The Press Has Become Glenn Beck? 1/17/17

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Also, inauguration this week.

Speaker 57 We have John Lewis, who is not going, along with 40 other Democrats that have decided to not attend the inauguration.

Speaker 57 I can't start the next four years.

Speaker 57 I'm not going to say this every day.

Speaker 57 But can you imagine have the roles been reversed?

Speaker 57 There are many of us in America who were gravely offended by the current president. when he said it's people like that that have an antithy towards people who are of different color.

Speaker 57 He said, we get scared, we cling to our God and our guns. He was talking about socialist policies.

Speaker 36 He was for single payer,

Speaker 57 universal health care, things that we were deeply, deeply disturbed about.

Speaker 57 A reversal of the Constitution, in his own words, reversing it from a charter of negative liberties to a charter of positive liberties. That scared the hell out of us.

Speaker 57 Can you imagine if anybody would have gone and said, I'm not attending his inauguration?

Speaker 57 There is something to be said

Speaker 66 about each of our roles of coming together.

Speaker 57 Each of our roles in saying, let's give the man a shot.

Speaker 57 We did.

Speaker 57 It didn't last long, and yours might not last long.

Speaker 57 But starting out this way with 40 people walking, disrespecting the office of the President of the United States is disappointing.

Speaker 57 Somebody said to me on Twitter this weekend, Glenn, you know, trying to bring everybody together isn't going to work. They don't want to compromise.

Speaker 73 First of all, I'm not talking about compromise.

Speaker 62 Never compromise your principles.

Speaker 74 Not talking about compromise on the principle level.

Speaker 57 I am talking about, is there a way to to

Speaker 57 find ideas and ideals and principles that we can all join around?

Speaker 57 Respect for the office of the President of the United States is one of those ideals.

Speaker 57 Whether we can get there, I don't know. They'll never compromise.
Great.

Speaker 59 We know what we're doing isn't working, so what do you suggest?

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Speaker 57 I want to start with the press

Speaker 57 because the press

Speaker 57 has a decision to make.

Speaker 57 And I fear they're making the wrong one.

Speaker 79 Let me start here.

Speaker 67 Press think. Winter is coming.
Prospects for the American press under Donald Trump.

Speaker 81 Now listen to this first paragraph.

Speaker 68 How bad is it?

Speaker 82 Pretty bad.

Speaker 30 For a free press as a check on power, this is the darkest time in American history since World War I, when there was massive censorship and suppression of dissent.

Speaker 86 I say this because so many things are happening at once to disarm and disable serious journalism or to push it out of the frame.

Speaker 88 He's not even president yet.

Speaker 59 He's not even president yet.

Speaker 89 Now,

Speaker 90 should you be concerned, should every American be concerned about the First Amendment?

Speaker 92 Yes.

Speaker 74 But you should be consistently concerned about the First Amendment.

Speaker 94 This is the darkest time.

Speaker 75 He's not even president.

Speaker 86 The actual darkest time in any presidential's term, any presidential term since Woodrow Wilson is this president's.

Speaker 99 I can't believe you just said that story and waited the good 30 seconds to mention Woodrow's name.

Speaker 78 Woodrow Wilson's name.

Speaker 100 Well, no, it was in the first, it was said since World War I.

Speaker 89 I was like, I got to give it.

Speaker 101 Too easy. Too easy.

Speaker 34 Too easy.

Speaker 30 Since World War I, that was Woodrow Wilson.

Speaker 104 This president, Barack Obama, has done more against the press

Speaker 90 than any other president beside Woodrow Wilson.

Speaker 61 This is a trend.

Speaker 95 This is not something new.

Speaker 106 This is a trend.

Speaker 69 And we begged you over and over again.

Speaker 67 Is there no one in the press that actually cares about the First Amendment?

Speaker 108 Is there no one that sees the handwriting on the wall?

Speaker 69 No.

Speaker 31 Why?

Speaker 110 Because it was your guy.

Speaker 111 So you thought your guy would only silence the people you thought were crackpots.

Speaker 62 And at the same time we warned, we said,

Speaker 67 at some point there's going to be a guy in that you don't like.

Speaker 67 You can't give the president this much power.

Speaker 72 When will the press wake up to the fact that because it was their guy, they were fine with it?

Speaker 103 Just like

Speaker 90 because it was our guy, So many of us were fine with the Patriot Act.

Speaker 33 No, the Patriot Act is bad.

Speaker 105 You can't give a government that much power.

Speaker 119 Look what's happening this weekend.

Speaker 108 What did Barack Obama sign in in his executive order?

Speaker 99 Yeah, he locked in the executive order to

Speaker 99 triple three, I believe it is.

Speaker 99 Yeah. Only days until Trump takes office.
The Obama administration on Thursday announced new rules that will let the NSA share vast amounts of private data gathered without warrant.

Speaker 99 New rules to allow employees doing intelligence work for agencies to sift through raw data collected under a broad Reagan-era executive order that gives NSA virtually unlimited authority to intercept communications abroad.

Speaker 99 Previously, NSA analysts would filter out information they deemed irrelevant and mask the names of innocent Americans before passing it along.

Speaker 109 They no longer have to do that.

Speaker 99 So the names and irrelevant data are all included with the supposedly relevant data.

Speaker 125 And if you think Donald Trump is going to repeal that executive order, he's not going to.

Speaker 64 He's not going to.

Speaker 97 He could.

Speaker 126 He could, but he's not going to.

Speaker 106 He's not going to.

Speaker 69 No, no.

Speaker 127 It will take an extraordinary George Washington kind of president to reverse the information that is coming to the president and to the government.

Speaker 9 They will all say the same thing.

Speaker 9 They will all say, well, everybody else is doing it.

Speaker 62 Every other country has this information.

Speaker 116 We can't be the only one without it.

Speaker 123 I asked the, remember when we had the NSA whistleblowers on?

Speaker 131 Everything that was going on with the press at that time, time,

Speaker 2 we brought the NSA whistleblowers in.

Speaker 98 Nobody was listening to them, and I said, so how do we reverse this?

Speaker 49 You don't.

Speaker 132 Well, no, that's not very optimistic.

Speaker 87 How do we, you don't.

Speaker 17 Well, what do you mean we don't?

Speaker 103 You don't because no president will have the balls to do it.

Speaker 119 Because once they're in power, they'll say, I need this information.

Speaker 75 What's amazing is that this happened at the highest levels.

Speaker 46 This goes to what George Bush told me.

Speaker 62 At the highest levels, they all play exactly the same game.

Speaker 103 This isn't giving him more power.

Speaker 62 This is giving Donald Trump more power.

Speaker 67 So at the highest levels,

Speaker 68 as

Speaker 29 George W.

Speaker 65 Bush told me during the campaign with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and John McCain, Don't worry, it doesn't matter who gets in.

Speaker 128 Whoever sits at this desk will get the same advice that I have gotten and realize that their hands are pretty much tied.

Speaker 115 Whoa.

Speaker 66 Who's controlling the overall picture?

Speaker 128 Who are the advisors that keep giving the same advice?

Speaker 129 That's not good.

Speaker 99 And to Obama's credit, too, it's a principle here.

Speaker 142 Right?

Speaker 99 Like, Barack Obama realizes that his principle is to grow government.

Speaker 99 Even if the Trump administration might use it in a way he doesn't like it, he's willing to lock in the increase in executive power so that the next president, so that Michelle Obama can use it in four or eight years.

Speaker 99 And

Speaker 99 they remain dedicated to those principles in these moments where Republicans do the exact opposite.

Speaker 99 They're all principled until they get power, then they forget about all those things.

Speaker 99 I mean, Obamacare is a good example of that.

Speaker 99 They pushed through a million things that a Republican would not push through to get that thing passed, including getting getting no bipartisan support and having to do all these tricks and

Speaker 99 pole vaulting, as they talked about it, to get it done. But they got it done knowing that in the end, it would expand government.
And you might say, well, what? No, they're going to repeal it.

Speaker 99 Even the things they're talking about repealing it with

Speaker 99 are keeping large parts of Obamacare. You never get rid of it.
You never get rid of it.

Speaker 143 And that's what we said in the beginning, was once this is ingrained, it's going to be almost impossible to get rid of it.

Speaker 59 It's Social Security and Medicare, Medicaid.

Speaker 143 You don't get rid of them. No.

Speaker 106 Government programs do not go away.

Speaker 143 People are too dependent on it now. Yeah.

Speaker 143 And you can kind of see why when you see

Speaker 146 how

Speaker 143 many things we have that we just kind of take for granted. Hospice, for instance.

Speaker 143 They just come and they take care of things.

Speaker 146 Who pays for that?

Speaker 143 I keep asking, why don't we pay for any of this?

Speaker 146 Who pays for this?

Speaker 101 It's all free.

Speaker 99 No, it's not all free.

Speaker 100 Somebody's paying for this. How is this coming to our house every day?

Speaker 148 I had no idea that you didn't have to pay for hospitality.

Speaker 78 You don't have to pay for it.

Speaker 143 They come and they bring whatever your relative, your dying loved one needs. I mean, you know, serious drugs, all the like beds.

Speaker 143 They brought us a hospital bed.

Speaker 149 I'm like, a hospital bed?

Speaker 101 That's got to.

Speaker 100 How much are we paying for that?

Speaker 143 Nothing.

Speaker 52 It's free.

Speaker 121 Is that through Medicare?

Speaker 120 I'm sorry, but people,

Speaker 143 my mother-in-law's Medicare.

Speaker 35 But people like you should pay for it.

Speaker 114 Yes, we should.

Speaker 97 Yes, we should.

Speaker 85 We should be paying for it.

Speaker 105 Unless it's in your insurance.

Speaker 101 Right. Or her insurance.
Or hers.

Speaker 143 And I think it is through her insurance, but it's Medicare.

Speaker 34 But it's a government program. It's a government

Speaker 151 program.

Speaker 152 It's one that actually makes business sense. Yeah.

Speaker 62 One that I'm not paying for.

Speaker 143 But absolutely, we should be paying for it. I mean, somehow.
And I've asked all along, well, how much is this? Not that I'm trying not to pay for it.

Speaker 142 I'm curious.

Speaker 143 Or wouldn't get it for my mother-in-law because we would.

Speaker 143 But I'm, you know, I just can't believe all of that care is free. Nurses come in three, four times a week.
Then they'll come at the very end and do 12-hour shifts and are there full-time, 12 hours.

Speaker 143 And then the next one comes in, 12 hours.

Speaker 146 So they're there 24 hours a day.

Speaker 143 administering drugs every hour and all that stuff. And I mean,

Speaker 143 it's unbelievable the kind of care.

Speaker 153 Her mother-in-law at that point, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 119 The 12-hour shifts.

Speaker 143 They just came yesterday and they were like,

Speaker 143 she's sleeping most of the time, so you don't need to.

Speaker 143 But yeah, eventually this week, they'll be there 24 hours a day.

Speaker 150 So sorry, Pat. Yeah, it's hard.

Speaker 114 It's been tough.

Speaker 150 It's hard.

Speaker 31 It's been tough.

Speaker 77 Well, on that happy note,

Speaker 19 let me go back to the press because I saw this yesterday in BuzzFeed, and I tweeted something and both sides came out guns ablazin.

Speaker 89 Okay,

Speaker 156 let's have a reasonable discussion here.

Speaker 113 This is

Speaker 157 from BuzzFeed.

Speaker 35 We logged,

Speaker 81 A, BuzzFeed,

Speaker 158 colon, help us map Trump world.

Speaker 62 We logged more than 1,500 people and organizations connecting to

Speaker 62 the incoming administration. We want your help to understand them and to add more.

Speaker 67 No American president has taken office with a giant network of businesses, investments, and corporate connections like that amassed by Donald J.

Speaker 17 Trump.

Speaker 82 His family and advisors have touched a staggering number of ventures from a hotel in Azerbaijan to a poker company in Las Vegas.

Speaker 152 So we compiled a list as many of them as we could keep track, and we can't keep track of them at all.

Speaker 3 We wound up with a diagram that you see above, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 74 We hope it will help you, the public, better understand the new administration.

Speaker 135 But Trump's web is so sprawling that surely there are things that we missed.

Speaker 47 We need to help capture as many connections as we can.

Speaker 62 Okay.

Speaker 91 I want to have a discussion about this

Speaker 69 because the left

Speaker 77 doesn't understand.

Speaker 161 I haven't moved.

Speaker 151 They have.

Speaker 162 They're now turning into me.

Speaker 99 Oh, no. Yeah.

Speaker 78 That's just wrong. That's mean.

Speaker 78 That's mean.

Speaker 99 That's a mean accusation to make to the media. They don't know.

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Speaker 71 All right.

Speaker 119 So a couple of hard questions.

Speaker 74 Some for us, some for the media.

Speaker 67 BuzzFeed, help us map out Trump World.

Speaker 77 What they've done is BuzzFeed has taken all of the business ventures

Speaker 138 that are connected to the Trump organization.

Speaker 88 So it's basically seven degrees from Kevin Bacon.

Speaker 9 So anybody who is in direct business, and then who is the next jumping point from them so

Speaker 9 Donald and then who's connected to his sons who's connected to anybody else in the organization

Speaker 143 including his cabinet positions too right the the people that are in his cabinet they've also diagrammed them and so you're gonna have all of the uh you know the goldman sachs people and and that's gonna be a tangled web too right so so it's it's an interesting thing it is and And so here's a very interesting thing.

Speaker 94 Have you ever seen anything like this before?

Speaker 63 Yeah, I have. When have you seen that?

Speaker 161 Let me think.

Speaker 97 Oh, that's for you.

Speaker 100 Yeah.

Speaker 143 With the Tides Foundation.

Speaker 165 With the Tides Foundation.

Speaker 113 Why would I do that?

Speaker 99 And George Soros.

Speaker 95 And George Soros. Why would I do that?

Speaker 36 And the labor unions.

Speaker 140 I remember SCIU. We're trying to show you.

Speaker 63 I remember the AFL-CIO.

Speaker 143 And no president was more connected to all of these community organizing organizations.

Speaker 104 So I was, I diagrammed AFL-CIO,

Speaker 67 SCIU, Acorn, the Tides Foundation, and George Soros.

Speaker 70 And why did I do that?

Speaker 96 Because I don't like these

Speaker 160 community, these harmless community organizing groups.

Speaker 142 And none of them are harmless.

Speaker 143 We all know they're all social justice socialism

Speaker 69 organisms.

Speaker 83 Most of them are open borders, one-world government, socialist Marxist-leaning.

Speaker 151 Yes. Okay?

Speaker 80 Not the not the pillar of American constitutionalism.

Speaker 9 So what I did was I spent two years diagramming all of the connections.

Speaker 172 For that, I was mocked, ridiculed, and called a conspiracy theorist.

Speaker 90 Now here's the mainstream media

Speaker 133 who is afraid of business connections

Speaker 70 saying we ought to know exactly who he's connected to.

Speaker 59 But this, remember, is not a conspiracy theorist.

Speaker 9 This is the news media.

Speaker 174 So they're not into conspiracies.

Speaker 62 They just want to know all the connections.

Speaker 90 Do you remember when Twitter, how did I first use Twitter?

Speaker 144 When Twitter first came out, remember we used it for watchdogs.

Speaker 120 Oh, right.

Speaker 88 If you see a connection that we might have missed, bark.

Speaker 106 Let us know.

Speaker 99 And that is what BuzzFeed is asking for.

Speaker 68 That's exactly what they're asking for.

Speaker 175 They've turned in to me.

Speaker 63 How does that make you feel, BuzzFeed?

Speaker 2 How does that make you feel, mainstream media? Now, I'm going to do what the mainstream media and BuzzFeed wouldn't do to me.

Speaker 125 I think this is valid.

Speaker 81 I think we should look at every single president and everyone who is around him.

Speaker 79 Because if we would have, we would find social justice warriors that were 9-11 truthers

Speaker 138 and communist sympathizers like Van Jones.

Speaker 47 But you don't have a problem with Van Jones.

Speaker 163 So

Speaker 93 that's why it's a conspiracy to even talk about him.

Speaker 143 They do have a problem with Goldman Sachs. Correct.
Every connection that leads to.

Speaker 150 Correct.

Speaker 119 They have a problem with businesses.

Speaker 94 They have a problem with ExxonMobil.

Speaker 103 We don't have a problem with that.

Speaker 33 Now, the thing is, can we find a balance that we look for the bad guys in business and the bad guys in

Speaker 91 community organizing?

Speaker 77 Can we do that?

Speaker 93 The answer should be yes.

Speaker 123 But are we doing it?

Speaker 20 The answer is clearly no, because there's no self-awareness from the media.

Speaker 96 Fix that first.

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Speaker 143 This Buzzfeed thing is incredible because The guy spent two months working out this web of interconnected businesses with Donald Trump.

Speaker 101 Two months.

Speaker 100 Now, this is. Did they spend two minutes on Barack Obama's connections?

Speaker 143 No.

Speaker 101 No.

Speaker 78 No.

Speaker 85 So don't even go to Barack Obama.

Speaker 137 Did anybody spend two minutes on the connections of the Clinton Foundation?

Speaker 143 No.

Speaker 135 No, they didn't. BuzzFeed is just.

Speaker 143 Even though she ran for president, just like Trump did,

Speaker 102 they didn't see it.

Speaker 63 Do you think BuzzFeed would have done this with Hillary Clinton?

Speaker 151 No.

Speaker 99 They seemingly started this after he won, but still

Speaker 99 you can't imagine they would have. I mean,

Speaker 89 maybe they're not. No way.

Speaker 137 That thing has been a scandal in the brewing forever.

Speaker 115 By the way,

Speaker 110 they've cut out the global initiative.

Speaker 62 The Clintons have decided to close it down.

Speaker 34 Interesting.

Speaker 123 Yeah, that's really interesting, isn't it?

Speaker 62 Now that they don't have access to power.

Speaker 143 Right, nobody's

Speaker 151 donating now?

Speaker 63 The big dollars, the big countries don't seem to be interested in donating.

Speaker 160 Is that what it is?

Speaker 101 Or

Speaker 143 really

Speaker 143 that has nothing to do with it.

Speaker 64 Fascinating.

Speaker 157 It is absolutely fascinating.

Speaker 143 I wonder if anybody's looked at where the donations to Haiti went because it was what $2 billion?

Speaker 71 You guys are there. It was like a Disney World.

Speaker 71 Oh, my gosh. It's fixed.

Speaker 97 Like, you can't believe it.

Speaker 93 Dude, it is so.

Speaker 9 If there was a dollar, I mean, I didn't see anything.

Speaker 146 No, in fact, some of the rubble is still laying on the ground eight years later.

Speaker 46 Yeah, like the Capitol is still just a mess.

Speaker 106 It's just gone.

Speaker 97 Gone. The Capitol.

Speaker 132 Just gone.

Speaker 90 The roads are a mess.

Speaker 160 I haven't seen

Speaker 62 anything that looks like it has been rebuilt.

Speaker 135 And it's horrible.

Speaker 143 What was the thing that was for sale that was donated to Haiti and then somebody took it and is selling it now? And they were supposed to be free items and they're selling them on the road.

Speaker 135 Oh, yeah. I saw bags of rice with the

Speaker 143 rice from the United States.

Speaker 143 They were to be sent there for them to eat. And they're on sale now from some merchant on the side of the road.

Speaker 137 And Haiti, I mean, if they gave $2 billion to Haiti, that's a problem because

Speaker 101 right now, giant corporations, I think Apple is one of them, have come to Haiti and said, we want to build

Speaker 151 plants here.

Speaker 109 We'll help you, but we're not running it through the government.

Speaker 115 We'll help.

Speaker 111 We'll build it.

Speaker 102 We'll provide the jobs.

Speaker 63 but we don't trust the corruption here.

Speaker 123 So you got to stay out of it.

Speaker 87 No, we're not giving the money to to the government.

Speaker 125 We'll build it ourselves.

Speaker 154 Oh no.

Speaker 136 Nope.

Speaker 115 Nope.

Speaker 178 Nope.

Speaker 102 So if they did give $2 billion to Haiti,

Speaker 128 they did it and they knew that it was going to the leaders.

Speaker 52 Horrible.

Speaker 135 Just horrible.

Speaker 143 Somebody got really rich while the people continue to starve.

Speaker 114 Literally live in slavery.

Speaker 134 Slavery.

Speaker 134 Some of them are living in slavery, literal slavery.

Speaker 94 It's amazing to me that BuzzFeed, and it's good, I celebrate the fact that BuzzFeed did this.

Speaker 62 They should do this with every person that is in office.

Speaker 63 But BuzzFeed is taking an axe and grinding it because they don't like the right and they don't like Donald Trump.

Speaker 93 And so they decide we can be heroes.

Speaker 35 We will lead.

Speaker 65 Wait a minute.

Speaker 86 Are they just, oh my gosh, are they just doing this for money and ratings?

Speaker 120 Or do they actually believe some of this nonsense that they're saying?

Speaker 117 Are they just doing this to stir up fear and hatred?

Speaker 68 I think that's what's happening.

Speaker 143 And get clicks.

Speaker 98 And get clicks.

Speaker 88 They're only doing this to get clicks.

Speaker 101 Wow.

Speaker 99 And these are all things that were said, obviously, about you for you were doing these things with Barack Obama.

Speaker 20 So I'm going to take BuzzFeed and give them the benefit of the doubt and say, no,

Speaker 9 they would have done this for the Clinton Global Initiative.

Speaker 99 And to be fair, this is the first president that has taken office while they were a serious journalistic organization. Correct.
Right.

Speaker 99 I mean, you know, that's not, they weren't doing these types of things in 2008. I don't know if they existed in 2008 or 9.

Speaker 39 I don't think so.

Speaker 99 But, I mean, if they did, it was listicles. Now they've been doing a lot of this for a while.
And good. Like, that's a lot of freaking work.
And, you know,

Speaker 99 it's good. I am sure they will draw conclusions out of it that I don't agree with.

Speaker 99 And I'm sure that they will report on things that I and pull things out of that that make me say, come on, you can't possibly think that's an issue.

Speaker 99 However, it's good that the information is out there so we can look at it and examine it and see where they've made mistakes. I mean, that's a good thing

Speaker 9 for journalists to do.

Speaker 125 When we did this,

Speaker 103 that's what the chalkboards were about.

Speaker 144 Remember, every chalkboard at

Speaker 2 Jon Stewart show,

Speaker 62 every chalkboard Jon Stewart did of mine was

Speaker 135 a conspiracy theory.

Speaker 9 Remember, Van Jones is connected to the president's heart.

Speaker 62 And, you know, he did the, remember the intestines, and he had all these things, and Acorn was up there, and Marxists were up there.

Speaker 72 All he was mocking was that I was saying, this guy is connected to this guy, who is then connected to the president.

Speaker 65 Now, if you don't have a problem, and remember, I used to say, the most unlucky guy on the planet, because all of his people that were his satellites were connected to Marxists.

Speaker 48 And so I said, this is either a pattern

Speaker 101 or

Speaker 161 he's the most unlucky friend on the planet.

Speaker 49 That was the whole thesis of my Fox Run.

Speaker 109 What are they doing here?

Speaker 67 Look at the businesses that he's surrounded himself.

Speaker 79 Look at the business people he's surrounded himself with.

Speaker 165 Now, so far, they're not saying anything nefarious,

Speaker 131 but it took us a while before we said, wait a minute, Richard Trumpka is in this circle.

Speaker 63 He's connected to here, here, and here.

Speaker 9 He's connected to these people.

Speaker 126 They all believe in universal health care.

Speaker 140 The president says he doesn't want universal health care.

Speaker 79 But Richard Trumpka and SEIU, who's connected to these Marxists who believe in universal health care, those are the top two visitors to the White House.

Speaker 143 And Andy Stern was a huge universal health care guy. And what did the president say?

Speaker 146 When I'm looking to healthcare, who do I talk to?

Speaker 90 Andy Stern from SEIU.

Speaker 100 It was all that stuff.

Speaker 160 And I remember saying, if that's what the president says, then we should take that and look at Andy Stern and then see who has Andy Stern been consulting with.

Speaker 101 That's the same exact thing that BuzzFeed is doing.

Speaker 103 Now, it was either wrong then

Speaker 85 and wrong now

Speaker 77 or right then and right now.

Speaker 99 And you shouldn't be, as well, defending you doing this back in the day, and now opposing BuzzFeed doing this now.

Speaker 99 I mean, again, you can pull conclusions out of it that are different, but you should, the effort it as a whole is supporting is something you should support.

Speaker 78 Although, again, this is anti-capitalist.

Speaker 143 What we were doing was not anti-capitalist.

Speaker 100 And to me, anti-capitalist is

Speaker 151 anti-American.

Speaker 89 But it shouldn't be.

Speaker 9 Okay, so that's the thing.

Speaker 67 I was not anti-Barack Obama. I was anti-Marxist.

Speaker 97 Yes, for sure.

Speaker 75 I was anti-Marxist.

Speaker 90 There was a time in this country, and in my circle of friends, it's still cool to be anti-Marxist.

Speaker 75 I know that's not popular with a lot of people in this country, but that's where I was.

Speaker 84 I understand if you're a Marxist and you're anti-business and you put this together.

Speaker 137 I don't know if that's the thing behind BuzzFeed.

Speaker 72 What you should be is

Speaker 46 we should be looking for

Speaker 78 capitalists if they're anti-capitalists.

Speaker 61 Some of the best

Speaker 71 Marxists are there.

Speaker 78 George Soros. So

Speaker 67 what we should be for is for transparency.

Speaker 112 Who's actually advising?

Speaker 63 What is their goal?

Speaker 62 Who is actually benefiting from these things?

Speaker 96 We knew SEIU and

Speaker 96 the AFL-CIO wanted it because of their

Speaker 95 failing

Speaker 58 retirement packages.

Speaker 62 We know those are not going to work.

Speaker 95 So anything they can pass off to the government, they want to and need to.

Speaker 138 There's their motivation.

Speaker 90 So when you look at Trump's thing, you start to see him go a certain way.

Speaker 63 Who in his circle of friends may be benefiting?

Speaker 105 Is there evidence that they are?

Speaker 88 Are they advising him on a specific topic?

Speaker 135 If they are, what do they have to gain?

Speaker 126 If nothing, great.

Speaker 126 If something, we should know it.

Speaker 85 It doesn't mean that it's wrong.

Speaker 22 It should be transparent.

Speaker 50 One.

Speaker 48 And if there is corruption, you should care about it.

Speaker 67 The media never cared about the connections or the corruption.

Speaker 161 Never.

Speaker 122 No, they didn't.

Speaker 99 I mean, and look, their criticism of you was just naked partisanship. I mean, they were, they've always loved these connections.

Speaker 99 Go back to the biggest documentary film of all time, time, Fahrenheit 9-11, Michael Moore's movie during the Bush administration, is nothing but a giant web of connections that's supposed to make you believe that George W.

Speaker 99 Bush was the worst guy in the universe.

Speaker 99 You know, they all love that when it's on their side. Correct.

Speaker 101 And they all hate it.

Speaker 78 But here's why I'm bringing this up.

Speaker 62 I'm not bringing this up to defend. I'm not bringing this up about me.

Speaker 91 What I'm trying to do is say

Speaker 88 it is the drumbeat that I'm sorry you will hear over and over and over again.

Speaker 152 I just wrote some of my media friends this weekend with messages like this.

Speaker 178 Huh,

Speaker 67 have you thought about comparing these two?

Speaker 104 Because

Speaker 98 it's time for self-awareness.

Speaker 56 If they want to heal,

Speaker 95 if they want to survive,

Speaker 67 they must have self-awareness. Why does half the country not trust you?

Speaker 112 Because you don't see this.

Speaker 104 If I were on here bashing BuzzFeed today

Speaker 61 because of their connections and somebody on the left said, this is exactly what Glenn Beck did.

Speaker 9 And I said, no, it's totally different.

Speaker 40 He was a Marxist.

Speaker 135 This is a capitalist.

Speaker 58 And left it at that.

Speaker 59 You would know that I was a fraud.

Speaker 59 You would know that I was a fraud.

Speaker 72 That I didn't, that I was playing only one side.

Speaker 119 That's what the media is doing.

Speaker 88 And I really don't think they've even thought of it because they're not surrounded by one dissenting voice.

Speaker 75 Their dissenting voice is like, what's his name?

Speaker 128 That fake conservative that's in the media that is

Speaker 71 David Brooks.

Speaker 151 David Brooks.

Speaker 78 Yeah, David Brooks.

Speaker 84 That's the dissenting.

Speaker 151 That's not.

Speaker 145 Yeah, I agree. Just not as strongly as you do.

Speaker 71 I mean, that's crazy.

Speaker 38 That's crazy.

Speaker 171 And they don't know anybody.

Speaker 91 And so they never hear it, so they never question it.

Speaker 47 They have to hear it.

Speaker 71 Now,

Speaker 62 Politico has an article on making journalism great again.

Speaker 117 And it gives the worst advice to the media I have heard.

Speaker 123 If this advice to the media is taken by the media, and I think it will be.

Speaker 128 The media doesn't have a chance.

Speaker 59 In eight years, you think things are bad now.

Speaker 116 In eight years, it'll be horrible.

Speaker 109 Wait until you hear the advice that many in the media are touting, saying, oh yeah, we got to do that.

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Speaker 169 So

Speaker 62 this is the recommendation that the press is starting to kick around and think is a really good idea.

Speaker 62 Donald Trump and his forthcoming presidency may be the greatest gift to Washington journalism since the invention of the expense account.

Speaker 9 His unorthodox approach to politics and governance has vaporized the standard, useful, yet boring script for reporting on the new administration's doing.

Speaker 77 At a news conference last week, Trump began the process of washing the press completely out of his fake hair as he cascaded CNN and BuzzFeed for reporting on the OPPO research dossier compiled against him.

Speaker 77 Fake news, said the man who has appeared on InfoWars and commended the outlet's efforts.

Speaker 62 Trump surrogate Newt Gingrich took Sean Hannity's program to assist the

Speaker 109 maiming of the media.

Speaker 71 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 150 Now.

Speaker 174 What do you think the press is going to say?

Speaker 105 What do you think they're going to do?

Speaker 88 What do you think

Speaker 62 their recommendation on how to handle the next four to eight years?

Speaker 143 Oh, it's unfair because I already know what the answer is.

Speaker 75 In his own way, Trump has set us free.

Speaker 17 Reporters must treat Inauguration Day as a kind of liberation day to explore news outside the usual Washington circles.

Speaker 62 He has been explicit in his disdain for the press and his dislike for press conferences, prickly to the nth degree about being challenged and known for his vindictive way way

Speaker 74 to those who cross him.

Speaker 163 So forget about the White House press room.

Speaker 32 It's time to circle behind enemy lines.

Speaker 132 What a surprise.

Speaker 62 Washington reporting has long depended on a transactional relationship between sources and journalists.

Speaker 16 So in other words, we like to sleep with each other.

Speaker 77 The White House press dinner is obscene and grotesque.

Speaker 106 Journalists groom sources, but sources also groom journalists.

Speaker 59 There is nothing inherently unethical about backscratching.

Speaker 62 When a reporter calls an an administration source to confirm an embarrassing item, the source may agree to confirm as long as the reporter, at the very least, agrees to listen sympathetically to the administration's

Speaker 30 context. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 169 So

Speaker 75 they're now suggesting that the press

Speaker 49 just go openly hostile to the president.

Speaker 71 Because he's hostile to them.

Speaker 130 Right.

Speaker 143 So just go back at it. Right.

Speaker 35 Like,

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Speaker 57 Hello, America.

Speaker 58 Welcome to the program.

Speaker 51 So, as the Democrats are debating what is a legitimate,

Speaker 57 a legitimate way to protest the president or disagree with the president, we have anarchists now who are saying they're going to shut this president down before he can do anything.

Speaker 57 We have 40 Democrats that are going to walk out on the inauguration.

Speaker 120 I don't know.

Speaker 57 It doesn't sound like something the press would have supported under this current president, but maybe that's just me and my foggy memory.

Speaker 57 We do want to talk about this president and his legacy.

Speaker 59 His legacy, especially after Martin Luther King Day.

Speaker 120 What is Barack Obama

Speaker 75 really

Speaker 57 done for the black community?

Speaker 137 How will he be remembered?

Speaker 57 We go to Burgess Owens right now.

Speaker 57 I will make a stand, I will raise my voice, I will hold your hand, cause we are one,

Speaker 57 I will beat my drum, I have made my choice, we will overcome,

Speaker 57 cause we are one.

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Speaker 57 Hello, America, and welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. As we enter the final days of Barack Obama, let's take a few minutes and look back.

Speaker 51 And we wanted wanted to do so with Burgess Owens, an NFL great friend of the program, author of the book, Liberalism, How to Turn Good Men into Winers, Weenies, and Wimps.

Speaker 51 And Burgess, we wanted to take a look

Speaker 67 at Barack Obama and ask this question.

Speaker 168 Did he miss

Speaker 9 the biggest opportunity this nation has ever seen when it comes to healing the divide?

Speaker 185 Good morning, Glenn.

Speaker 185 I'm looking forward to chatting with you about this topic. And the answer to that is absolutely.

Speaker 185 Let me just start off by saying that

Speaker 185 one of the things that I was very fortunate to do is grow up in an era where we really had strong, visionary, good, confident people moving forward.

Speaker 185 And for anybody out there who wants to see what I talked about in my book, look at the movie Hidden Figures. You see a community that Americans would love to be part of.

Speaker 185 What has happened over the last eight years is that the black community, those who believed and trusted and gave all their hope to this man, has done so much worse than they have since in my memory.

Speaker 185 One thing we've always had, even when things were tough, is we had hope. We were taught that we can educate ourselves.

Speaker 185 We can believe the American dream. We can work hard enough to overcome all obstacles.
And Hidden Figures, that movie shows you what happens when people believe that.

Speaker 185 We have now a community who is more more hopeless,

Speaker 185 more miserable,

Speaker 185 more angry, and less educated, and really believe that they've led to the man just because of his color doesn't take care of him.

Speaker 185 So we have a lot of making up to do now, and the great person in our nation

Speaker 115 can do it.

Speaker 17 And I know, you know, the black community, you know, can't be lumped together as much as the, you know, the white community can't be, any community can't be.

Speaker 153 It's not monolithic.

Speaker 105 However, in its vote, it is pretty monolithic.

Speaker 91 Does the black community believe what you just said?

Speaker 185 Well, what's happening, and you hit it on the head, we've been very monolithic. The great thing,

Speaker 185 the president of Obama, is that we're beginning to think now as a group, as a race. We're beginning to peel ourselves away and wonder about results now.

Speaker 185 You have liberals and Democrats like Jim Brown, who I have a lot of respect for, Steve Harvey, I have a lot of respect for, because they're putting their race above the ideology.

Speaker 185 When you have Americans beginning to do that and looking at Americans first, Martin Luther King III made a very strong

Speaker 185 point the other day. How in this nation can we have between 40 to 50 million people in poverty

Speaker 185 is ridiculous. We're now beginning to think and ask those questions why.
And that's the one thing Obama has done for us. He's put us in such, he's failed in so many different ways.

Speaker 185 that we're beginning to wonder if in case his ideology is truly the best for us or not. And that's a great place for us to be.

Speaker 13 So are we worse off today

Speaker 31 or better off?

Speaker 185 That's a good question. We're worse off in terms of statistics.
We're better off in terms of the future.

Speaker 185 We're better off because we're finally asking those questions and we're finally beginning to talk like we hadn't talked in a while, opening ourselves up. And

Speaker 185 we're having a dialogue with people about people like John Lewis.

Speaker 185 John Lewis is a good example. When I talk about my book, The Royalty Black Class,

Speaker 185 he is the type of individual that has been the worst for our race because he lives in the past. He lives in what he did 60 years ago.
And meanwhile, 60 years later, people are living in misery.

Speaker 185 And he sits there and allows it to happen with total silence because of his allegiance to an ideology of socialists versus his race. So

Speaker 185 in a way, our future is brighter because we're having these kind of dialogues. And we're having black men and women standing up finally and

Speaker 185 speaking against

Speaker 185 the group think. And we're having white Americans beginning to stop apologizing for themselves.
And I think that's a good place for us to be.

Speaker 143 Burgess, if anybody else says that, if a white person says what you just said about John Lewis, oh my gosh, oh, the humanity.

Speaker 142 Well, let me say that racist.

Speaker 112 You know, what's amazing about John Lewis is this weekend, the two sides were so split, he was either a god or he did nothing ever in his life.

Speaker 46 I mean, I heard, I read so many posts and tweets that said John Lewis is a nobody and never really played a role in the civil rights movement.

Speaker 69 I don't think that's true at all.

Speaker 23 Why do we have to destroy everything?

Speaker 185 Well, no, no, well, this is what we have to do is we have to be honest about this process. And let me just use an analogy, guys.

Speaker 185 Since I played NFL, I can use this and be very confident with it.

Speaker 185 I played with two great quarterbacks in my career, the end of Joe Namot, the last three years with him, and then Jim Plunkett, both the most valuable players in the Indian Super Bowl that they played at.

Speaker 185 Great athletes. But guess what great athletes do? Leon Coca, what he did as a great CEO.
When you get to the point where you cannot perform anymore, that you're no longer value, you retire.

Speaker 185 Now, what's happened with John Lewis is he should have retired a long time ago because he has not been doing the things for the black community.

Speaker 185 He sits over a community that's been going downhill fast and being very quiet.

Speaker 185 I look at something like, just an example, There's 2,000 black kids the very first year that Barack Obama came in office that were taken out of great schools and put back into failing schools because they decided to get rid of choice.

Speaker 185 There's 16,000 black kids impacted. John Lewis said nothing.
So yes, 60 years ago, he did a great thing. He was very courageous.

Speaker 185 But leaders either remain their courageous acts or they stopped being leaders. He has stopped being a leader for a long time.
We need to be honest about this.

Speaker 185 And we can't charge somebody being a racist and Uncle Tom because we're telling the truth. So yes, he did great things 60 years ago.
60 years later is when we need him and he's not,

Speaker 185 he is not available. He has not been for a long time.
Matter of fact, he's done everything he can to hurt our race. More abortion, less education, less jobs.

Speaker 185 You go through the liby of what the socialists do to black people. And he's been at the very head of that as he continues to get elected.
and live like a king.

Speaker 185 So I don't have a lot of respect for what John Lewis has done today. He did a great thing 60 years ago, but now he's in the seventh grade, also demonstrating along with thousands of other Americans

Speaker 185 over the country. A lot of us demonstrated, a lot of people got bloodied, but we moved on with life and tried to make an impact and help our race in the future.

Speaker 46 Burgess, you said that in some ways, statistically, we're not better off.

Speaker 153 You were talking about the black community.

Speaker 21 Let's talk about the community

Speaker 186 at large.

Speaker 46 Tensions are

Speaker 6 at, I think, record highs since the 1960s.

Speaker 59 I've never seen it like this.

Speaker 179 We do have a great opportunity, but this window will close.

Speaker 48 How do we,

Speaker 126 if the Democrats decide to sharpen the knives

Speaker 46 and go after this president,

Speaker 138 and have no self-reflection, and the Republicans this win without any self-reflection, and they just sharpen their knives,

Speaker 41 we're not going to come together.

Speaker 101 Do you see hope for us on the horizon coming together?

Speaker 162 Are there enough people who say, I'm tired of this game?

Speaker 185 Well, yes, I do. I think the key to it is this.

Speaker 185 First of all, the Democrats will sharpen their knives. That's what they do.

Speaker 185 That's part of their nature. Now, it's going to be up to the Republican, the conservative branch of the Republican Party to do very simply keep their word.

Speaker 185 One thing that I'll say, and when you have people who I respect, Jim Brown, Steve Harvey, again, totally different ideology, but we're sitting now with Donald Trump and talking about how to work with the

Speaker 185 inner city. At the end of the day, it's all about people.
If we allow and focus as a middle class

Speaker 185 country that most so many of us are, and

Speaker 185 use the empathy that's always been part of the middle class, we're going to start focusing on having our our kids in the middle, in inner city, in other poor kids around the country, to become educated.

Speaker 185 Education is the strongest tool to keep

Speaker 185 a country free.

Speaker 185 You're going to have kids and young people getting jobs, having a job and understand the work ethic and the pride that comes from that is one of the greatest things to keep a country free.

Speaker 185 We're going to start putting the value of life once again, having a debate about Planned Parenthood and what they came from and where they are. Educate people.
So yes,

Speaker 185 we have a tremendous opportunity. And I personally believe that American people

Speaker 185 will step to the plate once again.

Speaker 185 We voted against Hillary for a reason. We voted for our future

Speaker 185 and self-empowerment for a reason.

Speaker 185 And I believe we're going to step to the plate and demand that these guys keep their word and the poorest of us and those of the most vulnerable will be taken care of.

Speaker 185 And we're going to feel good about ourselves and move forward with that.

Speaker 178 What is your Democrats?

Speaker 185 We'll never have that power over us again.

Speaker 6 What is your sense of Donald Trump?

Speaker 172 What are you hoping for and what are you expecting over the next four years?

Speaker 185 It's been a very pleasant surprise. I was not a Donald Trump fan initially,

Speaker 185 but I tell you that morning, November 9th, I did wake up more hopeful than I had been in a long time because at least we have a chance.

Speaker 185 I believe at that point that Heavenly Father hadn't given up on it. He said, give us a little more time for us to get ourselves together.

Speaker 185 And the people that he's surrounding himself with right now, I'm very, very excited about. So the most important thing, and you know, I grew up, my great hero was Ronald Reagan.

Speaker 185 Now, he was the first conservative that really got my attention, that I really understood. And he was a great articulator.
He was a great way. He had a way of getting around the media.

Speaker 185 It is scary at times to see Donald tweak, but I'll tell you what he's doing. He's getting around the liberal media like no one else has ever done before.

Speaker 185 And it's actually what had to happen for us to be able to connect and for those

Speaker 185 to get away from the messaging that's been done in the last decades. We need to find a way for us to get some truth and hopefully can get that done with.
So I'm hopeful.

Speaker 185 And of a

Speaker 185 long answer to a short question, I'm very hopeful for what can happen in the next four years.

Speaker 87 Burgess Owens, author of the book, Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Winers, Weenies, and Wimps.

Speaker 179 This is an extraordinarily brave book and

Speaker 109 a look into

Speaker 88 the things that need to be said in America to all races.

Speaker 106 Burgess, as always, good to have you on.

Speaker 185 Can I say this real quick? Yeah, it's all about team. All about team.
It's all of us like we're doing right now, Glenn.

Speaker 185 We take what we have, the talents we have, and together message, debate, think through,

Speaker 185 and just make sure that we get the very best out of the whole process. We're not to all agree.

Speaker 185 We just have to, first of all, believe in our country, love our country, and try to do our very best as individuals. We'll make this thing happen.

Speaker 150 Thank you very much, Burgess. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 99 His commentary on John Lewis was pretty powerful.

Speaker 120 Intense.

Speaker 122 Intense. Really intense.

Speaker 99 And as Pat pointed out,

Speaker 99 you know, you were not allowed to say that.

Speaker 34 Right? Our society says you're not allowed to say that depending on your skills.

Speaker 100 Isn't it amazing?

Speaker 99 It's a bizarre place to be.

Speaker 65 Isn't it amazing?

Speaker 110 The press

Speaker 69 can take the words of the president

Speaker 9 and look at him and say, he's a racist.

Speaker 87 But you weren't allowed to take the actual words of the president and ask and ask, not make the statement, ask.

Speaker 158 Is this guy a racist? I think this guy might be a racist.

Speaker 143 And if you go back back to that statement you made in 2009, you were questioning the whole time. You were trying to figure it out aloud, which was maybe not the best thing to do.

Speaker 101 Trying to figure it out.

Speaker 151 Trying to figure it out.

Speaker 112 But you can, nobody, you say that Donald Trump is a racist.

Speaker 47 How do you come to that ironclad conclusion

Speaker 79 to where the press feels comfortable just banting that around?

Speaker 114 It's terrible.

Speaker 143 And I think a lot of it's based on his stance on immigration, which that's not, it doesn't have anything to do with race because he just wants the border protected.

Speaker 143 I think 80% of Americans want the border protected. And I don't care if they're white people or Hispanics or Chinese or from the Middle East.
We just want the border protected.

Speaker 71 You got to know if they're from your country.

Speaker 100 I don't care.

Speaker 143 There's terrorists from everywhere.

Speaker 90 There's people that...

Speaker 143 I mean, even if they're not terrorists.

Speaker 67 When we worried about this in the Second World War,

Speaker 4 what?

Speaker 85 We were anti-German?

Speaker 82 And yes,

Speaker 137 the government was afraid that their policies would be called anti-German.

Speaker 101 Even back then. Even back then.

Speaker 71 So this has been going on a long time.

Speaker 113 We don't care.

Speaker 95 I care about safety.

Speaker 113 I was never anti-German.

Speaker 168 I'm anti-Nazi.

Speaker 143 At least that part has changed. You can be anti-European all you want now.

Speaker 71 Yeah.

Speaker 151 That's not an issue.

Speaker 152 Well, unless Germany was against America.

Speaker 89 Yeah.

Speaker 77 Or remember, it's not cool to be anti-French.

Speaker 91 You're not anti-French.

Speaker 77 You can't be anti-French because French are against America.

Speaker 159 French don't like Americans.

Speaker 116 Yeah. You want to be more like the French.

Speaker 19 So, anyway,

Speaker 168 I'm interested to see how this week

Speaker 93 shakes out.

Speaker 137 Have you guys heard anybody in the press

Speaker 28 say a disparaging thing at all about one of the 40 people that are just walking out and not attending this?

Speaker 89 No.

Speaker 143 I just heard it reported matter-of-factly that the 33 or it was last time I heard 33 and now it's 40 members of Congress are just not going to show up. They've just chosen not to.

Speaker 143 They're conscientious objectors.

Speaker 115 Yeah.

Speaker 143 And we don't want to say this every day, but it will apply every day. If this was happening during Obama, they'd be apoplectic about it.

Speaker 146 Apoplectic.

Speaker 143 It'd be out of their minds over it.

Speaker 35 How dare they?

Speaker 67 Even though he said enough stuff that would make a constitutionalist go crazy.

Speaker 99 They would say it was because of the color of his skin.

Speaker 78 Color of his skin.

Speaker 99 They don't want a black president. Correct.

Speaker 83 Can you not give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt

Speaker 126 that he's at least going to be everyone's president?

Speaker 93 Now, I think the only ones that have the case to say that he's not going to be their president are the members of the press.

Speaker 94 The press didn't want to show up.

Speaker 160 I kind of understand it.

Speaker 61 You can say he's not going to be, he's not friendly to us.

Speaker 139 Okay.

Speaker 113 But what does anybody else have?

Speaker 83 He met yesterday with Martin Luther King and apparently Jr., and I guess it went really well.

Speaker 143 Yeah, we've got some audio we should play eventually.

Speaker 123 Do you have the audio?

Speaker 47 Do we have time?

Speaker 143 Let's see. I don't know if we have.

Speaker 143 It's a little over 30 seconds. Go ahead.

Speaker 78 Yeah, we have time.

Speaker 57 What do you think your father's message would be to President-elect Trump?

Speaker 187 This is the final answer I'm going to have because I'm going to to reiterate what I just said.

Speaker 187 I think my father would be very concerned about the fact that there are 50 or 60 million people living in poverty, and somehow we've got to create the climate for all boats to be lifted.

Speaker 187 In America with a multi-trillion dollar economy, $20 trillion almost,

Speaker 187 it's insanity that we have poor people in this nation. That's unacceptable.
And when we work together, we know we can roll up our sleeves. There's nothing that we as Americans can't do.

Speaker 65 That's a uniting message.

Speaker 97 Sure is.

Speaker 64 That's a uniting message.

Speaker 107 And he didn't mean it this way, but could be a statement that is

Speaker 61 a little clarifying for the outgoing president.

Speaker 67 Here's Martin Luther King Jr.

Speaker 160 saying, this is unacceptable.

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Speaker 131 I want to tell you about the woman who has built a house from scratch just using YouTube.

Speaker 181 We'll tell you about that.

Speaker 156 It's an amazing story.

Speaker 129 It's a blaze of she didn't know how to.

Speaker 123 No idea how to build a house.

Speaker 132 No idea how to build her.

Speaker 150 And figured it out. Figured it out.

Speaker 151 My daughter does that on a lot of stuff.

Speaker 143 Who does? My daughter, who's 16.

Speaker 124 If she wants to do something that, like she felt like making play-doh from household items, looked it up on youtube and did it uh i mean all kinds of stuff like that a lot of photography stuff there is no reason to you heard um what did camille say this on air camille ravicant was with us last week last friday and um he is one of the you know he's known in silicon valley as silicon valley royalty um you know principal investor he and his brother in in some of the biggest uh startups in silicon valley um and i asked him about education with my son.

Speaker 16 You know, what do we do?

Speaker 89 What do we do?

Speaker 91 My son's next for the college routine. I don't want to put him in college.

Speaker 109 And he said, no.

Speaker 77 Shouldn't.

Speaker 152 He said, in many ways, it works against them because it puts you in a box.

Speaker 21 They start to learn how to think, not what to think, how to.

Speaker 82 No, sorry.

Speaker 49 They learn what to think, not how to think.

Speaker 9 And that's disabling them.

Speaker 77 Tanya and I,

Speaker 62 Pat is closing down his school, just couldn't make a go of it, couldn't get enough students, and it's too bad because it changed people's lives.

Speaker 148 It was such a great school.

Speaker 62 And so at the end of this year, Pat has decided, oh, I got to keep my money

Speaker 81 and mine.

Speaker 77 And so shutting down the school.

Speaker 184 And

Speaker 80 I talked to Tanya this weekend,

Speaker 139 honey.

Speaker 56 Take three to six months.

Speaker 129 Go travel the world with the kids.

Speaker 168 Go learn about Asia in Asia.

Speaker 143 Plus, you have the house for yourself if she does.

Speaker 80 Right, I mean, a baby

Speaker 120 crawling all over the place.

Speaker 71 It's funny, that didn't even cross my mind that you would use it for any interesting purpose.

Speaker 62 Yeah, no, it didn't cross my wife's mind either because she knew it wouldn't cross mine.

Speaker 39 But

Speaker 14 the

Speaker 179 idea of

Speaker 17 that education, the way it is done, is

Speaker 77 keeping our kids in this really dangerous place that's not useful anymore.

Speaker 168 You're not trained to be an office worker anymore.

Speaker 63 And that's what this schooling does, train you to be an office worker, train you to do a job that no longer exists.

Speaker 115 What are we doing?

Speaker 113 Best thing you can do is

Speaker 168 homeschool and take them and teach them, follow the trail wherever it might lead.

Speaker 77 I meet these kids who, you know, their parents would take them all summer long on a vacation and they would, and it wasn't a vacation, they would take them or the mom would take them and take them all across the United States and teach them by showing them the places where things happened and

Speaker 138 bringing them to, you know, the CERN.

Speaker 63 What is a super collider?

Speaker 133 What does it do? What is it going to answer?

Speaker 151 What is it?

Speaker 146 Explore that.

Speaker 139 Imagine

Speaker 62 the education that

Speaker 80 you could have.

Speaker 116 And I believe you can do that now on YouTube.

Speaker 99 Well, you were talking about taking these, what is it, the great courses? Which is something you probably have seen advertised if you've been online at all.

Speaker 99 Things like take a writing class from the guy who wrote the West Wing. What's his face?

Speaker 78 Aaron Sorghi.

Speaker 99 Thank you. You know, it's like these, isn't there acting with Dustin Hoffman,

Speaker 99 And there's a fee associated with it, but it's not like...

Speaker 85 It's $75 or $100, something like that.

Speaker 78 Something like that, yeah.

Speaker 99 So it's not like this, you know, it's not a college, right?

Speaker 67 But it's not even that.

Speaker 65 But it's not even that.

Speaker 176 You can do great courses.

Speaker 148 Hang on, I'm going to make sure that I have this right.

Speaker 176 You can do great courses online.

Speaker 91 I think I have them through Netflix, but you don't have to get them through Netflix.

Speaker 133 Let's make sure it's the one that I'm thinking that it is great courses on Netflix.

Speaker 137 It's either on Netflix or on, actually, I think it's on Amazon.

Speaker 127 Amazon.

Speaker 86 And I'm taking stuff through Amazon.

Speaker 117 Yeah, the great courses, signature collection.

Speaker 116 And

Speaker 138 right now, I'm just taking course on formal logic.

Speaker 8 But let me just look at this.

Speaker 74 Featured courses.

Speaker 73 Mythologies of the world, the Black Death, archaeology, decisive battles of history.

Speaker 77 The inexplicable universe, living history with great events, the physics of time, the Holy Land, Mental Secrets of Math, King Arthur, Biblical Literature, America in the Gilded Age, the French Revolution,

Speaker 86 food history, learning Spanish, how to draw, redefining reality, how to program, reading Shakespeare.

Speaker 137 I mean, it's unbelievable.

Speaker 99 Does Jeffy teach the food history?

Speaker 120 Yes, he does.

Speaker 72 The food is history.

Speaker 71 That's it.

Speaker 120 Put it in front of me.

Speaker 78 It's history.

Speaker 114 It's history.

Speaker 71 Thank you, Devil.

Speaker 165 But there's no, I mean, you don't have to.

Speaker 88 I was talking to somebody today.

Speaker 19 What was it?

Speaker 162 About the concept of 10,000 hours, that you're an expert expert after 10 000 hours it's a malcolm gladwell thing yeah isn't it yeah yeah you do anything for 10 000 hours and really concentrate on it really try to master it 10 000 hours makes you an expert in it yeah there's some disagreement on whether it's more of a generalization but yeah it's an interesting generally speaking i mean yeah i mean if you're really trying to master it if you're just like you know goofing off and whatever, that's not the same.

Speaker 99 Yeah, no, it's an interesting, it's like an interesting standard, right?

Speaker 56 I'm not an expert at sleep, but I'm pretty good at it.

Speaker 149 Yeah, you are.

Speaker 101 You are.

Speaker 19 I've slept more than 10,000 hours.

Speaker 28 But

Speaker 9 up until recently, I have said to my wife,

Speaker 148 I want to get an art teacher. I need to get an art teacher.

Speaker 80 I need to learn how to paint. I need to learn how to paint.
I need to learn how to paint.

Speaker 63 I've said that to her for years.

Speaker 133 And every time I say it, she says, make time.

Speaker 168 Tell me where you'll put it in the schedule and then we'll hire an art teacher.

Speaker 109 We go have lessons. I know where they are.

Speaker 82 We can do that.

Speaker 77 They exist. They're human.
We make time.

Speaker 46 So I've never had the schedule to where I can guarantee Thursday night I can go do X, Y, and Z.

Speaker 30 Never had the time.

Speaker 91 Still don't have the time or the schedule that I can do that.

Speaker 137 But I have decided to make the time, whether it is on the weekend or whether it is in the middle of the night.

Speaker 71 It's all about priorities, Glenn.

Speaker 161 What? It's all about priorities. It is.

Speaker 152 I'm just going to paint.

Speaker 17 And I have been, I've been watching YouTube and learning how to draw, learning how to paint.

Speaker 126 And the difference between me painting six months ago and me painting now, and I don't have formal lessons.

Speaker 107 And I just hired somebody here in the studios to help.

Speaker 62 Raph comes down and he'll look at my painting and go, that's crap.

Speaker 71 And then he'll leave.

Speaker 71 That's not healthy.

Speaker 116 Do that again.

Speaker 8 No, but he's been helping me.

Speaker 88 But mainly everything has been on YouTube.

Speaker 113 Why are we waiting around?

Speaker 158 Why do we think we need an expert?

Speaker 99 We don't. Well, I mean, yeah, I mean, a lot of that is you're learning from experts, right? So you do need the knowledge.
It's just not necessarily, do you need to pay $45,500?

Speaker 91 But it's not really necessarily, some of these things are not necessarily from an expert.

Speaker 28 They're from people I've never even heard of.

Speaker 99 Right, but they're people that are better at it than you.

Speaker 115 Correct.

Speaker 99 You're learning from.

Speaker 99 And now there's so much knowledge out there to the point of like these big, even the big colleges that are asking $45,000, $50,000 a year to to take their courses dump a lot of their material online for people to utilize.

Speaker 77 Look at MIT. MIT.

Speaker 70 There's no, why go to MIT?

Speaker 139 You can audit every single course that's online.

Speaker 113 Why do you need the certificate?

Speaker 108 Now, maybe you need, you know, you want the interaction.

Speaker 116 Maybe you want the, you know, being able to sit and talk to the

Speaker 176 professor or whatever.

Speaker 135 Use their library.

Speaker 113 Why would you use their library?

Speaker 180 Why?

Speaker 99 I mean, surely there is some benefit of taking.

Speaker 101 I mean, of course, we all know there are benefits of being in person. But for the average person? Yeah.

Speaker 99 And again, like, it's one of those things of like, you could play, golf is an example of this, in that you could start playing golf and you go from the worst

Speaker 99 golfer in America to

Speaker 99 the world.

Speaker 99 To

Speaker 4 a

Speaker 99 bad amateur golfer. That's a huge leap, right? Like, you know, like you can play with your friends on the weekends.
That experience you can do in a year, right?

Speaker 99 From the worst to I can play with my friends and keep up.

Speaker 99 The difference between that and being good at golf takes 30 years and it's almost impossible. Like, and it's so frustrating.

Speaker 122 Yeah, but no, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 82 But you're not necessarily good at golf.

Speaker 24 You're talking about like PGA tour good.

Speaker 100 Yeah, or yeah, so there's so scratch.

Speaker 98 90% 90% 90% of everything we do is time.

Speaker 152 It's the 10% that puts you in the stratosphere.

Speaker 48 So if you're just looking to paint, you're just looking to golf, you're just looking to cook, you're just looking to, you don't need to be certified as one, you know, in the best cooking.

Speaker 108 Why go to the Culinary Institute if you want to cook?

Speaker 161 Why?

Speaker 70 I can learn it now, most of it on TV.

Speaker 178 Yeah.

Speaker 99 Yeah, I mean, you know.

Speaker 143 But if you want to be really, really good, you go to the Culinary Institute.

Speaker 135 Or watch them.

Speaker 113 No, I don't think so.

Speaker 95 I think, yes, I think if the degree is important, sure.

Speaker 165 But what can't I find online now that I could...

Speaker 142 Yeah, almost nothing.

Speaker 85 Almost nothing.

Speaker 69 And who's judging?

Speaker 123 What restaurant are you going and saying, well, I was from the Culinary Institute.

Speaker 85 Stand in line with everybody else.

Speaker 67 What's it taste like?

Speaker 98 And if the guy makes it taste

Speaker 89 better,

Speaker 95 I mean, I've seen the documentary.

Speaker 165 You can have a rat in your hat.

Speaker 90 and as long as he's pulling your hair, so you put the right ingredients into the soup, you get the job.

Speaker 64 I mean,

Speaker 34 to use an example in my life, Blue Apron.

Speaker 99 They're one of our sponsors. I freaking love them.
And you can do, I am terrible at cooking. Terrible.
They sent me this box of stuff.

Speaker 36 It's all in the right amounts, the right ingredients, and with a very easy to follow recipe.

Speaker 99 And I go through it and I make meals that taste as good as

Speaker 99 any restaurant I've been to.

Speaker 99 And

Speaker 83 I don't know what the hell I'm doing out there.

Speaker 97 Could we put this to the test?

Speaker 99 Yes.

Speaker 130 We could?

Speaker 92 Okay. Sure.
So you have... I'm nervous now.

Speaker 65 You have the, are you good at putting it together? I mean,

Speaker 99 I would say I'm not, there's probably a million people who do it much better than I do, but they come out really good.

Speaker 78 Okay. I'm out of here.

Speaker 9 I mean, what's the best thing that Blue April?

Speaker 101 Well, don't even do that.

Speaker 129 Let's do this.

Speaker 109 Let's put you, who has the instructions on how to make it and something that you've made a few times that you know I make this really well.

Speaker 115 Let's do that. Okay.

Speaker 130 Okay.

Speaker 29 And put you against the Mercury chef, Matthew.

Speaker 137 Tell him

Speaker 97 that he has to go make something from scratch that is the same thing that you have to.

Speaker 88 Put it in front of somebody and see if they can tell the difference.

Speaker 19 And by the way, he's not trained at a culinary institute.

Speaker 63 He was trained by his father, who was a food and beverage director.

Speaker 30 He grew up in the kitchens and learned from chefs just as an apprentice and now he's a professional private chef yeah and he's really good really good and i will bet you i mean he's the quintessential not having a degree um

Speaker 95 and successful but the show i think i bet you

Speaker 99 i would even do it right honestly i would take one right out of the box never made it before and do it

Speaker 99 Like that's how I mean every single one of them comes out the same way, which is really good.

Speaker 99 And I mean,

Speaker 99 I wouldn't even, I don't even have to have made it before. All right.

Speaker 121 I'll take one right out of the next box I get.

Speaker 74 So ask Matthew if he'll do that.

Speaker 99 No, I mean, he's a professional.

Speaker 100 Like, I, you know, I don't know what the heck I'm doing.

Speaker 85 You can't back down now. I'm not.

Speaker 99 I'm just saying that surely his years and years and years of experience is going to make, you know, he's going to make something amazing. But I mean, that's the thing.
Like, you can get there.

Speaker 99 As you're pointing out, like, you don't need to go anymore. With the way that we're pushing information out there, you can do these things in amazing ways quickly.

Speaker 99 And that's it, and we've never been there before in society.

Speaker 119 So this all started with the picture of this house.

Speaker 77 This house is the house that this woman built with her boys.

Speaker 151 Wow. Wow.
It's online.

Speaker 115 Online. Wow.

Speaker 102 She built it.

Speaker 143 To say what it cost?

Speaker 140 I'll go through the story.

Speaker 67 It says how long it took her to build, too, but all...

Speaker 69 All from scratch, never before built anything.

Speaker 97 Including everything but the electric.

Speaker 63 She had to have license, electric, and plumbing.

Speaker 105 Yeah.

Speaker 86 So besides what the city required for her to have licensed people do, she did everything herself off of YouTube.

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Speaker 20 a single mom, no training, builds a house from scratch.

Speaker 103 According to the Blaze, single mom, four young children, Kara Brookens is no stranger to perseverance.

Speaker 59 Her first marriage ended as a result of her husband's extreme paranoid schizophrenia.

Speaker 63 She sought to protect her children from a dangerous situation.

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Speaker 105 Her 17 and 15-year-olds weren't thrilled with a plan.

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Speaker 63 There's not much here,

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Speaker 2 reviewing

Speaker 57 Rand Paul on the State of the Union yesterday. He was talking about the repeal and replace, and Justin Amash went on a tweet storm about what are we going to do with Obamacare.

Speaker 70 He is voting against not the repeal.

Speaker 57 He's voting against the way it's being done. And it's a conversation that we need to have right now.

Speaker 57 I will make a stand. I will raise my voice, I will hold your hand.

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Speaker 57 Mixed bag of Republicans vote against Obamacare repeal vehicle. That is the

Speaker 79 story.

Speaker 63 And most Republicans are saying, well, because there wasn't a replacement.

Speaker 176 There was just a repeal.

Speaker 97 Well, but there wasn't a repeal.

Speaker 34 There wasn't a repeal.

Speaker 69 This was just something that said, we can later vote to repeal it when we're ready.

Speaker 171 But they tucked it inside of this massive

Speaker 138 spending package.

Speaker 19 It's the latest budget,

Speaker 34 and it is the worst budget,

Speaker 103 some claim, that we have ever passed.

Speaker 137 It adds $9 trillion to the debt.

Speaker 171 $9 trillion.

Speaker 99 And I believe the number is $9.7 trillion, which

Speaker 99 your just little summary there just left off $700 billion.

Speaker 178 Unbelievable.

Speaker 99 When you get to these numbers, it is incredible what you can just round away as a rounding error. It's incredible.

Speaker 62 Okay, so Justin Amash went on a tweet storm.

Speaker 141 I'm going to just give you the tweets.

Speaker 85 Confused on what the House voted on today, you're not alone.

Speaker 77 I hope you'll find this explanation in the following tweets helpful.

Speaker 62 Two, there's been a lot of crazy or lousy reporting and intentional misrepresentation from the partisans on both sides.

Speaker 83 Today, we voted on the most massive budget in U.S. history.

Speaker 105 It's been misleadingly described as the Obamacare repeal vote.

Speaker 116 It is actually a budget resolution that proposes adding more than $9 trillion to the debt over the next decade.

Speaker 74 Does that extra debt come from repealing Obamacare?

Speaker 89 No.

Speaker 152 The budget doesn't even mention Obamacare and it doesn't repeal it.

Speaker 34 Six tweet. Think about that.

Speaker 99 It doesn't mention Obamacare.

Speaker 71 Obamacare.

Speaker 97 And it doesn't repeal it.

Speaker 59 And yet it's known as the Obamacare repeal vote.

Speaker 47 Patriot Act.

Speaker 8 Later budget includes

Speaker 74 reconciliation instructions to allow Congress to bring later a bill to repeal part of the Obamacare plan with a simple majority.

Speaker 8 But these instructions can be included in any budget.

Speaker 32 It's not necessary to pass this particular budget, a.k.a.

Speaker 19 worst budget ever.

Speaker 74 Partisans of both parties like to describe the vote as an Obamacare repeal vote rather than the budget vote for obvious reasons.

Speaker 62 Republicans don't want their voters to know that they voted for the most massive budget ever. Democrats want their voters to think it's all about stopping Republicans from repealing Obamacare.

Speaker 59 Reporters are fixated on the sexy angle, which is the misleading angle that most of the politicians are talking about, Obamacare.

Speaker 83 So my no vote does not mean I oppose

Speaker 116 repealing Obamacare.

Speaker 132 Sorry, Democrats.

Speaker 20 That's not what today's vote was about.

Speaker 61 My no vote was about standing up for limited government and fighting for the next generation.

Speaker 77 It was about stopping a never-balanced budget.

Speaker 74 We can't afford more spending and more debt, regardless of whether it's demanded by a Republican president or a

Speaker 127 Democratic president or a Republican president.

Speaker 24 Pretty strong.

Speaker 24 How do you argue with that?

Speaker 99 I know. I mean, and it is amazing that that is how it's being reported.
It's not talking about the $10 trillion of extra debt.

Speaker 99 It's talking about that they could theoretically repeal Obamacare in the future. How is that the most important detail of a $10 trillion budget?

Speaker 128 Massey said he would vote against the budget resolution because of the estimated $9.7 trillion it would add to the national debt.

Speaker 3 He said his fiscal conservative colleagues who voted yes because they only saw the budget as a vehicle to get Obamacare repeal will regret it.

Speaker 116 We have a category five hurricane coming in.

Speaker 62 When you have to reduce to practice the differences between Donald Trump's agenda and Paul Ryan's,

Speaker 62 I think there's going to be some very confusing votes in here.

Speaker 39 And then Amash said what he said.

Speaker 162 A lot of people fell for what I call, we have to have dinner tonight in Paris, France, or we're going to starve.

Speaker 83 No, you can have dinner someplace else.

Speaker 84 Have you seen the replacement?

Speaker 143 Where else could you have dinner other than

Speaker 143 that?

Speaker 71 I don't even know the rest of the world anywhere else.

Speaker 120 No, no, the rest of the world is a food desert.

Speaker 143 I mean, yeah, or not good food, at least.

Speaker 156 Paris is the only place with really

Speaker 143 delicious French food. So

Speaker 143 it's totally misleading.

Speaker 129 What are the replacements look like?

Speaker 99 Well, quickly, I mean, this is what we're seeing here. There's obviously some comments that were made this weekend talking about more larger government health care.

Speaker 99 Look at the difference that has happened. This is from March 2016 to January 2017 among Republicans.

Speaker 99 The support for the idea that

Speaker 99 it is the government, federal government's responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage

Speaker 99 was 19%

Speaker 99 last year.

Speaker 97 Can't take it.

Speaker 121 And it's gone up to 32%.

Speaker 71 I can't take it.

Speaker 99 So close to doubled in support in one year. Among low-income

Speaker 99 Republicans, it was 31%, and now it's 52%.

Speaker 99 Guys, the majority of low-income

Speaker 99 Republican voters believe the federal government, it is their mandate to make sure every American has health care coverage. That happened in one year.

Speaker 99 One freaking year.

Speaker 82 Yeah, the lead guy of the party was an advocate for it.

Speaker 47 Yeah, so is that Republicans or does that include independents?

Speaker 99 It is Republicans and Republican leaners.

Speaker 99 And, you know, the amount of people who believe it's Republican, or it is is the government responsibility among all voters has gone up from, you know,

Speaker 99 40s to 60.

Speaker 99 I mean, it's increasing, which is amazing because people don't, like, I mean, there's a lot of opposition to Obamacare specifically.

Speaker 99 However, and this has been reported by some sources, some of that opposition is they don't think it went far enough. And we're seeing that much more among Republicans now,

Speaker 99 where before it was sort of isolated to the Democratic side.

Speaker 118 So I don't know if these...

Speaker 140 You've been a little ray of sunshine today.

Speaker 101 Yeah, you really have.

Speaker 101 You really have.

Speaker 17 You've been Debbie Downer.

Speaker 99 You used to call me Little Black Rain Cloud. Yeah.

Speaker 82 You're a big Black Rain Cloud now.

Speaker 99 Yes, I'm trying to be.

Speaker 97 You have to say, though,

Speaker 118 why stop at health care?

Speaker 143 Why isn't it the isn't it even more important to eat? Why is it not the government's responsibility to provide food for everybody who can't afford it?

Speaker 149 Well, shelter.

Speaker 143 for everybody who can't afford it. Why aren't we doing the Soviet Union's Constitution now and being a nation with a charter of positive liberties? Why don't we say yes to health care?

Speaker 143 Yes to government-provided

Speaker 143 minimum wage, a minimum income, not just a wage, but at least $30,000, $35,000 a year for everybody because you can't live on anything less than that.

Speaker 5 We have the minimum.

Speaker 136 That's crazy thinking that we'd be the Soviet Union, but yes, I agree with everything else.

Speaker 151 Right.

Speaker 151 I know.

Speaker 99 It's amazing. And look, it goes back to what we've talked about about for a very long time.

Speaker 99 You have to have a foundation or the whims of the moment will move you by 20 points as a society over a one-year period on an issue.

Speaker 99 You have to actually know why you think the things you think or this stuff will happen to you all the time.

Speaker 80 No, those aren't popular.

Speaker 78 Your things aren't popular. They aren't.
It's just being you.

Speaker 71 No, off air today, all day long.

Speaker 132 You've been like, we're doomed.

Speaker 120 Well, you said there's no way of.

Speaker 34 Well, you said Little Black Rain Cloud.

Speaker 188 Most of that that was off air, to be fair.

Speaker 99 I didn't expose that to the poor audience and beat them into the ground.

Speaker 97 What was it you said about an hour ago?

Speaker 77 Maybe we all want to go out and hang ourselves.

Speaker 98 It was.

Speaker 99 Nothing I said off the air should ever be on the air.

Speaker 120 Well, you were saying something about

Speaker 46 stuff like this, that people don't care.

Speaker 111 People don't.

Speaker 67 We used to think that half the country was against stuff like this.

Speaker 143 Well, that they cared about principles. That they cared about, you know, constitutional principles.

Speaker 181 Right. They don't.
They don't.

Speaker 78 They don't. And there's just a lot.

Speaker 99 There's a larger societal thing going on in that forever, as long as I've been alive, there were punishments to individuals in politics and public life for taking one stand

Speaker 99 six months ago and completely reversing yourself six months later because the tides have changed or whatever. Now, obviously, there are things where information can change that.

Speaker 99 But that's not government health care didn't become a wonderful idea in the last six months.

Speaker 99 And

Speaker 99 there used to be a punishment for all those activities.

Speaker 99 And I think

Speaker 99 my theory is a lot of it is sort of social media related in that

Speaker 99 now everyone is on social media and sees 12, 15, 20 times a day you see someone post a politician or a host's old tweets and then they're saying the exact opposite today.

Speaker 99 And I think we've just been beaten with that for so long, it's no longer notable for someone to be a complete hypocrite six months away from another opinion.

Speaker 99 I mean, an example that we all can love and cheer on was Paul Krugman, who, throughout the Obama administration, wrote at least four columns

Speaker 99 entitled, let's see if I can just bring it up here real quick.

Speaker 99 Entitled

Speaker 99 Debt Doesn't Matter Anymore, I believe was the name of it, as I'm trying to find it.

Speaker 157 And I know we talked about that at the time.

Speaker 91 Yeah.

Speaker 104 That all of a sudden, what was under George W.

Speaker 43 Bush treasonous.

Speaker 9 It was treasonous.

Speaker 151 I believe that was, it was Barack Obama who said that.

Speaker 67 Treasonous to have this kind of debt and not care

Speaker 62 and say that it wasn't a problem.

Speaker 77 And then when he doubled the national debt in eight years,

Speaker 98 nobody cared.

Speaker 168 Now all of a sudden, people like Paul Krugman are freaking out about the debt.

Speaker 99 Yeah, it was, you know,

Speaker 99 no one understands debt. We need more debt.
More debt. I believe it was five months ago he said,

Speaker 99 no,

Speaker 99 we need more debt. Time to borrow was the title of the column.

Speaker 99 January 5th or January 9th, 2017,

Speaker 99 his column entitled Deficits Matter Again.

Speaker 85 Again. Again.

Speaker 99 So they didn't matter throughout the entire Obama administration. And then a week before Donald Trump takes office, they now matter again.

Speaker 99 That used to ruin a career.

Speaker 99 That used to be something that you'd never recover from. John Kerry,

Speaker 99 you know, one of the big moments in his campaign was I voted for it before I voted against it that doesn't matter to anybody anymore I mean that is not something that is even that even registers with the why do you think that is I you know again I think the social media thing has something to do with it in that it's the same thing with why people are so rude at times it's it's it's lost its impact You know, people are, you get so many death threats on Twitter.

Speaker 99 Death threats don't make news to you anymore. You know, and I think the same thing happens with this.
I can go online almost every day and find a dozen examples of some

Speaker 99 smart blogger or reporter going through and finding a tweet from some major public figure where they were saying the exact opposite of what they said today and it happens so often it has lost its impact and I think to some at some level has convinced people well that's just what people do there aren't any people who believe in anything anymore there isn't anyone who cares about principle that society has stopped rewarding principled behavior and has gone the opposite direction.

Speaker 99 How do you think so? You turn the society off and then you go home and never think about it again.

Speaker 189 And then at some point you die.

Speaker 9 Seeing that's not

Speaker 34 the best idea.

Speaker 146 It's beautiful.

Speaker 77 It is an idea and I appreciate that idea.

Speaker 24 And I feel you feel that idea.

Speaker 148 And your feeling of that idea is valid.

Speaker 114 Oh, thank you.

Speaker 121 Wow, now I feel much better about the now you're about to hit me with.

Speaker 102 That's a stupid idea.

Speaker 137 so now so seriously how do you how do you repair it i i mean these are the conversations that the mainstream media should be having about their careers right now how do we repair this not well it's their fault that doesn't matter they're not because they don't see the problem

Speaker 151 i don't think they see this problem yet

Speaker 179 oh they know they're they have no credibility

Speaker 97 they just think they do I don't know if they do.

Speaker 114 Oh, I think they do.

Speaker 82 I think they know they're in.

Speaker 143 I'm not convinced they think they have a problem.

Speaker 69 No, no, no, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 95 They see the problem of their credibility.

Speaker 116 They just, so far, are blaming that problem on everything else. They're not taking any of the blame.
Right. So you can't help an alcoholic who's like, I'm only drinking.

Speaker 112 Daddy's only drinking because you cry, kids.

Speaker 112 You stop crying. Daddy would stop beating you.

Speaker 99 I honestly think, first of all, you can't care about the societal aspects of this, really.

Speaker 99 You have to do it on your your own I mean you've talked about this a million times it's about changing yourself and caring about your family rather than giant society but it's I used to a long time ago date a girl who had a bunch of tattoos and at one point I asked her I said you know when you get old like these tattoos you're gonna have it's gonna be wrinkled tattoo fest everywhere you realize that right and what she said was yeah but by the time that I grow old lots of people are gonna have wrinkled tattoo fest and it won't be a big deal anymore and I think that she's right there's a there's truth in that in a weird way that

Speaker 4 I'll send you a link.

Speaker 99 No, no, I don't want to see any of the links, any of the pictures. But I think that there's a

Speaker 99 truth in that.

Speaker 85 You probably have a link to that, too.

Speaker 78 Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 117 Really old, creepy people with tattoos.

Speaker 71 Oh, you know he does.

Speaker 151 Yeah. A link.

Speaker 99 He's got several sites he's developed

Speaker 34 based on that.

Speaker 98 I saw a picture. I don't know where I was.

Speaker 124 I saw a picture of a really, really old guy who must have lost a lot of weight.

Speaker 128 And he must have been in his 80s.

Speaker 93 And he had tattoos that may have one time been up as his bicep that were no longer really at his bicep.

Speaker 120 It was creepy and weird.

Speaker 174 Just want to say.

Speaker 121 You're probably at Jeffy's.

Speaker 71 Just saying, yeah.

Speaker 120 Okay, anyway.

Speaker 99 But I think that's the, I think that's, you have to, the only way I can get through the day going through social media is that I don't care about it.

Speaker 57 People are like, oh, I bet I got you on that point.

Speaker 99 I never care. Can you get beyond some point that you think you've, you think you've changed my life and my perspective based on your tweet? I promise you, I don't care about it.

Speaker 60 I had an epiphany on this this last week.

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Speaker 119 Stu was just talking about you have to not care anymore.

Speaker 147 To be able to manage

Speaker 139 online, you have to not care.

Speaker 124 This weekend, somebody wrote, or maybe it was early last week, somebody wrote about this Tucker Carlson interview that I did.

Speaker 62 Apparently, Tucker wrote me this weekend, said it was the most watched or most downloaded video clip of the week.

Speaker 181 He said, by far on FoxNews.com.

Speaker 89 Great. I'm happy.

Speaker 81 Some people took his interview as hostile, that he was asking really hostile questions.

Speaker 151 Who could have thought that?

Speaker 101 You did.

Speaker 78 That's interesting.

Speaker 137 And in the old days, I might have thought that too.

Speaker 100 Fascinating.

Speaker 3 And I thought to myself, because somebody said, hey, what really nice handling?

Speaker 30 Whoa, huh?

Speaker 6 It was a hostile question.

Speaker 100 I thought to myself, huh,

Speaker 63 yeah, I guess they, they were, I guess you could perceive it that way, but I didn't because I don't care.

Speaker 77 I was willing to answer every question and not defend myself.

Speaker 158 Just,

Speaker 115 yeah, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 99 That, yeah, and that you weren't.

Speaker 100 That's how it came off, too.

Speaker 89 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 101 So that's kind of fun.

Speaker 94 And so there was no fight.

Speaker 165 If he intended, and I don't think he did, I mean, he's written several times.

Speaker 83 I've written to him several times.

Speaker 108 You know, I don't know if he was looking for a fight, but it didn't happen.

Speaker 8 And

Speaker 77 it was good.

Speaker 90 And it worked out good for him, worked out well for me.

Speaker 109 And

Speaker 137 the secret is, and I know that everybody has always said this to me, Glenn, just why do you care?

Speaker 62 Why do you care? I don't know because I do.

Speaker 137 I think I've finally gotten into a place to where, nah, I really don't anymore.

Speaker 30 I don't care.

Speaker 170 No.

Speaker 99 Yeah, someone tweeted me the other day and said,

Speaker 99 there's Russian proof that Glenn Beck is a gay prostitute

Speaker 99 and that Pat and Stu are his gay pimps. To which I responded and I said, Are you just for clarification, are you saying that we are both gay and are pimps and just that just happen to be gay?

Speaker 99 Or are you saying that we're pimps that only like traffic in gay people? Exactly. No, no clarification on that, unfortunately, came.
But I mean, you don't care,

Speaker 99 those things don't bother you. You have to Bill Belichick it a little bit.
Bill Belichick, of course, as you know, Glenn, Glenn, great

Speaker 130 professional of the New England Patriots.

Speaker 99 New England Patriots.

Speaker 99 But there was this controversy about using social media among players, and he just said, Yeah, as you know, I'm not on Snapface and all that, so I don't really get those.

Speaker 151 Snap face.

Speaker 99 I'm not really worried about what they put on Instant Chat.

Speaker 100 I don't know what those things are, but he doesn't care.

Speaker 71 And better for him for it. Yep, yep.

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Speaker 59 We're just sitting here bitching about Apple

Speaker 19 and Apple products.

Speaker 75 Pat will not switch over to Apple.

Speaker 142 Not for the computer, huh?

Speaker 115 Yeah.

Speaker 114 I mean, I was that way for a long time.

Speaker 189 Me too.

Speaker 99 And eventually just like, all right, me too.

Speaker 132 And I like it. I love Apple products.

Speaker 99 I had so many problems with my PCs over the years.

Speaker 143 I like the iPhone and and the iPad, but for the laptop, it just doesn't work for me.

Speaker 78 Just because of what I do.

Speaker 143 And first of all, I am set in my ways, and I don't want to learn a new system. And every time I use my wife's computer, which is Apple, everything's upside down to me.
And

Speaker 143 I just can't.

Speaker 9 I did that too.

Speaker 62 You have to force yourself to say, I'm going to take three months.

Speaker 78 Yeah, and I don't want to.

Speaker 151 And I want to.

Speaker 93 I think it's worth it, except for the chords.

Speaker 100 And you can't get, like, I still like the CD player in it.

Speaker 143 I still like that feature in the PCs.

Speaker 100 And

Speaker 143 it's not compatible with the audio system here.

Speaker 134 I like record players in mine, but I know.

Speaker 143 You know, I know.

Speaker 178 I know.

Speaker 77 I can't tell you how many words that I should not use that I used on the Apple chord system this weekend.

Speaker 121 The Apple chord system?

Speaker 144 Yeah, you know, the system that they have where they make a three-foot cord and nobody sits three feet.

Speaker 143 Well, you may not sit. I think this is federal law.
You may not sit more than three feet from a wall.

Speaker 120 Well, no, you have to sit up against the wall because it has to be three feet up to your lap.

Speaker 68 So you have to have your back against the wall.

Speaker 61 No, I see these people in the airport who apparently love to sit on the floor near the outlet.

Speaker 9 I'm not one of them.

Speaker 78 Yeah, me neither.

Speaker 95 And I don't have a problem.

Speaker 113 Here's my real problem.

Speaker 70 Apple won't sell me a damn Apple cord.

Speaker 103 There's no option.

Speaker 134 Would you like a longer cord?

Speaker 143 Can you imagine?

Speaker 120 Would you like to be a real human being?

Speaker 82 What would a longer Apple cord cost?

Speaker 143 $900?

Speaker 71 And I'd pay it. I know.

Speaker 104 I'd pay it. I am so sick and tired of buying cords that don't work with...
Sorry, not, I've purchased a cord at Apple and then had it come up.

Speaker 147 This application not available on the.

Speaker 85 I bought it from Apple.

Speaker 139 Yeah.

Speaker 163 I can't take it.

Speaker 78 I can't take it.

Speaker 99 I originally purchased a long cord from the Apple store, which, yes, I paid proxy

Speaker 121 $75 for it.

Speaker 57 But it's really long.

Speaker 62 It's really nice.

Speaker 99 But again, it's an investment.

Speaker 69 It sounds like it's like Donald Trump displays.

Speaker 71 It's the greatest cord of all the stuff.

Speaker 120 It's really great. It's long.

Speaker 71 I got a chance for electricity. It works.

Speaker 120 It's a beautiful cord. Beautiful cord.

Speaker 99 It's like rope almost. The material is almost like it's like a rope.
It's weird, but it's very,

Speaker 99 you can.

Speaker 121 like walk halfway across the room and

Speaker 99 it works it actually works because a lot of times you go on an Amazon, for example, and buy.

Speaker 99 I purchase a lot of long cords to fit Apple products for Amazon, and then you go back, you plug them in, and they either don't work or they work for a week and stop.

Speaker 99 Um, you know, you get, I feel like with Apple, they're so weird, you have to actually go inside the store and purchase it from them. And even then, it's only about 75% chance it's actually gonna work.

Speaker 150 Yeah, I did that, it didn't, it didn't work, it did not work, and I can't take it so because I read in bed, and so I do.

Speaker 71 I read if I'm not, if my if i don't have an outlet in my pillow right i can't plug it in that is i can't plug it in i look to solve that solved oh um so i will give you i want to know the name of the cord i want to and i want your personal guarantee is it under 900 illusion

Speaker 70 we took out a second mortgage uh to get it paid for do you know that do you know that um steve jobs was not a billionaire because of apple

Speaker 136 that's because he didn't invent the uh plug and a pillow yeah i know i know he could have been.

Speaker 109 He could have been.

Speaker 88 That's not where he really made his money.

Speaker 143 We had to make some of it from there. I mean, a lot.

Speaker 151 He did.

Speaker 67 But he took his investment.

Speaker 75 He got $50 million

Speaker 131 in Apple stock

Speaker 9 when he left.

Speaker 143 I know he invested in Pixar.

Speaker 109 And he took it and put it all in Pixar.

Speaker 82 Yeah, I knew that.

Speaker 126 So he made $50 million from Apple.

Speaker 123 He checked out and he invested it all in Pixar.

Speaker 79 When he died, he was the largest shareholder of Disney.

Speaker 114 Think of that. Wow.

Speaker 78 Think of that.

Speaker 177 It's a couple pennies.

Speaker 62 I mean, that's absolutely amazing. We have a special.

Speaker 129 This is, by the way, a toy.

Speaker 91 This is a Woody doll signed by John Lasseter.

Speaker 148 We're doing a special on

Speaker 77 John Lasseter is the managing partner.

Speaker 138 He is the heart behind Pixar.

Speaker 75 Anyway, so we have a special on John Lasseter and Bill Gates And tying the two stories together, or not Bill Gates, Steve Jobs.

Speaker 63 Tying the two stories together is absolutely incredible.

Speaker 138 When you see where each of them were in their career, right time, right place, right message, it's unbelievable.

Speaker 17 Unbelievable.

Speaker 141 And what they built on really a roll of the dice that no one saw besides Steve Jobs.

Speaker 143 The Pixar story is a great one.

Speaker 143 It's an incredible story.

Speaker 61 The Apple story, not so great because of the damn short short chord.

Speaker 96 I mean,

Speaker 95 it's like a woody doll.

Speaker 61 I'm surprised that you didn't pull the string on the woody doll and say, reach for the.

Speaker 71 I guess we should make the string a little longer, huh, Steve?

Speaker 151 Anyway.

Speaker 34 All right, what else do we have to sweep up on here?

Speaker 99 Well, we could do, I mean, we've been.

Speaker 143 You teased the story about the European Union already

Speaker 83 giving rights to robots, which is they call them electronic personhood.

Speaker 143 Electronic personhood.

Speaker 93 Okay, so if you saw AI,

Speaker 67 this has now happened.

Speaker 101 Remember AI?

Speaker 114 The iRobot was good.

Speaker 78 Oh, yeah, that's what I meant.

Speaker 101 iRobot. iRobot.

Speaker 119 iRobot had the three rules.

Speaker 62 And the first one was you couldn't hurt a human.

Speaker 95 You have to do everything to save a human, right?

Speaker 115 Yeah, right.

Speaker 127 You can't allow humans to get harmed.

Speaker 152 Yeah, you can't allow humans to get harmed.

Speaker 143 You can't harm yourself or allow yourself to be harmed unless it violates the first two. Right.

Speaker 184 You can't do anything that violates the first two or something.

Speaker 80 Something.

Speaker 113 And I thought, wow, I hope we're having that discussion someplace.

Speaker 33 Well, we actually did.

Speaker 112 The European Parliament voted last week to legally bestow electronic personhood to robots.

Speaker 99 Electronic personhood.

Speaker 151 Unbelievable.

Speaker 21 This goes to Ray Kurzweil saying that there will be more attorneys for computers

Speaker 174 by 2050 than

Speaker 106 there are for men today.

Speaker 150 Think of that.

Speaker 59 You're going to be one of these days, you're going to be in court against the computer.

Speaker 73 The status includes a list of rights, responsibilities, regulations, and a kill switch.

Speaker 17 They voted 17 to 2 to a draft report, believes bots, robots, androids, and other manifestations of artificial intelligence will spawn a new industrial revolution.

Speaker 3 They look to govern the AI behavior.

Speaker 105 Here are the

Speaker 103 robotic, the three laws of robotics from Isaac Asunov.

Speaker 137 A robot may not harm humanity by inaction or allow

Speaker 60 humanity to come to harm.

Speaker 184 That's now part of the EU's law.

Speaker 135 The rules also affect the developers who have to engineer the robots in such a way that they can be controlled.

Speaker 62 This includes a kill switch, a mechanism by which rogue robots can be terminated or shut down remotely.

Speaker 136 Yep, that worked good in iRobot.

Speaker 89 Didn't it?

Speaker 19 Unfortunately, there is a possibility that within the space of a few decades, AI could surpass human intellectual capacity in a manner which, if not prepared for, could pose a challenge to humanity's capacity to control its own creation and

Speaker 75 consequently, perhaps its own capacity to be in charge of its own destiny and to ensure the survival of the human species.

Speaker 104 That is in a government document now?

Speaker 62 The report also notes the potential for increased inequality in the distribution of wealth and influence.

Speaker 66 If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed.

Speaker 56 Everyone can enjoy a luxurious, leisurely life if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine owners successfully lobby against wealth

Speaker 164 redistribution.

Speaker 59 So far, the trend seems to be towards the second option with technological with technology driving ever-increasing inequality. Oh boy.

Speaker 147 We have so many things, so many new reasons

Speaker 52 for

Speaker 164 wealth inequality and wealth redistribution that are headed our way that nobody has even thought of yet.

Speaker 125 Nice to see the EU leading the way on that, too.

Speaker 114 That's always the only thing that's only better.

Speaker 9 It leads to goodness.

Speaker 148 The only thing that could be possibly better is if the United Nations did.

Speaker 114 Right.

Speaker 109 Then it'd be great.

Speaker 99 A couple other things for the inauguration as we get closer.

Speaker 99 Donald Trump,

Speaker 99 they're putting together all the events and everything. Workers for a Virginia company supplying portable toilets for his inauguration.
Yeah.

Speaker 99 Please tell me they're not boarding.

Speaker 114 They're not a little upset.

Speaker 99 They were a little upset, and they noticed that the company name was being covered up on all the toilets.

Speaker 181 What's the company?

Speaker 99 Right. The company name is Dons Johns.

Speaker 114 Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 99 So, like, it's completely unrelated to Donald Trump, but because the name was Dons Johns, they thought it would be kind of embarrassing at this really regal event that, you know, the guy on stage,

Speaker 99 you know, that they kind of look like he just put a bunch of Johns out there.

Speaker 151 I wonder if John F.

Speaker 91 Kennedy did that with Porta John.

Speaker 30 Yeah, probably

Speaker 101 not.

Speaker 99 Probably not.

Speaker 99 And sadly, we are seeing a major entertainment collapse here for the president. I know he's very upset.
However, this part is really bizarre. The B Street Band is pulled out.

Speaker 4 The E Street Band.

Speaker 99 The B Street Band is pulled out of the upcoming performance.

Speaker 100 It's not the East Street.

Speaker 114 It's not the East Street.

Speaker 71 No. No.

Speaker 78 The E Street band would not perform it.

Speaker 70 I was shocked that they were going to and then pull out, but this is not the

Speaker 9 E Street. Who is the B Street band?

Speaker 99 The B Street Band is a Bruce Springsteen cover band that they had brought in to actually play for the inauguration.

Speaker 151 So

Speaker 118 now, even that's how much they're alike.

Speaker 74 they've covered the E Street so well that they're even doing a cover of their not playing the inauguration.

Speaker 151 That's good. That's exactly it.

Speaker 99 So, yeah, I guess like they initially were going to do it for, you know, the office, we respect the office, but now they've been beat up apparently by their fans so much they've decided to pull out of the inauguration events.

Speaker 99 So no Bruce Spring scene cover bands if you're going to D.C.

Speaker 152 Do you see Toby Keith? Yeah.

Speaker 82 Toby Keith is like, look, I played for Obama. I played for Bush.
I'll play for this guy.

Speaker 98 It's a President of the United States.

Speaker 99 It doesn't surprise anyone that he would play for Donald Trump.

Speaker 116 Same thing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Speaker 83 I support the Mormon Tabernacle Choir going.

Speaker 98 Absolutely. It's President of the United States.

Speaker 139 Why not?

Speaker 173 Did you see the

Speaker 3 woman who said she has to leave the Mormon Transpiration?

Speaker 150 She quit the choir, which is a really big deal. People,

Speaker 121 people get there,

Speaker 143 there's a waiting list.

Speaker 97 Yeah, years, decades.

Speaker 133 I mean, you just don't get that honor to sing with the choir.

Speaker 152 And she was part of it, and she backed out.

Speaker 91 She said, I can't live with myself

Speaker 173 if I go.

Speaker 91 I can't make this happen.

Speaker 63 I can't put these two together.

Speaker 152 And I don't think she's a fan of mine.

Speaker 138 And I wrote her a letter and said, hey, look, I never heard back from her, but I wrote her a letter and said, you know, while I don't necessarily agree with you, congratulations for taking a stand.

Speaker 113 And the same thing to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for going.

Speaker 97 Congratulations for taking a stand.

Speaker 78 Is this what we're supposed to do?

Speaker 160 Why are we demonizing each other for this?

Speaker 77 You know, the thing I don't like about the bands is it's all groupthink.

Speaker 85 It's all groupthink.

Speaker 116 How many of these bands, how many of these people, if they weren't living around all of the people that they're living around,

Speaker 174 would still be doing this?

Speaker 103 How many would go, oh, he's a president?

Speaker 97 I think it's kind of cool.

Speaker 151 I'll play. Yeah, a lot.
You can answer that a lot.

Speaker 99 Pretty clearly in the fact that Donald Trump hasn't always been president or president-elect. And these bands all played in his places.

Speaker 78 They all went to his mouth.

Speaker 99 They all took his money when he was the same person that he is today.

Speaker 122 They all were.

Speaker 151 They all had their picture taken.

Speaker 99 Absolutely. Yep.
And then it's the second that now he's, you know, a Republican president-elect. They all

Speaker 133 release the pictures of him with all of these stars.

Speaker 71 He should.

Speaker 97 They should be just like him.

Speaker 84 They should be.

Speaker 84 That's the use of career.

Speaker 3 Release all of the pictures with you with all of these stars that now hate your guts.

Speaker 101 I think that's great.

Speaker 91 You should do that all inauguration day.

Speaker 152 Might cheapen the office a bit, sure.

Speaker 151 Now this.

Speaker 61 Last week, we discussed the World Bank's economic report. This week, it's the International Monetary Fund.

Speaker 34 Here's the headline.

Speaker 152 IMF upgrades U.S.

Speaker 144 growth forecast as Donald Trump reshapes global outlook.

Speaker 62 Thanks to the president's, or the incoming president's plans to cut taxes and boost infrastructure spending, the IMF is saying, hey, there's some economic growth here for the U.S.

Speaker 75 The output, according to the IMF, nearly half a percentage point faster than they thought this time last year. Now, with that knowledge, what do you do?

Speaker 138 Well, you also look at what does that mean.

Speaker 9 When the economy starts to grow, we are going to have to raise interest rates to suck back all of this money.

Speaker 134 This has never been done before.

Speaker 85 Can it happen?

Speaker 30 Sure, it could.

Speaker 28 It's never been done before.

Speaker 9 Has to be done exactly right.

Speaker 67 And what does it mean if it doesn't?

Speaker 78 Hyperinflation and a collapse of the system.

Speaker 77 10% of your investment as a guard against hyperinflation or massive inflation that we're seeing now on the stock market, I think it's a pretty good idea.

Speaker 83 But you do your own homework, read their important risk information, find out if buying gold, silver, or platinum, which is cheaper now, this is crazy than gold.

Speaker 75 Call them 866 GoldLine, 1-866-GoldLine or GoldLine.com.

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Speaker 66 You know, I'm so disappointed in John Lewis and anybody else who's not going to the

Speaker 3 inauguration.

Speaker 83 If you're a member of Congress,

Speaker 101 you go.

Speaker 34 It's a president.

Speaker 61 It is part of the peaceful transfer of power.

Speaker 67 This is you're going because of the office, not because of the man.

Speaker 78 I guess I can see that argument.

Speaker 99 I mean,

Speaker 152 you as a citizen may or may not go, okay?

Speaker 172 But if you are a congressman,

Speaker 64 do you not think you should go?

Speaker 99 Yeah, I mean, I think as a congressman, you probably do for multiple reasons.

Speaker 114 Peace.

Speaker 121 Peaceful transition to power.

Speaker 99 You don't want to deal with the fallout. There's a lot of that.
No, I was actually talking about you said you were disappointed in John Lewis.

Speaker 99 And at this point, I can't understand how anyone could be disappointed in him.

Speaker 100 I mean, this is what he does.

Speaker 120 This is what he does.

Speaker 99 Like, you know, they said the same thing about John McCain. No one had any trouble criticizing anything that John McCain did, even though he was a war hero.

Speaker 157 You do something like that. I'm tired of this.

Speaker 57 It's not a shield.

Speaker 62 Rand Paul said it best.

Speaker 63 It doesn't give you a shield of protection, something you did 60 years ago.

Speaker 99 I mean, it could still be great and you can still suck today. Right.

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