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Yes, Yes, we had the initial letter come out a couple of weeks ago, but here it is.

Today, we're getting the entire redacted report at some point today, but not until after a press conference, and it's going to be released to Congress.

And then, if we think we're going to get it at some point today, we also expect to get this press conference coming up in within like a half an hour.

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It's Mueller Day part two.

And it seems as if

that we are going to get some expanded picture as to what's in the Mueller report.

Now, if you're like me, I think you don't salivate over these things like the media does.

The media loves to talk about this because there's this great time that they have in this window of open speculation where they can say whatever they want because

there's no evidence as to what's going to be in the report yet.

Like we know that Barr came out and said there's no collusion and he's not exonerated from the obstruction of justice, but there's nothing there to actually make it rise to criminal level.

And, you know, you have to think about what do we expect here.

The press has had a field day since this letter came out because what they've been able to do is say,

why did we get this summary from Barr?

We don't care about some summary from some guy who works for Donald Trump.

We want to see the whole thing.

We want to see every little bit of it because when we see every little bit of it, we know we're going to catch him in something.

We know that he was protected somehow.

This guy Mueller, who we all said was the gold standard, was going to be able to to go into this and find every little detail because he's so well respected by both sides.

Well, when he didn't come up with a conclusion that we wanted, now we have to,

they're still holding on to just that little string, like that little kitty hanging from the string.

He's a hang in there.

They're still kind of just hanging in there, hoping that they can now dig through 400 pages instead of four and find something really damaging, which

I understand what they're doing, right?

These are Democrats trying to control the the narrative.

And they went into

ridiculous mode last night because of the announcement of this press conference, which is again coming up in about 20 minutes.

We'll have it here for you as it goes.

The idea that

they're trying to make the American people believe

is that

Barr is protecting Donald Trump by having a press conference before

they actually release the report.

So in theory, you'd have the report released, and then people would be able to go through it, and then you'd have a press conference about it.

What they're trying to say is, all right, well, no, they're doing this in advance, so we don't have the report to ask sensible questions about yet.

And they're doing this to essentially ease whatever's going to come out, and we know it's going to be something bad.

They're trying to ease

the horrible effects on the president's administration.

Now,

is this true?

I don't know.

I mean, look,

every presidential cabinet, every presidential administration, when they think that something could be damaging to them,

if they don't take steps to protect themselves from that thing, they're morons.

Everybody does it.

Everybody tries to control the narrative in Washington.

What do you think the nonsense of the last 24 hours has been about?

What are Democrats doing?

Democrats are stepping up and Democrats are saying, well, if he's having this press conference, that that means he must be hiding something.

They're trying to control the narrative.

And what's interesting here, and you see this all the time, is when Republicans are trying to control the narrative, you see extensive coverage as to what they're trying to do in that process.

This is how they're trying to protect the president.

This is what they're trying to do.

Well, you know what?

Allies of the president are trying to protect the president.

Of course they are.

I mean, that does not mean that there's anything bad in here.

We will find out relatively soon what is in there.

But the Democrats are doing the same thing, and they're just treated as the experts on the topic.

No one says, hey, Democrats are also trying to control the narrative.

The Democrats don't care what's in this report.

The Democrats care about what they can use against Donald Trump and

whoever else in the administration is their next big target.

And that's what I think you have to look back at as we're going through this process.

We know, one thing we know is that there was nothing a criminal level of collusion in this case.

We know that.

That's already kind of done.

As far as obstruction of justice, there was nothing that rose to an obvious level of criminal

issue.

And that does not mean, however, that the Democrats won't, A, be able to find things that they will try to convince America of criminality.

They may.

They may find something that's juicy enough that they can go in there and say, well, here's this part of it is criminal, and we need to go after it.

Why aren't they investigating this?

They can use their investigative powers to go in and look for additional documents.

They can use these things as sort of like lead paths into a new investigation.

And then they can drag this out over the next couple of years.

And believe me, this is too much of an asset to them for them to let it go.

They are going to find something in this report that they are going to claim, and they won't believe it, but they were going to claim is serious enough for them to be able to go through this and

justify additional

show in court.

They're going to be able to find something that they can put a show on.

That's going to happen.

And then additionally, beyond that, they're going to get to a level where

there's a strong possibility they're going to be able to find something embarrassing at the very least.

So that's kind of where I think this is realistically going to land.

Is there going to be a text exchange related to this investigation where a prominent Trump official says something negative about Trump, where they say something negative about the way something was handled, where they say something that's critical of their own administration?

All these things are legitimately possible.

And, you know, that's the type of thing that is going to control a news cycle for a week or two.

It doesn't make, it has nothing to do with the actual real problem we have of a foreign power, Russia, trying to influence our elections.

That was the point of this.

And I think at the end of the day, you may look back at the Mueller investigation and say, wow, like,

because, you know, the investigations would have gone on anyway.

They would have been throwing these things out anyway.

If the Democrats could control the House, they would have launched investigations anyway.

Now you have someone who every Democrat on the record has said is incredibly credible who said, well, there's nothing there.

So it might wind up being a huge positive overall for Trump.

But if you remember when the hacking went on with the DNC,

and a lot of this was obviously tied to the Russian investigation, when that happened, what came out of it?

What came out of it?

Anything of value?

Not really.

What came out of it was embarrassing things for some of the key Clinton players, right?

It was, oh, well,

we think Bernie, basically, we think Bernie sucks, and we don't want him to get the nomination because he's going to lose.

He's a freaking socialist.

So what can we do to help Clinton win?

Is there any evidence that they moved 4 million votes to Hillary Clinton?

Remember, she won by 12 points in the primary.

12 points.

This was not that close.

But she won the primary election, and Bernie has held on to that as essentially he was wronged in the primary campaign.

There was a lot of infighting.

There were certain officials and people who had high-level Democratic ties that were mocked by people like Podesta, and those things were embarrassing to the Democrats.

Will that type of thing come out here?

It's possible.

It's legitimately possible.

And that's all you're going going to be hearing about for a few weeks if that's what happens but these things are not of fundamental importance to the united states of america which is supposed to be what we actually care about that is supposed to be the end game here

it's just very rare that you actually see that occur

so as we go through this report it's

you're going to have something in there that's going to lead the news for at least some time the idea that this is coming out i mean you see this, it comes out on a Thursday.

Tomorrow is Good Friday.

Then you've got Easter weekend.

How long legs is something in here going to have?

The Democrats and the media are going to do as much work as they can to make sure the legs are long.

They want NBA-level legs.

They want legs.

They want

plastic man, stretch Armstrong legs.

That's what they want.

And they're going to stretch this out as long as they can because this is what they have right now.

They certainly can't talk about the economy.

You know,

they're going to make their case and they're going to come out and they're going to say that what went on here is obstruction of justice.

Literally,

no matter what is in this report, that is what they're going to say.

Is there something so serious that it's going to convince the American people, people who are in the middle, who are looking back and forth and saying,

I don't know who to believe here?

Are they going to be able to pull those people over?

They're going to be able to pull someone over to the Democratic side from the Republican side of this report.

I mean, I'm incredibly skeptical of that idea.

And the reason is that if they had something,

there would have been more here.

Remember, there wasn't even an attempt by Mueller to subpoena Donald Trump to testify in front of him.

He could have.

He could have done that.

Now, whether it would have worked or not, there would have been all sorts of court fights over that.

Instead, he asked email questions, essentially, had him answer with the help of his attorneys, and had Donald Trump answer questions in written form.

If he was sure that there was a borderline claim here, he would have subpoenaed him and pushed this down the road a lot further than he did.

Again, this is someone that both Republicans and Democrats said was very credible, and he didn't even take that additional step to try to subpoena him.

And we've seen before, obviously, Bill Clinton was subpoenaed successfully.

This could have happened.

So without taking that step, you just, it's hard to imagine they're going to be able to find something here.

Is there stuff on Roger Stone?

We're not going to know.

Is there stuff on one of his kids?

Did Kushner or

obviously his son-in-law?

Or did Donald Trump Jr.

say something bad in the text that could be problematic?

It's not impossible.

And we're going to see some of that here.

But you have to remember, you have to set the scene here.

And the scene is the Democrats, no matter what, are going to say that Donald Trump is guilty of obstruction of justice.

The media is going to echo those sentiments.

And it's going to be up to

the real people in America, people like you, who actually care about Russia's influence in the election, who actually care if Donald Trump did something wrong.

Because if he did, you'd be all over him, I hope.

I know I would be.

But we're going to look at this with an open mind and say, all right, well, here's what he did wrong and here's what he did right, if any of those things are there.

And I think there's

a great lesson for all of us here to learn about how

inaccurate we are with the direction we go in these stories because once again, taking precedence over Russian influence over our elections.

This is a foreign power.

We all realize the threat of Russia.

And instead of talking about that, everyone's going to be talking about some salacious text.

So that's the scene that we have today.

And we're going to get into that a little bit more.

Jason Butchelle is going to be joining me here in a second to kind of go over the schedule of events today.

We have the press conference coming up in about 10 minutes.

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If you're catching the show live, we're about 10 minutes away from the press conference supposedly starting here on the Glenbeck program.

Glenn's out here for a little bit.

He's not feeling well.

He may be joining us here at any point.

Jason Buttrell is also with us.

Jason is, let's, I mean, yeah, he's got military experience.

He's Glenn's lead researcher, blah, blah, blah.

The main thing that Jason does on these days is we force him to read all the annoying reports.

All these dang reports.

Yes, and I'm happy to do it.

It's been two years, 24 months.

I've been dreading today.

I mean, how many of these have we had to read and talk about over the last, what, year and a half?

Yes.

There's like a ton.

I know.

There's always a new 5,000-page government report poor Jason is stuck reading.

And it's not like you and Glenn are like, yeah, can you read all of these 5,000 pages and have them done by the show today in like two or three hours?

That's all we ask.

I mean, it's not a big, it's not a big one.

So, Jason, can you kind of walk us through the schedule today?

Because the press conference leads the day here in a few moments.

We're going to find out something about this.

Hopefully, maybe a little bit about the process.

Is that what we're expecting here?

Well, that's what I'm hoping.

And

you were talking about how, you know, I didn't even actually think about that.

That was an interesting way to look at that.

I'm just controlling the narrative.

Because

what I was hoping is that the narrative will be squashed.

But I guess that's a way, in a way, that's kind of controlling the narrative as well sure but like it's it's been so kind of it's been so frustrating after the initial you know four-page summary was sent out because it's been spun in like a gazillion different ways but i was like please like when i heard about the conference i was like awesome like at least just tell us look this is why there was a four-page summary because the rules were changed after ken star and the new special counsel you know rules because i think much of the mainstream media just doesn't even talk about that new they they they they want to like create some kind of clickbaity thing you know what i mean so like yeah tell us all about that.

Lay it all out because we're not getting it on CNN.

Let's just get it straight from Attorney General Barr's mouth.

Then this is why we have to redact things.

We can't talk about certain things unless they

pertain to a crime

or if they have stuff about

non-public officials.

Yeah, and this is an important part.

I think there's four different ways they're redacting this information.

They're going to color code it so you know the reason they redacted it.

Part of it is grand jury.

So the grand jury testimony cannot be put in a public report like this unless there's a special clearance from a judge, which they do not have.

So some of this will be because it's grand jury information.

And that's so going to happen, right?

It's absolutely going to happen.

They're going to go for that.

That's number one.

You also have, and this is an interesting one.

Basically, they don't want to throw information that could be personally damaging on someone who's sort of a periphery

character in this and ruin their life just because if it's a public report.

So, you know, if some guy at Starbucks had some interaction with Donald Trump, or McDonald's is probably a better example.

He likes the McD's.

If someone at McDonald's had an interaction with Donald Trump and it was embarrassing for the McDonald's employee, they're not going to include that information.

They're going to redact it because they don't want to, there's no reason to embarrass the McDonald's employee over this.

Now, what's interesting is people were saying, hey, well, Donald Trump, if he wasn't charged with anything, is he a character they're going to black out all the information on?

Barr was very clear.

No, we're not going to redact information about Donald Trump.

He's a public official.

And I think the wording he used was a public elected official.

But there's still a way they can get around that, though, actually.

And this is why I think this is some of the gray area, because they also cannot talk about the current case of Roger Stone because of the gag order.

Yeah, that's another one of them.

So there could be text messages, emails, whatever, specifically between the two of them, the president and Roger Stone.

In theory.

In theory.

But that would be completely blacked out.

And correctly

blacked out.

They're in the middle of ongoing proceedings, so they don't want to tip their hand as to necessarily what they have.

They don't want to to necessarily close down another string of the investigation that might go from Roger Stone to someone else.

These are, and if you listen to actual legal experts on the left and in the right, they will tell you these four

categories of redaction are incredibly standard.

They're the boring standard everybody uses in this type of situation.

Now, the left is going to say that Barr is

applying them incorrectly, right?

Like they can say, well, we think he redacted too much.

What you will definitely get is a word count, essentially, as to what percentage of the documents were redacted.

No matter what number that is, they will say it's too high.

They will say they redacted too much information.

And you know what?

Because this is just like, it's like a series, Jason.

It's like when you want to extend people to watch the next episode of Game of Thrones, you give it a little cliffhanger.

And what they'll do here is, well, we saw what they gave us, but you know what's behind those black markers.

That's the real stuff.

And they won't give us that.

Release the whole thing, and they will stretch this out for another six months.

So that comes out at 11 Eastern, apparently, only on CDs, just to Congress.

Right.

We're still using CD Robinson to be able to.

And we don't know when the other less redacted version is going to come out.

Yeah, and it will be, I will say, it will be available for download on Dial-Up Modem.

So that's going to be coming up.

I can't wait for that release.

That's going to be exciting.

We'll be back with more here in just a second on the Mueller report and the press conference right around the corner.

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We have the Bar press conference on the Mueller report's release coming up momentarily.

Of course, he's going to delay this and make it awkward, but it's going to be supposedly coming up in just moments here on the Glenbeck program.

Okay, we are just, it looks like seconds away from

Attorney General William Barr

coming out and telling us what he knows or what he's going to reveal today about the full Mueller report.

And

all eyes are going to be on this, obviously.

It's going to be the topic of discussion, certainly

for the foreseeable future, which seems to be endless, doesn't it?

I feel like we're never going to talk about any other country on earth except Russia, and we're never going to talk about anything important that they're doing.

It's only going to be,

we're going to instead focus on

the

palace intrigue because this is all about

celebrities.

They're trying to take down Donald Trump as a celebrity, it seems like.

Okay, William Barr is now going up to the podium, and let's listen in to

the other matters related to Russian attempts to interfere in our 2016 presidential election.

And he submitted his confidential report to me pursuant to department regulations.

As I said during my Senate confirmation hearing and since, I'm committed to ensuring the greatest degree possible of transparency concerning the special counsel's investigation consistent with the law.

At 11 this morning, I'm going to transmit copies of the public version of the special counsel's report to the chairman and ranking members of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees.

The Department of Justice will also make the report available to the American people by posting it on the Department's website after it has been delivered to Congress.

I'd like to make a few comments today on the report.

Before I do that, I want to thank Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for joining me here today and for his assistance and counsel throughout this process.

Rod, as you know, has served at the department for nearly 30 years with dedication and distinction, and it's been a great privilege and pleasure for me to work with him since my confirmation.

He had well-deserved plans to step back from public service that were interrupted by my asking him to help in my transition.

Rod has been an invaluable partner and I am grateful that he is willing to help me and has been able to see the special counsel's investigation through to its conclusion.

Thanks, Rod.

Thank you.

I'd also like to thank Special Counsel Robert Mueller for his service.

and the thoroughness of his investigation, particularly his work exposing the nature of Russia's attempts to interfere in our electoral process.

As you know, one of the primary purposes of the Special Counsel's investigation was to determine whether President Trump's campaign or any individual associated with it conspired or coordinated with the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 election.

Volume one of the Special Counsel's report describes the results of that investigation.

As you will see, the Special Counsel's report states that his, quote, investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.

I am sure that all Americans share my concern about the efforts of the Russian government to interfere in our presidential election.

As the special counsel report makes clear, the Russian government sought to interfere in our election process.

But thanks to the Special Counsel's thorough investigation, we now know that the Russian operatives who perpetrated these schemes did not have the cooperation of President Trump or the Trump campaign or the knowing assistance of any other American for that matter.

That is something that all Americans can and should be grateful to have confirmed.

The Special Counsel report outlines two main efforts by the Russian government to influence the 2016 election.

First, the report details efforts by the Internet Research Agency, a Russian company with close ties to the Russian government, to sow social discord among American voters through disinformation and social media operations.

Following a thorough investigation of this disinformation campaign, the special counsel brought charges in federal court against several Russian nationals and entities for their respective roles in this scheme.

Those charges remain pending, and the individual defendants remain at large.

But the special counsel found no evidence that any American, including anyone associated with the Trump campaign, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government or the IRA in this illegal scheme.

Indeed, as the report states, quote, the investigation did not identify evidence that any U.S.

person knowingly or intentionally coordinated with the IRA's interference operation, unquote.

Put another way, the special counsel found no collusion by any Americans in IRA's illegal activities.

Second, the report details efforts by the Russian military officials associated with the GRU, the Russian military intelligence organization,

to hack into computers and steal documents and emails from individuals associated with the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's campaign for the purpose of

eventually publicizing these documents.

Obtaining such unauthorized

following a thorough investigation of these hacking operations.

Some audio issues here, obviously.

Some listening in report

Russian military

Those charges are still pending, and the defendants remain at large.

But again, the Special Counsel's report did not find any evidence that members of the Trump campaign or anyone associated with the campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these hacking operations.

In other words, there was no evidence of the Trump campaign collusion with the Russian government's hacking.

The Special Counsel's investigation also examined Russian efforts to publish stolen emails and documents on the Internet.

The Special Counsel found

that after

they found something, and his mic's cutting out here, which is incredibly helpful, I'm sure.

All the multiple years and millions of dollars U.S.

taxpayers have spent on this report, you didn't really want to hear what he was talking about here, did you?

No, of course not.

How about hiring an audio expert

here?

I mean, that would be helpful.

He's going into kind of running through exactly the structure of the report, is what I would say.

Part one being the collusion.

And then he's broken that into several parts so far.

If you're just joining us, we're listening to William Barr's press conference, the Attorney General, on the release of the Mueller report.

The CD-ROMs will be taken to to Congress soon so they can boot them up on their compact computers from 1989.

Copies on 8-Track will also be made available.

And a free membership to Freedom Rock for each one that comes out.

So, the three kind of categories they've outlined so far: the charges against the Internet Research Agency.

It's obviously been highly reported.

This is the stuff they were doing to manipulate social media, trying to sow Discord in our country about the elections.

And very clear wording there.

They did not identify any evidence that anyone in the Trump administration or anyone associated with it conspired or cooperated with the

IRA or Internet Research Agency.

That is

more than we knew.

And here's why.

Before this,

well, in fact, instead of me telling you that, I'm going to listen to we've got the bar audio back.

Let's jump back in and we'll get to this.

I did not find that the Trump campaign campaign or other Americans colluded in those efforts.

After finding no underlying collusion with Russia, the Special Counsel's report goes on to consider whether certain actions of the President could amount to obstruction of the Special Counsel's investigation.

As I addressed in my March 24th letter, the Special Counsel did not make a traditional prosecutorial judgment regarding this allegation.

Instead, the report recounts 10 episodes involving the President and discusses potential legal theories for connecting those activities to the elements of an obstruction offense.

After carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report and in consultation with the Office of Legal Counsel and other department lawyers, the Deputy Attorney General and I concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense.

Although the Deputy Attorney General and I disagreed with some of the special counsel's legal theories and felt that some of the episodes examined did not amount to obstruction as a matter of law, we did not rely solely on that in making our decision.

Instead, we accepted the special counsel's legal framework for purposes of our analysis and evaluated the evidence as presented by the special counsel in reaching our conclusions.

In assessing the President's actions discussed in the report, it is important to bear in mind the context.

President Trump faced an unprecedented situation.

As he entered into office and sought to perform his responsibilities as president, federal agents and prosecutors were scrutinizing his conduct before and after taking office and the conduct of some of his associates.

At the same time, there was relentless speculation in the news media about the president's personal culpability.

Yet, as he said from the beginning, there was in fact no collusion.

And as the Special Counsel's report acknowledges, there is substantial evidence to show that the President was frustrated and angered by his sincere belief that the investigation was undermining his presidency, propelled by his political opponents, and fueled by illegal leaks.

Nonetheless, the White House fully cooperated with the Special Counsel's counsel's investigation, providing unfettered access to campaign and White House documents, directing senior aides to testify freely, and asserting no privilege claims.

And at the same time, the President took no act that in fact deprived the Special Counsel of the documents and witnesses necessary to complete his investigation.

Apart from whether the acts were obstructive, this evidence of non-corrupt motives weighs heavily against any allegation that the President had a corrupt intent to obstruct the investigation.

Now, before I take questions, I want to address a few aspects of the process for producing the public report that I am releasing today.

As I said several times, the report contains limited redactions related to four categories of information.

To ensure as much

transparency as possible, those redactions have been clearly labeled labeled so that the leaders can tell, the readers can tell which redactions correspond to which categories.

Now, as I

to recall, those categories are 6e material and jury material.

We are listening to William Barr to donation.

He's gone through the report here.

He's going to go to questions here in a second.

He's now just going over the process, which we've already covered on today's program.

We have to take a break.

We're going to come back on the other side with these questions, see where that goes.

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We're talking about the release of the Mueller report and the

press conference going on with William Barr.

We're going to get to the questions here in just a minute to kind of reset where we are and what we've heard so far.

They discussed the process a little bit earlier.

Barr went over the process of how this came out and then went through the report a little bit, gave us highlights of what actually happened in the report.

Part one was about the collusion.

Not only

was there no collusion, but it actually went further than we've heard before to say they had absolutely no evidence of anyone helping the Russians.

They used the term, they could not identify any evidence multiple times.

I mean, this was not a borderline thing.

This wasn't the thing, well, there was some evidence, but it didn't add up to collusion.

No, there was no evidence.

They could not identify any evidence that any American worked willingly on any of the three things they investigated, which is much further than we've heard before.

No American period.

Yes, no American.

Also, encouraging.

Like, not only is it a good thing for the Trump administration, a good thing if you happen to be a Republican or whatever, but it's also just a great freaking thing for as an American.

We don't have people doing this, at least that we know of.

So that's one.

And I will tell you, it was so clear that there was no collusion in part one.

And I can tell you how you know how clear it was.

You're not going to hear word one about it for the rest of the day.

They're not going to talk at all about the collusion thing.

The collusion thing is dead.

Now,

the only thing that lives here is obstruction of justice you can almost bonnie died but clyde is still alive you can almost bet that every single democrat right now in the house judiciary committee and senate just

are probably just skipping volume one oh yeah not even reading that part i don't care Beyond that, though, the obstruction stuff, there is going to be a lot because they identified 10 episodes where the president was involved in something.

They say Mueller tried to tie them together and say that there was something there.

And then there was a bunch of sort of, I would say, excuses as to excuse the behavior we're about to read about from Trump.

Some of them very legitimate.

Some of them people are not going to like.

But all you're going to hear now, what are these 10 episodes?

What happened in them?

We're going to know today.

We'll come back with the first media questioning here in just a moment.

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The bar press conference is now over.

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So Glenn is, he was in this morning.

We're prepping the show, and he just kind of walked out about 30 seconds before the show, not feeling well.

And so he has gone home.

So we are here to give you the breakdown of the Mueller report.

I'm sure he was, it wasn't that he was feeling completely fine and just didn't want to deal with the Mueller report all day.

I'm sure that was not the real situation.

He was like, how many pages?

Yeah.

How many am I assigned?

Not feeling too well at the moment, all of a sudden.

So I'm here with Jason Buttrell, who joins me.

He's a head researcher.

He's the guy we're going to task with.

I mean, we're all going to read it, but Jason's the one who's going to have to really get nerdy with it.

And

that's why you're here, Jason.

I'm sliding into my X chair.

Here we we go.

Got to have the X chair today.

Okay, so I'm going to walk through here for a couple minutes what we just learned from the Mueller report.

And I will say

Barr's press conference did reveal things that we did not know before

and did give a significant

idea as to what direction the coverage is going to go on this.

And so let me go through this a little bit.

First of all, kind of walk through the process.

What is happening now is

we have in Congress, there are a bunch of CD burners.

They've bought the last six CD-ROMs from the shelves of Staples and they are now burning the CD-ROMs with the report and they're going to drag it over to Congress.

I mean, it's embarrassing.

I do think that if you have a dial-up modem, you may be able to get access to this.

Now, whether you can post it on MySpace, I'm not sure.

But

you can check that and maybe you can even post it on Friendster.

We'll have to check with that.

I'm not 100% sure.

I mean, it's just embarrassing.

We spent how many millions of dollars on this report?

And then in the end of the day, what we're going to have is a bunch of CD-ROMs being physically brought across.

And, you know, you can make the argument, okay, well, you know, security reasons or whatever, you might not want to put them on the internet.

We're posting it on the internet later today.

Like, this thing, it's 400 pages.

Email the thing.

You know what?

Post it on Amazon.

Let people buy it if they have to.

But there should be a nice fancy button at some point.

We should pull this up and make sure we're checking for this as we go.

And I'm blabbing here.

When that button comes up, we should be able to download the entire 400-page report and we will start going through it for quotes.

We'll start going through it for understanding an additional perspective on what's actually going on here.

And Barr came out and did,

you could argue, what the Democrats were saying he was going to do.

And also, you could argue, exactly what any administration would do.

He's trying to give you perspective so you understand what you're about to read.

So let me give you this

breakdown of what he went through.

The Mueller report comes in two different pieces, two different chunks, part one and part two.

Part one is about collusion.

Now we have heard in the initial letter from Barr

that there was not enough evidence.

There was I believe

it did not rise to the level of criminality.

They

Trump was saying completely exonerated.

And I thought that was a pretty fair

summary of the tone of this letter when it comes to collusion.

They went through and they said, look, there's no collusion here.

And

that's an interesting thing.

Like, when you say that there's no collusion, what does that mean?

It's a summary of all the evidence, right?

You're saying, okay, there may have been things here and there, but it didn't rise to any criminal level.

That

was, I think,

overthrown in the Barr press conference because what William Barr said was not that there was

some things here and there, but it didn't amount to collusion.

What they said was there was absolutely nothing.

They went so, I mean, he, look, if he's wrong on this, if he's lying on this, I mean, I don't see how he can.

He was quoting Mueller.

But they said over and over again that there was absolutely nothing.

Not only from Donald Trump, not only from Trump's family, not only from Trump's campaign and all the people surrounding him, all the way down to the Carter pages of the world, who I think maybe like gave Donald Trump a high five once in his life.

Not any of those people, not only them, but no American they were able to find any evidence of.

Yeah, sure.

Go ahead, Jason.

Can you put that in context of what that means for the other people that have been charged that surrounded his campaign?

Talk about Papadopoulos.

That was a huge thing, if true.

So what the heck was that?

Was that all just a made-up story?

Between that ambassador and that weird, or was he just braggadocious?

Remember, he did not get charged with it.

He got charged with lying.

Right.

So is it just that he was lying about it, but in reality, they didn't find anything to that incident?

Right.

That's a big deal.

And again, like,

there was this idea that Trump colluded with Russia.

The letter from Barr came out, and everyone kind of realized, okay, it doesn't look like he colluded with Russia.

We are now at the point that, I mean, there's nothing to to that claim whatsoever.

Now, we're going to look at this document.

Obviously, there's going to be more in there.

You never know

what you're going to find in there.

There could be something that is, you know, you don't think is distasteful or whatever.

But the way it was worded, and this is worded not by Barr, but by Mueller, that

they were unable to identify any evidence.

This is a quote, any evidence.

of collusion with Russia by any American.

Let me give you the three ways they broke this down.

First of all, there was the Internet Internet Research Agency.

If you remember, this is the social media sort of attacks.

They, of course, did come up with charges against the Russians.

And this is another thing that's going to be left by the wayside here, but is incredibly important.

One of the things that

the Mueller report establishes very clearly is that Russia did try

to manipulate our elections.

To me,

and I've said this many times before,

it is is not a witch hunt.

The only way this is a witch hunt is if the witch you're going for is Donald Trump.

And of course, the media and the left, that is the witch they're going for.

They want to take Donald Trump down.

So him calling it a witch hunt.

Oh, I can't believe they're doing that.

He's really bad.

It's not a witch hunt, not because of the Trump stuff, but because of the Russia stuff.

The idea that they found and identified not only, I was at 12 Russians or 13 Russians who were specifically in on this campaign, campaign, but also identified the methods and the process of

how they tried to manipulate American elections is an incredibly valuable.

I mean, it's very, if we could have just erased all the nonsensical politics around this and stepped back and said, hey, you know, it would be great if we actually focused on a hostile nation to us and what they're trying to do.

The Mueller report would have been fantastic.

And I hope that's what Mueller was trying to do.

You know, I really hope he was.

I'll say this.

He did, he may have had other motives too, but he did do that.

We do know that they did try Russians, and there was,

we did

indict Russians, and we know they're not going to go to jail because they're just going to stay in Russia, obviously.

Or they've been killed already by Vladimir Putin.

So I don't know how much, how jail would be really, I don't know if they'd be that effective.

They may be begging for American jails for where they actually are.

The point, though, is that that is real and that did happen.

And we should note note that.

We shouldn't, that's by far the most important thing that could come out of this is what is Russia doing?

How do we stop it in the future?

So that's that part.

Internet Research Agency, again, they said they could not identify evidence, could not identify any evidence that any American colluded with Russia with the Internet Research Agency.

Part two was the GRU, they hacked the Democrats.

Now, this is the thing you remember with John Podesta's emails coming out.

You know, a lot of people like to, to, the Clintons love to blame this as the reason they lost.

Really, what came out?

I mean, step back for a second.

Can you remember anything that came out of the hacks of the Democratic National Committee or Podesta's emails?

I mean, honestly, probably the most memorable thing was it started the Pizzagate conspiracies, right?

Like, I mean, there's really nothing that came out of that.

The only thing was some infighting.

among Democrats that embarrassed them a little bit.

I mean, it did not turn the election.

It's absurd to think that

it turned the election.

However,

they also did not find any evidence.

That's a quote.

Could not find any evidence that anyone in the campaign, in the administration, in the Trump family, anyone

did anything to work with Russia when it comes to hacking the Democratic emails.

That's a pretty big deal.

They also talked about the publishing the emails of WikiLeaks.

All this comes down to the end game, which is they could not find anything on this.

And that report was amazing, by the way.

That's another one that I had to read.

But talking about the, was it 25-ish Russians that were indicted in that?

Was it that high?

It was something like that.

I think it was 25.

But like, if you want to know how this worked, read that.

It is so in-depth.

Yeah.

I mean, it's amazing investigative work.

They tracked Bitcoin payments.

They tracked server IP

numbers.

They found out exactly where these people were in the world.

I mean, it's just amazing.

It's so in-depth.

But there's no question at all that Russia was behind this after you've read that.

Yeah, and we as thinking members of society have to step back and not let the media control where these things go.

If all we find out of this is the exact process and identify inner workings of Russian spy activity, it was worth it, right?

Like, that's a huge thing.

That's the sort of thing that we should have been doing anyway and may have done anyway in a private sense.

But

it's not the investigation.

It's not the people working and tracking IP addresses and Bitcoin payments.

It's the media and the left that have derailed this into basically the only thing that matters about it is how much can we screw Trump over on this thing.

So what I've just given you is part one of the report.

Part one of the report, all about collusion.

They could not find, again, quote, any evidence.

They could not identify any evidence that supported that theory.

And that's why this word right here is going to be the last word you hear about that in the report.

No one's going to care about collusion anymore.

It's all going to be dead from this moment forward because it was so clear and so exonerating for the president on, and not only just the president, everyone in his campaign and everyone in the country.

They could not find any evidence that anyone in the country colluded with Russians on this.

Number one, It's going to be erased and no one's going to care about it anymore.

Collusion, that word goes away.

Number two,

it's encouraging in a lot of ways.

I mean, you know,

I don't put anything past any American.

And we walk into

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And they're probably super, super duper creepy.

Joe Biden's like got his hands on everybody's shoulders.

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But at least we're not colluding with Russians.

So we have that.

We're going to take a one-minute break.

We're going to come back on the other side with the obstruction stuff.

This is going to be the focus of the media.

This is what they're going to care about.

And we'll get into that just in a moment here on the Glenn Beck program.

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It's Stu, by the way, on the Glenn Beck program, along with Jason Buttrell.

We're filling in Glenn that I got sick today.

But you are about to feel as if you are watching the David Letterman program,

you know, like the mid-90s.

All you're going to be hearing about is a top 10 list.

That is where we are.

Do you remember this?

I mean, this is what Letterman used to do every day, and it would be all over the media the next day.

His hilarious top 10 list when everyone came together and said, you know what?

At the end of that, those weren't really very funny.

And the worst one was number one.

Why does he always structure it that way?

And that is really going to be the debate over the next 24 hours.

In the obstruction section of the Barr press conference about the Mueller report,

he identified

10 episodes in which the president was apparently directly involved in

that the Mueller investigation attempted to string together through legal theory

to show that there could have been a case on obstruction of justice.

This top 10 list,

what the situations are,

how they went, what Trump did in these situations, is going to be the focus of the media throughout your celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ this weekend.

Like that is all Easter weekend, the media is going to be fascinated by this top 10 list and what Trump did in relation to this top 10 list.

My nightmare scenario, Stu, was three episodes.

That's what I was expecting.

And I was like, this is going to suck because this is going to guarantee the next 1700 years of talking about this.

But 10, 10 scenarios?

There's 10 coming from William Barr.

So

this is not a media report saying 10, and then you look at it, and it's really nothing.

He's saying 10 episodes.

Now, again, this is

you know, this is what you do when you're a presidential administration, and this happens at every business.

This would happen on this show.

If something was happening that was coming out bad, we would hope to get to you first to give you our perspective on it so you'd at least understand it before believing everybody else.

We did this.

I mean, this week this happened.

Glenn got accused of saying something he didn't say.

And the best thing we could do is come to you and say, look, this is what he did say.

And here's how this works.

Of course, the administration is trying to, they keep saying, oh, well, he might be setting the narrative.

Of course, he's trying to set the narrative.

This is the way these things work.

And you can sit here and say, well, he's not supposed to be doing that.

That's not his job in the Department of Justice.

Look.

That's obviously fundamentally true.

You know what else is true?

The press secretary to the president of the United States works for us, not the president.

You know, the person who comes out and lies to you every day.

You remember the guy, you know, it was Jay Carney in the Obama administration, came out every day and said things.

You're like, this is a blatant lie.

In theory, he works for us, right?

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, no friend of the media.

In theory, she works for us.

She's an employee of us, and she is a person who is supposed to communicate what the White House believes.

We all know in these real situations in politics, people do defend their own side, and they do try to present the best case forward.

That's why I think this was interesting.

I will say this.

One thing that's important about this is Rosenstein's buy-in.

And we'll get into that a little bit more.

Rosenstein has not been a figure that has been closely associated with Trump support by any means.

And the fact that he's buying in on all of this is an incredible

foundation of credibility.

when it comes to this.

This is somebody who has been at odds and had been criticized by the president.

The fact that he's agreeing with Barr's analysis here is big.

That's not a minor thing, and I don't want to brush over that.

But the idea was there's these 10 episodes that could be viewed in the

general realm of obstruction of justice.

And it didn't seem like the case from Barr was that any one of these individually could be

obstruction by themselves.

He specifically noted that Mueller tried to tie them all together as a pattern of behavior that if you view as a whole from 50,000 feet, what you see there is obstruction of justice potentially.

Again, not enough to actually think he was guilty of it, or they would have, you know, he could have charged him.

They did say that that was not the reason the Union Ken Ideas sitting president.

They did say that that was not the reason that that occurred.

Trevor Burrus: And the problem, though, is obstruction is very hard to prove.

Like, you need something that says...

It's all about intent.

Hey, guess what?

I'm doing this because I want to obstruct justice.

You basically have to have that to do this.

Because it's a high bar and it's intent.

It's intent-based.

So if you do something that just happens to help the other side and you didn't mean to do it, that's not obstruction of justice.

So these 10 things together

are going to be the focus of the media coverage for God only knows how long.

1,700 years.

And it goes.

And going to be the focus of multiple Democratic investigations when it comes to the House.

They're not going to let this die.

We'll get into what Barr said about those 10 episodes, and some of it was revealing.

We still don't have the full report.

Congress is supposed to get it in about an hour and a half.

We're supposed to get it sometime after that.

We don't know exactly when.

When it comes in, if it comes in, we will jump right on it and we'll give you these details from the press conference and some of the questions coming up on the Glenn Beck program.

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Come back on the other side of the break with more on the Bar press conference and the Fallout of the Mueller report coming up.

So within the half hour, Congress will have the redacted Mueller report.

And

this, of course, is a bizarre process.

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Then it will be delivered in handwritten cursive, written in a quill.

Then a messenger pigeon will take it across the Capitol.

And then it will be read via audio on cassette tape or eight track recording.

If you have a reel-to-reel machine, get it out of the closet.

You may be able to get some of the information on that as well.

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Okay, so I'm going to go through some of this stuff real quick.

Trump is supposedly going to come out and talk as well about this.

We'll take that if and when it happens.

We have some of the questions we're going to get to here in today's program as well.

So a couple things that are important to know about the obstruction part.

You're going to see, you know, I think the conservatives are going to focus on the collusion and show that there's absolutely nothing there.

The case was overwhelming as far as the presentation went from bar on that one.

The obstruction thing is the only thing the mainstream media and the left and the Democrats are going to care about because they've already lost the thing they were arguing over for the last two years.

They're now onto the obstruction part of it.

And this one was interesting, I got to say.

So they said there's 10 episodes that we talked about earlier that they're trying to string together with legal theory in the Mueller report to say if you kind of back up to 50,000 feet, look down at these 10 incidents, you can get kind of a picture of collusion.

It's sort of the crop circle argument, right?

Like you're down on the ground.

It it just looks like a bunch of weeds are knocked over.

You go up in the helicopter, oh my God, aliens were here, right?

That's that's what they're hoping to put together.

Now, what is interesting about this is the way Barr handled it.

Is he trying to put the best face on this for the administration?

I mean, I don't think that, I think 100% these things happen on both sides, of course.

But

he went into a list of,

you could call them excuses, you could call them context,

but he is, I think they have identified, Barr has identified, these things might look a little bad for the president.

And this is the only reason the media is going to care about this stuff.

Here are some of the things that Barr said about this.

He said there are 10 episodes, and then he said, but I want to give some context to these 10 episodes.

Number one, he was in an unprecedented situation.

Which is true.

Which is true.

I don't think any of these are untrue, but they are explanations for be they're not explanations for good behavior.

They're explanations for things that the media is going to try to make look like bad behavior.

And who knows?

I don't know what they are yet.

We'll have to see.

So number one is unprecedented situation.

Number two, he was under a high level of news media examination.

Now, when you're in the president of the United States, you're always under a high level of news media examination.

But they've been looking into him not only as president, but before that.

Number three, Trump was frustrated at this time.

Now, to communicate the frustration of the president, which is of course real and many, many times completely justified, especially

with what we now know that he did not collude.

You know, Trump had really extra special information this entire time about the Mueller report, which was he knew he didn't do it, right?

No one else knew.

A lot of people guessed on both sides, but we didn't know.

Now we have this report out here.

We know that he didn't do do it.

Trump knew that the whole time.

So imagine how frustrating that is when you're being accused of this all the time, and you know that you didn't do it.

You know that people around you didn't do it.

You know that

no one had, you have no idea that anyone ever did something like this.

That is a

significant point and would be frustrating, though there's no reason to point out his frustration if

this isn't going to be potentially, at the very least, a PR issue

for the president.

Next up, he said he was also angry at this time.

This is Barr essentially excusing the 10 incidents and saying these are the motivations.

He was unprecedented.

He was frustrated.

He was angry.

He said he was upset about the illegal leaks that were going on.

And then he said he corroborated, even with all that going on, he still cooperated with the investigation.

So all of those, if you kind of look at those and you're saying, okay, Barr is trying to say what you'll see in the media here over the next day or two and when the Mueller report comes out is may look bad in certain instances for the president.

But if you put it in context, you can understand why he acted that way.

That's the Barr argument.

And I think that at some level, that's a compelling argument.

But it does also identify that they do think there are some problems here, I think.

And I think the biggest one, if I just finish this off here, they said at the end he had non-corrupt motives.

That was a quote from Barr.

So

it's a way of saying, like, yeah, he did things that don't look so great, but his motives were not bad.

He wasn't trying to screw the country.

He wasn't trying to protect himself.

He was just upset and frustrated and under a lot of pressure and, you know, maybe did some things that weren't right.

I think all of those are potentially, depending on how much, probably honestly, depends on what letter you have after your name, whether you think those are legitimate excuses or not.

But beyond that, they are identifying that they do think that there will be that type of problem here.

That does not mean he got

convicted of any crimes.

It does not mean he's going to prison.

They're not going to drag him out of the White House today by any means.

But they do see, I think, at the very least, some PR issues here.

Jason Buttrell joins me.

He's going to be going through the report here as it's released.

Is that the take that you kind of had?

I was about to say the exact same thing, especially his quote on non-corrupt motives.

You can already kind of frame or kind of guess on what the headlines are going to be or what these 10 incidents are going to be about, because he he knew that he was innocent.

Now we know that.

The rest of the country, the special counsel didn't at the time, but he knew he was innocent.

Now, what would you do in that situation?

You're like, no, I don't, why are you going after General Flynn?

I want to, let's do this.

Like, nothing, there's no there there.

The problem is that there was an investigation going on.

You can't step in and try to shut that down.

Even if you're completely innocent, you have to let that go.

And he did eventually, right?

He did consider things like, you know, the Comey, the Mueller firing was reported on.

You know, he did, but, you know, that was one of the big bar points: look, the bottom line is, end of the day, this, you're reading this report because you let it go on.

And we don't know now, but there's got to be corroborating evidence, you know, like a statement, a email, a something, you know, a testimony that someone gave that said, I heard him say this, you know, under oath, that said, yeah, look, let's, let's, let's stop this so we can move on to something important.

Something like that.

There's going to be in there.

But like it said, like they said,

you know, he wasn't guilty of any crime, but

it looks kind of like it has a hint of guilt because maybe he was trying to impede this so that this could go forward.

I don't know.

I think at the very least it's going to be, look, the question here is: do you give enough fuel to Democrats to act plausibly as if they believe there was a crime?

Right.

And that is the type of thing it seems like they're defending against.

They're coming out and saying, look, there were some incidents here and there.

There's 10 of them.

And if you remember,

if you're listening to Rick D's in the weekly top 40 or Casey Case and counting down the hits and you get to the top 10, most of the time, what happens?

You know all those songs.

Those are the songs that have been playing like crazy on radio for the last year incessantly, right?

My expectation is

eight of the 10 are things you already know.

There are things like the Russia meeting.

There are incidents like that.

They're incidents like where you have a situation, you know,

it's the changing of the story.

Remember, you know, reportedly Trump dictated this response about adoption when trying to talk about that initial meeting at the Trump White House.

You know,

it's going to be that type of stuff.

So most of these songs you're already sick of here in the top 10.

They're counting down the hits.

We're already going to know almost all these.

If there's a new one in there, it will be the media mania for the next few weeks.

Most likely,

and there may be additional details about those things as well.

But a lot of these, there's been a lot of these stories that have come out.

And there's been a lot of these stories where

we've heard,

for example, attempts at collusion, right?

The idea that

the big Moscow,

the big Trump Tower reporting meeting was essentially, you know, a very light, loose effort to see if they could get dirt on Hillary Clinton.

Nothing came of it.

It kind of came and went.

You know, it's more than I would have thought was there.

But honestly, like, in the end of the day, we already know about this.

It's already been litigated, basically, unless there are new details about that meeting.

For example, Trump knowledge of it or something.

And not Donald Trump Jr., but Donald Trump, the father, the president.

So things like that might come out.

But I mean, in reality, when you step back, you know, there's been a lot of reporting on this incident.

I mean, the media has been completely obsessed with it and obsessed with him him this entire time.

Again, to the extent that they've avoided the actual title of the report, which is like, hey, what the hell?

It's not exactly this.

Hey, what the hell happened with Russia in these elections?

It wasn't supposed to be a Donald Trump report.

It's supposed to be what Russia did.

And we've ignored that because the media is continually obsessed with Donald Trump as a personality, as a president, as what they view as this evil right-wing ideologue, which they view as some totalitarian in the the making.

And because of that obsession,

that's the only focus that we've been able to get out of the media.

They don't care about any of this other stuff.

They don't really care about Russia.

And if you think it's bad before, I can only imagine how bad it's going to be now.

Because when I was watching Barr

say all this stuff,

I was instantly

taken back to James Comey talking about, you know, trying to explain the intent that Hillary Clinton didn't have with her email.

And I'm like, dude, that is not not your job.

Like, what are you doing?

And I was totally pissed off, which I think most of the people listening right now were too.

And they still, I mean, I still want it, want more on that.

But that's exactly how they see this.

They saw James Comey.

They saw that moment.

That was their moment for them saying, look, why are you doing all this?

This is not your job.

Like, why are you making excuses for all this stuff?

And I, you know,

I personally, I...

I still need to read the report, but I don't think that, I really don't think that we're going to find hardcore evidence of obstruction.

I just don't.

Yeah.

I mean, if they did, they would have made it more clear.

But again, it's hard to prove.

It's hard to prove.

So I think that they're saying, okay, look, this is very hard to prove.

We're never going to get a conviction on this.

So we're just not going to go forward on it.

That's what I think.

But it doesn't matter because they see the James Comey moment.

So they are going to dig into this again for 1,700 years.

It's going to be non-stop way past the next election.

Even if Donald Trump is re-elected or isn't re-elected, it's still going to go way beyond that.

We're still talking about the Hillary email investigation coming out loud.

And we still feel like we we haven't been vindicated on that.

We don't think justice has been done.

Yeah, the stuff doesn't go away.

That's how they're going to see it.

You'll get the same people who released books about how guilty Trump was on the collusion front.

And those same people will now write reports saying,

forget my last book, read this one.

So we'll see that.

And I think one thing I think we could take back, and this is going to be something that Congress is going to have to deal with in the aftermath of this, is I will say this.

The law here is ridiculous.

Like, let's picture another situation.

Obama is in office, and

he's accused of Russian collusion.

And

there are meetings, and there's some things that make us think maybe he did it, right?

And then the report comes out, and not only do we get a, Eric Holder gets to release a letter setting the precedent of

what this report is going to have.

Then after that, Eric Holder comes out and does a big press conference, and Eric Holder is the one making the decisions on all the redactions.

And Eric Holder is the guy who we would be just as suspicious as they're going to be, right?

Like I know I would be.

I would be looking at this and being like, well, what did they redact?

What is this?

What about this part?

This looks interesting.

Why can't I see that?

And so it's an odd choice to make a report like this.

All the decisions come down to someone who the president actually appointed.

It's almost impossible to investigate a president under this circumstance.

That's not to say that the the investigation was not thorough.

I think it was.

But

the process of it going through the Attorney General who just went through an appointment by the president is odd.

And it's something that probably should change.

It has nothing to do necessarily with Trump.

I'm not accusing Barr of anything, but

I think conservatives rightly would be suspicious as well if it was Eric Holder and his smug face telling us that nothing happened.

That would not be something I would necessarily trust.

We have more coming up here in just a minute.

We need to get to this, and we're only a few minutes away.

My kind of suspicion is they're going to give this to Congress and then very soon after give it to the public.

So we hopefully will have it here soon.

We'll go through all of this.

We want to take your calls as well.

If there's anything

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Let's see if we can take a little bit of this and see if he addresses the Mueller situation at all.

Usually, what happens in these situations is you go to a live press conference and you know what they say, I'd just like to thank Bob, and then I'd like to thank Frederick, and then I'd like to thank Orlando and Reginald and Montegua and all of my friends from third grade.

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but it was pretty interesting.

Okay, here we go.

Let's see if he's going to comment on it.

We're deeply honored to be in the presence of true American heroes.

I want to thank our great vice president, Mike Pence and Karen Pence, for being with us today.

Thank you, Mike, and Karen.

Yeah.

Vice President.

Mike.

Mike, stand up.

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I don't know if Mike stood up.

They kept the camera on Trump there.

I deal with Mike and Karen, and they have a fierce devotion to America's veterans, and we all do.

And thank you very much.

We're also grateful to be joined by Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan.

Patrick, thank you very much.

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Controversy, he didn't make Patrick stand up.

I think.

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So

that was great.

That was one of our early assignments, right, with you.

So I appreciate it.

Great job, Pat.

I assume you mentioned that.

General Counsel of Veteran Affairs Jim Byrne.

Jim, thank you very much, Jim.

Great job.

Yeah.

By the way, I was told by the New York Times there wasn't a caliphate until they did their caliphate podcast.

Army Vice Chief of Staff General James McConville.

James?

James.

Thank you, James.

Thank you, James.

So, James.

So, is he going to talk about the lower report?

We'll see.

Two great congressmen for being here.

And if we had room, we would have had a lot more.

Nancy Pelosi

and James Baird.

Thank you very much.

Yeah.

And they're having a good day.

I'm having a good day, too.

Who's Gold?

No collusion, no obstruction.

I'm having a good day.

Big smile from the President.

There never was, by the way, and there never will be.

And we do have to get to the bottom of these things, I will say.

And

this should never happen.

I say this in front of my friends, wounded warriors, and I just call them warriors because we just shook hands and they look great.

They look so good and so beautiful.

But I say it in front of my friends, this should never happen to another president again.

This hoax.

This should never happen to another president again.

Thank you.

With us on stage today are the wounded warriors from the Air Force, the Army, the Navy, the Coast Guard.

It looks like he's going to be a good one.

Obviously, by the way, we could spend much more important things on the actual wounded warriors.

And he pointed out something that is very interesting, and it's a little depressing.

When you meet some of these heroes that have been wounded in battle, they come in here all the time.

They always have these great causes, and they're doing these great things with their lives.

And they've obviously accomplished thousands of times more than I'll ever accomplish in my entire life.

And they come in here, and they're all wounded, and

then you realize they're still in better shape than you.

Like they're in a wheelchair and they can't walk, yet they still have much more muscle tone than you do.

And that is a depressing moment, I will say.

But these are great guys, and we are now getting information.

Yes, it is.

It looks like we do have a posted version of the Mueller report.

So it's 448 pages.

Okay.

48 pages longer than it's been rumored to be.

And it is heavily redacted on some pages.

Like some pages, I'm just scanning through it really quick, have been completely blacked out.

And you'd expect that.

You'd expect that.

That's no surprise there.

I mean, they're going to make a big deal of whatever the percentage of redaction is.

We'll hear that number, I'm sure.

And what's interesting on this is the title of it is Report on the Investigation to Russian Interference into the 2016 presidential election, volume one of two.

So I'm kind of confused on whether this is just half of it.

I think volume one and two, though, is volume one was collusion.

Volume two was obstruction.

Wow.

So, but I think volume two is in that 448 pages, if I'm not mistaken.

It better be.

I'm sure they certainly didn't get away with not really.

Oh, we forgot about the obstruction part.

We'll get back to you in a couple of months.

I don't think that's going to happen.

And I don't know if I can handle reading 448 pages times Q.

Okay, so you're going to start going through this?

I'm on the case.

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So he went home.

We're going through the Mueller report.

I have Jason furiously going through it, assuming he can read.

I'm not 100% sure on that.

We'll see.

And for now, we're going to take a quick kind of sideline here as we're waiting to get the updates on this and kind of walk you through who are the people that are going to try to take advantage of this.

We have the new Democratic candidate power ratings out.

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You can read the entire list right now.

And the way this works is we...

you know, been working for a few months on putting together an actual sort of model, statistical model, that kind of measures a bunch of different things about campaigns.

I have 30 different categories we go over.

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About 30 categories measured.

And we're looking to see if we can kind of identify these, make sense of this, because half the freaking country is running for president for the Democrats right now.

So how do you make sense of that?

That's what the Democratic candidate power rankings are doing.

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You know, they rank the teams 1 to 30.

And you kind of get a sense of where people think they are.

Well, this is a little bit more scientific than that, and that we're not just, you know, it's not just my opinion.

It is a lot of data going into this as well.

And so we'll kind of go through this

from worst to first here, and we'll start at number 18, Wayne Messum.

If you don't know, he's running for president, you're not alone.

He's the mayor of Miramar, Florida.

And he, I think he was a wide receiver for Florida State in the mid-90s.

That's

about his

chance of of winning.

We kind of have a score that this model spits out between 0 and 100.

Wayne Messum in 18th place has a 13 out of 100.

So I don't think there's any way a guy can go from a small town and a small city mayor to president of the United States.

But forget that I said that as we get later on in this list because there's some conflicting information.

Marianne Williamson, she's like a spiritual advisor for Oprah Winfrey and Kim Kardashian.

Perhaps if Kim Kardashian like paints her body with a Marianne Williamson for president sticker and releases a new sex tape, maybe she'd have a chance.

I think that's about it.

It's about her only chance.

She's in 17th place.

Her score, 17 out of 100.

In 16th place is Eric Swalwell.

You know the Eric Swalwells of the world because there's a certain brand of presidential candidate that's not actually running for president.

And that's Eric Swalwell.

Eric Swalwell is under no impression that he can actually win the presidency.

But where's the downside of running for president?

People will start knowing your name.

You'll be able to raise a bunch of money that you can even pull over to your

House campaign later on.

Or if you want to run for Senate or something in California later on, you're raising your profile.

And, you know, Eric Swalwell continues to be able to raise his profile a little bit over the hundreds of nameless, faceless representatives that we have, and you don't know who they are because he'll go on MSNBC and say really outlandish things for attention.

And that's what this is about.

It's an attention campaign.

Eric Swalwell, 16th place, a score of 20.

John Delaney is next up.

He's a 20.3 is his score, 0 to 100.

He's been a candidate for the 2020 race since you were a small child.

When you got out of kindergarten, that's when John Delaney announced.

He's a very rich guy.

So he's been funding his own campaign, basically.

He's lent himself $16 million to run his campaign.

But the fact that you don't know he was running, and he's been legitimately running since July of 2017, this has been going on.

He's been everywhere in Iowa.

He's trying to make this a thing.

It doesn't seem like it's turning into a thing, however.

He is, I will say, one of the few candidates on the Democratic side that will stand up against something like Medicare for all.

He's kind of running as a moderate.

He says, you know, capitalism's done some good things, but we need to change it.

There's this moderate wing of the party that's trying to make some noise, and they're almost all at the bottom of this list.

John Delaney in 15th place.

In 14th place, did you know he was running?

Tim Ryan.

Did you know who Tim Ryan was?

You know Paul Ryan.

You know Ryan Gosling.

Do you know Tim Ryan?

No, you don't.

Okay.

Unless you're in Ohio, you probably don't who Tim Ryan is.

He's a representative there.

There's probably some very unlikely path to Tim Ryan being a vice presidential candidate.

I mean, he's from Ohio.

He's, again, running sort of as a moderate in the campaign.

He is,

but just doesn't that make it impossible to win in the Democratic Party right now?

If you're running as a moderate in the Democratic Party, unless your name is Joe Biden, and honestly, there's no real evidence that Joe Biden is going to run as a moderate.

Everyone keeps saying that.

But I mean, every time Joe's asked about it, he's like, I'm the most progressive guy in this campaign.

I mean, he's not running as a moderate, even if you think 30 years ago, he may have been moderate.

He was one of the most progressive candidates running for president in 2008 as a senator.

I mean, this idea that he's a moderate is perplexing to me, but Tim Ryan comes in in 14th place with a score of 21 21 out of 100

on the candidate rankings.

By the way, you can get all these again at glenbeck.com.

It's interesting to read through them and see where everyone stands.

In 13th place, Tulsi Gabbard.

She's got a score of 26.

Now, Tulsi is a weird, that's a weird bird, that Tulsi Gabbard.

She's from Hawaii.

She is very, very left.

She's in the Bernie socialist side of the party, which you may have noticed is kind of the only side of the party.

But I digress.

She has a very strange history, though.

She kind of came up as a right-winger.

She took positions.

Her dad was a big anti-gay rights activist type of person.

You know, was on the gay conversion therapy thing.

She did like appearances and

such for that cause.

So she has like a very anti-if you think about this in a Democratic primary, the idea that you took a stand a few years ago for gay conversion therapy, probably not going to help you in the primary race.

She loves the Bashir al-Assad.

She's like number one in the fan club.

It's her and David Duke.

They're the only two people in the Assad fan club.

She loves him.

She doesn't think he's done anything wrong.

And she's just a strange candidate.

She was actually sort of endorsed by David Duke in the past.

Again, this is a Democrat we're talking about.

I mean, if you know anything about history, it might not surprise you that David Duke would endorse a Democrat.

But that's something that would at least shock the media.

Whatever strain of the flu that allows Alex Jones and former socialist presidential candidate and Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney

to be best friends, whatever strain of the flu that is, that's kind of what Tulsi Gabbard has.

It's a weird combination of characteristics in a candidate.

I don't see how she wins the nomination, but she's in 13th place.

In 12th place, the Yang gang makes their appearance.

Andrew Yang, a score of 27 out of 100.

Yang is

interesting in that he's a pretty smart guy.

Like, if you heard his interview with Ben Shapiro, I would highly recommend it.

Every Democratic candidate should do these types of interviews.

We've invited a lot of them on.

Of course, they won't show up and talk to Glenn or any of us.

Yang went on with Shapiro, and it was smart of him to do so because I think he convinced a lot of people that at least he's not insane.

However,

I think he makes occasional sense, which is

not something you can do in the Democratic Party right now.

You can't.

You can't have a sensible take on something.

He does occasionally do that.

He also makes a lot of statements that don't make any sense.

He's big on the universal basic income.

But if you hear his description about why, it kind of comes, flows from almost the,

you know,

conservative libertarian argument for it, which there is one, and it's a little convoluted.

I absolutely encourage you to listen to that Shapiro Yang interview.

It was pretty interesting.

He is the only candidate to outline an anti-circumcision position, which makes him now leading the field in commentary about the private parts of male babies.

And that's something he can just take on his own.

He's the only guy doing that.

We're going through the top 18 candidates here.

This is where they stand at this moment.

In 11th place is Jay Inslee.

He has a score of 30 out of 100.

And Inslee, if you think of Inslee as a candidate, you think of like Lindsey Graham 2016.

If you remember Lindsey Graham and his candidacy, it was essentially a one-issue candidacy.

He wanted to get on stage in the debates and take foreign affairs,

you know, the war on terror, a hawkish foreign policy into

the debate.

People weren't really talking about it.

It was more of a domestic issues election, and he ran for president largely to try to make people talk about foreign policy.

He ran a single-issue campaign in 2016 on hawkish foreign policy, and now Jay Inslee is essentially running one on hawkishly fighting the weather.

Like he's a big climate guy.

He's the governor of Washington, but he's been talking about the climate incessantly forever.

Maybe he's the type of person who could be in the picture for a vice presidential nod, but he's really in the race to kind of force frontrunners left on the climate.

I don't know if he can stop that burning orb in the sky.

We'll see.

I mean, maybe if we elect him, he will.

He'll turn the whole thing off and everything will be dark just like we wanted.

John Hickenlooper.

Yeah, he's running too.

By the way, how many so far have you heard that you knew were running for president?

I mean, two, maybe?

John Hickenlooper has a score of 32 out of 100

when it comes to quality of Democratic primary chances to win.

We're looking at, you know, not whether they're good candidates or whether we would vote for them.

Certainly, they're all awful on that front.

But do they have the chance to win the Democratic nomination?

Hickenlooper, another former governor,

he has some moderate tendencies, I guess.

You know, at least he's trying to play those up.

Maybe you'd see him as like a,

type of person who'd get a VP candidacy behind a Corey Booker or a Kamala Harris, somebody like that.

You have to wonder, though, if the Democrats want another

kind of

white bread, vanilla, unknown

zilch of a candidate again.

I mean, this is what they tried with Tim Kaine.

I mean, does anyone even remember that Tim Kaine ran for president?

I mean, at least people remember Dan Quayle.

Does anybody even remember Tim Kaine's name?

I bet 90% of Americans don't remember who ran with Hillary Clinton right now.

That's how little an impact he made.

And I don't know that you go with a guy like Hickenlooper after that experience.

I will say, I find it very hard to believe that President Hickenlooper could be a thing.

I just, I just doesn't feel like the type of name that would be president of the United States.

And that's not an actual reason to not be president, but it just doesn't feel like you could see Hickenlooper on a bumper sticker like that.

Though I guess it happened in Colorado when he became governor.

Julian Castro

comes in ninth place with a 36 score out of 100.

And, you know, there was a time where it looked like Castro could be kind of big.

I mean, he was kind of picked out of the Democratic field, a young up-and-coming Democrat.

He's kind of like a

four-star high school football recruit, gets the big SEC, you know, scholarship, and then he's pretty mediocre and he's going very late in mock drafts.

That's kind of where he is.

He does have a twin brother, though.

So if he becomes president and he sucks, I feel like we could just switch him out and just go with a brother.

I'm pretty sure that's in the Constitution.

It's kind of on the back.

It was written in pencil.

So maybe it got erased or whatever, but I'm pretty sure it's in the Constitution.

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And we'll get into that in more detail as we get it.

We're kind of in the middle of going through it right now.

We're going to have some nuggets here for you in just a couple of minutes.

And we'll kind of find out where this is going.

We know the media is going to find a way to make this into the story for the next few weeks, and we want to know where it's going.

We want to know if any of it's true.

We want to know how much of it is a bunch of lie and spin.

And that's how we're going to approach this thing.

Let's see what we can find.

And when we have it, we will

let you in on all of it as well.

You can get the report now online.

You can also get the Democratic primary power rankings here.

We have those right now online at Glenbeck.com.

We're up to number eight on the list.

There's 18 candidates running.

Number eight, Kirsten Gillibrand.

Now, she was initially a moderate, and supposedly, and then kind of went transformed into someone to the far left.

And now she kind of seems to dabble in whatever news story is sort of popular at the moment.

She became sort of the prominent voice of the Me Too movement when she asked for Al Franken to resign.

Kind of the problem that she didn't really realize at that moment, though, is that the left has no interest in consistently enforcing these new standards they've come up with.

They don't care about Me Too when it means getting rid of a crappy comedian who votes the way they like.

So the Al Franken thing is actually turning out to be a bad thing for Gillibrand in the primary because Democrats didn't care about what Al Franken did to some woman.

They don't care about that.

What they care about is Al Franken voted for a lot of left-wing socialist things.

That's what they care about.

So now Gillibrand's support of a woman who told her truth about an alleged series of assaults with photographic evidence, by the way, it's now her Achilles heel in the Democratic primary because you know what?

The old hashtag, believe all women, has its limits.

And she's learning that one.

It kind of was supposed to be Kirsten Gillibrand's time.

You know, now it's kind of hashtag time's up.

And that's kind of how it looks for her right now.

She's in eighth place, a score of 38 out of 100.

If you're just joining us, we have a 0 to 100 scale, and it's kind of a statistical model to see where these candidates actually stand.

In seventh place, Amy Klobuchar.

Now, Klobuchar has a decent case for a candidacy here.

She's a woman.

She's from the Midwest.

She's outperformed electoral expectations many times.

You know, they made a big deal about Betto O'Rourke.

When O'Rourke's run against Cruz, O'Rourke outperformed generic House Democrats by about four points.

Klobuchar did that and outperformed House Democrats by 13 points.

She's been much more impressive electorally than Betto O'Rourke has.

She's probably a top-tier candidate for vice president.

And I say these nice things about her so she doesn't throw something at me because apparently she does that a lot as well.

In sixth place, Elizabeth Warren, a score of 46 out of 100.

You'll notice we haven't had one candidate over

50 on this score here.

And we're all the way up to number six.

Elizabeth Warren, as we know, is not a good candidate.

She is a socialist on policy.

She's basically Bernie.

She gaffes constantly like a Joe Biden.

She is not likable at all.

When she tries to act natural, she fails miserably.

She is,

you know, I mean, if you want to say something positive about her, she's at least one of the only people who are releasing policy plans, but they're things like, I want a wealth tax.

I'm Native American.

You should believe me.

I also want to, you know, nationalize a good chunk of the prescription drug production in America.

These are not not things that most people would find appealing, but I guess in the primary, maybe they will.

I just don't think that right now the Democratic Party is about policy.

You'll see this again with a Mueller Report reaction today.

The Democratic Party right now exists to do one thing, and that is to beat Donald Trump.

Get him out of office by any means necessary.

After that, they'll figure out who the next person is they want to get out of office or

their next goal.

But they don't care about these policies right now.

Bottom line is you just can't run Hillary Clinton Part two against Donald Trump.

That's a terrible idea.

And that's what Elizabeth Warren is.

In fifth place, Corey Booker.

He's got a score of 55.5.

You know, Corey's just an actor.

You know, he's one of these guys.

He's just constantly overacting.

He's trying to figure out, he's on this constant real-time assessment of every audience to figure out what they think he should be.

And,

you know, he overdoes it.

His eyes are bulging all the time.

His arms are flailing.

It's part of his act.

And you can kind of feel him doing it.

When you're a guy who's calling yourself Spartacus in the middle of a hearing, you just know the overacting is there.

And, you know, Corey Booker is not convincing.

You can feel him trying too hard, all the time, trying too hard.

And I think the fact that people will see through that eventually will be his downfall.

And he's not a great guy for vice president, I don't think, either, because he's so attention-hungry.

He really wants people to talk about him, look at him, think about him.

I don't spend much time doing that, but Corey Booker in fifth place on our top 18 candidates as it stands right now for president of the United States on the Democratic nomination side.

Number four, I mean, this is a surprise to me, never thought this would be the thing, but Pete Budigej, a guy who's a mayor from South Bend, Indiana.

And remember, like, we're looking at this as a snapshot of where we are in this campaign right now, not necessarily where this is going to turn up.

I mean, it's hard for me to believe that the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is going to be, or is it Pawnee?

It's one of those towns in Indiana.

How is that?

Is that person going to really go from there to president of the United States?

I mean, maybe.

It seems that that's the thing these days.

I don't know.

He is openly gay, and you should know that he's openly gay because you should not be prejudiced against people who are openly gay.

Remember the phrase, openly gay.

We all know you're evil.

You're already listening to the Glenbeck program, so we know you're an evil person.

You need to understand that being openly gay doesn't mean mean that you aren't capable of governing in an effective manner.

And I know because you're listening to the Glenn Beck program, you're on some talk radio station with evil conservatives, you already think, you know what?

If he's gay, he can't govern.

But no, that's not true.

By the way, also don't just treat him as some boring white guy because that's not true either.

He's historic.

You know what we should do?

is constantly focus on the fact that he's gay, but also forget that he's gay all the time.

You should just be thinking, is this person openly gay?

Yes, he is.

But on the other hand, you should not factor it into your decision whatsoever.

However, you should factor it into your decision because it's historic.

Remember all of these things at the same time.

That is Pete Budigej.

You know, look, I will say this, and I mentioned this long before he's had this little bump.

The one thing about Budigej that is actually notable is he has internal Obama machine support.

Obama mentioned him before anybody knew who he was.

They like him because he's a military veteran.

He's a Rhodes Scholar, went to Harvard, all that.

So he kind of fits that Obama profile.

Not the military veteran part, but the other parts.

The military veteran part, they think, will appeal to people in the middle of the country.

He's calm.

He's an effective speaker.

He's not going to lose it.

And as Glenn kind of pointed out the other day, running Corey Booker is trying to fight fire with fire with Trump.

Budajej.

is trying to fight fire with water.

He's the exact opposite of Trump.

He's going to sit back and he's not going to give ⁇ his arms aren't going to flail.

He's not going to start.

He's not going to make accusations.

He's not going to supposedly call people names.

He's trying to do the opposite.

I will also point this out.

No one has said a bad word about him yet.

This campaign is not going to end with Pete Budige winning the nomination without anyone criticizing him.

And there has been zero,

zero criticism.

of Pete Buttigieg.

They're not going to laugh.

The other Democrats are not going to just give this nomination to him.

They're going to fight against him.

They're going to come up with things that don't make him look so good.

They're going to try to put him in positions where he doesn't look so good.

And eventually, that's going to take its toll.

Whether he can survive that is really the question of whether he's going to be the Democratic nominee.

In third place, Bob Frank O'Rourke.

You may know him as Robert Francis O'Rourke.

But if you know him as Betto O'Rourke, you're falling for something because, you know what?

He's not actually Hispanic.

You can make the argument.

He's more Hispanic than the average white Irishman, I suppose.

But he is not a Hispanic, and he's 0% Hispanic.

You know, he is part of this sort of thing the Democrats are doing now, which is like, hey, what if we run someone who's really famous for losing an election?

This is like a new thing among Democrats.

Oh, Stacey Abrams, she'll be Gillam in Florida, he'll be wonderful.

Taking these candidates that they say impressively lost and running them for higher office is now apparently a Democratic thing.

Now, look, the fundraising is good for Betto.

He's got a lot of people on like Now This Is YouTube channel that apparently like him.

He loves praising below-average quarterbacks that have no business being in the NFL, whether they kneel or not.

His hands, though, flail around like crazy.

I mean, his hands go in places.

I don't understand the hand gesture thing.

They go in odd places, places that even Joe Biden's hands don't go.

And that could be an issue.

He's not a convincing speaker, I'll say that.

I mean, watching him in the debates here in Texas, you know, he's always jumping up on countertops like he's a cat.

I don't know that Betto's going to be able to do it.

But again, this field is a crappy field.

He's in third place, 62.9.

Second place, Bernie Sanders.

Sanders is,

I mean,

he's the sign of the Democratic campaign right now.

I mean, this is a guy who got zero co-sponsors on his Medicare for All bill in 2013.

Here we are six years later, and every candidate in the field, except for some of the people in like 17th and 18th place, are supporting Medicare for all.

He basically outlawed your right to get a doctor outside of Medicare for all, outlawing private insurance.

It would be illegal.

And every senator that is running for president signed onto that bill.

That is where we are.

This is a guy.

You're not going to out-socialist a guy who went to the Soviet Union on his honeymoon.

Like, you're never going to find a place to his left.

And

as the rest of the party moves left, Bernie goes even further left.

I just don't understand.

I mean, do Democrats really want to try this this with Bernie Sanders?

Do you really want to take, you're a party that lost with Hillary Clinton in 2016, and you want to try running a guy who's six years older who's also most famous for losing to Hillary Clinton in 2016?

That does not seem like the path to a victory, but the Democrats may very well attempt that here.

With Bernie Sanders, number two, again, the scores are 1 to 100.

He's at 68.3.

Edging him out at 69.1 for first place right now is Kamala Harris.

Now, Harris has a lot going for her, I think, in the campaign.

She's not ahead in polling as of now.

Bernie's well ahead of her.

But, you know, polling takes more of a precedent in these models as we get closer to the elections.

She's got a big, big money factory.

She doesn't hide that she wants to take big dollar donations.

You know, Bernie's like, oh, send me $2.

She's like, send me $2 million.

She's got a lot of money.

She's got a lot of big, wealthy power base.

You know, she has a history of

some strict law and order policies, which are not going to help her in the Democratic campaign.

But the things your opponent leaks against you in a primary are the things you put in your own commercials in the general.

She's not going to be a pushover if she makes it.

She's not a Hillary Clinton.

She's used to dealing with, you know, she's a prosecutor.

She's used to dealing with high-pressure situations, which is what Trump brings to the table.

That being said, she's way too far left to think that she could be nominated as president of the United States and win an election in America.

I don't know how that happens,

but who knows?

Maybe it can.

She also did have an affair.

And what's interesting about that affair is here we are in the Me Too generation.

Kamala Harris benefited in her career by having an affair at work with a powerful male.

This is like the other side of the Me Too movement.

It's the side where it kind of worked out okay.

I don't know if that's a new hashtag.

Can we do Me Too Part 2?

Sometimes it works out great.

I don't know.

By the way, she had an affair with Willie Brown, who was voted 1984's one of the top 10 sexiest men in the world by Playgirl magazine.

Who could possibly give up such an attractive job opportunity?

Kamala Harris tops our list.

The list is available at glennbeck.com.

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