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buzzfeed story that I now find out is not actually a BuzzFeed story.

We think CNN broke this with Jake Tapper

about Donald Trump and Russia is some of it is

so

horrible,

and I don't believe it,

that I can't believe that it's now out in the open air.

I don't know what to make of this story,

but now that it's out, we have to talk about this story.

We can't accept it, and we can't dismiss it at this point.

We have to know what the story is first,

look at all of the possibilities, and then expect,

I don't even know,

then expect what?

Expect what?

The internet?

In a world of fake news.

This is fake news.

At this point, this is fake news.

But then again, at the Devil's Advocate, when Drudge came out with the blue dress, before there was a blue dress,

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All right, this is an incredible story.

This is from BuzzFeed.

Now listen to the way this is written.

Listen carefully.

BuzzFeed, here's the headline.

These reports allege Donald Trump has deep ties to Russia.

Ooh, I want to click on that one.

What is that story?

Listen to the first paragraph.

A dossier compiled by a person who has claimed to be a former British intelligence official, alleges Russia has compromising information on Trump.

The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors.

Period.

But other than that,

let's run the story.

I mean, you listen to just this,

and there's no reason why BuzzFeed should run this story.

Now, it was my understanding that this was the original source of the story, that BuzzFeed was the first one to come out.

So you know, we think,

remember when Harry Reid came out and said, wait a minute,

James Colemy, you think that it's okay to release that we're looking at a computer that you've never seen of Hillary Clinton's without any information.

You think it's okay to release that.

When we know you have information about Russia and Donald Trump, you need to release this.

Apparently, this is what this information is what Harry Reid was talking about.

And we have confirmed, by the way, CNN did break this story.

Okay.

So I want you to hear, because what I just read from BuzzFeed is outrageous.

Outrageous.

Anyone who would come into my office and say, Glenn, we got to do this story, and

it's pretty bad.

We'll give you the facts here in a second.

And they would say, look, I've got a dossier.

Well, who did it?

Well, it was a person who claims to be a former British intelligence official.

What do you mean, claims?

Were they or were well?

I'm not really sure.

But listen, they allegedly have Russia on the record saying they have compromising information.

They allegedly, so you don't know for sure.

No, that's just what they're alleging.

Nobody's backing that up.

No.

So the allegations, yeah, they're unverified.

And also the report contains errors.

I would say get the hell out of my office.

But now I want you to listen to the way CNN framed this when they first broke the news with Jake Tapper, or when they were talking about it with Jake Tapper.

Listen to this.

Jim, walk us through what we've learned.

I want to be very precise here.

Multiple U.S.

officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell CNN that classified documents on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S.

election presented last week to President Obama and to President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claimed to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr.

Trump.

The allegations were part of a two-page synopsis.

These were based on memos compiled by a former British intelligence operative whose past work U.S.

intelligence officials consider credible.

The FBI is now investigating the credibility and accuracy of the allegations, which are based primarily on information from Russian sources, but the FBI has not confirmed many essential details in the memos about Mr.

Trump.

The classified briefings last week, I should note, were presented by four of the senior most U.S.

intelligence chiefs, that is, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, the CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers.

Okay, so that's a totally different

view than what BuzzFeed has there.

Correct.

But as I listen to that, out of the experts that go in and deliver delivered this to the president and to Donald Trump, two of them are completely politicized.

I don't believe Clapper for a second.

Comey

is credible to me, but Comey was the guy who

was allegedly on Hillary's side.

Hillary side or Trump side?

Darby Trump's side.

So why would if he's on Trump's side, why would he come in with anti-Trump stuff?

You know what I mean?

Right.

And the point is, obviously, I have no positive positive opinions about James Clapper either, but he's still one of the lead intelligence agents.

He's been wrong a lot.

Again,

can we start here?

Can we start here?

Let's agree on the premise first, okay?

On the premise of what we're doing.

We have to,

as citizens, now figure out whether or not

we

should look at this

and discuss this or not.

And here are the two sides.

One side will say,

and break it down in classic logic,

the president gets the best intelligence, right?

Yes.

Although it's not always accurate.

Right.

Hang on just a second.

The first premise is the president gets the best intelligence.

This was given to the president.

Therefore, this is the best information.

Now, there are going to be people who are making that.

Look, they didn't make this up.

This was given to the president.

You don't believe the president's briefings?

That's the first side.

They'll immediately accept it because this is credible information.

It's coming from those four guys.

But

that's false because of what Pat said.

The middle sentence is incorrect or incomplete.

This was given to the president.

The middle sentence should be, this was given to the president.

But a lot of the stuff he's getting lately has been politicized, and sometimes it's incorrect.

Just ask him about weapons of mass destruction.

Exactly right.

Okay, so the other side will tell you the president gets the best intelligence.

Yeah, but it's all politicized now.

Therefore, we have to dismiss it.

No,

no.

Both of those are wrong.

Logic will tell us

the president most times

or the president gets the best intelligence available to him.

What is given to the president

is sometimes wrong.

Therefore,

we must not dismiss or accept,

but instead investigate.

So

this is up to us now because it's been dropped into the laps of the American people.

So let's logically, dispassionately look at what we have

and not accept or dismiss anything.

Anybody who says, I'm not listening, you're a fool.

Anybody who says, I'm not listening, trying to you trying to excuse it all, you're a fool.

I'm not listening to you because you're talking about Donald Trump.

You're a fool.

Because let's take it from the Trump side.

This is Donald Trump's birther problem now.

This will forever be

the birth certificate of Barack Obama.

From here on out, the left will use this information to try to discredit, and they will say in all kinds of fake news, well, yes,

he's proved that's wrong, but I've got better sources.

And let me show you, I'm going to be making a statement about some better sources that will show you he's lying.

And it will be used against Donald Trump from here on out.

So you better build a strong case based on logic, not on fear, not on anger, not on blind loyalty.

Because they, the other side, will build it that way.

And we're talking about the President of the United States.

Both sides owe it to themselves and to the country to

dig into this

and investigate.

We were never birthers, but I will tell you that there were many people around us that were passionate about Barack Obama's birth certificate at the very beginning.

Passionate.

And we dispassionately investigated.

We did our own homework.

We were never birthers.

We dismissed it.

I'm sorry.

At first, we took this approach.

Not on the air, but internally we took this approach.

Neither dismiss it nor accept it.

It's out there.

Let's do our homework and find out whether or not it's credible or not.

We found it to be completely

uncredible.

So we dismissed it.

Let's do the same thing here because I guarantee you this is going to be his birth certificate problem.

Or yeah, I mean, at least part one of it.

Part one of it.

I think

how many things are going to come out like this.

There's two things that he has

going against him.

How do you cry foul

that you can't believe a source when you were the one accepting the national inquirer?

When you were the one who said, I have additional information on his birth certificate and he never produced it.

Right.

I mean, you're not going to gather a lot of sympathy from the people who don't like you.

Right.

There's no fairness points coming your way unless they really are trying to be better people.

You know, look, we look at this and we try to look at it, as you point out, soberly, dispassionately, and look at the information.

Barely.

Right now, what we know as far as these reports go, and we haven't really talked about what's in the reports.

We'll do that next.

We can do that here in a second.

But there's no,

it's almost important to look at it the way it's presented, which is, I think, fair for the journalistically correct way is the way that Tapper's team did it.

And by the way,

what we clipped from that was who was on Tapper's team.

I mean, it was...

Arthur Bernstein and it was the cream of the crop of journalists.

That doesn't mean anything to a lot of people, but it is the best we have.

Right.

But I mean, if you want to find find out how to report a story, a good place to start is to see how Jake Tapper reported it.

And you're going to be on the right side of that about 99% of the time.

I agree.

So, and you see there, I think what happened with the BuzzFeed part of this is

all these media organizations have had this information since what they believe is since August.

And my initial inclination on a story like this is they would never do, look at this.

They're just trying to take down a Republican president.

They would never do this to the other side.

They could have released this information before the election.

They had it.

In fact, Harry Reid was demanding it.

Yes.

So they could have done this before the election.

The CNN report, I think, breaks every a lot of, but they're not the only people with this information.

CNN reports it, and then BuzzFeed says, well, we have this.

Let's get our...

piece of this story out there and try to claim as much of the reporting as we can.

And did they step over the line?

I think, you know, probably.

But I mean, I understand their motivation there, and I understand.

I actually, I mean, the BuzzFeed story, I hate to give this the

because I didn't know CNN broke this.

I thought CNN, I thought the events were

reversed.

I thought CNN came out and did that, and I was like, okay, well, that's the

credible way of presenting.

Right.

Is BuzzFeed the only one reporting the most salacious situation?

They released the actual documents.

Inside the documents, it says things about prostitutes, we can get into here in a minute, and also financial connections.

the CNN didn't really go into that they didn't even mention it right and so they did say the most salacious personal parts they're not even talking about that I mean it is it is the other parts of this that are

equally disturbing

I will tell you that the personal parts are almost irrelevant to me

you know, because, you know, you've either made your mind up about who Donald Trump is as a man

one way or another.

Right.

And so this is about whether he's compromised as a president.

Correct.

Correct.

Correct.

You know, so the sex, this part of it doesn't matter, except is he compromised as a president.

But the first part of it is bad enough to be compromised as a president.

And a lot of the debate today is about, oh, you know, people are saying, well, he didn't do that.

He's innocent.

He didn't have all these prostitutes in Moscow.

We'll get into the details as to why that's not important.

I don't think it is important.

I would also say that I don't think there's any reason to even entertain the idea that those things are true.

At this point, there is such limited information.

Except for this.

I want everyone in the audience to make up their mind now.

If it is true, does it matter?

Does it matter?

He just, it's the

same thing.

This is going to drag on for months, if not years.

If it's true, does it matter?

Do you care about this guy's character at all?

Is there anything in this story that matters?

If it were true.

So I don't think it's true, and I don't think there's any reason to think

at this point.

At this point, there's not.

But there's other reasons why it's important information, and we can get into that.

Yeah, okay, so we'll do that coming up in just a second.

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I want to make sure that we all understand that there is, before we get into this,

there is a

subtext to all of this.

And I want to make sure that that subtext we deal with right out of the gate.

Trump won.

Trump won legitimately, fairly, and he won on his own approach.

It wasn't because anyone helped him in Russia.

It's not because of Comey.

It's because Hillary Clinton was a bad candidate.

People were tired of the progressive, jam-down-your-throat approach of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

There were too many things, even for Clinton supporters, that

made her a flawed candidate.

The vast number of people that went out and voted

not only voted for Donald Trump, but some voted against Hillary Clinton, and some

voted for Trump, even though they had questions.

But no one voted

and rigged the election.

Russia did not rig this election.

Did Wikileaks play a role?

Yeah, but I don't think it made made an impact in the election.

Comey made an impact in the election, but that's different.

That's the FBI.

That's the federal government.

So, A, Trump won legitimately, fairly, and on his approach.

His case on this, however, is hurt by him

because he said when he thought he was losing, the election was going to be rigged.

But

it was and is

fair and legitimate.

It was not in question, nor is it in question that Trump is the legitimate president, no matter what we find in these documents from Russia.

Let's make sure we make that clear.

Now we'll read the documents to you when we come back.

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So let's look at the actual briefing that was received by the President yesterday, which, or earlier, it was released yesterday.

Let's ask ourselves, how is it that I am holding the documents that the president received?

How is it I am getting the president's briefing here?

That's interesting.

I think I can answer that.

Yes.

So the way to think about this, because the whole debate today is going to be, did Donald Trump have really weird sex with a bunch of prostitutes in Moscow?

Is that true or not?

And Donald Trump will say, no, it's not true.

And people who don't like Donald Trump will say it is true.

Or we really need to consider it seriously.

I think the right way to think about this story is

even the intelligence sources weren't saying they thought it was true it's an important thing to understand they're not saying they they investigated this and what they found is donald trump was hooking up with prostitutes in moscow what they are saying is

russia was trying to influence our election and these are the sorts of things they were floating around to try to do that that's why that information was important to the president and the president elect not that it's true not that it's true so that it was this is a sorts of these are the sorts of things they were doing to try to influence and

threaten operatives for Trump and others.

Okay, so we're going to give you the report, but I want you to know that all of this, it's possible that all of this is true.

It's possible that all of this is false.

It's possible that, and most likely, that some of this is true and big portions of this are false.

We have to decide

if it matters, why it matters, but we have to also ask ourselves the question, who benefits from this information getting out?

We have a former military intelligence guy who's on our staff who came up to me in the break and he said,

I mean,

this is Russia's fingerprints all over it.

I can't believe that this actual dump of this information.

has Russia's fingerprints all over it.

Okay.

So

we there's multiple levels to look at.

And this is a three-dimensional chess game.

So let's get into it.

U.S.

presidential election, Republican candidate Donald Trump's activities in Russia and compromising relationship with the Kremlin.

Summary.

Russia regime has been cultivating, supporting, and assisting Donald Trump for at least five years.

Aim endorsed by Putin has been to encourage splits and divisions in the Western alliance.

Okay.

Can we just take this one?

Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting, and assisting Trump for at least five years.

I believe that is true.

It has nothing to say about Donald Trump.

I believe that the Russian government has been doing that with any large businessman in America that has done business or wants to do business in the former Soviet Union.

That's what they do.

So, does that say anything bad about Donald Trump?

No.

It's important for Donald Trump to know that so he knows, okay, I'm a target.

I got it.

Not a problem.

Putin,

this has been endorsed, and Putin has encouraged splits and divisions in the Western Alliance.

We know that from Putin himself.

His advisors and he himself have been on record talking about things like that.

Splitting up NATO and splitting the United States of America.

So nothing really new there at all, I think.

So far, Trump has declined various sweetener real estate business deals offered him in Russia in order to further the Kremlin's cultivation of him.

That's a good thing on Donald Trump.

Right.

Okay.

He's not done it.

However, he and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other political rivals.

Okay, let's talk about that one for a second.

You're a big businessman.

You go over to Russia.

You've not met with Trump or with Putin, but you've gone over there and you meet with the top bankers who we know are directly connected to Putin.

Everybody's directly connected to Putin if you're a position of power.

Okay, it's it's an oligarchy.

So they're directly connected.

Some, then this is the way intelligence works.

Putin doesn't get on the phone with, or a spy doesn't get on the phone with

Donald Trump.

They use a third party.

And that third party may even be somebody who is not

knowing that the person that is giving them the information is FSP.

So the Kremlin says, we got to get this to Donald Trump.

You know the head of the bank.

The bank is talking to this KGB agent, FSB agent, who he does or does not know is FSB, but knows he's connected and has material.

He goes to a friend at the bank and he says, hey, by the way, listen, I got some information.

Do you know there's this

information here on Hillary Clinton?

Don't ask me how I got it, but it's pretty good.

I hear from upper levels.

They've got this information.

You might want to give it to a friend.

The guy at the bank says, wow, thank you.

Donald Trump, he calls up Donald Trump, who does a lot of business with him and says, listen, Donald, I got this from a friend.

He's a good guy.

I've known him for a long time.

Doesn't know that he's FSB.

Known him for a long time.

He's got great connections.

Hey, listen, I'm going to send you some information he gave me.

It's on Hillary Clinton.

Don't know if it's true or not.

You should read.

Has Donald Trump done anything wrong?

No, I mean,

other than the fact that he has said himself he has no connections business-wise to Russia for this scenario to play out.

But I mean, yeah, I don't think so in that particular case.

Has he done anything wrong?

Do I have this right, Jason?

I'm looking at the Intel guy.

Yeah, that's the way it works, right?

Donald Trump hasn't done anything wrong.

So on the first two things,

you can't accuse Donald Trump of doing anything wrong.

Former, next one, former top Russian intelligence officer, except being naive or stupid.

I mean, you know, we all know

what he does with that information, too.

I mean, if he just listens to it and says we should look into this and they never find anything, I mean, but if they look into it and they do find something,

wouldn't you use it?

Would you use it?

I mean, it's, yeah, of course you would.

Right.

I mean,

your only accusation is you're stupid or naive

if you think you're dealing at high levels in Russia,

and especially if you're running for president.

and you're not getting that and Putin doesn't know you're getting that information.

You're foolish.

Okay.

Former top Russian intelligence officer claims FSB has compromised Trump through his activities in Moscow sufficiently to be able to blackmail him.

According to several knowledgeable sources, his conduct in Moscow has included perverted sex acts, which have been arranged and monitored by the FSB.

Last one, a dossier of compromising material on Hillary Clinton has been collated by the Russian intelligence services over many years and mainly comprises bugged conversations she had on various visits to Russia and intercepted phone calls rather than any embarrassing conduct.

The dossier is controlled by the Kremlin spokesperson,

a person directly on Putin's orders.

However, it has not yet been distributed abroad, including to Trump.

Russian intentions for its deployment still unclear.

Okay, so

they're not going to do anything on Hillary Clinton unless Hillary Clinton is a problem.

to them.

If she was president, she would have been compromised.

So

what do we have here?

The guy who's elected might be compromised.

The woman who

could have been elected might be compromised.

That's what you're looking at.

The rest of it is salacious details.

Am I mistaken?

That's what I get from the summary.

The rest of it just says detail.

Right, and the details obviously are the thing that everyone's talking about today.

Correct.

But before you get into the details,

am I right?

Donald Trump, they are trying to groom him.

He has rejected all sweetheart deals.

That's in his, that's a plus in his column.

And this is an opposition research file.

So, I mean, they would, they're looking for intentionally bad things about Trump.

For them to say he's resisted these sweetener deals is definitely important.

Is a point in his favor.

So that's the first one.

They have been trying to

cultivate him.

Unless you're a moron,

and unfortunately for him, what he needs to come out and say is, of course, I know that when you're dealing in Russia, you're dealing at the highest levels, you're dealing with Vladimir Putin.

And of course, you would think this would play into his ego.

Of course, Putin wants me in his...

in his little chess game.

Of course, I'm a powerful man before I was president.

Of course he wanted to control me.

I'm smarter than that.

That's why I didn't take any of his sweetheart deals.

The problem, though, is that he has made the case over and over again that he has no dealings whatsoever with the country, period.

I mean, so he can't make any of these other points because he has said he has no dealings whatsoever.

And, you know, of course, no one knows because he hasn't, you know, released the information on the details of his business.

Again, that doesn't

mean any of this report is true.

And that's why

this story as a whole is important and interesting, I think.

Because really what they're saying is, hey,

other candidates commissioned opposition file reports.

And we believe these things came from Russian sources that

were leaking things at the behest of the Russian government.

This is not something that our intelligence agencies have checked out and said, you know what, looks like he did do these things.

This is just an example as to what he was being accused of in these circles, which is important because the case they were making to him was, hey, they were trying to influence it.

You know, that's the case, which he keeps saying wasn't going on.

We know it is.

Of course,

it would be unnatural if it wasn't.

It would be unnatural.

It would be like saying Ronald Reagan did not try to interfere

for our interests in the former Soviet Union.

Of course we did.

We all know we did.

We all know we had operatives on the ground.

We all know that we had people in their own press, in their own organizations.

doing everything we could to bring them to their knees and to split them as a union.

We know it.

For us to think that it's not happening to us

is beyond primary

thinking.

It's just,

it's infantile to think that that's not happening.

Of course.

And I think, too, another thing we have to entertain here, and you brought this up earlier as to why do we even know about this report?

It's important that it went to the president, I think.

Absolutely, the president and the president-elect should know this information was being circulated about Donald Trump.

Absolutely.

Why do we know it?

Well, it was an opposition report filed that had been circulated through media circles for months.

Again, this could have been released before the election, and that's something important to note.

However, there's also an interesting part of this, which is

Donald Trump has made such a big deal at dismissing and disparaging our intelligence sources.

I think this is the biggest thing.

That I think it's very possible

that this is their way of telling Donald Trump, stop screwing with us all the time.

Oh,

I think it is really possible that I mean, there's two people.

Our intelligence guy is saying, yes,

there are two organizations that you do not screw with as president of the United States.

Number one, the Fed.

They'll screw your economy and make you

the worst president of all time.

The worst president of all time.

And they did it to Ronald Reagan.

Ronald Reagan was taking on the Fed until the Fed started screwing with him.

Then all of a sudden, he was like, you know what?

I think we're going to leave the Fed alone.

And then everything went well.

Okay.

So the Fed, don't screw with the Fed.

That's what

lesson number one, I think we can all say a president knows.

Number two, don't screw with the intelligence community because this is what they do for a living.

They want to discredit you.

They will.

The problem with that is:

if our intelligence community is doing this,

then who does our intelligence community really work for?

Is the tail wagging the dog?

Do they work for the American people?

Do they work for the president?

Or do they work for themselves?

If they're willing to do this,

what aren't they willing to do?

How much trouble are we in?

We'll get into more and actually get into the details coming up in just a second.

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Welcome to the program.

We're going to bring in Jason Battrill,

who used to be with

military intelligence.

He now works for me as a researcher.

And

he has been on this for, what, two years, three years?

We've been talking about this.

And

we said before the holidays that Russia is involved and they are going to discredit and they're winning this intelligence game.

He has

insight as a former Intel guy who you would help

prepare some reports like this, would you not, Jason?

Yep.

Okay.

Does this...

Without saying, at this point, since we don't have time, does this read

one way or the other, absolutely legit or absolutely false?

Seems like a total

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You know, fake news is

a

problem when somebody somebody just makes something up, but that's usually the kind of stuff that we can figure out pretty quickly.

When fake news comes from the highest levels or government sources, that's when it's a real problem.

The new confidential sensitive source report that was apparently given to the president and Donald Trump,

and the media has had since August, came out yesterday afternoon.

There's something really wrong here.

I don't want to dismiss it, nor do I want to accept it.

I want to digest it because it's out.

Now, what do you do with it?

What does it mean?

And what does it say?

You have an advantage today.

You don't have just me at talk show blowhard.

You have Jason Battrill, who is with us.

He's former military intelligence.

This is the kind of stuff that he used to do.

He says he's never seen anything like this before.

And yet it seems all too familiar.

We'll get that beginning right now.

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Let's go to Jason Battrill.

We're talking about this

news story that came out that BuzzFeed did not break.

CNN broke.

They broke this yesterday.

It is a

opposition research paper that has been floating around.

All of the news media has had it since August.

Nobody went out and reported on it.

Yesterday, for some reason, it was made public by Jake Tapper, who is a good journalist, and a panel of good journalists who say they have been looking at this for a long time.

And they came out and they did not get into the salacious parts of it.

They were just talking about

the

cyber attacks and the manipulation of the United States and Russia when it comes to Donald Trump.

We have Jason Battrill in because can you give a little bit of your background just real quick?

Yeah, I was in military intelligence from the Marine Corps.

I was on a maritime special purpose force that dealt with counterintelligence, urban intelligence,

misinformation,

a lot of things like that.

Okay.

So

when you saw this this morning, I want to take this piece by piece.

And

you said, this is how misinformation works.

And I said an hour before you got in,

this is how the devil works.

This is how Satan works.

He takes a little bit of truth and then he mixes it with lies.

That's how misinformation works.

They don't take a whole lie.

They mix it with truth.

So you don't know where the truth stops and where the lie begins.

Am I right?

Right.

Okay.

So let's go through what was in the report.

Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting, and assisting Donald Trump for at least five years, endorsed by Putin.

They have been encouraged,

they are encouraging splits and divisions in the Western Alliance.

It does not say that Donald Trump was aware of that.

It doesn't accuse him of being aware of that at this point.

Do you believe that's true?

That Putin is doing that?

Absolutely, but I bet you could say that about every major businessman that's traveled to Russia.

Agreed.

But the caveat is, did they have knowledge of it?

If they did, he would be in jail right now.

If he did, he would probably be in jail right now.

But they don't have evidence to that, so he's not in jail.

So far, Trump has declined various sweetener real estate deals offered him in Russia in order to further the Kremlin's cultivation of him.

Agree?

That happens all the time.

It happens all the time, and his people probably rightfully warned him about that, and he stayed away.

Okay.

And he turned it down, so that actually looks good.

However, he and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and political rivals.

If done the way I explained last hour, where it's through a third-party operative, you are friends with this person.

They have credibility with you.

You don't know that they're being fed by FSB.

Maybe they don't even know they're being fed by former KGB.

There's nothing wrong with that, is there?

Nope.

He would have no knowledge.

That's not the way they operate.

There would be a random private investigator that handed him something like, oh, look what I got.

Former top Russian intelligence officer claims FSB has compromised Trump through his activities in Moscow sufficiently to be able to blackmail him.

According to several knowledgeable sources, his conduct in Moscow has included perverted sexual acts, which have been arranged, monitored by the FSB.

I'm not going to ask you if you think this is true, because we have no way of knowing if that is true.

Is that the kind of stuff Russia does?

I've seen that firsthand.

I've been a part of operations where we try and stop that firsthand in Moscow.

So yes, that happens all the time to every political person that goes to Russia and especially big businessman.

Happens all the time.

Okay.

Dossier of compromising material on Hillary Clinton has been collated by the Russian intelligence service over many years, mainly comprises bugged conversations she has had on various visits with Russia, intercepted phone calls, rather than any embarrassing conduct.

Sure, but why highlight Hillary Clinton?

They have those on every, again, person that's ever operated in Russia and the United States.

Correct.

Okay, so there's the first part.

I have no problem believing any of that.

I think those are all true.

By the way,

that's super unusual.

We probably do many of the same things.

Good point.

Absolutely.

Everything that they say that they do to us, we do to them.

Okay.

And I have no problem believing any of

this that so far that they are trying to do that and have tried to do that to Donald Trump.

I do not accept, you know, they said that he went to the Ritz-Carlton.

I mean, this is how crazy this is.

He went to the Ritz-Carlton.

He found out that he was staying in the presidential suite and Michelle and Barack Obama had just stayed there.

And so he, quote, wanted to defile the bed.

and so he brought prostitutes in to have a golden shower party that he watched.

I don't believe that.

I don't believe that.

I just don't believe that at all.

I don't even think there's even a reason to entertain believing it at this point.

I don't think so.

It's so thinly sourced and 19th-hand information.

There's no way to prove that.

It's ridiculous.

The only way you're going to prove it is it says the FSB has tape so they can blackmail.

What would be the advantage of releasing that kind of story, even if it's untrue, Jason?

Especially if it's untrue.

Well, there's no reason that this should ever make it to light anywhere.

I mean, so this was a release as part of an, what was it, what was the official research?

An opposition research.

Opposition research.

Opposition research.

I have opposition research papers for you as your chief researcher that I would never show you because you would laugh me out of the building because most of it's just rumor and just something we're looking into.

If I would have done this in my former capacity as an intelligence officer, I would have gotten busted down and probably kicked out of the job forever introducing something that we were researching because most of it's rumor.

Most of it's rumor.

There's something called, it's a joke.

It's called rumint, rumor intelligence.

They have humint, human intelligence, signals, SIGINT.

Rumor intelligence is a joke.

It's like you know, if it's considered, if it goes under the umbrella of rumint, you never bring that to anybody higher.

It's just something you're looking into.

This is so unprecedented that even a hint of this made it to the president, but and then even then was released to the public.

There are so many stories like that about Glenn.

You know,

he was arrested in Baltimore for drunk driving.

And you were with me in Baltimore.

He killed a nine-year-old girl.

Yeah.

I mean,

there's all kinds of stuff.

And it's all nonsense.

She was clearly 10.

But still, I think.

But let me ask you this, though.

When you have someone who is saying outwardly that Russia did not...

Russia, they're the good guys.

They're not going after us.

They are not trying to influence us.

They have no...

So the case being made to Donald Trump and to the president in this particular case was, hey, they really did try to manipulate this election, right?

That's the case being made.

Not the case that he actually went to this hotel and defiled a bed, but the case is they actually did try to manipulate you.

Here's evidence of them trying to manipulate you.

Not evidence that the stuff is true in the report, but just that the report exists and this is what they were circulating.

If that,

on that level, that is, I think, valuable information to bring to the president and to Trump.

Trump should know what Russian sources are circulating about him, even if obviously it's completely untrue.

Agree or disagree?

Well, I would agree that

he should,

well, no,

I struggle to agree with it because it depends on how reliable

the said sources are.

Okay, so MI6, MI5 is like Homeland Security, FBI,

and MI6 is

CIA.

What's MI3?

We'll get to that later.

That's a mission impossible.

I think it's the guy who gathered this intel is former MI6.

Supposedly the United States has used his information before.

He's always been reliable, et cetera, et cetera.

But that's the source.

That's where this came from.

Why would we be quoting

the work of an English operative who is no longer a part of MI6.

Why wouldn't we take the guy who's no longer a part of MI6,

take his information, then verify it through our own sources, and then go to the president and say, look, there's a bunch of rumors out there, but we've checked into them.

These are the important things that have a semblance of truth to them that we could verify.

Why would any of this be out?

This is not the way.

There's questions because this is not the way it's usually done the intelligence community would never quote a former mi6 operative they would for one he would be source he would be a cia source that we would work just the same way we would work a russian source or whatever that just bringing him up that he is a credible former mi6 operative is highly unusual i can't think of a time that we would even i think this is why this story is so freaking convoluted is that they didn't they didn't even

it was not included in their intelligence report right the mi6 information that was opposition research done by other political campaigns who used this guy who was supposedly credible and is reported as credible.

So this is the stuff he went out there to try to find bad information about Donald Trump.

And

the credibility level here is not whether the events occurred.

The credibility is, did this come from Russian sources?

that were filtered from the government.

That's what they believe is credible about the information.

Not that he did these things, but that they came from Russian government sources.

The rumors, the lies, let's call them lies.

I'm completely comfortable calling them lies.

The lies about him having prostitutes came from Russian sources.

And that's the information they deem credible here.

And I think that's an important distinction.

Not the information, but the fact that it came from Russia.

Right.

The people who were spreading it were people known to have associations with the Russian government and the FSB.

What do you think of that, Jason?

Well, no, I agree.

And I think think that

this is so unprecedented that I believe that, and you hit it the nail on the head like a couple breaks ago, that

this is not the way it's done.

This would never get to their ears unless they could actually put it in the actual intelligence report and say, like, this is verified information.

It's actually so verified.

Like, some of this stuff is so explosive.

We'd be like, we've got the FBI knocking on Donald Trump's door right now to take him to jail.

That's pretty much when it would go to him.

Because

this stuff that is in this report,

these guys are candidates for the electric chair yeah i mean the three people that they name in this one of them not being donald trump but all of them working for donald trump it's electric chair stuff oh the so why would we get this report if it were true

why would we get this report

when we always hear and believe me i've had it used against me in a court by the government we can't give you that information because it's an ongoing investigation.

Well, there would be an ongoing investigation.

You're looking at high treason.

So what the hell?

There's two possibilities I see.

One, and I'd love to hear your opinion.

One, Russia released this

and Russia's putting this in to poison the water even more.

in our country, to divide us and to get us yelling at each other even more and distrustful of our own agencies, our own intelligence, everything else.

Two,

our own intelligence agency is trying to teach Donald Trump a lesson.

Don't screw with us.

Is it one, the other, both, or something else?

Well, I think it's both.

To go to point number one, I think that Russia has been actively involved more so since around 2014 um to you know kind of destabilize america and it's happening really i mean we're at each other's throats the media has taken the small little revelations like really what what did what did russia actually reveal in the dnc hacks like a couple of stupid little things that what they were minor pay-to-play um oh and that and that um and dnc didn't like bernie sanders right whoa you know i mean did that really influence i mean people that like hated hillary clinton hated her more The people that loved her, they didn't really care.

You know what I mean?

Like, so what really did it do?

Nothing.

Well, it's causing all of this hubbub.

And the media is taking this to brand new levels.

Now,

part two, the intelligence community is, yeah, I believe, and you said this earlier, I think they're striking back.

You cannot, you cannot call out the intelligence community, call them stupid,

say that everything they're releasing has been lies and it's been lies since the Iraq war.

You cannot do that.

If you do, you're going to pay for it.

You're going to pay for it.

I'm telling you, this is not how the intelligence community operates.

This is not how they release information.

This is not how they brief their hires.

This was released in a strategic way, in my opinion.

I think it was released in a strategic way.

I don't think that they think this is going to up in the, you know, his inauguration.

They're smart enough to know, Jason, they're smart enough to know they war game as much as you do, as much as I do.

They know how fragile America is.

They know pulling us apart even more

and creating this distrust of them as well is a horrible, horrible move.

Remember,

I learned about the Bubba effect from them,

the number one thing they were worried about in 2006.

And they said, this is coming in our future.

So the last thing they would do, unless they were just evil SOPs, is throw logs on the fire.

So how could you say that they would do that?

Why wouldn't they quietly do something to a president and say, don't screw with us?

They definitely chose a method that can be very explosive and volcanic.

That's for sure.

I don't think that there.

So you believe that the

because I don't, that

the at the highest levels, our

intelligence operation is putting our next president in his place publicly?

Yeah, I remember

I said on your think tank show not too long ago that there would be

scrums for this.

We have not seen the last of it.

They are going to strike back in some way.

This is a huge way.

And you know what, to be honest, I don't think they're done.

I really don't, because a lot of this stuff, like I said, is alleged.

And what's the wreckage on the other side?

What's the wreckage on the other side?

You know they are chess players.

What's the wreckage on the other side?

Think about that for a second.

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It really hard to believe.

I find it really hard to believe that this is

a U.S.

government

false report here that

the CIA is trying to teach him a lesson.

Do I believe that the CIA would revel in teaching him a lesson?

Yes.

Do I think they would make this up and release this?

The damage it would do.

Oh, this is not a lesson.

They released rumors.

The real lesson will put him in jail.

And I guarantee you they have it.

This is like, look, bud, are you a conspiracy theorist all of a sudden?

I mean, that's what you did for a living.

You are a career.

So this is what he does for his

job.

These things are obviously real

as a possibility, right?

I mean, the one thing I'll get to, if you want to say it was not intelligence releasing this information,

you can argue that, I mean, these reports as opposition research before they had anything to do with intelligence, they were being circulated through media circles for months and months and months and months.

Media organizations had been checking into these six months before the election.

So it's possible they had this the whole time and they just waited to release it.

And so, but why until after it was handed to the president?

Why would it be handed to the president now if they've had it for months?

You're listening to the Glenbeck program.

You know, we'll have some idea if the government takes this report at all credible on Donald Trump, because in that report, it says that Russia has made several deals on energy with Trump or the Trump surrogates.

I mean, again,

where are we getting this?

How is it happening?

There's no reason to accept this information and there's no reason to dismiss this information.

It's just out now, and it is what it is.

We have to use some logic.

But we'll see if anybody takes this seriously, seeing that Tillerson is

having his confirmation hearing today, president of Exxon.

Let's see if a senator brings that up.

If they don't, that speaks volumes about the credibility of this.

Jaron Brooke is here from the Ayn Rand Institute.

How are you, sir?

I'm good.

Good.

How about you?

Good times.

Yeah, I know.

We had some plans to talk about some other things today that are important.

But first, I want to get your thoughts on

this.

You're a very logical, reasoned man.

We are living in a time beyond reason and logic.

It is, because reason and logic require facts.

They require evidence.

They require the ability to look at the world and know what's true and what's not, or at least have an indication of what's true and what's not.

We're living in an era of fake news where you don't know where this is coming from, why this is being reported, who's reporting it.

It's very hard to get your head around it and use reason.

Can I ask you a question?

I have a two-volume set.

I think it's actually in my office.

I have a two-volume set from 1926.

It's a reprint from the New York Historical Society, and it's from the committee

on the

committee looking into the conspiracies of the Revolutionary War.

It was conveyed, convened right after the Revolutionary War.

They wanted to find out where all these rumors came from, where all this fake news came from.

And it's, I mean, it's, you know, probably 500 pages.

Sure, sure.

So fake news is not new.

Yes.

It's always been this way.

Yeah, but it's.

It's different.

It's never had the credibility it has today.

I mean, people are taking it seriously in a way they never did before.

And generally, we don't discuss.

issues in a reasonable, logical way.

This election, more than any other election, I think, was based based so much on pure emotion.

Yes.

And

what we're seeing today is the media, we're seeing our political leaders, we're seeing our intellectuals, our universities, promote emotion as the means towards knowledge rather than thinking and reasoning and using logic.

We don't teach our kids logic anyway.

So

how would you logically look at this story and say, this is how we begin to untangle this story?

Well, I mean, you really have to look at what are the real sources.

Without sources, it's really hard to untangle anything.

But you also have to look at, okay,

what are the incentives?

What's going on here?

And look, the Russians are bad guys.

The Russians are bad guys.

Putin is not a good guy.

And I think there's some evidence to suggest there's a relationship there between Putin and Trump.

Something is going on there.

Trump is so adamantly defending Putin.

It was throughout the campaign, is now.

There's some relationship between Trump and Russia.

We don't know what it is.

You know, there's no reason to believe these particular allegations, but one has to be skeptical about what is going on, given how adamant Trump is in defending anything Russian.

Could it be, could it be?

Let's talk about Tillerson.

Yeah.

Tillerson

is a deal maker, okay?

What is our foreign policy?

I don't know.

We put a deal maker in, and he's best at making deals where?

Well, Russia and the Middle East.

And I think much of our foreign policy,

we are not going to be tough.

With Tillerson there, we're not going to be tough on Russia.

We're unlikely to be tough on Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states.

And you like Tillerson?

I like Tillerson.

Tillerson's an Atlas Shrugged fan.

He's a nice guy.

He's obviously an incredibly competent CEO.

He did a good job.

I like CEOs.

I like businessmen.

I think they're great.

But is he a foreign policy expert?

Does he bring a principled view of foreign policy?

I mean, maybe.

I just don't know.

I haven't heard anything to suggest he does.

Donald Trump is a pragmatist.

As far as I can tell, there's no principle driving a Trump administration.

And the people he surrounded himself with are mostly pragmatists.

On a case-by-case basis, they might make the right choice, they might make the wrong choice, but there's no principle.

What is America's...

And granted, there hasn't been a principled foreign policy in the United States for a very, very long time.

But this is taking pragmatism to the next level because it's, you know, usually people apologize for not having principles.

These guys embrace the fact that it's not a problem.

Well, they don't.

It's like, to me, we've always said, or people have always said, we just said, I wish somebody would run this country as a business.

You're now going to see it run like a business.

And that's...

We don't have the CEO of the United States of America.

That's not the way this job works.

It shouldn't.

We're going to see how it works as CEO of America.

I've come to call Donald Trump the central planner-in-chief.

Yeah.

Because that's how he's acting.

He's acting as a central planner.

I'm going to fly to Indiana, talk to Carrier.

I'm going to go and talk to the CEO of Ford.

I'm going to be the CEO of CEOs.

I'm going to tell the business world.

I'm going to tell markets how they should run, how they should function, as if I'm the CEO of the marketplace.

But that's central planning.

And we know, we know.

if anything, the 20th century has taught us, central planning does not work.

And that used to be what Democrats were proud of.

They're central planners.

And Republicans pretended, at least, not to be central planners.

They were for free markets.

Now that distinction has gone.

They pretended.

I know.

Only after Hoover, because Hoover was the last guy we had that was very much Donald Trump.

He was a central planner.

He was a builder.

Well, yes.

I mean, Hoover was the last businessman to be president.

He gave us Smoot Hawley, which was tariffs that drove us into Great Depression.

He increased taxes.

He didn't decrease taxes.

He was a terrible, terrible president.

You know, this trend...

you know, to the large extent accelerated under Hoover, but it really goes back to Wilson.

I mean, Wilson is the first president

to be a central planner, to bring it, yeah,

to bring it into the United States.

You're plowing an old field.

Let's plow a new one here.

The GOP

and what they're going to do with Obamacare.

We have had years for this moment.

It's unbelievable to me.

Six years, right, since Obamacare was passed.

They'd be talking about repeal, replace, repeal, replace.

Okay, so where's your plan, right?

You've had six years to put together a plan.

The plan is not that hard.

We've seen outlines of this plan in the Wall Street Journal everywhere.

There is a plan out there.

Find it.

Put it together.

It might be flawed.

It might not be the perfect plan.

But don't come out as babbling idiots.

And

we've got a plan.

Maybe we'll see you know it might take six months it may take three years who knows I mean this is really Republicans living up to the stupid party label what they're doing with Obamacare right now now on top of that there are suggestions that they want to keep real important parts of Obamacare yeah Preexisting conditions if you load pre-existing conditions onto insurance companies they're not insurance companies anymore right they're just social security type companies yes and they're subsidiaries of the government and the Democrats love this Obamacare was always planned to fail.

The whole purpose of Obamacare was to fail.

But to fail as

we tried markets, we tried marketplaces.

We let you have your private insurance.

That doesn't work.

So we have to have single-payer universal health care run by the government.

If Republicans play into that by keeping pre-existing conditions or by doing other things that are basically going to destroy insurance markets, they're just playing into the hands of the government.

What you're saying right now is one of my biggest fears is that

people look at whatever is going to come out of the GOP now as a conservative, small government, constitutional answer.

And I'm not seeing those yet.

I hope to, but I'm not seeing them, especially when it comes to Obamacare.

When they fail or, God forbid, make things worse.

Look, this is the thing.

Then everybody will say, it's time to go all the way.

Let's go Marxist.

No, I mean, this is the lesson everybody learned from the George Bush years, right?

Yes.

If this is what small government conservatives are, then we don't want anything to do with that.

And we got Obama, and we got everything that Obama represents.

If this is what defending America means, going to Iraq and screwing it up, then

we're going to get an Obama to clean up the mess.

So, yes, the backlash against Republicans when they do really, really stupid things

is part of what destroys this country.

And there's nothing nothing to suggest that this administration is going to be significantly different.

Have you seen anything that surprises you that say, wow, this is good?

You know,

some of the appointments are not bad, right?

I mean, labor secretary, I forget the guy's name, but seems like a good guy.

He gets minimum wage.

He gets some of these issues in the right way.

You know, Price's Secretary of

Health and Human Services, I thought was a good choice.

Price actually has a plan to replace Obamacare, you know, with free market reforms.

Why not just embrace that?

He's the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

But for some reason, the House and the Senate, and this is partially because Republicans are such cowards, they can't actually embrace a free market solution to anything.

The one thing we will get, and we can guarantee this, right, is a tax cut.

Republicans are good.

at cutting taxes, right?

They don't cut spending.

So the consequence is the next president has to raise taxes in order to close the deficit gap or pretend to close the deficit gap, but we'll get tax cuts, and that's a good thing, right?

I'm not going to demean tax cuts.

But if you don't cut spending,

it doesn't matter.

Okay, so

one last thing here.

Jarnbrook from the Ayn Rand Institute, and one of the best critical thinkers

in America.

When we're looking at all of the things that we're about to see,

What is the flag that you would raise up and say

we have to do this one thing?

Is it a policy?

Is it we have to get a handle on

our uniting with each other on fake news, on what?

CA, I don't buy into this uniting stuff.

I mean, we're not going to be united.

We're split in this country.

We're split 50-50.

We don't agree.

And I don't have a problem with the fact that we don't agree.

There are clearly different points of view out there.

I think some of us are right, and most people are wrong, but that's the reality.

There's disagreement.

And I, for example, have always loved gridlock in Washington.

I like disagreement in Washington because they don't miss.

When I say uniting, I mean not tearing each other, not dehumanizing.

one another.

I mean, that would be nice.

Being able to live next to each other and say, well, I really disagree with him.

It's going to to be difficult.

I mean, I think what we need to rediscover to unite us and to do a lot of other things is what is America?

I think we've lost that.

I think in that sense, Obama's won.

We have become another European country.

In many respects, the American spirit, what made us uniquely American,

what are the foundation ideas, the foundational concepts of what America stands for,

the true founding principles of this country.

That is not in the debate.

Nobody talks about it.

And this presidential

run was more than ever.

Donald Trump never mentions the founders.

He never really talks about the Constitution.

It's not important to him, right?

Those are principles.

God forbid we should have principles.

We need to rediscover what we are.

What is American exceptionalism?

People throw that out all the time.

And they claim, oh, we're pro-American.

We love America.

But Donald Trump has raised that question up.

What does it mean to be pro-America?

What does America first actually mean?

And unless you understand what America is, America is not a geographical place.

It's an idea.

It's an idea.

And the question is, what is that idea?

And I think very few Americans today know what that idea is.

I think that's reflected in our politics.

That's reflected in our dialogue.

Very few people know what the principles that this country was founded on are and what made us.

the greatest nation in human history.

Let's have you back and let's do an hour of just that.

What is America?

What is America?

Will you you do that?

That would be fabulous.

I love that.

Yarn, thank you very much.

And Jaron, the book is

unfair.

Equal is unfair.

I am sorry.

I was not even told you had a book.

Well, I handed you a book not that long ago.

Oh, I'm so sorry.

But the book is called Equal is Unfair.

It's available everywhere.

And

it takes on one of these big issues.

What does it mean?

when the founders say all men are created equal.

Does it mean what the left suggests, equality of outcome or even equality of opportunity?

And I argue, no.

It just means equality of freedom, equality of liberty, equality of rights, equality before the law, the law properly understood.

And the whole idea of equality is a false God.

It's a false God.

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Holy cow.

Stu has his own chalk cord on this Donald Trump briefing.

We'll get to here in a little while.

Also, his response, he's supposed to go live here right after the top of the hour stations.

We will be taking that as well if it does happen.

And we have good news to share.

We do?

Sometime during the course of the day.

Yeah, we got good news to share.

I mean, do we have time?

How much time do we have?

30 seconds.

That's not enough.

There's some good news that we have to do.

I'd like to be happy for more than 30 seconds.

Is there a song that's coming on this?

There may be a song on the way.

There may be a song.

Happy news coming up in just a minute.

And assuming this thing starts on time, we're going to have this press conference here in a little bit.

Obviously, the story we've been talking about all day will be discussed.

At the same point, the Rex Tillerson Secretary of State hearings are going on.

Tillerson just said that Russia today is a danger.

So he seems to disagree

Donald Trump.

It's a very strange, this is a strange rollout as you'd expect.

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We are waiting now for a news conference with President-elect Trump on this,

the latest on this back and forth of Russia.

We have spent two hours talking about it today, trying to look at it logically.

We can't make heads or tails of this.

It doesn't ever lead any place good, and we don't buy into all the stuff that it says about Donald Trump.

We'll see what he has to say and see if he can bring any reason to any of this.

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Yeah, we're waiting for the Donald Trump press conference here, which is coming up in a second.

But first, we got some really good news

before we get to that.

May I read?

This is from the court yesterday.

On this day, court considered the anti-slap motion to dismiss, mostly to dismiss files by defendants of Blaise Inc.

and Glenn Beck collectively, the Blaze parties, pursuant to chapter 27 of the Tebbed.

After considering the motion to dismiss any responses and replies thereto, any supporting or official affidavits, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

the motion to dismiss is granted.

Therefore, ordered the motion to dismiss filed by the Blaze parties is in all things granted in its entirety.

This is in the Clock Kid case.

Ah, med the clock kid.

Clockmed, we we called him a few times.

Allegedly clockmed.

We allegedly.

This was so what an anti-slap is in the United States or I mean in Texas which really is the United States now

is a remedy that people can take

if your First Amendment rights are being questioned to stop really kind of frivolous lawsuits.

Yeah, it's basically a frivolous lawsuit defense.

And so

if you remember right, it was the kid who went to school with the clock.

And he said it was a clock.

It looked like a bomb.

And originally, we were pissed off at the school district we were for we were for him we were for the kid we were defending the kit and then we saw the picture of it we're like well of course

of course they thought it was a bomb it looks just like one and and we also then heard that he was told by a teacher hey don't bring this into other classes don't show this to anybody it looks like a bomb and and so he didn't do the you know first degree look-alike weapon he used common sense and said hey put that away don't do that anymore another teacher won't be so cool with that and they weren't And he kept doing it almost as if.

Yeah, we don't know if that's what it is.

We reported it

and we reported it accurately on this program.

And

yesterday the judge threw that case out.

Unfortunately, showing that apparently free speech is still alive.

However, I will say that the First Amendment

is not real healthy.

And we have not talked about the other court case that we settled in Boston.

And we will.

So you know, I settled that case, but I settled it with the

understanding and the legal

ability to open up the entire record of the case.

That case is not sealed.

And we did settle for a small sum of money

because it was going to go all the way to the Supreme Court.

It should have, but it would have probably cost me about $5 million.

Instead, I settled with it unsealed because we are going to present this to you and show you exactly what happened in the Boston bombing case.

There is something very wrong, and it has little to do with the guy who was suing me and everything to do with the United States government, which was the point in the first place.

But in this particular case, it's over.

A little celebration is appropriate because

he made a clock that looked like a bomb.

His family was brown, especially his mom.

We told the truth, so we tried to sue.

But the judge just said, screw you.

I made a clock.

It looked like a bomb.

His family was brown, especially his mom.

We told the truth, so he tried to sue.

But the judge just said, screw you.

Yeah, the judge just said, screw you.

Allegedly.

Not at all.

Not at all.

He didn't say that at all.

Just to put it right.

But he did throw out the case.

Yes.

So we actually won.

Actually, we have some documents that show that his mom was especially proud more than other relatives.

And his mom was allegedly especially proud.

You know what's amazing about that case is the amount of stuff that was sent from people like Zuckerberg and everybody else when it turns out that that wasn't exactly what happened.

That that's not, and the judge is, you know,

now, you know, now, because he sued, I don't even know how many people.

His family has come back and sued everybody.

Barren Jahero, Ben Ferguson, looking for a payout.

We're the second

case to be dismissed, and there's a line of people that are going to court.

You know who else has been dismissed?

Do you know?

Or can you say?

No, I don't know.

I don't remember.

But there were two.

I think we were in court with two of the people.

I think the mayor of

Irving is

still involved, right?

She's still involved.

We all have court cases, and it's the same.

I think it's the same argument.

I don't know.

I'm not involved in anybody else's court.

You would think so.

Yeah.

It's ridiculous.

we're waiting for the

Donald Trump press conference to begin.

He has not walked out yet, but when he does, stations, you should know that we will go

there.

You know what?

Why don't we break early so when he comes out,

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Okay, you want to talk about fake news?

This is

a very good chance that

this is all fake news that President-elect Trump is now going to have to respond to.

CNN reported on a briefing that the President and Donald Trump received recently from the intelligence community.

It included two pages of what BuzzFeed reported yesterday after CNN reported on the two pages

and BuzzFeed released then the 35 pages that were whittled down to two for the president and Mr.

Trump

and

so BuzzFeed is being called irresponsible I know I wouldn't have published them myself They didn't.

The media has had this since August.

Nobody published this.

They did did publish it after CNN talked about that two-page report in a credible way.

Then they dumped out onto the internet the 35-page report.

I don't think I would have done that even after CNN had made this

public

because I think it's poison because I think a lot of it is bogus

and poison.

Now he has to face these questions about Russia.

There's some,

you know,

I bet what it was presented to the president was not

bad.

Otherwise, Donald Trump would have been arrested, quite honestly, on some of these charges.

Right.

And I don't even think they're trying to say that they're true.

I mean,

they included it, and it was not even clear that it was discussed with either the president or Trump.

saying, like, here's an example of what they were doing to you to try to compromise you, Donald Trump.

And that's good information to have.

You got to know what people are saying about you.

And it was being circulated widely by political opponents.

I mean, people trying to come up with stuff.

And some of the stuff that is in BuzzFeed, and BuzzFeed recognizes at the beginning, which is why I wouldn't publish it.

A lot of the stuff is wrong.

I mean, they have one guy that works for Trump in Prague when you can verify that it looks like he was in Southern California at a baseball game with his son.

I mean, you know, there's stuff in here that's just not right.

And now it's out, and a lot of people like the birth certificate will believe it.

And they'll say, oh, you know what?

He was doing horrible things with women in Russia.

No.

No.

There's no reason to believe any of this.

Here's what's reason to believe.

Russia is not our friend.

Russia does target every big businessman and political person like Donald Trump, and Trump didn't take the bait.

Now here he is, Donald Trump.

He's stepping up to the microphone in New York at Trump Tower

at the press conference.

United States of America, Donald Trump.

Thank you very much.

It's very familiar territory news conferences because we used to give them on an almost daily basis.

I think we probably maybe won the nomination because of news conferences.

And it's good to be with you.

We stopped giving them because we were getting quite a bit of inaccurate news.

But I do have to say that,

and I must say that I want to thank a lot of the news organizations here today

because they looked at that nonsense that was

released

by

maybe the intelligence agencies.

Holy cow.

Who knows?

But maybe the intelligence agencies, which would be a tremendous blot on their record if they in fact did that.

A tremendous blot.

Because a thing like that should have never been written, it should never have been had, and it should certainly never have been released.

But I want to thank a lot of the news organizations for some of whom have not treated me very well over the years.

A couple in particular, and they came out so strongly against that fake news and the fact that it was written about by primarily one group and one television station.

So I just want to compliment many of the people in the room.

I have great respect for the news and great respect for freedom of the press and all of that, but I will tell you there were some news organizations

with all that was just said that were so professional,

so incredibly professional, that I've just just gone up a notch as to what I think of you.

Okay?

Well, I hope you wouldn't have listened to that.

We've had some great news over the last

couple of weeks.

I've been quite active, I guess you could say, in an economic way for the country.

A lot of car companies are going to be moving in.

We have other companies.

Big news is going to be announced over the next couple of weeks about companies that are going to be building in the Midwest.

You saw yesterday, Fiat Chrysler, big, big factory going to be built in this country as opposed to another country.

Ford just announced that they stopped plans for a billion-dollar plant in Mexico, and they're going to be moving into Michigan and expanding very substantially an existing plant.

I appreciate that from Ford.

I appreciate it very much from Fiat Chrysler.

I hope that General Motors will be following.

And I think they will be.

I think a lot of people will be following.

I think a lot of industries are going to be coming back.

We have to get our drug industry coming back.

Our drug industry has been disastrous.

They're leaving left and right.

They supply our drugs, but they don't make them here to a large extent.

And the other thing we have to do is create new bidding procedures for the drug industry because they're getting away with murder.

Pharma.

Pharma has a lot of lobbies, a lot of lobbyists, and a lot of power.

And there's very little bidding on drugs.

We're the largest buyer of drugs in the world, and yet we don't bid properly, and we're going to start bidding, and we're going to save billions of dollars over a period of time.

And we're going to do that with a lot of other industries.

I'm very much involved with the generals and admirals on the aeroplane, the F-35.

You've been reading about it.

And it's way, way behind schedule and many, many billions of dollars over budget.

I don't like that.

And the Admirals have been fantastic.

The generals have been fantastic.

I've really gotten to know them well.

And we're going to do some big things on the F-35 program and perhaps the F-18 program.

And we're going to get those costs way down.

And we're going to get the plane to be even better.

And we're going to have some competition.

And it's going to be a beautiful thing.

So we've been very, very much involved.

And other things.

We had

Jack Ma, we had so many.

incredible people coming here, Mr.

Arnaud.

They're going to do tremendous things, tremendous things in this country.

And they're very excited.

And I will say if the election didn't turn out the way it turned out, they would not be here.

They would not be in my office.

They would not be in anybody else's office.

They'd be building and doing things in other countries.

So there's a great spirit going on right now.

Forever.

We're going to create jobs.

I said that I will be the greatest jobs producer that God ever created.

And I mean that.

I really, I'm going to work very hard on that.

We need certain amounts of other things including a little

bit of luck but I think we're gonna do a real job and I'm very proud of

what we've done and we haven't even gotten there yet I look very much forward to the inauguration it's gonna be a beautiful event we have great talent tremendous talent

and we have the all of the bands or most of the bands from the different

and we have the all of the bands or most of the bands from the different

segments of the military.

I've heard some of these bands over the years, they're in the middle of the year.

He really didn't talk about it.

We're going to

go to the next show, though.

He's going to go out there.

On the 20th is going to be something that will be very

when he did come out.

And I think we're going to have massive crowds because we have

to meet a headline.

He comes out swinging, blaming the intelligence community of creating this.

Leave it up a little bit so we can hear.

Some of them did get it right.

But he's coming out swinging.

That

is

remarkable.

Those states started to pour in.

And we focused very hard on those states, and they really reciprocated.

And those states are going to have a lot of jobs and they're going to have a lot of jobs and they're going to have a lot of security.

They're going to have a lot of good news for their veterans.

And by the way, speaking of veterans, I appointed today

the head secretary of the Veterans Administration, David Shulkin.

and we'll do a news release in a little while.

I'll tell you about David.

He's fantastic.

He's fantastic.

He will do a truly great job.

One of the commitments I made is that we're going to straighten out the whole situation for our veterans.

Our veterans have been treated horribly.

They're waiting online for 15, 16, 17 days.

Cases where they go in and they have a minor early stage form of cancer and they can't see a doctor.

By the time they get to the doctor, they're terminal it's not going to happen it's not going to happen so david is going to do a fantastic job we're going to be talking to a few people also to help david and we have some of the great hospitals of the world going to align themselves with us on the veterans administration like the cleveland clinic like the mayo clinic a few more that we have and we're going to set up a a group.

These are hospitals that have been the top of the line, the absolute

top of the line.

And they're going to get together with their

great doctors.

Dr.

Toby Cosgrove, as you know, from the Cleveland Clinic, has been very involved.

Incredible.

I think Pearl Mutter has been very, very

great men of business.

Yeah, he's just got a little speech here.

He can be patient.

The guy is going to be president.

I know that, but we wouldn't have listened to this much of Barack Obama at the very beginning.

And the first date, he's not even in office yet.

I think we would have to.

This is his first person.

And I think

that's a good idea.

Very Very appreciated.

I would be happier if you would just read his tweets.

At least a hundred.

Oh, here we go.

Here we go.

Questions.

Some good, some not so good.

But we had a lot of talent.

And

we think this selection will be something

with time.

With time.

Straighten it out and straighten it out.

We'll get to the question.

He's coming to a question here in a minute.

I'm going to take a quick break and

come back with the questions for donald trump um and and it will be interesting to hear him i'm assuming someone will ask him to clarify if he is blaming this report on uh the intelligence community if you don't know what's happening a report came out yesterday i believe the television station that he's talking about is cnn They first broke the news about a two-page report that went to him and Barack Obama that we don't know exactly what it included, but we know it included some of the things in the 35-page report that BuzzFeed and every other media organization apparently has had since August.

Yesterday, BuzzFeed made it available, and it is,

I believe, full of horrible lies and some truths and half-truths.

But it shouldn't have been released.

We'll get to the questions to the president next.

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In this press conference, looking at some of the release statements from President Trump, he apparently says, as far as hacking, I believe it is Russia.

So that is a difference

of where his stance has been.

Let's go to the press conference now and hear

the press and Donald Trump.

Financial or otherwise.

So I tweeted out that I have no dealings with Russia.

I have no deals in Russia.

I have no deals that could happen in Russia because we've stayed away.

And I have no loans with Russia.

As a real estate developer, I have very, very little debt.

I have assets that are, and now people have found out how big the company is.

I have very little debt.

I have very low debt.

But I have no loans with Russia at all.

And I thought that was important to put out.

I certify that.

So I have no deals, I have no loans, and I have no dealings.

We could make deals in Russia very easily if we wanted to.

I just don't want to because I think that would be a conflict.

So I have no loans, no dealings, and no current pending deals.

Now, I have to say one other thing.

Over the weekend, I was offered $2 billion

to do a deal in Dubai with a very, very, very

amazing man, a great, great developer from the Middle East, Hussein Demak,

a friend of mine, great guy, and was offered $2 billion

to do a deal in Dubai, number of deals.

And I turned it down.

I didn't have to turn it down, because as you know, I have a no-conflict situation because I'm president, which is, I didn't know about that until about three months ago, but it's a nice thing to have.

But I don't want to take advantage of something.

I have something that others don't have.

Vice President Pence also has it.

I don't think he'll need it.

I have a feeling he's not going to need it.

But

I have a no-conflict of interest provision as president.

It was many, many years old.

This is four presidents.

Because they don't want presidents getting, I understand, they don't want presidents getting tangled up in minutiae.

They want a president to run the country.

So I could actually

run

my business.

I could actually run my business and run government at the same time.

I don't like the way that looks, but I would be able to do that if I wanted to.

I'd be the only one that would be able to do that.

You can't do that in any other capacity.

But as a president, I could run the Trump organization, great, great company, and I could run the company.

The country.

I'd do a very good job.

But I don't want to do that.

Now, all of these papers that you see here, yes, go ahead, Ellie.

Follow them up before we go to conflicts.

Do you believe the hacking was justified, and will

Well, I'm not releasing the tax returns because, as you know, they're under audit.

I've never heard them.

I never released it, but as president of the city, I've never heard them.

You know, the only one that cares about my tax returns are the reporters.

Do you think the American public is concerned about that?

No, I don't think so.

I won.

Do you believe the hacking is?

I believe you're the American president.

No, I don't think they care at all.

I don't think they care at all.

I think you care.

I think you care.

First of all, you learn very little from a tax return.

What you should do is go down to federal elections and take a look at the numbers.

And actually, people have learned a lot about my company, and now they realize my company is much bigger, much more powerful than they ever thought.

We're in many, many countries, and I'm very proud of it.

And what I'm going to be doing is my two sons, who are right here, Don and Eric, are going to be running the company.

They are going to be running it in a very professional manner.

They're not going to discuss it with me.

Again, I don't have to do this.

They're not going to discuss it with me.

And with that, I'm going to bring up Sherry Dillon.

And she's going to go, these papers are just some of the many documents that I've signed turning over complete and total control to my sons.

Russia, though, sir, has come back.

Good morning.

It's my honor and privilege to be here today at President-elect Trump's request.

He's asked me, as you've just said.

We didn't need to take this.

His

press conferences remain bizarre,

just absolutely bizarre.

And I get more information out of his tweets.

Yeah.

You get more information out of his tweets.

An interesting thing he brought up there,

I think, trying to make the point that I'm not going to be influenced by the business end of things.

He had a $2 billion

offer the other day to do these projects in Dubai.

And he's using that as an example of, hey, this is great.

I rejected this.

It is kind of terrifying, I guess, though, that this is still possible.

I mean, Donald Trump is correct.

He's able to still run his companies.

But I mean, let's just say he's the greatest guy of all time and he's able to resist these pressures.

Okay, of someone offering you $2 billion for God knows what favor.

It's probably a loophole we we need to close after this because, you know, let's say the next president

doesn't have the high principles of Donald Trump and can't withstand an offer like that.

It probably shouldn't be available to the president of the United States.

That loophole probably should be closed after this.

And I don't think it's reassuring that people are offering him $2 billion five days before he becomes the president.

It did not fill me with confidence.

It did not fill me

with confidence.

Well, running the business and the country didn't fill me, so I'm glad he's giving up one of them.

Right.

Yeah, because there's no way you could do both.

Well, even Don said he could.

He could.

But there's also,

you know, you're not the CEO of America.

You don't run America.

I could run both.

The president doesn't run both.

He doesn't run the country.

That's the problem.

No.

We need to stop thinking about it that way.

Right.

And

if we as conservatives allow others to believe that's what happens, well then

this is, I don't mean to use this word.

I want to use this word the way it was used in the 1920s.

That's fascism.

That is a government helping

companies

run the company.

They collude openly with privately held companies and they go and say, you guys, we are going to go this way as a country, so you should develop as much as you can of these things.

And they work together.

That was the idea behind fascism.

Fascism wasn't always a dirty word.

It was a CEO.

It was the country run as a company by a leader.

That's not what we are.

Can you imagine George Washington standing up at a press conference and talking about his holdings?

Martha and I have incredible holdings, as you know.

We've got a massive business, as you know.

Martha and I have been running this.

We've owned most of Virginia, as I think you know.

My holdings, inflation adjusted, would be around a billion dollars.

I'm the richest president there's ever been.

I mean,

it's just the weirdest thing to sit and listen to.

And that is true, by the way.

Weird.

And it is true.

And you know, Washington was by far the richest president we've ever had.

And by far, one of the most humble presidents we've ever had.

Yeah.

I mean,

he would not be saying, and I've got dealings in the slave trade

from

all points of the compass, and

it's a beautiful, beautiful, my sons are going to be at the beautiful, the portico.

It's beautiful, and we're going to be expanding, because I can, I could, with the port and the

expansion and the slaves.

And as you know, I could be king if I wanted to.

I've been offered that, and I've said no.

I've said, no, I'm not going to be king, and don't bring that up to me again.

But as you know, I could be king if I wanted to.

Look, they were putting together the Constitution, and they couldn't get it done, and so they came to me and they said, George,

and I was there in my beautiful lobby of my house.

It's more of a lobby than an entrance way.

It's more of an

authority than a house, in a state, if you will.

It's beautiful, it's wonderful.

My son, my daughter, was upstairs, and she's wonderful.

She has some beautiful friends, and she was with us out on a vacation a few weeks ago in fact let me bring her up and she can talk she's beautiful here she is yeah

what the hell did you just say yeah that's what he just did on that press conference i don't know what the hell he

i want to know what your stance is with russia well with there he did answer the one question about uh russia did say that he believes donald trump believes russians were responsible for the hacking that's a pretty big headline that's That's a big headline.

Because that's the opposite of what he's been saying, right?

I mean, he says he thinks.

So it doesn't mean he's sure, but he believes the

intelligence briefing, I guess, he received, indicates that, yes, that is probably the source of these hacks.

That is a big deal, and he has not talked about that at all.

But oddly.

Nor will he again probably.

During our

interlude into the George Washington press conference, you have not missed anything from Donald Trump.

His attorney is still standing up there, I guess, explaining all the conflict of interest laws and how he's getting around those and not.

But nobody's asking about that.

We don't

know where we even care.

We should.

I mean, we do every honor, but that's not the current issue.

Okay, if I said to you, if I said to you,

look, I'm not going to run,

Pat,

I am going to completely focus,

I am going to completely focus on

other things.

And

my son will be doing

everything on my primary business that I've staked my entire life on and is my life fortune.

My sons are going to do that.

But I promise you for the next four to eight years,

not a word.

I've got a whole bucket of shit coming his way.

He's asking us to do the impossible.

And not because it's nefarious.

His son comes to, there's a crisis.

Let's say the world goes into a crisis and

his son is looking at their financial empire starting to crumble.

You don't think the son goes to debt and say, debt, I got to have your help on this.

Ridiculous.

I mean, it's ridiculous.

Jared Kushner is a good example of this.

It's his son-in-law.

He's going to be named an official, senior advisor to the president of the United States.

And everyone's like, well, we have to see what's going to go on with these nepotism laws.

Because he would be affected by these things.

He has to divest all of his interests.

It's a big deal for Jared Kushner to go through this.

However,

you're telling me that

you're going to enforce these laws, and then instead of him being a senior advisor, they're just going to talk about it around dinner.

Like, they're going to call and text each other these things anyway.

All of this is going to go on.

It's better.

And we learned this from Hillary Clinton.

You just don't, you use the HRC email.

You don't use at state.

Right, but there's nothing to prevent them from talking to each other.

It's just that it's a title of senior advisors.

Correct.

All they're doing is circumventing the law.

But I mean, but it's a ridiculous kid.

Of course he's

going to talk to his son-in-law.

But isn't it the same that we just saw?

Just a different...

I mean, they were doing the same thing.

They just said, oh, you know what?

Just don't use the server.

Use this server and we'll be okay.

Okay.

So that's what they did to get around it.

And everybody yawned.

Now he's just saying to his son-in-law, you know what?

We can't talk about it here.

It ate for more soup, son.

Right.

And they're going to talk about it then.

You're not going to prevent a person from talking to his family members about important things in their lives when they're trusted confidants.

And that's why I'm just saying that they're not going to be afraid of that.

But especially a family that is...

business.

That is their family relationship.

And that's not being critical of Donald Trump.

No.

I mean, Jared Kushner, I mean, while a big Democrat and much more liberal than anybody probably probably in the audience, has been a trusted advisor of Trump throughout the entire process.

And that's not going to be a huge surprise that they're together.

He's a big businessman and well-versed in his own right.

And of course, they're going to be together.

But I mean,

I don't know that I've ever seen anything like this in this press conference, however, where you're getting someone essentially a spokesperson for the president of the United States.

giving us an intermission.

We're getting an intermission of this where she explains all of this.

And it it is kind of an interesting term.

It's also really interesting to me that this is where they're turning.

And I guess, you know, they want to turn the news cycle, but

everybody wants to know about Russia.

The big news out of this is, quite honestly, I think that Donald Trump came out blaming the U.S.

spy agencies for planting this story about him.

That is remarkable because let's just take it at face value that that's true.

That they were sending you a message.

Don't screw with us.

It's not going to get better.

If that were true, and the spooks are evil spooks that are sitting behind their desk and they're like, we taught him a lesson.

And he came out and he said that was very wrong of the spy agencies.

And, you know, we're going to see how that shapes up.

You don't think that that big evil spook that's in the movie isn't going, that rat bastard.

Now it's war.

I mean, that's crazy.

It's crazy.

Some battles you fight behind the curtain.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

I really want to take and tree diagram

the press conferences and his answers to the press conferences because he gets so distracted.

He is.

He is more riddled with ADD than I am.

Than maybe anybody on earth.

Yeah, he gets so distracted

by, you know, if you if you look at his sentences, if there's a noun in it,

for instance, I hear you were running.

Yes, I was running and I've got these great tennis shoes.

Shoes, new noun.

The next sentence will be about shoes.

Then if he describes the shoes and how they were on the road, the next one will be about his favorite road.

And you're eight degrees away in eight sentences from the question and the topic at hand.

Yeah, master at that.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Mercury.