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It's Glenn and Stu.

We're glad that you're here, and we've got a good show for you today.

We started, unfortunately, with Nancy Pelosi's announcement, which almost made my head

explode.

Chris Pratt, Howard Stern,

our own writer, Kevin, talked to Kanye and Kamala Harris and his experience.

It's a crazy, crazy show, Plus, something very, very important,

going back to tradition and what I feel we need to do and a special personal request from me, all on today's podcast.

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I can't tell you.

We can't,

I think we're trying to find the right feed.

We don't have rights, apparently, to this live feed, and it's really hacking me off.

We have it?

We have the feed.

Go ahead.

Here's Nancy Pelosi.

During the debate over impeachment at the Constitutional Convention,

George Mason also asked, shall any man be above justice?

Shall that man be above it who can commit the most extensive injustice?

In his great wisdom, he knew that injustice committed by the president erodes the rule of law,

the very idea of fair justice, which is the bedrock of our democracy.

And if we allow a president to be above the law, we do so surely at the peril of our republic.

In America, no one is above the law.

I agree with that.

In two weeks, through the Intelligence Committee working with the Foreign Affairs and Oversight Committees, the American people have heard the testimony of truly patriotic career public servants, distinguished diplomats, and decorated war heroes,

some of the President's own appointees.

The facts are uncontested.

The President abused his power for his own personal political benefit

at the expense of our national security

by holding military aid and crucial Oval Office meeting in exchange for an announcement of an investigation into his political.

She's a thousand years old, and Disney doesn't have the vocal track of the animatronics around the world.

The American people heard testimony.

Remember, the voice is the hardest thing to do.

The president's actions have seriously

violated the Constitution.

And let me tell you another thing

he says and acts upon the belief, Article 2 says I can do whatever I want.

No.

His wrongdoing strikes at the very heart of our Constitution, a separation of powers, three co-equal branches, each a check and balance on the other.

A republic, if we can keep it, said Benjamin Franklin.

Our democracy

is what is at stake.

The president leaves us no choice

but to act

because he is trying to corrupt once again the election for his own benefit.

The president has engaged in abuse of power, undermining our national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections.

His actions are in defiance of the vision of our founders and the oath of office that he takes to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Sadly,

with confidence and humility,

with allegiance to our founders, and our hearts full of love for America.

Today, I am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment.

Oh, my gosh, this is a shock.

This is a somber wish the president had not made necessary.

Unbelievable.

In signing the Declaration of Independence, our founders invoked a firm reliance on divine rights.

Divine providence.

Oh, my God.

Don't you do it?

Oh, my God.

You are prayerful.

And we will proceed in a manner worthy of our

oath of office

to support and defend

the Constitution of the United States.

Oh, my gosh, in defense of the United States.

Come on.

Okay, stop.

I don't.

No, go ahead, take it, take it.

I can't.

I can't take it, but go ahead and keep her up.

Oh, she's done.

Oh, she's done.

There she goes.

That was one of the worst speeches I've ever heard in my entire life.

She's awful.

I just about went blind.

I just about hysterical blindness.

Did she do this to troll people?

All she ever talks about in public is the Constitution and God.

And then none of her actions reflect either of those things.

None, ever, ever.

I mean, think about this.

This is coming from a party who believes the Constitution is an outdated, antiquated document that barely has anything to do with today.

You think the founders couldn't see Donald Trump?

I didn't see Donald Trump five years ago.

How could the founders see it?

Yet, this esteemed old dusty document, somehow or another, still sees him.

Huh.

Wow.

It's like, it's like it really does work.

Except,

you're saying you want a somber...

A somber and

stoic process here.

That's been anything but this.

Yesterday was an absolute joke.

Joke.

A A joke.

And not to mention, I mean, this is like the equivalent of a NFL head coach calling a press conference two days before the Super Bowl and saying, we intend to play in the Super Bowl.

It's like, well, we already know you won the championship game.

You're all here.

You're practicing.

We know you're going ahead with the impeachment.

This is not a shock.

You did not need a press conference to tell us you were going to try to impeach the president of the United States.

You told us in 2017.

Except it's not like that because they didn't win the championship.

This is like Colin Kaepernick coming out and saying, I'm going to be the quarterback on the winning Super Bowl team.

If he was the owner of the team.

The point is that this is an obvious thing that we all knew was going on.

And they have complete crazy.

This is crazy.

We all knew that they were going to impeach.

We pretty much knew the second they got control of the house.

And honestly, it's been their goal since day one.

So here's the only thing that

keeps me sane today, honestly, is

drugs.

I have been thinking about whiskey an awful lot.

I got to say, it's great.

I mean, I

tell you, it really works.

I have been, I see people now with a glass of whiskey and I miss it terribly.

And you know what?

It's consistent and it's always there for you.

Exactly right.

Now, some would say God would be a better thing to do, but whiskey is easier.

It's easier.

And quite frankly, as a time where I'm getting ready to pay my tithing, it's cheaper.

I could lose my job and it's still cheaper.

Anyway, oh my gosh.

The only thing that keeps me sane is

the fact that I just don't

believe the American people, and I mean Democrats, think this is fair either.

I really don't.

Now, I'm not talking about the Democrats who are the die-hard, you know, at any cost,

you know, because there are those Trump supporters who are like, at any cost, he could go out and shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue with some Trump supporters, and they would be like, so, so, he had a right to do it.

No, not really, not really.

So, I'm not talking about those people.

I'm talking about the,

I would hope,

60%.

I would actually hope 80 or 90, 90, but

I think it's about 60%

of the nation that can honestly say this is just not, this is not right.

This isn't fair.

This isn't right.

Well, and it seems particularly

unconvincing, right?

I mean, I think you look back at the way this is rolled out, you have to think their plan.

from the beginning of this was go through the Mueller thing, get the results, find all the stuff that was obvious that they colluded or whatever we can paint to the people that there's collusion between Trump and Russia.

Then we go through impeachment after that long process.

Well, they just cataclysmic failure when it came to the Mueller report.

They got nothing out of it.

No one believed it was impeachable.

I mean, it was nothing.

So then they're like, well, if we wait past...

a week after hearing about this phone call,

he's going to wind up, we're going to be in the election, we have to get this done this year.

How are we going to do that?

Just go for it.

So, this is like almost like a substitute for what they thought they were going to get.

This is a jam down.

Anything,

whatever it takes, if it means silencing people, if it means

just ramrodding this through,

there is no semblance of fairness here at all.

Look at the people they had speak yesterday.

Look at their record.

They are,

I'm going to talk about them tonight at 5 o'clock.

By the way, it's an audience show tonight.

I haven't done an audience show in a long time.

It's all about impeachment.

With your questions, you can still tweet your questions at,

what is it?

Is it at Blaze?

At the Blaze?

At the Blaze and hashtag AskGlenn.

I'm going to be answering your questions with a live audience tonight, and I'm going to be exposing who these people were that testified yesterday.

What's your name that

your Gates came after?

Listen to this exchange

from yesterday with

Matt Gates and

the

supreme

legal scholar who, of course, is very, very neutral.

Listen to this exchange.

We don't have it yet.

Okay.

All right.

We're having a problem today with technical difficulties.

Please stand by.

It was Pamela Carlin.

And, you know, they, well, she's a Stanford law professor.

She's a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Blackburn.

She's

great.

Well, yeah, there's some other things that she has done

that are.

She is a self-described

bisexual.

I think she said a bisexual bitch.

Didn't she just self-describe herself as that at one point?

Not yesterday.

She has, she and some of the others that were testifying yesterday are part of the resistance movement.

They've been calling, they've been openly calling for impeachment.

One of them openly called for impeachment before he was sworn in.

This is who they have?

This is not fair.

You know who the Republicans picked?

A guy who doesn't like Donald Trump.

Yeah, I think that's a really good illustration of why the American people see this as such a ridiculously partisan process.

You know, there are plenty.

Judge Napolitano on Fox News channel is saying he would vote for impeachment.

They could bring Judge Napolitano out there and he would argue that he should be impeached.

There are libertarians and some on the right, conservative-wise,

that are critical of what the president did and how he did it, and that it is an impeachable offense.

You can't find one of them who's going to have a little credibility with someone in the middle.

And the reason they don't do that is because it's got nothing to do with trying to win people over.

It's just a partisan issue.

They're jamming it through.

They can tell all their AOC activists that they got the impeachment done, and then they can move on to their election and hold impeachment over the president.

And then they're saying that, I mean, impeaching a president is overturning an election.

Now you're doing that with eight months before a presidential election.

You are using the power of your office and the power of the Constitution to unfairly convict someone and overturn an election.

There is nothing more serious than that.

And how dare you say that no one

no one is above the law?

If we used these standards, Obama would have been impeached in his first year.

If you use these standards,

no one is above the law, Hillary Clinton, email servers.

How about just the selling of all of our uranium?

What about that one?

What about the thing that's being investigated here?

Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and all the stuff that went on in Ukraine.

Unbelievable.

Look, you know, it's just, it's obviously just a tactic.

And it doesn't even seem like they're attempting to convince people that this is a realistic case.

And I have to tell you, I have a theory on this.

It is a theory, but it is based on fact all the way around it.

Now, is this what's happening?

I don't know, but it's a theory, and I think it's a damn good one.

Okay, so, Stu,

if you've been watching our specials, which I think you've, I mean, you're the executive producer, you've watched about half of them.

I mean, half's a high school.

You've been in the room.

You're rounding up.

Yeah, you've been in the room.

Okay, yes, I've watched them.

So,

as we've laid out, what is

the Soros plan,

along with the State Department, to overthrow countries?

Citizen

civil society.

20.0.

Right.

What is how does it work?

Do you remember?

Well, I mean, I could give you a mediocre recounting of that, but you happen to be the host of the special, so I don't know why you don't just say it.

So here's what it is.

What Civil Society 2.0, which is part of the State Department's policy, and it is now

ingrained and institutionalized in our State Department, is we look for countries that we can overthrow.

We can go over and train people to be revolutionaries.

And we teach them how to use social media.

And then after we've taught them and put them through this course, all of this is documented.

Once we put them through this course, Then we say, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it.

And when there's an event like there was in the Ukraine, that's when the State Department notifies all those people now and supports them.

By the way, we have pictures of all of this.

We have videos of all of this and documents about all of this in Ukraine.

Then, once they get the, once they destabilize the government and flip the government, then they insist the Americans are here just to help and we start an anti-corruption league.

That's what we did.

We had an anti-corruption anti-corruption bureau.

It was run by our Justice Department, the George Soros people, and their Justice Department.

And it is a, it's an, it's an institution that picks and chooses, based on politics,

who they want to prosecute and who they want to call guilty and corrupt and who they don't.

Okay, this institution in Ukraine was completely corrupt.

The guy was was sentenced to prison that was running it for interfering with our election.

And he's on tape.

Yeah, that's how corrupt the anti-corruption bureau was that we were the co-sponsor of.

So what they have to have is they have to have revolutionaries.

They have to have training for those revolutionaries.

Would you say that's been happening here in the United States?

Think the left is training revolutionaries?

Sure.

Absolutely.

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Pat Gray, welcome to the program.

How are you?

I am great.

I just

fresh from seeing the Crypt Keepers press conference, what, half an hour ago?

She was great.

Give me a pack of camels.

She was great, man.

Talking about the bedrock of our democracy.

Right?

How important the founding fathers are to her.

Yes, it's just really moved.

And to all of those on the left.

Man, you know,

what has happened in our civilization these last few years

has gotten so crazy that the left, you know, this atmosphere they've created

on the left is so toxic that not even the left can exist in it, I think, now.

Just today, we had

this story about, well, we've got a bunch of stories.

Like some water?

Well, yeah.

This happened to Hillary and her Howard Stern.

I have the same yesterday.

And it's amazing because he burn the cup.

Burn the cup.

Anyway, go ahead.

Okay, so the trans people were being honored in Olympia, Washington.

And did you see this strike?

Did you read about that?

Yeah, the trans people were being honored, and they were doing, I think they were doing the city hall in trans colors and the, you know, the rainbow stuff.

And so

they invited the police into the building so that they'd be protected during their celebration.

And the trans people weren't very happy about that.

Here's what a couple of them had to say.

And you are telling me you're going to light up City Hall to honor black and brown trans women?

You're gonna light up a city hall that has police and police are a part of the problem.

Yeah, they're killing

my families.

What?

Wait, what?

They make it unsafe to live.

I'm a tranny suffering and the conditions you create for us to not live in this city.

I want to say that I am a person that values hearing out people's pain and talking to their hearts.

And I feel like the people here at City Hall, they don't do that.

People's hearts.

You create illusions.

Point of order, I'm going to ask that you refrain.

This is broadcast live out in people's homes with families.

My point is,

you didn't care what I just said, which proves my point.

You're not listening.

Okay, so there's that.

That's enough.

Okay, so they're telling this very liberal city council that

they're taking exception that the police are even in the building because the police are killing trans people.

I have missed those stories.

I have missed those stories too, but that's exactly what you would expect from you, Pat.

I believe.

Really?

We did this story a couple weeks ago, and that the total amount of murders of

straight people against trans people was like four.

Four.

It was like four

over like multiple years.

yeah and all those were police officers no none of them were police officers and i will also point out uh all or maybe all with the exception of one were

men who went to prostitutes yeah believed they were going for one gender and got the other one yeah and so and the other one i think was a friend or a or a family member i think might have been i mean it it's this this is a lie

for hate crimes there's nothing here there's nothing but again it's the left turning on the left because of the atmosphere they've created, no one can exist in.

Al Green was talking about how upset he was.

This is Al Green yelling at other Democrats for the people they called yesterday.

Listen to this.

Mr.

Speaker, and still I rise

with my mnemonic notes in hand.

Mr.

Speaker, I rise because I love my country,

but I also rise today

with heartfelt regrets.

It hurts my heart, Mr.

Speaker, to see the Judiciary Committee

hearing experts on the topic of impeachment,

one of the seminal issues of this Congress.

And the problem is.

Hearing experts, Mr.

Speaker, and not one person of color among the experts.

You could have gotten Clarence Thomas.

So again, there's no pleasing the left because no matter who they bring before, it's not diverse enough for them.

Because if you had a black person on the panel, where's the Asian?

And if you have a black and an Asian, where's the Native American?

And if you have the Native American, where's the Hispanic?

And if you have the Hispanic, where is the undocumented dreamer?

That's right.

Now, also, Pete Buddha Judge is getting flack from the left.

I love this one.

This is awesome.

Look at his heinous crime.

I've got a photo of it.

So for the.

Oh, my gosh.

I don't even want to look at that.

He is standing in front of some sort of store with a red apron, ringing a bell, apparently trying to.

I mean, you want to talk about a dog whistle.

Here is his homophobic support of a homophobic

organization called the Salvation Army.

Yeah.

Now, let's do the math here on Pete Buddhajudge's homophobia.

He's literally married to a man.

Like, of all the activities on God's green earth, that seems like a pretty

homo-friendly thing to do.

Yeah, like, I feel like the least homophobic thing on the planet is to marry a man if you're a man.

Yeah.

I feel like it's like really making a statement.

Right.

The most pro

homosexual act you can do is have homosexual sex.

Okay.

Really?

Yeah, that's the most pro act you can do.

I do read that, though.

I mean,

it's Fox News.

So here's this guy who, what?

He's married and having homosexual sex.

And he so

hates that.

He hates himself for that.

I mean, that makes no sense.

I mean, it's very similar, right, to saying Clarence Thomas doesn't like black people, right?

Which they do say.

However, Budige actually agrees with them on the issues, and they're still saying it.

You can never be woke enough.

Never.

You will never get there.

It's a road that does not have an end.

You will never be enough.

It does woke enough.

It does.

Train tracks usually

kind of end right there.

That's kind of my point.

I mean, I've got another one of Chris Pratt, and you'll see the heinous crime he committed

the other day.

He's a serial hat.

We also have the photo of that.

Look at it.

I mean, there he is with his bulging muscles and whatnot

in some kind of gym.

But he's holding.

Get this.

I hesitate to even say it.

No, no, don't.

Don't.

I mean, well, you have to or on radio, but people can see it on the bottom.

He's holding a plastic water bottle in his hand.

Single serve, single use.

Single use.

Means it will be like recycled afterwards.

So his friend, Jason Momoa, rightly, of course, called called him out for that.

His friend?

His friend.

His friend.

His friend.

Yes.

Called him out.

And then he just got a crap storm of tweets coming down on him for it.

But Jason Momoa, in the past, has committed the same egregiousness.

Oh, my gosh.

Look at that.

There's Jason Momoa.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

He's actually, he's got three of them in front of him.

I just want to point out, though, I think he's blind.

He didn't know that.

Seriously, I've seen this new documentary that he's in

called Sea.

He's completely blind in it.

Oh, my gosh.

Wow.

So I didn't know that.

Oh, well, then he didn't know it was a problem.

He had no idea.

No idea.

No idea.

I mean, if we don't stand up against this insanity and stop being so afraid of the names we're going to be called or the people who are.

I don't think it's us anymore.

I don't think it's us.

I really think it's the Democrats, the average person that

considers themselves a Democrat, if you don't wake up

and stand up against it,

you're going to be scooped up just as fast as we will be.

This is going to collapse on its own weight.

There's no way you can abide by the new rules that they have set forward for us.

And they're just waiting.

There's no actual human being that believes drinking out of a water bottle is evil.

Those people.

There can't be, right?

It is a statement of virtue because you believe everyone else thinks.

No, I don't think that's entirely true.

I do.

I don't think so.

My daughter.

I don't think so.

Again, like...

You know Hannah.

I know Hannah.

And she will actually act on these things.

She goes,

she drives me nuts.

I ask, when we go shopping together, she'll bring her little, you know,

I don't know, hemp bag to the grocery store.

And I respect her for doing that.

I ask for double plastic bags

to make up for it.

But she lives that.

She doesn't, when she goes to restaurants, she'll bring her own, you know, her own.

Does she drink out of single-use water bottles, though?

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Doesn't like it.

But she's not preaching about it.

She's not saying to everybody else, you got to do this.

She's not doing that.

She just believes.

She's not a crusader.

Right.

We just use.

too many things

that we don't need to reuse.

Yeah.

No, I mean,

it's crazy.

I mean,

it's this bizarre thing.

Just quickly,

number one, Chris Pratt agreed with the criticism and apologized.

Apologize for using this thing.

Listen,

if I remember correctly, somebody threw me a plastic bottle and a photo shoot, and I didn't know what to do with my hands.

So I never know what to do with my hands.

But you're right, my bad.

I don't want a lettuce covered in plastic.

Here, that kid's reduce, reuse, recycle.

Chris Pratt?

Oh, my gosh.

And so somebody just tossed it to him, and he just held it.

Yeah, and he didn't know what to do with his hands.

That's why.

What do I do with it?

You need to, right now, under every Christmas tree, you go to the

what is it?

Blaze shop.com.

What is the

shop.com?

It'll redirect you to the new site.

Okay, where it is.

So, anyway, whatever.

Just go to our store and get the shut-up t-shirt.

Okay, that's what everyone.

His next one, he should be holding a water bottle in both and holding or and wearing a shut-up t-shirt.

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So I want to introduce you

to a young Hispanic conservative Air Force veteran who

is, she's a believer in the things that we were founded on.

And she, for some reason, wants to go to Congress.

And she's running for the seat currently held by Charlie Crist, which would be a shame if he lost.

Anna Paulina Luna.

Welcome to the program.

Hey, Glenn, thanks for having me on.

You're welcome.

So we met a few weeks ago.

You happened to be here in the building,

and I had just stumbled across you, and somebody else, some other show in the building, had invited you on.

And

my show was over, so I invited you to come on because I want to find out a little bit about you, a little bit more about you.

You are,

you seem to be all on the right track.

You're pro-God, pro-life.

You don't hate America.

Tell me about some of the policies that you think Charlie Chris has wrong that you would not be voting the same way.

I mean, first and foremost, the guy says that he cares about veterans, of which I am.

And then he went and voted against, you know, us getting health care and in turn favored illegal immigrants getting health care.

And I think that a lot of what I talk on, a lot of the policies that I am so passionate about it's because of my life experience not to mention he's absolutely pushing the red flag laws and again going back to kind of how I grew up I did not have a normal upbringing and I realize that now and it was really the military that I'd say you know helped me change my life around but I had a very early on kind of interesting experience with firearms and whether it was me being involved in an armed robbery and walking into one when I was nine to having a cousin cousin that was murdered to eventually being at a high school where there was gang violence and resulted on a shooting between gangs on campus.

I am in no way, shape, or form ever going to say that it is firearms and us taking away the right of the Second Amendment from the American people that is going to fix some of these issues.

When you have people constantly pushing to remove God from society and replace it with government, that's where the problem is.

And so if you want to start fixing the problem, let's start bringing back the morality back to the United States, back to the American people.

So, I mean, what he's done is essentially voted in favor of himself, not the people.

He's been a Democrat, an Independent, a Republican.

He's currently a Democrat.

And

it's time for him to go.

It's time to get people in Congress who care, who want to fix the issues, and who can reach across the aisle to fix some of these, you know, very horrific things that are taking place in our country, not really buying to the whole impeachment nonsense that they're really pushing.

It's wrong, and I'm tired of it.

So, you are the Hispanic Initiative chairwoman for Prager University, which is a great endorsement just there.

You have over 400,000 followers online.

What is,

where did you come from?

When did you decide to

do this?

So I'd actually been on track to go to medical school.

And this was about, I'd say, a year and some change ago.

I got into a medical program.

I had completely gotten out of the military so that I could do that.

And I actually got a phone call from Charlie Kirk over at Turning Point USA.

And at the time, I had been in contact with Tyler Boyer, who's their COO.

And they basically had offered me the position to be their national outreach director for Hispanic engagement.

And I honestly didn't know at the time if that was really what was in the cards for me and really, I guess, on God's plan.

And when that happened, I kind of realized, I was like, this is going to be, you know, pretty much a story out of the Bible.

If I go to medical school, something crazy is going to happen.

It's going to be like Jonah and the whale.

Big whale is going to come swallow me up and bring me back so that I can help do this.

Now, kind of touching on why I really politically started speaking out was I had obviously my experience with the Second Amendment, but I started working closely with an organization called Veterans for Child Rescue, and they basically handle counter trafficking at the U.S.-Mexico border of children.

And at that point in time, I didn't know that that was even an issue.

Honestly, it is.

And after I was doing the digging that I was doing and I found out about the horrific numbers of children that are trafficked I knew that I had to say something you know the whole reason I wanted to become a doctor was that so I could help people and I realized that by me staying silent especially as a Hispanic woman that not only was I failing myself but I was failing these innocent people it doesn't matter if you know who you are liberal Democrat Republican conservative These are innocent children.

This is something that we should all be working to stop.

And it only can be done when proper measures are taken for border security.

So, I really started using my platform, and Turning Point's been kind enough to work with me on a documentary to get this information out there.

So, that'll hopefully be out here pretty soon.

Well, I'd like to help you with that as well.

It is, the numbers are astonishing, astonishing.

Tens of thousands, and people don't even know.

They have no idea.

Nobody in Congress is really talking about this, especially on the Democratic compassionate side.

It is the most compassionate thing we can do is to stop people

coming over the border who we don't know who they are or if those are even their children.

We are actually in many ways helping these child traffickers now with the stupid rules that have been put in on the border, but I digress.

If I could just interject, and for those listening, this is not a joke.

I've gone down there, I've talked to Border Patrol agents, and you know, you literally, the stats will say about a third of the children that are coming over are not biologically related to these quote-unquote parent or family units, and that they are essentially renting these children so that they can gain access and exploit our asylum laws.

But aside from that, this Border Patrol officer told me of a story where he came across a family, or not family, but a group of women and a group of men that had been separated, and they were actually being forced to carry marijuana packages over the border.

And so obviously they intercepted them and what ended up happening was they found that

when they were processing them in, one of the women was crying and she basically couldn't be calmed down.

And Art asked her what happened and she said, you know, where's my child?

Where's my child?

And what they had done, what the cartels had did is they separated the men from the women and the women from the children and promised them if they successfully brought the loads over the border that they would reunite them with their children.

And to this day, art doesn't know what happened to those kids.

And it's scary.

It's, you know, one of those things that it's not like a drug where it can be used once.

People think trafficking is this really clean thing.

It's not.

This is literally the sodomy, the rape, the torture, literally, sometimes even the killing of very innocent people.

And it doesn't matter who you are, if we don't do it the correct way, if people don't come here the correct way, they're going to be exploited and people are hurt on both sides.

So, Anna, I used to ask people, you know, how their soul was,

but

I don't know if people really understand what they're walking into and the danger that you are in when you go to Congress.

I've had friends who

have become everything that they said they weren't going to become.

It's a toxic atmosphere.

Are you prepared for that?

I am, and I can say that this is kind of funny, but right out the gates, I had someone like Matt Gates come out and endorse me.

And I've never been the type of person to be bought.

One of my campaign slogans is built, not bought.

And I say that because everything that I've experienced in life, the reason I speak out is because I know firsthand what that's like.

I literally grew up in the welfare system.

And I've been very selective about even taking certain money from certain lobbyists.

I am a grassroots candidate.

I've been to date leveraging my social media to raise all of these small dollar donations nationally.

And if all goes as planned, I'll be making the Young Gun list, which is the NRCC's list of, you know, top competing candidates for a district.

And obviously, I need help raising that money.

So if you can donate, please do.

You can donate at www.voteanapaulina.com.

But I am who I am, and I always feel that I'm answering to higher calling.

And I'm not anticipating on being a career politician.

I'm going to do what I think is right, what needs to be done, and then I'm going to leave.

And I'm going to tip my hat and let the next person take over.

How competitive do you think you could be against Charlie Chris?

I think, and I, you know, there are some great people running in this race, but when it comes to being able to actually go toe-to-toe with him and call him out on some of the identity politics that he's gonna be using, I will be able to absolutely flip the seat.

Not to mention, I have a very, again, unique background.

And in part, what I also am passionate about is I've been working with an organization called Force Blue that does coral reef restoration off the coast of Florida.

My husband's a scientific diver with that organization.

And,

you know, I do have this aspect of, you know, being quote-unquote a green conservative that I'm bringing to the table.

And, you know, every step of the way, again, I've been built for this.

So I am probably the only contender for this race.

And I do anticipate on flipping the seat.

So you are, and I don't mean this as an insult,

you know, because you're the mirror opposite, but you are kind of the AOC for

the right if you were to win.

when you say you're a green conservative does that mean that you're for

government green deals cap and trade all of that stuff

no I'm in fact and I'm not even for a carbon tax I think that it's been really interesting because I do obviously have some extensive background being that I'm a biology major and you know I'm kind of a science nerd in that aspect but you know one of the biggest arguments for that is the United States is not even the number one polluter in the world okay it's places like China India a lot of these Asian countries that we're sending our manufacturing to.

So why on earth, if you really wanted to fix the problem, would you then in turn basically tax the American family, the American people?

an insane amount of money in order to fix a problem that we can't even control.

It's not even us that's contributing that.

Why would we not in turn try to encourage these businesses to bring their manufacturing back to the United States so we know that they're not contributing to this global pollution?

And then in addition to that, if these countries want to trade with us, well, then let's write some policy into our trade negotiations with these countries.

It's in no way, shape, and form our responsibility to change our way of life, to literally stop eating meat and to stop using planes and automobiles in order to facilitate these countries that have, you know, even according to the climate accord that we pulled out of the god,

you know, places like China are developing coal, coal manufacturing, coal plants, what, once a week?

And yet we're all of a sudden the evil people.

That's not what the scope and objective of this is.

And in the United States, we actually, in my opinion, have one of the cleanest environments for that reason.

So I'm for a clean environment but limited government.

And I think that that's the best way that you want to handle those types of situations.

All right.

What is your web address if people want to find out more information or donate?

You can find me at www.voteana, that's a n-n-a, and then paulina, p-a-u-l-in-a.com.

Anna Paulina, thank you very much.

God bless.

Good luck.

You bet.

Should say Anna.

Honor Pony.

How are you, Stu?

I'm wonderful.

You're not coming with me this weekend at Salt Lake, are you?

I am not.

No, that's not

personal choice.

Personal.

Wait a minute.

What?

Player's decision.

Hold it.

Did not play player's decision.

No.

Really?

It would be great to go.

I would love to.

Well, we got

other things going on.

Book a seat for you.

Waiting.

You have other things going on.

Yeah.

I think this is the week the Taco Bell's having a sale.

They have those in Salt Lake City.

You're not the one near me.

Well, all right.

No, it's going to be a great show.

You've done Christmas shows before, and I think a lot of people in the audience haven't seen you do that kind of show before.

Yeah, been a long time.

It's been a long time.

It's been a long time.

And it's fun.

That was the first time I actually realized you had some talent.

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you

to do this job.

No, because I'd heard the show a lot of times and seen you do the show and never really noticed anything of value.

This is the one thing that I do that Stu was really bummed when we said, okay, no more of those.

Oh, yeah.

He was like, no, that's my favorite thing.

It is really cool.

It's a fun show.

It brings you into the Christmas season.

It's really, really funny.

And

it's a cat mess, unless, of course, you're me and there's a Taco Bell sale near your house.

So there's some scattered seats.

The seats that are available, I think there's a few seats up towards the top.

And the deal of that is, yes, you might get a nosebleed, but

probably not.

But I can guarantee you're not going to get hit with any of the flop sweat.

Which is a huge benefit.

Huge, huge benefit.

I mean, if you're in the front row, people are paying all this money for these great seats, and then they're just using.

They need flop sweat.

You got to bring like the Gallagher

to guard yourself.

So

I don't even know what to wear because.

Your Santa suit.

You wear your Santa suit doesn't fit me, okay?

Too big?

Already shut up.

All right so i don't even know what to wear because you know i get hot but if i if i wear like a sweater then you know it's like the jim gaffigan thing untucking your shirt it is the last gasp of the fat man

right because i am mumu i am right the next thing is

i just give up i just give up and just start wearing a mumu just i i could see that i mean it um you have the when you untuck the shirt it who knows is it just falling straight down and not and clearing your stomach by six inches, or is it one inch?

You can't quite tell.

When you're that's why it's yeah, you still kind of can see that there's something underneath.

Occasionally the wind hurts you.

So, no wind in this theater.

If you wanted to find tickets, you can just go to glenbeck.com.

There are very few left, but if you'd like to grab a seat, I'd love to see you there.

It's Saturday, Glennbeck.com/slash Christmas.

You're listening to the best of the Glenbeck program.

I want to bring in Kevin Ryan.

He is a writer for Glenbeck.com and also my program and the Blaze.

And he is...

He is

a different dude, man.

He is just so much fun.

And we send you out to things where you just don't fit.

For sure.

You just don't fit.

I mean, you don't fit really anywhere.

No.

You know, my whole life.

That's what I'm hearing.

I mean, you work for me and you wear Birkenstocks.

Oh, yeah.

So I love Birkenstocks.

Yeah.

You look like a guy who would.

I hear that constantly.

Yeah.

And I love every single David, by the way.

Yeah.

It's amazing.

Yeah.

So anyway, so we sent you out to cover a couple of things, and we haven't spent any time this week on Kamala Harris dropping out.

You have a story that comes out.

Is it today at Glenbeck.com?

It's out.

Yeah, it's up now.

And you have kind of the behind the scenes because you saw her how many times?

I believe 15 times.

15 times.

It's a lot more than you should have been required to do as part of your job.

Absolutely.

But you went to follow these candidates to learn something about them.

So, what is the article about, and

do you take away from her failure?

My first, well, okay, so what I did when I first saw her was I was like, there's something captivating about her.

It's terrifying.

She scares me.

And she just wants that, she wanted that job so badly that I thought no one could ever stop her.

So I wrote five articles about her.

And it's like, here we are two months later.

And it's like, well, those other three articles are never going to come out.

But, and it taught me something about politics, yeah.

Uh, because you guys are so clued into politics, and it's kind of a new game for me, yeah.

Um, and uh,

it's just been fascinating, and Harris, Harris was the one

because my dad was with me in Iowa, and he said what really freaked him out was that she always has this like tear waiting in her eye to drop,

and it's it's just ready yeah and she can just and she just could play all these different characters yeah and she did them very well I really admired her I didn't think I was going to admire her at all but I just feel you admired her for her abilities ability

because I think there's a there's a

I think in a sense where you look at Kamala Harris and you say see someone who seems to have ability as a politician and is relatively convincing at times.

But there's something I think, you know, like when you look at a robot and the robot looks human, but not called the uncanny valley.

The uncanny valley, yes.

And it just feels weird, like you sense that it's not authentic.

And I feel like that's what it was like with Kamala Harris as we learned more about her.

I mean, you know, if she had, you know, we talked about her.

So when you first see her, we talked about this at the very beginning.

When you first see her,

you're like, she, there's something charming about her.

There's something real about her that seems like she's likable.

Seems like she's likable.

But then the more she's around, you're like, no, it's the uncanny valley.

And then all of a sudden, you kind of hit the bottom of that valley and you're like, I think she's a fraud.

I don't think she's real.

Where she is.

That's good.

That's, I mean, that sums up her kind of essence.

Like, that there is there, and in person it's like that because I also wrote an article about seeing her at this Baptist church and there was nobody there.

There's no media.

It was a rainy day.

It was a miserable day.

And she, her sister got up and sang and Kamala gave this like heart-rending,

gospel-driven sermon.

And I had tears in my eyes.

But when she walked off, I was like, that is a good politician.

Yeah, yeah.

I didn't come away with like, that is a real great person.

Right.

And we should note, not a good enough politician, quite clearly.

People sense it in some ways.

Well,

I think that's why Bernie connects with so many people is because

that's not a good politician.

Yeah.

You know, he's just, he's a mess.

Trump is kind of a Trump is the same way.

He's not what you'd think of as a politician, but people connect with him because they feel it's authentic, right?

And it's the same thing with Bernie.

I mean, Bernie lies a lot.

He gets a lot of points for being authentic, but he tells a lot of falsehoods.

Yeah, he does.

But he does them in a way that he believes him.

Right.

Right.

Yeah.

And I think Trump is the same way.

I think Trump believes 99% of the stuff that you're like, wait, what?

I think he believes that stuff.

You know, Bernie is the same way.

Bernie is just authentic in

his look, you know, in the way he dresses.

You know, you have to give him credit for being

really

outspoken enough to say he's at least leaning towards socialism, you know, during the Cold War.

Yeah, you know, he's less authentic now because he just won't make that final step in, like, yeah, I'm for communism, absolutely.

And he'll only say he's not for socialism.

It's so misleading.

Yeah, so misleading.

With Kamala, I think, too, one of the things we talked about, we were comparing the fields one day about 2000 from 2016 and the Republicans, and I said,

she is Marco Rubio, right?

Like, that's a good comparison.

The on-the-paper vibe of Rubio and Harris was like, this is a good formula to win this race, right?

And never, even though they might give some good speeches and have good moments and debates or whatever, never was really able to connect with the voting public.

And, you know, I don't know.

You made that point, Glenn, years ago that after Obama, the last thing we'd be looking for is someone who was

packaged and like, you know,

every line felt perfectly focused group tested.

And Rubio did a lot of that.

And Harris did a lot of that.

Well, Harris, though, Harris became, I think,

Betto in the end.

Where she was just like lobbying like.

Yeah, she didn't care.

Hey, and I'll eat your children if that's what it will take to vote for me.

What about banning all Republicans from Twitter?

Is that who you guys sign up?

That is weird.

It's weird.

Okay, so another story

that you have is on Joel Olstein.

We did not have a chance to talk to you.

It's been so crazy.

I mean, it's hard to keep up with the news.

Yeah.

You were with Joel Osteen and Kanye a couple of weeks ago.

Tell me about that experience.

Glenn, it was insane.

It was just, I mean, just like setting up the scene is unbelievable.

Joel Osteen hanging out with Kanye West at this church, surrounded by media,

at this mega church, and performing with a gospel choir.

I mean, a year ago, he was a very different Kanye.

Yeah.

Very publicly, a very different Kanye.

Yeah, I really wish you could have come.

I would have loved to.

I would have loved to have been there.

We'll go to the next one.

Okay, so

who did you feel he was?

Kanye?

Yeah.

He felt.

I feel like his only mode is genuine.

And that's what people have a problem with.

They think he's being disingenuous.

I don't think he, I think there's no off switch.

What does that mean?

He can't.

He's all or nothing.

Yes.

But whatever he thinks the truth is at that moment is what he's saying.

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

Donald Trump, right?

Like Donald Trump is

the greatest guy in the world.

Whatever it is,

he doesn't have that filter to stop himself and try to rethink.

Maybe I shouldn't be saying this.

For sure.

And

this is what I struggle with.

I don't know if he just doesn't care.

Or if it's just he feels an imperative to bring it out.

And I know there's some mental illness there.

And

there's probably some pills.

I don't know.

What does that mean?

What do you mean?

Bipolar.

That's on the record?

Yeah,

he was hospitalized at YMCA.

Whatever, when they're put in involuntarily, when someone's admitted involuntarily, he was admitted to YMCA

mental health facilities.

And pretty surely.

Isn't Isn't that I mean, does that sound like a mental health facility that any of us want to go?

What is the dream move?

You got to get into the pool.

Just get into the pool.

Go play some volleyball.

Yeah, play some volleyball and everything.

We'll be good.

When was that?

That was

maybe like nine months ago, a year ago.

And when he was in at the facility, he was drawing churches and talking about

forming a church in Calabasas where he lives.

And it sort of turned into this gospel choir that was like kind of quiet at first and he's just been building from that and

it's funny of all the outrageous things that Kanye's done I think I rank

the Joel Osteen church as like pretty high up there

why why is that it was just so unexpected and he's but he's

He's very Joel Olstein.

I mean, I like Joel.

He's a friend of mine, but he's very Joel Olstein.

Joel Olstein is a, he's a gateway drug.

You know, he's, he's getting the people who are not going to church, who are trying to, you know,

find some God in their life, but they want, they want the success that goes along with it, along with the happiness and everything else.

And Joel preaches this, you know,

the gospel, and it's very mechanical, but the gospel of prosperity.

And that's what, I mean, you know, even I think it was that weekend he said, I was down, I don't even know, $50 million and I just got that back from the

IRS.

Who has that?

Who has that?

I love that comparison.

And I hadn't thought of it, but it's so true.

And it's, there's also this idea of like a public-wide misconception about who the person is that I think applies to both men, and which I have to admit, I was kind of guilty going into into this service that I had an idea of Joel Osteen that is sort of like it was pre-formed because of what other people told me.

And then when I met him and when I was in the service, I found myself tearing up and thinking, like, how could this be bad?

Like, I can't see any reason why helping people and getting them motivated and helping them sort out whatever addictions they have or anything, how is that bad?

No, I, you know, I know Joel fairly well.

And, you know his father was a

real old school preacher and he didn't have any intention of going in and preaching at all and uh when his father died it kind of came down to him and he wasn't thinking about it and he had this big kind of transformation in his life but he doesn't preach it the way his father would have he he he looks for the things that are tangible today and he knows he's a gateway to

other deeper spiritual meanings.

And I think he gets a bad name because I think there's a lot of people that are in the religious business that don't like the fact that he does that.

And I don't think there's any problem.

I mean, just help people start on a road anywhere.

Just start on a good road.

And are you concerned at all that

what percentage of your job includes crying?

Because you've told us multiple times you've teared up.

It's the Birkenstocks.

As soon as I take those off, I'm like, yeah, let's handle the world.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Man, I'm talking about it.

I don't think so.

I don't think so, man.

You are.

You are a

mad genius.

You really are.

You're a mad genius.

More, maybe perhaps more mad.

Definitely.

But I love working with you, Kevin.

Thank you so much.

It's a real joy.

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