hurricanes in Florida.

Well, they say that every

fall.

Right.

And it's like insane.

There's like, there's no evidence that that's true.

There's a ton that's evidence that's not true.

Nobody cares.

But when you say something true,

that's actually true, completely true, people become hysterical and call for your murder.

and certainly call for your deplatforming.

So then, what conclusion do you reach?

The media are completely determined to suppress the truth.

The true things that matter.

That's kind of why they exist.

They are the gatekeepers that prevent people from saying out loud the truest things.

Cut three.

Here's Tucker on what he saw at the summit and the candidates that I found surprising.

When you got up this morning, did you imagine that you would see not one, but two presidential candidates light themselves on fire in front of you.

When I get up this morning, as every morning when I wake up, I don't imagine anything.

I haven't had a drink in 21 years and every single morning I wake up hungover.

I feel like I've had a quart of stole and a six pack of some rotten beer.

I just feel horrible in the morning.

Every morning.

And so I put my pants on, I shuffled downstairs, I got coffee, and

so I didn't think about it at all until I was seated across from

Senator Scott, who was the first.

And I really like, I mean, I like them all.

Like, politicians are super charming.

Like,

they're good with people.

That's why they're in this business.

So I like all of them.

But no,

I do think that Republican voters or the system controlled by the Republican Party doesn't ask a lot of a lot of its candidates.

It's like enough to say certain, to repeat certain bumper stickers from the 80s.

peace through strength, lower taxes, whatever.

I'm for all that, by the way.

But they don't, like, no one ever gets pushed very hard.

Right.

And so it doesn't take much.

I was certainly not acting out of hostility, but if you're just like, well, what do you mean?

Uh,

answer the question,

and then people are like, Oh, you're so mean, really?

You're trying to run my country, yeah, do you know what I mean?

Yeah,

it's like I live here, I have four children, I can't go anywhere.

Like, what do you mean?

You're trying to run the country, and you're mad that I'm like trying to get you to be more precise about your answers that you should have memorized already, right?

Because you're presuming to represent me.

last cut this is uh tucker in my uh special on blaze tv you can watch it it's uh about i think it's just over an hour tucker and i just having a one-on-one

uh he went on to talk about mike pence what he was most surprised about with mike pence listen to this the mike pence religious freedom stuff i i have to say you know spun me up it did it did i you can't can't be like well i'm for religious freedom except for like priests who say things the government disagrees with.

They can be arrested.

Huh?

And it'd be fine if it was almost any, and I'm holding him to an unfair standard, but if you hold yourself up as a Christian leader who's in favor of religious freedom, well, then you kind of have to defend religious freedom, whether it's popular or not.

It's not, no freedom, nobody, nobody has to defend my right to say, chocolate's delicious.

Yeah.

Okay?

If it's popular, you have to, and I don't think even our side understands that.

I stand, I was,

when Bill Maher said, you know, I think the

Saudi or the hijackers were brave, braver than our five fighter pilots.

I disagreed with that 100%.

But when ABC fired him, I stood up for him and said, what part of politically incorrect don't you understand?

Make sure you go to Blazemediasummit.com.

Blazemediasummit.com.

You can see the whole summit.

It is so well worth it when you're watching.

If you're looking for the right candidate, I think this is the best format I've ever seen.

And

I've heard that everywhere, including social media and in person.

Everybody was like, I've been to these things before.

I mean, I be honest with you, Ricky said, would you please not be a grump?

She's my executive television producer.

She said, would you please not be a total grump?

You know, when you get on the air.

And I'm like, No, I just want you to know I don't want to be here.

This is the last place anyone should want to be on a Friday, spending all day with a bunch of politicians listening to them campaign.

But I'm a professional.

But I actually, by the end of the day, had really enjoyed it because I learned so much.

Make sure you go to Blazemediasummit.com and watch it.

And Blaze TV also has the Tucker Carlson interview with me.

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They are a valued partner at Blaze Media, and they helped with the Iowa Summit.

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could we borrow one they were like it's already in the truck ready to go take it i mean they they were really amazing and we couldn't have done it without them so thank you nelco media um stu we were we're talking about the politics of what happened on friday at the uh blaze uh media summit uh and uh

It is something that has happened in Iowa all the time.

The Family Leadership Council puts this on, but it's usually not covered by the mainstream media like we covered it.

And it became the, you know, I believe it was the number one trend on Friday, and I'm still seeing newspaper reports and everything else about it today.

But we haven't even had a chance to talk.

We left, went our separate ways shortly after the

summit and really haven't a chance to decompress from it.

Can we go through all of the candidates that were there?

And

I'd like to hear your opinion on did they help or hurt themselves?

And what was the most important thing we learned?

Sure.

We started with Asa Hutchinson.

I think we can.

No, no, no, let's start at the beginning.

Let's start with Tim Scott.

He was the first one.

That's right.

Oh, yeah.

Tim Scott was first.

That's right.

Tim Scott was first.

And Scott is an interesting candidate.

I generally like Tim Scott.

I think he's

with 100% certainty the best senator from South Carolina that we have by a very, very large margin.

Large margin.

It's almost like Biden is in the other seat.

I can't remember who is, but anyway, go to somebody else.

You know, he was, he, you know, he came in.

He has a more hawkish view on Ukraine, which he was pressed on significantly by Tucker during the interview.

You know,

the one thing you'd say about Tim Scott is that

he has sort of a quirky energy to him.

Like, he, I think some people really like it.

It shows a lot of optimism.

He has that sort of,

I don't know, that vibe, right?

Like he's out, he's he's he's not flustered by stuff.

He doesn't, he defended himself and defended his viewpoints.

It was, he had a little bit of a stylistic thing where he was starting the interview with Tucker.

He'd get the question, and then he'd sort of just stand up and address the crowd and walk around, which I thought was

a little odd.

It didn't, you know, he was the first one to go.

So it was a little bit strange.

Generally speaking, I don't think he helped or hurt himself.

I thought he did basically what I thought he would do.

He wasn't a standout performer, but I don't think he didn't blow himself up like some of the other candidates on stage by any means.

I thought he was fine, but didn't improve his standing all that much.

So I thought he helped himself only because he improved his stature of being there among the other presidential candidates and reminding them on

what his strong points are.

And his his strong points are belief in tomorrow, and he has evidence to back that up and

a strong defender of America in a very positive sort of way.

But he's not revolutionary enough for the times, and he's also,

I don't think he's ready to be president yet.

But I think he helped himself a little bit.

Asa Hutchinson.

Asa Hutchinson, suboptimal was the word I use to describe the Asa Hutchinson performance.

Did that go far enough?

It may be a little understated.

That was, look, Asa Hutchinson was already really out of step with the Republican voters.

He is at 0 or 1% in almost every poll.

So I think you can defend his appearance there, right?

Like there are other people who, you know, like Will Hurd didn't show up.

I don't know if he was invited, but like he's in the race.

He's at 0%.

Why wouldn't you go there and try to do something and move the needle?

You know, if you're, I don't know, Doug Bergum or there's a bunch of these guys that are in the race that didn't show, or I don't know, maybe they weren't invited,

but are really at the bottom of the scale and didn't wind up doing this.

Asa Hutchinson showed up.

He made his case.

His case is just one that the Republican voters don't like.

They really do think that the transgendering of children and irreversible surgeries and all that stuff is a problem.

You know, Asa didn't seem to think it was a problem.

He's very out of step.

And I think when people really realized that and saw it in front of them, it was, as you pointed out, a very Hindenburg-like event.

Yeah, I was just going to say,

let me describe it by playing Cut 17.

This is Asa Hutchinson.

Listen.

It bursts into flames.

Get it started.

Get this started.

It's fighting.

And it's driving.

It's driving terrible.

Oh, my.

Get out of the way, please.

It's burning, bursting into flames, and it's falling on the morning fast.

And all the folks believe that this is terrible.

This is one of the worst catastrophes in the world.

Oh, it seems to strike 20, oh, four or five hundred feet into the sky.

And it's a terrific crisis middle of the smoke and the flames now, and the frame is rising to the ground, not quite to the morning mass of humanity.

It was bad.

Now, luckily, nobody was hurt except those who were trying to finance his campaign uh they're in serious condition today uh then we go to mike pence and mike pence should have done very well the this is a group of religious people um and it's it's you know it's it's a religious group holding their conference we want to hear from you this is mike pence's this is his

uh these are his people Yeah, and of course, he definitely should have been there.

These are his people.

And, you know,

there was a back and forth about religious freedom with Tucker Carlson, in which Tucker Carlson was talking about some persecuted people, religious people in

Ukraine that had been allegedly persecuted by the government of Ukraine.

The disagreement there was...

stark because Tucker kept coming after him on this and Pence basically said he talked to people or he said he talked to a person on the ground in Ukraine who said it wasn't happening so he wasn't basically concerned about it.

You know, there has been reporting on this, you know, of course, a war zone.

It's always hard to know exactly what's going on, but that was uncomfortable.

And then it went to the actual Ukraine war where Pence is pretty hawkish.

And

that part of it, most of it I thought was interesting because Pence didn't back down.

They sort of had a disagreement.

He didn't try to...

uh worm his way out of it he stood up and basically said yeah i'm a real hawk on ukraine we're this is very much in our interest.

We should be spending this money.

We should be doing more.

And

it felt like something that may have happened 10 years ago in a Republican debate

where Tucker was pushing him from the other side.

They went back and forth.

At one point, he had a real gaffe, which Tucker was talking about, you know, hey, American cities are aflames here, in flames here, and you're worried about Ukraine.

Why?

And he said, that's not my concern.

We played the clip earlier.

Cut 17, please.

Cut 17.

Our economy has degraded, the suicide rate has jumped, public filth and disorder and crime have exponentially increased.

And yet your concern is that the Ukraine,

a country most people can't find on a map, who've received tens of billions of U.S.

tax dollars, don't have enough tanks.

I think it's a fair question to ask.

Like, where's the concern for the United States in that?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Cut 17 pushes.

And it's rising.

It's rising terrible.

Oh, my, get out of the way.

Okay, stop.

Because he responded to that question as, that's not my concern.

And it sounded like he wasn't concerned for American cities.

If you listen to the context of his answer, it's quite clear that's not exactly what he meant.

But I mean, like Kamala Harris saying the population thing.

You can't make mistakes like that.

So that was, it was a catastrophe for Pets, I thought.

Okay, so Nikki Haley.

Nikki Haley is about what I expected.

I thought she was kind of neutral.

The problem with Nikki Haley is he sounds like the candidate that would have been great in 2012.

She was,

and she didn't, to be fair, she didn't get a chance to talk about foreign policy, which is the one thing I would have wanted her to talk about.

But

she talked about,

you know.

pretty much everything else, I thought, except for that, which I thought was an odd choice, but for Tucker.

But

she just sounded

out of touch with what we're truly facing today.

Do you think that's too harsh?

It wasn't the sense I got.

Now, to be fair,

we had just seen Mike Pence, Asa Hutchinson, and Tim Scott.

And Tim, as we said, Tim Scott, we thought was okay, you know.

But then we had two sort of catastrophes in a row with Asa Hutchinson and Pence.

So then it came out to Haley.

I thought certainly, maybe it was a low hurdle to clear at the time, but I thought she did pretty well, actually.

And I do think a big part of that was Tucker's choice in not really questioning her on Ukraine.

Now, again, she has a pretty standard 2012 view of that view situation.

She's relatively hawkish, but they didn't get into that topic at all.

And they didn't get into the topic about the Disney situation where she was talking about, hey, I want to invite Disney to South Carolina.

Those are the two things I thought she was sort of vulnerable on.

Because they didn't go in those directions.

I thought she handled herself really well, actually.

I thought she helped herself, generally speaking.

It wasn't a breakout performance, but I thought it was a helpful performance for her candidacy.

Yeah, you might say that.

The only reason why I said it was neutral is because that's what I expected her to do.

She's a good candidate.

She's a good candidate.

Tim Scott is too.

They're both good candidates.

Yeah.

And I thought they were, I grouped them together.

I thought they were right around the same area.

Maybe Haley a little bit better.

You thought maybe Scott was a little bit better, but I thought they were right around the same area there.

So Vivek was the first time that I saw a, and maybe not this time, but maybe next time,

a future president of the United States.

And maybe this time.

I mean, he's growing rapidly

in stature.

You know, I would expect somebody like Vivek generally to do, you know, 1%.

the first time he's out.

He's not.

He's doing fairly well in the polling.

In some polls, one poll has him up to 10%.

Let's see how those hold and let's see what really happens.

But he was young, energetic, really buttoned up on all of the issues.

Very, very clean

as far as his messages.

There wasn't a lot of political speak and gobbledygook.

I thought he just delivered it.

He's good at this, Glenn.

He's good at this.

He's good at doing this.

And if you don't, what you didn't see on stage or in the interview that Glenn did with Vivek right after his

performance in the Tucker interview, he's also backstage working the crowd.

He knows how to do this.

He's good at it.

He was a good communicator before he started running for president, and he's fit into this role really well.

I think for a lot of people who probably had never seen him before or didn't know anything about him, if that was your first experience with him, you're probably pretty impressed.

Like the guy,

take out his policies, which some of you might like, some of which you don't.

We're just talking about performance here, and I think quite clearly he had one of the best performances of the weekend.

He's the type of person that is, I think, is breaking out as a candidate.

He's having a moment.

And we all knew it wasn't going to be a two-person race.

We all knew at some point someone in that other group was going to have a moment.

And it seems like this is the beginning of Viveks now.

Charlie Sheen is an icon of decadence.

I lit the fuse and my life turns into everything it wasn't supposed to be.

He's going the distance.

He was the highest paid TV star of all time.

When it started to change, it was quick.

He kept saying, no, no, no, I'm in the hospital now, but next week I'll be ready for the show.

Now, Charlie's sober.

He's going to tell you the truth.

How do I present this with any class?

I think we're past that, Charlie.

We're past that, yeah.

Somebody call action.

Aka Charlie Sheen, only on Netflix, September 10th.