Best of the Program | Guests: Senator Ted Cruz, Steve Deace & Nigel Farage | 2/4/20

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Today, man, it was a big show today.

We had Ted Cruz on the program,

host of, at least co-host of the number one podcast in America, which is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

You may also know him as a senator.

He was on today to talk about everything going on.

And Michael Knowles as well.

So Michael Knowles comes on later.

He's the co-host of that same podcast.

And he's great.

He's on Daily Wire, and he's got all these stuff on not only

impeachment and Iowa, but also we talked a lot about Rush Limbaugh and his announcement and what he's meant to radio and all of our lives as far as formulating an ideology, really, to that base level.

Nigel Farage is on over here.

You may have seen his great speech when he came to Brexit just the other day.

He's going to the State of the Union tonight.

He's in our studios during this podcast.

And Steve Dace is in Iowa talking about everything going on there.

He knows the internal workings of Iowa politics better than anybody.

And

he just gave us all sorts of great background on what's going on in this embarrassing disaster of the Iowa caucus for the Democrats.

It's all coming up today's podcast.

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Senator Ted Cruz.

How are you, Senator?

Glenn, I'm doing fantastic.

How are you doing?

I was watching last night, and I remembered being at the caucus for you in Iowa, and what a bizarre system that is.

Last night,

I think the Democrats showed us that, oh, they're on top of securing the election results.

Holy cow.

It is an absolute mess.

It is chaos.

And, you know, I got to say, I really feel for all of the thousands of volunteers.

You know, you've got candidates who've spent a year or more crisscrossing the state.

And as you know, you've got volunteers.

We had people come from Texas, from all over the country in 2016, basically move to Iowa, stay in dormitories, and go out in blizzards, knocking on doors, making phone calls.

They poured their hearts into it.

And it's not too much to have at the end of the night an election result.

No, I mean, you know, that's

a nice benefit.

I cannot imagine the frustration, the anger they're feeling.

So, Ted, what is your, I mean, let me give you some of the

headlines.

Republicans gloat over Iowa caucus meltdown.

You're actually, this is from CBS News.

You're mentioned there.

Are you gloating?

A little bit.

I don't think there's anything.

Okay, so it's interesting they say that.

I've said a total of one thing today on that, which is I sent a tweet as I was driving in this morning, and my tweet pointed out that

today can't even stand at a gymnasium and count who's standing under which sign.

These are the people they want to put in charge of our health care and everything else in our lives.

No, thank you.

No, thank you.

Like these guys, it ain't that complicated.

You know, student council, okay, everyone for Joey, everyone for Susie, raise your hand, we're done.

These guys can't do that, but don't worry, we'll keep you alive, we'll keep your mom alive, we'll decide everything in your life.

No, we're smarter than you.

That the age of the the socialists put these geniuses in charge of everything that matters to you.

So the other Washington Post said, conservatives spread false claims on Twitter about electoral fraud as Iowans prepare to caucus.

You know, at this point, we don't have any evidence of fraud.

And I had an old boss of mine who used to say, never explain anything with malice.

that could be explained with incompetence.

Yes.

I think these guys just screwed up.

It's actually one of the the reasons you and I are both really skeptical of big government.

Right.

Because it screws everything up.

So let's have it do what it needs to do, but other than that, leave everything to the people.

And it's, you know, I'm sure there were a bunch of smart people who had a great plan and they had an app.

I think it's called Shadow.

So Nat.

Shadow, if that doesn't give you confidence.

So now apparently these are the Peter Pan Democrats because they can't find their shadow.

All right.

Okay, so let me so let me go into just

because I think it's incompetence.

I don't think there's anything going on.

But if, on the other hand, it may be the secretive

Joe Biden Illuminati

working to snuff out the Bernie revolution.

Right.

That's entirely possible, too.

Yeah.

Right.

And if I were blue hair and dreadlocks and things pierced all over my face, I would believe that.

I would believe that, too.

Especially after the

paper, the leading paper, they always come out in Iowa, Des Moines Register, and they come out and they say,

you know, right the day before,

here are the poll numbers.

Well, we now know that the poll numbers that were spiked

were this,

and this has now been confirmed.

Bernie Sanders, 22, Elizabeth Warren, 18,

Pete Budajudge at 16, Joe Biden at 13.

Wow.

So

you put that together with what happened last time where they really were, you know, torching, doing everything they could, it seemed, to take down Bernie Sanders.

You're a Bernie Sanders fan.

You're even an Elizabeth Warren fan.

This does nothing to help you believe in the party.

Well, look, there's no doubt that the Democratic party machinery is terrified of Bernie, and they're terrified of Warren.

And the problem is

the base of their party is enthralled with crazy leftist ideas.

The base of their party is angry.

They've got pitchforks.

They've got torches in the street.

And so we saw four years ago the Democratic Party did everything they could to stop Bernie then.

And part of it is, look,

Democrats are statists.

They're authoritarians.

They believe in centralized power.

So they have things like super delegates.

The Republican side, we don't have super delegates.

The Democrats have like had a big chunk of their vote to decide who their presidential nominee is, are lifelong career politicians who are called superdelegates who get to decide.

And they did that after Reagan won.

They saw that the Reagan revolution changed the Republican Party and they said, we don't want that to happen to us.

Inevitably,

statists and authoritarians don't trust the people.

So the rhetoric is always the people.

We care about the people, so put me in charge of the people.

That's their message.

You know, someone actually believes in the people who said, all right, how about let's leave the people in charge of themselves and get government, you know, Jefferson referred to the Constitution as chains to bind the mischief of government.

The modern Democratic Party, they don't believe there's any mischief to be bound.

Right.

And it all comes down to they have incredible faith in their own ability.

They're smarter than you are.

They know better than you do.

And it's a combination of elitism and condescension and willingness to employ brute force.

If you don't disagree with them, they will use the coercive power of the state to make you agree with them.

Right.

So

let's switch gears here.

First of all,

any indication on when they're going to have a

no clue.

They keep saying last night they were like, no, we're just verifying.

We're just verifying.

It doesn't take you this long to verify.

This is worse than Florida.

I have no idea.

So, you know, I will say, as you know, I've sort of entered your world a little bit in the last couple of weeks because we've launched a podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.

It went from zero, non-existent, number one.

It skyrocketed to number one in the country.

We were going to film a podcast last night.

We were sitting there to film a podcast.

Michael Knowles, who I think is coming in shortly afterwards, so Michael and I were there in the studio, and the whole plan is when the Iowa results come in, we'll go on and talk about it.

So we're sitting there

and we're sitting there and we're sitting there.

I think we sat there three hours and we finally said, well, I don't think we're getting results.

Now, the nice thing about a podcast, you don't have a hard time.

It's not like I go on at nine and it's like, all right, if we don't have Iowa results, I'll tell you what, let's wait and do it tomorrow.

Let's actually know what the results are.

I went to bed figuring I'd know when I woke up.

Me too.

Who the heck knows?

Yeah.

All right.

Let's switch to impeachment.

First of all,

were you mocking that, please say yes.

Were you mocking Nancy Pelosi's hand clap,

you know, there on the Senate floor?

Of course.

Okay, good.

I just, all right.

Although I did have folks who were wondering if I was paying up on losing a bet for the Nationals Astros because the Nationals did the whole baby shark thing.

So it could have been that.

Could have been that.

Could have been that.

So what happened, I was talking to Mitch McConnell and we were talking to a couple of other senators who were there, and we were talking about State of the Union.

And it wasn't clear when the vote and impeachment was going to be.

And if it ended up being after the State of the Union, which it is, it's going to be tomorrow.

There was some discussion about the possibility that Trump might cancel the event, cancel the State of the Union, say, I'll wait until after you vote on that.

And that was being discussed a little bit.

And we were saying, well, what if Pelosi won't invite him back?

What if she she says, Okay, you canceled it, you don't get a state of the union?

So we were talking about,

well, we'll just invite him to the Senate.

We can do the State of the Union in the Senate.

And then I was looking around because there's nothing, the Senate floor is pretty small.

And so I said, Well, where would we put the House members?

I guess we could put them up in the gallery.

And Mitch said, Yeah, we could stick Nancy back behind the TV cameras.

That'd drive her crazy.

And that's the point where I said, No, no, Mitch, you got to give her some respect.

You know, she did invent a little clap.

And so we were laughing at that, but that was the context of the conversation.

So

this is the worst political strategy on her part I've ever seen.

The Democrats,

does this taint Trump at all, free Trump from this?

Are they going to continue to do this

in his second term?

What are the results of the what is the meaning of all of this?

So, look, I agree with you.

It was a serious blunder.

I think Pelosi knows that.

She didn't didn't want to go down the road of impeachment.

Less than a year ago, both Pelosi and Jerry Nadler both said, you can't have a partisan impeachment.

It tears the country apart.

It divides us.

I think they didn't want to do this.

The reality they're facing is their base is angry.

The hard left base, they're motivated by rage.

Hatred of Donald Trump is their all-consuming vision and passion.

And I think the Democrats had no choice.

Pelosi felt she was basically a hostage of her angry base.

So they went down this road.

I got to say where we are politically, I think the chances of Donald Trump being reelected have risen dramatically.

Oh, I think so, too.

And it's very much the same as,

look, when Republicans impeached Bill Clinton, that was a mistake.

Republicans overreached.

And that got Bill Clinton reelected.

It was an enormous political benefit to Bill Clinton for the Republicans to overreach and try to impeach him.

The American people said, enough already.

Focus on what matters to us.

Focus on jobs.

Focus on

our future, our family.

I think that contrast is playing out beautifully.

And so my advice to the president for tonight for State of the Union is the same thing, is be positive and optimistic and lay future.

And just don't even talk about the impeachment.

Just look forward.

Here's what we've accomplished, and here's where we're going.

I don't know if the president, first year Donald Trump, could have done that, but he's changed.

He has has become disciplined.

And

there's a lot of worry from Republicans that I've heard that are saying, dear God, please don't say anything.

But I think he's so close to the finish line, and he knows the gravity of it.

I hope so.

I've given him that advice directly.

I know a lot of people have.

I will say, last week during impeachment, it was interesting.

I was at the White House twice last week with the president.

The first time was for the announcement of his effort to achieve peace in the Middle East.

And it was an announcement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

It was a fabulous event.

The next day, I was back there because he was signing the USMCA, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.

And the contrast of those two were really striking, where he's working on substance, he's working on policies that make a difference in the economy, make a difference in jobs for farmers, for ranchers, for manufacturers.

He's working on issues that matter, like world peace.

And the Democrats,

they're just a mob wanting to attack the president.

I think that contrast, frankly, Bill Clinton drew that same contrast.

He did the same.

He focused on...

Exactly right.

Remember moveon.org?

Yep.

Rose up during that, and the whole message of moveon.org was move on.

I know.

And ironically, moveon.org

is actively supporting impeachment now and is raising money for it.

It is kind of like, did you?

Do you remember the name?

Do you remember that?

Remember where you read from the name of your group?

Maybe start a different group.

Like, if you're going to do that.

Stayhere.com.

Stay right here.

DwellonThis.com.

We're with Ted Cruz, and we are in Washington, D.C.

You told me last time you were on, you said,

I think we want,

I think I'm going to vote for witnesses.

What changed your mind?

So what I have been saying from the beginning is that if we go down the road of witnesses, that we needed to respect the principle of reciprocity.

In other words, we couldn't do what the House did, have a one-sided show trial where only prosecution witnesses are allowed and you block every defense witness, which is what the House Democrats did.

And so what I early on was urging my colleagues to do is if we go down the road to witnesses, and I initially just kind of kept my mind open on whether we would have them or not, but I said if we go down the road, we need to do it even-handedly.

We need to be fair.

We need to respect due process.

That means if the the prosecution gets a witness, the defense gets a witness.

That means if they get John Bolton, then the president gets to call Hunter Biden.

I think that principle was right.

I think it was valuable, but I think it also ended up playing a big part in the final decision not to go down the road of additional witnesses.

And

that ended up being an important vote.

I spent a lot of time

within the conference trying to get us to 51 votes to say enough is enough.

The American people are tired of this there were 18 witnesses who testified the House proceeding we heard hour after hour of witness testimony of documents the most important documents in the entire impeachment proceeding which is the transcript of the call that's at issue here the president declassified and released.

And so we had a ton of evidence before us.

And on all the evidence, the president hadn't committed an impeachable crime.

He hadn't met, the House managers didn't meet the constitutional standard of high crimes or misdemeanors.

And so I, at the end of the day, agreed that we didn't need additional witnesses because they hadn't proven their case.

But I think laying out reciprocity, making clear that

this will go both ways, I got to tell you one of the consequences of that.

I think there were a whole bunch of Democrats who were terrified of going down the road of witnesses.

They all voted for it.

But I think it was one of those instances in the Senate where they voted yes and were hoping the answer was no.

Correct.

Because if we'd gone down the road of witnesses, if we'd been hearing testimony from Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, I think it would have been very Democrats are terrified of the evidence of corruption.

And Glenn, let me commend you.

You were one of the very first to dig in to the substance of burisma and the evidence of corruption and lay it out.

Everyone else caught up to you, but as is often the case, you were ahead of the pack by a good chunk.

I will tell you that I have a special coming up on Thursday that

I will share with you off the air the evidence that we have.

It's beyond anything that we found.

We found links through

money laundering.

We found the money laundering leaks.

And there was something else going on that Congress needs to be aware of.

And I'll share that with you.

I look forward off the air.

Will there be an

investigation on

how this thing happened?

I mean, the whistleblower shift, any of that.

Will anybody pay?

So I hope so.

A couple of nights ago, I had on my podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham.

And so invited him to join.

And actually, Lindsey and I had a lot of fun on the podcast.

It was very funny that we film in a basement studio here in D.C., and Lindsay was cracking jokes, going, all right, if no one sees me again, I'm in an underground basement in Washington.

And look, it's pretty low budget.

So we got these giant microphones.

We had shag carpet.

And he's like looking around going, wait, if you guys are number one, who the heck is number two?

Some guy in a van by the park?

Like, what's wrong with you?

Anyway, I say all of that to say in answer to your question.

Lindsay said on the show that he wanted to see investigations into Hunter Biden, into burisma, and he wanted to see it on foreign relations.

Jim Risch chairs foreign relations.

Lindsay chairs judiciary.

It's got to be one of the committee chairmans that goes down the road.

I'm on both committees.

So my answer to that is yes.

Good.

We should investigate because the law should apply fairly to everyone, regardless of party.

And people are frustrated.

How come people could commit corruption during the prior administration and get off scot-free?

That's not right.

There needs to be accountability.

Thank you so much.

Senator Ted Cruz will be watching you tonight at the State of the Union and listening to your new podcast.

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We have Steve Dace, who is now

in Iowa,

and he is there to tell us what the hell is going on.

Steve, Iowa is making the counting process in Florida look absolutely professional.

What's going on, Glenn, is this is central planning.

It's only fitting that Bernie Sanders likely won the caucuses because you're watching his worldview

play out in real time.

I mean, this is the DMV.

This is an election brought to you by Iran is the lost city of gold.

Net neutrality and tax cuts will kill us.

Rape hoaxes, collusion hoaxes.

Michael Evenetti for president.

I mean, that's what you're watching.

And the same people that want to ruin everything else in the culture are ruining the Iowa caucuses in real time as we speak.

So this is something that they said that they had, they were working on.

They said, we've got all kinds of backup.

There's not going to be a problem.

This app works wonderfully.

First of all, do you believe that

any of the crazy conspiracies that are going around mainly, I think, from Bernie people?

Because if I were a Bernie person, and they treated him like they did last time and now he's winning and you're taking that away you lost the poll that that just mysteriously was not fit to print the day before and he was number one in that poll

do you believe any of the conspiracies

or is it just flat out incompetence it I believe the Des Moines Register polling conspiracy but I think that had more to do with Pete Butigic than Bernie Sanders and with the caucuses I think you know pardon me Glenn these this is the they had an Obamacare website ready to go to.

And I just think this is what central planning does.

This is what it does.

And what happened four years ago is they actively screwed Bernie over.

And so in order to alleviate that, they came up with a three-tiered bureaucracy and then they attached an app to it.

And so this is a typical leftist solution.

When people don't like an existing bureaucracy, create even more that they'll hate all the more.

And that's exactly what's going on here.

And And I think that's the part people need to understand.

For 50 years, we had these caucuses.

And we had one issue with Rick Santorum eight years ago when one rural county didn't count properly and razor thin election and it went from plus eight to plus 12 on the certification process.

That was the only issue we had in 50 years.

They have turned this thing in.

to a cluster of epic proportions because this is what Medicare for all looks like.

This is what your education, this is like a John Stossel documentary on the public education system.

This is waiting for Superman playing out with a caucus.

This is everything leftists do, every solution that they have, is what is going on here in Ottawa.

Now, they say that

this new app, which I happen to have, in fact, Sarah, if I could open up this app, they say it's

very, very high-tech.

And

I'm just opening it up.

just a sec

hang on it's just

just have to

all right now I'm

now I'm fully connected and so I can see what's going on I mean

what are they doing

and and why if they said they had three different things one very high tech and they blamed it on slow internet speeds uh-huh um so they have that but they said we have the paperwork we have photos of all the paperwork so we had a three-fold system

you obviously didn't because it doesn't take that long to look at photographs or to count numbers on a page

So, no, are you going to be able to trust?

Are you going to be able to trust these numbers at all?

Because they're clearly not telling you the truth of how bad it is.

I think it's obvious that they're not, that part, they're not telling you the truth.

And last time I heard that sound is when I met my wife because we met on an AOL chat room 25 years ago.

Okay.

And so

the whole thing is ridiculous.

And I think what you're learning is that the counting process doesn't have.

full confidence and accountability that they didn't do these counts properly because here's the the process is with the with the herding herding process.

When your candidate's not viable and you've got to move from one candidate to another, and all of that politicking is going on right there in real time, I'm sure a lot of your listeners saw this on cable news last night at caucus sites where, you know, Andrew Yang's not viable, or at a lot of caucus sites, Joe Biden wasn't viable last night.

And so, where are his supporters going to go?

And so, trying to figure that out through the process of three counts, it's pretty obvious they're not sure about their own count, because if they they were, we'd have had these results by now.

Now, we have California saying that they have a new app too, and they're going to be voting for the first time on an app.

You think that's going to change between now and the California primary?

It's funny how

we think that,

and this is kind of the progressive mindset, isn't it, Glenn, that anything old is bad.

Anything old.

Hey, you know, we don't keep doing things because that's the way we've always done them, right?

That's the worst excuse to continue.

But maybe the reason why your great-grandmother passed her chocolate chip cookie recipe down to your grandmother, and your grandmother passed it down to your mom, and she's passing it down to you now is because it's the best damn chocolate chip cookie recipe anybody's found.

That's why it survived this long.

And I don't, not everything's got to be retconned and refinished and modernized and contemporarized.

You know, it's just as simple as count heads, write the number down and turn it in.

How hard is that?

How do the people in Iowa feel today?

Those people who worked their butts off, who canvassed neighborhoods, who have, you know, dragged people out to make sure that they were at caucus?

Their vote really almost doesn't matter now because Iowa is the first.

It sets the tone for the rest.

And if I were a voter, I would be so angry that my vote, I've been disenfranchised.

Even if they count it later, it doesn't, that's not what I went for.

We went to set the table and to start this thing.

And now my voice hasn't been heard.

I think you've got two choices in how to react to this.

One is

you don't want to admit the entire fallacy of your statist worldview.

And so you'll go to conspiracy

because you don't want to admit that central planning on this level, bureaucracy on this level, simply can't be trusted and doesn't work.

That the same fallibilities in human nature that beguiles all of us doesn't go away when we put on a government uniform where we belong to a central structure.

We bring those same imperfections into the process with us.

And so you have a choice.

You can either admit that you have been a victim of your own worldview, that what you want to do to healthcare, what you already did to education and energy, the reason why you wrecked those industries is because

you don't need smarter people.

Your worldview is bad.

You can now admit this to yourself now that you're a first-person victim of this, or because you don't want to admit this to yourself, you just say

these particular people implementing it are bad, and you go down the road of a conspiracy.

I think that's the choice Iowa Democrats have today.

Steve, would you say it's fair, just judging by the way these candidates are reacting to the potential results that are on the way,

that Buttigieg seemingly did pretty well and Biden did not do well?

I think if you, you know, Bernie Sanders this morning put out what his canvassers had internally on about 40%.

or almost half of the precincts.

And it lines up a lot with what the leaked results of the Des Moines Register poll that were never officially unveiled have to say.

And it goes with the trend lines, too, that I tweeted out in the middle of the night last night, just following a lot of Democrats across the state reporting from their caucus sites on Twitter, pardon me, that it looked pretty close between Sanders, Buddhajig, and Warren, and it looked like Klobuchar could topple Biden for fourth place.

So I think what you see out of this process is Joe Biden is a mortally wounded candidate.

And you're already seeing polls in South Carolina close.

This whole thing about the black vote is largely overblown because I think what people don't understand, because a lot of Republicans get their view of the Democratic Party from the media and Twitter.

And the reality is black folks aren't watching CNN and MSNBC.

They don't watch that stuff.

Rich white affluent people do.

And so they're going to pay attention to the race once it gets to them.

And you're going to see the candidates that have the momentum are going to close the gap, similar to how South Carolina was going to be Hillary Clinton's black firewall in 2008.

And that's the place where Barack Obama essentially won the nomination after winning Iowa.

So I think that you're saying Joe Biden is a mortally wounded candidate in this race.

So

Sanders, I mean, it was either Sanders or Buddha Judge

that won last night, I think, just based on everything that we do know.

Sanders has been, and Buddha Judge, I mean, Buddha Judge hasn't been robbed as much as Sanders has

because Sanders could have used the momentum.

Buddha Judge even coming in second

really helps him a great deal.

Sanders not getting that push and seeing a dominant win hurts him.

Do you agree?

I kind of disagree.

I think this fits into his whole M.O.

system can't be trusted.

That's why we need radical solutions.

We need revolution.

Even the people that you have voted for all these years against those rascally Republicans, they'll try to screw you too.

I think it plays right into his MO.

I think Gutigig is the candidate that got screwed more than anybody else.

I think that's why you saw him out there declare victory last night openly, trying to capture some kind of momentum because he lost a chance to kind of be the shiny object and the new hotness.

And I think what the National Democratic Party is wrestling with right now.

is if

it's really a Bloomberg Bernie Sanders choice for them, which is do they think Michael Bloomberg is somebody that can win enough of their base over to stop Bernie Sanders?

And if not, then time to get your seat before the music stops playing, you know, which is the Soviet national anthem, but you've been playing it for years anyway.

Thank you very much from Iowa.

And I can't imagine being a voter in Iowa today.

Well, by the way, do you want to just touch base real quick, Steve, on the numbers of of Donald Trump?

Tremendous turnout for Donald Trump last night in Iowa.

Yeah, I think they said it was a record for an incumbent president ever.

And I think that's another story, too, on the Democratic side, guys, is their record turnout never materialized.

I mean, they had about 2016-level turnout, not the 2008 record turnout that they thought they were going to get tonight.

And that's with a whole bunch of candidates that were all viable at the same time.

That does not bode well for them in a lot of these rust-belt states going forward forward in the fall.

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First president I voted for was Ronald Reagan.

And

I couldn't vote for him

in 1980.

I wasn't old enough.

In 1984, I was proud to be,

I think,

well, I think there were only four people that ended up voting for Mondale.

But I was proud to vote for Ronald Reagan.

But I was still learning an awful lot.

And back in those days,

there were no teachers of what I now know.

There was no

balance to the news, even though we had the fairness doctrine.

There was no balance.

You know, balance then was like CNN and MSNBC.

Oh,

well, thank you for that.

And I heard a guy who was sweeping the country.

He was a guy that, he was a guy that was just doing a local radio show.

And there was another guy, his partner, that left ABC Radio.

And in his contract, he had a bunch of satellite time.

He had negotiated one of his contracts that, you know, for every year, he gets so many hours hours of satellite time.

Well, back then, satellites were wildly expensive.

And that's what was required if you wanted to do a national show.

And there weren't a lot of national shows, and there certainly wasn't anything like Rush Limbaugh.

And Rush Limbaugh had gone into San Francisco and other places, and he had been turned down.

But he was in Sacramento, and this guy happened to hear him and thought, this guy,

that's a worthy use of my satellite time.

This guy could change things.

I remember first hearing him

with talent on loan from God

from behind the golden EIB microphone

and thinking this guy is crazy.

He doesn't care.

He'd say anything.

And I learned from him.

He was a teacher,

not radio.

He

taught me

how to find truth.

He taught me to question things.

He taught me why things are the way they are.

And I think the most important thing he taught me and

all of America was, you're not alone.

It's not just you.

There are millions of us.

The message I want to send to Rush today is

Rush learned that lesson.

And it's hard

because of

his life and what he does and how people treat people nowadays, he lives

behind golden gates much of the time.

And those of us who do this, we lose,

it's a one-way street so many times.

And we can forget and we can feel like we're alone.

Rush, there are millions of us who are praying for you today.

I remember doing a show and having to go to ABC Radio back in the early 90s.

And I was just starting to think about doing a talk radio show and we had to fill in for a national show.

I don't remember which one.

And Premier Radio Networks is who syndicates Rush and now syndicates me.

They said, we have a studio open in New York.

And we went into the studio and and there it was: the golden microphone, and the giant oil painting of Rush behind me.

And they said, Yeah, just do it from here.

Rush hadn't been in it for probably a year,

but it was awesome just to be in that room, and a little humbling to be behind the microphone.

Just a few weeks weeks ago, I lost my good friend Don Imos.

Don was a childhood hero of mine.

He was the

and only people in radio who really study it, which are very few people now, who really know the history of it.

He was a Jack Benny or a Bob Hope.

He changed radio.

He made his mark and changed morning and comedy on radio.

He's an early pioneer, really, of talk radio.

He just wasn't talking about politics.

He was a legend.

But I think

Rush Limbaugh is not only a legend, he's a pioneer.

The difference is a pioneer

knows they might get killed along the way,

knows that they might get stuck in the mountains, knows that this is risky.

I'm alone, and I'm making this trek over this mountain because I believe there is something on the other side, but there's no real evidence that what you're looking for is actually there.

That's Rush Limbaugh.

Somebody, I was having dinner last night and somebody at the table, we were talking about Rush, and somebody at the table said,

well, God forbid if the worst happens.

Who will replace him?

And I will tell you this,

I thought of that, but in a a different way when I heard this news, because what I thought was this changes radio.

This there is so much pressure on these radio stations to stop doing talk radio.

And one of the reasons why they continue to do it is not because of Mark Levin or Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity.

It's simply because Rush Limbaugh is on that station.

Without him, I don't know what happens to the rest of us on talk radio.

And I sat there quietly at the table as people were banning around names,

and I finally said,

guys,

there is no replacement for Rush Limbaugh.

There is no replacement.

And I don't mean this to be humble or

I mean this because it's true.

And maybe you can only understand this when you get to be my age, but I remember being at the kiddies table.

Then I remember being the newly married couple.

And there were several couples ahead of us.

There were the grandparents, and the parents, and the aunts and uncles.

And as I get older, I realize there are more people down towards the kitty table and fewer towards the exit, if you will.

And you find yourself sitting there as the patriarch of the family at some point, and you're like, wait, wait, how did this happen?

When did this happen?

And when I heard the news, I went through in my head the people

that are

still around.

The legends, the icons, the people who taught me,

the people I watched, the people I admired, the people that

made this industry.

And Rush is the king of them all.

Rush,

I'm not only praying for you because

you're a good guy,

and I'm grateful for what you've done for me personally,

not on not for my career, but as a person in America that cared.

Thank you for being with us.

But I'm also praying for you because I don't know what happens to our voices

if you go away.

Because

you're the king or the mayor of Realsville, as you said yesterday,

as mayor

with none of your your bogus

ego in it that you express on the air, but the real you should know

if the

patriarch goes away, none of us are qualified to sit in that chair.

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Nigel Farage,

formally with the EU, welcome to the broadcaster.

Good morning.

Yes, I was made redundant.

Yes.

At 11 o'clock last Friday evening, I was the turkey that kept on voting for Christmas.

So I'm unemployed.

Yeah, that's great.

That's great.

So your speech last week was absolutely tremendous.

I have likened it to a shot heard around the world.

All of our

governments, it seems, in the West, have this flu, this pandemic of not listening to the people.

The people will vote, the people will speak, they'll get in, the politicians will say one thing, but they'll do another.

You guys actually broke the back of two systems the corrupt system in england that was all the politicians that were just playing that game and the eu

yes i mean firstly you know if you look at i mean take broadcasting for argument's sake the dominants of the bbc our state broadcaster which we have to pay 150 pounds every year to have

and they were they've always been wall-to-wall pro the globalist project and as you say, literally a handful of exceptions in the whole of the House of Commons in Westminster, they were all pro-EU.

It kind of makes the referendum result in 2016 almost a miracle.

Because

we don't understand this here in America.

You know, we were talking about Rush Limbaugh now being very ill.

And you don't have that.

You don't have talk radio.

You can't say the things that I can say.

So there's no rallying

cry except that individual voice that happens to break through and somebody covers.

Yeah, I mean, for me, what made it for me was my speeches in the EU Parliament 10 years ago.

And sure, the BBC wouldn't cover anything I ever said or did, but YouTube came along.

So suddenly, suddenly, I was doing stuff and saying stuff and beginning to reach big audiences through YouTube.

And, you know, once you've got several million views, then the BBC are kind of forced to give you a platform of some kind so that for me was what made it we would never ever have achieved Brexit if it hadn't been for the growth of the internet

and we you know we won that referendum but it's taken us three and a half years to get delivery on it because we've had former prime ministers we've had businesses politicians literally saying that the result wasn't valid that the Russians interfered or we hypnotized everybody or but in the end we got there and I'll tell you what is significant I was talking yesterday to Tony Abbott the former Australian prime minister and a big political thinker and he says Brexit is the biggest geopolitical change since the fall of the Berlin Wall agreed and I think we've dealt an absolutely fatal hammer blow to the globalist project and I you know I've always wanted my country to be outside the EU because I think we should be an independent self-governing democracy but I'm not finished yet because I want to bring down the entire EU project.

So now

here's the issue.

We're seeing this with Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is a hand grenade.

You're a hand grenade.

And that hand grenade goes off.

And it's not like nobody in the media in Great Britain, nobody in the EU, correct me if I'm wrong,

is going to take the time to go, you know what?

I mean, England, they were such good partners.

We lost them.

What were we doing wrong?

They're not doing that.

They're doubling down.

In fact,

their conclusion, and that debate that I was in last week that you talked about, until they kicked me out, but I've been kicked out of better places than that.

It's fine.

But it was interesting.

In that debate, speakers were saying, well, with Brexit, what do we do to stop other countries leaving?

And their conclusion is more centralization.

Their conclusion is more bureaucracy.

They just don't get it.

They're not listening to ordinary folk.

And I'll tell you something.

We could go right now into outside Paris, into rural France, and we would have a conversation with French people, very much along the lines that you you and I are now.

And at the end of the day, you know, people want to live in a nation state.

They want to have a flag, they want to have an identity, they've got their own culture and I'm all for, you know, Europe where we cooperate with each other, we're friendly with each other, we're next door neighbours with each other.

But the idea that we're going to abolish the great ancient states of Europe and hand all this power to these people in Brussels, it's never, ever going to work.

And

the sooner it's ended, the better.

So how do you get the elites?

I mean,

you know, this is why there are revolutions and why France had guillotines.

Because

they just don't get it.

They think they're above you.

Nothing's going to change their minds.

The people are revolting.

Yes, they are.

Aren't they?

They're very revolting.

They're very repulsive.

Right, right, right.

They're deplorable.

And so

how do you see this continuing without

real revolution?

Well, it's very interesting that the British have been through a revolution, but it's been a relatively peaceful

revolution.

For nearly half a century, the Conservative Party were the key proponents and supporters of the European project, despite the fact their voters weren't, but they were.

Sounds familiar.

I came along and challenged you know their assumptions i i mean the reason david cameron offered us a referendum was i was eating into his vote in a very dramatic way uh then last year then last year over three years no brexit a weak prime minister of mrs may and we had to fight a european election and i i formed a brand new party the brexit party we won the election the conservative party got less than 10 of the vote in a national election and they looked into the mirror and they said either we become nigel farage Farage or we're finished so what's happened is the Conservative Party are now saying all of the right things and that's that's the shape of the organization well this is that's that's that's what we have they'll say a lot of stuff yeah they're saying the right things but actually do you know what I think there is a fundamental sea change has now occurred in British politics I think they realize that if they try to betray the promises they've made again, they are electorally going to be finished.

So

I think we've got this to the right place now.

And

Tony Blair, you know, who is a ghastly globalist, even Tony Blair said on Friday, look, we have to accept it and try and make the best of it.

Yeah, well, Bill Clinton also said the era of big government is over.

Yeah, you know, the 90s.

Maybe I'm being too trusting, but hey, look, you know, I'm speaking to you in the sort of still

euphoria

of being in Parliament Square.

For people who don't understand,

why why is the EU so evil?

Why is it so bad?

It's the globalist project, all right?

The EU is the epicenter of the globalist project.

And there are many in America, in the Democrats, who, of course, I mean, had Hillary won last time.

She was all for tying America closely into the European single market.

What it's about, it's about literally the abolition of nation-state democracies.

and its replacement with supranational government, government at a higher level, where the big decisions are made by people that you can't vote for and you can't remove.

And guess who supports this?

The giant multinational businesses.

They love it because the more bureaucratic, the more rules and regulations, the harder it is for small and medium-sized competitors to come along.

So it's kind of what the EU has done, it's destroyed capitalism.

It's replaced it with this new form of corporatism where big business, big banks, big politics operate hand in glove to to their own benefit and to the distress of virtually everybody else.

And

they've kind of

virtually purchased the political class across Europe.

But I think now, now that Brexit's happened, and sure there are more debates to be had about the shape of trade deals and whatever, but I now think there's going to be a conversation happening in every European country.

You know, why did the British leave?

And once they understand the logic of that position, I think we can get back to the nation-state

being the building block.

So do you see anybody in the media or in politics that is starting to wake up anywhere?

Well, I think the Italians.

I mean, the Italians, though, I mean, they're, of course, quite a volatile people.

Just don't get them together with a Germans.

I mean, I love them, but they're right.

But I think, you know, Italy was taken into a currency called the Euro 20 years ago.

It's basically the Deutsche Mark.

You know, I mean, this is a German currency.

It hasn't suited Italy.

You've got a country there now where there's been zero growth for 20 years.

I mean, whole parts of the north of Italy, which in the 1990s, when I was in business, I would visit, and they were vibrant, manufacturing cities.

It's gone.

It's dead.

And I think there comes a point where the Italians, and they're beginning to have this conversation.

There's a guy called Mattio Salvini, you know, who's a very prominent politician in Italy.

And I think there comes a point where the Italians say, you know what?

This is hurting us.

We can't go on with this.

You've got countries like Poland and Hungary countries who only 30 years ago got out from the Soviet Union yeah got out from Moscow telling them what they couldn't and now what have they got they've now got Brussels telling them what they can and can't do you know and and and just think of it I mean how can Germany and Greece be in the same country together they're culturally so far apart and I you know I'm not anti-European I love Europe I love the diversity of Europe, you know, the mix of all the different cultures.

They're getting rid of

they're trying to homogenize us.

They're trying to harmonize us.

They're trying to pasteurize us.

They're trying to create a new European people.

And that's why they've got a flag.

It's why they've got an anthem.

It's why they want an army.

And there are many, there are many, particularly sort of Trotskyites, who see the European Union as being the prototype for one global government.

That's what the Globalist Project's all about.

And I do believe that Brexit is the first real kickback against it.

And it's the beginning of the end.

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