Glenn Beck critiques media dishonesty regarding Susan Rice's Benghazi lies and Facebook's ISIS polling, arguing her "leaked nothing" statement implies universal leaks. He details FISA court mechanics to expose alleged Trump-Russia ties while discussing Barry Manilow's closeted career and North Korea's nuclear threats. The episode features a serial on Calvin Coolidge, highlighting his 1920 landslide victory over Woodrow Wilson's progressive excesses through drastic spending cuts and tax reductions. Beck also addresses Noam Chomsky's conspiracy theories, Alec Baldwin's Hollywood conflicts, Shia LaBeouf's protests, Aaron Hernandez's trial, and Steve Bannon's firing from the National Security Council. Ultimately, the show contrasts historical constitutional restoration with modern political erosion. [Automatically generated summary]
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We begin with Susan Rice and the media right now.
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Hello, America.
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I want to start with Susan Rice.
Here's what Susan said.
I leaked nothing to nobody.
Now, aside from the double negative, former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice employs their leaking nothing to nobody.
Obviously, that means that you leaked something to everybody.
But I digress.
Susan Rice, who once claimed that the deserter Bo Bergdahl served with honor and distinction, is now vehemently denying any wrongdoing in this scandal of unmasking and leaking the names of Trump officials, which we will get back to here in a second.
There is the unmasking, and then there is the, quote, what the media is calling leaking the names.
It is a red herring because the media is lazy again.
Respected columnist Eli Lake, citing anonymous U.S. officials familiar with the matter, end quote, reported Monday that the National Security Advisor requested the identities of U.S. persons in the raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign.
Now, she went on a media tour yesterday to where she could be surrounded by friends who would let her go on the record without pushing her on any tough questions.
Here she is with Andrea Mitchell.
First of all, Andrea, to talk about the contents of a classified report, to talk about the individuals on the foreign side who were the targets of the report itself or any Americans who may have been collected upon incidentally is to disclose classified information.
I'm not going to do that.
And those people who are putting these stories out are doing just that.
Okay, so let's boil this down.
It's pretty clear the implication from her various statements on the scandal that she has given is that in the normal process of the national security business, she indeed did ask the NSA for the names of certain Americans that were involved with President Trump.
But her claim is she didn't leak those names.
Well, you don't have to when you unmask them.
It goes out to the mass.
Everybody who is on the list, everyone in government who got that gets the update with the unmasked names.
She also says she didn't seek them for political purposes.
Listen carefully.
Within that process and within the context of the Trump campaign, the Trump transition, did you seek the names of people involved in to unmask the names of people involved in the Trump transition, the Trump campaign, people surrounding the president-elect?
Let me begin.
In order to spy on them, in order to expose them.
Absolutely not for any political purposes to spy, expose anything.
But let me leak the name of Mike Flynn.
I leaked nothing to nobody.
I leaked nothing to nobody.
Again, we'll come back to that with Grammar Pat.
Now maybe, maybe some can be forgiven for doubting the veracity of a woman who looked us in the eye and flat out lied to us as the ambassador to the UN in 2012.
But based on the best information we have to date, what our assessment is as of the present is in fact what it began spontaneously in Benghazi as a reaction to what had transpired some hours earlier in Cairo, where of course, as you know, there was a violent protest outside of our embassy sparked by this hateful video.
Okay, so here's the problem.
She knew she was lying then.
Obama knew she was lying then.
Hillary Clinton knew she was lying then.
I contend the press knew she was lying then.
Media, you wonder why Donald Trump became President of the United States.
This is your example.
You're doing it again.
For anybody who thought, possibly, that you would have a backbone, that you have learned something, that you've become enlightened, you're doing it again.
You are taking a story and you are picking the winner.
You are picking the one you choose to believe.
She has no credibility.
Was she following orders last time?
Perhaps.
Is she following orders this time?
Perhaps.
It's your job to dissect this story and to show where the truth is and how it's all being lumped together to make it appear as though she's telling the truth.
This is the problem.
With so much dishonesty in the government, the credibility of those we have elected to serve us is completely shot.
And so what do we do?
We elect somebody like Donald Trump, not because of the credibility of the people in the government, but because he told us the truth.
And this is the truth.
You can't believe the media.
They are in on the game.
And this Susan Rice story is proof positive.
Now, let's go to Pat, who's going to take us to the chalkboard.
Can I burn this a little bit?
Yeah.
I leaked nothing to nobody.
Just show me how I leaked nothing to nobody works here, Pat.
All right.
Well, first of all, this is obviously negation.
Right?
Pat at the chalkboard teaching.
Negation.
Although she used a double negative.
Which, of course, leads to a positive statement.
As you know, two negative numbers multiplied together makes it a positive.
So if you leak nothing to nobody, that does mean that you leaked something to everybody.
You're saying it was a true statement.
It was a true statement.
She obviously leaked something to everybody.
Now, if she was trying to say she didn't leak anything, then you have to use the negative auxiliary.
I didn't leak anything.
The pronoun anything, or you could perhaps use the negative article.
I have not leaked anything.
To nobody?
To anyone.
To anyone.
Can you say I have not leaked nothing to nobody?
If it was a triple negative, she'd be okay, right?
If you say, I have not leaked anyone, anything to anyone, why isn't that a double positive?
Which would lead it to a double negative.
Because you've used the negative particle, not, which obviously means you haven't.
And also, if you multiply two positives together, you don't get a negative.
You get a positive.
How do we know math is right?
Have you checked with Common Core lately?
Fake math, fake news.
It's all real.
Thank you, Pat.
We appreciate that for clearing that up for us.
For anybody who wanted to know exactly, by the way, anybody who is making fun of Donald Trump in the media and how he speaks, right, is anybody going over this?
Is anybody saying, hey, Susan Wrights, I didn't leak nothing to nobody is probably not something at a cabinet level.
I didn't leak nothing to nobody would have been okay because it's a triple negative.
However, she said I leaked nothing to nobody, making it a double negative and you're writing correct.
I'm sorry.
Or actually correct because she actually did leak it.
Yes.
But she didn't leak it.
Unmasking Citizen Number One00:08:03
And here's how they're getting away with it.
May I erase, may I erase your work on the chalkboard here?
Okay.
So can anybody tell me what FISA means?
Foreign intelligence security act.
Foreign intelligence security act.
Not act, is it?
Is it act?
Yeah, that's what that's.
And so what does it do?
Yeah, foreign intelligence surveillance, sorry.
Surveillance.
Anybody know what it does?
Well, there's foreign intelligence that is surveilled with this act.
That's all you need to know.
That's all you need to know.
They are surveilling foreign intelligence.
Now, why are names masked in FISA?
So everything we're talking about here goes to a FISA court.
They're masked because if Americans are caught up in it, they don't want to suck Americans into something that they're let's go back a bit.
How does the FISA court work?
What is the FISA court?
How is it supposed to work?
FISA court was developed because we found out in the 70s that the CIA was starting to spy on things, and we wanted to make sure that the CIA and the FBI and everybody was in their proper roles.
But we saw that the CIA was starting to use surveillance in foreign countries, and we were afraid we were going to use them here in America.
And so they put this wall up.
And this is the point of the FISA court.
We built a wall so no one could, no CIA, no NSA could ever cross back into the United States.
And so what the CIA is.
It's illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans.
Correct.
This all comes from the Nixon era and all this stuff was starting, and you were starting to spy on Americans.
So the FISA court was designed.
And the FISA court, you as a CIA, you have to come to a FISA court and say, hey, we have a foreign intelligence that needs to be surveilled.
We need to listen to their phone calls.
Great.
Listen to their phone calls.
And we're listening to their phone calls as they're coming into the United States.
They are here in the United States and we need to listen to them.
Well, wait a minute.
If they're here in the United States, they're going to be talking to Americans.
Yes.
But what we'll do is when we issue the report, we will black out their name and we will put U.S. citizen number one.
And so when the FISA court, when this Pfizer report came to Susan Rice's desk, it said, here's the, you know, the Russian operative Igor Mololowski, whatever his name is, spoke to U.S. citizen number one.
Now, how do you unmask that?
You go to the NSA or the CIA and you say, can I know who, I need to know who this U.S. citizen is.
So how do you know who to go to?
CIA, NSA, how do you know who to go to?
I don't know.
Are you teaching us or asking us?
I'm asking you.
I'm teaching you too.
I'm asking you.
Do you know?
No.
Okay.
So you go to whoever issued this report.
Right.
The only people that have the key to unmask are the people that issued the report.
So you go to the, let's say, the NSA and you say, guys, I see U.S. citizen number one.
I think I know who this is.
And there is something else going on that you're not privy to because everything's compartmentalized.
I need to see U.S. citizen number one and unmask U.S. citizen number one so I know their name because I think they're connected in this other thing that we have going on over here.
We have to make sure it's the same person.
Now, when they unmask it, who gets the unmasked report?
Person who asked for it, I would.
That's what I would think.
Nope.
So when they're saying, did you leak anything?
She didn't have to.
Those reports go out to all of like 20 people.
Those reports go out every day and they have unmasked.
If they are unmasked, they go up masked.
Then if somebody asks for them to be unmasked, they're reissued and they go out to everyone with the unmasking.
So she didn't have to leak it.
She gave it to 20 to 100 different people.
And someone there leaked it.
Someone there leaked it.
So she started the process.
Right.
So the questions they should be asking.
She puts the blame, though, on the NSA, because they're the ones who decide whether they'll unmask or not.
So she's trying to say...
Right, right.
So let's play this out, Pat.
She's exactly right.
They do.
You play Susan Rice.
I'll play the NSA.
Hello, NSA.
I'd like to know who citizen number one is.
Why is your voice so low?
Yeah.
She's got a cold.
Okay.
Wow, I hope you feel better, Susan.
You sound really bad.
You sound like that.
Yeah, I don't feel good right now.
Sound like that guy on the radio.
What's his name?
Oh, man.
Nobody knows.
Okay, so anyway.
So, Susan, I can't just give you the name of that person.
You need to.
No, I've got another investigation going on.
You have another investigation on.
Can you tell me a little bit about, I don't need to know about the investigation, but can you give me a reason why you think that this name is important?
Well, it involves a Trump campaign and are you doing something on the Trump campaign and the Russians?
Okay, so you have something else going on?
Yes.
Okay, so you do need it.
I do need it.
Yes, okay, good.
You don't just call them and say, hey, I need a name unmasked.
Those are masked as a wall.
It is incumbent upon the agency that issued the report to then say, why do you need it?
Now, as national security advisor, as the head of the president's national security, she has more clout than anyone else.
But it is her case.
She cannot blame anyone else for saying, wow, they just released it.
No, they released it to you because you are the president's national security advisor.
You are the top of the pyramid.
And you made the case.
If you say, I have another case that you're not aware of, they will unmask it because you're the top of the pyramid.
The only one higher is the president.
And based on her interviews, she kind of walks this line that is.
Of course, she does.
Yeah, I did unmask something, but it wasn't for political purposes and I wasn't going to be able to do it.
So the question should be, then what were you working on to ask for it to be unmasked?
Which if it wasn't classified, correct.
Correct, she will.
So then the next question is, so was that name the name connected with something else?
National security.
Well, you have an Americans, you have an American's life at stake here.
Their whole, the reason for the FISA wall, you've just destroyed their life.
I think you have a responsibility to repair it and speak frankly.
Tying Putin to the Tree00:15:24
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Mercury.
You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.
So glad that you've tuned in.
I'm so disheartened by the press on this.
So disheartened by the press.
Except, isn't this kind of what you expect, though?
I mean, this is what they do, right?
Hang on just a second.
I cannot go on because I know this is for radio, but Jeffy's got a big glob of glaze on his 40 calories of icing on his freaking list.
40?
Lucky to have 40.
Somebody just brought us donuts from the Doc Thompson show.
Have one of them?
Delicious.
Delicious.
Okay, so anyway.
But this is what they do.
I mean, it's like the Geico commercials.
This is what they do.
I know, but wait a minute.
This is what they've said that they're honestly searching for.
And they're not.
They're not.
Come on.
You've been begging.
There's got to be somebody to wake up on the other side on the mainstream media.
Okay, so tell me about Mark Duplas.
No one has.
Tell me about Marc Duplas yesterday.
He's great.
What about him?
He's not in the media.
Yeah.
But I mean, remember, he's in Hollywood.
Yeah, he's in.
This is bad.
They kind of keep trying to break, you know, blame the Susan Rice story on the Breitbart crowd.
I heard that a lot on CNN today.
But it's like Eli Lake from Bloomberg is not the Breitbart cloud or crowd, excuse me.
These are major news sources that did report this.
So this is not some crazy conspiracy.
I mean, this actually looks like Trump may be.
No way.
Let's go.
Separate issues.
Go there next.
You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.
Mercury.
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Don't explain the Susan Rice story and the Russia story and what the media is not telling you because they are only in for the quick hit.
And honestly, I think they're only in it for the ratings.
Nobody's in it for the truth.
Nobody's in it because they're actually intellectually curious.
Nobody's in it because they have any intellectual honesty.
They are in it for the ratings.
And I defy, I defy any media.
Go ahead.
Bring it on, baby.
Bring it on.
Show me how this is wrong.
You won't show it to your audience.
And so what's happening is the American people are conflating stories together because they're picking sides because they know the media will not tell the truth.
And so it's, am I for Trump?
Which most people, many people do not want to be for.
They don't feel comfortable being in his world of half facts and mostly untruths.
But they think you're just as bad.
And they're sick of it.
So they'd rather live in that world, which is pretty cartoonish because they're like, yeah, he's a cartoon.
Nobody pays attention to him.
Instead of you trying to convince everybody you're not a cartoon, you want to convince people that you're not a cartoon media.
Here's exactly what you do.
You show that it's not one story.
There are three branches to this story, and they're very clear.
The first branch is Russia tampered with the election.
The second branch is Obama spied on Trump.
And the third branch is Trump advocates are tied to Putin and Russia.
Those are three separate stories.
And everybody is conflating them as one.
What is it?
The media is allowing because it serves their purposes as well.
They're saying we're talking about the tree of Russia.
No, we're not.
We're not talking about the tree of Russia.
We are talking about the tree of truth.
What is the truth of these three stories?
First, Russia tampered with the election.
Well, there's a lot of smoke there.
And there is some fire there.
We know they have employed trolls.
We know they have troll farms.
We know that they have done this to other countries.
So yes, most likely they're doing it to us.
We have their own statements from the people around Putin that, yes, they engage in those kinds of things.
We also have WikiLeaks.
Is that a hard tie?
No, but it's a pretty strong tie.
Now, the question on this one, did it affect the election?
And this is where it becomes political.
The answer to that is no.
It didn't lose the election for Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton lost the election.
My dead dog could have won against Hillary Clinton because it wasn't that she was just, she was running with her running mate that has less credibility than Hillary Clinton had.
And who was her running mate?
You, the media.
Why?
Because you allowed people like Susan Rice to get away with the lie that she knew she was telling on Benghazi.
Well, you've told us.
There's nothing to Benghazi.
Oh yeah, there's a lot to Benghazi.
There's a lot to Benghazi.
And it revolves around Susan Rice and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and an election.
Having that come out before the election would have, oh my gosh, it's almost like what we're looking for on the first branch of this tree of truth.
Did it affect the election?
Yes.
And so they colluded and you excused so it wouldn't affect the election of 2012.
Same exact damn story.
Not surprisingly, with the same people involved.
The media, the White House, and Susan Wright.
Susan Rice.
Next branch.
The next branch is, Obama spied on Trump.
No, he didn't.
He didn't spy on Trump.
Wiretapped the Trump Tower.
No, there's no evidence that he wiretapped Trump Tower.
Well, they have recordings of Flynn.
Yes, because that goes to the third branch, which we'll get to here in a second.
Did they have surveillance going on with Trump's team?
Yes, but not that he was just spying on Donald Trump for political purposes.
Now here's where it gets muddy.
Susan Rice, she unmasked the names of the Trump people.
Now, why would she do that?
Not to affect an election, because the election was already over.
Why would she do that?
Here's an explanation that Susan Rice could give that I would appreciate and I would even say she's got to pay for the price of this, but I applaud her for doing it.
Susan Rice could say, I release those and unmask those names because I knew as soon as the Trump administration would come in, they would destroy that evidence that they were colluding or involved and had ties to Russia.
And I needed people to know that they had ties to Russia.
So yes, I unmasked the names.
But the time to do that was about three weeks ago.
The time to do that is when you did it, actually.
But instead, you've lied about it.
You said first you had nothing to do with it.
Now suddenly, yes, I did unmask it, but I didn't leak.
Well, you're lying again because you know there is no leak.
It doesn't matter.
Leak, once you unmask them, the names are out.
The third story is the Trump advocates tied to Putin and Russia.
The two places where there is real smoke is Russia tampered with the election.
And it has nothing to do with Donald Trump and it has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton.
It's not Republican or Democrat.
That we have to answer.
And we already know the answer.
The answer is yes.
We have to answer so we can stop it from happening in the future.
But that's not a story that anybody cares about.
Why?
Because they're not intellectually curious about anything that actually saves the Republic.
Anything that adds credibility to our institutions.
What they care about is tearing down the credibility of whoever it is they're against.
And that goes on both sides.
Obama spied on Trump.
No, no.
But now we have to find out about Susan Rice.
But the media will not pursue it because they're not intellectually honest.
So two strikes, two strikes against the Republic because of intellectual dishonesty and laziness.
The third one, is Trump advocates tied to Putin's Russia?
That one's absolutely true.
We know that one as much as we know the first one.
They tampered with the election and it didn't affect the outcome.
But we know that.
We also know Trump advocates are tied to Putin in Russia.
And how do we know?
One, we have recordings of Flynn.
Two, Manafort.
We have Ukrainian officials and documents that showed that Manafort was paid $12 million, what was it, a year?
And it was never reported.
He never claimed it.
Same thing with Flynn.
He was paid.
He never claimed it.
Why?
So we know that they are tied directly to Russia and they both tried to hide it.
Now, did they tamper with the election?
Is this tied to the first one?
Well, because we can't believe Manafort or Flynn on this, we've got to now take them and say, well, I don't know if I believe your story, which is exactly the same thing that the media, if they were honest, would be saying about Susan Rice.
Because you lied to me the first time, I am a fool to believe you the second time.
Paul Manafort and Flynn, you lied to us the first time.
I no longer take your word to mean anything.
So yes, there is a chance you were involved in shuttling information, but I have no evidence of that at this point.
But we need to look into it.
Did they tamper with the election?
Well, Roger Stone in Wikileaks, he has said they're close.
We know that Wikileaks and Russia, we know that they're close.
Do we have any evidence?
No.
So here's what we have.
First story, Russia tampered with election.
No effect on the final vote, but we need to look into how they did it, why they did it, so we can shore up the institution of our vote.
Two, Obama spied on Trump.
No, he didn't.
They were looking in Trump advocates and they were looking for a did Russia tamper with the election?
The only story there is Susan Rice.
Why did she unmask the names?
Why did she do that?
This to me is more of a story about the FISA courts and more of a story about the Patriot Act than anything else.
You are now letting political operatives unmask.
Explain it, Susan Rice.
But she won't because the press won't push her.
And the third one is Trump advocates are tied to Putin and Russia.
That is absolutely, that's on fire.
There's no smoke there.
That's on, that's, that's a, that's a 10-alarm fire.
We know that to be true.
The depth of it, we don't know.
Three stories.
Not one.
Three.
But the media won't tell you that because the media only wants to discredit Trump and Trump only wants to discredit the media when in reality, they're doing a fine job, both sides on their own.
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Mercury.
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Welcome to the program.
Stu would like to take umbrage with part of what I laid out on the tree of truth here.
Well, sort of.
I mean, I just think it's important to point out that everything you said is based on the information we have now.
There's multiple investigations going on, and we may very well find out that one of these, one of the branches on your little tree, are wind up.
There's a significant new information we found out in this investigation that changes these assumptions.
But that is where we are right now.
Correct, and I would give you, for instance, Russia tampered with the election.
There's stuff that we're going to find out on that that I think will tie WikiLeaks to Russia.
I mean, if you really wanted to do an investigation, let's really do an investigation on what Trump is doing.
He's doing it or what Putin is doing.
He's doing it all over the world.
He's tampering with elections all over the world.
Trump advocates tied to Russia and Putin.
There's more to come on that.
What I'm saying is Obama spied on Trump.
That is something, let's be honest, that I think Donald Trump just blurted out, and now they're retroactively trying to make things fit.
But it's not hard because I don't believe that Barack Obama said, I want you to use some black ops and go and spy on the Trump campaign.
What they did most likely is there is fire on the first branch.
Russia's tampering with the election.
Fire on the second branch.
These guys are tied to Putin.
Get the NSA, get all those guys to legitimately do a search and brief us on it.
And then if we want to or if we can, there's no evidence at this point that they use that during the election.
Pop Stars and Political Songs00:13:30
The Susan Rice stuff came out just before he was inaugurated.
Yeah, and that's a couple things I've seen people who are on the right getting in trouble with on Facebook battles and such.
So if you're in one of these, watch these two areas.
One is exactly that.
Oh, well, Susan Rice was trying to turn over the election.
Well, this happened after he was elected and about a week before he was inaugurated.
Right.
So it has nothing to do with whether Trump was going to get elected or not.
The case seems to be from the people on the left who are defending Susan Rice is she wanted to, as you kind of pointed out, hold onto this information because they thought Trump would destroy it.
And I have no problem.
I have no problem with that.
It's still wrong, and she should still go to jail.
She should be held accountable, but at least it would be a righteous jail thing.
It's like I feel about Snowden.
If Snowden would have stood and come and face the music and said, look, I'll go to jail.
I'm fine to go to jail.
I wanted this information out.
Then I don't have a hard time saying he's a hero.
Susan Rice, you need to admit it.
If that's what you did, then you know what?
You're a patriot for laying down and saying, I was afraid this was gonna, I'm not agreeing with it.
I'm not saying it's what you should do.
I'm just saying at least that was an attempt by her in her mind at a patriotic duty.
I'm trying to protect the Republic because I think the president is going to lose all this information.
That's all there is.
I wish the media would explore.
This is the Glenn Beck program.
This is the Blaze Radio On Demand.
Is anybody in the press going to take on Noam Chomsky, predicting Trump is going to stage a terror attack to bolster support?
I think we should.
Yeah, and I think we will.
As soon as we get past this huge revelation that Pat was simply stunned by.
I cannot believe he was stunned by this.
Barry Manilow is officially gay.
Wow.
Pat actually said, seriously?
I know.
You were kind of hoping.
Well, I mean, he said his career and never said it until today, right?
Right.
He's never confirmed that.
He's never confirmed it.
There were suspicions by some.
All right.
So why didn't he?
This is the story.
To me, this was the story.
Not that he was gay.
It was like, of course he was gay.
Everybody knew he was gay.
No.
Nobody cared he was gay.
I was like, everybody knew before.
No, he dated a female, I think.
He wasn't saying about females, non-stop.
Yeah, well, okay.
This goes to why did he stay in the closet for so long?
Here his shocking, surprising answer begins right now.
I will make a stand.
I will raise my voice.
I will hold your hand.
Cause we have won.
I will be my drum.
I have made my choice.
We will overcome.
Cause we are one.
The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
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Yeah, well, okay.
Welcome to the program.
I'm so glad you're here.
I just have to, I wasn't even going to mention this on the air, but Pat was stunned by it and just gave me the response.
I just couldn't.
I don't know if I wasn't flabbergasted, but I was mildly surprised.
Mildly surprised.
Because he's never said.
He's never admitted that.
Okay, so now let's think about why would Barry Manilow never say that.
Well, he says it in the article.
I know.
Well, don't read the article.
Let's just noodle it here for a second.
Why would we read the article?
Well, because you can noodle this one through.
This is why I was not surprised Barry Manilow was gay.
Why?
Okay.
He thought it would hurt his career.
Correct.
He's writing love songs.
Fans would be disappointed.
Right.
He thought, you know, who are his fans?
When I was growing up, the joke was it was only fat, lonely chicks, right, that liked Barry Manilow.
And then it was me, too.
And then liked Barry Manilow, and it was like, oh, yeah, you're a fat, lonely chick.
And that's who they said that, you know.
Money spends just as good as everybody else.
Right.
But so if you are appealing to women and you're singing love songs, lonely love songs to women.
Mandy.
You know, Mandy.
The first three letters are man.
And he was married to the girl.
That should have been the clue, right?
That should have been the clue.
Should have been the clue.
And he was married for a couple years to a female.
But he was married to a woman.
A woman.
It was practically a girl.
I think they were married right out of high school.
He was his high school sweetheart.
Fine.
Okay, so there were two telltale signs that he was maybe not gay, right?
Right?
What is your evidence that he was?
Your evidence is very man.
Exactly.
Which is nothing.
What is that?
Your evidence is what you see.
Your science is you think you can tell by looking at him.
Air supply sappy songs.
They're not gay.
Right.
I mean, you know, you had about that.
Air supply.
I never paid attention.
I don't know if they either, but are we sure about that air supply?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Yeah, not everyone who's seen it.
It just seemed, I mean, not that I had a problem with it.
He was just never with a woman.
He was always alone.
It's not normal for somebody to be alone their whole life.
It's just not normal.
It's interesting that he's been with this guy for 40 years.
Yeah.
40 years.
And got married.
This house sadly.
And got married?
Got married 2014.
Yeah.
I mean, how sad is that?
Kept it quiet.
Surprised.
He said he's private and always.
I mean, I don't think it's sad at all.
I think it's encouraging.
Nothing wrong.
The fact that he can go through his personal life and get married and no one, you know, he gets to tell it on his own.
It's perfect to think that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But to think that you had to keep something quiet.
Well, you know, that depends.
Like, obviously, I'm sure there was a point in his life, if he was with this person for 40 years, that that probably was his motivation.
However, maybe, you know, I didn't want to deal with this.
Right.
Right?
I mean, why am I, maybe he just wanted his relationship to himself?
That's encouraging from a celebrity.
I'd like to see a lot less of the relationships from celebrities.
It's a lot like, and I, Tanya and I had this conversation.
Who is the power country couple that they're liberal?
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill.
So Tanya said to me on Monday, I was only half listening.
And so I probably have this wrong, but she said something about Faith Hill looking, you know, dressed up all hot.
She was on the CMAs this weekend, maybe.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And she was dressed in something that Tanya said, Tanya's comment was, did you see how she was dressed?
And I'm like, no, why?
Can you show me pictures?
You'll read that article.
Yeah.
And she said, she said, come on, you're country.
You're a country artist.
And so they're just going mainstream, you know, lefty.
You know, not.
Every country star dresses.
You know, I mean, that's not.
Steve's girl goes through 18 different changes.
My point is, I think that she gets more crap because she's going, she's left.
Where country stars, if I'm a country star and I don't really like the, you know, the values of the center of the country, I'm more in line with the people in Hollywood.
I'm not saying that.
I mean, if I'm a country star, you're, you know, that's not a popular place to be.
She's coming out and saying it.
It's like being in Hollywood and saying you're a conservative.
You know, you're in Hollywood, your whole career.
I'm not saying it.
Just shut up.
Keep your mouth closed.
That's what people do.
It happens to conservatives in Hollywood.
It happens in every.
And it's sad, just like Barry Manilow, it's sad that he had to.
Now, if he's a private person and he didn't want to, that's fine.
But if he thought it would just destroy his career and he couldn't.
And he wanted to.
I don't know if he wanted to.
But if he wanted to, it's sad.
It's sad that somebody has to work in Hollywood and have to keep their political point of view quiet.
That's sad.
That's part of who you are.
It's sad that if you work in Nashville and you're a lefty, it's sad.
It's just the way it is.
Yeah, I mean, it depends on what, you know, again, I don't think it's sad when I don't know their views, largely because I don't care.
And it's not why I'm not.
That was part of the, that's, that's humility.
To be like that, I, I like that.
I do too.
You know, I like the person who says, you know what?
And we've, we've, we've talked to them before.
You come on and you're in Hollywood and you're an actor and you say, you know what, I know no one cares what I think.
And, you know, I'm not going to berate you with my political opinions.
I think that's a positive, right?
It makes me like those people more, whether they're conservative or liberal.
I'd rather have them just, you know, do their thing.
Well, only because I can't see past you.
If I could be the greatest actor in the world, I would be horrible on screen because you would not see past me.
And I'll always be me.
And, you know, not to be repetitive, but I made this point before, but it's like I accept it more out of musicians.
Where a musician, I actually kind of am going to them for their view on the world in a weird way.
Like it might just be relationships or it might be, you know, I mean, you know, U2 has a clear political standpoint in their, in their music, right?
It's particularly their earlier stuff.
And it's like, well, you're going part of that, part of why you are interested in them is because of what they're doing.
Like the news.
Right, exactly.
Like they have this way.
They don't like Pearl Jam.
Yeah.
Because they say interesting things about stuff, you know, that's, that affects the world.
Part of that, not with every artist, but part of that is why you go to them.
You know, with actors, that's not at all why you ever go to them.
For instance, I like Muse because of their political views, but their music is all political.
If I started hearing Adele, who I also really like, if I started hearing Adele talk about politics, I'm not going to Adele for politics.
I'm going to her for relationship.
And, you know, her music is all about that.
I'm not going to you for, I don't want to hear your political views.
But you're, you're, when you go to a musician, you're largely interested in their perspective on the world.
If they're writing songs, like I don't know if the person who's saying, you know, call me baby is, you know, you're necessarily getting it from them.
I mean, there's obviously pop stars.
There's some you don't really care, but I mean there's still some perspective, whether it's, you know, of female empowerment or uh, you know how to you know relationships or whatever it is there's.
You're, you're looking at their perspective, of their intelligent like Lady Gaga seriously, I know very, she's very intelligent.
I just you, just it's just her name's Lady Gaga seriously, I know.
But she's extraordinarily intelligent, very intelligent, highly trained.
Yeah, she is she's, she's really genius, sure at what she does.
So yeah, I can accept it from her because I know she's a deep thinker.
I'm not necessarily looking for deep thinking from most people in either Hollywood or the music scene, particularly what, but you're never this is the important part is you're never going, you never want it from Hollywood.
What you're getting from Hollywood, you might get it from a director, you might get it from a producer, an actor, is you never want their political opinion, because their political opinion actually gets in the way.
Them being a real person to you gets in the way of what they're doing true um, and that's, that's a huge difference.
I mean any other.
Well, and when a guy sings love songs about women yeah, it probably being gay gets in the way of that a little bit.
Oh yeah, it does, it's not.
It's not that it was wrong for him no, it wouldn't have.
It's just it wouldn't have rung.
True weirds out.
Yes, it's like same with George Michael, and he admitted he wrote songs about girls because he was afraid at the beginning and it was in it, right it was.
And when he was not sincere, and when he did come out, it was weird.
Yeah, it was weird to hear him sing songs about, although most people suspected with him too, even before, and their evidence was their evidence.
Chemical Weapons and John Kerry00:07:58
By the way, in both cases they were correct.
Same thing with Elton John.
But look at Elton John.
Bernie Topin wrote the lyrics.
Yeah, and so yeah, I don't really care what Elton was doing with his time off stage.
I mean, Bernie Topin's lyrics were so great, Elton John's music was so great.
It did.
I wasn't, I wasn't looking to Elton John as some genius philosopher.
Yeah, plus another one who?
Who married a girl at one point.
So uh, it's confusing, It's complicated.
It's a complicated world.
It's complicated.
It's a complicated world.
Life is messy, Pat.
It is.
Life is messy.
And then you die.
It's a happy story.
Oh, that's the happy ending.
Yeah.
Right.
It's the beginning parts that really suck.
Did you hear what NBC Lester Holt said about North Korea?
Jeffy did, because Jeffy is the king of the left.
For some weird reason, Jeff is obsessed with one of the finest news.
Okay, so did you hear what the North Korean dictator on?
Kim Jong-un?
No, no, no, no, not dictator.
Defector.
Sorry.
Oh, okay.
Yes.
Did you see the defector?
Yes.
What did the defector say?
He said that Kim Jong-un is serious.
He's crazy, and he'll do it.
He'll nuke us.
He will use nuclear weapons.
I believe him.
I talked to a guy who is very high up in the CIA just recently, last week, and he said, I said, what do we do?
And he said, we're quite frankly out of options.
Now, he just left, like, I don't know, last summer.
And he said, I think we're out of options, Glenn.
He said, we all believe.
They're talking for a strike.
Yes, they are.
I know.
I mean, our Trump administration, and they should be.
Absolutely.
We've got somebody threatening us with EMPs and nuclear weapons and saying that he's going to launch against Hawaii.
You've got to take that seriously and maybe eliminate that threat.
So here's what was said on NBC with Blesser Holt.
He's a desperate dictator, and the world should be ready.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And did you hear the statements from the administration yesterday?
First, Rex Tillerson's statement on North Korea after they launched their most recent missile.
This is the entire statement.
North Korea has launched yet another intermediate range ballistic missile.
The United States has spoken enough about North Korea.
We have no further comment.
That's really scary.
Yep.
And then this is a senior White House official told reporters Tuesday night in a briefing with reporters, the clock has now run out.
All options are on the table.
Well, yeah, Trump said if China doesn't take care of these guys and get them under control, we will.
We will.
Okay, so here's, may I give you an ad for Goldline?
What does that mean for your dollar?
That's scary.
What does that mean to the economy?
We may, and honestly, I sat in that meeting and I said, what do we do?
And this guy looked at me and said, there's a possibility we do first strike.
And I said, nukes?
He said, I wouldn't recommend it.
I don't think so.
He said, but I don't know.
He said, there is talk now about using tactical nukes on North Korea and shut him down.
No, you wouldn't have to use nuclear weapons to take out his nuclear weapons, right?
To get into the real hardened places, you would.
Use tactical nukes.
They burrow themselves.
Yeah, they've got conventional weapons to do that too.
They have still.
But they now have solid fuel, too, so it's harder to detect these launches.
I mean, there's all sorts of different.
And we're not even talking about, by the way, Syria, who is in the middle of launching chemical weapon attacks on her own people right now.
Which John Kerry said.
Do you remember the tweet?
I found it this morning.
He tweeted, the last 8% of all the Syrian chemical weapons were just used on their people, so now they're gone.
They're all gone.
Good job to the UN and the United Nations.
I got to say, job well done by us.
Right.
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Moron is the right word.
Glenn.
Moron is exactly the right word.
We have more on North Korea and more on the Syrian gas canisters that John Kerry got rid of.
Well, if you remember correctly, this is what I said back in 2013.
Is there anything at this point to do or offer that would stop an attack?
Sure.
He could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week.
Turn it over.
All of it.
All of it.
Everything.
Without delay and allow a full and total accounting before that.
But he isn't about to do it, and it can't be done, obviously.
Well, obviously, it was done in 2014.
With respect to Syria, we struck a deal where we got 100% of the chemical weapons out, put that in your pipe and smoke it.
And then they used some of those same weapons against their own population.
We got rid of those.
These are all new weapons.
Somebody breathed bad breath and killed a lot of people.
That's what happened.
Air pollution.
We're claiming air pollution killed those people.
Global warming.
Global warming.
Well, that's what caused the Syrian conflict.
There's no one.
Actually, do say that.
That's another Susan Rice deal, that it was begun by climate change.
The madness just.
In case you missed it, it is dozens dead, hundreds injured from this latest chemical attack.
With weapons that they already got rid of, according to John Kerry and Barack Obama.
100%!
100%!
100% God!
God, in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Cottonway, destroyed those weapons.
So you don't understand the plight of the Syrian people in the drought that happened right before this.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, we don't.
There's never been a drought before.
No, never.
Only this man-caused drought that's happening now.
Not in the Middle East.
There was never a drought.
No, never.
No.
So there was a drought and seven years of drought and famine in Egypt spoken of by the Bible, but I'm sure it's not like this.
It's the Bible oracle.
This is ridiculous.
It is allegorical.
This misses everything in it.
Don't even worry about that.
So it's more poetry than anything else, the Bible?
That's what it is.
Really?
Yeah.
More poetry.
More on North Korea.
Yes.
More on.
No, no.
All these people.
We have more things to tell you about North Korea and Syria and what we're headed toward when we come back.
Oh yeah, we did.
All right.
Constitutional Principles at Stake00:04:47
We want to bring you into episode number two of our serial on a man who I think is one of the greatest presidents to ever live.
He was definitely the greatest president of the 20th century, Calvin Coolidge.
The year was 1920.
The United States of America was on the brink of becoming something radically different than its founding.
In fact, the transition was well underway, thanks to the racist Woodrow Wilson.
From 1791, when the Bill of Rights was ratified until around 1900, the nation was a constitutional democratic republic.
It was unparalleled in human history.
For the very first time ever, a nation had an actual balance of power between three branches of government so that no one man could undermine the liberty that Americans cherished.
Then came this tidal wave of progressivism, a philosophy very much similar to Marxism.
All of the influences from Germany and the University of Berlin were starting to come into the United States.
And it all happened without a call to arms.
The idea was that progress would come slowly but steadily until the principles championed by Marx and Engels became ingrained in society.
This progressive idea, or as I like to call it, disease, actually started with the Republicans, Theodore Roosevelt.
Initially, he was a trusted, fairly conservative Republican who had been poisoned with this philosophy, as had European-influenced Woodrow Wilson.
The eight years that Wilson served as president, whether Americans really knew it or not, had brought the nation to the brink of crisis and fundamental change in the way America was governed.
By 1920, the balance of power was really no longer there.
Too much power was in the hands of the president and a huge, oppressive government.
Marxist economic principles and war accomplished much of what Wilson had set out to do.
So, the year 1920, the nation had a clear, stark choice.
Continue on this progressive path or return to the balance of power and constitutional principles.
Now, even though progressivism had infiltrated both the Democratic and Republican parties, there were two men in the GOP who didn't appreciate the direction in which the country was headed.
One was a U.S. Senator.
His name was Warren G. Harding.
And the other was the rising star in the party from Massachusetts, the governor, Calvin Coolidge, who had just taken on the AFL and the powerful president of the AFL, Samuel Gompers, and won.
Author and historian David Petrusa sets the scene leading to the 1920 GOP National Convention.
Taking a strong stand against organized labor even then will crush and ruin and end his political career.
He writes back to Gompers, that no one has any right to strike against the public safety anytime, anyplace, anywhere.
And these words resonate with the American public and cause a boomlet, a favorite son candidacy for his presidency.
Coolidge didn't receive the nomination, but the delegates refused to let the elites keep him completely off the ticket.
He is not nominated in 1920, but something very remarkable happens at that convention.
It's supposedly a boss-run convention, but the delegates stampede and nominate him for the vice presidency.
And when Warren Harding dies in August 1923, Calvin Coolidge, who has spent a life preparing for higher and higher public office without lusting after it, of waiting for the American people or the people of Massachusetts to turn to him when they are ready and he is ready, he becomes President of the United States.
Senator Harding won the nomination, and he and Coolidge won the general in the largest landslide in a contested election up until that time in all of American history.
Harding Coolidge took just over 60% of the popular vote and swept to victory with a 404-127 electoral votes over the Democratic ticket.
The nation had resoundingly rejected the further erosion of constitutional principles, and the two men were thrust in office, and they were about to face a massive crisis that they had inherited from the Wilson administration.
The Great Depression Rate00:03:41
The United States had lost over 53,000 men in World War I, and the economy was in ruins.
Amity Schlays explains what it was like for the veterans that Coolidge welcomed home to Massachusetts as their governor.
I want to imagine a governor of a state that has a coast.
That's Massachusetts.
So the ships come back with the men.
The ships go out with the men.
The men who come back are missing one leg.
About one-third of them have some kind of problem.
Some have dire problems.
And in this period, there were no antibiotics.
So if your leg was rotting, it continued to rot.
You might have a rotting leg your entire life.
And the only question would be, when is that leg amputated?
So these men come back very angry.
They come back from World War I very angry.
We've won, but it costs us a lot debt.
Unprecedented debt for the United States.
And a lot of them are hurt, and a lot of them don't have jobs.
The interaction with troops returning from the Great War helped solidify Coolidge's anti-war sentiments.
It's Coolidge's job as governor of the state to receive them, actually to go out in a boat, Boston Harbor, and say, welcome to Massachusetts, dear troops who are coming home.
And he saw they had lice and wounds and might never recover totally.
So, you know, anyone who saw World War I up close was grossed out by war forever.
And Coolidge did see it up close.
In addition to the shock of returning troops, the nation was developing other serious problems.
The inflation rate in 1919 was well over 20%.
Then, deflation kicked in.
Prices dropped by 18% for retail and down by 36.8 wholesale, more than any single year during the Great Depression.
In fact, the Great Depression isn't so great.
This was a greater and deeper depression.
Three million American troops returned home from war and they were all looking for work and the unemployment rate skyrocketed to 11.7%.
It's not just me saying that this was worse.
Many economists maintain that all of the conditions existed for the 1920 Depression to be far, far worse than the Great Depression that began in 1929.
The difference was Coolidge and Harding.
The policies of those two is what saved the country.
The first thing they did was cut spending from $18.5 billion to $6.4 billion.
That was a 65% cut in the federal budget.
Can you imagine 65% in a year?
Just to remind you, in today's environment, it has proven impossible to cut spending by 1%.
The next fiscal year, 1922, they cut spending again to $3.3 billion.
That's a 50% cut the next year.
Next, they cut taxes to free up more money for Americans to spend and spark the economy.
The highest tax rate was slashed from 73% to 24%.
And spark the economy, it did.
By 1923, unemployment plummeted from 11.7 to 2.4.
At times during the Wilson administration, unemployment neared 20%.
Under Coolidge, the average rate was 3.3.
But what came first, let's remember, the cutting of spending.
Balancing Power Historically00:14:54
Harding and Vice President Coolidge had taken the nation from a deep depression into the most prosperous decade in American history.
And what was the result?
Well, Harding and Vice President Coolidge had taken the nation from a deep, deep depression to the most prosperous decade in American history.
It's called the Roaring 20s.
Now you know the reason.
Even with all that he had done as vice president to help pull the nation out of the depression, it was a very different time in America.
His residence as the vice president was actually in the Willard Hotel.
And one night a fire broke out in the local hotel and it had to be evacuated.
When the threat was over, Coolidge headed back inside, but a marshal tried to stop him from returning to his suite.
He looked at the officer and said, I'm the vice president.
The marshal asked, vice president of what?
To which Coolidge said, the vice president of the United States.
During the hot summer of 1923, President Harding decided to take a massive trip around the country to speak to people.
Maybe he should introduce himself.
He would travel 15,000 miles all around the nation and was the very first president to ever visit Alaska.
But along the way, Harding fell ill and his doctors assumed that he was just fatigued and had developed a virus.
And by the time he arrived in San Francisco, California, he was actually beginning to improve a little.
But then on August 2nd, 1923, at 7.30 p.m., President Warren Harding, resting in his bed, suddenly slumped over from a heart attack and was gone.
While Harding was traveling around the country, Coolidge had gone to Vermont to visit his family.
And unlike the homes that the presidents stay in today, the Coolidge family had no electricity.
Nor did they have any phone service.
Thus, the vice president of the United States couldn't be reached.
So a messenger was dispatched out to the house.
It was very late when he arrived, so Coolidge had to be awakened.
He dressed, then he went downstairs to greet the throngs of reporters and officials who had by now descended on the house.
At 2.47 a.m. in the morning, by the light of a kerosene lamp, a stunned and humbled Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as President of the United States of America.
He was sworn in by his father, who was a notary and a justice of the peace.
Calvin Coolidge was now the 30th President of the United States.
And at 3 o'clock in the morning, his first act of president was to promptly go back to bed.
Next time, a deep look at the Coolidge presidency and how this president, as opposed to Woodrow Wilson, felt about the Klan.
Tomorrow in the Glenbeck program, in chapter three of our serial on Calvin Coolidge, you'll learn how Coolidge assumed the Oval Office.
Listen live or online at Glenbeck.com slash serials.
I love this serial.
I love this serial.
Calvin Coolidge is the forgotten president, and he should be everybody's favorite of the 20th century.
I mean, when you hear tomorrow and the next day, and you realize who this guy really was and that he shunned the power that was thrust upon him.
Oh, big time.
It's almost unthinkable today because nobody does this.
Nobody's like that.
And when Harding died, he left Coolidge with all kinds of scandals.
All kinds.
Has Harding got in the shaft here?
No, because he was corrupt.
Well, he cut spending by, as you pointed out, 65%.
And we're doing that in the Coolidge context.
But I mean, that was Harding who was a center of the.
But it was his policy.
And, you know, obviously Coolidge shared it, but it was Harding's policy.
However, Harding had he left Coolidge with some ridiculous issues.
Yes, he did.
And Coolidge took Coolidge threatening.
And then on top of that, Harding didn't want Coolidge, right?
I mean, the convention thrust Coolidge on Harding and said, you're going to take Calvin.
Yeah.
We like you, Warren, but Calvin's going with you.
Probably because they sensed that maybe Calvin was clean and Harding was not.
And clean is an understatement.
It's really cool, too, that he's sworn in by a notary public.
His dad, not a Supreme Court justice, his father, the notary public.
That's great.
At 2.47 in the morning by kerosene lamp.
That's great.
Remember all the scandal about Barack Obama not being sworn and being sworn in twice and having to be sworn in the office and there were no pictures?
This guy's sworn in by his dad, right?
In a house with no electricity.
Unbelievable.
And it might be shocking to, if you haven't been listening to this, because we keep throwing this out there, like he was the 20th century's best president.
And for conservatives, a lot of people, wait, Ronald Reagan.
No, this is Ronald Reagan's hero.
Yeah, first of all, it was Ronald Reagan's favorite president.
But secondly, I mean, I think we've all come away from this looking not only as Coolidge as potentially the best president of the 20th century, but maybe the best president we've ever had.
No code.
And the reason for that hero of this is definitely in the modern era.
This is the first year, I think, is George Washington.
Yeah.
I mean, that's incredible.
Think about that statement.
I mean, Abraham Lincoln.
And Lincoln.
And Lincoln.
Because there obviously were times of turmoil that the country felt both with Washington and obviously Lincoln as well.
But in the current sense, it's hard to relate to the Civil War.
This is getting easier.
But it's hard to relate to that.
This is a guy cutting the budget by 65% and then another 50.
Yeah, he's coming soon.
Another 50.
And then the third year, about 40%.
It's incredible.
Oh, yeah.
We'll find out in later serials how people enjoyed coming to meet with him and ask him for things because he wasn't favorable to the word yes.
No, he was not.
We can't cut one percent from our deficit.
We can't cut one.
Here's the thing.
Here's where Ronald Reagan got it wrong.
What did Calvin Coolidge do?
He spent two years cutting before he lowered taxes.
He cut taxes were at 77%.
He cut spending twice before he cut taxes.
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What's really amazing is the conspiracy theorists that are out.
For instance, Noam Chomsky predicting that Trump is going to stage a terror attack to bolster his support.
We should play that coming up here.
Yeah, we will.
And also Elizabeth Warren on Gorsuch saying it's crazy to confirm him because these investigations, we should wait until Trump is out of office to confirm anybody.
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We're just kind of narrowing it down.
We want to talk about in a focus group, half Trump supporters now say they support a single-payer healthcare system.
Oh my gosh, my head's going to explode.
Also, Noam Chomsky.
Where is anybody saying that he's a wild conspiracy theorist now claiming that Trump is going to stage a terror attack to bolster support?
Will you hear anyone take on Noam Chomsky?
No.
Outside of this program, our programs on the right?
No.
You absolutely won't hear that.
And Stu has a story from Alec Baldwin that he swears is relative.
I find it hard to believe.
Relevant.
Relevant.
Yeah.
I find it hard to believe that Alec Baldwin is relevant.
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Just so you know who Noam Chomsky is, Noam Chomsky is a guy that has done documentaries for PBS.
Oh, he's a hero of the left.
Hero of the left.
Big time thinker.
Yeah.
He's communist.
Yeah, he's a guy, of course, we're not going to, nobody's going to take on Noam Chomsky.
Noam Chomsky, he's a great guy.
Don't we all love him?
No, I would say no.
You would say no on that?
No.
No one that?
Yeah.
And so nobody will take him on.
We need to.
How is it they're not calling him a conspiracy theorist?
Here's the latest from Noam Chomsky.
Sooner or later, this con game is not going to work.
People will understand he's not bringing back jobs.
He's not going to recreate the partly illusory, partly real picture of what life was like in the past with manufacturing jobs and the functioning society and get ahead and so on and so forth.
He's not going to create that.
What happens at that point?
Something has to be done to maintain control of the obvious technique of scapegoating.
So blame it on immigrants, on Muslims, on somebody.
But that point goes so far.
The next step would be, as I said, an alleged terrorist attack, which is quite easy.
So if I just absolutely unbelievable say outrageous things in a very quiet tone, it's completely raised.
Now, let me just say this.
He's right.
He just doesn't necessarily have it right about this president, like I didn't have it right about the last president.
I said these same things about, look, you want to play this out in your head.
If there's a collapse, what happens?
Well, the most logical thing from history would show that you need to control this, this, and this.
Okay?
That's what we did at Fox.
So our facts were not wrong at Fox.
His facts here are not necessarily wrong.
When things begin to collapse, what are they going to do?
He happens to believe the worst of Donald Trump.
I happen to believe the worst of Barack Obama.
And so if you believe the worst, yeah, that could be, because that historically is what happens.
But can we have that conversation?
No, we can't.
We certainly cannot.
I don't know if it's what historically happens in the United States of America.
No, not in the United States.
Presidents are not doing terrorist attacks.
But historically, we had not had a Marxist revolutionary as president, and we haven't had a crazy billionaire.
But this is the stuff of Alex Jones.
Only Alex Jones is so far up Donald Trump's rectal cavity that he has a brown belt.
Interesting enough, they both made those accusations against Republican presidents.
Right.
What does that tell you about?
That's interesting.
Isn't that fascinating?
That hardcore conservative he is.
Which, by the way, we have to play his audio today.
That's the highlight of my day.
The new Alex Jones audio is the best thing.
And we still, why we haven't talked about it, and now we're three, I have no idea.
It's the only thing we talk about.
So I'm not sure if we're saying the same thing, Pat.
Do you think we're agreeing with each other?
With Noam Chomsky?
i think so because i believe that you don't believe trump would do something like that right you know You don't believe Trump.
I do not believe that Donald Trump would do it.
I don't think he'll be able to do it.
Do I believe that People like Steve Bannon wouldn't take advantage of every I don't think anybody would plan a terrorist attack.
So I was saying about this Alex Jones.
It's fantastic and we need to plan.
Oh, it's so good.
No, wait, wait, wait, wait.
So Alex Baldwin, he was in the marrying man.
Stop for a second.
Stop for a second.
I know you're trying to stop me from a freight train, but I think this is important.
I like what you're saying about Alex Jones.
Right.
Alec Baldwin.
That's what great Aaron Hernandez said we could talk about.
Stop for a second.
Stop.
Just like I don't think FDR planned or knew about Pearl Harbor.
I don't think George Bush, Barack Obama, or Donald Trump would plan anything or would knowingly let it happen.
We should say half of Democrats believe George Bush did that.
Correct.
Half.
I don't.
And I don't believe Barack Obama would do that.
However, do I believe that there are radicals in the White House, just like there were radicals in the White House last time, that will use anything to their advantage?
You saw this last president use every single shooting as a way to get the best way to go to waste.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
Are there people in this White House that will use it and push?
You bet.
Would, let's use a real example.
Will Donald Trump strike North Korea because it will be good for the headlines?
Absolutely not.
No.
I don't believe that.
And I don't believe that anyone in the White House would do that.
Will they use that to their advantage?
You bet they will.
Blaming Hitler Anyway00:02:10
Well, to give you the ultimate example, I mean.
But that's different than what Chomsky is saying.
Yeah, he's saying he would launch one, right?
Yeah, okay.
So that's a difference.
The Hitler Ascent is the new sort of biography on Hitler that came out last year.
And in it, they basically say the most likely thing with the Reichstag fire was not that Hitler did it.
Was that it actually was not done by Hitler, but Hitler didn't care who did it.
He blamed it on the communists anyway.
I believe that 100%.
But that's amazing to me.
Honestly, going into that read, I thought it was Hitler did it to take power and control.
Well, it's weird because I've never thought it mattered.
It didn't matter.
Well, it didn't matter to Hitler.
Right.
It doesn't matter.
In that kind of a regime, they will use whatever comes their way.
I mean, you know, when the Reichstag was burning, Hitler said, our foes are done now.
We will never have a problem ever again with doing what we need to do.
They didn't care.
Right.
And I think that's the same way.
You can't tell me that you don't think that there have been those political operatives on both sides that have looked at the news of the day and said that.
Of course.
Benghazi.
Who didn't say that about Benghazi on the right?
Oh, well, they're toast now.
They are toast now because we're going to make sure.
Tragedy.
But you take advantage of what is on the ground.
Yeah.
I mean, and, you know, this happens so much in our society.
I mean, like, you know, this is the thing with Syria right now is a great example of it.
Both sides are trying to make their political points based on the, you know, asphyxiated children.
And I think that's what people are sick of.
Yeah, it really sucks.
I mean, I understand how it's applicable and I understand how that is always the motivation to always bring it back to the president.
How many times have you posted a tweet about some charity you're working with and every response is, well, you did, you should have thought of that before you voted for Hillary, which you didn't do.
I mean, it's like our lives get so governed by who is in this one freaking job.
Old Years and Ford's Daughter00:11:19
And it's like, I, you know, I think.
We're bigger than this.
You refuse to let that happen.
I mean, every person out there should refuse to let that happen.
I mean, certainly politics are a big part of our life, and that's why we spend a decent amount of time talking about it, but you can't be obsessed about it.
You can't be obsessed with it all the time.
Not everything goes back to this all the time.
Well, especially the way it's being played to where it's black and white, like this Russia thing, Susan Rice and the right.
I'm sorry, Susan Rice, the left, and the media are wrong.
But so is Donald Trump and many of his advisors.
They're both wrong on this story.
It's not black or white.
It's not like these are the good guys, these are the bad guys.
They're arguing two separate things.
They're arguing now about Susan Rice.
And they've made it about the weakest case, which is Donald Trump said that Obama was spying on the White House.
That's the weakest part of this.
Well, I mean, and probably the most offensive part of it, in my opinion, is accusing Alex Jones of being a Russian foreign agent, which he is not.
And he wants you to know he is not.
He's a little upset about it.
A little, a tad upset.
A little upset.
Does he say excuse me at the end?
Of course he does.
He ever has an outburst.
He always says, excuse me.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Sorry.
Let me say this right now.
Let me tell, I'm not against gay people.
Okay, I love them.
They're great folks.
But Schiff looks like the archetype, archetypal sucker with those little deer-in-the-headlight eyes and all his stuff.
And there's something about this fairy hopping around, bossing everybody around, trying to intimidate people like me and you.
I want to tell Congressman Schiff and all the rest of them.
Oh, my God.
Hey, listen, Cole.
Quit saying Roger and I.
And I've never used cussing in 22 years, but the gloves are on.
I'm pretty good at it for having not used it in 22 years.
Holy Jesus.
It's coming pretty natural like he's just getting rolling.
He's just getting rolling.
He's saying this is about him and Roger Stone.
Yeah, Roger Stone is on the show with him.
Yeah.
Oh, that's a great.
That's a mixture of deferred disaster.
Oh, yes, it is.
Listen, you son of a what the f ⁇ is your problem?
You want to sit here and say that I'm a damn f ⁇ ing Russian?
You get in my face with that.
I'll beat your ass, you son of a you piece of sh ⁇ .
Keep in mind, he hasn't sworn in 22 years.
He's never, these words are all unfamiliar to him.
He's never used them before.
He almost can't remember what they were or how they sound.
You damn f ⁇ .
Listen, Ed.
You crossed the line.
Get that through your damn f ⁇ ing head.
Stop pushing your sh ⁇ .
You're the people that have f ⁇ ed this country over and gang raped the out of it and lost an election.
So stop shooting your mouth off, claiming I'm the enemy.
You got that, you goddamn son of a fill your hand.
I'm sorry, but I'm done.
You start calling me a foreign agent.
Those are fighting words.
Excuse me.
Of course.
Okay.
And we should point out, by the way, that those bleeps were added later.
On the air.
They were full frontal.
They went full frontal.
Every one of those words said.
And there's this rumor that he has actual radio affiliates.
I don't know.
I'm not swearing like that.
I've heard this a hundred times.
I've never heard him on a radio station, but I don't know if he said this on the show.
I know, you know.
That would be about a $38 million fine right there.
That's every station he was on licensed up.
I mean, a number of years ago, when he kept saying that he had radio stations, or at least people did, Alex Jones people, I couldn't find one.
I mean, it was still the website.
I mean, I don't know.
Maybe it exists.
I don't know.
People wouldn't know.
But if that aired, I mean, I guess maybe the Trump administration wouldn't go after him for FCC violations.
That's crazy.
This guy is unhinged.
He's crazy.
Deeply troubled.
Deeply troubled at the very best.
I mean, what?
Now, I would also argue, I mean, I really hope he's not deeply troubled because he is the most hilarious part of our society for me right now.
Like, it's the only thing I get enjoyment out of is listening to Alex Jones go crazy.
He's so nuts all the time.
And I believe the only explanation for it is his male vitality formula.
So I had a steak last night.
I've been eating jalapenos this morning.
He's Scott.
Love him.
Let me check out my shirt real quick.
I'll show you my pets.
I'm not bragging.
I'm just saying they're huge.
He takes his shirt off.
He rips his shirt off in moments like that.
It's like Road Rage.
Road Rage.
It's like Hulk.
He rips his shirts off in moments like that and then usually ends up talking about jalapenos.
Sorry, I just had some jalapenos.
Wow, I don't know what kind of jalapenos you have, but you should stop having them.
And the worst thing is like his business, according to multiple reports, is essentially him schlocking shady supplements that he owns the company for.
Like he makes them and that's his whole business.
He gets people in there.
They all believe his shady supplement stuff and he sells it to them.
But yet at the same time, he is not in shape at all.
And in addition to that, he claims to be 43 years old and looks 70.
I mean, legitimately looks at least older than Jeffy.
He looks literally older than Jeffy.
He looks almost identical to Jeffy.
And Jeffy is, you know, I mean, he looks good for 94, which he is.
Let's just put it this way.
Jeffy is almost 100% supplements.
Yes.
Oh, there's no question.
Yeah.
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So Stu says that we're going to be fascinated by Alec Baldwin's new book.
And I think he might be actually kind of accurate.
I mean, you know, there's a lot of things about Alex Baldwin that.
Poor Alec.
Or yeah, Alec.
Whatever.
His friends call him Alex.
There's a lot of stuff about Alex that I would love to hear his explanation on.
For instance.
Well, he's got a new book coming out.
So luckily for you, you're going to be able to hear them if you choose to purchase his book.
Well, I'm not going to purchase it, but if it's laying around someplace, I'll pick it up.
You know, if it's like in a doctor's office and Us Weekly is not there and the Golf magazine is not there and there's not like a vomit bag to read or something about psoriasis or venereal disease to read, then I might read it.
I might read it there.
Wow.
That's high praise for the Alec Baldwin book.
So he was pissed about losing the gig for the Hunt for Red October.
He had that gig for Jack Ryan in that series.
And then they came up with the sequel, Patriot Games, which he lost to Harrison Ford.
And I guess they had asked Ford if he was aware that Paramount was still negotiating with Baldwin when Harrison Ford took the job.
Ford's reply, according to this executive, was F him.
So people have been telling Alec Laldwin to F off for quite a long time.
Notice, by the way, for Alex Jones, we didn't just say the word.
Yeah, how does he have a career?
Because everything I've ever heard about him is he's absolutely unlikable.
Yeah.
I mean, he's good and everything, but he's not great.
But some of his movies have been...
You said he didn't get Hunt for Red October?
Yeah, he got hunt for Red October.
He didn't get a big series because he was trying to get more money out of it.
He ran into, he writes in the book, Harrison Ford in person is a little man, short, scrawny, and wiry, whose soft voice sounds as if it's coming from behind a door.
By the way, Baldwin is shorter than Harrison Ford, just for the record.
He also said, Baldwin recalled hosting SNL when Whitney Houston was the musical guest approaching her backstage after her dress rehearsal and said to her, you truly are the most talented singer out there today.
I said, a bit starstruck.
She paused and says, I know, baby.
Then walked on.
You're the most talented.
I know, baby.
Jeffrey Katzenberg.
When he was, so Baldwin's in The Marrying Man, 1991, Katzenberg tried to put him in his place by telling him that actors were employees and expected to do their jobs and create as little trouble as possible, which I love.
He said, I can get the guard at the gate to play your role.
It makes no difference to me.
The film itself is the star.
Wow.
Wow.
Makes me like Jeffrey Katzenberg.
It does.
Playing a role in Knott's Landing.
He overdosed on cocaine, went to work, never spoke with anyone about what happened.
And the girl drove him to the hospital, said, are you okay as if I had poison ivy?
He eventually got out of that.
And he also apologized for his voicemail he left his daughter.
Yeah, that's the one I really want to hear.
We'll get to that when we come back.
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Lives that have been ruined.
We're going to go to the story about the New England Patriot who, you know, a case can be made.
He did not commit a double murder.
Everyone just assumes that he did.
We'll get to that here in just a second.
Another life that has been ruined, Alec Baldwin, by him.
Some people think he's innocent of wrecking his life.
And I point to the evidence of the phone call that he made to his 11-year-old daughter.
You have insulted me.
You don't have the brains or the decency as a human being.
I don't give a damn that you're 12 years old or 11 years old or that you're a child or that your mother is a thoughtless pain in the ass who doesn't care about what you do as far as I'm concerned.
So you better be ready Friday, the 20th to meet with me.
So I'm going to let you know just how I feel about what a rude little pig you really are.
Now, you don't unhear those, but you also at the same time eventually think, why did my mom release that?
Oh, yeah.
I mean, because they were in the middle of a nasty divorce.
Right.
I mean, because that really makes it now, because now we're playing it 10 years later, right?
Like, that's the consequence of that.
And he talks about it in his book, says my relationship with Ireland, who's the daughter, has healed.
But just as something that has been broken is never quite the same.
The fragile years of childhood that are battered by high conflict divorce are irreversibly affected.
The worst thing that one could do is put a child in the middle of those battles, and that's what I did.
And I am reminded of it and I'm sorry for it every day.
Shia LaBeouf Screaming Flags00:03:56
Good for him.
He took out his medication.
Yeah, at least for the moment.
You know, it's hard because you never believe Alec Baldwin.
I just reflexively don't believe him.
But I mean, you know, you make a horrible mistake.
He's a bad guy.
He does.
But, you know, I guess he's trying to make amends anyway.
I mean, this is what we see in Hollywood, though.
Like Shia LaBeouf.
Remember him?
The guy who was, I think he was in Transformers and all those stupid movies.
But he also was in the video where he was screaming at Trump supporters in the face.
He flew a flag.
This was fantastic.
I love this story.
He flew a flag, and it's not going to be taken down until the end of the Trump administration.
We've hidden this flag.
It's flying someplace and it'll never be taken down.
Unfortunately, people on the internet just looked at the weather, looked at the star placement, and pinpointed it.
The trails from the chemtrails.
That's the first thing that was that got him to the right location.
The chemtrails.
And then they sent one of their people who lived in the area where they thought it was around beeping their horn so they could wait until they heard it.
They heard it over the internet and found the flag.
So then he moved the flag to overseas.
So because that way, it's the only place it would be safe for the flag.
So he can't find any place in America somehow to hide this stupid flag, which, of course, is ridiculous anyway.
And the flag says, like, you will not intimidate us or something like that.
Or we will not be divided.
We will not be divided.
That was what he was screaming in the ear of the white supremacist Trump fan.
And this guy was a white supremacist.
Because he seemed to be dividing people by screaming like a lunatic right in the face of that guy.
He will not divide us.
He will not divide us.
And to the point of blowing out his vocal cords.
So I saw this story about Shia LaBeouf and his new movie, Man Down.
And the way I read it was Man Down, a war thriller with Shia LaBeouf grossed $7 million or £7 million in the UK when it premiered.
However, then I reread that sentence.
This is what the sentence actually says.
Man Down, a war thriller with Shia LaBeouf grossed just £7.70 when it premiered in a single UK theater over the weekend, according to ComScore.
And only one ticket.
That is the equivalent of selling a single ticket because they say it's £7.20 or £7.21, whatever the hell they do it in the UK.
Quit, quick, quick.
Whatever.
Squid.
Pretty bad.
So if sales have room to grow, He'll be like, we increased our sales by 100% because me and my friend went.
Well, when the word of mouth spreads, it could when Tom tells Bill, if he can get to.
He can bring in 20 bucks.
Yeah, if he can get to Bill, Bill might bring his whole family.
Interestingly, they actually think that might be the case.
This is how the story ends.
While the attention about the small grosses may have a side benefit, it could raise attention for the low-profile project.
There could be a silver lining to those seven pounds.
What is the project that he decided to spend his time on?
It's a thriller.
This is the write-up of the Shia LaBeouf career arc right now.
After soaring in big studio blockbusters such as Transformers and Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, one of the worst movies of all time, I added the last part.
LaBeouf has focused on more indie projects with mixed success.
He did earn strong reviews for last year's American Honey.
You guys all saw that, right?
No, I've never even heard of it.
No, I mean, do I see movies every weekend?
That was the highlight, by the way, of his recent career path.
So that was where he got the high reviews.
Other works such as The Company You Keep and Charlie Countryman have barely registered with critics or audiences.
Instead, the media has focused on LaBeouf's off-screen behavior, such as several alcohol-related arrests, performance art that recently saw the actor participate in the art installation protesting Donald Trump's presidency.
So things aren't going too well there.
OJ Murders and Memorabilia00:09:16
Not too well.
I guess he'd rather be him than Aaron Hernandez, who we do think is probably going to be convicted of all these crimes.
But listen, because this is the guy you're talking about, former New England Patriot tight end.
He is charged with double murder.
They think he may be related in multiple gang-related murders.
He was actually on a trajectory in the NFL like Gronkowski was.
Yeah, super screen, potentially.
So listen to this.
This is from Yahoo Sports.
It's not some crazy conspiracy blog.
The prosecution's entire case in the case against Aaron Hernandez is that he got into an altercation at a bar and someone spilled a drink on him.
He was so enraged by this drink being spilled on him that he went two hours later and murdered two people and shot another one in the face.
That's the case.
However, the first defense witness was Antoine Salvador, who may have just ripped apart the prosecution's entire motive.
He is a psychology doctoral student and testified Monday that he met Hernandez at the lounge that night in 2012.
He said he was with Hernandez for seven to 10 minutes and at no point did he see someone spill a drink or Hernandez appear angry.
Now, of course, seven to 10 minutes, you're not going to see the whole story, right?
He asked for a photo.
Hernandez politely declined and then eventually relented.
The time here is important, however, in that surveillance video shows that Hernandez was inside the club for only nine minutes, meaning Salvador's testimony puts the two together nearly the entire time.
The two then re-engaged outside the club for a few minutes where Salvador thanked him for the photo.
No problem.
Have a good night, said Hernandez.
With a witness testimony expected to conclude this week, it's reasonable to ask if the prosecution has overcome its burden to proving Hernandez guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Here's some points on that.
There is no forensic evidence directly linking Hernandez to the shooting.
One witness to the murders initially told police the shooter looks like a female with cornrows.
The only eyewitness fingering Hernandez as the gunman is Alexander Bradley, an acknowledged drug dealer who admits having a bone to pick with Hernandez.
The defense revealed Bradley, who's testified Hernandez shot him in the face to shut him up about the double murders, deleted a text message that stated he didn't know for sure who shot him in the face, which is something you typically remember.
I don't know if that's so anyway.
I mean, it's kind of interesting in that this is one everyone thinks was an open and shut case.
This guy's definitely going to prison.
And now the defense actually seems to have somewhat of a case.
And we've seen so many of these stories recently.
We had John Ziegler on about the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
We've seen many historical figures that have been reviled that have turned out to be later in life or after death sort of had their reputation rejuvenated.
OJ Simpson.
I'm sorry, I don't.
We both work on that.
I mean, I see you're forgetting.
Everybody in the audience is thinking, where is the real killer?
Still out on a golf course.
He's got poor guys rotten in jail.
Well, and he's in jail because he promised to go look on Ivory Golf Club.
And it was America who was trying to find the serial killer.
Hopefully when he gets out of the serial killer, when he gets out, I think they're in talks to have a reality show, so maybe he'll start looking again.
That is the latest rumor on OJ, by the way.
Yeah.
That he's going to come out.
That he might actually be released finally this year.
He's been in jail.
It's time to let OJ get.
Just a really short.
Is it 10 years, 15 years for trying to get his memorabilia back?
That's enough.
He held people at gunpoint.
It's not like he's killed people.
Well, he also did that, but he was not charged with that.
He was found innocent of that charge.
Thank you.
Yeah, he did it.
But in fact, he wrote a book, If I Did It, which is totally different than actually doing it.
Yes.
Thank you for acknowledging that.
But the point is, to Pat's point here, you don't get additional penalties for a crime you commit because they think you care about it.
But that's what you do.
That's exactly what happened here.
They maxed out this penalty on this.
To make him pay for what they perceived as an injustice before.
That's what they did.
They put him in prison for a really long time for this.
And it's hard to root against that, but it is a justice system to operate.
He's innocent.
Innocent.
Right?
Innocent as well.
He was proven innocent in a court of law.
Well, he was not guilty.
He was found not guilty.
Yes, that's totally considerably.
However, he did go through a court of law.
Now, he did lose the civil trial.
And you should not be put in jail on another crime and punished for the crime that you were proved innocent.
That's not our legal system.
Right.
It's double jeopardy.
No, no, no.
But I'm saying if they put him in jail for the stealing of the memorabilia extra long because he didn't pay his time, I think that's wrong.
However, I think it's quite clear that they did that.
Now, he didn't just steal his memorabilia.
He held people at gunpoint because he believed they stole their memorabilia, which it's not even clear that they did.
And not to mention, a lot of the stuff that he grabbed was stuff he was supposed to have.
Don't start bottling down things with facts.
We're talking about O.J. Simpson.
What was it he was supposed to have?
A knife, an ice cream cone, Bruno Magni shoes.
Runo Magne shoes.
No, he was.
Extra small Donald Trump gloves.
Well, according to that documentary, which won the Oscar from ESPN this past, that's a 34-30.
When he was supposed to be selling off a lot of his possessions, maybe some of them didn't make it to the auction.
And he may have acquired some of his things because he was supposed to sell all of his stuff to pay off the bill from the civil trial.
And maybe he didn't get to everything.
The Goldmans, according to the documentary, got not one penny from him.
They won a settlement of $34 million, I think.
$34 million.
So far, he's paid a grand total of $0.
Well, how could he pay his injury?
Zero.
Now.
Now?
Exactly.
He was trying to pay him.
He was trying to get his stuff back to get some money.
Poor guy.
He was racing home to get a checkbook and to get a pen.
And these guys came in, and one of them said, would you hold this gun to my head?
And he said, what for?
And he said, because I have some of your memorabilia.
And he said, I don't care about any of that stuff.
I need to get a check for Nick Pohl's family.
And that's when things got dicey.
And then the police come in, and he's holding the gun, and he's black.
So what do you think they're going to do?
So bad.
I don't think any of that is accurate.
What a racist.
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Well, one of the guys that I have warned against for, since the beginning, I've warned about Manafort, Flynn, and Bannon.
Trump has fired Manafort, then Trump fired Flynn, and now Trump has fired Bannon at least from the National Security Council.
He's removed him from that.
And we haven't seen the reasoning yet.
I'm sure maybe he was busy.
Maybe he needed to spend more time with his family.
Maybe he was taking up croquet and learning it.
That's a big move because Trump fought hard to put him on.
He took a lot of heat to put him on that security council.
Now he's gone for some reason.
That's a big move.
Any word on why?
This story has just breaks up.
No, but just saying that it was just a shake-up.
Yeah, there's already a reorganization going on, apparently, within the administration.
And, you know, these things do happen for presidents, but it's pretty quick for this to happen.
I mean, the Flynn thing happened like an hour after he got inaugurated, I think.
And his family is moving in.
So, I mean, we have a royal family now, which is going to be.
And I am much more comfortable, quite honestly, with the family than I am with Flynn and Bannon and Manafort.
I don't think the Trump family wants to see America burn down to the ground and reset after a giant failure.
I don't think any of them think that way, where Bannon does.
And so I don't know what we're getting with the family other than a royal family.
And I love people who say that the press is, no, nobody is causing this.
Trump is firing all these people.
He's walking in and saying the world famous, you're fired.
Yeah, everyone keeps saying, well, the media is going after him.
Well, I mean, Donald Trump keeps firing these people that the media goes after.
So either he's folding to the media or he agrees with the media.