Obama: Don't Be a Sycophant 1/19/17

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Speaker 14 There was something that was said by Barack Obama in his press conference yesterday that

Speaker 16 I had a hard time with.

Speaker 17 His last press conference yesterday,

Speaker 20 he gave the press some advice

Speaker 23 and said, and I quote, you're not supposed to be sycophants.

Speaker 23 You're supposed to be skeptics

Speaker 25 and you need

Speaker 13 to keep that up.

Speaker 28 Which the sycophant part, because that's what they've been doing,

Speaker 12 I couldn't believe the lack of self-awareness.

Speaker 18 And it continued.

Speaker 30 There's like 12 stories today

Speaker 12 of the left

Speaker 32 doing

Speaker 34 all the things that the right did, if not worse.

Speaker 18 And there's no, like, hey, gee, wow, you know what?

Speaker 35 This is what we were just complaining about with the right.

Speaker 37 No self-awareness at all.

Speaker 33 We begin there right now.

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Speaker 11 Hello, America. Welcome to the program.

Speaker 40 Let's see.

Speaker 11 Let me just, let me just read some headlines. We'll get to these stories as we go.

Speaker 23 Let me read some headlines and just see how this makes you feel.

Speaker 41 How does this make you feel?

Speaker 43 Trump's name removed from church prayer list to keep from traumatizing liberals.

Speaker 45 Let's see.

Speaker 46 Barack Obama

Speaker 47 at his press conference yesterday,

Speaker 49 quote, you're not supposed to be sycophants.

Speaker 50 You're supposed to be skeptics.

Speaker 49 Artists protest Trump by painting with human blood.

Speaker 55 It's art.

Speaker 57 Let's see here.

Speaker 28 GOP Senate hopefuls warned to ingratiate themselves to Donald Trump ahead of time.

Speaker 44 Let's see.

Speaker 63 Federal judge has to order DHS officials not to destroy emails.

Speaker 67 I love this one from the HuffPo.

Speaker 69 How the Trump presidency will change America.

Speaker 53 HuffPo contributors make their predictions.

Speaker 76 In an epic final speech, Joe Biden warns that the democratic world order is at risk of complete collapse.

Speaker 79 That's the headlines in that stack.

Speaker 81 I think we have enough there.

Speaker 71 I can't, I want him to start making a list, Stu,

Speaker 84 of all of the things where they are lacking self-awareness.

Speaker 69 For instance.

Speaker 86 Somebody wouldn't have shown up for Barack Obama's

Speaker 26 inaugural address and his inauguration.

Speaker 87 There'd be an issue with that?

Speaker 36 I quoted Jake Tapper yesterday and tweeted back to him because he did a story yesterday on one of the Kennedys,

Speaker 52 one of the new young ones, who is going to the inauguration.

Speaker 15 And the spin on the story was, he's still going.

Speaker 90 Here's why.

Speaker 92 And I wrote to Jake, Jake,

Speaker 64 had the shoe been on the other foot, which it has been for the last eight years,

Speaker 96 every story would have been,

Speaker 78 I can't believe these guys aren't going.

Speaker 37 What's wrong with them?

Speaker 18 They must be racists.

Speaker 71 How is it there's no self-awareness?

Speaker 73 That it's suddenly okay

Speaker 100 to not go to a president's inauguration?

Speaker 101 I don't know if I'm throwing a party, the less Democratic congressmen who show up to it, the better.

Speaker 102 No, I.

Speaker 73 How is it suddenly okay

Speaker 63 and not fear-mongering, selling fear, trying to get a leg up on fear?

Speaker 104 How is it suddenly acceptable?

Speaker 71 And everybody on the left goes, yep, he's right.

Speaker 105 He's right.

Speaker 53 When Joe Biden says the democratic world order is on the, uh, at risk of catastrophic collapse.

Speaker 108 Because they're always justified in what they do with whatever it is, like in this case, racism, or he's a,

Speaker 108 you know, he's a chauvinist pig.

Speaker 91 But here, here's the thing.

Speaker 101 So they're always justified.

Speaker 47 Here's the thing.

Speaker 26 And I did a poor job because I believed that Barack Obama would be the catalyst of that collapse.

Speaker 25 but the media did a very poor job of

Speaker 84 explaining that the collapse is not coming because of Barack Obama.

Speaker 50 I've never believed that the collapse was coming because of him,

Speaker 42 that the collapse would be used by him, and we were making other moves that would, for instance, adding another nine or ten trillion dollars to the debt that would add to the collapse

Speaker 95 and make it worse than it had to be.

Speaker 108 He doubled the debt, by the way.

Speaker 115 Yeah, he doubled the debt.

Speaker 100 And we also printed $4 trillion.

Speaker 47 Now, that's not Barack Obama that printed the $4 trillion.

Speaker 60 That's the system that allowed $4 trillion to be printed by the Fed.

Speaker 115 So

Speaker 47 the catastrophic collapse that I saw coming, I still see coming.

Speaker 116 And when I've said said that to them recently, they laugh at me.

Speaker 117 Well,

Speaker 26 okay,

Speaker 118 you're gonna just talk your way out of it.

Speaker 76 No, no,

Speaker 114 no.

Speaker 119 In fact,

Speaker 49 you didn't see catastrophic collapse. Now, who's a bigger fear-monger?

Speaker 32 The person who thinks the United States is

Speaker 70 has done so much damage over the last 100 years that these wars are not caused now by what George Bush did, but by what we were doing in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.

Speaker 73 That we've done so much damage to ourselves around the world in the last 100 years.

Speaker 60 We've done so much damage to the free market over the last 100 years.

Speaker 50 We've done so much damage to the dollar over the last 100 years.

Speaker 85 We've done so much damage to international banking over the last 100 years that it's only a matter of time before that chicken comes home to roost.

Speaker 37 Is he a fear monger, or is the one who says, everything

Speaker 66 is fine on Thursday,

Speaker 44 but the moment the guy I disagree with raises his hand and says, Now I'm taking over, the world is on the verge of collapse because of one man.

Speaker 24 Which one is logical?

Speaker 84 Which one,

Speaker 119 which one can back it up with facts?

Speaker 24 The one who said everything is sunshine and lollipops.

Speaker 16 We're on

Speaker 93 the road to recovery.

Speaker 100 There are no problems?

Speaker 24 We've doubled the debt in eight years and it's not a problem, but this guy in the next four years will be the sole reason for collapse.

Speaker 15 Outrageous.

Speaker 53 Absolutely outrageous.

Speaker 10 To say that, to say now that NATO is in trouble because of Donald Trump and only Donald Trump,

Speaker 102 no,

Speaker 81 no.

Speaker 25 NATO is in trouble because NATO has screwed itself and screwed, quite honestly, I think, the United States of America for a very long time.

Speaker 42 And Russia has been planting the seeds of anti-NATO sentiment in our country and in Europe for quite some time.

Speaker 130 While we were saying, George W.

Speaker 60 Bush, I look into Pootie Poot's eyes and he's a friend.

Speaker 42 And Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama saying

Speaker 28 they want their, the 80s just called, they want their foreign policy back.

Speaker 48 Russia is a friend of ours.

Speaker 49 We've ignored them.

Speaker 70 Now, all of a sudden, now today,

Speaker 60 Russia, and this one I love, today

Speaker 129 Russia is okay.

Speaker 12 Tomorrow, when he raises his hand, Russia is a problem.

Speaker 27 And to parse that one even more,

Speaker 32 Wikileaks

Speaker 53 was not a problem.

Speaker 64 Until WikiLeaks took down Hillary Clinton.

Speaker 96 Then they are traitors.

Speaker 104 And yet, when Manning is released, who supplied

Speaker 94 WikiLeaks with the information,

Speaker 109 that's a heroic move.

Speaker 26 I don't know how to solve all of that.

Speaker 69 How

Speaker 60 does anyone, and by the way, if you're on the right,

Speaker 57 You better check yourself before you wreck yourself, as I like to say from Nancy Pelosi, if I could quote her.

Speaker 101 Don't say that ever again, please.

Speaker 60 No, I'm quoting Nancy Pelosi.

Speaker 95 She's the coolest.

Speaker 133 You should stop quoting. No, no, no, she's not.

Speaker 136 All the kids are saying it. All the kids are saying it.

Speaker 54 All the kids are saying it.

Speaker 91 They're all saying it. People like Nancy Pelosi are saying it.

Speaker 14 You know all the hip kids are saying it.

Speaker 101 Well, but then you make a good point when you're not saying that particular phrase.

Speaker 101 Because every time we talk about hypocrisy all the time and largely on the left, it's where we find it constantly. It's obvious to us.

Speaker 101 However, you have to make sure that you did not take the opposite position of the left on the two issues you're discussing. Yes, because that means you've also changed your mind.

Speaker 138 Russia, for instance, and Wikileaks.

Speaker 140 Great examples.

Speaker 108 I mean, it's unbelievable. And it is wild.

Speaker 72 It's unbelievable.

Speaker 64 People ran to new chairs so fast that those of us who have been sitting exactly the same place at the table the whole time, we now find ourselves surrounded by people who don't believe what they're saying now.

Speaker 134 And the people who we thought believed what they said then are sitting at the other side of the the table and saying, you've changed.

Speaker 10 You're with other people. No.

Speaker 114 No.

Speaker 25 You've just occupied their chairs and they've just occupied your chairs.

Speaker 142 We're still sitting here.

Speaker 101 And it's, I mean, look, this has been around forever, right? I mean, we've played the clips of Harry Reid from like the 1990s, where he's like the hardest budget hawk,

Speaker 101 border hawk, wants to audit the Fed. I mean, he sounds like Rand Paul at times in his days

Speaker 101 back in the 90s. And he's changed.
And that sort of stuff does happen over time. Now we're seeing it, it's not 20 years,

Speaker 91 it's 20 minutes.

Speaker 52 I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 101 I guess we've just, everything's been accelerated, but man, I don't want to live in that world. I don't want to live in the world where you make up whatever opinion fits the political political.

Speaker 96 I don't want to live in the world where the Dixie chicks say, how dare you boycott us for our political opinion.

Speaker 18 And then all of Hollywood and the music industry boycotts the inauguration.

Speaker 91 Yeah.

Speaker 76 I mean, wait a minute.

Speaker 2 Hold on just a second.

Speaker 16 You're boycotting the Trump, Trump, but we can't boycott you.

Speaker 42 And again, we're un-American.

Speaker 124 We're wrong because we say we're going to boycott you.

Speaker 106 You're the American.

Speaker 108 The interesting part of that, too, is

Speaker 57 there was no Dixie Chicks boycott. Right.

Speaker 108 that's the other little aspect of that yeah they just if we could not play into that lie there was no Dixie Chicks boycott by Clear Channel it never happened I worked for the company at the time the country stations that I worked for were playing the Dixie Chicks there was no Dixie Chicks boycott it didn't happen Now, certain program directors might have gotten pissed and said, I'm not going to play the Dixie Chicks, but that was not a company-wide decision.

Speaker 140 But this seems to be a Democratic Party decision to boycott this man

Speaker 91 at the inauguration.

Speaker 101 And beyond that, these are people who all did business with him when he was the same guy.

Speaker 53 But I'm not running somebody to go find the pictures of Donald Trump with all of the celebrities because you know they all played at his casinos.

Speaker 128 Yeah, they played at his casinos.

Speaker 45 Oh, he doesn't have no questions.

Speaker 13 And

Speaker 13 he is such a

Speaker 48 star lover that you know that he.

Speaker 134 Yeah,

Speaker 40 he is such a star lover that you know he has pictures with all of those people.

Speaker 115 Oh, of course. So

Speaker 29 the time to release

Speaker 148 all of those pictures is right now.

Speaker 29 Oh, really?

Speaker 73 You loved him when he was paying you, but now he's the most evil man in the planet.

Speaker 108 And by the way, his opinions on any of this stuff and the things he's been saying has not really changed.

Speaker 108 I mean, some of his politics have changed, but the thing he's always been this vocal about women.

Speaker 144 I mean, he was vocal then.

Speaker 91 He's vocal.

Speaker 115 He was on Howard Stern for the love of Pete. And the left loved him for it.

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Speaker 121 Do we have an update on George and Barbara Bush?

Speaker 15 I know she was hospitalized yesterday, which was

Speaker 21 really concerning,

Speaker 18 but he has been, he was really sick.

Speaker 15 He had to have an operation yesterday to remove

Speaker 47 something from his throat, a blockage in his throat.

Speaker 22 Supposedly doing well.

Speaker 61 She is just in as a precaution because she was coughing a lot.

Speaker 153 I'm sure she was just, I mean, that happens a lot.

Speaker 153 Husband and wife come in like that and she's really concerned and starting to get a lot of people.

Speaker 60 They're the kind of couple too, though, that I think love each other so much and been together for so long that they're the kind of couple that dies together.

Speaker 128 You know what I mean?

Speaker 16 I said that to Tanya.

Speaker 95 She said, because I hadn't heard that Barbara Bush was in the hospital.

Speaker 70 She had just gotten a text alert.

Speaker 132 And I said, no, it's George H.W.

Speaker 26 Bush.

Speaker 21 And she said, no, Barbara has just been put in, too.

Speaker 15 And we were talking about it.

Speaker 162 And I said, that's the kind of couple that they die together. They're just this sweet pair that go together.

Speaker 15 And she said,

Speaker 46 I don't know.

Speaker 21 I think maybe they'd do anything.

Speaker 81 to not have to comment on why they're not going to the Trump inauguration.

Speaker 112 What do you think? Is this a giant scam?

Speaker 101 I don't know. His letter seemed kind of.

Speaker 87 I didn't read the letter.

Speaker 101 I didn't read the letter. I mean, he said, like, if my doctors tell me if I go outside in January, I might wind up six feet under.
Yeah. That's what Bush said.
I mean,

Speaker 101 it's interesting that really, until the election,

Speaker 101 the Bushes really did not show any love at all to Donald Trump.

Speaker 101 Instead, they have really respected the process.

Speaker 145 And I think everybody.

Speaker 78 That's what we're supposed to do.

Speaker 78 We're supposed to do that.

Speaker 106 You can disagree with the policies.

Speaker 108 Say what you want about the Bush family, but they respect the office of the presidency.

Speaker 108 I think H.W. did.
George W. Bush, as much as I'm not a fan, he did and does.

Speaker 72 Jeb,

Speaker 23 I truly believe that

Speaker 60 the Bush family is one of.

Speaker 163 I would say probably the most honorable family in politics today.

Speaker 162 Do you think of a family?

Speaker 101 I mean, there's very few, but I mean, they definitely respect the office, and I think they do those things well. I mean, you'd expect it.

Speaker 101 It's the only family that I can think of off the top of my head that's had two presidents.

Speaker 91 Yeah. Two presidents.
Name another guy, though.

Speaker 108 Name another man who would have put up with the bashing he's received over the last eight years where everything has been blamed on him. It was it was absurd, the things they blamed on him.

Speaker 101 He said nothing about it. He never said anything.

Speaker 108 You never heard George W. Bush say, not, I didn't do that.
That's not my fault.

Speaker 91 It's a bomber.

Speaker 108 You never heard any of that coming out from him.

Speaker 101 I can't think of one example. He just took it.

Speaker 164 I mean,

Speaker 138 Cheney was a little bit more outspoken.

Speaker 91 I can't remember.

Speaker 108 And you'd expect that from Cheney. Yeah.

Speaker 165 But George Bush said to me right at the end of his time in the Oval, He said, I am prepared.

Speaker 57 I did what I felt was right.

Speaker 132 And I am prepared to be the most hated man in the next 50 years.

Speaker 30 Let history, once everybody involved in this, is gone, let history judge.

Speaker 150 I'm prepared.

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Speaker 137 I

Speaker 72 tore.

Speaker 60 Again, no self-awareness.

Speaker 28 Stephen Colbert ridicules Donald Trump for taking off his first weekend.

Speaker 115 So

Speaker 24 he raises his hand on Friday.

Speaker 85 He says he's going to go to work on Monday.

Speaker 2 And Stephen Colbert is already saying, how much time does this guy need off?

Speaker 81 Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 70 Don't, no, don't.

Speaker 135 Don't.

Speaker 15 Please don't go there.

Speaker 144 The man Obama

Speaker 101 has about 500 golf courses around the world, yet I can guarantee you right now he will golf less than Obama.

Speaker 167 He will will not golf as much.

Speaker 45 I believe that.

Speaker 108 I believe

Speaker 108 it's been, what, 83,000 times for Obama.

Speaker 109 I don't know how

Speaker 109 many of them are.

Speaker 108 It's literally over 1,200 times.

Speaker 108 There's no way Trump goes golfing that many times.

Speaker 19 Woodrow Wilson

Speaker 59 knocked him into the dirt.

Speaker 118 No, that's

Speaker 91 a golfer. He's the

Speaker 72 presidential golfer.

Speaker 101 I think Trump likes the lifestyle of golf more than he likes golf, even though he does play golf. But he likes the lifestyle of golf.
He likes a country club lifestyle, obviously.

Speaker 167 You know, he basically lives at a country club.

Speaker 101 But still,

Speaker 101 I don't think he'll golf as much as Obama.

Speaker 86 I think there's a possibility that Donald Trump puts the people around him to run things,

Speaker 100 and then he gets bored in the first year, and he starts to go play golf and give speeches and be with the people.

Speaker 145 I think that's a real possibility.

Speaker 108 We had a boss like that who was very hands-on at the beginning of

Speaker 108 his tenure at the radio station. I mean, he was there

Speaker 31 almost 24 hours a day.

Speaker 108 That's right. If his family wanted to see him,

Speaker 108 they had to come to the station. Right.
And they'd bring a change of underwear and he'd change in his office. Yeah.
And he'd eat there and you'd get there early in the morning for the morning show.

Speaker 141 And he's painting the walls.

Speaker 61 He'd be there at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 91 And he was never away.

Speaker 13 But soon as that thing was, he thought, set,

Speaker 29 you could never find him.

Speaker 31 Never find him.

Speaker 131 Never find him.

Speaker 108 He might show up on Friday to pick up messages. Yeah, maybe not.

Speaker 145 Yeah. Well, you got to

Speaker 54 see it.

Speaker 116 All that goes smooth. What do you want?

Speaker 149 No, but I'm not sure.

Speaker 32 What I'm saying is

Speaker 36 that could be a very

Speaker 49 Donald Trump could be bored very quickly.

Speaker 101 And so, and this is interesting because we certainly had this pitch to us many times during the primaries, which was, look, he, and from big, high-level, insider Washington people, some of which have been elected, who said, look,

Speaker 101 if he wins, don't worry about it because what he's interested in is fighting and battling with the press and tweeting and making big noise.

Speaker 101 And he will, because he doesn't care about a lot of these things, will let his advisors select people, right?

Speaker 101 And then those people will do the work.

Speaker 101 And Trump will support those positions.

Speaker 170 It was one of the selling points.

Speaker 108 It was one of the selling points.

Speaker 101 And I admit,

Speaker 52 I did not believe it.

Speaker 101 There is, I think, some evidence that it could be coming true a little bit. And it's kind of

Speaker 133 interesting.

Speaker 101 I mean, you know, some of this is a little sweet talk.

Speaker 52 I mean, I, you know, I will say.

Speaker 33 Are you hearing the martini music?

Speaker 62 Are you hearing

Speaker 126 a cocktail love song from Donald Trump's?

Speaker 101 No, but I mean, because he's... It's interesting.
I think Trump, so far, and take this for what it's worth, he's been in office zero days.

Speaker 101 Okay, but I will say, and I said this before,

Speaker 101 his

Speaker 101 overall, his appointments were better than I expected.

Speaker 86 Okay, can I tell you, I know people in his cabinet, I know people around him, I know people who are advising.

Speaker 95 Yes. A lot of them.
Yes.

Speaker 128 And they are all saying the same thing.

Speaker 15 Glenn, you would not believe this.

Speaker 128 I don't even want to say it out loud because I'm afraid it's going to jinx it.

Speaker 77 But this is

Speaker 145 better

Speaker 89 than our wildest dreams, not expectations, wildest dreams.

Speaker 86 One person said to me, they were sitting in a room, I don't want to get specific, they were sitting in a room and they said, A,

Speaker 28 nobody like me would ever be in the room before.

Speaker 78 I'm die-hard, constitutionalist, blah, blah, blah, just

Speaker 86 bottom line thinker.

Speaker 60 And was in a room with the Trump people and with the people in Congress that make the decisions.

Speaker 88 And at one point,

Speaker 60 they all looked at him and said, what do you think?

Speaker 52 And he said, first of all, nobody would have ever asked me what do I think

Speaker 91 openly in the room.

Speaker 158 And he said, I said, well, what needs to happen is Congress needs to do X, Y, and Z, and then that just stops all of these problems.

Speaker 36 And he said the room stopped.

Speaker 24 They looked at the attorneys, and the attorneys said, yeah, that would work.

Speaker 59 And then the leadership went, okay, let's do it.

Speaker 75 He said, he walked out going, what the hell just happened?

Speaker 131 So, I mean, I am hearing tremendous reports.

Speaker 142 Now, I am still skeptical because

Speaker 44 I am gravely concerned about the First Amendment.

Speaker 16 I am gravely concerned about are we going to rule constitutionally? Are we going to put the power back in Congress?

Speaker 25 or will this be a guy who writes edicts?

Speaker 137 Well, I've got to worry about it.

Speaker 153 Good things done.

Speaker 101 For example, Jeffy, on that point, you know, Trump said that they're going to,

Speaker 101 the administration said they're going to start building the wall via executive order. Now we don't.
No, they're not going to pass any legislation in Congress.

Speaker 108 I will say legislation is already in place.

Speaker 85 Already in place. So I think it's

Speaker 108 already in place.

Speaker 101 Right, but then there was legislation after that that said that we're not going to do that.

Speaker 164 Now they may have found I don't know that they specifically said we're we're not going to do that. The K David Hutchinson thing

Speaker 108 sort of derailed it, but they could have gotten it back on track.

Speaker 129 Yeah, I think that just said we're going to do it this way.

Speaker 111 Which was the weirdest.

Speaker 108 I mean,

Speaker 109 it just shows how

Speaker 108 Republicans are conservatives. But still, he could do it.

Speaker 101 Why would you need an executive order to do something that already?

Speaker 60 I'd like to read into that one.

Speaker 127 Let's just hold that one off.

Speaker 101 You know, I mean, I think, like, the interesting thing with the Trump administration, from my perspective, is

Speaker 101 that he's going sort of all out on everything.

Speaker 101 And so the things he connects with me on,

Speaker 139 he goes further than a Mitt Romney would.

Speaker 91 And it's really exciting. It's really exciting.

Speaker 80 Give the example. Today's examples, listen to this.

Speaker 101 Yeah, this is a story in the Hill, and they're talking about spending cuts.

Speaker 101 This is the proposal. This has not been passed or even proposed yet, but this is what they're talking about.

Speaker 101 The departments of commerce and energy would see major reductions in funding, with programs under their jurisdiction either being eliminated or transferred to other agencies.

Speaker 133 That's great.

Speaker 101 The departments of transportation, justice, and state would see significant cuts and program eliminations. Good.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be privatized.

Speaker 108 Oh, my God.

Speaker 101 And this one speaks directly to my heart and soul.

Speaker 108 NPR would be privatized.

Speaker 110 Yes.

Speaker 47 Let's get back to that in a second.

Speaker 108 Yeah, you got to love that.

Speaker 101 While the national

Speaker 101 I almost want to say it with the Barry White voice.

Speaker 10 You're going to make me cry.

Speaker 18 I think I know what you're going to say. You're going to make me cry.

Speaker 101 Just think about this for a moment. The National Endowment of the Arts would be eliminated entirely.

Speaker 108 Oh, can you imagine what Hollywood will do then?

Speaker 45 Oh, God,

Speaker 108 that is the dagger through their heart.

Speaker 101 It's like literally my number one cut in the entire government.

Speaker 145 You know what? I am.

Speaker 101 Because of the fact that it's so stupid.

Speaker 71 It's like people love art.

Speaker 101 It's the one thing everyone will donate to all the time.

Speaker 94 They will all do it for free.

Speaker 140 They don't even need funding to do art because everyone likes doing art anyway.

Speaker 101 Yet we still dump money. It's a small amount of money in the grand scheme of things, but it's such a stupid government role that I would love if they eliminated it.

Speaker 154 I will tell you that

Speaker 114 I've never been for the

Speaker 118 Corporation for Public Broadcasting,

Speaker 60 for NPR, PBS. I do not believe, because I've been, you know, we've been in competition with them forever, and it's unfair competition, and

Speaker 78 it's ridiculous.

Speaker 64 It's ridiculous the amount of money they spend.

Speaker 162 No broadcast corporation spends anywhere near the money that NPR and PBS spend.

Speaker 164 And they can just continue to spend it because it's federally funded.

Speaker 145 Right.

Speaker 108 Can you imagine if our business was federally funded, what we could do?

Speaker 23 And the argument has always been: well, where are you going to get quality TV?

Speaker 60 Well, Netflix and Amazon.

Speaker 88 Yeah. Right now.

Speaker 141 BBC.

Speaker 168 Every case.

Speaker 60 But BBC, BBC is funded by

Speaker 108 the British, but I don't care because I'm not British.

Speaker 83 Right.

Speaker 171 But let me tell you something.

Speaker 124 PBS will be funded by

Speaker 42 Amazon and they will be funded by Netflix.

Speaker 78 My problem is right now, NPR has entered into the commercial realm.

Speaker 60 Their Netflix, I mean, I'm sorry, their podcasts.

Speaker 165 on on Apple

Speaker 142 are always number one.

Speaker 115 They're way beyond anything commercial.

Speaker 84 And they're making all of that money.

Speaker 68 Well, we have to make it on the money we make through that.

Speaker 24 I don't get a government subsidy.

Speaker 78 They need to live.

Speaker 98 They can live on that money now, and they need to.

Speaker 96 Before it was like, well, you know, they get the licensing for Big Bird.

Speaker 46 No, no, no.

Speaker 131 No, no, no.

Speaker 59 Now you can make money because you can go directly to the people.

Speaker 60 You don't, it's not the same world and they are raking money now.

Speaker 108 Remember the controversy with

Speaker 108 Big Bird with Big Bird when Ross Nutty said he was gonna he was gonna stop the funding for for PBS back in 2012.

Speaker 164 They went into a tizzy fit over it.

Speaker 127 But in 2012.

Speaker 140 Nobody makes more money than Sesame Street does.

Speaker 84 And

Speaker 60 it's not even the world that it was in 2012.

Speaker 64 No, I know.

Speaker 49 2017, it's a different world.

Speaker 68 They can make money and are making money hand over fist.

Speaker 129 Definitely.

Speaker 60 Now, they will probably show that they're barely squeaking by, but I will take you through the studios and the production houses of every other radio and television company in the country.

Speaker 59 And then I'll take you to NPR and PBS, and I will show you.

Speaker 15 how they spend their dollars.

Speaker 101 It's nice to have a clearance at every single market guaranteed.

Speaker 164 Oh, that's a nice little little

Speaker 133 radio network, isn't it?

Speaker 101 Yeah.

Speaker 101 But I mean,

Speaker 101 again, they're saying that

Speaker 101 the blueprint being used by Trump's team, which was kind of thrown out there by the Heritage Foundation,

Speaker 101 would cut $10.5 trillion of spending over the next decade. Now, that's $10.5, to keep it in perspective, $10.5 trillion of future projections.

Speaker 101 So it wouldn't really be $10.5 trillion, but it's still a hell of a lot better is what we're looking at. And the question here is, like, will we get these things? Will they actually happen?

Speaker 101 Will we get the new tax plans?

Speaker 101 And if that stuff starts happening, we will go into that area, which a lot of callers told us that they thought would happen with Trump and many people inside are watching, which is you're going to get a mixed bag.

Speaker 59 Here's what's going to happen.

Speaker 158 He is going to, he is, in my opinion, because he's a populist, he is going to go after all of the things like

Speaker 111 that.

Speaker 50 PBS is on the fence, all the things that the average person doesn't use, doesn't want, thinks is wasteful, and he'll cut it.

Speaker 59 And

Speaker 30 then he will do the socialist programs on healthcare where the things that everybody gets, and he will ensure that.

Speaker 93 So he's going to get the average person who wants their perk, but doesn't want the perks that

Speaker 65 they don't use.

Speaker 22 And the National Endowment of the Arts is not going to be bemoaned by anybody but the elite.

Speaker 101 I don't know. I mean, that's one I bet the polling on the National Development of Arts is actually pretty positive because people are like, art?

Speaker 127 I like art. Art is good.

Speaker 101 That's not how you're supposed to judge a government program, but that's how they do.

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Speaker 132 Here go the phone and Phil in South Carolina.

Speaker 172 Hello, Bill. You're on the Glenn Beck Program.

Speaker 6 Hey Glenn, how you doing?

Speaker 36 Very good.

Speaker 173 I just wanted to tell you that I really appreciate your sincere message to the Bush family.

Speaker 45 For a long time,

Speaker 173 I had some problems with the things you were saying about President Bush when he was in office,

Speaker 173 but I understand it was just a policy thing. It wasn't personal.

Speaker 45 For sure.

Speaker 173 Serving under him for, you know,

Speaker 173 I just retired from the Air Force last year

Speaker 175 after 21 years.

Speaker 173 And serving under that man, I'm meeting him,

Speaker 173 the things he did for the troops, the things he's still doing,

Speaker 173 the generosity you said he respected the office, the respect he had for the troops, and the love that we have for him is really immeasurable.

Speaker 154 I have never seen anybody with more love for our troops than George W.

Speaker 118 Bush.

Speaker 60 No question.

Speaker 89 Have you seen his painting series he's doing now?

Speaker 133 He's getting really good.

Speaker 15 He's getting really good.

Speaker 60 And he is now painting the faces of the wounded in the war.

Speaker 129 He takes that personally.

Speaker 165 Yeah.

Speaker 172 And they're like family.

Speaker 165 And

Speaker 85 he is a truly, truly honorable man.

Speaker 45 Truly honorable. Yes, sir.

Speaker 173 And I just want to say one last thing. I actually had.
I was a recruiter for a short period of time in the Air Force, and I met the chaplain that counseled him at Camp David.

Speaker 173 And he said, if every American did not believe that he was

Speaker 173 taking both wars to bed with him every night, they were sadly mistaken. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 91 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 173 And I know that you didn't agree with us in Iraq,

Speaker 173 but I was there twice. I was on the ground.
And

Speaker 173 the people appreciated us there. And to see what Obama did to us and throw all of our victories away there and hurt the troops like you have no idea.

Speaker 87 No, I do.

Speaker 18 Phil, I have said to my

Speaker 65 friends who were in the service and who fought in Iraq, I am sorry that we have just pissed away everything that you've done and all the friends that you have lost.

Speaker 33 I can't say anything, but I'm sorry.

Speaker 176 We took victory, and as we always do,

Speaker 30 we snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory every single time.

Speaker 136 Thanks for your service, Phil.

Speaker 26 Thank you.

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Speaker 129 How the Trump Presidency will change America.

Speaker 33 Oh my, it's a bleak picture they paint.

Speaker 73 I think, you know what, we're going to start there because

Speaker 130 we have

Speaker 33 how the Trump presidency is going to change America, a list of the things that he says he's going to do and is already being placed in action, and a warning about his Supreme Court pick.

Speaker 33 We begin there right now.

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Speaker 11 Welcome to the program.

Speaker 13 Stu, give that list again that you gave just about 20 minutes ago on the things that apparently are now in the pipeline with Donald Trump and his presidency.

Speaker 101 It's a report from the Hill,

Speaker 101 and here's what they say. The Departments of Commerce and Energy would see major reductions in funding, with programs under their jurisdiction either being eliminated or transferred to other agencies.

Speaker 101 The Departments of Transportation, Justice, and State would see significant cuts and program eliminations. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be privatized.

Speaker 101 And the internet page I'm reading just refreshed.

Speaker 101 Okay, and while the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment of Humanities would be eliminated entirely, it's from the Hill. Obviously, lots of things that that we like.

Speaker 101 $10.5 trillion over 10 years, a Heritage Foundation blueprint.

Speaker 101 $10.5 trillion.

Speaker 108 That's unbelievable savings.

Speaker 101 Again, that's on projected. Let's not forget that's on projected spending.

Speaker 91 Yeah, but still, that's a massive number.

Speaker 138 It would be great. That's a lot of money.

Speaker 149 That happened.

Speaker 81 Most of our, you know, most of our

Speaker 59 deficit is in projected spending.

Speaker 108 Yeah, and what they usually talk about cutting is well, we might be able to nip 1%

Speaker 159 of the future increase.

Speaker 108 Right. And they don't even do that.

Speaker 167 So this is really significant.

Speaker 108 And it's going to happen because, I mean, if he wants it to, it will happen. And I look forward to Hollywood going to war with the guy because they'll lose.

Speaker 108 Donald Trump will win that battle every time. Go ahead, fight him on this.
What about Meryl Streep?

Speaker 91 He will lose.

Speaker 108 Meryl Streep will lose to Donald Trump. If there's one thing I've turned around on, on this guy, it's that, yes, he will win.

Speaker 54 I don't know why.

Speaker 140 I have no idea why, but I do know this: he will win.

Speaker 54 He's never lost.

Speaker 69 There is no beating him.

Speaker 83 No, he went to war with the handicapped and won.

Speaker 45 Who does that?

Speaker 54 Who does that?

Speaker 145 No one.

Speaker 91 So don't take him on.

Speaker 108 I mean, they will. Hollywood will, because they think they're superior to everybody, but they're going to find out they're not.

Speaker 77 I will tell you that I just think this

Speaker 131 the end

Speaker 78 of this politically correct nonsense

Speaker 87 is here.

Speaker 145 Yeah, I mean, that's what got him.

Speaker 91 To some degree. To some degree, it is.

Speaker 134 To some degree. Yeah.

Speaker 108 And he's bringing it on because he's winning.

Speaker 91 Well, I mean, that's what got him elected, right?

Speaker 76 Yes.

Speaker 96 But where?

Speaker 22 And where does it...

Speaker 23 What does he perceive as politically incorrect?

Speaker 65 Like the,

Speaker 28 you know, sending people, anybody can use any bathroom.

Speaker 60 Sending men into a girl's bathroom, you know, with my 17-year-old daughter, that's beyond political correctness.

Speaker 16 That's just no common sense.

Speaker 101 But oddly, that's he supports that.

Speaker 101 I know. Which is a weird idea.

Speaker 61 But he reversed himself on that.

Speaker 145 Did he? I don't think so.

Speaker 167 I thought he did.

Speaker 101 No, I think he said, look, it's been this way for a while. Why play with it? Was kind of his answer.

Speaker 101 You know,

Speaker 137 it's not a big issue.

Speaker 118 This is a great jumping off point for I have had several people say this to me, and I have said,

Speaker 80 you need to bring this up.

Speaker 89 Now, these are Trump supporters, big Trump supporters.

Speaker 59 You need to bring this up.

Speaker 162 Yeah, well, I can't.

Speaker 21 What do you mean you can't?

Speaker 25 Well, it would be better if you did.

Speaker 54 Yeah, I bet.

Speaker 91 For you. Yeah, it would be great for you.

Speaker 127 For me, right? It's because they're not going to be able to do that.

Speaker 145 They know they don't

Speaker 145 they know they won't win.

Speaker 102 That's right.

Speaker 53 And this article

Speaker 98 kind of alludes to that, but just saying that nobody, they're all talking about it internally and no one will say it out loud.

Speaker 15 I love that.

Speaker 91 It would be better if you did.

Speaker 108 Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 60 Well, but it wouldn't because there are a lot of people who say Glenn Beck's just anti-Trump.

Speaker 53 Right, yes. So it's not.

Speaker 133 But it isn't.

Speaker 98 I've waited and waited and waited and no one will say anything.

Speaker 108 Is it about a Supreme Court?

Speaker 174 It's about the Supreme Court.

Speaker 15 Let me give you this article.

Speaker 28 Two religious liberty cases have sparked an internal war among conservatives over Judge William H.

Speaker 96 Pryor.

Speaker 56 Stu?

Speaker 108 Is Pryor one of the

Speaker 134 main considerations?

Speaker 26 He's the main. He's a leading candidate.

Speaker 101 Yeah, and he's been talked about in Republican circles for a long time for a Supreme Court seat.

Speaker 101 I've heard...

Speaker 101 problems from libertarians with him, although the problems you're describing here are not really from that angle.

Speaker 117 Right.

Speaker 60 Federal Society and Heritage Foundation put him on the list.

Speaker 154 Both of them did.

Speaker 55 However,

Speaker 93 there is a problem,

Speaker 102 and

Speaker 86 the problem was found by the Federalist Society, and it started to ripple around that community, and they're like, oh, crap, we put this guy on the list.

Speaker 154 And members of the Federalist Society were like, yeah, I know you did.

Speaker 24 And now the ripples are going through the Heritage Foundation, and no one is willing to say anything about it.

Speaker 59 But you you need to know about it.

Speaker 129 Everybody loves him because his judicial record, 2003 Senate confirmation, he said Roe versus Wade is the worst abomination in the history of constitutional law.

Speaker 109 Big. Love that.

Speaker 45 Okay. That's great.

Speaker 47 Now.

Speaker 21 Let me see.

Speaker 60 No one in the conservative movement or the religious movement care to say anything about this except James Dobson and the Family Research Council, Tony Perkins.

Speaker 60 They have now circulated and are

Speaker 174 persistently open about their concerns with Pryor.

Speaker 60 One of the cases that concerns them is Keaton versus Anderson Wiley.

Speaker 158 It involved a Christian counseling student whom a state college expelled after she refused to agree to a remediation measure.

Speaker 53 Such as one of her choices was she could attend a gay pride parade intended to change her views on on homosexuality.

Speaker 158 Oh my gosh.

Speaker 60 When she said no,

Speaker 129 she was suspended from school.

Speaker 84 A three-day, or I mean, sorry, a three-judge panel, including prior, ruled the school did not discriminate against the student because the school would treat anyone with her belief the same way.

Speaker 108 Well, then they discriminate against anyone.

Speaker 24 Yeah, they discriminate against anyone who believes that.

Speaker 108 That's unbelievable. Right.

Speaker 142 More problematic

Speaker 147 is the majority opinion in Glenn v.

Speaker 84 Brumby, a case involving a biological male fired after he wanted to dress as a woman and begin medical treatments.

Speaker 29 Pryor again concurred with the Circuit Court's liberal former Judge Rosemary Barkett, ruling the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution protected the employee from discrimination based on sex, which the court interpreted to include gender identity.

Speaker 129 So now he is saying that sex is whatever you decide it to be.

Speaker 99 Slate.

Speaker 92 Slate called the opinion absolutely revolutionary for transgendered

Speaker 60 employment rights.

Speaker 108 How did this guy get recommended by the Heritage Society?

Speaker 59 Various Obama administration agencies, including the Departments of Justice, Labor, and Education, began citing Glenn as their justification, as their justification

Speaker 60 for advancing transgendered litigation and regulations.

Speaker 41 So he's the guy who wrote

Speaker 48 the current law

Speaker 135 that

Speaker 24 allows them to say bathrooms.

Speaker 133 Now, you know, look,

Speaker 101 those are a couple of cases, and, you know,

Speaker 101 there is a lot of good with Pryor.

Speaker 101 He is, you know, I mean, here's, this is from.

Speaker 108 It's what they said about Stephen Breyer, too.

Speaker 101 Yeah, but I mean, when you have hundreds of, and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cases, can you find a couple that that are that are going to

Speaker 101 be but let me give you this. This is from Scotus blog talking about religion.
Pryor has consistently, although not uniformly, ruled in favor of parties raising religious liberty claims.

Speaker 132 And, you know, so that's...

Speaker 42 He is.

Speaker 98 We cannot afford to have anyone chip away on religious liberty claims.

Speaker 72 Yeah, exactly. Can't afford it.

Speaker 101 Especially when there are people on that list that you probably could say have uniformly corrected.

Speaker 144 You've got the Lee brothers.

Speaker 167 There's so many guys on there who

Speaker 25 have 20.

Speaker 121 There are three that are unacceptable.

Speaker 24 Prior is one of them.

Speaker 101 You think unacceptable is the right term for prior?

Speaker 137 I feel like that's going to fall.

Speaker 37 I think when you have

Speaker 64 scalia, you're replacing scalia.

Speaker 21 Okay.

Speaker 108 You have. In that context, he is unacceptable.

Speaker 104 He's unacceptable.

Speaker 58 You have no one holding the benchmark.

Speaker 124 It's like if you're replacing Ginsburg,

Speaker 63 you would replace Ginsburg.

Speaker 81 I mean, I wouldn't, you wouldn't, but they would replace Ginsburg.

Speaker 73 And if it was the only one, they would not roll the dice.

Speaker 163 We have no one.

Speaker 108 And they would replace her with someone more radical than she is.

Speaker 91 Yes.

Speaker 91 We never

Speaker 164 do that.

Speaker 60 We never do it. We never do it.

Speaker 41 If this is what this, this is what religious people said, this is about the Supreme Court, then prior should be unacceptable.

Speaker 131 And the only, I am told, and this is the why,

Speaker 24 well, why don't you come on the show and talk about it?

Speaker 172 Because it will add more credibility.

Speaker 124 It would just be better if you would just do it.

Speaker 29 So what they want is they want people to learn about this guy and make a decision and stand up.

Speaker 89 And this is the religious community and the deepest conservatives that are in the Trump team.

Speaker 108 It should mean something that James Dobson is opposed, right?

Speaker 145 Yeah, Dobson is opposed to the same thing.

Speaker 133 And Tony Perkins. That's

Speaker 14 really good ones.

Speaker 67 That's General Boykin's firm.

Speaker 120 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 127 I will say, though, however,

Speaker 108 they were big Trump guys.

Speaker 101 Trump gets to choose who he wants. And remember, let's take this in context.
Donald Trump enters the presidency as the most pro-gay and LGBTQ rights president that has ever taken office.

Speaker 127 I know.

Speaker 101 Remember, Barack Obama took office opposing gay marriage. I know.
Donald Trump is the first president that has ever taken office without opposing it.

Speaker 87 Yes. In our history.

Speaker 101 Yes.

Speaker 101 So I think, and you look at his history of comments,

Speaker 101 that would be a consistent move from his particular standpoint.

Speaker 76 It would be.

Speaker 47 It would be.

Speaker 112 But what does that mean in Independence Liberty if we're not careful here?

Speaker 118 You know, if I'm a business business and I have, I've hired a guy to be the Maitre D

Speaker 2 and he's going to start wearing a dress, I have to be able to fire him.

Speaker 100 If, I mean, that means that Pat all of a sudden could start wearing a dress and wanting me to call him Carol.

Speaker 120 Well, I didn't hire Carol. Right.

Speaker 115 And that would destroy my business.

Speaker 145 No. I would be fine with that, Pat, by the way.

Speaker 101 Would you?

Speaker 45 I can't. You'd be okay.

Speaker 45 You are so open-minded.

Speaker 76 Thank you. I think that would be adorable.

Speaker 145 Thank you.

Speaker 16 Does that seem reasonable to anyone that Pat becomes Carol and I cannot fire him?

Speaker 164 And that's insanity. Would that be all right?

Speaker 102 And I am, and

Speaker 37 I would still be Pat's friend.

Speaker 46 Of course.

Speaker 93 And if it would destroy my business, I have a right to say no.

Speaker 116 I'm sorry.

Speaker 69 You've changed the conditions.

Speaker 42 If I've hired a black guy and all of a sudden I realize, realize, wait a minute, he's black.

Speaker 124 Yeah, he's always been black.

Speaker 69 He's not changed the conditions at all.

Speaker 69 Pat's changed the conditions.

Speaker 104 I hired a man.

Speaker 71 He's now a woman.

Speaker 63 That's not good for me.

Speaker 108 You should be able to take that into consideration, right? I mean,

Speaker 68 for instance, if you're on an assembly line, And Pat becomes Carol,

Speaker 24 but it doesn't affect anybody but Carol.

Speaker 6 You know, maybe some of the other people are uncomfortable with Pat becoming Carol.

Speaker 69 Okay, well, guys,

Speaker 76 get over it.

Speaker 93 But

Speaker 115 if I'm Ford and I hire Mike Rowe to do Ford Tough and he becomes Michelle Rowe,

Speaker 93 and he's like, Ford tough,

Speaker 49 Ford has a right to fire him.

Speaker 108 Not in this environment, though.

Speaker 2 No, not in this environment.

Speaker 91 Not according to this.

Speaker 101 Well, I think in entertainment, it's a tough realm. I mean, you can get away with a lot of stuff in entertainment.
You can't get away with it.

Speaker 128 I'm not even talking about entertainment.

Speaker 69 I'm talking about anyone who works with the public.

Speaker 6 You're running a bakery and the person behind the counter.

Speaker 129 I don't think it would be best for my business necessarily, might scare the kids to have a guy, and I'm not talking about this.

Speaker 179 I mean, look,

Speaker 60 there are times when you look at women and you're like, is that a dude?

Speaker 128 There are other times when it's clearly a man in a skirt and it's a little unsettling to the children and everybody else.

Speaker 22 You're kind of like, what?

Speaker 26 Okay, okay, hey.

Speaker 135 Okay.

Speaker 64 Do I, as a business, have to have some of my customers go in and go, hey,

Speaker 102 Pat, in a dress,

Speaker 162 hey, how are you?

Speaker 91 Yep.

Speaker 141 I'm Carol now.

Speaker 145 Well,

Speaker 101 in public-facing industries, I mean,

Speaker 101 this is similar to what happened with Hooters, right? When guys would try to get jobs at Hooters. And generally speaking, the courts have

Speaker 101 sided with Hooters to say, yes, you don't have to employ Jeffy at Hooters in short shorts and a tank top.

Speaker 108 And Hooters is a great example, because what if one of those buxom, beautiful women wanted to become a man?

Speaker 91 And I think that they'd wear that outfit.

Speaker 108 Hooters wouldn't want that.

Speaker 133 And neither would their customers.

Speaker 101 I think the courts would side with Hooters in that.

Speaker 101 Now, Hooters' public relations might blow up because of it, but I mean, the courts, I think, would side with

Speaker 41 to me. This is not the disturbing one.

Speaker 162 The disturbing one,

Speaker 60 this is not a clear-cut case, in my opinion.

Speaker 128 The disturbing one is if I believe something, she's a Christian.

Speaker 115 Yeah.

Speaker 41 So she believes something.

Speaker 84 That's her religion, her faith.

Speaker 41 If she won't go through indoctrination that is designed by their own words to change her opinion,

Speaker 69 she can be kicked out of school?

Speaker 96 That's clear religious discrimination.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I don't understand that.

Speaker 133 The name of the judge, and he's the number one pick for Donald Trump, is Pryor.

Speaker 92 Do your own homework, spread the word.

Speaker 101 Maybe we should do a more extensive profile on him

Speaker 143 because those cases are important, but he's done a lot.

Speaker 101 And let's look at all of it.

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Speaker 172 Nadia is with us.

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Speaker 101 Hi, how are you today? Very good.

Speaker 176 How are you?

Speaker 181 I'm good, thanks.

Speaker 145 I just want to say it.

Speaker 116 You don't sound it

Speaker 165 really, Nadia.

Speaker 181 I'm just a little nervous, I guess.

Speaker 120 Okay. Well, don't be.

Speaker 128 It's only me and millions of our friends.

Speaker 181 I just wanted to talk about your point earlier with, for example, transgender people and their place in the business world today and talk about how that translates back into the 60s where people were nervous about hiring black people to represent their businesses.

Speaker 181 And my opinion as a conservative voter, but non-religious conservative voter, is that as long as the person is capable of doing the job and representing your business, they come in in a dress, but shaven and not just well groomed.

Speaker 181 As long as they're well representing your business and capable of doing the job,

Speaker 181 it's one of those changing times where people are going to be accustomed eventually in 10, 20 years to seeing this.

Speaker 101 But aren't you drawing an arbitrary line at grooming? I mean, uh, you're just not accepting another one of their choices.

Speaker 101 That you're saying that I don't, the grooming choice is one that I can accept, but I can accept others. As a business owner, you should be able to make those choices on your own.

Speaker 22 And over time, when we all stop using deodorant because it's bad for the environment,

Speaker 18 I mean, we'll all be used to the smell.

Speaker 172 I mean, why won't you go there now?

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Speaker 132 I think it's appropriate to say we are one day away from the fundamental transformation of the United States of America.

Speaker 20 And if you happen to be on the other side and that makes you feel nervous,

Speaker 103 now you know how we felt when Barack Obama said it.

Speaker 108 Of course, the temptation was to say, tough.

Speaker 145 Right.

Speaker 116 We won't say that.

Speaker 164 We won't say that.

Speaker 145 When you say we, you're referring to...

Speaker 137 I won't say that.

Speaker 45 Thank you.

Speaker 134 I won't say that.

Speaker 102 And

Speaker 98 I won't

Speaker 71 mean that with my silence either.

Speaker 101 I mean, but the same thing happens because we've been trying. I mean, we've gone through several things here where we generally are speaking positively of the things Trump has done.

Speaker 101 As I've said, he's exceeded my expectations so far, zero days through the presidency. That's not a high bar to clear, but I mean, I'm glad I want him to.

Speaker 101 There's been a lot I've complained about and a lot I don't like.

Speaker 101 And I think, you know, you look at this, when you talk about fundamental transformation of America, do I want it transformed from what Obama wanted it to be? Absolutely.

Speaker 101 However, some of the things he's doing are concerning

Speaker 101 from constitutional grounds,

Speaker 101 from

Speaker 101 the Fourth Amendment grounds specifically.

Speaker 133 First Amendment grounds.

Speaker 101 First Amendment grounds, really. The Russia stuff is really concerning to me.
There's enough there, and I don't want it transformed in that direction either.

Speaker 52 I like America.

Speaker 101 I think it's a pretty cool place.

Speaker 60 People have been asking me over and over and over and over again: what do you hope that you'll get from this administration?

Speaker 141 Easy.

Speaker 154 I hope he raises his hand and he says, I will protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Speaker 162 And he means it.

Speaker 64 All I want is a restoration of the constitutional powers.

Speaker 70 That's what I want.

Speaker 125 That is our fix.

Speaker 42 Nothing else will fix us.

Speaker 64 Everything else is a nice little band-aid or a showpiece, but that's not going to fix us.

Speaker 152 Getting rid of NPR, which is, you know, one of your, the National Endowment of the Arts, which is one of your

Speaker 109 pet issues.

Speaker 149 Yes, you love that idea. I do.

Speaker 129 That's not going to fix us.

Speaker 134 No, that definitely is.

Speaker 143 It's not going to fix us.

Speaker 101 It's small potatoes when it comes to the numbers, but I see it.

Speaker 115 And

Speaker 85 it will also, in some ways, divide us.

Speaker 106 One of the most important things.

Speaker 60 I don't mind that because I happen to agree that the Constitution doesn't say that we are paying for the National Endowment for the Arts.

Speaker 126 But I want and we must have the fix on the restoration of the proper powers of each branch.

Speaker 109 Have to.

Speaker 128 And if he violates those things, I'm going to have a really hard time.

Speaker 108 One of the critical issues is what they do with Obamacare. And some of the directions they're talking about going are not good.

Speaker 149 They're just not good.

Speaker 20 I will tell you, you're not going to get rid of Obamacare.

Speaker 10 You're just not.

Speaker 14 And I really believe that they're not.

Speaker 137 I mean, truly, they'll say they are.

Speaker 108 They'll say they've done that.

Speaker 27 They'll have Trump care.

Speaker 149 I mean, several GOP.

Speaker 101 That's what they're working towards is something

Speaker 108 at least as bad or worse than what Obamacare is.

Speaker 124 So here's, I really believe that what I said earlier today is

Speaker 99 right.

Speaker 32 He's going to go after those things

Speaker 182 that

Speaker 154 will

Speaker 90 affect the

Speaker 89 average person in a positive way.

Speaker 60 For instance, that's why he's going after the press.

Speaker 24 This was an election, not against Hillary Clinton, but against the press, and he said it himself.

Speaker 128 This is an election against the mainstream media.

Speaker 115 So

Speaker 179 that war is happening because it makes his supporters feel good.

Speaker 24 So he's going to go for that.

Speaker 129 He's going to go for other things that will not affect the average person unless it's intellectually like the National Endowment for the Arts and NPR, all funds cut.

Speaker 60 They're closing that division.

Speaker 146 If he does that, that's going to make conservatives very, very happy.

Speaker 44 It will make the uber liberals and the Hollywood elites very, very unhappy.

Speaker 141 That will be a win for him.

Speaker 18 And then he will go and he will look to the, and I hate to use this word, and it's not because

Speaker 158 I'm a racist, because he's white and I'm white.

Speaker 6 Actually, both of us a little orange, but

Speaker 60 he is going to go after

Speaker 123 those smaller socialist things that the average person will like.

Speaker 63 You will see him,

Speaker 10 I think,

Speaker 24 nationalize the police force in Chicago or send in a nationalized police task force to help them fix it because it will be seen as doing something

Speaker 128 and it will be seen as a good thing for the inner city.

Speaker 128 You will see him do health care, Trump care, because it'll be seen seen as making sure that those 40 million Americans are taken care of and we're not evil conservatives.

Speaker 29 And so he will do those things that the average person and the just below average person will love.

Speaker 153 Which is why he wants to build up the military and march it through the streets to show off our

Speaker 133 military strength.

Speaker 60 If you were reading Defying Hitler, you would see that those things were really important

Speaker 128 because, and if you watch what's happening in the media, and Barack Obama did it too,

Speaker 28 the National Socialists knew that you had to have things to celebrate.

Speaker 53 And so they were constantly celebrating small victories and making them into a very big deal

Speaker 60 because they knew that people wanted to feel good.

Speaker 130 And if you watch the the

Speaker 134 arenas that Donald Trump did when he was going around, And everybody said, well, he can't get the votes because, you know,

Speaker 154 sure, he can fill 20,000 people, but he can't, really?

Speaker 129 That's infectious.

Speaker 24 That's infectious. Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 85 especially when people are worried or scared, they want to be around people who are hollering and yelling and cheering and happy.

Speaker 153 When they asked in one interview how he was going to

Speaker 153 let us know that he was making America great again, I'll tell them.

Speaker 91 But isn't that what Ronald Reagan did?

Speaker 100 And isn't that the opposite of what Barack Obama did?

Speaker 140 He told us that we weren't good.

Speaker 24 We were constantly told we're no good.

Speaker 108 Under Carter, we really were.

Speaker 131 And under Obama.

Speaker 147 Yeah.

Speaker 92 We're told we're no good.

Speaker 124 We're racist.

Speaker 80 We're this, we're that.

Speaker 23 And we started to believe it.

Speaker 24 We've given up on ourselves.

Speaker 125 That is the job of the president.

Speaker 131 He's right on that one.

Speaker 160 How are we going to know we're great?

Speaker 78 I'm going to tell you you're great.

Speaker 108 Yeah, Reagan did do that. Reagan did it.

Speaker 101 And certainly that seems to be a high interest point, considering the red hats. It seems to be a high interest point for the president.
It seems to be what he's interested in to do.

Speaker 108 Well, and look at the Drudge headlines every single day.

Speaker 133 Great again.

Speaker 164 And then some headlines.

Speaker 45 No, I'm not. No.
No, I can't.

Speaker 134 I'm not going to look at it.

Speaker 145 Great again.

Speaker 36 And I can't compare that to what Reagan did.

Speaker 79 You have to back it up with something meaningful.

Speaker 170 Well,

Speaker 101 for example, we have the plans, several of the plans plans that have

Speaker 101 been rustling around to replace Obamacare.

Speaker 101 For example, start with the one that was proposed by Tom Price, right? Logical place to start. He's the HHS guy.

Speaker 101 However,

Speaker 101 some of it's really good. Cadillac tax goes away.

Speaker 101 Subsidies are replaced with less expensive tax credits. Now, again,

Speaker 101 that's still a government funding of these areas that were not funded before.

Speaker 101 It would be less expensive.

Speaker 101 Increase in health savings accounts, which I do like. I love.

Speaker 101 Previous, but again, this is a note. This is from Forbes, by the way, wrote up these proposals.

Speaker 101 Note that while the proposal purports to repeal Obamacare, some of the consumer protections granted by Obamacare remain intact.

Speaker 101 Specifically, previously covered households cannot be dropped from their current health plan, denied coverage through a new plan, or charged higher premiums on the basis of health status in the individual market.

Speaker 144 Great again.

Speaker 101 I mean, that is

Speaker 52 a pretty big deal, right?

Speaker 164 I mean, that is.

Speaker 108 Is anybody talking about undoing the mandate?

Speaker 108 Repealing the mandate

Speaker 145 would go a long way.

Speaker 91 Not the full thing.

Speaker 101 I think this does repeal the mandate, though I don't know for sure. We'll go into another one in a minute that kind of addresses that.

Speaker 101 Also, they're going to put $7.5 billion per year in federal funding into high-risk pools that would increase annually by 3% that number.

Speaker 101 So again, that's $7.5 billion into another different type of entitlement program for health care.

Speaker 139 It's a high-risk food.

Speaker 86 It's affecting the market to grow it.

Speaker 76 Right.

Speaker 101 So, this would be better than Obamacare. I mean, straight out, it's better than Obamacare.
However, it does not repeal Obamacare completely. And it does, it is.
It's a fix for Obamacare.

Speaker 101 Yeah, it does things that would repair a lot of the problems with Obamacare, but it is not a repeal of Obamacare. Another one is interesting.

Speaker 101 This is from American Enterprise Institute, which is a good think tank, does a lot of really good things.

Speaker 101 And this is the most expensive thing, would save a lot of money, and has really interesting aspects to it. But let me focus on one that might

Speaker 127 make you think a little bit.

Speaker 101 Because you talked about the individual mandate going away. One of the features of this plan is not individual mandate.
but automatic enrollment. Now, those are totally different things, right?

Speaker 134 Now,

Speaker 116 the Obamacare

Speaker 101 law says you got to buy insurance. If you don't buy insurance, you're going to get a fine.

Speaker 101 What this does is it says, we're going to give you a tax credit for insurance. If you don't buy insurance, you already have insurance with that tax credit.

Speaker 52 We're going to automatically enroll you into

Speaker 101 a cataclysmic health plan, a high-deductible health plan. So you will have coverage whether you want it or not.

Speaker 52 It will be automatically enrolled.

Speaker 91 Whether it's automatically benefited or not.

Speaker 101 Yeah, no, because you pay for it with the tax credits they're giving you.

Speaker 54 Now,

Speaker 101 that is, it would insure more people than Obamacare.

Speaker 101 They believe the difference, I mean, the difference is radical.

Speaker 101 It would basically insure everybody.

Speaker 108 How do I pay for it with the tax credit they're giving me?

Speaker 82 I think

Speaker 6 you get a tax credit if you buy insurance and

Speaker 27 they just keep your tax credit as your enrollment

Speaker 16 if you haven't.

Speaker 101 And they pay your premium, essentially with the money they would theoretically.

Speaker 141 That's going to be weird.

Speaker 76 Right.

Speaker 145 But the deal is.

Speaker 53 Well, the deal is the government is not going to write a check to something else.

Speaker 60 They'll write an IOU to that fund.

Speaker 138 Of course, yeah, the money doesn't actually exist.

Speaker 133 The money doesn't exist. That exists.

Speaker 31 Do we have to include that in the conversation?

Speaker 164 Well, of course the money does exist.

Speaker 124 We do if it was a corporation because you would go to jail for that.

Speaker 174 Right.

Speaker 101 That is absolutely true.

Speaker 101 Some of the consumer, again, previously covered households cannot be dropped from their current health plan, denied coverage through a new plan, or charge higher premiums on the basis of health status in the individual market.

Speaker 101 Households with coverage through an employer can transition to the individual market with safe protection.

Speaker 91 All of the same protection.

Speaker 108 All of that means that rates continue to go up and coverage continues to get worse.

Speaker 86 No, coverage.

Speaker 170 That's what that means.

Speaker 101 So all these other plans, the price plan, the other ones that we have in the pile here, would decrease coverage slightly. projected.

Speaker 101 So, you know, obviously you're not individually mandating people in some of these plans, so you're going to

Speaker 127 back it off a little bit, right?

Speaker 101 There's going to be 1%, 2% drops in the coverage of Americans, at least as a projection. This plan projects 16 million more insured persons relative to current law.

Speaker 101 We're talking about, so they've already gone,

Speaker 101 what, down to, they've already taken off, what's the number that Obama always throws around?

Speaker 101 10 million, 20 million, I can't remember what the number is.

Speaker 44 20 million

Speaker 167 here.

Speaker 101 What they're saying is like a lot of these plans would make it, instead of 20 million, it would be 17 or 18 million. Here, this plan would actually increase it from 20 to 36 million covered.

Speaker 156 So it would cover a lot more people.

Speaker 101 It also goes into major Medicaid,

Speaker 101 Medicaid changes.

Speaker 91 So there's a lot may go into.

Speaker 172 May I suggest we have the conversation.

Speaker 15 The BBC yesterday said,

Speaker 48 well,

Speaker 176 if you get rid of Obamacare, you've got, I think they said,

Speaker 22 26 million people that are on Obamacare that didn't have insurance.

Speaker 26 You're just going to put them on the streets.

Speaker 22 I mean, it's been very good.

Speaker 146 Well, if you want to just use that stat, it has been very good.

Speaker 22 But it has also been horrific for the majority of Americans because we were told we would save $2,000 and our prices of

Speaker 162 medicine have gone through the roof.

Speaker 53 We haven't had the doctors that we want.

Speaker 162 We don't have the care that we want.

Speaker 127 We don't have the insurance programs that we want.

Speaker 90 It's destroyed the average person and business.

Speaker 120 That's it, though.

Speaker 26 But those 20 million Americans, if they actually exist in the number of 20 million,

Speaker 29 maybe they're better, but you could have walked into a hospital and had treatment.

Speaker 42 It's not like we've ever left anyone behind.

Speaker 81 And now this.

Speaker 118 The best and new way for you to buy travel is called upside.com.

Speaker 25 I talked to the...

Speaker 65 I've heard about this.

Speaker 170 This is crazy.

Speaker 137 Is this real?

Speaker 70 Okay, so I'll explain how it works because that's what I asked.

Speaker 53 I asked the creator, how does this work?

Speaker 118 This is the guy who did, what's the price line?

Speaker 60 Oh, and he's gone and he started this now. And he's, and I talked to him for about 45 minutes.
This is unbelievable.

Speaker 60 So, here's how it works: every time you buy a trip at Upside, you're going to save a ton of money, and they're going to give you an Amazon gift card worth $100, $200, even $300

Speaker 67 every time.

Speaker 8 Now, here's what happens: because I asked him, here's how it works: they're bundling airfare and hotels together.

Speaker 96 And so the more you save,

Speaker 60 the more refund you get.

Speaker 106 So you're encouraged to save more money for your company.

Speaker 122 And then you get the gift card.

Speaker 44 Here's how it works.

Speaker 158 The airlines don't want to say they've cut their rate. The hotels don't want to say they cut their rate.

Speaker 182 Okay?

Speaker 60 But if you buy it in a bundle, the airline can say, I didn't cut my rate, the hotel did. And the hotel can say, I didn't cut my rate, the airline did.

Speaker 52 So they win.

Speaker 60 They want people there in the hotels and to fill those seats.

Speaker 32 He's found the way to get the lowest price, and it's unbelievable.

Speaker 23 We've already used it.

Speaker 42 You'll save a ton of money.

Speaker 13 All you do is go to,

Speaker 177 where is it? Upside.com.

Speaker 156 Upside.com.

Speaker 58 Use my name, Beck, and you're guaranteed this time, guaranteed to get at least $200 of an Amazon gift card for your first trip absolutely free.

Speaker 60 Do it right now.

Speaker 86 You're going to save a buttload of money.

Speaker 177 Upside.com. That's upside.com.

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Speaker 177 Some might celebrate that this is the last day that we have to hear this.

Speaker 11 But a piece of audio from a press conference yesterday with Barack Obama that made blood shoot directly out of my eyes.

Speaker 33 And we begin there right now.

Speaker 33 I will make a stand. I will raise my voice.
I will hold your hand. Cause we have won.
I will beat my drum. I have made my choice.
We will overcome. Cause we are home.

Speaker 38 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

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Speaker 131 program.

Speaker 121 I don't even know where to begin,

Speaker 42 except for the audio, and I'm not sure I'm going to make it through a commentary on it.

Speaker 48 Here it is.

Speaker 71 Barack Obama yesterday in the press conference.

Speaker 183 That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed, but that's the point of this relationship. You're not supposed to be syncophants.
You're supposed to be skeptics.

Speaker 183 You're supposed to ask me tough questions.

Speaker 183 You're not supposed to be complimentary,

Speaker 183 but you're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power

Speaker 183 and make sure that we are accountable to the people who sent us here.

Speaker 176 And you have done that.

Speaker 183 And you've done it for the most part

Speaker 183 in ways that I could appreciate for fairness, even if I didn't always agree with your conclusions.

Speaker 136 Wow.

Speaker 149 Does that count as making it all the way through?

Speaker 91 Yeah, we did. I mean,

Speaker 67 I didn't think I could make it through the commentary about it.

Speaker 117 Oh.

Speaker 107 Play his thanks and warning.

Speaker 129 Because what he was doing yesterday

Speaker 156 was he was warning the press how they have to behave under Donald Trump.

Speaker 71 And I just, I did.

Speaker 140 Yeah, because they did it with him.

Speaker 38 They were skeptics skeptics with him, not syncophants.

Speaker 164 He just listened.

Speaker 108 In fact, he said syncophants.

Speaker 108 I don't know what the hell that is.

Speaker 183 That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed. But that's the point of this relationship.

Speaker 183 You're not supposed to be syncophants. You're supposed to be skeptics.
You're supposed to ask me tough questions.

Speaker 62 You're not supposed to be complimentary.

Speaker 108 Like that, what about being enchanted?

Speaker 108 What's the thing that's enchanted you the most?

Speaker 101 What a tough question that was.

Speaker 45 Oh, my God.

Speaker 54 Howdy, what was the

Speaker 159 the thing about your first year as president?

Speaker 92 What was the thing that you're most proud of?

Speaker 184 That kind of tough question.

Speaker 164 That's tough.

Speaker 101 Yeah, I was actually hoping that whoever that reporter was that asked him how he was enchanted by the office would come back on the last press conference and ask the exact same question.

Speaker 101 Did not happen. However, he did use the word enchanted during the press conference, though.

Speaker 101 So he brought it back around a little bit. But it was, you know, look, there were some moments there that maybe that could frustrate you.
But I mean, you know, you're

Speaker 140 mister Bring Us Together, I thought.

Speaker 52 I thought that wasn't you anymore.

Speaker 101 I thought that was the old Glenn Beck, you know?

Speaker 95 I didn't say anything about that.

Speaker 127 I was just pointing out what the president was.

Speaker 101 I could tell. I could get your tone.
I got your tone. And sure, you can look at that and you'd say how, you know, they're like, well, you guys helped my feet to the fire in a lot of ways.

Speaker 101 I guess those ways were invisible ways.

Speaker 101 But I guess he did. You could certainly look at that and be critical.
However, what have we done today?

Speaker 101 I mean, we've been obviously skeptical of Donald Trump's presidency, but we've outlined a few things that we have liked about the Roman Twins inauguration.

Speaker 101 David Bob Lerliner, you mentioned, you know, there's some very positive things there.

Speaker 109 I want to come back to the David Lerdner thing.

Speaker 81 That's a great thing.

Speaker 101 Yeah. And I think we can also,

Speaker 101 people say you can't say anything positive about Trump. We've done that today.
People say you can't say anything positive about Obama. I think we can do that too.

Speaker 144 I think we could. Did I miss something in his press conference?

Speaker 116 He outlined something I think we really, really agree agree with.

Speaker 178 And listen.

Speaker 183 I want to do some writing. I want to

Speaker 183 be quiet a little bit.

Speaker 116 Oh, my God.

Speaker 183 I don't want to hear myself talk so darn much.

Speaker 163 Oh, my God.

Speaker 54 We must too.

Speaker 45 I

Speaker 140 absolutely agree with that. I also don't want you to talk at all.

Speaker 144 I don't want to hear him at all.

Speaker 54 Yes,

Speaker 135 we can go even farther than we can.

Speaker 102 We come across lines and we're holding hands with the president in his last day.

Speaker 91 He wants to be quiet, and he doesn't want to hear himself talk so darn much on the same topic either.

Speaker 76 Wow.

Speaker 129 There is so much, and that's a basic fundamental principle of mine.

Speaker 137 Right.

Speaker 71 You know, not hearing him talk so much.

Speaker 101 More quiet time.

Speaker 82 More quiet time for Obama.

Speaker 49 We agree wholeheartedly.

Speaker 103 Right.

Speaker 71 Less time with a pen and the phone.

Speaker 10 Yes.

Speaker 129 And we're going to get that too.

Speaker 174 That's nice.

Speaker 79 Can I just take a moment here and just say

Speaker 154 we made it?

Speaker 31 Well, it's not tomorrow at noon.

Speaker 91 It's tomorrow. It's tomorrow.
Tomorrow at noon. Relax.

Speaker 137 Slow your roll.

Speaker 101 He's still in office.

Speaker 133 Oh, you're right. He's still about to

Speaker 96 suspend the Constitution, declare martial law, and not go through with the inauguration.

Speaker 154 That's why, because I've heard that from a lot of people.

Speaker 76 A lot of people.

Speaker 101 And I don't believe that part of it.

Speaker 95 However,

Speaker 101 there were a dozen or two dozen new regulations that were pushed through today.

Speaker 101 I don't have the list of them yet, but something in there could be quite terrible. We still expect him to pardon dozens and dozens and dozens of people who could be dangerous criminals.

Speaker 23 You don't put dozens of regulations through on your last day that are controversial.

Speaker 101 No, and you don't pardon the really controversial. Remember, this is a guy who a couple days ago pardoned a

Speaker 101 terrorist who was targeting the overthrow of the government from

Speaker 109 Puerto Rico

Speaker 71 and bombed government buildings here in the United States and was planning on bombing several places in Chicago.

Speaker 101 They found his apartment stuffed with C4 preparing for these actions.

Speaker 104 Unrepentant and an avowed communist who still wants the communist state.

Speaker 101 And that was the opening act.

Speaker 149 So today

Speaker 101 it's going to be substantially more of pardons and commutations.

Speaker 98 He's already done 209.

Speaker 91 That was the other day.

Speaker 108 He's done 1,597 by far commutations and pardons during his presidency almost 1600 and it'll certainly surpass that and it was 273 just the other day 290 commutations 64 okay so 209

Speaker 41 um and they said it's going to be substantially more today it's kind of like what is a few is a few three or is a few five

Speaker 86 What's substantially more mean to this president?

Speaker 101 Because the way it was written, in theory, it could mean there will be a significant amount more, right?

Speaker 101 So like you had 273. It's substantially more.
It's substantially more. So it could be another 50.
Like that's a substantial amount, right? That's in addition to the 273.

Speaker 101 The way I read it was substantially more than 273.

Speaker 167 Right.

Speaker 101 So I don't know which one it's going to be, but

Speaker 129 I think it's more than 273. I think substantially more.

Speaker 121 The way I read that.

Speaker 8 I'm expecting a thousand.

Speaker 101 You know what I was expecting? I was thinking about yesterday because you made the great point yesterday yesterday: let's say in theory, he just decided to

Speaker 101 everyone who had a marijuana only

Speaker 101 conviction that was in prison, he could just say, let him go. And

Speaker 101 I thought that was an interesting point. I don't know how you could do that

Speaker 101 pragmatically. Like, I don't know what this, if you could come up with that.

Speaker 116 You'd have to do them all individually.

Speaker 48 Federal law.

Speaker 90 Is that federal?

Speaker 151 Are you in federal prison for marijuana?

Speaker 145 You can be, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 101 So theoretically,

Speaker 101 you know, that could happen. But again, like, you'd have to do them all individually.
He'd have have to be preparing for this for a long time. The other one that popped into my head on that same

Speaker 101 road, though, was what about immigration?

Speaker 101 He knows that Donald Trump has been running on,

Speaker 101 we're not going to get rid of any of these DREAM acts, any of the executive orders Obama has pressed.

Speaker 101 Couldn't he go through and pick whatever his 20, 50, 100, 1,000 best cases are as far as immigration law and exempt them from prosecution on those things?

Speaker 101 Because they're not citizens, there might be a weird line there. But in theory, he could probably do that to a lot of people before he walks out and implement his law.

Speaker 101 And that would not be one that Trump could reverse.

Speaker 60 It would, no, because he can't, because it's not executive order.

Speaker 22 This is presidential privilege.

Speaker 101 Yeah, presidential pardon. It's in the Constitution.

Speaker 138 He's allowed to do it.

Speaker 133 And there's the Hillary thing.

Speaker 108 Will he pardon her in advance of any sort of prosecution?

Speaker 26 Because nobody's going to go after.

Speaker 133 Nobody's going to go after that.

Speaker 143 Yeah, but Trump has pretty much said that.

Speaker 101 I don't want to hassle the family anymore.

Speaker 105 It's pretty much what he's saying. No, she's done.

Speaker 165 She's gone, and

Speaker 154 they're not going to do a thing about it.

Speaker 101 I will say somebody polled the New York mayoral race, and Clinton was up by something like 20 points over de Blasio. So if she wants, I mean, that's still a big gig.

Speaker 101 If she wants a role like that, she might be able to get it.

Speaker 72 She might not be gone.

Speaker 176 Head New York.

Speaker 127 Take her.

Speaker 167 She'd probably be better than de Blasio, to be honest.

Speaker 141 Oh, yeah, she would.

Speaker 24 She would be. I mean, de Blasio's a rich.

Speaker 101 They're both nightmares, but she'd probably actually be better for New York.

Speaker 158 And the crime families would like her, too.

Speaker 60 Now, this: yesterday, Trump's nominee to head the Commerce Department, Wilbur Ross, gave us a look at the next administration's likely direction on trade.

Speaker 43 In his testimony before the Senate Committee, Ross stressed stricter enforcement of existing rules as a way to confront China and other countries.

Speaker 79 What is China going to do?

Speaker 129 What does 2017 bring?

Speaker 42 The only thing constant in the world is change.

Speaker 126 Are you prepared?

Speaker 59 Have you considered putting 10%

Speaker 22 of what you have in your 401k or your IRA into gold?

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Speaker 47 I will beat my drum.

Speaker 47 I have made my choice, we will overcome, cause we are one.

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Speaker 108 Are you for real?

Speaker 149 So

Speaker 95 an update on the Roman Polanski debacle we had yesterday.

Speaker 86 We were talking about who the president might release.

Speaker 88 We think

Speaker 2 there's a chance that he just effectively closes down Gitmo and just releases the remaining 40.

Speaker 80 What he does with them, I don't know, but

Speaker 108 he might already have a deal worked out with Oman or Yemen. Who knows? That's

Speaker 91 very important.

Speaker 108 They just took a big group of people in Oman recently. So they might who knows?

Speaker 88 They'll be able to have this problem again.

Speaker 108 And then he can say, I closed it. I didn't close it the first year, but I did get it closed.
Yep.

Speaker 80 I think that's very likely because that was very important to him.

Speaker 91 Yeah.

Speaker 43 You know, there's still others that

Speaker 88 I think the blind shake

Speaker 18 might be a guy that he considers letting go.

Speaker 108 It's possible, but I don't think so. I hope not.
That's a big one. I mean,

Speaker 108 that would hurt his legacy.

Speaker 111 I agree.

Speaker 109 Yeah.

Speaker 108 I think that's too big a risk for him.

Speaker 182 I mean, that's

Speaker 108 everybody knows he's responsible for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center.

Speaker 109 How long do we have to hold him?

Speaker 108 Forever.

Speaker 60 The guy was 1988.

Speaker 133 And the only reason we all knew.

Speaker 101 The only reason we did it is because we were doing things that were oppressive.

Speaker 95 Right.

Speaker 80 I mean, I could make the case that he'll release him in a heartbeat.

Speaker 145 I don't think he will.

Speaker 149 I don't think so. I don't think so.

Speaker 101 He does care about his legacy. And that's maybe the only reason.
That's the only thing that would stop him.

Speaker 28 What made me say that?

Speaker 23 Because that was a few years ago that I said that. And there was something else that he released.

Speaker 24 Remember, he released and he made a deal with somebody, and these people wanted the blind shake out.

Speaker 104 And we got some,

Speaker 24 I don't remember what it was, but there was something that happened where he was dealing with the people on the blind shake.

Speaker 79 And I was like, he's not going to do it now, but I bet he does it on his last day.

Speaker 8 I don't think he will, but it would be interesting to watch.

Speaker 28 The other is Mumia Abu Jamal, which Stu says can't happen, or it would be very difficult because it's a gate creation.

Speaker 117 Right.

Speaker 153 Wouldn't be beyond him to say, I'm doing it, deal with it.

Speaker 108 If that were a federal issue, I think for sure he would do it.

Speaker 65 He'd do it. He would do it.

Speaker 128 The other is Roman Polanski.

Speaker 95 Stu brought that up yesterday. The Pelletier.
The Pelletier guy. Yeah.

Speaker 45 Impossible.

Speaker 76 Yeah.

Speaker 128 Roman Polanski's in the news.

Speaker 60 He has been named the

Speaker 88 president of the Caesar Awards.

Speaker 141 The Caesar Awards.

Speaker 24 So that's kind of, what I gather, it's kind of like

Speaker 91 the Oscars. Yeah.

Speaker 108 In France. In France.

Speaker 50 And luckily, there are some artists in France who are like, are you kidding me?

Speaker 91 Really?

Speaker 60 Yeah, we're holding up this guy, a pedophile, as they call him over there.

Speaker 84 We're holding him up.

Speaker 153 Which is why President Obama needs to just wipe this.

Speaker 72 Make that go away.

Speaker 108 Is a pedophile a person person who has a file of pita bread?

Speaker 167 Yes.

Speaker 108 Okay. Yes.

Speaker 95 Or they enjoy it a great deal or enjoy it.

Speaker 100 Okay. Under P,

Speaker 101 PETA, in the file cabinet. Okay.

Speaker 72 Probably not.

Speaker 174 David Galertner brought this up last hour.

Speaker 43 Now, this is the new science czar.

Speaker 164 To be discussed.

Speaker 101 Discussed.

Speaker 101 Not guaranteed yet. We hope so.

Speaker 133 I hope. I mean, he's good.

Speaker 2 Okay, now remember, we're replacing his Obama's that went flying through.

Speaker 174 Everybody loved John Holdren, a guy who in the 1970s said we should poison the drinking water and we should put sterilants in drinking water for population control.

Speaker 145 That's just academically.

Speaker 133 He was just academically talking about that.

Speaker 32 Okay, so that's the guy we had. He's a good idea.

Speaker 91 That makes everything okay if you do it in his academic setting.

Speaker 101 Just academic. You can talk about murdering entire populations of people.

Speaker 108 That's fine. Don't even worry about that.

Speaker 143 I will say, though,

Speaker 101 it does not clear you from being conservative.

Speaker 101 If you're conservative in an academic setting, that doesn't count.

Speaker 127 So here's David Glertner.

Speaker 49 If you don't know who David Glertner is, David Glertner is a friend and

Speaker 60 absolutely one of the greatest minds I've ever met.

Speaker 28 And I've met some really sharp people.

Speaker 44 I think this guy would knock Pendillette into the dirt.

Speaker 141 Yes.

Speaker 6 Glertner is is the kind of guy that you talk to and you're like,

Speaker 103 okay, I didn't understand any of that.

Speaker 106 He's really bright.

Speaker 101 Do you think this Yale computer scientist could

Speaker 101 even out-talk the magician?

Speaker 170 Have you talked to Penn Galerton?

Speaker 91 I've never had any guys.

Speaker 91 He would laugh at that description, though.

Speaker 164 He's one of the smartest people I've ever seen.

Speaker 133 He would laugh at that description. I'm sure of that.
No, he would.

Speaker 149 He would. But don't

Speaker 2 be one of the smartest people. Yeah, don't

Speaker 129 dismiss the magician.

Speaker 26 So David Galertner, a computer scientist, mathematician at Yale,

Speaker 59 you know him or you know of him because of the Unabomber.

Speaker 29 The first victim of the Unabomber was David Galertner.

Speaker 28 And David is a futurist on par with Ray Kurzweil.

Speaker 81 I've wanted to put those two together in a steel cage match for a very long time because Galerdner believes everything that Ray Kurzweil believes,

Speaker 23 except he believes it's immoral to do some of these things without talking about it first.

Speaker 59 And

Speaker 60 so he wrote a book about technology, and this was in 1980s or 1990s.

Speaker 81 I don't remember the name of it.

Speaker 106 And he wrote it about technology.

Speaker 10 And the first half of the book was, here's what's coming.

Speaker 2 And he's right about all of it.

Speaker 24 And he talked about transhumanism and everything else.

Speaker 104 And the second half is a warning.

Speaker 148 We can't just go take that on.

Speaker 74 Warning.

Speaker 95 Well, apparently Kaczynski only read the first half of the book and said, I got to kill this guy because look what the world he's creating.

Speaker 28 And so he was the first mailbomb went to David Galertner.

Speaker 101 And he opened up the mailbox.

Speaker 171 And there was something, there was something in the way or he, I don't remember how it happened, but he opened up the mailbox and it didn't kill him.

Speaker 60 It blew his hand up and blew him up quite a bit, damaged his internal organs and his arm that he was holding the mailbox with.

Speaker 28 He now kind of looks like Darth Vader in a way.

Speaker 46 He wears a black glove on one hand.

Speaker 128 He's in a great deal of pain all the time,

Speaker 59 but has continued on.

Speaker 64 He invented the code that I think, the code and the algorithm that I think Twitter and maybe Facebook uses.

Speaker 49 He was working on code for Apple.

Speaker 37 They just took it from him.

Speaker 180 He sued, won like, I don't even know what, like $10 million or something from Apple.

Speaker 162 Brilliant guy.

Speaker 59 I personally would rather have him in the education department because

Speaker 28 he believes that education...

Speaker 128 formal education as we know it is a thing of the past and should be.

Speaker 101 From his job at Yale.

Speaker 91 Yes, yes.

Speaker 129 And thinks it should be.

Speaker 74 And can

Speaker 10 he he says he has the system that could replace it?

Speaker 26 And I believe him.

Speaker 76 He wrote a book on it, didn't he?

Speaker 28 Yeah, he's absolutely brilliant.

Speaker 24 To have him as our science czar is great.

Speaker 163 Now, the reason why the left doesn't like him and calls him fiercely anti-intellectual is because he questions global warming, doesn't deny it, questions global, a scientist that still questions

Speaker 121 Unbelievable.

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Speaker 154 So Tanya and I were talking last night.

Speaker 60 What is President-elect Trump's life like in these two days tonight?

Speaker 85 Imagine you're going to be the president of the united states the next day

Speaker 115 do you have a moment or hopefully the whole day oh the whole week i don't i don't know what

Speaker 64 i boy i was singing last night talking to tanya and i said

Speaker 124 i would

Speaker 90 be

Speaker 145 so

Speaker 74 on my knees begging for help.

Speaker 113 It would almost be like, what the hell have I done?

Speaker 111 Tomorrow, I'm the guy.

Speaker 123 That was the dumbest idea I've ever had.

Speaker 131 What have I done?

Speaker 69 And walking into the Oval Office

Speaker 99 and it's yours, you walk on and they say, Mr.

Speaker 24 President, would you like a few minutes alone?

Speaker 10 And close the door.

Speaker 104 What is that like?

Speaker 169 I don't know.

Speaker 129 I think every president, because you read, every president said that they had that moment of walking in going,

Speaker 120 holy cow.

Speaker 106 Best description I've heard is from

Speaker 115 Harry Truman.

Speaker 59 He said he felt as though the moon, the stars, and the sun fell on his shoulders.

Speaker 129 Imagine.

Speaker 101 I really think Trump would view that as weakness.

Speaker 72 I think so, too. I think he would view that he could now hold up the sun, the moon, and the stars.

Speaker 164 I mean, it would be scary.

Speaker 101 He ran on a platform of saying, like,

Speaker 101 I can do this. This is easy.

Speaker 108 He's already run incredible businesses.

Speaker 108 Incredible business, beautiful businesses.

Speaker 153 To fix up this dump.

Speaker 101 And I think you could say, too, I mean, obviously it is a huge responsibility and it is important, but I mean, I think, I don't think he likes to think of things that way.

Speaker 101 You know, I think he, I think he, he wants, part of his confidence comes from not allowing himself to go down those roads.

Speaker 134 Yeah, I saw an interview with him

Speaker 80 where he said, yeah, where he said, I don't like to

Speaker 16 think about, yeah, I don't like time to reflect.

Speaker 128 I don't want to reflect because it will bring up too many things.

Speaker 120 Don, that's not healthy.

Speaker 169 That's not healthy.

Speaker 101 But I mean, I think that's true with him. I do too.

Speaker 101 And, you know, so I don't think he'll have that moment. I think he'll want to jump into it.
And, you know, hey, I mean, you know,

Speaker 101 it's what he ran on, and I think what he was elected for. And I think he should execute that, right? I mean, that's what he got elected for.

Speaker 129 Okay, so it's not always been this way where people looked at this as, you know, we, at least, I think that people in our audience look in this as this is not,

Speaker 60 for instance, you remember when Clinton left and they took all the W's off of the typewriter keys, you know, off the computer keys?

Speaker 69 And I just thought, how petty is that?

Speaker 145 And it's the Oval Office.

Speaker 104 It's the White House and just such respect for it.

Speaker 134 But I think we're kind of in the minority on this.

Speaker 41 I don't think a very large population feels this way.

Speaker 150 And many of the politicians have not felt this way.

Speaker 104 GlennBeck.com in our inaugural coverage, we have the seven weirdest inaugurations in history.

Speaker 100 Let me give you two of them.

Speaker 24 One of them was Andrew Johnson.

Speaker 85 Andrew Johnson, vice president of Abraham Lincoln.

Speaker 4 And you've heard me tell the story where Johnson is up going, get him,

Speaker 139 right?

Speaker 179 It's the second inaugural address, and Johnson is coming in, and he wants to rape the South.

Speaker 128 And

Speaker 171 he is talking about,

Speaker 134 you know, how the North is victorious and how we're the best and

Speaker 79 the greatest and the most terrific.

Speaker 100 Anyway.

Speaker 26 That didn't work out well.

Speaker 129 So anyway,

Speaker 129 he was bragging about how the North was the greatest and has crushed the South.

Speaker 172 Lincoln was horrified, because remember, his speech is with charity toward all and malice toward none, let us heal the wounds of the nation.

Speaker 113 Johnson is just ripping them apart.

Speaker 158 So before the inauguration, the vice president has to do what the vice president just

Speaker 129 did with the Senate.

Speaker 142 earlier, and that's swear all the senators in.

Speaker 171 Well, he's up there and he's just tearing the South apart.

Speaker 134 He's in front of all the senators, all their wives, everybody, and he is going on and on and on and on.

Speaker 74 And then they

Speaker 24 start doing the swearing in and he's like, okay,

Speaker 54 so

Speaker 120 repeat after,

Speaker 129 ooh, it's hot in here.

Speaker 24 He is so out of control, he doesn't remember what he's doing and everything else.

Speaker 79 Lincoln has to stand up and say, please leave. And they escort him out the back door for him to sleep it off.

Speaker 24 So that's Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural.

Speaker 104 Andrew Jackson.

Speaker 108 By the way, Johnson went on to be the first president ever impeached and the only one

Speaker 108 up until Clinton.

Speaker 72 He was very bad.

Speaker 113 1829.

Speaker 68 The White House has seen a lot of parties, but in 1829, March 4th, Andrew Johnson had an open house.

Speaker 2 Andrew Jackson?

Speaker 24 Andrew Jackson, open house, sparked a mob scene that almost destroyed the White House.

Speaker 24 He was known as a man of the people,

Speaker 88 and he was a rough man.

Speaker 80 And so he had a rowdy crowd.

Speaker 134 And he was like, hey, everybody,

Speaker 148 come on, let's party at the White House.

Speaker 177 Open to the public.

Speaker 19 And

Speaker 150 by the way,

Speaker 124 it's B-Y-O-B.

Speaker 28 So it was a party with the president.

Speaker 24 Anybody who wanted to party with this rough riding, rough-talking

Speaker 184 man of the people, I'm going to show him. I'm going to take it back.

Speaker 104 That kind of guy.

Speaker 102 The people who are like, yeah, come and they're all drunk.

Speaker 77 They destroyed furniture.

Speaker 51 They were breaking plates.

Speaker 134 And

Speaker 8 they ground cheese into the carpet.

Speaker 182 So I don't know exactly how they did that.

Speaker 101 Sounds like my kind of party.

Speaker 26 But finally, to close it down, what they had to do is the White House officials had to go out and say, hey, everybody, there's free liquor out here.

Speaker 144 And everybody came out for the free liquor and they locked the doors.

Speaker 42 So no matter what happens tomorrow.

Speaker 91 Good times.

Speaker 16 Good times. Good times.

Speaker 108 Good times at the White House.

Speaker 95 Yeah.

Speaker 108 Those times aren't coming back.

Speaker 31 Well, maybe they are tomorrow. Who knows? Who knows?

Speaker 54 I don't know.

Speaker 31 No, they're not. No.

Speaker 101 You don't think he'll swing the doors open and let everyone come in and go?

Speaker 24 No, but I'm not convinced that the left isn't going to do something to cause problems.

Speaker 133 Try to derail it.

Speaker 101 Yeah.

Speaker 101 Can we talk about one other thing we have not touched on today, which is important with the transition, this Rick Perry story from the New York Times?

Speaker 141 Oh, this is so agonizing.

Speaker 101 This is one of the most unbelievable things I've ever seen.

Speaker 179 And you know what?

Speaker 119 I just yesterday read a story from the New York Times where they pointed out Barack Obama lecturing the press about how they have to be fierce on the president and not fold.

Speaker 32 And they pointed out, the New York Times pointed out there has been no president since Woodrow Wilson, I'm quoting,

Speaker 24 that has been more

Speaker 24 antagonistic with the press and used, it's not the Sedition Act.

Speaker 166 It's the,

Speaker 158 what is it?

Speaker 133 The thing that Woodrow Wilson came up with. Espionage Act.

Speaker 69 Nobody that has used the Espionage Act more than Barack Obama.

Speaker 28 In fact, he's used it more than all other presidents combined, where he's saying, you're a member of the press.

Speaker 24 You shouldn't have leaked that secret.

Speaker 28 And the reason why they brought it up was because

Speaker 41 now he's pardoning Manning,

Speaker 11 a guy who leaked some of the most important secrets, and he went after the press.

Speaker 108 That's a really good point. Really good.

Speaker 150 I hadn't even thought of it.

Speaker 179 And I thought to myself, wow, the New York Times is really, maybe they're changing.

Speaker 133 And then they write this point. Well, two things on that.

Speaker 101 Number one, the New York Times, I mean, I know it's not popular in these circles to talk about. The New York Times does some really good work.

Speaker 145 Really good work.

Speaker 101 It's just that they also do things like the thing I'm about to read.

Speaker 19 This one will make your eyes bleed.

Speaker 101 Which is really

Speaker 101 bad. The other part about this, though, on your point, Glenn, is the only time the press consistently stands up against a Democrat or liberals is when they are the targets.

Speaker 133 Yes.

Speaker 101 When the press is in trouble themselves, they actually do take stands

Speaker 148 occasionally. Occasionally.

Speaker 67 They didn't under Obama.

Speaker 101 No, I mean, they did.

Speaker 101 They talked about that Espionage Act a lot.

Speaker 101 And they did. There were a lot of reporters who stood up and said that what he's doing is wrong.
We couldn't stand Bush. He did it too much, and now Obama's doing it more.

Speaker 178 It wasn't lockstep.

Speaker 168 I wouldn't say it was lockstep, but it did not.

Speaker 49 It will be lockstep the minute if Trump tries to throw them out of the press room.

Speaker 72 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 60 which is not the using the Espionage Act no it's just being

Speaker 80 he wanted to move it to a bigger room yeah want to move it over to Blair House if if he did that they will have they will be in lockstep and have a coronary

Speaker 101 so here's the New York Times headline learning curve as Rick Perry pursues a job he initially misunderstood

Speaker 101 when President-elect Donald Trump offered Rick Perry the job of energy secretary five weeks ago mr.

Speaker 101 Perry gladly accepted, believing he was taking on a role as a global ambassador for the American oil and gas industry that he had long championed in his home state. In the days after, Mr.

Speaker 101 Perry, the former Texas governor, discovered that he would be no such thing, that in fact, if confirmed by the Senate, he would become the steward of a vast national security complex he knew almost nothing about.

Speaker 84 What is the source on that one, Stu?

Speaker 101 Caring for the most fearsome weapons on the planet, the United States nuclear arsenal. Two-thirds of the agency's I didn't give you an answer on the source thing yet, did I?

Speaker 101 Two-thirds of the agency's annual $30 billion budget is devoted to maintaining, refurbishing, and keeping safe the nation's nuclear stockpile.

Speaker 101 If you asked, oh, here it is.

Speaker 167 Here's the source.

Speaker 101 If you asked him on the first day, he said yes. He would have said, I want to be an advocate for energy, said Michael McKenna, a Republican energy lobbyist who advised Mr.

Speaker 101 Perry's 2016 presidential campaign and worked on the Trump Transitions Energy Department team in its early days.

Speaker 99 Seems like a really good source.

Speaker 101 Yeah, and he also did leave that at one point.

Speaker 101 Quote, if you asked him now, he'd say, I'm serious about the challenges facing the nuclear complex.

Speaker 66 It's been a learning curve.

Speaker 149 Wow, so they're quoting

Speaker 91 a very good article.

Speaker 101 Now, I will say we could read the entire thing, but that's the source for the story.

Speaker 101 They have one guy, one guy, saying it's been a learning curve. from when he thought he was going to be talking about energy, and now he's talking about the nuclear.

Speaker 129 Well, at least he backs it up and he's...

Speaker 101 And it was a good source, obviously.

Speaker 102 Good source.

Speaker 101 One minor problem with that comes from the Daily Caller.

Speaker 101 The former transition official quoted in the New York Times story, Michael McKenna, told the Daily Caller Wednesday that the Times misinterpreted him, and Perry, quote, of course, end quote, understood that a key role of the Department of Energy is caring for the nation's nuclear arsenal.

Speaker 52 Hang on, the DOE,

Speaker 28 the agency was started for the nuclear projects?

Speaker 179 I'm surprised.

Speaker 80 He knew that.

Speaker 10 He knew that.

Speaker 144 Wow. Now, this is also a guy who's.

Speaker 60 He's a governor because he's worked with the DOE on all of the energy projects, not just oil and gas, but like all of the electricity and the coal and

Speaker 51 any nuclear plant

Speaker 124 he would be aware of because of DOE.

Speaker 108 The largest nuclear plant in America, by the way, is in Texas.

Speaker 140 So he knows that he knows

Speaker 149 the elections. So, yeah.

Speaker 101 He ran for president twice when he was possible when he knew about that.

Speaker 54 Well, but nuclear power.

Speaker 80 Okay, so we have a guy who was quoted, but I'm sure

Speaker 24 Perry had said something stupid.

Speaker 52 Yeah, yeah, he did.

Speaker 108 He did.

Speaker 101 Okay. I will say he did say something stupid.

Speaker 107 Like, what did he say right after it was announced?

Speaker 101 December 14th, 2016.

Speaker 24 So the day it was announced.

Speaker 108 Okay, so it's going to be like,

Speaker 31 I'm excited about energy.

Speaker 174 Gas, I got gas.

Speaker 91 I got gas and oil because I'm from Texas.

Speaker 116 Nuclear what? What is it?

Speaker 45 Nuclear what?

Speaker 24 So here's his statement, and it's embarrassing for Rick Perry.

Speaker 101 It's a tremendous honor to be selected to serve as Secretary of Energy by President-elect Trump. He was deeply humbled at the nomination.

Speaker 101 As former governor of the nation's largest energy-producing state, I know American energy is critical to our economy and our security.

Speaker 101 I look forward to engaging in a conversation about development, stewardship, and regulation of our energy resources, safeguarding our nuclear arsenal, and promoting an American energy policy that creates jobs and puts America so low.

Speaker 45 Right.

Speaker 136 Dope.

Speaker 184 She didn't even know we had to safeguard the arsenal.

Speaker 140 Except he said it right there.

Speaker 164 This is a disastrous.

Speaker 11 So would you read the New York Times headline again?

Speaker 73 Because this is what I'll tell you what I believe happened here.

Speaker 107 Go ahead.

Speaker 174 Learning curve.

Speaker 101 And that's in quotes, by the way.

Speaker 137 That's from Academic.

Speaker 101 Learning curve as Rick Perry pursues a job he initially misunderstood.

Speaker 143 Okay.

Speaker 174 I believe the author of this article didn't know that.

Speaker 91 And it was actually a learning curve for him.

Speaker 169 And he just assumed that, yeah, he probably didn't know because I didn't really know it myself, but I can make Rick Perry look bad.

Speaker 43 The only learning curve there there is for the

Speaker 4 writer of this.

Speaker 32 And if the writer did know this, then he's just a bad writer that needs to be fired.

Speaker 101 That's a journalistic disaster.

Speaker 149 Yeah, that's a hack.

Speaker 133 And now this.

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Speaker 98 Big day tomorrow.

Speaker 30 The inauguration is tomorrow.

Speaker 11 Do I have time real quick? How much time do I have, Natasha?

Speaker 59 We have to start with Greg in Connecticut tomorrow.

Speaker 88 First thing on the show, tomorrow.

Speaker 19 He's...

Speaker 51 They have grief counselors for students tomorrow in school.

Speaker 80 Yes, he's a public school teacher. He says it's happening in Connecticut.

Speaker 10 We'll get the scoop from him tomorrow.

Speaker 51 They have grief counselors

Speaker 43 in school.

Speaker 133 Did anybody think about that when Romney lost?

Speaker 32 Or?

Speaker 133 No, that's right. Because you were only against Obama if you were a racist.

Speaker 30 So

Speaker 172 they probably just had classes on racism

Speaker 182 back then.

Speaker 18 Unbelievable.

Speaker 133 We'll begin there tomorrow.

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