Trump Answers Questions 1/11/17

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Speaker 33 This

Speaker 35 buzzfeed story that I now find out is not actually a BuzzFeed story.

Speaker 40 We think CNN broke this with Jake Tapper

Speaker 43 about Donald Trump and Russia is some of it is

Speaker 44 so

Speaker 45 horrible,

Speaker 46 and I don't believe it,

Speaker 39 that I can't believe that it's now out in the open air.

Speaker 40 I don't know what to make of this story,

Speaker 41 but now that it's out, we have to talk about this story.

Speaker 37 We can't accept it, and we can't dismiss it at this point.

Speaker 34 We have to know what the story is first,

Speaker 43 look at all of the possibilities, and then expect,

Speaker 54 I don't even know,

Speaker 55 then expect what?

Speaker 56 Expect what?

Speaker 33 The internet?

Speaker 40 In a world of fake news.

Speaker 33 This is fake news.

Speaker 57 At this point, this is fake news.

Speaker 56 But then again, at the Devil's Advocate, when Drudge came out with the blue dress, before there was a blue dress,

Speaker 38 wasn't it fake news?

Speaker 40 How does the media do their job?

Speaker 49 And how do you decide what's real and what's not?

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Speaker 38 All right, this is an incredible story.

Speaker 40 This is from BuzzFeed.

Speaker 43 Now listen to the way this is written.

Speaker 39 Listen carefully.

Speaker 46 BuzzFeed, here's the headline.

Speaker 35 These reports allege Donald Trump has deep ties to Russia.

Speaker 65 Ooh, I want to click on that one. What is that story?

Speaker 44 Listen to the first paragraph.

Speaker 57 A dossier compiled by a person who has claimed to be a former British intelligence official, alleges Russia has compromising information on Trump.

Speaker 69 The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors.

Speaker 72 Period.

Speaker 70 But other than that,

Speaker 61 let's run the story.

Speaker 74 I mean, you listen to just this,

Speaker 59 and there's no reason why BuzzFeed should run this story.

Speaker 63 Now, it was my understanding that this was the original source of the story, that BuzzFeed was the first one to come out.

Speaker 44 So you know, we think,

Speaker 79 remember when Harry Reid came out and said, wait a minute,

Speaker 62 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.

Speaker 70 You think it's okay to release that.

Speaker 62 When we know you have information about Russia and Donald Trump, you need to release this.

Speaker 64 Apparently, this is what this information is what Harry Reid was talking about.

Speaker 84 And we have confirmed, by the way, CNN did break this story.

Speaker 85 Okay.

Speaker 64 So I want you to hear, because what I just read from BuzzFeed is outrageous.

Speaker 85 Outrageous.

Speaker 64 Anyone who would come into my office and say, Glenn, we got to do this story, and

Speaker 63 it's pretty bad.

Speaker 78 We'll give you the facts here in a second.

Speaker 64 And they would say, look, I've got a dossier.

Speaker 61 Well, who did it?

Speaker 88 Well, it was a person who claims to be a former British intelligence official.

Speaker 59 What do you mean, claims?

Speaker 54 Were they or were well? I'm not really sure.

Speaker 82 But listen, they allegedly have Russia on the record saying they have compromising information.

Speaker 78 They allegedly, so you don't know for sure.

Speaker 64 No, that's just what they're alleging.

Speaker 69 Nobody's backing that up. No.

Speaker 64 So the allegations, yeah, they're unverified.

Speaker 67 And also the report contains errors.

Speaker 91 I would say get the hell out of my office.

Speaker 63 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.

Speaker 65 Listen to this.

Speaker 94 Jim, walk us through what we've learned.

Speaker 95 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.

Speaker 95 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.

Speaker 95 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.

Speaker 95 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.

Speaker 95 Trump. The classified briefings last week, I should note, were presented by four of the senior most U.S.

Speaker 95 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.

Speaker 84 Okay, so that's a totally different

Speaker 84 view than what BuzzFeed has there.

Speaker 65 Correct.

Speaker 78 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.

Speaker 67 I don't believe Clapper for a second.

Speaker 58 Comey

Speaker 43 is credible to me, but Comey was the guy who

Speaker 59 was allegedly on Hillary's side.

Speaker 61 Hillary side or Trump side?

Speaker 90 Darby Trump's side.

Speaker 34 So why would if he's on Trump's side, why would he come in with anti-Trump stuff?

Speaker 98 You know what I mean?

Speaker 84 Right.

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 70 He's been wrong a lot.

Speaker 65 Again,

Speaker 69 can we start here? Can we start here?

Speaker 54 Let's agree on the premise first, okay?

Speaker 78 On the premise of what we're doing.

Speaker 44 We have to,

Speaker 57 as citizens, now figure out whether or not

Speaker 100 we

Speaker 101 should look at this

Speaker 59 and discuss this or not.

Speaker 64 And here are the two sides. One side will say,

Speaker 78 and break it down in classic logic,

Speaker 89 the president gets the best intelligence, right?

Speaker 65 Yes. Although it's not always accurate.

Speaker 82 Right. Hang on just a second.

Speaker 64 The first premise is the president gets the best intelligence.

Speaker 43 This was given to the president.

Speaker 33 Therefore, this is the best information.

Speaker 62 Now, there are going to be people who are making that.

Speaker 103 Look, they didn't make this up.

Speaker 43 This was given to the president. You don't believe the president's briefings?

Speaker 63 That's the first side.

Speaker 38 They'll immediately accept it because this is credible information.

Speaker 66 It's coming from those four guys.

Speaker 65 But

Speaker 66 that's false because of what Pat said.

Speaker 58 The middle sentence is incorrect or incomplete.

Speaker 64 This was given to the president.

Speaker 62 The middle sentence should be, this was given to the president.

Speaker 43 But a lot of the stuff he's getting lately has been politicized, and sometimes it's incorrect.

Speaker 104 Just ask him about weapons of mass destruction.

Speaker 86 Exactly right.

Speaker 64 Okay, so the other side will tell you the president gets the best intelligence. Yeah, but it's all politicized now.

Speaker 106 Therefore, we have to dismiss it.

Speaker 107 No,

Speaker 107 no.

Speaker 98 Both of those are wrong.

Speaker 35 Logic will tell us

Speaker 35 the president most times

Speaker 59 or the president gets the best intelligence available to him.

Speaker 64 What is given to the president

Speaker 109 is sometimes wrong.

Speaker 105 Therefore,

Speaker 44 we must not dismiss or accept,

Speaker 59 but instead investigate.

Speaker 110 So

Speaker 57 this is up to us now because it's been dropped into the laps of the American people.

Speaker 89 So let's logically, dispassionately look at what we have

Speaker 81 and not accept or dismiss anything.

Speaker 38 Anybody who says, I'm not listening, you're a fool.

Speaker 63 Anybody who says, I'm not listening, trying to you trying to excuse it all, you're a fool.

Speaker 105 I'm not listening to you because you're talking about Donald Trump. You're a fool.

Speaker 77 Because let's take it from the Trump side.

Speaker 69 This is Donald Trump's birther problem now.

Speaker 101 This will forever be

Speaker 63 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,

Speaker 105 he's proved that's wrong, but I've got better sources.

Speaker 64 And let me show you, I'm going to be making a statement about some better sources that will show you he's lying.

Speaker 49 And it will be used against Donald Trump from here on out.

Speaker 62 So you better build a strong case based on logic, not on fear, not on anger, not on blind loyalty.

Speaker 112 Because they, the other side, will build it that way.

Speaker 104 And we're talking about the President of the United States.

Speaker 66 Both sides owe it to themselves and to the country to

Speaker 70 dig into this

Speaker 115 and investigate.

Speaker 47 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.

Speaker 65 Passionate.

Speaker 89 And we dispassionately investigated.

Speaker 47 We did our own homework.

Speaker 54 We were never birthers.

Speaker 59 We dismissed it.

Speaker 90 I'm sorry.

Speaker 116 At first, we took this approach.

Speaker 44 Not on the air, but internally we took this approach.

Speaker 59 Neither dismiss it nor accept it.

Speaker 35 It's out there.

Speaker 117 Let's do our homework and find out whether or not it's credible or not.

Speaker 44 We found it to be completely

Speaker 69 uncredible.

Speaker 64 So we dismissed it.

Speaker 81 Let's do the same thing here because I guarantee you this is going to be his birth certificate problem.

Speaker 84 Or yeah, I mean, at least part one of it.

Speaker 102 Part one of it. I think

Speaker 84 how many things are going to come out like this.

Speaker 77 There's two things that he has

Speaker 64 going against him.

Speaker 42 How do you cry foul

Speaker 59 that you can't believe a source when you were the one accepting the national inquirer?

Speaker 77 When you were the one who said, I have additional information on his birth certificate and he never produced it.

Speaker 67 Right.

Speaker 52 I mean, you're not going to gather a lot of sympathy from the people who don't like you.

Speaker 100 Right.

Speaker 68 There's no fairness points coming your way unless they really are trying to be better people.

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 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,

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 65 And by the way,

Speaker 120 what we clipped from that was who was on Tapper's team.

Speaker 121 I mean, it was... Arthur Bernstein and it was the cream of the crop of journalists.

Speaker 75 That doesn't mean anything to a lot of people, but it is the best we have.

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 And you're going to be on the right side of that about 99% of the time. I agree.

Speaker 84 So, and you see there, I think what happened with the BuzzFeed part of this is

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 74 They had it.

Speaker 77 In fact, Harry Reid was demanding it.

Speaker 68 Yes.

Speaker 84 So they could have done this before the election.

Speaker 84 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...

Speaker 84 piece of this story out there and try to claim as much of the reporting as we can.

Speaker 84 And did they step over the line? I think, you know, probably.

Speaker 84 But I mean, I understand their motivation there, and I understand.

Speaker 64 I actually, I mean, the BuzzFeed story, I hate to give this the

Speaker 117 because I didn't know CNN broke this. I thought CNN, I thought the events were

Speaker 100 reversed.

Speaker 107 I thought CNN came out and did that, and I was like, okay, well, that's the

Speaker 69 credible way of presenting.

Speaker 64 Right.

Speaker 104 Is BuzzFeed the only one reporting the most salacious situation?

Speaker 55 They released the actual documents.

Speaker 84 Inside the documents, it says things about prostitutes, we can get into here in a minute, and also financial connections.

Speaker 98 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

Speaker 52 equally disturbing

Speaker 47 I will tell you that the personal parts are almost irrelevant to me

Speaker 69 you know, because, you know, you've either made your mind up about who Donald Trump is as a man

Speaker 91 one way or another. Right.

Speaker 84 And so this is about whether he's compromised as a president.

Speaker 125 Correct. Correct.

Speaker 65 Correct.

Speaker 38 You know, so the sex, this part of it doesn't matter, except is he compromised as a president.

Speaker 47 But the first part of it is bad enough to be compromised as a president.

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 At this point, there is such limited information.

Speaker 59 Except for this. I want everyone in the audience to make up their mind now.

Speaker 11 If it is true, does it matter? Does it matter?

Speaker 86 He just, it's the

Speaker 86 same thing.

Speaker 69 This is going to drag on for months, if not years.

Speaker 70 If it's true, does it matter?

Speaker 84 Do you care about this guy's character at all?

Speaker 77 Is there anything in this story that matters?

Speaker 84 If it were true. So I don't think it's true, and I don't think there's any reason to think

Speaker 26 at this point. At this point, there's not.

Speaker 84 But there's other reasons why it's important information, and we can get into that.

Speaker 64 Yeah, okay, so we'll do that coming up in just a second.

Speaker 75 First, we're going to get to the full information in just a moment.

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Speaker 55 I want to make sure that we all understand that there is, before we get into this,

Speaker 108 there is a

Speaker 38 subtext to all of this.

Speaker 38 And I want to make sure that that subtext we deal with right out of the gate.

Speaker 107 Trump won.

Speaker 91 Trump won legitimately, fairly, and he won on his own approach.

Speaker 38 It wasn't because anyone helped him in Russia.

Speaker 74 It's not because of Comey.

Speaker 59 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.

Speaker 81 There were too many things, even for Clinton supporters, that

Speaker 96 made her a flawed candidate.

Speaker 96 The vast number of people that went out and voted

Speaker 111 not only voted for Donald Trump, but some voted against Hillary Clinton, and some

Speaker 101 voted for Trump, even though they had questions.

Speaker 111 But no one voted

Speaker 96 and rigged the election.

Speaker 122 Russia did not rig this election.

Speaker 70 Did Wikileaks play a role?

Speaker 62 Yeah, but I don't think it made made an impact in the election.

Speaker 54 Comey made an impact in the election, but that's different.

Speaker 35 That's the FBI. That's the federal government.

Speaker 91 So, A, Trump won legitimately, fairly, and on his approach.

Speaker 44 His case on this, however, is hurt by him

Speaker 52 because he said when he thought he was losing, the election was going to be rigged.

Speaker 26 But

Speaker 79 it was and is

Speaker 37 fair and legitimate.

Speaker 59 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.

Speaker 40 Let's make sure we make that clear.

Speaker 51 Now we'll read the documents to you when we come back.

Speaker 6 Okay, who's all yes?

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Speaker 55 So let's look at the actual briefing that was received by the President yesterday, which, or earlier, it was released yesterday.

Speaker 59 Let's ask ourselves, how is it that I am holding the documents that the president received?

Speaker 83 How is it I am getting the president's briefing here?

Speaker 120 That's interesting.

Speaker 84 I think I can answer that. Yes.

Speaker 84 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?

Speaker 84 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

Speaker 84 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

Speaker 84 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

Speaker 84 threaten operatives for Trump and others.

Speaker 47 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.

Speaker 105 It's possible that all of this is false.

Speaker 122 It's possible that, and most likely, that some of this is true and big portions of this are false.

Speaker 64 We have to decide

Speaker 106 if it matters, why it matters, but we have to also ask ourselves the question, who benefits from this information getting out?

Speaker 64 We have a former military intelligence guy who's on our staff who came up to me in the break and he said,

Speaker 107 I mean,

Speaker 63 this is Russia's fingerprints all over it.

Speaker 105 I can't believe that this actual dump of this information.

Speaker 63 has Russia's fingerprints all over it.

Speaker 65 Okay.

Speaker 65 So

Speaker 47 we there's multiple levels to look at.

Speaker 64 And this is a three-dimensional chess game.

Speaker 77 So let's get into it. U.S.
presidential election, Republican candidate Donald Trump's activities in Russia and compromising relationship with the Kremlin.

Speaker 69 Summary.

Speaker 59 Russia regime has been cultivating, supporting, and assisting Donald Trump for at least five years.

Speaker 39 Aim endorsed by Putin has been to encourage splits and divisions in the Western alliance.

Speaker 87 Okay.

Speaker 77 Can we just take this one?

Speaker 66 Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting, and assisting Trump for at least five years.

Speaker 47 I believe that is true.

Speaker 74 It has nothing to say about Donald Trump.

Speaker 59 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.

Speaker 63 That's what they do.

Speaker 71 So, does that say anything bad about Donald Trump?

Speaker 80 No.

Speaker 69 It's important for Donald Trump to know that so he knows, okay, I'm a target.

Speaker 87 I got it.

Speaker 78 Not a problem.

Speaker 65 Putin,

Speaker 81 this has been endorsed, and Putin has encouraged splits and divisions in the Western Alliance.

Speaker 58 We know that from Putin himself.

Speaker 54 His advisors and he himself have been on record talking about things like that.

Speaker 75 Splitting up NATO and splitting the United States of America.

Speaker 71 So nothing really new there at all, I think.

Speaker 78 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.

Speaker 54 That's a good thing on Donald Trump.

Speaker 85 Right. Okay.

Speaker 78 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.

Speaker 47 Okay, let's talk about that one for a second.

Speaker 35 You're a big businessman.

Speaker 98 You go over to Russia.

Speaker 103 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.

Speaker 64 Everybody's directly connected to Putin if you're a position of power.

Speaker 67 Okay, it's it's an oligarchy.

Speaker 62 So they're directly connected.

Speaker 59 Some, then this is the way intelligence works.

Speaker 36 Putin doesn't get on the phone with, or a spy doesn't get on the phone with

Speaker 69 Donald Trump.

Speaker 74 They use a third party.

Speaker 108 And that third party may even be somebody who is not

Speaker 71 knowing that the person that is giving them the information is FSP.

Speaker 64 So the Kremlin says, we got to get this to Donald Trump.

Speaker 111 You know the head of the bank.

Speaker 43 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.

Speaker 99 He goes to a friend at the bank and he says, hey, by the way, listen, I got some information.

Speaker 122 Do you know there's this

Speaker 122 information here on Hillary Clinton?

Speaker 58 Don't ask me how I got it, but it's pretty good.

Speaker 34 I hear from upper levels.

Speaker 88 They've got this information.

Speaker 54 You might want to give it to a friend.

Speaker 56 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.

Speaker 54 He's a good guy.

Speaker 91 I've known him for a long time.

Speaker 59 Doesn't know that he's FSB.

Speaker 56 Known him for a long time.

Speaker 64 He's got great connections.

Speaker 29 Hey, listen, I'm going to send you some information he gave me.

Speaker 56 It's on Hillary Clinton.

Speaker 82 Don't know if it's true or not. You should read.

Speaker 68 Has Donald Trump done anything wrong?

Speaker 100 No, I mean,

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 78 Has he done anything wrong?

Speaker 77 Do I have this right, Jason?

Speaker 64 I'm looking at the Intel guy.

Speaker 77 Yeah, that's the way it works, right?

Speaker 68 Donald Trump hasn't done anything wrong.

Speaker 101 So on the first two things,

Speaker 39 you can't accuse Donald Trump of doing anything wrong.

Speaker 39 Former, next one, former top Russian intelligence officer, except being naive or stupid.

Speaker 61 I mean, you know, we all know

Speaker 84 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,

Speaker 62 wouldn't you use it? Would you use it?

Speaker 84 I mean, it's, yeah, of course you would. Right.

Speaker 102 I mean,

Speaker 74 your only accusation is you're stupid or naive

Speaker 109 if you think you're dealing at high levels in Russia,

Speaker 63 and especially if you're running for president.

Speaker 75 and you're not getting that and Putin doesn't know you're getting that information.

Speaker 87 You're foolish. Okay.

Speaker 78 Former top Russian intelligence officer claims FSB has compromised Trump through his activities in Moscow sufficiently to be able to blackmail him.

Speaker 39 According to several knowledgeable sources, his conduct in Moscow has included perverted sex acts, which have been arranged and monitored by the FSB.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 78 The dossier is controlled by the Kremlin spokesperson,

Speaker 78 a person directly on Putin's orders.

Speaker 77 However, it has not yet been distributed abroad, including to Trump.

Speaker 78 Russian intentions for its deployment still unclear.

Speaker 65 Okay, so

Speaker 80 they're not going to do anything on Hillary Clinton unless Hillary Clinton is a problem.

Speaker 136 to them.

Speaker 69 If she was president, she would have been compromised.

Speaker 119 So

Speaker 119 what do we have here?

Speaker 64 The guy who's elected might be compromised.

Speaker 90 The woman who

Speaker 69 could have been elected might be compromised.

Speaker 56 That's what you're looking at.

Speaker 38 The rest of it is salacious details.

Speaker 59 Am I mistaken?

Speaker 77 That's what I get from the summary.

Speaker 59 The rest of it just says detail.

Speaker 84 Right, and the details obviously are the thing that everyone's talking about today.

Speaker 110 Correct.

Speaker 64 But before you get into the details,

Speaker 80 am I right?

Speaker 57 Donald Trump, they are trying to groom him.

Speaker 63 He has rejected all sweetheart deals.

Speaker 59 That's in his, that's a plus in his column.

Speaker 84 And this is an opposition research file.

Speaker 117 So, I mean, they would, they're looking for intentionally bad things about Trump.

Speaker 84 For them to say he's resisted these sweetener deals is definitely important.

Speaker 81 Is a point in his favor.

Speaker 78 So that's the first one.

Speaker 57 They have been trying to

Speaker 58 cultivate him.

Speaker 98 Unless you're a moron,

Speaker 54 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.

Speaker 101 And of course, you would think this would play into his ego.

Speaker 39 Of course, Putin wants me in his...

Speaker 35 in his little chess game.

Speaker 105 Of course, I'm a powerful man before I was president.

Speaker 68 Of course he wanted to control me.

Speaker 87 I'm smarter than that.

Speaker 38 That's why I didn't take any of his sweetheart deals.

Speaker 84 The problem, though, is that he has made the case over and over again that he has no dealings whatsoever with the country, period.

Speaker 84 I mean, so he can't make any of these other points because he has said he has no dealings whatsoever.

Speaker 84 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

Speaker 84 mean any of this report is true. And that's why

Speaker 84 this story as a whole is important and interesting, I think. Because really what they're saying is, hey,

Speaker 84 other candidates commissioned opposition file reports. And we believe these things came from Russian sources that

Speaker 84 were leaking things at the behest of the Russian government.

Speaker 84 This is not something that our intelligence agencies have checked out and said, you know what, looks like he did do these things.

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 You know, that's the case, which he keeps saying wasn't going on.

Speaker 70 We know it is.

Speaker 59 Of course,

Speaker 109 it would be unnatural if it wasn't.

Speaker 96 It would be unnatural.

Speaker 57 It would be like saying Ronald Reagan did not try to interfere

Speaker 58 for our interests in the former Soviet Union.

Speaker 103 Of course we did.

Speaker 44 We all know we did. We all know we had operatives on the ground.

Speaker 34 We all know that we had people in their own press, in their own organizations.

Speaker 74 doing everything we could to bring them to their knees and to split them as a union.

Speaker 44 We know it.

Speaker 81 For us to think that it's not happening to us

Speaker 54 is beyond primary

Speaker 85 thinking.

Speaker 61 It's just,

Speaker 119 it's infantile to think that that's not happening.

Speaker 98 Of course.

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 Absolutely, the president and the president-elect should know this information was being circulated about Donald Trump.

Speaker 65 Absolutely.

Speaker 27 Why do we know it?

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 However, there's also an interesting part of this, which is

Speaker 84 Donald Trump has made such a big deal at dismissing and disparaging our intelligence sources.

Speaker 127 I think this is the biggest thing.

Speaker 84 That I think it's very possible

Speaker 84 that this is their way of telling Donald Trump, stop screwing with us all the time.

Speaker 81 Oh,

Speaker 138 I think it is really possible that I mean, there's two people.

Speaker 46 Our intelligence guy is saying, yes,

Speaker 74 there are two organizations that you do not screw with as president of the United States.

Speaker 107 Number one, the Fed.

Speaker 91 They'll screw your economy and make you

Speaker 46 the worst president of all time.

Speaker 75 The worst president of all time.

Speaker 47 And they did it to Ronald Reagan.

Speaker 64 Ronald Reagan was taking on the Fed until the Fed started screwing with him.

Speaker 70 Then all of a sudden, he was like, you know what?

Speaker 80 I think we're going to leave the Fed alone.

Speaker 86 And then everything went well.

Speaker 98 Okay.

Speaker 63 So the Fed, don't screw with the Fed.

Speaker 119 That's what

Speaker 78 lesson number one, I think we can all say a president knows.

Speaker 43 Number two, don't screw with the intelligence community because this is what they do for a living.

Speaker 74 They want to discredit you.

Speaker 34 They will.

Speaker 58 The problem with that is:

Speaker 43 if our intelligence community is doing this,

Speaker 75 then who does our intelligence community really work for?

Speaker 59 Is the tail wagging the dog?

Speaker 62 Do they work for the American people?

Speaker 87 Do they work for the president?

Speaker 93 Or do they work for themselves?

Speaker 62 If they're willing to do this,

Speaker 69 what aren't they willing to do? How much trouble are we in?

Speaker 75 We'll get into more and actually get into the details coming up in just a second.

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Speaker 54 We're going to bring in Jason Battrill,

Speaker 64 who used to be with

Speaker 75 military intelligence.

Speaker 122 He now works for me as a researcher.

Speaker 132 And

Speaker 120 he has been on this for, what, two years, three years?

Speaker 115 We've been talking about this.

Speaker 108 And

Speaker 69 we said before the holidays that Russia is involved and they are going to discredit and they're winning this intelligence game.

Speaker 54 He has

Speaker 52 insight as a former Intel guy who you would help

Speaker 87 prepare some reports like this, would you not, Jason?

Speaker 61 Yep. Okay.

Speaker 122 Does this...

Speaker 36 Without saying, at this point, since we don't have time, does this read

Speaker 42 one way or the other, absolutely legit or absolutely false?

Speaker 137 Seems like a total

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Speaker 81 You know, fake news is

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Speaker 141 When fake news comes from the highest levels or government sources, that's when it's a real problem.

Speaker 39 The new confidential sensitive source report that was apparently given to the president and Donald Trump,

Speaker 52 and the media has had since August, came out yesterday afternoon.

Speaker 34 There's something really wrong here.

Speaker 40 I don't want to dismiss it, nor do I want to accept it.

Speaker 112 I want to digest it because it's out.

Speaker 34 Now, what do you do with it?

Speaker 86 What does it mean?

Speaker 38 And what does it say?

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Speaker 124 He's former military intelligence.

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Speaker 52 Let's go to Jason Battrill.

Speaker 42 We're talking about this

Speaker 49 news story that came out that BuzzFeed did not break.

Speaker 108 CNN broke.

Speaker 51 They broke this yesterday.

Speaker 52 It is a

Speaker 52 opposition research paper that has been floating around.

Speaker 26 All of the news media has had it since August.

Speaker 117 Nobody went out and reported on it.

Speaker 124 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.

Speaker 77 And they came out and they did not get into the salacious parts of it.

Speaker 52 They were just talking about

Speaker 118 the

Speaker 52 cyber attacks and the manipulation of the United States and Russia when it comes to Donald Trump.

Speaker 55 We have Jason Battrill in because can you give a little bit of your background just real quick?

Speaker 137 Yeah, I was in military intelligence from the Marine Corps. I was on a maritime special purpose force that dealt with counterintelligence, urban intelligence,

Speaker 84 misinformation,

Speaker 137 a lot of things like that.

Speaker 73 Okay.

Speaker 146 So

Speaker 116 when you saw this this morning, I want to take this piece by piece.

Speaker 132 And

Speaker 75 you said, this is how misinformation works.

Speaker 52 And I said an hour before you got in,

Speaker 47 this is how the devil works.

Speaker 53 This is how Satan works.

Speaker 25 He takes a little bit of truth and then he mixes it with lies.

Speaker 77 That's how misinformation works.

Speaker 64 They don't take a whole lie.

Speaker 89 They mix it with truth.

Speaker 55 So you don't know where the truth stops and where the lie begins.

Speaker 65 Am I right?

Speaker 73 Right. Okay.

Speaker 71 So let's go through what was in the report.

Speaker 77 Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting, and assisting Donald Trump for at least five years, endorsed by Putin. They have been encouraged,

Speaker 97 they are encouraging splits and divisions in the Western Alliance.

Speaker 92 It does not say that Donald Trump was aware of that.

Speaker 52 It doesn't accuse him of being aware of that at this point.

Speaker 118 Do you believe that's true?

Speaker 71 That Putin is doing that?

Speaker 137 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.

Speaker 137 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.

Speaker 78 So far, Trump has declined various sweetener real estate deals offered him in Russia in order to further the Kremlin's cultivation of him.

Speaker 5 Agree?

Speaker 142 That happens all the time.

Speaker 137 It happens all the time, and his people probably rightfully warned him about that, and he stayed away.

Speaker 100 Okay.

Speaker 94 And he turned it down, so that actually looks good.

Speaker 117 However, he and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and political rivals.

Speaker 87 If done the way I explained last hour, where it's through a third-party operative, you are friends with this person.

Speaker 75 They have credibility with you.

Speaker 77 You don't know that they're being fed by FSB.

Speaker 78 Maybe they don't even know they're being fed by former KGB.

Speaker 26 There's nothing wrong with that, is there?

Speaker 137 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.

Speaker 52 Former top Russian intelligence officer claims FSB has compromised Trump through his activities in Moscow sufficiently to be able to blackmail him.

Speaker 78 According to several knowledgeable sources, his conduct in Moscow has included perverted sexual acts, which have been arranged, monitored by the FSB.

Speaker 77 I'm not going to ask you if you think this is true, because we have no way of knowing if that is true.

Speaker 115 Is that the kind of stuff Russia does?

Speaker 137 I've seen that firsthand. I've been a part of operations where we try and stop that firsthand in Moscow.

Speaker 137 So yes, that happens all the time to every political person that goes to Russia and especially big businessman.

Speaker 86 Happens all the time.

Speaker 142 Okay.

Speaker 71 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.

Speaker 99 Sure, but why highlight Hillary Clinton?

Speaker 137 They have those on every, again, person that's ever operated in Russia and the United States. Correct.

Speaker 87 Okay, so there's the first part.

Speaker 96 I have no problem believing any of that.

Speaker 102 I think those are all true. By the way,

Speaker 94 that's super unusual. We probably do many of the same things.

Speaker 99 Good point. Absolutely.

Speaker 99 Everything that they say that they do to us, we do to them. Okay.

Speaker 96 And I have no problem believing any of

Speaker 135 this that so far that they are trying to do that and have tried to do that to Donald Trump.

Speaker 55 I do not accept, you know, they said that he went to the Ritz-Carlton.

Speaker 115 I mean, this is how crazy this is.

Speaker 116 He went to the Ritz-Carlton.

Speaker 132 He found out that he was staying in the presidential suite and Michelle and Barack Obama had just stayed there.

Speaker 40 And so he, quote, wanted to defile the bed.

Speaker 64 and so he brought prostitutes in to have a golden shower party that he watched.

Speaker 47 I don't believe that.

Speaker 64 I don't believe that. I just don't believe that at all.

Speaker 84 I don't even think there's even a reason to entertain believing it at this point.

Speaker 125 I don't think so.

Speaker 84 It's so thinly sourced and 19th-hand information.

Speaker 84 There's no way to prove that.

Speaker 125 It's ridiculous.

Speaker 38 The only way you're going to prove it is it says the FSB has tape so they can blackmail.

Speaker 77 What would be the advantage of releasing that kind of story, even if it's untrue, Jason? Especially if it's untrue.

Speaker 137 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.

Speaker 137 Opposition research. Opposition research.

Speaker 137 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.

Speaker 137 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.

Speaker 137 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.

Speaker 137 It's like you know, if it's considered, if it goes under the umbrella of rumint, you never bring that to anybody higher.

Speaker 27 It's just something you're looking into.

Speaker 137 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.

Speaker 104 There are so many stories like that about Glenn.

Speaker 147 You know,

Speaker 94 he was arrested in Baltimore for drunk driving. And you were with me in Baltimore.

Speaker 61 He killed a nine-year-old girl.

Speaker 72 Yeah.

Speaker 142 I mean,

Speaker 46 there's all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 142 And it's all nonsense.

Speaker 84 She was clearly 10. But still, I think.

Speaker 84 But let me ask you this, though. When you have someone who is saying outwardly that Russia did not...

Speaker 84 Russia, they're the good guys.

Speaker 84 They're not going after us.

Speaker 84 They are not trying to influence us. They have no...

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 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,

Speaker 84 on that level, that is, I think, valuable information to bring to the president and to Trump.

Speaker 84 Trump should know what Russian sources are circulating about him, even if obviously it's completely untrue.

Speaker 100 Agree or disagree?

Speaker 137 Well, I would agree that

Speaker 137 he should,

Speaker 86 well, no,

Speaker 137 I struggle to agree with it because it depends on how reliable

Speaker 137 the said sources are.

Speaker 92 Okay, so MI6, MI5 is like Homeland Security, FBI,

Speaker 37 and MI6 is

Speaker 122 CIA.

Speaker 36 What's MI3?

Speaker 75 We'll get to that later.

Speaker 22 That's a mission impossible.

Speaker 64 I think it's the guy who gathered this intel is former MI6.

Speaker 49 Supposedly the United States has used his information before.

Speaker 52 He's always been reliable, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 63 But that's the source.

Speaker 78 That's where this came from.

Speaker 118 Why would we be quoting

Speaker 54 the work of an English operative who is no longer a part of MI6.

Speaker 77 Why wouldn't we take the guy who's no longer a part of MI6,

Speaker 62 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.

Speaker 39 These are the important things that have a semblance of truth to them that we could verify.

Speaker 109 Why would any of this be out?

Speaker 137 This is not the way.

Speaker 137 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

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 So this is the stuff he went out there to try to find bad information about Donald Trump.

Speaker 125 And

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 That's what they believe is credible about the information. Not that he did these things, but that they came from Russian government sources.

Speaker 125 The rumors, the lies, let's call them lies.

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 And I think that's an important distinction.

Speaker 41 Not the information, but the fact that it came from Russia.

Speaker 125 Right.

Speaker 84 The people who were spreading it were people known to have associations with the Russian government and the FSB.

Speaker 99 What do you think of that, Jason?

Speaker 137 Well, no, I agree.

Speaker 61 And I think think that

Speaker 137 this is so unprecedented that I believe that, and you hit it the nail on the head like a couple breaks ago, that

Speaker 137 this is not the way it's done.

Speaker 137 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.

Speaker 137 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.

Speaker 137 That's pretty much when it would go to him.

Speaker 9 Because

Speaker 38 this stuff that is in this report,

Speaker 75 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

Speaker 116 why would we get this report

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 89 Well, there would be an ongoing investigation.

Speaker 103 You're looking at high treason.

Speaker 93 So what the hell?

Speaker 42 There's two possibilities I see.

Speaker 75 One, and I'd love to hear your opinion.

Speaker 122 One, Russia released this

Speaker 79 and Russia's putting this in to poison the water even more.

Speaker 91 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.

Speaker 73 Two,

Speaker 52 our own intelligence agency is trying to teach Donald Trump a lesson.

Speaker 64 Don't screw with us.

Speaker 84 Is it one, the other, both, or something else?

Speaker 99 Well, I think it's both.

Speaker 137 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.

Speaker 137 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.

Speaker 117 Now,

Speaker 137 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,

Speaker 137 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.

Speaker 137 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.

Speaker 137 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.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 121 They know how fragile America is.

Speaker 89 They know pulling us apart even more

Speaker 45 and creating this distrust of them as well is a horrible, horrible move.

Speaker 76 Remember,

Speaker 138 I learned about the Bubba effect from them,

Speaker 64 the number one thing they were worried about in 2006.

Speaker 52 And they said, this is coming in our future.

Speaker 116 So the last thing they would do, unless they were just evil SOPs, is throw logs on the fire.

Speaker 74 So how could you say that they would do that?

Speaker 64 Why wouldn't they quietly do something to a president and say, don't screw with us?

Speaker 137 They definitely chose a method that can be very explosive and volcanic.

Speaker 99 That's for sure.

Speaker 137 I don't think that there.

Speaker 138 So you believe that the

Speaker 36 because I don't, that

Speaker 66 the at the highest levels, our

Speaker 59 intelligence operation is putting our next president in his place publicly?

Speaker 99 Yeah, I remember

Speaker 99 I said on your think tank show not too long ago that there would be

Speaker 5 scrums for this.

Speaker 137 We have not seen the last of it. They are going to strike back in some way.

Speaker 112 This is a huge way.

Speaker 137 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.

Speaker 115 And what's the wreckage on the other side?

Speaker 52 What's the wreckage on the other side?

Speaker 55 You know they are chess players.

Speaker 89 What's the wreckage on the other side?

Speaker 79 Think about that for a second. Come back.

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Speaker 141 It really hard to believe.

Speaker 122 I find it really hard to believe that this is

Speaker 123 a U.S.

Speaker 52 government

Speaker 87 false report here that

Speaker 64 the CIA is trying to teach him a lesson.

Speaker 55 Do I believe that the CIA would revel in teaching him a lesson?

Speaker 54 Yes.

Speaker 59 Do I think they would make this up and release this?

Speaker 120 The damage it would do.

Speaker 99 Oh, this is not a lesson.

Speaker 100 They released rumors.

Speaker 137 The real lesson will put him in jail. And I guarantee you they have it.

Speaker 12 This is like, look, bud, are you a conspiracy theorist all of a sudden?

Speaker 52 I mean, that's what you did for a living.

Speaker 86 You are a career.

Speaker 84 So this is what he does for his

Speaker 102 job.

Speaker 84 These things are obviously real

Speaker 84 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,

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 Media organizations had been checking into these six months before the election.

Speaker 84 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?

Speaker 36 Why would it be handed to the president now if they've had it for months?

Speaker 129 You're listening to the Glenbeck program.

Speaker 108 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.

Speaker 107 I mean, again,

Speaker 74 where are we getting this?

Speaker 77 How is it happening? There's no reason to accept this information and there's no reason to dismiss this information.

Speaker 124 It's just out now, and it is what it is.

Speaker 55 We have to use some logic. But we'll see if anybody takes this seriously, seeing that Tillerson is

Speaker 77 having his confirmation hearing today, president of Exxon.

Speaker 89 Let's see if a senator brings that up.

Speaker 119 If they don't, that speaks volumes about the credibility of this.

Speaker 46 Jaron Brooke is here from the Ayn Rand Institute.

Speaker 100 How are you, sir?

Speaker 102 I'm good. Good.

Speaker 142 How about you? Good times.

Speaker 102 Yeah, I know.

Speaker 64 We had some plans to talk about some other things today that are important.

Speaker 52 But first, I want to get your thoughts on

Speaker 107 this.

Speaker 119 You're a very logical, reasoned man.

Speaker 120 We are living in a time beyond reason and logic.

Speaker 50 It is, because reason and logic require facts. They require evidence.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 82 Can I ask you a question?

Speaker 109 I have a two-volume set.

Speaker 36 I think it's actually in my office.

Speaker 109 I have a two-volume set from 1926.

Speaker 9 It's a reprint from the New York Historical Society, and it's from the committee

Speaker 91 on the

Speaker 78 committee looking into the conspiracies of the Revolutionary War.

Speaker 118 It was conveyed, convened right after the Revolutionary War.

Speaker 59 They wanted to find out where all these rumors came from, where all this fake news came from.

Speaker 66 And it's, I mean, it's, you know, probably 500 pages.

Speaker 132 Sure, sure.

Speaker 106 So fake news is not new.

Speaker 109 Yes.

Speaker 91 It's always been this way.

Speaker 78 Yeah, but it's. It's different.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 This election, more than any other election, I think, was based based so much on pure emotion. Yes.
And

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 We don't teach our kids logic anyway. So

Speaker 64 how would you logically look at this story and say, this is how we begin to untangle this story?

Speaker 50 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,

Speaker 50 what are the incentives?

Speaker 125 What's going on here?

Speaker 50 And look, the Russians are bad guys. The Russians are bad guys.
Putin is not a good guy.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 It was throughout the campaign, is now.

Speaker 50 There's some relationship between Trump and Russia. We don't know what it is.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 100 Could it be, could it be?

Speaker 47 Let's talk about Tillerson. Yeah.

Speaker 40 Tillerson

Speaker 74 is a deal maker, okay?

Speaker 120 What is our foreign policy? I don't know.

Speaker 59 We put a deal maker in, and he's best at making deals where?

Speaker 50 Well, Russia and the Middle East. And I think much of our foreign policy,

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 118 And you like Tillerson?

Speaker 50 I like Tillerson. Tillerson's an Atlas Shrugged fan.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 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...

Speaker 50 And granted, there hasn't been a principled foreign policy in the United States for a very, very long time.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 82 Well, they don't.

Speaker 92 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.

Speaker 77 You're now going to see it run like a business.

Speaker 120 And that's...

Speaker 77 We don't have the CEO of the United States of America.

Speaker 116 That's not the way this job works.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 And Republicans pretended, at least, not to be central planners. They were for free markets.

Speaker 50 Now that distinction has gone. They pretended.

Speaker 133 I know.

Speaker 119 Only after Hoover, because Hoover was the last guy we had that was very much Donald Trump.

Speaker 64 He was a central planner.

Speaker 122 He was a builder.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 He increased taxes. He didn't decrease taxes.
He was a terrible, terrible president.

Speaker 50 You know, this trend...

Speaker 50 you know, to the large extent accelerated under Hoover, but it really goes back to Wilson. I mean, Wilson is the first president

Speaker 50 to be a central planner, to bring it, yeah,

Speaker 50 to bring it into the United States.

Speaker 91 You're plowing an old field. Let's plow a new one here.

Speaker 118 The GOP

Speaker 78 and what they're going to do with Obamacare.

Speaker 116 We have had years for this moment.

Speaker 50 It's unbelievable to me. Six years, right, since Obamacare was passed.
They'd be talking about repeal, replace, repeal, replace.

Speaker 50 Okay, so where's your plan, right? You've had six years to put together a plan.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 102 Find it.

Speaker 50 Put it together. It might be flawed.
It might not be the perfect plan. But don't come out as babbling idiots.
And

Speaker 50 we've got a plan.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 The whole purpose of Obamacare was to fail. But to fail as

Speaker 50 we tried markets, we tried marketplaces. We let you have your private insurance.

Speaker 29 That doesn't work.

Speaker 50 So we have to have single-payer universal health care run by the government.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 83 What you're saying right now is one of my biggest fears is that

Speaker 102 people look at whatever is going to come out of the GOP now as a conservative, small government, constitutional answer.

Speaker 108 And I'm not seeing those yet.

Speaker 52 I hope to, but I'm not seeing them, especially when it comes to Obamacare.

Speaker 96 When they fail or, God forbid, make things worse.

Speaker 102 Look, this is the thing.

Speaker 49 Then everybody will say, it's time to go all the way.

Speaker 91 Let's go Marxist.

Speaker 50 No, I mean, this is the lesson everybody learned from the George Bush years, right? Yes.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 If this is what defending America means, going to Iraq and screwing it up, then

Speaker 50 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

Speaker 50 is part of what destroys this country. And there's nothing nothing to suggest that this administration is going to be significantly different.

Speaker 122 Have you seen anything that surprises you that say, wow, this is good?

Speaker 73 You know,

Speaker 50 some of the appointments are not bad, right? I mean, labor secretary, I forget the guy's name, but seems like a good guy.

Speaker 50 He gets minimum wage. He gets some of these issues in the right way.
You know, Price's Secretary of

Speaker 50 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?

Speaker 50 He's the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 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?

Speaker 50 I'm not going to demean tax cuts. But if you don't cut spending,

Speaker 50 it doesn't matter.

Speaker 64 Okay, so

Speaker 136 one last thing here.

Speaker 75 Jarnbrook from the Ayn Rand Institute, and one of the best critical thinkers

Speaker 73 in America.

Speaker 132 When we're looking at all of the things that we're about to see,

Speaker 120 What is the flag that you would raise up and say

Speaker 61 we have to do this one thing?

Speaker 112 Is it a policy?

Speaker 77 Is it we have to get a handle on

Speaker 71 our uniting with each other on fake news, on what?

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 There's disagreement.

Speaker 50 And I, for example, have always loved gridlock in Washington. I like disagreement in Washington because they don't miss.

Speaker 71 When I say uniting, I mean not tearing each other, not dehumanizing.

Speaker 86 one another. I mean, that would be nice.

Speaker 115 Being able to live next to each other and say, well, I really disagree with him.

Speaker 50 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?

Speaker 22 I think we've lost that.

Speaker 50 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,

Speaker 50 what are the foundation ideas, the foundational concepts of what America stands for,

Speaker 50 the true founding principles of this country.

Speaker 50 That is not in the debate. Nobody talks about it.
And this presidential

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 God forbid we should have principles. We need to rediscover what we are.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 Very few people know what the principles that this country was founded on are and what made us. the greatest nation in human history.

Speaker 121 Let's have you back and let's do an hour of just that.

Speaker 65 What is America?

Speaker 83 What is America? Will you you do that?

Speaker 50 That would be fabulous. I love that.

Speaker 102 Yarn, thank you very much. And Jaron, the book is

Speaker 84 unfair.

Speaker 102 Equal is unfair.

Speaker 82 I am sorry. I was not even told you had a book.

Speaker 50 Well, I handed you a book not that long ago.

Speaker 142 Oh, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 50 But the book is called Equal is Unfair. It's available everywhere.
And

Speaker 50 it takes on one of these big issues.

Speaker 50 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.

Speaker 50 It just means equality of freedom, equality of liberty, equality of rights, equality before the law, the law properly understood.

Speaker 50 And the whole idea of equality is a false God. It's a false God.

Speaker 72 We have won

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Speaker 148 Holy cow.

Speaker 64 Stu has his own chalk cord on this Donald Trump briefing.

Speaker 55 We'll get to here in a little while.

Speaker 119 Also, his response, he's supposed to go live here right after the top of the hour stations.

Speaker 64 We will be taking that as well if it does happen.

Speaker 50 And we have good news to share.

Speaker 94 We do?

Speaker 126 Sometime during the course of the day.

Speaker 119 Yeah, we got good news to share.

Speaker 25 I mean, do we have time?

Speaker 82 How much time do we have?

Speaker 86 30 seconds.

Speaker 102 That's not enough.

Speaker 100 There's some good news that we have to do.

Speaker 5 I'd like to be happy for more than 30 seconds.

Speaker 86 Is there a song that's coming on this?

Speaker 86 There may be a song on the way.

Speaker 102 There may be a song.

Speaker 121 Happy news coming up in just a minute.

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 At the same point, the Rex Tillerson Secretary of State hearings are going on.

Speaker 84 Tillerson just said that Russia today is a danger.

Speaker 84 So he seems to disagree

Speaker 46 Donald Trump.

Speaker 84 It's a very strange, this is a strange rollout as you'd expect.

Speaker 84 But we'll see more here in just a few minutes.

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Speaker 78 Hello, America, and welcome to the Glendeck Program.

Speaker 52 We are waiting now for a news conference with President-elect Trump on this,

Speaker 42 the latest on this back and forth of Russia.

Speaker 52 We have spent two hours talking about it today, trying to look at it logically.

Speaker 124 We can't make heads or tails of this.

Speaker 55 It doesn't ever lead any place good, and we don't buy into all the stuff that it says about Donald Trump.

Speaker 117 We'll see what he has to say and see if he can bring any reason to any of this.

Speaker 52 As he comes out, we will do that.

Speaker 106 Also, I understand we have some good news.

Speaker 77 We'll get to there right now.

Speaker 77 I will make a stand, I will raise my voice, I will hold your hand, cause we have won.

Speaker 77 I will beat my drum, I have made my choice, we will overcome,

Speaker 77 cause we are one.

Speaker 142 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

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Speaker 147 Yeah, we're waiting for the Donald Trump press conference here, which is coming up in a second.

Speaker 52 But first, we got some really good news

Speaker 46 before we get to that.

Speaker 55 May I read? This is from the court yesterday.

Speaker 64 On this day, court considered the anti-slap motion to dismiss, mostly to dismiss files by defendants of Blaise Inc.

Speaker 55 and Glenn Beck collectively, the Blaze parties, pursuant to chapter 27 of the Tebbed.

Speaker 77 After considering the motion to dismiss any responses and replies thereto, any supporting or official affidavits, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

Speaker 52 the motion to dismiss is granted.

Speaker 55 Therefore, ordered the motion to dismiss filed by the Blaze parties is in all things granted in its entirety.

Speaker 86 This is in the Clock Kid case. Ah, med the clock kid.

Speaker 147 Clockmed, we we called him a few times.

Speaker 73 Allegedly clockmed.

Speaker 147 We allegedly.

Speaker 120 This was so what an anti-slap is in the United States or I mean in Texas which really is the United States now

Speaker 55 is a remedy that people can take

Speaker 120 if your First Amendment rights are being questioned to stop really kind of frivolous lawsuits.

Speaker 25 Yeah, it's basically a frivolous lawsuit defense.

Speaker 102 And so

Speaker 84 if you remember right, it was the kid who went to school with the clock.

Speaker 104 And he said it was a clock.

Speaker 91 It looked like a bomb.

Speaker 84 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

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 25 Yeah, we don't know if that's what it is.

Speaker 93 We reported it

Speaker 116 and we reported it accurately on this program.

Speaker 91 And

Speaker 52 yesterday the judge threw that case out.

Speaker 104 Unfortunately, showing that apparently free speech is still alive.

Speaker 52 However, I will say that the First Amendment

Speaker 117 is not real healthy.

Speaker 119 And we have not talked about the other court case that we settled in Boston.

Speaker 97 And we will.

Speaker 144 So you know, I settled that case, but I settled it with the

Speaker 100 understanding and the legal

Speaker 77 ability to open up the entire record of the case.

Speaker 59 That case is not sealed.

Speaker 91 And we did settle for a small sum of money

Speaker 64 because it was going to go all the way to the Supreme Court.

Speaker 42 It should have, but it would have probably cost me about $5 million.

Speaker 150 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.

Speaker 49 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.

Speaker 84 But in this particular case, it's over.

Speaker 98 A little celebration is appropriate because

Speaker 98 he made a clock that looked like a bomb.

Speaker 151 His family was brown, especially his mom. We told the truth, so we tried to sue.
But the judge just said, screw you.

Speaker 151 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.

Speaker 151 Yeah, the judge just said, screw you.

Speaker 61 Allegedly.

Speaker 73 Not at all.

Speaker 100 Not at all.

Speaker 76 He didn't say that at all. Just to put it right.

Speaker 151 But he did throw out the case. Yes.

Speaker 86 So we actually won.

Speaker 84 Actually, we have some documents that show that his mom was especially proud more than other relatives.

Speaker 142 And his mom was allegedly especially proud.

Speaker 75 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.

Speaker 64 That that's not, and the judge is, you know,

Speaker 107 now, you know, now, because he sued, I don't even know how many people.

Speaker 77 His family has come back and sued everybody.

Speaker 102 Barren Jahero, Ben Ferguson, looking for a payout.

Speaker 25 We're the second

Speaker 55 case to be dismissed, and there's a line of people that are going to court.

Speaker 102 You know who else has been dismissed?

Speaker 94 Do you know?

Speaker 117 Or can you say? No, I don't know.

Speaker 73 I don't remember.

Speaker 118 But there were two. I think we were in court with two of the people.

Speaker 67 I think the mayor of

Speaker 73 Irving is

Speaker 94 still involved, right?

Speaker 70 She's still involved.

Speaker 120 We all have court cases, and it's the same.

Speaker 75 I think it's the same argument. I don't know.
I'm not involved in anybody else's court.

Speaker 65 You would think so. Yeah.

Speaker 84 It's ridiculous.

Speaker 84 we're waiting for the

Speaker 84 Donald Trump press conference to begin. He has not walked out yet, but when he does, stations, you should know that we will go

Speaker 86 there. You know what?

Speaker 143 Why don't we break early so when he comes out,

Speaker 127 we don't have to interrupt him with commercials.

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Speaker 42 Okay, you want to talk about fake news?

Speaker 123 This is

Speaker 36 a very good chance that

Speaker 127 this is all fake news that President-elect Trump is now going to have to respond to.

Speaker 135 CNN reported on a briefing that the President and Donald Trump received recently from the intelligence community.

Speaker 100 It included two pages of what BuzzFeed reported yesterday after CNN reported on the two pages

Speaker 56 and BuzzFeed released then the 35 pages that were whittled down to two for the president and Mr.

Speaker 120 Trump

Speaker 132 and

Speaker 55 so BuzzFeed is being called irresponsible I know I wouldn't have published them myself They didn't.

Speaker 64 The media has had this since August.

Speaker 141 Nobody published this.

Speaker 52 They did did publish it after CNN talked about that two-page report in a credible way.

Speaker 121 Then they dumped out onto the internet the 35-page report.

Speaker 75 I don't think I would have done that even after CNN had made this

Speaker 47 public

Speaker 77 because I think it's poison because I think a lot of it is bogus

Speaker 77 and poison.

Speaker 55 Now he has to face these questions about Russia.

Speaker 64 There's some,

Speaker 107 you know,

Speaker 55 I bet what it was presented to the president was not

Speaker 73 bad.

Speaker 127 Otherwise, Donald Trump would have been arrested, quite honestly, on some of these charges.

Speaker 142 Right.

Speaker 84 And I don't even think they're trying to say that they're true. I mean,

Speaker 84 they included it, and it was not even clear that it was discussed with either the president or Trump.

Speaker 84 saying, like, here's an example of what they were doing to you to try to compromise you, Donald Trump.

Speaker 115 And that's good information to have.

Speaker 84 You got to know what people are saying about you.

Speaker 84 And it was being circulated widely by political opponents. I mean, people trying to come up with stuff.

Speaker 89 And some of the stuff that is in BuzzFeed, and BuzzFeed recognizes at the beginning, which is why I wouldn't publish it.

Speaker 109 A lot of the stuff is wrong.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 79 I mean, you know, there's stuff in here that's just not right.

Speaker 52 And now it's out, and a lot of people like the birth certificate will believe it.

Speaker 64 And they'll say, oh, you know what?

Speaker 64 He was doing horrible things with women in Russia.

Speaker 133 No.

Speaker 102 No.

Speaker 75 There's no reason to believe any of this.

Speaker 92 Here's what's reason to believe.

Speaker 41 Russia is not our friend.

Speaker 120 Russia does target every big businessman and political person like Donald Trump, and Trump didn't take the bait.

Speaker 64 Now here he is, Donald Trump.

Speaker 77 He's stepping up to the microphone in New York at Trump Tower

Speaker 127 at the press conference.

Speaker 78 United States of America, Donald Trump.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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,

Speaker 145 and I must say that I want to thank a lot of the news organizations here today

Speaker 145 because they looked at that nonsense that was

Speaker 145 released

Speaker 145 by

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 149 A tremendous blot.

Speaker 145 Because a thing like that should have never been written, it should never have been had, and it should certainly never have been released.

Speaker 145 But I want to thank a lot of the news organizations for some of whom have not treated me very well over the years.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 So I just want to compliment many of the people in the room.

Speaker 145 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

Speaker 145 with all that was just said that were so professional,

Speaker 145 so incredibly professional, that I've just just gone up a notch as to what I think of you. Okay?

Speaker 102 Well, I hope you wouldn't have listened to that.

Speaker 145 We've had some great news over the last

Speaker 145 couple of weeks. I've been quite active, I guess you could say, in an economic way for the country.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 You saw yesterday, Fiat Chrysler, big, big factory going to be built in this country as opposed to another country.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 I appreciate that from Ford. I appreciate it very much from Fiat Chrysler.
I hope that General Motors will be following.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 Pharma has a lot of lobbies, a lot of lobbyists, and a lot of power. And there's very little bidding on drugs.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 And it's way, way behind schedule and many, many billions of dollars over budget.

Speaker 145 I don't like that. And the Admirals have been fantastic.
The generals have been fantastic. I've really gotten to know them well.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 We had

Speaker 145 Jack Ma, we had so many. incredible people coming here, Mr.
Arnaud.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 We need certain amounts of other things including a little

Speaker 145 bit of luck but I think we're gonna do a real job and I'm very proud of

Speaker 145 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

Speaker 145 and we have the all of the bands or most of the bands from the different

Speaker 145 and we have the all of the bands or most of the bands from the different

Speaker 145 segments of the military.

Speaker 145 I've heard some of these bands over the years, they're in the middle of the year.

Speaker 102 He really didn't talk about it.

Speaker 145 We're going to

Speaker 84 go to the next show, though. He's going to go out there.

Speaker 145 On the 20th is going to be something that will be very

Speaker 76 when he did come out.

Speaker 149 And I think we're going to have massive crowds because we have

Speaker 64 to meet a headline.

Speaker 71 He comes out swinging, blaming the intelligence community of creating this.

Speaker 55 Leave it up a little bit so we can hear.

Speaker 76 Some of them did get it right.

Speaker 52 But he's coming out swinging.

Speaker 145 That

Speaker 73 is

Speaker 67 remarkable.

Speaker 149 Those states started to pour in.

Speaker 145 And we focused very hard on those states, and they really reciprocated.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 And by the way, speaking of veterans, I appointed today

Speaker 145 the head secretary of the Veterans Administration, David Shulkin.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 Cases where they go in and they have a minor early stage form of cancer and they can't see a doctor.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 These are hospitals that have been the top of the line, the absolute

Speaker 149 top of the line.

Speaker 145 And they're going to get together with their

Speaker 145 great doctors. Dr.
Toby Cosgrove, as you know, from the Cleveland Clinic, has been very involved.

Speaker 149 Incredible.

Speaker 149 I think Pearl Mutter has been very, very

Speaker 102 great men of business.

Speaker 61 Yeah, he's just got a little speech here.

Speaker 125 He can be patient. The guy is going to be president.

Speaker 127 I know that, but we wouldn't have listened to this much of Barack Obama at the very beginning.

Speaker 102 And the first date, he's not even in office yet.

Speaker 86 I think we would have to.

Speaker 102 This is his first person.

Speaker 149 And I think

Speaker 149 that's a good idea.

Speaker 102 Very Very appreciated.

Speaker 149 I would be happier if you would just read his tweets.

Speaker 145 At least a hundred. Oh, here we go.

Speaker 113 Here we go. Questions.

Speaker 145 Some good, some not so good.

Speaker 145 But we had a lot of talent. And

Speaker 145 we think this selection will be something

Speaker 145 with time. With time.

Speaker 145 Straighten it out and straighten it out.

Speaker 25 We'll get to the question.

Speaker 50 He's coming to a question here in a minute.

Speaker 116 I'm going to take a quick break and

Speaker 55 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.

Speaker 118 Yesterday, BuzzFeed made it available, and it is,

Speaker 7 I believe, full of horrible lies and some truths and half-truths.

Speaker 52 But it shouldn't have been released.

Speaker 115 We'll get to the questions to the president next.

Speaker 115 The Glen Beck program.

Speaker 115 Mercury.

Speaker 115 This is the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 75 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.

Speaker 123 So that is a difference

Speaker 64 of where his stance has been.

Speaker 75 Let's go to the press conference now and hear

Speaker 123 the press and Donald Trump.

Speaker 153 Financial or otherwise.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 I have very low debt. But I have no loans with Russia at all.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 Over the weekend, I was offered $2 billion

Speaker 145 to do a deal in Dubai with a very, very, very

Speaker 145 amazing man, a great, great developer from the Middle East, Hussein Demak,

Speaker 145 a friend of mine, great guy, and was offered $2 billion

Speaker 145 to do a deal in Dubai, number of deals.

Speaker 145 And I turned it down.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 But I don't want to take advantage of something.

Speaker 145 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

Speaker 145 I have a no-conflict of interest provision as president. It was many, many years old.
This is four presidents.

Speaker 145 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

Speaker 145 run

Speaker 145 my business. I could actually run my business and run government at the same time.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 Now, all of these papers that you see here, yes, go ahead, Ellie.

Speaker 153 Follow them up before we go to conflicts. Do you believe the hacking was justified, and will

Speaker 145 Well, I'm not releasing the tax returns because, as you know, they're under audit.

Speaker 149 I've never heard them.

Speaker 72 I never released it, but as president of the city, I've never heard them.

Speaker 145 You know, the only one that cares about my tax returns are the reporters.

Speaker 102 Do you think the American public is concerned about that?

Speaker 149 No, I don't think so. I won.

Speaker 86 Do you believe the hacking is?

Speaker 72 I believe you're the American president.

Speaker 106 No, I don't think they care at all.

Speaker 125 I don't think they care at all.

Speaker 145 I think you care.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 145 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.

Speaker 95 Russia, though, sir, has come back.

Speaker 72 Good morning.

Speaker 153 It's my honor and privilege to be here today at President-elect Trump's request.

Speaker 149 He's asked me, as you've just said.

Speaker 123 We didn't need to take this.

Speaker 83 His

Speaker 29 press conferences remain bizarre,

Speaker 122 just absolutely bizarre.

Speaker 141 And I get more information out of his tweets.

Speaker 100 Yeah.

Speaker 141 You get more information out of his tweets.

Speaker 99 An interesting thing he brought up there,

Speaker 84 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

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 It's probably a loophole we we need to close after this because, you know, let's say the next president

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 That loophole probably should be closed after this.

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 77 It did not fill me

Speaker 146 with confidence.

Speaker 147 Well, running the business and the country didn't fill me, so I'm glad he's giving up one of them.

Speaker 100 Right.

Speaker 94 Yeah, because there's no way you could do both.

Speaker 5 Well, even Don said he could.

Speaker 86 He could.

Speaker 102 But there's also,

Speaker 53 you know, you're not the CEO of America.

Speaker 77 You don't run America.

Speaker 91 I could run both.

Speaker 109 The president doesn't run both.

Speaker 67 He doesn't run the country.

Speaker 47 That's the problem. No.

Speaker 84 We need to stop thinking about it that way. Right.

Speaker 107 And

Speaker 134 if we as conservatives allow others to believe that's what happens, well then

Speaker 52 this is, I don't mean to use this word.

Speaker 116 I want to use this word the way it was used in the 1920s.

Speaker 82 That's fascism.

Speaker 64 That is a government helping

Speaker 66 companies

Speaker 80 run the company.

Speaker 49 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.

Speaker 97 And they work together.

Speaker 34 That was the idea behind fascism.

Speaker 59 Fascism wasn't always a dirty word.

Speaker 49 It was a CEO.

Speaker 37 It was the country run as a company by a leader.

Speaker 61 That's not what we are.

Speaker 104 Can you imagine George Washington standing up at a press conference and talking about his holdings?

Speaker 147 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.

Speaker 147 My holdings, inflation adjusted, would be around a billion dollars. I'm the richest president there's ever been.

Speaker 94 I mean,

Speaker 94 it's just the weirdest thing to sit and listen to.

Speaker 102 And that is true, by the way. Weird.
And it is true.

Speaker 102 And you know, Washington was by far the richest president we've ever had.

Speaker 56 And by far, one of the most humble presidents we've ever had.

Speaker 119 Yeah.

Speaker 97 I mean,

Speaker 52 he would not be saying, and I've got dealings in the slave trade

Speaker 102 from

Speaker 127 all points of the compass, and

Speaker 138 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

Speaker 59 expansion and the slaves.

Speaker 147 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.

Speaker 147 But as you know, I could be king if I wanted to.

Speaker 64 Look, they were putting together the Constitution, and they couldn't get it done, and so they came to me and they said, George,

Speaker 113 and I was there in my beautiful lobby of my house. It's more of a lobby than an entrance way.

Speaker 124 It's more of an

Speaker 147 authority than a house, in a state, if you will.

Speaker 138 It's beautiful, it's wonderful.

Speaker 124 My son, my daughter, was upstairs, and she's wonderful.

Speaker 93 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

Speaker 38 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

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 147 Because that's the opposite of what he's been saying, right?

Speaker 84 I mean, he says he thinks. So it doesn't mean he's sure, but he believes the

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 102 But oddly. Nor will he again probably.

Speaker 84 During our

Speaker 84 interlude into the George Washington press conference, you have not missed anything from Donald Trump.

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 86 But nobody's asking about that. We don't

Speaker 102 know where we even care.

Speaker 82 We should.

Speaker 86 I mean, we do every honor, but that's not the current issue.

Speaker 38 Okay, if I said to you, if I said to you,

Speaker 135 look, I'm not going to run,

Speaker 69 Pat,

Speaker 91 I am going to completely focus,

Speaker 116 I am going to completely focus on

Speaker 120 other things.

Speaker 107 And

Speaker 108 my son will be doing

Speaker 77 everything on my primary business that I've staked my entire life on and is my life fortune.

Speaker 117 My sons are going to do that.

Speaker 108 But I promise you for the next four to eight years,

Speaker 124 not a word.

Speaker 113 I've got a whole bucket of shit coming his way.

Speaker 9 He's asking us to do the impossible.

Speaker 37 And not because it's nefarious.

Speaker 116 His son comes to, there's a crisis.

Speaker 139 Let's say the world goes into a crisis and

Speaker 139 his son is looking at their financial empire starting to crumble.

Speaker 49 You don't think the son goes to debt and say, debt, I got to have your help on this.

Speaker 86 Ridiculous.

Speaker 102 I mean, it's ridiculous.

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 It's a big deal for Jared Kushner to go through this.

Speaker 102 However,

Speaker 84 you're telling me that

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 Like, they're going to call and text each other these things anyway.

Speaker 40 All of this is going to go on.

Speaker 86 It's better.

Speaker 82 And we learned this from Hillary Clinton.

Speaker 116 You just don't, you use the HRC email.

Speaker 78 You don't use at state.

Speaker 84 Right, but there's nothing to prevent them from talking to each other.

Speaker 106 It's just that it's a title of senior advisors.

Speaker 139 Correct.

Speaker 67 All they're doing is circumventing the law.

Speaker 84 But I mean, but it's a ridiculous kid.

Speaker 86 Of course he's

Speaker 84 going to talk to his son-in-law.

Speaker 121 But isn't it the same that we just saw?

Speaker 115 Just a different...

Speaker 77 I mean, they were doing the same thing.

Speaker 52 They just said, oh, you know what?

Speaker 49 Just don't use the server.

Speaker 64 Use this server and we'll be okay.

Speaker 116 Okay.

Speaker 64 So that's what they did to get around it.

Speaker 74 And everybody yawned.

Speaker 52 Now he's just saying to his son-in-law, you know what? We can't talk about it here.

Speaker 91 It ate for more soup, son.

Speaker 86 Right. And they're going to talk about it then.

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 And that's why I'm just saying that they're not going to be afraid of that.

Speaker 108 But especially a family that is...

Speaker 52 business.

Speaker 92 That is their family relationship.

Speaker 84 And that's not being critical of Donald Trump. No.

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 117 But I mean,

Speaker 84 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.

Speaker 84 giving us an intermission.

Speaker 84 We're getting an intermission of this where she explains all of this. And it it is kind of an interesting term.

Speaker 121 It's also really interesting to me that this is where they're turning.

Speaker 64 And I guess, you know, they want to turn the news cycle, but

Speaker 91 everybody wants to know about Russia.

Speaker 124 The big news out of this is, quite honestly, I think that Donald Trump came out blaming the U.S.

Speaker 114 spy agencies for planting this story about him.

Speaker 38 That is remarkable because let's just take it at face value that that's true.

Speaker 109 That they were sending you a message.

Speaker 67 Don't screw with us.

Speaker 64 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.

Speaker 77 And he came out and he said that was very wrong of the spy agencies.

Speaker 116 And, you know, we're going to see how that shapes up.

Speaker 78 You don't think that that big evil spook that's in the movie isn't going, that rat bastard.

Speaker 61 Now it's war.

Speaker 38 I mean, that's crazy.

Speaker 108 It's crazy.

Speaker 77 Some battles you fight behind the curtain.

Speaker 72 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 148 I really want to take and tree diagram

Speaker 115 the press conferences and his answers to the press conferences because he gets so distracted.

Speaker 112 He is.

Speaker 99 He is more riddled with ADD than I am.

Speaker 147 Than maybe anybody on earth.

Speaker 116 Yeah, he gets so distracted

Speaker 109 by, you know, if you if you look at his sentences, if there's a noun in it,

Speaker 146 for instance, I hear you were running.

Speaker 52 Yes, I was running and I've got these great tennis shoes.

Speaker 41 Shoes, new noun.

Speaker 116 The next sentence will be about shoes.

Speaker 76 Then if he describes the shoes and how they were on the road, the next one will be about his favorite road.

Speaker 106 And you're eight degrees away in eight sentences from the question and the topic at hand.

Speaker 46 Yeah, master at that.

Speaker 72 This is the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 130 Mercury.