Inauguration Day, 2017 1/20/17

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Speaker 10 We're just sitting here on the day of the inauguration.

Speaker 13 The last eight years, I think, have been the longest eight years of my life.

Speaker 17 And Jeffy just said, Did you see a picture of you eight years ago?

Speaker 20 Yeah, you know, the president isn't the only one who has gone white over the last eight years.

Speaker 15 Some of us have also earned our gray hairs during the last eight years.

Speaker 26 Where we were eight years ago, where we are now.

Speaker 27 How we felt about things eight years ago, how we feel about things now.

Speaker 25 Think of where you were

Speaker 30 eight years ago mentally.

Speaker 31 What you believed about America.

Speaker 32 What you believed about

Speaker 25 where we were headed.

Speaker 33 How strong we were.

Speaker 10 How united we were.

Speaker 25 Even though we were just recovering eight years ago, we were recovering from Fahrenheit 9-11.

Speaker 23 We were recovering from the Michael Moores of the world.

Speaker 36 And we're headed right

Speaker 29 back to that.

Speaker 23 We're going to take a look at the last eight years and we're going to fill in some of the blanks of President Obama.

Speaker 38 He said he was a scandal-free, I can't believe the press, a scandal-free presidency.

Speaker 39 That the one thing he's proud of is that there weren't scandals during the last eight years.

Speaker 14 Only because the press was, what did he say, not sycophants?

Speaker 29 Syncophants syncophants.

Speaker 18 Which is actually a word.

Speaker 23 They just fall in sync with the party.

Speaker 40 Well, it's an urban dictionary word.

Speaker 29 Yeah, it's not a word.

Speaker 41 Probably entered by Michelle Obama about 25 minutes after he said syncophant.

Speaker 29 But

Speaker 14 because the press were syncophants and they were in sync with the party and the inauguration, they didn't notice the scandals.

Speaker 34 But we did, and we'll go over them right now.

Speaker 34 I will raise my voice. I will hold your hand.

Speaker 34 Cause we have won.

Speaker 34 I will beat my drum.

Speaker 34 I have made my choice. We will overcome.

Speaker 34 Cause we are one.

Speaker 29 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 18 Eight years ago, yesterday.

Speaker 15 Yeah. Eight years ago, yesterday, I sat in a chair

Speaker 42 in the Fox studio for the very first time and said,

Speaker 46 I have no idea what I've, this is the first quote, this is the first time I've ever done live television.

Speaker 29 Eight years ago,

Speaker 47 this is the first time I've ever done live television and I don't know exactly what I'm doing.

Speaker 53 It was eight years ago that I sat in the green room before I said that

Speaker 48 with Ramos and Campion's wives.

Speaker 10 And we had them on because we were going to talk about how, oh my gosh,

Speaker 58 how

Speaker 29 we were

Speaker 10 disappointed that George W.

Speaker 60 Bush had not released their husbands.

Speaker 59 And just then, they got a phone call from the White House, or from, I'm sorry, from their attorneys, who said the president has just pardoned or commuted the sentence of your husbands.

Speaker 18 Eight years ago, we were

Speaker 66 at the beginning of finding out who Barack Obama was,

Speaker 43 and we didn't know about Van Jones.

Speaker 43 We didn't know about

Speaker 24 Acorn.

Speaker 56 We didn't know that

Speaker 69 Acorn would lead us to New Orleans, which would lead us to SCIU,

Speaker 12 which would lead us to Andy Stern.

Speaker 43 We didn't know that somebody in the cabinet, the manufacturing czar, would say, we all pretty much agree with Mao that power comes from the barrel of a gun.

Speaker 74 We didn't know about, what was it, Lizard Tongue Lady.

Speaker 3 What was her name?

Speaker 75 Do you remember?

Speaker 29 anita dunn

Speaker 4 who said her two favorite philosophers were mother teresa and mao right yes these last eight years think

Speaker 77 about what you have done in the last eight years

Speaker 78 what you have thought what you have learned in the last eight years i'm i am proud to say

Speaker 77 that

Speaker 63 life isn't about what happens to you.

Speaker 69 It's about what you do with it.

Speaker 79 And I am proud to say that

Speaker 67 much of the experience of my last eight years, and I think most people in this audience, I think you feel the same way, that if you really sit down and think about it, you're proud of the way, or I shouldn't say this, of what you've done for the most part, how you've handled it.

Speaker 24 You went and you turned it into a positive.

Speaker 29 You learned.

Speaker 22 You studied.

Speaker 82 You stretched.

Speaker 83 We are better people today

Speaker 9 because of Barack Obama.

Speaker 56 And anybody who didn't like Donald Trump, doesn't want Donald Trump, thinks he's, what was it?

Speaker 66 I couldn't believe.

Speaker 59 George Soros of all people.

Speaker 46 George Soros said this week that Donald Trump is a wannabe dictator.

Speaker 11 George Soros, whose media matters did everything they could to destroy me and to destroy the movement because we would say this guy's a dictator in the making.

Speaker 86 George Soros, who brought down five sovereign nation economies that we know of.

Speaker 37 By the way, eight years ago we didn't know that.

Speaker 37 He says he's a wannabe dictator.

Speaker 53 Let me just say this to all the people that would feel this way.

Speaker 89 No matter what happens, you're going to be a better person at the end of these four or eight years because Donald Trump was in office, should you choose to be.

Speaker 9 We can either become the people that the Barack Obama supporters were,

Speaker 55 or we can rise above it and become the people that we know we really are.

Speaker 17 It's going to be hard because they are so blind

Speaker 29 to the hypocrisy.

Speaker 83 And quite honestly, it's going to be hard for them because many of us are very blind to our own hypocrisy.

Speaker 95 What wasn't okay for Obama to do is suddenly okay for us to do because it's our guy.

Speaker 72 When we would say, how could they possibly be

Speaker 97 for this when they were against it four years ago?

Speaker 83 Where were they then?

Speaker 48 We can't have people say that about us.

Speaker 67 We have to be consistent.

Speaker 12 And like I said, it's going to be hard because in Ohio State today, at Ohio State, they have a safe space for anybody who's afraid of the inauguration.

Speaker 86 Oh, good. How can you possibly think that's preparing these kids for the world?

Speaker 75 Are there going to be safe spaces in life?

Speaker 86 No. Where you don't have to hear anything that bothers you?

Speaker 29 No. I mean, it's a safe space.

Speaker 75 It is the dumbest thing I think I've heard of in my life.

Speaker 43 Greg is on the phone.

Speaker 102 There are counselors in public schools now in Connecticut for today.

Speaker 52 Greg, are you a teacher?

Speaker 103 Yes, I am. Okay.
Oh, and good morning, by the way, to you and your assembled co-workers.

Speaker 29 Thank you very much.

Speaker 71 So Greg, tell me what's happening in Connecticut.

Speaker 103 Well, you can, if you dig a little bit deeper, and pardon me, my voice, I have a cold, so

Speaker 103 but if you dig a little bit deeper, it's not just my district, it's quite a few districts where not only after the election, but now with the inauguration,

Speaker 103 they're charging the social workers, psychologists, and counselors in the schools to provide grief counseling for any faculty or students that are not happy with the state of the nation right now.

Speaker 59 Craig, was there anything to reach out to those in the last eight years that

Speaker 67 might have been

Speaker 32 upset with the direction of the country under Barack Obama?

Speaker 103 No, and it was, you know, I was listening to you talk about eight years ago. Eight years ago, I had left my

Speaker 103 full-time career of 20 years in business to go back to school to be a history teacher. And I was in college at the time that Obama won, and it was complete ecstasy.

Speaker 103 amongst the kids that were kids, they were kids compared to me, that I was going to school with.

Speaker 103 And I think back to that now and i think now i'm looking at these young people instead of learning to cope with change they're being their grief their feelings are being enabled and they're never going to learn how to deal with this stuff yeah

Speaker 58 yeah and it's um it's it's it to me it also says um that you're right and half of the country is wrong

Speaker 51 Correct. Because what I totally agree.

Speaker 90 What about the grief of the people who disagreed with you last time?

Speaker 77 What about those people?

Speaker 65 I mean, we were just dismissed.

Speaker 53 You were called names if you disagreed.

Speaker 103 Oh, yeah, and I live in Connecticut, so you can imagine what it was like.

Speaker 43 Oh, no, eight years ago, I was living in Connecticut.

Speaker 103 Yes, I remember. I listened to you all the time.

Speaker 103 I remember you and you were doing radio in Connecticut.

Speaker 107 Oh, my gosh, I'm so sorry for that.

Speaker 83 What were you?

Speaker 29 Three?

Speaker 103 Yeah, I wish.

Speaker 29 Yeah, how old were you?

Speaker 56 If you were eight years ago, if you were in college, then...

Speaker 29 Well, he was older, though.

Speaker 63 You were older? Because I was in Connecticut doing radio in the 90s.

Speaker 2 It must have been grade school with you.

Speaker 103 No, I was in my 30s.

Speaker 108 Okay, I can't work out the media.

Speaker 51 You're in your 30s now.

Speaker 103 I'm in my 50s now.

Speaker 29 Oh, okay, okay.

Speaker 40 I was in grade school when I listened to you in Connecticut on radio.

Speaker 106 Thank you. Shut up.

Speaker 29 Can I tell you something?

Speaker 46 My wife was, I believe, in junior high or high school, so it wasn't, you know.

Speaker 4 I remember when I first met her, we first started dating and stuff.

Speaker 63 She was like, Oh, I used to listen to you when I was a kid.

Speaker 29 And I was like, Okay, all right, stop. What is that?

Speaker 29 That's creepy.

Speaker 35 Thanks, Greg, for your phone call.

Speaker 12 This plays a bigger role

Speaker 2 than I think we realize.

Speaker 76 We have to find a way to not

Speaker 67 dismiss people's

Speaker 99 feelings or call them names

Speaker 66 when we hear about the grief counselors.

Speaker 67 But we have to find a way to talk to people now

Speaker 104 and

Speaker 111 show them that this is not healthy for our society.

Speaker 72 If you would have had grief counselors,

Speaker 67 you know, we're moving into a new studio tomorrow.

Speaker 49 Sorry,

Speaker 75 thinking out loud here. Monday.

Speaker 55 Monday, yeah.

Speaker 112 Monday, we're moving into a new studio for the radio show.

Speaker 113 It's a brand new start, brand new season, brand new president.

Speaker 58 And

Speaker 89 I've painted some paintings for the walls.

Speaker 115 And one of them is the mask.

Speaker 43 of George Washington, the life mask of George Washington.

Speaker 104 And

Speaker 29 he's weeping, and you'll see it on Monday.

Speaker 71 And I call it the mask of civility.

Speaker 78 This is a prime example of what that means.

Speaker 32 The mask of civility.

Speaker 54 Here we have social workers.

Speaker 67 We have the most caring, the most loving.

Speaker 72 the ones who understand the human psyche,

Speaker 72 who had no compassion for those who felt their country was being ripped apart.

Speaker 72 No compassion. They were called outsiders.
They were called

Speaker 72 old thinkers.

Speaker 29 They were just trying to block progress.

Speaker 67 No compassion to somebody who said, wait, let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Speaker 4 Let's remember who we are in the first place.

Speaker 40 No compassion.

Speaker 59 The ones we pay

Speaker 42 to help teach us to be compassionate.

Speaker 32 It's the mask of civility.

Speaker 37 Now, how do we get that across to people?

Speaker 120 Because we can either

Speaker 32 whine about it, bitch about it,

Speaker 17 call people names, say what babies they are, which is not going to, nobody will listen to that

Speaker 63 and will miss possibly an opportunity.

Speaker 61 I don't know how to get there.

Speaker 121 But,

Speaker 52 because my first response is, what a bunch of two-faced, hypocritical babies.

Speaker 79 Well, yeah, and that should be your first response.

Speaker 29 Because

Speaker 29 that's what they are. It is.

Speaker 100 I mean, this is what a bunch of numbskulls.

Speaker 79 How could you possibly think this is good for these kids?

Speaker 122 How could you possibly think, yeah, let's shelter them from reality?

Speaker 83 Why would you do that?

Speaker 29 Why?

Speaker 63 Okay, we'll get into this more in just a second.

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Speaker 29 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 13 What's amazing is

Speaker 73 in Stu's lifetime, his adult life,

Speaker 97 since he's been able to vote, there is only two possibilities of an election.

Speaker 56 One, a Democratic win.

Speaker 63 And two, a Republican win that the Democrats claim is illegitimate.

Speaker 80 George H.W.

Speaker 32 Bush was the last legitimate Republican president.

Speaker 29 Dole

Speaker 63 was a GOP win.

Speaker 52 2000,

Speaker 71 selected, non-elected.

Speaker 51 This

Speaker 77 Barack Obama did not.

Speaker 29 2000.

Speaker 40 You skipped 2004.

Speaker 29 2004 was Ohio

Speaker 40 fixed voting machines. John Kerry saying people said the Democrats should vote on the wrong day.

Speaker 135 That's right.

Speaker 40 Due to some weird waffle head vehicle running through the streets.

Speaker 29 That was a.

Speaker 136 I don't know what happened there.

Speaker 40 I don't know either. But yeah, I mean, they complained about that one as well as illegitimate.

Speaker 39 Well, I just counted, but he was an illegitimate

Speaker 39 president.

Speaker 2 I forgot that they claimed it twice.

Speaker 131 Twice. In the last elections, he won.

Speaker 29 They said we're illegitimate. Then Barack Obama won.

Speaker 56 Then Barack Obama won.

Speaker 63 And now this president.

Speaker 87 And he's illegitimate.

Speaker 40 That's insane. I mean, it's since 1988.

Speaker 40 There hasn't been a Republican president elected legitimately in the eyes of Democrats.

Speaker 97 Okay, so think of that.

Speaker 60 You're born in 1990.

Speaker 9 You think that you have been taught your whole life that the Republicans only win when they steal it.

Speaker 40 Wow, that's incredible.

Speaker 12 What do you, of course, they need safe spaces?

Speaker 11 The Republicans only steal things,

Speaker 23 and they're going to come and steal everything you have.

Speaker 78 Pretty amazing.

Speaker 14 We're going to go into the scandals that Obama has forgotten coming up.

Speaker 14 The Glen Beck Program.

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Speaker 14 This is the

Speaker 14 Welcome to the program.

Speaker 55 We're bringing in Riaz Patal, who is a good friend of ours, and he's the guy you might remember that right before the election went to Alaska on his own dime.

Speaker 87 He is,

Speaker 93 how would you describe yourself politically?

Speaker 134 I would say I was,

Speaker 134 funny, I almost said I was Democrat. I would say I'm Democrat liberal, but I'm understanding a whole segment of America I didn't understand before.

Speaker 112 And you've kind of done what we've done, kind of unchained yourself from the label of liberal or Democrat,

Speaker 89 and you want to end the

Speaker 89 hatred and

Speaker 53 the

Speaker 32 black and white of everything, right?

Speaker 134 It's too black and white. I think to me, and that's where media plays, and that's where my profession is.
I come from media. And to me, when you're talking about the safe space,

Speaker 134 it really is a direct product of what the media has done for two years.

Speaker 97 So let's talk about the safe space.

Speaker 88 We just heard in Ohio and also in Connecticut, they're bringing grief counselors in today for the teachers and for the children who might be experiencing any kind of discomfort with Donald Trump being the president.

Speaker 134 It's less about the discomfort and more about for two years you were taught that there was nothing positive about this man, that it was like electing Hitler.

Speaker 134 For two years, there was not one positive thing he said. Now, I am not a Trump supporter.
That being said, if you are fair and even about news, why are you vilifying?

Speaker 134 So, the result of him winning created this panic that we'd elected a monster. And that is the direct product of how the media portrayed him for two years.
Now, I'm not getting into politics.

Speaker 134 I'm not interested.

Speaker 63 Well, that is a hang on just a second.

Speaker 32 That is a different way of looking at it, isn't it?

Speaker 12 I just associated that with

Speaker 88 the progressive MAMBI Pamby.

Speaker 48 I never tied the media

Speaker 53 and said it is the way he's been portrayed.

Speaker 95 It actually helps me

Speaker 97 validate their feelings.

Speaker 134 We know this because when you talk to families on the Democratic side that I've talked to, the children are unable to get their heads around it.

Speaker 134 Because in their homes, through their TVs and through their phones, this monster was running for president against Hillary Clinton. And then when the monster won, they don't know what to do.

Speaker 134 And I remember on the night of the election, every single parent I know said how do I explain this in the morning to my kids and I thought why don't they think it's a presidential election why don't why do they think that humanity is at stake and I remember being on a parenting pencil in a panel and a woman said to me my daughter was at a neighbor's house and they were discussing politics and she came home at 2 a.m.

Speaker 134 It was a slumber party because she felt unsafe. And everyone in the room said, congratulations that you taught your daughter to remove herself from unsafe situations.

Speaker 134 And I sat on a parenting pencil, as the panel is the only male, awkward, and said, a little bit, shame on you.

Speaker 134 how long have you known these neighbors and she said about a decade why would your daughter ever feel unsafe in a house with someone she's known for a decade That is the media.

Speaker 134 The conflict-driven entertainment of reality seeped in, which obviously Donald Trump came from, they taught him how to do this, seeped into every aspect for the past two years of election coverage.

Speaker 134 It became a reality show. Didn't know if you saw the CNN ads where they looked like these fighters.
The lights was, it literally looked like a heavyweight fight.

Speaker 134 The conflict-driven setup of this whole whole election made it that Hillary had to win had to win It was the only right choice. It was right and wrong and wrong one.

Speaker 134 How do you explain to the kids at Ohio State?

Speaker 134 That wrong won because you don't understand the other side when I went to Alaska I found the other side and it's very hard to hate people when they're looking at you and saying my life has been miserable for eight years eight long years.

Speaker 134 And I really am quite frustrated with liberals. I'll be honest with you.
I was on Facebook yesterday people going to the march and it was downright mean.

Speaker 134 A woman that I know who has done amazing work for Muslims specifically wrote this.

Speaker 43 By the way, so people know,

Speaker 67 Riaz is a Muslim,

Speaker 140 Pakistani immigrant.

Speaker 138 You've lived here for how long?

Speaker 134 Most of my life. Came here at David 2.

Speaker 29 Okay.

Speaker 104 And a gay man who is married and has an adopted child.

Speaker 125 So there is no more boxes you can check

Speaker 10 for people that we are not supposed to get along with.

Speaker 29 I have them all. You have the whole set with me.
Yeah, we do.

Speaker 134 You don't need need to collect the cards.

Speaker 29 I've got them all.

Speaker 47 And we had dinner last night.

Speaker 43 Our family joined Riaz last night for dinner.

Speaker 55 And what was nice, Riaz, was beforehand, we had a meeting and we had a bunch of people from the office.

Speaker 34 And the president of my company is a Jew and obviously, I mean, he wears the yarmulke and everything else.

Speaker 32 And here's a Muslim man and a Jewish man, and we're all joking together.

Speaker 59 And we're joking.

Speaker 11 He's joking about the Jew building a settlement.

Speaker 39 He could come over and he's like, don't build a settlement over here.

Speaker 34 And the Jew was like, oh, go ahead, fill a bag with nails and blow me up.

Speaker 109 And we were all laughing about it.

Speaker 51 You have to. Because

Speaker 29 we were joking about the stereotypes that have kept us apart. Yes.

Speaker 134 Yes. And to me, the only way to live with these labels is to make them funny.
Yeah. Because otherwise I walk through the world as a collection of labels.

Speaker 134 And I have to say, when I'm around liberals, those labels are hugely important. I believe, honestly, too important.

Speaker 134 And it's going to be interesting in the days ahead because this Facebook thread was the meanest thing I've seen.

Speaker 134 They said they got on a bus in DC with all these Trump supporters and the thread went on about all these white women and I thought, you're at a march for women's rights and you are literally on a Facebook thread like mean girls attacking a group of white girls who got on the van.

Speaker 134 How is this a new era of celebration when even the women, the feminists, are attacking the other women? And they'll say, well, well the women don't support each other.

Speaker 134 Well, you're not supporting the women on that van right now.

Speaker 134 I was literally, I was after we had dinner. I was utterly shocked.
And I think they really need to wake up.

Speaker 66 Riaz, I get a lot of mail from people who say, what you're trying to do is not going to work.

Speaker 76 Nobody is interested in getting along.

Speaker 32 The left will never change.

Speaker 104 And I mean, I'm disappointed in my own side, but I will tell you that I get very frustrated and tired at times of going on and talking to people in the press and saying, look, I understand how you feel.

Speaker 145 Do you understand how I feel?

Speaker 139 And they don't have any

Speaker 118 care to even think about it.

Speaker 134 Because they think they know what's best for you. Correct.
And this is something I'm really trying to get people.

Speaker 134 Again, I'm not interested in the politics space, but I'm interested in the humanity space.

Speaker 134 When you know people who have lives and situations that are completely different from yours, that voted for Trump for very specific reasons for their family's welfare, you tell me how you can hate them once you meet them and see their home that slipped off the foundation 10 years ago, but they can't afford to move.

Speaker 134 That is the humanity that's out there if people can get past the labels. And that's what we have to do.
We have to do.

Speaker 119 So how do we talk to somebody, Riaz, that is

Speaker 29 encouraging their kids to, well, let's put it this way.

Speaker 90 Do you know who is the

Speaker 22 he's ABC, George Stephanopoulos.

Speaker 88 I read an article without anybody saying anything like, this is weird, this is dangerous.

Speaker 60 George Stephanopoulos's young, like 12-year-old daughter

Speaker 65 has had to sleep in their bed with them at night for like the week after the election because they were so upset.

Speaker 29 Yeah. And my scared, I believe, is that the they use.
And that was

Speaker 139 what the hell is being said in that home by a, quote, objective reporter

Speaker 11 that makes your 12-year-old

Speaker 72 sleep in bed with you at night because they're afraid.

Speaker 134 I would love to know that families and children who didn't live off of a two-year diet of liberal doomsday with Trump, if they are as traumatized and scared, even the ones who lost.

Speaker 29 Did you know?

Speaker 63 You met my kids last night.

Speaker 143 My kids,

Speaker 63 I mean, everybody, every liberal would say my kids, of course, have had a steady diet of

Speaker 30 fear-mongering and everything.

Speaker 85 Did you think my kids were

Speaker 134 frightened? No, not at all. Not at all.
Because I think there is our discussions about politics in the world, and then there is the humanity that you have at home.

Speaker 134 And I think with liberals, the way to go in, I don't think we can say your beliefs are wrong. That doesn't work for either side.
It just doesn't work. To me, it's here's what you don't know about me.

Speaker 134 Here's what you don't know about my life. This is the way to start the conversation.
If I go attacking your beliefs, we're not going to end up anywhere.

Speaker 134 We're going to dig in like we have for two years, if not longer. To me, it's just so you know, this is something you don't know about my life.

Speaker 134 And that is the way to understand why someone voted differently, why someone believes differently. It's start from the bottom.
What is your life and why do you make the choices you make?

Speaker 134 And then we can discuss beliefs. The problem is people are going in beliefs, you're going to have a deadlock.
You're deadlocked. There's no way around that.

Speaker 134 And so to me, it's, here's what you don't know about me. As much as you want what's best interest for me, this is me.
Why don't I tell you what's in best interest for me?

Speaker 134 And I think that's the way you begin the conversation is, this is what you don't know about me. And everyone can do it on both sides.

Speaker 134 I think the two-year diet of conflict and rage that came from reality TV, look, we all watch what most of us watch. If people don't want to watch conflict, it won't be there as much.

Speaker 134 So my hope is after this election, we've reached conflict saturation with media.

Speaker 134 And that people, I believe, I believe your viewers, whether right now they're driving a pickup truck or a Tesla, it doesn't matter, they want this to stop.

Speaker 134 Like the election, the inauguration day to me is the day we breathe and move on. So I am hopeful because now this constant yelling about the election is gone.

Speaker 134 There'll be constant yelling, but at least we can move on with our lives and we know what the truth is for four years.

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Speaker 76 People will come out.

Speaker 37 Talking to Riaz Pital, he is a friend of ours and

Speaker 138 a liberal who hates labels, and I can't put a label on him.

Speaker 87 We were just talking about, we're going to talk about these scandals coming up at the top of the hour that nobody in the press wants to admit were scandals under Barack Obama, and they're saying he was a scandal-fee president.

Speaker 110 It couldn't be further from the truth.

Speaker 43 And Riaz said, I'll bet you I don't know a lot of those scandals.

Speaker 64 True.

Speaker 43 And I bet you you don't.

Speaker 56 I bet you don't.

Speaker 30 You said you had never heard of

Speaker 46 the feeling that Barack Obama was a Manchurian candidate.

Speaker 142 Until when?

Speaker 134 Not once. Until I came here.
What was that, July, August? Never even came across my desk, my radar. Never heard the expression.
Never heard the expression until I was here.

Speaker 134 What is that, eight years of Obama? Never heard the expression.

Speaker 134 Things don't make and I'm and I watch the news.

Speaker 78 Well, we don't think that he was a Manchurian candidate.

Speaker 62 So I don't know how that came up.

Speaker 40 Not literally, but certainly people, I mean, they made the Manchurian candidate movie during the Bush administration.

Speaker 75 Meryl Streep was in it.

Speaker 107 And that was a remake. I mean, the first

Speaker 29 of recently. There were people on the right who believed.
Charlotte Barbara.

Speaker 121 We weren't a mug, but there were those people.

Speaker 53 It was fun as a movie script because it was easy to write that.

Speaker 100 Because there were, you know, signs that, I mean, if you wanted to use your imagination, you could get there because, as you mentioned during the break, the guy did one speech during a convention, and then all of a sudden he's president of the United States.

Speaker 29 It seemed that he was like, Where's this guy come from?

Speaker 134 And again, to me, it was sort of unprecedented.

Speaker 134 And for us, we thought, that's amazing.

Speaker 72 He wins the Nobel Prize before he's even signed a bill in office.

Speaker 134 I mean, again,

Speaker 134 the Obama presidency had lots of strengths. For me, as a gay man, it was a bit of a roller coaster.
Remember the first term where he did not support marriage? Yes.

Speaker 134 He supported civil unions, but he felt a marriage should be between a man and a woman.

Speaker 29 You remember that? I'm glad that I was a man.

Speaker 134 And I remember thinking, well, that feels like I just got sold out for votes. And then he gets second term, and suddenly we can get married.
And to me, that's a clear-cut example of the politics game.

Speaker 134 How can you look at that and not see that as a trend?

Speaker 86 Do you know very many other people in the homosexual community who feel that way? Or did they just all accept him? And yeah, he's great because now.

Speaker 134 Yeah, now, because now it's the short-term memory thing.

Speaker 134 And to me, there were issues, there were problems. And I think I sit in my office.

Speaker 134 It's funny in LA, and a couple people have come in over the past few weeks and closed the door and still slightly whispered that you know they're concerned about what i mean why is this happening why are people so angry you know personally i was concerned about hillary too and i'm like why are we whispering in my office they're so afraid to say anything bad about hillary now facts are facts what i was in those emails whether i liked her or not that was a problem for me why is it not a problem for anyone else why is it they were that they're saying that this election uh was

Speaker 117 because i believe the russians were involved i mean i think the evidence is very very clear i agree but they the russians didn't steal the election why is is it that the press can't get their arms around that Hillary was, I mean, I can look at Bob Dole and say he was an awful candidate.

Speaker 63 Why can't they get their arms around Hillary was an awful candidate?

Speaker 134 Because I believe she's too swept up in the womanhood. I believe that, you know, the same with Barack Obama.
I think flaws are overlooked because of his ethnicity at times.

Speaker 134 I think we wanted him to be a great president. I think Hillary Clinton, everyone wanted her to be the first female president.
I wanted to see what a first female president would be like.

Speaker 134 But was she the right candidate in the ideal world? Not for me, no. Why does a female's politics have to come alongside her husband's? People are talking about Michelle Obama running.

Speaker 134 I'm like, can we look for great democratic women outside of the spousal relationship?

Speaker 29 Right. It's probably not.

Speaker 134 And so to me, it's sort of a misogyny to say, I hope Michelle Obama runs. Like, there are millions of qualified women out there.
Why are we looking at the wife? Well,

Speaker 71 I couldn't believe

Speaker 65 how

Speaker 92 Carly Fiorina was made to look like a misogynist. Yeah.

Speaker 29 She's a woman. Yeah.

Speaker 40 I mean, incredibly successful.

Speaker 131 Incredibly successful woman.

Speaker 29 You may not agree with her, but she's an incredible, strong woman, a great candidate.

Speaker 30 Yet she wouldn't be a good first woman president.

Speaker 29 I mean, what?

Speaker 134 To me, this march, I do not have a problem with it. I think it's great.
If the spirit of it is to bring people together, to bring inclusion, to unite as women.

Speaker 120 They're fighting against each other.

Speaker 134 And that was in the Facebook thread, which honestly broke my heart. Because these are people I know incredibly well who've done unbelievable work.

Speaker 134 I literally know this on a social level for all minorities.

Speaker 19 Back in just a second with the nine biggest Obama scandals.

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Speaker 94 Hello, America, and welcome to the program.

Speaker 32 Eight years for half the country.

Speaker 53 Then a total hell where nobody has listened it seemed as though reason went out the window and you were a pariah

Speaker 27 today

Speaker 70 is a new day

Speaker 31 and we have a choice are we going to make the other half of the country feel like we have felt for the last eight years or are we going to find a new way forward It's a chance to start fresh today

Speaker 46 and not to pack reason in a suitcase and not to pack our principles and what we really truly believe as individuals, pack those away in a suitcase, but actually stand for the truth, no matter whose side is upset about it.

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Speaker 14 Welcome to the program.

Speaker 14 Today I just kind of want to pack up

Speaker 23 the last eight years and first of all say you made it, gang.

Speaker 45 You made it.

Speaker 110 A lot of people, including me for a long period of time, didn't think we would make it here.

Speaker 79 I think there's still a few people suspicious that we still won't.

Speaker 29 No, there is. Like

Speaker 86 11.30 this morning, he's going to sign some executive order that he stays for all time.

Speaker 29 Until that. And those people will not be happy until that airplane or that helicopter

Speaker 122 is up and out of sight.

Speaker 29 Yes.

Speaker 39 You know, you could see it take off and then come back down and go, you know what?

Speaker 17 I was just kidding.

Speaker 64 He's not going to be president.

Speaker 29 Psych.

Speaker 43 We have Riaz Patel who's joining us today, who is a good friend and from,

Speaker 22 I hate to say this because it's,

Speaker 97 let's say it this way.

Speaker 125 He's from the left and becoming a good friend and ally of Pat,

Speaker 29 which

Speaker 29 that doesn't happen.

Speaker 29 That doesn't

Speaker 18 We want to go through the nine scandals that President Obama has forgotten about when he said he was proud that this was a scandal-free administration and the press just lapped it up.

Speaker 72 Here are the big nine.

Speaker 55 This is from National Review.

Speaker 60 One,

Speaker 70 and let's see if, Riaz, how many of these do you know?

Speaker 70 How many of these

Speaker 65 do you

Speaker 10 what's your impression of each of these?

Speaker 121 Okay, okay, if you know them.

Speaker 84 I feel like this is a game show.

Speaker 134 Okay.

Speaker 47 Number nine, scandal-ridden Secret Service.

Speaker 134 I remember that. I remember that.

Speaker 55 What is the scandal?

Speaker 134 I believe it was they were in South America

Speaker 134 and they engaged in illicit activities with some females there.

Speaker 58 Right.

Speaker 134 That's the scandal.

Speaker 3 Okay, that's part of it.

Speaker 61 Okay.

Speaker 67 Do you remember the wedding crashers, if you will, of the state dinner of Obama?

Speaker 29 Yes.

Speaker 29 I do remember that.

Speaker 134 The Bravo reality show.

Speaker 29 Yes. Yes.
But a lot of people would say, including Obama, that's not my scandal. That's not your administration scandal.
I would agree with him.

Speaker 51 That's a Secret Services deal.

Speaker 22 Yes, but it is a scandal.

Speaker 51 He is over the Secret Service because he's over the Treasury Department.

Speaker 39 But I will agree with you.

Speaker 29 It's not really.

Speaker 29 But the house wasn't cleaned.

Speaker 86 I don't remember anything ever happening from that. It was just

Speaker 39 everything was just swept under the rug.

Speaker 48 And which is one of the reasons why I have said for so long: pray for the Secret Service and pray for the protection of our president.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 43 Because there's something fundamentally fundamentally wrong with the Secret Service.

Speaker 29 It sure seemed that way for a while.

Speaker 86 It's kind of died down. Yes.

Speaker 29 Seemed that way. Okay.

Speaker 43 Number eight, the DOJ spying on journalists.

Speaker 134 Interesting. I don't.
Don't know. Tell me.
Let me see. But how funny that that seems pretty bad.

Speaker 29 Yes. Yes.
Yes.

Speaker 134 And I think to me,

Speaker 134 this is the result of the echo chamber. This is horrific that I don't think I know what you're referring to.
And I live off a steady diet of news.

Speaker 47 Who remembers it the best?

Speaker 64 It is

Speaker 93 Rosenthal, right? James Rosenthal.

Speaker 57 That from Fox, but there were...

Speaker 86 He was one of them.

Speaker 29 There were three of them.

Speaker 63 Yeah, James Rosen, sorry. James Rosen.

Speaker 147 And there were, I believe, three of them that the DOJ was suspecting.

Speaker 29 What's her name?

Speaker 62 Yeah, what's her name?

Speaker 43 They were being leaked information about what was happening happening inside the government. But it was not.

Speaker 76 Oh, Cheryl Atkisson.

Speaker 29 Yes.

Speaker 77 Yes.

Speaker 43 Thank you. And it was not

Speaker 63 stuff like CIA.

Speaker 45 It was not WikiLeaks.

Speaker 32 It was just there's corruption in the administration.

Speaker 27 The DOJ

Speaker 29 wiretapped.

Speaker 32 The DOJ went and

Speaker 60 looked into all of his family, went through all of his internal records without

Speaker 75 they turned on Cheryl Atkisson's computer and phone in the middle of the night.

Speaker 86 She saw the light go off.

Speaker 93 Access information.

Speaker 2 And they were deliberately

Speaker 29 documented. They were listening to her.

Speaker 134 Now, here's what's interesting. I don't know about this, but I imagine my peers will think this is one of your conspiracy theories.
Correct.

Speaker 149 Because that's the thing.

Speaker 134 That's why you get labeled a conspiracy theories because I don't know this.

Speaker 71 Because the media never covered it.

Speaker 28 Do you know who Cheryl Atkinson is?

Speaker 63 Yes. Okay.

Speaker 46 She's, would you agree that she is credible?

Speaker 52 Yes. Okay.

Speaker 92 She said, this is the most disturbing part, and thank you for reminding me of it, that in the middle of the night, she woke up because her computer went on,

Speaker 54 and she started seeing things being pulled up on the screen.

Speaker 34 Somebody was remotely going through her files and pulling up the documents that she had been given and deleting.

Speaker 114 And she couldn't shut the computer down fast enough, and she actually recorded it.

Speaker 59 She took her phone.

Speaker 52 and went, look, what's happening to my computer?

Speaker 55 Nobody.

Speaker 134 I have no.

Speaker 29 Not if it was radio, because you would see my mouthpiece.

Speaker 124 She was at CBS when it happened.

Speaker 29 I was. I was.

Speaker 63 And the CBS, isn't CBS, the head of CBS News was the brother of somebody in the administration.

Speaker 22 There was some wife connection or brother, family connection to the administration, to the head of CBS News, which gave it that conspiratorial feeling because CBS just brushed it away.

Speaker 39 They should have stood up and said, what's going on here?

Speaker 40 Yeah, the Cheryl Ackinson one, I would say a lot of people on the left do dismiss, but the James Rosen one is hard. I mean, that is, I mean, the left media even embraced that one.

Speaker 40 Let me give you a quote. This is from the editorial board of the New York Times.

Speaker 40 With the decision to label a Fox News television reporter a possible co-conspirator in a criminal investigation of a news leak, the Obama administration has moved beyond protecting government secrets to threatening fundamental freedoms of the press to gather news.

Speaker 134 Never heard of this. Never heard.
This sounds like the kind of thing that I will hear under Trump.

Speaker 29 Never under the United States. Oh, they're already saying Oh my gosh, you will.

Speaker 34 They're already saying it.

Speaker 37 And this is why when President Obama yesterday or two days ago in his last press conference said, you can't be a sycophant

Speaker 79 to this next president.

Speaker 116 You have to stand up.

Speaker 83 And then he also pardoned the people who were giving information to WikiLeaks.

Speaker 72 You were going after the press.

Speaker 46 He's used the, what is the Woodrow Wilson espionage?

Speaker 35 The Espionage Act from Woodrow Wilson.

Speaker 10 He has charged reporters with the Espionage Act more than all other presidents.

Speaker 29 Is that part of this or is that a separate?

Speaker 64 No, that's separate.

Speaker 86 That's a separate one on the list?

Speaker 68 No, that's no, that's not on the other side.

Speaker 29 That must be this one because it's not on this list.

Speaker 86 Oh, it's not even on this list.

Speaker 138 It's not even on this list.

Speaker 75 So you got to add this.

Speaker 86 You got to add the espionage because he's done that

Speaker 100 more times than

Speaker 75 all other presidents combined.

Speaker 111 Combined.

Speaker 29 Combined. Combined.

Speaker 134 I feel embarrassed with it, just a really straight A student. I feel like I didn't do my homework because I don't know this, which is

Speaker 47 disturbing to me.

Speaker 76 But it's not your fault.

Speaker 148 It's the press because it was being done by their side,

Speaker 22 they just thought, okay, well, I don't really understand.

Speaker 113 There's got to be a reason for it or whatever.

Speaker 29 Where

Speaker 79 Donald Trump, I begged the press.

Speaker 139 You have to pay attention.

Speaker 28 You can't stand silently while this is going on because the next guy, you don't know.

Speaker 95 If you allow it to happen now,

Speaker 28 you don't know what's gonna happen.

Speaker 134 And the difference is they'll say is it's okay for Obama because he's morally and ethically sound.

Speaker 29 And I think

Speaker 29 that's what they'll say.

Speaker 134 And that's why it's different because Trump is obviously not morally and ethically sound. Now, I'm not saying that's the reason.
I think it's just I'm shocked that I don't know this. I'm shocked and

Speaker 134 saddened that I've lived in this country for eight years and I do not know your experiences. Eight years, I've been in traffic jams with people that I don't know what is going on inside their car.

Speaker 134 And that makes me very sad. And to me, this is the opportunity of our lifetime to say, oh, gosh, we cannot be more conflict-ridden than we are now.

Speaker 131 Who are you?

Speaker 134 What is important to you? That is what the opportunity is right in front of us. And we can either get more angry, which I don't know how we possibly can, or we can choose differently.

Speaker 89 Oh, we can get more angry.

Speaker 86 And we're only up to, what, eight?

Speaker 64 Yeah, that's number eight.

Speaker 76 Money squandered on Solyndra.

Speaker 138 Do you know that?

Speaker 87 No. Stu, I know you're all over this one.

Speaker 40 That was an early one. $500 million.

Speaker 29 It was, yeah, you're right.

Speaker 40 It was. There was some.
You don't even.

Speaker 135 Yeah, a few million dollars here and there among friends.

Speaker 40 $500 million to do

Speaker 40 government tax dollars.

Speaker 78 And that was just one of many.

Speaker 86 One of many.

Speaker 40 That was kind of the abbreviation of that.

Speaker 46 I don't think Solyndra was even the biggest.

Speaker 40 But they dumped money into a specialized new technology solar company to try to get the green stuff, energy off the ground. And, you know, sadly, our money went to waste as the company disintegrated

Speaker 40 just a few months after they gave them the money.

Speaker 40 The other part of that is they actually had, before they lent the money, had reports from the people investigating it saying, we don't think this company is going to make it. It's not going to work.

Speaker 40 They did it anyway. Don't eat it.
You know, there are connections between the White House and this company. They tried to save it with this gigantic infusion of cash, and it

Speaker 78 did not succeed.

Speaker 53 Yeah, so it was just a waste of our money.

Speaker 142 Eric Holder, held in contempt of Congress.

Speaker 37 Did you know that our attorney general was held in contempt of Congress?

Speaker 142 No.

Speaker 29 I don't even know if I remember that one.

Speaker 29 No,

Speaker 86 that got almost no coverage.

Speaker 29 Because you would have saw it as a party.

Speaker 98 I barely remember that.

Speaker 29 That was over him not going to testify, right?

Speaker 136 Yes.

Speaker 40 Yeah, on

Speaker 29 Fast and Furious.

Speaker 29 Fast and Furious.

Speaker 29 Which is another

Speaker 29 Fast and Furious?

Speaker 40 Not the movie. I mean, because

Speaker 29 it's a great scenario.

Speaker 63 Do you know what Fast and First

Speaker 122 From 30 years.

Speaker 29 Do you know what Fast and Furious refers to? No. Okay.
Oh, wow.

Speaker 43 Do you know that

Speaker 124 if I say it this way, illegal arms sales to Mexican drug traffickers.

Speaker 134 That sounds really bad.

Speaker 29 This is getting really embarrassing. I honestly, and

Speaker 134 this is why

Speaker 134 everyone has changed their profile photos to Barack Obama's family on my Facebook because they're devastated they're leaving and it has a perfect legacy because it was kept perfect.

Speaker 29 Yes. And it's thank you for saying that.
And to me, look, I'm not trying.

Speaker 134 I'm not here to diminish Obama. I'm here to say that he wasn't the ideal you thought he was, and Trump isn't the villain you think he is.
Yes.

Speaker 134 And maybe somewhere we can all get along, and I don't have to feel like my president determines my love and affection.

Speaker 67 This is why I'm convinced.

Speaker 100 Good gully.

Speaker 86 Riaz, if you weren't already married, I'd propose to you right now.

Speaker 29 Oh my gosh, this is

Speaker 29 serious.

Speaker 29 If my skin wasn't so dark, you'd see me turn red.

Speaker 29 Gosh, this is in a most.

Speaker 13 Here's what it is.

Speaker 17 If they would have taken, for instance, Eric Holder

Speaker 140 on record saying, we need to find a way

Speaker 29 to show how dangerous these guns are and how easy they are to get into bad hands.

Speaker 67 So they took and the government agents

Speaker 146 sold illegal guns, thousands of them, at the border.

Speaker 116 They got into the hands of the illegal drug lords.

Speaker 52 Of course, that's where they're going.

Speaker 86 In fact, many of them were sold directly to.

Speaker 55 Yes,

Speaker 29 sold directly to the drug lords.

Speaker 28 One of them actually ended up in the hands of a terrorist in the Paris shooting.

Speaker 29 A gun

Speaker 29 automatically

Speaker 149 weapon used in the shooting in Paris.

Speaker 52 One of them was used.

Speaker 29 Was sold by Eric Holder.

Speaker 52 A border agent.

Speaker 134 The frustration now is I'm hearing everyone hearing this and saying, oh, Glenn and his friends, conspiracy. Here comes another conspiracy.
And it's because it's discounted.

Speaker 134 And I know you now, and I know when you speak truth, because I'm looking you in the eyes. And I don't know how I convince other people of that.
Correct.

Speaker 17 And so if I'm convinced that if we would have had a situation to where these things would have been taken seriously

Speaker 118 and people would have,

Speaker 10 if the press would have done their job even-handedly and said, yeah, he's not scandal-free, that's a huge scandal.

Speaker 134 I think it's a very,

Speaker 144 we wouldn't have ratcheted things up, but nobody was listening.

Speaker 28 And we're like, the country is accepting this. The press is in bed and accepting corruption at the highest levels.

Speaker 79 It freaked people out.

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Speaker 53 Another conspiracy theory has been confirmed now by Joe Biden, who two days ago gave a speech and said, Western civilization is on the edge of collapse

Speaker 96 oh my gosh I have I have told you since Bush was in office that

Speaker 76 a 2008 was coming the reason why it wasn't the collapse of the Western civilization is because of TARP well now that they did TARP I said the worst thing they could do is continue to print money or to print money.

Speaker 71 Everyone said they would never do it.

Speaker 85 They've printed $4 trillion.

Speaker 63 No country has ever survived that.

Speaker 92 In the history of the world, no country has ever survived that.

Speaker 95 When the next big economic shock comes, the Fed itself has said, we have no more levers, no more levers to make it work.

Speaker 91 Trouble's coming.

Speaker 68 When it's happened in the past, what was the cure?

Speaker 65 The cure is always resetting the value of the currency to something like gold, silver, land.

Speaker 46 So what do you have?

Speaker 29 Paper?

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Speaker 37 I will tell you, in just looking at the screens today and watching the television coverage of

Speaker 18 the Obamas and the Trumps are about to leave the White House, this is always a day whenever there's a change in power that makes me so proud.

Speaker 126 It makes me proud to be an American, that we have this peaceful transfer of power.

Speaker 29 Every single time. Every time.
Without exception.

Speaker 68 Every time.

Speaker 45 And there is something to be said for that.

Speaker 120 That is, it is unlike we do not, and this is one reason why,

Speaker 63 and I know this pisses a lot of people off, why

Speaker 60 I am so torn is I don't believe there should be

Speaker 97 special classes of people.

Speaker 55 You do wrong, you go to jail.

Speaker 91 However,

Speaker 130 because

Speaker 29 politics,

Speaker 113 and we know how politicians will use the levers of power to destroy their enemies, it's one reason why I'm glad that Trump is saying

Speaker 107 we're not going after Hillary.

Speaker 87 Just leave it alone.

Speaker 45 Walk away in the sunset.

Speaker 145 Because every other country puts their opponents in jail.

Speaker 141 We don't.

Speaker 63 And I will tell you, I got this argument from the most surprising of places, Mike Lee.

Speaker 43 I asked Mike Lee, please tell me, Mike, somebody is going to go after the scandals with Hillary Clinton, and we're going to correct this.

Speaker 47 And he made

Speaker 97 the best cautioned case of

Speaker 91 be careful

Speaker 143 because that sets up a precedent of

Speaker 142 you're going to go after your opponents and put them in jail.

Speaker 146 And then you get a bad guy who says,

Speaker 37 really?

Speaker 63 You stood against me.

Speaker 94 I'll get you.

Speaker 32 We don't do that.

Speaker 53 And to be able to show that to the rest of the world is great.

Speaker 52 This is a truly proud day for America to be able to see Barack Obama, who couldn't be more different than Donald Trump, and Donald Trump, who couldn't be more different than Barack Obama, get together in the White House.

Speaker 97 And Obama reaches into his pants, so to speak, and takes out the key to the White House and hands it to him and says, it's yours.

Speaker 87 And here is the important thing that I learned.

Speaker 29 Don't do this.

Speaker 151 I think that is great.

Speaker 105 I agree.

Speaker 47 So we're going over these scandals, and this is really unfair to do to you, Riaz.

Speaker 30 It's really unfair because, honestly, some of these, I can't remember all of the details vividly, but everybody in our audience knows these scandals, but you may not be able to recall them.

Speaker 134 I don't think it's unfair. I'm sitting here shocked that I've never heard of them.

Speaker 29 You've never heard ever of them? Some of them are. Fast and Furious at all?

Speaker 42 Fast and Furious never crossed your screen.

Speaker 29 No. Wow, that's something.

Speaker 53 And that is a huge one.

Speaker 78 That's one of the bigger.

Speaker 11 Okay, we've got about four scandals left.

Speaker 16 The nine scandals Obama has forgotten about and apparently liberals never learned about from the National Review.

Speaker 32 We continue next.

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Speaker 32 Look at me.

Speaker 63 We're with Riaz Vital, who is a friend of ours, and we thought it would be good to have him on the day of the inauguration, because today's a day to start all over again.

Speaker 77 Today is a day of real hope.

Speaker 150 Today is a day that if we choose,

Speaker 22 and if we choose to learn from our mistakes and the mistakes of others, we can move forward.

Speaker 71 If what was the worst thing, we're learning this from Riaz. He's not aware of the scandals.

Speaker 67 He's from the left, lives in Hollywood, is a Hollywood producer, not aware of the scandals that we're talking about from the National Review.

Speaker 43 All very well documented.

Speaker 108 None of them are conspiracy theories.

Speaker 10 All of them were pretty much erased by the administration and by the press.

Speaker 74 He's not aware of most of them.

Speaker 63 So now, are we going to do the same thing?

Speaker 148 Will our media outlets on the right

Speaker 84 erase the scandals or excuse the scandals which will come under this or any other administration that we happen to like?

Speaker 59 The answer to that should be clearly no.

Speaker 63 If he breaks the law, if he breaks with the Constitution, if he does things that are not right

Speaker 65 or not the right way, we need to be the most vocal.

Speaker 90 Otherwise, the conspiracy theories start.

Speaker 120 And everything that the right says he's doing, those on the left who only read the Drudge Report, Breitbart or whatever, will say to the people

Speaker 67 on the left who are actually watching what's going on, and they'll say, well, that's just a conspiracy.

Speaker 112 And I know that to be true because for about a month during the election, I only read the Huffington Post.

Speaker 63 Doing a little bit of research on my own, I only read the Huffington Post and any links that would take me to stories from the left.

Speaker 53 Let me see.

Speaker 9 And it's not that they had a different version of the story,

Speaker 116 they would just not have the story.

Speaker 39 So it was a conspiracy theory because it was never reported on their side.

Speaker 92 Yeah.

Speaker 59 So let's go through the rest of the scandals.

Speaker 63 The Veterans Administration scandal.

Speaker 29 You know that one, right?

Speaker 121 Hillary Clinton's email scandals.

Speaker 29 Yes.

Speaker 149 Do you know how much of that?

Speaker 120 Do you know that

Speaker 67 she went in?

Speaker 33 What are those safe rooms called?

Speaker 63 What is the designation? Anybody remember those safe rooms?

Speaker 108 They're safe rooms that are electronic proof, that nothing comes in or out, no signals, nothing.

Speaker 53 And you have to have a safe room to be able to read the classified

Speaker 142 documents.

Speaker 140 And you are not allowed to take a classified document out.

Speaker 37 You're not allowed to take pictures of it.

Speaker 48 You're not allowed to do anything with it.

Speaker 17 You remember when she says they were never marked top secret?

Speaker 18 Do you know that in her emails, it says in so many words, remove the header?

Speaker 29 And so people had to go into those top secret rooms, cut off the header of top secret, bring them out of that room,

Speaker 28 then send them, either scan them or retype them and send them to her.

Speaker 155 Breaking

Speaker 117 our top secret laws, it's not like these documents are just being passed on from computer to computer.

Speaker 67 A lot of these documents were only able to be seen in that room.

Speaker 76 Did you know that?

Speaker 134 No, I didn't. No, I didn't.

Speaker 17 Does it change that scandal?

Speaker 134 I mean, I think to me, the whole scandal has laid there in a way that it sort of is mentioned a lot, but never really dealt with. To me, I find it, it was always a problem.

Speaker 134 It was always sort of what was in those emails that they were eradicated. And so I think when we selectively morally choose what is okay and not with a candidate, we're putting our own bias.

Speaker 134 And the news is doing that too.

Speaker 45 A guy went in a submarine.

Speaker 105 He was a submariner.

Speaker 140 He took a picture of where he worked in the submarine and had it on his phone and sent it to his kids.

Speaker 29 Illegal.

Speaker 142 Can't do that.

Speaker 81 Submarines are top secret.

Speaker 116 He's in jail today.

Speaker 90 At the same time that Hillary was going in, it wasn't just to many of us on the the right, it was not about what was in them.

Speaker 27 It was about how did you get them?

Speaker 82 You had to knowingly break the law to remove them from that room.

Speaker 80 It doesn't matter if it just says, I love Cheerios.

Speaker 52 You went in and instructed other people to go break the law so you could read that.

Speaker 154 You know this one, I'm sure, ransom payments to Iranians.

Speaker 112 Yes.

Speaker 64 What is that story?

Speaker 75 Oh, gosh, really?

Speaker 56 Can you do you remember?

Speaker 29 I'm just trying to.

Speaker 29 I'm not a salesman.

Speaker 64 I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I don't mean to do it that way. Let's say, I just want to see, I just want to see what your recollection is.

Speaker 88 Do you remember that there was a cash payment that we don't ever make cash payments?

Speaker 10 Yes. Okay.

Speaker 34 And it went in the middle of the night at the airport.

Speaker 29 Okay.

Speaker 67 And I think the last one here is the IRS.

Speaker 34 Do you remember the serial numbers on the cache?

Speaker 29 I literally feel like I'm going to be. You see, my palms are sweating.
I'm suddenly. And I'm always going to do it.

Speaker 121 I don't mean to do that too.

Speaker 62 I don't mean it that way.

Speaker 29 Yes, you do. I'm sitting here.
No, I really don't.

Speaker 67 The IRS harassment of conservative groups.

Speaker 29 No.

Speaker 29 That was a big one, too.

Speaker 76 I mean, HAB is the number one on the national review list.

Speaker 40 I thought that was always one of the

Speaker 40 worst.

Speaker 134 Let me examine the conservative groups because maybe if it's specific, like which were the ones that we're talking about.

Speaker 52 Tea Party groups generally.

Speaker 29 Yes. Yes.
Okay. The Tea Party groups.

Speaker 134 But again, a blip and then gone.

Speaker 29 Yes.

Speaker 134 Anything you're saying, yes. I mean, some of them we obviously.

Speaker 52 If we told you that

Speaker 29 there are witnesses

Speaker 52 that are not conservative in the IRS that were told,

Speaker 43 that said, we can't go in and do these things to these people, and the woman, Lois Lerner, who ran the IRS, directly reached out and said, do it.

Speaker 39 And then they were told, erase these emails.

Speaker 137 And the email on one side wasn't erased, but then the servers started to be wiped at the IRS.

Speaker 134 I don't know if you can hear the sound of glass shattering. That's me breaking my own echo chamber.
Like,

Speaker 134 that is what it, that's what this is. And to me, on inauguration day, I love the fact that I'm sitting here with you learning things I don't know.
And to me, it has to be that way moving forward.

Speaker 74 All of your friends will say conspiracy.

Speaker 134 But, well, my friends also know how tenacious I am. And I think they know my integrity.
And they know who I am, and that I'm not easily duped.

Speaker 134 And I think that reputation will serve me well as I go forward and say to people, listen to this other side.

Speaker 119 Okay, so how do we,

Speaker 63 because I think the way to do this is for me to come to people that I don't know,

Speaker 53 like you did with me, and say, look,

Speaker 98 let me just tell you my role in all of this.

Speaker 69 Let me just tell you the things that I've done or that I see the way I see

Speaker 45 the world or see you, and I don't want to see it that way anymore.

Speaker 32 So help me fill in the gaps.

Speaker 65 Is that, do you think there will be enough people on the left that will

Speaker 78 reciprocate or just pontificate?

Speaker 134 I think they will reciprocate if they are faced with the humanity of another person. It is very hard for any of us to dig in emotionally when we are bombarded with so much information.

Speaker 134 But if you see, if you were sitting next to that fisherman I met in Kachikan, Alaska, who can explain to you very clearly why he's sitting there drinking coffee all day because he has no money, explain to him why the environmental policies specifically for him have hurt him.

Speaker 134 Now it's not that he's against the environment. He lives off of fish.
But if you talk to him, then you understand. To me, it's a bottom-up approach.

Speaker 134 I think we've reached tipping point of the top defining who we are. So I think breaking your own echo chamber to me is the mandate from elect from inauguration day forward.

Speaker 78 I have to introduce you to somebody that we haven't even talked about on the air yet, so I don't want to

Speaker 45 say all the details.

Speaker 134 I'm already engaged to

Speaker 68 Pat. I know.

Speaker 134 I'm married, and Pat and I have this thing.

Speaker 29 I'm being introduced.

Speaker 68 No, you're going to like this guy because

Speaker 10 he describes himself as a progressive.

Speaker 78 And he was in my office two weeks ago. And I said,

Speaker 56 don't know

Speaker 43 why you're in my office because

Speaker 43 do you know I'm like the number one progressive hunter?

Speaker 102 And I, I know who progressives are.

Speaker 146 And he said, yes, I do.

Speaker 140 He said, but I don't think I have the same definition that you do.

Speaker 32 And I said, well, that's fine, but we have to start on the understanding of what progressives, the root of progressivism is. He knew it inside and out and rejected all of it.

Speaker 32 And he's like, the progressivism that I'm looking at, he's from Seattle.

Speaker 88 The progressivism that I'm, that I feel is kind of my thing is that it is all about the community.

Speaker 111 It's not about government.

Speaker 56 It's all about letting the individuals in the community decide.

Speaker 104 And

Speaker 37 we didn't leave with comfort necessarily that we were on the same page by any stretch of the imagination.

Speaker 68 But

Speaker 140 to me, that's classic liberalism, not progressivism.

Speaker 43 So I haven't gotten to with him

Speaker 28 how he's making that work.

Speaker 134 But I like that we're all defining it in our own way now because the labels of this past election don't really apply. A conservative, is that conservative? Is Republican? Is Democrat?

Speaker 134 The lines are all blurring, which is a great opportunity.

Speaker 134 I'm going to define myself differently.

Speaker 43 I agree with you because I don't know what it means to be a Republican.

Speaker 78 I don't know what it means to be a conservative. If a conservative is good with a trillion-dollar stimulus package, then I don't know what a conservative is because that's not traditionally us.

Speaker 102 So

Speaker 55 getting rid of the labels is going to be really, really hard.

Speaker 134 But fantastic. Yes.
The blurring of the lines will be a fantastic thing for all of us.

Speaker 124 You're going to Washington, D.C. now?

Speaker 134 Yes.

Speaker 76 What are you going to do?

Speaker 134 I'm going to go, but part of the march, I'm going to go.

Speaker 134 I have meetings on Monday with the head of the Islamic Society of North America to talk a bit about what I think as a Muslim they can do differently. I work in media.

Speaker 134 I think it's obviously a very dark time for Muslims. And because they're being,

Speaker 134 I mean, it's the same thing here. You know, a few people are becoming the reputation of everyone.

Speaker 142 So we're going to have to have a talk on Isna.

Speaker 92 And we had a talk last night on the Muslim Brotherhood, and you

Speaker 92 feel the same way about the Muslim Brotherhood, I think, as I do.

Speaker 89 And care.

Speaker 78 It seems to be that we seem to have the same view.

Speaker 140 You concerned about Isna and some of their...

Speaker 134 I don't know enough to sit down. Again, my whole world is politics adjacent, and my whole relationship with Islam and the Islamic community is different because I was gay.

Speaker 134 So to me, it's now more born of

Speaker 134 there's a problem here in terms of the perception, in terms of fear. I think we need to be more open, let people into our homes, show them who we are.
There's nothing to hide.

Speaker 86 I should probably explain what Isna is.

Speaker 134 It's Islamic Society of North America. That's what I thought.
And so I don't know much about them. I'm very intrigued to me.

Speaker 134 To me, sitting with you, sitting with Isna, sitting in Saudi Arabia, in Kachikan, I'm breaking my own echo chamber to say, what do I not know? And then I'll decide.

Speaker 134 And then what I don't know, I'm going to share. Hey, guys, do you know this? I read your book, and there's a lot of points in it that I'm like, oh, I didn't see it that way.

Speaker 64 You mean the truth about Islam?

Speaker 134 yeah no no no that one too I've read three of your books now um

Speaker 29 and I know I haven't even read three of my books I know and then I get quizzed on on these scandals and I read

Speaker 29 my homework I read the books

Speaker 134 so you wrote you read it is about Islam yeah was it offensive to you no um there no because I know the intention of what you're writing Things are not offensive to me.

Speaker 134 Like when someone asked me a question about Islam.

Speaker 152 Did you disagree with things?

Speaker 134 I would like to discuss the framework, because to me, what you set up in the introduction is the framework with which people read the whole thing.

Speaker 75 You've definitely heard us out. We should have you back to hear you out on that.

Speaker 29 Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
We should do that. We should do it.
Absolutely.

Speaker 29 Absolutely.

Speaker 98 So next time, let's have you back and let's just talk about that.

Speaker 134 Yeah, and I'll bring a friend, too, because there's a couple people I'd like you guys to meet that I think would be very interesting for you to meet to hear their perspectives.

Speaker 29 Oh, we can bring more people. Oh, yeah, we bring more people.
I mean, if you're going to start bringing people,

Speaker 29 we got people. Well, there are four of these

Speaker 29 senior people and

Speaker 29 raise some others.

Speaker 16 You are a remarkably courageous man, and I salute you and really respect you.

Speaker 134 And I will say, being here, you are four exceptionally nice human beings. Every person in this building, which, by the way, the meeting we had yesterday, there's Afghani, there's a Jew,

Speaker 134 and there's me in there. Like, I don't understand the perception of people here.
You are incredibly good human being who I believe want what is best for Americans and America.

Speaker 134 Now, we don't have to agree about that, but your intention is quite clear, and I feel that.

Speaker 81 So, mutual. Thank you.

Speaker 90 What a good day.

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Speaker 63 There's a couple things that are disturbing.

Speaker 31 Pat is having a love affair with the

Speaker 29 Muslim Pakistani liberal, and he can't let it go.

Speaker 25 He was just right before I went on the air.

Speaker 127 He's like, I have to tell you, as Riaz Patal watches.

Speaker 86 His soulmate. I mean, when you meet your soulmate, what are you going to do?

Speaker 29 Yeah, he's like, I'm going to be.

Speaker 86 It's sad to belong to someone else when the right one comes along.

Speaker 86 I think England Dan and John Ford Cole said it based.

Speaker 25 We'll get to that.

Speaker 16 Also, audio from journalist mocking Donald Trump.

Speaker 39 Is this really what we want?

Speaker 122 And a prediction that has come true.

Speaker 31 Unfortunately, not one of mine. It was one of Stu's.

Speaker 122 But a prediction come true.

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Speaker 14 Welcome to the program.

Speaker 15 The Trump children just were introduced and are walking now to be seated for the inauguration.

Speaker 58 Good.

Speaker 95 Yay.

Speaker 137 This is such a proud day.

Speaker 39 It really is.

Speaker 77 And I felt the same way with Barack Obama: that it is a proud day.

Speaker 90 I do remember fearing his speech.

Speaker 80 I have less fear of Donald Trump's speech, but I still do have fear of the speech.

Speaker 63 But what a great day.

Speaker 108 A peaceful transfer of power.

Speaker 31 No country does it like this.

Speaker 31 No country does it like this.

Speaker 52 Welcome to the program.

Speaker 79 We do have to get to a couple of predictions that happen on this program.

Speaker 29 Both right. Well, if they're right, I mean...

Speaker 40 Yeah, maybe Judy needed me to take the wheel here because...

Speaker 66 Yeah, because I didn't make them.

Speaker 29 Stu did.

Speaker 38 And so did Lawrence Jones.

Speaker 40 Yeah, Lawrence Jones really nailed his. They did.
Mine

Speaker 64 is, you know, these happened, what, in August?

Speaker 40 We spent a lot of time talking about all the stuff we've got wrong over the past year and a half, which has been

Speaker 40 everything. It's almost impossible to count the examples.
Yes. But this one is, I think, interesting.

Speaker 78 This was election night, wasn't it?

Speaker 29 No, it was August. It was August.

Speaker 40 I did say it on election. I said it a bunch of times.
Okay.

Speaker 40 But this one.

Speaker 29 It was really a clear cry for help.

Speaker 46 I really was like, please pay attention to me.

Speaker 156 Please pay attention to me.

Speaker 29 Well, yes.

Speaker 40 But this one is really negative, far beyond

Speaker 40 the way that I think people will look at it. And then also, Lawrence's is really prescient.

Speaker 29 Where's his play?

Speaker 52 This is back in August.

Speaker 51 Yeah.

Speaker 30 How's he going to be remembered?

Speaker 157 He's going to be remembered as the first black president.

Speaker 29 Okay,

Speaker 39 tell me that Lawrence didn't nail it.

Speaker 29 Oh, come on. He's going to be remembered as the first black president.
I mean,

Speaker 122 he nailed it.

Speaker 114 Can I tell you something?

Speaker 106 He nailed it

Speaker 122 that is new that is new because because Bill Clinton was the first black president

Speaker 40 that is true that is true so you know we were busting on Lawrence on that yesterday when he came on on the Pat and Stu show however the rest of this is actually me blabbing about my prediction you know that's that's gonna be a great president is he gonna be remembered as a great president

Speaker 40 I'm telling you, he's gonna walk out of here with a 60% approval rating.

Speaker 29 He is. He is.

Speaker 86 And that was really close because

Speaker 86 he's 63. I think, no, no, he's at 60.

Speaker 29 60, exactly.

Speaker 100 But Stu said 60.

Speaker 29 I said 60.

Speaker 40 And I kind of go out.

Speaker 109 I asked the question.

Speaker 40 That's true. So you were part of the prediction.

Speaker 64 I was part of the

Speaker 102 catalyst, the water for your flower.

Speaker 64 Right.

Speaker 100 You exercised the genius out of Lawrence and Stu.

Speaker 29 Right, yes, thank you. Yeah, thank you.
Thank you.

Speaker 135 So it was really me that was right.

Speaker 121 And the reason why we talked about that is

Speaker 40 because you might say now, well, yeah, he's walking out of there as a popular president. I mean, 60% approval rating.

Speaker 40 The man had between 42 and 45 for almost his entire term.

Speaker 40 He was not a popular president when he was president.

Speaker 30 As low as either 38 or 39 at one point.

Speaker 18 Well, he is a guy who is, there are no scandals.

Speaker 29 Right. I mean,

Speaker 10 when you will raise him, that's why I've said he is going to be remembered as the likes of FDR. He is going to be somebody who is studied as almost the perfect president.

Speaker 40 I think you're right. And here's,

Speaker 40 first of all,

Speaker 40 he was completely an unpopular president until this election started. And when this election started, number one, people stopped focusing on what he was doing.

Speaker 40 And number two, the people that we focused on were largely unpopular to the general population.

Speaker 40 And yes, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are both included in that, but many of the other candidates were as well, including like Ted Cruz, for example.

Speaker 40 Other candidates that ran in that early primary were not overwhelmingly popular to the general society of America.

Speaker 40 Then obviously Trump and Hillary Clinton are number one and number two with the worst approval ratings ever by major party nominees.

Speaker 40 So now what society has done has forgotten his presidency and just compared him in a point when he was not being focused on against these other two people who they don't like and constantly focused on for a year and a half.

Speaker 40 So his approval rating has risen not because of things that he's done, but because every people are contrasting him against these other two candidates who they don't like.

Speaker 40 So, now he's risen up to 60%. That is going to be, I would not be surprised at all if that goes up and up and up and up from here.

Speaker 40 And what is most important about this is not whether Barack Obama is seen as popular. The issue is, he thinks about this in context of how historians will look at the Barack Obama presidency.

Speaker 40 He takes a country in economic crisis. George W.
Bush leaves with an approval rating in the low to mid 30s.

Speaker 29 Okay.

Speaker 40 He takes office. He leaves with a 60% approval rating.
And then Trump takes office with a 40% approval rating.

Speaker 40 Now, Trump may be able to do, if he makes America great again, maybe he'll be able to get rid of this narrative. And obviously we're all rooting for that.

Speaker 61 However, I don't think anyone could.

Speaker 78 Because of what I believe is going to come, and maybe it doesn't come in the next four years, but what I believe is going to come, the great instability that is on the horizon,

Speaker 69 and the fact that he doesn't have the press

Speaker 66 that will help him.

Speaker 116 He doesn't have, more importantly, he doesn't have EDU.

Speaker 27 If you don't have, if you don't have the educational system behind you, you don't win in the end.

Speaker 29 Barack Obama, remember,

Speaker 46 it was a year in pictures.

Speaker 92 Time magazine did a year in pictures.

Speaker 46 They never put the Tea Party rally of

Speaker 39 9-12 up in the year in pictures.

Speaker 114 How did you miss that?

Speaker 63 They didn't miss that.

Speaker 10 They didn't want that in there as the history that you would look back on and see.

Speaker 50 It was the whitewashing of the times.

Speaker 97 So you will see the role that we played because the winners write the history books.

Speaker 10 And the winners since 1920 have been the progressives.

Speaker 155 And so they will write the history books that will make him even more legendary than what we remembered.

Speaker 104 It's why I've been saying for the last eight years, you've got to write a journal and keep a journal on what is happening in today's world so you can teach it to your children and grandchildren because it won't be in books.

Speaker 65 It just won't, it will be a different version in books and a lot of it will be glossed over.

Speaker 19 And, you know, and the same to be said for Donald Trump.

Speaker 40 Yeah. And hopefully, you know, look, if Trump's presidency goes really well and he wins over America, I think a lot of this narrative can be destroyed.
And hopefully that's the case.

Speaker 40 But if he does not, I mean, because Trump comes into this with certain advantages and disadvantages.

Speaker 40 One of the reasons he was able to become president of the United States is because he came in as a very well-known figure that people had been inviting into their homes for a long time.

Speaker 40 The other part of that is people really know him and have made up their minds about him. It's not like Barack Obama.

Speaker 40 When he came into office, people had this open book of possibilities of who this guy could become. And that's not the way people look at Donald Trump because they just know him really well.

Speaker 40 I mean, he's been around for a long time. He's got a public record of almost 40 years.
So for him to turn that around will be difficult.

Speaker 29 I hope he does it.

Speaker 40 But if he doesn't do it, they're going to look at the Obama administration as the high watermark of the years of 2000 to 2020. And they're going to look at the policies

Speaker 40 as the hero there, even though that's not true. People are saying, well, you know what? Look, Trump got elected and the stock market has gone through the roof.

Speaker 40 He is going to leave this. He hasn't left office yet.

Speaker 40 Barack Obama is going to leave office with the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the highest point it's ever been at. They're going to look back and see the,

Speaker 40 yes, there are lots of problems with the unemployment rate and the things that it measures.

Speaker 29 They're going to see it in 4.8. 4.8.

Speaker 40 They're going to see it down under 5%.

Speaker 40 They're going to see all of these things. They're going to have a lot of stuff, and they're going to compare it to only when he took office,

Speaker 40 which was

Speaker 40 an economic crisis that was at its lowest, which is, of course, a big reason why he won so easily.

Speaker 40 And, you know, they're going to compare these things.

Speaker 76 They're playing for 2020 or 2024.

Speaker 41 This is perfectly played.

Speaker 40 Yeah. I mean, look, Trump might be,

Speaker 40 he's certainly pulled off many miracles.

Speaker 43 May I go into a movie writing script here for a second?

Speaker 63 Sure. If I were at a pitch table and I said, okay, let's write a movie.

Speaker 78 And I said,

Speaker 79 you've got this group of people, let's call them progressives, that

Speaker 63 control the media, control education, and we have this guy.

Speaker 43 We're going to give him, first thing we're going to do is we're going to give him a Nobel Peace Prize. He's got to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

Speaker 34 And somebody stupidly says, yeah, right out of the beginning of the movie, he wins a Nobel Peace Prize.

Speaker 46 And nobody realizes that the guy hasn't even done anything yet.

Speaker 63 He's given one speech.

Speaker 31 He ran for president.

Speaker 35 What qualified him for a Nobel Peace Prize?

Speaker 89 Hopes and dreams.

Speaker 29 He's going to

Speaker 50 well, we're going to use that as foreshadowing on how this is going to play out.

Speaker 148 We're going to show that he's kind of in the bag

Speaker 29 with the system, that the group of global elites are all behind him.

Speaker 63 And so they've just engineered this global peace prize for him.

Speaker 10 So they give him the peace prize.

Speaker 48 Then all these scandals happen, but he turns the tables and concentrates and makes everybody look like conspiracy theorists.

Speaker 55 And they whitewash.

Speaker 109 Then

Speaker 67 what they're really doing is they want to change the global system because the global system doesn't work.

Speaker 45 And we're going to, the bad guys are these, these big shadowy figures.

Speaker 69 And so the shadowy figures are

Speaker 154 all part of the big banks and everything else.

Speaker 98 And they're doing this. They're going to whitewash.

Speaker 65 Then this capitalist, who's not really a capitalist, he's kind of been in with these guys the whole time.

Speaker 70 He goes in and he's just doing a show.

Speaker 43 But what he doesn't know is

Speaker 124 we've got the world positioned into a place place to where everything's going to collapse in his first four or eight years.

Speaker 27 And everyone will remember, oh, it was so good with this other guy.

Speaker 16 We got to go back to those policies and it will be done for all time.

Speaker 52 You want to hijack a world in a movie?

Speaker 39 That's the script I would write.

Speaker 47 And it's set up.

Speaker 40 I mean, hopefully Trump can change a narrative like that. But I mean, they're going to go back and say, look, these are the policies that work.
These are the policies that people want.

Speaker 40 Look, Barack Obama was a great president I mean even Bush who left office with the approval rating the low to mid 30s has we've seen lots of approval ratings past his administration in the area of 50 and above and you know that's because they're comparing it to what they have now He's out of their minds if Barack Obama leaves office at 60 I mean if he if he has anything if it's anything similar to what happened to most of our past presidents that approval rating as they go away increases people are going to be looking back he might hit 70 He might hit 75.

Speaker 40 These are unheard of.

Speaker 126 He is going to be FDR.

Speaker 40 He's got the, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 29 He's going to be FDR. Look what that did to our country.

Speaker 40 The fact that FDR had a high approval rating and is looked at as one of the greatest presidents of all time by historians, what has that done to our country?

Speaker 40 It basically gave you the $19 trillion of debt.

Speaker 53 Yes, it did.

Speaker 40 It's basically responsible for that.

Speaker 48 It's something that he knew at the time and said, this won't work.

Speaker 78 We're going to have to deal with this debt at some time, and that's that's immoral.

Speaker 128 But they did it.

Speaker 40 I mean, this legacy is dangerous, and it's one of those things that if you were there and lived through it, you remember for the vast majority of this guy's presidency, he was in the low 40s.

Speaker 40 He was fighting with unpopular policies, policies that people didn't like. He was constantly

Speaker 40 seen as a person who really

Speaker 40 didn't connect. with the American people with the exception of election time.

Speaker 56 It's why people say that we don't have to, Glenn, Glenn, you don't connect with the left and you're, you know, basically,

Speaker 37 I want to rub it in their face.

Speaker 99 Rubbing it in their face will ensure a loss for all time

Speaker 63 because our kids are going to be educated in the way Stu has said.

Speaker 94 This is the greatest president of all time.

Speaker 52 And unless we correct some of those things like we did with Riaz, Riaz is, Riaz is intellectually curious.

Speaker 47 He's going to go look up those scandals.

Speaker 29 I know. He's going to look them up.

Speaker 70 And he's going to decide because he is going to now have to decide

Speaker 52 which world do I live in?

Speaker 77 Do I take the

Speaker 77 red pill or the blue pill?

Speaker 67 And he's taking the pill, and I don't remember which one's which, to wake up, man.

Speaker 82 Wake up.

Speaker 60 And

Speaker 48 he'll see that they're not conspiracy

Speaker 29 theories.

Speaker 58 And

Speaker 63 he will then stand in his group of people and say, guys, you're wrong about this.

Speaker 105 And it may not be as bad as maybe these guys think, but this is pretty bad.

Speaker 143 This is pretty bad.

Speaker 76 And by the way, the Benghazi scandal isn't even on the National Review's list.

Speaker 39 And they covered it extensively.

Speaker 29 Nine scandals.

Speaker 31 Benghazi is one of the worst scandals of all time.

Speaker 40 Maybe it's because it's seen as a Hillary scandal rather than an Obama scandal, but I mean, they list the email scandal on there.

Speaker 100 I mean, he was.

Speaker 29 He was president of the United States and retired at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, wasn't heard from again.

Speaker 18 There was was a deal on.

Speaker 98 There was a deal on a HuffPo or one of those today that I saw the 50 most iconic pictures of the president.

Speaker 138 I was like, oh, I want to see these.

Speaker 109 You know what one of them was?

Speaker 34 The night they went in

Speaker 51 for

Speaker 63 Osama, where the president was not sitting at the lead of the table.

Speaker 67 And I thought to myself, that is an iconic photo, but not for the reasons you think.

Speaker 20 You don't even notice that he wasn't the man in charge.

Speaker 61 He went up most of the night. Remember this?

Speaker 29 And played cards.

Speaker 133 Yeah, he was playing cards.

Speaker 61 He didn't even want to be in the room.

Speaker 79 He didn't want to be a part of that.

Speaker 75 What's his face said that?

Speaker 29 His

Speaker 75 basketball buddy.

Speaker 29 Yeah, that's what I was saying. Reggie.

Speaker 29 Yeah, Reggie. Love.

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Speaker 42 So, George W.

Speaker 128 Bush, Trump's family, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer,

Speaker 41 Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama just walked out.

Speaker 49 Now,

Speaker 138 you know, I've talked about yesterday, I talked about what is donald trump's night going to be like tonight the night before you become president of the united states do you sleep

Speaker 29 do you sleep i mean what is that like well he didn't look like he slept very well coming out of the blair house because he didn't want to sleep there to begin with what was the story with that he didn't is that true yeah yeah he wanted to stay at the hotel uh which is probably much gaudier than the blair house why did he why did he have to stay at the blair house well because that's what they do that's what you do it's just

Speaker 86 and and he had to really be convinced of that that that all presidents do this the night before the inauguration.

Speaker 40 They stay at the Blair House.

Speaker 78 It's tradition.

Speaker 79 It's important.

Speaker 86 It's easier to defend. Just do it.
And I think they finally convinced him to do it because he didn't want to.

Speaker 45 So he's,

Speaker 142 would somebody teach him how to tie a tie, man?

Speaker 148 It doesn't go past your belt line.

Speaker 29 No, that's the way he always does that.

Speaker 64 I know that's the way he always loves him.

Speaker 29 But anyway,

Speaker 98 so everybody's up there.

Speaker 29 Now, imagine Barack Obama.

Speaker 45 Imagine being the president of the United States, where you're responsible for everything.

Speaker 56 And more than that, when you move,

Speaker 29 almost the entire country moves.

Speaker 145 You know, when you move, when you go someplace, they shut down all the streets.

Speaker 88 You're getting on a plane.

Speaker 56 You're getting in an hour,

Speaker 125 you will be getting on a plane and you'll be flying away.

Speaker 75 Well, he'll probably get in a car and drive away.

Speaker 29 No, no, no.

Speaker 75 Aren't they living in D.C.?

Speaker 76 No, I thought they were going to Palm Springs.

Speaker 78 They have a house in Palm Springs now.

Speaker 29 They are also doing it in Palm Spring.

Speaker 64 They're also living in D.C., but I think they have a lot of people.

Speaker 29 They were going to

Speaker 29 be able to do that. They were going to vacation.

Speaker 136 They were going to take off to California, right?

Speaker 126 Really?

Speaker 94 I thought they bought a house in Palm Springs.

Speaker 29 I think they did.

Speaker 152 So, anyway, we looked at it.

Speaker 55 In an hour from now, as soon as he says, you know, I take the oath,

Speaker 29 Barack Obama's life is over.

Speaker 25 I mean, it's weird. Well, his life is over.

Speaker 19 I mean, his presidential life is over.

Speaker 29 Nobody is.

Speaker 16 But yeah, nobody.

Speaker 14 It's a a transition. But I'm saying to you as a man,

Speaker 37 that's got to be like coming off a heroin.

Speaker 27 It really, I mean, it's got to be weird.

Speaker 25 Good.

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Speaker 145 Does anyone have butterflies in their stomach?

Speaker 86 No. Nope.

Speaker 81 No? Really?

Speaker 29 I mean, we're watching history here.

Speaker 55 I mean, they're

Speaker 98 ready to administer the

Speaker 89 oath of office in about 35, 40 minutes.

Speaker 58 And

Speaker 45 Donald Trump now is in front of the crowd.

Speaker 22 The crowd, you say, looks small on people are posting.

Speaker 97 Are these who is taking these pictures?

Speaker 39 Average people or the news media?

Speaker 40 As far as the crowd,

Speaker 40 they're the overhead camera shot of the mall. Now, I mean, look, Donald Trump has never had problems bringing crowds anywhere.
So, I mean, I can't imagine that they're accurate.

Speaker 40 My guess is people are taking older photos from earlier this morning and reposting them.

Speaker 40 However, it does seem to be major news organizations, some places, our own listeners are sending me screenshots of television broadcasts that are showing them from right now.

Speaker 29 It looked jam-packed.

Speaker 50 Yeah, I just saw the one I saw.

Speaker 105 Again, this is Fox.

Speaker 67 It looked jam-packed.

Speaker 29 It looked like an 800,000-person crowd. Good.

Speaker 125 Let me go to Michael Pelka because he is actually in the crowd.

Speaker 71 How far away are you from the podium?

Speaker 103 I'm about 200 yards, 300 yards away.

Speaker 21 Michael, you were at the Obama inauguration, were you not?

Speaker 103 No, I was not.

Speaker 29 This was my very first.

Speaker 29 But it's packed, Glenn.

Speaker 103 I can tell you guys, it is jammed and there's overflow. I had tickets in the orange section, which was about 100 yards away.
And by the time I got here, they had overflowed the place.

Speaker 103 It was like the old People's Express Airlines, people rushing in. So I'm a little farther away, but it is packed and passionate.
I'll tell you that.

Speaker 52 Was there any booze when the Nancy Pelosi's or anybody walked out?

Speaker 103 There were two things that happened that you could see. Nancy Pelosi was announced, and there was a resounding boo that rippled through the crowd.

Speaker 103 And every time they put the camera on Hillary Clinton, the crowd started chanting, lock her up, lock her up.

Speaker 75 Oh, man.

Speaker 29 Oh, my God. Jeez.

Speaker 29 And what did happen?

Speaker 61 And how

Speaker 98 when the president walked out and was introduced, were there booze or did they handle that right?

Speaker 103 It was respectful. There was nobody booed, but there were a couple of the kitty cat hat people here who were screaming and cheering.
He's still my president.

Speaker 39 What the hell is a kitty cat hat?

Speaker 78 That's the ones who have the shot at Donald Trump's words about what he grabbed.

Speaker 103 They use a different word, Glenn.

Speaker 29 I was told I said it too many times on the radio.

Speaker 121 Yeah, probably say it.

Speaker 40 Let's not expand that usage here.

Speaker 29 Okay.

Speaker 93 I get it. I get it.

Speaker 64 Everybody gets it now. I get it.
I just was a little behind.

Speaker 2 So what are you, what are you, what are your thoughts, Michael?

Speaker 121 What have you seen?

Speaker 103 I've seen a ton of people who look very hopeful today, and I've seen small groups of angry people who have been here with bullhorns and signs, and they're out in the streets outside screaming.

Speaker 29 They always are in D.C.

Speaker 29 They're always out there.

Speaker 39 And during Obama there were people that did that on our side.

Speaker 100 And you still have Vietnam protesters I think on the mall in Washington.

Speaker 86 It's like, okay, it's been over for 40 years.

Speaker 29 Let's move past.

Speaker 135 Michael, we're seeing that.

Speaker 40 We're spending some time with the bikers.

Speaker 103 You know, the bikers who are here.

Speaker 29 Yeah, sure, sure.

Speaker 100 And?

Speaker 103 There are several of them and several groups of them, and they are gathered, and they are going to make their presence known tomorrow.

Speaker 103 They said, we're here today and we will, some of them will ride in the parade, but they said, we're really here for tomorrow. So pay attention to that.

Speaker 40 Yeah, Michael, we're seeing lots of reports from around DC of broken windows by, I'm certainly not going to call them protesters, of vandals, criminals, breaking windows of restaurants and all over the place.

Speaker 40 Have you seen anything like that in the localized location?

Speaker 103 Not where I've been. Doc Thompson sent me a text saying that he heard about that.

Speaker 103 I was a couple blocks away from the deplorable last night when the riot police came rushing in, and they seemed to get that under control pretty quickly.

Speaker 103 But you have anarchists here yelling F the police and break down the government, et cetera. But there's such a police presence here.
I don't see how anything could really happen.

Speaker 40 That's positive.

Speaker 43 Michael, thank you very much.

Speaker 92 And you're covering it for the Blaze.

Speaker 67 And the one thing I really want is

Speaker 63 I really just want to see the shot of the president on the step of the helicopter waving goodbye.

Speaker 29 I just,

Speaker 124 that's the memory I want seared in my mind of him of flying away.

Speaker 109 So thank you so much, Michael.

Speaker 3 Appreciate it.

Speaker 89 Michael Opelka from the Blaze reporting there

Speaker 68 at the scene.

Speaker 31 Let me share a couple of things with you.

Speaker 35 From the Mercury Vault.

Speaker 146 Got a couple of things. Now, today,

Speaker 76 what's happening is

Speaker 10 there are counselors in many schools, at least in Connecticut, and I can't believe this is only a Connecticut thing.

Speaker 51 There are social workers and counselors that are working with the children who are upset by Barack Obama leaving and Donald Trump coming in.

Speaker 33 So these things probably won't happen.

Speaker 41 Let me give you a couple of

Speaker 35 letters from the vault.

Speaker 43 This one is from Ronald Reagan.

Speaker 74 This one was, Ronald wrote, Reagan wrote to kids in school who had

Speaker 78 questions about the administration and what was going to happen.

Speaker 61 Now imagine,

Speaker 43 is this happening?

Speaker 32 Do the teachers now say, hey, this is good, and here's how

Speaker 37 the transfer of power, and let's write the president and say congratulations.

Speaker 78 Is that happening today?

Speaker 95 He writes,

Speaker 137 Dear boys and girls, thank you for your support that you expressed in your letters.

Speaker 147 I encourage you to watch news on how policy policy develops in those areas of special interest to you.

Speaker 63 In this way, you'll best learn answers to the many questions you raised about the direction of my new administration.

Speaker 63 Your views are always a welcome message that you care about the welfare of America. I hope that you will always involve yourself as concerned citizens dedicated to the progress of our country.

Speaker 52 With best wishes, always, sincerely, Ronald Reagan.

Speaker 124 He's not the only president to do this.

Speaker 63 This has been a

Speaker 29 been a theme.

Speaker 123 This one

Speaker 20 was written by a boy in Miss Jones' class, October 29th, 1915.

Speaker 79 This was written by

Speaker 46 Theodore Roosevelt.

Speaker 60 My dear young friend, the question was, what do we do?

Speaker 49 What's the best way I can

Speaker 55 I can be a good American?

Speaker 61 The thing for you to do is to go on and work hard as a schoolboy.

Speaker 31 I'm sure you're a first-class young American of just the right type.

Speaker 16 Then, when you're a little older, it'll be time enough for you to decide what occupation you'll take up.

Speaker 63 I wish, listen to this. Imagine a president writing this to a class.

Speaker 86 But he wasn't president in 1950.

Speaker 16 No, but he was still, you remember, he ran for president and lost.

Speaker 87 Right.

Speaker 118 I wish you to learn to bear arms

Speaker 10 so that you, if your country needs you, you can be a soldier and fight for your country.

Speaker 108 But you also must learn how to work and how to be a good citizen in times of peace.

Speaker 52 Show this letter to your principal, Mr.

Speaker 67 Jones, and your teacher, Ms. Jones.

Speaker 29 Hmm.

Speaker 34 Something going on with nepotism there.

Speaker 77 Imagine the president writing to a class today, I wish that you would learn to bear arms.

Speaker 24 Theodore Roosevelt thought that it was so important that every kid should learn to bear arms that he wanted every elementary school to have a shooting range in it.

Speaker 10 And the only reason why we don't have shooting ranges in our elementary schools is because the people didn't reject shooting ranges.

Speaker 27 They said, how dare you, the federal government, tell us what we should do in our schools?

Speaker 12 We'll decide, not you.

Speaker 45 That's the only reason why we don't have shooting ranges in all of our elementary schools.

Speaker 154 How the world has changed in just a hundred years.

Speaker 39 Now this, gold line.

Speaker 63 Just now minutes away from a new president being sworn in.

Speaker 63 I was thinking about it driving in today.

Speaker 10 The most amazing swearing-in ceremony of my life

Speaker 141 was the swearing-in of Ronald Reagan.

Speaker 69 Because

Speaker 63 if you watched it, it was at about this time that the news anchor broke in and said, we've just received word

Speaker 94 what?

Speaker 29 Yeah, the hostages

Speaker 20 that Iran has released the hostages.

Speaker 40 And we got a similar with El Chapo

Speaker 40 being

Speaker 40 extradited to the United States as a supposed

Speaker 40 message from Mexico to the outgoing administration and to the incoming administration. There you go.

Speaker 32 It's amazing when you're not a softy what the bad guys will do.

Speaker 63 What's going to happen over the next few days?

Speaker 50 I don't know.

Speaker 145 Donald Trump could bring about some very much positive change,

Speaker 147 but I also

Speaker 67 know that with change comes strife.

Speaker 98 Even if we start to, we were just talking about this off the air.

Speaker 63 If we start to have great job growth and great growth of our economy, this administration has prepared us for deflation by printing $4 trillion.

Speaker 63 If we start to have a healthy economy and the businesses start, the company, corporations start taking their money and using it, first they're going to take it out of the stock market, stock market market will go down.

Speaker 67 And they'll start investing it in building new factories, et cetera, et cetera, which will then circulate all that money.

Speaker 63 And there is too much money in the system.

Speaker 43 It is why the Dow Jones is at record highs right now, because that's an inflated price, because the people and corporations were the ones that got those $4 trillion,

Speaker 94 and they just parked it in the stock market.

Speaker 43 This is exactly what happened before hyperinflation or during hyperinflation with

Speaker 29 Germany.

Speaker 145 The stock market went through the roof.

Speaker 104 It was the only place, and then it came crashing down.

Speaker 107 May I recommend Goldline?

Speaker 152 History repeats itself, not exactly, but it rhymes.

Speaker 13 And we're going to pay for the mistakes of the last eight years.

Speaker 10 Even if we're fixing them, we're going to have to pay for it.

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Speaker 71 Well, the comparisons of the crowds has now begun.

Speaker 14 Of course.

Speaker 40 It has. And look, I don't care about Obama's crowd being very big in 2009.
We all know, first black president, it was quite a moment.

Speaker 135 That was huge.

Speaker 46 I really don't think you can compare

Speaker 86 an American was there

Speaker 75 in 2008.

Speaker 29 Every

Speaker 2 single American.

Speaker 156 If you look at the pictures from 2009 when he was sworn in, it is a

Speaker 29 monstrous crowd.

Speaker 56 No, come on.

Speaker 43 It was a monstrous crowd.

Speaker 86 Well, they estimated it at 1.2 million, right?

Speaker 29 Yeah, it was a monstrous crowd. It was big.

Speaker 40 It says a giant zilch about what his presidency was and what it was going to become.

Speaker 29 Right.

Speaker 20 It said everything about America not being the home of racists.

Speaker 152 That's true.

Speaker 40 I will say, I mean, I've been able to track down now multiple pictures and live cameras of this event, and it is, for an inauguration a small crowd quite a small crowd

Speaker 29 which is surprising to me

Speaker 40 no you're looking I don't know I mean I don't you know it's hard to measure these things but you're looking at you know you can see the overheads and and I was initially concerned and I didn't want to bring this up because it looked like they might have been posting old photos but I mean look

Speaker 40 it's definitely sparse certainly compared to 2009 which is almost unfair how many people went to nine the nine twelve Tea Party rally what was that estimated

Speaker 29 Between 700,000, something like that.

Speaker 62 Well, 400,050,000.

Speaker 29 Okay.

Speaker 125 So

Speaker 125 this crowd

Speaker 48 is, I think, about maybe three times the size.

Speaker 24 Up to the first monument.

Speaker 60 The main bulk where it's really full

Speaker 48 is about three times the size of the tea party, maybe four,

Speaker 145 wouldn't you say?

Speaker 69 Because that's the same basic area the tea party was in.

Speaker 63 They just didn't take care of that lawn.

Speaker 43 And we've spoken on that lawn several times.

Speaker 40 I'm not sure how to, honestly, I don't know how to count the crowds.

Speaker 109 I don't know.

Speaker 121 I don't want to get into number crowds.

Speaker 40 It's hard to do with any other comparison. I can compare it to other events in the same place.

Speaker 40 And you look at, I mean, look, this doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean he's going to be a bad president.
No, no, no, it doesn't mean anything.

Speaker 40 I mean, certainly he's talked about how inspired people are. I am surprised because Donald Trump is so good at bringing crowds.

Speaker 29 But this isn't surprising.

Speaker 50 This is pomp and circumstance.

Speaker 29 It is.

Speaker 61 This is not him, you know, this is not him, you know, leaning up against.

Speaker 63 Well, I haven't heard his speech yet, but it's not him leaning up against the podium and going, you know what,

Speaker 71 let me tell you something about the Kardashians.

Speaker 121 You know what I mean? No, yeah.

Speaker 40 It's a different vibe, obviously.

Speaker 67 So this is not his, that's not why he draws a clause.

Speaker 75 Also, they're expecting rain.

Speaker 86 Maybe that chase is. And security,

Speaker 29 they talked about weather. They talked about heavy.
It's half security.

Speaker 86 He's a hassle to get around it.

Speaker 29 It is.

Speaker 40 Look, but I mean, you know, this is the same story every single year. It was nine degrees or something when Obama did his.

Speaker 40 I mean, there's always something in Washington, D.C., see, in the middle of a winter.

Speaker 63 Yeah, I don't think you can't play games with the crowd,

Speaker 105 but it has nothing to say except like last night, Barack Obama said no president has ever had a ceremony like this before at the Lincoln Memorial the night before.

Speaker 52 Yes, they do.

Speaker 59 George Bush did.

Speaker 108 Barack Obama did.

Speaker 56 We do that.

Speaker 63 And then he said, you know, that there's never going to be a crowd like this.

Speaker 43 It'll be on, you know, you won't be able to compare.

Speaker 63 If we're truthful about these things, maybe he'll stop making these grandiose

Speaker 155 statements that just are not, they're meaningless.

Speaker 67 Stop it. They're meaningless.

Speaker 40 I'm going to take the rest of the day off on that comment.

Speaker 63 Well, we just have to tell the truth no matter where it falls because, for instance, this is meaningless.

Speaker 38 It doesn't mean that it's a small crowd.

Speaker 29 It doesn't matter at all.

Speaker 40 It doesn't affect anything. If he does a good job, people will like him.
If he doesn't, they won't. So this has nothing to do with anything else.

Speaker 5 It's not a popularity contest.

Speaker 40 I'm only surprised because he usually wins popularity contests. I mean, Donald Trump is

Speaker 40 able to bring crowds. People are enthusiastic.
And because, certainly the way he describes it is this is a movement, and here is, you've a guy who had no chance to win the presidency

Speaker 29 wouldn't you show up if you were a supporter.

Speaker 37 He also has made the point that he is bringing in the people who haven't voted ever, who haven't been a part of the system, who don't like the system.

Speaker 124 Why would they go to Washington, Washington, D.C.

Speaker 152 and watch this?

Speaker 19 Because their hero is about to be president of the United States in a couple of minutes. That's why.

Speaker 87 Doesn't matter anyway.

Speaker 19 Congratulations, President Trump.

Speaker 29 This is the Glenn Beck Program. Mercury.