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Yesterday, Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was sentenced by a federal judge in Manhattan.

How did he explain himself to the judge?

Well,

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Okay, so Michael Cohen,

who was anybody clear that, I mean, was anybody shocked

that the guy was like, look, I saw an attorney and I just call people and problems go away.

Well, is anybody shocked that that guy was dirty?

I actually was curious to see if there was ever a day he did not commit a crime

in his life from birth.

I am surprised that he, that this is all they found you know it's like i expected

what i don't know how those six bodies got into my trunk of my car i have no idea what i mean i would have completely believed that completely believed if they were digging up his backyard and i mean this sincerely if they were digging up his backyard and they found a skull I would not have been surprised.

If they hit the sewage tank before a skull, I would have been stunned.

That's exactly right.

You know, oh,

there was a crack in the basement of one of the Trump towers.

It was the basement that had the cage there

for storage for Michael Cohen.

Underneath the cement, there were like 1,400 people.

No.

Definitely possible.

Okay, so it's actually good news.

He's never killed anybody or buried bodies, which is

an upgrade in my mind.

That we know of.

Now, he's going to go to prison, but it's probably going to be one of those college campus prisons.

How do you get into those?

I mean, if you're going to go to prison, I have a teenage.

I have two teenagers now.

If I could find a way to go to prison, but it's like a campus prison, I think I'd be okay with that.

Just until they're about 18 and out of the house.

You know, it's like, hey, kids, I would have loved to have been there for you with all your parent-teacher meetings, but daddy went to prison.

I heard you've done some nice weightlifting while you were there.

So you're in good shape.

Okay, so anyway, he's going to be locked up.

Federal judge sentence him to three years in prison for financial crimes, two months for lying to Congress.

They also ordered.

It's frustrating.

The lying to Congress as a crime is frustrating.

Because they lie to us all the time.

And they have immunity.

Right.

They can go on the Senate floor and say anything and not be prosecuted for anything, any accusation against any person.

They can say whatever they want.

Because they have immunity to go on the Senate floor or congressional floor and just start blabbing about whatever.

That's why Harry Reid kept doing so many speeches because he would go on there and completely lie about someone and no one could do anything about it.

You know,

I hear Mitt Romney is a devil worshiper.

There, it's out.

I've said it.

Now he's got to answer for it.

And then like three months later, he's on TV and going, oh, yeah, no, that wasn't true at all.

No, of course not.

But did he get elected?

No, he did not.

So it worked.

Two months for lying to Congress.

Can you imagine how satisfying it would be if we could just put all of them away for two months?

Imagine, I think a lot of our problems would go away.

Anyway.

That's why I like the government shutdown so much.

Me too.

Maybe they

stay home.

I'm for it.

As a lawyer, Mr.

Cohen should have known better.

This is what the judge said.

While Mr.

Cohen is taking steps to mitigate his criminal conduct by pleading guilty and volunteering useful information to prosecutors, that does not wipe the slate clean.

What do you think he would have gotten if he if he didn't plead guilty and do a

deal?

He pled guilty in August to eight criminal charges in two different cases.

One brought by the special counsel Robert Mueller for Cohen's lying to Congress about a Trump Tower project in Moscow.

The second was for bank fraud, tax, and campaign finance violations brought up by federal prosecutors in New York.

You know, it's really the federal prosecutors that are finding something substantial here.

I mean, it's not Mueller.

Do you think?

He hasn't released anything yet.

We don't know what he's found.

So far.

So far.

President Trump said recently Cohen has simply been lying to get a reduced sentence for crimes that have nothing to do with him.

Cohen was very emotional.

He apologized to the judge.

He said, it was my own weakness and blind loyalty to this man that led me to choose a path of darkness over light.

Oh my gosh.

Pretty dramatic.

Pretty dramatic.

Let me tell you something, eh?

My own weaknesses, blind loyalty to this man over there.

That led me to choose the path of darkness over light.

You haven't dug up any concrete lately, have you?

Time and time again, he said, I felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds rather than to listen to my own inner voice and moral compass.

I'm sorry, I'll let you say that again without laughing.

Rather than to listen to my own inner voice, I can't do it.

I can't do it.

It's so impossible to take coming from him.

I mean, ever since he's been in the public eye, Michael Cohen, he has been a non-stop, blatant lying factory.

There's no difference between him and Michael Avenatti.

Yeah, yeah.

They're very similar people.

I mean, they're saying whatever they have to say for a while.

Now they're on the same side, right?

They'll say anything they have to say to try to, at the beginning for Cohen, defend Trump, and now it's destroy him.

And that's why you can't take one word that he says seriously.

If there's not backing evidence to every one of his claims, then the claims aren't real.

You just have to assume.

And Roger Stone's on this front too.

Anything that these guys say, you have to just immediately believe that there's nothing to them unless there's actual evidence.

And if they don't have more than Michael Cohen saying these things happen, they don't have anything.

Now, the speculation is they do have more.

We'll see.

You got to believe they were so comfortable with each other, they probably said lots of things to each other.

If there's evidence of those things, then there will be something to talk about.

But as of now, until we actually see this evidence, I don't know what there is.

No, there's nothing.

There's nothing.

Now,

the real story here, I think, is that the National Inquirer ran to change their story.

Okay, as soon as he was sentenced within a couple of hours, the National Inquirer was like, hey, what was it we were talking about before?

Because I was on medication and I think I might have gotten a few of those statements wrong with you.

And so the National Enquirer came out and said, oh, oh, you mean that payment to the Playboy model?

Oh, we were thinking about something else entirely.

Yes, we did pay hush money.

We weren't really interested in

her fitness program.

So we did pay her hush money.

Do you remember when the National Inquirer came out and all of a sudden this woman was on the

cover, wasn't she?

For her fitness program?

It was after the

investigation started.

Yeah, they put her on actually one of their other publications covers.

Yes.

And

I want to say it was Men's Health.

Yeah.

And Men's Health

never runs like...

That's not the type of cover they run.

They showed all of them next to each other and they're all just like dudes that are all, they've been working out a lot.

And then there's just one in the middle, just a random Playboy model

that you've never heard of before.

Why would they be on the cover?

I don't understand.

Now, this is because they were trying to cover their track saying, we didn't pay hush-up money to her.

We, we were very interested in her health and fitness regime.

And they did nothing about it.

And then she started saying, Hey, what about my health and fitness regime that you're so interested in?

And when the Fed started to investigate, lo and behold, they put her on the cover.

See, look, this was, and what a coincidence.

You're at my door asking about it, and I just happen to have this cover handy today.

So

yesterday after Cohen, they were like,

oh, did we tell you that that wasn't connected to hush money?

I don't, we're going to fire that.

That was you.

Well.

I don't remember it that way, but we should talk about that because that's what we told you before is not what we did.

Because now it is confirmed that they are working with the prosecution here, right?

Yes.

Yes.

And they changed their tune as soon as he was sentenced.

Like two hours later, they were in the office going, yeah, we should talk.

So

we don't know exactly

except if, again, this is true, this one does matter.

Because this one, they say they were working with the campaign and not with Donald Trump.

So there could be actual

problems there.

Yeah, I mean, I think there's problems with the other one, but it's kind of like, ah,

I mean, this one is really crystal clear.

I'm kind of at the point of just interested in just historically all the stuff that happened.

They're going to get this behind-the-scenes stuff that you wouldn't normally get from a presidential campaign.

Like, I was thinking about this after the Inquirer stuff came down yesterday.

At some point, there were multiple stories about Ted Cruz murdering,

his dad murdering JFK.

And remember, the affair that Ted Cruz supposedly had with like 15 women, one of which was on the staff, the campaign staff of Donald Trump.

They accused him of that.

Both of those stories came out, you know, midst of that primary.

If there's back and forth on that, that's going to be so fascinating to look at.

Because I bet it was Michael Cohen's idea to say, say his dad murdered JFK.

It's going to be so entertaining.

I don't know.

That's even beneath Michael Cohn, don't they?

I mean,

I was stuck in the veto.

I didn't even know he could speak.

And he said, I think his dad murdered JFK.

I'm just saying I might make a good story.

And that's on the cover of the aquarium the next week.

Or the, I mean,

the affair thing, which obviously nothing ever came of,

but like

the spokesperson for the Trump campaign was in that.

Now, if you're working directly with Trump and trying to do the best thing you can for Trump, right?

You're not going to put his spokesperson in the middle of an accusation about an affair.

I swear someone else in the campaign was like, you know who I hate is that spokesperson.

Put her in there too.

This is going to be fascinating.

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We have Jason Buttrell in with us, and

Jason is one of our head researchers, head researcher on all things foreign and all of the threats against the country.

And

he came in yesterday, and this is why I love him.

He said, have you read the farm bill?

I'm like, no, and neither has any senator.

But he started doing some research on this, and it is as bad as everybody is thinking that it is.

We're going to do a special on it next week, just in time for Christmas.

And we thought it was appropriate because it'll make you turn right, white, and it is full of red.

It is

a socialist utopia.

And Ted Cruz voted for it, by the way.

It's not just him.

No, he said it.

Only 13 stood against it.

I would say that about Mike Lee if he he would have voted for it.

I would have said it about Rand Paul if he would have voted for it.

Who didn't?

Yeah,

Thomas Massey.

I would say this about any of these guys

who we like

and are supposed to be standing for the Constitution.

This thing is loaded with really bad things.

This looks like FDR's ghost rose out of the grave and was like, I wanted one more thing I wanted in the New Deal.

I want this farm bill.

And so they voted for it and they did it.

That's how bad this thing looks.

Expanded welfare, Obama era like food stamp policies.

They like not, they just basically gave it a shining ringing endorsement.

You don't work requirements, a lot of things like that that the GOP, again, told us they were going to put in into some of these measures.

They completely caved on, just said, ah, screw it.

And just let them do it as such.

Price controls.

There's a minimum price.

There's like a minimum price to where if you don't meet the minimum price, then

you instantly get flooded with government subsidies.

You could actually be like a dairy farmer

and like just say, you know what, I'm just not going to go to work this month because I'm tired and I want to watch soap operas and stuff.

And then if you didn't make the money as the guy that worked, you know, you know, 80 hours a day, if there was such a thing and like his fingers are literally bled to the bone, and he's going to get the same amount of money as the guy that said, screw it, I don't want to work.

I mean, this is absolutely like, you know, Stalin-Lenin era, you know, like farm practices, like countries that have done things like this, it hasn't gone too well, typically.

Now, usually people starve, but, you know, let's not worry about that.

There's also some pretty interesting things about the war powers.

Now, can I ask you a question, Stu?

What do farmers have to do with the war powers?

Well, all farms,

when you become a farmer, you learn that we should be able to invade Yemen at any time.

That's the first lesson of the- So farmers are very, they're very, very upset about the Yemen thing, and they want to make sure that we continue the war in Yemen.

That's what all farmers want.

Damn those farmers.

Yeah, really strange part of that.

Thomas Massey was the guy who drew my attention to that.

And basically, it's a little clause that they popped into the last second that says

currently we are

aiding Saudi Arabia in their war with Yemen.

And

as far as the War Powers Act goes, it does not seem like that would be legal.

We have, I believe, 90 days before we're supposed to answer coming.

We shouldn't be fighting a war that no one knows about.

Now, their excuse for this is: well, we're just giving support.

We're not engaging in hostilities, so we can stay as long as we want.

Well, then it wouldn't be covered with the War Powers Act, now, would it?

That's what they're trying to claim initially.

However, if they really believe that, it would be curious as to why why in the farm bill, which you're right, every single time they put up there, it's some giant socialist program.

And it is a, if you're a libertarian, it's like the type of thing that makes your heart stop as it gets passed.

However, it always gets passed because you can't say you don't like farmers.

Everyone will just put you as anti-farmers.

So everyone votes for it all the time.

At least most people.

But in this one, they put in a basically a way to make it so the War Powers Act would not apply

and could not be influenced because right now Mike Lee and Bernie Sanders working together have come to put up a bill that says, hey,

we can't just do this.

We can't just, we have to vote on the War Powers Act.

This is binding.

We need to do something about this.

This basically is a, it would, it would clear them of that responsibility.

So,

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I think we can all see that.

Yemeni asparagus.

Really, really, you know, it's got to be grown in the sand.

So, what day do we do this expose?

I think we're going to do it on either Tuesday or Wednesday.

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You don't want to miss it.

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No, no, no, that's not true.

I'm very excited about

the head of Google and everything that he's doing and wants to do and continues to do.

Right.

Because they're completely neutral, you know.

Well, and trustworthy.

Yes, he's not biased.

No.

He runs his company based on the fact that he's not biased.

Right.

And of course, their motto itself is don't be evil.

Well, you know, they can't be.

No, they changed that.

They did change that.

They did change that.

So I guess now they can be evil.

They can be evil.

They're like, you know what?

We are doing a lot of evil things.

It's too hard.

Yeah.

That's a pretty harsh line.

Pretty harsh line.

Yesterday, he testified that

your concerns about AI are very legitimate.

However, the tech industry should be trusted to responsibly regulate themselves.

Yes.

I agree with that 100%.

Because, again,

they used to have a motto that was don't be evil.

Right.

People who are evil, like, okay, the devil comes back.

Okay, let's just say the Antichrist comes to Earth.

He's not going to have that motto.

Right.

No, he's not.

No, he is not.

No.

Although he might say he does.

What do you mean?

He might actually say.

No, the devil will.

When you're evil, you have to

admit it.

You have to say yes.

It's like, are you an undercover cop?

You have to say yes.

You have to say yes.

Yes.

So are you the Antichrist?

He has to say yes.

Are you doing evil?

Yes, we are.

Yes.

Okay.

You caught me.

Dang it.

I'm here to destroy mankind.

You caught me.

Coming again, a scooby-doo fan, that mystery machine every time.

Wasn't it your conversation with

okay, what's his face?

What's his

developer of the AI?

Ray Kurros Raw.

And his thing was, yeah, we're just going to develop it, and there are no concerns because our culture at Google is such that we wouldn't do anything.

We'll never do these things.

That's what he said.

We'll never do this.

We'll never do these things.

And I said, when in the history of mankind has that worked?

Yeah.

And then one time.

Right.

Well, now, because it's better now.

Because we're Google.

Right.

you're google and that's not enough for me

really yeah yeah that that seems to be laughing what if they had hugo boss uh design some snappy uniforms for everybody at google do they look really cool they look really cool and they hold up through history well then i think you let them you let them

because nobody would dress like like that no if they were evil no that's right right that's right so you know they're specifically evil when they start dressing like that

So he got to talking about

Google's AI as it applies to

filtering out some of the hate, the hate speech and the important work.

Important work.

He said he has found through these algorithms some hateful conspiratorial YouTube videos.

And he described them as abhorrent.

And he indicated that the company is going to work harder to improve its systems to get rid of this stuff.

Things Things like one of the videos he mentioned was one that's real popular, I think, among all conservatives.

It's the one where Hillary Clinton and Uma Abedine attacked, killed, and drank the blood of a young girl.

Oh, yeah.

I think we've all been all over that video.

Finally, it's out.

How many times have we played that?

Yeah, finally, it's out.

Thank you.

Oh, thank you.

Somebody in the midst of the

relief that's finally talking about how Hillary Clinton drinks blood of children.

And Uma, Uma and Hillary were both

killing and drinking the blood of the girl.

That typical, like, is, you know, partisan spin, though.

Are they trying to say they only drank the blood of one girl?

Yeah.

Is that what they're trying to say?

Come on now.

I mean, no, you know what?

Well, here's the deal.

Here's the deal.

And we all know they won't cover this.

They won't cover this.

That they're only drinking the remaining blood that the Jews didn't make into matzah.

Thank you.

Right?

Thank you.

Because of

the Swedish cabal.

You know, you can never say that.

Here's the thing about these algorithms.

I don't need the algorithm to tell me that that YouTube video isn't necessarily factually based.

Wait a minute.

Can you not at least give the American people

any credit?

Nope.

No.

Nope.

No.

Nope.

No.

So we need these algorithms.

No, of course we do.

And that's good.

That's good that AI is going to clean up all this stuff.

So all the killing and drinking of blood of girls from our politicians, those videos are going to go away.

So think about this.

Think about this.

Because we used to say, hey, listen, it was on Walter Cronkite.

Absolutely.

It was on Walter Cronkite.

I heard him say it.

The more they take these algorithms and they say, yes, we're taking away all of the things that aren't true,

the more weak our mind becomes because we're not searching for those things ourselves.

The more we trust them,

the less capable we will be

at discerning that.

And the more we will say, look, the algorithm would have taken that out if it wasn't true.

Right.

I mean, we just become lambs for the slaughter.

And Google is, Google is so brilliant, just brilliant.

I learned this from...

Who was it?

The guy who did the creepy line movie, I think.

And he was talking about, look at, maybe it was in one of the books.

I can't remember.

But

look at the Google homepage.

When you go to Google, what's on the page of Google?

Go to their homepage.

Their logo and just the search thing.

Just the search.

Okay.

Go now to Yahoo.

Totally clean.

Oh, yeah.

There's all sorts of stuff on Yahoo.

Yeah.

Right?

It's got politics.

It has news.

It has advertising.

It has all of these things.

Google kept it clean because they wanted to say, we're completely neutral.

We're We're nothing.

We're not trying to sell you anything.

We're not trying to do anything here at all.

No ass and trust us.

Yeah, it's brilliant.

That is their uniform from Hugo Boss.

Their front page is their uniform.

Which they've not changed since it was

debuted, I think, in 1997, 98.

They don't want you to.

It hasn't changed a bit.

They don't want you.

They want you to see the word Google and what you're looking for.

So it's your friend.

That is brilliant.

That never pisses you off.

Yeah.

It's a brilliant strategy and it's a great hiding place.

And it works so well that we continue to use it even though we know we probably shouldn't.

How many times have we tried to get away from Google stuff?

And you can't because every time you try a different engine, it doesn't work as well.

And you're like, okay, I'm just going to Google it.

Right?

I mean,

that's what I do every time.

I've tried Bing.

I've tried, you know, Yahoo.

It's like Lycos.

It's like past Jeeves.

It just don't work.

It's like Google has become a verb where like Kleenex just means to us tissue.

Okay.

And people, it's tissue.

It's tissue paper.

It's not Kleenex.

Kleenex is a brand.

How did that happen other than they must have been out in the market for a long time before anybody caught on that, hey,

you know,

wiping a little box is a good thing.

Here, you could have a tissue and it could be, I don't even know who makes tissue besides Kleenex, but I know everybody who

does.

But we still call it Kleenex.

Google is so far ahead of their competition.

It's like if Kleenex competitors were like cardboard.

You'd have a cardboard box and you'd reach in and you'd pull out another piece of cardboard.

You'd be like, okay, can I have a Kleenex?

Because it doesn't do it.

There's nothing that is even close, I think.

It's so immersive, though.

I mean, because if we say Google, and we need an alternative, we will get 1,400 calls for people saying, I use DuckDuckGo, which is another

search engine.

And DuckDuckGo does actually seem to be pretty good.

And every time I've used it, I've used it on Chrome, the Google browser, which doesn't do me any good at all.

I don't think that's the only reason why they have the browser because they know you will escape someplace else.

It's like I said to Ray Kurzweil, so Ray,

why would a company like Google allow me to Google things or allow me to find things that could dismantle them?

If I was going to make a new thing, I couldn't do it online because you'd be monitoring everything.

And why wouldn't

Why wouldn't it be in the best interest of the company to make sure that I'm thwarted some way or another or that I'm watched and you guys just take it?

Was his answer?

They just wouldn't they just wouldn't they just wouldn't they just wouldn't they're just too good the culture at google is too good well they're not evil all right they're not evil that's when you're dangerous though right when you when you think you're so good and your your goals are so wonderful it's when these really terrible decisions get made it's because you're sure the end game i know i'm right on so yeah we have to cut corners here that's why they're that's why the creepy line is so spooky because they came out and said look we know there's this creepy line and we're going to go right up to that line, but never over it.

Well, that line is probably pretty gray.

You know what I mean?

Let's know.

I don't, I don't know about you, but when I, like, I'm paying my taxes and stuff, I don't say, I want to go right up to where I'm going to go to jail, but no further.

This is essentially the decision-making process of Joe Biden.

Whenever he sees someone in a biker outfit, he's like, I got to go right up to the creepy line and not cross it.

But he doesn't know where the creepy line is.

He constantly is over it.

Yeah.

I guarantee having him sit on your lap is is past the creepy line.

But not for Joe.

Not for Joe.

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There is a story that came out of

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A story about this nine-year-old girl, Mackenzie Adams, who was bullied in school.

She's black, and she was bullied because she had a white friend.

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It's a silent U, then?

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no real reason.

Yeah, it pretty much is.

Ant.

And because and it's a word already, so we know how to spell that.

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where's the U in pajamas?

Well, there's not a U in pajamas.

So why isn't it?

Pajamas.

So you want both the A's to be pronounced differently.

Yes.

Ah Eh.

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That's a very good thing.

Instead of

pajamas.

Right.

That's the way the English language works.

Pajamas?

That's no pajamas.

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Some things are pronounced entirely different, even though they're spelled exactly the same.

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America, I need you to brace yourself.

Okay?

Just brace yourself.

We're going to have a conservative on, and sure, that's not unusual.

But in one minute, we are going to have a gay conservative.

What?

I didn't even know they existed.

And the left is saying that if you're gay and conservative, you just need to shut up.

And I think that's the words most uttered by anti-fascists.

A fascinating story, a fascinating tale

from one of the guys who is a contributor at the Federalist.

He wrote a piece a couple of days ago.

The stigma against my conservative politics is worse than the stigma of my being gay.

Oh my gosh, that was setting hair on fire everywhere.

We go there in one minute.

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So Stu,

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250 trillion.

$250 trillion.

Forget that number.

You know what that number is?

I do not.

That is the global debt right now.

$250 trillion?

$20 trillion.

That is more money than all the money in the world.

Yeah, I think by

five times?

I think.

Hmm.

Yeah.

That's not a big deal, though.

Yeah, no.

You can make that one.

I think global GDP is 50 trillion.

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The stigma against my conservative politics is worse than the stigma of being gay.

Everything I was told to fear about being openly gay has become a reality in being openly conservative.

Chad Felix Green wrote this story in The Federalist, and we have him now to talk not only about the article, but also the backlash on the article.

Chad, how are you?

Good.

Good.

Thank you.

Welcome to the program.

So you are

telling me your evolution.

Tell me when you came out, what you faced, what you feared when you came out.

Well, I came out in 1998, shortly after Ellen did.

And I was the first openly gay student in my high school.

And it was a huge dramatic issue.

And everything that I had access to at that time was gay media that told me that I was going to be rejected by my family, my friends.

I I was in physical danger.

And I was

terrified every day about the impending doom that was going to happen to me.

And over the years,

I really only experienced people being accepting and

loving and careful and sort of fragile around me

for most of my experience.

And I was very liberal in college.

And then

honestly, listening to I started to explore you and Ann Coulter

and I realized that the foundation of my views leaned more toward libertarianism than progressivism.

And

I just sort of became a conservative by the sheer force of I had no other choice because

I couldn't promote or accept progressive ideas.

Yeah, and you can't change what you believe.

It becomes fundamental to you.

So, Chad,

do you actually mean that the stigma

is worse because you're a conservative than it was when you came out in 99?

Absolutely.

When I came out,

people thought they were concerned about me.

My grandmother,

who was a very religious Christian, was worried about

my religious experience.

My dad was worried that I was going to get hurt,

that I was going to become HIV positive, that sort of thing.

There were a lot of what is your life going to be like now?

Because people at that time really didn't see much of a life as an adult for a gay person.

You kind of moved to a big city, disappeared.

And

there was a lot of

understanding that needed to happen.

People just needed to experience me as a person and realize how normal and average I was.

As a conservative, I experienced genuine hatred based on stereotypes and bigotry and prejudices.

Okay, so wait, wait, wait, before you start there, you were a liberal when you came out, and so you didn't have any of the conservative hate on you because you were, you know, trying to destroy our society because you're a liberal and

all of that stuff.

Or, you know, none of the conservative hate that,

you know, you're going to burn in the fires of hell and you should be destroyed.

I certainly perceived it from watching from reading LGBT media.

And that's the reason why I started to explore conservative media, because I really wanted to

read your books.

I wanted to read Ann Colder books, John Handy, everybody, and debunk everything.

I wanted to prove that the right was hateful and wrong.

And I accidentally realized that I agreed with you.

But the truth is, is that nobody treated me.

I experienced people who disagreed with me.

I experienced people who were ignorant, that didn't really understand.

I've never interpreted religious disagreement as hatred because I've always seen it coming from a place of genuine concern and empathy.

But you also don't deny that there are those people who are out there.

And, you know, I mean, the Westboro Baptist Church,

but it is bigger than that.

There are a lot of people who have been gay throughout

the human experience uh, that have been, you know, deeply affected and hurt and persecuted because of their homosexuality.

Yes.

Okay.

Um and of course uh in the world right now, outside of the United States, it is a very real danger to be a gay person or perceived to be a gay person.

Correct.

Um all right.

So so what have you experienced now as a conservative?

Well, the truth is that um since I've been active online

as a conservative, I spend most of my time trying to explain to people that I don't believe or embrace what they think I do.

And in doing so, attempting to prevent them from trying to harm me in some way.

I've, of course, been physically threatened, as all conservatives online are.

I've had to make sure that my personal life is very protected because people do actively try to get you fired.

They will try to they'll send police officers to your house.

They will harass your friends and family.

Early on when my Facebook was opened, my friends and family received harassment from people based on things that I said.

And I had to protect all of that.

No one ever did that to me as a gay person.

I never experienced people saying,

finding out that I was gay and then treating me badly.

The moment that people associate me with being a conservative, I'm instantly a Nazi, even though I'm Jewish.

I'm instantly a racist and a bigot, and I'm deserving of genuine hatred.

And that's a startling experience to interact with people and realize that they genuinely hate you based on something that they genuinely don't understand about you.

All right.

So

I want to stop here for a second, Chad, and then I want to come back.

And I want you to take us through some of the things like stop flaunting your conservatism and some of the responses that you have had.

Because I read the article, and then

I read the storm after it, And I was shocked by some of the things that I read.

And they just don't seem to get it.

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We're talking to

Chad Felix Green.

He wrote the article in the Federalist, The Stigma Against My Conservative Politics is Worse Than the Stigma of Being Gay.

Tell Tell me about stop flaunting your conservatism.

So,

one thing that people say constantly, and you'll saw a lot of this when someone asked you, is being

conservative worse than being gay,

was no, being conservative means you're a bad person.

I'm often told, well, if you don't want to experience the hatred, stop being a bigot or

stop harassing people who

you hate from their perception.

And I always sort of associated that with if I just stopped talking about conservative issues, if I just stopped correcting

lies and inaccuracies that I see in media, if I just stopped talking back to the left, they would leave me alone.

And that's exactly the advice that I got when I was younger.

And I would tell people I was gay and I feared a negative backlash.

People would say, well, why do you have to tell everybody?

Just don't tell anybody.

It's no one's business.

That's what I experienced today is in my regular life,

most people don't, you know, most people I know aren't interested in politics, but they'll say, well, why do you do it then?

Why don't you just stop?

And there isn't an appreciation of what we actually do.

They just assume that we're sort of complaining about the hatred that we're inviting on ourselves.

And they don't really understand that we are fighting for something that we actually believe in and that the hatred that we're getting for it

is based on fighting.

But they'll say that, you know, you're gay, you're born that way, you have no choice.

And that's not political viewpoint.

Right.

Take that argument apart.

I think that's a huge concept here is people saying, well, you can stop being conservative.

Or they assume that I'm conservative because I am self-hating or because I'm ignorant in some way or because I haven't been exposed to the right type of people, that I will get better and become progressive.

And the reason that I used that analogy, that I didn't choose to be conservative, is based on my personal experience of, I fought it every step of the way.

I refuse to use the.

I love that.

Chad, I love that.

you are intellectually honest.

And the biggest problem that we have in America is it's a lot of people will not explore because they'll start to.

And if they start to see that maybe their side is weak, and I mean on both sides, any side, they start to see that they're maybe they're not right.

They'll stop because they instinctively know if I find out that this is true, then I've got to change everything and my life is going to be much different.

And they don't want to do it.

They're afraid.

So congratulations on not being that person.

Anyway.

Thank you.

It would have been a whole lot easier if I had.

I bet it would.

I bet it would.

But no,

I realized that

the foundation of

what of the foundation of LGBT is progressivism.

You can't escape that.

And, you know, I have a husband, and that didn't come from conservative ideas.

That came from progressive pushing.

But the foundation of progressivism denies liberty, it denies individuality, it denies freedom.

And that's where I realized that I had a significant breaking point.

I kind of will talk about it, the left and the right today, as the left as being progressivism.

And everyone who doesn't agree with progressivism finds themselves on the right.

And as I explored these ideas and tried to challenge them, I realized I am pro-life.

I am

pro-gun in that I think you should be able to defend yourself.

I am

smaller government.

I don't want to depend on the government for everything.

I don't want to give all of my money to the government for these kinds of things.

And so in a way,

I really don't believe that it's as simple as this is too hard.

I could just become a liberal.

I would be lying if I did that.

Being conservative is the consequence of my intellectual honesty about what I believe.

It's great.

We're turning to Chad Felix Green of the Federalist.

And something interesting happened, I think, Chad, with the wording of the headline of your story, which is the stigma against my conservative politics is worse than the stigma of being gay.

And it didn't identify in the headline that you are actually gay.

And what it led to, at least what I saw online, was an army of straight liberal people trying to teach you a lesson of what it means to be gay and what it's like for people who went through that experience.

What is it like to get hit up by a bunch of straight liberals and giving you lessons on being gay?

It's very common.

I'm always assumed to be a straight white Christian

based on my looks.

It's an interesting,

you know,

I have red hair and

I am just assumed.

And so it's become a running joke that I will just simply respond by saying gay Jew

because people just they they make this they they come in with the assumption, the only people who are bad fall into this category, and the only people who think like this are bad, therefore you must be one of those people.

And I constantly you know, we talk about identity politics as a negative thing.

I actually use my privilege as somebody who is a minority to sort of force many on the left to realize that they are closed-minded on this, that this isn't a

worldview that is exclusive to ignorance or or that's that's exclusive to any particular race or religion or anything.

That this is, you know, me being gay and Jewish does not impact my views on tax policy.

And

that they have to address their own prejudices and realize that they simply disagree with what's

the

reality is they disagree with what I'm promoting, but it has nothing to do with who I am, and that's what I'm trying to get across when I do that.

You also also said lumping Milo in with typical conservatives.

Talk a little bit about that.

Oh, well, you know,

to every gay conservative and every conservative, Milo is controversial.

I appreciated him early on because he was kind of the lady gaga, the madon of the movement.

And, you know, if we went back a decade or so ago and he were a liberal, he would be a media sensation.

His type of flame balance and comedy is what South Park and Family Guy and

liberal humor was.

And I appreciated that he pushed the boundaries of the freedom of

speech limits, and

he kind of exposed the fact that colleges were growing more intolerant.

But I don't always find him to be principled.

As a conservative, I find him to be more of a contrarian.

And that's fine.

There's a place for that.

But the reality reality is that I'm compared to him, and every gay conservative is.

And we are, in a lot of ways,

the concept that we are valid

to begin with is based on him as a mod as a template, and they view him as a scam artist.

So

one of the stereotypes that I find all the time is that I'm doing this for attention, or I'm doing this as a scam or a con, that this isn't really I don't know what they think I'm gaining from it, but that I'm doing this this in a provocative way just to be provocative.

And so I find that frustrating.

And so when they look at Milo's sort of extreme expression, they say, well, that's just what conservatives are like.

He's just honest about it.

And it's frustrating because we spend so much of our time trying to dispel a lot of the

mythology around that.

And you know what's interesting is this is what happens.

This is the difference between conservatives, hopefully, conservatives and progressives.

One is a group hive mind that everybody has to be in a bucket and everybody is alike and there's no differences.

And hopefully, libertarian conservatives know, no, we're all different.

I don't answer for him and I don't agree with him, but we're kind of on the same side on this particular issue and we're not on this issue.

I applaud your article and your courage to say it.

And

the beating that you have taken is truly remarkable, but keep speaking, keep standing.

From the Federalists, it's Chad Felix Green.

The article, The Stigma Against My Conservative Politics, Worse Than the Stigma, I'm going to add of My Being Gay.

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And I think China just caught on to what Donald Trump and America may actually be doing with this trade war.

Let's start with Michael Cohen.

Sure.

Let's do it.

So yesterday he was sentenced to three years.

Right.

And what is the important part of this to you?

The important part

is not just Cohen, but of course the company that produces the National Enquirer also basically entered a plea agreement.

So you have two people now, both friendly to Trump,

previously very loyal to Trump, who have admitted basically in sworn statements and plea agreements that they were ordered by Donald Trump to commit felonies.

Now, the National Enquirer came out and kind of changed their story a bit.

And it's my understanding that this one is we were working with the campaign,

not necessarily Donald Trump directly, which changes it and makes it even more significant, does it not?

It does.

And so people struggle to understand this.

And I was talking with Jason Butcherall about this just before I came on here.

People don't understand why is this a campaign finance violation.

Can they prove that it came through the campaign?

It's actually the fact that the money didn't go through the campaign is what makes it a campaign finance violation because it's a legitimate campaign expense to spend money to protect the reputation of the candidate, right?

But that's the purpose of the money expenditure.

If you're going to do that, you have to either declare it as a campaign expenditure or the people who make the expenditure have to report it as a contribution in kind.

One of those two things has to happen.

Neither of them did happen.

It was clearly designed to evade the reporting requirements of of the FEC, and that's what makes it a campaign finance violation in this case.

Trevor Burrus, Jr.: And so

both of them are making the case that they were doing this at a request from Donald Trump.

And so it's,

as I understand this, and you're a former attorney, so you know this.

Not only.

In campaign finance, right?

Yeah, I did.

I did campaign finance for over two years.

Okay.

That was almost exclusively what I did.

So

when it comes to this, it's a felony because

if I told Stu, hey, go kill this person, I'm being held just as culpable for the murder as he is, correct?

Right.

And you know, look, any campaign, any presidential campaign in particular, they're so large, of a general election candidate, you know, a serious candidate is going to probably have some campaign finance violations

just because it's such a difficult thing to keep up with and maintain 100% compliance.

But if you have a willful violation, as this appears to clearly have been, that's what brings it into the level of out of, oh, we're just going to fine you X number of dollars, and people have to go to jail.

Okay, so let me give you, let me take you through a couple of things.

First of all, Dinesh D'Souza, that was clearly a political hit.

Rosie O'Donnell was much worse.

You're saying an inconsistent application of the law.

That's right.

This is what you're talking about there.

So, I mean, if you're going to put Dinesh D'Souza in prison, Rosie O'Donnell should have gone to prison as well.

She was much worse, did basically the same thing, except she knowingly was doing it, admittedly saying, you know, I'm using different names and everything else.

She knew exactly what she was doing.

Not a problem for Rosie O'Donnell.

When it comes to Barack Obama, campaign finance violations, I think it was $2 million campaign finance violation.

He paid a fine.

Why is this one different?

Because of what I just said.

I mean, I think the expectation is that...

In the course of handling all the various different donations and recording all the donations in kind, you almost always miss some.

That's like an expected thing, and then the FEC catches you and you file an amended statement and you pay a fine.

It's sort of like taxes, right?

Like every

they always say, like, you don't, you have no idea if you're really filing everything perfectly.

And if they really look into it, they're going to find something that you screwed up, even completely unintentionally.

Right.

But with Al Capone, there was another set of books.

Exactly.

Exactly.

So the difference is between, oh,

I had a good faith belief that I could claim this as an exemption, and I hid $150,000 worth of income intentionally from the IRS.

Those are two different penalties.

So

what is the Trump explanation for this?

So

Trump's explanation is

a plausible one.

Okay, I wouldn't laugh it out of court if I were a judge, is that the money was not spent to protect his reputation as a candidate.

It was spent to protect his reputation with his family, prevent his wife and his kids from being embarrassed.

That case is it is the Bill Clinton excuse.

Right.

And kind of an interesting analogy, you know, we've been through this once before, actually.

People have already forgotten it, even though it's been less than 20 years ago.

But John Edwards, as you recall, was prosecuted for literally this exact same thing.

John Edwards had an affair.

He used campaign finance money to pay off his mistress to stay quiet.

He was prosecuted for this.

Now,

ultimately, that was part of his...

argument to the jury, which was successful at least in hanging the jury, was, you know, look, this is, you know, A, it's a legitimate campaign expense because it's protecting my reputation as a candidate.

And B,

you know, it's not a campaign finance violation because I have other interests that were involved that I'm trying to protect with that.

So

unfortunately, that one we didn't get like a court ruling on, like a judicial decision that sets a precedent as to whether that's a valid argument or not.

But there's at least an argument that a jury, and look, John Edwards is not a sympathetic, was not a sympathetic guy.

His wife was dying of cancer.

Okay.

The jury had every reason to hate him and come down like a ton of bricks on him.

But for whatever reason, enough of them bought that on the jury that he ended up walking.

And the other thing was the Washington Examiner that kind of did a story on this and made the point of

when a presidential candidate, for example, their example was goes to get a haircut.

You have to get a haircut to

look good on camera.

And so he goes and he pays for his own haircut.

In theory, you could say that's a campaign finance violation because he's spending money to improve his candidacy.

But of course, that would be completely ridiculous.

And if you go down that same line, is there a kind of a line of defense there?

Like, yes, he's spending money that will help him as a candidate in theory, but this was more of a private thing, and that's

why they should overlook it.

I think Donald Trump could make a case he was more afraid of Melania than he was of the American people.

It could be.

It could be.

But the problem that he's going to face is going to be

what did Cohen and the National Enquirer people tell the DA, right?

What did Donald Trump say to them?

And of course, a lot of that we don't know yet.

If they have him saying,

this will destroy my campaign.

Right.

Then it's a different story.

And that's the big thing, because if it's just Cohen's word, it means nothing.

Yeah, but if it's the Cohen's, if it's Cohen's word and the National Enquirer's word, it means nothing.

It means nothing.

But if they have texts and emails and recorded phone conversations, then it's different.

It could be big.

And that is big because, you know,

as we say this, this is not part of the Mueller investigation, right?

This is all Southern District of New York.

They have the policy, they're not going to indict a sitting president.

This is all about what the House is going to do.

And it's all about what the Democrats can convince people politically is an impeachable offense.

I mean, that's what impeachment is.

It's not a legal thing.

It's a political thing.

Joe Ford said it best.

You've done,

you were an attorney for campaign finance violations.

Impeachable offense, this, where it stands today.

Let me say this.

I've seen people prosecuted for less.

Okay.

But those people were not the president of the United States.

That's a completely different.

It is a completely different ballgame.

Let me switch to China and Canada because there's something going on and most people are not paying attention to this.

China has now just

disappeared a Canadian

suit.

They got another one this morning.

They got another one.

Yes.

Explain who they are.

I'm handicapped because I came and got off a plane and got right here, so I don't know the particular, but it's another, it's a fairly low level.

It's not anybody who's on the level of the one that the Canadians.

you know, snatched from the Chinese.

It's not like the CFO of a major company.

It's still more, I think, on the level of message sending than actual retaliation.

So what happened is we said

there's a Chinese official in Canada.

Sorry,

her father is high up in the Communist Party, but she runs a company that has been known to be dirty for a very long time, stealing all kinds of stuff from America.

And so Donald Trump said,

we want her extradited into the United States.

She can't go home.

China flipped out.

Now, China has just taken two business people from Canada, and they're saying, you better release ours because two can play at this game.

This

is really, I think,

what is really happening on China.

And this is the beginning of a very

strong Cold War here between us.

We are saying

the trade war is not just about the trade imbalance.

It is about stop stealing our stuff.

Right.

So I'm, you know, I have been waiting for someone to do something like this, like what Trump has done for a long time.

Like, I'm not, I never thought tariffs were the answer.

I still don't think they're the answer.

But

it is an issue, the Chinese theft of American intellectual property.

They just have no respect for Western intellectual property.

It's a known problem.

It has been for years and years and years.

And we've all been screaming for somebody needs to do something.

And now Trump has done something.

I think that's a good first step.

But what we're seeing seeing is that this is a very dangerous game to play, right?

Because the Canadians, you know, Trudeau has got to go to his people and say, I have a reason for holding this CFO of, you know, China.

And Trump has got to come to the American people and say, we have a reason for this person we've arrested.

The Chinese government.

They don't have to explain this to their own people.

They can snatch as many of our people and Canadians as they want and just disappear them off the street.

And they don't have to go and say, oh, you know, well, here's why.

Somebody's just gone.

And that's the concern is that there are a lot of American Canadian nationals over there.

If we start engaging in this tit for tat,

who knows where that could end up?

Who knows where that could end up?

But it's an interesting first step in,

you know, if it is a negotiating play, we'll see how it works.

Real quick in 60 seconds, tell me what you think is going to happen in both of those cases where they leave.

This pure speculation.

I'm asking you to look in 2019.

We're going to see impeachments in the House or just investigations?

I don't think so.

I don't think we're going to see impeachment proceedings in the House unless something else major comes out.

I don't think this campaign finance thing is going to be enough for the Democrats to roll the dice on that because you have to know Republicans are not going to buy this.

They have to know it's a dead end in the Senate no matter what happens.

If some other damaging information comes out, if Trump's approval rating dips down into the 20s, if the economy goes sour, maybe we see a different analysis.

But I doubt it.

Canada, China, United States, trade.

How does the does this get worse in 2019 to a happy ending?

Or does it get worse?

And there's, you know, we're not headed towards a happy ending a year from now.

Cautiously optimistic that it's going to get better.

I think that both sides are at the point and there is dialogue that's going on.

I think both sides are at the point that they can still back away from the precipice on this one.

And I hope that that's what ends up happening.

But, you know, it is, listen, it is very important for us to protect our intellectual property rights.

And

I'm hopeful that some kind of deal will get worked out to where that'll happen.

We both have a lot to lose, and I think they have more to lose than we do

just on technology, at least today.

Now is the time to play this card

if you're actually going to play it.

Leon, thank you very much.

Appreciate it.

Thank you guys.

The managing editor of theblaze.com.

You find all your news there at TheBlaze.

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Don't fear the robots.

Don't fear AI.

I know what you're going to say.

Fear the goals.

Fear the goals.

Why?

Because once the AI has the idea that it has a goal in mind, it will do whatever it has to do to accomplish it.

And it will not stop.

It won't stop.

It doesn't care if it happens to be...

you know, hurting someone or...

Correct.

Right.

So when these big, huge robots in these factories, when they go awry,

they go awry because they do not stop.

I think the first accident

was back in like late, late 1990s.

And it was, I think, in a, I think it was in an auto factory.

And it just kept pushing like this engine on top of somebody, just crushing them because they got in between and it wouldn't, the machine could not get the engine where it was because the person was blocking it.

And by the time they stopped it, the guy was just mush.

But the machine just would not stop.

There is another accident that happened today, and I just tweeted this.

The picture is unbelievable.

The guy lived,

but I don't know what this machine was supposed to do, but it was supposed to drive spikes into something.

And then, you know, another machine would put the bolt on it.

Well, a guy got in front of it, and it drove

six spikes through his chest and through his arm.

And these are huge spikes.

Shockingly, this guy is alive, but it shows him on the operating table.

And it is,

it's one of the worst things I've ever seen.

By the way, it was 10, not six.

Was it 10?

Yeah, you can only see six in one of the photos, but it's the other one.

Where were the other?

Where are the 10?

I want to know, man.

Jeez, where were the other?

My gosh.

Because this is, I'm surprised this guy lived because it looks like one had to go through his

lung and another one went right through his shoulder and then

four more in his forearm.

Said one of them narrowly missed an artery, but it's

he was actually able to move and get up after this.

But this is, I mean, this is China, too.

I mean, they're.

Yeah, I'm surprised they just didn't throw him out in the street.

I mean, hey, that's what happens when you get in the way of the machine.

Next.

Grind him up for fuel, essentially.

Yeah.

No, yeah, that's, it's a, the pictures are really gross.

If you're

Pretty amazing.

I've never seen anything like it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

So the, the, the other thing when it comes to China is there is more news, and I don't know if we're going to be able to get to it today.

There is more news about China actually data mining people's minds

and how bad this is getting in China and how they've been doing it for a while.

And so they are really way ahead because, you know, they've got several billion guinea pigs who are willing participants.

You know, either that or you go to the gulag.

So, of course, you're willing.

But the data mining of our own minds at work, at play,

they can now begin to see those things.

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Mackenzie Adams.

She was nine years old.

She wanted to be a scientist when she grew up.

She excelled in math.

She was always bringing home hundreds in her homework.

She also liked to ride her bike, playing with dolls, PlayStation 4.

She would record goofy videos with her cousins.

But she just killed herself.

The family is now having to bury Mackenzie on Saturday.

Her body was discovered at their home in Alabama on the 3rd by her grandmother.

What killed Mackenzie Adams?

It's not a new story.

It's not a new story.

We'll talk to Mackenzie's family

and see how they're turning a tragedy into

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Mackenzie Adams, a little girl who she was nine and committed suicide.

I don't even know how that happens to a nine-year-old.

This story is so tragic on many levels.

Edwina Harris,

the aunt of Mackenzie Adams, is with us now.

First of all, Edwina, our deepest, deepest sympathies go out to you and the family.

I cannot imagine what you guys are going through now.

Thank you.

It's been really hard.

So, first of all, tell me a little bit about McKenzie.

Tell me who she was.

Mackenzie was a very bubbly little girl, very smart, very funny.

She liked to tell jokes like a granddad.

Loved family, loved to travel, zoo, go out to eat, the beach, you know, just a really sweet, fun, and energetic kid.

So she was being bullied

in school, and

she was being bullied, if I'm not mistaken, because she was friends with a white kid.

Is that true?

That is true.

It's more to it, of course.

Because, you know, of course,

she was a cute little girl, you know, had a lot of love.

You know, every jealousy is not just what you have, but it's who you have around you as well.

So that was some of it.

And the family that she wrote with loved her unconditionally as if she was theirs because they only have one child as well.

So she was like his sister.

They were really, really close.

And

they would pick her up for school sometimes, and she would go in.

And was it white kids or black kids that were or both that were both that was bullying her?

It was both.

Man,

does it ever get better in Alabama?

So

what was happening with the bullying that you can talk about?

Like, what was being said?

Basically what you guys have read,

you know,

named Carter the B and black nigger and on Zoo said kill yourself kill yourself things like that yeah and of course Mackenzie you know we come

at home we're Baptist so she comes from a faith-based home we all you know we go to church we believe in God and faith and all those things so what she did is not something that's taught you know that's not even something that's even brought up you know as far as suicide and killing yourself and death and things of that nature um so she's taught to love everybody and But the bullying, you know, of course, my mom is a respected individual in this community, which is something that has been lacking to be said because my mom has master's degrees.

She works for DHR and the mental health center as well.

So the people that's in the school system has worked with my mom in one form or fashion or another because my mom dealt in children's services.

The talks of bullying my mom addressed because she knew about it.

The talks of how to deal with it.

My mom was, was, these are the things that she's in her profession has always helped other people get through.

So

the breaking point on that Monday that happened at school that had to have pushed her there because she had a loving environment that

we hear.

Right.

All she had to do was

do you know what happened on Monday that pushed it over the edge?

That is something we are still working on.

And I'm working diligently with Chief Austin to find that information out.

Because, you know, kids have their cell phones, and it's a lot of things that

we're finding, that we're still searching and trying to get final answers about.

Now, I read that

she was a great student, hundreds on all of her tests.

But then recently that started to fall apart.

So that was a warning sign that something was going on.

And she did talk to your mother, and the mother did talk to the teachers, right?

Absolutely.

My mom went to the school.

My sister called the school.

My mom went up there a couple of times.

And as I said, my mom worked with these,

with the schools in both cities because of her profession.

And they were more so of colleagues.

And so

she talked to them and they assured her that they would make sure that she'll be fine.

She can come talk to them anytime she wanted.

If anything was happening, she just, Mackenzie just should let them know.

And that was to the assistant principal, to the counselor.

And my mom was not able to speak with one of the teachers, but she was able to speak to another one.

So, yeah, they assured my mom.

And my mom wouldn't keep sending my niece back if she didn't get that assurance from people that she's worked with before.

And the

main bullying kid,

he was suspended for bullying earlier, was he not?

Now, I don't know about suspension, but I do know he was put in in-school suspension.

Well, you know, in school, the ISS, not completely suspended from school, which is what he needed to be expelled from school, but he was put in in-school suspension, yes.

And with that came documenting documentation, which my mother does possess, a carbon copy of that information where that incident took place when he was put in in-school suspension and my niece was rolled up for standing up for herself.

So

I can't, I just, I,

you know, I have kids, and at nine years old, I mean, I'm worried about my, you know, my

14-year-old son and my 12-year-old girl.

And I see the rate of suicide going through the roof, and something is happening with our kids, but at nine,

this is just, it's stunning.

And I've been thinking about you guys and praying about you and your family, but I also feel

so

I'm so worried about her friend who

I mean, how is it?

Do you have any idea how the family is dealing with this?

So he doesn't feel like my friend just because I was white or just because we were friends or whatever the reason that she's dead now.

I just, this,

this is such a tragedy.

He's actually at the beach right now.

They, I don't, I'm not sure if they're going to return him, which I highly recommend.

And that's my recommendation for any parent that really feels in their heart that my mother did what she said, which was went to the school and reported it.

That if you feel in your heart that my mother did what she said, because you know my mom, everybody in this area knows my mom and my dad, they're respected individuals in this county,

to move your kid.

because if this is what they want to say what more will they do if it was your child if your kids are feeling threatened at school please move them please move them because

sending your kids out of your home from your protection to give them to someone that it will fail to protect them that is not a good feeling I am a mother.

I am also in the school systems in Atlanta as well.

And

I take what I do very seriously.

When When you have allowed your kids to leave your home and come into my possession, they are now my children.

And I'm going to protect them in every fiber of my being.

I am not a punk educator.

I am not scared of these kids that think that bullying is okay.

I stand up to these kids just as I did in high school.

When this happened, an outpour of people that I have protected, some I honestly have forgotten because it was my heart to do that.

If I saw somebody being mistreated, I would step up for them.

But I was also one of the popular kids.

So I was in band and chili and different things like that.

But that was my duty in my position, just as I have one now in media in Atlanta, to stand up and be this voice for those people that seem that can't do that.

And those individuals, like they're doing, I don't know how this happened to your niece when all you did was took care of me all through high school, all through middle school, or whatever the time frame it was that I protected those individuals.

And it wasn't just one or two.

It was, you know, 40, 50 different people that, and I was like, oh my God, I was like, girl, what are you?

You know, I forgot because that's just who I am.

That's just what my family, who my family is.

And for it to happen to my niece, it was heartbreaking because nobody stood up for my niece.

Nobody, the karma that we've done for people, the good, my niece had to suffer with this.

No teacher stood up like my mom and my dad and myself have stood up in the education system.

My aunts that are teachers and professors and, you know, doctors in education, nobody stood up for my knees.

Nobody stood up for my baby.

Nobody.

Really?

You have started

a GoFundMe page called the McKenzie Foundation.

You can find it just by searching for McKenzie Foundation.

And you have a goal of $10,000.

You've already gotten $3,000.

And

you want to focus not just on the bullied, but you also want to focus on the bully

him or herself.

In what way?

Well,

when this happened, some of those guys that I did go to school with and some people I didn't know, they said, well, Elena, I just want to be honest with you, I was the bully.

And the reason I'm telling you is because I trust you.

But I also read where the person that I used to bully in school was stating a story how their life is still in turmoil because they have been bullied for so long in school.

So it doesn't stop when you're an adult.

they these things live with you for the rest of your lives so said so many people that i've been reading that have been inboxing me so i want to bring in those people that have opened up to me and there was a bully

right now i'm talking with them to see what was happening in your life at this time that made you feel that coming to school to bully someone else was okay And if the story varies.

It's from things was happening with drug addiction.

It was a single parent home.

Other family members was bullying them.

so they came to school and bullied someone else.

So the bully has to heal first.

Because if we can target and help the bully,

they won't bully someone else because it takes a bully for there to be bullying.

Edwina Harris,

the aunt of Mackenzie Adams,

my wife and I

wish we could be at the funeral on Saturday.

I don't know why.

I just feel so attached to

McKenzie and what she went through and

the little boy as well.

And I just want you to know that you're in our thoughts and in our prayers and

blessings to you and the family.

And may this turn out to be, in the long run, something that will bring honor to McKenzie's name for a long, long time to come.

Yes, sir.

Thank you so much.

If you would like to donate, you can go to GoFundMe.

It's the McKenzie Foundation.

They're trying to reach $10,000

to

be able to have some of these former bullies come in and

maybe make a difference.

It's worth a try.

GoFundMe.com.

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So up at Glenbeck.com today, today, there is

a flashback

of something that we did.

Stu, I haven't even seen it yet, but it's a flashback of me in 2008 talking about Baby It's Cold Outside and saying, well, look how ridiculous this song is.

Yeah, you basically predicted all of the

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Someone actually speculated after we posted it that

someone from the left was going through to try to catch you on something from a million years ago, some horrible thing you said, and just thought that this was a good idea.

You're mocking the idea that maybe it's cold outside is about date rape.

But now that's a thing that's actually believed by every person who says they love social justice online.

And you kind of predicted the whole controversy about 10 years ago.

First of all, it's a very funny segment.

Is it arable still?

Yeah, well, I don't know if it's arable per se.

Go listen to it online.

Because so much you say, like, last week is no longer arable this week.

No, I mean, certainly Kevin Harpy found that out.

10 years old, that's not going to go well.

No, but it's very funny.

And you're mocking the idea that someone would think, you know, this is about date rape.

But, I mean, if you want to read it that way, if you want to hear the song in that light, you can.

It is like, it's very funny in that it can have that meaning.

Obviously, that was not the intent.

You talked about this yesterday.

The intent was actually the exact opposite the intent was to say it was freeing for women at the time women could make their own sexual decisions women could be coy and play hard to get and say yeah i'm gonna stay that was not a role of a woman back when that song was written you didn't do this this was a very empowering a woman empowering song context matters right no it's supposed to no not anymore but if you go back and listen to this and it's it's a very it's a very fun Christmas, listen.

It's at glenbeck.com.

We tweeted it and put it on Facebook as well.

It's worthwhile, especially because you see now today

people who are supposed to be trustworthy arbiters of culture are making all of the points you're making for real.

They're saying these things are really offensive.

It's really bizarre.

All right, you find that at glennbeck.com.

Let me talk to you about.

Have you ever heard of Jimmy Johns, the sandwich place?

Oh, heard of it.

Yeah, okay.

I've been there many times.

This bastard.

What do you mean?

Jimmy Johns.

Oh, he's just showing off.

Oh, no, really?

Yeah, he went into a Walmart in Illinois and paid off $81,000 worth of layaway goods, probably only to do it just to get his name in the paper and have everybody think good thoughts about him.

These bastards.

What a jerk.

Yeah.

What a jerk.

Clearly not a Christian.

And Tyler Perry.

Wow.

What a showboat that guy is.

Yeah,

this is seemingly going around.

I think

some,

I guess, someone who sees themselves as a competitor of yours over what is it, Daily Caller or something.

I never understand this.

It's like if we're all kind of fighting for conservative values, I never understand why everyone gets so nasty with each other.

It's always been a

bizarre feature, but I guess, you know, it's media, whatever.

And I guess they're trying to make

your donation look bad.

Well, that you're just looking for a test.

I should have been quiet.

I did see a theory online.

I love this one.

That I am so broke that I'm only doing this to look like I'm not broke.

Ah, that's brilliant.

That's brilliant.

Yeah.

If you're living under a bridge, work that magic tonight.

Right.

You know, look, I don't understand that.

I mean, you know, Bono used to get beat up all the time, sometimes by conservatives, who would say, oh, he's selling these t-shirts and a portion of them is going to, you know, some charity.

I always thought that was great.

Yeah, you know, I don't think that was consistent.

I don't think most people did because it's a celebrity and he's making a big deal out of it.

And

they put these in stores all over the country.

It's a capitalist thing.

And they went after, at the end, they were like, well, only 10% of the money

for these shirts winds up going to the charities.

And it's like, well, that was kind of what was promised.

10% of the proceeds will go to charity and wind up donating millions and millions of dollars to charity through this.

And if he didn't talk about it, no one would buy the shirts.

If Tyler Perry would have kept this secret, it wouldn't have given me the idea or

Kid Rock or Jimmy Johns or you,

the thousands of people all around the country who heard these ideas and went, I'm gonna do that.

It's great.

It's fantastic.

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Well, I've, you know, we're coming to the end of the week.

Tomorrow is Friday.

We've got a whole bunch of really important stuff to talk about.

I've got a really important story to share on the Glenn Beck program.

Stu, I don't know what you have.

If you had to pick out of all of the stack of stuff that you have, and the huge stack I have,

I've got one story.

It has to be done today.

Okay.

Yeah, I've got a pretty important one as well, I think.

So I have the Nigerian president is denying that he died and has been replaced by a clone.

He's denying it?

He's denying it.

Despite the fact that they look identical.

Identical.

You look at the pictures side by side of him now, the clone, and

the real guy you cannot tell the difference so i mean maybe

that's just unbelievable uh so they say that he died on a medical vacation uh in london last year uh after he received uh treatment for an undisclosed illness but then

he went back

and uh

because he's running for re-election He couldn't do it because he was dead.

Right.

He's dead.

So they had to.

So they made a clone.

And

he's now saying, no, this is a quote.

It's the real me, I assure you.

Well, that's exactly what a clone would say.

Exactly right.

That's what I was thinking.

That's what I would say.

And I'm a clone.

Oh, no.

Well, you wouldn't say that if you were really a clone.

If I were really a clone, here's what I would say.

You genetically engineered me and I look and feel like this.

And cure some stuff while you're in there.

If this guy is the Nigerian president and he's a clone, he's pissed because they cloned him and genetically engineered him to be exactly the same as the 76-year-old guy who is about to kick it anyway.

I say too, if they do clone the Nigerian prince, there's going to be no elderly people with any money.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, they will all be getting letters.

No, really, I am the Nigerian prince.

I'm not the clone.

Now, if you are looking for another part-time job,

and I don't know if this would be you exactly.

Now, this is the story that you think is really important?

I think so.

Okay, this is what we do for a living

inside the underground breast milk market.

Oh my gosh, it's finally been exposed.

The underground breast milk market.

It actually is kind of a fascinating story because

there is a market, and a lot of times a lot of places will ban the idea that you could pump your own breast milk and sell it to someone else to feed to their child.

That is what we're talking about now.

Now, wait a minute.

Hang on just a second.

Is this in the United States?

In the United States.

Of course, it is.

Yes.

Why, of course, it is.

Because that's where I'm involved in it.

Okay.

I've been pumping these.

No milk is coming up, but I've been pumping like crazy.

It hurts.

They look of size.

So they,

it's an interesting regulation question

because I think there's a

there's some there's at some level that there's a feeling I think among people that it just doesn't feel right.

Right.

Like it just doesn't feel right that you should be doing that.

You know what I mean?

You ever read things like Mary Poppins or whatever, and they're like, oh, well, it was my wet nurse.

That's what a wet nurse was.

Right.

And so that doesn't happen very often anymore.

Well, I mean, it does, but

the idea here is that you're actually selling for profit, right?

Oh, my gosh.

Right?

No way.

And that's, of course, where all these things get nasty.

Because if someone was doing it for free, you might look at it and say, oh, well,

that's okay.

It's charitable.

They're helping.

If they really, if breastfeeding is that important to a mom, and this is the only way that they can get it done,

okay.

See, I have to tell you, I'm a little uncomfortable, you know, with the term breast milk black market.

I mean, if it is like, come here, I've got some breast milk for you, I wouldn't buy it.

But if it was somebody that I knew and somebody was a friend of the family and they said, you know, I can provide real breast milk and you knew them and you're like, you know what, I'll pay you for that.

What's the problem?

Well, I mean, you know, that is the

issue here, I think, does come down to the

exchange, right?

It becomes, can you make a profit off of this?

Because so many places have said no.

Now, there's a black market only because plate people have outlawed the idea that you could sell it to someone.

It's not like there are actually people like in trench coats, I don't think, pumping in the back alleys.

This is like this is a situation where

it's a situation where people want to share their they want to be able to sell their breast milk and the government's stopping them.

So why?

As long as it doesn't, as long as there's not somebody behind them going,

keep lactating,

right?

Well, I mean, there are risks, right, with disease, potentially.

Someone could have.

Yeah, but you couldn't easily.

I mean, there's, I mean, come on.

I don't know.

You could easily make this so it's safe.

You could, if you, yeah, if you allowed it, right?

If you allowed it in front of everyone to do it.

You could allow it in the light of day.

I mean, this is the always have this argument, you know, this is a libertarian sort of position for sure, but it's like, you know, when you come to selling organs, right?

Those things become controversial, I think, because it kind of just grosses us out in some some way.

It doesn't feel like it's a lot of people.

Feelings are a little different.

Yeah.

Organs are a little different.

And by the way, if the Nigerian president

is selling his breast milk as a clone, I want to know about it.

I want to know about it.

All right, so we're going to move on.

Clone milk is not currently allowed.

So yesterday,

yesterday.

We can't do clones yet.

I don't know if anybody knows that.

Yesterday, we told you about a World War II veteran.

His name is

Lauren Kissick.

And he landed at Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

And the thing that caught my eye is this guy, he was 19 years old.

He's always wanted to go back.

He is the only survivor now of the 453rd,

which was out of Fort Knox, Kentucky.

He was a machine gunner on D-Day.

His wife never really wanted to travel, and he would just never leave her side.

They were married for 71 years.

She, unfortunately, has just passed away from leukemia, and the two daughters now are trying to save up enough money to bring dad to the D-Day 75th anniversary over in France, which happens next summer.

So they were trying to raise $12,000, and I think, I don't remember how much they had yesterday, but now they have $19,000.

And so

I don't know if they've told dad yet, but we have Lori and Julie, the two daughters, on the phone now from Tacoma, Washington.

Hi, Lori.

Hi, Julie.

Hello.

Are you guys there?

Good morning.

Yes.

How are you?

Good morning.

Very well.

Thanks to you.

It's good to talk to you.

You know,

I grew up, part of my childhood was in Puywallop, so we were kind of neighbors for a while.

I was thrilled to read what you were doing for your dad.

Have you told him yet?

Are you saving it for Christmas?

No, he knows.

We told him

that we were working on this.

And so, no, he is aware.

And he is...

he is quite ecstatic to be able to go back.

And I think he's in a little bit of disbelief right now.

But

yeah, it's thank you so much for your help.

We never would be here without you.

And

it is just absolutely overwhelming to see how the kind thoughts that people are sending and donation.

It's just so encouraging and so heartwarming.

Well, first of all, it wasn't me.

It's this audience.

This audience is really remarkable.

It's incredible.

I've read the comments and I cry when I read them.

I have an 18-year-old daughter, and we were reading them, and we were just all choked up about people giving $10, $5.

It just, it's overwhelming.

It went from $4,000 to over

$19,000 in less than 24 hours.

We were just dumbfounded and so grateful.

Thank you.

Now, you could take that extra and maybe fly him first class and really, just really treat your dad for something remarkable.

Or we could take a cut cut of that and spend it on something useless.

Thoughts, thoughts, what do you think?

What do you think?

It's a tempting offer, isn't it?

Tempting offer.

Yeah, several people had mentioned that, you know, since we were going over gold, that maybe we could get him a first-class flight.

So we're going to try to do that.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You have to.

He will

love it.

Is he healthy enough to really

appreciate all of it?

Yes, he is.

He's quite mobile and he's very alert.

You know, I mean, he's with it.

He's still driving.

You know, maybe shouldn't be, but he is.

But

he, yeah, he's very active socially.

And

yeah, so there is no issues.

You know, he's quite mobile.

He can get around great.

In fact, we have a hard time keeping track of him.

We tell him to check in and we can't find him.

That's great.

That's great.

It's a problem.

Yeah, he's pretty funny.

After 71 years of marriage,

you had to be worried about

him because usually, I mean, people like that, they just, they grow into one.

And it's beautiful to see.

They do.

How's he handling that?

He's handling it.

We're, you know, we see him and talk to him every day.

We're both really close.

And so we're just making sure that he's eating properly, he's taking his blood pressure medicine as he's supposed to, and just kind of keeping up with that.

And as my sister said,

he keeps himself very busy.

And it is hard to track him down sometimes because he won't turn his cell phone on.

So

he can't hear it.

His hearing isn't so good, but everything else is great.

Everyone loves him and they spend a lot of time, the neighbors.

My sister spends a ton of time.

He spends a couple nights a week at my house with my husband and my daughter and I'll just hang out.

So he's a very much a people person and loves to be around people.

Well, two things.

A, I want to put you in touch with somebody who is trying to record all of the remaining voices of everybody who fought in World War II.

He's awesome.

He's making an amazing archive, and so I'll put you in touch with him.

But I want to ask you a favor.

Will you take our audience with you?

So when you go, alert us and then

make some videos and take some pictures so we can follow your dad and you guys on this trip.

You know, absolutely.

In fact, some of the comments had been that they looked forward to hearing about the trip.

And that sort of triggered in me me that we needed to chronicle this.

We needed to make it so that other people could share in the moments that we're sharing with him.

And so

absolutely, we will make that a priority to do.

And we'd love to talk to him either before you go or after you go, if that's appropriate.

Oh, yes, that would be appropriate.

Of course.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

Laurie, he'll probably talk your ear off.

That's fine.

That's fine.

I tell you, we had 100, what was, what, what was he?

Uh, 103?

We had, we had a guy here who was a big fan of ours, and he just passed away because he was hit by a truck.

You're kidding me.

No, it was awful.

Yeah.

He was out riding his bike and somebody hit him.

He was 103 or so.

The guy could, he sat there and he told us about what it was like the day the stock market crashed in 29.

It was incredible.

We love hearing stories from

these people.

Yeah, he has some fabulous stories.

Yeah, that's good.

That's good.

Okay, guys, thank you so much.

Congratulations, and we will.

Thank you so much for everything.

Merry Christmas.

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