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Boy, do we have a look at the president's historic speech for you today from outside, from the television perspective, and from inside the room.

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More hostile than I have ever seen.

The angriest, meanest,

most hate-filled room I think I've ever been in.

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Thomas Massey

represents Kentucky's fourth congressional district that stretches all across northern Kentucky, 280 miles of the Ohio River.

He is,

you know, he's a smart guy.

I mean, he's no Glenn and Stew,

but he did go to MIT.

He's on three different committees, the House Committee for Transportation and Infrastructure, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

I love you.

And the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

He's also the guy who

last night took me down to the skiff and took a picture of me at the door of the skiff.

Wouldn't let me in for some reason.

Wouldn't let me in.

But we were down where

all the secret meetings went on with

the whistleblower.

Welcome, Thomas.

How are you?

Yeah, you bet.

First of all, let's start with the

well, we're halfway through a historic 24 hours.

Yeah.

We got the State of the Union last night, which was just outrageously good, in my opinion.

And then

at what, 4 o'clock this afternoon, the Senate's going to vote to acquit.

Yeah, this is an amazing slice of history, this 24-hour window.

And to be there last night was just amazing on the floor of the House.

I started out by shaking the President's hand as he came in

and thanking him.

for the work that he's done.

And then, boy, when he started into that speech, I think those Democrats had super glue on their seats because they refused to stand up for the, I mean, just if he had said apple pie or baseball or I mean, at times.

He could have come out and said, I like socialism, and they would have, they would not have clapped and they would not have gotten up.

That's right.

I mean, no matter what he said, even if it was stuff they've always been for.

I mean,

he talked about many things that they have been for and they couldn't applaud.

They couldn't applaud at the lowest unemployment rate,

the highest employment rate for African Americans ever, the highest

employment rate for Hispanics and Asians, women, nothing.

Nothing.

Nothing.

It was incredible.

He got a few of them to clap for criminal justice reform because they co-sponsored the bill.

But even people that voted for that bill wouldn't get up and clap or even acknowledge that the president did something good by signing the bill.

Let me ask you this.

Last year I was your guest at the State of the Union and

I felt it was, remember the president was kind of

He was almost squirrely at a couple of times.

He'd go, come on, you can clap for that.

Remember?

He would look over to the left and go, come on.

And it was still a little good-natured.

Right.

Last night, I felt from them

hatred.

I mean,

that room was full.

They

hate him.

Seething.

Seething hatred.

Hatred.

And, you know, I shook the president's hand when he came in.

To do so, I had to sit on the aisle.

So I was just a few feet from those Democrats who would not stand up for the president for anything, for anything good about America.

And I would look over at them, and literally I could lean over and touch some of them and just look at them in the eyes and think, what is going through your head right now?

What is it that you hate about this man so much that you're going to be so spiteful and hate our country?

I mean, when he just talked in generalities about the country and how we need to put Americans first, they wouldn't stand up, not a single one of them could I see clapping when he said, we need to put America and Americans first.

Right.

I mean,

there were things last night that he said, I thought this was a wildly uniting speech because there were things in there that pissed me off.

You know, when he was talking about me too.

Yeah, high-speed internet for everybody.

I'm like, that's not the government's job.

And that's one of the things that they were demanding

before was high-speed internet, high-speed internet for everybody.

Well, good.

I'm for that.

Let's have companies do that, not the United States government.

And they, I know, because how long did we spend on the stupid internet thing?

Remember, if you're a mother?

Oh, yeah.

What was the

Lumbee tribe?

Yeah, the Lumbee tribe.

They didn't have any high-speed internet, and Obama wanted high-speed internet for everybody.

Here he's proposing it, and they won't stand up.

They won't even clap.

He didn't extend an olive branch.

He extended an olive tree.

He did.

And an olive orchard.

He did.

And they didn't take any of it.

The Family Leave Act?

I mean, holy cow.

By the way, I didn't vote for the Family Leave Act.

I didn't know that.

And he's proposing to extend it.

Extend it.

Yeah.

To private companies.

Right.

Right.

And to me, that was, he was trying to build a bridge to the Democrats.

It was a, that was a bridge a little far.

Yeah.

But.

Well, all the stuff he talked about, the unions.

Right.

He talked about the unions last night, and of course, the new NAFTA agreement was a gift to the unions

nothing

nothing crickets on on their side um

and i mean that's just incredible because some of those folks have co-sponsored those bills some of them voted for those bills right but they just hate him so much this is so how are we going to get through the next four and a half years oh you know he's got to spank them at the ballot box again for them to learn that he's in in line with

Americans and they're not.

I mean, this was basically laying the framework for the 2020 election or the stark contrast.

It wasn't about an election, but you could see the stark contrast between what President Trump stands for and what the Democrats stand for.

And

he laid out a vision for America.

And, you know,

state of the unions

speeches speeches are supposed to be and oftentimes are hopeful.

And he did that at the end.

I mean, he was talking about.

Last year, I thought it was the best speech he's given.

He's good at this, which Stu and I were talking about.

Never would have expected him to be good at a State of the Union address because he's just not a great reader and not a great speech giver.

He's good off the cuff in his own way.

I expect good rallies.

I expect good one-liners at debates.

I wouldn't expect

I think this was a redefining of the State of the Union address.

I think this one,

I mean, when, you know, there were so many...

That thing is boring as snot every year.

Let's be honest.

But there were so many...

This one was anything but boring, especially if you were in the room.

I don't know how this...

How did it translate?

Not in the room, Stu?

Could you feel the hatred?

Not as much as you're saying.

I mean, they certainly, you could hear jeers occasionally.

Oh, they were.

They were non-stop.

Yeah.

They were non-stop.

You can't hear

what's really going down on the floor.

You can't hear it.

You can't see it.

It was non-stop.

They got to a point towards the end.

I don't know if you noticed this, Thomas, but you were close enough to it.

They got to a point to where

one

woman actually put her head in her hands and just laid down in her own lap.

Just like,

I can't do it anymore.

I watched two or three of them walk out.

Yeah.

Three of them I saw.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And literally, at times, he had to speak over them because they were jeering so loudly.

Now, if you were watching it on TV, the sound was being picked up by his microphone.

So you wouldn't have gotten the entire ambiance of the room, which at times was jeers from the Democrats.

And he just, instead of acknowledging them,

he plowed through all that.

Yeah,

he did I mean that was an expert last night an expert performance at

just plowing through and I wondered if you heard that because many

many times he was being jeered by them and he just raised his voice and he just didn't stop yeah no that's what we're gonna and that was smart because it was not detectable largely I wish it was I really

I really wish people could see the state of the union the way I've seen it the last two years because you

it's a totally different world.

Can I admit to breaking with decorum at one point in his speech?

In the beginning, we started chanting.

We started a little chant where I was four more years.

I don't know if that came out on TV.

I heard it.

Did you hear that?

Yeah, okay.

Well, I participated in it.

Yeah.

It was, and you know, what's funny is every time the Republicans really responded with yeah Yeah was when he was covering for them.

That's right.

It it and it I mean can I admit yes

they didn't drag you out of the gallery They didn't drag me out of the gallery, but they might have

But there was a couple of times to where I didn't necessarily even fully agree with you know the

I agreed with it, but I wasn't like, yeah.

But because they jeered,

when people started to clap, I was first on my feet going, yeah,

you know, and the guys next to me, I was with this guy from Oklahoma and the other one was,

oh, I can't remember where the other one was from, and a guy from North Dakota in front, and they were,

they were MAGA guys.

Yeah.

And they

were lifting the roof off.

Well, the group that I sat with We resolved every time that we heard the Democrats jeering at him while he was trying to speak that when he was done speaking that we would clap twice as loudly.

You heard it.

You heard it.

You heard that, at least in the room.

We're going to continue our conversation because there were a couple of really touching things.

I watched Elon Omar and Rashida Tlaib closely, and

their statement when they walked out, we just couldn't take it anymore.

Wait until I share what I witnessed because I watched them like a hawk

because I watched them last year.

You can learn an awful lot from just watching those two.

And

wait until I tell you the real story about their dramatic walkout where they just couldn't take it anymore.

Coming up in just a second.

Also, Chris Stewart is going to be joining us.

We have Ezra Levant coming with us and also John Miller, who is our White House correspondent.

He's going to be here.

He is a very good friend of mine.

He was actually my intern and then my assistant for a while.

He went to Columbia University.

He's a black guy.

You want to talk about unpopular.

In his last class, they were asking which fascist dictator, this is his professor at Columbia, which fascist dictator

would they compare me to?

And here's this guy who hadn't said anything the whole term, and he raises his hand, and

the teacher says, looks at this black kid, yeah.

And he said, I don't know, I'd go the other way.

I think I'd compare him to Martin Luther King.

It was great.

And I agree that the correct answer on the dictator thing is probably Edi Amin, just from size, a size observation.

Well, laugh it up, you're too clouds.

Laugh it up.

All right.

I got a congressman to laugh at my fat joke.

I'm laughing because you might have just lost your job.

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I can't wait to give you my full picture of the state of the union.

We'll do that a little later on in the program.

We have Congressman Chris Stewart from Utah who is with us.

He is on the

what committee are you on?

I'm on the House Intelligence and Appropriations, which are two great committees and also budget because I think the debt actually matters.

Yes, it does.

Imagine that.

You're the one.

Yeah, I know.

But you were part of the you had to sit there with Adam Schiff the whole time.

Yeah, it was fun watching him and the others.

And that's the thing that I'm not sure people see or hear back home because like when the president introduces his guests, the cameras focus on the guest.

And what they don't see are the Democrats sitting there and in some cases actually booing and kind of hissing.

They're like this, kind of like a second grade.

When he reunited the Army family at the end,

they were actually groaning through that.

They were like, oh, come on.

I saw people turning around, looking at each other.

I don't know what they were saying, but they were like yelling at each other.

They were so mad.

They were yelling what they wanted to say to him.

They were saying to each other other during that really nice moment.

And America didn't see it.

And they should.

They should.

Or the little girl that he gave the scholarship to.

Oh, my God.

I mean,

they should, according to their constituencies and their interests that they claim is important to them, they should have been clapping and cheering for that, to give her this opportunity.

And instead, they sit on their hands.

And, you know, it's funny, you mentioned Adam, and I watched him, and it was very clear.

He knew that the cameras are going to be on him at any time.

So he was always careful.

But his face never changed for the whole hour and and a half.

He just sat and stared with this painted-on smile.

And I know it bothered him, and it was a lot of fun to watch because he could see the energy and the support.

And he knows, and this is really important, Glenn, he knows that they messed up.

He knows that this is backfired.

I do.

I do.

I think he's, look, there's Adam is a lot of things, but one of the things he is, is smart.

And he can see and read and observe.

And

I'm not saying he wouldn't do it again.

I'm certain that he would.

But he also knows that they failed in convincing the American people that this president is.

They made him stronger.

Yeah, absolutely.

They made him stronger.

Absolutely.

If that president, the one I saw last night, showed up for the next, what, 270-some days,

every day, that was the president that showed up, I think he would win in a Reagan-style landslide.

That was presidential.

That was positive.

Looking forward, no little snipes.

I mean, it was good.

It was terrific.

I mean, I've talked to so many people.

You know, they call and say, hey, what did you think?

What was like?

And so many people have said to me, you know, there were a number of times I actually was brought to tears last night.

I mean, it was an emotional, very positive speech.

That's the other thing is there was nothing negative about this speech.

It was very, very positive.

That's not what the left is saying.

That's not what CNN and everybody else.

They're saying this was a destructive, dividing speech.

I have a hard time finding it.

Well,

you have to scratch really down low to find something.

I mean, look, some of the policies they disagree with.

I get that.

But this is a very forward-looking, very, I thought, uniting event.

And it could have been if anyone had any open heart about this at all.

So is Nancy Pelosi,

has she gone totally insane?

I mean, I can't imagine what she was, how she thought that was a win last night for her to do that.

And if I may, can we play the Joe Wilson moment?

This is from an Obama

state of the union.

Listen to this.

There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would ensure illegal immigrants.

This, too, is false.

The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.

Look at Nancy Pelosi's face there.

And Joe Biden just shakes his head in despair.

And this was a big deal.

Joe Wilson was right.

Last night in the president's speech, he is saying we're stopping all of this health care going for free to illegal aliens.

So Joe was right.

It was in the bill the whole time.

That was a week-long walk of shame.

I think they tried to censure him, did they not?

Yeah, I believe they did.

And, you know, we're going to do something to call attention to this.

As I was saying to you before we came on the air, we had just left a meeting where they're considering their options.

But she is the Speaker of the House, but she is also just a member of the House, and she has to abide by the same decorum that the rest of us have to.

And what she did, and it was such a mistake, it was so unnecessary, it was so calculated.

I mean, she planned on doing this, and how she thought that was a win,

I just don't get it.

It's like you said, has she lost her mind completely?

It's they're they're driven.

I've never understood the

Trump derangement syndrome,

and I think some people were driven by that with Barack Obama.

They just

were so blind by the lies and everything else,

they just couldn't get past it.

We just stopped talking about it.

We just were like, okay, well, you know, American people have made their choice.

You know, great, let's look to the future.

These guys,

they can't, they are driven by their hatred for him.

Which is going to make the election night in November so much fun.

Yeah.

Because I agree with you.

I think the president is in a wonderful spot right now.

I think he's in a very strong spot right now.

And they, as you said, hate him so viscerally.

I can't imagine what it's going to be like then when he's re-elected and re-elected, I think, in a pretty powerful way.

You know, what's amazing to me is

what happened with Rush Limbaugh last night and their reaction.

They have people on their side that have received presidential medals of honor that I have thought,

this is a Marxist.

What are you doing?

And there's been people also that have done really good in the past and then politically I completely disagree with them.

But I can sit there and see, okay, you know, this person means a lot to half of the country, whatever.

They couldn't even do that.

No, and you may disagree with someone, but you still recognize that they were a leader and that they were a proponent, a powerful proponent for things that they believed in.

Right.

And we may not agree with those things, but they're still a powerful leader, and we need to recognize that.

That's all we were looking for last night.

And not even, I don't even think that.

Here's a guy.

I mean, for the president to do that and to present it to him, which is a first,

to present it to him

should

lead one to believe

that he is

very ill.

He's very ill.

And

that was a humanitarian thing to do.

And they couldn't even give him that.

Yeah.

Well, you know, and so their reaction was very predictable there.

But I'll tell you what isn't predictable, and it's even harder for me to understand.

And that's when the president says things like, you know, America is the greatest country God's ever given to man.

And they sit on their hands and scowl.

And if I were the president, I would turn to him and I'd repeat it and I'd say, I'm going to say it again.

America is the greatest gift ever given to man and have the cameras focus on them and have them sit there showing them scowling.

I really think Congress should you guys should you guys should try to get cameras on them.

I've learned more about your job and his job in the last two years just going to the State of the Union.

Tanya and I went to

the White House correspondence dinner once.

And honestly, I went home, I went to the hotel, and I took a shower.

I felt dirty after after that.

It was awful.

And both of us were like, never again.

We left early and never, ever again.

So I kind of expected that kind of thing here, and it's not.

And you really,

you learn so much.

I watched Rashida Tlaib and Elon Omar, and I watched them the whole time.

When I go through and describe what they were doing the entire time, and then they walked out and they issued the statement, we couldn't take it anymore,

it is, I mean, I watched it.

It was a performance.

It's a performance.

They don't care.

Yeah, you know,

Barack Obama and I didn't agree on very much.

And there were some things that he said and did that I found deeply offensive and I thought were unconstitutional and a danger to our Republic.

But I still went to the state of the unions, and when he said something positive and true, I stood up and acknowledged that.

They just can't do it.

They just can't do it.

And it's not that

it was, you don't even have to give him credit.

You could just say America is stronger.

It's better.

The economy is stronger.

How can you deny the evidence?

Remember, Barack Obama was was saying that there are, you know, because of me, X number of jobs have been created or saved.

Yeah.

And you couldn't count saved.

What do you mean, saved?

Yeah.

This is an actual unemployment number.

And they're like, well, the president is juicing those numbers.

It's the unemployment number.

Yeah.

Which is the lowest in my lifetime.

Right.

And the lowest ever for the Hispanic community, African-American and women and others.

But putting that aside, coming back to this other thing, you have this little girl who they just changed her life by giving her this scholarship, and they sit on their hands and boo.

You have the Tuskegee Airman, 100 years old,

a World War II hero, and they won't even acknowledge him.

And the only reason is not because they don't like him, it's because they will not give this president a win on anything.

They won't acknowledge that he can do or say anything positive for our country.

I think they hurt themselves.

This impeachment was a huge mistake, critical error on their

on their part.

Look at what they are doing in Iowa.

They had low voter turnout.

They don't really have a candidate that anybody is coalescing

for.

They're going to continue to have lower turnout.

With the president last night, this is the first president that has overtly courted

the

minority.

Everybody else has written them off.

Reagan kind of did.

He just included everybody, I think.

He He just included everybody as an American.

And there was no hostility there.

You have this president

who is not ceding the ground that Republicans have ceded since the 1960s.

And he's exactly right to do that.

He shouldn't concede that ground.

I mean, he can go to the African-American community, as he does, and he asks them, what have the Democrats done for you in your lifetime?

And the answer isn't that much.

And then he can make this argument: Look what we've done for you or tried to do for you for all Americans, and it's a lot.

And you know, it turns out the American people aren't as stupid as some people think they are.

And they can look at their own lives and say, you know what, I really am better off now than I was three years ago, and I'm more hopeful for my future than I was three years ago.

And if they can answer those questions in a positive way, then I think a lot of them would say, Why wouldn't I support this president?

On a final note,

you are

you've been on this impeachment committee the whole time, trying to ring the bell and trying to

let everybody know what was really going on.

I appreciate you sitting through all of those.

You're one of the very few that I've given

an advance to.

In fact,

here it is.

This is the special tomorrow that I'm doing.

Chris,

this is

we've worked about

two and a half months on this special.

And

I will tell you that this is

worse than we thought.

All of this is backed up.

We have all of the paperwork.

Please look into this.

This will shock even the left.

I think the left will turn

against Barack Obama mainly.

There is something that was going on that we reveal tomorrow that is,

well, it was one of the worst scandals in my lifetime with another president.

Well, Glenn, if I could just very quickly, thank you for that.

You have done, and a few others, but you have done remarkable work on this.

And this is important work.

You said thank you for the work we've done on impeachment, on the intelligence committee.

I'm more proud of anything, the work we did previous to that, where we said for three years, hey, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and some of these directors were corrupt and they politicized these agencies in a way that destroys our democracy if we would not have known that.

So are we, I've only got about 30 seconds, are you going to pursue it?

Are we going to pursue it as a nation and clean this up?

Well, I tell you who I have great faith in, and I really miss.

Attorney General Barr is very serious about this.

He's committed to doing it.

He doesn't have a dog in this race and he doesn't have to make a name for himself.

I'm very hopeful.

Okay, Chris Stewart from Utah.

Thank you very much,

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I can't wait to give you my full picture of the state of the union.

We'll do that a little later on in the program.

We have Congressman Chris Stewart from Utah who is with us.

He is on the

what committee are you on?

I'm on the House Intelligence and Appropriations, which are two great committees and also budget, because I think the debt actually matters.

Yes, it does.

You're the one.

Yeah, I know.

But you were part of the...

You had to sit there with Adam Schiff the whole time.

Yeah, it was fun watching him and the others.

And that's the thing that I'm not sure people see or hear back home because when the president introduces his guests, the cameras focus on the guests.

And what they don't see are the Democrats sitting there and in some cases actually booing and kind of hissing.

They're like this, kind of like a second crazy thing.

When they had, when he reunited the Army family at the end,

they were actually groaning through that.

They were like, oh, come on.

I saw people turning around looking at each other like, I don't know what they were saying, but they were like yelling at each other.

They were so mad.

They were yelling what they wanted to say to him.

They were saying to each other during that really nice moment.

And America didn't see it and they should or they should or the little girl that he gave the scholarship to oh my gosh I mean they should they they should according to their constituencies and their interests that they claim is important to them they should have been clapping and cheering for that to give her this opportunity and instead they sit on their hands and you know it's funny you you mentioned Adam and I watched him and it was very clear he knew that the cameras are going to be on him at any time so he was always careful but his face never changed for the whole hour and a half.

He just sat and stared with this painted on smile and I know it bothered him and it was a lot of fun to watch because he could see the energy and the support and he knows and this is really important Glenn he knows that they messed up.

He knows that this is bad fight.

I do.

I do.

I think he's look there's Adam is a lot of things but one of the things he is is smart and he can see and read and observe and

I'm not saying he wouldn't do it again.

I'm certain that he would but he also knows that they failed in convincing the American people that this president is

made him stronger.

Yeah,

if that president the one I saw last night showed up for the next what 270 some days

every day that was the president that showed up I think he would win in a Reagan style landslide he it was

he that was presidential that was positive

looking forward no little snipes I mean it was good it was it was terrific I mean I've talked to so many people you know they call and say, hey, what did you think?

What was like?

And so many people have said to me, you know, there were a number of times I actually was brought to tears last night.

I mean, it was an emotional, very positive speech.

That's the other thing is there was nothing negative about this speech.

It was very, very positive.

That's not what the left is saying.

That's not what CNN and everybody else.

They're saying this was a destructive, dividing speech.

I have a hard time finding it.

Well,

you have to scratch.

really down low to find something.

I mean, look, some of the policies they disagree with.

I get that.

But this is a very forward-looking, very, I thought, uniting event.

And it could have been if anyone had any open heart about this at all.

So is Nancy Pelosi,

has she gone totally insane?

I mean, I can't imagine what she was, how she thought that was a win last night for her to do that.

And if I may, could we play the Joe Wilson moment?

This is from an Obama

State of the Union.

Listen to this.

There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would ensure illegal immigrants.

This, too, is false.

The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.

It's not true.

Look at Nancy Pelosi's face there.

And Joe Biden just shakes his head in despair.

And this was a big deal.

Joe Wilson was right.

Last night in the president's speech, he is saying we're stopping all of this health care going for free to illegal aliens.

So Joe was right.

It was in the bill the whole time.

That was a week-long walk of shame.

I think they tried to censure him, did they not?

Yeah, I believe they did.

And, you know, we're going to do something to call attention to this.

As I was saying to you before we came on the air, we had just left a meeting where they're considering their options.

But she is the Speaker of the House, but she is also just a member of the House.

And she has to abide by the same decorum that the rest of us have to.

And what she did, and it was such a mistake.

It was so unnecessary.

It was so calculated.

I mean, she planned on doing this, and how she thought that was a win,

I just don't get it.

It's like you said, has she lost her mind completely?

They're driven.

I've never understood the

Trump derangement syndrome.

And I think some people were driven by that with Barack Obama.

They just

were so blind by the lies and everything else,

they just couldn't get past it.

We just stopped talking about it.

We just were like, okay, well, you know, American people have made their choice.

You know, great, let's look to the future.

These guys,

they can't, they are driven by their hatred for him.

Which is going to make the election night in November so much fun.

Yeah.

Because I agree with you.

I think the president is in a wonderful spot right now.

I think he's in a very strong spot right now.

And they, as you said, hate him so viscerally.

I can't imagine what it's going to be like then when he's re-elected and re-elected, I think, in a pretty powerful way.

You know, what's amazing to me is

what happened with Rush Limbaugh last night and their reaction.

They have people on their side that have received presidential medals of honor that I have thought,

this is a Marxist.

What are you doing?

You know, and there's been people also that have done really good in the past and then politically I completely disagree with them but I can sit there and see okay you know this person means a lot to half of the country whatever

They couldn't even do that.

No, and you may disagree with someone, but you still recognize that they were a leader and that they were a proponent, a powerful proponent for things that they believed in.

And we may not agree with those things, but they're still a powerful leader, and we need to recognize that.

That's all we were looking for last night.

And not even, I don't even think that.

Here's a guy.

I mean, for the president to do that and to present it to him, which is a first, to present it to him

should

lead one to believe

that he is

very ill.

He's very ill.

And that was a humanitarian thing to do.

And they couldn't even give him that.

Yeah.

Well, you know, and so their reaction was very predictable there.

But I'll tell you what isn't predictable, and it's even harder for me to understand.

And that's when the president says things like, you know, America's the greatest country God's ever given to man.

And they sit on their hands and scowl.

And if I were the president, I would turn to him and I'd repeat it and I'd say, I'm going to say it again.

America's the greatest gift ever given to man, and have the cameras focus on them and have them sit there showing them scowling.

I really think Congress should you guys should, you guys should try to get cameras on

them.

I've learned more

about your job and his job in the last two years just going to the State of the Union.

Tanya and I went to

the White House correspondence dinner once.

And honestly, I went home, I went to the hotel, and I took a shower.

I felt dirty after that.

It was awful.

And both of us were like, never again.

We left early and never, ever again.

So I kind of expected that kind of thing here, and it's not.

And you really, you learn so much.

I watched Rashida Tlaib and Elon Omar, and I watched them the whole time.

And

when I go through and describe what they were doing the entire time, and then they walked out and they issued the statement we couldn't take it anymore it is I mean I watched it it was a performance it's a performance they don't care

yeah you know

Barack Obama and I didn't agree on very much

and and there were some things that that he said and did that I found deeply offensive and I thought were unconstitutional and a danger to our Republic but I still went to the state of the unions

and when he said something positive and true, I stood up and acknowledged that.

They just can't do it.

They just can't do it.

And it's not that

it was, you don't even have to give him credit.

You could just say America is stronger, it's better, the economy is stronger.

How can you deny the evidence?

Remember, Barack Obama was saying that there are, you know, because of me, X number of jobs have been created or saved.

Yeah.

And you couldn't count saved.

What do you mean, saved?

Yeah.

This is an actual unemployment number.

And they're like, well, the president is juicing those numbers.

It's the unemployment number.

Yeah.

Which is the lowest in my lifetime.

Right.

And the lowest ever for Hispanic community, African-American and the women and others.

But putting that aside, coming back to this other thing, you have this little girl who they just changed her life by giving her this scholarship, and they sit on their hands and boo.

You have the Tuskegee Airman, 100 years old,

a World War II hero, and they won't even acknowledge him.

And the only reason is not because they don't like him, it's because they will not give this president a win on anything.

They won't acknowledge that he can do or say anything positive for our country.

I think they hurt themselves.

This impeachment was a huge mistake, critical error on their point.

On their part, look at what they are doing in Iowa.

They had low voter turnout.

They don't really have a candidate that anybody is coalescing

for.

They're going to continue to have lower turnout.

With the president last night, this is the first president that has overtly courted

the

minority.

Everybody else has written them off.

Reagan kind of did.

He just included everybody, I think.

He just included everybody as an American.

there was no hostility there.

You have this president who

is not ceding the ground that Republicans have ceded since the 1960s.

And he's exactly right to do that.

He shouldn't concede that ground.

I mean, he can go to the African-American community, as he does, and he asks them, What have the Democrats done for you in your lifetime?

And the answer isn't that much.

And then he can make this argument.

Look what we've done for you or tried to do for you for all Americans, and it's a lot.

And you know, it turns out the American people aren't as stupid as some people think they are.

And they can look at their own lives and say, you know what, I really am better off now than I was three years ago, and I'm more hopeful for my future than I was three years ago.

And if they can answer those questions in a positive way, then I think a lot of them would say, Why wouldn't I support this president?

On a final note,

you are

on this impeachment committee the whole time, trying to ring the bell and trying to, you know, let everybody know what was really going on.

I appreciate you sitting through all of those.

You're one of the very few that I've given

an advance to.

In fact, here it is.

This is the special tomorrow that I'm doing.

Chris,

this is

we've worked about

two and a half months on this special,

and

I will tell you that this is

worse than we thought.

All of this is backed up.

We have all of the paperwork.

Please look into this.

This will shock even the left.

I think the left will turn

against

Barack Obama mainly.

There is something that was going on that we reveal tomorrow that is,

well, it was one of the worst scandals in my lifetime with another president.

Well, Glenn, if I could just very quickly thank you for that.

You have done, and a few others, but you have done remarkable work on this, and this is important work.

You said thank you for the work we've done on impeachment, on the intelligence committee.

I'm more proud of anything, the work we did previous to that, where we said for three years, hey, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and some of these directors were corrupt, and they politicized these agencies in a way that destroys our democracy if we would not have known that.

So, are we, I've only got about 30 seconds.

Are you going to pursue it?

Are we going to pursue it as a nation and clean this up?

Well, I tell you who I have great faith in, and I really miss.

Attorney General Barr is very serious about this.

He's committed to doing it.

He doesn't have a dog in this race, and he doesn't have to make a name for himself.

I'm very hopeful.

Okay, Chris Stewart from Utah.

Thank you very much, Congress.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

There's a guy that you may or may not know because he's Canadian.

He has been on the conservative front of Canadian politics for a very long time.

He is

really,

in many ways, the guy who is,

he's kind of the Rupert Murdoch of

Canadian conservatives.

He has tried for a long time to make sure that conservative voices were heard in Canada, and it's harder than it is here in America.

Ezra Levant is with us now, and you have written a book that came out during the election of Justin Trudeau,

and you're now being investigated by the government.

Yeah, I'd love to tell you a story about this, and I'd like your American listeners to think of an alternative history if, say, Hillary Clinton had won in 2016.

What might be different now?

Because when I talk about Canada, it's like you have a dystopian time machine.

What could things be like if you

go off course

or if you make the wrong choice?

So in the last Canadian election in October, I wrote a book.

I published a book about Justin Trudeau.

I called it The Libranos, a takeoff of the Sopranos.

It's not that funny, but you know, the book did well.

Went to number two on the Canadian bestseller list.

It was very critical of Trudeau.

There were 24 books about Justin Trudeau in that last election cycle.

Some most liked him.

Mine was critical.

Over Christmas, I got a registered letter from our version of the FEC.

It's called Elections Canada, saying I was being investigated for illegal campaign activity and would I present myself for an interrogation.

So I went to Ottawa to the high security headquarters of our FEC where two 30-year veterans of the Mounties who are now federal investigators for Elections Canada grilled me for an hour in a small closed room about my book.

Now, I know.

This is after the election.

Yeah, so the election was over.

Trudeau was re-elected.

He has a minority government, but he's still in power, and he's really moving forward on different kinds of censorship.

In fact, just last week,

one of his cabinet ministers proposed registering and licensing news websites.

So

we're probably the first in line because we're...

That'll happen here.

I talked to Ted Koppel.

He wants that to happen.

Well,

a lot of the incumbent media want that to rule out the insurgent media, the legacy media, as a way of protecting them.

So

I have been investigated before.

About a dozen years ago, I was interrogated because I republished the Danish cartoons of Mohammed.

And then it was a Human Rights Commission that prosecuted me.

So

I knew what was coming, so I

recorded my interrogation.

and didn't let the cops know about it.

They actually,

when I came in the room, they said no video recording of this for security reasons I thought well I'm gonna ignore that advice I recorded the whole thing and I did so I don't normally do that in fact I've never done that with a secret recording before but I thought no one will believe me if I just tell them what happens

for example the first and I sent your producer some clips the first thing I said when I got in the room was You've summoned me here to Ottawa.

Can I see the complaint against me?

Can I know who complained against me?

I haven't seen it yet.

And I don't know if you have the time, but it's about a one-minute clip.

We do.

If you have that, can we play these?

Are these in order?

Is this the first clip?

I think so.

It's the one where I say, hey, guys, can you show me the complaint?

And their answer is shocking.

It's right out of the star chamber.

Let's see if this is it.

Go ahead.

Can I see the complaint against me?

The letter that you received?

No.

I presume that your investigation?

Yeah.

Oh, this is still part of the investigation, so we'll have to

once the investigation's been

completed, the commission will have to make a decision.

At that point, you'll have to decide if that is releasable or not.

It's not something that usually is released.

So it's a secret complaint?

It's not a secret complaint.

It's just a complaint that's part of the investigation.

And

to keep the integrity of the investigation right now, you'll understand that we can't share everything that we have as well.

Well, I don't want everything that you had.

I just, if I'm here to to meet a complaint,

but you won't show me the complaint,

how can I possibly meet the complaint?

How can I possibly respond to something that you won't show me?

Well, though, I think the letter was quite clear on

what the infraction is alleged, and this is what we want to clarify with you.

Well, did you generate the complaint or was it from an outside party?

No, we didn't generate the complaint.

We did not generate the complaint.

So someone external to your office generated the complaint that is usually the case is that the case in this case yeah yeah we did not generate the complaint okay was it the liberal party that generated the complaint

so you won't tell me who the complaint is

the complainant is that's the ceiling yeah no no not at this point so at what point do you tell me who this the commissioner is is the the ultimate uh responsible person for uh for the investigation and and how this uh is decided so how do I know what I've what conduct has been complained about if you won't tell me

this is that you don't have a right to face your accuser I don't even know if there is a complaint

and I don't know if they're asking me questions to as misdirection

Later on, I mean, we were there for 55 minutes and I recorded the whole thing.

They were doing their best not to tell me anything, but I was asking as many questions as I was answering.

And one of them finally said

he had been watching my shows, my videos.

And in one of them, I said, Of course, I published my book during the election.

That's when people want to know about an election.

You don't publish a book after the election.

There's going to be a thousand books about Donald Trump this year.

You would publish them before, not after.

Right.

And

there's a clip you have there where he says,

I think it's number um

here the investigator timing exactly yeah question that this is clip four please investigators question ezra on his release of the trudeau book during an election they said it that's what made it an election crime is that i wrote about the election during the election it's it's unbelievable he says it watch so when you when you came to your decision you're going to author a book release a book in time for the election and i don't have your own words but online you when you received a letter from Madame Gigou,

you did a blurb online that I watched, and you speak about, of course, that it was released in time for the election.

Which, if that's your position today,

that wouldn't allow you to have the exemption

for advertising for a book.

So, that's why we wanted to clarify that with you.

Perhaps you were misspoken when you spoke online.

So, we're here to try to clarify it.

What the hell does that even mean?

What exemption?

What are you talking about?

The law, as written, says books and the promotion of books are exempt from

prosecution.

And so

when I first got this threat letter over Christmas, I did a video saying this is ridiculous.

Books are specifically exempt.

This has got to be a mistake.

They haul me in anyways.

And he had watched my video and he said, oh, you admitted that the book was timed for the election.

Of course it was.

Of course it was.

John Bolton's book is worth something to Simon and Schuster because they could leak it at the time of the impeachment.

Of course.

That's not meddling in the election.

That's participating in the election.

Right.

And

I was not aware of the fact that 24 other books were published about Trudeau.

Mine is the only one being investigated.

Let me play that clip.

That's clip three.

Have you investigated any of the other authors who published books about Trudeau at the exact same time as me?

Have you

investigated John Iverson's book or Aaron Warry's book?

There's over 24 books that were published around that period.

You haven't answered my question.

Have you investigated John Iverson or Aaron Warry's books?

I haven't.

Have you?

I haven't.

Yeah, is anyone in your office investigating any other books about Justin Trudeau or just the book that's critical of him?

So they're getting angry at you.

And they're dismissing.

There's one more clip, and I know I'm showing a lot, but it was, it's sort of incredible to believe.

These are 30-year Mounties.

Actually, they both worked, one worked organized crime.

They both worked terrorism cases.

Now they're federal investigators.

They've got five men on my case.

And one of them said, did you consider registering the book with the government?

And let me just say, I'm...

Registering the book.

Under Soviet domination in Romania, which was an Eastern Bloc country, if you had a typewriter, you had to register your typewriter with police.

and you had to type out a sample, because each typewriter in the olden days was slightly different.

They would keep a sample, so if they ever found some samizdat, some freedom type, they could compare it to all the registered typewriters and know who the troublemaker was.

They registered typewriters in Romania under Soviet domination.

And this cop says, did you consider registering your book with the government?

Clip five.

The knowledge that you would have or not have of the Election Act, the Canada Elections Act, when you are planning the book

and you the the new third party rules, because I believe there's some comments on your s as well about that, did you give any consideration of saying maybe I should

register as a third party for this circumstance, or maybe I shouldn't

because of my interpretation of what I'm going to do, or did you

not make that determination?

Tim, I appreciate the question.

Yeah, I absolutely did think about that at great length.

Do you want to share any of those thoughts?

I'll sure some of them.

I mean, I thought the day I register

with the government to write a book is the day we no longer are the True North strong and free.

And if

Elections Canada's commissioners are stupid enough to prosecute me for writing, publishing, and promoting a book about an election during an election, then that's an important fight to have because we need to roll back these pencil-neck bureaucrats and their blackface boss.

And we need to remind them that we're still a free country.

So I thought about it long and hard, Tim.

I was a little bit lippy there.

I was doing my best not to swear.

I was so frustrated.

And these guys,

I felt like they were trying to get me to confess and do a plea bargain.

And I was blunt.

I said, no, I think you need to be told by a judge that what you're doing is wrong.

Now, I hope that the judge, because we do have in our Constitution some protections for free speech, but you wouldn't know it.

Because these guys have five men on the case of my book.

And I should tell you, my book only hit number two on the bestseller list during the election.

Since I released this interrogation tape, my book hit number one.

So that's the irony about censorship in this day and age.

You want to read the things that people don't want you to read.

And why is it that Trudeau is so mad about a little book by an independent author that he wants to ban it and he sicks five cops on it?

Like, what is it?

And in Canada, we have our state broadcaster, the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

It is larger than all private sector news media combined.

So it's so dominant.

Trudeau already has that.

And then he did a a massive newspaper bailout where almost every newspaper in Canada now gets payments from the government.

So the number of purely independent media in Canada, it's less than 10%.

It's probably, by readership, it's probably 5%.

But that last 5% is so irritating to him, he wants to snuff it out.

I believe that in a short order, there will only be two kinds of journalists in Canada.

Those who work for Justin Trudeau in some way, or those who are being prosecuted by Justin Trudeau in some way?

Coming our way.

I think so.

I think

we don't turn around.

I think the EU, what happened with Brexit, is a big crack in the new wall.

And I think there is a chance that this stuff is turned around.

But if we don't turn these governments around and they don't start respecting the rights of free people, they're going to continue to power grab and power grab and power grab, and we will all be silenced.

You and I spoke on the radio once about Tommy Robinson,

a dissident journalist who was put in solitary confinement for 66 days because of his reporting about a rape gang.

That's worse than Canada, and Canada is worse than America.

So, this is your early warning.

The U.K.

is terrible.

Canada is not as bad, but it's dangerous.

My friends, it's easier to fight in the first ditch than in the last ditch.

And

it is so much harder to regain a freedom than to keep it.

And I just hope that, I mean, you're one of the guys that they would want to censor.

Rush Limbaugh, the rage against Rush Limbaugh is because he didn't tow the line.

Yeah.

All right.

Back in just a second with just a little.

So

I just have to say this out loud.

Ezra Levant is.

He's the founder of the Rebel Media website up in Canada.

He is the host of the Ezra Levant podcast.

He has been outspoken for a very long time.

Usually, usually, I mean, first of all, every time I see him, he introduces himself.

He's really, really humble and quiet.

But usually if someone gives to somebody else's charity, especially in a large way, they make a big deal out of it.

I didn't know that you have been donating.

Your company, your team, and your listeners have been donating to the Nazarene Fund now for a long time, $5,000 a month commitment.

Why?

What?

I mean, I'm so appreciative.

I didn't know that you were doing this.

Can we turn this thing up?

There we go.

Credit to our donors and our viewers.

I went to Iraq just over two years ago

with a small team and we saw the genocide against Christians.

It's really ethnic cleansing and it's being ignored by all the powers of the world.

Even, I regret to say, I think even the church has ignored it.

I mean, some great exceptions.

Like Samaritan's purse is a notable exception.

And so we did some videos about this, but I thought, well, let's help.

So let's raise some money for these Christians.

I'm Jewish myself, and I saw so many analogies with the Holocaust, the desecration of the Christian cemeteries, the marking of the door.

In Germany, it was the yellow star.

In Iraq, it was the noon, the Nazarene symbol.

And also, the fact that the West ignored it.

So

it really

was a lot of echoes of the Holocaust.

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