New York City Is Dead | Guests: Tom Fitton & Dr. Robert Epstein | 8/19/20

August 19, 2020 2h 5m

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The Democrats’ DNC lies continue, as Bill Clinton speaks on the same day that photos dropped of him with one of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers. Entrepreneur James Altucher explains why he believes New York City is dead forever, but that it may be good for other cities. The world is up for grabs after COVID-19, so do we really want Joe Biden in charge? Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton discusses why mail-in voting fraud is a massive opportunity for Democrats. Dr. Robert Epstein’s Big Tech-monitoring system needs crucial funding in the fight against election manipulation. Glenn’s pre-COVID predictions have all come true. NASA is monitoring a strange anomaly, and an asteroid just barely missed Earth.
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I stand by the

charge I made yesterday that the DNC would have higher educational expectations of the audience of Sesame Street than they do of the audience of the DNC convention.

They are aiming so low.

They're aiming at people.

I mean, it just shows the contempt they have for their own voters and how stupid they think people really are.

Because

last night

was absolutely incredible.

Everything they stand for, yeah, we're for women.

You had Bill Clinton speak?

And Bill Clinton was talking about

behavior in the Oval Office.

Hello?

On the day the pictures come out of him being massaged by by a Jeffrey Epstein victim.

Isn't that incredible?

A tad.

A tad incredible anymore.

A tad incredible.

And it's as if the DNC doesn't think that people who vote Democrat are actually paying attention to the news at all, where they're saying, oh, yeah, the riots on the streets.

Oh, yeah, those are peaceful.

Those are peaceful.

Nobody believes that anymore.

Nobody believes that.

Everybody knows this is a riot now.

Everybody knows this is is Antifa.

These are people that are trying to destroy America, revolution, calling for revolution.

Everybody knows that now, except for apparently the Democratic Party, who is still trying to get you to deny what you're seeing.

Your four women deny what you're seeing on the screen.

You have Kamala Harris, who said she believed the accusers of Joe Biden of sexual harassment.

She believes them, and yet she says he's the guy to be.

Everybody else has to be canceled.

He's the guy that should be president.

Oh, and by the way, to talk about how you should behave in the Oval Office, here's Bill Clinton.

I mean,

wow.

Wow, is that incredible?

Let me play some audio of CNN where somebody actually had the guts to say,

how is it that Bill Clinton has survived the cancel culture?

Listen to this.

How is it that Bill Clinton has not been canceled by the Democratic?

How has he survived all of these waves of cancellation when he has been one of the biggest violators of these rules all these years?

I mean, we talked last night about this.

Listen, we talked about the use of character to try to say Donald Trump is a man of low character.

Joe Biden is okay, fine.

Trump is fine.

He's fair game on that.

That's totally fine.

So you're going to say that in one breath and then say, character matters.

Ladies and gentlemen, Bill Clinton.

I mean, does this make sense to anyone?

This has already been asked and answered decades ago.

The point is that Bill Clinton is excellent at explaining stuff, especially the things that matter to everyday people.

Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton.

So am I.

Why don't you have me up there with my chalkboard?

That's an unbelievable one.

Decades ago, the whole point of this Me Too thing doesn't matter.

So that it doesn't matter.

And we're going to, I mean, how many people have been busted on things that they did decades ago?

We haven't even talked about Epstein.

He's palling around with Epstein.

Yeah, again, that was decades ago, too.

I mean, he hasn't.

The other is we believe in redemption.

Okay, well,

you know, Donald Trump hasn't asked for forgiveness on anything.

Okay, so, you know, you got to have redemption.

Okay, Van, got it.

Got to have it.

What about all those people who have said, oh man, I made a horrible mistake.

It was a different time.

I would never do that today.

You don't forgive them.

What about all the white people that didn't own slaves?

In fact, no white people that I know, except for people like Epstein, have ever owned slaves.

What about redemption there?

Yeah.

You can't redeem white people, but you can redeem the first black president, Bill Clinton.

Oh, and by the way, don't you dare appropriate anybody's culture.

I mean, it's ridiculous.

I mean, Van Jones, I think, has a case where he can say, personally,

he believes in that.

But, I mean, when you talk about the Democratic Party, they don't.

They believe in redemption and really closer to ignoring anything from people on their side.

I'm surprised they even had Clinton there, to be honest with you.

I am surprised by that.

Especially after the Epstein photo came out that day.

But what are you going to do?

It's hard to pull him off then.

I mean, look, he's still a living president.

Usually they'll have those people at the conventions.

Though right now,

Clinton,

think of the former presidents right now.

I mean, obviously, Obama does his thing, but George W.

Bush isn't doing the Republican thing.

You know, was Carter at this?

Yeah, Carter was at this.

He was.

Not at this, but he was on this.

Right.

Yeah.

Nobody was at this.

Pretty much everybody in the Democratic leadership right now should not be going to any gathering.

That is.

Yeah.

They're all in the vulnerable category.

They're all about 309 years old.

Yeah.

Could we please play the

audio of John Kerry

talking about

the great foreign policy of Obama?

Hi, I'm John Kerry.

Hi.

For the eight years of the Obama-Biden administration, we led by example.

Did you?

We eliminated the threat of an Iran with a nuclear weapon.

We built a 68-nation coalition to destroy ISIS.

We forged a 195-nation agreement to attack climate change.

Oh,

climate change was solved.

Before it became a pandemic, Donald Trump inherited a growing economy and a more peaceful world.

And like everything else he inherited, he bankrupted it.

When this president goes overseas, it isn't a goodwill mission.

It's a blooper reel.

He breaks up with our allies and writes love letters to dictators.

Okay, stop.

America deserves this.

I can't take it.

I mean, this is hysterical.

How can he make this case with just the news coming out of the Middle East this week?

They've done everything they can to make this into no big deal.

But you now have not only the UAE, looks like Morocco is now saying they're going to be the next to normalize relations with

Israel.

There are five countries that announced yesterday that they are looking to normalize relations.

That's Bahrain,

Oman, Morocco.

And

looks like Saudi Arabia is quietly sniffing around and Qatar or Qatar as we used to say.

Today, the news comes out that Sudan, the Sudan,

is going to normalize ties with Israel.

How can you possibly say,

we are a safer Middle East?

You didn't stop ISIS.

In fact, you guys were the ones who armed ISIS.

When Donald Trump came in, he ended ISIS.

Now, they're not completely gone and they're going to come back, but

still,

a major accomplishment.

Major accomplishments.

It's just totally ignored now.

It was the biggest foreign affairs issue when Trump came into office and now it's not even an issue.

Not even an issue.

That is something he should get points for.

And the Middle East, what Donald Trump did on the Middle East is

unbelievable.

It shows

stop listening to the State Department.

Everything.

He doesn't care what the State Department says.

In fact, I think he probably does a lot of stuff the State Department says not to do just because they told him not to do it.

But if you look at what the State Department has always said, and all of these experts, that this, if you, oh my gosh, if you move the embassy and you recognize Jerusalem,

you're going to set the whole Middle East on fire.

No, uh-uh.

Didn't happen.

In fact, the opposite has happened.

Oh, if you annex the West Bank,

Judea,

Judea, and Samaria, if you let Israel take those, it'll be war.

No, uh-uh.

And I swear to you,

what he did with Judea and Samaria and the settlements and annexing that part of Israel is Tiffany's.

His Tiffany's experience, his threat to Tiffany's.

I'm going to build instead of the Trump Tower if you don't give me the airspace, the ugliest building ever.

I think he and Benjamin Nett and Yahoo, I think he got them on the phone and said, let's just tell everybody we're going to annex it.

I'll support you.

Let's go.

They're not serious about any kind of peace.

Let's take it.

See what happens.

Yeah, there's a nugget just like that in the John Bolton book, too, where I think I want to say it was early on in the North Korea time.

It was one of the foreign affairs issues, one of the major ones we've all been talking about, where he says to his people, look,

what do you need to make them to do this?

How about I threaten this?

Just say, I'll just threaten this and I'll hold on to it.

I'll be the crazy guy.

I'm fine with that.

Like, this is the way he does this.

This is.

And he's fine being the guy who's looked at as the crazy guy if he can get those things done.

And look, even the New York Times went through this and gave the credit to the Trump administration and all the work that they did and said the entire thing happened during the Trump administration.

So there wasn't like a big lead up of like, okay, here's the Obama stuff that

built the foundation for this.

The only thing that built the foundation for this was how poorly they did with their Iran strategy, which allowed this all to occur.

But I mean, this all happened from 2018 on.

So there's no way for the Obama administration to take credit for this.

This is the exact reverse of everything that they tried to do in the Middle East.

And it's one of those times where every

right-wing pundit who said you should do X, Y, and Z was right.

Was right.

100%.

Straight out.

No arguments.

You never know with the Middle East.

Could this all fall apart?

I mean, of course, because everything always falls apart there.

But this is more promise than you've had in the Middle East in decades.

It seems like the momentum's going the right way instead of the wrong way for once.

And this is all.

It's going to turn around.

I mean, it has to.

Jesus is coming.

So it's going to turn around.

But

we've never seen this kind of historic action before, ever.

And John Kerry talks about, you know, how he's he's insulting our longstanding allies,

England,

England, Barack Obama, England.

You know, I know they punch you above their weight, but please don't talk to me about our traditional allies.

What you did with Iran versus probably the strongest ally we have, Israel, left everybody wondered what the hell is going on.

You left our allies in the dirt donald trump is just trying to say you know what pay your fair share pay your fair share because i don't think any of this works and you know what i'm beginning to believe that he is operating under that tiffany strategy to be able to get his what he wanted he bluffs but you don't know he has an he has a twitchy eye you don't know if he means it or not

and so you take him at his word and you're like he's crazy, man.

He just might do it.

Would he have built the ugliest building on Fifth Avenue just to spite

Tiffany's?

I don't think so, but he might have.

He might have.

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But I wanted to go through the, I love this post office thing.

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Now from the wild and unruly streets

of New York City,

James Altichure is with us, the host of the podcast, podcast, The James Altichure Show, and entrepreneur and comedian and comedy club owner in New York, and a guy who has just written an amazing article, and it's really sad, and I can't punch a hole in it, about why New York City is dead forever.

Welcome to the program, James.

How are you?

Good, Glenn, how are you doing?

Thanks for having me on the show.

You bet.

A long time we haven't talked to each other.

It's nice to have you on.

Yes.

go briefly over your thesis here that New York City is never coming back.

Well, there's a lot of you know, there's only so far you can pull back a slingshot before it breaks.

And right now, we have at least 30 to 50 percent of the restaurants and storefronts in New York City are out of business permanently.

And there's not it's not like there's tenants dying to come back in.

These are gone, which means commercial real estate's going to get affected.

Also, you have all of these companies now going remote forever.

Citigroup, JP Morgan, Google, Twitter, all these companies, that means all the office space empty.

They're going to need to rent less office space.

Again, commercial real estate and the entire economic ecosystem around those things are going to zero.

Meanwhile, New York City, the deficits are rising.

People are fleeing.

There's more apartment vacancies than ever.

So the tax base is going down, both from businesses and residents fleeing.

So how are you going to make the revenues to make up for the deficits and all the bankruptcies and one out of four evictions are going to happen?

So I think I don't know what you do.

Even if COVID

is fine and people start coming back, there's just going to be too many bankruptcies.

There's going to be nobody paying for all the deficits that New York City is racking up now.

What happens?

And you can't.

It's not like you can cut back on those things or the city will just decay.

I mean, that is a very expensive city just to keep running.

And if you don't have those, you don't have those buildings,

what happens to them?

I mean, New York City offices are technically open right now, but they're all empty.

Like they're about 90% empty because companies are going remote.

And, you know, here's the difference between other periods is now people have the bandwidth to go remote.

We never had the bandwidth to have remote office meetings before.

So there's no big rush now for employees to come back.

In fact, companies are making much more money being more productive with employees not at the office.

Again, they can rent less office space.

They don't have to pay those city taxes, those property taxes.

So I don't know how New York City is going to raise the money to pay for the services that they normally do.

And again, this is not like a temporary situation.

Oh, when the pandemic's over, everyone comes back to work.

No, everybody's already gone.

They've already left.

And that's not a bad thing for the country, by the way.

It means you could have opportunity now everywhere.

Financial opportunity is being dispersed all through the country.

You don't have to just be in Manhattan or L.A.

or San Francisco.

You could be in St.

Louis or Nashville or Miami or Dallas.

You could be anywhere now and have opportunity.

It's not just, hey, come to Manhattan.

Everything's here.

Nothing's there anymore.

Business is not there.

you know, stores are not there.

No one's waking up and saying, I need to start a pizza restaurant in New York City today because I might go out of business the next day.

Yeah,

it's really sad.

I mean, I love New York, if you've ever lived there, you have a love-hate relationship with it.

There's lots of things about it that you might hate, but it balances out to where

the access to things

is so

off the charts and not like any other city that you put up with it.

But now that is, that's, that's all gone.

One nice thing about it is people are starting to look at the cities that they want to live in, they can live in, and as you said,

we now will have, you know, I miss the America where you go to towns and they're all different.

You know, there was a while where they were all gap and all, you know,

and tailors and every town was the same.

This provides an opportunity for one town to be high-tech, one town maybe to be

focused on,

you know, something else where those people that think alike just kind of want to gather that they don't have to but they just kind of want to gather there so you'd have these cities that would have real different personalities

right like over 400,000 New Yorkers have left since March and many more are going to leave when eviction moratoriums are off I mean one out of four New Yorkers are up for eviction and again

You know 30% of the restaurants and stores out of business.

All the major companies going remote.

People are dispersing to the cities they always wanted to live in.

Doesn't mean opportunity is going away.

It just means finally opportunity is going to be spread out throughout the entire United States.

So the frontier now is not going to be in Manhattan or L.A., it's going to be wherever you are.

So, James, you are an angel investor.

You're really up to speed on a lot of things.

I've been talking about the tech disruption that was going to come.

And I kept saying it's going to come between 2020 and 2030, where technology just changes enough stuff.

There would be enough enough disruption of 20 to 30% unemployment.

We won't live the same way.

We won't work the same way.

Jobs will be taken.

We're going to have to retrain.

I think COVID actually pushed that in faster.

I think we're seeing the tech disruption now.

Well, look at it.

I mean, COVID has been the great accelerator.

Look at Zoom, for instance.

Zoom added 400 million new users, 400 million who now realize, oh,

I could see people on video now for the first time ever.

I could have remote meetings.

I could be productive.

And then you have AI and automation.

A year ago, everyone was afraid of it.

But now every store is going to be, you know, cashless checkouts.

And

there's going to be much more automation.

There's going to be much more robotics.

So what happens to the people who had those jobs?

Well, this has been an excuse.

to say, hey, we don't need anybody anymore.

We're going to go cashless.

And people are going to have to figure out what to do.

The infrastructure is not there for people to figure it out.

But you're going to have to be much more, people are going to have to be up on these skills in one way or the other.

And like I said, opportunity is going to be spread out throughout the entire country, not just in New York City where they sort of hoarded opportunity for a long period.

So what, James, what happens to a city like New York?

And it's going to be all these cities.

I mean, why live in a dense city where crime, especially with the way things are going now, where crime is is bad, decay is bad, taxes would be high.

What happens to these cities?

It's going to be hard.

I mean, look, I'm a New Yorker.

I even own a storefront in New York, and people aren't going to want to pay $38 for avocado toast anymore if they could move to Phoenix, Arizona and pay $1.50 for an egg sandwich,

and still make New York salaries and still work remotely for companies that are based wherever.

So what happens to a city like New York City?

Services start to go down.

Crime goes up.

There's going to be less ability to afford health care.

There's going to be, again, how are they going to pay deficits?

They're going to have to raise taxes to the few people who stay.

Remember, New York City, only 1%, the top 1% of New York City pays over 40% of the taxes in New York City.

What happens when you don't even have that revenue?

How are you going to provide any what happens to the transit system?

What happens to all the public services that New York City offers, the universities, the subways and so on?

It starts to go down.

The police starts to go down.

And what happens to the universities themselves?

I mean,

they're not back.

The universities, right.

I mean, right now, New York City is at all-time vacancies.

Well, what happens when 600,000 students in New York City, college students, are told, oh, we're going to do remote for six months or a year?

They're not going to rent apartments, hence more vacancies, hence more bankruptcies, hence more buildings go into litigation, hence more, you know, again, worse services to neighborhoods and crime goes up and who knows?

I mean, I don't,

it's hard to predict when you have a city that's just combusting in ways that hasn't happened before.

And people say, oh, no, people want to come back.

No, people have already left.

The employees who are forced to be remote, they've said, oh, well, I can choose anywhere in the United States.

You know, the United States is beautiful.

New York City is not the only city.

People have spread out already.

It's not my opinion.

Like, this is already a fact that 400,000 residents have left since March.

I will tell you that, you know, I bought the Paramount Movie lot here in Dallas.

So I've had these gigantic movie studios.

And

I went up to my ranch in the mountains for three months and did everything remote from my house and then from the ranch.

And every day I got up and I thought,

why am I going back?

Why am I going back?

And for me, the technology is not quite robust enough to be able to do it.

But for the average person, it absolutely is.

And I know they're all saying the same thing.

And Glenn, you're running a media company, so you need video and audio quality to be beyond perfect.

Correct.

So the average person who just wants to do remote meetings and still be at home without the commute, without dealing with all their cubicle neighbors, whatever, they're happy.

And yes, some of them like to go back to work.

And people are going to miss

the social conveniences of work.

They'll find it elsewhere, but they'll miss it at work.

But it's not going to be their decision.

Companies themselves...

are cutting costs by not having people go back to work, using COVID as an excuse.

Oh, we have to be safe now for COVID.

But they're going to eliminate six out of seven floors that they rented in a major office building in New York, which means commercial real estate goes bankrupt, which means litigation means potential financial collapse, means less tax revenues for New York City.

And again, lower services to pay for education, health care, police, social services.

And again, as a New Yorker, it's scary, but as...

a U.S.

citizen, you say, well, okay, the economy is not up or down.

It's just tilted.

Things are going to spread out throughout the U.S.

Opportunity is going to spread out.

And you don't have, if you've traveled to any other city other than New York, there's beautiful spots all over the United States.

I wish the best for New York.

I'm a New Yorker.

My kids are New Yorkers.

I lived there all my life.

But you have to face reality.

There's problems that can't go away.

They're already fact.

So, James,

one last question.

People still, I think Americans are slowly coming to the realization it's not going to be the same anymore.

We're not going back.

It's just not happening.

You know, trying to build in some parts of the country, you just can't get the supplies.

It's very different than even the Great Depression.

There are things that you just can't get.

And I think people haven't really felt it all yet.

When do you think we're all going to come to the conclusion, oh, wow,

America and the world is just never going to be like it was.

It's such a great question, Glenn, because a few months ago, people were asking, when are things going to go back to 2019?

And then a few weeks after that, they were saying, well, when is there going to be a new normal?

And now I think it's starting to, people are starting to realize there is no new normal.

It's a great reinvention, is what's happening.

Everything is not quite starting from scratch, but like you say, automation is on the rise.

So that's going to affect people's lives.

Zoom adding 400 million people, essentially, you know, two United States

is Zoom added that number of users.

That's going to affect the way we work and interface with each other and interact and so on.

So I think people who are ahead of the curve here are going to start looking for the skills they need, whether those are

marketing skills, sales skills, technical skills,

setting up e-commerce sites,

whatever it is.

But

go ahead.

Well,

I think we're going to start to realize over the next year that there is no,

things are going to get worse in the major cities, and you're going to see more and more of an exodus from the first tier cities to the second tier cities.

And people are going to start to realize more and more every month that, okay, maybe a lot of people are in denial, but I'm going to start making changes in my life.

And gradually, everyone will come to that realization.

And I don't say this with glee.

I wish things were the same, but this happened.

So, James, I don't know if you've been following what the Economic Forum has been doing with the Great Reset.

They've been working on it for a while before COVID.

And

I'd love to check back with you after you've kind of looked into that.

I think we'll probably disagree on, you know,

maybe whether it was a good thing or a bad thing and what it means, but it needs to be discussed out in the open because the world is changing.

And I think the average person needs to be involved in what that means for our future.

So I'd love to have you back.

We've spent too much time outsourcing all of our political decisions to leaders who haven't, frankly, accomplished anything for the past 50 years.

So, yes, we'd love to come back and talk about it.

I'm well aware.

Okay, great.

James, thank you so much.

And

I sent your article around

and I sent it around with, this is the saddest article you will read in a long time.

And everybody emails me back and goes,

I can't disagree with it.

And that's what makes it so sad.

Thank you very much, James.

Thank you, Ed.

I appreciate it.

You bet.

By the way, we posted it last night on my YouTube channel.

I think it already has 100,000 views.

I mean, it's connecting with people.

You can check that out

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Michelle Obama yesterday or the day before was describing what it takes to be the president of the United States.

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I am one of a handful of people living today who have seen firsthand the immense weight and awesome power of the presidency.

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The job is hard.

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Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.

Play the radio.

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Does he meet any of those qualifications

to be president of the United States?

if you have that as your candidate and you know that the world is up for grabs, I mean COVID has made the world up for grabs.

It's going to be completely redesigned.

It's called the Great Reset.

And who's going to be designing it?

Certainly, if you are somebody that likes to hold all of the power, you're not going to give that to Donald Trump.

He stands in the way of all of that.

The Constitution stands in the way of that.

Our history stands in the way of that.

That's why everything is being challenged right now.

But you also have to ensure a win.

So you want to at least, if you can't pull it off,

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convince the American people that you can't have any confidence in the vote.

And that is the campaign that the Democrats are on right now.

The group that is really the one that is watching over our right to vote over this pandemic is Judicial Watch.

The president is Tom Fitton and he's with us now.

Hi, Tom.

How are you?

Hey, Gwen, good to be with you again.

Thank you.

So let's just go through some of the things that

they are saying now

about our elections and that we really need to jump on the vote through the mail.

That seems insane, but they're saying that there's never any problem with the mail-in vote.

Can you give me the facts on this?

Well, if there are going to be problems with voter fraud, it's going to happen through mail-in and absentee ballots.

Everyone agreed prior to it becoming and partisan issue just now, is that that's where you have the opportunities for fraud.

You're voting away from the oversight of government officials and party activists who go in and monitor the polls.

But on top of that, we've got a radical ramping up of people voting by mail, or at least there's this push.

I think there will be 92, 93 million ballots and ballot applications that will be mailed without anyone asking for them.

50, I think it's 51 million ballots alone will be mailed without anyone asking for them.

And that's a number that is far and above by multiples of any prior move.

I mean, you had a few states here and there who have vote by mail programs that were set up after years and and years and, frankly, still aren't trustworthy.

This is a radical escalation of this vote-by-mail.

And in 2016, Gwen, 319,000 absentee ballots, mail-in ballots, were thrown out.

Imagine what the numbers are going to be now.

So you've got the vote-by-mail, you've got voter fraud opportunities, the ballot harvesting fraud opportunities.

But I think there's this emerging issue that I think we all need to be concerned about, And frankly, the left should be too:

votes being thrown out by the millions because they don't get there on time,

because they can't be counted, and the system breaks.

And if that happens, and

states are challenged, all of that goes to the House and the Senate ultimately.

And in essence, Nancy Pelosi decides, practically speaking, who could be the next president.

if you look at the mail fraud that we have had

in the past,

the mail fraud happens when, let me give you a few examples.

West Virginia postal worker last week indicted for manipulating eight voters' absentee ballots.

In 2019, Oakland County clerk outside Detroit charged with illegally altering 193 absentee ballots.

Minneapolis, a man was charged with helping 13 others falsify absentee ballots ahead of the 2018 election.

Dallas County, Texas, man convicted after

700 mail-in ballots were witnessed and signed by a fictitious person.

North Carolina's ninth congressional district race.

Scheme was to steal 1,200 absentee ballots and fill them out in a race that was decided by only 900 votes.

So when the Democrats and

Michelle Obama said, you got to go out and vote like your life depends on it, because sometimes in 2016, they were voted by an average, you know, they lost by an average of two votes.

These numbers may seem small, but in the right districts, it changes everything.

Well, that's exactly right.

You've got the presidential race at issue, and then you have these lower, these races down the ballot,

including in the House,

that can be overturned through fraud.

And the other reason we want a process in place that...

frowns upon fraud and secures the vote is so that people feel comfortable voting.

That's one of the reasons we have voter ID.

That's what the courts have said.

We don't have to prove fraud.

The purpose of voter ID is to ensure people and reassure people that the elections count and matter.

And right now, it's chaos.

I tell you,

Glenn, there's been nothing like it in American history where you have nearly 100 million ballots and ballot applications being thrown out, flooding the mails.

10%,

right now, 10% of first-class mail is late.

When you look at the percentages of ballots that are returned, you're talking potentially millions of ballots that won't get to the place they're supposed to be.

So this is an opportunity for fraud that we've never seen before.

And as I said, as importantly,

you can't be sure your vote will count unless you vote in person.

That's the best way to ensure your vote will be counted.

And I'm not guaranteeing your vote won't be negated because someone got your mail ballot and votes in your name and there's a dispute there.

But, you know, you can't rely on the system because I think it's going to break or I fear it's going to break.

And when you're talking the percentages of ballots that get thrown out, the percentages, in my view, are too high for me to risk my vote to vote by mail.

I mean, if it were four years ago, I'd say, well, you know, I wouldn't necessarily say don't vote by mail.

You're likely to lose your vote.

I wouldn't advise anyone to vote by mail these days.

So, Tom, how I was listening to the news today.

They are in riots in Belarus

because Russia was interfering in the election.

And the opposition is saying to the world, please don't recognize this administration.

And I think in Belarus, they probably are right.

But I see that kind of scenario playing out no matter who wins this time.

This is a constitutional crisis on the horizon that we've never faced.

The left is already gaming it out, Glenn.

They're already planning it.

Go and look at this document created by the Transition Integrity Project.

And who's the war gamer for them and for Joe Biden when they were doing a little war game?

John Podesta.

So someone who's a leading white on the establishment.

And they're talking about having states threaten to secede from the Union unless they get their

electoral votes counted, I guess, despite allegations of fraud.

So they're prepared for a revolution.

I mean, we're kind of seeing it already.

Their revolution is a revolution in Portland.

You've got the violent communist insurrection in many cities as it is.

And believe me, they're preparing to apply it to the presidential election.

You can read about it in the New York Times.

What do you say to the people who say, well, then why isn't the president stopping what's going on at the post office?

Well, the trains left the station.

The states have decided they're going to mail these ballots.

Those 51, 52 million ballots going out, that's going to happen.

The post office is going to do what it can do with the volume.

But on a good day, you have 5% to 10% of the material not get to where it's supposed to be or get there late.

So to me, that's an unacceptable risk for voting by mail.

And that's what we need to be talking about.

If I were the president, and frankly, honest Democrats are now beginning to talk about because they're nervous, they recognize these issues, you should be voting in person.

Michelle Obama highlighted that in her talk the other day.

You know, what's really been interesting is to see people like Stacey Abrams, who for months,

the far-left candidate from Georgia who lost

the governorship there.

She was on TV again yesterday for the DNC.

telling people they shouldn't have to decide between their vote and their lives.

So they're scaring the bejesus out of people from voting in person.

That's suppressing the vote, Glenn.

That's suppressing the vote.

And I think some Democrats are thinking, what are we doing here?

We're going to tell people to vote by the mail.

No one really trusts the mail.

Maybe we need to go back to the basics here and start

getting people to the polls in person.

Even Dr.

Fauci says you can vote in person.

So the coronavirus isn't a serious excuse anymore.

Who is watching all of this, Tom, that is trustworthy to

at least the majority of people

that

we can look to that is monitoring all of this?

Is there anybody?

I know that's what you are doing, but the right trusts you.

Left doesn't trust you.

who do we turn to?

You know, Glenn, you and I and groups like us, we can do a 50,000 view, you know, a 50,000-foot view.

You know, but at the polling places, that's where the parties have to provide the oversight.

And when it comes to oversight, the left is far and beyond the Republicans.

They've got, they do, they're organized, you know, they're organizers.

This is what they do.

And so you'll have leftist poll workers who are lawyers and sophisticated and know how to challenge.

And on the right, you'll have volunteers fairly trained, young, or not sophisticated in terms of areas of law, and they'll be outmatched.

And then on top of that, you've got the political side, because we think it's going to be decided by lawsuits and these fights at the lower levels.

No, it's going to be decided in Congress ultimately.

That's the way our constitutional system works.

And

they have already gamed that out.

And I can tell you the Republicans and conservatives are completely...

don't know much about how that would work in Congress.

What do you mean they've already gamed that out?

Well, you're talking about this transition integrity project where John Podesta games out the election being resolved by the House and the Senate.

And if there's no decision by a date certain in January, I think it's January 6th or a little bit later,

you know who becomes president in an acting capacity?

Nancy Pelosi.

I think you'd probably just drop the phone after

speaking

words that would give most people a heart attack.

Tom.

I mean, that's the way it's going to work.

And what's interesting is

each delegation of the House has a vote.

It's not by person.

It's not by vote.

It's not by House member.

And currently, Republicans have a majority of the delegations in the House.

So that's why Democrats and the left are gaming it out.

And, you know, if it comes down to a kind of an honest political fight, that's one thing.

But we already went through a coup.

Do you think it's going to stop?

Of course not.

Well, it's been cheery talking to you, Tom.

Thank you for it.

We got to know what the problem is

there to address it.

I'm not trying to be negative.

I'm just trying to highlight the real issue so we can't, so we're not surprised.

How can people help?

Well, individually, they should figure out how they can become poll workers.

Figure out what the rules are in your state.

Contact your local party and volunteer.

Encourage

your circles to vote in person.

Who's watching over the post office?

The post office, to me, it's kind of like a meta-issue.

It's like, can you trust the post office to get the ballots to your location on time?

No.

Don't use it.

And frankly, you know, it's not too late to pull back.

And you can call your elected officials at the state level.

Don't mail those ballot applications unless someone asks for them.

Do a traditional absentee ballot program where someone proactively has to ask for a ballot.

Don't drop ballots into the mail unless they're requested.

It's not too late to pull back.

We've got three or four weeks, but the train, you know, the train's about to leave.

Tom, thank you.

I appreciate it.

Tom Fitton, you can follow him at Tom Fitton.

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Nancy Pelosi in acting capacity.

Can you imagine?

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If all this stuff happens and Nancy Pelosi becomes acting president of the United States, I have no idea if our Constitution holds up through something like that.

That's a scary thought.

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